SATURDAY 04 JUNE 2016

SAT 00:00 Edgar Allan Poe (b007jsry)
The Fall of the House of Usher
Episode 2
As his behaviour starts to change, Roderick Usher reveals his terrible secret...
A man's descent into madness seems bound to the house of his ancestors.
Edgar Allan Poe's classic gothic horror story, first published in 1839.
Concluded by Sean Barrett.
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in September 2003.
SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b00mr2wr)
Series 8
You've Got a Friend
Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional appeal.
Written by Carole King and made famous by James Taylor, You've Got a Friend won a Grammy Award in 1971. In this programme people tell how this song has affected their life.
Contributors
Carole King
Nick Barraclough
Marcella Erskine
Estelle Williams
Karen Garner
James Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
SAT 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133ldd)
Series 1
Roaring Boy
Mary and Andy have some exciting news for George, but he's nowhere to be found - and on the other side of Dock Green, a desperate young man with a gun is on the run.
Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy Crawford.
Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series running from 1955 to 1976.
PC George Dixon ...... David Calder
PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant
Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks
Doug Beale ...... Carl Prekopp
Diana Johnson ...... Hayley Docherty
Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by Sue Rodwell.
Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2005.
SAT 01:30 The Ambassador's Reception (b00rv5dc)
"Being thrown out of the US embassy in Ankara with Arthur Miller - a voluntary exile - was one of the proudest moments of my life."
In March 1985 Harold Pinter and American playwright Arthur Miller took a trip to Turkey that culminated in their being thrown out of the American Ambassador's dinner party held in Arthur Miller's honour. They were not in Turkey for a play or a literary event but to draw attention to the ruthless limits being set on freedom of expression in Turkey at that time, and the many writers languishing in prison.
"Mr. Pinter, you don't seem to understand the realities of the situation here. Don't forget, the Russians are just over the border. You have to bear in mind the political reality, the diplomatic reality, the military reality."
Writer and journalist Maureen Freely retraces their footsteps and takes us on a journey across Istanbul into the homes and meeting places of the Turkish literati who in the 1980s were oppressed, imprisoned and tortured for their opinions. Until then the world had turned a blind eye to their plight. Did Pinter and Miller's trip draw attention to a regime that was cruelly persecuting its people or were hopes raised only to be quashed again with the realisation that military strategy was more important to the world than human rights?
Evoking images of country full of promise yet stunted by doubt and distrust Maureen hears from painters, writers, and publishers - those who remember the trip vividly, those who were locked up for speaking their mind, and the new generation of authors. She finds out whether Turkey is a better, safer and freer place to be a writer today than it was in the spring of 1985 or whether having an opinion that deviates from the official line remains a dangerous path to tread.
Producer: Gemma Newby
An All Out production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2010.
SAT 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River (b00njx8d)
A New Emptiness
William Thornhill makes his choice, but will he reap his reward? Ron Cook reads the hard-hitting conclusion.
SAT 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and the Mind (b04368f7)
A Problem of Consciousness
In this programme, Martin Sixsmith examines the 'hard problem' of consciousness and the work of psychologists such as Susan Blackmore who believe it is 'just an illusion'.
He asks what drives us to think and act as we do, and questions the role of freewill and morality. He discovers how emotions affect our cognitive functions and examines the importance of insight, including Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Kohler's work with chimpanzees.
He looks at Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman's 'thinking fast and thinking slow' model and the impact decision making has not only on individuals but also for the success of the economy and society.
Produced by Sara Parker
Series consultant, Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, University of London.
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jshd)
The Virgin in the Garden, Part 5/8
In the year of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Bill Potter has difficulty in accepting his daughter Stephanie's desire to marry the local curate, Daniel Orton
The Virgin in the Garden is the first of four AS Byatt novel adaptations chronicling the lives of the Potter family, set against the social and political landscape of England of 1953-1970.
Older Frederica …. Rosemary Leach
Young Frederica …. Hannah Watkins
Bill …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Winifred …. Barbara Flynn
Stephanie …. Helen Longworth
Daniel …. Shaun Dooley
Mrs. Thone …. Sandra Clark
Alexander …. Adam Kotz
Mrs. Orton …. Bridget Turner
All four novels dramatised in 30 parts by John Harvey.
Producer: Mary Peate.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002.
SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b011vhsg)
James Joyce - A Biography
Episode 5
"Living In Ireland had lost all meaning for Joyce; and the lure of 'exile' began to possess him. But if he was to elope with Nora he would need to secure an income, and would Nora go with him? Fortunately, she was as captivated by him as he was by her..."
Our five part reading of this voluminous account looks at Joyce's years spent in Europe, when he held down menial jobs, caroused a lot, experienced the ups and downs of married life, but still managed to produce works of literature that have stood the test of time.
5. To Trieste, then later to Paris, and by 1919 it's the efforts of some determined women, Margaret Anderson, Harriet Weaver and Sylvia Beach, who help Joyce in the publication of Ulysses.
SAT 03:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior (b03m7vkc)
A Guilty Bit of Paper
In the final episode of her Carlingford Chronicles, Mrs Oliphant recounts how Mr May, beset on all sides by debt, is swept towards the conclusion of his deceitful action.
Amongst the close little coterie of lovers, there is a surprise and a disappointment.
Stars Elizabeth Spriggs as Mrs Oliphant, Charlotte Attenborough as Phoebe, Junior, Peter Jeffrey as Mr May and Timothy West as Mr Copperhead.
Dramatised from Margaret Oliphant's 1876 novel by Elizabeth Proud.
Producer: Sue Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994.
SAT 04:00 We've Been Here Before (b00fy1g5)
Series 2
Episode 2
Clive Anderson hosts the panel show that pokes fun at events of the past.
The topical historical satirical panel show setting out to prove that there's nothing new under, or in, The Sun.
Gyles Brandreth and Natalie Haynes battle it out against John O'Farrell and Richard Herring.
Producer: Ed Morrish
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.
SAT 04:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007jwbj)
Series 1
The TV Stars
Rabbi Su is set to appear on TV, but Rabbi Abraham is not impressed - or so it seems.
The first of three series of Barry Grossman’s comedy-drama about the collision between the old and the new in the Jewish community of Hillfield.
Starring David De Keyser as Rabbi Abraham Fine. Tracy-Ann Oberman as Rabbi Su Jacobs, Doreen Mantle as Sadie Fine, Henry Goodman as Melvin, Jonathan Kydd as Brian, Sheila Steafel as Sue's Mum, Peter Landi as Gareth Broughton and Rebecca Gethings as Fiona Collins.
Music: Max Harris.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
SAT 05:00 Crowned Hudds (b00psrfz)
Fourth Wedding and Some Funerals
Poking fun at King Henry VIII, it's Roy Hudd's historical royal romp, with June Whitfield and Chris Emmett. From August 1995.
SAT 05:30 Spotlight Tonight with Nish Kumar (b07ctlnq)
Pilot
We all like to think we know about the news and yet, whilst jokes about George Osborne's new haircut are all well and good, do you still have that nagging suspicion there's important things going on beneath the headlines you'd like to know about?
Well, help is at hand! Nish Kumar is here to cast his spotlight on the week's most talked about news items, taking an in-depth look at the biggest stories from the past seven days to scrutinise what's actually going on beneath the bluster.
In tonight's show, Nish gets to grip with the EU and the scaremongering coming from both sides, press regulation in light of Paddling Pool-gate, and the seemingly impenetrable TTIP. Meanwhile, intrepid reporter Diane Steer puts the Remain campaign's predictions to the test.
Starring Nish Kumar, Kieran Hodgson, Cariad Lloyd, and Freya Parker.
Written by Liam Beirne, Sarah Campbell, Max Davis, Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch, Nish Kumar, and Tom Neenan.
The research producer was Rachel Wheeley.
The production coordinator was Sophie Richardson.
It was produced by Matt Stronge and was a BBC Studios Production.
SAT 06:00 Terence Rattigan - The Winslow Boy (b0129678)
"It is easy to do justice - very hard to do right".
Let Right Be Done - is the the theme of this drama by Terence Rattigan - set just before the First World War.
A father battles to prove the innocence of his son, accused of stealing a postal order at his Edwardian naval college.
His stubborn quest sparks reverberations at the House of Commons.
Arthur Winslow ...... Michael Aldridge
Grace Winslow ...... Pauline Letts
Catherine Winslow ...... Sarah Badel
Dickie Winslow ...... Michael Maloney
Ronnie Winslow ...... John McAndrew
Violet ...... Peggy Page
Attorney-General ...... Nicholas Courtney
John Watherstone ...... David Timson
Miss Barnes ...... Margaret Robertson
Mrs Beggs ...... Gladys Spencer
Desmond Curry ...... Michael Spice
Herbert Ridgeley-Pearce ...... John Rye
1st Lord of the Admiralty ...... Patrick Barr
Sir Robert Morton ...... Aubrey Woods
Adapted from Terence Rattigan's stage and TV scripts and directed by Ian Cotterell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1981.
SAT 07:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern American Literature (b00rp1w6)
Goodbye Soldiers, Hello Everyone
Mark Lawson completes his tour of modern American literature with a story of departures and arrivals and the cultural pressures which writers face in the 21st century.
The great post-Second World War generation of authors - Norman Mailer, John Updike, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut Jr - and their surviving contemporaries such as Gore Vidal and Philip Roth often expressed gloom about the future of serious novels and plays, fearing they would be pushed out by a pressure towards more commercial and personal stories.
The rise of "confessional writing" - from the poetry of Sylvia Plath and others in the 60s to the modern "misery memoir" - has seemed to call into question the validity of imagination and invention. Lawson argues that an underlying change in the status of the literary novel is epitomised by the fact that wheareas in the 1960s John Updike was featured on the cover of Time magazine, more recently it was Dan Brown.
However a new wave of so-called "hyphenated"' writers - Indian-American, Korean-American, Dominican-American - has been renewing U.S libraries in the way they always had been: through immigration.
Taking final stock Mark Lawson reflects on whether American Literature has reached a full stop or perhaps achieved a new dash. He talks to authors including John Ashbery, Rita Dove, Chang-rae Lee, Junot Diaz, Lorrie Moore, Walter Mosley and James Patterson.
SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b00771nw)
The Edwards Archive
Twenty-five years ago, film-maker John Edwards interviewed 50 of the surviving cameramen who had worked for the cinema newsreel companies in America and Europe. His recordings were lost and recovered only recently.
The story of the newsreel, from the Lindbergh take-off to the Apollo splash-downs, can now be told in the voices of the men who filmed history.
SAT 09:00 Not The World Cup in Brazil (b0499kgw)
The media is full of stories about Premiership footballers, the highest earners who command attention on and off the field.
But for most players and fans, football isn't about glamour. It's the stuff of everyday life.
Like the supporter who has seen his team play every match, home and away for 40 years and the 75 year old who loves the game so much he still ventures out in all weathers three times a week just to score a goal. These people are the beating heart and soul of football, the men and women who are often forgotten as the media keeps its focus on the top players and clubs.
The 6 Music DJ Steve Lamacq co-presents the programme. As a lifelong Colchester United supporter he knows only too well the hardships football can bring, a cycle that regularly breaks the hearts of its loyal band of fans. Inexpert analysis comes from the comedian and football sceptic Robin Ince. Can Steve persuade Robin that football should become part of his life?
The programme features the best from the BBC archives, including John Motson. He takes a wry look at Ample Arthur Cartwright, a player whose career was blighted by a love of palaeontology while The Likely Lads Bob and Terry spend a desperate day trying to avoid hearing the result of a game until the highlights are shown on TV later in the evening.
We follow the fortunes of a parks team, hear from the woman who regularly turned out for all male sides and travel to Robben Island in South Africa to meet the men who used football as a way of fighting apartheid.
Not The World Cup In Brazil, which was made in 2014, is a millionaire player and club owner free zone and hears from the ordinary people who believe football is a sport not a balance sheet.
SAT 12:00 Desert Island Discs (b00827lh)
Ronnie Corbett
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is an entertainer so central to British popular culture he can be identified by the outline of his glasses alone - Ronnie Corbett. For more than 50 years, from late night reviews to prime-time sit-coms, his comic talents have made us laugh and made us love him; a nattily turned out national treasure with a quick wit and a ready smile.
His success is due, of course, to his own ability but also to two enduring and remarkable partnerships. Along with Ronnie Barker, he formed one of the great TV duos of all time whilst his 40-year marriage to his wife Ann saw her abandon her flourishing entertainment career to sustain him through the vicissitudes of fame and family life. Ronnie Corbett looks back over his life and career, from his days in review at Danny La Rue's club to his last ever programme with Ronnie Barker - a moment that brought them both to tears.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Favourite track: Music Maestro Please by Ann Hart
Book: Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
Luxury: A hammock.
SAT 12:45 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders (b00hqhzh)
The Enlightenment
Josie explores the history of collecting things and discovers the Enlightenment.
She tries to defy her student past, by becoming more scientific and takes controversial anatomist Professor Gunther von Hagens to task for being a "demon with ready access to plasticine".
With Maeve Higgins, Henning Wehn and Daniel Harkin.
Producer Colin Anderson
First broadcast BBC Radio 4 in February 2009.
SAT 13:00 44 Scotland Street (Omnibus) (b07djq6y)
Edinburgh for Pretenders (Omnibus)
Portrait painter, Angus Lordie, observes the goings on of his neighbours and friends in and around 44 Scotland Street. Seven year-old Bertie Pollok has 'issues' when his domineering mother Irene organises his social life. And Irene has issues when her husband Stuart offers to take Bertie to Glasgow of all places. Local café owner Big Lou has a new love in her life whose politics hark back to the Jacobite days. And then there's Domenica - an anthropologist - trying to write a report on her most recent adventure exploring the lives of modern day pirates. An encounter with a gangster, a suspected kidnapping and the possibility of a new political leader ensure life for Scotland Street's residents is never uneventful.
Alexander McCall Smith dramatises stories from his bestselling series, 44 Scotland Street, which continues to delight readers around the world.
Angus Lordie ...... Crawford Logan
Domenica ...... Carol Ann Crawford
Irene ...... Emma Currie
Bertie ...... Simon Kerr
Stuart ...... David Jackson Young
Big Lou ...... Anita Vettesse
Producer/director: David Ian Neville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016.
SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07djq70)
Don McLean
Singer-songwriter Don McLean chooses 'White Christmas' by Bing Crosby and 'Don't Be Cruel' by Elvis Presley.
SAT 14:15 Sentimental Journey (b0076z1t)
Germaine Greer
Arthur Smith accompanies academic, writer and critic Germaine Greer to southern Italy, where she spent the summer of 1967.
Producer: Vibeke Venema
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
SAT 14:45 Could Do Better (b03q5fw6)
Dame Edna Everage
Robert Booth has a quiet word with international megastar housewife Dame Edna Everage about her school reports. From December 1998.
SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b00771nw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Terence Rattigan - The Winslow Boy (b0129678)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern American Literature (b00rp1w6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 Doctor Who (b07djrkw)
The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
Episode 2
The Doctor discovers why his imposter has been shipping arms and unsuspecting people to a distant planet.
Starring Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Maggie Stables as Evelyn Smythe, John Pickard as Thomas Brewster and Anna Hope as DI Menzies.
Writer: Jonathan Morris
Producer: Nicholas Briggs.
A Big Finish production.
SAT 19:00 Not The World Cup in Brazil (b0499kgw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b03gg7n7)
Series 1
Problems with a Package
Tom's parents are in Tenerife but that doesn't stop Tom making his weekly call. Tom lives to regret persuading them to explore more than just the hotel whilst they're on holiday.
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-ups gets underneath the skin of Tom and the Wrigglesworth family, so sit back and enjoy a bit of totally legal phone hacking.
Classic Wrigglesworth rants combined with a fascinating and hilarious glimpse into his family background and the influences that have shaped his temperament, opinions and hang-ups.
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups is a 30 minute phone call from Tom ringing his parents for his weekly check-in. As the conversation unfolds, Tom takes time out from the phone call to explain the situation, his parent's reactions and relate various anecdotes from the past which illustrate his family's views. And sometimes he just needs to sound-off about the maddening world around him and bemoan everyday annoyances.
During all this Hang Ups explores class, living away from 'home', trans-generational phenomena, what we inherit from our families and how the past repeats in the present. All in a 30 minute phone call.
Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle
Additional Material by Miles Jupp
Producer: Katie Tyrrell.
SAT 22:30 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders (b00hqhzh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:45 today]
SAT 22:45 Ida Barr: Artificial Hip Hop (b00vcq95)
Transparency
Ida Barr is a music hall singer who has embraced hip hop and rap, reflecting the cultural diversity of London's East End, where she has been living in retirement for several decades.
With her genuine love of talking to people, Ida sets out investigate a new topic in each episode, creating a unique brand of music hall, hip-hop fusion with beat boxer Shlomo.
Ida’s subject this time is "Transparency".
Written by and starring Christopher Green as Ida Barr.
Producer: Claire Grove
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2010.
SAT 23:00 Masala FM (b007jz5q)
Episode 5
When the Asian radio station's boss gets religion, the on-air result is far from heavenly.
Six-part sitcom written by Meera Syal
Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nitin Sawheny, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia.
Music by Nitin Sawhney.
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1996.
SAT 23:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin (b012fqnb)
Series 1
Episode 3
An untimely death causes a lifestyle rethink for the Manchester DJ.
Starring Justin Moorhouse, Anne Reid and Paul Copley.
Sitcom written by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser.
Despite his messy life, Justin always remains positive. Every new day is a new opportunity, "When life throws you lemons, make lemonade".
Recorded in front of an audience in Manchester.
Anne Reid ..... Gran
Bernard Wrigley ..... Sven
Christine Bottomley ..... Lisa
Jim Poyser ..... Vicar
Justin Moorhouse ..... Justin
Lloyd Langford ..... Bryn
Paul Copley ..... Ray
Rachel Austin ..... Receptionist
Susan Cookson ..... Tanya
Producer ..... Steven Canny
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2011.