3. Emily Goes to Work
Inspector Narracott …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Emily Trefusis …. Melinda Walker
Charles Enderby …. Stephen Tompkinson
Mrs. Belling …. Jo Kendall
Mrs. Willett …. Susan Westerby
Violet Willett …. Victoria Carling
Mrs. Curtis …. Barbara Atkinson
Major Burnaby …. Norman Bird
Maid …. Jane Slavin
Cab Driver …. Vincent Brimble
Martin Wainwright sets off through the snow to give seasonal best wishes to the owners of Britain's favourite mass produced car - and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the special edition Morris Minor Million - the rarest minor of all.
Highlight of the programme is a special rendition of 'Jingle Bells' from a Morris Minor 'choir.'
Martin has a soft spot for the little car - often described as a large jelly mold with a speedometer sitting like a clock on the dashboard, and orange fingers for indicators. For it's time though, according to Stirling Moss, it was a nippy little car. Martin meets a mechanic who 'soups' the car up, owners like Dave Brown from 'The Mighty Boosh' and the drivers who 'danced ' their Morris Minors at the end of the Manchester Commonwealth Games .
Finally, using the horn, various clunks and clicks from the car door and boot, and a squeak from the chassis, he conducts a unique version of ' Jingle Bells' by the Morris Minor 'choir.'
Will Ricky's million-pound sponsorship deal wreck Felchester's hopes of a Wembley victory? Stars Alexei Sayle. From April 1989.
A neighbourly good deed lands Tom in trouble while his parents throw themselves into some evening classes.
Series 3 of the sitcom where Tom Wrigglesworth phones home for his weekly check-in with his Mum, Dad and Gran, giving listeners 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 additional material by Miles Jupp
A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2015.
A fresh arrival makes waves aboard HMS Troutbridge and throws a NATO exercise into confusion.
100th episode of the seafaring sitcom.
Stars Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Ronnie Barker as Able Seaman Johnson, Richard Caldicote as Captain Povey, Michael Bates as Commander Bracewell, Tenniel Evans as Taffy Goldstein and Janet Brown as Vera.
Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series between 1959 and 1976.
Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.
Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.
Ned Sherrin hosts the music quiz with Oxford's Dennis Chiles, Len Smith from Essex and Alison Foot of Carmarthenshire. From February 1999.
All is not well in Monte Guano. Countess Rosalie has confessed she no longer loves Prince Ludovico - sending him into a terrible rage.
Second series of the comedy drama set in Renaissance Italy devised by Neal Anthony.
Stars David Swift as Ludovico, Sian Phillips as Plethora, Graham Crowden as Francesco, Saskia Wickham as Rosalie, Nick Romero as Salvatore and Chris Kelham as Guido.
A corpse sets detective-for-hire George Valentine on a search for a missing embezzler.
'Let George Do It' was a sponsored American radio drama carried by the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1952.
Robert Bailey stars as George Valentine, gleaning clients from his classified ad in the Personal Notices: "Danger's my stock in trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle, you've got a job for me."
4 Extra's MYSTERY THEATER showcases American radio's golden years of the 1940s and 50s, when many of Hollywood's greatest screen stars were regular performers, often re-enacting film roles.
Count Arthur Strong, one-time variety star, makes his preparations for Christmas. From his altercation with a carol singer and his improvised 'reading' of the Nativity, to his show for the elderly at Leafy Glade old people's home. What could possibly go wrong? Stars Steve Delaney. From December 2006.
She is a young trainee, eager and very willing to help. He is jaded, used up and has seen it all before. Read by John Sharian.
Wednesday February 1st 1895. The crash inquiry begins and a second disaster looms. Can Roberts clear his name?
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.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1995 and set a century before.
A cosy evening at the lake with food, drink and good company. What can possibly go wrong?
In the eighth programme of his series charting the development of the Christmas Carol in Britain Jeremy Summerly reaches the critical moment at which the 19th century enthusiasm for carols sung in church resulted in a vehicle in which they could take a leading role. It was developed by Bishop Benson of Truro who, in 1880 found himself holding services in a huge wooden shed while a new cathedral was being built next door. To celebrate the new diocese and capture the enthusiasm he recognise in the nonconformist tradition of carol singing in Cornwall, Benson developed a narrative service running from Adam's original sin to the birth of Christ and the impact of the word made flesh.
Jeremy visits Truro and then follows Benson's service to the moment in 1918 when a war-wearied Dean of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, Erich Milner-White decided to use the service as part of his college's Christmas celebrations. The changes he made survive to this day.
The Christmas carol is as popular now as it was when carolers celebrated the birth of Edward III in 1312. Back then the carol was a generic term for a song with its roots in dance form, nowadays only the strictest scholar would quibble with the fact that a carol is a Christmas song.
But the journey the carol has taken is unique in music history because each shift in the story has been preserved in the carols that we sing today. Go to a carol concert now and you're likely to hear folk, medieval, mid-victorian and modern music all happily combined. It's hard to imagine that happening in any other situation.
In these programmes Jeremy Summerly follows the carol journey through the Golden age of the Medieval carol into the troubled period of Reformation and puritanism, along the byways of the 17th and 18th century waits and gallery musicians and in to the sudden explosion of interest in the carol in the 19th century. It's a story that sees the carol veer between the sacred and secular even before there was any understanding of those terms. For long periods the church, both catholic and protestant, was uneasy about the virility and homespun nature of carol tunes and carol texts. Nowadays many people think that church music is defined by the carols they hear from Kings College Cambridge.
He traces the folk carol in and out of church grounds, the carol hymn, the fuguing carol and the many other off-shoots, some of which survive to this day and many others which languish unloved but ready for re-discovery.
It's a journey full of song describing the history of a people who needed expression for seasonal joy in the coldest, hardest time of the year. And however efficient the heating system may be, the carol still generates warmth. Much of that is to do with the positive nostalgia of this music.
That nostalgia is in part due to the fact that carols are one of the first kinds of song children actually sing rather than hear. Many favourite carols were actually written for Children; Once in Royal David's City the most familiar example. Another factor is the concentration in the texts on the humanity of nativity with tunes garnered from the uninhibited world of folk song and ballad.
The series title is taken from a Thomas Hardy poem in which he ponders of a Darkling Thrush why it should chose to sing - 'so little cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound' - is the question asked. THis series is an attempt to answer why Carols remain so popular and familiar to so many. In fact Hardy himself, in his first novel Under The Greenwood Tree, went some way to answering his own question when he described the Mellstock Quire singing at Midnight on Christmas Eve:
'Then passed forth into the quiet night an ancient and time worn hymn, embodying a quaint Christianity in words orally transmitted from father to son through several generations down to the present characters, who sang them out right earnestly."
Jeremy brings the series up to date with the story of the famous Nine Lessons and Carols service broadcast by the BBC since the 1920s but born originally in Truro. It's a service that commands a worldwide audience measured in many millions, but as Jeremy concludes it has left an imbalance in the appreciation of our caroling tradition, a tradition that has always had one foot in the pub and another in the choir stalls.
George and Amelia honeymoon in Brighton, where Becky and Rawdon are after his aunt's cash. Narrated by Stephen Fry.
Reading her own life story, the famous actress recalls the highs and lows of working with Peter Sellers and Kenneth Williams.
Natalie Haynes introduces another dark story, as she examines why the vampire - an iconic figure in horror-fiction - continues to exert such a powerful hold on our imaginations...
Mark Bonnar and Claire Harry read Tanith Lee’s tale: A beautiful vampire hires an artist to paint her portrait, but then he develops a dangerous obsession...
Victoria Coren on paranormal beliefs with Charlie Skelton, Nick Pope and Christopher French. From 2006.
With Annette Crosbie as Edith, Robert Duncan as Scumspawn, Jimmy Mulville as Thomas.
to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs. Tonight, Jessica Fostekew has a Christmassy chat with Mr B, the Gentleman Rhymer.
Karen of the Featherdown agency sends Beauty to the 'End of Life' care conference on her behalf.
Beauty struggles to understand the peculiar behaviour of the British at a conference and their obsessions with name tags and lanyards, as well as why she is the only carer in attendance. This must be why the keynote speaker, Professor Smythe takes a shine to her?
Starring Jocelyn Jee Esien.
Beauty's adventures continue as the Featherdown Agency sends her to provide care for the elderly.
Beauty’s Zimbabwean Shona background has taught her to respect age. She sees Britain at its best and its worst
Beauty ..... Jocelyn Jee Esien
Jenny ..... Pippa Haywood
Rob ..... Tony Gardner
Mrs Grace ..... Phyllida Law
Sally ..... Felicity Montagu
Karen/Keely ..... Nicola Sanderson
In this series documentary maker Nat Segnit investigates the untold stories of visionary mavericks.
This week Nat meets an extraordinary group of thrillseeking "Jonahs" who offer themselves up to be swallowed by whales. With contributions from Toby Jones, Kevin Eldon,Christine Kavanagh, Iain Batchelor, Jude Akuwudike and Ewan Bailey.
Writers ..... James Lever and Nat Segnit
Producers ..... Steven Canny and Sasha Yevtushenko.
THURSDAY 24 DECEMBER 2015
THU 00:00 A Short History of Vampires (b00yy6vt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Off the Page (b0076x93)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Agatha Christie (b007k07y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Merry Christmas Morris Minor! (b00wqgmg)
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06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Tom Bodett - Christmastime at the End of the Road (b007k082)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 A Cause for Caroling (b03lpjpp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (b007jvxc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:45 And June Whitfield (b007jvf6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:45 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Mystery Theater (b06spfsn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 03:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b007728p)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:30 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Counterpoint (b008m8jp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00sbf7q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 Lenin of the Rovers (b007jwg9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b06rz9hx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 Agatha Christie (b007k097)
The Sittaford Mystery
4. A Recipe for Ginger Cake
Emily suspects that the Willetts, - who've rented Sittaford House, - are somehow involved in the murder of Captain Trevelyan.
But how can she get into the house?
Geoffrey Whitehead stars in Agatha Christie's whodunnit.
Inspector Narracott …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Emily Trefusis …. Melinda Walker
Charles Enderby …. Stephen Tompkinson
Mrs. Curtis …. Barbara Atkinson
Mr. Rycroft …. John Moffat
Ronnie Garfield …. Nigel Greaves
Caroline Percehouse …. Margaret Courtenay
Dora …. Jane
Violet Willett …. Victoria Carling
Mr. Dacres …. David King
Beatrice …. Alice Arnold
Jennifer Gardner …. Anna Cropper
Brian Pearson …. Charles Simpson
Dramatised and directed by Michael Bakewell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1990.
THU 06:30 The Night The Animals Talked (b0077268)
Chatter at the stroke of midnight!
Ian McMillan's magical exploration of Christmas Eve legends from around the world
With contributions from Luke Carver Goss, Taffy Thomas, Christine Kenyon-Jones (Kings College London), Maddy Pryor and Ben Haggerty.
Producer: Viv Beeby.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006.
THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire (b03s6mf2)
Series 3
Episode 6
A funeral focuses everyone's mind in Wadenbrook.
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
Mary ...... Penelope Wilton
Jonathan ...... Kevin Eldon
Keith ...... John Biggins
Esther ...... Katherine Jakeways
Norman ...... Geoffrey Palmer
Orson ...... Nathaniel Parker
Alistair ...... Michael Bertenshaw
Jan ...... Felicity Montagu
Producer: Steven Canny
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.
THU 07:30 Tina C (b06s0njv)
Tina C: Herstory
Episode 3
It's 2003 and Tina has geo-political aspirations, and a role promoting US values overseas.
Ritula Shah asks about her role as a special advisor to US President George W Bush.
Written & Performed by Christopher Green.
Additional voices: Debra Baker & Leo Wan.
The band: Duncan Walsh-Atkins, Mark Hardisty & Phil Wraith.
Guest Interviewer: Ritula Shah.
Produced by Victoria Lloyd.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k1hd)
Series 4
The Colour Problem
Albert and Harold Steptoe argue over whether to buy a new TV or a car.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.
Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Galton & 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 Jo Manning Wilson and William Bedle.
Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1972.
THU 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b00wt7n3)
Christmas Special
The Cousin
Gerald and Diana must prepare for a last-minute festive visitor.
A Christmas Chapter in the convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author,
Starring Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife, Diana.
With Michael McClain.
Written by Basil Boothroyd.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1977.
THU 09:00 Booked (b0075m77)
Series 2
Episode 6
John Betjeman writes the copy for a Ford Probe brochure, Shere Khan bumps into a nervous Mrs Tiggy-Winkle at a hunt saboteurs' meeting, and Ted Hughes tries to write a bright and breezy breakfast cereal advert.
John Hegley joins regulars Mark Thomas, Dillie Keane and Miles Kington to stir the literary cauldron.
Irreverent literary game chaired by Ian McMillan.
Producer: Marc Jobst
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1997.
THU 09:30 No Commitments (b007jnxx)
Series 7
Supporting Parts
Victoria worries over Roger's libido and Charlotte is after a top job. Stars Rosemary Leach and Celia Imrie. From January 2001.
THU 10:00 Mystery Theater (b06sq756)
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of Copper Beeches
A young, frightened woman pays a visit to the Baker Street detective. A job offer that seems too good to be true is just the beginning of a most mysterious case.
John Stanley stars as the original super-sleuth, Sherlock Holmes with Alfred Shirley as the dependable Doctor Watson.
American radio drama series carried by the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1947.
Based upon the character of Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and dramatised by Edith Meiser.
Music by Albert Berman.
Announcer: Sy Harris
Produced and directed by Basil Loughren.
4 Extra's MYSTERY THEATER showcases American radio's golden years of the 1940s and 50s, when many of Hollywood's greatest screen stars were regular performers, often re-enacting film roles.
THU 10:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b04vjh7y)
Arthur in Pantoland?
Count Arthur is saved from the seemingly simple task of writing his Christmas cards by a call from the Vicar. An invitation to star in the local pantomime gets Arthur excited about possible return to the stage.
Count Arthur Strong - one time Variety Star, now sole proprietor and owner of Doncaster's Academy of Performance - is a show business legend, raconteur, and lecturer extraordinaire. All false starts and nervous fumbling badly covered up by a delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance, and an expert in everything from the world of entertainment to the origin of the species, everyday life with Arthur is an enlightening experience.
This episode was the first return of the long running series as a seasonal special and was produced by John Leonard and Mark Radcliffe. The show features Count Arthur and his erstwhile protégé Malcolm (Terry Kilkelly), surrounded by a host of regular characters created by his Radio Repertory Company - Mel Giedroyc, Alastair Kerr and Dave Mounfield. Dave, who played amongst others the much-loved characters Jerry and Geoffrey, sadly died in March 2020. His final Count Arthur recordings were two Christmas specials recorded in Autumn 2019, the first of which aired on Christmas Day 2019 and the second is yet to air. The 2020 hybrid return of the ever-popular family friendly sitcom is dedicated to Dave's memory.
A Komedia Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 11:00 Four Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald (b0076f5l)
Three Hours Between Planes
Donald reunites with his childhood love Nancy and old emotions stir. However, memories can deceive. Read by John Sharian.
THU 11:15 Nikolai Gogol - Christmas Eve (b00wsymb)
Extraordinary happenings as a night of 'mischief and mayhem' is unleashed on a Ukrainian village. Starring Crawford Logan.
THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k1hd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b00wt7n3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 13:00 Agatha Christie (b007k097)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 13:30 The Night The Animals Talked (b0077268)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 14:00 Tom Bodett - Christmastime at the End of the Road (b007k09c)
The Town Tree
Will the town's first communal Christmas tree be greeted with peace and goodwill to all men? Alaskan tales read by their author.
THU 14:15 A Cause for Caroling (b03ls15l)
Import and Export
The penultimate programme in Jeremy Summerly's series tracing the history of the Christmas Carol in Britain. Jeremy picks up the story in the first half of the 20th century with carols from all over the world becoming more popular in this country much to the irritation of Ralph Vaughan Williams who continued to champion the folk tradition, albeit in a refined choral form. This was a time when the grandeur of Victorian caroling gave way to a leaner aesthetic with the Oxford Book of Carols being published in 1928, the same year in which the BBC broadcast the King's College, Cambridge Nine Lessons and Carols for the very first time. As it became an established favourite the carols used, gathered in many cases over centuries, become known both nationally and indeed internationally.
Series Description:
The Christmas carol is as popular now as it was when carolers celebrated the birth of Edward III in 1312. Back then the carol was a generic term for a song with its roots in dance form, nowadays only the strictest scholar would quibble with the fact that a carol is a Christmas song.
But the journey the carol has taken is unique in music history because each shift in the story has been preserved in the carols that we sing today. Go to a carol concert now and you're likely to hear folk, medieval, mid-victorian and modern music all happily combined. It's hard to imagine that happening in any other situation.
In these programmes Jeremy Summerly follows the carol journey through the Golden age of the Medieval carol into the troubled period of Reformation and puritanism, along the byways of the 17th and 18th century waits and gallery musicians and in to the sudden explosion of interest in the carol in the 19th century. It's a story that sees the carol veer between the sacred and secular even before there was any understanding of those terms. For long periods the church, both catholic and protestant, was uneasy about the virility and homespun nature of carol tunes and carol texts. Nowadays many people think that church music is defined by the carols they hear from Kings College Cambridge.
He traces the folk carol in and out of church grounds, the carol hymn, the fuguing carol and the many other off-shoots, some of which survive to this day and many others which languish unloved but ready for re-discovery.
It's a journey full of song describing the history of a people who needed expression for seasonal joy in the coldest, hardest time of the year. And however efficient the heating system may be, the carol still generates warmth. Much of that is to do with the positive nostalgia of this music.
That nostalgia is in part due to the fact that carols are one of the first kinds of song children actually sing rather than hear. Many favourite carols were actually written for Children; Once in Royal David's City the most familiar example. Another factor is the concentration in the texts on the humanity of nativity with tunes garnered from the uninhibited world of folk song and ballad.
The series title is taken from a Thomas Hardy poem in which he ponders of a Darkling Thrush why it should chose to sing - 'so little cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound' - is the question asked. This series is an attempt to answer why Carols remain so popular and familiar to so many. In fact Hardy himself, in his first novel Under The Greenwood Tree, went some way to answering his own question when he described the Mellstock Quire singing at Midnight on Christmas Eve:
'Then passed forth into the quiet night an ancient and time worn hymn, embodying a quaint Christianity in words orally transmitted from father to son through several generations down to the present characters, who sang them out right earnestly."
Jeremy brings the series up to date with the story of the famous Nine Lessons and Carols service broadcast by the BBC since the 1920s but born originally in Truro. It's a service that commands a worldwide audience measured in many millions, but as Jeremy concludes it has left an imbalance in the appreciation of our caroling tradition, a tradition that has always had one foot in the pub and another in the choir stalls.
Producer:Tom Alban.
THU 14:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (b007jvxg)
Episode 9
Amelia follows George and the regiment to Brussels, as Becky attracts an army of admirers. Stars Emma Fielding and Jon Glover.
THU 14:45 And June Whitfield (b007jvfd)
Episode 4
The much-loved actress remembers the challenges of working with Tony Hancock, and her huge TV success with Terry and June.
THU 15:00 Mystery Theater (b06sq756)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
THU 15:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b04vjh7y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:30 today]
THU 16:00 Booked (b0075m77)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 16:30 No Commitments (b007jnxx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire (b03s6mf2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
THU 17:30 Tina C (b06s0njv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 18:00 A Short History of Vampires (b00z55h6)
Quid Pro Quo by Tanya Huff
The ultimate killing machines.
Natalie Haynes introduces the last in a series of dark stories, as she examines why the vampire - an iconic figure in horror-fiction - continues to exert such a powerful hold on our imaginations...
Genevieve Adam reads Tanya Huff’s deliciously noir tale of an immortal whose lover is in mortal danger.
Producer: Gemma Jenkins
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2011.
THU 18:30 Great Lives (b00k3zns)
Series 18
Frank Sinatra
Broadcaster Colin Murray chooses Francis Albert Sinatra in the biographical series in which Matthew Parris asks his guests to choose someone who's inspired their lives.
"Fiercely competitive", "aggressive", "utterly masculine" and "supremely talented". Just some of the words - Matthew Parris says - that might be used to describe one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century.
Colin calls Frank omnipresent. Enchanted by his songs he says: "It's not about the notes you hit for me, it's about the simplicity and the honesty. And for me he had it in bucket loads"
New York author and music critic Will Friedwald vividly describes the singer's life history, from his early years to the marriages and through his recording and screen career.
Featuring excerpts of many of Sinatra's greatest recordings.
Produced by Beth O'Dea
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k1hd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b00wt7n3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 20:00 Agatha Christie (b007k097)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 20:30 The Night The Animals Talked (b0077268)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Four Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald (b0076f5l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Nikolai Gogol - Christmas Eve (b00wsymb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
THU 22:00 Tina C (b06s0njv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 22:25 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06vmg0l)
The best in contemporary comedy. On this very special night, Jessica Fostekew chats to Santa!
THU 22:30 Two Episodes of Mash (b01mx27s)
Series 2
Episode 4
Diane, Joe and David have to do 30 minutes of community service as punishment for their crimes against radio.
Look out for an animation of their Fishing Sketch by Tom Rourke on the BBC Radio 4 Extra website.
A mix of silly, surreal sketches and banter starring Diane Morgan and Joe Wilkinson.
With:
David O'Doherty
Paul Harry Allen
Bobbie Pryor
Gary Newman
Aled Jones.
Producer: Clair Wordsworth.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012.
THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06vmfyf)
From
10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs. Tonight, Jessica Fostekew is joined by Mr B, the Gentleman Rhymer for more music and chat.
THU 23:00 Bleak Expectations (b00nw3rs)
Series 3
A Horrible Life Un-Ruined and Then Re-Ruined a Lot
Pip, Harry, Pippa and Ripely are reduced to abject poverty on the banks of the Thames.
Will Pip and Harry be able to find work, or will they have to end their days eating mud and listening to the gloating of Mr Benevolent?
Mark Evans's epic Victorian comedy in the style of Charles Dickens.
Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson
Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen
Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head
Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman
Barker Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Ripely ...... Sarah Hadland
Pippa ...... Susy Kane
Vegetarian Lion ...... Mark Evans
Producer: Gareth Edwards
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009
THU 23:30 The Museum of Everything (b007k0zt)
Series 1
School Parties Welcome
The Museum enjoys a visit from some schoolchildren as they learn the origin of scampi in the new Undersea Adventure display.
Written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell.
With Lucy Montgomery.
Music by Dominic Haslam and Ben Walker.
Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2004.
FRIDAY 25 DECEMBER 2015
FRI 00:00 A Short History of Vampires (b00z55h6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b00k3zns)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Agatha Christie (b007k097)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 The Night The Animals Talked (b0077268)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Tom Bodett - Christmastime at the End of the Road (b007k09c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:15 A Cause for Caroling (b03ls15l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (b007jvxg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:45 And June Whitfield (b007jvfd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:45 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 Mystery Theater (b06sq756)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 03:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b04vjh7y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:30 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Booked (b0075m77)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 No Commitments (b007jnxx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire (b03s6mf2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 Tina C (b06s0njv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Agatha Christie (b007k0bk)
The Sittaford Mystery
5. The Second Seance
Mr Rycroft decides that only by re-enacting the séance which announced the murder of Captain Trevelyan, will the identity of his killer finally be revealed.
The conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit starring Geoffrey Whitehead as Inspector Narracott.
Inspector Narracott …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Emily Trefusis …. Melinda Walker
Charles Enderby …. Stephen Tompkinson
Major Burnaby …. Norman Bird
Ellwood …. Jack May
Martin Dering …. David Goudge
Mr. Rycroft …. John Moffat
Ronnie Garfield …. Nigel Greaves
Mrs. Willett …. Susan Westerby
Violet Willett …. Victoria Carling
Brian Pearson …. Charles Simpson
Caroline Percehouse …. Margaret Courtenay
Mrs. Curtis …. Barbara Atkinson
Sergeant Pollock …. Vincent Brimble
Mr. Dacres …. David King
Beatrice …. Alice Arnold
Jennifer Gardner …. Anna Cropper
Brian Pearson …. Charles Simpson
Dramatised and directed by Michael Bakewell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1990.
FRI 06:30 Bringing Holly from the Bongs (b06sqkhl)
Christmas 1965: The children of Goostrey Primary School in Cheshire are preparing to perform a special nativity play in the stable of the Crown Inn. Holly from the Bongs has been written especially for them by the famous children’s writer Alan Garner (The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, The Owl Service) who lives locally and worked with them to help create the play.
Christmas 2015: The grown-ups who originally performed in the play return to the Crown Inn, 50 years on, to reflect on this unique theatrical experience with Alan Garner – who still regards Holly from the Bongs as his most technically perfect piece of writing.
Leslie Pimlott who played the Doctor in the original production, recalls with other cast members the story of how this customised nativity play was created by Alan Garner. The author spent many afternoons walking the children round the village’s boundaries, fields and The Bongs, the wooded area behind the school to explore the history and living heritage of Goostrey. Leslie celebrates the excitement of taking part in the original production and its memorable first performance half a century ago.
Part nativity play/part mummer’s play Holly from the Bongs is a customised piece of theatre written for the voices of the individual children of Goostrey School in 1965. A stylistic lesson in English writing from the middle ages to the 1960’s that has a very special place in the hearts of the original cast and the village of Goostrey.
Producer: Andy Cartwright
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Soundscape Productions.
First broadcast in December 2015.
FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jp42)
Series 5
The Threatening Letters
The lad is full of the joys of Spring - until the postman arrives.
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 (b00fyvxb)
Series 6
The International Christmas Pudding
An eccentric millionaire funds an expedition for fragments of a famous dessert. Stars Spike Milligan. From November 1955.
FRI 09:00 The 99p Challenge (b06sqn7w)
Series 4
Episode 6
Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Armando Iannucci, Simon Pegg, Marcus Brigstocke and Jon Holmes.
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 March 2003.
FRI 09:30 Mind Your Own Business! (b009sczf)
Two Fingers of Suspicion
Secrets from Brightco's defence job are reaching a foreign power. But who is responsible for a leak?
Bernard Cribbins and Frank Thornton star in Andrew Palmer’s sitcom
Jimmy Bright ...... Bernard Cribbins
Russell Farrow ...... Frank Thornton
Nan Forbes ...... Annette Crosbie
Sue Plant ...... Annee Blott
With John Graham
Written by Andrew Palmer.
Producer: Edward Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1988.
FRI 10:00 Mystery Theater (b06sqp09)
The Black Museum: Orson Welles 2/2
The Raincoat: Orson Welles' tale inspired by a real case from Scotland Yard's gruesome gallery of crime-related ephemera
Even a simple garment like a raincoat can be connected to the brutal murder of a married woman.
In The Black Museum, Orson is your host and guide through tales based on the grim and ominous collection of objects connected to significant British crimes.
Writer: Ira Marion.
Music: Sydney Torch
Producer: Harry Alan Towers
The films of Orson Welles have guaranteed him a place in the pantheon of film heroes (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil). This series is one of several fascinating sidesteps into a medium which arguably contributed to Welles' success - radio. Thanks to Harry Alan Towers, British radio was host to his dulcet tones for a spell in the early 1950s - including his famous cinematic anti-hero in The Lives of Harry Lime.
Presented by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer radio attractions
Produced by Towers of London and first broadcast in the USA in 1952.
4 Extra's MYSTERY THEATER showcases American radio's golden years of the 1940s and 50s, when many of Hollywood's greatest screen stars were regular performers, often re-enacting film roles.
FRI 10:30 Anthony Trollope - Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage (b00pfkw1)
A young man comes to spend Christmas with the family of his godfather, a clergyman in an English village. Predictably, he falls in love with the beautiful daughter, Isabel - but they need the help of her little sister, Mabel, and the patient counselling of her mother, too, before the course of true love finally runs smooth...
Anthony Trollope's Victorian comedy stars Finty Williams as Isabel Lownd, Chris Larkin as Maurice Archer, John Rhys-Davies as the Reverend John Lownd, Julia McKenzie as Alice Lownd and Lizzie Bowling as Mabel Lownd.
Mary Wimbush (pictured during recording) makes a delightful cameo - in what turned out to be one of her very last recordings - as Miss Dimbleby.
Master novelist Anthony Trollope (1815-82) is best-loved for his Barsetshire Chronicles and Palliser series. But he also wrote a handful of short stories for magazines on Christmas themes, of which this is the most delicate and enchanting.
"This comedy of two young lovers is an entertaining glimpse of mid-Victorian England, and to many will be entirely new, for it has been reprinted only rarely since its appearance in Routledge's Christmas Annual for 1870. Trollope was fifty-five when he wrote this story, but his vast energy and his genial, peppery enjoyment of life were still untouched by age. He had bidden farewell to Barsetshire - and resigned from the Post Office - three years earlier. But some of his best novels were still to come, including The Eustace Diamonds and The Way We Live Now." - WILLIAM STRODE
A Radio Theatre Production. First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2009.
FRI 11:00 Maeve Binchy - Christmas Present (b06sqq25)
A young boy spots a simple way of showing three generations of a family the true magic of Christmas Day. Read by Hannah Gordon. From December 1995.
FRI 11:15 Hercule Poirot (b008j05h)
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Hercule Poirot does not care for the British weather at the best of times, but at Christmas he's convinced the only way to survive is to shut himself up in his London apartment.
Imagine his horror, then that to avert a diplomatic catastrophe, he must take on a case that means spending the festive period in a large old house in the countryside. Attending an old-fashioned dinner party, he must use all his powers of deduction to retrieve a stolen ruby.
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Poirot. With Donald Sinden as Colonel Lacey, Sian Phillips as Mrs Lacey, Ifan Meredith as The Prince/Michael and Elizabeth Proud as Mrs Ross.
From a book first published in 1960 and dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Directed by Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.
FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jp42)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b00fyvxb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 Agatha Christie (b007k0bk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 Bringing Holly from the Bongs (b06sqkhl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 14:00 Tom Bodett - Christmastime at the End of the Road (b007k0bq)
Yet Another New Year
New Year is a time of celebration - and an annual fist fight. But a dense fog descends. Alaskan tales read by author Tom Bodett.
FRI 14:15 A Cause for Caroling (b03lsdg6)
Ring in the New
Jeremy Summerly concludes his history of the carol in Britain pondering the success of new carols over the last century. While King's College, Cambridge organist Stephen Cleobury insures a supply of newly commissioned carols for his massive international audience Jeremy wonders whether the popular songs from Berlin's 'White Christmas' to Slade's 'Merry Christmas' don't help sustain a more genuine caroling tradition.
He also recalls his own first experience of carols at Lichfield cathedral where John Rutter's 'Shepherd's Pipe Carol' was an astonishing discovery for the eager young chorister.
And Jeremy also ponders the continued appeal of the carol and why, while it's been in decline throughout its history, it continues to thrive.
Series Description:
The Christmas carol is as popular now as it was when carolers celebrated the birth of Edward III in 1312. Back then the carol was a generic term for a song with its roots in dance form, nowadays only the strictest scholar would quibble with the fact that a carol is a Christmas song.
But the journey the carol has taken is unique in music history because each shift in the story has been preserved in the carols that we sing today. Go to a carol concert now and you're likely to hear folk, medieval, mid-victorian and modern music all happily combined. It's hard to imagine that happening in any other situation.
In these programmes Jeremy Summerly follows the carol journey through the Golden age of the Medieval carol into the troubled period of Reformation and puritanism, along the byways of the 17th and 18th century waits and gallery musicians and in to the sudden explosion of interest in the carol in the 19th century. It's a story that sees the carol veer between the sacred and secular even before there was any understanding of those terms. For long periods the church, both catholic and protestant, was uneasy about the virility and homespun nature of carol tunes and carol texts. Nowadays many people think that church music is defined by the carols they hear from Kings College Cambridge.
He traces the folk carol in and out of church grounds, the carol hymn, the fuguing carol and the many other off-shoots, some of which survive to this day and many others which languish unloved but ready for re-discovery.
It's a journey full of song describing the history of a people who needed expression for seasonal joy in the coldest, hardest time of the year. And however efficient the heating system may be, the carol still generates warmth. Much of that is to do with the positive nostalgia of this music.
That nostalgia is in part due to the fact that carols are one of the first kinds of song children actually sing rather than hear. Many favourite carols were actually written for Children; Once in Royal David's City the most familiar example. Another factor is the concentration in the texts on the humanity of nativity with tunes garnered from the uninhibited world of folk song and ballad.
The series title is taken from a Thomas Hardy poem in which he ponders of a Darkling Thrush why it should chose to sing - 'so little cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound' - is the question asked. THis series is an attempt to answer why Carols remain so popular and familiar to so many. In fact Hardy himself, in his first novel Under The Greenwood Tree, went some way to answering his own question when he described the Mellstock Quire singing at Midnight on Christmas Eve:
'Then passed forth into the quiet night an ancient and time worn hymn, embodying a quaint Christianity in words orally transmitted from father to son through several generations down to the present characters, who sang them out right earnestly."
Jeremy brings the series up to date with the story of the famous Nine Lessons and Carols service broadcast by the BBC since the 1920s but born originally in Truro. It's a service that commands a worldwide audience measured in many millions, but as Jeremy concludes it has left an imbalance in the appreciation of our caroling tradition, a tradition that has always had one foot in the pub and another in the choir stalls.
Producer:Tom Alban.
FRI 14:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (b007jvxl)
Episode 10
1815, the Battle of Waterloo. As George and Rawdon fight, Becky and Amelia wait for news. Narrated by Stephen Fry.
FRI 14:45 And June Whitfield (b007jvfk)
Episode 5
The final chapter of June's life story so far takes us from the News Huddlines to international fame with Absolutely Fabulous.
FRI 15:00 Mystery Theater (b06sqp09)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
FRI 15:30 Anthony Trollope - Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage (b00pfkw1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:30 today]
FRI 16:00 The 99p Challenge (b06sqn7w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
FRI 16:30 Mind Your Own Business! (b009sczf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
FRI 18:00 MR James (b06sqq9z)
Oh, Whistle and I'll Come To You
“Easy enough to whistle, but there's no telling what will answer...”
Professor Parkins uncovers a very curious artefact.
MR James’s ghostly story adapted by Michael and Mollie Hardwick.
Starring Michael Hordern as Professor Parkins.
Professor Parkins ...... Michael Hordern
Brown ...... Earle Grey
Purdon ...... James Thomason
Chambermaid/Small Boy ...... Sheila Grant
Waiter ...... Anthony Hall
Colonel Wilson ...... Austin Trevor
Mrs Spenlow ...... Hilda Kriseman
Rogers ...... Rolf Lefebvre
The Thing ...... Malcolm Hayes
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Producer: Charles Lefeaux
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in December 1963.
FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b0075zst)
Series 1
Silent Night
An exploration of one of the world's most popular Christmas carols, and some of unlikely places where it has been sung. From December 2000.
FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jp42)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b00fyvxb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 Agatha Christie (b007k0bk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Bringing Holly from the Bongs (b06sqkhl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Black Cinderella Two Goes East, or Confessions of a Glass Slipper Tryer Onner (b00g31bq)
All-star panto set in the land of Saxmania. Co-produced by Douglas Adams. With Peter Cook and John Cleese. From December 1978.
FRI 22:00 Radio 4 Comedy Advent Calendar (b03m7mdf)
On Christmas Day gorge on a bumper edited compilation of all 24 'windows' from the Radio 4 Comedy Advent Calendar featuring some of your favourite presenters, performers and comedians.
Produced by Lyndsay Fenner and Sam Michell.
FRI 23:00 The Penny Dreadfuls (b008vt7r)
Revolution
The comedy trio tell the epic tale of the French Revolution. Co-starring Richard E Grant and Sally Hawkins. From July 2011.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
A Cause for Caroling
02:15 SAT (b03kvby7)
A Cause for Caroling
14:15 MON (b03lp80w)
A Cause for Caroling
02:15 TUE (b03lp80w)
A Cause for Caroling
14:15 TUE (b03lpfx0)
A Cause for Caroling
02:15 WED (b03lpfx0)
A Cause for Caroling
14:15 WED (b03lpjpp)
A Cause for Caroling
02:15 THU (b03lpjpp)
A Cause for Caroling
14:15 THU (b03ls15l)
A Cause for Caroling
02:15 FRI (b03ls15l)
A Cause for Caroling
14:15 FRI (b03lsdg6)
A Good Read
18:30 MON (b00761qk)
A Good Read
00:30 TUE (b00761qk)
A Look Back at the Future
23:30 SUN (b01rszvs)
A Short History of Vampires
18:00 MON (b00yhwyc)
A Short History of Vampires
00:00 TUE (b00yhwyc)
A Short History of Vampires
18:00 TUE (b00yqqs8)
A Short History of Vampires
00:00 WED (b00yqqs8)
A Short History of Vampires
18:00 WED (b00yy6vt)
A Short History of Vampires
00:00 THU (b00yy6vt)
A Short History of Vampires
18:00 THU (b00z55h6)
A Short History of Vampires
00:00 FRI (b00z55h6)
Agatha Christie
06:00 MON (b0081rx2)
Agatha Christie
13:00 MON (b0081rx2)
Agatha Christie
20:00 MON (b0081rx2)
Agatha Christie
01:00 TUE (b0081rx2)
Agatha Christie
06:00 TUE (b007jlqg)
Agatha Christie
13:00 TUE (b007jlqg)
Agatha Christie
20:00 TUE (b007jlqg)
Agatha Christie
01:00 WED (b007jlqg)
Agatha Christie
06:00 WED (b007k07y)
Agatha Christie
13:00 WED (b007k07y)
Agatha Christie
20:00 WED (b007k07y)
Agatha Christie
01:00 THU (b007k07y)
Agatha Christie
06:00 THU (b007k097)
Agatha Christie
13:00 THU (b007k097)
Agatha Christie
20:00 THU (b007k097)
Agatha Christie
01:00 FRI (b007k097)
Agatha Christie
06:00 FRI (b007k0bk)
Agatha Christie
13:00 FRI (b007k0bk)
Agatha Christie
20:00 FRI (b007k0bk)
Alan Coren - Core Coren
02:45 SAT (b007jrq9)
Alick Rowe - Crisp and Even Brightly
06:00 SAT (b007jqsz)
Alick Rowe - Crisp and Even Brightly
16:00 SAT (b007jqsz)
Alick Rowe - Crisp and Even Brightly
04:00 SUN (b007jqsz)
And June Whitfield
14:45 MON (b007jvdz)
And June Whitfield
02:45 TUE (b007jvdz)
And June Whitfield
14:45 TUE (b007jvf2)
And June Whitfield
02:45 WED (b007jvf2)
And June Whitfield
14:45 WED (b007jvf6)
And June Whitfield
02:45 THU (b007jvf6)
And June Whitfield
14:45 THU (b007jvfd)
And June Whitfield
02:45 FRI (b007jvfd)
And June Whitfield
14:45 FRI (b007jvfk)
Anthony Trollope - Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage
10:30 FRI (b00pfkw1)
Anthony Trollope - Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage
15:30 FRI (b00pfkw1)
Arthur Conan Doyle - Professor Challenger
00:00 SAT (b00zs6nn)
Beautiful Dreamers
23:30 WED (b00vrvxw)
Beauty of Britain
23:00 WED (b010mryx)
Black Cinderella Two Goes East, or Confessions of a Glass Slipper Tryer Onner
21:00 FRI (b00g31bq)
Bleak Expectations
23:00 THU (b00nw3rs)
Booked
09:00 THU (b0075m77)
Booked
16:00 THU (b0075m77)
Booked
04:00 FRI (b0075m77)
Bringing Holly from the Bongs
06:30 FRI (b06sqkhl)
Bringing Holly from the Bongs
13:30 FRI (b06sqkhl)
Bringing Holly from the Bongs
20:30 FRI (b06sqkhl)
Brothers in Law
12:30 SAT (b007k0y6)
Brothers in Law
08:30 MON (b007k164)
Brothers in Law
12:30 MON (b007k164)
Brothers in Law
19:30 MON (b007k164)
Cabin Pressure
22:30 MON (b01q8qqc)
Candlelight: The Living Flame
06:30 TUE (b00765mf)
Candlelight: The Living Flame
13:30 TUE (b00765mf)
Candlelight: The Living Flame
20:30 TUE (b00765mf)
Candlelight: The Living Flame
01:30 WED (b00765mf)
Capital Gains
09:30 TUE (b00slqv8)
Capital Gains
16:30 TUE (b00slqv8)
Capital Gains
04:30 WED (b00slqv8)
Charles Dickens
11:15 TUE (b007jw8x)
Charles Dickens
21:15 TUE (b007jw8x)
Classic Serial
18:00 SAT (b01nkt24)
Classic Serial
00:00 SUN (b01nkt24)
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!
10:30 WED (b007728p)
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!
15:30 WED (b007728p)
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!
03:30 THU (b007728p)
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!
10:30 THU (b04vjh7y)
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!
15:30 THU (b04vjh7y)
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!
03:30 FRI (b04vjh7y)
Counterpoint
09:00 WED (b008m8jp)
Counterpoint
16:00 WED (b008m8jp)
Counterpoint
04:00 THU (b008m8jp)
Dad's Army
08:00 MON (b007jq82)
Dad's Army
12:00 MON (b007jq82)
Dad's Army
19:00 MON (b007jq82)
David Attenborough's Life Stories
11:50 SUN (b00n3jxh)
David Attenborough's Life Stories
19:50 SUN (b00n3jxh)
Desert Island Discs Revisited
10:15 SUN (b06sbg3r)
Desert Island Discs Revisited
21:15 SUN (b06sbg3r)
Drama
11:15 MON (b00zdhzs)
Drama
21:15 MON (b00zdhzs)
Eagle: The Space Age Weekly
01:30 SAT (b00wqdx6)
Ed Reardon's Week
07:30 SUN (b00q2w82)
Ed Reardon's Week
17:30 SUN (b00q2w82)
Ed Reardon's Week
22:00 SUN (b00q2w82)
Ed Reardon's Week
05:30 MON (b00q2w82)
Fear on 4
18:00 SUN (b00c84lh)
Fear on 4
00:00 MON (b00c84lh)
Four Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald
11:00 MON (b0076f44)
Four Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald
21:00 MON (b0076f44)
Four Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald
11:00 TUE (b0076f4l)
Four Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald
21:00 TUE (b0076f4l)
Four Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald
11:00 WED (b0076f52)
Four Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald
21:00 WED (b0076f52)
Four Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald
11:00 THU (b0076f5l)
Four Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald
21:00 THU (b0076f5l)
Gloomsbury
07:30 TUE (b042jpk4)
Gloomsbury
17:30 TUE (b042jpk4)
Gloomsbury
22:00 TUE (b042jpk4)
Gloomsbury
05:30 WED (b042jpk4)
Great Lives
18:30 THU (b00k3zns)
Great Lives
00:30 FRI (b00k3zns)
HR
07:00 TUE (b01ckgfz)
HR
17:00 TUE (b01ckgfz)
HR
05:00 WED (b01ckgfz)
Hancock's Half Hour
08:00 FRI (b007jp42)
Hancock's Half Hour
12:00 FRI (b007jp42)
Hancock's Half Hour
19:00 FRI (b007jp42)
Hans Christian Andersen - The Fir Tree
15:45 SUN (b01pfwn0)
Hans Christian Andersen - The Fir Tree
03:45 MON (b01pfwn0)
Hercule Poirot
11:15 FRI (b008j05h)
Home Front - Omnibus
03:00 SAT (b064jrpl)
I Think I've Got a Problem
23:00 SUN (b007xvrp)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
07:30 MON (b06rxn53)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
17:30 MON (b06rxn53)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
22:00 MON (b06rxn53)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
05:30 TUE (b06rxn53)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
08:30 WED (b010y71x)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
12:30 WED (b010y71x)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
19:30 WED (b010y71x)
In the Psychiatrist's Chair
14:15 SAT (b06sb28z)
In the Psychiatrist's Chair
02:15 SUN (b06sb28z)
Inheritance Tracks
14:10 SAT (b06sb17d)
Inheritance Tracks
02:10 SUN (b06sb17d)
Inheritance Tracks
10:10 SUN (b06sbdn5)
Inheritance Tracks
21:10 SUN (b06sbdn5)
Irish Micks and Legends
22:00 SAT (b01nq4j1)
Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver
02:00 SAT (b00nnp65)
Josie Long Hears the Truth
09:00 SAT (b06s9rcn)
Josie Long Hears the Truth
19:00 SAT (b06s9rcn)
Just William - Live!
10:30 MON (b01pfrrc)
Just William - Live!
15:30 MON (b01pfrrc)
Just William - Live!
03:30 TUE (b01pfrrc)
Just William - Live!
10:30 TUE (b01ph83g)
Just William - Live!
15:30 TUE (b01ph83g)
Just William - Live!
03:30 WED (b01ph83g)
King Street Junior
09:30 MON (b007jmfw)
King Street Junior
16:30 MON (b007jmfw)
King Street Junior
04:30 TUE (b007jmfw)
Lenin of the Rovers
07:00 WED (b007jwg9)
Lenin of the Rovers
17:00 WED (b007jwg9)
Lenin of the Rovers
05:00 THU (b007jwg9)
MR James
18:00 FRI (b06sqq9z)
Maeve Binchy - Christmas Present
11:00 FRI (b06sqq25)
Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking
07:30 SAT (b0075k9n)
Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking
17:30 SAT (b0075k9n)
Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking
05:30 SUN (b0075k9n)
Meeting Myself Coming Back
08:00 SAT (b01jppw6)
Meeting Myself Coming Back
15:00 SAT (b01jppw6)
Meeting Myself Coming Back
03:00 SUN (b01jppw6)
Merry Christmas Morris Minor!
06:30 WED (b00wqgmg)
Merry Christmas Morris Minor!
13:30 WED (b00wqgmg)
Merry Christmas Morris Minor!
20:30 WED (b00wqgmg)
Merry Christmas Morris Minor!
01:30 THU (b00wqgmg)
Mind Your Own Business!
04:30 SAT (b009pr6l)
Mind Your Own Business!
09:30 FRI (b009sczf)
Mind Your Own Business!
16:30 FRI (b009sczf)
Mission Improbable
22:15 SAT (b01p4254)
Much Binding in the Marsh
08:30 SUN (b018zl22)
Much Binding in the Marsh
12:30 SUN (b018zl22)
My History Omnibus
09:00 SUN (b06sbdn3)
My History Omnibus
20:00 SUN (b06sbdn3)
My Teenage Diary
22:30 SUN (b039cy0f)
Mystery Theater
10:00 MON (b06sdzqk)
Mystery Theater
15:00 MON (b06sdzqk)
Mystery Theater
03:00 TUE (b06sdzqk)
Mystery Theater
10:00 TUE (b06sg52c)
Mystery Theater
15:00 TUE (b06sg52c)
Mystery Theater
03:00 WED (b06sg52c)
Mystery Theater
10:00 WED (b06spfsn)
Mystery Theater
15:00 WED (b06spfsn)
Mystery Theater
03:00 THU (b06spfsn)
Mystery Theater
10:00 THU (b06sq756)
Mystery Theater
15:00 THU (b06sq756)
Mystery Theater
03:00 FRI (b06sq756)
Mystery Theater
10:00 FRI (b06sqp09)
Mystery Theater
15:00 FRI (b06sqp09)
Nikolai Gogol - Christmas Eve
11:15 THU (b00wsymb)
Nikolai Gogol - Christmas Eve
21:15 THU (b00wsymb)
No Commitments
09:30 THU (b007jnxx)
No Commitments
16:30 THU (b007jnxx)
No Commitments
04:30 FRI (b007jnxx)
North by Northamptonshire
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North by Northamptonshire
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North by Northamptonshire
05:00 FRI (b03s6mf2)
Off the Page
18:30 WED (b0076x93)
Off the Page
00:30 THU (b0076x93)
Old Harry's Game
22:30 WED (b00wqfn8)
Oscar Wilde
07:15 SAT (b007k0l3)
Oscar Wilde
17:15 SAT (b007k0l3)
Oscar Wilde
05:15 SUN (b007k0l3)
P Division
01:00 SAT (b00rgnxh)
Poetry Extra
17:00 SUN (b0076bz0)
Poetry Extra
05:00 MON (b0076bz0)
Quote... Unquote
09:00 MON (b0128ln0)
Quote... Unquote
16:00 MON (b0128ln0)
Quote... Unquote
04:00 TUE (b0128ln0)
Radio 4 Comedy Advent Calendar
22:00 FRI (b03m7mdf)
Round the Horne
12:00 SAT (b00mlxk1)
Round the Horne
08:00 TUE (b00mrhjp)
Round the Horne
12:00 TUE (b00mrhjp)
Round the Horne
19:00 TUE (b00mrhjp)
Sarah Woods - Speck of Dust Omnibus
13:00 SAT (b06sb14w)
Sarah Woods - Speck of Dust Omnibus
01:00 SUN (b06sb14w)
Shah Rukh Khan's Heroes
18:30 TUE (b06sg8ss)
Shah Rukh Khan's Heroes
00:30 WED (b06sg8ss)
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
23:15 TUE (b00s6n86)
Slade House Omnibus
14:30 SUN (b06sbhv7)
Slade House Omnibus
02:30 MON (b06sbhv7)
Son of Cliche
23:30 SAT (b00p4mcr)
Soul Music
00:30 SAT (b0076blv)
Soul Music
18:30 FRI (b0075zst)
Steptoe and Son
08:00 THU (b007k1hd)
Steptoe and Son
12:00 THU (b007k1hd)
Steptoe and Son
19:00 THU (b007k1hd)
Steve Chambers - Victoria Station
11:15 WED (b06spfst)
Steve Chambers - Victoria Station
21:15 WED (b06spfst)
Steven Appleby's Normal Life
22:45 SAT (b007jn0b)
Strap In - It's Clever Peter
22:30 SAT (b01jhdht)
Susan Hill - The Woman in Black
18:30 SUN (b007jz83)
Susan Hill - The Woman in Black
00:30 MON (b007jz83)
The 99p Challenge
04:00 SAT (b06s6mrj)
The 99p Challenge
09:00 FRI (b06sqn7w)
The 99p Challenge
16:00 FRI (b06sqn7w)
The Al Read Show
08:00 SUN (b008xzwj)
The Al Read Show
12:00 SUN (b008xzwj)
The Ape That Got Lucky
22:30 TUE (b0081cbz)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 WED (b05njm7k)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:25 THU (b06vmg0l)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 THU (b06vmfyf)
The Goon Show
08:30 FRI (b00fyvxb)
The Goon Show
12:30 FRI (b00fyvxb)
The Goon Show
19:30 FRI (b00fyvxb)
The Great Gatsby Letters
06:30 MON (b01130n7)
The Great Gatsby Letters
13:30 MON (b01130n7)
The Great Gatsby Letters
20:30 MON (b01130n7)
The Great Gatsby Letters
01:30 TUE (b01130n7)
The Jason Byrne Show
23:00 SAT (b01p03v9)
The Leopard in Autumn
09:30 WED (b00sbf7q)
The Leopard in Autumn
16:30 WED (b00sbf7q)
The Leopard in Autumn
04:30 THU (b00sbf7q)
The Moth Radio Hour
11:00 SUN (b06sbgmx)
The Moth Radio Hour
19:00 SUN (b06sbgmx)
The Motion Show
16:00 TUE (b0075x94)
The Motion Show
04:00 WED (b0075x94)
The Museum of Everything
23:30 THU (b007k0zt)
The Navy Lark
08:00 WED (b01dw471)
The Navy Lark
12:00 WED (b01dw471)
The Navy Lark
19:00 WED (b01dw471)
The Night The Animals Talked
06:30 THU (b0077268)
The Night The Animals Talked
13:30 THU (b0077268)
The Night The Animals Talked
20:30 THU (b0077268)
The Night The Animals Talked
01:30 FRI (b0077268)
The Northern Irish Man in CS Lewis
16:00 SUN (b007jw8w)
The Northern Irish Man in CS Lewis
04:00 MON (b007jw8w)
The Now Show
23:00 MON (b06s1gcg)
The Now Show
09:00 TUE (b06s1gcg)
The Penny Dreadfuls
23:00 FRI (b008vt7r)
The Right Time
07:00 MON (b00c5snp)
The Right Time
17:00 MON (b00c5snp)
The Right Time
05:00 TUE (b00c5snp)
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter
08:30 THU (b00wt7n3)
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter
12:30 THU (b00wt7n3)
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter
19:30 THU (b00wt7n3)
Think the Unthinkable
23:30 TUE (b007jm3k)
Tina C
07:30 THU (b06s0njv)
Tina C
17:30 THU (b06s0njv)
Tina C
22:00 THU (b06s0njv)
Tina C
05:30 FRI (b06s0njv)
To the Manor Born
08:30 TUE (b007jm7w)
To the Manor Born
12:30 TUE (b007jm7w)
To the Manor Born
19:30 TUE (b007jm7w)
Tom Bodett - Christmastime at the End of the Road
14:00 MON (b007jw7k)
Tom Bodett - Christmastime at the End of the Road
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Tom Bodett - Christmastime at the End of the Road
14:00 TUE (b007k06s)
Tom Bodett - Christmastime at the End of the Road
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Tom Bodett - Christmastime at the End of the Road
14:00 WED (b007k082)
Tom Bodett - Christmastime at the End of the Road
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Tom Bodett - Christmastime at the End of the Road
14:00 THU (b007k09c)
Tom Bodett - Christmastime at the End of the Road
02:00 FRI (b007k09c)
Tom Bodett - Christmastime at the End of the Road
14:00 FRI (b007k0bq)
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups
07:30 WED (b06rz9hx)
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups
17:30 WED (b06rz9hx)
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups
22:00 WED (b06rz9hx)
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups
05:30 THU (b06rz9hx)
Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You'
05:30 SAT (b06rxgtc)
Twenty Players
23:00 TUE (b06sgb8m)
Two Episodes of Mash
22:30 THU (b01mx27s)
Unbuilt Britain
07:15 SUN (b01l0csn)
Unbuilt Britain
14:15 SUN (b01l0csn)
Unbuilt Britain
02:15 MON (b01l0csn)
Weak at the Top
23:30 MON (b00tgch7)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair Omnibus
06:00 SUN (b008lywx)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair Omnibus
13:00 SUN (b008lywx)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair Omnibus
01:00 MON (b008lywx)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
02:30 SAT (b007jvwn)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
14:30 MON (b007jvx0)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
02:30 TUE (b007jvx0)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
14:30 TUE (b007jvx8)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
02:30 WED (b007jvx8)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
14:30 WED (b007jvxc)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
02:30 THU (b007jvxc)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
14:30 THU (b007jvxg)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
02:30 FRI (b007jvxg)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
14:30 FRI (b007jvxl)
Winston
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