Kris Marshall returns as Samuel Pepys in this dramatisation of his diary for 1662. The year begins badly when he accidentally elbows Elizabeth in the eye as he's waking up.
Actress Tamsin Greig inherits 'The Pearl Fishers Duet' by Bizet and passes on 'To Make You Feel My Love' by Bob Dylan.
Jeremy Nicholas visits the Roberts family, where three generations are learning to play the piano together. From November 1999.
A candid look at contemporary family through the prism of two North London siblings Lucy and Tom as they schlep between their determinedly hands-on parents. Lucy is excited about exploring surrealism, Tom is obsessively counting sultanas and their mum Mimi (Sarah Alexander) is desperate for her third attempt at married life to get started, but the children's father Joe (David Tennant) has come to a decision that will change their all their lives...
If it's Wednesday... it must be Holloway
Joe ..... David Tennant
Mimi ..... Sarah Alexander
Tom ..... Finlay Christie
Lucy ..... Phoebe Abbott
Harry ..... Stuart Milligan
Can Tommy Handley - the Governor of Tomtopia - get support to stage an important race?
With Jack Train, Clarence Wright, Fred Yule, Jean Capra, Carleton Hobbs, Hugh Morton, Mary O'Farrell, Lind Joyce and Diana Morrison.
It's That Man Again - ITMA made a radio superstar of Tommy Handley (1894-1949) and had more than 20 million devoted listeners to the BBC Home Service each week - with millions more around the world. The show's title came from a newspaper headline used in stories about Adolf Hitler in the lead up to the Second World War.
Catchphrases like "TTFN - Ta-Ta for now" and "Can I Do You Now, Sir?" coupled with a frenetic, topical approach made it utterly distinctive.
From 1939 to 1949, over 310 episodes were broadcast, breaking away from existing comedy and music hall conventions with an anarchic and irreverent style - created by its writer Ted Kavanagh.
BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell.
Producer: Francis Worsley.
A dirty wartime romp and the tale of a naughty gnome.
Starring Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Joan Sims and announcer, Douglas Smith.
After the unexpected death of Kenneth Horne in 1969, plans for the next series of Round The Horne were axed. Instead - using an old catchphrase of Kenneth Williams as a series title - Kenneth joined Hugh Paddick to continue the comedy tradition and was also reunited with his "Carry On" film co-star Joan Sims.
With the Max Harris Group.
Sandy Chalmers takes an affectionate look back at the much-loved BBC institution Children's Hour, which ran from 1922 to 1964 on the BBC Home Service. Sandy was first involved as a child from 1953 to close down in 1964. Her selection in this edition:
The Big Pond: Will o' the Wisp by Bertha Lonsdale. A short play first broadcast in 1960 narrated by Trevor Hill. With Karal Gardner, Joseph Hancock and Brian Trueman.
A Story of Bran the Cat: Bran's New Year Resolution. Don Whyte's stories were a popular feature of the BBC's Scottish Children's Hour. From 1953.
Toytown Plays - The Extraordinary Affair of Ernest the Policeman, by SG Hulme Beaman. Dennis the Dachshund causes a "hole" lot of fun. With Derek McCulloch, Peter Claughton, Norman Shelley, Ivan Samson, John Glyn-Jones, Preston Lockwood, Felix Felton and Mary O'Farrell. From 1962.
Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group of people intimately involved in a moment of modern history.
She brings together some of the original team behind The Navy Lark, one of the most popular and longest-running radio sitcoms. Participants include June Whitfield, Leslie Phillips, George Evans, Heather Chesen and Tenniel Evans.
At five in the morning, Emily makes her shopping forays. But although June approaches, outside it is getting darker.
The writer and artist Tove Jansson is best known as the creator of the Moomin stories, which were first published in English sixty years ago and have remained in print ever since. She turned her attention to writing for adults when she was in her fifties.
With the deceptively light prose that is her hallmark, 'Travelling Light' reveals to us the precariousness of a journey and the unease we feel at being placed outside of our milieu.
From Houston, Texas, the American funny man welcomes the Quebe Sisters Band and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham. From 2010.
4 Extra Debut. Jack Frost is a tough and rude detective and does it all his way, but has he come a cropper? Stars Derek Martin and June Brown.
Mel's highlights from the past week on the 4 O'Clock Show, including the wonderful whistling language of the Canary Islands and the art of putting on a fireworks display.
The journey home for Christmas leads to major revelations for the Time Lord's companion. Eighth Doctor adventure stars Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith.
The bumbling student's aim to emerge spiritually becomes a physical revelation with a loose sarong. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From August 2002.
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best comedy around. Simon Munnery chats to Josie Long.
Robin Ince, Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward are the strange personalities who make up the In Crowd.
Meet the travel agent who won't let anyone go further than Lowestoft and the army officer who can't wait to offer himself up as the first to be eaten in a crisis.
Plus the cultural hooligans who smash up beautiful things, and Wendy Clapper who thinks a trip to see the Northern Lights means a weekend in Blackpool.
Sketch show from Manchester's Comedy Store.
Jon talks to John Downes, director of the Centre of Fortean Zoology who spent his life searching for mythical creatures. When he woke up and realised they didn't exist, he turned his attention to something much more real, a giant eel spotted in Lake Windermere. Jon follows him on his underwater adventure.
MONDAY 01 SEPTEMBER 2014
MON 00:00 Doctor Who (b01pqhkk)
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MON 01:00 The Reunion (b00d642r)
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MON 01:45 Afternoon Reading (b00xpp4v)
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MON 02:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b007jynv)
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MON 02:30 Stop Messing About! (b00b52ck)
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MON 03:00 The Gobetweenies (b010t6nt)
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MON 03:30 RD Wingfield (b0082c6w)
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MON 05:00 Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time (b00qmy65)
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MON 06:00 Detective (b04g16ll)
Series 2
6. Missing From Home
Detective Sergeant Dave Brook investigates another missing person, but is he seeing connections where there are none?
Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr.
CAST:
DS Brook …. Ray Brooks
DC Blair Maxton …. Christopher Blake
DC Harrison …. Peter Cleall
Chief Inspector Roach …. Stephen Yardley
Michael Kemp …. William Booker
Mr Kemp …. Keith Drinkel
Charles …. David Lodge
Writer Robert Barr is well remembered for his work on BBC TV's 'Z-Cars' and 'Softly Softly'.
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982.
MON 06:30 The Holton Players (b00768nh)
Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent returns to his roots in rural Lincolnshire.
The village of Holton-cum-Beckering was populated by a small community of conscientious objectors, who included Jim's parents, during the Second World War.
The theatre company which they created in the village school is still proudly alive today, with its own theatre and Jim as its president.
Producer: Gareth Edwards
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
MON 07:00 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue (b00751f6)
Series 3
Episode 2
Sofa-bound TV presenters Mike and Sue tackle terrorism and gardening.
Starring Robert Duncan and Jan Ravens.
With Ronnie Ancona. Alistair McGowan, Roger Blake and Tracy-Ann Oberman.
Written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie from a format by Bill Dare.
Music by Mark Burton.
Producer: Aled Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1998.
MON 07:30 Just a Minute (b04f9hy0)
Series 70
Episode 3
Hosted by the legendary Nicholas Parsons and recorded at the Edinburgh Festival - how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation? Sue Perkins, Gyles Brandreth and Paul Merton find out.
MON 08:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007k1jm)
My Stag Movie, part 2/2
The veteran auditionee exposes more of his film-making exploits. Did he ever hit the big screen?
British show business doyen, J Kingston Platt shares reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his experience from the past 40 years.
Performed and written by Peter Jones.
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1986
MON 08:30 The Navy Lark (b00ttpgd)
Series 1
Number One's Chair
CPO Pertwee's stores requisition spirals out of control.
Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Dennis Price as Number One, Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Heather, Michael Bates as Commander Shaw, Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson and Tenniel Evans as the Warrant Officer Pertwee.
The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series on BBC Radio between 1959 and 1976.
Scripted by Lawrie Wyman.
Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1959.
MON 09:00 It's Your Round (b00z5zyh)
Series 1
Episode 4
Angus Deayton hosts the comedy panel show with no format.
Russell Kane, Josie Long, Alun Cochrane and Milton Jones battle it out to see who can beat each other at their own games each has brought along.
How will they fare at Russell Kane's "Mood News" round? What superhero would Milton Jones like to be? And what is josie Long's "Nine Previous Convictions" all about? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this show.
Angus Deayton valiantly tries to make sure everyone comes out of it with their reputations intact.
Writers: Angus Deayton, Ged Parsons and Paul Powell
Devised by Benjamin Partridge
Producer: Sam Michell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011.
MON 09:30 Mr and Mrs Smith (b01bgp22)
Pilot Episode - The Anniversary
A weekend break to celebrate their anniversary ends in disaster for Will and Annabelle. Will's terrible anniversary present is the last straw so Annabelle signs them up for marriage counselling.
Guy mediates between Will and Annabelle, with flashbacks to the events that spawned the argument. By the end, the couple find marital equilibrium once more. Sort of.
A repeat of the pilot episode from last year, ahead of the new series which begins next week. Sitcom by Will smith.
EPISODE CAST DETAILS:
Will Smith ..... Will Smith
Annabelle Smith ..... Sarah Hadland
Guy, Darryl ..... Paterson Joseph
John, TV repairman ..... Geoffrey Whitehead
Receptionist, Sally ..... Morwenna Banks
Written by ..... Will Smith
Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani
ABOUT THE SERIES
The writer and comedian Will Smith leads the starry cast of Mr and Mrs.Smith. Sarah Hadland (Miranda, The Mitchell and Webb Look, Moving Wallpaper) stars as Will's wife Annabelle. Paterson Joseph (Peep Show, Survivors, Green Wing) plays Counsellor Guy. The series also includes Geoffrey whitehead (Reggie Perrin, Worst Week of My Life) , Susie Blake (Coronation Street; Victoria Wood as Seen on TV) and Morwenna Banks (Absolutely; Skins; Saxondale).
Will's writing credits include Armstrong and Miller (BBC1), Harry and Paul (BBC1), Moving Wallpaper (ITV1), Time Trumpet (BBC2), the multi-award winning The Thick Of It (BBC2) in which he also appears as Phil Smith, and the upcoming Veep (HBO).
MON 10:00 Joe Orton - The Ruffian on the Stair (b04g18g0)
Joe Orton's black comedy about a couple, Mike and Joyce. He's an Irish ex-boxer living on the dole and she's an ex-prostitute. A mysterious young man called Wilson arrives who toys with their lives. The play is based on The Boy Hairdresser, a novel by Orton and his lover and mentor Kenneth Halliwell sent to BBC producer John Tydeman.
It was this play that sparked the beginning of Orton's brief period of public acclaim, just three years before he was murdered by Halliwell in 1967.
Stars Avis Bunnage, Kenneth Cranham and Dermot Kelly. Directed by John Tydeman.
First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 31st August 1964.
MON 10:50 Inheritance Tracks (b048w5vt)
Jack Whitehall
Comedian Jack Whitehall chooses plainchant from the Monks of Ampleforth Abbey and Rollin' by Limp Bizkit.
MON 11:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g18g2)
The Sleeping Man
Made for 4 Extra. Two young teenagers look after a sick man through the night. From Tove Jansson's debut 1971 collection. Read by Indira Varma.
Creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson, a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author is one of the most successful children writers ever. In her debut collection published in 1971 she tells of what we experience in youth, love, getting older and dying.
Translated by Thomas Teal into English for the first time in the UK to celebrate the centenary of her birth in August 2014.
Producer Karen Rose. Executive producer Jeremy Osborne.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions.
MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b04frcvl)
Nicholas Parsons, Kevin Bishop, Rikki Stein, George Dawes Green, Catherine Burns, Arthur Smith, The Barr Brothers, Femme
Since its first broadcast in December 1967, 'Just a Minute' has consistently entertained BBC Radio 4 listeners. And chairman Nicholas Parsons has appeared in every episode of the almost 900 broadcasts to date. He talks to Nikki about his new book 'Welcome to Just a Minute', recalling the very best, occasionally awkward and often hilarious moments from the last six decades.
Nikki talks Afrobeat with Rikki Stein, who was Nigerian musician and social activist Fela Kuti's long-term friend and manager. Rikki features in new documentary 'Finding Fela', a compelling portrait of the man who created a musical movement, using it as a form of political protest, becoming a revolutionary, hero and legend.
Are you sitting comfortably? Arthur Smith pulls up an easy chair and settles in for story time with the founder and the Artistic Director of 'The Moth' storytelling events, George Dawes Green and Catherine Burns. Since 1997, household names and unknowns alike have performed their real life stories to packed crowds across the US, which audiences can now experience in book form.
How far would you go to get a table at the smartest restaurant in town? Actor and comedian Kevin Bishop talks to Nikki about starring in 'Fully Committed', a whirlwind culinary comedy set in one of Manhattan's hottest restaurants, where the city never sleeps and the phone never stops ringing.
With music from The Barr Brothers, who perform 'Even The Darkness Has Arms' from their album 'Sleeping Operator' and Femme performs 'High' from her forthcoming debut album.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
MON 12:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007k1jm)
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MON 12:30 The Navy Lark (b00ttpgd)
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MON 13:00 Detective (b04g16ll)
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MON 13:30 The Holton Players (b00768nh)
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MON 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b012fc0s)
Tom McNeal - To Be Sung Underwater
Episode 1
Feeling dissatisfied with her life as an film editor in California and with a husband she suspects is having an affair, Judith Whitman decides one day to move her childhood bedroom furniture into a storage unit (it having been discarded by her daughter Camille) and rashly uses a fake name to secure the unit.
She starts reminiscing about her childhood in Nebraska living with her charismatic lecturer father and about her first love, Willy Blunt whom she left behind when she went to college and has never looked back.
Written with distinctive style by Tom McNeal, it's an immersive, atmospheric story in which Judith starts to become more and more disconnected with her chosen life and starts yearning for the past. After the death of her beloved father and the beginning of stress induced migraines at work, Judith retraces her steps back to a few glorious teenage summers.
After 27 years, she tries to get back in touch with significant figures from her past...
Abridged by Miranda Davies.
Read by Laurel Lefkow.
Producer: Lucy Collingwood
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in July 2011.
MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01hf0d7)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 4
Episode 1
1663 gets off to an unpromising start when Sam and Elizabeth have a furious row, culminating in him burning all her old love letters in the fire. Then Elizabeth is robbed in the street, and Sam has a writ issued against him on a false charge. He avoids arrest, until he can prove his innocence, by hiding next door at Sir William's house.
Cast:
Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall
Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways
Captain Ferrers ..... Ewan Bailey
Mrs Sarah ..... Eiry Thomas
Man with writ ..... Lee Mengo
Lord Sandwich ..... Blake Ritson
Sir William Batten ..... Richard Mitchley
Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice Baxter.
Historical consultant: Liza Picard
Sound by Nigel Lewis
Adapted by Hattie Naylor.
A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Nigel Lewis and produced by Kate McAll.
MON 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00pfmsc)
Tove Jansson - The True Deceiver
Episode 1
Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson.
Winter settles over the Swedish fishing village of Västerby. Katri offers to run errands for the ageing artist who lives on the outskirts. But what does this strange young woman want in return from Anna Aemelin?
Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
MON 15:00 Joe Orton - The Ruffian on the Stair (b04g18g0)
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MON 15:50 Inheritance Tracks (b048w5vt)
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MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01nh82j)
Mel Giedroyc hears nasty, gruesome things about the Romans from Terry Deary's brilliant Horrible Histories. And the nature series features the beautiful story of the sea swallow.
MON 17:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b009y19f)
Series 2
Trouble With the Credit Card
It's duo Tommy and Sheila's second stab at fame - and she's been spending.
30 years after sweethearts Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr won the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest, the musical double-act are back in the big time.
Series 2 of Mike Coleman's six-part sitcom stars June Whitfield and Roy Hudd.
Tommy Franklin ...... Roy Hudd
Sheila Parr ...... June Whitfield
With Pat Coombs, Julian Eardley and Edward Halstead.
Music by Frido Ruth.
Producer: Steve Doherty
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1999.
MON 17:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue (b00751f6)
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07:00 today]
MON 18:00 It's Your Round (b00z5zyh)
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MON 18:30 A Good Read (b04g19jx)
Geoff Dyer and Richard Holmes
4 Extra Debut. Thomas Sutcliffe, Richard Holmes and Geoff Dyer discuss works by Rudyard Kipling, Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Bernard. From March 1998.
Selected Stories by Kipling
Publisher: Penguin
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Extinction by Thomas Bernard
Publisher: Penguin.
MON 19:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007k1jm)
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MON 19:30 The Navy Lark (b00ttpgd)
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MON 20:00 Detective (b04g16ll)
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MON 20:30 The Holton Players (b00768nh)
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MON 21:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g18g2)
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MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b04frcvl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
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MON 22:00 Just a Minute (b04f9hy0)
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MON 22:30 Mr and Mrs Smith (b01bgp22)
[Repeat of broadcast at
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MON 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b00wnp6m)
Series 6
Investigation
Still keen to know who killed her, Edith discovers why Satan resented Jesus - he didn't like his "holier than thou" attitude.
Andy Hamilton's comedy set in Hell.
Starring Andy Hamilton as Satan, Annette Crosbie as Edith, Robert Duncan as Scumspawn and Jimmy Mulville as Thomas.
Other characters played by Michael Fenton Stevens, Philip Pope, Felicity Montagu and Nick Revell.
Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007.
MON 23:30 The Consultants (b007vb2j)
Series 2
Episode 1
Time to hark back to a gentler age of radio when Archie Strutz and His Swinging Nuts were a favourite on the BBC Home Service and folktales sang of rustic careers "where the tales are our seed and the sod is your ears".
The Consultants are Neil Edmond, Justin Edwards and James Rawlings.
In 2002 they won the Perrier Best Newcomer Award ... and had to brace themselves for the inevitable backlash.
Producer: Will Saunders
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003.
TUESDAY 02 SEPTEMBER 2014
TUE 00:00 Book at Beachtime (b012fc0s)
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14:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b01hf0d7)
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TUE 00:45 Book at Bedtime (b00pfmsc)
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TUE 01:00 It's Your Round (b00z5zyh)
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09:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 A Good Read (b04g19jx)
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TUE 02:00 Detective (b04g16ll)
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06:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 The Holton Players (b00768nh)
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TUE 03:00 Joe Orton - The Ruffian on the Stair (b04g18g0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Monday]
TUE 03:50 Inheritance Tracks (b048w5vt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:50 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g18g2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b04frcvl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b009y19f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue (b00751f6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 Detective (b04g1xxz)
Series 2
7. A Very Private Affair
Detective Sergeant Dave Brook gets a tip off from Tessa, and the mystery of Kemp's missing wife gets more and more complex...
Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr.
CAST:
DS Brook …. Ray Brooks
DC Blair Maxton …. Christopher Blake
Judy …. Jacqueline Tong
Mr Kemp …. Keith Drinkel
Tessa Mitchell …. Deirdre Costello
Mary …. Jill Lidstone
Writer Robert Barr is well remembered for his work on BBC TV's 'Z-Cars' and 'Softly Softly'.
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982.
TUE 06:30 Amongst the Medici (b0076x4f)
Classicist Bettany Hughes begins a new series about Renaissance Florence.
1/3. The Medici are a name synonymous with the Renaissance, but why did these bankers act as patrons to artists such as Michelangelo and Donatello?
TUE 07:00 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club (b007jqlf)
Trevor Island
Mr Zizz, the bad cartoonist, is not really capable of murder. Or is he? Stars Martin Jarvis and Ron Pember. From September 1988.
TUE 07:30 Meet David Sedaris (b03m3nty)
Series 4
Episode 4
One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC Radio 4 doing what he does best.
This week, the pros and cons of being grown up enough to have a guest room in "Company Man", and some more extracts from his hilarious diary, which he has kept nightly for over 30 years.
Producer: Steve Doherty
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b00cyg6v)
Series 8
The Missing Battleship
When HMS Boxer is stolen, you just know someone is going to fall in the water. Stars Peter Sellers. From November 1957.
TUE 08:30 Doctor in the House (b007k437)
Sex and St Swithins
Medic Simon Sparrow breaks hospital rules by flirting with a pretty new nurse.
The misadventures of student doctor Simon Sparrow - adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's novel 'Doctor in the House' published in 1952.
Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Edward Cast as Taffy Evans and Barbara Mitchell as Sister.
Special guest star: Irene Handl as Mrs Clarke.
Producer: David Hatch
Recorded at the BBC Paris studio in London.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1968.
TUE 09:00 Who Goes There? (b007wqd6)
Series 2
Episode 5
Martin Young chairs the quiz looking at lives of the noteworthy and notorious from the history books.
Tackling the biographical teasers are team captains Francis Wheen and Fred Housego with guests Claire Rayner and Roy Hattersley.
Producer: Aled Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1998.
TUE 09:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007jsq3)
Series 2
6th May 1800
Cholericke gets a surprise visitor while Dorothy tries to manage as the household descends into chaos...
An everyday story of towering genius in Sue Limb's six part soap opera, set in and around the Lake District at the turn of the 18th century.
Stars Geoffrey Whitehead as William Wordsmith, Denise Coffey as Dorothy Wordsmith, Simon Callow as Samuel Tailor Cholericke, Miriam Margolyes as Stinking Iris, Angela Pleasence as Sara Cholricke and Nickolas Grace as Thomas de Quinine.
Music by Stephen Oliver and performed by Cantabile.
Producer: Jonathan James-Moore
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1987.
TUE 10:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007jpr7)
Miss Honeychurch, Giotto and Too Much Beethoven
1905: Cousins Lucy and Charlotte arrive from England at the Pensione Bertolini in Florence to discover they've not been given their promised rooms.
EM Forster's 1908 Edwardian-era novel dramatised in four parts by David Wade.
Lucy Honeychurch ...... Cathy Sara
Charlotte Bartlett ...... Sheila Hancock
Mr Emerson ...... John Moffatt
George Emerson ...... Gary Cady
Mr Beebe ...... Stephen Moore
Miss Lavish ...... Barbara Jefford
Miss Alan ...... Anna Cropper
Mr Eager ...... David Collings
Maid ...... Jilly Bond
Man ...... Ian Masters
Beggar ...... Michael Tudor Barnes
Other parts played by the cast.
Pianist: Terence Allbright
Director: Glyn Dearman.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995.
TUE 11:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g1yd6)
The Wolf
Mr Shimomura wants to draw a dangerous animal, but first he must find one. Translated by Thomas Teal. Read by Indira Varma.
Creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson, a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author is one of the most successful children writers ever. In her debut collection published in 1971 she tells of what we experience in youth, love, getting older and dying.
Producer Karen Rose. Executive producer Jeremy Osborne.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions.
TUE 11:15 Tove Jansson - The Summer Book (b007jw2l)
Sophia recalls the holidays spent with her grandmother on an island in the Gulf of Finland. Stars Phyllida Law and Sophie Thompson.
TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b00cyg6v)
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08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 Doctor in the House (b007k437)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
TUE 13:00 Detective (b04g1xxz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
TUE 13:30 Amongst the Medici (b0076x4f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
TUE 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b012gq0v)
Tom McNeal - To Be Sung Underwater
Episode 2
Reeling from discovering her husband's possible infidelity, Judith recollects her first love Willy Blunt.
Read by Laurel Lefkow.
Feeling dissatisfied with her life as an film editor in California and with a husband she suspects is having an affair, Judith Whitman decides one day to move her childhood bedroom furniture into a storage unit (it having been discarded by her daughter Camille) and rashly uses a fake name to secure the unit. She starts reminiscing about her childhood in Nebraska living with her charismatic lecturer father and about her first love, Willy Blunt whom she left behind when she went to college and has never looked back.
Written with distinctive style by Tom McNeal, it's an immersive, atmospheric story in which Judith starts to become more and more disconnected with her chosen life and starts yearning for the past. After the death of her beloved father and the beginning of stress induced migraines at work, Judith retraces her steps back to a few glorious teenage summers.
After 27 years, she tries to get back in touch with significant figures from her past...
Abridged by Miranda Davies.
Producer: Lucy Collingwood
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in July 2011.
TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01hjs0q)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 4
Episode 2
Sam goes to see an autopsy at the Surgeons Hall and finds the cold body fascinating. His wife Elizabeth, meanwhile, who is rowing with the neighbours over the use of a water cock, decides to distract herself by learning to dance. So Sam engages the services of a Dancing Master, Mr Pembleton - a decision he will later come to regret.
Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall
Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways
John Pepys ..... Stephen Marzella
Will ..... John Biddle
Mr Payne ..... Ewan Bailey
Captain Holmes ..... Andrew Wincott
Sir William Batten ..... Richard Mitchley
Mary ..... Eirlys Bellin
Mr Pembleton ..... Joseph Kloska
Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice Baxter.
Historical consultant: Liza Picard
Sound by Nigel Lewis
Adapted by Hattie Naylor
A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Nigel Lewis and produced by Kate McAll.
TUE 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00phv9c)
Tove Jansson - The True Deceiver
Episode 2
Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson.
As Katri visits the rabbit house more often, Anna gets first sight of the young woman's unusual qualities.
Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 15:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007jpr7)
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10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01nh9r3)
Mel finds out just how awful Roman kings were in Terry Deary's story Horrible Histories: The Rotten Romans, and she hears the Inheritance Books of author Eoin Colfer.
TUE 17:00 Up the Garden Path (b008f3kh)
Series 3
Gooseberries and Fools
Can a relationship with her ex-pupil Razors be the best thing for teacher Izzy?
Imelda Staunton stars as Isabelle 'Izzy' Comyn.
With Mike Grady as Dick, Marty Cruickshank as Maria, Nicholas Le Prevost as Michael, Phyllida Nash as Louise, Rene Zagger as Razors, Sion Probert as Gwyn, Neil McCaul as Bill and Judith Jacob as Linda.
Tumbling from one love entanglement to another, 30-something teacher Izzy has a predilection for inappropriate men.
A six-part radio sequel first adapted from Sue Limb’s 1984 novel. The last of three series which ran from 1987 to 1993. Granada also adapted the series for ITV.
Producer: Jonathan James-Moore
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1993.
TUE 17:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club (b007jqlf)
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TUE 18:00 Who Goes There? (b007wqd6)
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09:00 today]
TUE 18:30 Musical Legends (b0183jlk)
Paul Jones
Paul Jones's musical career stretches back to the 1960's where he enjoyed chart success as front-man with the group Manfred Mann.
As a solo pop artist he continued that success with songs like 'High Time' and 'I've been a Bad Bad Boy'.
Paul turned to acting and his career in television include appearances in Z cars, Space 1999 and The Sweeney. He's also appeared in films and on stage.
Amongst his numerous gold albums is one for the original recording of Evita.
Paul founded The Blues Band in the late 1970's and is still regularly touring with the band.
He's recorded with some of the biggest names in the business including Tina Turner, Percy Sledge and Katie Melua.
Paul tells Tom Morton about his musical journey from 1960's pop star to DJ and music critic and he explains how he became President of the National Harmonica League.
Produced by Suzy Beaumont.
First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2011.
TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b00cyg6v)
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08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Doctor in the House (b007k437)
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TUE 20:00 Detective (b04g1xxz)
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06:00 today]
TUE 20:30 Amongst the Medici (b0076x4f)
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06:30 today]
TUE 21:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g1yd6)
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11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Tove Jansson - The Summer Book (b007jw2l)
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11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 Meet David Sedaris (b03m3nty)
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07:30 today]
TUE 22:30 Fags, Mags and Bags (b010y376)
Series 4
John Craven's Fjällräven
More shop based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave.
Written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli, Fags, Mags & Bags has proved a hit with the Radio 4 audience with this series picking up a Writers' Guild nomination for best comedy in 2011.
In this episode Dave and the boys are busily organising a surprise 50th birthday party for Ramesh, but will Sanjay manage to keep his trap closed long enough without spilling the beans before the big day.
So join the staff of Fags, Mags and Bags in their tireless quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation.
Ramesh Mahju has built up the business over the course of thirty years, and is a firmly entrenched feature of the local area. However, he does apply the "low return" rules of the shop to all other aspects of his life.
He is ably assisted by his shop sidekick Dave, a forty-something underachiever who shares Ramesh's love of the art of shopkeeping, even if he is treated like a slave.
Then of course there are Ramesh's sons, Sanjay and Alok, both surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach to shopkeeping. But they are natural successors to the business and Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them - whether they like it or not.
Cast:
Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kohli
Dave ..... Donald Mcleary
Sanjay ..... Omar Raza
Alok ..... Susheel Kumar
Dr Southwell ..... Kevin Eldon
Mrs Begg ..... Marjory Hogarth
Mrs Armstrong ..... Maureen Carr
Lovely Sue ..... Julie Wilson Nimmo
Bra Jeff ..... Steven McNicol
Producer: Gus Beattie
A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 23:00 The Maltby Collection (b00czc0j)
Series 1
Episode 6
A popular TV detective series comes to film at the museum and its super-suave star takes a fancy to Prunella, leaving Rod and Julian feeling marginalised.
Geoffrey Palmer and Julian Rhind-Tutt star in David Nobbs’ sitcom about a small museum of paintings and sculpture.
Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer
Prunella Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins
Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond
Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley
Eva Tattle ...... Julia Deakin
Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern
Stelios Constantinopolis ...... Chris Pavlo
Jeremy Noone ...... Hugh Dennis
Clive ...... Neil Fitzmaurice
Arabella ...... Eve Dallas
Nick ...... Jot Davies
Charlie Tattle ...... Barry Cryer
Producer: Colin Anderson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2007.
TUE 23:30 And Now in Colour (b007yrwf)
Series 2
Colourthon
The sketch show team attempt their own radio charity fundraiser.
Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck.
Producer: Lissa Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1991.
WEDNESDAY 03 SEPTEMBER 2014
WED 00:00 Book at Beachtime (b012gq0v)
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14:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b01hjs0q)
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14:30 on Tuesday]
WED 00:45 Book at Bedtime (b00phv9c)
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14:45 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Who Goes There? (b007wqd6)
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09:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 Musical Legends (b0183jlk)
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18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 Detective (b04g1xxz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:30 Amongst the Medici (b0076x4f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007jpr7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g1yd6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:15 Tove Jansson - The Summer Book (b007jw2l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 Up the Garden Path (b008f3kh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Tuesday]
WED 05:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club (b007jqlf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 Detective (b04g3npg)
Series 2
8. The Placer
Warehouses and stolen goods pre-occupy Detective Sergeant Dave Brook and DC Maxton. Just as the Kemp trail has gone cold, there's a fresh lead.
Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr.
CAST:
DS Dave Brook …. Ray Brooks
DC Blair Maxton …. Christopher Blake
Chief Inspector Roach …. Stephen Yardley
DC Harrison …. Peter Cleall
Fred Rees …. Philip Talbot
Roy Howard …. Tony Steedman
George …. Spencer Banks
Writer Robert Barr is well remembered for his work on BBC TV's 'Z-Cars' and 'Softly Softly'.
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982.
WED 06:30 Amongst the Medici (b0076x7m)
Classicist Bettany Hughes continues the series about Renaissance Florence.
2/3. Could it be that the Renaissance as we know it was not a renaissance at all? Could Donatello's David really be a political statement for the Medici? And what is the connection with Liverpool?
WED 07:00 An Actor's Life for Me (b00s3d19)
Series 3
Madness In His Method
Robert Wilson devotes his life to someone's art.
Farcical sitcom about the trials and tribulations of a young actor desperately seeking work.
John Gordon Sinclair stars in Paul Mayhew-Archer's sitcom.
Robert ..... John Gordon Sinclair
Desmond Shaw ..... Gary Waldhorn
Sue ..... Gina McKee
With:
Toby Longworth
Harriet Thorpe
Millie Tiffin
Andrew Berkeley
Simon Slater
Producer: Dianne Messias
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1993.
WED 07:30 Dead Ringers (b04fc70f)
Series 12
Episode 5
After a rest of 7 years, the classic, award winning impressions show is back with a new cast of characters.
No one will be safe from the merciless parodies, as the show takes down every programme, institution and politician you hold dear.
Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis MacLeod, Debra Stevenson.
Producer: Bill Dare.
WED 08:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jr4g)
Series 3
First Prize the Burkiss Way
Enjoy the Dinosaur Cheese Interlude - and Confessions of People Who Show Off Spherical Bits of Anatomy.
Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett .
Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to 1980.
Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick.
Producer: John Lloyd
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1977.
WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00pzgpv)
Series 2
Episode 2
Oxford take on Bermondsey in 'Universal Challenge', unclad fashion news - and ballet on the radio?
More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs plus TV and cinema parodies.
Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
Written by Peter Vincent, David McKellar, Les Lilley, Chic Jacob, Humphrey Barclay, David Lund, Bill Oddie, Hugh Woodhouse, Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer.
Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.
Songs by Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden with music by Dave Lee.
Producer: Humphrey Barclay
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in October 1965.
WED 09:00 Dilemma (b017lfd5)
Series 1
Episode 3
Sue Perkins puts Shappi Khorsandi, Simon Munnery, Fi Glover and Hugo Rifkind through the moral and ethical wringer in the show where there are no "right" answers - but some deeply damning ones...
Can the panel manage to justify the murder of a pet - and the theft of a girlfriend?
Devised by Danielle Ward.
Producer: Ed Morrish.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011.
WED 09:30 Simon's Bug (b04g3nrc)
Episode 1
Suspecting his wife is having an affair, Simon bugs their telephone and learns much more. Stars Hwyel Bennett. From March 1989.
WED 10:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007jpty)
Good Men and Violets
Lucy Honeychurch has witnessed a murder in Florence, but George's actions disturb her more...
Set in Italy and England, EM Forster’s 1908 tale of a young woman from repressed Edwardian England.
Lucy Honeychurch ...... Cathy Sara
Charlotte Bartlett ...... Sheila Hancock
Mr Emerson ...... John Moffatt
George Emerson ...... Gary Cady
Mr Beebe ...... Stephen Moore
Miss Lavish ...... Barbara Jefford
Mr Eager ...... David Collings
Phaeton ...... Andrew Branch
Pianist: Terence Allbright
Dramatised by David Wade.
Director: Glyn Dearman.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995.
WED 11:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g3ssf)
A Love Story
For the first time, the painter fell in love with a sculpture. Of a woman's buttocks! Read by Indira Varma.
Creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson, a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author is one of the most successful children writers ever. In her debut collection published in 1971 she tells of what we experience in youth, love, getting older and dying.
Translated into English by Thomas Teal. Producer Karen Rose. Executive producer Jeremy Osborne.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions.
WED 11:15 Hattie Naylor - Ivan and the Dogs (b00xfjd5)
The extraordinary story of a young boy's life on the streets of Moscow, where he was adopted by wild dogs. Stars Tom Glenister.
WED 12:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jr4g)
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WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00pzgpv)
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WED 13:00 Detective (b04g3npg)
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WED 13:30 Amongst the Medici (b0076x7m)
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WED 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b012gr6h)
Tom McNeal - To Be Sung Underwater
Episode 3
Judith recalls her first date with Willy Blunt back in Nebraska - and starts to put a plan in motion.
Read by Laurel Lefkow.
Feeling dissatisfied with her life as an film editor in California and with a husband she suspects is having an affair, Judith Whitman decides one day to move her childhood bedroom furniture into a storage unit (it having been discarded by her daughter Camille) and rashly uses a fake name to secure the unit. She starts reminiscing about her childhood in Nebraska living with her charismatic lecturer father and about her first love, Willy Blunt whom she left behind when she went to college and has never looked back.
Written with distinctive style by Tom McNeal, it's an immersive, atmospheric story in which Judith starts to become more and more disconnected with her chosen life and starts yearning for the past. After the death of her beloved father and the beginning of stress induced migraines at work, Judith retraces her steps back to a few glorious teenage summers.
After 27 years, she tries to get back in touch with significant figures from her past...
Abridged by Miranda Davies.
Producer: Lucy Collingwood
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in July 2011.
WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01hjt9j)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 4
Episode 3
Sam goes riding in Hyde Park but his horse starts fighting with other horses so he has to make a hasty exit. A keen scholar, he's learning the duodecimal system but it's not enough to distract him from his current obsession, his jealousy of his wife's dancing teacher, Mr Pembleton, which is beginning to run out of control. He's even coming home at lunchtime to check if the beds are rumpled.
Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall
Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways
Mr Pembleton ..... Joseph Kloska
Mary ..... Eirlys Bellin
Will ..... John Biddle
Mr Bagwell ..... Ewan Bailey
Sir William Batten ..... Richard Mitchley
Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice Baxter.
Historical consultant: Liza Picard
Sound by Nigel Lewis
Adapted by Hattie Naylor
A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Nigel Lewis and produced by Kate McAll.
WED 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00phv8g)
Tove Jansson - The True Deceiver
Episode 3
Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson.
Eyebrows are raised in the village as Katri and Mats spend more and more time at the rabbit house.
Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 15:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007jpty)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01nht58)
Thanks to Terry Deary's Horrible Histories, Mel finds out how nasty the Romans could be with a sponge on a stick. And she has the Inheritance Tracks of 'The Voice' Sir Tom Jones.
WED 17:00 Hats Off (b00n5vsd)
Series 2
Episode 2
Maureen Lipman reinterprets the monologues, letters and songs of comedienne and writer Joyce Grenfell. From January 1999.
WED 17:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b00s3d19)
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07:00 today]
WED 18:00 Dilemma (b017lfd5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 18:30 Off the Page (b00769r8)
Fashionable Opinions
4 Extra Debut. Irish novelist Anne Enright and journalist Bill Hagerty join Peter Rhodes to consider received wisdom. From September 2002.
In each programme, Matthew Parris introduces a group of writers of fact and fiction: new talent and established names. In the context of a discussion of one of the ideas and pre-occupations of our times, each presents a piece on this week's topic.
The best new writing and the freshest conversation from 2002.
WED 19:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jr4g)
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WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00pzgpv)
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08:30 today]
WED 20:00 Detective (b04g3npg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
WED 20:30 Amongst the Medici (b0076x7m)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
WED 21:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g3ssf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
WED 21:15 Hattie Naylor - Ivan and the Dogs (b00xfjd5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
WED 22:00 Dead Ringers (b04fc70f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
WED 22:30 Elvenquest (b016c8y5)
Series 3
Episode 2
As they continue their search for the Sword of Asnagar, the noble Questers are lead to a quiet countryside town, which they’ve heard may hold their prize.
But it’s been razed to the ground by ruthless barbarians, lead by blood-thirsty Ragnar Half-tooth, who’s taken the Sword taken as booty. In order to get it back, the Questers decide to masquerade as barbarians and enter Ragnar's camp...
Meanwhile, Kreech tells Lord Darkness that his annual regeneration is coming up and that he needs to get some sleep in order to avoid meeting the new Dawn which will send his body crumbling into dust.
Problem is, getting to sleep when it really matters is easier said than done. And Lord Darkness is suddenly overcome by a nasty bout of insomnia...
Fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto.
Vidar ...... Darren Boyd
Dean/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon
Amis aka The Chosen One ...... Dave Lamb
Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan
Sam ...... Stephen Mangan
Ragnar Half-tooth ...... Daniel Rigby
Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman
Producer: Sam Michell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2011.
WED 23:00 The Shuttleworths (b007n13d)
John Shuttleworth's Open Mind
Fairies
John Shuttleworth delves into the world of the little people as he finds out about fairies.
But finding an expert on the subject is proving difficult, until he realises that fairies are normally found at the bottom of the garden
So John enlists gardening expert Kim Wilde. He might even get a few singing tips at the same time?
Sheffield's premier singer-songwriter continues his probe into unsolved phenomena.
Written and performed by Graham Fellows.
Additional material by Dean Wilkinson.
Producer: Dawn Ellis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2006.
WED 23:30 The Big Booth (b007k1pc)
Series 1
Episode 2
Boothby Graffoe’s meandering mind presents more tasty monologues, sketches, songs and guest guitariness.
With Simon Evans, Vivienne Soan, Kevin Eldon, Big Al and Antonio Forcione.
Producer: Lucy Armitage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2000.
THURSDAY 04 SEPTEMBER 2014
THU 00:00 Book at Beachtime (b012gr6h)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b01hjt9j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 00:45 Book at Bedtime (b00phv8g)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:45 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Dilemma (b017lfd5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Off the Page (b00769r8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Detective (b04g3npg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 Amongst the Medici (b0076x7m)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007jpty)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g3ssf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:15 Hattie Naylor - Ivan and the Dogs (b00xfjd5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 Hats Off (b00n5vsd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b00s3d19)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 Detective (b04g3vpn)
Series 2
9. Death in a Lonely Place
In the wake of their discovery, DS Brook and DC Maxton collect together everything they've learned, and talk to Kemp.
Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr.
CAST:
DS Brook …. Ray Brooks
DC Blair Maxton …. Christopher Blake
Chief Inspector Roach …. Stephen Yardley
Mott …. Garard Green
Sergeant Lindsey …. Haydn Wood
Mr Kemp …. Keith Drinkel
Writer Robert Barr is well remembered for his work on BBC TV's 'Z-Cars' and 'Softly Softly'.
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982.
THU 06:30 Amongst the Medici (b0076xbr)
Classicist Bettany Hughes concludes the series about Renaissance Florence. 3: She finds that, contrary to popular belief, it was smart women, gay men and false gods who made the cornerstones of western civilisation.
THU 07:00 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once (b007jrj4)
Series 1
Organathon
Eddie attempts a record-breaking electronic organ session for charity while son Jason receives a mysterious letter...
The lives of the Stockport-based, Conroy family - in series 1 of Jim Poyser and Damian Lanigan's comedy drama.
Starring Dominic Monaghan as Jason, John McArdle as Eddie, Beverley Callard as Maureen. Jason Done as Michael, Jo-Anne Knowles as Debbie, Chris Pavlo as Hugo, Brian Poyser as Brian and Richard Davies as Mr Owen.
Music: Big George
Producer: Neil Mossey
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1999.
THU 07:30 Susan Calman Is Convicted (b01qm4q4)
Series 1
Death Penalty
Susan Calman explores issues on which she has strong opinions. This week, she examines the issues surrounding the Death Penalty from the perspective gained whilst working on Death Row.
Susan was always stoically against capital punishment - because that was the expected position for a liberal student to take - and thought that she knew all about it. But it's very easy being so liberal when you're sitting in a country that doesn't have the death penalty. Then, as a law student, she travelled to North Carolina and worked on Death Row for a time. What she experienced whilst there persuaded her absolutely that she thought Capital Punishment was utterly wrong.
This is a story about the transition from casually adopting received opinion to developing your own belief system.
Produced by Lyndsay Fenner.
First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2013.
THU 08:00 Parsley Sidings (b007jp25)
Series 2
The Goods Train
There are sheepish looks all round when Bert considers becoming a hairdresser.
Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Kenneth Connor as Bradshaw/Valentine, Liz Fraser as Gloria/Sheep, Ian Lavender as Bert.
Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station for generations and the current Station Master, Horace, hopes that his son Bert will continue the line. Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk Bert wants to work anywhere but on the railways. His colleague, Station Announcer Gloria Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter Percy Valentine is an archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Signalman, Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made remedies in equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is Phineas Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop down the line.
Producer: Edward Taylor and a sheep.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1973.
THU 08:30 Take It From Here (b01bl4rd)
From 02/04/1958
Eth wants a busier social life in 'The Glums', while Jim and Bentley go to the ballet.
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 April 1958.
THU 09:00 Too Much Information (b00n55sq)
Episode 2
Waft Tourist Information struggle to attract visitors by promoting their most famous local resident, a local doctor who burps - but when a genuinely famous dissolute TV comic stops off for a pee, they are to determined not to let him leave!
Neil Warhurst's four-part comedy drama set in the idiosyncratic world of a tourist information office.
The ancient northern town of Waft appears in the Lonely Planet Guide with the advice: "Don't bother". It has more people in the cemetery than living in it, is twinned with a town near Chernobyl and is most often visited by people using the toilet on the way to Alton Towers. So Waft Tourist Information Centre is hardly a hive of activity! But Warren along with the other members of the "Friends of Waft" each week attempt to solve the endless conundrum of how on earth they can attract visitors to Waft!
WARREN .......................................................................... JEFF RAWLE
DOUGLAS.................................................................. MALCOLM TIERNEY
HEATHER........................................................................... LIZA SADOVY
LUCY ........................................................................ JOANNAH TINCEY
BRYAN ........................................................................ PAUL BARNHILL
RICKY ............................................................................... PHILLIP FOX
GEORGE...................................................................... STEPHEN HOGAN
Producer: Liz Webb
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.
THU 09:30 The Small World of Dominic Holland (b007vjfl)
Sport and Leisure
The comedian shares his thoughts on how we spend our leisure time.
Six-part series illustrating the Domedic minutiae of life.
Stand-up and sketches with Simon Greenall, Sally Grace and Dave Lamb.
Producer: Maria Esposito
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2000.
THU 10:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007qx2z)
A Proposal and a Bathing Party
Lucy Honeychurch returns to England much changed after her disturbing trip to Italy.
Set in Italy and England, EM Forster’s 1908 tale of a young woman from repressed Edwardian England.
Lucy Honeychurch ...... Cathy Sara
Charlotte Bartlett ...... Sheila Hancock
Mr Emerson ...... John Moffatt
George Emerson ...... Gary Cady
Mr Beebe ...... Stephen Moore
Mrs Honeychurch ...... Julia McKenzie
Freddy Honeychurch ...... Roger May
Cecil Vyse ...... Nathaniel Parker
Mrs Phipps ...... Tessa Worsley
Sir Harry Otway ...... Derek Waring
Minnie Beebe ...... Sara-Jane Derrick
Floyd ...... Jonathan Keeble
Mrs Vyse ...... Pauline Letts
Pianist: Terence Allbright
Dramatised by David Wade.
Director: Glyn Dearman.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995.
THU 11:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g4159)
Letters to an Idol
She owned all of his books about love. He was her idol. From Tove Jansson's debut 1971 collection. Read by Indira Varma.
Creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson, a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author is one of the most successful children writers ever..
Translated into English by Thomas Teal. Producer Karen Rose. Executive producer Jeremy Osborne.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions.
THU 11:15 Shelagh Delaney - Country Life (b01pwcyj)
Rose deals with foot and mouth disease and a moody nephew, then her film-star brother Eddie arrives. With Barbara Marten.
THU 12:00 Parsley Sidings (b007jp25)
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08:00 today]
THU 12:30 Take It From Here (b01bl4rd)
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08:30 today]
THU 13:00 Detective (b04g3vpn)
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06:00 today]
THU 13:30 Amongst the Medici (b0076xbr)
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06:30 today]
THU 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b012h98l)
Tom McNeal - To Be Sung Underwater
Episode 4
After her private investigator reports back, Judith Whitman sets out to retrace her past in Nebraska.
Read by Laurel Lefkow.
Feeling dissatisfied with her life as an film editor in California and with a husband she suspects is having an affair, Judith Whitman decides one day to move her childhood bedroom furniture into a storage unit (it having been discarded by her daughter Camille) and rashly uses a fake name to secure the unit. She starts reminiscing about her childhood in Nebraska living with her charismatic lecturer father and about her first love, Willy Blunt whom she left behind when she went to college and has never looked back.
Written with distinctive style by Tom McNeal, it's an immersive, atmospheric story in which Judith starts to become more and more disconnected with her chosen life and starts yearning for the past. After the death of her beloved father and the beginning of stress induced migraines at work, Judith retraces her steps back to a few glorious teenage summers.
After 27 years, she tries to get back in touch with significant figures from her past...
Abridged by Miranda Davies.
Producer: Lucy Collingwood
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in July 2011.
THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01hl299)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 4
Episode 4
Sam is disappointed to discover the truth behind Lord Sandwich's strange behaviour, and Elizabeth finds that her new companion is less than honest. They can still enjoy a day out together, though, seeing the curious entertainments of Bartholomew Fair.
Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall
Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways
Will ..... John Biddle
Hannah ..... Eiry Thomas
Mary ..... Eirlys Bellin
Captain Ferrers ..... Ewan Bailey
Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice Baxter.
Historical consultant: Liza Picard
Sound by Nigel Lewis
Adapted by Hattie Naylor
A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Nigel Lewis and produced by Kate McAll.
THU 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00phv8j)
Tove Jansson - The True Deceiver
Episode 4
Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson.
Katri takes action which changes the lives of Mats and Anna as well as her own.
Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 15:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007qx2z)
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10:00 today]
THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01nj12b)
In Terry Deary's Horrible Histories, Mel hears how truly horrible Roman Emperors could be - very nasty! And she goes hunting with an eagle in Outer Mongolia.
THU 17:00 No Commitments (b007jmt9)
Series 2
Bright Lights
Much to Victoria's annoyance, Charlotte abducts her daughter for a frolic in Pimlico.
Simon Brett’s sitcom about the lives and squabbles of three very different sisters.
Anna …. Rosemary Leach
Victoria …. Nicola Pagett
Charlotte …. Josie Lawrence
Emily …. Lisa Coleman
Jeremy …. Ronald Herdman
Giorgio …. Dominic Letts
Music by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993.
THU 17:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once (b007jrj4)
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07:00 today]
THU 18:00 Too Much Information (b00n55sq)
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09:00 today]
THU 18:30 Great Lives (b00768nc)
Series 1
Lord Byron
4 Extra Debut. Writer Sue Limb chooses the 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' poet, Lord Byron. With Humphrey Carpenter.
The biographical series in which a distinguished guest chooses someone who's inspired their life. Will their hero stand up to intensive scrutiny and merit the description of having led a great life? From 2002.
THU 19:00 Parsley Sidings (b007jp25)
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08:00 today]
THU 19:30 Take It From Here (b01bl4rd)
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08:30 today]
THU 20:00 Detective (b04g3vpn)
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06:00 today]
THU 20:30 Amongst the Medici (b0076xbr)
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06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g4159)
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11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Shelagh Delaney - Country Life (b01pwcyj)
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11:15 today]
THU 22:00 Susan Calman Is Convicted (b01qm4q4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 22:30 Radio 9 (b04g429s)
Series 2
Episode 3
Travels at sea, a magazine for NIMBYs and faking your way in abseiling. Stars Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker. From July 2005.
THU 23:00 At Home With The Snails (b007jn95)
Series 1
Episode 4
With 2000 snails in Alex's shed, there are fears that they will take over the village. Stars Gerard Foster and Geoffrey Palmer. From July 2001.
THU 23:30 Think the Unthinkable (b01mypwd)
Series 4
Superco
The dotty management consultants check out Britain's biggest supermarket chain. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From October 2005.
FRIDAY 05 SEPTEMBER 2014
FRI 00:00 Book at Beachtime (b012h98l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b01hl299)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Thursday]
FRI 00:45 Book at Bedtime (b00phv8j)
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14:45 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Too Much Information (b00n55sq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Great Lives (b00768nc)
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18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Detective (b04g3vpn)
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06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 Amongst the Medici (b0076xbr)
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06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007qx2z)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g4159)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:15 Shelagh Delaney - Country Life (b01pwcyj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 No Commitments (b007jmt9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once (b007jrj4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Detective (b04g457y)
Series 2
10. The Point of No Return
DS Dave Brook and DC Blair Maxton get moving on the Kemp case, but are they too late?
Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr.
CAST:
DS Dave Brook …. Ray Brooks
DC Blair Maxton …. Christopher Blake
Chief Inspector Roach …. Stephen Yardley
DC Harrison …. Peter Cleall
Judy …. Jacqueline Tong
DS Kelly …. John Judd
Carson …. Tony Caunter
James Clark …. Gary Cady
Writer Robert Barr is well remembered for his work on BBC TV's 'Z-Cars' and 'Softly Softly'.
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982.
FRI 06:30 Speak on the Dotted Line (b007r03c)
Rory Bremner probes the inner workings of recognition and voice verification technology. Can he outwit the software? From June 2007.
FRI 07:00 Bangers and Mash (b0075h0f)
Episode 4
A strange man is lurking - and Father Harry is hired to entertain the OAPs, but what will he be singing?
Six-part comedy series by Katie Hims.
Stars Catherine Harvey as Martina, Gerard McDermott as Jimmy, Roger May as Juan, and Jane Whittenshaw as Carol.
Director: Catherine Horn
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1999.
FRI 07:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b00xw276)
Series 3
Episode 4
Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas, entertains the blue-sky political policy suggestions of the public.
This week's agenda:
1) Civil Partnerships to be Made Available to Heterosexual Couples
2) Introduce a Government Department for Externalities
3) A Traffic Ban During Rush-Hour
Plus a wide range of "Any Other Business" suggestions from the studio audience.
FRI 08:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (b007rn3z)
Series 3
Episode 2
The regular butt of Eric and Ernie's jokes, singer Des O'Connor brings along his angry mum.
With Ann Hamilton.
Script Writer: Eddie Braben
Music by Peter Knight and his Orchestra.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1977.
FRI 08:30 The Men from the Ministry (b00xj4lb)
The Great Footwear Scandal
The bumbling civil servants must find 5000 boats
A weekly tribute to all those who work in government offices and to all the others who spend their days there as well.
Number One ...... Wilfrid Hyde White
Number Two ...... Richard Murdoch.
Mildred ...... Norma Ronald
Sir Gregory Pitkin ...... Roy Dotrice
April Adams ...... Diana Olsson
With Edwin Apps and David Graham.
'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from 1966
Written and produced by Edward Taylor.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1962.
FRI 09:00 The 99p Challenge (b007js37)
Series 2
Episode 2
Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Simon Pegg, David Quantick, Peter Baynham and Richard Herring.
The game where someone stands to leave the studio 99p richer than when they came in.
Producer: David Tyler
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2000.
FRI 09:30 Rent (b04g484m)
Series 1
Episode 6
Richard and Paul are entering a half-marathon, but Maria and Ruby are off down the pub.
House share comedy about life with lodgers written by Lucy Flannery.
Maria ...... Barbara Flynn
Richard ...... Patrick Barlow
Ruby ...... Diane Louise-Jordan
Amy ...... Linda Polan
Paul ...... Toby Longworth
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1993.
FRI 09:50 Inheritance Tracks (b010t8t8)
June Spencer
The Archers actress inherits 'I'll See You Again' by Noel Coward and passes on Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1.
FRI 10:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007qvgf)
The Triumph of Phaeton
Engaged to Cecil Vyse but haunted by her dreams of George Emerson, Lucy Honeychurch feels muddled..
Conclusion of EM Forster’s 1908 tale of a young woman from repressed Edwardian England.
Lucy Honeychurch ...... Cathy Sara
Charlotte Bartlett ...... Sheila Hancock
Mr Emerson ...... John Moffatt
George Emerson ...... Gary Cady
Mr Beebe ...... Stephen Moore
Mrs Honeychurch ...... Julia McKenzie
Freddy Honeychurch ...... Roger May
Cecil Vyse ...... Nathaniel Parker
Minnie Beebe ...... Sara-Jane Derrick
Floyd ...... Jonathan Keeble
Miss Alan ...... Anna Cropper
Phaeton ...... Andrew Branch
Pianist: Terence Allbright
Director: Glyn Dearman.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995.
FRI 11:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g4935)
Lucio's Friends
Everyone loves Lucio. Don't they? From Tove Jansson's debut 1971 collection. Read by Indira Varma.
Creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson, a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author is one of the most successful children writers ever.
Translated into English by Thomas Teal. Producer Karen Rose. Executive producer Jeremy Osborne.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions.
FRI 11:15 Drama (b00vcpbh)
Bethan Roberts - My Own Private Gondolier
In Bethan Roberts' first play for radio, Peggy Guggenheim's troubled daughter, Pegeen, leaves her three children behind when she travels to Venice to spend the summer with her mother. Pegeen is in retreat from a marriage that has failed. She is determined to be an artist, and she shuts herself up in the dank basement, trying to paint.
Meanwhile, her mother, Peggy, is much more concerned with the English sculptor who has come to visit; she wants a piece of his work to add to her collection and will use everything at her disposal to achieve her aim. She'll even try to inveigle her daughter into the plan if she thinks it will get her what she wants. Peggy is well known as a collector of men, as well as art. As the summer progresses, and the strains between mother and daughter grow, it's only Gianni, Peggy's personal Gondolier, who can provide a welcome diversion.
The music is Vedro con mio diletto from Vivaldi's Giustino, sung by Philippe Jaroussky.
Producer: Kate McAll, BBC Cymru Wales.
FRI 12:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (b007rn3z)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 The Men from the Ministry (b00xj4lb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 Detective (b04g457y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 Speak on the Dotted Line (b007r03c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b012hbyx)
Tom McNeal - To Be Sung Underwater
Episode 5
After a summons from Willy Blunt, Judith heads back to see him in Rufus Sage - after 27 years apart.
Concluded by Laurel Lefkow.
Feeling dissatisfied with her life as an film editor in California and with a husband she suspects is having an affair, Judith Whitman decides one day to move her childhood bedroom furniture into a storage unit (it having been discarded by her daughter Camille) and rashly uses a fake name to secure the unit. She starts reminiscing about her childhood in Nebraska living with her charismatic lecturer father and about her first love, Willy Blunt whom she left behind when she went to college and has never looked back.
Written with distinctive style by Tom McNeal, it's an immersive, atmospheric story in which Judith starts to become more and more disconnected with her chosen life and starts yearning for the past. After the death of her beloved father and the beginning of stress induced migraines at work, Judith retraces her steps back to a few glorious teenage summers.
After 27 years, she tries to get back in touch with significant figures from her past...
Abridged by Miranda Davies.
Producer: Lucy Collingwood
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in July 2011.
FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01hl419)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 4
Episode 5
Sam decides to put himself on the line and confront Lord Sandwich about his recent behaviour but he's anxious about where this will lead. Meanwhile, a stranger tries to abduct Elizabeth in broad daylight and the Queen has the spotted fever. Sam goes to buy a periwig but disapproves of the wig he's offered - made of greasy old woman's hair!
Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall
Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways
Sir John Minnes ..... Alun Raglan
Coachman ..... Ewan Bailey
Mr Pierce ..... Andrew Wincott
Lord Sandwich ..... Blake Ritson
Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice Baxter.
Historical consultant: Liza Picard
Sound by Nigel Lewis
Adapted by Hattie Naylor.
A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Nigel Lewis and produced by Kate McAll.
FRI 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00phv8l)
Tove Jansson - The True Deceiver
Episode 5
Indira Varma reads from the novel by Tove Jansson.
After the 'break-in' Anna adjusts to life in the rabbit house with Katri and Mats.
Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 15:00 EM Forster - A Room with a View (b007qvgf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01nj866)
Were the Romans the first to watch people being murdered for fun? Mel finds out thanks to the final episode of Terry Deary's Horrible History of the Rotten Romans.
FRI 17:00 After Henry (b007jnl5)
Series 2
The Kitten
'One kitten looks pretty much like another kitten so far as I'm concerned. They're just small versions of cats. And I'm not that keen on cats.'
Sarah and her mother disagree over tidiness of the house - until a visitor arrives...
Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who never quite manage to see eye to eye.
Sarah ...... Prunella Scales
Eleanor ...... Joan Sanderson
Russell ...... Benjamin Whitrow
Clare ...... Gerry Cowper
Policeman ...... Michael Hadley
Percy Bradshaw ...... Simon Brett
Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV network.
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1986.
FRI 17:30 Bangers and Mash (b0075h0f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
FRI 18:00 The 99p Challenge (b007js37)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
FRI 18:30 Pioneers (b00x92tm)
Series 1
Sir Alec Jeffreys
Sir Alec Jeffreys speaks to Clare English about his eureka moment when he discovered DNA fingerprinting.
It was
9.05am on Monday 10th September 1984 when Alec realised the enormity of his breakthrough, and explains how it turned into a global phenomenon.
He speaks about how his techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling are now not only used by the police, but also to resolve paternity and immigration disputes all over the world.
Produced by Philip Sime
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.
FRI 19:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (b007rn3z)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 The Men from the Ministry (b00xj4lb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 Detective (b04g457y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Speak on the Dotted Line (b007r03c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Tove Jansson - The Listener (b04g4935)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Drama (b00vcpbh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b00xw276)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
FRI 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.
FRI 23:00 Chain Reaction (b0132pv7)
Series 7
Peter Hook talks to John Cooper Clarke
Chain Reaction is Radio 4's tag-team interview show. Each week, a figure from the world of entertainment chooses another to interview; the next week, the interviewee turns interviewer, and they in turn pass the baton on to someone else - creating a 'chain' throughout the series.
After Rhys Thomas interviewed Simon Day, Simon interviewed the musician and author Peter Hook. This week, Peter interviews a fellow Salfordian, the punk poet laureate John Cooper Clarke. Coming to prominence during the punk years of the late 70s, Clarke would appear on the bill with The Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks, and Peter's own Joy Division - and Peter's next band, New Order, would support John on a tour of New Zealand and Australia. The interview takes in their shared Salford heritage, doing adverts in the 1980s, and John's recent appearance on the GCSE English syllabus.
FRI 23:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b01p1plb)
Series 3
Episode 2
The embarrassing auntie gets hip, and some curious memories of the British Raj.
Starring:
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Kulvinder Ghir
Meera Syal
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 Richard Pinto, Sharat Sardana, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Sanjeev Kohli.
Script Editor: Sharat Sardana
Producer: Anil Gupta.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.