SATURDAY 09 JUNE 2012

SAT 00:00 Kurt Vonnegut - The Euphio Question (b0088zh5)
A way of producing and harnessing happiness is revealed when a physicist plays out the sound of dark matter during a local radio programme.
The sound lulls the listeners into a state of euphoria, producing an effect not unlike a large dose of sedative.
The ethical and moral implications of marketing this new found product become evident - as the temptation to make money and control huge numbers of people proves too great.
Kurt Vonnegut's short story is read by Stuart Milligan.
One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a cult figure among students in the 1960s and 1970s with his classics of US counterculture.
The bombing of Dresden by allied forces in 1945 was the pivotal moment of his life, which informed his best-known work 'Slaughterhouse Five'.
Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2007.
SAT 00:30 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera (b008p5cw)
Episode 4
Raoul and the Persian enter the Phantom's lair to search for Christine. Stars Peter Guinness, Helen Goldwyn and James D'Arcy.
SAT 01:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00t9yf6)
Sicken and So Die
Episode 2
The lascivious actor-sleuth fails to impress his ex-wife Frances. Meanwhile, could there be another victim? Stars Bill Nighy.
SAT 01:30 Mark McShane - Seance on a Wet Afternoon (b00r89n7)
Episode 1
To enhance her reputation, clairvoyant Myra Savage and her husband embark on a terrible course of action. Read by Anton Lesser.
SAT 01:45 The Late Alfred Hitchcock Presents (b00tqlfh)
The Waxwork
By AM Burrage. In a reprise of the director's celebrated series from beyond the grave, convincing effigies become all too real. Stars Michael Roberts.
SAT 02:00 Are You From the Bugle? (b01jltzd)
Plastic Balls and Sewing Machines
Butterthwaite is getting a new museum - can Graham get an exclusive on the opening? Stars Jeffrey Holland. From June 1996.
SAT 02:30 Tickets Please (b00ny7k4)
Episode 2
The 9.27 London to Exeter emotional rollercoaster continues as the train staff's personal embroilments deepen.
Now one of the wedding party is joining in the melee. And why are there finger-holes in the muffins?
Sitcom on rails by Mark Maier.
Robin..................Jeremy Swift
Nadine...................Alex Kelly
Peter..............Malcolm Tierney
Carol..............Tessa Nicholson
Carl................Nicholas Boulton
Diana...............Melissa Advani
Linda...................Kate Layden
Keith...............Stephen Hogan
Other parts played by Piers Wehner, Philip Fox and Joseph Cohen-Cole.
Producer: Peter Kavanagh
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009.
SAT 03:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jmcl)
Episode 4
Humphrey and Maud dash for freedom from cruel captain, Wolf Larsen, but Japan is 600 miles away...
Conclusion od Jack London's 1904 tale of brutality and survival on the high seas.
Starring Jack Klaff, Kerry Shale and Shelley Thompson..
Dramatised by Ed Thomason
Wolf Larsen ...... Jack Klaff
Humphrey Van Weyden ...... Kerry Shale
Maud Brewster ...... Shelley Thompson
Music: Elizabeth Parker - BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Director: Adrian Bean.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1991.
SAT 04:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door (b016z738)
Summer Holiday
A child's innocent remark has devastating consequences for a nursemaid. Patience Tomlinson reads Dorothy Whipple's story.
SAT 04:15 Drama (b00z62b1)
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster is an elegy to the young gap-year student who was attacked in Stubbeylee Park, Bacup, Lancashire. She later died on August 24th 2007. This is an elegy to mark the anniversary of her death, four years later. Aged twenty, Sophie suffered fatal injuries while cradling her boyfriend Rob's head in an attempt to protect him from a ferocious attack by a group of youths. Rob survived but Sophie went into a coma and never recovered.
Sophie was an intelligent bookish child who showed signs of wanting to be different from an early age. Political, vegetarian, a pacifist, Sophie had left school with A levels and was thinking about what to do with her future when it was taken so brutally from her.
Sophie and Rob dressed in a unique way, expressing their individuality as creative artistic people through goth-style clothes, piercings and make-up, which provoked the fatal attack in the early hours of that Saturday morning. Sophie had been dating Rob Maltby, a 21-year-old art student for three years.
I didn't do sport.
I didn't do meat.
Don't ask me to wear that dress:
I shan't.
Why ask me to toe the line,
I can't.
I was slight or small
but never petite,
and nobody's fool;
no Barbie doll;
no girlie girl.
I was lean and sharp,
not an ounce of fat
on my thoughts or my limbs.
In my difficult teens
I was strange, I was odd,
- aren't we all -
there was something different down at the core.
Boy bands and pop tarts left me cold,
let's say
that I marched to the beat
of a different drum,
sang another tune,
wandered at will
through the market stalls
humming protest songs.
I wore studded dog leads
around my wrist,
and was pleased as punch
in the pit, at the gig,
to be singled out
by a shooting star
of saliva from Marilyn Manson's lips.
But for all that stuff
in many ways an old fashioned soul,
quite at home
in my own front room,
on my own settee.
I read, I wrote,
I painted, I drew.
Where it came from
no one knows
but it flowed. It flowed.
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster is a drama documentary in which Sophie tells her own story through a series of poignant poems written by the award-winning poet Simon Armitage alongside her mother, Sylvia Lancaster remembering her daughter's shortened life.
Black Roses : The Killing of Sophie Lancaster written by Simon Armitage with an interview with Sylvia Lancaster
Cast :
SOPHIE ...........Rachel Austin
Produced in Manchester by Susan Roberts.
SAT 05:00 Millport (b0075ttx)
Series 1
The Letter
It's turnip season - and a letter arrives for Irene promising to change her life for ever.
But when push comes to shove, is she ready to leave the dismal island backwater she so unlovingly calls home?
Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a better life on the mainland.
Stars Lynn Ferguson as Irene, Janet Brown as Moira/Agnes, Lewis McLeod as Alberto/Robert/Bob, Gabriel Quigley as Ena/Bunty/Betty, Matt Costello as Doogie and Robert Paterson as the Minister.
Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson
Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown
Alberto/Robert/Bob ...... Lewis McLeod
Ena/Bunty/Betty ...... Gabriel Quigley
Doogie ...... Matt Costello
The Minister ...... Robert Paterson
Producers: Lucy Bacon and Kathy Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000.
SAT 05:30 Smelling of Roses (b00dbwtv)
Series 3
A Closed Book
Rosie is contracted to organise a literary prize, but finds that not everything goes by the book...
More challenges for Rosie Burns running her family's event management company, where the clients are only part of the problem...
Written by Simon Brett.
Rosie ..... Prunella Scales
Jo ..... Rebecca Callard
Bob ..... Duncan Preston
Tess ..... Annette Badland
Pomme Grantley ..... Joanna Monro
Lancelot Crotty ..... Timothy Alcock
Sioned Pugh-Craven ..... Sheila Mitchell
Producer: Maria Esposito
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002.
SAT 06:00 The Other Side of the Hill (b010t4pb)
It's a Long Way From Talavera
The 1808-1813 peninsular campaign of the Duke of Wellington. First of Peter Luke's two linked plays with Michael Pennington.
SAT 07:30 The Complete Caledonian Imbiber (b00pgnqg)
Bend Weel tae the Madeira
Billy Kay celebrates the Scots' drouth for ale, whisky and the great wines of Europe.
SAT 08:00 Ed Doolan Interviews... (b01jrjyw)
Kerr Encore - Bill Kerr:
Best loved for his work in Hancock's Half Hour, Australian actor and comedian Bill Kerr recalls more of his career highlights.
SAT 09:00 Comedy Greats (b007k3x4)
The Noughties
Episode 1
Decade by decade, Barry Cryer showcases some of the funniest and finest shows ever broadcast by the BBC.
Baz finally reaches the 21st century of radio comedy with his first selection from the noughties:
* The Small World of Dominic Holland
Series 1 (6/6)
Dominic ponders the journey of life to adulthood. Stand-up and sketches with Dave Lamb, Sally Grace and Simon Greenall. From 2000.
* At Home With The Snails
Series 1 (1/4)
Fed-up Alex has done nothing since university, but then he discovers an unusual hobby. Stars Geoffrey Palmer, Angela Thorne, Gerard Foster and Miranda Hart. From 2001.
* Clare in the Community
Series 1 (4/6)
Social worker Clare Barker is racked with relief when her most detested client dies. Stars Sally Phillips, Alex Lowe, Richard Lumsden, Gemma Craven, Ellen Thomas and Nina Conti. From 2004.
* Radio Shuttleworth
Series 2 (5/6)
1997 Eurovision Song Contest winner Katrina Leskanich drops into visit Sheffield singer John Shuttleworth, but his wife Mary gets the ironing board out. From 2000.
* Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better
Series 1 (3/6) Pride
Welsh comic Mark continues his quest to free us from the seven deadly sins. With Tim Key and Tim Minchin. From 2007.
* Little Britain
Series 2 (3/4)
Fat fighting with Marjorie and the hypnotic Kenny Craig. Back where it started out - Matt Lucas and David Walliams's oddball TV smash hit - without the cameras. From 2002.
Produced and scripted by Peter Reed.
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in August 2003.
SAT 12:00 Michael Butt - Chronicles of Ait (b01jrkx6)
The Saxon Stones - Omnibus
Tortured by memories, Linus Scott meets a woman with demons of her own. But the mystery at Saxon Stones seems to connect them.
SAT 13:15 The Medical Detectives (b007k0rx)
The Stranded Eagle
After Salomon August Andrée's doomed Arctic crossing by hydrogen balloon, investigators piece together events. Stars Ken Stott.
SAT 14:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007wp6j)
Series 4
The Last of the McHancocks
The lad inherits a Scottish castle and starts feuding with his nasty neighbour.
Stars Tony Hancock.
With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams.
With special guest James Robertson Justice as Seamus McNasty.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott.
Producer: Denis Main Wilson
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1957.
SAT 14:30 Dad's Army (b007jq38)
Series 3
The Great White Hunter
Captain Mainwaring causes chaos tracking down Walker's purloined silk parachute.
The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon
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 Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Walker …. Larry Martyn
Mrs Pike …. Pearl Hackney
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1976.
SAT 15:00 Ed Doolan Interviews... (b01jrjyw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 The Other Side of the Hill (b010t4pb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Comic to Comic (b00807sb)
Series 2
Andy Zaltzman
The inventive political comedian chats to Bruce Morton and explains why being a stand-up is the best job in the world.
SAT 18:00 The Scarifyers (b008jdt5)
The Devil of Denge Marsh
Episode 2
Lionheart and Dunning's battle with an old adversary leads them to a strange village. Stars Nicholas Courtney and Terry Molloy.
SAT 18:30 David Garnett - Lady into Fox (b00cmz8m)
2. Escape
Despite Richard Tebrick's increased security for their new home, his vixen wife escapes to begin a new family life in the woods...
David Garnett's terrifying novel of transformation is concluded by Ben Miles.
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Directed at BBC Northern Ireland by Lawrence Jackson.
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in July 2008.
SAT 19:00 Comedy Greats (b007k3x4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Comedy on the Boat (b015yn81)
Jim Smallman, Jeff Innocent, Will Smith and Rob Deering rock The Tattershall Castle with laughter on London's River Thames.
SAT 22:45 Greg at The Stand (b015yn83)
Episode 3
Greg McHugh welcomes some of the world's finest stand ups to the renowned Glasgow comedy venue. With Milton Jones and Jim David. From June 2011.
SAT 23:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nnhx)
Leaves of the Dead
3. Welcome To The Nightmare
Feisty detective superintendent Julie Enfield probes a third killing. Could it be a ritual murder?
Imelda Staunton stars as Julie Enfield in Nick Fisher’s atmospheric thriller.
Julie Enfield ...... Imelda Staunton
Dad ...... Geoffrey Matthews
Lawrence Evans ...... Ross Livingstone
Stephen Arnold ...... Alex Lowe
Amanda Thorne ...... Janet Maw
Melanie Sharp ...... Colleen Prendergast
Dorothy ...... Shirley Dixon
Phil Carter ...... Christopher Scott
Producer: Richard Wortley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997.
SAT 23:30 Wallander - Faceless Killers (b00hy945)
Episode 9
Convinced that Erik is the murderer, Wallander tackles his suspect's mother. Henning Mankell's thriller read by David Warner.
SAT 23:45 Devil in a Blue Dress (b00zw62x)
Episode 9
The revelations come thick and fast when Easy finally catches up with Daphne. Walter Mosley's thriller read by Paul Winfield.