SATURDAY 13 JUNE 2015

SAT 00:00 Philip K Dick - We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (b007mfgq)
Episode 2
Does a childhood fantasy hold the key to the human race's survival? Philip K Dick's classic tale concluded by William Hootkins.
SAT 00:30 My Life in Five Songs (b01p97pr)
Series 5
Eleanor McEvoy
Eleanor McEvoy is one of Ireland's most successful and popular singers.
She wrote the song Only A Woman's Heart which was on the album A Woman's Heart which also featured fellow musicians Mary Black, Dolores Keane, Sharon Shannon, Frances Black and Maura O'Connell and was the biggest selling album in Irish musical history.
In the 20 years since the album's release Eleanor has made her mark on the music scene at home in Ireland and abroad.
Born in Dublin she took an interest in music and song from an early age, joined the Junior Irish Youth Orchestra as a young teenager and for four years played with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland before pursuing her career in popular music.
Eleanor tells Phil Cunningham about her love of both pop and classical music and she picks five tracks that have been milestones along her musical journey.
Phil opens the show with the track Only a Woman's Heart and Eleanor goes on to pick these five songs:
Mama Weer All Crazee Now" by Slade
Sylvia's Mother from Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Music For a While - Henry Purcell. Sung by countertenor James Bowman.
Memphis Tennesseeby by Chuck Berry
Someone Like You by Adele
Phil closes the programme with Eleanor's song You'll Hear Better Songs (Than This).
SAT 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075zg4)
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
A Battle Royal
In the aftermath of another bomb - with their lives in grave danger - Holmes and Mary formulate a tactical plan to catch the killer. But can they outwit the devious mind behind the bombs?
Starring James Fox as Holmes, Shaun Prendergast as Watson, Monica Dolan as Mary Russell and Sian Thomas as Donleavy.
Laurie King's witty and humorous homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - dramatised by Shaun Prendergast.
Directed in Manchester by Melanie Harris
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.
SAT 01:30 It's About Time... (b00h62pm)
Comedian and writer Dave Cohen seeks help from experts in trying to achieve a 'work-life balance'. He hardly sees his family - during any 'downtime' he is actually looking for more work. Years of freelancing and the current economic climate make it hard to say no to any offer.
SAT 02:00 Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet (b007jmbr)
Episode 5
Barnaby takes his mother to visit his daughter, while his 'angel' Sofia leaves a message on his machine. Read by William Hope.
SAT 02:15 The Making of Music (b007s42x)
Series 1
Albertopolis
James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical influences that affected the course of classical music.
30/30. Albertopolis
The Royal Albert Hall opened in 1871 and celebrated a Prince Consort who championed both music and culture.
SAT 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (b007jmxc)
Episode 20
With Marius in his arms and barely alive, Valjean struggles to find a way out of the Parisian sewers. Starring Roger Allam.
SAT 02:45 John Major - More Than a Game (b00sy253)
Episode 5
Moving on to the 20th century and the threat of war, the former prime minister reads from his book about cricket's rich past.
SAT 03:00 John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge (b007js47)
4. Jane Avril
They called her Crazy Jane because of the way she danced, but it was not an affectionate nickname. Jane Avril used people all her life and reaped the consequences...
Starring Angela Pleasence.
When the Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Montmartre, Paris in 1889, Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned to paint a series of posters. A performer's career was made if they secured an appearance.
John Peacock brings Toulouse Lautrec's poster characters to life, in the first of four plays about those entertainers, whose lives were as vivid as Lautrec's paint.
Jane Avril ...... Angela Pleasence
Gazelle ...... Vivian Pickles
Andre Vaubert ...... Jack Galloway
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ...... Clive Merrison
Arsene Ondet ...... David King
Charles Zidler ...... Norman Jones
Annine ...... Jo Kendall
Chairman ...... John Bull
Alain Marais ...... Brian Miller
Madeleine ...... Anne Carroll
Cleaner ...... Tara Dominic
Matron ...... Anna Cropper
Maxine ...... Valerie Sarruf
Claire Cortin ...... Alice Arnold
Gazelle (at 17) ...... Elizabeth Mansfield
Music by Stephen Warbeck.
Director: Jane Morgan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1989.
SAT 04:00 The 99p Challenge (b01rhdwk)
Series 5
Episode 2
Crazy panel show capers with Sue Perkins, Miranda Hart, Peter Serafinowicz, Armando Iannucci and Rob Rouse. From September 2004.
SAT 04:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00p6307)
Honeytrap Hotel
Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives.
Beagle Team infringe every civil liberty in the book in the name of national security.
Bill .... Richard Lumsden
Sharla .... Nina Conti
Mark .... Daniel Kaluuya
Tony Savage .... Kevin Eldon
Geoff .... John Biggins
Ted .... Shaban Arifi
Nanny/Milij .... Alex Tregear
Mr Smith .... Nigel Hastings
Mrs Smith .... Kate Layden
Bishop .... Ewan Hooper
Producer: Katie Tyrrell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009
SAT 05:00 Lucky Heather (b0075smn)
High Noon
16 years ago, Heather's best friend Dawn ran off with Heather's man Joe. Now Dawn has the cheek to ask Heather to check if Joe is having an affair!
Just this side of nosey, Heather is western movie-mad. She's also the Sherlock Holmes of the rundown Sutter Estate.
Sue Teddern's six-part comedy series star Lindsey Coulson as Heather. (Carol Jackson in BBC TV's EastEnders until 2015)
With Tessa Peake-Jones as Dawn, Dearbhla Molloy as Maev, Abigail Hart as Natalie, Ben Crowe as Ryan, Gavin Muir as Joe, Gerard McDermott as Lou and David Holt as the Waiter.
Director: David Hunter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2000.
SAT 05:30 The Rivals (b03brnrj)
Series 2
The Intangible Clue
By Anna Katharine Green
Dramatised By Chris Harrald.
Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he is writing his memories and has a chance to get his own back, with tales of Holmes' rivals. He continues with gifted amateur sleuth Lady Violet Strange trying to solve a horrific murder with apparently no clues.
Producer: Liz Webb.
SAT 06:00 Wimsey (b007jvhy)
Whose Body?
A body is found and a body is lost - but whose body has appeared in a bath in Battersea?

Where is the body of famous financier Sir Reuben Levy who went to bed one night in his flat in Park Lane and simply disappeared? Debonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey investigates.

Dorothy L Sayer's whodunit dramatised for radio by Michelene Wandor. Starring Gary Bond as Lord Peter Wimsey and John Cater as Bunter.

British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Whose Body? was first published in 1923.

Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.

Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by producer Vanessa Whitburn.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987.
SAT 07:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester (b01k9tt3)
The Reluctant Jester
An Actor's Life for Me - But Not for Very Long
More memories from the founding member of The Goon Show, Michael Bentine - recalling his disastrous first foray into acting and finally taking to the air.
Michael Bentine CBE was born in 1922 and died in 1996.
Producer: Andy Aliffe
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1993.
SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b03c241n)
Yeats and Heaney: A Terrible Beauty
Fintan O'Toole addresses and explores the careers of the two "smiling public men" who have embodied the different political traditions of Ireland and stood at the same podium in Stockholm, seven decades apart, to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
With the sad loss of Seamus Heaney this year, this Archive on Four looks at the journeys of Yeats and Heaney, from being an Irish Poet to becoming a "world poet". How did their lives and work mirror each other and what kind of parallels, deliberate or otherwise, can we see in their poetry and their careers?
Yeats, as the recorded archive of his interviews and readings demonstrates, was acutely aware of his position as a poet who gave voice to the different traditions in Irish politics. Heaney wrote of his admiration for Yeats as a person who "took the strain of both the major ideologies that were exacerbating Irish political life."
As well as admiring Yeats, Heaney consciously emulated him. As early as Wintering Out (1972), a collection which Heaney published after he left Belfast and moved to Dublin, reviewers were noting the influence of Yeats on his writing. But arguably it was in Heaney's public persona that the influence of Yeats can most clearly be seen. Heaney was a poet from Northern Ireland who moved to Dublin and became a powerful poetic voice for the whole island. Also like Yeats he joined an elite band of English Language poets globally known, and who was as likely to be found lecturing at Harvard as at a literary festival in County Sligo or Serbia.
Fintan O'Toole looks back at the reputations of two of Ireland's greatest poets and most important public figures.
Producer Mark Rickards.
SAT 09:00 Tony Law's Surreal Guide to Surreal Comedy (b03vztjc)
Absurdist comedian, Tony Law, takes us on a journey through the twists and turns of Surrealism in comedy, with rare interviews from Gerard Hoffnung, Monty Python sketches, plus Peter Cook and Chris Morris's "Why Bother".
Helping Tony make sense of it all; Historian, Mary Beard talks about the oldest surviving joke book; Comedian, Sean Hughes remembers Elvis the talking spider; Comedy Writer Robert Popper confesses to a prank call about Gordon Brown that got slightly out of hand; and Writer, Will Self renders the entire exercise practically pointless by asking us to be clearer about what the word Surrealism actually means.
Is the world becoming more surreal? Have the targets of Surrealism changed?
ToneZone, as he insists the Producer calls him, investigates...
SAT 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jmp0)
Series 2
Don't Forget the Diver
Enlisting the additional services of a bird warbler, a scarecrow and a flock of sheep, Captain Mainwaring's Home Guard platoon mount a river attack on Captain Square's HQ.
Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, Ian Lavender as Private Pike, John Laurie as Private Frazer and Arnold Ridley as Godfrey.
Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1975.
SAT 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b00s3cgj)
Series 1
The Diploma
Harold Steptoe drops a bombshell by quitting the family rag and bone business for a new career as a TV repair man.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.
Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962.
The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of 8 series on TV.
Albert …. Wilfrid Brambell
Harold …. Harry H. Corbett
Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Gale Pedrick.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1966.
SAT 13:00 HighLites Omnibus (b05ysyt7)
Episode 5
Bev and Shirl, the world's worst hairdressers, get an enormous tax bill. Comedy starring Lorraine Ashbourne and Rosie Cavaliero.
SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b05ysyt9)
Stewart Lee
Comedian Stewart Lee chooses 'Solitary Man' by Neil Diamond and 'Chicken Nuggets For Me' by The Fish Police.
SAT 14:15 Daunt and Dervish (b007jwvb)
Series 1
The Singer Not the Song
When a newspaper magnate is murdered, the obvious suspect is his much younger wife, but when the police discover that Daunt and Dervish were actually in the grounds of the house that evening - they're not only under suspicion, but their licence is suspended. The only way to get it back will be for them to beat the police to the discovery of the real murderer...
With the Second World War over, former spies Josephine Daunt and Susan Dervish are running their own detective agency.
Stars Imelda Staunton as Josephine Daunt, Anna Massey as Susan Dervish, Bill Patterson as Bill Mackie and Nicky Henson as Daniel Slater.
Format by Imelda Staunton and Anna Massey. Written by Guy Meredith.
Producer: Cherry Cookson. Director: Janet Whitaker.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.
SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b03c241n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Wimsey (b007jvhy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester (b01k9tt3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 Doctor Who (b05ysz8d)
Trail of the White Worm
The legend dates back to Roman times, at least: a great White Worm, as wide as a man, slithers out of the rocks of the Dark Peak Gap to take animals, sometimes even children, for its food.
When the Doctor and Leela arrive in the wilds of Derbyshire, only to get caught up in the hunt for a missing girl, they soon discover that the legend of the Worm is very much alive - even now, in 1979.
Worse still, it seems that the Doctor isn't the only renegade Time Lord on the trail of this deadly and mysterious Worm...
Tom Baker is the Fourth Doctor, with his ancient warrior companion, Leela, played by Louise Jameson.
Written by Alan Barnes and directed by Ken Bentley.
A Big Finish production.
SAT 19:00 Tony Law's Surreal Guide to Surreal Comedy (b03vztjc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better (b00kkfk6)
Series 1
Envy
Mark Watson investigates envy as he continues his quest to free us from the seven deadly sins via stand-up comedy.
Tim Key and Tim Minchin provide sketches, songs and jealous glances.
Producer: Katie Marsden
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2007.
SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (b007w3c6)
Series 3
Episode 1
Armando Iannucci offers a heady mix of topical comedy, chat, bluster and kerfuffle with guests Stewart Lee and Mark Watson. From August 2007.
SAT 23:00 The Lee Mack Show (b00bwzv3)
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Ellis-Bextor joins the quick-fire comic for stand-up, sketches and music. With Angela McHale. From March 2005.
SAT 23:30 Innes Own World (b0178mxy)
Episode 2
A radio programme that takes you inside Neil Innes's head and doesn't let you out for half an hour.
Featuring "The Breakfast Things", Neil's own version of The Today Programme, broadcast from his kitchen table.
Script Editor: John Dowie
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.