08 July, 2016

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 09/07/2016 - 15/07/2016

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SAT SATURDAY 09 JULY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Oscar Wilde b008lz2g (Listen) SAT The Canterville Ghost, Episode 3 SAT Filled with pity for the ghost of the house, Virginia agrees SAT to help Sir Simon find peace. Read by Alistair McGowan. SAT SAT 00:30 Sounds Natural b07k0ts9 (Listen) SAT Bernard Cribbins SAT From the Meadow Pipit to the Red-Backed Shrike. Actor SAT Bernard Cribbins talks to Derek Jones about his love of bird SAT watching, fishing and the importance of conservation - aided SAT by recordings from the BBC Sound Archive. SAT Producer: John Burton. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1972. SAT SAT 01:00 Poirot b0076tz9 (Listen) SAT The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Episode 5 SAT Captain Hastings and Detective Inspector Japp are bewildered SAT by the antics of Hercule Poirot as he rushes back to Styles SAT Court in a state of great excitement. SAT Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule SAT Poirot, Simon Williams as Hastings, Philip Jackson as Japp, SAT Susan Jameson as Mary, Nichola McAuliffe as Evie, Annabelle SAT Dowler as Cynthia and Hilda Schroder as Dorcas. SAT Original music composed by Tom Smail. SAT Dramatist: Michael Bakewell SAT Director: Enyd Williams SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. SAT SAT 01:30 Picking Round Apples b014qxbg (Listen) SAT Steve Carver lives the life of a seasonal apple picker on a SAT farm in Herefordshire. SAT In his previous programmes for Radio 4 'Dancing Round the SAT Mediterranean' and 'Touring Round Torquay' , Steve immersed SAT himself in a new line of work, living alongside co-workers SAT and experiencing their way of life. SAT This year he is 'Picking Round Apples' in Herefordshire: SAT For a week in mid-August, Steve gave up his home comforts SAT and moved into a small campervan parked in the corner of a SAT field in rural Herefordshire. SAT Every year a small band of retired people establish a SAT make-shift and temporary, but close community. Every day, SAT all day, they pick apples. The money they earn boosts their SAT pensions, and a simple and quietly sociable life is also a SAT great draw. SAT However it's hard work - bad backs, scratched arms, and sore SAT feet are the wounds that must be borne. SAT The retired pickers live in their motor-homes for the SAT summer, with many over-wintering in Spain when the weather SAT begins to cool. No such luxury (or destination) for Steve - SAT we gave him a basic campervan, with no electrical 'hook-up'; SAT the use of a microwave in a farm-building, which also houses SAT the showers and loos. SAT He was cold at night (trekking socks a necessity in bed, SAT even in August), he got a little sick of microwave meals, SAT but he enjoyed meeting the other pickers, appreciating what SAT they meant by 'getting into the zone' of apple picking: SAT reach... pick... put in bucket... reach... pick... put in SAT bucket... almost - as Steve said - like a form of SAT meditation. SAT Join Steve to find out how he got on 'Picking Round Apples' SAT at Tillington Fruit Farm near Ledbury in Herefordshire. SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 02:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox SAT b00770qd (Listen) SAT I Would Like to Go to the Sea SAT By Maggie O'Farrell, abridged by Sally Marmion. SAT 5/10. Esme returns to an old family haunt. SAT Read by Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and Eleanor Bron. SAT SAT 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sjw36 (Listen) SAT The Habit of Schooling SAT Michael Morpurgo discovers the reaction to the 1870 Forster SAT Education Act, marking the start of compulsory education for SAT all. SAT SAT 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jstn (Listen) SAT Episode 30 SAT Alexander hosts a play to raise cash for repairs and a fire SAT at the farm has dire consequences. Stars Indira Varma. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b013n5k1 (Listen) SAT Fire Season, Episode 5 SAT Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall. SAT A new relief lookout appears on the mountain but the author SAT is unsure that he has what it takes to cope alone in the SAT wilderness. And some smokejumpers arrive to put out a fire, SAT which reminds the author of the famous tragedy of the Mann SAT Gulch fire which inspired Norman Maclean's famous book. SAT Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job SAT and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of SAT solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire SAT at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with SAT drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular SAT midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening SAT above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and SAT black bears. SAT Read by Kerry Shale SAT Produced by Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 03:00 Classic Serial b01jqb92 (Listen) SAT Publish and Be Damn'd: The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, SAT Episode 2 SAT Adapted by Ellen Dryden. SAT Nancy Carroll stars as Harriette Wilson - one of the most SAT infamous and talked-about women of the early 19th century. SAT Her lovers included aristocrats, adventurers and even the SAT Duke of Wellington, and when they all ceased to support her SAT after her retirement, she had a simple bargain for them - SAT 'pay up, and I'll keep you out of my memoirs'. SAT A scandalous bestseller of their time, her memoirs reveal a SAT sharp-witted, good-hearted, infinitely adaptable, madcap SAT woman who took on the patriarchy of the time and did SAT something close to beating them at their own game. SAT Having finally made contact with the mysterious Lord SAT Ponsonby, Harriette finds there are all kinds of obstacles SAT to their blossoming romance - including the small matter of SAT his wife whom everyone agrees is an angel. Harriette's SAT former lovers, the dashing Duke of Argyll and the taciturn SAT but loyal Duke of Wellington, are never far from the picture SAT and are soon joined by a new, passionate young admirer. The SAT Marquis of Worcester is devoted to Harriette as only a 19 SAT year-old can be. SAT Eventually Harriette is persuaded to reveal all in her SAT memoirs - a course of action which leads Wellington to make SAT one of the most famous remarks in the English Language. SAT Cast: SAT Harriette ...... Nancy Carroll SAT Ponsonby ....... Charles Edwards SAT Wellington ....... Barnaby Kay SAT Argyle ...... Blake Ritson SAT Fanny ....... Anna Francolini SAT Amy ....... Abigail Burdess SAT Matthew Lee ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor SAT Poodle Byng/ Doctor/ Beaufort ..... Gus Brown SAT Porter/ Brougham ....... Jonathan Coote SAT Leinster ....... Andrew Mudie SAT Worcester ....... Nigel Thomas SAT Producer: Ellen Dryden SAT A First Writes Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Harriette: Nancy Carroll SAT Ponsonby: Charles Edwards SAT Wellington: Barnaby Kay SAT Argyle: Blake Ritson SAT Fanny: Anna Francolini SAT Amy: Abigail Burdess SAT Matthew Lee: Jonathan Dryden Taylor SAT Poodle Byng/Doctor/Beaufort: Gus Brown SAT Porter/Brougham: Jonathan Coote SAT Leinster: Andrew Mudie SAT Producer: Ellen Dryden SAT SAT 04:00 Whispers b007k2sl (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 3 SAT Gyles Brandreth chairs the scandals quiz with Anthony SAT Holden, Lucy Moore, Dan Tetsell and John O'Farrell. From SAT October 2005. SAT SAT 04:30 No Commitments b01mhqbz (Listen) SAT Series 10, Time With the Family SAT Emily is engaged to Nick, so Roger and Victoria must SAT absolutely meet her fiance's parents. Stars Bill Nighy. From SAT February 2004. SAT SAT 05:00 Winston in Europe b007tbrv (Listen) SAT Don't Gush, Nancy SAT Father wants to move abroad, but old rogue Winston's not his SAT usual chipper self. Stars Maurice Denham. From March 1992. SAT SAT 05:30 Rumblings from the Rafters b07hwxbk (Listen) SAT House Fly and Soprano Pipistrelle Bat SAT An annoying House Fly played by Lee Mack and a warm-hearted SAT Soprano Pipistrelle Bat played by Pam Ferris, reveal the SAT truth about life in a draughty old attic in a house in SAT Amersham in the second of three very funny tales, written SAT and introduced by Lynne Truss, with additional sound SAT recordings by Chris Watson. SAT The House Fly loves life. "The best bit is the buzzing". He SAT loves the aerobatics, dodging the flypapers in the attic and SAT "... my favourite manoeuvre, settling on the ceiling. It is SAT unbelievably brilliant" He loves to buzz. But he also loves, SAT what to humans, is a disgusting way of life. He loves to SAT walk around on filth and to poo everywhere and to spread SAT disease "And listen, we don't mind! Not at all. It's the SAT least we can do". He would love to spread more diseases and SAT takes great joy in telling us just exactly how he does this SAT ... perhaps best not to listen if you're eating! SAT The Soprano Pipistrelle Bat is a very different creature; a SAT tiny bat with a huge and loving heart. She is nine years old SAT and has given birth to a single pup each year. Her newest SAT pup, Jethro, is her darling; "... such a lovely little face. SAT Chestnut fur. Perfect little ears. He smells like chicken SAT flavour crisps. Ooh, I could eat him." He is six weeks old SAT and weaning - proudly catching insects for himself; and this SAT is always a poignant time for this mother-bat, where pride SAT and sadness mingle. The main concern with Jethro, she finds, SAT is that he can't seem to grasp the idea of torpor, "Oh don't SAT mum. Don't go torpid. It's like you're dying", but as she SAT knows "torpor is nothing to be scared of, .. torpor is your SAT friend". SAT House Fly: Lee Mack SAT Soprano Pipstrelle Bat: Pam Ferris SAT Written and introduced by Lynne Truss SAT Wildlife sound recordings Chris Watson SAT Producer Sarah Blunt. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Lynne Truss SAT House Fly: Lee Mack SAT Soprano Pipstrelle Bat: Pam Ferris SAT Producer: Sarah Blunt SAT Writer: Lynne Truss SAT SAT 06:00 Daphne Du Maurier - The King's General b00p4klc (Listen) SAT A paralysed beauty and a reckless soldier fall in love SAT during the English civil war. Stars Cathryn Harrison and SAT Roger Allam. SAT SAT 07:30 The RSC at 50 b01061hm (Listen) SAT The First Ten Years SAT James Naughtie explores the history of the Royal Shakespeare SAT Company as it marks its 50th birthday and reopens its main SAT Stratford theatre. Part 2: The First Ten Years. SAT In the second programme of his three-part series, James SAT Naughtie explores how the Royal Shakespeare Company came SAT into being in 1961 and its extraordinarily dynamic first ten SAT years. SAT He speaks with the two key players - Peter Hall and Peter SAT Brook (both now in their eighties, both still busily working SAT in theatre) - about the stultifying 1950s theatre culture SAT which they inherited. As Brook vividly recalls, "those old SAT laddie codger actors just boomed away". SAT The two Peters discuss other aspects which were ripe for SAT change - the need for a European-style ensemble, for SAT training in verse-speaking, for longer and more open SAT rehearsals, for productions which arose from a particular SAT time rather than simply being wheeled out again and again - SAT all RSC hallmarks which are now taken for granted. Veteran SAT members of the company Patrick Stewart and Judi Dench recall SAT the joys of that time, including, in Dench's case, the SAT indiscrete joys of affairs which inevitably arose due to the SAT geographical isolation of Stratford. Contemporary Associate SAT Director Greg Doran explains the attraction of working in SAT Stratford - walking daily, on his way to rehearsals, past SAT the church where Shakespeare was baptized and buried; while SAT Hall explains how vital it was to start up a London season SAT if he was to succeed in turning a group of actors into a SAT world-class company. SAT Meanwhile, the current Company dramaturge Jeannie O'Hare SAT explains how productions of new works by contemporary SAT writers - Pinter, Bond, Hare - helped re-energize the RSC, SAT culminating in what is often seen as its aesthetic SAT high-point - Brook's Dream in 1971 - which, in a rare SAT interview, the great Peter Brook himself recalls for the SAT programme. SAT The series as a whole features an exclusive breadth of SAT interviews with the key players of the past half century. SAT With the help of all five artistic directors: Peter Hall, SAT Trevor Nunn, Terry Hands, Adrian Noble and Michael Boyd; SAT luminaries such as Peter Brook, Cicely Berry, Greg Doran, SAT Judi Dench, Patrick Stewart and David Tennant; and backstage SAT artists, technicians and craftspeople, James Naughtie SAT explores both the history of the company and the reasons why SAT its work matters to the wider British cultural scene. SAT Producer: Beaty Rubens. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Beaty Rubens SAT Presenter: James Naughtie SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b03mcklz (Listen) SAT The Three Day Week SAT Forty years ago Britain was plunged into darkness as Prime SAT Minister Edward Heath introduced a 3 day working week. SAT Cities fell dark. Factories and schools closed. People, SAT often wrapped in blankets, worked by candle and torchlight. SAT At home, people boiled water to wash and children were sent SAT to school with luminous yellow bands so they could be seen SAT in the gloom. And Britain's three TV channels came to an SAT abrupt end at ten thirty! SAT For decades, British politics was shaped, perhaps defined, SAT by the events of the early 1970s, with the 3 day week as the SAT centrepoint. Now it seems almost unimaginable that this SAT could have happened in one of the world's richest countries SAT so how did it ever get to this point? Could Heath have done SAT anything different? Michael White of The Guardian, then a SAT young reporter, takes us back to those extraordinary days SAT and charts the long-term political significance of the SAT crisis. SAT Producer: Jim Frank. SAT SAT 09:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show b07kcgks (Listen) SAT The Last Prairie Home Companion SAT After 42 years on-air, Garrison Keillor hosted this final SAT show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on July 1st 2016. SAT Garrison bids a bittersweet goodbye to Lake Wobegon and SAT welcomes the Royal American Radio Acting Company, Rich SAT Dworsky and the band, Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife SAT O'Donovan, Heather Masse, Christine DiGiallonardo and some SAT surprises. SAT A Prairie Home Companion is American public radio's most SAT popular entertainment programme with four million weekly SAT listeners on 500 plus radio stations coast to coast. SAT Produced by Prairie Home Productions. SAT SAT 11:00 Saturday Drama b019qblm (Listen) SAT Stephen Wakelam - The Jinx Element SAT by Stephen Wakelam SAT Edith Wharton's private life was as dramatic as many of her SAT novels. An encounter with a journalist was to have a seismic SAT effect on her marriage and her work. SAT Directed by Sally Avens SAT Pullitzer prize winning author Edith Wharton had a long SAT career, which stretched over forty years and included the SAT publication of more than forty books, many of which have SAT been made into films including 'The House of Mirth'. A born SAT storyteller her novels are justly celebrated for their vivid SAT settings, satiric wit, ironic style, and moral seriousness. SAT Her characters are often trapped in bad relationships or SAT confining circumstances. Her own life stands as an example SAT of the obstacles that a woman of her time and place had to SAT overcome to find self-realization. Stephen Wakelam's play SAT tells the story of Edith's affair with the journalist Morton SAT Fullerton through the eyes of her friend and fellow writer SAT Henry James. Age 47 Edith embarked upon a relationship which SAT made her reassess her own marriage to Teddy Wharton, a SAT platonic relationship that did not allow her to share her SAT intellectual and artistic interests. SAT Stephen Wakelam has written many successful radio plays SAT including 'Adulteries of a Provinical Wife' about Flaubert SAT writing Madame Bovary and 'What I Think of My Husband' about SAT Thomas Hardy. SAT Credits SAT Edith Wharton: Fenella Woolgar SAT Henry James: Allan Corduner SAT Morton: Patrick Baladi SAT Teddy Wharton: Nathan Osgood SAT Cook: James Lailey SAT Manservant: James Lailey SAT Mrs Gross: Rachel Atkins SAT French Admirer: Rachel Atkins SAT English Waiter: Simon Bubb SAT French Waiter: Simon Bubb SAT Director: Sally Avens SAT Writer: Stephen Wakelam SAT SAT 12:00 The Goon Show b007jnxg (Listen) SAT Ill Met by Goonlight SAT Neddie Seagoon is sent to capture the German general who SAT commands the island of Crete. Stars Spike Milligan. From SAT March 1957. SAT SAT 12:30 Dilemma b01747kt (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 1 SAT Sue Perkins puts four guests through the moral and ethical SAT wringer in this show that looks at the choices we are SAT bombarded by in Britain today, as well as some more SAT theoretical problems. Salad or chips? Do you buy local SAT produce or from co-ops in Africa? Would you rather live in SAT perfect happiness for ten years or general contentment for SAT thirty? This is a panel show in which there are no "right" SAT answers - but there are some deeply damning ones. SAT From everyday and even surreal either/or situations, to SAT classic philosophical quandaries, Dilemma is a format to get SAT witty, intelligent comic voices sparking off one another. SAT The edition features comedians Dave Gorman and Richard SAT Herring, actress and writer Rebecca Front, and journalist SAT Dominic Lawson. They discuss such quandaries as "Would you SAT provide an alibi to someone you hate?" and "Would you SAT confront an elderly relative about casual racism at a family SAT gathering?", and they debate the relative merits of Silvio SAT Berlusconi, Vlad the Impaler, L. Ron Hubbard and Amanda SAT Holden. The show was devised by award-winning stand-up and SAT writer Danielle Ward (The News Quiz, Newswipe, Mock The SAT Week). SAT Producer: Ed Morrish. SAT SAT 13:00 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist b07kcl7p (Listen) SAT Omnibus. Charles Dance tells five darkly comic tales by the SAT master of the bizarre. Featuring The Bookseller, Poison, My SAT Lady Love, The Surgeon and The Butler. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b07kcmhg (Listen) SAT Simon Hopkinson SAT Chef and writer Simon Hopkinson chooses 'Catch a Falling SAT Star' by Perry Como and '21st Century Schizoid Man' by King SAT Crimson. SAT SAT 14:15 Sentimental Journey b0076zp7 (Listen) SAT Shappi Khorsandi SAT Arthur Smith takes Iranian comedian Shappi Khorsandi to SAT Paris, where she went as a teenager. Her satirist father was SAT exiled for his humour, but Shappi carries on the family SAT tradition. SAT Producer: Sharon Banoff SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. SAT SAT 14:45 Uncle Mort's North Country b007jl6n (Listen) SAT Series 1, Beside the Seaside SAT Carter and Uncle Mort enjoy sea-air and some miserable SAT memories. Peter Tinniswood's saga with Peter Skellern and SAT Stephen Thorne. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b03mcklz (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Daphne Du Maurier - The King's General b00p4klc (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 The RSC at 50 b01061hm (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 The Real George Orwell b01qhd0y (Listen) SAT Nineteen Eighty-Four, Episode 1 SAT Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway. SAT Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth. Sick and SAT separated from his wife, he lives alone in a one-room flat SAT in Victory Mansions in London, chief city of Airstrip One. SAT Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police SAT uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love, he SAT discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, SAT and awakens to new possibilities. SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer SAT The Real George Orwell SAT A Radio 4 journey through the labyrinth that is the life and SAT work of George Orwell. SAT Of course there is no real George Orwell - it was the pen SAT name of Eric Blair - but he was a writer and political SAT commentator who is very hard to pin down. Ever since his SAT early death in 1950, he has been at one and the same time SAT the darling of some on both the left and the right of SAT British politics - whilst being reviled by others. For all SAT the beautiful simplicity of his writing and storytelling SAT Orwell/Blair is a complex mass of confusions - an SAT anti-establishment, pro-English, ex-Etonian ex-policeman and SAT socialist, who was ardently anti-authoritarian. He was as SAT anti-fascist as he was anti-communist, a former Spanish SAT Civil War soldier who was anti-war but pro the Second World SAT War, and so on and so on. SAT Through dramatisations of the key books, through four newly SAT commissioned plays that explore the disjuncture between the SAT man who was Eric Blair and the writer who was George Orwell, SAT and through factual programming and readings, Radio 4 will SAT take you on a journey from Burma via Catalonia, Wigan, Jura, SAT Manor Farm along the road that led to Nineteen Eighty-Four, SAT one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. SAT Christopher Eccleston and Pippa Nixon in studio SAT Recording as a scene between Winston and Julia in Studio SAT 60a. SAT Credits SAT Winston Smith: Christopher Eccleston SAT Julia: Pippa Nixon SAT O'Brien: Tim Pigott-Smith SAT Parsons: Kim Wall SAT Syme: Sam Alexander SAT Prostitute: Susie Riddell SAT Actor: Christine Absalom SAT Actor: Don Gilet SAT Actor: Joe Sims SAT Actor: Joshua Swinney SAT Director: Jeremy Mortimer SAT Writer: Jonathan Holloway SAT SAT 19:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show b07kcgks (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 21:00 Saturday Drama b019qblm (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Buy Me Up TV b009fnlx (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Another chance to hear the comedy series inspired by every SAT shopping channel you've ever seen and every product you've SAT never wanted to buy. SAT The series features Justin Edwards, Colin Hoult, Katherine SAT Jakeways, Ewen MacIntosh, Alex MacQueen and Greg Proops. SAT Tonight's special guest is Ruth Madoc. SAT SAT 22:30 Knowing Me, Knowing You b007k0fl (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Cheesy host Alan Partridge is 'Live from Las Vegas' with a SAT glamorous American co-host. Stars Steve Coogan. From SAT December 1992. SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07kd8fr (Listen) SAT From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club SAT has two hours of comedy. Plus Cariad Lloyd rounds off her SAT chat about 'improv' with Pippa Evans and Rachel Parris. SAT SAT 23:00 I, Regress b01s0dlz (Listen) SAT Series 2, Mirrors SAT A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an SAT unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees SAT Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff SAT Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking SAT unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through SAT their subconscious. SAT Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client SAT who has come to him for a different phobia. As the patient SAT is put under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the SAT various situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are SAT played out for us to hear. The result is a dream- (or SAT nightmare-) like trip through the patient's mind, as funny SAT as it is disturbing. SAT The cast across the series include Bob Mortimer, Daisy SAT Haggard, Steve Furst and Tracy-Ann Oberman. SAT A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone SAT else's head! SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT Credits SAT Actor: Matt Berry SAT Producer: Sam Bryant SAT SAT 23:15 Richard Marsh b01rlswh (Listen) SAT Love and Sweets, Jess SAT Winner of Best Scripted Comedy in the BBC Audio Awards 2014, SAT poet and playwright Richard Marsh fuses poetry and prose to SAT tell a heart-breaking and witty tale of losing love, falling SAT for a seductive-looking lady called Sorrow, and learning to SAT put himself back together. SAT Richard's marriage has fallen apart, and he's a broken man SAT locked in a flat full of memories, rattling around like SAT sweets in a bowl. Siobhan's moved out; the flat, half-full, SAT is the emptiest thing. On the plus side, his friends cook SAT him a lot of meals - but there's only so much consolation SAT chicken a man can eat. SAT When moping at the pub, Richard meets the seductive Sorrow, SAT who tries to stop him recovering or moving on with his life. SAT Will she succeed, or will Richard learn to love again? SAT Contains some explicit language. SAT Written and performed by Richard Marsh SAT Producer: Ben Worsfield SAT A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Performer: Richard Marsh SAT Writer: Richard Marsh SAT Producer: Ben Worsfield SAT SAT 23:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00qx43h (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 4 SAT Mark Thomas: The Manifesto. Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas SAT creates a People's Manifesto, taking suggestions from his SAT studio audience and then getting them to vote for the best. SAT The winner of each show will be enforceable by law, so pay SAT attention. SAT This episode will include policies such as crushing the cars SAT of anyone illegally parked in a disabled space; the SAT legalisation of Viking-style funerals; and consolidating the SAT United Kingdom's national debt into one easy-to-pay loan. SAT Produced by Ed Morrish. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 JULY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 The Real George Orwell b01qhd0y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist b07kcl7p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b07kcmhg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Sentimental Journey b0076zp7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:45 Uncle Mort's North Country b007jl6n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b03mcklz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Daphne Du Maurier - The King's General b00p4klc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 The RSC at 50 b01061hm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet Omnibus b07kt2ps (Listen) SUN A Whistling Woman SUN Frederica meets an old flame and her new TV series starts SUN but a fire at the farm has a devastating outcome. Stars SUN Indira Varma. SUN SUN 07:15 Out of Armenia b04w0jfv (Listen) SUN Paris SUN "The last of the battlefields is the battlefield of the SUN imagination - and that space is infinite". SUN Charles Emmerson continues his journey through the Armenian SUN diaspora of Europe in Paris - Europe's largest, most SUN culturally-vibrant and politically-radical Armenian diaspora SUN community. SUN With the singing of the Armenian monk-musician Gomidas SUN playing in the background, French-Armenian actor Simon SUN Abkarian tells Charles the story of how his family was wiped SUN out in Anatolia in 1915, and how Armenians have turned the SUN pain of memory into the foundations of a new homeland in SUN France. SUN As Charles is plied with pomegranate wine in the local SUN Armenian shops of Alfortville, a Paris suburb which filled SUN with Armenian refugees in the 1920s, we hear how SUN French-Armenians have become more French than the French SUN themselves - counting members of parliament, actors, SUN musicians and the singer Charles Aznavour among their SUN number. One of the most famous fighters of the French SUN resistance, Missak Manouchian, was also Armenian. SUN On a river barge in the Seine, as a mostly Armenian band SUN tunes up for an evening concert, we hear mixed Armenian, SUN Turkish, Kurdish and Persian music - symbol of a younger SUN generation of Paris Armenians opening up, and an embrace of SUN culture as a tool of both memory and peace. SUN Produced by Cicely Fell SUN An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 07:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01dgh8t (Listen) SUN Series 1, Nick Helm SUN Comedian Alex Horne is joined by his own 5 piece jazz band SUN for a brand new series of music and comedy. The band will be SUN joined by Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee guest Nick Helm, SUN and explore the relationship between man and dog and SUN dinosaurs and puns. SUN Host .... Alex Horne SUN Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland SUN Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown SUN Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier SUN Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds SUN Piano/keyboard .... Joe Stilgoe SUN Guest performer ....Nick Helm SUN Producer .... Julia McKenzie. SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Alex Horne SUN Performer: Nick Helm SUN Producer: Julia McKenzie SUN SUN 08:00 Ray's a Laugh b07kwm0j (Listen) SUN From 30/01/1959 SUN Will Ted be able to cope when things take a decidedly chilly SUN turn? 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 January 1959. SUN SUN 08:30 Meet the Huggetts b04mc868 (Listen) SUN All at Sea SUN With factory outing looming, Joe and Ethel Huggett find SUN themselves in a mess over money. SUN Stars Jack Warner as Joe, Kathleen Harrison as Ethel, Vera SUN Day as Jane, Anthony Green as Bobby, Charles Leno as Fred SUN Stebbings, Beatrice Varley as Mrs Stebbings and Kenneth SUN Connor as Mr Campbell. SUN Popular working-class family, the Huggetts first hit the SUN cinema screen with a series of Gainsborough films between SUN 1947 and 1949. Their subsequent BBC radio series ran from SUN 1953 to 1962. SUN Scripted by Eddie Maguire. SUN Producer: Peter Eton SUN First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1954. SUN SUN 09:00 Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited - Omnibus b07kwmtm (Listen) SUN With new access to family archive, Philip Eade revisits the SUN life of one of our greatest novelists. Read by Nickolas SUN Grace. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b07kwnfm (Listen) SUN Bonnie Tyler SUN Singer Bonnie Tyler chooses 'A Hard Day's Night' by the SUN Beatles and 'River Deep Mountain High' by Tina Turner. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b07kwnqc (Listen) SUN Conductors, Antonio Pappano SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Tony Bennett to Giacomo Puccini, SUN conductor Anthony Pappano shares his castaway choices with SUN Sue Lawley. From April 2004. SUN SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour b07kwny1 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Snow White and the Screaming Meemies SUN True stories told live in the USA: Meg Bowles introduces SUN tales about moving home, being on TV, foster care and last SUN chances. 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 b07kwm0j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Meet the Huggetts b04mc868 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet Omnibus b07kt2ps (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Out of Armenia b04w0jfv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Jessie Burton - The Muse: Omnibus b07k8zlv (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN 1967: Odelle Bastien begins her new job as typist and meets SUN her boss Marjorie Quick. Read by Martina Laird and Jessica SUN Raine. SUN Credits SUN Reader: Rachel Shelley SUN Author: Kazuo Ishiguro SUN Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths SUN Producer: Mair Bosworth SUN SUN 15:45 John Burnside - Finders Keepers b07kwqst (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. The older brother knew the lost dog was quite SUN probably dead, but the pretence of searching continues. Read SUN by Richard Pearce. SUN SUN 16:00 Edith Wharton - Madame de Treymes b0089brw (Listen) SUN John Durham's fight for the woman he loves sparks a SUN confrontation with a powerful and devious French family. SUN Stars Anna Massey as Christiane de Treymes, Philip Voss as SUN John Durham, Gwen Humble as Fanny de Malrive, Elizabeth SUN Kelly as Bessie Boykin and Valerie Sarruf as the Narrator. SUN Adapted from Edith Wharton's novella by John Peacock. SUN Director: Jane Morgan SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b07kwsds (Listen) SUN Tales from Ovid: Arachne; Midas SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Tales of Ovid'. SUN Poet Ted Hughes continues reading from his award-winning SUN reworking of Ovid's Metamorphoses - stories of the teeming SUN underworld and overworld of Romanised Greek myth and legend. SUN Featuring 'Arachne' and 'Midas', this highly praised SUN collection won the 1997 Whitbread prize for poetry and WH SUN Smith Literary Award. SUN Ted Hughes: born: 1930 and died: 1998. SUN Producer: Susan Roberts SUN First broadcast in two-parts on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. SUN SUN 17:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01dgh8t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Simon Bovey - The Voice of God b007jwkz (Listen) SUN Dreamtime Is Over SUN What is being built out in a remote Australian desert? And SUN what havoc will it wreak? Stars Clare Corbett and Matthew SUN Dyktynski. SUN SUN 18:30 Algernon Blackwood - The Willows b007jvdj (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN The companions prepare for a second night and the inevitable SUN attack from the island's mysterious forces. 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SUN SUN 23:00 The Secret World b01mk55k (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 1 SUN The impression show that imagines alternative lives for SUN famous people. Each episode takes place over one day, with SUN stories unfolding and overlapping from morning to night. SUN In this third series the team of Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, SUN Julian Dutton, Duncan Wisbey, Margarter Cabourn-Smith, SUN Jessica Robinson is joined by Debra Stephenson. SUN In this series, Professor Brian Cox finds himself the object SUN of excessive female attention, from, amongst others, Kirsty SUN Young and the Queen. Al Pacino reveals his alternative life SUN as a balloon twister. Ed Miliband spends a whole day trying SUN to get a batman costume for his son, Peter Sallis discovers SUN a new form of energy, and President Obama becomes a pearly SUN king. SUN The show is written by Bill Dare, Julian Dutton, and Duncan SUN Wisbey. SUN It's produced by Bill Dare. SUN Episode synopsis for ep 1 SUN In this episode, the Arch Bishop of Canterbury tries SUN Tweeting for the first time, with disastrous results. SUN Professor Brian Cox finds himself stalked by various women, SUN including the Queen. Al Pacino is a balloon twister, and SUN Princess Anne reveals her secret life as a trainspotter. SUN SUN 23:30 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00773md (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 4 SUN Perrier Award winning comedian Laura Solon continues her new SUN sketch and character comedy series, aided by the voices of SUN Ben Moor, Katherine Parkinson and Ben Willbond. Plus more SUN from the China Lion, the new barn conversion couple and a SUN return to Chingley Hall. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 JULY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Simon Bovey - The Voice of God b007jwkz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Algernon Blackwood - The Willows b007jvdj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet Omnibus b07kt2ps (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Out of Armenia b04w0jfv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Jessie Burton - The Muse: Omnibus b07k8zlv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 John Burnside - Finders Keepers b07kwqst (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Edith Wharton - Madame de Treymes b0089brw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b07kwsds (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01dgh8t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds MON b036v8py (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Radio's dashing hero, Dick Barton is looking forward to a MON restful Mediterranean cruise with his faithful pal, Snowy, MON but an old colleague has other ideas... MON The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas MON Kelly as 'Dick Barton - Special Agent' in another thrilling MON tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring MON adventure. MON Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon MON Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between MON 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings MON survive. MON With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding MON re-recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original MON scripts and music, which was made for international MON distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, MON lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive MON in Canberra, Australia. MON Script by Geoffrey Webb. MON Producer: Morris West MON First broadcast in Australia in April 1949. MON MON 06:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012llr0 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Crime reporter Michael Quigley's evening is ruined when a MON mysterious master criminal chooses his nightclub to carry MON out his latest escapade. Read by Danny Webb. MON Who is White Face? The "Devil of Tidal Basin" - they called MON him. Out of the slums and filth of London slunk this MON marauder, dealing death and striking terror into all hearts MON and confounding the clearest brains of Scotland Yard. MON All the ingredients of a great mystery are here - a MON beautiful young girl, a handsome and romantic stranger from MON South Africa; a keen crime-reporter from London's Fleet MON Street in love with the girl; the dull witted inspector of MON Police countered by the brilliant Superintendent from MON Scotland Yard. MON It's a hunt to expose an arch blackmailer - bent on MON destroying the lives of his victims..... MON Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific MON British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote MON 175 novels - including the Four Just Men and Mr JG Reeder MON series - 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and MON journals. He co-created the movie monster 'King Kong', MON writing the film's early screenplay. Over 160 films have MON been made of his novels. MON Edgar Wallace's novel abridged by Robin Brooks. MON Producer: Clive Brill MON Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pacificus Productions and MON first broadcast in 2011. MON MON 06:30 When Harry Met Sally at 20 b00m6zpr (Listen) MON 4 Extra Debut. Film critic Sarah Churchwell celebrates the MON classic romantic film comedy with its writer, Nora Ephron. MON From August 2009. MON MON 07:00 Charles Dickens b00rv56t (Listen) MON Sketches by Boz - Series 1, Mr Watkins Tottle MON When a shy, middle-aged bachelor meets the woman of his MON dreams, can there really be a happy ending? Stars David MON Collings. MON MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b07j438b (Listen) MON Series 65, Episode 2 MON The 65th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment MON for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a MON return visit to the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool. MON Regulars Barry Cryer, Jeremy Hardy and Tim Brooke-Taylor are MON once again joined on the panel by Rory Bremner with Jack Dee MON in the chair. At the piano - Colin Sell. MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON It is a BBC Studios production. MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Jeremy Hardy MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Rory Bremner MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Parsley Sidings b04dcgpq (Listen) MON Series 2, The Flower Show MON Station Master Horace Hepplewhite digs up trouble when he MON hosts the village horticultural show. MON Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Kenneth Connor as MON Percy/Bradshaw/Vicar, Liz Fraser as Gloria, Ian Lavender as MON Bert, Bill Pertwee as Phineas Perkins and Garrard Green as MON the Inspector 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 Producer: Edward Taylor MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1973. MON MON 08:30 J Kingston Platt b01rr6y0 (Listen) MON Romance MON The showbusiness survivor shares a touching tale of MON unexpected romance. Written and read by Peter Jones. From MON September 1993. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b039pdtd (Listen) MON The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. MON As ever, a host of interesting celebrities will be joining MON Nigel as he quizzes them on the sources of a range of MON quotations and asks them for the amusing sayings or MON citations that they have personally collected on a variety MON of subjects. We discover who the most quotable people they MON have ever met are and we're treated to their favourite four MON line humorous poems. MON This week Nigel is joined by Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray, MON News presenter Matt Barbet, Children's Playwright David Wood MON and Journalist and writer Katharine Whitehorn. MON Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Carl Cooper. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nigel Rees MON Panellist: Jenni Murray MON Panellist: Matt Barbet MON Panellist: David Wood MON Panellist: Katharine Whitehorn MON Reader: Peter Jefferson MON Producer: Carl Cooper MON MON 09:30 King Street Junior b007jnbv (Listen) MON Series 7, Beside the Seaside MON Staff and pupils set off on a school trip, but trouble soon MON erupts at their guest house. Stars James Grout. From May MON 1992. MON MON 10:00 Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe b007jqy3 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON After ignoring his family's advice, the castaway ends up MON shipwrecked and arrives on an island. Stars Roy Marsden and MON Tom Bevan. MON MON 11:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories b01pqdsc (Listen) MON Mr Wrong, pt 1 MON Meg comes to London to buy a second-hand car, but all is not MON as it seems. Chilling tale read by Matilda Ziegler. MON MON 11:15 Shelagh Delaney - Sweetly Sings the Donkey b01dbytf (Listen) MON A girl convalesces in post-war Blackpool with fellow MON invalids, nuns and the waves. Shelagh Delaney's trilogy MON stars Beth Squires. MON MON 12:00 Parsley Sidings b04dcgpq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 J Kingston Platt b01rr6y0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds MON b036v8py (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012llr0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] MON MON 13:30 When Harry Met Sally at 20 b00m6zpr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox MON b00770rf (Listen) MON Like Sugar in Water MON Iris has rescued her newly discovered great-aunt Esme from MON the institution where she's been for 61 years. But only her MON grandmother Kitty - whose mind is now fractured with MON Alzheimer's - remembers the whole story of her sister's MON past. MON Poignant story of the shameful treatment of unconventional MON women in the 1930s and the lengths a woman might go to, for MON the thing she wants most. MON Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and Eleanor Bron continue Maggie MON O'Farrell's highly acclaimed novel set between the MON conventions of 1930's Edinburgh and the freedoms of today. MON Abridged by Sally Marmion MON Producer: Di Speirs MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. MON MON 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00slqvb (Listen) MON What Is the Meaning of Empire Day? MON Michael Morpurgo presents readings of the words of children MON exiled from or arrived in Britain under the British Empire. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01pftbg (Listen) MON A Little Twist of Dahl, Taste MON A series of stories by Roald Dahl MON Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan. MON Episode 1: Taste MON Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in MON dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre MON and amusing by turns, these black comedies are justly famous MON for their surprise endings. MON The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a MON writer of adult fiction. They are stylishly plotted, vividly MON characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy MON cynicism, presenting as they do, a hilariously bleak view of MON family life. Their satisfying conclusions invariably leave MON bullies, schemers, adulterers and frauds soundly punished. MON In Taste, whenever Mike Schofield and Richard Pratt dine MON together, they play a little game. If Pratt, a conceited MON wine buff, can identify a rare vintage in a blind tasting, MON he wins a case of the wine in question. When Schofield MON boasts that he has acquired a wine whose obscurity renders MON it unguessable, Pratt suggests they increase their stakes. MON If he fails to identify it, he forfeits both his houses but, MON if he succeeds, he wins the hand of Schofield's delectable MON daughter in marriage. Despite the girl's protests, Schofield MON agrees to the wager. MON Produced and Directed by David Blount MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Storyteller: Charles Dance MON Richard Pratt: Jonathan Hyde MON Mike: Mark Heap MON Margaret: Rachel Atkins MON Louise: Charlie Russell MON Housekeeper: Jean Trend MON Writer: Stephen Sheridan MON Director: David Blount MON Producer: David Blount MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b013xm61 (Listen) MON All Made Up, Episode 1 MON Award-winning author Janice Galloway brings all the MON brilliance of her fiction to bear on her memories of MON adolescence in small-town Scotland. Since the death of their MON father, Janice and her unpredictable older sister, Cora, MON have lived in close quarters with their downtrodden mother. MON But the timid child, who has survived by observing rather MON than acting, is about to hit adolescence. MON Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. MON Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. MON MON 15:00 Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe b007jqy3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote b039pdtd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 King Street Junior b007jnbv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Charles Dickens b00rv56t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b07j438b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Dangerous Visions b02x62sy (Listen) MON The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 1 MON Jane Rogers dramatises her award winning novel set in a MON future where an act of biological terrorism has spread a MON deadly virus across the world. Maternal Death Syndrome is MON claiming the lives of millions of women and panic is rising. MON As her world collapses, teenager Jessie Lamb, decides that MON if the human race is to survive, it's up to her. MON Directed by Nadia Molinari MON Dangerous Visions Season: MON The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's MON fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. MON Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died MON four years ago, his vision of MON what our future might become feels as relevant, satirical MON and as scary as ever. Radio 4's Dangerous Visions is a MON season of dramas that explore contemporary takes on future MON dystopias. Dramatisations of Ballard's seminal works, MON Drowned World and Concrete Island, straddle the season, and MON we have asked five leading radio writers - Nick Perry, Ed MON Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, Michael Butt and Philip MON Palmer - to imagine what life might be like in the near MON future if everything goes wrong - MON and their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: MON clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might MON happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning MON becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable MON of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South MON London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice MON becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part MON dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel MON The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author. MON Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the MON present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. MON Credits MON Jessie: Holliday Grainger MON Joe: Mark Jordon MON Cath: Joanne Mitchell MON Mandy: Kate Coogan MON Sal: Rebecca Ryan MON Baz: Oliver Lee MON Lisa: Nisa Cole MON Iain: Will Finlason MON Director: Nadia Molinari MON Author: Jane Rogers MON MON 18:15 Brian Appleyard - First Church of the New Millennium MON b007jqln (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON It's the year 1999. As the TV screens reports of a space MON mission, top architect Stephen Rix has a sudden vision of a MON building that he feels compelled to construct. MON Read by David Horovitch. MON Brian Appleyard's 1994 novel abridged in 10 episodes by Ed MON Thomason. MON Producer Duncan Minshull MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b00767pt (Listen) MON Huw Edwards & Lesley Chamberlain MON Matthew Parris welcomes BBC newsreader, Huw Edwards and MON writer, Lesley Chamberlain to discuss paperbacks by Kingsley MON Amis, Richard Flanagan and Jonathan Smith. From 2002. MON The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis MON Publisher: Penguin Books MON Death Of A River Guide by Richard Flanagan MON Publisher: McPhee Gribble MON The Learning Game by Jonathan Smith MON Publisher: Abacus. MON MON 19:00 Parsley Sidings b04dcgpq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 J Kingston Platt b01rr6y0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds MON b036v8py (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012llr0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] MON MON 20:30 When Harry Met Sally at 20 b00m6zpr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories b01pqdsc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Shelagh Delaney - Sweetly Sings the Donkey b01dbytf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b07j438b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Concrete Cow b04wjtm3 (Listen) MON Series 2, War MON A war poet is told that the troops prefer limericks. Sketch MON show starring Robert Webb, Beth Chalmers and Chris Pavlo. MON From February 2004. MON MON 23:00 Dead Ringers b07j7nvf (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 4 MON It's out with Farage, Gove, Boris, Hodgson, Chris Evans and MON David Cameron. And in with the new: Andrea Leadsom? MON MON 23:30 Elvenquest b01qwc8m (Listen) MON Series 4, The Fat Hog MON The Questers find themselves seeking succour at the Fat Hog, MON a hostelry famed for its excellent cuisine, and run by its MON quixotic headchef Nigressa. MON Meanwhile, Lord Darkness is having trouble with his new Ball MON of Infinite Vision. MON Starring: MON Darren Boyd as Vidar MON Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech MON Dave Lamb as Amis MON Stephen Mangan as Sam MON Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness MON Ingrid Oliver as Penthiselea MON and MON Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Nigressa MON Written by James Cary. MON Producer: Sam Michell. 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Unquote b039pdtd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 King Street Junior b007jnbv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Charles Dickens b00rv56t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b07j438b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds TUE b036wtkn (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Hot on the trail of the smugglers, Dick Barton may have TUE unwittingly placed his friends directly in danger... TUE The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas TUE Kelly as 'Dick Barton - Special Agent' in another thrilling TUE tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring TUE adventure. TUE Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon TUE Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between TUE 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings TUE survive. TUE With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding TUE re-recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original TUE scripts and music, which was made for international TUE distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, TUE lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive TUE in Canberra, Australia. TUE Script by Geoffrey Webb. TUE Producer: Morris West TUE First broadcast in Australia in April 1949. TUE TUE 06:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012m9vx (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE After musing in his surgery, Dr Marford and Sergeant Elk are TUE soon confronted by a fresh murderous mystery. Read by Danny TUE Webb. TUE TUE 06:30 The Art of Water Music b0132p7x (Listen) TUE Starting with an underwater concert, Midge Ure sounds the TUE depths of the complex relationship between music and water. TUE Water has fascinated classical composers, modernist TUE musicians and contemporary sound artists alike, and in this TUE programme Midge hears some of the extraordinary ways in TUE which water has been represented, evoked and even used as an TUE instrument by musicians over the centuries. It flows through TUE an extraordinary range of pieces. Midge meets experts on TUE water compositions by Beethoven, Wagner and Debussy and TUE explains why Handel's Water Music is not technically TUE speaking water music at all. TUE While some of the water music we know best might be TUE classical, water continues to appeal to those working at the TUE musical cutting edge. Midge has a go at playing a bizarre TUE instrument called a 'waterphone' and talks to sound artist TUE Lee Patterson as he performs a strangely hypnotic piece of TUE 'drip music'. He also listens to recordings of the Danube by TUE sound artist Annea Lockwood. She believes the sound of TUE running water is itself music, raising the question of TUE whether or not water and music are actually different at TUE all. Water, it seems, continues to excite, mystify and TUE intrigue, and musicians have engaged with it with whatever TUE instruments they have had at their disposal: orchestras, TUE pianos, and now computers. TUE Midge goes to meet Simon Harding who makes electronic music TUE on his computer using the water sounds from appliances in TUE his house, while Professor Doug James, a computer scientist TUE at Cornell University, explains some of the science behind TUE water's unique musicality. There is a wealth of beautiful TUE water music already in existence as this programme shows, TUE but water is still a vigorously flowing source of musical TUE inspiration, even expanding our ideas of what we consider TUE music to be. TUE Presenter: Midge Ure TUE Producer: Tom Rice TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 07:00 Spangles 'n' Tights b04ndrcb (Listen) TUE Pursued by a Bear TUE The struggles of a Dublin theatrical costumier. The local TUE nun's drama group offers hope. With Doreen Keogh. From TUE September 1998. TUE TUE 07:30 My Teenage Diary b07j4qx6 (Listen) TUE Series 7, Chris Packham TUE Naturalist Chris Packham reads from the nature diaries he TUE kept as a teenager, and is interviewed by Rufus Hound about TUE his formative years - which were mostly spent up trees, TUE looking for birds. TUE A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Rufus Hound TUE Interviewed Guest: Chris Packham TUE TUE 08:00 Steptoe and Son b00rlb08 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Sixty-Five Today TUE Albert's 65th birthday outing turns into a disaster for son TUE Harold. TUE Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as TUE Harold. TUE Following the conclusion of their hugely successful TUE association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan TUE Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in TUE 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, TUE featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and TUE his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series TUE for TV. TUE Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by TUE Gale Pedrick. TUE Produced by Bobby Jaye TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1966. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b016r51w (Listen) TUE Torn to Shreds TUE The bungling duo must dispose of a 75p surplus. Easy? You TUE would think so. Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. TUE From June 1975. TUE TUE 09:00 Dead Ringers b07j7nvf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 King of Bath b047ljr2 (Listen) TUE Ars Brevis TUE Beau Nash tries to hides his Welsh origins to get royal TUE approval for his cordial. Starring David Bamber. From March TUE 1999. TUE TUE 10:00 Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe b007jqyc (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Solitude on the desert island gives way to cannibals, TUE mutineers, and a man called Friday. Stars Roy Marsden and TUE Tom Bevan. TUE TUE 11:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories b01pqn8d (Listen) TUE Mr Wrong, part 2 TUE After a fright on the M1, will Meg be able to sell the car TUE that she now knows is haunted? Read by Matilda Ziegler. TUE TUE 11:15 Shelagh Delaney - Tell Me a Film b01ddfy6 (Listen) TUE Four women, who first met as convalescents, return to TUE Blackpool as they turn 60. Shelagh Delaney's trilogy stars TUE Barbara Marten. TUE TUE 12:00 Steptoe and Son b00rlb08 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b016r51w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds TUE b036wtkn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012m9vx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] TUE TUE 13:30 The Art of Water Music b0132p7x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox TUE b00770rz (Listen) TUE I'm Not Going to Get Married, to Anyone TUE To her family's surprise, Esme has a highly desirable TUE suitor. Read by Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and Eleanor TUE Bron. TUE TUE 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00slxyd (Listen) TUE The Nation's Most Important Asset TUE Michael Morpurgo presents readings of the words of children TUE about the effect on the 20th-century wars. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01pfwhq (Listen) TUE A Little Twist of Dahl, The Way up to Heaven TUE A series of stories by Roald Dahl TUE Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan. TUE Episode 2: The Way Up To Heaven TUE Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in TUE dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre TUE and amusing by turns, these black comedies are justly famous TUE for their surprise endings. TUE The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a TUE writer of adult fiction. They are stylishly plotted, vividly TUE characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy TUE cynicism, presenting as they do, a hilariously bleak view of TUE family life. Their satisfying conclusions invariably leave TUE bullies, schemers, adulterers and frauds soundly punished. TUE In The Way Up To Heaven, despite living in a New York TUE mansion so vast that it requires its own elevator, the TUE Fosters are not a happy couple. Mrs Foster has a TUE pathological fear of being late and her husband deliberately TUE torments her by doing everything as slowly as he can. When TUE she accepts an invitation to visit France, he insists on TUE taking her to the airport only to leave her waiting outside TUE in the car. Nearly hysterical, she goes to see what's TUE keeping him but, when she reaches the front door, she hears TUE a particular sound and realises, if she's cunning, she need TUE never be late again.. TUE Produced and Directed by David Blount TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Storyteller: Charles Dance TUE Mr Foster: Kerry Shale TUE Driver: Kerry Shale TUE Mrs Foster: Lorelei King TUE Walker: Richard Attlee TUE Producer: David Blount TUE Director: David Blount TUE Writer: Stephen Sheridan TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b013ptf2 (Listen) TUE All Made Up, Episode 2 TUE Award-winning author Janice Galloway reads extracts from her TUE new book - a compelling account of her adolescence in 1970s TUE Scotland. Young Janice has arrived at secondary school TUE bearing a huge weight of expectation from her eager mother TUE and unpredictable, violent, sister. TUE Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. TUE Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. TUE TUE 15:00 Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe b007jqyc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Counterpoint b00fl745 (Listen) TUE 2005, Semi-Final 3 TUE Ned Sherrin's music quiz with Christopher Moore-Bridger of TUE Oswestry, Oliver Longstaff of Harrogate and David Muir from TUE Bristol. TUE TUE 16:30 King of Bath b047ljr2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 Spangles 'n' Tights b04ndrcb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 My Teenage Diary b07j4qx6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Dangerous Visions b02x7h15 (Listen) TUE The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 2 TUE Jane Rogers dramatises her award winning novel. Society is TUE splintering, apocalyptic sects with fundamentalist, TUE ecological or anti-scientific beliefs are springing up. TUE Panic, chaos and fear reign. When Jessie's own world begins TUE to fall apart and her best friend Sal experiences a shocking TUE act of violence, Jessie realises it is time to take action. TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari TUE Dangerous Visions Season: TUE The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's TUE fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. TUE Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died TUE four years ago, his vision of TUE what our future might become feels as relevant, satirical TUE and as scary as ever. Radio 4's Dangerous Visions is a TUE season of dramas that explore contemporary takes on future TUE dystopias. Dramatisations of Ballard's seminal works, TUE Drowned World and Concrete Island, straddle the season, and TUE we have asked five leading radio writers - Nick Perry, Ed TUE Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, Michael Butt and Philip TUE Palmer - to imagine what life might be like in the near TUE future if everything goes wrong - TUE and their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: TUE clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might TUE happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning TUE becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable TUE of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South TUE London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice TUE becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part TUE dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel TUE The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author. TUE Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the TUE present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. TUE Credits TUE Jessie: Holliday Grainger TUE Joe: Mark Jordon TUE Cath: Joanne Mitchell TUE Sal: Rebecca Ryan TUE Baz: Oliver Lee TUE Lisa: Nisa Cole TUE Director: Nadia Molinari TUE Author: Jane Rogers TUE TUE 18:15 Brian Appleyard - First Church of the New Millennium TUE b007jqm3 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Can architect Stephen Rix convince others to share in his TUE vision of a new Gothic cathedral? Read by David Horovitch. TUE TUE 18:30 The Tingle Factor b07kyd8d (Listen) TUE Ronald Harwood TUE Distinguished writer of plays and screenplays, Sir Ronald TUE Harwood tells Robin Ray about certain moments in music which TUE send a shiver down his spine. TUE Recalling his life and career highlights, including The TUE Dresser, his selection includes Stravinsky, Duke Ellington TUE and Louis Armstrong. TUE Producer: Andrew Mussett TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. TUE TUE 19:00 Steptoe and Son b00rlb08 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b016r51w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds TUE b036wtkn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012m9vx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] TUE TUE 20:30 The Art of Water Music b0132p7x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories b01pqn8d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Shelagh Delaney - Tell Me a Film b01ddfy6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 My Teenage Diary b07j4qx6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Bleak Expectations b01pfy5w (Listen) TUE Series 5, A Loved-Up Life Potentially Totally Annihilated TUE Bleak Expectations TUE By Mark Evans TUE Volume 5, Chapter 6: "A Loved Up Life Potentially Totally TUE Annihilated " TUE Last in the series of the Victorian comedy adventure. The TUE inappropriately-named arbiter of all evil Mister Gently TUE Benevolent unveils an advent calendar of evil that will TUE culminate on Christmas day with the total destruction of the TUE universe. Only one man can prevent the end of everything for TUE all time. But at a terrible terrible cost. Is this the end TUE for our hero Pip? Or is it curtains for the whole of TUE creation? And does that mean Harry needn't get Pippa a TUE Christmas present? 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 Servewell: James Bachman TUE Clampvulture: Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Ripely: Sarah Hadland TUE Lily: Sarah Hadland TUE Pippa: Susy Kane TUE The Ghost of Christmice: Mark Evans TUE Producer: Gareth Edwards TUE TUE 23:00 Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation b016x241 (Listen) TUE Faith TUE Mark Watson continues his quest to improve the world, nimbly TUE assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden. TUE As broadcast live in November 2011 - Mark invites the TUE audience join in via tweets and messages to work out how we TUE can all make the world a better place. TUE Mark asks the big questions that are crucial to our TUE understanding of ourselves and society - in a dynamic and TUE thought provoking new format he opens the floor to the live TUE audience and asks them to jump into the conversation via TUE tweets and messages to work out how we can all make the TUE world a better place. TUE This week Mark looks at "Faith" - What is faith? One of the TUE most used, and feared, words of modern times. Yet these TUE days, it's often used derisively about religious beliefs and TUE so on. We look at odd things done in the name of 'faith', TUE versus the obvious merits of having faith (belief that TUE England will eventually win World Cup, ability to ride out TUE difficult marriages). Should we be more credulous and TUE believe people like estate agents? Or LESS credulous and TUE destroy our TV sets altogether in case we accidentally TUE absorb lies? TUE Mark Watson is a multi-award winning comedian, including the TUE inaugural If.Comedy Panel Prize 2006. He is assisted by Tim TUE Key, winner of Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2009 and Tom Basden TUE who won the If.Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2007. TUE Produced by Lianne Coop. TUE TUE 23:30 Danny Robins Music Therapy b00fq2t4 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Danny Robins harnesses the power of music to improve the TUE world and solve listeners' problems. TUE Danny helps the worst five-a-side football team in the TUE country and boosts the confidence of a listener who, at TUE under five feet tall, feels that the world is heightist. TUE With Isy Suttie and special musical guest Connie Fisher. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 JULY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Dangerous Visions b02x7h15 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Brian Appleyard - First Church of the New Millennium WED b007jqm3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 The Tingle Factor b07kyd8d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds WED b036wtkn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012m9vx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 The Art of Water Music b0132p7x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox WED b00770rz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00slxyd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama b01pfwhq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b013ptf2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe b007jqyc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Counterpoint b00fl745 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 King of Bath b047ljr2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Spangles 'n' Tights b04ndrcb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 My Teenage Diary b07j4qx6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds WED b036x996 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Dick and Freddie follow a suspect and engage in some WED surveillance - both discreet and rather more overt. WED The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas WED Kelly as 'Dick Barton - Special Agent' in another thrilling WED tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring WED adventure. WED Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon WED Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between WED 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings WED survive. WED With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding WED re-recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original WED scripts and music, which was made for international WED distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, WED lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive WED in Canberra, Australia. WED Script by Geoffrey Webb. WED Producer: Morris West WED First broadcast in Australia in April 1949. WED WED 06:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012mh0j (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Whose death has Dr Manford witnessed? What could a lowly WED small-time light-fingered felon know about it? Read by Danny WED Webb. WED WED 06:30 The Lunatic Line b012krr9 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED The 600-mile railway line from the Kenyan coast to Uganda WED became known as The Lunatic Line for the astronomical WED financial and human costs of construction. WED Built by the British between 1895 and 1901 through hostile WED tribal lands and malarial swamps, it was an enormous WED engineering challenge. Thousands of workers died during the WED railway's construction, mostly from disease, although the WED man-eating lions of Tsavo also devoured many. Little wonder WED then that it was opposed as a gigantic folly. WED In the first of two programmes, Ayisha Yahya looks back at WED the history of the railway that transformed East Africa WED beyond recognition. WED Producer: Ruth Evans WED A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 07:00 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends b007jrwc (Listen) WED Series 1, The Heinrich Manoeuvre WED A childless couple are unhealthily obsessed with a model WED village. Stars Simon Greenall and Kay Stonham. From December WED 2001. WED WED 07:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04wv049 (Listen) WED Series 6, Roy Walker WED Marcus Brigstocke persuades his guests to try new WED experiences: things they really ought to have done by now. WED Some experiences are loved, some are loathed, in this show WED all about embracing the new. WED This week, Marcus persuades Roy Walker, the comedian made WED famous by Catchphrase, to see his first ever Shakespeare WED play and banter with the audience for the first time. WED Credits WED Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke WED Interviewed Guest: Roy Walker WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b01nf2h4 (Listen) WED Admiral Pertwee's Fleet WED There's a mix-up when Pertwee bids for some high-class scrap WED metal at auction - and a whole lot more arrives than he's WED expecting! 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, Heather Chasen as WED Heather, Ronnie Barker as Mr Merrivale, Michael Bates as Mr WED Coggins and Tenniel Evans as the Nunkie. 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 August 1965. WED WED 08:30 Hancock's Half Hour b007jy6l (Listen) WED The New Car WED The lad thinks he should buy a car to keep up appearances, WED so Sid offers to help. But there's a big surprise when he WED takes it for a spin. WED Starring Tony Hancock. With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney WED James and Kenneth Williams. WED Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. WED Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. Recorded WED by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz. WED Producer: Dennis Main Wilson WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1954. WED WED 09:00 Dilemma b017c9pp (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 2 WED Sue Perkins puts four guests through the moral and ethical WED wringer in this show show in which there are no "right" WED answers - but there are some deeply damning ones. WED This edition features comedians Nick Revell and Danielle WED Ward, journalist Grace Dent, and the lead singer of the WED Kaiser Chiefs, Ricky Wilson. They discuss such quandaries as WED "Would you let an annoying colleague take credit for your WED work if it meant they would get a job elsewhere" and "Would WED you take part in a sham marriage?", and they solve some WED Dilemmas from the audience. The show was devised by WED award-winning stand-up and writer Danielle Ward (The News WED Quiz, Newswipe, Mock The Week). WED Producer: Ed Morrish. WED Credits WED Presenter: Sue Perkins WED Panellist: Nick Revell WED Panellist: Danielle Ward WED Panellist: Grace Dent WED Panellist: Ricky Wilson WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED WED 09:30 Rent b04fh18w (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 5 WED It's a full moon, Ruby is away and Paul is lovelorn. Will WED Maria's matchmaking succeed? Stars Patrick Barlow. From June WED 1993. WED WED 10:00 Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native b0076s78 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED 4 Extra Debut. While Eustacia Vye waits on Egdon Heath for WED her former lover Damon Wildeve, his fiancee Tamsin Yeobright WED has been jilted at the altar. Stars Emma Fielding. WED WED 11:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories b01pr7s3 (Listen) WED Pont du Gard WED Alan and Ruth's unhappy marriage is brought to crisis point WED on a family holiday in France. Read by Matilda Ziegler. WED WED 11:15 Shelagh Delaney - Baloney Said Salome b01ddg0q (Listen) WED Four older women with a unique friendship prepare for a WED farewell. Shelagh Delaney's trilogy concludes. Stars Eileen WED O'Brien. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01nf2h4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 Hancock's Half Hour b007jy6l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds WED b036x996 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012mh0j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] WED WED 13:30 The Lunatic Line b012krr9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox WED b00770sh (Listen) WED She Wouldn't Stop Screaming WED Esme's tragic fate is sealed amid the New Year celebrations WED in Edinburgh. Read by Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and WED Eleanor Bron. WED WED 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sm4m2 (Listen) WED Cutting the Slum Mind off at the Root WED Michael Morpurgo traces the making of Britain's Welfare WED State amid concerns for children. WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01pg3qr (Listen) WED A Little Twist of Dahl, The Hitchhiker WED A series of stories by Roald Dahl WED Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan. WED Episode 3: The Hitchhiker WED Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in WED dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre WED and amusing by turns, these black comedies are justly famous WED for their surprise endings. WED The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a WED writer of adult fiction. They are stylishly plotted, vividly WED characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy WED cynicism, presenting as they do, a hilariously bleak view of WED family life. Their satisfying conclusions invariably leave WED bullies, schemers, adulterers and frauds soundly punished. WED In The Hitchhiker, Andrew Pym, a successful author, is WED driving to London in his brand new BMW. He stops to give a WED hitchhiker a lift. Unwisely, he allows the man to persuade WED him to see if the car can go as fast as its manufacturers WED claim. Stopped for speeding, his details are noted down by a WED policeman who warns him to expect a heavy fine and sends him WED on his way. Blithely unconcerned at causing so much trouble, WED the hitchhiker starts boasting that he is engaged in a line WED of work that requires exceptional skills. And it's these WED skills that can get Andrew out of his present difficulty. WED Produced and directed by David Blount WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Storyteller: Charles Dance WED Andrew Pym: Jonathan Keeble WED Hitchhiker: Kenneth Cranham WED Policeman: Ben Crowe WED Writer: Stephen Sheridan WED Producer: David Blount WED Director: David Blount WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b013xn4d (Listen) WED All Made Up, Episode 3 WED Janice Galloway brings the brilliance of her fiction to bear WED on her memories of small-town adolescence. Janice's love of WED learning is about to be disrupted as she is thrown off the WED straight and narrow by a growing awareness of the opposite WED sex. WED Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. WED Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED 15:00 Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native b0076s78 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Dilemma b017c9pp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 Rent b04fh18w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends b007jrwc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04wv049 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Dangerous Visions b02x93cy (Listen) WED The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 3 WED Jane Rogers dramatises her award winning novel. With the WED death toll from Maternal Death Syndrome rising daily and the WED world on the brink of disaster, Jessie becomes convinced WED that she must take action. Her act of heroism could save the WED human race but will those closest to her offer their WED support? WED Directed by Nadia Molinari WED Dangerous Visions Season: The adjective Ballardian refers to WED the writer 'JG Ballard's fearful imaginings of what the near WED future might be like. Even though the master creator of WED dystopian futures died four years ago, his vision of what WED our future might become feels as relevant, satirical and as WED scary as ever. Radio 4's Dangerous Visions is a season of WED dramas that explore contemporary takes on future dystopias. WED Dramatisations of Ballard's seminal works, Drowned World and WED Concrete Island, straddle the season, and we have asked five WED leading radio writers - Nick Perry, Ed Harris, Michael WED Symmonds Roberts, Michael Butt and Philip Palmer - to WED imagine what life might be like in the near future if WED everything goes wrong - and their Dangerous Visions form the WED bedrock of the series: clever, imaginative and disturbing WED takes on just what might happen. What happens if sleep is WED outlawed? If cloning becomes a matter of course, and your WED loved ones are capable of being cloned? If North London WED declares UDI on South London, which has become a wasteland? WED If human sacrifice becomes a part of society? We are also WED running a 5 part dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning WED terrifying novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by WED the author. Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you WED see the present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. WED Credits WED Jessie: Holliday Grainger WED Joe: Mark Jordon WED Cath: Joanne Mitchell WED Mandy: Kate Coogan WED Baz: Oliver Lee WED Lisa: Nisa Cole WED Director: Nadia Molinari WED Author: Jane Rogers WED WED 18:15 Brian Appleyard - First Church of the New Millennium WED b007jqmh (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Can architect Stephen Rix find financial backing for his WED plan to build a Gothic cathedral? Read by David Horovitch. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b008mb7x (Listen) WED Now Wash Your Hands WED Dominic Arkwright chairs the lively discussion series. WED Is the current obsession with personal hygiene a good thing WED or are we turning ourselves into feeble creatures with no WED defences against the real world? Nicky Taylor gave up WED washing altogether for six weeks as part of a social WED experiment. Val Curtis is an expert on disgust and its place WED in the evolution of human behaviour and hygiene. Comedian WED Phil Hammond is a GP with scathingly frank views on the WED nation's health. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01nf2h4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 Hancock's Half Hour b007jy6l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds WED b036x996 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012mh0j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] WED WED 20:30 The Lunatic Line b012krr9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories b01pr7s3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Shelagh Delaney - Baloney Said Salome b01ddg0q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04wv049 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b03yqcws (Listen) WED Series 1, Books and Booksibility 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, Milton Jones is asked to help out with the local WED book festival because the townsfolk are too distracted by WED their smartphones to.... Sorry, what was I saying? Sorry, WED just got a text. 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 b07lf10s (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Iain Lee talks to Jake WED Yapp. WED WED 23:00 The Mel and Sue Thing b0076b3z (Listen) WED Episode 5 WED A tennis battle of the sexes, TV sleuths and more from Jane WED Austen's lost novella. Sketches with Giedroyc and Perkins. WED From October 2002. WED WED 23:30 The Museum of Everything b00gs2nj (Listen) WED Series 3, Natural Science WED The birds and the bees, blue plaques and the human body all WED on show this week. With Marcus Brigstocke. From August 2006. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 JULY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Dangerous Visions b02x93cy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Brian Appleyard - First Church of the New Millennium THU b007jqmh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b008mb7x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds THU b036x996 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012mh0j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 The Lunatic Line b012krr9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox THU b00770sh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sm4m2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama b01pg3qr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b013xn4d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native b0076s78 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Dilemma b017c9pp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 Rent b04fh18w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends b007jrwc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04wv049 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds THU b036xz7w (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Freddie has made a startling acquisition, attracting more THU danger. Help arrives from an unexpected source. THU The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas THU Kelly as 'Dick Barton - Special Agent' in another thrilling THU tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring THU adventure. THU Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon THU Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between THU 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings THU survive. THU With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding THU re-recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original THU scripts and music, which was made for international THU distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, THU lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive THU in Canberra, Australia. THU Script by Geoffrey Webb. THU Producer: Morris West THU First broadcast in Australia in April 1949. THU THU 06:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012n3rn (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU What crime scene discovery will put pressure on Quigley? THU What trouble will Bateman's death bring for Janice? Read by THU Danny Webb. THU THU 06:30 The Lunatic Line b012qq7x (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU The 600-mile railway line from the Kenyan port of Mombasa to THU Uganda, built by the British between 1895 and 1901 through THU hostile tribal lands and malarial swamps, became known as THU "The Lunatic Line". Spiralling costs and massive engineering THU challenges were just a few of the problems facing the THU railway. Hundreds of Kenyan and indentured Indian labourers THU died during the railway's construction, mostly from disease, THU although the man-eating lions of Tsavo also devoured many. THU Yet the railway created modern Kenya, and Nairobi hardly THU existed until the railway workers set up camp there just THU over a century ago. THU Today, the old British-built railway still runs - but only THU just - and more as a tourist curiosity than a functioning THU service. Semi-privatised 25 years ago, it has suffered THU woefully from lack of investment, and today is but a THU decrepit relic of its former self. THU Now Kenya has announced hugely ambitious plans to shunt its THU rail network into the 21st century by commissioning a new THU high-speed line with double-decker passenger and freight THU trains cruising at up to 100mph, reducing the journey time THU from Mombasa to Nairobi from 13 hours to three. THU Ayisha Yahya travels on the existing creaking line and asks THU whether plans to rebuild and expand the railway network are THU little more than another lunatic notion? Or will they have THU as great an economic and social impact on the region as the THU Lunatic Line's original construction? THU Producer: Ruth Evans THU A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 07:00 All the Young Dudes b01by441 (Listen) THU Series 2, Mr Soft THU Helen needs to finish her ice cream project, while Joe and THU Maria want younger clientele. Comedy by Jim Sweeney. From THU October 2002. THU THU 07:30 The Tim Vine Chat Show b07j7j6f (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU A new show from the internationally acclaimed master of the THU one-liner Tim Vine sees Tim interview members of his live THU audience as he embarks on a quest to hear the life stories THU of the Great British public while simultaneously showcasing THU his trademark mirthful wordplay and preposterous songs. THU This week's show comes from the Wakefield Theatre Royal THU where Tim meets a secretary and sings an imaginary country THU song. THU Producer: Richard Morris THU A BBC Studios Production. THU Credits THU Presenter: Tim Vine THU Producer: Richard Morris THU THU 08:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b008gd6j (Listen) THU Series 4, The Present THU It's United Potter Day and author Gerald learns that THU surprises can be double-edged. 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 Margot Boyd, Brian Haines and Pauline Letts. THU Written by Basil Boothroyd. THU Producer: Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1981. THU THU 08:30 Radio Active b05t7gjf (Listen) THU Series 6, A Thodding By-Election Special THU Expect no bias as Radio Active's Chairman Norman Tonsil THU stands as an Independent Candidate in the Thodding THU By-Election. THU Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey THU Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. THU Music by Philip Pope and Geoffrey Perkins. THU Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins with John THU Canter. THU Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986. THU THU 09:00 Booked b0075t3c (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 5 THU Ian McMillan chairs the literary quiz with Mark Thomas, THU Dillie Keane, Mark Radcliffe and Miles Kington. From July THU 1998. THU THU 09:30 When the Dog Dies b046l698 (Listen) THU Series 4, Twilight of the Gods THU The final series of Ronnie Corbett's popular sitcom, written THU 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, leaving THU the attractive Dolores behind. Sandy's children are quite THU sure Dolores is a gold-digger. Meanwhile, 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. But THU keeping the dog alive and 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, things would be a lot simpler and smoother. But a THU lot duller too. THU Episode Six: Twilight Of The Gods THU All good things must come to an end and it looks as if Sandy THU is going to have to do what he's spent four series avoiding THU - downsize. Sandy can never replace Dolores, but can he live THU without her? Well, he's still got Henry and he's still got THU hope... 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 Blake: Dave Lamb THU Ellie: Tilly Vosburgh THU Darren: Kevin Eldon THU Producer: Liz Anstee THU Writer: Ian Davidson THU Writer: Peter Vincent THU THU 10:00 Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native b0076sb8 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU Clym Yeobright has returned home from Paris, and a contrived THU meeting between him and Eustacia sparks a mutual interest. THU Is he the man she has been dreaming of? With Adam Godley. THU THU 11:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories b01prccs (Listen) THU Whip Hand THU Mrs Bracken is determined that her daughter is going to be a THU star, but Fern has other ideas. Read by Matilda Ziegler. THU THU 11:15 Shelagh Delaney - Country Life b01pwcyj (Listen) THU Rose deals with foot and mouth disease and a moody nephew, THU then her film-star brother Eddie arrives. With Barbara THU Marten. THU THU 12:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b008gd6j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Radio Active b05t7gjf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds THU b036xz7w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012n3rn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] THU THU 13:30 The Lunatic Line b012qq7x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox THU b00770sy (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU Secrets are revealed as Kitty and Esme's memories collide. THU Read by Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and Eleanor Bron. THU THU 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sm5xl (Listen) THU They'd Some Queer Ideas at the Clinic THU Michael Morpurgo discovers how behaviourists and Freudians THU battled over upbringing techniques for children. THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01pg5p0 (Listen) THU A Little Twist of Dahl, Edward the Conqueror THU A series of stories by Roald Dahl THU Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan. THU Episode 4: Edward the Conqueror THU Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in THU dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre THU and amusing by turns, these black comedies are justly famous THU for their surprise endings. THU The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a THU writer of adult fiction. They are stylishly plotted, vividly THU characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy THU cynicism, presenting as they do, a hilariously bleak view of THU family life. Their satisfying conclusions invariably leave THU bullies, schemers, adulterers and frauds soundly punished. THU In Edward the Conqueror, Louisa, a retired piano teacher, THU takes in a stray cat. She is astonished at how happy it THU seems when she plays it some Liszt. Noticing that, like THU Liszt, it has warts on its face, she decides that it must be THU the re-incarnation of the great composer. Edward, her THU monstrously selfish husband, resents the cat's presence and THU is ruthlessly dismissive of her theories on its true THU identity. Unabashed, Louisa announces, to Edward's acute THU embarrassment, that she intends to make her findings public. THU Produced and directed by David Blount THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Storyteller: Charles Dance THU Louisa: Celia Imrie THU Edward: Geoffrey Whitehead THU Pianist: Charles Ross THU Writer: Stephen Sheridan THU Director: David Blount THU Producer: David Blount THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b013xn57 (Listen) THU All Made Up, Episode 4 THU Author Janice Galloway reads from her new book - a THU compelling memoir of her adolescence in Scotland of the THU 1970s. A misguided attempt to gain control over her life THU will set the studious young girl on a collision course with THU her mother. THU Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. THU Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU 15:00 Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native b0076sb8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Booked b0075t3c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 When the Dog Dies b046l698 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 All the Young Dudes b01by441 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 The Tim Vine Chat Show b07j7j6f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Dangerous Visions b02x97kb (Listen) THU The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 4 THU Jane Rogers dramatises her dystopian novel: winner of the THU Arthur C Clarke Award 2012. THU Maternal Death Syndrome is spreading rapidly and Jessie's THU world is still in crisis. Her aunt Mandy is desperately ill, THU boyfriend Baz is planning drastic action and her father is THU adamant that Jessie should not volunteer to be a Sleeping THU Beauty. Can Jessie be swayed from her path? THU Directed by Nadia Molinari THU Dangerous Visions Season: THU The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's THU fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. THU Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died THU four years ago, his vision of what our future might become THU feels as relevant, satirical and as scary as ever. Radio 4's THU Dangerous Visions is a season of dramas that explore THU contemporary takes on future dystopias. Dramatisations of THU Ballard's seminal works, Drowned World and Concrete Island, THU straddle the season, and we have asked five leading radio THU writers - Nick Perry, Ed Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, THU Michael Butt and Philip Palmer - to imagine what life might THU be like in the near future if everything goes wrong - and THU their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: THU clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might THU happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning THU becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable THU of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South THU London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice THU becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part THU dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel THU The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author. THU Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the THU present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. THU Credits THU Jessie: Holliday Grainger THU Joe: Mark Jordon THU Baz: Oliver Lee THU Lisa: Nisa Cole THU Iain: Will Finlason THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU Author: Jane Rogers THU THU 18:15 Brian Appleyard - First Church of the New Millennium THU b007jqmx (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Inspired by his vision, architect Stephen Rix wants his THU mistress to come with him to the country. Read by David THU Horovitch. Episode 4 of 10. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0077722 (Listen) THU Series 12, Marie Curie THU Series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris. THU 4/9. BBC Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh explains how THU Marie Curie achieved iconic status through her work on THU radioactivity and weighs up the cost she paid for her THU success. The studio guest is Curie biographer Sarah Dry. THU THU 19:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b008gd6j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Radio Active b05t7gjf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds THU b036xz7w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012n3rn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] THU THU 20:30 The Lunatic Line b012qq7x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories b01prccs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Shelagh Delaney - Country Life b01pwcyj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 The Tim Vine Chat Show b07j7j6f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Music Teacher b03brt31 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 5 THU Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher THU Nigel Penny. THU Nigel tries to get his online music lessons up and running THU but finds himself hampered by an inability to speak THU Portuguese. Meanwhile, with the Arts Centre having been THU commandeered as a refuge for local flood victims, Belinda is THU attempting to keep four hundred wet members of the public THU from dripping on the carpet. 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 Lee: Jim North THU Sebastian: Dave Lamb THU Louis: Sam Katz THU Louis's Mum: Jess Robinson THU Beverley: Jess Robinson THU Xavier: Arcindo Guimaraes THU Director: Nick Walker THU Producer: Richie Webb THU Writer: Richie Webb THU THU 22:45 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01snbm8 (Listen) THU Series 2, About Animals THU EPISODE FIVE: ABOUT ANIMALS 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. 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. She loves Nathan, but she THU 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. THU Shirley a.k.a. Grandma cannot believe Nathan turned down THU architecture for comedy. How can her grandson go on stage THU and use foul language and filthy material... it's not the THU good 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 About Animals THU It turns out Grandma's Achilles heel is a mouse! Nathan THU can't believe he's lost his fearless Grandma because of a THU mouse and is determined to catch the mouse and restore his THU Grandma to feisty normality. THU Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle THU Additional Material by Ola and Maff Brown THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell. THU Credits THU Nathan: Nathan Caton THU Mum: Adjoa Andoh THU Dad: Curtis Walker THU Grandma: Mona Hammond THU Robber: Don Gilet THU Steve: Don Gilet THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU Writer: Nathan Caton THU Writer: James Kettle THU Writer: Ola THU Writer: Maff Brown THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07lf1ft (Listen) THU The best in contemporary comedy. Iain Lee talks to Jake THU Yapp. THU THU 23:00 The Mark Steel Revolution b00fnnz6 (Listen) THU The Sexual Revolution THU From sweetening your breath to the Stonewall Riots, the THU comedian examines the politics of the bedroom. From July THU 1998. THU THU 23:30 Polyoaks b01p0vfg (Listen) THU Series 2, Strange Dr Love THU In the NHS satire by Dr. Phil Hammond and David Spicer, a THU general practice somewhere in Bristol is faced with THU challenges and opportunities in equal measure as they adjust THU to another 'biggest shake-up of the NHS in a lifetime'. THU This week, Hugh is asked to chair a new government THU commission, so Polyoaks needs a locum. Practice Manager THU Betty, ever economic, appoints the cut-price option. THU Everyone is relieved that curmudgeonly Hugh is out of the THU way, but Roy is suspicious of the interloper and Hugh's big THU political opportunity is not turning out quite the way he THU hoped. THU Dr. Roy Thornton.....................Nigel Planer THU Dr. Hugh Thornton..................Simon Greenall THU TV's Dr. Jeremy........................David Westhead THU Betty Crossfield.......................Jane Whittenshaw THU Nurse Vera Duplessis..............Polly Frame THU Mr. Devlin..................................Phil Cornwell THU Dr. Derek Love..........................Darren Benedict THU Mr. Oberman and Mr. Raisey......David Holt THU Polyoaks is written by Dr. Phil Hammond and David Spicer THU Directed by Frank Stirling THU Produced by David Spicer THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 JULY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Dangerous Visions b02x97kb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Brian Appleyard - First Church of the New Millennium FRI b007jqmx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0077722 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds FRI b036xz7w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 The Lunatic Line b012qq7x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox FRI b00770sy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sm5xl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama b01pg5p0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b013xn57 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native b0076sb8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Booked b0075t3c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 When the Dog Dies b046l698 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 All the Young Dudes b01by441 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 The Tim Vine Chat Show b07j7j6f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds FRI b036ybrp (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Jock manages to infiltrate the ground crew in a risky FRI gambit, while Dick Barton and his chums get more than they FRI bargained for. FRI The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas FRI Kelly as 'Dick Barton - Special Agent' in another thrilling FRI tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring FRI adventure. FRI Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon FRI Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between FRI 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings FRI survive. FRI With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding FRI re-recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original FRI scripts and music, which was made for international FRI distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, FRI lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive FRI in Canberra, Australia. FRI Script by Geoffrey Webb. FRI Producer: Morris West FRI First broadcast in Australia in April 1949. FRI FRI 06:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012llpk (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Confusion reigns. If Lorna isn't an addict, why does she FRI seem to have a well-used syringe in her possession? Read by FRI Danny Webb. FRI FRI 06:30 The I Love You Bridge b01302s4 (Listen) FRI A quest for the original lovers of the 'I Love You Bridge' - FRI a fabulously incongruous message painted on a footbridge on FRI a hollowed-out housing estate in Sheffield. FRI Presented by feature film maker, opera director and FRI screenwriter, Penny Woolcock, in her first radio FRI documentary. FRI Perhaps you quietly ask yourself "How do they live like FRI this." / Then out of nowhere the answer / "I love you"/ FRI scrawled on the highest bridge." (Rowan Blair Colver). Funny FRI how graffiti can transform cement. How a simple love message FRI scrawled on a bridge between two empty flanks of Brutalist FRI flats can lift our hearts. That's what happened when FRI somebody, somehow, leaned over the perilous edge of this FRI narrow footbridge on Norwich Row at Park Hill flats, high FRI above Sheffield's train station, and painted: FRI Clare Middleton I love you will u marry me FRI We call it The I Love You Bridge. It's visible for miles, FRI from town. When we set off on this journey we don't know who FRI wrote it or when, or even if it all went up at once. We FRI don't know whether she said 'Yes' or what happened next. FRI Nobody knows, not even the people who've worked on the FRI Estate for years - caretaker, needle exchange worker, FRI decorator, or the few (like writer, Rowan, above) who still FRI live there; not even the local builders who are regenerating FRI the first flank that the bridge links. FRI In this programme we follow up all kinds of rumours in the FRI hope of sourcing the graffiti and its lovers. FRI Producer: Frances Byrnes FRI A Rockethouse Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 07:00 Winston in Europe b007tzt5 (Listen) FRI An Educated Woman FRI Arriving in France, the old rogue's talk of Flaubert, FRI Baudelaire and Renoir baffles Nancy. Stars Bill Wallis. From FRI March 1992. FRI FRI 07:30 Rumblings from the Rafters b07jwt65 (Listen) FRI Edible Dormouse and Peacock Butterfly FRI An Edible Dormouse played by Hugh Dennis and a Peacock FRI Butterfly played by Amanda Abbington reveal the truth about FRI life in an old attic in a house in Amersham in the last of FRI three very funny tales, written and introduced by Lynne FRI Truss, with additional sound recordings by Chris Watson. FRI The Edible Dormouse is no Common Dormouse. He is Russian and FRI extremely serious-minded. He is obsessed with answering the FRI question, "Why are we here?" both the philosophical question FRI and the literal one. No answer satisfies him. So he has FRI reached his own conclusion, which involves secret agents and FRI a submarine. "I may be rare, cute-looking, and of FRI indisputable foreign origin, but I am not stupid." He is FRI planning a meeting with his fellow Edible Dormice to discuss FRI their next move. He knows this won't be easy. The others FRI think he is mad. Top of the agenda is what they should call FRI themselves. "Imagine how it feels to be one of the only FRI zoological species in existence whose very name says, "Have FRI you ever thought of eating me?" FRI The Peacock Butterfly is youthful, intelligent, and ever so FRI concerned with being brave and sensible about mortality. FRI Having been born the previous year, she is re-visiting the FRI attic before dying. "I remember when I first came in, I FRI thought hello, this wouldn't be a bad place to pop off, when FRI the time comes." But trying to be brave about her inevitable FRI end is much harder than she expects, "Well, I'm sorry to say FRI that for some completely inexplicable reason I totally lost FRI it at the sycamore! I mean what's wrong with me? " But as FRI she settles down to die, a sudden thought changes everything FRI ... FRI Edible Dormouse: Hugh Dennis FRI Peacock Butterfly: Amanda Abbington FRI Written and introduced by Lynne Truss FRI Wildlife sound recordings Chris Watson FRI Producer Sarah Blunt. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Lynne Truss FRI Edible Dormouse: Hugh Dennis FRI Peacock Butterfly: Amanda Abbington FRI Producer: Sarah Blunt FRI Writer: Lynne Truss FRI FRI 08:00 Something to Shout About b07l0y14 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 2 FRI As baffled customers boycott a new orangeade drink, the FRI advertising team must get devious. FRI Starring Michael Medwin as Michael, Fenella Fielding as FRI Janet, Joan Sims as Mavis, Eleanor Summerfield as Maggie, FRI Nicholas Phipps as Adrian, Tony Fayne as Dick and Warren FRI Mitchell as Mr Allbright. FRI "A light-hearted exposé of the advertising world!". Set in a FRI London ad agency called 'Apsley, Addis, Cohen, Barbican, FRI Blythe, Giddy & Partners', Something To Shout About ran to FRI 54 episodes over three series FRI Written by Myles Rudge with Ronnie Wolfe. FRI Music by The Jingle Belles and The Bernie Fenton Quartet, FRI under the direction of Cliff Adams. FRI Producer: John Simmonds FRI First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1960. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jp0s (Listen) FRI The Histories of Pliny the Elder FRI The Romans hit Britain, but Seagoon, Eccles and Bluebottle FRI are off to Rome's Colosseum. Stars Spike Milligan. From FRI March 1957. FRI FRI 09:00 Whispers b007k358 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 4 FRI Gyles Brandreth chairs the scandals quiz with Lucy Moore, FRI Anthony Holden, Penny Junor and Julian Fellowes. From FRI October 2005. FRI FRI 09:30 No Commitments b01mmrh8 (Listen) FRI Series 10, A Bride Too Far FRI Victoria and Emily battle it out over the wedding, while FRI Charlotte is feeling left out. Stars Celia Imrie. From FRI February 2004. FRI FRI 10:00 Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native b0076sfh (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI Clym and Eustacia are married, but her unhappiness and FRI renewed passion for Wildeve threatens all of them. Stars FRI David Calder. FRI FRI 11:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories b01ps9w4 (Listen) FRI Child's Play FRI Kate is not appreciated by her husband or daughter, but FRI receives affection from an unusual source. Read by Matilda FRI Ziegler. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00sq2n7 (Listen) FRI Shelagh Delaney - Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life FRI Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life is a new play by Shelagh FRI Delaney, the award winning writer of A Taste of Honey. FRI Rose lives alone on a smallholding. When Poppy, her FRI embittered ex sister in law visits for the weekend, the FRI peace is shattered. Things get worse when they learn that FRI Boris, Poppy's 20 year old son, has gone missing. Old wounds FRI and grievances are aired - then Boris turns up out of the FRI blue. His presence brings the women closer again, allowing FRI for new hope for the future. Both Rose and Poppy sense that FRI this could be the turning moment for all of them - until an FRI accident on the beach affects them all. FRI In this witty, poignant play about parenting, rural life, FRI and family ties, Shelagh Delaney demonstrates her skill as a FRI leading modern dramatist of unusual choices by unusual FRI people. FRI Rose...Barbara Marten FRI Poppy...Nicola Gardner FRI Boris...Tachia Newall FRI Pianist..Jonathan Scott FRI Director...Polly Thomas. FRI FRI 12:00 Something to Shout About b07l0y14 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jp0s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds FRI b036ybrp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012llpk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] FRI FRI 13:30 The I Love You Bridge b01302s4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox FRI b00770tg (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI After 61 years, Esme knows the truth and confronts her FRI sister, Kitty. Concluded by Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and FRI Eleanor Bron. FRI FRI 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sm8nf (Listen) FRI Charlie Chaplin Went to France to Teach Ladies How to Dance FRI Michael Morpurgo discovers new forms of entertainment FRI available for children in the first half of the 20th FRI century. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01pgjyc (Listen) FRI A Little Twist of Dahl, The Neck FRI A series of stories by Roald Dahl FRI Episode 5: Neck FRI Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in FRI dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre FRI and amusing by turns, these black comedies are justly famous FRI for their surprise endings. FRI The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a FRI writer of adult fiction. They are stylishly plotted, vividly FRI characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy FRI cynicism, presenting as they do, a hilariously bleak view of FRI family life. Their satisfying conclusions invariably leave FRI bullies, schemers, adulterers and frauds soundly punished. FRI In Neck, Sir Basil Turton, a wealthy newspaper magnate, has FRI recently taken a young wife. Bossy and openly adulterous, FRI the new Lady Turton is despised by Jelks, Sir Basil's FRI butler, for her cruel treatment of his master. One morning FRI she is openly frolicking with her latest lover in the FRI grounds of the estate, when, for a joke, she sticks her head FRI through a hole in one of Sir Basil's priceless Henry Moore FRI sculptures. When she finds she is stuck, Sir Basil with FRI Jelks' assistance, must decide on a course of action. FRI Produced and directed by David Blount FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Storyteller: Charles Dance FRI Lionel Sturridge: Jamie Glover FRI Sir Basil Turton: Chris Emmett FRI Lady Turton: Katie Scarfe FRI Jelks: David Ryall FRI Major Haddock: Mark Heap FRI Writer: Stephen Sheridan FRI Director: David Blount FRI Producer: David Blount FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b013xn65 (Listen) FRI All Made Up, Episode 5 FRI Award-winning author Janice Galloway reads an extract from FRI her new memoir. Teenaged Janice is about to leave the FRI security of Ardrossan Academy for university, a FRI long-cherished dream of her downtrodden mother. FRI Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. FRI Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI 15:00 Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native b0076sfh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 Whispers b007k358 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 No Commitments b01mmrh8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Winston in Europe b007tzt5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Rumblings from the Rafters b07jwt65 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Dangerous Visions b02x9f4n (Listen) FRI The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 5 FRI Jane Rogers won the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2012 with her FRI novel set in a future where a deadly virus causing pregnant FRI women to die in their millions. Jessie becomes increasingly FRI certain that sacrificing her own life for a healthy baby is FRI the most important thing she can do. But her plan to become FRI a Sleeping Beauty hits an obstacle. FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari FRI Dangerous Visions Season: FRI The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's FRI fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. FRI Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died FRI four years ago, his vision of FRI what our future might become feels as relevant, satirical FRI and as scary as ever. Radio 4's Dangerous Visions is a FRI season of dramas that explore contemporary takes on future FRI dystopias. Dramatisations of Ballard's seminal works, FRI Drowned World and Concrete Island, straddle the season, and FRI we have asked five leading radio writers - Nick Perry, Ed FRI Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, Michael Butt and Philip FRI Palmer - to imagine what life might be like in the near FRI future if everything goes wrong - FRI and their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: FRI clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might FRI happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning FRI becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable FRI of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South FRI London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice FRI becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part FRI dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel FRI The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author. FRI Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the FRI present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. FRI Credits FRI Jessie: Holliday Grainger FRI Joe: Mark Jordon FRI Cath: Joanne Mitchell FRI Sal: Rebecca Ryan FRI Director: Nadia Molinari FRI Author: Jane Rogers FRI FRI 18:15 Brian Appleyard - First Church of the New Millennium FRI b007jqnc (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI As architect Stephen Rix builds his cathedral, he makes FRI dramatic decision about his life. Read by David Horovitch. FRI FRI 18:30 Sounds Natural b07l1167 (Listen) FRI Roger Whittaker FRI From the Wildebeest to the Paradise Flycatcher. Singer Roger FRI Whittaker shares his fascination for the wildlife of East FRI Africa and Wales with Derek Jones - aided by recordings from FRI the BBC Sound Archive. FRI Producer: John Burton. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1973. FRI FRI 19:00 Something to Shout About b07l0y14 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jp0s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds FRI b036ybrp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:15 Edgar Wallace - White Face b012llpk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] FRI FRI 20:30 The I Love You Bridge b01302s4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories b01ps9w4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00sq2n7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 The Iguanodon b0075cpk (Listen) FRI Two Sausage Rolls Between the Seven of Us FRI A startling revelation for Sam after he survives a sinking FRI and the pirates - again. Stars Bernard Cribbins. From FRI December 1997. FRI FRI 22:30 BBC Radio New Comedy Award b07l11ly (Listen) FRI 2016, Heat 5 - Cardiff FRI Ten new comedians perform in the fifth heat from The Glee FRI Club, Cardiff. FRI FRI 23:30 Ross Noble Goes Global b01cjg35 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Adelaide FRI Weirdness awaits the comedian in the Australian city, with FRI men in leotards and locals with something to hide. From May FRI 2003. FRI