The trail leads Pamplemousse and his trusty hound to Père Lachaise Cemetery before a final watery showdown.
Starring Gordon Kaye as the retired policeman living in Paris, now making a living as an inspector for the prestigious restaurant rating directory 'Le Guide'. His long-suffering wife is Doucette (Shirley Dixon) and his ever-constant bloodhound companion is Pommes Frites (Trevor Martin).
Pamplemousse travels around France sampling fine cuisine and wines at gourmet restaurants, while managing to stumble into a series of mysteries. The character was first created in a series of novels featuring comedy, crime and cuisine by Michael Bond. Adapted for radio by Alick Rowe.
Martyn Day explores the life the British-born singer Vince Taylor, who inspired David Bowie's mythical rockstar.
Ziggy Stardust was a rock and roll fantasy. But David Bowie's fictional rockstar, around whom his 1972 album, stage show, and film were built, was inspired by a real performer, Vince Taylor, born in Isleworth, Middlesex. This programme uncovers the truth about a singer whose wild lifestyle ultimately destroyed him, but in so doing he gave rise to a myth that transcended glam-rock and science fiction.
His record "Brand New Cadillac" remains to this day a British rock 'n' roll classic, covered later by The Clash.
But Vince was frustrated by his limited success in Britain and, already displaying the unpredictable behaviour and volcanic temper that were to dog him for the rest of his days, he moved to France where the "yé-yé" crowd really went wild for him. They called him 'Le Diable Noir' - the Black Devil.
Decked out in black leathers, chains, kohl eye make-up and with his hair greased up into a high pompadour he was immediately signed to the French Barclay label. But fuelled by alcohol and drugs Vince's behaviour became increasingly erratic. At a party he tried LSD for the first time. In his state of mind at the time it was absolutely the very last thing that he needed.
Vince Taylor underwent a kind of public breakdown at his next gig, where he started claiming he was a divine being. David Bowie bumped into him in London and later said: "Vince Taylor was the inspiration for Ziggy...He always stayed in my mind as an example of what can happen in rock n roll. I'm not sure if I held him up as an idol or as something not to become. There was something very tempting about him going completely off the edge."
The programme, presented by Martyn Day, tracks down many of the people who worked with Taylor, including members of his original band and his family.
Nigel and Michael are forced to help run a street party, and Oonagh is stuck up a tree. Stars Adam Godley. From March 2007.
Series 11 of the show where one week's interviewee becomes the next week's interviewer. The first episode of Chain Reaction was broadcast on BBC Radio Five in 1991 when John Cleese was the first comedian in the hot seat. Now, 25 years on, a new series sees another raft of the world's best-loved comedians talking to each other about their lives and work. This week, comedy legend and music hall expert Roy Hudd turns interviewer as he chats to the much loved actress, Alison Steadman.
Roy Hudd has clocked up more than 50 years in showbusiness, starting out as a Butlins redcoat in the 1950s and then developing a stellar career through numerous successes on stage, radio and screen. BBC Radio listeners know him best as the host of the much loved News Huddlines on Radio 2 for 26 years. More recently, Roy gained plaudits for his moving portrayal of Bud Flanagan in the BBC drama 'We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story'.
Alison Steadman is an actress who has been popular with the British public and worldwide since making her name in the critically acclaimed works of Mike Leigh in the 1970s. She went on to deliver much-loved and memorable performances across both drama and comedy in Pride and Prejudice and Gavin and Stacey amongst many others.
In this programme Roy talks to Alison about her early days growing up in Liverpool, her trip to the palace to get the OBE and her critically acclaimed work with Mike Leigh.
The crew of HMS Troutbridge must attempt an important scientific undersea mission.
Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Richard Caldicote as Captain Povey, with Ronnie Barker and Michael Bates as the Potarneylanders.
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.
After nine weeks on air, Radio Prune is celebrates its centenary - plus honeymoon horror!
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.
What is Joe Lycett's favourite book? Which is Anneka Rice's film-maker son's favourite film? Who is Dave Gorman's all-time hero?
All these questions, and more, will be answered in the show hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested on how well they know their nearest and dearest.
Mr Zizz, the bad cartoonist, is not really capable of murder. Or is he? Stars Martin Jarvis and Ron Pember. From September 1988.
Lord Rufford has run away from Arabella but she hasn't given up hope. She is determined that he will marry her but then she receives some distressing news ..
In this little known tale, Anthony Trollope never allows The American Senator's attitude to get in the way of plot -and his ability to weave story strands which arise out of credible motivation, psychology and emotion is as sure as ever. The characters are as finely drawn as we have come to expect from the pen of Trollope. There's the extraordinary Arabella but also the comic, kind natured and the tragic characters too.
Arabella finds herself in the ignoble occupation of husband/fortune-hunting. She's aware that the years are passing and the strain of numerous failed relationships have made her prospects increasingly poor. She is unofficially engaged to John Morton, a diplomat, and owner of a large estate, but now the wealthy and more exciting Lord Rufford has come into view. His estate being larger and more grand. Surely he is worth fighting for?
Arabella, encouraged by her monstrous mother, Lady Augustus, decides to try and keep Morton on the back-burner (but deny her engagement in public) while engineering a series of compromising situations in an outrageous attempt to win Rufford.
But Arabella is playing a dangerous game and although her behaviour is both conniving and ruthless, she is extraordinary and powerfully-drawn and so does not become an out-and-out anti-heroine. She is, to some degree, the victim of her situation - and of her mother. She is courageous as well as devious, and she has her pride. As the tale concludes and she seeks some degree of redemption she achieves tragic status.
A parallel but secondary plot concerns Reginald Morton, an elder cousin of John, and Mary Masters, who is the complete antithesis to Miss Trefoil. Mary's absurd, domineering stepmother thinks that Mary should marry a besotted local farmer, Lawrence Twentyman but Mary is in love with Reginald Morton. Is he in love with her though? She finds support in the shape of Reginald's kind and gentle aunt, Lady Ushant, but there is the stern and grim grandmother of both John and Reginald who stands in the way of happiness because of a long-standing family feud.
Elias Gotobed, the visiting senator of the book's title, has little impact on events - but he has an important part to play as an observer of events; a gauche but vigorous critic of the antiquated elements of English society and the establishment. Gotobed's conclusions are a supplement to those which can be drawn from Arabella's tale, where greed, class-consciousness and snobbery are mercilessly displayed.
'The American Senator' is, in part, a state of the nation novel - enhanced by the parallels between Trollope's world and ours. Arabella has her modern-day equivalents, and the Senator's remarks throughout the dramatisation about the working man's passive and subservient nature have not lost their relevance.
Anthony Trollope produced a vast collection of work about credible people and their foibles. He gained recognition as a writer who portrayed English life is a wry and honest manner with a cast of humorous and delightful characters. His portrayal of female characters is particularly skilful and Arabella Trefoil is no exception.
Martyn Wade is a skilled and talented radio writer and dramatist. He has dramatised the 'Barsetshire' novels for radio and the 'Palliser' series too. His other Trollope dramatisations have included 'Orley Farm' and 'Miss Mackenzie'. He also dramatised Ada Leverson's 'The Little Ottleys' for Woman's Hour.
For the first time, the painter fell in love with a sculpture. Of a woman's buttocks! Read by Indira Varma.
Creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson, a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author is one of the most successful children writers ever. In her debut collection published in 1971 she tells of what we experience in youth, love, getting older and dying.
Translated into English by Thomas Teal. Producer Karen Rose. Executive producer Jeremy Osborne.
Dark family secrets and a severe case of sibling rivalry lead to murder. Stars Bernard Cribbins and Roy Barraclough.
If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can they remain silent? Damian Lewis begins reading A Delicate Truth, the brand new novel from the master of his genre, John le Carré, a novel which tells the story of a good man who must choose between his conscience and his duty to the Service.
An undercover counter-operation in the British colony of Gibraltar; a middle-ranking man from the Foreign Office serving as 'eyes on' and reporting to an ambitious Minister; the aim to capture a jihadist arms-buyer - the success, assured.
But back in the UK a junior officer has his doubts and commits an unthinkable act. Three years on, he will find himself facing an impossible choice. In a journey that will take him from Cornwall to Wales via murky secrets in the depths of Whitehall, Toby Bell will try to find out the truth about the night on the Rock and bring it the attention and justice it deserves.
Tonight: Necessary Precautions - as Toby puts together his case, he knows he is increasingly at risk.
John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.
Damian Lewis is a British actor best known for his role as Nicholas Brody in Homeland. His many credits include Band of Brothers, Life and The Forsyte Saga.
Dr Thomas Dixon presents a timely history of the changing meaning and experience of friendship over the centuries.
Charles Darwin loved his dog and praised her in letters to friends as "the beloved and beautiful Polly". He believed that dogs shared qualities such as a sense of shame, honour and affection with humans, and wrote about them in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.
It was in this era that dogs were, for the first time, given the title of "man's best friend".
Thomas Dixon traces the impact of Darwin's own relationship with animals on his theory of evolution, and compares it with his ideas about other, "savage" human beings, whom he encountered in Tierra Del Fuego, during his trip on the Beagle.
He also considers Darwin's deeply affectionate and intimate friendship with his fellow-scientist, Joseph Hooker, at a time when it is often believed men were disinclined towards displays of emotion.
With contributions from Emma Townshend, author of Darwin's Dogs, and Hooker expert Dr Jim Endersby.
Pregnant Jane receives a letter from her father, and visits a jazz club with Toby. Stars Lynne Seymour and John McAndrew.
Travel writer Paul Theroux describes how religion has modified eating habits and lifestyles around the world.
As he obsesses over explorer Conrad Vane, a startling connection comes to light for Sir James Monmouth...
Susan Hill's atmospheric and chilling ghost story read by Gareth Armstrong, with John Moffatt as the narrator.
Novelist Walter Streeter has devoted admirers, but will he be happy to meet a new one in the flesh? Read by Robert Lang.
The adult, mature thing is to forgive and forget. So why is there a peculiar satisfaction to be held in holding a grudge, and why do so many politicians seem to nurture them?
Jude Collins, Laura Blumenfeld and Marcel Berlins, all expert grudge-holders, explore why truth and reconciliation sometimes seem inadequate.
Joe and Terry replace Stuart with new best friend Janice. She's never worked - except as a human guinea pig for pharmaceutical trials and she drinks during the day - she is officially the bestest person they've ever met.
As well as being usurped by Janice, Stuart is usurped by Gary Probert who has unbelievably and appallingly taken over his job at the Job Centre and is working very closely with Nicola.
Steven Burge’s comedy about the staff and the clients who frequent a Job Centre in the Essex town of Rayleigh.
Stuart ...... Mathew Horne
Joe ...... Daniel Mays
Terry ...... Tony Way
Mr Dancer ...... Tony Way
Nicola ...... Zahra Ahmadi
Janice ...... Sally Grace
Gary Probert ...... Steve Oram
Dave Manager ...... Alex Lowe
Kevin Rush ...... Alex Lowe
Teresa Glock ...... Bharti Patel
Mr Bishop ...... David Seddon
The Mastersons set sail across the Atlantic, but there are dangerous sheep lurking in them there waters.
An improvised historical saga of a family at war with itself - based entirely on audience suggestions.
Starring Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Caroline Quentin, Jim Sweeney and Phelim McDermott.
The sketch show team attempt their own radio charity fundraiser.
Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck.
THURSDAY 07 APRIL 2016
THU 00:00 Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror (b036pqz8)
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THU 00:15 LP Hartley: Short Stories (b03zjxw1)
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THU 00:30 Off the Page (b00771pr)
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THU 01:00 Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates (b007jtfx)
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THU 01:30 Ziggy Stardust Came from Isleworth (b00tdpz8)
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THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01sjj85)
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THU 02:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship (b03zby89)
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THU 02:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room (b00srkg1)
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THU 02:45 Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (b007wqd9)
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THU 03:00 Classic Serial (b0144ybg)
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THU 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b0383z2q)
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THU 04:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club (b007jqlf)
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THU 05:00 The Brothers (b00pm21g)
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THU 05:30 Chain Reaction (b074xvfq)
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THU 06:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl (b012qqvq)
Episode 1
Robert Forester is now living in Langley, Pennsylvania, after a messy divorce.
He's escaped his oppressive wife and has no need to see a psychiatrist again.So why is he outside Jenny Theirolf's house, watching her every move?
Patricia Highsmith's intriguing tale of obsession stars John Sharian as Robert Forester, Adrian Lester as Greg Wyncoop, Joanne McQuinn as Jenny Theirolf and Matt Rippy as Jack Neilsen.
Adapted by Shaun McKenna.
Music composed and performed by David Chilton
Director: Marion Nancarrow
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
THU 06:30 Spitting In Russian (b00pg5pn)
In the 1980s and early 1990s, at the height of its success, Spitting Image was commanding audiences from around the world. The Russians decided that they would like to have their own version of the satirical show, and a mysterious fax landed on the desk of its co-creator, Roger Law. 'The Russians are coming!' he announced to his team, and after much confusion a team arrived from Moscow to learn the magic art of making political puppets.
But how did all this go down in the dying days of the Soviet Union? At the time, Roget Law went over to Moscow to help set up the show, and he can remember vodka with breakfast and not very much else. Did they actually manage to make a Russian version of Spitting Image? It is time for Roger to go back and find out what happened to the TV producers and to their satirical ambitions.
Roger Law digs out the paperwork from 20 years ago and heads off to Moscow again on a mission to track them down. Armed only with a handful of faxes, letters, and a puppet of Mikhail Gorbachev for company, Roger heads to the bitter cold of a Moscow winter, and discovers more than he bargained for.
A story of intrigue, betrayal, international espionage and rubber puppets.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2010
THU 07:00 All the Young Dudes (b00cgyjs)
Series 1
School's Out
Patrick pursues a job at his old school and meets his ex-teacher. Stars Jim Sweeney and Cathryn Harrison. From July 2001.
THU 07:30 Hal (b04stlcv)
Series 1
Crime
Hal Cruttenden stars as a 40-something husband and father who, years ago, decided to give up his job and become a stay at home father. His wife, Sam, has a successful business career, which makes her travel more and more. His children, Lilly and Molly, are growing up fast, and his role as their father and mentor is diminishing by the day.
So what can Hal to as he reaches a crossroads in his life? Help is (sort of) at hand in the form of his eager mates - Doug, Fergus and Barry - who regularly meet at their local curry house for mind expanding conversations that sadly never give Hal the core advice he so desperately needs.
Hal is confused even further as he regularly has visions of his long dead and highly macho father, who he's forced to engage in increasingly frustrating conversations.
In this episode, Hal becomes the latest victim to a series of car crimes that have happened near his home. Not only has his own personal car space been invaded, but his beloved CD collection has been stolen - including Abba, Dolly Parton and The Pet Shop Boys.
How can Hal survive this tragedy?
In the process of trying to cope with this crime, Hal also tries to find the real man in himself - but in attempting to do this, only scares his young daughters and reduces them to tears.
The cast includes co-writer Dominic Holland, Ed Byrne, Ronni Ancona, Anna Crilly, Gavin Webster, Dominic Frisby, Samuel Caseley and Emily and Lucy Robbins.
Produced by Paul Russell
An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in November 2014.
THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jp46)
Series 6
The Seven Steptoerai
When the Steptoes fall victim to threats, Albert decides it time to fight back.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as Harold. With Henry Woolf as Frankie Barrow.
Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote ten 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 eight 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 March 1976.
THU 08:30 Radio Active (b007jp67)
Series 4
Round Your Parts
Mike Flex, Anna Daptor and Mike Channel make a special visit to meet the residents of the Rural Village of Humpingham.
Radio Active is the one and only local national radio station.
Starring:
Helen Atkinson-Wood
Angus Deayton
Geoffrey Perkins
Philip Pope
Michael Fenton-Stevens
Music by Philip Pope and Steve Brown.
Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. With Jon Canter, Murray Hunter and John Docherty.
Producer: Jamie Rix
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1984.
THU 09:00 Booked (b0075lrs)
Series 3
Episode 3
Ian McMillan chairs the literary quiz with Mark Thomas, Dillie Keane, Roger McGough and Miles Kington. From October 1997.
THU 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008tx2z)
Series 3
Episode 4
A tale from Tibet - and the wonders of a newly developed matchstick.
Richard Ingrams, John Wells, John Sessions, Joan Sims amd Patricia Routledge recreate the world of JB Morton.
With Brian Bowles, Simon Greenall, Henrietta Gooden and featuring June Whitfield.
Running in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975 – JB Morton’s surreally comic ‘Beachcomber’ column paved the way for a great deal of modern humour – thanks to characters he created between the wars.
Adapted by Michael Barfield with Richard Ingrams.
Announcer: Brian Perkins.
Producer: Harry Thompson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1994.
THU 10:00 Classic Serial (b0183r3q)
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
Gargantua
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais. Dramatised by Lavinia Murray.
Ep 2 - Pantagruel.
Concluding the bawdy and scatological adventures of Medieval giants. This episode concentrates on the story of Gargantua's son, Pantagruel and his morally dubious friend Panurge, as they go on a quest to discover whether marriage is for them. On the way they have many adventures before they come before the Seer of the Holy Bottle who gives them a definitive judgement.
Rabelais.....David Troughton
Gargantua....Robert Wilfort
Pantagruel....Justin Edwards
Panurge...Conrad Nelson
Friar Jean....Jonathan Keeble
Jacqueline/Seer...Fiona Clarke
Librarian/Secretary...Mark Chatterton
Producer Gary Brown
This tale is a dizzying blend of fantasy, comedy, philosophy and scatological humour. The world's a messy place. All the big mock-heroic novels that followed - Don Quixote, Tristram Shandy, Gulliver's Travels, Ulysses - are about mess, they're about slops and slime, encyclopedic in their efforts to encompass humanity in all its bawdy, chaotic, grungy, and painful reality. And like Gargantua and Pantagruel they're also very funny. The Rabelaisian world view is founded on the assumption that the humourless are not yet wise - and these tales insist you learn to laugh at humanity.
Gargantua and Pantagruel is dramatised by Lavinia Murray, one of our leading radio playwrights whose credits include 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' and 'The Confessions of an English Opium Eater'.
THU 11:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g4159)
Letters to an Idol
She owned all of his books about love. He was her idol. From Tove Jansson's debut 1971 collection. Read by Indira Varma.
Creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson, a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author is one of the most successful children writers ever..
Translated into English by Thomas Teal. Producer Karen Rose. Executive producer Jeremy Osborne.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions.
THU 11:15 Drama (b011vhdc)
Lavinia Greenlaw - The Chess Girls
The emergence of the Polgar sisters in the 1970s and 80s rocked the chess world. In a heavily male dominated game, the three Hungarian girls broke record after record. The youngest, Judit, was talked of as a potential world champion.
The Chess Girls is the story of their parents, Laszlo and Klara Polgar, and how they defied the Communist authorities to conduct a remarkable educational experiment. Laszlo Polgar, convinced that any healthy child can be trained to become a genius, set out to prove his theory with his own children.
This is a drama-documentary with excerpts from an interview with Laszlo and Klara Polgar recorded for the play. The writer, Lavinia Greenlaw, takes their account and re-creates the lives of the young Polgar family in their tiny Budapest flat. The fictional Laszlo is played by Kerry Shale, and Klara by Sally Orrock.
Director: Chris Ledgard.
THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jp46)
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THU 12:30 Radio Active (b007jp67)
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THU 13:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl (b012qqvq)
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THU 13:30 Spitting In Russian (b00pg5pn)
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THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01sjk6s)
John le Carré - A Delicate Truth
Falling on Deaf Ears
If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can they remain silent? Damian Lewis begins reading A Delicate Truth, the brand new novel from the master of his genre, John le Carré, a novel which tells the story of a good man who must choose between his conscience and his duty to the Service.
An undercover counter-operation in the British colony of Gibraltar; a middle-ranking man from the Foreign Office serving as 'eyes on' and reporting to an ambitious Minister; the aim to capture a jihadist arms-buyer - the success, assured.
But back in the UK a junior officer has his doubts and commits an unthinkable act. Three years on, he will find himself facing an impossible choice. In a journey that will take him from Cornwall to Wales via murky secrets in the depths of Whitehall, Toby Bell will try to find out the truth about the night on the Rock and bring it the attention and justice it deserves.
Tonight: Falling on Deaf Ears - Kit and Toby find their efforts to expose the truth rebuffed.
John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.
Damian Lewis is a British actor best known for his role as Nicholas Brody in Homeland. His many credits include Band of Brothers, Life and The Forsyte Saga.
The reader is Damian Lewis
The abridger is Sally Marmion
The producer is Di Speirs.
THU 14:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship (b03zdbrl)
Comrades and Lovers
Dr Thomas Dixon presents a timely history of the changing meaning and experience of friendship over the centuries
Drawing on the intriguingly ambiguous relationship of Frances Power Cobbe with Mary Lloyd and the more open relationship of Edward Carpenter with George Merrill, he explores the Victorian borderland between Platonic friendship and homosexual love.
Professor Barbara Caine discusses Frances Power Cobbe, the largely forgotten Anglo-Irish feminist and journalist, who wrote articles with titles such as, "The Woman Question", "What Shall We Do With Our Old Maids" and "Wife Torture in England". She explains how Cobbe reclaimed friendship for women after centuries of classical and renaissance assumptions that only men had a true capacity for it.
Dr Matt Cook tells the story of Edward Carpenter, whose own unconventional lifestyle and 1908 book, The Intermediate Sex, brought homosexual love out into the open and even introduced the contemporary notion, celebrated in tv series such as Will and Grace, of women enjoying having a "gay best friend".
Producer: Beaty Rubens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014.
THU 14:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room (b00srqfl)
Episode 4
Jane has spent the night with Toby, but she hasn't told him about her pregnancy. Stars Lynne Seymour and John McAndrew.
THU 14:45 Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (b007jyk6)
Gravy Train
Travel writer Paul Theroux describes travelling across the United States of America aboard a restored private railway carriage.
Stuart Milligan reads another extract from Paul's book of travel essays.
Producer: Duncan Minshull
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2000.
THU 15:00 Classic Serial (b0183r3q)
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THU 16:00 Booked (b0075lrs)
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THU 16:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008tx2z)
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THU 17:00 All the Young Dudes (b00cgyjs)
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THU 17:30 Hal (b04stlcv)
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THU 18:00 Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror (b036pw9z)
The Familiar Surroundings
Another eerie visitation leads Sir James Monmouth north to a grim appointment...
Susan Hill's atmospheric and chilling ghost story read by Gareth Armstrong, with John Moffatt as the narrator.
Abridged in five parts by Oliver Reynolds.
Producer: Jocelyn Boxall
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994.
THU 18:15 LP Hartley: Short Stories (b03zm57b)
The Price of the Absolute
A man inherits some objects, but will he be able to control the events they set in motion? Read by Robert Lang.
THU 18:30 Great Lives (b0076zqt)
Series 10
Eleanor Roosevelt
4 Extra Debut. Helena Kennedy on Eleanor Roosevelt, human rights campaigner. With Matthew Paris and biographer, Blanche Wiesen Cook. From August 2006.
THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jp46)
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THU 19:30 Radio Active (b007jp67)
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THU 20:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl (b012qqvq)
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THU 20:30 Spitting In Russian (b00pg5pn)
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THU 21:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g4159)
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THU 21:15 Drama (b011vhdc)
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THU 22:00 Hal (b04stlcv)
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THU 22:30 The Headset Set (b01292x3)
Series 1
Episode 3
Everyone is falling ill in the open-plan offices of Smile5, the catalogue company that sells anything and everything.
Eavesdrop on both sides of the bizarre, horrific and ludicrous phone calls when customers call in as events unfold with company staff.
Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu
Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith
Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult
Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Paul Sharma
Various ..... Philip Fox
Writers: James Kettle, Stephen Carlin, Celia Pacquola, Andy Wolton, Benjamin Partridge, Colin Hoult, Kevin Core, Madeliene Brettingham, Rebecca Hobbs and Dan Tetsell.
Script editor: James Kettle
Producer: Tilusha Ghelani
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.
THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b0776k1l)
From
10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Tom Wrigglesworth chats again to Tom Stade.
THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b007jmbz)
Series 3
The Reasonably Fantastic Journey
Satan and the Professor find a huge empty space in Hell - when they enter Scumspawn's brain.
Andy Hamilton’s devilishly funny sitcom set in Hell.
Satan …. Andy Hamilton
The Professor …. James Grout
Thomas …. Jimmy Mulville
Scumspawn …. Robert Duncan
Other characters played by Felicity Montagu, Philip Pope, Nick Revel and Michael Fenton Stevens.
Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1999
THU 23:30 Sir Ralph Stanza's Letter from Salford (b00767tq)
Series 1
Chips off an Angry Block
The new poet-in-residence is determined to track down his muse, whichever chippy she works in. Stars James Quinn. From May 2002.
THU 23:45 Steven Appleby's Normal Life (b00slvww)
Series 2
Normal Time
Cartoonist Steven Appleby claims dinosaurs mastered the 3Rs - reading, writing and riding bicycles.
Paul McCrink stars as Steven Appleby with what he laughably describes as "insights into normal, everyday life".
With:
Rosalind Paul
Ewan Bailey
Nigel Betts
Rachel Atkins
Written by Steven Appleby
Producer: Toby Swift
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003
FRIDAY 08 APRIL 2016
FRI 00:00 Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror (b036pw9z)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:15 LP Hartley: Short Stories (b03zm57b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:15 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b0076zqt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl (b012qqvq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Spitting In Russian (b00pg5pn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01sjk6s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship (b03zdbrl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room (b00srqfl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:45 Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (b007jyk6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:45 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 Classic Serial (b0183r3q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Booked (b0075lrs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008tx2z)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 All the Young Dudes (b00cgyjs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 Hal (b04stlcv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl (b012wzzj)
Episode 2
Jenny has fallen for Robert Forester, though he's not certain of his feelings for her.
Meanwhile, her ex-fiance, Greg, is very certain. He wants Jenny back - and Robert is in the way.
Patricia Highsmith's intriguing tale of obsession stars John Sharian as Robert Forester, Adrian Lester as Greg Wyncoop, Joanne McQuinn as Jenny Theirolf and Matt Rippy as Jack Neilsen.
Adapted by Shaun McKenna.
Music composed and performed by David Chilton
Director: Marion Nancarrow
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
FRI 06:30 Ken and Mark and Robert (b00tdznx)
Legendary film-maker Ken Russell is in the studio with Mark Kermode recalling his love of music, which inspired such films as Mahler, Tommy and The Music Lovers as well as many TV documentaries.
Meanwhile, in the adjacent studio, musician Robert Ziegler is also talking about Ken's love of music... to Twiggy, Glenda Jackson MP, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Lord Bragg and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Can Ken hear what they are saying about him? Can they hear what Ken is saying about them?
Producer: David Roper
A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in August 2010.
FRI 07:00 Winston (b007jn9c)
Winston in Love
I'm in Love, I'm in Love
Now that Nancy has fallen in love with Roland from the Ministry of Whatsisname, she doesn't like to remember what happened with Winston under the old beech tree at Winterleaf Gunner...
Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial stars Bill Wallis as Winston, Maurice Denham as Father, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, Liz Goulding as Rosie and Christian Rodska as William.
Director: Shaun MacLoughlin
First broadcast on BBC Radio in December 1990.
FRI 07:30 The Rest is History (b075mnxs)
Series 2
Episode 1
Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of it. So he's devised a comedy discussion show in order to find out more about it.
Along with his historian in residence, Professor Kate Williams, Frank is joined by Katy Brand and Pierre Novellie, who discuss Hodge - the cat belonging to Doctor Samuel Pepys, Nelson and Lady Hamilton, and the Lyme Missal.
Producers: Mark Augustyn and Justin Pollard
An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2016..
FRI 08:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (b007jr6l)
Strangers on a Train
Best mates Bob and Terry haven't spoken for seven years, so there's a lot to catch up on when they bump into each other on a train.
Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier, Rodney Bewes as Bob Ferris and Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers. With Lois Daine and Peter Whitman.
Created and scripted for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Adapted for radio by Patrick Tilley.
Producer: John Browell
Originally lost from the archive, the audio was provided by BBC producer Stan Was.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1975.
FRI 08:30 The Goon Show (b007jnj2)
Series 7
The Macreekie Rising of '74
Neddie Seagoon has a 60-foot caber hidden under his kilt, but the Scots want it back.
Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens.
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 October 1956.
FRI 09:00 Wildbrain (b076w83n)
1997 - Final
Lionel Kelleway presents the final of the natural history quiz from the home of the British Birdwatching Fair at Rutland Water.
FRI 09:30 No Commitments (b007jp4g)
Series 8
All Roads Lead to Rome
Roger's jealousy leads him to an unexpected confrontation. Stars Celia Imrie, Angela Thorne and Bill Nighy. From February 2002.
FRI 10:00 Classic Serial (b0183r3q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 11:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g4935)
Lucio's Friends
Everyone loves Lucio. Don't they? From Tove Jansson's debut 1971 collection. Read by Indira Varma.
Creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson, a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author is one of the most successful children writers ever.
Translated into English by Thomas Teal. Producer Karen Rose. Executive producer Jeremy Osborne.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions.
FRI 11:15 Drama (b012078f)
Playing for His Life
Written by John Peacock.
Already under Gestapo Surveillance, tennis ace Baron Gottfried Von Cramm, married but secretly homosexual, offends Hitler, by refusing to join the Nazi Party. He believes himself to be safe as long as he remains Germany's number one and winning. 'But I must win. I can't lose, and I can't quit.' He was left playing for his life.
Producer/Director: Celia de Wolff
A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (b007jr6l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jnj2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl (b012wzzj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 Ken and Mark and Robert (b00tdznx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01sjn6b)
John le Carré - A Delicate Truth
Truth Must Out
If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can they remain silent? Damian Lewis begins reading A Delicate Truth, the brand new novel from the master of his genre, John le Carré, a novel which tells the story of a good man who must choose between his conscience and his duty to the Service.
An undercover counter-operation in the British colony of Gibraltar; a middle-ranking man from the Foreign Office serving as 'eyes on' and reporting to an ambitious Minister; the aim to capture a jihadist arms-buyer - the success, assured.
But back in the UK a junior officer has his doubts and commits an unthinkable act. Three years on, he will find himself facing an impossible choice. In a journey that will take him from Cornwall to Wales via murky secrets in the depths of Whitehall, Toby Bell will try to find out the truth about the night on the Rock and bring it the attention and justice it deserves.
Tonight: Truth must out - whatever the cost.
John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.
Damian Lewis is a British actor best known for his role as Nicholas Brody in Homeland. His many credits include Band of Brothers, Life and The Forsyte Saga.
The reader is Damian Lewis
The abridger is Sally Marmion
The producer is Di Speirs.
FRI 14:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship (b03zdkkc)
A Battalion of Pals
Dr Thomas Dixon presents a timely history of the changing meaning and experience of friendship over the centuries
Two contrasting stories for this examination of the impact of World War One on male friendship.
Dixon begins and ends with the pacifist Bloomsbury Group, focusing on EM Forster and his famous remark, "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country". Dr Matt Cook places this remark - shocking at the time - in the context of Forster's hidden sexual orientation.
Forster began his masterpiece, A Passage to India, before the war, in optimism about the possibility of friendships and love across the nations. As Dr Santanu Das explains, he completed it, after the War, in a far bleaker mood.
Meanwhile, amongst the less highly educated classes, groups of work-mates were being conscripted into the army. Thomas Dixon explores this new role for friendship - as a recruiting sergeant - and its tragic consequences.
Producer: Beaty Rubens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014.
FRI 14:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room (b00srvkl)
Episode 5
Pregnant Jane books an appointment at an abortion clinic, but Mavis offers her an illegal alternative. Stars Lynne Seymour.
FRI 14:45 Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (b007jylg)
Unspeakable Rituals and Outlandish Beliefs
Travel writer Paul Theroux describes the bizarre traditions and ceremonies that he encountered during his travels.
Stuart Milligan reads the last extract from Paul's book of travel essays.
Producer: Duncan Minshull
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2000.
FRI 15:00 Classic Serial (b0183r3q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 16:00 Wildbrain (b076w83n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
FRI 16:30 No Commitments (b007jp4g)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
FRI 17:00 Winston (b007jn9c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
FRI 17:30 The Rest is History (b075mnxs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
FRI 18:00 Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror (b036q7t8)
Waves of Evil
Sir James Monmouth's eerie obsession reaches a terrifying conclusion, but is that the end of the story?
Conclusion of Susan Hill's atmospheric and chilling ghost story read by Gareth Armstrong, with John Moffatt as the narrator.
Abridged in five parts by Oliver Reynolds.
Producer: Jocelyn Boxall
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994.
FRI 18:15 Roald Dahl (b041ym4c)
The Man From the South
Win a car or lose a finger - what will be the result of an old man's bizarre bet? Read by Terry Molloy.
FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b008tn7d)
Series 6
Spem in Alium
Thomas Tallis's work is one of the most elaborate and spectacular pieces of choral music ever written.
Scored for 40 voices, the piece is best sung and heard in the round in order to appreciate an extraordinary sonic experience.
Choral conductor Simon Halsey and Michael Morpurgo discuss the music's spine-tingling effect on both performers and listeners.
Featuring:
Graeme Fife
John Davies
Clive Stafford-Smith
Series about pieces of music with a powerful emotional impact.
Producers: Rosie Boulton & Melvin Rickarby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2008.
FRI 19:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (b007jr6l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b007jnj2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl (b012wzzj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Ken and Mark and Robert (b00tdznx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g4935)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Drama (b012078f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 The Rest is History (b075mnxs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
FRI 22:30 Rudy's Rare Records (b01ntfw9)
Series 4
Sound of da Police
When Doreen is mugged Adam and Rudy react very differently. Adam intends to become a role model for the community and Rudy intends to whack the mugger with a cricket bat.
Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record shop in Birmingham. Starring Lenny Henry, Larrington Walker and some terrific tunes.
Rudy's Rare Records is a tiny down at heel old reggae record shop in Birmingham - one of a dying breed; a place with real soul, stacked with piles of vinyl, where the slogan is "if we don't have it - them don't mek it". It's owned by the charismatic, irrepressible Rudy Sharpe (Larrington Walker), reluctantly helped out by his long-suffering neurotic son Adam (Lenny Henry) and Handsworth's first, black, surly girly goth, Tasha (Natasha Godfrey). Rudy has recently married his long-term love interest Doreen (Claire Benedict) who is enjoying the challenge of getting the Sharpe men in shape - until she is shaken by a mugging.
Adam............Lenny Henry
Rudy.......... Larrington Walker
Tasha...........Natasha Godfrey
Doreen..........Claire Benedict
SGT Popper........ Andrew Brooke
Hoodie.........Adam Nagaitis
Hoodie 2.......Joe Sims
MISS JAMAICA * JIMMY CLIFF
007 SHANTY TOWN* DESMOND DEKKER
SOUND OF DA POLICE * KRS ONE
POLICE OFFICER * SMILEY CULTURE
INFORMER * SNOW
WELCOME TO JAMROCK * DAMIAN MARLEY
TROUBLE IN THE TOWN * DANDY
POLICE AND THIEVES* JUNIOR MURVIN
GUNS OF BRIXTON* JIMMY CLIFF
RING THE ALARM* FU SCHNICKENS.
FRI 23:00 The Mark Steel Lecture (b007nf6b)
Series 2
Billie Holiday
Initially a hater of jazz music, the radical comedian profiles the American singer and songwriter. From April 2001.
FRI 23:30 Hard to Tell (b03k21n8)
Series 2
Episode 4
Second series of the relationship comedy written by Jonny Sweet.
It tells its central love story through the couple's individual conversations with their family and friends. In the process, we are introduced to all manner of relationships from a father and his cherished tour van to two women rivalling for the position of Best Friend, from a brother and sister comparing notes on Brazilians to a vicar and his new parish, and from a lodger's historic fling with a local waitress to a mum's lack of control over her desire to monitor her son's life.
Recorded on location, Hard To Tell's naturalistic, contemporary and conversational style brings new meaning to restaurants, funerals, French dressers and monkey puzzle trees.
Jonny Sweet is also the writer of Radio 4's Party and co-writer/co-star of Chickens on Sky 1.
Episode 4:
The Bicycle Thief. It's Ellen's birthday and, despite money troubles, Tom wants to make an unforgettable impression, while all of Ellen's friends are determined to keep her away from him.
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)
15 Minute Drama
02:30 SAT (b04vjh7t)
1835
05:00 SAT (b012mbjv)
4 Extra Celebrates Dora Bryan
09:00 SAT (b03szf7d)
4 Extra Celebrates Dora Bryan
19:00 SAT (b03szf7d)
A Good Read
18:30 MON (b007655b)
A Good Read
00:30 TUE (b007655b)
All the Young Dudes
12:00 SAT (b007ncd1)
All the Young Dudes
07:00 THU (b00cgyjs)
All the Young Dudes
17:00 THU (b00cgyjs)
All the Young Dudes
05:00 FRI (b00cgyjs)
Ambrose Bierce - Moxon's Master
18:45 SUN (b03zmdqw)
Ambrose Bierce - Moxon's Master
00:45 MON (b03zmdqw)
And Now in Colour
23:30 WED (b007yrwf)
Archive on 4
08:00 SAT (b04n20v4)
Archive on 4
15:00 SAT (b04n20v4)
Archive on 4
03:00 SUN (b04n20v4)
Beachcomber... By the Way
09:30 THU (b008tx2z)
Beachcomber... By the Way
16:30 THU (b008tx2z)
Beachcomber... By the Way
04:30 FRI (b008tx2z)
Bleak Expectations
22:30 TUE (b00vy38l)
Book at Bedtime
02:00 SAT (b01sdw31)
Book at Bedtime
14:00 MON (b01shwl7)
Book at Bedtime
02:00 TUE (b01shwl7)
Book at Bedtime
14:00 TUE (b01sj1tx)
Book at Bedtime
02:00 WED (b01sj1tx)
Book at Bedtime
14:00 WED (b01sjj85)
Book at Bedtime
02:00 THU (b01sjj85)
Book at Bedtime
14:00 THU (b01sjk6s)
Book at Bedtime
02:00 FRI (b01sjk6s)
Book at Bedtime
14:00 FRI (b01sjn6b)
Booked
09:00 THU (b0075lrs)
Booked
16:00 THU (b0075lrs)
Booked
04:00 FRI (b0075lrs)
Chain Reaction Extra
22:00 SAT (b0760mpf)
Chain Reaction
07:30 WED (b074xvfq)
Chain Reaction
17:30 WED (b074xvfq)
Chain Reaction
22:00 WED (b074xvfq)
Chain Reaction
05:30 THU (b074xvfq)
Clare in the Community
07:30 TUE (b061tppy)
Clare in the Community
17:30 TUE (b061tppy)
Clare in the Community
22:00 TUE (b061tppy)
Clare in the Community
05:30 WED (b061tppy)
Classic Serial
10:00 MON (b013fnz7)
Classic Serial
15:00 MON (b013fnz7)
Classic Serial
03:00 TUE (b013fnz7)
Classic Serial
10:00 TUE (b013rj8z)
Classic Serial
15:00 TUE (b013rj8z)
Classic Serial
03:00 WED (b013rj8z)
Classic Serial
10:00 WED (b0144ybg)
Classic Serial
15:00 WED (b0144ybg)
Classic Serial
03:00 THU (b0144ybg)
Classic Serial
10:00 THU (b0183r3q)
Classic Serial
15:00 THU (b0183r3q)
Classic Serial
03:00 FRI (b0183r3q)
Classic Serial
10:00 FRI (b0183r3q)
Classic Serial
15:00 FRI (b0183r3q)
Dad's Army
08:00 MON (b007jrh8)
Dad's Army
12:00 MON (b007jrh8)
Dad's Army
19:00 MON (b007jrh8)
Desert Island Discs: Longplay
10:15 SUN (b076130h)
Desert Island Discs: Longplay
21:00 SUN (b076130h)
Detective Anna Caceres - Hollywood Endings (Omnibus)
13:00 SAT (b0760jkv)
Detective Anna Caceres - Hollywood Endings (Omnibus)
01:00 SUN (b0760jkv)
Doctor in the House
08:30 SUN (b007jsz4)
Doctor in the House
12:30 SUN (b007jsz4)
Drama
14:15 SAT (b0076y59)
Drama
02:15 SUN (b0076y59)
Drama
11:15 THU (b011vhdc)
Drama
21:15 THU (b011vhdc)
Drama
11:15 FRI (b012078f)
Drama
21:15 FRI (b012078f)
Elizabeth Gaskell - Mr Harrison's Confession
16:00 SUN (b041yks9)
Elizabeth Gaskell - Mr Harrison's Confession
04:00 MON (b041yks9)
Elvenquest
23:30 MON (b0170c13)
Father Figure
23:00 TUE (b01bw5cc)
Five Hundred Years of Friendship
02:15 SAT (b03yqyz9)
Five Hundred Years of Friendship
14:15 MON (b03z91x6)
Five Hundred Years of Friendship
02:15 TUE (b03z91x6)
Five Hundred Years of Friendship
14:15 TUE (b03zb4b2)
Five Hundred Years of Friendship
02:15 WED (b03zb4b2)
Five Hundred Years of Friendship
14:15 WED (b03zby89)
Five Hundred Years of Friendship
02:15 THU (b03zby89)
Five Hundred Years of Friendship
14:15 THU (b03zdbrl)
Five Hundred Years of Friendship
02:15 FRI (b03zdbrl)
Five Hundred Years of Friendship
14:15 FRI (b03zdkkc)
Foul Play
16:00 TUE (b00jz7jg)
Foul Play
04:00 WED (b00jz7jg)
Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux
14:45 MON (b007wnzc)
Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux
02:45 TUE (b007wnzc)
Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux
14:45 TUE (b007wpnh)
Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux
02:45 WED (b007wpnh)
Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux
14:45 WED (b007wqd9)
Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux
02:45 THU (b007wqd9)
Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux
14:45 THU (b007jyk6)
Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux
02:45 FRI (b007jyk6)
Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux
14:45 FRI (b007jylg)
Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off
23:30 SUN (b00fnfnn)
Great Lives
18:30 THU (b0076zqt)
Great Lives
00:30 FRI (b0076zqt)
Hal
07:30 THU (b04stlcv)
Hal
17:30 THU (b04stlcv)
Hal
22:00 THU (b04stlcv)
Hal
05:30 FRI (b04stlcv)
Hard to Tell
23:30 FRI (b03k21n8)
Hearing With Hegley
22:30 SUN (b009y1s3)
Home Front - Omnibus
03:00 SAT (b06l4n8z)
Hot Milk: Omnibus
14:30 SUN (b0761646)
Hot Milk: Omnibus
02:30 MON (b0761646)
I Think I've Got a Problem
23:00 SUN (b00cfzrq)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
08:30 WED (b007jpbr)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
12:30 WED (b007jpbr)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
19:30 WED (b007jpbr)
I've Never Seen Star Wars
22:30 MON (b01pty49)
ITMA - It's That Man Again
08:00 SUN (b076101z)
ITMA - It's That Man Again
12:00 SUN (b076101z)
Inheritance Tracks
14:10 SAT (b0760k87)
Inheritance Tracks
02:10 SUN (b0760k87)
Inheritance Tracks
10:10 SUN (b06713sx)
It's Not What You Know
09:00 WED (b0383z2q)
It's Not What You Know
16:00 WED (b0383z2q)
It's Not What You Know
04:00 THU (b0383z2q)
James Follett - The Pentworth Trilogy
18:40 SAT (b007jrkc)
James Follett - The Pentworth Trilogy
00:40 SUN (b007jrkc)
Jane Beeson - The House at Tinner's Tor
18:00 SUN (b00767xs)
Jane Beeson - The House at Tinner's Tor
00:00 MON (b00767xs)
Jimmie Chinn
11:15 MON (b017gvl8)
Jimmie Chinn
21:15 MON (b017gvl8)
Jimmie Chinn
11:15 TUE (b017gzt3)
Jimmie Chinn
21:15 TUE (b017gzt3)
Jimmie Chinn
11:15 WED (b017gzxg)
Jimmie Chinn
21:15 WED (b017gzxg)
Jonathan Smith - Abandoned
06:00 SAT (b07609r8)
Jonathan Smith - Abandoned
16:00 SAT (b07609r8)
Jonathan Smith - Abandoned
04:00 SUN (b07609r8)
Just a Minute
07:30 MON (b074x721)
Just a Minute
17:30 MON (b074x721)
Just a Minute
22:00 MON (b074x721)
Just a Minute
05:30 TUE (b074x721)
Ken and Mark and Robert
06:30 FRI (b00tdznx)
Ken and Mark and Robert
13:30 FRI (b00tdznx)
Ken and Mark and Robert
20:30 FRI (b00tdznx)
King Street Junior
09:30 MON (b007jmmc)
King Street Junior
16:30 MON (b007jmmc)
King Street Junior
04:30 TUE (b007jmmc)
LP Hartley: Short Stories
18:15 MON (b03zjlq7)
LP Hartley: Short Stories
00:15 TUE (b03zjlq7)
LP Hartley: Short Stories
18:15 TUE (b03zjs5f)
LP Hartley: Short Stories
00:15 WED (b03zjs5f)
LP Hartley: Short Stories
18:15 WED (b03zjxw1)
LP Hartley: Short Stories
00:15 THU (b03zjxw1)
LP Hartley: Short Stories
18:15 THU (b03zm57b)
LP Hartley: Short Stories
00:15 FRI (b03zm57b)
Listen to Les
12:30 SAT (b01n21nt)
Listen to Les
08:30 MON (b01n70dq)
Listen to Les
12:30 MON (b01n70dq)
Listen to Les
19:30 MON (b01n70dq)
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room
14:30 MON (b00sqx9c)
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room
02:30 TUE (b00sqx9c)
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room
14:30 TUE (b00sr4hp)
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room
02:30 WED (b00sr4hp)
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room
14:30 WED (b00srkg1)
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room
02:30 THU (b00srkg1)
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room
14:30 THU (b00srqfl)
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room
02:30 FRI (b00srqfl)
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room
14:30 FRI (b00srvkl)
M1: The Modernist Marvel
01:30 SAT (b00nk9hz)
Me, Putin and Judo
06:30 TUE (b00gdz17)
Me, Putin and Judo
13:30 TUE (b00gdz17)
Me, Putin and Judo
20:30 TUE (b00gdz17)
Me, Putin and Judo
01:30 WED (b00gdz17)
Michelene Wandor - Crumbs
15:45 SUN (b0761dhm)
Michelene Wandor - Crumbs
03:45 MON (b0761dhm)
Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?
23:00 SAT (b00sg13d)
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates
06:00 MON (b007jtf4)
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates
13:00 MON (b007jtf4)
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates
20:00 MON (b007jtf4)
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates
01:00 TUE (b007jtf4)
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates
06:00 TUE (b007jtfc)
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates
13:00 TUE (b007jtfc)
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates
20:00 TUE (b007jtfc)
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates
01:00 WED (b007jtfc)
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates
06:00 WED (b007jtfx)
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates
13:00 WED (b007jtfx)
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates
20:00 WED (b007jtfx)
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates
01:00 THU (b007jtfx)
Mr Blue Sky
07:30 SUN (b01hf12z)
Mr Blue Sky
17:30 SUN (b01hf12z)
Mr Blue Sky
22:00 SUN (b01hf12z)
Mr Blue Sky
05:30 MON (b01hf12z)
Mr and Mrs Smith
09:30 TUE (b01bwp6g)
Mr and Mrs Smith
16:30 TUE (b01bwp6g)
Mr and Mrs Smith
04:30 WED (b01bwp6g)
No Commitments
04:30 SAT (b007jp3z)
No Commitments
09:30 FRI (b007jp4g)
No Commitments
16:30 FRI (b007jp4g)
No Tomatoes
22:45 SUN (b007zh4d)
Off the Page
18:30 WED (b00771pr)
Off the Page
00:30 THU (b00771pr)
Old Harry's Game
23:00 THU (b007jmbz)
Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl
06:00 THU (b012qqvq)
Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl
13:00 THU (b012qqvq)
Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl
20:00 THU (b012qqvq)
Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl
01:00 FRI (b012qqvq)
Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl
06:00 FRI (b012wzzj)
Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl
13:00 FRI (b012wzzj)
Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl
20:00 FRI (b012wzzj)
Paul Magrs - Never the Bride
00:00 SAT (b009gctd)
Poetry Extra
17:00 SUN (b0761hps)
Poetry Extra
05:00 MON (b0761hps)
Poets' Tree
22:45 SAT (b00shngl)
Quote... Unquote
09:00 MON (b01lswv0)
Quote... Unquote
16:00 MON (b01lswv0)
Quote... Unquote
04:00 TUE (b01lswv0)
Radio 9
23:30 TUE (b04fgtgy)
Radio Active
08:30 THU (b007jp67)
Radio Active
12:30 THU (b007jp67)
Radio Active
19:30 THU (b007jp67)
Roald Dahl
18:15 FRI (b041ym4c)
Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities
07:15 SUN (b01kbk3r)
Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities
14:15 SUN (b01kbk3r)
Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities
02:15 MON (b01kbk3r)
Round the Horne
08:00 TUE (b00szhvg)
Round the Horne
12:00 TUE (b00szhvg)
Round the Horne
19:00 TUE (b00szhvg)
Rudy's Rare Records
22:30 FRI (b01ntfw9)
Seekers
22:30 WED (b03dvgh9)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost Special
01:00 SAT (b01c8cbn)
Sir Ralph Stanza's Letter from Salford
23:30 THU (b00767tq)
Soul Music
00:30 SAT (b008pygx)
Soul Music
18:30 FRI (b008tn7d)
Spitting In Russian
06:30 THU (b00pg5pn)
Spitting In Russian
13:30 THU (b00pg5pn)
Spitting In Russian
20:30 THU (b00pg5pn)
Spitting In Russian
01:30 FRI (b00pg5pn)
Steptoe and Son
08:00 THU (b007jp46)
Steptoe and Son
12:00 THU (b007jp46)
Steptoe and Son
19:00 THU (b007jp46)
Steven Appleby's Normal Life
23:45 THU (b00slvww)
Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror
18:00 MON (b036nb75)
Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror
00:00 TUE (b036nb75)
Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror
18:00 TUE (b036nm98)
Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror
00:00 WED (b036nm98)
Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror
18:00 WED (b036pqz8)
Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror
00:00 THU (b036pqz8)
Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror
18:00 THU (b036pw9z)
Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror
00:00 FRI (b036pw9z)
Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror
18:00 FRI (b036q7t8)
The Brothers
07:00 WED (b00pm21g)
The Brothers
17:00 WED (b00pm21g)
The Brothers
05:00 THU (b00pm21g)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 SUN (b076py15)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 MON (b0776jjg)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 TUE (b0776jr6)
The Comedy Club Interviews
22:55 THU (b0776k1l)
The Emerald Green Show
07:00 TUE (b076c11b)
The Emerald Green Show
17:00 TUE (b076c11b)
The Emerald Green Show
05:00 WED (b076c11b)
The Fall of the Mausoleum Club
09:30 WED (b007jqlf)
The Fall of the Mausoleum Club
16:30 WED (b007jqlf)
The Fall of the Mausoleum Club
04:30 THU (b007jqlf)
The Goon Show
08:30 FRI (b007jnj2)
The Goon Show
12:30 FRI (b007jnj2)
The Goon Show
19:30 FRI (b007jnj2)
The Headset Set
22:30 THU (b01292x3)
The House That Chekhov Built
06:30 MON (b00pxmcv)
The House That Chekhov Built
13:30 MON (b00pxmcv)
The House That Chekhov Built
20:30 MON (b00pxmcv)
The House That Chekhov Built
01:30 TUE (b00pxmcv)
The Mark Steel Lecture
23:00 FRI (b007nf6b)
The Masterson Inheritance
23:00 WED (b007jsrx)
The Men from the Ministry
08:30 TUE (b0141zn4)
The Men from the Ministry
12:30 TUE (b0141zn4)
The Men from the Ministry
19:30 TUE (b0141zn4)
The Moth Radio Hour
11:15 SUN (b0761457)
The Moth Radio Hour
19:00 SUN (b0761457)
The Museum of Everything
23:30 SAT (b007k3wp)
The Navy Lark
08:00 WED (b01kncz6)
The Navy Lark
12:00 WED (b01kncz6)
The Navy Lark
19:00 WED (b01kncz6)
The Now Show
23:00 MON (b074zy9k)
The Now Show
09:00 TUE (b074zy9k)
The Palace of Laughter
18:30 TUE (b007k2kn)
The Palace of Laughter
00:30 WED (b007k2kn)
The Rest is History
07:30 FRI (b075mnxs)
The Rest is History
17:30 FRI (b075mnxs)
The Rest is History
22:00 FRI (b075mnxs)
The Shepherd's Life
02:45 SAT (b05r6sx0)
The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth (Omnibus)
06:00 SUN (b04vdzxb)
The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth (Omnibus)
13:00 SUN (b04vdzxb)
The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth (Omnibus)
01:00 MON (b04vdzxb)
The Twilight Zone
18:00 SAT (b0760lwd)
The Twilight Zone
00:00 SUN (b0760lwd)
This Orient Isle (Omnibus)
09:00 SUN (b0761127)
This Orient Isle (Omnibus)
19:50 SUN (b0761127)
Touchline Tales
07:30 SAT (b00t0jcl)
Touchline Tales
17:30 SAT (b00t0jcl)
Touchline Tales
05:30 SUN (b00t0jcl)
Tove Jansson - The Listener
11:00 MON (b04g18g2)
Tove Jansson - The Listener
21:00 MON (b04g18g2)
Tove Jansson - The Listener
11:00 TUE (b04g1yd6)
Tove Jansson - The Listener
21:00 TUE (b04g1yd6)
Tove Jansson - The Listener
11:00 WED (b04g3ssf)
Tove Jansson - The Listener
21:00 WED (b04g3ssf)
Tove Jansson - The Listener
11:00 THU (b04g4159)
Tove Jansson - The Listener
21:00 THU (b04g4159)
Tove Jansson - The Listener
11:00 FRI (b04g4935)
Tove Jansson - The Listener
21:00 FRI (b04g4935)
Trapped
07:00 MON (b0076mpz)
Trapped
17:00 MON (b0076mpz)
Trapped
05:00 TUE (b0076mpz)
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
08:00 FRI (b007jr6l)
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
12:00 FRI (b007jr6l)
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
19:00 FRI (b007jr6l)
Wildbrain
04:00 SAT (b075pp7l)
Wildbrain
09:00 FRI (b076w83n)
Wildbrain
16:00 FRI (b076w83n)
Winston
07:00 FRI (b007jn9c)
Winston
17:00 FRI (b007jn9c)
Wordaholics
05:30 SAT (b01sdmd2)
Ziggy Stardust Came from Isleworth
06:30 WED (b00tdpz8)
Ziggy Stardust Came from Isleworth
13:30 WED (b00tdpz8)
Ziggy Stardust Came from Isleworth
20:30 WED (b00tdpz8)
Ziggy Stardust Came from Isleworth
01:30 THU (b00tdpz8)