SATURDAY 29 MARCH 2014

SAT 00:00 Arthur Conan Doyle - Professor Challenger (b00zs6nn)
The Disintegration Machine
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's indomitable academic must investigate dastardly Latvian scientist Theodore Nemor. Stars Bill Paterson.
SAT 00:30 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jqp2)
The Red Planet
16. Strange Farm
With Mitch still missing, Captain Jet Morgan, Doc and Lemmy set off to find him, with hopes of finding the engineer rapidly diminishing...
Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971.
CAST:
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Lemmy …. David Kossoff
Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter
Mitch …. Bruce Beeby
Wife …. Madi Hedd
Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs
Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips.
Producer: Charles Chilton
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1954.
SAT 01:00 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr6j)
Episode 10
The fugitive is pursued through the countryside by the clever strategies of his sinister nemesis - Major Quive-Smith.
Geoffrey Household's classic British thriller was first published shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939.
Read by Michael Jayston.
Producer: David Jackson Young.
Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2004.
SAT 01:30 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00t9tmp)
Sicken and So Die
Episode 1
Charles has a role in Twelfth Night, but could this comedy turn into a tragedy? Bill Nighy stars as Simon Brett's actor-cum-sleuth.
SAT 02:00 Millport (b0076b7f)
Series 3
Reinstatement
As the first ferry of the holiday season arrives - why is Irene back on the island?
The third series of the bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as 30-something barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a better life on the mainland.
Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson
Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown
Alberto/Dr Hume/Ferryman ...... Lewis McLeod
Ena/Bunty ...... Gabriel Quigley
Minister ...... Robert Patterson
Dougie ...... Kenneth Bryans
Music arranged by Olly Fox.
Producer: Lucy Bacon
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2002.
SAT 02:30 Trevor's World of Sport (b007k3rb)
Series 1
Episode 4
The sports agent's rapacious partner finds a perfect new client, but there's a catch. Stars Neil Pearson. From September 2004.
SAT 03:00 Mikhail Bulgakov - The White Guard (b00761ld)
Survival
As Ukranian Nationalists seize control of Kiev, Alexei and Nikolka are running for their lives.
Conclusion of Mikhail Bulgakov's classic Ukrainian novel - dramatised in two parts by DJ Britton.
Stars Paul Hilton as Alexei, James Loye as Nikolka, Melanie Walters as Julia, Manon Edwards as Elena, Gerry Lepkowski as Myshlaevsky, Tim Kirkus as Shpolyansky, Patrick Brennan as Shervinsky, Simon Ludders as Rusakov, Siriol Jenkins as Irina and Brendan Charleson as Shchur.
Translator: Michael Glenny
Directed at BBC Wales by Alison Hindell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
SAT 04:00 Winston Graham Short Stories (b03yqp4r)
Meeting Demelza
Shortly before his death in 2003, Winston Graham wrote a story for the Cornish magazine, Scryfa. He recounts an imaginary meeting with his best-loved and most spirited creation. Read by Ewan Bailey
Winston Graham was one of the most successful and prolific novelists of the 20th century. He wrote in many genres but his best known body of work was undoubtedly the 12 historical novels set in Cornwall at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries which became known as The Poldarks.
Although it's the Poldarks that brought Winston Graham the most fame, he also wrote more than 30 other novels, six of which have been filmed including the thriller, Marnie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1964.
This selection celebrates the range of his work and offers a glimpse into the enduring appeal of his most famous characters, Ross and Demelza who are set to return to BBC screens in a new adaptation.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by The Waters Partnership.
SAT 04:15 Pam Leeson - The Unhearable (b007jttg)
Michelle has Meniere's disease, with the prospect of deafness. How will the young and vibrant woman cope? Stars Gillian Kearney.
SAT 05:00 Instant Sunshine (b007qtrm)
From 12/04/1985
Entertainment in words and music to help you beat the weather.
Performed by the comedy musical cabaret group, Instant Sunshine featuring David Barlow, Peter Christie, Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis
Special guests: Father's Footsteps.
Producer: Richard Edis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1985.
SAT 05:30 Chambers (b007jp3w)
Series 2
The Masons
Turmoil abounds when barrister John Fuller-Carp tries to join a lodge. Stars John Bird and Sanjeev Bhaskar. From May 1998.
SAT 06:00 Martyn Read - The Folly (b00mz47c)
Somerset, 1770: Sir Morton Makepeace is devising a play, but his unruly characters disrupt the plot and threaten the building of his Folly.
Martyn Read's rollicking comedy stars Freddie Jones as Sir Morton Makepeace.
With Elizabeth Spriggs as Clarissa, Lady Mountjoy, Clive Swift as Reverend Wormald, Michael Cochrane as Robert Sutherland, Joanna Myers as Caroline Makepeace and Karl James as Thomas.
Director: Sue Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991.
SAT 07:30 Armitage and Moore's Guide to Song (b00xlqwf)
Episode 2
How music arrangement and vocal expression create meaning and atmosphere. With analysis from Simon Armitage and Allan Moore.
SAT 08:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b01hkyn3)
Series 7
Episode 30
From Woodinville in Washington, the funny man welcomes multi-instrumentalist Sarah Jarosz and trio Bodacious Ladyhood. From 2011.
SAT 09:00 Up the Workers (b03zhx5n)
Homeworker Nick Baker immerses himself in a study of work - from the hard at it, to the work shy. In his archive exploration, Nick enjoys a choice staffroom edition of King Street Junior and sympathises with a fellow who also works at home in Ed Reardon's Week.
Fascinating facts about offices of the future are revealed, along with the truth about working from home. And work as a form of madness is depicted in a series called You Don't Have to Work to be Mad Here. This features whimsical sackings (sometimes by answering machine message) and a careers adviser who hates her job so much she hides in a strange way.
Plus choice episodes from Kate Kellaway's History of Office Life - and Ricky Gervais reveals how his creation David Brent came to be.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Testbed Productions.
SAT 12:00 Lavinia Greenlaw - Five Fever Tales (Omnibus) (b03zhy0j)
Lavinia Greenlaw's exploration of ancient ideas about Malaria, and scientific attempts to defeat the deadly disease.
The disease caused by a parasite carried in the saliva of female mosquitoes came to humans probably from gorillas a long time ago. Through recorded history the fever-prompting disease has shadowed humans almost everywhere warm enough for mosquitoes to live between the Poles. We have evolved together. It is still the biggest killer of children in parts of the world.
Made with the research assistance of Wellcome Trust.
Medical/science adviser: Julian Rayner, Sanger Institute.
Music and sound design: Jon Nicholls
Narrator: Siobhan Redmond.
Other parts: Russell Boulter, Richard Bremmer, David Collins, Jasmine Hyde and John Mackay.
Producer: Tim Dee
First broadcast in five-parts on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.
SAT 13:15 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jsjl)
Murder West One
4. Soho Espresso
Detective Superintendent Julie Enfield's night out in London's Soho is rudely interrupted by a murder above a coffee bar.
The day's takings are left untouched, so robbery is clearly not the motive...
Nick Fisher's thriller stars Imelda Staunton.
DSI Julie Enfield ...... Imelda Staunton
Dad ...... Geoffrey Matthews
Mary Simons ...... Frances Jeater
Gerry Maddox ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
David Simons ...... Jonathan Keeble
Woman in Club ...... Priyanga Elan
Coffee Drinker ...... Elizabeth Conboy
David Simons ...... Jonathan Keeble
Tourist ...... Giles Fagan
Waiter ...... Ben Crowethe
Woman ...... Tilly Gaunt
Director: Richard Wortley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1999.
SAT 14:00 Noel Coward - The Better Half (b00kj2f0)
Broadcast premiere of this comedy of marital manners, written by the young Noel Coward. Recently rediscovered, it was considered too racy for public performance in 1922.
Unhappy Alice encourages husband David and best friend Marion to form a liaison. But Alice may have a hidden agenda.
Alice ...... Federay Holmes
Marion ...... Lisa Dillon
David ...... Samuel West
Directed by Martin Jarvis.
SAT 14:30 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (b007jqgh)
Bartholomew, Blackmail and Barefaced Lies
An expensive statue lands Bertie Wooster in a pickle.
PG Wodehouse romp adapted in six-parts by Richard Usborne.
Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster, Paul Eddington as Roderick Spode, John Le Mesurier as Sir Watkin Bassett, Ronald Fraser as Major Plank, Jonathan Cecil as Boko Fittleworth, Denise Coffey as Stiffy Bing and Percy Edwards as Bartholemew the Dog.
Producer: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980.
SAT 15:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b01hkyn3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Martyn Read - The Folly (b00mz47c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Listen Against (b00tt5mb)
Series 3
Episode 3
The programme that looks back at a week's worth of radio and TV that never happened.
Michael Burke becomes trapped in the Moral Maze, and Any Answers gets a game show makeover.
Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes.
Producers: Sam Bryant & Jon Holmes.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.
SAT 18:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (b007jm12)
The Primary Phase
Fit The Fourth
Arthur learns the lucrative answer to the question of Life, the Universe and Everything. By Douglas Adams. From March 1978.
Arthur Dent is one of only two survivors from Earth, demolished to make way for a by-pass. He survived thanks to his friend, Ford Prefect (who hails not from Guildford, but somewhere near Betelgeuse), a writer for the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, "the most successful book ever to have come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor". Now paired with fellow Earth survivor Trillian and duplicitous two-headed hustler Zaphod Beeblebrox, Arthur and Ford are on legendary planet Magrathea - and Arthur in particular is about to understand his demolished home world in a new and startling way.
The global multi-media success story that is "Hitchhiker's" started life as a Radio 4 series in March 1978. The original scripts by the late Douglas Adams then went on to spawn a series of novels, a feature film, at least three stage shows, a TV series, a computer game, a collection of comic books - and various towels.
Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge and died in 2001 at the age of 49. He suffered a fatal heart attack after working out at his gym in California.
With Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey and Stephen Moore. Produced by the late Geoffrey Perkins.
SAT 18:30 Fear on 4 (b007jn40)
Series 2
St. Austin Friars
The Reverend Martin Williams is increasingly disturbed by extraordinary events at his church. He is determined to find out what is happening but discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew.
The Man in Black sets the scene...
Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers.
Written by Robert Westal and dramatised by Stephen Wyatt
The Man In Black …. Edward de Souza
Rev Martin Williams …. Michael Maloney
Mrs Sheila Williams …. Melinda Walker
Larry Harper …. Michael Deacon
Phillips …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Rubens …. Clifford Norgate
Betyl …. John Moffat
William Henry Drogo …. David March
Miss Drogo (Celicia) …. Margaret Robertson
The Police Sergeant …. Michael Graham Cox
Secretary …. Jo Kendall
Bishop …. Norman Bird
Director: Martin Jenkins
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1989.
SAT 19:00 Up the Workers (b03zhx5n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 4 Extra Stands Up (b03zhyvw)
4 Extra Stands Up
Episode 6
Kerry Godliman introduces a selection of stand up comedians recorded live at The Pleasance Theatre in Islington, London in early 2014.
David Morgan fascinates in the surprising ways couples have met, whilst Rhys Mathewson struggles with making a good first impression. Michael Fabri gives us an insight into some of the troubles of having dyslexia and Matt Winning tells niche jokes and reminisces of his time working for Robert Mugabe.
Plus an insight to the confusing workings of Terry Alderton's mind and Rachel Parris sings away her troubles.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Dabster Productions.
SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b040qggh)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith is joined by Alan Partridge's 'wacky' sidekick Tim Key.
SAT 23:00 The Mark Steel Solution (b007jzt2)
Series 2
Unemployment
Comic Mark Steel sets about putting all our social ills to rights.
Series two kicks off with his alternative solutions to the unemployment problem.
Written and performed by Mark Steel and Pete Sinclair.
With Kim Wall and Maria McErlane.
Producer Phil Clarke
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1994.
SAT 23:30 Knowing Me, Knowing You (b007jvc2)
Episode 6
A-ha! Chat show host Alan Partridge welcomes more guests to his sofa:
BBC TV's Commissioning Director Tony Hayers
TV presenter Trudy Sky
Fashion Designer Yvonne Boyd
The maverick Lord Morgan
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.