SATURDAY 27 MARCH 2021

SAT 00:00 Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler (m000tg86)
Episode 5
Having infiltrated a secret masked ball where the female revellers are naked, Fridolin is discovered and must face his hosts.
Read by Paul Rhys.
Published in 1926, Arthur Schnitzler’s ‘Dream Story’ was alternately titled ‘Rhapsody’ and, in the original German, ‘Traumnovelle’.
Credited as the novella that inspired Stanley Kubrick's last film.
Translated by JMQ Davies.
Producer: Eugene Murphy
Made for BBC7 and first broadcast in September 2003.
SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00lbt3r)
Falling on Your Sword
Has something happened to the ideas of honour, dignity, duty and virtue? Are people less willing to fall on their swords than they used to do? Is it admirable, anyway, to admit defeat?
Political journalist Anthony Howard, author and broadcaster Anne Atkins and journalist Toby Young join Dominic Arkwright to explore the subject through their writing.
Producer: Beatrice Fenton.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.
SAT 01:00 Raffles (m0001p3l)
Series 2
5. A Trap To Catch A Cracksman
When an American pugilist boasts of inventing a trap to catch the cleverest cracksman alive, it’s a challenge Raffles is quite unable to resist - with disastrous consequences...
EW Hornung's Raffles stories about the 'gentleman thief' starring Jeremy Clyde
Dramatised by David Buck.
AJ Raffles ...... Jeremy Clyde
Bunny Manders ...... Michael Cochrane
Inspector Mackenzie ...... Henry Stamper
Maguire ...... Alan Tilvern
Hambone ...... Peter Banks
Cruncher ...... Michael Deacon
Ruby ...... Frances Jeater
Cabbie ...... Alan Dudley.
Signature tune composed by Jim Parker.
Director: Gordon House
A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast in June 1988.
SAT 01:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr9c)
Episode 15
The anonymous would-be assassin is on his way out of the country - but what does his future hold?
Geoffrey Household's classic British thriller was first published shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939.
Concluded by Michael Jayston.
Producer: David Jackson Young.
Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2004.
SAT 02:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b0790qlv)
Episode 5
No closer to finding her true vocation, Claire spends a weekend with Luke and his parents. What could go wrong?
Lisa Owens' comic debut, depicting thirtysomething Claire Flannery's life as it unravels in minute and spectacular ways.
Read by Emily Bruni.
Abridged by Robin Brooks.
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016
SAT 02:15 Gudrun (b0844vfx)
Series 1
Episode 5
Gudrun’s blissful life is interrupted when her childhood sweetheart returns from abroad, bringing with him a new wife.
Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, must forge her path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising harshness.
Starring Kate Phillips.
Lucy Catherine’s re-telling of the Icelander classic, The Laxdoela Saga.
Gudrun . . . . . Kate Phillips
Freija . . . . . Samantha Dakin
Bolli . . . . . Gavi Singh Chera
Kjartan . . . . . Luke MacGregor
Olaf . . . . . John Bowler
Vigdis . . . . . Finlay Robertson
Hrefna . . . . . Natasha Cowley
Sigrid . . . . . Rosa Yevtushenko
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016.
SAT 02:30 Hemingway Days (b013f96m)
Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway, who together launched the Red or Dead label, have long been admirers of Robin and Lucienne Day, a husband and wife design team from another era.
Wayne looks back at their impact on post-war Britain and how they emerged from the FOB to spearhead our understanding of modern design.
He talks to colleagues, friends and family about their vision and their drive and explores some of the less well known areas of their personal lives and their creative partnership.
Lucienne was a textile designer. Inspired by abstract art, she pioneered the use of bright, optimistic, abstract patterns.
Robin was a furniture designer best known for his injection moulded polypropylene stacking chair, of which over 20 million have been manufactured.
The Days shared a vision of good, affordable design for all. Together they established themselves as Britain's most celebrated post-war designer couple, often been compared to US contemporaries, Charles Eames and Ray Eames.
But despite their growing fame in the 1950s and 60s they remained uncomfortable with the public attention they received. They shared a passion for nature and spent more and more time outdoors. Lucienne drew much of her inspiration from plants and flowers and Robin was a talented and obsessive mountain climber.
Wayne reflects on the many layers to Robin and Lucienne and, with his wife Gerardine, he draws on their own experiences of working as a husband and wife creative team.
Producer: Sarah Cuddon
A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2011.
SAT 03:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov (b00yc3jw)
Episode 5
Following Ivan's dramatic appearance at his brother's trial, Katerina prepares to deal Dmitry a fatal blow.
Starring Roy Marsden.
Conclusion of Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final novel published in 1880.
Dramatised by Melissa Murray.
Dmitry ...... Paul Hilton
Ivan ...... Nicholas Boulton
Alyosha ...... Carl Prekopp
Katerina ...... Juliet Aubrey
Grushenka ...... Katy Cavanagh
Lise ...... Emma Noakes
Mrs Khoklakova ...... Rachel Atkins
Grigory ...... Desmond McNamara
Devil ...... Sam Dale
Judge ...... Ian Masters
Prosecutor ...... Philip Fox
Fetyukovich ...... Mark Straker
Bystanders ...... Paul Richard Biggin/ Saikat Ahamed
Original music by David Pickvance.
Directors: Marc Beeby and Colin Guthrie
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006.
SAT 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b01cwvbf)
Series 1
Episode 3
Miles Jupp hosts the show in which it's not what you know that matters, but who. And more importantly, how well you know them.
Roisin Conaty, Ed Byrne and Richard Madeley nominate one of their intimate circle to answer a series of questions and they then have to second-guess how their nominees responded.
Roisin picks her best friend, Caroline, Ed chooses his mum, Jill, and Richard Madeley opts for his daughter, Chloe - all with varying degrees of success.
The panel also have to try and predict the responses of legendary football commentator, John Motson, as he is asked "what's your favourite film?", "what would you have been if you weren't a football commentator?" and "which other famous TV coat-wearer would you be? The Fonz, Columbo, or Paddington Bear?"
Producer: Sam Michell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012.
SAT 04:30 Fat Chance (b019m4rs)
Celebrity Square
Graham becomes Tina Tattersall's escort for the night in a bid to make her errant husband jealous - and the rest of the slimming club have some surprising news.
Jenny McDade's high-fat bittersweet comedy for those believing there's a thin person inside them begging to get out.
Graham Pitscottie ..... Gareth Corke
Wendy Bottomley ..... Janine Duvitski
Clive Bottomley ..... Michael Troughton
Soo Pitscottie ..... Anne Reid
Tina Tattersall ..... Julia Deakin
Kelly Chambers ..... Tilly Gaunt
Lee Dubs ..... Harry Myers
Mrs Enright ..... Frances Jeater
Producer: Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1999.
SAT 05:00 Clare in the Community (b0832fpz)
Series 11
Hell on Wheels
It's 'Disability Awareness Day' so Clare has taken it upon herself to raise awareness. Back at home, Nali has plans to become an internet sensation.
Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the right jargon but never a practical solution.
A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her.
Clare continues her struggle to control both her professional and private life. In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare.
Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden.
Clare ...... Sally Phillips
Brian ...... Alex Lowe
Nali ...... Nina Conti
Libby ...... Sarah Kendall
Joan ...... Sarah Thom
Mrs Singh ...... Nina Wadia
Cilla ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo
Zoanna ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo
Roland ...... Colin Hoult
Producer: Alexandra Smith
A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in November 2016.
SAT 05:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000tcl3)
Jacob Hawley: Class Act
Stevenage soft lad Jacob Hawley left his hometown behind a decade ago and has ascended Britain's social class system, moving to London and forging a career in comedy - just in time for commissioners to decide they want more working class voices. He has now quit the oat milk lattes, drawn a nike tick on to his chinos and re-adopted the glottle stop.
In this stand-up comedy performance, Jacob dissects his journey from working class banter boy to Inner-London feminist. This is politics for idiots, feminism for lads, love stories for louts and self-care for those who don't bother.
Are blokes dismissed as bad-feminists purely because they lack the correct language? Are working class people's mental health problems dismissed because our society values tortured artists over tortured cleaners? And most importantly, is it even worth going to a protest if you don’t tell everyone about it?
Written and performed by Jacob Hawley
Produced by Daisy Knight
An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4
SAT 06:00 Elsie, Doris, Gert and Daisy by Annie Caulfield (b01kq0wh)
Celia Imrie and Susie Blake star in Annie Caulfield's imaginative celebration of the classic music hall duo, Elsie and Doris Waters, and their immortal gossipy characters Gert and Daisy.
Larking about in a recording studio, Elsie and Doris created the ebullient Cockneys, who were to take them away from the East End and into a world they'd only ever dreamed about.
Doris Walters .... Celia Imrie
Elsie Walters .... Susie Blake
Gert .... Tilly Vosburgh
Daisy .... Tessa Peake-Jones
Older Elsie .... Ann Beach
Older Doris .... Barbara Atkinson
Sam .... David Bradley
Young Sam .... Chris Wright
Mother .... Patience Tomlinson
Father .... Geoffrey Whitehead
Jack Warner .... Stephen Critchlow
Young Jack .... Guy Edwards
Lord Woolton .... David Timson
Mary .... Jill Graham
Kenneth .... Roger May
Kenneth's Mother .... Zulema Dene
Pianist: Colin Guthrie
Director: Marion Nancarrow
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996
SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b07m5ny0)
Hilary Devey on Gracie Fields
A singer, comedian, music hall and film star from Rochdale, Gracie Fields was the nation’s darling. But in the midst of World War II, and at the phenomenal peak of her career, our great life fell in love and married an Italian and had to flee to America. She was disowned by the British public who called her a deserter and she was slated in every newspaper.
Championing this week’s Great Life is businesswoman and TV personality Hilary Devey known to viewers of BBC 2's Dragons' Den and Channel 4's The Intern. Helping her to unravel the life of Gracie Fields is Sebastian Lassandro, President of the Dame Gracie Fields Appreciation Society.
Presenter Matthew Parris
Producer Perminder Khatkar
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016.
SAT 08:00 Heresy (b07dm2pn)
Series 10
Episode 4
Victoria Coren Mitchell presents the show which dares to commit heresy.
With newspaper columnist Julia Hartley-Brewer, TV presenter Richard Osman and food critic, TV presenter and novelist Giles Coren.
They discuss David Bowie, iceberg houses and The Great British Bake Off.
An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2016.
SAT 08:30 Snap (b00td5sb)
Series 1
Episode 1
When a couple have history, how can they ever be history?
Molly and Doug are separating but as he's only moving a few streets away, can they make a clean break?
Paul Mendelson’s sitcom stars Rebecca Lacey and Paul Venables.
Molly …. Rebecca Lacey
Doug …. Paul Venables
Kaz …. Soumaya Keynes
Ryan …. Jessie Sullivan
Scarlet …. Rebecca Front
Mrs Lonsdale …. Marlene Sidaway
Ansel …. Richard Firth
Producer: David Ian Neville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003.
SAT 09:00 Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Wrote Too Much? (b055fy0h)
How can a writer, whose publisher declared him the 'King of Thrillers', and was thought to be responsible for a quarter of all new books read in Britain by the late 1920s, be largely forgotten today?
In this 3 hour archive special, crime writer Mark Billingham investigates the life of the man called the 'fiction factory', the best-selling author, journalist, playwright, film director and creator of King Kong – Edgar Wallace.
Wallace's life seems the stuff of fantasy. An illegitimate child in London, largely self-educated, he was the newspaper boy who became one of the most famous writers in the world. He sold millions of books, but he was plagued by debts. He died in Hollywood in 1932, aged 56, after writing the original story for King Kong. His body was returned by ocean liner in honour to Britain, only to be reunited with an ocean of outstanding bills.
Mark presents some of the best adaptations and documentaries about Edgar Wallace from the BBC Radio archive:
* A 1951 version of one of Wallace's biggest successes, The Ringer
* One of Wallace’s best crime creations, The Mind of Mr JG Reeder
* Loveable racing 'turf tipster' Educated Evans, starring Roy Hudd and Andrew Sachs.
And though he died in 1932, Mark has a hunch that he may be able to hear from Edgar Wallace himself.
His work was the source of countless 50s and 60s TV and film adaptions. His books have sold in their multi-millions. But from the 'Golden Age' of crime fiction it is Dorothy L Sayers and Agatha Christie who are really remembered today. Was Edgar Wallace just a man who wrote, and did, too much?
Producer: Peter McHugh
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in March 2015.
SAT 12:00 Alison and Maud (b007k1w7)
Series 1
Fishing for Compliments
Is there something fishy about Bernard, apart from his VAT returns?
Bed and Breakfast for Beginners. First of two series of Sue Limb's sitcom about events at the Abbeyfield Guest House in Norwich.
Starring Denise Coffey and Miriam Margolyes as sisters Alison and Maud.
Alison …. Denise Coffey
Maud …. Miriam Margolyes
Father …. Joss Ackland
Mr Mullett …. Chris Emmett
Bernard …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Marina …. Phyllida Nash
Producer: Jonathan James-Moore
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2002.
SAT 12:30 Tickets Please (b00nv6nh)
Episode 1
Why does an intercity train journey turn into an emotional roller-coaster?
Because the train staff have to battle with their thwarted infatuations - for each other! And those toughies in the wedding carriage aren't helping matters...
Sitcom on rails by Mark Maier.
Robin …. Jeremy Swift
Nadine …. Alex Kelly
Peter …. Malcom Tierney
Diana …. Melissa Advani
Linda/Lady …. Kate Layden
Keith …. Stephen Hogan
Carol …. Tessa Nicholson
Man One …. Philip Fox
Man Two/William …. Joseph Cohen-Cole
Producer: Peter Kavanagh
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009.
SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b0930m3j)
Uses of Literacy Now
Writer and critic DJ Taylor assesses Richard Hoggart's masterpiece The Uses of Literacy.
This colossal book inspired a slew of post-war histories, as well as Coronation Street and the poet Tony Harrison's 'Them and Uz'. It was the book that inspired Alan Bennett to write.
Hoggart was born into great poverty in Leeds and wrote movingly about this early life and the people - mainly women - who inspired him.
A scholarship boy, he revealed the emotional consequences of moving from one class to another. He also offered a searing critique of the burgeoning mass media, expressing his concerns that the new literacy was in danger of being swamped by a popular press that carefully suppressed anything liable to encourage readers to think about the environment they inhabit, rather than simply wallow in its material comforts.
Contributors include: author of Estates and Respectable, Lynsey Hanley, historian David Kynaston, novelist David Lodge and playwright Alan Bennett.
Producer: Nicola Swords.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017.
SAT 14:00 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jr62)
Series 3
The St Valentine's Day Mastersons
Budding starlet Genevieve hits seedy 1920s Hollywood.
The award-winning improvised historical family saga based entirely on audience suggestions.
Starring Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Jim Sweeney, Lee Simpson, Phelim McDermott and Caroline Quentin.
Producer: Phil Clarke
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1995.
SAT 14:30 The World of Simon Rich (b07cynng)
Series 1
Episode 1
Simon Rich has been Saturday Night Live's youngest writer, a staff writer for Pixar and a regular contributor to The New Yorker - as well as one of the funniest short story writers of his generation.
Now the American brings his enchanting, absurd world to radio with his first British comedy show.
The series takes us across time and space, from the design of the universe and prehistoric love triangles to the terrors of life as an unused condom inside a teenager’s wallet.
Performing the stories alongside Simon is a cast of UK comic talent:
Peter Serafinowicz
Tim Key,
Cariad Lloyd
Jamie Demetriou
Joseph Morpurgo
Claire Price.
Producer: Jon Harvey
Executive Producer: Richard Wilson
A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June 2016.
SAT 15:00 Radio Active (b007jy95)
Series 3
Euroshow
Britain's first national local radio station goes continental with reporters in Berlin, Paris and Madrid.
Let's go Eurowide with a great big Eurowelcome in Germany, France and Italy for the first ever Euroshow. Broadcasting to over 12,000,000 Eurohomes in unforgettable Eurosound.
Starring :
Helen Atkinson-Wood
Angus Deayton
Geoffrey Perkins
Philip Pope
Michael Fenton-Stevens
Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. With Jon Canter, Moray Hunter and John Docherty.
Producer: Jamie Rix
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1983.
SAT 15:30 Old Harry's Game (b00c6jfr)
Series 5
Moral Leadership
Mankind is now so sinful that they're all coming to Hell and the place is full to bursting.
The only way to stop the flow is to persuade humanity to be good - but that's quite a tall order for the Prince of Darkness.
Andy Hamilton’s devilishly funny sitcom set in Hell.
Satan …. Andy Hamilton
Scumspawn …. Robert Duncan
Thomas …. Jimmy Mulville
God …. David Swift
The Professor …. James Grout
Other characters played by Philip Pope, Nick Revell and Michael Fenton Stevens
Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005.
SAT 16:00 Elsie, Doris, Gert and Daisy by Annie Caulfield (b01kq0wh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b07m5ny0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 Nightfall (m000tn1b)
Series 4
The Repossession
Robert, a surviving conjoined twin, begins having nightmares about the death of his brother Douglas 30 years ago.
He begins to feel that his twin brother is somehow responsible for oddities that are beginning to disturb him...
Nightfall is a series of supernatural and horror dramas made by Canada’s CBC Radio that ran from 1980-83. It went on to become one of the most popular shows in the network’s history. During 100 episodes over three seasons, Nightfall featured a mix of original stories and adaptations of classic tales.
Robert/Douglas Stroud .... John Stocker
Beth .... Mary Pirie
Dr Brenner .... Chris Wiggins
Tip .... Neil Dainard
Hospital Surgeon .... Jon Granik
The Nurse .... Maggie Morris
Medical Student .... Amanda O'Leary
Medical Student .... David Stein
Writer: Arthur Samuels
Script Editors: Earl Toppings and John Douglas
Producer: Bill Howell
First broadcast on CBC in April 1981.
SAT 18:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind (b007jltj)
2. Hurried Exodus
On the Isle of Luig, Lark and Cornelius are certain the death of Dr Hugh Dexter was no accident. From his research notes, they diagnose a mysterious island sickness.
The key to the mystery seems to be an apparently simple-minded 18-year-old, Flora Kiery...
Starring Peter Cushing and Vincent Price.
Written by Rene Basilico from an idea by Robert Holmes.
John Cornelius .... Peter Cushing
Curtis Lark .... Vincent Price
Minister Donald Schooler .... Henry Stamper
Shirley Kyle .... Shirley Dixon
Flora Kiery .... Sandra Clarke
Mary .... Irene Sutcliffe
Police Sergeant .... Frazer Carr
Purser .... Andrew Sear
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1977.
SAT 19:00 Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Wrote Too Much? (b055fy0h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap (b01r9swd)
Series 1
Episode 3
Bridget considers women and their relationship with their bodies via a lap dance, TOWIE and a fish called Michael.
Fred MacAulay helps her remember some of the key incidents which brought her to an epiphany and a call to arms.
Four-part stand-up comedy series on the state of British feminism today.
Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013.
SAT 22:30 Barry's Lunch Club (b07889gb)
Travel
Alex Lowe is 82 year old Barry, who invites an audience to his weekly lunch club where he scrutinises themes close to his heart.
With club secretary Hilary to rein him in, and club treasurer Peter providing support on the civic hall piano, this is the ultimate life-style guide for an ageing nation.
In this opening session, Barry responds to a question about travel for the over 60s and relates his disastrous holiday experiences on a cruise ship and at an activity holiday.
Barry is a cockney moved to the suburbs during the war. He is not given to looking at the old days through rose coloured spectacles, and is well up to speed with current trends. A seemingly harmless old boy, he lures people into a false sense of security, delivering hilariously stinging rebukes or erudite assessments of how the world is treating the over 60s.
Stand-up comedy crossed with sitcom, the show plays out in real time as if we are eavesdropping on a civic hall meeting group. Written by Alex Lowe and Alex Walsh-Taylor
Barry ...... Alex Lowe
Hilary ...... Stephanie Cole
Peter ...... Philip Pope
Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor
Executive Producer: Kevin Dawson
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2016.
SAT 23:00 It's Jocelyn (b06vkjc0)
Series 1
Episode 3
Sketch comedy from Jocelyn Jee Esien. Includes Dionne Button MP, a power hungry traffic warden and a grumpy couple.
Jocelyn vents her frustration at the world around her through sketches and stand-up.
Jocelyn Jee Esien is delighted to be joined in the cast by Curtis Walker, Ninia Benjamin and Kevin J.
Producer: John Pocock
A BBC Radio Comedy production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2016.
SAT 23:30 World of Pub (b007sygy)
Series 2
Episode 2
The Red Lion's almost bankrupt - can Dodgy Phil get the punters back?
Tony Roche's comedy about the world's worst pub in London's East End.
Dodgy Phil ...... John Thomson
Barry ...... Phil Cornwell
Garry ...... Alistair McGowan
With Debra Stephenson and Simon Greenall.
Special effects: Carl Phillips and Nick Romero.
Music: Bill Bailey
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999.