Ladislaw learns the truth about Casaubon's will, and about his family's past. Stars Martin Hyder and Richard Dillane.
Meteorologist Helen Young visits a Dunstable gliding club to recall a pilot's lucky survival during a 1999 lightning strike.
Accompanying her neighbour Betty to a funeral, Linda encounters a mislaid eco warrior.
Comedy series written by and starring Linda Smith.
With Femi Elufowoju Jr, Jeremy Hardy, Margaret John, Chris Neill and Rob Newman.
Joe and Fred's attempt to teach their wives a lesson backfires.
The popular working-class Huggett family first hit the cinema screen with a series of Gainsborough films between 1947 and 1949. Their subsequent BBC radio series ran from 1953 to 1962.
Joe …. Jack Warner
Ethel …. Kathleen Harrison
Bobby …. George Howell
Jane …. Marion Collins
Fred Stebbings …. Charles Leno
Clara …. Molly Lumley
The Insurance Salesman …. Kenneth Connor
Scripted by Eddie Maguire.
The Ministry for General Assistance organises a national lottery - no thanks to the bumbling bureaucrats.
A weekly tribute to all those who work in government departments.
Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley and 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.
In an emotional climax, both Rusty and her mother decide that their lives have to change. Stars Jessica Marshall-Gardiner.
Jo and Laurie must face their futures, while Beth tells Jo the truth at last. Stars Buffy Davis and Gayle Hunnicutt.
From ABBA to Rod Stewart.
In an extended edition, cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young.
Known simply as "Aggers" to the army of fans devoted to BBC Radio's Test Match Special, his charm, knowledge and ready wit have gained him a place in the heart of anyone who loves the game.
His own infatuation began as a young boy at boarding school and along with his talent and determination it took him all the way to the top of the sport. He played for Leicestershire and England. His transition from the crease to the commentary box was cemented by one of the most memorable moments in broadcasting history - the notorious "legover" comment that prompted the legendary Brian Johnson to dissolve into helpless, prolonged giggles live on air.
He says "The great thing about our job is that you have no pre-conceived idea about what is going to happen - you have no script - the cricket is the script".
The Ministry of Furniture and methodist pirates.
Oliver Postgate narrates a stream of bizarre coincidences in Ben Moor’s cosmic comedy of connections.
With Miriam Margolyes, Dan Strauss, Michael Troughton and Neil Mullarkey.
And Sir Patrick Moore, Sir Robert Stephens and Richard Baker.
Made for 4 Extra. Matt is in wealthy company, and has a proposition for Brenda.
Simon Hoggart talks to Tony Benn and Anne Widdecombe about the great parliamentary performers, past and present.
David Hare's witty portrait of an unlikely hero, based on the memoir by Craig Murray.
Craig is proud to be sent as Ambassador to Uzbekistan, eager to work hard and also eager for fun. The combination takes him on a dangerous course both professionally and personally, and the stakes couldn't be higher.
Craig Murray ...... David Tennant
Bax/Safayev ...... Jonathan Coy
Dill/French Ambassador ...... Richard Cordery
Foreign Secretary/Uzbek Judge ...... Simon Chandler
Prosecutor/Fazilov ...... Ian Gelder
Roy/Avazov ...... John Hollingworth
US Ambassador/Karimov ...... Paul Jesson
Dr Ableman/Uzbek Uncle ...... Bruce Myers
Angela ...... Flora Montgomery
Dilobar ...... Nadira Murray
Emily ...... Clara Neather
Nadira ...... Jemima Rooper
Serena/Kristina ...... Lucy Robinson
Ivo Sanderson/Quest ...... Malcolm Sinclair
Procurator ...... Sirojiddin Tolibov
Fiona ...... Lia Williams
2/2: Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders.
By Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatised by Chris Harrald. Professor Challenger and his team are marooned on the isolated Amazonian plateau, at the mercy of dinosaurs and a murderous tribe of hominids. Will they survive to satisfy their scientific curiosity? Will they be able to escape and bring home news of their discoveries?
Querioz... Vinicius Salles
Indian tribesman... Milton Lopes
Dramatist Chris Harrald is a writer for radio film and television. He won the 2009 Sony Gold award for radio drama for his play 'Mr Larkin's Awkward Day'.
Eating too much and the end of the world.
Craig Brown introduces a mixture of satire, social observation and nonsense.
With John Humphrys, Ronni Ancona, Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, Sally Grace, Ewan Bailey and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs around. Plus Arthur Smith has more chat from David Baddiel.
The multi-talented Mrs Bedi lands in hospital - and meet 'The Six Million Rupee Man'.
Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Nitin Sawhney, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia.
Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001.
Scripted by Sharat Sardana, Richard Pinto and the cast.
Produced by Gareth Edwards and Anil Gupta.
Johnny fails to impress Melvyn Bragg while plugging his new book.
The not-terribly-true autobiography of 1970s idol Little Johnny Cartilage.
Written by and starring Johnny Meres.
Deborah Berlin.
Ever tried storming a bouncy castle? Welcome to the surreal world of Miriam Elia. With Dan Tetsall and Joanna Neary. From November 2008.
MONDAY 15 JULY 2013
MON 00:00 Classic Serial (b00zs7v7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b036tt5r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:00 Elastic Planet (b007js6h)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:15 Ambridge Extra (b036tvny)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Sunday]
MON 02:45 The Art of Rhetoric (b007jxpt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:45 on Sunday]
MON 03:00 Meet the Huggetts (b00nhq58)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 Saturday Drama (b00qs5x7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 Michelle Magorian - Back Home (b011j237)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives (b008f3cs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsql)
1. The Journey to Arabia
A newspaper article and an almost-forgotten client send young English lawyer George Grant on a mystery trip.
Starring Tim Munro.
Arabian adventure based on Hammond Innes' 1960 novel.
Adapted in six parts by Rene Basilico.
George Grant ....... Tim Munro
Henry Grant ....... Robert James
Alexander Erkhard ....... John Malcolm
Ruffini ....... Robert Rietty
Betty ....... Jill Lidstone
Tessa ....... Nadia Hammam
Taxi Driver ....... Nadim Sawalha
Hotel receptionist ....... Neville Rofaila
Akhmed ....... Ali Refaie
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1984.
MON 06:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j1c4k)
Episode 1
Superintendent Dalziel witnesses what seems to be a murder from his own window. Reginald Hill's thriller read by Philip Jackson.
MON 06:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036v8py)
Episode 1
Radio's dashing hero, Dick Barton is looking forward to a restful Mediterranean cruise with his faithful pal, Snowy, but an old colleague has other ideas...
The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas Kelly as 'Dick Barton - Special Agent' in another thrilling tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring adventure.
Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings survive.
With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding re-recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original scripts and music, which was made for international distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, Australia.
Script by Geoffrey Webb.
Producer: Morris West
First broadcast in Australia in April 1949.
MON 07:00 Married (b00cpcw6)
Series 2
Churlish
Confirmed bachelor Robin Lightfoot wakes up to find himself married in a parallel universe in which the Lib Dems are in power, the Richard Whiteley Experience has just opened in London and alcohol is a class-A drug.
Now Robin's life is about to change again. He's about to be divorced from the woman he was never married to in the first place...
Hugh Bonneville stars in series two of Tony Bagley's comedy.
Robin .... Hugh Bonneville
Lesley .... Josie Lawrence
Dame Jenny Hyde …. Stephanie Cole
Dirk .... Steve Frost
Murdo …. Lewis MacLeod
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000.
MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b036k73n)
Series 59
Episode 2
The fifty-ninth series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a return visit to the City Hall in Salisbury. Regulars Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once again joined on the panel by Tony Hawks with Jack Dee in the chair. At the piano - Colin Sell.
Producer - Jon Naismith.
MON 08:00 Round the Horne (b007jlqv)
Series 3
Episode 2
Kenneth Horne crosses swords in 'The Three Musketeers' and thanks to Julian and Sandy, 'Bona Law' handles his briefs.
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 February 1967.
MON 08:30 Brothers in Law (b007k2p3)
Series 2
But...
Juggling cases and girlfriends, barrister Roger has trouble with toggles and grommets.
Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby, John Glyn-Jones as Grimes, Julia Lockwood as Sally, Bridget Armstrong as Joy and Brian Oulton as the Judge.
All other parts played by William Fox, Garard Green and Peter Tuddenham.
Written by Henry Cecil and Basil Dawson.
Published in 1955, Henry Cecil's comic legal novel Brothers in Law was adapted first for TV in 1962 by Frank Muir and Denis Norden. It provided the first regular starring role for Richard Briers, who later reprised his role of the idealistic young lawyer Roger Thursby for BBC Radio between 1970 and 1972.
Producer: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1971.
MON 09:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters (b036vtc2)
Series 1
Episode 2
Enter the Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and hilarious world of sketches, stories and characters, presented by the sinister Ringmaster.
Master character comedian Colin Hoult's debut comedy series.
Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: Thwor - the mighty (but Leeds-based) god of Thwunder; Len Parker - Nottingham-born martial arts and transformers enthusiast; Anna Mann - outrageous star of such forgotten silver screen hits such as 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish Delight' and 'A Bowl For My Bottom'; and many more.
Writers Guild Award-winner Colin Hoult is best known for his highly acclaimed starring roles in 'Being Human', 'Life's Too Short', and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as his many hit shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also appeared and written for a number of Radio 4 series including 'The Headset Set' and 'Colin and Fergus' Digi-Radio'.
Producer: Sam Bryant.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013.
MON 09:30 Artists (b0194n5x)
Series 2
Self-Destruct
Traditional Tamsin competes with her installationist boyfriend to create a self-portrait. Stars Ben Miller. From April 2004.
MON 10:00 Classic Serial (b01724z2)
Henry James - The Ambassadors
Episode 1
THE AMBASSADORS, adapted by Graham White from the Henry James novel centres on the predicament of Lambert Strether, a fifty-something New Englander lately arrived in Paris. Henry Goodman stars as the hapless protagonist in a novel many critics find James' finest.
EPISODE 1 Strether has been sent to the city to persuade the fun-living son of his wealthy fiancee back home in Woolett to return home. But now Strether too falls under the spell of Paris. .
Lambert Strether Henry Goodman
Chad Orlando Seale
Madame Marie De Vionnet Joanna Bergin
Maria Gostrey/Portress Clare Lawrence-Moody
John Little Bilham Rikki Lawton
Waymarsh Paul Moriarty
Sarah Pocock/Duchess Adjoa Andoh
Jim Pocock James Lailey
Miss Barrace Tracy Wiles
Andre Carl Prekopp
Gloriani/Lazlo Adam Billington
Jeanne Victoria Inez-Hardy
Directed by Peter Kavanagh.
MON 11:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm27)
Episode 1
1630s Amsterdam: Artist Jan Van Loos falls for his married subject...
Deborah Moggach's bestselling story of passion set during 17th century Holland's tulip mania.
Read by Emma Fielding and William Gaminara.
First published in 1999. Abridged in ten parts by Elizabeth Bradbury.
Producer: Sarah Johnson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b036tlmx)
Harry Shearer, Marcus Brigstocke, Imogen Edwards-Jones, James Oswald, Stealing Sheep, Glenn Tilbrook and The Fluffers
Clive cranks the volume up to 11 with star of 'This Is Spinal Tap' and 'The Simpsons', actor and voice artist Harry Shearer. In new play 'Daytona', Harry plays ballroom dancing enthusiast Joe Zimmerman, who with wife Elli, plans to win the next big competition. But the unexpected arrival of a figure from their past threatens to throw everything off balance. 'Daytona' is at London's Park Theatre until 18th August.
Clive's herding sheep with farmer and writer James Oswald, who wrote debut crime thriller 'Natural Causes' while tending to his 350 livestock in rural Fife. In the next instalment, 'The Book of Souls', Detective Inspector Tony McLean returns to solve the disturbing mystery of the Edinburgh Christmas killer.
Danny Wallace dines out with bestselling author Imogen Edwards- Jones, whose 'Babylon' series of novels are set in the sexy world of a luxury five star hotel. Imogen now reserves a table for us at 'Restaurant Babylon', where there are celebrity fights and trysts, corpses at the table, coke in the toilets and sex in the bin! Bon Appetit!
Comedian and star of Radio 4's 'The Now Show' Marcus Brigstocke talks to Clive about his new show, where the greatest minds in modern Britain are invited to solve all the problems of modern life. There is no issue too small, no problem too great for the Policy Unit; an hour of silliness which may accidentally stumble upon something useful, but probably not.
'Marcus Brigstocke's Policy Unit' is at Latitude Festival, Suffolk on 21st July.
With musical mayhem from Glenn Tilbrook and The Fluffers, who perform 'Best of Times' from their album 'Pandemonium Ensues'.
And from lo-fi, psych-folk trio Stealing Sheep, who perform 'Shut Eye' from their album 'Into The Diamond Sun.'
Producer: Sukey Firth.
MON 12:00 Round the Horne (b007jlqv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
MON 12:30 Brothers in Law (b007k2p3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
MON 13:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsql)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
MON 13:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j1c4k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
MON 13:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036v8py)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
MON 14:00 Bryony Lavery - Breathing Underwater (b007jtd3)
Episode 1
Diver Sennen is set to explore a Tudor shipwreck off Cornwall's Porthant Bay, but there's a bumpy start. Stars Susannah Doyle.
MON 14:15 Foreign Bodies (b01ngrxg)
Series 1
Belgium - Hercule Poirot and Jules Maigret
Mark Lawson looks at modern European history through the device of crime fiction.
In the first programme, he's assisted in his inquiries by Jules Maigret and Hercule Poirot as he probes Belgium's unexpected prominence in the history of detective fiction. Poirot was created by an English woman and Maigret, a French detective, created by a Belgian Georges Simenon.
With Val McDermid, Lord Grey Gowrie, Andrea Camilleri and David Suchet.
Crime fiction reflects society's tensions. Helped by famous literary detectives, Mark shows how crimes reflect Europe's times from the 20th-century world wars to the Eurozone crisis and nationalist tensions of the 21st.
In crime fiction, everyday details become crucial clues: the way people dress and speak, the cars they drive, the jobs they have, the meals they eat. And the motivations of the criminals often turn on guilty secrets: how wealth was created, who slept with whom, what somebody did in the war. For these reasons, detective novels often tell the story of a place and a time much better than more literary novels and newspapers which can take a lot of contemporary information for granted.
Mark Lawson's series focuses on some of the celebrated investigators of European fiction and their creators: from popular modern protagonists - including Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander, Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole and Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano - through Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus and Lynda La Plante's DCI Jane Tennison back to Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Inspector Barlach and Josef Skvorecký's Lieutenant Boruvka.
Producer: Robyn Read.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.
MON 14:30 Book at Beachtime (b036wblb)
Jennie Rooney - Red Joan
Episode 1
In Jennie Rooney's compelling spy thriller, a knock at the door threatens to expose the past Joan Stanley has been so keen to hide for the last 50 years.
Eleanor Bron and Olivia Hallinan are the readers.
BBC Radio 4 Extra's Book at Beachtime is a deliciously intense spy thriller set in wartime Cambridge and Cold-war London by the Costa shortlisted author, Jennie Rooney.
Inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood - who was exposed as a Cold-War spy for the Soviets - Red Joan is both a gripping "what would you do" tale of moral decisions and a moving love story.
Joan Stanley has a secret. She is a loving mother, a doting grandmother, and leads a quiet, unremarkable life in the suburbs. Then one morning there is a knock on the door, and suddenly the past she has been so keen to hide for the last fifty years threatens to rip apart all that she holds dear.
Abridged by Alison Joseph
Producer: Elizabeth Allard.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2013.
MON 15:00 Classic Serial (b01724z2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b036wbld)
The world of computer game music, and new children's laureate Malorie Blackman talks to Mel about her plans for the year ahead. Plus, another episode of Malorie's story Hacker.
MON 17:00 Flying the Flag (b00b2nfp)
Series 2
The Opium of the People
It's Glorious Reindeer Day in the People's Republic.
Seasonal goodwill abounds, even if light bulbs and religious tolerance don't...
Alex Shearer's Eastern bloc embassy sitcom.
Starring Dinsdale Landen as HM Ambassador Mackenzie, Peter Acre as William Frost, Moir Leslie as Helen Waterson, John Baddeley as Morris and Christopher Benjamin as Colonel Surikov.
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1988.
MON 17:30 Married (b00cpcw6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
MON 18:00 The Price of Fear (b01nt0ry)
Remains to Be Seen
Two emasculated husbands - one a lover of gardening, the other of chess, and both with nagging wives - plan to restore peace to their lives and enjoy their retirement at leisure...
Horror legend Vincent Price introduces another dark tale starring Mervyns Johns, Michael Gwyn, Clive Swift, Avril Angers, Diana Bishop and Robin Browne.
Jack Ritchie’s short story dramatised by William Ingram.
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1973.
MON 18:30 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare (b00wt987)
All Hallows
On a hot summer's evening, a weary traveller is oppressed by the supernatural atmosphere inside a gigantic cathedral by the sea.
Read by Richard E Grant.
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.
MON 19:00 Round the Horne (b007jlqv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
MON 19:30 Brothers in Law (b007k2p3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
MON 20:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsql)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
MON 20:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j1c4k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
MON 20:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036v8py)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
MON 21:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm27)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b036tlmx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b036k73n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
MON 22:30 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters (b036vtc2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b036wg21)
Series 8
Episode 3
Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Samira Ahmed, Francesca Martinez and Bob Mills.
MON 23:45 Hearing With Hegley (b00b41k4)
Series 1
Episode 3
The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley, presents a selection of his work.
With:
Keith Moore
Susan Norton
Nigel Piper
Andrew Bailey
Producer: Phil Clarke
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1996.
TUESDAY 16 JULY 2013
TUE 00:00 The Price of Fear (b01nt0ry)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare (b00wt987)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsql)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j1c4k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036v8py)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters (b036vtc2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 Artists (b0194n5x)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 Classic Serial (b01724z2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm27)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b036tlmx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 Flying the Flag (b00b2nfp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:30 Married (b00cpcw6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsqw)
2. Bahrain-Sharjah-Dubai
An innocent search for an elusive oilman leads lawyer George Grant into a maze of political intrigue.
Starring Tim Munro.
Arabian adventure based on Hammond Innes' 1960 novel.
Adapted by Rene Basilico.
George Grant ....... Tim Munro
Ruffini ....... Robert Rietty
Otto Smith ....... George Roubicek
Captain Chuck Berry ....... David McAlister
Sir Philip Gorde ....... Garard Green
Susan Whittaker ....... Helena Breck
Waiter ...... Nadim Sawalha
Driver ....... Mohammad Sultan
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1984.
TUE 06:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j1hzk)
Episode 2
Superintendent Dalziel strongly suspects who murdered Philip Swain's wife. Reginald Hill's thriller read by Philip Jackson.
TUE 06:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036wtkn)
Episode 2
Hot on the trail of the smugglers, Dick Barton may have unwittingly placed his friends directly in danger...
The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas Kelly as 'Dick Barton - Special Agent' in another thrilling tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring adventure.
Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings survive.
With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding re-recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original scripts and music, which was made for international distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, Australia.
Script by Geoffrey Webb.
Producer: Morris West
First broadcast in Australia in April 1949.
TUE 07:00 The Pickerskill Reports (b00mcwv3)
Series 1
Kaws and Effect
Ian McDiarmid stars as Dr Henry Pickerskill, retired English master of Haunchurst School for boys, looking back on his favourite pupils and their fortunes in the adult world - based on their school reports and their letters to him after they left.
Dr Pickerskill encourages Francis Kaws, whose great engineering talents are being wasted on clever and inventive school pranks, putting him in danger of being expelled.
Pickerskill harnesses the boy's gifts, encouraging him to adapt an old tractor to run on Haunchurst College's defunct narrow-gauge railway line.
Dr Henry Pickerskill ..... Ian McDiarmid
Elfyn Wynn Thomas Evans ..... Philip Madoc
Francis Kaws ..... Louis Williams
The Colonel ..... Richard Johnson
Mike Poulson Jabby ..... Mike Feast
Stanislaw ..... Mike Sarne
Jack Rousseau ..... Tony Gardner
Written and directed by Andrew McGibbon.
Producers: Nick Romero
A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 07:30 It's Not What You Know (b036kbm5)
Series 2
Episode 1
What is Frankie Boyle's worst habit? What is the best piece of advice Diane Morgan's dad ever gave her? Which government department did Alan Johnson most like being in charge of?
All these questions, and more, will be answered in the show hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested on how well they know their nearest and dearest.
In this case, Alan Johnson picks his son Jamie, Diane Morgan her father Peter and Frankie Boyle his mate Stuart to answer questions about each other.
Producer: Sam Michell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.
TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007k4c2)
Series 5
The Canal
Back home after 43 years, why must Neddie Seagoon never go near the oily waters again?
Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.
Starring:
Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan
Special guest: Valentine Dyall
First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.
With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.
Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Producer: Peter Eton
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in November 1954.
TUE 08:30 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (b007jr6l)
Strangers on a Train
Best mates Bob and Terry haven't spoken for seven years, so there's a lot to catch up on when they bump into each other on a train.
Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier, Rodney Bewes as Bob Ferris and Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers. With Lois Daine and Peter Whitman.
Created and scripted for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Adapted for radio by Patrick Tilley.
Producer: John Browell
Originally lost from the archive, the audio was provided by BBC producer Stan Was.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1975.
TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b036wg21)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:00 on Monday]
TUE 09:45 Hearing With Hegley (b00b41k4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:45 on Monday]
TUE 10:00 Classic Serial (b017c9pc)
Henry James - The Ambassadors
Episode 2
THE AMBASSADORS, adapted by Graham White from the Henry James novel centres on Lambert Strether, a New Englander dispatched to Europe on a mission. Henry Goodman is the hapless protagonist.
EPISODE 2 Strether had hoped to persuade the fun-living son of his wealthy fiancee to return home to New England. But now Strether has fallen under the spell of the beautiful Mme de Vionnet. More ambassadors are sent by the angry fiancee to bring both men home.
Lambert Strether Henry Goodman
Chad Orlando Seale
Madame Marie De Vionnet Joanna Bergin
Maria Gostrey/Portress Clare Lawrence-Moody
John Little Bilham Rikki Lawton
Waymarsh Paul Moriarty
Sarah Pocock/Duchess Adjoa Andoh
Jim Pocock James Lailey
Miss Barrace Tracy Wiles
Andre Carl Prekopp
Gloriani/Lazlo Adam Billington
Jeanne Victoria Inez-Hardy
Directed by Peter Kavanagh.
TUE 11:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm2s)
Episode 2
As tulip mania grips Amsterdam, Sophia's attraction to Jan increases. Read by Emma Fielding and William Gaminara.
TUE 11:15 Drama (b00dkff7)
Nick Warburton - Last Days of Grace
By Nick Warburton
Easter Monday, 1908. And there's snow on the ground. An aging icon, W.G. Grace, contemplates another day in his life-long cricketing obsession. He arrives at the Oval and can't quite bear to sit in the clubhouse to meet the usual people. Instead he trudges out in to the cold to face a different type of questioning.
W.G.Grace ..... Kenneth Cranham
GF ..... Benedict Cumberbatch
Voice of Cricket ..... Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Produced by Steven Canny
Nick Warburton is a writer of great significance in audio drama. In 2007 he won the Peter Tinniswood Award for the Best New Play on Radio. He was thrilled to be a guest interviewee on Test Match Special during their 50th Anniversary celebrations.
"To his contemporaries Grace was supreme and, in words used of Aristotle, the master of those who know. For longevity, for his effect on the game, for performances with bat and ball, for his place in history, William Gilbert Grace stands alone." Sir John Major.
TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007k4c2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (b007jr6l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
TUE 13:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsqw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
TUE 13:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j1hzk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
TUE 13:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036wtkn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
TUE 14:00 Bryony Lavery - Breathing Underwater (b007jtdh)
Episode 2
Professor Simon Murray has to swallow his pride while Harry is still pondering Sennen's paternity. Stars Susannah Doyle.
TUE 14:15 Ambridge Extra (b036x210)
Series 5
Episode 5
Brenda's greeted at St Petersburg airport by Matt. Brenda reveals she told Lilian Matt was in Russia. Matt's angry she told Lilian but Brenda defends herself: it isn't her job to lie to Lilian. Brenda and Matt are chauffeured straight to a meeting where Vitaly shows them a presentation of what his development (the gated community) will look like. Brenda takes notes, not entirely sure what it is Matt wants from her as his 'PA'.
Brenda bumps into a friendly Russian employee on her way back from the toilet. After directing Brenda back to the board room, the man politely calls Vitaly away for a second and they speak in Russian. Vitaly later takes Matt to a Banya to discuss the project further: Vitaly has another, better prospect for Matt, from which Matt could make up to a 75% return: better than any consultancy fee. Matt's interested and Vitaly offers to show him the site. Matt sweats further when Vitaly asks for the money by Thursday.
Brenda's wary of the deal. Matt's keen though and reveals he has money he put aside in an offshore account, following his divorce with Yvette. Lilian doesn't know about the money. Brenda asks if he is really going to go through this on his own, if he is going to leave Lilian. Matt says it looks that way.
Cast:
Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham
Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler
Vitaly Kedrov ..... Denis Khoroshko
Writer ..... Tim Stimpson
Producer/ Director ..... Julie Beckett
Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn.
TUE 14:30 Book at Beachtime (b036x212)
Jennie Rooney - Red Joan
Episode 2
MI5 have caught up with Joan Stanley and her secret past is unravelling. Poignant memories of her wartime passion for Leo Galich and her friendship with his beguiling cousin, Sonya, are recalled.
Jennie Rooney's compelling spy thriller set in wartime Cambridge and Cold-war London
Read by Eleanor Bron and Olivia Hallinan.
Abridged by Alison Joseph.
Producer: Elizabeth Allard.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2013.
TUE 15:00 Classic Serial (b017c9pc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b036x214)
The story of the first ever CT scan, Happy Birthday to virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, and Mel delves into the story of the parking meter. Any spare change...?
TUE 17:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cm6x0)
Series 4
Episode 3
Tommy and Sheila's nightmare stay at a posh hotel isn't quite what it seems.
Sweethearts Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr won the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest, but now they're back in the big time. The problem is, they can’t stand each other…
Mike Coleman's sitcom starring Roy Hudd and June Whitfield.
Tommy Franklin …. Roy Hudd
Sheila Parr …. June Whitfield
Hetty Stark …. Pat Coombes
Murray …. Julian Eardley
Louis Elstein …. Edward Halsted
Freda …. Emma Kennedy
Music by Frido Ruth.
Producer: Steve Doherty
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002.
TUE 17:30 The Pickerskill Reports (b00mcwv3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
TUE 18:00 The Price of Fear (b01nt4qh)
Cat's Cradle
A small party of tourists visit an old castle in Bavaria – unaware of a horrifying series of events awaiting them in a dank and dismal torture chamber...
Fright master Vincent Price introduces a tale of horror starring Kenneth J Warren, Frederick Schrecker, John Samson and Bonnie Hurren.
Bram Stoker’s story ‘The Score’ dramatised by Richard Davis.
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1973.
TUE 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.
TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007k4c2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (b007jr6l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
TUE 20:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsqw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
TUE 20:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j1hzk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
TUE 20:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036wtkn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
TUE 21:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm2s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Drama (b00dkff7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 It's Not What You Know (b036kbm5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
TUE 22:30 Father Figure (b01c9b73)
Power Cut
Family sitcom written by and starring Irish comedian Jason Byrne. It's a Saturday night for cosying up in front of Strictly Come Dancing but best laid plans are about to be changed - for the better?
Tom Whyte.... Jason Byrne
Elaine Whyte.... Lucy Montgomery
Dylan Whyte .... Dominic Applewhite
Mary Whyte ....Pauline McLynn
Pat Whyte.... Dermot Crowley
Roddy .... Michael Smiley
Producer.Julia McKenzie.
TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b037srrp)
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs around. Tonight, Sara Pascoe chats to Aisling Bea.
TUE 23:00 Delve Special (b007k469)
Series 2
Whose Baby?
David Lander reports on the implications of revolutionary methods of baby production.
Presented by David Lander with assistance from Stephen Fry.
Studio production by Tony Robinson, Julia Hills, Stephen Frost and Felicity Montague.
Dramatic reconstruction by Jack Klaff, Phil Nice and Robert Bathurst.
Researched and compiled by Tony Sarchet.
Editor: Paul Mayhew-Archer
Delve Special ran for four series from 1984 to 1987 and later transferred to TV as: This is David Lander.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1985.
TUE 23:30 Self-Storage (b0082dxc)
Series 1
Leaving
Could the time have come at long last for Dave to leave behind his peculiar abode?
Stars Reece Shearsmith and Mark Heap.
Sitcom written by Tom Collinson and Barnaby Power.
Dave …. Reece Shearsmith
Geoff …. Mark Heap
Ron …. Tom Goodman-Hill
Judy ...... Rosie Cavaliero
With Susan Earl.
Producer: Ed Morrish
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007.
TUE 23:45 Guy Browning's Small Talk (b0076n58)
Series 2
How to Get Out More
From popping out in order to stay in, to the delights of camping, the writer shares life-coaching tips. From September 2004.
WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2013
WED 00:00 The Price of Fear (b01nt4qh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare (b00wv6ln)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsqw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j1hzk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036wtkn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 The News Quiz Extra (b036wg21)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:00 on Monday]
WED 02:45 Hearing With Hegley (b00b41k4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:45 on Monday]
WED 03:00 Classic Serial (b017c9pc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm2s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:15 Drama (b00dkff7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cm6x0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Tuesday]
WED 05:30 The Pickerskill Reports (b00mcwv3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsr5)
3. Escape to Saraifa
A flight into the desert - and a first encounter with a living legend.
Starring Tim Munro.
Arabian adventure based on Hammond Innes' 1960 novel.
Adapted by Rene Basilico.
George Grant ....... Tim Munro
Colonel Whittaker ....... Bernard Horsfall
Sheikh Makhmud ....... Farouk El-Demerdash
Prince Khalid ....... Raad Rawi
Otto Smith ....... George Roubicek
Sir Philip Gorde ....... Garard Green
Jack Entwistle ....... Geoffrey Hinsliff
Sheikh's Messenger ....... Ali Refaie
Palace Guard ....... Mohammad Sultan
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1984.
WED 06:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j1whd)
Episode 3
Peter Pascoe's reconstruction is ready for his detective boss Andrew Dalziel. Reginald Hill's thriller read by Philip Jackson.
WED 06:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036x996)
Episode 3
Dick and Freddie follow a suspect and engage in some surveillance - both discreet and rather more overt.
The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas Kelly as 'Dick Barton - Special Agent' in another thrilling tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring adventure.
Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings survive.
With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding re-recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original scripts and music, which was made for international distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, Australia.
Script by Geoffrey Webb.
Producer: Morris West
First broadcast in Australia in April 1949.
WED 07:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k2mq)
Series 2
The Lift
Rabbi Fine and Rabbi Jacobs have an intimate meeting - but not one they would have chosen...
Barry Grossman’s comedy-drama about the collision between the old and the new in the Jewish community of Hillfield.
Rabbi Abraham Fine ...... David De Keyser
Rabbi Su Jacobs ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman
Sadie Fine ...... Doreen Mantle
Melvin ...... Henry Goodman
Brian ...... Jonathan Kydd
Caretaker ...... Howard Lew Lewis
Mr Mukherjee ...... Harry Landis
Bernice ...... Renu Setna
Ambulance Man ...... Simon Balfour (
Music: Max Harris.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2000.
WED 07:30 The Brig Society (b036ksd8)
Series 1
Prison
Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing!
Each week, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of a big old thing - a hospital, the railways, British fashion, a prison. And each week he starts out by thinking "Well, it can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with "Oh - turns out it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who knew...?"
This week, Marcus has been volunteered to run a prison - so while he's serving his thirty-minute term, he'll be looking into such urgent issues as overcrowding, rehabilitation, radicalisation and the difficulties of dining-hall protest tray-banging syncopation.
Banged up with him are Rufus Jones (Hunderby, Holy Flying Circus), William Andrews (Sorry I've Got No Head) and Margaret Cabourn-Smith (Miranda).
The show is produced by Marcus's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler, who also produces Marcus' appearances as the inimitable as Giles Wemmbley Hogg.
Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Tom Neenan.
Produced by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jm2y)
Series 3
The Conjurer
The lad takes up conjuring and is booked for Dartmoor Prison - unaware of Sid's plan.
Starring Tony Hancock.
With Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Andree Melly 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 February 1956.
WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00dr9bb)
Series 6
Episode 9
Worries over Bill Oddie's singing voice - and the funny side of Shakespeare.
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
Written by Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Derek Farmer.
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 Liam Cohen, Dave Lee and Bill Oddie.
Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in June 1968.
WED 09:00 Winston (b007jncr)
Winston in Love
Clip Clop, Clip Clop
Father says he's going to marry Mrs Sunderland and cut the rest of the family off without a bean.
It's his wedding day. But is he serious?
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 February 1991.
WED 09:30 Says on the Tin (b00gl50p)
Schokolade
Comedy by Christopher William Hill.
Eliott finds nothing to laugh about while promoting a German chocolate called Laughing.
Eliott Thurber ...... Michael Brandon
Esther Finn ...... Samantha Bond
Hannah Walker ...... Pippa Haywood
Zadie ...... Joannah Tincey
Baz ...... Inam Mirza
Mandelbrot ...... Malcolm Tierney
Interpreter ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Other Parts played by Dan Starkey, Janice Acquah and Jonathan Tafler.
WED 10:00 Classic Serial (b00nshqr)
HE Bates - Fair Stood the Wind for France
Episode 1
Dramatisation by Maddy Fredericks of HE Bates' classic tale of danger, suspense and romance in Second World War France.
When a British aircrew ditch over Occupied territory in the summer of 1942, injury and suspicion dog their attempts to survive and escape.
Franklin ...... Rory Kinnear
O'Connor ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
Francoise ...... Louise Brealey
Grandmother ...... Ellie Haddington
Father ...... Bruce Alexander
Doctor ...... Ewan Hooper
With Kate Layden and Kenneth Collard.
Directed by Jonquil Panting.
WED 11:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm38)
Episode 3
Jan and Sophia's attraction to each other is overwhelming, but can it stay secret? Read by Emma Fielding and William Gaminara.
WED 11:15 Drama (b007ycm8)
Rachel Joyce - Feather
By Rachel Joyce.
Fern believes in magic, Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy. She is collecting feathers because they can make wishes come true, and Fern has a very big and important wish.
Fern ...... Maisie Cowell
Lucy ...... Claire Price
Flyn ...... Shaun Dooley
Lloyd ...... Jot Davies
Grandma ...... Richenda Carey
Sam ...... Rachel Bavidge
Cayleigh ...... Morgan Gayle
Directed by Tracey Neale.
WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jm2y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00dr9bb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
WED 13:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsr5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
WED 13:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j1whd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
WED 13:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036x996)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
WED 14:00 Bryony Lavery - Breathing Underwater (b007jtdr)
Episode 3
Sennen is troubled by the shipwreck and finding her father, while her relationship with Simon changes. Stars Charles Simpson.
WED 14:15 Foreign Bodies (b01mnz34)
Series 1
Germany - Inspector Barlach
Mark Lawson's history of Europe seen through the pages of crime fiction investigates the ideas of guilt, responsibility and justice in the writing of Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990).
Durrenmatt's Inspector Barlach books were published in Switzerland in 1950 and 1951 using elements of the crime genre in plays including The Pledge and The Visit.
Theatre directors Josie Rourke and Simon McBurney, Hollywood scriptwriters Jerzy Kromolowski and Mary Olson-Kromolowski; Professor and crime blogger Katharina Hall and German lawyer turned bestselling author Ferdinand von Schirach share their passion for Dürrenmatt's clear-eyed depictions of the impact of German and Swiss actions in the Second World War.
Producer: Robyn Read
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.
WED 14:30 Book at Beachtime (b036xc1d)
Jennie Rooney - Red Joan
Episode 3
MI5 have caught up with Joan Stanley and her secret past is unravelling.
New revelations about her war work in 1940s Cambridge leave Nick, her barrister son, in a state of shock. Eleanor Bron and Olivia Hallinan read.
Jennie Rooney's compelling spy thriller abridged by Alison Joseph.
Abridged by Alison Joseph
Producer: Elizabeth Allard.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2013.
WED 15:00 Classic Serial (b00nshqr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b036xc1g)
Mel hears the world's oldest piano being played, and author Damian Dibben takes us for a walk around the British Museum. Plus the next chapter in Hacker by Malorie Blackman.
WED 17:00 Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare (b007k390)
Episode 6
The Royal Dingle Company re-enact the Bard's great cinematic moments. Stars Patrick Barlow and Lionel Blair. From October 1995.
WED 17:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k2mq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
WED 18:00 The Price of Fear (b01ntkt4)
Meeting in Athens
A young film director mysteriously disappears while holidaying in Greece.
But when his girlfriend enlists Vincent Price to help her find him, they only succeed in uncovering the latest commodity on the black market - death...
Vincent Price introduces another chilling tale starring Kate Coleridge, Steve Plytas, Robin Browne, Michael Deacon and Charles Birkin.
Maurice Travers story ‘So Cold, So Pale, So Fair’ dramatised by Charles Birkin.
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1973.
WED 18:30 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare (b00wvd6t)
Crewe
In the chilly waiting-room of a railway station, an old man relates a disturbing history of a haunting in a job he formerly held...
Read by Kenneth Cranham.
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.
WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jm2y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00dr9bb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
WED 20:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsr5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
WED 20:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j1whd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
WED 20:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036x996)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
WED 21:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm38)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
WED 21:15 Drama (b007ycm8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
WED 22:00 The Brig Society (b036ksd8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
WED 22:30 Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller (b00911f4)
Episode 3
In an optimistic attempt at cultural review, Craig Children and Martin Bain-Jones throw a Come As You Aren't party.
Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong star as the pompous critics.
With:
Charlie Condou
Melissa Lloyd
Tony Gardner
Written by Ben Miller, Alexander Armstrong, David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
Producer: Jon Rolph
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1998.
WED 23:00 The Mel and Sue Thing (b00769ql)
Episode 1
Weird characters and surreal chat from Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins.
Featuring Jane Austen's Last Novella and a duet sung by Cliff Richard and Delia Smith.
Mel and Sue are best known as the scrumptious cake-filling on the BBC's The Great British Bake Off.
With Paul Chahidi
Producer: Elizabeth Freestone.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2002.
WED 23:30 Masala FM (b007x0c9)
Episode 1
Masala FM is East London's premier Asian community radio station.
Owner, Mr Krishna, wants to make some changes and everyone's scared, except for visiting Bollywood celebrity Johnny 'Muscles' Patel...
Six-part sitcom written by Meera Syal
Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nitin Sawheny, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia.
Music by Nitin Sawhney.
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1996.
THURSDAY 18 JULY 2013
THU 00:00 The Price of Fear (b01ntkt4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare (b00wvd6t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsr5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j1whd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036x996)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Winston (b007jncr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 Says on the Tin (b00gl50p)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Classic Serial (b00nshqr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm38)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:15 Drama (b007ycm8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare (b007k390)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k2mq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsrj)
4. The Doomed Oasis
A celebration and a shattered dream, as English lawyer George Grant continues his hunt for a missing client.
Starring Tim Munro.
Arabian adventure based on Hammond Innes' 1960 novel.
Adapted by Rene Basilico.
George Grant ....... Tim Munro
Colonel Whittaker ....... Bernard Horsfall
Prince Khalid ....... Raad Rawi
Alexander Erkhard ....... John Malcolm
Sir Philip Gorde ....... Garard Green
Sheikh Makhmud ....... Farouk El-Demerdash
Yousif....... Ali Refaie
Sheikh Abdullah ....... Adam Hussein
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1984.
THU 06:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j2512)
Episode 4
Superintendent Dalziel receives a tip off about Waterson, his missing key witness. Reginald Hill's story read by Philip Jackson.
THU 06:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036xz7w)
Episode 4
Freddie has made a startling acquisition, attracting more danger. Help arrives from an unexpected source.
The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas Kelly as 'Dick Barton - Special Agent' in another thrilling tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring adventure.
Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings survive.
With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding re-recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original scripts and music, which was made for international distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, Australia.
Script by Geoffrey Webb.
Producer: Morris West
First broadcast in Australia in April 1949.
THU 07:00 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me (b0076sm2)
Series 2
Swingin' Down the Lane
No Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me
Series 2
Episode 3 of 4 - Swingin' Down the Lane
Roy and George hear that an old bandleader, Gillie Truman, is on his deathbed and George is keen to visit. But Roy fell out with Gillie fifty years earlier and sees no reason to bury the hatchet.
Don Warrington..... Roy
Yvonne Brewster..... Vi
Sam Kelly..... George
George Layton..... Barry
Caroline Lee Johnson..... Bernadette
Marcus Powell..... Victor
Michael Bertenshaw..... Gillie
Angie Wallis..... Laura
Mike Kearsey..... Trombonist
Written by Marcus Powell
Producer Carol Smith.
THU 07:30 My First Planet (b01gg8h2)
Series 1
The Noticeboard of Doom
Written by Phil Whelans
Day 27 and the colonists are torn between Richard's newsletter and Archer's hot pants. And which is more dangerous - Brian's monkey wrench or Lillian's "vitamin" drink"?
A sitcom set on a shiny new planet where we ask the question - if humankind were to colonise space, is it destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.)
Welcome to the colony. We're aware that having been in deep cryosleep for 73 years, you may be in need of some supplementary information.
Personnel
Unfortunately, Burrows the leader of the colony has died on the voyage, so his Number 2, Brian (Nicholas Lyndhurst) is now in charge. He's a nice enough chap, but no alpha male, and his desire to sort things out with a nice friendly meeting infuriates the colony's Chief Physician Lillian (Vicki Pepperdine - "Getting On"), who'd really rather everyone was walking round in tight colour-coded tunics and saluting each other. She's also in charge of Project Adam, the plan to conceive and give birth to the first colony-born baby. Unfortunately, the two people hand-picked for this purpose - Carol and Richard - were rather fibbing about being a couple, just to get on the trip.
Add in an entirely unscrupulous Chief Scientist, Mason and also Archer, an idiot maintenance man who believes he's an "empath" rather than a plumber, and you're all set to answer the question - if humankind were to colonise space, is it destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.)
Produced & directed by David Tyler
A Pozzitive Television Ltd Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 08:00 Dad's Army (b007k48l)
Series 1
Something Nasty in the Vault
An unexploded bomb lands Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson in a jam.
The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon in Walmington-on-Sea.
Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Major Smith …. Jack Watson
Captain Rodrigues …. Alan Tilvern
Announcer …. John Snagge
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in April 1974.
THU 08:30 Take It From Here (b01dhkjr)
From 21/05/1958
A warring pantomime horse trots on in 'Ali Baba and the Nine Thieves', while Ron's love for Eth is tested on a night out in 'The Glums'.
Starring Professor Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and June Whitfield.
Music from Wallace Eaton and the Keynotes and the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.
Scripted by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
Producer: Charles Maxwell
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1958.
THU 09:00 Potting On (b00lg8gt)
Something for Me
Pam has a win on the Premium Bonds.
Gordon earmarks the money for a new office computer, but Pam fancies splashing out on a sports car!
Sitcom about a couple at odds over running a garden centre and growing older.
Starring Pam Ayres as Pam and Geoffrey Whitehead as Gordon.
Written by Chris Thompson and Peter Reynolds with Pam Ayres.
With Trevor Bannister, Karl Theobald and Alex Tregear.
Sitcom by Chris Thompson and Peter Reynolds.
Producer Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2008.
THU 09:30 The Personality Test (b00n51fv)
Series 2
Esther Rantzen
Consumer champion Esther Rantzen quizzes a panel about herself.
With Sue Perkins, Lucy Porter, Will Smith and Robin Ince.
Series with changing hosts who quiz the panel.
Script by Richard Turner and Simon Littlefield
Devised and produced by Aled Evans.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007.
THU 10:00 Classic Serial (b00nx8k4)
HE Bates - Fair Stood the Wind for France
Episode 2
Dramatisation by Maddy Fredericks of HE Bates' classic tale of danger, suspense and romance in Second World War France.
John Franklin, a wounded British airman, is finally fit and planning his escape from France. He could go the fast way - or the slow way.
Franklin ...... Rory Kinnear
Francoise ...... Louise Brealey
Grandmother ...... Ellie Haddington
Father ...... Bruce Alexander
Boat Man ...... Kenneth Collard
O'Connor ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
With John Biggins, Kate Layden, Rhys Jennings and Piers Wehner.
Directed by Jonquil Panting.
THU 11:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm3t)
Episode 4
Sophia must act quickly to stop her affair being revealed to her husband. Read by Emma Fielding and William Gaminara.
THU 11:15 Peter Tinniswood (b036y49b)
The Sitter
Bulldog is 82. While his wife goes out for a tootle in the SS Jaguar, he is visited by a sitter with tired, lank hair and woebegone eyes.
But before the war Bulldog was an aviator who skimmed the Andes and who flew the mail from Singapore to Casablanca and who loved dusky beauties the world over.
Maurice Denham and Liz Goulding star in Peter Tinniswood's drama.
Bulldog ... Maurice Denham
The Sitter ... Liz Goulding
Director: Shaun MacLoughlin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1990.
THU 12:00 Dad's Army (b007k48l)
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THU 12:30 Take It From Here (b01dhkjr)
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08:30 today]
THU 13:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsrj)
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06:00 today]
THU 13:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j2512)
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06:30 today]
THU 13:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036xz7w)
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06:45 today]
THU 14:00 Bryony Lavery - Breathing Underwater (b007jtf1)
Episode 4
Simon proceeds with the day's dive in spite of the weather warnings, and relations with Sennen turn sour. Stars Susannah Doyle.
THU 14:15 Ambridge Extra (b036y5sf)
Series 5
Episode 6
Matt's nervous about transferring so much of his money to Vitaly's bank. He wants Brenda to witness the transaction and tells her to be at the hotel lobby at lunchtime to meet him.
A friendly young Russian man comes to Matt's aid as he tries to get a taxi, instructing the driver in Russian for a grateful Matt.
In a busy coffee shop, the man sits down and chats with Brenda. He's a junior architect. He's funny and charming, and convinces Brenda to come sightseeing.
Lilian has hired a temp but is still struggling on without Matt. Matt plays dumb about Brenda's whereabouts, with Lilian assuming she's on a jolly. Matt pointedly suggests Lilian tries to sweet talk Brenda - people need respect if you don't want to lose them. Matt reveals that he's cut a good deal in a little factory investment. Lilian's thrown when she learns Matt's using his offshore money - they always agreed to decide how to use that money together.
With the case of cash cuffed to his wrist, Matt gets back into the cab which has waited for him. The taxi's stopped by a police officer, who Matt has to bribe to get him off his back.
Brenda's not at the hotel as instructed. Vitaly convinces Matt he doesn't need Brenda and they go to his bank. Meanwhile Brenda sees she's missed a call from Matt. However she's fed up with him and decides to spend more time with Dmitry. At lunch Dmitry and Brenda kiss. Meanwhile Matt transfers the money into Vitaly's safe. He's relieved it's safe and Vitaly tells Matt he will be a very rich man when he returns to Ambridge.
Cast :
Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham
Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler
Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde
Vitaly Kedrov ..... Denis Khoroshko
Yulian ..... Laurentiu Possa
Maxim ..... Greg Kolpakchi
Writer ..... Sarah Bradshaw
Producer/ Director ..... Julie Beckett
Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn.
THU 14:30 Book at Beachtime (b036y5sh)
Jennie Rooney - Red Joan
Episode 4
MI5 are getting closer to the truth about Joan's hidden past.
Her moral convictions and her clandestine Cold-War actitivities are recalled along with a devastating loss which in turn leads to a new and crushing revelation.
Read by Olivia Hallinan and Eleanor Bron.
Jennie Rooney's spy thriller abridged by Alison Joseph.
Producer: Elizabeth Allard.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2013.
THU 15:00 Classic Serial (b00nx8k4)
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10:00 today]
THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b036y5sk)
The first Disneyland park opened on this day in 1955, but not all went to plan - Mel Giedroyc hears the story. Plus, author Rick Yancey shares his Inheritance Books.
THU 17:00 Ballylenon (b007tcbg)
Series 3
Episode 4
A job offer for the Reverend Hawthorne raises Ms Boal's expectations. It's 1955 in the sleepy Irish town. Stars TP McKenna. From June 1996.
THU 17:30 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me (b0076sm2)
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07:00 today]
THU 18:00 The Price of Fear (b007jn6j)
The Man Who Hated Scenes
On a train journey across the USA, Vincent Price orders breakfast in the deserted restaurant car.
But then he encounters a meek millionaire with an alarming tale to share...
Vincent Price introduces another tale of horror starring Peter Cushing as Harry, Diana Olsson as Marilyn and Steve Preston as Chuck.
Robert Arthur’s story dramatised by William Ingram.
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1973.
THU 18:30 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare (b00ww8sr)
A Recluse
One hot evening in the English countryside, a traveller is forced to stay the night at the remote house of a sinister gentleman...
Read by Anthony Head.
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.
THU 19:00 Dad's Army (b007k48l)
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08:00 today]
THU 19:30 Take It From Here (b01dhkjr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 20:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsrj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 20:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j2512)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 20:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036xz7w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
THU 21:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm3t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Peter Tinniswood (b036y49b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
THU 22:00 My First Planet (b01gg8h2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 22:30 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off (b01gw5lw)
Series 3
Oil Rig
The footloose upper-class student finds himself slumming it with Scottish roughnecks. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From January 2005.
THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b037srrr)
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs around. Plus Sara Pascoe speaks to Aisling Bea.
THU 23:00 Everyone Quite Likes Justin (b01292g0)
Series 1
Episode 2
Justin is a Manchester DJ who tries to balance love, work and everything else without much success.
Now his job seems to be on the line.
Starring Justin Moorhouse, Anne Reid and Paul Copley.
Sitcom written by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser.
Despite his messy life, Justin always remains positive. Every new day is a new opportunity, "When life throws you lemons, make lemonade".
Recorded in front of an audience in Manchester.
Anne Reid ..... Gran
Christine Bottomley ..... Lisa
Justin Moorhouse ..... Justin
Lloyd Langford ..... Bryn
Paul Copley ..... Ray
Susan Cookson ..... Tanya
Producer: Steven Canny
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2011
THU 23:30 The Skivers (b007yt85)
Series 2
Adam Ant
The secrets of Des Lynham and Sue Cook are revealed.
Nick Golson and Tim de Jongh's skilful sketch show with special guest Adam Ant – with his greatest hits heard as never before...
Written and performed by Nick Golson and Tim de Jongh.
With Peter Bradshaw and Mel Giedroyc
Producer: Jon Naismith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1995.
FRIDAY 19 JULY 2013
FRI 00:00 The Price of Fear (b007jn6j)
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18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare (b00ww8sr)
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18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsrj)
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FRI 01:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j2512)
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06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036xz7w)
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06:45 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Potting On (b00lg8gt)
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09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 The Personality Test (b00n51fv)
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09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 Classic Serial (b00nx8k4)
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10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm3t)
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11:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:15 Peter Tinniswood (b036y49b)
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11:15 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 Ballylenon (b007tcbg)
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17:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me (b0076sm2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsrw)
5. The Empty Quarter
As his quest continues, lawyer George Grant is led into an inhospitable desert - and into the heart of a long-standing conflict.
Starring Tim Munro.
Arabian adventure based on Hammond Innes' 1960 novel.
Adapted by Rene Basilico.
George Grant ....... Tim Munro
Colonel Whittaker ....... Bernard Horsfall
Prince Khalid ....... Raad Rawi
Salim ....... George Masri
David Whittaker ....... Christopher Guard
Hamid ....... Mamdouh Ashour
Ali....... Ali Refaie
Boy ....... Yasmin Abdul Rahman
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1984.
FRI 06:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j272l)
Episode 5
Superintendent Andrew Dalziel's key suspect asks to change his statement. Reginald Hill's thriller read by Philip Jackson.
FRI 06:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036ybrp)
Episode 5
Jock manages to infiltrate the ground crew in a risky gambit, while Dick Barton and his chums get more than they bargained for.
The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas Kelly as 'Dick Barton - Special Agent' in another thrilling tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring adventure.
Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings survive.
With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding re-recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original scripts and music, which was made for international distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, Australia.
Script by Geoffrey Webb.
Producer: Morris West
First broadcast in Australia in April 1949.
FRI 07:00 The Right Time (b00c90g4)
Series 3
Episode 1
Gym shenanigans, finding a fox - and can you feel sexy at 60?
The sketch comedy for people growing older disgracefully.
Stars Eleanor Bron, Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Clive Swift, Roger Blake and Pam Ayres.
Written by Pam Ayres, Mike Coleman, Jan Etherington, Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Colin Bostock-Smith, Bob Sinfield, Chris Thompson, Pete Reynolds, Tony Bagley, Richard Turner and Phil Nice,
Script Editor: Geoff Parsons.
Music by Ronnie & The Rex and Neil Innes.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003.
FRI 07:30 Richard Tyrone Jones's Big Heart (b036tqq5)
It's Your Funeral
Richard Tyrone Jones - healthy, gym-going poet, man about town and aspirant womaniser - finds himself, on his 30th birthday, stricken by an unexpected present: heart failure. Confined to hospital with a dilated, literally-big heart, stuck on drugs and drips and forced to cope with curious medical procedures and even curiouser fellow patients, will he die, or will he be doomed to life in a mobility scooter at home with his parents in Dudley?
Or maybe he can pull through with the help of poetry, cod philosophy, and friends - nihilistic Sophia, who tries to cheer his spirits with books by Houellebecq and Lovecraft, and his dour Welsh publisher / solicitor Jacob, who is in charge of his will but might actually sell more books if he dies. And will having a Big Heart shrink his romantic possibilities?
Half-way between a sitcom and real-life storytelling, and based on Richard's Wellcome Trust supported solo show which toured in 2012, each episode illuminates a different aspect of the experience of illness and facing your own mortality with a sense of humour.
Richard Tyrone Jones is a poet, writer and director of 'Utter!" spoken word, and director of spoken word at the Edinburgh Festival Free Fringe.
Written by Richard Tyrone Jones
With additional material by Paul Birtill
Produced by Nick Walker
A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 08:00 The Navy Lark (b007zmvf)
Series 8
Off to Sea at Last
HMS Troutbridge prepares to set sail, but the clueless crew wonder where they're heading. Stars Leslie Phillips. From November 1966.
FRI 08:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b00kkdkm)
From 06/05/1984
From Moscow to the mudflats of Muk Muk via a grand stately home.
Michael Bentine stars in the ultimate one man show written and performed by the host.
Producer: Jamie Rix
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May 1984.
FRI 09:00 Alison and Maud (b007k3yc)
Series 2
Free-Range Angels
Alison and Maud make merry with a Thai take-away.
Second of two series of Sue Limb's Bed and Breakfast sitcom about sisters Alison and Maud and their guests at the Abbeyfield Guest House in Norwich.
Starring Denise Coffey as Alison, Miriam Margolyes as Maud, Joss Ackland as Father, Geoffrey Whitehead as Bernard, Chris Emmett as Mr Mullet and Nicholas Grace as Leslie.
Producer: Jonathan James-Moore.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2004.
FRI 09:30 Spending My Inheritance (b00fsyld)
To Your Very Good Health
Sitcom by Clive Coleman, starring Kris Marshall as cash-strapped forty-something Harry, who has to watch from the sidelines as his newly retired parents start spending their hard-earned cash on themselves.
With all their spending on exercise machines and looking after themselves, Harry's parents seem in better shape than he is.
Harry ...... Kris Marshall
Jo ...... Raquel Cassidy
Brian ...... Kenneth Cranham
Liz ...... Judy Parfitt
Jess ...... Antonia Thomas
Assistant ...... Manjeet Mann
Doctor ...... Inam Mirza
Directed by Sam Hoyle.
FRI 10:00 Classic Serial (b00r33y7)
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Dramatisation by Donna Franceschild of John Steinbeck's seminal 1937 novel about migrant workers in 1930s California whose dream of one day owning a place of their own is tragically destroyed.
George ...... David Tennant
Lennie ...... Liam Brennan
Carlson/Crooks ...... Jude Akuwudike
Lennie ...... Liam Brennan
Candy ...... Christopher Fairbank
Curley's Wife ...... Melody Grove
Slim ...... Neil McKinven
Curley's ...... Richard Madden
George ...... David Tennant
Directed by Kirsty Williams.
FRI 11:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm4d)
Episode 5
Can Sophia's plan fool her husband and keep her affair a secret? Read by Emma Fielding and William Gaminara.
FRI 11:15 Lottie the Mermaid (b0076czl)
Lottie the mermaid swaps her tail for legs in a mission to save the people of Doursby-on-the-Turn from the evil machinations of Mayor Alfred Big. But are the 'terrestrials' up to no good? Surreal comedy adventure by Lavinia Murray and Susan Vale.
FRI 12:00 The Navy Lark (b007zmvf)
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FRI 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b00kkdkm)
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08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsrw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j272l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 13:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036ybrp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
FRI 14:00 Bryony Lavery - Breathing Underwater (b007jtfb)
Episode 5
Simon and Sennen lose contact under water, and the mystery of Sennen's paternity is revealed. Stars Susannah Doyle.
FRI 14:15 Foreign Bodies (b01mnz3x)
Series 1
Czechoslovakia - Lieutenant Boruvka
When Josef Skvorecky published the Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka in 1966 he had to refer obliquely to the Czech political situation but following the Prague spring he emigrated to Canada and his writing became more explicit.
Mark Lawson discusses his writing with translator and former member of the Plastic People of the Universe, Paul Wilson, who argues that the country was a crimescape and that Skvorecký's interest in the crime genre went beyond his Boruvka series.
Producer: Robyn Read
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.
FRI 14:30 Book at Beachtime (b036yndp)
Jennie Rooney - Red Joan
Episode 5
MI5 have new revelations for Joan about her hidden past.
Will love triumph in her world of secrets and betrayal?
Read by Olivia Hallinan and Eleanor Bron.
Jennie Rooney's intense spy thriller abridged by Alison Joseph.
Producer: Elizabeth Allard.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2013.
FRI 15:00 Classic Serial (b00r33y7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b036yr8b)
A trip underground to discover the habits, customs and rules of subway systems around the world, and a visit to the central belt of Scotland to scale the Wallace Monument.
FRI 17:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b0081s34)
Series 1
Episode 3
Cads and Swine, The Giddy Girlhood of Mrs Wretch, plus a few problems with parrots.
Richard Ingrams, John Wells, John Sessions and Patricia Routledge recreate the world of the JB Morton.
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.
Adapted by Michael Barfield with Richard Ingrams.
Announcer: Brian Perkins
Producer: Harry Thompson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.
FRI 17:30 The Right Time (b00c90g4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
FRI 18:00 The Price of Fear (b007jshy)
Lot 132
Horror legend Vincent Price tells the artistically horrifying tale of a painting. With Douglas Blackwell, Alexander John, Elizabeth Morgan and Vincent Price
FRI 18:30 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare (b00wwd8m)
The Almond Tree
A man looks back on the complex relationship between his parents and a female friend of his father's. It's one that will influence the rest of his life...
Read by Julian Wadham.
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.
FRI 19:00 The Navy Lark (b007zmvf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b00kkdkm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b007jsrw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Dalziel and Pascoe - Bones and Silence (b00j272l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 20:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036ybrp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:45 today]
FRI 21:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm4d)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Lottie the Mermaid (b0076czl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 Richard Tyrone Jones's Big Heart (b036tqq5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
FRI 22:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b00r66c1)
Series 3
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Marcus Brigstocke invites his guest Sanjeev Baskar to try five things he really ought to have done by now, including reading PG Wodehouse.
Whether the experiences are banal or profound, the show is about embracing the new and getting out of our comfort zones.
The title comes from the fact that the show's producer and creator Bill Dare had never seen the film Star Wars.
Producer: Bill Dare
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.
FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b0380fql)
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs around. Plus Arthur Smith talks to Christian O'Connell ahead of his run at the Edinburgh Fringe.
FRI 23:00 Ross Noble Goes Global (b01c6txd)
Series 2
Belgium
Comedian Ross Noble Ross sets about proving Belgium is not dull, with chocolate, odd statues and the legacy of Jean-Claude Van Damme
Producer: Danny Wallace
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2003.
FRI 23:30 Continuity (b00tq0p2)
Episode 5
A Continuity Announcer's booth can be a lonely place - especially on the late shift, when you've barely seen your wife and children for a week. Still, this Radio 4 Continuity Announcer is nothing, if not a consummate professional and he's not going to let his own insignificant little problems get in the way of your listening pleasure. Especially when there are so many exciting programmes coming up in the next week, which he's got to tell you about. At least some of them are exciting. Some of them aren't quite his cup of tea, if he's honest, but that's not really the point, is it? They may be right up your street. It's not really his place to express an opinion. Even if it is tempting. This may be a come-down from heady days spent announcing on the Today programme, but he's got a job to do. Though sometimes it is rather difficult to concentrate .....
Alistair McGowan stars in a new subversive sitcom about a Continuity Announcer brooding on the escalating disasters of his private and professional life; at the same time as attempting to give us a preview of the programmes on offer in the coming week on Radio 4. Or what might be Radio 4 in a parallel universe. Trails for 'The Ethical Enigma', 'Britain's Favourite Sound' and 'The History of Britain One Year at a Time' are just some of the strange delights on offer in the world of this 'radio professional', who harbours a slightly inappropriate relationship with his audience.
Written by Hugh Rycroft a stalwart of 'The News Quiz' and co-creator of 'Parliamentary Questions' and 'Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue', the series also features the voices of Lewis Macleod, Sally Grace, Charlotte Page and David Holt.
Produced by David Spicer and Frank Stirling.
A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 23:45 Strangers on Trains (b00dp2h1)
Episode 6
Series of character comedies by Nat Segnit and Stewart Wright, in which Nat talks to people sitting alone on trains.
Nat asks strange men about marriage and family.