SATURDAY 18 JUNE 2016

SAT 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids (b007jrll)
Episode 10
With most of the population blinded, Bill Masen is determined to find Josella. But where does he start? Cult novel read by Roger May.
SAT 00:30 Sounds Natural (b01slst0)
Peter Cushing
Award-winning actor Peter Cushing takes a break from making horror films to discuss his enthusiasm for the British countryside and its wildlife - aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archive.
Peter tells Derek Jones how he used to spend hours with his late wife Helen watching wild birds from their home on the estuary at Whitstable in Kent.
Peter Cushing, OBE: born 1913 - died 1994.
Producer: John Burton.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1972.
SAT 01:00 Raffles (b01p10th)
Series 1
3. A Costume Piece
Reuben Rosenthall has made his millions in the diamond fields of South Africa, and it seems only right and proper to Raffles that some of this wealth should be redistributed.
But his attempts to seize the diamonds don't quite go according to plan, as a low-key stakeout spirals into a terrifying scramble for survival.
EW Hornung's early Raffles stories dramatised by David Buck.
Starring Jeremy Clyde and Michael Cochrane.
AJ Raffles ...... Jeremy Clyde
Bunny ...... Michael Cochrane
Reuben Rosenthall ...... Geoffrey Matthews
'Slammer' Purvis ...... John Hollis
Jala ...... Alton Kumalo
Lady 1 ...... Natasha Pyne
Lady 2 ...... Jane Leonard
Odd Bodd ...... Graham Blockey
Signature tune composed by Jim Parker.
Directed by Gordon House
A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast in November 1985.
SAT 01:30 The Manchester Writers (b00tbck6)
John Harris explores the work of a group of authors who captured a northern social realism in the 1930s with writing that went on to shape the views of northern living for generations.
Walter Greenwood, Howard Spring and Louis Golding wrote about Greater Manchester at a time of severe economic depression and great poverty and their novels describe conditions that have resonances with our life today - cuts in welfare, increased unemployment and a coalition government.
Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole', Golding's 'Magnolia Street' and Spring's 'Fame is the Spur' depict a tough, working class life and although the three authors wrote from slightly different perspectives, they describe people enduring a grim, hard existence in an industrial landscape.
As the final parts of industrial Manchester and Salford are finally transformed by investment and modernisation, 'The Manchester Writers' visits the streets that inspired these authors and hears how their work has endured and influenced ideas of northern England.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2010.
SAT 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007jx8b)
Desperation
Reconciliation is on the cards, with the recognition of unspoken devotion. Concluded by Juliet Stevenson.
SAT 02:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00s9f4y)
A Thousand Histories and Fables
Michael Morpurgo learns about the impact of printing, and how it raised fears among adults that it was corrupting children.
SAT 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsmm)
Still Life, Part 7/7
Daniel becomes disillusioned with home and the church, and there is some disturbing news for Stephanie.
CAST:
Older Frederica …. Rosemary Leach
Bill …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Alexander …. Adam Kotz
Stephanie …. Helen Longworth
Marcus …. Carl Prekopp
Clemency …. Sandra Clark
Gideon …. Stephen Critchlow
Daniel …. Sean Dooley
William …. Tom Glenister
Written by A.S. Byatt and dramatised by John Harvey.
Producer: Mary Peate.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
SAT 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day (b07gk2qv)
A Triumphant Evening
With the conference underway, Stevens's abilities as a butler are tested when his father is taken ill. Read by John Moffatt. From January 1990.
SAT 03:00 Classic Serial (b07jgrhb)
Silas Marner
Episode 2
Silas Marner by George Eliot
dramatised by Richard Cameron
Episode 1/2
Outcast from the church, community, and closest friends for a crime he did not commit, Silas Marner's trust and faith falls away. A broken, disillusioned man, exiled, he builds a new faith, that will never let him down: gold. He weaves his cloths, counts his money, baptises himself with the coins of his new religion. When tragedy strikes again and all his money is stolen he's bereft and grief stricken. Then on New Year's Eve a vision of gold flickers before the flames. Spilling locks are tumbling coins. For a moment Silas is reunited with his lovely sovereigns. And then he sees a little child.
SILAS MARNER.............George Costigan
SARAH/PRISCILLA ............................Fiona Clarke
WILLIAM/JEM/GODFREY...........Conrad Nelson
MINISTER/MACEY.............Seamus O'Neill
SNELL/BRYCE..............Leigh Symonds
DUNSEY/DOWLAS..............James Nickerson
SQUIRE ............. ......Terence Wilton
DOLLY............. ...Deborah McAndrew
AARON (child).............................George Herbert
NANCY/MOLLY........ ........Maeve Larkin
Directed by Pauline Harris.
SAT 04:00 We've Been Here Before (b00g1rsp)
Series 2
Episode 4
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.
Nick Revell and Gyles Brandreth battle it out against Helen Atkinson-Wood and John O'Farrell.
Producer: Ed Morrish
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004.
SAT 04:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k1mc)
Series 1
The Engagement
Rabbi Sue's announcement sparks fury from her rival Rabbi Abraham.
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, Diane Keen as Fay, John Bennett as David and Ben Crowe as Gary.
Music: Max Harris.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
SAT 05:00 Crowned Hudds (b00q9px6)
A Comedy of Arrows
King John gets ambushed. Roy Hudd's historical royal romp, with June Whitfield and Jeffrey Holland. From August 1995.
SAT 05:30 Meet David Sedaris (b0125g85)
Series 2
Nuit of the Living Dead and The End of the Affair
The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 for a series of audience readings. This week: what not to do with a mouse, in front of strangers in "Nuit of the Living Dead" and the ups and downs of along term relationship get the Sedaris treatment in "The End of the Affair"
Producer: Steve Doherty
A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 06:00 Death at Broadcasting House (b07grh62)
An actor is strangled during the live broadcast of a murder mystery play at the BBC’s London HQ.
Once it's off-air, the cast discover that the victim really is dead - and millions of listeners must have heard the crime being committed!
Starring John Moffatt, Peter Sallis and Jeremy Clyde.
Whodunit first adapted for the cinema in 1934 by Val Gielgud and Holt Marvell from their book of the same name.
Julian Caird ...... John Moffatt
Detective Inspector Spears ...... Peter Sallis
Rodney Fleming ...... Jeremy Clyde
BBC DG ...... Graham Crowden
Leopold Dryden ...... Bill Nighy
Isabel Dryden ...... Diana Quick
Stewart Evans ...... Julian Glover
Detective Sergeant Ring ...... Nicky Henson
Macdonald ...... David Holt
Higgins ...... Gavin Muir
Pat ...... Caroline Strong
Topsy ...... Becky Hindley
Guy Bannister ...... Roger May
Surgeon ...... John Hartley
Adapted for radio by Sue Rodwell and recorded on location.
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1996.
SAT 07:30 Three Rivers (b00lc66g)
The Mersey
Hardeep Singh Kohli travels from source to sea of three major rivers that are being regenerated after years of neglect and industrial use.
Hardeep begins his journey along the Mersey beside the River Goyt in the Peak District, the main tributary of the Mersey. He visits Stockport, which is the official beginning of the Mersey, and spots the plaque which announces that fact hidden behind a Sainsbury's store. From there, Hardeep ventures on to the Manchester Ship Canal and eventually reaches Liverpool's Albert Dock.
A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b01s02zb)
Dr K
Henry Kissinger is the most celebrated figure in US foreign policy, despite having left office over thirty-five years ago.
His much-vaunted "opening to China" with President Nixon in 1972, his détente policy with the Soviet Union during the Cold War and his shuttle diplomacy across the Middle East, all saw Dr. Kissinger guiding American interests and seeking durable power balances. Ever since then, each US president has sought out Kissinger's sage advice.
But Kissinger's reputation has a darker side. Some critics still find inexcusable the Americans' bombing of Cambodia and involvement in Chile's 1973 military coup. They also deplore what they see as his indifference to human rights.
In this programme, Mark Malloch Brown, a former Foreign Office minister and top official at the United Nations, presents a personal perspective on Dr. K.
As a young man in the 1960s and 1970s, Mark was repelled by what he saw as Kissinger's ruthless realpolitik and apparent downplaying of the plight of peoples from IndoChina to Latin America.
However, over the course of his own long career, Mark's view of Dr K has changed. The collapse of communism, the rise of China and the problems left unresolved by the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have led Mark to view Kissinger's insights into foreign policy - and how to achieve stability and security - more sympathetically.
As Kissinger's 90th birthday nears, Mark asks: what are the lessons of Dr K's thinking and practice for our own times?
Also taking part are the historian, Margaret MacMillan; the colleague and critic of Henry Kissinger, Morton Halperin; the long-standing Kissinger aide, Winston Lord; and the author of the award-winning critique of America's bombing of Cambodia, William Shawcross.
Producer Simon Coates.
SAT 09:00 Steve Punt's Hancock Cuttings (b04n61gw)
Tony Hancock fan Steve Punt presents oddities and rarities featuring the lad himself:
* BBC TV's Face To Face interview (1960)
Episode from the TV series in which John Freeman cross-examined leading personalities of the day. Here he interviews the radio and TV comedian, Tony Hancock.
* 'Ancock's Anthology – the BBC Light Programme’s Christmas Day miscellany of the comic’s favourite music, readings and an interview with Stirling Moss (25/12/1964)
* The Missing Page – the Pye Records re-recording of the TV episode (1965) On a visit to Cheam Library, the lad is appalled to be told he has some outstanding fines to pay. With Graham Stark, Clive Dunn and Frank Thornton. Written by Ray Galton & Alan Simpson.
* Educating Archie (19/10/1951)
Tony Hancock, Julie Andrews and Hattie Jacques join wisecracking schoolboy Archie Andrews. Cinema high-jinks and Dr Hancock lets Archie use his 'Wishing Chair'. Radio ventriloquism from Peter Brough. Written by Eric Sykes.
* The first ever episode of Hancock's Half Hour – 'The First Night Party' (BBC Light Programme 02/11/1954) The lad throws a launch party for his new series, but things don't quite go to plan. With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams and Gerald Campion. Written by Ray Galton & Alan Simpson.
Producer: Mik Wilkojc.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2014
SAT 12:00 Charles Dickens (b00r66xt)
Sketches by Boz: Series 1
The Tuggses at Ramsgate
It seems that money cannot buy you love. A comic story starring Nicholas Farrell, Christopher Hancock and Frances Jeater.
SAT 12:30 A Whole 'Nother Story (b00763tm)
Series 1
Older
Cassie and Pete would be a great couple, if they weren't so busy being friends.
The first of three series of Amanda Murphy’s comedy-drama series about a friendship between a man and a woman.
Starring Debra Stephenson as Cassie and David Lamb as Pete.
Rebecca ...... Mika Simmons
PJ ...... Brendan Burns
Dad ...... Mike Grady
Mum ...... Anne Reid
Producer: Graham Frost
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2001.
SAT 13:00 Unsuitable Men With Familiar Smiles (Omnibus) (b07grp8f)
Christine has hidden her past from her family.
But now she must reveal her extraordinary history of relationships with unsuitable men and their adventures together.
These will feature the jazz scene, the Profumo Affair, Rome and her biggest - and most surprising - secret!
But she starts with the Queen's Coronation and the kidnapping of a very important horse...
Written by Caroline and David Stafford.
Omnibus of five episodes.
Christine ..... Eleanor Bron
Sally ..... Tracy Wiles
Director: Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2016.
SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07grpkd)
Ray Quinn
Actor, singer, dancer Ray Quinn chooses 'My Special Angel' by Malcolm Vaughan and 'Eye of the Tiger' by Survivor.
SAT 14:15 Sentimental Journey (b007563l)
Ingrid Pitt
Arthur Smith accompanies the star of numerous 'Hammer House of Horror' films, Ingrid Pitt, on a trip back to Argentina.
Producer: Sharon Banoff
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
SAT 14:45 Uncle Mort's North Country (b007jl5d)
Series 1
Fallen Comrades
Carter and his uncle Mort sup a poignant pint at the Old Comrades Club.
Peter Tinniswood’s continuing tales of Carter Brandon and his curmudgeonly uncle.
Uncle Mort and his Yorkshire based family first appeared in Tinniswood’s novel ‘A Touch Of Daniel’ which earned them a run of four series of ‘I Didn't Know You Cared’ on BBC TV from 1975 to 1979.
Uncle Mort …. Stephen Thorne
Carter Brandon …. Peter Skellern
Marcus …. John Samson
The Doorman …. Steve Hodson
The Barman …. Alan Dudley
Narrator …. Christian Rodska
Producer: Pete Atkin.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1987.
SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b01s02zb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Death at Broadcasting House (b07grh62)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Three Rivers (b00lc66g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 Doctor Who (b07grtrz)
Industrial Evolution
Episode 2
The Doctor discovers there's more than one alien interfering with industrial progress of 19th-century Earth.
After following Thomas Brewster to Samuel Belfrage's brass mill in Ackleton, the Doctor and Evelyn have discovered some unexpected truth about his business.
Starring Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Maggie Stables as Evelyn Smythe, John Pickard as Thomas Brewster, Rory Kinnear as Samuel Belfrage, Stephen Gibson as Warren Brown and Joannah Tincey as Clara Stretton.
Writer: Eddie Robson
Producer: Nicholas Briggs.
A Big Finish production.
SAT 19:00 Steve Punt's Hancock Cuttings (b04n61gw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b03hwbrr)
Series 1
Out of Our Tree
Tom's father is engrossed in putting together the Wrigglesworth Family Tree which is leaving Tom's mother at a loose end. Tom suggests she gets in a lodger for company.
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.
A fascinating and hilarious glimpse into Tom Wrigglesworth, his family background and the influences that have shaped his temperament,opinions and hang-ups.
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.
'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.
Cast:
Tom Wrigglesworth ...Tom
Judy Parfitt ... Granny
Paul Copley ... Dad
Kate Anthony ... Mum
David Reed ... Henry
Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle
Additional Material by Miles Jupp
Producer: Katie Tyrrell.
SAT 22:30 Knowing Me, Knowing You (b007jsdd)
Episode 2
A-ha! Chat show host Alan Partridge faces up to nine-year-old prodigy Simon Fisher, American hypnotist, Janey Katz and controversial lawyer Nick Ford.
Classic chat from On the Hour's supreme sports reporter and his guests from the world of theatre, politics and emotional tragedy.
With thanks to Alan's chief researcher Steve Coogan
Assistant researchers:
Patrick Marber
Rebecca Front
Doon Mackichan
David Schneider.
Producer: Armando lannucci
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1992.
SAT 23:00 I, Regress (b01rlnj4)
Series 2
Rubber
Matt Berry plays a a corrupt and bizarre regression therapist in this dark, Lynch-meets-Kaufman-style comedy.
Unsuspecting clients are taken on twisted, misleading journeys through their subconscious.
Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client who has come to him for a different phobia. As the patient is put under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played out for us to hear. The result is a dream (or nightmare-like) trip through the patient's mind, as funny as it is disturbing.
With:
Bob Mortimer
Tracy-Ann Oberman
Sally Okafor
A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone else's head!
Producer: Sam Bryant
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013.
SAT 23:15 Richard Marsh (b01rl8p1)
Love and Sweets
Love From Afar
Richard Marsh plays a character called Richard ("We're not exactly alike, although we do look similar") and fuses poetry and prose to tell witty and honest tales of his whirlwind romance with Siobhan. From the excitement and silliness of young love, to cars covered in sweets, broken dreams, trans-American road trips and a seductive-looking lady called Sorrow.
Richard is an award-winning poet and playwright, and a new voice for Radio 4. He's a magnetic personality whose beautifully crafted stories are hilarious one moment and heart-breaking the next.
Richard and Siobhan meet sharing sweets at their dead-end temp job. They quickly become friends, but Richard's nervous of taking the plunge and declaring that he has feelings for her. After he finally plucks up the courage to (drunkenly) woo her, they embark on an exhilarating new relationship. Richard begins to fall for Siobhan, but he's worried - she wants to keep their relationship a secret at work. Will a grand romantic gesture in the corner shop win her heart?
Written and performed by Richard Marsh
Producer: Ben Worsfield
A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 23:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b00qcn23)
Series 2
Episode 1
Mark Thomas: The Manifesto. Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas creates a People's Manifesto, taking suggestions from his studio audience and then getting them to vote for the best. The winner of each show will be enforceable by law, so pay attention.
This edition includes policies such as restricting Prime Ministers to two full terms of office; the introduction of a maximum wage; and making all 4x4s transparent.
Produced by Ed Morrish.