SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015

SAT 00:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream (b009mbjn)
Fight for the Future
Jurgen and Kate are desperate to get the weapon away before all is lost...
Conclusion of Simon Bovey's sci-fi adventure series set during the Second World War.
Stars Rory Kinnear as Jurgen Rall, Tim McMullan as Major Barton, Joannah Tincey as Kate Richey, Ben Crowe as Lieutenant Dundas, Rachel Atkins as Trudi Schenk, Peter Marinker as Brigadier Erskine and Laura Molyneux as Slipstream.
Other parts played by Simon Treves, Sam Pamphilon, Alex Lanipekun and Lloyd Woolf.
Producer: Marc Beeby
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2008.
SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b00763xd)
Series 2
Over the Rainbow
Ernie and Ena Harburg, Jane Horrocks and Steve Nallon reflect on the impact of Judy Garland's 'Over The Rainbow' from The Wizard of Oz.
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 September 2001.
SAT 01:00 Agatha Christie (b00jz7jj)
Philomel Cottage
When Alex meets Terry she's swept off her feet. He persuades her to leave her job with a dot com company and set up a business with him - based in an out of the way cottage in the country...
A new spin on the Queen of the whodunit, Agatha Christie's classic story, dramatised for radio by Mike Walker.
Stars Lizzie McInnerny as Alex, Tom Hollander as Terry, Adam Godley as Richard and Struan Rodger as Merlin.
Producer: Jeremy Mortimer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
SAT 01:30 Bill Mitchell: The Man Who Wrestled Pumas... Probably (b00l1q7h)
Miriam Margolyes presents a documentary charting the life and career of her late colleague and friend Bill Mitchell, the voice-over artist who informed us the latest blockbusters would be 'at cinemas near you from Sunday', told us 'Carlsberg was probably the best lager in the world', and that Denim was 'for men who didn't have to try too hard'.
Born in Canada, he admitted that heavy drinking and smoking from his teens helped preserve the voice, and indeed drove his excessive lifestyle. He 'had to' abuse his body to maintain the voice and he 'had to' be in a Soho pub because it was handy for the recording studios.
Bill's career spanned acting, voice-over work, plus a brief spell as 1970s pop outfit Yin and Yan with friend Chris Sandford. His remains ranked as one of the greats within the advertising industry.
Featuring contributions from Bill's daughter Amanda McAllister, musicians and friends Zoot Money and Kenny Clayton, and industry moguls Nick Angell and Rob Townsend.
SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b00ybw77)
David Vann - Caribou Island
Episode 5
Caribou Island is set in David Vann's native Alaska, amid the icy, glacier fed lakes and the remote islands covered in alder and Sitka spruce. And it is on such island, far from any habitation, that Gary, a medievalist who fled to Alaska thirty years before with his young wife Irene, in search of an unattainable idyll, is now determined to begin once again. He will build a simple cabin there and at last find peace. Irene joins him in his endeavour, understanding, unlike her husband, that there are costs.
Meanwhile her daughter Rhoda dreams of marriage with Jim, a dentist suffering his own 'mid-life crisis'.
Fluid,sometimes funny and sometimes raw, David Vann explores the depths an unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes the young still entertain.
Today: Jim's dreams are dashed while Irene wonders if hers were ever realistic.
The reader is William Hope
The abridger is Sally Marmion
The producer is Di Speirs.
Caribou Island is the second novel from David Vann, whose groundbreaking first book, Legend of a Suicide, has become a best-seller around the world and has just won the 2010 Prix Medicis Etranger. Caribou Island is broadcast just after publication.
SAT 02:15 Noise: A Human History (b01rrc1c)
Revolution and War
Paris 1789: Politics moves out of the palaces and into the streets - as the hushed voice of court diplomacy gives way to the angry howls of the crowd.
Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex introduces the noises of revolutionary Paris, before travelling to the USA to explain how an 'acoustic shadow' helped the Confederate forces launch a surprise attack during the American Civil War. Also, there's the eerie sound of the 'rebel yell'.
30-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive.
Producer: Matt Thompson.
A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2013.
SAT 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007jqg8)
Episode 5
Mill workers are laid off, and a desperately poor family is found barely alive in a cellar. Stars Emma Rydal and Roy Hudd.
SAT 02:45 Ben Macintyre - A Foreign Field (b00vtycl)
Episode 5
May 1916: The last days of British soldier Robert Digby and the looming Battle of the Somme. Read by Tom Goodman-Hill.
SAT 03:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jmcl)
Episode 4
Humphrey and Maud dash for freedom from cruel captain, Wolf Larsen, but Japan is 600 miles away...
Conclusion od Jack London's 1904 tale of brutality and survival on the high seas.
Starring Jack Klaff, Kerry Shale and Shelley Thompson..
Dramatised by Ed Thomason
Wolf Larsen ...... Jack Klaff
Humphrey Van Weyden ...... Kerry Shale
Maud Brewster ...... Shelley Thompson
Music: Elizabeth Parker - BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Director: Adrian Bean.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1991.
SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b00zsc2g)
Series 1
Middlesex
This episode of 'The 3rd Degree' is brought to you from Middlesex University, where host Steve Punt puts the questions to students and dons of Child Nursing, Design & Art, Biology and Biomedical Sciences. Topics for questions include whirling astronauts, Wagner's operas, and 300 billion copies of the Queen. So if you've ever wondered which exponential function's derivative is equal to the function itself or what are the exact contents of a Jägerbomb cocktail, then this is the quiz show for you.
"The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a different University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure.
The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both sides...
The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more than just glanced at that reading list...
Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 04:30 Albert and Me (b007jzwr)
Series 1
Where There's a Will
With a trip to hospital looming, single dad Bryan must make contingency plans.
Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With John Arnatt as the Bank Manager.
Written by Jim Eldridge.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1977.
SAT 05:00 Winston (b007np4w)
Winston Comes to Town
A Tweak of Thread
Father's poorly so the family must leave Winterleaf Gunner and return to London, but Nancy is distraught.
What's going to happen to Winston - village poacher, philosopher and Romeo?
Will he come with them? Will London survive with Winston?
Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial.
Winston ...... Bill Wallis
Father ...... Maurice Denham
Nancy ...... Shirley Dixon
Rosie ...... Liz Goulding
William ...... Christian Rodska
Director: Shaun MacLoughlin.
First broadcast on BBC Radio in January 1990.
SAT 05:30 Instant Sunshine (b007jxgk)
From 17/12/1986
Humorous songs performed by the comedy musical cabaret quartet, Instant Sunshine:
Featuring David Barlow, Peter Christie, Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis attempting to be reasonably together again.
With special guests: The Cambridge Buskers.
Producer: David Rayvern Allen
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986.
SAT 06:00 James Bond - You Only Live Twice (b00fbzkg)
James Bond's wife, Tracey, has been murdered by his deadly enemy Blofeld.
Agent 007 has gone completely to pieces and is drafting his resignation. But 'M' is prepared to give him one last chance to prove himself - on a mission which will lead him to a fatal encounter in a Japanese Garden of Death.
Starring Michael Jayston as James Bond, Clive Merrison as Tanaka, James Laurenson as Henderson, David King as M, Sayo Inaba as Kissy, Burt Kwouk as Ando and Maxine Audley as Irma.
Ian Fleming's classic story dramatised for radio by Michael Bakewell.
Director: Michael Bakewell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990.
SAT 07:30 Misfits in France (b00f85ky)
Impressions of Honfleur, Reunions in Rouen
Series in which Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee explore the connections between a group of Victorian writers and artists who crossed the English Channel for different reasons.
The series ends in Rouen, where Oscar Wilde rekindled his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas after a lonely summer in exile outside Dieppe. The museum in Rouen also holds a collection of paintings by Monet, Sisley and Walter Sickert's friend and patron - Jacques Emile Blanche.
Oscar Wilde ...... Simon Russell Beale
Claude Monet ...... Jonathan Tafler
Walter Sickert ...... Stephen Critchlow.
SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b00fr75c)
Studs Terkel - Back in the Wax Museum
Alan Dein looks back at the life of the American oral historian Studs Terkel, who died earlier this month. Includes unique archive material from Terkel's own collection of recordings covering almost 50 years of interviews and broadcasts.
SAT 09:00 Dr John Cooper Clarke: Complete Control (b06p4syp)
Made for 4 Extra. The poet and cultural icon Dr John Cooper Clarke has been given Complete Control of Radio 4 Extra to select three hours of his favourite programmes from the BBC Radio Archives.
This Includes;

Stand-up from Bob Hope, recorded at the London Palladium in 1953
A collection of comedy from the golden age of radio variety with Vic Oliver, Al Read and Jimmy 'Wheel 'em in' Wheeler.
Some audio interference from the pioneering DJ Jack Jackson.
An episode of 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole 13 ¾
A creepy reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’ by James Stewart (yes, that James Stewart)
Vincent Price and Peter Cushing coming face-to-face in ‘The Price Of Fear’
The classic Western ‘The Shootist’, starring Brian Cox and Michelle Fairley

So enjoy three hours of thrills, chills and laughs, all introduced by the man who is in Complete Control, Dr John Cooper Clarke.
SAT 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jprv)
Series 3
The Godiva Affair
The Home Guard platoon holds a Spitfire fundraiser, but Corporal Jones is pining for Mrs Fox.
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 Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Mrs Fox …. Mollie Sugden
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1976.
SAT 12:30 To the Manor Born (b007k4mq)
Vive Le Sport
When Devere invites Audrey to go skiing, he ends up being taken for a ride.
Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton.
Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere
Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher
Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger
Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka
Frank Middlemass ..... Ned
Geoffrey Whitehead ..... Dr Horton
Melanie Hudson ..... Receptionist
The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage.
From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descent.
First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997.
Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1997.
SAT 13:00 Children in Need: D for Dexter (b06p4syr)
Series 2 Omnibus
Skye hates to leave Dexter, but come Thursday, they will be together again. Amanda Whittington's heartwarming story with Sydney Wade.
SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06p4vz4)
John Craven
Broadcaster John Craven chooses 'You Are My Sunshine' by Gene Autry and the Children in Need single 'Wake Me Up'.
SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair (b0075yfg)
Gore Vidal
Fastidious, unforgiving, disdainful, aphoristic, bellicose and wickedly compelling.
Legendary American writer and critic Gore Vidal (1925-2012) discusses his extraordinary life and career with Professor Anthony Clare.
Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare's in depth interviews with prominent people from different walks of life.
Born in Dublin, author Anthony Clare 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. Series highlights include conversations with Bob Monkhouse, Cecil Parkinson and Gerry Adams.
Anthony Clare died suddenly in Paris aged 64 in 2007.
Producer: Michael Ember
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2000.
SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b00fr75c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 James Bond - You Only Live Twice (b00fbzkg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Misfits in France (b00f85ky)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 Wally K Daly (b007k41c)
Nightmare World
Gary Henderson and old man Jenkins head up a mountain road to Hill House every November 13th. But on their ascent this year, the mountain begins to shake like hell on earth. And Gary? He meets himself coming back...
As a worldwide power failure brings chaos and terror to Earth, one town in every country undergoes a curious and startling transformation.
Wally K Daly's sci-fi thriller stars James Laurenson, Nigel Anthony, Peter Jeffrey and Geoffrey Whitehead.
Gary Henderson ...... James Laurenson
Jenkins ...... Nigel Anthony
AP Smith ...... Peter Jeffrey
Prime Minister ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Venables ...... Joe Dunlop
Kate ...... Melinda Walker
Captain ...... Christopher Scott
Co Pilot ...... Christopher Good
Chief Scientific Officer ...... John Warner
Controller ...... Dominic Rickhards
Colonel ...... Nicholas Courtney
Soldier ...... Ian Michie
Lorna ...... Cara Kelly
Joker ...... Ken Cumberlidge
Billy ...... Sue Sheridan
Pamela ...... Jo Kendall
Jumbo Child ...... Joanna Mackie
Director: David Hitchinson
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in March 1989.
SAT 19:00 Dr John Cooper Clarke: Complete Control (b06p4syp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Concrete Cow (b0076js0)
Series 1
Episode 3
The real reason for the discovery of America, the dangers of Tarot, finding lost polar explorers and Lesser Known Novels.
Sketch show made by actors reading out scripts in front of an audience, who laughed, and then keeping the good bits.
Starring Olivia Colman, Sally Hawkins, Steven Kynman, Chris Pavlo and Robert Webb.
Written by James Cary, Sally Hawkins, Catherine Shepherd, Ashley Blake, Jon Holme and Robin Ince.
Producer: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002
SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (b00dbcw2)
Series 4
Episode 5
Comic pilot Armando Iannucci flies Air Hilarious. With Marcus Brigstocke, Andy Parsons and Justin Edwards. From September 2008.
SAT 23:00 BBC Radio New Comedy Award Extra (b06qqvtp)
Semi-Final 2
Patrick Kielty hosts the second semi-final of the 2015 BBC Radio New Comedy Award, recorded at the Comedy Store in Manchester. 750 entrants have been whittled down across 8 heats to our 12 semi-finalists, and tonight features Russ Peers, Yuriko Kotani, Michael Stranney, Tom Taylor, Sophie Willan and Adam Hastings.
With extended sets and backstage interviews with the contestants and judges.
Produced by Lyndsay Fenner and Laura Baron.
SAT 23:45 Jelly Mountain (b00fh6vz)
Episode 2
Ivor Cutler's unique views on how to promote a child's growth. Songs and stories, with Craig Murray-Orr. From May 1996.