SATURDAY 08 JUNE 2024

SAT 00:00 Soul Music (b0367sl2)
Series 16

Lili Marlene

Stories of love, loss and friendship through the Second World War favourite, Lili Marlene.

She was made famous by Marlene Dietrich - with songs sung by soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

Series about pieces of music with a powerful emotional impact

Producer: Maggie Ayre.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013.


SAT 00:30 The Art of Adultery (b0717gdz)
Natalie Haynes explores why infidelity has inspired artists, writers and dramatists since the Ancient Greeks.

For centuries, popular culture has been enthralled by infidelity, moving from the ancient tales of Helen of Troy and Medea through to the popularity of modern day dramas like 'The Affair' and 'Doctor Foster'.

Along the way, few artists of note seem to have been able to avoid its dramatic appeal, whether Chaucer in Miller's Tale, Shakespeare in 'Othello' or Tolstoy in 'Anna Karenina' and 'War and Peace'. In 'The Art of Adultery'.

Natalie Haynes sets out to find out what the nature of that appeal might be, and also considers whether the way the basic story of unfaithful partners tells us anything about the times and places from where the particular stories are born.

Natalie meets author Julian Barnes to talk about his own novel 'Talking it Over' as well as attitudes to infidelity in 19th century France.

She visits Tate Britain to find out how attitudes on this side of the Channel were changing during the same period.

Filmmaker Jane Gillooly talks about her documentary 'Suitcase of Love and Shame' featuring recordings made by a straying couple for each other in 1960s America.

And Natalie hears from novelist Stella Duffy about how recent changes in attitudes have affected how gay and lesbian literature has tackled the subject.

Producer: Geoff Bird

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2016.


SAT 01:00 Whodunnits (b01b3fdv)
Hercule Poirot - Mrs McGinty's Dead

5. Final Clue

The chaos of Long Meadows provides Hercule Poirot with his final clue to unveiling the pitiless murderer.

But there's also another surprise in store for the Belgian detective...

Conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunnit starring John Moffatt.

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt
Ariadne Oliver ...... Julia MacKenzie
Superintendent Spence ...... George Baker
Robin Upward ...... Nick Waring
Maud Williams ...... Beth Chalmers
Maureen Summerhayes ...... Molly Gaisford
Major Summerhayes ...... Ian Masters
Eve Carpenter ...... Angela Sims
Guy Carpenter ...... Dominic Colchester
Mrs Rendell ...... Susannah Corbett

Director: Enyd Williams.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006.


SAT 01:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mdn8)
5. The Truth Revealed

The Kaiser’s plans gather pace and the mystery of the black wood is revealed.

And at last it's time for the man supposed to be Sir Everard Dominey to reveal his true identity.

Is he Sir Everard, or the Prussian von Ragastein?

Conclusion of E Phillips Oppenheim's mystery thriller.

Starring David Robb.

Dramatised by Barry Campbell

Sir Everard Dominey / Leopold von Ragastein ...... David Robb
Prince Terniloff ...... Tim Meats
Pelham/Parkins ...... Howard Hoffmann
Lady Dominey ...... Melinda Walker
Seaman ...... William Hope
Williams ...... Brian Gear
Mrs Marston ...... Gwen Cherrell
Dr Harrison ...... Garard Green
Middleton/Reynolds ...... Paul Nicholson
Princess Eiderstrom ...... Narissa Knights
Dr Schmidt ...... Phillip Manikum

Director Brian Miller

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1985.


SAT 02:00 The Older Woman (b02qt773)
Series 1

Episode 4

When journalist Roy spots a planning application for a barn next to Jane's house, his knight in shining armour fantasies seem to have become a reality.

Meanwhile his boss has set up home in the office, complete with dog and soap-on-a-rope.

Starring Zoe Wanamaker and Martin Clunes.

Tony Bagley's romantic comedy drama serial with a twist.

Miss Callaghan ...... Zoe Wanamaker
Roy Hitchcock ...... Martin Clunes
Elsa ...... Toyah Wilcox
Mr Say ...... David Troughton
Chad ...... Nicky Henson
Wyn …. Sue Roderick
Dick …. Geoff McGivern
Leland …. Bryan Dick
Hannibal Lecter …. David Holt
Helen …. Melanie Hudson
Paul Vaughan ...... Himself

Producer: Paul Schlesinger

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1993.


SAT 02:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jrxq)
Series 4

Rise from the Grave the Burkiss Way

Dracula and Oedipus Rex get a good going over.

Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to 1980.

Starring:

Fred Harris
Jo Kendall
Nigel Rees
Chris Emmett

Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick.

Producer: David Hatch

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1979.


SAT 03:00 Says on the Tin (b00gqzw0)
Chowder

Eliott, Esther and Hannah compete aggressively to promote American Chowder to the British consumer.

Starring Michael Brandon.

Christopher William Hill's sitcom about an American advertising man, forced to relocate to London.

Eliott Thurber ...... Michael Brandon
Esther Finn ...... Samantha Bond
Hannah Walker ...... Pippa Haywood
Zadie ...... Joannah Tincey
Baz ...... Inam Mirza
Sal ...... John Guerrasio

Other parts played by:

Stephen Critchlow
Jonathan Tafler
Dan Starkey
Gunnar Cauthery
Donnla Hughes

Producer: Liz Webb

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009.


SAT 03:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016hjf)
5. Front Line

Emma finds herself on the frontline witnessing the brutality of war.

Two sisters, four nights, one city.

April, 1941: Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.

Many won’t make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.

Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman – as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz,

Lucy Caldwell's timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.

Abridged by Rowan Routh.

Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg

Producer: Gemma McMullan

A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2022.


SAT 03:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvc6)
D-Day Minus 2 - Drop Zone

The world is waiting for the Allied invasion of Europe, but no one knows when or where it will happen.

On 4th June 1944 in France Father Pierre receives an urgent message to call on Mme de Rochers at her chateau. Life under German occupation has changed the lives of the locals in unexpected ways.

Written by Hilary Fannin, from a story by Mike Walker.

Narrator .... Juliet Stevenson
Father Pierre .... Bill Wallis
Louise .... Claudia Harrison
Madame des Rochers .... Avril Elgar

Director: Tanya Nash

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.


SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree (m0019k3h)
Series 12

Lancaster University

Steve Punt hosts the battle of wits as three students from Lancaster University take on their professors.

A funny and dynamic general knowledge quiz show with specialist subjects including English Literature, Marketing and French.

Questions range from Les Immortels and Roland Barthes to shopping trolleys and Philip K Dick.

Producer: David Tyler

A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2022.


SAT 04:30 Arrested Development (b0075vh3)
Episode 1

Penny and Dave are getting married.

But they're facing some hiccups - Penny's new hair-do being just one of them.

She wanted the Julia Roberts look but has ended up with a Mrs Merton instead!

Starring Letitia Dean, Phil Cornwell and Julian Rhind-Tutt.

Simon Warne's four-part comedy serial.

Penny ...... Letitia Dean
Bob ...... Phil Cornwell
Andy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Joy ...... Maggie McCarthy
Kate ...... Susannah Doyle
Frank ...... Roger Walker

Producer: Tracey Neale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000.


SAT 05:00 Wallis - The Life and Legends of Wallis Simpson (b0855wfh)
The Melody Lingers On

Wallis realises marrying an ex-king means broken promises, plus doubtful acquaintances and scandal.

As the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis was reviled for causing King Edward VIII to abdicate his throne to marry her.

But what was she really like?

Starring Stockard Channing.

The conclusion of Elizabeth Proud's three-part drama about the Duchess of Windsor.

Wallis Simpson .... Stockard Channing
Duke of Windsor .... Christopher Casenove
Maitre Blum .... Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Churchill/Georges .... Chris Emmett
Foxie .... Jill Graham
Nancy .... Sunny Ormonde
Noel Coward/Von Stohrer/1st Embassy Official …. John Webb
Nurse Christine .... Sara Coward
Nurse Dominique .... Susan Bovell
Penelope Ross/Lady Mosley .... Joanna Monro
Douglas .... David Monico
Stanley/Von Ribbentrop .... Keith Drinkel
Maj. Gray Phillips/BBC Announcer .... Tim Meats
2nd Embassy Official .... David Holt

Producer: Sue Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1996.


SAT 06:00 Kafka the Musical (b010glpd)
The magnetic performance that won David Tennant "Best Actor" at the inaugural BBC Audio Drama Awards for his part as Franz Kafka.

Murray Gold's play starts from the suitably Kafkaesque premise that Franz Kafka finds he has to play himself in a musical about his own life.

The play - or is it the musical? - introduces Kafka and the audience to some of the key characters in his life, Milena Jesenska, Dora Diamant and Felice Bauer.

Franz Kafka ..... David Tennant
Father ..... David Fleeshman
Mother ..... Joanna Monro
Milena ..... Naomi Frederick
Felice ..... Jessica Raine
Dora ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan
Barman / Singer / Doctor ..... Trevor Allan Davies
Newspaper Seller / Man ..... Brian Bowles

Music by Murray Gold.

Director: Jeremy Mortimer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in April 2011.

*** Murray Gold's first radio play Electricity won the Richard Imison award for best new play after its broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2001.

It subsequently transferred to the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2004 and was performed with Christopher Eccleston in the lead role. Other plays include 50 Revolutions performed by the Oxford Stage Company at the Whitehall Theatre, London in 2000 and Resolution at Battersea Arts Centre in 1994, and Little Joe and His Struggle Against the World (Radio 3 2005).

Murray has been nominated for a BAFTA four times in the category Best Original Television Music, for Vanity Fair (1999), Queer as Folk (2000), Casanova (2006) and Doctor Who (2008). He wrote the theme tune for the Channel 4 series Shameless and scored the period drama The Devil's Whore. More recently Murray Gold scored another David Tennant series, BBC1's Single Father.


SAT 07:30 Margaret Atwood - The Testaments (Omnibus) (m0008x11)
Episode 2

Set 15 years after the events of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale the testimonies of three women bring the story to a dramatic conclusion.

Aunt Lydia reveals how she came to be a Founder of the Gilead regime, while Agnes remembers the preparations for her arranged marriage...

Omnibus of the middle five of fifteen parts abridged by Katrin Williams.

Read by:

Sara Kestelman
Katherine Press
Samantha Dakin

Producer: Justine Willett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2019.


SAT 08:45 Marriott's Monologues (b00sp44h)
Kenneth Waller

Monologist, Kenneth Waller [who played Grandad in BBC TV's sitcom 'Bread'] reads 'Asparagus' and 'Albert and the Headsman'.

Series featuring the famous monologues of Marriott Edgar.

Music by Brian Fitzgerald.

Produced at BBC Manchester by Mike Craig.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1991.


SAT 09:00 Educated Evans by Edgar Wallace (b03yh0dk)
The Snout

Can the skint 1920s tipster plot revenge on a local informant and end up a winner too?

Roy Hudd stars as a self-styled "sporting authority" in 1920's Camden Town in London.

Edgar Wallace's 1924 novel dramatised by Richard Quick.

Narrator …. Freddie Jones
Educated Evans …. Roy Hudd
Inspector Pine …. Andrew Sachs
The Miller …. Michael Roberts
Mrs Rankin …. Pat Coombs
Joe Taskett …. David Battley
Albert Shanks …. Simon Treves
Mildred Lee …. Rosemary Martin
Ginger Vennett …. Ian Targett

Music by Philip Glassborow and Rick Cardinall.

Director: Dirk Maggs

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996.


SAT 09:30 The Arthur Haynes Show (m000945t)
From 04/08/1963

Arthur is taken to court for disturbing the peace and then offers to sell his organs.

Arthur Haynes stars in the sketch show series written by Johnny Speight.

With

Nicholas Parsons
Leslie Noyes
Dorothy Dampier
Graham Stark

Music by Peter Crawford & His Trio.

Producer: Richard Dingley

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1963.


SAT 10:00 Great Lives - 400 and Counting (m0010h2x)
1. Eric and Ernest

From Eric Morecambe to Ernest Shackleton.

In the first of three programmes, Matthew Parris and original producer Miles Warde reveal how the BBC Radio 4's Great Lives series was born, as they recall the rows, revelations and rank incompetence behind 400 editions.

Deep in the summer of 2001, a new programme tiptoed out onto the airwaves.

The concept was simple – book someone famous to talk about someone dead. Except there was a problem; famous people don’t talk much about someone else.

In a world of the celebrity plug, getting voices to commit to a show where they couldn’t talk about themselves proved tough. 12 slots to fill, and nobody signed up.

400 episodes later… Barbara Castle, Beryl Bainbridge, Bernard Manning, eventually everyone says yes.

In this episode, Christopher Hitchens was so incensed presenter Matthew Parris that he walked out. “You’re a bleeding Tory,” he said, “and always have been. Have you done? I have to be somewhere at one.”

Featuring material never previously played - nominators and experts about their hopes and fears.

Plus archive of original presenters Joan Bakewell and Humphrey Carpenter; plus a special selection of the very best of Great Lives.

“There’s a joy in judging people by their choice of hero. It’s one reason Matthew Parris’s Great Lives series has run for 40 series.” Ben Preston, Radio Times editor, 2016.

Programme extracts include:

* Penelope Keith on Morecambe and Wise
* Piers Morgan on WG Grace
* Bernard Manning on Mother Teresa

Rosie Boycott on Ernest Shackleton.

Produced at BBC Bristol by Miles Warde.

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in December 2017.


SAT 11:00 Kafka the Musical (b010glpd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


SAT 12:30 Margaret Atwood - The Testaments (Omnibus) (m0008x11)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


SAT 13:45 Marriott's Monologues (b00sp44h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]


SAT 14:00 Educated Evans by Edgar Wallace (b03yh0dk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


SAT 14:30 The Arthur Haynes Show (m000945t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


SAT 15:00 Great Lives - 400 and Counting (m0010h2x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


SAT 16:00 Torchwood: The Dead Line (b00lg4vz)
When a Cardiff Hospital is inundated with patients who have fallen into coma-like trances, Torchwood move in to investigate.

The trances appear to have been triggered by phone calls, all received on retro phones and made from a number that hasn't been active for over 30 years.

Determined to find out who's been calling the unfortunate victims, Jack rings the mysterious number.

"Two, oh, five, nine" Nothing. It's a dead line.

Until, it calls Jack back…

Starring John Barrowman.

Written by Phil Ford.

Jack .... John Barrowman
Gwen …. Eve Myles
Ianto .... Gareth David-Lloyd
Rhys .... Kai Owen
Stella .... Dona Croll
Jan …. Eiry Thomas
Bob …. Matthew Gravelle
Tyler .... Brendan Charleson

Director: Kate McAll

A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2009.


SAT 16:45 Roald Dahl (b041ym4c)
The Man from the South

Win a Cadillac or lose a finger.

What will be the result of an old man's bizarre bet?

Terry Molloy reads Roald Dahl's short story.

Producer: Rosemary Watts

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1993.


SAT 17:00 Kafka the Musical (b010glpd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


SAT 18:30 Margaret Atwood - The Testaments (Omnibus) (m0008x11)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


SAT 19:45 Marriott's Monologues (b00sp44h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]


SAT 20:00 Educated Evans by Edgar Wallace (b03yh0dk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


SAT 20:30 The Arthur Haynes Show (m000945t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


SAT 21:00 Great Lives - 400 and Counting (m0010h2x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


SAT 22:00 Meet David Sedaris (m0003rk8)
Series 7

Episode 1

The globetrotting, trash-picking, aisle-rolling storyteller shares more words of wit and wisdom:

* Father Time, reflecting on his elderly father, the passing of time and the different generations of his family.

* Extracts from his diaries

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America's pre-eminent humour writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that he is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.

David Sedaris's first book, Barrel Fever (1994), which included The SantaLand Diaries. was a critical and commercial success, as were his follow-up efforts, Naked (1997), Holidays on Ice (1997) and Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000). He became known for his bitingly funny recollections of his youth, family life and travels, making semi-celebrities out of his parents and siblings.

David Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. A feature film adaptation of his story C.O.G. was released after a premier at the Sundance Film Festival (2013). He has been a contributor to BBC Radio 4 since 1996.

Producer: Steve Doherty

A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2019.


SAT 22:30 The Nick Revell Show (b007k1n0)
Series 2

Homeless

Nick is a struggling writer in his mid-thirties who speaks to his geraniums. They, meanwhile, watch on and take stock of his mishaps.

A sitcom for the 1990s, written by and starring comedian Nick Revell.

With:

Alistair McGowan
Doon MacKichan
Brian Bowles
Charles McKeown
Gabrielle Cowburn

Producer: Ioan Magnusson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1993.


SAT 23:00 Son of Cliche (b00p84qh)
Austin Dernoid

David Coleman is the spoof special guest, plus Captain Invisible and lesser-known plays by William Shakespeare.

Sketch comedy starring:

Chris Barrie
Nick Maloney
Nick Wilton

Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.

Producer: Alan Nixon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1984.


SAT 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jr3g)
Series 3

The Pain of the Mastersons

The Masterson family find bohemian inspiration in the Lake District.

The award-winning improvised historical comedy.

Based entirely on audience suggestions - this is the unfolding saga of the Mastersons - a family at war with itself.

Starring:

Paul Merton
Josie Lawrence
Lee Simpson
Jim Sweeney
Phelim McDermott
Caroline Quentin

Producer: Phil Clarke

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1995.

SUNDAY 09 JUNE 2024

SUN 00:00 Torchwood: The Dead Line (b00lg4vz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Saturday]


SUN 00:45 Roald Dahl (b041ym4c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:45 on Saturday]


SUN 01:00 Kafka the Musical (b010glpd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]


SUN 02:30 Margaret Atwood - The Testaments (Omnibus) (m0008x11)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]


SUN 03:45 Marriott's Monologues (b00sp44h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Saturday]


SUN 04:00 Educated Evans by Edgar Wallace (b03yh0dk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday]


SUN 04:30 The Arthur Haynes Show (m000945t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Saturday]


SUN 05:00 Great Lives - 400 and Counting (m0010h2x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Saturday]


SUN 06:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001zwf7)
Actors

Hugh Laurie

Actor and musician Hugh Laurie is castaway by Kirsty Young.

If life were straightforward he'd be marooned on the island because of his achievements as an Olympic rower. But his early promise on the water was scuppered by a bout of glandular fever - so he's had to make do instead with life as a worldwide entertainment superstar.

Very British comedy, very big budget movies, very successful syndicated TV drama - his 30 year career has taken him from A Little Bit of Fry & Laurie to a big bit of broadcasting history: his role in the U.S. show House ran for 8 series and had a global audience of 81 million.

So why now does he feel the need to risk his stellar reputation by making music too?

He says, "as soon as I acknowledge to myself that something is frightening and carries the risk of public humiliation I feel like I have to do it."

DISC ONE: Joe Cocker - The Letter
DISC TWO: Sister Rosetta Tharpe - My Journey to the Sky
DISC THREE: Randy Newman - Louisiana 1927
DISC FOUR: Son House - Grinnin’ in your face
DISC FIVE: Professor Longhair - Go to the Mardi Gras
DISC SIX: Nina Simone - I wish I knew how it would be to be free
DISC SEVEN: Lester Young-Buddy Rich Trio - I Cover the Waterfront
DISC EIGHT: Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl

BOOK CHOICE: An encyclopedia
LUXURY CHOICE: A double set of throwing knives
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl

Producer: Cathy Drysdale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2013.


SUN 06:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lj1nf)
Series 1

Bowerbirds

One of the most extraordinary structures in the animal world is constructed by a Bower Bird.

Sir David tells the life story of the Vogelkopf Bower Bird, the one that raises the bar higher than the rest.

Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural histories of creatures and plants from around the world.

Producer: Julian Hector

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.


SUN 07:00 Poetry Extra (m001zwf9)
Stories In Verse - Goblin Market and The Forsaken Merman

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Stories In Verse - Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti And The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold.

These are two imaginative poems about the supernatural.

Written in 1859, Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti draws on European folklore which often tells of humans who attempted to eat fairy food and faced dire consequences.

It marks a classic confrontation between innocence and corruption.

Written earlier, The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold was influenced by the Danish story of the abandoned Merman.

It’s a rich poem about green sea, sea beasts and sea snakes that coil and twine and bask in the brine.

Read by Eileen Atkins

Producer: Joy Boatman

First broadcast on BBC World Service in 1993.


SUN 07:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (Omnibus) (m001zwfc)
Episode 1

Two sisters, four nights, one city.

April, 1941: Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the coming two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, “My God, Belfast is finished”.

Many won’t make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.

Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman – as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz,

Lucy Caldwell's timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.

Omnibus of the first five of ten parts abridged by Rowan Routh.

Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg.

Producer: Gemma McMullan

A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2022.


SUN 08:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001zwfg)
Lauren Laverne

Broadcaster Lauren Laverne chooses 'Now Westlin Winds' by Dick Gaughan and 'Hit or Miss' by Odetta.


SUN 08:50 D-Day Minus (m001zwfj)
D-Day Minus (Omnibus)

Omnibus of five short wartime dramas about everyday life in Britain and France.

The world awaits the Allied invasion of Europe, though no one knows when or where it may happen.

Wednesday 31st May 1944 - D-DAY Minus 6: Putting You Through.

At a telephone switchboard somewhere in London, two young operators enjoy a short break from their duties.

Narrator .... Juliet Stevenson
Aurora .... Julie Austin
Georgina .... Lucy Paterson

Written by Patricia Hannah, from a story by Mike Walker.

Director: David Jackson Young

Thursday 1st June 1944 – D-Day Minus 5: Taking Leave

A Tommy makes an unscheduled visit to a Welsh school.

Narrator .... Juliet Stevenson
Peggy .... Mali Harries
Ben .... Steven Meo

Written by Arnold Evans, from a story by Mike Walker.

Director: Gilly Adams

Friday 2nd June – D-DAY Minus 4: Harry and Gloria

Harry is a Canadian soldier, bound for Normandy.

He knows D-Day is coming, and he knows he must say goodbye to Gloria, the English woman he'll be leaving behind.

Narrator .... Juliet Stevenson
Harry .... Ryan McCluskey
Gloria .... Kaye Wragg

Written by Katie Hims, from a story by Mike Walker.

Director: Gordon House

Saturday 3rd June 1944 – D-DAY Minus 3: Lilly’s Mum

Margaret, down from Coventry, tracks down her runaway daughter in London.

Narrator .... Juliet Stevenson
Lilly .... Emily Chennery
Margaret .... Alison Belbin
Eddie .... Ricci Harnett

Written by Louise Ramsden, from a story by Mike Walker.

Director: Peter Leslie Wild

Sunday 4th June 1944 – D-DAY Minus 2: Drop Zone

In France, Father Pierre receives an urgent message to call on Mme de Rochers at her chateau.

Life under German occupation has changed the lives of the locals in unexpected ways.

Narrator .... Juliet Stevenson
Father Pierre .... Bill Wallis
Louise .... Claudia Harrison
Madame des Rochers .... Avril Elgar

Written by Hilary Fannin, from a story by Mike Walker.

Director: Tanya Nash

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.


SUN 10:00 Educating Archie (b07216wl)
From 04/02/1954

Brough goes to the fair and schoolboy Archie visits the future.

Radio ventriloquism from Peter Brough and his 'dummy', Archie Andrews.

A range of guests take it in turn to tutor Archie each week.

Written by Eric Sykes, Walter Ridley and Ronald Wolfe

With:

Harry Secombe
Beryl Reid
Hattie Jacques
Bernard Miles
Peter Madden
Ronald Chesney

Music from the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.

Running from 1950- 1958, Educating Archie introduced a number of soon-to-be household names to listeners, including Tony Hancock, Benny Hill, Harry Secombe, Dick Emery, Hattie Jacques, Bruce Forsyth and Max Bygraves - all taking a turn in tutoring Archie.

Producer: Roy Speer

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1954.


SUN 10:30 Much Binding in the Marsh (b008qq3w)
From 24/05/1950

Elocution lessons are on offer with Brains Amalgamated's new machine.

Starring Kenneth Horne and Richard 'Stinker' Murdoch.

With:

Sam Costa
Maurice Denham
Diana Morrison
Barbara Leigh

Written by Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne.

Music by the Augmented Dance Orchestra conducted by Stanley Black.

Much Binding in the Marsh ran from 1944 to 1954 initially set at a remote RAF station before being converted to a country club and later the action moved to a newspaper. (The show also ran for a season with commercial breaks on Radio Luxembourg).

Producer: Leslie Bridgemont

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1950.


SUN 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001zwf7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


SUN 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lj1nf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]


SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m001zwf9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


SUN 12:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (Omnibus) (m001zwfc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


SUN 13:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001zwfg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:40 today]


SUN 13:50 D-Day Minus (m001zwfj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]


SUN 15:00 Educating Archie (b07216wl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


SUN 15:30 Much Binding in the Marsh (b008qq3w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]


SUN 16:00 Robert Easby - Oneira (b007ww76)
1. The Big Chill

A young museum attendant named Oneira begins a surreal quest to learn the secrets of the Universe.

It's prompted by a mysterious bearded alchemist she meets at work - who claims he's 400 years-old...

Stars Lyndsey Marshal and Peter Marinker.

Five-part sci-fi drama written by Robert Easby.

Oneira ...... Lyndsey Marshal
Nicholai ...... Peter Marinker
Pete ...... Joseph Kloska
Salesman ...... Mark Straker
Visitor ...... Bethan Walker

Producer: Liz Webb.

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in February 2007.


SUN 16:30 Ray Bradbury's Tales of the Bizarre (b007jlpl)
Series 2

The Man Upstairs

A new guest in a boarding house is disliked by the grandson of the lady who runs the house.

But why? The reason soon becomes startingly clear....

Strange and chilling tales from the award-winning master of thrillers Ray Bradbury.

Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska.

Douglas ...... Geoffrey Lee
Grandma ...... Mary Riggans
Koberman ...... Finlay Welsh
Grandpa ...... Charles Kearney

Ray tops and tails these dramatisations in his own inimitable style.

Producer: Hamish Wilson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1997.


SUN 17:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001zwf7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


SUN 17:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lj1nf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]


SUN 18:00 Poetry Extra (m001zwf9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


SUN 18:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (Omnibus) (m001zwfc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


SUN 19:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001zwfg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:40 today]


SUN 19:50 D-Day Minus (m001zwfj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]


SUN 21:00 Educating Archie (b07216wl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


SUN 21:30 Much Binding in the Marsh (b008qq3w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]


SUN 22:00 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries (b00vrssk)
November and December

Satirist Craig Brown dips into the private lives of public figures from the 1960s to the present day.

November and December. As winter sets in, John Prescott, Germaine Greer and Nigella Lawson's thoughts turn to home.

Written by Craig Brown.

Voiced by:

Jan Ravens
Alistair McGowan
Lewis McLeod
Ewan Bailey
Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Dolly Wells

Producer: Victoria Lloyd

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010.


SUN 22:30 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair (m000k3gw)
Series 6

One Day My Prince Will Come

A woman who would rather be left alone - is bullied into trying online dating by her sister.

A disastrous date ensues but with a surprisingly positive outcome.

Starring Katherine Jakeways.

Series of comic monologues written by Jenny Eclair.

Producer: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2020.


SUN 22:45 Paperback Hell (b0076ch5)
Series 1

Paddy Murphy's Ghost by Frank Moran

A series of four chapters by four different authors, all of them imaginary, all of them straight out of the bestseller charts - and none of them very good.

This time, Paddy Murphy's Ghost by Frank Moran - a surprisingly popular tale of a miserable Irish childhood.

Starring:

Michael Fenton Stevens
Rebecca Front
Mel Hudson
Alex Lowe
Dan Tetsell

Ghost-written by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell.

Producer: Lucy Armitage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.


SUN 23:00 Josie Long: Romance and Adventure (b077jp15)
Series 1

Episode 4

Josie and Darren go camping but find themselves disastrously ill equipped for the great outdoors.

Comedy drama about a young woman trying to build a more fulfilling life for herself in Glasgow.

Based on characters from the short films "Romance and Adventure" and "Let's Go Swimming" by Josie Long and Douglas King.

Josie ...... Josie Long
Darren ...... Darren Osborne
Margaret ...... Clare Grogan
PCSO Officer ...... Chris Pavlo
The Podcaster ...... Jesse Thorn
Shondra ...... Claudia O'Doherty
Unfeasably Handsome Man ...... John Early

Written by Josie Long.

Producer: Colin Anderson

A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2016.


SUN 23:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide (b013fb8y)
Getting Away (Pilot episode)

Stephen K Amos and his pick of the circuit's best stand-up comedians attempt to unravel the knotty problems of modern life.

The pilot episode for the following series kicks off with the idiot's guide to "Getting Away".

From the BBC@Potterrow venue at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

With:

Susan Calman - on Scottish family holidays
W Kamau Bell - on being an American visiting the UK
Tim FitzHigham - on always reading the instructions when travelling abroad
Simon Munnery - on the philosophy of getting away
Josie Long - on getting away from the Edinburgh Fringe (by imagining that she's an otter)

Producer: Colin Anderson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2011.

MONDAY 10 JUNE 2024

MON 00:00 Robert Easby - Oneira (b007ww76)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]


MON 00:30 Ray Bradbury's Tales of the Bizarre (b007jlpl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Sunday]


MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001zwf7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday]


MON 01:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lj1nf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Sunday]


MON 02:00 Poetry Extra (m001zwf9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Sunday]


MON 02:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (Omnibus) (m001zwfc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday]


MON 03:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001zwfg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:40 on Sunday]


MON 03:50 D-Day Minus (m001zwfj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 on Sunday]


MON 05:00 Educating Archie (b07216wl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]


MON 05:30 Much Binding in the Marsh (b008qq3w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Sunday]


MON 06:00 Whodunnits (b00rlb29)
Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case

1. The Unlucky One

Should Howard Gilbert hang for the murder of a model?

The victim's father thinks he's innocent.

Suave sleuth Paul Temple and his glamorous wife investigates.

Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest pair of investigators.

Paul Temple …. Peter Coke
Steve …. Marjorie Westbury
Charlie …. James Beattie
Wilfred Stirling …. Charles Leno
Sir Graham Forbes …. Lester Mudditt
Detective Inspector Kingston …. Duncan McIntyre
Betty Wayne …. Grizelda Hervey
Lance Reynolds …. Richard Williams
Dick Metcalf …. Cyril Shaps

From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case-after-case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars.

Producer: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1954.


MON 06:30 A Change in the Weather (m0005nzf)
1. Heist

A change in the weather is about to alter the lives of two innocent ladies from Shropshire.

They're set to become entangled with a couple of Cockney crooks...

Starring Dilys Laye and Polly James.

Eric Pringle’s unlikely adventure about a singing duo in five parts .

Henrietta ..... Dilys Laye
Louise ..... Polly James
Jiffy Perkins ..... Peter Craze
Burco Madrid ..... John Hollis
Billy ..... Norman Bird
Driver ..... Richard Tate

Director: Ian Cotterell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1988.


MON 07:00 Minor Adjustment (b0b1xt8g)
A Change of Art

Sarah's mother Bea arrives with a horse-box full of expressionist art and three moulting cats.

Six-part comedy series about the Stubbs family - cartoonist Richard, therapist Sarah and their daughters - Kate, aged 16 and three-year-old Amy who has Down's Syndrome.

Starring Peter Davison and Samantha Bond.

Written by Son and father team, Andy and Eric Merriman - inspired by Andy's own four-year-old daughter, Sarah. Eric famously wrote legendary BBC comedy series 'Beyond Our Ken'.

Richard ...... Peter Davison
Sarah ...... Samantha Bond
Kate ...... Claire Russell
Amy ...... Sarah Merriman
Bea ...... Phyllida Law
Felix Patterson ...... Jonathan Adams
Paul ...... Simon Fielder
Meg ...... Zulema Dene
Autograph Hunter ...... Colleen Prendergast
Art Collector ...... Alice Arnold

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996.


MON 07:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jp6x)
Series 6

Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard

Sceptical Harold slams Albert's claims about speaking to the dead...

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
Madame Fontana ...... Patricia Routledge
Dorothy ...... Gwen Nelson
Mr Weldon ...... Edward Kelsey

Producer: Bobby Jaye

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1976.


MON 08:00 A Short Gentleman (b0196rnd)
Episode 2

Robert woos Elizabeth, by means of a putty-coloured carpet.

Hugh Bonneville stars as Robert Purcell, QC, a perfect specimen of the British Establishment, who applies faultless legal logic to his disastrous personal life.

Jon Canter's comic novel adapted by Robin Brooks.

Robert Purcell ..... Hugh Bonneville
Elizabeth ..... Lyndsey Marshal
Guy ..... Adam Billington
Sophie ..... Francine Chamberlain
Anthony ..... Carl Prekopp
Isabel ..... Lauren Mote
Alan ..... Gerard McDermott

Director: Jonquil Painting.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012.


MON 08:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016pkk)
6. Companion

Audrey arrives home with an unexpected companion.

Two sisters, four nights, one city.

April, 1941: Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.

Many won’t make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.

Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman – as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz,

Lucy Caldwell's timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.

Abridged in ten parts by Rowan Routh.

Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg

Producer: Gemma McMullan

A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2022.


MON 08:45 Exile (m000czks)
1. Condemnation

A series made to mark the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower on 16th September 2020.

Adrian Bean's gripping ten-part story about one family's journey into the unknown.

What do you do when your beliefs are condemned by the rest of society?

Sarah Hargreaves doesn't share her husband Matthew's desire to join the Puritan exiles, but when their son Benjamin is arrested on a trumped-up charge they have little choice but to go.

Things go rapidly from bad to worse, and they decide to leave everything behind. Hoping to find peace and like minded souls in a new religious community in America, they spend everything they have left on a ticket to sail on the Mayflower.

Sarah Hargreaves ...... Louise Brealey
Matthew Hargreaves ...... Trystan Gravelle
Ben ...... Joel MacCormack
Elizabeth ...... Megan McInerney
Reverend Kerswell ...... Marc Danbury

Director: John Norton

A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2020.


MON 09:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m001zv3t)
Series 81

Episode 4

The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the King George’s Hall in Blackburn. Tony Hawks and Vicki Pepperdine take on Marcus Brigstocke and Henning Wehn with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell attempts piano accompaniment.

Producer - Jon Naismith.

A Random production for BBC Radio 4


MON 09:30 Soundstage (b05mtcrk)
1. Midnight at the Oasis

Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson introduces the first of five audio postcards, of spectacular natural events – beginning in the Kalahari Desert.

Recorded over hours, days, weeks or even months but compressed here into fifteen minutes.

Between November and February summer temperatures reach over 40 degrees centigrade. To avoid the dry, desiccating heat much of the wildlife has developed
nocturnal habits.

Chris wanted to capture the sounds of this extreme and ancient environment at a time when he could see very little, but could hear everything. This meant recording the sounds of the Kalahari Desert from dusk until dawn.

First we hear the sounds of the sand, as grains are driven up the sand dunes and over the summit by the scouring winds. As the afternoon passes, sidewinder snakes slither across the desert surface. Flash rainfalls create pools of water in the dry riverbed hollows which are exploited by flocks of Namaqua sandgrouse.

As the light fades there's a brief evening chorus of birdsong. After sunset, the dunes, grasses and thorn bushes are patrolled by an emerging alien empire; the insects, producing an astonishing wall of sound.

Baked hard by the sun, the red sand and soil of the Kalahari acts as a sounding board at night for the far carrying and chilling calls of brown hyenas, and before sunrise Chris records the powerful territorial calls of a desert lion which he can hear but cannot see.

Sunrise is rapid, accompanied by the displays of clapper larks, calling and beating their wings together. After sunrise, the temperature soars once again and the animals retreat leaving the voice of the prevailing winds as they scour across the Kalahari desert.

Producer: Sarah Blunt

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2015.


MON 09:45 Daily Service (m001zvfp)
Psalms - God's Faithfulness - Our Refuge

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

Theme: Psalms - God's Faithfulness - Our Refuge

Led by Fr Matt Roche Saunders

Crown Him With Many Crowns / BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC Recording

Reading: Psalm 91 1-4, 9-11

Breathe On Me Breath Of God / Welsh Chamber Singers
BBC Recording

Jesus Lover Of My Soul / BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC Recording


MON 10:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m000zd25)
Phone Call, Flamenco, Surprise Party

True stories told live in the USA: Jenifer Hixson introduces tales of responding to unusual situations.

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and yearns to share it.

Originally formed by the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts of the world.

The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year.

Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the humorous to the heart-breaking.

The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed by the Public Radio Exchange.

First heard on PRX in 2019.


MON 10:50 Witness History (m001zwh6)
Mallory’s body discovered on Everest

Farhana Haider explores the disappearance of British mountaineer, George Mallory, on Mount Everest.

he disappeared on the mountain in 1924 together with his fellow climber Andrew Irvine.

In 1999 Mallory's body was found.

Farhana speaks to Jochen Hemmleb, one of the original members of the team that discovered George Mallory's remains.

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 2016. .


MON 11:00 Whodunnits (b00rlb29)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


MON 11:30 A Change in the Weather (m0005nzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


MON 12:00 Minor Adjustment (b0b1xt8g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


MON 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jp6x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


MON 13:00 A Short Gentleman (b0196rnd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


MON 13:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016pkk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


MON 13:45 Exile (m000czks)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]


MON 14:00 Just a Minute (b00g4g4y)
Series 54

Episode 1

Nicholas Parsons presides over the quick-witted panel game where contestants are challenged to speak for one minute without hesitation, deviation or repetition.

From the Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House, London

With:

Paul Merton
Graham Norton
Shappi Khorsandi
Charles Collingwood

Subjects include: How to flirt and the joys of caravanning

Created by Ian Messiter

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2008.


MON 14:30 The Nimmo Twins In... (b00jh6jt)
Series 1

Exit, Pursued by a Bear

A provincial theatre company comes a cropper at the hands of a mad playwright.

Stars Karl Minns and Owen Evans.

Comedy series written by Karl Minns.
.
Simon Floyd/hotel porter ….. Karl Minns
Agammenon Butterworth OBE …. Owen Evans
Grant Sawnoff …. Toby Longworth
Devon and Sam Speigal…. Andrew McGibbon
Meryl....Alison Goldie
Gideon …. Peter Marrant
Sewell/Mr Popkin…. David Thorpe
News Reporter …. Kath Burlinson
Georgie....Rosie Walker

Producer: Julian Mayers

First broadcast in BBC Radio 4 in September 2000.


MON 15:00 Thackeray (m00193kj)
1. Green Fingered

Jim Thackeray is a renowned landscape gardener. He is also a first-class private detective.

When a murder takes place in the Shakesperean-themed gardens he has designed, both elements of his life come together with dramatic consequences.

Michael Cochrane stars as the green-fingered private sleuth in a series of murder mysteries

Written by Olwen Wymark and Barbara Clegg

Jim Thackeray .... Michael Cochrane
George Field .... John Moffatt
Shirley Field .... Rosemary Leach
Alma …. Mary Wimbush
Osman Rifat .... Nigel Anthony
Mustafa .... David March
Miss Birch .... Irene Sutcliffe
Dave .... Todd Boyce
Tessa …. Giselle Wolf
McKenzie .... Sean Barrett
Robert .... Michael Tudor-Barnes
Jerry .... John Rye
Aydin .... Richard Pearce
Receptionist .... Jane Whittenshaw
Driver .... Simon Eastwood

Producer: Glyn Dearman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995


MON 16:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m000zd25)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


MON 16:50 Witness History (m001zwh6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:50 today]


MON 17:00 Whodunnits (b00rlb29)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


MON 17:30 A Change in the Weather (m0005nzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


MON 18:00 Minor Adjustment (b0b1xt8g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


MON 18:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jp6x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


MON 19:00 A Short Gentleman (b0196rnd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


MON 19:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016pkk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


MON 19:45 Exile (m000czks)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]


MON 20:00 Just a Minute (b00g4g4y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]


MON 20:30 The Nimmo Twins In... (b00jh6jt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]


MON 21:00 Thackeray (m00193kj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]


MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m001zv3t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


MON 22:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b007jwqc)
Series 2

Episode 3

A phone-in to match-make partners - and an Asian Babe fancies a job on BBC TV's Newsnight.

Starring:

Sanjeev Bhaskar
Kulvinder Ghir
Nitin Sawhney
Meera Syal
Nina Wadia

Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC TWO from 1998 to 2001.

Written by Richard Pinto, Sharat Sardana, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Sanjeev Kohli.

Script Editor: Sharat Sardana

Producer: Anil Gupta.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1997.


MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m00203g5)
Rob Auton 1/2

From 10pm until midnight, seven days a week, The Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. And tonight, Jon Holmes speaks to stand-up poet Rob Auton.


MON 23:00 The News Quiz (m001zvft)
Series 114

Episode 1

Andy Zaltzman quizzes the week's news. Providing all the answers are Ian Smith, Geoff Norcott, Shaparak Khorsandi and Anushka Asthana.

In this first episode of the new series, the panel catches up on all things General Election, Trumped up charges (all 34), and a recently discovered royal kid.

Written by Andy Zaltzman

With additional material by: Mike Shephard, Stephen Mawhinney, Christian Riggs, and Jade Gebbie

Producer: Sam Holmes
Executive Producer: Richard Morris
Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Nicholls
Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4


MON 23:30 Dave Podmore (b007wzp2)
Dave Podmore's Cricket Night

Episode 3

There's uproar when a Russian billionaire turns Pod's cricket ground into a supermarket, leaving Pod with divided loyalties.

Written by Christopher Douglas, Nick Newman and Andrew Nickolds.

Pod ...... Christopher Douglas
Andy Hamer ...... Andrew Nickolds

With:

Nick Newman
Nichola Sanderson
Ewan Bailey
Chris Pavlo

Producer: Richard Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.

TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2024

TUE 00:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m000zd25)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]


TUE 00:50 Witness History (m001zwh6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:50 on Monday]


TUE 01:00 Whodunnits (b00rlb29)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]


TUE 01:30 A Change in the Weather (m0005nzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]


TUE 02:00 Minor Adjustment (b0b1xt8g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]


TUE 02:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jp6x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]


TUE 03:00 A Short Gentleman (b0196rnd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Monday]


TUE 03:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016pkk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Monday]


TUE 03:45 Exile (m000czks)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Monday]


TUE 04:00 Just a Minute (b00g4g4y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]


TUE 04:30 The Nimmo Twins In... (b00jh6jt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]


TUE 05:00 Thackeray (m00193kj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Monday]


TUE 06:00 Whodunnits (b00rlwgt)
Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case

2. The Third Shoe

Howard Gilbert has been convicted for the murder of his model girlfriend, Brenda.

But did he really kill her? The debonair sleuth and his wife pay him a visit in jail.

Francis Durbridge's thriller starring Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury.

It's another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife

Paul Temple …. Peter Coke
Steve …. Marjorie Westbury
Charlie …. James Beattie
Wilfred Stirling …. Charles Leno
Detective Inspector Kingston …. Duncan McIntyre
Lance Reynolds …. Richard Williams
Howard Gilbert …. David Peel
Mrs Talbot …. Anne Cullen
Dick Metcalf …. Cyril Shaps
Warder …. Geoffrey Bond

Producer: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1954.


TUE 06:30 A Change in the Weather (m0005nz2)
2. Pursuit

Our hopeless heroes from Shropshire, Henrietta and Louise, are being hotly pursued by the avenging arm of the law and the underworld.

Starring Dilys Laye and Polly James.

Eric Pringle’s unlikely adventure about a singing duo.

Henrietta ..... Dilys Laye
Louise ..... Polly James
Jiffy Perkins ..... Peter Craze
Burco Madrid ..... John Hollis
BB ..... William Simons
Det Sgt Digly ..... Trevor Nichols
City Nigel ..... Philip Sully
Waiter ..... Richard Tate
Other parts ..... David Sinclair

Director: Ian Cotterell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1988.


TUE 07:00 Moving (m001zwqq)
1. Cracks

Antony and Brian run their father's building firm but money is tight and the housing market isn't moving.

Greta and Julie, their ex-wives, are both looking for more in life, while Ruth and Alastair are contemplating a move when the unexpected happens.

Neil McKay's six-part comedy series taps into the British obsession with homes.

Antony .... Stephen Tompkinson
Brian .... Philip Jackson
Greta .... Brigit Forsyth
Julie .... Tracy Brabin
Ruth .... Kathryn Hunt
Alistair .... Kevin McMonagle
Lee .... Damien Zuk
Kelly .... Andrea Huell
Scott .... Kieron Ashforth
Sean .... Matthew Nylan

Director: Kate Rowland

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1995.


TUE 07:30 The Goon Show (b09z7br2)
Series 5

The Missing Scroll

Can ace translator Neddie Seagoon recover the lost ancient manuscript of Purdom?

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes.

Starring:

Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan

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

With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.

Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.

Announcer: Wallace Greenslade

Producer: Peter Eton

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1955.


TUE 08:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b084d9zy)
A Fling with Mr Franklin

A young American inventor named Ben Franklin ends up in Edinburgh. The young ladies of a secret scholarly society are seduced by his exciting talk of the New World and his intellectual prowess.

An elopement is on the cards as Marjory is set to be torn from the wrinkly arms of her fiancé. Will the girls leave their beloved Scotland?

Sparks fly and electricity abounds in the final episode of Lucy Porter's 18th Century Sitcom.

Ishbel ...... Caroline Deyga
Alison ...... Jessica Hardwick
Robert ...... Simon Donaldson
Marjory ...... Samara MacLaren

Music by Aly Macrae

Director: Marilyn Imrie

Producer: Gordon Kennedy

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


TUE 08:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016pth)
7. Waiting for News

The Bell family wait anxiously for news on Maisie’s family.

Two sisters, four nights, one city.

April, 1941: Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.

Many won’t make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.

Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman – as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz,

Lucy Caldwell's timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.

Abridged by Rowan Routh.

Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg

Producer: Gemma McMullan

A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2022.


TUE 08:45 Exile (m000cz0v)
2. Aboard

Fleeing religious persecution, Sarah Hargreaves and her family have risked everything to escape across the ocean.

Bbut when they get to Southampton, the Mayflower has already sailed.

Finally they manage to get on board at Plymouth, and though Matthew Hargreaves believes it is God's will that has saved them, Sarah knows it is her own wily determination. That and the help of a kind sailor called Saul.

Safely aboard ship their adventure really begins.

But conditions are cramped, and their daughter Elizabeth is very sick.

Adrian Bean's gripping story about one family's journey into the unknown.

Made to mark the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower.

Sarah Hargreaves ...... Louise Brealey
Matthew Hargreaves ...... Trystan Gravelle
Ben ...... Joel MacCormack
Elizabeth ...... Megan McInerney
Saul Tregarron ...... Matthew Gravelle
Captain Jones ...... John Cording

Director: John Norton

A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2020.


TUE 09:00 Joe Lycett's Obsessions (m000d85z)
Series 2

Nina Wadia and Elis James

Joe Lycett returns to explore the nation's weird and wonderful obsessions by getting to know a selection of famous and not so famous guests.

Joining Joe on the sofa this week, actress Nina Wadia shares her love of driving holidays, whilst comedian Elis James reveals his obsession with Welsh football shirts. Joe also welcomes members of the public to share their secret passions, as well as this week's VOP (very obsessed person), Paul Jordan, who has a PHD in Eurovision.

Joe Lycett's Obsessions was written and performed by Joe Lycett, with material from James Kettle and additional material from Catherine Brinkworth and Kat Sadler.

The production coordinator was Damilola Mabadeje.

The producer was Suzy Grant and it was a BBC Studios Audio production


TUE 09:30 Soundstage (b05mrptn)
2. St James' Park

Our urban parks and gardens create green lanes and oases of open spaces within our towns and cities.

They are also conduits for wildlife as well as for people.

St James' Park in Newcastle-upon-Tyne does have lush green turf but it is less of an oasis and more of a battlefield because since 1892 it has been the home of Newcastle United football club, and so regularly pounds with the clamour of human voices. At these times its anything but tranquil!

On the northern boundary is Leazes Park a formal Victorian park opened in 1873. In this programme, Chris was keen to record the changing soundscape across these two connected parks over the course of a single day, Match Day.

The recordings begin at 3am in the city centre as revellers start to leave the night clubs and make their way home; many of them crossing Leazes Park. A trail of food cartons provide rich pickings for mice which in turn are preyed upon by the park's tawny owls and foxes.

At 4am, a robin sings stimulated by the glow of the street light. The first light of the day brings joggers and then parents with children to the park, where their excited chatter mingles with the calls of mallards and coots on the lake.

Over the next few hours the park and city are transformed as fans gather for the match. Many arrive at Newcastle Central Station where their enthusiastic and almost deafening chants, are punctuated by the growls and barks of police dogs.

After the match, the fans disperse, and then the real magpies, return to the park to their night roost; their wild sounds filling the air.

Producer: Sarah Blunt

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2015.


TUE 09:45 Daily Service (m001zwqw)
Psalms - God's Faithfulness - Steadfast love

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

Theme: Psalms - God's Faithfulness - Steadfast love

Reading: Psalm 36 5-12

Led by Sandra Godley

Great is thy faithfulness
Tracey Campbell

Beloved
Sandra Godley

Hold on to Your Faith
Soul Sanctury Gospel Choir


TUE 10:00 A Good Read (b08ffvp8)
Murray Lachlan Young and Deborah Frances-White

Poet Murray Lachlan Young and Guilty Feminist' podcaster Deborah Frances-White join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Robert Graves, Ajay Close and Toni Morrison.

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
Publisher: Penguin

A Petrol Scented Spring by Ajay Close
Publisher: Sandstone Press

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage

The books spark some fiery discussion about gender and race.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017.


TUE 10:30 Suck it and See (b074x4tc)
Grammy Award-Winning songwriter Amy Wadge fell in love with the harmonica after winning one in a fancy dress competition (she was dressed in a bin liner!).

Here she investigates the history and potential of the diatonic instrument, a European the toy which in the hands of expert players became the the iconic sound of the Mississippi Delta and the Chicago Blues.

According to music historian Christoph Wagner, the very first example of the instrument goes back to Vienna. But millions would soon find their way to the USA, taken there by German emigres fleeing poverty. The poor person's introduction to music, the harmonica would soon find its way to around the globe, from Britain to Australia and even China.

But it was in America that it scored its biggest success. Joe Filisko reveals it was there that harmonica technique underwent a transformation. Instead of exhaling air, blues players would draw air in, and bend notes to achieve the characteristic sounds of the blues.

Amy tries her hand at bending, under the expert tutelage of Steve Lockwood - one of very few people to have studied the harmonica to degree level, and she speaks to one of Britain's best-known players, Paul Jones.

Canadian beat-boxer Benjamin Darvill - "Son of Dave" - has explored new possibilities with the instrument, and with an original sound that's been heard in edgy TV dramas and commercials.

Proving that for all its limitations - 10 holes and 3 octaves - there's life yet the harmonica.

Produced by Geoff Ballinger.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2016.


TUE 11:00 Whodunnits (b00rlwgt)
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TUE 11:30 A Change in the Weather (m0005nz2)
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TUE 12:00 Moving (m001zwqq)
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TUE 12:30 The Goon Show (b09z7br2)
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TUE 13:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b084d9zy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


TUE 13:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016pth)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


TUE 13:45 Exile (m000cz0v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]


TUE 14:00 The Personality Test (b00n02yq)
Series 2

Claire Rayner

Agony aunt Claire Rayner quizzes a panel about herself.

With:

Sue Perkins
Will Smith
Robin Ince
Lucy Porter

Series with changing hosts who quiz the panel.

Script by Richard Turner and Simon Littlefield.

Devised and produced by Aled Evans.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007.


TUE 14:30 A Whole 'Nother Story (b0076gyn)
Series 3

The Watchers

With Pete now living in America, Cassie is trying to get on with her life without him.

She's more than happy spending her free time vacuuming, dusting and doing tax returns. Maybe she's not coping as well as she thought?

Starring Debra Stephenson and David Lamb.

Amanda Murphy’s comedy-drama series about Cassie and Pete, who'd make a great couple - if they weren't so busy being friends.

Cassie ...... Debra Stephenson
Pete ...... David Lamb
PJ ...... Brendan Burns
Janet ...... Paula Wilcox
Maddie ...... Julia Morris
Mr Alison ...... Stephen Critchlow
Bill ...... Mike Grady

Producer: Dawn Ellis

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2003.


TUE 15:00 Thackeray (m001zwqz)
2. Battle Cry

Jim Thackeray is a renowned landscape gardener. He is also a first-class private detective.

When someone is "accidentally" killed in re-enacting a medieval battle, Thackeray is pulled in to investigate.

Michael Cochrane stars as the green-fingered private sleuth in a series of murder mysteries.

Written by Olwen Wymark and Barbara Clegg

Thackeray .... Michael Cochrane
George .... John Hartley
Miss Birch .... Margaret John
Shirley .... Doreen Mantle
Bryony .... Melanie Walters
Father Cassidy .... James Greene
Dave .... Richard Lomas
Gail .... Charlotte Bird
Morgan .... Howell Evans
Dick .... Terry Dauncey
Dr Pryce .... Gwyn Vaughan Jones

Producer: Alison Hindell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997.


TUE 15:45 From the Slips by David Benedictus (b09rwg3r)
During a game, a cricketer dreams of radically changing his life.

But at what cost..?

Short story written and read by David Benedictus.

Producer: Pam Fraser Solomon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1997.


TUE 16:00 A Good Read (b08ffvp8)
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TUE 16:30 Suck it and See (b074x4tc)
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TUE 17:00 Whodunnits (b00rlwgt)
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TUE 17:30 A Change in the Weather (m0005nz2)
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TUE 18:00 Moving (m001zwqq)
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TUE 18:30 The Goon Show (b09z7br2)
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TUE 19:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b084d9zy)
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TUE 19:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016pth)
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TUE 19:45 Exile (m000cz0v)
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TUE 20:00 The Personality Test (b00n02yq)
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TUE 20:30 A Whole 'Nother Story (b0076gyn)
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TUE 21:00 Thackeray (m001zwqz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]


TUE 21:45 From the Slips by David Benedictus (b09rwg3r)
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TUE 22:00 Joe Lycett's Obsessions (m000d85z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


TUE 22:30 Think the Unthinkable (b01mypwd)
Series 4

Superco

The bumbling management consultants check out Britain's biggest supermarket chain.

James Cary’s award-winning sitcom about a team of incompetent management consultants.

Starring:

Ryan ...... Marcus Brigstocke
Owen ...... David Mitchell
Sophie ...... Beth Chalmers
Daisy ...... Catherine Shepherd

With Hugh Dennis, Jennie Cox, James Rawlings and Neil Edmond

Producer: Adam Bromley.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2005.


TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m00203g7)
Rob Auton 2/2

From 10pm until midnight, seven days a week, The Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. And tonight, Jon Holmes once again speaks to stand-up poet Rob Auton.


TUE 23:00 Rubbish (b008crj4)
Series 2

Couples

Martin discovers the world's full of couples and unhappily, they all want his advice!

Tony Bagley's local government sitcom.

Martin …. Reece Dinsdale
Barney …. Matthew Cottle
John …. Neil Dudgeon
Sarah …. Pippa Haywood
Scott …. Kevin Eldon
Saffron …. Nadia Kamil
Naomi …. Katherine Jakeways
David …. Martin Trenaman
The Compere …. Ewan Bailey

Producer: Claire Bartlett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007.


TUE 23:30 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science (b040lj88)
Series 3

Episode 3

The only factually accurate comedy about the history of space exploration looks at the forgotten and unacknowledged greats of astronomy.

Discover who were the men and (mainly) women who advanced our understanding of the stars but never quite received the fame they deserved.

People such as 18th Century disabled genius Caroline Herschel who polished lenses with dung and discovered new stars.

Plus human computer Henrietta Swann Leavitt who taught Hubble a method for working out the distances between the stars and narrowly missed out on a Nobel prize when it turned out she had died some years earlier.

Starring:

Helen Keen
Peter Serafinowicz
Susy Kane

Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014.


TUE 23:45 Hearing with Hegley (b0bn5vm0)
Series 2

Episode 8

The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley offers a musical ode to Jimmy Grieves, a paean to privacy, and a paper plane proposal during school assembly.

Musical accompaniment from Nigel Piper and The Popticians.

With contributions from:

Keith Moore
Susan Norton
Andrew Bailey
Nigel Piper

Producer: Phil Clarke

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1998.

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WED 05:45 From the Slips by David Benedictus (b09rwg3r)
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WED 06:00 Whodunnits (b00rm20y)
Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case

3. Peter Galino

After the discovery of the body of key witness, Mary Talbot, there's drama back at her flat - and suave sleuth Paul worries that wife Steve is in danger.

Francis Durbridge's thriller starring Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury.

It's another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.

Paul Temple …. Peter Coke
Steve …. Marjorie Westbury
Charlie …. James Beattie
Wilfred Stirling …. Charles Leno
Detective Inspector Kingston …. Duncan McIntyre
Lance Reynolds …. Richard Williams
Betty Wayne …. Grizelda Hervey
Peter Galino …. Robert Rietty

Producer: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1954.


WED 06:30 A Change in the Weather (m0005nz6)
3. Suspicion

In the Lake District, Henrietta and Louise suspect there's something fishy going on, as the hot pursuit of the villains continues...

Starring Dilys Laye and Polly James.

Eric Pringle’s unlikely adventure about a singing duo.

Henrietta ..... Dilys Laye
Louise ..... Polly James
Jiffy Perkins ..... Peter Craze
Burco Madrid ..... John Hollis
BB ..... William Simons
Det Sgt Digly ..... Trevor Nichols
City Nigel ..... Philip Sully
Shopkeeper .... Amerjit Deu

Director: Ian Cotterell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1988.


WED 07:00 Winston (b007ylvk)
Winston in Love

Taking Tea with Roland

Nancy wants her new man to meet the family but will old rogue Winston sabotage the event?

Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial.

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

Director: Shaun MacLoughlin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1991.


WED 07:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jy6l)
Series 1

The New Car

The lad thinks he should buy a car to keep up appearances, so Sid offers to help.

But there's a big surprise when he takes it for a spin.

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

Starring Tony Hancock.

With:

Moira Lister
Bill Kerr
Sidney James
Kenneth Williams

Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott.

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

Producer: Dennis Main Wilson

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1954.


WED 08:00 Hazelbeach (b00899mt)
Series 1

Language Teacher

Nick gets a job with a dominatrix and Ronnie buys an extraordinary number of sinks.

Starring Jamie Foreman.

Caroline and David Stafford's comedy drama about the mysterious Ronnie Hazelbeach.

Ronnie ...... Jamie Foreman
Nick ...... Paul Bazely
Mrs Barlow ...... Tracy Wiles
James ...... John Dougall
Senora ...... Liza Sadovy

Producer: Marc Beeby

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007.


WED 08:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016prp)
8. Interesting Acquaintance

Florence meets an interesting acquaintance at a party and Audrey contemplates her imminent wedding.

Two sisters, four nights, one city.

April, 1941: Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.

Many won’t make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.

Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman – as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz,

Lucy Caldwell's timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.

Abridged by Rowan Routh.

Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg

Producer: Gemma McMullan

A BBC Northern Ireland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2022.


WED 08:45 Exile (m000czxv)
3. Land

Halfway across the vast Atlantic, there is no turning back for the exiled Pilgrims. Storms blast the ship, supplies are running short and passengers are dying.

Sarah discovers Elizabeth's secret.

The exhausted crew on the Mayflower finally catch sight of land. But it is not Virginia, they have been blown off course, so they try to turn south and fail. Ben and the other men go onshore and return with fresh water, game and some corn they have stolen from the Native Americans' winter stores.

Ben is beginning to grow into his new life, but for Matthew, Saul is becoming a problem.

Adrian Bean's gripping story about one family's journey into the unknown.

Made to mark the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower.

Sarah Hargreaves ...... Louise Brealey
Matthew Hargreaves ...... Trystan Gravelle
Ben ...... Joel MacCormack
Elizabeth ...... Megan McInerney
Saul Tregarron ...... Matthew Gravelle
Captain Jones ...... John Cording
Ghost Sailor ...... Marc Danbury

Director: John Norton

A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2020.


WED 09:00 Robin Ince's Reality Tunnel (m001npdb)
Gallery of Empathy

Series 2 - Episode 2

In the second of his two-part series Robin talks about appreciating art for how it makes us feel, he shares some stories about his favourite artists and celebrates the places that books and art can take us.

Escaping the confines of The Infinite Monkey Cage, comedian Robin Ince takes us on a journey through his Reality Tunnel in his second two-part stand-up series, recorded specially for Radio 4.

For over 30 years Robin Ince has been discharging fascinating thoughts, unusual knowledge, and infectious excitement into the universe. Over this time, these disparate, dusty specs of information have steadily clumped together and formed into an entity known as the 'Reality Tunnel'.

Previously, Robin's live appearances have only been visible to those astute enough to be tracking his trajectory; those with a keen enough eye to catch a fleeting glimpse of him as he twinkles through their orbit, emitting his ideas, shedding light on the human condition, before vanishing again into the distance. But now, using specialist recording tools and fancy editing, this phenomenon has been captured in high resolution audio for all to hear.

Praise for series 1
- “I was practically in tears of joy and wonder. I found it deeply moving and profoundly comforting”
- “It is a thing of beauty and joy and a thing for me amid an ocean of things that aren't!”
- “it’s good to know I'm not the only one with those 'thoughts'”

Writer / Performer ... Robin Ince
Voice Over ... Cody Dahler
Producer ... Carl Cooper
Production Coordinator ... Mabel Wright

Sound Manager ... Jerry Peal
Sound Editor ... Joshan Chana

Picture by Steve Best

BBC Studios Production for Radio 4


WED 09:30 Soundstage (b05mt6m2)
3. The Wash

The Wash is a large rectangular-shaped tidal estuary in East Anglia bordering Lincolnshire and Norfolk.

Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson has long been fascinated by both the mystery of King John's treasure - which it's claimed was lost and buried in the mud here - and the wildlife of The Wash.

A strange and haunting habitat, it’s a no man's land where twice each day the tide sweeps in across the mud and drives tens of thousands of wading birds off their feeding grounds and onto a temporary roost by the shingle and gravel pits at the RSPB reserve at Snettisham in Norfolk.

It's a bewitching spectacle, especially on a spring tide. At low tide the birds disperse and only the feint roar of the distant sea can be heard across the vast expanses of exposed mud. Beneath the mud however there are the sounds of crustaceans and worms; a rich food supply and the reason why so many thousands of birds are attracted to The Wash.

As the tide turns, rivulets of water trickle across the mud. The tide gathers pace, and as it does it so, it forces the birds towards the shore and into the air. Huge flocks numbering hundreds then thousands of birds are pushed off the mud and onto the gravel pits.

When Chris visited, the birds were roosting well away from the water and in complete darkness. Yet soon after the tide turned and by some unknown signal the knots' chattering calls increased and then the leading edge of the flock suddenly took off, creating a huge wave of sound.

Within a few minutes quiet and calm was restored to the gravel pits.

For Chris, it's these wild sounds of the birds revealed as the tides ebb and flow which are the real hidden treasures of The Wash.

Producer: Sarah Blunt

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.


WED 09:45 Daily Service (m001zvkk)
Psalms - God's Faithfulness - Through Christ

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

Theme: Psalms - God's Faithfulness - Through Christ

Reading Hebrews 10 19- 24

Led by David Waters

Lord Jesus Christ
The Daily Service Choir

O praise the Lord (Batten)
Daily Service Singers

All Heaven Declares
Lou Fellingham


WED 10:00 Archive on 4 (m000b7s6)
Here's Looking at You, Parents!

At home, surrounded by their own parenting paraphernalia, comedy couple Josie Long and Jonny Donahoe leap into the fictional and factual world of parenting to discover what lessons we can learn or lose from our TV and Radio counterparts.

Script writers from every generation have embraced parents, and the misadventures of mums and dads have kept TV and Radio in business for decades.

In the early days, it was all about showing us how it 'should' be done, but in recent years writers have reflected back to us what we’re really like! But as family set ups have evolved from mum and dad, to mum and mum, dad and dad or mums or dad, the writers have followed suit.

Parents have provided them with a seemingly endless source of material which in turn has provided us with ideas on better parenting or simply reassured us that we’re not the only ones doing it badly.

From 'Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em' to 'Motherland', sit back, relax and enjoy a journey of parenting mayhem and memories that will unite us all!

Featuring:

* TV writer and critic, Michael Hogan
* Jennifer Traig, author of Act Natural: A Cultural History of Misadventures in Parenting
* Dr Charlotte Faircloth, Lecturer in Sociology of Gender at UCL.

Producer: Nicola Humphries

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2019.


WED 11:00 Whodunnits (b00rm20y)
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WED 11:30 A Change in the Weather (m0005nz6)
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WED 12:00 Winston (b007ylvk)
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WED 12:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jy6l)
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WED 13:00 Hazelbeach (b00899mt)
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WED 13:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016prp)
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WED 13:45 Exile (m000czxv)
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WED 14:00 Dilemma (b01r5pxg)
Series 2

Episode 4

Sue Perkins sets moral and ethical posers for:

Roisin Conaty
Samira Ahmed
David Reed
Robin Ince

This is the panel show posing finely-balanced dilemmas as Sue cross-examines their answers.

The panellists finely-balanced dilemmas involve changing history; dipping into the archives; injust justice and a maths teacher's non-standard deviation.

There are no "right" answers - but there are some deeply damning ones.

Devised by Danielle Ward.

Producer: Ed Morrish

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013.


WED 14:30 Two Doors Down (b008h68b)
Series 2

Druids and Draws

Edith Black's lodger, Victor, the Ulster-Scots poet, has fallen in love with a Celtic druid, Anashuya - and brought her back to Belfast...

Starring Stella McCusker.

Annie McCartney's sitcom about the bohemian Belfast residents of Marlborough Road, saved from chaos by their cleaning lady, Sally.

Sally ...... Stella McCusker
Clare ...... Marcella Riordan
Evie ...... Katy Gleadhill
Victor ...... Alan Mckee
Anashuya ...... Laura Hughes
Miss Black ...... Roma Tomelty
Fintan ...... Gerard Murphy
Layla ...... Emily Walmsley
Rory ...... Richard Clements
Anna ...... Hannah R Gordon

With Gerry Anderson as Himself

Director: Tanya Nash

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002.


WED 15:00 Thackeray (m001zvkm)
3. This Blessed Plot

Jim Thackeray is a renowned landscape gardener. He is also a first-class private detective.

Thackeray's opportunity to redesign an Italian garden is thwarted by the disappearance of his employer.

Michael Cochrane stars as the green-fingered private sleuth in a series of murder mysteries.

Written by Olwen Wymark and Barbara Clegg

Thackeray .... Michael Cochrane
George .... John Hartley
Miss Birch .... Margaret John
Shirley .... Doreen Mantle
Bryony .... Melanie Walters
Dave .... Richard Lomas
Lombardi .... Carl Forgione
Claudia ....Vanessa Roper-Evans
Horace .... Robert Rietti
Hemming .... James Greene
Francesco .... Frank Rozelaar-Green

Producer: Alison Hindell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1997.


WED 15:45 Inner Balance by Kate Atkinson (m001zx32)
June just has to reach her optimal inner balance and she'll be the perfect mother - and the perfect lover.

Kate Atkinson's short story read by Siobhan Redmond

Producer: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1997.


WED 16:00 Archive on 4 (m000b7s6)
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WED 19:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016prp)
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WED 19:45 Exile (m000czxv)
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WED 20:00 Dilemma (b01r5pxg)
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WED 20:30 Two Doors Down (b008h68b)
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WED 21:00 Thackeray (m001zvkm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]


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[Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 today]


WED 22:00 Robin Ince's Reality Tunnel (m001npdb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


WED 22:30 I Think I've Got a Problem (b00cm91h)
Series 2

Episode 4

After falling over and knocking himself out, Tom - and the band in his head - awakes to find himself in a strange world where castrati singers are all the rage...

Starring Suggs and Bob Monkhouse.

Andrew McGibbon and Nick Romero's everyday story about a man who can't stop himself from breaking into song.

Tom Caine …. Suggs
Dr Boone …. Bob Monkhouse
Bouche …. Phil Cornwell
Jake …. Andrew McGibbon
Monty DeVere …. Nick Romero
Malc …. Bill Nighy
Phelia …. Julia Deakin
Clammy …. Toby Longworth
Pi …. Debra Stephenson

Songs: Andrew McGibbon. Nick Romero and Suggs

Producers: Andrew McGibbon and Dawn Ellis.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2003.


WED 23:00 Chain Reaction (b0738kq0)
Series 11

4. Victoria Coren-Mitchell interviews Sandi Toksvig

Writer and presenter Victoria Coren-Mitchell asks the questions to comedian and writer, Sandi Toksvig.

Sandi is asked about her long career in broadcasting, her foray into politics and gives advice on how to behave when you're staying at the Icelandic Prime Minister's house.

Chain Reaction is the long running hostless chat show where this week's interviewee becomes next week's interviewer.

Victoria Coren-Mitchell is a columnist for The Observer and GQ amongst other publications and has presented myriad documentaries on subjects as varied as The Bohemians and Mary Poppins.

As well as a prolific writing career, she keeps order on the popular and fiendishly difficult television quiz, 'Only Connect'. She is also well-known as one of the world's top professional poker players and has achieved huge success at the card table.

Sandi Toksvig is a prolific writer and broadcaster who chaired the News Quiz on BBC Radio 4 for nine years and over 220 episodes.

In 2015 she was a founder member of the Women's Equality Party and was named new host of the long-running BBC TV series, QI.

Producer: Richard Morris

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


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Series 2: The Big Booth Too

Episode 4

Boothby and friends share scary tales of the railway and dramas at sea.

More guitar-flavoured songs and surreal laughs from Boothby Graffoe.

With:

Stephen Frost
Vivienne Soan
Big Al
Jim Sweeney
Neil Innes

Guitarist: Antonio Forcione

Written by Boothby Graffoe and Dave Thompson.

Producer: Lucy Armitage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2001.