MONDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2012

MON 00:00 Fear on 4 (b00c8zsz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]
MON 00:30 Edgar Allan Poe (b007jpt5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs: Longplay (b01mrq09)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:00 Christopher Brookmyre's Comedy Bookcase (b01md8nb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:30 That Reminds Me (b0076gj3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 on Sunday]
MON 03:00 The Betty Witherspoon Show (b01mrq07)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 Hercule Poirot (b00hqjg0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 E Nesbit - The Railway Children (b00qy473)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 Time Hops (b007k1rg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 Paul Temple (b007jqvg)
Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery
A Note for Danny
Danny Clayton is after reward money – but the suave sleuth discovers his story and Mrs Milbourne's stories don't tally...
Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.
With John Baddeley as Charlie, Patrick Barr as Maurice Lonsdale, Isabel Dean as Margaret Milbourne, Nigel Graham as Danny Clayton, Frederick Treves as the Officer, Rex Graham as Norman Wallace, Peter Marinker as the Taxi Driver, Madi Hedd and Mrs Rhodes, LeRoy Lingwood as the Steward, Garard Green as Gustav and Simon Lack as Vince Langham.
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 Scotland Yard usually needed Paul's help with tricky cases.
Producer: Martin C. Webster.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1965.
MON 06:30 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan (b01ms34p)
Callan's Return
Ex-killer David Callan, now a dead-end book-keeper, is hired for one last hit on businessman Schneider. Read by Ben Miles.
Originally published in 1969 under the title 'A Magnum for Schneider', James Mitchell's novel tells the story of his infamous TV character, David Callan (originally played by Edward Woodward) and features the other regulars, Hunter, Meres and Lonely.
Callan is washed up. The most efficient killer in Europe is now working in a dead-end job as a book-keeper for an ungrateful and miserable boss. But circumstances force British intelligence chief 'Charlie' Hunter to re-employ him for one last operation. His target - German businessman Rudolf Schneider who works in an office opposite Callan. Is the fact that the two men work in such close proximity a mere coincidence? Or is it all an elaborate plan by Hunter? Callan has his suspicions...
Hunter has given Schneider a red file and Callan is all too aware of the significance of this. Cheerful, friendly, affluent Schneider with his innocent passion for model soldiers must die. Once again Callan's means to an end is petty criminal Lonely, the most frightened little man in the underworld. It is Lonely who gets him the gun, a Noguchi Magnum 38 calibre. A magnum for Schneider.
The operation is fraught with complications, but Callan's own inhibitions are the most dangerous.
Abridged by Adrian Bean
Producer: Joanna Green
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions.
MON 07:00 HE Bates - A Little of What You Fancy (b00qmb8t)
Episode 2
The Larkins worry when Pop's taken ill. Rural family saga with David Jason and Pam Ferris. From February 1996.
MON 07:30 Just a Minute (b01mhxnf)
Series 64
Episode 6
Join Nicholas Parsons and friends for the grandaddy of all panel games.
Jenny Eclair, Tony Hawks, Alun Cochrane and Kevin Eldon must talk for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation - a task much more difficult than it sounds.
Tony Hawks describes his preparations for Rio 2016, Jenny Eclair speaks on The Brontes, Alun Cochrane talks about Victorian Inventions and Kevin Eldon reveals how he keeps his body looking that good.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012.
MON 08:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00cmb4j)
Kenneth Horne presents teenagers, traffic wardens and James Bond at the seaside. With Kenneth Williams. From December 1963.
MON 08:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlg5)
Series 2
Crossed Swords
After a major find out on his rag and bone round, excited Harold lets greed get the better of him.
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 eight series on TV.
Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett
Shop Assistant ...... Derek Nimmo
Auctioneer ...... Michael MacLean
Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Gale Pedrick.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1967.
MON 09:00 Ayres on the Air (b01ms34r)
Series 4
Spring
Popular poet Pam Ayres presents a series of poetry and sketch shows about the seasons.
Starting with Spring, Pam ponders flowers and animals, spring elections plus she has some unusual tips for spring cleaning.
Her poems include: I Was Standing by the Cow; Heaps of Stuff; Barking: Fleeced and the Snoring Poem.
With Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead
Producer: Claire Jones.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in September 2012.
MON 09:30 All the Young Dudes (b007r4md)
Series 1
Girls Talk
Patrick and Helen get dragged to a stag and hen night for a couple neither of them know. Stars Jim Sweeney. From August 2001.
MON 10:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited (b007k2ms)
Beginnings
Midway through the war, a disillusioned Captain Charles Ryder finds himself posted to a remote country retreat. It's Brideshead Castle, scene of the happiest years of his young, impressionable life and the beginnings of his friendship with Sebastian Flyte - whose presence will forever haunt him.
Ben Miles and Jamie Bamber star in Evelyn Waugh's most famous novel of life, love and a forgotten era.
Dramatised in four parts by Jeremy Front.
Charles Ryder ...... Ben Miles
Sebastian Flyte ...... Jamie Bamber
Julia ...... Anne-Marie Duff
Cordelia ...... Abby Ford
Brideshead ...... Toby Jones
Boy Mulcaster ...... Tom Smith
Nanny Hawkins ...... Ann Beach
Jasper ...... Martin Hyder
Anthony Blanche ...... Geoffrey Streatfeild
Hooper ...... Andrew Wincott
Collins ...... Scott Brooksbank
Mr Ryder ...... Benjamin Whitrow
Music by Neil Brand
Director: Marion Nancarrow
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003.
MON 11:00 Love Stories (b01ms34t)
A Fortnight in Tuscany
By Katie Fforde. A control freak is forced to attend a Tuscan cookery course. Stories from bestselling romantic novelists. Read by Candida Benson.
MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b01mn4ty)
Sebastian Faulks, Clare Balding, Paula Wilcox, Ava Vidal, Robin Ince, Lucy Rose, Nona Hendryx
Sprinting in from the Olympic Park, Clive's first guest is our newest national treasure, broadcaster, writer and inventor of the 'Mobot' Clare Balding. Clare's new book 'My Animals and Other Family' is the hilarious and tear-jerking story of her unusual upbringing. From the protective Candy to the pot-bellied Valkyrie and the frisky Hattie, each horse and dog had a special part to play in Clare's life in the Hampshire Downs.
Clive hears Birdsong with novelist and journalist Sebastian Faulks and talks to him about his literary career, writing bestsellers such as 'Charlotte Gray' and about how he was shaken, not stirred whilst writing the James Bond novel 'Devil May Care'. Sebastian's new book ' A Possible Life' journeys across continents and time, exploring the chaos created by love, grief and divided loyalties.
Robin Ince Mocks The Week and splits the bill with political comedian Ava Vidal. Her new show 'Ava Vidal Goes Dutch' raises questions of community and responsibility. With anecdotal tales about sharing, Ava asks if the world would be a better place if we were all self-sufficient and just took care of ourselves.
Man About The House Clive talks to actress Paula Wilcox who plays the role of wealthy spinster Miss Havisham in a new stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's coming of age novel 'Great Expectations'. 'Great Expectations' is at New Victoria Theatre, Woking until Saturday 22nd September and touring the UK until Saturday 10th November.
With slick music from Nona Hendryx, who performs 'Oil On The Water' from her album 'Mutatis Mutandis'.
And the blooming lovely Lucy Rose is cycling in to perform 'Bikes' from her debut album 'Like I Used To'.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
MON 12:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00cmb4j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlg5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 13:00 Paul Temple (b007jqvg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 13:30 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan (b01ms34p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 14:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede (b007jntf)
Episode 6
Staffordshire, 1799: When Hetty meets with the Captain in Donnithorne Woods, Adam takes action.
George Eliot's haunting story of love betrayed and love rewarded dramatised in 15 episodes by Robert Forrest.
An immediate bestseller in 1859, Eliot's second novel established her reputation and paved the way for masterpieces such as The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch.
Starring Thomas Arnold as Adam, Katherine Igoe as Hetty, Ann Scott-Jones as Lisbeth, Richard Greenwood as Arthur, John Kielty as Seth, Crawford Logan as Mr Irwine and Victoria Liddelle as Dinah.
Director: Patrick Rayner.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
MON 14:15 This Sceptred Isle (b007jtnl)
Gladstone Returns
Disraeli struggles for support in the face of Rourke's Drift. Anna Massey continues the history of Britain.
MON 14:30 Barry Cryer - You Won't Believe This But (b007jtzm)
Episode 1
From his beginnings in Leeds to London's Windmill Theatre - comedy stalwart Barry Cryer reads his "autobiography of sorts".
A regular panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, Barry Cryer is a stalwart of the British comedy scene. With numerous appearances on radio panel games and quiz shows to his credit, he has also been a prolific writer for shows such as The Two Ronnies and Two Old Farts in the Night with Willie Rushton. Here he tells his story in an autobiography (of sorts). Expect plenty of anecdotes about the great and the good!
Producer: Richard Edis
First broadcast on Radio 4 in 1998
MON 14:45 Dear Charlie: Letters to a Lost Daughter (b01ms34w)
Episode 1
After a rail accident killed his daughter Charlie Thompson in 2005, her father Reg began writing to her. Read by Jeff Rawle.
MON 15:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited (b007k2ms)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01ms34y)
Mel Giedroyc goes Nessie-hunting with a real-life monster hunter, and hears how to blow up a building. Plus there's the next episode of A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.
MON 17:00 To the Manor Born (b007k4mq)
Vive Le Sport
When Devere invites Audrey to go skiing, he ends up being taken for a ride.
Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton.
Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere
Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher
Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger
Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka
Frank Middlemass ..... Ned
Geoffrey Whitehead ..... Dr Horton
Melanie Hudson ..... Receptionist
The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage.
From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descent.
First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997.
Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1997.
MON 17:30 HE Bates - A Little of What You Fancy (b00qmb8t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
MON 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jqrd)
The Red Planet
17. Escape!
With Mitch conditioned at a 'sheep station', Captain Jet Morgan and his crew must work out how to plan their escape.
Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971.
CAST:
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Lemmy …. David Kossoff
Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter
Mitch …. Bruce Beeby
John Cazabon ..... Various
Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs
Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips.
Producer: Charles Chilton
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1954.
MON 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b00qg1s3)
Nation
Episode 1
On a storm-battered island, Mau believes he's the only survivor. South Seas adventure read by Matt Addis and Charlie Norfolk.
MON 19:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00cmb4j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlg5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 20:00 Paul Temple (b007jqvg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 20:30 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan (b01ms34p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 21:00 Love Stories (b01ms34t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b01mn4ty)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
MON 22:00 Just a Minute (b01mhxnf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 22:30 Little Britain (b008m9f5)
Series 2
Episode 1
Back where it started out. Matt Lucas and David Walliams' oddball TV smash hit, without the cameras. From February 2002.
MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b01ms350)
Series 5
17/09/2012
An extended edition of The News Quiz, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Susan Calman and Cal Wilson.
MON 23:45 The Shuttleworths (b01ms352)
Series 4
Chrome Alone
John Shuttleworth invites his sole agent Ken round to hear his new stereo system. Stars Graham Fellows. From February 2003.