10 June, 2016

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 11/06/2016 - 17/06/2016

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SAT SATURDAY 11 JUNE 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrhp (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT With the carnivorous plants on the rampage, Josella is SAT devastated when she returns to her home with Bill. Cult SAT novel read by Roger May. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b00mw5v5 (Listen) SAT Series 8, Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs SAT Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional SAT appeal. SAT Richard Strauss was 84 when he completed his last work. It SAT was the Four Last Songs, which, although about death, convey SAT a sense of calm acceptance. It was written of its time in SAT 1948, but it still touches the hearts of many listeners SAT today. SAT As the soprano voice delves ever deeper into the richness of SAT the music, interviewees tell how the Four Last Songs have SAT brought calm and beauty at key moments in their lives. SAT SAT 01:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b07dk24x (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Golden Fleece SAT Con-artist Harry embarks on a dangerous adventure that takes SAT him from Spain to Hong Kong. SAT Starring Orson Welles as Harry Lime. SAT The films of Orson Welles, such as 'Citizen Kane', 'The SAT Magnificent Ambersons' and 'Touch of Evil' guaranteed his SAT place in the pantheon of silver-screen heroes. SAT In the celebrated 1949 film adaptation of Graham Greene's SAT novel 'The Third Man', Harry Lime is introduced as one of SAT cinema's most notorious anti-heroes. Sought in post-war SAT Vienna by pulp writer Holly Martins [Joseph Cotton] and SAT British Army Major Calloway [Trevor Howard], Lime manages to SAT steal the show despite being absent for much of it! SAT This 1951-52 radio prequel to the film, 'The Lives of Harry SAT Lime' earned Welles even more acclaim. His distinctive tones SAT had already served him well as the radio voice of 'The SAT Shadow' between 1937 and 1938, where he portrayed the SAT crusader with distinctly questionable means of thwarting SAT crime. SAT Stripped of the film cameras, the character of Harry Lime is SAT not ameliorated for this radio outing. He's an out and out SAT rogue. Lime made it to the airwaves thanks to another Harry SAT - Harry Alan Towers, with whom Welles collaborated on 'The SAT Black Museum'. Like its eponymous anti-hero, this series SAT travelled widely, being syndicated across the USA and on SAT Radio Luxembourg. SAT The music is by Anton Karas, the zither man. SAT Produced by Towers of London. SAT First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1952. SAT SAT 01:20 David Attenborough's Life Stories b010y0r7 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Chimps SAT They say, David Attenborough reports, that we share more of SAT our genes with chimpanzees than any other species alive SAT today. And this proximity of Homo Sapiens to the chimpanzee SAT motivated Sir David even more to film behaviour never before SAT seen. It had been known for some time that chimps hunt SAT monkeys for meat, but it would be a first to film it for SAT television audiences. To film such a hunt required days of SAT waiting and tracking a troop through the Equatorial African SAT forest - and when the hunt came and was over it changed SAT Attenborough's view of chimps and their importance to us, SAT forever. SAT Written and presented by David Attenborough SAT Produced by Julian Hector. SAT SAT 01:30 In Pursuit of Treasure b00qg0rb (Listen) SAT Archaeologist and broadcaster Mike Pitts delves into the SAT sometimes murky world of the metal detector, from harmless SAT amateur history buffs to criminal nighthawkers, and SAT discovers how metal detecting is changing our national SAT heritage. He hears stories of in-fighting within the metal SAT detecting community, bust-ups between landowners and SAT detectorists and battles inside the archaeological SAT establishment. Mike hears from the man who found a SAT multi-million pound Saxon hoard and the farmer who has been SAT threatened and attacked for the treasures beneath his farm. SAT SAT 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007k0t1 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Doctor Fitzpiers and Grace Melbury's paths cross on SAT Midsummer's Eve in Little Hintock. Read by Juliet Stevenson. SAT SAT 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and SAT the Mind b04416s8 (Listen) SAT The Happiness Project SAT In the concluding programme of this 25-part series, Martin SAT Sixsmith looks at where we are now in terms of understanding SAT what makes us think, feel and act the way we do. SAT He re-visits the Government's 2010 pledge to increase SAT happiness and well-being and talks to former 'happiness SAT tsar' Richard Layard. He examines initiatives such as the SAT provision of thousands of newly-trained CBT therapists to SAT make treatment for mental health problems more widely SAT available and other ways in which we are being encouraged to SAT modify our behaviour, asking 'what is happiness' and whether SAT it's achievable both for an individual and society . SAT Produced by Sara Parker SAT Series consultant: Professor Daniel Pick of Birkbeck, SAT University of London SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jskj (Listen) SAT Still Life, part 2 SAT Frederica leaves for the south of France, while Stephanie SAT and Daniel are celebrating. Stars Hannah Watkins and Shaun SAT Dooley. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b017zyj2 (Listen) SAT Colin Clark - My Week With Marilyn, Episode 5 SAT By Colin Clark. Abridged by Robin Brooks. SAT Read by Samuel Barnett. SAT In 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark (younger brother of Tory MP SAT Alan and son of Kenneth 'Lord Clark of Civilisation') worked SAT as a 'gofer' on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl. In SAT this memoir, Clark recalls how, during filming, he became SAT Monroe's confidante and helped her to escape from the SAT pressures of stardom. SAT In today's episode, Colin helps Marilyn cope with a tragic SAT and unexpected event. Next morning he wakes to the SAT realisation that he must put an end to their friendship: too SAT many people claim Marilyn as their property to allow him to SAT stay close to her for much longer. His week-long adventure SAT is over. SAT Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT 03:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon b00tp95x (Listen) SAT The Inheritance SAT Hugh Conway's old acquaintances try to discover if there is SAT any truth behind his Shangri-La adventure. Stars Derek SAT Jacobi. SAT SAT 04:00 We've Been Here Before b00fz84k (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT Clive Anderson's yesteryear quiz, with Mark Steel, John SAT O'Farrell, Chris Addison and David Quantick. From June 2004. SAT SAT 04:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi b007k1d2 (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Visitor SAT Sex, politics and religion make for an awkward visit when an SAT Israeli MP arrives. With Warren Mitchell. From November SAT 1999. SAT SAT 05:00 Crowned Hudds b00pytdz (Listen) SAT VR in Charge SAT Will Queen Victoria be amused? Roy Hudd's historical royal SAT romp, with June Whitfield and Chris Emmett. From August SAT 1995. SAT SAT 05:30 Natural Histories Comedy Awards b07dpf6z (Listen) SAT Forget your Grammys and Oscars, there's only one awards SAT ceremony that everyone's talking about... Well, nearly SAT everyone. Well, mainly animals really. The Natural Histories SAT Comedy Awards! SAT Presented by the completely jawsome Shaun Keaveny (BBC 6 SAT Music), it features comedy monologues from the totally SAT fintastic David Schneider (BBC TVs The Day Today, Knowing SAT Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge), the meteoric SAT Harriet Carmichael, and the dung-believable Kathy Clugston. SAT From a parrot with jealousy issues, to an anemone that SAT doesn't want to live forever - this is a unique take on the SAT world of natural history, told by the species themselves. SAT So, if you want to know which member of the animal kingdom SAT defects in the woods, and who's got the biggest tentacles SAT then good reef, you've come to the right place. SAT Producers: Will Drysdale and Jack Soper. SAT SAT 06:00 Victor Pemberton - Night of the Wolf b07fm8zs (Listen) SAT "It came at me from nowhere ... eyes glarin' out of the dark SAT like emeralds. SAT Teeth like rocks, tarnished with the blood of human flesh. SAT And hair streamin' out of its neck and hands and feet. SAT This isn't one of God's creatures, sir. It's the work of the SAT devil himself!" SAT Set at the end of the 19th century, a werewolf is prowling SAT around the Cambridge Fenlands. Judge Mathew Deacon is SAT desperately worried about his son... SAT Starring Vincent Price as Judge Mathew Deacon, Coral Browne SAT as Mrs Northcott, Hugh Manning as Professor Forrester, SAT Sheila Grant as Sybil and Peter Whitman as Robert Deacon. SAT A Horror legend of Man and Beast specially written for radio SAT by Victor Pemberton. SAT Producer: John Tydeman SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre in SAT 1975. SAT SAT 07:30 Three Rivers b00l62ps (Listen) SAT The Clyde SAT Hardeep Singh Kohli travels from source to sea of three SAT major rivers that are being regenerated after years of SAT neglect and industrial use. SAT Hardeep begins beside a stream in Lanarkshire which swells SAT to become the mighty Clyde, dividing Glasgow into north and SAT south and defining the city's industry, heritage and SAT character. SAT A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b01s37f3 (Listen) SAT Collar the Lot SAT Actor Tom Conti explores the story of Italian internment in SAT Britain during the Second World War. SAT On June 10th 1940, Mussolini declared war on Britain and SAT France. Overnight, as a result, the thousands of Italians SAT living in Britain were declared enemies, considered a SAT potential threat. Winston Churchill ordered the authorities SAT to 'collar the lot' of so-called 'enemy aliens' and over SAT four thousand Italians were rounded up and imprisoned. SAT Most were shopkeepers, hairdressers, ice cream sellers and SAT respectable citizens at the heart of their communities. Many SAT had been in Britain all their lives. SAT We hear from some of the very few still alive, who were SAT taken from families, jobs and homes to makeshift camps SAT across the UK. SAT Tom Conti's own father was an Italian who had made a life in SAT Scotland. He was married to a Scottish woman and ran a SAT successful business in ladies' hairdressing. The day after SAT Italy declared war he was taken from his home, and interned SAT on the Isle of Man. Tom visits the island to discover which SAT camp his father was kept in, and what conditions were like SAT for the many thousands of men who were kept behind barbed SAT wire during the war. SAT Alfonso Conti narrowly avoided being put on board the cruise SAT liner the Arandora Star, which had been requisitioned for SAT war duties and was bound for Newfoundland carrying SAT internees. It was hit by a torpedo just off the Irish coast SAT and sank within twenty minutes. SAT With archive interviews and testimony from the last Italian SAT survivor, Tom will tell the story of the ship's tragic SAT sinking, in which nearly 500 Italian civilians lost their SAT lives, and lift the lid on this overlooked episode in SAT British history. SAT Produced by Jo Wheeler SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 09:00 A Taste of Funny with Denis Norden b007s6p7 (Listen) SAT From Jimmy Durante and Jack Benny - via Beyond The Fringe - SAT to Alan Coren, Linda Smith and Victoria Wood. SAT Comedy writer Denis Norden curates three hours of SAT personally-chosen comedy listening, based on his own SAT collection of comedy albums, and from wading through nine SAT decades of his own accumulated radio memories. SAT Denis explains to Nick Baker how as a young serviceman, the SAT humour on the American Forces Network played a huge part in SAT widening his comedy horizons. Whether it was Bette Davis SAT sparring with Jimmy Durante or Judy Garland joking with Bob SAT Hope, he salutes the one-liners, irreverent put downs and SAT insults on shows like 'Command Performance'. SAT Denis also recalls the first American comedy vinyl in SAT Britain and reflects on the topical, improvisational tones SAT of Mort Sahl's jazz-inflected comedic riffs. He and Frank SAT Muir booked Mort on the BBC. We also hear some Shelley SAT Berman and routines chronicling 1960s changing gender SAT relations, with male/female duos like Mike Nichols and SAT Elaine May. SAT Returning to his British comedy roots, Denis enlarges on his SAT penchant for "acoustic humour" and his love of SAT language-based laughter. SAT Plus highlights of Denis's own material - leading to a SAT masterclass in the construction of jokes as well as a SAT tribute to his late writing partner, Frank Muir. SAT Denis Norden's influence on the British comedy landscape SAT includes not only co-creating British sitcom's first SAT dysfunctional family, the Glums (Take it From Here) but also SAT a period as Comedy Consultant for BBC TV, alongside Frank SAT Muir. Later, he and Frank spent decades on BBC Radio's My SAT Word! and My Music! Denis was also ITV's long-serving SAT presenter of comedy cock-ups for 'It'll Be Alright on The SAT Night'. SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Test Bed Productions. SAT First broadcast in 2013. SAT SAT 12:00 When the Dog Dies b0435c85 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Gone in a Flash SAT Ronnie Corbett returns for the final series of his popular SAT sitcom by Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. SAT Ronnie is granddad Sandy and his old dog is Henry. If the SAT dog dies or his lodger moves on, Sandy's children want him SAT to downsize. He doesn't. SAT To help his finances, Sandy, still in the family home, took SAT in a young couple as lodgers. But then the man left - SAT leaving the attractive Dolores behind. And she, Sandy's SAT children are quite sure, is a gold-digger. Sandy's opinion SAT that it would be inhuman to move Henry somewhere unfamiliar SAT is wearing a bit thin - as is the old dog himself. SAT Keeping the dog alive and keeping the lodger happy are one SAT thing; what really concerns Sandy deeply is providing a SAT guiding hand to his whole family, advising here, prompting SAT there, responding to any emergency callout... If he kept SAT himself to himself, of course, things would be a lot simpler SAT and smoother. But a lot duller too... SAT Episode One - Gone In A Flash SAT Sandy's feeling bereft. His lodger has gone to live with her SAT new man. And then his granddaughter Calais, with her parents SAT away, gives a party which it seems hundreds of wild SAT teenagers are going to crash. Can a lone granddad quell a SAT major riot? SAT Sandy ..... Ronnie Corbett SAT Dolores ..... Liza Tarbuck SAT Mrs Pompom ..... Sally Grace SAT Lance ..... Philip Bird SAT Blake ..... Dave Lamb SAT Calais ..... Grace Vance SAT Producer: Liz Anstee SAT A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Sandy: Ronnie Corbett SAT Dolores: Liza Tarbuck SAT Mrs Pompom: Sally Grace SAT Lance: Philip Bird SAT Blake: Dave Lamb SAT Calais: Grace Vance SAT Producer: Liz Anstee SAT Writer: Ian Davidson SAT Writer: Peter Vincent SAT SAT 12:30 The Galton and Simpson Playhouse b007zc9g (Listen) SAT Nought for Thy Comfort SAT Richard the airline purser has a loving and grateful wife. SAT Or does he? Stars Robert Daws and Nina Wadia. From January SAT 1999. SAT SAT 13:00 A Small Town Murder: Omnibus b07fyqfk (Listen) SAT Series 8 SAT Family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell comforts the mother SAT of a boy who has just been injured in a hit and run. Stars SAT Meera Syal. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b07fywxp (Listen) SAT Matthew Bourne SAT The choreographer Matthew Bourne chooses Julie Andrews SAT singing 'The Sound of Music' and 'Night and Day' sung by SAT Ella Fitzgerald. SAT SAT 14:15 Sentimental Journey b0076zc2 (Listen) SAT Tony Benn SAT Arthur Smith accompanies Tony Benn on a trip back to the SAT place where he was born, grew up, and spent most of his SAT political life - the village of Westminster. SAT Producer: Sharon Banoff SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. SAT SAT 14:45 Uncle Mort's North Country b007jl4w (Listen) SAT Series 1, Par for the Course SAT Carter Brandon and his curmudgeonly uncle's first day out - SAT down the pub. Peter Tinniswood's adventures with Stephen SAT Thorne. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b01s37f3 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Victor Pemberton - Night of the Wolf b07fm8zs (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Three Rivers b00l62ps (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Doctor Who b07g06by (Listen) SAT Industrial Evolution, Episode 1 SAT The Doctor follows time-traveller, Thomas Brewster to 19th SAT century Lancashire, where industrial growth is ahead of SAT schedule. SAT The white heat burns hottest at Samuel Belfrage's brass mill SAT in Ackleton, plagued by more than its fair share of SAT work-related injuries. As Brewster struggles to secure a SAT fair deal for the overworked hands, the Doctor and Evelyn SAT arrive to discover the unexpected truth about Belfrage's SAT business. SAT Starring Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Maggie Stables as SAT Evelyn Smythe, John Pickard as Thomas Brewster, Rory Kinnear SAT as Samuel Belfrage and Stephen Gibson as Warren Brown. SAT Writer: Eddie Morris SAT Producer: Nicholas Briggs. SAT A Big Finish production. SAT SAT 19:00 A Taste of Funny with Denis Norden b007s6p7 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b03h4294 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Horsing Around SAT Tom is annoyed that his parents don't trust him - even with SAT his own car. He is determined to prove them wrong and what SAT better way - than taking care of his sister Amy when she SAT comes to London? But first he has to persuade mum and dad to SAT trust him. SAT Tom persuades his parents that he can be trusted to look SAT after his sister Amy when she comes to London. SAT Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups is a 30 minute phone call from SAT Tom ringing his parents for his weekly check-in. As the SAT conversation unfolds, Tom takes time out from the phone call SAT to explain the situation, his parent's reactions and relate SAT various anecdotes from the past which illustrate his SAT family's views. And sometimes he just needs to sound-off SAT about the maddening world around him and bemoan everyday SAT annoyances. SAT A fascinating and hilarious glimpse into Tom Wrigglesworth, SAT his family background and the influences that have shaped SAT his temperament,opinions and hang-ups. SAT During all this Hang Ups explores class, living away from SAT 'home', trans-generational phenomena, what we inherit from SAT our families and how the past repeats in the present. All in SAT a 30 minute phone call. SAT 'Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-ups' gets underneath the skin of SAT Tom and the Wrigglesworth family, so sit back and enjoy a SAT bit of totally legal phone hacking. SAT Cast: SAT Tom Wrigglesworth ...Tom SAT Judy Parfitt ... Granny SAT Paul Copley ... Dad SAT Kate Anthony ... Mum SAT Amy Wrigglesworth ... Amy SAT Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle SAT Additional Material by Miles Jupp SAT Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SAT Credits SAT Tom: Tom Wrigglesworth SAT Granny: Judy Parfitt SAT Dad: Paul Copley SAT Mum: Kate Anthony SAT Amy: Amy Wrigglesworth SAT Producer: Katie Tyrrell SAT Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth SAT Writer: James Kettle SAT Writer: Miles Jupp SAT SAT 22:30 Knowing Me, Knowing You b009326q (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT A-ha! Legendary squirm-inducing chat show with Norwich's SAT finest son, Alan Partridge. Stars Steve Coogan. From SAT December 1992. SAT SAT 23:00 Masala FM b0080p9x (Listen) SAT Episode 6 SAT It's the Asian station phone-in show's first wedding, but is SAT love blind or stupid? Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar. From October SAT 1996. SAT SAT 23:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b012l4ng (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 4 SAT Sitcom by Justin Moorhouse & Jim Poyser starring Justin, SAT Anne Reid and Paul Copley. A Manchester DJ tries to balance SAT love, work, life and everything else without much success. SAT This week house-hunting causes all sorts of difficulties. SAT Anne Reid ..... Gran SAT Christine Bottomley ..... Lisa SAT Jim Poyser ..... Lisa's boyfriend SAT Justin Moorhouse ..... Justin SAT Lloyd Langford ..... Bryn SAT Paul Copley ..... Ray SAT Susan Cookson ..... Tanya SAT Producer ..... 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 SAT SUN SUNDAY 12 JUNE 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Doctor Who b07g06by (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 A Small Town Murder: Omnibus b07fyqfk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b07fywxp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Sentimental Journey b0076zc2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:45 Uncle Mort's North Country b007jl4w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b01s37f3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Victor Pemberton - Night of the Wolf b07fm8zs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Three Rivers b00l62ps (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet Omnibus b07g718g (Listen) SUN The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life SUN Stephanie and Daniel settle into married life while Marcus SUN and Simmonds' experiments become sinister. Stars Rosemary SUN Leach. SUN SUN 07:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b038xq1y (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Job SUN Michael Williams stars as 1940s comic Robb Wilton, had he SUN been around in 1986. Can the eternal pessimist find work? SUN SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01d13y3 (Listen) SUN Series 7, The Arrival SUN Arthur arrives in Spain to run an ill friends bar. SUN Struggling with the language and culture, Arthur enlists the SUN help of his taxi driver as he puts on his first event, with SUN Arthur himself leading the singing on the Karaoke. 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 Martin Marquez SUN David Mounfield SUN Producer: John Leonard SUN A Komedia production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 08:00 Ray's a Laugh b07g74vg (Listen) SUN From 05/12/1958 SUN With a new dress code at work, can Ted live up to the SUN sartorial rules? 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 December 1958. SUN SUN 08:30 Floggit's b00ct1wp (Listen) SUN From 09/11/1956 SUN A power cut causes chaos in the village. Gossip galore at SUN sisters Gert and Daisy's general store in Russett Green. SUN Stars Elsie and Doris Waters as Gert and Daisy. SUN With Joan Sims, Ron Moody, Ronnie Barker and Hugh Paddick. SUN Originally popular regulars in 'Worker's Playtime' on the SUN BBC Home Service during wartime, Gert and Daisy won own SUN series, Floggit's, when the duo inherited a village general SUN store with a ragbag of local characters to deal with. It ran SUN for 2 series between 1956 and 1957. SUN Scripted by Terry Nation, John Junkin and Dave Freeman. SUN Producer: Bill Gates SUN First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1956. SUN SUN 09:00 Katherine Wilson - Only in Naples: Omnibus b07g75bj (Listen) SUN Katherine Wilson tells how she travelled to Naples in 1966, SUN discovering love, food and family in a uniquely Neapolitan SUN way. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b07g75p5 (Listen) SUN Leona Lewis SUN Singer Leona Lewis chooses 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your SUN Face' by Roberta Flack and 'One Love' by Bob Marley. SUN SUN 10:15 World Book Club b07g781r (Listen) SUN Toni Morrison - Beloved SUN 4 Extra Debut. Toni Morrison talks to Harriett Gilbert about SUN her novel which stares unflinchingly into the abyss of SUN racism. From January 2009. SUN SUN 11:15 The Moth Radio Hour b07g781t (Listen) SUN Series 3, Three Chefs and a Meal SUN True stories told live: Meg Bowles introduces stories about SUN important guests, make or break dinners and learning your SUN trade. 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 b07g74vg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Floggit's b00ct1wp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet Omnibus b07g718g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b038xq1y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Dangerous Visions: Never Let Me Go Omnibus b07g78zh (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Omnibus edition. The students try to adjust to life after SUN Hailsham and discover more about their origins. Read by SUN Rachel Shelley. SUN Credits SUN Reader: Rachel Shelley SUN Author: Kazuo Ishiguro SUN Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths SUN Producer: Mair Bosworth SUN SUN 15:45 Mat Coward - Clean and Bright b00752h4 (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Washing air seems natural to Granny. But her SUN grandson can't see the point, until after her death. Read by SUN Chris Harris. SUN SUN 16:00 David Wade - Power of Attorney b007w3c3 (Listen) SUN Moral: If you have a rich aunt who is slightly dotty, think SUN twice before attempting to defraud her of her money - as SUN hard-up Geoffrey and Annabelle soon discover. SUN David Wade's comedy stars Geoffrey Palmer as Geoffrey SUN Campion, Geraldine McEwan as Annabelle Campion, Joan SUN Matheson as Aunt Beattie, Katherine Parr as Mrs Penny and SUN John Moffatt as Corvo. SUN Producer: Glyn Dearman SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b07g7hbt (Listen) SUN Tagore at 150 SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Tagore at 150'. SUN Poets, singers and ecological activists share their SUN favourite verse at the Tagore Festival at Dartington Hall in SUN Devon marking the 150th anniversary of the poet's birth in SUN 2011. SUN Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel prize for literature in SUN 1913 for his collection Geetanjali ("The Song Offerings"). SUN He wrote more than 1,000 poems and 2000 songs and his work SUN has been translated into all the major languages of the SUN world. SUN UNESCO declared 2011 as the Year of Tagore with events SUN throughout the world celebrating his life and work. SUN Devon's Dartington Hall is a centre for poetry, music, arts SUN and crafts that was founded at the suggestion of Tagore SUN himself. SUN We hear from poets such as William Radice, Ketaki Kushari SUN Dyson and former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, singers SUN Debashish and Rohini Raychaudhuri, environmentalist Jonathon SUN Porritt and internationalists such as Clare Short and Satish SUN Kumar, Artistic Director of the Festival who is a devotee of SUN Tagore's ecological teachings as well as his poetry. SUN Producer: Mukti Jain Campion SUN A Culture Wise production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in SUN 2011. SUN SUN 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01d13y3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Mike Walker - The Dark House b0076h1v (Listen) SUN Three people are trapped in a haunted building in this SUN ground-breaking interactive drama. SUN Listeners voted to hear whose perspectives you hear at every SUN moment in this chilling ghost story. SUN Stars Claudie Blakley as Lucy, Alan Ford as Jim and Connie SUN Gurie as Kelly. SUN The Dark House was the brainchild of producers Izzy Mant and SUN Nick Ryan and developed in collaboration with BBC Radio SUN Drama and BBC Creative Research & Development. SUN Winner of a BAFTA Interactive Award. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. SUN SUN 18:45 JCW Brook - The Bognor Regis Vampire b07g7jp5 (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. A couple receive an unusually diabolical SUN visitor, but this guest may get more than he bargained for. SUN Stars Margot Boyd. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b07g781t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] SUN SUN 19:45 Katherine Wilson - Only in Naples: Omnibus b07g75bj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 20:55 Inheritance Tracks b07g75p5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:00 World Book Club b07g781r (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01d13y3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 The Masterson Inheritance b007jq14 (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Jousting Mastersons SUN The 15th century family has land struggles, leaving them SUN living in an overcrowded castle. Improvised saga with Paul SUN Merton. From July 1994. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07hsp1t (Listen) SUN From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club SUN has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats to Robin SUN Ince backstage at the Wells Comedy Festival. SUN SUN 23:00 Think the Unthinkable b01hznxh (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 3 SUN The management consultants try to help an investment bank SUN with some bad financing. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From July SUN 2004. SUN SUN 23:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01k2f7v (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 6 SUN In this episode, the team is thrown into panic as Lorna SUN announces there may be job cuts while Malcolm joins a dating SUN website, fearing that unmarried registrars may be made SUN redundant. SUN Births, Deaths and Marriages is the sitcom set in a Local SUN Authority Register Office where the staff deal with the SUN three greatest events in anybody's life. SUN Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan SUN Partridge), who also stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox - SUN a stickler for rules and willing to interrupt any wedding SUN service if the width of the bride infringes health and SUN safety. He's unmarried but why does he need to be? He's SUN married thousands of women. SUN Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been SUN parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and SUN Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just SUN about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit SUN in our new age of austerity. SUN There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried SUN he'll end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may SUN get her words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the SUN only parent in the office, is a mother to them all. SUN Cast: SUN Malcolm ...... David Schneider SUN Lorna ...... Sarah Hadland SUN Anita ...... Sandy McDade SUN Luke ...... Russell Tovey SUN Mary ....... Sally Bretton SUN Larry, Mr Charalambous ...... Mike Fenton Stevens SUN Malcolm's mum, Client registering birth ....... Mel Hudson SUN Julie, Jessica ...... Gina Peach SUN James ...... Arran Glass SUN Producer: Simon Jacobs SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 13 JUNE 2016 MON MON 00:00 Mike Walker - The Dark House b0076h1v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:45 JCW Brook - The Bognor Regis Vampire b07g7jp5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet Omnibus b07g718g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b038xq1y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Dangerous Visions: Never Let Me Go Omnibus b07g78zh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Mat Coward - Clean and Bright b00752h4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 David Wade - Power of Attorney b007w3c3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b07g7hbt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01d13y3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b07g7nd1 (Listen) MON Series 2, An Old Moorish Custom MON Harry's in Algiers, on the trail of treasure lost since MON 1504, but will love get in the way? MON Starring Orson Welles as Harry Lime. MON The films of Orson Welles, such as 'Citizen Kane', 'The MON Magnificent Ambersons' and 'Touch of Evil' guaranteed his MON place in the pantheon of silver-screen heroes. MON In the celebrated 1949 film adaptation of Graham Greene's MON novel 'The Third Man', Harry Lime is introduced as one of MON cinema's most notorious anti-heroes. Sought in post-war MON Vienna by pulp writer Holly Martins [Joseph Cotton] and MON British Army Major Calloway [Trevor Howard], Lime manages to MON steal the show despite being absent for much of it! MON This 1951-52 radio prequel to the film, 'The Lives of Harry MON Lime' earned Welles even more acclaim. His distinctive tones MON had already served him well as the radio voice of 'The MON Shadow' between 1937 and 1938, where he portrayed the MON crusader with distinctly questionable means of thwarting MON crime. MON Stripped of the film cameras, the character of Harry Lime is MON not ameliorated for this radio outing. He's an out and out MON rogue. Lime made it to the airwaves thanks to another Harry MON - Harry Alan Towers, with whom Welles collaborated on 'The MON Black Museum'. Like its eponymous anti-hero, this series MON travelled widely, being syndicated across the USA and on MON Radio Luxembourg. MON The music is by Anton Karas, the zither man. MON Produced by Towers of London. MON First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1952. MON MON 06:20 David Attenborough's Life Stories b01130qm (Listen) MON Series 2, Cuckoo MON 14/20. The Cuckoo is one of the iconic brood parasites of MON the world - the bird that cons another species into taking MON its egg as its own and rears the chick to fledging. In the MON single frame of the Cuckoo you have a long distance migrant, MON travelling from Africa to breeding grounds in the temperate MON north, and back again. The Cuckoo does not raise its own MON chick and across a range of Cuckoo individuals, they MON parasitise several species of bird - all much smaller than MON they are. David Attenborough explores the world of the MON Cuckoo and not only marvels at their natural history but MON tells the story of how a wildlife cameraman resolved a MON scientific mystery - and how the Cuckoo itself harbours yet MON more secrets to science and natural history. MON Written and presented by David Attenborough MON Produced by Julian Hector. MON MON 06:30 What Would Jesus Eat? b00rxjgw (Listen) MON Food writer Stefan Gates investigates what was on the menu MON at The Last Supper, looking at a new theory that Leonardo Da MON Vinci thought it was grilled eels and sliced oranges. MON The controversial restoration of Leonardo's masterpiece in MON 1997 has raised the possibility of identifying the food on MON the table in the painting. Stefan journeys to Milan to find MON the reasons Leonardo chose to paint what he did. Along the MON way he uncovers a long tradition of depictions of the Last MON Supper, giving an insight into the way Christian attitudes MON to food have changed. MON Though Leonardo's version is the most famous, other MON paintings of the Last Supper have offered unusual answers to MON the question "what would Jesus eat", including crayfish, MON roast pork and even guinea pig, all decidedly un-kosher for MON what is commonly understood to have been a passover meal. MON Other paintings of the subject like that of Paolo Veronese MON attracted the attention of the Inquisition for the inclusion MON of "dwarves and drunkards". MON Stefan talks to historians of art and food and visits the MON Last Supper in Milan to find out more on what the paintings MON can tell us about our relationship with food and dining. MON The producer is Russell Finch, and the programme is a MON Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Producer: Russell Finch MON MON 07:00 Charles Dickens b00r66xt (Listen) MON Sketches by Boz - Series 1, The Tuggses at Ramsgate MON It seems that money cannot buy you love. A comic story MON starring Nicholas Farrell, Christopher Hancock and Frances MON Jeater. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b07gf9l1 (Listen) MON Series 75, Episode 4 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 In this episode Paul Merton, Josh Widdicombe, Holly Walsh MON and Marcus Brigstocke join Nicholas Parsons as they try to MON shine discussing such diverse topics as The Hanging Gardens MON of Babylon, The Bard, and A Nice Cup of Tea. MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Josh Widdicombe MON Panellist: Holly Walsh MON Panellist: Marcus Brigstocke MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 08:00 Parsley Sidings b01pjzbv (Listen) MON Series 1, Who'll Be Mother MON Station Master Horace Hepplewhite reveals a surprising MON talent for child minding. MON Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Ian Lavender as Bert, Liz MON Fraser as Gloria, Kenneth Connor as Percy and Pat Coombs as MON Maud. MON Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway MON station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station MON for generations and the current Station Master, Horace, MON hopes that his son Bert will continue the line. MON Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk Bert wants to work anywhere but MON on the railways. His colleague, Station Announcer Gloria MON Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter Percy Valentine is an MON archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Signalman, MON Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made remedies in MON equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is Phineas MON Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop MON down the line. MON Re-created Announcements by Keith Skues. MON Producer: Edward Taylor MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1972. MON MON 08:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k0st (Listen) MON Bravo Chantal! MON The veteran reveals how a search for financial backing can MON lead a film producer into many unusual by-ways. Stars Peter MON Jones. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b0383lf4 (Listen) MON The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. MON As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he MON quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and MON asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they MON have personally collected on a variety of subjects, MON including their favourite four line humorous poems and MON quotes from the most quotable people they have ever met. MON This week Nigel is joined by Actress and Singer - Janie Dee, MON former editor of Private Eye and current editor of The Oldie MON - Richard Ingrams, science writer and broadcaster Vivienne MON Parry and comedian and writer Robin Ince. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nigel Rees MON Panellist: Richard Ingrams MON Panellist: Janie Dee MON Panellist: Vivienne Parry MON Panellist: Robin Ince MON Reader: Peter Jefferson MON Producer: Carl Cooper MON MON 09:30 King Street Junior b007jn81 (Listen) MON Series 7, Back in the Jug MON The start of another school year and a 'surprise' MON announcement leads to ructions. With James Grout and Karl MON Howman. From April 1992. MON MON 10:00 Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky b07g8d1l (Listen) MON The Midnight Bell MON London, 1927: Bob meets a prostitute called Jenny and Ella MON is invited to the theatre by Mr Eccles. MON Semi-autobiographical trilogy set in working class, MON inter-war London. MON Stars Steven Pacey as Bob, Annette Badland as Ella, Emily MON Morgan as Jenny and John Moffatt as Ernest Eccles. MON Dramatised for radio in three parts by Frederic Bradnum. MON Producer: Glyn Dearman MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989. MON MON 11:00 Book of the Week b011zm18 (Listen) MON Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit, Episode 1 MON Ian Leslie traces the line from the great apes - who are no MON mean liars themselves - to humans and documents studies MON which suggest that becoming human wasn't a simple MON evolutionary process of the best forager and builder MON surviving, but the building blocks came from our social MON contacts and our understanding of deceit. MON Ian Leslie was born in 1972 and lives in London. He combines MON careers in advertising and writing. His first book, To be MON President (Politicos, 2008), an account of the 2008 US MON presidential election, was described by Adam Boulton as MON 'brilliantly capturing the drama and emotion of Obama's MON successful run for the White House' and was extracted by MON Granta. He regularly appears as an analyst of American MON politics on Sky and the BBC. He has written about politics, MON culture, marketing and psychology for Prospect, the MON Guardian, the Times and the BBC. He also blogs about all MON these things at Marbury, named one of the fifty 'Most MON Powerful' blogs in the world by the Observer. MON 'Consistently startling and fascinating. Most popular MON psychology books follow a depressingly familiar path: MON there's some dodgy theorising at the beginning, then a raft MON of dubious statistics with a few anecdotes to back them up. MON Born Liars, however, is in quite a different league. It's MON erudite yet wears its learning lightly and is full of MON terrific stories. It will also make you see yourself, and MON the world around you, in a new light.' - 'Book of the Week', MON Daily Mail MON Written by Ian Leslie MON Abridged by Pete Nichols MON Reader: Tim McInnerny MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:15 Afternoon Drama b0124nqv (Listen) MON Don Webb - A Bobby's Job MON A Bobby's Job. MON A young detective gets pulled in to investigate some MON thieving at a local firm. But every step he takes, tugs him MON slowly into places he shouldn't be. A radio noir by Don MON Webb. MON Directed by Gary Brown MON Life looks good for Mark and Helen Bellis. He's a young MON detective constable, just passed the sergeant's exam. That MON opens the door to a higher bracket, maybe a thirty thousand MON a year job. With Helen's job at the bank, they can trade up MON to a bigger house and start a family. Then the police job MON cuts loom and suddenly the way forward doesn't look quite as MON clear. Helen's dad, Richard, thinks his daughter married MON beneath her. He's an old school businessman, Mason and Golf MON Club captain. Very conscious of his standing in the MON community. Local company director. He introduces Mark to his MON security manager, Joby Dale. He's an ex Met Commander with a MON tricky little problem. Someone in the company is thieving. MON But he doesn't know how high up the thief is. So, he MON reckons, with a little help on the side from Mark, he can MON find out who it is, stop him and, at the same time, move MON himself up the power structure. Without finding himself in MON the firing line. Or being blamed for the breach. Mark is MON intrigued. And he can do with a few quid on the side. What MON can be the harm? MON Written by TV veteran Don Webb (Juliet Bravo, Z cars) and MON starring Mark Jordon (lead in TV's Heartbeat). MON Credits MON Mark: Mark Jordon MON MON 12:00 Parsley Sidings b01pjzbv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k0st (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b07g7nd1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:20 David Attenborough's Life Stories b01130qm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 today] MON MON 13:30 What Would Jesus Eat? b00rxjgw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007k0wp (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Newlywed Grace returns to Little Hintock with Doctor MON Fitzpiers, but not to wedded bliss. Read by Juliet MON Stevenson. MON MON 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00s7r4q (Listen) MON The Grave and the Cradle MON Michael Morpurgo explores a thousand years of British MON childhood, the arrival of Christianity and the Norman MON Conquest. MON MON 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsld (Listen) MON Still Life, part 3 MON Marcus visits his new nephew, Frederica assesses Cambridge MON men and 'lively' new vicar, Gideon arrives. With Rosemary MON Leach. MON MON 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b0076gcf (Listen) MON Darlington Hall MON Stevens looks back on a lifetime of service as butler in one MON of the great stately homes of England. At the end of his MON career, belatedly puts his life into perspective. Read by MON John Moffatt. MON 1989 Booker Prize winner abridged by Catherine Czerkawska. MON Producer: Marilyn Imrie MON A BBC Radio 4 Book At Bedtime from January 1990. MON MON 15:00 Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky b07g8d1l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote b0383lf4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 King Street Junior b007jn81 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Charles Dickens b00r66xt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Just a Minute b07gf9l1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrj5 (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON As they battle to avoid the deadly plants and the blinded MON population, Bill gets to know Josella better. MON Roger May continues a 17-part unabridged reading of John MON Wyndham's cult sci-fi novel - an unsettlingly vivid and MON thrillingly realised tale of ecological apocalypse. MON Producer: Susan Carson MON Made for BBC 7 by BBC Northern Ireland and first broadcast MON in 2004. MON MON 18:30 Bookclub b007674y (Listen) MON Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day MON James Naughtie talks to Kazuo Ishiguro about his novel MON detailing a butler's life in the years before World War II. MON From April 2002. MON MON 19:00 Parsley Sidings b01pjzbv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k0st (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b07g7nd1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:20 David Attenborough's Life Stories b01130qm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 today] MON MON 20:30 What Would Jesus Eat? b00rxjgw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Book at Bedtime b013pz5t (Listen) MON Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist, The Reluctant MON Fundamentalist MON Written by Mohsin Hamid. Abridged by Lisa Osborne. MON At a cafe table in Lahore a bearded Pakistani tells an MON uneasy American stranger the story of his life. MON Changez watches in fury a newscast of American troops MON invading Afghanistan. MON Reader: Riz Ahmed MON Produced by Lisa Osborne MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 21:15 Afternoon Drama b0124nqv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b07gf9l1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Concrete Cow b04sttfx (Listen) MON Series 2, Biodiversity MON A barrister's playlist sets the mood for his court MON summing-up. Sketches with Robert Webb and Beth Chalmers. MON From January 2004. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b07g8vcq (Listen) MON Series 17, Episode 9 MON Jeremy Hardy is amongst Miles' guests for this episode of MON News Quiz Extra, the bumper bonus version of Friday's MON programme. MON MON 23:45 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders b00j0pp8 (Listen) MON Propriety, Plants, Grandparents and Growing Your Own MON Award winning comedian, Josie Long (BBC New Comedy Awards, MON if.comedy Best Newcomer 2006) presents her first radio MON series, in which she aims to explore all of the planet's MON wonders (in detail) over four 14 minute episodes. MON This comedy series is all about Long's desire to better MON herself through learning and her enjoyment of discovering MON things in old reference books. MON Over the series Josie is regularly joined by Irish comedian, MON Maeve Higgins, and by a variety of comedic guests -Robin MON Ince, Chris Neill, Daniel Harkin, Henning Wehn, Jesse Thorn MON and Isy Suttie, plus the occasional actual expert. MON Each episode is anchored by Josie and Maeve in the studio, MON with Josie presenting her essay on the week's subject and MON Maeve helping with questions, illustrations and MON interruptions. The guests help to play extra characters or MON to provide specialist advice. MON This week, Josie presents a show about propriety, plants, MON grandparents, being connected to the world around you and MON growing your own. MON This programme features a guest appearance from actress / MON comedian Isy Suttie. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 14 JUNE 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrj5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 Bookclub b007674y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b07g7nd1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:20 David Attenborough's Life Stories b01130qm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 What Would Jesus Eat? b00rxjgw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007k0wp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00s7r4q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsld (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b0076gcf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky b07g8d1l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote b0383lf4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 King Street Junior b007jn81 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Charles Dickens b00r66xt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Just a Minute b07gf9l1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b07gbjnp (Listen) TUE Series 2, Mexican Hat Trick TUE Can con-artist Harry Lime help a falsely accused man - and TUE make a fast buck doing it? TUE Starring Orson Welles as Harry Lime. TUE The films of Orson Welles, such as 'Citizen Kane', 'The TUE Magnificent Ambersons' and 'Touch of Evil' guaranteed his TUE place in the pantheon of silver-screen heroes. TUE In the celebrated 1949 film adaptation of Graham Greene's TUE novel 'The Third Man', Harry Lime is introduced as one of TUE cinema's most notorious anti-heroes. Sought in post-war TUE Vienna by pulp writer Holly Martins [Joseph Cotton] and TUE British Army Major Calloway [Trevor Howard], Lime manages to TUE steal the show despite being absent for much of it! TUE This 1951-52 radio prequel to the film, 'The Lives of Harry TUE Lime' earned Welles even more acclaim. His distinctive tones TUE had already served him well as the radio voice of 'The TUE Shadow' between 1937 and 1938, where he portrayed the TUE crusader with distinctly questionable means of thwarting TUE crime. TUE Stripped of the film cameras, the character of Harry Lime is TUE not ameliorated for this radio outing. He's an out and out TUE rogue. Lime made it to the airwaves thanks to another Harry TUE - Harry Alan Towers, with whom Welles collaborated on 'The TUE Black Museum'. Like its eponymous anti-hero, this series TUE travelled widely, being syndicated across the USA and on TUE Radio Luxembourg. TUE The music is by Anton Karas, the zither man. TUE Produced by Towers of London. TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1952. TUE TUE 06:20 David Attenborough's Life Stories b011ckxz (Listen) TUE Series 2, Quetzalcoatlus TUE 15/20. As David Attenborough explains, ".the biggest animal TUE to fly was not a bird, but a reptile." - it was a TUE Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur with at least a forty foot TUE wingspan. David Attenborough, a huge fan of palaeontology, TUE is skilled in bringing the past natural histories to life TUE through stories about the discovery of key fossils. What a TUE creature this "terrible lizard" must have been - big enough TUE to scavenge the bodies of dead Tyrannosaurus and yet able to TUE fly, probably in large numbers. And with a twist so typical TUE of Sir David's writing, he brings this pterosaur to life at TUE the very end. TUE Written and presented by David Attenborough TUE Produced by Julian Hector. TUE TUE 06:30 Grand Guignol b00td9qw (Listen) TUE At the end of the nineteenth century, in the seediest TUE quarter of Paris, a new theatre opened its doors offering a TUE recipe of blood and terror - and soon the Grand Guignol was TUE to become as big as an attraction in the city as the Eiffel TUE Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. The success of an evening's TUE performance - made up of a succession of short comedy and TUE horror plays - was measured by how many members of the TUE audience fainted, as they witnessed gougings, garrottings TUE and gory murders on a nightly basis. After more than sixty TUE years the theatre finally closed its doors, but only after TUE helping influence the development of horror in the cinema, TUE as well as introducing the phrase Grand Guignol into common TUE parlance as a byword for shocking, blood-soaked terror. TUE Sheila McClennon visits Paris to revisit the scene of this TUE most shocking of theatre movements, and also comes to London TUE to find out how the likes of Joseph Conrad and Noel Coward TUE got involved in its English incarnation, which fought a TUE staunch but unsuccessful battle with the censors at the TUE beginning of the 1920s. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Geoff Bird TUE TUE 07:00 Two Doors Down b0084r5t (Listen) TUE Series 1, Drilling for Hamsters TUE A Belfast road's bohemian residents are saved from chaos by TUE cleaning lady Sally. Stars Frances Tomelty. From February TUE 2001. TUE TUE 07:30 My Teenage Diary b07dlxmq (Listen) TUE Series 7, Lionel Shriver TUE The writer Lionel Shriver reads from her frank and highly TUE personal teenage journals, while discussing her formative TUE years with Rufus Hound. TUE She talks about her attempts to rebel against her religious TUE upbringing, her complex relationship with her older brother, TUE and her suspicion of young children - which began when she TUE was little more than a child herself. TUE Producer: Harriet Jaine TUE Executive Producer: Aled Evans TUE A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Rufus Hound TUE Interviewed Guest: Lionel Shriver TUE Producer: Harriet Jaine TUE Executive Producer: Aled Evans TUE TUE 08:00 The Galton and Simpson Playhouse b007zzxq (Listen) TUE The Clerical Error TUE Fresh out of jail, conman Caleb sparks trouble by posing as TUE a vicar. Stars Keith Barron and June Whitfield. From January TUE 1999. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jp4q (Listen) TUE In the Picture TUE The bumbling civil servants cause confusion in a moral TUE crusade. Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. From TUE September 1974. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b07g8vcq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders b00j0pp8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky b07gbpn0 (Listen) TUE The Siege of Pleasure TUE London, 1927. Prostitute Jenny tells of her fall from grace TUE and Mr Eccles makes plain his feelings for Ella. Stars TUE Steven Pacey. TUE TUE 11:00 Book of the Week b0122vx4 (Listen) TUE Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit, Episode 2 TUE Children learn deceit very early in their lives, but they TUE are not very good at it. Then, at roughly between the ages TUE of three and a half and four and a half, something changes. TUE Ian Leslie explains how children's deceit becomes more TUE sophisticated and the social processes that change (or TUE sometimes not) their behaviour for the better. TUE Ian Leslie was born in 1972 and lives in London. He combines TUE careers in advertising and writing. His first book, To be TUE President (Politicos, 2008), an account of the 2008 US TUE presidential election, was described by Adam Boulton as TUE 'brilliantly capturing the drama and emotion of Obama's TUE successful run for the White House' and was extracted by TUE Granta. He regularly appears as an analyst of American TUE politics on Sky and the BBC. He has written about politics, TUE culture, marketing and psychology for Prospect, the TUE Guardian, the Times and the BBC. He also blogs about all TUE these things at Marbury, named one of the fifty 'Most TUE Powerful' blogs in the world by the Observer. TUE 'Consistently startling and fascinating. Most popular TUE psychology books follow a depressingly familiar path: TUE there's some dodgy theorising at the beginning, then a raft TUE of dubious statistics with a few anecdotes to back them up. TUE Born Liars, however, is in quite a different league. It's TUE erudite yet wears its learning lightly and is full of TUE terrific stories. It will also make you see yourself, and TUE the world around you, in a new light.' - 'Book of the Week', TUE Daily Mail TUE Written by Ian Leslie TUE Abridged by Pete Nichols TUE Reader: Tim McInnerny TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00899ll (Listen) TUE Jennifer Howarth - A City Full of Swindlers TUE By Jenny Howarth. TUE Cassandra Austen narrates the shocking story of her aunt's TUE arrest and imprisonment for stealing a piece of lace, a TUE story which reveals Georgian Bath to be a far less decorous TUE place than it appears in her sister Jane's novels. TUE Jane Leigh Perrot ...... Pamela Miles TUE James Leigh Perrot ...... Tim Pigott-Smith TUE Cassandra Austen ...... Lucy Black TUE Mr Bond ...... Robert Gwilym TUE Miss Gregory ...... Alison Reid TUE Mr Filby ...... Howard Coggins TUE Mr Gibbs ...... David Collins TUE Mrs Scadding ...... Heather Williams TUE Judge ...... Ross Harvey TUE Mayor ...... Tom Sherman TUE Directed by Sara Davies. TUE TUE 12:00 The Galton and Simpson Playhouse b007zzxq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jp4q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b07gbjnp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:20 David Attenborough's Life Stories b011ckxz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Grand Guignol b00td9qw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx7z (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE Grace turns to her former lover Giles, while her husband is TUE devoted elsewhere. Read by Juliet Stevenson. TUE TUE 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00s7w3z (Listen) TUE The Skill of the Goldsmith TUE Michael Morpurgo wonders if medieval people recognised a TUE phase of 'childhood', using clues from Britain's first TUE childcare guru. TUE TUE 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jslr (Listen) TUE Still Life, part 4 TUE Stephanie escapes from her nagging mother-in-law and leaves TUE Marcus to care for her baby. With Rosemary Leach and Shaun TUE Dooley. TUE TUE 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07gbrtg (Listen) TUE On the Way to Salisbury TUE Inspired by a view on his trip to Cornwall, Stevens ponders TUE the qualities of what makes a great butler. Read by John TUE Moffatt. TUE TUE 15:00 Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky b07gbpn0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Counterpoint b00f393k (Listen) TUE 2005, Episode 8 TUE Ned Sherrin hosts the music quiz with Harry Bancroft of TUE Stafford, Peter Kiltie from Leicester and John Taylor of TUE Lincoln. TUE TUE 16:30 Ayres on the Air b01n20gw (Listen) TUE Series 4, Autumn TUE Popular poet Pam Ayres presents her poetry and sketch show. TUE She is joined by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead as TUE they look this week at Autumn. TUE She looks at subjects such as what to donate to the harvest TUE festival, interesting things to put on a bonfire, checking TUE out retirement homes in the Autumn of one's life and the TUE choosing a suitable evening class for your husband. TUE Her poems this week include: I Don't Want to Go to School TUE Mum and The Harvest Hymn. TUE Produced by Claire Jones. TUE TUE 17:00 Two Doors Down b0084r5t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 My Teenage Diary b07dlxmq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrjm (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE Bill and Josella join the University group and discover how TUE the new community expects to survive. Cult novel read by TUE Roger May. TUE TUE 18:30 The Tingle Factor b07gbsn8 (Listen) TUE David Puttnam TUE Film producer and educator David Puttnam talks to Robin Ray TUE about the sounds which stirs his emotions. TUE Recalling his upbringing and looking back over his career, TUE David's selection includes speeches by Robert de Niro and TUE Teddy Kennedy. TUE Producer: Andrew Mussett TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. TUE TUE 19:00 The Galton and Simpson Playhouse b007zzxq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jp4q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b07gbjnp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:20 David Attenborough's Life Stories b011ckxz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Grand Guignol b00td9qw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Book at Bedtime b013xvnz (Listen) TUE Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Episode 7 TUE Written by Mohsin Hamid. Abridged by Lisa Osborne TUE At a cafe table in Lahore a bearded Pakistani tells an TUE uneasy American stranger the story of his life. TUE Changez's sense of alienation increases as he confronts the TUE possibility that soon his country could be at war TUE Reader: Riz Ahmed TUE Produced by Lisa Osborne TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00899ll (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 My Teenage Diary b07dlxmq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Bleak Expectations b01p0fz3 (Listen) TUE Series 5, A Re-Excited Life Made Distinctly Dangerous TUE By Mark Evans TUE Volume 5 Chapter 2: A re-excited life made distinctly TUE dangerous. TUE The Victorian comedy adventure sees Pip and his friends TUE travel to India in their quest to thwart the evil TUE machinations of smooth but sinister genius Mr Gently TUE Benevolent. Gasp as our heroes struggle with TUE super-intelligent tigers, giant snakes, and secret gin! TUE Produced by Gareth Edwards. TUE Credits TUE Writer: Mark Evans TUE Sir Philip: Richard Johnson TUE Young Pip Bin: Tom Allen TUE Gently Benevolent: Anthony Head TUE Harry Biscuit: James Bachman TUE Clampvulture: Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Ripely: Sarah Hadland TUE Pippa: Susy Kane TUE Viceroy Roy Weiss: Mark Evans TUE Producer: Gareth Edwards TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07h6p3f (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Jon Holmes talks to Eleanor TUE Tiernan. TUE TUE 23:00 Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller b007jpyk (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Hosts Craig and Martin do battle at a music awards ceremony. TUE With Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller. From December 1998. TUE TUE 23:30 The Remains of Foley and McColl b007jrrn (Listen) TUE Snuff Radio TUE Sean Foley and Hamish McColl compete in a European Radio TUE Drama competition. From July 2000. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 15 JUNE 2016 WED WED 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrjm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 The Tingle Factor b07gbsn8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b07gbjnp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:20 David Attenborough's Life Stories b011ckxz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Grand Guignol b00td9qw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx7z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00s7w3z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jslr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07gbrtg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky b07gbpn0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Counterpoint b00f393k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Ayres on the Air b01n20gw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Two Doors Down b0084r5t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 My Teenage Diary b07dlxmq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p0twv (Listen) WED Series 1, The Ides of March WED Bunny Manders desperately needs ready cash to repay a WED gambling debt. His old schoolfellow, the celebrated English WED cricketer AJ Raffles knows just the person to help a fellow WED out. He's a jeweller in London's Bond Street - and, funnily WED enough, Raffles had planned to pay him a surprise visit that WED very night ... WED Starring Jeremy Clyde as AJ Raffles, Michael Cochrane as WED Bunny, James Dykes as Young Bunny and George Parsons as Lord WED Upton. WED EW Hornung's early Raffles stories dramatised by David Buck. WED Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. WED Directed by Gordon House WED A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast WED in 1985. WED WED 06:30 Good Grief: The Story of Peanuts b00vrvdm (Listen) WED Pete Paphides, writer and music critic, talks to family, WED friends and fans of Charles Schulz, creator of the Peanuts WED cartoon. He asks why he related so strongly to long WED suffering Charlie Brown and why Peanuts was the most WED successful newspaper comic strip of all time. WED The programme contains interviews with Schulz's widow, Jean WED Schulz, two of his children- Craig and Jill, as well as WED contributions from graphic designer Chip Kidd, comic book WED artist Chris Ware and life-long fan Russell T. Davies. WED 10 years on from Schulz's death and 60 years on from the WED creation of Peanuts in 1950, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, WED Linus, Shroeder et al still hold a huge place in people's WED lives and memories. The Peanuts comic strip was the most WED popular cartoon strip of all time and crossed boundaries of WED young and old- some claim it did for comic strips what the WED Beatles did for music. Others called it 'a beat strip', WED perfectly reflecting American society. But its appeal was WED global. WED Using the most minimum of lines, Schulz was able to convey WED emotions and humour. His characters were contemplative, WED philosophical, isolated, sometimes depressed. And WED surprisingly they made clever observations about classical WED music, theology psychiatry and sport. Classic story-lines WED included the Great Pumpkin, Lucy vying for attention at WED Shroeder's piano, Linus' blanket, Snoopy versus the Red WED Baron, and Charlie Brown never kicking the football. WED Charlie Brown, the central character was isolated and WED lonely. A real person, with real problems was a new idea in WED comics and he spoke to people all over the world- including WED the presenter of this programme, Pete Paphides, growing up WED in Birmingham. WED Producer: Laura Parfitt WED A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 07:00 A Whole 'Nother Story b00763tm (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED 4 Extra Debut. Cassie and Pete would be a great couple, if WED they were not so busy being friends. Stars Debra Stephenson WED and Dave Lamb. From September 2001. Episode 1 of 4. WED WED 07:30 Heresy b07dm2pn (Listen) WED Series 10, Episode 4 WED Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show WED which dares to commit heresy. WED Her guests this week are newspaper columnist Julia WED Hartley-Brewer, TV presenter Richard Osman and food critic, WED television presenter and novelist Giles Coren. They discuss WED David Bowie, iceberg houses and The Great British Bake Off. WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Presenter: Victoria Coren Mitchell WED Panellist: Julia Hartley-Brewer WED Panellist: Richard Osman WED Panellist: Giles Coren WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b014246f (Listen) WED Smugglers in the Solent WED The crew of HMS Troutbridge is sent to pursue some marine WED miscreants. 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 WED Lieutenant Queeg, Tenniel Evans as Leading Seamen Goldstein WED and Heather Chasen as Heather. 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 July 1965. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00jcx1g (Listen) WED Series 9, Episode 8 WED As the axe is wielded, Radio Prune gets a rival. With John WED Cleese, Graeme Garden and David Hatch. From December 1973. WED WED 09:00 Jest a Minute b012yngz (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 WED Justin Moorhouse, Alun Cochrane, Chris Corcoran and Tom WED Wrigglesworth join Rhod Gilbert in the comedy quiz. From WED September 2006. WED WED 09:30 Rent b04c34yr (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 1 WED Maria and Richard have a happy marriage, no children, but WED their house is falling down. It looks like there's only one WED thing for it - they'll have to start taking in lodgers. From WED May 1993. WED Stars Barbara Flynn as Maria, Patrick Barlow as Richard. WED With Diane Louise-Jordan as Ruby and Toby Longworth as Paul. WED Produced by Liz Anstee. WED First heard on BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky b07gcj61 (Listen) WED The Plains of Cement WED London, 1927. Bob gives Jenny an ultimatum and Ella WED confronts Mr Eccles. Stars John Moffatt and Geoffrey WED Whitehead. WED WED 11:00 Book of the Week b0122vzn (Listen) WED Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit, Episode 3 WED We think that people are lying when they mumble or they are WED embarrassed, but the liars amongst us are often those who WED are the most fluent speakers, the most charming people. Ian WED Leslie describes how two researchers discovered ways to pick WED those who were being economical with the truth. WED Ian Leslie was born in 1972 and lives in London. He combines WED careers in advertising and writing. His first book, To be WED President (Politicos, 2008), an account of the 2008 US WED presidential election, was described by Adam Boulton as WED 'brilliantly capturing the drama and emotion of Obama's WED successful run for the White House' and was extracted by WED Granta. He regularly appears as an analyst of American WED politics on Sky and the BBC. He has written about politics, WED culture, marketing and psychology for Prospect, the WED Guardian, the Times and the BBC. He also blogs about all WED these things at Marbury, named one of the fifty 'Most WED Powerful' blogs in the world by the Observer. WED 'Consistently startling and fascinating. Most popular WED psychology books follow a depressingly familiar path: WED there's some dodgy theorising at the beginning, then a raft WED of dubious statistics with a few anecdotes to back them up. WED Born Liars, however, is in quite a different league. It's WED erudite yet wears its learning lightly and is full of WED terrific stories. It will also make you see yourself, and WED the world around you, in a new light.' - 'Book of the Week', WED Daily Mail WED Written by Ian Leslie WED Abridged by Pete Nichols WED Reader: Tim McInnerny WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:15 Chris Thompson - Skeggy b007jtlr (Listen) WED Three couples have their own reasons for returning to the WED scene of their happiest holidays in Skegness. Stars Sean WED Connolly, Norman Bird, Susan Brooke and Alison Carney. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b014246f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00jcx1g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p0twv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Good Grief: The Story of Peanuts b00vrvdm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx82 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED The injured Doctor Fitzpiers writes to Grace, and hopes are WED raised and dashed. Read by Juliet Stevenson. WED WED 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00s8j07 (Listen) WED New Shoes with Red Thongs WED What did medieval children get up to when left unattended? WED Michael Morpurgo unearths some vivid descriptions. WED WED 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsly (Listen) WED Still Life, part 5 WED Frederica discovers Raphael, Stephanie's baby, is on its WED way, but what is Gideon up to at the coast? With Stephen WED Critchlow. WED WED 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07gcksh (Listen) WED Early Days WED Stevens remembers what happened when his father, also a WED butler, joined the staff at Darlington Hall. Read by John WED Moffatt. WED WED 15:00 Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky b07gcj61 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Jest a Minute b012yngz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 Rent b04c34yr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 A Whole 'Nother Story b00763tm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Heresy b07dm2pn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrk3 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED The University group with Bill and Josella are ready to WED begin a new life together, but some have other ideas. Cult WED novel read by Roger May. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b008fy2c (Listen) WED A Little of What You Fancy Does You Good WED 4 Extra Debut. Dominic Arkwright, Nick Cohen, Sian Berry and WED Charlie Lee-Potter discuss whether indulgence is allowed WED anymore. From December 2007. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b014246f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00jcx1g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p0twv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Good Grief: The Story of Peanuts b00vrvdm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Book at Bedtime b013xvqd (Listen) WED Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Episode 8 WED Written by Mohsin Hamid. Abridged by Lisa Osborne WED At a cafe table in Lahore a bearded Pakistani tells an WED uneasy American stranger the story of his life. WED On a work assignment in Chile, Changez makes a monumental WED decision. WED Reader: Riz Ahmed WED Produced by Lisa Osborne WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:15 Chris Thompson - Skeggy b007jtlr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Heresy b07dm2pn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b03w16pc (Listen) WED Series 1, High-Speed Rail WED Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they WED think is 'Help!'. WED King of the one-liners, Milton Jones returns BBC to Radio 4 WED for an amazing 10th series in a new format where he has WED decided to set himself up as a man who can help anyone WED anywhere - whether they need it or not. Because, in his own WED words, "No problem too problemy". WED But each week, Milton and his trusty assistant Anton set out WED to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a new WED adventure. So when you're close to the edge, then Milton can WED give you a push. WED This week, there's rumours of a new rail line in the offing WED - and it's threatening a tiny delicate dormouse. So Milton WED decides he must put his foot down - carefully... WED Written by Milton with James Cary ("Bluestone 42", WED "Miranda") and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 WED show "House Of Rooms") the man they call "Britain's funniest WED Milton," returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and WED a shipload of new jokes. WED The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Spamalot", WED "Mr. Selfridge") as the ever-faithful Anton, and Dan Tetsell WED ("Newsjack"), and features the one and only Josie Lawrence WED working with Milton for the first time. WED Producer David Tyler's radio credits include Armando WED Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, WED Another Case Of Milton Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The WED Nation, The Brig Society, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, The WED 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, going WED back a bit, Radio Active. WED Produced and Directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Himself: Milton Jones WED Anton: Tom Goodman-Hill WED Actor: Dan Tetsell WED Actor: Josie Lawrence WED Director: David Tyler WED Producer: David Tyler WED Writer: Milton Jones WED Writer: James Cary WED Writer: Dan Evans WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07h6pdr (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Jon Holmes talks to Eleanor WED Tiernan. WED WED 23:00 The Mel and Sue Thing b00769ql (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Weird characters and surreal chat from Mel Giedroyc and Sue WED Perkins . Featuring Jane Austen's Last Novella and a duet WED sung by Cliff Richard and Delia Smith. WED These days, they're best known as the scrumptious WED cake-filling between Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood on the WED BBC's The Great British Bake Off - but in this series, Mel WED Giedroyc and Sue Perkins return to their radio comic roots. WED Producer: Elizabeth Freestone. WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2002. WED WED 23:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show b007jnz9 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 2 WED Their landlord is after the rent, but skint Mel Hudson and WED Vicki Pepperdine are not sure how to pay. From March 2000. WED WED THU THURSDAY 16 JUNE 2016 THU THU 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrk3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b008fy2c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p0twv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Good Grief: The Story of Peanuts b00vrvdm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx82 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00s8j07 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsly (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07gcksh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky b07gcj61 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Jest a Minute b012yngz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 Rent b04c34yr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 A Whole 'Nother Story b00763tm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Heresy b07dm2pn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p0wps (Listen) THU Series 1, Gentlemen and Players THU When Raffles and Bunny are engaged for cricketing weeks at THU country estates, the playing of cricket can hardly be said THU to be their chief preoccupation. THU Bunny is an incorrigible ladies' man, while amateur THU cracksman, AJ Raffles takes an understandable professional THU interest in his fellow guests' portable property... THU Starring Jeremy Clyde as AJ Raffles, Michael Cochrane as THU Bunny, Henry Stamper as Inspector MacKenzie, Ron Pember as THU Crawshay and David Garth as Lord Amersteth. THU EW Hornung's early Raffles stories dramatised by David Buck. THU Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. THU Directed by Gordon House THU A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast THU in 1985. THU THU 06:30 Why Go? b00s9g0b (Listen) THU The game of Go expresses "a psychological essence" of the THU Far East, according to the British Museum's Dr Irving THU Finkel. It's ancient, but no-one knows quite how old - the THU claim that it originated 4,000 years ago is open to THU question. What's beyond doubt is its place in oriental THU culture. The remarkable cave of Buddhist treasures THU discovered at Dunhuang on the Silk Road through China THU included a 6th century Go manual now kept in the British THU Library. Miniature Go boards and pieces have turned up in THU ancient burial sites. In the twentieth century, some of THU Japan's finest writers turned to Go for inspiration, THU following major games and probing the psychology of the top THU players. And, as the first atomic bomb fell, two of the THU world's best exponents of Go were playing a title match on THU the outskirts of Hiroshima. THU But Go is little known in the West. This is in spite of the THU efforts of one of the two players in what became known as THU the Atom Bomb Game, Iwamoto Kaoru, who spent his later years THU setting up Go Centres in Europe and the Americas. THU In Why Go?, Chris Ledgard explores the world of Go, talking THU to experts in the East and West about the game's history and THU culture, and examining some its ancient artefacts. Dr Finkel THU discusses Go's place in the history of games. After Go, he THU says, "you could argue that the world's board games went THU downhill." Susan Whitfield, the Director of the THU International Dunhuang Project, brings the fifteen hundred THU year Go manual out of storage and explains how it was THU discovered and what it tells us. Britain's two foremost THU experts on the game describe how they got hooked, and Chris THU Ledgard visits Amsterdam to examine Iwamoto Kaoru's legacy THU and find out why, in spite of all the time and money he THU spent, relatively few people in Europe play the game. THU Go's Chinese name is weiqi, which is often translated as THU "the surrounding game". It's a game of co-existence. Two THU players, one with black stones the other with white, place THU their pieces on the intersections of a board marked with 19 THU x 19 lines. The aim is to secure territory and the emphasis THU is on long-term strategy, subtlety, and not bludgeoning your THU opponent. In Why Go?, Rob Foster, a translator of the THU Dunhuang manal, describes the game as "a conversation...it's THU hand talk". And the programme addresses the key question of THU whether - as some argue - Go reflects aspects of oriental THU thinking and is a game few western players really THU understand. THU Credits THU Producer: Chris Ledgard THU THU 07:00 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves b007jqnr (Listen) THU Game, Set and Match to Jeeves THU Bertie is in a mess. Can his valet save his bacon? PG THU Wodehouse romp with Richard Briers, Michael Hordern and Paul THU Eddington. THU THU 07:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b07dntk7 (Listen) THU Series 2, Sex and Sexuality THU Paul Sinha returns for a second series of his History THU Revision, the show that uncovers the fascinating stories THU that we've forgotten in our onward march of progress. In the THU last series we learned how Alexander Graham Bell did NOT THU invent the telephone, and that the World Cup final of 2014 THU could only have happened because of the 1415 invasion of THU Morocco. THU 3/4: Sex & Sexuality. THU This week, Paul looks at the role lust has played in driving THU history. Stories range from the loving marriage that THU prevented Dr Zhivago winning an Oscar, to the most depraved THU Roman Emperor of them all (it's not who you think), to the THU British monarch whose gay affairs changed the world. Phwoar, THU eh? THU "Sinha's gift for finding humour in it all makes him worth a THU listen" - The Telegraph THU Written and performed by Paul Sinha THU Produced by Ed Morrish THU A BBC Radio Comedy Production. THU Credits THU Writer: Paul Sinha THU Performer: Paul Sinha THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU THU 08:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jz1f (Listen) THU Series 3, The Escape THU Author Gerald and his wife Diana feel jaded and start THU planning a break. THU The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring THU Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as THU his wife, Diana. THU With Betty Huntley-Wright and Michael McClain. THU Written by Basil Boothroyd. THU Producer: Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1979. THU THU 08:30 Radio Active b007k2yf (Listen) THU Series 5, Get Away With You THU Fancy a timeshare? Or a trip to the Black Country? It's time THU to 'Get Away With You'. THU Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey THU Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. THU Music by Philip Pope, Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. THU Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins with Jeremy THU Pascall. THU Producer: Jamie Rix THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1985. THU THU 09:00 Booked b0075sd8 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 1 THU 4 Extra Debut. Ian McMillan chairs the literary quiz with THU Mark Thomas, Dillie Keane, Mark Radcliffe and Miles Kington. THU From July 1998. THU THU 09:30 When the Dog Dies b043x86l (Listen) THU Series 4, The Call of the Wild THU Ronnie Corbett returns for the final series of his popular THU sitcom by Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. THU Ronnie is granddad Sandy and his old dog is Henry. If the THU dog dies or his lodger moves on, Sandy's children want him THU to downsize. He doesn't. THU To help his finances, Sandy, still in the family home, took THU in a young couple as lodgers. But then the man left - THU leaving the attractive Dolores behind. And she, Sandy's THU children are quite sure, is a gold-digger. Sandy's opinion THU that it would be inhuman to move Henry somewhere unfamiliar THU is wearing a bit thin - as is the old dog himself. Keeping THU the dog alive and keeping the lodger happy are one thing; THU what really concerns Sandy deeply is providing a guiding THU hand to his whole family, advising here, prompting there, THU responding to any emergency callout... If he kept himself to THU himself, of course, things would be a lot simpler and THU smoother. But a lot duller too... THU Episode Two - The Call Of The Wild THU Henry the dog takes up running away and then granddaughter THU Calais runs away too. Sandy realises that for Calais' sake, THU her mother Victoria, his fearsome wildcat daughter-in-law, THU must be confronted. What Henry's up to nobody knows... THU Producer: Liz Anstee THU A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Sandy: Ronnie Corbett THU Dolores: Liza Tarbuck THU Mrs Pompom: Sally Grace THU Lance: Philip Bird THU Blake: Dave Lamb THU Calais: Grace Vance THU Producer: Liz Anstee THU Writer: Ian Davidson THU Writer: Peter Vincent THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b015ykwq (Listen) THU Silas Marner, Episode 1 THU Silas Marner by George Eliot THU dramatised by Richard Cameron THU Episode 1/2 THU Outcast from the church, community, and closest friends for THU a crime he did not commit, Silas Marner's trust and faith THU falls away. A broken, disillusioned man, exiled, he builds a THU new faith, that will never let him down: gold. He weaves his THU cloths, counts his money, baptises himself with the coins of THU his new religion. When tragedy strikes again and all his THU money is stolen he's bereft and grief stricken. Then on New THU Year's Eve a vision of gold flickers before the flames. THU Spilling locks are tumbling coins. For a moment Silas is THU reunited with his lovely sovereigns. And then he sees a THU little child. THU SILAS MARNER.............George Costigan THU SARAH/PRISCILLA ............................Fiona Clarke THU WILLIAM/JEM/GODFREY...........Conrad Nelson THU MINISTER/MACEY.............Seamus O'Neill THU SNELL/BRYCE..............Leigh Symonds THU DUNSEY/DOWLAS..............James Nickerson THU SQUIRE ............. ......Terence Wilton THU DOLLY............. ...Deborah McAndrew THU AARON (child).............................George Herbert THU NANCY/MOLLY........ ........Maeve Larkin THU Directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU 11:00 Book of the Week b0122w87 (Listen) THU Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit, Episode 4 THU In principle, the lie detector solves the problems of THU society: it can pick the thief or the philanderer or the THU dodgy politician. But the polygraph, as it was christened, THU has had a chequered history, it's reputation being more THU effective than the machine itself. THU Ian Leslie was born in 1972 and lives in London. He combines THU careers in advertising and writing. His first book, To be THU President (Politicos, 2008), an account of the 2008 US THU presidential election, was described by Adam Boulton as THU 'brilliantly capturing the drama and emotion of Obama's THU successful run for the White House' and was extracted by THU Granta. He regularly appears as an analyst of American THU politics on Sky and the BBC. He has written about politics, THU culture, marketing and psychology for Prospect, the THU Guardian, the Times and the BBC. He also blogs about all THU these things at Marbury, named one of the fifty 'Most THU Powerful' blogs in the world by the Observer. THU 'Consistently startling and fascinating. Most popular THU psychology books follow a depressingly familiar path: THU there's some dodgy theorising at the beginning, then a raft THU of dubious statistics with a few anecdotes to back them up. THU Born Liars, however, is in quite a different league. It's THU erudite yet wears its learning lightly and is full of THU terrific stories. It will also make you see yourself, and THU the world around you, in a new light.' - 'Book of the Week', THU Daily Mail THU Written by Ian Leslie THU Abridged by Pete Nichols THU Reader: Tim McInnerny THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:15 David Constantine - Visiting Time b0076f43 (Listen) THU 4 Extra Debut. Eyes bandaged, Thomas Patterson is visited in THU hospital by his mother, father and girlfriend. Love story THU with Paul Popplewell. THU THU 12:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jz1f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Radio Active b007k2yf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p0wps (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Why Go? b00s9g0b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx86 (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU With Giles lying desperately ill, Grace believes that only THU one person can save him. Read by Juliet Stevenson. THU THU 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00s8lg8 (Listen) THU Mischief and Misrule THU Were medieval children permitted to play? Michael Morpurgo THU learns about early football and about Festivals of Misrule. THU THU 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsm8 (Listen) THU Still Life, part 6 THU Frederica has decisions to make and Alexander's play has its THU First Night. What will Raphael make of it all? With Rosemary THU Leach. THU THU 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07gg740 (Listen) THU The Conference Approaches THU Stevens remembers an international conference at Darlington THU Hall that tested all his skills as a butler. Read by John THU Moffatt. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b015ykwq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Booked b0075sd8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 When the Dog Dies b043x86l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves b007jqnr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b07dntk7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrl5 (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU Bill Masen tries his best to support his blind group, but THU some problems prove to be insurmountable. Cult novel read by THU Roger May. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b00773kr (Listen) THU Series 11, Pope John Paul II THU Ann Widdicombe MP, famous for her opposition to women THU priests, nominates the late pontiff, who felt just as THU strongly on the matter. Malachi O'Doherty, author of 'I Was THU a Teenage Catholic', joins the debate. THU THU 19:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jz1f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Radio Active b007k2yf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p0wps (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Why Go? b00s9g0b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Book at Bedtime b013xvrk (Listen) THU Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Episode 9 THU Written by Mohsin Hamid. Abridged by Lisa Osborne THU At a cafe table in Lahore a bearded Pakistani tells an THU uneasy American stranger the story of his life. THU Erica vanishes as Changez's American dream comes to an end. THU Reader: Riz Ahmed THU Produced by Lisa Osborne THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 21:15 David Constantine - Visiting Time b0076f43 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Paul Sinha's History Revision b07dntk7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Music Teacher b039d1fw (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 1 THU Richie Webb returns for a third series as THU multi-instrumentalist music teacher Nigel Penny. THU Nigel inherits a life changing sum of money from a distant THU relative leading to him considering jacking it all in and THU starting again. A consideration consistently reinforced by THU the constant stream of useless pupils. THU Meanwhile Belinda is keen to keep Nigel on at the Arts THU Centre to run free taster sessions. At any cost. THU Directed by Nick Walker THU Audio production by Matt Katz THU Written and produced by Richie Webb THU A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Nigel Penny: Richie Webb THU Belinda: Vicki Pepperdine THU Glen: Jim North THU Claude: Joseph Webb THU Emily: Jess Robinson THU Sandra: Jess Robinson THU Director: Nick Walker THU Producer: Richie Webb THU Writer: Richie Webb THU THU 22:45 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01s4r79 (Listen) THU Series 2, About Upset Mums THU EPISODE ONE: ABOUT UPSET MUMS THU In a mix of stand-up and re-enacted family life - Nathan THU Caton illustrates what can happen when you don't listen to THU your Mum. THU Cast: THU NATHAN ..... NATHAN CATON THU MUM ..... ADJOA ANDOH THU DAD ..... CURTIS WALKER THU GRANDMA ..... MONA HAMMOND THU REVEREND WILLIAMS ..... DON GILÉT THU Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle THU Additional Material by Maff Brown and Ola THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing - tells the story of young, THU up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the THU first in his family to graduate from University, opted not THU to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand THU at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his family's THU annoyance who desperately want him to get a 'proper job.' THU Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and THU rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving THU family as he tries to pursue his chosen career in comedy. THU The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with THU scenes from his family life. THU Janet a.k.a. Mum is probably the kindest and most lenient of THU the disappointed family members. At the end of the day she THU just wants the best for her son. However, she'd also love to THU brag and show her son off to her friends, but with Nathan THU only telling jokes for a living it's kind of hard to do. She THU loves Nathan, but she aint looking embarrassed for nobody! THU Martin a.k.a. Dad works in the construction industry and was THU looking forward to his son getting a degree so the two of THU them could work together in the same field. But now Nathan THU has blown that dream out of the window. Martin is clumsy and THU hard-headed and leaves running the house to his wife (she THU wouldn't allow it to be any other way). THU Shirley a.k.a. Grandma cannot believe Nathan turned down THU architecture for comedy. She can't believe she left the THU paradise in the West Indies and came to the freezing United THU Kingdom for a better life so that years later her grandson THU could 'tell jokes!' How can her grandson go on stage and use THU foul language and filthy material... it's not the good THU Christian way! THU So with all this going on in the household what will Nathan THU do? Will he be able to persist and follow his dreams? Or THU will he give in to his family's interference? THU Credits THU Nathan: Nathan Caton THU Mum: Adjoa Andoh THU Dad: Curtis Walker THU Grandma: Mona Hammond THU Reverend Williams: Don Gilet THU Writer: Nathan Caton THU Writer: James Kettle THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b007jvhf (Listen) THU Series 4, Poet's Corner THU Satan is cross with Yeats over a poem, while Scumspawn and THU Thomas write their own verse. Satanic sitcom stars Andy THU Hamilton. From April 2001. THU THU 23:30 Crème de la Crime b007jr3j (Listen) THU Series 1, The Cheese Killer THU Michael Feydeau and David Pershore review the murderous case THU of Charles Sparrow. Stars Punt and Dennis. From September THU 2001. THU THU 23:45 Knocker b008j006 (Listen) THU Profitch THU Market researcher Ian Dunn suffers a shocking epiphany. THU Stars Neil Edmond and Paula Wilcox. From December 2007. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrl5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b00773kr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p0wps (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Why Go? b00s9g0b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx86 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00s8lg8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsm8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07gg740 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b015ykwq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Booked b0075sd8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 When the Dog Dies b043x86l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves b007jqnr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b07dntk7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p10th (Listen) FRI Series 1, A Costume Piece FRI Reuben Rosenthall has made his millions in the diamond FRI fields of South Africa, and it seems only right and proper FRI to Raffles that some of this wealth should be redistributed. FRI But his attempts to seize the diamonds don't quite go FRI according to plan, as a low-key stakeout spirals into a FRI terrifying scramble for survival. FRI Starring Jeremy Clyde as AJ Raffles, Michael Cochrane as FRI Bunny, Geoffrey Matthews as Reuben Rosenthall and John FRI Hollis as 'Slammer' Purvis. FRI EW Hornung's early Raffles stories dramatised by David Buck. FRI Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. FRI Directed by Gordon House FRI A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast FRI in 1985. FRI FRI 06:30 The Manchester Writers b00tbck6 (Listen) FRI John Harris explores the work of a group of authors who FRI captured a northern social realism in the 1930s with writing FRI that went on to shape the views of northern living for FRI generations. FRI Walter Greenwood, Howard Spring and Louis Golding wrote FRI about Greater Manchester at a time of severe economic FRI depression and great poverty and their novel's describe FRI conditions that have resonances with our life today - cuts FRI in welfare, increased unemployment and a coalition FRI government. FRI Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole', Golding's 'Magnolia Street' FRI and Spring's 'Fame is the Spur' depict a tough, working FRI class life and although the three authors wrote from FRI slightly different perspectives, they describe people FRI enduring a grim, hard existence in an industrial landscape. FRI As the final parts of industrial Manchester and Salford are FRI finally transformed by investment and modernisation, 'The FRI Manchester Writers' visits the streets that inspired these FRI authors and hears how their work has endured and influenced FRI ideas of northern England. FRI FRI 07:00 Crowned Hudds b00q9px6 (Listen) FRI A Comedy of Arrows FRI King John gets ambushed. Roy Hudd's historical royal romp, FRI with June Whitfield and Jeffrey Holland. From August 1995. FRI FRI 07:30 Meet David Sedaris b0125g85 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Nuit of the Living Dead and The End of the Affair 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: what not to do with a mouse, in front of strangers in FRI "Nuit of the Living Dead" and the ups and downs of along FRI term relationship get the Sedaris treatment in "The End of FRI the Affair" FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 08:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007js28 (Listen) FRI Count Down FRI Terry helps stressed Bob prepare for his wedding to Thelma. FRI Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier and Rodney Bewes as FRI Bob Ferris. FRI With Joan Hickson, Bill Owen, Anita Carey and Robin FRI Parkinson. FRI Created and scripted for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La FRI Frenais. FRI Adapted for radio and produced by John Browell. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1975. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jnth (Listen) FRI Shifting Sands FRI Soldier Neddie Seagoon heads off to the fort at Waziri, FRI which is drifting into peril. Stars Spike Milligan. From FRI January 1957. FRI FRI 09:00 We've Been Here Before b00g1rsp (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI Clive Anderson's yesteryear quiz, with Helen Atkinson-Wood, FRI John O'Farrell, Nick Revell and Gyles Brandreth. From July FRI 2004. FRI FRI 09:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi b007k1mc (Listen) FRI Series 1, The Engagement FRI Rabbi Sue's announcement sparks fury from her rival Abraham. FRI Stars Tracy-Ann Oberman and David de Keyser. From December FRI 1999. FRI FRI 10:00 Classic Serial b0167vk2 (Listen) FRI Silas Marner, Episode 2 FRI Silas Marner by George Eliot FRI dramatised by Richard Cameron FRI After a life of exile and a miserly existence, Silas's life FRI changes forever when Eppie, a little girl FRI crosses his threshold on a cold New Year's evening. Their FRI life together, from her childhood to FRI womanhood is his salvation. But all is threatened when her FRI biological father makes FRI a claim on her. FRI Silas Marner ...... George Costigan FRI Eppie ....... Rebecca Callard FRI Dolly ..... Deborah McAndrew FRI Aaron ..... Stephen Hoyle FRI Godfrey/Jem ..... Conrad Nelson FRI Nancy ...... Maeve Larkin FRI Macey .... Seamus O'Neill FRI Dr. Kimble......... Leigh Symonds FRI Priscillia ...... Fiona Clarke FRI Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI 11:00 Book of the Week b0122w98 (Listen) FRI Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit, Episode 5 FRI The 'murderer at the door' refers to the moral dilemma of FRI whether you tell the truth if the honest answer will FRI threaten someone's life. How did philosophers square with FRI that conundrum? FRI Ian Leslie was born in 1972 and lives in London. He combines FRI careers in advertising and writing. His first book, To be FRI President (Politicos, 2008), an account of the 2008 US FRI presidential election, was described by Adam Boulton as FRI 'brilliantly capturing the drama and emotion of Obama's FRI successful run for the White House' and was extracted by FRI Granta. He regularly appears as an analyst of American FRI politics on Sky and the BBC. He has written about politics, FRI culture, marketing and psychology for Prospect, the FRI Guardian, the Times and the BBC. He also blogs about all FRI these things at Marbury, named one of the fifty 'Most FRI Powerful' blogs in the world by the Observer. FRI 'Consistently startling and fascinating. Most popular FRI psychology books follow a depressingly familiar path: FRI there's some dodgy theorising at the beginning, then a raft FRI of dubious statistics with a few anecdotes to back them up. FRI Born Liars, however, is in quite a different league. It's FRI erudite yet wears its learning lightly and is full of FRI terrific stories. It will also make you see yourself, and FRI the world around you, in a new light.' - 'Book of the Week', FRI Daily Mail FRI Written by Ian Leslie FRI Abridged by Pete Nichols FRI Reader: Tim McInnerny FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00pqj11 (Listen) FRI DC Jackson - My Romantic History FRI Poignant and witty drama by DC Jackson about love and FRI memory. FRI Charlie ...... Sandy Grierson FRI Amy ...... Cora Bissett FRI Sasha/Alison ...... Gabriel Quigley FRI Calvin/Jessie ...... Jordan Young FRI Mum/Receptionist ...... Juliet Cadzow FRI Directed by Kirsty Williams. FRI FRI 12:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007js28 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jnth (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p10th (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 The Manchester Writers b00tbck6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx8b (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI Reconciliation is on the cards, with the recognition of FRI unspoken devotion. Concluded by Juliet Stevenson. FRI FRI 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00s9f4y (Listen) FRI A Thousand Histories and Fables FRI Michael Morpurgo learns about the impact of printing, and FRI how it raised fears among adults that it was corrupting FRI children. FRI FRI 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsmm (Listen) FRI Episode 15 FRI Daniel becomes disillusioned with home and the church, and FRI there is some disturbing news for Stephanie. With Rosemary FRI Leach. FRI FRI 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07gk2qv (Listen) FRI A Triumphant Evening FRI With the conference underway, Stevens' abilities as a butler FRI are tested when his father is taken ill. Read by John FRI Moffatt. FRI FRI 15:00 Classic Serial b0167vk2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 We've Been Here Before b00g1rsp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi b007k1mc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Crowned Hudds b00q9px6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Meet David Sedaris b0125g85 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrll (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI With most of the population blinded, Bill Masen is FRI determined to find Josella. But where does he start? Cult FRI novel read by Roger May. FRI FRI 18:30 Sounds Natural b01slst0 (Listen) FRI Peter Cushing FRI Award-winning actor Peter Cushing takes a break from making FRI horror films to discuss his enthusiasm for the British FRI countryside and its wildlife - aided by recordings from the FRI BBC Sound Archive. FRI Peter tells Derek Jones how he used to spend hours with his FRI late wife Helen watching wild birds from their home on the FRI estuary at Whitstable in Kent. FRI Peter Cushing, OBE: born 1913 - died 1994. FRI Producer: John Burton. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1972. FRI FRI 19:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007js28 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jnth (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p10th (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 The Manchester Writers b00tbck6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Book at Bedtime b013xvrf (Listen) FRI Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Episode 10 FRI Written by Mohsin Hamid. Abridged by Lisa Osborne FRI At a cafe table in Lahore a bearded Pakistani tells an FRI uneasy American stranger the story of his life. FRI In Lahore, Changez's new life is revealed. But who is FRI pursuing whom? FRI Reader: Riz Ahmed FRI Produced by Lisa Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00pqj11 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Meet David Sedaris b0125g85 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2016 b07gk45x (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI 4 Extra Debut. Ten new comedians perform in the first heat FRI from Up The Creek in London with host Jess Fostekew. FRI FRI 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews b07hx951 (Listen) FRI The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to Steve FRI Bugeja. FRI FRI 23:30 The Consultants b0076pvy (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI Taking register at stunt school, and Tarzan learns the FRI alphabet. Sketch comedy with Neil Edmond and Justin Edwards. FRI From December 2003. FRI