SATURDAY 06 JUNE 2015

SAT 00:00 Francis Turnly - Lullaby (b00d7jh3)
Kate and Patrick face terror from the sinister past of their newly renovated house. Francis Turnly's thriller with Tara Flynn.


SAT 00:30 My Life in Five Songs (b01p6vbz)
Series 5

Colin Macintyre

Colin Macintyre is a Scottish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Growing up on the west coast island of Mull he records under his own name and under the name of Mull Historical Society.

Colin talks to Phil Cunningham about his musical influences and picks five special songs which are important to him and have helped influence his career.

Phil opens the programme with the track The Lights from Colin's latest album City Awakenings.

Colin picks these five songs:

Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

David Bowie - Changes

Radiohead - No Surprises

Bob Dylan - Queen Jane Approximately

The Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize

Phil closes the programme with Must You Get Low from the City Awakenings album.


SAT 01:00 VI Warshawski (b007jzsg)
Publicity Stunts

Episode 1

Private Detective V I Warshawski is being set up for a murder she didn't commit - of a woman she hardly knew. Read by Buffy Davis.

The victim is a famous crime fiction writer. Her latest book threatens to uncover the shame of a small American town whose dark secrets and those of her tormentor have been buried for decades.

Sara Paretsky has created one of the most popular female sleuths in modern crime fiction. Her heroine, V I Warshawski, is a strong female character in a male-dominated world. V I is comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty suspects but she never loses touch with her basic femininity. Paretsky says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled by the way women were portrayed in (detective fiction) they always seemed either evil or powerless. I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likeable female private investigator".

Producer: Joanne Reardon

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2003.


SAT 01:30 The Wonderful Weightless World of the Flexidisc (b00sgbcr)
Long before the invention of the MP3, there was a way of getting hold of music, speech, and other audio sensations, free of charge, in the form of flexidiscs. Originally developed in the 1930s to play at 78rpm, by the 1960s, seven-inch, 45rpm flexidiscs were so cheap to produce, and so light and bendy, that they were often given away free with a magazine. In the Soviet Union, though, where flexidiscs were called roentgenizdat, and were recorded on disused medical x-ray sheets, the audio was usually of an illegal nature, such as jazz music, or, later, punk rock. In telling the story of the flexidisc, we'll hear plenty of music, some of which is now valuable (such as the Rolling Stones Exit on Mainstreet Blues, given away with New Musical Express in 1972).

In tracking down the story of flexidiscs, presenter Paul Bayley meets collector Jez Randell, journalist Ian Shirley, and the novelist Tim Lott, who co-founded Flexipop magazine in the early 1980s (which gave away a free flexi with every issue). The programme includes extracts from flexidiscs galore, including several advertisements for products as diverse as crisps, hair pieces and rat poison, music from big band jazz to beat groups to punk rock, and some of the most famous recordings made on flexidisc including Beatles fanclub records, Private Eye's satirical flexidiscs and the sound of humpback whales, from the world's biggest circulation flexidisc ever.

Presenter Paul Bayley previously presented The Strange Parallel World of Christian Pop for Radio 4, which subsequently inspired Frank Cottrell Boyce's radio play The Believers. The producer is Bob Dickinson.


SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b00t6v3b)
Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers

Episode 10

Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother and a Gujurati father, and this twin inheritance is at the heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel about four generations of the Patel-Joneses.

Babo and Sian's youngest daughter, Bean, has been having an affair with Javier for two years now. She's been waiting all that time for him to leave his wife and three children. Then Javier is involved in a car crash, which changes everything. Back in Anjar, Grandmother Ba's life is coming to an end but first she must be sure that Bean is safe.

The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the 6 part BBC drama Luther. She also played Suzie Costello in Torchwood.

Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis

Producer: Kate McAll.


SAT 02:15 The Making of Music (b007rhvz)
Series 1

Beethoven's Eroica

James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical influences that affected the course of classical music.

25/30. Beethoven's Eroica

The original dedication to Napoleon was removed from the manuscript of Beethoven's Symphony No 3, allegedly by the composer's own hand, when Napoleon declared himself Emperor in 1804.

Read by Simon Russell Beale.


SAT 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (b007jmtb)
Episode 15

Love is in the air in the Rue Plumet. But why is Jean Valjean so obsessed with secrecy? Stars Joss Ackland and Lucy Whybrow.


SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b00t3td1)
Jake Adelstein - Tokyo Vice

Episode 5

Reporter Jake Adelstein is invited to spend the night as a host in a Japanese night club in the red light district of Tokyo. And he discovers some surprises, not only amongst the type of customers who are willing to pay for the service in modern Japan, but the reasons these women feel the need to pay for company.

Jack Klaff reads this revealing memoir by Jake Adelstein.

Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 03:00 Peter Tinniswood (b05xgv09)
Crossing the Frontier

Jean is 38, attractive and married. She decides to go on a cruise without her husband.

On the first night out, she sees a row of lights sticking straight out to sea. She feels as if she's entering a strange land with different customs, different values. As if she is becoming a different person.

Written by Peter Tinniswood.

Jean …. Shirley Dixon
Roy …. David Buck
Richard …. Stephen Thorne

Producer: Shaun McLoughlin.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1985.


SAT 04:00 The 99p Challenge (b01rcg42)
Series 5

Episode 1

Crazy panel show capers as Sue Perkins tests Jon Holmes, Armando Iannucci, Peter Baynham and Simon Pegg. From August 2004.


SAT 04:30 On Baby Street (b00f6vv7)
Series 1

Episode 5

Will Ian get to the hospital on time? Can Geraldine and Yvette get there at all? Stars Jenny Eclair. From February 1996.


SAT 05:00 Lucky Heather (b0075sg8)
True Grit

Heather used to clean for Angela. Now Angela suspects her teenage daughter is on drugs so asks Heather to investigate.

Just this side of nosey, Heather is western movie-mad. She's also the Sherlock Holmes of the rundown Sutter Estate.

Sue Teddern's six-part comedy series star Lindsey Coulson as Heather. (Carol Jackson in BBC TV's EastEnders until 2015)

With Abigail Hart as Natalie, Ben Crowe as Ryan, Gavin Muir as Joe, Lisa Kay as Charlotte, Jilly Bond as Angela and Tim Treloar as the Barman.

Director: David Hunter

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2000.


SAT 05:30 The Rivals (b03bdw8c)
Series 2

The Clue of the Silver Spoons

By Robert Barr.

Dramatised By Chris Harrald.

Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he is writing his memories and has a chance to get his own back, with tales of Holmes' rivals. He continues with Food Connoisseur and Detective Eugene Valmont trying to solve a curious series of thefts from private dinner parties

Producer: Liz Webb.


SAT 06:00 Roger Danes - Scarlet on Black (b007jwvg)
Fast-moving thriller set in 1990s Paris. Prison official Yvette Lalande is kidnapped on her way to work by a notorious group of terrorists. But what is the link to events in Algeria thirty years before? It appears 'someone in authority' has good reason to hamper Commissaire Grosset's police investigations.

Starring David Calder as Commissaire Grosset, Peter Jeffrey as Michel Corbillard, Alex Jennings as Jean Lenoir, Patti Holloway as Yvette Lalande and Natasha Pyne as Danielle Lesueur.

Scripted by Roger Danes

Directed by Glyn Dearman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992.


SAT 07:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester (b01k2gxl)
The Reluctant Jester

We Can't Have Non-Europeans in the Royal Air Force

The founding Goon Show member and comic actor looks back to his repeated efforts to sign up for the war. From September 1993.


SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b00rl155)
Leaders Under the Lights

It's 50 years since Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F Kennedy made history with the first ever presidential TV debate. The idea was quickly adopted around the world. But how much do voters really learn from these encounters, and do they ever make the difference between winning ald losing?

The BBC's political correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti unearths some memorable moments from the archives and talks to politicians, television producers, academics and journalists about the heated negotiations, meticulous preparation and sometimes painful gaffes which have had millions glued to their sets at election time. She also asks what Britain's party leaders can learn.


SAT 09:00 Barry Humphries: Gladdies All Over (b05xwsnj)
Kathy Lette celebrates Barry Humphries. An interesting, inspiring, true creative, treasured for his outrageous characters, acerbic wit and sharp tongue. Humphries has collaborated with some of the most revered creative minds of the last century.

The man himself is a considered intellectual with a life immersed in music, literature and arts. For his delivery of Dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries as not only "the most significant theatrical figure of our time ... [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin"

In this three hour compilation, self-styled 'deranged author' Kathy Lette chats to Barry Humphries about his relationship with Sir Les Patterson, Sandy Stone and Dame Edna Everage.

Kathy also introduces rare performances, interviews and programmes from the BBC archive including:

* Barry and Dame Edna's appearances on Front Row, In Tune, Profile, and Nightwave

* Early performances alongside Spike Milligan

* A discussion of working with Emily Perry, who played Dame Edna's bridesmaid Madge.

* Interviews with Dame Edna shortly after her escape from Mooney Ponds.

There's also a look at the people and things that have influenced Humphries' work and life:

* His passion for literature is discussed in Open Book

* His passion for the decadent world of art, music and satire is delved into in Barry Humphries In Weimar.

Producer: Laura Baron

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in June 2015.


SAT 12:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b05x8q7d)
From 31/08/1975

Doddy and chums turn their attention to cowboys and heroes of the past.

Starring Ken Dodd.

With Jo Manning Wilson, Gretchen Franklin, Talfryn Thomas, Chris Emmett and Michael McClain.

Devised and written by Ken Dodd with Dave Dutton, David McKellar, Norman Beadle and Philip & Alan Bessell.

Doddy's Diddy Orchestra conducted by Geoff Alderson.

Producer: Bobby Jaye

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in August 1975.


SAT 12:30 Round the Horne (b00j05x7)
Series 1

Episode 13

Kenneth Horne Master Spy gets an Eiffel while Julian and Sandy offer some animal advice at their new shop in Chelsea, Bona Pets. Rambling Sid Rumpo sings a special song of Cornwall.

With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.

Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, London. Announcer: Douglas Smith

Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, catchphrases and double-entendres.

Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four.

Producer: John Simmonds

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1965.


SAT 13:00 Michael Butt - Chronicles of Ait (b05xx1c9)
Life in the remote East Coast village of Ait appears to be determined by inexplicable influences. With Greg Wise as Linus Scott.


SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b05xx1nt)
Barry Humphries

4 Extra Debut. Comedian Barry Humphries inherits 'Oh Mona' by Nat Gonella, and passes 'Love Song' by Josef Suk.


SAT 14:15 Daunt and Dervish (b007s8d7)
Series 1

Games of Chance

The detective duo are called in on a 'sporting' assignment to keep a 24 hour watch on a young East End boy who's about to fight for a place in the 1948 boxing team. The local Catholic priest has been taking a special interest in the boy's progress, but why?

With the Second World War over, former spies Josephine Daunt and Susan Dervish are running their own detective agency.

Stars Imelda Staunton as Josephine Daunt, Anna Massey as Susan Dervish, Bill Patterson as Bill Mackie, Dermot Crowley as Father Mike Finucan and Carl Prekopp as Tommy.

Format by Imelda Staunton and Anna Massey. Written by Guy Meredith.

Producer: Cherry Cookson. Director: Janet Whitaker.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.


SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b00rl155)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


SAT 16:00 Roger Danes - Scarlet on Black (b007jwvg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


SAT 17:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester (b01k2gxl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


SAT 18:00 Doctor Who (b05xx1w5)
Energy of the Daleks

The Doctor and Leela find themselves in the middle of London at the time of a new energy crisis. The GlobeSphere Corporation seems to have all the answers - but several thousand protestors beg to differ.

What is the connection between the National Gallery and a base on the Moon? Has radical thinker Damien Stephens simply sold out, or does he have a more sinister agenda?

The Doctor has detected a mysterious energy reading. Could it be that the most evil creatures in the universe have returned to claim ultimate victory once and for all?

Tom Baker is the Fourth Doctor, with his ancient warrior companion, Leela, played by Louise Jameson.

Written and directed by Nicholas Briggs.

A Big Finish production.


SAT 19:00 Barry Humphries: Gladdies All Over (b05xwsnj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


SAT 22:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better (b00kfx3c)
Series 1

Pride

Mark Watson investigates pride as he continues his quest to free us from the seven deadly sins via stand-up comedy.

Tim Key and Tim Minchin provide sketches, songs and distractions.

Producer: Katie Marsden

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2007.


SAT 22:30 28 Acts in 28 Minutes (b01nv97y)
Series 1

Episode 3

John Humphrys gives 28 acts 60 seconds to entertain an audience:

Kit and the Widow
Frankie Boyle
The Hollow Men
Lucy Porter
Rob Rouse
Toby Foster
Mrs Barbara Nice
Rob Deering
Neil Edmond
Adam Buxton
Anna Crilley & Katie Wix
Mick Ferry
Pete Gold
Susan Murray

Charlie Chuck
Jarred Christmas
Marcus Cummins
Tom Allen
Justin Moorhouse
Will Hodgson
Stephen Carlin
Steve Oram and Tom Meeten
Isy Suttie
Alex Horne
Phil Kay
Nick Revell
John Hegley
Marcus Brigstocke & Danny Robins

Producers: Rohan Acharya and Ed Morrish

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.


SAT 23:00 The Lee Mack Show (b00bt53m)
Suggs

Singer Suggs joins the quick-fire comic for stand-up, sketches and music. With Angela McHale and Steve Brown. From March 2005.


SAT 23:30 Innes Own World (b0170r0p)
Episode 1

Famed for The Rutles and The Bonzo Dog Band, Neil Innes ruminates wryly on the nature of civilisation.

An opportunity to climb inside Neil Innes's head to find songs, atmospheric musings and some very irritating commercial breaks.

Script Editor: John Dowie

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.