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
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?
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.
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.
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.
Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.
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.
More testing brain teasers with Chris Maslanka, Paul Lamford, Professor Angela Newing and Robert Eastaway. From July 1998.
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.
The story of Septimus Severus and how he came to the brink of becoming Emperor. Stars Ronald Pickup and Ray Fearon.
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.
A resentful soccer spouse rants about the game and her football manager husband. Stars Pauline Collins and Timothy West.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sir Richard Penwerris ...... Richard Johnson
Lady Helen ....... Lia Williams
Rafe ....... Harry Hadden-Paton
Tregunna ....... Tony Haygarth
Ralston ....... Nicholas Boulton
Jepson ....... Peter Cadwell
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.
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
Matthew Parris and his guests Peggy Reynolds, Pauline Black and Stewart Pearce discuss how your voice can shape your everyday life. From August 2005.
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.
Original music by Alex Attwood.
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.
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.
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
THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2015
THU 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jlbf)
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18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Off the Page (b0076t2d)
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18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Wimsey (b00s8fxv)
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06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Find Me a New York Jewish Princess (b00nqf4s)
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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)
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14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kwqql)
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THU 03:00 Caesar! (b00cylb9)
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10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Puzzle Panel (b00y26mr)
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THU 04:30 One Foot in the Grave (b007jn08)
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THU 05:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage (b01p40h7)
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07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b03k0s5j)
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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)
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10:00 today]
THU 16:00 It's Not What You Know (b01ckr46)
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09:00 today]
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)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
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)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
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)
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FRI 01:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young (b007jn17)
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FRI 01:30 The Radio Detectives (b007jp9y)
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FRI 02:00 Afternoon Reading (b014qsws)
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FRI 02:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life (b0375qtg)
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FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01cqwsx)
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FRI 02:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kwqqn)
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FRI 03:00 Classic Serial (b01hw63c)
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FRI 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b01ckr46)
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FRI 04:30 After Henry (b007jqqj)
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FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire (b00ss2cq)
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FRI 05:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b068xwm7)
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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)
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FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jscs)
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FRI 13:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young (b007jzf9)
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FRI 13:30 The FAE Sonata (b00sjbsx)
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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)
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FRI 16:00 The 99p Challenge (b007js9y)
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FRI 16:30 The Adventures of John and Tony (b009pn8p)
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09:30 today]
FRI 17:00 Bookcases (b00sxt6h)
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07:00 today]
FRI 17:30 The Absolutely Radio Show (b069h77m)
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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)
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FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b007jscs)
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FRI 20:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young (b007jzf9)
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06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 The FAE Sonata (b00sjbsx)
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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)
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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.