By Sebastian Baczkiewicz.
When Pilgrim investigates a story about a man being turned into a hare, he meets a dangerous new enemy. The second in a new series of dark fantasy adventures.
William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton
Colonel Coburn ..... Ralph Ineson
Birdie ..... Kate Fleetwood
Barry ..... Carl Prekopp
Nathan ..... Gerard McDermott
Mary ..... Alex Tregear
Dale ..... Simon Bubb
By Sebastian Baczkiewicz.
3 of 4: Following the mysterious absence of a local girl, Pilgrim is drawn into the strange world of the lanes, and the immortal children who live there.
William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton
Lily ..... Victoria Inez-Hardy
Mr Hendrickson ..... James Lailey
George ..... Kasper Hilton-Hille
Effie ..... Nishi Malde
Cecilia ..... Faye Castelow
Audrey ..... Lizzy Watts
Everett ..... Simon Bubb
Conor ..... Adam Billington
By Sebastian Baczkiewicz.
4 of 4: In exchange for a precious bargaining chip in his negotiations with the King, Pilgrim is asked to sacrifice a man he has kept safe for centuries.
William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton
Viv ..... Pamela Merrick
Henselow ..... Adam Billington
Marcellus ..... Jimmy Akingbola
Goat Lord ..... Nicky Henson
Randell ..... Carl Prekopp
Birdie ..... Kate Fleetwood
Kindly detective, Inspector Purbright probes the discovery of another body, found head down in a wishing well.
One of Colin Watson's Flaxborough Chronicles dramatised by Christopher Denys in 6 parts.
Stars John Rowe as Inspector Purbright, Paul Downing as Love, Russell Dixon as Booker, Ann Rye as Lucilla Teatime, Geoffrey Banks as Mortimer Hive, Kathryn Hunt as Helen and Robin Polley as Palgrove.
Every year, around 8,000 people from 50 countries pay homage to John Lennon at his childhood home, Mendips. But who are these visitors and what do they seek from an ordinary suburban semi in Liverpool?
Comedian, Alexei Sayle, took the National Trust tour in 2009 and was so taken with its 1950s charm and with the spirit of it, that he's gone back; this time meeting custodian, Colin Hall and finding out what it's like to live in one of the most famous houses in Liverpool.
He also talks to some of those who visited the house when John Lennon lived there - John's cousin Mike; Colin Hanton, the drummer in John Lennon's band, the Quarrymen; and Freda Kelly, the Beatles' Club Secretary. And of course just a few of those 8000 visitors.
Grumpy bachelor Robin Lightfoot is feeling a little warmer towards his adopted "wife" - until his doppelganger's other woman turns up to rock the boat.
With a new wife and kids, Robin learns more about his parallel universe.
Hugh Bonneville stars in Tony Bagley's comedy.
Robin ...... Hugh Bonneville
Lesley ...... Josie Lawrence
Linda ...... Sue Elliott-Nicholls
Dirk ...... Steve Frost
Lord Reith ...... Lewis MacLeod
Ned ...... Sam Bradley
Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham and his old nemesis Alex Horne recreate a 19th century bet; can Tim ride a horse from London to Dover and back before Alex makes 1 million dots on a piece of paper?"
Two top brass need rescuing, Pertwee meets his Uncle and an old face sails back.
Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson, Richard Caldicote as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Heather and Michael Bates as Rear Admiral Ironbridge.
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.
Hard times for Radio Prune - are ads the answer? Plus one woman's struggle to get a phone.
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
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 Graeme Garden, Liam Cohen and Dave Lee.
Debates galore over mature students and putting daughters on the stage.
Graeme Garden chairs the quirky battle of words and wit.
From the Pleasance Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival.
With Hugh Dennis, Gyles Brandreth, Chris Neill and Stuart Maconie.
MP Duncan Stonebridge gets all wound up about a wind farm. Topical sitcom by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. From June 2005.
Murder is on the menu when Flo finds out her husband’s taking early retirement. But murder is harder than it seems, as Flo is soon to find out when not even a poisoned pie seems to work...
Julie Rutterford's wickedly comic play stars Jean Alexander as Flo and Bill Dean as Frank.
With Julie Riley as Fran, Terence Mann as Tim, Lorelei King as Carmella Schwartz, Jimmi Hibbert as Jim, Melissa Jane Sinden as Angie, John Culshore as the Instructor and Janet James as Mary.
Three stories that mark Leap Year.
'Aw Wrong' by Laura Marney.
Facing the imminent birth of their first child, a couple take steps to try to influence the course of nature.
Read by Gabriel Quigley.
Laura Marney is a writer of fiction and drama. She is the author of four novels: 'No Wonder I Take a Drink', Nobody Loves a Ginger Baby', 'Only Strange People go to Church' and most recently, 'My Best Friend has Issues'. She is currently working on a new novel provisionally entitled 'Snorkelling in a Burkha'.
In an attempt to settle an age-old dispute, Pilgrim must confront the ruthless Mr Speed. But he has a secret weapon.
William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton
Richie ..... Joe Dempsie
Maxine ..... Rachel Davies
Mr Speed ..... Kim Wall
Carter ..... Paul Copley
Laura ..... Leah Brotherhead
Cassie ..... Sarah Thom
Legend ..... Agnes Bateman
Pilgrim, cursed with immortality by the King of the Greyfolk, is forever forced to walk between the human world and the world of Faerie in a never-ending quest to preserve the uneasy balance between the two. Armed with the Abaeron, a book of incredibly powerful magic that protects its owner above all else, he can finally challenge Mr Speed - who has stolen generations of brides from one family, separate devoted parents from their very strange new changeling baby, put a giant to sleep, and locate Merlin, the figure most feared in all the Faerie world. Hard tasks at the best of times, but Pilgrim must also contend with the relentless malice of the sorceress Mrs Pleasance and the devious cunning of the King of the Greyfolk himself.
Sophie has an accident. Polly tries to forget the twins. Calypso receives some bad news.
A house - with a fragrant lawn stretching down to the Cornish cliffs - is the link between the five cousins which neither the war nor adulthood can break.
Published in 1984, Mary Wesley novel abridged in ten parts by Elizabeth Bradbury.
Read by Sian Phillips.
The Victorians realised that preserving the structural features of a plant was essential to classifying it, placing it on a plant family tree and building up an overall understanding of the relationships between plants. Central to this was the herbarium - a collection of dried plants documented, pressed and mounted onto identical sheets of paper. Kathy Willis examines the genesis of this process at Kew which plays host today to over 7 million specimens, and is now one of a network of herbaria around the world.
If you want to know what a plant is, the herbarium is where you come. But how was the Kew collection established? Kathy Willis hears from historian Jim Endersby on the influence of William Jackson Hooker whose private plant collection forms the basis of the collection.
Historian Anne Secord of Cambridge University examines the delicate relationship between artisan collectors in the field and gentlemen botanists which defied the rigid social divide to enable specimens to be gathered from far afield to advance botanical knowledge.
Kathy Willis learns from Kew botanist, Bill Baker, how patterns now emerge in the herbarium that enable changing patterns of plant behaviour from flowering times to plant distribution to feed into wider questions about the effect of changing climate and land use.
And in an age when the Empire was aiming to show everything to its best advantage researcher Caroline Cornish reveals how plants could be effectively displayed to a curious Victorian public through Britain's first Museum of Economic Botany.
Presenter: Kathy Willis is director of science at Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. She is also professor of long-term ecology and a fellow of Merton College, both at Oxford University. Winner of several awards, she has spent over 20 years researching and teaching biodiversity and conservation at Oxford and Cambridge.
Anne meets famous torch singer Helen, and Neely understudies the lead in a new musical. Drama on the perils of fame stars Sally Dexter and Susan Jameson.
Pulitzer prize-winning writer, Annie Proulx, sets out to build her perfect home in a remote corner of Wyoming.
Proulx's first work of non-fiction in twenty years tells a personal story of designing and constructing a house in harmony with her interests, work and personality.
Annie Proulx has still not found a builder for her Bird Cloud house until she is surprised to find one right under her nose. And work begins.
Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere.
An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the strange world of London Below.
So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington.
Joining the mysterious girl named Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard, Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the clutches of the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to discover who ordered them to murder her family. All the while trying to work out how to get back to his old life in London Above.
A six part adaption of Neil Gaiman's novel adapted by Dirk Maggs, sees James McAvoy as Richard lead a stellar cast which includes Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head, David Schofield, Bernard Cribbins, Romola Garai, George Harris, Andrew Sachs, Lucy Cohu, Johnny Vegas, Paul Chequer, Don Gilet and Abdul Salis.
Dominic Arkwright, Lucy Mangan, Dillie Kean and Francis Gilbert discuss adults enjoying prolonged post-adolescence. From August 2006.
The best in contemporary comedy. Tom Wrigglesworth is joined again by Tim FitzHigham.
Sketches, stand-up and song in a comic exploration of health. With Andrew Lawrence and Sara Pascoe. From November 2012.
Damien and Anthony invite their nearest and dearest round for a dinner party to celebrate some good news: Anthony has finally decided to start his own investment company, whilst Damien has finally got from Sky Arts for a new series all about the culinary habits of the great poets.
Unfortunately, things do not get off to an auspicious start when Anthony is beset by incurable hiccups, and Damien's agent Ian arrives with marital problems in tow.
Includes recipes for Baked Camembert, Trout "en papillotte" and Rum Baba.
Written by Miles Jupp.
Damien Trench ...... Miles Jupp
Anthony MacIlveny ...... Justin Edwards
Damien's Mother ...... Selina Cadell
Damien's Dad ...... Philip Fox
Mr Mullaney ...... Brendan Dempsey
Marion Duffett ...... Lesley Vickerage
The sketch show team take their audience on a trip to the cinema – but where are the all-star special guests?
Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck.
THURSDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2016
THU 00:00 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (b01rbwlv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Off the Page (b0076zl3)
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18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home (b007jsnz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 The Lennon Visitors (b00v1qzc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn (b0080qbv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b049z4x6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mbc2m)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:45 Book of the Week (b00yyhzn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:45 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (b01qmxfm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Wednesday]
THU 03:45 Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (b01qwhp5)
Series 4
Tregarrah Head
by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Episode 2: Tregarrah Head
Birdie continues her war of attrition, leaving a wake of innocent victims. Pilgrim has to rescue the Old Man of Tregarrah Head from his fate as the changeling baby of devoted West Country parents.
William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton
Birdie ..... Kate Fleetwood
Sally ..... Rebekah Staton
Gary ..... Ed Gaughan
Kingsley ..... Robert Blythe
Elaine ..... Sarah Thom
Dan ..... Ben Crowe
Girl ..... Agnes Bateman
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
THU 04:30 Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (b01r11w9)
Series 4
Wedlowe Sound
By Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Episode 3: Wedlowe Sound
Pilgrim must tackle an old adversary and save the community of Wedlowe Sound when it is threatened by a giant.
William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton
Wedlowe ..... Ronald Pickup
Massey ..... Paul Stonehouse
Neil ..... Will Howard
Gwen ..... Liza Sadovy
Dreamer ..... Ben Crowe
Girl ..... Agnes Bateman
Directed by Marc Beeby
THU 05:15 Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (b01r5s1y)
Series 4
Bleaker Lake
by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Episode 4: Bleaker Lake
The showdown. At Bleaker Lake, where Merlin is held sealed up under the water, Pilgrim hopes to find an end, at least to the war of attrition with Birdie, at best to his own immortality.
William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton
Birdie ..... Kate Fleetwood
Cliff ..... Philip Jackson
Harmony ..... Lizzy Watts
Randell ..... Carl Prekopp
Hunnicutt ..... Patrick Brennan
Girl ..... Agnes Bateman
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
THU 06:00 Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home (b007jtd5)
Episode 4
Alibis are examined as Inspector Purbright's probe into the murder of Mrs Palgrove makes life uncomfortable for her husband.
One of Colin Watson's Flaxborough Chronicles dramatised by Christopher Denys in 6 parts.
Stars John Rowe as Inspector Purbright, Paul Downing as Love, Russell Dixon as Dr Fergusson, Ann Rye as Lucilla Teatime, Geoffrey Banks as Mortimer Hive and Robin Polley as Palgrove.
Producer: Tony Cliff
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992.
THU 06:30 The Sinking of the Lancastria (b00swj3b)
On the 17th of June 1940 thousands of British troops and airmen died as their troopship, the Lancastria, was sunk by German bombers. Allan Little travels to the French port of St Nazaire on the 70th anniversary of Britain's worst maritime disaster, to tell the story.
We hear from survivors of the ship who miraculously escaped from the sinking and the chaos of the sea alight with spilled oil. In particular we follow the story of Ft Lt Albert Hill, the last man off the ship, whose unpublished diary has come to light.
We also find out why, so many years after the story was suppressed by Churchill in the darkest days of the war, there is still a reluctance in England to acknowledge and commemorate the tragedy.
Producer: Susan Marling
A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2010.
THU 07:00 PG Wodehouse (b00bbmfj)
What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning
Tribulations of an Uncle By Marriage
After the cottage inferno in Steeple Bumpleigh, Bertie Wooster plots a fake burglary.
A P.G. Wodehouse romp adapted in seven-parts by Chris Miller.
CAST:
Jeeves …. Michael Hordern
Bertie Wooster …. Richard Briers
Stilton Cheeswright …. Michael Kilgarriff
Boko Fittleworth …. Jonathan Cecil
Percy, Lord Worplesdon …. Peter Woodthorpe
Nobby Hopwood …. Rosalind Adams
Edwin the Boy Scout …. Denise Bryer
Producer: Simon Brett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.
THU 07:30 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On (b0717j1y)
Series 1
Cricket with Andy Zaltzman
Susan Calman is the least relaxed person she knows. She has no down time, no hobbies (unless you count dressing up your cats in silly outfits) and her idea of relaxation is to play Grand Theft Auto, an hour into which she is in a murderous rage with sky high blood pressure. Her wife had to threaten to divorce her to make her go on holiday last year. Her first for four years. But she's been told by the same long-suffering wife, that unless she finds a way to switch off, and soon, she's going to be unbearable.
So Susan is looking at her options to try and immerse herself in the pursuits that her friends find relaxing, to find her inner zen and outer tranquillity. Can she ditch the old Susan Calman and attempt to find the new Susan Calm?
This time, in a typically British leisure pursuit; Susan goes to a cricket match with Andy Zaltzman.
Keep Calman Carry On is an audience stand up show in which Susan reports on how successful she's been - both at relaxing and at the pursuit itself - as well as playing in and discussing a handful of illustrative clips from her efforts. It's an attempt to find out how people find solace or sanctuary in these worlds and how Susan can negotiate her own place in them.
Producer: Lyndsay Fenner.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2016.
THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jnjq)
Series 6
Loathe Story
Sleepwalking Harold gives dad Albert a fright.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett as Steptoe and Son.
Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett
Psychiatrist ...... Graham Stark
Bunty ...... Jo Manning Wilson
Mrs Kennington-Stroud ...... Margot Boyd
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 was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV later adapted for radio.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in February 1976.
THU 08:30 Radio Active (b007jvcs)
Series 3
Radio Active's Funday in Blackport
Have fun and plenty of it with Radio Active's fun day out on the promenade in Blackport.
Enough games, celebrities and competitions to generate a great deal of fun. Plus, somebody MUST win a Radio Active Car Sticker.
Starring :
Helen Atkinson-Wood
Angus Deayton
Geoffrey Perkins
Philip Pope
Michael Fenton-Stevens
Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. With Jon Canter, Roger Planer, Antony Nicholson, Moray Hunter and John Docherty.
Producer: Jamie Rix
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1983.
THU 09:00 The Food Quiz (b071khgw)
Series 1
Episode 3
On Jay Rayner's menu are Tracey MacLeod, Clement Freud, Jill Norman and Keith Floyd. From January 2003.
THU 09:30 The Senses (b071khkx)
Taste
Can a 14th century Italian food taster protect his master, especially when he's invited to dine with the Borgias.
Candelli ...... Alex Jennings
Massemino ...... John Woodvine
The Pope ...... Charles Gray
Francesquina ...... Kate Duchêne
Cesare Borgia ...... Clive Mantle
Paolo ...... Glynn Edwards
Caterina ...... Caroline Leddy
Biagio ...... David Battley
Lucrezia Borgia ...... Janine Duvitski
The Priest ...... David King
Senses is a six-part comedy drama boasting a stellar list of star names, including Joan Sims, Charles Gray, Alex Jennings, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Geoffrey Palmer, Lynda Bellingham, Brian Murphy, Rodney Bewes, Liz Fraser, Rory McGrath and Maurice Denham.
As writer Bob Sinfield explains: "The six half-hour plays dealt respectively with the five obvious senses plus the er... other one".
Producer: David Tylerl
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in January 1990.
THU 10:00 Mikhail Bulgakov - The White Guard (b00761h8)
Betrayal
In the Winter of 1918, the citizens of Kiev wait for their city to fall, either to the Bolsheviks or to the Nationalists.
The Turbin family, supporters of the Tsar, take refuge in their family home.
Mikhail Bulgakov's classic Ukrainian novel from 1925 - dramatised in two parts by DJ Britton.
Stars Paul Hilton as Alexei, James Loye as Nikolka, Simon Ludders as Rusakov, Melanie Walters as Julia, Manon Edwards as Elena, Gerry Lepkowski as Myshlaevsky, Tim Kirkus as Shpolyansky, Rhodri Hugh as Bolbotun, Patrick Brennan as Shervinsky, Dorien Thomas as the Sergeant and Simon Armstrong as the Colonel.
Translator: Michael Glenny
Directed at BBC Wales by Alison Hindell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001
THU 11:00 Leap Year Tales (b01cks4t)
February Alone
Three stories to mark the Leap Year.
'February Alone' by Ruth Thomas.
An intended romantic lunch goes strangely awry. Will a gift of lingerie help save the hour?
Read by Melody Grove.
Produced by Patricia Hitchcock.
Ruth Thomas is the author of three short story collections and a novel. Her first collection, 'Sea Monster Tattoo', was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Award and her novel, 'Things to Make and Mend' was winner of Good Housekeeping's 'Most Entertaining Read' Award. She has also received a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and has had work shortlisted for the VS Pritchett Prize. Her second novel is due out next year and she is also at work on a new short story collection.
THU 11:15 Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (b03hwn0r)
Series 5
Lyall Park
By Sebastian Baczkiewicz.
Episode 1: Lyall Park
The immortal wanderer William Palmer - Pilgrim – comes to Lyall Park where he uncovers an astonishing and disturbing family secret.
William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton
Kenny ..... Sean Murray
Harry ..... Michael Bertenshaw
Colville ..... Annette Badland
Bryony ..... Carolyn Pickles
Lavinia ..... Priyanga Burford
Threadgold ..... James Lailey
Cashier ..... Georgie Fuller
Sound ..... Colin Guthrie
Directed by Marc Beeby
A fifth series of four dark adventures. Pilgrim, cursed with immortality by the King of the Greyfolk, is forever forced to walk between the human world and the world of Faerie in a never-ending quest to preserve the uneasy balance between the two. In this series, Pilgrim finds himself in pursuit of the mysterious Radiant Boy. On the way he encounters a ballroom filled with un-dead dancers, a cursed village, a woman in love with a man with a fox's tail and a medium who takes him across the line between life and death...
THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jnjq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 12:30 Radio Active (b007jvcs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 13:00 Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home (b007jtd5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 13:30 The Sinking of the Lancastria (b00swj3b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 14:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn (b0080qtn)
Episode 9
Max gets a telephone call about Monica, while Helena gets a surprise visitor.
A house - with a fragrant lawn stretching down to the Cornish cliffs - is the link between the five cousins which neither the war nor adulthood can break.
Published in 1984, Mary Wesley novel abridged in ten parts by Elizabeth Bradbury.
Read by Sian Phillips.
Producer: Tracey Neale
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.
THU 14:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04b22yh)
Blight on the Landscape
Out of the tragedy of the Irish potato famine was to emerge a major new discipline in science - plant pathology. Infectious micro-organisms would come to be accepted as a cause of disease rather than its result.
Kathy Willis hears from Kew's head of mycology, Brin Dentinger, on the significance of German botanist Antony de Bary's experiments that would lead to a new understanding of the causes of potato blight.
Insights into the life cycle and behaviour of fungal spores required detailed and repetitive observations. Some of the most important insights in the 19th century came from children's story writer and natural history illustrator Beatrix Potter. Historian Jim Endersby explains how her careful observations contributed to the controversial idea that many fungi, far from being destructive, live in symbiosis with a host of plants.
Kew mycologist Martin Bidartondo studies this relationship and we hear how thanks to new technology enabling researchers to identify fungal DNA we're on the brink of elucidating the real importance of fungi in today's ecosystems.
Producer Adrian Washbourne
Presenter: Kathy Willis is director of science at Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. She is also professor of long-term ecology and a fellow of Merton College, both at Oxford University. Winner of several awards, she has spent over 20 years researching and teaching biodiversity and conservation at Oxford and Cambridge.
THU 14:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mbl3h)
Episode 4
Anne's relationship with Lyon grows passionate, and Neely gets her big break. Jacqueline Susann drama with Madeleine Potter and Barbara Barnes.
THU 14:45 Book of the Week (b00yz3h0)
Bird Cloud
Episode 4
Pulitzer prize-winning writer, Annie Proulx, sets out to build her perfect home in a remote corner of Wyoming.
Proulx's first work of non-fiction in twenty years tells a personal story of designing and constructing a house in harmony with her interests, work and personality.
The build continues, Annie moves into the unfinished house and makes a terrible discovery.
Read by Laura Brook
Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.
THU 15:00 Mikhail Bulgakov - The White Guard (b00761h8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
THU 16:00 The Food Quiz (b071khgw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 16:30 The Senses (b071khkx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
THU 17:00 PG Wodehouse (b00bbmfj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
THU 17:30 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On (b0717j1y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 18:00 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (b01rcky1)
Market Afloat
Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere.
An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the strange world of London Below.
So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington.
Joining the mysterious girl named Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard, Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the clutches of the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to discover who ordered them to murder her family. All the while trying to work out how to get back to his old life in London Above.
A six part adaption of Neil Gaiman's novel adapted by Dirk Maggs, sees James McAvoy as Richard lead a stellar cast which includes Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head, David Schofield, Bernard Cribbins, Romola Garai, George Harris, Andrew Sachs, Lucy Cohu, Johnny Vegas, Paul Chequer, Don Gilet and Abdul Salis.
THU 18:30 Great Lives (b0076y7h)
Series 9
Johnny Weissmuller
4 Extra Debut. Duncan Goodhew champions the athlete who found fame as an actor. With Matthew Parris and Johnny Weissmuller Jr. From May 2006.
THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jnjq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 19:30 Radio Active (b007jvcs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 20:00 Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home (b007jtd5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 20:30 The Sinking of the Lancastria (b00swj3b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Leap Year Tales (b01cks4t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (b01qmxfm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Wednesday]
THU 22:00 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On (b0717j1y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 22:30 Newsjack (b071cfl3)
Series 14
Episode 3
This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into sketches, one-liners and vox-pops written by the public. Trying to make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar.
Nish is joined this week by Lolly Adefope, Gemma Arrowsmith and Thomas Nelstrop.
Newsjack was produced by Matt Stronge and Paul Sheehan.
The Production Coordinator was Sophie Richardson.
It was a BBC Radio Comedy Production.
THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b0725qxq)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tom Wrigglesworth is joined again by Tim FitzHigham.
THU 23:00 Believe It! (b01hxmw4)
Series 1
Boots
Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has always said he'd never write one.
Based on glimmers of truth, Believe It is the hilarious, bizarre, revealing (and, most importantly, untrue) celebrity radiography of Richard Wilson.
He narrates the series, weaving in and out of dramatised scenes from his fictional life-story. He plays a heavily exaggerated version of himself: a Scots actor and national treasure, unmarried, private, passionate about politics, theatre and Manchester United (all true), who's a confidant of the powerful and has survived childhood poverty, a drunken father, years of fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction, charity work, secret work for governments and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery (not true).
All the melodramatic staples of celebrity-autobiography are wonderfully undercut by Richard's deadpan delivery.
(The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed reference to his famous catchphrase.)
Richard is supported by a small core cast viz
David Tennant
John Sessions
Lewis Macleod
Arabella Weir
and Jane Slavin
who play anyone and everyone!
Ghost written by Jon Canter
Produced by Clive Brill
A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 23:30 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash (b0101g5j)
Series 3
Episode 1
Arthur Smith presents music and comedy from his home in Balham, South London.
There's music in the kitchen, comedy in the front room and poetry on the landing.
Finding a decent sized performance space amongst the accumulated debris that is Arthur's life are Katie Melua, Roisin Conaty, Alun Cochrane and Nick Helm
Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011.
FRIDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2016
FRI 00:00 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (b01rcky1)
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FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b0076y7h)
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FRI 01:00 Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home (b007jtd5)
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FRI 01:30 The Sinking of the Lancastria (b00swj3b)
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FRI 02:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn (b0080qtn)
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FRI 02:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04b22yh)
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FRI 02:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mbl3h)
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FRI 02:45 Book of the Week (b00yz3h0)
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FRI 03:00 Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (b03hwn0r)
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11:15 on Thursday]
FRI 03:45 Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (b03jfc43)
Series 5
Gallowstone Hill
By Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Episode 2: Gallowstone Hill
In search of the Radiant Boy, Pilgrim comes to a village cursed with a dangerous collective madness
William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton
Cloudesly ..... Lee Ross
Bovey ..... Arthur Hughes
Nadia ..... Carys Eleri
Hart ..... Priyanga Burford
Mick ..... David Seddon
Jim ..... John Norton
Sound ..... Colin Guthrie
Directed by Marc Beeby
FRI 04:30 Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (b03k29xy)
Series 5
Woolmere Walter
By Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Episode 3: Woolmere Walter
Pilgrim is forced assist a mismatched couple in their very unusual courtship.
William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton
Norah ..... Michelle Terry
Michael ..... Ralf Little
Handley ..... Joel MacCormack
Sterne ..... Peter Hamilton Dyer
Fran ..... Priyanga Burford
Daddy ..... Michael Bertenshaw
Piano ..... Colin Guthrie
Directed by Marc Beeby
FRI 05:15 Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (b03kv26x)
Series 5
Parsons Mount
By Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Episode 4: Parsons Mount
Pilgrim's quest for the Radiant Boy forces him to travel to the one place he has been forbidden to go.
William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton
Hecht ..... James Fleet
Millie ..... Amaka Okafor
Chloe ..... Lizzy Watts
Carlton ..... John Norton
Stringer ..... Joel MacCormack
Sound ..... Colin Guthrie
Directed by Marc Beeby
FRI 06:00 Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home (b007jtdj)
Episode 5
As suspicions over Palgrove grow, Inspector Purbright calls on his old friend Lucilla Teatime.
One of Colin Watson's Flaxborough Chronicles dramatised by Christopher Denys in 6 parts.
Stars John Rowe as Inspector Purbright, Paul Downing as Love, Russell Dixon as Dr Fergusson, Ann Rye as Lucilla Teatime, Geoffrey Banks as Mortimer Hive, Kathryn Hunt as Helen and Robin Polley as Sgt Malley.
Producer: Tony Cliff
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992.
FRI 06:30 Heel, Toe, Step Together (b00wdf4b)
Heel, Toe, Step Together tells the story of two people who met at an east London market one day and the unlikely friendship that blossomed through dance.
Bob Hill, 86, has been dancing on and off since he was 16 and won many competitions with his late wife Iris Hill, who he lived with in Hackney. Katie Burningham, 28, is a radio producer and self-confessed bad dancer. Bob and Katie met by chance one day, shortly after Bob's wife Iris had died, and, three years later, Katie is still having dance lessons with Bob.
This programme brings together recordings of their dancing and explores why it is that Bob, and Katie, need to dance. Touching on themes of loss, loneliness, love and affection, Heel, Toe, Step Together reveals how, through music and movement, friendship can bridge generations.
Heel, Toe, Step Together was produced as part of the European Broadcasting Union's Master School on Radio Features, with the creative advice of Edwin Brys.
Producer: Katie Burningham
A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4
FRI 07:00 Dry Slopes (b071l3fk)
Series 2
The Domino Effect
Everybody Angus knows seems to be in a relationship these days.
He looks back to a time when all his friends were confirmed bachelors - the golden days of Form 3B.
Written by and starring Nick Ball.
Angus ...... Nick Ball
Mum ...... Mum
With Toby Longworth, Ben Silburn and Julie Gibbs.
Producer: Gareth Edwards
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1997.
FRI 07:30 Wordaholics (b01rlmpt)
Series 2
Episode 1
Gyles Brandreth hosts the comedy panel show challenging guests to display their knowledge of words and language.
On the panel: comedians Milton Jones and Alun Cochrane, Dictionary Corner's Susie Dent and Front Row critic Natalie Haynes.
Milton Jones will be coining his own new fear - the fear of becoming a monk: 'cloisterphobia'; Alun Cochrane's Yorkshire roots help him guess the meaning of the Polish word 'prozvonit'; Susie Dent explains the origin of the phrase 'gingering up' and Natalie Haynes tries to ban the word 'guesstimate'.
Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013.
FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b009l7jt)
Series 6
The Waxwork
The lad is set to be immortalised in wax, but the trouble is, it's not quite how he'd envisaged...
Starring Tony Hancock.
With Sidney James, Bill Kerr and Warren Mitchell.
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 November 1959.
FRI 08:30 The Goon Show (b007jt71)
Series 6
The Treasure in the Lake
Neddie discovers he's the heir to a Scottish fortune, but first he must outlive the current Laird.
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 February 1956.
FRI 09:00 Wildbrain (b071l5lm)
1997 - Heat 3
Lionel Kelleway visits Gloucestershire, to test contestants' wildlife knowledge in the BBC Natural History Unit's quiz.
FRI 09:30 Albert and Me (b04bzw4t)
Series 2
Under Observation
Single dad Bryan gets a scare when baby Albert is taken to hospital for tests.
Stars Robert Lindsay and Pat Coombs.
The struggles of single parent Bryan Archer to find work while raising his baby son, Albert.
Bryan Archer …. Robert Lindsay
Mum …. Pat Coombs
Mrs Willis …. Diana King
Vera …. Marcia Warren
Edward …. Gorden Kaye
Jenny …. Brenda Blethyn
GP …. Renu Setna
Nurse …. Tammy Ustinov
Written by Jim Eldridge.
Incidental music by Max Harris.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May 1983.
FRI 10:00 Mikhail Bulgakov - The White Guard (b00761ld)
Survival
As Ukranian Nationalists seize control of Kiev, Alexei and Nikolka are running for their lives.
Conclusion of Mikhail Bulgakov's classic Ukrainian novel - dramatised in two parts by DJ Britton.
Stars Paul Hilton as Alexei, James Loye as Nikolka, Melanie Walters as Julia, Manon Edwards as Elena, Gerry Lepkowski as Myshlaevsky, Tim Kirkus as Shpolyansky, Patrick Brennan as Shervinsky, Simon Ludders as Rusakov, Siriol Jenkins as Irina and Brendan Charleson as Shchur.
Translator: Michael Glenny
Directed at BBC Wales by Alison Hindell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
FRI 11:00 Leap Year Tales (b01cwwlj)
Excepting February
Three stories to mark the Leap Year.
'Excepting February' by Alan Spence.
February's extra day threatens to cause technical meltdown in Scotland's granite city, but meanwhile may give love another chance for one man.
Read by John Buick.
Produced by Patricia Hitchcock
Alan Spence is an award-winning poet and playwright, novelist and short story writer. His awards include the McVitie Prize (Scottish Writer of the Year). He is Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen where he also founded and directed the annual WORD Festival from 1999-2011. His most recent novel, 'The Pure Land', was translated into 19 languages. His latest book is 'Morning Glory', a poetry collection with illustrations by Elizabeth Blackadder.
FRI 11:15 Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (b04vdnbz)
Series 6
Jackson's Mill
by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. A new series of dark fantasies featuring William Palmer, the immortal wanderer. Pilgrim discovers that an old friend is being haunted by a malevolent spirit. Meanwhile, homeless people are disappearing from a local shelter.
1 of 4
CAST
Pilgrim ..... Paul Hilton
Morgan ..... Justin Salinger
Hartley ..... Matthew Tennyson
Liam ..... Shaun Mason
Karen ..... Bettrys Jones
Gabriel ..... Paul Heath
Gaynor ..... Jane Slavin
The Girl ..... Agnes Bateman
Directed by Marc Beeby
FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b009l7jt)
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FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jt71)
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FRI 13:00 Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home (b007jtdj)
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06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 Heel, Toe, Step Together (b00wdf4b)
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06:30 today]
FRI 14:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn (b0080sjp)
Episode 10
A funeral sparks a big reunion of old faces at the house in Cornwall.
A house - with a fragrant lawn stretching down to the Cornish cliffs - is the link between the five cousins which neither the war nor adulthood can break.
Published in 1984, Mary Wesley novel abridged in ten parts by Elizabeth Bradbury.
Concluded by Sian Phillips.
Producer: Tracey Neale
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.
FRI 14:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04b2wzn)
Lumping and Splitting
By 1850 identifying and classifying plants had become far more important than mere list making. Establishing the global laws of botany - what grew where and why - occupied the well travelled naturalist Joseph Hooker - son of Kew's director William Hooker and close friend of Charles Darwin. Kathy Willis hears from historian Jim Endersby on how Hooker was to acquire species from all over the world to build up the first accurate maps of the world's flora.
Mark Nesbitt, curator of Kew's economic botany collection, reveals how gifts to Hooker in the collection reveal the relationship between the amateur collector in the field and Hooker back at Kew was one built on trust and mutual understanding.
But, as Jim Endersby explains, the relationships were frought with tension when it came to naming new plants. Arguments between those claiming they had found new species (often called "splitters") versus cautious botanists, such as Hooker, who would often "lump" together species as variants of the same, raised new debates about what constitutes a new species. And as Mark Chase, Keeper of Kew's Jodrell Laboratory reveals, the arguments continue today.
Producer: Adrian Washbourne
Presenter: Kathy Willis is director of science at Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. She is also professor of long-term ecology and a fellow of Merton College, both at Oxford University. Winner of several awards, she has spent over 20 years researching and teaching biodiversity and conservation at Oxford and Cambridge.
FRI 14:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mbmd1)
Episode 5
Anne has fallen for Lyon Burke, but her friendship with Helen is put to the test. Jacqueline Susann drama with Madeleine Potter.
FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b00yz54n)
Bird Cloud
Episode 5
Pulitzer prize-winning writer, Annie Proulx, sets out to build her perfect home in a remote corner of Wyoming.
Proulx's first work of non-fiction in twenty years tells a personal story of designing and constructing a house in harmony with her interests, work and personality.
Living for her first year at Bird Cloud, Annie Proulx enjoys the range of bird and wildlife that inhabits her property. But it becomes clear that the remoteness and the snow will force her to reassess her dream.
Read by Laura Brook
Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.
FRI 15:00 Mikhail Bulgakov - The White Guard (b00761ld)
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10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 Wildbrain (b071l5lm)
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09:00 today]
FRI 16:30 Albert and Me (b04bzw4t)
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09:30 today]
FRI 17:00 Dry Slopes (b071l3fk)
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07:00 today]
FRI 17:30 Wordaholics (b01rlmpt)
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FRI 18:00 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere (b01rcwkv)
The Key
Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere.
An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into a subterranean world under the streets of London. Stopping to help an injured girl on a London street, Richard is thrust from his workaday existence into the strange world of London Below.
So begins a curious and mysterious adventure deep beneath the streets of London, a London of shadows where the tube cry of 'Mind the Gap' takes on new meaning; for the inhabitants of this murky domain are those who have fallen through the gaps in society, the dispossessed, the homeless. Here Richard meets the Earl of Earl's Court, Old Bailey and Hammersmith, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington.
Joining the mysterious girl named Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard, Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the clutches of the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to discover who ordered them to murder her family. All the while trying to work out how to get back to his old life in London Above.
A six part adaption of Neil Gaiman's novel adapted by Dirk Maggs, sees James McAvoy as Richard lead a stellar cast which includes Natalie Dormer, David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head, David Schofield, Bernard Cribbins, Romola Garai, George Harris, Andrew Sachs, Lucy Cohu, Johnny Vegas, Paul Chequer, Don Gilet and Abdul Salis.
FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b0076xbb)
Series 5
I Vow to thee my Country
A hymn that has attracted controversy for its patriotism, I Vow To Thee My Country was born just after the First World War.
Ralph Vaughan Williams had the inspirational idea to put together the stirring music from Holst's Jupiter movement and the poem written by American ambassador Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, which was found on his desk when he left office.
Featuring:
Raymond Head
David Burton
Bishop of Hulme, Stephen Lowe
Martin Linton
Battersea Singers
Julian Mitchell
Dr Martin Neary
Producer: Sara Conkey
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b009l7jt)
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08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b007jt71)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home (b007jtdj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Heel, Toe, Step Together (b00wdf4b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Leap Year Tales (b01cwwlj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz (b04vdnbz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 Wordaholics (b01rlmpt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
FRI 22:30 Absolute Power (b00805kb)
Series 3
Episode 5
Spin doctors Prentiss and McCabe are challenged to boost public opinion about men.
A swipe at the cults of celebrity and spin, Absolute Power centres around the PR agency, Prentiss McCabe, a company set up by a couple of ex-BBC, long-term staffers. The partners spin news stories to benefit their invariably loathsome clients.
CAST:
Charles Prentiss …. Stephen Fry
Martin McCabe …. John Bird
Sir Archibald Sullivan …. Tony Gardner
Clive …. Tom George
Jeremy Lewis …. James Vaughan
with Beth Chalmers
Written by Mark Tavener
Producer: Dawn Ellis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2002.
FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b0725r1y)
The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith is joined by Mark Thomas.
FRI 23:00 Meet David Sedaris (b03mclqh)
Series 4
Episode 5
One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC Radio 4 doing what he does best.
This week, he considers his native tongue as if it were a foreign language in "English Lesson" and the trouble that taxidermy can bring in "Understanding Understanding Owls".
Producer: Steve Doherty
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 23:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b01p98gy)
Series 3
Episode 4
Alternative therapies in ER, and it's Bhangraman to the rescue.
Starring:
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Kulvinder Ghir
Meera Syal
Nina Wadia
Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001.
Written by Richard Pinto, Sharat Sardana, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Sanjeev Kohli.
Script Editors: Sharat Sardana and Richard Pinto
Producer: Anil Gupta.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998.