SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2020

SAT 00:00 Peter Elliott Hayes - Orbit One Zero (b08fy3gj)
5. The Frozen World
"If I had known, that night, the terrible risk Elizabeth had taken!" But Clifford knew...
Newspaper reporter, Tom Lambert has decided to reinvestigate the strange events of ten years before, concerning the "cosmic noise". Believing the inside story was never told, he's tracked down the only man who knows, Dr Hayward Petrie.
Told in flashbacks, the story unfolds from Dr Petrie's own recordings of the time when the detection of a strange pattern of signals sparks a mysterious discovery...
Dr Petrie …. Felix Felton
Tom Lambert …. David Spenser
Clifford Brown …. Graydon Gould
Elizabeth Ryder …. Elaine MacNamara
Professor Campbell McLaren …. Ian Sadler
Peter Garrick …. Harold Reese
Lord Hetherton …. Charles West
Written by Peter Elliott Hayes
Producer: David Davis
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in May 1961.
SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b007vl1x)
Lunch is for Wimps
Dominic Arkwright discusses whether we should enjoy a good lunch, with Giles Coren, Lucy Kellaway and Martin Rowson. From August 2007.
SAT 01:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b007jvhq)
Charles Paris: Cast, in Order of Disappearance
5. Slapstick Scene
Marius Steen has been found dead. His lover Jacqui Mitchell suspects foul play and now that a new will has been found made in her favour, Charles Paris begins to believe her.
Movie making becomes a horror story.
Francis Matthews stars as actor-cum-sleuth, Charles Paris.
Adapted by Simon Brett from his thriller.
Charles Paris …. Francis Matthews
Jacqui Mitchell …. Fiona Hendley
Gerald Venable …. Jeremy Child
Joanne Menzies …. Sandra Clark
Nigel Steen …. Richard Morant
Jean-Luc Roussel …. Harry Fowler
Garth …. Nigel Graham
P.A. …. Eileen Tully
Eric …. Mark Jones
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1984.
SAT 01:30 Hercule Poirot (b007k213)
Three Act Tragedy
Episode 5
Just as Hercule Poirot looks set is to solve the murder mystery, there's a fresh death.
Agatha Christie thriller dramatized by Michael Bakewell
Hercule Poirot..................................................John Moffatt
Mr Satterthwaite.............................................George Cole
Sir Charles Cartwright...................................Michael Cochrane
Egg Lytton Gor.................................................Beth Chalmers
Angela Sutcliffe................................................Jemma Churchill
Oliver Manders.................................................Carl Prekopp
Matron,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Natasha Pyne
Director Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002.
SAT 02:00 The Personality Test (b00mrc84)
Series 2
Adam Hart-Davis
Broadcaster, writer and science enthusiast, Adam Hart-Davis quizzes a panel about himself.
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 2006.
SAT 02:30 Ballylenon (b007nfs3)
Series 1
Episode 1
1953: Trouble brews when the McConkey sisters join forces with hotel owner, Phonsie Doherty to campaign for the demolition of the Georgian courthouse to make way for a car park.
Series set in the sleepy town of Ballylenon, Co Donegal, in 1953, before the days of mass tourism and proper plumbing in every home. Written by Christopher Fitz-Simon.
Starring TP McKenna as Phonsie Doherty, Margaret D'Arcy as Muriel McConkey, Stella McCusker as Vera McConkey, Aine McCartney as Vivienne Boal, John Hewitt as Guard Gallagher, Gerard Murphy as Reverend Samuel Hawthorne, Roma Tomelty as RL Watson and Kevin Flood as O'Brollochain.
Music arranged and performed by Stephanie Hughes
Director: Eoin O'Callaghan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994.
SAT 03:00 Elizabeth Bowen - The House in Paris (b0890hpt)
3. 1924-1934
Fading fast, is scheming Mme Fisher sowing the seeds for the ultimate destruction of her house in Paris?
Elizabeth Bowen's classic novel dramatised in three-parts by Margaret Steward.
CAST:
Mme Fisher …. Sara Kestelman
Karen …. Sunny Ormonde
Naomi Fisher …. Susan Bovell
Max …. John Duttine
Aunt Violet …. Ann Windsor
Uncle Bill …. David King
Henrietta …. Fiona Christie
Leopold …. Joshua Goodman
Music by Anthea Gomez.
Producer: Sue Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994.
SAT 04:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000n6zx)
New releases for Autumn, wellbeing tips with Dr Chatterjee and raving with Chris Warburton
Amanda Litherland and Scott Bryan recommend great podcasts and meet the people who make them.
This week Dr Chatterjee talks "Feel Better. Live More.", a health podcast focusing on intimate, authentic conversations.
Then we're focusing on documentaries - and Chris Warburton discusses Ecstasy: The Battle of Rave, a documentary drama blend on rave culture.
Featured Podcasts This Week:
Feel Better, Live More
Great Scot
David Tennant Does A Podcast With
Mid Point With Gabby Logan
Who Am I This Time? with David Morrissey
Ecstasy: The Battle of Rave
The Fault Line – Blair Bush and Iraq
Coming In From The Cold
Twenty Twenty
The Secret Life of Teachers
French and Saunders Titting About
SAT 05:00 Alone (b0b48yxn)
Series 1
Birthday Drinks
A 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 (Angus Deayton) 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 (Pearce Quigley), his younger, more volatile and unhappily divorced half-brother.
Elsewhere in the building are schoolteacher Ellie (Abigail Cruttenden) who is shy, nervous and desperately missing her ex-boyfriend, overly honest, frustrated actress Louisa (Kate Isitt), and socially inept IT nerd Morris (Bennett Arron).
In Birthday Drinks, Mitch's birthday is approaching and he's desperately trying to avoid any fuss - not least because he's having a break from alcohol. Meanwhile Louisa is on the warpath, wanting feedback after her latest acting role, but everyone seems to be trying to change the subject for some reason.
An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2018.
SAT 05:30 Dot (b08rptr4)
Series 2
Trees
by Ed Harris
Comic adventures with Dot and the gals who are tasked with a top secret mission in the countryside. A German plane crashes nearby, will this be Dot's big chance for promotion?
Producer/Director, Jessica Mitic.
SAT 06:00 HRF Keating - The Murder of the Maharajah (b00vfhv3)
Set in the India of the British Raj - His Highness plays one April Fool's joke too many.
Written by H.R.F Keating and dramatised by Neville Teller
Maharajah …. Zia Mohyeddin
Dewan …. Renu Setna
Porgy …. Lyndam Gregory
D S P Howard …. Sam Dastor
Ram Singh …. Amerjit Deu
Sir Arthur …. Philip Anthony
Michael …. Luke Beeson
Schoolmaster …. Bhasker
Dolly …. Rachel Atkins
Judy …. Oona Beeson
Elaine …. Ms Sheila Mitchell
Frere …. Dominic Letts
Joe …. Steve Hodson
Morton …. Barry Gordon
Directed by Matthew Walters
First broadcast on Radio 4 in November 1993.
SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b066w57n)
Series 37
George Washington Williams
George Washington Williams was an incredibly early, mould-breaking, self-made black intellectual who fought in the American civil war and went on to write the first history of African Americans. He met King Leopold of Belgium and exposed that country's treatment of Africans under Belgian colonial rule.
Nominating the life of George Washington Williams is television presenter, and former Paralympic medallist, Ade Adepitan. The expert witness is Dr David Brown, Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester. The presenter is Matthew Parris.
Producer: Perminder Khatkar
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
SAT 08:00 Dilemma (b01r5pxg)
Series 2
Episode 4
Sue Perkins puts Roisin Conaty, Samira Ahmed, David Reed and Robin Ince through the moral and ethical wringer.
The panellists finely-balanced dilemmas involve changing history; dipping into the archives; injust justice and a maths teacher's non-standard deviation.
Devised by Danielle Ward.
Producer: Ed Morrish.
SAT 08:30 North East of Eden (b01f9t2c)
Invaders and Outsiders
Marcia leaves London when she inherits her uncle's medical practice on the remote Paradise Island in Northumbria - with its Wind O' Change pub and populace of slightly dodgy fisherman.
Rebecca Front and Joan Sims stars in Peter Kerry's sitcom.
Doctor Marcia Hulme …. Rebecca Front
Auntie Annie …. Joan Sims
Hjorst/The Translator …. Niall Ashdown
Joseph Gates …. James Garbutt
Mrs Peevis …. Jean Southern
William …. Sammy Johnson
Ralph Gates …. Stephen Thirkeld
Other Roles …. Peter Kerry
Producer: Kathy Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1997.
SAT 09:00 Inside the Music: From Score to Encore (b05nybcs)
Gavin Henderson is passionate about music. Formerly a noted trumpeter in an orchestra, he's been Director of Brighton Arts Festival, Principal of Trinity College of Music and is now Principal of the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
In this sequence of programmes, he explores the complex creative communities that coalesce to bring a piece of music to life in a concert hall. Becoming a member of a musical ensemble has been described as "more like joining a cause than a profession". He talks to members of orchestras and ensembles to get their personal perspectives on music making. What do they feel about their own instrument? What are relations like between members of the orchestra? Or between an orchestra and a conductor?
It's a world of titanic egos, and creative humility; where the rigours of touring and performing, the frustrations of forever being the second violin and the vagaries of venue acoustics and audience responsiveness can be forgotten in a feat of collective creative expression.
Gavin throws light on some of the less known inner workings of an orchestra and the sometimes intuitive relationships "behind the podium" – such as that between the Orchestral Librarian and Conductor, or piano tuner and pianist.
And he tries to understand and convey what motivates a group of individuals to act like an organism greater than the sum of its parts, bringing pleasure and, occasionally, transcendence, to performers and audience alike.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions
First broadcast on Radio 4 Extra in 2015.
SAT 12:00 My Favorite Husband (m000ndg5)
Katy and Roscoe
Life gets complicated when the Cugat’s maid Katy lands them is a mess.
Her long-distance boyfriend Roscoe is coming to visit for the first time in 15 years – and she’s not been too truthful about how she’s been living...
Starring Lucille Ball as Liz and Richard Denning as George.
The story of Liz and George Cugat, a happily married couple living in Sheridan Falls. Based on the novels by Isabel Scott Rorick
Liz Cugat …. Lucille Ball
George Cugat …. Richard Denning
Katy …. Ruth Perrot
Roscoe …. Hans Conried
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 November 1948.
SAT 12:30 Barbara Nice (m000n5d9)
Pilot
Stockport housewife extraordinaire Barbara Nice is the creation of 'Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights' star Janice Connolly.
In this warm-hearted sitcom pilot, Janice and John Henshaw play husband and wife Barbara and Ken.
Barbara is worried she and Ken are at risk of adding to the numbers of silver splitters - they have nothing in common; Ken's idea of retirement involves a marathon session of 'Pointless' and that doesn't fit with Barbara's idea of a well spent golden age.
When a homeless Spanish busker (David Sant) needs some help, Barbara sees it as the perfect opportunity to do some good and stir things up home ... A little more than she expected.
Barbara Nice ... Janice Connolly
Ken Nice ... John Henshaw
Mary ... Angela Curran
Tonio ... David Sant
Hostel Manager ... Debra Baker
Guitar by Kester Owen
Produced by Rebecca Papworth
_Carl Cooper_
A BBC Studios Production
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 2015.
SAT 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b007k1vw)
Three Act Tragedy
Episode 1
Hercule Poirot, his amateur detective acquaintance Mr Satterthwaite, and the distinguished Harley Street nerve specialist Sir Bartholomew Strange, are amongst the guests at a weekend party being given by the celebrated actor Sir Charles Cartwright at his clifftop house in Cornwall.
On the first evening after their arrival there is a cocktail party - at which an elderly clergyman, who's only had a sip of dry martini, falls dead. Was it through natural causes - or could it be murder?
Starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.
Agatha Christie's 1935 novel dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell
Hercule Poirot......................................................John Moffatt
Mr Satterthwaite................................................George Cole
Sir Charles Cartwright......................................Michael Cochrane
Sir Bartholomew Strange................................Clive Merrison
Lady Mary Lytton Gore....................................Pauline Jamieson
Hermione 'Egg' Lytton Gore..........................Beth Chalmers
Cynthia Dacres....................................................Paula Jacobs
Muriel Wills..........................................................Elizabeth Proud
Oliver Manders..................................................Carl Prekopp
Miss Milray..........................................................Helen Longworth
The Rev Babbington.......................................Peter Marinker
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002.
SAT 13:30 Hercule Poirot (b007k1x7)
Three Act Tragedy
Episode 2
Hercule Poirot is now on the Riviera in Monte Carlo, but death appears to be following him.
1935 novel by Agatha Christie dramatized by Michael Bakewell
Hercule Poirot......................................................John Moffatt
Mr Satterthwaite..................................................George Cole
Sir Charles Cartwright........................................Michael Cochrane
Hermione 'Egg' Lytton Gore............................Beth Chalmers
Colonel Johnson...................................................John Baddeley
Supt Crossfield......................................................Martin Hyder
Mrs Leckie................................................................Kathleen Helme
Little Boy...................................................................Tom Glenister
Directed by Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002.
SAT 14:00 Hercule Poirot (b007k1yj)
Three Act Tragedy
Episode 3
Hercule Poirot re-enters the mystery deaths investigation, to the relief of all involved.
1935 Agatha Christie novel dramatized by Michael Bakewell
Hercule Poirot.................................................John Moffat
Mr Satterthwaite............................................George Cole
Sir Charles Cartwright..................................Michael Cochrane
Lady Mary Lytton Gore................................Pauline Jamieson
Hermione 'Egg' Lytton Gore......................Beth Chalmers
Mrs Babbington..............................................Patricia Scott
Oliver Manders................................................Carl Prekopp
Directed by Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002.
SAT 14:30 Hercule Poirot (b007k1zt)
Three Act Tragedy
Episode 4
As the murder suspects are investigated, the Belgian sleuth issues an invitation.
1935 Agatha Christie thriller dramatized by Michael Bakewell
Hercule Poirot..............................................John Moffatt
Mr Satterthwaite.........................................George Cole
Sir Charles Cartwright...............................Michael Cochrane
Hermione 'Egg' Lytton Gore..................Beth Chalmers
Muriel Wills...................................................Elizabeth Proud
Oliver Manders............................................Carl Prekopp
Cynthia Dacres............................................Paula Jacobs
Captain Dacres............................................Nigel Anthony
Angela Sutcliffe...........................................Jemma Churchill
Doris, the model.........................................Angela Sims
Directed by Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002.
SAT 15:00 Hercule Poirot (b007k213)
[Repeat of broadcast at 01:30 today]
SAT 15:30 A Good Read (b00vy0dw)
Stephanie Cole and Michael Horovitz
Sue MacGregor and her guests - actress, Stephanie Cole and distinguished poet, Michael Horovitz - discuss favourite books by John Fante, GK Chesterton and Joyce Johnson
Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante
Publisher: Canongate
The Man who was Thursday by G K Chesterton
Publisher: Penguin
Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson
Publisher: Methuen
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010.
SAT 16:00 HRF Keating - The Murder of the Maharajah (b00vfhv3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b066w57n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 JM Barrie - Dear Brutus (b0bn5b71)
In a magic wood, on Midsummer's eve, a second chance is offered to those who believe they’ve taken the wrong turning in life. Some will take the same path, while others will have a precious glimpse of what can now never be...
Written in 1917, JM Barrie's play was adapted by Jeffrey Segal.
Dearth …. Bernard Hepton
Margaret …. Jenny Quayle
Lob …. Jeffrey Segal
Mrs Murdie …. Carole Boyd
Jenny Dearth …. Frances Jeater
Matey …. Stephen Thorne
Lady Caroline …. Brenda Kaye
Joanna …. Jane Knowles
Mr Coade …. Anthony Newlands
Mrs Coade …. Katherine Parr
Purdie …. Geoffrey Beevers
Written over a decade after Peter Pan, JM Barrie’s title is taken from a line in ‘Julius Caesar’ summing up Shakespeare's argument that we should take responsibility for our own actions: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. But in ourselves that we are underlings.'
Director: Gordon House.
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1987
SAT 19:00 Inside the Music: From Score to Encore (b05nybcs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Just a Minute (b085pxyj)
Just a Minute Does Panto!
A tribute to the late broadcasting legend Nicholas Parsons, CBE.
2017 marked Just A Minute's 50th year, and what better way to kick off the celebrations by combining the longest-running panel show with another great British institution - the pantomime!
In Just A Minute Does Panto! Nicholas Parsons is joined by Just A Minute regulars, Paul Merton Sheila Hancock and Gyles Brandreth, as they journey through Panto-land in search of the missing Just A Minute Golden Whistle! Their companions on their quest include, Tom Allen, Pippa Evans, Tony Hawks, Rufus Hound and Julian Clary.
The show flits between the scripted pantomime sections when the team are on their quest and the usual off-the-cuff game of Just A Minute.
There'll be adventure! Genies! Panto dames! Goodies! Baddies! Audience Participation! But above all, at the heart of it, a cracking game of the nation's favourite comedy show - Just A Minute!
CREDITS
Just A Minute was chaired by Nicholas Parsons
The panel were:
Paul Merton
Sheila Hancock
Gyles Brandreth
Tony Hawks
Tom Allen
Rufus Hound
Pippa Evans
The Genie was played by Julian Clary
The pantomime script was written by Gyles Brandreth with additional material by Paul Merton and Matt Stronge
The Composer was Susannah Pearson
The lyrics to 'All About You' were written by Jenny Laville
The Musical Director was Tim Sutton
The live band was:
Tim Sutton - Piano
Katie Punter - Flute/Alto Sax
Mark White - Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Tim Maple - Guitar
Tim Weller - Drums
Nick Allen - Cello
The Production Coordinator was Hayley Sterling
The Producer was Matt Stronge
Just A Minute was devised by Ian Messiter
Just A Minute Does Panto! is a BBC Studios production.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016.
SAT 22:45 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting (b00g2glw)
Series 1
999 Emergency
Linda's procrastinating live-in builder finds fame and neighbour Betty's got worries.
Comedy series written by and starring Linda Smith.
With Femi Elufowoju Jr, Martin Hyder, Margaret John, Chris Neill and Mark Steel.
Producer: Lucy Armitage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001.
SAT 23:15 Friends Like These (b0076xrp)
You'll Always Be A Part of Me
Part of a collection of comic plays about friendship, each featuring a different comedy partnership.
Two men have been best friends for years when one suddenly needs a new kidney. His mate has always said he'd do anything for him. Now it's time to find out if that includes organ donation.
Written by Jim Sweeney.
Jim.........................Jim Sweeney
Steve......................Steve Steen
Directed by Claudine Toutoungi.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
SAT 23:30 The Mary Whitehouse Experience (b047lyck)
Series 4
Episode 7
Cinderella is stuck watching Catchphrase. Stars Hugh Dennis, Steve Punt, Robert Newman and David Baddiel. From December 1990.