SATURDAY 12 JANUARY 2013

SAT 00:00 Doctor Who (b01psb69)
Deimos
A Martian moon has become a tourist trap. But below its surface stirs a deadly menace, once thought extinct. Eighth Doctor adventure stars Paul McGann and David Warner.
SAT 01:00 VI Warshawski (b007jl4z)
Bitter Medicine
1. Friendship
Private eye V.I. Warshawski suspects all is not well at a hospital after the death of a young girl who was pregnant.
Sara Paretsky's thriller stars Sharon Gless.
V.I. Warshawski is Sara Paretsky’s tough, smart and likeable female private investigator.
Dramatised in six parts by Michelene Wandor.
V.I. Warshawski …. Sharon Gless
Fabiano …. Robert Harper
Bobby Mallory …. Bill Hootkins
Alan Humphries …. Chris Scott
Malcolm Tregiere …. Colin McFarlane
Lottie Herschel …. Eleanor Bron
Carol …. Joanna Monro
Mrs Alvarado …. Shirley Dixon
Consuela …. Teresa Gallagher
Peter Burgoyne …. William Dufris
Producer: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1996.
SAT 01:30 Frank W Abagnale (b00tdmc4)
Catch Me If You Can
Episode 5
The authorities have conman Frank Abagnale Jr within their reach, but he's a very slippery catch. Concluded by William Hope. From August 2010.
SAT 02:00 Millport (b0076br4)
Series 3
The End of the Beginning
The island makeover has turned horribly sour and with Irene gone, the only person to save the island from being bulldozed is Bunty Pierce.
But with her ailing health and hermit ways, will she leave her vegetables to rescue the island's integrity? And will Irene change her mind about mainland life and return to the island for good?
Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as 30-something barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a better life on the mainland.
Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson
Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown
Alberto/Ferryman/Robert the Dog/Morris ...... Lewis McLeod
Ena/Bunty ...... Gabriel Quigley
Minister/Bob ...... Robert Patterson
Dougie ...... Kenneth Bryans
Producer: Lucy Bacon
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2002.
SAT 02:30 Snap (b0133ldg)
Series 3
Episode 5
Doug and Molly’s attempts to rekindle their romance after divorcing are hampered by his mum who’s convalescing after tripping over. Molly is not impressed...

Paul Mendelson's sitcom stars Rebecca Lacey as Molly, Paul Venables as Doug, Soumaya Keynes as Kaz, Jessie Sullivan as Ryan, Marlene Sidaway as Annie, Robin Weaver as Dawn and Jonathan Tafler as Raymond.

Producer: David Ian Neville

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2005
SAT 03:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1nq)
2. Forty-Five
Francis encounters Mirabell again and his fate is sealed.
Meanwhile, the rebels are at the gates of Carlisle.
Stars Gavin Muir, Mark Bonnar and Jane Whittenshaw.
Hugh Walpole's historical novel dramatised by Eric Pringle.
Francis ... Gavin Muir
David ... Mark Bonnar
Deborah ... Jane Whittenshaw
Margaret ... Janet Maw
Mirabell ... Deborah Berlin
Roche ... Hugh Dickson
Cumberlege ... Gordon Reid
Hetty ... Alison Pettitt
Other parts played by:
Shirley Dixon
Robert Harper
Carolyn Jones
Alex Lowe
Gerard McDermott
Ioan Meredith
Chris Pavlo
Stephen Thorne
Director David Blount
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1997.
SAT 04:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories (b01ps9w4)
Child's Play
Kate is not appreciated by her husband or daughter, but receives affection from an unusual source. Read by Matilda Ziegler.
SAT 04:15 Michael Butt - Peter Lorre vs Peter Lorre (b01ps9w6)
4 Extra Debut. A Hollywood star's bizarre 1963 legal battle. From court records of the actor's fight to protect his name. Stars Stephen Greif.
SAT 05:00 Ballylenon (b007k4qt)
Series 1
Episode 3
Vera's eavesdropping days are threatened by the Irish town's new automatic telephone exchange.
Series set in the sleepy town of Ballylenon, Co Donegal, in 1953, before the days of mass tourism and proper plumbing in every home.
Written by Christopher Fitz-Simon.
Phonsie Doherty ...... TP McKenna
Muriel Maconchy ...... Margaret D'Arcy
Vera Maconchy ...... Stella McCusker
Vivienne Boal ...... Aine McCartney
Guard Gallagher ...... John Hewitt
Peg Sweeney ...... Anna Manahan
Joe MacMonagle ...... Kevin Flood
Post Office Engineer ...... Robert Patterson
Music arranged and performed by Stephanie Hughes
Director: Eoin O'Callaghan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1994.
SAT 05:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b007qx6x)
Series 1
Elephants to Catch Eels
Why would a top London journalist be so interested that love is all around in Drumlin Bay? What's Tamsyn been up to?
It seems the new editor of 'The Times of London' is boosting circulation by becoming a scurrilous gossipy rag. Of course, that would never happen now...
18th century Cornish village sitcom by the writers of Dead Ringers - Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain.
Starring Lucy Speed as Tamsyn Trelawny, John Bowe as Jago Trelawny, Cameron Stewart as Major Thomas Falconer, Andrew McGibbon as Captain Marriot, Martin Hyder as Squire Bascombe, Mark Felgate as Dewey, Mark Perry as the Editor and Michael Fenton Stevens as Lampwick.
Producer: Jan Ravens.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003.
SAT 06:00 John Osborne - The Entertainer (b007k2ll)
Bill Nighy stars as Archie Rice, a seedy third-rate comic in a tatty twice-nightly seaside show.
Set in the 1950s, Archie's tragedy mirrors not only a dying music hall, but a dying era, symbolic of the decline of post-war Britain. John Osborne's potent drama was first produced on stage in 1957.
With David Bradley as Billy Rice, Cheryl Campbell as Phoebe Rice, Sarah-Jane Holm as Jean Rice and Bertie Carvel as Frank Rice.
Music directed by Colin Sell with percussionist: Paul Girbow and trumpeter: Phil Revens.
Adapted by John Foley.
Producer: Marion Nancarrow
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 2004.
SAT 07:30 Ay Mariachi! (b00xmv28)
It's night-time in the Plaza Garibaldi, Mexico City.
Neil Mcarthy descends into the meaning, madness and music of mariachi - hustling troubadours in sequined suits whose songs of love and pain are inseparable from Mexican life.
Producer: Mark Burman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.
SAT 08:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00xg7dx)
Series 6
Episode 8
From San Francisco - the American funny man welcomes blues master Elvin Bishop and Scottish balladeer Jean Redpath. From 2010.
SAT 09:00 I Did It My Way (b0092lb4)
Roy Hudd
Much-loved comedian and actor Roy Hudd talks to Peter Reed about his radio life and times, with behind-the-scenes stories of making his on-air hit shows:
The News Huddlines (06/06/79). Poking fun at topical events and personalities, this series ran for 25 years on BBC Radio 2 when Roy was joined by Chris Emmett and his leading ladies Janet Brown, Alison Steadman and June Whitfield.
The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (16/01/1999). Roy dons his deerstalker to investigate 'The Case of the Clockwork Fiend' with June Whitfield.
The Sony Radio Academy Gold award-winning Huddwinks (14/08/86). Chris Emmett and Denise Coffey join Roy for 'Railway '86 - The Movie!': British Rail's new 'Silver Bullet' train ends up as a runaway express to Aberdeen.
Roy also reveals his more dramatic side in Peter Tinniswood's play The Scan (29/09/1999). Compulsive talker Ernest seeks reassurance from a protective nurse. Roy's co-star is Judy Cornwell.
Produced by Mik Wilkojc.
SAT 12:00 The Cazalets - Omnibus (b01ptgmp)
The Light Years
Episode 2
The Cazalets appear to have it all. But longing, indiscretions and jealousies simmer below the surface.
Elizabeth Jane Howard's family saga of 'The Cazalets' vividly catalogues the lives and loves of three generations.
Starring Penelope Wilton as the narrator, Raymond Coulthard as Rupert, Zoe Tapper as Zoe, Georgia Groome as Clary, Naomi Frederick as Rachel, Shirley Dixon as The Duchy and Helen Schlesinger as Sid.
Siblings Hugh, Edward, Rupert and Rachel - and their respective families - are reunited. Rupert is trying not to think about whether he married beautiful but petulant Zoe too soon after his first wife's death; Hugh and his wife Sybil each try to put the other first, not necessarily to their mutual advantage; Edward is mulling on how he might be able to get away from his wife, Villy, to spend time with his mistress and Rachel is trying to find a private place to read her letter in secret. But as the wider world intrudes on their lives, each is increasingly wondering what their future holds...
The first of five dramatisations by Sarah Daniels.
Elizabeth Jane Howard's The Light Years and her following novels: Marking Time, Confusion and Casting Off were published between 1990-1995 and the fifth, All Change, in 2013.
Producer: Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.
SAT 13:15 Sirens of Fleet Street (b01dvvt3)
Change of Heart
Mea Allan (1909-1982) was the first woman war correspondent to be permanently accredited to the British Forces and the first woman news editor in Fleet Street. During the Second World War she kept up a remarkable correspondence with her mentor May Chalmers which gives a picture of daily life in the Blitz and on the home front in London and Scotland.
Felicity Goodall's play opens with Mea looking back over her life and friendship with May, beginning with her arrival in Fleet Street in December 1938.
Stars Siobhan Redmond as Mea Allan, Brigit Forsyth as May Chalmers and Steven Deproost as Archie.
Second of a trilogy of plays examining the lives and writing of three pioneering women journalists.
Director: Felicity Goodall
Produced at BBC Manchester by Sue Roberts.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
SAT 14:00 The Embassy Lark (b00srvkq)
Spy
An asylum seeker sparks some political tit-for-tat posturing. Stars Derek Francis and Frank Thornton. From April 1966.
SAT 14:30 Parsley Sidings (b01prccq)
Series 1
The Concert
Can showbiz seduce Station Master Horace Hepplewhite away from the railways?
Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Ian Lavender as Bert, Liz Fraser as Gloria, Kenneth Connor as Percy and Charlotte Mitchell as Miss Pennyfeather.
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 January 1972.
SAT 15:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00xg7dx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 John Osborne - The Entertainer (b007k2ll)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Nick Mohammed in Bits (b00tt5pw)
Mr Swallow
Nick Mohammed (Reggie Perrin, I'm Sorry I've Got No Head) stars as lifestyle guru Mr Swallow as he presents his memory technique to a live studio audience.
Bits showcases the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters in a series of one off comic plays.
Produced by Victoria Lloyd.
SAT 18:00 Bradbury 13 (b012wzzd)
A Sound of Thunder
A safari into the prehistoric past sparks unexpected results. Adaptation of one of Ray Bradbury's most famous yarns, starring Max Robinson.
SAT 18:30 RL Stevenson - The Bottle Imp (b00z55h4)
Native Hawaiian Keawe buys a bottle promising love, fame and money - but there's a drawback. Stars David Rintoul and Tony Osoba.
SAT 19:00 I Did It My Way (b0092lb4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation (b01ptg3x)
Series 2
How to Be a Father, pt 1
Why do men want to procreate? The host's comic lecture plus sketches. With Debbie Issit and Gordon Kennedy. From October 1994.
SAT 22:30 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash (b00lk09w)
Series 1
Episode 2
Arthur Smith invites an audience into his home in Balham, south London, for music and comedy.
With Benjamin Zephaniah, Stephen K Amos and Matt Holness
Pippa Evans - as singer-songwriter Loretta Maine - lends a hand.
Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.
SAT 23:00 Ted Lewis - Jack Carter's Law (b00nx9j8)
Episode 2
As the legendary gangland enforcer edges closer to his quarry, he plans his next moves. Phil Daniels read the gritty thriller.
SAT 23:30 Adam Baron - Hold Back the Night (b00t5jwq)
Episode 4
Private-eye Billy Rucker uncovers the full horror that has wrecked the lives of Lucy and Donna. Stars David Morrissey.