SATURDAY 18 JULY 2015

SAT 00:00 Ben Moor - Undone (b00pkvk9)
Series 3
Unending
The Notting Hill Carnival sees the potential end of the worlds and new weirdness. Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga with Alex Tregear.
SAT 00:30 Fry's English Delight (b00tgd1b)
Series 3
Accentuate the Negative
Contradiction is an addiction - from philosophical dialectic to the verification of scientific and mathematical hypotheses, and from religious controversy to traditional pantomime exchanges with the audience. Oh No It Isn't, you may think. Oh, yes, it very much is.
Stephen Fry examines various aspects of the subject with language expert Professor David Crystal, theologian Melissa Raphael-Levine, philosopher Anthony Grayling, and Oliver Double, who has made a special study of comedy double-acts, and will reveal just how vital contradiction is not only for cross-patter partners but for the whole of comedy.
We learn about the Square of Opposition and about how there is more than one way to be wrong. We find out just how the law of double negatives work, and how beguiling and sometimes surprising the oxymoron can be - that little combination of a couple of words that cancel each other out in some way. Well, it's only common sense, isn't it?
We also hear how those who claim to spot contradictions in the Bible, or the Talmud, or the Koran are essentially misguided, and we hear about a current development in English that threatens to change one of the things that has so far made the language different to French or German.
All of that, together with a lesson in when "No" does not necessarily mean no - and when "Yes" doesn't really mean yes, either.
Producer: Ian Gardhouse
ATestbed production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 01:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 (b007jpzt)
2. Carnage at Sea
The 1930s heroic agent takes on the law to pursue his arch enemy in the heart of New York.
Stars Stuart Milligan as X-9 and Connie Booth as Grace Powers.
Adapted for radio by Mark Brisenden, from the comic strip created by Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond. Syndicated by King Features, it ran from 1934 to 1996.
X-9 ...... Stuart Milligan
Grace Powers ...... Connie Booth
The Top ...... William Hootkins
Evelyn Powers ...... Rachel Power
Deacon ...... Peter Marinker
Steward ...... Michael John Paliotti
Bartholomew ...... John Guerrasio
Jude ...... Bruce McGregor
All other parts played by the cast.
Producer: Chris Wallis.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in January 1994.
SAT 01:30 The Keskidee (b00k4fv9)
Oral Historian Alan Dein pieces together the remarkable and pioneering story of the Keskidee, Britain's first arts centre for the black community. Founded in the early 1970's and tucked away in a church hall in the backstreets of Islington, London, it forged new ground for a generation of black British poets, actors, artists and directors.
Dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson was the educational officer at the Keskidee and Bob Marley shot the music video for 'Is This Love?' there. It had its own drama company, artists in residence and was a hub for African and Afro-Caribbean politics and arts, as well as a creative nursery for home-grown talent. It also catered for the needs of local youth and gave a generation of black teenagers a space of their own. But this massively influential cultural centre also has a fascinating earlier history, when it served as a progressive mission hall with a musical pastor and a legendary silver band. Today the building has reverted to being a religious base, housing an African church and a devout and joyous congregation. Dein joins up the hidden history of Gifford Hall which has played host to three different communities, but which, curiously, have much in common.
Producer: Neil McCarthy
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
SAT 02:00 Book at Beachtime (b01kng10)
Freya North - Rumours
Episode 5
Lady Lydia reveals the true reason she is selling Longbridge, and Stella has a brainwave. Read by Naomi Frederick.
SAT 02:30 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (b00y2x5k)
Episode 5
Ash takes up his post with the Guides in Mardan, but his relationship with Belinda is increasingly troubled.
MM Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Rukhsana Ahmad.
Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi
Ash ..... Blake Ritson
Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua
Zarin ..... Chris Simpson
Colonel ..... Sam Dale
Khoda-Daad ..... Sam Dastor
Battye ..... Jude Akuwudike
Belinda ..... Leah Brotherhead
George ..... Lloyd Thomas
Mrs Harlowe ..... Christine Kavanagh
Major Harlowe ..... Sean Baker
Directors: Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011.
SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b00t6fcj)
Lynn Schooler - Walking Home
Episode 5
To have any hope of reaching the Wilderness Swift to sail back to Juneau, Lynn must first outrun or outwit the grizzly bear on his trail. But this bear is like no other he has seen. And it is circling him.
With his back to the surf, and armed only with a pepper-spray, Lynn is running quickly out of options.
Lynn Schooler is the critically acclaimed author of The Blue Bear (2003) and The Last Shot (2006). He has lived in Alaska for almost forty years, working as a commercial fisherman, shipwright, wilderness guide, and an award-winning wildlife photographer.
Abridged by Jeremy Osborne
Reader: Colin Stinton.
Producer: Rosalynd Ward
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 03:00 John Buchan - The Three Hostages (b00lgn64)
I Make the Acquaintance of a Popular Man
Some years after his 39 Steps mission, Richard Hannay encounters a global criminal gang. Stars David Robb and Haydn Gwynne.
SAT 04:00 All the Way from Memphis (b00m0mb4)
Series 2
Episode 1
James Walton tests and tickles the knowledge of industry pundits and people passionate about pop music.
Regulars Tracey MacLeod and Andrew Collins are joined by Mary Anne Hobbs and Dave Gorman, who also reveal their favourite most bizarre musical moment.
Reader: Beth Chalmers
Written and researched by James Walton
Producer: Dawn Ellis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2006.
SAT 04:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00pqn27)
Two of Our Spies Are Missing
When Bill meets the organisation's most effective but least sane assassin, it's up to Sharla and Mark to find them.
Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives.
Bill ...... Richard Lumsden
Sharla ...... Nina Conti
Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya
Ian ...... Paterson Joseph
Mrs Davies ...... Lucy Montgomery
Channing ...... Ewan Bailey
Tim the Tea Boy ...... Joe Thomas
Secretary ...... Tessa Nicholson
Other parts played by the cast.
Producer: Katie Tyrrell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2010.
SAT 05:00 Little Blighty on the Down (b00tx3dp)
Series 4
Episode 5
When an opera star visits, council leader John shows his true colours. Political satire with John Baddeley. From August 1991.
SAT 05:30 Don't Need the Sunshine (b061pr48)
John Osborne returns to Radio 4 with autobiographical stories from four seasides that hold a special place in his heart.
SAT 06:00 Leigh Jackson - Legacy (b062n0lr)
A film producer takes his ex-girlfriend on a nostalgia trip to a beautiful house in the country where he once made a film. He's hoping that the atmosphere of the place will help to resurrect their relationship.
The house is advertised for sale and other prospective purchasers begin to arrive. But as the day proceeds, an element of mystery surrounds the house and its past ...
Starring David Buck as Warren, Rosalind Ayres as Ella, Stuart Milligan as Ashley and Alex Jennings as the Policeman.
Recorded on location at Waterplace Farm, near Ware, Hertfordshire and at various locations on the Buxton Estate, Easneye, Ware - including Widfordbury Farm, Widford.
Written by Leigh Jackson.
Directed by Cherry Cookson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982.
SAT 07:30 Fabulous Flops (b013zbph)
More Fabulous Flops
Episode 3
Paul Roseby surveys DJ Mike Read's one-night musical about Oscar Wilde, and the Broadway frustrations of Stephen Sondheim.
SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b01q7g6n)
Spoken Like a Woman
In the earliest days of radio, women commented on 'household matters', talked about their garden or their travels - writers Vita Sackville-West and Rebecca West were regulars - and became Children's Hour 'Aunts'; but certainly never read the news. On the other hand, the young BBC employed a number of brilliant young women behind the microphone who shaped the earliest days of programme-making.
But when they finally broke into the male bastion of mainstream broadcasting, largely as a result of the second world war, women's particular affinity with the microphone was quickly recognised, notably on the World Service where the female voice was soon found to be more effective at reaching listeners at the other end of the Empire than that of their male counterparts.
In this programme, Anne Karpf explores, with the help of the sound archive, the way women's voices have shaped the sound of British radio, from Auntie Kathleen of Children's Hour and those formal talks of the early BBC, via the forces' sweethearts like Jean Metcalfe and Marjorie Anderson, to today's topliners like Martha Kearney and Bridget Kendall.
Producer Simon Elmes.
SAT 09:00 Arthur Bostrom's Summer Holiday (b062n3n0)
Arthur Bostrom fishes out his old bucket and spade and takes a sunny stroll through the radio archives celebrating the Summer holiday season.
On his travels we hear new contributions from Su Pollard, Melvyn Hayes, Julie Hesmondhalgh and Zeb Soanes.
His selection includes:
* "Fun and Laughter on a Summer Holiday"
Arthur Bostrom unpacks a suitcase of music, mirth and memories as he searches for the perfect summer holiday.
* Life With The Lyons: Back in the Autumn
The Lyon's family is planning their summer holiday, but will it be plain sailing? Stars Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon. From June 1953.
* Steptoe and Son: Homes Fit For Heroes
Harold makes holiday plans to sail around the world with a group of young adventurers, but what does he do with Albert? Stars Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett
* All Gas And Gaiters: The Bishop Takes A Holiday
A clerical outing to a dwindling community parish causes chaos. Adapted from TV with Derek Nimmo and William Mervyn. From July 1972
* Hancock's Half Hour: Back From Holiday
After a disastrous break, the lad discovers Sid's rented his house out. Stars Tony Hancock and Sid James. From October 1956
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in July 2015
SAT 12:00 The Navy Lark (b007wwf0)
Series 3
50th Show - Mr Murray's Houseboat
Number One entrusts Uncle Ebeneezer and his tug with the purchase of his new houseboat - meaning disaster isn't faraway...

The 50th show in the series stars Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson Tenniel Evans as Nunky, Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey and Heather Chasen and Michael Bates as Mr & Mrs Granthamum.

Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series between 1959 and 1976.

Scripted by Lawrie Wyman.

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1960.
SAT 12:30 Marriage Lines (b061ygcr)
Series 2
Episode 5
George and Kate get in a tizzy showing-off baby Helen.
Richard Briers and Prunella Scales star in their second series based on the mutual love and mistrust of a young married couple.
Originating on BBC TV, it was adapted for radio due to its popularity by Richard Waring from his own TV scripts.
A decade later, Richard Briers was starring as Tom Good in The Good Life whilst Prunella Scales starred as Sybil in Fawlty Towers. They remained friends until Richard Briers' death in 2013.
Producer: Charles Maxwell
Recorded at the BBC Paris Studio in London.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1967.
SAT 13:00 Appiness - Omnibus (b062n3n2)
Just imagine - a dating app that lets you swipe from one partner to another, instantly! Stars Katy Wix and Karl Theobald.
SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b04cb4nj)
Graham Fellows
Graham Fellows - aka John Shuttleworth - shares his Inheritance Tracks.
SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair (b0075nd0)
Dame Barbara Cartland
Romantic fiction writer Dame Barbara Cartland talks to Dr Anthony Clare about her career and strongly held beliefs.
Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare's in depth interviews with prominent people from different walks of life. Born in Dublin, author Anthony held a doctorate in medicine, a master's degree in philosophy and was a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
After becoming a regular on BBC Radio 4's Stop the Week in the 1980s, he became Britain's best-known psychiatrist and earned his own vehicle, In the Psychiatrist's Chair.
Starting in 1982, this series ran until 2001 and also transferred to TV.
Anthony Clare died suddenly in Paris aged 64 in 2007.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1991.
SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b01q7g6n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Leigh Jackson - Legacy (b062n0lr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Fabulous Flops (b013zbph)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 Drama (b012fbw8)
Torchwood - The Lost Files
The Devil and Miss Carew
Martin Jarvis and Juliet Mills join the regular cast for this latest Torchwood adventure by Rupert Laight.
When Rhys's elderly Uncle Bryn has a heart attack while listening to the shipping forecast, it seems like another routine death at Ivyday Nursing Home. But when Rhys and Gwen go to collect the old man's effects, Gwen's suspicions are roused by another elderly resident. The conversation is cut short, though, by a fire alarm, one of many consequences of the mysterious power cuts that are sweeping the nation. Gwen has a hunch that something is wrong and her search leads her to Miss Carew, a suspiciously fit and strong octogenarian who, despite having supposedly terminal heart disease, has left Ivyday and gone back to work at the Computer firm she used to run. Miss Carew has been offered a deal by Fitzroy, a wandering alien with an aversion to electricity who is looking for a home. It's a deal that Miss Carew can't refuse. But the consequences for planet Earth are unthinkable.
Rupert Laight is one of the writers of The Sarah Jane Adventures
Recorded at The Invisible Studios, by Mark Holden and mixed at BBC Wales by Nigel Lewis.
A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll.
SAT 18:45 Brave New Worlds (b01n6yj3)
Marionettes, Inc
By Ray Bradbury. Written 50 years ago, anticipating virtual lives and avatars. From 2012's Cheltenham Literary Festival. Read by Jon Strickland.
SAT 19:00 Arthur Bostrom's Summer Holiday (b062n3n0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Hardeep at The Stand (b01r1313)
Series 3
Episode 3
Join Hardeep Singh Kohli for some hilarious stand up comedy from a selection of the best comedians working in the world right now. Hardeep At The Stand captures the entire comedy experience, there's backstage revelations, jokes, anecdotes and lots and lots of laughter. Three of the biggest names in UK comedy grace the stage for this episode and an exciting newcomer: Lucy Porter, Brendon Burns, Patrick Monahan and Hari Sriskantha.
SAT 22:15 The Problem With Adam Bloom (b00gl4t1)
Series 2
Insecurity
You should talk about your problems - after all, a problem shared is a problem halved.
Unless you've got a trust phobia, in which case it opens a whole other can of worms.
Written by and starring Adam Bloom.
With Stefano Paolini.
Producer: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004.
SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (b007yyqd)
Series 3
Episode 6
The ringmaster throws the news up into the air and plays catch with Jack Dee, Rich Hall and Phill Jupitus. From September 2007.
SAT 23:00 Alan Parker's 59 Minutes of Truth (b00ysfh6)
Episode 3
The urban warrior's comedy-music mix looks at clubbing plus the full lowdown on fashion.
More undeniable truths to a nation crying out for direction and guidance.
Written by and starring Simon Munnery.
With Peter Serafinowicz and Mandy Knight.
Producer: Aled Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in March 1995.