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RADIO-LISTS: BBC RADIO 4 Extra
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SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2024

SAT 00:00 Soul Music (b04tjdls)
Series 19

La Boheme

"La Boheme is a work of genius, for me it's the perfect opera. There's not a bar or a word or anything you'd want to alter. It just gets to you"

- Opera Director John Copley CBE.

Soul Music ventures back into the Parisian winter of Puccini's beloved 'La Boheme' where legendary Opera Director John Copley CBE reflects on his 40 years of bringing this tale of friendship, love and loss to the stage of London's Royal Opera House.

Alongside his memories of sharing pasta with a young Pavarotti we hear the stories from those whose lives have been touched by - and often reflect - the essence of this most popular of operas.

From the romantic gesture of a probationary constable serenading his soon to be bus conductress wife in 1950's Torquay to the moment that a devoted husband passed away - La Boheme has touched the lives of opera lovers around the world.

Featuring interviews with:

* Author Mavis Cheek
* Opera devotees, Ray Tabb and Nancy Rossi

Producer: Nicola Humphries

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014.

SAT 00:30 Who The Wild Things Are (b00c5j0j)
What is Maurice Sendak's classic children's book "Where the Wild Things Are" all about?

Philip Glassborow talks with Sendak's British editor, Judy Taylor, to his long-time friend, the distinguished writer and playwright Tony Kushner and to the American children's literature expert Leonard Marcus, who takes him back to the haunts of Sendak's American childhood in Brooklyn.

He is astonished to discover that in all the extensive press, radio and TV coverage of Sendak, nobody has ever thought to consult any children.

Every great children's book, has a world beyond its creator and here the Year 2 children of an Oxfordshire primary school have their say. Angry mothers and fathers with big hairy feet both feature in their interpretations of who the Wild Things really are.

With a reading by Henry Goodman and extensive use of Jewish Klezmer music, this programme will shed new light on who the Wild Things really are and act as a fitting legacy to the late, great master.

Producer Beaty Rubens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008.

SAT 01:00 Agatha Christie (b00jzwdq)
In a Glass Darkly

A man believes he has seen a murderous attack on a young woman reflected in a mirror.

He then meets and falls in love with her.

With war calling him away, he tries to warn her of what he has seen.

Stars Neil Dudgeon

Agatha Christie's whodunit dramatised by Mike Walker

Jeff ...... Neil Dudgeon
Sylvia ...... Rebecca Egan
Neil ...... Rhys Meredith
Terry ...... Bob Sherman
Angus ...... Richard Firth

Music composed and performed by Ben Wallfisch

Director: Ned Chaillet

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003.

SAT 01:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025dbf)
1. Spring In The Air

'Meisterspringer' Paul Mettold is blackmailed by British agents into arranging the escape from prison of Russian spy James Carter.

But the breakout does not go according to plan...

Starring Christopher Good and Melinda Walker..

Berkely Mather's six-part spy thriller serial.

Charles Wainwright .... Christopher Good
Ilena Mettold .... Melinda Walker
Paul Mettold .... Cyril Shaps
Carter .... Graham Blockey
The Gaffer .... Ronald Baddeley
Benson .... Arnold Diamond
Martin .... Peter Acre
Prison Officer .... William Hope
Judge .... John Forbes Robertson

Other parts played by the cast.

Producer: Graham Gauld

Director: Caroline Raphael

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1985.

**** Berkely Mather was the penname of John Davies [1909-1996].

His career in radio drama spanned from 1955 to 1985. A prodigious writer of screenplays, his TV credits include ‘Z Cars’ and ‘The Avengers’. In the cinema, he is known for his work on three James Bond movies, ‘Dr No’, ‘From Russia with Love’ and ‘Goldfinger’.

SAT 02:00 Up the Garden Path (b00803k9)
Series 2

Arrivals and Departures

Izzy has escaped from the clutches of the adulterous Michael and spent the past year on a teachers' exchange scheme in San Francisco.

While over there, she shared an apartment with the adoring, but unappealing Dick.

As they fly home, Izzy feels her life is more than usually up in the air.

Tumbling from one love entanglement to another, 30 something teacher Izzy Comyn has a predilection for inappropriate men.

Imelda Staunton stars as Izzy.

A radio sequel adapted in eight parts from Sue Limb’s 1984 novel.

The second of 3 series which ran from 1987 to 1993. Granada also adapted the series for ITV.

Izzy ...... Imelda Staunton
Dick ...... Mike Grady
Maria ...... Marty Cruickshan
Michael ...... Nicholas Le Prevost
Louise ...... Phyllida Nash
Aunt Vinny ...... Rosemary Martin
Charles ...... David Robb

Producer: Jonathan James-Moore

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1988.

SAT 02:30 Doctor in the House (b007jt20)
Our First Operation

Sir Lancelot Spratt causes alarm for medic Simon Sparrow in the operating theatre.

The misadventures of student doctor, Simon Sparrow.

Starring Richard Briers.

Adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's 'Doctor in the House' published in 1952.

Simon Sparrow …. Richard Briers
Sir Lancelot Spratt …. Geoffrey Sumner
Tony Benskin …. Ray Cooney
Taffy Evans …. Edward Cast
Sister …. Ann Murray

Producer: David Hatch

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1968.

SAT 03:00 Michael Spicer: Before Next Door (m000y6t6)
Series 1

To Put It Another Way

Roberta’s networking as Michael’s part-time, unpaid manager is finally paying off and she is beginning to get her husband some serious industry traction.

She lines up an audition for the prestigious topical panel show, To Put It Another Way. Unfortunately, this lands Michael in a bear pit of bullying stand up comedians who are used to the gladiatorial nature of these shows. Encountering a bitter, aggressive stand-up is enough to put Michael off being a comedian for good.

As the restructuring process at work comes to a climax (being re-interviewed for the job he already has) Michael is at a very low ebb.

Feeling like a comedy failure after acting as a punch bag at the panel show run through, he is now certain he is for the chop.

In spite of the battering he received in front of an audience at the TV run through, he receives encouragement from stand-up comic Natalie Duke, who gives Michael an idea that might change everything. Could he really could give up the day job?

Roberta is pushing Michael hard to take the plunge and use the platform his Room Next Door following has created to forge a comedy career, with her as his full-time manager, of course. But it seems that she is far more keen to ditch her secure day job than Michael is, especially when his boss at the kitchen worktop company delivers his plan to reorganise the company.

Will Michael take the plunge? Will Roberta take the plunge? Will you take the plunge and give it a listen?

Written and performed by Michael Spicer.

With:

Ellie Taylor
Joanna Neary
Susan Wokoma
Kiell Smith-Bynoe
Greig Johnson,
Tara Flynn
Peter Curran

Producer: Matt Tiller

A Starstruck and Tillervision production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2021.

SAT 03:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000f7xx)
5. Intruder

A local member of the IRA learns more about the mysterious guests at Clonmillis Hall.

In 1940, at the height of Blitz, the two young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are secretly evacuated from Buckingham Palace for their own safety and sent to an isolated rural estate in neutral Ireland.

However Clonmillis Hall may prove to be even more dangerous than wartime London...

Irish police detective Strafford has been assigned to watch over the girls during their stay and so must form an uneasy alliance with their governess Miss Celia Nashe, an undercover MI5 officer charged with the princesses’ safety.

However, with a contingent of soldiers patrolling the woods and rumours of IRA terrorists in the vicinity, they soon find their task even more treacherous than expected.

But is the real threat from outside, or from within Clonmillis Hall itself?

BW Black's imagined historical adventure is an enthralling mystery.

Abridged by Neville Teller.

Read by Sorcha Cusack.

Producer: Michael Shannon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

SAT 03:45 Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (m000nwhd)
5. Solace

Despite increasing hardships, Princess the mongrel takes solace in poetry and the bet between the gods is finally decided.

Over drinks in Stoke Newington, Hermes and Aphrodite get into a debate about whether animals could live happily if they had the same cognitive and speech abilities as humans.

They decide to wager a year of servitude on the outcome of granting the gifts of human reasoning and language to a group of dogs in a nearby kennel.

Given their newfound abilities, the dogs are able to escape, where they set up their own new protosociety. The novel then explores the functioning of their new society through the impact of human values, such as individuality and personal freedom, on the conventionally hierarchical social order of dog packs.

Novel by Canadian writer André Alexis, first published in 2015.

Conclusion dramatised by Mike Harris.

Zeus ...... Paterson Joseph
Aphrodite ...... Emma Pierson
Hermes ...... Arty Froushan
Majnoun ...... David Ajoa
Atticus ...... Paul Kemp
Princess ...... Kate Chambers
Bonny and Rosie ...... Lotte Rice
Mick ...... John Hollingworth
Nira ...... Prisca Bakare
Kim ...... Christopher Buckley
Women ...... Felicity Duncan

The Fates and all other parts played by members of the cast.

Adapted in five parts by Mike Harris.

Produced and directed by Clive Brill

A Brill Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2020.

SAT 04:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m0013r1n)
Series 27

Episode 3

David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies.

They compete against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their opponents.

The panellists are obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as beds, marsupials, blood and Jackie Chan.

With:

Alan Davies
Lucy Porter
Lou Sanders
Justin Edwards

Producer: Jon Naismith

A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2022.

SAT 04:30 All the Young Dudes (b007r4md)
Series 1

Girls Talk

Patrick and Helen get dragged along to a stag and hen night - for a couple neither of them know.

The lives of Patrick and wife Helen as they settle back into the town where he was born.

Comedy drama written by and starring Jim Sweeney.

Patrick …. Jim Sweeney
Helen …. Cathryn Harrison
Billy …. Steve Steen
Moira …. Sadie Shimmin
Joe …. Stephen Frost
Maria …. Flaminia Cinque
Charlie …. Izzy de Rosario
Siobhan …. Josie Lawrence
Valeriy …. Yuri Klimov
Fake Russian Waiter …. Chris Pavlo

Announcer: Whispering Bob Harris

Producer: Steve Doherty

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001.

SAT 05:00 Harry and the Angels by Bernard Kops (b00sjtb0)
A very personal story about death, love and friendship.

Award-winning writer Bernard Kops guides us through London's East End in an impressionistic, idiosyncratic journey of lost love, kite flying, angels and tube station tragedy.

Following on from BBC drama 'Whitechapel Dreams', Bernard returns with a deeply personal and highly moving story.

He himself plays Leonard, visiting his old friend, Harry, for the final time.

He's also the narrator of the piece, inside and outside the action; following the main events in the life and death of East End Harry.

Starting with his early, idyllic love affair with young Phoebe, sadly curtailed, through to his success as an auctioneer - and a crucial act of bitterness against Leonard to his dying day in a Mare Street hospice.

Harry .... Stephen Greif
Leonard .... Bernard Kops
Mr Todd / Copper .... Harry Myers
Phoebe .... Louise Brealey
Young Harry / Actor .... Alan Morrissey
Nun / Mother / Woman .... Christine Kavanagh

Director: David Hunter

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2010.

SAT 05:45 The Treehouse by Nawal Gadalla (m0025dbp)
Leo hates heights but loves trees. Now, needing to climb one, he also confronts other fears that haunt him.

His twin sister Diana was named after the Greek goddess of woods, mountains and the moon.

Together they built a treehouse.

Nawal Gadalla's short story read by Peter McQueen.

Producer: Sue Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1996.

SAT 06:00 Eden Must Go (m0025kvl)
Martin Worth's play comes from his experiences of going up to Cambridge University in 1945 when he'd just left school.

But the majority of his fellow students were men who had just fought in the war and had learnt to grow up more quickly.

The experience of war had marked them, but not in the way you might expect...

Starring Charles Simpson.

Written by Martin Worth.

Stephen Pym .... Charles Simpson
Alan Wicks .... Keith Drinkel
Elizabeth Noble .... Victoria Carling
PauI Darcy .... Brett Usher
Alister Gray .... Andrew Wincott
Nevil Hadley .... Mark Straker
Ivor Rossiter .... David Learner
Dr Noble .... Terence Edmond
Mrs Noble .... Ann Windsor
Dawkins .... Ronald Herdman
Ted Baines .... Matthew Long
Amanda Baines .... Siriol Jenkins
Headmaster/Jack Balderton .... Eric Allan
Markham/Rupert .... Nicholas Murchie

Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1992

SAT 07:30 Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) (b0bn26xz)
Andrew Roberts reads his five essays on Winston Churchill tying-in with his book - Churchill: Walking With Destiny).

He describes the character traits and enduring influences that made up this great politician's life - the sense of destiny, the 'shades' of his father, his various friendships, his chronic 'tearfulness', and the wit and wisdom he often employed to effect.

Andrew begins with a look at Churchill's 'very many brushes with death, even in peacetime' - and how this shaped his thinking and instincts, and his belief that he would one day save the country from disaster...

Omnibus of five parts.

Producer: Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2018.

SAT 08:45 Alan Coren - Core Coren (b007jrq9)
5. One is One - Leading the Solitary Life

The humourist, writer and broadcaster muses on a Victorian novelty, the chance of appearing in Macbeth and home-working.

Alan Coren's book 'A Bit on the Side' was first published in 1996.

Abridged and concluded by the author.

Producer: Aled Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997.

SAT 09:00 The Men from the Ministry (b01852vy)
Postal Disorder

The Post Office must boost business, but can the bungling duo manage to deliver?

A weekly tribute to all those who work in government departments.

Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham.

Lennox-Brown …. Deryck Guyler
Lamb …. Richard Murdoch
Mildred Murfine …. Norma Ronald

With John Graham.

'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from 1966

Producer: Edward Taylor

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in August 1975.

SAT 09:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007jzkv)
Brian Allington

The common image of the breed of actors as selfish, chameleonic and unreliable is almost always quite unjustified.

After all, to be realistic, what sort of professional future could someone like that possibly expect to have?

J Kingston Platt is the doyen of British show business.

He's ready to share reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his experience from the past 40 years.

Performed and written by Peter Jones.

Producer: Pete Atkin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1986.

SAT 10:00 Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? (m000nd74)
3. Eddie Izzard & Pauline Pepys' Dowry

Public Historian Greg Jenner concludes his Arthurian quest to find out how comedy writers make history funny.

Greg is the Historical Consultant to all eight TV series of CBBC’s Emmy and multiple BAFTA award-winning Horrible Histories.

In short, he is both a nerd and a comedy nerd.

In the last of three programmes, Greg grapples with the big questions over accuracy and ethics

With the help of:

Comedian-turned-classicist Natalie Haynes
‘Horrible Histories’ Head Writer Ben Ward
‘Austentatious’ improvisers Cariad Lloyd and Andrew Hunter-Murra

Featured programmes:

‘PAULINE PEPYS’ DOWRY’ [BBC Radio 4 2010]
‘THAT MITCHELL AND WEBB SOUND’ [BBC Radio 4 2005]
‘EDDIE IZZARD: Dressed to Kill’

Producer: Anne-Marie Luff.

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in February 2019.

SAT 11:00 Eden Must Go (m0025kvl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SAT 12:30 Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) (b0bn26xz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SAT 13:45 Alan Coren - Core Coren (b007jrq9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

SAT 14:00 The Men from the Ministry (b01852vy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

SAT 14:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007jzkv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

SAT 15:00 Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? (m000nd74)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

SAT 16:00 John Wyndham - The Chrysalids (b01l5qc7)
1. Genetic Mutation

Genetic mutation has devastated the world.

In the emergent bleak, primitive society, any deviation is seen as the work of the devil, ruthlessly hunted out and destroyed.

In law abiding, God-respecting Waknuk anyone who does not conform to the 'norm' must keep their deviation secret or face the consequences of discovery.

John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic sci-fi classic.

Written in 1955, it explores the dangers inherent in discrimination and the threats posed by religious fundamentalism.

The 'Old People' who caused the apocalypse are depressingly like us: ' They were shut off by different languages and different beliefs. They created vast problems then buried their heads in the sands of idle faith.'

The children of the future (the Chrysalids) are able to 'think-together' and so can rise above the selfish violence and conflicting religions of the past.

Wyndham's story of a group of persecuted teenagers is more timely than ever in our post-Fukushima, war-riven, genetically engineered and religiously divided world.

Dramatised in two parts by Jane Rogers.

David ...... Matthew Beard
Young David ...... Ben Hanley
Young Sophie ...... Isobel Doran
Joseph ...... Conrad Nelson
Gordon ...... Conrad Nelson
Axel ...... Jeff Hordley
Emily ...... Fiona Clarke
Anne ...... Fiona Clarke
Rosalind ...... Verity-May Henry
Harriet ...... Emma Cunniffe
Rachel ...... Emma Cunniffe
Michael ...... Henry Devas
Alan ...... Henry Devas
Inspector ...... Robert Pickavance
Petra ...... Sydney Wade

Director: Nadia Molinari

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2012.

SAT 17:00 Eden Must Go (m0025kvl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SAT 18:30 Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) (b0bn26xz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SAT 19:45 Alan Coren - Core Coren (b007jrq9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

SAT 20:00 The Men from the Ministry (b01852vy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

SAT 20:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007jzkv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

SAT 21:00 Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? (m000nd74)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

SAT 22:00 TEZ Talks (b09nxtzy)
Series 2

1. Tezifesto

Comedian Tez Ilyas presents the second series of his stand-up show talking about what it's like being a Muslim in Britain today.

In this first episode Tez talks about moving back home to Blackburn and discusses class differences and social mobility before announcing his candidacy for Prime Minister.

Written and performed by Tez Ilyas.

Producer: Carl Cooper

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2018.

**** About Tez
Blackburn-born Tez Ilyas started performing comedy in 2010 and has appeared in eight competition finals including the BBC New Comedy Award and Leicester Mercury New Comedian of the Year.

He’s appeared on Radio 4’s The Now Show on Radio 4, as well performing on BBC1, BBC 3, E4, and BBC iPlayer, following his hugely critically-acclaimed debut Edinburgh show.

SAT 22:15 The East Coast Listening Post (b09jf2sh)
Series 1

Old Money

The East Coast Listening Post was created by Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated duo Lazy Susan.

Journalist sisters, Jenna and Dana, tour the UK and interview its inhabitants in their quest to reveal something meaningful, inadvertently revealing themselves in the process.

In this first episode, they get a glimpse of the dying embers of the old British aristocracy.

They go and stay with two elderly sisters, Gilly and Sally, whose neighbours are up in arms over the behaviour of the elder sibling who refuses to grow old gracefully.

Will the old aristocrats win round their neighbours by throwing a party in their honour?

Written and performed by Celeste Dring and Freya Parker.

With performances from:

David Elms
Sally Grace
Maggie Ollerenshaw

Producer: Suzy Grant

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2017.

SAT 22:30 Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music (b00cbv8k)
Series 2

The Love Song

What is the perfect love song?

Mitch Benn attempts to find out by a process of trial and error.

He explores the love song's development over 4,000 years, including Diane Warren power-ballads and Jean-Michel Jarre playing the banjo.

Written by Mitch Benn and Robin Ince.

With:

Robin Ince
Alfie Joey
Tasha Bayliss
Kirsty Newton

Producer: Adam Bromley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2005

SAT 23:00 Innes Own World (b017px05)
Episode 4

Neil Innes invites you to join him inside his own mind for half an hour.

There are some stories of working with Monty Python, jingles for products you never thought you needed and a modest little song called Isn't It Great Being A Star?

It's the only show that promises to pluck the eyebrows of intelligence with the sugar tongs of fact.

Written and performed by Neil Innes.

Script Editor: John Dowie

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.

SAT 23:30 Rigor Mortis (b007k4xd)
Series 1

Episode 5

Dr Webster is looking after his 13 year old daughter for the weekend.

But he can't understand why she doesn't find an evening in the path lab an exciting prospect?

Laurence Howarth’s sitcom set in the fascinating, but misunderstood world of the pathology lab.

Dr Anthony Webster ...... Peter Davison
Dr Ruth Anderson ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman
Professor Donaldson ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Gordon ...... Tom Price
Chloe ...... Marianne Levy
Simon ...... Gus Brown
Margaret ...... Lauren Bird
Other parts ...... Stephen Critchlow

Music by Paul Mottram and Stephanie Benavente.

Producer: Dawn Ellis

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003.

SUNDAY 01 DECEMBER 2024

SUN 00:00 John Wyndham - The Chrysalids (b01l5qc7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Saturday]

SUN 01:00 Eden Must Go (m0025kvl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]

SUN 02:30 Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) (b0bn26xz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]

SUN 03:45 Alan Coren - Core Coren (b007jrq9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Saturday]

SUN 04:00 The Men from the Ministry (b01852vy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday]

SUN 04:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007jzkv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Saturday]

SUN 05:00 Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? (m000nd74)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Saturday]

SUN 06:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0025lzf)
Absent Friends 2024

Annie Nightingale

Annie Nightingale is castaway by Lauren Laverne.

Annie was BBC Radio 1’s first female presenter and its longest-serving DJ, celebrating her 50th anniversary at the station in 2020.

Born and brought up in south west London, she fell in love with the romance and mystery of radio through her father’s meticulous tuning of their home set to broadcasts from exotic places like Prague and Hilversum. On leaving school at 17, she spent a year on a journalism course in central London.

After relocating to Brighton, she worked her way up through local newspapers to the national press and magazines and eventually, by the mid-1960s, to TV. She interviewed the Beatles as a young journalist, and gave early support to artists including David Bowie, Ian Dury, Eminem and Primal Scream.

In 1970, she was the first woman DJ to join Radio 1 with a Sunday evening show. From 1978 to 1982, Annie was the sole female presenter on the BBC TV music show The Old Grey Whistle Test, the only woman to have held the job. Her excitement for new music and musical genres from acid house to grime, never wavered.

Her weekly overnight Radio 1 show received countless awards from Caner of the Year to Commander of the Order of the British Empire, which she received for services to radio.

Annie had a son and a daughter from her first marriage. She was twice divorced and lived in London.

She died aged 85 in January 2024.

DISC ONE: Bury a Friend by Billie Eilish
DISC TWO: Some People by Ethel Merman
DISC THREE: Instant Karma! by John Lennon
DISC FOUR: Too Many Fish in the Sea by Marvelettes
DISC FIVE: Space Oddity by David Bowie
DISC SIX: Freedom by Beyoncé Featuring Kendrick Lamar
DISC SEVEN: Gymnopédies No. 1, composed by Erik Satie, conducted by Peter Breiner, performed by Gerald Garcia (guitar) and Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Košice
DISC EIGHT: My Way by Sid Vicious

BOOK CHOICE: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
LUXURY ITEM: A saxophone
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Space Oddity by David Bowie

Producer: Cathy Drysdale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2020.

SUN 06:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00zt5xr)
Series 2

Wallace

It was the great travel books written in the 19th century by Alfred Russel Wallace that inspired Sir David Attenborough himself to achieve great things in the realm of natural history.

But Attenborough tells us that Wallace was more than just a great travel writer.

His power of meticulous observation and recording as he explored many parts of the world were in the highest league imaginable, even for Victorian standards - and his power of analysis very much in line with Darwin, his great contemporary.

Wallace independently came up with a theory of evolution that was in parallel to Darwin's thinking - two field naturalists breaking huge conventions of the time and coming up with the single most important theory in Biology. How did they resolve the conflict between themselves?

Written and presented by David Attenborough

Producer: Julian Hector

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011.

SUN 07:00 Poetry Extra (m0025lzj)
Poetry Please - Wendy Cope

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Poetry Please: Wendy Cope.

Wendy joins Roger McGough to share a selection of her favourite poems from listeners' requests.

Wendy's choices include requests for poems by AE Housman, Philip Larkin, WH Auden, Fleur Adcock, Edna St Vincent Millay and Charles Causley.

Wendy Cope has published several volumes of poetry including Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis and Serious Concerns.

A remarkable talent for parody and for using humour to address grave topics, she also recites some of her poetry from her collection, Anecdotal Evidence.

Producer: Sarah Addezio

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.

* Plus Daljit reads from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month - Collected Poems by Wendy Cope.

SUN 07:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) (m000fg0x)
Episode 1

In 1940, at the height of Blitz, the two young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are secretly evacuated from Buckingham Palace for their own safety and sent to an isolated rural estate in neutral Ireland.

However Clonmillis Hall may prove to be even more dangerous than wartime London...

Irish police detective Strafford has been assigned to watch over the girls during their stay and so must form an uneasy alliance with their governess Miss Celia Nashe, an undercover MI5 officer charged with the princesses’ safety.

However, with a contingent of soldiers patrolling the woods and rumours of IRA terrorists in the vicinity, they soon find their task even more treacherous than expected.

But is the real threat from outside, or from within Clonmillis Hall itself?

BW Black's imagined historical adventure and enthralling mystery.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes abridged by Neville Teller.

Read by Sorcha Cusack.

Producer: Michael Shannon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

*** BW Black is the pen name of acclaimed Irish author John Banville. He is the author of several novels, including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature.

He's published a number of crime novels, most featuring Quirke (an Irish pathologist based in Dublin) which were adapted into a TV series starring Gabriel Byrne.

SUN 08:40 Inheritance Tracks (b073c1bc)
Ralph McTell

Singer Ralph McTell with the Dinning Sisters’ 'I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now' and Robert Johnson’s 'Crossroads Blues'. From 2016.

SUN 08:50 Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (Omnibus) (m0025lzl)
Over drinks in Stoke Newington, Hermes and Aphrodite get into a debate about whether animals could live happily if they had the same cognitive and speech abilities as humans.

They decide to wager a year of servitude on the outcome of granting the gifts of human reasoning and language to a group of dogs in a nearby kennel.

Given their newfound abilities, the dogs are able to escape, where they set up their own new protosociety. The novel then explores the functioning of their new society through the impact of human values, such as individuality and personal freedom, on the conventionally hierarchical social order of dog packs.

Key characters in the canine society include Atticus, a Neapolitan Mastiff who naturally emerges as the group leader; Majnoun, a black poodle who is reluctant to trust other dogs; and Princess, a mongrel who embraces her language skills to become a poet.

Novel written by Canadian writer André Alexis, first published in 2015.

Omnibus freely adapted in five parts by Mike Harris.

Zeus ..... Paterson Joseph
Aphrodite ..... Emma Pierson
Hermes ..... Arty Froushan
Majnoun ..... David Ajoa
Atticus ..... Paul Kemp
Princess ..... Kate Chambers
Bonny and Rosie ..... Lotte Rice
Mick ..... John Hollingworth
Nira ..... Prisca Bakare
Kim ..... Christopher Buckley
Women ..... Felicity Duncan

The Fates and all other parts played by members of the cast.

Director: Clive Brill

A Brill Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2020.

SUN 10:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00tn8kq)
From 19/08/1958

Kenneth Horne flicks through his diary - and 'Hornerama' probes Love and Marriage.

A madcap mix of sketches and songs written by Eric Merriman and Barry Took

Starring:

Kenneth Horne
Kenneth Williams
Hugh Paddick
Betty Marsden
Ron Moody

Music from Pat Lancaster, the Malcolm Mitchell Trio and the BBC Review Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenoulhet.

Announcer: Douglas Smith

Beyond Our Ken hit the airwaves in 1958 and ran to 1964 - featuring regulars like Arthur Fallowfield, Cecil Snaith and Rodney and Charles.

The precursor to 'Round The Horne' - sadly only 13 shows survive from the original run of 21 episodes in Series 1. Audio restored using both home and overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings.

Producer: Jacques Brown

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1958.

SUN 10:30 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket (m0025wfn)
Series 2

An American Evening

The dear ladies agree to musically honour an American guest.

Starring Dr Evadne Hinge and her lifelong companion Dame Hilda Bracket.

Brought to you from the genteel setting of the Suffolk village of Stackton Tressel, where the musical duo reside.

Written by Mike Craig, Lawrie Kinsley and Ron McDonnell.

Dame Hilda Bracket ...... Patrick Fyffe
Dr Evadne Hinge ...... George Logan
Maude .... Daphne Heard
Barbara …. Dilys Watling
Frank …. David Fielder
Sexton Tweddle’s Trombone …. Al Wood

Three series ran on BBC Radio 4 between 1977 and 1979, with further spin-off seasons on BBC Radio 2 until 1990.

In the early 1980s, they expanded over to BBC TV with the series Dear Ladies.

Producer: James Casey

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1978.

SUN 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0025lzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SUN 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00zt5xr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m0025lzj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

SUN 12:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) (m000fg0x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SUN 13:40 Inheritance Tracks (b073c1bc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:40 today]

SUN 13:50 Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (Omnibus) (m0025lzl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]

SUN 15:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00tn8kq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

SUN 15:30 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket (m0025wfn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

SUN 16:00 The Man in Black (b00yw4bc)
Series 3

Lights Out by Christopher Golden & Amber Benson

A group of women prisoners try to protect themselves from a malevolent force stalking the corridors at night...

The Man in Black introduces Christopher Golden and Amber Benson's chilling tale.

Mark Gatiss stars as the sinister raconteur.

Sarah ...... Jasmine Hyde
Izra ...... Vineeta Rishi
Guard ...... Joanna Monroe
Gemma ...... Leah Brotherhood
Agnes ...... Sally Orrock
The Ghosts ...... Deeivya Meir

More horrifying tales from The Man in Black. You might meet him at a luggage carousel in an airport, or behind the desk at an employment agency or he might approach you in the corridor of a care home.

Wherever you encounter him, he's eager to pass on his stories. Stories to unsettle and horrify. Stories to haunt you.

Director: Gemma Jenkins

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in February 2011.

SUN 16:30 Weird Tales (b00wr8s9)
Series 2

The House on Pale Avenue by Richard Vincent

Hoarder of horror, HP Lovecraft shares his final chilling tale.

Scratching in the walls, under the floorboards, in the pipes: their new home is trying to tell the Williams family something.

But they won't be given a moment's peace until its secret is out in the open...

Written by Richard Vincent.

Geoff Williams ...... Jamie Glover
Jane Williams ...... Julia Ford
Sarah Williams ...... Agnes Dromgoole
Martin Crabtree ...... John Biggins
DCI Cram ...... Piers Wehner
Psychiatrist ...... Melissa Advani
Lovecraft ...... Stephen Hogan

Director: Gemma Jenkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2010.

SUN 17:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0025lzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SUN 17:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00zt5xr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

SUN 18:00 Poetry Extra (m0025lzj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

SUN 18:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) (m000fg0x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SUN 19:40 Inheritance Tracks (b073c1bc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:40 today]

SUN 19:50 Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (Omnibus) (m0025lzl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]

SUN 21:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00tn8kq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

SUN 21:30 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket (m0025wfn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

SUN 22:00 Revolting People (b00wbnb0)
Series 4

McGurk Runs the Shop

Samuel is reunited with his sister and Ezekiel is dressed as a bear.

Sitcom set just before the American War of Independence.

Written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses.

Sergeant McGurk .... Andy Hamilton
Samuel .... Jay Tarses
Joshua .... Tony Maudsley
Mary .... Julia Hills
Captain Brimshaw .... James Fleet
Ezekiel .... Hugh Dennis
Belle …. Rebecca Front

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2006.

SUN 22:30 1966 and All That (b010hcwh)
The 1960s

Albert Einstein discovers the Beatles, while for the first time, the nation discovers sex.

Plus a look at the era of "Flour Power"; the World Cup is won by a team of men all called Bobby; and the with-it Royal try barbecuing.

Craig Brown's satirical history of Britain reaches the 1960s.

With:

Joss Ackland
Eleanor Bron
Rory Bremner
Ewan Bailey
Margaret Cabourn-Smith
John Humphrys

Producer: Victoria Lloyd

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2006.

SUN 23:00 Life With Lederer (m001k6vh)
Series 2

The Cruise

Helen Lederer shares another of her methods for coping with life, by taking a mystery cruise.

Written by and starring Helen Lederer.

With:

Malcolm Raeburn
Amelia Bullmore
James Quinn
Sandra Maitland

Produced at BBC Manchester by Paul Z Jackson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1991.

SUN 23:15 Where to, Mate? (m000jf8k)
Series 1

“…oestrogen in the water…"

Hit the road with taxi drivers Bernie and Ben as we eavesdrop on their fares around North West England.

Starring Peter Slater and Jo Enright.

In this episode, our drivers are on the night shift.

Ben is dealing with a conspiracy theorist. Bernie discusses her life before being a taxi driver, with Milton, and Rizwan is having the time of his life taking a couple of lively ladies home from a night on the town.

A semi-improvised comedy recorded on location in a car in Manchester.

Based on ideas by Jason Wingard and Carl Cooper.

Featuring local voices and character actors/comedians from the North.

Ben ...... Peter Slater
Bernie ...... Jo Enright
Rizwan ….. Irfan Nazir
Milton ...... Christopher J Hall
Conspiracy theorist …... Jeff Downs
Thelma …... Dylan Morris
Louise ..…. Elinor Coleman
Controller ...... Jason Wingard
Controller ...... Abdullah Afzal

Additional voices and material by the cast and crew.

With additional material and production support by Hannah Stevenson.

Director: Jason Wingard

Producer: Carl Cooper

A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2020.

SUN 23:30 Delve Special (b007k469)
Series 2

Whose Baby?

David Lander reports on the implications of revolutionary methods of baby production

Presented by David Lander with assistance from Stephen Fry.

Studio production by:

Tony Robinson
Julia Hills
Stephen Frost
Felicity Montagu

Dramatic reconstruction by:

Jack Klaff
Phil Nice
Robert Bathurst

Researched and compiled by Tony Sarchet.

Editor: Paul Mayhew-Archer

Delve Special ran for four series from 1984 to 1987 and later transferred to TV as: This is David Lander.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1985.

MONDAY 02 DECEMBER 2024

MON 00:00 The Man in Black (b00yw4bc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]

MON 00:30 Weird Tales (b00wr8s9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Sunday]

MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0025lzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday]

MON 01:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00zt5xr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Sunday]

MON 02:00 Poetry Extra (m0025lzj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Sunday]

MON 02:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) (m000fg0x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday]

MON 03:40 Inheritance Tracks (b073c1bc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:40 on Sunday]

MON 03:50 Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (Omnibus) (m0025lzl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 on Sunday]

MON 05:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00tn8kq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]

MON 05:30 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket (m0025wfn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Sunday]

MON 06:00 Whodunnits (b007jnm7)
Miss Marple - At Bertram's Hotel

Episode 1

Deceptively mild amateur sleuth, Jane Marple is being treated to a short holiday in London by her nephew

Staying at the dignified, unostentatious Bertram's Hotel, tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair - here guests can indulge in comforts of a bygone age.

But Miss Marple begins to feel uneasy. Something sinister lurks beneath the polished veneer.

Why are so many major crimes associated in some way with the hotel or somehow implicate the eminently respectable people staying there?

Published in 1965, Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars June Whitfield.

Dramatised in five-parts by Michael Bakewell.

Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield
Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips
Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham
Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers
Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley
Mr Humfries ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Colonel Luscombe ...... Geoffrey Bayldon
Raymond West ...... Andrew Branch
Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley
Lady Selina Hazy ...... Margaret Courtenay
Mrs Carpenter ...... Patience Tomlinson
Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles
Henry ...... Garard Green
Ladislaus Malinwoski ...... Gavin Muir
Rose ...... Jane Whittenshaw
Bridget ...... Sarah Plowright
Mr Bollard ...... David Collings

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995.

MON 06:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025m10)
2. Spring In The Dark

Confusion abounds when Carter is sprung 24 hours early. Mettold’s demeanour changes.

Espionage and intrigue as a recently convicted spy is ordered to be sprung from jail, just a year into a 25 year sentence.

But what is the motivation and who is behind the plan?

Starring Christopher Good and Melinda Walker.

Berkely Mather's spy thriller serial.

Charles Wainwright .... Christopher Good
Ilena .... Melinda Walker
Paul Mettold .... Cyril Shaps
Carter .... Graham Blockey
Arthur Moulton .... Michael Kilgarriff
Mogger .... Malcolm James

Producer: Graham Gauld

Director: Caroline Raphael

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1985.

MON 07:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00bbn44)
Series 2

Practice Makes Perfect

It's not all plain sailing as duo Tommy and Sheila prepare for a cruise.

30 years after sweethearts Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr won the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest, the musical double-act are back in the big time.

June Whitfield and Roy Hudd star in Mike Coleman's sitcom.

Tommy Franklin .... Roy Hudd
Sheila Parr .... June Whitfield
Hettie Stark .... Pat Coombes
Murray Franklin .... Julian Erdley
Louis Elstein .... Edward Halstead

Music by Frido Ruth.

Producer: Steve Doherty

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1999.

MON 07:30 The Navy Lark (m0025m12)
Series 11

The Honeymooners Return

Commander Murray returns for duty after marrying Rita, the Admiral’s daughter.

Meanwhile CPO Pertwee has smuggled a locker-full of Portuguese contraband wine from a recent trip and fears that he will be found out.

CO Murray …. Stephen Murray
CPO Pertwee …. Jon Pertwee
Sub-Lieut. Phillips …. Leslie Phillips
Captain Povey .... Richard Caldicot
Rita/WREN Chasen …. Heather Chasen
The Admiral …. Tenniel Evans
Professor Munnings/The Padre …. Michael Bates
As Tiddy …. Lawrie Wyman

Written by Lawrie Wyman.

Producer: Alastair Scott-Johnston

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1970.

MON 08:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b06418ms)
Series 4

The Supplement

Damien is offered the chance to present his own TV series all about "street food".

It's something which doesn't initially appeal, particularly as he is busy editing the food supplement for a Sunday newspaper - territory which is far more familiar.

But when he is forced to become more populist to placate the paper's editor, perhaps this is the time to finally take the plunge into the murky world of "TV".

And Damien's boundaries are further tested when his kitchen is commandeered by Anthony and Mr Mullaney, who are in the midst of planning a property renovation company together.

Sitcom charting the life of cookery writer Damien Trench, who lives in London's Queen's Park with his partner Anthony.

Written by Justin Edward.

Damien Trench ...... Miles Jupp
Anthony ...... Justin Edwards
Ian Frobisher ...... Philip Fox
Mr Mullaney ...... Brendan Dempsey
Livi Hollinshead ...... Alex Tregear
Paula, the Editor ...... Jessica Turner
Arlo Chance ...... Stephen Critchlow

Producer: Sam Michell.

A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2015.

MON 08:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000ffyz)
6. Threat

As the IRA close in on the true identities of the young guests, an accident befalls one of the princesses.

In 1940, at the height of Blitz, the two young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are secretly evacuated from Buckingham Palace for their own safety and sent to an isolated rural estate in neutral Ireland.

However Clonmillis Hall may prove to be even more dangerous than wartime London...

Irish police detective Strafford has been assigned to watch over the girls during their stay and so must form an uneasy alliance with their governess Miss Celia Nashe, an undercover MI5 officer charged with the princesses’ safety.

However, with a contingent of soldiers patrolling the woods and rumours of IRA terrorists in the vicinity, they soon find their task even more treacherous than expected.

But is the real threat from outside, or from within Clonmillis Hall itself?

BW Black's imagined historical adventure is an enthralling mystery.

Abridged in ten parts by Neville Teller.

Read by Sorcha Cusack.

Producer: Michael Shannon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

MON 08:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m001326v)
Series 5

1. Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight

Maggie has survived the pandemic and a broken hip and is now a social media 'influencer'.

John worries how he can protect her now she is so well-known?

Perhaps vetting her phone messages isn't such a good idea.

Starring Bill Nighy and Anna Calder-Marshall.

The return of AL Kennedy's romantic comedy drama in five parts.

John Black ...... Bill Nighy
Maggie Turner ...... Anna Calder-Marshall
Yuri ...... Michael Begley

Director: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2022.

MON 09:00 Yesterday in Parliament (m0025m14)
The latest news from Westminster - and beyond.

MON 09:30 Snapshots in the Dark (b0075qf8)
1. Jacob A Riis - Police Lodging Room, Church Street Station, 1895

Colin Ford tells the stories behind five groundbreaking photographs and how they changed the world.

The Police Lodging Room, Church Street Station was captured on film by Jacob A Riis in 1895.

Riis's photographs of the New York slum had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society.

Producer: Hilary Dunn

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1999.

MON 09:45 Daily Service (m0025m16)
Advent Candles: Hope from the Patriarchs - Immanuel

A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.

Theme: Advent Candles: Hope from the Patriarchs - Immanuel
Presenter: Archbishop Stephen Cottrell
Reading: Isaiah 7:10-16

Music:
O come o come Emmanuel - Kings College Cambridge
O Emmanuel, Eriks Ešenvalds, the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Morning glory starlit sky - Naomi, BBC Young Chorister and Daily Service Singers

MON 10:00 Sounds Natural (b07mvx97)
Harry Secombe

From the Hyena to the Mountain Gorilla.

Star of 'The Goon Show', actor and singer Harry Secombe talks to Derek Jones about his love of wildlife photography and travel

Aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archive.

Producer: John Burton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1976.

MON 10:30 21 Shades of Noir: Lee Child on John D MacDonald (b07x6j4n)
As the author of the internationally renowned Jack Reacher series, Lee Child knows how to draw his readers into a story.

And for decades he's been intrigued by the unusual life of John D MacDonald.

Born in 1916, MacDonald was from a comfortable Pennsylvanian family. He went to Harvard and worked in naval intelligence during The Second World War, mustering out as a Lieutenant Colonel. It was what the British would call "a good war".

But Lee Child has always been confused by what happened next. With the pick of General Motors, IBM or maybe even The Pentagon before him - this Harvard MBA promptly spent five months, sitting at a table and hammering out pulp fiction, losing five stone in the process.

After 800,000 words and constant toil he managed to sell a story for $25 dollars.

Writing under dozens of pen-names John D rode the paperback boom, crafting more than 60 novels in all and creating what Lee Child considers to be his greatest creation - the 21 novels featuring his world-weary "salvage consultant" and righter of wrongs, Travis McGee.

Lee Child considers the mystery at the heart of John D's work, and the mysterious life of one of popular fiction's most enigmatic authors.

Producer: Kev Core

First broadcast on BBC Radio in October 2016.

MON 11:00 Whodunnits (b007jnm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

MON 11:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025m10)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

MON 12:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00bbn44)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

MON 12:30 The Navy Lark (m0025m12)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

MON 13:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b06418ms)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

MON 13:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000ffyz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

MON 13:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m001326v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

MON 14:00 Just a Minute (b00q3cm1)
Series 56

Episode 4

Nicholas Parsons presides over the devious game where panellists are challenged to speak for one minute without hesitation, deviation or repetition.

With:

David Mitchell
Paul Merton
Julian Clary
Gyles Brandreth

Subjects include: How To Write A Love Letter, My Signature Dish, What To Do When You Oversleep, Blowing The Whistle On Someone, Barking, A Man In Uniform and Your Chairman's Darkest Secret.

Created by Ian Messiter.

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2010.

MON 14:30 Henry Normal: A Normal... (m0011ryb)
Ageing

Acclaimed, occasional writer Henry Normal tackles those subjects so big, only radio can possibly contain them.

So far he’s covered ‘Family’, ‘Life’, ‘Love’, ‘Imagination’, ‘Nature’, ‘The Universe’ and ‘Communication.

Now Henry talks about getting older to an audience in Stratford Upon Avon.

Through poetry, stories, jokes and quotes Henry explores being in the autumn of his life, when things are "going a different colour and dropping off.

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.

Producer: Carl Cooper

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2021.

MON 15:00 Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein (m0025m18)
1. 1970s Leicester

Immersed in her Cambridge life and preoccupied with her divorce, Lena has almost forgotten her childhood friend, Katya.

Then an unexpected letter stirs up memories of their Jewish upbringing in Leicester in the early 1970s.

Starring Jenny Agutter and Jennie Stoller.

Elaine Feinstein's three-part drama following the lives of Lena and Katya, two Jewish women in England.

Katya .... Jenny Agutter
Lena .... Jennie Stoller
Dr Kuperman .... Leonard Fenton
Mrs Kuperman .... Doreen Mantle
Janos Kessleman .... Sandor Eles
Grete Kessleman .... Jill Graham
Graham .... David Barrass
Stefan .... David Thorpe
Joanie .... Elaine Claxton
Porter .... Colin Pinney
Miss Bolt .... Tina Gray
Undergrad .... Vivienne Rochester
Waiter .... Lyndham Gregory
The Don .... Dominic Letts

Director: Marion Nancarrow

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1993.

MON 15:45 Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (m00027pj)
1. Coming Home

When Rosalind's essay is a success at school, she rushes home to share the news - but the house is empty.

Read by Angela Thorne.

One of three short stories written by Elizabeth Bowen.

Producer: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1986

MON 16:00 Sounds Natural (b07mvx97)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

MON 16:30 21 Shades of Noir: Lee Child on John D MacDonald (b07x6j4n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

MON 17:00 Whodunnits (b007jnm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

MON 17:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025m10)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

MON 18:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00bbn44)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

MON 18:30 The Navy Lark (m0025m12)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

MON 19:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b06418ms)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

MON 19:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000ffyz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

MON 19:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m001326v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

MON 20:00 Just a Minute (b00q3cm1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

MON 20:30 Henry Normal: A Normal... (m0011ryb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

MON 21:00 Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein (m0025m18)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]

MON 21:45 Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (m00027pj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 today]

MON 22:00 Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz (m0025d5d)
Series 3

South Norwood - Paul brings up his half-century for Radio 4

Paul celebrates his 50th stand-up show for Radio 4 with questions about anniversaries, 2011 (the year of his first show on the network), and his home borough of Croydon. In return, his audience tests his knowledge of tax years, anagrams, and the Crystal Palace.

Written and performed by Paul Sinha
Additional material: Oliver Levy
Additional questions: The Audience

Original music: Tim Sutton

Recording engineer: David Thomas
Mixed by: Rich Evans
Producer: Ed Morrish

A Lead Mojo production for BBC Radio 4

MON 22:30 Ashley Blaker: 6.5 Children (m000y7ss)
Series 1

4. Lockdown

Ashley Blaker recalls the challenges of parenting during lockdown when he had to home school six children at six very different levels.

He also wonders if, despite the hardships, this was actually a golden period to be looked back on with great affection. If nothing else, it was a year mostly without the horror of family trips.

A mix of stand-up and observational documentary, all recorded in the Blakers’ home with the voices of his real family, and tackling parenting, adoption and raising children with special needs.

Ashley and his wife Gemma are trying to raise a family in a world that is only really set up for having two. What's more, the Blakers’ children are not just any kids.

Ashley is joined by

Shelley Blond
Kieran Hodgson
Rosie Holt
Judith Jacob

Also appearing as themselves are Ashley’s own children:

Ami (17),
Ophie (15)
Simi (13),
Soroh (12),
Sruly (11)
and Bina (7)

Producer: Steve Doherty

A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2021.

MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m00262t6)
Katie Norris 1/3

From 10pm until midnight, seven days a week, The Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. And tonight, Iain Lee talks to Katie Norris.

MON 23:00 The Naked Week (m0025c0h)
Series 1

Episode 1: Lobbying, art, soup, and farms

From The Skewer’s Jon Holmes comes The Naked Week, a fresh way of dressing the week’s news in the altogether and parading it around for everyone to laugh at.

Host Andrew Hunter Murray and chief correspondent Amy Hoggart will strip away the curtain and dive into not only the big stories, but also the way the news is packaged and presented.

From award-winning writers and a crack team of contemporary satirists - and recorded in front of a live audience - The Naked Week delivers a topical news nude straight to your ears.

This week - Lobbying, art, soup, and farms.

Written by:
Jon Holmes
Katie Sayer
Sarah Dempster
Gareth Ceredig
Jason Hazeley
Adam Macqueen
Louis Mian

Partial Nudity:
Marc Haynes
Cornelius Mendez

with Additional Material.

Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler.

Produced and Directed by Jon Holmes
Executive Producer: Philip Abrams

An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

MON 23:30 The Confessional (m001gjj4)
Series 3

The Confession of Maisie Adam

Comedian Maisie Adam is Stephen Mangan's guest

The 'So You Think You're Funny?' winner discusses a new found tendency to lie, nefarious uses for soggy paper and whether she has the makings of a psychopath.

Stephen Mangan hosts his comedy chat show about shame, guilt and occasional repentance.

Each episode, Stephen invites a distinguished guest into his virtual confessional box to make three confessions of sins, peccadilloes, misdeeds and idiocies - anything really that will make us laugh, shudder, blush or cringe at their expense.

Written and presented by Stephen Mangan.

Additional material by Nick Doody.

Producer: Frank Stirling

A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2023.

TUESDAY 03 DECEMBER 2024

TUE 00:00 Sounds Natural (b07mvx97)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]

TUE 00:30 21 Shades of Noir: Lee Child on John D MacDonald (b07x6j4n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Monday]

TUE 01:00 Whodunnits (b007jnm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]

TUE 01:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025m10)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]

TUE 02:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00bbn44)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]

TUE 02:30 The Navy Lark (m0025m12)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]

TUE 03:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b06418ms)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Monday]

TUE 03:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000ffyz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Monday]

TUE 03:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m001326v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Monday]

TUE 04:00 Just a Minute (b00q3cm1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]

TUE 04:30 Henry Normal: A Normal... (m0011ryb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]

TUE 05:00 Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein (m0025m18)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Monday]

TUE 05:45 Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (m00027pj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Monday]

TUE 06:00 Whodunnits (b007jnmr)
Miss Marple - At Bertram's Hotel

Episode 2

An old acquaintance of Miss Marple is about to receive a nasty shock...

Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars June Whitfield as the amateur sleuth.

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield
Inspector Davy ...... Frederick Jaeger
Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham
Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips
Inspector Campbell ...... David Timson
Archdeacon Simmons ...... Preston Lockwood
Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley
Ladislaus Malinwoski ...... Gavin Muir
Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers
Colonel Luscombe ...... Geoffrey Bayldon
Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles
Bridget ...... Sarah Plowright
Mr Bollard ...... David Collings
Miss Mottley ...... Sandra James Young
Egerton ...... Alan Rowe
Mrs McCrea ...... Zulema Dene
Air Terminal Hostess ...... Louisa Seddon

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995.

TUE 06:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025mlb)
3. Can Spring Be Far Behind?

James Carter's escape has been hindered by the intervention of Russians, and he's hurt.

But at last he is taken aboard a boat for France by the British agent Charles Wainwright and Ilena, daughter of the Meisterspringer.

When Carter regains consciousness, he's not grateful....

Espionage and intrigue as a recently convicted spy is ordered to be sprung from jail, just a year into a 25 year sentence.

But what is the motivation and who is behind the plan?

Starring Christopher Good and Melinda Walker.

Berkely Mather's spy thriller serial.

Charles Wainwright .... Christopher Good
Ilena .... Melinda Walker
Carter .... Graham Blockey
Arthur Moulton .... Michael Kilgarriff
L’Abbesse .... Betty Baskcomb
Charlton .... Brian Smith
Doctor .... Robin Summers

Producer: Graham Gauld

Director: Caroline Raphael

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1985.

TUE 07:00 Rent (b063rvm6)
Series 4

Episode 2

Paul and Ruby are busy house hunting. Meanwhile Maria and Richard are in the money - what will they do with it all?

Stars Patrick Barlow and Barbara Flynn.

Lucy Flannery's award-winning sitcom about Maria and Richard Reynolds and their lodgers.

Maria …. Barbara Flynn
Richard …. Patrick Barlow
Ruby …. Vivienne Rochester
Paul …. Dave Lamb

With Sarah Parkinson

Producer: Liz Anstee.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998.

TUE 07:30 The Goon Show (b0089j6x)
Series 6

The Choking Horror

Hair-raising events for Neddie Seagoon when London's monuments are sabotaged.

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.

Starring:

Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan

First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.

With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.

Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.

Announcer: Wallace Greenslade

Producer: Peter Eton

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1956.

TUE 08:00 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m000qx1b)
Series 2

It's Just Work

Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a couple who have been married 'forever'.

Children of the 1960s, they're still free spirits, drawn together by their passion for music and each other. Their recognisable warm and witty conversations dance around everything from health scares, jealousy and confessions, to TV incompatibility and sourdough bread.

In this episode, Joanna gets distracted by a work project, which happens to be with a man who just happens to be much younger and rather more exciting than Roger.

When Roger complains about being pushed out of her life, he's told, in no uncertain terms, 'it's just work'.

But is it?

Written for Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam by award-winning comedy writer and journalist Jan Etherington.

Jan has been married for 34 years to Gavin Petrie, with whom she has created many hit Radio 4 Extra and TV series (Second Thoughts, plus Next of Kin, Faith in the Future, The Change),

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2021.

TUE 08:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgd5)
7. Shooting

A shooting occurs on the estate, with deadly consequences...

In 1940, at the height of Blitz, the two young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are secretly evacuated from Buckingham Palace for their own safety and sent to an isolated rural estate in neutral Ireland.

However Clonmillis Hall may prove to be even more dangerous than wartime London...

Irish police detective Strafford has been assigned to watch over the girls during their stay and so must form an uneasy alliance with their governess Miss Celia Nashe, an undercover MI5 officer charged with the princesses’ safety.

However, with a contingent of soldiers patrolling the woods and rumours of IRA terrorists in the vicinity, they soon find their task even more treacherous than expected.

But is the real threat from outside, or from within Clonmillis Hall itself?

BW Black's imagined historical adventure is an enthralling mystery.

Abridged in ten parts by Neville Teller.

Read by Sorcha Cusack.

Producer: Michael Shannon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

TUE 08:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m001324w)
Series 5

2. Emotionally Yours

Maggie is now a social media superstar.

So John is worried about her security, especially with a 'lurker' on the loose in the village.

But his attempts to update their home security don't go to plan...

Starring Bill Nighy and Anna Calder-Marshall.

AL Kennedy's continuing romantic comedy drama.

John Black ...... Bill Nighy
Maggie Turner ...... Anna Calder-Marshall
Jimmy Nails ...... Michael Begley

Director: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2022.

TUE 09:00 Yesterday in Parliament (m001zvvf)
The latest news from Westminster - and beyond.

TUE 09:30 Snapshots in the Dark (b0075qfz)
2. Julia Margaret Cameron: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, 1867

Colin Ford tells the stories behind five groundbreaking photographs and how they changed the world.

Julia Margaret Cameron created the Portrait of Thomas Carlyle in 1867.

The significance of this haunting portrait is in the life-size reproduction of the head.

Her work changed portraiture for ever, asking not just who, but what am I?

Producer: Hilary Dunn

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1999.

TUE 09:45 Daily Service (m0025mld)
Advent Candles: Hope from the Patriarchs - Restore us

A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.

Theme: Advent Candles: Hope from the Patriarchs - Restore us
Presenter: Lyndall Bywater
Reading: Psalm 80:1-7

Music:
Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus) - Wells Cathedral Choir
His eye is on the sparrow - Tanya Blount and Lauryn Hill
The Blessing - Kari Jobe and Cody Carnes

TUE 10:00 A Good Read (b09r4k4n)
Steph McGovern and Jayde Adams

Broadcaster Steph McGovern and comedian Jayde Adams join Harriett Gilbert to discuss their favourite books by Jon Ronson, Ann Cleeves and Carrie Fisher.

So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
Publisher: Picador

The Seagull by Ann Cleeves
Publisher: Pan

Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher
Publisher: Scribner

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2018.

TUE 10:30 Mao's Little Red Book Goes West (b06z5g7j)
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution in 2016, David Aaronovitch explored the extraordinary story of how Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book captured the imagination of the West.

A collection of Mao’s quotations, packaged with a red vinyl cover, the book is an iconic piece of design and one of the world’s most widely distributed texts.

In Britain, it was a massive hit.

David hears from comedian and former Maoist Alexei Sayle who sold the book in Liverpool.

Activist and former Labour councillor Linda Bellos admits that, while she carried the Little Red Book as a teenager, she didn’t really read it and was more interested in being trendy.

The Little Red Book was hugely fashionable in late 1960s and 70s Europe. The French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard popularised it with his 1967 film La Chinoise, in which five pretty students plot revolutionary actions from their Paris flat before taking part in a bungled assassination attempt.

Bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang, argues that Little Red Book wavers in the West were completely ignorant when it came to the realities of life during the Cultural Revolution. She explains that in China the book was a weapon in a literal sense, used to beat those who were deemed to be “class enemies”.

Meanwhile, in America, the book found an unlikely audience among the Black Panther Party. Elaine Browne, a former Panther who lead the party in the early 70s, explains that the Panthers saw the Little Red Book as a blueprint for enacting the revolution they were hoping to bring about in the United States.

Producer: Max O'Brien

A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2016.

TUE 11:00 Whodunnits (b007jnmr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

TUE 11:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025mlb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

TUE 12:00 Rent (b063rvm6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

TUE 12:30 The Goon Show (b0089j6x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

TUE 13:00 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m000qx1b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

TUE 13:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgd5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

TUE 13:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m001324w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

TUE 14:00 Booked (b0075lcp)
Series 2

Episode 1

Piglet bumps into the Greek Chorus, Inspector Clouseau takes Blanche Dubois to a dance, and Hunter S Thompson writes a public school prospectus.

Ian McMillan chairs the irreverent literary game.

Outrageous parody, biting wit and bizarre couplings from:

* Miles Kington
* Mark Thomas
* Dillie Keane
* Roger McGough

Producer: Marc Jobst

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1997.

TUE 14:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b00n5vsq)
Series 3

Episode 6

Merv has always worn jeans, so why does Pam want to take him shopping?

The conclusion of the sitcom set in the Cyber Pass’ internet café.

Written by and starring Mervyn Stutter.

Merv …. Mervyn Stutter
Pam …. Lill Roughley
Nev …. Gyuri Sarossy
Chantal …. Tracy-Ann Oberman
Dibden …. John Challis
Dilkes …. Chris Ettridge

Songs by Mervyn Stutter.

Performed by Swamp Things.

Producer: Simon Nicholls

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.

TUE 15:00 Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein (m0025mlh)
2. Uncomfortable News

Lena discovers why Katya so wants to see her.

It's not an altogether comfortable discovery...

Starring Jenny Agutter and Jennie Stoller.

Elaine Feinstein's drama following the lives of Lena and Katya, two Jewish women in England.

Lena .... Jennie Stoller
Katya .... Jenny Agutter
Dr Kuperman .... Leonard Fenton
Sadie Kuperman .... Doreen Mantle
Stefan .... David Thorpe
Janos Kessleman .... Sandor Eles
Grete Kessleman .... Jill Graham
Graham .... David Barrass
Joanie .... Elaine Claxton
First Don .... John Baddeley
Second Don .... Malcolm Ward
Old Woman .... Lala Lloyd

Director: Marion Nancarrow

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1993.

TUE 15:45 Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (m000285f)
2. Her Table Spread

At Miss Cuffe’s castle dinner is served to her guests. But tonight there is a warship in the estuary.

Read by Angela Thorne.

One of three short stories written by Elizabeth Bowen.

Producer: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1986

TUE 16:00 A Good Read (b09r4k4n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

TUE 16:30 Mao's Little Red Book Goes West (b06z5g7j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

TUE 17:00 Whodunnits (b007jnmr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

TUE 17:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025mlb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

TUE 18:00 Rent (b063rvm6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

TUE 18:30 The Goon Show (b0089j6x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

TUE 19:00 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m000qx1b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

TUE 19:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgd5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

TUE 19:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m001324w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

TUE 20:00 Booked (b0075lcp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

TUE 20:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b00n5vsq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

TUE 21:00 Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein (m0025mlh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]

TUE 21:45 Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (m000285f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 today]

TUE 22:00 Best Medicine (m0025cng)
Series 2

2. Sweating In Nature, Animals, Transplantation, Horticulture

Joining Kiri this week at the Hay Festival is comedian Zoe Lyons who tells Kiri how running helps with the stress associated with her alopecia - and how she survived getting rammed by a badger. Dr Matt Morgan explains how kangaroo vaginas held the key to developing IVF and whales’ hearts inspired new heart treatments for humans, Dr Fotios Sampaziotis unveils innovative new treatments that could repair livers before a transplant is needed, and ethnobotanist James Wong unearths the benefits of horticulture and how it can benefit health and bring hope.

Best Medicine is your weekly dose of laughter, hope and incredible medicine. Award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined by a funny and fascinating panel of comedians, doctors, scientists, and historians to celebrate medicine’s inspiring past, present and future.

Each week, Kiri challenges a panel of medical experts and a comedian to make a case for what they think is 'the best medicine', and each guest champions anything from world-changing science or an obscure invention, to an everyday treatment, an uplifting worldview, an unsung hero or a futuristic cure.

Whether it’s origami surgical robots, life-changing pineapple UTI vaccines, Victorian scandal mags, denial, sleep, tiny beating organoid hearts, lifesaving stem cell transplants, gold poo donors or even crying - it’s always something worth celebrating.

Hosted by Kiri Pritchard-McLean

Featuring: Zoe Lyons, Dr Matt Morgan, Dr Fotios Sampaziotis and James Wong

Written by Laura Claxton, Edward Easton, Charlie George, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Nicky Roberts and Ben Rowse

Producers: Tashi Radha and Ben Worsfield

Theme tune composed by Andrew Jones

A Large Time production for BBC Radio 4

TUE 22:30 The Consultants (b008j2v3)
Series 3

Episode 2

The Consultants hold their office Christmas party complete with music from a Beach Boys tribute act, ‘The Good Vibrators’.

Cerebral sketch show written by and starring:

Neil Edmond
Justin Edwards
James Rawlings

Producer: Will Saunders

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2004.

TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m00262td)
Katie Norris 2/3

From 10pm until midnight, seven days a week, The Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. And tonight, Iain Lee talks to Katie Norris.

TUE 23:00 Clare in the Community (b0650619)
Series 10

Party On

The Sparrowhawk team hold a leaving do, and take the opportunity to reminisce.

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

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.

Clare ...... Sally Phillips
Brian ...... Alex Lowe
Megan ...... Nina Conti
Ray ...... Richard Lumsden
Helen ...... Pippa Haywood
Libby ...... Sarah Kendall
Joan ...... Sarah Thom

Producer: Alexandra Smith.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2015.

TUE 23:30 Jason Cook's School of Hard Knocks (b03yqjgv)
Pregnancy and In-Laws

Jason Cook guides you through more murky waters and unseen eddies that bedevil the waters of life.

This time, it’s the trials and tribulations of discovering your partner is pregnant, plus the perils and preoccupations of meeting your in-laws for the first time.

Jason draws on his own experiences to illustrate what, and what not, to do - so that your life can be happier and more successful. Well, possibly...

With:

Zoe Harrison
Neil Grainger

Producer: Sam Michell.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2014.

WEDNESDAY 04 DECEMBER 2024

WED 00:00 A Good Read (b09r4k4n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]

WED 00:30 Mao's Little Red Book Goes West (b06z5g7j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Tuesday]

WED 01:00 Whodunnits (b007jnmr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]

WED 01:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025mlb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]

WED 02:00 Rent (b063rvm6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]

WED 02:30 The Goon Show (b0089j6x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]

WED 03:00 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m000qx1b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Tuesday]

WED 03:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgd5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Tuesday]

WED 03:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m001324w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Tuesday]

WED 04:00 Booked (b0075lcp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]

WED 04:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b00n5vsq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]

WED 05:00 Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein (m0025mlh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Tuesday]

WED 05:45 Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (m000285f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Tuesday]

WED 06:00 Whodunnits (b007jnn6)
Miss Marple - At Bertram's Hotel

Episode 3

The morning paper brings some very alarming news for Miss Marple - and an investigation by the police...

Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars June Whitfield.

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield
Inspector Davy ...... Frederick Jaeger
Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham
Inspector Campbell ...... David Timson
Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers
Mr Humfries ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Henry ...... Garard Green
Rose ...... Jane Whittenshaw
Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley
Sir Ronald Graves ...... Patrick Allen
Mrs Wheeling ...... Tessa Worsley

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995.

WED 06:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025l40)
4. To Spring or Not To Spring

Wainwright, Ilena and Mettold have succeeded in getting convicted Russian spy Carter over the English Channel.

They have taken shelter in a house of ill-repute in France known as the Convent.

But, once again, their charge is attempting to escape....

Espionage and intrigue as a recently convicted spy is ordered to be sprung from jail, just a year into a 25 year sentence.

But what is the motivation and who is behind the plan?

Starring Christopher Good and Graham Blockey.

Berkely Mather's spy thriller serial.

Charles Wainwright .... Christopher Good
Carter .... Graham Blockey
Ilena .... Melinda Walker
Mettold .... Cyril Shaps
Captain Kjaer .... Henry Stamper
First Mate .... Jonathan Owen

Producer: Graham Gauld

Director: Caroline Raphael

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1985.

WED 07:00 Winston (b007wfy8)
Winston in Europe

Questions and Answers

Old rogue Winston has something he wants to ask Nancy, while Father is making plans of his own...

Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial.

Winston …. Bill Wallis
Father …. Maurice Denham
Nancy …. Shirley Dixon
Rosie …. Liz Goulding
William .… Christian Rodska

Director: Shaun MacLoughlin.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1992.

WED 07:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b0186wj0)
Series 3

The Blackboard Jungle

The Lad is a young master in a school full of juvenile delinquents.

This is a parody of the controversial 1955 movie of the same name.

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's classic comedy about the life and times of Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock.

Starring Tony Hancock.

With:

Bill Kerr
Sidney James
Kenneth Williams
Andree Melly

Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott.

Music recorded by the BBC Augmented Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.

Producer: Dennis Main Wilson

Recovered episode - first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1955.

WED 08:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b06pxm45)
Series 3

The Madman in the Attic

With Tom's Dad advocating some rather drastic "rationalising", Tom realises that it might be time to have a clear-out himself.

Sitcom where Tom Wrigglesworth phones home for his weekly check-in with his Mum, Dad and Gran - - giving us a glimpse into his background and influences shaping his temperament, opinions and hang-ups.

Tom ...... Tom Wrigglesworth
Dad ...... Paul Copley
Mum ...... Kate Anthony
Granny ...... Elizabeth Bennett

Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle. With Miles Jupp.

Producer: Richard Morris

A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2015.

WED 08:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgrv)
8. Action

Suspecting that the girls’ true identities have been discovered, Strafford and Celia take action.

In 1940, at the height of Blitz, the two young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are secretly evacuated from Buckingham Palace for their own safety and sent to an isolated rural estate in neutral Ireland.

However Clonmillis Hall may prove to be even more dangerous than wartime London...

Irish police detective Strafford has been assigned to watch over the girls during their stay and so must form an uneasy alliance with their governess Miss Celia Nashe, an undercover MI5 officer charged with the princesses’ safety.

However, with a contingent of soldiers patrolling the woods and rumours of IRA terrorists in the vicinity, they soon find their task even more treacherous than expected.

But is the real threat from outside, or from within Clonmillis Hall itself?

BW Black's imagined historical adventure is an enthralling mystery.

Abridged in ten parts by Neville Teller.

Read by Sorcha Cusack.

Producer: Michael Shannon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

WED 08:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m001328v)
Series 5

3. Don't Think Twice It's Alright

John and Maggie go to view a flat in a gated community.

Here, they find themselves at odds with the owners and going head to head with the garden foliage.

Starring Bill Nighy and Anna Calder-Marshall.

AL Kennedy's romantic comedy drama.

John Black ...... Bill Nighy
Maggie Turner ...... Anna Calder-Marshall
Mr Seymour ...... Neil McCaul
Mrs Seymour ...... Christine Kavanagh

Director: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2022.

WED 09:00 Yesterday in Parliament (m001zvz7)
The latest news from Westminster - and beyond.

WED 09:30 Snapshots in the Dark (b0075qgn)
3. Four Legs Muybridge

Colin Ford tells the stories behind five groundbreaking photographs and how they changed the world.

No animal painting and no vet's understanding was ever the same again after Eadweard Muybridge's Four Legs Muybridge.

His sequence of photographs, taken in California in 1872, proved that a horse had all four feet off the ground when galloping.

Producer: Hilary Dunn

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1999.

WED 09:45 Daily Service (m0025l42)
Advent Candles: Hope from the Patriarchs -Blessings

A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.

Theme: Advent Candles: Hope from the Patriarchs - Blessings
Presenter: Greg Finn
Reading: Genesis 28: 10-15

Music:
Counting my blessings - Seph Schlueter
Bless God - Brooke Ligertwood
The blessing of Abraham - Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers

WED 10:00 Archive on 4 (m0025l44)
The Stay at Home Soldiers

Military historian Colonel John Hughes-Wilson presents the story of the men and women who served in the Home Guard during the Second World War and beyond.

Featuring unique archive recordings, interviews and surviving male and female Home Guards

With re-enactments from the Chatham Home Guard.

This is the story of "The Real Dad's Army".

Contributors:

Victoria Seymour
Ivor White
Ted Mason
Philip Bradstreet
Owain Thomas
Mike Burkenshaw

Actor: Ysgol Glantaf

Producer: Geoff Ballinger

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003.

WED 11:00 Whodunnits (b007jnn6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

WED 11:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025l40)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

WED 12:00 Winston (b007wfy8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

WED 12:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b0186wj0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

WED 13:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b06pxm45)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

WED 13:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgrv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

WED 13:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m001328v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

WED 14:00 Counterpoint (b036twt1)
Series 27

2013 Semi-final 2

Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz.

Now at the semi-final stage with three contestants who've proved the breadth of their musical knowledge in the heats returning to compete for a place in the final.

This trio battling it out at the BBC's Radio Theatre, London are:

* Wilson Bain from Glasgow
* Bob del Quiaro from South London.
* Geoff Trinick from Cardiff.

Producer: Paul Bajoria

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013.

WED 14:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jrrq)
Series 1

A Good Cause

Rosie’s company is tasked to put together a charity gala concert in aid of the Afghans.

But there’s confusion over whether it’s for the people or the dogs?

Prunella Scales stars in Simon Brett's sitcom.

The trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event management company, based in Brighton.

Rosie ...... Prunella Scales
Kate ...... Arabella Weir
Jo ...... Rebecca Callard
Bob ...... Duncan Preston
Tess ...... Annette Badland
Ginnie ...... Joanna Munro
Lady Helen ...... Celia Imrie

Producer: Maria Esposito

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000.

WED 15:00 Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein (m0025l46)
3. Loss

Janos's funeral brings Lena and Katya's families together in a way they've never been before.

Starring Jenny Agutter and Jennie Stoller.

Conclusion of Elaine Feinstein's drama following the lives of Lena and Katya, two Jewish women in England.

Lena .... Jennie Stoller
Katya .... Jenny Agutter
Dr Kuperman .... Leonard Fenton
Sadie Kuperman .... Doreen Mantle
Stefan .... David Thorpe
Grete .... Jill Graham
Graham .... David Barrass
Miklos Vennady .... Philip Sully
Minister/Guard .... Dominic Letts
Policeman .... Tom Bevan

Kaddish read by Tony Rudolf.

Director: Marion Nancarrow

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1993.

WED 15:45 Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (m000289q)
3. Firelight in the Flat

There's a lot to be said for an open fire. But this evening Constance needed a different kind of cheer.

Read by Angela Thorne.

One of three short stories written by Elizabeth Bowen.

Producer: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1986

WED 16:00 Archive on 4 (m0025l44)
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WED 17:00 Whodunnits (b007jnn6)
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WED 17:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025l40)
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WED 18:00 Winston (b007wfy8)
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WED 18:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b0186wj0)
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WED 19:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b06pxm45)
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WED 19:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgrv)
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WED 19:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m001328v)
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WED 20:00 Counterpoint (b036twt1)
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WED 20:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jrrq)
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WED 21:00 Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein (m0025l46)
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WED 21:45 Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (m000289q)
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WED 22:00 You Heard It Here First (m001ygj0)
Series 2

'Is it someone going down a waterslide?'

Chris McCausland asks Jessica Knappett and Andy Parsons to take on Ahir Shah and Desiree Burch. Ahir Shah confuses his teammate when using just sound to describe a preassigned prompt. The teams must figure out what on earth is being advertised on TV, guess what famous objects or locations children are trying to describe, and work out which famous faces are being described by Chris' audio assistance software.

Producer: Sasha Bobak
Assistant Producer: Becky Carewe-Jeffires
Executive Producer: Richard Morris
Production Coordinator: Dan Marchini

A BBC Studios Production

An EcoAudio certified production

WED 22:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b01s4szd)
Series 5

Manchester

Comedian and activist Mark Thomas creates another People's Manifesto.

This will be based on the policies of his audience at the Dance House Theatre in Manchester.

Agenda:

1) Low-cost housing
2) Happier train carriages
3) Novel road safety techniques.

Researcher: Susan McNicholas

Producer: Colin Anderson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013.

WED 23:00 Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes (b01p7l07)
Series 2

Cultural Heroes

Iolo Morgannwg, Lady Llanover and Michael Heseltine.

Comedian Elis James compares key figures in Welsh history to determine the ultimate heroes of Wales.

With:

Ben Partridge
Nadia Kamil

Written by Elis James, Gareth Gwyn and Benjamin Partridge.

Producer: Sharif Shahwan

First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales in December 2012.

WED 23:30 Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian (m0000sy2)
Series 1

4: Relationships

Stand-up series exploring British Chinese culture, from BBC New Comedy Award finalist Ken Cheng.

In this episode, Ken examines attitudes towards relationships.

Reader: Sarah Sharpe

Producer: Lyndsay Fenner

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2018.

WED 23:45 Self-Storage (b0082dxc)
Series 1

Leaving

Could the time have come at long last for Dave to leave behind his peculiar abode?

Stars Reece Shearsmith and Mark Heap.

Sitcom written by Tom Collinson and Barnaby Power.

Dave …. Reece Shearsmith
Geoff …. Mark Heap
Ron …. Tom Goodman-Hill
Judy ...... Rosie Cavaliero

With Susan Earl.

Producer: Ed Morrish

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007.

THURSDAY 05 DECEMBER 2024

THU 00:00 Archive on 4 (m0025l44)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]

THU 01:00 Whodunnits (b007jnn6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]

THU 01:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025l40)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]

THU 02:00 Winston (b007wfy8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]

THU 02:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b0186wj0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]

THU 03:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b06pxm45)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Wednesday]

THU 03:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgrv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Wednesday]

THU 03:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m001328v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Wednesday]

THU 04:00 Counterpoint (b036twt1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]

THU 04:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jrrq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]

THU 05:00 Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein (m0025l46)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Wednesday]

THU 05:45 Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (m000289q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Wednesday]

THU 06:00 Whodunnits (b007jnnq)
Miss Marple - At Bertram's Hotel

Episode 4

Just as one mystery is cleared up, Miss Marple becomes involved in another...

Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars June Whitfield.

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield
Inspector Davy ...... Frederick Jaeger
Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham
Inspector Campbell ...... David Timson
Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips
Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers
Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley
Sir Ronald Graves ...... Patrick Allen
Miss McCrea ...... Zulema Dene
Hoffman ...... Freddie Jones
Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles
Sergeant Waddell ...... Ross Livingstone

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995.

THU 06:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025l9l)
5. Promise of Spring

Carter and Wainwright decide that they’ve both been double-crossed by Mettold. But where does Ilena stand?

Espionage and intrigue as a recently convicted spy is ordered to be sprung from jail, just a year into a 25-year sentence. But what is the motivation and who is behind the plan?

Charles Wainwright .... Christopher Good
Ilena .... Melinda Walker
Carter .... Graham Blockey
Captain Kjaer.... Henry Stamper
First Mate .... Jonathan Owen

‘The Meisterspringer’ a six-part radio serial written by Berkely Mather, the penname of John Davies [1909-1996]. His career in radio drama spanned from 1955 to 1985, with ‘The Meisterspringer’ being his final production. A prodigious writer of screenplays, his television credits include ‘Z Cars’ and ‘The Avengers’. In the cinema, he is known for his work on three James Bond movies, ‘Dr No’, ‘From Russia with Love’ and ‘Goldfinger’.

Producer: Graham Gauld

Director: Caroline Raphael

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1985.

THU 07:00 Coming Alive (b00gsjth)
Series 2

Where The Action Is

Terry comes a cropper when he tries to stop a mob of vigilantes.

Starring Karl Howman and Phylis Logan.

Jim Eldridge's sitcom about ex-convict Terry King's efforts to run a community centre.

Terry King ...... Karl Howman
Sandra Gaines ...... Phyllis Logan
Steve Addison ...... Ben Crowe
Mrs Baxter ...... Richenda Carey
Andy ...... Tom George
Annie ...... Alison Pettitt
Jerry Purvis ...... David Thorpe
Chaperoning Child ...... Irene Prentice
Scaggs ...... Clinton Mullins Dodson

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2000

THU 07:30 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007jqc5)
13. Hidden Treasure

Pike and Hodges call in a clairvoyant to help them locate the rumoured booty hidden somewhere on the pier in Frambourne-on-Sea.

Starring John Le Mesurier, Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee.

A seaside saga of pier perpetuation.

Written by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.

Arthur Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Frank Pike …. Ian Lavender
Bert Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Miss Perkins …. Vivienne Martin
Madame Zara …. Betty Marsden

Based on the Dad's Army characters originally created by Jimmy Perry and David Croft.

Producer: Martin Fisher

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1984.

THU 08:00 Bridget Christie: Mortal (m000v7q9)
Life

Following on from her hugely successful, award-winning series – ‘Minds The Gap’ and ‘Utopia’, Bridget Christie turns her attention to Mortality.

Like many of us forced to work from home during Covid lockdown, Bridget recorded this series herself in her house, and in her local park, on a pre-sanitised recording device sent to her in the post. Batteries weren’t included. She had to buy them all herself.

In a collection of informative, personal and absurd recordings, she confronts the difficult questions most of us spend our lives avoiding - all whilst being interrupted by cats, bad WiFi, life admin and her own dead self from beyond the grave.

"Does life have meaning?", "How do you live in the moment?", "Why is life like a washing machine cycle?" and "What's that dog barking at?"

If you are mortal, then this is the show for you.

Written and performed by Bridget Christie.

With guest appearances from her dad, sister Eileen and friend Ash.

Producer: Carl Cooper

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2021.

THU 08:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgn6)
9. Enemies

As enemies surround the princesses, Mary uncovers a shocking secret.

In 1940, at the height of Blitz, the two young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are secretly evacuated from Buckingham Palace for their own safety and sent to an isolated rural estate in neutral Ireland.

However Clonmillis Hall may prove to be even more dangerous than wartime London...

Irish police detective Strafford has been assigned to watch over the girls during their stay and so must form an uneasy alliance with their governess Miss Celia Nashe, an undercover MI5 officer charged with the princesses’ safety. However, with a contingent of soldiers patrolling the woods and rumours of IRA terrorists in the vicinity, they soon find their task even more treacherous than expected.

But is the real threat from outside, or from within Clonmillis Hall itself?

An imagined historical adventure and enthralling mystery.

B.W. Black is the pen name of acclaimed Irish author John Banville. He is the author of several novels, including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature. He has published a number of crime novels, most featuring Quirke (an Irish pathologist based in Dublin) which were adapted into a TV series starring Gabriel Byrne.

Abridged by Neville Teller
Read by Sorcha Cusack
Produced by Michael Shannon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

THU 08:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m00132tv)
Series 5

4. End Of The Line

Maggie has spotted a mystery blonde on their home security system.

Could John be having an affair?

A fortune teller reveals all to Maggie at the village fete.

Starring Bill Nighy and Anna Calder-Marshall.

The return of AL Kennedy's romantic comedy drama in five parts.

John Black ...... Bill Nighy
Maggie Turner ...... Anna Calder-Marshall
Post Office Carol ...... Jasmine Hyde

Director: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2022.

THU 09:00 Yesterday in Parliament (m001zw73)
The latest news from Westminster - and beyond.

THU 09:30 Snapshots in the Dark (b0075qhb)
4. Eddie Adams - Execution of a Vietcong Suspect, 1968

Colin Ford tells the stories behind five groundbreaking photographs and how they changed the world.

Eddie Adams - Execution of a Vietcong Suspect, 1968. Credited with ending the Vietnam war, this photograph was reproduced in newspapers around the world within hours of it being taken.

Producer: Hilary Dunn

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.

THU 09:45 Daily Service (m0025l9n)
Advent Candles: Hope from the Patriarchs

A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.

Theme: Advent Candles: Hope from the Patriarchs
Presenter: Isabelle Hamley
Reading:

THU 10:00 Great Lives (b00ryg42)
Robin Hood

Human rights activist Clive Stafford Smith champions Robin Hood.

Clive Stafford Smith is a lawyer working for human rights both in Britain and abroad - he campaigns for the rights of prisoners on death row in the US and in Guantanamo Bay.

His nomination for a life worth celebrating is at first surprising - it's the entirely fictitious Robin Hood. But, he argues in conversation with medievalist Professor Stephen Knight, the myth has a lot to teach us about the way we treat each other.

Presenter: Matthew Parris

Producer: Christine Hall

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2010.

THU 10:30 Captured By Pirates (b00rdwm5)
Kate Silverton uncovers the story of the English schoolgirls who were captured by pirates off the China coast, and later ended up in a Japanese concentration camp with Eric Liddell.

In 1935, the SS Tungchow was taken over by a dozen Chinese pirates as it emerged from the Yangtse River. They were expecting a cargo of gold bullion but instead found three lady teachers and seventy British missionaries' children, on their way to Chefoo boarding school on the North China coast.
Six years later, in 1941, these same children became enemy aliens when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour. They were imprisoned in the Weihsien Internment Camp, Shantung Province, along with 500 other children, half of them without parents. The morale of the girls and their teachers was greatly improved by two Brownie packs and a Girl Guide Company. Their sports were organised by Eric Liddell, (Chariots of Fire) until he died.

This is an extraordinary tale, and it's told by those who were there:
Margaret Holder, née Vinden.
Beryl Goodland, née Welch.
Kathleen Foster, née Strange.
Mary Previte, née Taylor.
Evelyn Heubener, née Davey.

Programme consultant Janie Hampton.

Producer: Beth O'Dea

First broadcast on BBC Radio in March 2010.

THU 11:00 Whodunnits (b007jnnq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

THU 11:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025l9l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

THU 12:00 Coming Alive (b00gsjth)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

THU 12:30 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007jqc5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

THU 13:00 Bridget Christie: Mortal (m000v7q9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

THU 13:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgn6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

THU 13:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m00132tv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

THU 14:00 Who Goes There? (b00kfwbs)
Series 2

Episode 1

Martin Young chairs the quiz looking at lives of those who made it into the history books.

Plus those who only enjoyed 15 minutes of fame...

Tackling the biographical teasers are team captains Francis Wheen and Fred Housego.

With guests:

Polly Toynbee
Miles Kington

Producer: Aled Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998.

THU 14:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000y64v)
Syd

Arthur Smith's hit Edinburgh Festival show.

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, first broadcast in July 2021.

THU 15:00 Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (b007jqy3)
1. Arrival

Against the advice of his family, Robinson Crusoe is set on a life of adventure.

Daniel Defoe’s epic tale.

Starring Roy Marsden and Tom Bevan.

Dramatised in two parts by Steve Chambers

Older Robinson ...... Roy Marsden
Younger Robinson ...... Tom Bevan
Wells ...... Gerard McDermott
Crusoe's Father ...... John Rowe
Crusoe's Mother ...... Jenny Lee
Captain ...... Christopher Wright
Jack ...... Iwan Thomas

Director: Marion Nancarrow

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.

THU 16:00 Great Lives (b00ryg42)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

THU 16:30 Captured By Pirates (b00rdwm5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

THU 17:00 Whodunnits (b007jnnq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

THU 17:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025l9l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

THU 18:00 Coming Alive (b00gsjth)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

THU 18:30 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007jqc5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

THU 19:00 Bridget Christie: Mortal (m000v7q9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

THU 19:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgn6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

THU 19:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m00132tv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

THU 20:00 Who Goes There? (b00kfwbs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

THU 20:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000y64v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

THU 21:00 Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (b007jqy3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]

THU 22:00 Unspeakable (m0025d7n)
Series 1

5. Gingers for Justice

Roisin Conaty introduces a term for hiding moments of irrational irritation, Alasdair Beckett-King presents a word that challenges 'playful' teasing, and Slim offers a new term aimed at uplifting older individuals in a society that often overlooks them.

Ever struggled to find the right word for a feeling or sensation? Unspeakable sees comedian Phil Wang and lexicographer Susie Dent invite celebrity guests to invent new linguistic creations, to solve those all too relatable moments when we're lost for words.

Hosts: Phil Wang and Susie Dent
Guests: Roisin Conaty, Alasdair Beckett-King and Slim
Created by Joe Varley
Writer: Matt Crosby
Recorded by Jerry Peal
Producer: Jon Harvey
Executive Producers: Joe Varley and Akash Lockmun

A Brown Bred production for BBC Radio 4

THU 22:30 Vent (b00szjy0)
Series 1

Wouldn't You Like to Get Away

Mary and Mum have a break when Ben's unconscious body gets driven to a medical conference in Birmingham.

But they can't quite bring themselves to leave the hospital.

Meanwhile, Ben's mind also takes a trip. Unfortunately, it's a trip back to the hotel in Paris, where he had the most miserable night of his life.

Starring Neil Pearson.

Nigel Smith's dark sitcom about a man in a coma, travelling through the distinctly odd landscape of his own unconscious mind.

Ben …. Neil Pearson
Jean/Mum …. Josie Lawrence
Mary …. Fiona Allen
Blitzkrieg …. Leslie Ash

With:

Dave Lamb
Mark Perry
Jo Martin
Hils Barker
Giles New
Lucy Montgomery
Scarlett Milburn-Smith
Elizabeth Bell

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2006.

THU 23:00 Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller (b00911f4)
Episode 3

In an optimistic attempt at cultural review, Craig Children and Martin Bain-Jones throw a Come As You Aren't party.

Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong star as the pompous critics.

With:

Charlie Condou
Melissa Lloyd
Tony Gardner

Written by Ben Miller, Alexander Armstrong, David Mitchell and Robert Webb.

Producer: Jon Rolph

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1998.

THU 23:30 Party (b01mqq72)
Series 3

The Curry

Return of the budding visionaries still trying to make political waves.

The group reconvene after their Summer break and their ambition steps up a gear.

Tom Basden's satirical comedy about a political party run by young idealists.

Simon .... Tom Basden
Duncan .... Tim Key
Jared .... Jonny Sweet
Mel .... Anna Crilly
Phoebe .... Katy Wix

Producer Julia McKenzie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012.

FRIDAY 06 DECEMBER 2024

FRI 00:00 Great Lives (b00ryg42)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]

FRI 00:30 Captured By Pirates (b00rdwm5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Thursday]

FRI 01:00 Whodunnits (b007jnnq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]

FRI 01:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025l9l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]

FRI 02:00 Coming Alive (b00gsjth)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]

FRI 02:30 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007jqc5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday]

FRI 03:00 Bridget Christie: Mortal (m000v7q9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Thursday]

FRI 03:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgn6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Thursday]

FRI 03:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m00132tv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Thursday]

FRI 04:00 Who Goes There? (b00kfwbs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]

FRI 04:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000y64v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]

FRI 05:00 Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (b007jqy3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Thursday]

FRI 06:00 Whodunnits (b007jnp6)
Miss Marple - At Bertram's Hotel

Episode 5

The police ask amateur sleuth Miss Marple to take part in a little experiment.

Conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunnit starring June Whitfield.

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield
Inspector Davy ...... Frederick Jaeger
Sir Ronald Graves ...... Patrick Allen
Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham
Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips
Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers
Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles
Bridget ...... Sarah Plowright
Ladislaus Malinowski ...... Gavin Muir
Sergeant Waddell ...... Ross Livingstone

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995.

FRI 06:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025m8s)
6. He Who Springs Last

Wainwright’s mission approaches its climax. But who is behind the whole operation and stands to gain the most?

Espionage and intrigue as a recently convicted spy is ordered to be sprung from jail, just a year into a 25-year sentence. But what is the motivation and who is behind the plan?

Charles Wainwright .... Christopher Good
Ilena .... Melinda Walker
Mettold .... Cyril Shaps
Carter .... Graham Blockey
The Gaffer .... Ronald Baddiley
Captain Kjaer .... Henry Stamper
Inspector Snell .... Roger Snowdon

‘The Meisterspringer’ a six-part radio serial written by Berkely Mather, the penname of John Davies [1909-1996]. His career in radio drama spanned from 1955 to 1985, with ‘The Meisterspringer’ being his final production. A prodigious writer of screenplays, his television credits include ‘Z Cars’ and ‘The Avengers’. In the cinema, he is known for his work on three James Bond movies, ‘Dr No’, ‘From Russia with Love’ and ‘Goldfinger’.

Producer: Graham Gauld

Director: Caroline Raphael

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1985.

FRI 07:00 Up the Garden Path (b0080p54)
Series 2

Hot Water

With more love entanglements, Izzy is finding life back in England rather confusing.

Tumbling from one love entanglement to another, 30 something teacher Izzy Comyn has a predilection for inappropriate men.

Imelda Staunton stars as Izzy.

An 8-part radio sequel adapted from Sue Limb’s 1984 novel. The second of 3 series which ran from 1987 to 1993. Granada also adapted the series for ITV.

Izzy ...... Imelda Staunton
Dick ...... Mike Grady
Michael ...... Nicholas Le Prevost
Aunt Vinny ...... Rosemary Martin
Charles ...... David Robb
Gwyn ...... Dafydd Hywel

Producer: Jonathan James-Moore

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1988.

FRI 07:30 Doctor in the House (b007k437)
Sex and St Swithins

Medic Simon Sparrow breaks hospital rules by flirting with a pretty new nurse.

The misadventures of student doctor, Simon Sparrow.

Starring Richard Briers.

With special guest star, Irene Handl.

Adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's 'Doctor in the House' published in 1952.

Simon Sparrow …. Richard Briers
Sir Lancelot Spratt …. Geoffrey Sumner
Tony Benskin …. Ray Cooney
Taffy Evans …. Edward Cast
Sister …. Barbara Mitchell
Nurse Michaels ...... Carol Marsh
Ginger ...... Tanya Robinson
Mrs Clarke ...... Irene Handl

Producer: David Hatch

Recorded at the BBC Paris studio in London.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1968.

FRI 08:00 The Train at Platform 4 (m00132xq)
Series 1

Coffee

Comedy legends Punt and Dennis with their sitcom, set in the claustrophobic carriages of a cross-country rail service.

It's day one of a new franchise and train manager Sam has high hopes for their maiden voyage, even if the new bosses insist her role is to 'enhance the onboard travel experience'. But the marketing team's offer of free coffee for ALL customers soon threatens to derail the smooth running of the service.

Meanwhile passengers struggle to escape the clutches of the automatic toilets....

Our heroes are the long-suffering train crew who manage to scrape through every shift like a dysfunctional family.

Sam …... Rosie Cavaliero
Gilbert ..…. Kenneth Collard
Dev …... Ali Shahalom
Tasha …... Amy Gledhill
Pensioner 1 …... Hugh Dennis
Pensioner 2 …... Gemma Arrowsmith
Student …... Justice Ritchie
Lawyer …... Steve Punt

Written by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis
Produced by James Robinson

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2022.

FRI 08:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgj0)
10. Under Attack

Strafford decides to take the girls and flee.

In 1940, at the height of Blitz, the two young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are secretly evacuated from Buckingham Palace for their own safety and sent to an isolated rural estate in neutral Ireland.

However Clonmillis Hall may prove to be even more dangerous than wartime London...

Irish police detective Strafford has been assigned to watch over the girls during their stay and so must form an uneasy alliance with their governess Miss Celia Nashe, an undercover MI5 officer charged with the princesses’ safety. However, with a contingent of soldiers patrolling the woods and rumours of IRA terrorists in the vicinity, they soon find their task even more treacherous than expected.

But is the real threat from outside, or from within Clonmillis Hall itself?

An imagined historical adventure and enthralling mystery.

B.W. Black is the pen name of acclaimed Irish author John Banville. He is the author of several novels, including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature. He has published a number of crime novels, most featuring Quirke (an Irish pathologist based in Dublin) which were adapted into a TV series starring Gabriel Byrne.

Abridged by Neville Teller
Read by Sorcha Cusack
Produced by Michael Shannon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.

FRI 08:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m00132xw)
Series 5

5. If Not For You

John is still mounting nightly patrols to try and catch the village lurker and it's a nasty surprise when their identity is finally revealed.

Starring Bill Nighy and Anna Calder-Marshall.

The return of AL Kennedy's romantic comedy drama in five parts.

John Black ...... Bill Nighy
Maggie Turner ...... Anna Calder-Marshall
Jimmy Nails ...... Michael Begley
Villagers ...... Jasmine Hyde, Christine Kavanagh, Neil McCaul

Director: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2022.

FRI 09:00 Yesterday in Parliament (m001zvkq)
The latest news from Westminster - and beyond.

FRI 09:30 Snapshots in the Dark (b0075qj2)
5. Lennart Nilsson - The Inner Child

Colin Ford tells the stories behind five groundbreaking photographs and how they changed the world.

Lennart Nilsson - the Inner Child. The first ever photograph of a live foetus taken inside its mother's womb and used on the cover of Life magazine.

Producer: Hilary Dunn

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.

FRI 09:45 Daily Service (m0025m8v)
Advent Candles: Hope from the Patriarchs - Righteous saviour

A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.

Theme: Advent Candles: Hope from the Patriarchs - Righteous saviour
Presenter: Rev Kirsty Thorpe
Reading: Jeremiah 33 14-16

Music:
Longing for light, we wait in darkness (Longing for light) - St Martin's Voices
A tender shoot - Goldschmidt - Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Build your Kingdom here - The Rend Collective

FRI 10:00 Soul Music (m0006tks)
Series 28

Streets of London by Ralph McTell

Ralph McTell and others discuss a song that was written for a heroin addict, became an anthem against homelessness, and transcended the folk genre to become an enduring classic.

Ralph McTell says he’s thought constantly about the “blip in my graph” that is Streets of London. People say to him “50 years. One hit. You think you’d have given up by now”. But, Ralph says, that’s not why he writes songs. And, of course, he’s written many. Many that he considers far better than Streets of London. But this remains his best known, best loved, and most played track. It was first recorded 50 years ago, in 1969, for his album Spiral Staircase although it wasn’t released as a single until 1974.

Taking part in Soul Music, alongside Ralph, with their stories and memories connected to Streets of London, are:

Jerry Playle, a music producer. His first ever public performance as a teenage guitarist was of Streets of London. The guitar part went well, but when he opened his mouth to sing, he realised - to his horror - that he couldn't...

Gwen Ever, a DJ. He became homeless in the 1980s. It’s the unlikely punk version of Streets of London by the Anti Nowhere League that reminds him of this time.

Maria Bentley-Dingwall, the daughter of Iris Bentley. Iris was the sister of Derek Bentley who was hanged for a murder he did not commit. Iris spent her life campaigning for his conviction to be quashed. Ralph McTell grew up knowing this story, became a friend of the family, wrote a song about the case, and sang Streets of London at Iris Bentley’s funeral.

Producer: Karen Gregor

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2019.

FRI 10:30 Grand Guignol (b00td9qw)
Sheila McClennon investigates the 19th-century Paris theatre that put blood, gore and horror centre stage.

At the end of the 19th-century, in the seediest quarter of Paris, a new theatre opened its doors offering a recipe of blood and terror - and soon the Grand Guignol was to become as big as an attraction in the city as the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe.

The success of an evening's performance - made up of a succession of short comedy and horror plays - was measured by how many members of the audience fainted, as they witnessed gougings, garrottings and gory murders on a nightly basis.

After more than sixty years the theatre finally closed its doors, but only after helping influence the development of horror in the cinema, as well as introducing the phrase Grand Guignol into common parlance as a byword for shocking, blood-soaked terror.

Sheila McClennon visits Paris to revisit the scene of this most shocking of theatre movements, and also comes to London to find out how the likes of Joseph Conrad and Noel Coward got involved in its English incarnation, which fought a staunch but unsuccessful battle with the censors at the beginning of the 1920s.

Producer: Geoff Bird

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.

FRI 11:00 Whodunnits (b007jnp6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

FRI 11:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025m8s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

FRI 12:00 Up the Garden Path (b0080p54)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

FRI 12:30 Doctor in the House (b007k437)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

FRI 13:00 The Train at Platform 4 (m00132xq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

FRI 13:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgj0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

FRI 13:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m00132xw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

FRI 14:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m0013zj6)
Series 27

Episode 4

David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies.

They compete against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their opponents.

The panellists are obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as mistakes, bicycles, dogs and death.

With:

Richard Osman
Henning Wehn
Holly Walsh
Ria Lina

Producer: Jon Naismith

A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2022.

FRI 14:30 All the Young Dudes (b007rkc3)
Series 1

People's Parties

Billy gets bullied into having some people round to his place.

It seems like a bad idea, until someone suggests a game of cards....

The lives of Patrick and wife Helen as they settle back into the town where he was born.

Comedy drama written by and starring Jim Sweeney.

Patrick …. Jim Sweeney
Helen …. Cathryn Harrison
Billy …. Steve Steen
Moira …. Sadie Shimmin
Joe …. Stephen Frost
Maria …. Flaminia Cinque

Producer: Steve Doherty

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001.

FRI 15:00 Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (b007jqyc)
2. Friday

Crusoe's acceptance of his solitude is shattered by a single footprint in the sand.

Conclusion of Daniel Defoe’s epic tale.

Starring Roy Marsden and Tom Bevan.

Dramatised by Steve Chambers.

Older Robinson ...... Roy Marsden
Younger Robinson ...... Tom Bevan
Wells ...... Gerard McDermott
Crusoe's Father ...... John Rowe
Crusoe's Mother ...... Jenny Lee
Captain ...... Christopher Wright
Jack ...... Iwan Thomas

Director: Marion Nancarrow

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.

FRI 16:00 Soul Music (m0006tks)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

FRI 16:30 Grand Guignol (b00td9qw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

FRI 17:00 Whodunnits (b007jnp6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

FRI 17:30 The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather (m0025m8s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

FRI 18:00 Up the Garden Path (b0080p54)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

FRI 18:30 Doctor in the House (b007k437)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

FRI 19:00 The Train at Platform 4 (m00132xq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

FRI 19:30 The Secret Guests by BW Black (m000fgj0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

FRI 19:45 Subterranean Homesick Blues (m00132xw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

FRI 20:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m0013zj6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

FRI 20:30 All the Young Dudes (b007rkc3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

FRI 21:00 Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (b007jqyc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]

FRI 22:00 Parish Matters (m0025kr1)
Series 1

4. 'A financial, legal, humanitarian and ecological disaster'

A brand-new sitcom sketch hybrid made in Belfast and starring voices from all over Ireland. Each week we join the eccentric inhabitants of the Parish in their weekly council meeting to air their problems and grievances.

The Parish attempts to ‘go-green’ have backfired spectacularly, and the council hold an emergency meeting on what to do about the runaway disaster that is their ‘Environmental Awareness Festival’. Who’s to blame for the pollution of the rivers by the festival portapotties? Can the dubious renewable energy proposals really work and the best (and only) cop in town wrestles with the shock death-slash-possible murder of a hometown music hero on the opening night of the festival – on his night off!

PARISH MATTERS is a half hour window into an everlasting argument and an energetic and original comedy show written by Michael McCullagh and Phil Taggart and starring the writers alongside Michael Fry, Ciara Knight, Hannah Mamalis, Mary Flanigan, Michael Stranney and Peter McGann. Produced by Keith Martin and Exec Produced by Sam Michell. A FABEL radio Production for BBC Radio 4.

FRI 22:30 The Jason Byrne Show (b01ghlh2)
Series 2

Animals

Award-winning Jason Byrne muses on all beasts, including humans.

Fast-paced stand-up comedy and sketch show.

With:

Laurence Howarth
Daisy Haggard

Producer: Julia McKenzie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2009.

FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m00262tb)
Katie Norris 3/3

From 10pm until midnight, seven days a week, The Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. And tonight, Iain Lee talks to Katie Norris.

FRI 23:00 Clayton Grange (b01mw5jb)
Series 1

Episode 1

Anthony Head leads a team of brilliantly stupid scientists.

This is Clayton Grange, top secret Scientific Institute with a government brief to solve the global fuel crisis, cheer people up and make war just a bit more gentle. Meet the scientists who are a bit rubbish at life. And not much better at science.

Comedy by Neil Warhurst with extra material by Paul Barnhill.

Saunders ..... Anthony Head
Geoff ..... Neil Warhurst
Roger ..... Paul Barnhill
Jameson ..... Stephanie Racine
Helen/Bunty ..... Don Gilet
Alan Dobson ..... Paul Stonehouse

Director: Marion Nancarrow

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012.

FRI 23:30 Sean Lock - 15 Storeys High (b09hmjts)
Series 1

The Entry Phone

Crouched on his lonely perch like a smug hermit, Sean Lock hides in Flat 76, Elderberry House, Maydew Estate, trying to keep the world at bay.

The world, for some reason, does not want to play his game.

Starring Sean Lock

Five-part comedy series written by Sean Lock and Martin Trenaman.

With:

Felix Dexter
Jenny Eclair
Tim Mitchell
Tracy-Ann Oberman
Peter Serafinowicz

Script Editor: Robert Fraser-Steele

Producer: Chris Neill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1999.

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

1966 and All That 22:30 SUN (b010hcwh)

21 Shades of Noir: Lee Child on John D MacDonald 10:30 MON (b07x6j4n)

21 Shades of Noir: Lee Child on John D MacDonald 16:30 MON (b07x6j4n)

21 Shades of Noir: Lee Child on John D MacDonald 00:30 TUE (b07x6j4n)

A Good Read 10:00 TUE (b09r4k4n)

A Good Read 16:00 TUE (b09r4k4n)

A Good Read 00:00 WED (b09r4k4n)

Agatha Christie 01:00 SAT (b00jzwdq)

Alan Coren - Core Coren 08:45 SAT (b007jrq9)

Alan Coren - Core Coren 13:45 SAT (b007jrq9)

Alan Coren - Core Coren 19:45 SAT (b007jrq9)

Alan Coren - Core Coren 03:45 SUN (b007jrq9)

All the Young Dudes 04:30 SAT (b007r4md)

All the Young Dudes 14:30 FRI (b007rkc3)

All the Young Dudes 20:30 FRI (b007rkc3)

Archive on 4 10:00 WED (m0025l44)

Archive on 4 16:00 WED (m0025l44)

Archive on 4 00:00 THU (m0025l44)

Ashley Blaker: 6.5 Children 22:30 MON (m000y7ss)

Best Medicine 22:00 TUE (m0025cng)

Beyond Our Ken 10:00 SUN (b00tn8kq)

Beyond Our Ken 15:00 SUN (b00tn8kq)

Beyond Our Ken 21:00 SUN (b00tn8kq)

Beyond Our Ken 05:00 MON (b00tn8kq)

Booked 14:00 TUE (b0075lcp)

Booked 20:00 TUE (b0075lcp)

Booked 04:00 WED (b0075lcp)

Bridget Christie: Mortal 08:00 THU (m000v7q9)

Bridget Christie: Mortal 13:00 THU (m000v7q9)

Bridget Christie: Mortal 19:00 THU (m000v7q9)

Bridget Christie: Mortal 03:00 FRI (m000v7q9)

Captured By Pirates 10:30 THU (b00rdwm5)

Captured By Pirates 16:30 THU (b00rdwm5)

Captured By Pirates 00:30 FRI (b00rdwm5)

Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller 23:00 THU (b00911f4)

Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) 07:30 SAT (b0bn26xz)

Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) 12:30 SAT (b0bn26xz)

Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) 18:30 SAT (b0bn26xz)

Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) 02:30 SUN (b0bn26xz)

Clare in the Community 23:00 TUE (b0650619)

Clayton Grange 23:00 FRI (b01mw5jb)

Coming Alive 07:00 THU (b00gsjth)

Coming Alive 12:00 THU (b00gsjth)

Coming Alive 18:00 THU (b00gsjth)

Coming Alive 02:00 FRI (b00gsjth)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 08:00 TUE (m000qx1b)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 13:00 TUE (m000qx1b)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 19:00 TUE (m000qx1b)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 03:00 WED (m000qx1b)

Counterpoint 14:00 WED (b036twt1)

Counterpoint 20:00 WED (b036twt1)

Counterpoint 04:00 THU (b036twt1)

Daily Service 09:45 MON (m0025m16)

Daily Service 09:45 TUE (m0025mld)

Daily Service 09:45 WED (m0025l42)

Daily Service 09:45 THU (m0025l9n)

Daily Service 09:45 FRI (m0025m8v)

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe 15:00 THU (b007jqy3)

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe 21:00 THU (b007jqy3)

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe 05:00 FRI (b007jqy3)

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe 15:00 FRI (b007jqyc)

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe 21:00 FRI (b007jqyc)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 06:45 SUN (b00zt5xr)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 11:45 SUN (b00zt5xr)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 17:45 SUN (b00zt5xr)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 01:45 MON (b00zt5xr)

Delve Special 23:30 SUN (b007k469)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 06:00 SUN (m0025lzf)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 11:00 SUN (m0025lzf)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 17:00 SUN (m0025lzf)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 01:00 MON (m0025lzf)

Doctor in the House 02:30 SAT (b007jt20)

Doctor in the House 07:30 FRI (b007k437)

Doctor in the House 12:30 FRI (b007k437)

Doctor in the House 18:30 FRI (b007k437)

Eden Must Go 06:00 SAT (m0025kvl)

Eden Must Go 11:00 SAT (m0025kvl)

Eden Must Go 17:00 SAT (m0025kvl)

Eden Must Go 01:00 SUN (m0025kvl)

Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes 23:00 WED (b01p7l07)

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (Omnibus) 08:50 SUN (m0025lzl)

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (Omnibus) 13:50 SUN (m0025lzl)

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (Omnibus) 19:50 SUN (m0025lzl)

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (Omnibus) 03:50 MON (m0025lzl)

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis 03:45 SAT (m000nwhd)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 15:00 MON (m0025m18)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 21:00 MON (m0025m18)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 05:00 TUE (m0025m18)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 15:00 TUE (m0025mlh)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 21:00 TUE (m0025mlh)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 05:00 WED (m0025mlh)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 15:00 WED (m0025l46)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 21:00 WED (m0025l46)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 05:00 THU (m0025l46)

Getting Nowhere Fast 14:30 TUE (b00n5vsq)

Getting Nowhere Fast 20:30 TUE (b00n5vsq)

Getting Nowhere Fast 04:30 WED (b00n5vsq)

Grand Guignol 10:30 FRI (b00td9qw)

Grand Guignol 16:30 FRI (b00td9qw)

Great Lives 10:00 THU (b00ryg42)

Great Lives 16:00 THU (b00ryg42)

Great Lives 00:00 FRI (b00ryg42)

Hancock's Half Hour 07:30 WED (b0186wj0)

Hancock's Half Hour 12:30 WED (b0186wj0)

Hancock's Half Hour 18:30 WED (b0186wj0)

Hancock's Half Hour 02:30 THU (b0186wj0)

Harry and the Angels by Bernard Kops 05:00 SAT (b00sjtb0)

Henry Normal: A Normal... 14:30 MON (m0011ryb)

Henry Normal: A Normal... 20:30 MON (m0011ryb)

Henry Normal: A Normal... 04:30 TUE (m0011ryb)

Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? 10:00 SAT (m000nd74)

Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? 15:00 SAT (m000nd74)

Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? 21:00 SAT (m000nd74)

Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? 05:00 SUN (m000nd74)

In and Out of the Kitchen 08:00 MON (b06418ms)

In and Out of the Kitchen 13:00 MON (b06418ms)

In and Out of the Kitchen 19:00 MON (b06418ms)

In and Out of the Kitchen 03:00 TUE (b06418ms)

Inheritance Tracks 08:40 SUN (b073c1bc)

Inheritance Tracks 13:40 SUN (b073c1bc)

Inheritance Tracks 19:40 SUN (b073c1bc)

Inheritance Tracks 03:40 MON (b073c1bc)

Innes Own World 23:00 SAT (b017px05)

It Sticks Out Half A Mile 07:30 THU (b007jqc5)

It Sticks Out Half A Mile 12:30 THU (b007jqc5)

It Sticks Out Half A Mile 18:30 THU (b007jqc5)

It Sticks Out Half A Mile 02:30 FRI (b007jqc5)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 09:30 SAT (b007jzkv)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 14:30 SAT (b007jzkv)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 20:30 SAT (b007jzkv)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 04:30 SUN (b007jzkv)

Jason Cook's School of Hard Knocks 23:30 TUE (b03yqjgv)

John Wyndham - The Chrysalids 16:00 SAT (b01l5qc7)

John Wyndham - The Chrysalids 00:00 SUN (b01l5qc7)

Just a Minute 14:00 MON (b00q3cm1)

Just a Minute 20:00 MON (b00q3cm1)

Just a Minute 04:00 TUE (b00q3cm1)

Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian 23:30 WED (m0000sy2)

Life With Lederer 23:00 SUN (m001k6vh)

Like They've Never Been Gone 07:00 MON (b00bbn44)

Like They've Never Been Gone 12:00 MON (b00bbn44)

Like They've Never Been Gone 18:00 MON (b00bbn44)

Like They've Never Been Gone 02:00 TUE (b00bbn44)

Mao's Little Red Book Goes West 10:30 TUE (b06z5g7j)

Mao's Little Red Book Goes West 16:30 TUE (b06z5g7j)

Mao's Little Red Book Goes West 00:30 WED (b06z5g7j)

Mark Thomas: The Manifesto 22:30 WED (b01s4szd)

Michael Spicer: Before Next Door 03:00 SAT (m000y6t6)

Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music 22:30 SAT (b00cbv8k)

Parish Matters 22:00 FRI (m0025kr1)

Party 23:30 THU (b01mqq72)

Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz 22:00 MON (m0025d5d)

Poetry Extra 07:00 SUN (m0025lzj)

Poetry Extra 12:00 SUN (m0025lzj)

Poetry Extra 18:00 SUN (m0025lzj)

Poetry Extra 02:00 MON (m0025lzj)

Rent 07:00 TUE (b063rvm6)

Rent 12:00 TUE (b063rvm6)

Rent 18:00 TUE (b063rvm6)

Rent 02:00 WED (b063rvm6)

Revolting People 22:00 SUN (b00wbnb0)

Rigor Mortis 23:30 SAT (b007k4xd)

Sean Lock - 15 Storeys High 23:30 FRI (b09hmjts)

Self-Storage 23:45 WED (b0082dxc)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 15:45 MON (m00027pj)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 21:45 MON (m00027pj)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 05:45 TUE (m00027pj)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 15:45 TUE (m000285f)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 21:45 TUE (m000285f)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 05:45 WED (m000285f)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 15:45 WED (m000289q)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 21:45 WED (m000289q)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 05:45 THU (m000289q)

Smelling of Roses 14:30 WED (b007jrrq)

Smelling of Roses 20:30 WED (b007jrrq)

Smelling of Roses 04:30 THU (b007jrrq)

Snapshots in the Dark 09:30 MON (b0075qf8)

Snapshots in the Dark 09:30 TUE (b0075qfz)

Snapshots in the Dark 09:30 WED (b0075qgn)

Snapshots in the Dark 09:30 THU (b0075qhb)

Snapshots in the Dark 09:30 FRI (b0075qj2)

Soul Music 00:00 SAT (b04tjdls)

Soul Music 10:00 FRI (m0006tks)

Soul Music 16:00 FRI (m0006tks)

Sounds Natural 10:00 MON (b07mvx97)

Sounds Natural 16:00 MON (b07mvx97)

Sounds Natural 00:00 TUE (b07mvx97)

Stand-Up Specials 14:30 THU (m000y64v)

Stand-Up Specials 20:30 THU (m000y64v)

Stand-Up Specials 04:30 FRI (m000y64v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 MON (m001326v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 MON (m001326v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 MON (m001326v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 03:45 TUE (m001326v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 TUE (m001324w)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 TUE (m001324w)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 TUE (m001324w)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 03:45 WED (m001324w)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 WED (m001328v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 WED (m001328v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 WED (m001328v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 03:45 THU (m001328v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 THU (m00132tv)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 THU (m00132tv)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 THU (m00132tv)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 03:45 FRI (m00132tv)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 FRI (m00132xw)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 FRI (m00132xw)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 FRI (m00132xw)

TEZ Talks 22:00 SAT (b09nxtzy)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 MON (m00262t6)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 TUE (m00262td)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 FRI (m00262tb)

The Confessional 23:30 MON (m001gjj4)

The Consultants 22:30 TUE (b008j2v3)

The East Coast Listening Post 22:15 SAT (b09jf2sh)

The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 10:30 SUN (m0025wfn)

The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 15:30 SUN (m0025wfn)

The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 21:30 SUN (m0025wfn)

The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 05:30 MON (m0025wfn)

The Goon Show 07:30 TUE (b0089j6x)

The Goon Show 12:30 TUE (b0089j6x)

The Goon Show 18:30 TUE (b0089j6x)

The Goon Show 02:30 WED (b0089j6x)

The Jason Byrne Show 22:30 FRI (b01ghlh2)

The Man in Black 16:00 SUN (b00yw4bc)

The Man in Black 00:00 MON (b00yw4bc)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 01:30 SAT (m0025dbf)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 06:30 MON (m0025m10)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 11:30 MON (m0025m10)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 17:30 MON (m0025m10)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 01:30 TUE (m0025m10)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 06:30 TUE (m0025mlb)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 11:30 TUE (m0025mlb)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 17:30 TUE (m0025mlb)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 01:30 WED (m0025mlb)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 06:30 WED (m0025l40)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 11:30 WED (m0025l40)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 17:30 WED (m0025l40)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 01:30 THU (m0025l40)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 06:30 THU (m0025l9l)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 11:30 THU (m0025l9l)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 17:30 THU (m0025l9l)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 01:30 FRI (m0025l9l)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 06:30 FRI (m0025m8s)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 11:30 FRI (m0025m8s)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 17:30 FRI (m0025m8s)

The Men from the Ministry 09:00 SAT (b01852vy)

The Men from the Ministry 14:00 SAT (b01852vy)

The Men from the Ministry 20:00 SAT (b01852vy)

The Men from the Ministry 04:00 SUN (b01852vy)

The Naked Week 23:00 MON (m0025c0h)

The Navy Lark 07:30 MON (m0025m12)

The Navy Lark 12:30 MON (m0025m12)

The Navy Lark 18:30 MON (m0025m12)

The Navy Lark 02:30 TUE (m0025m12)

The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) 07:30 SUN (m000fg0x)

The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) 12:30 SUN (m000fg0x)

The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) 18:30 SUN (m000fg0x)

The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) 02:30 MON (m000fg0x)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 SAT (m000f7xx)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 MON (m000ffyz)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 MON (m000ffyz)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 MON (m000ffyz)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 TUE (m000ffyz)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 TUE (m000fgd5)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 TUE (m000fgd5)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 TUE (m000fgd5)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 WED (m000fgd5)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 WED (m000fgrv)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 WED (m000fgrv)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 WED (m000fgrv)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 THU (m000fgrv)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 THU (m000fgn6)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 THU (m000fgn6)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 THU (m000fgn6)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 FRI (m000fgn6)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 FRI (m000fgj0)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 FRI (m000fgj0)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 FRI (m000fgj0)

The Train at Platform 4 08:00 FRI (m00132xq)

The Train at Platform 4 13:00 FRI (m00132xq)

The Train at Platform 4 19:00 FRI (m00132xq)

The Treehouse by Nawal Gadalla 05:45 SAT (m0025dbp)

The Unbelievable Truth 04:00 SAT (m0013r1n)

The Unbelievable Truth 14:00 FRI (m0013zj6)

The Unbelievable Truth 20:00 FRI (m0013zj6)

Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups 08:00 WED (b06pxm45)

Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups 13:00 WED (b06pxm45)

Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups 19:00 WED (b06pxm45)

Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups 03:00 THU (b06pxm45)

Unspeakable 22:00 THU (m0025d7n)

Up the Garden Path 02:00 SAT (b00803k9)

Up the Garden Path 07:00 FRI (b0080p54)

Up the Garden Path 12:00 FRI (b0080p54)

Up the Garden Path 18:00 FRI (b0080p54)

Vent 22:30 THU (b00szjy0)

Weird Tales 16:30 SUN (b00wr8s9)

Weird Tales 00:30 MON (b00wr8s9)

Where to, Mate? 23:15 SUN (m000jf8k)

Who Goes There? 14:00 THU (b00kfwbs)

Who Goes There? 20:00 THU (b00kfwbs)

Who Goes There? 04:00 FRI (b00kfwbs)

Who The Wild Things Are 00:30 SAT (b00c5j0j)

Whodunnits 06:00 MON (b007jnm7)

Whodunnits 11:00 MON (b007jnm7)

Whodunnits 17:00 MON (b007jnm7)

Whodunnits 01:00 TUE (b007jnm7)

Whodunnits 06:00 TUE (b007jnmr)

Whodunnits 11:00 TUE (b007jnmr)

Whodunnits 17:00 TUE (b007jnmr)

Whodunnits 01:00 WED (b007jnmr)

Whodunnits 06:00 WED (b007jnn6)

Whodunnits 11:00 WED (b007jnn6)

Whodunnits 17:00 WED (b007jnn6)

Whodunnits 01:00 THU (b007jnn6)

Whodunnits 06:00 THU (b007jnnq)

Whodunnits 11:00 THU (b007jnnq)

Whodunnits 17:00 THU (b007jnnq)

Whodunnits 01:00 FRI (b007jnnq)

Whodunnits 06:00 FRI (b007jnp6)

Whodunnits 11:00 FRI (b007jnp6)

Whodunnits 17:00 FRI (b007jnp6)

Winston 07:00 WED (b007wfy8)

Winston 12:00 WED (b007wfy8)

Winston 18:00 WED (b007wfy8)

Winston 02:00 THU (b007wfy8)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 MON (m0025m14)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 TUE (m001zvvf)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 WED (m001zvz7)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 THU (m001zw73)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 FRI (m001zvkq)

You Heard It Here First 22:00 WED (m001ygj0)

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

Comedy

All the Young Dudes 04:30 SAT (b007r4md)

All the Young Dudes 14:30 FRI (b007rkc3)

All the Young Dudes 20:30 FRI (b007rkc3)

Ashley Blaker: 6.5 Children 22:30 MON (m000y7ss)

Best Medicine 22:00 TUE (m0025cng)

Beyond Our Ken 10:00 SUN (b00tn8kq)

Beyond Our Ken 15:00 SUN (b00tn8kq)

Beyond Our Ken 21:00 SUN (b00tn8kq)

Beyond Our Ken 05:00 MON (b00tn8kq)

Bridget Christie: Mortal 08:00 THU (m000v7q9)

Bridget Christie: Mortal 13:00 THU (m000v7q9)

Bridget Christie: Mortal 19:00 THU (m000v7q9)

Bridget Christie: Mortal 03:00 FRI (m000v7q9)

Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? 10:00 SAT (m000nd74)

Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? 15:00 SAT (m000nd74)

Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? 21:00 SAT (m000nd74)

Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? 05:00 SUN (m000nd74)

Innes Own World 23:00 SAT (b017px05)

Life With Lederer 23:00 SUN (m001k6vh)

Parish Matters 22:00 FRI (m0025kr1)

Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz 22:00 MON (m0025d5d)

Sean Lock - 15 Storeys High 23:30 FRI (b09hmjts)

The Confessional 23:30 MON (m001gjj4)

The Naked Week 23:00 MON (m0025c0h)

Vent 22:30 THU (b00szjy0)

Comedy: Character

Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes 23:00 WED (b01p7l07)

The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 10:30 SUN (m0025wfn)

The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 15:30 SUN (m0025wfn)

The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 21:30 SUN (m0025wfn)

The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 05:30 MON (m0025wfn)

Comedy: Chat

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 MON (m00262t6)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 TUE (m00262td)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 FRI (m00262tb)

Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups 08:00 WED (b06pxm45)

Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups 13:00 WED (b06pxm45)

Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups 19:00 WED (b06pxm45)

Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups 03:00 THU (b06pxm45)

Comedy: Music

Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music 22:30 SAT (b00cbv8k)

The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 10:30 SUN (m0025wfn)

The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 15:30 SUN (m0025wfn)

The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 21:30 SUN (m0025wfn)

The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 05:30 MON (m0025wfn)

Comedy: Panel Shows

Best Medicine 22:00 TUE (m0025cng)

Just a Minute 14:00 MON (b00q3cm1)

Just a Minute 20:00 MON (b00q3cm1)

Just a Minute 04:00 TUE (b00q3cm1)

The Unbelievable Truth 04:00 SAT (m0013r1n)

The Unbelievable Truth 14:00 FRI (m0013zj6)

The Unbelievable Truth 20:00 FRI (m0013zj6)

Unspeakable 22:00 THU (m0025d7n)

You Heard It Here First 22:00 WED (m001ygj0)

Comedy: Satire

1966 and All That 22:30 SUN (b010hcwh)

Henry Normal: A Normal... 14:30 MON (m0011ryb)

Henry Normal: A Normal... 20:30 MON (m0011ryb)

Henry Normal: A Normal... 04:30 TUE (m0011ryb)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 09:30 SAT (b007jzkv)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 14:30 SAT (b007jzkv)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 20:30 SAT (b007jzkv)

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook 04:30 SUN (b007jzkv)

Mark Thomas: The Manifesto 22:30 WED (b01s4szd)

The Naked Week 23:00 MON (m0025c0h)

Comedy: Sitcoms

Clare in the Community 23:00 TUE (b0650619)

Clayton Grange 23:00 FRI (b01mw5jb)

Coming Alive 07:00 THU (b00gsjth)

Coming Alive 12:00 THU (b00gsjth)

Coming Alive 18:00 THU (b00gsjth)

Coming Alive 02:00 FRI (b00gsjth)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 08:00 TUE (m000qx1b)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 13:00 TUE (m000qx1b)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 19:00 TUE (m000qx1b)

Conversations from a Long Marriage 03:00 WED (m000qx1b)

Doctor in the House 02:30 SAT (b007jt20)

Doctor in the House 07:30 FRI (b007k437)

Doctor in the House 12:30 FRI (b007k437)

Doctor in the House 18:30 FRI (b007k437)

Getting Nowhere Fast 14:30 TUE (b00n5vsq)

Getting Nowhere Fast 20:30 TUE (b00n5vsq)

Getting Nowhere Fast 04:30 WED (b00n5vsq)

Hancock's Half Hour 07:30 WED (b0186wj0)

Hancock's Half Hour 12:30 WED (b0186wj0)

Hancock's Half Hour 18:30 WED (b0186wj0)

Hancock's Half Hour 02:30 THU (b0186wj0)

In and Out of the Kitchen 08:00 MON (b06418ms)

In and Out of the Kitchen 13:00 MON (b06418ms)

In and Out of the Kitchen 19:00 MON (b06418ms)

In and Out of the Kitchen 03:00 TUE (b06418ms)

It Sticks Out Half A Mile 07:30 THU (b007jqc5)

It Sticks Out Half A Mile 12:30 THU (b007jqc5)

It Sticks Out Half A Mile 18:30 THU (b007jqc5)

It Sticks Out Half A Mile 02:30 FRI (b007jqc5)

Like They've Never Been Gone 07:00 MON (b00bbn44)

Like They've Never Been Gone 12:00 MON (b00bbn44)

Like They've Never Been Gone 18:00 MON (b00bbn44)

Like They've Never Been Gone 02:00 TUE (b00bbn44)

Michael Spicer: Before Next Door 03:00 SAT (m000y6t6)

Party 23:30 THU (b01mqq72)

Rent 07:00 TUE (b063rvm6)

Rent 12:00 TUE (b063rvm6)

Rent 18:00 TUE (b063rvm6)

Rent 02:00 WED (b063rvm6)

Revolting People 22:00 SUN (b00wbnb0)

Rigor Mortis 23:30 SAT (b007k4xd)

Self-Storage 23:45 WED (b0082dxc)

Smelling of Roses 14:30 WED (b007jrrq)

Smelling of Roses 20:30 WED (b007jrrq)

Smelling of Roses 04:30 THU (b007jrrq)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 MON (m001326v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 MON (m001326v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 MON (m001326v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 03:45 TUE (m001326v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 TUE (m001324w)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 TUE (m001324w)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 TUE (m001324w)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 03:45 WED (m001324w)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 WED (m001328v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 WED (m001328v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 WED (m001328v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 03:45 THU (m001328v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 THU (m00132tv)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 THU (m00132tv)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 THU (m00132tv)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 03:45 FRI (m00132tv)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 FRI (m00132xw)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 FRI (m00132xw)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 FRI (m00132xw)

The Men from the Ministry 09:00 SAT (b01852vy)

The Men from the Ministry 14:00 SAT (b01852vy)

The Men from the Ministry 20:00 SAT (b01852vy)

The Men from the Ministry 04:00 SUN (b01852vy)

The Navy Lark 07:30 MON (m0025m12)

The Navy Lark 12:30 MON (m0025m12)

The Navy Lark 18:30 MON (m0025m12)

The Navy Lark 02:30 TUE (m0025m12)

The Train at Platform 4 08:00 FRI (m00132xq)

The Train at Platform 4 13:00 FRI (m00132xq)

The Train at Platform 4 19:00 FRI (m00132xq)

Up the Garden Path 02:00 SAT (b00803k9)

Up the Garden Path 07:00 FRI (b0080p54)

Up the Garden Path 12:00 FRI (b0080p54)

Up the Garden Path 18:00 FRI (b0080p54)

Vent 22:30 THU (b00szjy0)

Where to, Mate? 23:15 SUN (m000jf8k)

Winston 07:00 WED (b007wfy8)

Winston 12:00 WED (b007wfy8)

Winston 18:00 WED (b007wfy8)

Winston 02:00 THU (b007wfy8)

Comedy: Sketch

Beyond Our Ken 10:00 SUN (b00tn8kq)

Beyond Our Ken 15:00 SUN (b00tn8kq)

Beyond Our Ken 21:00 SUN (b00tn8kq)

Beyond Our Ken 05:00 MON (b00tn8kq)

The Consultants 22:30 TUE (b008j2v3)

The Goon Show 07:30 TUE (b0089j6x)

The Goon Show 12:30 TUE (b0089j6x)

The Goon Show 18:30 TUE (b0089j6x)

The Goon Show 02:30 WED (b0089j6x)

The Jason Byrne Show 22:30 FRI (b01ghlh2)

Comedy: Spoof

Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller 23:00 THU (b00911f4)

Delve Special 23:30 SUN (b007k469)

The East Coast Listening Post 22:15 SAT (b09jf2sh)

Comedy: Standup

Ashley Blaker: 6.5 Children 22:30 MON (m000y7ss)

Henry Normal: A Normal... 14:30 MON (m0011ryb)

Henry Normal: A Normal... 20:30 MON (m0011ryb)

Henry Normal: A Normal... 04:30 TUE (m0011ryb)

Jason Cook's School of Hard Knocks 23:30 TUE (b03yqjgv)

Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian 23:30 WED (m0000sy2)

Mark Thomas: The Manifesto 22:30 WED (b01s4szd)

Stand-Up Specials 14:30 THU (m000y64v)

Stand-Up Specials 20:30 THU (m000y64v)

Stand-Up Specials 04:30 FRI (m000y64v)

TEZ Talks 22:00 SAT (b09nxtzy)

The Jason Byrne Show 22:30 FRI (b01ghlh2)

Drama

All the Young Dudes 04:30 SAT (b007r4md)

All the Young Dudes 14:30 FRI (b007rkc3)

All the Young Dudes 20:30 FRI (b007rkc3)

Eden Must Go 06:00 SAT (m0025kvl)

Eden Must Go 11:00 SAT (m0025kvl)

Eden Must Go 17:00 SAT (m0025kvl)

Eden Must Go 01:00 SUN (m0025kvl)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 15:00 MON (m0025m18)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 21:00 MON (m0025m18)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 05:00 TUE (m0025m18)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 15:00 TUE (m0025mlh)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 21:00 TUE (m0025mlh)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 05:00 WED (m0025mlh)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 15:00 WED (m0025l46)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 21:00 WED (m0025l46)

Foreign Girls by Elaine Feinstein 05:00 THU (m0025l46)

Harry and the Angels by Bernard Kops 05:00 SAT (b00sjtb0)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 15:45 MON (m00027pj)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 21:45 MON (m00027pj)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 05:45 TUE (m00027pj)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 15:45 TUE (m000285f)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 21:45 TUE (m000285f)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 05:45 WED (m000285f)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 15:45 WED (m000289q)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 21:45 WED (m000289q)

Short Stories by Elizabeth Bowen 05:45 THU (m000289q)

The Treehouse by Nawal Gadalla 05:45 SAT (m0025dbp)

Drama: Action & Adventure

The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) 07:30 SUN (m000fg0x)

The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) 12:30 SUN (m000fg0x)

The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) 18:30 SUN (m000fg0x)

The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) 02:30 MON (m000fg0x)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 SAT (m000f7xx)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 MON (m000ffyz)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 MON (m000ffyz)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 MON (m000ffyz)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 TUE (m000ffyz)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 TUE (m000fgd5)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 TUE (m000fgd5)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 TUE (m000fgd5)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 WED (m000fgd5)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 WED (m000fgrv)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 WED (m000fgrv)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 WED (m000fgrv)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 THU (m000fgrv)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 THU (m000fgn6)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 THU (m000fgn6)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 THU (m000fgn6)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 FRI (m000fgn6)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 FRI (m000fgj0)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 FRI (m000fgj0)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 FRI (m000fgj0)

Drama: Classic & Period

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe 15:00 THU (b007jqy3)

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe 21:00 THU (b007jqy3)

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe 05:00 FRI (b007jqy3)

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe 15:00 FRI (b007jqyc)

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe 21:00 FRI (b007jqyc)

John Wyndham - The Chrysalids 16:00 SAT (b01l5qc7)

John Wyndham - The Chrysalids 00:00 SUN (b01l5qc7)

Drama: Crime

Agatha Christie 01:00 SAT (b00jzwdq)

Whodunnits 06:00 MON (b007jnm7)

Whodunnits 11:00 MON (b007jnm7)

Whodunnits 17:00 MON (b007jnm7)

Whodunnits 01:00 TUE (b007jnm7)

Whodunnits 06:00 TUE (b007jnmr)

Whodunnits 11:00 TUE (b007jnmr)

Whodunnits 17:00 TUE (b007jnmr)

Whodunnits 01:00 WED (b007jnmr)

Whodunnits 06:00 WED (b007jnn6)

Whodunnits 11:00 WED (b007jnn6)

Whodunnits 17:00 WED (b007jnn6)

Whodunnits 01:00 THU (b007jnn6)

Whodunnits 06:00 THU (b007jnnq)

Whodunnits 11:00 THU (b007jnnq)

Whodunnits 17:00 THU (b007jnnq)

Whodunnits 01:00 FRI (b007jnnq)

Whodunnits 06:00 FRI (b007jnp6)

Whodunnits 11:00 FRI (b007jnp6)

Whodunnits 17:00 FRI (b007jnp6)

Drama: Historical

The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) 07:30 SUN (m000fg0x)

The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) 12:30 SUN (m000fg0x)

The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) 18:30 SUN (m000fg0x)

The Secret Guests by BW Black (Omnibus) 02:30 MON (m000fg0x)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 SAT (m000f7xx)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 MON (m000ffyz)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 MON (m000ffyz)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 MON (m000ffyz)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 TUE (m000ffyz)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 TUE (m000fgd5)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 TUE (m000fgd5)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 TUE (m000fgd5)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 WED (m000fgd5)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 WED (m000fgrv)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 WED (m000fgrv)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 WED (m000fgrv)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 THU (m000fgrv)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 THU (m000fgn6)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 THU (m000fgn6)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 THU (m000fgn6)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 03:30 FRI (m000fgn6)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 08:30 FRI (m000fgj0)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 13:30 FRI (m000fgj0)

The Secret Guests by BW Black 19:30 FRI (m000fgj0)

Drama: Horror & Supernatural

The Man in Black 16:00 SUN (b00yw4bc)

The Man in Black 00:00 MON (b00yw4bc)

Weird Tales 16:30 SUN (b00wr8s9)

Weird Tales 00:30 MON (b00wr8s9)

Drama: Psychological

Weird Tales 16:30 SUN (b00wr8s9)

Weird Tales 00:30 MON (b00wr8s9)

Drama: Relationships & Romance

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 MON (m001326v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 MON (m001326v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 MON (m001326v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 03:45 TUE (m001326v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 TUE (m001324w)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 TUE (m001324w)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 TUE (m001324w)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 03:45 WED (m001324w)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 WED (m001328v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 WED (m001328v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 WED (m001328v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 03:45 THU (m001328v)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 THU (m00132tv)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 THU (m00132tv)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 THU (m00132tv)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 03:45 FRI (m00132tv)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 08:45 FRI (m00132xw)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 13:45 FRI (m00132xw)

Subterranean Homesick Blues 19:45 FRI (m00132xw)

Drama: SciFi & Fantasy

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (Omnibus) 08:50 SUN (m0025lzl)

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (Omnibus) 13:50 SUN (m0025lzl)

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (Omnibus) 19:50 SUN (m0025lzl)

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (Omnibus) 03:50 MON (m0025lzl)

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis 03:45 SAT (m000nwhd)

Drama: Thriller

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 01:30 SAT (m0025dbf)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 06:30 MON (m0025m10)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 11:30 MON (m0025m10)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 17:30 MON (m0025m10)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 01:30 TUE (m0025m10)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 06:30 TUE (m0025mlb)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 11:30 TUE (m0025mlb)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 17:30 TUE (m0025mlb)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 01:30 WED (m0025mlb)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 06:30 WED (m0025l40)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 11:30 WED (m0025l40)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 17:30 WED (m0025l40)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 01:30 THU (m0025l40)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 06:30 THU (m0025l9l)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 11:30 THU (m0025l9l)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 17:30 THU (m0025l9l)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 01:30 FRI (m0025l9l)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 06:30 FRI (m0025m8s)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 11:30 FRI (m0025m8s)

The Meisterspringer by Berkely Mather 17:30 FRI (m0025m8s)

Entertainment

Booked 14:00 TUE (b0075lcp)

Booked 20:00 TUE (b0075lcp)

Booked 04:00 WED (b0075lcp)

Who Goes There? 14:00 THU (b00kfwbs)

Who Goes There? 20:00 THU (b00kfwbs)

Who Goes There? 04:00 FRI (b00kfwbs)

Factual

A Good Read 10:00 TUE (b09r4k4n)

A Good Read 16:00 TUE (b09r4k4n)

A Good Read 00:00 WED (b09r4k4n)

Alan Coren - Core Coren 08:45 SAT (b007jrq9)

Alan Coren - Core Coren 13:45 SAT (b007jrq9)

Alan Coren - Core Coren 19:45 SAT (b007jrq9)

Alan Coren - Core Coren 03:45 SUN (b007jrq9)

Archive on 4 10:00 WED (m0025l44)

Archive on 4 16:00 WED (m0025l44)

Archive on 4 00:00 THU (m0025l44)

Captured By Pirates 10:30 THU (b00rdwm5)

Captured By Pirates 16:30 THU (b00rdwm5)

Captured By Pirates 00:30 FRI (b00rdwm5)

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Grand Guignol 10:30 FRI (b00td9qw)

Grand Guignol 16:30 FRI (b00td9qw)

Poetry Extra 07:00 SUN (m0025lzj)

Poetry Extra 12:00 SUN (m0025lzj)

Poetry Extra 18:00 SUN (m0025lzj)

Poetry Extra 02:00 MON (m0025lzj)

Snapshots in the Dark 09:30 MON (b0075qf8)

Snapshots in the Dark 09:30 TUE (b0075qfz)

Snapshots in the Dark 09:30 WED (b0075qgn)

Snapshots in the Dark 09:30 THU (b0075qhb)

Snapshots in the Dark 09:30 FRI (b0075qj2)

Who The Wild Things Are 00:30 SAT (b00c5j0j)

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media: Arts

A Good Read 10:00 TUE (b09r4k4n)

A Good Read 16:00 TUE (b09r4k4n)

A Good Read 00:00 WED (b09r4k4n)

Factual: History

Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) 07:30 SAT (b0bn26xz)

Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) 12:30 SAT (b0bn26xz)

Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) 18:30 SAT (b0bn26xz)

Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) 02:30 SUN (b0bn26xz)

Great Lives 10:00 THU (b00ryg42)

Great Lives 16:00 THU (b00ryg42)

Great Lives 00:00 FRI (b00ryg42)

Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? 10:00 SAT (m000nd74)

Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? 15:00 SAT (m000nd74)

Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? 21:00 SAT (m000nd74)

Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past? 05:00 SUN (m000nd74)

Mao's Little Red Book Goes West 10:30 TUE (b06z5g7j)

Mao's Little Red Book Goes West 16:30 TUE (b06z5g7j)

Mao's Little Red Book Goes West 00:30 WED (b06z5g7j)

Factual: Life Stories

21 Shades of Noir: Lee Child on John D MacDonald 10:30 MON (b07x6j4n)

21 Shades of Noir: Lee Child on John D MacDonald 16:30 MON (b07x6j4n)

21 Shades of Noir: Lee Child on John D MacDonald 00:30 TUE (b07x6j4n)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 06:00 SUN (m0025lzf)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 11:00 SUN (m0025lzf)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 17:00 SUN (m0025lzf)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 01:00 MON (m0025lzf)

Great Lives 10:00 THU (b00ryg42)

Great Lives 16:00 THU (b00ryg42)

Great Lives 00:00 FRI (b00ryg42)

Inheritance Tracks 08:40 SUN (b073c1bc)

Inheritance Tracks 13:40 SUN (b073c1bc)

Inheritance Tracks 19:40 SUN (b073c1bc)

Inheritance Tracks 03:40 MON (b073c1bc)

Soul Music 00:00 SAT (b04tjdls)

Soul Music 10:00 FRI (m0006tks)

Soul Music 16:00 FRI (m0006tks)

Factual: Pets & Animals

David Attenborough's Life Stories 06:45 SUN (b00zt5xr)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 11:45 SUN (b00zt5xr)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 17:45 SUN (b00zt5xr)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 01:45 MON (b00zt5xr)

Factual: Politics

Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) 07:30 SAT (b0bn26xz)

Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) 12:30 SAT (b0bn26xz)

Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) 18:30 SAT (b0bn26xz)

Churchill's Passions by Andrew Roberts (Omnibus) 02:30 SUN (b0bn26xz)

Mao's Little Red Book Goes West 10:30 TUE (b06z5g7j)

Mao's Little Red Book Goes West 16:30 TUE (b06z5g7j)

Mao's Little Red Book Goes West 00:30 WED (b06z5g7j)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 MON (m0025m14)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 TUE (m001zvvf)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 WED (m001zvz7)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 THU (m001zw73)

Yesterday in Parliament 09:00 FRI (m001zvkq)

Factual: Science & Nature

Best Medicine 22:00 TUE (m0025cng)

Factual: Science & Nature: Nature & Environment

David Attenborough's Life Stories 06:45 SUN (b00zt5xr)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 11:45 SUN (b00zt5xr)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 17:45 SUN (b00zt5xr)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 01:45 MON (b00zt5xr)

Sounds Natural 10:00 MON (b07mvx97)

Sounds Natural 16:00 MON (b07mvx97)

Sounds Natural 00:00 TUE (b07mvx97)

Music

Counterpoint 14:00 WED (b036twt1)

Counterpoint 20:00 WED (b036twt1)

Counterpoint 04:00 THU (b036twt1)

Soul Music 00:00 SAT (b04tjdls)

Soul Music 10:00 FRI (m0006tks)

Soul Music 16:00 FRI (m0006tks)

Sounds Natural 10:00 MON (b07mvx97)

Sounds Natural 16:00 MON (b07mvx97)

Sounds Natural 00:00 TUE (b07mvx97)

Religion & Ethics

Daily Service 09:45 MON (m0025m16)

Daily Service 09:45 TUE (m0025mld)

Daily Service 09:45 WED (m0025l42)

Daily Service 09:45 THU (m0025l9n)

Daily Service 09:45 FRI (m0025m8v)