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 07 MAY 2022

SAT 00:00 Planet B (b00pgqf0)
Series 2

5. Dark Star

Kip and Lioba come face to face with their greatest fears in a world of endless night.

Conclusion of series two of the sci-fi saga set in a mystery virtual world.

Written by Matthew Broughton.

Lioba …. Tessa Nicholson
Kip …. Joseph Cohen-Cole
Blend …. Emerald O'Hanrahan
Fabian …. Ewan Hooper
Cerberus …. Chris Pavlo
Voice of Planet B …. Adjoa Andoh

Other parts played by Melissa Advani, Kate Layden, Rhys Jennings and Piers Wehner

Director: Jeremy Mortimer

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in December 2009.


SAT 00:30 Sounds Natural (b07l1167)
Roger Whittaker

From the Wildebeest to the Paradise Flycatcher.

Singer Roger Whittaker shares his fascination for the wildlife of East Africa and Wales with Derek Jones.

Aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archive.

Producer: John Burton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1973.


SAT 01:00 Personal Column (m0016y2l)
Third Girl Wanted by Jill Hyem

When Jemma suddenly packs her bags and leaves, her flatmates have to work out why.

Dramas which tell the stories reading between the lines of newspaper personal ads.

Written by Jill Hyem.

Lynn .... Anne Stallybrass
Jemma .... Patricia Gallimore
Rachel .... Marian Diamond

Originated by Philip Levene.

Producer: Jane Graham

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1967.


SAT 01:30 Hercule Poirot (b007jm4n)
Evil Under the Sun

Episode 5

Determined to pinpoint the killer of the American starlet, the Belgian sleuth invites everyone on his list of suspects to a picnic.

The conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt
Colonel Weston …. George Baker
Carrie Gardener …. Wendy Craig
Christin Redfern …. Susannah Corbett
Patrick Redfern …. Iain Glen
Rosamund Darnley …. Sabina Franklyn
Linda Marshall …. Lindsey Fawcett
Captain Kenneth Marshall …. Robin Ellis
Inspector Colgate …. Gerrard McDermott
Horace Blatt …. John Hartley
Gladys …. Nicol Forbes

Producer: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.


SAT 02:00 Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (b007jp2g)
Glasgow to the Yorkshire Dales

Soaking up culture in Scotland - and heading to a pub.

Bill Bryson concludes his sentimental journey around Britain.

Abridged and performed by Kerry Shale.

Producer: Paul Kent

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1996.


SAT 02:15 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (b007jvwn)
5. London

Becky travels to London with the ailing spinster Miss Crawley.

Stephen Fry narrates one of the greatest comic novels of the Victorian period.

Written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt.

Becky Sharp …… Emma Fielding
Amelia Sedley …… Katy Cavanagh
George Osborne …… Nicholas Boulton
Miss Crawley........Margaret Tyzack
Miss Briggs.........Kate Buffery
Sir Pitt Crawley...Trevor Peacock
Miss Crawley........Margaret Tyzack
Rawdon Crawley....Ray Coulthard

Producer: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004.


SAT 02:30 Mr Cole Comes to Kensington (b03m40zs)
Christopher Frayling explores the legacy of Henry Cole, dynamic founder of London's Victoria and Albert Museum and the vibrant design partnership with the Royal College of Art.

At the time of the Great Exhibition in 1851, British design was fast losing out to the Continent. But by 1871, the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) with its pioneering public restaurant, free admission days and evening openings, had become a blueprint for design museums worldwide.

The man behind this remarkable achievement was Henry Cole, inventor of the commercial Christmas card, who had helped introduce the Penny Post. A bustling, rotund figure with a mane of white hair, 'Old King' Cole transformed what had been a teaching collection of plaster casts into a world-leading museum of art and design.

But despite the patronage of Prince Albert, it proved an arduous journey, often fraught with opposition from a suspicious Establishment.

Christopher Frayling is a former Rector of the Royal College of Art and former V&A Trustee.

Featuring British fashion designer and RCA graduate, Zandra Rhodes and former V&A Director, Sir Roy Strong.

Producer: Catriona Oliphant

A Chrome Radio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2013.


SAT 03:00 The True Story of Martin Guerre (b070wmg2)
2. Impostor

Martin Guerre's wife, Bertrande, has accepted him on his return after eight years' absence and borne him two further children.

But then she accuses him of being an impostor...

Starring Sean Bean and Lesley Dunlop.

Conclusion of Guy Meredith's dramatisation from the trial notes of 16th-century French judge, Jean de Coras.

Martin Guerre... Sean Bean
Bertrande... Lesley Dunlop
Jean de Coras..... Olivier Pierre
Bertrande's Mother... Jill Graham
Pierre Guerre.... Andrew Melville
Sanglas.... Steve Hodson
Mme Sanglas.... Geraldine Fitzgerald
Francoise.... Jo Kendall
Carbon Barrau.... Peter Gunn
Guillem.... Eric Allan
Shepherd / Dominique Pujol... John Fleming
Magistrate .... Peter Penry Jones

Other parts played by Federay Holmes, John Church, Keith Drinkel, Jonathan Adams, John Webb and Siriol Jenkins.

Director: Janet Whitaker

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1992.


SAT 04:00 Guess What? (b065jht1)
Episode 7

Animal, vegetable or mineral?

Barry Took hosts a revised version of popular radio parlour game of 20 questions.

On the panel:

Geoffrey Durham
Nigel Dempster
Frances Edmonds

Written by Michael Dines.

Producer: Andy Aliffe

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.


SAT 04:30 Millport (b0076221)
Series 2

Avowal

Irene and Moira aren't speaking, Alberto and Ena have fallen out over the minestrone, and Agnes has declared World War Three on the minister's trousers.

Just how are villagers going to solve their dispute if no-one is talking to each other? .

Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson.

Barmaid Irene Bruce is 30-something and hankering after a better life on the mainland.

Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson
Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown
Alberto/Robert ...... Lewis McLeod
Ena/Bunty ...... Gabriel Quigley
Bob/Minister ...... Robert Patterson
Dougie ...... Matt Costello

Music arranged by Olly Fox.

Producer: Lucy Bacon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.


SAT 05:00 Says on the Tin (b00gl50p)
Schokolade

Eliott finds nothing to laugh about while promoting a German chocolate called Laughing.

Starring Michael Brandon.

Christopher William Hill's sitcom about an American advertising man, forced to relocate to London.

Eliott Thurber ...... Michael Brandon
Esther Finn ...... Samantha Bond
Hannah Walker ...... Pippa Haywood
Zadie ...... Joannah Tincey
Baz ...... Inam Mirza
Mandelbrot ...... Malcolm Tierney
Interpreter ...... Gunnar Cauthery

Other parts played by Dan Starkey, Janice Acquah and Jonathan Tafler.

Producer: Liz Webb

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009.


SAT 05:30 Stand-Up Specials (m0016wxp)
Stephen Bailey: One of Many

Stephen Bailey is a lightweight boxer who lost a fight to Conor McGregor, he's an investor with £84 million in the bank, he's Axel Rose's stepfather and if you keep scrolling, he's also a comedian from Manchester.

Stephen is seriously contemplating changing his name in 2022, as he believes being Stephen Bailey is hindering his success - after all, a name change is one of the oldest tricks in showbiz. If the name maketh the man, it's made a lot of Stephen Baileys and the rest of them are always doing something more newsworthy than our Stephen.

This is a bespoke stand-up special about identity, where Stephen will work out whether you can change your whole life, just by changing your name.

Written and performed by Stephen Bailey
Production Coordinator: Katie Baum
Produced by: Georgia Keating and Hayley Sterling

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 06:00 Harley Granville-Barker - The Voysey Inheritance (b018kcj6)
Edward discovers that in inheriting his father's impressive family business, he is inheriting a Ponzi scheme.

For years his father has been making free with clients' capital and speculating recklessly, as his own father did before him.

Edward must decide whether to continue the business and try to put matters right - a seemingly impossible task - or to expose the crime and bring his family to certain ruin.

Starring Samuel Barnett and Clive Merrison.

Harley Granville Barker's classic 1905 play.

Edward …… Samuel Barnett
Mr Voysey …… Clive Merrison
Mr George Booth …… Gawn Grainger
Trenchard Voysey …… Richard Dillane
Major Booth Vosey …… Alan Cox
Denis Tregoning …… Joseph Arkley
Mrs Voysey …… Phyllida Law
Honor Voysey …… Amanda Lawrence
Peacey …… Paul Moriarty

Adapted and directed by Lu Kemp.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2012.


SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b0bfy978)
Series 46

Patricia Greene on Bess of Hardwick

Actress Patricia Greene (Jill Archer in BBC Radio 4's The Archers) makes the case for Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, or Bess of Hardwick as she's more commonly known.

Like her heroine, Patricia was born in Derby and was aware of the nearby grand stately home Hardwick Hall. 'More glass than wall' was the local saying; as the key feature of this 1590s house was the exuberant use of this rare material. Only recently did she discover that the initials 'ES', which are blatantly carved on the turrets, stood for a woman - Elizabeth Shrewsbury.

And so began Patricia Greene's admiration and obsession. Who was this woman born in Tudor times, when women had few if any rights at all? Bess ended up becoming the richest woman in the land after Queen Elizabeth I, but she was portrayed by some as a 'cold-hearted shrew' who only became rich by marrying four husbands, Patricia's job is to defend her hero.

The expert witness is Dr Nigel Wright, the House & Collections Manager with the National Trust at Hardwick Estate.

Presenter: Matthew Parris

Producer: Perminder Khatkar

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2018.


SAT 08:00 The Write Stuff (b009xy1t)
Series 11

Ted Hughes

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

Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by Jane Thynne and Mark Billingham.

Author of the week is Ted Hughes.

Reader: Beth Chalmers

Producer: Katie Marsden

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2008.


SAT 08:30 1834 (b011db7v)
The Time Machine

Jason decides the invention of the toasted sandwich maker will sort out his new 19th-century life.

21st-century teacher, Jason Slater, is coming to terms with waking up in 19th-century Macclesfield.

He's now Tarquin, the third son of Lord Belport with his faithful valet, Ned.

Jim Poyser's riotous comedy of transportation and delight.

Jason Slater ...... Michael Begley
Ned ...... Joe Caffrey
Hoskins ...... Kenneth Alan Taylor
Lord Belport ...... Mark Chatterton
Stubbs ...... Glenn Cunningham
Millicent ...... Julia Rounthwaite

Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2003.


SAT 09:00 I Did It My Way (b009qh5q)
Andy Hamilton

The devil himself talks!

Comedian and writer Andy Hamilton chats to Peter Reed about his radio life and times.

His on-air successes include the long running Old Harry's Game, Revolting People and Trevor's World of Sport.

Andy has also been involved with many of our finest TV comedies, including Not the Nine O'Clock News, Drop the Dead Donkey and Outnumbered.

Sharing his experiences in writing and starring on radio, Andy's selects some of his favourite episodes:

* The Million Pound Radio Show

Sharp-edged topical sketches and banter.
Written and presented by Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell.
With Felicity Montagu and Jasper Jacob.
From 1991.

* Old Harry's Game

Fed up with eternity, Satan decides Hell needs some new guests.
Andy Hamilton’s devilishly funny sitcom.
With James Grout, Jimmy Mulville and Philip Pope.
From 1995.

* Old Harry's Game

There's trouble in hell from a fundamentalist - and a pushy computer.
Andy Hamilton’s devilishly funny sitcom.
Stars Andy Hamilton, Robert Duncan, Nick Revell and Felicity Montagu.
From 1998.

* Revolting People

Feared British Commander, General Venables demands executions by sunset, so he has all day to look forward to them...
Historical sitcom set in 1770 Boston.
Written by and starring Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses. With James Fleet.
From 2000.
.
* Trevor's World of Sport .

Andy Hamilton's comedy series about a sports agent’s brave attempts to swim safely through the shark tank of life.
Trevor’s snooker playing client develops an unfortunate phobia.
Stars Neil Pearson, Paul Reynolds and Michael Fenton Stevens.
From 2007.

Producer: Martin Dempsey

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in April 2008.


SAT 12:00 My Favorite Husband (m000p652)
Liz and George Reminisce

Liz starts a scrapbook, which sparks fun memories with her and George.

Starring Lucille Ball as Liz and Richard Denning as George.

The story of Liz and George Cooper, a happily married couple living in Sheridan Falls. Based on the novels by Isabel Scott Rorick. Originally called the Cugats, their name by now was changed to Cooper.

Liz Cooper …. Lucille Ball
George Cooper …. Richard Denning
Katy …. Ruth Perrot
Iris Atterbury …. Bea Benaderet
Rudolph Atterbury …. Gale Gordon

With Frank Nelson and Hans Conried.

Writers: Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr. and Jess Oppenheimer

Producer: Jess Oppenheimer

First broadcast in the USA on CBS Radio in July 1949.


SAT 12:30 The Atkinson People (b007jsb0)
Sir Corin Basin

Satirical and wry investigations into the lives of imaginary great men.

Starring Rowan Atkinson.

Kicking off with the life and times of actor, raconteur and general bore, Sir Corin Basin.

Written by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis.

With:

Hugh Thomas
Peter Wilson
Hilda Kriseman

Producer: Griff Rhys Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in April 1979.


SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b00ln0b7)
Soho!

The singer Suggs returns to London's Soho, where he spent much of his unconventional childhood and where his jazz singer mother still lives.

He was introduced to the delights of the Colony Club as a six-year-old, and as a musician he continued to haunt the district.

Recording on location and mining the BBC archive, Suggs investigates how this unique community, complete with red-light district and village school, functions today, and whether it is still, or indeed ever was, a source of inspiration or merely a creative vacuum.

For decades, Soho was regarded as Britain's capital of sleaze and vice, but also a place where artists, writers, musicians and actors came to drink and philosophise. Tales of the area and its inhabitants abound, from painter Francis Bacon and George Melly at Muriel Belcher's infamous Colony Club to Jeffrey Bernard and Keith Waterhouse at the Coach and Horses and Dylan Thomas at The French House.

Soho was the birthplace of British pop, with the skifflers, jazzers and early rock 'n' rollers all making their names in the coffee bars of the 1950s. It was also the home of refugees of every type, including political dissidents, foreigners and homosexuals, from Casanova to Karl Marx, and Quentin Crisp to George Melly.

Yet in the 1950s, a new phrase was coined: 'Soho-itis'. It was said that if you enter Soho you will never get any work done, and you will never, ever leave. Many books, poems, songs and indeed careers were washed away with drink, but some artists, musicians and writers did survive the late nights, the fights and the booze, and took great inspiration from the place.

Producer: Justine Willett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.


SAT 14:00 Tudur Owen - Where on Earth is Anglesey? (m0001b1t)
Episode 1

What do CenterParcs, Sky Sports and The Royal Horticultural Society all have in common?

They’ve all accidentally omitted Anglesey from their official maps of the UK in the recent past.

It seems that despite being the largest island in the Irish Sea and the largest island of Wales, Anglesey remains a mystery to most and so one man is going to have to work his socks off to put it firmly back on the map.

Hosted by Wales and Anglesey’s very own favourite stand-up, Tudur Owen, this programme is one man’s mission to both rejoice in and roast the island he calls home.

For starters, Tudur gives us a whistle-stop tour of Anglesey history, from ancient invaders to the present day.

Written by Tudur Owen

Additional material by Gareth Gwynn.

With:

Gareth Pierce
Lisa-Jên Brown

Recorded at Canolfan Beaumaris on Anglesey.

Producer: Richard Morris

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


SAT 14:30 Yes, Nina Conti Really Is on the Radio (b01sm78h)
Since the days of long-running BBC comedy ‘Educating Archie’ in the 1950s, seldom have we heard a ventriloquist on the radio

Nina Conti is Britain's leading voice thrower and has been all round the world with her puppet Monkey, Gran, Dog and others.

Not only is Nina an expert at her craft, she demonstrates that she can think on her feet, chatting to the audience and her two guests: physicist Jim Al-Khalili and Wagner from ITV’s The X Factor.

She also invites her audience to bring puppets of their own, which she brings magically to life.

This is a celebration of the ancient craft, and a chance to hear one of Britain's funniest women at the top of her game.

Producer: Bill Dare

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2013.


SAT 15:00 Stand-Up Specials (m000r31x)
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Egg-sistential Crisis

Spotlighting the life choices of millennials.

Why they have stopped procreating?

A special stand-up show from Kiri Pritchard Mclean.

Producer: Suzy Grant

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2021.


SAT 15:30 John Peel's Shed (b018fljy)
In 2002, John Osborne won a competition on John Peel's late night show on BBC Radio 1.

His prize was a box of records that took him eight years to listen to.

This is John's ode to radio, those records and anyone who's ever sought solace in the wireless. It's a story about one man's love for radio - and how it allows you to escape into another world.

Based on John's book 'Radio Head', this is about what happened next: a show about the pleasure of having your own personal project. The story is about passion, obsession with music and about legacy; trying to do something special with such a rare, eclectic box of records - thanks to John Peel.

Producer: John Pocock

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2011.


SAT 16:00 Harley Granville-Barker - The Voysey Inheritance (b018kcj6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b0bfy978)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


SAT 18:00 Time After Time (b087ldt5)
Paul Wood finds himself in a strange hotel.

He doesn't know how or why he’s there - or even how he got there.

Every time he tried to ‘escape’, he’s brought back and the vicious circle begins again.

Is it a nightmare? Has he lost his memory, or is it, perhaps, even more extraordinary?

Written by award-winning dramatist, Gerry Jones.

Paul Wood …. John Pullen
Robert Carter …. Nigel Anthony
Ann …. Sarah Badel
Doctor …. Peter Baldwin
Paul’s Mother/Cleaner …. Eva Stuart
Porter …. Roger Hammond
Policeman/First Man …. Peter Wickham
Barman/Second Man …. Michael McStay
Hotel Manager …. Philip Voss
Garage Man …. Robin Browne
Shop Assistant/Nurse …. Susan Sloman

Director: Martin Jenkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1979.


SAT 18:45 The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury (b0076mvx)
There will come a time when we won't be allowed to walk - by order of the authorities.

David Horovitch reads Ray Bradbury's short story.

Producer: Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004.


SAT 19:00 I Did It My Way (b009qh5q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


SAT 22:00 4 at the Store (b00cpvsk)
Series 1

Episode 1

Simon Bligh hosts an evening of stand-up comedy without having to leave your armchair.

Direct from London's Comedy Store

Featuring:

Dominic Holland
Sue Beard
Felix Dexter

Producer: Helen Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1998.


SAT 22:30 Thom Tuck - Goes Straight to DVD (b01bwp8v)
Pilot

Thom Tuck recounts heart-rending tales of love and loss.

He lays bare all the failures he's suffered in his relationships - whilst drawing comparisons with the 54 straight-to-DVD Disney movies he's watched, so we don't have to.

These underrated gems - perhaps rightfully ignored and forgotten - mirror his experiences with women he has loved too often and too soon.

A show with a huge heart, all about heartbreak in various forms.

Thom Tuck is also part of acclaimed sketch group "The Penny Dreadfuls".

Producer: Lianne Coop

First broadcast on Radio 4 in February 2012.


SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m001750t)
As part of our 1990s Comedy Season, Simon Munnery and Richard Herring talk to Rob Deering about their ground-breaking comedy output.


SAT 23:00 Knowing Me, Knowing You (b007jvc2)
Episode 6

A-ha! Chat show host Alan Partridge welcomes more guests to his sofa:

BBC TV's Commissioning Director, Tony Hayers
TV presenter, Trudy Sky
Fashion Designer, Yvonne Boyd
The maverick, Lord Morgan

With thanks to Alan's chief researcher Steve Coogan.

Assistant researchers:

Patrick Marber
Rebecca Front
Doon Mackichan
David Schneider

Producer: Armando lannucci

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1992.


SAT 23:30 The Odd Half Hour (b00vy0f0)
Series 2

Episode 1

Comedy sketch show which answers the questions you probably never asked:

* How did the mouse get in the beans?

* Why should you think twice before sponsoring a dog?

Starring:

Kevin Bishop
Stephen K Amos
Doon Mackichan
Justin Edwards
Jessica Ransom

Written by Madeleine Brettingham, Jason Hazeley, Joel Morris, Steve Dawson, Andrew Dawson, Timothy Inman, Jane Lamacraft, Stephen Carlin, James Kettle and Justin Edwards.

Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010.



SUNDAY 08 MAY 2022

SUN 00:00 Time After Time (b087ldt5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]


SUN 00:45 The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury (b0076mvx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Saturday]


SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b00ln0b7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday]


SUN 02:00 Tudur Owen - Where on Earth is Anglesey? (m0001b1t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday]


SUN 02:30 Yes, Nina Conti Really Is on the Radio (b01sm78h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday]


SUN 03:00 Stand-Up Specials (m000r31x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday]


SUN 03:30 John Peel's Shed (b018fljy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday]


SUN 04:00 Harley Granville-Barker - The Voysey Inheritance (b018kcj6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]


SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b0bfy978)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]


SUN 06:00 Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (Omnibus) (m001756w)
Bill Bryson takes a sentimental journey around Britain.

The American comic writer recalls how he arrived in Kent aged 21, one foggy March morning in 1973 - to be met by the formidable institution of the British Bed and Breakfast.

Omnibus of five episodes abridged and performed by Kerry Shale.

Bill's trip takes in Dover, London, Virginia Water, Bournemouth, Corfe Castle, Weston-super-Mare, Glasgow and the Yorkshire Dales.

Producer: Paul Kent

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1996.


SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b0b4zrtm)
Samuel West

The actor chooses Dory Previn's Play It Again Sam and Matt Bianco's Get Out of Your Lazy Bed.


SUN 07:20 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (Omnibus) (b008lywx)
Episode 1

Orphan Becky Sharp begins her journey in society.

Stephen Fry narrates one of the greatest comic novels of the Victorian period.

Written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Omnibus of the first five of twenty episodes.

Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt.

Becky Sharp .... Emma Fielding
Amelia Sedley ... Katy Cavanagh
George Osborne ... Nicholas Boulton
Jos Sedley .... Toby Jones
Miss Pinkerton .... Sandy Walsh
Miss Jemima/Lady Crawley .... Joanna McCallum
William Dobbin .... Tom Smith
Sir Pitt Crawley .... Trevor Peacock
Pitt .... Jon Glover
Miss Crawley ..... Margaret Tyzack
Rawdon Crawley .... Ray Coulthard
Mrs Bute Crawley ..... Jemma Churchill
Maria Osborne .....Alice Hart
John Osborne .... Geoffrey Whitehead
Ensign Stubble ..... Stephen Hogan
Miss Briggs .... Kate Buffery

Director: Claire Grove

First broadcast on Radio 4 in September 2004.


SUN 08:30 Albert and Me (b007k0dw)
Series 2

A Moving Story

Single dad Bryan tries to get a loan to move house, but it's not simple.

Stars Robert Lindsay and Pat Coombs.

Written by Jim Eldridge.

Robert Lindsay takes over as the single parent struggling to find work and raise his baby son.

In the original 1977 series, Bryan was played by the late Richard Beckinsale who tragically died in 1979. After a six-year hiatus, the series returned with Bryan's mother and baby Albert played once again by the ever-versatile Pat Coombs.

Bryan Archer ...... Robert Lindsay
Mum/Albert ...... Pat Coombs
Mrs Willis ...... Diana King
Mr Benson ...... John Arnatt
Mrs Hagger ...... Dilys Laye
Ron ...... Larry Martyn
Mary ...... Rosalind Adams
Mr Tibbies ...... Roland MacLeod

Incidental music by Max Harris.

Producer: John Fawcett Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1983.


SUN 09:00 Something to Shout About (b07p6k99)
Series 1

Episode 7

The ad agency is hired to put a glamorous spin on a dreary seaside holiday camp in Gritley Bay.

Comedy set in London advertising agency - Apsley, Addis, Cohen, Barbican, Blythe, Giddy & Partners.

Written by Myles Rudge and Ronnie Wolfe.

Michael …. Michael Medwin
Janet …. Fenella Fielding
Mavis …. Joan Sims
Maggie …. Eleanor Summerfield
Adrian …. Nicholas Phipps
Mr Plankton …. Warren Mitchell

Music by The Jingle Belles and The Bernie Fenton Quartet, under the direction of Cliff Adams.

Producer: John Simmonds

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1960.


SUN 09:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00pfv03)
Special Relationship

A CIA man spends the day with Team Beagle on an exchange visit.

But will his past come back to haunt him?

Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives.

Bill ...... Richard Lumsden
Sharla ...... Nina Conti
Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya
Colonel ...... Ewan Bailey
Bristow ...... John Biggins
Sean ...... Joseph Cohen Cole
Lenny ...... Piers Wehner
Ignatius/Fuego ...... Nigel Hastings
Man ...... Rhys Jennings

Producer: Katie Tyrrell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009.


SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001756y)
Platinum Jubilee

Margaret Rhodes

From Hubert Parry to Fred Astaire.

First cousin to the Queen, Margaret Rhodes LVO shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young

The former MI6 worker has a unique insight into the life of the royal family. She used to spend her summer holidays at Balmoral with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret while, during the war, she worked for MI6 and lodged at Buckingham Palace. She attended the Queen's wedding and coronation and, in later life, worked as an assistant to the Queen Mother.

Remembering the Queen's coronation in 1953, she says:

"We had only just recovered from six or seven years of deprivation and blackouts and rationing - it was like the sun suddenly coming out behind a lot of very dark clouds and I think everybody felt that with a new young Queen, a whole new era was opening up. It was somehow exciting."

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2012.


SUN 10:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lj1nf)
Series 1

Bowerbirds

One of the most extraordinary structures in the animal world is constructed by a Bower Bird.

Sir David tells the life story of the Vogelkopf Bower Bird, the one that raises the bar higher than the rest.

Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural histories of creatures and plants from around the world.

Producer: Julian Hector

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.


SUN 11:00 Radiolab (m0017570)
Series 9

Mixtape 3 Cassetternet

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

Radiolab Mixtape, a special 4 part series featuring the impact of the cassette tape

Radiolab Mixtape 3 Cassetternet: exploring how the cassette tape helped to create the internet.

In 1983, Simon Goodwin had a strange thought. Would it be possible to broadcast computer software over the radio? If so, could listeners record it off the air and onto a cassette tape? This experiment and dozens of others in the early 80s created a series of cassette fueled, analog internets. They copied and moved information like never before, upended power structures and created a poisonous social network that brought down a regime.

Radiolab examines how these early internet came about, and how the societal and cultural impacts of these analog information networks can still be felt today.

Radiolab Mixtape is reported, produced, scored and sound designed by Simon Adler.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2021.


SUN 11:55 Inheritance Tracks (b0b4zrtm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today]


SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m0017572)
The Poetry of History - Easter 1916, by WB Yeats

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects The Poetry of History - Easter 1916.

Jonathan Bate examines historical events through the poetry they inspired.

Easter, 1916 by W.B. Yeats

With the poet Theo Dorgan, novelist Anne Enright and historian Diarmaid Ferriter, Jonathan visits places where Irish history was 'changed, changed utterly' and, Yeats declared, 'a 'terrible beauty' was born, - the General Post Office in Dublin, the hub of the Easter Rising 90 years ago, and Kilmainham Gaol, where several of the rebels were executed.

The poem is read by Jim Norton.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.


SUN 12:30 HR (b01bb7jh)
Series 3

Naked

The return of 60-something chums Peter and Sam who are both enjoying a comfortable retirement.

Until, that is, they get a chilly warning about an imminent danger to their pensions.

Will they soon be joining the army of dispossessed older folk?

Starring Jonathan Pryce and Nicholas le Prevost.

Series three of Nigel Williams' comedy.

Peter ...... Jonathan Pryce
Sam ...... Nicholas le Prevost
Man ...... James Lailey

Director: Peter Kavanagh.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2012.


SUN 13:00 The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton (Omnibus) (b0b90m88)
Episode 1

Set in Western Australia, this is a heart-wrenchingly brutal and yet lyrical tale of survival in the outback featuring the irrepressible Jaxie Clackton.

Still in his teens, damaged, sullen and angry, Jaxie's life has always been harsh. He's grown up in a world of knives and guns, hunters and drinkers. But things are about to change for Jaxie. But then, you must always be careful what you wish for...

Written by Australia's most acclaimed contemporary novelist, Tim Winton.

Omnibus of the first five parts of a ten-parts abridged by Richard Hamilton.

Read by Adam Fitzgerald.

Tim has won the Miles Franklin Award four times. His books include: Shallows, Riders, Cloudstreet and Breath.

Producer: Justine Willett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2018.


SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (m0001ztf)
Dame Jenni Murray

Journalist and broadcaster Dame Jenni Murray chooses The Blue Danube by Strauss, and Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez.


SUN 14:20 Abandoned Projects by Alan Plater (Omnibus) (b009v3js)
Playwright Alan Plater talks about the career moves he never made.

Omnibus of five parts.

1. Gone but Not Forgotten:

Alan narrates the story of his successful writing career through memories of the projects that were never made.
With Maureen Lipman and Brian Blessed.

2. Alternative Comedy:

Alan reveals why he never became Spike Milligan or Django Reinhardt.
With Matt Sutton, Richard Elfyn, Siriol Jenkins and Christian Rodska.

3. The Wild Pigs of Thorngumbald:

Alan 's career as an architect is nipped in the bud when he decides to become a playwright.
With Malcolm Storry, Christian Rodska and Matt Sutton.

4. Going Nowhere with Rex:

Alan drinks champagne with Rex Harrison drink champagne together - but they fail to see eye-to-eye on a screenplay.
With John Woodvine

5/ Rest in Peace Everybody:

Two late-night phone calls bring Alan very different news.
With Richard Elfyn, Malcolm Storry and Christian Rodska

Omnibus cast list:

Peggy Ramsay ...... Maureen Lipman
Brian Blessed ...... Himself
Young Alan ...... Matt Sutton
Edwards ...... Richard Elfyn
Jane ...... Siriol Jenkins
Peter ...... Christian Rodska
Brian ...... Malcolm Storry
Eric ...... Christian Rodska
Bernard ...... Matt Sutton
Rex Harrison ...... John Woodvine
John Lennon ...... Richard Elfyn
Ticket collector ...... Malcolm Storry
Richard Lester ...... Christian Rodska

Producer: Alison Hindell

First broadcast on BBC Radio in February 2005.


SUN 15:30 Happy Days - The Children of the Stones (b01n1rbx)
Stewart Lee explores the ground-breaking TV series 'Children of the Stones' and examines its special place in the memories of those children who watched it on its initial transmission in a state of excitement and terror.

In 1977, HTV launched the revolutionary children's ITV drama telling the story of an astrophysicist and his son who arrive in the village of Milbury to study ancient stones. Residents greet each other with the phrase "Happy day", with the community held in a strange captivity by the psychic forces generated by the circle of giant Neolithic stones which surround it.

Filmed at Avebury in Wiltshire, it is a strangely atmospheric production with the baleful, discordant wailing voices of the incidental music increasing the tension.

The story, involving a temporal paradox and issues of individuality and community assimilation thematically challenged the after-school audience, which included writer and comedian, Stewart Lee.

Stewart returns to Avebury to discuss the show's impact, examine its influence on him and explore the history and secrets of the ancient stones.

1970s kids may have dived behind the sofa during Doctor Who, but it was 'Children of the Stones' that gave them nightmares.

The series is frequently cited by those who remember it as one of the scariest things they saw as children.

Featuring;

Series co-creator Jeremy Burnham,
Singer Julian Cope
TV cast members and fans

Producer: Stephen Garner

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2012.


SUN 16:00 Marilyn Bowering - Anyone Can See I Love You (m0017576)
"... And I want to say that the people - if I am a star - the people made me a star - no studio, no person, but the people did."

Marilyn Bowering’s poetic drama about the turbulent life and loves of Hollywood movie icon, Marilyn Monroe.

Born Norma Jean, she became a fantasy figure for millions, yet failed to find lasting love in real life.

Marilyn Monroe ...... Hetty Baynes
Piano player ...... Stuart Milligan

Featuring a musical soundtrack of Marilyn’s legendary songs.

Musicians:

Robert Pettigrew
Kenny Ellis
Jimmy Woods

Director: Marilyn Imrie

First broadcast on BBC Scotland in March 1986.


SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m0017572)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]


SUN 17:30 HR (b01bb7jh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]


SUN 18:00 Nightfall (m00067d3)
Series 1

2. Hands Off

A scientist is driven to extreme measures when a solution he's created sparks violence in others.

Written by John Graham.

‘Nightfall’ is a series of supernatural and horror dramas - one of Canada’s CBC Radio's most popular shows in the network’s history. Running to over 100 episodes between 1980 and 1983, it features a mix of original stories and adaptations of classic tales.

Colin Fox …. Striker
Jennifer Browne …. Sylvia
Marian Waldman …. Doris
Murray Westgate …. George
Ruth Springford …. The Neighbour
Ken James …. The Policeman

Director: Bill Howell.

First broadcast on CBC Canada in 1980.


SUN 18:30 The World of Daphne Du Maurier (b09v62hy)
2. The Alibi

To change your life in middle age can be a traumatic experience.

For James Fenton, his sudden decision leads him along a strange street into a strange house - and an experience from which he'll never recover.

Starring Tony Britton.

Series of adaptations of Daphne Du Maurier's famous short stories.

James Fenton …. Tony Britton
Anna …. Sarah Badel
Edna …. Katherine Parr
The Inspector …. Geoffrey Beevers
The Storyteller …. Gabriel Woolf

Dramatised and produced by Derek Hoddinott.

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in May 1974.


SUN 19:00 Radiolab (m0017570)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


SUN 19:55 Inheritance Tracks (b0b4zrtm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today]


SUN 20:00 Marilyn Bowering - Anyone Can See I Love You (m0017576)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today]


SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001756y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


SUN 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lj1nf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today]


SUN 22:00 HR (b01bb7jh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]


SUN 22:30 Seekers (b03gghks)
Series 1

Seek Hard

It's an unusual day in the Job Centre when armed robbers, having been cornered by police after doing a bank job across the road, take everyone hostage.

This could be Stuart's chance to prove to Nicola he's a hero. He needs to do something spectacular to compete with her past boyfriend who Joe claims was none other than Christian Bale.

Steven Burge’s comedy about the staff and the clients who frequent a Job Centre in the Essex town of Rayleigh.

Starring Mathew Horne and Daniel Mays.

Stuart ...... Mathew Horne
Joe ...... Daniel Mays
Terry ...... Tony Way
Nicola ...... Zahra Ahmadi
Ribena ...... Hannah Wood
Mr Harty ...... Alex Lowe
Dave ...... Alex Lowe
Mrs S ...... Sally Grace
Mr A ...... Ben Crowe
Mr G ...... Paul Chequer
Gary Probert ...... Steve Oram
Policeman ...... Sean Murray

Producer: Katie Tyrrell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2013.


SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b096p7l4)
Simon Munnery

As part of our 1990s Comedy Season, Rob Deering chats to the man behind Alan Parker and The League against Tedium, Simon Munnery.


SUN 23:00 Alan Parker's 59 Minutes of Truth (b007jvkb)
Episode 1

The Urban Warrior clambers on to his soapbox to impart more undeniable truths to a nation crying out for direction and guidance.

The comedy and music mix includes a cure for apathy, if he can be bothered.

Written by and starring Simon Munnery.

With Peter Serafinowicz.

Producer: Aled Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in February 1995.



MONDAY 09 MAY 2022

MON 00:00 Nightfall (m00067d3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]


MON 00:30 The World of Daphne Du Maurier (b09v62hy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday]


MON 01:00 The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton (Omnibus) (b0b90m88)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday]


MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (m0001ztf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday]


MON 02:20 Abandoned Projects by Alan Plater (Omnibus) (b009v3js)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday]


MON 03:30 Happy Days - The Children of the Stones (b01n1rbx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday]


MON 04:00 Marilyn Bowering - Anyone Can See I Love You (m0017576)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]


MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m0017572)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday]


MON 05:30 HR (b01bb7jh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday]


MON 06:00 Wimsey (b007jvld)
Unnatural Death

1. No Sign of Foul Play

Not satisfied with Agatha Dawson's post-mortem, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates.

Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Have Unnatural Death was first published in 1927.

Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.

Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975.

Adapted for radio in seven episodes by Chris Miller.

Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Miss Climpson …. Ambrosine Phillpotts
Inspector Parker …. Gabriel Woolf
Doctor Carr …. Peter Baldwin
Nurse Philliter …. Corinna Marlowe
Waiter …. Christopher Emmett

Producer: Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1975.


MON 06:30 The House (m001752p)
Series 2

1.Will Heads Roll?

'Charles, I don't believe you've grasped the seriousness of last night. They're calling for a conference debate. We could go down. And they want someone's head.' 'And if there's a head to roll then it may as well be mine, and I take it you, Dougal, will be holding the basket?'

The return of Christopher Lee political thriller seral.

Starring Julian Glover as the Chief Whip.

More intrigue and conspiracy reverberating in the corridors of Westminster.

Charles Bannister .... Julian Glover
Dougal Baxter .... Peter Kelly
Mary Bannister ....Isla Blair
Henry Colville ....Christopher Benjamin
Juliet Cameron ....Siobhan Redmond
Rose ....Sheila Reid
Arthur ....James Garbutt

Christopher Lee was a lobby correspondent for a national newspaper, followed by 10 years as a BBC defence correspondent.

Producer Neil Cargill.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1991.


MON 07:00 Sneakiepeeks (b00pkbmh)
Echo

When the members of the Beagle Team take on their next mission, they find themselves in competition with old rivals, the Terrier Team.

Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives.

Bill ...... Richard Lumsden
Sharla ...... Nina Conti
Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya
Mrs Davies ...... Tessa Nicholson
Customer 2 ...... Ewan Bailey
Edward Barraclough MP ...... Paterson Joseph
Norris ...... Joe Thomas
Ros ...... Lucy Montgomery
Customer 1 ...... Harry Venning
Customer 3 ...... Neil Brandr

Other parts played by the cast.

Producer: Katie Tyrrell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2010.


MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth (m0016x99)
Series 28

Episode 5

David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their opponents.

Henning Wehn, Zoe Lyons, Sindhu Vee and Marcus Brigstocke are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as colours, ice cream, apples and alcoholic spirits.

Produced by Jon Naismith
A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4


MON 08:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (b007jrgc)
Moving On

A trip down memory lane proves to be eventful for Terry and Bob.

Starring James Bolam and Rodney Bewes.

Created and written for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

Adapted for BBC Radio by Patrick Tilley.

Terry Collier …. James Bolam
Bob Ferris …. Rodney Bewes
Thelma Chambers …. Brigit Forsyth
Audrey …. Sheila Fearn
Ernie …. Michael Segal
Hughie/Houseowner …. John Samson
Wendy …. Corrina Marlowe

Producer: John Browell

Originally lost from the archive, the audio was provided by BBC producer Stan Was.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1975.


MON 08:30 The Emerald Green Show (b077ygkd)
Face Value

The show has failed to deliver, but Emerald's too desperate to give up so easily. Her feathers are ruffled when a bright and talented intern arrives.

Starring Llewella Gideon.

Lisselle Kayla's sitcom about a vain, ambitious black woman who dreams of becoming a chat show queen.

Tristram ...... Jonathan Firth
Fabio ...... Iwan Thomas
Victor ...... Dean Hill
Eunice ...... Sheila Reid
David ...... Jonathan Keeble
Tanesha ...... Jo Martin

Director: Pam Fraser Solomon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.


MON 09:00 Counterpoint (b010y378)
Series 25

2011 Heat 6

Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz.

The questions cover every aspect of music - from the classical repertoire to world music, show tunes, film scores, jazz, rock and pop.

The sixth trio of 27 competitors are in London as the 25th anniversary series continues.

Derek Hall from Nottinghamshire
Paul Stevens from Bristol
Mike Whyman from Surrey

Producer: Paul Bajoria

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.


MON 09:30 Bangers and Mash (b0075gnn)
2. Cooking the Books

Kingsley's done a runner, and the catering company is going bust.

Now Jimmy needs to find a bookkeeping genius.

Katie Hims's sitcom about a chaotic catering company.

Martina ...... Catherine Harvey
Kingsley ...... Mark Straker
Jimmy ...... Gerard McDermott
Juan Jose ...... Roger May
Carol ...... Jane Whittenshaw.

Director: Cat Horn

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999.


MON 10:00 Mike Walker - Vive la Republique (b0b0lxlz)
The true story behind General Charles de Gaulle's secret flight from France at the height of the civil unrest of 1968.

His helicopter flew across a Paris of smoking barricades and running battles in the streets. Ten million people were on strike – two-thirds of the workforce.

Panic unfolds at the centre of the government and the fractured relationship between desperate de Gaulle and his Prime Minister Georges Pompidou.

Starring Ronald Pickup as de Gaulle, Barbara Flynn as Yvonne de Gaulle and Philip Jackson as Georges Pompidou.

Based on first-hand testimony, Mike Walker's drama paints a vivid picture of France teetering on the brink of a second revolution.

Joxe/ Massu ...... Nicholas Boulton
Daniel Cohn-Bendit ...... Rory Fleck-Byrne
Yvonne de Gaulle ..... Barbara Flynn
'Michel' ...... Steven Hartley
Georges Pompidou ..... Philip Jackson
General de Gaulle ...... Ronald Pickup
Fouchet/ De Boissieu ...... Daniel Weyman

Producer: David Morley

A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast on April 2018.


MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m001752s)
Series 9

The Antidote To Hopelessness

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

Manoush Zomorodi talks to writer Jason Reynolds about his career of reaching kids through stories that let them feel understood.

Jason Reynolds is an award-winning author and US Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

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


MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m001752v)
Andrew Garfield

Spiderman actor Andrew Garfield chooses ‘Just A Gigolo’ by Louis Prima and ‘Vincent’ by Don McLean.


MON 12:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (b007jrgc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


MON 12:30 The Emerald Green Show (b077ygkd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


MON 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvld)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


MON 13:30 The House (m001752p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


MON 14:00 Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (b007k0gc)
Episode 1

Author Nick Hornby reads his autobiographical account of an obsessive relationship with Arsenal Football Club.

It is 1968 - an important year: his parents have split up, at one point his mother, sister and himself are homeless, he gets a severe attack of jaundice and starts at grammar school.

His Dad took him to Highbury and there was no looking back.

'I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically' - but does football ruin men and their relationships? Probably...

Producer: Matthew Walters

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993.


MON 14:15 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (b007jvx0)
6. Loss

Becky Sharp gains a husband, but loses the chance of a title.

Stephen Fry narrates one of the greatest comic novels of the Victorian period.

Written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Dramatised in twenty parts by Stephen Wyatt.

Becky Sharp .... Emma Fielding
Miss Crawley ..... Margaret Tyzack
Sir Pitt Crawley .... Trevor Peacock
William Dobbin .... Tom Smith
Miss Briggs .... Kate Buffery
Auctioneer …. Jon Glover
Rawdon Crawley …. Ray Coulthard

Director: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004.


MON 14:30 Domesday Reloaded: How Britain Has Changed (b01b1hzw)
In 2012, at the end of the Domesday Reloaded project, Professor Danny Dorling compared the 2011 and 1986 views of the UK to give a unique insight into how the country had changed in 25 years.

From March 2011, the public updated a repository of 24,000 photographs, taken for the BBC's Domesday project in 1986.

Danny picks four areas in which to explore the transformations of the UK. He visits these places and talks to the individuals who have updated the squares about their lives and experience of the way that their locality has changed.

One theme Danny explores is the disappearance of an industrial landscape since the 1980s. He looks at Sheffield, when in 2013 he was Professor of Human Geography, to explore how this once steel town has benefitted from the expansion of higher education to become a centre of student life.

He also looks at aspects of life that haven't changed in a quarter of a century, such as the pantomime in the Scottish village of Buchlyvie. The residents were keen contributors to the 1986 Domesday project and they had updated their square in 2011.

Producer: Alex Mansfield

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012.


MON 15:00 Mike Walker - Vive la Republique (b0b0lxlz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


MON 16:00 Counterpoint (b010y378)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


MON 16:30 Bangers and Mash (b0075gnn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


MON 17:00 Sneakiepeeks (b00pkbmh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


MON 17:30 The Unbelievable Truth (m0016x99)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


MON 18:00 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace (b007jpdb)
Episode 1

In 22nd-century Britain, the collapse of the pensions system means compulsory euthanasia for all 70-year-olds.

But a clerical error sparks major implications for George Smith...

Colin Swash's dystopian comedy stars Stephen Moore as George

George ...... Stephen Moore
Doris ...... Patsy Byrne
O'Connell ...... Geoffrey McGivern
Andrea Sunbeam ...... Lorelei King

Other parts by Melanie Hudson, Christopher Douglas and Lewis MacLeod.

Producer: Richard Wilson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1998.


MON 18:30 A Good Read (b03wpjg4)
Penelope Lively and Will Smith

Novelist Dame Penelope Lively and comedy writer Will Smith discuss their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.

Will Smith’s choice: ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ by John Kennedy Toole
Published by Penguin

Dame Penelope Lively’s choice: ‘Arctic Dreams’ by Barry Lopez
Published by Penguin

Harriet Gilbert’s choice: ‘Lucky Jim’ by Kingsley Amis
Published by Harvill

Producer: Beth O’Dea

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.


MON 19:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (b007jrgc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


MON 19:30 The Emerald Green Show (b077ygkd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


MON 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvld)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


MON 20:30 The House (m001752p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m001752s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m001752v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today]


MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m0016x99)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


MON 22:30 The News Quiz (m0016y62)
Series 108

Episode 3

Andy Zaltzman is joined by a panel of comedians and journalists from all around the UK to reflect on a week in which much of the country went to the polls.

Diona Doherty is in Northern Ireland, Tudur Owen Zooms in from North Wales, journalist Ayesha Hazarika represents Scotland and Ian Smith flies the flag for Yorkshire and England.

Producer: Richard Morris
Production co-ordinator: Katie Baum
A BBC Studios Production


MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b096tmfc)
Richard Herring

As part of our 90s Comedy season, Rob Deering chats to one half of Lee & Herring, and podcast king, Richard Herring.


MON 23:00 On the Hour (b008pcbq)
Series 1

Episode 2

Tackling dangerous dogs, TV evangelism probe - and a surprising new role for Margaret Thatcher.

All the news as it happens, if it happens – plus sport from Alan Partridge.

Savagely satirical award-winning comedy starring Chris Morris.

With Steve Coogan, David Schneider, Rebecca Front, Patrick Marber and Doon Mackichan.

Written by Chris Morris, Richard Herring, Steven Wells, Andrew Glover, David Quantick and Stewart Lee.

Editor: Armando lannucci

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991.


MON 23:30 Sarah Millican's Support Group (b011d6rf)
Series 2

4. 'It's me or the dog'

"It's me or the dog!"

"My phobias are out of control but I'm too scared to even admit it"

Sarah Millican is a life counsellor and modern-day agony aunt tackling the nation's problems head on, dishing out real advice for real people.

Assisted by her very own team of experts of the heart - man of the people local cabbie Terry, and self qualified counsellor Marion.

Sarah tackles the nation's problems head on and has a solution for everything.

Sarah ...... Sarah Millican
Marion ...... Ruth Bratt
Terry ...... Simon Daye
Laura ...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Barry ...... Harry Peacock
John ...... Tim Key

Written by Sarah Millican.

Producer: Lianne Coop

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011



TUESDAY 10 MAY 2022

TUE 00:00 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace (b007jpdb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]


TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b03wpjg4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]


TUE 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvld)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]


TUE 01:30 The House (m001752p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]


TUE 02:00 Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (b007k0gc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]


TUE 02:15 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (b007jvx0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday]


TUE 02:30 Domesday Reloaded: How Britain Has Changed (b01b1hzw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]


TUE 03:00 Mike Walker - Vive la Republique (b0b0lxlz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]


TUE 04:00 Counterpoint (b010y378)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]


TUE 04:30 Bangers and Mash (b0075gnn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]


TUE 05:00 Sneakiepeeks (b00pkbmh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]


TUE 05:30 The Unbelievable Truth (m0016x99)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]


TUE 06:00 Wimsey (b007jvlj)
Unnatural Death

2. Death in Epping Forest

After another killing, Lord Peter Wimsey questions an evasive would-be divorcee.

Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Have Unnatural Death was first published in 1927.

Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.

Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975.

Adapted for radio in seven episodes by Chris Miller.

Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Miss Climpson …. Ambrosine Phillpotts
Inspector Parker …. Gabriel Woolf
Mrs. Peasgood …. Betty Cardno
Mrs. Forrest …. Bridget McConnel
Superintendent Walmisley …. Godfrey Kenton
Mrs. Gulliver …. Pauline Letts
Miss Murgatroyd …. Madi Hedd

Producer: Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1975.


TUE 06:30 The House (m00175dh)
Series 2

2. The Fifth Man

'I think you ought to know, Charles, that when we name names, there might be one that amuses you.' 'I'm not sure I'd find the name of a traitor amusing, Henry.' 'This one you might. You know him.'

Henry Colville takes Chief Whip Charles Bannister to an art gallery.

Starring Julian Glover and Peter Kelly.

Political thriller serial by Christopher Lee.

Charles Bannister ....Julian Glover
Dougal Baxter ....Peter Kelly
Mary Bannister ....Isla Blair
Henry Colville ....Christopher Benjamin
Juliet Cameron ....Siobhan Redmond
Polly Bannister ....Ruth Gemmell
Gerald Mossman ....David Neville

Producer Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1991.


TUE 07:00 North by Northamptonshire (b00sp454)
Series 1

Episode 1

Sheila Hancock heads a stunning cast including Mackenzie Crook, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu and Kevin Eldon in this clever, funny and touching series about a small town in the middle of Northamptonshire as it prepares for a talent night.

Written by and also starring Katherine Jakeways.

Get to know the local supermarket manager who shares rather more than is usual about his private life over the store's tannoy system. Recently divorced Jan has been trying unsuccessfully to 'find herself' with a trip abroad to an elephant sanctuary. But it is at home in Wadenbrook that she starts to feel happier with herself as her friendship blossoms with ex-teacher Mary. And, joy of joys, could it be that Jan is going to experience a touch of romance at last?

Meet driving instructor and forthright self-defence teacher Esther and her gentle and put-upon Jonathan as they struggle to start a family and we meet possibly the only happy couple in town, Ken and Keith, as they attempt to teach their pet whippets to dance for the town talent night.

In this opening episode, Mary starts rehearsals for the town talent night and is shocked by 12 year old Gregory's slide show of Victorian ladies.
Meanwhile Esther sends her husband Jonathan out to collect money for the Leicestershire Infertile Males Project but he ends up at The Bricklayer's Arms looking at pictures of elephants with Jan.

Narrator ...... Sheila Hancock
Rod ...... Mackenzie Crook
Mary ...... Penelope Wilton
Jan ...... Felicity Montagu
Jonathan ...... Kevin Eldon
Esther ...... Katherine Jakeways
Keith ...... John Biggins
Landlord ...... Rufus Wright
Gregory ...... Sam Cotton

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2010.


TUE 07:30 Just William - Live! (m0004mdb)
William and the School Report

Award-winning Martin Jarvis performs the first of two Richmal Crompton comic classics, live on-stage. It's Just William as stand-up!

It’s the last day of term. William is depressed. He’s got to have holiday coaching unless his school report is a really good one.

It isn’t. It’s the worst he’s ever had.

As he walks slowly home through the woods he meets an old lady. She’s lost. It’s his father’s aunt who is coming to lunch at his house. Then William has one of his most brilliantly lateral ideas.

A packed house at The Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Surrey rocks with laughter as Martin Jarvis performs as William and the batty aunt.

Director: Rosalind Ayres.
A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b0b0fty1)
The Fireball of Milton Street

Neddie Seagoon springs into action when he discovers the sun is on fire.

Starring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.

Beginning in May 1951 as 'Crazy People', The Goon Show ran for 10 series stretching the boundaries of radio comedy in new and influential directions concluding in January 1960.

The team reunited in October 1972 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the BBC for The Last Goon Show of All.

Scripted by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes.

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 February 1955.


TUE 08:30 King Street Junior (b007jmjs)
Series 6

In Real Terms

When expenditure exceeds income, Mr Beeston is faced with some hard decisions.

Created and written by Jim Eldridge.

CAST:

Mr Sims …. Karl Howman
Mr Beeston …. James Grout
Mr Holliday …. Tom Watson
Mrs Stone …. Margaret John
Mr Long …. Paul Copley
Mrs Patterson …. Deirdre Costello
Mrs Rudd …. Vivienne Martin
Miss Lewis …. Marlene Sidaway
Chairman of Governors …. Terence Hardiman
Mr Danvers …. Timothy Bateson
Mrs Wright …. Joanna Myers
Sandy …. Ben Dell

The sixth of ten series of 'King Street Junior'. The comedy drama ran between 1985 and 1998. 'King Street Junior' Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005.

Producer: John Fawcett Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1991.


TUE 09:00 The News Quiz (m0016y62)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Monday]


TUE 09:30 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me (b0076sm2)
Series 2

Swingin' Down the Lane

Roy and George hear that an old bandleader, Gillie Truman, is on his deathbed and George is keen to visit.

But Roy fell out with Gillie 50 years earlier and sees no reason to bury the hatchet.

CAST:

Roy …. Don Warrington
Vi …. Yvonne Brewster
George …. Sam Kelly
Barry …. George Layton
Bernadette …. Caroline Lee Johnson
Victor …. Marcus Powell
Gillie …. Michael Bertenshaw
Laura …. Angie Wallis
Trombonist …. Mike Kearsey

Written by Marcus Powell.

Producer: Carol Smith

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2005.


TUE 10:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jm85)
1. Rescue

Shipwrecked literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued by Wolf Larsen, demonic skipper of the seal-hunting schooner, Ghost.

Jack London's 1904 psychological adventure novel telling of heroism, survival and love on the high seas.

Dramatised in four parts by Ed Thomason.

CAST

Wolf Larsen .... Jack Klaff
Humphrey van Weyden .... Kerry Shale
Mugridge …. Ian Dury
Johnson …. Jeffrey Gear
Leach …. Scott Farrell
Charley …. David Bannerman
Owen …. Terence Edmond
Kelly …. Norman Jonesy
Louis …. Nigel Anthony
Svenson …. Brett Usher
Smoke …. Anthony Jackson
Harrison …. Richard Pearce
Latimer …. Peter Penry-Jones
Horner …. Clarence Smith
Henderson …. Andrew Wincott
Ferry Passenger …. William Roberts

Music: Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Singer: Sarah Connolly

Director: Adrian Bean

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991.


TUE 11:00 Archive on 4 (m00026m2)
Powers of Persuasion: How Britain Learned to Sell

Designer Wayne Hemingway examines 100 years of British advertising on film and television, with special behind-the-scenes access to the one of the world’s largest advertising collection at the British Film Institute.

Wayne follows advertisers’ first hesitant steps into both the big and small screen. It was a time when America was the global player. Beginning with films as early as 1900, he discovers how Britain carefully set itself apart from global advertising trends, crafting a model perfectly fine-tuned for our nation – the subtle, soft sell.

But it is this unique subtlety that took Britain to its most controversial moments in advertising – when entire series were banned for being duplicitous. Wayne draws parallels to modern day Britain, comparing how advertisers always try to break the rules in new mediums.

The BFI collection also contains many of the cinematic, directorial debuts from the mad men who went to Hollywood. Wayne investigates their timeless ads that created the Golden Era of advertising, and how each of them drew on tropes of British identity and archetypes of British society to sell to us.

Most theories on advertising suggest that it doesn’t actually input ideas into society – rather that it reflects them back. Yet this archive points to the moments when advertisers fuelled certain movements and fortified idealistic notions, re-defining and re-directing our sense of self and what it means to be British.

Produced by Anishka Sharma and Kate Holland
A Whistledown production

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.


TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b0b0fty1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


TUE 12:30 King Street Junior (b007jmjs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


TUE 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvlj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


TUE 13:30 The House (m00175dh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


TUE 14:00 Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (b007k0hk)
Episode 2

The Arsenal-loving author muses on the perfect match.

His love of the game now a full blown relationship, the same cannot be said of his interaction with his siblings...

Produced by Mathew Walters.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993.


TUE 14:15 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (b007jvx8)
7. Ruin

Stephen Fry narrates one of the greatest comic novels of the Victorian period.

Written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Dramatised in twenty parts by Stephen Wyatt.

As Amelia Sedley's family face ruin, George Osborne breaks his engagement.

CAST:
Becky Sharp .... Emma Fielding
Amelia …. Katy Cavanagh
George Osborne .... Nicholas Boulton
William Dobbin .... Tom Smith
John Osborne .... Geoffrey Whitehead
Mr Sedley …. Ian Masters
with Stephen Fry as the narrator

Director Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.


TUE 14:30 Blood, Sex and Money: The Life and Work of Emile Zola (b06p7cyt)
Double Oscar winning actress, and former politician, Glenda Jackson, presents an intriguing insight into the physical and cultural landscape of one of France's most prolific and influential writers – Emile Zola. She travels to Paris to get a real flavour of the great writer's work and life, and how his experience and the life around him informed his great commentary of novels on the Second Empire. Zola's descendants describe how the reaction to J'Accuse and the Dreyfus Affair, where Zola accused the French Army of a cover up in an open letter to the press, still creates waves and bad feelings for the family. It's a journey of discovery for Jackson, right down to the fact that both Zola and she befriended a mouse.

She travels to his country home in Medan and meets his great grand-daughter. This was the home where, with his wife, he entertained his friends, such as Flaubert and Cezanne, where he set up a home for his lover and two children near by, and where he would cycle every afternoon to visit them.

Glenda also visits key areas in Paris where Zola lived in dire poverty, and where he gathered with his artist contemporaries - Manet, Monet, Cézanne at the height of the impressionistic and naturalistic movement. And finally a trip to Aix-en-Provence, in the South, where Zola and Cézanne grew up.

Produced by Pauline Harris.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015.


TUE 15:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jm85)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


TUE 16:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b09ntss1)
Series 12

Episode 3

Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Sally Phillips welcome:

* Comedian Stephen K. Amos
* Nanochemist Dr Suze Kundu
* Author of The Island, Victoria Hislop

The Museum's Guest Committee highlight the resilience of Tooting Broadway, the bulletproof qualities of Kevlar and the influence of the Protective Eye.

The show was researched by Mike Turner and QI.

The Producers were Richard Turner and Anne Miller.

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2018.


TUE 16:30 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me (b0076sm2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


TUE 17:00 North by Northamptonshire (b00sp454)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


TUE 17:30 Just William - Live! (m0004mdb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


TUE 18:00 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace (b007jpdq)
Episode 2

Lucky old George Smith - it's not everyone who has their own compulsory euthanasia broadcast on national TV at the age of 69.

Colin Swash's dystopian comedy set in 22nd-century Britain, starring Stephen Moore as George Smith.

George ...... Stephen Moore
Doris ...... Patsy Byrne
O'Connell ...... Geoffrey McGivern
Andrea Sunbeam ...... Lorelei King

Other parts by Melanie Hudson, Christopher Douglas, Lewis MacLeod and Peter Serafinowicz.

Producer: Richard Wilson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1998.


TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b076cg3q)
Series 22

Sukiyaki (Ue o Muite Arukou)

Memories of a prison camp in the Arizona desert, a tsunami and a plane crash are stirred by the bittersweet Japanese song Sukiyaki, a huge global hit of the 1960s.

Originally released in Japan with the title 'Ue o Muite Arukou' ('I Look Up As I Walk'), the song was retitled 'Sukiyaki' (the name for a type of beef stew) for international release. It went to No 1 in the USA, Canada and Australia and placed in the top 10 of the UK singles chart. With melancholy lyrics set to a bright and unforgettable melody, it has since been covered hundreds of times in countless languages.

California peach farmer Mas Masumoto tells the story of his family's internment in an Arizona relocation camp following the bombing of Pearl Harbor and explains what the song meant to him and many other Japanese-Americans in the years after WWII. Violinist and composer Diana Yukawa plays the song as a way to remember her father, who died in the same plane crash that killed Kyu Sakamoto, the original singer of 'Sukiyaki'. Michael Bourdaghs, author of 'Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon', talks about the songwriting team behind the song (Rokusuke Ei, Hachidai Nakamura and Kyu Sakamoto), and the surprising roots of the song in the Japanese protest movement of the early 1960s.

Janice-Marie Johnson of A Taste of Honey talks about writing an English version of the song and how she interpreted the Japanese lyrics. Gemma Treharne-Foose speaks about her experience of travelling to Japan from her home in the Rhondda Valleys, and what the song came to mean to her. And we hear the story of how Ue o Muite Arukou became a 'prayer for hope' following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011 from musician Masami Utsunomiya.

Producer: Mair Bosworth

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2016


TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b0b0fty1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


TUE 19:30 King Street Junior (b007jmjs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


TUE 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvlj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


TUE 20:30 The House (m00175dh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


TUE 21:00 Archive on 4 (m00026m2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


TUE 22:00 Just William - Live! (m0004mdb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


TUE 22:30 The Nick Revell Show (b007k2dc)
Series 1

Cash

Writer Nick struggles for cash, while his geraniums moan about Christmas decorations.

A sitcom for the 1990s, written by and starring comedian Nick Revell.

With Alistair McGowan, Caroline Gruber, Brian Bowles, Doon Mackichan and Alison Sterling.

Producer: Jon Magnusson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1992.


TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b096tmnj)
Richard Herring

As part of our 90s Comedy season Richard Herring talks about his ground-breaking comedy output


TUE 23:00 Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun (b007k272)
London

Bring back Geoffrey to ‘Rainbow’ and some cutting remarks about Lorena Bobbit.

From the BBC Paris Studio, London.

Stewart Lee and Richard Herring’s mix of sharp sketches and situations, stand up topical gags and banter.

With Peter Baynham, Rebecca Front and John Thomson.

Special guest Geoffrey Hayes from ITV kids show Rainbow.

Lee and Herring went to write and star in their successful TV transfer to BBC Two in 1995.

Cult BBC Radio 1 series first broadcast in November 1993.


TUE 23:30 The Million Pound Radio Show (b007jzt4)
Series 2

Episode 6

Modern art - and the swinging 60s. Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell's sharp-edged topical humour. From September 1986.



WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2022

WED 00:00 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace (b007jpdq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]


WED 00:30 Soul Music (b076cg3q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]


WED 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvlj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]


WED 01:30 The House (m00175dh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]


WED 02:00 Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (b007k0hk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]


WED 02:15 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (b007jvx8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday]


WED 02:30 Blood, Sex and Money: The Life and Work of Emile Zola (b06p7cyt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]


WED 03:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jm85)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]


WED 04:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b09ntss1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday]


WED 04:30 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me (b0076sm2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday]


WED 05:00 North by Northamptonshire (b00sp454)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]


WED 05:30 Just William - Live! (m0004mdb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]


WED 06:00 Wimsey (b007jvlm)
Unnatural Death

3. The Will

A suspect takes a shine to Lord Peter Wimsey, as he investigates multiple murders.

Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Have Unnatural Death was first published in 1927.

Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.

Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975.

Adapted for radio in seven episodes by Chris Miller.

Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Miss Climpson …. Ambrosine Phillpotts
Inspector Parker …. Gabriel Woolf
Bunter …. Peter Jones
Mr Murbles …. Malcolm Hayes
Nurse Forbes …. Sheelah Wilcocks
Evelyn Gotobed …. Alison Skilbeck

Producer: Simon Brett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1975.


WED 06:30 The House (m00175j3)
Series 2

3. A New Recruit

'Look what happened in the Chamber today Juliet. You had Dougal Baxter dribbling and choking. Of course the PM hadn't consulted him about the new policy adviser. We knew that. But you were the one who put him on the spot.' Resignation is on the cards ... unless Dougal's counter-plot pays off.

Resignation is on the cards unless Dougal Baxter's counter-plot pays off.

Starring Julian Glover and Peter Kelly.

Political thriller serial by Christopher Lee.

Charles Bannister ....Julian Glover
Dougal Baxter ....Peter Kelly
Mary Bannister ....Isla Blair
Henry Colville ....Christopher Benjamin
Juliet Cameron ....Siobhan Redmond
Rose ....Sheila Reid
Arthur ....James Garbutt
Polly ....Ruth Gemmell
Denis Wigton ....David Ryall
Speaker ....Terence Edmond

Producer Neil Cargill.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1991..


WED 07:00 Mrs Sidhu Investigates (b096j4lp)
Murder With Masala

Samosas, Suspicion and Stately Homes

Mrs Sidhu is Slough's answer to Miss Marple.

She’s a nosey Indian chef who gets mixed up in society crimes.

Starring Meera Syal.

Since her husband's death, she’s built a successful reputation as a caterer expanding into well-heeled Berkshire, where posh clients pay better.

But when crime strikes, Mrs Sidhu embroils Inspector Burton – while at home, she’s plagued by her wily catering supplier Mr Varma and her wayward son, Tez.

In the opening episode, Mrs Sidhu heads to a posh wedding at Lapsley Hall where the bride appeals for her help in finding her missing maid of honour.

Meanwhile her son Tez is angry when she employs a French sous chef.

Sitcom by Suk Pannu.

Mrs Sidhu …… Meera Syal
Josh …… Justin Edwards
Inspector Burton …… Justin Edwards
Jemma …… Amy Morgan
Briony …… Amy Morgan
Mr Varma …… Vincent Ebrahim
Lord Lucas …… Vincent Ebrahim
Mrs Broghan …… Rachel Atkins
Lady Lucas …… Rachel Atkins
Tez …… Hamza Jeetooa
Sergeant …… Hamza Jeetooa

Editor: Leon Chambers
Director: Marilyn Imrie
Producer: Gordon Kennedy
Executive Producer: Chris Pye

An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2017.


WED 07:30 The Confessional (m000w3mf)
Series 1

The Confession of Marian Keyes

Actor, comedian and broadcaster Stephen Mangan presents a comedy chat show about shame and guilt.

Each week Stephen invites a different eminent guest into his virtual confessional box to make three 'confessions'. This is a cue for some remarkable storytelling, and surprising insights.

We’re used to hearing celebrity interviews where stars are persuaded to show off about their achievements and talk about their proudest moments. Stephen is not interested in that. He doesn’t want to know what his guests are proud of, he wants to know what they’re ashamed of. That’s surely the way to find out what really makes a person tick. Stephen and his guest reflect with empathy and humour on things like why we get embarrassed, where our shame thresholds should be, and the value of guilt.

This week the prolific novelist and writer Marian Keyes confesses, from her home in Dublin, details of a disservice she did that still haunts her 20 years after the event. She also tells tales of a lost glove and of Joan of Arc at a fancy dress ball.

Other guests in this series include Dr Phil Hammond, Cariad Lloyd, Joan Bakewell, Suzi Ruffell, Phil Wang and Alastair Campbell.

Written and presented by Stephen Mangan
With extra material by Nick Doody
Devised with Dave Anderson and produced by Frank Stirling
A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4


WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jsys)
Series 5

Sunday Afternoon at Home

Bored and miserable at home, the Lad tries to decide what to do.

Classic episode starring Tony Hancock as The Lad Himself.

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

Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott.

Producer: Tom Ronald

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1958.


WED 08:30 Fab TV (m00175j5)
I Am Not A Number

Final part of the comedy series which pays homage to the cult action adventure shows of the sixties and seventies.

I Am Not a Number.

Number 48 wants to stay in the village - but they keep chucking him out!

Written by and starring Neil Mullarkey and John Irwin.

With Irina Brook, Chris England, Robert Harley and Lee Simpson.

Music by Richard Vranch

Producer Phil Clarke

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996.


WED 09:00 The Write Stuff (b00b0z0c)
Series 11

George Eliot

James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary correctness, flanked by captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh with guests Peter Kemp and Andrew Davies.

The author of the week and subject for pastiche is George Eliot and the reader is Beth Chalmers.


WED 09:30 1834 (b011klyr)
Strong Continental Lager

21st-century teacher Jason decides 19th-century Macclesfield needs a decent pub with decent beer.

In Jim Poyser's riotous comedy of transportation and delight, Jason is now Tarquin, third son of Lord Belport with a faithful valet, Ned.

Jason Slater ...... Michael Begley
Ned ...... Joe Caffrey
Hoskins ...... Kenneth Alan Taylor
Lord Belport ...... Mark Chatterton
Stubbs ...... Glenn Cunningham
Millicent ...... Julia Rounthwaite

Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2003.


WED 10:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jm8h)
2. Hunting

The seal-hunting schooner Ghost journeys on to the herds with ruthless captain, Wolf Larsen at the helm.

Jack London's 1904 tale of brutality and survival on the high seas.

Dramatised by Ed Thomason.

CAST:

Wolf Larsen …. Jack Klaff
Humphrey van Weyden …. Kerry Shale
Mugridge …. Ian Dury
Johnson …. Jeffrey Gear
Leach …. Scott Farrell
Owen …. Terence Edmond
Kelly …. Norman Jones
Louis …. Nigel Anthony
Smoke …. Anthony Jackson
Harrison …. Richard Pearce
Latimer …. Peter Penry-Jones
Horner …. Clarence Smith
Henderson …. Andrew Wincott
Maud Brewster …. Shelley Thompson

Music: Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Singer: Sarah Connolly.

Director: Adrian Bean.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991.


WED 11:00 The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh (m00175j7)
Alternative Comedy...and Beyond

2. The Mary Whitehouse Experience

Instead of guest Comedy Controllers, choosing their comedy favourites, it is now the turn of Paul Jackson, Beryl Vertue, John Lloyd and Jimmy Mulville who have between them well over a 150 years of gut-busting, side-aching woofers, gags - and the occasional horrific mistimed silence.

In front of an audience in the iconic Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House - the home of British Radio comedy - they reveal why they do it and what makes them laugh.

This time, they travel back to the 1980s to celebrate the alternative comedy, and to remember the golden years of BBC Entertainment. Featuring:

The Mary Whitehouse Experience [06/01/1990 R1]

The Young Ones: University Challenge sketch [12/06/1984]

Series Producers: Paul Kobrak and Dixi Stewart.

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in April 2017.


WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jsys)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


WED 12:30 Fab TV (m00175j5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


WED 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvlm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


WED 13:30 The House (m00175j3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


WED 14:00 Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (b007k0jq)
Episode 3

The author reads his Arsenal-obsessed memoir, musing on girls' rooms, boys' passions - and Liam Brady.

1977 - he is at Cambridge University, watching Arsenal and Cambridge United and deeply in love with a trainee teacher. She was the first girlfriend he ever took to Highbury. She found the experience "funny"!

Produced by Matthew Walters.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993.


WED 14:15 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (b007jvxc)
8. Honeymoon

George and Amelia honeymoon in Brighton, where Becky and Rawdon are after his aunt's cash.

Stephen Fry narrates one of the greatest comic novels of the Victorian period.

Written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Dramatised in twenty parts by Stephen Wyatt.

CAST:
Becky Sharp .... Emma Fielding
Amelia …. Katy Cavanagh
George Osborne .... Nicholas Boulton
Miss Briggs .... Kate Buffery
William Dobbin .... Tom Smith
Miss Crawley ..... Margaret Tyzack
Rawdon Crawley …. Ray Coulthard
With Stephen Fry as the narrator

Director Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.


WED 14:30 Women of the New Wave (b00r8hhz)
Singer Pauline black meets some of the women who were in the vanguard of punk and new wave music, and asks what their legacy is for today's female artists.

Punk offered women the chance to get on stage and be themselves, free from the constraints of a previously male dominated music industry. Artists such as Siouxsie Sioux, Poly Styrene and Gaye Advert started their own bands and expressed themselves in ways that female musicians hadn't been allowed to previously. They refused to be judged on their looks and asserted the right to sing about subjects that interested them rather than about broken hearts and lost loves.

As punk evolved into a wider musical spectrum that encompassed New Wave and Two Tone, bands such as The Selecter emerged through which singers such as Pauline Black tackled issues of racism and sexism in their lyrics. Thirty years on, she asks some of those groundbreaking women what they think they've achieved for women of their and subsequent generations.

Produced by Maggie Ayre.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.


WED 15:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jm8h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


WED 16:00 The Write Stuff (b00b0z0c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


WED 16:30 1834 (b011klyr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


WED 17:00 Mrs Sidhu Investigates (b096j4lp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


WED 17:30 The Confessional (m000w3mf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


WED 18:00 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace (b007jpf4)
Episode 3

Fresh from incarceration, 69-year-old George Smith finally comes face to face with the evil leader of the OAPs, Mrs Cookson.

Colin Swash's dystopian comedy set in 22nd-century Britain, starring Stephen Moore as George Smith.

George ...... Stephen Moore
Doris ...... Patsy Byrne
O'Connell ...... Geoffrey McGivern
Mrs Cookson ...... Edna Dore
Andrea Sunbeam ...... Lorelei King
Dawkins ...... Melanie Hudson
Ronnie ...... Christopher Douglas

Other parts by Lewis MacLeod and Peter Serafinowicz.

Producer: Richard Wilson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1998.


WED 18:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007jpy4)
Series 2

Ted Ray

Mark Radcliffe traces the career of the fiddler who became one of the most successful comedians of the 1950s and 60s – Ted Ray.

Series exploring the tradition of influential northern comedians.

Producer Libby Cross

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.


WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jsys)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


WED 19:30 Fab TV (m00175j5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


WED 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvlm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


WED 20:30 The House (m00175j3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


WED 21:00 The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh (m00175j7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


WED 22:00 The Confessional (m000w3mf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


WED 22:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b03k0s5j)
Series 5

Episode 2

The real point of owning a cat and a culture clash at the Proms.

Comedy from the lopsided world of David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

With Olivia Colman and James Bachman.

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2013.


WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b096n77n)
Matthew Bannister 1/3

As part of our 90s Comedy season, Arthur Smith chats to former controller Matthew Bannister about Radio 1's ground-breaking comedy output in the 1990s.


WED 23:00 The Mary Whitehouse Experience (b044153k)
Series 4

Episode 2

The pernicious evil of shampoo and conditioner.

Starring the double double-acts of David Baddiel and Rob Newman and Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.

With Mark Hurst.

BBC Radio 1's alternative comedy with sketches, stand-up and the odd spot of audience participation.

Starting in 1989, the foursome's popularity sparked a BBC TV-transfer of the same name.

Producer: Armando Iannucci

First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in October 1990


WED 23:30 King Cutler (b008pbxf)
King Cutler I

Meet Phyllis King and Ivor Cutler happily enmeshed in a roomful of offbeat humorous songs, poems and dialogues until.... the knock on the door.

With artist Glen Baxter.

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in January 1990.



THURSDAY 12 MAY 2022

THU 00:00 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace (b007jpf4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]


THU 00:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007jpy4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]


THU 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvlm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]


THU 01:30 The House (m00175j3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]


THU 02:00 Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (b007k0jq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]


THU 02:15 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (b007jvxc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday]


THU 02:30 Women of the New Wave (b00r8hhz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]


THU 03:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jm8h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]


THU 04:00 The Write Stuff (b00b0z0c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]


THU 04:30 1834 (b011klyr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]


THU 05:00 Mrs Sidhu Investigates (b096j4lp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]


THU 05:30 The Confessional (m000w3mf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]


THU 06:00 Wimsey (b007jvlv)
Unnatural Death

4. Hallelujah

Thanks to a murder victim's cousin, new clues surface in Lord Peter Wimsey's investigation.

Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Have Unnatural Death was first published in 1927.

Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.

Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975.

Adapted for radio by Chris Miller.

Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Inspector Parker …. Gabriel Woolf
Mr Murbles …. Malcolm Hayes
The Reverend Hallelujah Dawson …. Tommy Eytle
Mrs Cobling …. Miriam Margolyes
Piggin …. David Gooderson
Ben Cobling …. Bill Wallis

Producer: Simon Brett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1975.


THU 06:30 The House (m00175kx)
Series 2

4. The Honours Game

'Got the elbow then, have We?' 'I sometimes wish that were true, Merffyn.' 'Don't worry, Charles, from what the polls tell us, it's coming your way....'

Dougal Baxter is exploiting the Honours system and hires a new recruit to help.

Starring Julian Glover and Peter Kelly.

Political thriller serial by Christopher Lee.

Charles Bannister .... Julian Glover
Dougal Baxter .... Peter Kelly
Mary Bannister .... Isla Blair
Henry Colville ....Christopher Benjamin
Kay Bennett ....Jane Booker
Gerald Mossman .... David Neville
Polly Bannister .... Ruth Gemmell
Merffyn Edwards .... Douglas Blackwell

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on Radio 4 in September 1991.


THU 07:00 Mum's on the Run (b00tpt3n)
Episode 4

Jen has trouble with mice, cats and the local constabulary.

Mum's on the Run is a modern-day twist on the single-family situation. It follows the hectic life ("What life?") of single mum, Jen.

Mother of two, Master of none - Jen seems to spend most of her time as an unpaid chauffeur to a 15 year-old teenage existentialist son, Toby, and a tonally challenged recorder-practising 11 year-old daughter, Felicity, whilst also coping with the jazz musician ex-husband, the fiercely competitive and annoying downstairs neighbour and a huge crush on her son's history teacher.

Jen ..... Ronni Ancona
Mr. Rigby ..... John Gordon Sinclair
Shelley ..... Alexis Zegerman
Vivienne ..... Christine Kavanagh
Felicity ..... Amy Dabrowa
Toby ..... Alexander Heath
Policeman ..... Tony Bell
Police Radio ..... Sam Dale

Written by Alexis Zegerman.

Produced by Dawn Ellis

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2010.


THU 07:30 Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz (m0016xvv)
Series 1

Round three: Four-Letter Words

The problem with quizzes is that the same questions keep coming up, like “Who was the first US President to be assassinated?”*. So the more quizzes you do the more predictable they get.

Luckily, here comes quizzer, comedian and Rose d’Or winner Paul Sinha with his new series, Paul Sinha’s Perfect Pub Quiz. In each episode he will invite the audience to tell him their favourite quiz questions, before offering up not just different and surprising questions, but also the fascinating stories behind the answers.

It’s facts, jokes, stories and puns – just the way you like them.

The answers to every question this week are four-letter words - such as 'quiz', not the ones you're thinking of.

Written and performed by Paul Sinha
Additional material Oliver Levy
Additional questions The Audience

Original music: Tim Sutton

Sound engineer: Jerry Peal

Producer: Ed Morrish

A Lead Mojo production for BBC Radio 4

*Abraham Lincoln, as you well know.


THU 08:00 The Atkinson People (b007k1qg)
Sir Benjamin Fletcher

Rowan Atkinson's satirical investigation into the life of the fictional master orator. With Hugh Thomas. From April 1979.


THU 08:30 Capital Gains (b00slqv8)
Series 2

Stake Capital

OUR APOLOGIES!!

THIS EPISODE WAS BROADCAST IN ERROR INSTEAD OF THE CORRECT AUDIO FOR SERIES 1 EP 2

THE CORRECT AUDIO IS IN THE SCHEDULE BELOW AT 19.30 (THURSDAY 17th Feb 2022 )

When an act of civil disobedience centred around a tea break fails to bring results, Julius Hutch, the leader of The Tree Party, turns to games of chance.

CAST:

Julius Hutch …. Peter Jones
Pauline Hutch …. Celestine Randall
Sexton Lewis …. Jeffrey Wickham
Kate …. Justine Midda
Sir Gainford Blounty …. Stephen Thorne
Dahlia Sprout …. Jillie Meers
Haiku Jack …. Collin Johnson
Ted Smoothie/Dr Heinz Strudel …. David Holt
Brian Perkins as Himself

Switten by Collin Johnson.

Producers: Andy Jordan and David Blount

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1997.


THU 09:00 Foul Play (b00zshr5)
Series 4

Dead as a Parrot

Crime writers Ian Rankin and Stella Duffy try to solve a murder mystery involving footballers and models.

With the help of witnesses played by Maria McErlane and Lee Simpson.

Murder mystery panel game chaired by Simon Brett.

Producer: Liz Anstee

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1998.


THU 09:30 Tomorrow, Today! (b016r51y)
Series 2

Dr Chaotica and the Rise of the Atomic Man-Bees

A BBC producer struggles to make a radio soap set in the unimaginably futuristic world of 2008.

Suspicious deaths provoke mixed reactions.

Series two of Christopher William Hill's sitcom set in 1962.

Nigel Lavery ...... Peter Bowles
Sylvia Hann ...... Cheryl Campbell
Godfrey Winnard ..... John Fortune
Sir Angus McNairn ...... Gary Waldhorn
Hugo Kellerman ...... Joseph Kloska
Douglas Bennings ...... Jon Glover
Keith Wood ...... Sam Pamphilon
Mrs Tinkler ...... Rachel Atkins
Graham Tinkler ...... Lloyd Thomas
Delivery Boy ...... Alex Lamipekun

Producer: Liz Webb

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2008.


THU 10:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jmc9)
3. Danger

With Maud Brewster aboard, the real danger on the schooner's voyage is yet to begin...

Jack London's 1904 tale of brutality and survival on the high seas.

Dramatised by Ed Thomason.

CAST:

Wolf Larsen …. Jack Klaff
Humphrey van Weyden …. Kerry Shale
Mugridge …. Ian Dury
Kelly …. Norman Jones
Smoke …. Anthony Jackson
Latimer …. Peter Penry-Jones
Horner …. Clarence Smith
Henderson …. Andrew Wincott
Maud Brewster …. Shelley Thompson
Telefson …. Charles Millham
Henderson …. Andrew Wincott

Music: Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Singer: Sarah Connolly

Director: Adrian Bean

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991.


THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001756y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]


THU 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lj1nf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday]


THU 12:00 The Atkinson People (b007k1qg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


THU 12:30 Capital Gains (b00slqv8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


THU 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvlv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


THU 13:30 The House (m00175kx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


THU 14:00 Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (b007jwwy)
Episode 4

The author muses on "the straight clean line of a cup run" and "the messy overgrown paths of a life" in his football memoir.

1987: On the same day - a Littlewoods Cup semi-final replay against Spurs - and a visit to a psychiatrist.

Produced by Matthew Walters.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993.


THU 14:15 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (b007jvxg)
9. Brussels

Amelia follows George and the regiment to Brussels, as Becky attracts an army of admirers.

Stephen Fry narrates one of the greatest comic novels of the Victorian period.

Written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Dramatised in twenty parts by Stephen Wyatt.

CAST:
Becky Sharp .... Emma Fielding
Amelia …. Katy Cavanagh
George Osborne .... Nicholas Boulton
Jos Sedley .... Toby Jones
Pitt .... Jon Glover
Peggy O'Dowd …. Monica Dolan
William Dobbin .... Tom Smith
Rawdon Crawley …. Ray Coulthard
With Stephen Fry as the narrator

Director Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.


THU 14:30 The Lost Art of the TV Theme (b05tq6zy)
Few people who grew up in the 1960s could not now – fifty years on – hum you the tunes from The Persuaders, Crossroads, The Avengers, Blue Peter, Top of the Form, Grandstand, The Saint, University Challenge, Panorama, Dave Allen At Large, The Onedin Line, Department S, Tomorrow's World, Dad's Army, Sportsnight – the list goes on and on.

The 1970s gave us Fawlty Towers, Colditz, Mr and Mrs, The Two Ronnies, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served, The Goodies, The Wombles, Blake's Seven, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em – and Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads, whose theme tune perfectly captured the affectionate nostalgia of the comedy. The melodies became so iconic that those shows which survived into the 21st century – Coronation Street, Mastermind, Match of the Day – have never ditched the theme music familiar to generations of viewers. And we haven't even mentioned Dr Who, whose pulsing theme generated by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1963 has since regenerated itself many times over, and inspired enough new music to provide a programme for an entire Prom.

Rich Morton acknowledges that his age defines his taste in themes, as in so many other things. As a composer of very plausible tunes for TV shows and films which never existed, he favours the thrilling, brassy action themes of the 1960s or the jaunty hipster tunes of the 1970s. Yet his suspicion is that programme makers in the 1980s – perhaps as a result of squeezed budgets - stopped commissioning specially-written music and turned instead to cheaper alternatives, such as adapting instrumental extracts from pre-existing pop records.

Rich argues that, while there are still memorable themes around, far too many shows now have bland or generic music which would defy most people's attempts to hum it, let alone remember it in fifty years' time. In an age when many viewers access TV shows from Netflix, iPlayer or YouTube, the need for an instantly-recognisable theme as a clarion call to gather round and watch no longer applies.

In this programme Rich sets out to ask what it was that made those old themes so memorable, and why the TV theme may have diminished in importance as an art form. He's helped in his exploration by some of the great practitioners of the classic TV theme, such as Tony Hatch and Alan Hawkshaw, and also by one of the most successful TV composers working today, Debbie Wiseman.

Produced by Paul Bajoria.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in may 2015.


THU 15:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jmc9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


THU 16:00 Foul Play (b00zshr5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


THU 16:30 Tomorrow, Today! (b016r51y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


THU 17:00 Mum's on the Run (b00tpt3n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


THU 17:30 Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz (m0016xvv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


THU 18:00 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace (b007jpfm)
Episode 4

The Old-Age Paramilitaries have developed a secret weapon to destroy the Central Database computer. George Smith is the man to use it.

Colin Swash's dystopian comedy set in 22nd-century Britain, starring Stephen Moore as George Smith.

George ...... Stephen Moore
Doris ...... Patsy Byrne
O'Connell ...... Geoffrey McGivern
Mrs Cookson ...... Edna Dore
Andrea Sunbeam ...... Lorelei King
Dawkins ...... Melanie Hudson
Ronnie ...... Christopher Douglas

Other parts by Lewis MacLeod, Dave Lamb and Peter Serafinowicz.

Producer: Richard Wilson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1998.


THU 18:30 Great Lives (b0bgfrvp)
Series 46

Helen Glover on Alison Hargreaves

The Olympic rower Helen Glover is Matthew Parris' guest this week, choosing the life of the mountaineer Alison Hargreaves to discuss with the help of her biographer Ed Douglas.

Alison Hargreaves' short life was defined by her love of the mountains. She became interested in climbing as a teenager and devoted her life to pursuing ever greater challenges. She was the first woman to climb Mount Everest without oxygen and unsupported - before losing her life on the infamous K2 mountain in Pakistan in 1995.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2018.


THU 19:00 The Atkinson People (b007k1qg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


THU 19:30 Capital Gains (b00slqv8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


THU 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvlv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


THU 20:30 The House (m00175kx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001756y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]


THU 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lj1nf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday]


THU 22:00 Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz (m0016xvv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


THU 22:30 Blindsided by Jamie MacDonald (m00175l1)
Blind comedian Jamie MacDonald describes the trials of relocating from Glasgow to Sheffield during lockdown.

New to BBC Radio 4 Extra.


THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b096n7cl)
Matthew Bannister 2/3

As part of our 90s Comedy season, Arthur Smith chats to former controller Matthew Bannister about Radio 1's ground-breaking comedy output in the 1990s.


THU 23:00 Goodness Gracious Me (b008x8fx)
Series 1

Episode 1

The teenage Bhangramuffins are DJing, the Maharisha Yogi is lecturing - and the hungry comedy team go for an 'English'.

Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Nitin Sawhney, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia.

Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001.

Scripted by Sharat Sardana, Richard Pinto and the cast.

Produced by Gareth Edwards and Anil Gupta.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996.


THU 23:30 The Secret World (b01mk55k)
Series 3

Episode 1

The Arch Bishop of Canterbury tries Tweeting for the first time, with disastrous results. Professor Brian Cox finds himself stalked by various women, including the Queen. Al Pacino is a balloon twister, and Princess Anne reveals her secret life as a trainspotter.

The comedy impressions series examining the bizarre and private lives of public people.

Starring:

Jon Culshaw
Margaret Cabourn Smith
Julian Dutton
Debra Stephenson
Lewis Macleod
Duncan Wisbey

Written by Bill Dare, Julian Dutton and Duncan Wisbey

Created and produced by Bill Dare.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012.



FRIDAY 13 MAY 2022

FRI 00:00 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace (b007jpfm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]


FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b0bgfrvp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]


FRI 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvlv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]


FRI 01:30 The House (m00175kx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]


FRI 02:00 Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (b007jwwy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]


FRI 02:15 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (b007jvxg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday]


FRI 02:30 The Lost Art of the TV Theme (b05tq6zy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]


FRI 03:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jmc9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]


FRI 04:00 Foul Play (b00zshr5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]


FRI 04:30 Tomorrow, Today! (b016r51y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]


FRI 05:00 Mum's on the Run (b00tpt3n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]


FRI 05:30 Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz (m0016xvv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday]


FRI 06:00 Wimsey (b007jvlr)
Unnatural Death

5. The Property Act

Unravelling property rules provides fresh clues for Lord Peter Wimsey's murder probe.

Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Have Unnatural Death was first published in 1927.

Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.

Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975.

Adapted for radio by Chris Miller.

Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Inspector Parker …. Gabriel Woolf
Mr Murbles …. Malcolm Hayes
Mr Towkington …. Garard Green
Mr Trigg …. Gordon Clyde
Mrs Mead …. Bridget McConnel

Producer: Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975.


FRI 06:30 The House (m00175lz)
Series 2

5. A New Nomination

"Mr Speaker , will the Home Secretary explain why he is supporting the nomination of the twin brother of his closest friend? Has the Government rigged the election process? "

Is the Government involved in shady dealings for the election?

Starring Julian Glover and Peter Kelly.

Political thriller serial by Christopher Lee.

Charles Bannister .... Julian Glover
Dougal Baxter .... Peter Kelly
Mary Bannister ....Isla Blair
Henry Colville ....Christopher Benjamin
Juliet Cameron ....Siobhan Redmond
Rose ....Sheila Reid
Kay Bennett ....Jane Booker
Gerald Mossman ....David Neville
Speaker ....Terence Edmond

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1991.


FRI 07:00 Says on the Tin (b00gqzw0)
Chowder

Eliott, Esther and Hannah compete aggressively to promote American Chowder to the British.

Comedy by Christopher William Hill.

Eliott Thurber ...... Michael Brandon
Esther Finn ...... Samantha Bond
Hannah Walker ...... Pippa Haywood
Zadie ...... Joannah Tincey
Baz ...... Inam Mirza
Sal ...... John Guerrasio

Other parts played by Stephen Critchlow, Jonathan Tafler, Dan Starkey, Gunnar Cauthery and Donnla Hughes.

Producer: Liz Webb

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009.


FRI 07:30 Stand-Up Specials (m001743x)
Mike Bubbins: Retrosexual

Mike Bubbins is a good bloke, a good husband and a good Dad, but he never quite feels like he fits in. Not in an odd way, he's keen to point out. It's just he dresses like he lives in the 70s, his house looks like a 70s film set, and he drives a 70s Ford Cortina.

So yeah, in other words, in an odd way.

He's not done bad for a lad who failed his A-Levels, became a PE teacher (see 'failed his A-levels’), worked as an Elvis impersonator, and then signed up for a writing course but got the wrong day and turned up for a stand-up comedy course instead. Because it was raining, and his wife had already dropped him off, he decided he might as well stay.

Eleven years later, he presents his debut Radio 4 show.

We've all been through a lot, emotionally and psychologically, with the extraordinary events of the pandemic. In the middle of the biggest crisis the world has witnessed since the war, we all had to assess who we were, what our priorities were, what our core relationships are and how robust they really are.
 
Luckily, Bubbins isn't interested in any of that. He wasn't even involved in the pandemic. Because he lives in the 70s. In this show, he aims to take us back to a time before Covid and other complexities - a much simpler time .

An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4


FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jr7l)
Series 3

Time on my Hands

The Home Guard platoon try to capture a German pilot hanging off the Town Hall clock in Walmington-on-Sea.

The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon.

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

Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Private Walker …. Larry Martyn
Vicar …. Frank Williams
Mr Parsons ...... Erik Chitty
German pilot ...... Fraser Kerr
Announcer/Newsreader …. John Snagge

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

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1976.


FRI 08:30 Married (b007tm4g)
Series 2

The Truth Is Out There

Robin uses a scam from his old universe to make himself rich in his new universe.

In the process he attracts the attention of the security services and learns the horrible truth about Operation War of the Worlds.

Hugh Bonneville stars in Tony Bagley's comedy.

Robin .... Hugh Bonneville
Lesley .... Josie Lawrence
Dirk .... Steve Frost
Murdo …. Lewis MacLeod
Elaine …. Janet Ellis
Vernon …. Simon Greenall
Ned …. Sam Bradley

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000.


FRI 09:00 Guess What? (b066f71q)
Episode 8

Animal, vegetable or mineral?

Barry Took hosts a revised version of popular radio parlour game of 20 questions.

Regular Geoffrey Durham is joined by Chris Serle and Clare Francis.

Written by Michael Dines.

Producer: Andy Aliffe

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.


FRI 09:30 Millport (b0076258)
Series 2

Story

Everyone's telling tales and making up stories - while Moira's acting oddly, no-one's listening to Bob, Agnes has discovered the medicinal benefits of alcohol - and for once Irene doesn't know what to do...

Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce who hankers after a better life on the mainland.

Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson
Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown
Alberto/Robert/Doctor ...... Lewis McLeod
Ena/Bunty ...... Gabriel Quigley
Bob/Minister ...... Robert Patterson
Dougie ...... Matt Costello

Music arranged by Olly Fox.

Producer: Lucy Bacon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.


FRI 10:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jmcl)
4. Escape

Humphrey and Maud dash for freedom from cruel captain, Wolf Larsen, but Japan is 600 miles away...

Conclusion of Jack London's 1904 tale of brutality and survival on the high seas.

Dramatised by Ed Thomason.

CAST:

Wolf Larsen …. Jack Klaff
Humphrey van Weyden …. Kerry Shale
Maud Brewster …. Shelley Thompson

Music: Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Director: Adrian Bean

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1991.


FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m0017f5n)
New listening for May

Chris Pearson and Scott Bryan suggest new podcast listens for May.

Charlie Craggs tells us about making her acting debut in Doctor Who: Redacted. We'll hear about how it feels to join the Doctor Who family, and the importance of trans representation in the show.


FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jr7l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


FRI 12:30 Married (b007tm4g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


FRI 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvlr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


FRI 13:30 The House (m00175lz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


FRI 14:00 Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (b007jwx3)
Episode 5

Reading from his Arsenal-obsessed memoir, the author muses on winning the league - and searching for the right metaphor.

Nick Hornby concludes his account taking in the landmark year of 1989, when his beloved team were top of Division 1, in the days before the Premier League.

Produced by Matthew Walters.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993.


FRI 14:15 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (b007jvxl)
10. Waterloo

1815, the Battle of Waterloo. As George and Rawdon fight, Becky and Amelia wait for news.

Stephen Fry narrates one of the greatest comic novels of the Victorian period.

Written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Dramatised in twenty parts by Stephen Wyatt.

CAST:
Becky Sharp .... Emma Fielding
Amelia …. Katy Cavanagh
Jos Sedley .... Toby Jones
Rawdon Crawley …. Ray Coulthard
Ensign Stubble .... Stephen Hogan
Peggy O'Dowd …. Monica Dolan
with Stephen Fry as the narrator

Director Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.


FRI 14:30 Mr Pollock's Theatres (b0076dzn)
"Penny plain and twopence coloured...."

A phrase familiar to generations of pre-TV children that describes the toy theatres of Benjamin Pollock, a printer from Hoxton in London.

Simon Callow explores the magic world of the cardboard actor, which tells us so much about the real theatre of the 19th century.

Producer: Merilyn Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2003.


FRI 15:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jmcl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


FRI 16:00 Guess What? (b066f71q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


FRI 16:30 Millport (b0076258)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


FRI 17:00 Says on the Tin (b00gqzw0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


FRI 17:30 Stand-Up Specials (m001743x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


FRI 18:00 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace (b007jpgs)
Episode 5

Now a fully-fledged OAP, George Smith is set for a special mission with Andrea Sunbeam and Mrs Cookson.

Colin Swash's dystopian comedy set in 22nd-century Britain, starring Stephen Moore as George Smith.

George ...... Stephen Moore
Doris ...... Patsy Byrne
O'Connell ...... Geoffrey McGivern
Mrs Cookson ...... Edna Dore
Andrea Sunbeam ...... Lorelei King
Wilma P Random ...... Melanie Hudson

Other parts played by Christopher Douglas, Lewis MacLeod and Peter Serafinowicz.

Producer: Richard Wilson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1998.


FRI 18:30 Sounds Natural (b07lp1v3)
Derek Nimmo

From the Bar-Tailed Godwit to the Natterjack Toad.

Actor, producer, author and Just A Minute panellist, Derek Nimmo talks to Derek Jones about his love of wildlife photography and filming, plus his recent trip to Australia,

Aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archive.

Derek Nimmo died aged 68 in 1999.

Producer: John Burton.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1973.


FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jr7l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


FRI 19:30 Married (b007tm4g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


FRI 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvlr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


FRI 20:30 The House (m00175lz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m0017f5n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


FRI 22:00 Stand-Up Specials (m001743x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


FRI 22:30 A World of Dowie (m00175m2)
Episode 1

Enter a brave new world created and presented by John Dowie.

For starters, it's time to enter the relationship minefield

With:

Jim Sweeney
Steve Steen
Cathryn Harrison

Music from the Ronnie Golden Small Band.

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1991.


FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b096n7mb)
Matthew Bannister 3/3

As part of our 90s Comedy season, the former controller Matthew Bannister talks about Radio 1's ground-breaking comedy output in the 1990s.


FRI 23:00 On the Town with the League of Gentlemen (b007k1z7)
A Guest at the Dentons

Pauline the Restart Officer, Matthew Chinnery the Vet and Barbara the Cabbie - just some of the resident misfits of a remote Northern town.

The first incarnation of the award-winning black comedy, about the "local people" of Spent - before it hit TV.

Starring:

Mark Gatiss
Reece Shearsmith
Steve Pemberton

Written by the cast and Jeremy Dyson.

The League of Gentlemen won a Perrier Edinburgh Festival award in 1997 and this radio series debuted in the same year. They also won a Sony Radio Award.

The cult series switched to TV for three series on BBC Two from 1999, spawning stage shows and a feature film.

Producer: Sarah Smith

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1997.


FRI 23:30 Mitch Benn Specials (b066w57q)
The Freewheelin' Mitch Benn

Everybody knows that Elvis changed everything. Everybody knows that the Beatles changed everything. Not as many people realise that Bob Dylan actually DID change everything.

Mitch Benn looks at how Bob Dylan changed what it is to be a songwriter, changed what it is to be a rock star and, more than anyone, changed what it is to be a singer.

Written by and starring Mitch Benn

Series in which musical satirist Mitch Benn explores the work of various music stars.

Producer: Alexandra Smith

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2015.




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

1834 08:30 SAT (b011db7v)

1834 09:30 WED (b011klyr)

1834 16:30 WED (b011klyr)

1834 04:30 THU (b011klyr)

4 at the Store 22:00 SAT (b00cpvsk)

A Good Read 18:30 MON (b03wpjg4)

A Good Read 00:30 TUE (b03wpjg4)

A World of Dowie 22:30 FRI (m00175m2)

Abandoned Projects by Alan Plater (Omnibus) 14:20 SUN (b009v3js)

Abandoned Projects by Alan Plater (Omnibus) 02:20 MON (b009v3js)

Alan Parker's 59 Minutes of Truth 23:00 SUN (b007jvkb)

Albert and Me 08:30 SUN (b007k0dw)

Archive on 4 13:00 SAT (b00ln0b7)

Archive on 4 01:00 SUN (b00ln0b7)

Archive on 4 11:00 TUE (m00026m2)

Archive on 4 21:00 TUE (m00026m2)

Bangers and Mash 09:30 MON (b0075gnn)

Bangers and Mash 16:30 MON (b0075gnn)

Bangers and Mash 04:30 TUE (b0075gnn)

Blindsided by Jamie MacDonald 22:30 THU (m00175l1)

Blood, Sex and Money: The Life and Work of Emile Zola 14:30 TUE (b06p7cyt)

Blood, Sex and Money: The Life and Work of Emile Zola 02:30 WED (b06p7cyt)

Capital Gains 08:30 THU (b00slqv8)

Capital Gains 12:30 THU (b00slqv8)

Capital Gains 19:30 THU (b00slqv8)

Counterpoint 09:00 MON (b010y378)

Counterpoint 16:00 MON (b010y378)

Counterpoint 04:00 TUE (b010y378)

Dad's Army 08:00 FRI (b007jr7l)

Dad's Army 12:00 FRI (b007jr7l)

Dad's Army 19:00 FRI (b007jr7l)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 10:45 SUN (b00lj1nf)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 21:45 SUN (b00lj1nf)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 11:45 THU (b00lj1nf)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 21:45 THU (b00lj1nf)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 10:00 SUN (m001756y)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 21:00 SUN (m001756y)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 11:00 THU (m001756y)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 21:00 THU (m001756y)

Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me 09:30 TUE (b0076sm2)

Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me 16:30 TUE (b0076sm2)

Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me 04:30 WED (b0076sm2)

Domesday Reloaded: How Britain Has Changed 14:30 MON (b01b1hzw)

Domesday Reloaded: How Britain Has Changed 02:30 TUE (b01b1hzw)

Fab TV 08:30 WED (m00175j5)

Fab TV 12:30 WED (m00175j5)

Fab TV 19:30 WED (m00175j5)

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 14:00 MON (b007k0gc)

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 02:00 TUE (b007k0gc)

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 14:00 TUE (b007k0hk)

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 02:00 WED (b007k0hk)

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 14:00 WED (b007k0jq)

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 02:00 THU (b007k0jq)

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 14:00 THU (b007jwwy)

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 02:00 FRI (b007jwwy)

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby 14:00 FRI (b007jwx3)

Foul Play 09:00 THU (b00zshr5)

Foul Play 16:00 THU (b00zshr5)

Foul Play 04:00 FRI (b00zshr5)

Goodness Gracious Me 23:00 THU (b008x8fx)

Great Lives 07:30 SAT (b0bfy978)

Great Lives 17:30 SAT (b0bfy978)

Great Lives 05:30 SUN (b0bfy978)

Great Lives 18:30 THU (b0bgfrvp)

Great Lives 00:30 FRI (b0bgfrvp)

Guess What? 04:00 SAT (b065jht1)

Guess What? 09:00 FRI (b066f71q)

Guess What? 16:00 FRI (b066f71q)

HR 12:30 SUN (b01bb7jh)

HR 17:30 SUN (b01bb7jh)

HR 22:00 SUN (b01bb7jh)

HR 05:30 MON (b01bb7jh)

Hancock's Half Hour 08:00 WED (b007jsys)

Hancock's Half Hour 12:00 WED (b007jsys)

Hancock's Half Hour 19:00 WED (b007jsys)

Happy Days - The Children of the Stones 15:30 SUN (b01n1rbx)

Happy Days - The Children of the Stones 03:30 MON (b01n1rbx)

Harley Granville-Barker - The Voysey Inheritance 06:00 SAT (b018kcj6)

Harley Granville-Barker - The Voysey Inheritance 16:00 SAT (b018kcj6)

Harley Granville-Barker - The Voysey Inheritance 04:00 SUN (b018kcj6)

Hercule Poirot 01:30 SAT (b007jm4n)

How Tickled Am I? 18:30 WED (b007jpy4)

How Tickled Am I? 00:30 THU (b007jpy4)

I Did It My Way 09:00 SAT (b009qh5q)

I Did It My Way 19:00 SAT (b009qh5q)

Inheritance Tracks 07:10 SUN (b0b4zrtm)

Inheritance Tracks 11:55 SUN (b0b4zrtm)

Inheritance Tracks 14:10 SUN (m0001ztf)

Inheritance Tracks 19:55 SUN (b0b4zrtm)

Inheritance Tracks 02:10 MON (m0001ztf)

Inheritance Tracks 11:50 MON (m001752v)

Inheritance Tracks 21:50 MON (m001752v)

Jack London - The Sea Wolf 10:00 TUE (b007jm85)

Jack London - The Sea Wolf 15:00 TUE (b007jm85)

Jack London - The Sea Wolf 03:00 WED (b007jm85)

Jack London - The Sea Wolf 10:00 WED (b007jm8h)

Jack London - The Sea Wolf 15:00 WED (b007jm8h)

Jack London - The Sea Wolf 03:00 THU (b007jm8h)

Jack London - The Sea Wolf 10:00 THU (b007jmc9)

Jack London - The Sea Wolf 15:00 THU (b007jmc9)

Jack London - The Sea Wolf 03:00 FRI (b007jmc9)

Jack London - The Sea Wolf 10:00 FRI (b007jmcl)

Jack London - The Sea Wolf 15:00 FRI (b007jmcl)

John Peel's Shed 15:30 SAT (b018fljy)

John Peel's Shed 03:30 SUN (b018fljy)

Just William - Live! 07:30 TUE (m0004mdb)

Just William - Live! 17:30 TUE (m0004mdb)

Just William - Live! 22:00 TUE (m0004mdb)

Just William - Live! 05:30 WED (m0004mdb)

King Cutler 23:30 WED (b008pbxf)

King Street Junior 08:30 TUE (b007jmjs)

King Street Junior 12:30 TUE (b007jmjs)

King Street Junior 19:30 TUE (b007jmjs)

Knowing Me, Knowing You 23:00 SAT (b007jvc2)

Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun 23:00 TUE (b007k272)

Marilyn Bowering - Anyone Can See I Love You 16:00 SUN (m0017576)

Marilyn Bowering - Anyone Can See I Love You 20:00 SUN (m0017576)

Marilyn Bowering - Anyone Can See I Love You 04:00 MON (m0017576)

Married 08:30 FRI (b007tm4g)

Married 12:30 FRI (b007tm4g)

Married 19:30 FRI (b007tm4g)

Mike Walker - Vive la Republique 10:00 MON (b0b0lxlz)

Mike Walker - Vive la Republique 15:00 MON (b0b0lxlz)

Mike Walker - Vive la Republique 03:00 TUE (b0b0lxlz)

Millport 04:30 SAT (b0076221)

Millport 09:30 FRI (b0076258)

Millport 16:30 FRI (b0076258)

Mitch Benn Specials 23:30 FRI (b066w57q)

Mr Cole Comes to Kensington 02:30 SAT (b03m40zs)

Mr Pollock's Theatres 14:30 FRI (b0076dzn)

Mrs Sidhu Investigates 07:00 WED (b096j4lp)

Mrs Sidhu Investigates 17:00 WED (b096j4lp)

Mrs Sidhu Investigates 05:00 THU (b096j4lp)

Mum's on the Run 07:00 THU (b00tpt3n)

Mum's on the Run 17:00 THU (b00tpt3n)

Mum's on the Run 05:00 FRI (b00tpt3n)

My Favorite Husband 12:00 SAT (m000p652)

Nightfall 18:00 SUN (m00067d3)

Nightfall 00:00 MON (m00067d3)

North by Northamptonshire 07:00 TUE (b00sp454)

North by Northamptonshire 17:00 TUE (b00sp454)

North by Northamptonshire 05:00 WED (b00sp454)

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (Omnibus) 06:00 SUN (m001756w)

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson 02:00 SAT (b007jp2g)

On the Hour 23:00 MON (b008pcbq)

On the Town with the League of Gentlemen 23:00 FRI (b007k1z7)

Paradise Lost in Cyberspace 18:00 MON (b007jpdb)

Paradise Lost in Cyberspace 00:00 TUE (b007jpdb)

Paradise Lost in Cyberspace 18:00 TUE (b007jpdq)

Paradise Lost in Cyberspace 00:00 WED (b007jpdq)

Paradise Lost in Cyberspace 18:00 WED (b007jpf4)

Paradise Lost in Cyberspace 00:00 THU (b007jpf4)

Paradise Lost in Cyberspace 18:00 THU (b007jpfm)

Paradise Lost in Cyberspace 00:00 FRI (b007jpfm)

Paradise Lost in Cyberspace 18:00 FRI (b007jpgs)

Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz 07:30 THU (m0016xvv)

Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz 17:30 THU (m0016xvv)

Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz 22:00 THU (m0016xvv)

Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz 05:30 FRI (m0016xvv)

Personal Column 01:00 SAT (m0016y2l)

Planet B 00:00 SAT (b00pgqf0)

Podcast Radio Hour 11:00 FRI (m0017f5n)

Podcast Radio Hour 21:00 FRI (m0017f5n)

Poetry Extra 12:00 SUN (m0017572)

Poetry Extra 17:00 SUN (m0017572)

Poetry Extra 05:00 MON (m0017572)

Radiolab 11:00 SUN (m0017570)

Radiolab 19:00 SUN (m0017570)

Sarah Millican's Support Group 23:30 MON (b011d6rf)

Says on the Tin 05:00 SAT (b00gl50p)

Says on the Tin 07:00 FRI (b00gqzw0)

Says on the Tin 17:00 FRI (b00gqzw0)

Seekers 22:30 SUN (b03gghks)

Sneakiepeeks 09:30 SUN (b00pfv03)

Sneakiepeeks 07:00 MON (b00pkbmh)

Sneakiepeeks 17:00 MON (b00pkbmh)

Sneakiepeeks 05:00 TUE (b00pkbmh)

Something to Shout About 09:00 SUN (b07p6k99)

Soul Music 18:30 TUE (b076cg3q)

Soul Music 00:30 WED (b076cg3q)

Sounds Natural 00:30 SAT (b07l1167)

Sounds Natural 18:30 FRI (b07lp1v3)

Stand-Up Specials 05:30 SAT (m0016wxp)

Stand-Up Specials 15:00 SAT (m000r31x)

Stand-Up Specials 03:00 SUN (m000r31x)

Stand-Up Specials 07:30 FRI (m001743x)

Stand-Up Specials 17:30 FRI (m001743x)

Stand-Up Specials 22:00 FRI (m001743x)

TED Radio Hour 11:00 MON (m001752s)

TED Radio Hour 21:00 MON (m001752s)

That Mitchell and Webb Sound 22:30 WED (b03k0s5j)

The Atkinson People 12:30 SAT (b007jsb0)

The Atkinson People 08:00 THU (b007k1qg)

The Atkinson People 12:00 THU (b007k1qg)

The Atkinson People 19:00 THU (b007k1qg)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 SAT (m001750t)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 SUN (b096p7l4)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 MON (b096tmfc)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 TUE (b096tmnj)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 WED (b096n77n)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 THU (b096n7cl)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 FRI (b096n7mb)

The Confessional 07:30 WED (m000w3mf)

The Confessional 17:30 WED (m000w3mf)

The Confessional 22:00 WED (m000w3mf)

The Confessional 05:30 THU (m000w3mf)

The Emerald Green Show 08:30 MON (b077ygkd)

The Emerald Green Show 12:30 MON (b077ygkd)

The Emerald Green Show 19:30 MON (b077ygkd)

The Goon Show 08:00 TUE (b0b0fty1)

The Goon Show 12:00 TUE (b0b0fty1)

The Goon Show 19:00 TUE (b0b0fty1)

The House 06:30 MON (m001752p)

The House 13:30 MON (m001752p)

The House 20:30 MON (m001752p)

The House 01:30 TUE (m001752p)

The House 06:30 TUE (m00175dh)

The House 13:30 TUE (m00175dh)

The House 20:30 TUE (m00175dh)

The House 01:30 WED (m00175dh)

The House 06:30 WED (m00175j3)

The House 13:30 WED (m00175j3)

The House 20:30 WED (m00175j3)

The House 01:30 THU (m00175j3)

The House 06:30 THU (m00175kx)

The House 13:30 THU (m00175kx)

The House 20:30 THU (m00175kx)

The House 01:30 FRI (m00175kx)

The House 06:30 FRI (m00175lz)

The House 13:30 FRI (m00175lz)

The House 20:30 FRI (m00175lz)

The Lost Art of the TV Theme 14:30 THU (b05tq6zy)

The Lost Art of the TV Theme 02:30 FRI (b05tq6zy)

The Mary Whitehouse Experience 23:00 WED (b044153k)

The Million Pound Radio Show 23:30 TUE (b007jzt4)

The Museum of Curiosity 16:00 TUE (b09ntss1)

The Museum of Curiosity 04:00 WED (b09ntss1)

The News Quiz 22:30 MON (m0016y62)

The News Quiz 09:00 TUE (m0016y62)

The Nick Revell Show 22:30 TUE (b007k2dc)

The Odd Half Hour 23:30 SAT (b00vy0f0)

The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury 18:45 SAT (b0076mvx)

The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury 00:45 SUN (b0076mvx)

The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh 11:00 WED (m00175j7)

The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh 21:00 WED (m00175j7)

The Secret World 23:30 THU (b01mk55k)

The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton (Omnibus) 13:00 SUN (b0b90m88)

The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton (Omnibus) 01:00 MON (b0b90m88)

The True Story of Martin Guerre 03:00 SAT (b070wmg2)

The Unbelievable Truth 07:30 MON (m0016x99)

The Unbelievable Truth 17:30 MON (m0016x99)

The Unbelievable Truth 22:00 MON (m0016x99)

The Unbelievable Truth 05:30 TUE (m0016x99)

The World of Daphne Du Maurier 18:30 SUN (b09v62hy)

The World of Daphne Du Maurier 00:30 MON (b09v62hy)

The Write Stuff 08:00 SAT (b009xy1t)

The Write Stuff 09:00 WED (b00b0z0c)

The Write Stuff 16:00 WED (b00b0z0c)

The Write Stuff 04:00 THU (b00b0z0c)

Thom Tuck - Goes Straight to DVD 22:30 SAT (b01bwp8v)

Time After Time 18:00 SAT (b087ldt5)

Time After Time 00:00 SUN (b087ldt5)

Tomorrow, Today! 09:30 THU (b016r51y)

Tomorrow, Today! 16:30 THU (b016r51y)

Tomorrow, Today! 04:30 FRI (b016r51y)

Tudur Owen - Where on Earth is Anglesey? 14:00 SAT (m0001b1t)

Tudur Owen - Where on Earth is Anglesey? 02:00 SUN (m0001b1t)

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (Omnibus) 07:20 SUN (b008lywx)

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 02:15 SAT (b007jvwn)

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14:15 MON (b007jvx0)

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 02:15 TUE (b007jvx0)

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14:15 TUE (b007jvx8)

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 02:15 WED (b007jvx8)

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14:15 WED (b007jvxc)

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 02:15 THU (b007jvxc)

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14:15 THU (b007jvxg)

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 02:15 FRI (b007jvxg)

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14:15 FRI (b007jvxl)

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 08:00 MON (b007jrgc)

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 12:00 MON (b007jrgc)

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 19:00 MON (b007jrgc)

Wimsey 06:00 MON (b007jvld)

Wimsey 13:00 MON (b007jvld)

Wimsey 20:00 MON (b007jvld)

Wimsey 01:00 TUE (b007jvld)

Wimsey 06:00 TUE (b007jvlj)

Wimsey 13:00 TUE (b007jvlj)

Wimsey 20:00 TUE (b007jvlj)

Wimsey 01:00 WED (b007jvlj)

Wimsey 06:00 WED (b007jvlm)

Wimsey 13:00 WED (b007jvlm)

Wimsey 20:00 WED (b007jvlm)

Wimsey 01:00 THU (b007jvlm)

Wimsey 06:00 THU (b007jvlv)

Wimsey 13:00 THU (b007jvlv)

Wimsey 20:00 THU (b007jvlv)

Wimsey 01:00 FRI (b007jvlv)

Wimsey 06:00 FRI (b007jvlr)

Wimsey 13:00 FRI (b007jvlr)

Wimsey 20:00 FRI (b007jvlr)

Women of the New Wave 14:30 WED (b00r8hhz)

Women of the New Wave 02:30 THU (b00r8hhz)

Yes, Nina Conti Really Is on the Radio 14:30 SAT (b01sm78h)

Yes, Nina Conti Really Is on the Radio 02:30 SUN (b01sm78h)