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SATURDAY 17 APRIL 2010

SAT 00:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn58)
Series 2

A Test of Endurance

Held captive in an underground city on Mars, the Space Force crew are set to learn their fate...

Charles Chilton's second intergalactic adventure series starring Barry Foster.

Captain Saxon Berry ...... Barry Foster
Chipper Barnett ...... Nicky Henson
Magnus Carter ...... Nigel Stock
Lodderick Sincere ...... Tony Osoba

With Wendy Murray, Willoughby Goddard and Bernard Brown.

Charles Chilton wrote and produced many popular and successful radio programmes for the BBC - including the classic 1950s serial 'Journey into Space' - charting the adventures of Captain Jet Morgan. This fired the imagination of millions, years before the first moon landing. It was the last radio drama to record higher ratings than the new young upstart television!

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1985.

SAT 00:30 Doctor Who (b00s0bjd)
The Brain of Morbius

Episode 2

The time travellers meet a sinister micro-surgeon and their arrival on the planet disturbs an ancient cult. Read by Tom Baker.

SAT 01:00 Paul Temple (b007jznh)
Paul Temple and the Spencer Affair

Home Again

A murder on a lonely island - as the suave amateur detective spots a clue pointing to Paris.

Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife.

With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes, Brewster Mason as Rupert Dreisler, Hugh Manning as Vosper, James Beattie as Charlie, John Graham as Eric Lansdale, Isobel Dean as Terry Gibson, Simon Lack as Adrian Frost, June Turbin as Judy Milton and Thomas Heathcote as Pete Roberts.
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, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case.

Producer: Martyn C. Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1957.

SAT 01:30 Wimsey (b007jvk7)
Clouds of Witness

The Diamond Cat

Who is the mysterious "number 10" and what connects him to the beautiful Mrs Grimethorpe?

With his brother accused of shooting Captain Dennis Cathcart, Lord Peter Wimsey continues his murder investigation, as the family barrister arrives in Yorkshire to discuss the case...

Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Peter Jones as Bunter, Gabriel Woolf as Inspector Parker, Maria Aitken as Lady Mary Wimsey, Brian Oulton as Sir Impey Biggs, Bill Wallis as Grimethorpe, Elizabeth Proud as Mrs Grimethorpe, David Sinclair as the Servant and Bonnie Hurren as Lucy Grimethorpe.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Clouds of Witness was first published in 1926.

Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations broadcast between 1972 and 1975.

Adapted for radio in eight episodes Peter Jones and Tania Lieven.

Producer: Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1974.

SAT 02:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s0bjb)
Episode 15

As Adam and Eve rest unaware, their guardian angels apprehend Satan. Stars Ian McDiarmid, Julian Rhind-Tutt and David Holt.

SAT 02:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jm75)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Series 2

The Resident Patient

A doctor calls on the sleuth, after the mystery death of his landlord - and the arrival of some Russians. Stars Clive Merrison.

SAT 03:00 Jane Austen (b007jrff)
Mansfield Park

Portsmouth and After

Both Fanny and Tom face disappointment and hope in equal measure.

Conclusion of Jane Austen’s classic tale dramatised by Elizabeth Proud.

CAST:

Jane Austen …. Hannah Gordon
Fanny …. Amanda Root
Sir Thomas Bertram …. Michael Williams
Mrs Norris …. Jane Lapotaire
Edmund Bertram …. Robert Glenister
Lady Bertram …. Louise Jameson
Mary Crawford …. Teresa Gallagher
Henry Crawford …. Andrew Wincott
Tom Bertram …. Kim Wall
William Price …. Richard Curnow
Mrs Price …. Sunny Ormonde
Mr Price …. Terry Molloy
Susan price …. Katherine Mount
Rebecca …. Anne-Marie Francis

Price children: Tim Black, Stephanie Luxton, Zoe Ganjavi and Richard Ganjavi.

Music composed by Anthea Gomez and played by Christian McKay, Jill Heartfield, Audrey Douglas and Katharine Gittings.

Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Sue Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997.

SAT 04:00 Old Dog and Partridge (b007jq9s)
Episode 1

Landlord Jack gets an offer from his daughter Nicola to help run his pub when she comes home for Christmas, but his reaction is not what she's expecting...

Joe Turner’s six-part sitcom stars Michael Williams as Jack, Lisa Coleman as Nicola, Cherry Morris as Mrs Drummond, Simon Greenall as Andy and Toby Longworth as Various.

Producer: Liz Anstee

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1998.

SAT 04:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008klgb)
Up the Pole

When Harold Perkins befriends the Carnival Queen, the workmates plot a little sabotage.

Six anarchic tales from those demob days “when we was going to build the new Jerusalem - you know, before the world turned lax and sour”.

Stars Norman Rossington as Big Jim, Roland Curram as Harold Perkins, Harold Goodwin as Old Ned, David John as Nimrod, Sylvester McCoy as Turps, David Beckett as Chick, Steven Harrold as Harry and Carol Hawkins as Miss James.

Narrated by Bernard Cribbins.

Written by Ted Walker.

Producer: Martin Fisher

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1987.

SAT 05:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00k21fl)
Series 5

Episode 27

From New York's Town Hall, the funny man presents 'The Great American Duet Sing-Off' - with contestants from across the USA.

SAT 06:00 17/04/2010 (b00s2zsc)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.

SAT 08:00 Big Toe Books (b00s2zsf)
Chris Pizzey presents an hour of children's stories, featuring The Wind Singer by William Nicholson.

SAT 09:00 Charles Dickens (b00s2zbh)
Sketches by Boz: Series 2

The Steam Excursion

Mr Percy Noakes was a friend to all until the organisation of a river trip proves to be his undoing.

Gloriously comic stories of London Life by Charles Dickens - dramatised by Stephen Wyatt.

Boz ...... Nicholas Farrell
Percy Noakes ...... Marston Bloom
Mrs Taunton ...... Shirley Dixon
Mrs Briggs ...... Joanna Monro
Cousin Hardy ...... Jeremy Swift
Julia Briggs ...... Becky Hindley
Alexander Briggs ...... Ben Crowe
Captain Helves ...... Stephen Critchlow

Director: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1999.

SAT 09:30 Take It From the Chorus (b007k283)
Early Stages

Digs, dressing rooms and dancing at the right height - Caroline Quentin begins her investigation of life in the chorus line.

SAT 10:00 The Burkiss Way (b00jvj68)
Celebrate the Burkiss Way

Happy dynamic living!

It's back to the 1970s and 80s as comedy writers David Renwick and Andrew Marshall – plus original cast members Chris Emmett, Nigel Rees and Fred Harris - recall their cult BBC radio comedy hit.

Discover how Eric Pode of Croydon came to be! Which cast member made the leap from Big Ted and Play School to Radio 4? And why did 'The Burkiss Way' earn itself a mention in the Houses of Parliament?

Enjoy five classic episodes featuring the talents of Jo Kendall, Chris Emmett, Fred Harris and Nigel Rees:

* Skive from School the Burkiss Way:
Can 'Moses Minor' lead the boys of Greyfriars away from the clutches of their oppressors? From February 1977.

* Not the Burkiss Way:
Learn how to offer family planning for rabbits. Michael Parkinson interviews Bugs Bunny. From January 1978.

* Remember the Burkiss Way:
From 3-2-1 to The Generation Game Questions galore in the clash of the game shows! From April 1979.

* Settle out of Court the Burkiss Way:
Find out 'What's My Gender', plus a galactic 'Panorama'. From November 1980.

* Wave Goodbye to CBEs the Burkiss Way
The sketch show team's last-ever episode which provoked controversy. From November 1980.

Producer: Martin Dempsey

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in April 2009.

SAT 13:00 A City Called Glory (b00jtbwx)
A portrait of the enigmatic Sam Cooke - hit singer of 'Wonderful World' and 'Chain Gang'. Neil McKay's drama with Lennie James.

SAT 14:30 Crime Catch-Up (b00s2zsh)
Paul Temple and the Spencer Affair: Concerning Judy Milton

The suave sleuth must uncover the link between a rare soundtrack record - and a murder. Stars Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury.

SAT 15:00 Crime Catch-Up (b00s2zsk)
Paul Temple and the Spencer Affair: Introducing Pete Roberts

The suave sleuth is threatened with a revolver - and uncovers a fresh lead to follow. Stars Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury.

SAT 15:30 Crime Catch-Up (b00s2zsm)
Paul Temple and the Spencer Affair: That Old Intuition

The suave sleuth confronts impresario Rupert Dreisler - and fears for his wife's safety. Stars Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury.

SAT 16:00 Crime Catch-Up (b00s2zsp)
Paul Temple and the Spencer Affair: A Surprise for Pete Roberts

The death toll mounts, as the suave sleuth journeys to an island on the River Thames. Stars Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury.

SAT 16:30 Crime Catch-Up (b00s2zsr)
Paul Temple and the Spencer Affair: Home Again

Murder mystery on a lonely island - as the suave sleuth finds a clue pointing to Paris. Stars Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury.

SAT 17:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00k21fl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today]

SAT 18:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b008h36w)
All the Time in the World

Professional thief Robert Ashton receives an unexpected visit... Time is altered so the world's treasures can be stolen - but who is behind it?

Arthur C Clarke's 1952 short story read by Nicholas Boulton.

Somerset-born author Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008) achieved his greatest fame in 1968 when his short story The Sentinel was turned into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. His visions of space travel and computing sparked the imagination of readers and scientists alike.

Producer: Gemma Jenkins

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007.

SAT 18:30 Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood (b007jvxm)
2. Feeling Watched

On impulse, Vesin gets off his train home and decides to spend the night in a small, sleepy, medieval village town whose mysterious inhabitants surreptitiously watch him.

He intends to stay one night but he stays longer than planned and gets to know the streets of the town. He feels watched even though no one appears to take any notice of him.

Vesin starts wondering whether the people actually come alive at night and wonders if the town is in the hands of cats. Vesin begins to feel uneasy and that strange forces are tugging at his very being.

by Algernon Blackwood
An Unabridged Reading in 4 episodes for Radio 4 Extra's The 7th Dimension
Read by Philip Madoc

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005.

SAT 19:00 Charles Dickens (b00s2zbh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

SAT 19:30 Take It From the Chorus (b007k283)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

SAT 20:00 The Burkiss Way (b00jvj68)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

SAT 23:00 Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin (b00s2zst)
Thursday

After her son Kevin kills nine at his high school in 1999, his mother Eva recalls the day of carnage. Stars Madeline Potter.

SAT 23:15 Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin (b00s2zsw)
Franklin

With her son locked up for mass murder, his mother Eva reflects on the true toll of his killing spree. Stars Madeline Potter.

SAT 23:30 Nicci French's Killing Me Softly (b00s2zsy)
Episode 9

Terrified Alice Loudon realises that she's facing grave danger - but can anyone help her? Read by Amanda Root.

SAT 23:45 Nicci French's Killing Me Softly (b00s2zt0)
Episode 10

Alice Loudon's passionate affair began in rapture - but how will the story of her undying love end? Read by Amanda Root.

SUNDAY 18 APRIL 2010

SUN 00:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b008h36w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]

SUN 00:30 Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood (b007jvxm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday]

SUN 01:00 A City Called Glory (b00jtbwx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday]

SUN 02:30 Peter Ackroyd - The House of Doctor Dee (b0080gm9)
Matthew Palmer is left an old house in London's Clerkenwell. Once owned by an Elizabethan scholar who was reputedly involved in black magic, the house hides dark secrets...

Peter Ackroyd's 1993 novel, dramatised by Alan Drury.

Stars Philip Glenister as Matthew Palmer, Anthony Ofoegbu as Daniel Moore, Gerard McDermott as Edward Kelley, Nigel Anthony as Dr John Dee, Stephen Thorne as Matthew's father, Carolyn Jones as Matthew's mother, David Bannerman as Geoffrey, Tracy-Ann Oberman as Mrs John Dee, Alison Pettitt as Audrey, Jillie Meers as Mrs Lucas, John Rowe as Laurie and James Bell as the little boy.

Director: Claire Grove
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997.

SUN 04:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00k21fl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 on Saturday]

SUN 05:00 Charles Dickens (b00s2zbh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday]

SUN 05:30 Take It From the Chorus (b007k283)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Saturday]

SUN 06:00 18/04/2010 (b00s364r)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.

SUN 08:00 Big Toe Books (b00s364t)
Chris Pizzey presents an hour of children's stories, featuring The Wind Singer by William Nicholson.

SUN 09:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost - Omnibus (b00s36vn)
Episode 3

The epic poem continues. With Denis Quilley and Ian McDiarmid.

SUN 10:15 HE Bates - Three Country Stories (b007jv1q)
Series 1

Time

Three old men sit and watch the world go by, but one has a very youthful secret of vitality. Read by David Neal.

SUN 10:30 Winston (b007m660)
Series 1

Whacko Jolly Dee

The wily village poacher and handyman's plans for a life of bliss with Nancy hit a snag.

Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy.

CAST:

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

Directed at BBC Bristol by Shaun MacLoughlin.

First broadcast on BBC Radio in May 1989.

SUN 11:00 Ed Doolan Interviews... (b007jzcy)
Bill Maynard

The comic actor chooses his favourite tunes and chats about his long career - including his TV role as Heartbeat's Greengrass.

SUN 12:00 All Gas and Gaiters (b007jpbw)
The Bishop Learns the Facts

Clerical confusion reigns when Noote's friend asks him to marry her.

Starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon, William Mervyn as the Bishop, Jonathan Cecil as Bishop's Chaplain - the Reverend Mervyn Noote and John Barron as the Dean. With Jo Kendall as Julia and Betty Bascombe as Mary.

The ecclesiastical sitcom started life as a TV pilot in Comedy Playhouse, ahead of a run on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971. Selected scripts were revised and re-recorded for radio.

Written and adapted by husband-and-wife team, Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps.

Producer: David Hatch.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1972.

SUN 12:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007jzcz)
Series 7

One Hundred Not Out

Cheeky schoolboy Jimmy Clitheroe looks back over his past misdemeanours in the 100th episode.

Just 4 feet 3 inches tall, the success of comic entertainer Jimmy Clitheroe (1921-1973) sprang from a BBC Variety Playhouse try-out in the late 1950s. His naughty schoolboy act was a smash and he even wore school uniform during recordings! At its peak, ten million fans were tuning into 'The Clitheroe Kid'. Every week, the Kid's schemes sparked havoc - with the ever present threat of a good spanking from Grandad. The Clitheroe Kid clocked up 16 series in its run from 1956 to 1972.

With Peter Sinclair as Grandfather, Patricia Burke as Mother, Danny Ross as Alfie, Diana Day as Susan, Deryck Guyler as Mr Holroyd and Tony Melody as Mr Higginbottom.

Scripted by James Casey and Frank Roscoe.
Pianist: Harry Hayward
Producer: James Casey

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1964.

SUN 13:00 Peter Ackroyd - The House of Doctor Dee (b0080gm9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 02:30 today]

SUN 14:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00s375v)
Dry Slopes: The Lost Boys

With no job or friends and living with his busy mum, Angus Dry tries recapturing his youth. Stars Nick Ball. From April 1995.

SUN 15:00 Comedy Catch-Up (b00s375x)
World of Pub

Dodgy Phil revamps an East End boozer with some animatronic dinosaurs and Edith Piaf. Stars John Thomson. From March 1998.

SUN 15:15 Comedy Catch-Up (b00s37xy)
Sounding Off with McGough

Poet Roger McGough hits Bath to reflect on life, love, happiness, heroes, villains and embarrassing relations. From May 2000.

SUN 15:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00s375z)
Masala FM

It's the Asian station phone-in show's first wedding - but is love blind or stupid? Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar. From October 1996.

SUN 16:00 Comedy Catch-Up (b00s3761)
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End - Sir Henry Entertains

Surreal saga of a dynasty delicately balanced on the edge of sanity. Written by and stars Viv Stanshall. From December 1996.

SUN 16:15 Comedy Catch-Up (b00s387c)
A Wet Handle

Ivor Cutler and friends with poems and songs, including 'I Am A Yellow Fly' and the tale of a greasy button. From June 1997.

SUN 16:30 The Now Show (b00s37c1)
Series 30

Episode 6

Fresh from 4 - Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical look at the week's news. From 9th April 2010.

SUN 17:00 Ed Doolan Interviews... (b007jzcy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

SUN 18:00 Barry Letts - Who & Me (b00s37c3)
Episode 4

The Doctor Who producer reflects on major changes in the TV filming process, and nurturing a formidable new writing team.

SUN 18:30 The Price of Fear (b007jm89)
An Eye for an Eye

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

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

Written by William Ingram.

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in April 1974.

SUN 19:00 All Gas and Gaiters (b007jpbw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]

SUN 19:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007jzcz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]

SUN 20:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost - Omnibus (b00s36vn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

SUN 21:15 HE Bates - Three Country Stories (b007jv1q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today]

SUN 21:30 Winston (b007m660)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]

SUN 22:00 Dry Slopes (b00lr3nz)
Series 1

The Day of Judgement

Perpetually unemployed and friendless loser Angus Dry agonises over the death of a bee.

Nick Ball’s sitcom about the unemployed son of a high-flying mother.

Angus Dry ...... Nick Ball
Mum ...... Louisa Rix

With Robert Harley, Toby Longworth and Julie Gibbs.

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995.

SUN 22:30 The Mark Steel Lecture (b007qw7m)
Series 3

Ludwig van Beethoven

The radical comedian offers his humorous assessment of the influential German composer. From September 2002.

SUN 23:00 A Series of Psychotic Episodes (b00b8wjw)
Episode 1

From Postman Pat to a depressed hamster, it's the surreal world of Miriam Elia. With Dan Tetsall. From November 2008.

SUN 23:15 Witty and Twisted (b00s387f)
Wonderworld

Climb on board the comedy set in a down-at-heel theme park in the South of England. Stars Andrew Wallace. From March 2007.

SUN 23:30 Spats (b00cmjv7)
Series 2

Apathy v Effort

Comedian Luke Roberts tries to solve the big arguments using light entertainment. With Clare Wille. From July 2008.

MONDAY 19 APRIL 2010

MON 00:00 Barry Letts - Who & Me (b00s37c3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]

MON 00:30 The Price of Fear (b007jm89)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday]

MON 01:00 Peter Ackroyd - The House of Doctor Dee (b0080gm9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 02:30 on Sunday]

MON 02:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00s375v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday]

MON 03:00 Comedy Catch-Up (b00s375x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Sunday]

MON 03:15 Comedy Catch-Up (b00s37xy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:15 on Sunday]

MON 03:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00s375z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday]

MON 04:00 Comedy Catch-Up (b00s3761)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]

MON 04:15 Comedy Catch-Up (b00s387c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:15 on Sunday]

MON 04:30 The Now Show (b00s37c1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Sunday]

MON 05:00 Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (b00s3bcn)
Episode 5

Pip leaves his old life and heads to London for a reunion with an old chum. Stars John Shrapnel and Douglas Hodge.

MON 05:30 Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (b00s3bcq)
Episode 1

Aunt Polly tries to get Tom to whitewash a fence - but he has other ideas. 1876 classic read by Ed Bishop.

MON 05:45 Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes (b00s3bcs)
Episode 6

Pauline's big break sparks a change in her manner - but she's soon taught a harsh lesson in life. Read by Harriet Walter.

MON 06:00 19/04/2010 (b00s3bcv)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.

MON 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jpcv)
Series 2

All Is Safely Gathered In

The platoon battle to bring in a farmer's harvest - with help from ARP Warden Hodges.

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

Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Fraser …. John Laurie
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Vicar …. Frank Williams
Announcer …. John Snagge

Producer: John Dyas

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975.

MON 08:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00s3bcz)
Series 2

Salvatore's Apotheosis

Plethora decides it's time for son and heir Salvatore to be ordained as a priest - by nonagenarian Father Ignazio.

Second series of the comedy drama set in Renaissance Italy devised by Neal Anthony.

Written by Roger Danes.

Stars David Swift as Ludovico, Sian Phillips as Plethora, Graham Crowden as Francesco, Saskia Wickham as Rosalie, Nicholas Grace as Lord Luton and Kim Wall as Father Ignazio.

Producer: Dawn Ellis

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002.

MON 09:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b0084hyx)
Series 1

Episode 5

Lady Cabstanleigh holds a party, Mrs McGurgle gets into an argument, Chief Inspector Blunderton follows up a few leads, and Justice Cocklecarrot has to contend with the antics of the Filthistan trio.

Richard Ingrams, John Wells, John Sessions and Patricia Routledge recreate the world of the JB Morton.

Running in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975 – JB Morton’s surreally comic ‘Beachcomber’ column paved the way for a great deal of modern humour.

Adapted by Michael Barfield with Richard Ingrams.

Announcer: Brian Perkins

Producer: Harry Thompson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989

MON 09:30 Semi Circles (b007jtyy)
Series 2

A Lack of Moral Fibre

Christmas is coming and Ben is getting fat, but will going on a fibre diet with Helen raise his spirits?

The improving story of life and improving times in an improving neighbourhood.

Starring Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben

Written by Simon Brett

Helen ...... Paula Wilcox
Ben ...... David Wood
Mrs Kelly ...... Pay Heywood
Alastair ...... Tony Millan
Neil ...... Nick Wilton
Britt ...... Rosalind Adams
Blythe ...... Bryan Coleman

Producer: Pete Atkin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1982

MON 10:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr51)
A Friendship Betrayed

Two men's lives run almost in parallel. One is a prince of Jerusalem, Judah Ben Hur. The other is known as "He that was born to be King of the Jews."

Lew Wallace's epic tale stars Jamie Glover as Judah Ben Hur.

Ben Hur ...... Jamie Glover
Messala ...... Samuel West
Angel ...... Deborah Berlin
Amrah ...... Phyllis Calvert
Mother ...... Margaret John
Arrius ...... Derek Waring
Tirzah ...... Natasha Pyne
Chief of Rowers ...... Don McCorkindale
Man 1 ...... Joshua Towb
Man 2 ...... Michael Tudor Barnes
Man in Boat ...... Gavin Muir

Michael Gambon reads from the Bible.

Dramatised in four parts by Catherine Czerkawska.

Music by Wilfredo Acosta.

Director: Glyn Dearman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995.

MON 11:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s3bd1)
Episode 16

In the Garden of Eden, Eve describes her disturbing dream to Adam. Epic poem with Denis Quilley and Federay Holmes.

MON 11:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jm7p)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Series 2

The Greek Interpreter

Watson is introduced to the sleuth's brother Mycroft - and all three tackle the case of a Greek captive. Stars Clive Merrison.

MON 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jpcv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

MON 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b00s3cgj)
Series 1

The Diploma

Harold Steptoe drops a bombshell by quitting the family rag and bone business for a new career as a TV repair man.

Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.

Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962.

The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of 8 series on TV.

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

Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Gale Pedrick.

Producer: Bobby Jaye

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1966.

MON 13:00 Paul Temple (b007jzpv)
Paul Temple and the Spencer Affair

Dinner at the Stardust

The debonair detective turns his attention from the River Thames to a London nightclub.
After the untimely death of actress Mary Dreisler in her London flat, her theatre impresario father has sent for Paul Temple.

Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife.

With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes, Brewster Mason as Rupert Dreisler, Hugh Manning as Vosper, James Beattie as Charlie, John Graham as Eric Lansdale, Isobel Dean as Terry Gibson, Simon Lack as Adrian Frost, June Turbin as Judy Milton and Thomas Heathcote as Pete Roberts.
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, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case.

Producer: Martyn C. Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1957.

MON 13:30 Wimsey (b007jvkk)
Clouds of Witness

Mary Quite Contrary

Mystery deepens over the illness of Lord Peter Wimsey's sister, Lady Mary Wimsey.

As he continues his investigation into Captain Cathcart's murder, the upper class sleuth's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver has arrived...

Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Peter Jones as Bunter, Patricia Routledge as the Dowager Duchess of Denver, Gabriel Woolf as Inspector Parker, Maria Aitken as Lady Mary Wimsey, Miriam Margolyes as Miss Tarrant, David Sinclair as Doctor Thorpe and Bonnie Hurren as the Woman/Cockney.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Clouds of Witness was first published in 1926.

Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations broadcast between 1972 and 1975.

Adapted for radio in eight episodes Peter Jones and Tania Lieven.

Producer: Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1974.

MON 14:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn5r)
Series 2

Living With Death

Elevated to the priesthood of God-King Ra - the captive crew of Space Force seize a chance to escape.

Charles Chilton's second intergalactic adventure series starring Barry Foster.

Captain Saxon Berry ...... Barry Foster
Chipper Barnett ...... Nicky Henson
Magnus Carter ...... Nigel Stock
Lodderick Sincere ...... Tony Osoba

With Wendy Murray, Willoughby Goddard and Bernard Brown.

Charles Chilton wrote and produced many popular and successful radio programmes for the BBC - including the classic 1950s serial 'Journey into Space' - charting the adventures of Captain Jet Morgan. This fired the imagination of millions, years before the first moon landing. It was the last radio drama to record higher ratings than the new young upstart television!

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1985.

MON 14:30 Doctor Who (b00s3cgl)
The Brain of Morbius

Episode 3

Matters come to a head as the Time Lord senses the presence of renegade Morbius, who he assumed was dead. Read by Tom Baker.

MON 15:00 Clive James: Falling Towards England (b00n4905)
Soul for Sale

Reading from his memoirs, the author and broadcaster reappraises his moral values and considers a job in an advertising agency.

MON 15:15 Letter from America by Alistair Cooke (b0089htt)
Santa Fe

The legendary broadcaster recounts his first proper encounter with a native American in Spring 1947. (1970s rerecording).

MON 15:30 HE Bates' My Uncle Silas (b007jr1z)
The Lily

The crafty old rural rogue reveals how he came by a lily which he refers to as 'she'. Abridged and read by David Neal.

MON 15:45 Travels With a Donkey (b00cglj2)
The Camisards

As his 1878 French mountain adventure continues, Robert Louis Stevenson recollects battles over religion. Read by Alan Cumming.

MON 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00s3cgq)
Chris Pizzey presents an hour of children's stories featuring A Spell of Witches, Second Fiddle, I'm an Alien Beam Me Off Here! and The Runner.

MON 17:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b0084hyx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

MON 17:30 Semi Circles (b007jtyy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

MON 18:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn5r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

MON 18:30 Doctor Who (b00s3cgl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

MON 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jpcv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

MON 19:30 Steptoe and Son (b00s3cgj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]

MON 20:00 Paul Temple (b007jzpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today]

MON 20:30 Wimsey (b007jvkk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today]

MON 21:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s3bd1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

MON 21:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jm7p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

MON 22:00 The Leopard in Autumn (b00s3bcz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

MON 22:30 On Baby Street (b00flbp3)
Series 2

Episode 3

New mum Geraldine's after a nanny, while Shona's flat out at work. Stars Jenny Eclair and Frances Barber. From September 1997.

MON 23:00 Think the Unthinkable (b007jm4p)
Series 1

London Transport

The Unthinkable Solutions team ride to the rescue of London's transport system.

Their strategy is to put Reg, an intense night-bus driver, in charge of London Transport, while chief executive Bud Jackson is sent back to driving tube trains...

James Cary’s award-winning sitcom about management consultants.

Ryan Packer ...... Marcus Brigstocke
Sophie Stott ...... Emma Kennedy
Daisy ...... Catherine Shepherd
Cynthia ...... Olivia Colman
Bud ...... Kim Wall
Reg ...... Chris Pavlo
Various ...... David Mitchell

Script associates: Paul Mayhew-Archer and Ed Drew.

Music by John Whitehall.

Producer: Adam Bromley.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2001.

MON 23:30 World of Pub (b008m4ft)
Series 1

Episode 2

Barry and Garry build the world's first environmentally friendly bar. Stars Phil Cornwell and John Thomson. From March 1998.

MON 23:45 Sounding Off with McGough (b007k44n)
Episode 2

Roger McGough's poetic reflections on the inhabitants of the world.

With the accompaniment of long-time musical collaborator Andy Roberts.

Recorded in Bath.

Producer: Sara Davies

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000.

TUESDAY 20 APRIL 2010

TUE 00:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn5r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]

TUE 00:30 Doctor Who (b00s3cgl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]

TUE 01:00 Paul Temple (b007jzpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Monday]

TUE 01:30 Wimsey (b007jvkk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Monday]

TUE 02:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s3bd1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday]

TUE 02:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jm7p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday]

TUE 03:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr51)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]

TUE 04:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b0084hyx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]

TUE 04:30 Semi Circles (b007jtyy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]

TUE 05:00 Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (b00s3d11)
Episode 6

Pip and Joe grow further apart - and another strange reunion follows. Stars Amanda Redman and Douglas Hodge.

TUE 05:30 Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (b00s3d13)
Episode 2

Tom goes to school and takes lessons in the pitfalls of love thanks to the yellow-haired Becky Thatcher. Read by Ed Bishop.

TUE 05:45 Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes (b00s3d15)
Episode 7

As Petrova becomes enchanted by aeroplanes, both she and Pauline get to share the limelight. Read by Harriet Walter.

TUE 06:00 20/04/2010 (b00s3d17)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.

TUE 08:00 Take It From Here (b00dkhws)
Flavours of Italy from Jimmy Edwards and Dick Bentley, while Eth's claiming Ron Glum is a daddy's boy.

TUE 08:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b00s3d19)
Series 3

Madness In His Method

Robert Wilson devotes his life to someone's art.

Farcical sitcom about the trials and tribulations of a young actor desperately seeking work.

John Gordon Sinclair stars in Paul Mayhew-Archer's sitcom.

Robert ..... John Gordon Sinclair
Desmond Shaw ..... Gary Waldhorn
Sue ..... Gina McKee

With:
Toby Longworth
Harriet Thorpe
Millie Tiffin
Andrew Berkeley
Simon Slater

Producer: Dianne Messias

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1993.

TUE 09:00 After Henry (b007jpt4)
Series 3

Wedding Bells

'Well, I think it's a mother's duty to keep a maternal eye on her daughter's emotional entanglements. That's what I always tried to do with you. You know, subtly. At a distance.'

Eleanor has plans for nuptials in the family, but the family has other ideas...

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

Sarah ...... Prunella Scales
Eleanor ...... Joan Sanderson
Russell ...... Benjamin Whitrow
Clare ...... Gerry Cowper

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

Producer: Pete Atkin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1987.

TUE 09:30 Bristow (b00cbcpg)
Series 1

Fair Shares

Takeover tangles as Bristow learns that Chester Perry is making a takeover bid for the firm across the street.

He thinks that if he surreptitiously invests in rivals Miles and Rudge, he can make a mint...

Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the Chester-Perry buying clerk. He is but a small cog in a gigantic wheel... and he knows it.

Adapted from by Frank Dickens from his famous newspaper cartoon strip. Syndicated internationally, it ran for 51 years from 1961.

Bristow ...... Michael Williams
Jones ...... Rodney Bewes
Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan
Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman
Fudge ...... Jon Glover
Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey
Prunella Peach ...... Carol Starks
Fred Stokes ...... David Battley
Post Boy ...... Simon Schatzberger

Music: John Whitehall

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1999.

TUE 10:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr5g)
Son of Arrius

Judah Ben Hur has been falsely accused of attempted murder, sent to the galleys and rescued by Arrius of Rome. He now returns in search of his mother and sister.

Lew Wallace's epic tale stars Jamie Glover as Judah Ben Hur.

Ben Hur ...... Jamie Glover
Messala ...... Samuel West
Simonides ...... Bernard Hepton
Ilderim ...... Freddie Jones
Balthasar ...... Michael Hordern
Drusus ...... Ian Masters
Esther ...... Deborah Berlin
Iras ...... Natasha Pyne
Servant ...... Joshua Towb
Passenger ...... Michael Tudor Barnes
Malluch ...... Gavin Muir
Iras ...... Becky Hindley

Michael Gambon reads from the Bible.

Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska.

Music by Wilfredo Acosta.

Director: Glyn Dearman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995.

TUE 11:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s3dpc)
Episode 17

Adam and Eve prepare for the arrival of archangel Raphael in the Garden of Eden. Stars Denis Quilley and Linus Roache.

TUE 11:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jm8v)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Series 2

The Naval Treaty

Watson's old school chum faces ruin if a secret government document can't be found. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael Williams.

TUE 12:00 Take It From Here (b00dkhws)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

TUE 12:30 For Better or for Worse (b00hk2dx)
Series 1

Episode 8

Iris is proper poorly, but not quite as poorly as Wilf thinks she is. Stars Gorden Kaye and Su Pollard. From April 1993.

TUE 13:00 Paul Temple (b007jn54)
Paul Temple and the Spencer Affair

A Party of Four

The smooth sleuth gathers together the key players in the musical mystery.

Francis Durbridge's thriller starring Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in the conclusion of another intriguing case.

With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes, Brewster Mason as Rupert Dreisler, Hugh Manning as Vosper, James Beattie as Charlie, John Graham as Eric Lansdale, Isobel Dean as Terry Gibson, Simon Lack as Adrian Frost, June Turbin as Judy Milton and Thomas Heathcote as Pete Roberts.

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, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case.

Producer: Martyn C. Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1957.

TUE 13:30 Wimsey (b007jvkp)
Clouds of Witness

The Morning After

Despite his sister Mary's confession, the aristocratic murder mystery is far from over yet for Lord Peter Wimsey...

Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Peter Jones as Bunter, Gabriel Woolf as Inspector Parker, Maria Aitken as Lady Mary Wimsey, Patricia Routledge as the Duchess of Denver, Malcolm Hayes as Murbles, Clifford Norgate as Goyles and Brian Oulton as Sir Impy Biggs.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Clouds of Witness was first published in 1926.

Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.

Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations broadcast between 1972 and 1975.

Adapted for radio in eight episodes Peter Jones and Tania Lieven.

Producer: Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1974.

TUE 14:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn65)
Series 2

Unto Death - And Beyond

Stranded on the Golden Planet, the Space Force crew must find a way to return to Mars.

Conclusion of Charles Chilton's second intergalatic adventure starring Barry Foster.

Captain Saxon Berry ...... Barry Foster
Chipper Barnett ...... Nicky Henson
Magnus Carter ...... Nigel Stock
Lodderick Sincere ...... Tony Osoba

With Wendy Murray, Willoughby Goddard, Bernard Brown and Mia Soteriou.

Charles Chilton wrote and produced many popular and successful radio programmes for the BBC - including the classic 1950s serial 'Journey into Space' - charting the adventures of Captain Jet Morgan. This fired the imagination of millions, years before the first moon landing. It was the last radio drama to record higher ratings than the new young upstart television!

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1985.

TUE 14:30 Doctor Who (b00s3dpf)
The Brain of Morbius

Episode 4

The Time Lord braces himself for a fiery demise, but Solon still has his own gruesome plan in mind. Read by Tom Baker.

TUE 15:00 Clive James: Falling Towards England (b00n4fff)
Cracking the Secret Code

Reading from his memoirs, the author and broadcaster finds himself drooling over a beautiful woman as he struggles to find regular work.

TUE 15:15 Letter from America by Alistair Cooke (b008fdgt)
Rudolph Valentino

In the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, remembering Rudolph Valentino, the first superstar creation lost in the dazzle of the spotlight.

TUE 15:30 HE Bates' My Uncle Silas (b007jr2c)
The Revelation

The bathing habits of HE Bates' vintage character. Who was the girl that ran off with his clothes one day? Read by David Neal.

TUE 15:45 Travels With a Donkey (b00cgsrr)
The Heart of the Country

Robert Louis Stevenson enjoys wild views of French mountains feathered with chestnut trees. Read by Alan Cumming.

TUE 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00s3dph)
Chris Pizzey presents an hour of children's stories featuring A Spell of Witches, Second Fiddle, I'm an Alien Beam Me Off Here! and The Runner.

TUE 17:00 After Henry (b007jpt4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

TUE 17:30 Bristow (b00cbcpg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

TUE 18:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn65)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

TUE 18:30 Doctor Who (b00s3dpf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

TUE 19:00 Take It From Here (b00dkhws)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

TUE 19:30 For Better or for Worse (b00hk2dx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]

TUE 20:00 Paul Temple (b007jn54)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today]

TUE 20:30 Wimsey (b007jvkp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today]

TUE 21:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s3dpc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

TUE 21:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jm8v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

TUE 22:00 An Actor's Life for Me (b00s3d19)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

TUE 22:30 Seymour the Fractal Cat (b007jnfc)
Strange Attractors

Comedy adventure about a computer conspiracy and a moggy with a mouth. Stars Greg Proops and John Hegley. From April 1996.

TUE 23:00 Ed Reardon's Week (b007k44m)
Series 2

Our Man In Berkhamsted

Embittered writer Ed's got a dental dilemma and is ranting over a literary festival.

Welcome to the comical world of Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive e-mail.

Christopher Douglas stars as Ed Reardon.

Written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds.

Featuring:

Stephanie Cole
Philip Jackson
John Fortune
Rita May
Geoffrey McGivern
Barunka O'Shaughnessy
Sally Grace
Geoffrey Whitehead
Dan Tetsell
Alice Lowe
Simon Greenall

Producer: Simon Nicholls

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2006.

TUE 23:30 I Think I've Got a Problem (b00cc4qg)
Series 2

Episode 1

In an attempt to rid him of the band that lives in his head, Tom’s been sent to a special centre for the entertainingly afflicted. The treatment's going well - until the band can't take any more and make Tom burst into song.

Reunited once more, Tom and the band decide they've missed each other and hatch an escape plan...

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

Suggs ..... Tom Caine
Bob Monkhouse ..... Dr Boone
Phil Cornwell ..... Bouche
Andrew McGibbon ..... Jake
Nick Romero ..... Monty DeVere
Bill Nighy ..... Malc
Julia Deakin ..... Phelia
Toby Longworth ..... Clammy
Tracy-Ann Oberman

Songs: Andrew McGibbon. Nick Romero and Suggs

Producers: Andrew McGibbon and Dawn Ellis.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003.

WEDNESDAY 21 APRIL 2010

WED 00:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn65)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]

WED 00:30 Doctor Who (b00s3dpf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]

WED 01:00 Paul Temple (b007jn54)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Tuesday]

WED 01:30 Wimsey (b007jvkp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Tuesday]

WED 02:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s3dpc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday]

WED 02:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jm8v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday]

WED 03:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr5g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]

WED 04:00 After Henry (b007jpt4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Tuesday]

WED 04:30 Bristow (b00cbcpg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday]

WED 05:00 Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (b00s3dys)
Episode 7

Herbert knows that Pip cannot get over Estella - but she remains distant. Stars Amanda Redman and Douglas Hodge.

WED 05:30 Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (b00s3dyv)
Episode 3

Tom and Huckleberry Finn try to cure warts with a visit to a graveyard - but they are in for a nasty shock. Read by Ed Bishop.

WED 05:45 Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes (b00s3f3v)
Episode 8

Petrova and her sister prepare for their next stage production but for Pauline, the big screen beckons. Read by Harriet Walter.

WED 06:00 21/04/2010 (b00s3f3x)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.

WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jzg0)
Series 1

The Monte Carlo Rally

The lad competes in the famous motor race in a very classic car - provided by Sid.

Starring Tony Hancock.

With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney James and Kenneth Williams.

Special guests: Brian Johnston and Raymond Baxter.

Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

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

Producer: Dennis Main Wilson

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1955.

WED 08:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (b007jrcc)
Episode 1

It ran for 10 series on Channel 4 and found success in America, but the hit TV improvisation game actually started life on BBC radio.

When it began in January 1988, this show adopted a format with two regular team captains - Fry and Sessions and two guests each week, with Colin Sell at the piano.

In this first edition of the pioneering series, John Sessions, Dawn French, Stephen Fry and Lenny Henry are tasked to improvise by series chairman Clive Anderson.

Rounds include ghastly guests at a party and Goldilocks and the Three Bears performed as never before.

Devised and compiled by Mark Leveson. Additional material by Martin Booth.

Producer: Dan Patterson.

WED 09:00 Second Thoughts (b007jx2l)
Series 1

Negative Vetting

Faith's not impressed to discover what Bill's mum thinks about her...

Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill MacGregor and Faith Greyshott trying to forge a relationship whilst balancing the demands of his ex-wife, Liza and her teenage children, Hannah and Joe.

Staring Lynda Bellingham and James Bolam.

Series one of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie.

A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran for four series, with a spin-off 'Faith in the Future'.

Faith ...... Lynda Bellingham
Bill ...... James Bolam
Hannah ...... Kelda Holmes
Joe ...... Mark Denham
Hilary ...... Celia Imrie
Liza ...... Belinda Lang
Steve ...... Guy Brougham

Producer: Pete Atkin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1988.

WED 09:30 Smelling of Roses (b00fd63v)
Series 4

Episode 5

Rosie had always thought the expression 'Celebrity Gardener' was a contradiction in terms...until she met Bernadette Gittings...

Another assignment for Rosie Burns and the event management company, where the clients are only part of the problem...

Rosie Burns …. Prunella Scales
Jo …. Rebecca Callard
Bob …. Duncan Preston
Tess …. Annette Badland
Brad …. Colin Stinton
Bernadette Gittings …. Suzanne Jameson
Crispin Garnett …. George Leyton
Mrs Thompson …. Mary Wimbush

Written and produced by Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2003.

WED 10:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr5x)
The Chariot Race

The biggest day of Ben Hur 's life dawns -the chariot race with Messala.

Each has staked his fortune on the outcome. Each has everything to lose.

Lew Wallace's epic tale stars Jamie Glover as Judah Ben Hur.

Ben Hur ...... Jamie Glover
Messala ...... Samuel West
Simonides ...... Bernard Hepton
Ilderim ...... Freddie Jones
Drusus ...... Ian Masters
Amrah ...... Phyllis Calvert
Mother ...... Margaret John
Esther ...... Deborah Berlin
Tirzah ...... Natasha Pyne
Malluch ...... Gavin Muir
Iras ...... Becky Hindley
Gesius ...... Peter Yapp
Pilate ...... Neville Jason
Assassin ...... Oliver Senton
Roman 1 ...... Joshua Towb
Servant ...... Michael Tudor Barnes

Michael Gambon reads from the Bible.

Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska.

Music by Wilfredo Acosta.

Director: Glyn Dearman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995.

WED 11:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s3g4p)
Episode 18

Archangel Raphael explains to Adam and Eve how Satan fomented rebellion among the angels. Stars John Rowe and Godfrey Kenton.

WED 11:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jm9d)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Series 2

The Final Problem

With the culmination of his life's work, the detective prepares to meet his greatest adversary. Starring Clive Merrison.

WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jzg0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

WED 12:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00bbn44)
Series 2

Practice Makes Perfect

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

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

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

Tommy Franklin ...... Roy Hudd
Sheila Parr ...... June Whitfield

With Pat Coombs, Julian Eardley and Edward Halstead

Music by Frido Ruth.

Producer: Steve Doherty

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1999.

WED 13:00 Dick Francis (b007jpxx)
Bolt

1. Threats and Menaces

Champion jockey Kit Fielding is engaged to Danielle de Brescou the niece of his employer Princess Casilia.

The Princess recruits Kit to fend off Henri de Brescou, a dangerous cousin trying to involve her in the armaments business.

But Kit also has problems of his own...

Dick Francis's 1986 racing thriller dramatised in five-parts by John Ashe.

Kit Fielding ...... Eric Allan
Princess Casilia ...... Sian Phillips
Danielle ...... Elizabeth MacGovern
Henri ...... John Bull
Greening ...... Jack May
Dusty ...... Christian Rodska
Thomas ...... Steve Hodson
Allardeck ...... Bill Wallis
Roland ...... Simon Carter

Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin at BBC Pebble Mill.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1994

WED 13:30 Wimsey (b007jvkv)
Clouds of Witness

In a Fog

On the trail of the Grimethorpes, Lord Peter Wimsey and Bunter get lost on the moor...

Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Peter Jones as Bunter, James Villiers as the Duke of Denver, Bill Wallis as Grimethorpe, Elizabeth Proud as Mrs Grimethorpe, David Sinclair as Jake and Alan Rowe as the Warden Rescuer.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Clouds of Witness was first published in 1926.

Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations broadcast between 1972 and 1975.

Adapted for radio in eight episodes Peter Jones and Tania Lieven.

Producer: Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1974.

WED 14:00 Wally K Daly (b007js5k)
Before the Screaming Begins

Episode 1

An invasion by aliens interrupts an idyllic wedding anniversary celebration for Tom Harris and his wife.

Before the Screaming Begins is the first of Wally K Daly's sci-fi trilogy which continues with The Silent Scream and With a Whimper to the Grave.

Tom Harris ...... James Laurenson
Sally Harris ...... Jennifer Piercey
AP Smith ...... Donald Hewlett
Detective Sergeant Forbes ...... Robert Trotter
Catherine's Mother ...... Katherine Parr
Nurse ...... Maggie Ollerenshaw
Desk Sergeant ...... Peter Williams
Silkin ...... Peter Wickham
Alien Voice ...... Malcolm Gerard
Alien Controller ...... Manning Wilson

Director: Martin Jenkins

First broadcast as a 90 minute Saturday-Night Theatre production on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.

WED 14:30 Doctor Who (b00s3g4r)
The Brain of Morbius

Episode 5

The Time Lord battles to restore Sarah Jane's eyesight, but Solon and the Sisterhood have their own agendas. Read by Tom Baker.

WED 15:00 Clive James: Falling Towards England (b00n51fz)
Statistical Catastrophe

Reading from his memoirs, the author and broadcaster recalls trying to impress a career girl - at the expense of his own job.

WED 15:15 Letter from America by Alistair Cooke (b008cpb3)
How ice cream changed America

Reuben Mattus, the inventor of Haagen-Dazs ice-cream, reminds Alistair Cooke of other immigrants who have shaped America.

WED 15:30 HE Bates' My Uncle Silas (b007jr2s)
A Funny Thing

HE Bates' vintage character shares tales of women and the world. Then there's the dazzling Lady Susannah. Read by David Neal.

WED 15:45 Travels With a Donkey (b00cgyjn)
Farewell, Modestine!

As Robert Louis Stevenson's French mountain adventure concludes, there is a last supper with his donkey. Read by Alan Cumming.

WED 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00s3g4t)
Chris Pizzey presents an hour of children's stories featuring A Spell of Witches, Second Fiddle, I'm An Alien Beam Me Off Here! and The Runner.

WED 17:00 Second Thoughts (b007jx2l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

WED 17:30 Smelling of Roses (b00fd63v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

WED 18:00 Wally K Daly (b007js5k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

WED 18:30 Doctor Who (b00s3g4r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jzg0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

WED 19:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00bbn44)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]

WED 20:00 Dick Francis (b007jpxx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today]

WED 20:30 Wimsey (b007jvkv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today]

WED 21:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s3g4p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

WED 21:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jm9d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

WED 22:00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (b007jrcc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

WED 22:30 The Very World of Milton Jones (b00fr0dl)
Series 2

Episode 2

Struck by lightning, the comedian's life flashes before him, as his very Welshness is called into question. From November 1999.

WED 23:00 The End of the Road Show (b00kk0n1)
Episode 1

Taking coals to Newcastle, the sketch comedy pokes fun at local targets. Stars Nick Hancock and Tony Hawks. From December 1991.

WED 23:30 Any Bloke (b007jxqg)
Series 1

Roots

Stay-at-home dad Phil promises to take Sophie to a local playgroup. Stars Jim Sweeney and Caroline Quentin. From October 1993.

THURSDAY 22 APRIL 2010

THU 00:00 Wally K Daly (b007js5k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]

THU 00:30 Doctor Who (b00s3g4r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]

THU 01:00 Dick Francis (b007jpxx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Wednesday]

THU 01:30 Wimsey (b007jvkv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Wednesday]

THU 02:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s3g4p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday]

THU 02:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jm9d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday]

THU 03:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr5x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]

THU 04:00 Second Thoughts (b007jx2l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]

THU 04:30 Smelling of Roses (b00fd63v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]

THU 05:00 Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (b00s3htm)
Episode 8

Pip appears to be unaware of the debt that he's getting himself into. Stars Amanda Redman and Douglas Hodge.

THU 05:30 Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (b00s3htp)
Episode 4

Ignored by Becky, Tom decides he is an outcast and runs off with Joe and Huck to try the life of a pirate. Read by Ed Bishop.

THU 05:45 Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes (b00s3htr)
Episode 9

Pauline finishes filming her first movie whilst Posy finds difficulty in adjusting to Madam's absence. Read by Harriet Walter.

THU 06:00 22/04/2010 (b00s3htt)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.

THU 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jn76)
Series 6

Tales of Old Dartmoor

Prison governor Neddie Seagoon relocates all of his inmates to the south of France.

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.

Starring:
Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan

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

With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.

Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.

Announcer: Wallace Greenslade

Producer: Peter Eton

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1956.

THU 08:30 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.

THU 09:00 Up the Garden Path (b0089kjs)
Series 3

New Men

Izzy moves into a new flat and faces a new term, but will she find a new man?

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

Imelda Staunton stars as Izzy.

An 6-part radio sequel adapted from Sue Limb’s 1984 novel. The last of 3 series which ran from 1987 to 1993. Granada also adapted the series for ITV.

Izzy ...... Imelda Staunton
Dick ...... Mike Grady
Michael ...... Nicholas Le Prevost
Maria ...... Marty Cruickshank
Louise ...... Phyllida Nash
Razors ...... Rene Zagger
Marianne ...... Deborah Findlay
Gwyn ...... Sion Probert
Brown ...... Geoffrey McGivern

Producer: Jonathan James-Moore

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1993.

THU 09:30 Flying the Flag (b007jx5g)
Series 1

Favours

In which the repair of the Embassy typewriter plays a part in the mating of seals, the extermination of bugs, and the silencing of little birds.

Alex Shearer's Eastern bloc embassy sitcom.

Starring Dinsdale Landen as HM Ambassador Mr Mackenzie, Peter Acre as William Frost, Moir Leslie as Helen Waterson, Milton Johns as Brown, Stuart Organ as Bryant and Christopher Benjamin as the Colonel

Producer: Pete Atkin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1987.

THU 10:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr6d)
The King Comes into His Kingdom

After the prince's victory in the chariot race, news arrives of his mother and sister.

Conclusion of Lew Wallace's epic tale starring Jamie Glover as Judah Ben Hur.

Ben Hur ...... Jamie Glover
Simonides ...... Bernard Hepton
Balthasar ...... Michael Hordern
Amrah ...... Phyllis Calvert
Mother ...... Margaret John
Esther ...... Deborah Berlin
Tirzah ...... Natasha Pyne
Malluch ...... Gavin Muir
Iras ...... Becky Hindley
Guide ...... Neville Jason
Man at Inn ...... Joshua Towb
Man 1 ...... Don McCorkindale
Man 2 ...... Derek Waring
Man 3 ...... Peter Yapp
Man 4 ...... Peter Whitman

Michael Gambon reads from the Bible.

Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska.

Music by Wilfredo Acosta.

Director: Glyn Dearman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995.

THU 11:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s3hlk)
Episode 19

Archangel Raphael describes how Michael and Gabriel were sent to battle against Satan. Stars John Rowe and Ian McDiarmid.

THU 11:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlpz)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Series 1

The Empty House

Three years after his sleuth friend's final encounter with Moriarty, Watson faces more tragedy and murder. With Clive Merrison.

THU 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jn76)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

THU 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00s3htw)
Series 3

Episode 6

Your chance to take part in an experiment in stereo sound - and meet unsung soccer hero, Angus Prune!

More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs and parodies.

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

Written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Eric Idle, Clive James, Bernard King and Bill Oddie.

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

Music and songs by Dave Lee and Bill Oddie.

Producer: Humphrey Barclay

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in April 1966.

THU 13:00 Dick Francis (b007jpyf)
Bolt

2. Horses Begin to Die

Henri de Brescou, bent upon obtaining authority from the French Government to make plastic guns, threatens Roland, Princess Casilia's frail and elderly husband.

Dick Francis's racing thriller dramatised by John Ashe.

Kit Fielding ...... Eric Allan
Princess Casilia ...... Sian Phillips
Danielle ...... Elizabeth MacGovern
Henri ...... John Bull
Roland ...... Simon Carter
Dusty ...... Christian Rodska
Thomas ...... Steve Hodson
Allardeck ...... Bill Wallis
Wykeham ...... William Eedle

Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin at BBC Pebble Mill.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1994

THU 13:30 Wimsey (b007jvl0)
Clouds of Witness

The Barometer Falls

Lord Peter Wimsey probes the whereabouts of his brother on the night of the murder - and Mary takes the stand...

Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Peter Jones as Bunter, Gabriel Woolf as Inspector Parker, Maria Aitken as Lady Mary Wimsey, Brian Oulton as Sir Impey Biggs, Bill Wallis as Grimethorpe, Elizabeth Proud as Mrs Grimethorpe, David Sinclair as Jake, Nigel Lambert as Freddie Arbuthnot, Garard Green as Sir Wigmore Rinsing and John Forrest as Benson.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Clouds of Witness was first published in 1926.

Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations broadcast between 1972 and 1975.

Adapted for radio in eight episodes Peter Jones and Tania Lieven.

Producer: Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1974.

THU 14:00 Wally K Daly (b007js5w)
Before the Screaming Begins

Episode 2

The startling new mental powers of Tom Harris sparks the interest of authorities...

Before the Screaming Begins is the first of Wally K Daly's sci-fi trilogy which continues with The Silent Scream and With a Whimper to the Grave.

Tom Harris ...... James Laurenson
Sally Harris ...... Jennifer Piercey
Prime Minister ...... Patrick Troughton
AP Smith ...... Donald Hewlett
Detective Sergeant Forbes ...... Robert Trotter
MP ...... Peter Williams
Silkin ...... Peter Wickham
Alien Voice ...... Malcolm Gerard
Alien Controller ...... Manning Wilson

Director: Martin Jenkins

First broadcast as a 90 minute Saturday-Night Theatre production on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.

THU 14:30 Doctor Who (b00s3hmq)
The Brain of Morbius

Episode 6

The Time Lord helps the Sisterhood, while the impatient Morbius demands that Solon take immediate action. Read by Tom Baker.

THU 15:00 Clive James: Falling Towards England (b00n58d9)
The Man in the Paper Bag

Reading from his memoirs, the author and broadcaster recalls trying to enjoy some private time with his girlfriend.

THU 15:15 Letter from America by Alistair Cooke (b0089kv4)
Groucho Marx and Bing Crosby

Two great talents who died in 1977 - remembering Groucho Marx and Bing Crosby.

THU 15:30 HE Bates' My Uncle Silas (b007jr37)
Finger Wet, Finger Dry

HE Bates' old reprobate tells of the time he was forced to live on stewed nails: 'That's where women land yer'. With David Neal.

THU 15:45 Ronald Frame Short Stories (b007k1lf)
The End of the Season

Rhona has run away from her relationship problems. At her hotel, she comes to an understanding.

Jilly Bond reads Ronald Frame's short story.

Producer: David Hunter

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995.

THU 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00s3j24)
Chris Pizzey presents an hour of children's stories featuring Second Fiddle, I'm An Alien Beam Me Off Here! and The Runner.

THU 17:00 Up the Garden Path (b0089kjs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

THU 17:30 Flying the Flag (b007jx5g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

THU 18:00 Wally K Daly (b007js5w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

THU 18:30 Doctor Who (b00s3hmq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

THU 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jn76)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

THU 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00s3htw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]

THU 20:00 Dick Francis (b007jpyf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today]

THU 20:30 Wimsey (b007jvl0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today]

THU 21:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s3hlk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

THU 21:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlpz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

THU 22:00 The Nick Revell Show (b007k1n0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

THU 22:30 Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (b00s3j26)
Cabbage Looking in Mufti

The surreal saga of a dynasty delicately balanced on the edge of sanity.

Written by and starring Viv Stanshall.

Contains edits of an original John Peel session as first heard on BBC Radio 1.

Music composed and performed by Viv Stanshall using additional musicians.

Producer: John Walters

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1996.

THU 22:45 Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle (b00cl648)
Episode 2

'Walking Down the Road' and 'The Jambeena Body Affair'.

Music, prosaic idiosyncrasy and whimsy from the unique Ivor Cutler. With Alison O'Kill and Craig Murray-Orr.

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in June 1997.

THU 23:00 Acropolis Now (b007tldm)
Series 2

Sons

As food runs out at the fish restaurant, a man claims he's the Oracle's long-lost son. Stars Stephen Moore. From March 2002.

THU 23:30 If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? (b00s3j28)
Series 1

But Is It Art?

Just as the arty world opens to Judith, Giles plunges her into a media sleaze pit. Stars Richard E Grant. From February 1995.

FRIDAY 23 APRIL 2010

FRI 00:00 Wally K Daly (b007js5w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]

FRI 00:30 Doctor Who (b00s3hmq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]

FRI 01:00 Dick Francis (b007jpyf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Thursday]

FRI 01:30 Wimsey (b007jvl0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Thursday]

FRI 02:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s3hlk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday]

FRI 02:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlpz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday]

FRI 03:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr6d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]

FRI 04:00 Up the Garden Path (b0089kjs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]

FRI 04:30 Flying the Flag (b007jx5g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]

FRI 05:00 Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (b00s3jtb)
Episode 9

Pip meets his enigmatic patron, and wants to learn more about Estella. Stars Amanda Redman and Douglas Hodge.

FRI 05:30 Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (b00s3jtd)
Episode 5

The boys continue their lives as pirates, but Tom sneaks to the mainland to find out how much they are missed.

FRI 05:45 Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes (b00s3jtg)
Episode 10

The time has come for the orphans to go their separate ways, just as their beloved Gum returns. Read by Harriet Walter.

FRI 06:00 23/04/2010 (b00s3jtj)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.

FRI 08:00 Stop Messing About! (b00s3jtl)
Series 2

Episode 10

Bona news about a new LP - and who killed Cock Robin?

Starring Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Joan Sims and announcer, Douglas Smith.

After the unexpected death of Kenneth Horne in 1969, plans for the next series of Round The Horne were axed. Instead - using an old catchphrase of Kenneth Williams as a series title - Kenneth joined Hugh Paddick to continue the comedy tradition and was also reunited with his "Carry On" film co-star Joan Sims.

Written by Myles Rudge, David Cumming and Derek Collyer.

With the Max Harris Group.

Producer: John Simmonds

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1970.

FRI 08:30 Radio Shuttleworth (b007jq8z)
Series 2

Barbara Dickson

Sheffield's aspiring singer-songwriter John Shuttleworth 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 a mixture of celebrity guests, domestic chores and music.
.
Bill Bailey drops in for "Impress an Impresario" while Hattie Hayridge telephones to "Make Mary Merry"

Special guest Barbara Dickson pops in for a chat, but her timing couldn't have been worse as John is expecting a rush of callers responding to his advert for the sale of son Darren's cabin bed.

Written and performed by Graham Fellows.

Additional material by Martin Willis.

Producer: Dawn Ellis.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2000

FRI 09:00 Old Dog and Partridge (b007v07y)
Episode 2

Jack and Nicola are struggling to re-establish their father-daughter bond, as she settles back into the pub.

But when she breaks his favourite bowl, Nicola worries that she might have broken something else.

Joe Turner’s six-part sitcom stars Michael Williams as Jack, Lisa Coleman as Nicola, Cherry Morris as Mrs Drummond, Simon Greenall as Andy and Toby Longworth as Brian.

Producer: Liz Anstee

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999.

FRI 09:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008m30v)
Boning Up on History

Harold Perkins wants to dig for post-war Britain, but the workmates decide to soil his plans.

Six anarchic tales from those demob days “when we was going to build the new Jerusalem - you know, before the world turned lax and sour”.

Stars Norman Rossington as Big Jim, Roland Curram as Harold Perkins, Harold Goodwin as Old Ned, David John as Nimrod, Sylvester McCoy as Turps, David Beckett as Chick, Steven Harrold as Harry, Hilary Mason as Miss Farquhar, Douglas Blackwell as the Farmer and Ben Aris as Trev the Rev.

Narrated by Bernard Cribbins.

Written by Ted Walker.

Producer: Martin Fisher

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1987.

FRI 10:00 Caesar! (b00ct508)
Series 1

Meeting at Formiae

Julius Caesar secretly seeks senate leaders Cicero and Cato's support to shake up the rule of Rome. Stars David Troughton.

FRI 11:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s3jnq)
Episode 20

In the tale of Satan's evil deeds and rebellion against God, archangel Michael does battle. Stars John Rowe and Mark Straker.

FRI 11:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jp4j)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Series 1

The Norwood Builder

The Baker Street sleuth probes the case of a young solicitor accused of murder. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael Williams.

FRI 12:00 Stop Messing About! (b00s3jtl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

FRI 12:30 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket (b00s3jtn)
Series 1

The Jubilee

Can the dear ladies save the day at the community centre?

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

With Duggie Brown.

The dear ladies reside in the Suffolk village of Stackton Tressel. This was the genteel setting for three Radio 4 series between 1977 and 1979, with further spin-off seasons on Radio 2 until 1990. In the early 1980s, they expanded over to BBC TV with the series Dear Ladies.

Dame Hilda Bracket ...... George Logan
Dr Evadne Hinge ...... Patrick Fyffe

Scripted by Mike Craig, Lawrie Kinsley and Ron McDonnell.

Producer: James Casey.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1977.

FRI 13:00 Dick Francis (b007jpyx)
Bolt

3. Hostile Intelligence

Danielle de Brescou is followed and terrified by two men in hoods, while two of Princess Casilia's finest racing horses are slaughtered with a bolt gun.

Dick Francis's racing thriller dramatised by John Ashe.

Kit Fielding ...... Eric Allan
Princess Casilia ...... Sian Phillips
Danielle ...... Elizabeth MacGovern
Henri ...... John Bull
Roland ...... Simon Carter
Dusty ...... Christian Rodska
Wykeham ...... William Eedle
Lord Vaughnley ...... Gerry Hinks
Prince Litsi ...... Sam Dastor
Beatrice Bunt ...... Margaret Robertson

Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin at BBC Pebble Mill.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1994

FRI 13:30 Wimsey (b007jvl4)
Clouds of Witness

The Speech for the Defence

Lord Peter Wimsey gathers vital evidence in New York to try and clear his brother Gerald of murder, but there's a sting in the tail...

Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Peter Jones as Bunter, Gabriel Woolf as Inspector Parker, Maria Aitken as Lady Mary Wimsey, Brian Oulton as Sir Impey Biggs, Elizabeth Proud as Mrs Grimethorpe, Nigel Lambert as Freddie Arbuthnot, John Forrest as Benson, James Villiers as the Duke of Denver, Bridget McConnell as Simone, Jo Manning Wilson as Madame Brigette, John Bull as Sugg and Malcolm Hayes as Murbles.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Clouds of Witness was first published in 1926.

Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations broadcast between 1972 and 1975.

Adapted for radio in eight episodes Peter Jones and Tania Lieven.

Producer: Simon Brett.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1974.

FRI 14:00 Wally K Daly (b007js66)
Before the Screaming Begins

Episode 3

The sinister intentions of the alien invaders are finally revealed. Can the Earth fight back?

Conclusion of Before the Screaming Begins - the first of Wally K Daly's sci-fi trilogy which continues with The Silent Scream and With a Whimper to the Grave.

Tom Harris ...... James Laurenson
Sally Harris ...... Jennifer Piercey
Prime Minister ...... Patrick Troughton
AP Smith ...... Donald Hewlett
Detective Sergeant Forbes ...... Robert Trotter
Prime Minister's Wife ...... Katherine Parr
MP ...... Peter Williams
Brosteaux ...... Nigel Graham
Corporal Wilkes ...... Geoffrey Leesley,
Corporal Johnson ...... Eric Allen
Cabinet Minister ...... Maggie Ollerenshaw
Silkin ...... Peter Wickham
Alien Voice ...... Malcolm Gerard
Alien Controller ...... Manning Wilson

Director: Martin Jenkins

First broadcast as a 90 minute Saturday-Night Theatre production on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.

FRI 14:30 Doctor Who (b00s3jtq)
The Brain of Morbius

Episode 7

Implanted into the composite body, the brain of Morbius is determined to get its revenge against the world. Read by Tom Baker.

FRI 15:00 Clive James: Falling Towards England (b00n5s3m)
Chunk Chunk - Yerk Yerk

The author and broadcaster recalls how his childhood fear of dentists led to an encounter with Mr Jolly.

FRI 15:15 Letter from America by Alistair Cooke (b00fks6t)
The atom bomb warning of 1939

How Roosevelt was warned of Germany's nuclear threat by two Hungarian refugees from Long Island in 1939, thanks to a boy who liked fishing.

FRI 15:30 HE Bates' My Uncle Silas (b007jr3n)
Silas the Good

HE Bates' rural reprobate is digging a grave. Will his stern visitor relax and admire the cowslips? Read by David Neal.

FRI 15:45 Ronald Frame Short Stories (b007k19s)
The Trinket Box

To her observers, Mrs Bradley always seemed that bit too glamorous for a small gift shop owner...

John Gordon Sinclair reads Ronald Frame's short story.

Producer: David Hunter

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1996.

FRI 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00s3jts)
Chris Pizzey presents an hour of children's stories featuring Second Fiddle, I'm An Alien Beam Me Off Here! and The Runner.

FRI 17:00 Old Dog and Partridge (b007v07y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

FRI 17:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008m30v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

FRI 18:00 Wally K Daly (b007js66)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]

FRI 18:30 Doctor Who (b00s3jtq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]

FRI 19:00 Stop Messing About! (b00s3jtl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

FRI 19:30 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket (b00s3jtn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]

FRI 20:00 Dick Francis (b007jpyx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today]

FRI 20:30 Wimsey (b007jvl4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today]

FRI 21:00 John Milton's Paradise Lost (b00s3jnq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

FRI 21:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jp4j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

FRI 22:00 Radio Shuttleworth (b007jq8z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

FRI 22:30 Delve Special (b007jmq1)
Series 3

City Limits

The money men may be making a killing, but are they getting away with murder?

David Lander looks at the City and in particular the Rouget-Dory Venture Capital Syndicate

Presented by David Lander with assistance from Stephen Fry.

Studio production by Felicity Montagu, Jack Klaff and Robert Bathurst.

Dramatic reconstructions by Harry Enfield and Mark Arden.

Researched by Tony Sarchet.

Editor: Paul Mayhew-Archer

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

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1986.

FRI 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b008pb1r)
Series 1

Corruption

Can Satan convince the Professor that all human beings are corruptible – even his wife?

Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell.

Satan ...... Andy Hamilton
The Professor ...... James Grout
Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville
Gary, The Demon ...... Steven O'Donnell

Other characters played by Philip Pope, Penelope Nice and Jasper Jacob.

Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1995.

FRI 23:30 Ectoplasm (b007w5l4)
The Case of the Missing Lost Soul

A mysterious countess begs Lord Zimbabwe to win back her soul from the lord of the underworld.

Without a soul, she is destined to be a Barry Manilow fan for eternity.

Dan Freedman and Nick Romero’s comedy about the exploits of Lord Zimbabwe, occultist and adventurer.

Lord Zimbabwe ...... Nick Romero
Dr Lilac ...... Dan Freedman
Contessa Del Monte ...... Sophie Aldred
Priest ...... Colin Guthrie
Theremin ...... Peter Donaldson

Other parts played by the cast.

Producer: Helen Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000.

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

17/04/2010 06:00 SAT (b00s2zsc)

18/04/2010 06:00 SUN (b00s364r)

19/04/2010 06:00 MON (b00s3bcv)

20/04/2010 06:00 TUE (b00s3d17)

21/04/2010 06:00 WED (b00s3f3x)

22/04/2010 06:00 THU (b00s3htt)

23/04/2010 06:00 FRI (b00s3jtj)

A City Called Glory 13:00 SAT (b00jtbwx)

A City Called Glory 01:00 SUN (b00jtbwx)

A Series of Psychotic Episodes 23:00 SUN (b00b8wjw)

Acropolis Now 23:00 THU (b007tldm)

After Henry 09:00 TUE (b007jpt4)

After Henry 17:00 TUE (b007jpt4)

After Henry 04:00 WED (b007jpt4)

All Gas and Gaiters 12:00 SUN (b007jpbw)

All Gas and Gaiters 19:00 SUN (b007jpbw)

An Actor's Life for Me 08:30 TUE (b00s3d19)

An Actor's Life for Me 22:00 TUE (b00s3d19)

Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood 18:30 SAT (b007jvxm)

Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood 00:30 SUN (b007jvxm)

Any Bloke 23:30 WED (b007jxqg)

Arthur C Clarke Stories 18:00 SAT (b008h36w)

Arthur C Clarke Stories 00:00 SUN (b008h36w)

Barry Letts - Who & Me 18:00 SUN (b00s37c3)

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Beachcomber... By the Way 09:00 MON (b0084hyx)

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Big Jim and the Figaro Club 04:30 SAT (b008klgb)

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Big Toe Books 08:00 SAT (b00s2zsf)

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Bristow 09:30 TUE (b00cbcpg)

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Caesar! 10:00 FRI (b00ct508)

Charles Chilton - Space Force 00:00 SAT (b007jn58)

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Charles Dickens' Great Expectations 05:00 MON (b00s3bcn)

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Charles Dickens 09:00 SAT (b00s2zbh)

Charles Dickens 19:00 SAT (b00s2zbh)

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Clive James: Falling Towards England 15:00 MON (b00n4905)

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Comedy Catch-Up 14:30 SUN (b00s375v)

Comedy Catch-Up 15:00 SUN (b00s375x)

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Crime Catch-Up 14:30 SAT (b00s2zsh)

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Dad's Army 08:00 MON (b007jpcv)

Dad's Army 12:00 MON (b007jpcv)

Dad's Army 19:00 MON (b007jpcv)

Delve Special 22:30 FRI (b007jmq1)

Dick Francis 13:00 WED (b007jpxx)

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Doctor Who 00:30 SAT (b00s0bjd)

Doctor Who 14:30 MON (b00s3cgl)

Doctor Who 18:30 MON (b00s3cgl)

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Doctor Who 18:30 TUE (b00s3dpf)

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Doctor Who 18:30 FRI (b00s3jtq)

Dry Slopes 22:00 SUN (b00lr3nz)

Ectoplasm 23:30 FRI (b007w5l4)

Ed Doolan Interviews... 11:00 SUN (b007jzcy)

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Ed Reardon's Week 23:00 TUE (b007k44m)

Flying the Flag 09:30 THU (b007jx5g)

Flying the Flag 17:30 THU (b007jx5g)

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For Better or for Worse 12:30 TUE (b00hk2dx)

For Better or for Worse 19:30 TUE (b00hk2dx)

Garrison Keillor's Radio Show 05:00 SAT (b00k21fl)

Garrison Keillor's Radio Show 17:00 SAT (b00k21fl)

Garrison Keillor's Radio Show 04:00 SUN (b00k21fl)

HE Bates - Three Country Stories 10:15 SUN (b007jv1q)

HE Bates - Three Country Stories 21:15 SUN (b007jv1q)

HE Bates' My Uncle Silas 15:30 MON (b007jr1z)

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Hancock's Half Hour 08:00 WED (b007jzg0)

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I Think I've Got a Problem 23:30 TUE (b00cc4qg)

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again 12:30 THU (b00s3htw)

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again 19:30 THU (b00s3htw)

If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? 23:30 THU (b00s3j28)

Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle 22:45 THU (b00cl648)

Jane Austen 03:00 SAT (b007jrff)

John Milton's Paradise Lost - Omnibus 09:00 SUN (b00s36vn)

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John Milton's Paradise Lost 02:00 SAT (b00s0bjb)

John Milton's Paradise Lost 11:00 MON (b00s3bd1)

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke 15:15 MON (b0089htt)

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Lew Wallace - Ben Hur 10:00 MON (b007jr51)

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Lew Wallace - Ben Hur 10:00 THU (b007jr6d)

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Like They've Never Been Gone 12:30 WED (b00bbn44)

Like They've Never Been Gone 19:30 WED (b00bbn44)

Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin 23:00 SAT (b00s2zst)

Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin 23:15 SAT (b00s2zsw)

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 05:30 MON (b00s3bcq)

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Nicci French's Killing Me Softly 23:30 SAT (b00s2zsy)

Nicci French's Killing Me Softly 23:45 SAT (b00s2zt0)

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes 05:45 MON (b00s3bcs)

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Old Dog and Partridge 04:00 SAT (b007jq9s)

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Old Harry's Game 23:00 FRI (b008pb1r)

On Baby Street 22:30 MON (b00flbp3)

Paul Temple 01:00 SAT (b007jznh)

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Paul Temple 13:00 TUE (b007jn54)

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Peter Ackroyd - The House of Doctor Dee 02:30 SUN (b0080gm9)

Peter Ackroyd - The House of Doctor Dee 13:00 SUN (b0080gm9)

Peter Ackroyd - The House of Doctor Dee 01:00 MON (b0080gm9)

Radio Shuttleworth 08:30 FRI (b007jq8z)

Radio Shuttleworth 22:00 FRI (b007jq8z)

Ronald Frame Short Stories 15:45 THU (b007k1lf)

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Second Thoughts 09:00 WED (b007jx2l)

Second Thoughts 17:00 WED (b007jx2l)

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Semi Circles 09:30 MON (b007jtyy)

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Seymour the Fractal Cat 22:30 TUE (b007jnfc)

Sherlock Holmes 02:15 SAT (b007jm75)

Sherlock Holmes 11:15 MON (b007jm7p)

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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End 22:30 THU (b00s3j26)

Smelling of Roses 09:30 WED (b00fd63v)

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Sounding Off with McGough 23:45 MON (b007k44n)

Spats 23:30 SUN (b00cmjv7)

Steptoe and Son 12:30 MON (b00s3cgj)

Steptoe and Son 19:30 MON (b00s3cgj)

Stop Messing About! 08:00 FRI (b00s3jtl)

Stop Messing About! 12:00 FRI (b00s3jtl)

Stop Messing About! 19:00 FRI (b00s3jtl)

Take It From Here 08:00 TUE (b00dkhws)

Take It From Here 12:00 TUE (b00dkhws)

Take It From Here 19:00 TUE (b00dkhws)

Take It From the Chorus 09:30 SAT (b007k283)

Take It From the Chorus 19:30 SAT (b007k283)

Take It From the Chorus 05:30 SUN (b007k283)

The Burkiss Way 10:00 SAT (b00jvj68)

The Burkiss Way 20:00 SAT (b00jvj68)

The Clitheroe Kid 12:30 SUN (b007jzcz)

The Clitheroe Kid 19:30 SUN (b007jzcz)

The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 12:30 FRI (b00s3jtn)

The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 19:30 FRI (b00s3jtn)

The End of the Road Show 23:00 WED (b00kk0n1)

The Goon Show 08:00 THU (b007jn76)

The Goon Show 12:00 THU (b007jn76)

The Goon Show 19:00 THU (b007jn76)

The Leopard in Autumn 08:30 MON (b00s3bcz)

The Leopard in Autumn 22:00 MON (b00s3bcz)

The Mark Steel Lecture 22:30 SUN (b007qw7m)

The Nick Revell Show 08:30 THU (b007k1n0)

The Nick Revell Show 22:00 THU (b007k1n0)

The Now Show 16:30 SUN (b00s37c1)

The Now Show 04:30 MON (b00s37c1)

The Price of Fear 18:30 SUN (b007jm89)

The Price of Fear 00:30 MON (b007jm89)

The Very World of Milton Jones 22:30 WED (b00fr0dl)

Think the Unthinkable 23:00 MON (b007jm4p)

Travels With a Donkey 15:45 MON (b00cglj2)

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Up the Garden Path 09:00 THU (b0089kjs)

Up the Garden Path 17:00 THU (b0089kjs)

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Wally K Daly 14:00 WED (b007js5k)

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Whose Line Is It Anyway? 08:30 WED (b007jrcc)

Whose Line Is It Anyway? 22:00 WED (b007jrcc)

Wimsey 01:30 SAT (b007jvk7)

Wimsey 13:30 MON (b007jvkk)

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Wimsey 13:30 FRI (b007jvl4)

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Winston 10:30 SUN (b007m660)

Winston 21:30 SUN (b007m660)

Witty and Twisted 23:15 SUN (b00s387f)

World of Pub 23:30 MON (b008m4ft)