"The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole
With Michael Spice as Guthrie Featherstone, Peter Pratt as Justice Venables and Preston Lockwood as Mr Pontefract.
Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. Case-by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales.
The sidekick is not, by definition, the focus of our attention. They are destined to be overshadowed by their better half, the hero who will save Gotham, solve the uncrackable case or rescue the girl from the bad guys...
But without the sidekick these heroes would often remain too distant, too powerful or just too brilliant for us to ever really love them. So in steps the earthy, flawed and loyal sidekick to provide the audience with someone to connect to, a character who knows how the world really works to help the hero off tilting at windmills.
Whether it's in countless children's films - think Eddie Murphy's Donkey to Mike Myers's Shrek - or a hundred comic books and cartoons - or high literature from Cervantes to Sterne and Shakespeare to Verne - the sidekick provides the laughs, the pratfall and the focus of our empathy.
Frank Cottrell Boyce talks with those who've created sidekicks, those who've played the parts and those who've studied just how essential these characters really are to making the fiction seem believable and offer a human face to the often inhuman character supposedly at the centre of the show.
Peter, Nigel and Michael make mistakes and promises. Stars Raymond Coulthard, Adam Godley and James Fleet. From November 2005.
Can he walk from London's Royal Academy to the Royal Exchange building while blindfolded in under one hour?
The floor of Murray's cabin aboard HMS Troutbridge is bare - and Phillips wants it to stay that way.
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.
Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.
Your complete guide to the Aristocracy - and the hunt for Professor Prune's Time Trousers heads Down Under.
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.
JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From August 1991.
Sandra is 14, difficult, angry at the world and drives her mum mad. Scout is two years younger and believes if he buries a sock in the
garden, then he might bring his father back to life. However, Sandra has other ideas in mind ...
Lee Hall's play about Faith, Hope and Reality in the 1990s stars Hayley Richardson at Sandra, Michael Walpert as Scout and Tracey Wilkinson as Mother.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997 as part of Lee Hall's "God's Country" quartet plays: I Luv U Jimmy Spud, The Love Letters of Ragie Patel and Spoonface Steinberg.
To coincide with the broadcast of 'Junior Science', Mick Jackson is taking up a year-long post as writer-in residence at The Science Museum in London.
In these three specially-commissioned stories, children become involved in science with strange and unsettling results.
In 'Zero Gravity', Daniel Taylor throws a ball into the air, with unexpected results. He is soon able to carry out the ultimate experiment in gravity and explores his home town in a way he never has before.
Mick Jackson is a Booker-nominated author and screenwriter. His first novel, The Underground Man, was shortlisted for The Booker Prize, The Whitbread First Novel Award and won The Royal Society of Authors' First Novel Award. He has published three novels and two illustrated collections of stories including Spirit Bears, Circus Bears and Sewer Bears which were produced by Sweet Talk for BBC Radio 4.
Mick also writes screenplays and has directed documentaries. One of his short stories,The Pearce Sisters, was adapted by Aardman Animation and won more than twenty prizes at international film festivals, including a BAFTA for Best Short Animation.
1969. Ernest Shepard looks forward to a V&A retrospective of his drawings for Winnie-the-Pooh. But then, in an imagined meeting with the now grown-up Christopher Robin Milne, some painful truths emerge. By Christopher William Hill.
Hattie Morahan and David Horovitch read Tea Obreht's evocative debut novel set in a Balkan country scarred by war, and where Natalia, a young doctor, is struggling to understand the mysterious circumstances of her grandfather's death. A tattered copy of The Jungle Book which her grandfather kept with him always, provides an unlikely clue, sending her on a quest that leads to the extraordinary stories of the deathless man and the tiger's wife. Today, memories of a pledge that her grandfather made to the deathless man are conjured up.
Tea Obreht is on "The New Yorker's Top Writers under 40 Fiction Issue" (June 2010), and at 24 was the youngest on the list. 'The Tiger's Wife' is one of the Waterstone's 11 - the best debuts that they have picked for 2011. Her short story, "The Sentry", appeared in the "Guardian Summer Fiction Issue", alongside stories by Hilary Mantel and David Mitchell.
She was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and raised in Belgrade, where she spent her childhood. In 1992, her family immigrated, and in 1997 eventually settled in the United States.
Today's Incarnation is a poet who established one of the great world religions: Guru Nanak, the 15th century founder of Sikhism.
Like the Buddha and Mahavira, the founder of the Jain religion, Nanak was a wanderer. He spent 25 years on the road and is said to have travelled as far as Mecca and the Himalayas. But, unlike his predecessors, when he had achieved enlightenment he returned to his homelands in the Punjab. He taught his disciples that, rather than renouncing the world and retreating from it, they must use their faith to change it from within. Nanak's 'disciplined worldliness' emphasised the importance of work and family.
He also instituted an idea which is practised in Sikh temples all over the world. Sunil Khilnani visits the Gurudwara Nanak Piao in Delhi as they serve the langar, a meal provided by volunteers to anyone who comes, regardless of status, sex or religion. Everybody eats together in an equalizing act, a dispelling of the taboos designed to protect caste boundaries.
Sunil explores the life of a man whose ideas were polemical and provocative. In announcing that "there is neither Hindu nor Muslim" Nanak wasn't proposing a harmonious blend of religions. Instead, he was rejecting other paths and creating an entirely new religion, one which now has around 30 million followers.
A gritty double love story set in Yorkshire in the 1960's, dramatised by Stan Barstow's partner Diana Griffiths.
Award-winning tenor Ian Bostridge explores Franz Schubert's masterpiece Winterreise, or Winter's Journey. Drawing upon his experience as a performer (he has performed Winterreise more than a hundred times), on his musical knowledge and on his training as a scholar, Bostridge unpicks the enigmas and subtle meanings behind the songs to explore the world Schubert inhabited.
In this episode, he focuses on three songs: "Einsamkeit" (Loneliness), "Die Post" (The Post) and "Der greise Kopf" (The Old Man's Head).
King Yulfric the Wise …. Paul Eddington
The Chronicler …. Patrick Magee
Crown Prince Veganin …. Simon Callow
Agar …. Christian Rodskar
Radox the Green …. Frank Middlemass
Maliadoc …. Hugh Thomas
King Yulfric's First Assistant Advisor …. David Ross
Mother of Agar …. Miriam Margolyes
Queen Elfreda …. Maggie Steed
The High Bishop of Zylbor …. Aubrey Woods
Golin Longshanks …. Jonathan Lynn
Dominic Arkwright asks how blonde hair evolved with Toby Young, Pauline Black and Libby Potter. From July 2006.
Andrew Lawrence, kicks off his comic explanation of our development via stand up, sketch and song.
In this opening episode, Andrew looks at what goes in to making our diet: "what we shove in our mouths, dissolve in our guts and shunt out of our poo pipes".
Including a rather different view of fair trade, a comment on road-kill as food and a moving song about the extinction of the Mammoth.
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Iain Lee chats to Adam Hess.
Rewinding and mangling real programmes from across the networks, Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take liberties with Steve Wright, Woman's Hour and Eddie Mair.
The sketch show team and their studio audience enter the London Marathon, plus a car valet service with a twist.
Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck.
THURSDAY 04 FEBRUARY 2016
THU 00:00 Hordes of the Things (b007jqwz)
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THU 00:30 Off the Page (b0076z8b)
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THU 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007k4gk)
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THU 01:30 Sidekick (b00sfy5g)
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THU 02:00 Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife (b00zt22l)
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THU 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05w002k)
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THU 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm (b00767j6)
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THU 02:45 Book of the Week (b04vkc30)
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THU 03:00 Lee Hall - The Sorrows of Sandra Saint (b06zh3r6)
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THU 04:00 The Motion Show (b00768jd)
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THU 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008kkz1)
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THU 05:00 The Brothers (b00p92xt)
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THU 05:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b05nvjm7)
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THU 06:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jsdk)
The Gentle Art of Blackmail
Rumpole recalls a clear case of extortion at his Oxford College, St Joseph's.
"The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole
With Brian Sanders as the Judge, Geoffrey Bayldon as Bernard Crompton and Emily Richard as Sue Galton.
Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. Case-by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales.
Director: Ian Cotterell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980.
THU 06:30 The Name Game (b00s5nzv)
The number of people changing their name by deed poll has doubled in the past five years and should top 70,000 this year. With a one hour express service that costs just a few pounds, people are hastening to fill in the forms, make the change and become someone new.
Tim Samuels asks what is driving this self-reinvention - is it divorce, immigration or the quest for a little cheer?
After tea with Christine Hamilton - now Mrs British Battleaxe - Tim heads off to meet some of the migrants, attention seekers, former drunks and others reinventing themselves. He encounters Ian Roberts, who transformed himself into the distinguished actor and playwright Kwame Kwei Armah, a young man called Dylan who changed his surname to reject his undeserving father, and Princess-Rainbow.com who woke up one morning with more than just a hangover.
He brushes dust off the Close Rolls at the National Archives to discover the origins of the deed poll and is on his best behaviour with the Senior Master at the Royal Courts of Justice.
And before he takes the plunge to change his own name, Tim pauses to contemplate identity, aspiration and belonging.
Producer: Sarah Bowen
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2010.
THU 07:00 Hazelbeach (b008crhw)
Series 1
Party
Ronnie organises a disastrous birthday party and Nick finally finds his father's will.
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
Andrea ...... Liza Sadovy
Producer: Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007.
THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (b06yfjdy)
Series 5
Episode 4
John Finnemore's fifth series of his multi-award-winning sketch show, joined as ever by Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan.
This week features a sketch that couldn't catch a cold in Coventry, if you know what we mean; a train passenger who really doesn't over think things; and, well, since you ask him for a tale of a haunted mansion...
John is the writer and star of Cabin Pressure and John Finnemore's Double Acts, regular guest on The Now Show and The Unbelievable Truth.
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
Producer: Ed Morrish
A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in January 2016.
THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn7v)
Series 5
A Winter's Tale
Harold admits he's planning a holiday - but without his dad Albert.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett.
Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. The Offer 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 the BBC Radio 2 in June 1974.
THU 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b007jtg6)
Series 1
The Promotion
Gerald and Diana compete to publicize their new books.
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 James Thomason, Anthony Smee 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 08:55 Inheritance Tracks (b06zj4pn)
Chris Hadfield
Astronaut Chris Hadfield inherits 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone', and passes on 'The Story' by Brandi Carlile.
THU 09:00 Genius (b00850j1)
Series 3
Charlie Brooker
Speeding motorway services? Two year dogs?
Dave Gorman asks writer and humourist Charlie Brooker 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 November 2007.
THU 09:30 The Senses (b06zhjpj)
Hearing
An affair conducted via tape cassette-recorded messages conjures up a few problems with the sense of hearing.
Opening episode starring Celia Imrie and John McGlynn.
Heather ...... Celia Imrie
Tony ...... John McGlynn
Audrey ...... Francesca Brill
Edith ...... Eva Stuart
Mr Polglaze ...... Daniel Moynihan
Postman ...... Norman Bird
Senses is a six-part comedy drama boasting a stellar list of star names, including Joan Sims, Charles Gray, Alex Jennings, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Geoffrey Palmer, Lynda Bellingham, Brian Murphy, Rodney Bewes, Liz Fraser, Rory McGrath and Maurice Denham.
As writer Bob Sinfield explains: "The six half-hour plays dealt respectively with the five obvious senses plus the er...other one".
Producer: Neil Cargill
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in 1990.
THU 10:00 Lee Hall - Spoonface Steinberg (b007jnsq)
Spoonface is seven years old, autistic and terminally ill with cancer. She's fascinated by opera and by the way her parents behave. With the help of their cleaner, Mrs Spud, she tries to come to terms with her extraordinary life.
Lee Hall's award-winning monologue is performed by Becky Simpson.
First broadcast in 1997, it elicited such an extraordinary response from BBC Radio 4 listeners that a repeat was scheduled within days of the original transmission.
Originally the final part of Hall's quartet of dramas examining the experience of growing up from the perspective of children, Spoonface Steinberg was subsequently adapted for TV and the stage. Lee Hall went on to receive an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay of Billy Elliot, later turned into a stage musical.
Producer: Kate Rowland
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997.
THU 11:00 Gillian Tindall - The Great Eastern Adventure (b038qbkn)
Aunt Susie and Uncle Trevor's long-planned trip proved momentous, but does not go at all according to plan. Read by Jean Rogers. From July 1996.
THU 11:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx3z)
Series 1
The Troubles of This Life
The lively events in the parish of Over Stowey, from the 1799 diary of Somerset parson, William Holland. Stars Ronald Pickup.
THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn7v)
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THU 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b007jtg6)
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THU 12:55 Inheritance Tracks (b06zj4pn)
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THU 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jsdk)
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THU 13:30 The Name Game (b00s5nzv)
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THU 14:00 Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife (b00zt3tr)
Episode 4
Hattie Morahan reads Tea Obreht's evocative debut novel set in a Balkan country scarred by war, and where Natalia, a young doctor, is struggling to understand the mysterious circumstances of her grandfather's death. A tattered copy of The Jungle Book which her grandfather kept with him always provides an unlikely clue, sending her on a quest that leads to the extraordinary stories of the deathless man and the tiger's wife. Today, the tiger begins his long journey into local legend.
Tea Obreht is on "The New Yorker's Top Writers under 40 Fiction Issue" (June 2010), and at 24 was the youngest on the list. 'The Tiger's Wife' is one of the Waterstone's 11 - the best debuts that they have picked for 2011. Her short story, "The Sentry", appeared in the "Guardian Summer Fiction Issue", alongside stories by Hilary Mantel and David Mitchell.
She was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and raised in Belgrade, where she spent her childhood. In 1992, her family immigrated, and in 1997 eventually settled in the United States.
The reader is Hattie Morahan.
Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard.
THU 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05w47hh)
Krishnadevaraya: Kingship Is Strange
Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in London, visits Hampi in today's Karnataka, site of the sprawling capital of Krishnadevaraya, 16th-century warrior and self-doubting king. Krishnadevaraya lived in a brutal age and yet his writings show he was both learned and thoughtful, with an artistic temperament. He was a compulsive self-promoter whose presence is felt amongst the ruins at Hampi, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But it is in the Amuktamulyada, his long poetic work, that we hear his original voice which marks, says Professor Khilnani, "the emergence of an individual self, a subjective voice - centuries before the arrival of colonial ideas of the individual".
Produced by Mark Savage
Researcher: Manu Pillai
Editor: Hugh Levinson.
THU 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm (b00767jp)
Episode 9
Election Day draws closer with Philip and Tom as rivals.
A gritty double love story set in Yorkshire in the 1960s, dramatised by Stan Barstow's partner Diana Griffiths.
Tom...........David Calder
Norma.............Sharon Duce
Andrea..............Deborah McAndrew
Philip................Robert Glenister
Caroline............Naomi Radcliffe
Shirley...........Ruth Herbert
Nick........Ben Crompton
Director: Pauline Harris
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
THU 14:45 Book of the Week (b04vqsh5)
Ian Bostridge - Schubert's Winter Journey
Episode 4
Award-winning tenor Ian Bostridge explores Franz Schubert's song-cycle masterpiece Winterreise, Winter's Journey. Drawing upon his experience as a performer, on his musical knowledge and on his training as a scholar, Bostridge unpicks the enigmas and subtle meanings behind the songs to explore the world Schubert inhabited.
"I'm at an end with all dreams / why should I linger among the sleepers?" In this episode, he looks at the ways in which Schubert used his composition to challenge the social and political order of his day, focusing on two songs: "Im Dorfe" (In The Village) and "Tauschung" (Deception).
Written and read by Ian Bostridge
Abridged by Laurence Wareing
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.
THU 15:00 Lee Hall - Spoonface Steinberg (b007jnsq)
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THU 16:00 Genius (b00850j1)
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THU 16:30 The Senses (b06zhjpj)
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THU 17:00 Hazelbeach (b008crhw)
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THU 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (b06yfjdy)
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THU 18:00 Hordes of the Things (b007jqyx)
Episode 4
Can the assembled forces of Radox the Green win the battle?
The conclusion of Andrew Marshall and John Lloyd's epic Tolkien parody.
King Yulfric the Wise …. Paul Eddington
The Chronicler …. Patrick Magee
Crown Prince Veganin …. Simon Callow
Agar …. Christian Rodska
Radox the Green …. Frank Middlemass
Queen Elfreda …. Maggie Steed
The Evil Flesh-Eating Lord of Craarn …. Aubrey Woods
Baddedas the Blue …. Ballard Berkeley
Hob-Lob, The Monstrous Spider …. Bob Grant
Xanspur, the Skylord …. Michael Cule
Golin Longshanks …. Jonathan Lynn
Producer: Geoffrey Perkins
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1980.
THU 18:30 Great Lives (b0076xtw)
Series 9
Andrew Carnegie
Financial journalist Jeff Randall chooses businessman and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie. With Matthew Parris. From 2006.
THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn7v)
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THU 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b007jtg6)
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THU 19:55 Inheritance Tracks (b06zj4pn)
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THU 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jsdk)
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THU 20:30 The Name Game (b00s5nzv)
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THU 21:00 Gillian Tindall - The Great Eastern Adventure (b038qbkn)
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THU 21:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx3z)
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THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (b06yfjdy)
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THU 22:30 The Secret World (b012ylgm)
Series 2
Episode 6
James Bond star Daniel Craig tries to get car insurance. Jon Culshaw explores famous folk's private lives. From August 2010.
THU 23:00 Susan Calman Is Convicted (b03zd3j5)
Series 2
Children
In a new series for Radio 4, Susan Calman explores issues on which she has strong opinions. This week, she explains that she has never been interested in having children, and why they frighten her.
Produced by Lyndsay Fenner.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014.
THU 23:30 The Consultants (b007k320)
Series 1
Episode 2
The team ponder how to revamp tea to make it more dangerous and exciting. With Neil Edmond, Justin Edwards and James Rawlings. From February 2003.
THU 23:45 World of Pub (b008m4ft)
Series 1
Episode 2
Barry and Garry build the world's first environmentally friendly bar. Stars Phil Cornwell and John Thomson. From March 1998.
FRIDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2016
FRI 00:00 Hordes of the Things (b007jqyx)
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FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b0076xtw)
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FRI 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jsdk)
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FRI 01:30 The Name Game (b00s5nzv)
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FRI 02:00 Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife (b00zt3tr)
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FRI 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05w47hh)
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FRI 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm (b00767jp)
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FRI 02:45 Book of the Week (b04vqsh5)
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FRI 03:00 Lee Hall - Spoonface Steinberg (b007jnsq)
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FRI 04:00 Genius (b00850j1)
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FRI 04:30 The Senses (b06zhjpj)
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FRI 05:00 Hazelbeach (b008crhw)
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FRI 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (b06yfjdy)
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FRI 06:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007k4l3)
The Rotten Apple
Rumpole recalls a suspicious case of bribery in the police force.
"The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole
With Michael Spice as Guthrie Featherstone, Robert Harris as Justice Vosper and Brian Carroll as Erskine-Brown.
Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. Case-by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales.
Director: Ian Cotterell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980.
FRI 06:30 Mayhem at the Ritz (b00sjrv4)
In the 1960s, demand to see the latest music sensation was so high there were insufficient British venues to meet the demand for tickets. The ABC Gaumont and Rank/Odeon cinema chains saw a money-making opportunity. Andrew Collins revisits this unique time to hear how staff coped with thousands of hysterical teenagers, and to reveal an era when health and safety issues were not a concern, but having a good time was the priority.
A small but dedicated band of workers were able to switch working procedures to embrace the new era of the pop package tours. We meet chief projectionist Robert Phillpot, press-ganged into working the curtains, liaising with tour mangers and roadies while making frantic notes about lighting sequences and spotlight cues.
We also find out about the 1963 Beatles tour that kicked off at The Bradford Gaumont. Manager James Whittell recalls escorting the Beatles around the cinema, pointing out the art decor. And hear how rock n' roll legend Little Richard quizzed the manager about where to go in Bradford, as the star stood abandoned outside the empty Gaumont after the show.
Listen out for extracts from a rare interview The Beatles recorded backstage at the ABC Market Street, for the Huddersfield Tape Recording Society. As Beatle Historian Mark Lewisohn confirms, it still makes compelling listening.
Producer: John Sugar
A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4
FRI 07:00 1834 (b0121lh5)
Victorian Principles
The young Queen Victoria is coming to Woolsley House for a visit. But when 21st century Jason invents the electric guitar, he unwittingly changes the course of history.....
In Jim Poyser's riotous comedy, Jason has been transported back to the 18th century as 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
Henry ...... James Nickerson
Queen Victoria ...... Caroline Harding
Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003.
FRI 07:30 So Wrong It's Right (b01jhdh7)
Series 3
Episode 4
Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show devoted to the art of being wrong, with leading comics and entertainers competing to give the best in wrong answers.
So Wrong It's Right sees Charlie challenge the panel's creativity and asks them to reveal their finest embarrassing stories from their lives. This week the worst experiences at a party and terrible ideas for a series of children's books are just two of the challenges faced by the panel. Will anyone beat Isy Suttie's suggestion for a 'wrong' children's book - the paperwork-themed 'Morris The Admin Mouse'?
The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also writes for The Guardian and presents BBC4's satirical series Newswipe and Screenwipe as well as Channel 4's You Have Been Watching. He won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009 and Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press Awards for his newspaper columns.
Produced by Aled Evans
A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jph6)
Series 6
The Gourmet
The lad thinks he's a connoisseur of food, so Sid enters him in an eating competition.
Starring Tony Hancock.
With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell and Hugh Morton.
Special guest star: BBC sports commentator, Ray Glendenning.
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 (b007jn76)
Series 6
Tales of Old Dartmoor
Prison governor Neddie Seagoon relocates all of his inmates to the south of France.
Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.
Starring:
Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan
First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.
With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.
Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Producer: Peter Eton
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1956.
FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree (b01dp52g)
Series 2
University of Northampton
Coming this week from the University of Northampton, "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 (b048s4vy)
Series 2
Driver
Single dad Bryan takes a driving job but finds himself caught up in crime.
Stars Robert Lindsay and Pat Coombs.
The struggles of single parent Bryan Archer to find work while raising his baby son, Albert.
Bryan Archer ...... Robert Lindsay
Mum/Albert ...... Pat Coombs
Mrs Willis ...... Diana King
Terry ...... Derek Martin
Alison ...... Deidre Costello
Charlie ...... Peter Cleall
Andy ...... John Kane
Written by Jim Eldridge.
Incidental music by Max Harris.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1983.
FRI 10:00 Annie Caulfield - Almost Always African (b007k30r)
"Music may go or come but almost always it is African."
Gambian musician, Moses Biama is invited to London to make an album with fading English rock star, Frank.
But the recording doesn't work out the way Frank has planned...
Annie Caulfield's comedy drama about cultural cross purposes and the Music Industry.
Starring Lenny Henry as Moses, Bill Nighy as Frank, Curtis Walker as Moses' brother, Joy Elias-Rilwan as Binta, Donna Croll as Fatima, Joanna Myers as Tara, James Greene as Jack and Mark Straker as the Journalist.
Music composed by Dominique Le Gendre.
Hit single by Neil Arthur and Joe Hagan.
Director: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991.
FRI 11:00 Rudyard Kipling - At the Pit's Mouth (b03y00mj)
A man rides out with his married lover. Brian Gear reads Kipling's cautionary tale set in India at the time of the British Raj.
FRI 11:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx44)
Series 1
The Fruits of the Earth
In the year 1800, parson William Holland battles with the Somerset farmers and sees the harvest in. Stars Ronald Pickup.
FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jph6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jn76)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007k4l3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 Mayhem at the Ritz (b00sjrv4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 14:00 Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife (b00zt611)
Episode 5
Hattie Morahan reads Tea Obreht's evocative debut novel set in a Balkan country scarred by war, and where Natalia, a young doctor, is struggling to understand the mysterious circumstances of her grandfather's death. A tattered copy of The Jungle Book which her grandfather kept with him always provides an unlikely clue, sending her on a quest that leads to the extraordinary stories of the deathless man and the tiger's wife. Today, Natalia evokes her grandfather as a nine year old boy, and the day the men of his village set off to hunt the tiger.
Tea Obreht is on "The New Yorker's Top Writers under 40 Fiction Issue" (June 2010), and at 24 was the youngest on the list. 'The Tiger's Wife' is one of the Waterstone's 11 - the best debuts that they have picked for 2011. Her short story, "The Sentry", appeared in the "Guardian Summer Fiction Issue", alongside stories by Hilary Mantel and David Mitchell.
She was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and raised in Belgrade, where she spent her childhood. In 1992, her family immigrated, and in 1997 eventually settled in the United States.
The reader is Hattie Morahan.
Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard.
FRI 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05w8dn6)
Mirabai: I Go the Other Way
Sunil Khilnani tells the story of Mirabai, the 16th century mystic poet who is one of India's most revered saints. Mirabai was born into a conservative warrior caste in Rajastan but rejected traditional family life and became a wandering religious singer devoted to the Hindu god Krishna. "All this, of course, was scandalous behaviour," says Professor Sunil Khilnani "But Mira proved herself ungovernable in her spiritual zeal". Mirabai composed up to a hundred songs or bhajans which have been passed down through the centuries by oral tradition. Others have been added in her name over the centuries. Today some see Mirabai as a potent symbol of feminism and self-transformation, others as a passionate religious inspiration.
With field recordings by Parita Mukta and readings by Sheenu Das
Produced by Mark Savage
Researcher: Manu Pillai
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 (b00767k6)
Episode 10
It's the day of the election, and there's a showdown with Andrea and Philip's wife, Kate.
Conclusion of Stan Barstow's gritty double love story set in Yorkshire in the 1960s, dramatised by his partner Diana Griffiths.
Tom...........David Calder
Norma.............Sharon Duce
Andrea..............Deborah McAndrew
Philip................Robert Glenister
Nick........Ben Crompton
Bess............Daryl Ffishwick
Kate..............Jo-Anne Knowles
Shirley...........Ruth Herbert
Inspector Bradley..........Geoff Hinsliff
Director: Pauline Harris
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b04vqvbq)
Ian Bostridge - Schubert's Winter Journey
Episode 5
Literature, religion and the hurdy-gurdy man. Internationally acclaimed tenor Ian Bostridge concludes his exploration of Schubert's existential masterpiece Winterreise, Winter's Journey.
Strange old man,
Should I go with you?
Will you to my songs
Play your hurdy-gurdy?
Written and read by Ian Bostridge
Abridged by Laurence Wareing
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.
FRI 15:00 Annie Caulfield - Almost Always African (b007k30r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 The 3rd Degree (b01dp52g)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
FRI 16:30 Albert and Me (b048s4vy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
FRI 17:00 1834 (b0121lh5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
FRI 17:30 So Wrong It's Right (b01jhdh7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
FRI 18:00 Eric Pringle - Dancing With Jaques (b06zjdjy)
London 1959: A young woman begins her first night "working the streets".
It ends in a ghostly encounter with a man with a wind-up gramophone who calls himself Jaques.
Written by Eric Pringle
Jackie ...... Alice Arnold
Jaques ...... John Evitts
Alice ...... Thersa Streatfeild
News Vendor ...... John Church
Director: Adrian Bean
First broadcast in Thirty Minute Theatre on BBC Radio 4 in May 1993.
FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b0076md4)
Series 4
Bach's Concerto in D minor for Two Violins
So little is known about the life of J S Bach, yet his music opens up a world of imagination. His Concerto in D minor is often described as being like a conversation between two lovers.
David Gregory of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, rock guitarist Steve Hackett, and Terry Waite CBE, are among those moved by the music of the two violins as they imitate, interrupt and overlap each other in one of Bach's most sublime creations.
Taking part:
Mr and Mrs David Gregory
Terry Waite
Simon Heighes
Fionnaigh McKenzie
Steve Hackett
Lara St John
Gillian Teadley
Producer Kate McAll
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004.
FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jph6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b007jn76)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007k4l3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Mayhem at the Ritz (b00sjrv4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Rudyard Kipling - At the Pit's Mouth (b03y00mj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx44)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 So Wrong It's Right (b01jhdh7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
FRI 22:30 Absolute Power (b007xwmc)
Series 3
Episode 2
Can Prentiss and McCabe's medicine help the government to sort out the NHS?
Stephen Fry and John Bird star in Mark Tavener's biting satire.
Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe are spin masters in the world of government and media relations.
Charles Prentiss …. Stephen Fry
Martin McCabe …. John Bird
Sir Archibald Sullivan …. Tony Gardner
Sandy …. Siobhan Hayes
Clive …. Tom George
Maurice …. David Timson
Producer: Dawn Ellis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2002.
FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b070hwxm)
The best in contemporary comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats to Tony Law.
FRI 23:00 Meet David Sedaris (b03kp2kh)
Series 4
Episode 2
One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC Radio 4 doing what he does best.
This week, a story dealing with the guilt he sometimes feels as a result of writing stories about his family in "Repeat After Me" and some more extracts from his hilarious diary.
Producer: Steve Doherty
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 23:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b01nwbhk)
Series 3
Episode 1
The Kapoors visit a stately home, food for thought from Smeeta Smitten, Showbiz Kitten and why the royal family are Indian...
Starring:
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Kulvinder Ghir
Meera Syal
Nina Wadia
Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC TWO from 1998 to 2001.
Scripted by Richard Pinto, Sharat Sardana, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Sanjeev Kohli.
Script Editor: Sharat Sardana
Producer: Anil Gupta.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.
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 (b011vffj)
1834
07:00 FRI (b0121lh5)
1834
17:00 FRI (b0121lh5)
A Good Read
18:30 MON (b007623t)
A Good Read
00:30 TUE (b007623t)
Absolute Power
22:30 FRI (b007xwmc)
Act Your Age
16:00 TUE (b00g47nm)
Act Your Age
04:00 WED (b00g47nm)
Albert and Me
04:30 SAT (b0480vfp)
Albert and Me
09:30 FRI (b048s4vy)
Albert and Me
16:30 FRI (b048s4vy)
And Now in Colour
23:30 WED (b00cfzx5)
Andrew Lawrence: How Did We End Up Like This?
22:30 WED (b01njxp8)
Andrew Maxwell's Public Enemies
22:30 TUE (b007jtr3)
Annie Caulfield - Almost Always African
10:00 FRI (b007k30r)
Annie Caulfield - Almost Always African
15:00 FRI (b007k30r)
Archive on 4
08:00 SAT (b017l87m)
Archive on 4
15:00 SAT (b017l87m)
Archive on 4
03:00 SUN (b017l87m)
Automobile Club of Egypt: Omnibus
14:30 SUN (b06z8kwx)
Automobile Club of Egypt: Omnibus
02:30 MON (b06z8kwx)
Bandits of the Blitz
01:30 SAT (b00tmtj8)
Beachcomber... By the Way
09:30 WED (b008kkz1)
Beachcomber... By the Way
16:30 WED (b008kkz1)
Beachcomber... By the Way
04:30 THU (b008kkz1)
Book of the Week
14:45 MON (b04vk6kt)
Book of the Week
02:45 TUE (b04vk6kt)
Book of the Week
14:45 TUE (b04vkhlb)
Book of the Week
02:45 WED (b04vkhlb)
Book of the Week
14:45 WED (b04vkc30)
Book of the Week
02:45 THU (b04vkc30)
Book of the Week
14:45 THU (b04vqsh5)
Book of the Week
02:45 FRI (b04vqsh5)
Book of the Week
14:45 FRI (b04vqvbq)
Brothers in Law
08:30 MON (b007k2p3)
Brothers in Law
12:30 MON (b007k2p3)
Brothers in Law
19:30 MON (b007k2p3)
Charles Dickens
03:00 SAT (b01b3fqd)
Clayton Grange
22:30 SUN (b01n65zq)
Colin Davis - Thin Boy
06:00 SAT (b06z61l1)
Colin Davis - Thin Boy
16:00 SAT (b06z61l1)
Colin Davis - Thin Boy
04:00 SUN (b06z61l1)
Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters
22:00 SAT (b037j6vl)
Comedy Controller
09:00 SAT (b01r9rh7)
Comedy Controller
19:00 SAT (b01r9rh7)
Composing New York
06:30 TUE (b00t1zc7)
Composing New York
13:30 TUE (b00t1zc7)
Composing New York
20:30 TUE (b00t1zc7)
Composing New York
01:30 WED (b00t1zc7)
Dad's Army
08:00 MON (b007jqpj)
Dad's Army
12:00 MON (b007jqpj)
Dad's Army
19:00 MON (b007jqpj)
David Attenborough's Life Stories
11:50 SUN (b00zf648)
David Attenborough's Life Stories
19:50 SUN (b00zf648)
Desert Island Discs Revisited
10:15 SUN (b06z8dj3)
Desert Island Discs Revisited
21:15 SUN (b06z8dj3)
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
02:00 SAT (b03q9ng3)
Drama
11:15 WED (b037d18g)
Drama
21:15 WED (b037d18g)
Eric Pringle - Dancing With Jaques
18:00 FRI (b06zjdjy)
Fags, Mags and Bags
22:30 MON (b010m2f6)
Fat Chance
07:00 TUE (b01byc68)
Fat Chance
17:00 TUE (b01byc68)
Fat Chance
05:00 WED (b01byc68)
Flying the Flag
16:30 TUE (b00b2nfp)
Flying the Flag
04:30 WED (b00b2nfp)
Genius
09:00 THU (b00850j1)
Genius
16:00 THU (b00850j1)
Genius
04:00 FRI (b00850j1)
Ghost Zone
18:30 SAT (b007jtzr)
Ghost Zone
00:30 SUN (b007jtzr)
Gillian Tindall - The Great Eastern Adventure
11:00 THU (b038qbkn)
Gillian Tindall - The Great Eastern Adventure
21:00 THU (b038qbkn)
Goodness Gracious Me
23:30 FRI (b01nwbhk)
Great Lives
18:30 THU (b0076xtw)
Great Lives
00:30 FRI (b0076xtw)
Hancock's Half Hour
08:00 FRI (b007jph6)
Hancock's Half Hour
12:00 FRI (b007jph6)
Hancock's Half Hour
19:00 FRI (b007jph6)
Hazelbeach
07:00 THU (b008crhw)
Hazelbeach
17:00 THU (b008crhw)
Hazelbeach
05:00 FRI (b008crhw)
Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science
23:45 MON (b01jhdhr)
Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science
09:45 TUE (b01jhdhr)
Hordes of the Things
18:00 MON (b0089b37)
Hordes of the Things
00:00 TUE (b0089b37)
Hordes of the Things
18:00 TUE (b007jqts)
Hordes of the Things
00:00 WED (b007jqts)
Hordes of the Things
18:00 WED (b007jqwz)
Hordes of the Things
00:00 THU (b007jqwz)
Hordes of the Things
18:00 THU (b007jqyx)
Hordes of the Things
00:00 FRI (b007jqyx)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
08:30 WED (b01211y0)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
12:30 WED (b01211y0)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
19:30 WED (b01211y0)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
02:15 SAT (b05vhh4d)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
14:15 MON (b05vx1bs)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
02:15 TUE (b05vx1bs)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
14:15 TUE (b05vy50d)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
02:15 WED (b05vy50d)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
14:15 WED (b05w002k)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
02:15 THU (b05w002k)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
14:15 THU (b05w47hh)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
02:15 FRI (b05w47hh)
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives
14:15 FRI (b05w8dn6)
Inheritance Tracks
14:10 SAT (b06z67z6)
Inheritance Tracks
02:10 SUN (b06z67z6)
Inheritance Tracks
10:10 SUN (b06z8dhz)
Inheritance Tracks
21:10 SUN (b06z8dhz)
Inheritance Tracks
08:55 THU (b06zj4pn)
Inheritance Tracks
12:55 THU (b06zj4pn)
Inheritance Tracks
19:55 THU (b06zj4pn)
Jim the Great
08:00 SUN (b02zbzxb)
Jim the Great
12:00 SUN (b02zbzxb)
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
07:30 THU (b06yfjdy)
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
17:30 THU (b06yfjdy)
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
22:00 THU (b06yfjdy)
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
05:30 FRI (b06yfjdy)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
06:00 TUE (b007k4fd)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
13:00 TUE (b007k4fd)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
20:00 TUE (b007k4fd)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
01:00 WED (b007k4fd)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
06:00 WED (b007k4gk)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
13:00 WED (b007k4gk)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
20:00 WED (b007k4gk)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
01:00 THU (b007k4gk)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
06:00 THU (b007jsdk)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
13:00 THU (b007jsdk)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
20:00 THU (b007jsdk)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
01:00 FRI (b007jsdk)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
06:00 FRI (b007k4l3)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
13:00 FRI (b007k4l3)
John Mortimer - Rumpole
20:00 FRI (b007k4l3)
Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking
23:00 SUN (b00c5xtr)
Lee Hall - I Luv U Jimmy Spud
10:00 MON (b007jmts)
Lee Hall - I Luv U Jimmy Spud
15:00 MON (b007jmts)
Lee Hall - I Luv U Jimmy Spud
03:00 TUE (b007jmts)
Lee Hall - Spoonface Steinberg
10:00 THU (b007jnsq)
Lee Hall - Spoonface Steinberg
15:00 THU (b007jnsq)
Lee Hall - Spoonface Steinberg
03:00 FRI (b007jnsq)
Lee Hall - The Love Letters of Ragie Patel
10:00 TUE (b06zdnkh)
Lee Hall - The Love Letters of Ragie Patel
15:00 TUE (b06zdnkh)
Lee Hall - The Love Letters of Ragie Patel
03:00 WED (b06zdnkh)
Lee Hall - The Sorrows of Sandra Saint
10:00 WED (b06zh3r6)
Lee Hall - The Sorrows of Sandra Saint
15:00 WED (b06zh3r6)
Lee Hall - The Sorrows of Sandra Saint
03:00 THU (b06zh3r6)
Les Kelly's Britain
23:30 TUE (b017mws9)
Life: An Idiot's Guide
07:30 SUN (b01q9771)
Life: An Idiot's Guide
17:30 SUN (b01q9771)
Life: An Idiot's Guide
22:00 SUN (b01q9771)
Life: An Idiot's Guide
05:30 MON (b01q9771)
Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
08:30 SUN (b008kmkg)
Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
12:30 SUN (b008kmkg)
Listen Against
23:00 WED (b008drpb)
Mayhem at the Ritz
06:30 FRI (b00sjrv4)
Mayhem at the Ritz
13:30 FRI (b00sjrv4)
Mayhem at the Ritz
20:30 FRI (b00sjrv4)
Meet David Sedaris
23:00 FRI (b03kp2kh)
Mick Jackson - Junior Science
11:00 MON (b016x4t9)
Mick Jackson - Junior Science
21:00 MON (b016x4t9)
Mick Jackson - Junior Science
11:00 TUE (b01756jf)
Mick Jackson - Junior Science
21:00 TUE (b01756jf)
Mick Jackson - Junior Science
11:00 WED (b017clx1)
Mick Jackson - Junior Science
21:00 WED (b017clx1)
Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard
22:30 SAT (b00yz2hw)
Nick Stafford - The Fire Inside
18:00 SUN (b0075gpk)
Nick Stafford - The Fire Inside
00:00 MON (b0075gpk)
Nick Warburton - Purvis
11:15 MON (b007k1jy)
Nick Warburton - Purvis
21:15 MON (b007k1jy)
November Dead List
13:00 SAT (b06z66tg)
November Dead List
01:00 SUN (b06z66tg)
Off the Page
18:30 WED (b0076z8b)
Off the Page
00:30 THU (b0076z8b)
Paupers and Pig Killers
11:15 THU (b007jx3z)
Paupers and Pig Killers
21:15 THU (b007jx3z)
Paupers and Pig Killers
11:15 FRI (b007jx44)
Paupers and Pig Killers
21:15 FRI (b007jx44)
Peter Tinniswood
16:00 SUN (b007k354)
Peter Tinniswood
04:00 MON (b007k354)
Peter Tinniswood
11:15 TUE (b007jw6t)
Peter Tinniswood
21:15 TUE (b007jw6t)
Planet B
18:00 SAT (b00y90wz)
Planet B
00:00 SUN (b00y90wz)
Pleased to Meet You
23:00 SAT (b0124y89)
Poetry Extra
17:00 SUN (b06z8twh)
Poetry Extra
05:00 MON (b06z8twh)
R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator
01:00 SAT (b01r7bhp)
R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator
06:00 MON (b01r7ml4)
R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator
13:00 MON (b01r7ml4)
R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator
20:00 MON (b01r7ml4)
R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator
01:00 TUE (b01r7ml4)
Revolting People
23:00 TUE (b00wg3mg)
Robin Brooks - The Romantics
14:15 SAT (b06z68nc)
Robin Brooks - The Romantics
02:15 SUN (b06z68nc)
Round the Horne
08:00 TUE (b007tm45)
Round the Horne
12:00 TUE (b007tm45)
Round the Horne
19:00 TUE (b007tm45)
Rudyard Kipling - At the Pit's Mouth
11:00 FRI (b03y00mj)
Rudyard Kipling - At the Pit's Mouth
21:00 FRI (b03y00mj)
Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter
02:45 SAT (b007jybp)
Shoot from the Hip - The World's Coolest Camera
07:15 SUN (b0076xhf)
Shoot from the Hip - The World's Coolest Camera
14:15 SUN (b0076xhf)
Shoot from the Hip - The World's Coolest Camera
02:15 MON (b0076xhf)
Sidekick
06:30 WED (b00sfy5g)
Sidekick
13:30 WED (b00sfy5g)
Sidekick
20:30 WED (b00sfy5g)
Sidekick
01:30 THU (b00sfy5g)
So Wrong It's Right
05:30 SAT (b01j5nws)
So Wrong It's Right
07:30 FRI (b01jhdh7)
So Wrong It's Right
17:30 FRI (b01jhdh7)
So Wrong It's Right
22:00 FRI (b01jhdh7)
Soul Music
00:30 SAT (b0076m94)
Soul Music
18:30 FRI (b0076md4)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm (Omnibus)
06:00 SUN (b06z87jb)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm (Omnibus)
13:00 SUN (b06z87jb)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm (Omnibus)
01:00 MON (b06z87jb)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
02:30 SAT (b00767g1)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
14:30 MON (b00767h8)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
02:30 TUE (b00767h8)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
14:30 TUE (b00767hs)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
02:30 WED (b00767hs)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
14:30 WED (b00767j6)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
02:30 THU (b00767j6)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
14:30 THU (b00767jp)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
02:30 FRI (b00767jp)
Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm
14:30 FRI (b00767k6)
Stash: The Dandy Aesthete of Swinging London
06:30 MON (b00h6xlm)
Stash: The Dandy Aesthete of Swinging London
13:30 MON (b00h6xlm)
Stash: The Dandy Aesthete of Swinging London
20:30 MON (b00h6xlm)
Stash: The Dandy Aesthete of Swinging London
01:30 TUE (b00h6xlm)
Steptoe and Son
08:00 THU (b007jn7v)
Steptoe and Son
12:00 THU (b007jn7v)
Steptoe and Son
19:00 THU (b007jn7v)
Susan Calman Is Convicted
23:00 THU (b03zd3j5)
Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
14:00 MON (b00zsdgc)
Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
02:00 TUE (b00zsdgc)
Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
14:00 TUE (b00zshp7)
Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
02:00 WED (b00zshp7)
Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
14:00 WED (b00zt22l)
Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
02:00 THU (b00zt22l)
Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
14:00 THU (b00zt3tr)
Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
02:00 FRI (b00zt3tr)
Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife
14:00 FRI (b00zt611)
Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!
07:30 TUE (b06ycr4z)
Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!
17:30 TUE (b06ycr4z)
Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!
22:00 TUE (b06ycr4z)
Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!
05:30 WED (b06ycr4z)
That Reminds Me
18:30 TUE (b007jp4b)
That Reminds Me
00:30 WED (b007jp4b)
The 3rd Degree
04:00 SAT (b01fhrjh)
The 3rd Degree
09:00 FRI (b01dp52g)
The 3rd Degree
16:00 FRI (b01dp52g)
The Big Booth
23:30 SAT (b007jv50)
The Brothers
07:00 WED (b00p92xt)
The Brothers
17:00 WED (b00p92xt)
The Brothers
05:00 THU (b00p92xt)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 SAT (b070d59j)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 TUE (b070d5d7)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 WED (b070d5rj)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 FRI (b070hwxm)
The Consultants
23:30 THU (b007k320)
The Goon Show
08:30 FRI (b007jn76)
The Goon Show
12:30 FRI (b007jn76)
The Goon Show
19:30 FRI (b007jn76)
The Harpoon
23:30 SUN (b00cq60w)
The Laxian Key
00:00 SAT (b007k30w)
The Men from the Ministry
08:30 TUE (b012b8hx)
The Men from the Ministry
12:30 TUE (b012b8hx)
The Men from the Ministry
19:30 TUE (b012b8hx)
The Moth Radio Hour
11:00 SUN (b06y9jvd)
The Moth Radio Hour
19:00 SUN (b06y9jvd)
The Motion Show
12:00 SAT (b00768f5)
The Motion Show
09:00 WED (b00768jd)
The Motion Show
16:00 WED (b00768jd)
The Motion Show
04:00 THU (b00768jd)
The Museum of Curiosity
07:30 MON (b06ybgxr)
The Museum of Curiosity
17:30 MON (b06ybgxr)
The Museum of Curiosity
22:00 MON (b06ybgxr)
The Museum of Curiosity
05:30 TUE (b06ybgxr)
The Name Game
06:30 THU (b00s5nzv)
The Name Game
13:30 THU (b00s5nzv)
The Name Game
20:30 THU (b00s5nzv)
The Name Game
01:30 FRI (b00s5nzv)
The Navy Lark
08:00 WED (b01hc2x3)
The Navy Lark
12:00 WED (b01hc2x3)
The Navy Lark
19:00 WED (b01hc2x3)
The News Quiz Extra
23:00 MON (b06zdcjg)
The News Quiz Extra
09:00 TUE (b06zdcjg)
The Pond
18:45 SUN (b06z8twn)
The Pond
00:45 MON (b06z8twn)
The Right Time
07:00 MON (b0076m76)
The Right Time
17:00 MON (b0076m76)
The Right Time
05:00 TUE (b0076m76)
The Secret World
22:30 THU (b012ylgm)
The Senses
09:30 THU (b06zhjpj)
The Senses
16:30 THU (b06zhjpj)
The Senses
04:30 FRI (b06zhjpj)
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter
08:30 THU (b007jtg6)
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter
12:30 THU (b007jtg6)
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter
19:30 THU (b007jtg6)
The Write Stuff
09:00 MON (b00dr86m)
The Write Stuff
16:00 MON (b00dr86m)
The Write Stuff
04:00 TUE (b00dr86m)
Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler
07:30 WED (b05nvjm7)
Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler
17:30 WED (b05nvjm7)
Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler
22:00 WED (b05nvjm7)
Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler
05:30 THU (b05nvjm7)
Tomorrow, Today!
12:30 SAT (b016r51y)
Tomorrow, Today!
09:30 MON (b017071k)
Tomorrow, Today!
16:30 MON (b017071k)
Tomorrow, Today!
04:30 TUE (b017071k)
Tony Hawks's Guide to the Guides
07:30 SAT (b0075vhy)
Tony Hawks's Guide to the Guides
17:30 SAT (b0075vhy)
Tony Hawks's Guide to the Guides
05:30 SUN (b0075vhy)
Trevor Hoyle - The Dying Art of Letter Writing
15:45 SUN (b01bmrq2)
Trevor Hoyle - The Dying Art of Letter Writing
03:45 MON (b01bmrq2)
Volker Weidermann - Summer Before the Dark: Omnibus
09:00 SUN (b06z8cxj)
Volker Weidermann - Summer Before the Dark: Omnibus
20:00 SUN (b06z8cxj)
Warhorses of Letters
22:45 SAT (b01pcqkr)
World of Pub
23:45 THU (b008m4ft)