SATURDAY 14 JUNE 2014

SAT 00:00 Q & A by Vikas Swarup (b007vlvl)
1,000,000,000 Rupees
By Ayeesha Menon, from the novel by Vikas Swarup.
Thomas is one question away from winning the billion-rupee prize, but the producers can't afford the payout and will do anything to stop him. But Thomas has an ulterior motive for being on the show and he will not leave without getting his revenge on the show's host Prem Kumar.
Thomas ...... Anand Tiwari
Prem Kumar ...... Sohrab Ardeshir
TV Producer ...... Jayant Kripalani
Vikas ...... Rohit Malkani
Directed by John Dryden.
SAT 00:15 A Short History of Ireland (b007wpfn)
Forget the Unhappy Past; Crying for a Happier Life
The country's rich and turbulent story concludes. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
SAT 00:30 Book at Bedtime (b00l9sp0)
Georgina Harding - The Spy Game
Episode 10
Diana Quick reads the novel by Georgina Harding, set in 1960s England.
Unlike her brother, Anna has been unable to lay the mystery of their mother's past to rest. She visits her mother's birthplace to gather evidence and look for clues, deploying all the old tricks of the spy game. Will she find the answers to the questions that have haunted her throughout her life?
Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths.
SAT 00:45 Dennis Potter - The Changing Forest (b007jngq)
A Time of Tension
Change can breed insecurity or opportunity. For Forest of Dean locals in 1961, it sparked tension. Read by Robert Glenister.
SAT 01:00 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue (b01nlp10)
Series 2
Home
The lifestyle show hosts have revelations on the "home" and "commune living".
Series 2 of Bill Dare's sitcom stars Robert Duncan and Jan Ravens.
Mike ...... Robert Duncan
Sue ...... Jan Ravens
With Roger Blake, Alistair McGowan, Sally Philips and Niall Ashdown.
Music by Mark Burton.
Producer: Jo Clegg
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997.
SAT 01:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007jnxs)
Series 1
Jimmy Clitheroe
"Nearly a quarter of the population settle down to listen to a radio classic..."
Mark Radcliffe profiles the diminutive radio star who played a schoolboy. But was he ever allowed to grow up?
A six-part series exploring the tradition of the northern comedian.
Producer: Bernadette McConnell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
SAT 02:00 Paul Temple (b007rfb2)
Paul Temple and the Vandyke Affair
Suspect Number One
A practical joke has unexpected repercussions. Meanwhile, no one admits to knowing Marian Faber.
Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.
With James Beattie as Charlie, Peter Wilde as Terry Palmer, John Scott as Bill McCall, Richard Hurndall as Roger Shelly, Simon Lack as Philip Droste, Rolf Lefebvre as Louis Franz and Betty Hardy as Marian Faber.
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard so often needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case.
Producer: Martin C Webster
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1959.
SAT 02:30 Between Rock and a Good Cause (b008fbnc)
From San Francisco in the 1960s to Live Aid in America, the controversial music promoter Bill Graham was a tough businessman who also staged dozens of benefit concerts, with some of the biggest names in rock.
John Wilson looks back at a career of back-stage battles and the odd on-stage punch-up, including the memories of British promoter Harvey Goldsmith, Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood and Bill Graham's friends and colleagues.
Producer John Goudie
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2007.
SAT 03:00 Martyn Wade - Stepniak (b00sfby9)
The bitter-sweet real-life love story of Olive Garnett (sister of the famous Russian Translator, Constance) who meets and falls for a Russian expatriate whose charms hide a secret and rather sinister past...
Written by Martyn Wade.
Olive Garnett ...... Justine Waddell
Stepniak ...... David Horovitch
Connie Garnett ...... Jennie Stoller
Fanny Stepniak ...... Elizabeth Bell
Olive Rossetti ...... Jasmine Hyde
Edward Garnett ...... Charles Simpson
Director: Cherry Cookson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2001.
SAT 04:00 Elizabeth Buchan - Submersion (b007jwt4)
Mimi feels her family are drowning her. How can she keep head above water? Read by Patience Tomlinson.
SAT 04:15 A Confidential Agent (b007js48)
Fire
When a clothing factory goes up in flames, the private eye must decide if sabotage or fraud is involved. Stars Rosemary Martin.
SAT 05:00 The Brothers (b007m477)
Series 1
Episode 3
Liquidised orchids, tropical fish and John Travolta's cuff links.
More events for brothers Nigel and Michael. Has one of them got a date?
Starring Adam Godley and Raymond Coulthard.
Comedy series about two brothers starting a website-design company - written by Caroline and David Stafford.
Nigel ...... Adam Godley
Michael ...... Raymond Coulthard
Oonagh...... Pauline McLynn
Zorro ...... Pearce Quigley
Daughter...... Alice Hart
Dad ...... John Glover
Producer: Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.
SAT 05:30 Chambers (b007jyrj)
Series 3
A Pain in the Back
John Fuller-Carp becomes distracted by the allure of one of his clients and Ruth is asked to babysit for a friend's electronic pet.
Clive Coleman's sitcom set in perhaps the country's least spectacular set of chambers.
John Fuller Carp ...... John Bird
Hilary Tripping ...... James Fleet
Ruth Quirke ...... Sarah Lancashire
Vince ...... Jonathan Kydd
With Joanna Monro, Geoffrey Whitehead , Peter Gunn and Tilly Gaunt.
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1999.
SAT 06:00 Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin - Almost the Truth (b007wvcq)
Has history been unjust to Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin?
Was he anything more than a "mad monk", unbridled lecher, and evil influence on the Russian royal family?
Wally K Daly's epic drama stars Robert Glenister as Rasputin, Michael Cochrane as the Tsar, Jane Whittenshaw as the Tsarina, Geoffrey Whithead as the Adjudicator, Maurice Denham as Makari, Norman Bird as Theophenes, Denys Hawthorne as Hemogenes and Roger May as Iliodor.
Director: Martin Jenkins
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1996.
SAT 07:30 Knutas on Britain (b00yqtxp)
Pipe organs, spas and hound trailing. Eclectic reflections on Brits by Finnish tango expert and reporter John Knutas. From January 2004.
SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b01kr725)
Woody at 100
The folk-singer and radical song-writer Woody Guthrie was born 100 years ago today - July 14th 1912. His biographer Joe Klein celebrates the centenary with a road trip, listening along the way to a few of Woody's 1,000 songs, to his recorded interviews and to the voices of his friends and family.
Joe Klein is also the author of 'Primary Colours' and a correspondent for Time Magazine, so he's taking the political temperature in some of the battleground states as the 2012 Presidential election campaign warms up.
In a journey that takes him from his Washington bureau to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Charleston West Virginia and beyond, Joe listens to the concerns of the voters. He discovers that Woody's messages to America, written and sung during the depression and World War 2, can still cut to the bone.
SAT 09:00 Comedy Controller (b007jq4z)
Justin Moorhouse
Justin Moorhouse, Young Kenny from Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, follows in a fine tradition of Northern comics. In addition to comedian, he's also an actor and writer, and according to his official website "vegetarian, dog owner, father of two and I like Batman quite a bit".
He's written and starred in his own BBC Radio 4 sitcom - Everyone Quite Likes Justin - and has performed in plays at Manchester's Royal Exchange.
Justin has been on Celebrity Mastermind, where his chosen subject was Les Dawson. He's popped up on BBC Radio 5 Live's '7 Day Sunday' and 'Fighting Talk'. He's also been a regular presence on Manchester's Key 103.
Taking control of our comedy for 3 hours, Justin talks about his upbringing, comedy influences and the day Judith Chalmers didn't put him on Wish You Were Here.
His choices are: Knowing Me Knowing You (22.12.92), Ken Dodd's Palace of Laughter (3.9.87), On The Town With The League of Gentlemen (6.11.97), Ross Noble Goes Global - South Africa (18.4.02), Radio Shuttleworth (with Vanessa Feltz) (24.11.98) and Listen to Les (18.3.95).
SAT 12:00 Deadheading - Omnibus (b0465cx5)
Capers among the carrots as a body is found on an allotment. Comedy crime drama starring Julie Hesmondhalgh and Miriam Margolyes.
SAT 13:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair (b0075211)
Brian Masters
Brian Masters, the award winning author of 'Killing for Company' talks about his notions of good and evil.
Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare's in depth interviews with prominent people from different walks of life.
Born in Dublin, author Anthony held a doctorate in medicine, a master's degree in philosophy and was a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. After becoming a regular on BBC Radio 4's Stop the Week in the 1980s, he became Britain's best-known psychiatrist and earned his own vehicle, In the Psychiatrist's Chair.
Starting in 1982, this series ran until 2001 and also transferred to TV. Series highlights include conversations with Bob Monkhouse, Cecil Parkinson and Gerry Adams.
Anthony Clare died suddenly in Paris aged 64 in 2007.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997.
SAT 14:00 Listen to Les (b01nchmv)
From 24/02/1985
Les Dawson has holiday tales to tell and there are problems to solve for agony uncle, Dr Rhubarb.
With Daphne Oxenford, Eli Woods and Colin Edwynn.
Music by Brian Fitzgerald.
Scripted and produced by James Casey.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1985.
SAT 14:30 Albert and Me (b007k0dw)
Series 2
A Moving Story
Single dad Bryan tries to get a loan to move house, but it's not simple.
Stars Robert Lindsay and Pat Coombs.
Robert Lindsay takes over as the single parent struggling to find work and raise his baby son.
In the original 1977 series, Bryan was played by the late Richard Beckinsale who tragically died in 1979. After a six-year hiatus, the series returned with Bryan's mother and baby Albert played once again by the ever-versatile Pat Coombs.
Bryan Archer ...... Robert Lindsay
Mum/Albert ...... Pat Coombs
Mrs Willis ...... Diana King
Mr Benson ...... John Arnatt
Mrs Hagger ...... Dllys Laye
Ron ...... Larry Martyn
Mary ...... Rosalind Adams
Mr Tibbies ...... Roland MacLeod
Incidental music by Max Harris.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1983.
SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b01kr725)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin - Almost the Truth (b007wvcq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters (b01h77ln)
Series 2
Episode 2
Sony Award-winning comedian Tom Wrigglesworth performs another of his open letters.
Tom turns his attentions to the low-cost airline industry. Are they are all they are cracked up to be?
If he does enough online check-ins, can he legitimately claim to be part-time staff and get an invite to the Christmas do?
Written by Tom Wrigglesworth, James Kettle and Miles Jupp.
Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2012.
SAT 18:00 Dangerous Visions (b02x66zn)
Ed Harris - Billions
by Ed Harris
One of three plays nominated as Best Single Drama at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2014.
Mark's wife Donna has an accident and ends up in a life-threatening coma. But when he comes home from hospital, Donna is in the kitchen. Not Donna, in fact, but a near-perfect replica provided by her insurance company.
Award-winning writer Ed Harris tells a wickedly twisted tale of love - and adjustments.
Producer/Director ... Jonquil Panting.
SAT 18:45 HG Wells (b01mltrs)
The First Men in the Moon
Episode 2
Cavor has invented a new material blocking the effect of gravity. After covering a sphere with the substance, he and Mr Bedford travel far from Earth to the Moon's surface.
Here they encounter a strange new world...and new life forms.
First published in 1901, HG Wells’ novel abridged by Neville Teller.
Read by Tim Pigott-Smith.
Producer: David Roper
Made by Heavy Entertainment for BBC Radio 4 and first broadcast in July 2007
SAT 19:00 Comedy Controller (b007jq4z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Shappi Talk (b00wsr2x)
Series 2
Politics
Shappi Khorsandi looks at a variety of subjects close to her Iranian heart - including History, Addiction and, in this programme, Politics.
Shappi reveals her thoughts on Margaret Thatcher, how Anne Frank got her into politics and that, while other parents took their children to the zoo, she was taken to Speakers' Corner.
She'll be joined by writer and satirist John O'Farrell to discuss how humour and politics are intertwined. Stand-up comedian Ian Stone offers his take on the world of politics and there's a witty song from Duncan Oakley.
Producer: Paul Russell
An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 22:30 The Jason Byrne Show (b01pfrm4)
Series 3
Use Your Imagination to Have the Best Fun
Jason Byrne looks at the subject of technology – getting all nostalgic over the novelty of 24 hour photos.
Amongst the audience, he discovers a human wheelbarrow; an advertiser who struggles to give a name to things and everything he needs to recreate the sounds of a Clangers' convention.
Themed audience comedy show with high-energy stand-up and sketches featuring Laurence Howarth and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
Producer: Julia McKenzie
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010.
SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b047wkqq)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith to Patrick Kielty about the BBC Radio New Comedy Award.
SAT 23:00 Bussmann and Quantick Kingsize (b045gdqt)
Episode 5
Five things you didn't know about ready meals.
An old Kwik Save bag stuffed full of sketches, monologues and beserk bits.
Originally broadcast live from London's exclusive Imperial Rooms, Mayfair.
Written and performed by Jane Bussmann and David Quantick.
Also featuring Peter Serafinowicz, Emma Clarke and Steve Brody.
Producer: Phil Bowker.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.
SAT 23:30 Richard Herring's Objective (b00vkycj)
Series 1
Dolly the Sheep
Comedian Richard Herring reclaims those things we've grown to hate. In the final show of the series Richard reclaims Dolly the sheep as he examines why we are fearful and suspicious of the idea of cloning without really understanding it.
Richard talks to a genetics professor about how cloning works and what it was like to meet Dolly. Richard also asks science writer Dr Ben Goldacre whether evil scientists exist and whether he is allowed to clone Dr Who assistant Amy Pond.
The show was recorded in front of an audience.
Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.