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RADIO-LISTS: BBC RADIO 4 Extra
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SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2015

SAT 00:00 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (b00yzj5s)
Episode 10

The family have sad news from Berlin but hope from England. Judith Kerr's semi-autobiographical story. Read by Rosemary Leach.

SAT 00:15 Cosmic Quest (b00byr2l)
The Celestial Police

Astronomer Heather Couper looks at the work of the planet hunter Johann Bode, tracking down asteroids. From June 2008.

SAT 00:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (b00xj958)
The Wedding

The Queen proposes to her husband of choice. Drama based on letters and diaries. Stars Imogen Stubbs.

SAT 00:45 Richard Ingrams - The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett (b0076shs)
Episode 5

Time is nearly up as Cobbett pens a last register. But even on his death bed, some merriment shines through. Biography of the renowned political reformer, read by Oliver Ford.

SAT 01:00 Jest a Minute (b0183rrm)
Series 2

Episode 6

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

With Paul Tonkinson, Tom Wrigglesworth, Lloyd Langford and Chris Corcoran.

Producers: Paul Forde and Gareth Gwynn.

First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales in 2009.

SAT 01:30 My Life in Five Books (b0124scw)
Series 2

Sue Arnold

If there is one thing Sue Arnold knows about it is books.

As an author and journalist she is known for her sharp social observations and she currently reviews audio books for a national newspaper. Sue made the headlines herself when controversially she wrote about cannabis improving her deteriorating sight. Now she has changed her position on the drug as she explains to Stuart Cosgrove.

Sue picks four of her favourite titles and explains about the book she's bought but never finished.

Titles:

1: The Aubrey-Maturin nautical series by Patrick O'Brien.

2:: The Simple Subs Guide by Leslie Sellers

3: The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G.Farrell

4: Address Unknown by Kressman Taylor

5: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.

Produced by Mike Walker.

First broadcast on BBC Scotland in 2011.

SAT 02:00 Ruth Rendell - The Keys to the Street (b01nf2h0)
By His Own Hand

Mary Jago is shocked by Alastair's wedding present and Bean, once a suspect, has now vanished. Concluded by Claudie Blakley.

SAT 02:30 The Number 1 Ladies' Opera House (b00plfkq)
The author of The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Alexander McCall Smith, has converted a disused garage in Botswana into an opera house.

Pauline McLynn charts his progress as he trains local people to sing.

Producer: Bill Lloyd

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.

SAT 03:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq3z)
Marriages Remain

Sorrowful at the departure of his mentor and only friend, the local school master, 11-year-old Jude Fawley resolves that one day he'll follow his teacher to academia - as symbolised by the gleaming spires of distant Christminster.

Growing up, however, Jude finds more obstacles in his path then merely difficulties of study...

Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth North.

Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, Mark Straker as Carter, June Barrie as Widow Edlin, Constance Chapman as Aunt Drusilla Fawley, Hazel Ellerby as Annie, John Normington as Phillotson, Elva Makins as Arabella, Jesse Lawrence as Young Jude, Esmond Rideout as Farmer Troutham and Richard Wasley as Tiler.

Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986.

SAT 04:00 Anton Chekhov (b00qbb8r)
Stories by Anton Chekhov

Bad Weather

Or to put it another way, what has the husband been up to in Moscow? Alistair McGowan reads Constance Garnett's translation. From January 1998.

SAT 04:15 Aelish Michael - Dreaming of Foxes (b01s2yc9)
Ted Hughes is reunited with a long-lost school friend nearly 50 years on. But what do they have in common? Stars Robert Garrett.

SAT 05:00 King Street Junior Revisited (b00l74dt)
Series 4

Turning the Tables

The move up from junior to high school is a step too far, it seems, for a former pupil.

And it's quiz time, but Mr Maxwell is lacking a team.

School comedy created and written by Jim Eldridge. Ten series of this King Street Junior ran between 1985 and 1998. King Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005.

Stars Marlene Sidaway as Miss Lewis, Michael Cochrane as Mr Maxwell, Teresa Gallagher as Miss Featherstone, Jacqueline Beatty as Miss Reid, Janice Acquah as Mrs Khan, Paul Copley as Mr Long, Bill Wallis as Jack Pollard and Jemma Churchill as Mrs Morgan.

Producer: John Fawcett Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2005.

SAT 05:30 Living with the Enemy (b0077154)
Episode 1

Sitcom written by and starring Nick Revell and Gyles Brandreth who play an alternative comedian-turned-holistic therapist and a Tory MP turned media figure.

Gyles Brandon ...... Gyles Brandreth
Nick Reynolds ...... Nick Revell

With Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Martin Hyder and Nathan Caton.

Producer: Ed Morrish

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2006.

SAT 06:00 David Pownall (b01shn7f)
Under the Table

Spring 1945: A boy overcomes his terror of a world at war to demand of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - who are meeting in his grandfather's greenhouse - a reason why his mother is now widowed and inconsolable.

Starring David Calder as the storyteller, Kenneth Cranham as Seph Hammer, Robert Lang as Churchill, Andrew Sachs as Stalin, David Healy as Roosevelt, Jonathan Keeble as Hitler, Oliver Senton as Jack, Becky Hindley as Rusty, Maureen O’Brien as May Hammer, Peter Yapp as Mr Hunt, Natasha Pyne as Rouille, Andrew Branch as Bags and David Antrobus as Trevor.

Music composed by Neil Brand and performed by Sarah Homer.

Director: Eoin O'Callaghan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.

SAT 07:30 Freedom Pass (b00sgzk6)
Episode 2

Sexagenarians Alan Coren and Christopher Matthew use free travel to venture forth on their local public transport. From September 2004.

SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b00ln0b7)
Soho!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Producer: Justine Willett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.

SAT 09:00 Listening to Les Dawson (b03b2n4d)
Ray Peacock is joined by Ken Dodd, Neil Innes, Lee Mack, Robin Ince, Gillian Reynolds and David Nobbs, introducing rare interviews, routines and programmes including In The Psychiatrist's Chair, Les reading his own novel, Come Back With the Wind, Marriott's Monologues, Whirligig and Listen To Les.

Producer: Laura Baron

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in Sept 2013.

SAT 12:00 44 Scotland Street (Omnibus) (b0528px2)
The Blue Spode Tea Cup (Omnibus)

Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town is the setting for the quirky tales and ‘goings-on’ adapted by Alexander McCall Smith from his worldwide bestselling series of books.

Portrait painter, Angus Lordie, is a frequent visitor to Domenica Macdonald, the anthropologist and longest-term resident of 44 Scotland Street.

Will their friendship blossom and will she ever let his dog Cyril into her flat? Domenica’s thoughts are elsewhere, sensing trouble with the return of her neighbour Antonia who has been living in Glasgow of all places! Is Domenica’s ‘property’ safe with Antonia back in town?

Meanwhile in the flat below lives Bertie, aged six, a prodigy and victim of his excessively pushy mother, Irene. Bertie wants the life of an ordinary six-year-old boy, but instead he has psychotherapy, yoga and Italian conversation lessons. He also wants to know why his new baby brother, Ulysses, looks remarkably like his psychotherapist, Dr Fairbairn.

DOMENICA..……….....CAROL ANN CRAWFORD
ANGUS LORDIE....……..…..CRAWFORD LOGAN
IRENE………….........……............EMMA CURRIE
BERTIE………………...…………….….SIMON KERR
STUART...........….....DAVID JACKSON YOUNG
ANTONIA....................………ANITA VETTESSE

Omnibus directed by David Ian Neville

First broadcast in five parts on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.

SAT 13:15 Dickens Confidential (b01kn6d8)
Series 1

Innocence

Charles Dickens draws Agnes and Jack into a murky world of prostitution and opium, and an old adversary appears. Stars Jamie Glover.

SAT 14:00 Not in Front of the Children (b0524hhh)
Series 1

House in a Tree

Jennifer Corner berates her headstrong husband Henry who's due in court over his somewhat shaky treehouse.

Starring Wendy Craig and Francis Matthews.

The comedy mishaps of the Corner family - Jennifer and Henry and their three kids Trudi, Amanda and Robin.

Four series were first shown on BBC TV from 1967 to 1970. Richard Waring adapted his own scripts for this radio version, now fully restored from the original reel-to-reel tapes.

Jennifer Corner ...... Wendy Craig
Henry Corner ...... Francis Matthews
Mother ...... Fanny Rowe
Trudi ...... Roberta Tovey
Amanda ...... Jill Riddick
Robin ...... Hugo Keith-Johnston
Biddy ...... Madeleine Howell
Telephone Operator ...... Olwen Griffiths
Police Sergeant ...... David Tate
Prison Warder ...... Geoffrey Frederick

Wendy Craig won a Best Actress BAFTA award for the TV version of Not in Front of the Children in 1969. This was the first of several housewife roles that Wendy Craig was to play on TV. Later series included And Mother Makes Three and Butterflies.

Music by Ronnie Hazlehurst.

Producer: Trafford Whitelock

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1969.

SAT 14:30 The Navy Lark (b00yk0n7)
Series 2

The Figurehead

Johnson must whittle for all he is worth when Pertwee enters the antiques market.

Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as Number One, Richard Caldicot as Commander Povey, Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson, Heather Chasen as Heather, Michael Bates as Mr Popesgrove and Tenniel Evans as Goldstein.

The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series on BBC Radio between 1959 and 1976.

Scripted by Lawrie Wyman.

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1959.

SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b00ln0b7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

SAT 16:00 David Pownall (b01shn7f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SAT 17:30 Gloomsbury (b01n6vn5)
Series 1

The St Ives School of Painting

The writer and transvestite Vera Sackcloth-Vest and her bosom chum, the novelist Ginny Fox, go down to St Ives in search of the writer of very naughty books Mr D.H. Lollipop. Their husbands, Henry and Lionel, accompany them, hoping to prevent their wives from succumbing to the dangerous animal magnetism of Lollipop, whose book Lady Hattersley's Plover has scandalized and unsettled them all.

Vera's persistent and flamboyant admirer Venus Traduces arrives, desperate to re-kindle their Sapphic passion. However she is distracted when, on the cliff path, she meets a thin man with a red beard who exudes animal magnetism. He informs her that his wife is away in London being painted by Augustus John, invites Venus to call him Dave, and ravishes her in the brambles.

Meanwhile, though Vera and Ginny seem to search in vain for Lollipop, he is always much closer than they think.

Cast:
Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes
Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy
Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks
Mrs Ginny Fox ..... Alison Steadman
Lionel Fox ..... Nigel Planer
DH Lollipop ..... John Sessions

Produced by Jamie Rix
A Little Brother Production for BBC Radio 4.

SAT 18:00 Bruce Bedford - The Gibson (b007js8d)
Episode 3

Haensel Sethria warns Elise Judd, and Saul Judd is summoned to meet Selwyn Fist.

Bruce Bedford's time-hopping supernatural thriller serial set in - and under - Bath.

Robert Glenister .... Saul Judd
Sharon Duce .... Elise Judd
Freddie Jones .... The Scribe
Kate Binchy .... The Scribe's Wife
Constance Chapman .... Haensel Sethria
Gordon Reid .... Priscus
Michael Stroud .... Stranger
Jonathan Tafler .... Landlord
Timothy West .... Selwyn Fist
John Abineri .... Roman Officer
Jonathan Adams .... The Guardian

Original music composed by Thomas Johnson.
Music realised by Robin Lever.
Special effects: Dick Mills (Radiophonic Workshop)

Directed at BBC Bristol by Andy Jordan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992.

SAT 18:30 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace (b007jpf4)
Episode 3

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

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

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

Other parts by Lewis MacLeod and Peter Serafinowicz.

Producer: Richard Wilson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1998.

SAT 19:00 Listening to Les Dawson (b03b2n4d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

SAT 22:00 Tim Minchin and Friends (b007knth)
A marvellous collision of mirth and piano from the award-winning singer-songwriter in a BBC concert.

With Justin Edwards.

Producer: Will Saunders

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 2007.

SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b053psbg)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats to Richard Herring.

SAT 23:00 Mark Steel's in Town (b00s0g1p)
Series 2

Dumfries

Comedian Mark Steel travels to the Scottish border town of Dumfries, where he discovers a bloodthirsty history and seagull-hating inhabitants who are obsessed with the poet Robert Burns. From April 2010.

Written and Performed by Mark Steel.
Producer Julia Mckenzie.

SAT 23:30 The Jason Byrne Show (b00mrtdl)
Series 1

Religion

Exploring a fresh theme each week, the Irish comedian hosts stand-up and sketches. With Ivan Brackenbury. From July 2008.

SUNDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2015

SUN 00:00 Bruce Bedford - The Gibson (b007js8d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]

SUN 00:30 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace (b007jpf4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday]

SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b00ln0b7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday]

SUN 02:00 44 Scotland Street (Omnibus) (b0528px2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday]

SUN 03:15 Dickens Confidential (b01kn6d8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday]

SUN 04:00 David Pownall (b01shn7f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]

SUN 05:30 Gloomsbury (b01n6vn5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday]

SUN 06:00 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (Omnibus) (b00xlw19)
Episode 1

The reflections of the young Victoria as she turns sixteen...

Scripted by Juliet Ace, based on the letters and diaries of the young Queen Victoria, this portrait of her younger life and the happy years of her marriage, reveals some of the remarkable and long-lasting achievements of this extraordinary queen.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes.

Starring Imogen Stubbs as Victoria.

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

Producer: Cherry Cookson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.

SUN 07:15 Snapshots in the Dark (b0075qgn)
Four Legs Muybridge

Colin Ford discovers how Eadweard Muybridge's photos of animals revolutionised our understanding of movement. From December 1999.

SUN 07:30 Clare in the Community (b014qxbj)
Series 7

The Prisoner

Clare in the Community returns with Sally Phillips as Clare Barker the social worker who has all the right jargon but never a practical solution.

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

Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control both her professional and private life. In her private life Clare is struggling to come to terms with Brian's infidelity. Will their relationship survive?

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

Clare: SALLY PHILLIPS
Brian: ALEX LOWE
Megan/Nali: NINA CONTI
Ray: RICHARD LUMSDEN
Helen: LIZA TARBUCK
Simon: ANDREW WINCOTT
Libby: SARAH KENDALL
WPC Petherington: SOPHIE THOMPSON
Mr. Chisholm: GERARD MCDERMOTT
Mr Barton: SIMON BUBB
Shuliman Olibaju/Annabel: VICTORIA INEZ HARDY
School Girl: GEORGIA LOWE

Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden

Produced by Katie Tyrrell.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.

SUN 08:00 The Arthur Haynes Show (b00zl7rv)
From 23/06/1963

Lead-swinging Arthur visits his doctor - and will a dodgy couple really buy a posh mansion?

Arthur Haynes stars in the sketch show series written by Johnny Speight.

With

Nicholas Parsons
Patricia Hayes
Lesley Noyes

Music by the Temperance Seven.

Part of a selection of surviving episodes.

Songs by Janie Marden.

Producer: Richard Dingley

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1963.

SUN 08:30 Stop Messing About! (b00scz3j)
Series 2

Episode 13

Bona news on the Isle of Man - and it all ends with a special anthem.

Starring Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Joan Sims and announcer, Douglas Smith.

After the unexpected death of Kenneth Horne in 1969, plans for the next series of Round The Horne were axed. Instead - using an old catchphrase of Kenneth Williams as a series title - Kenneth joined Hugh Paddick to continue the comedy tradition and was also reunited with his 'Carry On' film co-star Joan Sims.

Written by Myles Rudge, David Cumming and Derek Collyer.

With the Max Harris Group.

Producer: John Simmonds

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in July 1970.

SUN 09:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives (b008fdb8)
Under the Umbrella

Jo writes the story of her family's life, and finds true love at last. Stars Buffy Davis and Gayle Hunnicutt.

SUN 09:30 Just William - Live! (b007jy2q)
Series 1

The Sweet Little Girl in White

Violet Elizabeth Bott arrives in the scruffy schoolboy's life. Martin Jarvis plays all of Richmal Crompton's characters.

SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b052mjsz)
Oscar Winners

Richard Dreyfuss

From Beethoven to Paul Simon, the Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss makes his castaway choices. With Sue Lawley. From May 1999.

SUN 10:45 Afternoon Reading (b0100lg3)
Backwards and in High Heels

Sharing the Joke

Stories of women quietly outperforming the men in their lives. Commissioned to mark 100 years since the birth of Ginger Rogers, who famously did everything that Fred Astaire did - only backwards and in high heels.

'Sharing the Joke' by Reginald Hill. A chief constable remembers her big break as she looks back over her career at her retirement dinner. Read by Wendy Seager.

Acclaimed novelist and CWA Diamond Dagger winner Reginald Hill is the author of series including the 'Dalziel and Pascoe' novels.

SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour (b052mvg1)
Series 1

Brand Over Brain

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

In this episode, Guy Raz investigates the seductive power of brands and how we can tell the differences between the real and the created value of things. With filmmaker Morgan Spurlock.

SUN 11:45 Roddy Doyle - Bullfighting (b01djtls)
Blood

An average, normal man comes to terms with his strange midlife addiction - raw steak. Short stories by the Irish novelist, read by Declan Conlon.

SUN 12:00 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (Omnibus) (b00xlw19)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SUN 13:15 Snapshots in the Dark (b0075qgn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]

SUN 13:30 Inspector Morse (b007k4jl)
Last Seen Wearing

Inspector Morse is reluctant to take over an old missing person case from a dead colleague, but murder is Morse's speciality and the case soon has complications.

Stars John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis

First published in 1976, Colin Dexter's second Morse crime novel dramatised by Guy Meredith.

Inspector Morse ...... John Shrapnel
Sergeant Lewis ...... Robert Glenister
Donald Philipson ...... Miles Anderson
Sheila Philipson ...... Melinda Walker
Gwen Taylor ...... Frances Jeater
George Taylor ...... Donald Sumpter
Valerie Taylor ...... Tamsin Greig
Reginald Baines ...... Terence Edmond
Chief Supt. Strange ...... John Hartley
Mrs Ainley ...... Auriol Smith
John McGuire ..... Paul Panting
Sergeant Dickson ..... Lyndam Gregory
David Acum ...... David Jarvis
Joe ...... James Taylor
Versatile Vera ...... Emily Woof
Police Surgeon ...... Don McCorkindale
Sergeant Onslow ...... Michael Onslow
Radio 3 announcer ...... Catriona Young

Theme music by Wilfredo Acosta.

Director: Ned Chaillet

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1994.

SUN 15:00 The Arthur Haynes Show (b00zl7rv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

SUN 15:30 Stop Messing About! (b00scz3j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show (b052mwnq)
Mel Giedroyc is back with highlights of the past week on the 4 O'Clock Show including a guide to Star Wars sound effects, why we love superstition and how to eat peanuts in space.

SUN 17:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives (b008fdb8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

SUN 17:30 Just William - Live! (b007jy2q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

SUN 18:00 The Man in Black (b0180hnl)
Series 4

3. The Beaten Track by Dawn King

A young couple ignore warnings on a New Zealand getaway.

Mark Gatiss as the sinister raconteur, The Man in Black, introduces Dawn King's tale of ignorance.

Aaron ...... Adam Billington
Louise Kirsty ...... Oswald
Motel Owner ...... Jonathan Forbes
Sandy ...... Clare Corbett
James ...... Christopher Webster

More horrifying tales from The Man in Black. You might meet him at a luggage carousel in an airport, or behind the desk at an employment agency or he might approach you in the corridor of a care home. Wherever you encounter him, he's eager to pass on his stories. Stories to unsettle and horrify. Stories to haunt you.

Director: Jeremy Mortimer

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in December 2011.

SUN 18:30 Douglas Hill - The Blade of the Poisoner (b007jrr6)
Trapped

Jarral and his friends head to Prince Mephtik's garden, where an alarming battle awaits them

Douglas Hill's sci-fi fantasy dramatised in four parts by Wally K Daly.

Starring Eric Allen as Jarral the man, James Holland as Jarral the boy, Elizabeth Bell as Archer, Ben Onwukwe as Carver, Susan Sheridan as Mandra, David Bannerman as Yorrold, Hugh Dixon as Prince Mephtik.

Special effects by Dick Mills.

Music by Peter Howells of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Producer: Peter Fozzard

First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1991.

SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour (b052mvg1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

SUN 19:45 Roddy Doyle - Bullfighting (b01djtls)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 today]

SUN 20:00 The Arthur Haynes Show (b00zl7rv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

SUN 20:30 Stop Messing About! (b00scz3j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b052mjsz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

SUN 21:45 Afternoon Reading (b0100lg3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today]

SUN 22:00 Clare in the Community (b014qxbj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SUN 22:30 Elvenquest (b00wdjz9)
Series 2

Episode 4

The search for the Sword of Asnagar is put on hold when Vidar is summoned home by his father.

Meanwhile Lord Darkness also returns home from his Necromancer's convention, proud holder of the 'Medal of Chang', the prize for being 'Necromancer's Necromancer'. However, it turns out that Lord Darkness may not have won it entirely fairly, so he sets about trying to cover his tracks.

The fates of Lord Darkness and the Questers are drawn together when they both end up having to cross the Gorge of Doom. But first they must pass the mysterious Bridge Keeper who controls the only passage across. And he charges a heavy price...

Fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto.

Sam …. Stephen Mangan
Lord Darkness …. Alistair McGowan
The Bridge Keeper …. Gus Brown
Dean/Kreech …. Kevin Eldon
Vidar …. Darren Boyd
Amis – The Chosen One …. Dave Lamb
Penthiselea …. Sophie Winkleman

Producer: Sam Michell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010.

SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b053psq3)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats to Richard Herring.

SUN 23:00 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off (b01hl2gc)
Series 3

Chalet Girl

Despite a lack of any obvious qualifications, Giles gets a job on the ski slopes of France. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From February 2005.

SUN 23:30 Meet David Sedaris (b00rp3dy)
Series 1

Six-to-Eight Black Men; Just a Quick Email

From Carnegie Hall to the BBC Radio Theatre - American humorist David Sedaris reads from his extensive collection of published stories and articles.

Christmas traditions in the Netherlands attract David's attention in 'Six to Eight Black Men'; some guilty secrets are revealed in Just a Quick Email and we also hear selected extracts from his diary.

Producer: Steve Doherty
A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4.

MONDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2015

MON 00:00 The Man in Black (b0180hnl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]

MON 00:30 Douglas Hill - The Blade of the Poisoner (b007jrr6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday]

MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b052mjsz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]

MON 01:45 Afternoon Reading (b0100lg3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday]

MON 02:00 The Arthur Haynes Show (b00zl7rv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday]

MON 02:30 Stop Messing About! (b00scz3j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday]

MON 03:00 Clare in the Community (b014qxbj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday]

MON 03:30 Inspector Morse (b007k4jl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday]

MON 05:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives (b008fdb8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday]

MON 05:30 Just William - Live! (b007jy2q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday]

MON 06:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r1cwl)
Episode 1

Mark's world spins out of control when someone says they've seen the ghost of his dead son.

American writer Christopher Coake's You Came Back is read by John Chancer.

Thirty-something Mark Fife believes he has moved on from the accidental death of his young son Brendan and the subsequent break-up of his marriage. He's successful, in love again, and he thinks he's mastered his own memories at last. But when a strange woman tells him she believes her house is haunted by Brendan's ghost, his life is thrown into turmoil.

Mark doesn't believe in ghosts, but his distressed ex-wife does, and he really wants to help her. So much so that he begins to doubt his own beliefs - and endanger the relationships that really matter to him now - with his fiancee and his tough and sceptical father.

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Partnership.

MON 06:30 Music Feature (b00d6zqj)
Musical Comedy Was My Dish

Ben Elton explores a forgotten side of his greatest literary hero. PG Wodehouse wrote lyrics for hundreds of songs which appeared in many musical comedies. He worked with composers such as Jerome Kern and Cole Porter, making an invaluable contribution to the development of musical comedy on Broadway and in the West End.

MON 07:00 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse (b00tt6px)
Series 4

The German Pilot

Stanley Baxter and Rona Munro have been collaborating for some years now on the stories in The Stanley Baxter Playhouse; last year listeners were full of praise for Stanley's performance in Rona's Playhouse story -The Man In the Garden.

This story is a wartime romance set in rural Scotland in the second world war.

Friedrich is a German pilot whose plane is shot down over a remote rural area in the west of Scotland. He is a prisoner of war, and initially local feelings against him are vitriolic; but he, like everyone in the community in which he finds himself, is a cattle farmer, and as his English improves, he forms strong bonds with his captors, and forges an unlikely friendship which, many years later, brings him back to Scotland.

Cast:
Fred ... Stanley Baxter
Friedrich ... Sam Peter Jackson
Beth ... Vicki Liddelle
George ... John Ramage

Stanley, a past master in accents and impersonation, plays the older Friedrich, looking back over sixty years to tell the story. John Ramage and Vicki Liddelle play the other parts, with Sam Peter Jackson, [son of the composer Mick Jackson who wrote the disco hit 'Blame It On The Boogie'] who was brought up in Germany and is completely bi lingual, playing the young German pilot.

Rona Munro is one of Scotland's most highly regarded playwrights, with award winning films [Ken Loach's Lady Bird Lady Bird] and television dramas [Rehab] and her Edinburgh International Festival success The Last Witch to her credit.

Producer: Marilyn Imrie
A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.

MON 07:30 Just a Minute (b051ryqd)
Series 71

Episode 1

It's the return of Radio 4's classic panel game in which the contestants are challenged to speak on a given subject for a minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation.

This series, the guests include Jenny Eclair, Stephen Fry, Sheila Hancock, Robin Ince Paul Merton, Graham Norton, and trying his hand at the game for the first time, the tenth doctor, David Tennant.

Recorded at the BBC's Radio Theatre and Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, this long running and popular series enters its 47th year with the same wonderful host, Nicholas Parsons.

Kicking off this first episode in the series are Julian Clary, Stephen Fry, Paul Merton and David Tennant who makes his first impressive appearance on the show. Subjects include Exit, Pursued by a Bear, which is Shakespeare's most famous stage direction.

MON 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jlfs)
Series 1

The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage

Summer, 1940: Convinced a German invasion has begun, Captain Mainwaring and his men mount a gun placement at Godfrey's cottage.

Chaos, inevitably, ensues...

The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon in Walmington-on-Sea.

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

Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Walker …. James Beck
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Cissie Godfrey …. Nan Brawnton
Percy the Parrot …. Percy Edwards
Announcer …. John Snagge

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1974.

MON 08:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b00jjq7x)
From 05/02/1984

Michael Bentine stars as Dame Nellie Drongo, the Boy Scout Movement of India and a prehistoric Caveman..

The ultimate one man show written and performed by the host.

Producer: Jamie Rix

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1984.

MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote (b00r0qh9)
Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange of quotations and anecdotes.

With Ken Bruce, Valerie Grove, Ben Goldacre and Kwame Kwei-Armah.

The reader is Peter Jefferson.

MON 09:30 Mr Blue Sky (b011j7v3)
Series 1

Birthday Greetings

Harvey Easter (played by Mark Benton), 46, is the eternal optimist. He is able to see the good in every situation, the silver lining within every cloud, the bright side to every bit of bad news.

This, however, is his downfall. Someone for whom the glass is always half-full can be difficult to live with, as his wife of 19 years, Jacqui or "Jax" (played by Rebecca Front), knows all too well.

In this episode Harvey and Sean's jobs are put in the firing line whilst Robbie discovers a new love of birds...for the time-being.

Cast:
Harvey Easter...Mark Benton
Jacqui Easter.....Rebecca Front
Charlie Easter....Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Robbie Easter....Joe Tracini
Rakesh Rathi....Navin Chowdhry
Ray Marsh....Justin Edwards
Sean Cahoun....Michael Legge
Mr Bolt....Simon Day

Writer ..... Andrew Collins
Title Music performer/arranger ..... Jim Bob

Producer/Director ..... Anna Madley
An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4.

MON 10:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq4d)
So Near, So Far

His marriage to the local pig breeder's daughter having ended disastrously, Jude once again trains his eyes and thoughts of academia on the magical Christminster, where his cousin Sue lives...

Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth North.

Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, June Barrie as Widow Edlin, John Normington as Phillotson, Constance Chapman as Aunt Drusilla Fawley, Elizabeth Garvie as Sue Bridehead, Brian Jackson as Tinker Taylor, Gregory Phillips as Jack Stagg, Nicholas Blane as the Policeman, Stella Riley as Miss Fontover, Kim Hicks as Freckles, Jack Harding as the Warder, Andrew Black and Paul Wilce as the students.

Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986.

MON 11:00 OxCrimes (b052n4df)
The Spinster, by Ann Cleeves

This collection of crime writing features a compelling cast of suspects. Following the success of OxTales (2009) and OxTravels (2011), Oxfam has produced this collection of crime writing. We have chosen 5 of the best for Radio 4 Extra. A Scottish spinster with a buried secret, a man obsessed with casual murder and an artist's fascination with truth - all figure in this intriguing array of tales.

Among the readers are Ewan Bailey and Maggie Steed. Writers include 2008/2010 Stonewall Writer of the Year Stella Duffy (Room Of Lost Things, Theodora), multiple award-winning Inspector Rebus creator Ian Rankin OBE, Ann Cleeves (Vera, Shetland) and sometime Murder One bookshop owner-turned-crime-writer and columnist Maxim Jakubowski.

1: Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez interviews a Scottish spinster with a buried secret. Read by Sheila Reid.

MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b0520prf)
Maxine Peake, Christopher Biggins, Helen Lederer, Tara Prem, Nikki Bedi, Eduardo Niebla, Southern Tenant Folk Union

Clive's guests are Maxine Peake who stars in 'How To Hold Your Breath' written by Zinnie Harris and directed by Vicky Featherstone at London's Royal Court; Christopher Biggins - host of a special performance of 'Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music' at Hackney Empire, London in aid of Comic Relief and Helen Lederer, one of Britain's best-loved comediennes - who has written 'Losing It' a laugh-out-loud debut novel. Nikki Bedi talks to Tara Prem, producer and script editor of film and TV drama about the BFI Southbank season of Forgotten Dramas - British Television's Neglected Plays. With Music from Eduardo Niebla and Southern Tenant Folk Union.

Producer: Debbie Kilbride.

MON 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jlfs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

MON 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b00jjq7x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

MON 13:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r1cwl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

MON 13:30 Music Feature (b00d6zqj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b00s2slh)
Henry James - The Aspern Papers

Episode 1

Henry James took as his inspiration for his tale The Aspern Papers the story of a mistress of Byron's who outlived the poet into lonely old age. He transposed the setting to Venice and cast the city he loved as a character in a taut narrative of literary theft and deception.

Episode 1

The lure of previously unseen papers relating to the long-dead poet Jeffrey Aspern brings one of his editors to Venice in the grip of an obsession. He must see them, he must have them; and he will lie and betray in order to do so.

Read by Samuel West.

Abridged and produced by Christine Hall.

MON 14:15 Cosmic Quest (b00c0ny8)
Plumbing the Depths

Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy.

The science of astrophysics has emerged over the past 300 years. It began with the first attempts to measure the distances of the stars but took off in late Victorian times with the invention of the spectroscope, a device to split starlight up into its component wavelengths. This led to an understanding of the composition of stars and the discovery of a new element on the Sun.

MON 14:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (b00xmbyx)
The Newly Weds

The honeymoon is over all too soon for Albert and Victoria, as pressing matters of state require her attention. But their happiness is made even greater when their first child is expected...

Scripted by Juliet Ace, based on the letters and diaries of the young Queen Victoria, this portrait of her younger life and the happy years of her marriage, reveals some of the remarkable and long-lasting achievements of this extraordinary queen.

Starring Imogen Stubbs as Victoria.

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

Producer: Cherry Cookson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.

MON 14:45 Book of the Week (b00qzh56)
Patti Smith - Just Kids

Episode 1

Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New York in the late 1960s and 1970s.

In 1966, Patti is living in South Jersey with her family and seems destined to become a schoolteacher.

Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.

MON 15:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq4d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b052n79s)
Junior JAM, The Witches and Cream Crackers

Mel Giedroyc introduces the first in a new series of Junior Just a Minute and the first episode of Roald Dahl's The Witches, read by Kathy Burke.

MON 17:00 Second Thoughts (b00lmqtv)
Series 4

Faint Possibility

Liza earns cult status after baring her love life on Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

Sitcom about the battles of married life for ex-divorcees Bill and Faith, whilst balancing the demands of his ex-wife, Liza and Faith's teenage children.

Stars James Bolam as Bill, Lynda Bellingham as Faith, Belinda Lang as Liza, Julia Sawalha as Hannah, Mark Denham as Joe, Geoffrey Whitehead as Richard and Jo Kendall as Marjorie.

Series three of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie.

A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran for four series, with a spin-off 'Faith in the Future'.

Producer: Paul Schlesinger

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1992.

MON 17:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse (b00tt6px)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

MON 18:00 Quote... Unquote (b00r0qh9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

MON 18:30 A Good Read (b0075jkj)
Rob Newman and Sara Wheeler

Sarah LeFanu, Rob Newman and Sara Wheeler discuss books by David C Korten, Robert Byron and Margaret Forster. From April 1999.

MON 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jlfs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

MON 19:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b00jjq7x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

MON 20:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r1cwl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

MON 20:30 Music Feature (b00d6zqj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

MON 21:00 OxCrimes (b052n4df)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b0520prf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

MON 22:00 Just a Minute (b051ryqd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

MON 22:30 Mr Blue Sky (b011j7v3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

MON 23:00 The Now Show (b051w4dt)
Series 45

Episode 6

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches featuring Laura Shavin, Jon Holmes, John Finnemore and Adam Kay.

MON 23:30 Listen Against (b00fl0gk)
Series 2

Episode 2

Time runs away in preparations for the switch-on of the BBC Collider - and the Greenwich time signal pips are still running rogue...

The show that prises the back off your radio, fiddles around with the programmes inside and then puts it all back together the wrong way round.

Written by and starring Jon Holmes,

With Alice Arnold.

Producer: Sam Bryant

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2008.

TUESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2015

TUE 00:00 Book at Bedtime (b00s2slh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]

TUE 00:15 Cosmic Quest (b00c0ny8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday]

TUE 00:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (b00xmbyx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]

TUE 00:45 Book of the Week (b00qzh56)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday]

TUE 01:00 Quote... Unquote (b00r0qh9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]

TUE 01:30 A Good Read (b0075jkj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]

TUE 02:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r1cwl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]

TUE 02:30 Music Feature (b00d6zqj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]

TUE 03:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq4d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]

TUE 04:00 OxCrimes (b052n4df)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday]

TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b0520prf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday]

TUE 05:00 Second Thoughts (b00lmqtv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday]

TUE 05:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse (b00tt6px)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]

TUE 06:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r1yr7)
Episode 2

Tracked down by a woman who lives in the house where his son died, Mark's future happiness is threatened. Read by John Chancer. From March 2013.

TUE 06:30 Calling Time on Student Bars (b00npr8d)
Alcohol sales in student unions have halved in past decade; some bars have closed, and others have downsized. Comedian Ed Byrne returns to the city of his student days, Glasgow, to find out if that notorious institution, the student union bar, has had its day.

TUE 07:00 Nineteen Ninety-Eight (b01bwm9f)
Episode 2

Edward wakes up with urgent news, but who will listen? Orwellian sitcom with David Threlfall and Hugh Laurie. From April 1987.

TUE 07:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' (b046ny8j)
Series 1

Episode 1

Nominated for Best Comedy in the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2015, Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' is a comedy sketch show written and performed by Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd, stars of Radio 4's Showstoppers.

What happens when you put together jaded (sorry, 'experienced') comedy circuit veteran Ruth Bratt (Derek, People Just Do Nothing, Quick Cuts, Ministry of Curious Stuff, Mongrels) and 'serious circuit' enthusiast Lucy Trodd (famous for her fruit impressions)?

This week Ruth gets to perform her favourite sketch featuring eight different Kens - she just has to get Lucy to understand it. Meanwhile the 1940's divas who run a lighthouse can't work out whose turn it is to switch on the light; and on Wetumpka's public access radio station, Thandie is trying to find her clumsy and slightly terrifying daughter Lily-Rose-May a date.

Written and performed by Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd

Supporting cast: Adam Meggido and Oliver Senton

Script Editor: Jon Hunter

Composer: Duncan Walsh Atkins

Producer: Ben Worsfield

A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4.

TUE 08:00 Yes Minister (b007jmpx)
Series 1

The Right to Know

MP Jim Hacker tries to excavate himself from problems with badgers.

Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds.

Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn satirical sitcom ran on BBC TV between 1980 and 1984. Yes Minister is centred around the hapless Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service underlings headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby and obsequious Bernard.

Jim Hacker ...... Paul Eddington
Sir Humphrey Appleby ...... Nigel Hawthorne
Bernard ...... Derek Fowlds
Annie ...... Diana Hoddinott
Lucy ...... Gerry Cowper
Protester ...... Carol Boyd
Sir Frederick ...... Peter Cellier

Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin.

First broadcast on Radio 4 in November 1983.

TUE 08:30 The Ken Dodd Show (b007jx2y)
From 07/06/1964

Doddy reports from the Knotty Ash Eisteddfod and introduces the world's worst uncle.

Starring Ken Dodd.

With Judith Chalmers, Patricia Hayes, Duncan Macrae, Peter Hudson, Wallas Eaton, Percy Edwards and The Bachelors.

BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Lockyer.

Script by Ken Dodd and Eddie Braben.

Producer: Bill Worsley

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1964.

TUE 09:00 The Now Show (b051w4dt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]

TUE 09:30 Bristow (b007w5jb)
Series 3

Repaying Mr Piper

Why is Bristow surrounded by incompetents? He has a theory - and determines to bumble toward the proof.

Michael Williams stars as Bristow.

Frank Dickens' sitcom is based on his famous long-running newspaper cartoon strip about the Chester-Perry buying clerk.

Bristow ...... Michael Williams
Jones ...... Rodney Bewes
Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan
Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman
Perkins ...... Leslie Phillips
Gert ...... Liz Fraser
Daisy ...... Joan Sims
Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey
Fudge ...... Jon Glover
Postboy ...... Simon Schatzberger
Stokes ...... David Battley
Miss Pleasant ...... Jackie Neglia

Music: John Whitehall

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000.

TUE 10:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq4p)
The Curse of Consciousness

Rebuffed from going to college at Christminster, Jude learns he may train for the priesthood elsewhere - perhaps at Melchester, where his cousin Sue has become a teacher.

Denied the possibility of courting her due to his marriage to Arabella, Jude can't resist travelling to Melchester to be near her....

Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth North.

Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, John Normington as Phillotson, Constance Chapman as Aunt Drusilla Fawley, Elizabeth Garvie as Sue Bridehead, Brian Jackson as Tinker Taylor, Elva Makins as Arabella, Anthony Morse as Parson, Alexa Romanes as the Landlady, Melvyn Bedford as the Shepherd and Abigail Docherty, Adele Griffiths and Bob Docherty as the children.

Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986.

TUE 11:00 OxCrimes (b052qyll)
An Afternoon/People Just Don't Listen

Sheila Read reads Ian Rankin's tale of match violence.

Ewan Bailey reads Peter Robinson's reminder about listening carefully.

Following the success of OxTales (2009) and OxTravels (2011), Oxfam has produced this collection of crime writing. We have chosen 5 of the best for Radio 4 Extra.

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Partnership.

TUE 11:15 Drama (b00fz12l)
Tony Staveacre - Wodehouse in Hollywood

In 1930 MGM shipped PG Wodehouse out West and thrust $104,000 into his hand - in return for zilch. The stories and novels that Wodehouse created out of his Hollywood experience were his satiric riposte to those that had made a dishonest man out of him. Comedy combining Wodehouse's own writing with dramatised fictional scenes by Tony Staveacre.

PG Wodehouse......Tim McInnerny
Ethel Wodehouse.....Fenella Woolgar
Sam Marx......Rowe David McClelland
Dorothy......Fiona Clarke
Clarence......Declan Wilson
Thalberg/Bobby......Paul Ryder

Directed by Stefan Escreet.

TUE 12:00 Yes Minister (b007jmpx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

TUE 12:30 The Ken Dodd Show (b007jx2y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

TUE 13:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r1yr7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

TUE 13:30 Calling Time on Student Bars (b00npr8d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b00s2sks)
Henry James - The Aspern Papers

Episode 2

Episode 2 of The Aspern Papers by Henry James, read by Samuel West.

Jeffrey Aspern's devoted literary editor has broached the palazzo of Aspern's ancient and discarded lover, Miss Juliana Bordereau. He has deceived the fluttering middle-aged niece, Miss Tina, into believing he wants to lodge with them in order to cultivate the garden. Now he has to convince the old lady herself and with great emotion he comes before the Juliana who inspired some of the dead poet's most exquisite lyrics.

Abridged and produced by Christine Hall.

TUE 14:15 Cosmic Quest (b00c3fnn)
The Milky Way

Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy.

Galileo realised that the Milky Way was a glowing band of stars across the sky and philosopher Immanuel Kant recognised that our Sun was just one member of a vast star system. But for centuries, few recognised the true nature of our galaxy. In the late 19th century, William Herschel realised that the Milky Way was a giant body of stars, but still his discovery was ignored. It was not until early in the 20th century that Harlow Shapley began to estimate the distances of the stars and hence map out the Milky Way in three-dimensional detail. Radio astronomy finally yielded the ability to penetrate the dark clouds towards the galactic centre and see the true distribution of matter in the skies.

TUE 14:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (b00xmj92)
The Family

Based on the diaries and letters of Queen Victoria. A gun shot alarms the royal couple. Stars Imogen Stubbs.

TUE 14:45 Book of the Week (b00r2jkd)
Patti Smith - Just Kids

Episode 2

Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New York in the late 1960s and 1970s.

In 1967, Patti is hungry, homeless and penniless, until a chance encounter in a bookstore changes her life for ever.

Abridged by Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.

TUE 15:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq4p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b052qytp)
Ed Sheeran, Roald Dahl and Writing Sheds

Mel Giedroyc gives the birthday bumps to singer Ed Sheeran and hears the second episode of Junior Just a Minute. Plus part two of Roald Dahl's The Witches, read by Kathy Burke.

TUE 17:00 Ring Around the Bath (b00v7sp7)
Series 2

All Over Bar the Wrapping Paper

Stella's determined to get away - but a moveable feast is on the family Christmas menu.
Series 2 of Lucy Clare and Ian Davidson's sitcom about topsy-turvy family life.

Stars Duncan Preston as Patrick, Penny Downie as Stella, Claudie Blakley as Alison, Bruce MacKinnon as Rick, Catherine Shepherd as Xanthe, Daniela Denby-Ashe as Egg and Terence Frisch as the Man in Garden Centre.

Producer: Elizabeth Freestone

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2004.

TUE 17:30 Nineteen Ninety-Eight (b01bwm9f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

TUE 18:00 The Now Show (b051w4dt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]

TUE 18:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007k4jm)
Series 2

Beryl Reid

Mark Radcliffe profiles the multi-talented Beryl Reid, whose career spanned music hall, variety, stand-up comedy and straight roles such as 'The Killing of Sister George'.

Series exploring some of the North's best-loved and most influential comedians.

Producer: Libby Cross

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.

TUE 19:00 Yes Minister (b007jmpx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

TUE 19:30 The Ken Dodd Show (b007jx2y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

TUE 20:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r1yr7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

TUE 20:30 Calling Time on Student Bars (b00npr8d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

TUE 21:00 OxCrimes (b052qyll)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

TUE 21:15 Drama (b00fz12l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

TUE 22:00 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' (b046ny8j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

TUE 22:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b00hcr5l)
Series 2

Barry Cryer

Marcus Brigstocke invites comedian Barry Cryer to try new experiences, including changing a nappy. From February 2009.

TUE 23:00 Delve Special (b007k469)
Series 2

Whose Baby?

David Lander reports on the implications of revolutionary methods of baby production.

Presented by David Lander with assistance from Stephen Fry.

Studio production by Tony Robinson, Julia Hills, Stephen Frost and Felicity Montague.

Dramatic reconstruction by Jack Klaff, Phil Nice and Robert Bathurst.

Researched and compiled by Tony Sarchet.

Editor: Paul Mayhew-Archer

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

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1985.

TUE 23:30 Rudy's Rare Records (b00xpp6b)
Series 3

"It's A Family Affair"

Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record shop in Birmingham.

While attempting a bit of spring cleaning, Adam discovers a bundle of long lost love letters addressed to his late Mum - and they're definitely not from his Dad.

Adam ...... Lenny Henry
Rudy ...... Larrington Walker
Richie ...... Joe Jacobs
Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey
Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon
Doreen ...... Claire Benedict

Written by Paula Hines
Script Edited by Danny Robins
Produced by Lucy Armitage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.

WEDNESDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2015

WED 00:00 Book at Bedtime (b00s2sks)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]

WED 00:15 Cosmic Quest (b00c3fnn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday]

WED 00:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (b00xmj92)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]

WED 00:45 Book of the Week (b00r2jkd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday]

WED 01:00 The Now Show (b051w4dt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]

WED 01:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007k4jm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]

WED 02:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r1yr7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]

WED 02:30 Calling Time on Student Bars (b00npr8d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]

WED 03:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq4p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]

WED 04:00 OxCrimes (b052qyll)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday]

WED 04:15 Drama (b00fz12l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday]

WED 05:00 Ring Around the Bath (b00v7sp7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday]

WED 05:30 Nineteen Ninety-Eight (b01bwm9f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]

WED 06:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r1zk2)
Episode 3

Mark and Chloe must face the news that a child living in their old home says he has seen their dead son's ghost. Read by John Chancer. From March 2013.

WED 06:30 Hunting Haydn's Head (b00kmgrx)
Simon Townley travels to Austria to learn how 'the father of the symphony' was separated from his head for 145 years. From 2009.

WED 07:00 The Older Woman (b02zfp46)
Series 1

Episode 6

What did Roy and Jane get up to after the concert? What lengths will Dick go to in his attempts to become Frank Sinatra? And will Elsa save Roy's bacon?

Conclusion of Tony Bagley's romantic six-part comedy drama serial with a twist.

Starring Zoe Wanamaker as Miss Callaghan, Martin Clunes as Roy Hitchcock, Toyah Wilcox as Elsa, David Troughton as Mr Say, Nicky Henson as Chad, Geoff McGivern as Dick, David Holt as Jacko, Sue Roderick as Wyn and Melanie Hudson as the Advert Voice-over.

Producer: Paul Schlesinger:

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1993.

WED 07:30 The Sinha Carta (b051s4qh)
Magna Carta is a document, over 800 years old, that surprisingly few people have read, considering how important it is.

Luckily for you, comedian and quizzer Paul Sinha (The Chase) has read it, and it turns out it's ace, especially if you love keeping your own timber and hate fishing traps in the River Medway.

Get ready as Paul will be explaining why what’s in it is in it - how it came to be - and guide you through some of its 63 clauses of medieval Latin.

He'll also supply some new, modern clauses, for a Magna Carta fit for a modern Britain.

Written and performed by Paul Sinha.

Producer: Ed Morrish

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015.

WED 08:00 The Navy Lark (b00yspj3)
Series 2

The Charter Trip to Antarctica

A geographical society from Willesden heads to the Antarctic aboard HMS Troutbridge.

Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as Number One, Richard Caldicot as Commander Povey, Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson, Heather Chasen as Mrs Edgwick, Michael Bates as Mr Crump and Tenniel Evans as the Professor.

The Navy Lark ran for an impressive 13 series on BBC Radio between 1959 and 1976.

Scripted by Lawrie Wyman.

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1959.

WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00sxklf)
Series 4

Episode 3

It's bath night for John Cleese, plus a nude surprise in an art gallery.

More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs and parodies.

Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.

Written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Peter Hutchins and Leslie Sellers.

Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.

Music and songs by Dave Lee and Bill Oddie.
Producer: Humphrey Barclay

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in October 1966.

WED 09:00 So Wrong It's Right (b00zf4j7)
Series 2

Episode 2

Charlie Brooker returns to Radio 4 with the comedy panel show that seeks the best in wrong answers. He plunders his guests' pasts and creativity over a series of rounds in which panellists have to be wrong to be right.

Comedians Frank Skinner, Isy Suttie and Jon Richardson are the guests for this edition. The panel's worst experiences on a day out - which take in the delights of a Birmingham underpass, Gatwick Airport and 2 am in Swindon - is just one of topics under the wrong spotlight. There's also the wrongest ideas for a smartphone app plus Jon Richardson lets rip on his pet hate of twenty-first century - sexual liberation...

Charlie Brooker also presents BBC2's How TV Ruined Your Life, Channel 4's 10 O'Clock Live and writes for The Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press Awards for his column, and Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009.

Producer: Aled Evans
A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4.

WED 09:30 Spread a Little Happiness (b00z60xt)
Series 2

An Inspector Calls

The arrival of a restaurant reviewer from a posh magazine puts Hope in a spin. Debra Stevenson and Nicola Duffet star in John Godber and Jane Thornton's comedy set in a sandwich bar in Beverley, near Hull.

Cast:
Hope ..... Debra Stevenson
Maria ..... Nicola Duffett
Dave ..... Neil Dudgeon
Mam ...... Anne Reid
Ray ..... Shaun Prendergast
Gavin ..... Ralph Brown
Jenny ..... Sarah Moyle
Anita ..... Sherry Baines
Carrie ..... Elizabeth Godber
Eve ..... Helen Longworth
Bob ..... Ben Crowe
Monty ..... Stephen Critchlow
Blinds man ..... James Weaver

'Spread A Little Happiness' is sung by Debra Stevenson.

Producer/Director: Chris Wallis
An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4.

WED 10:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq5l)
The Unusual Tragedy of Love

Dashed down by Sue's marriage to Phillotson, Jude returns to Christminster as a stonemason. His drunken speechifying makes him the butt of jokes in the local public houses.

Arabella, the wife of his disastrous first marriage, has returned from Australia, destitute and determined to reclaim him....

Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth North.

Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, Elizabeth Garvie as Sue Bridehead, June Barrie as Widow Edlin, John Normington as Phillotson, Elva Makins as Arabella, Ian MacFarlane as the Voice, John Church as Gillingham, Debbie Papworth as Janey, Richard Morgan as the Vicar, Hubert Tucker as the Showman and David Sharp as the Townsman.

Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986.

WED 11:00 OxCrimes (b052r0xp)
My Life as a Killer, by Maxim Jakubowski

Casual murder becomes an obsession for a man whose time is running out. Read by Ewan Bailey.

Following the success of OxTales (2009) and OxTravels (2011), Oxfam has produced this collection of crime writing. We have chosen 5 of the best for Radio 4 Extra.

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Partnership.

WED 11:15 Drama (b00wlf5m)
How to Be an Internee With No Previous Experience

How to Be an Internee With No Previous Experience
by Colin Shindler

In 1944, PG Wodehouse, the creator of Jeeves and Wooster, was questioned by MI5 after broadcasting to America from a German internment camp. One of the interrogators was an up and coming journalist called Malcolm Muggeridge. The other was Major EJP Cussen, who later became a high court judge. The stakes were high: one of Britain's best loved authors was facing the possibility of the death penalty.

Wodehouse - Tim McInnerny
Muggeridge - Alex Jennings
Cussen - Anton Lesser
Connor - Stephen Critchlow
Flannery - Gunnar Cauthery

Producer/Director Peter Leslie Wild.

WED 12:00 The Navy Lark (b00yspj3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00sxklf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

WED 13:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r1zk2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

WED 13:30 Hunting Haydn's Head (b00kmgrx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b00s2skv)
Henry James - The Aspern Papers

Episode 3

Episode 3 of The Aspern Papers by Henry James, read by Samuel West.

The collector of memorabilia belonging to the long-dead poet Jeffrey Aspern has secured rooms in the house of Aspern's ancient and withered ex-lover. He has met the old lady and has been startled by her unromantic keenness to relieve him of his money, but he feels any outlay would be worth making to secure the letters and papers he wants. Accordingly, he embarks on a campaign of charming Miss Bordereau's middle-aged niece in order to get her co-operation. Abridged and Produced by Christine Hall.

WED 14:15 Cosmic Quest (b00c3h3t)
Deep Space

Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy.

In 1845 the third Earl of Rosse completed the biggest telescope in the world at his castle in the centre of Ireland. In spite of cloudy skies, this leviathan enabled him to see spectacular detail in the sky, including a spiral structure in certain fuzzy patches known as nebulae. Some of these seemed so big that astronomers thought they must be rotating clouds of gas out of which planetary systems are born.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt refuted this, studying variable stars and realising that a certain type of star varied at a rate that was linked to its brightness. These so-called Cepheid variables could be used to estimate the vast distances of space.

In 1919, the young Edwin Hubble used a new telescope in California to search for Leavitt's Cepheids in spiral nebulae. He discovered, to his astonishment, that the nearest, the Andromeda nebula, lay well outside our own galaxy and constituted an island universe in its own right.

Readers are Timothy West, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt and John Palmer.

WED 14:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (b00xmv24)
Albert's Achievements

The Prince Regent plans the first international exhibition. Based on diaries and letters of Queen Victoria. Stars Imogen Stubbs.

WED 14:45 Book of the Week (b00r2jf3)
Patti Smith - Just Kids

Episode 3

Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New York in the late 1960s and 1970s.

In 1969, Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe have moved to the Chelsea Hotel, Brooklyn - a magnet for artists, writers and musicians.

Abridged by Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.

WED 15:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq5l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b052r0zz)
Nicholas Parsons, Pop Music and 4D Films

Mel Giedroyc uncovers the Inheritance Tracks of Nicholas Parsons and hears the third in a brand new series of Junior Just a Minute. Plus part three of Roald Dahl's The Witches.

WED 17:00 Miracles R Us (b00sm8tq)
Lot 243

Caroline's car gives up the ghost and the business can’t afford the repairs.

When they've asked to bid for a lot at a county house auction – how can they get there?

Sylvia rides to the rescue. Once they arrive, Caroline makes a new friend, while Sylvia meets a kindred spirit...

Sitcom by Lesley Bruce.

Sylvia ..... Anna Massey
Caroline ..... Deborah Findlay
Lauren ..... Madeleine Bowyer
Lambourn ..... Trevor Peacock
Carl Bailey ..... Nigel Hastings
Auctioneer ..... Michael Shelford

Producer: Katie Tyrrell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2010.

Music and strings from the music of Nick Drake. Theme: "When the Day is Done" and strings : "Time of No Reply" and "Cello Song".

WED 17:30 The Older Woman (b02zfp46)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

WED 18:00 So Wrong It's Right (b00zf4j7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

WED 18:30 Off the Page (b0076k64)
Multicultural Britain

Matthew Parris welcomes three writers - Reshma S. Ruia, Archie Markham and Leone Ross - to a frank discussion. From 2004.

In each programme, Matthew Parris introduces a group of writers of fact and fiction: new talent and established names. In the context of a discussion of one of the ideas and pre-occupations of our times, each presents a piece on this week's topic.

The best new writing and the freshest conversation from 2004.

WED 19:00 The Navy Lark (b00yspj3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00sxklf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

WED 20:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r1zk2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

WED 20:30 Hunting Haydn's Head (b00kmgrx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

WED 21:00 OxCrimes (b052r0xp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

WED 21:15 Drama (b00wlf5m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

WED 22:00 The Sinha Carta (b051s4qh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

WED 22:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00cqtgl)
Series 2

Motivational Speech

The ex-variety star tries motivational speaking with a snappy slogan and dunce's caps. Stars Steve Delaney. From February 2007.

WED 23:00 On the Hour (b007m9zs)
Series 2

Episode 6

An outside broadcast goes down and a bluebottle rampages across Essex.

All the news as it happens, if it happens from the BBC's urgent and incisive news overview.

Savagely satirical award-winning comedy starring Chris Morris.

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

Written by Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci, Richard Herring, Steven Wells, David Quantick, Stewart Lee and Patrick Marber.

Producer: Armando lannucci

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1992

WED 23:30 The Skivers (b0080rd1)
Series 2

Spike Milligan

Nick and Tim de Jongh welcome Spike Milligan to the last ever BBC Radio 4 show to be recorded at the famous BBC Paris Studios.

Located in Lower Regent Street, London, they were used from 1946 to 1995 - the home of countless BBC shows from Round The Horne to Just A Minute

Skilful sketch show written and performed by Nick Golson and Tim de Jongh.

With Peter Bradshaw and Mel Giedroyc

Producer: Jon Naismith

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1995.

THURSDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2015

THU 00:00 Book at Bedtime (b00s2skv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]

THU 00:15 Cosmic Quest (b00c3h3t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday]

THU 00:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (b00xmv24)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]

THU 00:45 Book of the Week (b00r2jf3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday]

THU 01:00 So Wrong It's Right (b00zf4j7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]

THU 01:30 Off the Page (b0076k64)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]

THU 02:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r1zk2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]

THU 02:30 Hunting Haydn's Head (b00kmgrx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]

THU 03:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq5l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]

THU 04:00 OxCrimes (b052r0xp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday]

THU 04:15 Drama (b00wlf5m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday]

THU 05:00 Miracles R Us (b00sm8tq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday]

THU 05:30 The Older Woman (b02zfp46)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]

THU 06:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r2tnv)
Episode 4

Mark and Chloe don't believe in ghosts, but when they try to dispel their fears and hopes, nothing is as it seems. Read by John Chancer. From March 2013.

THU 06:30 Salt City (b00f7z1s)
Allan Beswick visits the last working inland salt mine left in Britain, 500 feet below the plains of Cheshire. He goes underground to investigate the unexpected things that reside down there, in huge empty caverns that are now being used to store archive materials.

THU 07:00 Any Other Business (b0140tzv)
Episode 6

'Star Trek' fever erupts, as a German delegation tours the cultural delights of Chesbury.

Lucy Flannery's local government sitcom

Starring:

Nelson David
John Duttine
James Grout
Rosy Fordham
Nick Hardy
Howard Lew Lewis
Toby Longworth
Jan Ravens
Vivienne Rochester
June Whitfield.

Producer: Liz Anstee

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1995.

THU 07:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels (b01m16pr)
Series 2

Lessington

Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre adventures.

More memories as Brian relives his experiences in Lessington where ignorance reigns.

Neil Pearson stars in series two of Bill Dare's satirical adventure story about a man lost in a fictional world.

Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson
Rachel Gulliver ..... Mariah Gale
Sharol ..... Jo Bobin
Cop ..... Fergus Craig
Cop ..... Colin Hoult
Guide ..... Patrick Brennan
Wife ..... Christine Absalom
Barman ..... Harry Livingstone
Robber ..... Sam Alexander

Producer: Steven Canny

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2012.

THU 08:00 Brothers in Law (b007k33c)
Series 1

Judgement Summons

Rookie barrister Roger Thursby finds himself defending a fortunate debtor.

Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby, Richard Waring as Henry Blagrove and Ann Davies as Sally Mannering.

With guest stars John Junkin as Mr Starling and Thorley Walters as Judge Perkins.

Adapted for radio by Richard Waring from the BBC TV scripts.

Restored from BBC Transcription Service tapes - originally edited for sale abroad.

Published in 1955, Henry Cecil's comic legal novel Brothers in Law was adapted first for TV in 1962 by Frank Muir and Denis Norden. It provided the first regular starring role for Richard Briers, who later reprised his role of the idealistic young lawyer Roger Thursby for BBC Radio between 1970 and 1972.

Produced by David Hatch.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1970.

THU 08:30 Not in Front of the Children (b052svws)
Series 1

Just Pack a Toothbrush

Mary's surprise news leaves Jennifer broody, much to Henry's horror.

Starring Wendy Craig and Francis Matthews.

The comedy mishaps of the Corner family - Jennifer and Henry and their three kids Trudi, Amanda and Robin.

Four series were first shown on BBC TV from 1967 to 1970. Richard Waring adapted his own scripts for this radio version, now fully restored from the original reel-to-reel tapes.

Jennifer Corner ...... Wendy Craig
Henry Corner ...... Francis Matthews
Mary ...... Charlotte Mitchell
Trudi ...... Roberta Tovey
Robin ...... Hugo Keith-Johnston
Amanda ...... Jill Riddick
Hannah ...... Elizabeth Morgan
Charlie ...... Tenniel Evans

Music by Ronnie Hazlehurst.

Producer: Trafford Whitelock

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1969.

THU 09:00 The Personality Test (b007tzff)
Series 3

Toyah Willcox

Pop sensation and actress Toyah Willcox is in the hot seat posing questions all about her.

Tackling the ultra-personal quiz are Sue Perkins, Caroline Quinlan, Robin Ince and Will Smith.

Comedy quiz presented by a new guest host every show. All the questions are about them.

Script by Simon Littlefield and Kieron Quirke.

Devised and produced by Aled Evans.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.

THU 09:30 House on Fire (b0132p8t)
Series 2

Love

The return of House on Fire. Written by Dan Hine and Chris Sussman. Vicky (Emma Pierson) and Matt (Jody Latham) are two of the most unlikely people to buy a house together.

Matt discovers an entirely original use for Vicky's coat-hangers whilst Vicky bumps into an old boyfriend and finds herself compelled to invite him and his fiancee round for dinner.

In a desperate attempt to hang on to her pride - Vicky feels compelled to provide herself with her own love interest. In the absence of any suitable candidates - Matt will have to do.

Cast:
Vicky ..... Emma Pierson
Matt ..... Jody Latham
Colonel Bill ..... Rupert Vansittart
Peter ...... Philip Jackson
Julie ..... Janine Duvitski
Conchita ..... Kellie Shirley
Martin ..... Colin Hoult
TV show host/pet shop owner ..... Fergus Craig
Waiter ..... Chris Sussmann
TV show contestant ..... Joanne Ryan

Additional characters will be played by Fergus Craig and Colin Hoult

Produced by Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.

THU 10:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq5z)
We Wronged No Man

Sue can no longer go on living with Phillotson as his wife, and elopes with Jude, who's now free of Arabella.

Sue, however, is intensely fearful of further entanglements, and cannot but see Jude's natural feelings for her in a brutal, barbaric light....

Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth North.

Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, Elizabeth Garvie as Sue Bridehead, June Barrie as Widow Edlin, Elva Makins as Arabella, Hazel Ellerby as Annie, Jesse Lawrence as Father Time, John Linstrum as Dr Vilbert, Barrie Shore as the Rough Woman and Jerold Wells as the Auctioneer.

Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986.

THU 11:00 OxCrimes (b052sy2z)
Face Value by Stella Duffy, Part 1

An artist's fascination for the truth in her most notorious and spectacular work holds a deadly secret. Read by Maggie Steed.

Following the success of OxTales (2009) and OxTravels (2011), Oxfam has produced this collection of crime writing. We have chosen 5 of the best for Radio 4 Extra.

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Partnership.

THU 11:15 Drama (b00vkyz7)
Gracey and Me

By Gillian Plowman

Kate (Harriet Walter) returns to South Africa to meet Gracey (Jenny Jules), the woman she betrayed twenty-five years ago when she was a ten-year-old staying with her godparents in a luxury suburb of Johannesburg during the height of apartheid. The repercussions of that betrayal have profoundly affected both women, psychologically and physically.

The play takes Kate on a journey into her past. Beauty was the daughter of the housemaid, Gracey, who has illegally secreted her into the hut in the garden where she lives. The two children are swimming together when Kate tells Beauty she has made the water dirty because she is black. The altercation between the two children escalates and the horrific scene becomes a metaphor for the apartheid era as Kate plays out what she has observed of the treatment of black people by white people, making her drink the dog's water from a bowl on the floor. Gracey discovers them and unleashes the untold anger of her life upon Kate. Kate retaliates by revealing the secret of Beauty's presence in the hut to her Godparents, resulting in Gracey and her daughter being banished.

This haunts Kate as an adult but when she finally confronts her past, events unfold which threaten her life, as the play reveals the brutality of the legacy left by apartheid.

Directed by Annie Castledine

Produced by Catherine Bailey
A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.

THU 12:00 Brothers in Law (b007k33c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

THU 12:30 Not in Front of the Children (b052svws)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

THU 13:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r2tnv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

THU 13:30 Salt City (b00f7z1s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b00s2skx)
Henry James - The Aspern Papers

Episode 4

The would-be literary thief is no nearer Aspern's letters. Miss Tina's strangeness starts to irritate him. Read by Samuel West.

THU 14:15 Cosmic Quest (b00c3h8m)
Einstein's Biggest Blunder

Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy.

In 1915, Albert Einstein found that he had to introduce a new factor into his equations of gravity to prevent the stars from falling in on one another. He called it the cosmological constant. But then, astronomers discovered that the light from galaxies was stretched in a way that could only be explained if the galaxies were flying apart from each other and the universe was expanding.

A recent twist to this tale came in the year 2000, when estimates of the rate of the expansion revealed that the most distant galaxies are accelerating. The only way to explain this was by a force called dark energy - in effect, a cosmological constant.

Readers are Timothy West, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt and John Palmer.

THU 14:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (b00xn6sy)
The Marriage of True Minds

The Crimean War looms and Victoria has her ninth child. Based on diaries and letters of Queen Victoria. Stars Imogen Stubbs.

THU 14:45 Book of the Week (b00r2jf6)
Patti Smith - Just Kids

Episode 4

Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New York in the late 1960s and 1970s.

In 1975, Patti recorded her debut album Horses. It's a landmark in rock music - but the cover is just as iconic.

Abridged by Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.

THU 15:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq5z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b052t3p6)
Scary Mice, Improvising and Tasty Food Pairings

Mel Giedroyc explores why some people find mice scary and celebrates some tasty food pairings. Plus, part four of Roald Dahl's The Witches.

THU 17:00 No Commitments (b00st9xc)
Series 4

Educated Guesswork

Victoria and Roger are in crisis when Emily announces that she's not going to university. Stars Nicola Pagett. From July 1996.

THU 17:30 Any Other Business (b0140tzv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

THU 18:00 The Personality Test (b007tzff)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

THU 18:30 Great Lives (b01mdf0d)
Series 28

Stan Laurel

The late Ken Dodd explains to Matthew Parris why Stan Laurel inspired him to get into comedy, with the help of expert Glenn Mitchell.

Born Stan Jefferson into a theatrical family, in Lancashire, he later moved to the United States, where talent and a leg of lamb helped forge the Laurel & Hardy partnership.

They became the last big comedy sensation of the silent era but took to talkies like "ducks to water" and were mobbed by fans and reporters everywhere they went.

Features archive clips, including their memorable performance of The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.

THU 19:00 Brothers in Law (b007k33c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

THU 19:30 Not in Front of the Children (b052svws)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

THU 20:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r2tnv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

THU 20:30 Salt City (b00f7z1s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

THU 21:00 OxCrimes (b052sy2z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

THU 21:15 Drama (b00vkyz7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

THU 22:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels (b01m16pr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

THU 22:30 Down the Line (b00qt2l4)
Series 1

Healthy Eating

Award-winning spoof phone-in show, with talk radio host Gary Bellamy. Stars Rhys Thomas and Charlie Higson. From May 2006.

THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b00hr4lp)
Series 7

Episode 2

Satan needs to sort some stuff out with God but He has gone off to have some "me-time". Then Hell receives its strangest visitor yet...

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

Additional roles played by Michael Fenton Stevens and Philip Pope.

Written by Andy Hamilton.

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2009.

THU 23:30 Hut 33 (b00ljn73)
Series 1

Bridge Too Far

Three wartime code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden hut as they try to break German ciphers.

Unfortunately, they hate each other.

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

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

Producer: Adam Bromley.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2007.

FRIDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2015

FRI 00:00 Book at Bedtime (b00s2skx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]

FRI 00:15 Cosmic Quest (b00c3h8m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday]

FRI 00:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (b00xn6sy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]

FRI 00:45 Book of the Week (b00r2jf6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday]

FRI 01:00 The Personality Test (b007tzff)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]

FRI 01:30 Great Lives (b01mdf0d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]

FRI 02:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r2tnv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]

FRI 02:30 Salt City (b00f7z1s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]

FRI 03:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq5z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]

FRI 04:00 OxCrimes (b052sy2z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday]

FRI 04:15 Drama (b00vkyz7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday]

FRI 05:00 No Commitments (b00st9xc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday]

FRI 05:30 Any Other Business (b0140tzv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]

FRI 06:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r2wd7)
Episode 5

With Mark's commitment to Allie called into question, how can he earn a future and lay to rest the past? Read by John Chancer. From March 2013.

FRI 06:30 Frequently Asked Questions (b00lszh8)
Writer Ian Sansom examines the changing nature of the relationship, and contact, between authors and their readers.

With contributions from Susan Hill, Hilary Mantel, Michael Rosen, Toby Lift, Joanna Prior, Linda Grant, Geoffrey Dyer, Monica Ali, Robert McCrum, Nikki Gerrard and Sean French

Producer: Sara Davies

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.

FRI 07:00 Living with the Enemy (b007719g)
Episode 2

Gyles and Sophie decide to move out of Nick's flat as soon as possible, until they realise the consequences...

Sitcom about a Tory MP-turned-media celebrity and a comedian-turned-holistic therapist.

Written by and starring Nick Revell and Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandon ...... Gyles Brandreth
Nick Reynolds ...... Nick Revell
Sophie Okuyu ...... Guqu Mbatha-Raw
George Carstairs ...... Martin Jarvls
Taxidriver ...... Nathan Caton
Mr Longstaff ...... Martin Hyder
Shop assistant ...... Alys Torrance

Producer: Ed Morrish

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2006.

FRI 07:30 Gloomsbury (b01nbt9b)
Series 1

Trying to Avoid Unpleasantness

The gardener Vera Sackcloth Vest and her husband Henry are obliged to offer hospitality to the writer of very naughty books Mr D H Lollipop and his new flame, Venus Traduces - who formerly harboured a Sapphic passion for Vera.

The guests are accommodated in the dovecote as Henry will not have Lollipop in the house, in case the cook Mrs Gosling is exposed to impertinences. Vera is hoping that Lollipop will be able to improve her prose style, but instead he seems to take pleasure in trashing her garden and redesigning her study. Lollipop is intent on awakening Venus's blood consciousness but, alas, any educational impulse involving Venus is doomed to failure.

As Venus's passion for Lollipop begins to flag, she finds consolation with the gardener Gosling on the potting bench. Despite Henry's precautions, Mrs Gosling is exposed to Lollipop's impertinences, and the outcome is unexpected and inconvenient.

Cast:
Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes
Gosling, her gardener ..... Nigel Planer
Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy
Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks
Mrs Gosling, Housekeeper ..... Alison Steadman
D H Lollipop ..... John Sessions

Produced by Jamie Rix
A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4.

FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k251)
Series 2

The Marrow Contest

The green-fingered lad takes on the authorities to save his pride and joy.

Starring Tony Hancock, Bill Kerr, Sidney James. Andree Melly and Kenneth Williams.

Announcer: Kenneth Williams

Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

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

Producer: Dennis Main Wilson

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1955.

FRI 08:30 The Men from the Ministry (b01109vz)
Thoroughly Modern Ministry

Life's a drag for Lamb when a new receptionist isn't all she seems...

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

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

Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham.

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

Producer: Edward Taylor

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in August 1971.

FRI 09:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b015bxql)
Series 4

Carr, Bellos, Stavrakopoulou

The Museum of Curiosity is, as ever, hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of Buckingham John Lloyd (now with added C.B.E). For this, the fourth series, he is joined by the intensely curious comedian Dave Gorman as his Curator. Dave is the latest in a line of illustrious Museum curators: Bill Bailey, Sean Lock and Jon Richardson.

The Museum of Curiosity has a unique method for collecting exhibits. Once a week it welcomes three luminaries from widely different specialist fields and asks them to bring with them their most treasured items to donate.

The Museum's collection already boasts The Big Bang When It Was The Size Of A Grapefruit; A Pineapple; A Yard Of Silence; Nothing; A British Railways Bridge Plate; A Telepathic Sheep; A Chimpanzee Rain Dance; An Impossible Rabbit; A Gay Bomb; A Choir Of Singing Sand Dunes; National Ignorance Day (of which we know nothing); and An Icelandic Volcano (long before they were fashionable).

In the first of the new series, John and Dave are joined by comedian Jimmy Carr; documentary maker, theologian (and atheist) Francesca Stavrakapoulou; and the mathematician, Guardian South America correspondent and football author Alex Bellos.

The museum's guests later in the rest of the series are:

Philosopher Alain de Botton
Linguist David Crystal
Filmmaker Gareth Edwards
Comedian Harry Enfield
Solar physicist Lucie Green
Classically-trained comedian Natalie Haynes
New Scientist Editor Roger Highfield
Comedian Alex Horne
Rational Comedian Robin Ince
Graham Linehan
Data Miner David McCandless
Marine biologist Helen Scales
Advertising guru Rory Sutherland
Admiral Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead GCB DSC PC
Polar explorer Sara Wheeler.

FRI 09:30 Gush (b052tqx6)
Episode 6

Cravate and Pomeroy achieve freedom, but soon find themselves on a collision course. With Caroline Quentin. From December 1994.

FRI 10:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007t2h6)
The Letter Killeth

Into their lives comes little Father Time, the child of Jude and Arabella.

Sue finds herself bowed down with domestic drudgery and hardship. Jude returns to his humbler trade of baking because his consumption cannot withstand the outdoor life of a stonemason.

Once again there's the old longing to return to Christminster, and Jude makes a resolution...

Conclusion of Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth North.

Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, June Barrie as Widow Edlin, Elizabeth Garvie as Sue Bridehead, John Normington as Phillotson, Elva Makins as Arabella, Hazel Ellerby as Annie, Jesse Lawrence as Father Time, Brian Jackson as Tinker Taylor, Gregory Phillips as Jack Stagg, John Linstrum as Dr Vilbert, Alexa Romanes as the Landlady, Judy Gibson as the Woman and Brian Gear a as Man in Crowd.

Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986.

FRI 11:00 OxCrimes (b052trfx)
Face Value by Stella Duffy, Part 2

A notorious artist recalls her most controversial work, and the night it was unveiled to the public. Read by Maggie Steed.

Following the success of OxTales (2009) and OxTravels (2011), Oxfam has produced this collection of crime writing. We have chosen 5 of the best for Radio 4 Extra.

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Partnership.

FRI 11:15 Neil Brand - Stan (b0076mjl)
As death finally threatens to separate the greatest double act in film comedy, Stan Laurel tries to say the things to Oliver Hardy which have been left unsaid. Stars Tom Courtenay.

FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k251)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

FRI 12:30 The Men from the Ministry (b01109vz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

FRI 13:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r2wd7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

FRI 13:30 Frequently Asked Questions (b00lszh8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b00s2skz)
Henry James - The Aspern Papers

Episode 5

Episode 5 of The Aspern Papers by Henry James, read by Samuel West.

Aspern's literary editor, having laid out a good deal of money and time in the quest for previously unpublished papers connected with the poet, is growing restless at his lack of results. He has now recruited the pathetic niece Miss Tina to the cause of preserving Aspern's letters from destruction by her aunt; at the same time, he becomes convinced that Miss Bordereau herself has guessed what he's about.

Abridged and produced by Christine Hall.

FRI 14:15 Cosmic Quest (b00c3hvl)
How the Universe Began

Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy.

The discovery that the universe is expanding led cosmologists to suggest that its origin lay in a compact, dense, hot fireball. Cambridge astronomer Fred Hoyle thought this so ridiculous that he disparagingly called it the big bang. The name stuck and there followed intense arguments between supporters of the big bang theory and Fred Hoyle and his colleagues, who favoured a steady state universe.

A decisive blow to the latter theory came from a radio telescope in New Jersey in the early 1960s that detected a gentle background glow at microwave radio frequencies that theorists had predicted as the dying embers of the big bang itself.

Readers are Timothy West, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt and John Palmer.

FRI 14:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (b00xn8hs)
The Death of Albert

Based on diaries and letters. Victoria mourns for her mother whilst Albert is tormented by Bertie. Stars Imogen Stubbs.

FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b00r2jf9)
Patti Smith - Just Kids

Episode 5

Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New York in the late 1960s and 1970s.

In 1986, Patti is living with her husband and son in Detroit when she hears bad news about Robert Mapplethorpe.

Abridged by Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.

FRI 15:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007t2h6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b052tsps)
Forest Schools, Norway and Stretching Time

Mel Giedroyc goes back to nature with a trip to forest school. Plus, the fifth part of Roald Dahl's The Witches and another brand new episode of Junior Just a Minute.

FRI 17:00 King Street Junior Revisited (b00lc98v)
Series 4

Centenary

There’s piano trouble as children and staff celebrate the 100th anniversary of the school's foundation.

The 100th episode of the school comedy created and written by Jim Eldridge.

Ten series of this King Street Junior ran between 1985 and 1998. King Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005.

Stars Brigit Forsyth as Mrs Eastwood, Marlene Sidaway as Miss Lewis, Michael Cochrane as Mr Maxwell, Teresa Gallagher as Miss Featherstone, Jacqueline Beatty as Miss Reid, Janice Acquah as Mrs Khan, Paul Copley as Mr Long, James Grout as Mr Beeston, Deirdre Costello as Mrs Patterson, Margaret John as Mrs Stone and Vivienne Martin as Mrs Rudd.

With Corrine Douglas, Chris Parkinson, Angelo Andreou, James Ellis, Cherrelle Williams and Karim Zeroual as the children.

Producer: John Fawcett Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2005.

FRI 17:30 Living with the Enemy (b007719g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

FRI 18:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b015bxql)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Books (b012fvl0)
Series 2

James Robertson

James Robertson is a poet, editor, novelist and publisher and was the first Writer-in-Resident at Hugh MacDiarmid's cottage at Brownsbank near Bigger in Lanarkshire.

James explains to Stuart how he first discovered MacDiarmid and how his book of Collected Poems is his life changing book. They also discuss James's favourite reference book, the volume he has looked at most often and the title he'd most like to re-read.

Books chosen: .

1: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

2: Collected Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid.

3: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by the Reverend Dr. Ebenezer Cobham

4: At Swim-Two-Bird by Flann O'Brieny

5: Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

Producer Mike Walker

Presenter Stuart Cosgrove.

First broadcast on Radio Scotland in 2011.

FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k251)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

FRI 19:30 The Men from the Ministry (b01109vz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

FRI 20:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back (b01r2wd7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

FRI 20:30 Frequently Asked Questions (b00lszh8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

FRI 21:00 OxCrimes (b052trfx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

FRI 21:15 Neil Brand - Stan (b0076mjl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

FRI 22:00 Gloomsbury (b01nbt9b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

FRI 22:30 The League against Tedium (b03b4zcz)
Episode 2

Attention scum! Monitoring flatulence and supporting Arsenal.

Surreal hour mixing music, ranting and inventive anarchic sketches from Simon Munnery.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in January 1997.

FRI 23:30 The In Crowd (b0089jj8)
Series 1

Episode 4

Sketch show from Manchester's Comedy Store with Robin Ince, Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward. From August 2001.

FRI 23:45 Self-Storage (b0080x3g)
Series 1

Family

Dave's family try therapy to halt his descent, but he can't see the point - what's wrong with living in a storage unit?

Stars Reece Shearsmith and Mark Heap.

Sitcom written by Tom Collinson and Barnaby Power.

Dave ...... Reece Shearsmith.
Geoff ...... Mark Heap.
Ron ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
American ...... Phil Nicol
Judy ...... Rosie Cavaliero.
Sarah ...... Susan Earl.
Dad ...... Philip Jackson

Producer: Ed Morrish

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007.

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

44 Scotland Street (Omnibus) 12:00 SAT (b0528px2)

44 Scotland Street (Omnibus) 02:00 SUN (b0528px2)

A Good Read 18:30 MON (b0075jkj)

A Good Read 01:30 TUE (b0075jkj)

Aelish Michael - Dreaming of Foxes 04:15 SAT (b01s2yc9)

Afternoon Reading 10:45 SUN (b0100lg3)

Afternoon Reading 21:45 SUN (b0100lg3)

Afternoon Reading 01:45 MON (b0100lg3)

Anton Chekhov 04:00 SAT (b00qbb8r)

Any Other Business 07:00 THU (b0140tzv)

Any Other Business 17:30 THU (b0140tzv)

Any Other Business 05:30 FRI (b0140tzv)

Archive on 4 08:00 SAT (b00ln0b7)

Archive on 4 15:00 SAT (b00ln0b7)

Archive on 4 01:00 SUN (b00ln0b7)

Book at Bedtime 14:00 MON (b00s2slh)

Book at Bedtime 00:00 TUE (b00s2slh)

Book at Bedtime 14:00 TUE (b00s2sks)

Book at Bedtime 00:00 WED (b00s2sks)

Book at Bedtime 14:00 WED (b00s2skv)

Book at Bedtime 00:00 THU (b00s2skv)

Book at Bedtime 14:00 THU (b00s2skx)

Book at Bedtime 00:00 FRI (b00s2skx)

Book at Bedtime 14:00 FRI (b00s2skz)

Book of the Week 14:45 MON (b00qzh56)

Book of the Week 00:45 TUE (b00qzh56)

Book of the Week 14:45 TUE (b00r2jkd)

Book of the Week 00:45 WED (b00r2jkd)

Book of the Week 14:45 WED (b00r2jf3)

Book of the Week 00:45 THU (b00r2jf3)

Book of the Week 14:45 THU (b00r2jf6)

Book of the Week 00:45 FRI (b00r2jf6)

Book of the Week 14:45 FRI (b00r2jf9)

Brian Gulliver's Travels 07:30 THU (b01m16pr)

Brian Gulliver's Travels 22:00 THU (b01m16pr)

Bristow 09:30 TUE (b007w5jb)

Brothers in Law 08:00 THU (b007k33c)

Brothers in Law 12:00 THU (b007k33c)

Brothers in Law 19:00 THU (b007k33c)

Bruce Bedford - The Gibson 18:00 SAT (b007js8d)

Bruce Bedford - The Gibson 00:00 SUN (b007js8d)

Calling Time on Student Bars 06:30 TUE (b00npr8d)

Calling Time on Student Bars 13:30 TUE (b00npr8d)

Calling Time on Student Bars 20:30 TUE (b00npr8d)

Calling Time on Student Bars 02:30 WED (b00npr8d)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 06:00 MON (b01r1cwl)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 13:00 MON (b01r1cwl)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 20:00 MON (b01r1cwl)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 02:00 TUE (b01r1cwl)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 06:00 TUE (b01r1yr7)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 13:00 TUE (b01r1yr7)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 20:00 TUE (b01r1yr7)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 02:00 WED (b01r1yr7)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 06:00 WED (b01r1zk2)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 13:00 WED (b01r1zk2)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 20:00 WED (b01r1zk2)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 02:00 THU (b01r1zk2)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 06:00 THU (b01r2tnv)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 13:00 THU (b01r2tnv)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 20:00 THU (b01r2tnv)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 02:00 FRI (b01r2tnv)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 06:00 FRI (b01r2wd7)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 13:00 FRI (b01r2wd7)

Christopher Coake - You Came Back 20:00 FRI (b01r2wd7)

Clare in the Community 07:30 SUN (b014qxbj)

Clare in the Community 22:00 SUN (b014qxbj)

Clare in the Community 03:00 MON (b014qxbj)

Cosmic Quest 00:15 SAT (b00byr2l)

Cosmic Quest 14:15 MON (b00c0ny8)

Cosmic Quest 00:15 TUE (b00c0ny8)

Cosmic Quest 14:15 TUE (b00c3fnn)

Cosmic Quest 00:15 WED (b00c3fnn)

Cosmic Quest 14:15 WED (b00c3h3t)

Cosmic Quest 00:15 THU (b00c3h3t)

Cosmic Quest 14:15 THU (b00c3h8m)

Cosmic Quest 00:15 FRI (b00c3h8m)

Cosmic Quest 14:15 FRI (b00c3hvl)

Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! 22:30 WED (b00cqtgl)

Dad's Army 08:00 MON (b007jlfs)

Dad's Army 12:00 MON (b007jlfs)

Dad's Army 19:00 MON (b007jlfs)

David Pownall 06:00 SAT (b01shn7f)

David Pownall 16:00 SAT (b01shn7f)

David Pownall 04:00 SUN (b01shn7f)

Delve Special 23:00 TUE (b007k469)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 10:00 SUN (b052mjsz)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 21:00 SUN (b052mjsz)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 01:00 MON (b052mjsz)

Dickens Confidential 13:15 SAT (b01kn6d8)

Dickens Confidential 03:15 SUN (b01kn6d8)

Douglas Hill - The Blade of the Poisoner 18:30 SUN (b007jrr6)

Douglas Hill - The Blade of the Poisoner 00:30 MON (b007jrr6)

Down the Line 22:30 THU (b00qt2l4)

Drama 11:15 TUE (b00fz12l)

Drama 21:15 TUE (b00fz12l)

Drama 04:15 WED (b00fz12l)

Drama 11:15 WED (b00wlf5m)

Drama 21:15 WED (b00wlf5m)

Drama 04:15 THU (b00wlf5m)

Drama 11:15 THU (b00vkyz7)

Drama 21:15 THU (b00vkyz7)

Drama 04:15 FRI (b00vkyz7)

Elvenquest 22:30 SUN (b00wdjz9)

Freedom Pass 07:30 SAT (b00sgzk6)

Frequently Asked Questions 06:30 FRI (b00lszh8)

Frequently Asked Questions 13:30 FRI (b00lszh8)

Frequently Asked Questions 20:30 FRI (b00lszh8)

Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off 23:00 SUN (b01hl2gc)

Gloomsbury 17:30 SAT (b01n6vn5)

Gloomsbury 05:30 SUN (b01n6vn5)

Gloomsbury 07:30 FRI (b01nbt9b)

Gloomsbury 22:00 FRI (b01nbt9b)

Great Lives 18:30 THU (b01mdf0d)

Great Lives 01:30 FRI (b01mdf0d)

Gush 09:30 FRI (b052tqx6)

Hancock's Half Hour 08:00 FRI (b007k251)

Hancock's Half Hour 12:00 FRI (b007k251)

Hancock's Half Hour 19:00 FRI (b007k251)

House on Fire 09:30 THU (b0132p8t)

How Tickled Am I? 18:30 TUE (b007k4jm)

How Tickled Am I? 01:30 WED (b007k4jm)

Hunting Haydn's Head 06:30 WED (b00kmgrx)

Hunting Haydn's Head 13:30 WED (b00kmgrx)

Hunting Haydn's Head 20:30 WED (b00kmgrx)

Hunting Haydn's Head 02:30 THU (b00kmgrx)

Hut 33 23:30 THU (b00ljn73)

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again 08:30 WED (b00sxklf)

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again 12:30 WED (b00sxklf)

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again 19:30 WED (b00sxklf)

I've Never Seen Star Wars 22:30 TUE (b00hcr5l)

Inspector Morse 13:30 SUN (b007k4jl)

Inspector Morse 03:30 MON (b007k4jl)

Jest a Minute 01:00 SAT (b0183rrm)

Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (Omnibus) 06:00 SUN (b00xlw19)

Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (Omnibus) 12:00 SUN (b00xlw19)

Juliet Ace - Young Victoria 00:30 SAT (b00xj958)

Juliet Ace - Young Victoria 14:30 MON (b00xmbyx)

Juliet Ace - Young Victoria 00:30 TUE (b00xmbyx)

Juliet Ace - Young Victoria 14:30 TUE (b00xmj92)

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Juliet Ace - Young Victoria 14:30 WED (b00xmv24)

Juliet Ace - Young Victoria 00:30 THU (b00xmv24)

Juliet Ace - Young Victoria 14:30 THU (b00xn6sy)

Juliet Ace - Young Victoria 00:30 FRI (b00xn6sy)

Juliet Ace - Young Victoria 14:30 FRI (b00xn8hs)

Just William - Live! 09:30 SUN (b007jy2q)

Just William - Live! 17:30 SUN (b007jy2q)

Just William - Live! 05:30 MON (b007jy2q)

Just a Minute 07:30 MON (b051ryqd)

Just a Minute 22:00 MON (b051ryqd)

King Street Junior Revisited 05:00 SAT (b00l74dt)

King Street Junior Revisited 17:00 FRI (b00lc98v)

Listen Against 23:30 MON (b00fl0gk)

Listening to Les Dawson 09:00 SAT (b03b2n4d)

Listening to Les Dawson 19:00 SAT (b03b2n4d)

Living with the Enemy 05:30 SAT (b0077154)

Living with the Enemy 07:00 FRI (b007719g)

Living with the Enemy 17:30 FRI (b007719g)

Loose Ends 11:15 MON (b0520prf)

Loose Ends 21:15 MON (b0520prf)

Loose Ends 04:15 TUE (b0520prf)

Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives 09:00 SUN (b008fdb8)

Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives 17:00 SUN (b008fdb8)

Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives 05:00 MON (b008fdb8)

Mark Steel's in Town 23:00 SAT (b00s0g1p)

Meet David Sedaris 23:30 SUN (b00rp3dy)

Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show 16:00 SUN (b052mwnq)

Miracles R Us 17:00 WED (b00sm8tq)

Miracles R Us 05:00 THU (b00sm8tq)

Mr Blue Sky 09:30 MON (b011j7v3)

Mr Blue Sky 22:30 MON (b011j7v3)

Music Feature 06:30 MON (b00d6zqj)

Music Feature 13:30 MON (b00d6zqj)

Music Feature 20:30 MON (b00d6zqj)

Music Feature 02:30 TUE (b00d6zqj)

My Life in Five Books 01:30 SAT (b0124scw)

My Life in Five Books 18:30 FRI (b012fvl0)

Neil Brand - Stan 11:15 FRI (b0076mjl)

Neil Brand - Stan 21:15 FRI (b0076mjl)

Nineteen Ninety-Eight 07:00 TUE (b01bwm9f)

Nineteen Ninety-Eight 17:30 TUE (b01bwm9f)

Nineteen Ninety-Eight 05:30 WED (b01bwm9f)

No Commitments 17:00 THU (b00st9xc)

No Commitments 05:00 FRI (b00st9xc)

Not in Front of the Children 14:00 SAT (b0524hhh)

Not in Front of the Children 08:30 THU (b052svws)

Not in Front of the Children 12:30 THU (b052svws)

Not in Front of the Children 19:30 THU (b052svws)

Off the Page 18:30 WED (b0076k64)

Off the Page 01:30 THU (b0076k64)

Old Harry's Game 23:00 THU (b00hr4lp)

On the Hour 23:00 WED (b007m9zs)

OxCrimes 11:00 MON (b052n4df)

OxCrimes 21:00 MON (b052n4df)

OxCrimes 04:00 TUE (b052n4df)

OxCrimes 11:00 TUE (b052qyll)

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OxCrimes 11:00 WED (b052r0xp)

OxCrimes 21:00 WED (b052r0xp)

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OxCrimes 11:00 THU (b052sy2z)

OxCrimes 21:00 THU (b052sy2z)

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OxCrimes 11:00 FRI (b052trfx)

OxCrimes 21:00 FRI (b052trfx)

Paradise Lost in Cyberspace 18:30 SAT (b007jpf4)

Paradise Lost in Cyberspace 00:30 SUN (b007jpf4)

Quote... Unquote 09:00 MON (b00r0qh9)

Quote... Unquote 18:00 MON (b00r0qh9)

Quote... Unquote 01:00 TUE (b00r0qh9)

Richard Ingrams - The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett 00:45 SAT (b0076shs)

Ring Around the Bath 17:00 TUE (b00v7sp7)

Ring Around the Bath 05:00 WED (b00v7sp7)

Roddy Doyle - Bullfighting 11:45 SUN (b01djtls)

Roddy Doyle - Bullfighting 19:45 SUN (b01djtls)

Rudy's Rare Records 23:30 TUE (b00xpp6b)

Ruth Rendell - The Keys to the Street 02:00 SAT (b01nf2h0)

Salt City 06:30 THU (b00f7z1s)

Salt City 13:30 THU (b00f7z1s)

Salt City 20:30 THU (b00f7z1s)

Salt City 02:30 FRI (b00f7z1s)

Second Thoughts 17:00 MON (b00lmqtv)

Second Thoughts 05:00 TUE (b00lmqtv)

Self-Storage 23:45 FRI (b0080x3g)

Snapshots in the Dark 07:15 SUN (b0075qgn)

Snapshots in the Dark 13:15 SUN (b0075qgn)

So Wrong It's Right 09:00 WED (b00zf4j7)

So Wrong It's Right 18:00 WED (b00zf4j7)

So Wrong It's Right 01:00 THU (b00zf4j7)

Spread a Little Happiness 09:30 WED (b00z60xt)

Stop Messing About! 08:30 SUN (b00scz3j)

Stop Messing About! 15:30 SUN (b00scz3j)

Stop Messing About! 20:30 SUN (b00scz3j)

Stop Messing About! 02:30 MON (b00scz3j)

TED Radio Hour 11:00 SUN (b052mvg1)

TED Radio Hour 19:00 SUN (b052mvg1)

The 4 O'Clock Show 16:00 MON (b052n79s)

The 4 O'Clock Show 16:00 TUE (b052qytp)

The 4 O'Clock Show 16:00 WED (b052r0zz)

The 4 O'Clock Show 16:00 THU (b052t3p6)

The 4 O'Clock Show 16:00 FRI (b052tsps)

The Arthur Haynes Show 08:00 SUN (b00zl7rv)

The Arthur Haynes Show 15:00 SUN (b00zl7rv)

The Arthur Haynes Show 20:00 SUN (b00zl7rv)

The Arthur Haynes Show 02:00 MON (b00zl7rv)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 SAT (b053psbg)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 SUN (b053psq3)

The In Crowd 23:30 FRI (b0089jj8)

The Jason Byrne Show 23:30 SAT (b00mrtdl)

The Ken Dodd Show 08:30 TUE (b007jx2y)

The Ken Dodd Show 12:30 TUE (b007jx2y)

The Ken Dodd Show 19:30 TUE (b007jx2y)

The League against Tedium 22:30 FRI (b03b4zcz)

The Man in Black 18:00 SUN (b0180hnl)

The Man in Black 00:00 MON (b0180hnl)

The Men from the Ministry 08:30 FRI (b01109vz)

The Men from the Ministry 12:30 FRI (b01109vz)

The Men from the Ministry 19:30 FRI (b01109vz)

The Michael Bentine Show 08:30 MON (b00jjq7x)

The Michael Bentine Show 12:30 MON (b00jjq7x)

The Michael Bentine Show 19:30 MON (b00jjq7x)

The Museum of Curiosity 09:00 FRI (b015bxql)

The Museum of Curiosity 18:00 FRI (b015bxql)

The Navy Lark 14:30 SAT (b00yk0n7)

The Navy Lark 08:00 WED (b00yspj3)

The Navy Lark 12:00 WED (b00yspj3)

The Navy Lark 19:00 WED (b00yspj3)

The Now Show 23:00 MON (b051w4dt)

The Now Show 09:00 TUE (b051w4dt)

The Now Show 18:00 TUE (b051w4dt)

The Now Show 01:00 WED (b051w4dt)

The Number 1 Ladies' Opera House 02:30 SAT (b00plfkq)

The Older Woman 07:00 WED (b02zfp46)

The Older Woman 17:30 WED (b02zfp46)

The Older Woman 05:30 THU (b02zfp46)

The Personality Test 09:00 THU (b007tzff)

The Personality Test 18:00 THU (b007tzff)

The Personality Test 01:00 FRI (b007tzff)

The Sinha Carta 07:30 WED (b051s4qh)

The Sinha Carta 22:00 WED (b051s4qh)

The Skivers 23:30 WED (b0080rd1)

The Stanley Baxter Playhouse 07:00 MON (b00tt6px)

The Stanley Baxter Playhouse 17:30 MON (b00tt6px)

The Stanley Baxter Playhouse 05:30 TUE (b00tt6px)

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure 03:00 SAT (b007jq3z)

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure 10:00 MON (b007jq4d)

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure 15:00 MON (b007jq4d)

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure 03:00 TUE (b007jq4d)

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure 10:00 TUE (b007jq4p)

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Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure 10:00 WED (b007jq5l)

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure 15:00 WED (b007jq5l)

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure 03:00 THU (b007jq5l)

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure 10:00 THU (b007jq5z)

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure 15:00 THU (b007jq5z)

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure 03:00 FRI (b007jq5z)

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure 10:00 FRI (b007t2h6)

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure 15:00 FRI (b007t2h6)

Tim Minchin and Friends 22:00 SAT (b007knth)

Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' 07:30 TUE (b046ny8j)

Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' 22:00 TUE (b046ny8j)

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit 00:00 SAT (b00yzj5s)

Yes Minister 08:00 TUE (b007jmpx)

Yes Minister 12:00 TUE (b007jmpx)

Yes Minister 19:00 TUE (b007jmpx)