The Dutch detective has finally discovered murder victim Elsa de Charmoy's secret. A decoy is needed to snare the killer, but it's a very risky assignment. Tension mounts as the murderer makes his presence felt.
Piet Van der Valk is the much-copied prototype detective, 'a cranky, gentle, bumbling, brilliant, non-conformist student of human behaviour whose primary concern is why rather than how crimes are committed'.
Journalist Jackie Ashley tells the story of how her fifty-something friend Miranda Carter, a high-flying civil servant at the Department of Transport, astonished friends and family when she announced that she was applying for a licence as a boxing promoter.
By day she continues to work in the corridors of power in Whitehall, but in the evenings and at weekends she mixes with the raucous boxing crowd of York Hall, Bethnal Green, in the East End of London.
Oonagh makes a discovery and Nigel is at last pushed to the brink. Stars Raymond Coulthard and Adam Godley. From October 2005.
Meet a monosyllabic shop assistant, a pair of terrible African Drummers and a two terrible bedroom DJ's called 'Uncooth Youth FM'.
Jocelyn Jee Esien vents her frustration at the world around her through sketches and stand-up.
A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in January 2016.
The crew are back from some eventful leave, but Heather's surprise return from Scotland gives her fiancé Phillips a nasty shock.
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 and Heather Chasen as Heather.
Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series between 1959 and 1976.
A complete guide to London - and Professor Prune's Time Trousers materialise in gangster-ridden Chicago.
Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.
Debates galore over the North/South divide, glorious failure – and blowing your own trumpet.
Graeme Garden chairs the quirky battle of words and wit.
JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From August 1991.
Mr Pancks has made discoveries about the Dorrit family, but Arthur still hasn’t solved his family's secret...
Charles Dickens's masterpiece of social satire and imprisonment dramatised by Doug Lucie.
Charles Dickens ...... Ian McKellen
Arthur Clennam ...... Julian Wadham
Mrs Clennam ...... Margaret Tyzack
William Dorrit ...... John Wood
Little Dorrit ...... Jasmine Hyde
Mrs Merdle ...... Jennie Stoller
Mr Pancks ...... Philp Joseph
Fanny Dorrit ...... Indira Varma
Mr Merdle ...... Kenneth Cranham
Flora Finching ...... Sophie Thompson
Frederick Dorrit ...... Peter Tuddenham
Pet Meagles ...... Clare Corbett
John Chivery ...... Ben Crowe
Tip Dorritt ...... Kenny Blyth
Maggy ...... Helen Ayres
Flintwinch ...... Ioan Meredith
Mr Meagles ...... Gordon Reid
Mr Doyce ...... Jonathan Keeble
American star Kathleen Turner reads this specially commissioned story of family tension.
After the death of her husband, a New York writer decides to move to Cape Cod where her younger sister has a house on the Bay. Their mother lives in a nearby assisted-living facility. Neither sister has children; the father died many years ago. Only the three women are left. How nice, our storyteller feels, for them to regain some of the closeness of former years; to recapture the fun and memories of childhood summers - when the family had happily vacationed there.
But what if ties that are supposed be binding turn out to be less than secure - even fraying at the edges? What if a house-purchase becomes problematic? And where are the difficulties actually coming from? Mother? Or the sisters? Could 'family', perhaps, exist only in the mind?
An idyllic holiday runs into problems as Beth and Simon get stuck in an airport. Stars Renny Krupinski and Belinda Sinclair.
Despite their best efforts, Richard and Henry cannot stop their role being exposed. Donna Tartt thriller read by William Hope. From April 1995.
Is that a snake or a coiled rope? Intriguingly, that is the question which starts Professor Sunil Khilnani's look at the life and legacy of Adi Shankaracharya, the philosopher and theologian who set Hinduism - the third largest religion in the world - on a new course. Shankaracharya's ambition was to provide a unified, coherent, single reading of the Hindu scriptures. His teachings were not universally embraced but they were revived by Indian nationalists looking for a muscular response to the monotheistic religions of Christianity and Islam. His efforts to capture the oneness of the universe produced beautiful, sometimes enigmatic sentences - as elusive as the man himself. "I am neither earth nor water nor fire nor air nor sense-organ nor the aggregate of all these," wrote Shankaracharya, "for all these are transient, variable by nature."
Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website.
Stan Barstow’s gritty double love story set in Yorkshire in the 1960s, dramatised by his partner Diana Griffiths.
Indira Gandhi's father Nehru learns of her search abroad to cure her sick mother. Read by Nina Wadia. and Paul Bhattacharjee.
With the planetary decontaminationists on the run, Arnold's apologetic call for melting Earth is traced.
Stephen Hawking once warned us that our species could soon be wiped out by plagues, asteroids and our tendency to destroy ourselves. The solution, he suggested, was for us to colonise other planets. But Chris Larner and David Gilbert's sci-fi comedy sees the truth as a little more complicated.
The Laxian Key shows how, as soon as Man steps onto another planet, he promptly fouls it up just as he did earth. The heroes of this wonderfully wacky tale are two interplanetary decontaminationists.
Arnold …. Chris Larner
Gregor …. Mark Bonner
Evan …. Trevor Cooper
Office …. Alex Lowe
Ferngraum …. Sam Dale
Jo …. Christine Kavanagh
Dolores …. Virge Gilchrist
Virtual Newsreader …. Bethan Walker
Dominic Arkwright discusses the joys of parenting with Amanda Mitchison, Tom Hodgkinson and Caroline Oulton. From July 2006.
Sony Award-winning comic Tom Wrigglesworth performs the last in his series of open letters.
Now he's taking issue with his local curry house and their addiction to junk mail.
Tom also tracks the development of advertising and marketing - a development trajectory which has now led us to the rather ridiculous stage where we can be "Facebook friends" with Jacob's Crackers.
For two hours six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs. Tonight, Thom Tuck chats to Mark Watson.
The show that prises the back off your radio, fiddles around with the programmes inside and then puts it all back together the wrong way round.
Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take liberties with Laurie Taylor, BBC Radio 1Xtra and Melvyn Bragg
The sketch show team take the audience to Mike's house, but they get lost. Plus a phone-in on problems with phones...
Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck.
THURSDAY 28 JANUARY 2016
THU 00:00 The Laxian Key (b007k2tx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Off the Page (b0076z54)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam (b007jwpq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 It's My Story (b00hpj9d)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03q957k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05vct0r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm (b00767f4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:45 Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter (b007jy7z)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:45 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Charles Dickens (b01b311m)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 The Motion Show (b00768f5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b007jqgs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 The Brothers (b00p6b1t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 It's Jocelyn (b06wg7rw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b01r73qn)
Series 2
The Stolen Ingots
At first glance it looked like a simple bullion robbery, but Thorndyke's investigations reveal that nothing is as it first appeared. Read by William Gaminara.
John Thorndyke, barrister and doctor of medicine, possesses an armoury of skills that equip him as the first scientifically plausible "forensic" detective. R. Austin Freeman, his creator, was himself a medic with an extensive knowledge of forensic medicine, and the solutions to the puzzles are completely plausible. In fact the scientific detail and authenticity of Thorndyke's investigations go much further than anything in the Holmes stories, though Freeman was happy to acknowledge his debt to Arthur Conan Doyle:
"A fellow doctor, Conan Doyle, had made a brilliant and well-deserved success by the creation of the immortal Sherlock Holmes. Considering that achievement, I asked myself whether it might not be possible to devise a detective story of a slightly different kind; one based on the science of Medical Jurisprudence, in which, by the sacrifice of a certain amount of dramatic effect, one could keep entirely within the facts of real life, with nothing fictitious excepting the persons and the events. I came to the conclusion that it was, and began to turn the idea over in my mind."
Thorndyke's work-life stretches over four decades from the early 1900s until the Second World War, a period during which Freeman wrote more than 20 novels and several collections of short stories, from which the six in this series are selected.
The reader William Gaminara is best known as pathologist Leo Dalton in the BBC's long-running series 'Silent Witness'.
Producer: John Taylor
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Fiction Factory and first broadcast in 2013.
THU 06:30 The Oxbridge Murder (b00mtm9c)
Marking Cambridge University's 800th anniversary in 2009, David Baddiel investigates the events which led to its foundation and trace its origins to a crime committed in the 13th century.
With the help of Cambridge University archivist Dr Patrick Zutshi, medieval historian Henrietta Leyser and Detective Inspector Ted East, David discovers that the reason for a mass exodus of scholars from Oxford to Cambridge can be traced back to a murder. He walks the very streets where the murder took place and visits Oxford Castle, where some believe those accused of the murder were hanged.
He then takes a punt up the River Cam, where he is joined by members of the Cambridge Historical Society for a discussion about town and gown rivalry and also some of the amusing myths surrounding the university's foundation.
Finally, David visits St Mary's Church, where Cambridge's new student body met for their first lectures and ceremonies.
THU 07:00 Hazelbeach (b00899mt)
Series 1
Language Teacher
Nick gets a job with a dominatrix and Ronnie buys an extraordinary number of sinks.
Caroline and David Stafford's comedy stars Jamie Forman as Ronnie Hazelbeach.
Ronnie ...... Jamie Foreman
Nick ...... Paul Bazely
Mrs Barlow ...... Tracy Wiles
James ...... John Dougall
Senora ...... Liza Sadovy
Producer: Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007.
THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (b06whsx1)
Series 5
Episode 3
John Finnemore - writer and star of Cabin Pressure and John Finnemore's Double Acts, regular guest on The Now Show and The Unbelievable Truth - returns for a fifth series of his multi-award-winning sketch show, joined as ever by a cast of Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan.
This week we look back at a career in accounting, hear of an over-rated experience and, we're sorry to say, Patsy Straightwoman returns with an interview sketch.
"One of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite some time" - The Guardian
"The best sketch show in years, on television or radio" - The Radio Times
"The inventive sketch show ... continues to deliver the goods" - The Daily Mail
"Superior comedy" - The Observer
Written by and starring ... John Finnemore
Original music composed by ... Susannah Pearse
Original music performed by ... Susannah Pearse & Sally Stares
Producer: Ed Morrish
A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2016.
THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn4t)
Series 5
A Star Is Born
Harold falls for the leading lady from his drama society - and Albert makes an entrance.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert, Harry H Corbett as Harold and Trevor Bannister as Rupert. With Jo Manning Wilson, Michael McClain and Nicolette MacKenzie.
Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV.
Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Produced by Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1974.
THU 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b007wwg9)
Series 1
The Dog
Gerald is alarmed to discover a large four-legged friend sitting in his car.
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic crime writer written by Basil Boothroyd.
Starring Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife and more successful writer, Diana.
With Margaret Robertson, James Thomason and Peter Craze.
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter ran from 1976 to 1981.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1976.
THU 09:00 Genius (b0084ffq)
Series 3
Matthew Wright
A coat for showering and anthems of shame?
Dave Gorman asks broadcaster Matthew Wright to select the public's best loopy idea.
Award-winning comedian Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies of the public.
Producer: Simon Nicholls
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007.
THU 09:30 No Commitments (b007jp15)
Series 7
Soap Bubbles
Charlotte discovers that starring in a soap opera is a cut-throat business. Starring Angela Thorne and Celia Imrie.
THU 10:00 Charles Dickens (b01b3clm)
Little Dorrit
Episode 4
The newly wealthy Dorrits set off on a tour of Europe but Little Dorrit is homesick.
Fanny finds a suitor and William is gratified by the attentions of the banker, Mr Merdle.
Charles Dickens's masterpiece of social satire and imprisonment dramatised by Doug Lucie.
Starring Sir Ian McKellen as Charles Dickens.
Recorded on location in London.
Charles Dickens ...... Ian McKellen
Arthur Clennam ...... Julian Wadham
Mrs Clennam ...... Margaret Tyzack
William Dorrit ...... John Wood
Little Dorrit ...... Jasmine Hyde
Mr Merdle ...... Kenneth Cranham
Mrs Merdle ...... Jennie Stoller
Fanny Dorrit ...... Indira Varma
Flora Finching ...... Sophie Thompson
Frederick Dorrit ...... Peter Tuddenham
John Chivery ...... Ben Crowe
Tip Dorritt ...... Kenny Blyth
Flintwinch ...... Ioan Meredith
Mr Pancks ...... Philip Joseph
Mr Doyce ...... Jonathan Keeble
Other parts played by members of the cast.
Music by Mia Soteriou
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2001.
THU 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00y9yc2)
Womanly Wiles
The Weighing Up
Jeremy plainly cares deeply for his family. His business takes him all over the world but when he is home he gives them his full attention.
He calls occasionally at inconvenient hours from various places abroad, though the sound of his voice is never inconvenient.
His comfortably overweight wife, Avril, always gets a decent warning of his actual homecoming, so she can be sure of having ready his favourite food and wine.
But what if, this time, he's been delayed in Tokyo and won't, after all, be back by the weekend? And what if, suddenly, there's a young woman on the line to Avril with some surprising news that could disturb the pattern of a contented family life?
In Angela Huth's cannily observant tale of comfort food and feminine rivalry, which of the two women is likely to come off best when there are no more 'soft centres' left in the chocolate box? Who has the ultimate 'hard-centre'? Will Jeremy leave his wife for a younger, more streamlined, model? Or is there a way to keep him content?
Reader: Gemma Jones
Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis
A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 11:15 Michael Butt - Harry in the Underworld (b00rdspc)
A novelist is losing readers. But then he encounters two hardened criminals breaking into his house. Starring Richard E Grant.
THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn4t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b007wwg9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 13:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b01r73qn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 13:30 The Oxbridge Murder (b00mtm9c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03q9k59)
Episode 14
With their tutor mysteriously absent, things go from bad to worse for the Greek class. Donna Tartt thriller read by William Hope. From April 1995.
THU 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05vffp8)
Rajaraja Chola: Cults of the Imagination
Rajaraja was not the first of the Chola dynasty but he took their empire to its zenith - from a relatively small kingdom to the dominant empire in India. Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in London, visits Tamil Nadu where he finds modern day connections with the ruler whose name means 'king of kings'. Professor Khilnani visits the temple at Thanjavur which Rajaraja built a thousand years ago and named after himself, utilising the profits of trade. "For Raja Raja had pulled off something that no Indian ruler before him seems to have done," says Professor Khilnani. "He'd commandeered trading boats, timber sailed craft and launched maritime expeditions, bringing far flung wealth back home." The king was lavish with his gifts and used his wealth to capture the imaginations of those he ruled. His most important gift to art history came at the temple's consecration: 60 portable icons of Lord Shiva, the Hindu deity.
Producer: Mark Savage
Researcher: Manu Pillai
With incidental music by the composer Talvin Singh
Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website.
THU 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm (b00767fk)
Episode 4
The tragic news of Norma's husband draws Tom closer, but at what cost to her children?
Stan Barstow’s gritty double love story set in Yorkshire in the 1960s, dramatised by his partner Diana Griffiths.
Bess..........Daryl Fishwick
Tom..........David Calder
Norma......Sharon Duce
Nick..........Ben Crompton
Caroline.......Naomi Radcliffe
Roger..........John Griffin
Shirley.........Ruth Herbert
Director: Pauline Harris
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
THU 14:45 Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter (b007jy99)
Episode 4
Nehru feels cut off from Indira, as tragic events threaten to overtake his family. Read by Nina Wadia. and Paul Bhattacharjee.
THU 15:00 Charles Dickens (b01b3clm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
THU 16:00 Genius (b0084ffq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 16:30 No Commitments (b007jp15)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
THU 17:00 Hazelbeach (b00899mt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
THU 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (b06whsx1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 18:00 No Point Talking (b06yk7w1)
Award-winning sci-fi writer Geoff Ryman's new story for the BBC, imagining a future world where California has been split in two, each half with very different political outlooks.
His conservative hero finds himself in a place he doesn't like or understand, where everything he holds dear is challenged: relations between men and women, and even the very definitions of 'he' and 'her'.
This story was written as Geoff was investigating the portrayal of gender in utopian science fiction, as part of BBC Radio 4's Utopia season. That documentary which accompanies 'No Point Talking' is called 'Herland'.
THU 18:15 James Follett - The Devil to Pay (b06yk87w)
A car crash on a hot deserted road; a camper on hand to drag the driver from the blazing wreck. The start of an action-packed adventure play?... Not quite. Listen on.
Stars Norman Rodway as the Devil and Derek Seaton as the Camper.
Director: Glyn Dearman
First broadcast in Double Act – a selection of plays from Just Before Midnight on BBC Radio 4 in 1979.
THU 18:30 Great Lives (b0076w0n)
Series 8
Dorothy Parker
4 Extra Debut. Actress and comedian Helen Lederer chooses writer, poet and barbed wit, Dorothy Parker. With Francine Stock. From December 2005.
THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn4t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b007wwg9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 20:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b01r73qn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 20:30 The Oxbridge Murder (b00mtm9c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00y9yc2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Michael Butt - Harry in the Underworld (b00rdspc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (b06whsx1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 22:30 The Secret World (b012rf47)
Series 2
Episode 5
Prince Charles ends up helping his driver move a sideboard. Jon Culshaw explores famous folk's private lives. From July 2010.
THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06z94zg)
For two hours six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs. Tonight, Thom Tuck chats to Mark Watson.
THU 23:00 Susan Calman Is Convicted (b01qwc92)
Series 1
Depression
In a brand new series for Radio 4, Susan Calman explores issues on which she has strong opinions.
When Susan was younger (and more than a little self-obsessed), she thought that the brooding, silent type was the best way to be. Then, whilst trying to deal with depression, she went on a journey of counselling, self-help. even writing poetry - you name it, she did it all. Now she is convinced that bottling things up makes things worse and that we should all talk about everything all the time. Well, not quite. But nearly.
But does counselling help or does it encourage self-pity? Should we all just pull ourselves together?
Produced by Lyndsay Fenner.
THU 23:30 The Consultants (b007k2vv)
Series 1
Episode 1
A lifestyle presentation conference - and sketch show, with Neil Edmond, Justin Edwards and James Rawlings. From February 2003.
THU 23:45 World of Pub (b007jlwx)
Series 1
Episode 1
The only regulars at Barry and Garry’s East End boozer are late-night DJs and Trappist monks.
Can dodgy Phil help boost custom?
First of two comedy series written by Tony Roche.
Dodgy Phil ...... John Thomson
Barry ...... Phil Cornwell
Garry ...... Peter Serafinowcz
Other parts played by Kim Wall and Debra Stephenson.
Music: Bill Bailey
Special effects: Carl Phillips and Nick Romero.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1998.
FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 2016
FRI 00:00 No Point Talking (b06yk7w1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:15 James Follett - The Devil to Pay (b06yk87w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:15 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b0076w0n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b01r73qn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 The Oxbridge Murder (b00mtm9c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03q9k59)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05vffp8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm (b00767fk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:45 Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter (b007jy99)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:45 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 Charles Dickens (b01b3clm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Genius (b0084ffq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 No Commitments (b007jp15)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 Hazelbeach (b00899mt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (b06whsx1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b01r7bhp)
Series 2
Rex v Burnaby
At first glance it looked like a simple bullion robbery, but Thorndyke's investigations reveal that nothing is as it first appeared. Read by William Gaminara.
John Thorndyke, barrister and doctor of medicine, possesses an armoury of skills that equip him as the first scientifically plausible "forensic" detective. R. Austin Freeman, his creator, was himself a medic with an extensive knowledge of forensic medicine, and the solutions to the puzzles are completely plausible. In fact the scientific detail and authenticity of Thorndyke's investigations go much further than anything in the Holmes stories, though Freeman was happy to acknowledge his debt to Arthur Conan Doyle:
"A fellow doctor, Conan Doyle, had made a brilliant and well-deserved success by the creation of the immortal Sherlock Holmes. Considering that achievement, I asked myself whether it might not be possible to devise a detective story of a slightly different kind; one based on the science of Medical Jurisprudence, in which, by the sacrifice of a certain amount of dramatic effect, one could keep entirely within the facts of real life, with nothing fictitious excepting the persons and the events. I came to the conclusion that it was, and began to turn the idea over in my mind."
Thorndyke's work-life stretches over four decades from the early 1900s until the Second World War, a period during which Freeman wrote more than 20 novels and several collections of short stories, from which the six in this series are selected.
The reader William Gaminara is best known as pathologist Leo Dalton in the BBC's long-running series 'Silent Witness'.
Producer: John Taylor
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Fiction Factory and first broadcast in 2013.
FRI 06:30 Bandits of the Blitz (b00tmtj8)
With Britain at war and London under siege from the Luftwaffe, everyone's pulling together. Or are they? Whilst bombs rained down and long-suffering Brits helped each other, some people were simply helping themselves - stealing, looting, and making money on the black market.
The Second World War created vast opportunities for crime. Warehouses were robbed, army stores rifled and forgers kept busy providing false identity documents, ration books and clothing coupons. Looters, stealing anything of value, cleaned out blitzed houses.
The blackout and bombing provided perfect cover for safe cracking and Post Office raids. Professional criminals thrived. People like Billy Hill, who despite prison terms used his wartime muscle to become, in his words, "Boss of Britain's Underworld".
Complex emergency rules left normally-law-abiding citizens facing the courts. Shopkeepers who fell foul of the tangle of red tape faced heavy fines.
Even as the war ended, rationing continued, and the black market flourished. Presenter Duncan Campbell unearths once-secret papers that put Billy Hill at the centre of London's organized crime in the 1950s.
Using archive accounts and talking to people who were there, Campbell tells the tale of crime on the home front. With interviews from Billy Hill's son, Justin Hill, former jewel thief Peter Scott, veteran ex police officers, and historians and academics.
Presenter Duncan Campbell is a former crime correspondent for the Guardian.
Producer: Liz Carney
A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2010.
FRI 07:00 1834 (b011vffj)
London
Trapped in 19th-century Macclesfield, bored 21st-century Jason heads to London, but is waylaid by a mint-popping highwayman...
In Jim Poyser's riotous comedy of transportation and delight, Jason is now Tarquin, third son of Lord Belport with faithful valet, Ned.
Jason Slater ...... Michael Begley
Ned ...... Joe Caffrey
Hoskins ...... Kenneth Alan Taylor
Lord Belport ...... Mark Chatterton
Millicent ...... Julia Rounthwaite
Henry ...... James Nickerson
Highwayman ...... Toby Hadoke
Duke of Cranmere ...... John Craig
Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003.
FRI 07:30 So Wrong It's Right (b01j5nws)
Series 3
Episode 3
Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show about the wrong side of life. Guests Father Ted and IT Crowd writer Graham Linehan, comedian Matthew Crosby and Sony-award winning podcaster Helen Zaltzman compete to suggest the best in bad ideas.
So Wrong It's Right sees Charlie ask three guests a number of questions testing their powers of creativity and revealing the best embarrassing stories from their lives. This week, the panel's worst experiences with a stranger and the best ideas for the worst new gadget are just two of the challenges faced by the panel.
Can anyone top Helen's nomination for most annoying modern irritant, 'constructed reality TV'? And will anyone beat Graham Linehan's suggestion for a terrible new gadget, the 'exciting ladder'?
The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also presents BBC4s acclaimed Newswipe and Screenwipe series, and is an award winning columnist for The Guardian. He also won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009.
Produced by Aled Evans
A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b0090xjy)
Series 6
The Picnic
Bill, Sid and The Lad Himself eat al fresco to impress their dates from the local Palais.
Starring Tony Hancock.
With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Patricia Hayes, Ann Lancaster, Elizabeth Fraser and Wilfred Babbage.
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 October 1959.
FRI 08:30 The Goon Show (b018jjzf)
Series 6
The House of Teeth
Neddie investigates a dastardly denture-stealing plan. But who wants them and why? With Valentine Dyall. From January 1956.
FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree (b01fhrjh)
Series 2
Queen Mary, University of London
Coming this week from Queen Mary, University of London, "The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a different University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure.
Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities across the UK.
The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both sides...
The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more than just glanced at that reading list...
Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 09:30 Albert and Me (b0480vfp)
Series 2
Casual Labour
Single dad Bryan is sacked and advertises for work in a local shop window.
Stars Robert Lindsay and Pat Coombs.
Single parent Bryan Archer struggles to find work while raising his baby son, Albert.
Bryan Archer ...... Robert Lindsay
Mum/Albert ...... Pat Coombs
Mrs Willis ...... Diana King
Fred ...... Harry Fowler
Vikkie ...... Sherrie Hewson
Mr Graham ...... Douglas Blackwell
Mrs Weston ...... Frances Jeater
Amateur Photographer ...... John Tordoff.
Incidental music by Max Harris.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1983.
FRI 10:00 Charles Dickens (b01b3fqd)
Little Dorrit
Episode 5
After her father's death Little Dorrit is still in Italy when the newly-married Fanny has a strange visit from Mr Merdle.
Arthur is struck by disaster and Mrs Clennam is forced to reveal the family secret at last.
Conclusion of Charles Dickens's masterpiece of social satire and imprisonment.
Starring Sir Ian McKellen as Charles Dickens.
Recorded on location in London.
Charles Dickens ...... Ian McKellen
Arthur Clennam ...... Julian Wadham
Mrs Clennam ...... Margaret Tyzack
Little Dorrit ...... Jasmine Hyde
Fanny Dorrit ...... Indira Varma
John Chivery ...... Ben Crowe
Flintwinch ...... Ioan Meredith
Mr Pancks ...... Philip Joseph
Mr Doyce ...... Jonathan Keeble
Mr Merdle ...... Kenneth Cranham
Chivery ...... Gordon Reid
Dramatised by Doug Lucie.
Music by Mia Soteriou
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2001.
FRI 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00yb2s6)
Womanly Wiles
Mrs Windermere
Elizabeth Bowen's mysterious story of power and control - as compelling today as when written in 1925.
Two woman - one young, one older - come face to face in the doorway of a Regent Street restaurant. The older woman, Mrs Windermere, grasps Esme's wrists, draws them towards her bosom, and cries in her deep tremolo, 'My dear!' She regards the younger woman with a strange intensity and gently massages the wrists with her thumbs. Unsettling! These two have previously met in Italy.
But there's something decidedly odd about Mrs Windermere - her effect on Esme is almost hypnotic. They take a table upstairs and soon Mrs Windermere is discussing Esme's marriage, and suggesting some surprising changes to her marital status quo. The young woman finds herself being unwillingly drawn in to something peculiar and distasteful. But can she escape the clutches of this strangely controlling personality?
Reader: Sarah Badel
Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis
A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 11:15 Drama (b00xpp21)
Jerome Vincent - Ciao Bella!
Written by by Jerome Vincent.
Eleanor Bron plays Nonna Grazia, and Cherie Lunghi, plays her daughter, Theresa, in Jerome Vincent's play set in and around an Italian delicatessen in Brighton.
The action turns around the fate of the deli following the death of Theresa's husband, Carlo - who had worked hard to build up his business and stop it falling into the hands of Salvatore Iaquinta, the owner of a chain of cheap Italian coffee shops. Sal is smooth, ruthless and good-looking; and he's after Theresa, as well as her shop.
But in steps Theresa's daughter, Toni - recently made redundant from a high-powered job in the City - who decides to put her business acumen to good use and drag the deli into the 21st century, while making sure it still retains the old world charm and wonderful food, the customers love.
Toni's grandmother, Nonna Grazia, is a fiery old woman who was once a child-partisan in the hills around Benevento, and fought the Germans during the war, even though she was only 13. As well as handing out advice to all and sundry (whether they want it or not!) she's also a fantastic cook. In one scene of the play she cooks a garlic and pasta dish guaranteed to have listeners licking their lips!
Throughout the production we use specially recorded Italian popular music, performed by cousin Immacolata (played by Rita Ullo). Based on the real-life experiences of the writer's extended, deli-owning family, the play is rich in detail and humour - and the very distinct aural flavour of the Italian community in Britain.
Cast:
Nonna ..... Eleanor Bron
Theresa ..... Cherie Lunghi
Salvatore / Kiriakov ..... Richard Attlee
Toni ..... Alison Pettit
Nino / Fiorello ..... Gunnar Cauthery
Emilio ..... Adrian Grove
Aldo / Carlo ...... John Evitts
Immacolata .....Rita Ullo
Guitarist: Paolo Vanoncini
Producer/Director: David Blount
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b0090xjy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b018jjzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b01r7bhp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 Bandits of the Blitz (b00tmtj8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03q9ng3)
Episode 15
Richard has been shot and, as events escalate, not everyone will get out alive. Donna Tartt thriller concluded by William Hope. From April 1995.
FRI 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05vhh4d)
Basavana: A Voice in the Air
A portrait of Basavana, the radical poet and religious guru from the 12th century, whose words have inspired many other Indian poets, writers and dramatists. Professor Sunil Khilnani tells the story of a man whose deceptively simple verses protest against the immorality of the caste system and proclaim the intrinsic value of people who happen to be born poor. "His verses ... are what best explain him. They have a directness that reveals to us a free thinker, social reformer and religious evangelist who sometimes struggled to resist worldly temptations," says Professor Khilnani. Basavana was an inspiration to his followers yet his life came to a bitter end. His teachings are kept alive by a substantial religious community called the Lingayats who are concentrated in Northern Karnataka.
Produced by Mark Savage
Researcher: Manu Pillai
Readings by Sagar Arya
Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website.
FRI 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm (b00767g1)
Episode 5
Can Andrea and married Philip manage to keep their affair secret?
Stan Barstow’s gritty double love story set in Yorkshire in the 1960s, dramatised by his partner Diana Griffiths.
Agnes.........Naomi Radcliffe
Andrea...............Deborah Mcandrew
Philip..................Robert Glenister
Landlord.............Geoff Hinsliff
Director: Pauline Harris
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
FRI 14:45 Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter (b007jybp)
Episode 5
Nehru is released from jail, while Indira Gandhi's political views are developing. Read by Nina Wadia. and Paul Bhattacharjee.
FRI 15:00 Charles Dickens (b01b3fqd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 The 3rd Degree (b01fhrjh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
FRI 16:30 Albert and Me (b0480vfp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
FRI 17:00 1834 (b011vffj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
FRI 17:30 So Wrong It's Right (b01j5nws)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
FRI 18:00 The Laxian Key (b007k30w)
Episode 4
Evans the Welsh vigilante aims to senselessly bomb the planetary decontaminationists for melting Earth.
Stephen Hawking once warned us that our species could soon be wiped out by plagues, asteroids and our tendency to destroy ourselves. The solution, he suggested, was for us to colonise other planets. But Chris Larner and David Gilbert's sci-fi comedy sees the truth as a little more complicated.
The Laxian Key shows how, as soon as Man steps onto another planet, he promptly fouls it up just as he did earth. The heroes of this wonderfully wacky tale are two interplanetary decontaminationists.
CAST:
Arnold …. Chris Larner
Gregor …. Mark Bonner
Evan …. Trevor Cooper
Office …. Alex Lowe
Ferngraum …. Sam Dale
Jo …. Christine Kavanagh
Dolores …. Virge Gilchrist
Virtual Newsreader …. Bethan Walker
with Paul Biggin, Emma Noakes and Joseph Kloska
Music by Mark Stevens and Chris Larner
Producer: Peter Kavanagh
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in February 2007.
FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b0076m94)
Series 4
Stand By Me
Singer-songwriter Ben E King talks about writing the classic song in his bedroom on a cheap guitar,
It was recorded by Marc Bolan and John Lennon, and was featured in a film.
Those reflecting on its lasting emotional power are:
Raynold Gideon
Bruce Evans
Jason Toynbee
Steve Brosnihan
Alan Clayson
Reader: Kerry Shale
Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks.
Producer: Lucy Lunt
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004.
FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b0090xjy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b018jjzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b01r7bhp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Bandits of the Blitz (b00tmtj8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00yb2s6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Drama (b00xpp21)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 So Wrong It's Right (b01j5nws)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
FRI 22:30 Absolute Power (b007wwf1)
Series 3
Episode 1
Prentiss McCabe’s government retainer is under threat from a difficult and complicated task, which Martin so decorously puts it as “poking one right up the prime minister”.
Whilst Martin is enthused with the challenge, Charles is torn and admits to quite liking the PM.
Stephen Fry and John Bird star in Mark Tavener's biting satire.
Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe return as spin masters in the world of government and media relations.
Charles Prentiss …. Stephen Fry
Martin McCabe …. John Bird
With:
Tony Gardner
Siobhan Hayes
Tom George
David Timpson
Music by Matthew Scott
Producer: Dawn Ellis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2002.
FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b070cs54)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats to 'Beasts'.
FRI 23:00 Meet David Sedaris (b03jysr6)
Series 4
Episode 1
One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC Radio 4 doing what he does best.
There are two stories, this week: "The Happy Place", dealing with the ups and downs of a colonoscopy; and "The Shadow of Your Smile", about how the right lighting can make us all look good.
Producer: Steve Doherty
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 23:30 Hard to Tell (b016ldt6)
Series 1
Episode 4
Hard To Tell is a four part relationship comedy by Jonny Sweet (Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2009). who conjures up characters depicting every relationship from father and daughter to the mirror in the bathroom and the feller hiding at a party; from the stalker and the stalked to dog owners and their dogs; and from lifelong friends to long term partners and their dearly departed.
In episode 4, Tom's loyalty is tested to the full when he's forced to choose between supporting Ellen as a bridesmaid or indulging in an uninterrupted TV marathon of Jonathan Creek, season 2.
Producer: Lucy Armitage
A Tiger Aspect 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)
1834
05:00 SAT (b011pw52)
1834
07:00 FRI (b011vffj)
1834
17:00 FRI (b011vffj)
A Good Read
18:30 MON (b007620x)
A Good Read
00:30 TUE (b007620x)
A Life of Bliss
08:30 SUN (b04dmnc5)
A Life of Bliss
12:30 SUN (b04dmnc5)
Absolute Power
22:30 FRI (b007wwf1)
Act Your Age
16:00 TUE (b00g3hr8)
Act Your Age
04:00 WED (b00g3hr8)
Afternoon Reading
11:00 WED (b00y8v97)
Afternoon Reading
21:00 WED (b00y8v97)
Afternoon Reading
11:00 THU (b00y9yc2)
Afternoon Reading
21:00 THU (b00y9yc2)
Afternoon Reading
11:00 FRI (b00yb2s6)
Afternoon Reading
21:00 FRI (b00yb2s6)
Albert and Me
04:30 SAT (b007jzdc)
Albert and Me
09:30 FRI (b0480vfp)
Albert and Me
16:30 FRI (b0480vfp)
Alex Shearer - Getting a Life
11:00 TUE (b007k4br)
Alex Shearer - Getting a Life
21:00 TUE (b007k4br)
Amy Liptrot - The Outrun: Omnibus
09:00 SUN (b06y11w3)
Amy Liptrot - The Outrun: Omnibus
20:00 SUN (b06y11w3)
And Now in Colour
23:30 WED (b007v2t3)
Archive on 4
08:00 SAT (b0075vj7)
Archive on 4
15:00 SAT (b0075vj7)
Archive on 4
03:00 SUN (b0075vj7)
Automobile Club of Egypt: Omnibus
14:30 SUN (b06y14c1)
Automobile Club of Egypt: Omnibus
02:30 MON (b06y14c1)
Bandits of the Blitz
06:30 FRI (b00tmtj8)
Bandits of the Blitz
13:30 FRI (b00tmtj8)
Bandits of the Blitz
20:30 FRI (b00tmtj8)
Beachcomber... By the Way
09:30 WED (b007jqgs)
Beachcomber... By the Way
16:30 WED (b007jqgs)
Beachcomber... By the Way
04:30 THU (b007jqgs)
Bill Murphy - Vostok
00:00 SAT (b007jzm4)
Book of the Week
02:45 SAT (b03k2gqd)
Brothers in Law
08:30 MON (b007k2fg)
Brothers in Law
12:30 MON (b007k2fg)
Brothers in Law
19:30 MON (b007k2fg)
Cadfael
01:00 SAT (b007jldz)
Charles Dickens
10:00 MON (b01b20s5)
Charles Dickens
15:00 MON (b01b20s5)
Charles Dickens
03:00 TUE (b01b20s5)
Charles Dickens
10:00 TUE (b01b2wb5)
Charles Dickens
15:00 TUE (b01b2wb5)
Charles Dickens
03:00 WED (b01b2wb5)
Charles Dickens
10:00 WED (b01b311m)
Charles Dickens
15:00 WED (b01b311m)
Charles Dickens
03:00 THU (b01b311m)
Charles Dickens
10:00 THU (b01b3clm)
Charles Dickens
15:00 THU (b01b3clm)
Charles Dickens
03:00 FRI (b01b3clm)
Charles Dickens
10:00 FRI (b01b3fqd)
Charles Dickens
15:00 FRI (b01b3fqd)
Clayton Grange
22:30 SUN (b01n11xj)
Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters
22:00 SAT (b0375b3z)
Comedy Greats
09:00 SAT (b007k228)
Comedy Greats
19:00 SAT (b007k228)
Dad's Army
08:00 MON (b007jqlx)
Dad's Army
12:00 MON (b007jqlx)
Dad's Army
19:00 MON (b007jqlx)
David Attenborough's Life Stories
11:50 SUN (b00z62ns)
David Attenborough's Life Stories
19:50 SUN (b00z62ns)
Desert Island Discs Revisited
10:15 SUN (b06y123h)
Desert Island Discs Revisited
21:15 SUN (b06y123h)
Don Haworth - In Mr Bruin's Time
11:00 MON (b007k3xy)
Don Haworth - In Mr Bruin's Time
21:00 MON (b007k3xy)
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
02:00 SAT (b03pm1hw)
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
14:00 MON (b03q8q66)
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
02:00 TUE (b03q8q66)
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
14:00 TUE (b03q8tcc)
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
02:00 WED (b03q8tcc)
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
14:00 WED (b03q957k)
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
02:00 THU (b03q957k)
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
14:00 THU (b03q9k59)
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
02:00 FRI (b03q9k59)
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
14:00 FRI (b03q9ng3)
Drama
14:15 SAT (b03c3cn6)
Drama
02:15 SUN (b03c3cn6)
Drama
11:15 MON (b010m9t2)
Drama
21:15 MON (b010m9t2)
Drama
11:15 TUE (b00jzf6b)
Drama
21:15 TUE (b00jzf6b)
Drama
11:15 FRI (b00xpp21)
Drama
21:15 FRI (b00xpp21)
Fags, Mags and Bags
22:30 MON (b010dhcy)
Fat Chance
07:00 TUE (b01bn4qm)
Fat Chance
17:00 TUE (b01bn4qm)
Fat Chance
05:00 WED (b01bn4qm)
Fear on 4
18:00 SUN (b007jzd5)
Fear on 4
00:00 MON (b007jzd5)
Flying the Flag
16:30 TUE (b00b0317)
Flying the Flag
04:30 WED (b00b0317)
Genius
09:00 THU (b0084ffq)
Genius
16:00 THU (b0084ffq)
Genius
04:00 FRI (b0084ffq)
Ghost Zone
18:30 SAT (b007k31r)
Ghost Zone
00:30 SUN (b007k31r)
Great Lives
18:30 THU (b0076w0n)
Great Lives
00:30 FRI (b0076w0n)
Hancock's Half Hour
08:00 FRI (b0090xjy)
Hancock's Half Hour
12:00 FRI (b0090xjy)
Hancock's Half Hour
19:00 FRI (b0090xjy)
Hard to Tell
23:30 FRI (b016ldt6)
Hazelbeach
07:00 THU (b00899mt)
Hazelbeach
17:00 THU (b00899mt)
Hazelbeach
05:00 FRI (b00899mt)
Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science
23:45 MON (b01j5nxt)
Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science
09:45 TUE (b01j5nxt)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
12:30 SAT (b011ppvg)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
08:30 WED (b011tzml)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
12:30 WED (b011tzml)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
19:30 WED (b011tzml)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
02:15 SAT (b05tpy82)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
14:15 MON (b05v7th2)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
02:15 TUE (b05v7th2)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
14:15 TUE (b05v7tqh)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
02:15 WED (b05v7tqh)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
14:15 WED (b05vct0r)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
02:15 THU (b05vct0r)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
14:15 THU (b05vffp8)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
02:15 FRI (b05vffp8)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
14:15 FRI (b05vhh4d)
Inheritance Tracks
14:10 SAT (b06y0mqj)
Inheritance Tracks
02:10 SUN (b06y0mqj)
Inheritance Tracks
10:10 SUN (b06y11yg)
Inheritance Tracks
21:10 SUN (b06y11yg)
It's Jocelyn
07:30 WED (b06wg7rw)
It's Jocelyn
17:30 WED (b06wg7rw)
It's Jocelyn
22:00 WED (b06wg7rw)
It's Jocelyn
05:30 THU (b06wg7rw)
It's My Story
06:30 WED (b00hpj9d)
It's My Story
13:30 WED (b00hpj9d)
It's My Story
20:30 WED (b00hpj9d)
It's My Story
01:30 THU (b00hpj9d)
James Follett - The Devil to Pay
18:15 THU (b06yk87w)
James Follett - The Devil to Pay
00:15 FRI (b06yk87w)
Jill Paton Walsh - A Piece of Justice
03:00 SAT (b010vyt7)
Jim the Great
08:00 SUN (b011kvms)
Jim the Great
12:00 SUN (b011kvms)
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
07:30 THU (b06whsx1)
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
17:30 THU (b06whsx1)
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
22:00 THU (b06whsx1)
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
05:30 FRI (b06whsx1)
Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking
23:00 SUN (b00c1d22)
Les Kelly's Britain
23:30 TUE (b017cjy8)
Life: An Idiot's Guide
07:30 SUN (b01q03l3)
Life: An Idiot's Guide
17:30 SUN (b01q03l3)
Life: An Idiot's Guide
22:00 SUN (b01q03l3)
Life: An Idiot's Guide
05:30 MON (b01q03l3)
Listen Against
23:00 WED (b008crj0)
Louis Robinson - Julie and the Prince
16:00 SUN (b0076kd0)
Louis Robinson - Julie and the Prince
04:00 MON (b0076kd0)
Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking
07:30 SAT (b0075plw)
Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking
17:30 SAT (b0075plw)
Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking
05:30 SUN (b0075plw)
Martin Jameson - Ice
18:30 SUN (b007jlpb)
Martin Jameson - Ice
00:30 MON (b007jlpb)
Meet David Sedaris
23:00 FRI (b03jysr6)
Michael Butt - Harry in the Underworld
11:15 THU (b00rdspc)
Michael Butt - Harry in the Underworld
21:15 THU (b00rdspc)
Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard
22:30 SAT (b00yqvkb)
No Commitments
09:30 THU (b007jp15)
No Commitments
16:30 THU (b007jp15)
No Commitments
04:30 FRI (b007jp15)
No Point Talking
18:00 THU (b06yk7w1)
No Point Talking
00:00 FRI (b06yk7w1)
Off the Page
18:30 WED (b0076z54)
Off the Page
00:30 THU (b0076z54)
Open the Vaults
01:30 SAT (b00p6rr0)
Planet B
18:00 SAT (b00y1whc)
Planet B
00:00 SUN (b00y1whc)
Poetry Extra
17:00 SUN (b06y14yg)
Poetry Extra
05:00 MON (b06y14yg)
Quote... Unquote
09:00 MON (b013214d)
Quote... Unquote
16:00 MON (b013214d)
Quote... Unquote
04:00 TUE (b013214d)
R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator
06:00 THU (b01r73qn)
R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator
13:00 THU (b01r73qn)
R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator
20:00 THU (b01r73qn)
R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator
01:00 FRI (b01r73qn)
R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator
06:00 FRI (b01r7bhp)
R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator
13:00 FRI (b01r7bhp)
R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator
20:00 FRI (b01r7bhp)
Renny Krupinski - No Problem
11:15 WED (b007jw1g)
Renny Krupinski - No Problem
21:15 WED (b007jw1g)
Revolting People
23:00 TUE (b00wbnb0)
Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries
06:30 MON (b00n3mq4)
Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries
13:30 MON (b00n3mq4)
Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries
20:30 MON (b00n3mq4)
Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries
01:30 TUE (b00n3mq4)
Round the Horne
12:00 SAT (b00n905p)
Round the Horne
08:00 TUE (b007jn85)
Round the Horne
12:00 TUE (b007jn85)
Round the Horne
19:00 TUE (b007jn85)
Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter
14:45 MON (b007jy5g)
Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter
02:45 TUE (b007jy5g)
Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter
14:45 TUE (b007jy6q)
Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter
02:45 WED (b007jy6q)
Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter
14:45 WED (b007jy7z)
Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter
02:45 THU (b007jy7z)
Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter
14:45 THU (b007jy99)
Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter
02:45 FRI (b007jy99)
Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter
14:45 FRI (b007jybp)
So Wrong It's Right
05:30 SAT (b01hxmws)
So Wrong It's Right
07:30 FRI (b01j5nws)
So Wrong It's Right
17:30 FRI (b01j5nws)
So Wrong It's Right
22:00 FRI (b01j5nws)
Soul Music
00:30 SAT (b0076m60)
Soul Music
18:30 FRI (b0076m94)
Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving Omnibus
06:00 SUN (b015p5xj)
Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving Omnibus
13:00 SUN (b015p5xj)
Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving Omnibus
01:00 MON (b015p5xj)
Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving
02:30 SAT (b015fv20)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
14:30 MON (b00767d8)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
02:30 TUE (b00767d8)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
14:30 TUE (b00767ds)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
02:30 WED (b00767ds)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
14:30 WED (b00767f4)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
02:30 THU (b00767f4)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
14:30 THU (b00767fk)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
02:30 FRI (b00767fk)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
14:30 FRI (b00767g1)
Steptoe and Son
08:00 THU (b007jn4t)
Steptoe and Son
12:00 THU (b007jn4t)
Steptoe and Son
19:00 THU (b007jn4t)
Street and Lane
07:00 MON (b00w5rgj)
Street and Lane
17:00 MON (b00w5rgj)
Street and Lane
05:00 TUE (b00w5rgj)
Susan Calman Is Convicted
23:00 THU (b01qwc92)
Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!
07:30 TUE (b06wd7dt)
Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!
17:30 TUE (b06wd7dt)
Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!
22:00 TUE (b06wd7dt)
Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!
05:30 WED (b06wd7dt)
That Reminds Me
18:30 TUE (b007jp1h)
That Reminds Me
00:30 WED (b007jp1h)
The 3rd Degree
04:00 SAT (b01f5hp1)
The 3rd Degree
09:00 FRI (b01fhrjh)
The 3rd Degree
16:00 FRI (b01fhrjh)
The Big Booth
23:30 SAT (b007k32y)
The Brothers
07:00 WED (b00p6b1t)
The Brothers
17:00 WED (b00p6b1t)
The Brothers
05:00 THU (b00p6b1t)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 SAT (b06ynztp)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 MON (b06z94rq)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 TUE (b06z94vp)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 WED (b06z94yd)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 THU (b06z94zg)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 FRI (b070cs54)
The Consultants
23:30 THU (b007k2vv)
The Goon Show
08:30 FRI (b018jjzf)
The Goon Show
12:30 FRI (b018jjzf)
The Goon Show
19:30 FRI (b018jjzf)
The Gorbals Vampire
06:30 TUE (b00rmt00)
The Gorbals Vampire
13:30 TUE (b00rmt00)
The Gorbals Vampire
20:30 TUE (b00rmt00)
The Gorbals Vampire
01:30 WED (b00rmt00)
The Harpoon
23:30 SUN (b00cmgpb)
The Jason Byrne Show
23:00 SAT (b01phj38)
The Laxian Key
18:00 MON (b007k2c1)
The Laxian Key
00:00 TUE (b007k2c1)
The Laxian Key
18:00 TUE (b007k2m3)
The Laxian Key
00:00 WED (b007k2m3)
The Laxian Key
18:00 WED (b007k2tx)
The Laxian Key
00:00 THU (b007k2tx)
The Laxian Key
18:00 FRI (b007k30w)
The Men from the Ministry
08:30 TUE (b0085hmk)
The Men from the Ministry
12:30 TUE (b0085hmk)
The Men from the Ministry
19:30 TUE (b0085hmk)
The Moth Radio Hour
11:00 SUN (b06y148k)
The Moth Radio Hour
19:00 SUN (b06y148k)
The Motion Show
09:00 WED (b00768f5)
The Motion Show
16:00 WED (b00768f5)
The Motion Show
04:00 THU (b00768f5)
The Museum of Curiosity
07:30 MON (b06wcsnl)
The Museum of Curiosity
17:30 MON (b06wcsnl)
The Museum of Curiosity
22:00 MON (b06wcsnl)
The Museum of Curiosity
05:30 TUE (b06wcsnl)
The Navy Lark
08:00 WED (b01h0kpk)
The Navy Lark
12:00 WED (b01h0kpk)
The Navy Lark
19:00 WED (b01h0kpk)
The News Quiz Extra
23:00 MON (b06y9r47)
The News Quiz Extra
09:00 TUE (b06y9r47)
The One About the Social Worker: Omnibus
13:00 SAT (b06y0mfj)
The One About the Social Worker: Omnibus
01:00 SUN (b06y0mfj)
The Oxbridge Murder
06:30 THU (b00mtm9c)
The Oxbridge Murder
13:30 THU (b00mtm9c)
The Oxbridge Murder
20:30 THU (b00mtm9c)
The Oxbridge Murder
01:30 FRI (b00mtm9c)
The Secret World
22:30 THU (b012rf47)
The Show What You Wrote
22:30 TUE (b036w3pn)
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter
08:30 THU (b007wwg9)
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter
12:30 THU (b007wwg9)
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter
19:30 THU (b007wwg9)
Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall
06:00 SAT (b06y048x)
Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall
16:00 SAT (b06y048x)
Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall
04:00 SUN (b06y048x)
Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters
22:30 WED (b01hxpy6)
Tomorrow, Today!
09:30 MON (b016r51y)
Tomorrow, Today!
16:30 MON (b016r51y)
Tomorrow, Today!
04:30 TUE (b016r51y)
Tony Hawks Gets Lost in the Afternoon
07:15 SUN (b007j8cy)
Tony Hawks Gets Lost in the Afternoon
14:15 SUN (b007j8cy)
Tony Hawks Gets Lost in the Afternoon
02:15 MON (b007j8cy)
Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam
06:00 MON (b007jwpf)
Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam
13:00 MON (b007jwpf)
Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam
20:00 MON (b007jwpf)
Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam
01:00 TUE (b007jwpf)
Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam
06:00 TUE (b007jwpm)
Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam
13:00 TUE (b007jwpm)
Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam
20:00 TUE (b007jwpm)
Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam
01:00 WED (b007jwpm)
Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam
06:00 WED (b007jwpq)
Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam
13:00 WED (b007jwpq)
Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam
20:00 WED (b007jwpq)
Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam
01:00 THU (b007jwpq)
Vincent McInerney - Bringing Home a Budgie for Mum
15:45 SUN (b0389s5c)
Vincent McInerney - Bringing Home a Budgie for Mum
03:45 MON (b0389s5c)
Warhorses of Letters
22:45 SAT (b01p7by2)
World of Pub
23:45 THU (b007jlwx)