The conman is in Cristobal, Panama where an accidental sock-on-the-jaw leads to a spy adventure.
The films of Orson Welles, such as 'Citizen Kane', 'The Magnificent Ambersons' and 'Touch of Evil' guaranteed his place in the pantheon of silver-screen heroes.
In the celebrated 1949 film adaptation of Graham Greene's novel 'The Third Man', Harry Lime is introduce as one of cinema's most notorious anti-heroes. Sought in post-war Vienna by pulp writer Holly Martins [Joseph Cotton] and British Army Major Calloway [Trevor Howard], Lime manages to steal the show despite being absent for much of it!
This radio prequel to the film, 'The Lives of Harry Lime' earned Welles even more acclaim. His distinctive tones had already served him well as the radio voice of 'The Shadow' between 1937 and 1938, where he portrayed the crusader with distinctly questionable means of thwarting crime.
Stripped of the film cameras, the character of Harry Lime is not ameliorated for this radio outing. He's an out and out rogue. Lime made it to the airwaves thanks to another Harry - Harry Alan Towers, with whom Welles collaborated on 'The Black Museum'. Like its eponymous anti-hero, this series travelled widely, being syndicated across the USA and on Radio Luxembourg.
The music is by Anton Karas, the zither man.
Produced by Towers of London.
Broadcaster Claudia Winkleman chooses the theme from the film ET and 'As' by Stevie Wonder.
An assault on the Mona Lisa with a teacup raises the question, why do people attack art? In two programmes the art historian and broadcasters Tim Marlow (programme one) and Lawrence Pollard (programme two) investigate centuries of attacks on art works from the earliest times to the present day. Charting the reasons why and telling the stories of some of the most sensational and provocative attacks, they explore how the wilful destruction of art is as old as art itself and how it shows no signs of stopping. Statues are demolished in the name of religion, photographs doctored for political reasons, paintings are slashed and protestors even urinate on art works. Art is attacked so that the power of a particular work is nullified, in order to eradicate the art's subject from the face of the earth, as a publicity seeking stunt and even - and increasingly - to make an artistic comment on the existing artwork. Do these attacks have anything in common? Can art be made by breaking existing art? Why are art attacks continuing?
Tim Marlow looks at some of the most renowned attacks on art carried out in the name of politics and religion. He speaks to Professor Eamon Duffy in the Lady Chapel at Ely Cathedral, which was desecrated in the sixteenth century during the Reformation. A place which is beautiful in its brokenness, with the damage (defaced figures and empty pedestals) clearly visible.
On 10th March 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacked Velazquez's Rokeby Venus with an axe at the National Gallery in London. Her motive for the attack was to bring to public attention the cruelty and hypocrisy of the Government's treatment of Emily Pankhurst. Professor Lynn Nead discusses the wider political issues of this act and the public outrage that followed.
For the past three decades, author and photo-historian David King has assembled the world's largest archive of photographs, posters and paintings from the Soviet era. Tim takes a look at his collection and discusses the doctoring of photographs by the Communists for propaganda purposes.
The Bamiyan Buddhas, which were arguably Afghanistan's most important historical monument, were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 causing an international outcry. What does it mean to destroy art for your beliefs?
The wily village poacher and handyman's plans for a life of bliss with Nancy hit a snag.
Winston …. Bill Wallis
Father …. Maurice Denham
Nancy …. Shirley Dixon
Rosie …. Liz Goulding
William …. Christian Rodska
Comedian Marcus Brigstocke and presenter Clive Anderson get chatting in the tag-team talk show where this week's guest is next week's interviewer. From January 2007.
The crew of HMS Troutbridge investigate strange lights spotted at sea off the coast of Cornwall.
Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Tenniel Evans as Sir Willoughby Todhunter-Brown, Heather Chasen as Lady Todhunter-Brown, Richard Caldicote as Captain Povey, Michael Bates as Commander Bracewell and Ronnie Barker as the Liner Captain.
Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series between 1959 and 1976.
A musical comedy starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David Hatch, Bill Oddie and Jo Kendall.
Written by Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden.
Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.
The Great Crescendo - rounds include Noel Coward, Great Buildings in Music and Schubert. With Ned Sherrin in the chair.
Prince Ludovico plans to introduce a new currency to his 16th century Italian domain.
Neal Anthony's comedy drama about the chaotic lives of the ruling family of Renaissance Italy's most inconsequential city-state.
Stars David Swift as Ludovico, Sian Phillips as Plethora, Graham Crowden as Francesco, Paul Bigley as Alessandro, Saskia Wickham as Rosalie, Nick Romero as Salvatori, Christopher Kelham as Guido and Kim Wall as Brother Michael.
Katharine Hilbery is engaged to the eminently suitable, if faintly ridiculous, William Rodney. They’ve gone to Katharine's cousins in Norfolk for Christmas, where things are not going well.
Meanwhile, Katharine's secret admirer, solicitor and aspiring writer Ralph Denham has also gone to Norfolk for Christmas, at the invitation of Suffrage campaigner Mary Datchet. Mary’s been carrying a torch for Ralph, whilst wrestling with her desire for an independent life...
Narrator Kristin Scott Thomas concludes Virginia Woolf's comic novel set in pre-first world war London, challenging all assumptions about the nature of love.
Ralph Denham .... Jamie Glover
Katharine Hilbery ...... Dervla Kirwan
Mary Datchet .... Susannah Corbett
William Rodney.... John MacKay
Mrs Hilbery..... Phyllida Nash
Mrs Seal..... Jacqueline Tong
Aunt Millicent..... June Barrie
Cassandra Otway ...... Rebecca Smart
The Davenport family's boat fails to come in, in more ways than one. A French story adapted to an Irish setting.
A wild, dark modern fairytale, set in Damascus. The second in a series of contemporary plays inspired by stories from the Arabian Nights.
It is time for Shahrazad to tell another tale to save her life. In this story within a story, we find out that if Joe doesn't find the exclusive to satisfy his ruthless editor, he will lose his job. He finds three beautiful women in Damascus but what is the truth behind their secret life?
Clementine Churchill takes a stand. Beth and Big Oliver host Sunday lunch.
Series of programmes in which two people from different generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing nature of Britain.
Lesley Langley, who was Miss UK and crowned Miss World in 1965, compares notes about her experiences with the 2010 Miss England, Katrina Hodge, who is known as Combat Barbie as she is a lance corporal in the army.
The body of a young girl is washed up on a beach. A tattoo on her ankle leads police inspector Alia Khan on the trail of a child prostitution ring.
Set and recorded on location in Mumbai, this fast-paced six-part police thriller continues throughout this week. It follows Alia Khan, a young woman inspector in the Bandra Division of the Mumbai Police Force, as she attempts to solve a series of crimes, make sense of her troubled past and cope with being a woman in a male-dominated and chauvinistic police force.
Editing Assistants: Andrew Lewis and Aditya Khanna.
Music: Sacha Putnam.
Elena Gorokhova has strong doubts about joining the Young Communist League but she knows she can't go to college unless she is a member, and she longs to read English at Leningrad University.
She loves the romanticism of literature and yearns for a dacha with white gauzy curtains; she wishes her family discussed etiquette instead of lugging buckets of water to beds of tomatoes and dill.
If a medical space station can cure cardiac conditions, who gets treatment? John Shrapnel reads Arthur C Clarke's short story.
Eric has summoned a demon and wished to meet the most beautiful woman in the world. Unfortunately, this lands him in a wooden horse in the middle of a rather famous siege.
Fortunately, he is accompanied by junior wizard Rincewind, and his indefatigable Luggage.
Terry Pratchett's many Discworld novels combine a Technicolor imagination with a razor sharp wit, especially when he rewrites Faust as spotty teenage demonologist Eric.
Rincewind ..... Mark Heap
Death ..... Geoffrey Whitehead
Eric ..... Will Howard
Lavaeolus ..... Rick Warden
Elenor ..... Christine Absalom
Sergeant ..... Ben Crowe
Demon King Astfgl ..... Nicholas Murchie
Creator ..... Robert Blythe
Matthew Parris chews over the one that got away with writers Patrick Neate, Ros Taylor and Zinovy Zinik. From March 2005.
Comedy series in which comedian Will Smith seeks help and advice - primarily from his godfather Peter - on coping with the onset of middle age. Peter invites Fashion presenter Kathy to help Will dress better.
With Roger Allam, Morwenna Banks, Janice Acquah, Jill Cardo, Gunnar Cauthery, Lobo Chan, Donnla Hughes, Dan Starkey, Tom Wu.
Ezekiel discovers the real truth about his ginger baby, and sets out to find the ginger father. The others set out to stop him...
Samuel Oliphant …. Jay Tarses
Sergeant McGurk …. Andy Hamilton
Captain Brimshaw …. James Fleet
Mary …. Jan Ravens
Ezekiel Spriggs …. Hugh Dennis
Cora Oliphant …. Penelope Nice
Joshua Oliphant …. Tony Maudsley
Dashmount …. Michael Fenton
Elizabeth …. Susie Blake
Abraham Smith …. Philip Pope
Neil Knock-Knock becomes leader of the Labour Party; Jeffrey Archer reveals he's won the Nobel Prize; Lloads of London goes pear-shaped; and John Minor stands against himself . . . and loses.
THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015
THU 00:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b010gqsf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:15 Terry Pratchett (b01r9rtv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:15 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Off the Page (b0076qyv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 The Lives of Harry Lime (b065h4z3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:20 Inheritance Tracks (b065h6s7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:20 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Art Attack (b00nf33j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b00v8212)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 The Generation Gap (b00qzrj9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai (b039rmyj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:45 Book of the Week (b00tffms)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:45 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Virginia Woolf - Night and Day (b0076fym)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Counterpoint (b065hdjl)
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09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00c0r22)
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09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 Winston (b007m660)
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07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 Chain Reaction (b00m508g)
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07:30 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector (b00fvg6c)
Episode 1
A VIP visitor to a village is soon the target of love and gossip.
A two-part adaptation by Rene Basilico of Gogol's classic comedy - a picture of municipal 'sleaze' and corruption in 19th century Russia.
Stars Julian Rhind-Tutt as Khlestakov, Trevor Peacock as Osip, Bill Wallis as The Mayor and David Gant as The Judge.
Music by Max Harris.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
THU 06:30 Art Attack (b00nk2xr)
Episode 2
An assault on the Mona Lisa with a teacup raises the question, why do people attack art? In two programmes the art historians and broadcasters Tim Marlow (programme one) and Lawrence Pollard (programme two) investigate centuries of attacks on art works from the earliest times to the present day. Charting the reasons why and telling the stories of some of the most sensational and provocative attacks, they explore how the wilful destruction of art is as old as art itself and how it shows no signs of stopping. Statues are demolished in the name of religion, photographs doctored for political reasons, paintings are slashed and protestors even urinate on art works. Art is attacked so that the power of a particular work is nullified, in order to eradicate the art's subject from the face of the earth, as a publicity seeking stunt and even - and increasingly - to make an artistic comment on the existing artwork. Do these attacks have anything in common? Can art be made by breaking existing art? Why are art attacks continuing?
Programme 2 -
Lawrence Pollard investigates some of the more bizarre assaults on contemporary art including attacks on Marcel Duchamp's 'Fountain' which has been both urinated on and whacked with a hammer. In this age of anti-art, it is increasingly common for vandals to claim their actions as 'art'.
Lawrence also visits the Tate Liverpool for their 'Joyous Machines' exhibition which features the work of Jean Tinguely - one of the most radical, inventive and subversive sculptors of the mid twentieth-century. Discussing his work with Lawrence is Michael Landy, artist and co-curator of the exhibition whose own work has been influenced by the artist and his constructive and destructive tendencies. In 'Break Down' (2001) Landy catalogued and destroyed every single one of his possessions from his birth certificate to his car.
THU 07:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves (b007sxvp)
The Purity of the Turf
After the syndicate disaster, Bertie Wooster ponders what he should bet on next.
PG Wodehouse's romp starring Michael Hordern and Richard Briers.
Jeeves ...... Michael Hordern
Bertie Wooster ..... Richard Briers
Revrend Heppenstall ..... Maurice Denham
Bingo Little ..... Jonathan Cecil
Steggles ...... Edwin Apps
Harold ...... Denise Bryer
Charles ...... John Samson
Adapted by Chris Miller.
Producer: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1973.
THU 07:30 Meet David Sedaris (b064418w)
Series 5
Stepping Out; The Vigilant Rabbit
Two stories from one of the world's best storytellers, David Sedaris, doing what he does best:
How a quest for fitness can become an obsession in "Stepping Out".
An anthropomorphic tale of over zealous security in "The Vigilant Rabbit".
Plus some questions from the studio audience.
Producer: Steve Doherty
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in August 2015.
THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b013fj7r)
Series 2
The Wooden Overcoats
Trouble ensues when Harold brings home coffins on the cart, sparking a burst of manic superstition from Albert.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as Harold.
Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV.
Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Gale Pedrick.
Produced by Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1967.
THU 08:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (b01kbqjl)
Series 1
Episode 6
Arty Eric bags a bargain and an industrial espionage drama what Ern wrote.
Special singing guest: Lynsey de Paul
Written by Eddie Braben
With Ann Hamilton and Arthur Tolcher.
Music by Dennis Wilson & His Orchestra.
Producer: John Browell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1975.
THU 09:00 Guess What? (b065jht1)
Episode 7
Animal, vegetable or mineral?
Barry Took hosts a revised version of popular radio parlour game of 20 questions.
Regular Geoffrey Durham is joined by Nigel Dempster and Frances Edmonds.
Written by Michael Dines.
Producer: Andy Aliffe
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.
THU 09:30 Radio Active (b007jrrb)
Series 2
Pick of the Week
The best of your local national radio station's output, including the one-minute playwright and 'Spot the Sexist'.
Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens.
Music by Philip Pope.
Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins with Richard Curtis, Jon Canter, James Hendrie and Jimmy Mulville.
Producer: Jimmy Mulville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1982.
THU 10:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon (b00t18j1)
The Duel
An unfortunate duel is the catalyst for young Redmond Barry to leave his native Ireland and serve on the battlefields of the Seven Years War - before a chance reunion with his long-lost uncle offers a way to make their fortune at the gaming-tables of the highest courts of Europe.
William Makepeace Thackeray's classic novel (1844) about the rise and fall of an Irish adventurer, set during the last half of the 18th century. The action moves from rural Ireland to the courts of Europe to the drawing rooms of English society.
The first of two-parts dramatised by Don McCamphill
Barry ...... Gerard McSorley
Redmond ...... Andrew Scott
Chevalier de Balibari ...... David Kelly
Bell Barry ...... Sheila Hancock
Lord Lyndon ...... Kenneth Cranham
Sir Rumford Bumford ...... Jamie Foreman
Mme Fitzsimons ...... Tina Kellegher
Fitzsimons ...... Kevin Flood
Captain Fagan ...... Frank O'Sullivan
John Quin ...... Mark Lambert
Von Potzdorff ...... Don Wycherley
Ulick ...... Darragh Kelly
Mick ...... Eanna MacLiam
Nora ...... Alice Barry
Directed at BBC Belfast by Lawrence Jackson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.
THU 11:00 Five Stories by James Ellis (b00lg8gr)
The Miller's Tale
A priest goes to desperate lengths to entice his erring flock back to the fold. A French story adapted to an Irish setting. From July 2007.
THU 11:15 Drama (b00rmxb8)
Arabian Afternoons
A Dish of Pomegranates
A Dish of Pomegranates
by Peter Jukes
The third in a series of plays inspired by stories from the Arabian Nights.
Shared roots and scattered families in the melting pot of modern Jerusalem. Tired after a stressful trip, Ajib is stopped by security officers as he tries to fly out of Ben Gurion airport on his way home to the U.S. They don't think his story adds up. Can he make them believe him? And does he actually know the whole story himself?
Directed by Mary Peate.
THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b013fj7r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 12:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (b01kbqjl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 13:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector (b00fvg6c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 13:30 Art Attack (b00nk2xr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b00v8lpy)
Rebecca Hunt - Mr Chartwell
Episode 9
Written by Rebecca Hunt
Sunday afternoon : Churchill's study is the scene of a delicate conversation.
The reader is Miriam Margolyes.
Abridged and produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 14:15 The Generation Gap (b00qzrjc)
Series 2: Sex
Underwear and Sex Shop Entrepreneur
Series of programmes in which two people from different generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing nature of Britain.
The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex.
Jane runs an underwear shop in a seaside town, and has recently started stocking sex toys for the older generation. Her son helps out in the shop, and they discuss attitudes to sex across the generations.
A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 14:30 Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai (b039rqpl)
Mad Women
Police Inspector Alia Khan investigates a psychiatric hospital where women are admitted but never seem to come out.
Set and recorded on location in Mumbai, this fast-paced six-part police thriller continues throughout this week. It follows Alia Khan, a young woman inspector in the Bandra Division of the Mumbai Police Force, as she attempts to solve a series of crimes, make sense of her troubled past and cope with being a woman in a male-dominated and chauvinistic police force.
Sound Recordist: Hitesh Chaurasia
Sound Design: Steve Bond
Editing Assistants: Andrew Lewis and Aditya Khanna.
Script Editor: Mike Walker
Assistant Producer: Toral Shah
Producer: Nadir Khan
Music: Sacha Putnam.
Writer: Ayeesha Menon
Director: John Dryden
A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4
THU 14:45 Book of the Week (b00tffmv)
Elena Gorokhova - A Mountain of Crumbs
Episode 4
Elena Gorokhova is understandably nervous when the university authorities select her to teach English to visiting American students during the summer break.
It is the first time she has seen a live American and now she is faced with fourteen of them, staring at her with the same intense curiosity with which she stares at them.
And she likes what she sees, especially when she is introduced to Robert.
Read by Sian Thomas
A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 15:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon (b00t18j1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
THU 16:00 Guess What? (b065jht1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 16:30 Radio Active (b007jrrb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
THU 17:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves (b007sxvp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
THU 17:30 Meet David Sedaris (b064418w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 18:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b010m6lf)
The Nine Billion Names of God
Superiority
In war, the more technologically advanced side can still be defeated. John Shrapnel reads Arthur C Clarke's short story.
THU 18:15 Terry Pratchett (b01rgj25)
Eric
Episode 4
Demon King Astfgl surfs the space-time continuum in a rage, determined to lure Eric and Rincewind finally to Hell.
But when they arrive at the Dread Portal, there's a bit of a staff motivation issue.
Terry Pratchett's many Discworld novels combine a Technicolor imagination with a razor sharp wit, especially when he rewrites Faust as spotty teenage demonologist Eric.
Rincewind ..... Mark Heap
Eric ..... Will Howard
Demon King Astfgl ..... Nicholas Murchie
Urglefloggah ..... Jack Klaff
Duke Vassenego ..... Ben Crowe
Screwpate ..... Michael Shelford
Drazometh ..... Robert Blythe
Narrator ..... Rick Warden
Last of four parts adapted by Robin Brooks.
Director: Jonquil Panting
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.
THU 18:30 Great Lives (b0076p87)
Series 6
Michael Collins
Film producer Lord Puttnam chooses the Irish nationalist leader Michael Collins. With Humphrey Carpenter. From November 2004.
THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b013fj7r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 19:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (b01kbqjl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 20:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector (b00fvg6c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 20:30 Art Attack (b00nk2xr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Five Stories by James Ellis (b00lg8gr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Drama (b00rmxb8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
THU 22:00 Meet David Sedaris (b064418w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 22:30 My First Planet (b01g62ph)
Series 1
Hairdresser from Space
Day 7 on the colony, and Mason stirs up an ethical nightmare involving a clone, a murder and some dreadlocks. Meanwhile, Archer the handyman attempts some repairs on his own head.
A sitcom set on a shiny new planet where we ask the question - if humankind were to colonize space, is it destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.)
Welcome to the colony. We're aware that having been in deep cryosleep for 73 years, you may be in need of some supplementary information.
Unfortunately, Burrows the leader of the colony has died on the voyage, so his Number 2, Brian (Nicholas Lyndhurst) is now in charge. He's a nice enough chap, but no alpha male, and his desire to sort things out with a nice friendly meeting infuriates the colony's Chief Physician Lillian (Vicki Pepperdine - "Getting On"), who'd really rather everyone was walking round in tight colour-coded tunics and saluting each other. She's also in charge of Project Adam, the plan to conceive and give birth to the first colony-born baby. Unfortunately, the two people hand-picked for this purpose - Carol and Richard - were rather fibbing about being a couple, just to get on the trip.
Add in an entirely unscrupulous Chief Scientist, Mason and also Archer, an idiot maintenance man who believes he's an "empath" rather than a plumber, and you're all set to answer the question - if humankind were to colonize space, is it destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.)
Written by Phil Whelans
Produced & directed by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b0668g2p)
The best in contemporary comedy. Jon Holmes is joined by Angela Barnes.
THU 23:00 Lee Mack and Friends at the Fringe (b007klvl)
Episode 2
BAFTA award-winning Lee Mack introduces another top line-up of fellow comics Andy Parsons, Tim Minchin, Lucy Porter, Alan Cochran and Jim Owen
Recorded at The Edinburgh Fringe.
Producer: Will Saunders
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 2005.
THU 23:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b007jwpj)
Series 2
Episode 2
The Marriage Emporium running low on Indian brides - and "Fifty Ways To Leave Your Mother".
Starring:
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Kulvinder Ghir
Nitin Sawhney
Meera Syal
Nina Wadia
Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC TWO from 1998 to 2001.
Scripted by Richard Pinto, Sharat Sardana, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Sanjeev Kohli.
Script Editor: Sharat Sardana
Producer: Anil Gupta.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1997.
FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2015
FRI 00:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b010m6lf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:15 Terry Pratchett (b01rgj25)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:15 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b0076p87)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector (b00fvg6c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Art Attack (b00nk2xr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b00v8lpy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:15 The Generation Gap (b00qzrjc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai (b039rqpl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:45 Book of the Week (b00tffmv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:45 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon (b00t18j1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Guess What? (b065jht1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 Radio Active (b007jrrb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves (b007sxvp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 Meet David Sedaris (b064418w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector (b00fvg6f)
Episode 2
The "Inspector" becomes plied with cash and love.
A two-part adaptation by Rene Basilico of Gogol's classic comedy - a picture of municipal 'sleaze' and corruption in 19th century Russia.
Stars Julian Rhind-Tutt as Khlestakov, Trevor Peacock as Osip, Bill Wallis as The Mayor and David Gant as The Judge.
Music by Max Harris.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
FRI 06:30 Put Your Hands Together (b00sq1vv)
In a self-consciously clap-happy exploration of one of the most delightful and satisfying forms of human action and expression, Nick Baker investigates the meanings and motivations, the sounds and symbolism, the elation and frustration of ritually striking one hand with another.
The clapping rhythms of football, flamenco, the nursery and the Pentecostal church are all biologically linked yet subtly different. In this anatomy of a basic human ritual, Nick has collected claps as far apart as Fiji - where a clapping ritual accompanies a narcotic-taking ceremony - and China, where young women on busy high streets clap to attract attention to what's on offer in the stores. Choreographer Luke Creswell, an expert clapper, collects clap-routines in bars all over the world.
What's linked in all cases, according to Professor Colwyn Trevarthen, is humanity's attunement to one of its many internal biological clocks - the one that gives us walking, chewing and nodding our head. He invites listeners to join in with a simple experiment to demonstrate the rhythm of life.
Babies clap early & show awareness of hands in the womb. The clap is not the basis of language development, it is language development. It is display, performance, shared meaning & shared time. Gospel singer Ruby Turner provides musical commentary on how the hand clap moves from babies, through Sunday School, the playground and the church towards soul and R and B.
Do our biological predecessors clap? Perhaps we've been exposed to too many tea commercials. Or maybe chimpanzees have been too exposed to us, primatologist Alison Fletcher explains.
Producer: Tamsin Hughes
A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 07:00 Rent (b065k7zn)
Series 4
Episode 4
Maria and Richard's lives are now being ruled by Eva, the nanny, while Paul and Ruby have to contend with his disreputable cousin, Dave.
Lucy Flannery's award-winning sitcom about Maria and Richard Reynolds and their lodgers.
Maria …. Barbara Flynn
Richard …. Patrick Barlow
Ruby …. Vivienne Rochester
Paul …. Dave Lamb
With Sarah Parkinson and Toby Longworth.
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998.
FRI 07:30 Wordaholics (b01cvk8d)
Series 1
Episode 3
Wordaholics is the comedy panel game all about words.
Gyles Brandreth presides as Susie Dent, Natalie Haynes, Jack Whitehall and Milton Jones vie for supremacy in the ring.
Wordaholics is clever, intelligent, witty and unexpected. There are toponyms, abbreviations, euphemisms, old words, new words, cockney rhyming slang, Greek gobbledegook, plus the panellists' picks of the ugliest and the most beautiful words: the whole world of words.
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle
Producer: Claire Jones.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012.
FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007w3y4)
Series 4
The Emigrant
The lad is keen to emigrate, but is met with refusals from other countries including Australia and Canada.
Can Sid help him to leave Britain?
Stars Tony Hancock.
With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott.
Producer: Denis Main Wilson
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1957.
FRI 08:30 The Goon Show (b007mwv5)
Series 5
The Spanish Suitcase
Neddie Seagoon's brave act lands him in prison, and a jewel thief is on the loose.
Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes.
Starring:
Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan
First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.
With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.
Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Producer: Peter Eton
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in December 1954.
FRI 09:00 All the Way from Memphis (b00mjktm)
Series 2
Episode 5
James Walton tests and tickles the knowledge of industry pundits and people passionate about pop music.
Team captains Tracey MacLeod and Andrew Collins are joined by Stewart Lee and David Quantick to be put through their musical paces
Reader: Beth Chalmers
Written and researched by James Walton.
Producer: Dawn Ellis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
FRI 09:30 Boogie Up the River (b007jv8w)
A Curry at Kelmscot
Jennifer joins Mark and his mutt's Thames quest, but there is a surprise on their menu. Stars Timothy Spall. From January 1993.
FRI 10:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon (b00t1bsd)
The Squire
Redmond Barry pursues and wins the widowed Lady Lyndon to take the title of Barry Lyndon and play the role of country squire.
However, once arrived at the summit of his good fortune, his luck begins to change for the worse.
Conclusion of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic novel about the rise and fall of an Irish adventurer in the 18th century.
Dramatised by Don McCamphill
Barry ...... Gerard McSorley
Lady Lyndon ...... Tina Kellegher
Chevalier de Balibari ...... David Kelly
Bell Barry ...... Sheila Hancock
Earl of Crabs ...... Kenneth Cranham
Wiggins ...... Jamie Foreman
Redmond ...... Andrew Scott
Furniture Dealer ...... Mark Lambert
Poynings ...... Don Wycherley
Ulick ...... Darragh Kelly
Brendan ...... Eanna MacLiam
Maggie-Rose ...... Alice Barry
Directed at BBC Belfast by Lawrence Jackson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.
FRI 11:00 Five Stories by James Ellis (b00ljmsm)
The Umbrella
When a man's new umbrella is ruined, his wife cunningly replaces it within budget. A French story adapted to an Irish setting.
FRI 11:15 Drama (b00vcqld)
Andrea Earl - The Climb
The Climb by Andrea Earl
A feel good drama about three men who venture on a climb of their lives.
Ropes, crampons, grappling irons at the ready; D-day has arrived. Frankie, John and Bud are ready, well as ready as they'll ever be. But this is not a mountain, nor a great hill they are preparing to climb tonight - it's Blackpool Tower. Furthermore, Frankie has Down's syndrome, John is blind and Bud is only 3'6". It was Frankie's idea as he wants to follow in the footsteps of his hero Sherpa Tenzing. The men are forced to pull together as a team in a race against time in an attempt to reach the top as the police try to intercept their highly dangerous (and highly illegal!) deed.
Producer/Director - Pauline Harris.
FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007w3y4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b007mwv5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector (b00fvg6f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 Put Your Hands Together (b00sq1vv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b00v8m6n)
Rebecca Hunt - Mr Chartwell
Episode 10
Written by Rebecca Hunt
Sunday evening, Esther returns home to find Black Pat waiting for her.
The reader is Miriam Margolyes.
Abridged and produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 14:15 The Generation Gap (b00qzrjg)
Series 2: Sex
Prostitution
Series in which two people from different generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing nature of Britain.
The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex.
Helen worked as a bar hostess and prostitute in the 1970s. She talks to Maria, who is currently funding her way through university by being a sex worker. How do their experiences differ?
A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 14:30 Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai (b039rwcc)
Five-Star Death
A dead glamour model in a five-star hotel leads Police inspector Alia Khan on the trail of Bollywood's leading heart-throb.
Set and recorded on location in Mumbai, this is a fast paced six-part police thriller. It follows Alia Khan, a young woman inspector in the Bandra Division of the Mumbai Police Force, as she attempts to solve a series of crimes, make sense of her troubled past and cope with being a woman in a male-dominated and chauvinistic police force.
Sound Recordist: Hitesh Chaurasia
Sound Design: Steve Bond
Editing Assistants: Andrew Lewis and Aditya Khanna.
Script Editor: Mike Walker
Assistant Producer: Toral Shah
Producer: Nadir Khan
Music: Sacha Putnam.
Writer: Ayeesha Menon
Director: John Dryden
A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4
FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b00tffmx)
Elena Gorokhova - A Mountain of Crumbs
Episode 5
Robert has returned to Texas but he writes to Elena every week and wonders if she might visit him.
He explains that he can get her a visitors' visa if she goes as his fiancée but Elena explains that it is not getting into America that is the difficult part but getting out of the USSR.
They both understand that there is only one way to achieve this - but are they ready to get married?
Read by Sian Thomas
A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 15:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon (b00t1bsd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 All the Way from Memphis (b00mjktm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
FRI 16:30 Boogie Up the River (b007jv8w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
FRI 17:00 Rent (b065k7zn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
FRI 17:30 Wordaholics (b01cvk8d)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
FRI 18:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b010tbkp)
The Nine Billion Names of God
The Sentinel
The story from which Arthur C Clarke developed the film '2001: A Space Odyssey' with Stanley Kubrick. Read by John Shrapnel.
FRI 18:15 The Smell by Patrick McGrath (b007jm2c)
Patrick McGrath reads his disturbing Gothic Tale about a father's demonic control over his family.
Producer: Pan Fraser Soloman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996.
FRI 18:30 Fry's English Delight (b012qq7l)
Series 4
Persuasion
The language of persuasion interrogated. Advertisers, lawyers, cold callers and politicians are all, in a way, language experts. And we are all targets for people who try to persuade us of something, whether to buy a particular brand of soap powder, change our car insurance, or vote for a political party, for instance. And most of us at one time or another try to persuade other people to do something that we want them to do for us. It might be that it's to give us a job, come on holiday with us, or lend us a fiver until pay day. Is it possible to maximize your chances of success with the right approach, and by simply using the right words control someone else's behaviour?
How did the great persuaders of the past sway their audiences? We look at rhetoric and gesture, as well as hearing from an advertising executive, a professor of political history, a legal expert, and someone who runs one of the country's most successful telemarketing companies. Just how good do you have to be to sell someone something over the telephone? How hard is it to sell anything face-face with your client? We hear what happens when someone from one of Britain's most influential management training institutions observes a man selling sausages for his living from a stall in a London market. Does a humble street trader use the same devices as a vast multi-national corporation when it comes to getting you to put your hand in your pocket? You will listen, won't you? You know you deserve it.
Producer: Ian Gardhouse
A Testbed Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007w3y4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b007mwv5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector (b00fvg6f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Put Your Hands Together (b00sq1vv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Five Stories by James Ellis (b00ljmsm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Drama (b00vcqld)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 Shappi Talk (b00lpmz7)
Series 1
Religion
Comedy series in which Shappi Khorsandi examines what it is like growing up in multi-cultural families.
Joining Shappi is Bengali comic Paul Sinha sharing his experiences of religion in his family. Shappi will also be joined by another 'related' guest- and she chats to ex Mayor of London Ken Livingstone.
There'll also be a chance for Shappi to chat with the audience and a song from Hils Barker.
Producer: Paul Russell
An Open Mike Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 22:30 Absolute Power (b007r395)
Series 1
Episode 5
Prentiss and McCabe are set their hardest challenge so far - to substantially increase listening figures for BBC Radio 3.
Will this prove a wheeze too far for the Wheeze-master Generals?
Mark Tavener's comedy about the machiavellian doctors of PR spin with contacts at the highest level of government.
Starring Stephen Fry as Charles Prentiss and John Bird as Martin McCabe.
With:
Rebecca Front
Roger Sloman
Philip Fox
Beth Chalmers
Mark Tonderai
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2000.
FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b01qn1xq)
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best comedy around. Tonight Arthur Smith chats to MC Grindah, DJ Beatz and Chabuddy G from People Just Do Nothing.
FRI 23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b014r5qh)
Series 4
Alan Davies
Marcus Brigstocke invites reluctant vocalist, actor Alan Davies to sing in public for the first time.
Whether the experiences are banal or profound, the show is about embracing the new and getting out of our comfort zones.
The title comes from the fact that the show's producer and creator Bill Dare had never seen the film Star Wars.
Producer: Bill Dare
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2011.
FRI 23:30 Down the Line (b010m9tg)
Series 4
Episode 7
The return of the ground-breaking, Radio 4 show, hosted by the legendary Gary Bellamy; brought to you by the creators of The Fast Show.
Down The Line stars Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy, with Amelia Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy Montgomery, and Paul Whitehouse.
Special guests are Rosie Cavaliero, Julia Davis, Robert Popper, Adil Ray and Arabella Weir.
Producers: Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse
A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
1966 and All That
23:30 WED (b01phm54)
A Fine Defence of Enid Blyton
06:30 TUE (b00fm031)
A Fine Defence of Enid Blyton
13:30 TUE (b00fm031)
A Fine Defence of Enid Blyton
20:30 TUE (b00fm031)
A Fine Defence of Enid Blyton
01:30 WED (b00fm031)
A Good Read
18:30 MON (b0075ttd)
A Good Read
00:30 TUE (b0075ttd)
Absolute Power
22:30 FRI (b007r395)
Alan Parker's 59 Minutes of Truth
23:00 SAT (b00zfk7g)
All the Way from Memphis
04:00 SAT (b00mdyl9)
All the Way from Memphis
09:00 FRI (b00mjktm)
All the Way from Memphis
16:00 FRI (b00mjktm)
Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood
18:30 SUN (b007jvy3)
Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood
00:30 MON (b007jvy3)
Armstrong and Miller
23:45 SUN (b00t3vjx)
Art Attack
06:30 WED (b00nf33j)
Art Attack
13:30 WED (b00nf33j)
Art Attack
20:30 WED (b00nf33j)
Art Attack
01:30 THU (b00nf33j)
Art Attack
06:30 THU (b00nk2xr)
Art Attack
13:30 THU (b00nk2xr)
Art Attack
20:30 THU (b00nk2xr)
Art Attack
01:30 FRI (b00nk2xr)
Arthur C Clarke Stories
18:00 MON (b00zzwfq)
Arthur C Clarke Stories
00:00 TUE (b00zzwfq)
Arthur C Clarke Stories
18:00 TUE (b010721b)
Arthur C Clarke Stories
00:00 WED (b010721b)
Arthur C Clarke Stories
18:00 WED (b010gqsf)
Arthur C Clarke Stories
00:00 THU (b010gqsf)
Arthur C Clarke Stories
18:00 THU (b010m6lf)
Arthur C Clarke Stories
00:00 FRI (b010m6lf)
Arthur C Clarke Stories
18:00 FRI (b010tbkp)
Atomic Tales
18:30 SAT (b007jx6v)
Atomic Tales
00:30 SUN (b007jx6v)
Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai
14:30 MON (b039pdt0)
Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai
02:30 TUE (b039pdt0)
Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai
14:30 TUE (b039rn3w)
Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai
02:30 WED (b039rn3w)
Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai
14:30 WED (b039rmyj)
Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai
02:30 THU (b039rmyj)
Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai
14:30 THU (b039rqpl)
Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai
02:30 FRI (b039rqpl)
Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai
14:30 FRI (b039rwcc)
Baldi
11:15 MON (b0080483)
Baldi
21:15 MON (b0080483)
Boogie Up the River
04:30 SAT (b007jv7w)
Boogie Up the River
09:30 FRI (b007jv8w)
Boogie Up the River
16:30 FRI (b007jv8w)
Book at Bedtime
02:00 SAT (b00v4m42)
Book at Bedtime
14:00 MON (b00v6ln8)
Book at Bedtime
02:00 TUE (b00v6ln8)
Book at Bedtime
14:00 TUE (b00v7ygq)
Book at Bedtime
02:00 WED (b00v7ygq)
Book at Bedtime
14:00 WED (b00v8212)
Book at Bedtime
02:00 THU (b00v8212)
Book at Bedtime
14:00 THU (b00v8lpy)
Book at Bedtime
02:00 FRI (b00v8lpy)
Book at Bedtime
14:00 FRI (b00v8m6n)
Book of the Week
14:45 MON (b00tff34)
Book of the Week
02:45 TUE (b00tff34)
Book of the Week
14:45 TUE (b00tffmq)
Book of the Week
02:45 WED (b00tffmq)
Book of the Week
14:45 WED (b00tffms)
Book of the Week
02:45 THU (b00tffms)
Book of the Week
14:45 THU (b00tffmv)
Book of the Week
02:45 FRI (b00tffmv)
Book of the Week
14:45 FRI (b00tffmx)
Camel Train
06:30 MON (b0076yyp)
Camel Train
13:30 MON (b0076yyp)
Camel Train
20:30 MON (b0076yyp)
Camel Train
01:30 TUE (b0076yyp)
Chain Reaction
07:30 WED (b00m508g)
Chain Reaction
17:30 WED (b00m508g)
Chain Reaction
22:00 WED (b00m508g)
Chain Reaction
05:30 THU (b00m508g)
Counterpoint
09:00 WED (b065hdjl)
Counterpoint
16:00 WED (b065hdjl)
Counterpoint
04:00 THU (b065hdjl)
Dad's Army
08:00 MON (b007jnj5)
Dad's Army
12:00 MON (b007jnj5)
Dad's Army
19:00 MON (b007jnj5)
David Attenborough's Life Stories
11:50 SUN (b00kr7bp)
David Attenborough's Life Stories
19:50 SUN (b00kr7bp)
Desert Island Discs Revisited
10:15 SUN (b03857ff)
Desert Island Discs Revisited
21:15 SUN (b03857ff)
Down the Line
23:30 FRI (b010m9tg)
Drama
11:15 TUE (b00rm21n)
Drama
21:15 TUE (b00rm21n)
Drama
11:15 WED (b00rmrpw)
Drama
21:15 WED (b00rmrpw)
Drama
11:15 THU (b00rmxb8)
Drama
21:15 THU (b00rmxb8)
Drama
11:15 FRI (b00vcqld)
Drama
21:15 FRI (b00vcqld)
Ed Reardon's Week
07:30 SUN (b00dv2p1)
Ed Reardon's Week
17:30 SUN (b00dv2p1)
Ed Reardon's Week
22:00 SUN (b00dv2p1)
Ed Reardon's Week
05:30 MON (b00dv2p1)
Five Stories by James Ellis
11:00 MON (b00l16tj)
Five Stories by James Ellis
21:00 MON (b00l16tj)
Five Stories by James Ellis
11:00 TUE (b00l3pxv)
Five Stories by James Ellis
21:00 TUE (b00l3pxv)
Five Stories by James Ellis
11:00 WED (b00lbgr5)
Five Stories by James Ellis
21:00 WED (b00lbgr5)
Five Stories by James Ellis
11:00 THU (b00lg8gr)
Five Stories by James Ellis
21:00 THU (b00lg8gr)
Five Stories by James Ellis
11:00 FRI (b00ljmsm)
Five Stories by James Ellis
21:00 FRI (b00ljmsm)
Fry's English Delight
00:30 SAT (b012krqz)
Fry's English Delight
18:30 FRI (b012qq7l)
Genius
09:00 MON (b008m9f6)
Genius
16:00 MON (b008m9f6)
Genius
04:00 TUE (b008m9f6)
Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck
06:00 SAT (b007k1v3)
Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck
16:00 SAT (b007k1v3)
Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck
04:00 SUN (b007k1v3)
Goodness Gracious Me
23:30 THU (b007jwpj)
Great Lives
18:30 THU (b0076p87)
Great Lives
00:30 FRI (b0076p87)
Guess What?
09:00 THU (b065jht1)
Guess What?
16:00 THU (b065jht1)
Guess What?
04:00 FRI (b065jht1)
HR
07:00 TUE (b00tg1c3)
HR
17:00 TUE (b00tg1c3)
HR
05:00 WED (b00tg1c3)
Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea
23:30 SUN (b0076zx3)
Hancock's Half Hour
08:00 FRI (b007w3y4)
Hancock's Half Hour
12:00 FRI (b007w3y4)
Hancock's Half Hour
19:00 FRI (b007w3y4)
Hardeep at The Stand
22:00 SAT (b01rh4qv)
Hello Cheeky
12:00 SAT (b007jnx4)
Hello Cheeky
08:30 TUE (b0124yrn)
Hello Cheeky
12:30 TUE (b0124yrn)
Hello Cheeky
19:30 TUE (b0124yrn)
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
03:00 SAT (b00tycss)
How Tickled Am I?
18:30 TUE (b007jt2k)
How Tickled Am I?
00:30 WED (b007jt2k)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
07:30 MON (b063zxkx)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
17:30 MON (b063zxkx)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
22:00 MON (b063zxkx)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
05:30 TUE (b063zxkx)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
08:30 WED (b00wwn0j)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
12:30 WED (b00wwn0j)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
19:30 WED (b00wwn0j)
I've Never Seen Star Wars
23:00 FRI (b014r5qh)
In the Psychiatrist's Chair
14:15 SAT (b064yk5p)
In the Psychiatrist's Chair
02:15 SUN (b064yk5p)
Inheritance Tracks
01:20 SAT (b064fmx0)
Inheritance Tracks
14:10 SAT (b064yjqn)
Inheritance Tracks
02:10 SUN (b064yjqn)
Inheritance Tracks
10:10 SUN (b0651qrc)
Inheritance Tracks
21:10 SUN (b0651qrc)
Inheritance Tracks
06:20 MON (b0654qk6)
Inheritance Tracks
13:20 MON (b0654qk6)
Inheritance Tracks
20:20 MON (b0654qk6)
Inheritance Tracks
01:20 TUE (b0654qk6)
Inheritance Tracks
06:20 TUE (b065c8js)
Inheritance Tracks
13:20 TUE (b065c8js)
Inheritance Tracks
20:20 TUE (b065c8js)
Inheritance Tracks
01:20 WED (b065c8js)
Inheritance Tracks
06:20 WED (b065h6s7)
Inheritance Tracks
13:20 WED (b065h6s7)
Inheritance Tracks
20:20 WED (b065h6s7)
Inheritance Tracks
01:20 THU (b065h6s7)
It's Not What You Know
07:30 TUE (b0640pnx)
It's Not What You Know
17:30 TUE (b0640pnx)
It's Not What You Know
22:00 TUE (b0640pnx)
It's Not What You Know
05:30 WED (b0640pnx)
Jenny Stephens - Jefferson 37
18:00 SUN (b007k4s9)
Jenny Stephens - Jefferson 37
00:00 MON (b007k4s9)
King Street Junior
09:30 MON (b00th9m3)
King Street Junior
16:30 MON (b00th9m3)
King Street Junior
04:30 TUE (b00th9m3)
Lee Mack and Friends at the Fringe
23:00 THU (b007klvl)
Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
08:00 SUN (b00g2gm2)
Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
12:00 SUN (b00g2gm2)
Little Britain
22:30 TUE (b008s4w8)
MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (Omnibus)
06:00 SUN (b0651j0k)
MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (Omnibus)
13:00 SUN (b0651j0k)
MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (Omnibus)
01:00 MON (b0651j0k)
MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions
02:30 SAT (b00yqn7f)
Mark Steel's in Town
22:30 SUN (b017wyyf)
Marriage Lines
08:30 MON (b0654tx1)
Marriage Lines
12:30 MON (b0654tx1)
Marriage Lines
19:30 MON (b0654tx1)
Marty Ross - Catch My Breath
00:00 SAT (b007k3bt)
Mastering the Universe
23:00 SUN (b00wstg6)
Meet David Sedaris
07:30 THU (b064418w)
Meet David Sedaris
17:30 THU (b064418w)
Meet David Sedaris
22:00 THU (b064418w)
Meet David Sedaris
05:30 FRI (b064418w)
Meeting Myself Coming Back
08:00 SAT (b00thcn8)
Meeting Myself Coming Back
15:00 SAT (b00thcn8)
Meeting Myself Coming Back
03:00 SUN (b00thcn8)
Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester
07:30 SAT (b01qxrv7)
Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester
17:30 SAT (b01qxrv7)
Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester
05:30 SUN (b01qxrv7)
My First Planet
22:30 THU (b01g62ph)
Nella Last's Peace: Housewife 49
02:45 SAT (b012m9yp)
Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector
06:00 THU (b00fvg6c)
Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector
13:00 THU (b00fvg6c)
Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector
20:00 THU (b00fvg6c)
Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector
01:00 FRI (b00fvg6c)
Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector
06:00 FRI (b00fvg6f)
Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector
13:00 FRI (b00fvg6f)
Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector
20:00 FRI (b00fvg6f)
Off the Page
18:30 WED (b0076qyv)
Off the Page
00:30 THU (b0076qyv)
PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves
07:00 THU (b007sxvp)
PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves
17:00 THU (b007sxvp)
PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves
05:00 FRI (b007sxvp)
Paradise Lost in Space
18:00 SAT (b007jnlt)
Paradise Lost in Space
00:00 SUN (b007jnlt)
Party
22:30 MON (b011pkqg)
Paul Murray - The Mark and the Void
14:30 SUN (b0654llv)
Paul Murray - The Mark and the Void
02:30 MON (b0654llv)
Penelope Mortimer - The Pumpkin Eater (Omnibus)
13:00 SAT (b064yjnh)
Penelope Mortimer - The Pumpkin Eater (Omnibus)
01:00 SUN (b064yjnh)
Percy Edwards Showdown
01:30 SAT (b00htwx7)
Pick Ups
23:30 MON (b00nw3s1)
Put Your Hands Together
06:30 FRI (b00sq1vv)
Put Your Hands Together
13:30 FRI (b00sq1vv)
Put Your Hands Together
20:30 FRI (b00sq1vv)
Radio Active
09:30 THU (b007jrrb)
Radio Active
16:30 THU (b007jrrb)
Radio Active
04:30 FRI (b007jrrb)
Rent
05:00 SAT (b064fnvq)
Rent
07:00 FRI (b065k7zn)
Rent
17:00 FRI (b065k7zn)
Revolting People
23:00 WED (b00fy2qr)
Robb Wilton: I Should Say So
07:15 SUN (b01l7rsc)
Robb Wilton: I Should Say So
14:15 SUN (b01l7rsc)
Robb Wilton: I Should Say So
02:15 MON (b01l7rsc)
Ronald Frame Short Stories
15:45 SUN (b0654lwf)
Ronald Frame Short Stories
03:45 MON (b0654lwf)
Round the Horne
08:00 TUE (b007k1pt)
Round the Horne
12:00 TUE (b007k1pt)
Round the Horne
19:00 TUE (b007k1pt)
Rubbish
23:00 TUE (b0088np3)
Shappi Talk
22:00 FRI (b00lpmz7)
Shelagh Stephenson - Nemesis
10:00 MON (b0076vl9)
Shelagh Stephenson - Nemesis
15:00 MON (b0076vl9)
Shelagh Stephenson - Nemesis
03:00 TUE (b0076vl9)
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells (Omnibus)
09:00 SUN (b0651nwf)
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells (Omnibus)
20:00 SUN (b0651nwf)
Steptoe and Son
08:00 THU (b013fj7r)
Steptoe and Son
12:00 THU (b013fj7r)
Steptoe and Son
19:00 THU (b013fj7r)
Such Rotten Luck
09:30 TUE (b065cbyv)
Such Rotten Luck
16:30 TUE (b065cbyv)
Such Rotten Luck
04:30 WED (b065cbyv)
TED Radio Hour
11:00 SUN (b0654kxf)
TED Radio Hour
19:00 SUN (b0654kxf)
Terry Pratchett
18:15 MON (b01r0zb9)
Terry Pratchett
00:15 TUE (b01r0zb9)
Terry Pratchett
18:15 TUE (b01r5pxv)
Terry Pratchett
00:15 WED (b01r5pxv)
Terry Pratchett
18:15 WED (b01r9rtv)
Terry Pratchett
00:15 THU (b01r9rtv)
Terry Pratchett
18:15 THU (b01rgj25)
Terry Pratchett
00:15 FRI (b01rgj25)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 SAT (b0654bdn)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 SUN (b0654cy6)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 MON (b0668f8m)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 THU (b0668g2p)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 FRI (b01qn1xq)
The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show
08:30 THU (b01kbqjl)
The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show
12:30 THU (b01kbqjl)
The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show
19:30 THU (b01kbqjl)
The Generation Gap
02:15 SAT (b00qsz6f)
The Generation Gap
14:15 MON (b00qzrl7)
The Generation Gap
02:15 TUE (b00qzrl7)
The Generation Gap
14:15 TUE (b00qzrj7)
The Generation Gap
02:15 WED (b00qzrj7)
The Generation Gap
14:15 WED (b00qzrj9)
The Generation Gap
02:15 THU (b00qzrj9)
The Generation Gap
14:15 THU (b00qzrjc)
The Generation Gap
02:15 FRI (b00qzrjc)
The Generation Gap
14:15 FRI (b00qzrjg)
The Goon Show
08:30 FRI (b007mwv5)
The Goon Show
12:30 FRI (b007mwv5)
The Goon Show
19:30 FRI (b007mwv5)
The Lawrence Sweeney Mix
22:30 SAT (b008xf49)
The Leopard in Autumn
09:30 WED (b00c0r22)
The Leopard in Autumn
16:30 WED (b00c0r22)
The Leopard in Autumn
04:30 THU (b00c0r22)
The Lives of Harry Lime
01:00 SAT (b064fmwy)
The Lives of Harry Lime
06:00 MON (b0654qby)
The Lives of Harry Lime
13:00 MON (b0654qby)
The Lives of Harry Lime
20:00 MON (b0654qby)
The Lives of Harry Lime
01:00 TUE (b0654qby)
The Lives of Harry Lime
06:00 TUE (b065c8jq)
The Lives of Harry Lime
13:00 TUE (b065c8jq)
The Lives of Harry Lime
20:00 TUE (b065c8jq)
The Lives of Harry Lime
01:00 WED (b065c8jq)
The Lives of Harry Lime
06:00 WED (b065h4z3)
The Lives of Harry Lime
13:00 WED (b065h4z3)
The Lives of Harry Lime
20:00 WED (b065h4z3)
The Lives of Harry Lime
01:00 THU (b065h4z3)
The Navy Lark
12:30 SAT (b007zmrl)
The Navy Lark
08:00 WED (b00805k9)
The Navy Lark
12:00 WED (b00805k9)
The Navy Lark
19:00 WED (b00805k9)
The Now Show
23:00 MON (b064448c)
The Now Show
09:00 TUE (b064448c)
The Other Side of the Hill
16:00 SUN (b010x8rh)
The Other Side of the Hill
04:00 MON (b010x8rh)
The Problem With Adam Bloom
22:15 SAT (b00hhrhp)
The Smell by Patrick McGrath
18:15 FRI (b007jm2c)
The World As We Know It
07:00 MON (b00ftbx1)
The World As We Know It
17:00 MON (b00ftbx1)
The World As We Know It
05:00 TUE (b00ftbx1)
Up the Workers
09:00 SAT (b03zhx5n)
Up the Workers
19:00 SAT (b03zhx5n)
Vent
23:30 TUE (b01g98f4)
Virginia Woolf - Night and Day
10:00 TUE (b0076fvb)
Virginia Woolf - Night and Day
15:00 TUE (b0076fvb)
Virginia Woolf - Night and Day
03:00 WED (b0076fvb)
Virginia Woolf - Night and Day
10:00 WED (b0076fym)
Virginia Woolf - Night and Day
15:00 WED (b0076fym)
Virginia Woolf - Night and Day
03:00 THU (b0076fym)
Whack-O!
08:30 SUN (b0651n98)
Whack-O!
12:30 SUN (b0651n98)
Where Did It All Go Wrong?
23:15 SUN (b0076gv2)
Who Goes There?
16:00 TUE (b0076b0c)
Who Goes There?
04:00 WED (b0076b0c)
Will Smith's Midlife Crisis Management
22:30 WED (b00g3dcp)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon
10:00 THU (b00t18j1)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon
15:00 THU (b00t18j1)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon
03:00 FRI (b00t18j1)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon
10:00 FRI (b00t1bsd)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon
15:00 FRI (b00t1bsd)
Winston
07:00 WED (b007m660)
Winston
17:00 WED (b007m660)
Winston
05:00 THU (b007m660)
Wordaholics
05:30 SAT (b01cjm4p)
Wordaholics
07:30 FRI (b01cvk8d)
Wordaholics
17:30 FRI (b01cvk8d)