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

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SATURDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2021

SAT 00:00 The Blue Lenses by Daphne du Maurier (b007k4rp)
2. Survival

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

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

Read by Emma Fielding.

Produced and abridged by Gemma Jenkins.

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2007.


SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b0124pp5)
Always On

Mobile phones, laptops and tablet computers give us the opportunity to be constantly deluged by information wherever we are in the world.

And if we have one of these devices and don't turn it off then we can be reached, wherever we are.

But - as Dominic Arkwright asks - is this development in our lives a good thing?

With Financial Times Slow Lane columnist Harry Eyres and Guardian digital media correspondent Jemima Kiss.

Plus the best selling author William Powers who's written a guide book on how to live wisely and happily in a connected world.

Producer Paul Dodgson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2011.


SAT 01:00 The Price of Silence (m000zs3k)
4. On Your Own

Maxon finds out the truth about Drusilla Kowalski.

Meanwhile, Joseph Kowalski goes missing. And Ellsberg warns Maxon he's in grave danger.

Starring Ian Hendry and Toby Robins.

Stephen Barlay's Cold War nuclear thriller.

Maxon …… Ian Hendry
Jacqueline …… Toby Robins
Ellsberg …… George Coulouris
Kowalski …… Carl Duering
Locke …… Alan Tilvern
Papa Mike …… Errol MacKinnon
President …… Bob Sherman
Gloucester …… Nigel Graham
Chuck …… Bruce Boa

Director: Peter King.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1983.


SAT 01:30 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nwbj)
Leaves of the Dead

4. Pyramids In The Spider

Rendered unconscious, detective superintendent Julie Enfield has been injected with a deadly drug.

Are Lawrence Evans and her dad in a position to help?

Imelda Staunton stars as Julie Enfield.

Conclusion of Nick Fisher’s atmospheric thriller.

Julie Enfield ...... Imelda Staunton
Dad ...... Geoffrey Matthews
Lawrence Evans ...... Ross Livingstone
Stephen Arnold ...... Alex Lowe
Amanda Thorne ...... Janet Maw
Melanie Sharp ...... Colleen Prendergast
Dorothy ...... Shirley Dixon
Phil Carter ...... Christopher Scott
Arthur Morton ...... Stephen Thorne
Richard Baker ...... Ioan Meredith
Sal ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman
Terry Faulkner ...... Hugh Dickson

Producer: Richard Wortley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997.


SAT 02:00 Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (b08p1t6s)
Episode 5

New evidence prompts DI Townsend and DS Morgan to take another look at the apparent suicide of Katie Whittaker and exactly what Nel Abbott knew about her death...

Author of 'The Girl on the Train' - Paula Hawkins' addictive novel of psychological suspense.

Jules ...... Sian Brooke
Lena ...... Lily Loveless
Mark ...... Arthur Darvill
Erin ...... Sarah Ridgeway

Abridged by Doreen Estall

Producer: Gemma McMullan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.


SAT 02:15 Ben Lewis - House Rules (b0b5xh1r)
Series 1

Episode 5

A funny real-time drama set around a kitchen table at the weekly meetings of a 21st century family who are not even managing to 'just about manage'.

Amelia is 14. She's been through a divorce before. She really doesn't want to go through it again. But her blended family is threatening to unblend. So she draws on her experience as assistant chairperson of the Key Stage 3 debating society and initiates weekly family meetings for truth, reconciliation, grievance airing and the seeking of practical solutions.

It's time for the family's weekly meetings. But the chair herself hasn't turned up.

Written by Ben Lewis.

Nicole ... Rosie Cavaliero
Amelia ... Cleo Demetriou
Jan ... Deborah Findlay
Sean... Jonathan Forbes
Callum ... Elliot Speller-Gillott

Director: Kirsty Williams.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2018.


SAT 02:30 Mark Morris: The Wild Card of Dance (b047c31b)
A portrait of one of the most fascinating figures in dance.

Flamboyant, theatrical, loud, choreographer Mark Morris is also a thoughtful, considered self-taught scholar of music.

And it's his extraordinary musicality that earned him, from the beginning, a reputation with musicians. The likes of Yo Yo Ma and Emmanuel Ax have sought him out as a collaborator.

We accompany dance professor Stephanie Jordan to Sadler's Wells during Morris' visit to London, with exclusive access to his rehearsals, watching him direct his company in two new works. We also speak to two of his most experienced dancers in Dresden, and tour his famous dance headquarters in Brooklyn, New York.

Interviewing New York critics Joan Acocella and Alastair Macaulay, as well as Mark Morris himself, we build up a profile of a brilliantly talented and visionary choreographer. And discover why he places such value on music (Baroque in particular), how his distinctive style of choreography has evolved, and aims for his company.

Producer: Isabel Sutton

A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2014.


SAT 03:00 Anthony Burgess - Inside Mr Enderby (m0009srr)
Episode 2

Trapped into marriage, will Enderby lose his poetic gift and become simple Hogg the Gardener instead?

Conclusion of the classic 1960s acerbic comedy by Anthony Burgess.

Enderby, mediocre poet sans pareil bursts onto an unsuspecting world, scattering bread crumbs and bad verse.

Enderby .... Philip Glenister
Vesta .... Valerie Edmond
Rawcliffe .... Russell Dixon
Drunk .... David Fleeshman
Stepmother ...... Ann Rye
Doctor .... Malcolm Raebum

Dramatised by Jim Poyser.

Director: Polly Thomas

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003.


SAT 04:00 The Food Quiz (b0076tc6)
Series 3

From 24/08/2005

Journalist and food critic, Jay Rayner puts four gastronomes through their culinary paces.

Stephen Fry, Elisabeth Luard, Cyrus Todiwala and Clarissa Dickson Wright get set for a good grilling.

Can they fathom the principal ingredient of mock turtle soup, the identity of the first TV chef and how a dried fish came to be known as Bombay duck?

Producer: Dixi Stewart

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2005.


SAT 04:30 Clare in the Community (b0089j0c)
Series 1

Babysitter

Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the right jargon but never a practical solution.

When her colleague, Helen, has a date for the first time in 8 years, Clare gets roped into looking after her 16 year old delinquent son, Gareth, for the evening. Gareth proves to be better at helping Clare with her problems than dealing with his own, and after an awkward start they become friends.

There's a surprise for Clare when Brian gets home from the pub.

A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her.

Clare continually struggles to control both her professional and private life

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

Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden.

Starring Sally Phillips and Alex Lowe.

Clare ...... Sally Phillips
Brian ..... Alex Lowe

With:

Richard Lumsden
Gemma Craven
Ellen Thomas
Nina Conti
Paul Chequer
Emily Wachter

Produced by Katie Tyrell.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004.


SAT 05:00 It's Jocelyn (b08hpf79)
Series 2

Family

Jocelyn talks about family, a spiritual medium goes over to the other side and the doctors receptionist shows her true feelings for 'big bad Don'.

More sketches and stand-up from the wonderful mind of Jocelyn Jee Esien.

With Paul Whitehouse as a cockney funeral director.

Plus the vocal talents of:

Ninia Benjamin
Curtis Walker
Dee Kaate
Gavi Chera
Karen Bartke

Producer: Suzy Grant

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2017.


SAT 05:30 Henry Normal: A Normal... (m000sj8s)
Communication

"Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal"
Simon O'Hagan - Radio Times

The seventh instalment in this acclaimed, occasional series in which acclaimed, occasional writer Henry Normal tackles those subjects so big only radio can possibly contain them. So far Henry has covered ‘Family’, ‘Life’, ‘Love’, ‘Imagination’, ‘Nature’ and ‘The Universe’; in this new episode he explores ‘Communication’, recorded with a virtual audience.

Through poetry, stories, jokes and quotes Henry will be looking at the way ‘how’ we communicate colours ‘what’ we communicate and exploring ‘why’ we communicate in the first place.

Henry Normal is a multi-award winning writer, producer and poet. Co-writer of award winning TV programmes such as The Royle Family, The Mrs Merton Show, Coogan’s Run and Paul Calf, and producer of, amongst many others, Oscar-Nominated Philomena, Gavin and Stacey and Alan Partridge.

He’s published eight collections of poetry including his most recent ‘The Beauty Within Shadow’. Plus his memoir written with Angela Pell ‘A Normal Family’ everyday adventure with our autistic son.

Praise for previous episodes in this series:

"It's a rare and lovely thing: half an hour of radio that stops you short, gently demands your attention and then wipes your tears away while you have to have a little sit down"

"It's a real treat to hear a seasoned professional like Henry taking command of this evening comedy spot to deliver a show that's idiosyncratic and effortlessly funny"

"Not heard anything that jumps from hilarious to moving in such an intelligent, subtle way as Henry Normal's show"

Written and performed by Henry Normal
Production Coordinator - Beverly Tagg
Produced by Carl Cooper

This was a BBC Studios production.


SAT 06:00 Miss Marple (b007jvht)
The Body in the Library

Dolly Bantry, mistress of Gossington Hall, is enjoying a pleasant doze when suddenly her dreams take a strange turn.

The housemaid Mary is telling her there's a body in the library. As she wakes up, it turns out to be true. But who is the strange young blonde woman sprawled on the library floor?

Enter St Mary Mead's famous resident sleuth...

Agatha Christie's whodunit starring June Whitfield.

First published in 1942 whodunit and dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Miss Jane Marple .... June Whitfield
Colonel Melchett …. Richard Todd
Dolly Bantry …. Pauline Jameson
Colonel Bantry …. Jack Watling
Sir Henry Clithering …. Graham Crowden
Conway Jefferson …. John Hartley
Inspector Slack …. John Baddeley
Adelaide Jefferson …. Priyanga Elan
Mark Gaskell …. Harry Myers
George Bartlett …. Ben Crowe
Josie Turner …. Elizabeth Conboy
Basil Blake …. Giles Fagan
Dinah Lee …. Tilly Gaunt
Florence Small …. Eleanor Hodson

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1999.


SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b08q5x7l)
Series 42

Sue Cameron on Emma of Normandy

Twice Queen of England and mother of two kings, but have you heard of Emma of Normandy?

Doyenne of Whitehall and Westminster journalists, Sue Cameron names William the Conqueror's aunt as her great life.

Matthew Parris explores the time 1,000 years ago when England was emerging as a new nation in the decades before the Norman invasion, when the country's Anglo Saxon rulers were beset with Viking invasions. Emma, herself of French Viking descent, was pitched into a maelstrom of war and politics, when she crossed the channel as a teenage bride in 1002.

Joined by medieval historian Vanessa King of Goldsmiths, University of London, Sue and Matthew conjure the fortunes of a woman who emerged as a key powerbroker and kingmaker. Emma bestrode early English court politics for half a century during her life, and for years afterwards. Married first to Aethelred, the Saxon king, she was promptly summoned to marry his successor after his death in 1016, the Danish king of England, Canute, who's alleged to have ordered the waves to cease.

Sue Cameron imagines what it must have been like for Emma in the midst of these turbulent times, trying to protect the sons she had with both kings, while advancing their position at court.

Producer: Mark Smalley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.


SAT 08:00 The Motion Show (m00076b9)
Series 5

Episode 1

From banning wasps to arts subsidies.

Graeme Garden hosts the comedy debating show.

With;

Gyles Brandreth
Steve Punt
Garry Bushell
Gina Yashere

Producer: Jane Berthoud

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002.


SAT 08:30 Snap (m00051v9)
Series 3

Episode 5

Doug and Molly’s attempts to rekindle their romance after divorcing are hampered by his mum who’s convalescing after tripping over. Molly is not impressed...

CAST:

Molly …. Rebecca Lacey
Doug …. Paul Venables
Kaz …. Soumaya Keynes
Ryan …. Jessie Sullivan
Annie …. Marlene Sidaway
Dawn …. Robin Weaver
Raymond …. Jonathan Tafler

Written by Paul Mendelson.

Producer: David Ian Neville

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2005.


SAT 09:00 Radio Soaps (b007jpk5)
Tim Bentinck - aka the dependable David Archer in The Archers – brings you all the dramas in the history of BBC radio soaps.

Brace yourself to re-live the all daily goings on from serials past and present:

MRS DALE’S DIARY:

This serial ran for 21 years based on the daily diary of doctor’s wife Mary with husband Jim and children, Bob and Gwen. Starring Ellis Powell.

* The first episode. The Dales are preparing to move to Parkwood Hill. [05/01/1948 BBC Light Programme]

* JFK has been elected US President as Great Aunt Hester arrives from Canada with some strange sounding visitors... [01/11/1960 BBC Light Programme]

WAGGONER'S WALK:

This replaced Mrs Dale' Diary on BBC Radio 2's tackling some tough storylines, It was axed in 1980

* The first episode. 60s London is still swinging with three women sharing a flat in Hampstead. [28/04/1969 BBC Radio 2]

* 8 years later. Lyn has managed to marry and divorce her first husband and is on number two. Sister Tracy married an American and has a child. [21/02/1977]

CITIZENS:

BBC Radio 4's soap opera charting the lives of the residents of Limerick Road in the fictional London suburb of Ditcham. 388 episodes of went out twice a week until 1991.

* The first episode. Hear why the critics at the time weren't too impressed. [27/10/1987 BBC Radio 4]

* 4 years on and the end is nigh for the residents of Ditcham with shock news of a kidnapping.

WESTWAY:

This was the BBC World Service's very own soap, set in a health centre, which ran for 8 years, and was branded as "a slice of contemporary London life". It was later re-run on BBC 7.

* Dr Sampson is the matriarch and heart of Westway Health Centre. Her husband has died - and his funeral plan is unconventional [21/08/1999 BBC World Service]

THE ARCHERS:

The essential drama from the heart of the country. The world's longest running soap opera began in 1951 on the BBC Home Service and is still going strong on BBC Radio 4.

The first episode was scheduled to detract from the opening of Associated-Rediffusion, as ITV was launched in London.

* The classic melodramatic episode, where Grace Archer - recently married to Phil – gets trapped in a stable fire. Will she survive? [23/09/1955 BBC Home Service]

* It’s back to Brian's early days of marriage to Jennifer and a blonde siren called Eva, who was their German au pair. [14/05/1978 BBC Radio 4]

Producer: Jayne Gibson

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in September 2003.


SAT 12:00 The Gatsby Factor (b01s8qxh)
Recorded on both sides of the Atlantic - Sarah Churchwell explores the enduring popularity of The Great Gatsby as a novel and as a source of inspiration for film and stage adaptations.

Back in 2011, it became a 'major motion picture' for the fourth time in its life - in a version by Baz Luhrmann.

In Britain, academic and broadcaster Sue visits the Northern Ballet and Wilton's Music Hall in London - both with versions of Gatsby

While in New York, she hears about the locations for the novel - the extreme wealth of north shore Long Island where Gatsby has his mansion, and the contrasting 'valley of ashes' where the poorer characters live.

Featuring luminaries at the New York Times who consider why this novel, more than any other, has burned it way into American consciousness.

How was Scott Fitzgerald in this the slimmest of novels, and with Gatsby the vaguest of protagonists, able to crack 'the kernal of the American fable'?

Producer: Susan Marling

A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2013.


SAT 12:30 The Great Gatsby Letters (b01130n7)
F Scott Fitzgerald tells his editor Maxwell Perkins about his hopes and fears for his new novel - The Great Gatsby.

A selection of the lively correspondence that describes the story in making. as the author travelled the south Mediterranean at the time, with his wife Zelda.

Read by William Hope.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.


SAT 13:00 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (m0010144)
Episode 1

F Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel of the Jazz Age and the elusive dream of self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby.

Meet narrator Nick Carraway - an educated, but lost veteran of the Great War who enters the dazzling, seemingly rarefied high society of Long Island.

So begins the story of nihilistic abandon, moral questioning and aspiration.

The first of two-parts read by Kyle Soller.

Producer: Julian Wilkinson


SAT 15:55 Inheritance Tracks (b08fnp4g)
Lindsey Davis

Historical novelist Lindsey Davis, author of the 'Falco' series of crime stories, chooses the storm scene from Beethoven's 'Pastoral Symphony' and 'I'm Still Here' by Millicent Martin.

First broadcast during Saturday Live on BBC R4 in August 2013.


SAT 16:00 Miss Marple (b007jvht)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b08q5x7l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


SAT 18:00 The Prisoner (m0001stk)
Series 1

1. The Chimes of Big Ben - Part 1/2

A new prisoner, Nadia, arrives in The Village. She is strong-minded, independent, and refuses to become Number 8. Number 6 becomes convinced that she’s his ticket out of The Village...

The original seventeen episode TV series of The Prisoner created intrigue and controversy in equal measure when it first aired in the UK in 1967. In a taut psychological spy thriller the main character, dehumanised as ‘Number 6’, has committed no crime, save for having resigned from some unspecified branch of the British Secret Service. His prison is a heavily guarded coastal village.

Under constant surveillance, Number 6 can trust no-one and relentlessly works to establish who his captors are, a seemingly impossible task when the most senior figure he encounters – Number 2 – changes frequently.

Number 6 …. Mark Elstob
Number 2 …. Michael Cochrane
Nadia/Number 8 …. Kristina Buikaite
The Village Voice …. Helen Goldwyn
Danvers …. Barnaby Edwards
The Conductor …. Nicholas Briggs

Other parts played by members of the cast.

Music: Jamie Robertson

Script Editor: Jamie Anderson

Written and directed by Nicholas Briggs.

A Big Finish Production - based on the classic ITV series.


SAT 18:40 Spirit of the House by Fay Weldon (b08f16hz)
Christine fears for baby Emmy who’s looked after by the cool Jenny.

No-one is interested in her suspicions - even when they confirm Jenny's fictitious past.

Anna Massey reads Fay Weldon’s weird tale.

Producer: Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1988.


SAT 19:00 Radio Soaps (b007jpk5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


SAT 22:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b01d51th)
Series 1

With David O'Doherty

Comedian Alex Horne and his 5 piece band give us a latin lesson as they ponder the language that unifies us all.

Guest comedian David O Doherty takes us for a noisy ride in the 'quiet carriage'.

The Band:

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

Special guest: David O'Doherty

Producer: Julia McKenzie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012.


SAT 22:30 Elvenquest (b01r5lnp)
Series 4

The Bard

The Questers find themselves in possession of the magical Dagger of Razzak-Dar, which kills anyone it touches, and realise this might be a golden opportunity to use it on Lord Darkness. The problem is, Lord Darkness' castle is impenetrable.

Luckily, Lord Darkness is looking for a new bard to soothe his nerves, so decides to hold a talent contest so throws open the doors of his castle to welcome applicants.

If only one of the Questers had any musical or acting experience.

Enter Penthiselea, stage left...

Vidar ...... Darren Boyd
Dean/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon
Amis/The Vet/Grunter ...... Dave Lamb
Sam ...... Stephen Mangan
Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan
Penthiselea ...... Ingrid Oliver

Written by James Cary

ProduceR: Sam Michell.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013.


SAT 23:00 The Curried Goat Show (b007k484)
Episode 2

'Cop Night' - and superstitions.

Sketch-bonanza written by and starring Dan Gaster, Will Ing and Ben Silburn.

With special guest: Nerys Hughes

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1998.


SAT 23:30 Daphne Sounds Expensive (b07m7vzj)
Series 1

Murder

The gang must solve a mysterious murder on the Yorkshire Moors, for the conclusion of series 1.

Join critically-acclaimed sketch trio, Daphne, as they pull out all the stops in a dazzling array of peculiar characters, whacky scenarios, dodgy remarks, curious observations, minor altercations and major peacemaking - served on a bed of catchy little numbers with a live nine-piece band.

Written by and starring: Jason Forbes, Phil Wang & George Fouracres

Featuring Sir Willard White & David Elms

Original music composed by Jeff Carpenter

Orchestrator: Simon Nathan

Musical Director: Freddie Tapner

Piano: Jeff Carpenter
Drums: Ben Hartley
Bass: Rob Grist
Percussion: Ben Burton
Trumpet: Michael Maddocks
Tenor Sax: Greg Sterland
Trombone: Elliot Pooley
Violin: Hannah Bell
Cello: Nick Squires

Production Coordinator: Hayley Sterling
Producer: Matt Stronge

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2016.



SUNDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2021

SUN 00:00 The Prisoner (m0001stk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]


SUN 00:40 Spirit of the House by Fay Weldon (b08f16hz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:40 on Saturday]


SUN 01:00 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (m0010144)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday]


SUN 03:55 Inheritance Tracks (b08fnp4g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:55 on Saturday]


SUN 04:00 Miss Marple (b007jvht)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]


SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b08q5x7l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]


SUN 06:00 Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (Omnibus) (b08psf88)
Episode 1

Paula Hawkins is the author of the global phenomenon 'The Girl on the Train'

She returns with 'Into the Water', her addictive novel of psychological suspense.

A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.

Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from-a place to which she vowed she'd never return.

Beware a calm surface-you never know what lies beneath.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes.

Jules ...... Sian Brooke
Josh ...... Kai Alexander
Nickie ...... Lynda Baron
Lena ...... Lily Loveless
Mark ...... Arthur Darvill
Louise ...... Elizabeth Berrington

Abridged by Doreen Estall.

Producer: Gemma McMullan.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.


SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b08cd9yh)
Matt Baker

TV presenter Matt Baker shares 'Brothers In Arms' by Dire Straits and 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' by the Sherman Brothers.


SUN 07:20 Ben Lewis - House Rules (m0010166)
Series 1

Omnibus

Amelia is 14. She's been through a divorce before. She really doesn't want to go through it again. But her blended family is threatening to unblend.

So she draws on her experience as assistant chairperson of the Key Stage 3 debating society and initiates weekly family meetings for truth, reconciliation, grievance airing and the seeking of practical solutions. But can ultra-unionist Amelia overcome the separatist factions in her own family? Attendance is mandatory. Resistance is useless.

Omnibus of Ben Lewis’s funny five-part real-time drama set around a kitchen table at the weekly meetings of a 21st century family who are not even managing to 'just about manage'.

Nicole ... Rosie Cavaliero
Amelia ... Cleo Demetriou
Jan ... Deborah Findlay
Sean... Jonathan Forbes
Callum ... Elliot Speller-Gillott

Directr: Kirsty Williams.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018


SUN 08:30 Doctor at Large (b009s9n7)
Mozambique

A trip ashore for ship's medic Simon Sparrow leads to some local linguistic mishaps.

The misadventures of newly qualified doctor, Simon Sparrow.

Starring Richard Briers

Adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's 'Doctor at Large' published in 1955.

Simon Sparrow …. Richard Briers
Captain Spratt …. Geoffrey Sumner
First Mate Jock Hornbeam …. Ray Cooney
Colonel Smith …. Edward Cast
Maria …. Marjorie Westbury
Matilde …. Miriam Margolyes
Mrs Hawkins …. Ann Murray
Rosa …. Madi Hedd
Easter …. Peter Jones

Producer: David Hatch

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1969.


SUN 09:00 Not in Front of the Children (b08jpftk)
Series 2

Pastures New

It's moving day for the Corner family, but the removal men are a little too thorough...

Starring Wendy Craig and Francis Matthew.

The comedy mishaps of the Corner family - Jennifer and Henry and their three kids Trudi, Amanda and Robin.

Jennifer Corner …. Wendy Craig
Henry Corner …. Francis Matthews
Mary …. Charlotte Mitchell
Trudi …. Roberta Tovey
Amanda …. Jill Riddick
Robin …. Hugo Keith-Johnston
Removal Man 1 …. Benny Lee
Removal Man 2 …. David Tate

Four series were first shown on BBC TV from 1967 to 1970. Richard Waring adapted his own scripts for this radio version, now fully restored from the original reel-to-reel tapes. Wendy Craig won a Best Actress BAFTA award for the TV version of Not in Front of the Children in 1969.

Music by Ronnie Hazlehurst.

Producer: Trafford Whitelock

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1970.


SUN 09:30 John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music (b084tlr0)
Series 2

Episode 4

John Shuttleworth invites singer Mari Wilson to his Sheffield home to perform one of her own songs and also, more importantly, one of his.

Joan Chitty gets very excited about Mari's visit as she used to have a wonderful beehive and Joan would like Mari to give her the same look. John is not convinced this is a good idea as Joan has very short spiky hair and far too much hair lacquer would be required.

Anyway, there are more important things to be done. Mari needs to sing one of John's songs and John has to prepare for a medley of Mari's songs and get Top Tips on the Telephone from Tony Burrows who famously appeared on Top of The Pops three times in one show!

Written and Performed by Graham Fellows.

With special guests Mari Wilson and Toni Burrows

Producer: Dawn Ellis

A Chic Ken production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2016.


SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0010169)
Football

Ian Wright

From Mozart to Stormzy.

Former Arsenal and England footballer Ian Wright shares his choices with Lauren Laverne

Ian is a former professional footballer and now a football pundit on TV and radio. He began his career at Crystal Palace before moving to Arsenal where he became their highest goal scorer of all time, a record only surpassed eight years later by Thierry Henry.

Born to a Jamaican couple in south-east London, Ian grew up with his mother and step-father. His biological father had left the family when Ian was under two years old. Things at home were difficult and Ian spent as much time as possible outside playing football.

At his primary school a teacher, Mr Pigden, took him under his wing and Ian would later credit him with changing his life. He left his secondary school at the age of 14 to get a job. Although he took part in trials for many professional football clubs as a teenager, he was never selected. He continued to play for amateur sides. By the age of 21, he had three children to provide for, so when Crystal Palace came calling in 1985, he turned them down three times before accepting a two-week trial, followed by a three-month contract. His football career had finally begun.

After impressing as a forward at Palace, he was bought by Arsenal for a record fee in 1991. He was called up to the England squad the same year and would go on to collect 33 caps. He spent his last couple of years in professional football at a number of clubs around the country and in total, he played 581 league games, scoring 387 goals for seven clubs in England and Scotland. Since his retirement from football in 2000, he has had a career as a pundit on both TV and radio.

He has eight children and has been happily married to his second wife, Nancy, since 2011.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020.


SUN 10:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b011ckxz)
Series 2

Quetzalcoatlus

As Sir David Attenborough explains:

"The biggest animal to fly was not a bird, but a reptile."

It was a Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur with at least a 44 foot wingspan. David, a huge fan of palaeontology, is skilled in bringing the past natural histories to life through stories about the discovery of key fossils.

What a creature this "terrible lizard" must have been - big enough to scavenge the bodies of dead Tyrannosaurus and yet able to fly, probably in large numbers. And with a twist so typical of Sir David's writing, he brings this pterosaur to life at the very end.

Written and presented by David Attenborough

Producer: Julian Hector

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.


SUN 11:00 Radiolab (m001016c)
Series 8

Blood and Beauty

Radiolab explores a different way of looking at evolution with exciting implications.

Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Jad Abumrad and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2019.


SUN 11:55 Inheritance Tracks (b08cd9yh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today]


SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m001016f)
Morning Has Broken

Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting appeal of Elizabeth Farjeon's poem Morning Has Broken.

Producer - Sara Davies

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.


SUN 12:30 Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? (b00sjcvd)
1980s

Cockney comedian Micky Flanagan's first radio series is about his progression from working-class Herbert to middle-class intellectual and being caught awkwardly between the two. His story is told through reflective interviews, but mainly, Micky's acclaimed stand up comedy. Micky's transition from the mean streets of the East End to the leafy lanes of Dulwich is a fascinating story, with each episode focusing on a different decade of Micky's life.

In this episode Micky takes us through the 1980s the decade he spent running away to New York and being the international lover and player of the East End. He chats to his parents, his sister and his school friends in interviews that shed light on the stand up comedy.

The series is written and performed by Micky Flanagan.

Producer is Tilusha Ghelani

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2010.


SUN 13:00 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (m001016h)
Episode 2

Narrator Nick Carraway has brought Daisy Buchanan and Gatsby together in a much-anticipated affair.

But the cracks in the facade of a carefree life are beginning to show, and a rude awakening from their dream-like world looms.

F Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel of the Jazz Age and the elusive dream of self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby.

Concluded by Kyle Soller

Producer: Julian Wilkinson


SUN 15:40 World Book Club (b079s64s)
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

World Book Club comes from New York City in the USA.

Partnering up with the acclaimed Leonard Lopate Show’s Book Club on the New York radio station WNYC, World Book Club has come here to discuss that classic novel of The Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby. And who better to talk to about it than chronicler of today’s New York young urban sophisticates, novelist Jay McInerney. He is joined on stage by F Scott Fitzgerald scholar Anne Margaret Daniel and together we discuss the haunting tale of dazzling, doomed Jay Gatsby as told to through the eyes of young Midwesterner Nick Carraway.

Presenter: Harriett Gilbert

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 2013.


SUN 16:40 Once Upon a Time (b00n48mw)
"Lift up the latch and come in, my dear" said Granny to the wolf. This Twenty Minutes explores the dark, sinister and enchanted world of fairy tales. Michael Rosen, AS Byatt and Richard Mabey take us into the woods - the realm where magic lurks, stange things happen, evil is vanquished and (usually) good prevails. Why do these tales and myths continue to exert such a powerful fascination for children and adults alike?


SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m001016f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]


SUN 17:30 Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? (b00sjcvd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]


SUN 18:00 Steve Erickson - Shadowbahn (m001016m)
The Twin Towers reappear in Dakota in 2021.

Nothing is predictable in this new America and reality and history are turned upside down. What exists and what is a shadow?

Steve Erickson's 2017 novel was hailed by critics as the first novel of the Trump era. It imagines checkpoints and borders and rupture zones in a country that's torn apart.

Parker, aged 23, and his 15 year-old sister Zema are driving from the West coast to see their mother in Michigan. On a news feed they hear that the Twin Towers have reappeared in South Dakota. Overnight. Out of nowhere. Strange sounds seem to be coming from them. Is there anyone inside? The buildings look pristine.

Dubbed by reporters on the scene as an "American Stonehenge", they immediately become a pilgrimage site.

Headstrong Zema insists that they change course and join the throng heading to the site. She has brought along mix tapes made by their dad who was a music DJ. The songs somehow reflect where they are and what they are thinking about. Astonished, they learn over social media that their car has become a magnet. Hashtag Supersonic. What is the strange cargo they carry?

Meanwhile, around the Twin Towers, every sightseer hears different music. And on a top floor in the otherwise empty South Tower, Jesse Presley the twin brother of Elvis wakes up. He has his own demons and music raging in his head.

Jesse's journey has parallels with Parker and Zema's. It's a supernaturally charged trip across an America which is familiar and yet eerily angry and dangerous, and back in altered time.

Steve Erickson, often described as a writer's writer, has had ten novels published in as many languages. He's known for Zeroville (soon to be seen as a movie), Our Ecstatic Days, and These Dreams of You which contains some of Shadowbahn's characters.

Recorded on location in Arizona and New York.

Other parts played by

Pete McElligott
Chris Dwane
Sara Berg
Reynaldo Piniella
Raphael Martin

Adapted by Anita Sullivan

Produced and Directed by Judith Kampfner and Steve Bond

A Corporation For Independent Media production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2018.


SUN 19:00 Radiolab (m001016c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


SUN 19:55 Inheritance Tracks (b08cd9yh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today]


SUN 20:00 Reconstructing Louis (b0075z1g)
At Vailima - his home in Western Samoa - Robert Louis Stevenson attempts to dispel some of the more romantic notions that have built up around him as he looks back over his life and the people who have meant most to him.

These include his American wife Fanny, his stepson Lloyd, and the waspish literary critic WE Henley, now best remembered as the model for Treasure Island's most enduring character - Long John Silver.

Written by John Sessions who stars as Robert Louis Stevenson.

Fanny ... Phyllis Logan
Thomas Stevenson.... Paul Young
Maggie Stevenson .... Sheila Donald
Belle Osbourne.... Nora Elwell-Sutton
Lloyd Osbourne/Bob Stevenson...... Henry Ian Cuslck
Young Louis/Young Lloyd .... James Quintal-Norrls
WE Henley .... Michael MacKenzie

Other parts played by members of the cast.

Producer: Bruce Young

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000.


SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0010169)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


SUN 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b011ckxz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today]


SUN 22:00 Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? (b00sjcvd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]


SUN 22:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b00j7522)
Series 1

Boston

Comedian Mark Steel visits Boston in Lincolnshire to take a look at the Stump and sprouts and see for himself why the inhabitants have no need of a handbrake.

With a guest appearance from a Boston rapper, Mark puts on a show for the locals as he tries to work out what makes the town so distinctive.

Producer: Julia McKenzie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2009.


SUN 23:00 On the Hour (b007jmnp)
Series 2

Episode 3

The Tube system goes berserk, an earthquake in Corinth and the anniversary of space.

All the news as it happens, if it happens from the BBC's urgent and incisive news overview.

Savagely satirical award-winning comedy starring Chris Morris.

With:

Steve Coogan
David Schneider
Rebecca Front
Patrick Marber
Doon Mackichan

Written by Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci, Richard Herring, Steven Wells, David Quantick, Andrew Glover, Stewart Lee and Patrick Marber.

Producer: Armando lannucci

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1992.


SUN 23:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide (b01qmxfy)
Series 2

Health and Medicine

Comedian Stephen K Amos is joined by Paul Sinha, Andre Vincent and John Hegley to compile an Idiot's Guide to Health and Medicine. Produced by Colin Anderson.



MONDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2021

MON 00:00 Steve Erickson - Shadowbahn (m001016m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]


MON 01:00 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (m001016h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday]


MON 03:40 World Book Club (b079s64s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:40 on Sunday]


MON 04:40 Once Upon a Time (b00n48mw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:40 on Sunday]


MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m001016f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday]


MON 05:30 Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? (b00sjcvd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday]


MON 06:00 The Price of Silence (m00101w6)
5. Limbo

Who was driving the green car which crashed?

Maxon returns to London in pursuit of the truth.

Starring Ian Hendry and Toby Robins.

Stephen Barlay's Cold War nuclear thriller.

Maxon …… Ian Hendry
Jacqueline …… Toby Robins
Locke …… Alan Tilvern
Gloucester ...... Nigel Graham
Inspector ...... Peter Marinker
Doomsdayman ...... Bob Sherman
Interviewer ...... Madi Hedd
Fergus ...... James Bryce
Captain ...... Stuart Milligan
Nurse ...... Zhivila Roche
Reporter ...... Alex Marshall
Beryov ...... Peter Gale
Guard ...... Ian Tyler
Petrushka ...... Richard Marner
Ellsberg ...... George Coulouris
The Nachalnik ...... Paul Hardwick

Director: Peter King

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1983.


MON 06:30 Raffles (b007jncv)
Series 3

No Sinecure

Raffles is dead - and Bunny must face the world alone. Then comes an invitation to answer a newspaper advertisement...

Starring Jeremy Clyde and Michael Cochrane.

The continuing adventures of cricketer and gentleman thief, Arthur J Raffles, and his chronicler, Harry ‘Bunny’ Manders.

The stories of EW Hornung dramatised by Olwen Wymark.

AJ Raffles …. Jeremy Clyde
‘Bunny’ Manders …. Michael Cochrane
Dr Theobald …. Gordon Reid
Mr Maturin …. John Hartley
The Constable …. John Church
The Landlord …. Keith Drinkel
The Porter …. John Webb

Other parts played by Henry Stamper, Frederick Jaeger and members of the cast

Signature tune composed by Jim Parker.

Director: Gordon House

A BBC World Service Drama production first broadcast in 1992.


MON 07:00 Man at the Helm (b07wt9c4)
Episode 1

Nina Stibbe’s comic novel set in 1970s Leicestershire about the madcap schemes of three kids to cheer up their recently divorced mum Elizabeth.

Struggling to cope, she's taken to drinking and compulsive playwriting – neither of which impresses villagers already deeply suspicious of an attractive divorcee. Top of their list is to find her a new man in the hope that it will appease the hostile locals.

Adapted in four-parts by Amanda Whittington.

Lizzie ….. Eloise Webb
Amy….. Fern Deacon
Little Jack ….. Ben Barker
Elizabeth ….. Amanda Hale
Mr Lomax ….. Jason Barnett
Dad ….. James Lailey
Mrs Longlady ….. Elizabeth Bennett
Mrs Worth ….. Adie Allen

Director: Gemma Jenkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2016.


MON 07:30 Just a Minute (m000zsfn)
Series 87

Episode 3

Sue Perkins hosts Radio 4’s longest running panel show, Just a Minute. Sue challenges guests Paul Merton, Anneka Rice, Dane Baptiste and Lucy Porter to talk without hesitation, deviation, or repetition. This episode was produced using remote recording technology, with the audience joining from their homes all over the world.

Devised by Ian Messiter

Whistle blown by Caroline Barlow

Produced by Hayley Sterling

A BBC Studios Production


MON 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jp1c)
Series 6

Porn Yesterday

Harold's aghast when he discovers exactly 'What the Butler Saw'!

Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as Harold.

Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett
Mabel ...... Norma Ronald
Vicar ...... Anthony Sharpe

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 eight series for TV.

Producer: Bobby Jaye

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1976.


MON 08:30 Albert and Me (b007jynb)
Series 1

Rate of Decline

Struggling to bring up his baby son Albert, single dad Bryan Archer desperately needs cash for his rate arrears.

Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With Harry Fowler as Joe Billings.

Written by Jim Eldridge.

Producer: John Fawcett Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1977.


MON 09:00 It's Your Round (b00zm32d)
Series 1

Episode 6

Angus Deayton hosts the comedy panel show with no format.

Johnny Vaughan, Alan Davies, Roisin Conaty and Arthur Smith battle it out to see who can beat each other at their own games each has brought along.

Angus valiantly tries to make sure everyone comes out of it with their reputations intact.

Writers: Angus Deayton, Ged Parsons and Paul Powell

Devised by Benjamin Partridge

Producer: Sam Michell.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011.


MON 09:30 Lip Service (m00101w8)
Episode 6

Sketch comedy from Maggie Fox , Sue Ryding and a host of relatives.

Peter Rabbit is 'On the Psychiatrist's Couch', there's a dramatisation of a forgotten work by Charles Dickens, 'David Chislehurst' and a song about an eventful wedding from 'The Insisters'.

With Denise Coffey and Malcolm Raebum.

Produced by Lissa Evans.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1992.


MON 10:00 Charles Dickens (b007jzxk)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Orphans

The arrival in Cloisterham of Neville and Helena Landless , twins from Ceylon, sets in motion a chain of events which leads to murder....

Charles Dickens's unfinished book completed by Leon Garfield and dramatised for radio in five parts by David Buck.

John Jasper …. Ian Holm
Edwin Drood …. Mark Payton
Rev. Chrisparkle …. Gareth Thomas
Princess Puffer …. Mary Wimbush
Deputy …. Susan Sheridan
Miss Twinkleton …. Margaret Courtenay
Rosa Bud …. Moir Leslie
Grewgious …. John Gabriel
Crisparkle's Mother …. Hilda Kriseman
Sapsea …. Timothy Alock
Durdles …. Gordon Gostelow
Mr Honeythunder …. David King
Joe …. David Goudge
Neville Landless …. Simon Treves
Helena Landless …. Helena Breck
Maid …. Marcia King

Pianist: Nicholas Kok

Director: Gordon House

A BBC Radio 4/BBC World Service co-production first broadcast in 1990.


MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m00101wb)
Series 8

Building Resilient Relationships

A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) stage.

Manoush Zomorodi, with the help of expert Esther Perel, explores how can we build more trusting relationships during a crisis?

First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2020.


MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m00101wd)
Andy Hamilton

Comedian Andy Hamilton chooses ‘It's Impossible’ by Perry Como and ‘It Doesn't Matter Anymore’ by Buddy Holly.


MON 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jp1c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


MON 12:30 Albert and Me (b007jynb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


MON 13:00 The Price of Silence (m00101w6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


MON 13:30 Raffles (b007jncv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


MON 14:00 Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (b08pdydv)
Episode 6

The author of the global phenomenon 'The Girl on the Train' returns with 'Into the Water', her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.

A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.

Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from-a place to which she vowed she'd never return.

Beware a calm surface-you never know what lies beneath.

Jules ...... Sian Brooke
Lena ...... Lily Loveless
Nickie ...... Lynda Baron
Sean ...... Bryan Dick
Patrick ...... Sean Baker
Helen ...... Natasha Little

Written by Paula Hawkins
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Produced by Gemma McMullan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.


MON 14:15 Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg (b03s6mdy)
Episode 1

In January 1946, at the age of 68, renowned artist Dame Laura Knight takes a life-changing commission as war artist to the Nuremberg Trials.

Dame Laura meets Major Peter Casson, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General of the British War Crimes Executive, who is charged with smoothing her path through bureaucracy. He helps her to settle into her suite in the Grand Hotel (originally built for Hitler); to deal with the international social whirl that attends the trials and to cope with coming face-to-face with Hitler's henchmen for the first time in court.

Written by Amanda Whittington.

Based on the diaries of Dame Laura Knight, whose painting 'The Dock' has become a classic image of the Nazi War Crime Trials.

Writing the Century is an ongoing series of dramas reflecting on the 20th Century through diaries and letters.

Dame Laura Knight ...... Diana Quick
Peter Casson ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Penny Ayres ...... Kate Sobey
William Dean ...... Patrick Keeler
French Prosecutor ...... Mark Meadows

Director: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.


MON 14:30 The Medal Makers (b00cc102)
Former runner Allison Curbishley, who herself competed at the Olympics, talks to some of the men and women from the UK who went to the Beijing games to take part - as judges.

Interviewees - Alan Bell, Neil Booth, Ann Allen, Bill Allen, David Littlewood, Jenny Gray, Chris Cohen, Tim Hutchins, Tamsin Lewis, John Regis

Producer Nicola Holloway

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2008.


MON 15:00 Charles Dickens (b007jzxk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


MON 16:00 It's Your Round (b00zm32d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


MON 16:30 Lip Service (m00101w8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


MON 17:00 Man at the Helm (b07wt9c4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


MON 17:30 Just a Minute (m000zsfn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


MON 18:00 The Price of Fear (b007jmgf)
Come as You Are

The horror film legend receives a chilling invitation to a very special costume party.

Vince Price introduces tales of horror and mystery.

CAST:

Morris Perry
Betty Huntley-Wright
Peter Williams

Written by Bill Ingram.

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in April 1974.


MON 18:30 A Good Read (b01p0fpv)
Frances O'Grady and Ruth Richardson

Harriet Gilbert and her guests - General Secretary Designate of the TUC, Frances O'Grady and historian, Ruth Richardson – discuss their favourite books by Anne Enright, TS Eliot and John Masefield.

Booker prize-winning 'The Gathering' by Anne Enright
Publisher: Vintage

'Four Quartets' by TS Eliot
Publisher: Bloomsbury

‘The Box of Delights’ by John Masefield.
Publisher: HarperCollins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011.


MON 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jp1c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


MON 19:30 Albert and Me (b007jynb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


MON 20:00 The Price of Silence (m00101w6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


MON 20:30 Raffles (b007jncv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m00101wb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m00101wd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today]


MON 22:00 Just a Minute (m000zsfn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


MON 22:30 The Sofa of Time (b00hwyq7)
There's Gravy in My Locker

The epic and timeless tale of two men and their quest to find "The Sofa of Time", the most magical and powerful item of furniture in the entire universe.

It is said that those who sit on the sofa can be transported to anywhere and anytime.

Milford and Parker get sacked and as they are clearing out their lockers they fall into the magical world of Gravy...there Milford is regarded as the chosen one who has come at last to save the people from the emperor warlock Raamen Bod who plans to find the sofa and use it for evil purposes.

Written by Nick Frost and Matt King.

Milford ...... Matt King
Parker ...... Nick Frost
Marmite ...... Mark Heap
Raamen Bod ...... Peter Serafinowcz

With Kevin Eldon, Janei Anderson and Daisy Jones

Producer: Mario Stylianides

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2002.


MON 23:00 The News Quiz (m000zv9c)
Series 106

Episode 4

Andy is joined by journalist Hugo Rifkind and comedians Susie McCabe, Ria Lina and Andrew Maxwell to dismantle and discuss the week's news, including the energy crisis, lack of Co2 and Boris's trip to the US.

The script is written by host Andy Zaltzman with additional material by Alice Fraser, Mike Shephard, Rajiv Karia and Esther Manito.

It is produced by Sam Michell for BBC Studios.


MON 23:30 Where Did It All Go Wrong? (b0076qtg)
Series 2

The History of the BVG

The history of the BVG. The BVG were a terrorist cell more feared than the UDA and the IRA put together - but what was the BVG?

Their leader is interrogated by one woman who is determined to find out.

Satirical comedy written and performed by Simon Munnery,

With Kevin Eldon and Sally Phillips.

Producer: Ed Morrish

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2005.


MON 23:45 The Damien Slash Mixtape (b08wphwm)
Series 1

Episode 4

Multi-character YouTube star Damien Slash makes the move from online to BBC Radio, in this fast-paced, one-man sketch comedy show.

From the surreal to the satirical, from the zeitgeist to the absurd, Damien serves up a range of high octane characters, all from his own voice. Adverts, actors, hipsters, trolls - no aspect of modern life is left un-skewered.

Written by and starring Damien Slash (aka Daniel Barker).

Additional material by Robin Morgan.

Producer: Sam Bryant

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2017.



TUESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2021

TUE 00:00 The Price of Fear (b007jmgf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]


TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b01p0fpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]


TUE 01:00 The Price of Silence (m00101w6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]


TUE 01:30 Raffles (b007jncv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]


TUE 02:00 Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (b08pdydv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]


TUE 02:15 Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg (b03s6mdy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday]


TUE 02:30 The Medal Makers (b00cc102)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]


TUE 03:00 Charles Dickens (b007jzxk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]


TUE 04:00 It's Your Round (b00zm32d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]


TUE 04:30 Lip Service (m00101w8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]


TUE 05:00 Man at the Helm (b07wt9c4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]


TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (m000zsfn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]


TUE 06:00 The Price of Silence (m0010203)
6. Pressure Point

Stephen Barlay's Cold War nuclear thriller starring Ian Hendry and Toby Robins.

Maxon is lying low for a few days. After a visit to Armenian defector, Aram Sarian, it looks like his troubles are only just beginning as he discovers the truth behind the public alert. Is someone in Moscow is planning an explosion in space?

Directed by Peter King.

Maxon .... Ian Hendry
Jacqueline .... Toby Robins
Aram Sarian .... Vladek Sheybal
Locke .... Alan Tilvern
Gloucester .... Nigel Graham
President .... Bob Sherman
Chuck .... Bruce Boa
Saul .... Blain Fairman
Girl .... Mary Cornford
Sandy .... Peter Tuddenham

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1983.


TUE 06:30 Raffles (b007jndt)
Series 3

To Catch a Thief

London's glittering high society falls foul of some audacious jewel robberies - but for once, the cracksman is not Raffles.

The stories of E.W. Hornung in the continuing adventures of cricketer and gentleman thief, Arthur J. Raffles, and his chronicler, Harry ‘Bunny’ Manders.

CAST:

A.J. Raffles …. Jeremy Clyde
‘Bunny’ Manders …. Michael Cochrane
Inspector Mackenzie …. Henry Stamper
Dr Theobald …. Gordon Reid
Lord Ernest Belville …. Terence Edmond
Mr Maturin …. John Hartley
Other parts played by members of the cast

Dramatised by Olwen Wymark.

Signature tune composed by Jim Parker.

Director: Gordon House

A BBC World Service Drama production first broadcast in 1992.


TUE 07:00 The Tim Vine Chat Show (b09794s8)
Series 2

North Berwick

Tim Vine has been travelling the length and breadth of this fair land to uncover the best stories of the Great British public.

As well as taking every possible opportunity to tell a ridiculous joke and sing a preposterous song along the way.

Tim visits Scotland and the St Andrew Blackadder church in North Berwick.

A pie-seller and a man undergoing some unusual physiotherapy provide the entertainment and Tim leads a maritime sing-a-long.

Producer: Richard Morris

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2017.


TUE 07:30 The Birthday Cake Game (m000zt9t)
Series 1

Episode 4

A brand new comedic quiz hosted by Richard Osman that poses one simple question - do you know how old people are? Part quiz show, part panel show, and sometimes part chat show - The Birthday Cake Game is always play-along and full of entertaining guesses, with some surprising take home facts.

The trio joining Richard this week, battling to prove they're the best at working out ages and to take home the coveted birthday cake, are Rhys James, Maisie Adam and Rick Edwards. Tune in to find out who comes out on top and see if you can beat the players and score higher at home.

Production Manager: Ellie Threlfall
Production Executive: Gemma Whitford
Producer: Tamara Gilder

A Remarkable production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 08:00 Round the Horne (b00jjq7v)
Series 2

Episode 2

Rambling Syd Rumpo sings of gander-boggling, and Kenneth Horne trolls round to Bona Books to let Julian and Sandy vada his new manuscript.

With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.

Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, London. Announcer: Douglas Smith

Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, catchphrases and double-entendres.

Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four.
Producer: John Simmonds

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1966.


TUE 08:30 Winston (b007jncr)
Winston in Love

Clip Clop, Clip Clop

Father says he's going to marry Mrs Sunderland and cut the rest of the family off without a bean.

It's his wedding day. But is he serious?

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 February 1991.


TUE 09:00 The News Quiz (m000zv9c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]


TUE 09:30 Nineteen Ninety-Eight (b01cjd41)
Episode 4

Edward Wilson's quest for truth becomes the Movement.

William Osborne's Orwellian sitcom.

Edward Wilson .... David Threlfall

With Hugh Laurie, Mike Myers, Rebecca Stevens, Pam Ferris, Steve Steen and Richard Turner.

Producer: Nick Symons

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1987.


TUE 10:00 Charles Dickens (b007jzyx)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

A Disappearance

Edwin and Neville - determined to resolve their differences - agree to attend a Christmas Eve dinner hosted by Edwin's guardian, Jasper.

It proves to be the last meeting the three will ever have.

Charles Dickens's unfinished book completed by Leon Garfield and dramatised for radio by David Buck.

John Jasper …. Ian Holm
Edwin Drood …. Mark Payton
Rev. Chrisparkle …. Gareth Thomas
Princess Puffer …. Mary Wimbush
Deputy …. Susan Sheridan
Miss Twinkleton …. Margaret Courtenay
Rosa Bud …. Moir Leslie
Grewgious …. John Gabriel
Sapsea …. Timothy Alock
Durdles …. Gordon Gostelow
Joe …. David Goudge
Neville Landless …. Simon Treves
Helena Landless …. Helena Breck
Bazzard …. John Samson
John Moffatt …. Jeweller
Anna Cropper …. Mrs Tope
Girl …. Marcia King

Pianist: Nicholas Kok

Director: Gordon House

A BBC Radio 4/BBC World Service co-production first broadcast in 1990.


TUE 11:00 Pieces of Britney (p09mw62b)
5. Chaotic

Pandora Sykes navigates the media narratives around Britney, once she gets married and has kids.

In this eight-part series for BBC Radio 4, Pandora traces Britney’s incredible life: from her hardscrabble childhood in rural Louisiana, to her coronation as the inaugural pop princess of the internet, navigating an insatiable celebrity gossip complex; through to a young mother on trial by the paparazzi.

Britney is a pop culture phenomenon. Pandora looks behind that mask - and beyond Britney herself - to explore how Britney became the most Googled person in the world, for almost 7 years, and what it says, both then and now, about the entertainment industry, politics, sex and how we see women in the public eye.

Britney’s public struggles saw her placed in a conservatorship, in which she lost the right to control her finances and day to day life. Thirteen years later, and she is in court, pleading for this controversial legal arrangement to end. We look at how Britney has been transformed from girl-next-door teen sensation to pop music’s Rapunzel, trapped in a supposedly rotten system.

Pieces of Britney mixes documentary, archive and interviews to tell Britney’s remarkable story. It also features drama, written by playwright Katie Hims, to bring Britney and her extraordinary world to life.

Pieces of Britney is a sympathetic portrayal of Britney, during a time of cultural reappraisal about how we treat women - famous, or otherwise.

Episode 5 Cast:

Britney . . . . . Samantha Dakin
Kevin . . . . . Joseph Ayre
Lynne . . . . . Laurel Lefkow
Other parts played by Paul Chahidi, Julianna Jennings and Elinor Coleman

Sound design by Peter Ringrose
Produced by Sasha Yevtushenko and Anne Isger


TUE 11:55 Inheritance Tracks (m0010206)
Frankie Bridge

The former Saturdays singer inherits Marvin Gaye's 'I Heard it Through the Grapevine' and passes on Bobby McFerrin's 'Don't Worry Be Happy'.

First broadcast on 'Saturday Live' in August 2021.


TUE 12:00 Round the Horne (b00jjq7v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


TUE 12:30 Winston (b007jncr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


TUE 13:00 The Price of Silence (m0010203)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


TUE 13:30 Raffles (b007jndt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


TUE 14:00 Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (b08pf09n)
Episode 7

The author of the global phenomenon 'The Girl on the Train' returns with 'Into the Water', her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.

A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.

Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from-a place to which she vowed she'd never return.

Beware a calm surface-you never know what lies beneath.

Jules ...... Sian Brooke
Lena ...... Lily Loveless
Nickie ...... Lynda Baron
Mark ...... Arthur Darvill

Written by Paula Hawkins
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Produced by Gemma McMullan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.


TUE 14:15 Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg (b03sgp6d)
Episode 2

In January 1946, at the age of 68, renowned artist Dame Laura Knight takes a life-changing commission as war artist to the Nuremberg Trials.

In a break from painting the Trial, Dame Laura explores the city of Nuremberg. She meets citizens who have lost everything in the bombing and visits the stadium where Hitler addressed five hundred thousand people, now home to a baseball team.

Written by Amanda Whittington.

Based on the diaries of Dame Laura Knight, whose painting 'The Dock' has become a classic image of the Nazi War Crime Trials.

Writing the Century is an ongoing series of dramas reflecting on the 20th Century through diaries and letters.

Dame Laura Knight ...... Diana Quick
Peter Casson ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Penny Ayres ...... Kate Sobey
William Dean ...... Patrick Keeler
French Prosecutor ...... Mark Meadows

Director: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.


TUE 14:30 Three Continents, Three Generations (b0435c83)
Radio producer Neil Kanwal traces the history of Kenyan Asian migration to Britain, a path followed by his own father's family across three continents and three generations.

In 1896 the British sent thousands of indentured labourers from India to Kenya, to build the Uganda Railway from Mombasa on Kenya's coast to Lake Victoria in Uganda. It was a remarkable feat of engineering and initiated a growing Asian presence in the country. Travelling on the same railroad today, Neil examines how the community prospered over the following decades.

Professor Yash Ghai shares memories of his formative years in the segregated society of colonial Kenya, whilst back at the British Library the presenter studies the records of the India Office to find out more about the challenges they faced.

During the sixties and seventies, facing uncertainty in a new, independent Kenya many utilised their link with Britain to settle in the UK, causing alarm amongst the government and public. From adjusting to British life, to the affect of migration on their identity, the programme concludes with the experiences of some of the 100,000 Kenyan Asians who made Britain their new home.

In this documentary the presenter embarks on a personal exploration of the unique experiences, culture and movements of Kenyan Asians, in a story of Empire, identity, discrimination and migration.

Producer: Heather Davies
A BlokMedia production

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.


TUE 15:00 Charles Dickens (b007jzyx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


TUE 16:00 The 3rd Degree (b08tby7b)
Series 7

St John's College, Cambridge

A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this week from St John's College, Cambridge with specialist subjects including Human, Social and Political Sciences, World History and Physics and questions ranging from Christoffel Symbols to Cannibal Rituals via August Strindberg and Jojo Moyes.

The programme is recorded on location at a different University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in an original and fresh take on an academic quiz.

The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow and 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, sport, and quite possibly Justin Bieber. In addition, the Head-to-Head rounds see students take on their Professors in their own subjects, offering plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both sides.

Other Universities featured in this series include Roehampton, Hull, Derby, Liverpool and Queen's University Belfast.

Produced by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2017.


TUE 16:30 Nineteen Ninety-Eight (b01cjd41)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


TUE 17:00 The Tim Vine Chat Show (b09794s8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


TUE 17:30 The Birthday Cake Game (m000zt9t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


TUE 18:00 The Price of Fear (b01s7w2d)
The Specialty of the House

Prince of terror Vincent Price recounts a culinary tale which leaves a bitter taste.

Co-starring Hugh Burden, Francis de Wolfe, William Sleigh and Vernon Joyner.

Written by Stanley Ellin and dramatised by Barry Campbell.

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1974.


TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b01qwb2n)
Series 15

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater

The Stabat Mater's imagines the sufferings of the Virgin Mary at the foot of the cross, and Pergolesi's eighteen-century setting remains a choral favourite.

Pam Self tells the moving story of how this piece unites her and her friend Helen Vaughan, both during life and after.

Soprano Catherine Bott reflects on the piece's themes.

The Stabat Mater has been reinterpreted many times over the years: Sasha Lazard recalls singing it in the school choir, before later taking the melody and transforming it into a dance version for her album 'The Myth of Red' rechristening it 'Stabat Mater IXXI' in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

Victor Alcantara also sang it as a boy, before returning to the piece as an adult and transforming it into a jazz opus.

Composer and Conductor Paul Spicer examines the musical tensions in the piece, likening its opening to "a heartbeat."

Professor Anthony DelDonna recalls a performance of the Stabat Mater in his hometown of Naples, and reflects on the moment which reaffirmed his his faith.

Producer: Toby Field
Researcher: Nicola Humphries

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.


TUE 19:00 Round the Horne (b00jjq7v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


TUE 19:30 Winston (b007jncr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


TUE 20:00 The Price of Silence (m0010203)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


TUE 20:30 Raffles (b007jndt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


TUE 21:00 Pieces of Britney (p09mw62b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


TUE 21:55 Inheritance Tracks (m0010206)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:55 today]


TUE 22:00 The Birthday Cake Game (m000zt9t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


TUE 22:30 Revolting People (b00w48m7)
Series 4

Ezekiel is Kidnapped

Ezekiel upsets the Baltimore rebels in the 1775 American sitcom.

Sitcom set just before the American War of Independence.

Written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses.

McGurk ...... Andy Hamilton
Samuel ...... Jay Tarses
Joshua ...... Tony Maudsley
Mary ...... Julia Hills
Ezekiel ...... Hugh Dennis
Captain Brimshaw ...... James Fleet
with Philip Pope and Michael Fenton Stevens

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2006.


TUE 23:00 Small Scenes (b04l0y2l)
Series 2

Episode 1

A man uncovers a great Australian conspiracy and a financial advisor starts up a sideline as an assassin's assistant.

Small Scenes is back with more excerpts from odd lives.

Starring Daniel Rigby, Sara Pascoe, Mike Wozniak, Cariad Lloyd and Henry Paker.

Written by Benjamin Partridge, Henry Paker and Mike Wozniak.

Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.


TUE 23:30 Vent (b00v3qsn)
Series 2

Alternatives

What would comatose Ben's life be like if it was a Hollywood movie?

Dark sitcom following the thoughts of comatose patient Ben written by Nigel Smith.

Starring Neil Pearson as Ben Smith, Fiona Allen as Mary, Josie Lawrence as Mum and Leslie Ash as Blitzkrieg.

With Nicholas Hutchison, Jo Martin and Mark Perry.

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007.



WEDNESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2021

WED 00:00 The Price of Fear (b01s7w2d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]


WED 00:30 Soul Music (b01qwb2n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]


WED 01:00 The Price of Silence (m0010203)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]


WED 01:30 Raffles (b007jndt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]


WED 02:00 Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (b08pf09n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]


WED 02:15 Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg (b03sgp6d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday]


WED 02:30 Three Continents, Three Generations (b0435c83)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]


WED 03:00 Charles Dickens (b007jzyx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]


WED 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b08tby7b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday]


WED 04:30 Nineteen Ninety-Eight (b01cjd41)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday]


WED 05:00 The Tim Vine Chat Show (b09794s8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]


WED 05:30 The Birthday Cake Game (m000zt9t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]


WED 06:00 The Price of Silence (m000zzwq)
7. In The Know

Stephen Barlay's Cold War nuclear thriller starring Ian Hendry and Toby Robins.

Maxon has a brush with an old friend, KGB agent, Nadia. And with Jaqueline's help, he tracks down Squadron Leader Tucker, who reveals the shocking truth about the Russians' sinister plans...

Directed by Peter King.

Maxon ....Ian Hendry
Jacqueline ....Toby Robins
Nachalnlk:....Paul Hardwick
Locke:....Alan Tilvern
Nadla:....Zhivila Roche
Winston:....Stuart Organ
Chuck:....Bruce Boa
Sandy ....Peter Tuddenham
Tucker:....Norman Jones
Petrushka ....Richard Marner

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1983.


WED 06:30 Raffles (b007jnfb)
Series 3

An Old Flame

Raffles has had many worthy adversaries, both on the cricket field and in his more nefarious pursuits, but none prove so formidable as Jacques Saillard - an old flame.

The stories of E.W. Hornung in the continuing adventures of cricketer and gentleman thief, Arthur J. Raffles, and his chronicler, Harry ‘Bunny’ Manders.

CAST:

A.J. Raffles …. Jeremy Clyde
‘Bunny’ Manders …. Michael Cochrane
Jacques Saillard …. Eleanor Bron
Dr Theobald …. Gordon Reid
Mr Maturin …. John Hartley
Mrs Fisher …. Gudrun Ure
The Clerk …. Matthew Morgan
The Vicar …. John Church
The Detective …. Peter Penry-Jones
Other parts played by members of the cast

Dramatised by Olwen Wymark.

Signature tune composed by Jim Parker.

Director: Gordon House

A BBC World Service Drama production first broadcast in 1992.


WED 07:00 Rob Newman (b08n2wcs)
Rob Newman's Neuropolis

When You're Snarling

One of Britain's finest comedians, Rob Newman, is our guide on a unique audio odyssey of the brain, taking in everything from love and guilt to robot co-workers and the unlikely importance of prehistoric trousers.

It's a witty, fact-packed series mixing stand-up and sketches, challenging notions of neuroscience with a new theory that's equal parts enlightening and hilarious.

Rob offers an alternative to some of the more bizarre claims in modern popular science, as well as rejigging theories of our brains in light of what we know about nature, artificial intelligence and Belinda Carlisle.

Created by the award-winning team behind Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution.

Written by and starring Rob Newman
Co-starring Claire Price and Richard McCabe

Producer: Jon Harvey
Executive Producer: Richard Wilson
A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2017.


WED 07:30 My Teenage Diary (m000zspp)
Series 10

Tim Downie

Rufus Hound's guest is star of Outlander and Paddington, Tim Downie. Tim's diary takes us back to his drama school days in North London in 1994 - reading Chekhov by candlelight, becoming a vegetarian and wearing a lot of collarless shirts.

A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4


WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k4d6)
Series 4

Back From Holiday

On his return from a disastrous break, the Lad discovers that Sid's rented his house out.

Starring Tony Hancock.

With Sidney James, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams.

Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.

Producer: Dennis Main Wilson

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1956.


WED 08:30 Give Or Take (m000zzws)
Episode 4

Wally K Daly's sitcom about a bank clerk who wins the pools.

Sam and Annabel are off to London to collect their pools cheque and celebrate. But there are one or two surprises in store for them. Will their secret be revealed?

Stars David Roper as Sam Baker and Sharon Duce as his wife, Annabel.

Featuring Bill Owen as Fred.

With special guests George A. Cooper, Gordon Kaye , Deirdre Costello and Maurice Laine.

Theme music by Jim Parker.

Produced by John Fawcett Wilson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1980.


WED 09:00 The Motion Show (m0007d5h)
Series 5

Episode 2

From life beginning at 50 to banning windows.

Graeme Garden hosts the comedy debating show.

With Gyles Brandreth, Miles Jupp, Matthew Taylor and Jo Caulfield.

Producer: Jane Berthoud

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002.


WED 09:30 Snap (b013fct0)
Series 3

Episode 6

Molly's surprise pregnancy makes Doug to do something neither of them ever expected...

Conclusion of Paul Mendelson's sitcom about a couple trying to rebuild their relationship after divorce.

Starring Rebecca Lacey as Molly, Paul Venables as Doug, Soumaya Keynes as Kaz, Jessie Sullivan as Ryan, Marlene Sidaway as Annie, Robin Weaver as Dawn, Jonathan Tafler as Raymond and Richard Firth as Ansel.

Producer: David Ian Neville

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2005.


WED 10:00 Charles Dickens (b007k006)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

An Arrival

Edwin Drood has disappeared and Jasper is convinced that his nephew has been murdered by Neville Landless.

A mysterious stranger who arrives in Cloisterham, however, entertains other ideas.

Charles Dickens's unfinished book completed by Leon Garfield and dramatised for radio in five parts by David Buck.

John Jasper …. Ian Holm
Rev. Chrisparkle …. Gareth Thomas
Princess Puffer …. Mary Wimbush
Deputy …. Susan Sheridan
Miss Twinkleton …. Margaret Courtenay
Rosa Bud …. Moir Leslie
Grewgious …. John Gabriel
Sapsea …. Timothy Alcock
Durdles …. Gordon Gostelow
Joe …. David Goudge
Neville Landless …. Simon Treves
Helena Landless …. Helena Breck
John Moffatt …. Datchery
Anna Cropper …. Mrs Tope
Tartar …. Michael Cochrane
Watchman …. Vincent Brimble
Mrs Billikin …. Margot Boyd
Maid …. Marcia King

Pianist: Nicholas Kok

Director: Gordon House

A BBC Radio 4/BBC World Service co-production first broadcast in 1990.


WED 11:00 Motherhood: Bump, Birth and Beyond (m000zzww)
2. Birth

Jessica Fostekew charts the horrors and the highs of the nine months of life with a bump, the moment of reckoning with birth, and the chaos, or not, that lies ahead. In this episode, it’s delivery time.

Using the BBC Archive and interviews with lots of special guests including Jenny Eclair, Cariad Lloyd, Sara Barron, Richard and Catie Herring, Caroline Mabey, Jen Brister, Hatty Ashdown, Kirsty Newton, Katie Mulgrew, Taylor Glenn, Robin Ince, Laura Lexx, Sindhu Vee, Diane Morgan, and Holly Walsh.

Producer: Laura Grimshaw.

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2018.


WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k4d6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


WED 12:30 Give Or Take (m000zzws)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


WED 13:00 The Price of Silence (m000zzwq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


WED 13:30 Raffles (b007jnfb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


WED 14:00 Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (b08pfq5l)
Episode 8

The author of the global phenomenon 'The Girl on the Train' returns with 'Into the Water', her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.

A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.

Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from-a place to which she vowed she'd never return.

Beware a calm surface-you never know what lies beneath.

Jules ...... Sian Brooke
Lena ...... Lily Loveless
Erin ...... Sarah Ridgeway
Sean ...... Bryan Dick

Written by Paula Hawkins
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Produced by Gemma McMullan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.


WED 14:15 Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg (b03sgpj3)
Episode 3

In January 1946, at the age of 68, renowned artist Dame Laura Knight takes a life-changing commission as war artist to the Nuremberg Trials.

Even though her press box at the court in Nuremberg is so tiny, Dame Laura decides to bring in her enormous canvas and paint the trial in situ. But the United States Civil Broadcasting Company has other ideas.

Written by Amanda Whittington.

Based on the diaries of Dame Laura Knight, whose painting 'The Dock' has become a classic image of the Nazi War Crime Trials.

Writing the Century is an ongoing series of dramas reflecting on the 20th Century through diaries and letters.

Dame Laura Knight ...... Diana Quick
Peter Casson ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Penny Ayres ...... Kate Sobey
William Dean ...... Patrick Keeler
French Prosecutor ...... Mark Meadows

Director: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.


WED 14:30 The Pickwick Poppers (b00tttwp)
Stuart Maconie talks to musicians behind those cheap and cheerful 'Top Of The Pops' cover albums of the 1970's. Long before tribute bands became the norm, their impersonations of Donna Summer, David Essex, Paper Lace and Queen made these LP's some of the best-selling products in the charts.

Produced by John Byrne

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2006.


WED 15:00 Charles Dickens (b007k006)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


WED 16:00 The Motion Show (m0007d5h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


WED 16:30 Snap (b013fct0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


WED 17:00 Rob Newman (b08n2wcs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


WED 17:30 My Teenage Diary (m000zspp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


WED 18:00 The Price of Fear (b007jn9k)
The Ninth Removal

Horror legend Vincent Price's unnerving tale of a secretary's murderous revenge.

Co-starring Freda Jackson, Richard Pearson, Clare Sutcliffe, Michael Segal and Alan Rowe.

Written by R Chetwynd-Hayes and dramatised by Barry Campbell.

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1974.


WED 18:30 Short Cuts (m000g3jk)
Series 22

Call Me

Wrong numbers that make the right connections and the comforting voices of strangers - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about phones.

Monitoring
Produced by Mark Vernon

The Phoneline
Made by Jodie Taylor, producer at Fat Rat Films
This documentary featured recreated calls, all calls to NACOA’s helpline remain absolutely confidential.

Please Hold
Produced by James T. Green
Originally made for the podcast u+1f60c

A 6 instead of a 9
Featuring Kasey Bergh and Henry Glendening
Produced by Claire Crofton

Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2020.


WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k4d6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


WED 19:30 Give Or Take (m000zzws)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


WED 20:00 The Price of Silence (m000zzwq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


WED 20:30 Raffles (b007jnfb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


WED 21:00 Motherhood: Bump, Birth and Beyond (m000zzww)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


WED 22:00 My Teenage Diary (m000zspp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


WED 22:30 Sam Simmons is Not a People Person (b087rm0d)
Whistling

Comedian. Writer. Ex-Zoo Keeper. Bird Watcher. Definitely NOT a people person.

Sam and Henry are making a documentary series about birds, each week - armed with Sam's 'Big Book of Birds' they seek out different species. Despite Henry's best efforts, Sam is continually aggravated by the people they run into. Each encounter sparks an investigation into Sam's past, because once they've sorted out his issues, they'll really be able to focus on the bird-watching.

Now they're in the Netherlands observing a chicken...

The unique talents of the multi-award winning comedian Sam Simmons have landed.

Written by and starring Sam Simmons

With:
Henry Paker
Sarah Kendall
Mike Wilmot
Freya Parker

Sound design by Craig Schuftan
Music by Craig Schuftan with Lani Bagley

Producers: Joseph Nunnery and Alexandra Smith

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in January 2017.


WED 22:45 Mae Martin's Guide to 21st Century Sexuality (b07zztt0)
3. Is Everything A Spectrum?

Canadian stand-up Mae Martin is using a very classy title as an excuse for some cathartic storytelling, mostly about their biggest adolescent crush.

Mae combines wickedly astute social observations with personal references to their own unique upbringing,

A funny, personal look at how millennials are transforming the way that society thinks about sexuality and gender.

Written and performed by Mae Martin.

Script editor: Sarah Campbell

Producer: Alexandra Smith

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2016.


WED 23:00 Radio Active (b007k2yf)
Series 5

Get Away With You

Fancy a timeshare? Or a trip to the Black Country? It's time to 'Get Away With You'.

Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens.

Music by Philip Pope, Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins.

Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins with Jeremy Pascall.

Producer: Jamie Rix

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1985.


WED 23:30 And Now in Colour (b00cfzx5)
Series 1

Marathon

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.

Producer: Lissa Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1990.



THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2021

THU 00:00 The Price of Fear (b007jn9k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]


THU 00:30 Short Cuts (m000g3jk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]


THU 01:00 The Price of Silence (m000zzwq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]


THU 01:30 Raffles (b007jnfb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]


THU 02:00 Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (b08pfq5l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]


THU 02:15 Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg (b03sgpj3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday]


THU 02:30 The Pickwick Poppers (b00tttwp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]


THU 03:00 Charles Dickens (b007k006)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]


THU 04:00 The Motion Show (m0007d5h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]


THU 04:30 Snap (b013fct0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]


THU 05:00 Rob Newman (b08n2wcs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]


THU 05:30 My Teenage Diary (m000zspp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]


THU 06:00 The Price of Silence (m00101qf)
8. Crackpoint

Stephen Barlay's Cold War nuclear thriller starring Ian Hendry and Toby Robins.

Maxon has discovered that the 'GLUE' Early Warning System is an elaborate bluff to make the Russians think we’re ahead of them in the nuclear race. Can he stop Moscow from carrying out their tests? And is Jaqueline still on his side?

Directed by Peter King.

Maxon .... Ian Hendry
Jacqueline .... Toby Robins
Nachalnlk .... Paul Hardwick
Sandy .... Peter Tuddenham
Sleet .... Brett Usher
Wennstrom .... Nigel Graham
Ellsberg .... George Coulouris
Petrushka .... Richard Marner
Announcer .... Alex Marshall

Music composed and played by Ed Welch (piano) With Ron Aspery (saxophone)

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1983.


THU 06:30 Raffles (b007jnfw)
Series 3

The Raffles Relics

Bunny is appalled to hear Raffles calmly announce that he intends to visit New Scotland Yard to view an exhibition of his own craftsman's tools...

The stories of E.W. Hornung in the continuing adventures of cricketer and gentleman thief, Arthur J. Raffles, and his chronicler, Harry 'Bunny' Manders.

CAST:

A.J. Raffles …. Jeremy Clyde
‘Bunny’ Manders …. Michael Cochrane
Mrs Fisher …. Gudrun Ure
Druce …. Peter Forbes
The Colonel …. Terence Edmond
‘Beefy’ …. Matthew Morgan
The other boys were played by Richard Pearce, Nicholas Murchie and Matthew Sim

Dramatised by Olwen Wymark.

Signature tune composed by Jim Parker.

Director: Gordon House

A BBC World Service Drama production first broadcast in 1992.


THU 07:00 It's a Fair Cop (b049z7xh)
Series 1

3. Stopped

Policeman Alfie Moore is "on sabbatical" to be a comedian. Here, Alfie invites his audience to be police officers too for one night only as he takes them through a scenario based on a real-life case.

Who in the audience has ever been stopped by the police - what for and how did they react? Also, how would they deal with an anonymous tip off about a possible drunken driver?

Presented and written by Alfie Moore.

Script editor, Will Ing

Producer, Alison Vernon-Smith

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2014.


THU 07:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000y64v)
Syd

Arthur Smith brings his hit Edinburgh Festival show to Radio 4.

Arthur's father Syd was an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Just 17 when he signed up, he fought at El Alamein, was captured and then imprisoned in Colditz and, after the war, joined the Metropolitan Police. He spent the rest of his working life patrolling the streets of London and had possibly the worst arrest rate in the force - having been a prisoner of war he had no desire to subject anyone else to suffer a loss of liberty.

In this funny and tender evocation of post-war Britain, Arthur brings us Syd's diary entries and conjures up the spirit of his father, a man of great integrity and humour.

Recorded in front of a live, socially distanced audience, with assistance from his brother Nick and music from Kirsty Newton.

Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith

A Yada-Yada Audio production for BBC Radio 4


THU 08:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b012lm9q)
Series 8

Episode 3

Hard times for Radio Prune - are ads the answer? Plus one woman's struggle to get a phone.

Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.

Sketches written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie

Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.

Music and songs by Graeme Garden, Liam Cohen and Dave Lee.

Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1970.


THU 08:30 After Henry (b007k1hq)
Series 1

Mr Right

Sarah meets her daughter Clare's boyfriend, while her mother Eleanor interferes.

Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who never quite manage to see eye to eye.

CAST:

Sarah …. Prunella Scales
Eleanor …. Joan Sanderson
Russell …. Benjamin Whitrow
Clare …. Gerry Cowper
David …. Nigel Williams

Four radio series were made, but instead of then moving to BBC TV - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV network.

Producer: Pete Atkin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1985.


THU 09:00 The Write Stuff (b0076yq7)
Series 9

Alan Bennett

James Walton quizzes the panel in the literary quiz show.

Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh with guests Michèle Roberts and Harry Ritchie.

The Author of the Week and subject for pastiche is Alan Bennett.

Reader: Beth Chalmers.

Producer Katie Marsden

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2006.


THU 09:30 Beaumarchais (m00101qj)
3. Femme Fatale

Craig Warner's witty and irreverent six-part comedy set in 18th-century France.

To help offset his enormous debts, Beaumarchais is set a task by Louis XV, but it involves a very unusual woman.

Beaumarchais .... Henry Goodman
Lia de Beaumont .... Bill Nighy
Louis XV .... Ronald Pickup
Le Counte d'Artois .... Sean Baker
Figaro .... Sean Baker
Lord Rochford .... David Timson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1996.


THU 10:00 Charles Dickens (b007k01g)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

A Performance

John Jasper continues to search for proof that his nephew Edwin has been murdered by Neville Landless.

Eventually, in the most tragic of circumstances, he obtains that proof...

Charles Dickens's unfinished book completed by Leon Garfield and dramatised for radio by David Buck.

John Jasper …. Ian Holm
Rev. Chrisparkle …. Gareth Thomas
Princess Puffer …. Mary Wimbush
Deputy …. Susan Sheridan
Miss Twinkleton …. Margaret Courtenay
Rosa Bud …. Moir Leslie
Grewgious …. John Gabriel
Sapsea …. Timothy Alock
Durdles …. Gordon Gostelow
Watchman …. David Goudge
Neville Landless …. Simon Treves
Helena Landless …. Helena Breck
John Moffatt …. Datchery
Anna Cropper …. Mrs Tope
Tartar …. Michael Cochrane
Bazzard …. John Samson
Honeythunder …. David King
Jack Chinaman …. Burt Kwouk
Chinese Girl …. Norika Aida
Durdles …. Gordon Gostelow
Ghost of Mrs Sapsea …. Madeline Smith
Crisparkle's Mother …. Hilda Kriseman
Mrs Chopper …. Jo Kendall

Pianist: Nicholas Kok

Director: Gordon House

A BBC Radio 4/BBC World Service co-production first broadcast in 1990.


THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0010169)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]


THU 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b011ckxz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday]


THU 12:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b012lm9q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


THU 12:30 After Henry (b007k1hq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


THU 13:00 The Price of Silence (m00101qf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


THU 13:30 Raffles (b007jnfw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


THU 14:00 Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (b08pgbvl)
Episode 9

The author of the global phenomenon 'The Girl on the Train' returns with 'Into the Water', her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.

A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.

Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from-a place to which she vowed she'd never return.

Beware a calm surface-you never know what lies beneath.

Jules ..... Siân Brooke
Lena ..... Lily Loveless
Erin ..... Sarah Ridgeway
Sean ..... Bryan Dick
Helen ..... Natasha Little.

Written by Paula Hawkins.
Abridged by Doreen Estall.
Produced by Gemma McMullan.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.


THU 14:15 Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg (b03sgpz8)
Episode 4

In January 1946, at the age of 68, renowned artist Dame Laura Knight takes a life-changing commission as war artist to the Nuremberg Trials.

Dame Laura takes Peter on a visit to her old circus friends, the Carollis, who are also living, by coincidence, in Nuremberg.

Meanwhile there is a hitch with the press box at court and Laura's eminence as a painter cuts no ice with the American colonel.

Flamenco music by The Thumping Tommys.

Written by Amanda Whittington.

Based on the diaries of Dame Laura Knight, whose painting 'The Dock' has become a classic image of the Nazi War Crime Trials.

Writing the Century is an ongoing series of dramas reflecting on the 20th Century through diaries and letters.

Dame Laura Knight ...... Diana Quick
Peter Casson ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Penny Ayres ...... Kate Sobey
William Dean ...... Patrick Keeler
French Prosecutor ...... Mark Meadows

Director: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.


THU 14:30 A German Genius in Britain (b044j7pt)
Born in Bavaria in 1944, W.G Sebald moved to England in 1966, where he worked first at the University of Manchester, and then at the newly established University of East Anglia. Sebald began publishing relatively late in life, and was still developing his unique literary style at the time of his death in a road accident in 2001. His work combines fiction, memoir, history and travelogue, the prose is studded with black and white photographs, presented caption-free, to often haunting effect. Sebald's work is concerned with memory, and frequently touches on the dreadful silence of the German people concerning the Holocaust.

Presenter Iain Sinclair first visits Manchester, meeting the writer Nicholas Royle to look for remnants of the post-industrial landscape which features in 'The Emigrants', the first book by Sebald to appear in English translation in 1996. In Norfolk, Sinclair meets Jo Catling, a colleague of Sebald's at UEA. Finally in London, with Sebald's friend, the poet Stephen Watts, Sinclair walks the East London streets and cemeteries featured in his last book, 'Austerlitz'.

The programme features an extract from Sebald's last interview, the St Jerome event at Southbank Centre.

Producer: Jessica Treen

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2014.


THU 15:00 Charles Dickens (b007k01g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


THU 16:00 The Write Stuff (b0076yq7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


THU 16:30 Beaumarchais (m00101qj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


THU 17:00 It's a Fair Cop (b049z7xh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


THU 17:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000y64v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


THU 18:00 The Price of Fear (b007jm89)
An Eye for an Eye

Even horror legend Vincent Price can't face the meal that is placed before him.

Co-starring Christopher Bidmead, Anne Jameson and Roger Snowdon.

Written by William Ingram.

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in April 1974


THU 18:30 Great Lives (b08r1vbd)
Series 42

Peter Williams of Jack Wills chooses Steve Jobs

Peter Williams, founder of the British retail chain Jack Wills who is nominating Steve Jobs as his great life. For Williams, despite the fact that Steve Jobs was an abrasive and difficult person, it was his ability to predict what people wanted. It was his Apple products that have touched the lives of so many people world wide and for Peter it's his gadgets that have changed our attitudes to technology.

To help Peter Williams make his case, he is joined by Luke Dormehl, technology journalist and author of The Apple Revolution.

The presenter is Matthew Parris and the producer is Perminder Khatkar.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.


THU 19:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b012lm9q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


THU 19:30 After Henry (b007k1hq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


THU 20:00 The Price of Silence (m00101qf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


THU 20:30 Raffles (b007jnfw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0010169)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]


THU 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b011ckxz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday]


THU 22:00 Stand-Up Specials (m000y64v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


THU 22:30 What's Funny About ... (m00101ql)
Series 2

2. Ian Hislop & Jimmy Mulville on Have I Got News For You

TV veterans Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman talk to the writers, producers, and performers behind Britain’s biggest TV comedy hits, and hear the inside story of how they brought their programmes to the screen.

In this second episode of the new series, Peter and Jon are joined by Ian Hislop and Jimmy Mulville to talk about their genre-defining topical comedy show, Have I Got News For You.

As they look back on HIGNFY’s 535 episodes in its 61 series to date, Ian and Jimmy discuss many of the show’s most controversial moments, including Bruce Forsyth’s ‘Play Your Iraqi Cards Right’.

They tell us how the programme began, and reveal how a young Armando Iannucci turned down the opportunity to make the show. They also both talk more candidly than ever about Angus Deayton’s departure from the show in 2002.

Naturally, they pay tribute to the unique brilliance of Ian’s fellow team captain, Paul Merton.

Producer: Owen Braben

Newly made in 2021 by Expectation Entertainment for BBC Radio 4 Extra.


THU 23:30 Kieran Hodgson's Earworms (b091w6kw)
Series 1

Schnittke

Critically-acclaimed comedian Kieran Hodgson is joined by Georgie Glen and Colin Hoult, in the first of a new series of comedy intros to the great composers. Can self-described 'music educator and inspiration' Ralph Lewis, the man behind ''Tchaikovsky Abs Blast' or 'Holst for the Homeless'. persuade self-confessed 'enemy of culture' Paul, that Schnittke's worth a listen?

Written and starring Kieran Hodgson.

With Colin Hoult and Georgie Glen.

Produced by Sam Ward.

A BBC Studios Production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.


THU 23:45 Lenny Henry's Rogues Gallery (b09h3y8b)
Series 2

Murder Men

Another darkly comic tale from the mind of Sir Lenny Henry, who plays Phil Hedley, an actor known for his "tough guy" roles. When Phil is suddenly cut from his hit cop drama "Tough Diamonds", for getting too close to the executive producer's daughter, the work dries up and he is forced to take a job fronting documentaries on gangs for niche cable channel Man Planet. But although Phil acts the tough guy, when is finds himself interviewing a drug lord in the middle of the Jamaican bush, it turns out he might not actually be as tough as he first thought...

Written and starring Sir Lenny Henry.

Producer: Sam Michell.

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2017.



FRIDAY 01 OCTOBER 2021

FRI 00:00 The Price of Fear (b007jm89)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]


FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b08r1vbd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]


FRI 01:00 The Price of Silence (m00101qf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]


FRI 01:30 Raffles (b007jnfw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]


FRI 02:00 Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (b08pgbvl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]


FRI 02:15 Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg (b03sgpz8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday]


FRI 02:30 A German Genius in Britain (b044j7pt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]


FRI 03:00 Charles Dickens (b007k01g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]


FRI 04:00 The Write Stuff (b0076yq7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]


FRI 04:30 Beaumarchais (m00101qj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]


FRI 05:00 It's a Fair Cop (b049z7xh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]


FRI 05:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000y64v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday]


FRI 06:00 The Price of Silence (m00100hb)
9. The Price

Old Petrushka, last of the old guard, is dead. What will Russia do next? Who will win the deadly game of "nuclear poker" ?

And what does General Locke have in store for Maxon and Jaqueline?

Conclusion of Stephen Barlay's Cold War nuclear thriller starring Ian Hendry and Toby Robins.

Maxon .... Ian Hendry
Jacqueline .... Toby Robins
the Nachalnik .... Paul Hardwick
Locke .... Alan Tilvern
Nadia .... Zhivlla Roche
Gloucester/Wennstrom .... Nigel Graham
Reporter ... Brett Usher
Stewardess .... Alex Marshall
Beryov .... Peter Gale
Captain .... Stuart Milligan

Music composed and played by Ed Welch (piano) with Ron Aspery (Sax).

Director: Peter King.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1983.


FRI 06:30 Raffles (b007jngf)
Series 3

The Knees of the Gods

Raffles and Bunny leave England to fight for queen and country in the South African war. For one of them there will be no return...

The stories of E.W. Hornung in the continuing adventures of cricketer and gentleman thief, Arthur J. Raffles, and his chronicler, Harry 'Bunny' Manders.

CAST:

A.J. Raffles …. Jeremy Clyde
‘Bunny’ Manders …. Michael Cochrane
Connal …. Sean Barrett
The General …. Peter Penry-Jones
Bellingham …. Eric Allan
Mrs Fisher …. Gudrun Ure
The soldiers were played by Nicholas Murchie, Keith Drinkel, Peter Murphy and John Webb

Dramatised by Olwen Wymark.

Signature tune composed by Jim Parker.

Director: Gordon House

A BBC World Service Drama production first broadcast in 1992.


FRI 07:00 On the Rocks (b05tkllr)
Series 2

Sirens

It's 1938 and with all this talk of war, GPO man Frank Gunwallow returns to see if all is still in order at the St. Martin's Post Office.

Second series of 1930s Isles Of Scilly comedy by Christopher William Hill.

Even on the remote island of St Martin's war seems inevitable, but the islanders have their own battles to contend with, stuck on a rock flung 27 miles out into the Atlantic with only their natural grit and gallows humour to see them through.

Frank Gunwallow ..... Joseph Kloska
Morwenna-May ..... Alex Tregear
Tommy Trenear ..... Stuart Fox
Ben ..... Alex Palmer
Mary ..... Bec Applebee
Len ..... Ed Gaughan

Director ..... Mary Peate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.


FRI 07:30 Stand-Up Specials (m00100hd)
Jessica Fostekew: Powerhouse

Absolute powershed Jessica Fostekew explores her big strong strength.

Have you ever watched a feminist try and take ‘hench’ as a compliment? It’s like watching a snake eat, but funny. In this show, Jess extols the joys of weightlifting, decries the pressures put on women by the diet industry and explores the evolutionary advantage of having legs like a prize ham.

Powerhouse is adapted for BBC Radio 4 from Jessica's 2019 Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated show, Hench.

Written and Performed by Jessica Fostekew
Production Coordinator: Tamara Shilham
Producer: Lyndsay Fenner

Photo credit: Idil Sukan

A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.


FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jnj5)
Series 2

Brain Versus Brawn

Disguised as firemen for an exercise, the Walmington-on-Sea platoon must tackle a real blaze.

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

CAST:

Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Private Walker …. Larry Martin
The Waitress/The Policewoman …. Avril Angers
Colonel Pritchard …. Robert Raglan
Mr. Fairbrother/The Corporal …. Stuart Sherwin
Announcer …. John Snagge

Producer: John Dyas.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1975.


FRI 08:30 Coming Alive (b00ftc6d)
Series 1

Runaway

Getting closer to Sandra, ex-convict Terry sets out to help a young girl on the run. He faces a crisis of conscience and learns a bitter lesson.

Starring Karl Howman as Terry and Phyllis Logan as Sandra.

Written by Jim Eldridge.

Produced by Marilyn Imrie.

Karl Howman .... Terry King
Phyllis Logan .... Sandra Gaines
Ben Crowe .... Steve
Tilly Gaunt .... Paula
Elizabeth Conboy .... Michelle

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1999.


FRI 09:00 The Food Quiz (b0076tgx)
Series 3

From 14/09/2005

On Jay Rayner's menu are Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Marguerite Patten, Henrietta Green and Matthew Thorpe. From September 2005.


FRI 09:30 Clare in the Community (b008cy0w)
Series 1

Adoption

The social worker gets noisy new neighbours - but what is her rich sister Emma after? Stars Sally Phillips. From December 2004.


FRI 10:00 Charles Dickens (b007k02r)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Redress

The man who Jasper believes killed Edwin, Neville Landless, has been found stabbed to death.

But Datchery has a plan...

Conclusion of Charles Dickens's unfinished book completed by Leon Garfield and dramatised for radio by David Buck.

John Jasper …. Ian Holm
Rev. Chrisparkle …. Gareth Thomas
Deputy …. Susan Sheridan
Miss Twinkleton …. Margaret Courtenay
Rosa Bud …. Moir Leslie
Grewgious …. John Gabriel
Sapsea …. Timothy Alock
Durdles …. Gordon Gostelow
1st Constable …. David Goudge
2nd Constable …. Simon Treves
Helena Landless …. Helena Breck
Datchery …. John Moffatt
Mrs Tope …. Anna Cropper
Tartar …. Michael Cochrane
Bazzard …. John Samson
Judge …. David King
Durdles …. Gordon Gostelow
Crisparkle's Mother …. Hilda Kriseman
Sapsea …. Timothy Alcock
Mrs MacSiddons …. Anne Jameson
Doctor …. Michael Cox

Pianist: Nicholas Kok

Director: Gordon House

A BBC Radio 4/BBC World Service co-production first broadcast in 1990.


FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m00100hj)
Poetry Podcasts

Laura Grimshaw and Salena Godden present a selection of poetry podcasts.


FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jnj5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


FRI 12:30 Coming Alive (b00ftc6d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


FRI 13:00 The Price of Silence (m00100hb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


FRI 13:30 Raffles (b007jngf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


FRI 14:00 Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (b08pgsx2)
Episode 10

The author of the global phenomenon 'The Girl on the Train' returns with 'Into the Water', her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.

A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.

Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from-a place to which she vowed she'd never return.

Beware a calm surface-you never know what lies beneath.

Jules ...... Sian Brooke
Lena ...... Lily Loveless
Erin ...... Sarah Ridgeway
Sean ...... Bryan Dick
Helen ...... Natasha Little
Patrick ...... Sean Baker
Louise ...... Elizabeth Berrington
Nickie ...... Lynda Baron

Written by Paula Hawkins
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Produced by Gemma McMullan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.


FRI 14:15 Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg (b03sgq3n)
Episode 5

In January 1946, at the age of 68, renowned artist Dame Laura Knight takes a life-changing commission as war artist to the Nuremberg Trials.

Dame Laura's painting of the Nuremberg Trial is almost complete. When she was commissioned as war artist by the British government, they were not expecting this: a vision of the courtroom as a kind of hell, with a mirage of the ruined city in the background.

Written by Amanda Whittington.

Based on the diaries of Dame Laura Knight, whose painting 'The Dock' has become a classic image of the Nazi War Crime Trials.

Writing the Century is an ongoing series of dramas reflecting on the 20th Century through diaries and letters.

Dame Laura Knight ...... Diana Quick
Peter Casson ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Penny Ayres ...... Kate Sobey
William Dean ...... Patrick Keeler
French Prosecutor ...... Mark Meadows

Director: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.


FRI 14:30 Small Presses, Big Ideas (b008j8vq)
Anyone with a verse and the price of a stamp can rub stanzas with the greats thanks to small-circulation poetry magazines. Phill Jupitus visits Liverpool, starting at the News From Nowhere bookshop and the Manchester Literature Festival, to find out why these have been so important - and what it is that inspires the people who create them.

Producer Geoff Bird

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2007.


FRI 15:00 Charles Dickens (b007k02r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


FRI 16:00 The Food Quiz (b0076tgx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


FRI 16:30 Clare in the Community (b008cy0w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


FRI 17:00 On the Rocks (b05tkllr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


FRI 17:30 Stand-Up Specials (m00100hd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


FRI 18:00 The Price of Fear (b007jmcf)
Blind Man's Bluff

Horror legend Vincent Price's chilling tale of an eerie passenger who joins him on a train heading west.

Co-starring Freddie Jones and Geoffrey Collins.

Written by William Ingram.
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1975.


FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b01292v7)
The Games People Play

George Bernard Shaw reckoned that we don't stop playing because we're old, but we grow old because we forget to play.

Putting that idea to test are David Goldblatt, author of ‘The Ball is Round’; Helen Bentley, one of the organisers of Igfest in Bristol - the Interesting Games Festival; and the man behind ‘The Importance of Being Trivial’, Mark Mason.

Are we really as playful as we like to think, and what does our choice of game say about us ?

Presented by Dominic Arkwright.

Producer: Miles Warde

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2011.


FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jnj5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


FRI 19:30 Coming Alive (b00ftc6d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


FRI 20:00 The Price of Silence (m00100hb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


FRI 20:30 Raffles (b007jngf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m00100hj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]


FRI 22:00 Stand-Up Specials (m00100hd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


FRI 22:30 Mark Thomas Presents (b0076w2p)
The Firesign Theatre

The Firesign Theatre make their first British appearance for many years at the London Comedy Store.

Since the mid 1960s, The Firesign Theatre has been one of the best kept secrets in American comedy. A four-man comedy troupe with shades of Monty Python and The Goons, they grew out of a free-form radio show in California. They went on to produce a series of comedy albums which became cult favourites, in which they combined satire with parodies of popular culture and classic drama.

Expect political comment, a virtuoso range of comic voices, and plenty of verbal ingenuity.

Series in which Mark Thomas introduces iconic American comedy performers.

Producer: Paul Bajoria

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2005.


FRI 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b00wtb2v)
Series 6

Ginger

Satan finally resolves Edith's murder, while she discovers something astonishing about humans descended from angels.

Andy Hamilton's comedy set in Hell.

CAST:

Satan…. Andy Hamilton
Edith …. Annette Crosbie
Scumspawn …. Robert Duncan
Thomas …. Scumspawn
with Michael Fenton Stevens, Philip Pope, Felicity Montagu and Nick Revell.

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007.


FRI 23:30 Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy (b08g5h2g)
Series 1

A Day in October

Multi-award winning storyteller Sarah Kendall, brings her critically acclaimed trilogy of funny and moving, live shows to BBC Radio.

"This show is a story about a day in October in 1990, when I saw a miracle happen to a boy, and his name was George Peach..."

The story of Sarah's secret relationship with bullied classmate, George Peach. Following an accident at the beach, George Peach died for exactly 11 seconds. Sarah's story examines the remarkable effect those eleven seconds had on Sarah and her schoolmates. The show plays with the relationship between fiction and real-life and explores the redemptive power of storytelling.

A Day in October won the 2018 Writers' Guild Award the Audio Drama Award for best comedy production.

Taking her audience on a trip, Sarah gives a unique snapshot of small-town life in Australia in the early 90s . At a time when most people were seeing Australians through the filter of 'Home and Away' and 'Neighbours', Sarah's shows present a darker underbelly to the stereotype of the sun-loving, happy-go-lucky Aussie teenager.

Comedic and tragic in equal measure, Sarah's tales of her teenage life blend intricate narratives with a cast of memorable characters, bringing events to life in front of your very ears.

Written and performed by Sarah Kendall

Producer - Carl Cooper
Production Coordinator - Emily Hallett

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2017.




LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)

A German Genius in Britain 14:30 THU (b044j7pt)

A German Genius in Britain 02:30 FRI (b044j7pt)

A Good Read 18:30 MON (b01p0fpv)

A Good Read 00:30 TUE (b01p0fpv)

After Henry 08:30 THU (b007k1hq)

After Henry 12:30 THU (b007k1hq)

After Henry 19:30 THU (b007k1hq)

Albert and Me 08:30 MON (b007jynb)

Albert and Me 12:30 MON (b007jynb)

Albert and Me 19:30 MON (b007jynb)

Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section 22:00 SAT (b01d51th)

Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg 14:15 MON (b03s6mdy)

Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg 02:15 TUE (b03s6mdy)

Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg 14:15 TUE (b03sgp6d)

Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg 02:15 WED (b03sgp6d)

Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg 14:15 WED (b03sgpj3)

Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg 02:15 THU (b03sgpj3)

Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg 14:15 THU (b03sgpz8)

Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg 02:15 FRI (b03sgpz8)

Amanda Whittington - The Dock, Nuremberg 14:15 FRI (b03sgq3n)

And Now in Colour 23:30 WED (b00cfzx5)

Anthony Burgess - Inside Mr Enderby 03:00 SAT (m0009srr)

Beaumarchais 09:30 THU (m00101qj)

Beaumarchais 16:30 THU (m00101qj)

Beaumarchais 04:30 FRI (m00101qj)

Ben Lewis - House Rules 02:15 SAT (b0b5xh1r)

Ben Lewis - House Rules 07:20 SUN (m0010166)

Charles Dickens 10:00 MON (b007jzxk)

Charles Dickens 15:00 MON (b007jzxk)

Charles Dickens 03:00 TUE (b007jzxk)

Charles Dickens 10:00 TUE (b007jzyx)

Charles Dickens 15:00 TUE (b007jzyx)

Charles Dickens 03:00 WED (b007jzyx)

Charles Dickens 10:00 WED (b007k006)

Charles Dickens 15:00 WED (b007k006)

Charles Dickens 03:00 THU (b007k006)

Charles Dickens 10:00 THU (b007k01g)

Charles Dickens 15:00 THU (b007k01g)

Charles Dickens 03:00 FRI (b007k01g)

Charles Dickens 10:00 FRI (b007k02r)

Charles Dickens 15:00 FRI (b007k02r)

Clare in the Community 04:30 SAT (b0089j0c)

Clare in the Community 09:30 FRI (b008cy0w)

Clare in the Community 16:30 FRI (b008cy0w)

Coming Alive 08:30 FRI (b00ftc6d)

Coming Alive 12:30 FRI (b00ftc6d)

Coming Alive 19:30 FRI (b00ftc6d)

Dad's Army 08:00 FRI (b007jnj5)

Dad's Army 12:00 FRI (b007jnj5)

Dad's Army 19:00 FRI (b007jnj5)

Daphne Sounds Expensive 23:30 SAT (b07m7vzj)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 10:45 SUN (b011ckxz)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 21:45 SUN (b011ckxz)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 11:45 THU (b011ckxz)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 21:45 THU (b011ckxz)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 10:00 SUN (m0010169)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 21:00 SUN (m0010169)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 11:00 THU (m0010169)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 21:00 THU (m0010169)

Doctor at Large 08:30 SUN (b009s9n7)

Elvenquest 22:30 SAT (b01r5lnp)

Give Or Take 08:30 WED (m000zzws)

Give Or Take 12:30 WED (m000zzws)

Give Or Take 19:30 WED (m000zzws)

Great Lives 07:30 SAT (b08q5x7l)

Great Lives 17:30 SAT (b08q5x7l)

Great Lives 05:30 SUN (b08q5x7l)

Great Lives 18:30 THU (b08r1vbd)

Great Lives 00:30 FRI (b08r1vbd)

Hancock's Half Hour 08:00 WED (b007k4d6)

Hancock's Half Hour 12:00 WED (b007k4d6)

Hancock's Half Hour 19:00 WED (b007k4d6)

Henry Normal: A Normal... 05:30 SAT (m000sj8s)

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again 08:00 THU (b012lm9q)

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again 12:00 THU (b012lm9q)

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again 19:00 THU (b012lm9q)

Inheritance Tracks 15:55 SAT (b08fnp4g)

Inheritance Tracks 03:55 SUN (b08fnp4g)

Inheritance Tracks 07:10 SUN (b08cd9yh)

Inheritance Tracks 11:55 SUN (b08cd9yh)

Inheritance Tracks 19:55 SUN (b08cd9yh)

Inheritance Tracks 11:50 MON (m00101wd)

Inheritance Tracks 21:50 MON (m00101wd)

Inheritance Tracks 11:55 TUE (m0010206)

Inheritance Tracks 21:55 TUE (m0010206)

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins (Omnibus) 06:00 SUN (b08psf88)

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins 02:00 SAT (b08p1t6s)

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins 14:00 MON (b08pdydv)

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins 02:00 TUE (b08pdydv)

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins 14:00 TUE (b08pf09n)

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins 02:00 WED (b08pf09n)

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins 14:00 WED (b08pfq5l)

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins 02:00 THU (b08pfq5l)

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins 14:00 THU (b08pgbvl)

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins 02:00 FRI (b08pgbvl)

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins 14:00 FRI (b08pgsx2)

It's Jocelyn 05:00 SAT (b08hpf79)

It's Your Round 09:00 MON (b00zm32d)

It's Your Round 16:00 MON (b00zm32d)

It's Your Round 04:00 TUE (b00zm32d)

It's a Fair Cop 07:00 THU (b049z7xh)

It's a Fair Cop 17:00 THU (b049z7xh)

It's a Fair Cop 05:00 FRI (b049z7xh)

John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music 09:30 SUN (b084tlr0)

Julie Enfield Investigates 01:30 SAT (b010nwbj)

Just a Minute 07:30 MON (m000zsfn)

Just a Minute 17:30 MON (m000zsfn)

Just a Minute 22:00 MON (m000zsfn)

Just a Minute 05:30 TUE (m000zsfn)

Kieran Hodgson's Earworms 23:30 THU (b091w6kw)

Lenny Henry's Rogues Gallery 23:45 THU (b09h3y8b)

Life: An Idiot's Guide 23:30 SUN (b01qmxfy)

Lip Service 09:30 MON (m00101w8)

Lip Service 16:30 MON (m00101w8)

Lip Service 04:30 TUE (m00101w8)

Mae Martin's Guide to 21st Century Sexuality 22:45 WED (b07zztt0)

Man at the Helm 07:00 MON (b07wt9c4)

Man at the Helm 17:00 MON (b07wt9c4)

Man at the Helm 05:00 TUE (b07wt9c4)

Mark Morris: The Wild Card of Dance 02:30 SAT (b047c31b)

Mark Steel's in Town 22:30 SUN (b00j7522)

Mark Thomas Presents 22:30 FRI (b0076w2p)

Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? 12:30 SUN (b00sjcvd)

Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? 17:30 SUN (b00sjcvd)

Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? 22:00 SUN (b00sjcvd)

Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? 05:30 MON (b00sjcvd)

Miss Marple 06:00 SAT (b007jvht)

Miss Marple 16:00 SAT (b007jvht)

Miss Marple 04:00 SUN (b007jvht)

Motherhood: Bump, Birth and Beyond 11:00 WED (m000zzww)

Motherhood: Bump, Birth and Beyond 21:00 WED (m000zzww)

My Teenage Diary 07:30 WED (m000zspp)

My Teenage Diary 17:30 WED (m000zspp)

My Teenage Diary 22:00 WED (m000zspp)

My Teenage Diary 05:30 THU (m000zspp)

Nineteen Ninety-Eight 09:30 TUE (b01cjd41)

Nineteen Ninety-Eight 16:30 TUE (b01cjd41)

Nineteen Ninety-Eight 04:30 WED (b01cjd41)

Not in Front of the Children 09:00 SUN (b08jpftk)

Off the Page 00:30 SAT (b0124pp5)

Off the Page 18:30 FRI (b01292v7)

Old Harry's Game 23:00 FRI (b00wtb2v)

On the Hour 23:00 SUN (b007jmnp)

On the Rocks 07:00 FRI (b05tkllr)

On the Rocks 17:00 FRI (b05tkllr)

Once Upon a Time 16:40 SUN (b00n48mw)

Once Upon a Time 04:40 MON (b00n48mw)

Pieces of Britney 11:00 TUE (p09mw62b)

Pieces of Britney 21:00 TUE (p09mw62b)

Podcast Radio Hour 11:00 FRI (m00100hj)

Podcast Radio Hour 21:00 FRI (m00100hj)

Poetry Extra 12:00 SUN (m001016f)

Poetry Extra 17:00 SUN (m001016f)

Poetry Extra 05:00 MON (m001016f)

Radio Active 23:00 WED (b007k2yf)

Radio Soaps 09:00 SAT (b007jpk5)

Radio Soaps 19:00 SAT (b007jpk5)

Radiolab 11:00 SUN (m001016c)

Radiolab 19:00 SUN (m001016c)

Raffles 06:30 MON (b007jncv)

Raffles 13:30 MON (b007jncv)

Raffles 20:30 MON (b007jncv)

Raffles 01:30 TUE (b007jncv)

Raffles 06:30 TUE (b007jndt)

Raffles 13:30 TUE (b007jndt)

Raffles 20:30 TUE (b007jndt)

Raffles 01:30 WED (b007jndt)

Raffles 06:30 WED (b007jnfb)

Raffles 13:30 WED (b007jnfb)

Raffles 20:30 WED (b007jnfb)

Raffles 01:30 THU (b007jnfb)

Raffles 06:30 THU (b007jnfw)

Raffles 13:30 THU (b007jnfw)

Raffles 20:30 THU (b007jnfw)

Raffles 01:30 FRI (b007jnfw)

Raffles 06:30 FRI (b007jngf)

Raffles 13:30 FRI (b007jngf)

Raffles 20:30 FRI (b007jngf)

Reconstructing Louis 20:00 SUN (b0075z1g)

Revolting People 22:30 TUE (b00w48m7)

Rob Newman 07:00 WED (b08n2wcs)

Rob Newman 17:00 WED (b08n2wcs)

Rob Newman 05:00 THU (b08n2wcs)

Round the Horne 08:00 TUE (b00jjq7v)

Round the Horne 12:00 TUE (b00jjq7v)

Round the Horne 19:00 TUE (b00jjq7v)

Sam Simmons is Not a People Person 22:30 WED (b087rm0d)

Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy 23:30 FRI (b08g5h2g)

Short Cuts 18:30 WED (m000g3jk)

Short Cuts 00:30 THU (m000g3jk)

Small Presses, Big Ideas 14:30 FRI (b008j8vq)

Small Scenes 23:00 TUE (b04l0y2l)

Snap 08:30 SAT (m00051v9)

Snap 09:30 WED (b013fct0)

Snap 16:30 WED (b013fct0)

Snap 04:30 THU (b013fct0)

Soul Music 18:30 TUE (b01qwb2n)

Soul Music 00:30 WED (b01qwb2n)

Spirit of the House by Fay Weldon 18:40 SAT (b08f16hz)

Spirit of the House by Fay Weldon 00:40 SUN (b08f16hz)

Stand-Up Specials 07:30 THU (m000y64v)

Stand-Up Specials 17:30 THU (m000y64v)

Stand-Up Specials 22:00 THU (m000y64v)

Stand-Up Specials 05:30 FRI (m000y64v)

Stand-Up Specials 07:30 FRI (m00100hd)

Stand-Up Specials 17:30 FRI (m00100hd)

Stand-Up Specials 22:00 FRI (m00100hd)

Steptoe and Son 08:00 MON (b007jp1c)

Steptoe and Son 12:00 MON (b007jp1c)

Steptoe and Son 19:00 MON (b007jp1c)

Steve Erickson - Shadowbahn 18:00 SUN (m001016m)

Steve Erickson - Shadowbahn 00:00 MON (m001016m)

TED Radio Hour 11:00 MON (m00101wb)

TED Radio Hour 21:00 MON (m00101wb)

The 3rd Degree 16:00 TUE (b08tby7b)

The 3rd Degree 04:00 WED (b08tby7b)

The Birthday Cake Game 07:30 TUE (m000zt9t)

The Birthday Cake Game 17:30 TUE (m000zt9t)

The Birthday Cake Game 22:00 TUE (m000zt9t)

The Birthday Cake Game 05:30 WED (m000zt9t)

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

The Curried Goat Show 23:00 SAT (b007k484)

The Damien Slash Mixtape 23:45 MON (b08wphwm)

The Food Quiz 04:00 SAT (b0076tc6)

The Food Quiz 09:00 FRI (b0076tgx)

The Food Quiz 16:00 FRI (b0076tgx)

The Gatsby Factor 12:00 SAT (b01s8qxh)

The Great Gatsby Letters 12:30 SAT (b01130n7)

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 13:00 SAT (m0010144)

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 01:00 SUN (m0010144)

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 13:00 SUN (m001016h)

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 01:00 MON (m001016h)

The Medal Makers 14:30 MON (b00cc102)

The Medal Makers 02:30 TUE (b00cc102)

The Motion Show 08:00 SAT (m00076b9)

The Motion Show 09:00 WED (m0007d5h)

The Motion Show 16:00 WED (m0007d5h)

The Motion Show 04:00 THU (m0007d5h)

The News Quiz 23:00 MON (m000zv9c)

The News Quiz 09:00 TUE (m000zv9c)

The Pickwick Poppers 14:30 WED (b00tttwp)

The Pickwick Poppers 02:30 THU (b00tttwp)

The Price of Fear 18:00 MON (b007jmgf)

The Price of Fear 00:00 TUE (b007jmgf)

The Price of Fear 18:00 TUE (b01s7w2d)

The Price of Fear 00:00 WED (b01s7w2d)

The Price of Fear 18:00 WED (b007jn9k)

The Price of Fear 00:00 THU (b007jn9k)

The Price of Fear 18:00 THU (b007jm89)

The Price of Fear 00:00 FRI (b007jm89)

The Price of Fear 18:00 FRI (b007jmcf)

The Price of Silence 01:00 SAT (m000zs3k)

The Price of Silence 06:00 MON (m00101w6)

The Price of Silence 13:00 MON (m00101w6)

The Price of Silence 20:00 MON (m00101w6)

The Price of Silence 01:00 TUE (m00101w6)

The Price of Silence 06:00 TUE (m0010203)

The Price of Silence 13:00 TUE (m0010203)

The Price of Silence 20:00 TUE (m0010203)

The Price of Silence 01:00 WED (m0010203)

The Price of Silence 06:00 WED (m000zzwq)

The Price of Silence 13:00 WED (m000zzwq)

The Price of Silence 20:00 WED (m000zzwq)

The Price of Silence 01:00 THU (m000zzwq)

The Price of Silence 06:00 THU (m00101qf)

The Price of Silence 13:00 THU (m00101qf)

The Price of Silence 20:00 THU (m00101qf)

The Price of Silence 01:00 FRI (m00101qf)

The Price of Silence 06:00 FRI (m00100hb)

The Price of Silence 13:00 FRI (m00100hb)

The Price of Silence 20:00 FRI (m00100hb)

The Prisoner 18:00 SAT (m0001stk)

The Prisoner 00:00 SUN (m0001stk)

The Sofa of Time 22:30 MON (b00hwyq7)

The Tim Vine Chat Show 07:00 TUE (b09794s8)

The Tim Vine Chat Show 17:00 TUE (b09794s8)

The Tim Vine Chat Show 05:00 WED (b09794s8)

The Write Stuff 09:00 THU (b0076yq7)

The Write Stuff 16:00 THU (b0076yq7)

The Write Stuff 04:00 FRI (b0076yq7)

Three Continents, Three Generations 14:30 TUE (b0435c83)

Three Continents, Three Generations 02:30 WED (b0435c83)

Vent 23:30 TUE (b00v3qsn)

What's Funny About ... 22:30 THU (m00101ql)

Where Did It All Go Wrong? 23:30 MON (b0076qtg)

Winston 08:30 TUE (b007jncr)

Winston 12:30 TUE (b007jncr)

Winston 19:30 TUE (b007jncr)

World Book Club 15:40 SUN (b079s64s)

World Book Club 03:40 MON (b079s64s)