The BBC has announced that it has a sustainable plan for the future of the BBC Singers, in association with The VOCES8 Foundation.
The threat to reduce the staff of the three English orchestras by 20% has not been lifted, but it is being reconsidered.
See the BBC press release here.

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SATURDAY 01 JANUARY 2022

SAT 00:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (b007jm4s)
The Secondary Phase

Fit The Tenth

Arthur discovers his unique contribution to the history of Brontitall. And a close encounter for Ford and Zaphod...

Douglas Adams' sci-fi comedy following the misadventures of hapless human Arthur Dent.

The Book …. Peter Jones
Arthur Dent …. Simon Jones
Ford Prefect …. Geoffrey McGivern
Zaphod Beeblebrox …. Mark Wing-Davey
Eddie …. David Tate
Marvin …. Stephen Moore
Bird One …. Ronald Baddiley
The Wise Old Bird …. John Le Mesurier
Bird Two …. John Baddeley
Lintilla …. Rula Lenska

Radiophonic sound and music by Paddy Kingsland.

Producer: Geoffrey Perkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1980.


SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b01k9wpr)
Bohemians

Bohemians - love them or loathe them, we've all met them.

Dominic Arkwright and guests discuss avant-garde free spirits - or pretentious, posing pseudo-intellectuals, depending on your point of view.

With an original free spirit; the writer Hanja Kochansky, writer and critic Cosmo Landesman, whose parents' eccentric behaviour caused the young Cosmo much embarrassment; and by the journalist who declares in his blog that he is 'right about everything', James Delingpole.

Has the British bohemian spirit - if there ever was one - disappeared?

Now boho is mainstream, desirable even, what is there to rebel against?

Producer: Sarah Langan.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2012.


SAT 01:00 Father Brown Stories (b0081lvr)
Series 2

Actor and Alibi

A theatrical murder amid much back-stabbing is announced in the Chop-House. Father Brown finds himself in the midst of a School for Scandal.

Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown.

GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work.

Dramatised by John Scotney

Father Brown ...... Andrew Sachs
Mundon Mandeville ...... Peter Jeffrey
Mrs Mandeville ...... Sheila Grant
Inspector Bagshaw ...... Bill Wallis
Ashton Jarvis ...... David Brierly
Norman Knight ...... Charles Baillie
Lady Miriam Talbot ...... Fleur Chandler
Miss Maroni ...... Karen Ascoe
Mrs Sans ...... Pauline Letts
House Manager ...... Jonathan Scott

Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1986.


SAT 01:30 Detective (b0blvcb3)
Series 4

5. The Tip-Off

A local villain tells DS Brook that he is going straight and wants to turn informant on some planned break-ins.

Starring Ray Brooks and Stephen Garlick.

Robert Barr’s stories of crime and detection in London

Featuring long-serving, ducking-and-diving Detective Sergeant Dave Brook with his new partner, Detective Constable Tully.

DS Dave Brook …. Ray Brooks
DC Tully …. Stephen Garlick
DS Harrison …. Peter Cleall
Chief Inspector Roach …. Stephen Yardley
Joe Harper …. Johnny Wade
DS Rigby …. Christopher Douglas

Producer: Martin Fisher

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in July 1985.


SAT 02:00 Letters From Tove (m000c8qf)
Episode 5

Out of the thousands of letters Moomin creator Tove Jansson wrote, a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes, and her lovers, both male and female.

Into these, she spilled her innermost thoughts, defended her ideals and revealed her heart. To read these letters is both an act of startling intimacy and a rare privilege.

Penned with grace and humour, Letters from Tove offers an almost seamless commentary on Tove Jansson's life as it unfolds within Helsinki's bohemian circles and her island home. Spanning fifty years between her art studies and the height of Moomin fame, we hear the bleakness of war, the hopes for love that were dashed and renewed, and her determined attempts to establish herself as an artist.

Translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death
Abridged by Polly Coles
Read by Sarah Lambie

Produced by Clive Brill
A Brill production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 02:15 D for Dexter (b09f39tp)
Series 4

Episode 5

Dexter's teacher wants to help, but it just makes things worse.

And now Skye's more frightened than ever that they'll come and take Dexter away.

Amanda Whittington's heart-breakingly brave, funny and beautiful story exploring the issue of neglect.

Sydney Wade … Skye
Alfie Johnson … Dexter
Zoe Johnson … Shanice
Una McNulty … Jak
Etta Fusi … Leanne
Julie Riley … Mia
Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong … Mr Doshi
Octavia Bettis … Nasty Girl

Music by Smashing Pumpkins and Beyoncé, performed by Tom Constantine.

Director: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2017..


SAT 02:30 Short Cuts (b08rq6dv)
Series 12

Magical Realism

Josie Long presents documentaries where reality takes on a magical aspect - tales of snake-filled American towns, a visit to a shaman and of crashing back down to earth.

The Curve of the Earth
Produced by Stephanie Rowden
http://www.stephanierowden.com

The Shaman
Produced by Rikke Houd

Snake Pit, Waurika
Produced by Sarah Geis

Magical Realism
Produced by Phil Smith

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May 2017.


SAT 03:00 Drama (b01j2bmz)
Wilkie Collins - The Haunted Hotel

In 1860, the formidable Countess Narona marries a rich young aristocrat in London - but shortly after travelling to Venice her husband dies, apparently of natural causes, leaving the Countess a rich woman.

Years later, guests in a Venetian hotel encounter the terrifying apparition of a murder victim seeking revenge.

Wilkie Collins' gothic horror tale is a powerful combination of ghost story and detective mystery.

Dramatised by Rod Beacham.

Countess Narona ...... Adjoa Andoh
Henry Westwick ...... Harry Lloyd
Agnes Lockwood ...... Jasmine Hyde
Francis Westwick ...... Simon Bubb
Suzannah Westwick ...... Katherine Igoe
Emily Ferrari ...... Alex Rivers
Megan ...... Josie Kidd
Doctor Wybrow ...... Gerard McDermott
Carstairs ...... James Lailey
Doctor Bruno ...... Rod Beacham

Director: Bruce Young.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2012.


SAT 04:00 Funny You Should Ask (b0b5wylf)
From 10/02/1981

Peter Jones hosts the entertainment quiz about comedy as he tests a panel of experts:

Ben Travers
Ray Cooney
Leslie Phillips

Questions compiled by Michael Pointon.

Funny You Should Ask ran for 8 series from 1976 to 1982.

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1981.


SAT 04:30 In the Red (b007k0qh)
Episode 6

Reporter George is due in court - while BBC controllers keep on plotting to axe the Director General.

London is plagued by a series of bizarre murders of bank managers. Hot on the trail of the killer are old-style Chief Police Inspector Frank Jefferson and BBC Radio's anarchic crime correspondent, George Cragge.

Starring Michael Williams and Barry Foster.

Mark Tavener's blackly humorous murder mystery set in the world of City finance, the BBC and political parties.

Dramatised by his novel by Mark Tavener and Peter Baynham.

George Cragge ...... Michael Williams
Frank Jefferson ...... Barry Foster
Geoffrey Crichton-Potter ...... Stephen Moore
Henry ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Max ...... Peter Woodthorpe
Controller Radio 2 ...... Stephen Fry
Controller Radio 4 ...... John Bird
Dominic De'ath ...... Benjamin Whitrow
Hercules Fortescue ...... Nicholas Le Prevost
Andrew James ...... Peter Serafinowcz
Laetitia ...... Victoria Carling
Controller BBC 1 ...... Ian McNiece
Prosecution ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Fortescue's PA ...... Jane Slavin

With Alice Arnold, Eva Stuart, Gavin Muir, Annabel Mullion and Richard Turner.

Music by Paul Mottram

Producer: Paul Schlesinger

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1995.


SAT 05:00 The Headset Set (b01206cg)
Series 1

Episode 1

It's Sailesh's first day as team leader at Smile5.

This is a mail order catalogue company selling everything from Rolex watches to lawnmowers, from financial products to phone and broadband, from holidays to health insurance.

And somewhere in a brown-field wasteland miles from the nearest town, it runs one of the largest call centres operating in the UK.

This is the world of The Headset Set.

Eavesdrop on both sides of the bizarre, horrific and ludicrous phone calls when customers call in as events unfold with company staff.

Aleesha ..... Chizzy Akudolu
Bernie ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith
Big Tony ..... Colin Hoult
Sailesh ..... Paul Sharma
Various ..... Philip Fox

Other characters played by the cast.

Written by James Kettle, Stephen Carlin, Andy Wolton, Ben Partridge, Colin Hoult, Dan Tetsell, Dale Shaw, Kevin Core, Rob Gilroy and Tom Neenan

Script editor: Dan Tetsell

Producer: Tilusha Ghelani

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2011.


SAT 05:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b03mg0cs)
Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section New Year

Comedian Alex Horne is joined by his 5 piece band to kick off the New Year's Eve celebrations.

There's comedy and original live music.

With guests:

Milton Jones
Vocal gymnast, Beardyman
Singer and comedian, Jenny Bede.

Producer: Julia Mckenzie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2013.


SAT 06:00 Miss Marple (b007jvfn)
A Pocket Full of Rye

There's only one bizarre clue to the agonizing death of a wealthy financier.

Miss Marple must unravel a mystery hidden in a child's nursery rhyme that is to prove one of the strangest cases of her life.

Agatha Christie's whodunit.

Starring June Whitfield as Miss Jane Marple.

From the book first published in 1953 and dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Miss Marple …. June Whitfield
Inspector Neele …. Nicky Henson
Rex Fortescue …. Derek Waring
Percival …. Peter Yapp
Jennifer …. Natasha Pyne
Lance …. Ian Masters
Patricia …. Annabel Mullion
Elaine …. Deborah Berlin
Adele …. Becky Hindley
Miss Dove …. Kristin Milward
Miss Ramsbottom …. Margaret Ward
Mrs Mackenzie …. Charlotte Mitchell
Gladys …. Claire Mackie
Crump …. Don McCorkindale
Mrs Crump …. Margaret John
Sergeant Hay …. Joshua Towb
Miss Grosvenor …. Jilly Bond
Dr Bernsdorff …. George Parsons
Vivian Dubois …. Michael Tudor Barnes
Gerald Wright …. Oliver Senton
Kitty …. Clare Heyhoe

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1995.


SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b09h3rc7)
Series 44

Will Gregory on Flann O'Brien

Goldfrapp's Will Gregory is centre-stage at the Colston Hall in Bristol to tell Matthew Parris why he feels a kinship with Flann O'Brien.

The Irish writer's books 'At Swim-Two-Birds' and 'The Third Policeman' are now hailed as literary masterpieces, but only came to prominence after the author's death.

Carol Taaffe, who has written about Flann, helps make sense of the man who wrote under three pseudonyms - Brian O'Nolan, Flann O'Brien, and Myles na gCopaleen. They look more closely at the novels and newspaper column he wrote alongside his job in the Civil Service, whilst maintaining a steady presence in Dublin's pubs.

Will reads extracts he believes illustrate the brilliance with which O'Brien slips between realism and surrealism, and Carol sheds light on who said that 'At Swim-Two-Birds' "....was just the book to give your Sister if she's a loud dirty boozy girl."

Producer: Toby Field

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2017.


SAT 08:00 It's Your Round (b01b8zw3)
Series 2

Episode 6

Angus Deayton presides over the show where the format is, there isn't one.

Instead, each of the four panellists has brought their own round for the other panellists to play. How will each round play out? And, more importantly, who will be beaten at their own game?

Featured rounds in this episode:

Alex Horne's "Font, Fighter or Fragrance" in which panellists are given a word and they must guess whether that word refers to a typographical font, the name of a Gladiator from ITV's show "Gladiators" or a "Lynx deodorant" fragrance.

Roisin Conaty's "Four Second Pitch" in which panellists have but four seconds to pitch Angus the elements of an idea for a blockbuster film and a new religion.

Paul Sinha's "World Record Recall" in which panellists have to fill in the missing details from the description of a real record from the Guinness Book of World Records.

And Rufus Hound's "Which Lady Done Say That Thing" in which panellists must guess which audience member said a certain phrase. As the title suggests.

Producer: Sam Michell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012.


SAT 08:30 Smelling of Roses (b00dwnch)
Series 4

Episode 1

A theatre awards ceremony sparks no end of subterfuge for event organiser Rosie and her team. All thanks to some hypersensitive theatrical characters...

Prunella Scales stars in Simon Brett's sitcom.

The trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event management company, where the clients are only part of the problem...

Rosie ..... Prunella Scales
Jo ..... Rebecca Callard
Bob ..... Duncan Preston
Tess ..... Annette Badland
Crosby Grantham ..... Timothy West
Stella Steele ..... Richenda Carey

Producer: Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2003.


SAT 09:00 Joe Queenan: My Years of Awe and Wonder (b07wxpqh)
John Sergeant introduces two decades of adventures in broadcasting with the best reviewed American on BBC radio - Joe Queenan.

From his early days presenting Postcard from Gotham through to Wonderful Ways to Make a Living, A Brief History of Irony and Hitler's Favourite Cowboy, Joe Queenan has always shown a delight in his interviewees.

"Most journalists don't like people but I'm the complete opposite of that. For the brief moment that we meet, they become almost like friends. I remember all of them still."

You'll hear uncut and previously unbroadcast extended interviews, unsliced and undiced, with:

Ian Hislop
Germaine Greer
Kathy Lette
Armando Iannucci

John Sergeant reveals what it's like to be rung up and asked to give short, snappy thoughts on abstract subjects such as cunning, failure and blame.

And then there's Queenan's unexpected and deep love of Britain (he is married to a woman from Stroud), plus his ongoing amazement that a poor boy from Philadelphia has been given the opportunity to work for the BBC: letters, he says, "that do resonate in America still".

"It's worth remembering that when you're doing these kinds of programmes, they become a part of your life. For four days that's all you're doing. But it's not a job. It's some sort of special adventure. You're meeting unusual people. You're in unusual places. You're doing an unusual thing, asking complete strangers bizarre questions that they hadn't expected you to ask. "

Produced at BBC Bristol by Miles Warde.

Made for BBC Radio Extra 4 and first broadcast in September 2016.


SAT 12:00 Many a Slip (b007jrx1)
From 20/08/1974

Quizmaster Roy Plomley challenges his contestants to spot the mistakes.

Eleanor Summerfield and Isobel Barnett

battle

David Nixon and Paul Jennings

With some tune-twisters from Steve Race.

Devised and written by Ian Messiter.

Producer: Trafford Whitelock

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1974.


SAT 12:30 Believe It! (b08lhg9p)
Series 3

Knight Fever

The third series of Jon Canter's not quite true autobiography of actor Richard Wilson.

Believe what you like!

Richard was unwell last year. He had a heart attack. But now he's recovered and is fighting fit.

With a new lease of life - he considers those things most likely to make him happy in the future. What's on his bucket list? Get a Knighthood of course!

Himself ...... Richard Wilson
Himself ...... Antony Sher
Himself ...... Daniel Evans
Himself ...... David Tennant
Himself ...... Angus Deayton
Francois ...... Jasmine Hyde
Jane ...... Jasmine Hyde
Suzy ...... Eva Feiler
Dave the Sound Engineer ...... Wilfredo Acosta
Big Issue Seller ...... Kellie Shirley

Produced and directed by Clive Brill.

A Brill production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2017.


SAT 13:00 The Supernatural North (b091wdfk)
Our imaginations tend to be more like medieval maps than modern ones. They team with myth and fantasy, dragons and anthropophagi. So, as our minds follow the compass point on the map North what is it that we see?

Anodyne manufactured images of Santa and his elves, reindeer sleighs streaking across starry skies, snowmen and children "walking in the air", and polar bears frolicking in crystal caves of ice? Or are our thoughts drawn to the deeper and darker lore of the True North of mountain trolls, demons and direwolves, white witches and white walkers, snow queens and Sámi shamans?

Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough journeys to Arctic Norway in search of the supernatural world that haunts the imagination of writers such as Philip Pullman, AS Byatt, CS Lewis, Hans Christian Andersen and the authors of the medieval Icelandic sagas.

Following the trail of a 9th century Norseman called Ohthere, who travelled along the northern coast of Norway and down to the White Sea in Russia, Eleanor sets out from the coastal city of Tromsø in northern Norway. But whereas Ohthere wanted to survey the land and acquire walrus ivory, reindeer and exotic furs, Eleanor is looking for a stranger North - a place inhabited by mountain trolls, witches and giants.

Featuring:

AS Byatt, author of Ragnarok;
Philip Pullman, author of Northern Lights;
Professor Peter Davidson of Aberdeen University and author of The Idea of North
Dr Carolyne Larrington of Oxford University, a specialist in the Icelandic sagas
Professors Rune Hagen, Tromso University
Richard Holt of Tromso University
Artist Jeffrey Vallance

Readers: Elaine Claxton and Paul Heath.

Producer: Philippa Ritchie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in August 2014.


SAT 13:45 Christmas With... (b04vk9nm)
Clare Barker

Clare has had enough; it's the 29th December and it's high time Christmas was packed up for another year. Social work doesn't just stop because it's the festive season, but will a chance encounter bring back a bit of seasonal magic?

Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the right jargon but never a practical solution.

In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare.

Clare ...... Sally Phillips
Brian ...... Alex Lowe
Nali ...... Nina Conti
Old Man / Father Christmas ...... Hugh Bonneville
Son ...... Shaun Mason

Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden

Producer Alexandra Smith

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014.


SAT 14:00 The Penny Dreadfuls (m00082z4)
Hadrian’s Beard

Emperor Hadrian was so eager to defend the outer reaches of the Roman Empire and repel attacks from the Barbarians, that he was determined to build a wall across Britain, sea to sea, just north of the great fort Vindolanda.

That physical legacy is still in part visible between Northumberland and Cumbria to this day.

This comedy play looks under the skin of the Emperor who broke with various traditions, not least growing a beard where all Roman leaders were previously clean-shaven; and his deep love of all things Grecian.

All does not go according to plan when he arrives and it seems that this brave 'soldier' is more troubled than first impressions suggest.

Written by David Reed

Emperor Hadrian ... Tony Gardner
Queen Bridget ... Mina Anwar

With The Penny Dreadfuls:

Humphrey Ker
David Reed
Thom Tuck

And Margaret Cabourn-Smith.

Producer: Julia McKenzie

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2019.


SAT 14:45 Life With Lederer (m0012nym)
4. The Dinner Party

Cookbook and bottle in hand, Helen Lederer nervously prepares a supper party.

Written by Helen Lederer, Roger Planer and Richard McBrien.

With:

Malcolm Raeburn
Nigel Carrington
Barbara Dryhurst
Sandra Maitland

Produced at BBC Manchester by Paul Z Jackson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1990.


SAT 15:00 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b00m6bhh)
Series 4

Episode 1

An orthopaedic supplies company with its very own trans-galactic portal.

The correct way to talk to an emperor.

How Saturday night TV shows are invented.

And a mysterious discovery at the Institute of Creatures.

All is revealed in the return of the comedy sketch show series.

Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

With:

Olivia Colman
James Bachman
Sarah Hadland

Producer Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2009.


SAT 15:30 The Museum of Everything (b007k425)
Series 2

The Dig

Discover the results of a ‘live’ archaeology dig and visit a very liberal safari park.

Written and performed by:

Marcus Brigstocke
Danny Robins
Dan Tetsell.

With Lucy Montgomery.

Music by Dominic Haslam and Ben Walker.

Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2005.


SAT 16:00 Miss Marple (b007jvfn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b09h3rc7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


SAT 18:00 MR James (b007jtk7)
The Hex

Embroiled in a public controversy with a black magic charlatan called Gardini, Montague receives an unexpected apology from the man.

It's an apology which masks a strange and inexorable curse: Montague has been hexed.

Gregory Evans' drama is based on MR James's short story, The Casting of the Runes.

Staring Conrad Phillips and Peter Copley.

Montague ...... Conrad Phillips
Rhodes ...... Peter Copley
Laura ...... Carole Boyer
Elspeth ...... Kim Hartman
Gardini ...... Edward Atienza

Other parts played by Tim Bannerman and Edward Atienza

Producer: Brian Miller.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre in January 1981.


SAT 18:50 Absent Friends - The 7th Dimension (m0013193)
Episode 1

Toby Hadoke pays tribute to some of the performers, producers and writers from the world of sci fi, horror & fantasy whom we’ve lost in 2021, including Bernard Holley, Edward Barnes, Bob Baker and John Challis.

The first of two episodes.

Produced by Moy McGowan

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra.


SAT 19:00 Joe Queenan: My Years of Awe and Wonder (b07wxpqh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


SAT 22:00 Chain Reaction (b00kwdsm)
Series 1

Jenny Eclair Interviews Jimmy Carr

Acerbic wit Jenny Éclair interviews prolific gag merchant Jimmy Carr in the tag talk show.

This is the series where the guest turns interviewer in the next show.

The very first episode of the popular long-running series.

Producer: Tilusha Ghelani

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2004.


SAT 22:30 Ida Barr: Artificial Hip Hop (b00v72r5)
Diversity

Ida Barr is a music hall singer who has embraced hip hop and rap, reflecting the cultural diversity of London's East End, where she has been living in retirement for several decades.

With her genuine love of talking to people, Ida sets out investigate a new topic in each episode, creating a unique brand of music hall, hip-hop fusion with beat boxer Shlomo.

Ida’s subject this time is "Diversity".

Written by and starring Christopher Green as Ida Barr.

Producer: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2010.


SAT 22:45 Paperback Hell (b0076cl3)
Series 1

Shopping For Mr Wrong by Romany Cleff

A series of four chapters, by four different authors, all of them imaginary, all straight out of the bestseller charts and none of them very good.

This week, Chapter Three of Romany Cleff 's debut novel, Shopping for Mr Wrong.

Starring:

Michael Fenton Stevens
Rebecca Front
Mel Hudson
Alex Lowe
Dan Tetsell

Ghost-written by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell.

Producer: Lucy Armitage.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.


SAT 23:00 Mr and Mrs Smith (b01bgp22)
Pilot Episode - The Anniversary

A weekend break to celebrate their anniversary ends in disaster for Will and Annabelle.

Will's terrible anniversary present is the last straw so Annabelle signs them up for marriage counselling.

Guy mediates between Will and Annabelle, with flashbacks to the events that spawned the argument. By the end, the couple find marital equilibrium once more. Sort of.

Pilot for the following series written by and starring Will Smith.

Will Smith ...... Will Smith
Annabelle Smith ...... Sarah Hadland
Guy, Darryl ...... Paterson Joseph
John, TV repairman ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Receptionist, Sally ...... Morwenna Banks

Producer: Tilusha Ghelani

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2010.


SAT 23:30 Hut 33 (b00m0ld0)
Series 1

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Bletchley Park codebreakers grapple with the complexities of religion.

James Cary's sitcom set in Bletchley Park in 1941.

Three code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden hut, as they try to break German ciphers. Unfortunately, they hate each other.

Charles …. Robert Bathurst
Archie …. Tom Goodman-Hill
Minka …. Olivia Colman
Gordon …. Fergus Craig
Mrs Best …. Lill Roughley
Joshua …. Alex MacQueen.

Producer: Adam Bromley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2007.



SUNDAY 02 JANUARY 2022

SUN 00:00 MR James (b007jtk7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]


SUN 00:50 Absent Friends - The 7th Dimension (m0013193)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:50 on Saturday]


SUN 01:00 The Supernatural North (b091wdfk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday]


SUN 01:45 Christmas With... (b04vk9nm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:45 on Saturday]


SUN 02:00 The Penny Dreadfuls (m00082z4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday]


SUN 02:45 Life With Lederer (m0012nym)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday]


SUN 03:00 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b00m6bhh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday]


SUN 03:30 The Museum of Everything (b007k425)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday]


SUN 04:00 Miss Marple (b007jvfn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]


SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b09h3rc7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]


SUN 06:00 Letters From Tove (Omnibus) (m000cky8)
The letters from 1932 - 1988 of Moomin creator Tove Jansson to her family, her confidantes and her lovers.

Out of the thousands of letters Tove wrote, a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes, and her lovers, both male and female.

Into these, she spilled her innermost thoughts, defended her ideals and revealed her heart. To read these letters is both an act of startling intimacy and a rare privilege.

Penned with grace and humour, Letters from Tove offers an almost seamless commentary on Tove Jansson's life as it unfolds within Helsinki's bohemian circles and her island home. Spanning fifty years between her art studies and the height of Moomin fame, we hear the bleakness of war, the hopes for love that were dashed and renewed, and her determined attempts to establish herself as an artist.

Translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death

Read by Sarah Lambie.

Omnibus of five parts abridged by Polly Coles

Producer: Clive Brill

A Brill production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2019.


SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07cb4ll)
Rick Astley

Singer Rick Astley chooses 'That's Amore', sung by Dean Martin, and 'Buck Rogers' by Feeder.


SUN 07:20 D for Dexter (Omnibus) (b09hcp9g)
Series 4

Jak is drinking again, so Skye has to look out for Dexter.

She never knows if her mum is going to be in, out, or out of it. Last night she didn't come home at all. Doesn't bother Skye. Her mum can do what she wants: it's her life. Except it's Dexter's life too, and if social services find out how bad things are, they might come and take him away again.

Skye is 14 and Dexter's five, and they live in Gainsborough in Lincolnshire. Dexter has just started school, so Skye has to drop him off and pick him up, because Jak can't do it. She'd never remember and if by some miracle she did, the teachers would see her and then there'd be questions. Luckily Skye's been excluded from her school, so she can keep an extra close eye on what's going on at home and make sure Dexter's where he should be.

She needs to be on her toes, because you never know who Jak might bring home next.

A heart-breakingly brave, funny and beautiful story by Amanda Whittington.

Developed with the help of Footsteps 2000, an organisation that supports young people who are affected by a loved one's substance misuse, and receives funding for specific projects from BBC Children in Need.

Omnibus of five parts.

Sydney Wade … Skye
Alfie Johnson … Dexter
Zoe Johnson … Shanice
Una McNulty … Jak
Etta Fusi … Leanne
Julie Riley … Mia
Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong … Mr Doshi
Octavia Bettis … Nasty Girl

Music by Smashing Pumpkins and Beyoncé, performed by Tom Constantine.

Director: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on Radio 4 in November 2017.


SUN 08:30 Play It Cool (b05pb52t)
Episode 1

Fast moving sketches and a plethora of comedy characters.

Written by Eric Merriman - best known for his work on numerous BBC series of Beyond Our Ken.

Starring:

Ian Carmichael
Joan Sims
Hugh Paddick.

Films like Private's Progress and I'm All Right Jack helped make Ian Carmichael a major star of both British stage and screen. Play it Cool was his first radio comedy series promising a variety of potty and pompous situations.

With music from:

Rosemary Squires
The Mike Sammes Singers
The Ken Thorne Orchestra

Producer: John Simmonds

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1964.


SUN 09:00 The Clitheroe Kid (m00131r7)
Series 5

The Old Man of The Sea

Cheeky schoolboy Jimmy raises everyone’s spirits with a ruse to get rid of an unwelcome guest.

Starring the diminutive Jimmy Clitheroe.

Legendary sitcom about Lancashire’s eternal cheeky schoolboy who lives with his Mother, sister and Grandad.

At its peak, ten million fans tuned in each week to hear Jimmy’s latest scheme sparking havoc.

Written by James Casey and Frank Roscoe

The Kid Himself …. Jimmy Clitheroe
Mother …. Patricia Burke
Grandad …. Peter Sinclair
Susan …. Diana Day
Danny Ross …. Alfie
Theodore Craythorpe/Harry Whittle …. Leonard Williams
Higginbottom …. Tony Melody
Barney …. Deryck Guyler

Theme music by Alan Roper and played by the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra directed by Alan Ainsworth.

Producer: James Casey

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1962.


SUN 09:30 Reluctant Persuaders (m0000ngj)
Series 3

2. Happiest Place On Earth

The mood at Hardacre’s advertising agency is black.

After losing the biggest account of their careers – the Cosmos X10 smartphone – the team have slid back down the greasy pole and find themselves once again serving only the smallest and least interesting clients around.

While Joe, Amanda and Hardacre continue to feel sorry for themselves, Teddy is determined to lift their spirits. Appointing himself chief morale officer, he sets out to brighten the mood at the agency with a succession of increasingly ill-advised morale-boosting schemes.

What starts with an innocuous Hawaiian shirt day soon snowballs into a team-building and bonding exercise none of the staff will ever forget.

Hardacre ...... Nigel Havers
Joe ...... Mathew Baynton
Amanda ...... Josie Lawrence
Teddy ...... Rasmus Hardiker
Laura ...... Olivia Nixon
WPC and Crystal ...... Holly Morgan

An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2018.


SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m00131r9)
Singers 2

Ed Sheeran

From Elton John to Stevie Wonder.

Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran shares his castaway choices. with Kirsty Young.

Ed's songs have brought him two Grammys, four Brit awards and global success. Tracks from his album, Divide, occupied nine of the top 10 places in the UK singles chart.

Born into a creative family, Ed had piano and cello lessons as a youngster and briefly sang in a local church choir. At the age of 11, seeing Eric Clapton play Layla on TV at the Queen's Golden Jubilee concert inspired him to take up the guitar. Ten years later, Ed himself was performing at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert.

Ed left school and home at 16 to focus on playing gigs in London. Despite relentless performing he failed to secure a recording contract and decided to try his luck in America. During a successful stint performing in Los Angeles, he came to the attention of the Academy Award-winning actor and musician Jamie Foxx, and within months of returning to the UK he'd signed a record deal.

His first single, The A Team, became a top ten hit around the world and won him an Ivor Novello award, and his second and third albums topped the UK and US charts.

In 2015 he performed at Wembley Stadium as a solo artist for three nights to capacity crowds, and in 2017, he headlined on the Pyramid stage on the closing night of the Glastonbury Festival.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.


SUN 10:45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (m0003r3f)
Series 13

The Mesmerist

“Is hypnosis real, and if so how does it work? Does it have any practical uses and which of Hannah and Adam is most susceptible?”

This question came from two Curios, Peter Jordan aged 24 from Manchester and Arran Kinnear aged 13 from Bristol.

Arch sceptics Hannah and Adam visit stage hypnotist Ben Dali to find out if they are susceptible to the power of suggestion. One of them will be successfully hypnotised, but who will it be?

Along the way we hear about the history of hypnosis from Wendy Moore author of 'The Mesmerist'. Plus psychologist Devin Terhune explains what we know about the science of hypnosis today.

Presenters: Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford
Producer: Michelle Martin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.


SUN 11:00 Radiolab (m000cywg)
Series 6

Blood

Radiolab explores why are we - from horrifying movies to the holy - obsessed by blood? With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich.

From medicine to the movies, the horrifying to the holy, and history to the present day — Radiolab considers the power and magic of the red liquid that runs through our veins. We meet an artist who opened his veins and got labeled a terrorist, douse ourselves in the meat and metaphors of blood in Shakespeare, wonder if clues to a gory fountain of youth could be lurking in the red blood cells of mice, and trace the complicated supply chain that gets blood from arms to operating tables.

Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2013.


SUN 11:55 Inheritance Tracks (b07cb4ll)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today]


SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m00131rd)
Poetry Please - Winter, Star-gazing And Time

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Poetry Please: Winter, Star-gazing and Time. Presented by Roger McGough and read by Pippa Haywood, Peter Marinker, Mark Meadows and Nadia Williams.

There are well-known works by Sheenagh Pugh and Alfred Tennyson contemplating the new year. Roger marks Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday with a poem by Robert Frost about the importance of telescopes.

Winter looms large, with poems by Longfellow, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Dana Gioia, but in contrast there are rays of sunshine from John Lyons.

Producer: Toby Field

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.


SUN 12:30 HR (b00hr5p5)
Series 1

A Commute

Senior manager Peter is late for work. But so is his Human Resources officer, Sam. They meet on the train, both fearful of a call from their new boss.

But, hold on, is that him in the next carriage?

Nigel Williams’ comedy drama series charting the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague.

Peter ...... Jonathan Pryce
Sam ...... Nicholas Le Prevost
Nigel ...... Paul Rider
Guard ...... Stephen Critchlow

Director: Peter Cavanagh

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2009.


SUN 13:00 The Valley at the Centre of the World by Malachy Tallack (Omnibus) (b0b1q69h)
Episode 1

As Sandy wrestles with the attraction he feels towards his new neighbour, the community gathers at the Red House to welcome Jo and Ryan to the valley.

Malachy Tallack's debut novel is a quiet yet powerful study of contemporary rural Scotland that asks what remains when a way of life vanishes.

Set on the rugged west coast of Shetland, in a community only ever a few steps away from extinction, the novel tackles big questions about land, inheritance and belonging without ever losing sight of the humanity and integrity of its characters.

Read by Steven Robertson.

Omnibus of the first five of ten parts abridged by Robin Brooks.

Producer: Eilidh McCreadie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2018.


SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b08n1vy2)
Toyah Willcox

Singer Toyah Wilcox has inherited 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' and wants to pass on the track by Bjork, 'Human Behaviour'.


SUN 14:20 Young Victoria by Juliet Ace (Omnibus) (b00y1vzm)
Episode 2

The honeymoon is all too soon over for Albert and Victoria, as pressing matters of state require her attention.

But their happiness is made even greater when their first child is expected...

A portrait of this extraordinary queen's younger life and happy years of her marriage, reveals some of her remarkable and long-lasting achievements.

Written by Juliet Ace, based on the letters and diaries of the young Queen Victoria.

Starring Imogen Stubbs.

Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes.

Duchess of Kent ........ Anna Massey
Prince Albert ........ Adrian Lukis
Baroness Lehzen ........ Selina Cadell
Sir John Conroy ........ John Rowe.
Melbourne ........ Christopher Cazenove
WAG ........ Andrew Wincott
William IV ........ Terence Edmond
Prince of Wales Bertie ........ Thomas Arnold
Princess Vicky ........ Clare Corbett
Prince of Wales Bertie as a child ........ George Allonby

Producer: Cherry Cookson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001.


SUN 15:30 Natural Histories (b082hg39)
Fly Agaric

Brett Westwood seeks out the magical mushroom, Fly Agaric.

With its red cap and white spots. Its story is entwined with Father Christmas, Alice in Wonderland and the founding of religion itself.

The mushroom's hallucinogenic properties and its appearance in fairy tales make it the most evocative of all British fungi.

Brett goes searching for a fly agaric into the woods with River Cottage forager John Wright and talks to pharmacologist Professor Richard Miller and Dr Patrick Harding author of The Christmas Book about its surprising importance in human culture.

With readings from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Claire Skinner.

Original Producer: Beth O'Dea

Archive Producer: Andrew Dawes for BBC Audio in Bristol

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016.


SUN 16:00 Isaac Newton - Master of The Mint (b0bbmnn2)
Creator of the Victorian detective series, McLevy, David Ashton returns with a hero - in the unlikely guise of 17th century scientific genius, Isaac Newton.

Starring William Gaminara.

After 30 years as a Cambridge academic, Newton takes up a new post at the Royal Mint in the Tower of London.

Soon he's diving into notorious drinking dens and interrogating prisoners in jail in pursuit of a counterfeiting gang. But can he catch the ringleaders before their criminal plans trigger a huge financial crash that threatens to topple the Government?

Isaac Newton ...... William Gaminara
Hopton Haynes ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Catherine Barton ...... Kerry Gooderson
Charles Montague ...... Nicholas Tizzard
Albert Chandler ...... Jonathan Forbes
John Gibson ...... Michael Nardone
Jack Carter ...... Ryan Early
Mary Docherty ...... Lauren Cornelius
Elliot Miller ...... Sean Murray
Richard Vernon/Bob Phillips ...... Gerard McDermott

Producer/ Director: Bruce Young

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2018.


SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m00131rd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]


SUN 17:30 HR (b00hr5p5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]


SUN 18:00 Grimm's Fairy Tales (m00131rh)
The Juniper Tree

Under the juniper tree, a mother-to-be dreams of her child and of her own death to come.

Then a stepmother arrives, bringing violence and a terrible revenge in her wake.

A play drawn from Grimm Fairy Tales.

Written by Peter Redgrove

Mother .... Jennifer Piercey
Norman .... Michael McStay
Eve ....Deborah Makepeace
Anne-Marie .....Abigail Docherty
Metalsmith .... Stephen Hattersley
Cobbler .... David Goodland
Victor, the bird ....Anthony Coupe

Music composed and realised by Stephen Rollings.

Director: Brian Miller.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in August 1987.


SUN 18:38 The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (b07mczkx)
A small American village holds its annual lottery, but why do the villagers become increasingly nervous as the winner is about to be revealed?

Barbara Barnes reads Shirley Jackson's tense short story.

Producer: Gemma Jenkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1998.


SUN 18:50 Absent Friends - The 7th Dimension (m00131rk)
Episode 2

Toby Hadoke continues his tribute to the performers, producers and writers from the world of sci fi, horror & fantasy whom we’ve lost in 2021 - including Jackie Lane, Damaris Hayman & Stephen Critchlow.

The last of two episodes.

Produced by Moy McGowan

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra.


SUN 19:00 Radiolab (m000cywg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


SUN 19:55 Inheritance Tracks (b07cb4ll)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today]


SUN 20:00 Isaac Newton - Master of The Mint (b0bbmnn2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today]


SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m00131r9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


SUN 21:45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (m0003r3f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today]


SUN 22:00 HR (b00hr5p5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]


SUN 22:30 Delve Special (b00sz32f)
Series 1

The Shifton Scandal

Undercover investigative reporter David Lander begins a four-part expose into irregularities over plans to site a new London airport near Birmingham.

With serious allegations aimed at a multi-national giant - what exactly has the government's role been in the plans to demolish the town?

And exactly who is the shifty Mr Browncoat?

Studio production by Stephen Fry, Brenda Blethyn and Tony Robinson.

With:

Jack Klaff
James Griffiths
Stephen Frost
Peter Wear
Mark Arden

Dramatic reconstruction by:

Hilda Schroder
Monica Grey
Jon Strickland
Scott Cherry

Researched and compiled by Tony Sarchet.

Editor: Paul Mayhew-Archer.

Delve Special ran for four series from 1984 to 1987 and later transferred to TV as: This is David Lander.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1984.


SUN 23:00 Edge Falls (b007s1dt)
Series 1

Happy Week

The retail park's latest campaign is launched by its politically correct manager, Sonya.

Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst's sitcom following the lives of the staff of Edge Falls Retail Village.

Starring Sarah Lancashire and Mark Benton.

Sonya ...... Sarah Lancashire
Mick ...... Mark Benton
Rez ...... Emil Marwa
Valerie ...... Sarah Hadland
Colin ...... Anthony Glennon
Milosh ...... John Dougall
John/Jim ...... Neil Warhurst
Karl//Gretel ...... Paul Barnhill
Tina ...... Jasmine Callan
Cheryl ...... Kitty McDonagh
Mum ...... Rachel Bavidge

Director: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2007.


SUN 23:30 The Museum of Everything (b007k498)
Series 2

Under New Management

Discover the secret of computer techniques in film, experience the history of rock'n'roll and meet the Museum's curious new curator.

Written and performed by:

Marcus Brigstocke
Danny Robins
Dan Tetsell

With Lucy Montgomery.

Music by Dominic Haslam and Ben Walker.

Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2005.



MONDAY 03 JANUARY 2022

MON 00:00 Grimm's Fairy Tales (m00131rh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]


MON 00:38 The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (b07mczkx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:38 on Sunday]


MON 00:50 Absent Friends - The 7th Dimension (m00131rk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:50 on Sunday]


MON 01:00 The Valley at the Centre of the World by Malachy Tallack (Omnibus) (b0b1q69h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday]


MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b08n1vy2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday]


MON 02:20 Young Victoria by Juliet Ace (Omnibus) (b00y1vzm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday]


MON 03:30 Natural Histories (b082hg39)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday]


MON 04:00 Isaac Newton - Master of The Mint (b0bbmnn2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]


MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m00131rd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday]


MON 05:30 HR (b00hr5p5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday]


MON 06:00 Doctor Finlay (b008fld5)
The Further Adventures of a Black Bag - Series 1

1. The Catch

Doctor Cameron gets two arch enemies to look after each other, while Doctor Finlay moons over Nurse Angus.

Ready with his trusty black bag, Dr Finlay sets out to remedy all manner of ailments suffered by his patients in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford.

Starring John Gordon Sinclair.

AJ Cronin's stories about Scotland's most celebrated doctor

Dramatised by Sue Rodwell.

Dr Finlay …. John Gordon Sinclair
Dr Cameron …. Brian Pettifer
Janet …. Celia Imrie
Nurse Angus …. Stella Gonet
The Widow Robb …. Phyllis Logan
Tam …. David Ashton

Produced and directed at BBC Bristol by Jeremy Howe and Viv Beeby.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2002.


MON 06:30 Detective (b0bm9kb6)
Series 4

6. A Bit of Forensic

Caught out when forensic evidence is found in a getaway car, will a villain opt to shop the other gang members?

Robert Barr’s stories of crime and detection in London, featuring long-serving, ducking-and-diving Detective Sergeant Dave Brook with his partner, Detective Constable Tully.

Starring Ray Brooks and Stephen Garlick.

Robert Barr’s stories of crime and detection in London

Featuring long-serving, ducking-and-diving Detective Sergeant Dave Brook with his new partner, Detective Constable Tully.

DS Dave Brook …. Ray Brooks
DC Tully …. Stephen Garlick.
DS Harrison …. Peter Cleall
CI Roach …. Stephen Yardley
Eddie Dean …. Mike Grady
Keller …. Ian Brimble
Lab Assistant …. Jenny Funnell
Steve Gray …. Peter Acre
Mrs Pearce …. Helena Breck
DC Knowles …. Brian Smith

Producer: Martin Fisher

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in July 1985.


MON 07:00 Reluctant Persuaders (m0000qq8)
Series 3

3. Connecting People

Hardacre’s ad agency find themselves competing for an unusual account - Befriendr, a dating-style app designed to help lonely city-dwellers make friends.

Amanda recruits Joe as the most normal member of the agency, to accompany her to the Befriendr launch event – a chance to network, and maybe even make some new friends themselves.

Meanwhile Hardacre and Teddy – both banned from attending the event for not being normal enough – seek solace in each other’s company.

Hardacre resolves to remake Teddy in his own image, teaching him how to be A Real Man.

Hardacre ...... Nigel Havers
Joe ...... Mathew Baynton
Amanda ...... Josie Lawrence
Teddy ...... Rasmus Hardiker
Laura / 'Gram Woman ...... Olivia Nixon

An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2018.


MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m0012sdd)
Series 76

Episode 5

The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit to the Lyric Theatre in Salford. Jon Culshaw and Milton Jones compete against John Finnemore and Vicki Pepperdine with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment. Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Studios production.


MON 08:00 Marriage Lines (b062nldl)
Series 2

Episode 6

George and Kate's first night out since baby arrived doesn't go well.

Starring Richard Briers and Prunella Scales.

Richard Waring’s sitcom based on the mutual love and mistrust of two newlyweds.

Originating on BBC TV, it ran between 1963-65 and was adapted in two series for BBC radio due to its popularity.

George …. Richard Briers
Kate …. Prunella Scales
Arthur …. Frederick Treves
Dennis …. Robert McBain
Pauline …. Audrey Nicholson
George’s Mum …. Diana King

Producer: Charles Maxwell

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1967.


MON 08:30 The Phenomenon Squad (b083m047)
Hand-Picked

Superintendent Brabazon's task is to investigate his superiors, using hand-picked police officers.

Unfortunately, the hand that picked them belongs to his boss - the Deputy Assistant Commissioner...

Stars Roy Kinnear and Simon Cadell.

Michael Snelgrove’s police sitcom with a twist.

Supt Brabazon ...... Roy Kinnear
Dep Asst Commissioner ...... Simon Cadell
Sigaloff ...... Royce Mills
WPI Nutkins ...... Susie Blake
MacTooley ...... Ron Bain
Humby ...... David Battley
Wizard ...... Peter Howell
Phylis ...... Sheila Grant

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986


MON 09:00 Jest a Minute (b016w0m2)
Series 2

Episode 1

Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz from the Glee Club in Cardiff.

With:

Chris Corcoran
Lloyd Langford
Rob Deering
Tom Craine.

Producers: Paul Forde and Gareth Gwynn

First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales in December 2006.


MON 09:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b008jdf4)
Series 2

Episode 4

The belated burning of bras hits the bistro as Pamela suddenly realises that all the men in her life have been hopeless. Merv disagrees - he is one of them.

Dilkes discovers murder most foul - a dead chicken. Neville discovers Nigella Lawson and Pamela renounces the Oven and embraces the Coven.

Edith is happy to get her kit off.

Sitcom written by and starring Mervyn Stutter.

Merv ...... Mervyn Stutter
Pam ...... Lill Roughley
Dibden ...... John Challis
PC Dilkes ...... Michael Mears
Chantal ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman
Nev ...... Gyuri Sarossy

Producer: Mario Stylianides

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2003


MON 10:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007jpr7)
1. Miss Honeychurch, Giotto and Too Much Beethoven

1905: Cousins Lucy and Charlotte arrive from England at the Pensione Bertolini in Florence to discover they've not been given their promised rooms.

EM Forster's 1908 Edwardian-era novel.

Starring Cathy Sara and Sheila Hancock.

Dramatised in four parts by David Wade.

Lucy Honeychurch ...... Cathy Sara
Charlotte Bartlett ...... Sheila Hancock
Mr Emerson ...... John Moffatt
George Emerson ...... Gary Cady
Mr Beebe ...... Stephen Moore
Miss Lavish ...... Barbara Jefford
Miss Alan ...... Anna Cropper
Mr Eager ...... David Collings
Maid ...... Jilly Bond
Man ...... Ian Masters
Beggar ...... Michael Tudor Barnes

Other parts played by the cast.

Pianist: Terence Allbright

Director: Glyn Dearman.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995.


MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m00131j6)
Series 8

Breath

A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) stage.

Manoush Zomorodi explores something that is taken for granted but is absolutely essential to our lives – the power of breath.

First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2021.


MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m00131jb)
Anne Lady Glenconner

The Lady Glenconner chooses ‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes’ by The Platters and Edward Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’


MON 12:00 Marriage Lines (b062nldl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


MON 12:30 The Phenomenon Squad (b083m047)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


MON 13:00 Doctor Finlay (b008fld5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


MON 13:30 Detective (b0bm9kb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


MON 14:00 Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain (b08bz7ht)
Episode 1

"There was no better moment to be born, if you wanted to change the world by building things, than Britain in the second half of the 18th century."

Julian Glover has written the first full modern biography of Thomas Telford.

He was a shepherd's son who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering. Telford's life spanned a fascinating time in British history: born in post-Union, post-Enlightenment Scotland, Telford forged a successful career in London and then across the country working on projects that set the stage for the Industrial Revolution.

Born in the Scottish Borders in 1757, Telford's beginnings were not auspicious. But he gained a fine education in his village school and, in that egalitarian time and place, mixed there with children from all different classes. Indeed, contacts from his schooldays played a key role in helping him to become established as one of Britain's leading engineers.

A stonemason turned architect turned engineer Telford built churches, harbours, canals, docks and the famously vertiginous Pontcysyllte aqueduct in Wales. He invented the modern road and created the backbone of our national road network. His bridges are some of the most dramatic and beautiful ever built, most of all the Menai Bridge, which spans the dangerous channel between the mainland and Anglesey. Astonishingly, gratifyingly, almost everything he built remains in use today.

Read by Robin Laing.

Abridged in five parts by David Jackson Young

Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2017.


MON 14:15 D for Dexter (m00013n4)
Series 5

Episode 1

Their mum Jak hasn’t had a drink for eleven months now and she’s doing alright. They’ve even got a morning routine. She forgets words sometimes, but she might not have known them in the first place. And that’s how it is, in recovery.

Skye is 15 and Dexter's six, and they live in Gainsborough in Lincolnshire. Skye has always had to look out for Dex. But now Skye ‘s going on a school trip, if she can be sure that Jak will stick to the plan.

The story was developed with the help of the Young Carers' Transition Project in Nottingham, which receives funding from BBC Children in Need and through longterm research with young people and families in Gainsborough.

The fifth of 7 series by Amanda Whittington.

Skye...Sydney Wade
Dexter...Alfie Johnson-McCann
Jak...Una McNulty
Pearce...Beau Anten
Alex...Don Gilet
Alisha...Megan Huntley
Alice...Lauren Bowler
Poem by Octavia Bettis

Music by The Breeders and David Bowie, performed by Tom Constantine

Director: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2018.


MON 14:30 HV Morton - Travelling into the Light (b01mqr4t)
As John McCarthy retraces one of the journeys of HV Morton he presents a revealing portrait of this influential travel writer.

Witty, erudite and engaging, H.V. Morton was Britain's first truly popular travel writer.

His success was assured when he covered the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1923. His book In Search of England, published four years later, launched a bestselling series and set a benchmark for all travel writers.

Using In Search of England as a reference, McCarthy recreates Morton's journey around Devon and explores the changes to the landscape over the past eighty years.

On his travels he uncovers two Mortons. The book's narrator is a welcoming, cheerful man who rolls along the roads of England in a two-seater car to compose his skilfully-crafted considerations; and then there's the writer Harry Morton, a more complex individual whose literary achievements mask a complicated private life.

McCarthy's journey, echoing the pages of chapter six of In Search of England, takes him around Dartmoor, Widecombe and finally Clovelly. As he absorbs the areas he visited himself as a child he reflects on the influence of Morton and brings into the light the darker corners of the life of this pioneering travel writer.

Producer: Stephen Garner

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012.


MON 15:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007jpr7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


MON 16:00 Jest a Minute (b016w0m2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


MON 16:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b008jdf4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


MON 17:00 Reluctant Persuaders (m0000qq8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


MON 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m0012sdd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


MON 18:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (b007jm5y)
The Secondary Phase

Fit The Eleventh

On Brontitall, Arthur meets an archaeologist, gets captured and learns all about the Shoe Event Horizon.

Douglas Adams' sci-fi comedy following the misadventures of hapless human Arthur Dent.

The Book …. Peter Jones
Arthur Dent …. Simon Jones
Ford Prefect …. Geoffrey McGivern
Zaphod Beeblebrox …. Mark Wing-Davey
Eddie …. David Tate
Marvin …. Stephen Moore
Bird Two …. John Baddeley
Lintilla …. Rula Lenska
Hig Hurtenflurst …. Mark Smith

Radiophonic sound and music by Paddy Kingsland.

Producer: Geoffrey Perkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1980.


MON 18:30 A Good Read (b0367smf)
Sarah Hall and Owen Jones

Harriett Gilbert and her guests - writer Owen Jones and novelist Sarah Hall - discuss their favourite books by Robert Swindells, James Salter and Geoffrey Household.

Burning the Days by James Salter
Publisher: Picador

Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells
Publisher: Puffin

Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
Publisher: Orion

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013.


MON 19:00 Marriage Lines (b062nldl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


MON 19:30 The Phenomenon Squad (b083m047)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


MON 20:00 Doctor Finlay (b008fld5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


MON 20:30 Detective (b0bm9kb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m00131j6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m00131jb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today]


MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m0012sdd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


MON 22:30 Life With Lederer (m00131jg)
5. The Holiday

It's something longed for, but will Helen Lederer actually enjoy going on holiday?

Written by Helen Lederer, Roger Planer and Richard McBrien.

With:

Malcolm Raeburn
Nigel Carrington
Barbara Dryhurst
Sandra Maitland

Produced at BBC Manchester by Paul Z Jackson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1990.


MON 22:45 Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle (b00cmjvc)
Episode 3

Runaway teaspoons and the spelling of 'marmalade'.

Songs, stories and poems from humourist Ivor Cutler.

With:

Craig Murray-Orr
Alison O'Kill

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in June 1997.


MON 23:00 The News Quiz (m0012sx4)
Series 107

Best of 2021

Andy Zaltzman raids the 2021 archive to remember amongst other things, a man in a horned helmet running around the Capitol Building, the leader of the opposition not being allowed into a pub and Britain's favourite alpaca.

Producer: Richard Morris
Production co-ordinator: Katie Baum

A BBC Studios Production


MON 23:30 Inside Alan Francis (b00hlf5j)
Episode 1

Comedian Alan Francis explores the workings of his own mind in relation to his life, friends and long-suffering girlfriend Jane.

Alan realises he must have done something wrong to annoy Jane, but can't remember what it is?

With:

Julian Dutton
Barnaby Power
Kali Peacock.

Written by Alan Francis with Julian Dutton, Anthony Neilson and Richard Turner.

Producer Julia McKenzie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2009.



TUESDAY 04 JANUARY 2022

TUE 00:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (b007jm5y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]


TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b0367smf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]


TUE 01:00 Doctor Finlay (b008fld5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]


TUE 01:30 Detective (b0bm9kb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]


TUE 02:00 Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain (b08bz7ht)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]


TUE 02:15 D for Dexter (m00013n4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday]


TUE 02:30 HV Morton - Travelling into the Light (b01mqr4t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]


TUE 03:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007jpr7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]


TUE 04:00 Jest a Minute (b016w0m2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]


TUE 04:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b008jdf4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]


TUE 05:00 Reluctant Persuaders (m0000qq8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]


TUE 05:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m0012sdd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]


TUE 06:00 Doctor Finlay (b008gd1y)
The Further Adventures of a Black Bag - Series 1

2. The Fever

When scarlet fever hits Levenford, Doctor Finlay tries his hand at being a private detective - with disastrous results...

Ready with his trusty black bag, Dr Finlay sets out to remedy all manner of ailments suffered by his patients in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford.

Starring John Gordon Sinclair.

AJ Cronin's stories about Scotland's most celebrated doctor

Dramatised by Sue Rodwell.

Dr Finlay …. John Gordon Sinclair
Dr Cameron …. Brian Pettifer
Janet …. Celia Imrie
Mrs Prentice …. Sharon Maharaj
Hendry …. John McGlynn
Jeanie …. Tracy Wiles
Dr Snoddie …. David McKail

Produced and directed at BBC Bristol by Jeremy Howe and Viv Beeby.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.


TUE 06:30 Detective (b0bm9tkd)
Series 4

7. The Windfall

A woman asks DS Brook for advice when her down-and-out uncle leaves her a large amount of money in his will...

Starring Ray Brooks and Stephen Garlick.

Robert Barr’s stories of crime and detection in London

Featuring long-serving, ducking-and-diving Detective Sergeant Dave Brook with his new partner, Detective Constable Tully.

DS Dave Brook …. Ray Brooks
DC Tully …. Stephen Garlick.
DS Harrison …. Peter Cleall
CI Roach …. Stephen Yardley
Mary …. Jill Lidstone
Lawrence Yates …. David Milner
Mrs Yates …. Narissa Knights
Mr Winton …. John Forbes-Robertson
Mr Watkins …. Peter Acre
Mr Blackett …. Brian Smith.

Producer: Martin Fisher

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1985.


TUE 07:00 Small Scenes (b0739rfy)
Series 3

Episode 3

More overblown, melodramatic scenes from modern life.

Meet the man who can't get enough towels, a saxophonist who is tortured by his inability to play the solo from Baker Street and a late night visit from a charity burglar.

Award-winning sketch show.

Starring:

Daniel Rigby
Mike Wozniak
Cariad Lloyd
Henry Paker
Jessica Ransom

Written by Benjamin Partridge, Henry Paker and Mike Wozniak, with additional material from the cast.

Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2016.


TUE 07:30 It's a Fair Cop (b0bgrxvk)
Series 4

The Wrath of Zeus

Another chance to hear an episode from 2018. Police officer and comedian Alfie Moore presents the show in which the audience make the policing decisions in a real-life case. Alfie has more than fifteen year's experience in the Humberside police force to draw from and in this episode, Alfie uses a case from his time in the Dog Section, where he deployed his dog Zeus in a robbery chase.

Written and presented by ….. Alfie Moore
Script-editor ….. Will Ing
Producer ….. Alison Vernon-Smith
A BBC Studios Production


TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007k31h)
The Collapse of the British Railway Sandwich System

Captain Seagoon investigates a mustard-and-cress-flavoured mystery at Clapham Junction station.

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.

Starring:
Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan

First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.

With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.

Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.

Announcer: Wallace Greenslade

Producer: Peter Eton

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in March 1954.


TUE 08:30 Molesworth (m000gccq)
The Arts

In an attempt to win a posh radio prize, Nigel Molesworth presents his guide to Cinema, Theatre, Painting, Country Dancing.

Schoolboy terror Nigel Molesworth, formerly The Curse of St Custard’s, is now all grown-up and determined to share his experience of life.

Starring Willie Rushton.

Series written by Simon Brett based on characters created by Geoffrey Willans and by Ronald Searle.

Molesworth ...... William Rushton
Grimes ...... Clive Swift
Louise ...... Penelope Nice
Peason ...... Bob Sinfield
Fotherington-Thomas ...... Phil Nice
Lady Eiderdown ...... Chrissy Roberts
Gillibrand ...... Robert Harley

Music by Oonagh Bernon

Producer: Mark Robson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1987.


TUE 09:00 The News Quiz (m0012sx4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]


TUE 09:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b007mcc4)
Series 1

Episode 1

If smugglers were the rock stars of the day, Tamsyn Trelawny was Drumlin Bay's very own Ms Dynamite-ee-ee.

But how will she cope when a keen young soldier from London is appointed the new local customs collector?

18th century Cornish village sitcom by the writers of Dead Ringers - Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain.

Tamsyn Trelawny …… Lucy Speed
Jago Trelawny …… John Bowe
Major Thomas Falconer …… Cameron Stewart
Captain Marriot …… Andrew McGibbon
Squire Bascombe …… Martin Hyder
Lady Mary …… Julia Deakin
Dewey …… Mark Felgate
Various …… Phil Nice

Producer: Jan Ravens.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003.


TUE 10:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007jpty)
2. Good Men and Violets

Lucy Honeychurch has witnessed a murder in Florence, but George's actions disturb her more...

Set in Italy and England, EM Forster’s 1908 tale of a young woman from repressed Edwardian England.

Starring Cathy Sara, Sheila Hancock and John Moffatt.

Dramatised by David Wade.

Lucy Honeychurch ...... Cathy Sara
Charlotte Bartlett ...... Sheila Hancock
Mr Emerson ...... John Moffatt
George Emerson ...... Gary Cady
Mr Beebe ...... Stephen Moore
Miss Lavish ...... Barbara Jefford
Mr Eager ...... David Collings
Phaeton ...... Andrew Branch

Pianist: Terence Allbright

Director: Glyn Dearman.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995.


TUE 11:00 Archive on 4 (b060qbwm)
Tomorrow's World, Today

Many of us watched the iconic BBC TV series Tomorrow's World, as it made predictions about the future in which we now live.

Was it correct in its assumptions and predictions?

Former presenter James Burke takes a journey through the archive, and explores how the series fared.

Tomorrow's World began in the "White Heat" of the 1960s - as science and technology began to promise a future previously unimaginable.

From the first orbits of the moon, to the first heart transplant; from the nuclear debates of 20th century, to the economic failure of Concorde; from robots to the internet - Tomorrow's World reported on it all. How did the show do it? And did it get it right?

In 2015, James Burke - a Tomorrow’s World reporter from 1966 to 1972 – looked at how the show dealt with huge technological advances and assesses our ability to see what's around the corner.

Featuring:

Judith Hann
Michael Rodd
Maggie Philbin
Howard Stableford
Michael Blakstad
Dame Wendy Hall

Producer: Polly Weston

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2015.


TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007k31h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


TUE 12:30 Molesworth (m000gccq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


TUE 13:00 Doctor Finlay (b008gd1y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


TUE 13:30 Detective (b0bm9tkd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


TUE 14:00 Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain (b08cv1xh)
Episode 2

The first full modern biography of Thomas Telford: a shepherd's son, who revolutionised British engineering and set the stage for the Industrial Revolution.

Born in the Scottish Borders in 1757, Telford's beginnings were not auspicious. But he gained a fine education in his village school and, in that egalitarian time and place, mixed there with children from all different classes. Indeed, contacts from his schooldays played a key role in helping him to become established as one of Britain's leading engineers.

After completing his apprenticeship to a stonemason in Langholm, Telford left for London in 1782 with letters of introduction to the two leading architects of the day: Robert Adam and William Chambers. But success eluded him in the metropolis - instead, he found it in Shropshire, thanks to another Borders' contact, Sir William Pulteney, who invited him to work on the reconstruction of Shrewsbury Castle. This led on to his appointment as county surveyor and soon Telford was working on a huge number of public and private properties.

Reader: Robin Laing

Writer: Julian Glover

Abridger: David Jackson Young

Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2017.


TUE 14:15 D for Dexter (m00013qf)
Series 5

Episode 2

It's three days till the trip. Three days for Skye to get all the kit together and get the nits out of her hair.

The story was developed with the help of the Young Carers' Transition Project in Nottingham, which receives funding from BBC Children in Need and through longterm research with young people and families in Gainsborough.

Skye and Dexter are back in this award-winning serial, one of the highlights of the BBC Children in Need Appeal on Radio 4.

Skye...Sydney Wade
Dexter...Alfie Johnson-McCann
Jak...Una McNulty
Pearce...Beau Anten
Alex...Don Gilet
Alisha...Megan Huntley
Alice...Lauren Bowler
Poem by Octavia Bettis

Writer...Amanda Whittington
Director...Mary Ward-Lowery

Music by David Bowie, performed by Tom Constantine

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.


TUE 14:30 Everyone a Rembrandt (b04xnd05)
Art critic Louisa Buck lifts the lid on Painting By Number kits, the 'How To Craze' that swept the world in the 1950's, and promised to turn 'Everyman into a Rembrandt'. The pretension was laughed at by the art establishment, but appreciated by the millions of amateur artists who loved them.

The anodyne subject matter of seascapes, landscapes, clowns and kittens, were all given a flat treatment with a simple palette and in the process created an instantly recognisable aesthetic. This was plundered for ironic effect by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst who saw in Painting By Number a way to critique the relationship between art and taste, and art and mechanical reproduction. Louisa speaks to Dan Robbins in America who did more than anybody else to create the PBN template, as well as collectors, museum curators, and artists inspired by the complex inter-relationships between it, and Pop and Conceptual Art.

To some eyes PBN represented all that was crass about post-war American Culture, a pandering to the lowest common denominator, mechanistic, and devoid of artistic merit, to others it empowered generations of ordinary people to pick up a brush and dare to paint. In the process teaching them to look and opening the door onto an artistic world they would otherwise have been denied access to.

Painting by Number might have had its heyday, but even in this digital age the attraction of a gentler pastime that doesn't require batteries continues to appeal to a new generation of adherents. Louisa Buck didn't get a PBN kit for Christmas, because her parents thought it wasn't the done thing, now forty years later she sets out to lay that ghost to rest, and prove that PBN is anything but child's play.

Producer: Andrew Carter

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.


TUE 15:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007jpty)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


TUE 16:00 The 3rd Degree (b01rvnx3)
Series 3

University of Leicester

A lively and funny quiz show, hosted by Steve Punt, where a team of three University students take on a team of three of their professors.

Coming this week from the University of Leicester, the specialist subjects are Medicine, Sociology and, quite literally, Rocket Science (well, Astrophysics and Space Physics), with questions ranging from tummy rumbling to black holes via cheese, snooker and T.S. Eliot.

The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds, and the 'Highbrow and Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, film, and One Direction.

The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more than just glanced at that reading list.

Host Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on The Now Show, is also someone who delights in all facets of knowledge, not just in the Humanities (his educational background) but in the sciences as well. He has made a number of documentaries for Radio 4, on subjects as varied as "The Poet Unwound - The History Of The Spleen" and "Getting The Gongs" (an investigation into awards ceremonies), as well as a comedy for Radio 4's Big Bang Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, called "The Genuine Particle".

Producer: David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2013.


TUE 16:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b007mcc4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


TUE 17:00 Small Scenes (b0739rfy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


TUE 17:30 It's a Fair Cop (b0bgrxvk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


TUE 18:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (b007jm6g)
The Secondary Phase

Fit The Twelfth

Arthur and Zaphod learn some unpalatable home truths, but not before disappointment from the ruler of the universe.

Douglas Adams' sci-fi comedy following the misadventures of hapless human Arthur Dent.

The Book …. Peter Jones
Arthur Dent …. Simon Jones
Ford Prefect …. Geoffrey McGivern
Zaphod Beeblebrox …. Mark Wing-Davey
Eddie …. David Tate
Marvin …. Stephen Moore
Lintilla …. Rula Lenska
Zarniwoop …. Jonathan Pryce

Radiophonic sound and music by Paddy Kingsland.

Producer: Geoffrey Perkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1980.


TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b040hx6j)
Series 18

Something Inside So Strong

Labi Siffre wrote Something Inside So Strong in 1984. Widely believed to have been inspired by seeing film footage from South Africa, of young blacks being shot at by white policeman, he now reveals that the lyrics were also informed by the oppression he had experienced as a homosexual.

The song has been taken up by individuals and groups around the world who have suffered from discrimination. The Choir With No Name in Birmingham, made up of homeless singers, always close their concerts with the song. Choir members explain why it's so important to them, giving them a sense of pride and dignity.

The American singer Suede, talks about the power she finds in the song and the South African singer, Lira talks about making a special recording of it for the birthday of Nelson Mandela, as it was one of his favourite pieces. We hear how Celtic football fans sing it as an act of solidarity with their beleaguered manager, Neil Lennon.

In his first interview for over a decade Siffre explains how he still sings the songs as he tries to put his life back together after the death of his partner, Peter.

Contributors:
Labi Siffre
Bill West
Peter Churchill
Neil Lennon

Producer: Lucy Lunt

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.


TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007k31h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


TUE 19:30 Molesworth (m000gccq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


TUE 20:00 Doctor Finlay (b008gd1y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


TUE 20:30 Detective (b0bm9tkd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


TUE 21:00 Archive on 4 (b060qbwm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


TUE 22:00 It's a Fair Cop (b0bgrxvk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


TUE 22:30 Cowards (b00776sr)
Series 1

Episode 1

Talking coins and cows in the bizarre world of the comedy sketch show team.

Featuring the talents of writers and performers Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski , Tim Key and Lloyd Woolf.

Producer: Victoria Lloyd

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2007.


TUE 23:00 Armando Iannucci - Facts And Fancies (b007jrkw)
A Switch in Time

Tackling time-wasting and greetings cards

Producer, writer and performer Armando Iannucci presents his own collection of humorous essays.

Compiled by Jenny Baynes.

Producer: Jonathan James-Moore

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1997.


TUE 23:15 The Damien Slash Mixtape (m00010zt)
Series 2

Episode 1

Multi-character YouTube star Damien Slash makes the move from online to Radio 4, in this fast-paced, one-man sketch comedy show.

From the surreal to the satirical, from the zeitgeist to the absurd, Damien serves up a range of high octane characters, all from his own voice. Adverts, actors, hipsters, trolls - no aspect of modern life is left un-skewered.

Written by and starring Damien Slash (aka Daniel Barker).

Guest starring Natasia Demetriou

Production coordinated by Hayley Sterling
Producer: Matt Stronge

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.


TUE 23:30 Concrete Cow (b0076jvx)
Series 1

Episode 4

The personal problems of King Midas who's not sure whether life is as good as gold? - and a man hunting a pig in his living room.

This show is the product of a CD player, a beardy man pressing a button, a shiny disc that spins round really fast, a laser, some wires, a transmitter, an aerial, your ears and your brain.

Starring Olivia Colman, Sally Hawkins, Steven Kynman, Chris Pavlo and Robert Webb.

Written by James Cary, Sally Hawkins, Catherine Shepherd, Tim Higham, Stuart Barker and Adam Bromley.

Producer: Adam Bromley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002.



WEDNESDAY 05 JANUARY 2022

WED 00:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (b007jm6g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]


WED 00:30 Soul Music (b040hx6j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]


WED 01:00 Doctor Finlay (b008gd1y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]


WED 01:30 Detective (b0bm9tkd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]


WED 02:00 Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain (b08cv1xh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]


WED 02:15 D for Dexter (m00013qf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday]


WED 02:30 Everyone a Rembrandt (b04xnd05)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]


WED 03:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007jpty)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]


WED 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b01rvnx3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday]


WED 04:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b007mcc4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday]


WED 05:00 Small Scenes (b0739rfy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]


WED 05:30 It's a Fair Cop (b0bgrxvk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]


WED 06:00 Doctor Finlay (b008h45m)
The Further Adventures of a Black Bag - Series 1

3. The Miracle of Lestrange

When new-fangled Alternative Medicine hits Levenford, Finlay and Cameron find they're losing all their patients, even Janet.

Ready with his trusty black bag, Dr Finlay sets out to remedy all manner of ailments suffered by his patients in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford.

AJ Cronin's stories about Scotland's most celebrated doctor dramatised by Sue Rodwell.

CAST:

Dr Finlay …. John Gordon Sinclair
Dr Cameron …. Brian Pettifer
Janet …. Celia Imrie
Lestrange …. David Bamber
Annie Grant …. Claire Neilson

Produced and directed at BBC Bristol by Jeremy Howe and Viv Beeby.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.


WED 06:30 Detective (b0bmbbrm)
Series 4

8. On the Run

An armed robbery, a shoot-out and a five-year-old murder to solve - all in a day's work for Brook and Tully.

Robert Barr’s stories of crime and detection in London, featuring long-serving, ducking-and-diving Detective Sergeant Dave Brook with his partner, Detective Constable Tully.

CAST:

DS Dave Brook …. Ray Brooks
DC Tully …. Stephen Garlick.
DS Harrison …. Peter Cleall
CI Roach …. Stephen Yardley
Mr Latimer …. Garard Green
Steve Lockett …. Ian Brimble
Tommy …. Robin Summers
CI Williams …. Brian Smith
DS Mercer …. Colin Starkey
Richard …. Peter Acre
Sandra …. Helena Breck

Writer Robert Barr is best remembered for his work on BBC TV's crime serials 'Z-Cars' and 'Softly Softly'.

Producer: Martin Fisher

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1985.


WED 07:00 Believe It! (b08mbgxk)
Series 3

Truth

After a brush with death, Richard Wilson concludes that it's time to tell the truth.

To everybody. He can't just be nice all the time. Sometimes you've got to tell it how it is.

The third series of Jon Canter's not quite true autobiography of Richard Wilson.

Himself ...... Richard Wilson
Himself ...... David Tennant
Cabbie ...... Simon Greenall
Workman ...... Simon Greenall
Sheila Kaufmann ...... Arabella Weir
Tamsen ...... Alice Redman
Maddie ...... Kellie Shirley
Marcus ...... Tom Dawze
Actress ...... Lucy Robinson
Compere ...... Martine McMenemy

Produced and directed by Clive Brill.

A Brill production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2017.


WED 07:30 The Missing Hancocks (m000qmpv)
Series 4

New Year Resolutions

The Missing Hancocks recreates those episodes of the classic Hancock's Half Hour that have been wiped or lost from the archive.

The first modern sitcom, Hancock's Half Hour made stars of Tony Hancock, Sid James and Kenneth Williams, and launched Ray Galton and Alan Simpson as one of the most successful comedy-writing partnerships in history. But 20 episodes of the show were missing from the BBC archives. Now, after four highly successful series, the final batch of those episodes have been lovingly re-recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC Radio Theatre.

Tonight's episode: Hancock announces his list of New Year Resolutions, and is confident he can stick to them. Bill Kerr is equally confident that this is a money-making opportunity.

Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and with the classic score re-recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra, the show stars Kevin McNally, Kevin Eldon, Simon Greenall, Robin Sebastian and Susy Kane, and with a special guest appearance by Paul Merton. New Year's Resolutions was first broadcast on the 4th January, 1956.

Produced by Neil Pearson & Hayley Sterling.

Written by Ray Galton & Alan Simpson

Music recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Levon Parikian

A BBC Studios Production


WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007synp)
Series 4

The Old School Reunion

Surprises are in store as the lad heads back for prize-giving day at his old school.

Starring Tony Hancock.

With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques.

Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.

Producer: Dennis Main Wilson

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1957.


WED 08:30 If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? (b00s09s3)
Series 1

Dog Eat Dog

Three promising graduates are still underachieving in their 30s. Stars Richard E Grant, Amanda Root and Peter Capaldi.

Underachiever Giles hits on a money-making scam, while the DSS worries Judith.

Cast:

Richard E Grant, Amanda Root and Peter Capaldi with:-

Alex Lowe...Robert
Phil Nice...Nigel
Siriol Jenkins....Sarah
Richard Turner...dispatch rider

Written by Paul Shearer and Richard Turner

Produced by Paul Schlesinger.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.


WED 09:00 The Write Stuff (b007759c)
Series 10

William Shakespeare

James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary correctness.

Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by Sabrina Broadbent and Mark Billingham.

Author of the week is William Shakespeare.

Reader: Beth Chalmers

Producer: Katie Marsden

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.


WED 09:30 Smelling of Roses (b00dz7yc)
Series 4

Episode 2

A poetry competition sounds like an easy event to organise...until you take into account the egos of the poets involved...

When Rosie sets out to organise a poetry competition, it's hard to tell fact from fiction.

Another assignment for Rosie Burns and the event management company, where the clients are only part of the problem...

Rosie ..... Prunella Scales
Jo ..... Rebecca Callard
Bob ..... Duncan Preston
Tess ..... Annette Badland
Morgan Dean ..... Lorelei King
Geoff Stabb ..... Bill Wallis
Amateur Poets ..... Bruce Alexander

Written and produced by Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2003.


WED 10:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007qx2z)
3. A Proposal and a Bathing Party

Lucy Honeychurch returns to England much changed after her disturbing trip to Italy.

Set in Italy and England, EM Forster’s 1908 tale of a young woman from repressed Edwardian England.

Lucy Honeychurch ...... Cathy Sara
Charlotte Bartlett ...... Sheila Hancock
Mr Emerson ...... John Moffatt
George Emerson ...... Gary Cady
Mr Beebe ...... Stephen Moore
Mrs Honeychurch ...... Julia McKenzie
Freddy Honeychurch ...... Roger May
Cecil Vyse ...... Nathaniel Parker
Mrs Phipps ...... Tessa Worsley
Sir Harry Otway ...... Derek Waring
Minnie Beebe ...... Sara-Jane Derrick
Floyd ...... Jonathan Keeble
Mrs Vyse ...... Pauline Letts

Pianist: Terence Allbright

Dramatised by David Wade.

Director: Glyn Dearman.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995.


WED 11:00 The Sondheim Archive (m000pgvl)
2. Send in the Clowns

Maria Friedman pays tribute to the American composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim who died in November 2021.

Followed by the second of three programmes from the BBC Radio Theatre in London, in which Maria discusses the incredible impact of his work and performs songs from his hit shows.

Multi-award winning actor, singer and director Maria Friedman has had an association with the musicals of Stephen Sondheim ever since she starred in the National Theatre’s production of “Sunday in the Park With George” in 1990.

Maria is joined by actor Mark Umbers who starred in her recent production of "Merrily We Roll Along"and pianist and composer Jason Carr who has done orchestrations for Sondheim musicals.

Plus critic David Benedict who is writing Sondheim's authorised biography and Catherine Jayes who has worked as Musical Director on Sondheim shows.

Producer: Emma Kingsley

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2019.


WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007synp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


WED 12:30 If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? (b00s09s3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


WED 13:00 Doctor Finlay (b008h45m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


WED 13:30 Detective (b0bmbbrm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


WED 14:00 Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain (b08cv2fx)
Episode 3

The first full modern biography of Thomas Telford: a shepherd's son, born in 1757, who revolutionised British engineering and set the stage for the Industrial Revolution.

After completing his apprenticeship to a stonemason in Langholm, Telford left for London in 1782 with letters of introduction to the two leading architects of the day: Robert Adam and William Chambers. But success eluded him in the metropolis - instead, he found it in Shropshire, thanks to a Borders' contact, Sir William Pulteney, who invited him to work on the reconstruction of Shrewsbury Castle. This led on to his appointment as county surveyor and soon Telford was working on a huge number of public and private properties.

Telford's extraordinary career reached its zenith with the construction of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, begun in 1795 and opened in 1805. Still in use today, carrying the Llangollen Canal, it towers a hundred feet high and a thousand feet long over the valley of the River Dee. Built with simple technology, no safety ropes and no experience of building anything so high, unusual care was paid to protecting the workforce: only one man died during construction (and that death was thought to be due to carelessness). It is seen as Telford's masterpiece and he chose it above all of his creations as the background to his official portrait in the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Reader: Robin Laing

Writer: Julian Glover

Abridger: David Jackson Young

Producer: Kirsteen Cameron

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017.


WED 14:15 D for Dexter (m00013tw)
Series 5

Episode 3

Skye's getting stressed about leaving Dexter with Jak when she goes on her school trip.

Skye and Dexter are back in this award-winning serial, one of the highlights of the BBC Children in Need Appeal on Radio 4.

This year's story was developed with the help of the Young Carers' Transition Project in Nottingham which receives funding from BBC Children in Need, and through long term research with children and families in Gainsborough.

Skye...Sydney Wade
Dexter...Alfie Johnson-McCann
Jak...Una McNulty
Pearce...Beau Anten
Alex...Don Gilet
Alisha...Megan Huntley
Alice...Lauren Bowler
Poem by Octavia Bettis

Writer...Amanda Whittington
Director...Mary Ward-Lowery

Music by David Bowie, performed by Tom Constantine

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.


WED 14:30 Asian Weddings: Something Gold, Nothing Borrowed, Everything New (b01h2c3n)
Big fat gypsy weddings might have hit the headlines, but the traditional British Asian wedding has always been big. Often including several separate ceremonies and events spread over a week or more, the cost of the average Asian wedding in the UK is frequently well over £30,000. With the significance of marriage or 'shaadi' being huge in south Asian culture, weddings are a serious business. From the lavish designer outfits and the elaborate cakes to the grand stages where the bride and groom sit on their thrones, complete with a lighting and sound system to rival a TV talent show, this is an industry worth a reported £300 million a year in the UK alone.

Yasmeen Khan explores the glamorous world of British Asian weddings. She takes in an Asian wedding exhibition in the UK, meeting the clothes designers, wedding planners, toastmasters, food suppliers, chefs, videographers and 'yellow gold' jewellers making their fortunes as the second and third generation tie the knot, all of them keen to help the families show off their wealth. She learns about the different cultural aspects of a Muslim, Sikh and Hindu wedding. She visits a couple's big day and explore the meaning behind cultural traditions, such as the confiscating of the groom's shoes by the bride's sisters and cousins - finding out what he must do to get them back.

Yasmin also delves into the politics of the guest list at an Asian wedding, many of which are huge affairs with hundreds and sometimes thousands of guests! And she discovers just how much family relations are tested as an increasing number of couples pay for something that has traditionally been paid for by the bride's family.

Produced by: Yasmeen Khan & Neil Rosser
A Ladbroke Production

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.


WED 15:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007qx2z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


WED 16:00 The Write Stuff (b007759c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


WED 16:30 Smelling of Roses (b00dz7yc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


WED 17:00 Believe It! (b08mbgxk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


WED 17:30 The Missing Hancocks (m000qmpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


WED 18:00 Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu (b007jvp4)
1. The Visitor

In 17th Century Leyden, young Flemish painter Godfrey Schalken's love for his master's daughter, Rose, receives a setback when a mysterious visitor comes calling one night by the name of Vanderhausen...

An unabridged reading of Sheridan Le Fanu's supernatural tale in two episodes.

Read by Ian McDiarmid.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) is regarded by many critics as the greatest master of the English ghost story. A product of the decaying Anglo-Irish culture of the early and mid-19th Century, he sums up in his work better than any of his contemporaries the fears and dreads that may haunt the sensitive individual.

Producer: Lawrence Jackson

Made for BBC 7 by BBC Northern Ireland.

First broadcast in June 2005.


WED 18:30 The Radio Detectives (b007jp87)
Series 1

The Shadow Knows

Professor Jeffery Richards unravels the history and portrayals of Walter Gibson's pulp fiction force against evil, The Shadow.

Featuring the classic Orson Welles portrayal and an interview with Simon Callow.

Affectionate five-part series about popular radio detectives.

Producer: Jon Rolph

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.


WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007synp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


WED 19:30 If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? (b00s09s3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


WED 20:00 Doctor Finlay (b008h45m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


WED 20:30 Detective (b0bmbbrm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


WED 21:00 The Sondheim Archive (m000pgvl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


WED 22:00 The Missing Hancocks (m000qmpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


WED 22:30 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair (b04fzfy9)
Series 1

Doing the Best for Daniel

Jenny Éclair plays a single mother who will stop at nothing to give her son the best education and future. But might she have gone too far?

Writer ...... Jenny Éclair

Producer ...... Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2014.


WED 22:45 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme (b01dtxh1)
Series 1

Work

In the last of the series, Tim's laid on a final episode treat: A professional musician will accompany him as he tackles the thorny issue of 'work'. Tom Basden is also present.

Written and presented by Tim Key

With Tom Basden & Isy Suttie

Producer: James Robinson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012.


WED 23:00 Radio Active (b007jvym)
Series 6

In-House Documentary

The fly-on-the-wall team follow a family around as they go about their daily lives - you'd never know they were in the house with them!

The team make a documentary about the 'ordinary' things they have done whilst living together.

Starring Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Philip Pope, Michael Fenton-Stevens and Morwenna Banks.

Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins with Michael Fenton-Stevens.

Music by Philip Pope, Steve Brown and Angus Deayton.

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1986.


WED 23:30 The News at Bedtime (b00pftgs)
Series 1

Episode 7

Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories happening this 'once upon a time'.

It's New Year's Day and riot police are called in as the Teddy Bears try to have their picnic.

With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Joseph Cohen-Cole, Kate Leyden, Lewis MacLeod, Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, Dan Tetsell.

Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.


WED 23:45 The Goldfish Bowl (b007k155)
Series 1

Episode 7

Will their owners reconcile? Liam and Anton get a fish's eye view. With Shaun Prendergast and Hamish McColl. From October 1998.



THURSDAY 06 JANUARY 2022

THU 00:00 Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu (b007jvp4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]


THU 00:30 The Radio Detectives (b007jp87)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]


THU 01:00 Doctor Finlay (b008h45m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]


THU 01:30 Detective (b0bmbbrm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]


THU 02:00 Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain (b08cv2fx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]


THU 02:15 D for Dexter (m00013tw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday]


THU 02:30 Asian Weddings: Something Gold, Nothing Borrowed, Everything New (b01h2c3n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]


THU 03:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007qx2z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]


THU 04:00 The Write Stuff (b007759c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]


THU 04:30 Smelling of Roses (b00dz7yc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]


THU 05:00 Believe It! (b08mbgxk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]


THU 05:30 The Missing Hancocks (m000qmpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]


THU 06:00 Doctor Finlay (b008j8lc)
The Further Adventures of a Black Bag - Series 1

4. Birth and Death

As the squabble over who is the most up-to-date doctor gets more heated, it takes a baby to teach Cameron and Finlay a lesson in humility.

Ready with his black bag, Dr Finlay sets out to remedy all manner of ailments suffered by his patients in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford.

AJ Cronin's stories about Scotland's most celebrated doctor dramatised by Sue Rodwell.

CAST:

Dr Finlay …. John Gordon Sinclair
Dr Cameron …. Brian Pettifer
MacFinnon …. Stuart McQuarrie
Jessie Todd …. Pauline Lockhart
Dougal Todd …. Andrew Mackintosh
Mrs Todd …. Tina Gray

Produced and directed at BBC Bristol by Jeremy Howe and Viv Beeby.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.


THU 06:30 Colvil and Soames (b007jt94)
Bad Apples

1. Shockwaves

Is a disturbing murder on a Brighton beach a drug-related killing - or a case of something more sinister..?

Christopher Benjamin and Amanda Redman stars as intelligence officers Henry Colvil and Alex Soames.

Christopher Lee's six-part murder-mystery.

Henry Colvil …. Christopher Benjamin
Alex Soames …. Amanda Redman
DCI Guscott …. Dudley Sutton
DS Gwen Jenkins …. Sue Joan Davies
Miranda Peel …. Sheila Reed
DCS Evans …. John Hartley
Sidney Carpenter …. Neil Conrich
Doctor …. Stuart Organ
Police Constable …. Brian Bowles

Producer: Pete Atkin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1998.


THU 07:00 Meet David Sedaris (b0901fqt)
Series 6

The Perfect Fit; Audience Q&A

The globetrotting, trash-picking, aisle-rolling storyteller is back with more words of wit and wisdom. The series ends with an essay about the wilder end of his fashion sense, The Perfect Fit, and a lively audience question and answer session.

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America's pre-eminent humour writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that he is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.

David Sedaris's first book, Barrel Fever (1994), which included The SantaLand Diaries. was a critical and commercial success, as were his follow-up efforts, Naked (1997), Holidays on Ice (1997) and Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000). He became known for his bitingly funny recollections of his youth, family life and travels, making semi-celebrities out of his parents and siblings.

David Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. A feature film adaptation of his story C.O.G. was released after a premier at the Sundance Film Festival (2013). He has been a contributor to BBC Radio 4 since 1996.

Produced by Steve Doherty.
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2017.


THU 07:30 Fags, Mags and Bags (m000k2bh)
Series 9

Episode 1

More shop based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave.

Set in a Scots-Asian corner and written by and starring Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli, the award winning Fags, Mags & Bags returns for a 9th series with all the regular characters and some guest appearances along the way.

In this episode, Ramesh is delighted that the new Lenzie House of Wax is proving a hit as stock has been flying off the shelves. But not everyone is happy with the number of visitors to the town.

Join the staff of Fags, Mags and Bags in their tireless quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh Mahju has built it up over the course of over 30 years and is a firmly entrenched, friendly presence in the local area. He is joined by his shop sidekick Dave.

Then of course there are Ramesh’s sons Sanjay and Alok, both surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach to shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business. Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them - whether they like it or not!

Cast:
Ramesh: Sanjeev Kohli
Dave: Donald Mcleary
Sanjay: Omar Raza
Alok: Susheel Kumar
Thin Elizabeth: Maureen Carr
Hilly: Kate Brailsford
Bishop Briggs: Michael Redmond
Bra Jeff: Steven McNicol
Angusina Comer: Gavin Mitchell

Producer: Gus Beattie for Gusman Productions
A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4


THU 08:00 The Men from the Ministry (b0116gvp)
We All Make Mistakes

Sir Gregory decides it's time to take action over the bumbling bureaucrats...

A weekly tribute to all those who work in government departments.

Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley and John Graham.

Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham.

'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Producer: Edward Taylor

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in August 1971.


THU 08:30 After Henry (b007k2z7)
Series 2

Bedside Manners

'You hear of people going into hospital for simple routine tests, and then it turns out they've got something quite ghastly.'

Poorly Sarah's in hospital and must cope with visits from her mother and daughter.

Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who never quite manage to see eye to eye.

Sarah ...... Prunella Scales
Eleanor ...... Joan Sanderson
Russell ...... Benjamin Whitrow
Clare ...... Gerry Cowper
The Sister ...... Deborah Findlay

Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV network.

Producer: Pete Atkin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1986.


THU 09:00 Many a Slip (b007js24)
From 30/05/1978

Roy Plomley chairs as Eleanor Summerfield and Gillian Reynolds battle David Nixon and Tim Rice in the panel game to spot mistakes.

With some tune-twisters from Steve Race.

Devised and written by Ian Messiter.

Producer: Martin Fisher

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1978.


THU 09:30 Clare in the Community (b00g9mgx)
Series 2

Mean Streets

Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the right jargon but never a practical solution.

In this episode, the meddling social worker takes a homeless survey, and Brian arranges a stag night.

A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Clare is in her 30s, white, middle class and heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her.

Clare continually struggles to control both her professional and private life

In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare.

Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden.

Starring Sally Phillips and Alex Lowe.

Clare ...... Sally Phillips
Brian ..... Alex Lowe

With:

Richard Lumsden
Gemma Craven
Ellen Thomas
Nina Conti
Andrew Wincott
Alex Tregear
Nick Sayce

Producer: Katie Tyrell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2005.


THU 10:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007qvgf)
4. The Triumph of Phaeton

Engaged to Cecil Vyse but haunted by her dreams of George Emerson, Lucy Honeychurch feels muddled..

Conclusion of EM Forster’s 1908 tale of a young woman from repressed Edwardian England.

Lucy Honeychurch ...... Cathy Sara
Charlotte Bartlett ...... Sheila Hancock
Mr Emerson ...... John Moffatt
George Emerson ...... Gary Cady
Mr Beebe ...... Stephen Moore
Mrs Honeychurch ...... Julia McKenzie
Freddy Honeychurch ...... Roger May
Cecil Vyse ...... Nathaniel Parker
Minnie Beebe ...... Sara-Jane Derrick
Floyd ...... Jonathan Keeble
Miss Alan ...... Anna Cropper
Phaeton ...... Andrew Branch

Pianist: Terence Allbright

Director: Glyn Dearman.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995.


THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m00131r9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]


THU 11:45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (m0003r3f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday]


THU 12:00 The Men from the Ministry (b0116gvp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


THU 12:30 After Henry (b007k2z7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


THU 13:00 Doctor Finlay (b008j8lc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


THU 13:30 Colvil and Soames (b007jt94)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


THU 14:00 Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain (b08cv2jf)
Episode 4

Julian Glover's new biography of Thomas Telford: a shepherd's son, born in the Scottish Borders in 1757, who revolutionised British engineering and set the stage for the Industrial Revolution.

After the completion of his masterpiece, the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in North Wales in 1805, Telford spent the next thirty years of his life involved in a vast range of works up and down the country. These included the construction of over a thousand bridges; twelve hundred miles of good road across tough terrain; forty-three harbours and fishing ports (from Wick to St Katherine's Docks in London); canals throughout England; and the great new road across Wales to the Menai Bridge and Holyhead. In particular, his new roads and bridges revolutionised access to the Scottish Highlands, and in 1819 Telford embarked upon a 'promotional tour' of the north of Scotland in the company of the Poet Laureate Robert Southey.

But the Highlands were also the location of one of the great struggles of Telford's career: the Caledonian Canal (designed to link Inverness on the east coast with Fort William on the west). Begun in 1804, construction was slow, difficult and costs kept rising; it was not completed until 1822 - and Telford did not attend the formal opening ceremony.

Reader: Robin Laing

Writer: Julian Glover

Abridger: David Jackson Young

Producer: Kirsteen Cameron

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017.


THU 14:15 D for Dexter (m00014k0)
Series 5

Episode 4

Skye freaked out after losing Dex on Dog Island. She's a horrible person, that horrible things happen to, and she knows she deserves it.

Skye and Dexter are back in this award-winning serial, one of the highlights of the BBC Children in Need Appeal on Radio 4.

This year's story was developed with the help of the Young Carers' Transition Project in Nottingham which receives funding from BBC Children in Need, and through long term research with children and families in Gainsborough.

Skye...Sydney Wade
Dexter...Alfie Johnson-McCann
Jak...Una McNulty
Pearce...Beau Anten
Alex...Don Gilet
Poem by Octavia Bettis

Writer...Amanda Whittington
Director...Mary Ward-Lowery

Music by David Bowie, performed by Tom Constantine

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.


THU 14:30 Rosa and Leos (b00vhg35)
In 1926, the Czech composer Leos Janacek was in Britain on a short visit.

Addressing the Czechoslovak Club in London, he thanked the person who had been responsible for inviting him, discovering his music and championing him in Britain - not a conductor or a performer, but an elderly Englishwoman named Rosa Newmarch.

Although little known today, Rosa was a pivotal figure in making concert-goers in early 20th century Britain appreciate and understand new music from Czechoslovakia, Russia and Finland. She travelled extensively abroad, hearing new works performed and later getting them played in English concert halls. She was friends with composers such as Sibelius and Elgar and she wrote copious programme notes and books on musical trends abroad.

In 1920, Rosa visited Prague for the first time and was immediately taken with the music of Leos Janacek. She eventually met the composer in person and, on her return to England, she began writing about him. She also began mounting performances of his work.

In 1926, she managed to persuade Janacek to come to London. Rosa booked the Wigmore Hall and planned an ambitious programme of her friend's music. However, the visit coincided with the beginning of the General Strike. Although the concert of Janacek's work took place, there was little publicity surrounding it, as there were no newspapers being printed. Still, it was an introduction for concert-goers. Rosa had also planned excursions for Janacek which couldn't take place because of the lack of transport. But he did manage to get to London Zoo, where he took down notes of the noises that the monkeys made.

The friendship between Janacek and Rosa continued until his death two years later and was cemented when he dedicated his well-loved "Sinfonietta" to her.

Music writer and lecturer Peter Avis tells the remarkable and unknown story of Rosa Newmarch and her friendship with Leos Janacek.

With contributions from Rosa's grand-daughter, musical experts and extracts from correspondence of the time, he re-evaluates the significance of Rosa's place in musical history.

Producer: Emma Kingsley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2010.


THU 15:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007qvgf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


THU 16:00 Many a Slip (b007js24)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


THU 16:30 Clare in the Community (b00g9mgx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


THU 17:00 Meet David Sedaris (b0901fqt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


THU 17:30 Fags, Mags and Bags (m000k2bh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


THU 18:00 Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu (b007sw35)
2. The Deal

The ghoulish Vanderhausen seals his deal with Rose's uncle who is unaware that his pupil Godfrey Schalken is in love with her...

Ian McDiarmid concludes the unabridged reading of Sheridan Le Fanu's supernatural tale.

Producer: Lawrence Jackson

Made for BBC 7 by BBC Northern Ireland.

First broadcast in June 2005.


THU 18:30 Great Lives (b09hrxw0)
Series 44

Cornelia Parker on Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp, the father of conceptual art, and responsible for that famously provocative urinal signed 'R Mutt, 1917', is the great life choice of fellow artist Cornelia Parker. She explains to Matthew Parris why he's influenced not only her work but that of so many other artists since his death in 1968. As an art student in the 1970s she recalls the attraction of Duchamp's 'readymades', such as a bicycle wheel or suspended wine bottle rack - manufactured items that the artist selected and modified, antidotes to what he dismissed as conventional 'retinal art'.

They are joined by Dawn Ades, Professor of the History of Art at the Royal Academy, who's curated the current RA exhibition on Duchamp and Dali. Dawn recalls an occasion when, whilst she didn't actually meet Duchamp, she once saw him completely absorbed in a game of chess in a café in the Spanish seaside town of Cadaqués, whilst visiting Salvador Dali. They also discuss Duchamp's intriguing female alter ego, Rrose Selavy (Eros, c'est la vie or "physical love is the life") Man Ray's photographs of whom featured in some Surrealist exhibitions.

We hear how Duchamp let the world know that he'd given up being in artist in favour of devoting himself to chess whilst still in his 30s. He played the game at a high level, representing France at international tournaments, whilst covertly continuing his art work. Cornelia Parker explains that his works spoke not just to the Pop Art and Op Art movements of the 1960s, but more broadly to American artists like Bruce Nauman and the composer John Cage, and whose influence can be seen today in the work of, for example, fellow English artist, Rachel Whiteread.

Producer: Mark Smalley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.


THU 19:00 The Men from the Ministry (b0116gvp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


THU 19:30 After Henry (b007k2z7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


THU 20:00 Doctor Finlay (b008j8lc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


THU 20:30 Colvil and Soames (b007jt94)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m00131r9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]


THU 21:45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (m0003r3f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday]


THU 22:00 Fags, Mags and Bags (m000k2bh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


THU 22:30 The Penny Dreadfuls (m000h8gk)
Richard III Rebothered

Rather than a conniving and treacherous hunchback, Richard was an honest and loyal warrior with only a slight spinal kink, nothing you'd notice if you weren't looking for it. This is the story of how, through the invention of the printing press, a good man became the first victim of fake news and how the Tudor dynasty was built on a foundation of lies by the world's first spin-doctor, Henry Tudor.

Written by David Reed.
Performed by David Reed, Thom Tuck, Humphrey Ker, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Celeste Dring.

Producer, Julia McKenzie
A BBC Studios Production.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2020.


THU 23:15 Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle (b00cqd9z)
Episode 4

The tale of a yellow fly and shoplifting with a twist.

Songs, stories and poems from humourist Ivor Cutler, with Craig Murray-Orr, Alison O'Kill, Dylan Edwards and Beverley Crew.

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in June 1997.


THU 23:30 The Secret World (b012mzvm)
Series 2

Episode 4

Alan Titchmarsh reveals a dark side when his career is at risk. Jon Culshaw explores famous folk's private lives. From July 2010.



FRIDAY 07 JANUARY 2022

FRI 00:00 Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu (b007sw35)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]


FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b09hrxw0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]


FRI 01:00 Doctor Finlay (b008j8lc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]


FRI 01:30 Colvil and Soames (b007jt94)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]


FRI 02:00 Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain (b08cv2jf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]


FRI 02:15 D for Dexter (m00014k0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday]


FRI 02:30 Rosa and Leos (b00vhg35)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]


FRI 03:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007qvgf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]


FRI 04:00 Many a Slip (b007js24)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]


FRI 04:30 Clare in the Community (b00g9mgx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]


FRI 05:00 Meet David Sedaris (b0901fqt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]


FRI 05:30 Fags, Mags and Bags (m000k2bh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday]


FRI 06:00 Doctor Finlay (b008kxdq)
The Further Adventures of a Black Bag - Series 1

5. The Golden Fishbone

Doctor Finlay is distracted from medicine by a fishbone that brings the promise of a fast fortune!

Ready with his black bag, Dr Finlay sets out to remedy all manner of ailments suffered by his patients in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford.

AJ Cronin's stories about Scotland's most celebrated doctor dramatised by Sue Rodwell.

CAST:

Dr Finlay …. John Gordon Sinclair
Dr Cameron …. Brian Pettifer
Janet …. Celia Imrie
Nurse Angus …. Stella Gonet
Maggie Dallas …. Maureen Beattie
McKellor …. David Tennant

Produced and directed at BBC Bristol by Jeremy Howe and Viv Beeby.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.


FRI 06:30 Colvil and Soames (b007jt9c)
Bad Apples

2. Numbered

After an unexpected twist in his latest murder investigation, Inspector Guscott has asked his old friends from MI6, Colvil and Soames for their discreet assistance.

Christopher Benjamin and Amanda Redman stars as intelligence officers Henry Colvil and Alex Soames.

Christopher Lee's murder-mystery.

Henry Colvil …. Christopher Benjamin
Alex Soames …. Amanda Redman
DCI Guscott …. Dudley Sutton
DS Gwen Jenkins …. Sue Jones Davies
Miranda Peel …. Sheila Reid
Tom Margeson …. Tom Cotcher
Charlie Lofthouse …. Alistair McGowan

Producer: Pete Atkin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998.


FRI 07:00 The Headset Set (b0124pxs)
Series 1

Episode 2

A new phone system is causing chaos in the call centre at Smile5, the mail order catalogue company.

Eavesdrop on both sides of the bizarre, horrific and ludicrous phone calls when customers call in as events unfold with company staff.

Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu
Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith
Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult
Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Paul Sharma

Writers: James Kettle, Stephen Carlin, Andy Wolton, Colin Hoult, Madeleine Brettingham, Dale Shaw, Kevin Core, Rob Gilroy, Tom Neenan and Jon Hunter.

Script editors: James Kettle and Dan Tetsell
Producer: Tilusha Ghelani

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.


FRI 07:30 Henry Normal: A Normal... (m0011ryb)
Ageing

Henry Normal: A Normal... Ageing

"Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal"
Simon O'Hagan - Radio Times

The eighth instalment in this acclaimed, occasional series in which acclaimed, occasional writer Henry Normal tackles those subjects so big only radio can possibly contain them.

So far Henry has covered ‘Family’, ‘Life’, ‘Love’, ‘Imagination’, ‘Nature’, ‘The Universe’ and ‘Communication; in this new episode, recorded in front of a live audience in Stratford Upon Avon, he will be talking about getting older.

Through poetry, stories, jokes and quotes Henry will be exploring being in the autumn of his life, when things are "going a different colour and dropping off.

Henry Normal is a multi-award winning writer, producer and poet. Co-writer of award winning TV programmes such as The Royle Family, The Mrs Merton Show, Coogan’s Run and Paul Calf, and producer of, amongst many others, Oscar-Nominated Philomena, Gavin and Stacey and Alan Partridge.

Praise for previous episodes in this series:

"It's a rare and lovely thing: half an hour of radio that stops you short, gently demands your attention and then wipes your tears away while you have to have a little sit down"

"It's a real treat to hear a seasoned professional like Henry taking command of this evening comedy spot to deliver a show that's idiosyncratic and effortlessly funny"

"Not heard anything that jumps from hilarious to moving in such an intelligent, subtle way as Henry Normal's show"

Written and performed by Henry Normal
Production Coordinator - Katie Baum
Sound manager - David Thomas
Produced by Carl Cooper

This was a BBC Studios production


FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jprv)
Series 3

The Godiva Affair

The Home Guard platoon holds a Spitfire fundraiser, but Corporal Jones is pining for Mrs Fox.

Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.

CAST:

Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Mrs Fox …. Mollie Sugden

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1976.


FRI 08:30 Married (b0081vm4)
Series 1

Episode 2

Confirmed bachelor Robin Lightfoot is not happy. He's accidentally helpful to his new family. Surely he's not growing to like them?

With a new wife and kids, Robin learns more about his parallel universe.

Hugh Bonneville stars in Tony Bagley's comedy.

Robin ...... Hugh Bonneville
Lesley ...... Josie Lawrence
Julia ...... Barbara Murray
Dirk ...... Steve Frost
Ned ...... Sam Bradley
Maxine ...... Ann Gosling
Janet Ellis ...... Elaine
Psychotherapist ...... Simon Roberts
Big Kid ...... Jackson Leach
Nicholas Parsons ...... Himself

Producer Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1999.


FRI 09:00 Funny You Should Ask (b0b6q46w)
From 10/03/1981

Peter Jones hosts the entertainment quiz about comedy as he tests a panel of experts: Arthur English, Roy Hudd and Sandy Powell.

Funny You Should Ask ran for 8 series from 1976 to 1982.

Questions compiled by Michael Pointon.

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1981.


FRI 09:30 In the Red (b007js7t)
Episode 7

Plotting at the BBC reaches a climax, while reporter George edges closer to nailing the serial killer.

London is plagued by a series of bizarre murders of bank managers. Hot on the trail of the killer are an old-style Chief Police Inspector and BBC Radio's crime correspondent, George Cragge.

A blackly humorous murder mystery set in the world of City finance, the BBC and political parties. Dramatised in seven-parts by Mark Tavener and Peter Baynham from Mark Tavener's novel.

George Cragge ...... Michael Williams
Frank Jefferson ...... Barry Foster
Geoffrey Crichton-Potter ...... Stephen Moore
Henry ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Max ...... Peter Woodthorpe
Controller Radio 2 ...... Stephen Fry
Controller Radio 4 ...... John Bird
Dominic De'ath ...... Benjamin Whitrow
Hercules Fortescue ...... Nicholas Le Prevost
Andrew James ...... Peter Serafinowcz
Laetitia ...... Victoria Carling
Controller BBC 1 ...... Ian McNiece
Carstairs ...... Jeffrey Holland
Caroline ...... Susie Brann
Jemma ...... Alice Arnold

With Geoffrey Whitehead, Paul Shearer and Tim Hope.

Music by Paul Mottram

Producer: Paul Schlesinger

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.


FRI 10:00 Das Kapital (b0b1hwwj)
This dramatisation of Karl Marx’s iconic work imagines what he would make of our 21st Century global economy. Sarah Woods updates the book to the present day and weaves its themes into a story. And, as with the book, the story begins with 'the commodity'.

"The commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human needs of whatever kind."

This is the story of the ultimate commodity: The smartphone. Today, at least half of the adult population owns one and by 2020 it's estimated around 70 per cent will - that's 6.1 billion people. It's a story that takes us from the cobalt mines of Africa to the tech firms of the UK. And what Marx's analysis reveals, is that the objects we each carry in our pockets aren't in fact phones at all.

Marx is a figure who divides opinion, but Das Kapital is one of the most influential books of the modern world. It informed and inspired a political movement that shaped the 20th Century and remains a key text in the study of modern economics. It's one of the few books that can claim to have changed the world.

Sarah Woods works in collaboration with scientists, academics and charities to communicate current issues through innovative drama. For BBC Radio, she has written over thirty plays, series, adaptations and drama-documentaries. Recent Radio 4 projects range from a drama about our relationship with water (The State of Water) to a love story about the flu virus (My Life with Flu). Her most recent play for Radio 4 - Borderland - imagined a future UK, divided by borders. It won the Tinniswood Award for Best Audio Drama script at this year's BBC Audio Drama Awards.

Directed by James Robinson
A BBC Cymru Wales Production

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2018.


FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m001342v)
Tips for new podcasters

Chris Pearson and Laura Grimshaw invite podcasters to offer up tips and advice on podcasting.

Leanne Alie joins us from BBC Sounds Audio Lab, and discusses her independent podcast Coiled.

The producer Charlie Dinkin and the stand up comedian Olga Koch talk comedy podcasts, and the value of collaboration.

BBC Brexitcast creator Dino Sofos talks about the pressures of making daily podcasts, and his new production company Persephonica.

Plus, broadcasters from the BBC and beyond offer their advice, with contributions from:

Bad People's Dr Julia Shaw
Teach Me A Lesson's, Greg James and Bella Mackie
Audio Freqs and Vegan Life Podcast presenter Jake Yapp
If You Dont Know's Roshan Roberts and De-Graft Mensah
BBC Sounds Podcast Producer Ella Watts
The Battersea Poltergeist and Uncanny host Danny Robins
BBC Ouch's Keiligh Baker
The Skewer producer Jon Holmes
Wheel Of Misfortune host Alison Spittle,
The Moon Under Water presenters John Robins and Robin Allender
Whistle Through The Shamrocks writers Nicola Coughlan and Camilla Whitehill,
Tony Bellew Is Angry presenter Tony Bellew
Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell from Must Watch Podcast
Podcast Radio Hour creator Amanda Litherland
Director and Sound Designer Dirk Maggs.


FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jprv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


FRI 12:30 Married (b0081vm4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


FRI 13:00 Doctor Finlay (b008kxdq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


FRI 13:30 Colvil and Soames (b007jt9c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


FRI 14:00 Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain (b08cv2qt)
Episode 5

Julian Glover's biography of Thomas Telford: a shepherd's son, born in the Scottish Borders in 1757, who revolutionised British engineering and set the stage for the Industrial Revolution.

Telford built churches, harbours, canals, docks and the famously vertiginous Pontcysyllte aqueduct in Wales. He invented the modern road and created the backbone of Britain's road network. His bridges are some of the most dramatic and beautiful ever built, most of all the Menai Bridge, which spans the dangerous channel between the mainland and Anglesey.

With his death in September 1834, just as the railway age was dawning, Telford had little idea of how lasting his legacy would be: he shaped the lives of the Victorian civil engineers who followed him and almost everything he built is still in use today.

Reader: Robin Laing

Writer: Julian Glover

Abridger: David Jackson Young

Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017.


FRI 14:15 D for Dexter (m00014y8)
Series 5

Episode 5

Skye knows now that she'll never get away. She'll stay here forever, like Jak. Because they're made out of the same stuff.

Skye and Dexter are back in this award-winning serial, one of the highlights of the BBC Children in Need Appeal on Radio 4.

This year's story was developed with the help of the Young Carers' Transition Project in Nottingham which receives funding from BBC Children in Need, and through long term research with children and families in Gainsborough.

See Monday for cast details.

Writer...Amanda Whittington
Director...Mary Ward-Lowery
Music by David Bowie, performed by Tom Constantine.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.


FRI 14:30 Birth of an Orchestra (b069rv9w)
Alan Bennett, former members of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra (1947-55) and students of the new Yorkshire Young Sinfonia discuss Yorkshire orchestras past, present and future.

In 2014 on BBC Radio 4, Alan Bennett recalled his boyhood visits to the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra. In Death of an Orchestra, he was joined by supporters and former members in telling the YSO's history, from 1947 to its sad demise in 1955.

As he listened to that programme, David Taylor was coincidentally in the process of creating a new youth orchestra - the Yorkshire Young Sinfonia - and Alan Bennett's story of the YSO gave his project a new sense of purpose: “To create the musicians of tomorrow, providing a springboard to a career in the arts, and stimulate the arts in Yorkshire”.

Birth of an Orchestra follows the students of the YYS as they prepare for their inaugural concert – just 60 years on from the YSO’s last performance. The young players talk about their musical backgrounds and ambitions, and hear advice from three former members of the YSO with long and distinguished orchestral careers - violinist Stan Smith, harpist Mair Roberts and cellist Betty Wood, a founder member of the YSO at the age of 19.

The programme explores Yorkshire’s musical heritage. Alan Bennett remembers an embarrassing visit to the Leeds Triennial Festival, Leeds City Organist Simon Lindley outlines the origins of music-making in the county and Bernard Atha - former Lord Mayor of Leeds - recalls hearing John McCormack sing there in the 1930s.


Producer: Susan Kenyon
A Whistledown production

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.


FRI 15:00 Das Kapital (b0b1hwwj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


FRI 16:00 Funny You Should Ask (b0b6q46w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


FRI 16:30 In the Red (b007js7t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


FRI 17:00 The Headset Set (b0124pxs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


FRI 17:30 Henry Normal: A Normal... (m0011ryb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


FRI 18:00 Berlie Doherty - The Drowned Village (b008kl8w)
Kate returns to the village where she spent her childhood. There's a reservoir nearby which was formed by flooding a neighbouring village. She believes that on the anniversary of the death of that village, its church bell tolls and voices can be heard calling...

Stars Kate Lee as Kate, Christian Rodska as Mark, Jane Hazelgrove as Young Jane, Craig Masterson as Young Mark, David Fleeshman as Uncle Mike and Ann Rye as Miss Peters.

Script by Berlie Doherty.

Producer: Kay Patrick

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982.


FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b01kjt7w)
The Dark Side

Dominic Arkwright and guests wrangle with inner demons and consider the benefits of embracing The Dark Side.

The novelist and film critic Kim Newman tells how the nightmares that beset him through childhood were alleviated when he began to watch horror films. The psychologist Linda Blair considers whether people who embrace their dark side are more likely to be creative, and the writer Ian Marchant tells us how the dark forces of punk enlightened him.

Producer: Sarah Langan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2012.


FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jprv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


FRI 19:30 Married (b0081vm4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


FRI 20:00 Doctor Finlay (b008kxdq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


FRI 20:30 Colvil and Soames (b007jt9c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m001342v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


FRI 22:00 Henry Normal: A Normal... (m0011ryb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


FRI 22:30 Henry Normal's Encyclopaedia Poetica (b0bqw7f5)
Volume 1

Henry Normal presents a mixed salad of satirical poetry.

First of four excursions through Henry’s alphabet of stand-up poetry from A to C, to Zzz to Zzz.

With guests Su Andi and Attila the Stockbroker.

Producer: Diane Messias

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1994.


FRI 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b00j7vtm)
Series 7

Episode 6

Satan has worked how to return baby Patrick to Earth behind God's back.

But God is all-seeing and knows what Satan is up to. And now God is pretty angry.

Stars Andy Hamilton as Satan, Annette Crosbie as Edith, Robert Duncan as Scumspawn, Jimmy Mulville as Thomas and Timothy West as God.

Other roles played by Mike Fenton Stevens, Philip Pope and Felicity Montagu.

Written by Andy Hamilton.

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2009.


FRI 23:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b00mbm3j)
Series 4

Episode 2

"Make Me a Celebrity Centaur", an exciting new reality show that features cutting edge surgery and some horses.

Sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb,

With Sarah Hadland, Olivia Colman and James Bachman.

Producer Gareth Edwards

Firs broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2009.




LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)

A Good Read 18:30 MON (b0367smf)

A Good Read 00:30 TUE (b0367smf)

Absent Friends - The 7th Dimension 18:50 SAT (m0013193)

Absent Friends - The 7th Dimension 00:50 SUN (m0013193)

Absent Friends - The 7th Dimension 18:50 SUN (m00131rk)

Absent Friends - The 7th Dimension 00:50 MON (m00131rk)

After Henry 08:30 THU (b007k2z7)

After Henry 12:30 THU (b007k2z7)

After Henry 19:30 THU (b007k2z7)

Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section 05:30 SAT (b03mg0cs)

Archive on 4 11:00 TUE (b060qbwm)

Archive on 4 21:00 TUE (b060qbwm)

Armando Iannucci - Facts And Fancies 23:00 TUE (b007jrkw)

Asian Weddings: Something Gold, Nothing Borrowed, Everything New 14:30 WED (b01h2c3n)

Asian Weddings: Something Gold, Nothing Borrowed, Everything New 02:30 THU (b01h2c3n)

Believe It! 12:30 SAT (b08lhg9p)

Believe It! 07:00 WED (b08mbgxk)

Believe It! 17:00 WED (b08mbgxk)

Believe It! 05:00 THU (b08mbgxk)

Berlie Doherty - The Drowned Village 18:00 FRI (b008kl8w)

Birth of an Orchestra 14:30 FRI (b069rv9w)

Chain Reaction 22:00 SAT (b00kwdsm)

Christmas With... 13:45 SAT (b04vk9nm)

Christmas With... 01:45 SUN (b04vk9nm)

Clare in the Community 09:30 THU (b00g9mgx)

Clare in the Community 16:30 THU (b00g9mgx)

Clare in the Community 04:30 FRI (b00g9mgx)

Colvil and Soames 06:30 THU (b007jt94)

Colvil and Soames 13:30 THU (b007jt94)

Colvil and Soames 20:30 THU (b007jt94)

Colvil and Soames 01:30 FRI (b007jt94)

Colvil and Soames 06:30 FRI (b007jt9c)

Colvil and Soames 13:30 FRI (b007jt9c)

Colvil and Soames 20:30 FRI (b007jt9c)

Concrete Cow 23:30 TUE (b0076jvx)

Cowards 22:30 TUE (b00776sr)

D for Dexter (Omnibus) 07:20 SUN (b09hcp9g)

D for Dexter 02:15 SAT (b09f39tp)

D for Dexter 14:15 MON (m00013n4)

D for Dexter 02:15 TUE (m00013n4)

D for Dexter 14:15 TUE (m00013qf)

D for Dexter 02:15 WED (m00013qf)

D for Dexter 14:15 WED (m00013tw)

D for Dexter 02:15 THU (m00013tw)

D for Dexter 14:15 THU (m00014k0)

D for Dexter 02:15 FRI (m00014k0)

D for Dexter 14:15 FRI (m00014y8)

Dad's Army 08:00 FRI (b007jprv)

Dad's Army 12:00 FRI (b007jprv)

Dad's Army 19:00 FRI (b007jprv)

Das Kapital 10:00 FRI (b0b1hwwj)

Das Kapital 15:00 FRI (b0b1hwwj)

Delve Special 22:30 SUN (b00sz32f)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 10:00 SUN (m00131r9)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 21:00 SUN (m00131r9)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 11:00 THU (m00131r9)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 21:00 THU (m00131r9)

Detective 01:30 SAT (b0blvcb3)

Detective 06:30 MON (b0bm9kb6)

Detective 13:30 MON (b0bm9kb6)

Detective 20:30 MON (b0bm9kb6)

Detective 01:30 TUE (b0bm9kb6)

Detective 06:30 TUE (b0bm9tkd)

Detective 13:30 TUE (b0bm9tkd)

Detective 20:30 TUE (b0bm9tkd)

Detective 01:30 WED (b0bm9tkd)

Detective 06:30 WED (b0bmbbrm)

Detective 13:30 WED (b0bmbbrm)

Detective 20:30 WED (b0bmbbrm)

Detective 01:30 THU (b0bmbbrm)

Doctor Finlay 06:00 MON (b008fld5)

Doctor Finlay 13:00 MON (b008fld5)

Doctor Finlay 20:00 MON (b008fld5)

Doctor Finlay 01:00 TUE (b008fld5)

Doctor Finlay 06:00 TUE (b008gd1y)

Doctor Finlay 13:00 TUE (b008gd1y)

Doctor Finlay 20:00 TUE (b008gd1y)

Doctor Finlay 01:00 WED (b008gd1y)

Doctor Finlay 06:00 WED (b008h45m)

Doctor Finlay 13:00 WED (b008h45m)

Doctor Finlay 20:00 WED (b008h45m)

Doctor Finlay 01:00 THU (b008h45m)

Doctor Finlay 06:00 THU (b008j8lc)

Doctor Finlay 13:00 THU (b008j8lc)

Doctor Finlay 20:00 THU (b008j8lc)

Doctor Finlay 01:00 FRI (b008j8lc)

Doctor Finlay 06:00 FRI (b008kxdq)

Doctor Finlay 13:00 FRI (b008kxdq)

Doctor Finlay 20:00 FRI (b008kxdq)

Drama 03:00 SAT (b01j2bmz)

EM Forster - A Room with a View 10:00 MON (b007jpr7)

EM Forster - A Room with a View 15:00 MON (b007jpr7)

EM Forster - A Room with a View 03:00 TUE (b007jpr7)

EM Forster - A Room with a View 10:00 TUE (b007jpty)

EM Forster - A Room with a View 15:00 TUE (b007jpty)

EM Forster - A Room with a View 03:00 WED (b007jpty)

EM Forster - A Room with a View 10:00 WED (b007qx2z)

EM Forster - A Room with a View 15:00 WED (b007qx2z)

EM Forster - A Room with a View 03:00 THU (b007qx2z)

EM Forster - A Room with a View 10:00 THU (b007qvgf)

EM Forster - A Room with a View 15:00 THU (b007qvgf)

EM Forster - A Room with a View 03:00 FRI (b007qvgf)

Edge Falls 23:00 SUN (b007s1dt)

Elephants to Catch Eels 09:30 TUE (b007mcc4)

Elephants to Catch Eels 16:30 TUE (b007mcc4)

Elephants to Catch Eels 04:30 WED (b007mcc4)

Everyone a Rembrandt 14:30 TUE (b04xnd05)

Everyone a Rembrandt 02:30 WED (b04xnd05)

Fags, Mags and Bags 07:30 THU (m000k2bh)

Fags, Mags and Bags 17:30 THU (m000k2bh)

Fags, Mags and Bags 22:00 THU (m000k2bh)

Fags, Mags and Bags 05:30 FRI (m000k2bh)

Father Brown Stories 01:00 SAT (b0081lvr)

Funny You Should Ask 04:00 SAT (b0b5wylf)

Funny You Should Ask 09:00 FRI (b0b6q46w)

Funny You Should Ask 16:00 FRI (b0b6q46w)

Getting Nowhere Fast 09:30 MON (b008jdf4)

Getting Nowhere Fast 16:30 MON (b008jdf4)

Getting Nowhere Fast 04:30 TUE (b008jdf4)

Great Lives 07:30 SAT (b09h3rc7)

Great Lives 17:30 SAT (b09h3rc7)

Great Lives 05:30 SUN (b09h3rc7)

Great Lives 18:30 THU (b09hrxw0)

Great Lives 00:30 FRI (b09hrxw0)

Grimm's Fairy Tales 18:00 SUN (m00131rh)

Grimm's Fairy Tales 00:00 MON (m00131rh)

HR 12:30 SUN (b00hr5p5)

HR 17:30 SUN (b00hr5p5)

HR 22:00 SUN (b00hr5p5)

HR 05:30 MON (b00hr5p5)

HV Morton - Travelling into the Light 14:30 MON (b01mqr4t)

HV Morton - Travelling into the Light 02:30 TUE (b01mqr4t)

Hancock's Half Hour 08:00 WED (b007synp)

Hancock's Half Hour 12:00 WED (b007synp)

Hancock's Half Hour 19:00 WED (b007synp)

Henry Normal's Encyclopaedia Poetica 22:30 FRI (b0bqw7f5)

Henry Normal: A Normal... 07:30 FRI (m0011ryb)

Henry Normal: A Normal... 17:30 FRI (m0011ryb)

Henry Normal: A Normal... 22:00 FRI (m0011ryb)

Hut 33 23:30 SAT (b00m0ld0)

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 07:30 MON (m0012sdd)

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 17:30 MON (m0012sdd)

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 22:00 MON (m0012sdd)

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 05:30 TUE (m0012sdd)

Ida Barr: Artificial Hip Hop 22:30 SAT (b00v72r5)

If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? 08:30 WED (b00s09s3)

If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? 12:30 WED (b00s09s3)

If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? 19:30 WED (b00s09s3)

In the Red 04:30 SAT (b007k0qh)

In the Red 09:30 FRI (b007js7t)

In the Red 16:30 FRI (b007js7t)

Inheritance Tracks 07:10 SUN (b07cb4ll)

Inheritance Tracks 11:55 SUN (b07cb4ll)

Inheritance Tracks 14:10 SUN (b08n1vy2)

Inheritance Tracks 19:55 SUN (b07cb4ll)

Inheritance Tracks 02:10 MON (b08n1vy2)

Inheritance Tracks 11:50 MON (m00131jb)

Inheritance Tracks 21:50 MON (m00131jb)

Inside Alan Francis 23:30 MON (b00hlf5j)

Isaac Newton - Master of The Mint 16:00 SUN (b0bbmnn2)

Isaac Newton - Master of The Mint 20:00 SUN (b0bbmnn2)

Isaac Newton - Master of The Mint 04:00 MON (b0bbmnn2)

It's Your Round 08:00 SAT (b01b8zw3)

It's a Fair Cop 07:30 TUE (b0bgrxvk)

It's a Fair Cop 17:30 TUE (b0bgrxvk)

It's a Fair Cop 22:00 TUE (b0bgrxvk)

It's a Fair Cop 05:30 WED (b0bgrxvk)

Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle 22:45 MON (b00cmjvc)

Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle 23:15 THU (b00cqd9z)

Jest a Minute 09:00 MON (b016w0m2)

Jest a Minute 16:00 MON (b016w0m2)

Jest a Minute 04:00 TUE (b016w0m2)

Joe Queenan: My Years of Awe and Wonder 09:00 SAT (b07wxpqh)

Joe Queenan: My Years of Awe and Wonder 19:00 SAT (b07wxpqh)

Letters From Tove (Omnibus) 06:00 SUN (m000cky8)

Letters From Tove 02:00 SAT (m000c8qf)

Life With Lederer 14:45 SAT (m0012nym)

Life With Lederer 02:45 SUN (m0012nym)

Life With Lederer 22:30 MON (m00131jg)

Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair 22:30 WED (b04fzfy9)

MR James 18:00 SAT (b007jtk7)

MR James 00:00 SUN (b007jtk7)

Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain 14:00 MON (b08bz7ht)

Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain 02:00 TUE (b08bz7ht)

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Paperback Hell 22:45 SAT (b0076cl3)

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