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RADIO-LISTS: BBC RADIO 4 Extra
Unofficial Weekly Listings for BBC Radio 4 Extra — supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

SATURDAY 10 JANUARY 2026

SAT 00:00 Soul Music (m000r33c)
David Bowie - Life on Mars?

Life on Mars was released on David Bowie's Hunky Dory album in 1971.

Two years later it came out as a single in its own right. Famous for its exploration of disillusionment and alienation, there is no one single definitive story behind it. But that is perhaps the song's beauty and the secret behind its appeal - that its cryptic lyrics are open to interpretation, and can mean different things to different people.

Musicians and fans talk about what Life on Mars? means to them, and its lasting emotional impact.

Special programme made to mark Bowie's birthday on January 8th 1947 and commemorating his death on January 10th 2016.

And what does the question mark in the song's title mean?

With contributions from:

* Musician Dana Gillespie whose autobiography is Weren't Born A Man
* Bowie author Chris O'Leary
* Scientist Abigail Fraeman of NASA's Mars Mission*
* Artist Bridget Griggs
* Reverend Steve Stockman
* Screenwriter Ashley Pharoah (Life on Mars)

Producer: Maggie Ayre for BBC Audio Bristol

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2021.

SAT 00:30 A Portrait Of... (b09d3r7x)
Juliet Stevenson

Follow artist Fiona Graham-Mackay as she paints a portrait of actor Juliet Stevenson.

What does it feel like to be painted, and then see yourself as someone else has drawn you?

It can be an emotional, transformative process for both the sitter and the artist.

In many ways a portrait painter is like a detective - looking for clues below the surface to capture the sitter's true likeness. In the hush of the studio, conversations meander in unexpected ways as painter and sitter find out about each other. And as we eavesdrop on their sittings, the revelations go beyond any ordinary interview.

Juliet Stevenson gained fame through her television and film work, such as Truly Madly Deeply, although she is first and foremost one of the most celebrated stage actresses of her generation. While Fiona sketches, we hear about Juliet's itinerant childhood, and taking acting notes from her friend and fellow actor Alan Rickman.

Fiona Graham-Mackay has painted hundreds of portraits, including Prince Michael of Kent, Seamus Heaney and Lord Carrington.

In all her sittings she has always been fascinated by her conversations with her subjects and continues to be amazed by how people open up in ways that surprise even themselves.

Producer: Eve Streeter

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

SAT 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jm9d)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Series 2

The Final Problem

With the culmination of his life's work, the detective prepares to meet his fate and his greatest adversary – The Napoleon of Crime – Professor Moriarty.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Final Problem’ was first published in The Strand Magazine in December 1893.

Dramatised by Bert Coules.

Sherlock Holmes …. Clive Merrison
Dr Watson …. Michael Williams
Professor James Moriarty …. Michael Pennington
Colonel Moran …. Frederick Treves
Inspector Patterson …. Sean Arnold
Mrs Collier …. Ann Windsor
Jenny …. Jane Whittenshaw
Herr Peter Steiler …. Terence Edmond
Lockwood/Swiss Messenger …. Richard Pearce
Walmsley …. Alan Barker
Sir George …. Norman Jones

Violinist …. Leonard Friedman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1992.

SAT 01:45 The Pillow Book (b00cxjqk)
Series 1

5. Danger

The identity of the Palace criminal is discovered, but exposing them may cost the lives of Shonagon and Yukinari.

Robert Forrest's thriller and love story, inspired by the diary of Sei Shonagon, a court lady to the Empress Sadako in 10th century Japan.

Shonagon........................Ruth Gemmell
Narimasa..............................John Rowe
Yukinari.............................Mark Bazeley
Tadanobu..............Benedict Cumberbatch
Emperor.........................Richard Madden
Empress................................Laura Rees

Producer: Lu Kemp

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2008.

SAT 02:00 Taking It Up the Octave (b0869g9z)
2. Complications

Opera Sunderland's production of Carmen continues apace.

However, an outbreak of blackmail, nodules on the throat and a bargain-basement battle leave the cast rather preoccupied.

Comedy drama series written by Fintan Coyle and Tom Miles.

Derek ....... Andrew Branch
Keyboard Ken ....... Tom Miles
Cilla ....... Carolyn Bonnyman
Gareth ....... Godfrey James
James ....... Simon Butteriss
Natasha ....... Caz Weller
Dwight ....... Jonathan Kydd

Singers:

Alison Porter
Susan Jelley
Henrik Wager
Benjamin Davies

Producer: Chris Neill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1997.

SAT 02:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlj8)
Series 3

Two's Company

Albert introduces his new fiancee to his very surprised son, Harold.

Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.

Classic sitcom about the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold.

Written for BBC TV and adapted for BBC Radio by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett
Daphne ...... June Whitfield

Producer: Bobby Jaye

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1971.

SAT 03:00 The Break (b07dkk0k)
Series 1

Cold Mountain

Andy is beginning to settle in to the unusual seaside town of Flamford.

When he and his Uncle Jeff find an abandoned fridge in the street, Jeff seizes the opportunity to teach his nephew the value of entrepreneurship.

Unfortunately, his plans are complicated by a particularly diligent and zealous Police Officer, a hard-nosed private landlord and Fish Shop Frank's refusal to see a business opportunity when it's sat on the pavement outside his chip shop.

Along the way, they meet a pair of half-hearted pirates, an eccentric plutocrat, Jeff's on-off paramour, Corinne and the youngest-sounding pub landlord in Britain.

Written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie.

Andy ...... Tom Palmer
Jeff ...... Philip Jackson
Frank/PC Clark ...... Mark Benton
Corinne/Joyce/Morag ...... Alison Steadman
Max ...... Rasmus Hardiker
Julie ...... Shobna Gulati

Director: Gordon Kennedy

An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2016.

SAT 03:30 Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (b00772cn)
5. Old Age

"Old age has a way of forcing a person back on themselves".

At the end of a long life, Beatrix Potter has become a successful north country landowner and significant benefactor to the National Trust.

Linda Lear’s biography of the 20th century's most-beloved children's writer.

Abridged by Alison Joseph

Concluded by Lindsay Duncan.

Producer: Kirsteen Cameron

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006.

SAT 03:45 Ladies of Letters (m002pfn9)
Ladies of More Letters

5. News

Irene delights in getting Vera's family news first, and sending it to her from the other side of the world.

Starring Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge.

Continuing the up and down relationship between two mature ladies shared via their barbed correspondence.

Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.

Vera Small ... Patricia Routledge
Irene Spencer ... Prunella Scales

Producer: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1999.

SAT 04:00 The Personality Test (b00kmnfn)
Series 1

John Sergeant

Former BBC and ITN chief political correspondent John Sergeant quizzes a panel about himself.

Battling with queries based on John's life, whims and interests are:

Sue Perkins
Alan Carr
Lucy Porter

Series in which a fresh host every episode quizzes a comedy panel about themselves.

Script by Richard Turner.

Devised and produced by Aled Evans.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2006.

SAT 04:30 King Street Junior Revisited (m0001tc5)
Series 2

Play On

Sports Day fever is beginning to take over at King Street - though not everyone is infected.

School comedy created and written by Jim Eldridge.

Ten series of this King Street Junior ran between 1985 and 1998

Mrs Devon …. Carolyn Pickles
Miss Lewis …. Marlene Sidaway
Mr Maxwell …. Michael Cochrane
Mr Long …. Paul Copley
Miss Featherstone …. Teresa Gallagher
Miss Reid …. Jacqueline Beatty
Mrs Khan …. Janice Acquah

Children:

Pax Baldwin
Elisha Mansuroglu
Kimberley Fletcher
Christopher Dunning
Louis Constantine

King Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005.

Producer: John Fawcett Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2003.

SAT 05:00 Peter Tinniswood (b007rfcf)
Age Gap

So what is age?

It is the individual's private horror, personal, merciless and relentless - and sublimely comic.

Stars Phyllida Law and Imelda Staunton.

Written by Peter Tinniswood.

Winifred ....... Phyllida Law
Anita ....... Imelda Staunton

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2000.

SAT 05:45 Short Works (b07vngz6)
Long Distance by David Szalay

A man drives a lorry through Europe and sleeps in the cabin at service stations.

It's always the same, drive and sleep.

Then one night there's a knock on the cabin door.

David Szalay's short story read by Paul Hilton.

The first of five tales originally commissioned to celebrate the BBC National Short Story Award shortlist in 2016.

Producer: Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2016.

SAT 06:00 Meeting Jack (m001kvy4)
American author Jack London wrote the adventure novel 'White Fang'.

In 1908, he sailed round the South Pacific with his wife Charmian in search of adventure.

They found it in abundance.

As did young Martin Priddy, whose life was forever changed by meeting Jack London.

Starring William Hope and Theresa Gallagher.

Written by Shaun McKenna.

Jack London .... William Hope
Charmian London .... Theresa Gallagher
Martin Priddy .... Jonathan Keeble
Captain Jansen .... Paul Herzberg
Caulfield .... David Collings
Captain Keller .... Paul Jenkins
Johnny .... John Hartley
Aunt Rose .... Zulema Dene
Billy .... Vincent Ebrahim
Roberts .... John Turner
Tesema .... Sandra James Young
Malaitan .... Hakeem Kae-Kazim

Director Andy Jordan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1995

SAT 07:30 Paddington Bear by Michael Bond (Omnibus) (m00268bp)
A bear arrives from darkest Peru at Paddington railway station in London.

Omnibus of five adventures of Paddington bear written by Michael Bond.

* Please Look After This Bear
* Bear in Hot Water
* Paddington and the Christmas Pantomime
* Paddington's Christmas
* A Disappearing Trick

The Narrator ... Michael Hordern
Paddington .... Andrew Branch
Mr Brown .... Edward Kelsey
Mrs Brown .... Jill Shilling
Judy .... Jane Knowles
Jonathan .... Elizabeth Lindsay
Mrs Bird .... Jo Manning Wilson

With:

Michael Deacon
Peter McGowan

Dramatised and produced by Colin Smith.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1982.

****** Born on 13th January 1926, Michael Bond joins 4 Extra's 100 Club. He died aged 91 in 2017.

SAT 08:35 Inheritance Tracks (m000pw2k)
Michael Bond

Paddington Bear’s creator chooses ‘The Laughing Policeman’ by Charles Penrose and ‘All Or Nothing At All’ by Frank Sinatra.

SAT 08:45 Tom Mennard's Local Tales (m002pq3z)
Series 1

Blackpool

Welcome to Tom's world. The scene is the 'Goat and Compasses'.

The cast: Tom, Harry, Charlie and Fred. Well, they're just 'local tales'.

Order yourself a pint, sit yourself down and listen.

Tom's got a tale to tell about a terrible shock....on the pub annual outing...

Written by and starring Tom Mennard.

Tom Mennard's Local Tales comedy series ran on BBC Radio 2 between 1981 and 1987.

Tom was later cast in ITV's Coronation Street.

Producer: Mike Craig

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1981.

SAT 09:00 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b0081s3d)
Series 2

Episode 3

Can crooked lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel free his jailed assistant Ravelli?

Recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows charting the adventures of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli.

Originally broadcast with sponsors on America's NBC radio network in the 1930s. The scripts were rediscovered in 1988.

Groucho Marx as Waldorf T Flywheel ...... Michael Roberts
Chico Marx as Emmanuel Ravellias ...... Frank Lazarus

With:

Lorelei King
Graham Hoadly
Vincent Marzello

Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman.

Adapted by Mark Brisenden.

Music arranged and conducted by David Firman.

Producer: Dirk Maggs

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1991.

SAT 09:30 The Navy Lark (b017h7cp)
Impressions for Survival

The crew of HMS Troutbridge is set to be disbanded if Povey gets his way, but Pertwee has a cunning plan.

Stars Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee and Stephen Murray.

Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Troutbridge.

Written by Lawrie Wyman.

The Sub-Lieutenant ...... Leslie Phillips
The Chief Petty Officer ...... Jon Pertwee
The Number One ...... Stephen Murray
Captain Povey ...... Richard Caldicot
Heather ...... Heather Chasen
The Admiral ...... Tenniel Evans
Lieutenant Burkett . ....... Michael Bates

The Navy Lark ran for an impressive 13 series between 1959 and 1976.

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May 1971.

SAT 10:00 Down by the River (m0011cnd)
2. Downstream

Writer Laura Barton continues her exploration of the rivers of Britain to discover how they've shaped our stories and lives.

Flowing through the BBC Radio archives, with brand new interviews, Laura follows these rivers closely to hear the tales they have to share.

Featuring:

* Sir John Betjeman

* CIGARETTE ON THE WAVENEY - BBC Radio 4 (2005)

Writer and conservationist Roger Deakin paddles his canoe, Cigarette, from the source of the River Waveney at Redgrave Fen in Suffolk to Geldeston Locks in Norfolk.

Along the way, he reflects on the changing mood of the river, its rich history and wildlife.

Producer: Luke Doran

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in June 2020.

SAT 11:00 Meeting Jack (m001kvy4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SAT 12:30 Paddington Bear by Michael Bond (Omnibus) (m00268bp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SAT 13:35 Inheritance Tracks (m000pw2k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:35 today]

SAT 13:45 Tom Mennard's Local Tales (m002pq3z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

SAT 14:00 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b0081s3d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

SAT 14:30 The Navy Lark (b017h7cp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

SAT 15:00 Down by the River (m0011cnd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

SAT 16:00 Hive Mind by Simon Bovey (b00t1wcn)
Spring in 2019 is not the riot of colour it used to be.

The honeybee is now officially extinct.

Farmer Sam Clark struggles to raise a crop worth a damn. But man has adapted.

Every spring an army of migrant workers, led by foreman Amra Walczak, descends on Sam's farm to pollinate by hand. It is a laborious process but it works.

This spring, however, science offers a new solution, Honeybots, tiny robots that are effectively crawling bees, and Sam's put his farm forward for a trial.

Once released, thousands of Honeybots course through the fields, pollinating the flowers in a fraction of the time it takes Amra and her team.

Their job done they return automatically to their hive chest. They are quick and efficient.

That evening, however, dead birds and mice are found in the fields the Honeybots have worked...

Simon Bovey's sci-fi thriller from 2010 - but set in 2019.

Sam ..... Tony Bell
Amra ..... Ania Sowinski
Jackson ..... Michael Shelford
Olivia ..... Alison Pettitt
Patek ..... David Seddon
Jan ..... Lloyd Thomas

Director: Marc Beeby

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2010.

SAT 16:45 Black and White by Jan Mark (b087ldt7)
1. In Black and White

Marjorie has premonitions.

But no-one could have guessed how true they would be on the day of the school photo.

Series of chilling tales of strange and creepy happenings written by Jan Mark.

Abridged by Peter Kerry.

Read by Anne Rye.

Producer: Martin Jameson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in September 1993.

SAT 17:00 Meeting Jack (m001kvy4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SAT 18:30 Paddington Bear by Michael Bond (Omnibus) (m00268bp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SAT 19:35 Inheritance Tracks (m000pw2k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:35 today]

SAT 19:45 Tom Mennard's Local Tales (m002pq3z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

SAT 20:00 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b0081s3d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

SAT 20:30 The Navy Lark (b017h7cp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

SAT 21:00 Down by the River (m0011cnd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

SAT 22:00 Bearded Ladies (b00c0f7y)
Series 2

Episode 6

Women behaving oddly.

This is the sketch show in which everyday situations are taken to new heights - and then a bit further...

From the getaway driver on a school run, to the first-time porn film director.

Written and performed by

Susie Donkin
Charlotte McDougall
Oriane Messina
Fay Rusling

Featuring Dave Lamb

Additional material from Colin Birch, Richard Ward, Robin Kelly, Rufus Jones and Nic Ford.

Music by Steve Burton

Script Editors: Rhodri Crooks and Paul Kerensa

Producer: Carol Smith

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005.

SAT 22:30 Sarah Millican's Support Group (b00qx458)
Series 1

2. 'Mum is behaving like a teenager'.

'My Mother is behaving like a teenager - she's 50 not 15!'

'I'm a sensitive butcher who loves meat jokes and innards but is too nice to find a girl - where am I going wrong?'

Sarah Millican plays a life counsellor and modern-day agony aunt tackling the nation's problems head on, dishing out real advice for real people.

Assisted by her very own team of experts.

Sarah ...... Sarah Millican
Marion ...... Ruth Bratt
Terry ...... Simon Daye
Shirley ...... Janice Connolly
Julie ...... Emma Fryer
David ...... Tim Key

Written by Sarah Millican.

Producer: Lianne Coop

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2010.

SAT 23:00 Domestic Science (b09snxqp)
Series 2

Living Room

Science you can play along with at home in a look at the domestic phenomena we relate to on a day-to-day basis.

Hosted by Festival of The Spoken Nerd trio:

* Physicist Steve Mould
* Stand up Mathematician Matt Parker
* Physicist and musician Helen Arney.

A heady combination of maths, science and comedy.

In this episode, they're in the living room.

Plus they tackle audience questions.

Producer: Lyndsay Fenner

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

SAT 23:15 Late (b00762p3)
2. From Grieving to Cross-Dressing

An unwitting son takes his grieving mother to see "Mamma Mia"; a provincial theatre director talks about his latest play, a business woman stumbles on her husband indulging a secret obsession....

Bleak, funny and confusing tales of urban life, after dark.

Starring:

Paul Merton
Meera Syal
Liz Smith
Julian Clary
Richard Wilson.

Written by Mandy Wheeler, Joss Bennathan, Rob Colley and Paul Merton.

Music by Robert Katz.

Producer: Sarah Parkinson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2001.

SAT 23:30 Chain Reaction (b00n1jbg)
Series 5

Alistair McGowan interviews Simon Callow

Impressionist, comedian and actor Alistair McGowan chats to actor, writer, and director, Simon Callow CBE.

Chain Reaction is the tag talk show, where the guest becomes the interviewer in the next episode.

Producer: Sam Bryant

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2009.

SUNDAY 11 JANUARY 2026

SUN 00:00 Hive Mind by Simon Bovey (b00t1wcn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Saturday]

SUN 00:45 Black and White by Jan Mark (b087ldt7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:45 on Saturday]

SUN 01:00 Meeting Jack (m001kvy4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]

SUN 02:30 Paddington Bear by Michael Bond (Omnibus) (m00268bp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]

SUN 03:35 Inheritance Tracks (m000pw2k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:35 on Saturday]

SUN 03:45 Tom Mennard's Local Tales (m002pq3z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Saturday]

SUN 04:00 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b0081s3d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday]

SUN 04:30 The Navy Lark (b017h7cp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Saturday]

SUN 05:00 Down by the River (m0011cnd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Saturday]

SUN 06:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01r95hg)
Soap Stars

Julie Goodyear

Actress Julie Goodyear is castaway by Kirsty Young.

For a quarter of a century, Julie's Coronation Street TV character Bet Lynch set the gold plated standard for big, brassy, back chatting blondes. Behind the bar of the Rovers Return her bosom swathed in leopard-print and her head piled high with platinum curls she was Manchester's answer to Mae West.

Her MBE was awarded for her services to drama - and when she left the series in 1995, her departure pulled in 19 million viewers.

Yet whatever the scriptwriters came up with it was never as dramatic as the life she's lived beyond The Street.

Julie got pregnant at 17, her second husband abandoned her for their best man, and in 1979 she was diagnosed with cancer and told she'd a year to live. She's now married to her fourth husband.

She says, "If anyone should be interested in an epitaph for my life, I would like them to consider, 'At least she tried."

DISC ONE: Nancy Sinatra - These Boots are Made for Walkin’
DISC TWO: Eileen Wilson - A You're Adorable
DISC THREE: Nat King Cole - Blue Moon
DISC FOUR: Bill Haley and His Comets - Rock Around The Clock
DISC FIVE: Barry Manilow - I made it through the Rain
DISC SIX: Johnny Mathis - When A Child Is Born
DISC SEVEN: Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life
DISC EIGHT: Tina Turner - Simply the Best

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life
BOOK CHOICE: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
LUXURY CHOICE: Her mother's bus pass

Producer: Cathy Drysdale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013.

SUN 06:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b011ckxz)
Series 2

Quetzalcoatlus

As Sir David Attenborough explains:

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

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

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

Written and presented by David Attenborough.

Producer: Julian Hector

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.

SUN 07:00 Poetry Extra (m002pq4p)
Poetry Societies – The East Coker Poetry Group

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Poetry Societies - The East Coker Poetry Group.

The group was set up in the village near Yeovil, Somerset. East Coker is the place where TS Eliot's ashes are laid to rest and where a vigorous poetry group has sprung up.

Presenter Judith Palmer joins its members at the local pub for an evening of floral poetry.

Producer: Christine Hall

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.

SUN 07:30 Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (Omnibus) (m002pq4r)
Linda Lear’s biography of the 20th century's most-beloved children's writer and creator of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter.

Despite her Kensington upbringing, Potter was ‘emotionally rooted’ in the Lake District and farm life appealed to her. These were the landscapes which nurtured her creative imagination.

Omnibus of five-parts abridged by Alison Joseph.

Read by Lindsay Duncan.

Producer: Kirsteen Cameron

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006.

SUN 08:40 Inheritance Tracks (m002pq4t)
Chris and Xand van Tulleken

Identical twin doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken with tracks by Khachaturian, Guns N' Roses and Rupert Holmes.

SUN 08:50 Ladies of Letters (m002pq4w)
Ladies of More Letters (Omnibus)

Episode 1

Friends Vera Small and Irene Spencer are reunited at the funeral of an old flame.

Starring Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge.

Continuing the up and down relationship between two mature ladies shared via their barbed correspondence.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.

Vera Small ... Patricia Routledge
Irene Spencer ... Prunella Scales
Howard Small ... Christopher Kelham
Lesley Crabtree ... Fiona Clarke
Stu Jackson ... Christopher Kelham

Producer: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1999.

SUN 10:00 Stilgoe's Around (m000cctl)
Clandon Park

Richard Stilgoe is in Surrey visiting the Marble Hall of the National Trust's Clandon Park.

Join him as he samples life on the other side of the velvet ropes.

Reminding him to keep off the grass and not to feed the lions:

* Charles Collingwood
* Peter Blake
* Belinda Lang

Musical Guest: Kathryn Tickell.

Written by Richard Stilgoe.

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1989.

SUN 10:30 Take It From Here (b015f9b1)
From 10/03/1955

Ron Glum faces jail - will Eth stand by her man?

Starring:

Professor Jimmy Edwards
Dick Bentley
June Whitfield
Wallas Eaton

Music from Alma Cogan, The Keynotes and the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.

Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.

Producer: Charles Maxwell

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1955.

SUN 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01r95hg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SUN 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b011ckxz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m002pq4p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

SUN 12:30 Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (Omnibus) (m002pq4r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SUN 13:40 Inheritance Tracks (m002pq4t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:40 today]

SUN 13:50 Ladies of Letters (m002pq4w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]

SUN 15:00 Stilgoe's Around (m000cctl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

SUN 15:30 Take It From Here (b015f9b1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

SUN 16:00 Terry Pratchett (b00b50xj)
Small Gods

2. Great God Om

Novice priest Brutha has been selected by Deacon Vorbis to go on a secret mission to the infidel city of Ephebe.

The Great God Om, who is stuck in the body of a small tortoise, is going with him in a little wicker basket.

Terry Pratchett's comic Discworld fantasy.

Starring Carl Prekopp, Patrick Barlow, Alex Jennings and Anton Lesser.

Dramatised by Robin Brooks.

Narrator ...... Anton Lesser
Om ...... Patrick Barlow
Brutha ...... Carl Prekopp
Vorbis ...... Alex Jennings
Aktor ...... Philip Fox
Xeno ...... Sean Barrett
Captainr ...... Gerard McDermott
Sergeant ...... John Cummins

Other parts played by the cast.

Producer: Claire Grove
Director: Gordon House

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006.

SUN 16:30 The Heart of Hark'un (b007v25z)
2. Shazir Steals the Amulet

Novice sorcerer Arcos is appalled by Kaddah's behaviour. Alviza is attacked mentally.

Starring Francis Thomson.

A fantasy-adventure by Peter Thomson and Jamie Thomson.

Arcos ..... Francis Thomson
Kaddah ..... Trevor Peacock
Vanna ..... Elizabeth Whiting
Shazir ..... Crawford Logan
Bereneth ..... Edward Kelsey
Va ..... Melanie Hudson
Alviza ..... Emma Fielding
Zander ..... Robert Portal
The General ..... Clarence Smith

Producer: Peter Hutchings

First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in September 1991.

SUN 17:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01r95hg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SUN 17:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b011ckxz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

SUN 18:00 Poetry Extra (m002pq4p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

SUN 18:30 Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (Omnibus) (m002pq4r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SUN 19:40 Inheritance Tracks (m002pq4t)
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SUN 19:50 Ladies of Letters (m002pq4w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]

SUN 21:00 Stilgoe's Around (m000cctl)
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SUN 21:30 Take It From Here (b015f9b1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

SUN 22:00 Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy (b08gxx7p)
Series 1

Touchdown

"This show is a story, and our story starts at the end. My parents came to see one of my shows, and I would end this particular show by telling a story about the time I swore at a teacher..."

Starting with a short routine from her comedy club set, Sarah admits that like with most stand-up routines, it had a punchline manufactured for the sake of a joke.

Her mum challenges her to tell everyone what really happened the day she swore at that teacher and the result is this show.

Denied the quick fix of a fabricated punchline it is transformed into a full, honest, coming-of-age story that explores the clumsiness of adolescents, their awkward relationships, and painful need for friendship and love.

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

Taking her audience on a trip, Sarah gives a unique snapshot of small-town life in Australia in the early 90s.

At a time when most people were seeing Australians through the filter of 'Home and Away' and 'Neighbours', Sarah's shows present a darker underbelly to the stereotype of the sun-loving, happy-go-lucky Aussie teenager.

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

*Contains very strong language

Written and performed by Sarah Kendall

Producer: Carl Cooper

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

SUN 22:30 Listen Against (b00fl0gk)
Series 2

Episode 2

Time runs away in preparations for the switch-on of the BBC Collider - and the Greenwich time signal pips are still running rogue.

The show that prises the back off your radio, fiddles around with the programmes inside and then puts it all back together the wrong way round.

Starring:

Jon Holmes
Alice Arnold

Written by Jon Holmes, Sam Bryant, Bill Dare, Jason Hazeley, Joel Morris and Luke Roberts

Producers: Sam Bryant and Jon Holmes

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2008.

SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m002q4v4)
Alasdair Beckett-King 1/3

From 10pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Rob Deering speaks to stand-up comedian and children's author Alasdair Beckett-King

SUN 23:00 Life: An Idiot's Guide (b01qkmpl)
Series 2

Midlife Crisis

Stephen K Amos is joined by three stand-up comedians to tackle the crisis of midlife that hits the best of us eventually.

With:

Fred MacAulay
Angela Barnes
Greg Proops

Additional material written by Christine Rose, Tom Neenan, Jack Bernardt and Hugh Sington.

Producer: Colin Anderson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2013.

SUN 23:30 Hearing with Hegley (b0075s38)
Series 2

Episode 3

The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley entertains an audience in Luton.

With:

Nigel Piper and The Popticians.

Producer: Phil Clarke

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1998.

SUN 23:45 Bunk Bed (m0013rc9)
Series 9

Episode 3

Under the covers and ensconced in the cloak of darkness are where real conversations happen.

The Simpsons' Harry Shearer discusses audiences who change performances, respect for burrowing animals and the death of manners.

Producer: Peter Curran

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

MONDAY 12 JANUARY 2026

MON 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b00b50xj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]

MON 00:30 The Heart of Hark'un (b007v25z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Sunday]

MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01r95hg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday]

MON 01:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b011ckxz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Sunday]

MON 02:00 Poetry Extra (m002pq4p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Sunday]

MON 02:30 Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (Omnibus) (m002pq4r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday]

MON 03:40 Inheritance Tracks (m002pq4t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:40 on Sunday]

MON 03:50 Ladies of Letters (m002pq4w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 on Sunday]

MON 05:00 Stilgoe's Around (m000cctl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]

MON 05:30 Take It From Here (b015f9b1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Sunday]

MON 06:00 Drama on 4 (b0902mxc)
Redacted by Hugh Costello

Twice a year, thousands of confidential state files are released to the press and public - files that detail the workings of the British government of 30 years ago.

If you want to know how Margaret Thatcher reacted to Islamic terror in Lebanon or how the Cabinet responded to the AIDS crisis then these are the documents you're waiting for.

But some of those files will be disfigured by a black marker pen - they'll be Redacted. Secrets too sensitive, even thirty years on, will remain in the shadows.

Jonathan is a 'sensitivity reviewer', the senior civil servant with the marker pen. It's normally a pretty dreary job, but just occasionally a long-forgotten document sparks his interest.

When Jonathan spots his wife's name at the bottom of an urgent memo to the Prime Minister, it lands him with the toughest moral dilemma of his life.

Starring Greta Scacchi and Nicholas Murchie.

Written by Hugh Costello.

Monica ...... Greta Scacchi
Jonathan ...... Nicholas Murchie
Fiona ...... Lauren O'Neil
Shofi ...... Ashley Kumar
Kitty ...... Alice Kerrigan
Justin ...... John Dougall
Derek ...... Christian Patterson
Lucas ...... David Reakes

Director: Alasdair Cross

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017.

MON 06:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv52m)
Saint Ciappelletto

Terry Jones introduces the first of ten tasty Renaissance tales.

The 100 stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio’s humane and comic masterpiece come from all over the world.

This Renaissance work is considered a landmark in the history of literature.

The stories are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes in the cities of 14th-century Italy.

But their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern, and their subjects - love, fate, sex, religion, morality - are universal.

“Luckily, God listens to the sincerity of our prayers, and takes no account of their ignorance…”

All is not what it seems, when a 14th-century Tony Soprano makes his deathbed confession.

Adapted in ten parts by Robin Brooks

Ciappelletto ..... Colin McFarlane
Musciatto ..... Sam Dale
Holy Friar ..... Michael Bertenshaw
Federico ..... Monty d’Inverno
Anselmo ..... Paul Heath
Doctor ..... Ian Conningham

Music arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth and Paula Chateauneuf.

Lyric translations by Silvia Reseghetti.

Script Consultant: Guyda Armstrong

Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in December 2014.

MON 07:00 In the Chair (b007jssr)
Episode 2

Maverick BBC reporter George Cragge's theory of a connection between the murders and New Labour policy seems to be gaining credibility...

Starring Michael Williams and Barry Foster.

Mark Tavener's blackly humorous murder mystery.

George Cragge ...... Michael Williams
DCI Frank Jefferson ...... Barry Foster
Prime Minister ...... Hugh Laurie
Crichton-Potter ...... Richard Griffiths
Martin McCabe ...... John Bird
Charles Prentiss ...... Stephen Fry
Marcia Mallon ...... Rebecca Front
Jim Hardie ...... Kenneth Cranham
Director of Personnel ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Chancellor ...... Simon Greehall
John ...... Jonathan Keeble
Caroline ...... Susie Brann

With:

Brian Parr
Henrietta Garden
Rachel Atkins
Darren Boyd
Harriet Cass

Music by Paul Mottram.

Producer: Paul Schlesinger

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998.

MON 07:30 Dad's Army (b007s8kl)
Series 2

Put That Light Out

Captain Mainwaring's platoon sparks havoc in Walmington-on-Sea during an air-raid.

The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon.

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

Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Telephone Operator…. Avril Angers
Second Warden/Lighthouse Keeper…. Stuart Sherwin
Announcer …. John Snagge

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1975.

MON 08:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully (b04nv6m8)
Series 2

Testing Times

It's the day after Lucy's 18th birthday, and her parents aren't happy, and not only because she took that bottle of rum from their drinks cabinet.

They think she is wasting her life being part of the resistance, so unless she can pass her A Levels they're going to stop her coming to the meetings.

Does it really take a village to raise a child? Or will they make things worse?

Eddie Robson's sitcom about aliens invading the village of Cresdon Green.

Starring Hattie Morahan and Peter Davison.

Aliens have locked villagers behind an impenetrable force-field in order to study human behaviour and to decide if Earth is worth invading.

The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for a weekend to borrow the deposit for a flat.

So along with Lucy Alexander (the only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against whatever you've got) she formed The Resistance - slightly to the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard.

This is also much to the annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who is trying to actually run the alien invasion.

Katrina Lyons ...... Hattie Morahan
Richard Lyons ...... Peter Davison
Margaret Lyons ...... Jan Francis
Lucy Alexander ...... Hannah Murray
Field Commander Uljabaan ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Computer ...... John-Luke Roberts
Carl ...... Don Gilet
Colin ...... Don Gilet

Script-edited by Arthur Mathews.

Original music written and performed by Grace Petrie.

Producer: Ed Morrish

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014.

MON 08:30 The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono (m002pps6)
1. Acorns

A shepherd sows the seeds of hope for mankind in this inspiring tale set in Europe between the wars.

Written in two parts by Jean Giono.

Read by Bill Paterson.

Director: Andy Jordan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1992.

MON 08:45 Ladies of Letters (m002pps9)
Ladies of More Letters

6. Frayed

Crossed wires and frayed tempers mark the correspondence of Irene Spencer and Vera Small, but Irene offers an apology in verse.

Starring Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge.

Continuing the up and down relationship between two mature ladies shared via their barbed correspondence.

Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.

Vera Small ... Patricia Routledge
Irene Spencer ... Prunella Scales

Producer: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1999.

MON 09:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m002pf5g)
Series 32

3. Time, Paris, Bees and Dictators

David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they’re able to smuggle past their opponents.

Frankie Boyle, Miles Jupp, Michelle Wolf and Celya AB are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as time, Paris, bees and dictators.

The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith

Producer: Jon Naismith

A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4

MON 09:30 Encounters with Victoria (m0004sd0)
1. Kinky Lord M

Chief Curator of the Royal Palaces Lucy Worsley begins a ten part exploration of Queen Victoria's reign through significant encounters.

Charming, saturnine, worldly-wise and interested in sadistic sexual practices, Lord Melbourne appears in Queen Victoria's journal at 9am on the day she becomes Queen.

He will guide her through the day's ceremonies and controversies, fending off on her behalf her disliked mother and former guardian, John Conroy.

Lord M, as she called him, was soon half in love with his 18-year-old mistress, but this could be politically dangerous to the young Queen who was too stubborn and headstrong to listen to what her mother, wiser and more loving than she’s given credit for, had to say.

With historian Philip Ziegler.

Readers:

Sarah Ovens
Michael Bertenshaw
Sabine Scherek
Rhianna Warne

Producer: Mark Burman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019.

MON 09:45 Daily Service (m002ppsc)
Truth - Mercy and Truth

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

Theme:
Truth - Mercy and Truth
Presenter: Rev Lesley-Ann Wilson
Reading: Psalm 85: 6-13

Music:
Let us see your kindness O Lord (McAleer)
Lord have mercy (Smith)
Come and see (Kendrick)

MON 10:00 The Tingle Factor (b07lxjkj)
Michael Aspel

TV and radio presenter Michael Aspel talks to Jeremy Nicholas about the music that moves him.

Recalling his life and precarious career path - including the strain of hosting Miss World - Michael's selection is very film-based and includes the theme from Gone With The Wind.

Producer: Andrew Mussett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992.

MON 10:30 London Calling (b04pbqtg)
Aminatta Forna explains how the vivid descriptions of the wilderness in the works of Jack London had a crucial influence over her, telling also the story of his turbulent life.

Jack London created the mould for a particular kind of hard-living writer.

Long before Hemingway picked up his first whiskey bottle, London was off out on dangerous adventures to the Klondike Gold Rush, the front lines of the Sino-Russian war, and round the world on a boat that cost him millions and nearly cost him his life.

His chronic alcoholism finally proved his undoing. Before he did finally die at the age of 40, London managed to write some of the most popular stories ever to emerge from America, including 'White Fang' and 'Call of the Wild'.

It was these books that Aminatta Forna first immersed herself in as a child growing up in Sierra Leone, feeling the chill of snow-covered landscapes London described so vividly as she lay reading in the intense West African heat.

Now a writer herself, she shares many of London's passions, including wild animals and the natural landscape; it's no co-incidence that her own novel has at its heart a man who tracks wild dogs.

We accompany her to the forests of New England where she tracks coyotes and unpicks the influence London's writing has had on her. Along the way, she'll find out about his extraordinary life and the great success of his work.

Author Tobias Wolff tells us that London's influence on him was so powerful that in his teens he chose to be re-christened as Jack before his father forced him to change back to Tobias.

We also hear from George Monbiot about the appeal London has for him as a writer who so vividly depicts the rawness of the wilderness in contrast to the drudgery of civilisation. London said that he'd, 'rather be ashes than dust,' that he: 'would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.'

As Aminatta Forna will explain, very few writers could claim to have burned so brightly.

Producer: Geoff Bird

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014.

MON 11:00 Drama on 4 (b0902mxc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

MON 11:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv52m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

MON 12:00 In the Chair (b007jssr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

MON 12:30 Dad's Army (b007s8kl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

MON 13:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully (b04nv6m8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

MON 13:30 The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono (m002pps6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

MON 13:45 Ladies of Letters (m002pps9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

MON 14:00 Just a Minute (b01132zd)
Series 60

Episode 1

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

With:

Paul Merton
Julian Clary
Gyles Brandreth
Tony Hawks

Subjects include: My Motto, Three Things That Most Enrage Me, My Nan, What Lurks Under My Bed, Conventional Good Looks, My Favourite Oscar Wilde Quote, Breakfast In Bed and The Best Way To Make Up

Created by Ian Messiter.

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.

MON 14:30 Smelling of Roses (b00f86x3)
Series 4

Episode 4

Rosie Burns and company find themselves involved in the relaunch of a radio station...and of an old disc jockey's career.

Prunella Scales stars in Simon Brett's sitcom.

The trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event management company, where the clients are only part of the problem...

Rosie ..... Prunella Scales
Jo ..... Rebecca Callard
Bob ..... Duncan Preston
Tess ..... Annette Badland
Brad Marshall ..... Colin Stinton
Kenny Truman ..... Chris Emmett
Valerie Pilkington ..... Sheila Mitchell

Written and produced by Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2003.

MON 15:00 Murder Every Monday by Pamela Branch (b00fjd0n)
Asterisk Club founder, Clifford Flush, hasn't murdered anyone for years.

But when the urge comes upon him to bump off his bridge partner (the man's bidding was really quite unforgiveable), he and the rest of the Club are forced to leave London in bit of a hurry.

Once out of harm's way, in the rural hamlet of Krunte Abbas, they acquire the dilapidated Dankry Manor and set themselves up as Homicide Consultants.

Pamela Branch's crime novel, first published in 1954.

Starring Simon Williams, John Castle and Barbara Kirby.

Dramatised by Mark Gatiss

Armitage & Paget ... Simon Williams
Clifford Flush ... John Castle
Mrs Barratt ... Barbara Kirby
Colonel Quincey ... Graham Crowden
Creaker ... David Ryall
Cyril Revere ... Mark Gatiss
Chloe Carlisle ... Stephanie Beacham
Manelli ... Mark Benton
Bill Thurlow ... Ian Hallard
Dina Parrish ... Cal Jaggers

Producer: Kate McAll

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2008.

MON 16:00 The Tingle Factor (b07lxjkj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

MON 16:30 London Calling (b04pbqtg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

MON 17:00 Drama on 4 (b0902mxc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

MON 17:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv52m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

MON 18:00 In the Chair (b007jssr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

MON 18:30 Dad's Army (b007s8kl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

MON 19:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully (b04nv6m8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

MON 19:30 The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono (m002pps6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

MON 19:45 Ladies of Letters (m002pps9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

MON 20:00 Just a Minute (b01132zd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

MON 20:30 Smelling of Roses (b00f86x3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

MON 21:00 Murder Every Monday by Pamela Branch (b00fjd0n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]

MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m002pf5g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

MON 22:30 Weak at the Top (b00rgpbw)
Series 1

Gold Card

He's randy, devious, sexist and drink-sodden.

He's a high-powered marketing director with the morals of a skunk, the skin of a rhino and the brain of a one-celled organism.

John Weak puts the man into management.

Alexander Armstrong stars in Guy Browning’s sitcom.

John Weak ...... Alexander Armstrong
Hayley ...... Clare Perkins
Sir Marcus ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Bill Peters ...... Ron Cook
Tim Smallwood ...... Ewan Bailey
Debbie ...... Colleen Prendergast

Producer: Jonquil Panting

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005.

MON 23:00 The News Quiz (m002pffm)
Series 119

1. Red, White, Blue and Green-land

With Andy away at The Ashes, guest host Ian Smith steps in to make sense of a dramatic news week. Topics include the US capturing Nicolás Maduro and threatening to invade Greenland, new driving rules for the over 70s and the problem with Grok AI. Helping Ian decide which way to turn are Ria Lina, Hugo Rifkind, Lucy Porter and Geoff Norcott.

Written by Ian Smith.

With additional material by: Mike Shephard, Alex Kealy and Angela Channell
Producer: Georgia Keating
Executive Producer: Pete Strauss
Production Coordinator: Giulia Lopes Mazzu
Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.

MON 23:30 Nigel and Earl Sort Out the World (b007jx2d)
The surreal duo try solving the globe's topical problems.

A mix of surrealist character humour and topical comedy starring Andrew Livingstone and Fine Time Fontayne.

With boy-scout ingenuity and a smattering of half-completed evening classes behind them - Nigel and Earle can go anywhere and do anything, tackling the world's problems from the quirky end.

This is the DIY, instant fix-it approach to world politics. The titular pair attempt to put the world to rights, meeting up with an assortment of people from the week's news (in 1992).

Starring:

Andrew Livingston
Fine Time Fontayne
Robert Harley
Joanna Brookes

Producer: Liz Anstee

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1992.

TUESDAY 13 JANUARY 2026

TUE 00:00 The Tingle Factor (b07lxjkj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]

TUE 00:30 London Calling (b04pbqtg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Monday]

TUE 01:00 Drama on 4 (b0902mxc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]

TUE 01:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv52m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Monday]

TUE 02:00 In the Chair (b007jssr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]

TUE 02:30 Dad's Army (b007s8kl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]

TUE 03:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully (b04nv6m8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Monday]

TUE 03:30 The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono (m002pps6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Monday]

TUE 03:45 Ladies of Letters (m002pps9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Monday]

TUE 04:00 Just a Minute (b01132zd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]

TUE 04:30 Smelling of Roses (b00f86x3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]

TUE 05:00 Murder Every Monday by Pamela Branch (b00fjd0n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Monday]

TUE 06:00 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (m002ppsy)
1. An Expedition

Tempted by the idea of duck shooting, Carruthers is lured by his friend Davies into a yachting expedition in the Baltic.

But then he discovers that the itinerary involves more than killing fowl...

Erskine Childer's 'immortal' tale of espionage, first published in 1903.

Set before the First World War, when Britain shared a tense-rivalry with the Kaiser's Germany.

Starring Jeremy Clyde and Michael Cochrane.

Dramatised in three parts by Colin Davis.

Carruthers .... Jeremy Clyde
Davies .... Michael Cochrane
Dolmann .... Michael Spice
Bartles .... Wolf Kahler
Withers .... Hugh Dickson
Carter .... Nigel Caliburn
Lady Ashleigh .... Pauline Letts
Simon .... Stephen Garlick
Amanda .... Diana Martin
Sarah .... Stella Forge

Other parts were played by members of the cast.

Director: Gordon House

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in January 1982.

TUE 06:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8pz)
Federigo and his Falcon

Terry Jones introduces another tasty Renaissance tale.

The 100 stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio’s humane and comic masterpiece come from all over the world. This Renaissance work is considered a landmark in the history of literature.

The stories are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes in the cities of fourteenth-century Italy. But their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern, and their subjects - love, fate, sex, religion, morality - are universal.

“Lovers who, after many disasters, finally find happiness.”

Courtly Federigo spends every last groat trying to win the affections of the beautiful Monna. But there is only one thing of his that she wants. And it has feathers.

Federigo degli Alberighi ..... John Finnemore
Monna ..... Ingrid Oliver
Elena ..... Carrie Quinlan
Beppo ..... Shaun Mason
Niccolo ..... Adam Thomas Wright

Adapted by Robin Brooks
Music arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth and Paula Chateauneuf

Lyric translations by Silvia Reseghetti

Script Consultant: Guyda Armstrong

Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in December 2014.

TUE 07:00 Flying the Flag (b007jx9v)
Series 1

Spy Story

Why does the bear suck his paw in winter? And what does the answer have to do with the First Secretary's dinner suit?

The British Ambassador and his team plan their campaign for a diplomatic dinner.

Starring Dinsdale Landen.

Eastern Bloc embassy sitcom written by Alex Shearer.

Ambassador Mackenzie …. Dinsdale Landen
William Frost …. Peter Acre
Helen Waterson …. Moir Leslie
US Ambassador …. Stephen Greif
Mrs Newton …. Susie Brann
George Sommers …. Peter Howell

Producer: Pete Atkin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1987.

TUE 07:30 The Goon Show (b007jy5b)
Series 9

Queen Anne's Rain

Min is counting raindrops, but why is everyone so wet? Is royalty to blame?

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: John Browell

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in December 1958.

TUE 08:00 Simon Evans Goes to Market (b07myxkp)
Series 3

Birth

Another comedy lecture on four of the big life stages that mark our journey through life.

Simon Evans explains how economics is part of every one of those stages, whether we like it or not.

As always, he is joined by Financial Times columnist and presenter of Radio 4's 'More or Less', economist Tim Harford and financial guru and editor of Money Week, Merryn Somerset Webb.

In this episode, Simon looks at Birth.

Also on stage are Andy and Sophie who are thinking about having children.

From an economic point of view, should they at all? If they do, how many should they have? And when should they have them?

Special guest Professor James Sefton talks about the optimal birth rate for the country, economically-speaking.

Written by Simon Evans, Benjamin Partridge, Andy Wolton and Guy Venables.

Producer: Claire Jones.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016.

TUE 08:30 The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono (m002ppt1)
2. Harmony

The remarkable story about Elzéard Bouffier, a man in harmony with nature who set out to gently rebuild in a time when all around him mankind was bent on destruction.

Written by Jean Giono.

The last of two parts read by Bill Paterson.

Director: Andy Jordan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1992.

TUE 08:45 Ladies of Letters (m002ppt3)
Ladies of More Letters

7. Changes

Vera fights for custody of her grandchild while in Australia Irene has emerged from the clinic her daughter sent her to.

Starring Patricia Routledge as Vera and Prunella Scales as Irene.

Series 2 in the up and down relationship between two mature ladies shared via their barbed correspondence.

Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.

Producer: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1999.

TUE 09:00 Fags, Mags and Bags (m002ntw4)
Habda-Geddon

The hit Radio 4 series ‘Fags, Mags and Bags’ finally closes its shutters for the last time, after 11 series and 59 episodes of shop-based shenanigans and over-the-counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Majhu, his trusty sidekick Dave, and his sons Sanjay and Alok.

In this special episode, recorded in front of a studio audience at the historic Oran Mor venue in Glasgow, Dave finally lands on his feet after selling a hugely valuable Moving Alan figure. However, Lenzie gold-diggers are never far away, causing friction in the shop.

This record-breaking show is the longest running TV or Radio sitcom to come out of Scotland, and the 10th longest running in BBC Radio 4 history.

CREDITS
Ramesh: Sanjeev Kohli
Dave: Donald Mcleary
Sanjay: Omar Raza
Alok: Susheel Kumar
Malcolm: Mina Anwar
Lovely Sue: Julie Wilson-Nimmo
Mrs Birkett: Stewart Cairns
Mr Hepworth: Tom Urie

Producer: Gus Beattie for Gusman Productions.
Fags, Mags and Bags is a Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4.

TUE 09:30 Encounters with Victoria (m0004shj)
2. Poor Lady Flora

Lucy Worsley explores Queen Victoria's reign through significant encounters.

The new Queen's greatest weakness was her close political association with the powerful Whigs, and one of the ways their Tory enemies capitalised on this was through Lady Flora Hastings.

A young, unmarried, lady-in-waiting at Buckingham Palace, Lady Flora was observed in the spring of 1839 to have a swelling in the stomach.

Victoria, suspecting that she was 'privately married' (i.e. pregnant) insisted that Lady Flora be brutally examined by her own doctor.

The Tories stoked rumours that the young Queen's court, ruled over by the cynical Lord Melbourne, had become a scandalous, debauched place.

And when Lady Flora died of what turned out to be liver disease, Victoria was roundly criticised as heartless.

With this story of wombs and misunderstandings, the gloss had come off the young Queen's crown.

With the historian Kathryn Hughes.

Readers: Michael Bertenshaw, Susan Jameson & Sarah Ovens

Producer: Mark Burman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019.

TUE 09:45 Daily Service (m002ppt5)
Truth - Truth to power

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

Theme: Truth - Truth to power
Presenter: Sandra Godley
Reading: 2 Samuel 12: 9-13

Music:
Everlasting God (Wait upon the Lord) - Melodees From Heaven
And Can it be - Rachel John
Pressure - Rumbi Tauro

TUE 10:00 A Good Read (b04dqt1s)
Warren Mitchell and Victor Adebowale

Tom Sutcliffe, Warren Mitchell and Victor Adebowale discuss books by Henry Mayhew, Italo Calvino and Tom Wolfe.

Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Publisher: Picador

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Publisher: Vintage

London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew
Publisher: Dover

Producer: Paul Dodgson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.

TUE 10:30 When Women Wore the Trousers (b08spk82)
Laura Barton explores the little known story of a pioneering group of women who unknowingly challenged conventional notions of femininity and their working roles.

The Pit Brow Lasses worked within the collieries of 19th century Wigan, Lancashire. Their unique re-appropriation of men’s ‘breeches’ worn underneath hitched up skirts was originally adopted as a functional response to working within mines. These early adopters of trousers reached a similar degree of notoriety that street-style stars do today.

Women were liberated by their work in the munitions factories and on the land during both World Wars but there was a fear that these 'new men' would continue donning trousers and become too independent.

Coco Chanel famously appropriated sailors tops and trousers to create work-wear in its most elevated form and the fashion for utilitarian clothing continues to thrive today, as discussed by fashion designers Faye and Erica Toogood.

Chef Angela Harnett wears a uniform of a white shift and baggy trousers in her restaurant kitchen but it is a look that could be seen as fashionable in a different context.

With readings from the actor Maxine Peak, a discussion with Pit Brow Lass, Rita Culshaw about her choice of clothing in the pits and interviews with fashion curators Amy de la Haye and Fiona McKay and Wigan historian Alan Davies, we discover how women have worn trousers as a means of empowerment and the enduring appeal of work-wear in contemporary fashion.

Producer: Belinda Naylor

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2017.

TUE 11:00 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (m002ppsy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

TUE 11:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8pz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

TUE 12:00 Flying the Flag (b007jx9v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

TUE 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jy5b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

TUE 13:00 Simon Evans Goes to Market (b07myxkp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

TUE 13:30 The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono (m002ppt1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

TUE 13:45 Ladies of Letters (m002ppt3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

TUE 14:00 Genius (b008m9f6)
Series 1

Stewart Lee

From a self-cleaning fish tank with a twist to a CD player-cum-microwave oven?

Dave Gorman asks comedian Stewart Lee to select the public's best loopy idea.

The first of three radio comedy series where award-winning comedian Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies of the public.

Producer: Simon Nicholls

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2005.

TUE 14:30 Ring Around the Bath (b00nwsh4)
Series 1

Pregnancy

A baby scare sparks family chaos.

Who is expecting? And where will the youngster sleep?

Lucy Clare and Ian Davidson's sitcom about a rather topsy turvy household.

Starring Duncan Preston and Penny Downie.

Patrick ...... Duncan Preston
Stella ...... Penny Downie
Alison ...... Claudie Blakely
Rick ...... Bruce McKinnon
Egg ...... Daniela Denby-Ashe
Xanthe ...... Catherine Shepherd
Customer ...... Andrew Westfield

Producer: Elizabeth Freestone

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2003.

TUE 15:00 Snow on the Roses by Eric Ewens (m002ppt8)
Born on January 1 1768, novelist and playwright Maria Edgeworth led a life dedicated to art, and supporting her father, the social reformer Richard Lovell Edgeworth.

Starring Edith Evans as Maria Edgeworth.

A dramatic monologue based on Miss Edgeworth's letters, written by Eric Ewens.

Maria Edgeworth ... Edith Evans
Mrs Edgeworth ... Eithne Dunne

Producer: Christopher Holme

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in January 1967.

TUE 16:00 A Good Read (b04dqt1s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

TUE 16:30 When Women Wore the Trousers (b08spk82)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

TUE 17:00 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (m002ppsy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

TUE 17:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8pz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

TUE 18:00 Flying the Flag (b007jx9v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

TUE 18:30 The Goon Show (b007jy5b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

TUE 19:00 Simon Evans Goes to Market (b07myxkp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

TUE 19:30 The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono (m002ppt1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

TUE 19:45 Ladies of Letters (m002ppt3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

TUE 20:00 Genius (b008m9f6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

TUE 20:30 Ring Around the Bath (b00nwsh4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

TUE 21:00 Snow on the Roses by Eric Ewens (m002ppt8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]

TUE 22:00 Fags, Mags and Bags (m002ntw4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

TUE 22:30 The Maltby Collection (b00xmvwb)
Series 2

Episode 5

Rod proposes that the staff should pitch their ideas for a special exhibition at the museum.

Starring Julian Rhind-Tutt and Geoffrey Palmer.

David Nobbs’ sitcom about a small art museum staffed by eccentrics and obsessives.

Rod Millet …. Julian Rhind-Tutt
Walter Brindle …. Geoffrey Palmer
Prunella Edgcombe …. Rachel Atkins
Julian Crumb-Loosely …. Ben Willbond
Eva Tittle …. Julia Deakin
Wilf Arbuthnot …. Geoff McGivern
Des Wainwright …. Michael Smiley
Stelios Constantinopoulis …. Chris Pavlo
Susie Maltby …. Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Costas …. Ben Crowe
Stelios’s Mum …. Helen Atkinson-Wood

Producer: Colin Anderson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008.

TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m002q4v6)
Alasdair Beckett-King 2/3

From 10pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Rob Deering speaks to stand-up comedian and children's author Alasdair Beckett-King

TUE 23:00 The Croft & Pearce Show (b0742mqq)
Episode 3

More sketches from award-winning duo Croft and Pearce, rising stars of the UK comedy scene.

* Highly-strung ladies June and Jean have a meltdown in John Lewis

* A bullish Brown Owl teaches her Brownies troop the importance of stealing

* Jeannette starts to wonder if her cranky 90-year-old Momma will ever die.

Written and performed by Hannah Croft and Fiona Pearce.

These Edinburgh Fringe favourites were the break-out hit of BBC Radio 4's Sketchorama and have performed sell-out shows in London, New York and around the UK.

Packed with sharply observed characters.

Producer: Liz Anstee

A CPL production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2016.

TUE 23:15 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science (b00zm0mp)
Series 1

Episode 3

Funny, off-beat but true account of the history of space flight.

* The breathtaking drama of the space race and its evil twin the Cold War

* The brilliant but secret life and tragically banal death of the Soviet Union's best rocket scientist

* The surprising tale of the last man on the moon (so far) and the songs he sang.

Starring:

Helen Keen
Peter Serafinowicz
Susy Kane

Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill.

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011.

TUE 23:30 Jake Yapp's Media Circus (b0bd8g16)
Columnists

Jake Yapp applies his sharp satirical eye to the modern media, exploring its strengths, weaknesses and idiosyncrasies through stand-up, sketch and music.

This time, Jake turns his focus to the columns, exploring their progression, value and most common tricks and tropes.

Written, performed and composed by Jake Yapp.

With:

George Fouracres
Emily Lloyd-Saini

Additional material by Robin Morgan.

Producer: Joe Nunnery

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

WEDNESDAY 14 JANUARY 2026

WED 00:00 A Good Read (b04dqt1s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]

WED 00:30 When Women Wore the Trousers (b08spk82)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Tuesday]

WED 01:00 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (m002ppsy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]

WED 01:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8pz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Tuesday]

WED 02:00 Flying the Flag (b007jx9v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]

WED 02:30 The Goon Show (b007jy5b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]

WED 03:00 Simon Evans Goes to Market (b07myxkp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Tuesday]

WED 03:30 The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono (m002ppt1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Tuesday]

WED 03:45 Ladies of Letters (m002ppt3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Tuesday]

WED 04:00 Genius (b008m9f6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]

WED 04:30 Ring Around the Bath (b00nwsh4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]

WED 05:00 Snow on the Roses by Eric Ewens (m002ppt8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Tuesday]

WED 06:00 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (m002ppzf)
2. Secrets

Davies believes he’s uncovered a dangerous secret being kept by Germany. Will Carruthers help him?

Erskine Childer's 'immortal' tale of espionage set before the First World War, when Britain shared a tense rivalry with the Kaiser's Germany.

Starring Jeremy Clyde as Carruthers and Michael Cochrane as Davies.

The second of three parts dramatised by Colin Davis.

Carruthers .... Jeremy Clyde
Davies .... Michael Cochrane
Von Bruning .... Clifford Rose
German Officer .... Alexander John
Landlord .... Crawford Logan
Fraulein Dollmann .... Eve Karpf
Simon .... Stephen Garlick
Amanda .... Diana Martin
Sarah .... Stella Forge

Other parts were played by members of the cast.

Director: Gordon House

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in January 1982.

WED 06:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8q1)
How Elena Blew Hot and Cold

The one hundred stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio’s humane and comic masterpiece come from all over the world. This Renaissance work is considered a landmark in the history of literature.

The stories are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes in the cities of fourteenth-century Italy. But their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern, and their subjects - love, fate, sex, religion, morality - are universal.

“Tricks which men play on women.”

Widowed Elena sleeps around, though she likes to keep up appearances. But when she snubs one man for the amusement of another, she picks the wrong victim.

Elena ..... Lydia Leonard
Rinieri ..... Cyril Nri
Violante ..... Elaine Claxton
Pyrrhus ..... Paul Heath

Adapted by Robin Brooks
Music arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth and Paula Chateauneuf
Lyric translations by Silvia Reseghetti
Script consultant: Guyda Armstrong
Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in December 2014.

WED 07:00 Comedy Showcase (m0022cn8)
4. Life after Life

Uncle Sid's out of prison, on probation. He was serving a life sentence for armed robbery.

The only place he has to stay is back in good old Muswell Hill.

But the area has changed from his early days. Now he's with his middle-class niece and her nice middle-class family.

Written by Kay Stonham and Simon Greenall

Sid .... Warren Mitchell
Val .... Kay Stonham
Ian .... Simon Greenall
Ada .... Avril Elgar
Matthew .... Josh Freedman
Molly .... Mollie Freedman
Governor .... Will Ing
Headmistress .... Annie Hulley

Producer: Jane Berthoud

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1998.

**** Actor Warren Mitchell joins 4 Extra's 100 Club. Born 14th January 1926, he died aged 89 in 2015.

WED 07:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b009h7l4)
Series 6

Fred's Pie Stall

The Lad Himself is out to save one of Cheam's institutions that's threatened by a council closure.

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

Starring Tony Hancock.

With:

Sidney James
Bill Kerr
Wilfred Babbage
Hugh Morton
Harry Towb

Theme and incidental music composed and conducted by Wally Stott.

Producer: Tom Ronald

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1959.

WED 08:00 Plum House (b07gfzw3)
Series 1

Perilously Poorly Peter

Peter is forced to visit town, somewhere he hasn't been since Woolworths closed down, for a medical emergency.

He leaves his hopelessly out-of-touch deputy Julian in charge who sees it as a perfect opportunity for him to finally make his mark on the place by, amongst other things, establishing his cafe Chez Julian, a hangout for 'Cumbrian Jean Paul Sartres'.

Starring Simon Callow and Miles Jupp.

Every year thousands of tourists flock to the Lake District. But one place they never go to is Plum House - the former country home of terrible poet George Pudding (1779-1848). Now a crumbling museum, losing money hand over fist, it struggles to stay open under its eccentric curator Peter Knight.

Comedy about the inept staff at an historic house written by Ben Cottam and Paul McKenna

Peter ...... Simon Callow
Maureen ...... Jane Horrocks
Julian ...... Miles Jupp
Tom ...... Tom Bell
Alan ...... Pearce Quigley
Emma ...... Louise Ford
Mary ...... Kate Anthony
Jean ...... Sandra Maitland

Director: Paul Schlesinger

A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2016.

WED 08:30 Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (m002ppzh)
1. The Commencement of the Memoir of Old Thady

Ireland. Old Thady has served under four disastrous generations of the Rackrents - Sir Patrick drinks, Sir Murtagh litigates, Sir Kit gambles, and Sir Condy (Sir Connolly) merely fritters away the family fortunes - and yet he is still the ever faithful retainer at the bankrupt Castle Rackrent.

The commencement of the Memoir of Old Thady - he recalls that it was Sir Patrick O'Shaughlin who earned the nickname 'Sir Patrick Rackrent' due to his extravagance....

Maria Edgeworth's satire on Anglo-Irish landlords, first published in 1800.

Read by Cyril Cusack.

Abridged in 8 parts by John Scotney.

Producer: Jeremy Howe

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.

WED 08:45 Ladies of Letters (m002ppzl)
Ladies of More Letters

8. Surprise

Irene sends news from Australia that Vera is a grandmother again, but who could the father be?

Starring Patricia Routledge as Vera and Prunella Scales as Irene.

Series 2 in the up and down relationship between two mature ladies shared via their barbed correspondence.

Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.

Irene .... Prunella Scales
Vera .... Patricia Routledge
Stu Jackson .... Christopher Kelham

Producer: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1999.

WED 09:00 Stand-Up Specials (m002pfbr)
Why in the Name of Pierre Novellie

1.Why Can’t We Stop Eating?

Unarguably tall comedian Pierre Novellie uses his unique style of erudite bafflement to focus on the deep and the shallow in a comedic answer to In Our Time. In this episode, all about why we can’t stop eating, Pierre discusses the misuse of soap, weaponised crisps, Saint Aetholwold, and George Orwell vs the pizza.

As Pierre says, “I’m delighted to be given the chance to perform my own comedy on the BBC, the original source of my obsession with comedy as a child. It’s a chance to bring my stand up to a hypothetically grateful nation.”

Written and performed by Pierre Novellie and produced & directed by David Tyler (Cabin Pressure, One Person Found This Helpful, Armando Iannucci’s Charm Offensive)

A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4

WED 09:30 Encounters with Victoria (m0004sk2)
3. A Wounded Welshman

Lucy Worsley explores Queen Victoria's reign through significant encounters.

Welshman Thomas Phillips, Mayor of Newport, was not the usual sort of person who got invited to dinner at Windsor Castle, a point that Victoria's courtiers made very clear.

But in 1839, he was invited to the castle to receive a knighthood.

A month earlier, he’d been wounded while helping to put down an armed rebellion of 10,000 Chartist sympathisers. Many of them coal miners, they’d marched on Newport, furious about the recent rejection of the People's Charter calling for Universal Suffrage.

This was the last large-scale armed uprising against the state in mainland Britain, and it became a massacre as hidden troops opened fire. Phillips, the Mayor, was wounded in the fracas and now became lionised for quelling the revolution.

After receiving his knighthood at Windsor Castle, and after a good deal of muttering from her courtiers, he did indeed sit down to eat with the Queen. It was her way of dealing with the demands - to which she would lifelong be deaf - for widening the electoral roll.

But the Chartists so spooked the Royals that they fled for the 'safety' of the Isle of Wight.

With historians Les James, Rhian E. Jones & curator Oliver Blackmore.

Readers: Sarah Ovens, Michael Bertenshaw & Kenny Blythe

Producer: Mark Burman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019.

WED 09:45 Daily Service (m002ppzn)
Truth - Denial of truth

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

Theme:
Truth - Denial of truth
Presenter: Steve Williams
Reading: Matthew 26: 69-75

Music:
Amazing Grace - Daily Service Singers
Spirit of mercy, truth and love - Choir of Kings College, Cambridge
Great is thy faithfulness - Philippa Hanna

WED 10:00 Archive on 4 (m001dd8y)
The Battle of the Brows

In January 1923, one of the earliest outside broadcasts from the newly formed BBC took place - The Magic Flute performed at Covent Garden by The British National Opera Company. The programme was a statement of intent by the early BBC as broadcasting was a revolutionary way in which culture could be brought to many people through their new wireless sets. Ever since its foundation 100 years ago, the BBC has been an arena in which debates have played out about what sorts of culture the British people want or need.

In 1932, a BBC broadcast by the writer J.B. Priestley brought The Battle of the Brows to the airwaves. With a combative, sometimes abrupt, tone, Priestley's talk To A Highbrow poked fun at the tastes and manners of the cultural elite. It provoked a furious response from Virginia Woolf, one of Priestley’s targets - and an unapologetic ‘highbrow’. Woolf’s impassioned response revealed the depth of feeling around the question of what was worth valuing in culture. Radio, cheaper printing techniques and ongoing education reforms had expanded opportunities for cultural access. The mudslinging represented far wider anxieties about modern Britain.

The BBC further entered the fray with the launch of the Third Programme in 1946, established to build on the BBC's founding mission to 'forge a link between the dispersed and separate listeners and the symbolic heartland of national life'. Yet it was selective from the start and, for some, the Third Programme was an intellectual and cultural haven. For others, it was 'highbrow' trendsetting of the worst kind.

In The Battle of the Brows, which marks a century of the BBC, Philip Hensher delves into the archival history of a culture war that swept the broadcaster up in its wake. He explores how we rank and value culture and how debates over 'high' and 'low' culture have played out at the BBC and beyond, since the 1920s.

With Melvyn Bragg, Melba Cuddy-Keane, William Davies, David Hendy, Charlotte Higgins, Fiona Maddocks, James Marriott, Chi-Chi Nwanoku, Will Self and Ed Vaizey.

Readers: Rebecca Crankshaw and Will Huggins

Historical Consultant: William Davies

Producers: Melissa FitzGerald and Sarah O’Reilly

A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2022.

WED 11:00 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (m002ppzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

WED 11:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8q1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

WED 12:00 Comedy Showcase (m0022cn8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

WED 12:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b009h7l4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

WED 13:00 Plum House (b07gfzw3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

WED 13:30 Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (m002ppzh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

WED 13:45 Ladies of Letters (m002ppzl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

WED 14:00 The Write Stuff (m00092h4)
Series 3

2. Agatha Christie

James Walton chairs the game of literary correctness testing Sebastian Faulks, John Walsh, Walsh, Jane Thynne and Harry Ritchie.

Author of the week: Agatha Christie

Reader: Beth Chalmers.

Producer: Jon Rolph

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000.

WED 14:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b0080r6y)
Series 1

Episode 3

Pam discovers the joy of online dating with Duvet Derek from Luton.

Meanwhile Merv launches The Cyber Pass's very own 'Love Byte Night'.

Sitcom written by and starring Mervyn Stutter.

Merv ...... Mervyn Stutter
Pam ...... Lill Roughley
Dibden ...... John Challis
PC Dilkes ...... Christopher Etteridge
Chantal ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman
Nev ...... Geoffrey Joseph

Producer: Mario Stylianides

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001.

WED 15:00 The Seven White Masks of Scaramouche Jones by Justin Butcher (m002ppzq)
Scaramouche Jones, a 100 year old clown, whose white face is his greatest asset and his greatest handicap.

His story is a vivid, troubling, odyssey through the heart of the 20th century.

Starring Warren Mitchell.

Written by Justin Butcher.

Director: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001.

**** Actor Warren Mitchell joins 4 Extra's 100 Club. Born 14th January 1926, he died aged 89 in 2015.

WED 16:00 Archive on 4 (m001dd8y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

WED 17:00 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (m002ppzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

WED 17:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8q1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

WED 18:00 Comedy Showcase (m0022cn8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

WED 18:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b009h7l4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

WED 19:00 Plum House (b07gfzw3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

WED 19:30 Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (m002ppzh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

WED 19:45 Ladies of Letters (m002ppzl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

WED 20:00 The Write Stuff (m00092h4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

WED 20:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b0080r6y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

WED 21:00 The Seven White Masks of Scaramouche Jones by Justin Butcher (m002ppzq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]

WED 22:00 Stand-Up Specials (m002pfbr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

WED 22:30 The Harpoon (b007k4t8)
Series 2

Episode 3

The complete story of evolution from Little Blobby Thing to Homo Erectus Britishus Imperius.

Plus an advert for some sticks.

All in your nostalgic spoof of boys' adventure story papers.

Written by Julian Dutton and Peter Baynham.

Performed by:

Susie Brann
Alistair McGowan
Julian Dutton
Peter Baynham
Mary Elliot-Nelson

Producer: Sarah Smith

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992.

WED 23:00 Jamie MacDonald: Life on the Blink (m000w6n3)
Series 1

Stick It To Me

Jamie MacDonald is a Glaswegian stand-up comedian who found himself rapidly going blind in his teens.

This series shows how Jamie used humour to turn denial into acceptance.

He managed to find the spotlight as the darkness descended and has turned some pretty dark experiences into hilarious stories and anecdotes.

This week, he experiments with using a stick.

Producer: Julia Sutherland

A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2021.

WED 23:15 Damien Slash (b08v8dy2)
The Damien Slash Mixtape. Series 1

Episode 2

Multi-character YouTube star Damien Slash makes the move from online to Radio 4, in this new fast-paced, one-man sketch comedy show. From the surreal to the satirical, from the zeitgeist to the absurd, Damien serves up a range of high octane characters, all from his own voice. Adverts, actors, hipsters, trolls - no aspect of modern life is left un-skewered.

Written by and starring Damien Slash (aka Daniel Barker)

Additional material by Robin Morgan

Produced by Sam Bryant

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

WED 23:30 The Skewer (m002pfc6)
Series 15

1. There are Stranger Things...

The four-time Gold Comedy winner at the Radio Academy Awards returns as Jon Holmes mashes up news with pop-culture into a current affairs comedy concept album.

This week - Trump wants the life-giving Spice and stranger things are afoot as Musk's AI bot Grok is in the Upside Down. Also, Countryfile's photography competition takes a curious turn.

Producer: Jon Holmes
An unusual production for BBC Radio 4

WED 23:45 Holland's Shorts (m001n8sg)
Episode 1

Dominic ponders the imponderables such as having the correct change and the rights of chickens.

Written by and starring Dominic Holland.

With:

Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Martin Hyder
Ed Weeks

Music by Jim Howard.

Producer: Victoria Lloyd

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2006.

THURSDAY 15 JANUARY 2026

THU 00:00 Archive on 4 (m001dd8y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]

THU 01:00 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (m002ppzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]

THU 01:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8q1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Wednesday]

THU 02:00 Comedy Showcase (m0022cn8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]

THU 02:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b009h7l4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]

THU 03:00 Plum House (b07gfzw3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Wednesday]

THU 03:30 Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (m002ppzh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Wednesday]

THU 03:45 Ladies of Letters (m002ppzl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Wednesday]

THU 04:00 The Write Stuff (m00092h4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]

THU 04:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b0080r6y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]

THU 05:00 The Seven White Masks of Scaramouche Jones by Justin Butcher (m002ppzq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Wednesday]

THU 06:00 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (m002pqb0)
3. Sinister

Following the evidence, will Carruthers and Davies finally uncover what Germany is planning for?

Erskine Childer's 'immortal' tale of espionage set before the First World War, when Britain shared a tense rivalry with the Kaiser's Germany.

Starring Jeremy Clyde as Carruthers and Michael Cochrane as Davies.

The last of three parts dramatised by Colin Davis.

Carruthers .... Jeremy Clyde
Davies .... Michael Cochrane
Dolmann.... Michael Spice
Von Bruning .... Clifford Rose
Fraulein Dollmann .... Eve Karpf
Fraul Dollmann .... Paulien Letts
Bohme .... Michael Mellinger
German A .... Nicholas Courtney
German B .... James Bryce
German C ... Alexander John

Other parts were played by members of the cast.

Director: Gordon House

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in January 1982.

THU 06:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8q3)
How to Get It Off Your Chest

The one hundred stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio’s humane and comic masterpiece come from all over the world. This Renaissance work is considered a landmark in the history of literature.

The stories are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes in the cities of fourteenth-century Italy. But their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern, and their subjects - love, fate, sex, religion, morality - are universal.

“The best ways to take revenge.”

When Zeppa discovers his wife with his best friend, he's keen to make a proportionate response.

Giovanni .... Jude Akuwudike
Zeppa ..... Ian Conningham
Spinelloccio ..... Shaun Mason
Mrs Z ..... Hannah Genesius
Mrs S ..... Bettrys Jones

Adapted by Robin Brooks
Music arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth and Paula Chateauneuf
Lyric translations by Silvia Reseghetti
Script consultant: Guyda Armstrong
Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in December 2014.

THU 07:00 Yes Minister (b007jmpx)
Series 1

The Right to Know

MP Jim Hacker tries to excavate himself from problems with badgers.

Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds.

Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn satirical sitcom ran on BBC TV between 1980 and 1984. Yes Minister is centred around the hapless Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service underlings headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby and obsequious Bernard.

Jim Hacker …. Paul Eddington
Sir Humphrey Appleby …. Nigel Hawthorne
Bernard …. Derek Fowlds
Annie …. Diana Hoddinott
Lucy …. Gerry Cowper
Protester …. Carol Boyd
Sir Frederick …. Peter Cellier

Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1983.

THU 07:30 Give Or Take (m000ztyh)
3. Jackpot!

Sam gets a visit from a man from the football pools.

So how much has he won?

Wally K Daly's sitcom starring David Roper and Sharon Duce.

Sam …… David Roper
Annabel …… Sharon Duce
Fred …… Bill Owen
Pools Official …… Robert Gillespie
Mirabelle …… Deirdre Costello
Police Officer …… David Tate

Announcer: Peter Donaldson

Produced by John Fawcett Wilson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1979.

THU 08:00 All Those Women (b069jjml)
Series 1

Episode 1

As relationships wobble, members of the family descend upon Maggie to provide support, plumbing advice and tea. Rent-free, naturally.

Katherine Jakeways' comedy about four generations of women living under one roof. An exploration of familial relationships, ageing, marriages - it's about life and love and things not turning out quite the way that you'd expected them to.

Hetty, Maggie, Jen and Emily struggle to resolve their own problems, and support one another.

Hetty ...... Sheila Hancock
Maggie ...... Lesley Manville
Jen ...... Sinead Matthews
Emily ...... Lucy Hutchinson
David ...... Denis Lill
Customer ...... Rebecca Hamilton
Announcement ...... George Watkins

Producer: Alexandra Smith

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

THU 08:30 Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (m002pqb2)
2. Sir Kit and the Jewish

Ireland. Old Thady has served under four disastrous generations of the Rackrents - Sir Patrick drinks, Sir Murtagh litigates, Sir Kit gambles, and Sir Condy merely fritters away the family fortunes - and yet he is still the ever faithful retainer at the bankrupt Castle Rackrent.

Sir Kit and the Jewish - Old Thady remembers when Sir Kit, a great tipper, took a new wife....

Maria Edgeworth's satire on Anglo-Irish landlords, first published in 1800.

Read by Cyril Cusack.

Abridged in 8 parts by John Scotney.

Producer: Jeremy Howe

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.

THU 08:45 Ladies of Letters (m002pqb4)
Ladies of More Letters

9. Homesick

In Australia Irene's homesick. Vera warns her about slipping back into old ways.

Starring Patricia Routledge as Vera and Prunella Scales as Irene.

Series 2 in the up and down relationship between two mature ladies shared via their barbed correspondence.

Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.

Irene .... Prunella Scales
Vera .... Patricia Routledge
Howard ... Christopher Kelham

Producer: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1999.

THU 09:00 What's the Story, Ashley Storrie? (m002pfhq)
Series 3

1. The Best/Worst of Times

Despite growing up with undiagnosed autism, in a family of gangsters where police raids uncovering guns under the floorboards was normal, and with her teenage years spent guiding the career of her controversial comedian mother, Janey Godley, whilst caring for her depressed autistic father - Ashley has just had the most surreal, dramatic, tragic… and successful year of her life.

With a gift for comedy and performance since early childhood when she would entertain the patrons of her parent’s pub with musical parodies and hilarious impressions, plus a passion for writing scripts and stories, Ashley’s dream job was always in the magical world of TV with all its escapism, justice and happy endings.

Despite making a name for herself in the world of comedy as an acclaimed stand-up in her own right, she’d spent most of her life until now by her mum’s side - supporting her on tour, livestreams, podcasts and everything she did, personally and professionally.

But the universe has a twisted sense of humour, and just as Ashley finally gets her big break, Janey is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

In this episode, we get a peek inside the brilliant but unhinged autistic brain of our self-identifying “adult perma-child” protagonist and, with the help of some of the other characters that live inside her mind, hear the unbelievable story of how this profound, tragicomedy began.

Produced by Julia Sutherland
Sound Design by Sean Kerwin
A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4

THU 09:30 Encounters with Victoria (m0004sfj)
4. The Governess

Lucy Worsley explores Queen Victoria's reign through significant encounters.

An important event is missing from Victoria's diary entry for 23 September 1842.

It was actually only her mother's diary which tells us that this was the day that Victoria’s old governess, Louise Lehzen, slipped away from Windsor Castle without saying goodbye.

Lehzen, who had been a second mother to Victoria, and who instilled her with her stiff - possibly inflexible - standards, had fallen out with the increasingly powerful Prince Albert, who’d taken over the running of the Royal Household.

'I could pardon wickedness in a Queen but not weakness’, Lehzen had told her princess, and now her former pupil now showed no weakness in dismissing her former governess without a word.

A last, sad glimpse of Lehzen comes from the years of her retirement to her native Germany, where she compiled a scrapbook of memories of the girl she loved. Lehzen even went to the station to wave as Victoria steamed past on a royal tour. The train did not stop.

Readers: Joseph Ayre, Bea Behlen, Sarah Ovens and Sabine Fischer

Producer: Mark Burman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019.

THU 09:45 Daily Service (m002pqb6)
Truth - The belt of truth

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

Theme: Truth - The belt of truth
Presenter: Lucy Grimble
Reading: Ephesians 6: 10-16

Music:
In Christ Alone - Jonathan Ogden
Surrounded - Josh Garrels and Lauren Goans
Yet Not I but through Christ in Me - Lucy Grimble

THU 10:00 Great Lives (b03s718g)
DJ Sara Cox nominates singer Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes

The DJ Sara Cox nominates Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes, a hip hop artist and rapper who performed with the band TLC.

She burned her lover's house down and TLC went bankrupt. Lisa died in a car accident aged 30, during a documentary shoot.

The expert witness is music journalist Jacqueline Springer.

Presenter: Matthew Parris

Producer: Perminder Khatkar

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.

THU 10:30 Nightingales of India (b0210pl8)
This is the remarkable story of two iconic sisters revered by Bollywood fans the world over.

Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle are two of the finest and most prolific female vocalists in the business. They are playback singers extraordinaire - providing the singing voices of generations of film actresses.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown tells the story of the sisters from a humble background which parallels the story of Bollywood and of India itself.

Known as the 'nightingales of India', they have forged careers spanning more than six decades. One or the other of them is rarely out of the record books as the most recorded artist in the world.

The sisters were born into a theatrical family. Lata, the older of the two, who is interviewed in the programme was left, at the age of 13, to support the whole family. After much hardship she got her big break and, just as the Hindi film industry was taking off at the end of the thirties, a star was born.

Now in her 80s, despite her fame and fortune, she leads a quiet, simple life and remains unmarried. Her younger sister Asha, now in her 80s too, was far from shy and retiring. Teenage elopement, affairs and divorce make her the dangerous half of the duo. She too made it to the top.

Everyone who is anyone in Bollywood has worked with or is familiar with the sisters' work. And the programme includes a rare interview with Lata Mangeshkar herself.

Please note: at one point, the presenter refers to Lata and Asha's audience as being in "south east asia". This should be an audience in "south asia".

Producer: Mohini Patel

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2013.

THU 11:00 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (m002pqb0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

THU 11:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8q3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

THU 12:00 Yes Minister (b007jmpx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

THU 12:30 Give Or Take (m000ztyh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

THU 13:00 All Those Women (b069jjml)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

THU 13:30 Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (m002pqb2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

THU 13:45 Ladies of Letters (m002pqb4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

THU 14:00 Say the Word (b00764r2)
Episode 3

Frank Delaney's panel game revolving around the English language.

From the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, Gloucestershire.

With:

Pam Ayres
Adam Hart-Davis
Sue Limb
John Julius Norwich

Plus resident jesters - the Nimmo Twins

Producer: Simon Elmes

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001.

THU 14:30 HR (b00tg1c3)
Series 2

Gassing

Sam is battling retirement blues with a part-time job working for the Saviours, manning telephone lines to help those in distress.

And today's first client is of course Peter, in distress about their faulty boiler.

Nigel Williams’ comedy drama series charting the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague.

Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce
Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost
George ..... Sam Dale
Voice ..... Alison Pettitt

Director: Peter Kavanagh.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2010.

THU 15:00 The Jungle Book (m000sxy3)
1. Wolves

Ayeesha Menon takes Rudyard Kipling’s family classic and gives it a darker twist, re-imagining it in the concrete jungle of present-day India. A gangland coming-of-age fable.

Mowgli, the orphan boy at the centre of the story, is being brought up by the Wolves, a gang of petty criminals in a tenement block in Mumbai, and quickly learns how to survive in that world.

But when the villainous politician, Tiger Khan, threatens Mowgli's life, two residents of the tenement block, "black panther" Bagheera and the "bear" Baloo, offer to help him escape and he embarks on a journey of self-discovery through the city, meeting "creatures" along the way who don't always have his best interests at heart.

Recorded in India.

Mo ...... Namit Das
Tiger Khan ...... Rajit Kapur
Mrs Gupta ...... Shernaz Patel
Mr Gupta ...... Zafar Karachiwala
Bugs ...... Sukant Goel
Yuva ...... Abir Abrar
Kala ...... Shikha Talsania
Rikita ...... Devika Shahani
Father Carvalho ...... Sohrab Ardeshir
Young Kala/Rani ...... Preetika Chawla
Young Mo ...... Omkar Kulkarni
Dimple ...... Trisha Kale
Bobby ...... Alka Sharma
Varun/Boy ...... Ajitesh Gupta
Amma ...... Prerna Chawla
Raksha ...... Shivani Tanksale
Rafiq & Naag ...... Tavish Bhattacharyya
Baldeo/Tabaqui/Purun Bhagat ...... Vivek Madan
Akhil ...... Nadir Khan

Music by Sacha Puttnam
Songs written and performed by Satchit Puranik

Written and directed by Ayeesha Menon
Producer: Nadir Khan
Executive Producer: John Scott Dryden

A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2021.

THU 16:00 Great Lives (b03s718g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

THU 16:30 Nightingales of India (b0210pl8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

THU 17:00 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (m002pqb0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

THU 17:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8q3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

THU 18:00 Yes Minister (b007jmpx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

THU 18:30 Give Or Take (m000ztyh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

THU 19:00 All Those Women (b069jjml)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

THU 19:30 Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (m002pqb2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

THU 19:45 Ladies of Letters (m002pqb4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

THU 20:00 Say the Word (b00764r2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

THU 20:30 HR (b00tg1c3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

THU 21:00 The Jungle Book (m000sxy3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]

THU 22:00 What's the Story, Ashley Storrie? (m002pfhq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

THU 22:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels (b00zsc2b)
Series 1

Jampoa

Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit after claiming to have had a number of bizarre adventures.

This time, he's recalling his travels to Jampoa where fame definitely equals fortune.

Starring Neil Pearson and Mariah Gale.

A satirical adventure story from Bill Dare.

Brian Gulliver ...... Neil Pearson
Rachel Gulliver ...... Mariah Gale
Dr Malik ...... Paul Bhattacharjee
Steen ...... Dave Lamb
Darmy ...... John Nicholson
Hajia ...... Catherine Shepherd
Dr Reem ...... Christopher Douglas
Donya ...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Host ...... Sam Dale
Journo ...... Nyasha Hatendi
Gameshow Host ...... Brian Bowles

Producer: Steven Canny

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011.

THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m002q4vk)
Alasdair Beckett-King 3/3

From 10pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Rob Deering speaks to stand-up comedian and children's author Alasdair Beckett-King

THU 23:00 Felicity Ward - Appisodes (b0bf67ly)
Series 1

IBS

Australian stand-up Felicity Ward tries to solve her mental health issues - one app at a time.

In this episode, she tries to treat her IBS with the help of app 'What a Relief' (as voiced by Jess Fosketew).

Throughout the series, Felicity downloads a new app each week to help her destress, refocus and find practical solutions to her various trouble areas - anxiety, depression, IBS and insomnia.

Written and performed by Felicity Ward.

Script Editor: Gareth Gwynn

Producer: Adnan Ahmed

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

THU 23:15 Rosie Jones: Box Ticker (m000hfsf)
Sexuality

Stand-up comedy from triple-threat Rosie Jones. She’s disabled, gay and northern - so, of course, she has her own Radio 4 show.

However, she’s not a great example of any of these communities and she’s tired of being asked to speak on their behalf. This show checks what’s really inside the boxes and throws most of it out.

This week, Rosie examines her sexuality. Everyone's story is different and each experience is individual. With the help of comedian Chloe Petts, the box of sexuality is ticked in a way that may surprise you.

Recorded in a live comedy club, prepare to be shocked and disappointed by Rosie’s lack of respect for your expectations.

A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2020.

THU 23:30 Old Harry's Game (b00hv1f4)
Series 7

Episode 3

The presence of a baby is turning the residents of Hell all soft.

Scumspawn becomes the first demon to wear a papoose, and Satan tries to locate "Satan Junior's" real family.

Andy Hamilton’s devilishly funny sitcom set in Hell.

Satan…. Andy Hamilton
Edith …. Annette Crosbie
Scumspawn …. Robert Duncan
Thomas …. Jimmy Mulville

With:

Michael Fenton Stevens
Philip Pope

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2009.

FRIDAY 16 JANUARY 2026

FRI 00:00 Great Lives (b03s718g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]

FRI 00:30 Nightingales of India (b0210pl8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Thursday]

FRI 01:00 The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (m002pqb0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]

FRI 01:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8q3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Thursday]

FRI 02:00 Yes Minister (b007jmpx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]

FRI 02:30 Give Or Take (m000ztyh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday]

FRI 03:00 All Those Women (b069jjml)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Thursday]

FRI 03:30 Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (m002pqb2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Thursday]

FRI 03:45 Ladies of Letters (m002pqb4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Thursday]

FRI 04:00 Say the Word (b00764r2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]

FRI 04:30 HR (b00tg1c3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]

FRI 05:00 The Jungle Book (m000sxy3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Thursday]

FRI 06:00 Whodunnits (b007jljw)
Baldi - Series 1

1. The Prodigal Son

Paolo Baldi - Franciscan priest and philosophy lecturer - accidentally becomes involved in solving a murder at an Italian chip shop.

Starring David Threlfall.

Series of murder mysteries about a Franciscan priest and philosophy lecturer who turns amateur sleuth.

Written by Barry Devlin.

Paolo Baldi …… David Threlfall
Tina Mahon …… Tina Kellegher
Father Troy …… TP McKenna
Dr Graham …… Gerard McSorley
Superintendent Rynne …… Owen Roe
Mrs Reid …… Margaret D'Arcy
Gianni …… Paolo Tullo
Ali …… Simon Delaney
Monica …… Aoiffe MacMorrough-Kavanagh
Remigio …… Damien McAdam
Anto …… Eanna McLiam
Tony, the barman …… Frankie McCafferty
Breda …… Anne Byrne
Collet …… Charlie Bonner
Tolan …… Mark Bereen
O'Hagan …… Mark Lambert
Darren Todd …… Laurence Kinlan
Liam …… Paul Roa
O'Hagan's Secretary …… Nicola Duffy

Other parts played by members of the cast.

Format created by Barry Devlin for Sarah Lawson Productions.

Developed and produced by BBC Northern Ireland.

Directed in Belfast by Lawrence Jackson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2000.

FRI 06:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8q5)
Kind Hearts and Bayonets

The one hundred stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio’s humane and comic masterpiece come from all over the world. This Renaissance work is considered a landmark in the history of literature.

The stories are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes in the cities of fourteenth-century Italy. But their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern, and their subjects - love, fate, sex, religion, morality - are universal..

"Tales of great generosity or magnificence".

Mithridanes wants to be a wise and generous benefactor. Sadly, his neighbour Nathan is always wiser and more generous. How best to deal with this problem? Wisely and generously? Or… not so much?

Mithridanes ..... Samuel Barnett
Nathan ..... Sam Dale
Beggarmaid ..... Bettrys Jones

Adapted by Robin Brooks
Music arranged and performed by Robert Hollingworth and Paula Chateauneuf
Lyric translations by Silvia Reseghetti
Script consultant: Guyda Armstrong
Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in December 2014.

FRI 07:00 Taking It Up the Octave (b087q4sx)
3. Flushing Out Talent

Should local council cash be spent on Opera Sunderland, or a public convenience?

Comedy drama series written by Fintan Coyle and Tom Miles.

The mishaps and adventures of the acting troupe at Opera Sunderland

Derek …. Andrew Branch
Keyboard Ken …. Tom Miles
Cilla …. Carolyn Bonnyman
Gareth …. Godfrey James
James …. Simon Butteriss
Natasha …. Caz Weller
Dwight …. Jonathan Kydd
Claire Long …. Sally Grace

Singers:

Alison Porter
Susan Jelley
Henrik Wager
Benjamin Davies

Producer: Chris Neill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1997.

FRI 07:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlll)
Series 3

Tea for Two

A famous by-election visitor sparks party wars for the rag and bone duo.

Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.

Classic sitcom about the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold.

Written for BBC TV and adapted for BBC Radio by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett

With:

John Rye
Edward Kelsey

Producer: Bobby Jaye

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1971.

FRI 08:00 The Break (b07ffb29)
Series 1

Dead Man's Dinner

Jeff and his nephew Andy are contacted by the editor of The Flamford Bugle.

They've won a slap-up dinner for two at Flamford's poshest eaterie, The Royal Albion Hotel.

Eagerly anticipating the night out of a lifetime, Andy and Jeff's dreams of gourmet heaven quickly deteriorate into the nightmare of a lifetime. The prize had been promised to local citizen Wally Metcalfe, but he died just after the draw. Now his widow is on the warpath with her two burly sons.

Social media doesn't help either, and in no time there is a mob baying for Jeff and Andy's blood.

Written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie.

Andy ...... Tom Palmer
Jeff ...... Philip Jackson
Frank ...... Mark Benton
PC Clark ...... Mark Benton
Corinne ...... Alison Steadman
Joyce ...... Alison Steadman
Morag ...... Alison Steadman
Kevin ...... Rasmus Hardiker
Mira ...... Shobna Gulati
Chris ...... Gordon Kennedy

Director: Gordon Kennedy

An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2016.

FRI 08:30 Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (m002pqb8)
3. Being the First Part of the history of Sir Conolly Rackrent

Ireland. Old Thady has served under four disastrous generations of the Rackrents - Sir Patrick drinks, Sir Murtagh litigates, Sir Kit gambles, and Sir Condy merely fritters away the family fortunes - and yet he is still the ever faithful retainer at the bankrupt Castle Rackrent.

Being the first part of the history of Sir Conolly Rackrent - Sir 'Condy' is Old Thady's favourite Rackrent - a good-natured, overly generous and utterly feckless landlord.

Maria Edgeworth's satire on Anglo-Irish landlords, first published in 1800.

Read by Cyril Cusack.

Abridged in 8 parts by John Scotney.

Producer: Jeremy Howe

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.

FRI 08:45 Ladies of Letters (m002pqbb)
Ladies of More Letters

10. Wedding

With a wedding to arrange, will all end happily ever after between Vera and Irene?

Starring Patricia Routledge as Vera and Prunella Scales as Irene.

Series 2 in the up and down relationship between two mature ladies shared via their barbed correspondence.

Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.

Irene .... Prunella Scales
Vera .... Patricia Routledge
Howard .... Christopher Kelman

Producer: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1999.

FRI 09:00 Time of the Week (m002ppvy)
Series 2

4. Women Drivers, the Pill, Wicker

Chloe Slack travels to Spring Island - the winner of Time Of The Week’s poll to find the best place in the UK to be a woman. Plus: items on the Pill, Women Drivers and Porn.

Sian Clifford stars as self-important journalist Chloe Slack in this comedy series parodying women’s current affairs and talk shows, surrounded by an ensemble cast of character comedians.

Chloe Slack - Sian Clifford

Ensemble cast:
Ada Player
Alice Cockayne
Aruhan Galieva
Ayoade Bamgboye
Caroline Elms
Em Prendergast
Jodie Mitchell
Jonathan Oldfield
Lorna Rose Treen
Mofé Akàndé

Additional voices: Beatrice Walker

Created by Lorna Rose Treen and Jonathan Oldfield

Writing team:
Alice Cockayne
Jen Ives
Jodie Mitchell
Jonathan Oldfield
Lorna Rose Treen
Priya Hall
Will Hughes

Script Editors - Lorna Rose Treen and Jonathan Oldfield
Photographer - Will Hearle
Producer - Ben Walker

A DLT Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4

FRI 09:30 Encounters with Victoria (m0004sg1)
5. American Idols

Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at the Historic Royal Palaces, explores Queen Victoria's reign through significant encounters.

Victoria was a global celebrity, adept at exploiting her image. And she learned a few tricks from some of the extraordinarily popular entertainers who proved that her Majesty was often very amused indeed.

In 1844, the diminutive American performer whose stage name was Tom Thumb, made a side-splitting appearance at Buckingham Palace.

In a parody of court etiquette, he said 'much obliged Mama' when he shook the Queen's hand, and fought her dog with a sword.

Like Victoria herself, Tom Thumb’s manager, showman P.T. Barnum, knew the power of brand management. Having Tom Thumb to the palace made the queen look human, while Barnum got a lucrative Royal endorsement.

By 1887, the biggest show in town was again American: Buffalo Bill's Wild West: a whooping, tootin', gun-firing maelstrom of action, and Victoria commanded a private performance. It was thrilling and dangerous, but also a celebration of the guns which would allow Western Europe to ‘conquer’ the unknown.

Tom Thumb and Buffalo Bill gave the queen who’d become an empress both entertainment – and education.

With historian Helen Davies, V&A curator and writer Nicholas Rankin.

Readers: Sarah Ovens, Kenny Blyth

Producer: Mark Burman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019.

FRI 09:45 Daily Service (m002pqbd)
Truth - Jesus's Truth

The Daily Service led by Rev Dr Emma Whittick.

Theme: Truth – Jesus’s Truth
Presenter: Rev Emma Whittick
Reading: John 14:6-10, 13

Music:
How Great is our God
To God by the Glory
The Blessing

FRI 10:00 Soul Music (m001fm2r)
Chervona Kalyna

Powerful stories linked to this beautiful and stirring Ukrainian folk song which inspired Pink Floyd to reform so they could release their own version, 'Hey Hey Rise Up', alongside Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Boombox.

Chervona Kalyna is a clarion call with roots stretching back to 17th century Cossack history; as meaningful now as then, this episode of Soul Music reflects how music can be a unifying force in the most dangerous and difficult of times.

Anti-Russian, it was banned prior to Ukrainian independence in 1991 with one of its lyrics calling to 'free our brothers Ukrainian from Muscovites shackles'. Its full title 'Oi u luzi chervona kalyna' translates as 'Oh the red viburnum in the meadow': red viburnum is a common plant in Ukraine and in the song it's a metaphor for the country itself.

Telling their stories on Soul Music: Taras Ratushnyy, journalist turned soldier, discusses his beloved son, Roman, and the heroic role he played in Ukrainian society both before and after the war began.

Elizaveta Izmalkova is a young Ukrainian singer who now lives in Lithuania. She performed Chervona Kalyna as part of a flash-mob co-organised by Egle Plytnikaite who describes why she and other Lithuanians wanted to demonstrate their support for Ukraine.

Nadia Morykvas wrote a book about the cultural polymath, Stepan Charnetskyi, who - in the early 20th century - adapted Chervona Kalyna for one of his plays. (Volodymyr Oleyko translates for Nadia Morykvas).

Andrij Halushka is a Ukrainian who now lives in London. He describes how his family history, down multiple generations, connects with the song.

Julia and Kateryna came to England under the 'Homes for Ukraine' scheme when the war began. Under the name 'Dvi Doli' they raise money for Ukraine by staging concerts where they perform traditional songs on the Bandura.

Taras Filenko is a pianist and ethno-musicologist. Originally from Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine, he now lives in Pennsylvania, USA. He discusses the musicology of the song, and recalls a neighbour from his childhood who was imprisoned for performing Chervona Kalyna in the 1940s.

Myroslava Hartmond is a British-Ukrainian cultural diplomacy expert. She explains how the current popularity of Chervona Kalyna began when Andriy Khlyvnyuk, the lead singer of Boombox, recorded an a capella version in the centre of Kyiv. This inspired Pink Floyd to collaborate with Khlyvnyuk and release their own version.

Please scroll down to the 'Related Links' box on the Radio 4 Soul Music webpage for further information about some of the interviewees and the different versions of the song used in the programme. The programme image is of Taras and Roman Ratushnyy.

Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol: Karen Gregor

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2022.

FRI 10:30 Good In Vestments (b011p7sr)
Amidst the rustle of silk, the drape of damask and the questions over whether the green or the red lining is better, the Reverend Richard Coles explores the ancient tradition of ecclesiastical vestment-wearing.

At a Royal Wedding, all eyes may have been on Catherine Middleton's dress, but the magnificent vestments worn by the Archbishop of Canterbury also caught peoples' attention.

Why do clergy still wear these clothes, who designs and sews them and has the emergence of women priests made any difference to who's wearing what in church?

In this programme, Rev Richard Coles talks to various members of the clergy and historians to find out more about the traditions and developments in the way vestments have been adopted by Anglicans and Catholics.

He goes to one of London's oldest vestment companies to meet priests being measured for their new clothes, and to talk to the seamstresses who stitch the chasubles and stoles by hand.

As well as hearing about the traditional designs, he investigates how some clergy are seeking out new pictures and patterns - and asks what that says about the role of vestments in an increasingly secular society.

Producer: Emma Kingsley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.

FRI 11:00 Whodunnits (b007jljw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

FRI 11:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8q5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

FRI 12:00 Taking It Up the Octave (b087q4sx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

FRI 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlll)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

FRI 13:00 The Break (b07ffb29)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

FRI 13:30 Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (m002pqb8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

FRI 13:45 Ladies of Letters (m002pqbb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

FRI 14:00 The Personality Test (b00m16xm)
Series 1

Greg Dyke

The BBC's former Director-General Greg Dyke quizzes a panel about himself.

Battling with queries based on Greg's life, whims and interests are:

Sue Perkins
Robin Ince
Lucy Porter

Series in which a fresh host every episode quizzes a comedy panel about themselves.

Script by Richard Turner.

Devised & produced by Aled Evans.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2006.

FRI 14:30 A Whole 'Nother Story (b00763tm)
Series 1

Older

Cassie and Pete would be a great couple, if they weren't so busy being friends.

Starring Debra Stephenson and Dave Lamb.

The first of three series of Amanda Murphy’s comedy-drama series about a friendship between a man and a woman.

Cassie ...... Debra Stephenson
Pete ...... David Lamb
Rebecca ...... Mika Simmons
PJ ...... Brendan Burns
Dad ...... Mike Grady
Mum ...... Anne Reid

Producer: Graham Frost

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2001.

FRI 15:00 The Jungle Book (m000t4v3)
2. Tiger, Tiger

Ayeesha Menon takes Rudyard Kipling’s family classic and gives it a darker twist, re-imagining it in the concrete jungle of present-day India. A gangland coming-of-age fable.

Mowgli, the orphan boy at the centre of the story, is being brought up by the Wolves, a gang of petty criminals in a tenement block in Mumbai, and quickly learns how to survive in that world.

But when the villainous politician, Tiger Khan, threatens Mowgli's life, two residents of the tenement block, "black panther" Bagheera and the "bear" Baloo, offer to help him escape and he embarks on a journey of self-discovery through the city, meeting "creatures" along the way who don't always have his best interests at heart.

Recorded in India.

CAST:
Mo ...... Namit Das
Tiger Khan ...... Rajit Kapur
Mrs Gupta ...... Shernaz Patel
Mr Gupta ...... Zafar Karachiwala
Bugs ...... Sukant Goel
Yuva ...... Abir Abrar
Kala ...... Shikha Talsania
Rikita ...... Devika Shahani
Father Carvalho ...... Sohrab Ardeshir
Young Kala/Rani ...... Preetika Chawla
Young Mo ...... Omkar Kulkarni
Dimple ...... Trisha Kale
Bobby ...... Alka Sharma
Varun/Boy ...... Ajitesh Gupta
Amma ...... Prerna Chawla
Raksha ...... Shivani Tanksale
Rafiq & Naag ......Tavish Bhattacharyya
Baldeo/Tabaqui/Purun Bhagat ...... Vivek Madan
Akhil ...... Nadir Khan

Music by Sacha Puttnam
Songs written and performed by Satchit Puranik

Written and directed by Ayeesha Menon
Producer: Nadir Khan
Executive Producer: John Scott Dryden

A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2021.

FRI 16:00 Soul Music (m001fm2r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

FRI 16:30 Good In Vestments (b011p7sr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

FRI 17:00 Whodunnits (b007jljw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

FRI 17:45 Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio (b04sv8q5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]

FRI 18:00 Taking It Up the Octave (b087q4sx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

FRI 18:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlll)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

FRI 19:00 The Break (b07ffb29)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

FRI 19:30 Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (m002pqb8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

FRI 19:45 Ladies of Letters (m002pqbb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]

FRI 20:00 The Personality Test (b00m16xm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

FRI 20:30 A Whole 'Nother Story (b00763tm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

FRI 21:00 The Jungle Book (m000t4v3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]

FRI 22:00 Time of the Week (m002ppvy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

FRI 22:30 Elvenquest (b01r9crh)
Series 4

The Great Escape

The Questers discover the Sword of Asnagar but no sooner has Amis had time to wield it than they fall into one of Lord Darkness' evil traps and are marched off to the most escape-proof prison camp in all of Lower Earth.

Meanwhile, with the Sword of Asnagar finally in his hands, Lord Darkness will soon be declared supreme Ruler and commander of the Forces of Evil. But first, he has to organise a festival...

Fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto

Sam ...... Stephen Mangan
Vidar ...... Darren Boyd
Dean/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon
Amis/The Vet/Grunter ...... Dave Lamb
Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan
Penthiselea ...... Ingrid Oliver
Penthiselea's Mother ...... Louise Delamere
Bunny ...... Mike Wozniak

Producer: Sam Michell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013.

FRI 23:00 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jq14)
Series 2

The Jousting Mastersons

The 15th century Masterson family struggles to survive in an overcrowded castle.

Award-winning improvised historical comedy series.

Based entirely on audience suggestions - this is the unfolding saga of the Mastersons - a family at war with itself.

Starring:

Paul Merton
Lee Simpson
Josie Lawrence
Jim Sweeney
Phelim McDermott
Caroline Quentin

Producer: Phil Clarke

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1994.

FRI 23:30 Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking (b00773bh)
Series 1

Episode 3

More from China Lion and the new barn conversion couple, plus a visit to the Dragon's Den.

Award-winning comedian Laura Solon's sketch and character comedy series

With:

Ben Moor
Katherine Parkinson
Ben Willbond

Written by Laura Solon.

With additional material by the cast, Carl Cooper, Tony Roche and Andy Marlatt.

Producer: Colin Anderson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007.

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

A Good Read 10:00 TUE (b04dqt1s)

A Good Read 16:00 TUE (b04dqt1s)

A Good Read 00:00 WED (b04dqt1s)

A Portrait Of... 00:30 SAT (b09d3r7x)

A Whole 'Nother Story 14:30 FRI (b00763tm)

A Whole 'Nother Story 20:30 FRI (b00763tm)

All Those Women 08:00 THU (b069jjml)

All Those Women 13:00 THU (b069jjml)

All Those Women 19:00 THU (b069jjml)

All Those Women 03:00 FRI (b069jjml)

Archive on 4 10:00 WED (m001dd8y)

Archive on 4 16:00 WED (m001dd8y)

Archive on 4 00:00 THU (m001dd8y)

Bearded Ladies 22:00 SAT (b00c0f7y)

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (Omnibus) 07:30 SUN (m002pq4r)

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (Omnibus) 12:30 SUN (m002pq4r)

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (Omnibus) 18:30 SUN (m002pq4r)

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (Omnibus) 02:30 MON (m002pq4r)

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear 03:30 SAT (b00772cn)

Black and White by Jan Mark 16:45 SAT (b087ldt7)

Black and White by Jan Mark 00:45 SUN (b087ldt7)

Brian Gulliver's Travels 22:30 THU (b00zsc2b)

Bunk Bed 23:45 SUN (m0013rc9)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 08:30 WED (m002ppzh)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 13:30 WED (m002ppzh)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 19:30 WED (m002ppzh)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 03:30 THU (m002ppzh)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 08:30 THU (m002pqb2)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 13:30 THU (m002pqb2)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 19:30 THU (m002pqb2)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 03:30 FRI (m002pqb2)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 08:30 FRI (m002pqb8)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 13:30 FRI (m002pqb8)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 19:30 FRI (m002pqb8)

Chain Reaction 23:30 SAT (b00n1jbg)

Comedy Showcase 07:00 WED (m0022cn8)

Comedy Showcase 12:00 WED (m0022cn8)

Comedy Showcase 18:00 WED (m0022cn8)

Comedy Showcase 02:00 THU (m0022cn8)

Dad's Army 07:30 MON (b007s8kl)

Dad's Army 12:30 MON (b007s8kl)

Dad's Army 18:30 MON (b007s8kl)

Dad's Army 02:30 TUE (b007s8kl)

Daily Service 09:45 MON (m002ppsc)

Daily Service 09:45 TUE (m002ppt5)

Daily Service 09:45 WED (m002ppzn)

Daily Service 09:45 THU (m002pqb6)

Daily Service 09:45 FRI (m002pqbd)

Damien Slash 23:15 WED (b08v8dy2)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 06:45 SUN (b011ckxz)

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

David Attenborough's Life Stories 17:45 SUN (b011ckxz)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 01:45 MON (b011ckxz)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 06:45 MON (b04sv52m)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 11:45 MON (b04sv52m)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 17:45 MON (b04sv52m)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 01:45 TUE (b04sv52m)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 06:45 TUE (b04sv8pz)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 11:45 TUE (b04sv8pz)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 17:45 TUE (b04sv8pz)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 01:45 WED (b04sv8pz)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 06:45 WED (b04sv8q1)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 11:45 WED (b04sv8q1)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 17:45 WED (b04sv8q1)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 01:45 THU (b04sv8q1)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 06:45 THU (b04sv8q3)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 11:45 THU (b04sv8q3)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 17:45 THU (b04sv8q3)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 01:45 FRI (b04sv8q3)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 06:45 FRI (b04sv8q5)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 11:45 FRI (b04sv8q5)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 17:45 FRI (b04sv8q5)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 06:00 SUN (b01r95hg)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 11:00 SUN (b01r95hg)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 17:00 SUN (b01r95hg)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 01:00 MON (b01r95hg)

Domestic Science 23:00 SAT (b09snxqp)

Down by the River 10:00 SAT (m0011cnd)

Down by the River 15:00 SAT (m0011cnd)

Down by the River 21:00 SAT (m0011cnd)

Down by the River 05:00 SUN (m0011cnd)

Drama on 4 06:00 MON (b0902mxc)

Drama on 4 11:00 MON (b0902mxc)

Drama on 4 17:00 MON (b0902mxc)

Drama on 4 01:00 TUE (b0902mxc)

Elvenquest 22:30 FRI (b01r9crh)

Encounters with Victoria 09:30 MON (m0004sd0)

Encounters with Victoria 09:30 TUE (m0004shj)

Encounters with Victoria 09:30 WED (m0004sk2)

Encounters with Victoria 09:30 THU (m0004sfj)

Encounters with Victoria 09:30 FRI (m0004sg1)

Fags, Mags and Bags 09:00 TUE (m002ntw4)

Fags, Mags and Bags 22:00 TUE (m002ntw4)

Felicity Ward - Appisodes 23:00 THU (b0bf67ly)

Flying the Flag 07:00 TUE (b007jx9v)

Flying the Flag 12:00 TUE (b007jx9v)

Flying the Flag 18:00 TUE (b007jx9v)

Flying the Flag 02:00 WED (b007jx9v)

Genius 14:00 TUE (b008m9f6)

Genius 20:00 TUE (b008m9f6)

Genius 04:00 WED (b008m9f6)

Getting Nowhere Fast 14:30 WED (b0080r6y)

Getting Nowhere Fast 20:30 WED (b0080r6y)

Getting Nowhere Fast 04:30 THU (b0080r6y)

Give Or Take 07:30 THU (m000ztyh)

Give Or Take 12:30 THU (m000ztyh)

Give Or Take 18:30 THU (m000ztyh)

Give Or Take 02:30 FRI (m000ztyh)

Good In Vestments 10:30 FRI (b011p7sr)

Good In Vestments 16:30 FRI (b011p7sr)

Great Lives 10:00 THU (b03s718g)

Great Lives 16:00 THU (b03s718g)

Great Lives 00:00 FRI (b03s718g)

HR 14:30 THU (b00tg1c3)

HR 20:30 THU (b00tg1c3)

HR 04:30 FRI (b00tg1c3)

Hancock's Half Hour 07:30 WED (b009h7l4)

Hancock's Half Hour 12:30 WED (b009h7l4)

Hancock's Half Hour 18:30 WED (b009h7l4)

Hancock's Half Hour 02:30 THU (b009h7l4)

Hearing with Hegley 23:30 SUN (b0075s38)

Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science 23:15 TUE (b00zm0mp)

Hive Mind by Simon Bovey 16:00 SAT (b00t1wcn)

Hive Mind by Simon Bovey 00:00 SUN (b00t1wcn)

Holland's Shorts 23:45 WED (m001n8sg)

In the Chair 07:00 MON (b007jssr)

In the Chair 12:00 MON (b007jssr)

In the Chair 18:00 MON (b007jssr)

In the Chair 02:00 TUE (b007jssr)

Inheritance Tracks 08:35 SAT (m000pw2k)

Inheritance Tracks 13:35 SAT (m000pw2k)

Inheritance Tracks 19:35 SAT (m000pw2k)

Inheritance Tracks 03:35 SUN (m000pw2k)

Inheritance Tracks 08:40 SUN (m002pq4t)

Inheritance Tracks 13:40 SUN (m002pq4t)

Inheritance Tracks 19:40 SUN (m002pq4t)

Inheritance Tracks 03:40 MON (m002pq4t)

Jake Yapp's Media Circus 23:30 TUE (b0bd8g16)

Jamie MacDonald: Life on the Blink 23:00 WED (m000w6n3)

Just a Minute 14:00 MON (b01132zd)

Just a Minute 20:00 MON (b01132zd)

Just a Minute 04:00 TUE (b01132zd)

King Street Junior Revisited 04:30 SAT (m0001tc5)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 SAT (m002pfn9)

Ladies of Letters 08:50 SUN (m002pq4w)

Ladies of Letters 13:50 SUN (m002pq4w)

Ladies of Letters 19:50 SUN (m002pq4w)

Ladies of Letters 03:50 MON (m002pq4w)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 MON (m002pps9)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 MON (m002pps9)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 MON (m002pps9)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 TUE (m002pps9)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 TUE (m002ppt3)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 TUE (m002ppt3)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 TUE (m002ppt3)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 WED (m002ppt3)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 WED (m002ppzl)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 WED (m002ppzl)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 WED (m002ppzl)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 THU (m002ppzl)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 THU (m002pqb4)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 THU (m002pqb4)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 THU (m002pqb4)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 FRI (m002pqb4)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 FRI (m002pqbb)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 FRI (m002pqbb)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 FRI (m002pqbb)

Late 23:15 SAT (b00762p3)

Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking 23:30 FRI (b00773bh)

Life: An Idiot's Guide 23:00 SUN (b01qkmpl)

Listen Against 22:30 SUN (b00fl0gk)

London Calling 10:30 MON (b04pbqtg)

London Calling 16:30 MON (b04pbqtg)

London Calling 00:30 TUE (b04pbqtg)

Meeting Jack 06:00 SAT (m001kvy4)

Meeting Jack 11:00 SAT (m001kvy4)

Meeting Jack 17:00 SAT (m001kvy4)

Meeting Jack 01:00 SUN (m001kvy4)

Murder Every Monday by Pamela Branch 15:00 MON (b00fjd0n)

Murder Every Monday by Pamela Branch 21:00 MON (b00fjd0n)

Murder Every Monday by Pamela Branch 05:00 TUE (b00fjd0n)

Nigel and Earl Sort Out the World 23:30 MON (b007jx2d)

Nightingales of India 10:30 THU (b0210pl8)

Nightingales of India 16:30 THU (b0210pl8)

Nightingales of India 00:30 FRI (b0210pl8)

Old Harry's Game 23:30 THU (b00hv1f4)

Paddington Bear by Michael Bond (Omnibus) 07:30 SAT (m00268bp)

Paddington Bear by Michael Bond (Omnibus) 12:30 SAT (m00268bp)

Paddington Bear by Michael Bond (Omnibus) 18:30 SAT (m00268bp)

Paddington Bear by Michael Bond (Omnibus) 02:30 SUN (m00268bp)

Peter Tinniswood 05:00 SAT (b007rfcf)

Plum House 08:00 WED (b07gfzw3)

Plum House 13:00 WED (b07gfzw3)

Plum House 19:00 WED (b07gfzw3)

Plum House 03:00 THU (b07gfzw3)

Poetry Extra 07:00 SUN (m002pq4p)

Poetry Extra 12:00 SUN (m002pq4p)

Poetry Extra 18:00 SUN (m002pq4p)

Poetry Extra 02:00 MON (m002pq4p)

Ring Around the Bath 14:30 TUE (b00nwsh4)

Ring Around the Bath 20:30 TUE (b00nwsh4)

Ring Around the Bath 04:30 WED (b00nwsh4)

Rosie Jones: Box Ticker 23:15 THU (m000hfsf)

Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy 22:00 SUN (b08gxx7p)

Sarah Millican's Support Group 22:30 SAT (b00qx458)

Say the Word 14:00 THU (b00764r2)

Say the Word 20:00 THU (b00764r2)

Say the Word 04:00 FRI (b00764r2)

Sherlock Holmes 01:00 SAT (b007jm9d)

Short Works 05:45 SAT (b07vngz6)

Simon Evans Goes to Market 08:00 TUE (b07myxkp)

Simon Evans Goes to Market 13:00 TUE (b07myxkp)

Simon Evans Goes to Market 19:00 TUE (b07myxkp)

Simon Evans Goes to Market 03:00 WED (b07myxkp)

Smelling of Roses 14:30 MON (b00f86x3)

Smelling of Roses 20:30 MON (b00f86x3)

Smelling of Roses 04:30 TUE (b00f86x3)

Snow on the Roses by Eric Ewens 15:00 TUE (m002ppt8)

Snow on the Roses by Eric Ewens 21:00 TUE (m002ppt8)

Snow on the Roses by Eric Ewens 05:00 WED (m002ppt8)

Soul Music 00:00 SAT (m000r33c)

Soul Music 10:00 FRI (m001fm2r)

Soul Music 16:00 FRI (m001fm2r)

Stand-Up Specials 09:00 WED (m002pfbr)

Stand-Up Specials 22:00 WED (m002pfbr)

Steptoe and Son 02:30 SAT (b007jlj8)

Steptoe and Son 07:30 FRI (b007jlll)

Steptoe and Son 12:30 FRI (b007jlll)

Steptoe and Son 18:30 FRI (b007jlll)

Stilgoe's Around 10:00 SUN (m000cctl)

Stilgoe's Around 15:00 SUN (m000cctl)

Stilgoe's Around 21:00 SUN (m000cctl)

Stilgoe's Around 05:00 MON (m000cctl)

Take It From Here 10:30 SUN (b015f9b1)

Take It From Here 15:30 SUN (b015f9b1)

Take It From Here 21:30 SUN (b015f9b1)

Take It From Here 05:30 MON (b015f9b1)

Taking It Up the Octave 02:00 SAT (b0869g9z)

Taking It Up the Octave 07:00 FRI (b087q4sx)

Taking It Up the Octave 12:00 FRI (b087q4sx)

Taking It Up the Octave 18:00 FRI (b087q4sx)

Terry Pratchett 16:00 SUN (b00b50xj)

Terry Pratchett 00:00 MON (b00b50xj)

The Break 03:00 SAT (b07dkk0k)

The Break 08:00 FRI (b07ffb29)

The Break 13:00 FRI (b07ffb29)

The Break 19:00 FRI (b07ffb29)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 SUN (m002q4v4)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 TUE (m002q4v6)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 THU (m002q4vk)

The Croft & Pearce Show 23:00 TUE (b0742mqq)

The Goon Show 07:30 TUE (b007jy5b)

The Goon Show 12:30 TUE (b007jy5b)

The Goon Show 18:30 TUE (b007jy5b)

The Goon Show 02:30 WED (b007jy5b)

The Harpoon 22:30 WED (b007k4t8)

The Heart of Hark'un 16:30 SUN (b007v25z)

The Heart of Hark'un 00:30 MON (b007v25z)

The Jungle Book 15:00 THU (m000sxy3)

The Jungle Book 21:00 THU (m000sxy3)

The Jungle Book 05:00 FRI (m000sxy3)

The Jungle Book 15:00 FRI (m000t4v3)

The Jungle Book 21:00 FRI (m000t4v3)

The Maltby Collection 22:30 TUE (b00xmvwb)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 08:30 MON (m002pps6)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 13:30 MON (m002pps6)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 19:30 MON (m002pps6)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 03:30 TUE (m002pps6)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 08:30 TUE (m002ppt1)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 13:30 TUE (m002ppt1)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 19:30 TUE (m002ppt1)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 03:30 WED (m002ppt1)

The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel 09:00 SAT (b0081s3d)

The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel 14:00 SAT (b0081s3d)

The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel 20:00 SAT (b0081s3d)

The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel 04:00 SUN (b0081s3d)

The Masterson Inheritance 23:00 FRI (b007jq14)

The Navy Lark 09:30 SAT (b017h7cp)

The Navy Lark 14:30 SAT (b017h7cp)

The Navy Lark 20:30 SAT (b017h7cp)

The Navy Lark 04:30 SUN (b017h7cp)

The News Quiz 23:00 MON (m002pffm)

The Personality Test 04:00 SAT (b00kmnfn)

The Personality Test 14:00 FRI (b00m16xm)

The Personality Test 20:00 FRI (b00m16xm)

The Pillow Book 01:45 SAT (b00cxjqk)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 06:00 TUE (m002ppsy)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 11:00 TUE (m002ppsy)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 17:00 TUE (m002ppsy)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 01:00 WED (m002ppsy)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 06:00 WED (m002ppzf)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 11:00 WED (m002ppzf)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 17:00 WED (m002ppzf)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 01:00 THU (m002ppzf)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 06:00 THU (m002pqb0)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 11:00 THU (m002pqb0)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 17:00 THU (m002pqb0)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 01:00 FRI (m002pqb0)

The Seven White Masks of Scaramouche Jones by Justin Butcher 15:00 WED (m002ppzq)

The Seven White Masks of Scaramouche Jones by Justin Butcher 21:00 WED (m002ppzq)

The Seven White Masks of Scaramouche Jones by Justin Butcher 05:00 THU (m002ppzq)

The Skewer 23:30 WED (m002pfc6)

The Tingle Factor 10:00 MON (b07lxjkj)

The Tingle Factor 16:00 MON (b07lxjkj)

The Tingle Factor 00:00 TUE (b07lxjkj)

The Unbelievable Truth 09:00 MON (m002pf5g)

The Unbelievable Truth 22:00 MON (m002pf5g)

The Write Stuff 14:00 WED (m00092h4)

The Write Stuff 20:00 WED (m00092h4)

The Write Stuff 04:00 THU (m00092h4)

Time of the Week 09:00 FRI (m002ppvy)

Time of the Week 22:00 FRI (m002ppvy)

Tom Mennard's Local Tales 08:45 SAT (m002pq3z)

Tom Mennard's Local Tales 13:45 SAT (m002pq3z)

Tom Mennard's Local Tales 19:45 SAT (m002pq3z)

Tom Mennard's Local Tales 03:45 SUN (m002pq3z)

Weak at the Top 22:30 MON (b00rgpbw)

Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully 08:00 MON (b04nv6m8)

Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully 13:00 MON (b04nv6m8)

Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully 19:00 MON (b04nv6m8)

Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully 03:00 TUE (b04nv6m8)

What's the Story, Ashley Storrie? 09:00 THU (m002pfhq)

What's the Story, Ashley Storrie? 22:00 THU (m002pfhq)

When Women Wore the Trousers 10:30 TUE (b08spk82)

When Women Wore the Trousers 16:30 TUE (b08spk82)

When Women Wore the Trousers 00:30 WED (b08spk82)

Whodunnits 06:00 FRI (b007jljw)

Whodunnits 11:00 FRI (b007jljw)

Whodunnits 17:00 FRI (b007jljw)

Yes Minister 07:00 THU (b007jmpx)

Yes Minister 12:00 THU (b007jmpx)

Yes Minister 18:00 THU (b007jmpx)

Yes Minister 02:00 FRI (b007jmpx)

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)

Children's: Drama

Paddington Bear by Michael Bond (Omnibus) 07:30 SAT (m00268bp)

Paddington Bear by Michael Bond (Omnibus) 12:30 SAT (m00268bp)

Paddington Bear by Michael Bond (Omnibus) 18:30 SAT (m00268bp)

Paddington Bear by Michael Bond (Omnibus) 02:30 SUN (m00268bp)

Comedy

Chain Reaction 23:30 SAT (b00n1jbg)

Comedy Showcase 07:00 WED (m0022cn8)

Comedy Showcase 12:00 WED (m0022cn8)

Comedy Showcase 18:00 WED (m0022cn8)

Comedy Showcase 02:00 THU (m0022cn8)

Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science 23:15 TUE (b00zm0mp)

Holland's Shorts 23:45 WED (m001n8sg)

In the Chair 07:00 MON (b007jssr)

In the Chair 12:00 MON (b007jssr)

In the Chair 18:00 MON (b007jssr)

In the Chair 02:00 TUE (b007jssr)

Jake Yapp's Media Circus 23:30 TUE (b0bd8g16)

King Street Junior Revisited 04:30 SAT (m0001tc5)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 SAT (m002pfn9)

Ladies of Letters 08:50 SUN (m002pq4w)

Ladies of Letters 13:50 SUN (m002pq4w)

Ladies of Letters 19:50 SUN (m002pq4w)

Ladies of Letters 03:50 MON (m002pq4w)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 MON (m002pps9)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 MON (m002pps9)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 MON (m002pps9)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 TUE (m002pps9)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 TUE (m002ppt3)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 TUE (m002ppt3)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 TUE (m002ppt3)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 WED (m002ppt3)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 WED (m002ppzl)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 WED (m002ppzl)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 WED (m002ppzl)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 THU (m002ppzl)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 THU (m002pqb4)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 THU (m002pqb4)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 THU (m002pqb4)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 FRI (m002pqb4)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 FRI (m002pqbb)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 FRI (m002pqbb)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 FRI (m002pqbb)

Nigel and Earl Sort Out the World 23:30 MON (b007jx2d)

Say the Word 14:00 THU (b00764r2)

Say the Word 20:00 THU (b00764r2)

Say the Word 04:00 FRI (b00764r2)

What's the Story, Ashley Storrie? 09:00 THU (m002pfhq)

What's the Story, Ashley Storrie? 22:00 THU (m002pfhq)

Comedy: Character

Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking 23:30 FRI (b00773bh)

Comedy: Chat

Genius 14:00 TUE (b008m9f6)

Genius 20:00 TUE (b008m9f6)

Genius 04:00 WED (b008m9f6)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 SUN (m002q4v4)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 TUE (m002q4v6)

The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 THU (m002q4vk)

Comedy: Panel Shows

Just a Minute 14:00 MON (b01132zd)

Just a Minute 20:00 MON (b01132zd)

Just a Minute 04:00 TUE (b01132zd)

The News Quiz 23:00 MON (m002pffm)

The Personality Test 04:00 SAT (b00kmnfn)

The Personality Test 14:00 FRI (b00m16xm)

The Personality Test 20:00 FRI (b00m16xm)

The Unbelievable Truth 09:00 MON (m002pf5g)

The Unbelievable Truth 22:00 MON (m002pf5g)

The Write Stuff 14:00 WED (m00092h4)

The Write Stuff 20:00 WED (m00092h4)

The Write Stuff 04:00 THU (m00092h4)

Comedy: Satire

Brian Gulliver's Travels 22:30 THU (b00zsc2b)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 08:30 WED (m002ppzh)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 13:30 WED (m002ppzh)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 19:30 WED (m002ppzh)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 03:30 THU (m002ppzh)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 08:30 THU (m002pqb2)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 13:30 THU (m002pqb2)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 19:30 THU (m002pqb2)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 03:30 FRI (m002pqb2)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 08:30 FRI (m002pqb8)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 13:30 FRI (m002pqb8)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 19:30 FRI (m002pqb8)

Listen Against 22:30 SUN (b00fl0gk)

The News Quiz 23:00 MON (m002pffm)

The Skewer 23:30 WED (m002pfc6)

Comedy: Sitcoms

A Whole 'Nother Story 14:30 FRI (b00763tm)

A Whole 'Nother Story 20:30 FRI (b00763tm)

All Those Women 08:00 THU (b069jjml)

All Those Women 13:00 THU (b069jjml)

All Those Women 19:00 THU (b069jjml)

All Those Women 03:00 FRI (b069jjml)

Dad's Army 07:30 MON (b007s8kl)

Dad's Army 12:30 MON (b007s8kl)

Dad's Army 18:30 MON (b007s8kl)

Dad's Army 02:30 TUE (b007s8kl)

Elvenquest 22:30 FRI (b01r9crh)

Fags, Mags and Bags 09:00 TUE (m002ntw4)

Fags, Mags and Bags 22:00 TUE (m002ntw4)

Flying the Flag 07:00 TUE (b007jx9v)

Flying the Flag 12:00 TUE (b007jx9v)

Flying the Flag 18:00 TUE (b007jx9v)

Flying the Flag 02:00 WED (b007jx9v)

Getting Nowhere Fast 14:30 WED (b0080r6y)

Getting Nowhere Fast 20:30 WED (b0080r6y)

Getting Nowhere Fast 04:30 THU (b0080r6y)

Give Or Take 07:30 THU (m000ztyh)

Give Or Take 12:30 THU (m000ztyh)

Give Or Take 18:30 THU (m000ztyh)

Give Or Take 02:30 FRI (m000ztyh)

HR 14:30 THU (b00tg1c3)

HR 20:30 THU (b00tg1c3)

HR 04:30 FRI (b00tg1c3)

Hancock's Half Hour 07:30 WED (b009h7l4)

Hancock's Half Hour 12:30 WED (b009h7l4)

Hancock's Half Hour 18:30 WED (b009h7l4)

Hancock's Half Hour 02:30 THU (b009h7l4)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 SAT (m002pfn9)

Ladies of Letters 08:50 SUN (m002pq4w)

Ladies of Letters 13:50 SUN (m002pq4w)

Ladies of Letters 19:50 SUN (m002pq4w)

Ladies of Letters 03:50 MON (m002pq4w)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 MON (m002pps9)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 MON (m002pps9)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 MON (m002pps9)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 TUE (m002pps9)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 TUE (m002ppt3)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 TUE (m002ppt3)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 TUE (m002ppt3)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 WED (m002ppt3)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 WED (m002ppzl)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 WED (m002ppzl)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 WED (m002ppzl)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 THU (m002ppzl)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 THU (m002pqb4)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 THU (m002pqb4)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 THU (m002pqb4)

Ladies of Letters 03:45 FRI (m002pqb4)

Ladies of Letters 08:45 FRI (m002pqbb)

Ladies of Letters 13:45 FRI (m002pqbb)

Ladies of Letters 19:45 FRI (m002pqbb)

Old Harry's Game 23:30 THU (b00hv1f4)

Plum House 08:00 WED (b07gfzw3)

Plum House 13:00 WED (b07gfzw3)

Plum House 19:00 WED (b07gfzw3)

Plum House 03:00 THU (b07gfzw3)

Ring Around the Bath 14:30 TUE (b00nwsh4)

Ring Around the Bath 20:30 TUE (b00nwsh4)

Ring Around the Bath 04:30 WED (b00nwsh4)

Sarah Millican's Support Group 22:30 SAT (b00qx458)

Smelling of Roses 14:30 MON (b00f86x3)

Smelling of Roses 20:30 MON (b00f86x3)

Smelling of Roses 04:30 TUE (b00f86x3)

Steptoe and Son 02:30 SAT (b007jlj8)

Steptoe and Son 07:30 FRI (b007jlll)

Steptoe and Son 12:30 FRI (b007jlll)

Steptoe and Son 18:30 FRI (b007jlll)

Taking It Up the Octave 02:00 SAT (b0869g9z)

Taking It Up the Octave 07:00 FRI (b087q4sx)

Taking It Up the Octave 12:00 FRI (b087q4sx)

Taking It Up the Octave 18:00 FRI (b087q4sx)

The Break 03:00 SAT (b07dkk0k)

The Break 08:00 FRI (b07ffb29)

The Break 13:00 FRI (b07ffb29)

The Break 19:00 FRI (b07ffb29)

The Maltby Collection 22:30 TUE (b00xmvwb)

The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel 09:00 SAT (b0081s3d)

The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel 14:00 SAT (b0081s3d)

The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel 20:00 SAT (b0081s3d)

The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel 04:00 SUN (b0081s3d)

The Masterson Inheritance 23:00 FRI (b007jq14)

The Navy Lark 09:30 SAT (b017h7cp)

The Navy Lark 14:30 SAT (b017h7cp)

The Navy Lark 20:30 SAT (b017h7cp)

The Navy Lark 04:30 SUN (b017h7cp)

Weak at the Top 22:30 MON (b00rgpbw)

Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully 08:00 MON (b04nv6m8)

Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully 13:00 MON (b04nv6m8)

Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully 19:00 MON (b04nv6m8)

Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully 03:00 TUE (b04nv6m8)

Yes Minister 07:00 THU (b007jmpx)

Yes Minister 12:00 THU (b007jmpx)

Yes Minister 18:00 THU (b007jmpx)

Yes Minister 02:00 FRI (b007jmpx)

Comedy: Sketch

Bearded Ladies 22:00 SAT (b00c0f7y)

Damien Slash 23:15 WED (b08v8dy2)

Holland's Shorts 23:45 WED (m001n8sg)

Late 23:15 SAT (b00762p3)

Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking 23:30 FRI (b00773bh)

Stilgoe's Around 10:00 SUN (m000cctl)

Stilgoe's Around 15:00 SUN (m000cctl)

Stilgoe's Around 21:00 SUN (m000cctl)

Stilgoe's Around 05:00 MON (m000cctl)

Take It From Here 10:30 SUN (b015f9b1)

Take It From Here 15:30 SUN (b015f9b1)

Take It From Here 21:30 SUN (b015f9b1)

Take It From Here 05:30 MON (b015f9b1)

The Croft & Pearce Show 23:00 TUE (b0742mqq)

The Goon Show 07:30 TUE (b007jy5b)

The Goon Show 12:30 TUE (b007jy5b)

The Goon Show 18:30 TUE (b007jy5b)

The Goon Show 02:30 WED (b007jy5b)

Comedy: Spoof

The Harpoon 22:30 WED (b007k4t8)

Time of the Week 09:00 FRI (m002ppvy)

Time of the Week 22:00 FRI (m002ppvy)

Comedy: Standup

Domestic Science 23:00 SAT (b09snxqp)

Felicity Ward - Appisodes 23:00 THU (b0bf67ly)

Hearing with Hegley 23:30 SUN (b0075s38)

Jamie MacDonald: Life on the Blink 23:00 WED (m000w6n3)

Life: An Idiot's Guide 23:00 SUN (b01qkmpl)

Rosie Jones: Box Ticker 23:15 THU (m000hfsf)

Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy 22:00 SUN (b08gxx7p)

Simon Evans Goes to Market 08:00 TUE (b07myxkp)

Simon Evans Goes to Market 13:00 TUE (b07myxkp)

Simon Evans Goes to Market 19:00 TUE (b07myxkp)

Simon Evans Goes to Market 03:00 WED (b07myxkp)

Stand-Up Specials 09:00 WED (m002pfbr)

Stand-Up Specials 22:00 WED (m002pfbr)

Tom Mennard's Local Tales 08:45 SAT (m002pq3z)

Tom Mennard's Local Tales 13:45 SAT (m002pq3z)

Tom Mennard's Local Tales 19:45 SAT (m002pq3z)

Tom Mennard's Local Tales 03:45 SUN (m002pq3z)

Drama

Drama on 4 06:00 MON (b0902mxc)

Drama on 4 11:00 MON (b0902mxc)

Drama on 4 17:00 MON (b0902mxc)

Drama on 4 01:00 TUE (b0902mxc)

King Street Junior Revisited 04:30 SAT (m0001tc5)

Peter Tinniswood 05:00 SAT (b007rfcf)

Short Works 05:45 SAT (b07vngz6)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 08:30 MON (m002pps6)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 13:30 MON (m002pps6)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 19:30 MON (m002pps6)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 03:30 TUE (m002pps6)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 08:30 TUE (m002ppt1)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 13:30 TUE (m002ppt1)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 19:30 TUE (m002ppt1)

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 03:30 WED (m002ppt1)

The Pillow Book 01:45 SAT (b00cxjqk)

The Seven White Masks of Scaramouche Jones by Justin Butcher 15:00 WED (m002ppzq)

The Seven White Masks of Scaramouche Jones by Justin Butcher 21:00 WED (m002ppzq)

The Seven White Masks of Scaramouche Jones by Justin Butcher 05:00 THU (m002ppzq)

Drama: Action & Adventure

The Jungle Book 15:00 THU (m000sxy3)

The Jungle Book 21:00 THU (m000sxy3)

The Jungle Book 05:00 FRI (m000sxy3)

The Jungle Book 15:00 FRI (m000t4v3)

The Jungle Book 21:00 FRI (m000t4v3)

Drama: Biographical

Meeting Jack 06:00 SAT (m001kvy4)

Meeting Jack 11:00 SAT (m001kvy4)

Meeting Jack 17:00 SAT (m001kvy4)

Meeting Jack 01:00 SUN (m001kvy4)

Snow on the Roses by Eric Ewens 15:00 TUE (m002ppt8)

Snow on the Roses by Eric Ewens 21:00 TUE (m002ppt8)

Snow on the Roses by Eric Ewens 05:00 WED (m002ppt8)

Drama: Classic & Period

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 08:30 WED (m002ppzh)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 13:30 WED (m002ppzh)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 19:30 WED (m002ppzh)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 03:30 THU (m002ppzh)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 08:30 THU (m002pqb2)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 13:30 THU (m002pqb2)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 19:30 THU (m002pqb2)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 03:30 FRI (m002pqb2)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 08:30 FRI (m002pqb8)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 13:30 FRI (m002pqb8)

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth 19:30 FRI (m002pqb8)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 06:45 MON (b04sv52m)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 11:45 MON (b04sv52m)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 17:45 MON (b04sv52m)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 01:45 TUE (b04sv52m)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 06:45 TUE (b04sv8pz)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 11:45 TUE (b04sv8pz)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 17:45 TUE (b04sv8pz)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 01:45 WED (b04sv8pz)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 06:45 WED (b04sv8q1)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 11:45 WED (b04sv8q1)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 17:45 WED (b04sv8q1)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 01:45 THU (b04sv8q1)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 06:45 THU (b04sv8q3)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 11:45 THU (b04sv8q3)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 17:45 THU (b04sv8q3)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 01:45 FRI (b04sv8q3)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 06:45 FRI (b04sv8q5)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 11:45 FRI (b04sv8q5)

Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio 17:45 FRI (b04sv8q5)

Drama: Crime

Murder Every Monday by Pamela Branch 15:00 MON (b00fjd0n)

Murder Every Monday by Pamela Branch 21:00 MON (b00fjd0n)

Murder Every Monday by Pamela Branch 05:00 TUE (b00fjd0n)

Sherlock Holmes 01:00 SAT (b007jm9d)

Whodunnits 06:00 FRI (b007jljw)

Whodunnits 11:00 FRI (b007jljw)

Whodunnits 17:00 FRI (b007jljw)

Drama: Horror & Supernatural

Black and White by Jan Mark 16:45 SAT (b087ldt7)

Black and White by Jan Mark 00:45 SUN (b087ldt7)

Drama: SciFi & Fantasy

Elvenquest 22:30 FRI (b01r9crh)

Hive Mind by Simon Bovey 16:00 SAT (b00t1wcn)

Hive Mind by Simon Bovey 00:00 SUN (b00t1wcn)

Terry Pratchett 16:00 SUN (b00b50xj)

Terry Pratchett 00:00 MON (b00b50xj)

The Heart of Hark'un 16:30 SUN (b007v25z)

The Heart of Hark'un 00:30 MON (b007v25z)

Drama: Thriller

In the Chair 07:00 MON (b007jssr)

In the Chair 12:00 MON (b007jssr)

In the Chair 18:00 MON (b007jssr)

In the Chair 02:00 TUE (b007jssr)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 06:00 TUE (m002ppsy)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 11:00 TUE (m002ppsy)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 17:00 TUE (m002ppsy)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 01:00 WED (m002ppsy)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 06:00 WED (m002ppzf)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 11:00 WED (m002ppzf)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 17:00 WED (m002ppzf)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 01:00 THU (m002ppzf)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 06:00 THU (m002pqb0)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 11:00 THU (m002pqb0)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 17:00 THU (m002pqb0)

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 01:00 FRI (m002pqb0)

Entertainment

Bunk Bed 23:45 SUN (m0013rc9)

Stilgoe's Around 10:00 SUN (m000cctl)

Stilgoe's Around 15:00 SUN (m000cctl)

Stilgoe's Around 21:00 SUN (m000cctl)

Stilgoe's Around 05:00 MON (m000cctl)

The Personality Test 04:00 SAT (b00kmnfn)

The Personality Test 14:00 FRI (b00m16xm)

The Personality Test 20:00 FRI (b00m16xm)

Factual

A Good Read 10:00 TUE (b04dqt1s)

A Good Read 16:00 TUE (b04dqt1s)

A Good Read 00:00 WED (b04dqt1s)

Archive on 4 10:00 WED (m001dd8y)

Archive on 4 16:00 WED (m001dd8y)

Archive on 4 00:00 THU (m001dd8y)

Bunk Bed 23:45 SUN (m0013rc9)

Good In Vestments 10:30 FRI (b011p7sr)

Good In Vestments 16:30 FRI (b011p7sr)

Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science 23:15 TUE (b00zm0mp)

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

A Portrait Of... 00:30 SAT (b09d3r7x)

Down by the River 10:00 SAT (m0011cnd)

Down by the River 15:00 SAT (m0011cnd)

Down by the River 21:00 SAT (m0011cnd)

Down by the River 05:00 SUN (m0011cnd)

London Calling 10:30 MON (b04pbqtg)

London Calling 16:30 MON (b04pbqtg)

London Calling 00:30 TUE (b04pbqtg)

Poetry Extra 07:00 SUN (m002pq4p)

Poetry Extra 12:00 SUN (m002pq4p)

Poetry Extra 18:00 SUN (m002pq4p)

Poetry Extra 02:00 MON (m002pq4p)

The Tingle Factor 10:00 MON (b07lxjkj)

The Tingle Factor 16:00 MON (b07lxjkj)

The Tingle Factor 00:00 TUE (b07lxjkj)

The Write Stuff 14:00 WED (m00092h4)

The Write Stuff 20:00 WED (m00092h4)

The Write Stuff 04:00 THU (m00092h4)

When Women Wore the Trousers 10:30 TUE (b08spk82)

When Women Wore the Trousers 16:30 TUE (b08spk82)

When Women Wore the Trousers 00:30 WED (b08spk82)

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media: Arts

A Good Read 10:00 TUE (b04dqt1s)

A Good Read 16:00 TUE (b04dqt1s)

A Good Read 00:00 WED (b04dqt1s)

Factual: Consumer

When Women Wore the Trousers 10:30 TUE (b08spk82)

When Women Wore the Trousers 16:30 TUE (b08spk82)

When Women Wore the Trousers 00:30 WED (b08spk82)

Factual: History

Encounters with Victoria 09:30 MON (m0004sd0)

Encounters with Victoria 09:30 TUE (m0004shj)

Encounters with Victoria 09:30 WED (m0004sk2)

Encounters with Victoria 09:30 THU (m0004sfj)

Encounters with Victoria 09:30 FRI (m0004sg1)

Great Lives 10:00 THU (b03s718g)

Great Lives 16:00 THU (b03s718g)

Great Lives 00:00 FRI (b03s718g)

Factual: Life Stories

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (Omnibus) 07:30 SUN (m002pq4r)

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (Omnibus) 12:30 SUN (m002pq4r)

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (Omnibus) 18:30 SUN (m002pq4r)

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (Omnibus) 02:30 MON (m002pq4r)

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear 03:30 SAT (b00772cn)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 06:00 SUN (b01r95hg)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 11:00 SUN (b01r95hg)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 17:00 SUN (b01r95hg)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 01:00 MON (b01r95hg)

Great Lives 10:00 THU (b03s718g)

Great Lives 16:00 THU (b03s718g)

Great Lives 00:00 FRI (b03s718g)

Inheritance Tracks 08:35 SAT (m000pw2k)

Inheritance Tracks 13:35 SAT (m000pw2k)

Inheritance Tracks 19:35 SAT (m000pw2k)

Inheritance Tracks 03:35 SUN (m000pw2k)

Inheritance Tracks 08:40 SUN (m002pq4t)

Inheritance Tracks 13:40 SUN (m002pq4t)

Inheritance Tracks 19:40 SUN (m002pq4t)

Inheritance Tracks 03:40 MON (m002pq4t)

London Calling 10:30 MON (b04pbqtg)

London Calling 16:30 MON (b04pbqtg)

London Calling 00:30 TUE (b04pbqtg)

Nightingales of India 10:30 THU (b0210pl8)

Nightingales of India 16:30 THU (b0210pl8)

Nightingales of India 00:30 FRI (b0210pl8)

Soul Music 00:00 SAT (m000r33c)

Soul Music 10:00 FRI (m001fm2r)

Soul Music 16:00 FRI (m001fm2r)

Factual: Pets & Animals

David Attenborough's Life Stories 06:45 SUN (b011ckxz)

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

David Attenborough's Life Stories 17:45 SUN (b011ckxz)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 01:45 MON (b011ckxz)

Factual: Science & Nature

Domestic Science 23:00 SAT (b09snxqp)

Factual: Science & Nature: Nature & Environment

David Attenborough's Life Stories 06:45 SUN (b011ckxz)

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

David Attenborough's Life Stories 17:45 SUN (b011ckxz)

David Attenborough's Life Stories 01:45 MON (b011ckxz)

Down by the River 10:00 SAT (m0011cnd)

Down by the River 15:00 SAT (m0011cnd)

Down by the River 21:00 SAT (m0011cnd)

Down by the River 05:00 SUN (m0011cnd)

Factual: Science & Nature: Science & Technology

Genius 14:00 TUE (b008m9f6)

Genius 20:00 TUE (b008m9f6)

Genius 04:00 WED (b008m9f6)

Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science 23:15 TUE (b00zm0mp)

Music

Inheritance Tracks 08:35 SAT (m000pw2k)

Inheritance Tracks 13:35 SAT (m000pw2k)

Inheritance Tracks 19:35 SAT (m000pw2k)

Inheritance Tracks 03:35 SUN (m000pw2k)

Inheritance Tracks 08:40 SUN (m002pq4t)

Inheritance Tracks 13:40 SUN (m002pq4t)

Inheritance Tracks 19:40 SUN (m002pq4t)

Inheritance Tracks 03:40 MON (m002pq4t)

Soul Music 00:00 SAT (m000r33c)

Soul Music 10:00 FRI (m001fm2r)

Soul Music 16:00 FRI (m001fm2r)

Stilgoe's Around 10:00 SUN (m000cctl)

Stilgoe's Around 15:00 SUN (m000cctl)

Stilgoe's Around 21:00 SUN (m000cctl)

Stilgoe's Around 05:00 MON (m000cctl)

The Tingle Factor 10:00 MON (b07lxjkj)

The Tingle Factor 16:00 MON (b07lxjkj)

The Tingle Factor 00:00 TUE (b07lxjkj)

Music: Desi: Bollywood

Nightingales of India 10:30 THU (b0210pl8)

Nightingales of India 16:30 THU (b0210pl8)

Nightingales of India 00:30 FRI (b0210pl8)

Religion & Ethics

Daily Service 09:45 MON (m002ppsc)

Daily Service 09:45 TUE (m002ppt5)

Daily Service 09:45 WED (m002ppzn)

Daily Service 09:45 THU (m002pqb6)

Daily Service 09:45 FRI (m002pqbd)

Good In Vestments 10:30 FRI (b011p7sr)

Good In Vestments 16:30 FRI (b011p7sr)