4X

RADIO-LISTS: BBC RADIO 4 Extra
Unofficial Weekly Listings for BBC Radio 4 Extra — supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

SATURDAY 04 JANUARY 2025

SAT 00:00 Soul Music (m001fcf6)
Running Up That Hill

"And if I only could,
I'd make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places..."

True stories of what Kate Bush's song Running Up That Hill means to people around the world, from its original release in 1985 to its return to the charts in 2022.

Long distance runner Lee Perry takes himself on a marathon the morning after his mum dies, with Kate Bush in his headphones for all 26 miles of his run.

Musician and record producer Georgia Barnes talks through the making of her synth-pop cover of the song, from the opening drone to the iconic synth line.

Graeme Thomson, author of 'Under the Ivy: The Life and Music of Kate Bush', shares insights into Bush's studio set-up during her making of the Hounds of Love album, and reflects on why Running Up That Hill continues to resonate down the generations.

Songwriter and trans activist Órla Bligh sees the song as an anthem of empathy, and a call-to-action for people to try to understand the experiences of others.

And finally, Astrid Jorgensen, conductor and founder of ‘Pub Choir’, gets 1600 people under one roof to sing Running Up That Hill together.

Producer: Becky Ripley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2022.

SAT 00:30 The Danube Ain't Blue, It's Green (b07ws0dy)
Rainer Hersch champions the most popular waltz Johann Strauss ever wrote – the Blue Danube.

In Vienna, he hits the tourist trail and finds that everyone knows it, from South Koreans to Californians, while hard-working musicians there can play it over 400 times a year.

It’s always performed as the inevitable encore at the New Years’ Day Concert in Vienna, and Franz Bartholomey, former principal cellist with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, thinks it’s "simply the most beautiful waltz in the world".

Rainer touches on the finer points with conductor Alfred Eschwé as they sing their way through it, discovering that it’s not just "da-da-da-da-daa, tchk-tchk, tchk-tchk" - but Strauss combined five separate waltz melodies in the piece.

He also finds out that, as Spike Jones described it in his musical parody, the waters of the Danube aren’t blue, they’re green, and a rather murky green at that.

Also murky was one period of the waltz's history, when Goebbels decided that the music of Strauss was an ideal palliative for the Nazi war machine, though he had to remove all traces of Strauss’s Jewish ancestry in order to make the music acceptable.

Musician Ernst Theis and Strauss biographer John Suchet trace the Blue Danube's history, while Piers Lane shows how it has become one of the pianist's favourite encores in its devilish transcription by Schulz-Evler.

A Far Shoreline production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2016.

SAT 01:00 Whodunnits (b007jvlr)
Wimsey - Unnatural Death

5. The Property Act

Unravelling property rules throws up some fresh clues for Lord Peter Wimsey as he continues his murder probe.

Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.

Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery.

Dramatised 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.

SAT 01:30 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j1yg)
5. Operation Siegfried

The 'Kaiseroda' treasure contains papers that could prove Hitler had a meeting with Churchill in 1940.

Charles Stein knows where the papers are. He’s being watched by German, Russian and British agents.

They all want the papers...

Len Deighton’s riveting thriller.

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Boyd Stuart ...... Trevor Nichols
Charles Stein ...... Bruce Boa
Reader ...... Colin Starkey
Kitty ...... Melinda Walker
Billy Stein ...... Ian Tyler
Mary Breslow ...... Helena Breck
Deputy Secretary ...... Garard Green
Case Officer ...... Alan Thompson
Section Head ...... Bernard Brown
Max Breslow ...... Bernard Hepton
MI5 Man ...... David Sinclair

Producer: Peter King

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1985.

SAT 02:00 Up the Garden Path (b0084qnz)
Series 2

You Shall Go to the Ball

Izzy gets invited to a ball in Cambridge, but she could do with a fairy godmother...

Tumbling from one love entanglement to another, 30 something teacher Izzy Comyn has a predilection for inappropriate men.

Imelda Staunton stars as Izzy.

A radio sequel adapted in eight parts from Sue Limb’s 1984 novel.

The second of 3 series which ran from 1987 to 1993. Granada also adapted the series for ITV

Izzy ...... Imelda Staunton
Charles ...... David Robb
Dick ...... Mike Grady
Michael ...... Nicholas Le Prevost
Maria ...... Marty Cruickshank
Louise ...... Phyllida Nash
Gwyn ...... Dafydd Hywel

Producer: Jonathan James-Moore

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1988.

SAT 02:30 Doctor in the House (b007lmys)
Money Troubles

With their microscopes in at the pawn broker, the young medics need some cash in a hurry.

The misadventures of student doctor, Simon Sparrow.

Starring Richard Briers.

Adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's 'Doctor in the House' published in 1952.

Simon Sparrow …. Richard Briers
Sir Lancelot Spratt …. Geoffrey Sumner
Tony Benskin …. Ray Cooney
Taffy Evans …. Edward Cast
Lady Spratt …. Joan Young
The Waiter …. David Jason

Producer: David Hatch

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1968.

SAT 03:00 Prepper (m00026x2)
Series 1

Bugging Out

Trump. ISIS. The Courgette Crisis. Signs of civilisation’s fragility are all around.

No wonder the Doomsday Clock just nudged closer to midnight. In this fearscape, more and more ordinary people are wondering how they’d cope if everything we take for granted (law and order, access to healthcare, iceberg lettuces in Sainsburys) was taken away.

Preppers - a large and rapidly growing global community - have taken this thought one step further. They’re actively skilling-up, laying down supplies and readying themselves for the end of the world, in whatever form it comes.

Indeed, a prepping shop just opened in Newquay. And if people in Cornwall are prepping, it’s time to worry.

Imagine if Woman’s Hour made a podcast about preparing for the end times. Prepper follows neurotic, debt-ridden Rachel and hard-as-nails ‘Churchill in Spanx’ Sylvia, working class Mancunians who prep and podcast, sharing knowledge with their community, and showing off just how Armageddon-ready they are.

Told through their podcasts from Sylvia’s garage and featuring ‘apoco-tips’, ‘end of days drills’ and interviews with preppers from around the world, Prepper comically explores how two mismatched women live with the possibility of the end of days, and how they bond over their determination to survive. And fend off zombies.

Comedy written by Caroline Moran and James J Moran.

Sylvia ...... Sue Johnston
Rachel ...... Pearl Mackie
Calhoun ...... Simon Holland Roberts

Producer: Steve Doherty

A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2019.

SAT 03:30 Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around the Shipping Forecast (b0176pbp)
5. Hebrides, Faeroes, South East Iceland

The shipping forecast on BBC Radio 4 is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour.

Yet recognisable though the sea areas are by name, few people give much thought to where they are or what they contain.

Charlie Connelly is on a journey into the forecast to find out.

Charlie ends his voyage by discovering some legendary whiskey and land younger than himself.

"Believe me, you truly know you're getting on a bit when you're older than a flipping volcano."

Written by Charlie Connelly and abridged by Beatrice Colin

Concluded by Tom Goodman-Hill.

Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.

SAT 03:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qjd3)
5. Disappearance

Kate Dickens tells the story of her father’s final and unfinished novel, a fast-moving thriller set in the cathedral town of Cloisterham.

It is Christmas and all is fine until Edwin - the young man who appears to have it all, a beautiful and charming prospective bride, the promise of an engineering job in Egypt - disappears.

Presumed murdered. Could it have been impetuous Neville Landless? Or Edwin’s uncle Jasper?

On Christmas Eve in Cloisterham. Edwin and Neville appear to have resolved their differences with John Jasper.

But on Christmas morning the whole town learns that Edwin has disappeared. If a violent crime has been committed they think they know who is to blame.

Dickens’ last, unfinished, novel is set in a phantasmagorical drug-fuelled landscape where nobody is who or what they say they are.

Whilst writing it, Dickens was driving himself towards exhaustion and death through obsessive public performances of the most lurid parts of Oliver Twist - revisiting his first successful novel whilst struggling with his last, fearful that his creative well is drying up and that this story would never be brought to a close.

Written by Charles Dickens and dramatised by Mike Walker.

Narrated by Dickens’ daughter Kate, witness to her father’s final weeks, and whose fascination with this story leads her to look into its unsolved conclusion to find clues about her father’s character.

Kate Dickens .….. Pippa Nixon
John Jasper ...… Joel McCormack
Edwin Drood .….. Iwan Davies
Reverend Crisparkle ..…. Damian Lynch
Neville Landless ...… Maanuv Thiara
Geoff/JP …... Ian Conningham
Joe …... Wilf Scolding

Director: Jeremy Mortimer

A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2020.

SAT 04:00 The Motion Show (b0075rbl)
Series 1

Episode 1

City or countryside? – and does the World need more cookery shows?

Dr Phil Hammond watches over proceedings in the quirky debating game.

With:

Clive Coleman
Richard Morton
Pete Sinclair
Mark Steel

Producer: Helen Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1998.

SAT 04:30 1834 (b01137b8)
What Century Are You Living In?

Jason Slater is a 21st-century English teacher from Cheadle Hulme who wakes in 19th-century Macclesfield.

He discovers he's now Tarquin, third son of Lord Belport with a faithful valet, Ned who can't explain what's happened.

He's also acquired a suspicious brother, Henry; a spurned ex-girlfriend, Millicent, now going out with Henry; and an over excited Luddite-cum-cauliflower farmer.

Jim Poyser's riotous six-part comedy of transportation and delight.

Jason Slater ...... Michael Begley
Ned ...... Joe Caffrey
Hoskins ...... Kenneth Alan Taylor
Lord Belport ...... Mark Chatterton
Henry ...... James Nickerson
Luddite ...... Toby Hadoke
Millicent ...... Julia Rounthwaite

Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2003.

SAT 05:00 Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (b007jsx2)
5. The Charity Ball

"What In the world can I do to secure an income?" thought Osborne, "Poor Almée must have money. Yet what would my father say if he knew I'd married a Frenchwoman? In his present mood he'd disinherit me; and he'd speak about her in a way I couldn't stand. A Roman Catholic too! Well, I don't repent it. I'd do it again."

Molly is concerned when Cynthia is pursued by Mr Preston.

Final novel written by 'Cranford' author, Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in 1866.

Starring Tom Wilkinson, Kathryn Hurlbutt and Angela Pleasence.

Dramatised by Barry Campbell.

Molly …. Kathryn Hurlbutt
Clare …. Angela Pleasence
Mr Gibson .… Tom Wilkinson
Cynthia …. Anne Louise Lambert
Squire Hamley …. Robert Lang
Osborne Hamley …. Adam Bareham
Roger Hamley …. Michael Troughton
Mr Preston …. Brett Usher
Lady Harriet …. Marian Diamond
Lord Hollingfold …. Geoffrey Collins
Miss Browning …. Diana Bishop
Miss Phoebe ….. Hilda Schroder
Mrs Goodenough …. Margot Boyd
Miss Hornblower …. Monica Grey
Miss Piper …. Carole Boyd
Mr Roscoe …. James Kerry
Old Silas …. Michael Bilton
Robinson …. Nigel Graham
Maria …. Eileen Tully
Mrs Gaskell …. Thelma Whiteley

Music composed by Rachel Portman

Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1983

SAT 06:00 Young Coleridge (b00828lq)
The events of one day in the life of poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

The date: 16th September 1803.

The place: Greta Hall in Keswick.

He finds himself reflecting on both professional and personal disappointments of recent years.

He tries to make sense of his world: his opiate addiction, failure in love, his poetry and dreams of a utopian community.

Starring Tom Wilkinson.

Historical drama written by Martyn Wade.

Coleridge …… Tom Wilkinson
Sara …… Jennie Stoller
Southey …… Gary Bond
Hazlitt …… Christopher Good
Edith Southey …… Narissa Knights
Mary Lovell …… Moir Leslie
Asra …… Amanda Murray
Hartley …… Elizabeth Lindsay
Mrs Fricker …… Ellen McIntosh
Prostitute …… Elizabeth Rider
Schoolmaster …… Brian Smith
Young Man …… Christopher Douglas

Director: Cherry Cookson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1984.

SAT 07:30 Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) (m000v6zk)
"Travel is only glamorous in retrospect." So said Paul Theroux, writing once in The Washington Post,

Paul’s best-selling collection of travel essays covers 15 years of the 40 or so years he's spent travelling.

Omnibus of five episodes.

1. Trespassing in Florida
2. Fever Chart
3. Tasting the Pacific
4. Gravy Train
5. Unspeakable Rituals and Outlandish Beliefs

Read by Stuart Milligan.

Producer: Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2000.

SAT 08:45 Inner Voices (m0026mcn)
Tonight in the Twilight Lounge by Mark Maier

Assistant cruise director, Hans Gruber, is close to breaking point and doesn't know if he can face being the caller at the bingo session.

He’s being side-lined in a head office ‘rejuvenation programme’ and has acquired a nemesis…

Written and performed by Mark Maier.

Series of character monologues by top UK comics.

Director: Liz Webb

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004.

SAT 09:00 Mr Willow's Wife (m000pmdt)
4. The Lost Weekend

Ahead of a trip to Brighton, Felicity gets an unexpected cash windfall

Starring Moira Lister and Terence Alexander.

With the twins away at school, Felicity has time to start meddling...

Written by Ray Cooney and John Chapman.

Felicity Willow ... Moira Lister
Paul Willow .... Terence Alexander
Nanny .... Doris Hare
Caravan Camper .... Ray Cooney
Garage Man .... John Chapman

Producer: David Hatch

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1971.

SAT 09:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007k0kz)
The Rich Brothers

The veteran of many parts recalls a slapstick act, and reveals all on showbiz clichés.

J Kingston Platt is the doyen of British showbusiness.

He's ready to share reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his experience from the past 40 years.

Performed and written by Peter Jones.

Producer: Pete Atkin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1986.

SAT 10:00 Growing Pains (m0008y79)
1. From Cumbria to Ambridge

Author and journalist Grace Dent locks herself in her teenage bedroom and rifles through the BBC Radio archives to celebrate the awkward, emotional, and unfortunately inevitable adolescent experience.

She reminisces about the heartbreak and arguments that were an everyday part of her own teenage years growing up in Carlisle in the 1970s

Then Grace discovers what it was really like for the teenage boys she thought had it so easy, asking BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake to paint a portrait of his own formative years.

In the first of three episodes, Grace also features programmes from the BBC archives.

* ‘TOO OLD TO ROCK AND ROLL, TOO YOUNG TO DIE’

* A documentary made by Sara Conkey in 1995, featuring the reminiscences of people who were teenagers during the Blitz.

* Teenage traumas and tantrums from ‘THE ARCHERS’.

Producer: Jessica Treen

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

SAT 11:00 Young Coleridge (b00828lq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SAT 12:30 Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) (m000v6zk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SAT 13:45 Inner Voices (m0026mcn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

SAT 14:00 Mr Willow's Wife (m000pmdt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

SAT 14:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007k0kz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

SAT 15:00 Growing Pains (m0008y79)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

SAT 16:00 The Inn by Guy de Maupassant (b09rbpy5)
It begins with the first stirrings of a love affair.

It ends in mystery and mayhem.

A young mountain guide finds himself in sole charge of a remote Alpine hotel in the Swiss Alps.

Starring Robin Laing and Gareth Thomas.

Published in 1886, Guy de Maupassant's haunting short story is a wintry, snowbound tale of loneliness and dark imaginings.

Dramatised by Sue Glover.

Ulrich ...... Robin Laing
Gaspard ...... Gareth Thomas
Louise Hauser ...... Vicki Liddelle
Jeanne Hauser ...... Kirstin Murray
Jean Hauser ...... John Shedden
Aunt Berthe ...... Tamara Kennedy
Uncle Maurice ...... Sandy Neilson

Director: David Jackson Young

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006.

SAT 17:00 Young Coleridge (b00828lq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SAT 18:30 Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) (m000v6zk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SAT 19:45 Inner Voices (m0026mcn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

SAT 20:00 Mr Willow's Wife (m000pmdt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

SAT 20:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007k0kz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

SAT 21:00 Growing Pains (m0008y79)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

SAT 22:00 Welcome to Wherever You Are (m00070jt)
Series 2

Episode 2

Andrew Maxwell hosts a truly global stand-up show, in which comedians perform from wherever on the planet they happen to be, to an audience in the BBC Radio Theatre, London.

With:

* Nikola Silic
* Carl Joshua Ncube
* Maysoon Zayid

Nikola Silic from Belgrade is a big name on the comedy scene in the Balkans.

Carl Joshua Ncube performs whilst metres from the Victoria Falls.

Maysoon Zayid is one of America’s first Muslim women comedians and widely believed to be the first person to perform stand-up in Palestine and Jordan.

Producer: Richard Morris.

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

SAT 22:30 Rob Newman (b0bh5hp2)
Rob Newman's Total Eclipse of Descartes

The Inheritance

One of Britain's finest comedians Rob Newman sets his sights on the world of philosophy.

He's unpicking 3000 years of good and bad ideas to discover how we got into this mess.

In a world gone mad - can philosophy provide the answer?

In this opening episode, Rob turns the spotlight onto the philosophy of education.

Written and performed by Rob Newman.

Edited by John Whitehall

Producer: Jon Harvey
Executive Producer: Richard Wilson

A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2018.

SAT 23:00 My Teenage Diary (b07gfjhm)
Series 7

Sara Pascoe

Comedian Sara Pascoe joins Rufus Hound and reads from her teenage diaries.

We hear how she works at the Millennium Dome, gets a new boyfriend, starts university and takes her dog along for company.

What could possibly go wrong?

Producer: Harriet Jaine

Executive Producer: Aled Evans

A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2016.

SAT 23:30 The Remains of Foley and McColl (b007k4p6)
Cutting Edge

Sean and Hamish board Boris' Disco Ship to convert offshore ravers into fresh, young listeners.

Surreal comedy starring award-winning double act Sean Foley and Hamish McColl, the Right Size.

With:

Rose English
Count Arthur Strong
Chris Larner
Mark Stevens

Producer: Lissa Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2000.

SUNDAY 05 JANUARY 2025

SUN 00:00 The Inn by Guy de Maupassant (b09rbpy5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Saturday]

SUN 01:00 Young Coleridge (b00828lq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]

SUN 02:30 Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) (m000v6zk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]

SUN 03:45 Inner Voices (m0026mcn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Saturday]

SUN 04:00 Mr Willow's Wife (m000pmdt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday]

SUN 04:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007k0kz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Saturday]

SUN 05:00 Growing Pains (m0008y79)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Saturday]

SUN 06:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0026mbr)
Children's Authors

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Writer Frank Cottrell Boyce is castaway by Kirsty Young.

His film credits include Hilary and Jackie, Welcome to Sarajevo and 24 Hour Party People. He's also written TV soaps, radio and stage plays and children's novels.

These days children are his main audience and, as a father of seven himself, he should know what they want. He not only tests his ideas on them, but they keep him focused:

"I need them in the house to make sure I'm not watching telly, or having a four hour bath - the fact that they're there makes me work."

DISC ONE: Harry Christophers with the Sixteen - Allegri's Miserere
DISC TWO: Oliver Postgate - Noggin the Nog
DISC THREE: The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin
DISC FOUR: Big Country - In a Big Country
DISC FIVE: Children (recorded in Dublin in the 1960’s) - The Story of John the Baptist
DISC SIX: David Bowie - Golden Years
DISC SEVEN: The Bothy Band - Butterfly
DISC EIGHT: The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Harry Christophers with the Sixteen - Allegri's Miserere
BOOK CHOICE: The Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin
LUXURY CHOICE: A ferris wheel

Producer: Leanne Buckle

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.

SUN 06:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b0106x58)
Series 2

Identities

You get a very different insight into the natural world when you have the opportunity to study the behaviour of individual animals.

Sir David Attenborough recalls with sumptuous delight spotting a blackbird in his garden with a white feather - "whitey" - giving him a window into the life of blackbirds and what's more, that individual. And, he says, he saw what blackbirds get up to!

David remembers filming spiders and chimpanzees, both of which benefited from someone knowing about the individuals - and whether you're a spider or a chimpanzee, you have a personality all of your own.

Written and presented by David Attenborough

Producer: Julian Hector

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011.

SUN 07:00 Poetry Extra (m0026mbt)
Macavity's Not There - TS Eliot in the 21st Century

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and, to mark 60 years since the death of TS Eliot, he selects Macavity's Not There.

At one time TS Eliot was one of Britain's most important cultural figures: but Britain has changed out of all recognition since then.

How does a new edition of Eliot's writings affect his reputation: and how much significance do his poems really have in 21st century Britain?

Critic Michael Alexander explores Eliot's legacy, with the help of Eliot scholar Sir Christopher Ricks, and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.

Producer: Paul Bajoria

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.

**** And Daljit reads from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month for January: Oi You Lot - a debut collection by Kareem Parkins-Brown.

SUN 07:30 Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) (m0026mbw)
The Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4 is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour.

Yet, recognisable though the sea areas are by name, few people give much thought as to where they are or what they contain.

Charlie Connelly sets off on a journey into the forecast to find out, from North Utsire to South East Iceland and every port of call between.

From the book written by Charlie Connelly.

Omnibus of five episodes abridged by Beatrice Colin.

Read by Tom Goodman-Hill.

Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.

SUN 08:40 Inheritance Tracks (m0026mby)
Adrian Chiles

Broadcaster, writer and proud Brummie Adrian Chiles chooses Reuben's Blues by Stan Kenton, and Stop This World by Mose Allison.

SUN 08:50 Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) (m0026mc0)
Episode 1

Kate Dickens tells the story of her father’s final and unfinished novel.

It’s Christmas and all is fine until Edwin - the young man who appears to have it all, a beautiful and charming prospective bride, the promise of an engineering job in Egypt - disappears. Presumed murdered. Could it have been impetuous Neville Landless? Or Edwin’s Uncle Jasper?

Dickens’ last, unfinished, novel is set in a phantasmagorical drug-fuelled landscape where nobody is who or what they say they are.

A fast-moving thriller set in the cathedral town of Cloisterham.

Whilst writing it, Dickens was driving himself towards exhaustion and death through obsessive public performances of the most lurid parts of Oliver Twist - revisiting his first successful novel whilst struggling with his last, fearful that his creative well is drying up and that this story would never be brought to a close.

Dickens’s daughter Kate was witness to her father’s final weeks. Her fascination with this story leads her to look into its unsolved conclusion to find clues about her father’s character.

Written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1870.

Omnibus of the first five of ten parts dramatised by Mike Walker.

Kate Dickens …. Pippa Nixon
John Jasper …. Joel McCormack
Edwin Drood .... Iwan Davies
Rosa Bud .... Isabella Inchbald
Princess Puffer .... Rachel Atkins
Reverend Crisparkle .... Damian Lynch
Neville Landless .... Maanuv Thiara
Helena Landless .…. Halema Hussain
Hiram Grewgious .... Peter Davison
Stony Durdles/Geoff/JP …. Ian Conningham
Deputy .... Aaron Gelkoff
Joe …. Wilf Scolding

Director: Jeremy Mortimer

A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2020.

SUN 10:00 Beyond Our Ken (b0blvt1m)
From 15/10/1958

Kenneth Horne reveals Field Marshall Viscount Frogmore's exploits and 'Hornerama' on smoking.

A madcap mix of sketches and songs written by Eric Merriman and Barry Took

Starring:

Kenneth Horne
Kenneth Williams
Hugh Paddick
Betty Marsden
Ron Moody

Music from Pat Lancaster, the Malcolm Mitchell Trio and the BBC Review Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenoulhet.

Announcer: Douglas Smith

Beyond Our Ken hit the airwaves in 1958 and ran to 1964 - featuring regulars like Arthur Fallowfield, Cecil Snaith and Rodney and Charles.

The precursor to 'Round The Horne' - sadly only 13 shows survive from the original run of 21 episodes in Series 1. Audio restored using both home and overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings.

Producer: Jacques Brown

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1958.

SUN 10:30 Take It From Here (b01nrmxs)
From 15/06/1953

Fun afloat! - aboard a British aircraft carrier.

HMS Indefatigable was launched in December 1942 and joined the British Pacific Fleet in 1945, where she received superficial damage from a kamikaze hit.

The vessel became a training carrier from 1950 and was broken up in 1956.

Writers Frank Muir and Dennis Norden both served in the RAF during the Second World War, so their understanding of military humour stood them in good stead to write the script for this outing.

Starring:

Professor Jimmy Edwards
Dick Bentley
Joy Nichols
Wallas Eaton

Music from Herbert Mostyn & The Keynotes, and Paul Fenhoulet & The Augmented BBC Variety Orchestra

Producer: Charles Maxwell

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1953.

SUN 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0026mbr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SUN 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b0106x58)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m0026mbt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

SUN 12:30 Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) (m0026mbw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SUN 13:40 Inheritance Tracks (m0026mby)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:40 today]

SUN 13:50 Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) (m0026mc0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]

SUN 15:00 Beyond Our Ken (b0blvt1m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

SUN 15:30 Take It From Here (b01nrmxs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

SUN 16:00 Fear on 4 (m0026mc4)
Series 1

The Snowman Killing

In the depth of winter, Anne is disturbed when her young twin sons encounter a malevolent force in the snow.

The Man in Black sets the scene…

Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers.

Stars Edward de Souza and Imelda Staunton.

Written by JCW Brook.

The Man in Black …. Edward de Souza
Anne Makepeace …. Imelda Staunton
Henry Makepeace …. Brian Hewlett
Colin …. Alistair White
Alkis Constantouris …. Alex
Helen …. Emily Richard
Mrs McPherson …. Eva Stuart

Director: Martin Jenkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1988.

SUN 16:30 Simon Bovey - Cold Blood (b007jv38)
1. Freezerville

A group of scientists are conducting research in the Antarctic - the most pristine environment on Earth.

However, there are black clouds on the horizon.

Welcome to the dark, dark world of Cold Blood...

Simon Bovey's five-part sci-fi thriller recorded in 2005 but set in 2015.

Anaya …. Ndidi Del Fatti
Deborah Marks …. Helen Longworth
Max Bellingfield …. Stuart McLoughlin
Commander Taft …. Tom Mannion
Bowers …. Tim McMullan

Director: Marc Beeby

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in January 2005.

SUN 17:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0026mbr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SUN 17:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b0106x58)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

SUN 18:00 Poetry Extra (m0026mbt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

SUN 18:30 Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) (m0026mbw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SUN 19:40 Inheritance Tracks (m0026mby)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:40 today]

SUN 19:50 Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) (m0026mc0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]

SUN 21:00 Beyond Our Ken (b0blvt1m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

SUN 21:30 Take It From Here (b01nrmxs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

SUN 22:00 Listen Against (b016ljj6)
Series 4

Episode 1

More mash-ups of current and archive programmes from a week's worth of broadcasting - "beautifully crafted, scalpel sharp" (Gillian Reynolds)

Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes return with the comedy that takes the back off your radio and TV, fiddles round with the shows and puts them all back, the wrong way round.

Starring:

Jon Holmes.
Alice Arnold

With:

James Bachman
Sarah Hadland
Kim Wall

Like "the mischievous offspring of Points of View and The Day Today" (Observer) fictional letters and emails complain about half-fictional programmes.

Fictional guests and real life presenters (including in this series: Melvyn Bragg, Jeremy Vine and Vanessa Feltz) argue with each other in "a gem of a satirical swoop at radio and television." (Guardian).

Written by Jon Holmes, Gareth Gwynn, John Hunter, James Kettle, Joel Morris and Jason Hazeley, John Luke Roberts and Rachel Wheeley.

Producers: Sam Bryant and Jon Holmes

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011.

SUN 22:30 Electric Ink (b01jrt6d)
Series 2

Episode 2

Maddox refuses to give up a source.

Could he really be facing prison?

Starring John Sessions and Alex Jennings.

Old hacks meet new media in this satire set in the changing world of the struggling newspaper industry.

Written by Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson.

Maddox .... John Sessions
Oliver .... Alex Jennings
Freddy .... Stephen Wight
Carol .... Polly Frame
Masha .... Debbie Chazen
Policeman .... Henry Devas
Warder .... Adeel Akhtar

Producer: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010.

SUN 23:00 Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself (b04hvy0q)
Episode 2

The impression and sketch show that looks behind the scenes at the life and work of star impressionist Lewis Macleod

Lewis has performed on 4 Extra's Newsjack, plus Postman Pat, The Phantom Menace and Dead Ringers.

With:

Kate O'Sullivan
Duncan Wisbey
Julian Dutton

Producer: Lyndsay Fenner

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2014.

SUN 23:30 Safety Catch (b00fgq18)
Series 1

A Wanting Man

Simon wonders whether to stay faithful to his girlfriend, when he suspects a friend of his sister may be attracted to him.

Starring Darren Boyd as Simon McGrath.

Laurence Howarth’s black comedy of modern morality.

Simon is essentially a nice man who also happens to be an arms dealer.

With:

Joanna Page
Lewis MacLeod
Sarah Smart
Brigit Forsyth
Catherine Shepherd

Producer: Dawn Ellis

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007.

MONDAY 06 JANUARY 2025

MON 00:00 Fear on 4 (m0026mc4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]

MON 00:30 Simon Bovey - Cold Blood (b007jv38)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Sunday]

MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0026mbr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday]

MON 01:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b0106x58)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Sunday]

MON 02:00 Poetry Extra (m0026mbt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Sunday]

MON 02:30 Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) (m0026mbw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday]

MON 03:40 Inheritance Tracks (m0026mby)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:40 on Sunday]

MON 03:50 Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) (m0026mc0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 on Sunday]

MON 05:00 Beyond Our Ken (b0blvt1m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]

MON 05:30 Take It From Here (b01nrmxs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Sunday]

MON 06:00 Whodunnits (b007jvm7)
Wimsey - Unnatural Death

6. Vera Findlater

The murder trail leads Lord Peter Wimsey to make a shocking discovery at the seaside...

Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.

Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery 'Unnatural Death' was first published in 1927.

Dramatised in seven parts by Chris Miller.

Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Inspector Parker …. Gabriel Woolf
Miss Climpson …. Ambrosine Phillpotts
Miss Findlater …. Gretta Gouriet
Sir Charles Pillington … James Thomason
Alf the Boy Scout/Maid …. Denise Bryer

Producer: Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975.

MON 06:30 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j35p)
6. A Safe House for Moscow

Two men have broken into a German computer and discovered something called 'Operation Siegfried'. Then they are murdered.

Boyd Stuart suspects his own people and tries to resign. But you don't resign from the Secret Service.

The title of Len Deighton’s riveting thriller XPD stands for Expedient Demise.

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell

Boyd Stuart ...... Trevor Nichols
Sydney Ryden ...... David Garth
Max Breslow ...... Bernard Hepton
Willi Kleiber ...... Clifford Rose
Prime Minister ...... Bernard Brown
Project chairman ...... Bruce Boa
Sevmour ...... William Roberts
Kalkhoven ...... Stuart Milligan
Wyn ...... Louh Hirsch
Parker ...... Colin Starkey
Kitty ...... Melinda Walker
Secretary ...... Garard Green

Producer: Peter King

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1985.

MON 07:00 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007n1wk)
Prodigal Son Returns - Veal Off

Having escaped the clutches of the B-movie Russian gangsters, Tony Hardstaff returns to West Yorkshire and the bosom of the family he left a decade earlier.

But things in the town of Grimedale have changed, and his 183-year-old father Obadiah and mother Alice are less than pleased to meet him.

Nick Revell 's epic comedy saga continues.

Tony ...... Nick Revell
Obadiah ...... David Swift
Alice ...... Maggie Steed
Jane ...... Alison Steadman
Dave/Carl ...... Peter Serafinowcz
Joanna ...... Natalie Walter
Jeff ...... Peter Gunn
The Narrator ...... Alistair McGowan

Music composed by Paul Mottram.

Producer: Paul Schlesinger

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1997.

MON 07:30 Variety Bandbox (m0026mbl)
Offering laughs and musical merriment, Variety Bandbox started life at the end of the Second World War.

It was broadcast on BBC General Forces and later transferred to the BBC Light Programme running until 1952.

The series helped to launch a number of stars.

In this episode, there's ragtime with Jerry Allen on the organ and Barbara Leigh sings Some Day My Heart will Awake.

Peter Sellers does Max Miller singing I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts...

Presented by Philip Slessor

With

Frankie Howerd
William Ternent
Jerry Allen
Barbara Leigh
Peter Sellers
Bill Kerr

Producer: Bryan Sears

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme on 22nd January 1950.

MON 08:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b068vymj)
Series 4

The Wedding

Damien recounts the events leading up to his marriage to long term partner Anthony, when not everything went exactly according to plan...

Sitcom charting the life of cookery writer Damien Trench, who lives in London's Queen's Park with his partner Anthony.

Created by and starring Miles Jupp.

Written by Justin Edwards.

Damien Trench ...... Miles Jupp
Anthony ...... Justin Edwards
Ian Frobisher ........ Philip Fox
Mr Mullaney ...... Brendan Dempsey
Damien's mother ...... Selina Cadell
The Celebrant ...... Jessica Turner
Gavin Fox ...... David Acton

Producer: Sam Michell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2015.

MON 08:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j78k)
1. Return Home

Michael Moran’s life was forever transformed by his days of glory in the War of Independence.

Now, a farmer in the Irish countryside, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past.

However, as he grows older, his wife and daughters must confront how their own lives have been irrevocably shaped by this complicated and contradictory man.

An intimate story of a family living on the Irish border, under the thumb of a former soldier turned tyrant in his own home.

Written and abridged in ten parts by John McGahern.

Read by Lloyd Hutchinson.

John McGahern was born in Dublin in 1934 and brought up in the West of Ireland. He was a graduate of University College, Dublin. He worked as a primary school teacher and held various academic posts at universities in Britain, Ireland and America.

In the opinion of The Observer, John was 'Ireland's greatest living novelist'. He was the author of six highly acclaimed novels and four collections of short stories, and was the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship, the American-Irish Award, the Prix Etrangère Ecureuil and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Producer: Celia de Wolff

A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2020.

MON 08:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qls1)
6. Mysterious Gentleman

Kate Dickens tells the story of her father’s final and unfinished novel, a fast-moving thriller set in the cathedral town of Cloisterham.

It is Christmas and all is fine until Edwin - the young man who appears to have it all, a beautiful and charming prospective bride, the promise of an engineering job in Egypt - disappears. Presumed murdered. Could it have been impetuous Neville Landless? Or Edwin’s uncle Jasper?

Rosa has an upsetting meeting with John Jasper, while a mysterious white-haired gentleman appears in Cloisterham and forms an alliance with young Deputy Winks.

Dickens’ last, unfinished, novel is set in a phantasmagorical drug-fuelled landscape where nobody is who or what they say they are.

Whilst writing it, Dickens was driving himself towards exhaustion and death through obsessive public performances of the most lurid parts of Oliver Twist - revisiting his first successful novel whilst struggling with his last, fearful that his creative well is drying up and that this story would never be brought to a close.

Written by Charles Dickens and dramatised by Mike Walker.

Narrated by Dickens’ daughter Kate, witness to her father’s final weeks, and whose fascination with this story leads her to look into its unsolved conclusion to find clues about her father’s character.

Kate Dickens ...… Pippa Nixon
John Jasper ...… Joel McCormack
Rosa Bud ...… Isabella Inchbald
Reverend Crisparkle ...… Damian Lynch
Neville Landless ...… Maanuv Thiara
Helena Landless ...… Halema Hussain
Deputy Winks ..…. Aaron Gelkoff

Director: Jeremy Mortimer

A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2020.

o 4, first broadcast in December 2020.

MON 09:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m00269cl)
Series 82

Episode 4

The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the Anvil Theatre in Basingstoke. Marcus Brigstocke and Henning Wehn take on Miles Jupp and Rachel Parris with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell attempts piano accompaniment.

Producer: Jon Naismith
A Random production for BBC Radio 4

MON 09:30 Join the Dots (b0952b9y)
1. The First Dot

Janet Ellis explores the etymology of the word 'dot'. It's all to do with pus and phlegm.

A 40,000 year old dot that may help change our understanding of the behaviour of Neanderthal man and, move over colouring books, dot to dot is the new craze.

Janet tries, literally, to find the first dot.

The simple dot is one of the first marks ever made. Later, the dot helped make sense of the written word and, in the digital domain, its use helps everything work. Somehow, from being a word probably uttered infrequently, it is now absolutely part and parcel of our vocabulary.

Each programme in this series circles a different aspect of this simple mark.

From the morse code that could have saved the Titanic, to Harold Pinter's love of those three dots... the first Braille newspaper, royal polka-dot socks, to the conceptual art of a young Aboriginal artist - just some of the dots you'll encounter when you join the dots.

Contributors include:

* Dr Tania Styles of the Oxford English Dictionary
* Professor Paul Pettitt from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Durham.

Former Blue Peter presenter, Janet Ellis has presented several features for BBC Radio 4, appears regularly on Broadcasting House reviewing the papers, and on Channel 5's The Write Stuff.

Her first novel, The Butcher's Hook, was published in 2016 and longlisted for the prestigious Desmond Elliott Prize. Her second, How it Was was published in 2019. She has been a judge for the Costa New Novel Prize and was awarded an MBE for services to charity and theatre in 2016.

Producer: Caroline Raphael

A Dora production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2017.

MON 09:45 Daily Service (m0026mbp)
Epiphany- The Revealing

Theme: Epiphany- The Revealing

Led by Rev Dr Bert Tosh
Reading: Psalm 72. 10-17
As with gladness, men of old
The Three Kings (Peter Cornelius)
Jesus shall reign where’er the sun

MON 10:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k1mb)
Annabel Meredith

Chic Murray's daughter Annabel chats about her life growing up with her legendary Scottish, funny father.

Sally Magnusson hosts the series where the sons and daughters of famous comedians talk about life with their dads.

Producer: Mike Walker

First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in October 2005.

MON 10:30 Syrena Songs (b06vkcf6)
Syrena Records was created in 1904. Selling millions of discs to new audiences hungry for shellac delights.

Opera singers, Cantors, political humour and Yiddish theatre.

Success allowed their founder Juliusz Feigenbaum to invest in state of the art recording technology.

By the time independent Poland was reborn in 1918, Syrena was well placed to shape the sound of a new nation.

Hot tango and jazz were performed by superb musicians and singers, mostly Jewish, mostly of a generation breaking away from the old world and facing the new. Adam Aston, Hanka Ordonka, Henryk Wars, Micheslaw Fogg and others, cut disc after disc before playing in the elite nightclubs of Warsaw.

In 1939, invasion and war ended Syrena and the Polish nation. Its factory and archives destroyed, its artists murdered or scattered in exile.

But there was one last tune to play.

Henryk Wars, former musical director at Syrena, formed an orchestra that became the soundtrack of Poles in exile and in military uniform. From Tehran to Palestine to the fortress of Monte Cassino, those musicians and singers that had once been the heart of Syrena now played songs of a lost nation, creating the anthemic Red Poppies of Monte Cassino.

Presented by Monica Whitlock

Producer: Mark Burman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2016.

MON 11:00 Whodunnits (b007jvm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

MON 11:30 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j35p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

MON 12:00 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007n1wk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

MON 12:30 Variety Bandbox (m0026mbl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

MON 13:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b068vymj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

MON 13:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j78k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

MON 13:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qls1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

MON 14:00 Just a Minute (b00r0qw3)
Series 56

Episode 9

Nicholas Parsons presides over the devious game where panellists are challenged to speak for one minute without hesitation, deviation or repetition.

Recorded at the University of Derby.

With:

Tony Hawks
Justin Moorhouse
Josie Lawrence
Dave Gorman

Subjects include: The People You Find In A Student Bar, How To Spot A Genius, Vintage, The Society I Would Most Like To Join, The Perfect Date, The Art of Studying, Roleplay and The Peak District.

Created by Ian Messiter.

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.

MON 14:30 Too Much Information (b00n88d3)
Episode 3

Waft Tourist Information introduces local walks for visitors but for the young honeymooning couple, the walks end up being painfully boring and spectacularly dangerous!

The ancient northern town of Waft appears in the Lonely Planet Guide with the advice: "Don't bother". It has more people in the cemetery than living in it, is twinned with a town near Chernobyl and is most often visited by people using the toilet on the way to Alton Towers.

So Waft Tourist Information Centre is hardly a hive of activity! But Warren along with the other members of the "Friends of Waft" each week attempt to solve the endless conundrum of how on earth they can attract visitors to Waft!

Neil Warhurst's comedy drama set in the idiosyncratic world of a tourist information office.

Warren ....... Jeff Rawle
Douglas ....... Malcolm Tierney
Heather ....... Liza Sadovy
Lucy ....... Joannah Tincey
Bryan ....... Paul Barnhill
Ricky ....... Phillip Fox
Becca. ....... Emerald O'hanrahan

Producer: Liz Webb

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009.

MON 15:00 Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (b007jsx9)
6. The Mother's Manoeuvre

To Roger she was the one - alone, peerless and her personal loveliness was only one of the charms that made him tremble into passion. Cynthia was not capable of returning such feelings; she had had too little true love in her life, but she appreciated this honest ardour, this loyal worship that was new to her experience.

Osborne's complicated past leads to difficulties and Cynthia receives a proposal.

Final novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Starring Tom Wilkinson, Kathryn Hurlbutt and Angela Pleasence.

Dramatised by Barry Campbell.

Molly …. Kathryn Hurlbutt
Clare …. Angela Pleasence
Mr Gibson .… Tom Wilkinson
Cynthia …. Anne Louise Lambert
Squire Hamley …. Robert Lang
Osborne Hamley …. Adam Bareham
Roger Hamley …. Michael Troughton
Lady Harriet …. Marian Diamond
Mrs Gaskell …. Thelma Whiteley

Music composed by Rachel Portman.

Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1983

MON 16:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k1mb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

MON 16:30 Syrena Songs (b06vkcf6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

MON 17:00 Whodunnits (b007jvm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

MON 17:30 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j35p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

MON 18:00 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007n1wk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

MON 18:30 Variety Bandbox (m0026mbl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

MON 19:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b068vymj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

MON 19:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j78k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

MON 19:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qls1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

MON 20:00 Just a Minute (b00r0qw3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

MON 20:30 Too Much Information (b00n88d3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

MON 21:00 Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (b007jsx9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]

MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m00269cl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

MON 22:30 Alice's Wunderland (b01l8n82)
Series 1

Episode 4

A trip round Wunderland, a poundland of magical realms. It's a kingdom much like our own, and also nothing like it in the slightest.

Stay a while and meet waifs and strays, wigshops and witches, murderous pensioners and squirrels of this delightful land as they go about their bizarre business.

A sketch show written and performed by Alice Lowe.

Also starring:

Richard Glover
Simon Greenall
Rachel Stubbings
Clare Thompson
Marcia Warren

Producer: Sam Bryant

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2012.

MON 23:00 The News Quiz (m002695x)
Best of The News Quiz 2024

A satirical smorgasbord of The News Quiz's best bits of the year. Covering international tensions, a UK general election, and of course the question on everyone’s lips, what exactly was a ‘Brat Summer’?

With Andy Zaltzman in the chair, full of whimsical animal metaphors and cricket stats, we’ll hear highlights from the crème de la crème of British and international comedy and journalism to dissect the news. It's a chance to return to, and revel in, some of 2024's funniest moments, starring Ian Smith, Lucy Porter, Geoff Norcott, Alasdair Beckett-King, Mark Steel, Ria Lina, Simon Evans and Zoe Lyons, amongst others.

Come digest a dramatic year of news, along with the leftover turkey, as we say goodbye to 2024, goodbye to 14 years of Conservative rule, goodbye to short-lived presidential hopeful Kamala Harris, and goodbye to Earth’s temporary second moon.

Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman

Producer: Sam Holmes
Executive Producer: James Robinson
Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman

A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4
An Eco-Audio certified Production

MON 23:30 Old Harry's Game (b007k1xw)
Series 2

Assistant

With Hell getting overcrowded, Satan decides it's time to hire an assistant demon.

Andy Hamilton’s devilishly funny sitcom set in Hell.

It's not easy being Satan.

Thrown out of heaven by a vengeful, white-haired God merely for daring to voice the concerns of middle management and condemned for all eternity to listen to Edith Piaf and Elvis Presley.

Satan may rule the roost, but he's beset by the poor unfortunates condemned to sit out Eternity with him

Satan ...... Andy Hamilton
The Professor ...... James Grout
Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville
Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan

Other characters played by:

Philip Pope
Felicity Montagu

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1998.

TUESDAY 07 JANUARY 2025

TUE 00:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k1mb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]

TUE 00:30 Syrena Songs (b06vkcf6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Monday]

TUE 01:00 Whodunnits (b007jvm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]

TUE 01:30 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j35p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]

TUE 02:00 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007n1wk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]

TUE 02:30 Variety Bandbox (m0026mbl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]

TUE 03:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b068vymj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Monday]

TUE 03:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j78k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Monday]

TUE 03:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qls1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Monday]

TUE 04:00 Just a Minute (b00r0qw3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]

TUE 04:30 Too Much Information (b00n88d3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]

TUE 05:00 Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (b007jsx9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Monday]

TUE 06:00 Whodunnits (b007jvmb)
Wimsey - Unnatural Death

7. Miss Climpson Investigates

Lord Peter Wimsey enlists some help to try and finally solve this puzzling murder mystery.

Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.

Conclusion of Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery.

Dramatised by Chris Miller.

Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Inspector Parker …. Gabriel Woolf
Miss Climpson …. Ambrosine Phillpotts
Mrs Forrest …. Bridget McConnel
Mr Tredgold …. John Forrest
Dr Faulkner …. John Dunbar
Sacristan …. Mark Penfold
Bunter …. Peter Jones

Producer: Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975.

TUE 06:30 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j2hk)
7. The Geneva Raid

Breslow has been told by Kleiber that an armed raid is going to take place on Colonel Pitman's home in Switzerland.

In England, Stuart has been investigating the possibility of Churchill meeting Hitler in 1940.

Len Deighton’s riveting thriller.

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Boyd Stuart ...... Trevor Nichols
Sydney Ryden ...... David Garth
Charles Stein ...... Bruce Boa
Max Breslow ...... Bernard Hepton
Colonel Pitman ...... Barry Morse
Kleiber ...... Clifford Rose
Reader ...... Colin Starkey
Mme Maurig ...... Mary Wimbush
Kalkhoven ...... Stuart Milligan
Wyn ...... Lou Hirsch
Koch ...... Garard Green

Producer: Peter King

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1985.

TUE 07:00 Girlies (b08hypz0)
Series 1

Episode 1

Five 30-something Asian women get together for "girlie" evenings

Friendships are tested, marriages analysed, and secrets exposed...

Series 1 of the four-part comedy serial.

Written by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan.

Tula …. Zita Sattar
Vinny …. Bharti Patel
Jabeen …. Shaheen Khan
Sonal …. Sudha Bhuchar
Samina …. Sakuntala Ramanee
Masi …. Charubala Chokshi
Karan …. Susan Sheridan
Ramesh …. Ameet Chaana
Dan …. Roger Liddle
The Agent …. Alice Arnold
Alia …. Sophie Levy
Sara …. Nyla Levy

Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Kristine Landon-Smith.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1997.

TUE 07:30 The Goon Show (m0026mjb)
Series 6

The Man Who Never Was

April 1944: When strange boots wash up Neddie Seagoon thinks wartime British intelligence must be told.

Ground-breaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan with Larry Stephens.

Starring:

Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan

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

With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.

Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.

Announcer: Wallace Greenslade

This episode is one of a number that were re-recorded in 1958.

Producer: Pat Dixon

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in March 1956.

TUE 08:00 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m000rvkz)
Series 2

I've Been Loving You Too Long to Stop Now

Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a couple who have been married 'forever'.

Children of the 1960s, they're still free spirits, drawn together by their passion for music and each other. Their recognisable warm and witty conversations dance around everything from health scares, jealousy and confessions, to TV incompatibility and sourdough bread.

In this episode, Joanna complains they’re ‘in a rut’, so Roger plans a spontaneous day out but is thwarted at every turn. Undeterred, he cooks her a ‘date night’ supper and they talk about their long marriage.

Written for Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam by award-winning comedy writer and journalist Jan Etherington.

Jan has been married for 34 years to Gavin Petrie, with whom she has created many hit Radio 4 Extra and TV series (Second Thoughts, plus Next of Kin, Faith in the Future, The Change).

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2021.

TUE 08:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j80c)
2. Opportunity

Recently returned home from Glasgow, Rose Brady finds an opportunity for a new life in the enigmatic widower Michael Moran.

Michael Moran’s life was forever transformed by his days of glory in the War of Independence. Now, a farmer in the Irish countryside, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past.

However, as he grows older, his wife and daughters must confront how their own lives have been irrevocably shaped by this complicated and contradictory man.

An intimate story of a family living on the Irish border, under the thumb of a former soldier turned tyrant in his own home.

Written and abridged by John McGahern.

Read by Lloyd Hutchinson

Producer: Celia de Wolff

A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2020.

TUE 08:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qlwn)
7. Investigation

Kate Dickens tells the story of her father’s final and unfinished novel, a fast-moving thriller set in the cathedral town of Cloisterham.

It is Christmas and all is fine until Edwin - the young man who appears to have it all, a beautiful and charming prospective bride, the promise of an engineering job in Egypt - disappears. Presumed murdered. Could it have been impetuous Neville Landless? Or Edwin’s uncle Jasper?

Rosa leaves for London where she is looked after by Mr Grewgious, while Dick Datchery continues his investigation in Cloisterham.

Dickens’ last, unfinished, novel is set in a phantasmagorical drug-fuelled landscape where nobody is who or what they say they are.

Whilst writing it, Dickens was driving himself towards exhaustion and death through obsessive public performances of the most lurid parts of Oliver Twist - revisiting his first successful novel whilst struggling with his last, fearful that his creative well is drying up and that this story would never be brought to a close.

Written by Charles Dickens and dramatised by Mike Walker.

Narrated by Dickens’ daughter Kate, witness to her father’s final weeks, and whose fascination with this story leads her to look into its unsolved conclusion to find clues about her father’s character.

Kate Dickens ...… Pippa Nixon
Rosa Bud ...… Isabella Inchbald
Hiram Grewgious ...… Peter Davison
Reverend Crisparkle ..…. Damian Lynch
Stony Durdles ...… Ian Conningham
Deputy .….. Aaron Gelkoff
Cabby ...… Wilf Scolding

Director: Jeremy Mortimer

A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2020.

TUE 09:00 Yesterday in Parliament (m0026mjd)
The latest news from Westminster - and beyond.

TUE 09:30 Join the Dots (b0952qpx)
2. Picture the Dot

Janet Ellis gets close to the canvas to see how this elemental mark has inspired great world art, from the dots of the Australian Western Desert to 19th Century Paris.

The simple dot is one of the first marks man ever made. From being a word we uttered infrequently, the advent of digital has made it one we use all the time.

The dot. We wear it, listen to it, read it and gaze on it. We send it through the air and under the waves. Each programme in this series circles a different aspect of this simple mark.

Contributors:

* Aboriginal Australian artist Christian Thompson
* Dr Karen Serres, the Courtauld Gallery Schroder Foundation Curator of Paintings.

Geoffrey Bardon and Fay Nelson's contributions are from the film documentary Mr Patterns and used with kind permission of the Bardon family and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Film Australia archive. The music is by Steve Francis.

Producer: Caroline Raphael

A Dora production for BBC Radio 4 , first broadcast in September 2017.

TUE 09:45 Daily Service (m0026mjg)
Epiphany - Simeon

A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.

Theme: Epiphany - Simeon
Presenter: Azariah France Williams
Reading: Luke 2:25-32

Music:
Longing for Light we wait in Darkness - St Martin's Voices
Nunc Dimitis - Burgon - BBC Young Chorister Natalie
He put a song on my heart - Volney Morgan (he turned our mourning into dancing)

TUE 10:00 A Good Read (b09v3fdw)
Kit de Waal and Nina Stibbe

Writers Nina Stibbe and Kit de Waal join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Kazuo Ishiguro, Lorrie Moore and Carson McCullers.

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher: Faber

Self Help by Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Faber

Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
Publisher: Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018.

TUE 10:30 Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys (b017528q)
Barbara Windsor tells the story of the popular variety act Wilson, Keppel and Betty.

The trio formed one of the greatest eccentric dance acts of all time. Their names are so familiar and yet amazingly their fascinating story has never been told on radio before. As with many tales of the stars of music hall and variety, it is one which is shrouded in contradictions and myth.

The programme includes new research into their early days as a duo in Australia and America - and reveals how the act was catapulted to stardom when Wilson and Keppel met Betty.

Liverpudlian Jack Wilson and Irishman Joe Keppel were doleful, gangling, moustachioed and skinny-legged. They wore parodies of Eastern dress, usually a fez and a short nightshirt, revealing their scrawny legs. The third member was the glamorous Betty - who over the years was played by several different women.

They performed a side-splitting sand dance based on poses familiar from Egyptian tomb art, with Betty as the central seductress. Their complete seriousness added to the hilarity.

From the early 1930's the trio became an established feature of British variety shows and were chosen for several Royal Variety Performances. Because the act was visual and hence instantly understandable to anyone, they received many offers from Europe.

In 1938 it was reported that whilst performing at the Berlin Wintergarden they upset Goebbels who was disgusted at the display of bare legs, calling them 'bad for the morals of Nazi Youth'. Mussolini, however, is said to have loved the act.

Contributors include:

* Bill Pertwee
* Mark Colleano
* Jean Kent
* Georgy Jamieson
* Relatives of the trio.

Producer: Stephen Garner

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011.

TUE 11:00 Whodunnits (b007jvmb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

TUE 11:30 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j2hk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

TUE 12:00 Girlies (b08hypz0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

TUE 12:30 The Goon Show (m0026mjb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

TUE 13:00 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m000rvkz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

TUE 13:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j80c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

TUE 13:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qlwn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

TUE 14:00 Booked (b0075m77)
Series 2

Episode 6

John Betjeman writes the copy for a Ford Probe brochure, Shere Khan bumps into a nervous Mrs Tiggy-Winkle at a hunt saboteurs' meeting, and Ted Hughes tries to write a bright and breezy breakfast cereal advert.

Outrageous parody, biting wit and bizarre couplings from:

Miles Kington
Dillie Keane
Mark Thomas
John Hegley

Ian McMillan chairs the irreverent literary game.

Producer: Marc Jobst

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1997.

TUE 14:30 Cabin Pressure (b00cb5k4)
Series 1

Abu Dhabi

Sitcom about the crew of a tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.

Starring Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam.

The city of Bristol, a cat and a thermostat combine to present Martin with a career-breaking crisis.

Carolyn Knapp-Shappey …. Stephanie Cole
First Officer Douglas Richardson …. Roger Allam
Capt Martin Crieff …. Benedict Cumberbatch
Arthur Shappey …. John Finnemore
ATC Fitton …. Ewen MacIntosh

Written by John Finnemore, writer for The News Quiz, The Now Show, and That Mitchell & Webb Sound.

Produced and directed by David Tyler.

A Pozzitive production for the BBC, first broadcast on Radio 4 in July 2008.

TUE 15:00 Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (b007jsxh)
7. The Storm Bursts

"Hyacinth," said Mr Gibson, sterner than ever, "Did you or did you not alter your behaviour to Roger in consequence of what you overheard of my professional conversation with Dr Nicholls? Have you not favoured his suit to Cynthia since then, on the understanding that he stood a good chance of inheriting Hamley?"

Cynthia reveals all about her relationship with Mr Preston.

Final novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Starring Tom Wilkinson, Kathryn Hurlbutt and Angela Pleasence.

Dramatised by Barry Campbell.

Molly .... Kathryn Hurlbutt
Clare .... Angela Pleasence
Mr Gibson .... Tom Wilkinson
Cynthia .... Anne-Louise Lambert
Mr Preston .... Brett Usher
Mr Coxe .... Alex Jennings
Miss Browning .... Diana Bishop
Miss Phoebe .... Hilda Schroder
Mr Sheepshanks .... Peter Tuddenham
Mrs Gaskell .... Thelma Whiteley

Music composed by Rachel Portman

Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1983.

TUE 16:00 A Good Read (b09v3fdw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

TUE 16:30 Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys (b017528q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

TUE 17:00 Whodunnits (b007jvmb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

TUE 17:30 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j2hk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

TUE 18:00 Girlies (b08hypz0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

TUE 18:30 The Goon Show (m0026mjb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

TUE 19:00 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m000rvkz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

TUE 19:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j80c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

TUE 19:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qlwn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

TUE 20:00 Booked (b0075m77)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

TUE 20:30 Cabin Pressure (b00cb5k4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

TUE 21:00 Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (b007jsxh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]

TUE 22:00 Ahir Shah's Seven Blunders of the World (m00268zs)
Episode 1

Inspired by an email from his 74 year-old father, comedian Ahir Shah introduces us to the The Seven Blunders of the World.

In 1925, Mahatma Gandhi published an article in the journal Young India, outlining what he called the Seven Social Sins. They were wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, religion without sacrifice, and politics without principle.

One hundred years on, the world is a very different place (this was written on a computer, for crying out loud!). Yet, Ahir reckons Gandhi's century-old list of the great societal blunders still feels relevant today. Could they teach us anything going forward?

Join Ahir (and sometimes his dad, who started this whole thing), as he explores these seven blunders through his trademark combination of philosophical inquiry, political vigour and sweet gags.

Created and Performed by Ahir Shah
Additional Material by Glenn Moore
Cast: Vikram Shah and Meera Syal
Producers: Daisy Knight and Jules Lom
An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4

TUE 22:30 Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy (b0bfz5jy)
Series 2

73 Seconds

"Good luck, bad luck, who can tell..."

The return of multi-award winning storyteller Sarah Kendall.

Scrolling backwards and forwards in time to different moments in her life, Sarah creates an intricate montage, demonstrating the interconnectedness of life.

In the first of three parts, Sarah shares her childhood memories of her brother's sixth birthday party, of their first pet and of her family gathering on the lawn to catch a glimpse of Halley's Comet in 1986. Plus an insight into the process of how this show came together, as Sarah watches a video of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster.

Written by Sarah Kendall and Carl Cooper

Producer: Carl Cooper

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

TUE 23:00 Trevor's World of Sport (b007s2bx)
Series 1

Episode 5

Trevor is struggling to keep his staff, his dignity - and his wife.

Starring Neil Pearson.

Another brave attempt by sports agent Trevor Heslop to swim safely through the shark tank of life.

Andy Hamilton's TV comedy swaps to radio.

Trevor ...... Neil Pearson
Sammy ...... Paul Reynolds
Ralph ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
Theresa ...... Rosalind Ayres
Heidrun ...... Cosima Shaw
Barry ...... Abdul Salis
Meryl ...... Claire Skinner
Toby ...... Matthew Thomas

Written and produced by Andy Hamilton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004.

TUE 23:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World (b007jtql)
Series 2

The Scheme of Things

Where does Britain fit in the Theatre of Being?

Cult New Age comedy that answers the questions which leave other shows scratching their beards.

Starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring.

With:
Rebecca Front
Armando Iannucci

And the voice of Tom Baker.

Producer: Sarah Smith

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993.

WEDNESDAY 08 JANUARY 2025

WED 00:00 A Good Read (b09v3fdw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]

WED 00:30 Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys (b017528q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Tuesday]

WED 01:00 Whodunnits (b007jvmb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]

WED 01:30 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j2hk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]

WED 02:00 Girlies (b08hypz0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]

WED 02:30 The Goon Show (m0026mjb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]

WED 03:00 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m000rvkz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Tuesday]

WED 03:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j80c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Tuesday]

WED 03:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qlwn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Tuesday]

WED 04:00 Booked (b0075m77)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]

WED 04:30 Cabin Pressure (b00cb5k4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]

WED 05:00 Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (b007jsxh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Tuesday]

WED 06:00 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (m0026mmm)
1. The General

California 1939: private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood to help in a family matter.

'I was neat, clean-shaved and sober. I was everything a well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.'

Raymond Chandler's classic of hardboiled crime fiction, introducing the world to Philip Marlowe, published in 1939.

Philip Marlowe .... Ed Bishop
General Sternwood .... Robert Beatty
Carmen Sternwood .... Liza Ross
Vivian Regan .... Diana Olsson
Agnes .... Nicolette McKenzie
Bernie Ohls .... Harry Towb
Eddie Mars .... Paul Maxwell
Carl Lundgren .... Weston Gavin
Butler .... Malcolm Gerard

Musical research Adrian Williams.

Dramatised in three parts by Bill Morrison.

Director: John Tydeman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977.

WED 06:30 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j3k1)
8. Expedient Demise

Stein and Colonel Pitman are making their getaway with the Hitler papers when Pitman is struck down - and a Swiss agent picks them up.

Can Boyd Stuart get to Switzerland in time to collect them..?

Conclusion of Len Deighton’s riveting thriller.

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Boyd Stuart ...... Trevor Nichols
Charles Stein: ...... Bruce Boa
Max Breslow: ...... Bernard Hepton
Willi Kleiber: ...... Clifford Rose
Shumuk: ...... George Coulouris
Ivan: ...... David Garth
Koch: ...... Garard Green
Case officer: ...... Alan Thompson
Mary Breslow: ...... Helena Breck
Parker: ...... Colin Starkey
Billy Stein: ...... Ian Tyler
Kalkhoven: ...... Stuart Milligan
Jennifer: ...... Jenny Funnell

Producer: Peter King

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1985.

WED 07:00 Radio Cars (m0026mmp)
Series 2

2. An Equal Match

Eddie challenges arch-rival Terry and his cab drivers to a football match.

But there's no such thing as fair play of course and Nicco intends to turn things in Eddie's favour with "spiked" half-time orange slices.

Second series of Jennifer Phillips's six-part comedy set in the offices of a disreputable London cab company.

Eddie .... Gary Waldhorn
Angela .... Harriet Walter
Slippy .... Norman Jones
Nicco .... Neil Dudgeon
Frenchie .... Terence Edmond
Gringo .... Paul Gregory
Mohammed .... Stefan Kalipha
Nellie .... Eva Stuart
Liam .... Gerard O'Hare
Terry .... Peter Jonfield

Director: Richard Wortley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1993.

WED 07:30 The Missing Hancocks (m000cp2n)
Series 4

The Counterfeiter

Hancock's fed up with Bill Kerr spending all day in bed, and decides to find him a job. But with Sid James involved, things were always going to get complicated.

The script for ‘The Counterfeiter’ was shelved in the 1950s and only recorded first the first time seven decades later by the cast and crew of ‘The Missing Hancocks’.

The Lad Himself …. Kevin McNally
Bill Kerr …. Kevin Eldon
Sid James …. Simon Greenall
Kenneth Williams …. Robin Sebastian
Andree Melly …. Susy Kane

The first modern sitcom, Hancock's Half Hour made stars of Tony Hancock, Sid James and Kenneth Williams, and launched writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson as one of the most successful comedy-writing partnerships in history.

Original scores re-recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Levon Parikian.

Producers: Neil Pearson and Hayley Sterling

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2020.

WED 08:00 Women Talking About Cars (b083pchj)
Series 1

Dawn French

Victoria Coren Mitchell interviews Dawn French about cars.

Discover what Dawn wrote on the back of her first car - and find out which comedian totalled her beloved Cortina.

Plus, what are the advantages of the refrigerated glove compartment?

First of a series in which famous women look at their lives from the perspective of the cars they have known, the journeys they've been on and the things they keep in their boot for emergencies.

Producer: Gareth Edwards

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2016.

WED 08:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j94r)
3. Wedding Day

On the day of his wedding to his second wife, Moran finds himself frustrated despite his children’s excitement.

Michael Moran’s life was forever transformed by his days of glory in the War of Independence. Now, a farmer in the Irish countryside, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past.

However, as he grows older, his wife and daughters must confront how their own lives have been irrevocably shaped by this complicated and contradictory man.

An intimate story of a family living on the Irish border, under the thumb of a former soldier turned tyrant in his own home.

Written and Abridged by John McGahern
Read by Lloyd Hutchinson

Produced by Celia de Wolff

A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2020.

WED 08:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qlzp)
8. Delirium

Kate Dickens tells the story of her father’s final and unfinished novel, a fast-moving thriller set in the cathedral town of Cloisterham. It is Christmas and all is fine until Edwin - the young man who appears to have it all, a beautiful and charming prospective bride, the promise of an engineering job in Egypt - disappears. Presumed murdered. Could it have been impetuous Neville Landless? Or Edwin’s uncle Jasper?

This episode sees Princess Puffer overhear Jasper talking in an opium daze, and turns up in Cloisterham to spy on him, where she falls into a trap.

Dickens’ last, unfinished, novel is set in a phantasmagorical drug-fuelled landscape where nobody is who or what they say they are. Whilst writing it, Dickens was driving himself towards exhaustion and death through obsessive public performances of the most lurid parts of Oliver Twist - revisiting his first successful novel whilst struggling with his last, fearful that his creative well is drying up and that this story would never be brought to a close.

Mike Walker’s dramatisation is narrated by Dickens’ daughter Kate, witness to her father’s final weeks, and whose fascination with this story leads her to look into its unsolved conclusion to find clues about her father’s character.

Kate Dickens .….. Pippa Nixon
John Jasper ...… Joel McCormack
Edwin Drood ..…. Iwan Davies
Rosa Bud ...… Isabella Inchbald
Neville Landless …... Maanuv Thiara
Helena Landless .….. Halema Hussain
Reverend Crisparkle ...… Damian Lynch
Princess Puffer ...… Rachel Atkins
Station Master ...… Wilf Scolding

Written by Charles Dickens

Adapted by Mike Walker

Directed by Jeremy Mortimer

A BBC Cymru Wales Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2020.

WED 09:00 Yesterday in Parliament (m0026mmr)
The latest news from Westminster - and beyond.

WED 09:30 Join the Dots (b0952sv2)
3. The Language of Dots

Janet Ellis looks at how the dot has helped us communicate and reflects on the dot in computer language, Morse code, Braille and the dots that get our email delivered.

The simple dot is one of the first marks man ever made. From being a word we uttered infrequently, the advent of digital has made it one we use all the time.

The dot. We wear it, listen to it, read it and gaze on it. We send it through the air and under the waves. Each programme in this series circles a different aspect of this simple mark.

Contributors include:
Dr Tilly Blyth, Head of Collections Science Museum London
Robert Saggers, Heritage Manager at the Royal Institute of Blind People

Producer: Caroline Raphael

A Dora production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.

WED 09:45 Daily Service (m0026mmt)
Epiphany - A signpost

A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.

Theme: Epiphany - A signpost
Presenter: Holly Adams
Reading: Luke 3:16-18, 21-22

Music:
Be thou my guardian and my guide - Cantus Choro
Holy Spirit, Living Breath of God - St Martin's Voices
On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry - Choir of St Edmundsbury Cathedral

WED 10:00 Archive on 4 (m0001cwc)
Elvis Presley Comeback Special

Paul Morley tells a parallel story of Elvis and America, from the vantage point of the King's finest hour in 1968.

"I've got to do this sooner or later," Elvis says sheepishly, "so I may as well do it now."

And so the 1968 Comeback Special begins: his quiff defying gravity and his leather jumpsuit chafing, as he bursts into an elemental rendition of Heartbreak Hotel. It had been one of his first singles 13 years before, initially recorded when he was still a teenager living in the Jim Crow South at the beginning of rock and roll.

Much had happened in the meantime: JFK, the Beatles, the hippies and Detroit soul. And Elvis had become a different person, depressed, addicted and increasingly irrelevant.

So by 1968, after his stint in the army, the uninspired films and the years of absence from the stage, the Comeback Special was an opportunity to resuscitate Elvis's career, to claw back his status as a powerful, credible force.

And it did, fleetingly. He was fabulous, and his discography is never better showcased than on that day.

But it also marked the point at which it became clear that the King was fragile.

He was 33, a new father, and he would never be this good again.

Paul Morley believes the '68 Comeback Special shows us Elvis at his best. But also that it offers a vantage point from which to look backwards, forwards and outwards to a changing America - remembering where the hillbilly kid had come from and poignantly aware of where he would end up.

Featuring:

Historian - Mary Frances Berry
Filmmaker - Eugene Jarecki
Writer - Luc Sante
Theatre artist - Greg Wohead.

Producer: Martin Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018.

WED 11:00 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (m0026mmm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

WED 11:30 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j3k1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

WED 12:00 Radio Cars (m0026mmp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

WED 12:30 The Missing Hancocks (m000cp2n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

WED 13:00 Women Talking About Cars (b083pchj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

WED 13:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j94r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

WED 13:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qlzp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

WED 14:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b087pvqk)
Series 10

Episode 1

Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his new curator Jo Brand welcome:

* Science communicator, musician and comedian Helen Arney
* Thomas Thwaites, who lived as a goat in the Alps for six days and built a toaster from the ground up
* Captain of a 14-storey £350 million pound cruise ship, The Queen Elizabeth, Captain Aseem Hashmi

The Museum's Guest Committee catch up on the latest 4 elements to be added to the periodic chart, flip through a history book from the future, which is all about now; and the thing that keeps a sea captain grounded, figuratively as well as literally, his 12-ton anchor.

Researched by Anne Miller of QI & Mike Turner.

Producers: Richard Turner and James Harkin.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2017.

WED 14:30 Tomorrow, Today! (b012b3dy)
Series 1

To the Moon and Back

The soap actors callously use the show to try to win advertising deals.

It's 1961. BBC producer Hugo Kellerman is struggling to make a radio soap set in the unimaginable world of 2006.

Starring Peter Bowles, Cheryl Campbell and John Fortune.

Futuristic sitcom by Christopher William Hill.

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
Colin Franks ...... Paul Richard Biggin
Waitress ...... Miranda Keeling.

Producer: Liz Webb

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2006.

WED 15:00 Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (b007jsxp)
8. Scandal and its Victims

"You don't know him," said Cynthia, shaking her head. "If Mr Preston ever guessed that Roger and I were engaged, he would manage to be revenged on both him and me, by giving us as much pain as he could with those unlucky letters. They are like a mine under my feet, which may blow up any day; and down will come father and mother and all."

Lady Harriet tries to redeem Molly's reputation and Cynthia has to face up to her past.

Final novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Starring Kathryn Hurlbutt, Tom Wilkinson and Angela Pleasence.

Dramatised by Barry Campbell.

Molly .... Kathryn Hurlbutt
Clare .... Angela Pleasence
Mr Gibson .... Tom Wilkinson
Cynthia .... Anne-Louise Lambert
Mr Preston .... Brett Usher
Osborne Hamley .... Adam Bareham
Lady Harriet .... Marian Diamond
Lady Cumnor .... Pauline Letts
Lord Cumnor ... Kerry Francis
Miss Browning .... Diana Bishop
Miss Phoebe .... Hilda Schroder
Mrs Goodenough .... Margot Boyd
Mrs Dawes ....Maggie McCarthy
Mrs Gaskell .... Thelma Whiteley

With James Bryce, Monica Grey, Madi Hedd and Eileen Tully

Music composed by Rachel Portman.

Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1983.

WED 16:00 Archive on 4 (m0001cwc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

WED 17:00 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (m0026mmm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

WED 17:30 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j3k1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

WED 18:00 Radio Cars (m0026mmp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

WED 18:30 The Missing Hancocks (m000cp2n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

WED 19:00 Women Talking About Cars (b083pchj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

WED 19:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j94r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

WED 19:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qlzp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

WED 20:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b087pvqk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

WED 20:30 Tomorrow, Today! (b012b3dy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

WED 21:00 Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (b007jsxp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]

WED 22:00 ReincarNathan (m001f4ys)
Series 3

Wolf

Nathan Blakely was a popstar. But he was useless, died, and was reincarnated. The comedy about Nathan’s adventures in the afterlife returns for a third series, starring Daniel Rigby, Ashley McGuire and guest-starring Mike Wozniak.

In the first episode of the new series, Nathan is brought back to life as the leader of a wolf pack. But there’s a catch - his pack are rubbish and aren’t brave enough to kill anything. Can Nathan transform them into ruthless hunters? And will he ever it make it back to human again?

Cast:
Ashley McGuire - Carol
Daniel Rigby – Nathan
Hammed Animashaun – Bull Elk
Tom Craine – Sniffly Ian
Henry Paker – Lupo
Freya Parker – Wolverina
Mike Wozniak – Wolmenides

Writers: Tom Craine and Henry Paker
Producer: Harriet Jaine
Sound: Jerry Peal
Music Composed by: Phil Lepherd

A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4.

WED 22:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters (m000b867)
Series 2

Rosa and Matthew

A hypnotherapist and an osteopath work a few doors apart, but Rosa and Matthew, find it difficult to express their feelings for each other.

Isy Suttie recounts another love story, told partly through song.

Sometimes Isy has merely observed the lives of others; quite often she's intervened, changing the action dramatically - for better or worse.

Intertwined within these stories are related real life anecdotes from her own, often disastrous, love life.

With her award-winning multi-character and vocal skills, and accompanied by her guitar, Isy creates a hilarious and deeply moving world, sharing with us her lessons in life and love.

Producer: Lyndsay Fenner.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2014.

WED 23:00 Mark Watson and Matt Winning: Seriously, Though, The Planet (m000glpc)
Like almost everyone, multi-award winning comedian Mark Watson has addressed the global climate crisis by dithering and hoping for the best.

Now he teams up with comic and actual environmental scientist Dr Matt Winning, in a last-ditch bid to stave off emergency and save the planet with a mixture of jokes and useful advice.

Mark is coached by Matt on environmental economics. In this episode, the focus is on food - what we should buy, how we can reduce waste and whether broccoli will save us all in the end.

Producer: Lianne Coop

An Impatient production, for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2020.

WED 23:30 Paperback Hell (m000jhmb)
Series 2

How Not To Live

Celebrity lifestyle gurus Gilly Haberdasher and Dr Graham Golden read from their tie-in book to the strangely popular TV show, 'How Not To Live'.

Paperback Hell is the series determined to destroy the good name of literature.

Written by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell.

Starring:

Michael Fenton Stevens
Rebecca Front
Mel Hudson
Alex Lowe
Dan Tetsell

Producer: Lucy Armitage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004.

WED 23:45 Jelly Mountain (b00fd63q)
Episode 1

Ivor Cutler's unique views on language, justice - and scratching people's backs.

Songs and stories written by and starring Ivor Cutler.

With:

Craig Murray-Orr
Dylan Edwards
Beverley Crew
Alison O'Kill

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1996.

THURSDAY 09 JANUARY 2025

THU 00:00 Archive on 4 (m0001cwc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]

THU 01:00 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (m0026mmm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]

THU 01:30 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j3k1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]

THU 02:00 Radio Cars (m0026mmp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]

THU 02:30 The Missing Hancocks (m000cp2n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]

THU 03:00 Women Talking About Cars (b083pchj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Wednesday]

THU 03:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j94r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Wednesday]

THU 03:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qlzp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Wednesday]

THU 04:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b087pvqk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]

THU 04:30 Tomorrow, Today! (b012b3dy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]

THU 05:00 Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (b007jsxp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Wednesday]

THU 06:00 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (m0026mmd)
2. Hangover

California 1939: private detective Philip Marlowe discovers it’s dangerous working for the Sternwood family.

'You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.'

Raymond Chandler's classic of hardboiled crime fiction, introducing the world to Philip Marlowe, published in 1939.

Philip Marlowe .... Ed Bishop
Carmen Sternwood .... Liza Ross
Vivian Regan .... Diana Olsson
Agnes .... Nicolette McKenzie
Bernie Ohls .... Harry Towb
Eddie Mars .... Paul Maxwell
Joe Brody .... Blain Fairman
Carl Lundgren .... Weston Gavin
Taggart Wilde .... Rod Beacham
Cpt Cronjager .... Henry Knowles
Croupier .... Malcolm Gerard
Hood .... Walter Hall

Musical research Adrian Williams.

Dramatised in three parts by Bill Morrison.

Director: John Tydeman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977.

THU 06:30 Whodunnits (b007jp1b)
Father Brown Stories - Series 1

1. The Blue Cross

The cream of London's police force in association with France's finest detective fail to apprehend arch villain Flambeau - the master of disguise.

Their suspicions fall on a tall Roman Catholic priest and they set off in vain pursuit.

However it’s the little English priest who seems to be behaving oddly...

Starring Andrew Sachs and Olivier Pierre.

Series of GK Chesterton's stories about the insightful clerical sleuth.

Dramatised by John Scotney.

Father Brown ........ Andrew Sachs
Flambeau ........ Olivier Pierre
Bagshaw ........ Bill Wallis
Sergeant ........ Alan Thompson
Shopkeeper ........ Ellen McIntosh
Restauranteur ........ Trader Faulkner
Valentine ........ John Abineri
Constable ........ Trevor Nichols
Porter ........ Graham Blockey
Waiter ........ Robin Summers

Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1984.

THU 07:00 Heated Rollers (b007qg19)
Episode 2

A very nosey vicar, life before paternity tests – and Smothering Heights.

The first-ever all-women sketch show made for BBC Radio 2.

Starring:

Lynda Bellingham
Gwyneth Strong
Joanna Monro

With music supplied by the Lorraine Bowen Experience.

Producer: Maria Esposito

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1999.

THU 07:30 Parsley Sidings (b01p47pg)
Series 1

The 1890 Rocket

Station master Horace Hepplewhite decides to renovate his grandfather's rusting old steam engine.

Can he manage to get it back on the rails once more?

Starring Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender.

Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway station.

Horace Hepplewhite …. Arthur Lowe
Bert Hepplewhite …. Ian Lavender
Percy Valentine …. Kenneth Connor
Gloria Simpkins …. Liz Fraser
Phineas Perkins …. John Graham

Recreated announcements by Keith Skues.

Producer: Edward Taylor

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1972.

THU 08:00 55 and Over (b01nxh1h)
2. Love Struck

Ray and Jane are both starting over with new paramours half their age.

Apparently it's not only teenagers that act like love-struck, tongue-tied fools.

Starring Juliet Stevenson and Philip Jackson.

Peter Souter's comedy about love, sex and other foolhardy mistakes made by the modern 50-pluser.

Jane ..... Juliet Stevenson
Ray ..... Philip Jackson
Tony ..... Patrick Brennan
Heather ..... Liza Sadovy
Honey ..... Stephanie Racine
Sam ..... Adam Nagaitis
Honey's Dad ..... Robert Blythe
Portia ..... Sarah Thom

Director: Helen Perry

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012.

THU 08:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j8qy)
4. Unsettling Truths

As Rose becomes acquainted with life in the Moran household, she learns some unsettling truths her new husband.

Michael Moran’s life was forever transformed by his days of glory in the War of Independence. Now, a farmer in the Irish countryside, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past.

However, as he grows older, his wife and daughters must confront how their own lives have been irrevocably shaped by this complicated and contradictory man.

An intimate story of a family living on the Irish border, under the thumb of a former soldier turned tyrant in his own home.

John McGahern was born in Dublin in 1934 and brought up in the West of Ireland. He was a graduate of University College, Dublin. He worked as a primary school teacher and held various academic posts at universities in Britain, Ireland and America. In the opinion of the Observer, John McGahern was 'Ireland's greatest living novelist'. He was the author of six highly acclaimed novels and four collections of short stories, and was the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship, the American-Irish Award, the Prix Etrangère Ecureuil and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Written and Abridged by John McGahern
Read by Lloyd Hutchinson

Produced by Celia de Wolff

A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2020.

THU 08:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qmnq)
9. Truth

Kate Dickens tells the story of her father’s final and unfinished novel, a fast-moving thriller set in the cathedral town of Cloisterham. It is Christmas and all is fine until Edwin - the young man who appears to have it all, a beautiful and charming prospective bride, the promise of an engineering job in Egypt - disappears. Presumed murdered. Could it have been impetuous Neville Landless? Or Edwin’s uncle Jasper?

This episode sees Neville learn the truth of Rosa’s meeting with Jasper, while Dick Datchery and Deputy make an alarming find in the cathedral crypt.

Dickens’ last, unfinished, novel is set in a phantasmagorical drug-fuelled landscape where nobody is who or what they say they are. Whilst writing it, Dickens was driving himself towards exhaustion and death through obsessive public performances of the most lurid parts of Oliver Twist - revisiting his first successful novel whilst struggling with his last, fearful that his creative well is drying up and that this story would never be brought to a close.

Mike Walker’s dramatisation is narrated by Dickens’ daughter Kate, witness to her father’s final weeks, and whose fascination with this story leads her to look into its unsolved conclusion to find clues about her father’s character.

Kate Dickens …... Pippa Nixon
Rosa Bud .….. Isabella Inchbald
Neville Landless ...… Maanuv Thiara
Helena Landless ..…. Halema Hussain
Reverend Crisparkle ..…. Damian Lynch
Hiram Grewgious .….. Peter Davison
Princess Puffer .….. Rachel Atkins
Deputy Winks .….. Aaron Gelkoff
Joe ...… Wilf Scolding

Written by Charles Dickens

Adapted by Mike Walker

Directed by Jeremy Mortimer

A BBC Cymru Wales Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2020.

THU 09:00 Yesterday in Parliament (m0026mmh)
The latest news from Westminster - and beyond.

THU 09:30 Join the Dots (b0952zlf)
4. Playing the Dot

Then there was a pause... Janet Ellis explores the role of the dot in early punctuation, Harold Pinter's love of the pause, and listens to the music of the dots.

The simple dot is one of the first marks man ever made. From being a word we uttered infrequently, the advent of digital has made it one we use all the time.

The dot. We wear it, listen to it, read it and gaze on it. We send it through the air and under the waves. Each programme in this series circles a different aspect of this simple mark.

Contributors include theatre director David Leveaux, writers Keith Huston and Lynne Truss, and composer Gary Yershon.

Harold Pinter extract taken from Penguin Random House audiobook Various Voices, with permission of The Harold Pinter estate.

Producer: Caroline Raphael

A Dora production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.

THU 09:45 Daily Service (m0026mmk)
Epiphany - Baptism

A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.

Theme: Epiphany - Baptism
Presenter: Rachel Mann
Reading: Matthew 3:13-17

THU 10:00 Great Lives (b007vzrt)
Elvis Presley

Former Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate) Lord David Trimble owns every record Elvis ever made.

He explains why to Matthew Parris in a special Great Lives to mark the 30th anniversary of the singer's death, in 1977.

They are joined by Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick.

Producer: Peter Everett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.

THU 11:00 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (m0026mmd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

THU 11:30 Whodunnits (b007jp1b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

THU 12:00 Heated Rollers (b007qg19)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

THU 12:30 Parsley Sidings (b01p47pg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

THU 13:00 55 and Over (b01nxh1h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

THU 13:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j8qy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

THU 13:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qmnq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

THU 14:00 Who Goes There? (b00lbnyx)
Series 2

Episode 6

Martin Young chairs the quiz looking at lives of the noteworthy and notorious from the history books.

Tackling the biographical teasers are team captains Francis Wheen and Fred Housego.

With guests:

Carmen Callil
Victoria Glendinning

Producer: Aled Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1998.

THU 14:30 No Commitments (b037wxhs)
Series 12

Misalliances

Victoria disapproves of her daughter's preference for tying the knot in a register office and Charlotte's previous lover returns. As usual, Anna ends up trying to calm things down

Simon Brett’s sitcom about the lives and squabbles of three very different sisters.

Anna …. Rosemary Leach
Victoria …. Angela Thorne
Charlotte …. Celia Imrie
Roger............Jonathan Coy
Nick...............Kieran Hill
Paddy............Bill Wallis

Music by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Written and produced by Simon Brett

First broadcast on BBC Radio in May 2006.

THU 15:00 Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (b007jsxz)
9. Reviving Hopes and Brightening Prospects

"Dead! Osborne! Poor fellow! " said Mrs Gibson, " I knew it would be so though - I was sure of It. But Mr Gibson can do nothing if he's dead. (Poor young man!) I wonder where Roger is now? He ought to come home."

What will become of Osborne's wife and child?

And is a marriage proposal on the way...?

Conclusion of Elizabeth Gaskell's final novel.

Starring Tom Wilkinson, Kathryn Hurlbutt and Angela Pleasence.

Dramatised by Barry Campbell.

Molly .... Kathryn Hurlbutt
Clare .... Angela Pleasence
Mr Gibson .... Tom Wilkinson
Cynthia .... Anne-Louise Lambert
Squire Hamley .... Robert Lang
Roger Hamley .... Michael Troughton
Lady Harriet .... Marian Diamond
Lady Cumnor .... Pauline Letts
Lord Hollingfold .... Geoffrey Collins
Aimee/Maria .... Eileen Tully
Robinson .... Nigel Graham
Mrs Gaskell .... Thelma Whiteley

Music composed by Rachel Portman

Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1983

THU 16:00 Great Lives (b007vzrt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

THU 17:00 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (m0026mmd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

THU 17:30 Whodunnits (b007jp1b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

THU 18:00 Heated Rollers (b007qg19)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

THU 18:30 Parsley Sidings (b01p47pg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

THU 19:00 55 and Over (b01nxh1h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

THU 19:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j8qy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

THU 19:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qmnq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

THU 20:00 Who Goes There? (b00lbnyx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

THU 20:30 No Commitments (b037wxhs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

THU 21:00 Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (b007jsxz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]

THU 22:00 Michael Spicer: No Room (Omnibus) (m002693w)
4. Goose stepping with a hedge trimmer.

The Tims are tasked with solving gender inequality while another Westminster sex scandal comes to light. Is communicating with the dead better than Google? Probably.

Comedian Michael Spicer exposes the worst of modern life, politics and culture. No Room features an up-to-the-minute take on current events, alongside character-filled sketches which brilliantly capture everything that provokes us.

Michael is famous for his Room Next Door government advisor character whose withering take downs of politicians have amassed more than 100 million views and helped keep his audience sane in fractured times.

This is an omnibus edition of episodes 8 and 10 from series one.

Writer, Performer and Co-Editor: Michael Spicer

Composer and Sound Designer: Augustin Bousfield

Producer: Matt Tiller

A Tillervision production for BBC Radio 4

THU 22:30 Big Town All Stars (m001lr7c)
Series 1

The Perfect Man

You can join a band for a lot of reasons - fame, sex, money. Yet Kenny sees it as his only chance of giving up teaching geography.

Bozo's boxing break means a rock 'n' roll replacement is needed for the struggling a cappella group.

When auditions are held - there's not much interest. Can they recruit a new member - or persuade Bozo back from the big fight?

Starring Stephen Tompkinson.

With:

Clive Rowe
Meera Syal
Nicola Walker
Adrian Scarborough

Musical Director: David Firman

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2000.

THU 23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b04wv049)
Series 6

Roy Walker

Marcus Brigstocke persuades Roy Walker to see his first ever Shakespeare play and banter with the audience for the first time.

Roy is best known as the host of ITVs Catchphrase.

Series persuading guests to try new experiences: things they really ought to have done by now. Some are loved, some are loathed, in this show all about embracing the new.

Director: Bill Dare

First broadcast on BBC Radio in January 2015.

THU 23:30 Beauty of Britain (b00n0prf)
Series 1

Seagulls Over Sue Ryder

Beauty Olonga works as a carer for the Featherdown Agency and sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls hoping to achieve their goals in the land of semi-skimmed milk.

See Britain through her eyes - its overheated houses, its disappointing church services and its over-fondness for cauliflower cheese.

In this opening episode, Beauty discovers the glories of Weston-super-Mare's charity shops and experiences the disappointment of her first British funeral.

Starring Jocelyn Jee Esien.

Comedy by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson.

Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien
Mr Collinson ...... Malcolm Tierney
Jill ...... Pippa Haywood
Sally ...... Felicity Montagu
Karen/Bus Driver/Shop Assistant ...... Nicola Sanderson
Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi
Anil ...... Paul Sharma
Derek/Waiter/Church Reader ...... Christopher Douglas
Minister ...... Dan Tetsell

Music by The West End Gospel Choir.

Producer: Tilusha Ghelani

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.

FRIDAY 10 JANUARY 2025

FRI 00:00 Great Lives (b007vzrt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]

FRI 01:00 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (m0026mmd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]

FRI 01:30 Whodunnits (b007jp1b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]

FRI 02:00 Heated Rollers (b007qg19)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]

FRI 02:30 Parsley Sidings (b01p47pg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday]

FRI 03:00 55 and Over (b01nxh1h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Thursday]

FRI 03:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j8qy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Thursday]

FRI 03:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qmnq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Thursday]

FRI 04:00 Who Goes There? (b00lbnyx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]

FRI 04:30 No Commitments (b037wxhs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]

FRI 05:00 Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (b007jsxz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Thursday]

FRI 06:00 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (m0026mrc)
3. What Did It Matter?

California 1939: can private detective Philip Marlowe survive trying to protect Sternwood's reckless daughters?

'What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.'

Raymond Chandler's classic of hardboiled crime fiction, introducing the world to Philip Marlowe, published in 1939.

Philip Marlowe .... Ed Bishop
General Sternwood .... Robert Beatty
Carmen Sternwood .... Liza Ross
Vivian Regan .... Diana Olsson
Agnes .... Nicolette McKenzie
Harry Jones .... Don Fellows
Canino .... Peter Marinker
Mona .... Irene Sutcliffe
Capt Cronjager .... Henry Knowles
Art Huck .... Malcolm Gerard

Musical research Adrian Williams.

Dramatised in three parts by Bill Morrison.

Director: John Tydeman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977.

FRI 06:30 Whodunnits (b00y25xk)
Father Brown Stories - Series 1

2. The Queer Feet

Death in a small hotel.

Who stole the silver fish service? How many waiters are there? And how did all this lead to a glimmer of repentance?

Starring Andrew Sachs and Olivier Pierre.

Series of GK Chesterton's stories about the insightful clerical sleuth.

Dramatised by John Scotney.

Father Brown ........ Andrew Sachs
Flambeau ........ Olivier Pierre
Colonel ........ Matt Brenner
Duke ........ Christopher Scott
Hector ........ Kerry Shale
Lever ........ David Graeme
Giovanni ........ Arnold Diamond
Jean-Pierre ........ Robin Summers
Doctor ........ David Sinclair
Audley ........ Alan Thompson

Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1984.

FRI 07:00 Up the Garden Path (b0085k01)
Series 2

The More the Merrier

Charles learns of Izzy's torrid past, when her friends join them for a holiday.

Tumbling from one love entanglement to another, 30 something teacher Izzy Comyn has a predilection for inappropriate men.

Imelda Staunton stars as Izzy.

An 8-part radio sequel adapted from Sue Limb’s 1984 novel. The second of 3 series which ran from 1987 to 1993. Granada also adapted the series for ITV.

Izzy ...... Imelda Staunton
Charles ...... David Robb
Dick ...... Mike Grady
Bill ...... Neil McCaul
Maria ...... Marty Cruickshank
Gwyn ...... Dafydd Hywel
Michael ...... Nicholas Le Prevost
Louise ...... Phyllida Nash

Producer: Jonathan James-Moore

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1988.

FRI 07:30 Doctor in the House (b007m680)
Women and Wine

Medic Simon Sparrow's efforts to get a date for the hospital ball turn to chaos.

The misadventures of student doctor, Simon Sparrow.

Starring Richard Briers.

Adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's 'Doctor in the House' published in 1952.

Simon Sparrow …. Richard Briers
Sir Lancelot Spratt …. Geoffrey Sumner
Tony Benskin …. Ray Cooney
Taffy Evans …. Edward Cast
Lady Spratt …. Joan Young
Matron/Vera …. Norma Ronald

Producer: David Hatch

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1968.

FRI 08:00 Prepper (m0002b8v)
Series 1

Hell Is Other People

Trump. ISIS. The Courgette Crisis. Signs of civilisation’s fragility are all around. No wonder the Doomsday Clock just nudged closer to midnight. In this fearscape, more and more ordinary people are wondering how they’d cope if everything we take for granted (law and order, access to healthcare, iceberg lettuces in Sainsburys) was taken away.

Preppers - a large and rapidly growing global community - have taken this thought one step further. They’re actively skilling-up, laying down supplies and readying themselves for the end of the world, in whatever form it comes. Indeed, a prepping shop just opened in Newquay. And if people in Cornwall are prepping, it’s time to worry.

Imagine if Woman’s Hour made a podcast about preparing for the end times. Prepper follows neurotic, debt-ridden Rachel and hard-as-nails ‘Churchill in Spanx’ Sylvia, working class Mancunians who prep and podcast, sharing knowledge with their community, and showing off just how Armageddon-ready they are.

Told through their podcasts from Sylvia’s garage and featuring ‘apoco-tips’, ‘end of days drills’ and interviews with preppers from around the world, Prepper comically explores how two mismatched women live with the possibility of the end of days, and how they bond over their determination to survive. And fend off zombies.

In this episode - survival courses are road tested!

Comedy written by Caroline Moran and James J. Moran

Sylvia ...... Sue Johnston
Rachel ...... Pearl Mackie
Calhoun ...... Simon Holland Roberts

Producer: Steve Doherty

A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2019.

FRI 08:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j9k3)
5. Future Planning

As Sheila and Mona study for the exams, Moran finds his authority challenged.

Michael Moran’s life was forever transformed by his days of glory in the War of Independence. Now, a farmer in the Irish countryside, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past.

However, as he grows older, his wife and daughters must confront how their own lives have been irrevocably shaped by this complicated and contradictory man.

An intimate story of a family living on the Irish border, under the thumb of a former soldier turned tyrant in his own home.

Written and Abridged by John McGahern
Read by Lloyd Hutchinson

Produced by Celia de Wolff

A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2020.

FRI 08:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qnjd)
10. Cathedral Tower

Kate Dickens tells the story of her father’s final and unfinished novel, a fast-moving thriller set in the cathedral town of Cloisterham. It is Christmas and all is fine until Edwin - the young man who appears to have it all, a beautiful and charming prospective bride, the promise of an engineering job in Egypt - disappears. Presumed murdered. Could it have been impetuous Neville Landless? Or Edwin’s uncle Jasper?

This episode sees Jasper’s plans come to a head as the climax to the story is played out at the top of the cathedral tower.

Dickens’ last, unfinished, novel is set in a phantasmagorical drug-fuelled landscape where nobody is who or what they say they are. Whilst writing it, Dickens was driving himself towards exhaustion and death through obsessive public performances of the most lurid parts of Oliver Twist - revisiting his first successful novel whilst struggling with his last, fearful that his creative well is drying up and that this story would never be brought to a close.

Mike Walker’s dramatisation is narrated by Dickens’ daughter Kate, witness to her father’s final weeks, and whose fascination with this story leads her to look into its unsolved conclusion to find clues about her father’s character.

Kate Dickens ...… Pippa Nixon
John Jasper ...… Joel McCormack
Rosa Bud ...… Isabella Inchbald
Neville Landless ...… Maanuv Thiara
Helena Landless ...… Halema Hussain
Reverend Crisparkle .….. Damian Lynch
Deputy Winks ...… Aaron Gelkoff
Station Master ...… Wilf Scolding

Written by Charles Dickens

Adapted by Mike Walker

Directed by Jeremy Mortimer

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

FRI 09:00 Yesterday in Parliament (m001zvc9)
The latest news from Westminster - and beyond.

FRI 09:30 Join the Dots (b09534h0)
5. The Dancing Dot

Janet Ellis explores our love affair with the polka-dot and what it says about us.

The simple dot is one of the first marks man ever made. From being a word we uttered infrequently, the advent of digital has made it one we use all the time.

The dot. We wear it, listen to it, read it and gaze on it. We send it through the air and under the waves. Each programme in this series circles a different aspect of this simple mark.

Contributors include film and TV costume designer Leonie Hartard, designer Cressida Bell, and a clown, Mattie Faint.

Producer: Caroline Raphael

A Dora production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.

FRI 09:45 Daily Service (m0026mrf)
Epiphany - Now Go and Tell

A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.

Theme: Epiphany - Now Go and Tell
Presenter: Leslie Griffiths
Reading: Matthew 28: 16-20

Music:
Go forth and tell - Winchester Cathedral Choir
I cannot tell - Jonathan Veira
Go tell it on the mountain - The Kingdom Choir

FRI 10:00 Soul Music (b04p845x)
Series 19

Plaisir d'Amour/Can't Help Falling in Love With You

Marianne Faithfull recalls the classical French Love song which went on to inspire a 1960s hit record by Elvis Presley.

'Plaisir d'Amour' somehow found its way through 18th century orchestration (Hector Berlioz) and 1960's folk revival, to an unexpected re-invention as Elvis’s 'I Can't' Help Falling in Love with You'.

Written in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, the song muses on the pleasures and pains of love and was inspired by a poem in Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian's novel 'Célestine'.

For 17 year old Marianne Faithfull it was a song of innocence, recorded in a tiny booth in London’s old Decca studios whilst happily pregnant with her first child.

Meanwhile, author Julia Donaldson and husband Malcolm busked it on the streets of Paris. This was in the summer of 1969 and police hid in alleyways, still fearful of students following the 1968 riots.

Inspired by Elvis, West Point Military Academy Freshman Andrew Scott learnt to pick the tune on guitar – helping him win the heart of his wife.

For Henry and Christine Wallace, it summed everything up "It was what I was looking for, someone to share my life and the words 'take my whole life too was in tune with what I wanted'.

Producer: Nicola Humphries

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014.

FRI 10:30 Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero (b00rmrpt)
Nitin Sawhney explores the life of the Indian musician Ravi Shankar.

Ravi Shankar is one of the greatest musicians the world has ever seen. In the West his outstanding career has sometimes been overshadowed by his brief association with the Beatles but he has been performing and composing at the highest level for over 70 years.

The man who first brought Indian classical music to an international audience was once compared to Mozart by the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin. But it wasn't an easy journey to success - it took an arduous process of study and practice. Fellow musician and fan Nitin Sawhney meets his hero to discuss how he did it.

With contributions from: Ravi Shankar's daughter Anoushka, one of India's biggest music stars Zakir Hussain, George Harrison's wife Olivia, The Who's Pete Townshend and music historian Ken Hunt.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.

FRI 11:00 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (m0026mrc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

FRI 11:30 Whodunnits (b00y25xk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

FRI 12:00 Up the Garden Path (b0085k01)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

FRI 12:30 Doctor in the House (b007m680)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

FRI 13:00 Prepper (m0002b8v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

FRI 13:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j9k3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

FRI 13:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qnjd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

FRI 14:00 The Motion Show (b0075rh9)
Series 1

Episode 2

The merits of moving to America - and being famous.

Dr Phil Hammond watches over proceedings in the quirky debating game.

With:

Steve Punt
John O'Farrell
Derek Draper
Rhona Cameron

Producer: Helen Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1998.

FRI 14:30 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.

FRI 15:00 Ice Blonde by Nancy Crane (m0026mrh)
A woman's place in crime fiction is between hard covers, and Eunice Parker's big break comes when The Writer chooses her as the Private Eye to track down his tough-guy Detective.

Stepping into the wise-cracking, hard-slapping role of Eunice, Juliet Aubrey sets out in search of the iconic PI played by David Soul but there are a dozen twists and a dangerous temptress before her task is complete.

Written by Nancy Crane.

The Detective .... David Soul
Eunice Parker .... Juliet Aubrey
Vera di Nova .... Alexa Hamilton
The Wife .... Nancy Crane
Captain Boote/Tiny .... Glenn Conroy
Sonny .... Bob Sherman
Eddie Nomura/ Chou Yi/Bongo Teacher .... Adam Sims

Piano and Bongos played by Neil Brand.

Director: Ned Chaillet

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2002.

FRI 16:00 Soul Music (b04p845x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

FRI 16:30 Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero (b00rmrpt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

FRI 17:00 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (m0026mrc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

FRI 17:30 Whodunnits (b00y25xk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

FRI 18:00 Up the Garden Path (b0085k01)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

FRI 18:30 Doctor in the House (b007m680)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

FRI 19:00 Prepper (m0002b8v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

FRI 19:30 Amongst Women by John McGahern (m000j9k3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

FRI 19:45 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (m000qnjd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

FRI 20:00 The Motion Show (b0075rh9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

FRI 20:30 1834 (b011db7v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

FRI 21:00 Ice Blonde by Nancy Crane (m0026mrh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]

FRI 22:00 What? Seriously?? (m0026mrk)
Suits, Shells, and Survival

In this episode, Dara and Isy are joined by the astronaut Helen Sharman to learn about how humans learned to survive in space - with some diverting conversations about glitter, cat statues, hibernation, and shell suits.

What? Seriously?? is a new podcast which combines comedy with quirky history, hosted by Dara Ó Briain and Isy Suttie, who will unravel an extraordinary real-life tale each week with the help of a celebrity guest

Dara and Isy unearth stories that are definitely true, but also kind of unbelievable at the same time - the sort of stories that make you go ‘What? Seriously??’ when you hear them, but you resolve to tell them in the pub the first chance you get. The twist is that Dara and Isy have absolutely no idea how these strange-but-true tales will unfold and we’ll all be trying to figure it out together – or Dara and Isy will just go off on funny flights of fancy that are tangentially related to the story. They will be drip-fed the nuggets of narrative by a special guest expert who might just know something about the subject.

Across the series they will be joined by I’m A Celeb winner Georgia Toffolo, the Aussie comedian Rhys Nicholson, the broadcaster Stuart Maconie, Master Chef star Louisa Ellis, Miles from The Traitors, the comedian Richard Herring, the astronaut Helen Sharman, and Slow Horses star Chris Chung.

‘What? Seriously??’ with Dara Ó Briain and Isy Suttie and special guest Helen Sharman.
Story compiled by Gareth Edwards and Dan Page.
Producer: Laura Grimshaw
Executive Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

FRI 22:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b00s782k)
Series 2

Gateshead

Comedian Mark Steel returns to visit more UK towns to discover what makes them and their inhabitants distinctive.

He creates a bespoke stand-up show for each town and performs the show in front of a local audience.

As well as shedding light on the less visited areas of Britain, Mark uncovers stories and experiences that resonate with us all as we recognise the quirkiness of the British way of life and the rich tapestry of remarkable events and people who have shaped where we live.

Mark travels to Gateshead to perform to locals who under no circumstances want their town to be confused with Newcastle. Whilst up there Mark enjoys a memorable night out in a local pub; a telling-off in the Baltic Art Gallery, a visit to the Angel of The North and an ugly car park that some people want to preserve because of its role in a grisly murder.

Written by Mark Steel.

With additional material by Pete Sinclair.

Producer: Julia McKenzie.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2010.

FRI 23:00 Meet David Sedaris (b08x9f9t)
Series 6

Of Mice and Men; A Can of Worms

The globetrotting, trash-picking, aisle-rolling storyteller shares more words of wit and wisdom:

* Urban myths, the truth and what it means to be called a liar in Of Mice and Men.

* A Can of Worms, a story about overheard conversations and the right way to eat pie.

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

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

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

Producer: Steve Doherty

A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2017.

FRI 23:30 The Wilsons Save the World (m000p1h5)
Series 3

Wellness

After months of not seeing each other, the Wilsons are getting a socially distanced visit from Grandma and Pop-pops.

Jennifer has spent lockdown learning about inner peace and the use of products from a company called Awww Well.

Although Jennifer has never met her rep Amanda, she feels invigorated by the SPF1 suntan lotion, bath vinegar and the ‘healing’ whatsapp group. Mike is suspicious.

Grandma Pauline has been building her well being empire and is running the operation from department store Wi-Fi. What could go wrong?

Sitcom about trying to live ethically and do the right thing.

Written by Marcus Brigstocke and Sarah Morgan.

Mike ...... Marcus Brigstocke
Max ...... Kerry Godliman
Cat ...... Aine McNamara
Lola ...... Jasmine Sakyiama
Jennifer ...... Vicki Pepperdine
Phillip ...... Rupert Vansittart
Pauline ...... Liza Tarbuck

Producer: Suzy Grant

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2020.

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

1834 04:30 SAT (b01137b8)

1834 14:30 FRI (b011db7v)

1834 20:30 FRI (b011db7v)

55 and Over 08:00 THU (b01nxh1h)

55 and Over 13:00 THU (b01nxh1h)

55 and Over 19:00 THU (b01nxh1h)

55 and Over 03:00 FRI (b01nxh1h)

A Good Read 10:00 TUE (b09v3fdw)

A Good Read 16:00 TUE (b09v3fdw)

A Good Read 00:00 WED (b09v3fdw)

Ahir Shah's Seven Blunders of the World 22:00 TUE (m00268zs)

Alice's Wunderland 22:30 MON (b01l8n82)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 08:30 MON (m000j78k)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 13:30 MON (m000j78k)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 19:30 MON (m000j78k)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 03:30 TUE (m000j78k)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 08:30 TUE (m000j80c)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 13:30 TUE (m000j80c)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 19:30 TUE (m000j80c)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 03:30 WED (m000j80c)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 08:30 WED (m000j94r)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 13:30 WED (m000j94r)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 19:30 WED (m000j94r)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 03:30 THU (m000j94r)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 08:30 THU (m000j8qy)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 13:30 THU (m000j8qy)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 19:30 THU (m000j8qy)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 03:30 FRI (m000j8qy)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 08:30 FRI (m000j9k3)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 13:30 FRI (m000j9k3)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 19:30 FRI (m000j9k3)

Archive on 4 10:00 WED (m0001cwc)

Archive on 4 16:00 WED (m0001cwc)

Archive on 4 00:00 THU (m0001cwc)

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) 07:30 SUN (m0026mbw)

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) 12:30 SUN (m0026mbw)

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) 18:30 SUN (m0026mbw)

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) 02:30 MON (m0026mbw)

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around the Shipping Forecast 03:30 SAT (b0176pbp)

Beauty of Britain 23:30 THU (b00n0prf)

Beyond Our Ken 10:00 SUN (b0blvt1m)

Beyond Our Ken 15:00 SUN (b0blvt1m)

Beyond Our Ken 21:00 SUN (b0blvt1m)

Beyond Our Ken 05:00 MON (b0blvt1m)

Big Town All Stars 22:30 THU (m001lr7c)

Booked 14:00 TUE (b0075m77)

Booked 20:00 TUE (b0075m77)

Booked 04:00 WED (b0075m77)

Cabin Pressure 14:30 TUE (b00cb5k4)

Cabin Pressure 20:30 TUE (b00cb5k4)

Cabin Pressure 04:30 WED (b00cb5k4)

Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) 08:50 SUN (m0026mc0)

Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) 13:50 SUN (m0026mc0)

Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) 19:50 SUN (m0026mc0)

Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) 03:50 MON (m0026mc0)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 08:00 TUE (m000rvkz)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 13:00 TUE (m000rvkz)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 19:00 TUE (m000rvkz)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 03:00 WED (m000rvkz)

Dad Made Me Laugh 10:00 MON (b007k1mb)

Dad Made Me Laugh 16:00 MON (b007k1mb)

Dad Made Me Laugh 00:00 TUE (b007k1mb)

Daily Service 09:45 MON (m0026mbp)

Daily Service 09:45 TUE (m0026mjg)

Daily Service 09:45 WED (m0026mmt)

Daily Service 09:45 THU (m0026mmk)

Daily Service 09:45 FRI (m0026mrf)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 06:45 SUN (b0106x58)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 11:45 SUN (b0106x58)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 17:45 SUN (b0106x58)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 01:45 MON (b0106x58)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 06:00 SUN (m0026mbr)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 11:00 SUN (m0026mbr)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 17:00 SUN (m0026mbr)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 01:00 MON (m0026mbr)

Doctor in the House 02:30 SAT (b007lmys)

Doctor in the House 07:30 FRI (b007m680)

Doctor in the House 12:30 FRI (b007m680)

Doctor in the House 18:30 FRI (b007m680)

Electric Ink 22:30 SUN (b01jrt6d)

Fear on 4 16:00 SUN (m0026mc4)

Fear on 4 00:00 MON (m0026mc4)

Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) 07:30 SAT (m000v6zk)

Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) 12:30 SAT (m000v6zk)

Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) 18:30 SAT (m000v6zk)

Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) 02:30 SUN (m000v6zk)

Girlies 07:00 TUE (b08hypz0)

Girlies 12:00 TUE (b08hypz0)

Girlies 18:00 TUE (b08hypz0)

Girlies 02:00 WED (b08hypz0)

Great Lives 10:00 THU (b007vzrt)

Great Lives 16:00 THU (b007vzrt)

Great Lives 00:00 FRI (b007vzrt)

Growing Pains 10:00 SAT (m0008y79)

Growing Pains 15:00 SAT (m0008y79)

Growing Pains 21:00 SAT (m0008y79)

Growing Pains 05:00 SUN (m0008y79)

Heated Rollers 07:00 THU (b007qg19)

Heated Rollers 12:00 THU (b007qg19)

Heated Rollers 18:00 THU (b007qg19)

Heated Rollers 02:00 FRI (b007qg19)

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 09:00 MON (m00269cl)

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 22:00 MON (m00269cl)

I've Never Seen Star Wars 23:00 THU (b04wv049)

Ice Blonde by Nancy Crane 15:00 FRI (m0026mrh)

Ice Blonde by Nancy Crane 21:00 FRI (m0026mrh)

In and Out of the Kitchen 08:00 MON (b068vymj)

In and Out of the Kitchen 13:00 MON (b068vymj)

In and Out of the Kitchen 19:00 MON (b068vymj)

In and Out of the Kitchen 03:00 TUE (b068vymj)

Inheritance Tracks 08:40 SUN (m0026mby)

Inheritance Tracks 13:40 SUN (m0026mby)

Inheritance Tracks 19:40 SUN (m0026mby)

Inheritance Tracks 03:40 MON (m0026mby)

Inner Voices 08:45 SAT (m0026mcn)

Inner Voices 13:45 SAT (m0026mcn)

Inner Voices 19:45 SAT (m0026mcn)

Inner Voices 03:45 SUN (m0026mcn)

Isy Suttie's Love Letters 22:30 WED (m000b867)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 09:30 SAT (b007k0kz)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 14:30 SAT (b007k0kz)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 20:30 SAT (b007k0kz)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 04:30 SUN (b007k0kz)

Jelly Mountain 23:45 WED (b00fd63q)

Join the Dots 09:30 MON (b0952b9y)

Join the Dots 09:30 TUE (b0952qpx)

Join the Dots 09:30 WED (b0952sv2)

Join the Dots 09:30 THU (b0952zlf)

Join the Dots 09:30 FRI (b09534h0)

Just a Minute 14:00 MON (b00r0qw3)

Just a Minute 20:00 MON (b00r0qw3)

Just a Minute 04:00 TUE (b00r0qw3)

Len Deighton - XPD 01:30 SAT (m000j1yg)

Len Deighton - XPD 06:30 MON (m000j35p)

Len Deighton - XPD 11:30 MON (m000j35p)

Len Deighton - XPD 17:30 MON (m000j35p)

Len Deighton - XPD 01:30 TUE (m000j35p)

Len Deighton - XPD 06:30 TUE (m000j2hk)

Len Deighton - XPD 11:30 TUE (m000j2hk)

Len Deighton - XPD 17:30 TUE (m000j2hk)

Len Deighton - XPD 01:30 WED (m000j2hk)

Len Deighton - XPD 06:30 WED (m000j3k1)

Len Deighton - XPD 11:30 WED (m000j3k1)

Len Deighton - XPD 17:30 WED (m000j3k1)

Len Deighton - XPD 01:30 THU (m000j3k1)

Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself 23:00 SUN (b04hvy0q)

Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World 23:30 TUE (b007jtql)

Listen Against 22:00 SUN (b016ljj6)

Mark Steel's in Town 22:30 FRI (b00s782k)

Mark Watson and Matt Winning: Seriously, Though, The Planet 23:00 WED (m000glpc)

Meet David Sedaris 23:00 FRI (b08x9f9t)

Michael Spicer: No Room (Omnibus) 22:00 THU (m002693w)

Mr Willow's Wife 09:00 SAT (m000pmdt)

Mr Willow's Wife 14:00 SAT (m000pmdt)

Mr Willow's Wife 20:00 SAT (m000pmdt)

Mr Willow's Wife 04:00 SUN (m000pmdt)

My Teenage Diary 23:00 SAT (b07gfjhm)

No Commitments 14:30 THU (b037wxhs)

No Commitments 20:30 THU (b037wxhs)

No Commitments 04:30 FRI (b037wxhs)

Old Harry's Game 23:30 MON (b007k1xw)

Paperback Hell 23:30 WED (m000jhmb)

Parsley Sidings 07:30 THU (b01p47pg)

Parsley Sidings 12:30 THU (b01p47pg)

Parsley Sidings 18:30 THU (b01p47pg)

Parsley Sidings 02:30 FRI (b01p47pg)

Poetry Extra 07:00 SUN (m0026mbt)

Poetry Extra 12:00 SUN (m0026mbt)

Poetry Extra 18:00 SUN (m0026mbt)

Poetry Extra 02:00 MON (m0026mbt)

Prepper 03:00 SAT (m00026x2)

Prepper 08:00 FRI (m0002b8v)

Prepper 13:00 FRI (m0002b8v)

Prepper 19:00 FRI (m0002b8v)

Radio Cars 07:00 WED (m0026mmp)

Radio Cars 12:00 WED (m0026mmp)

Radio Cars 18:00 WED (m0026mmp)

Radio Cars 02:00 THU (m0026mmp)

Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero 10:30 FRI (b00rmrpt)

Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero 16:30 FRI (b00rmrpt)

ReincarNathan 22:00 WED (m001f4ys)

Rob Newman 22:30 SAT (b0bh5hp2)

Safety Catch 23:30 SUN (b00fgq18)

Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy 22:30 TUE (b0bfz5jy)

Simon Bovey - Cold Blood 16:30 SUN (b007jv38)

Simon Bovey - Cold Blood 00:30 MON (b007jv38)

Soul Music 00:00 SAT (m001fcf6)

Soul Music 10:00 FRI (b04p845x)

Soul Music 16:00 FRI (b04p845x)

Syrena Songs 10:30 MON (b06vkcf6)

Syrena Songs 16:30 MON (b06vkcf6)

Syrena Songs 00:30 TUE (b06vkcf6)

Take It From Here 10:30 SUN (b01nrmxs)

Take It From Here 15:30 SUN (b01nrmxs)

Take It From Here 21:30 SUN (b01nrmxs)

Take It From Here 05:30 MON (b01nrmxs)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 06:00 WED (m0026mmm)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 11:00 WED (m0026mmm)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 17:00 WED (m0026mmm)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 01:00 THU (m0026mmm)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 06:00 THU (m0026mmd)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 11:00 THU (m0026mmd)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 17:00 THU (m0026mmd)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 01:00 FRI (m0026mmd)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 06:00 FRI (m0026mrc)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 11:00 FRI (m0026mrc)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 17:00 FRI (m0026mrc)

The Danube Ain't Blue, It's Green 00:30 SAT (b07ws0dy)

The Goon Show 07:30 TUE (m0026mjb)

The Goon Show 12:30 TUE (m0026mjb)

The Goon Show 18:30 TUE (m0026mjb)

The Goon Show 02:30 WED (m0026mjb)

The House of the Spirit Levels 07:00 MON (b007n1wk)

The House of the Spirit Levels 12:00 MON (b007n1wk)

The House of the Spirit Levels 18:00 MON (b007n1wk)

The House of the Spirit Levels 02:00 TUE (b007n1wk)

The Inn by Guy de Maupassant 16:00 SAT (b09rbpy5)

The Inn by Guy de Maupassant 00:00 SUN (b09rbpy5)

The Missing Hancocks 07:30 WED (m000cp2n)

The Missing Hancocks 12:30 WED (m000cp2n)

The Missing Hancocks 18:30 WED (m000cp2n)

The Missing Hancocks 02:30 THU (m000cp2n)

The Motion Show 04:00 SAT (b0075rbl)

The Motion Show 14:00 FRI (b0075rh9)

The Motion Show 20:00 FRI (b0075rh9)

The Museum of Curiosity 14:00 WED (b087pvqk)

The Museum of Curiosity 20:00 WED (b087pvqk)

The Museum of Curiosity 04:00 THU (b087pvqk)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 SAT (m000qjd3)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 MON (m000qls1)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 MON (m000qls1)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 MON (m000qls1)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 TUE (m000qls1)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 TUE (m000qlwn)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 TUE (m000qlwn)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 TUE (m000qlwn)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 WED (m000qlwn)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 WED (m000qlzp)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 WED (m000qlzp)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 WED (m000qlzp)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 THU (m000qlzp)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 THU (m000qmnq)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 THU (m000qmnq)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 THU (m000qmnq)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 FRI (m000qmnq)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 FRI (m000qnjd)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 FRI (m000qnjd)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 FRI (m000qnjd)

The News Quiz 23:00 MON (m002695x)

The Remains of Foley and McColl 23:30 SAT (b007k4p6)

The Wilsons Save the World 23:30 FRI (m000p1h5)

Tomorrow, Today! 14:30 WED (b012b3dy)

Tomorrow, Today! 20:30 WED (b012b3dy)

Tomorrow, Today! 04:30 THU (b012b3dy)

Too Much Information 14:30 MON (b00n88d3)

Too Much Information 20:30 MON (b00n88d3)

Too Much Information 04:30 TUE (b00n88d3)

Trevor's World of Sport 23:00 TUE (b007s2bx)

Up the Garden Path 02:00 SAT (b0084qnz)

Up the Garden Path 07:00 FRI (b0085k01)

Up the Garden Path 12:00 FRI (b0085k01)

Up the Garden Path 18:00 FRI (b0085k01)

Variety Bandbox 07:30 MON (m0026mbl)

Variety Bandbox 12:30 MON (m0026mbl)

Variety Bandbox 18:30 MON (m0026mbl)

Variety Bandbox 02:30 TUE (m0026mbl)

Welcome to Wherever You Are 22:00 SAT (m00070jt)

What? Seriously?? 22:00 FRI (m0026mrk)

Who Goes There? 14:00 THU (b00lbnyx)

Who Goes There? 20:00 THU (b00lbnyx)

Who Goes There? 04:00 FRI (b00lbnyx)

Whodunnits 01:00 SAT (b007jvlr)

Whodunnits 06:00 MON (b007jvm7)

Whodunnits 11:00 MON (b007jvm7)

Whodunnits 17:00 MON (b007jvm7)

Whodunnits 01:00 TUE (b007jvm7)

Whodunnits 06:00 TUE (b007jvmb)

Whodunnits 11:00 TUE (b007jvmb)

Whodunnits 17:00 TUE (b007jvmb)

Whodunnits 01:00 WED (b007jvmb)

Whodunnits 06:30 THU (b007jp1b)

Whodunnits 11:30 THU (b007jp1b)

Whodunnits 17:30 THU (b007jp1b)

Whodunnits 01:30 FRI (b007jp1b)

Whodunnits 06:30 FRI (b00y25xk)

Whodunnits 11:30 FRI (b00y25xk)

Whodunnits 17:30 FRI (b00y25xk)

Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys 10:30 TUE (b017528q)

Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys 16:30 TUE (b017528q)

Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys 00:30 WED (b017528q)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 05:00 SAT (b007jsx2)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 15:00 MON (b007jsx9)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 21:00 MON (b007jsx9)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 05:00 TUE (b007jsx9)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 15:00 TUE (b007jsxh)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 21:00 TUE (b007jsxh)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 05:00 WED (b007jsxh)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 15:00 WED (b007jsxp)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 21:00 WED (b007jsxp)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 05:00 THU (b007jsxp)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 15:00 THU (b007jsxz)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 21:00 THU (b007jsxz)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 05:00 FRI (b007jsxz)

Women Talking About Cars 08:00 WED (b083pchj)

Women Talking About Cars 13:00 WED (b083pchj)

Women Talking About Cars 19:00 WED (b083pchj)

Women Talking About Cars 03:00 THU (b083pchj)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 TUE (m0026mjd)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 WED (m0026mmr)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 THU (m0026mmh)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 FRI (m001zvc9)

Young Coleridge 06:00 SAT (b00828lq)

Young Coleridge 11:00 SAT (b00828lq)

Young Coleridge 17:00 SAT (b00828lq)

Young Coleridge 01:00 SUN (b00828lq)

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

Comedy

Alice's Wunderland 22:30 MON (b01l8n82)

Beyond Our Ken 10:00 SUN (b0blvt1m)

Beyond Our Ken 15:00 SUN (b0blvt1m)

Beyond Our Ken 21:00 SUN (b0blvt1m)

Beyond Our Ken 05:00 MON (b0blvt1m)

Dad Made Me Laugh 10:00 MON (b007k1mb)

Dad Made Me Laugh 16:00 MON (b007k1mb)

Dad Made Me Laugh 00:00 TUE (b007k1mb)

Girlies 07:00 TUE (b08hypz0)

Girlies 12:00 TUE (b08hypz0)

Girlies 18:00 TUE (b08hypz0)

Girlies 02:00 WED (b08hypz0)

Isy Suttie's Love Letters 22:30 WED (m000b867)

The House of the Spirit Levels 07:00 MON (b007n1wk)

The House of the Spirit Levels 12:00 MON (b007n1wk)

The House of the Spirit Levels 18:00 MON (b007n1wk)

The House of the Spirit Levels 02:00 TUE (b007n1wk)

The Remains of Foley and McColl 23:30 SAT (b007k4p6)

Comedy: Character

Inner Voices 08:45 SAT (m0026mcn)

Inner Voices 13:45 SAT (m0026mcn)

Inner Voices 19:45 SAT (m0026mcn)

Inner Voices 03:45 SUN (m0026mcn)

Comedy: Chat

I've Never Seen Star Wars 23:00 THU (b04wv049)

Mark Watson and Matt Winning: Seriously, Though, The Planet 23:00 WED (m000glpc)

My Teenage Diary 23:00 SAT (b07gfjhm)

What? Seriously?? 22:00 FRI (m0026mrk)

Women Talking About Cars 08:00 WED (b083pchj)

Women Talking About Cars 13:00 WED (b083pchj)

Women Talking About Cars 19:00 WED (b083pchj)

Women Talking About Cars 03:00 THU (b083pchj)

Comedy: Music

Heated Rollers 07:00 THU (b007qg19)

Heated Rollers 12:00 THU (b007qg19)

Heated Rollers 18:00 THU (b007qg19)

Heated Rollers 02:00 FRI (b007qg19)

Comedy: Panel Shows

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 09:00 MON (m00269cl)

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue 22:00 MON (m00269cl)

Just a Minute 14:00 MON (b00r0qw3)

Just a Minute 20:00 MON (b00r0qw3)

Just a Minute 04:00 TUE (b00r0qw3)

The Motion Show 04:00 SAT (b0075rbl)

The Motion Show 14:00 FRI (b0075rh9)

The Motion Show 20:00 FRI (b0075rh9)

The Museum of Curiosity 14:00 WED (b087pvqk)

The Museum of Curiosity 20:00 WED (b087pvqk)

The Museum of Curiosity 04:00 THU (b087pvqk)

The News Quiz 23:00 MON (m002695x)

Comedy: Satire

Electric Ink 22:30 SUN (b01jrt6d)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 09:30 SAT (b007k0kz)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 14:30 SAT (b007k0kz)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 20:30 SAT (b007k0kz)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 04:30 SUN (b007k0kz)

Listen Against 22:00 SUN (b016ljj6)

Michael Spicer: No Room (Omnibus) 22:00 THU (m002693w)

The News Quiz 23:00 MON (m002695x)

Comedy: Sitcoms

1834 04:30 SAT (b01137b8)

1834 14:30 FRI (b011db7v)

1834 20:30 FRI (b011db7v)

55 and Over 08:00 THU (b01nxh1h)

55 and Over 13:00 THU (b01nxh1h)

55 and Over 19:00 THU (b01nxh1h)

55 and Over 03:00 FRI (b01nxh1h)

Beauty of Britain 23:30 THU (b00n0prf)

Big Town All Stars 22:30 THU (m001lr7c)

Cabin Pressure 14:30 TUE (b00cb5k4)

Cabin Pressure 20:30 TUE (b00cb5k4)

Cabin Pressure 04:30 WED (b00cb5k4)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 08:00 TUE (m000rvkz)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 13:00 TUE (m000rvkz)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 19:00 TUE (m000rvkz)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 03:00 WED (m000rvkz)

Doctor in the House 02:30 SAT (b007lmys)

Doctor in the House 07:30 FRI (b007m680)

Doctor in the House 12:30 FRI (b007m680)

Doctor in the House 18:30 FRI (b007m680)

In and Out of the Kitchen 08:00 MON (b068vymj)

In and Out of the Kitchen 13:00 MON (b068vymj)

In and Out of the Kitchen 19:00 MON (b068vymj)

In and Out of the Kitchen 03:00 TUE (b068vymj)

Mr Willow's Wife 09:00 SAT (m000pmdt)

Mr Willow's Wife 14:00 SAT (m000pmdt)

Mr Willow's Wife 20:00 SAT (m000pmdt)

Mr Willow's Wife 04:00 SUN (m000pmdt)

No Commitments 14:30 THU (b037wxhs)

No Commitments 20:30 THU (b037wxhs)

No Commitments 04:30 FRI (b037wxhs)

Old Harry's Game 23:30 MON (b007k1xw)

Parsley Sidings 07:30 THU (b01p47pg)

Parsley Sidings 12:30 THU (b01p47pg)

Parsley Sidings 18:30 THU (b01p47pg)

Parsley Sidings 02:30 FRI (b01p47pg)

Prepper 03:00 SAT (m00026x2)

Prepper 08:00 FRI (m0002b8v)

Prepper 13:00 FRI (m0002b8v)

Prepper 19:00 FRI (m0002b8v)

Radio Cars 07:00 WED (m0026mmp)

Radio Cars 12:00 WED (m0026mmp)

Radio Cars 18:00 WED (m0026mmp)

Radio Cars 02:00 THU (m0026mmp)

ReincarNathan 22:00 WED (m001f4ys)

Safety Catch 23:30 SUN (b00fgq18)

The Wilsons Save the World 23:30 FRI (m000p1h5)

Tomorrow, Today! 14:30 WED (b012b3dy)

Tomorrow, Today! 20:30 WED (b012b3dy)

Tomorrow, Today! 04:30 THU (b012b3dy)

Too Much Information 14:30 MON (b00n88d3)

Too Much Information 20:30 MON (b00n88d3)

Too Much Information 04:30 TUE (b00n88d3)

Trevor's World of Sport 23:00 TUE (b007s2bx)

Up the Garden Path 02:00 SAT (b0084qnz)

Up the Garden Path 07:00 FRI (b0085k01)

Up the Garden Path 12:00 FRI (b0085k01)

Up the Garden Path 18:00 FRI (b0085k01)

Comedy: Sketch

Alice's Wunderland 22:30 MON (b01l8n82)

Beyond Our Ken 10:00 SUN (b0blvt1m)

Beyond Our Ken 15:00 SUN (b0blvt1m)

Beyond Our Ken 21:00 SUN (b0blvt1m)

Beyond Our Ken 05:00 MON (b0blvt1m)

Heated Rollers 07:00 THU (b007qg19)

Heated Rollers 12:00 THU (b007qg19)

Heated Rollers 18:00 THU (b007qg19)

Heated Rollers 02:00 FRI (b007qg19)

Jelly Mountain 23:45 WED (b00fd63q)

Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself 23:00 SUN (b04hvy0q)

Rob Newman 22:30 SAT (b0bh5hp2)

Take It From Here 10:30 SUN (b01nrmxs)

Take It From Here 15:30 SUN (b01nrmxs)

Take It From Here 21:30 SUN (b01nrmxs)

Take It From Here 05:30 MON (b01nrmxs)

The Goon Show 07:30 TUE (m0026mjb)

The Goon Show 12:30 TUE (m0026mjb)

The Goon Show 18:30 TUE (m0026mjb)

The Goon Show 02:30 WED (m0026mjb)

The Missing Hancocks 07:30 WED (m000cp2n)

The Missing Hancocks 12:30 WED (m000cp2n)

The Missing Hancocks 18:30 WED (m000cp2n)

The Missing Hancocks 02:30 THU (m000cp2n)

Comedy: Spoof

Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World 23:30 TUE (b007jtql)

Paperback Hell 23:30 WED (m000jhmb)

Comedy: Standup

Ahir Shah's Seven Blunders of the World 22:00 TUE (m00268zs)

Mark Steel's in Town 22:30 FRI (b00s782k)

Meet David Sedaris 23:00 FRI (b08x9f9t)

Rob Newman 22:30 SAT (b0bh5hp2)

Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy 22:30 TUE (b0bfz5jy)

Welcome to Wherever You Are 22:00 SAT (m00070jt)

Drama

Inner Voices 08:45 SAT (m0026mcn)

Inner Voices 13:45 SAT (m0026mcn)

Inner Voices 19:45 SAT (m0026mcn)

Inner Voices 03:45 SUN (m0026mcn)

The Inn by Guy de Maupassant 16:00 SAT (b09rbpy5)

The Inn by Guy de Maupassant 00:00 SUN (b09rbpy5)

Drama: Biographical

Young Coleridge 06:00 SAT (b00828lq)

Young Coleridge 11:00 SAT (b00828lq)

Young Coleridge 17:00 SAT (b00828lq)

Young Coleridge 01:00 SUN (b00828lq)

Drama: Classic & Period

Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) 08:50 SUN (m0026mc0)

Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) 13:50 SUN (m0026mc0)

Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) 19:50 SUN (m0026mc0)

Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) 03:50 MON (m0026mc0)

The Inn by Guy de Maupassant 16:00 SAT (b09rbpy5)

The Inn by Guy de Maupassant 00:00 SUN (b09rbpy5)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 SAT (m000qjd3)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 MON (m000qls1)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 MON (m000qls1)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 MON (m000qls1)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 TUE (m000qls1)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 TUE (m000qlwn)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 TUE (m000qlwn)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 TUE (m000qlwn)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 WED (m000qlwn)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 WED (m000qlzp)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 WED (m000qlzp)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 WED (m000qlzp)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 THU (m000qlzp)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 THU (m000qmnq)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 THU (m000qmnq)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 THU (m000qmnq)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 FRI (m000qmnq)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 FRI (m000qnjd)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 FRI (m000qnjd)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 FRI (m000qnjd)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 05:00 SAT (b007jsx2)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 15:00 MON (b007jsx9)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 21:00 MON (b007jsx9)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 05:00 TUE (b007jsx9)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 15:00 TUE (b007jsxh)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 21:00 TUE (b007jsxh)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 05:00 WED (b007jsxh)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 15:00 WED (b007jsxp)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 21:00 WED (b007jsxp)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 05:00 THU (b007jsxp)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 15:00 THU (b007jsxz)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 21:00 THU (b007jsxz)

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 05:00 FRI (b007jsxz)

Drama: Crime

Ice Blonde by Nancy Crane 15:00 FRI (m0026mrh)

Ice Blonde by Nancy Crane 21:00 FRI (m0026mrh)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 06:00 WED (m0026mmm)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 11:00 WED (m0026mmm)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 17:00 WED (m0026mmm)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 01:00 THU (m0026mmm)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 06:00 THU (m0026mmd)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 11:00 THU (m0026mmd)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 17:00 THU (m0026mmd)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 01:00 FRI (m0026mmd)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 06:00 FRI (m0026mrc)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 11:00 FRI (m0026mrc)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 17:00 FRI (m0026mrc)

Whodunnits 01:00 SAT (b007jvlr)

Whodunnits 06:00 MON (b007jvm7)

Whodunnits 11:00 MON (b007jvm7)

Whodunnits 17:00 MON (b007jvm7)

Whodunnits 01:00 TUE (b007jvm7)

Whodunnits 06:00 TUE (b007jvmb)

Whodunnits 11:00 TUE (b007jvmb)

Whodunnits 17:00 TUE (b007jvmb)

Whodunnits 01:00 WED (b007jvmb)

Whodunnits 06:30 THU (b007jp1b)

Whodunnits 11:30 THU (b007jp1b)

Whodunnits 17:30 THU (b007jp1b)

Whodunnits 01:30 FRI (b007jp1b)

Whodunnits 06:30 FRI (b00y25xk)

Whodunnits 11:30 FRI (b00y25xk)

Whodunnits 17:30 FRI (b00y25xk)

Drama: Historical

Len Deighton - XPD 01:30 SAT (m000j1yg)

Len Deighton - XPD 06:30 MON (m000j35p)

Len Deighton - XPD 11:30 MON (m000j35p)

Len Deighton - XPD 17:30 MON (m000j35p)

Len Deighton - XPD 01:30 TUE (m000j35p)

Len Deighton - XPD 06:30 TUE (m000j2hk)

Len Deighton - XPD 11:30 TUE (m000j2hk)

Len Deighton - XPD 17:30 TUE (m000j2hk)

Len Deighton - XPD 01:30 WED (m000j2hk)

Len Deighton - XPD 06:30 WED (m000j3k1)

Len Deighton - XPD 11:30 WED (m000j3k1)

Len Deighton - XPD 17:30 WED (m000j3k1)

Len Deighton - XPD 01:30 THU (m000j3k1)

Drama: Horror & Supernatural

Fear on 4 16:00 SUN (m0026mc4)

Fear on 4 00:00 MON (m0026mc4)

Drama: Relationships & Romance

Amongst Women by John McGahern 08:30 MON (m000j78k)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 13:30 MON (m000j78k)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 19:30 MON (m000j78k)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 03:30 TUE (m000j78k)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 08:30 TUE (m000j80c)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 13:30 TUE (m000j80c)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 19:30 TUE (m000j80c)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 03:30 WED (m000j80c)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 08:30 WED (m000j94r)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 13:30 WED (m000j94r)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 19:30 WED (m000j94r)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 03:30 THU (m000j94r)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 08:30 THU (m000j8qy)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 13:30 THU (m000j8qy)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 19:30 THU (m000j8qy)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 03:30 FRI (m000j8qy)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 08:30 FRI (m000j9k3)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 13:30 FRI (m000j9k3)

Amongst Women by John McGahern 19:30 FRI (m000j9k3)

Drama: SciFi & Fantasy

Simon Bovey - Cold Blood 16:30 SUN (b007jv38)

Simon Bovey - Cold Blood 00:30 MON (b007jv38)

Drama: Thriller

Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) 08:50 SUN (m0026mc0)

Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) 13:50 SUN (m0026mc0)

Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) 19:50 SUN (m0026mc0)

Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Omnibus) 03:50 MON (m0026mc0)

Len Deighton - XPD 01:30 SAT (m000j1yg)

Len Deighton - XPD 06:30 MON (m000j35p)

Len Deighton - XPD 11:30 MON (m000j35p)

Len Deighton - XPD 17:30 MON (m000j35p)

Len Deighton - XPD 01:30 TUE (m000j35p)

Len Deighton - XPD 06:30 TUE (m000j2hk)

Len Deighton - XPD 11:30 TUE (m000j2hk)

Len Deighton - XPD 17:30 TUE (m000j2hk)

Len Deighton - XPD 01:30 WED (m000j2hk)

Len Deighton - XPD 06:30 WED (m000j3k1)

Len Deighton - XPD 11:30 WED (m000j3k1)

Len Deighton - XPD 17:30 WED (m000j3k1)

Len Deighton - XPD 01:30 THU (m000j3k1)

Simon Bovey - Cold Blood 16:30 SUN (b007jv38)

Simon Bovey - Cold Blood 00:30 MON (b007jv38)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 SAT (m000qjd3)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 MON (m000qls1)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 MON (m000qls1)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 MON (m000qls1)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 TUE (m000qls1)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 TUE (m000qlwn)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 TUE (m000qlwn)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 TUE (m000qlwn)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 WED (m000qlwn)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 WED (m000qlzp)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 WED (m000qlzp)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 WED (m000qlzp)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 THU (m000qlzp)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 THU (m000qmnq)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 THU (m000qmnq)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 THU (m000qmnq)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 03:45 FRI (m000qmnq)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 08:45 FRI (m000qnjd)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 13:45 FRI (m000qnjd)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 19:45 FRI (m000qnjd)

Entertainment

Booked 14:00 TUE (b0075m77)

Booked 20:00 TUE (b0075m77)

Booked 04:00 WED (b0075m77)

I've Never Seen Star Wars 23:00 THU (b04wv049)

Variety Bandbox 07:30 MON (m0026mbl)

Variety Bandbox 12:30 MON (m0026mbl)

Variety Bandbox 18:30 MON (m0026mbl)

Variety Bandbox 02:30 TUE (m0026mbl)

Who Goes There? 14:00 THU (b00lbnyx)

Who Goes There? 20:00 THU (b00lbnyx)

Who Goes There? 04:00 FRI (b00lbnyx)

Factual

A Good Read 10:00 TUE (b09v3fdw)

A Good Read 16:00 TUE (b09v3fdw)

A Good Read 00:00 WED (b09v3fdw)

Archive on 4 10:00 WED (m0001cwc)

Archive on 4 16:00 WED (m0001cwc)

Archive on 4 00:00 THU (m0001cwc)

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) 07:30 SUN (m0026mbw)

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) 12:30 SUN (m0026mbw)

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) 18:30 SUN (m0026mbw)

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) 02:30 MON (m0026mbw)

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around the Shipping Forecast 03:30 SAT (b0176pbp)

Join the Dots 09:30 MON (b0952b9y)

Join the Dots 09:30 TUE (b0952qpx)

Join the Dots 09:30 WED (b0952sv2)

Join the Dots 09:30 THU (b0952zlf)

Join the Dots 09:30 FRI (b09534h0)

Poetry Extra 07:00 SUN (m0026mbt)

Poetry Extra 12:00 SUN (m0026mbt)

Poetry Extra 18:00 SUN (m0026mbt)

Poetry Extra 02:00 MON (m0026mbt)

Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys 10:30 TUE (b017528q)

Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys 16:30 TUE (b017528q)

Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys 00:30 WED (b017528q)

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media: Arts

A Good Read 10:00 TUE (b09v3fdw)

A Good Read 16:00 TUE (b09v3fdw)

A Good Read 00:00 WED (b09v3fdw)

Factual: History

Great Lives 10:00 THU (b007vzrt)

Great Lives 16:00 THU (b007vzrt)

Great Lives 00:00 FRI (b007vzrt)

Syrena Songs 10:30 MON (b06vkcf6)

Syrena Songs 16:30 MON (b06vkcf6)

Syrena Songs 00:30 TUE (b06vkcf6)

What? Seriously?? 22:00 FRI (m0026mrk)

Factual: Life Stories

Desert Island Discs Revisited 06:00 SUN (m0026mbr)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 11:00 SUN (m0026mbr)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 17:00 SUN (m0026mbr)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 01:00 MON (m0026mbr)

Great Lives 10:00 THU (b007vzrt)

Great Lives 16:00 THU (b007vzrt)

Great Lives 00:00 FRI (b007vzrt)

Growing Pains 10:00 SAT (m0008y79)

Growing Pains 15:00 SAT (m0008y79)

Growing Pains 21:00 SAT (m0008y79)

Growing Pains 05:00 SUN (m0008y79)

Inheritance Tracks 08:40 SUN (m0026mby)

Inheritance Tracks 13:40 SUN (m0026mby)

Inheritance Tracks 19:40 SUN (m0026mby)

Inheritance Tracks 03:40 MON (m0026mby)

My Teenage Diary 23:00 SAT (b07gfjhm)

Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero 10:30 FRI (b00rmrpt)

Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero 16:30 FRI (b00rmrpt)

Soul Music 00:00 SAT (m001fcf6)

Soul Music 10:00 FRI (b04p845x)

Soul Music 16:00 FRI (b04p845x)

Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys 10:30 TUE (b017528q)

Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys 16:30 TUE (b017528q)

Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys 00:30 WED (b017528q)

Factual: Pets & Animals

David Attenborough's Life Stories 06:45 SUN (b0106x58)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 11:45 SUN (b0106x58)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 17:45 SUN (b0106x58)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 01:45 MON (b0106x58)

Factual: Politics

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 TUE (m0026mjd)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 WED (m0026mmr)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 THU (m0026mmh)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 FRI (m001zvc9)

Factual: Science & Nature: Nature & Environment

David Attenborough's Life Stories 06:45 SUN (b0106x58)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 11:45 SUN (b0106x58)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 17:45 SUN (b0106x58)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 01:45 MON (b0106x58)

Factual: Travel

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) 07:30 SUN (m0026mbw)

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) 12:30 SUN (m0026mbw)

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) 18:30 SUN (m0026mbw)

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around The Shipping Forecast (Omnibus) 02:30 MON (m0026mbw)

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around the Shipping Forecast 03:30 SAT (b0176pbp)

Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) 07:30 SAT (m000v6zk)

Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) 12:30 SAT (m000v6zk)

Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) 18:30 SAT (m000v6zk)

Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) 02:30 SUN (m000v6zk)

Music

Isy Suttie's Love Letters 22:30 WED (m000b867)

Soul Music 00:00 SAT (m001fcf6)

Soul Music 10:00 FRI (b04p845x)

Soul Music 16:00 FRI (b04p845x)

Music: Classical

The Danube Ain't Blue, It's Green 00:30 SAT (b07ws0dy)

Music: World

Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero 10:30 FRI (b00rmrpt)

Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero 16:30 FRI (b00rmrpt)

Syrena Songs 10:30 MON (b06vkcf6)

Syrena Songs 16:30 MON (b06vkcf6)

Syrena Songs 00:30 TUE (b06vkcf6)

Religion & Ethics

Daily Service 09:45 MON (m0026mbp)

Daily Service 09:45 TUE (m0026mjg)

Daily Service 09:45 WED (m0026mmt)

Daily Service 09:45 THU (m0026mmk)

Daily Service 09:45 FRI (m0026mrf)