SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2015

SAT 00:00 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (b00yzj5s)
Episode 10
The family have sad news from Berlin but hope from England. Judith Kerr's semi-autobiographical story. Read by Rosemary Leach.
SAT 00:15 Cosmic Quest (b00byr2l)
The Celestial Police
Astronomer Heather Couper looks at the work of the planet hunter Johann Bode, tracking down asteroids. From June 2008.
SAT 00:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria (b00xj958)
The Wedding
The Queen proposes to her husband of choice. Drama based on letters and diaries. Stars Imogen Stubbs.
SAT 00:45 Richard Ingrams - The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett (b0076shs)
Episode 5
Time is nearly up as Cobbett pens a last register. But even on his death bed, some merriment shines through. Biography of the renowned political reformer, read by Oliver Ford.
SAT 01:00 Jest a Minute (b0183rrm)
Series 2
Episode 6
Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz from the Glee Club in Cardiff.
With Paul Tonkinson, Tom Wrigglesworth, Lloyd Langford and Chris Corcoran.
Producers: Paul Forde and Gareth Gwynn.
First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales in 2009.
SAT 01:30 My Life in Five Books (b0124scw)
Series 2
Sue Arnold
If there is one thing Sue Arnold knows about it is books.
As an author and journalist she is known for her sharp social observations and she currently reviews audio books for a national newspaper. Sue made the headlines herself when controversially she wrote about cannabis improving her deteriorating sight. Now she has changed her position on the drug as she explains to Stuart Cosgrove.
Sue picks four of her favourite titles and explains about the book she's bought but never finished.
Titles:
1: The Aubrey-Maturin nautical series by Patrick O'Brien.
2:: The Simple Subs Guide by Leslie Sellers
3: The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G.Farrell
4: Address Unknown by Kressman Taylor
5: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
Produced by Mike Walker.
First broadcast on BBC Scotland in 2011.
SAT 02:00 Ruth Rendell - The Keys to the Street (b01nf2h0)
By His Own Hand
Mary Jago is shocked by Alastair's wedding present and Bean, once a suspect, has now vanished. Concluded by Claudie Blakley.
SAT 02:30 The Number 1 Ladies' Opera House (b00plfkq)
The author of The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Alexander McCall Smith, has converted a disused garage in Botswana into an opera house.
Pauline McLynn charts his progress as he trains local people to sing.
Producer: Bill Lloyd
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.
SAT 03:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq3z)
Marriages Remain
Sorrowful at the departure of his mentor and only friend, the local school master, 11-year-old Jude Fawley resolves that one day he'll follow his teacher to academia - as symbolised by the gleaming spires of distant Christminster.
Growing up, however, Jude finds more obstacles in his path then merely difficulties of study...
Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth North.
Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, Mark Straker as Carter, June Barrie as Widow Edlin, Constance Chapman as Aunt Drusilla Fawley, Hazel Ellerby as Annie, John Normington as Phillotson, Elva Makins as Arabella, Jesse Lawrence as Young Jude, Esmond Rideout as Farmer Troutham and Richard Wasley as Tiler.
Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986.
SAT 04:00 Anton Chekhov (b00qbb8r)
Stories by Anton Chekhov
Bad Weather
Or to put it another way, what has the husband been up to in Moscow? Alistair McGowan reads Constance Garnett's translation. From January 1998.
SAT 04:15 Aelish Michael - Dreaming of Foxes (b01s2yc9)
Ted Hughes is reunited with a long-lost school friend nearly 50 years on. But what do they have in common? Stars Robert Garrett.
SAT 05:00 King Street Junior Revisited (b00l74dt)
Series 4
Turning the Tables
The move up from junior to high school is a step too far, it seems, for a former pupil.
And it's quiz time, but Mr Maxwell is lacking a team.
School comedy created and written by Jim Eldridge. Ten series of this King Street Junior ran between 1985 and 1998. King Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005.
Stars Marlene Sidaway as Miss Lewis, Michael Cochrane as Mr Maxwell, Teresa Gallagher as Miss Featherstone, Jacqueline Beatty as Miss Reid, Janice Acquah as Mrs Khan, Paul Copley as Mr Long, Bill Wallis as Jack Pollard and Jemma Churchill as Mrs Morgan.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2005.
SAT 05:30 Living with the Enemy (b0077154)
Episode 1
Sitcom written by and starring Nick Revell and Gyles Brandreth who play an alternative comedian-turned-holistic therapist and a Tory MP turned media figure.
Gyles Brandon ...... Gyles Brandreth
Nick Reynolds ...... Nick Revell
With Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Martin Hyder and Nathan Caton.
Producer: Ed Morrish
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2006.
SAT 06:00 David Pownall (b01shn7f)
Under the Table
Spring 1945: A boy overcomes his terror of a world at war to demand of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - who are meeting in his grandfather's greenhouse - a reason why his mother is now widowed and inconsolable.
Starring David Calder as the storyteller, Kenneth Cranham as Seph Hammer, Robert Lang as Churchill, Andrew Sachs as Stalin, David Healy as Roosevelt, Jonathan Keeble as Hitler, Oliver Senton as Jack, Becky Hindley as Rusty, Maureen O’Brien as May Hammer, Peter Yapp as Mr Hunt, Natasha Pyne as Rouille, Andrew Branch as Bags and David Antrobus as Trevor.
Music composed by Neil Brand and performed by Sarah Homer.
Director: Eoin O'Callaghan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.
SAT 07:30 Freedom Pass (b00sgzk6)
Episode 2
Sexagenarians Alan Coren and Christopher Matthew use free travel to venture forth on their local public transport. From September 2004.
SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b00ln0b7)
Soho!
The singer Suggs returns to London's Soho, where he spent much of his unconventional childhood and where his jazz singer mother still lives.
He was introduced to the delights of the Colony Club as a six-year-old, and as a musician he continued to haunt the district.
Recording on location and mining the BBC archive, Suggs investigates how this unique community, complete with red-light district and village school, functions today, and whether it is still, or indeed ever was, a source of inspiration or merely a creative vacuum.
For decades, Soho was regarded as Britain's capital of sleaze and vice, but also a place where artists, writers, musicians and actors came to drink and philosophise. Tales of the area and its inhabitants abound, from painter Francis Bacon and George Melly at Muriel Belcher's infamous Colony Club to Jeffrey Bernard and Keith Waterhouse at the Coach and Horses and Dylan Thomas at The French House.
Soho was the birthplace of British pop, with the skifflers, jazzers and early rock 'n' rollers all making their names in the coffee bars of the 1950s. It was also the home of refugees of every type, including political dissidents, foreigners and homosexuals, from Casanova to Karl Marx, and Quentin Crisp to George Melly.
Yet in the 1950s, a new phrase was coined: 'Soho-itis'. It was said that if you enter Soho you will never get any work done, and you will never, ever leave. Many books, poems, songs and indeed careers were washed away with drink, but some artists, musicians and writers did survive the late nights, the fights and the booze, and took great inspiration from the place.
Producer: Justine Willett.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.
SAT 09:00 Listening to Les Dawson (b03b2n4d)
Ray Peacock is joined by Ken Dodd, Neil Innes, Lee Mack, Robin Ince, Gillian Reynolds and David Nobbs, introducing rare interviews, routines and programmes including In The Psychiatrist's Chair, Les reading his own novel, Come Back With the Wind, Marriott's Monologues, Whirligig and Listen To Les.
Producer: Laura Baron
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in Sept 2013.
SAT 12:00 44 Scotland Street (Omnibus) (b0528px2)
The Blue Spode Tea Cup (Omnibus)
Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town is the setting for the quirky tales and ‘goings-on’ adapted by Alexander McCall Smith from his worldwide bestselling series of books.
Portrait painter, Angus Lordie, is a frequent visitor to Domenica Macdonald, the anthropologist and longest-term resident of 44 Scotland Street.
Will their friendship blossom and will she ever let his dog Cyril into her flat? Domenica’s thoughts are elsewhere, sensing trouble with the return of her neighbour Antonia who has been living in Glasgow of all places! Is Domenica’s ‘property’ safe with Antonia back in town?
Meanwhile in the flat below lives Bertie, aged six, a prodigy and victim of his excessively pushy mother, Irene. Bertie wants the life of an ordinary six-year-old boy, but instead he has psychotherapy, yoga and Italian conversation lessons. He also wants to know why his new baby brother, Ulysses, looks remarkably like his psychotherapist, Dr Fairbairn.
DOMENICA..……….....CAROL ANN CRAWFORD
ANGUS LORDIE....……..…..CRAWFORD LOGAN
IRENE………….........……............EMMA CURRIE
BERTIE………………...…………….….SIMON KERR
STUART...........….....DAVID JACKSON YOUNG
ANTONIA....................………ANITA VETTESSE
Omnibus directed by David Ian Neville
First broadcast in five parts on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
SAT 13:15 Dickens Confidential (b01kn6d8)
Series 1
Innocence
Charles Dickens draws Agnes and Jack into a murky world of prostitution and opium, and an old adversary appears. Stars Jamie Glover.
SAT 14:00 Not in Front of the Children (b0524hhh)
Series 1
House in a Tree
Jennifer Corner berates her headstrong husband Henry who's due in court over his somewhat shaky treehouse.
Starring Wendy Craig and Francis Matthews.
The comedy mishaps of the Corner family - Jennifer and Henry and their three kids Trudi, Amanda and Robin.
Four series were first shown on BBC TV from 1967 to 1970. Richard Waring adapted his own scripts for this radio version, now fully restored from the original reel-to-reel tapes.
Jennifer Corner ...... Wendy Craig
Henry Corner ...... Francis Matthews
Mother ...... Fanny Rowe
Trudi ...... Roberta Tovey
Amanda ...... Jill Riddick
Robin ...... Hugo Keith-Johnston
Biddy ...... Madeleine Howell
Telephone Operator ...... Olwen Griffiths
Police Sergeant ...... David Tate
Prison Warder ...... Geoffrey Frederick
Wendy Craig won a Best Actress BAFTA award for the TV version of Not in Front of the Children in 1969. This was the first of several housewife roles that Wendy Craig was to play on TV. Later series included And Mother Makes Three and Butterflies.
Music by Ronnie Hazlehurst.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1969.
SAT 14:30 The Navy Lark (b00yk0n7)
Series 2
The Figurehead
Johnson must whittle for all he is worth when Pertwee enters the antiques market.

Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as Number One, Richard Caldicot as Commander Povey, Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson, Heather Chasen as Heather, Michael Bates as Mr Popesgrove and Tenniel Evans as Goldstein.

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 November 1959.
SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b00ln0b7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 David Pownall (b01shn7f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Gloomsbury (b01n6vn5)
Series 1
The St Ives School of Painting
The writer and transvestite Vera Sackcloth-Vest and her bosom chum, the novelist Ginny Fox, go down to St Ives in search of the writer of very naughty books Mr D.H. Lollipop. Their husbands, Henry and Lionel, accompany them, hoping to prevent their wives from succumbing to the dangerous animal magnetism of Lollipop, whose book Lady Hattersley's Plover has scandalized and unsettled them all.
Vera's persistent and flamboyant admirer Venus Traduces arrives, desperate to re-kindle their Sapphic passion. However she is distracted when, on the cliff path, she meets a thin man with a red beard who exudes animal magnetism. He informs her that his wife is away in London being painted by Augustus John, invites Venus to call him Dave, and ravishes her in the brambles.
Meanwhile, though Vera and Ginny seem to search in vain for Lollipop, he is always much closer than they think.
Cast:
Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes
Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy
Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks
Mrs Ginny Fox ..... Alison Steadman
Lionel Fox ..... Nigel Planer
DH Lollipop ..... John Sessions
Produced by Jamie Rix
A Little Brother Production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 18:00 Bruce Bedford - The Gibson (b007js8d)
Episode 3
Haensel Sethria warns Elise Judd, and Saul Judd is summoned to meet Selwyn Fist.
Bruce Bedford's time-hopping supernatural thriller serial set in - and under - Bath.
Robert Glenister .... Saul Judd
Sharon Duce .... Elise Judd
Freddie Jones .... The Scribe
Kate Binchy .... The Scribe's Wife
Constance Chapman .... Haensel Sethria
Gordon Reid .... Priscus
Michael Stroud .... Stranger
Jonathan Tafler .... Landlord
Timothy West .... Selwyn Fist
John Abineri .... Roman Officer
Jonathan Adams .... The Guardian
Original music composed by Thomas Johnson.
Music realised by Robin Lever.
Special effects: Dick Mills (Radiophonic Workshop)
Directed at BBC Bristol by Andy Jordan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992.
SAT 18:30 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace (b007jpf4)
Episode 3
Fresh from incarceration, 69-year-old George Smith finally comes face to face with the evil leader of the OAPs, Mrs Cookson.
Colin Swash's dystopian comedy set in 22nd-century Britain, starring Stephen Moore as George Smith.
George ...... Stephen Moore
Doris ...... Patsy Byrne
O'Connell ...... Geoffrey McGivern
Mrs Cookson ...... Edna Dore
Andrea Sunbeam ...... Lorelei King
Dawkins ...... Melanie Hudson
Ronnie ...... Christopher Douglas
Other parts by Lewis MacLeod and Peter Serafinowicz.
Producer: Richard Wilson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1998.
SAT 19:00 Listening to Les Dawson (b03b2n4d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Tim Minchin and Friends (b007knth)
A marvellous collision of mirth and piano from the award-winning singer-songwriter in a BBC concert.
With Justin Edwards.
Producer: Will Saunders
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 2007.
SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b053psbg)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats to Richard Herring.
SAT 23:00 Mark Steel's in Town (b00s0g1p)
Series 2
Dumfries
Comedian Mark Steel travels to the Scottish border town of Dumfries, where he discovers a bloodthirsty history and seagull-hating inhabitants who are obsessed with the poet Robert Burns. From April 2010.

Written and Performed by Mark Steel.
Producer Julia Mckenzie.
SAT 23:30 The Jason Byrne Show (b00mrtdl)
Series 1
Religion
Exploring a fresh theme each week, the Irish comedian hosts stand-up and sketches. With Ivan Brackenbury. From July 2008.