MONDAY 11 AUGUST 2008

MON 00:00 Fantastic Tales (b007k3d0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]
MON 00:30 Children of the Corn (b007jr73)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (Omnibus) (b00cz223)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:15 HE Bates - Three Country Stories (b007jv2t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:15 on Sunday]
MON 02:30 John Meade Falkner's Bag of Paradoxes (b00cz7wg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday]
MON 03:00 The Now Show (b00czc0g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 The Maltby Collection (b00czc0j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Sunday]
MON 04:00 Knocker (b008d1f2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Sunday]
MON 04:15 No Tomatoes (b0080jxn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:15 on Sunday]
MON 04:30 4 at the Store (b007jqg1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 The Palace of Laughter (b007svws)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007jp6m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 The Clitheroe Kid (b007jsy7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday]
MON 06:30 Floggit's (b007jxwp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday]
MON 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00cyg6s)
Contact us at:
Big Toe Books
BBC Broadcasting House
London
W1A 1AA
Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: bigtoe@bbc.co.uk.
MON 08:00 The Goon Show (b00cyg6v)
Series 8
The Missing Battleship
When HMS Boxer is stolen, you just know someone is going to fall in the water. Stars Peter Sellers. From November 1957.
MON 08:30 Radio Shuttleworth (b007s5ds)
Series 1
Vanessa Feltz
Sheffield's aspiring singer-songwriter takes to the airwaves once more from his very own his front room!
Aided by his producer (and sole agent) Ken Worthington, and his hard-to-please wife Mary, the inimitable John Shuttleworth presents celebrity interviews, dodgy keyboard music, and even dodgier jingles.
Can special guest Vanessa Feltz help sort out a tricky domestic problem between him and Mary?
With Boothby Graffoe.
Written and performed by Graham Fellows.
Producers: Paul Schlesinger and Martin Willis.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998.
MON 09:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jpvw)
Series 2
2. A Case of Hearts and Flowers
When his brother-in-law's Filofax is held to ransom, private eye Steven J Blackburn investigates.
One of four more cases for the private investigator and his government scheme-funded assistant Tracey. Set in a South Yorkshire town that's seen better days.
CAST:
Stephen J. Blackburn …. Finetime Fontayne
Tracey Duggan …. Judy Flynn
Mam …. Rita May
Shirley …. Christine Cox
Scripted by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby
Producer: Dave Sheasby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1991.
MON 09:30 The Lost Stradivarius by J Meade Falkner (m000519j)
1. The Cupboard
As Oxford student John Maltravers plays ancient violin music, a hidden cupboard is revealed in his rooms.
Read by Joanna David.
Written in 1895 by J Meade Falkner, this brilliant novella is by turns enchanting and terrifying.
Set in the 1840s, it follows John Maltravers, a well-to-do student at Oxford whose innocent love of music is destined to lead him under a malevolent influence.
Abridged in four parts by Doreen Estal.
Author J Meade Falkner also wrote the smuggling classic 'Moonfleet'.
Producer: Lawrence Jackson
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in August 2008
MON 10:00 HE Bates - Love for Lydia (b007jvkm)
Episode 1
Winter has come to Evensford. As the first snowflakes of 1931 settle, Lydia Aspen has come to live with her two aunts.
Richardson, a young reporter on the local paper, watches as the shy heiress passes by in a Daimler. His editor tells him "go and get the story"...
Stars Tim Pigott-Smith as Older Richardson, Jordan Frieda as Richardson, Juliet Aubrey as Lydia, Margaret Tyzack as Miss Bertie, Angela Thorne as Miss Juliana, Philip Fox as Bretherton and Jamie Bamber as Tom.
HE Bates's semi-autobiographical novel (published in 1952) dramatised by Vivienne Allen.
Director: Tracey Neale
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.
MON 10:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective (b007jmks)
The Edinburgh Mystery
Betrayal and murder is afoot when a worried aunt tackles her nephew, making a new case for the man in the corner. Stars Bernard Hepton.
MON 11:00 Caesar! (b00cylb9)
Series 2
Citizens in a Great City
The story of Septimus Severus and how he came to the brink of becoming Emperor. Stars Ronald Pickup and Ray Fearon.
MON 12:00 The Goon Show (b00cyg6v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00cylbh)
Series 6
Episode 1
Radio's Dave the Rave - and The Legend of Bunny and Claude.
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Bill Oddie and Jo Kendall.
Written by Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden.
Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.
Music and songs by Leon Cohen and Bill Oddie.
Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1968.
MON 13:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007m72r)
A New Peril
As the evil McBain plots to steal the gold, the air ace flies off in pursuit. Michael Palin reads Captain WE Johns' adventure. From August 1981.
MON 13:15 Dava Sobel - Galileo's Daughter (b007jq7w)
Episode 1
The fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist and his devoted daughter. Read by Stella Gonet.
MON 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007jsnh)
Highwaymen, The Rise of Marlborough and War With Spain
When soldiers found themselves without work, crime rose and some became highwaymen. Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain.
MON 13:45 The Take Away (b007jxxm)
Fish and Chips
Investigating the British love affair with 'food-to-go', Simon Parkes visits a 'chippie' in Skipton. From August 2000.
MON 14:00 11/08/2008 (b00cylbk)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
Contact us at:
CBeebies Radio
London, W12 7RJ
Phone: 08700 100 700.
MON 17:00 To the Manor Born (b007lzww)
A Wife's Prerogative
Audrey makes the most of helping Devere - by pretending she's his wife.
Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton.
Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere
Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher
Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger
Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka
Frank Middlemass ..... Ned
Mademoiselle Dutoit ..... Rula Lenska
The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage.
From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descent.
First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997.
Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997.
MON 17:30 Bristow (b007r031)
Series 2
When Melancholy Autumn Comes to Chester-Perry
The promise of a Christmas bonus lifts Bristow's spirits - for once, his generosity knows no bounds... But then he takes matters into his own hands when it becomes clear that a bonus for Chester Perry staff isn't forthcoming.
Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the buying clerk from Frank Dickens' famous newspaper cartoon strip. Syndicated internationally, it ran for 41 years in London's Evening Standard.
Bristow ...... Michael Williams
Jones ...... Rodney Bewes
Jonathan Quartly ...... Bernard Cribbins
Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan
Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman
Molly ...... Sheila Reid
Rupert Clement ...... Royce Mills
Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey
Richard Blobb ...... Norman Bird
Miss Golightly ...... Lucy Akhurst
Postboy ...... Simon Schatzberger
Receptionist ...... Zeena Eate
Music composed and performed by John Whitehall.
Producer: Neil Cargill
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1999.
MON 18:00 Time Hops (b007k1mt)
Once Upon a Time
A screwball scientist mouse escapes from the future to 1994 and enlists the help of three children to save the planet.
A five-part comedy sci-fi by Alan Gilbey and David Richard-Fox.
Stars Sara Crowe as EK6, David Harewood as RV101, Nicola Stapleton as Steph, Paul Reynolds as Baz, Dax O'Callaghan as Max, Bradley Lavelle as Harley, Ian Masters as Norton, Margaret John as Mrs Miller, Gavin Muir as Scarrion and Oliver Senton as Scab.
Music by Richard Attree.
Producer: Nandita Ghose
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994.
MON 18:30 The Lunar Effect (b007k1d8)
The Cycle
Under a full moon, a young woman deals with two tormentors by unexpected means. Michelle Gomez reads John Connolly's tale.
How often have you done something which seemed out of character only to discover that a full moon fell on that day or week? Five stories marking a full moon. When someone or something unexpectedly steps outside of the norm is it just coincidence, or is there really something in The Lunar Effect?
The Cycle, written by John Connolly and read by Michelle Gomez.
On her way home from work on an almost deserted train, a young woman starts to suffer pains that we are led to believe indicate her period is imminent. When two troublemaking youths board the train and there is a subsequent delay, the boys' unwanted attention, the woman's increasing pain and the effect of the full moon result in the demise of her tormentors by unexpected means...
MON 18:45 RL Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (b0081sjk)
Episode 1
A mild-mannered doctor and his monstrous alter-ego. Tim Pigott-Smith reads Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a dual personality.
Abridged by Morag Lyall.
The mild-mannered Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug; one that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Mr Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It seems he is master of his fate. It seems he is in complete control.
But soon he'll discover that his double life comes at a hideous price...
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish essayist, poet and author of fiction and travel books, was known especially for his novels of adventure. Stevenson became famous with the romantic adventure story Treasure Island, which appeared in 1883.
Producer: David Jackson Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 1996.
MON 19:00 The Goon Show (b00cyg6v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00cylbh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
MON 20:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jpvw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 20:30 The Lost Stradivarius by J Meade Falkner (m000519j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
MON 21:00 HE Bates - Love for Lydia (b007jvkm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 21:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective (b007jmks)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today]
MON 22:00 Radio Shuttleworth (b007s5ds)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 22:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b007wlpq)
Series 1
The Old Lock-keeper
Writer Ed's week is marred by a death, deceptive junk mail and some huge egos.
Welcome to the world of Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive e-mail.
He may have only one pair of trousers and a seven-figure Amazon sales ranking, but no writer knows more about freeloading than Ed Reardon.
Christopher Douglas stars as Ed Reardon.
Written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds.
Featuring:
Philip Jackson
Alice Lowe
Geoffrey Whitehead
Emma Kennedy
Geoffrey McGivern
Stephanie Cole
Ronnie Golden
John Fortune
Dan Tetsell
Rita May
Producer: Simon Nicholls
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2005
MON 23:00 MacAulay and Co (b00czj4h)
Edinburgh Festival 2008
Episode 1
Fred MacAulay brings his pick of comedy and music from the Edinburgh Festival.