SATURDAY 03 OCTOBER 2020

SAT 00:00 Haunted (b01qrljn)
Esmeralda by John Keir Cross
Felix might finally be free of his wife, but who is the mysterious woman claiming to be his daughter?
A series of stories of the supernatural.
John Keir Cross's tale dramatised by Patricia Mays.
Mr Broome ...... George Baker
Esmeralda ...... Kim Braden
With
Pauline Letts
Katherine Parr
David Gooderson
Crawford Logan
Director: Derek Hoddinott
First broadcast on BBC World Service in February 1982.
SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b007tn5h)
Keeping Up Appearances
Dominic Arkwright chairs the lively discussion series. This episode looks at personal image.
With Attila the Stockbroker, Susannah Jowitt and James Delingpole
Producer Miles Warde
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2007.
SAT 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (m0001c9t)
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
A long-buried secret induces pity and sorrow in the Great Detective.
Holmes and Watson learn the truth about the death of a lion tamer many years before, which left his wife horribly mutilated and hidden behind a veil. A tale of abuse and revenge fuelled by the ultimate betrayal of a lover and the physical and emotional scars it has left behind.
Taken from 'The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes' published in 1927 some years after Holmes' death at the hands of Moriarty, this a story from the latter period of Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
Read by James Nickerson.
Producer: Joanne Reardon
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2004
SAT 01:30 Castles in Spain (m0004xw1)
Episode 5
'Whatever you think it is, bookseller, Terry copied pictures. End of story. Right?'.
Will Forrest’s death release bookseller Grahame Mayer from the business of tracking down Jock Cameron?
Conclusion of Edward Boyd’s five-part thriller serial.
Grahame Mayer ..... Ray Brooks
Coleman ..... John Westbrook
Teresa ..... Alexandra Mathie
Dr Lovat ..... Roy Hanlon
Joseph Greig ..... Cameron
Produced at BBC Scotland by Patrick Rayner.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987.
SAT 02:00 The Personality Test (b00mk68l)
Series 2
Rick Wakeman
Progressive rock legend Rick Wakeman quizzes a panel about all things Wakeman.
With Sue Perkins, Lucy Porter, Will Smith and Robin Ince.
Series with changing hosts who quiz the panel.
Script by Richard Turner and Simon LIttlefield
Devised and produced by Aled Evans.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006.
SAT 02:30 Minor Adjustment (b0b51x67)
Foetal Attraction
Sarah wants a third child. Richard suggests a holiday might be more fun.
Six-part comedy series about the Stubbs family - cartoonist Richard, therapist Sarah and their daughters - Kate, aged 16 and three-year-old Amy who has Down's Syndrome.
Starring Peter Davison and Samantha Bond.
Written by son and father team, Andy and Eric Merriman - inspired by Andy's own four-year-old daughter, Sarah. Eric famously wrote legendary BBC comedy series 'Beyond Our Ken'.
Richard …. Peter Davison
Sarah …. Samantha Bond
Kate …. Claire Russell
Amy …. Sarah Merriman
Emma …. Heather Jones
Joni …. Lorelei King
George …. Philip Pope
Eddy …. Simon Treves
Daniel …. Daniel Merriman
Mary …. Alison Pettit
Saxophonist …. John Barnes
Uncle Chuckles …. Bill Pertwee
Producer: Gareth Edwards
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1996.
SAT 03:00 Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent (b00770h8)
Episode 2
After a terrorist bomb explodes in London killing the bomber, all levels of the establishment, and every anarchist circle feels threatened.
But what began as an international outrage quickly resolves into a domestic tragedy.
Conclusion of Joseph Conrad's prescient black comedy taking a wry look at the shabby truth behind the news.
Chief Inspector Heat ...... Ron Cook
Assistant Commissioner ...... Robert Glenister
Adolf Verloc ...... David Calder
Winnie Verloc ...... Wendy Nottingham
Tom Ossipon ...... Paul Bazeley
The Professor ...... Robin Soans
Vladimir ...... Hugh Ross
Sir Ethelred ...... Geoffrey Beevers
Great Lady ...... Jillie Meers
Toodles ...... Joseph Kloska
Stevie ...... Paul Richard Biggin
Waiter ...... Saikat Ahamed
Dramatised by David Napthine.
Director: Jessica Dromgoole
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
SAT 04:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000myzq)
Sporting stories and a visit to the Socially Distant Sports Bar
Chris Pearson and Amanda Litherland tackle sports podcasts.
This week, Stef Garrero, Elis James and Mike Bubbins discuss their lockdown sports podcast The Socially Distant Sports Bar podcast.
Then Adrian Koenigsberg joins us from New York to discuss her podcast Quell Party which celebrates and showcases women and non-binary people in Skateboarding.
Plus recommended listens from the world of Sports, including:
Don't Tell Me The Score
The Game Changers
Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.
All-American: Tiger Woods
Death Of A Sports Star
30 for 30
HORSE
The Tennis Podcast‎
SAT 05:00 Alone (b0b3fkqm)
Series 1
The Big Match
Mitch has plans to watch the Australian tennis final on his own - but no-one else quite got the memo and they all turn up to watch the match too.
Unfortunately for Mitch, Will is trying to avoid working, Ellie is struggling with her Facebook reaction to a death, Morris is hungry and Louisa needs to find a hot date in a hurry.
Sitcom, written by Moray Hunter and starring Angus Deayton, about five single, middle aged neighbours living in flats in a converted house in North London.
Mitch is a widower and part-time therapist who is looking to put his life back together now that he is single and living - supposedly temporarily - with Will, his younger, more volatile and unhappily divorced half-brother.
Elsewhere in the building are schoolteacher Ellie who is shy, nervous and desperately missing her ex-boyfriend, overly honest, frustrated actress Louisa, and socially inept IT nerd Morris.
Mitch ...... Angus Deayton
Ellie ...... Abigail Cruttenden
Will ...... Pearce Quigley
Louisa ...... Kate Isitt
Morris ...... Bennett Arron
Tom (Chief Fire Officer) ...... Saul Boyer
An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2018.
SAT 05:30 Dot (b08r1ljg)
Series 2
Meat
by Ed Harris
Comic adventures with Dot and the gals from personnel who for this week at least are in control of the War Rooms kitchens. Their task is to prepare a delicious cut of veal to woo the American Ambassador. It's a shame Dot just ate it. How will they wriggle out of this one?
Producer/Director, Jessica Mitic.
SAT 06:00 John Fletcher - Night Express (m000n6bg)
November, 1933: Gregory Roberts is a young British spy on his first mission. Travelling under the alias of a ball-bearings salesman, he heads to Vienna.
But, in neighbouring Germany, Adolf Hitler has recently come to power and the Nazis are infiltrating Austria...
Cornelius Garrett stars in John Fletcher's spy thriller.
Gregory Roberts …. Cornelius Garrett
Litzi …. Melinda Walker
Harold St John …. Timothy Bentinck
The Professor …. Gabriel Woolf
MacDonald …. John Rowe
Archie …. Andrew Hilton
Simpson …. Christian Rodska
Erich …. Jonathan Tafler
Commissioner … Michael Graham Cox
Commissioner’s Assistant …. John Hartoch
Gunter …. Ian Targett
Karl …. Richard Pearce
Gerta …. Joan Walker
Directed at BBC Bristol by Shaun MacLoughlin.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1989.
SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b05wc8wz)
Series 36
David Blunkett on Louis Braille
Matthew Parris hears why David Blunkett has chosen Louis Braille, the 18th century French boy who blinded himself in his father's workshop, as his great life - with the help of guest expert the RNIB's Kevin Carey.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2015.
SAT 08:00 Dilemma (b01r0h4y)
Series 2
Episode 3
Sue Perkins puts Dave Gorman, Anita Anand, Mark Evans and Jenny Eclair through the moral and ethical wringer.
Comedian Dave Gorman is cheating higher, faster and stronger; journalist Anita Anand deals with an unexpected guest; creator of Bleak Expectations Mark Evans gets a hand in the bush (but no birds); and comedian Jenny Eclair embraces dating in the digital age.
There are no "right" answers - but there are some deeply damning ones.
Devised by Danielle Ward.
Producer: Ed Morrish
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013.
SAT 08:30 Kathmandu or Bust (b07s6dls)
End of the Road
The lights of Kathmandu are twinkling on the horizon, the truck is in fine working order, and a haunch of goat is roasting on an open fire.
What can possibly go wrong?
Series written by Mike Yeaman and David Napthine.
Simon …. David Haig
Petra …. Michelle Chadwick
Callum …. Forbes Masson
Trigger …. Richard Ridings
Joan …. Sarah Crowden
Ellie …. Lolly Susi
Mechanic …. Peter Serafinowcz
Consul …. Derek Waring
Producer: Lissa Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996.
SAT 09:00 Selected Radiophonic Works (b00g15x3)
In 1958 an extraordinary musical laboratory was opened by the BBC. The Radiophonic Workshop provided music and sound for a wealth of BBC TV and radio programmes - from The Goon Show to Doctor Who.
Richard Coles explores the achievements of the unit and presents a carefully chosen selection of programmes showcasing the department's work:
* THE ELECTRIC TUNESMITHS
What have Doctor Who, New Worlds and Major Bloodnok's stomach in common? A Radiophonics Workshop signature tune.
George Luce finds out how sounds and tunes are conjured out of springs, shampoo bottles and electronic synthesisers. From BBC Radio 4, 1971.
* THE DREAMS
One of Delia Derbyshire's ‘Inventions for Radio’ produced in collaboration with the poet and dramatist Barry Bermange for the BBC Third Programme in 1964.
* THE GOON SHOW Series 9 (14/17) The Scarlet Capsule
Professor Ned Quatermass unravels a mystery around some enigmatic blue serge suits.
Stars Spike Milligan. From the BBC Home Service, 1959.
* INFERNO REVISITED
Peter Howell’s musical play by Peter Howell inspired by Dante's Inferno, with Alec McCowen as the Guide.
The music was realised at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. From BBC Radio 3, 1983
Plus clips of Bath Time (1976), Relativity (1974) and the legendary sound effect of Doctor Who’s TARDIS.
With contributions from Coldcut, Dick Mills and Mark Ayres.
Producer: Elizabeth Jaynes
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in December 2008.
SAT 12:00 My Favorite Husband (m000n6bj)
The Quiz Show
Lucille Ball stars in the vintage American sitcom which ran for well over a 100 episodes between 1948 and 1951.
Co-starring Richard Denning as her banker husband, My Favorite Husband is the story of Liz and George Cugat, a happily married couple living in the fictitious city of Sheridan Falls.
Based on the two novels written by Isabel Scott Rorick, Mr And Mrs Cugat, The Record Of A Happy Marriage (1940) and Outside Eden (1945).
In this opening episode, Liz and George’s housekeeper is desperate for a new dishwasher. Liz’s solution is to get a spot on a prize-winning quiz show. What could go wrong?
With Gale Gordon and Frank Nelson.
The popularity of this radio series led to Lucille’s ground breaking TV sitcom role, I Love Lucy. This was to cement her long-running position as one of America’s favourite entertainers over several decades.
First broadcast in the USA on CBS Radio in October 1948.
SAT 12:30 Genius (b008gh65)
Series 1
Paul Daniels
From the 99p coin to steel drum urinals.
Dave Gorman asks magician Paul Daniels to select the public's best loopy idea.
The first of three radio comedy series where award-winning comedian Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies of the public.
Producer: Simon Nicholls
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2005.
SAT 13:00 Castles in Spain (m0004xtt)
Episode 1
'When I walked into this house I was simple Grahame Mayer, the bookseller. Now it seems I'm Philip Marlowe, private eye. Am I being tested for something?'
A bookseller is surprised to be asked to try and solve a military mystery...
Edward Boyd’s five-part thriller serial based on his 1986 play.
Grahame Mayer ..... Ray Brooks
Coleman ..... John Westbrook
Teresa ..... Alexandra Mathie
Forrest ..... Garard Green
Hemingway ..... William Hope
Cameron ..... John Hannah
Rainsford ..... Jonathan Tafler
Produced at BBC Scotland by Patrick Rayner.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1987.
SAT 13:30 Castles in Spain (m0004r2s)
Episode 2
'You can't even get your act together, you lot. Do you want Jock Cameron found, or would he be better left where he is?'
Armed with new information, bookseller Grahame Mayer is sent to Glasgow on the trail of Jock Cameron.
Edward Boyd’s five-part thriller serial.
Grahame Mayer ..... Ray Brooks
Coleman ..... John Westbrook
Teresa ..... Alexandra Mathie
Inspector McNeill ..... Carey Wilson
Norah McGill ..... Sybil Wintrope
Cameron ..... Joseph Greig
Henderson ..... Joseph Brady
Arnold ..... Ian Thompson
Receptionist ..... Jennifer Piercey
Passenger ..... William Hope
Produced at BBC Scotland by Patrick Rayner.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1987.
SAT 14:00 Castles in Spain (m0004tv9)
Episode 3
'Remember, nobody knows what this Hanrahan looks like. Nobody knows what name he's travelling under. So keep your door locked. And don't let anyone in you don't know.'
Bookseller Grahame unearths more clues about Jock Cameron when he meets a nurse from the Spanish Civil War.
Edward Boyd’s five-part thriller serial.
Grahame Mayer ..... Ray Brooks
Coleman ..... John Westbrook
Teresa ..... Alexandra Mathie
Inspector McNeill ..... Carey Wilson
Cameron ..... John Hannah
Norah McGill ..... Sybil Wintrope
Cameron ..... Joseph Greig
Arnold ..... Ian Thompson
Miss McLauchlan ..... Yvonne Gilan
Pat ..... Richard Jamieson
Paula ..... Caroline Guthrie
Waiter ..... Gordon Reid
Produced at BBC Scotland by Patrick Rayner.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1987.
SAT 14:30 Castles in Spain (m0004xw8)
Episode 4
'Each of these postcards came from a place where there had been a bomb outrage. That, Mayer, is why we want to talk to Jock Cameron.'
Continuing his quest to hunt Jock down, Grahame meets a pop star and gets a lead on the holy pictures...
Edward Boyd’s five-part thriller serial.
Grahame Mayer ..... Ray Brooks
Coleman ..... John Westbrook
Teresa ..... Alexandra Mathie
Inspector McNeill ..... Carey Wilson
Norah McGill ..... Sybil Wintrope
Nuke ..... John McGlynn
Apollyon ..... Billy McColl
Millhouse ..... William Hope
Produced at BBC Scotland by Patrick Rayner.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987.
SAT 15:00 Castles in Spain (m0004xw1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 01:30 today]
SAT 15:30 A Good Read (b00vrvrs)
Laura Wade and Will Gregory
Sue MacGregor invites contemporary playwright Laura Wade and composer (and Goldfrapp musician) Will Gregory to discuss favourite books by Colm Toibin, Philip K Dick and Edward St Aubyn.
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Publisher: Penguin
Ubik by Philip K Dick
Publisher: Orion
Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn
Publisher: Picador
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010.
SAT 16:00 John Fletcher - Night Express (m000n6bg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b05wc8wz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 Tanika Gupta - Skeleton (m000n6bm)
An Indian medical student is obsessed with a beautiful and unobtainable woman.
The skeleton's story breaks the spell.
Tanika Gupta's fable-based drama stars Shiv Grewal and Sudha Buchar.
Gopal …. Shiv Grewal
Nayani …. Sudha Buchar
Prasad …. Nadim Sawalha
Biju …. Kulvinder Ghir
Sumit …. Ravin Gunatra
Mishti …. Vinny Dhillon
Anju …. Nisha Nayar
Mother …. Surendra Kochar
Director: Claire Grove
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997.
SAT 19:00 Selected Radiophonic Works (b00g15x3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting (b007jshj)
Series 1
Coffins, Funerals and Nursing Homes
Accompanying her neighbour Betty to a funeral, Linda encounters a mislaid eco warrior.
Comedy series written by and starring Linda Smith.
With Femi Elufowoju Jr, Jeremy Hardy, Margaret John, Chris Neill and Rob Newman.
Producer: Lucy Armitage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001.
SAT 22:30 Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs (b00tysvb)
Episode 5
Welsh comic Rhod Gilbert introduces regulars Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies, plus Sarah Millican who takes a weekly look at The Six Stages of Woman.
With live music from Divine Comedy.
Guest comedian: Shappi Khorsandi.
Find out whether animals can have human faces; what annoys Rhod about considerate builders; and the most surprising location for a postage stamp.
Producers: Julia Mckenzie and Lianne Coop.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 2010.
SAT 23:30 The Mary Whitehouse Experience (b045xy47)
Series 4
Episode 6
Charity telethons are mercilessly parodied by Hugh Dennis, Steve Punt, Robert Newman and David Baddiel. From November 1990.