SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2015

SAT 00:00 Daphne du Maurier - The Blue Lenses (b007k4rp)
Episode 2
Afer discovering she's able to see things that others can't, Marda West fears for her survival in this dangerous new world.
The conclusion of Daphne du Maurier's two-part fantasy thriller exploring the darker aspects of human nature.
Read by Emma Fielding.
Produced and abridged by Gemma Jenkins.
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2007.
SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b0076b92)
Series 3
Fever
Legendary singer Peggy Lee's daughter Nicki Foster talks about her mother's life and her unforgettable hit record.
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 November 2002.
SAT 01:00 Front Row Interviews (b00761nw)
PD James
PD James talks to Mark Lawson on Radio 4's arts programme Front Row about crime writing and her 15th novel 'Death in Holy Orders' featuring her sleuth, Adam Dalgliesh.
Her books, often featuring Dalgliesh, sold in their millions around the world. Many were adapted for TV and film.
Born Phyllis Dorothy James on 3 August 1920, the author did not publish her first novel, Cover Her Face, until she was 42. Although it was a critical success, she continued working for the Home Office, where she held a job in the forensic science department, and then the criminal law department until 1979.
PD James died aged 94 on the 27 November 2014.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
SAT 01:30 Joan Turner: The Highs and Lows of the Wacky Warbler (b00wlgg4)
Lesley Garrett tells the fascinating story of operatic comedienne Joan Turner.
Joan Turner was a larger-than-life star who enjoyed a successful stage and television career in the 1960s and 70s. She was born in Belfast in 1922 and made her debut at the Finsbury Empire as a singing comedienne.
Joan could perform pop or opera with her four-and-a-half-octave soprano voice, impersonate Judy Garland and Bette Davis, and then change to stand-up comic.
In her early career she worked with The Crazy Gang, appeared at many Royal Events, recorded for Pye Records and became the highest-earning female singer in Britain. After touring all the major music halls she was considered a 'female Harry Secombe', and in the States they billed her as "The Wacky Warbler".
One reviewer described her as having "the voice of an angel and the wit of a devil".
Even though she gained a reputation for being difficult and unpredictable she remained a much loved figure on the show business circuit.
Her daughter Susanna Page always believed that "the best way to describe Mum is that she thought every day was Christmas". She was to discover painfully that it was not.
By the late nineties an unkind reverse reduced her to the status of a bag lady walking the streets of Las Vegas and Los Angeles searching for work. This downturn in her life and career was a result of a long term battle with gambling and alcoholism.
A few film and television roles saw a short revival in her fortunes but her last live comeback attempt ended in a drunken shambles. She spent her final years in sheltered accommodation in Surrey.
The programme features interviews with Actor Harry Dickman,Variety entertainer Roy Hudd and Joan's daughter Susanna page.
SAT 02:00 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (b06qdfmv)
Who Stole the Tarts?
Join Alice on her surreal adventures in Alice in Wonderland.
SAT 02:15 Noise: A Human History (b01s0scn)
The Search for Silence
In the noisy modern world, silence has become an ever more desirable - and fashionable - state. We read books about it, go on retreats to find it, and soundproof our living and working spaces in its name. But when we have it is it what we want?
Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex considers the modern quest for quiet and asks whether what really makes us humans happy is a little noise.
Conclusion of the 30-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive.
Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson.
Producer: Matt Thompson
A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton (b007jqky)
Episode 15
Mary sets out to find an alibi for Jem, who stands accused of murder. Stars Emma Rydall, Deborah Berlin and Roy Hudd.
SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b048znq5)
The Zhivago Affair
Episode 5
By Peter Finn and Petra Couvée.
It's 1956 and Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words, 'This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.'
Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so instead he allowed it to be published in translation all over the world - a highly dangerous act.
By 1958 the life of this extraordinary book enters the realms of the spy novel. The CIA, recognising that the Cold War was primarily an ideological battle, published Doctor Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. It was immediately snapped up on the black market. Pasternak was later forced to renounce the Nobel Prize in Literature, igniting worldwide political scandal.
With first access to previously classified CIA files, The Zhivago Affair gives an irresistible portrait of Pasternak, and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when literature had the power to shake the world.
Abridged by Libby Spurrier
Read by Nigel Anthony
Producer: Joanna Green
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 03:00 Classic Serial (b00gsv4x)
Arnold Bennett - The Grand Babylon Hotel
Episode 2
Murder mystery by Arnold Bennett, adapted in two parts by Chris Harrald.
Having bought Europe's most exclusive hotel, American tycoon Theodore Racksole is thrown in to a world of intrigue, espionage and murder.
Theodore Racksole ...... John Sessions
Nella Racksole ...... Matti Houghton
Aribert ...... Joe Kloska
Jules ...... Richard Katz
Miss Spencer ...... Fenella Woolgar
Felix Babylon ...... Stephen Greif
Prince Eugen ...... Stephen Critchlow
Reginald Dimmock ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Hazell ...... Jonathan Tafler
Miss Ferguson ...... Jill Cardo
Tomkins ...... Inam Mirza
Emperor ...... Malcolm Tierney
Sampson Levi ...... Chris Pavlo.
SAT 04:00 The 99p Challenge (b0075w76)
Series 4
Episode 2
Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Simon Pegg, Armando Iannucci, Marcus Brigstocke and Peter Serafinowicz.
The game where someone stands to leave the studio 99p richer than when they came in.
Producer: David Tyler
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003.
SAT 04:30 Mind Your Own Business! (b00954qd)
She'll Have to Go
An accountant tackles a tycoon over his number of women workers. Stars Bernard Cribbins and Frank Thornton. From December 1987.
SAT 05:00 Winston (b007qzh8)
Winston Comes to Town
Has Anyone Seen Winston?
The family has moved to London. Old rogue Winston spends hours up a tree in the garden, but then he disappears...
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 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' (b06s83jl)
Series 2
Episode 1
A fun-packed second series from comedy duo Lucy Trodd and Ruth Bratt. Sketches and songs from a whole range of new characters, with the occasional appearance from some old favourites.
This week we meet the masseuses who might make your visit to their spa more than a little stressful, we find out whether Mary’s embarrassing flatulence has got any better (I wouldn’t hold your breath – well, actually I might) and find out who Julia is - or was.

Performers:
Lucy Trodd
Ruth Bratt
Adam Meggido
Oliver Senton
Written by: Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd
Script Editor: Jon Hunter
Original music: Duncan Walsh Atkins
Producer: Steve Doherty
A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4
SAT 06:00 Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus (b06qjp4l)
1938: Charles and Dora Randolph are celebrating their Golden Wedding.
A chance for four generations of the same family to be together – sparking all the problems and surprises that such a gathering inevitably causes...
Dodie Smith's play enjoyed a hugely successful run in the theatre before and during the early years of the Second World War.
Charles Randolph ...... Michael Denison
Dora Randolph ...... Dulcie Gray
Belle ...... Mary Wimbush
Margery ...... Annette Badland
Edna ...... Frances Jeater
Nanny ...... Dora Bryan
Cynthia ...... Penny Downie
Laurel ...... Trevyn McDowell
Hilda ...... Joanna David
Nicholas ...... Nicholas Gecks
Fenny ...... Charlotte Attenborough
Hugh ...... Joshua Towb
Kenneth ...... Michael Tudor Barnes
Bill ...... Mark Burrows
Scrap ...... Sara-Jane Derrick
Flouncy ...... Bernadette Windsor
Gertrude ...... Becky Hindley
Producer: Glyn Dearman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995
SAT 07:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking (b0075jv4)
From Champagne to Rationing 1910-1919
Oyster soup, oyster cremeskies, braised pheasant, champagne sorbet, sweet souffle, scotch woodcock, summer lentil soup and nut rissoles. Food guru Marguerite Patten mingles menu of the 1910s with memories of historic events - the sinking of the Titanic, servants' wages, the Epsom Derby and life in First World War trenches.
Marguerite told us how to make the most of our rations during the Second World War in 'Kitchen Front' on the BBC Home Service. She fronted her first BBC TV cookery show in 1947.
Born in Bath, the home economist was widely considered to be the first celebrity cook, and wrote more than 170 books with worldwide sales of 17 million.
A regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme from 1946, Marguerite's final appearance was in 2011. She was awarded the OBE in 1991 and CBE in 2011.
Born November 4th 1915, Marguerite Patten died just a few months short of her 100th birthday in June 2015.
Producer: Ian Willox.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b04mqt7h)
Speaking as a Member of the Public
Man on the Street. Tom, Dick and Harry. The Man on the Clapham Omnibus. The Voice of the People. For decades, "ordinary people" have been stopped in the street to give interviewers their opinions on diverse subjects in the ubiquitous format of the vox pop. Why?
Comedian and writer Danny Wallace revisits decades of television and radio archives to listen again to the multitude who happened to be walking down the street when a reporter needed a random opinion about soap flakes or capital punishment.
It all began in 1930s America, with the programme Vox Pop in Houston, Texas where a presenter literally ran a microphone cable out of the radio station window to interview people on the street. However, the technique didn't become a regular feature of British broadcasting until the 1960s. Now, it's impossible to turn on the news without hearing at least one neatly randomised set of opinions from members of the Great British Public.
Danny considers why the vox pop is so omnipresent, what "the public" actually means and why we need the views of so many ordinary people on radio and TV. BBC voxing queen Esther Rantzen looks back on the thousands of people she buttonholed for That's Life. Comedian Charlie Higson considers why comedy ran away with the format. Deputy Director of BBC News Fran Unsworth makes a serious case for the use of seemingly random opinions in news programmes. Deputy Political Editor James Landale, tells Danny about a strange vox he conducted that recently went viral. We also hear from Greg Packer, native New Yorker who's been voxed so many times that the Associated Press had to ban him from being quoted.
Produced by Colin McNulty
A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 09:00 Gemma Cairney's Top Ten Radio Mavericks (b06qjs0s)
BBC Radio 1 presenter Gemma Cairney is a self-professed 'radio obsessive.'
In this 3 hour special she shares the unique, brilliant and often irreverent voices that inspired her teenage self to be a broadcaster. The compelling radio personalities with verve and personality; the presenters that stood out and marked the emergence of a new and exciting youth culture; the presenters who, in some cases, proved controversial.
Drawing on her career in music radio, Gemma includes programmes, extracts and personalities from across the BBC: Radio 1, 1xtra, Radio 2, Radio London, 6Music and Radio 4. The Top Ten voices past, present and future who have influenced and continue to inspire Gemma to work in her favourite medium.
With contributions from the Today Programme's award-winning John Humphrys, radio presenter, enthusiast and maverick Iain Lee and BBC Radio 1 & 1xtra's fireball Charlie Sloth.
Producer: Sarah Wade
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in November 2015.
SAT 12:00 The Pasadenas' Almanac: The Mysterious Affair at Harrogate (b06qjvqp)
The queen of the whodunit, Agatha Christie is missing.
Another musical excursion for the Pasadena Roof Orchestra through great moments in 20th Century history. With vocalist Duncan Galloway.
Starring June Whitfield, Jeffrey Holland and Chris Emmett.
A light-hearted take on the massive 1926 trawl for the missing author, involving 1000 police constables, civilians - and for the first time aeroplanes. Agatha was eventually found mysteriously in Harrogate, so what really happened...?
Written by Chris Emmett and Tony Hare.
Producer: Richard Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1992.
SAT 12:30 The Right Time (b00c90g4)
Series 3
Episode 1
Gym shenanigans, finding a fox - and can you feel sexy at 60?
The sketch comedy for people growing older disgracefully.
Stars Eleanor Bron, Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Clive Swift, Roger Blake and Pam Ayres.
Written by Pam Ayres, Mike Coleman, Jan Etherington, Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Colin Bostock-Smith, Bob Sinfield, Chris Thompson, Pete Reynolds, Tony Bagley, Richard Turner and Phil Nice,
Script Editor: Geoff Parsons.
Music by Ronnie & The Rex and Neil Innes.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003.
SAT 13:00 Welcome to Zaatari Omnibus (b06qjwhm)
One family's story from Zaatari Camp, adapted from a Jordanian audio drama. Made in conjunction with Radio SouriaLi and UNHCR.
SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06qm7w6)
Mary Black
Folk singer Mary Black chooses Ewan MacColl's 'Schooldays Over' and Bob Dylan's 'Forever Young'.
SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair (b06qmbqv)
Bernard Knight
Forensic pathologist and crime writer Bernard Knight had to do thousands of autopsies in his career, often for grim reasons. He tells Professor Anthony Clare how he coped.
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.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October August 1994.
SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b04mqt7h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus (b06qjp4l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking (b0075jv4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 Peter Mackie - The Real Mystery of Marie Roget (b06qmcjl)
American writer Edgar Allan Poe was obsessed by the unsolved murder of a woman, Mary Rogers, who he called "Marie Roget" in his fictionalised version of the case.
On his last night on earth, Poe has a visitor with a disturbing solution as to who might have killed her.
Peter Mackie's imaginary drama stars Ed Bishop as Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe ...... Ed Bishop
Dupin ...... Terry Molloy
Tom White ...... Hu Pryce
Muddy ...... Hedli Niklaus
Mary Rogers ...... Marlena Mackey
Doctor ...... Geoff Serle
Nurse ...... Carina Wyeth
Other parts played by the cast.
Director: Philip Martin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1988
SAT 19:00 Gemma Cairney's Top Ten Radio Mavericks (b06qjs0s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Concrete Cow (b0076jz1)
Series 1
Episode 5
Dr Watson battles Sherlock Holmes at Cluedo, Chambers, Collins and Roget play scrabble, a 2,000 year old mummy goes to the wrong address and a woman has odd dreams.
Starring Olivia Colman, Sally Hawkins, Steven Kynman, Chris Pavlo and Robert Webb.
Written by James Cary, Sally Hawkins, Catherine Shepherd, Jon Holmes and Adam Bromley.
Producer: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2002.
SAT 22:30 Strap In - It's Clever Peter (b01hkz35)
Nigel
Strap in for fifteen minutes of rip-roaring comedy as Clever Peter bring you a pygmy hippo, a mystery voice, some house eyes & the Pope.
Clever Peter - the wild and brilliantly funny award-winning sketch team - get their own Radio 4 show.
From the team that brought you Cabin Pressure and Another Case Of Milton Jones comes the massively bonkers and funny Clever Peter, hot off the Edinburgh Fringe and wearers of tri-coloured jerseys.
"If they don't go very far very soon there is no such thing as British justice" - Daily Telegraph
"A masterclass in original sketch comedy" - Metro
"Pretty much top of the class" - The Scotsman
So -
Why "Clever"?
Dunno
Why "Peter"?
Not a clue mate
Should I listen to the show?
Yes, of course! Derrr.
Starring Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley
and special guest Catriona Knox
Written by Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley & Dominic Stone
Produced & directed by David Tyler
A Pozzitive Television Ltd Production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 22:45 Steven Appleby's Normal Life (b007jmz1)
Series 1
Normal Love
Cartoonist Steven Appleby takes a distinctly abnormal look at everyday life in the 21st century by looking each week at one of life's fundamental topics.
When his wife leaves him for a kettle, the cartoonist looks for love elsewhere..
Starring Paul McCrink as Steven Appleby.
Featuring Rachel Atkins, Ewan Bailey, Nigel Betts and Rosalind Paul.
Six-part comedy written by Steven Appleby
Producer: Toby Swift
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001
SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06s9f1d)
From 10.00pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats again to Russell Kane.
SAT 23:00 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off (b017vmfs)
Series 5
Iron Man
When Giles accidentally enters an Iron Man triathlon in Spain, he has to enlist the help of Neil Diamond and a donkey...
Budleigh Salterton's most famous citizen is back! But this time, he's got a computer! Giles Wemmbley Hogg has been grounded by both the Home Office and his father, so he's set up GWH Travvel ("2m's 2g's 2v's, bit of a mix up at the printers").
Run from his bedroom in Budleigh Salterton, with the help of his long-suffering former Primary Schoolteacher Mr Timmis and the hindrance of his sister Charlotte, it's a one-stop Travel/Advice/Events Management/Website service, where each week, his schemes range far and wide - whether it's roaming the country lecturing would-be overlanders on how to pack a rucksack ("If in doubt, put it in. And double it"), or finding someone a zebra for a corporate promotion ("I'll look in the Phone Book - how hard can it be? Now, "A to D".....), GWH Travvel stays true to its motto - "We do it all, so you won't want to".
Starring Marcus Brigstocke as Giles
Cast:
Mr. Timmis .....Vincent Franklin
Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ...... Catherine Shepherd
Jose ..... Mitch Benn
Mariluz ..... Debbie Chazen
Carl ...... Kieran Hodgson
Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby & Toby Davies
Producer/Director: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4
Producer DAVID TYLER.
SAT 23:30 The Problem With Adam Bloom (b01b1z4r)
Series 3
Honesty
The comedian ponders whether telling the truth is always the best option. With Hattie Hayridge. From November 2005.