SATURDAY 01 DECEMBER 2012

SAT 00:00 The Price of Fear (b007jn3p)
The Family Album
Horror legend Vincent Price introduces a tale of faceless commuter Arthur, who proves to be a formidable adversary as danger strikes.
Stars Maurice Denham as Arthur Goodby, Liz Fraser as Rose Goodby, James Kerry as Harry, Aubrey Morris as Mr Martin and Anthony Newlands as The Coroner.
Scripted by William Ingram.
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1983.
SAT 00:30 A Canticle for Leibowitz (b01p1pl8)
Fiat Homo
Episode 5
Brother Francis heads to New Rome for the canonisation of Saint Leibowitz, his greatest hope fulfilled. 1960 post-apocalyptic alternate history read by Nigel Lindsay.
SAT 01:00 Raffles (b01p10th)
Series 1
3. A Costume Piece
Reuben Rosenthall has made his millions in the diamond fields of South Africa, and it seems only right and proper to Raffles that some of this wealth should be redistributed.
But his attempts to seize the diamonds don't quite go according to plan, as a low-key stakeout spirals into a terrifying scramble for survival.
EW Hornung's early Raffles stories dramatised by David Buck.
Starring Jeremy Clyde and Michael Cochrane.
AJ Raffles ...... Jeremy Clyde
Bunny ...... Michael Cochrane
Reuben Rosenthall ...... Geoffrey Matthews
'Slammer' Purvis ...... John Hollis
Jala ...... Alton Kumalo
Lady 1 ...... Natasha Pyne
Lady 2 ...... Jane Leonard
Odd Bodd ...... Graham Blockey
Signature tune composed by Jim Parker.
Directed by Gordon House
A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast in November 1985.
SAT 01:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0161mpx)
5. Deadly Adversary
Having followed a trail that led from Soho to Jamaica, via Istanbul, Lucifer Box has finally come face to face with a deadly adversary from his past.
Will our hero prevent him from carrying out his evil plan?
Written and concluded by Mark Gatiss.
Set in 1953, this is the third in a trilogy of spoof spy novels detailing the devilishly daring adventures of secret agent, Lucifer Box.
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in October 2011.
SAT 02:00 Bristow (b00ct8w3)
Series 1
The Great Escape
Bristow plots the summer holiday of a lifetime - in Mudsea.
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
Miss Sunman …. Katy Odey
Fudge …. Jon Glover
BJ …. Christopher Benjamin
Post Boy …. Simon Schatzberger
Francine …. Carol Starks
Turner …. David Ryall
Other parts played by the cast.
Music: John Whitehall
Producer: Neil Cargill
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1999.
SAT 02:30 The Brothers (b007m477)
Series 1
Episode 3
Liquidised orchids, tropical fish and John Travolta's cuff links.
More events for brothers Nigel and Michael. Has one of them got a date?
Starring Adam Godley and Raymond Coulthard.
Comedy series about two brothers starting a website-design company - written by Caroline and David Stafford.
Nigel ...... Adam Godley
Michael ...... Raymond Coulthard
Oonagh...... Pauline McLynn
Zorro ...... Pearce Quigley
Daughter...... Alice Hart
Dad ...... John Glover
Producer: Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.
SAT 03:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq5z)
We Wronged No Man
Sue can no longer go on living with Phillotson as his wife, and elopes with Jude, who's now free of Arabella.
Sue, however, is intensely fearful of further entanglements, and cannot but see Jude's natural feelings for her in a brutal, barbaric light....
Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth North.
Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, Elizabeth Garvie as Sue Bridehead, June Barrie as Widow Edlin, Elva Makins as Arabella, Hazel Ellerby as Annie, Jesse Lawrence as Father Time, John Linstrum as Dr Vilbert, Barrie Shore as the Rough Woman and Jerold Wells as the Auctioneer.
Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986.
SAT 04:00 Opening Lines (b01p10tk)
Series 12
Kiss
by Heather Reid. Thoughts of her all-important first kiss occupy a teenager's mind as she heads home on the school bus. Read by Morven Christie.
SAT 04:15 Rumours of Guns (b007jw38)
A powerful Battle of Britain drama about the emotional cost of war. By Andrew Greig and Kathleen Jamie. Stars Stella Forge.
SAT 05:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008qs53)
Series 3
Episode 3
A woman struggles to take off her shoe – and the perils of drinking different types of alcohol.
Richard Ingrams John Wells, John Sessions, Joan Sims amd Patricia Routledge recreate the world of JB Morton.
With Brian Bowles, Simon Greenall, Henrietta Gooden and featuring June Whitfield.
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 – thanks to characters he created between the wars.
Adapted by Michael Barfield with Richard Ingrams.
Announcer: Brian Perkins.
Producer: Harry Thompson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1994.
SAT 05:30 Up the Garden Path (b0084qnz)
Series 2
You Shall Go to the Ball
Izzy gets invited to a ball in Cambridge, but she could do with a fairy godmother...
Tumbling from one love entanglement to another, 30 something teacher Izzy Comyn has a predilection for inappropriate men.
Imelda Staunton stars as Izzy.
An 8-part radio sequel adapted from Sue Limb’s 1984 novel. The second of 3 series which ran from 1987 to 1993. Granada also adapted the series for ITV.
Izzy ...... Imelda Staunton
Charles ...... David Robb
Dick ...... Mike Grady
Michael ...... Nicholas Le Prevost
Maria ...... Marty Cruickshank
Louise ...... Phyllida Nash
Gwyn ...... Dafydd Hywel
Producer: Jonathan James-Moore
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1988.
SAT 06:00 Compton Mackenzie - Whisky Galore (b007jpk9)
In the middle of the Second World War, there's no more whisky left on the small Hebridean islands of Great Todday and Little Todday.
That is until a merchant ship bound for New York runs aground carrying 50,000 cases.
How will the islanders keep their wonderful secret?
Compton Mackenzie's classic tale dramatised by Hector MacMillan.
Old/Young Fred ... Bernard Holley
Peggy ... Dolina MacLennan
Interviewer ... Donalda Samuel
Macroon ... Michael Elder
Macrurie ... Bill Riddoch
Drooby ... John Shedden
Biffer ... Paul Young
Mrs Biffer ... Eliza Langland
Norman ... Finlay McLean
Catriona ... Alyxis Daly
Mrs Waggett ... Stella Forge
Captain Waggett ... Raymond Ross
Father MacAlister ... John Buick
George Campbell ... Tony Kearney
Mrs Campbell ... Mairead Ross
Dr Mack ... Charles Kearney
Jocky ... Allan Sharpe
Hugh ... John Ramage
Director: Hamish Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994.
SAT 07:30 Death By Chocolate (b00ybzdh)
From Brighton's chocolate-cream poisoner to chocolate hand grenades, Jo Brand looks at the sinister history of the sweet treat. From March 2007.
SAT 08:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00wbr94)
Series 6
Episode 2
The American funny man hits New York's Town Hall with singer Karan Casey and fiddler Sara Watkins. From 2009.
SAT 09:00 Comedy Controller (b00rv66q)
Nicholas Parsons
The Just a Minute chairman chooses his radio six-pack: The Goon Show, Much Binding in the Marsh, Hancock's Half Hour, Listen to This Space, Round the Horne and Just a Minute.
SAT 12:00 The Little Ottleys (b0106tcx)
Series 1 Omnibus
It's 1908 and Bruce and Edith, The Little Ottleys, as they were called, live in a very new, very small, very white flat in Knightsbridge.
And so begins Ada Leverson's witty and wonderful social comedy set in Edwardian London
Ada Leverson............Haydn Gwynne
Bruce.......................Bertie Carvel
Edith........................Juliet Aubrey
Hyacinth...................Alex Tregear
Cecil........................Stuart McLoughlin
Anne........................Jane Whittenshaw
Eugenia....................Joanna Monro
Omnibus of Martyn Wade's five-part dramatisation of three short novels Love's Shadow, Tenterhooks and Love At Second Sight. Written between 1908 and 1916, the three were grouped as 'The Little Ottleys' in 1962.
Director: Tracey Neale
First broadcast in five-parts on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.
SAT 13:15 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jsjl)
Murder West One
4. Soho Espresso
Detective Superintendent Julie Enfield's night out in London's Soho is rudely interrupted by a murder above a coffee bar.
The day's takings are left untouched, so robbery is clearly not the motive...
Nick Fisher's thriller stars Imelda Staunton.
DSI Julie Enfield ...... Imelda Staunton
Dad ...... Geoffrey Matthews
Mary Simons ...... Frances Jeater
Gerry Maddox ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
David Simons ...... Jonathan Keeble
Woman in Club ...... Priyanga Elan
Coffee Drinker ...... Elizabeth Conboy
David Simons ...... Jonathan Keeble
Tourist ...... Giles Fagan
Waiter ...... Ben Crowethe
Woman ...... Tilly Gaunt
Director: Richard Wortley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1999.
SAT 14:00 Parsley Sidings (b01p0x1b)
Series 1
The Inspector Calls
The threat of closure from an official inspection calls for desperate measures at the sleepy station.
Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Ian Lavender as Bert, Kenneth Connor as Percy, Liz Fraser as Gloria and John Graham as Phineas Perkins.
Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station for generations and the current Station Master, Horace, hopes that his son Bert will continue the line. Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk Bert wants to work anywhere but on the railways. His colleague, Station Announcer Gloria Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter Percy Valentine is an archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Signalman, Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made remedies in equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is Phineas Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop down the line.
Re-created Announcements by Keith Skues.
Producer: Edward Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1971.
SAT 14:30 Take It From Here (b011db7s)
From 26/11/1953
Sabotage at the BBC, and Eth dithers over home decor in The Glums. With Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield. From November 1953.
SAT 15:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00wbr94)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Compton Mackenzie - Whisky Galore (b007jpk9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 The Golden Age (b01p068b)
Minority Appeal
Mabel suggests making some programmes for "minorities"; a suggestion which takes Lord Reith by surprise.
Meanwhile, Tharb does his best to cheer up BBC Radio's most depressed newsreader, Roger Eves.
Set in the BBC's Broadcasting House in London during the 1930s, this series follows head of programmes, John Tharb and his assistant, Mabel Hopcraft as they struggle to deal with the foibles and fragile egos of radio's biggest stars.
Robert Bathurst stars in the last episode of the radio sitcom written by Arthur Mathews.
Robert Bathurst.....John Tharb
Vicky McClure.....Mabel Hopcraft
Ford Kiernan.....Lord Reith
Peter Egan.....Doctor Ganley
Malcolm Tierney.....Sergeant Major
Kevin Bishop.....Ordinary Cockney Father / Perfumed Pete
Pippa Evans.....Ordinary Cockney Mother
Ewan Bailey.....Roger Eves / Fancy Dan
Moisty.....Arthur Mathews
Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012.
SAT 18:00 Bradbury 13 (b0120vy9)
Night Call, Collect
A lone survivor on Mars has waited a lifetime for rescue. Finally at age 80, his phone rings. Ray Bradbury's thriller stars Morgan White.
SAT 18:30 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare (b00wv6ln)
Seaton's Aunt
Two boys on holiday stay in the creaking house of an eccentric and sinister aunt, an experience that will mark them forever...
Read by Toby Jones.
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was a popular award-wining poet, short story writer and novelist. He wrote for both children and adults.
Abridged by Doreen Estall.
Producer: Lawrence Jackson
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in December 2010.
SAT 19:00 Comedy Controller (b00rv66q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Act Your Age (b00g0nnv)
Series 1
Episode 4
Simon Mayo discovers which generation is the funniest. With Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Roy Walker. From December 2008.
SAT 22:30 The Jason Byrne Show (b01p2s1y)
Series 3
I Looked Like Gollum at School
Award-winning comedian Jason Byrne lists the liabilities of looking good.
Stand up and sketches with Laurence Howarth and Daisy Haggard.
Producer: Julia McKenzie
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 2010.
SAT 23:00 P Division (b00rgnxh)
Two Way Cut
Episode 4
Donoghue has enough evidence to arrest Stein - but where is he? Louise wants to make a statement about the murder and Elka Willems is going to tell Mrs Salisbury about her daughter's illness.
Stars Frank Gallagher as DC Malcolm Montgomery, Robert Carlyle as DC King, Eliza Langland as WPC Elka Willems, Ginni Barlow as Mrs Sailisbury, Mary Ann Reid as Mrs Steen, Jake D'Arcy as DS Ray Sussock and Crawford Logan as DI Donoghue.
Published in 1988, this is Peter Turnbull's fifth P Division novel about his Glaswegian cops.
Dramatised by Stephen Mulrine.
Producer: Hamish Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993.
SAT 23:30 Kenneth Noye - A Killer on the Run (b01p2s20)
Episode 4
Prison life has some unexpected benefits, but a moment of rage on a motorway costs Noye everything. Read by Philip Jackson.
SAT 23:45 Ira Levin - The Boys From Brazil (b014tllj)
Episode 4
Yakov Liebermann pays a visit to an ex-Nazi prison guard, and the diabolical plan is finally revealed. Read by Alex Jennings.