The BBC has announced that it has a sustainable plan for the future of the BBC Singers, in association with The VOCES8 Foundation.
The threat to reduce the staff of the three English orchestras by 20% has not been lifted, but it is being reconsidered.
See the BBC press release here.

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SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2015

SAT 00:00 Daphne du Maurier - The Blue Lenses (b007k4rp)
Episode 2

Afer discovering she's able to see things that others can't, Marda West fears for her survival in this dangerous new world.

The conclusion of Daphne du Maurier's two-part fantasy thriller exploring the darker aspects of human nature.

Read by Emma Fielding.

Produced and abridged by Gemma Jenkins.

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2007.


SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b0076b92)
Series 3

Fever

Legendary singer Peggy Lee's daughter Nicki Foster talks about her mother's life and her unforgettable hit record.

Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks.

Producer: Sara Conkey

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2002.


SAT 01:00 Front Row Interviews (b00761nw)
PD James

PD James talks to Mark Lawson on Radio 4's arts programme Front Row about crime writing and her 15th novel 'Death in Holy Orders' featuring her sleuth, Adam Dalgliesh.

Her books, often featuring Dalgliesh, sold in their millions around the world. Many were adapted for TV and film.

Born Phyllis Dorothy James on 3 August 1920, the author did not publish her first novel, Cover Her Face, until she was 42. Although it was a critical success, she continued working for the Home Office, where she held a job in the forensic science department, and then the criminal law department until 1979.

PD James died aged 94 on the 27 November 2014.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.


SAT 01:30 Joan Turner: The Highs and Lows of the Wacky Warbler (b00wlgg4)
Lesley Garrett tells the fascinating story of operatic comedienne Joan Turner.

Joan Turner was a larger-than-life star who enjoyed a successful stage and television career in the 1960s and 70s. She was born in Belfast in 1922 and made her debut at the Finsbury Empire as a singing comedienne.

Joan could perform pop or opera with her four-and-a-half-octave soprano voice, impersonate Judy Garland and Bette Davis, and then change to stand-up comic.

In her early career she worked with The Crazy Gang, appeared at many Royal Events, recorded for Pye Records and became the highest-earning female singer in Britain. After touring all the major music halls she was considered a 'female Harry Secombe', and in the States they billed her as "The Wacky Warbler".

One reviewer described her as having "the voice of an angel and the wit of a devil".

Even though she gained a reputation for being difficult and unpredictable she remained a much loved figure on the show business circuit.

Her daughter Susanna Page always believed that "the best way to describe Mum is that she thought every day was Christmas". She was to discover painfully that it was not.

By the late nineties an unkind reverse reduced her to the status of a bag lady walking the streets of Las Vegas and Los Angeles searching for work. This downturn in her life and career was a result of a long term battle with gambling and alcoholism.

A few film and television roles saw a short revival in her fortunes but her last live comeback attempt ended in a drunken shambles. She spent her final years in sheltered accommodation in Surrey.

The programme features interviews with Actor Harry Dickman,Variety entertainer Roy Hudd and Joan's daughter Susanna page.


SAT 02:00 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (b06qdfmv)
Who Stole the Tarts?

Join Alice on her surreal adventures in Alice in Wonderland.


SAT 02:15 Noise: A Human History (b01s0scn)
The Search for Silence

In the noisy modern world, silence has become an ever more desirable - and fashionable - state. We read books about it, go on retreats to find it, and soundproof our living and working spaces in its name. But when we have it is it what we want?

Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex considers the modern quest for quiet and asks whether what really makes us humans happy is a little noise.

Conclusion of the 30-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive.

Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson.
Producer: Matt Thompson

A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007jqky)
Episode 15

Mary sets out to find an alibi for Jem, who stands accused of murder. Stars Emma Rydall, Deborah Berlin and Roy Hudd.


SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b048znq5)
The Zhivago Affair

Episode 5

By Peter Finn and Petra Couvée.

It's 1956 and Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words, 'This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.'

Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so instead he allowed it to be published in translation all over the world - a highly dangerous act.

By 1958 the life of this extraordinary book enters the realms of the spy novel. The CIA, recognising that the Cold War was primarily an ideological battle, published Doctor Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. It was immediately snapped up on the black market. Pasternak was later forced to renounce the Nobel Prize in Literature, igniting worldwide political scandal.

With first access to previously classified CIA files, The Zhivago Affair gives an irresistible portrait of Pasternak, and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when literature had the power to shake the world.

Abridged by Libby Spurrier
Read by Nigel Anthony

Producer: Joanna Green
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 03:00 Classic Serial (b00gsv4x)
Arnold Bennett - The Grand Babylon Hotel

Episode 2

Murder mystery by Arnold Bennett, adapted in two parts by Chris Harrald.

Having bought Europe's most exclusive hotel, American tycoon Theodore Racksole is thrown in to a world of intrigue, espionage and murder.

Theodore Racksole ...... John Sessions
Nella Racksole ...... Matti Houghton
Aribert ...... Joe Kloska
Jules ...... Richard Katz
Miss Spencer ...... Fenella Woolgar
Felix Babylon ...... Stephen Greif
Prince Eugen ...... Stephen Critchlow
Reginald Dimmock ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Hazell ...... Jonathan Tafler
Miss Ferguson ...... Jill Cardo
Tomkins ...... Inam Mirza
Emperor ...... Malcolm Tierney
Sampson Levi ...... Chris Pavlo.


SAT 04:00 The 99p Challenge (b0075w76)
Series 4

Episode 2

Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Simon Pegg, Armando Iannucci, Marcus Brigstocke and Peter Serafinowicz.

The game where someone stands to leave the studio 99p richer than when they came in.

Producer: David Tyler

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003.


SAT 04:30 Mind Your Own Business! (b00954qd)
She'll Have to Go

An accountant tackles a tycoon over his number of women workers. Stars Bernard Cribbins and Frank Thornton. From December 1987.


SAT 05:00 Winston (b007qzh8)
Winston Comes to Town

Has Anyone Seen Winston?

The family has moved to London. Old rogue Winston spends hours up a tree in the garden, but then he disappears...

Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial.

Winston ...... Bill Wallis
Father ...... Maurice Denham
Nancy ...... Shirley Dixon
Rosie ...... Liz Goulding
William ...... Christian Rodska

Director: Shaun MacLoughlin.

First broadcast on BBC Radio in January 1990.


SAT 05:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' (b06s83jl)
Series 2

Episode 1

A fun-packed second series from comedy duo Lucy Trodd and Ruth Bratt. Sketches and songs from a whole range of new characters, with the occasional appearance from some old favourites.

This week we meet the masseuses who might make your visit to their spa more than a little stressful, we find out whether Mary’s embarrassing flatulence has got any better (I wouldn’t hold your breath – well, actually I might) and find out who Julia is - or was.

Performers:
Lucy Trodd
Ruth Bratt
Adam Meggido
Oliver Senton

Written by: Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd
Script Editor: Jon Hunter
Original music: Duncan Walsh Atkins

Producer: Steve Doherty
A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 06:00 Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus (b06qjp4l)
1938: Charles and Dora Randolph are celebrating their Golden Wedding.

A chance for four generations of the same family to be together – sparking all the problems and surprises that such a gathering inevitably causes...

Dodie Smith's play enjoyed a hugely successful run in the theatre before and during the early years of the Second World War.

Charles Randolph ...... Michael Denison
Dora Randolph ...... Dulcie Gray
Belle ...... Mary Wimbush
Margery ...... Annette Badland
Edna ...... Frances Jeater
Nanny ...... Dora Bryan
Cynthia ...... Penny Downie
Laurel ...... Trevyn McDowell
Hilda ...... Joanna David
Nicholas ...... Nicholas Gecks
Fenny ...... Charlotte Attenborough
Hugh ...... Joshua Towb
Kenneth ...... Michael Tudor Barnes
Bill ...... Mark Burrows
Scrap ...... Sara-Jane Derrick
Flouncy ...... Bernadette Windsor
Gertrude ...... Becky Hindley

Producer: Glyn Dearman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995


SAT 07:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking (b0075jv4)
From Champagne to Rationing 1910-1919

Oyster soup, oyster cremeskies, braised pheasant, champagne sorbet, sweet souffle, scotch woodcock, summer lentil soup and nut rissoles. Food guru Marguerite Patten mingles menu of the 1910s with memories of historic events - the sinking of the Titanic, servants' wages, the Epsom Derby and life in First World War trenches.

Marguerite told us how to make the most of our rations during the Second World War in 'Kitchen Front' on the BBC Home Service. She fronted her first BBC TV cookery show in 1947.

Born in Bath, the home economist was widely considered to be the first celebrity cook, and wrote more than 170 books with worldwide sales of 17 million.

A regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme from 1946, Marguerite's final appearance was in 2011. She was awarded the OBE in 1991 and CBE in 2011.

Born November 4th 1915, Marguerite Patten died just a few months short of her 100th birthday in June 2015.

Producer: Ian Willox.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.


SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b04mqt7h)
Speaking as a Member of the Public

Man on the Street. Tom, Dick and Harry. The Man on the Clapham Omnibus. The Voice of the People. For decades, "ordinary people" have been stopped in the street to give interviewers their opinions on diverse subjects in the ubiquitous format of the vox pop. Why?

Comedian and writer Danny Wallace revisits decades of television and radio archives to listen again to the multitude who happened to be walking down the street when a reporter needed a random opinion about soap flakes or capital punishment.

It all began in 1930s America, with the programme Vox Pop in Houston, Texas where a presenter literally ran a microphone cable out of the radio station window to interview people on the street. However, the technique didn't become a regular feature of British broadcasting until the 1960s. Now, it's impossible to turn on the news without hearing at least one neatly randomised set of opinions from members of the Great British Public.

Danny considers why the vox pop is so omnipresent, what "the public" actually means and why we need the views of so many ordinary people on radio and TV. BBC voxing queen Esther Rantzen looks back on the thousands of people she buttonholed for That's Life. Comedian Charlie Higson considers why comedy ran away with the format. Deputy Director of BBC News Fran Unsworth makes a serious case for the use of seemingly random opinions in news programmes. Deputy Political Editor James Landale, tells Danny about a strange vox he conducted that recently went viral. We also hear from Greg Packer, native New Yorker who's been voxed so many times that the Associated Press had to ban him from being quoted.

Produced by Colin McNulty
A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 09:00 Gemma Cairney's Top Ten Radio Mavericks (b06qjs0s)
BBC Radio 1 presenter Gemma Cairney is a self-professed 'radio obsessive.'

In this 3 hour special she shares the unique, brilliant and often irreverent voices that inspired her teenage self to be a broadcaster. The compelling radio personalities with verve and personality; the presenters that stood out and marked the emergence of a new and exciting youth culture; the presenters who, in some cases, proved controversial.

Drawing on her career in music radio, Gemma includes programmes, extracts and personalities from across the BBC: Radio 1, 1xtra, Radio 2, Radio London, 6Music and Radio 4. The Top Ten voices past, present and future who have influenced and continue to inspire Gemma to work in her favourite medium.

With contributions from the Today Programme's award-winning John Humphrys, radio presenter, enthusiast and maverick Iain Lee and BBC Radio 1 & 1xtra's fireball Charlie Sloth.

Producer: Sarah Wade

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


SAT 12:00 The Pasadenas' Almanac: The Mysterious Affair at Harrogate (b06qjvqp)
The queen of the whodunit, Agatha Christie is missing.

Another musical excursion for the Pasadena Roof Orchestra through great moments in 20th Century history. With vocalist Duncan Galloway.

Starring June Whitfield, Jeffrey Holland and Chris Emmett.

A light-hearted take on the massive 1926 trawl for the missing author, involving 1000 police constables, civilians - and for the first time aeroplanes. Agatha was eventually found mysteriously in Harrogate, so what really happened...?

Written by Chris Emmett and Tony Hare.

Producer: Richard Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1992.


SAT 12:30 The Right Time (b00c90g4)
Series 3

Episode 1

Gym shenanigans, finding a fox - and can you feel sexy at 60?

The sketch comedy for people growing older disgracefully.

Stars Eleanor Bron, Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Clive Swift, Roger Blake and Pam Ayres.

Written by Pam Ayres, Mike Coleman, Jan Etherington, Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Colin Bostock-Smith, Bob Sinfield, Chris Thompson, Pete Reynolds, Tony Bagley, Richard Turner and Phil Nice,

Script Editor: Geoff Parsons.

Music by Ronnie & The Rex and Neil Innes.

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003.


SAT 13:00 Welcome to Zaatari Omnibus (b06qjwhm)
One family's story from Zaatari Camp, adapted from a Jordanian audio drama. Made in conjunction with Radio SouriaLi and UNHCR.


SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06qm7w6)
Mary Black

Folk singer Mary Black chooses Ewan MacColl's 'Schooldays Over' and Bob Dylan's 'Forever Young'.


SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair (b06qmbqv)
Bernard Knight

Forensic pathologist and crime writer Bernard Knight had to do thousands of autopsies in his career, often for grim reasons. He tells Professor Anthony Clare how he coped.

Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare's in depth interviews with prominent people from different walks of life.

Born in Dublin, author Anthony Clare held a doctorate in medicine, a master's degree in philosophy and was a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. After becoming a regular on BBC Radio 4's Stop the Week in the 1980s, he became Britain's best-known psychiatrist and earned his own vehicle, In the Psychiatrist's Chair. Starting in 1982, this series ran until 2001 and also transferred to TV. Series highlights include conversations with Bob Monkhouse, Cecil Parkinson and Gerry Adams.

Anthony Clare died suddenly in Paris aged 64 in 2007.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October August 1994.


SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b04mqt7h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


SAT 16:00 Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus (b06qjp4l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


SAT 17:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking (b0075jv4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


SAT 18:00 Peter Mackie - The Real Mystery of Marie Roget (b06qmcjl)
American writer Edgar Allan Poe was obsessed by the unsolved murder of a woman, Mary Rogers, who he called "Marie Roget" in his fictionalised version of the case.

On his last night on earth, Poe has a visitor with a disturbing solution as to who might have killed her.

Peter Mackie's imaginary drama stars Ed Bishop as Edgar Allan Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe ...... Ed Bishop
Dupin ...... Terry Molloy
Tom White ...... Hu Pryce
Muddy ...... Hedli Niklaus
Mary Rogers ...... Marlena Mackey
Doctor ...... Geoff Serle
Nurse ...... Carina Wyeth

Other parts played by the cast.

Director: Philip Martin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1988


SAT 19:00 Gemma Cairney's Top Ten Radio Mavericks (b06qjs0s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


SAT 22:00 Concrete Cow (b0076jz1)
Series 1

Episode 5

Dr Watson battles Sherlock Holmes at Cluedo, Chambers, Collins and Roget play scrabble, a 2,000 year old mummy goes to the wrong address and a woman has odd dreams.

Starring Olivia Colman, Sally Hawkins, Steven Kynman, Chris Pavlo and Robert Webb.

Written by James Cary, Sally Hawkins, Catherine Shepherd, Jon Holmes and Adam Bromley.

Producer: Adam Bromley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2002.


SAT 22:30 Strap In - It's Clever Peter (b01hkz35)
Nigel

Strap in for fifteen minutes of rip-roaring comedy as Clever Peter bring you a pygmy hippo, a mystery voice, some house eyes & the Pope.

Clever Peter - the wild and brilliantly funny award-winning sketch team - get their own Radio 4 show.

From the team that brought you Cabin Pressure and Another Case Of Milton Jones comes the massively bonkers and funny Clever Peter, hot off the Edinburgh Fringe and wearers of tri-coloured jerseys.

"If they don't go very far very soon there is no such thing as British justice" - Daily Telegraph
"A masterclass in original sketch comedy" - Metro
"Pretty much top of the class" - The Scotsman

So -
Why "Clever"?
Dunno

Why "Peter"?
Not a clue mate

Should I listen to the show?
Yes, of course! Derrr.

Starring Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley
and special guest Catriona Knox

Written by Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley & Dominic Stone

Produced & directed by David Tyler
A Pozzitive Television Ltd Production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 22:45 Steven Appleby's Normal Life (b007jmz1)
Series 1

Normal Love

Cartoonist Steven Appleby takes a distinctly abnormal look at everyday life in the 21st century by looking each week at one of life's fundamental topics.

When his wife leaves him for a kettle, the cartoonist looks for love elsewhere..

Starring Paul McCrink as Steven Appleby.

Featuring Rachel Atkins, Ewan Bailey, Nigel Betts and Rosalind Paul.

Six-part comedy written by Steven Appleby

Producer: Toby Swift

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001


SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06s9f1d)
From 10.00pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats again to Russell Kane.


SAT 23:00 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off (b017vmfs)
Series 5

Iron Man

When Giles accidentally enters an Iron Man triathlon in Spain, he has to enlist the help of Neil Diamond and a donkey...

Budleigh Salterton's most famous citizen is back! But this time, he's got a computer! Giles Wemmbley Hogg has been grounded by both the Home Office and his father, so he's set up GWH Travvel ("2m's 2g's 2v's, bit of a mix up at the printers").

Run from his bedroom in Budleigh Salterton, with the help of his long-suffering former Primary Schoolteacher Mr Timmis and the hindrance of his sister Charlotte, it's a one-stop Travel/Advice/Events Management/Website service, where each week, his schemes range far and wide - whether it's roaming the country lecturing would-be overlanders on how to pack a rucksack ("If in doubt, put it in. And double it"), or finding someone a zebra for a corporate promotion ("I'll look in the Phone Book - how hard can it be? Now, "A to D".....), GWH Travvel stays true to its motto - "We do it all, so you won't want to".

Starring Marcus Brigstocke as Giles

Cast:
Mr. Timmis .....Vincent Franklin
Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ...... Catherine Shepherd
Jose ..... Mitch Benn
Mariluz ..... Debbie Chazen
Carl ...... Kieran Hodgson

Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby & Toby Davies

Producer/Director: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4

Producer DAVID TYLER.


SAT 23:30 The Problem With Adam Bloom (b01b1z4r)
Series 3

Honesty

The comedian ponders whether telling the truth is always the best option. With Hattie Hayridge. From November 2005.



SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2015

SUN 00:00 Peter Mackie - The Real Mystery of Marie Roget (b06qmcjl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]


SUN 01:00 Welcome to Zaatari Omnibus (b06qjwhm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday]


SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06qm7w6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday]


SUN 02:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair (b06qmbqv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday]


SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 (b04mqt7h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday]


SUN 04:00 Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus (b06qjp4l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]


SUN 05:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking (b0075jv4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]


SUN 06:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton Omnibus (b007zcg4)
Episode 3

Aunt Esther reappears worried for her niece's welfare, and the mill workers are angry. Stars David Calder and Roy Hudd.


SUN 07:15 Ghost Houses (b007604q)
Woodstock

Charlotte Smith visits Kilkenny in Ireland to explore the ruins of a romantic stately home which became a prison. From January 2001.


SUN 07:30 Clare in the Community (b01qdxwn)
Series 8

The Parent Trap

Clare is relishing the role of acting Team Leader at the Family Centre but at home she's not relishing a visit from Brian's mother.

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

Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden

Clare ...... Sally Phillips
Brian ...... Alex Lowe
Megan ...... Nina Conti
Nali ...... Nina Conti
Ray ...... Richard Lumsden
Hazel ...... Hannah Gordon
Joan ...... Sarah Thom
Laura ...... Sarah Thom
Joe ...... Adam Nagaitis
Mike ...... Adam Nagaitis
Paul ...... Paul Stonehouse
Frank ...... Paul Stonehouse
Girl ...... Stephanie Racine

Producer Katie Tyrrell.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013.


SUN 08:00 The Al Read Show (b0090v01)
From 6/2/1966

The legendary Northern comic pokes fun at fireman and hospitals.

Monologues and sketches presenting "life with the lid off".

With Susan Maughan, The Countrymen, and Woolf Phillips and his Orchestra.

Devised by Al Read and scripted by Ronnie Taylor.

Producer: Bill Worsley

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1966.


SUN 08:30 Much Binding in the Marsh (b008qq3w)
From 24/05/1950

Elocution lessons are on offer with Brains Amalgamated's new machine.

Starring Kenneth Horne and Richard 'Stinker' Murdoch.

With Sam Costa, Maurice Denham, Diana Morrison and Barbara Leigh.

Much Binding in the Marsh ran from 1944 to 1954 initially set at a remote RAF station before being converted to a country club and later the action moved to a newspaper. (The show also ran for a season with commercial breaks on Radio Luxembourg).

Written by Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne.

Music by the Augmented Dance Orchestra conducted by Stanley Black.

Producer: Leslie Bridgemont

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1950.


SUN 09:00 Living On Paper: Letters From Iris Murdoch (b06qmzzd)
Omnibus. Throughout her life, Iris Murdoch wrote thousands of letters, illuminating her life. Read by Imogen Stubbs and Nigel Anthony.


SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06qn1gl)
Simon Armitage

The poet Simon Armitage chooses 'Tonight' from West Side Story and 'Live on a Hot August Night' by Crispy Ambulance.


SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b06qn39x)
Comedians

Miranda Hart

From Mozart to Mama Cass, the actress and comedian Miranda Hart shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From December 2013.


SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour (b06qn3tg)
Series 1

Mighty: Bull, Pen, Gun

True stories told live in the USA: Catherine Burns introduces tales about Ernest Hemingway and the power of forgiveness.

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts of the world.

The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year.

Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the humorous to the heart-breaking.

The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed by the Public Radio Exchange.


SUN 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00mlxpv)
Series 1

Bird's Nest Soup

Filming the birds that make the nests of saliva so prized by Chinese gourmet chefs in the total darkness of a Borneo cave proved difficult, until a conical mound of bat guano provided a natural platform.

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

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2009.


SUN 12:00 The Al Read Show (b0090v01)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


SUN 12:30 Much Binding in the Marsh (b008qq3w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


SUN 13:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton Omnibus (b007zcg4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


SUN 14:15 Ghost Houses (b007604q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]


SUN 14:30 Neil Gaiman - The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains (b06qncpn)
Omnibus: Inspired by a Hebridean myth of crime and revenge, a dwarf seeks a guide to a Misty Isle cave. Read by Bill Paterson.


SUN 15:45 Berlie Doherty - The Bad Boy (b06qngjk)
Geraldine is forbidden from seeing a local boy, but her sister observes a tender connection between them. Read by Kathryn Hunt. From July 1992.


SUN 16:00 Don Haworth - Ernest's Tower (b03b5408)
Ernest is a fairground stallholder, who lives in the baleful shadow of his Uncle Leo.

Leo allows him to lease a small stall or two, but Ernest has dreams of owning the tallest fairground tower in the country.

Don Haworth’s drama stars Paul Copley as Ernest, Stephen Thorne as Uncle Leo, Robin Herford as the Narrator, Alison Pettitt as Miranda, Elizabeth Bell as Rosie, Sam Kelly as Henson, Terence Edmond as Cech and Helen Ayres as the Waitress.

Original music composed by Simon Morecroft.

Director: Gordon House

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.


SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (b06rchkr)
Poetry Please: Altered States

BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive.

In 'Poetry Please', Roger McGough presents poetry to take you into altered states, reveries and waking dreams - including Tennyson's strange and magical Lotus-Eaters and Coleridge's Kubla Khan.

The readers are Tim Pigott-Smith and Indira Varma.

Producer: Beth O'Dea

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.


SUN 17:30 Clare in the Community (b01qdxwn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


SUN 18:00 Ray Bradbury's Tales of the Bizarre (b06qnjdj)
Series 2

The Day It Rained Forever

The last remaining residents of a drought-stricken hotel receive salvation from an enigmatic source.

Strange and chilling tales from the award-winning master of thrillers Ray Bradbury, who tops and tails these radio dramatisations in his own inimitable style.

Blanche …. Gwyneth Guthrie
Mr Smith …. Michael Mackenzie
Mr Fremley …. Bob Docherty
Mr Tyrell …. Raymond Ross

The harp played by Charlotte Peterson.

Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska.

Producer: Hamish Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1997.


SUN 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b008p506)
Guards! Guards!

Episode 6

"Last Desperate Chances always work. Besides, I'll be using my lucky arrow..."

All Captain Vimes needs to save the city is a million-to-one chance.

First published in 1989, the 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld. Conclusion of six parts dramatized by Michael Butt.

CAST:

Narrator …. Martin Jarvis
Captain Vimes …. John Wood
Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes
Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne
Lady Ramkin …. Helen Atkinson-Wood
Carrot …. Robert Gwilym
Lord Vetinari …. Crawford Logan
Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher
First Guard …. Jeff Nuttall
Joint First Guard …. Michael Roberts
Death …. Himself

Director: John Taylor

First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in December 1992.


SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour (b06qn3tg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00mlxpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today]


SUN 20:00 Living On Paper: Letters From Iris Murdoch (b06qmzzd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06qn1gl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today]


SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b06qn39x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today]


SUN 22:00 Clare in the Community (b01qdxwn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


SUN 22:30 Bussmann and Quantick Kingsize (b045gdqt)
Episode 5

Five things you didn't know about ready meals.

An old Kwik Save bag stuffed full of sketches, monologues and beserk bits.

Originally broadcast live from London's exclusive Imperial Rooms, Mayfair.

Written and performed by Jane Bussmann and David Quantick.

Also featuring Peter Serafinowicz, Emma Clarke and Steve Brody.

Producer: Phil Bowker.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.


SUN 23:00 Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking (b00y9xdg)
Series 1

Episode 6

Revelations about hats, tents and some disturbing tales from Beatrix Potter.

Award-winning comedian Laura Solon's sketch and character comedy series

With Ben Moor, Katherine Parkinson and Ben Willbond.

Written by Laura Solon. With additional material by the cast, Carl Cooper, Tony Roche and Andy Marlatt.

Producer: Colin Anderson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2007.


SUN 23:30 A Look Back at the Future (b01rh3wq)
2001

From the World Cup to the future NHS.

Recorded in 1994, Brian Perkins, Kate Robbins and Jeremy Hardy recall the turbulent upheaval of 2001 - that was yet to happen.:

Series revealing everything you wanted to know back then, about the future 21st century.

Written by Mark Burton, John O'Farrell and Pete Sinclair.

Producer: Caroline Leddy

First broadcast (with the aid of a crystal ball) on BBC Radio 4 in July 1994.



MONDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2015

MON 00:00 Ray Bradbury's Tales of the Bizarre (b06qnjdj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]


MON 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b008p506)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday]


MON 01:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton Omnibus (b007zcg4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday]


MON 02:15 Ghost Houses (b007604q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday]


MON 02:30 Neil Gaiman - The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains (b06qncpn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday]


MON 03:45 Berlie Doherty - The Bad Boy (b06qngjk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday]


MON 04:00 Don Haworth - Ernest's Tower (b03b5408)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]


MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (b06rchkr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday]


MON 05:30 Clare in the Community (b01qdxwn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday]


MON 06:00 Miss Marple (b007jv9w)
They Do It With Mirrors

Episode 1

Miss Marple is invited to stay with her old school friend, Carrie at Stoneygates - a Victorian mansion doubling as a rehabilitation centre for delinquents.

As she mulls over Carrie's life history on the train journey, just what is the danger that the sleuth is sensing?

Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as the indomitable amateur detective, Miss Jane Marple.

From the book first published in 1952 and dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell.

Miss Marple …. June Whitfield
Carrie Louise …. Ursula Howells
Ruth Van Rydock …. Jill Balcon
Lewis Serrocold …. Peter Howell
Edgar Lawson …. Rhys Meredith
Walter Hudd/Railway porter …. Stephen Lucas
Mildred Strete …. Natasha Pyne
Juliet Bellever …. Paula Jacobs
Gina Hudd …. Rebecca Lacey

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2001.


MON 06:30 The Generalisimo (b0076g7h)
The Pre-Democracy Era

4 Extra Debut. Miles Kington travels through Spain to dissect the early years of Europe's longest-serving dictator General Franco. From August 2003.


MON 07:00 The Right Time (b00c693m)
Series 3

Episode 2

Facelift fracas - and a new TV quiz show for the hard of memory.

The sketch comedy for people growing older disgracefully.

Stars Eleanor Bron, Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Clive Swift, Roger Blake and Paula Wilcox.

Written by Julie Balloo, Janet Ellis, Graeme Garden Mike Haskins, Jan Etherington, Alan Stafford, Colin Bostock Smith, Mike Pilman, Mark Brisenden and Robert Mills.

Script Editor: Jed Parsons.

Music by Ronnie & The Rex and Neil Innes.

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003.


MON 07:30 Just a Minute (b0670gmc)
Series 73

Episode 8

Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Susan Calman and Tom Allen find out just how hard it can be to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, repetition & deviation in this special episode recorded at the Edinburgh Festival.


MON 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jq0r)
Series 3

Round and Round Went the Big Wheel

Captain Mainwaring's Home Guard platoon take action when a new High Explosive Attack Device goes haywire.

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

Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Walker …. Larry Martyn
Colonel Pearce …. John Barron
Captain Stewart …. Michael Knowles

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1976.


MON 08:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (b007qg0y)
Series 2

Episode 5

Eric is a far from fair cop and there’s some monkey business in Ernie's latest masterpiece ‘The Mighty Kong’.

Written by Eddie Braben.

With Nicola Pagett and Elaine Delmar.

Music from Peter Knight and his Orchestra.

Producer: John Browell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1976.


MON 09:00 The Write Stuff (b009tvdp)
Series 11

Hans Christian Andersen

James Walton hosts the literary quiz with John Walsh, Sebastian Faulks, Wendy Holden and John O'Farrell. From April 2008.


MON 09:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b00n5vsq)
Series 3

Episode 6

Merv has always worn jeans, so why does Pam want to take him shopping? Stars Mervyn Stutter and Lill Roughley. From June 2004.


MON 10:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions (b007jlnk)
Episode 1

When a concert party is marooned in the Midlands, the lives of three dissatisfied people are entwined. Stars Philip Jackson.


MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00wldv9)
Julia Blackburn - For the Love of a Child

Chocolate Pudding

The first of two stories about relationships between adults and children, drawn from real-life.

1. Chocolate Pudding

A psychiatrist is perplexed by several cases of coma in a young child. With patience and bowls of chocolate pudding he manages to wake the child, by describing how delicious the pudding is and putting it under the child's nose. The story is inspired by conversations with the psychiatrist and his descriptions of 'Sleeping Beauty Syndrome'.

Written and read by the Costa-shortlisted writer Julia Blackburn. The stories are written with the same mesmerising delicacy of touch that Julia brought to her Penn-Ackerley prize-winning memoir 'The Three of Us', demonstrating her extraordinary capacity to find the best in people while encompassing their frailty.

Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery

Music: Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire by Eric Satie.


MON 11:15 Cherie Rogers - An Oddly Complete Understanding (b06qsngj)
Introduced to each other by Lytton Strachey in 1916, the friendship between Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf had to overcome formidable obstacles - the differences of class and culture, the threat of madness and tuberculosis.

But the influence of each on the other was destined, to some degree, to change the direction of women writers this century.

Cherie Rogers' drama stars Penelope Wilton as Virginia Woolf and Rosalind Shanks as Katherine Mansfield.

Producer: John Knight

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990.


MON 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jq0r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


MON 12:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (b007qg0y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


MON 13:00 Miss Marple (b007jv9w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


MON 13:30 The Generalisimo (b0076g7h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b018cbbr)
Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Episode 1

Nancy Mitford's razor-sharp comic classic on love and growing up in the 1930s. Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by Diana Quick.

Fanny Logan tells the story of her beloved aristocratic cousins, the Radletts, and in particular Linda, who is beautiful and loves animals. Uncle Mathew hunts his children with bloodhounds (to the horror of respectable families in the local village) and keeps a blood-spattered entrenching tool above the fireplace as a relic of his experiences in the First World War. The cousins spend much of their childhood in the airing cupboard - the only warm place in the enormous Alconleigh Hall - discussing love and sex.

Beautifully observed and hilariously funny, the novel is also a fascinating hinterland account of the period leading to the Second World War and never pulls its punches in evoking the painful reality of the times.

Reader...Diana Quick
Abridger...Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery.


MON 14:15 Disability: A New History (b01slvvj)
The Only Dwarf in Liverpool

Across the country, historians are discovering the voices of disabled people from the past. In this 10-part series, Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal first-hand accounts of what it was like to live with physical disability in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The result is moving, revealing, and sometimes very funny:
'Sirs, I am a dwarf. I have lost my job at the circus and what is a dwarf to do in such a situation? In this Godforsaken place the snow comes so deep that a self-respecting dwarf can't even walk along the street without drowning!'

This document is from a huge archive of letters from disabled people in the 19th century, applying to the local authorities for money. They are a rich source of what life was like with a disability. Sources like this are only now being discovered and interpreted by historians across the country - it amounts to a new historical movement.

In the first programme, Peter explores what this new history reveals, and challenges our pre-conceptions.

For Peter, as a blind man, there is a strong sense of personal discovery. He says, 'I never realised disabled people had a history. History was what happened to everyone else.'

For him the series is revelatory. This programme, for instance, includes 18th century jokes about disability and discusses what juicy terms for disability were common in a society where there was no political correctness.

With historians David Turner, Chris Mounsey, Stephen King, Judith Hawley, and voices from the past brought vividly to life by actors Gerard McDermott, Ewan Bailey and Emily Bevan.

Producer: Elizabeth Burke
Academic adviser: David Turner, Swansea University
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.


MON 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007jqlr)
Episode 16

Mary's romantic attachment to both the murder victim and the accused, make her the centre of gossip and attention. Stars Emma Rydal.


MON 14:45 Book of the Week (b00wlbss)
Richard Cohen - Chasing the Sun

Episode 1

"Once upon a time we thought that we were the centre of the universe and that even the sun revolved around us...
Thousands of years later we know that our earliest, most basic idea about our place in the cosmos was false, and that that cosmos is vastly larger than we ever dreamed. We are mere specks..."

Richard Cohen took eight years to write his account of the sun. The sun's biography, in fact. He looks at the myth, the legend, the science. Also the social context and how the sun figures in various art forms. And, will it be with us for ever? We have to hope so. His celebration of that gold disc in the sky is now caught in five episodes...

In the first of five episodes, abridged by Penny Leicester, the author highlights some of the astounding myths associated with the sun, then he views the pefect sunrise...

Reader Allan Corduner

Producer Duncan Minshull.


MON 15:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions (b007jlnk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


MON 16:00 The Write Stuff (b009tvdp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


MON 16:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b00n5vsq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


MON 17:00 The Right Time (b00c693m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


MON 17:30 Just a Minute (b0670gmc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


MON 18:00 Robert Easby - Oneira (b007ww76)
The Big Chill

The surreal quest of a young museum attendant named Oneira to learn the secrets of the Universe with the help of Nicholai, a 400-year-old Dutch alchemist.

Robert Easby's sci-fi comedy serial stars Lyndsey Marshal as Oneira, Peter Marinker as Nicholai, Joseph Kloska as Pete, Mark Straker as the Salesman and Bethan Walker as the Visitor.

Producer: Liz Webb.

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007.


MON 18:30 A Good Read (b00761f9)
Anthony Julius and Martin Bell

Louise Doughty and her guests solicitor Anthony Julius and former MP and ex-war correspondent, Martin Bell - discuss three favourite paperbacks by Geoffrey Robertson, William Boyd and Adrian Bell. From 2001.

'Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice by Geoffrey Robertson QC
Publisher: Penguin

'Brazzaville Beach' by William Boyd
Publisher: Penguin

'Corduroy' by Adrian Bell
Publisher: Penguin.


MON 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jq0r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


MON 19:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (b007qg0y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


MON 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jv9w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


MON 20:30 The Generalisimo (b0076g7h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


MON 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00wldv9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


MON 21:15 Cherie Rogers - An Oddly Complete Understanding (b06qsngj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]


MON 22:00 Just a Minute (b0670gmc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


MON 22:30 Cabin Pressure (b01l02j9)
Series 4

Timbuktu

Cabin Pressure is a sitcom about the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one plane, charter airline; staffed by two pilots: one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether they're flying squaddies to Hamburg, metal sheets to Mozambique, or an oil exec's cat to Abu Dhabi, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult...

Episode 1:

Hooray hooray, it's Birling Day once more, where the crew traditionally swap their dignity for cash! But where have all the camels gone? And why is Arthur reading a book?

Written by John Finnemore
Produced and directed by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.


MON 23:00 The Now Show (b06pxzdz)
Series 47

Episode 3

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Mitch Benn, Sarah Kendall, Robert Peston and Gemma Arrowsmith for a comic look at the week's news.

Written by the cast with additional material from Jane Lamacraft, Sarah Morgan, Liam Beirne and Marc Jones.

Produced by Alexandra Smith.


MON 23:30 The Harpoon (b007k4t8)
Series 2

Episode 3

The complete story of evolution from Little Blobby Thing to Homo Erectus Britishus Imperius.

Plus an advert for some sticks.

All in your nostalgic spoof of boys' adventure story papers.

With Susie Brann , Alistair McGowan , Mary Elliot-Nelson, Julian Dutton and Peter Baynham.

Producer: Sarah Smith

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992.



TUESDAY 01 DECEMBER 2015

TUE 00:00 Robert Easby - Oneira (b007ww76)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]


TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b00761f9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]


TUE 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jv9w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]


TUE 01:30 The Generalisimo (b0076g7h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]


TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b018cbbr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]


TUE 02:15 Disability: A New History (b01slvvj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday]


TUE 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007jqlr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]


TUE 02:45 Book of the Week (b00wlbss)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday]


TUE 03:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions (b007jlnk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]


TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff (b009tvdp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]


TUE 04:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b00n5vsq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]


TUE 05:00 The Right Time (b00c693m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]


TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (b0670gmc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]


TUE 06:00 Miss Marple (b007jvb0)
They Do It With Mirrors

Episode 2

Clearly something's wrong at Stoneygates, but for Miss Marple, the most disquieting factors are the jealousies and simmering tensions within the family itself.

Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss Jane Marple.

Miss Marple …. June Whitfield
Carrie Louise …. Ursula Howells
Lewis Serrocold …. Peter Howell
Juliet Bellever …. Paula Jacobs
Gina Hudd …. Rebecca Lacey
Walter Hudd …. Stephen Lucas
Stephen Restarick …. Daniel Philpott
Edgar Lawson …. Rhys Meredith
Mildred Strete …. Natasha Pyne
Alexis Restarick …. Nick Waring
Christian Bulbrandsen …. Stephen Thorne

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2001.


TUE 06:30 The Generalisimo (b0076gc0)
Franco's Civil War

Miles Kington continues his journey around Spain to uncover the legacy of General Franco's civil war triumph. From August 2003.


TUE 07:00 HR (b01bm0p7)
Series 3

Disabled

The two 60-something chums have just lost their pensions.

Sam balks at Peter's outrageous survival measures. But will he become embroiled?

Nigel Williams' much-praised comedy series

Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce
Sam ..... Nicholas le Prevost
Doctor ..... Paul Moriarty

Director: Peter Kavanagh.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2012.


TUE 07:30 Gloomsbury (b040hzz1)
Series 2

Bonfire of the Jealousies

Vera is consumed with jealousy, because Ginny has won a literary prize and is going to be photographed for the front cover of Vanity Fair by acclaimed Society photographer Manta Ray. To make matters worse, Venus is getting a teeny crush on Ginny. So, when Ginny asks for style advice in advance of her photographic session, Vera's suggestions have an edge of mockery.

Vera, wracked with torment, breaks the habit of a lifetime and unburdens herself to Mrs Gosling. But of course Mrs Gosling's life has been an endless struggle to suppress her jealousy of her employers' wealth and privilege. Even a chance encounter with Sigmund Void on Hampstead Heath fails to shake Vera from her melancholic mood. In the end it falls to Henry and Lionel to try to boost Vera's confidence.

Producer: Jamie Rix
A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4.


TUE 08:00 Round the Horne (b00mbl7s)
Series 3

Episode 10

Kenneth Horne probes nocturnal doings in 'Gaslight, Son of Flicker', while Julian and Sandy turn bona film producers

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 April 1967.


TUE 08:30 To the Manor Born (b007m9wg)
The Spare Room

DeVere takes a shine to Mrs fforbes-Hamilton's guest. Is Audrey jealous?.

Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton.

Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere
Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher
Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger
Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka
Frank Middlemass ..... Ned
Podge Hodge ..... Zulema Dene

The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage.

From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descent.

First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997.

Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence.

Producer: Jane Berthoud

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997.


TUE 09:00 The Now Show (b06pxzdz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]


TUE 09:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007jv2y)
Series 1

Episode 3

An Everyday Story of Towering Genius.

Sue Limb’s four-part soap opera set in and around the Lake District at the turn of the 18th century

Dorothy is perturbed by William's impending wedding. Percy Jelley is depressed despite his recent bigamous marriage to Mary Godwit. The Leechpedlar reveals that he was 'The Antique Mariner'. Cholericke is inspired....

Dorothy Wordsmith ...... Denise Coffey
William Wordsmith ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Samuel Tailor Cholericke ...... Simon Callow
Stinking Iris ...... Miriam Margolyes
The Leechpedlar ...... Chris Emmett
Percy Jelley ...... Hugh Thomas
Mary Godwit ...... Alison Fiske

Music by Stephen Oliver and sung by Cantabile

Producer: Jonathan James-Moore

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1985.


TUE 10:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions (b007jlnw)
Episode 2

After three strangers arrive, the marooned concert party start making plans without their manager. Stars Helen Longworth.


TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00wlg39)
Julia Blackburn - For the Love of a Child

Call Me and I'll Come to You

Written and read by the Costa-shortlisted writer Julia Blackburn, the second of two stories about relationships between adults and children, drawn from real-life.

2. Call me and I'll Come to You
At a low ebb, Julia rediscovers a letter her father wrote to her before his death. He describes how the love between a parent and child is not diminished by death. Julia is comforted, as if her father was with her in that moment.

The stories are written with the same mesmerising delicacy of touch that Julia brought to her Penn-Ackerley prize-winning memoir 'The Three of Us', demonstrating her extraordinary capacity to find the best in people while encompassing their frailty.

Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery

Music: Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire by Eric Satie.


TUE 11:15 Drama (b00s3d1t)
Frances Byrnes - Mercy

Carl Prekopp stars in this first world war drama about one of the first major operations by the Red Cross.

In 1916, soldiers who had been living terrible, deprived lives in German POW camps were taken to Chateau d'Oex, a holiday resort in Switzerland, to be nursed back to health amongst the clean air and spring flowers, courtesy of the Red Cross. Some of their wives even made the long train journey from Britain to visit them.

It sounds like a fairy tale ending to the horrors of war and captivity, and for many it must have been just that. But what if a man doesn't want to be found and what if he thinks he doesn't deserve to be made better?

Based on newspaper reports of events at the time, Frances Byrnes' play follows two fictional soldiers: number 2301, an angry young sergeant who is ashamed to have been captured and won't reveal his identity, and Havildar Gurung, a young Ghurka who is going blind and longs for the hills of home.

Thrown together in this beautiful, gentle place, and with the winter snows now beginning to fall, is kindness and mercy enough to cure these damaged men?

2301.....Carl Prekopp
Nurse.....Siriol Jenkins
Special Correspondent.....Richard Mitchley
Gurung.....Muzz Khan
Officer.....Gareth Pierce

BBC/Cymru Wales Production directed by Kate McAll.


TUE 12:00 Round the Horne (b00mbl7s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


TUE 12:30 To the Manor Born (b007m9wg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


TUE 13:00 Miss Marple (b007jvb0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


TUE 13:30 The Generalisimo (b0076gc0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b018csz9)
Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Episode 2

by Nancy Mitford. Fanny is anxious about meeting her beloved Aunt Emily's husband-to-be. Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by Diana Quick.

Fanny Logan tells the story of her aristocratic cousins, the Radletts, and in particular Linda, who is beautiful and loves animals. Uncle Mathew hunts his children with bloodhounds (to the horror of respectable families in the local village) and keeps a blood-spattered entrenching tool above the fireplace as a relic of his experiences in the First World War. The cousins spend much of their childhood in the airing cupboard - the only warm place in the enormous Alconleigh Hall - discussing love and sex.

Beautifully observed and hilariously funny, the novel is also a fascinating hinterland account of the period leading to the Second World War and never pulls its punches in evoking the painful reality of the times.

Reader...Diana Quick
Abridger...Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery.


TUE 14:15 Disability: A New History (b01sm70w)
Miracle Cures

Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal the lives of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th centuries. In this second episode - the search for Miracle Cures.

Peter says, 'Every so often in the street someone sees me with my white stick and comes up to me -and offers me my sight back. I'm usually quite rude to them, it depends what kind of day I'm having. But the idea of miracle cures runs very deep.'

It goes back at least to the Middle Ages, to the earliest accounts we have of disability in Britain. Peter investigates the roots of the idea of the miracle cure, in conversation with medieval historian Irina Metzler. She reveals that having a child with a disability was thought to be the result of 'the wrong kind of sex' - and there were many 'wrong kinds', such as sex on Feast Days and in daylight.

Thousands of people with illnesses and disabilities flocked to their local Cathedral, praying to the Saints for a cure. When that didn't work, they simply moved on to another cathedral. And the belief in miracles lasted at least until the 18th Century - we hear how the infant Samuel Johnson was taken to see Queen Anne, his mother hoping that the Royal touch would cure his skin disease. It didn't work, of course, but the great rationalist wore the amulet the Queen gave him all his life - hoping for a cure for his multiple disabilities. There's a triumph of hope over experience!

With historians Irina Metzler and Judith Hawley and voices from the past brought vividly to life by actors Emily Bevan, Ewan Bailey and Gerard McDermott.

Producer: Elizabeth Burke
Academic adviser: David Turner, Swansea University
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.


TUE 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007jqm6)
Episode 17

As Jem stands accused of murder, desperate Mary goes to Liverpool in search of a witness. Stars Emma Rydal and Simon Trinder.


TUE 14:45 Book of the Week (b00wmnby)
Richard Cohen - Chasing the Sun

Episode 2

"Once upon a time we thought that we were the centre of the universe and that even the sun revolved around us...
Thousands of years later we know that our earliest, most basic idea about our place in the cosmos was false, and that that cosmos is vastly larger than we ever dreamed. We are mere specks..."

Richard Cohen took eight years to write his account of the sun. The sun's biography, in fact. He looks at the myth, the legend, the science. Also the social context and how the sun figures in various art forms. And, will it be with us for ever? We have to hope so. His celebration of that gold disc in the sky is now caught in five episodes...

2. How has the sun cast its influence in such diverse activies as warfare and holiday-making?

Reader Allan Corduner.


TUE 15:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions (b007jlnw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


TUE 16:00 The Motion Show (b0075wtm)
Series 2

Episode 3

Dr Phil Hammond chairs the debating game with Tony Hawks, Simon Fanshawe, Steve Punt and Arthur Smith. From January 2000.


TUE 16:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007jv2y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


TUE 17:00 HR (b01bm0p7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


TUE 17:30 Gloomsbury (b040hzz1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


TUE 18:00 Robert Easby - Oneira (b007x08b)
Sleight of Mind

An electricity company official interrogates the museum attendant. But is he actually helping Oneira - or is he an alien?

Robert Easby's sci-fi comedy serial stars Lyndsey Marshal as Oneira, Peter Marinker as Nicholai, Sam Dale as Resistor, Gerard McDermott as Fulcanelli and Mark Straker as the Floor Manager.

Producer: Liz Webb.

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007.


TUE 18:30 Shah Rukh Khan's Heroes (b06rd13t)
Dhyan Chand

Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan's celebrates his personal heroes with a tribute to Indian hockey legend Dhyan Chand.

Producer: Ranjit Doal

First broadcast on the BBC Asian Network in 2012.


TUE 19:00 Round the Horne (b00mbl7s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


TUE 19:30 To the Manor Born (b007m9wg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


TUE 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jvb0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


TUE 20:30 The Generalisimo (b0076gc0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


TUE 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00wlg39)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


TUE 21:15 Drama (b00s3d1t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]


TUE 22:00 Gloomsbury (b040hzz1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


TUE 22:30 Don't Start (b01n1qyz)
Series 2

The Bathroom

Kim calls Neil into the bathroom for an impromptu debate about shaving, the Krankies and Phantom of the Opera - but to what end?

What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new comedy from Frank Skinner returns for a second series. Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson.

The first series of Don't Start met with instant critical and audience acclaim:
"That he can deliver such a heavy premise for a series with such a lightness of touch is testament to his skills as a writer and, given that the protagonists are both bookworms, he's also permitted to use a flourish of fine words that would be lost in his stand-up routines". Jane Anderson, Radio Times

"Writing and starring in the four-parter Don't Start (Radio 4) Frank Skinner gives full rein to his sharp but splenetic comedy. He and his co-star Katherine Parkinson play a bickering couple exchanging acerbic ripostes in a cruelly precise dissection of a relationship". Daily Mail

.. "a lesson in relationship ping-pong" .. - Miranda Sawyer, The Observer
Series 2 follows hard on its heels. Well observed, clever and funny, Don't Start is a scripted comedy with a deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each week, our couple fall out over another apparently trivial flashpoint - the Krankies, toenail trimming and semantics. Each week, the stakes mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But these are no ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other with increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary references (the Old Testament, Jack Spratt and the first Mrs Rochester, to name a few) and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's weaknesses. Underneath the cutting wit, however, there is an unmistakable tenderness".

Frank says:
"Having established, in the first series, that Neil and Kim are a childless academic couple who, during their numerous arguments, luxuriate in their own, and each other's, learning and wit, I've tried, in the second series, to dig a little deeper into their relationship. Love and affection, occasionally splutter into view, like a Higgs boson in a big tunnel-thing, but can such emotions ever prevail in a relationship where the couple prefers to wear their brains, rather than their hearts, on their sleeves? Is that too much offal imagery?"

Directed and Produced by Polly Thomas
Executive Producer: Jon Thoday
An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4.


TUE 22:45 The Music Teacher (b01h75l2)
Series 2

Episode 6

Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher Nigel Penny.

Nigel finds himself losing pupils as a new music teacher who is able to get outstanding exam results starts working at the Arts Centre.

Meanwhile Belinda is keen to put the new income stream to good use.

Audio production by Matt Katz
Directed by Nick Walker

Written and produced by Richie Webb
A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4.


TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06sfqmy)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tiff Stevenson chats to Lewis Schaffer.


TUE 23:00 Alice's Wunderland (b01l8n82)
Series 1

Episode 4

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

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

A sketch show written and performed by Alice Lowe.

Also starring:

Richard Glover
Simon Greenall
Rachel Stubbings
Clare Thompson
Marcia Warren

Producer: Sam Bryant

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2012.


TUE 23:30 The Sofa of Time (b00j0hqt)
Here Comes Bod

Can Milford and Parker overcome Raamen Bod and find the Sofa of Time? Stars Mark Heap and Nick Frost. From November 2002.



WEDNESDAY 02 DECEMBER 2015

WED 00:00 Robert Easby - Oneira (b007x08b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]


WED 00:30 Shah Rukh Khan's Heroes (b06rd13t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]


WED 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jvb0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]


WED 01:30 The Generalisimo (b0076gc0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]


WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b018csz9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]


WED 02:15 Disability: A New History (b01sm70w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday]


WED 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007jqm6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]


WED 02:45 Book of the Week (b00wmnby)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday]


WED 03:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions (b007jlnw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]


WED 04:00 The Motion Show (b0075wtm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday]


WED 04:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007jv2y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday]


WED 05:00 HR (b01bm0p7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]


WED 05:30 Gloomsbury (b040hzz1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]


WED 06:00 Miss Marple (b007jvb6)
They Do It With Mirrors

Episode 3

At Stoneygates, a murder has taken place in the Victorian mansion doubling as a rehabilitation centre for delinquents.

Amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple assists the police with their inquiries.

Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield.

Miss Marple …. June Whitfield
Inspector Curry …. Keith Barron
Carrie Louise .... Ursula Howells
Lewis Serrocold …. Peter Howell
Juliet Bellever …. Paula Jacobs
Mildred Strete …. Natasha Pyne
Alexis Restarick …. Nick Waring
Gina Hudd …. Rebecca Lacey

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001.


WED 06:30 The Generalisimo (b0076ggk)
Franco's Final Years

Miles Kington looks back at the Franco years of the 1960s and 70s and life after the death of the Spanish dictator. From August 2003.


WED 07:00 Lenin of the Rovers (b007jvcl)
Series 2

Ghosts and Ghoolies

Ricky Lenin decides to write a column in a tabloid newspaper, but ends up learning a few painful lessons about life, love, truth, and Gloria Hunniford.

More adventures of communist football club, Felchester Rovers starring Alexei Sayle.

Ricky Lenin ...... Alexei Sayle
Jeff Frankly ...... John Sessions
Frank Lee Brian ...... Kenneth Wolstenholme
Colonel Brace Cartwright ...... Donald Hewlett
Stevie Stalin ...... Andrew McLean
Terry Trotsky ...... Phil Cornwell
Curvy Corinne ...... Jacqueline Ashman
Announcer ...... John Witty

Written by Marcus Berkmann.

Producer: Harry Thompson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1989.


WED 07:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b06pxm45)
Series 3

The Madman in the Attic

With Tom's Dad advocating some rather drastic "rationalizing", Tom realises that it might be time for him to have a clear-out himself.

Sitcom where Tom Wrigglesworth phones home for his weekly check-in with his Mum, Dad and Gran, giving us a glimpse into his family background and the influences that have shaped his temperament, opinions and hang-ups.

Tom ...... Tom Wrigglesworth
Dad ...... Paul Copley
Mum ...... Kate Anthony
Granny ...... Elizabeth Bennett

Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle. With Miles Jupp.

Producer: Richard Morris

A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2015.


WED 08:00 The TV Lark (b01cwsl9)
The Potarneyland Election

Troutbridge TV hitches a lift aboard a destroyer to cover a far flung historic ballot.

After 4 series of 'The Navy Lark', the BBC decided the comedy crew needed a new setting, so where better than brand new independent station, Troutbridge TV?

However, after just 10 episodes, this proved to be only a temporary change of course for the crew of HMS Troutbridge - as the crew were soon back aboard 'The Navy Lark'.

Stars Jon Pertwee as the Floor Manager, Leslie Phillips as The Director, Stephen Murray as the Producer, Ronnie Barker as Fatso Johnson ( and Lt Samuel Pepys Washington Birt/Harold MacMillan and Commander Stanton) and Richard Caldicote as the Deputy Controller.

Scripted by Lawrie Wyman

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1963.


WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b010hcq2)
Series 7

Episode 3

New town education - and Professor Prune's time travel adventure continues in Elizabethan England...

Starring:

Tim Brooke-Taylor
John Cleese
Graeme Garden
David Hatch
Jo Kendal
Bill Oddie

Sketches written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie.

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 Liam Cohen, Dave Lee, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie.

Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in January 1969.


WED 09:00 Counterpoint (b06qzrp6)
1999

Heat 6

Ned Sherrin chairs the music quiz with Michael Eardley of Aylesbury, Bristol's Alexandra Denman and Harry Miller from Cardiff.


WED 09:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00s3bcz)
Series 2

Salvatore's Apotheosis

Plethora decides it's time for son and heir Salvatore to be ordained as a priest - by nonagenarian Father Ignazio.

Second series of the comedy drama set in Renaissance Italy devised by Neal Anthony.

Written by Roger Danes.

Stars David Swift as Ludovico, Sian Phillips as Plethora, Graham Crowden as Francesco, Saskia Wickham as Rosalie, Nicholas Grace as Lord Luton and Kim Wall as Father Ignazio.

Producer: Dawn Ellis

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002.


WED 10:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions (b007jlp4)
Episode 3

As the concert party hits rock bottom, will their manager and 'angel' Miss Trant pull the plug on them? Stars Jemma Churchill.


WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00wlgmm)
Julia Blackburn - For the Love of a Child

Three Buzzing Boys

The last of three stories about relationships between adults and children, drawn from real-life. The stories are written and read by Julia Blackburn, whose most recent book 'The Three Of Us' has won the 2009 Pen/Ackerley prize for memoir and autobiography. The stories have Julia's mesmerising delicacy of touch in the way they describe human relationships and her capacity to find the best in people while encompassing their frailty.

3. Three Buzzing Boys
When Julia meets Dominique she is reminded of naturalist Gilbert White's account of a young boy in the village of Selbourne. The boy sleeps by the hearth during the winter and wakes in the spring, going from hive to hive, eating honey, keeping live bees under his shirt, and buzzing with strange contentment.

Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery

Music: Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire by Eric Satie.


WED 11:15 Steve Chambers - Victoria Station (b06qzsq2)
Tunnel Vision

Wednesday January 11th 1895. Something sinister lurks in the tunnel damaged by the recent derailment at Victoria station in Bridgford.

Nottingham born author Steve Chambers' 5-part set in Victoria Station, Bridgford in 1895 each with a self-contained drama , as well as the day-to-day shenanigans and goings on of the station staff.

Stars Sean Baker as Station Master Joe Braddock, Philip Jackson as Tidmarsh, John Hartley as Union activist Fred Roberts, Gavin Muir as Area Manager Mr Cripps, Julia Ford as Josie and Pauline Letts as Ada.

Director: Celia de Wolff

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1995 and set a century before.


WED 12:00 The TV Lark (b01cwsl9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b010hcq2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


WED 13:00 Miss Marple (b007jvb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


WED 13:30 The Generalisimo (b0076ggk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b018fllp)
Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Episode 3

by Nancy Mitford. Aunt Sadie needs to find some young men to invite to Louisa's ball. Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by Diana Quick.

Fanny Logan tells the story of her beloved aristocratic cousins, the Radletts, and in particular Linda, who is beautiful and loves animals. Uncle Mathew hunts his children with bloodhounds (to the horror of respectable families in the local village) and keeps a blood-spattered entrenching tool above the fireplace as a relic of his experiences in the First World War. The cousins spend much of their childhood in the airing cupboard - the only warm place in the enormous Alconleigh Hall - discussing love and sex.

Beautifully observed and hilariously funny, the novel is also a fascinating hinterland account of the period leading to the Second World War and never pulls its punches in evoking the painful reality of the times.

Reader...Diana Quick
Abridger...Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery.


WED 14:15 Disability: A New History (b01smkq3)
Freaks and Entrepreneurs

Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal the lives of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th centuries. In this third episode, he challenges our modern ideas of freaks and freak shows.

Many disabled people who exhibited themselves in the 18th century were in fact wealthy entrepreneurs. Historians now argue that they were in charge of their own careers, and they challenged society's expectations of what disabled people could achieve.

Case studies include the artist Matthew Buchinger, who was born without arms or legs but became a performer to Royalty and a symbol of virility in the 18th century. Peter also discovers that 18th century dwarves could be delivered to your door in a box - if you were wealthy enough to pay for a private view.

With historians David Turner, Judith Hawley and Naomi Baker and voices from the past brought to life by actors Gerard McDermott, Ewan Bailey and Emily Bevan.

Producer: Elizabeth Burke
Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.


WED 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007jqml)
Episode 18

Jem's defence has little chance of success without an alibi, and Mary is lost in Liverpool. Stars Emma Rydal and Roy Hudd.


WED 14:45 Book of the Week (b00wmngc)
Richard Cohen - Chasing the Sun

Episode 3

"Once upon a time we thought that we were the centre of the universe and that even the sun revolved around us...
Thousands of years later we know that our earliest, most basic idea about our place in the cosmos was false, and that that cosmos is vastly larger than we ever dreamed. We are mere specks..."

Richard Cohen took eight years to write his account of the sun. The sun's biography, in fact. He looks at the myth, the legend, the science. Also the social context and how the sun figures in various art forms. And, will it be with us for ever? We have to hope so. His celebration of that gold disc in the sky is now caught in five episodes...

3. The author journeys across the world to witness the most dramatic of eclipses...

Reader Allan Corduner.


WED 15:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions (b007jlp4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


WED 16:00 Counterpoint (b06qzrp6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


WED 16:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00s3bcz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


WED 17:00 Lenin of the Rovers (b007jvcl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


WED 17:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b06pxm45)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


WED 18:00 Robert Easby - Oneira (b007k26v)
A String of Time

As her quest to learn the secrets of the Universe continues, museum attendant Oneira ends up in the Texan Desert with a dead American comic - and a 13th century Friar.

Robert Easby's sci-fi comedy serial stars Lyndsey Marshal as Oneira, Peter Marinker as Nicholai, Chas Early as Bill Hicks, Jon Glover as Roger Bacon and Christine Kavanagh as Clock/Alien.

Producer: Liz Webb.

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007.


WED 18:30 Off the Page (b0076wzf)
Crime Sells

Victoria Coren discusses the morality of crime writing with Will Self, Martin Short and Maxim Jakubowski. From February 2006.


WED 19:00 The TV Lark (b01cwsl9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b010hcq2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


WED 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jvb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


WED 20:30 The Generalisimo (b0076ggk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


WED 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00wlgmm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


WED 21:15 Steve Chambers - Victoria Station (b06qzsq2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]


WED 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b06pxm45)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


WED 22:30 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme (b01dht2y)
Series 1

Egypt

Tim Key is on a cultural pilgrimage to Cairo, as he grapples with the meaning of 'Egypt'.

Tom Basden plays guitar, while wearing a fez.

Written and presented by Tim Key

With Tom Basden

Producer: James Robinson

First broadcast on BBC Radio in March 2012.


WED 22:45 Earls of the Court (b00rfhpt)
The Ides of March

The night of Lloydie's much-publicised toga party is fast approaching. But can Johnno raise his game in time, and play the crucial role in the Ides of March sketch?

Comedy drama series by Will Adamsdale and Stewart Wright about two Australians down on their luck in London.

Lloydie ...... Stewart Wright
Johnno ...... Will Adamsdale
Woman 1 ...... Alison Pettitt
Woman 2 ...... Keely Beresford

Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.


WED 23:00 Beauty of Britain (b0100gqp)
Series 2

Citroen UXB

No professional care-worker can afford to miss Beauty Olonga's survival guide to Britain – with overheated houses, disappointing church services and world-class charity shops.

Series 2 sees Beauty sent by the Featherdown Agency to provide care for those who need it - and some who don't, but all of whom have relatives with guilty consciences.

Beauty sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls hoping to live the dream in Britain – a land of opportunities. The professional classes are off sick through binge drinking and the rest too lazy to get off the couch to answer the pizza delivery man.

The series breaks the embarrassed silence about what happens to us when we get old and start to lose our faculties. It’s a chaotic, tragi-comedy, from Beauty’s point of view, whose Zimbabwean Shona background has taught her to respect age.

Beauty is sent to look after Sarah, who lives with both her mother and daughter. A perfect, happy modern family, like the kind Beauty has seen in feel-good British movies. With her own family being very demanding, it is understandable when Beauty begins to get too close.

Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson

Beauty... Jocelyn Jee Esien
Joyce ... Julia McKenzie
Sarah ... Jenny Agutter
Lucy ... Catherine Shepherd
Sally ... Felicity Montagu
Karen ... Nicola Sanderson

Music by The West End Gospel Choir.

Producer : Tilusha Ghelani

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011.


WED 23:30 Revolting People (b008kmv2)
Series 3

Secrets and Lies

War is now only two days away. Or three if wet.

Sitcom set just before the American War of Independence.

Written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses.

McGurk ...... Andy Hamilton
Samuel ...... Jay Tarses
Captain Brimshaw ...... James Fleet
Joshua ...... Tony Maudsley
Mary ...... Jan Ravens
Joshua ...... Tony Maudsley
Ezekiel ...... Hugh Dennis
Cora ...... Penelope Cora
Stan ...... Philip Pope
Elizabeth ...... Rebecca Front
Agnes ...... Selina Griffiths

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004.



THURSDAY 03 DECEMBER 2015

THU 00:00 Robert Easby - Oneira (b007k26v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]


THU 00:30 Off the Page (b0076wzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]


THU 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jvb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]


THU 01:30 The Generalisimo (b0076ggk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]


THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b018fllp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]


THU 02:15 Disability: A New History (b01smkq3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday]


THU 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007jqml)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]


THU 02:45 Book of the Week (b00wmngc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday]


THU 03:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions (b007jlp4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]


THU 04:00 Counterpoint (b06qzrp6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]


THU 04:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00s3bcz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]


THU 05:00 Lenin of the Rovers (b007jvcl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]


THU 05:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b06pxm45)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]


THU 06:00 Miss Marple (b007jvbc)
They Do It With Mirrors

Episode 4

Someone is systematically trying to poison Miss Marple's old friend, Carrie Louise.

But who - and why?

Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield.

Miss Marple …. June Whitfield
Carrie Louise …. Ursula Howells
Inspector Curry …. Keith Barron
Gina Hudd …. Rebecca Lacey
Mildred Strete …. Natasha Pyne
Alexis Restarick …. Nick Waring
Edgar Lawson …. Rhys Meredith
Walter Hudd …. Stephen Lucas

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001.


THU 06:30 A Dinosaur Called Sue (b00vv0ds)
Sue stands 13 feet high at the hips and 42 feet long from head to tail. Her weight is 7 tons, and her skull alone weighs 600 pounds. Her teeth are 7 1/2 to 12 inches long.

Sue MacGregor's fascination with the story of Sue, the T Rex began a few years ago when she visited the Field Museum in Chicago, and came face to face with her namesake. In this programme, she recalls the drama of her discovery, her eventual sale for $87 Million and the custody battles that raged around her.

In the summer of 1990, fossil-hunter Sue Hendrickson was in South Dakota, working for the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research. Whilst waiting for a flat tyre to be replaced, she stumbled across the fossils of what would be the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex yet discovered. Sue - as the dinosaur was nicknamed - soon sparked an ownership debate that continued for five years, and that meant Sue was not unveiled to public exhibition for an entire decade.

The story of the Sue debate began when Maurice Williams, a private rancher in the South Dakota region, invited Peter Larson, the president of a commercial geology company, onto his property to look for fossils. It was on this land that Sue was found. Larson claimed to have bought Sue with a $5,000 cheque- but Williams denied that he reached any sort of agreement with Larson over the sale of the dinosaur.

Further complicating the debate was the fact that Sue was discovered within the boundary of a Sioux Indian reservation and Maurice Williams' land, like that of many American Indians, was held in trust by the US government.

In 1992, the government stepped into the argument with a search warrant. National Guardsmen and FBI agents raided the Black Hills Institute, removing Sue and many other specimens and documents.

Producer: David Prest
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.


THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire (b03nt1sw)
Series 3

Episode 3

Visitors are expected in Wadenbrook, and a revelation is long overdue.

Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the residents of a small town in Northamptonshire.

Written by Katherine Jakeways.

As is well-known: Yorkshiremen wear flat caps and Essex girls wear short skirts; Liverpudlians are scallies and Cockneys are wideboys. Northamptonians gaze wistfully at these stereotypes and wish for an identity of any kind and a label less ridiculous than Northamptonians. Northamptonshire, let us be clear, is neither north, nor south nor in the Midlands. It floats somewhere between the three eyeing up the distinctiveness of each enviously.

Katherine Jakeways gives Northamptonshire an identity. And she waits, eagerly, for her home-county to thank her. And possibly make her some kind of Mayor.

Narrator ...... Sheila Hancock
Rod ...... Tim Key
Frank ...... Rufus Wright
Mary ...... Penelope Wilton
Jonathan ...... Kevin Eldon
Esther ...... Katherine Jakeways
Keith ...... John Biggins
Norman ...... Geoffrey Palmer
Orson ...... Nathaniel Parker
Jan ...... Felicity Montagu

Producer: Steven Canny

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.


THU 07:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b01rl1y3)
Series 2

With Matt Lucas and Liane Carroll

Comedy show hosted by Alex Horne and his five piece band and specially written, original music.

This episode explores the theme of the Four Seasons.

Guest starring Matt Lucas who performs some songs with the band - and jazz singer Liane Carroll who Alex conducts with the aid of a ping pong ball.

Alex's Horne Section are:

Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland
Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown
Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier
Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds
Piano/keyboard .... Ed Sheldrake

Producer: Julia McKenzie.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013.


THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k0rm)
Series 4

The Lodger

Albert and Harold Steptoe argue over their lack of cash.

Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.

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 featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight series on TV.

Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett

With William Eadie.

Adapted for radio from their TV scripts by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Producer: Bobby Jaye

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1972.


THU 08:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b008g2b9)
Series 3

Episode 4

Shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel edits a newspaper in Chicago.

Recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows charting the adventures of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. Originally broadcast with sponsors on America's NBC radio network in the 1930s. The scripts were rediscovered in 1988.

Starring Michael Roberts as Groucho Marx as Waldorf T Flywheel and Frank Lazarus as Chico Marx as Emmanuel Ravelli. With Lorelei King, Graham Hoadly and Vincent Marzello.

Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark Brisenden.

Music arranged and conducted by David Firman.

Producer: Dirk Maggs

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992.


THU 09:00 Booked (b0075lq5)
Series 2

Episode 3

Mrs Danvers sneaks into the plot of Noel Coward's Private Lives. The Pilgrim's Progress is re-worked to include a brush with Michael Palin and assorted other media moguls.

Literary havoc from Dillie Keane, Miles Kington, Roger McGough and Mark Thomas..

Irreverent literary game chaired by Ian McMillan.

Producer: Marc Jobst

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1997.


THU 09:30 Be Prepared (b0076t6p)
St George's Day

Miles battles to hold his own scout parade, but a dead dog and an OAP spark unexpected trouble.

Recently separated from his wife and with a teenage son, Miles Rummings continues with his dream of running a scout troop.

Stars Kim Wall as Miles, Emma Amos as Dawn, Barnaby Power as Steve, Louis Dunsford as Jason, Dave Lamb as Garth and Peter Marinker as Eric.

Producer: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2005.


THU 10:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1mf)
1. Wilderness

In 1730, drawn by a wild romantic impulse, Francis Herries moves his family to a tumbledown ancestral house called 'Herries', ringed by the Cumberland fells.

Stars Gavin Muir, Mark Bonnar and Janet Maw.

Hugh Walpole's historical novel, first published in 1930.

Dramatised in four parts by Eric Pringle.

Francis .... Gavin Muir
David ... Mark Bonnar
Margaret ... Janet Maw
Deborah ... Jane Whittenshaw
Alice Press ... Jane Slavin
Pomfret ... Stephen Thorne
Jannice .... Shirley Dixon
Father Roache ....Hugh Dickson
Statesman Peel ....Gerard McDermott
The Pedlar ....Ioan Meredith
Benjamin ....Chris Pavlo
Young Deborah ....Katie Clarke
Young David ....George Maguire

Others parts by Joseph Head, Robert Harper, Alex Lowe, Alison Pettitt and Christopher Scott

Director David Blount

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1997.


THU 11:00 Kenneth Cranham on the Water (b01b1lv6)
Eel Pie Island

Written by Mark Burgess.

Today's story - Eel Pie Island by Mark Burgess - is set in the Summer of 1964 and recalls the heady days when Eel Pie Island, in the middle of the Thames near Richmond, was a favoured venue for rhythm & blues and rock bands. The Who, Rod Stewart, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones all played there.

It's a monologue - and a love story - in which a man in his 60's, embracing retirement, remembers his teenage years as a resident of Eel Pie Island and a particular, magical summer, in which everything fell into place.

A series of specially commissioned tales inspired by rivers and boats.

Producer: David Blount
A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4.


THU 11:15 Martyn Wade - Hermit Lucas (b007jx32)
Staying at home for 25 years, the strange tale of celebrated Victorian recluse James Lucas. Stars Anton Lesser and Conleth Hill. From May 2004.


THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k0rm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


THU 12:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b008g2b9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


THU 13:00 Miss Marple (b007jvbc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


THU 13:30 A Dinosaur Called Sue (b00vv0ds)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b018fmrp)
Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Episode 4

by Nancy Mitford. Linda falls in love, to the dismay of her family. Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by Diana Quick.

Fanny Logan tells the story of her beloved aristocratic cousins, the Radletts, and in particular Linda, who is beautiful and loves animals. Uncle Mathew hunts his children with bloodhounds (to the horror of respectable families in the local village) and keeps a blood-spattered entrenching tool above the fireplace as a relic of his experiences in the First World War. The cousins spend much of their childhood in the airing cupboard - the only warm place in the enormous Alconleigh Hall - discussing love and sex.

Beautifully observed and hilariously funny, the novel is also a fascinating hinterland account of the period leading to the Second World War and never pulls its punches in evoking the painful reality of the times.

Reader...Diana Quick
Abridger...Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery.


THU 14:15 Disability: A New History (b01snjq4)
Beauty and Deformity

Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal the lives of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Today, he explores ideas of beauty and deformity which had a real impact on the lives of people with disabilities.

In the 18th century, you could be transformed from beautiful to 'deformed' overnight. We hear the first-hand account of one woman who suffered this transformation - the writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a society beauty who caught smallpox when she was 26: 'How am I changed! Where's my complexion, where the bloom that promised happiness for years to come?'

Mourning loss of beauty was not just natural human vanity, because beauty was thought of as a moral quality, not just skin-deep - and ugliness was deeply shameful. The belief was that outward deformity revealed inner wickedness.

Peter explores how this idea changed under the impact of a greater scientific understanding of the world. But surprisingly, science did not encourage more tolerance - in fact, it led to a much narrower definition of what was "normal". He also discovers that disability was thought to be contagious in the 18th century, and that all women were believed to be deformed because the ideal body was male.

With historians Naomi Baker and Judith Hawley, and historical sources including manuals for parents to correct the appearance of their children as well as 18th century doctors' advertisements. Voices from the past are brought vividly to life, with actors Emily Bevan, Ewan Bailey and Gerard McDermott.

Producer: Elizabeth Burke
Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.


THU 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b00805l4)
Episode 19

Jem's mother is forced to give evidence against him at his trial, and there is no sign of a crucial witness. Stars Emma Rydal.


THU 14:45 Book of the Week (b00wmnlj)
Richard Cohen - Chasing the Sun

Episode 4

"Once upon a time we thought that we were the centre of the universe and that even the sun revolved around us...
Thousands of years later we know that our earliest, most basic idea about our place in the cosmos was false, and that that cosmos is vastly larger than we ever dreamed. We are mere specks..."

Richard Cohen took eight years to write his account of the sun. The sun's biography, in fact. He looks at the myth, the legend, the science. Also the social context and how the sun figures in various art forms. And, will it be with us for ever? We have to hope so. His celebration of that gold disc in the sky is now caught in five episodes...

4. Throughout the ages artists have caught the sun on canvas with astonishing results...

Reader Allan Corduner.


THU 15:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1mf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


THU 16:00 Booked (b0075lq5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


THU 16:30 Be Prepared (b0076t6p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire (b03nt1sw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


THU 17:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b01rl1y3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


THU 18:00 Robert Easby - Oneira (b007k284)
The Thing With Two Cappuccinos

When museum attendant Oneira forgets to pay for her coffee, she's chased by a multiplying hoard of waitresses...

Robert Easby's sci-fi comedy serial stars Lyndsey Marshal as Oneira, Peter Marinker as Nicholai, Bethan Walker as Tannoy, Sam Dale as Phil and Anna Wing as the Barista.

Producer: Liz Webb.

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007.


THU 18:30 Great Lives (b0076v8f)
Series 8

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

4 Extra Debut. Howard Goodall chooses the pioneering 19th-century black composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. With Francine Stock. From October 2005.


THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k0rm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


THU 19:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b008g2b9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


THU 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jvbc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


THU 20:30 A Dinosaur Called Sue (b00vv0ds)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


THU 21:00 Kenneth Cranham on the Water (b01b1lv6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


THU 21:15 Martyn Wade - Hermit Lucas (b007jx32)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]


THU 22:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b01rl1y3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


THU 22:30 Two Episodes of Mash (b01mdl9r)
Series 2

Episode 1

Diane Morgan and Joe Wilkinson discover they don't actually have a radio series at all.

A mix of silly, surreal sketches and banter.

The series features an absurd narrative, making fun of its new home at BBC Radio 4, after starting life on BBC Radio 2.

With:
David O'Doherty
Paul Harry Allen
Peter Donaldson
Ken Bruce
Bobbie Pryor
Gary Newman

You can also see an animation of one sketch via the BBC Radio 4 Extra website - it's a fishy tale.

Animation: Tom Rourke.

Producer: Clair Wordsworth

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012.


THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06sfqrt)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tiff Stevenson chats to Lewis Schaffer.


THU 23:00 Bleak Expectations (b00ngz6q)
Series 3

A Lovely Life Re-Kippered Again Once More

Pip Bin's happiness is shattered once again.

Fog-filled streets, murders, and apparitions abound, and through it all echoes the terrible, menacing coo of a possessed evil pigeon.

The return of Mark Evans's epic Victorian comedy pastiche in the style of Charles Dickens.

Sir Philip...........................Richard Johnson
Young Pip..................................Tom Allen
Gently Benevolent........................Anthony Head
Harry Biscuit......................James Bachman
Dr Wackwallop ...................Geoffrey Whitehead
Ripely Fecund......................Sarah Hadland
Pippa........................................Susy Kane
Other parts ...........Mark Evans

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.


THU 23:30 The Penny Dreadfuls (b00gpbcz)
More Brothers Faversham

Perceus and Lucius Faversham

The comedy trio's swashbuckling tale of Victorian Britain's great twin industrialists, Perceus and Lucius. From October 2008.



FRIDAY 04 DECEMBER 2015

FRI 00:00 Robert Easby - Oneira (b007k284)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]


FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b0076v8f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]


FRI 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jvbc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]


FRI 01:30 A Dinosaur Called Sue (b00vv0ds)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]


FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b018fmrp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]


FRI 02:15 Disability: A New History (b01snjq4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday]


FRI 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b00805l4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]


FRI 02:45 Book of the Week (b00wmnlj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday]


FRI 03:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1mf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]


FRI 04:00 Booked (b0075lq5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]


FRI 04:30 Be Prepared (b0076t6p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]


FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire (b03nt1sw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]


FRI 05:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b01rl1y3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday]


FRI 06:00 Miss Marple (b007jvbg)
They Do It With Mirrors

Episode 5

A chance observation by one of the family gives amateur detective, Miss Marple a key to try and solve the mystery.

The conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield

Miss Marple …. June Whitfield
Carrie Louise …. Ursula Howells
Inspector Curry …. Keith Barron
Gina Hudd …. Rebecca Lacey
Mildred Strete …. Natasha Pyne
Alexis Restarick …. Nick Waring
Walter Hudd …. Stephen Lucas
Lewis Serrocold …. Peter Howell
Ruth Van Rydock …. Jill Balcon
Stephen Restarick …. Daniel Philpott
Juliet Bellever …. Paula Jacobs

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001.


FRI 06:30 R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - The Art of Backing Vocals (b00kgfc1)
Nick Barraclough pushes aside the lead singer and delves into the world of the backing singer.

With the help of musicians, composers, and vocalists, he draws a straight line from the medieval canon to 50s doo-wop, celebrating the innovations of The Beatles and the multi-tracked world, inhabited by the likes of Joni Mitchell, along the way.

Producer: John Leonard

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.


FRI 07:00 Winston (b007rdrz)
Winston Comes to Town

Repeat After Me

A mystery letter sparks a family surprise thanks to William - and a decision is taken over the fate of Father...

Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial.

Winston ...... Bill Wallis
Father ...... Maurice Denham
Nancy ...... Shirley Dixon
Rosie ...... Liz Goulding
William ...... Christian Rodska

Director: Shaun MacLoughlin

First broadcast on BBC Radio in January 1990.


FRI 07:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' (b06qh4vz)
Series 2

Episode 2

Discover what voguish new venture Huxley and Gulliver have got themselves wrapped up in, meet the busiest ladies in town and, direct from Paris, a rare appearance by The Centipede Sisters.

A fun packed second series from comedy duo Lucy Trodd and Ruth Bratt. Sketches and songs from a whole range of fresh characters, with the occasional appearance from some old favourites.

Performers:
Lucy Trodd
Ruth Bratt
Adam Meggido
Oliver Senton

Written by: Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd
Script Editor: Jon Hunter
Original music: Duncan Walsh Atkins

Producer: Steve Doherty
A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.


FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b008f307)
Series 5

The Junk Man

Griselda's plan to clear out The Lad's house backfires spectacularly.

Starring 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: Tom Ronald

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1958.


FRI 08:30 The Goon Show (b007jmrj)
Series 6

Shangri-La Again

Neddie Seagoon escapes an invasion and finds Utopia.

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.

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 November 1955.


FRI 09:00 The 99p Challenge (b06r022t)
Series 4

Episode 3

Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Simon Pegg, Armando Iannucci, Jon Holmes and Peter Serafinowicz.

The game where someone stands to leave the studio 99p richer than when they came in.

Producer: David Tyler

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003.


FRI 09:30 Mind Your Own Business! (b009hshb)
A Moving Experience

With talk of relocating his company, tycoon Jimmy fancies life as a country gent. Stars Bernard Cribbins. From December 1987.


FRI 10:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1nq)
2. Forty-Five

Francis encounters Mirabell again and his fate is sealed.

Meanwhile, the rebels are at the gates of Carlisle.

Stars Gavin Muir, Mark Bonnar and Jane Whittenshaw.

Hugh Walpole's historical novel dramatised by Eric Pringle.

Francis ... Gavin Muir
David ... Mark Bonnar
Deborah ... Jane Whittenshaw
Margaret ... Janet Maw
Mirabell ... Deborah Berlin
Roche ... Hugh Dickson
Cumberlege ... Gordon Reid
Hetty ... Alison Pettitt

Other parts played by:

Shirley Dixon
Robert Harper
Carolyn Jones
Alex Lowe
Gerard McDermott
Ioan Meredith
Chris Pavlo
Stephen Thorne

Director David Blount

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1997.


FRI 11:00 Kenneth Cranham on the Water (b01b8zw5)
Broad Reach, by Roy Apps

Written by Roy Apps.

Today's story - Broad Reach by Roy Apps - is the second in a series of specially commissioned stories which take boats and boating as their theme.

Nick has lost both legs in a car crash - and all his confidence as well. With the help of Jamie, his son, he starts sailing again - and manages to get the better of a pompous Yacht Club Commodore into the bargain....

A series of specially commissioned tales inspired by rivers and boats.

Producer: David Blount
A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4.


FRI 11:15 Drama (b010t7rs)
Peter Souter - That's Mine, This Is Yours

That's Mine, This is Yours
by Peter Souter

Juliet ..... Tamsin Greig
Sam ..... Alex Jennings
Amanda ..... Eleanor Butters

Directed by Gordon House

Alex Jennings, who starred in Peter Souter's award-winning 'Goldfish Girl', plays Sam, and Tamsin Greig (star of 'Episodes', 'Love Soup' - and, of course known to R4 listeners as Debbie in 'The Archers') plays Juliet. The director is the former Head of Radio Drama, Gordon House.


FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b008f307)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jmrj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


FRI 13:00 Miss Marple (b007jvbg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


FRI 13:30 R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - The Art of Backing Vocals (b00kgfc1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b018ft1m)
Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Episode 5

By Nancy Mitford. Linda's marriage does not turn out as she'd hoped. Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by Diana Quick.

Fanny Logan tells the story of her beloved aristocratic cousins, the Radletts, and in particular Linda, who is beautiful and loves animals. Uncle Mathew hunts his children with bloodhounds (to the horror of respectable families in the local village) and keeps a blood-spattered entrenching tool above the fireplace as a relic of his experiences in the First World War. The cousins spend much of their childhood in the airing cupboard - the only warm place in the enormous Alconleigh Hall - discussing love and sex.

Beautifully observed and hilariously funny, the novel is also a fascinating hinterland account of the period leading to the Second World War and never pulls its punches in evoking the painful reality of the times.

Reader...Diana Quick
Abridger...Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery.


FRI 14:15 Disability: A New History (b01snxyf)
Finding a Voice

Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal the lives of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Today - Finding a Voice: Peter discovers William Hay, an 18th-century MP born with spinal curvature who has left us a remarkably revealing account of his life.

Peter comments, 'This series has been full of surprises for me - surprises even after making programmes about disability for 30 years. But perhaps this discovery has been for me the most startling. It's a book which very few people know about, and even fewer have read - a personal exploration of what it's like to be disabled in the 18th century. It's full of insights we like to think of as modern.'

In his book 'On Deformity', William Hay describes his life as a disabled MP, in Parliament and on the streets. He reveals the daily humiliation of being a man of restricted growth and his fear of rowdy crowds. But he also proudly challenges the conventional thinking of the time that his disability makes him ill. He gives advice to other men in his situation about which careers they should follow. And he excels at self-deprecating humour - sometimes, he confesses, he feels like 'a Worm'.

Hay's essay is seen by historians as ground-breaking - because in William Hay, disability had for the first time found a voice. But Hay is a challenging role model for modern disability activists.

With historians David Turner, Naomi Baker, Tim Hitchcock and Chris Mounsey and readings by Jonathan Keeble.

Producer: Elizabeth Burke
Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.


FRI 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007jqng)
Episode 20

After the verdict at his murder trial, Jem's thoughts turn to his childhood sweetheart. Stars Emma Rydal and David Calder.


FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b00wmnpy)
Richard Cohen - Chasing the Sun

Episode 5

"Once upon a time we thought that we were the centre of the universe and that even the sun revolved around us...
Thousands of years later we know that our earliest, most basic idea about our place in the cosmos was false, and that that cosmos is vastly larger than we ever dreamed. We are mere specks..."

Richard Cohen took eight years to write his account of the sun. The sun's biography, in fact. He looks at the myth, the legend, the science. Also the social context and how the sun figures in various art forms. And, will it be with us for ever? We have to hope so. His celebration of that gold disc in the sky is now caught in five episodes...

5. How long will the sun shine? And time for the autor to seek the perfect sunset...

Reader Allan Corduner.


FRI 15:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1nq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


FRI 16:00 The 99p Challenge (b06r022t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


FRI 16:30 Mind Your Own Business! (b009hshb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


FRI 17:00 Winston (b007rdrz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


FRI 17:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' (b06qh4vz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


FRI 18:00 Robert Easby - Oneira (b007k29f)
Mind the Gap

Battling to complete her epic surreal quest, Oneira literally ends up talking to herself - and finds her other self very rude.

Robert Easby's sci-fi comedy serial stars Lyndsey Marshal as Oneira, Peter Marinker as Nicholai, Joseph Kloska as Pete, Gerard McDermott as Elias and Saikat Ahamed as the Courier.

Producer: Liz Webb.

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007.


FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b0076bdb)
Series 3

Barber's Adagio for Strings

Conductor Leonard Slatkin reflects on the potent impact of the adagio that became America's 'national funeral music'. From November 2002.


FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b008f307)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b007jmrj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


FRI 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jvbg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


FRI 20:30 R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - The Art of Backing Vocals (b00kgfc1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


FRI 21:00 Kenneth Cranham on the Water (b01b8zw5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


FRI 21:15 Drama (b010t7rs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]


FRI 22:00 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' (b06qh4vz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


FRI 22:30 Absolute Power (b007wr7h)
Series 2

Episode 6

Charles Prentiss is challenged by a PR rival to wheeze the unwheezable. Stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. From March 2001.


FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06t39pg)
The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to Joseph Morpurgo.


FRI 23:00 Meet David Sedaris (b01npb83)
Series 3

Rubbish; Jesus Shaves

The multi-award winning American essayist brings more of his wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 with the final edition in a series of audience readings. This week moving to the British countryside has its downsides exposed in "Rubbish" and the eye-opening experience of learning French at a Paris language school is considered in "Jesus Shaves".

Producer: Steve Doherty
A Boom Pictures Cymru production for BBC Radio 4.


FRI 23:30 Shappi Talk (b00wr9q6)
Series 2

Divorce and the Single Mother

Shappi Khorsandi uses her own personal experience by taking an acerbic look at what it's like to go through divorce and to become an unexpected single mother. She reveals the challenges and comic consequences of becoming divorced and what it's like raising a young child.

Armed with this experience, Shappi also has a light-hearted chat with model and fellow single mother Jerry Hall, where they find time to compare fascinating notes!

Australian comedian Celia Pacquola provides some additional laughs giving her perspective on the subject and there'll be a themed song from Duncan Oakley.

Producer: Paul Russell
An Open Mike 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)

A Dinosaur Called Sue 06:30 THU (b00vv0ds)

A Dinosaur Called Sue 13:30 THU (b00vv0ds)

A Dinosaur Called Sue 20:30 THU (b00vv0ds)

A Dinosaur Called Sue 01:30 FRI (b00vv0ds)

A Good Read 18:30 MON (b00761f9)

A Good Read 00:30 TUE (b00761f9)

A Look Back at the Future 23:30 SUN (b01rh3wq)

Absolute Power 22:30 FRI (b007wr7h)

Afternoon Reading 11:00 MON (b00wldv9)

Afternoon Reading 21:00 MON (b00wldv9)

Afternoon Reading 11:00 TUE (b00wlg39)

Afternoon Reading 21:00 TUE (b00wlg39)

Afternoon Reading 11:00 WED (b00wlgmm)

Afternoon Reading 21:00 WED (b00wlgmm)

Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section 07:30 THU (b01rl1y3)

Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section 17:30 THU (b01rl1y3)

Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section 22:00 THU (b01rl1y3)

Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section 05:30 FRI (b01rl1y3)

Alice's Wunderland 23:00 TUE (b01l8n82)

Archive on 4 08:00 SAT (b04mqt7h)

Archive on 4 15:00 SAT (b04mqt7h)

Archive on 4 03:00 SUN (b04mqt7h)

Be Prepared 09:30 THU (b0076t6p)

Be Prepared 16:30 THU (b0076t6p)

Be Prepared 04:30 FRI (b0076t6p)

Beauty of Britain 23:00 WED (b0100gqp)

Berlie Doherty - The Bad Boy 15:45 SUN (b06qngjk)

Berlie Doherty - The Bad Boy 03:45 MON (b06qngjk)

Bleak Expectations 23:00 THU (b00ngz6q)

Book at Bedtime 14:00 MON (b018cbbr)

Book at Bedtime 02:00 TUE (b018cbbr)

Book at Bedtime 14:00 TUE (b018csz9)

Book at Bedtime 02:00 WED (b018csz9)

Book at Bedtime 14:00 WED (b018fllp)

Book at Bedtime 02:00 THU (b018fllp)

Book at Bedtime 14:00 THU (b018fmrp)

Book at Bedtime 02:00 FRI (b018fmrp)

Book at Bedtime 14:00 FRI (b018ft1m)

Book of the Week 02:45 SAT (b048znq5)

Book of the Week 14:45 MON (b00wlbss)

Book of the Week 02:45 TUE (b00wlbss)

Book of the Week 14:45 TUE (b00wmnby)

Book of the Week 02:45 WED (b00wmnby)

Book of the Week 14:45 WED (b00wmngc)

Book of the Week 02:45 THU (b00wmngc)

Book of the Week 14:45 THU (b00wmnlj)

Book of the Week 02:45 FRI (b00wmnlj)

Book of the Week 14:45 FRI (b00wmnpy)

Booked 09:00 THU (b0075lq5)

Booked 16:00 THU (b0075lq5)

Booked 04:00 FRI (b0075lq5)

Bussmann and Quantick Kingsize 22:30 SUN (b045gdqt)

Cabin Pressure 22:30 MON (b01l02j9)

Cherie Rogers - An Oddly Complete Understanding 11:15 MON (b06qsngj)

Cherie Rogers - An Oddly Complete Understanding 21:15 MON (b06qsngj)

Clare in the Community 07:30 SUN (b01qdxwn)

Clare in the Community 17:30 SUN (b01qdxwn)

Clare in the Community 22:00 SUN (b01qdxwn)

Clare in the Community 05:30 MON (b01qdxwn)

Classic Serial 03:00 SAT (b00gsv4x)

Concrete Cow 22:00 SAT (b0076jz1)

Counterpoint 09:00 WED (b06qzrp6)

Counterpoint 16:00 WED (b06qzrp6)

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Dad's Army 08:00 MON (b007jq0r)

Dad's Army 12:00 MON (b007jq0r)

Dad's Army 19:00 MON (b007jq0r)

Daphne du Maurier - The Blue Lenses 00:00 SAT (b007k4rp)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 11:50 SUN (b00mlxpv)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 19:50 SUN (b00mlxpv)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 10:15 SUN (b06qn39x)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 21:15 SUN (b06qn39x)

Disability: A New History 14:15 MON (b01slvvj)

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Disability: A New History 14:15 TUE (b01sm70w)

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Disability: A New History 14:15 THU (b01snjq4)

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Disability: A New History 14:15 FRI (b01snxyf)

Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus 06:00 SAT (b06qjp4l)

Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus 16:00 SAT (b06qjp4l)

Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus 04:00 SUN (b06qjp4l)

Don Haworth - Ernest's Tower 16:00 SUN (b03b5408)

Don Haworth - Ernest's Tower 04:00 MON (b03b5408)

Don't Start 22:30 TUE (b01n1qyz)

Drama 11:15 TUE (b00s3d1t)

Drama 21:15 TUE (b00s3d1t)

Drama 11:15 FRI (b010t7rs)

Drama 21:15 FRI (b010t7rs)

Earls of the Court 22:45 WED (b00rfhpt)

Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton Omnibus 06:00 SUN (b007zcg4)

Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton Omnibus 13:00 SUN (b007zcg4)

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Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton 14:30 TUE (b007jqm6)

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Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton 14:30 WED (b007jqml)

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Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton 14:30 THU (b00805l4)

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Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton 14:30 FRI (b007jqng)

Front Row Interviews 01:00 SAT (b00761nw)

Gemma Cairney's Top Ten Radio Mavericks 09:00 SAT (b06qjs0s)

Gemma Cairney's Top Ten Radio Mavericks 19:00 SAT (b06qjs0s)

Getting Nowhere Fast 09:30 MON (b00n5vsq)

Getting Nowhere Fast 16:30 MON (b00n5vsq)

Getting Nowhere Fast 04:30 TUE (b00n5vsq)

Ghost Houses 07:15 SUN (b007604q)

Ghost Houses 14:15 SUN (b007604q)

Ghost Houses 02:15 MON (b007604q)

Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off 23:00 SAT (b017vmfs)

Gloomsbury 07:30 TUE (b040hzz1)

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Gloomsbury 22:00 TUE (b040hzz1)

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Great Lives 18:30 THU (b0076v8f)

Great Lives 00:30 FRI (b0076v8f)

HR 07:00 TUE (b01bm0p7)

HR 17:00 TUE (b01bm0p7)

HR 05:00 WED (b01bm0p7)

Hancock's Half Hour 08:00 FRI (b008f307)

Hancock's Half Hour 12:00 FRI (b008f307)

Hancock's Half Hour 19:00 FRI (b008f307)

Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries 10:00 THU (b007k1mf)

Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries 15:00 THU (b007k1mf)

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I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again 08:30 WED (b010hcq2)

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again 12:30 WED (b010hcq2)

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again 19:30 WED (b010hcq2)

In the Psychiatrist's Chair 14:15 SAT (b06qmbqv)

In the Psychiatrist's Chair 02:15 SUN (b06qmbqv)

Inheritance Tracks 14:10 SAT (b06qm7w6)

Inheritance Tracks 02:10 SUN (b06qm7w6)

Inheritance Tracks 10:10 SUN (b06qn1gl)

Inheritance Tracks 21:10 SUN (b06qn1gl)

JB Priestley - The Good Companions 10:00 MON (b007jlnk)

JB Priestley - The Good Companions 15:00 MON (b007jlnk)

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JB Priestley - The Good Companions 10:00 TUE (b007jlnw)

JB Priestley - The Good Companions 15:00 TUE (b007jlnw)

JB Priestley - The Good Companions 03:00 WED (b007jlnw)

JB Priestley - The Good Companions 10:00 WED (b007jlp4)

JB Priestley - The Good Companions 15:00 WED (b007jlp4)

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Joan Turner: The Highs and Lows of the Wacky Warbler 01:30 SAT (b00wlgg4)

Just a Minute 07:30 MON (b0670gmc)

Just a Minute 17:30 MON (b0670gmc)

Just a Minute 22:00 MON (b0670gmc)

Just a Minute 05:30 TUE (b0670gmc)

Kenneth Cranham on the Water 11:00 THU (b01b1lv6)

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Kenneth Cranham on the Water 11:00 FRI (b01b8zw5)

Kenneth Cranham on the Water 21:00 FRI (b01b8zw5)

Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking 23:00 SUN (b00y9xdg)

Lenin of the Rovers 07:00 WED (b007jvcl)

Lenin of the Rovers 17:00 WED (b007jvcl)

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Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 02:00 SAT (b06qdfmv)

Living On Paper: Letters From Iris Murdoch 09:00 SUN (b06qmzzd)

Living On Paper: Letters From Iris Murdoch 20:00 SUN (b06qmzzd)

Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking 07:30 SAT (b0075jv4)

Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking 17:30 SAT (b0075jv4)

Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking 05:30 SUN (b0075jv4)

Martyn Wade - Hermit Lucas 11:15 THU (b007jx32)

Martyn Wade - Hermit Lucas 21:15 THU (b007jx32)

Meet David Sedaris 23:00 FRI (b01npb83)

Mind Your Own Business! 04:30 SAT (b00954qd)

Mind Your Own Business! 09:30 FRI (b009hshb)

Mind Your Own Business! 16:30 FRI (b009hshb)

Miss Marple 06:00 MON (b007jv9w)

Miss Marple 13:00 MON (b007jv9w)

Miss Marple 20:00 MON (b007jv9w)

Miss Marple 01:00 TUE (b007jv9w)

Miss Marple 06:00 TUE (b007jvb0)

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Much Binding in the Marsh 08:30 SUN (b008qq3w)

Much Binding in the Marsh 12:30 SUN (b008qq3w)

Neil Gaiman - The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains 14:30 SUN (b06qncpn)

Neil Gaiman - The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains 02:30 MON (b06qncpn)

Noise: A Human History 02:15 SAT (b01s0scn)

North by Northamptonshire 07:00 THU (b03nt1sw)

North by Northamptonshire 17:00 THU (b03nt1sw)

North by Northamptonshire 05:00 FRI (b03nt1sw)

Off the Page 18:30 WED (b0076wzf)

Off the Page 00:30 THU (b0076wzf)

Peter Mackie - The Real Mystery of Marie Roget 18:00 SAT (b06qmcjl)

Peter Mackie - The Real Mystery of Marie Roget 00:00 SUN (b06qmcjl)

Poetry Extra 17:00 SUN (b06rchkr)

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R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - The Art of Backing Vocals 06:30 FRI (b00kgfc1)

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - The Art of Backing Vocals 13:30 FRI (b00kgfc1)

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - The Art of Backing Vocals 20:30 FRI (b00kgfc1)

Ray Bradbury's Tales of the Bizarre 18:00 SUN (b06qnjdj)

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Revolting People 23:30 WED (b008kmv2)

Robert Easby - Oneira 18:00 MON (b007ww76)

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Robert Easby - Oneira 18:00 TUE (b007x08b)

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Robert Easby - Oneira 18:00 WED (b007k26v)

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Robert Easby - Oneira 18:00 THU (b007k284)

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Robert Easby - Oneira 18:00 FRI (b007k29f)

Round the Horne 08:00 TUE (b00mbl7s)

Round the Horne 12:00 TUE (b00mbl7s)

Round the Horne 19:00 TUE (b00mbl7s)

Shah Rukh Khan's Heroes 18:30 TUE (b06rd13t)

Shah Rukh Khan's Heroes 00:30 WED (b06rd13t)

Shappi Talk 23:30 FRI (b00wr9q6)

Soul Music 00:30 SAT (b0076b92)

Soul Music 18:30 FRI (b0076bdb)

Steptoe and Son 08:00 THU (b007k0rm)

Steptoe and Son 12:00 THU (b007k0rm)

Steptoe and Son 19:00 THU (b007k0rm)

Steve Chambers - Victoria Station 11:15 WED (b06qzsq2)

Steve Chambers - Victoria Station 21:15 WED (b06qzsq2)

Steven Appleby's Normal Life 22:45 SAT (b007jmz1)

Strap In - It's Clever Peter 22:30 SAT (b01hkz35)

Terry Pratchett 18:30 SUN (b008p506)

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The 99p Challenge 04:00 SAT (b0075w76)

The 99p Challenge 09:00 FRI (b06r022t)

The 99p Challenge 16:00 FRI (b06r022t)

The Al Read Show 08:00 SUN (b0090v01)

The Al Read Show 12:00 SUN (b0090v01)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 SAT (b06s9f1d)

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The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show 08:30 MON (b007qg0y)

The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show 12:30 MON (b007qg0y)

The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show 19:30 MON (b007qg0y)

The Generalisimo 06:30 MON (b0076g7h)

The Generalisimo 13:30 MON (b0076g7h)

The Generalisimo 20:30 MON (b0076g7h)

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The Goon Show 08:30 FRI (b007jmrj)

The Goon Show 12:30 FRI (b007jmrj)

The Goon Show 19:30 FRI (b007jmrj)

The Harpoon 23:30 MON (b007k4t8)

The Leopard in Autumn 09:30 WED (b00s3bcz)

The Leopard in Autumn 16:30 WED (b00s3bcz)

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The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel 08:30 THU (b008g2b9)

The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel 12:30 THU (b008g2b9)

The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel 19:30 THU (b008g2b9)

The Moth Radio Hour 11:00 SUN (b06qn3tg)

The Moth Radio Hour 19:00 SUN (b06qn3tg)

The Motion Show 16:00 TUE (b0075wtm)

The Motion Show 04:00 WED (b0075wtm)

The Music Teacher 22:45 TUE (b01h75l2)

The Now Show 23:00 MON (b06pxzdz)

The Now Show 09:00 TUE (b06pxzdz)

The Pasadenas' Almanac: The Mysterious Affair at Harrogate 12:00 SAT (b06qjvqp)

The Penny Dreadfuls 23:30 THU (b00gpbcz)

The Problem With Adam Bloom 23:30 SAT (b01b1z4r)

The Right Time 12:30 SAT (b00c90g4)

The Right Time 07:00 MON (b00c693m)

The Right Time 17:00 MON (b00c693m)

The Right Time 05:00 TUE (b00c693m)

The Sofa of Time 23:30 TUE (b00j0hqt)

The TV Lark 08:00 WED (b01cwsl9)

The TV Lark 12:00 WED (b01cwsl9)

The TV Lark 19:00 WED (b01cwsl9)

The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere 09:30 TUE (b007jv2y)

The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere 16:30 TUE (b007jv2y)

The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere 04:30 WED (b007jv2y)

The Write Stuff 09:00 MON (b009tvdp)

The Write Stuff 16:00 MON (b009tvdp)

The Write Stuff 04:00 TUE (b009tvdp)

Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme 22:30 WED (b01dht2y)

To the Manor Born 08:30 TUE (b007m9wg)

To the Manor Born 12:30 TUE (b007m9wg)

To the Manor Born 19:30 TUE (b007m9wg)

Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups 07:30 WED (b06pxm45)

Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups 17:30 WED (b06pxm45)

Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups 22:00 WED (b06pxm45)

Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups 05:30 THU (b06pxm45)

Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' 05:30 SAT (b06s83jl)

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Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' 17:30 FRI (b06qh4vz)

Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' 22:00 FRI (b06qh4vz)

Two Episodes of Mash 22:30 THU (b01mdl9r)

Welcome to Zaatari Omnibus 13:00 SAT (b06qjwhm)

Welcome to Zaatari Omnibus 01:00 SUN (b06qjwhm)

Winston 05:00 SAT (b007qzh8)

Winston 07:00 FRI (b007rdrz)

Winston 17:00 FRI (b007rdrz)