A cotton weaver's daughter is wooed and her Aunt goes missing. Elizabeth Gaskell's novel frankly depicts life in the lower classes of Manchester in the 1840s. Stars Emma Rydal.
Describing a wartime outing to Margate, the broadcaster's 1940 wartime observations are read by Patrick Stewart.
Milton Jones bestrides the globe as an expert in his field, with no ability whatsoever.
Milton is an antiques expert whose passion for Faberge Eggs leads him to bankruptcy, a Russian sleigh ride and a mysterious Swiss schloss.
Simon Sparrow lands a job in Aberdeen, where he's forced to tackle a pepped-up port loving lady.
The misadventures of newly qualified doctor, Simon Sparrow - adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's 'Doctor at Large' published in 1955.
Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as Captain Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Joan Sanderson as Mrs Russell, Stanley Baxter as Dr Hockett and Joan Sims as Dora.
The bumbling bureaucrats are all at sea making headlines in a mix-up over dogs and boats.
A weekly tribute to all those who work in government departments.
Starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler.
Number One ...... Deryck Guyler
Number Two ...... Richard Murdoch
Mildred Murfin ...... Norma Ronald
With John Graham.
Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham.
'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC Radio 4 Extra.
The Walker children set sail and encounter the Amazons for the first time in this classic Lakeland tale. Stars Jean Anderson.
4 Extra Debut. From Joplin to Sibelius, ballerina Dame Beryl Grey shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From March 2002.
Peter White tackles sporting events and the game of love in his exploration of what beauty means to blind people.
Michael Bentine remembers riding the rapids, a trick by Alfred Hitchcock and tales of the Secret Service.
Founding member of The Goon Show and one of the foremost comic minds of his generation - Michael Bentine offers more behind-the-scenes tales of his offbeat and extraordinary life in showbiz.
With extracts from some of his most memorable comic performances and eccentric characters.
Recorded at the Millfield Theatre, Edmonton, London.
Michael Bentine CBE was born in 1922 and died in 1996.
One of the most popular comedy partnerships of all time. Stuart Maconie explores the individual characteristics that made the pairing of Ronnies Corbett and Barker so special.
The notorious 1924 drama lifting the lid on the lives of the country house set. Stars Elizabeth Sellars and Martin Jarvis.
Mel Giedroyc introduces the best of this week's 4 O'Clock Show, from training dogs for Hollywood to bongo playing, via Broadway!
Mark Radcliffe profiles the stage, film and radio actor best remembered for his Diary of a Schoolmaster as well as his contribution to astronomy.
Series exploring some of the North's best-loved and most influential comedians.
Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere.
An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the strange world of London Below.
So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington.
Joining the mysterious girl named Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard, Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the clutches of the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to discover who ordered them to murder her family. All the while trying to work out how to get back to his old life in London Above.
A six part adaption of Neil Gaiman's novel adapted by Dirk Maggs, sees James McAvoy as Richard lead a stellar cast which includes Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head, David Schofield, Bernard Cribbins, Romola Garai, George Harris, Andrew Sachs, Lucy Cohu, Johnny Vegas, Paul Chequer, Don Gilet and Abdul Salis.
The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 for a second series of audience readings. This week a memoir of one nefarious summer while studying at college: "The Incomplete Quad" and a modern take on the anthropomorphic fable in: "The Squirrel & The Chipmunk".
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best comedy around. Plus Arthur Smith is joined by Andy Parsons.
BBC Radio 4 Extra's topical sketch show which anyone can write for. With Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Justin Edwards, Nadia Kamil and Lewis Macleod.
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.
MONDAY 18 MARCH 2013
MON 00:00 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (b01r527b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01r9syn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Sunday]
MON 01:45 Peter White - Blind Man's Beauty (b008s3b1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 on Sunday]
MON 02:00 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester (b01r9t6w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:30 Double Trouble (b007jmv5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:30 on Sunday]
MON 03:00 Doctor at Large (b009xxrs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 Noel Coward - The Vortex (b00d06t9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 Arthur Ransome - Swallows and Amazons (b007jy5f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvp9)
Lord Edgware Dies
Episode 1
At a nightclub, Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings meet the elegant Lady Edgware who has a surprising personal request...
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.
From the book first published in 1933 and dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell.
Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt
Captain Hastings ...... Simon Williams
Jane Wilkinson / Carlotta Adams ...... Nicola Pagett
Lord Edgware ...... James Greene
Inspector Japp ...... Norman Jones
Bryan Martin ...... Brett Usher
Jules/ Butler ...... Clarence Smith
Housekeeper ...... Jean Reeve
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1992.
MON 06:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012llr0)
Episode 1
Crime reporter Michael Quigley's evening is ruined when a mysterious master criminal chooses his nightclub to carry out his latest escapade. Read by Danny Webb.
Who is White Face? The "Devil of Tidal Basin" - they called him. Out of the slums and filth of London slunk this marauder, dealing death and striking terror into all hearts and confounding the clearest brains of Scotland Yard.
All the ingredients of a great mystery are here - a beautiful young girl, a handsome and romantic stranger from South Africa; a keen crime-reporter from London's Fleet Street in love with the girl; the dull witted inspector of Police countered by the brilliant Superintendent from Scotland Yard.
It's a hunt to expose an arch blackmailer - bent on destroying the lives of his victims.....
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels - including the Four Just Men and Mr JG Reeder series - 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. He co-created the movie monster 'King Kong', writing the film's early screenplay. Over 160 films have been made of his novels.
Edgar Wallace's novel abridged by Robin Brooks.
Producer: Clive Brill
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pacificus Productions and first broadcast in 2011.
MON 06:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01blcc3)
Episode 1
Journalist Rhoda Gradwyn checks into an exclusive cosmetic surgery clinic. PD James detective mystery with Christine Kavanagh.
MON 07:00 Edge Falls (b00d9yq6)
Series 2
Episode 2
The retail park is licensed for marriage with traumatic results. Stars Mark Benton and Frances Barber. From September 2008.
MON 07:30 Just a Minute (b01r55x3)
Series 65
Episode 5
Gyles Brandreth, Alun Cochrane, Stephen Mangan and Paul Merton attempt to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, repetition or deviation under the watchful eye of Nicholas Parsons.
MON 08:00 Round the Horne (b00hzh39)
Series 1
Episode 14
Special agent Kenneth Horne probes a pirate invasion of the BBC, while Kenneth Williams throws a hissy fit.
How sure are Binkie Huckaback and Dame Celia Molestrangler about their latest movie revival?
And at the Studio Bona, is Mr Horne up to flexing his deltoids for photographers Julian and Sandy?
With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.
Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, London. Announcer: Douglas Smith
Round the Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, catchphrases and double-entendres.
Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four.
Producer: John Simmonds
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1965.
MON 08:30 The Al Read Show (b008xzwj)
From 28/10/1995
Right monkey! Al takes a peek inside the world of horse racing.
A compilation of the legendary Northern comic's 1950s monologues.
Originally produced at BBC North by Ronnie Taylor
Compilation produced by Mike Craig.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1995.
MON 09:00 Alison and Maud (b007k2d1)
Series 1
Family Hold Back
How does Maud manage to come up trumps in the middle of the night?
Sue Limb's sitcom about events at the Abbeyfield Guest House in Norwich.
Denise Coffey and Miriam Margolyes star as sisters Alison and Maud.
Alison …. Denise Coffey
Maud …. Miriam Margolyes
Mr Mullett …. Chris Emmett
Mr Ducket …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Mrs Ducket …. Judy Flynn
Producer: Jonathan James-Moore.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2002.
MON 09:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jw2r)
Series 3
Episode 6
Ad man Ken struggles with the women in his life, and ex-boss Freddie causes a stir. Stars Martin Jarvis. From November 1986.
MON 10:00 Playing For Time - Three Days In May 1940 (b007k4c7)
Over the May bank holiday 1940, Winston Churchill had been prime minister for a fortnight but was already facing up to a possibly devastating defeat at Dunkirk.
Challenged by the War Cabinet over the way he was conducting the war, Britain's fate hung in the balance...
Wartime drama by Robin Glendinning.
Churchill ...... Robert Hardy
Lord Halifax ...... Ronald Pickup.
Neville Chamberlain ...... Jeremy Child
Clement Atlee ...... Bill Wallis
Arthur Greenwood ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
John Martin ...... David Leonard
Signor Bastianini ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
Paul Reynaud ...... Ronald Oliver
General Ismay ...... Mark Buffery
Producer: Jeremy Howe
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.
MON 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rb1t7)
Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir
As a stranger returns, Hardy's inimitable Wessex characters recount village tales of Longpuddle life. Read by Richard Mitchley.
MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b01r93sk)
Joey Skaggs, Kevin Eldon, Pippa Haywood, Ed Stafford, Arthur Smith, Stornoway, Julie Hawk
Clive's duped by satirist, prankster and media critic Joey Skaggs. As one of the originators of culture jamming, Joey's famously disrupted or subverted media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions. He tells Clive how he managed to pull off his famous pranks, such as Cathouse for Dogs and Brooklyn Bridge Lottery. Joey's a guest speaker at Advertising Week Europe, which runs from Monday 18th to Thursday 21st March.
Clive needs to talk about Kevin with actor and comedian Kevin Eldon, who has appeared in countless comedies; Brass Eye, Big Train and Nighty Night to name just a few. He now has his own sketch show, a veritable catnip for comedy nerds, starring the likes of Julia Davis and Simon Day. 'It's Kevin' starts on BBC 2 on Sunday 17th March at
22.30
Arthur Smith's castaway this week is explorer, adventurer and real life Robinson Crusoe, Ed Stafford. After Walking the Amazon, Ed's latest extreme survival challenge sees him washed up on a desert island, south east of Fiji, with only his brain, bare hands and a camera to keep him alive. 'Naked and Marooned With Ed Stafford' is on each Thursday on Discovery Channel at
21.00.
Clive's banged up with actress and Mrs Brittas Pippa Haywood, who's starring in the second series of BBC One's 'Prisoner's Wives'. There's more porridge for Pippa, as she returns to our screens as Harriet, a respectable middle-aged upstanding member of the local community whose son is in jail. 'Prisoner's Wives' is on Thursdays at
21.00.
With music from Oxford Indie folksters Stornoway who lay their first single 'Knock Me On The Head' from their album 'Tales From Terra Firma'.
And more musical bling from Julie Hawk who performs the title track of her EP 'The Value of Gold'.
Producer: Cathie Mahoney.
MON 12:00 Round the Horne (b00hzh39)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
MON 12:30 The Al Read Show (b008xzwj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
MON 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvp9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
MON 13:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012llr0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
MON 13:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01blcc3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
MON 14:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007yn9k)
Episode 6
Tragedy strikes for Jem, but will occupied Mary offer any comfort? Frank portrayal of 1840s Manchester life with Emma Rydal.
MON 14:15 The Generation Gap (b00qzrjc)
Series 2: Sex
Underwear and Sex Shop Entrepreneur
Series of programmes in which two people from different generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing nature of Britain.
The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex.
Jane runs an underwear shop in a seaside town, and has recently started stocking sex toys for the older generation. Her son helps out in the shop, and they discuss attitudes to sex across the generations.
A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4.
MON 14:30 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (b0089jbx)
Episode 6
As Holly returns from holiday in Havana, Fred is approached by a stranger...
Henry Goodman continues Truman Capote's vivid and witty novel about the relationship between young writer, Paul Varjak and captivating girl-about-town, Holly Golightly, in 1940s New York.
With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly Golightly is top notch in style and a sensation wherever she goes. Her brownstone apartment vibrates with martini-soaked parties as she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate goal - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home.
Truman Capote's 1958 novella abridged in 10-parts by James Robertston.
Born in New Orleans in 1925, Truman Capote left school at 15 to work for the New Yorker - his first, and last, regular job. He's the author of many highly praised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories, The Grass Harp, In Cold Blood, Music for Chameleons and Answered Prayers. Truman Capote died in 1984.
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
MON 14:45 John Gielgud - Gielgud's Letters (b0082ckb)
Episode 1
Actor Sir John Gielgud's remarkable life told through his letters. In 1936, he was Hamlet in New York. Read by Derek Jacobi.
MON 15:00 Playing For Time - Three Days In May 1940 (b007k4c7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01pqhkh)
Dick and Dom are back with more experiments in 'How Dangerous Is Your House'. Plus, a guide to woodland birds and a new story, 'The Silver Bead' by Helen Dunmore.
MON 17:00 Coming Alive (b00hrt7t)
Series 3
Betting Fever
Terry agrees to babysit for Sandra, but reckons without her mother. Stars Karl Howman and Phyllis Logan. From October 2001.
MON 17:30 Edge Falls (b00d9yq6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
MON 18:00 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (b01rb2c1)
Earl's Court
Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere.
An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the strange world of London Below.
So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington.
Joining the mysterious girl named Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard, Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the clutches of the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to discover who ordered them to murder her family. All the while trying to work out how to get back to his old life in London Above.
A six part adaption of Neil Gaiman's novel adapted by Dirk Maggs, sees James McAvoy as Richard lead a stellar cast which includes Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head, David Schofield, Bernard Cribbins, Romola Garai, George Harris, Andrew Sachs, Lucy Cohu, Johnny Vegas, Paul Chequer, Don Gilet and Abdul Salis.
MON 18:30 Brian Aldiss - Hothouse (b00m9p2w)
Episode 1
Millions of years in the future, a colossal banyan tree covers much of the Earth. In its boughs, the last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorised by carnivorous plants and grotesque insect life.
The Earth has stopped rotating and the Sun's output has increased. Plants are engaged in a constant tropical forest-style frenzy of growth driving other life forms to extinction...
Brian Aldiss's 1962 sci-fi fantasy read by Gareth Thomas.
Abridged in five parts by Lu Kemp.
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2009.
MON 19:00 Round the Horne (b00hzh39)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
MON 19:30 The Al Read Show (b008xzwj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
MON 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvp9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
MON 20:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012llr0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
MON 20:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01blcc3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
MON 21:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rb1t7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b01r93sk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
MON 22:00 Just a Minute (b01r55x3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
MON 22:30 Nick Mohammed: Apollo 21 (b00nqht7)
Mockumentary by Nick Mohammed, recorded at Bedford University.
Forty years after man first landed on the moon, the surviving astronauts tell us what it was like to be part of the moon mission.
MON 23:00 The Now Show (b01r5r15)
Series 39
Episode 5
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin, Maeve Higgins and Nathan Caton to present the a comic run through the week's news.
MON 23:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b0167zkv)
Series 4
Haynes, McCandless, Crystal
Hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of Buckingham John Lloyd C.B.E. and the intensely curious comedian Dave Gorman.
This week's guests:
Natalie Haynes is an author, comedian and critic. Her book, The Ancient Guide To Modern Life is all about the wisdom and lifestyles of the ancient Greeks and Romans and uses them to give us a better perspective of our own time. Natalie is bubbling with facts and loves busting cherished myths about the classical past. Natalie is also a massive fan of detective fiction, to which she has applied her prodigious intellect. An obsessive Diagnosis Murder fan, Natalie would give up a year of her life to live in the time in which Dick Van Dyke was the "biggest star in the world".
David McCandless is a journalist and the author of Information Is Beautiful, a book which uses imaginative new ways to display complex statistical information, using novel graphics. David was also once the UK's Doom video game champion, narrowly beaten in the world final by a 14-year-old boy with a moustache.
David Crystal is the Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He is without doubt Britain's top linguist. He has written over a hundred books on the subject, including the standard texts read by every linguistics student in the country, and edited the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English language. He knows exactly how many different words there are in an average edition of the Sun, because he's counted them, knows just why people are wrong when they say that txtspk is the death of English, and once sold two dozen adjectives at a shilling each.
TUESDAY 19 MARCH 2013
TUE 00:00 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (b01rb2c1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 Brian Aldiss - Hothouse (b00m9p2w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvp9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012llr0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01blcc3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Alison and Maud (b007k2d1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jw2r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 Playing For Time - Three Days In May 1940 (b007k4c7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rb1t7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b01r93sk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 Coming Alive (b00hrt7t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:30 Edge Falls (b00d9yq6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpg)
Lord Edgware Dies
Episode 2
Lord Edgware has been murdered at his house in Regent Gate and Inspector Japp suspects Lady Edgware of the crime.
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.
From the book first published in 1933 and dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt
Captain Hastings ...... Simon Williams
Jane Wilkinson ...... Nicola Pagett
Bryan Martin ...... Brett Usher
Inspector Japp ...... Norman Jones
Edgware's Butler ...... Clarence Smith
Ellis ...... Paula Jacobs
Miss Carroll ...... Eva Stuart
Alice ...... Auriol Smith
Jenny Driver ...... Adjoa Andoh
Doctor Heath ...... Timothy Carlton
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1992.
TUE 06:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012m9vx)
Episode 2
After musing in his surgery, Dr Marford and Sergeant Elk are soon confronted by a fresh murderous mystery. Read by Danny Webb.
TUE 06:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01blgj9)
Episode 2
Journalist Rhoda Gradwyn's plastic surgery is over, but Commander Dalgliesh soon gets a phone call. Stars Christine Kavanagh and Richard Derrington.
TUE 07:00 The Million Pound Radio Show (b00nd0tf)
Series 3
Episode 3
New NHS slot machines, and killer furniture on the loose. Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell's sharp humour. From October 1987.
TUE 07:30 Elvenquest (b01r5lnp)
Series 4
The Bard
The Questers find themselves in possession of the magical Dagger of Razzak-Dar, which kills anyone it touches, and realise this might be a golden opportunity to use it on Lord Darkness. The problem is, Lord Darkness' castle is impenetrable.
Luckily, Lord Darkness is looking for a new bard to soothe his nerves, so decides to hold a talent contest so throws open the doors of his castle to welcome applicants.
If only one of the Questers had any musical or acting experience.
Enter Penthiselea, stage left...
Starring:
Darren Boyd as Vidar
Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech
Dave Lamb as Amis/The Vet/Grunter
Stephen Mangan as Sam
Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness
and
Ingrid Oliver as Penthiselea
Written by James Cary
Producer: Sam Michell.
TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b00k7xd2)
Series 9
The £50 Cure
Kenneth Connor takes Harry Secombe's place, as Ned picks up a lavish NHS prescription for his broken legs. From February 1959.
TUE 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b008h45n)
Series 4
The Villa
Headed abroad, author Gerald is not keen to visit his wife Diana's friend.
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife, Diana.
With Lolly Cockerell, Jane Knowles, Brian Haines and Michael Spice.
Written by Basil Boothroyd.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1981.
TUE 09:00 The Now Show (b01r5r15)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:00 on Monday]
TUE 09:30 We've Been Here Before (b007rsyw)
Series 1
Episode 2
Clive Anderson's panel show of the past with Jon Holmes, Simon Brett, Gyles Brandreth and Lewis Shaffer.
TUE 10:00 John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress (b00fcd6c)
Episode 1
John Bunyan's enduring 17th century classic about the adventures of Christian, a pilgrim who embarks on a perilous journey to the Celestial City.
Dramatised in three parts by Brian Sibley.
Anton Rodgers … Bunyan
Neil Dudgeon … Christian
Alec McCowen … Evangelist
Don Warrington … Beelzebub
Anna Massey … Interpreter
Peter Bowles … Caged Man
Caroline Lee Johnson … Elizabeth
Ioan Meredith … The Jailer
Derek Waring … The Judge
Philip Fox … Pliable
Chris Moran … Obstinate
Ms Jaimi Barbakoff … Help
Lydia Leonard … Goodwill
Cherie Taylor-Battiste … The Angel
Sophie Levy … Child
Nyla Levy … Child
Director: Pam Fraser Solomon
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2004.
TUE 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rbqc6)
Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver
A comic tale of a local swain who courts rather too many maids at once. Read by Richard Mitchley.
TUE 11:15 Martin Sorrell - Trapped (b01hc5tq)
The heroes of the great Exeter theatre fire of 1887. Martin Sorrell's recreation of real events. With Geoffrey Whitehead.
TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b00k7xd2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b008h45n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
TUE 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
TUE 13:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012m9vx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
TUE 13:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01blgj9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
TUE 14:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007yp2k)
Episode 7
There is bad news for Jem, while Mary is teased about her flirtation with the mill owner's son, Henry Carson. Stars Emma Rydal.
TUE 14:15 The Generation Gap (b00qzrjg)
Series 2: Sex
Prostitution
Series in which two people from different generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing nature of Britain.
The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex.
Helen worked as a bar hostess and prostitute in the 1970s. She talks to Maria, who is currently funding her way through university by being a sex worker. How do their experiences differ?
A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 14:30 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (b0089kf3)
Episode 7
Henry Goodman reads Truman Capote's vivid and witty novel about the relationship between young writer, Paul Varjak and captivating girl-about-town, Holly Golightly, in 1940s New York.
With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly Golightly is top notch in style and a sensation wherever she goes. Her brownstone apartment vibrates with martini-soaked parties as she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate goal - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home.
Truman Capote's 1958 novella abridged in 10-parts by James Robertston.
Born in New Orleans in 1925, Truman Capote left school at 15 to work for the New Yorker - his first, and last, regular job. He's the author of many highly praised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories, The Grass Harp, In Cold Blood, Music for Chameleons and Answered Prayers. Truman Capote died in 1984.
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
TUE 14:45 John Gielgud - Gielgud's Letters (b0082g2s)
Episode 2
In 1952, John Gielgud travelled to Hollywood to star in Julius Caesar. Derek Jacobi reads his remarkable letters.
TUE 15:00 John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress (b00fcd6c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01pqn8n)
Mel finds out about the art of drinking tea, plus Dick and Dom are back with more science experiments in 'How Dangerous Is Your House'.
TUE 17:00 Second Thoughts (b00fnfnz)
Series 2
The Rhythm of Strife
Bill and Faith bicker over her children, then his ex-wife Liza turns up...
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.
Stars Lynda Bellingham as Faith, James Bolam as Bill, Kelda Holmes as Hannah, Belinda Lang as Liza, Brian Bowles as Dennis and Danny Schiller as Mr Roper.
Series two 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’.
Producer: Sioned Wiliam
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1989.
TUE 17:30 The Million Pound Radio Show (b00nd0tf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
TUE 18:00 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (b01rbsc4)
The Angel Islington
Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere.
An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the strange world of London Below.
So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington.
Joining the mysterious girl named Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard, Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the clutches of the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to discover who ordered them to murder her family. All the while trying to work out how to get back to his old life in London Above.
A six part adaption of Neil Gaiman's novel adapted by Dirk Maggs, sees James McAvoy as Richard lead a stellar cast which includes Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head, David Schofield, Bernard Cribbins, Romola Garai, George Harris, Andrew Sachs, Lucy Cohu, Johnny Vegas, Paul Chequer, Don Gilet and Abdul Salis.
TUE 18:30 Brian Aldiss - Hothouse (b00mdx7n)
Episode 2
The tribal elders have gone, leaving the children to face the Earth's dense jungle alone.
The Earth has stopped rotating and the Sun's output has increased. Plants are engaged in a constant tropical forest-style frenzy of growth driving other life forms to extinction...
Brian Aldiss's 1962 sci-fi fantasy read by Gareth Thomas.
Abridged in five parts by Lu Kemp.
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2009.
TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b00k7xd2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b008h45n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
TUE 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
TUE 20:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012m9vx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
TUE 20:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01blgj9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
TUE 21:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rbqc6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Martin Sorrell - Trapped (b01hc5tq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 Elvenquest (b01r5lnp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
TUE 22:30 World of Pub (b007v1dk)
Series 2
Episode 4
Dodgy Phil lays on an unusual awards ceremony to improve the faded fortunes of Barry and Garry's pub.
Tony Roche's comedy about the world's worst pub in London's East End.
Dodgy Phil ...... John Thomson
Barry ...... Phil Cornwell
Garry ...... Alistair McGowan
Bob ...... Tony Roche
With Debra Stephenson and Simon Greenall.
Special effects: Carl Phillips and Nick Romero.
Music: Bill Bailey
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1999.
TUE 23:00 Hut 33 (b00ljn73)
Series 1
Bridge Too Far
Three wartime code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden hut as they try to break German ciphers.
Unfortunately, they hate each other.
James Cary's sitcom set in Bletchley Park in 1941.
Charles .... Robert Bathurst
Archie .... Tom Goodman-Hill
Minka .... Olivia Colman
Gordon .... Fergus Craig
Mrs Best .... Lill Roughley
Joshua .... Alex MacQueen
Producer: Adam Bromley.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2007.
TUE 23:30 Spats (b00cqd0k)
Series 2
The Living v the Dead
Comedian Luke Roberts tries to solve the big arguments using light entertainment. With Nadia Kamil. From July 2008.
WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH 2013
WED 00:00 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (b01rbsc4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 Brian Aldiss - Hothouse (b00mdx7n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012m9vx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01blgj9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 The Now Show (b01r5r15)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:00 on Monday]
WED 02:30 We've Been Here Before (b007rsyw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress (b00fcd6c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rbqc6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:15 Martin Sorrell - Trapped (b01hc5tq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 Second Thoughts (b00fnfnz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Tuesday]
WED 05:30 The Million Pound Radio Show (b00nd0tf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpl)
Lord Edgware Dies
Episode 3
A second victim of murder is revealed - but were they really involved in the death of Lord Edgware?
Questions galore for the Belgian sleuth...
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.
From the book first published in 1933 and dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt
Captain Hastings ...... Simon Williams
Jane Wilkinson ...... Nicola Pagett
Bryan Martin ...... Brett Usher
Inspector Japp ...... Norman Jones
Ellis ...... Paula Jacobs
Miss Carroll ...... Eva Stuart
Ronald Marsh ...... Charles Millham
Poirot's Housekeeper ...... Jean Reeve
Geraldine Marsh ...... Joanna Myers
Sir Montagu Corner ...... Garard Green
Mr Widburn ...... Andrew Wincott
Mrs Widburn ...... Susan Sheridan
Ross ...... Terence Edmond
Duke of Merton ...... Eric Allan
Jenkins ...... Fraser Kerr
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1992.
WED 06:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012mh0j)
Episode 3
Whose death has Dr Manford witnessed? What could a lowly small-time light-fingered felon know about it? Read by Danny Webb.
WED 06:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01bllts)
Episode 3
Commander Dalgliesh arrives to investigate a high profile murder at an exclusive clinic in Dorset. Stars Richard Derrington.
WED 07:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k0wh)
Series 1
The New Synagogue
A single phone call turns the comfortable world of Rabbi Fine is turned upside down.
The first of three series of Barry Grossman’s comedy-drama about the collision between the old and the new in the Jewish community of Hillfield.
Starring David De Keyser as Rabbi Abraham Fine. Tracy-Ann Oberman as Rabbi Su Jacobs, Doreen Mantle as Sadie Fine, Henry Goodman as Melvin, Jonathan Kydd as Brian and Sarah Rice as Ruth.
Music: Max Harris.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
WED 07:30 Dilemma (b01r5pxg)
Series 2
Episode 4
Sue Perkins puts Roisin Conaty, Samira Ahmed, David Reed and Robin Ince through the moral and ethical wringer.
The panellists finely-balanced dilemmas involve changing history; dipping into the archives; injust justice and a maths teacher's non-standard deviation.
There are no "right" answers - but there are some deeply damning ones.
Devised by Danielle Ward.
Producer: Ed Morrish
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013.
WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jz69)
Series 1
A Trip to France
The Lad is longing to sample life across the English Channel, but Sid's got other ideas.
Starring Tony Hancock.
With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney James and Kenneth Williams.
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 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00vhx36)
Series 5
Episode 5
Britain through the wars - and singing in the bath.
More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs and parodies.
Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
Written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden 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, Leon Cohen and Bill Oddie.
Producer: Humphrey Barclay
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1967.
WED 09:00 Winston (b007qzh8)
Winston Comes to Town
Has Anyone Seen Winston?
The family has moved to London. Old rogue Winston spends hours up a tree in the garden, but nd then he disappears...
Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial stars Bill Wallis as Winston, Maurice Denham as Father, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, Liz Goulding as Rosie and Christian Rodska as William.
Director: Shaun MacLoughlin.
First broadcast on BBC Radio in January 1990.
WED 09:30 The Party Line (b0147flp)
Series 3
Episode 4
MP Duncan's ability to stay awake for long periods is sorely tested by an all-night vigil. Stars James Fleet. From October 2008.
WED 10:00 John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress (b00fd2td)
Episode 2
Christian is determined to reach the Celestial City even though it means passing through the Valley of The Shadow of Death.
John Bunyan's enduring 17th century classic about the adventures of Christian, a pilgrim on a perilous journey to the Celestial City.
Anton Rodgers … Bunyan
Neil Dudgeon … Christian
Alec McCowen … Evangelist
Don Warrington … Beelzebub
Caroline Lee Johnson … Elizabeth
Ioan Meredith … The Jailer
Derek Waring … The Judge
Philip Fox … Watchful
Chris Moran … Clerk
Jaimi Barbakoff … Prudence
Lydia Leonard … Charity
Cherie Taylor-Battiste … Piety
Graham Crowden … Faithful
Stephen Thorne … Cobb
Eve Karpf … Discretion
Rachel Atkins … Talkative
Damian Lynch … Timorous
Dramatised by Brian Sibley.
Director: Pam Fraser Solomon
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2004.
WED 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rbw3r)
The History of the Hardcomes
Recollections of Tony Kytes' wedding bring to mind the unusual circumstances of the Hardcomes. Read by Richard Mitchley.
WED 11:15 Drama (b00c1d1r)
Nick Warburton - Foundling
By Nick Warburton.
A man famous for finding lost people arrives in a small town. Why will he not help a young woman find her lost child?
Laura ...... Emma Fielding
Roach ...... Peter Marinker
Gilbert ...... Ben Crowe
Directed by Peter Kavanagh.
WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jz69)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00vhx36)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
WED 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
WED 13:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012mh0j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
WED 13:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01bllts)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
WED 14:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007jqhj)
Episode 8
Mr Barton is desperate for work, and a long-lost relative warns him over Mary. 1840s Manchester tale stars David Calder, Emma Rydal and Fiona Clarke.
WED 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home (b009j657)
Voysey
Laurence Llewelyn Bowen's history of our homes from the 1920s to the present day, beginning with a profile of the 'father of the English suburb', Charles Voysey. From March 2008.
WED 14:30 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (b0089m5n)
Episode 8
Henry Goodman reads Truman Capote's vivid and witty novel about the relationship between young writer, Paul Varjak and captivating girl-about-town, Holly Golightly, in 1940s New York.
With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly Golightly is top notch in style and a sensation wherever she goes. Her brownstone apartment vibrates with martini-soaked parties as she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate goal - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home.
Truman Capote's 1958 novella abridged in 10-parts by James Robertston.
Born in New Orleans in 1925, Truman Capote left school at 15 to work for the New Yorker - his first, and last, regular job. He's the author of many highly praised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories, The Grass Harp, In Cold Blood, Music for Chameleons and Answered Prayers. Truman Capote died in 1984.
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
WED 14:45 John Gielgud - Gielgud's Letters (b0082h7m)
Episode 3
In 1959, actor John Gielgud faced the threat of blackmail over his homosexuality. Derek Jacobi reads his remarkable letters.
WED 15:00 John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress (b00fd2td)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01pr91n)
Mel finds out about the history of teapots, hears the next chapter of 'The Silver Bead', plus Dick and Dom are back with more science experience in 'How Dangerous Is Your House'.
WED 17:00 No Commitments (b007jmz6)
Series 11
Ill Winds
Roger's retirement looms, while Anna tries to help Charlotte with a tricky problem. Sitcom following three 40-something sisters. Stars Bill Nighy and Celia Imrie. From Feb 2005.
WED 17:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k0wh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
WED 18:00 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (b01rbwlv)
The Black Friars
Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere.
An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the strange world of London Below.
So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington.
Joining the mysterious girl named Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard, Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the clutches of the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to discover who ordered them to murder her family. All the while trying to work out how to get back to his old life in London Above.
A six part adaption of Neil Gaiman's novel adapted by Dirk Maggs, sees James McAvoy as Richard lead a stellar cast which includes Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head, David Schofield, Bernard Cribbins, Romola Garai, George Harris, Andrew Sachs, Lucy Cohu, Johnny Vegas, Paul Chequer, Don Gilet and Abdul Salis.
WED 18:30 Brian Aldiss - Hothouse (b00mj3gd)
Episode 3
The manipulative Morel fungus guides Gren and Poyly's lives without their tribe.
Millions of years in the future, a colossal banyan tree covers much of the Earth. In its boughs, the last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorized by carnivorous plants and grotesque insect life.
The Earth has stopped rotating and the Sun's output has increased. Plants are engaged in a constant tropical forest-style frenzy of growth driving other life forms to extinction...
Brian Aldiss's 1962 sci-fi fantasy read by Gareth Thomas.
Abridged in five parts by Lu Kemp.
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2009.
WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jz69)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00vhx36)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
WED 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
WED 20:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012mh0j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
WED 20:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01bllts)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
WED 21:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rbw3r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
WED 21:15 Drama (b00c1d1r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
WED 22:00 Dilemma (b01r5pxg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
WED 22:30 Richard Herring's Objective (b00vkycj)
Series 1
Dolly the Sheep
Comedian Richard Herring reclaims those things we've grown to hate. In the final show of the series Richard reclaims Dolly the sheep as he examines why we are fearful and suspicious of the idea of cloning without really understanding it.
Richard talks to a genetics professor about how cloning works and what it was like to meet Dolly. Richard also asks science writer Dr Ben Goldacre whether evil scientists exist and whether he is allowed to clone Dr Who assistant Amy Pond.
The show was recorded in front of an audience.
Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.
WED 23:00 The Museum of Everything (b007k4r1)
Series 2
By Royal Appointment
Discover the joys of musical theatre, learn all about the wonder of the sea, plus marvel at the monarchy with the museum's new royal theme park.
Written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell.
With Lucy Montgomery.
Music by Dominic Haslam and Ben Walker.
Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2005.
WED 23:30 Old Harry's Game (b00wtb2v)
Series 6
Ginger
Satan finally resolves Edith's murder, while she discovers something astonishing about humans descended from angels.
Andy Hamilton's comedy set in Hell.
Starring Andy Hamilton as Satan, Annette Crosbie as Edith, Robert Duncan as Scumspawn and Jimmy Mulville as Thomas.
Other characters played by Michael Fenton Stevens, Philip Pope, Felicity Montagu and Nick Revell.
Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007.
THURSDAY 21 MARCH 2013
THU 00:00 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (b01rbwlv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Brian Aldiss - Hothouse (b00mj3gd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012mh0j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01bllts)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Winston (b007qzh8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 The Party Line (b0147flp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress (b00fd2td)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rbw3r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:15 Drama (b00c1d1r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 No Commitments (b007jmz6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k0wh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpv)
Lord Edgware Dies
Episode 4
Inspector Japp has tracked down the taxi driver who drove two very unlikely passengers to Regent Gate on the night of Lord Edgware's murder...
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.
From the book first published in 1933 and dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt
Captain Hastings ...... Simon Williams
Inspector Japp ...... Norman Jones
Ronald Marsh ...... Charles Millham
Ross ...... Terence Edmond
Jenny ...... Adjoa Andoh
Taxi Driver/Waiter ...... Neil Roberts
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1992.
.
THU 06:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012n3rn)
Episode 4
What crime scene discovery will put pressure on Quigley? What trouble will Bateman's death bring for Janice? Read by Danny Webb.
THU 06:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01bmpth)
Episode 4
After journalist Rhoda Gradwyn's murder, Dalgliesh discovers evidence at the victim's London home. PD James mystery stars Richard Derrington.
THU 07:00 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b0076syq)
Series 4
Congratulations, It's a Hob Nob
Wendy is busy preparing for the baby's arrival. Unfortunately, Robin isn't feeling very well and takes to his bed, much to the frustration of everyone.
Robin ...... Brian Capron
Wendy ...... Kay Stonham
Derek ...... Martin Trenaman
Maureen ...... Amelia Bullmore.
THU 07:30 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation (b01r5s28)
Series 9
How to Be a Man in the 21st Century
Stand by your radios! Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves with a broadcast of national comic import as he asks the question "Does power come from the barrel of a gun or from a jar of onion marmalade?"
Helping him fail to find the answers will be actor and Jeremy regular Gordon Kennedy ("Absolutely", "Sherlock") and special guest Katy Brand.
Welcome to "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation", a series of debates in which Jeremy Hardy engages in a free and frank exchange of his entrenched views. Passionate, polemical, erudite and unable to sing, Jeremy returns with a new series of his show, famous for lines like -
"Kids should never be fashion slaves, especially in the Far East. My 12-year old daughter asked me for a new pair of trainers. I told her she was old enough to go out and make her own" and, "Islam is no weirder than Christianity. Both are just Judaism with the jokes taken out."
Few can forget where they were twenty years ago when they first heard "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation". The show was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since the show went out on Thursdays. The Light Entertainment department was besieged, questions were asked in the House and Jeremy Hardy himself became known as the man responsible for the funniest show on radio since Money Box Live with Paul Lewis.
Since that fateful first series, Jeremy went on to win Sony Awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
The show is a Pozzitive production, and is produced by Jeremy's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler.
Written by Jeremy Hardy
Produced by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 08:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007jpyj)
Marooned
A visit to the pier theatre ends in disaster for Arthur Wilson and Miss Perkins.
A seaside saga of pier perpetuation starring John Le Mesurier, Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee.
Arthur Wilson ...... John Le Mesurier
Frank Pike ...... Ian Lavender
Bert Hodges ...... Bill Pertwee
Miss Perkins ...... Vivienne Martin
Derek ...... Paul Russell
Written by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles, based on the characters originally created by Jimmy Perry and David Croft.
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1984.
THU 08:30 Take It From Here (b016vh18)
From 05/05/1955
Will Eth manage to triumph in her plans to wed Ron Glum? Stars Dick Bentley, Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield. From May 1955.
THU 09:00 The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (b00b01jz)
The Case of the Clockwork Fiend
Baker Street’s Great Detective Sherlock Holmes investigates mystery deaths from some new fangled inventions.
Roy Hudd spoofs the famous sleuth in Tony Hare’s comedy series.
With Chris Emmett as Dr Watson, Jeffrey Holland as Inspector Lestrade and June Whitfield as Mrs Hudson.
Musical accompaniment: Ian Smith.
Producer: Chris Neill
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1999.
THU 09:30 The 99p Challenge (b01rcg42)
Series 5
Episode 1
Crazy panel show capers as Sue Perkins tests Jon Holmes, Armando Iannucci, Peter Baynham and Simon Pegg. From August 2004.
THU 10:00 John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress (b00fd62f)
Episode 3
Christian is coming to the end of his eventful journey to the Celestial City but, as he gets closer to his destination, he strays from the right path and trespasses onto land belonging to Giant Despair.
Conclusion of John Bunyan's enduring 17th century classic about pilgrim Christian's perilous journey to the Celestial City.
Anton Rodgers … Bunyan
Neil Dudgeon … Christian
Alec McCowen … Evangelist
Don Warrington … Beelzebub
Caroline Lee Johnson … Elizabeth
Ioan Meredith … The Jailer
Derek Waring … The Judge
Philip Fox … Sincere
Chris Moran … Knowledge
Jaimi Barbakoff … Angel
Lydia Leonard … Angel
Cherie Taylor-Battiste … Deceiver
Graham Crowden … Faithful
Stephen Thorne … Giant Despair
Rachel Atkins … Ignorance
Damian Lynch … Experience
Paul Medford … Hopeful
Frances Jeater … Mrs Despair
Declan Wilson … False-Confidence
Dramatised iby Brian Sibley.
Director: Pam Fraser Solomon
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2004.
THU 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rch8j)
Andrey Satchel and the Parson and Clerk
The master thatcher regales the travellers with Andrey's attempt to get married while still in his cups. Read by Richard Mitchley.
THU 11:15 Ray Jenkins - Stolen (b01rch8l)
A German archaeologist is drawn into a race to steal Buddhist treasures along the Silk Road. Stars Siobhan Redmond. From October 1999.
THU 12:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007jpyj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 12:30 Take It From Here (b016vh18)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 13:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012n3rn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 13:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01bmpth)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
THU 14:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007jqht)
Episode 9
Mary is worried about her father's savage behaviour, and Jem makes his intentions clear. Stars Emma Rydal and David Calder.
THU 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home (b009j65c)
Modernism
The modernist social experiment came close to being realised with the blocks of flats built in the early 1930s. From March 2008.
THU 14:30 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (b0089kv5)
Episode 9
Henry Goodman reads Truman Capote's vivid and witty novel about the relationship between young writer, Paul Varjak and captivating girl-about-town, Holly Golightly, in 1940s New York.
With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly Golightly is top notch in style and a sensation wherever she goes. Her brownstone apartment vibrates with martini-soaked parties as she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate goal - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home.
Truman Capote's 1958 novella abridged in 10-parts by James Robertston.
Born in New Orleans in 1925, Truman Capote left school at 15 to work for the New Yorker - his first, and last, regular job. He's the author of many highly praised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories, The Grass Harp, In Cold Blood, Music for Chameleons and Answered Prayers. Truman Capote died in 1984.
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
THU 14:45 John Gielgud - Gielgud's Letters (b0082j2s)
Episode 4
In 1970, Gielgud contemplates taking a part in an exciting new play at London's Royal Court Theatre. Read by Derek Jacobi.
THU 15:00 John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress (b00fd62f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01ps9x2)
As we continue with this week's story The Silver Bead, we find out how to control pesky seagulls and discuss which goes on your scone first - jam or cream?
THU 17:00 King Street Junior (b007jngs)
Series 8
Confusion
An anonymous message for Mr Sims - someone's idea of a joke? Trouble is, the message isn't very funny. Stars Karl Howman. From May 1995.
THU 17:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b0076syq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
THU 18:00 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (b01rcky1)
Market Afloat
Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere.
An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the strange world of London Below.
So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington.
Joining the mysterious girl named Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard, Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the clutches of the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to discover who ordered them to murder her family. All the while trying to work out how to get back to his old life in London Above.
A six part adaption of Neil Gaiman's novel adapted by Dirk Maggs, sees James McAvoy as Richard lead a stellar cast which includes Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head, David Schofield, Bernard Cribbins, Romola Garai, George Harris, Andrew Sachs, Lucy Cohu, Johnny Vegas, Paul Chequer, Don Gilet and Abdul Salis.
THU 18:30 Brian Aldiss - Hothouse (b00mpnkm)
Episode 4
Gren and Poyly survive the volcano, but the Morel is becoming increasingly frustrated.
Millions of years in the future, a colossal banyan tree covers much of the Earth. In its boughs, the last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorized by carnivorous plants and grotesque insect life.
The Earth has stopped rotating and the Sun's output has increased. Plants are engaged in a constant tropical forest-style frenzy of growth driving other life forms to extinction...
Brian Aldiss's 1962 sci-fi fantasy read by Gareth Thomas.
Abridged in five parts by Lu Kemp.
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2009.
THU 19:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007jpyj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 19:30 Take It From Here (b016vh18)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 20:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012n3rn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 20:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01bmpth)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
THU 21:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rch8j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Ray Jenkins - Stolen (b01rch8l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
THU 22:00 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation (b01r5s28)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 22:30 Newsjack (b01rcl71)
Series 8
Episode 6
BBC Radio 4 Extra's topical sketch show which anyone can write for. With Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Justin Edwards, Nadia Kamil and Lewis Macleod.
THU 23:00 The Secret World (b011vld9)
Series 1
Episode 5
From Sir Alan Sugar to Boy George, Jon Culshaw explores the bizarre private lives of famous folk. From May 2009.
THU 23:30 Revolting People (b007jrt6)
Series 1
More Storm Clouds
Baltimore 1770. The reception of Cora and Ezekiel’s ‘wedding of the year’ ends in drunken chaos.
Historical sitcom written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses.
CAST:
Samuel Oliphant …. Jay Tarses
Sergeant McGurk …. Andy Hamilton
Cora Oliphant …. Felicity Montagu
Ezekiel Spriggs …. Hugh Dennis
Mr Snavely …. Michael Fenton Stevens
Captain Grimshaw …. James Fleet
Joshua Oliphant …. Tony Maudsley
Mary Oliphant …. Sophie Thompson
Mrs Arbuthnot …. Susie Blake
Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.
FRIDAY 22 MARCH 2013
FRI 00:00 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (b01rcky1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Brian Aldiss - Hothouse (b00mpnkm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012n3rn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01bmpth)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (b00b01jz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 The 99p Challenge (b01rcg42)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress (b00fd62f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rch8j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:15 Ray Jenkins - Stolen (b01rch8l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 King Street Junior (b007jngs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b0076syq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpx)
Lord Edgware Dies
Episode 5
Ross has had to abandon a telephone conversation with Hercule Poirot to answer the doorbell. When he doesn't return, the panic-stricken Belgian sleuth and Captain Hastings hurry round to his apartment.
Will the murderer finally be unmasked?
Conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.
From the book first published in 1933 and dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt
Captain Hastings ...... Simon Williams
Inspector Japp ...... Norman Jones
Jane Wilkinson ...... Nicola Pagett
Jenny ...... Adjoa Andoh
Bryan Martin ...... Brett Usher
Ellis ...... Paula Jacobs
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1992.
FRI 06:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012llpk)
Episode 5
Confusion reigns. If Lorna isn't an addict, why does she seem to have a well-used syringe in her possession? Read by Danny Webb.
FRI 06:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01bn2f3)
Episode 5
Evidence at victim Rhoda's flat leads Dalgliesh and Kate northwards, as the murder trail grows darker. PD James mystery stars Richard Derrington.
FRI 07:00 The Right Time (b009z658)
Series 2
Episode 2
Everybody's wearing beige, crossed wires and bailiffs.
Sketch show about life, written and performed by people who've lived a bit.
Stars Eleanor Bron, Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Paula Wilcox, Clive Swift and Roger Blake.
Written by Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, John Pidgeon, Jan Etherington, Julie Balloo, Ramone Towers, Trevor Walker,Michael Fitch, John Dowie, Colin Bostock-Smith and Andrew Nickolds.
Music by Ronnie & The Rex.
Producer: Helen Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2002.
FRI 07:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b01r961y)
Series 2
With Nick Mohammed
Comedy show hosted by Alex Horne and his five piece band and specially written, original music.
This episode explores the theme of destiny including songs on allergies and chance meetings - as well as showcasing Alex Horne's skills as a dream interpreter.
Guest starring comedian Nick Mohammed who plays with the band and has a trick up his sleeve.
Plus The Middle School Choir from Hall School, Hampstead in London.
Alex's Horne Section are:
Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland
Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown
Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier
Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds
Piano/keyboard .... Ed Sheldrake
Producer: Julia McKenzie.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013.
FRI 08:00 The TV Lark (b01by95t)
Back to Portsmouth
Troutbridge TV is offered coverage of the arrival of Potarneyland's retiring governor.
After 4 series of 'The Navy Lark', the BBC decided the comedy crew needed a new setting, so where better than brand new independent station, Troutbridge TV?
However, after just 10 episodes, this proved to be only a temporary change of course for the crew of HMS Troutbridge - as the crew were soon back aboard 'The Navy Lark'.
Stars Jon Pertwee as the Floor Manager, Leslie Phillips as The Director, Stephen Murray as the Producer, Ronnie Barker as Fatso Johnson and Richard Caldicote as the Deputy Controller.
Scripted by Lawrie Wyman
Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1963.
FRI 08:30 Much Binding in the Marsh (b018sjr1)
From 10/05/1950
Still looking for work, the ex-RAF gang turns its hand to babysitting.
Starring Kenneth Horne and Richard 'Stinker' Murdoch.
With Sam Costa, Maurice Denham, Diana Morrison and Barbara Leigh.
Much Binding in the Marsh ran from 1944 to 1954 initially set at a remote RAF station before being converted to a country club and later the action moved to a newspaper. (The show also ran for a season with commercial breaks on Radio Luxembourg).
Written by Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne.
Music by the Augmented Dance Orchestra conducted by Stanley Black.
Producer: Leslie Bridgemont
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1950.
FRI 09:00 Tony's (b007k30t)
Series 1
All That Glitters
The barber decides his corner shop needs a makeover. Stars Victor Spinetti, John Laurie and Deborah Watling. From November 1979.
FRI 09:30 The Brothers (b00p6b1t)
Series 2
Episode 5
Oonagh makes a discovery and Nigel is at last pushed to the brink. Stars Raymond Coulthard and Adam Godley. From October 2005.
FRI 10:00 Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey (b00cm5tg)
A young woman dismays her family by choosing to earn her own living as a governess. Stars Poppy Miller and Robert Whelan.
FRI 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rcw0n)
An Incident in the Life of Georgy Crookhill
Anxious not to be outdone, the registrar relates a story of treachery among thieves. Read by Richard Mitchley.
FRI 11:15 Nought Happens Twice Thus (b007jw3b)
Adam Thorpe's play about Thomas Hardy's strained marriage with second wife Florence. Set in July 1921. Stars Patrick Malahide.
FRI 12:00 The TV Lark (b01by95t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 Much Binding in the Marsh (b018sjr1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012llpk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 13:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01bn2f3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
FRI 14:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007jqj4)
Episode 10
Margaret has an admirer, and Jem hears Mary's secret via a mysterious stranger. 1840s Manchester tale stars Emma Rydal, Roy Hudd and Teresa Gallagher.
FRI 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home (b009j65h)
Utility
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen visits a pre-fab and considers ways in which the post-war government urged a reluctant public to embrace 'good design'. From March 2008.
FRI 14:30 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (b0089htv)
Episode 10
Henry Goodman reads Truman Capote's vivid and witty novel about the relationship between young writer, Paul Varjak and captivating girl-about-town, Holly Golightly, in 1940s New York.
With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly Golightly is top notch in style and a sensation wherever she goes. Her brownstone apartment vibrates with martini-soaked parties as she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate goal - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home.
Truman Capote's 1958 novella abridged in 10-parts by James Robertston.
Born in New Orleans in 1925, Truman Capote left school at 15 to work for the New Yorker - his first, and last, regular job. He's the author of many highly praised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories, The Grass Harp, In Cold Blood, Music for Chameleons and Answered Prayers. Truman Capote died in 1984.
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
FRI 14:45 John Gielgud - Gielgud's Letters (b0082kbb)
Episode 5
Now in his 70s, Gielgud appears in a film called Arthur. He continues to act well into his 90s. Concluded by Derek Jacobi.
FRI 15:00 Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey (b00cm5tg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01psb65)
The final chapter of this week's story The Silver Bead, plus Cornish pasta (no, not pasties), and more 'How Dangerous Is Your House' experiments with Dick and Dom.
FRI 17:00 For Better or for Worse (b00g43w6)
Series 1
Episode 2
A trip to the cinema turns into a disaster off-screen for sweethearts Bernard and Iris and his dad Wilf.
Dithering Bernard tries to get engaged to his flighty partner Iris. Will she manage to persuade Bernard to buy her an engagement ring at last?
Gorden Kaye and Su Pollard star in Vince Powell’s sitcom about the turbulent relationship of an odd couple.
Iris ...... Su Pollard
Bernard ...... Gorden Kaye
Wilf ...... David Ross
Daisy ...... Paula Tilbrook
Mr Foley ...... Peter Wheeler
Myrtle ...... Julie Higginson
Writer Vince Powell (1928–2009) scripted a number of popular TV sitcoms including Love Thy Neighbour, For the Love of Ada and Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width.
Produced in Manchester by Mike Craig.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1993.
FRI 17:30 The Right Time (b009z658)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
FRI 18:00 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (b01rcwkv)
The Key
Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere.
An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the strange world of London Below.
So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington.
Joining the mysterious girl named Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard, Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the clutches of the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to discover who ordered them to murder her family. All the while trying to work out how to get back to his old life in London Above.
A six part adaption of Neil Gaiman's novel adapted by Dirk Maggs, sees James McAvoy as Richard lead a stellar cast which includes Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head, David Schofield, Bernard Cribbins, Romola Garai, George Harris, Andrew Sachs, Lucy Cohu, Johnny Vegas, Paul Chequer, Don Gilet and Abdul Salis.
FRI 18:30 Brian Aldiss - Hothouse (b00mtpl0)
Episode 5
A parting of the ways for the Morel and Gren, but the search for a home goes on.
Millions of years in the future, a colossal banyan tree covers much of the Earth. In its boughs, the last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorized by carnivorous plants and grotesque insect life.
The Earth has stopped rotating and the Sun's output has increased. Plants are engaged in a constant tropical forest-style frenzy of growth driving other life forms to extinction...
Conclusion of Brian Aldiss's 1962 sci-fi fantasy read by Gareth Thomas.
Abridged by Lu Kemp.
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2009.
FRI 19:00 The TV Lark (b01by95t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Much Binding in the Marsh (b018sjr1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jvpx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Edgar Wallace - White Face (b012llpk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 20:45 Adam Dalgliesh - The Private Patient (b01bn2f3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
FRI 21:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rcw0n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Nought Happens Twice Thus (b007jw3b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b01r961y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
FRI 22:30 Down the Line (b0112zz9)
Series 2
War and Chocolate
War, chocolate and toothpaste. Gary Bellamy hosts the spoof phone-in. Stars Rhys Thomas with Catherine Tate. From January 2007.
FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b01rngdl)
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best comedy around. Plus Arthur Smith competes in the Humble Quest for Universal Genius.
FRI 23:00 Knowing Me, Knowing You (b007jsdd)
Episode 2
A-ha! Chat show host Alan Partridge faces up to nine-year-old prodigy Simon Fisher, American hypnotist, Janey Katz and controversial lawyer Nick Ford.
Classic chat from On the Hour's supreme sports reporter and his guests from the world of theatre, politics and emotional tragedy.
With thanks to Alan's chief researcher Steve Coogan
Assistant researchers:
Patrick Marber
Rebecca Front
Doon Mackichan
David Schneider.
Producer: Armando lannucci
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1992.
FRI 23:30 The Simon Day Show (b010mv50)
Series 1
Tony Beckton
British comedy legend and star of The Fast Show, Down the Line and Bellamy's People, Simon Day debuts his own Radio 4 character comedy show.
Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to the Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. Each week one of Simon's characters come to perform at the Mallard and we hear the highlights of that night's show, along with the back stage and front of house goings on at the theatre itself.
Episode 2 of 6: Tony Beckton. Reformed violent criminal Tony Beckton visits the Mallard Theatre to read from his memoirs as part of his rehabilitation.
Tony Beckton / Peter ..... Simon Day
Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd
Goose ..... Felix Dexter
Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall
Stacey ..... Susan Harrison
Written by Simon Day
Produced by Colin Anderson.