SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2015

SAT 00:00 Haunted (b01qyntg)
Which One? by R Chetwynd-Hayes
1940: A fire warden team are put to the severest test during a bombing raid. Will they all survive?
R Chetwynd-Hayes's creepy tale dramatised by Patricia Mays.
Drayton ..... Reginald Marsh
Hughes ..... Garrard Green
Raymond ..... Robert Glenister
Smithers ..... Adrian Egan
Jackson ..... Nigel Graham
David ..... Graham Conway.
Director: Derek Hoddinott
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in July 1984.
SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b0075zjv)
Series 1
Bridge Over Troubled Water
An anthem of love and support, Bridge over Troubled Water was released in 1970 and instantly became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic.
But for the Simon and Garfunkel partnership things were becoming less harmonious.
Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks.
Producer: Sara Conkey
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2000.
SAT 01:00 Wimsey (b00s6r7j)
Five Red Herrings
5. Alibis
Lord Peter Wimsey battles to verify the whereabouts of key suspects in the murder of unpopular Scottish artist, Sandy Campbell.
Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey – the aristocratic amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers.
Dramatised by Chris Miller.
Lord Peter Wimsey ...... Ian Carmichael
Sgt Dalziel ...... John Graham
Strachan ...... Gordon Clyde
Mrs Smith-Le Mesurier ...... Sheila Mitchell
Waters ...... Bill Wallace
Mrs Faron ...... Frances Jeater
Faron ...... Gordon Gardner
Producer: Simon Brett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1978.
SAT 01:30 The Hull Truck Story (b00jts6p)
Charting the build-up to the move of the Hull Truck Theatre company from its intimate home in a former chapel to a new and larger, purpose-built venue in the centre of Hull.
The programme also tells the story of how the company and its creative director, playwright John Godber, have come to occupy a special place in the hearts of many theatregoers.
SAT 02:00 BBC National Short Story Award (b01mw08q)
BBC International Short Story Award 2012
East of the West
The next of the ten shortlisted short stories in contention for the BBC International Short Story Award 2012. In East of the West by Miroslav Penkov the division between East and West is the backdrop for this story about a broken hearted man reflecting on love and loss.
The BBC Short Story Award is well established as one of the most prestigious for a single short story. The Award is celebrating the Olympic year by going global, and for one year only it reflects the richness and versatility of the short story internationally, with a shortlist of ten rather than the usual five. The winner and the runner-up will be announced live on Front Row on Tuesday, 2nd October. The story will be available as a free download following broadcast.
Read by Paul Hilton
Abridged by Viv Beeby
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.
SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b011pppc)
Christopher Nicholson - The Elephant Keeper
Episode 5
Tom has fled to London where he and Jenny the Elephant are working in a seedy Menagerie. A country boy, he is shocked by the poverty and filth of the city. Then one day he thinks he sees his old sweetheart, Lizzie, in the streets and follows her. We soon see what this woman has become but for Tom in his loneliness and isolation, this is love. In this final episode of our adaptation of Christopher Nicolson's novel, Tom begins to hatch a plan to take the elephant back to her former home, the Indies. At last, he has hope of escape - of escaping England, his position in the class system, and all the violence and abuse - thanks to the elephant.
Adapted for radio by Elizabeth Burke
Tom ... Stuart McLoughlin
Lizzie ... Sarah Ovens
Lord Bidborough ... John Rowe
Mrs Harrington ... Claire Cage
Charles Singleton ... Matthew Gravelle
Producer: Kate McAll
BBC Cymru Wales.
SAT 02:45 Book at Bedtime (b00ksjyy)
David Nicholls - One Day
Episode 5
Julian Rhind-Tutt reads from the bittersweet novel by David Nicholls.
Emma has bought a flat with her boyfriend Ian, and is drifting away from Dexter and his drug-fuelled lifestyle. Can their friendship bridge the difference between their worlds?
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 03:00 Caesar! (b00ctml6)
Series 1
Peeling Figs for Julius
His name is now a byword for depravity, but growing up in Tiberius's court, how evil was Emperor Caligula? Stars David Tennant.
SAT 04:00 The 99p Challenge (b007js7q)
Series 3
Episode 3
Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Simon Pegg, Armando Iannucci, Ben Moor and Nick Frost.
The game where someone stands to leave the studio 99p richer than when they came in.
Written by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley.
Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001.
SAT 04:30 The Adventures of John and Tony (b009m38r)
The Quest for the Holy Spectacles
John discovers that Jesus wore glasses, but whatever happened to them? And John and Tony travel to Glastonbury and Loch Ness.
Another comic journey in which John and his best friend Tony search for happiness, love, the meaning of life ... and glasses.
Written by John Hegley
Starring John Hegley, Simon Munnery, Terry Malloy, Sunny Ormonde and John Korne.
Original music by Nigel Piper.
Director: Anne Edyvean
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1999.
SAT 05:00 Bookcases (b00svc1m)
Series 1
Gone for a Burton
London 1855: Primus's latest publishing coup is the explorer Richard Burton, but drink and other substances seem to have destroyed Burton's sense of direction.
Martyn Wade's Victorian era comedy stars Michael Cochrane and Maggie Steed.
Primus …. Michael Cochrane
Cordelia …. Maggie Steed
Edith …. Elizabeth Spriggs
Gerald …. David Horovitch
Katie Joiner …. Frances Jeater
Richard Burton …. Norman Rodway
Waiter …. David Antrobus
Director: Cherry Cookson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1998.
SAT 05:30 The Absolutely Radio Show (b068sp4g)
Series 1
Episode 1
Cast members of Channel 4's hugely popular TV sketch show Absolutely reunite.
Pete Baikie, Morwenna Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy and John Sparkes revisit some much-loved sketch characters, with some newcomers..
This opening episode features The Stoneybridge Town Council attempting to adapt to today's technology, Denzil and Gwynedd discussing Gwynedd's plan to enter the Miss Swansea competition, The Little Girl's very personal take on Divorce and Calum Gilhooley getting some customer feedback of his own.
Plus sketches about Facebook's downside, the dangers of watching TV in middle age, vague War memories from people who were almost there and the perils of having to look after your own, ageing parents.
In 2013, the group got back together for Radio 4's Sketchorama: Absolutely Special, which won a BBC Audio Drama Award in the Best Live Scripted Comedy category.
Producers: Gus Beattie and Gordon Kennedy
A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in September 2015.
SAT 06:00 Allen Saddler - Man of the People (b069njqy)
Horatio Bottomley is something of what would nowadays be called a 'wide-boy'. But, in the jingoistic atmosphere of the First World War Britain, he found himself raised up as a super-patriot, even being voted in as a Member of Parliament. Even for lucky Horatio, however, all good things must come to an end....
Based on true events and written by Allen Saddler.
Horatio Bottomley was born: 23rd March 1860 and died: 26th May 1933.
Starring Patrick Mower as Horatio Bottomley. With Edward de Souza, David Garth and Maggie Tarver.
Producer: Brian Miller
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1986.
SAT 07:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations (b0075xc8)
Claydon House
4 Extra Debut. A singing staircase and fantasy tearoom. The architectural historian tours the 18th-century house in Aylesbury Vale. From August 2000.
SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b0076vcz)
The Sound of America: The Story of NPR
The Sound of America: The Story of NPR
Commentator and satirist Joe Queenan takes a look at the past 35 years of American history through the news reports and documentaries produced by National Public Radio.
Clips from the archive span 9/11, life as a minister, small town life, the death of a child, the Watergate scandal, working in New York, the seltzer delivery man, OJ Simpson, the Iraq War, a tribute to Mary Tyler Moore, struggling with obesity and many more.
SAT 09:00 4 Extra at Bletchley Park (b03g8lxl)
Maggie Philbin traces the remarkable history of IT through the BBC sound archives from the birthplace of the world's first electronic computer, Bletchley Park.
When Maggie joined the BBC's Tomorrow's World team in the early 1980s, there wasn't a single computer in the office. Today, along with the internet, they've reshaped the way we live, work, communicate and play. Her selection features:
* Magic Moments - Computers:
1994 was incredibly, a year when there were still only 623 websites in the world. This is a potted history of computers as seen 20 years ago.
* Mothers of Invention: Ada Lovelace:
Jerome Vincent's short drama from 2002 about the Victorian technology visionaries Lovelace and Charles Babbage.
* Electronic Brains: LEO the Lyons Computer:
Famed for it's "nippy" waitresses - how catering company J Lyons became Britain's unlikely post-war teashop IT pioneers. From 2001.
* The Levin Interview
Bernard Levin interrogates Sir Clive Sinclair, the man who brought computers into our homes. From 1984.
* Electric Journeys:
Tim Berners-Lee, a revealing portrait of the man credited with creating the World Wide Web. From 2001
* I Was a Teenage Dot Com Millionaire:
A classic tale of dot com boom and bust. From 2010.
Three denizens of the digital world - authors Aleks Krotoski and Tom Chatfield, plus Chris Monk from the National Museum of Computing join Maggie at Bletchley Park. There's also a peek behind the scenes with authors Michael Smith and Joel Greenburg revealing how the Buckinghamshire site could have been the UK's very own Silicon Valley.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions.
First broadcast in November 2013.
SAT 12:00 The Navy Lark (b0082hrc)
Series 3
The Hitch-Hiking Counterfeiter
A retired 'Major' cadges a lift on HMS Troutbridge, but the crew soon pay the price.

Stars Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Ronnie Barker as Major Piecraft and Richard Caldicote as Captain Povey.

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 February 1961.
SAT 12:30 Marriage Lines (b068r53p)
Series 2
Episode 13
It's baby's christening day and George is packing for Africa.
Richard Briers and Prunella Scales star in their second series based on the mutual love and mistrust of a young married couple.
With Edward De Souza and Joan Sanderson.
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 June 1967.
SAT 13:00 Jennifer Clement - Prayers for the Stolen Omnibus (b069njrd)
Mexican 15-year-old Ladydi Martinez hides in ground holes to avoid the drug cartels who are looking for girls to steal. Stars Gabriela Montaraz.
SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b069njs4)
Benedict Allen
Writer and adventurer Benedict Allen chooses the theme to The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Ian Taylor's Four Strong Winds.
SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair (b0075p1q)
Sir Peter Hall
Acclaimed theatre director Sir Peter Hall tells Professor Anthony Clare of the impact of shyness and obsession on his life.
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 August 1990.
SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b0076vcz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Allen Saddler - Man of the People (b069njqy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations (b0075xc8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jp39)
6. Sacrifice
Oblivio is in the grip of an Ice Age.
When the UME spaceship lands on the surface, Norman and Max make a sacrifice...
Conclusion of Colin Swash’s sci-fi comedy about two space-age humans stranded on a friendly alien planet.
Norman ...... Tony Robinson
Max ...... David Haig
Stella ...... Louise Lombard
Macari ...... Michael Troughton
Suzy ...... Carla Mendonca
Louise ...... Ronni Ancona
Ume ...... Lorelei King
Vince ...... Daniel Main
Producer: Richard Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995.
SAT 18:30 Atomic Tales (b007jx7x)
Night of the Cicadas
Small and usually friendly, chirruping insects suddenly grow huge - turning nasty and developing a taste for human flesh...
1950s American sci-fi spoof.
Starring the talents of:
John Guerrasio
Jeff Harding
Allison Warnyca
Lewis McLeod
Colin Stinton
Liza Ross
Written by Adam Tandy and Nat Sones.
Producer: Adam Bromley.
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in August 2006.
SAT 19:00 4 Extra at Bletchley Park (b03g8lxl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Sabotage (b03k3c7y)
Series 1
Episode 2
Mark Talbot hosts Sabotage's exciting comedy night featuring a mix of TV stars and rising comedy talent. With Kevin Eldon (star of various TV hits, including his own BBC2 show "It's Kevin"); BBC Radio New Comedy Award winner Lucy Beaumont; Chortle Best Newcomer nominee Stuart Hudson; and the rising comedic talents of Benny Boot and Jamie Demetriou.
From London's historic Hoxton Hall in Hackney.
Producer: Anna Silver
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Hat Trick Productions.
First broadcast in January 2014.
SAT 23:00 4 at the Store (b007jqn6)
Series 1
Episode 4
Stand-up at London's Comedy Store with host Simon Bligh, Matt Wellcome, Veronica McKenzie and Sean Meo. From December 1998.
SAT 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06cnhnv)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats to Steve Bennett.
SAT 23:30 Chain Reaction (b00tjsjf)
Series 6
Ruby Wax interviews Harry Shearer
The new series of the tag team talk show continues as last week's guest, the UK's favourite sharp tongued American, Ruby Wax takes the microphone to interview voice of The Simpsons, face of Derek Smalls and political satirist Harry Shearer.
Ruby asks Harry to delve into some of his Simpsons characters, where he found the inspiration for Derek Smalls in Spinal Tap and who his favourite political target has been over the years.


SUNDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2015

SUN 00:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jp39)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]
SUN 00:30 Atomic Tales (b007jx7x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday]
SUN 01:00 Jennifer Clement - Prayers for the Stolen Omnibus (b069njrd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday]
SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b069njs4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday]
SUN 02:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair (b0075p1q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday]
SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 (b0076vcz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday]
SUN 04:00 Allen Saddler - Man of the People (b069njqy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]
SUN 05:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations (b0075xc8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]
SUN 06:00 Christopher Nicholson - The Elephant Keeper Omnibus (b011tsc7)
Tom is a groom on a country estate, but his life is changed when his master buys two half-dead elephants. Stars Stuart McLoughlin.
SUN 07:15 In Drovers' Boots (b069njs8)
Episode 4
Huw Williams continues through Wiltshire and Gloucestershire along the cattle-herding routes of the 17th century. From June 2004.
SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00gd4sy)
Series 4
Alf Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmare
Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur Strong is an expert in everything from the world of entertainment to the origins of the species, all false starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance.
After Gerry takes a tumble over a bucket mysteriously left in his cafe, Arthur steps in and offers to 'do an Alf Ramsey' by running the cafe in Gerry's absence. Culinary experimentation, customer service... Arthur's a natural. Or is he...?
With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and Alastair Kerr.
A Komedia Entertainment/Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN 08:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead (b00h4lnm)
From 05/04/1971
An odd romantic tryst and the life of a great Englishman.
A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker.
With Terence Brady and Pauline Yates.
Pianist: Gordon Langford.
Written by John Graham, David Nobbs, David McKellar and Peter Vincent, Donald Monat and June Dixon, Miles Rudge and Ted Dicks, Pete Spence, Alan Scott and Chris Bryant, and Gerald Wiley.
Producer John Fawcett-Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1971.
SUN 08:30 Whack-O! (b069njsq)
The Burglary
A local burglary turns into a Whitehall farce for Chiselbury School.
Starring Professor Jimmy Edwards.
Harry Locke as Bailey
Roddy Maude-Roxby as Mr. Potter
Frederick Treves as Alfred Tennyson
Fred Yule as Inspector Matthews
John Graham as Mr. Barlow
Roger Shepherd as Lumley
David Lott as Taplow
Starting life on BBC TV before transferring to radio, Chiselbury School is run "for the sons of gentlefolk".
Headmaster, Professor James Edwards, M.A. never misses a trick when it comes to exploiting the students and their parents. Sports pitches are given over to growing vegetables, which the boys nurture for their head to sell. Classes never exceed 95 pupils - 50 if private tuition is paid for at five guineas extra. It's only thanks to the efforts of the devoted deputy head, Mr Pettigrew, that the school exists at all.
Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden and adapted for radio by David Climie.
Producer: Edward Taylor
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September 1961.
SUN 09:00 Michael Coveney - Maggie Smith: A Biography Omnibus (b069njss)
How Dame Maggie Smith got the acting bug. Peter Firth reads Michael Coveney's biography of one Britain's best-loved actors.
SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b069njsy)
Bridget Christie
Comedian Bridget Christie chooses 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain' by Creedence Clearwater Revival and the theme to Steptoe and Son.
SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b069nll2)
Coding
Martha Lane Fox
4 Extra Debut. From Judy Garland to Verdi, entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From January 2004.
SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour (b069nll4)
Series 2
Framing the Story
A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) stage.
Guy Raz investigates the power of stories - and whether they have the power to transform our perceptions of the world.
With Andrew Stanton, Tracy Chevalier, Chip Kidd, Chimamanda Adichie and Andrew Stanton.
First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio.
SUN 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lj1nf)
Series 1
Bowerbirds
One of the most extraordinary structures in the animal world is constructed by a Bower Bird.
Sir David tells the life story of the Vogelkopf Bower Bird, the one that raises the bar higher than the rest.
Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
Producer: Julian Hector
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.
SUN 12:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead (b00h4lnm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SUN 12:30 Whack-O! (b069njsq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
SUN 13:00 Christopher Nicholson - The Elephant Keeper Omnibus (b011tsc7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SUN 14:15 In Drovers' Boots (b069njs8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
SUN 14:30 Tessa Hadley - The Past (b069npc6)
Omnibus
Sian Thomas reads Tessa Hadley's powerful and haunting novel, a beautifully observed portrait of a family and the change wrought by time across the generations.
Three middle-aged sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. Under the idyllic surface, there are immediate tensions. Secrets, misunderstandings and passion play out as the characters shift and reappraise and a way of life - bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its inevitable end.
While the siblings circle each other, and the adolescents approach each other, the children watch and come to their own conclusions.
Tessa Hadley is one of Britain's finest writers, an acute observer of character, time and place and the most published short story writer in the New Yorker in recent years.
Abridged by Sally Marmion.
Producer: Di Speirs
First broadcast in 2015.
SUN 15:45 Katherine Mansfield - The Montana Stories (b007647w)
Marriage a la Mode
Isobel has a happy marriage until she falls in with a racy set and begins to neglect her adoring husband. Read by Emilia Fox.
SUN 16:00 Stephen MacDonald - In the Summer of 1918 (b069npc8)
An idealistic Captain says he must return to the Front. The gulf separating soldiers from people at home proves shatteringly wide.
Stephen MacDonald's First World War drama about love and politics.
Starring Maria Aitken as Lady Eleanor Lambert, John Duttine as Captain Simon Sherwood and Hugh Dickson as Robert Sutherland.
Producer: Stewart Conn
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.
SUN 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00gd4sy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SUN 18:00 Saturday Drama (b0076sr6)
Trevor Hoyle - Haunted Hospital
Haunted Hospital
A ghost story set in a hospital in Rochdale featuring two parallel storylines, one contemporary and the other set in the late 1800s, the latter drawing on real historical events.
Julia/Lizzie ...... Jo-Anne Knowles
Steve/Daniel ...... Michael Begley
Sam ...... Elianne Byrne
Josiah Ogden ...... David Fleeshman
Jacob Pinch ...... Mark Chatterton
Mrs Cragge ...... Barbara Marten
Mr Cragge ...... James Quinn
Irish Woman ...... Martine Harry-Davis
Directed by Liz Leonard.
SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour (b069nll4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lj1nf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today]
SUN 20:00 Michael Coveney - Maggie Smith: A Biography Omnibus (b069njss)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks (b069njsy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today]
SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b069nll2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today]
SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00gd4sy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SUN 22:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b0194mxx)
Series 3
Wigan
In this third series comedian Mark Steel visits 6 more UK towns to discover what makes them and their inhabitants distinctive.

He creates a bespoke stand-up show for that town and performs the show in front of a local audience.

As well as shedding light on the less visited areas of Britain, Mark uncovers stories and experiences that resonate with us all as we recognise the quirkiness of the British way of life and the rich tapestry of remarkable events and people who have shaped where we live.

During the series 'Mark Steel's In Town' Mark will visit Berwick-Upon Tweed, Holyhead, Basingstoke, Douglas (Isle of Man), Bungay and Wigan.

Episode 6 - In this episode Mark performs a show for the residents of Wigan, where he talks about entering pie eating competitions, living under floorboards, and the radicalism of George Formby. From January 2012.

Written and performed by Mark Steel with additional material by Pete Sinclair.
Produced by Sam Bryant.
SUN 23:00 Newsjack (b068xzhh)
Series 13
Episode 1
This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the public. Trying to make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar.
SUN 23:30 Tina C (b0076q33)
Tina C's Tiny Island Tour
England
The country singer and global activist brings her unique brand of gingham-flavoured repartee to explore the US and UK's special relationship. Stars Christopher Green. From Jan 2005
SUN 23:45 2000 Years of Radio (b069npj8)
Series 2
Tempest FM
It's 23rd April 1616 (approximately) - the day William Shakespeare died. Follow events unfold as the nation mourns the playwright.
DJ Suzanne Canker talks to and annoys his widow Ann Hathaway.
Bard-Beard' sales rocket, Grayson Spey tries his hand at that sonnet-writing thing, plus more easy listening with mad Bessie, psycho Bob and pervert Archie.
Series tapping into the radio archive of a bygone age.
Written and performed by Claire Downes, Hazel Grian, Al Holloway, Ben Kozo, Stuart Lane and Patrick McNamara.
Producer: Sean Grundy
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2002.


MONDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2015

MON 00:00 Saturday Drama (b0076sr6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Christopher Nicholson - The Elephant Keeper Omnibus (b011tsc7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:15 In Drovers' Boots (b069njs8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday]
MON 02:30 Tessa Hadley - The Past (b069npc6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday]
MON 03:45 Katherine Mansfield - The Montana Stories (b007647w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday]
MON 04:00 Stephen MacDonald - In the Summer of 1918 (b069npc8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00gd4sy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 Wimsey (b00s7ql2)
Five Red Herrings
6. Evidence of a Commercial Traveller
Who killed unpopular Scottish artist, Sandy Campbell? Lord Peter Wimsey and Inspector McPherson are weighing up the alibis of suspects
Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey – the aristocratic amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers.
Dramatised by Chris Miller.
Lord Peter Wimsey ...... Ian Carmichael
Sgt Dalziel ...... John Graham
Sir Maxwell Jameson ...... Garard Green
Insp MacPherson ...... Don McKillopp
Waters ...... Bill Wallace
Strachan. ...... Gordon Clyde
Jock Graham ...... .Christopher Scoular
Clarence Gordon ...... .Gordon Faith
Producer Simon Brett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1978.
MON 06:30 Dancing With the Devil (b00sp452)
Rachel Johnson talks to women, now in their 90s, who as part of their cultural education, visited Germany in the 1930s. A few went to Hitler rallies, remembering the sound of metalled boots on specially metalled roads. One was a member of the Hitler youth, and recalls how all the boys she was at school with perished in the war. One was questioned by the Gestapo for boasting about British military supremacy in the street. Another visited a dark and dingy beer cellar, to have drinks with Unity Mitford, Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler. Their experiences in Germany in the years building up to the war give a unique insight into the rise of Nazism from the point of view of artistocratic teenage girls.
MON 07:00 The Right Time (b00fv9t1)
Series 2
Episode 4
How to get home from the pub - and a ruined holiday in Barbados.
Sketch show for people growing older disgracefully. Written and performed by people who've lived a bit.
Stars Eleanor Bron, Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Paula Wilcox, Clive Swift and Roger Blake.
Written by Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Julie Balloo, Ramone Towers, Trevor Walker, John Dowie, Colin Bostock-Smith and John Pidgeon.
Music by Ronnie & The Rex.
Producer: Helen Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002.
MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b068tsvn)
Series 15
Episode 3
David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their opponents.
Lloyd Langford, Henning Wehn, Sara Pascoe and Miles Jupp are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as zoos, theft, phones and hands.
The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
Produced by Jon Naismith
A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4.
MON 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jp0x)
Series 2
The King Was in His Counting House
When Captain Mainwaring's bank gets bombed in Walmington-on-Sea, his Home Guard platoon must guard all the money.
Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Fraser …. John Laurie
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Walker …. Larry Martyn
Shirley …. Wendy Richard
Announcer …. John Snagge
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1975.
MON 08:30 As Time Goes By (b007k9fq)
Series 3
Episode 1
Lionel gets a surprise from Alistair, while Jean interviews a manager for the new branch of her agency.
Starring Judi Dench as Jean and Geoffrey Palmer as Lionel. With Moira Brooker as Judith and Philip Bretherton as Alistair.
A six-part adaptation by Bob Larbey of series three of his popular BBC TV sitcom. Two former lovers Jean and Lionel have been reunited unexpectedly after losing contact for 38 years.
After falling in love in the early 1950s, army officer Lionel was sent to Korea, but they lost touch after a letter he sent to her never arrived. Both assumed the other had lost interest, but their paths have crossed again on his return to England.
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1999.
MON 09:00 The Write Stuff (b00776g7)
Series 10
F Scott Fitzgerald
James Walton chairs the literary quiz with John Walsh, Sebastian Faulks, Jane Thynne and Wendy Holden. Reader is Beth Chalmers. From April 2007.
MON 09:30 Electric Ink (b01jjtn5)
Series 2
Episode 1
Maddox has lost the job of news editor and now faces being sued.
Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson's comic satire set in the struggling world of newspapers. .
Maddox ..... John Sessions
Oliver ..... Alex Jennings
Freddy ..... Stephen Wight
Carol ..... Polly Frame
Masha ..... Debbie Chazen
Keith ..... Sam Dale
Producer ..... Sally Avens
A group of dysfunctional journalists attempt to cover major news stories at the same time as grappling with the demands of working in a multi-platform environment, watching circulation figures plummet and the recession causing half the workforce to be laid off.
At the heart of the comedy is the relationship between Maddox Bradley, a journalist who mourns the day of proper investigative journalism, and Freddy, the online editor who will regurgitate a press release quite happily and call it a story. But they have a grudging respect for the each other as Freddy helps Maddox stay afloat in the world of Twitter, Facebook and podcasting and Maddox shows Freddy how to sniff out the real story. Both are at the mercy of Oliver, the pragmatic editor more concerned with keeping his job, and Carol, the news editor who believes that circulation will increase if they run pieces on Big Mac eating orang-utans and 'intelligent' skunks rather than Maddox's moral crusading diatribes. And only Masha, the Russian head of online communities, who wants to give away all their content because that is true democracy, knows Freddy's secret; that he's a posh boy from Eton rather than a hyper-cool kid from the street; well that's what Freddy thinks anyway.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010.
MON 10:00 Caesar! (b00ctvxg)
Series 2
The Best of Mothers
The murderous tale of Emperor Nero and his interfering mother Agrippina. Stars Jonathan Forbes and Frances Barber.
MON 11:00 Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You (b069r3rg)
The Swim Team
Belvedere used to have a swim team. Though it didn't have a pool.
Miranda July's critically acclaimed debut story collection. Introduced by Miranda July. Read by Bryony Hannah
Intimate and original, dark, quirky and tender, award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary imagination to the page to produce her first collection of short stories. When first published in 2007, David Eggers wrote;
"these stories are incredibly charming, beautifully written, frequently laugh-out-loud funny, and even, a dozen or so times, profound."
David Byrne said; "Miranda July's is a beautiful, odd, original voice - seductive, sometimes erotic and a little creepy too."
The collection was winner of the Frank O'Connor 2007 International Short Story Award.
Miranda July's first feature-length film, 'Me You and Everyone We Know', which opened in 2005, won The Caméra d'Or prize in Cannes; the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival; Best First Feature at the Philadelphia Film Festival; Feature Audience Award for Best Narrative at the San Francisco International Film Festival; and the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
July's first novel The First Bad Man was published in January 2015.
Producer: Karen Rose
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions.
MON 11:15 Arthur (b0076p7x)
The Last Battle
By Steve May. The lovers are in prison and Ossa heads to Camelot. Is there still time for Arthur to learn the truth? Stars Philip Glenister.
MON 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jp0x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 12:30 As Time Goes By (b007k9fq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 13:00 Wimsey (b00s7ql2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 13:30 Dancing With the Devil (b00sp452)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 14:00 BBC National Short Story Award (b03bddd0)
BBC National Short Story Award 2013
Mrs Fox
Andrea Riseborough reads this earthy, sensual fable by Sarah Hall. A husband is shocked out of his complacency when his wife undergoes a remarkable transformation.
Written by Sarah Hall
Abridged by Julian Wilkinson
Produced by Gemma Jenkins
The BBC National Short Story Award is one of the most prestigious and established awards for a single short story. The 2013 shortlist reveals the strength and depth of the current short story scene, with five very different but equally beguiling stories vying for the top position and the £15,000 Award. From the pens of writers both hugely acclaimed and very new, come tales that range from the magical to the all too real. Surprising twists, quiet grief and vivid imagination are hallmarks of this year's bumper crop.
The readers include Hattie Morahan, Andrea Riseborough and Claire Skinner. Running across the week (and with the authors interviewed on Front Row the previous evening) listeners can enjoy a literary treat at 15.30 each afternoon from Monday, 23rd September and maybe choose their own favourites. The winner and the runner-up will be announced live on Front Row on Tuesday, 8th October. The stories will be available as a free download following broadcast, and in an anthology published by Comma Press.
MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01cjm4k)
Christopher William Hill - Angarrack
Autumn
Christopher William Hill's black comedy revolves around the future of a crumbling Cornish ancestral estate in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Sir Richard Penwerris (Richard Johnson), mired in debt, wishes to bequeath it to the National Trust, much to the fury of his wife, Lady Helen (Lia Williams) who plans to drag the estate, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century. Matters are complicated further by the sudden emergence of an heir to the estate, Rafe Penwerris (Henry Hadden-Paton), whom his father believed to have died in the war. A clash of Titans ensues - with only one winner.
Cast:
Sir Richard Penwerris ..... Richard Johnson
Lady Helen ...... Lia Williams
Rafe ...... Harry Hadden-Paton
Tregunna ....... Tony Haygarth
Ralston ....... Nicholas Boulton
Incidental Music: composed by David Chilton
Producer: Gordon House
A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4.
MON 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kwqtr)
David Nicholls - One Day
Episode 6
Julian Rhind-Tutt reads from the bittersweet novel by David Nicholls.
It is now 1996 and the two friends have not spoken to each other since a painfully acrimonious evening the previous summer when Emma found herself admitting that she no longer liked Dexter very much. In the meantime her teaching career is surging ahead while Dexter is being edged into the graveyard slots of TV presenting.
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
MON 15:00 Caesar! (b00ctvxg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 16:00 The Write Stuff (b00776g7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 16:30 Electric Ink (b01jjtn5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
MON 17:00 The Right Time (b00fv9t1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
MON 17:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b068tsvn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jl9p)
Earthsearch I
1. Planetfall
The starship Challenger is on a 115-year-long mission exploring other galaxies for suitable Earth-like planets to colonise.
The current four crew members were born on-board and have never left the ship. From birth they've been looked after by two 'Angels' - voices surrounding and guiding their every move. Any advice is followed without question. A dangerous situation, perhaps, if the Angels aren't that angelic after all...
Starring Sean Arnold.
James Follett's ten-part adventure serial in time and space.
Commander Telson …. Sean Arnold
Sharna …. Amanda Murray
Astra …. Kathryn Hurlbutt
Darv …. Haydn Wood
Angel One …. Sonia Fraser
Angel Two …. Gordon Reid
Christopher Scott …. Sinclair
Director: Glyn Dearman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1981.
MON 18:30 The Turing Solution (b01jqjl5)
Alan Turing, born June 23 1912, is famous for his key role in breaking German codes in World War 2. But for mathematicians, his greatest work was on the invention of the computer.
Alan Turing's brilliance at maths was spectacular. Aged 22, just a year after his graduation, he was elected a fellow of King's College Cambridge. And it was just a year after that, that he turned his attention to problems in the foundations of mathematics and ended up showing that a simple machine, set up to read and write numbers and to run a few basic functions, could in principle do all the things that are do-able in mathematics. His 'universal' machine was just a concept - a paper tape that could be read, interpreted and acted on robotically. But the concept was profound.
World War II shortly afterwards took Turing's talents into other directions, but even while designing machines at Bletchley Park to break the German Enigma codes, he was wondering how much more a computing machine might do - play chess for example.
And although the war work might have delayed Turing's academic work, it greatly accelerated progress in electronics, so that in 1945 he returned to his first love, creating a complete design for what he expected to be the world's first fully programmable computer, the National Physical Laboratory's ACE - the Automatic Computing Engine. In the end, beset by hesitation and bureaucratic delays, the ACE was overtaken by a rival team in Manchester, whose Small Scale Experimental Machine first ran on June 21 1948. But the Manchester Baby, as it became known, fulfilled the requirements laid down in Turing's seminal 1936 paper, and in a handful of instructions had the power to do any kind of maths, or data processing, like a computer of today does.
Turing soon joined the Manchester team, and again with remarkable prescience started work on artificial intelligence, wondering whether electronic machines could programmed not just to do maths, but to think in the way human minds do - a hot topic of debate even now.
Those explorations were cut short by his suicide in 1954, following prosecution for his homosexuality. His death at a time when official secrecy still hid his code-breaking work, and when the history of computing was already being written meant that few appreciated his central role in today's dominant industry. But some enthusiasts hope they can write him back in where he belongs.
Presenter, Standup Mathematician Matt Parker.
MON 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jp0x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 As Time Goes By (b007k9fq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 20:00 Wimsey (b00s7ql2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 20:30 Dancing With the Devil (b00sp452)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 21:00 Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You (b069r3rg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
MON 21:15 Arthur (b0076p7x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b068tsvn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 22:30 The In Crowd (b0085jl5)
Series 4
Episode 2
A tricky restaurant customer and a confused football manager.
Comedy sketch show from Manchester.
Starring Robin Ince, Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward.
Producer: Graham Frost
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.
MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06cxtjr)
From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Thom Tuck chats to John Henry Falle aka The Story Beast.
MON 23:00 Dead Ringers (b068yf8s)
Series 15
Episode 5
Drone attacks, the queen's record breaking reign and the labour leadership contest are all given the Dead Ringers treatment.
MON 23:30 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries (b00vkw57)
September and October
September and October. Autumn brings gloom for Sylvia Plath, Thomas Hardy and Max Clifford.
A second chance to hear satirist Craig Brown dip into the private lives of public figures from the 1960's to the present day.
Voiced by Jan Ravens, Alistair McGowan, Lewis McLeod, Ewan Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Dolly Wells.
Written by Craig Brown.
Produced by Victoria Lloyd.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.


TUESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2015

TUE 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jl9p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 The Turing Solution (b01jqjl5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 Wimsey (b00s7ql2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Dancing With the Devil (b00sp452)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 BBC National Short Story Award (b03bddd0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01cjm4k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kwqtr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 Caesar! (b00ctvxg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff (b00776g7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:30 Electric Ink (b01jjtn5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 The Right Time (b00fv9t1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b068tsvn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 Wimsey (b00s7tql)
Five Red Herrings
7. Council of War
As the investigation into the mysterious death of Scottish artist Sandy Campbell continues, Lord Peter Wimsey listens to all the various theories and pronounces that they are all wrong.
Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey – the aristocratic amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers.
Dramatised by Chris Miller.
Lord Peter Wimsey ...... Ian Carmichael
Sgt Dalziel ...... John Graham
Sir Maxwell Jameson ...... Garard Green
Insp MacPherson ...... Don McKillopp
PC Ross ...... Gordon Kane
PC Duncan ...... David Strong
Campbell/Dr Cameron ...... Trevor Martin
The Procurator Fiscal ...... John Dunbar
Producer: Simon Brett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1978.
TUE 06:30 A Legend Before Slumdog (b00smp1n)
When A.R. Rahman won two Oscars for the film score of Slumdog Millionaire it shot him to international recognition.
But the man dubbed 'The Mozart of Madras' had been a phenomenally successful composer long before that. He has been a massive celebrity in India for the past 20 years, yet remains a shy and modest man who attributes his success to his Sufi faith.
Presenter Navid Akhtar meets A.R.Rahman and explores the role that spirituality and technology have played in his long career.
Still only in his early 40s, Rahman has produced chart-topping music for over 500 movies, countless catchy advertising jingles and even a West End musical Bombay Dreams, whose producer Andrew Lloyd Webber describes him as the 'most talented melodist of our time'.
Now he's being increasingly sought out by international film directors.
Since his spectacular debut as a film composer on Roja in 1992 (chosen as one of the ten top soundtracks ever by Time magazine), A.R. Rahman's prolific output has transformed and reinvigorated Indian film music, effortlessly introducing fusion elements from all over the world.
He has become the highest-earning music composer in India. The soundtracks are launched ahead of the films and become instant dance hits. Often his soundtracks have become chart-toppers even when the films flopped, selling out within hours of their release.
In the week that he completes an ambitious world tour at Wembley Arena, we discover what lies behind his success.
Producer: Mukti Jain Campion
A Culturewise production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 07:00 HR (b00txgsc)
Series 2
Consulting
Having nursed Peter through retirement blues, Sam himself succumbs to the dreaded sense of purposelessness. Then Peter gets an ad looking for experienced consultants. They're made!
Nigel Williams' comedy drama series charting the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague.
Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce
Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost
Waiter ..... Sam Dale
Director: Peter Kavanagh.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2010
TUE 07:30 Mitch Benn Specials (b068xdrj)
Mitch Benn Has Left the Building
Elvis is one of the most impersonated men in history. But it's a surprising complex persona to inhabit.
Mitch Benn explores the man behind the phenomenon called 'Elvis'...
Humble Southern boy or bejewelled megalomaniac emperor?
Fearless rebel or gormless yes-man?
Pioneer and innovator or showbiz sell-out?
Rock and roll's greatest triumph or its most tragic waste?
From the early rock and roll years, to Mr. Presley post-army; food addiction; and his Las Vegas residency in THE SUIT...With a glorious mix of musical parodies and trivia, Mitch Benn is going to find out.
Written by and starring Mitch Benn.
Producer: Alexandra Smith/Ed Morrish
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2015.
TUE 08:00 Round the Horne (b00l2mcd)
Series 2
Episode 12
A deadly doctor returns, Rambling Syd Rumpo sings of courting, while celebrity wannabe Kenneth Horne gets some bona advice from Julian and Sandy.
With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.
Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, London. Announcer: Douglas Smith
Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, catchphrases and double-entendres.
Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four.
Producer: John Simmonds
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1966.
TUE 08:30 Hello Cheeky (b00dy523)
From 09/06/1973
Brought to you from a phone box in Slough and featuring 'The Gang that stole Michael Aspel'.
Pun-tastic fast-moving comedy sketch series written by and starring John Junkin, Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
Special guest: Michael Aspel.
With musical accompaniment from the Denis King Trio.
Producer: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1973.
TUE 09:00 Dead Ringers (b068yf8s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]
TUE 09:30 Mad Man Blue (b0113060)
Unassuming but irrepressible Bloomer gets involved in a feud with his neighbour.
Will he escape his suburban nightmare unscathed?
Roy Hudd stars in Tracy Aston's comic monologue.
Producer: Jocelyn Boxall
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.
TUE 10:00 Caesar! (b00cvbk1)
Series 2
The Glass Ball Game
The story of Emperor Hadrian and his relationship with Antinous, who died in mysterious circumstances. Stars Andrew Garfield.
TUE 11:00 Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You (b069r66g)
Birthmark
Two thousand dollars for the removal of a birthmark. She wouldn't have bothered if she hadn't been what people called "very beautiful except for..."
Miranda July's critically acclaimed debut story collection. Introduced by Miranda July. Read by Bryony Hannah
Intimate and original, dark, quirky and tender, award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary imagination to the page to produce her first collection of short stories. When first published in 2007, David Eggers wrote;
"these stories are incredibly charming, beautifully written, frequently laugh-out-loud funny, and even, a dozen or so times, profound."
David Byrne said; "Miranda July's is a beautiful, odd, original voice - seductive, sometimes erotic and a little creepy too."
The collection was winner of the Frank O'Connor 2007 International Short Story Award.
Miranda July's first feature-length film, 'Me You and Everyone We Know', which opened in 2005, won The Caméra d'Or prize in Cannes; the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival; Best First Feature at the Philadelphia Film Festival; Feature Audience Award for Best Narrative at the San Francisco International Film Festival; and the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
July's first novel The First Bad Man was published in January 2015.
Producer: Karen Rose
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions.
TUE 11:15 Drama (b00qc0jp)
Pat Davis - The Right Ingredients
When her world falls to pieces, Lisa resorts to using other people's shopping lists as a means of structuring her life. Her hope is that she will eventually get all the right ingredients for the cake she needs to bake. A delicate and beautiful story of a woman coming to terms with a heart-breaking bereavement.
Lisa ...... Jasmine Hyde
Jake ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole
Ella ...... Helen Longworth
Mum ...... Kate Layden
Directed by Tracey Neale.
TUE 12:00 Round the Horne (b00l2mcd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 Hello Cheeky (b00dy523)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 13:00 Wimsey (b00s7tql)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 13:30 A Legend Before Slumdog (b00smp1n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 14:00 BBC National Short Story Award (b04hywtg)
BBC National Short Story Award 2014
Kilifi Creek
Lionel Shriver's winning story for this prestigious award for a single short story is about a naïve, young woman who makes her first trip abroad and finds herself in peril. Nancy Crane is the reader.
Abridged and produced by Elizabeth Allard.
TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01cqrsn)
Christopher William Hill - Angarrack
Winter
Lady Helen is dismayed at the arrival of a man from the National Trust, to whom her husband wishes to bequeath the estate. A visit from her stepson, Rafe, is more intriguing.
Christopher William Hill's black comedy revolves around the future of a crumbling Cornish ancestral estate in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.
Sir Richard Penwerris (Richard Jonson), mired in debt, wishes to bequeath it to the National Trust, much to the fury of his wife, Lady Helen (Lia Williams) who plans to drag the estate, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century. Matters are complicated further by the sudden emergence of an heir to the estate, Rafe Penwerris (Henry Hadden-Paton), whom his father believed to have died in the war. A clash of Titans ensues - with only one winner.
Cast:
Sir Richard Penwerris ..... Richard Johnson
Lady Helen ...... Lia Williams
Rafe ....... Harry Hadden-Paton
Tregunna ....... Tony Haygarth
Ralston ....... Nicholas Boulton
Jepson ...... Peter Cadwell
Incidental Music: composed by David Chilton
Producer: Gordon House
A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kwqqj)
David Nicholls - One Day
Episode 7
Julian Rhind-Tutt reads from the bittersweet novel by David Nicholls.
Dexter has fallen in love, a fact which he feels compensates for his almost negligible career in television. Meanwhile his old friend Emma has quit her teaching job and secured a small advance to write her first book. Their friendship has deteriorated to a functional acquaintanceship.
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 15:00 Caesar! (b00cvbk1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (b008pbnv)
Episode 4
Clive Anderson and the famed improvisation game with Stephen Fry, John Sessions, Kate Robbins and Griff Rhys-Jones.
It ran for 10 series on Channel 4 and found success in America, but the hit TV improvisation game actually started life on BBC radio.
With Colin Sell at the piano.
Devised and compiled by Mark Leveson. Additional material by Martin Booth.
Producer: Dan Patterson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1988.
TUE 16:30 Mad Man Blue (b0113060)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
TUE 17:00 HR (b00txgsc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
TUE 17:30 Mitch Benn Specials (b068xdrj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jlb2)
Earthsearch I
2. First Footprint City
As the starship Challenger returns to its solar system after a 115-year-long search for a planet suitable for colonisation - it's a home that the crew have never known.
Born aboard the craft, the four-strong space crew must come to terms with some shocking news...
Starring Sean Arnold.
James Follett's adventure serial in time and space.
Commander Telson …. Sean Arnold
Sharna …. Amanda Murray
Astra …. Kathryn Hurlbutt
Darv …. Haydn Wood
Angel One …. Sonia Fraser
Angel Two …. Gordon Reid
Sentinel …. Alexander John
Simon …. David Bradshawe
Director: Glyn Dearman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1981.
TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me (b007jmv2)
Series 1
Nicholas Parsons
TV and radio host Nicholas Parsons reminisces as he entertains an audience.
Featuring tales of his career up to the start of chairing Radio 4’s 'Just a Minute' and as quizmaster for Anglia TV’s 'Sale of the Century'.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1999.
TUE 19:00 Round the Horne (b00l2mcd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Hello Cheeky (b00dy523)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 20:00 Wimsey (b00s7tql)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 20:30 A Legend Before Slumdog (b00smp1n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 21:00 Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You (b069r66g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Drama (b00qc0jp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 Mitch Benn Specials (b068xdrj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 22:30 Bigipedia (b012qtwd)
Series 2
BigiBuzz!
This episode premiers the latest social networking add-on, BigiBuzz - find out the things that are popular so you can be one of them!
At last, the long-awaited release of Bigipedia 2.0 - the infallible, ever-present cyberfriend is back. Now with all errors and mistakes.
In this episode, Britain's least-haunted house is visited by terrified ghost-hunter Felix Richard and we find out the true meaning of pilk and pleather.
Bigipedia was conceived by Nick Doody, and written by Nick Doody, Matt Kirshen and Sarah Morgan, with Carey Marx. It features Ewan Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Nick Doody, Neil Edmond, Pippa Evans, Martha Howe-Douglas, Lewis Macleod & Jess Robinson. Occasionally you can hear Matt Kirshen.
Guy Jackson has done some music and that.
Bigipedia is a Pozzitive production, produced by David Tyler. His radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Another Case Of Milton Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, The 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, going back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits include Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The Paul and Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon and Executive Producer of Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies.
Produced and directed by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 22:55 Inheritance Tracks (b04prn2x)
Rebecca Front
The Thick of It actress shares her love of 'They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus' and why she will pass on Bach's concerto.
TUE 23:00 On the Hour (b008pcbq)
Series 1
Episode 2
Tackling dangerous dogs, TV evangelism probe - and a surprising new role for Margaret Thatcher.
All the news as it happens, if it happens – plus sport from Alan Partridge.
Savagely satirical award-winning comedy starring Chris Morris.
With Steve Coogan, David Schneider, Rebecca Front, Patrick Marber and Doon Mackichan.
Written by Chris Morris, Richard Herring, Steven Wells, Andrew Glover, David Quantick and Stewart Lee.
Editor: Armando lannucci
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991.
TUE 23:30 Radio 9 (b041yb36)
Series 1
Episode 4
Dull Dave gets down with the kids, and a drastic diet inspired by the suffragettes.
Delve into the recesses of a twisted comedy brain.
Written and performed by Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker.
With Sarah Walton, John Stevenson, Stefan Frank, Janice Vee, Matt Wilkinson and Michelle Gomez.
Producers: Johnny Daukes and Katie Marsden
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.


WEDNESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2015

WED 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jlb2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 That Reminds Me (b007jmv2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Wimsey (b00s7tql)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 A Legend Before Slumdog (b00smp1n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 BBC National Short Story Award (b04hywtg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01cqrsn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kwqqj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 Caesar! (b00cvbk1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (b008pbnv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:30 Mad Man Blue (b0113060)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 HR (b00txgsc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 05:30 Mitch Benn Specials (b068xdrj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 Wimsey (b00s8fxv)
Five Red Herrings
Reconstruction
Lord Peter Wimsey and his cohorts battle to solve the mysterious death of Scottish artist Sandy Campbell - as they piece together his final hours.
Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey – the aristocratic amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers.
Dramatised by Chris Miller.
Lord Peter Wimsey ...... Ian Carmichael
Sgt Dalziel ...... John Graham
Sir Maxwell Jameson ...... Garard Green
Insp MacPherson ...... Don McKillopp
The Procurator Fiscal ...... John Dunbar
Ferguson ...... Iain Blair
Saunders ...... Alaric Cotter
Miss Madden ...... Nicolette McKenzie
Producer: Simon Brett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1978.
WED 06:30 Find Me a New York Jewish Princess (b00nqf4s)
A light-hearted look at the New York Jewish dating scene through the eyes of presenter Tim Samuels, a London-based single Jew desperate to find the girl of his dreams.
Tim has always thought he would settle down with a nice Jewish girl in Britain, but with his single Jewish friends taking the plunge one after another and no sign of love in his life, Tim, at 33, takes decisive action. He is heading for the bright lights of New York City. He wants to find a Jewish princess with that NY get-up-and-go, someone who will get British humour - and still have lovely teeth (think Cheryl David from Curb Your Enthusiasm or comic Sarah Silverman).
He puts the word out on the NY Jewish singles circuit by way of an advert announcing that he is coming over for a week on an intense dating mission. He scrambles around for something impressive to say in the advert, before setting off for a week of power-dates. Will he find a New York girl who isn't averse to rainy weekends and watching soccer on the box?
WED 07:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage (b01p40h7)
Series 7
Secret Science
Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined on stage by comedian Dave Gorman, author and Enigma Machine owner Simon Singh and Bletchley Park enthusiast Dr Sue Black as they discuss secret science, code-breaking and the extraordinary achievements of the team working at Bletchley during WWII.
WED 07:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b03k0s5j)
Series 5
Episode 2
The real point of owning a cat and a culture clash at the Proms.
Comedy from the lopsided world of David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
With Olivia Colman and James Bachman.
Producer: Gareth Edwards
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2013.
WED 08:00 The Navy Lark (b0084rjh)
Series 3
Commodore Goldstein
Hard up Able Seaman 'Taffy' finds himself mistakenly promoted aboard HMS Troutbridge.

Stars Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Ronnie Barker as Able Seaman 'Fatso' Johnson, Richard Caldicote as Captain Povey, Teniel Evans as LS Goldstein and Heather Chasen as WREN Chasen.

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 February 1961.
WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00db5l4)
Series 6
Episode 5
A multimillion pound loan - and the entire history of mankind.
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
Written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Alan Hutchison, Bill Oddie and David Tate.
Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.
Music and songs by Liam Cohen, Dave Lee and Bill Oddie.
Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in May 1968.
WED 09:00 Puzzle Panel (b00y26mr)
Episode 5
More testing brain teasers with Chris Maslanka, Paul Lamford, Professor Angela Newing and Robert Eastaway. From July 1998.
WED 09:30 One Foot in the Grave (b007jn08)
Timeless Time
Follwing his enforced retirement, grumpy Victor Meldrew's insomnia keeps Margaret awake.
Richard Wilson stars as Victor and Annette Crosbie as his long-suffering wife Margaret.
Adapted for radio by David Renwick from his BBC TV script.
Victor Meldrew ...... Richard Wilson
Margaret Meldrew ...... Annette Crosbie
Winning numerous awards, six series were made for TV plus numerous specials on BBC ONE from 1990 to 2000.
Producer: Diane Messias
First broadcast in January 1995 on BBC Radio 2.
WED 10:00 Caesar! (b00cylb9)
Series 2
Citizens in a Great City
The story of Septimus Severus and how he came to the brink of becoming Emperor. Stars Ronald Pickup and Ray Fearon.
WED 11:00 Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You (b069rpkx)
The Boy From Lam Kien
An agoraphobe meets a young boy - twenty-seven steps from her house.
Miranda July's critically acclaimed debut story collection.
Intimate and original, dark, quirky and tender, award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary imagination to the page to produce her first collection of short stories. When first published in 2007, David Eggers wrote;
"these stories are incredibly charming, beautifully written, frequently laugh-out-loud funny, and even, a dozen or so times, profound."
David Byrne said; "Miranda July's is a beautiful, odd, original voice - seductive, sometimes erotic and a little creepy too."
The collection was winner of the Frank O'Connor 2007 International Short Story Award.
Miranda July's first feature-length film, 'Me You and Everyone We Know', which opened in 2005, won The Caméra d'Or prize in Cannes; the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival; Best First Feature at the Philadelphia Film Festival; Feature Audience Award for Best Narrative at the San Francisco International Film Festival; and the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
July's first novel The First Bad Man was published in January 2015.
Producer: Karen Rose
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions.
WED 11:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007jz06)
Dorothy, a Manager's Wife
A resentful soccer spouse rants about the game and her football manager husband. Stars Pauline Collins and Timothy West.
WED 12:00 The Navy Lark (b0084rjh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00db5l4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 13:00 Wimsey (b00s8fxv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 13:30 Find Me a New York Jewish Princess (b00nqf4s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 14:00 Afternoon Reading (b014q005)
Face It
Together
The first of three short story commissions on the theme of social networking.
Together by Naomi Alderman walks the line between science fiction and our own near future, in a love story involving eight loosely-networked friends.
Read by Dan Stevens
Produced by Robert Howells
Naomi Alderman won the Orange New Writers Award for her first novel Disobedience and has subsequently been named as the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. She has published prize-winning short fiction in Prospect, Woman and Home, the Sunday Express and a number of anthologies and in 2009 was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. From 2004 to 2007 Naomi was lead writer on the BAFTA-shortlisted alternative reality game Perplex City.
WED 14:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life (b0375byp)
The Beginnings of the Modern Office
Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of today's corporate culture
In today's Britain, more of us spend more time at an office than ever before. It dominates our lives. It's made more of us middle class, transformed the lot of women, raised standards in education and been the reason for many technological advances.
But the office itself seems to have no history. We accept without question the way we work now. We endure the charade of the annual appraisal. We gawp at endless PowerPoint presentations in interminable meetings. We work in open plan offices where we can overhear our colleagues phone calls to their plumber. That's how things are done. But why?
For the last twenty years, writer Lucy Kellaway has been an observer of the peculiarities of corporate culture in her column for the Financial Times. In this series, she looks back at the history of office life. How did it end up like this?
In this episode, Lucy looks at essayist Charles Lamb's account of life at the East India Company in the early 1800s.
From its headquarters in Leadenhall street in the city of London, the East India Company created a complex bureaucracy to enable the governing of empire. Charles Lamb worked there for over thirty years and left a rich account of the frustrations and consolations of office life. With Huw Bowen of Swansea University.
Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry Shale
Historical Consultant: Michael Heller
Producer: Russell Finch
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01cqvcz)
Christopher William Hill - Angarrack
Spring
Lady Helen is growing increasingly attached to her stepson Rafe - a welcome distraction as she battles her husband Richard for control of Angarrack, the Penwerris ancestral home.
Christopher William Hill's black comedy revolves around the future of a crumbling Cornish ancestral estate in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Sir Richard Penwerris (Richard Jonson), mired in debt, wishes to bequeath it to the National Trust, much to the fury of his wife, Lady Helen (Lia Williams) who plans to drag the estate, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century. Matters are complicated further by the sudden emergence of an heir to the estate, Rafe Penwerris (Henry Hadden-Paton), whom his father believed to have died in the war. A clash of Titans ensues - with only one winner.
Cast:
Sir Richard Penwerris ...... Richard Johnson
Lady Helen ....... Lia Williams
Rafe ....... Harry Hadden-Paton
Tregunna ....... Tony Haygarth
Ralston ....... Nicholas Boulton
Jepson ....... Peter Cadwell
Incidental Music: composed by David Chilton
Producer: Gordon House
A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kwqql)
David Nicholls - One Day
Episode 8
Julian Rhind-Tutt reads from the bittersweet novel by David Nicholls.
Dexter and Sylvie have got married and embarked on their new life together, and Emma is quietly becoming a success in the world of children's fiction. They are back in touch but their worlds are miles apart.
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 15:00 Caesar! (b00cylb9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
WED 16:00 Puzzle Panel (b00y26mr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
WED 16:30 One Foot in the Grave (b007jn08)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
WED 17:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage (b01p40h7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
WED 17:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b03k0s5j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jlbf)
Earthsearch I
3. Sands of Kyros
The Challenger's crew has returned to its solar system to discover that a million years has passed on Earth while only 115 years had passed on their starship.
After their devastating news, the four-strong crew face peril from a once benign force...
Starring Sean Arnold.
James Follett's adventure serial in time and space.
Commander Telson …. Sean Arnold
Sharna …. Amanda Murray
Astra …. Kathryn Hurlbutt
Darv …. Haydn Wood
Angel One …. Sonia Fraser
Angel Two …. Gordon Reid
Sentinel …. Alexander John
George …. John McAndrew
Director: Glyn Dearman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1981.
WED 18:30 Off the Page (b0076t2d)
The Power of the Voice
Matthew Parris and his guests Peggy Reynolds, Pauline Black and Stewart Pearce discuss how your voice can shape your everyday life. From August 2005.
WED 19:00 The Navy Lark (b0084rjh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00db5l4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 20:00 Wimsey (b00s8fxv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 20:30 Find Me a New York Jewish Princess (b00nqf4s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 21:00 Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You (b069rpkx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
WED 21:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007jz06)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
WED 22:00 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b03k0s5j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 22:30 Meanwhile, It's Will & Greg (b018xwtk)
Episode 1
Comedy performers William Andrews and Greg McHugh explore the surreal and the absurd through characters and everyday situations in their first sketch show for BBC Radio 4. Along with live sketches recorded in front of an appreciative Glasgow audience, the show also features studio based sketches with Will & Greg as "themselves" exploring a particular scenario and utilizing their hilarious relationship with each other and their trademark skew-whiff logic. The studio based sketches allows them to play with sound and atmosphere of the radio sketch form and blend them with the live audience material.
Together with brand new regulars and one-off sketches, the series explores the bizarrely familiar, the recognisably odd and the upbeat offbeat way of life that only exists when the planet is touched by Will and Greg.
Stars William Andrews and Greg McHugh with Gavin Mitchell and Kirsten Mclean.
Director: Iain Davidson
Script editor: Chris Grady
Original music by Alex Attwood.
Producer: Gus Beattie
A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06cxtsc)
From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Thom Tuck chats again to John Henry Falle aka The Story Beast.
WED 23:00 Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes (b01pjp4n)
Series 2
Communication
Pryce Pryce-Jones, Richard Trevithick and Guglielmo Marconi.
Comedian Elis James compares key figures in Welsh history to determine the ultimate heroes of Wales.
With Ben Partridge and Nadia Kamil.
Written by Elis James, Gareth Gwyn and Benjamin Partridge.
Producer: Sharif Shahwan
First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales in January 2013.
WED 23:30 Hut 33 (b01k6hfc)
Series 3
Unlucky for Some
1942: It's unlucky for some of the code breakers at Bletchley when they're forced to move into spooky Hut 13.
James Cary's sitcom set at Bletchley Park - the top-secret home of the Second World War codebreakers.
Professor Charles Gardner …. Robert Bathurst
Archie …. Tom Goodman-Hill
Gordon ...... Fergus Craig
3rd Lieutenant Joshua Featherstonhaugh-Marshall …. Alex MacQueen
Minka …. Olivia Coleman
Mrs Best …. Lill Roughley
Producer: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009.


THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2015

THU 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jlbf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Off the Page (b0076t2d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Wimsey (b00s8fxv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Find Me a New York Jewish Princess (b00nqf4s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Afternoon Reading (b014q005)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life (b0375byp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01cqvcz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kwqql)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Caesar! (b00cylb9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Puzzle Panel (b00y26mr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 One Foot in the Grave (b007jn08)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage (b01p40h7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b03k0s5j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young (b007jn17)
Episode 1
When Kim Drake's fiance is killed on their wedding day, the authorities agree on suicide. But why would computer expert Mike kill himself on his wedding day? Could it be connected to his decision to walk out of his sensitive job at Peregrine Communications Systems?
Shaun Prendergast's techno thriller in six-parts.
CAST:
Kim Drake …. Siriol Jenkins
Mike Fisher …. Neil Roberts
Anne …. Kate Binchy
Frank …. Shaun Prendergast
Miss Gee …. Ann Davies
Stone …. Kenneth Cranham
Todd …. Jack Klaff
DI Dear …. Eric Alan
DS Love …. Jonathan Tafler
John Maschler …. Terence Edmond
Emma/Nurse Lewis …. Caroline Strong
Mary/WPC …. Nicola Boyce
Directed by Adrian Bean
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992.
THU 06:30 The Radio Detectives (b007jp9y)
Series 2
The Wisdom of Miss Marple
Examining the continual appeal of Agatha Christie's shrewd detective, Miss Jane Marple.
"A fluffy old dear with a dreadful hat." Discovering the inspiration and progression of St. Mary Mead's ever acute observer of deadly events.
Presented by Cultural historian Jeffrey Richards. With June Whitfield and Simon Brett.
Producer: Helen Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire (b00ss2cq)
Series 1
Episode 2
Sheila Hancock heads a stunning cast including Mackenzie Crook, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu and Kevin Eldon. This is a clever, funny and touching series about a small town in the middle of Northamptonshire as it prepares for a talent night.
Written by and also starring Katherine Jakeways.
Rehearsals for the town talent night are well underway, with some of the worst acts ever seen on stage.
Recently divorced Jan has a surprise visit from neighbour and ex-teacher Mary and finds they have more than an untidy hedge in common.
Jan's ex, Frank, thinks his new love Angela may be eating too many peanuts.
Esther knocks Jan to the floor in her self-defence class but wait - could this be Jonathan coming to Jan's rescue?
And meanwhile supermarket manager Rod (Mackenzie Crook) gets trapped in an upturned shopping trolley.
Narrator ...... Sheila Hancock
Rod ...... Mackenzie Crook
Mary ...... Penelope Wilton
Jan ...... Felicity Montagu
Jonathan ...... Kevin Eldon
Esther ...... Katherine Jakeways
Keith ...... John Biggins
Frank ...... Rufus Wright
Angela ...... Lizzie Roper
Producer: Claire Jones.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2010.
THU 07:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b068xwm7)
Coding Special
The Museum's Steering Committee discusses computers made with dominoes, praises the mother of all computer programs and reveals that the first computer bug was actually a moth.
Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his newest new curator Sarah Millican welcome:
- Matt Parker, who left Australia to teach maths in the UK before joining the Festival of the Spoken Nerd comedy group. He is a regular on Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage, presents the Discovery Channel's You Have Been Warned and has shown off his Rubik's Cube skills on CBBC's How to Be Epic at Everything. His latest book Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension explores such topics as the fairest way to cut a pizza and the most efficient way to tie your shoelaces. Matt's favourite numbers are 496, 3,435 and 2,025.
- Eben Upton, who in 2006 conceived the idea of the Raspberry Pi, a credit-card sized fully-programmable computer that went on sale in 2011 and has since sold more than 5 million, becoming the fastest-selling British personal computer in history. MIT has since named him one of the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35 and he has been awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal.
- Sydney Padua, a Canadian graphic novelist and animator and who has worked on blockbuster movies such as The Illusionist, Clash of the Titans and John Carter as well as teaching at the Animation Workshop in Denmark and at the University of Middlesex. Most recently she has written and illustrated The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, a New York Times bestselling graphic novel in which 19th century computer pioneers Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage build a vast mechanical computer - and use it to fight crime for Queen Victoria.
Researchers: Anne Miller and Stevyn Colgan of QI.
Producers: Richard Turner and James Harkin
A BBC Radio Comedy production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2015.
THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlg5)
Series 2
Crossed Swords
After a major find out on his rag and bone round, excited Harold lets greed get the better of him.
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 eight series on TV.
Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett
Shop Assistant ...... Derek Nimmo
Auctioneer ...... Michael MacLean
Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Gale Pedrick.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1967.
THU 08:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b007zgqw)
Series 1
Episode 5
Shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel tries to swing a prize fight.
Recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows charting the adventures of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. Originally broadcast with sponsors on America's NBC radio network in the 1930s. The scripts were rediscovered in 1988.
Groucho Marx as Waldorf T Flywheel ...... Michael Roberts
Chico Marx as Emmanuel Ravellias ...... Frank Lazarus
With Lorelei King and Graham Hoadly.
Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark Brisenden.
Music arranged and conducted by David Firman.
Producer: Dirk Maggs
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1990.
THU 09:00 It's Not What You Know (b01ckr46)
Series 1
Episode 2
"The Thick Of It" star, Rebecca Front, Fast Show actor and comedian, Simon Day, and award-winning Geordie comic, Jason Cook nominate one of their intimate circle to answer questions about their relationship, to try and prove how well they know them.
With Miles Jupp chairing – if the panel can predict the responses their nominees gave, they get points.
Rebecca thinks she knows her father, Charles Front, a retired illustrator and calligrapher, pretty well. Simon examines his relationship with best friend, Conrad Butlin, a stylist from Notting Hill in London. And Jason plumps for his mother, Pat, a recruitment consultant from Hebburn in Newcastle - and, it turns out, something of a Loose Women fan...
Producer: Sam Michell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012.
THU 09:30 After Henry (b007jqqj)
Series 4
Little Women
"'I don't know which of the two masculine approaches is the more offensive - Gary's straight boorishness or Vernon's patronising, undervaluing gallantry".
Trying to put up a new shelf, Sarah goes to war in the battle of the sexes.
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
Vernon ...... Frederick Treves
Gary ...... Ian Michie
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 February 1989.
THU 10:00 Classic Serial (b01hw63c)
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
From Breakfast to Luncheon
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor
Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June. Lives interweave on the streets of London as Clarissa Dalloway makes her final preparations for an important party.
1 of 2: From breakfast to luncheon
Mrs Dalloway ..... Fenella Woolgar
Richard ..... Sam Dale
Septimus ..... Paul Ready
Rezia ..... Susie Riddell
Peter ..... Scott Handy
Sally ..... Liza Sadovy
Elizabeth ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan
Lucy ..... Amaka Okafor
Hugh ..... Patrick Brennan,
Dr Holmes ..... Peter Hamilton Dyer,
Miss Brush ..... Christine Absalom
Miss Pym ..... Tracy Wiles
Directed by Marc Beeby
Mrs Dalloway is one of Virginia Woolf's most approachable novels. It's apparently simple structure - taking place over a single day and dovetailing two very different stories - belies its rich textures and the complexity of its beautifully drawn characters. Clarissa Dalloway's party, the climax of the story, is eagerly awaited by all and resolves both stories with wisdom and poignancy.
THU 11:00 Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You (b069rvbs)
This Person and The Man on the Stairs
Two stories, by turns funny, unsettling and dark, from Miranda July's critically acclaimed story collection.
Read by Bryony Hannah
Intimate and original, dark, quirky and tender, award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary imagination to the page to produce her first collection of short stories. When first published in 2007, David Eggers wrote;
"these stories are incredibly charming, beautifully written, frequently laugh-out-loud funny, and even, a dozen or so times, profound."
David Byrne said; "Miranda July's is a beautiful, odd, original voice - seductive, sometimes erotic and a little creepy too."
The collection was winner of the Frank O'Connor 2007 International Short Story Award.
Miranda July's first feature-length film, 'Me You and Everyone We Know', which opened in 2005, won The Caméra d'Or prize in Cannes; the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival; Best First Feature at the Philadelphia Film Festival; Feature Audience Award for Best Narrative at the San Francisco International Film Festival; and the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
July's first novel The First Bad Man was published in January 2015.
Producer: Karen Rose
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions.
THU 11:15 Drama (b00tdltn)
Michael Butt - Unauthorised History: The Killing
By Michael Butt.
In May 1593, the playwright Christopher Marlowe was killed. Apparently, it was because of an argument over a bill. Michael Butt's innovative drama dons the cloak of documentary to re-examine the unsolved case.
Cast:
Narrator . . . . . Paul Rhys
Thomas Walsingham . . . . . Blake Ritson
Thomas Kyd . . . . . Harry Lloyd
Robert Poley . . . . . Burn Gorman
Lord Cecil . . . . . Tim McMullan
Mrs Bull . . . . . Christine Kavanagh
Ingram Frizer . . . . . Tony Bell
Richard Baines . . . . . Sam Dale
Cambridge Porter . . . . . Sean Baker
Drew Woodleff . . . . . Lloyd Thomas
Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.
THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlg5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 12:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b007zgqw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 13:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young (b007jn17)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 13:30 The Radio Detectives (b007jp9y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 14:00 Afternoon Reading (b014qsws)
Face It
The Deletion
The second of three short story commissions on the theme of social networking.
"It soon becomes apparent that I don't need to even see Emma White's account because she's sprawled all over my ex's page like spilt bleach. I decide my next move is self-deletion."
The Deletion, by Laura Dockrill, shows how reliant people are becoming on social networks and makes us wonder whether, after setting up an account, it's ever possible to truly quit.
Read by Laura Dockrill
Produced by Robert Howells
Laura Dockrill is a poet and illustrator from South London. A graduate of The Brit School of Performing Arts, twenty-two year old Laura was named one of the top ten literary stars of 2008 according to The Times and voted Elle's top face to look out for in 2009.
THU 14:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life (b0375qtg)
Getting a Job: Nepotism or Meritocracy?
Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of today's corporate culture.

In this episode, Lucy reveals how hiring the 'best man for the job' wasn't always the way it was done.

In the 19th century, office jobs were often obtained by patronage rather than qualifications. In the Northcote-Trevelyan report of 1853, Sir Charles Trevelyan campaigned to introduce meritocratic recruitment to the civil service. But his ideas were met with hostility in many quarters. Lucy visits the Houses of Parliament and speaks to John Greenaway of East Anglia University


Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry Shale
Historical Consultant: Michael Heller

Producer: Russell Finch
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01cqwsx)
Christopher William Hill - Angarrack
Summer
Lady Helen's relationship with her stepson Rafe is growing dangerously out of control - a fact viewed with considerable suspicion by Angarrack's long-serving butler Tregunna.
Christopher William Hill's black comedy revolves around the future of a crumbling Cornish ancestral estate in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Sir Richard Penwerris (Richard Jonson), mired in debt, wishes to bequeath it to the National Trust, much to the fury of his wife, Lady Helen (Lia Williams) who plans to drag the estate, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century. Matters are complicated further by the sudden emergence of an heir to the estate, Rafe Penwerris (Henry Hadden-Paton), whom his father believed to have died in the war. A clash of Titans ensues - with only one winner.
Cast:
Sir Richard Penwerris ..... Richard Johnson
Lady Helen ...... Lia Williams
Rafe ...... Harry Hadden-Paton
Tregunna ...... Tony Haygarth
Ralston ...... Nicholas Boulton
Jepson ....... Peter Cadwell
Prideaux ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Incidental Music: composed by David Chilton
Producer: Gordon House
A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kwqqn)
David Nicholls - One Day
Episode 9
Julian Rhind-Tutt reads from the bittersweet novel by David Nicholls.
Emma and Dexter have surrendered to their desire to be together, and while ostensibly maintaining separate flats they are living at Dexter's old bachelor pad, trying for a baby and house hunting. The pressure is on.
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 15:00 Classic Serial (b01hw63c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
THU 16:00 It's Not What You Know (b01ckr46)
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THU 16:30 After Henry (b007jqqj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire (b00ss2cq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
THU 17:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b068xwm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jlbs)
Earthsearch I
4. The Solaric Empire
Searching for Earth - which has mysteriously vanished from the solar system - two of the crew of the starship Challenger have landed on neighbouring planet, Kyros.
At first it appears to be uninhabited, but Astra and Darv soon discover otherwise...
Starring Sean Arnold.
James Follett's adventure serial in time and space.
Commander Telson …. Sean Arnold
Sharna …. Amanda Murray
Astra …. Kathryn Hurlbutt
Darv …. Haydn Wood
Angel One …. Sonia Fraser
Angel Two …. Gordon Reid
Thale …. Graham Faulkner
Helan …. Judy Franklin
Thorden …. John Bott
Spegal …. Stephen Garlick
Director: Glyn Dearman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1981.
THU 18:30 Great Lives (b0076rcy)
Series 7
Charles M Schulz
Journalist and biographer Valerie Grove chooses Charles M Schulz, creator of the Peanuts cartoon strip. Schulz's widow Jeannie provides biographical insights and Anita O'Brien, curator of the Cartoon Art Trust, puts the cartoon in its historical context.
THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlg5)
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THU 19:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b007zgqw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 20:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young (b007jn17)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 20:30 The Radio Detectives (b007jp9y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You (b069rvbs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Drama (b00tdltn)
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THU 22:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b068xwm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 22:30 Newsjack (b069nrnn)
Series 13
Episode 2
This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the public. Trying to make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar.
THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b007k1fk)
Series 1
Rebellion
Gary leads a demon rebellion against the Prince of Darkness.
Meanwhile Satan ponders the meaning of happiness - and Elvis Presley gets locked in a crate...
Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell.
Satan ...... Andy Hamilton
The Professor ...... James Grout
Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville
Gary, The Demon ...... Steven O'Donnell
Other characters played by Philip Pope, Penelope Nice, Michael Fenton Stevens and Nigel Pegram.
Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995.
THU 23:30 Sounding Off with McGough (b007k4cn)
3. The Meaning of Life
Roger McGough's poetic reflections on 'the meaning of life'
With the accompaniment of long-time musical collaborator Andy Roberts.
Recorded at the Bath Festival.
Producer: Sara Davies
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000.
THU 23:45 The Shuttleworths (b007k24g)
Series 1
How...
Sheffield's John Shuttleworth offers tips on how to cope with divorce and washing-up. Stars Graham Fellows. From October 1993.


FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2015

FRI 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jlbs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b0076rcy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young (b007jn17)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 The Radio Detectives (b007jp9y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Afternoon Reading (b014qsws)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life (b0375qtg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01cqwsx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kwqqn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 Classic Serial (b01hw63c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b01ckr46)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 After Henry (b007jqqj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire (b00ss2cq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b068xwm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young (b007jzf9)
Episode 2
Kim Drake is retracing her dead boyfriend's journey across Europe in an attempt to discover why he apparently killed himself on their wedding day. In the tough city of Hamburg she discovers that Mike had been economical with the truth ...
Stars Siriol Jenkins as Kim Drake, Neil Roberts as Mike Fisher, Kate Binchy as Anne, Shaun Prendergast as Otto/Burns and Kenneth Cranham as Stone.
Shaun Prendergast's techno thriller in six parts.
Directed by Adrian Bean
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992.
FRI 06:30 The FAE Sonata (b00sjbsx)
Frei Aber Einsam - 'free but lonely' - was the motto of the great 19th century violinist Joseph Joachim. It's also the name of a Violin Sonata played by Joachim, accompanied by Clara Schumann, that resulted from a collaboration between the composer Robert Schumann and two of his pupils, Johannes Brahms and Albert Dietrich.
On the 200th anniversary of Schumann's birth, Tom Robinson examines the complex relationships between these romantic artists through the prism of this piece of music. Schumann's passionate love for his wife Clara is matched only by Brahms' devotion to her during and following Schumann's decline into mental illness.
Brahms was also a close champion of Joachim, until the violinist's divorce, when they fell out over the composer's support for Joachims' wife. And the FAE Sonata itself was neglected - an innocent victim - until long after Brahms' death.
Tom unpicks the romantic and turbulent story of a musical collaboration with the help of pianist and Schumann champion Lucy Parham, violinist Tasmin Little, Robert John Godfrey of 'The Enid' and Radio 3's Andrew McGregor.
Producer: Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 07:00 Bookcases (b00sxt6h)
Series 1
The Man in White
London 1858: A little bored by Gerald, Cordelia is having fun with the novelist Wilkie Collins, who’s having a spell of writer's block with The Woman in White.
Primus has the answer...or does he?
Martyn Wade's Victorian era comedy stars Michael Cochrane and Maggie Steed.
Primus …. Michael Cochrane
Cordelia …. Maggie Steed
Edith …. Elizabeth Spriggs
Gerald …. David Horovitch
Wilkie Collins …. David Timson
Simeon …. Charles Simpson
George Eliot …. David Antrobus
Director: Cherry Cookson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1998.
FRI 07:30 The Absolutely Radio Show (b069h77m)
Series 1
Episode 2
Cast members of Channel 4's hugely popular TV sketch show Absolutely reunite to revisit much-loved sketch characters, with some newcomers.
Starring Pete Baikie, Morwenna Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy and John Sparkes.
The Stoneybridge Town Council attempt to cover up a possible bribery scandal, Denzil and Gwynned discuss son Codfyl's starring role in a nativity play, the Little Girl's very personal take on having her Tonsils out and Calum Gilhooley tries to get an appointment with a doctor for something "quite urgent".
Mr Muzak sings about the joys of being alone with your computer and the Commissionaire very nearly undergoes an appendectomy. There's more from Talking Facebook and the People's War, with stories from those who were nearly there.
Producers: Gus Beattie and Gordon Kennedy
A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in September 2015.
FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnf8)
Series 5
The Insurance Policy
Shrewd Miss Pugh urges the lad to get insured. But is Sid's policy such a wise buy?
Stars Tony Hancock.
With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott.
Producer: Tom Ronald
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1958.
FRI 08:30 The Goon Show (b007jscs)
Series 5
Under Two Floorboards
In true Beau Geste style, Neddie Seagoon joins the foreign legion in disgrace.

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.

Starring:

Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan

First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.

With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.

Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.

Announcer: Wallace Greenslade

Producer: Peter Eton

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1955.
FRI 09:00 The 99p Challenge (b007js9y)
Series 3
Episode 4
Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Tom Binns, Peter Serafinowicz, Nick Frost and Marcus Brigstocke.
The game where someone stands to leave the studio 99p richer than when they came in.
Written by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley.
Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001.
FRI 09:30 The Adventures of John and Tony (b009pn8p)
The Total Hotel Experience
John and his best friend Tony find themselves taking part in a seaside hotel's murder-mystery weekend.
John just wants to play dominoes, but amongst the guests is a woman from his past - with her potatoes.
Written by John Hegley
Starring John Hegley, Simon Munnery, Terry Malloy, Sunny Ormonde and Andy Hockley.
Original music by Nigel Piper.
Director: Anne Edyvean
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1999.
FRI 10:00 Classic Serial (b01j2ff2)
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
From Afternoon to Nightfall
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor
Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June. As Clarissa Dalloway makes her final preparations for an important party, Septimus visits another doctor and becomes increasingly troubled.
2 of 2: From afternoon to nightfall
Mrs Dalloway ..... Fenella Woolgar
Richard ..... Sam Dale
Septimus ..... Paul Ready
Rezia ..... Susie Riddell
Peter ..... Scott Handy
Sally ..... Liza Sadovy
Elizabeth ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan
Lucy ..... Amaka Okafor
Sir William ..... Patrick Brennan,
Miss Kilman ..... Christine Absalom
Dr Holmes ..... Peter Hamilton Dyer,
Directed by Marc Beeby.
FRI 11:00 Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You (b069rydl)
It Was Romance
Can a new age self-help workshop teach women to become more romantic?
Read by Bryony Hannah
Intimate and original, dark, quirky and tender, award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary imagination to the page to produce her first collection of short stories. When first published in 2007, David Eggers wrote;
"these stories are incredibly charming, beautifully written, frequently laugh-out-loud funny, and even, a dozen or so times, profound."
David Byrne said; "Miranda July's is a beautiful, odd, original voice - seductive, sometimes erotic and a little creepy too."
The collection was winner of the Frank O'Connor 2007 International Short Story Award.
Miranda July's first feature-length film, 'Me You and Everyone We Know', which opened in 2005, won The Caméra d'Or prize in Cannes; the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival; Best First Feature at the Philadelphia Film Festival; Feature Audience Award for Best Narrative at the San Francisco International Film Festival; and the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
July's first novel The First Bad Man was published in January 2015.
Producer: Karen Rose
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions.
FRI 11:15 Alan Plater - The Gallery (b01p98gb)
The opening night of a new Tyneside art gallery is thrown into jeopardy by the well-meaning but ill-trained staff. Dodgy wiring, an over-zealous cleaner and a retired greyhound add to the comic mix.
Alan Plater's final play for radio stars Joe Caffrey as Trevor, Janice Acquah as Liz, Deka Walmsley as Michael, Caroline Guthrie as Heather, Phillipa Wilson as Julie and Chris Connel as Neville.
Playwright and screenwriter, Alan Plater CBE (1935-2010) was the much-loved author of hundreds of stage, radio and TV dramas including The Beiderbecke Affair, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, Close the Coalhouse Door, The Pallisers, Z Cars and Lewis. His work for radio includes adapting his own autobiography, Stories For Another Day, and the original drama series The Devil's Music.
Director: Alison Hindell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnf8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jscs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young (b007jzf9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 The FAE Sonata (b00sjbsx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 14:00 Afternoon Reading (b014qt0b)
Face It
Confirm/Ignore
The third of three short story commissions on the theme of social networking.
Confirm/Ignore, by Nikesh Shukla, is a moving story about coping with grief in the age of social media.
Read by Nikesh Shukla
Produced by Robert Howells
Nikesh Shukla is a London-based author and poet. His first book, 'Coconut Unlimited' was shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award 2010.
FRI 14:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life (b0376jy0)
The Career Ladder
Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of today's corporate culture.

In this episode, Lucy charts the emergence of the career ladder as a way to motivate staff. The late 19th century saw a huge growth in office clerks. With the increase in staff, came the concept of a career ladder as a way to make up for the drudgery. Lucy looks at the Scottish banks and their early version of the annual appraisal, which often included strikingly personal comments. With Alan McKinlay of Newcastle University

Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry Shale
Historical Consultant: Michael Heller

Producer: Russell Finch
A Somethin' Else production for Radio 4.
FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01cqx0h)
Christopher William Hill - Angarrack
Autumn
Sir Richard is dead, and a fire has destroyed Angarrack's library. But are the two events connected - and will Lady Helen be able to use them to her advantage?
Christopher William Hill's black comedy revolves around the future of a crumbling Cornish ancestral estate in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Sir Richard Penwerris (Richard Jonson), mired in debt, wishes to bequeath it to the National Trust, much to the fury of his wife, Lady Helen (Lia Williams) who plans to drag the estate, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century. Matters are complicated further by the sudden emergence of an heir to the estate, Rafe Penwerris (Henry Hadden-Paton), whom his father believed to have died in the war. A clash of Titans ensues - with only one winner.
Cast:
Sir Richard Penwerris ...... Richard Johnson
Lady Helen ...... Lia Williams
Rafe ....... Harry Hadden-Paton
Tregunna ...... Tony Haygarth
Ralston ....... Nicholas Boulton
Jepson ...... Peter Cadwell
Prideaux ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Incidental Music: composed by David Chilton
Producer: Gordon House
A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kwqqq)
David Nicholls - One Day
Episode 10
Julian Rhind-Tutt reads from the bittersweet novel by David Nicholls.
Seventeen years after the one night they spent together in 1988, memories of that fateful day are still strong - perhaps even stronger, given the events that have shaped and changed their lives for ever.
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 15:00 Classic Serial (b01j2ff2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 The 99p Challenge (b007js9y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
FRI 16:30 The Adventures of John and Tony (b009pn8p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
FRI 17:00 Bookcases (b00sxt6h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
FRI 17:30 The Absolutely Radio Show (b069h77m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
FRI 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007s19b)
Earthsearch I
5. The Pools of Time
Darv and Astra, two of the starship's crew, are in grave danger after being taken prisoner by the inhabitants of Zelda 5.
Their crew mates Telson and Sharna are in hot pursuit aboard the Challenger...
Starring Sean Arnold.
James Follett's adventure serial in time and space.
Commander Telson …. Sean Arnold
Sharna …. Amanda Murray
Astra …. Kathryn Hurlbutt
Darv …. Haydn Wood
Angel One …. Sonia Fraser
Angel Two …. Gordon Reid
Helan …. Judy Franklin
Thorden …. John Bott
Spegal …. Stephen Garlick
Custodian of the Past …. Eve Karpf
Old Man …. Godfrey Kenton
Director: Glyn Dearman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1981.
FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b0075znq)
Series 1
The Last Post
The Last Post was the final bugle call for the armed forces before lights out at night.
Over the years it has become inextricably linked with death and the act of remembrance.
This programme includes Officer AD Bridges describing how he prepared the 12 buglers for the year 2000's Remembrance Day service and John Wyatt, a Japanese Prisoner of War talks of his memories of the piece.
Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks.
Producer: Rosie Boulton
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2000.
FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnf8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b007jscs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young (b007jzf9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 The FAE Sonata (b00sjbsx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You (b069rydl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Alan Plater - The Gallery (b01p98gb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 The Absolutely Radio Show (b069h77m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
FRI 22:30 BBC New Comedy Awards (b069nrpm)
2015
Heat three
The next heat in comedy's most prestigious new talent competition from The Komedia in Bath.
Our host, Elis James presents some of the best new comedians from across the UK.
Judges for this heat are comedian Lucy Porter, BBC Comedy Producer Sam Bryant and editor of comedy website Chortle, Steve Bennett
Produced by Lyndsay Fenner and Kerry McCarthy.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in September 2015.
FRI 23:30 Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun (b007k1z6)
Greenwich
Driving instructors, pornography and a surprise from Supermarket Sweep's TV host, Dale Winton.
From Greenwich University, London.
Stewart Lee and Richard Herring’s mix of sharp sketches and situations, stand up topical gags and banter.
With Peter Baynham, Rebecca Front and John Thomson.
Special guest: Dale Winton
Lee and Herring went to write and star in their successful TV transfer to BBC Two in 1995.
Cult BBC Radio 1 series first broadcast in November 1993.