20 May, 2016

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 21/05/2016 - 27/05/2016

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SAT SATURDAY 21 MAY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007w525 (Listen) SAT The Exposure SAT Sunday unmasks one of the anarchists as a Scotland Yard SAT detective, leaving Gabriel Syme in despair. Read by Geoffrey SAT Palmer. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b00mg3yv (Listen) SAT Series 8, The Look of Love SAT Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional SAT appeal. SAT Hal David discusses writing The Look of Love with Burt SAT Bacharach, for the soundtrack of the spoof 1967 James Bond SAT film Casino Royale. This classic track, sung by Dusty SAT Springfield, provided the musical backdrop for a love scene SAT between Peter Sellers and Ursula Andress. SAT Dusty Springfield's former backing singer, Simon Bell, SAT remembers being on stage at the Albert Hall when Dusty SAT laughed her way through a performance of the song, and SAT musician Jonathan Cohen describes how the samba rhythm SAT underscoring Dusty's smooth vocals combine to make this an SAT enduringly popular love song. SAT It has been covered many times by artists including Isaac SAT Hayes, Gladys Knight and the French singer Mirielle Mathieu. SAT This programme hears from people whose personal memories of SAT love and loss are forever linked with The Look of Love. SAT SAT 01:00 Wimsey b007jzky (Listen) SAT The Nine Tailors, A Question of Identity SAT Following his trip to France, Lord Peter Wimsey takes a step SAT closer to identifying the killer. SAT Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, With Peter SAT Jones as Bunter, Phillip Latham as the Reverend Theodore SAT Venables, Timothy Bateson as Superintendent Blundell, SAT Stephen Greiff as Nobby Cranton and Noel Dyson as Mrs SAT Venables. SAT British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a SAT number of detective novels and short stories by English SAT crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Nine Tailors was first SAT published in 1934. SAT Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord SAT Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton SAT and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First SAT World War. SAT Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio SAT from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations SAT that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. SAT Adapted for radio in six episodes by Alistair Beaton. SAT Producer: Martin Fisher SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980. SAT SAT 01:30 Leading Ladies b00vhg2z (Listen) SAT Theatre director and artistic director of the Southbank SAT Centre Jude Kelly marks the 350th anniversary of the first SAT performance by the first English professional actress. SAT Before the restoration and the reopening of the theatres SAT after years of Puritan rule, boys and men had played women's SAT roles. However, when Charles II came to the throne he SAT requested that women be allowed on stage and the course of SAT theatre history was changed forever when a woman took the SAT stage in the role of Desdemona on 8th December 1660. SAT Although little is known about who she was, Jude Kelly SAT pieces together a picture of what life would have been like SAT for the first generation of actresses. She visits the real SAT tennis court at Hampton Court Palace to find out what the SAT first performance would have been like, takes Celia Imrie to SAT the site of where the first performance took place and tours SAT the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in search of Nell Gwynn. SAT Were the first actresses' victims of exploitation or women SAT who exploited the situation to their own advantage? Were SAT they whores or pioneers? SAT Producer: Benjamin Partridge SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby b007jn2z (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Tragedy has struck, leaving Nick to ponder his life as he SAT struggles to find mourners for a funeral. Read by Sam SAT Robards. SAT SAT 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and SAT the Mind b041yf8g (Listen) SAT Care in the Community SAT At the end of this week of programmes examining psychiatry, SAT the medicalised model for treating mental illness, Martin SAT outlines the impact of reforms during the latter half of the SAT Twentieth Century that resulted in the closure of Britain's SAT Victorian asylums and a new policy of 'care in the SAT community'. 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 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrg7 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT The letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill. The reality SAT of war strikes home. With Alex Jennings and Sylvestra Le SAT Touzel. SAT SAT 02:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service SAT b07bq049 (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Battling the evil Blofeld, Bond joins forces with Draco. All SAT looks plain sailing for 007 and Tracy. Concluded by Joanna SAT Lumley. SAT SAT 03:00 Classic Serial b01r95hq (Listen) SAT Esther Waters, Episode 2 SAT Esther Waters by George Moore. Dramatised by Sharon Oakes SAT Episode 2 SAT Set against a background of horseracing and gambling; a SAT stirring tale of how a woman survives and brings up her SAT child in Victorian England. Esther leaves the workhouse with SAT her baby. She is desperate for them to stay together. But SAT how can she earn money? SAT Producer/Director Gary Brown SAT Celebrated author Colm Toibin championed Esther Waters as a SAT neglected Classic for Radio Four's Open Book programme. He SAT encourages listeners to read the novel again because he SAT thinks it has a wonderful story with fascinating characters, SAT a heroine we'll come to know and love, and it's one of those SAT books you just can't put down. SAT Esther's tale is a slice of Victorian life that is rarely SAT shown; single parenting, wet nursing, divorce, gambling, and SAT religious zealotry. Through her we discover exactly what it SAT feels like to be poor and powerless. The book was banned SAT until Gladstone revoked it, saying it was compassionate, SAT moral and humane; and after that it became a best seller. SAT Credits SAT Esther: Lyndsey Marshal SAT William: Matthew McNulty SAT Sarah: Joanne Froggatt SAT Leopold: Hugh Simon SAT Judge: Hugh Simon SAT Fred: Graeme Hawley SAT Demon: Stephen Hoyle SAT Mrs Barfield: Melissa Jane Sinden SAT Mrs Empson: Melissa Jane Sinden SAT Bill: Greg Wood SAT Director: Gary Brown SAT Producer: Gary Brown SAT Writer: Sharon Oakes SAT SAT 04:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01npjp9 (Listen) SAT Series 5, Pascoe, Abrahams, Aldrin 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 Sara SAT Pascoe, Ig Nobels founder Marc Abrahams and Astronaut Dr SAT Buzz Aldrin. SAT SAT 04:30 No Commitments b017gnkt (Listen) SAT Series 9, Coming Clean SAT The love lives of sisters Anna and Charlotte take some SAT unexpected twists and turns. Stars Angela Thorne. From SAT February 2003. SAT SAT 05:00 Crowned Hudds b00pgydd (Listen) SAT How Ye Quest Was Wonne SAT Poking fun at King Arthur, Roy Hudd takes a royal romp SAT through history, with June Whitfield and Chris Emmett. From SAT August 1995. SAT SAT 05:30 Meet David Sedaris b011tzmn (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Incomplete Quad, The Squirrel and the Chipmunk SAT The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and SAT charm to BBC Radio 4 for a second series of audience SAT readings. This week a memoir of one nefarious summer while SAT studying at college: "The Incomplete Quad" and a modern take SAT on the anthropomorphic fable in: "The Squirrel & The SAT Chipmunk". SAT Producer: Steve Doherty SAT A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 06:00 Dostoyevsky - The Friend of the Family b04fxy8d (Listen) SAT Russia, 1859: The Manor of Stephanchikovo has been thrown SAT into chaos by the activities of a former sergeant who has SAT set himself up as an arbiter of morals and taste. When he SAT interferes in the marriage plans of the family, the whole SAT situation explodes. SAT Stars David Suchet as the Colonel, Margot Boyd as Madame La SAT Generale and Clive Merrison as Foma Fomich. SAT Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1859 novel dramatised by David Blum. SAT Director: Martin Jenkins. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1984. SAT SAT 07:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SAT American Literature b00rbn88 (Listen) SAT Small Wars 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 As America enjoyed the peace and wealth resulting from SAT victory in a Second World War which had affected its SAT homeland security directly only at Pearl Harbour, the SAT Pentagon and the State Department constructed a new foreign SAT policy: major international conflicts would in future be SAT avoided by 'small' or 'proxy' wars or 'police actions', SAT aimed at neutralising ideological threats abroad. SAT Vietnam combatants David Rabe and Tobias Wolff dramatised SAT their experiences on stage and in fiction, while EL Doctorow SAT used historical parallels to reflect on recent campaigns in SAT Iraq and Afghanistan. SAT Former CIA man Charles McCarry used his time in deep cover SAT as material for a series of espionage masterpieces, and Jay SAT McInerney - who had chronicled the wealthy recklessness of SAT boom-time 1980s New York in books including Bright Lights, SAT Big City - now turned to the very different mood of the city SAT after 9/11. SAT Authors including Norman Mailer, Jay McInerney, Jonathan SAT Safran Foer and EL Doctorow discuss the way American SAT literature reflected these decades of theoretically small SAT wars, and Mark Lawson reveals his candidate for the most SAT unfairly neglected modern American writer. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Robyn Read SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b019qj15 (Listen) SAT Freud vs Jung SAT Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung's names may be linked in the SAT public imagination but the two men were friends and SAT collaborators for only a few short years. In 1912 they had a SAT final, catastrophic split and never worked together again. SAT Lisa Appignanesi tells the story of the titanic struggle SAT which shaped our map of the unconscious. Did the bisected SAT science fail to fulfil its promise and how much can be laid SAT at the door of the primal argument between its dominant SAT father and rebellious son? SAT SAT 09:00 Braden Back on the Beat b05vj0c8 (Listen) SAT Oldie magazine founder Richard Ingrams presents a SAT retrospective to reintroduce the pioneering TV and radio SAT superstar Bernard Braden to the airwaves after far too long SAT an absence. This three-hour special has been compiled SAT through scouring the BBC Sound Archive and liaising with SAT Bernard Braden's family and long-term friend Gillian Best. SAT For the first time since their original broadcast the SAT retrospective includes Leave Your Name And Number [1950] and SAT Bedtime With Braden [1951]. These shows attracted burgeoning SAT writing talents such as Frank Muir & Denis Norden and Bob SAT Monkhouse, as well as stars such as Pearl Carr and Ronald SAT Fletcher. SAT Produced by Mik Wilkojc. SAT SAT 11:30 Ludwig Koch and the Music of Nature b00jn4m2 (Listen) SAT Ludwig Koch was once as famous as David Attenborough, as SAT pioneering as 'Blue Planet' and as important as the BBC SAT Natural History Unit. They all owe their existence to this SAT German refugee who first recorded the music of nature. SAT Through his archive and new field recordings the poet Sean SAT Street tells the story of Ludwig Koch. SAT When Sean Street was recording in a store-room at the SAT Science Museum for a Radio 4 archive programme he came SAT across a grey crate, stencilled, as if it belonged to a band SAT on tour, with KOCH on it. This was the disc-cutting machine SAT which Ludwig Koch used for a decade to make the recordings SAT of birds, mammals and insects that led to a new field of SAT study, of broadcasting and the creation of the BBC's Natural SAT History Unit. SAT Sean and his producer then began investigating and SAT discovered that Koch made the first ever wildlife recording, SAT of a bird, when he was eight, in 1889 - and that it still SAT exists in the BBC's archives. SAT Koch was an effusive man and this led to several SAT confrontations with Nazi officials, whom he despised. There SAT is an extraordinary recording of him telling the story of a SAT Berliner whose bullfinch sang 'The Internationale'. He was SAT carted off to prison and the bird 'executed'. "Under SAT dictatorship," Koch observed, "even songbirds suffer". He SAT came to England, worked with Julian Huxley on theories of SAT animal language, and recorded birds from the Scillies to SAT Shetland. SAT In 1940 he joined the BBC and soon became a household name, SAT beloved of comedians (there's a great sketch by Peter SAT Sellers parodying him at work) because of his resolute SAT pronunciation of English as if it were German. SAT As well as being wonderful radio in itself his work was of SAT great significance. It inspired producer Desmond Hawkins to SAT start 'The Naturalist', (using Koch's enchanting recording SAT of a curlew as its signature tune). Sean Street uses his SAT recordings and contributions of those who worked with him in SAT what becomes a natural history programme in itself, with SAT Koch the subject and Sean exploring his habits and habitat. SAT There is also an attempt to record curlews as he did so SAT successfully, to shed light on the achievements of this SAT courageous, influential and loveable genius. Today SAT sound-recordists use tiny digital machines and sophisticated SAT microphones. But there are other problems - traffic, planes, SAT people - and fewer, shyer curlews. SAT Producer: Julian May. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Julian May SAT Presenter: Sean Street SAT SAT 12:00 The Goon Show b009kmns (Listen) SAT The Flea SAT Neddie Seagoon is Samuel Pepys and he is facing trouble from SAT a flea called Francoise. Stars Harry Secombe. From December SAT 1956. SAT SAT 12:30 Parsley Sidings b01p0x1b (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Inspector Calls SAT The threat of closure from an official inspection calls for SAT desperate measures at the sleepy station. SAT Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Ian Lavender as Bert, SAT Kenneth Connor as Percy, Liz Fraser as Gloria and John SAT Graham as Phineas Perkins. SAT Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway SAT station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station SAT for generations and the current Station Master, Horace, SAT hopes that his son Bert will continue the line. SAT Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk Bert wants to work anywhere but SAT on the railways. His colleague, Station Announcer Gloria SAT Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter Percy Valentine is an SAT archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Signalman, SAT Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made remedies in SAT equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is Phineas SAT Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop SAT down the line. SAT Re-created Announcements by Keith Skues. SAT Producer: Edward Taylor SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1971. SAT SAT 13:00 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City b07cb3dz (Listen) SAT Michael Tolliver Lives - Omnibus SAT It's 2005 and Mrs Madrigal is back. Michael's wedded bliss SAT is interrupted and Brian is making plans. Stars Kate Harper, SAT by Armistead Maupin. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b07cb4ll (Listen) SAT Rick Astley SAT Singer Rick Astley chooses 'That's Amore', sung by Dean SAT Martin, and 'Buck Rogers' by Feeder. SAT SAT 14:15 Frankly Speaking b07dprzl (Listen) SAT John Braine SAT 'Angry young man' author of 'Room at the Top', John Braine SAT answers the questions posed by John Bowen, Peter Duval Smith SAT and George Scott. SAT Aged 37 when interviewed, he talks about his Yorkshire, SAT working class background and the impact of his success. SAT John Braine was born in 1922 and died in 1986. 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 Only 40 or so of the original 100 programmes survive. SAT First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1959. SAT SAT 14:45 Could Do Better b00759x7 (Listen) SAT Alan Coren SAT Robert Booth summons Alan Coren to his study to blow the SAT dust off the humorist and broadcaster's school reports. From SAT November 1988. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b019qj15 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Dostoyevsky - The Friend of the Family b04fxy8d (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SAT American Literature b00rbn88 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Henry James - The Turn of the Screw b007jvdv (Listen) SAT When a new young Governess arrives at Bly, a remote country SAT house in Essex, she fears that her two young charges, Flora SAT and Miles, may be hiding a dark secret. As the days go by, SAT she witnesses some strange visions which lead her to the SAT conclusion that the house - and the children- are possessed SAT by evil forces. SAT Starring Cathy Sara at the Governess, Tina Gray as Mrs SAT Grose, Joseph Tremain as Miles and Lulu Popplewell as SAT Floral. SAT Dramatised by Neville Teller. Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. SAT SAT 19:00 Braden Back on the Beat b05vj0c8 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 21:30 Ludwig Koch and the Music of Nature b00jn4m2 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] SAT SAT 22:00 What Does the K Stand For? b03mhvqf (Listen) SAT Series 1, Tell Them About the Dream, Martin SAT Young Stephen looks for a hero that he can tell his class SAT about. SAT Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos SAT Produced by Colin Anderson. SAT Credits SAT Stephen K Amos: Stephen K Amos SAT Young Stephen: Shaquille Ali-Yebuah SAT Stephanie Amos: Fatou Sohna SAT Virginia Amos: Ellen Thomas SAT Vincent Amos: Don Gilet SAT Miss Collins: Gemma Whelan SAT Jayson: Frankie Wilson SAT Producer: Colin Anderson SAT Writer: Jonathan Harvey SAT Writer: Stephen K Amos SAT SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci - Facts and Fancies b007jrm4 (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT From writing books to environmental damage, the producer, SAT writer and performer presents his own collection of humorous SAT essays. SAT SAT 22:45 Ida Barr: Artificial Hip Hop b00v1qvw (Listen) SAT Choice 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 "Choice". 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 Bjork 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 R4 plus Tina C's Election Night BBQ Special SAT (Nov 2008). 'Ida Barr's Bingo' was at the Brighton Festival SAT and the South Bank earlier this year and 'Ida Barr: So This SAT Is Christmas' was at the Barbican Centre in December 2008. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Claire Grove SAT SAT 23:00 Masala FM b007jypp (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT When Auntieji upsets a listener, can Khalid save the Asian SAT station? Stars Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar. From SAT September 1996. SAT SAT 23:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b0124nql (Listen) SAT Series 1, Pilot SAT By Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser SAT Justin ..... Justin Moorhouse SAT Gran ..... Anne Reid SAT Ray ..... Paul Copley SAT Lisa ..... Christine Bottomley SAT Bryn ..... Lloyd Langford SAT Tanya ..... Susan Cookson SAT Waiter ..... Jim Poyser SAT Head ..... Caimh McDonnell SAT Produced by Steven Canny SAT In one version of his life, Justin is a well-known local SAT Manchester radio DJ who is successful, funny, and stopped in SAT the street by adoring fans. He's the man who has everything. SAT In another version he's a DJ in a slightly shabby local SAT radio station who gets hassled by the occasional oddball on SAT the street. And he's the man who hopes for everything. The SAT truth lies somewhere in between. SAT And at home? Well, naturally, his private life is chaotic. SAT His wife has left him, taking custody of his 8-year-old son SAT Justin jnr, and is in the process of taking him to the SAT cleaners. So he's back on the market. As is his house - so SAT he's currently living in his father-in-law's spare room in SAT Bury. The only person who understands him is his Gran, SAT living in luxury in an old folk's home in Warrington. Oh, SAT and his producer Bryn but this might not be a good thing. SAT Despite all this mess, Justin always remains positive. Every SAT new day is a new opportunity, "When life throws you lemons, SAT make lemonade". SAT Recorded in front of an audience in Manchester. SAT Everyone Quite Likes Justin is written by Justin Moorhouse SAT and Jim Poyser. Justin is a comedian who sells out gigs SAT across the country. He has also written plays and a previous SAT show for Radio 4. Jim Poyser is a writer and producer of SAT enormous experience in both radio and television. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Steven Canny SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 22 MAY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Henry James - The Turn of the Screw b007jvdv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City b07cb3dz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b07cb4ll (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Frankly Speaking b07dprzl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:45 Could Do Better b00759x7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b019qj15 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Dostoyevsky - The Friend of the Family b04fxy8d (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 b00rbn88 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrgp (Listen) SUN Omnibus, part 1 SUN The letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill. 'Pug' and SUN 'Cat' become close, but war and tragedy loom. Starring Alex SUN Jennings. SUN SUN 07:15 A Woman's World b00wr9vl (Listen) SUN The WRVS SUN Graham Clarke tells Chris Ledgard about running a WRVS lunch SUN club. The charity no longer uses its full title - the SUN Women's Royal Voluntary Service - and has been taking on SUN male volunteers for many years. The chief executive Lynne SUN Berry discusses the balance between respecting the WRVS's SUN history as a women's organisation, and establishing its new SUN image in the modern world of big charity. SUN SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01c7pqz (Listen) SUN Series 7, The Minx SUN Count Arthur (Steve Delaney) encounters more problems with SUN the world as he tries to insure his car, a Hillman Minx. In SUN an attempt to reduce his premium he sets out to prove that SUN Terry Wogan will not be his passenger, causing great SUN confusion for Mr Wogan himself. SUN Count Arthur Strong - one time Variety Star, now sole SUN proprietor and owner of Doncaster's Academy of Performance - SUN is a show business legend, raconteur, and lecturer SUN extraordinaire. He stars in a Sitcom with regular sidekick SUN Wilfred Taylor, Master Butcher, and a host of other SUN characters. SUN All false starts and nervous fumbling badly covered up by a SUN delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance, and an expert SUN in everything from the world of entertainment to the origin SUN of the species, everyday life with Arthur is an enlightening SUN experience. SUN Cast: SUN Steve Delaney SUN Mel Giedroyc SUN Alastair Kerr SUN David Mounfield SUN Producer: John Leonard SUN A Komedia Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 08:00 Ray's a Laugh b007jrnb (Listen) SUN From 03/10/1958 SUN Can Ted get over the shock of the arrival of a new employee? SUN And Kitty's throwing a house party - on a budget. SUN Starring Ted Ray. With Kitty Bluett and Kenneth Connor. SUN Ray's A Laugh - the successor to ITMA - follows the comedy SUN exploits of Ted's life at home with his 'radio' wife Kitty, SUN as well as in a variety of jobs. It ran from 1949-1961. SUN Scripted by Bernard Botting and Charles Hart. SUN BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenoulhet. SUN Producer: Leslie Bridgmont SUN First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1958. SUN SUN 08:30 Doctor in the House b007m680 (Listen) SUN Women and Wine SUN Medic Simon Sparrow's efforts to get a date for the hospital SUN ball turn to chaos. SUN The misadventures of student doctor Simon Sparrow - adapted SUN for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's novel 'Doctor SUN in the House' published in 1952. SUN Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as SUN Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Edward Cast SUN as Taffy Evans, Norma Ronald as Matron/Vera and Joan Young SUN as Lady Spratt. SUN Producer: David Hatch SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1968. SUN SUN 09:00 Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea: Omnibus SUN b07cc7mb (Listen) SUN Teffi was a famous Russian writer in the early 1900s, but SUN was forced to flee her country into exile. Read by Tracy-Ann SUN Oberman. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b07cc7md (Listen) SUN Melanie C SUN Sporty former Spice Girl Melanie C chooses Stevie Wonder's SUN 'I Wish' and 'Eternal Flame' by Bangles. SUN SUN 10:15 World Book Club b07cc8ys (Listen) SUN Kate Grenville - The Secret River SUN 4 Extra Debut. Kate Grenville talks about her novel which SUN follows a man transported to Australia in 1806. With SUN Harriett Gilbert. From April 2009. SUN SUN 11:15 The Moth Radio Hour b07cc8yv (Listen) SUN Series 2, Adoption, a Plane Crash, and a Busload of SUN Lutherans SUN True stories told live in the USA: Peter Aguero introduces a SUN special show from New York, with stories about the ties the SUN bind. 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 Ray's a Laugh b007jrnb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Doctor in the House b007m680 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrgp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 A Woman's World b00wr9vl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Michiel Heyns - The Typewriter's Tale: Omnibus SUN b07cc9py (Listen) SUN In 1907, writer Henry James's typist, Frieda, is drawn to a SUN new arrival at Lamb House in Rye. Read by Sian Thomas. SUN SUN 15:45 Short stories by DH Lawrence b007qpxb (Listen) SUN The Shades of Spring SUN Addy Syson returns to the unchanging 'country of his past'. SUN But what of the girl he left behind? Read by Peter Meakin. SUN SUN 16:00 Steve Walker - Habakkuk of Ice b0087495 (Listen) SUN The extraordinary story of a battleship - made entirely of SUN ice - designed for use in the Second World War. SUN It was left to dissolve in a lonely Canadian lake in SUN Northern Alberta - and it's eccentric English inventor, SUN Professor Geofffey Pyke is one of the great unsung geniuses SUN of the 20th Century. SUN Steve Walker's drama stars Tim McInnerney as Geoffrey Pyke, SUN Dermot Crowley as JD Bernal, Melanie Hudson as Pamela SUN Pleens, Chris Emmett as Winston Churchill and David Holt as SUN Lord Mountbatten. SUN Director: Andy Jordan SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b07ccm88 (Listen) SUN Paul Celan in Mapesbury Road SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Paul Celan in Mapesbury SUN Road'. SUN What brought one of the most compelling modern European SUN poets to a perfectly ordinary street in North London? Who SUN did he visit there? And what made him write a poem about the SUN experience? Writer Toby Litt investigates this most SUN improbable of brief encounters between Paul Celan, the SUN master elegist of 20th century Jewish experience and Britain SUN at the end of the Sixties. SUN Producer: Zahid Warley SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. SUN SUN 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01c7pqz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Afternoon Drama b012l4ns (Listen) SUN Anita Sullivan - Rock of Eye SUN Three elderly tailors, a trouser-maker, a coat-maker and a SUN waistcoat-maker, have been commissioned to make a bespoke SUN suit for an up and coming politician. They have worked SUN together for decades but have only met very rarely, although SUN increasingly, these days, at their colleagues' funerals. The SUN suit has been designed by Mrs White, a mysterious woman whom SUN they've never met. Mrs White has imposed very strict rules SUN about secrecy, and all off-cuts have to be returned to her. SUN The suiting fabric supplied is also unusual. It seems to SUN change colour and quality with the mood of the tailors, and SUN to move against the needle in a sentient manner. As the SUN garment takes shape, it begins to have a powerful effect on SUN anyone who comes into contact with it. SUN A BBC/Cymru Wales production, written and directed by Anita SUN Sullivan. SUN Credits SUN Morris: Allan Corduner SUN Harry: Malcolm Storry SUN Griff: Stephen Marzella SUN Lauren: Catrin Stewart SUN Mrs White: Liza Sadovy SUN Krista: Claire Cage SUN Fraser: Richard Nichols SUN Writer: Anita Sullivan SUN Director: Anita Sullivan SUN SUN 18:45 Roald Dahl b07ccqys (Listen) SUN Beware of the Dog SUN 4 Extra Debut. On his way back to base following a mission, SUN a badly injured Spitfire pilot is forced to bail out. Read SUN by James Aubrey. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b07cc8yv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] SUN SUN 19:45 Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea: Omnibus SUN b07cc7mb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 20:55 Inheritance Tracks b07cc7md (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:00 World Book Club b07cc8ys (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01c7pqz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 The Masterson Inheritance b007jps7 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Beware the Ides of Masterson SUN Ancient Rome witnesses terror, tyrants and togas. Improvised SUN family saga with Paul Merton and Josie Lawrence. From June SUN 1994. SUN SUN 23:00 The Shuttleworths b007p1np (Listen) SUN John Shuttleworth's Open Mind, The Bermuda Triangle SUN Sheffield's premier singer-songwriter tries to solve the SUN Atlantic Ocean mystery. With guest Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. SUN SUN 23:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01jhnyh (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 3 SUN A new sitcom set in a Local Authority Register Office where SUN staff deal with the three greatest events in anybody's life. SUN Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan SUN Partridge), he also stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who SUN is a stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt SUN any wedding service if the width of the bride infringes SUN health and safety. He's not married - but why does he need SUN to be? 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, while ditzy Anita may get SUN her words and names mixed up occasionally but as the only SUN parent in the office, she's a mother to them all. SUN In this episode, Malcolm is distracted by a breast feeding SUN mother during a birth registration, causing Lorna to suspect SUN he might have made his first ever mistake. SUN Cast: SUN Malcolm........................................David SUN Schneider SUN Lorna............................................Sarah SUN Hadland SUN Anita.............................................Sandy SUN McDade SUN Luke..............................................Russell SUN Tovey SUN Mary..............................................Sally SUN Bretton SUN Mr Carrick......................................Andrew SUN Brooke SUN Mrs Carrick.....................................Kerry SUN Godliman SUN Mrs Ferguson/ SUN Mrs Goldring/ Mrs Smith..................Jane Whittenshaw SUN Producer: Simon Jacobs SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 23 MAY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Afternoon Drama b012l4ns (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:45 Roald Dahl b07ccqys (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrgp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 A Woman's World b00wr9vl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Michiel Heyns - The Typewriter's Tale: Omnibus MON b07cc9py (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Short stories by DH Lawrence b007qpxb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Steve Walker - Habakkuk of Ice b0087495 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b07ccm88 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01c7pqz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Wimsey b007jznj (Listen) MON The Nine Tailors, A Damnable Business MON Lord Peter Wimsey identifies the mystery body, but he has MON yet to name the killer. MON Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, With Timothy MON Bateson as Superintendent Blundell, Philip Latham as The MON Reverend Theodore Venables and Stephen Greiff as Nobby MON Cranton.. 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 November 1980. MON MON 06:30 Grayson Perry on Creativity and Imagination b00sx8ng (Listen) MON Grayson Perry is an epitome of creativity: a Turner Prize MON winning ceramicist who's as famous for his alter-ego Claire MON as for his pottery. MON But what does being creative really mean? He's on a mission MON to find out. MON Talent shows dominate TV schedules and we are taught that MON everyone can take part, but genuine talent, originality and MON the idea of learning a traditional arts skill is MON persistently overlooked he argues. MON With the help of some of the most talented people in the MON business, Grayson Perry will be exploring how the MON imagination works. Creativity has become the modern buzzword MON of bureaucrats trying to ensure wider access to the arts. MON And it has been subject to a lot of mythmaking. Grayson MON wants to nail down these myths and show how creativity isn't MON a mystery, but at the same time it isn't necessarily easily MON accessible. MON Writers Terry Pratchett and Rose Tremain, fashion designer MON Hussein Chalayan and Ray Tallis, poet and neuroscientist all MON join Grayson on his quest. MON (Repeat.) MON Producer: Gavin Heard. MON MON 07:00 Elephants to Catch Eels b007qx6x (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 4 MON 18th-century smuggler Tamsyn Trelawny tries to keep her love MON life out of the scandal rags. Stars Lucy Speed. From March MON 2003. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b07bbd50 (Listen) MON Series 75, Episode 1 MON Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 75th series of MON the panel show where participants must try to speak for 60 MON seconds without hesitation, deviation or repetition. No MON repetition? That's no small order after nearly 50 years. MON Paul Merton, now the second most prolific player of the game MON after Kenneth Williams, will be joined by guests including MON series regulars Josie Lawrence, Sheila Hancock, Marcus MON Brigstocke and Gyles Brandreth. Comedian Alexei Sayle, and MON Broadcaster of the Year John Finnemore make their first MON appearances. MON Episode one features Paul Merton, John Finnemore, Gyles MON Brandreth and Sheila Hancock talking about such diverse MON topics as Halley's Comet, Carbon Dating and Answering the MON Telephone. MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: John Finnemore MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Sheila Hancock MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 08:00 Parsley Sidings b01p47pg (Listen) MON Series 1, The 1890 Rocket MON Station master Horace Hepplewhite decides to renovate his MON grandfather's rusting old steam engine, to get it back on MON the rails once more. 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 Recreated Announcements by Keith Skues. MON Producer: Edward Taylor MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1972. MON MON 08:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k02m (Listen) MON Dick Turpin MON The veteran of many parts recounts a disastrous TV MON adaptation where he experienced robbery of a different kind. MON Stars Peter Jones. From June 1986. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b00qvnjh (Listen) MON Series 12, John Donne MON James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary MON correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are MON joined by Jane Thynne and Christopher Brookmyre. The author MON of the week and subject for pastiche is John Donne, and the MON reader is Beth Chalmers. MON MON 09:30 Tony's b007k2tv (Listen) MON Series 1, Is This True Love? MON Still single at 41, the barber's mother - and fate - seem MON determined to take a hand. Stars Victor Spinetti. From MON November 1979. MON MON 10:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00y9455 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Russia, 1880: The unpredictable Fyodor Karamazov and his MON sons are reunited to discuss Dmitry's inheritance. Stars Roy MON Marsden. MON MON 11:00 The Human Cradle b01bbd8q (Listen) MON Saba, by Sulaiman Addonia MON In Sulaiman Addonia's new short story 'Saba', a former MON cinema employee decides to create a 'cinema' of his own MON inside a refugee camp. Read by Abukar Osman. MON The first of three contemporary stories from the Horn of MON Africa - Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. MON Produced by Emma Harding MON About the author: Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia was born in MON Eritrea to an Eritrean mother and an Ethiopian father. He MON spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan following MON the Om Hajar massacre in 1976, and in his early teens he MON lived and studied in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has lived in MON London since 1990. His first novel, The Consequences of Love MON (Vintage) was published in 2009. MON Credits MON Writer: Sulaiman Addonia MON Producer: Emma Harding MON MON 11:15 Dave Sheasby - Keeping Anne-Marie b007lr89 (Listen) MON A cynical solicitor's emotions are unexpectedly stirred over MON a case of surrogate motherhood. Stars Geoffrey Whitehead. MON MON 12:00 Parsley Sidings b01p47pg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k02m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Wimsey b007jznj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Grayson Perry on Creativity and Imagination b00sx8ng (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00ncwv7 (Listen) MON A London Boatman's Story MON London boatman William Thornhill's epic move across the MON world in 1806. A story of belonging and ownership read by MON Ron Cook. MON MON 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and MON the Mind b042j8yf (Listen) MON In the Beginning MON In this first of ten programmes on experimental psychology, MON Martin Sixsmith examines its origins in the work of MON philosophers such as John Locke and scientists like Luigi MON Galvani, who in the 1700s investigated nerve impulses in MON frogs. He looks at the popular psychology of Victorian times MON including phrenology and physiognomy, going behind the MON scenes at the Science Museum with curator Philip Loring. And MON he talks to historian and philosopher John Forrester of MON Cambridge University. MON Produced by Sara Parker MON A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrh6 (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Away at war, Churchill writes to Clementine stating he wants MON to return home early. With Alex Jennings and Sylvestra Le MON Touzel. MON MON 14:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? b00y9tqk (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Things to do before you die, and literary rivalry with an MON oncologist. MON Miles Kington died of cancer in January 2008. Given very MON little time to live by his doctors, he decided to make MON cancer "pay its way" - by coming up with increasingly witty MON and absurd ideas for this book, as suggested to his agent, MON Gill. MON With Michael Palin as Miles and Anna Massey as Gill. MON Dramatised by Robin Brooks MON Produced by Clive Brill MON Made for BBC Radio 4 by Pacificus Productions MON First broadcast in October 2008. MON MON 15:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00y9455 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b00qvnjh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Tony's b007k2tv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Elephants to Catch Eels b007qx6x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Just a Minute b07bbd50 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007jvbd (Listen) MON Unaccountable Conduct of Professor de Worms MON Young poet Syme is chased through the London snow from Soho MON to St Paul's by the strange figure of the Professor. 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 b007672s (Listen) MON Jane Asher & Monty Don MON Rosie Boycott and her guests, actress Jane Asher and MON gardener Monty Don, discuss three books about faraway places MON - the outer Hebrides, the wilds of Spain and the Peruvian MON mountains by Joe Simpson, Adam Nicolson and Christ Stewart. MON From 2002. MON Touching the Void, by Joe Simpson MON Publisher: Vintage MON Sea Room, by Adam Nicolson MON Publisher: Harpercollins MON Driving Over Lemons, by Chris Stewart MON Publisher: Sort of Books. MON MON 19:00 Parsley Sidings b01p47pg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k02m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Wimsey b007jznj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Grayson Perry on Creativity and Imagination b00sx8ng (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 The Human Cradle b01bbd8q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Dave Sheasby - Keeping Anne-Marie b007lr89 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b07bbd50 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Kevin Eldon Will See You Now b01lt2vv (Listen) MON Series 1, Guest Week - With Guests 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 It's guest week and, to celebrate, Kevin Eldon will be MON talking to his guests who include a stupid man, Apollo 11 MON mission commander Neil Armstrong and sadly, a hypnotist. 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. MON Written by Kevin Eldon. MON With additional material by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris MON (Flight Of The Conchords, That Mitchell & Webb Sound) and MON Toby Davies. MON Original music by Martin Bird. MON Produced & directed by David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b07ch9dw (Listen) MON Series 17, Episode 6 MON Made for 4 Extra. All the bonus and jokes that couldn't be MON squeezed into last week's News Quiz. MON MON 23:45 Singular Women b0075569 (Listen) MON Frances MON Celia Imrie plays a shy teacher with an unwanted notoriety. MON Bittersweet comedies about four very different women. From MON September 1997. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007jvbd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b007672s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Wimsey b007jznj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Grayson Perry on Creativity and Imagination b00sx8ng (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00ncwv7 (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 b042j8yf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrh6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? b00y9tqk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00y9455 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b00qvnjh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Tony's b007k2tv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Elephants to Catch Eels b007qx6x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Just a Minute b07bbd50 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Wimsey b007jzpw (Listen) TUE The Nine Tailors, All Is Not Explained TUE Lord Peter Wimsey goes snooping to try and establish who TUE killed Geoffrey Deacon - and how. TUE Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey. With Timothy TUE Bateson as Superintendent Blundell, Philip Latham as The TUE Reverend Theodore Venables, Keith Drinkell as Will Thoday TUE and Malcolm Terris as Jim Thoday. 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 December 1980. TUE TUE 06:30 Grayson on His Bike b00vkw55 (Listen) TUE Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry takes his teddy TUE bear and childhood hero, Alan Measles, across Bavaria on a TUE highly decorated Kenilworth AM1 motorcycle. TUE Grayson spent a troubled childhood in suburban Essex TUE creating a fantasy life where he fought off the brutish TUE invading Germans, under the command of his teddy bear Alan TUE Measles, a plucky wartime Resistance leader who became his TUE hero, a sort of personal God and the embodiment of TUE everything that was good about masculinity. TUE Now Grayson Perry has commissioned a highly decorative TUE Kenilworth AM1 motorcycle, with a shrine on the back for his TUE teddy bear, whose inaugural voyage, Ten Days of Alan, takes TUE them across Bavaria, on a mission of reconciliation with TUE their old enemies. TUE Starting out from their hometown of Chelmsford, Grayson and TUE Alan Measles' journey takes in the 1920s Nurburgring TUE racetrack and religious icons like the Isenheim Altar by TUE Matthias Grunewald and the church in Wies, where a peasant TUE saw tears in the eyes of a flagellated Christ figure in TUE 1738. They visit Mad King Ludwig's fantastically Rococo TUE Schloss Neuschwanstein where much of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang TUE was filmed,the Steiff Teddy bear factory in Giengen and end TUE up in Backnang, Chelmsford's twin town, to hand over a TUE message of goodwill to the local Mayor. TUE As they go, Grayson and Alan reflect on the nature of art TUE and pilgrimage, shared memories of childhood and the speed TUE of their motorbike on Tyrolean mountain passes. Come TUE sunshine ? Or rain. TUE Producer: Nicki Paxman. TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Grayson Perry TUE Producer: Nicki Paxman TUE TUE 07:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting TUE b008ycft (Listen) TUE Series 2, New Islington TUE With London house prices going stratospheric in the East TUE End, Linda gets a valuation. TUE Sitcom written by and starring Linda Smith. TUE With Femi Elufowoju Jnr, Jeremy Hardy, Martin Hyder, TUE Margaret John and Chris Neill. TUE Special guest: Dillie Keane TUE Producer: Jon Rolph TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. TUE TUE 07:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b0435hrn (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Crank 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 the Crank, a TUE Matlock oddball who Isy's mother has roped into helping Isy TUE study the Welsh language. Along the way, Isy picks up a bit TUE of morse code. 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 b007jpsm (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 15 TUE Crofter Kenneth Horne meets Bona Prince Charlie, Rambling TUE Syd Rumpo sings of artefacts - and bona advertising Julian TUE and Sandy-style. 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 June 1968. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b015pvwm (Listen) TUE I Want My Mummy TUE Confusion, and an ancient Egyptian queen, rule. Stars Deryck TUE Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From July 1974. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b07ch9dw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Singular Women b0075569 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00yb1sd (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE As Alyosha attends to dying Father Zosima, relations between TUE Dmitry and his father turn ever more dangerous. Stars Paul TUE Hilton. TUE TUE 11:00 The Human Cradle b01bmq2x (Listen) TUE The Invisible Map TUE In Maaza Mengiste's new short story, 'The Invisible Map', a TUE young Ethiopian woman, hoping for a better life in Europe, TUE finds herself trapped in a Libyan prison. Read by Adjoa TUE Andoh. TUE The second in our series of contemporary stories from the TUE Horn of Africa - Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. TUE Produced by Emma Harding TUE About the author: Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, TUE Ethiopia and graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from TUE New York University. Her debut novel, the critically TUE acclaimed 'Beneath the Lion's Gaze', has been translated TUE into several languages and was a finalist for a TUE Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. She teaches at NYU and TUE currently lives in New York City. TUE Credits TUE Writer: Maaza Mengiste TUE Producer: Emma Harding TUE TUE 11:15 Tommies b06j2gg4 (Listen) TUE 21 October 1915 TUE by Nick Warburton TUE Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. TUE Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness TUE accounts, the new series of TOMMIES traces one real day at TUE war, exactly 100 years ago: from the Western Front, to TUE Mesopotamia, via neutral Holland and occupied Belgium. TUE And through it all, we'll follow the fortunes of Mickey TUE Bliss and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of TUE the British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense TUE machine, one which connects situations across the whole TUE theatre of the war, over four long years. TUE Indira Varma, Lee Ross and Jassa Ahluwalia star in this TUE story, set at Brigade HQ 89th Punjabis, Pont du Hem, France, TUE on October 21st, 1915. Mickey Bliss returns to the front TUE line as a newly-trained officer, with the beginnings of TUE war-winning technology in his hands. But it's a month since TUE the battle of Loos began - and the Allies are still where TUE they were before it started. TUE Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle TUE Director: Jonquil Panting. TUE Credits TUE Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross TUE Commentator: Indira Varma TUE Pavan: Jassa Ahluwalia TUE Albert: Colin Hoult TUE Kinch: David Acton TUE Lever: Mark Edel-Hunt TUE Chopra: Neet Mohan TUE Producer: David Hunter TUE Producer: Jonquil Panting TUE Producer: Jonathan Ruffle TUE Director: Jonquil Panting TUE Writer: Nick Warburton TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b007jpsm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b015pvwm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Wimsey b007jzpw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Grayson on His Bike b00vkw55 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00nd0t9 (Listen) TUE For the Term of His Natural Life TUE Life in London for boatman Will Thornhill is sweet and rosy TUE until fate intervenes. Read by Ron Cook. TUE TUE 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and TUE the Mind b042jhl9 (Listen) TUE Brains and Brass Instruments TUE Martin Sixsmith investigates how medical research helped TUE identify different areas of the brain - from the speechless TUE patient of French physician Paul Broca to the brain damaged TUE American railway worker Phineas Gage. TUE He looks at how new ways to measure time helped German TUE psychologists like Wilhelm Wundt to assess the speed of TUE thought, whilst in Britain archivist Subhadra Das explains TUE the impact on psychology of Sir Francis Galton's statistical TUE mass observations. TUE Produced by Sara Parker TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrhk (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE Churchill returns home to his beloved Clementine, but TUE tragedy strikes. With Alex Jennings and Sylvestra Le Touzel. TUE TUE 14:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? b00yb307 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Things to learn before you die, without leaving home. Cancer TUE sufferer Miles Kington's humorous letters. With Michael TUE Palin. TUE TUE 15:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00yb1sd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Counterpoint b00dp6f4 (Listen) TUE 2005, Episode 5 TUE Ned Sherrin hosts the music quiz with Graham Bennett of TUE Surbiton, Jerry Knowles of Selsey and Andrew Taylor from TUE Cambridge. TUE TUE 16:30 Flying the Flag b00cbcpj (Listen) TUE Series 3, Cultural Exchange TUE A diplomatic visit sees the Ambassador mix the oil and water TUE of artistic detente. Stars Dinsdale Landen. From December TUE 1990. TUE TUE 17:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting TUE b008ycft (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b0435hrn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007jzqp (Listen) TUE The Man in Spectacles TUE With new-found ally the Professor, Gabriel rests up before TUE they both set off to confront Doctor Bull. Read by Geoffrey TUE Palmer. TUE TUE 18:30 The Tingle Factor b07cmbyg (Listen) TUE George Martin TUE Beatles record producer and composer Sir George Martin, TUE talks to Jeremy Nicholas about the music which stirs his TUE emotions. TUE In between his music choices, George looks back over his TUE wide-ranging career. From early classical music record TUE making, through comedy records to signing The Beatles in TUE 1962 - he reveals what it was like to work with John Lennon TUE and Paul McCartney. TUE Sir George Martin was born in 1926 and died in 2016. TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b007jpsm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b015pvwm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Wimsey b007jzpw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Grayson on His Bike b00vkw55 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 The Human Cradle b01bmq2x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Tommies b06j2gg4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b0435hrn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 The Guns of Adam Riches b01qnrn0 (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Ballad of Big Rich 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, Adam Riches takes the listener back to the Wild TUE West to tell the story of Big Rich, a sass-talkin', TUE gun-totin' cowboy who just so happened to have sat on the TUE front row. TUE Written by Adam Riches TUE Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer and Rupert Majendie. TUE Credits TUE Actor: Adam Riches TUE Actor: Cariad Lloyd TUE Actor: Jim Johnson TUE Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer TUE Producer: Rupert Majendie TUE Writer: Adam Riches TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b045jrdz (Listen) TUE For two hours, seven nights a week, the Comedy Club offers TUE the best laughs. Plus tonight, Paul Garner chats to Tracy TUE Ann Oberman. TUE TUE 23:00 Vent b00t4qzw (Listen) TUE Series 1, Gravity Gets You Down TUE Comatose Ben punches his physiotherapist, while Elvis drops TUE in on his unconscious mind. Stars Neil Pearson. From August TUE 2006. TUE TUE 23:30 The Wilson Dixon Line b00kr5y1 (Listen) TUE Uncle Wilbur's Advice for Modern Living 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 In the final episode, following his break up from Maureen, TUE Wilson saddles up his horse Andrew and heads into the TUE Colorado mountains to seek some guidance from his old Uncle TUE Wilbour. What he gets instead is the the epic tale of "the TUE man with no name", straight from the annals of the Wild TUE West. TUE Wilson Dixon is the comic creation of Jesse Griffin and TUE sidekick Snake Wizzelteats is performed by Jesse Budd. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 25 MAY 2016 WED WED 00:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007jzqp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 The Tingle Factor b07cmbyg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Wimsey b007jzpw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Grayson on His Bike b00vkw55 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00nd0t9 (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 b042jhl9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrhk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? b00yb307 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00yb1sd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Counterpoint b00dp6f4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Flying the Flag b00cbcpj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting WED b008ycft (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b0435hrn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Wimsey b007jzr6 (Listen) WED The Nine Tailors, Nine Tailors Make a Man WED Can upper class sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey finally solve the WED baffling mystery of the murder of Geoffrey Deacon? WED Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, With Peter WED Jones as Bunter, Timothy Bateson as Superintendent Blundell, WED Philip Latham as The Reverend Theodore Venables, Noel Dyson WED as Mrs Venables, Keith Drinkell as Will Thoday and Alexander WED John as Harry Gotobed. 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 December 1980. WED WED 06:30 Painting the Loneliness b00sjbdy (Listen) WED It's a dark night in Greenwich Village, New York. In Edward WED Hopper's 1942 painting Nighthawks, a couple, a solitary WED customer and the bartender seem adrift in the darkness WED around them. WED Adam Gopnik, writer on the New Yorker, walks the streets in WED search of the location and the mood, wondering whether WED Hopper was 'painting the loneliness' he claimed, while WED Barbara Haskell, curator of a forthcoming Hopper exhibition, WED offers other interpretations. WED Hopper called his paintings 'silent theater', but we take WED the liberty of dramatising fleeting thoughts of the four WED characters. What is going on in their minds in Hopper's WED diner late at night? WED We are free to speculate on the countless possibilities with WED the help of playwright Dean Olsher and three actors: Michael WED Dowling, Sara Paul, and Jim Frangione. WED Producer: Judith Kampfner WED A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 07:00 Married b007zmd4 (Listen) WED Series 2, Identity WED Struggling with the impact of his parallel worlds, Robin WED meets a woman from his old life. Stars Hugh Bonneville. From WED May 2000. WED WED 07:30 Heresy b07bdfm2 (Listen) WED Series 10, Episode 1 WED The first in a new series of the programme that dares to WED commit heresy. Victoria Coren Mitchell and her guests have WED fun challenging knee-jerk public opinions, and exposing the WED wrong-headedness of received wisdom. WED In the first programme of the series Victoria is joined by WED comedians Lloyd Langford and Katy Brand, and the artist WED Grayson Perry. They talk about French Style, God and Hitler. WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Presenter: Victoria Coren Mitchell WED Panellist: Lloyd Langford WED Panellist: Katy Brand WED Panellist: Grayson Perry WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b01m8504 (Listen) WED Open Day WED With friends and relatives due for a visit aboard HMS WED Troutbridge, what has Pertwee got in mind? 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 b00j3pnr (Listen) WED Series 9, Episode 3 WED Radio Prune takes a pop at Radio 1 DJs, and James T Kink WED camps it up in Star Trek. Featuring John Cleese. From WED November 1973. WED WED 09:00 Jest a Minute b012h804 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 1 WED Justin Moorhouse, Jarred Christmas, Chris Corcoran and WED Jeremy Hardy hit Cardiff in Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz. From WED August 2006. WED WED 09:30 Change at Oglethorpe b007k0dp (Listen) WED Remember, Remember the Fifth of September WED Birthday celebrations go awry for the rural railway WED station's cafe proprietor June. Stars Peter Davison. From WED December 1995. WED WED 10:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00yb5ch (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Following a violent encounter at the Karamazov home, Dmitry WED flees the town in search of Grushenka. Stars Paul Hilton. WED WED 11:00 The Human Cradle b01by9lj (Listen) WED Government by Magic Spell WED In 'Government by Magic Spell' by Somali writer Saida WED Hagi-Dirie Herzi, a young woman is possessed by a jinni, but WED this soon leads her to a uniquely powerful position in state WED government. A satirical parable of power and corruption. WED The third in our series of contemporary stories from the WED Horn of Africa - Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. WED Read by Yusra Wasrama WED Produced by Emma Harding WED About the author: Saida Hagi-Dirie Herzi is a Somali WED feminist writer. WED WED 11:15 Tommies b06kdyqg (Listen) WED 28 October 1915 WED by Michael Chaplin WED Series created by Jonathan Ruffle WED Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness WED accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at WED war, exactly 100 years ago. WED Justin Salinger, Indira Varma and Anna Madeley star in WED today's story set in neutral Holland. Tasked to complete a WED sensitive diplomatic mission Robert de Tullio finds himself WED drawn deeper not only into the murky waters of 1WW WED Intelligence but also into a more personal and dangerous WED quest . WED Robert ..... Justin Salinger WED Commentator ..... Indira Varma WED Martins ..... Sam Dale WED Tamara ..... Anna Madeley WED Meulken ..... Mark Edel-Hunt WED Jonqueer ..... William Brand WED Van Hasselt ..... Chris Pavlo WED Guard ..... Neet Mohan WED Barman ..... David Hounslow WED Driver ..... David Acton WED Celestine ..... Pippa Nixon WED Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle WED Director: David Hunter. WED Credits WED Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross WED Commentator: Indira Varma WED Pavan Jodha: Rudi Dharmalingam WED Spiridon: Adrian Scarborough WED Ahmadullah Khan: Danny Rahim WED Pillow Wallah: Mark Edel-Hunt WED Leonie Vergeron: Aurelie Amblard WED Officer: Damian Lynch WED Gilbert Grosse: Matthew Watson WED Signaller: Neet Mohan WED Producer: David Hunter WED Producer: Jonquil Panting WED Producer: Jonathan Ruffle WED Director: David Hunter WED Writer: Nick Warburton WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01m8504 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00j3pnr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Wimsey b007jzr6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Painting the Loneliness b00sjbdy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00ndlm5 (Listen) WED The Sign of the Pickle Herring WED London convict William Thornhill arrives in the alien land WED of Australia's New South Wales in 1806. Read by Ron Cook. WED WED 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and WED the Mind b042l24h (Listen) WED The Mind Observes the Mind WED In this programme Martin Sixsmith examines the evolution of WED psychology on both sides of the Atlantic, from the founding WED father of American psychology William James to the Gestalt WED movement in Germany, through the rise of behaviourism in the WED United States to the cognitive revolution of the 1960s. WED He talks to the veteran psychologist George Mandler, who was WED part of that revolution, about how it still influences WED thinking today. WED Produced by Sara Parker WED A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrj1 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED Clementine is unhappy when Winston buys Chartwell Manor WED without her knowledge. With Alex Jennings and Sylvestra Le WED Touzel. WED WED 14:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? b00yb5vd (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Cancer's infrequently asked questions, and notifying the WED dog. Miles Kington's humorous last letters. With Michael WED Palin. WED WED 15:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00yb5ch (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Jest a Minute b012h804 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 Change at Oglethorpe b007k0dp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Married b007zmd4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Heresy b07bdfm2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007jzrz (Listen) WED The Duel WED The three men travel to France, where Gabriel Syme WED challenges the Marquis to a deadly combat. Read by Geoffrey WED Palmer. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b007wh27 (Listen) WED Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be WED Dominic Arkwright chairs the lively discussion series. WED 6/7. Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be WED With William Leith, Rosie Millard and Terence Blacker. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01m8504 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00j3pnr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Wimsey b007jzr6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Painting the Loneliness b00sjbdy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 The Human Cradle b01by9lj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Tommies b06kdyqg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Heresy b07bdfm2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Start/Stop b03bsb9c (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 5 WED by Jack Docherty WED A new sitcom about three couples sailing off in to the WED sunset. And sinking. This week two parties provide a WED particular challenge. WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED Jack Docherty WED Jack has an exceptional record of making stand-out comedy. WED He first performed at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival Fringe WED with the comedy sketch group The Bodgers and went on to WED write for radio and television including: Spitting Image, WED Alas Smith and Jones, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Absolutely, WED The Lenny Henry Show, Max Headroom, Weekending, The News WED Huddlines and a ton of other things. WED He has also performed in a huge variety of comedy shows WED including in The Comic Strip Presents, The Morwenna Banks WED Show, Monarch of the Glen, Red Dwarf V, The Old Guys and WED Badults. He has also featured in the Radio 4 comedies WED Baggage and Mordrin MacDonald - 21st Century Wizard and has WED appeared on various comedy panel shows including Have I Got WED News For You and It's Only TV But I Like It. Jack presented WED his own show The Jack Docherty Show which ran for 2 years on WED Channel 5. WED Credits WED Barney: Jack Docherty WED Cathy: Kerry Godliman WED Fiona: Fiona Allen WED David: Charlie Higson WED Evan: John Thomson WED Alice: Katherine Parkinson WED Producer: Steven Canny WED Writer: Jack Docherty WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07f4h0z (Listen) WED For two hours, seven nights a week, the Comedy Club offers WED the best laughs. Plus tonight, Paul Garner has more chat WED with Tracy Ann Oberman. WED WED 23:00 2000 Years of Radio b007tcbl (Listen) WED Series 1, Headless - Civil War Radio WED Battle reports as they happen, with all the decapitations WED and more. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From November 2000. WED WED 23:15 Guy Browning's Small Talk b0076mys (Listen) WED Series 2, How to Go to a Party WED The writer and humorist shares his tips on making merry and WED avoiding being 'de-mingled'. From August 2004. WED WED 23:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b01322dm (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 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, Iris Walker 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 26 MAY 2016 THU THU 00:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007jzrz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b007wh27 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Wimsey b007jzr6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Painting the Loneliness b00sjbdy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00ndlm5 (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 b042l24h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrj1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? b00yb5vd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00yb5ch (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Jest a Minute b012h804 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 Change at Oglethorpe b007k0dp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Married b007zmd4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Heresy b07bdfm2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Israel Zangwill - Cheating the Gallows b007jq4t (Listen) THU Odd couple Tom Peters and Everard G Roxdal are two THU inseparable lodgers, but a bank robbery threatens their THU intense friendship. And what about the cash? THU Israel Zangwill's story is read by Lloyd Hutchinson. THU Israel Zangwill was a writer and political activist (1864 - THU 1926) THU Producer: Joanne Reardon THU Made for BBC 7 by BBC Radio Drama, Manchester. THU First broadcast in 2003. THU THU 06:30 Character Assassins b00tpqlf (Listen) THU The death of fictional superstars by pen, pencil or type THU lies, quite literally, in the hands of their creators. THU At the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival 2010 Fiona Lindsay THU conducts a forensic cross-examination of popular writers, THU put on trial to reveal their motives for killing off their THU leading characters. It's an age-old friction in fiction THU between creator and creation. And the assassination of an THU author's key character is often a result of a clash of egos. THU Agatha Christie kept the death of her famous Belgian THU detective Hercule Poirot secret for 30 years only to confess THU shortly before her own demise. She had no regrets and, as THU her biographer Laura Thompson reveals, was in no hurry to THU get Miss Marple on the case. THU Sir Arthur Conan Doyle detested Sherlock Holmes' public THU domination over his own life and murdered him merrily. Yet THU the firestorm of protest was so intense, resurrection was THU inevitable. Holmes expert David Stuart Davies and actor THU Roger Llewellyn incorporate the core of this controversy in THU their latest play. THU Colin Dexter claims he didn't kill Morse: 'he died of THU natural causes'. A nation mourned, but the author is THU unrepentant, choosing kindly death over morose retirement. THU Ian Rankin took the opposite view for the demise of Rebus, THU leaving the coffin lid open for a timely return. But since THU fictional characters are immortal, why kill them off at all? THU Characters who become bigger than their authors, beware!! THU They may have all the best lines, but their creator has the THU last word. THU Fiona Lindsay cross-examines the witnesses and interrogates THU the accused as they try to justify their acts of literal THU 'murder'. THU Not so much a whodunnit as a 'why did they do it?' THU Producer: Chris Eldon Lee THU A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 07:00 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves b007jqgh (Listen) THU Bartholomew, Blackmail and Barefaced Lies THU Bertie Wooster is landed in a pickle over an expensive THU statue. PG Wodehouse romp with Richard Briers and Michael THU Hordern. THU THU 07:30 Don't Start b06vc3sg (Listen) THU Series 3, Christmas 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, our loving couple, Neil and Kim, spend a THU harrowing Christmas Day together. 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 b06nrjk1 (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 4 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 b007jy9h (Listen) THU Series 2, The Day THU Author Gerald tries to make amends when he upsets his wife THU Diana. THU The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring THU Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as THU his wife. THU With Jo Manning Wilson and Michael McClain. 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 b007jqbg (Listen) THU Series 5, Nuclear Debate THU Mike Channel chairs a special Radio Active debate. Are the THU studio audience for or against the annihilation of the THU planet? THU Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey THU Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. THU Music by Philip Pope, Angus Deayton and Richard Curtis. THU Written by Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins with John Canter, THU Richard Curtis and Jeremy Pascall. THU Producer: Jamie Rix THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1985. THU THU 09:00 The Food Quiz b07ctb81 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU On Jay Rayner's menu are Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Roopa THU Gulati, Jennifer Sharp and Clement Freud. From August 2004. THU THU 09:30 Artists b00y2194 (Listen) THU Series 1, The War of Dog THU Tamsin buys a dog to prove a point, and Dolores asks Marcus THU to landscape the garden. Stars Dave Lamb. From April 2003. THU THU 10:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00ybxz9 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU As Dmitry goes on trial for murder, Alyosha desperately THU seeks proof of his innocence. Stars Paul Hilton and Carl THU Prekopp. THU THU 11:00 Heidi Amsinck - Copenhagen Confidential b01hdzqy (Listen) THU The Suitcase THU Read by Jack Klaff THU In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi THU Amsinck, Copenhagen and its surrounds are places of twilight THU and shadows: mysterious places where strange, occasionally THU bad things happen. THU The Suitcase THU Hopkins is a commercial traveller on his first trip to THU Copenhagen, but things go awry after his baggage goes THU missing at Kastrup airport. THU Heidi Amsinck, a writer and journalist born in Copenhagen, THU has covered Britain for the Danish press since 1992, THU including a spell as London Correspondent for the broadsheet THU daily Jyllands-Posten. Heidi has written numerous short THU stories for radio including, most recently, the three story THU set Danish Noir (2010) which was also produced by Sweet Talk THU for BBC Radio 4. A graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at THU Birkbeck, University of London, Heidi lives in Surrey with THU her husband and two young sons. THU Producer: Jeremy Osborne THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Reader: Jack Klaff THU Producer: Jeremy Osborne THU Writer: Heidi Amsinck THU THU 11:15 Tommies b06mg2vg (Listen) THU 4 November 1915 THU by Jonathan Ruffle THU Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. THU Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness THU accounts, TOMMIES traces one real day at war exactly 100 THU years ago. THU Indira Varma, Danny Rahim and Avin Shah star in this story THU which begins on a gunboat making its way up the river THU Tigris. Signallers Ahmadullah and Zarbab have a perilous THU mission to deliver a wireless set to beleaguered forces in THU Baghdad. It proves a particularly gruelling and testing time THU for Ahmadullah. THU Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle THU Director: David Hunter. THU Credits THU Ahmadullah: Danny Rahim THU Zarbab: Avin Shah THU Sidney: Nicholas Murchie THU Commentator: Indira Varma THU Jalal: Ronak Patani THU Pillow Wallah: Mark Edel-Hunt THU Mother: Sudha Bhuchar THU Father: Kulvinder Ghir THU Captain: David Hounslow THU Officer: David Acton THU Doctor: Neet Mohan THU Producer: David Hunter THU Producer: Jonquil Panting THU Producer: Jonathan Ruffle THU Director: David Hunter THU Writer: Jonathan Ruffle THU THU 12:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jy9h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Radio Active b007jqbg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Israel Zangwill - Cheating the Gallows b007jq4t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Character Assassins b00tpqlf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00ndwt6 (Listen) THU A Place Out of a Dream THU On Will's first trip up the Hawksbury River in New South THU Wales, he sees a piece of land. Ron Cook reads Kate THU Grenville's tale. THU THU 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and THU the Mind b042ldz4 (Listen) THU War THU Martin Sixsmith looks at the ways in which war has THU influenced psychology. THU He examines the impact of shellshock and the treatment THU methods of pioneer doctors like W.H. Rivers at Craiglockhart THU Hospital in Scotland. He talks to military psychiatrist and THU Falklands veteran Dr Morgan O'Connell and to Edgar Jones, THU Professor of the History of Psychiatry at Kings College THU London. And he explains how war changed society's attitude THU to mental health and boosted psychology as a profession. THU Produced by Sara Parker THU A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrjh (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU Churchill cuts back on household expenditure. Clementine is THU knocked down by a bus. With Alex Jennings and Sylvestra Le THU Touzel. THU THU 14:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? b00ybzdk (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU The perfect funeral and gravestone, and parlez-vous cancer? THU Miles Kington's humorous last letters. With Michael Palin. THU THU 15:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00ybxz9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The Food Quiz b07ctb81 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 Artists b00y2194 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves b007jqgh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Don't Start b06vc3sg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 17:45 The Pin b06nrjk1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:45 today] THU THU 18:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007wpnm (Listen) THU The Criminals Chase the Police THU As Gabriel Syme engages his opponent in a duel, there's a THU revelation from the Marquis. Read by Geoffrey Palmer. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b00771zc (Listen) THU Series 11, Millicent Garrett Fawcett THU For 50 years, Millicent Garrett Fawcett struggled to win the THU right to vote for women in Britain, yet today she is THU little-known compared to the suffragette leaders who took a THU more militant course. Feminist campaigner Lesley Abdela THU discusses the extraordinary 'MGF', with Matthew Parris and THU historian Elizabeth Crawford. THU THU 19:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jy9h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Radio Active b007jqbg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Israel Zangwill - Cheating the Gallows b007jq4t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Character Assassins b00tpqlf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Heidi Amsinck - Copenhagen Confidential b01hdzqy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Tommies b06mg2vg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Don't Start b06vc3sg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:15 The Pin b06nrjk1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:45 today] THU THU 22:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b044h6nv (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 4 THU Music and comedy presented by Alex Horne and his 5-piece THU band. This week they tackle the theme of money, shopping and THU consumerism with an advert for milk, a sea shanty and a song THU about cheese dreams. They're joined by special guest THU comedian Adam Buxton. THU Host... Alex Horne THU Band... Joe Auckland, Mark Brown, Will Collier, Ben THU Reynolds, Ed Sheldrake THU Guests... Adam Buxton and Saxophonist Pedro THU Producer... Charlie Perkins. THU Credits THU Presenter: Alex Horne THU Performer: Adam Buxton THU Producer: Charlie Perkins THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b045jrl1 (Listen) THU For two hours, seven nights a week, the Comedy Club offers THU the best laughs. Plus tonight, Paul Garner chats again to THU Tracy Ann Oberman. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b00b9nzb (Listen) THU Series 4, Knowledge and Ignorance THU Satan thinks humans can't handle knowledge, but the THU professor thinks they can. Satanic sitcom stars Andy THU Hamilton. From March 2001. THU THU 23:30 Hardeep at The Stand b017cqv0 (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 5 THU 5/6 THU First on stage in this episode is an international comedian, THU enjoying huge success in the USA. Matt Kirshen realises that THU there's some truth in Santa's stories and demystifies THU cowboys in a way you wont expect. Boothby Graffoe has had a THU very loyal following over the years and with a spectacular THU fast paced musical performance from him you will soon be a THU fan too. Keeping the Scottish side of comedy up for this THU episode is the instantly loveable John Gillick, who has THU crafted his material over a number of years around the UK, THU making him one of Scotland's best joke slingers. THU THU 23:45 Knocker b008d1f2 (Listen) THU Obselejectivitysence THU Market researcher Ian surveys a high-tech future. Sitcom THU with Neil Edmond and Paula Wilcox. From December 2007. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 27 MAY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007wpnm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b00771zc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Israel Zangwill - Cheating the Gallows b007jq4t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Character Assassins b00tpqlf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00ndwt6 (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 b042ldz4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrjh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? b00ybzdk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00ybxz9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 The Food Quiz b07ctb81 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 Artists b00y2194 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves b007jqgh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Don't Start b06vc3sg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:45 The Pin b06nrjk1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Dixon of Dock Green b012yv9b (Listen) FRI Series 1, London Pride FRI George Dixon is showing new boy in blue, Andy Crawford, the FRI ropes on the beat of Dock Green in London's East End. FRI Much to PC Crawford's surprise, Dixon is prepared to bend FRI the rules in order to arrest one of a gang of safebreakers. FRI Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David FRI Calder as PC George Dixon, David Tennant as Andy Crawford FRI and Jacob Dylan Thomas as Fred Jenkins/ Lenny Judd. FRI Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by FRI Sue Rodwell. FRI Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The FRI Blue Lamp' which ended with Dixon being shot dead. However, FRI Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series running FRI from 1955 to 1976. FRI Produced in Bristol by Jeremy Howell and Viv Beeby. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. FRI FRI 06:30 He Belonged to Glasgow: The Will Fyffe Story FRI b00vky75 (Listen) FRI Born in Dundee in 1885, Will Fyffe became synonymous with a FRI different city when his song 'I Belong To Glasgow' captured FRI the nation's hearts. FRI After spending his formative years in touring theatre, Will FRI Fyffe switched to comedy and music hall, and became a FRI headline act throughout Scotland. Along with his FRI contemporary Harry Lauder, his humour transcended the FRI regional stage and appearances all over Britain led to five FRI Royal Variety performances. FRI A leading film star of the 1930s and 40s, he made one FRI Hollywood film, although put this burgeoning career on hold FRI as war broke out and he returned to entertain the troops. FRI An accident in 1947 led to his untimely death, but his body FRI of work lives on through his songs, sketches and films. FRI Singer-songwriter and Deacon Blue frontman Ricky Ross looks FRI at Fyffe's life, career and legacy with family, film FRI historians and music hall experts, including Professor FRI Jeffrey Richards, and Will Fyffe's daughter, Eileen. FRI Producer: Elizabeth Foster. FRI FRI 07:00 Crowned Hudds b00plhpx (Listen) FRI Odd Stuart FRI A new slant on King Charles II. Roy Hudd's historical royal FRI romp, with June Whitfield and Chris Emmett. From September FRI 1994. FRI FRI 07:30 Meet David Sedaris b01211y4 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Me Talk Pretty One Day; It's Catching FRI The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and FRI charm to BBC Radio 4 for a series of audience readings. This FRI week the perils of an American learning French in Paris in FRI "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and an essay dealing with a FRI friend's concern for cleanliness; "It's Catching". FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 08:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jrt7 (Listen) FRI Guess Who's Coming to Dinner FRI Terry is not keen to meet any of Bob's snobbish friends. FRI Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier, Rodney Bewes as Bob FRI Ferris and Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers. FRI With Sheila Fearn, Olive Milbourne, Julian Holloway and FRI Gretta Gouriet. 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 b007jtqc (Listen) FRI Six Charlies in Search of an Author FRI Through pages and chapters, the fate of Neddie Seagoon is in FRI the hands of the writer. Stars Spike Milligan. From December FRI 1956. FRI FRI 09:00 We've Been Here Before b00ft41b (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 1 FRI Clive Anderson's panel show of the past, with Gyles FRI Brandreth, John O'Farrell, Arabella Weir and Arthur Smith. FRI From June 2004. FRI FRI 09:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi b007k0wh (Listen) FRI Series 1, The New Synagogue FRI A single phone call turns Rabbi Fine's comfortable Jewish FRI community upside down. Stars Tracy-Ann Oberman. From FRI November 1999. FRI FRI 10:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00yc3jw (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Following Ivan's dramatic appearance at his brother's trial, FRI Katerina prepares to deal Dmitry a fatal blow. Stars Paul FRI Hilton. FRI FRI 11:00 Heidi Amsinck - Copenhagen Confidential b01hw63p (Listen) FRI The Climbing Rose FRI By Heidi Amsinck FRI Read by Jack Klaff FRI In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi FRI Amsinck, Copenhagen and its surrounds are places of twilight FRI and shadows: mysterious places where strange, occasionally FRI bad things happen. FRI The Climbing Rose FRI Postman Brian Larsen has made a nice little side-earner FRI doing odd-jobs for the rich and grateful old ladies of FRI Klampenborg. Mrs Hoffman looks like a promising target - but FRI there is something creepy about the rose in her front FRI garden. FRI Heidi Amsinck, a writer and journalist born in Copenhagen, FRI has covered Britain for the Danish press since 1992, FRI including a spell as London Correspondent for the broadsheet FRI daily Jyllands-Posten. Heidi has written numerous short FRI stories for radio including, most recently, the three story FRI set Danish Noir (2010), which was also produced by Sweet FRI Talk for BBC Radio 4. A graduate of the MA in Creative FRI Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, Heidi lives in FRI Surrey with her husband and two young sons. FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Reader: Jack Klaff FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI Writer: Heidi Amsinck FRI FRI 11:15 Tommies b06nq1fg (Listen) FRI 11 November 1915 FRI by Jonathan Ruffle FRI Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. FRI Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness FRI accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at FRI war, exactly 100 years ago. FRI Through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and FRI his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the FRI British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense FRI machine, one which connects situations across the whole FRI theatre of the war, over four long years. FRI Indira Varma, Lee Ross and Pippa Nixon star in this special FRI story for Remembrance Day, set at La Gorgue on 11th November FRI 1915. A day when Second Lieutenant Mickey Bliss finds FRI himself in two meetings. One which might change the whole FRI war for the Signal Service. And one which is about to change FRI his life forever. FRI Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle FRI Director: Jonquil Panting. FRI Credits FRI Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross FRI Dr Celestine de Tullio: Pippa Nixon FRI Commentator: Indira Varma FRI Colonel Bernard Anson Otho Crowden: Gunnar Cauthery FRI Major 'Ting a Ling' Bell: Stephen Critchlow FRI Captain Robert Paddon: Chris Pavlo FRI Sgt Albert Pinto: Colin Hoult FRI Aide-de-Camp: Neet Mohan FRI Producer: David Hunter FRI Producer: Jonquil Panting FRI Producer: Jonathan Ruffle FRI Director: Jonquil Panting FRI Writer: Jonathan Ruffle FRI FRI 12:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jrt7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jtqc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Dixon of Dock Green b012yv9b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 He Belonged to Glasgow: The Will Fyffe Story FRI b00vky75 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00nf0tr (Listen) FRI Adam in Paradise FRI William stakes his claim on Thornhill's Point, but other FRI people have the same idea. Read by Ron Cook. FRI FRI 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and FRI the Mind b042lp8w (Listen) FRI We Do What We're Told FRI Following the Second World War, psychologists wanted to FRI understand how so many ordinary Germans could have agreed to FRI participate in the Nazis' atrocities. FRI Martin Sixsmith looks at their attempts to explain the FRI banality of evil, including the controversial experiments of FRI Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo. And he talks to Oxford FRI Professor Miles Hewstone about how far social psychology has FRI come in clarifying how we think and act within a group. FRI Series consultant, Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, FRI University of London. FRI Produced by Sara Parker FRI A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrjy (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI Winston writes from Canada. Randolph leaves Oxford for a FRI lecture tour of the USA. With Alex Jennings and Sylvestra Le FRI Touzel. FRI FRI 14:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? b00yc4vx (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Test your own will to live, and how to write a funny book FRI about cancer. Miles Kington's last letters. With Michael FRI Palin. FRI FRI 15:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00yc3jw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 We've Been Here Before b00ft41b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi b007k0wh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Crowned Hudds b00plhpx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Meet David Sedaris b01211y4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007wqf0 (Listen) FRI The Earth in Anarchy FRI The allies head for the coastal town using horses, then FRI motor cars to outrun their masked pursuers. Read by Geoffrey FRI Palmer. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b00mk6tc (Listen) FRI Series 8, Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme, by Thomas FRI Tallis FRI Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional FRI appeal. FRI When Vaughan Williams wrote his Tallis Fantasia in 1910, he FRI changed the course of British music. Here at last was a FRI piece of music which was no longer under the Teutonic FRI influence, but which drew on old English hymn tunes and folk FRI idioms for its themes. As the string music builds to a FRI climax, interviewees tell how this music has brought solace FRI and hope in times of tragedy and changed the course of their FRI lives. FRI FRI 19:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jrt7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jtqc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Dixon of Dock Green b012yv9b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 He Belonged to Glasgow: The Will Fyffe Story FRI b00vky75 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Heidi Amsinck - Copenhagen Confidential b01hw63p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Tommies b06nq1fg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Meet David Sedaris b01211y4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b03c3dx7 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 6 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 final episode of the series looks at some pretty FRI creative accounting; cross-examines an expert witness; and FRI asks why it is that posh men's trousers are all the same FRI colour. FRI Written by and starring John Finnemore, with Margaret FRI Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. FRI Original music by Susannah Pearse. FRI Producer: Ed Morrish. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: John Finnemore FRI Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith FRI Ensemble: Simon Kane FRI Ensemble: Lawry Lewin FRI Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI Writer: John Finnemore FRI FRI 23:00 Radio 2's Comedy Showcase b007kc0k (Listen) FRI Hey Hey We're the Monks FRI An unlikely new recruit at Buckley Abbey means life for the FRI brothers will never be the same. Starring Bill Bailey and FRI Catherine Tate. From January 2000. FRI FRI 23:30 The Consultants b007vb2j (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 1 FRI Chesney ends a hostile takeover using marriage. Cerebral FRI sketch show with Neil Edmond and Justin Edwards. From FRI November 2003. FRI