SATURDAY 31 JULY 2021

SAT 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js79)
The World in Peril
Episode 15
Stranded on the surface of the asteroid, Captain Jet Morgan and Doc fight desperately to be rescued.
Completing the sci-fi trilogy of the adventures of Captain Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy.
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp
Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass
Flynn …. Pat Campbell
Various …. Alan Tilvern
Rogers/The Martian/Announcer …. David Jacobs
Music composed by Van Phillips
Written and produced by Charles Chilton.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1956.
SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00w227t)
Favourite Child
Who was the favourite in your family, and do you have one amongst your own children?
It's the great taboo.
Dominic Arkwright is joined by Rebecca Abrams, who bravely admits that she found it hard to love her first child after her second child was born.
David Akinsanya grew up in care, aware that he was nobody's favourite child.
And Bidisha has always known she is the most favoured.
Why is it that even as adults it matters so much?
More new writing and honest, revealing talk
Producer: Beth O'Dea
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010.
SAT 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b3fdv)
Mrs McGinty's Dead
5. Final Clue
The chaos of Long Meadows provides Hercule Poirot with his final clue to unveiling the pitiless murderer.
But there's also another surprise in store for the Belgian detective...
Conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit starring John Moffatt.
Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt
Ariadne Oliver ...... Julia MacKenzie
Superintendent Spence ...... George Baker
Robin Upward ...... Nick Waring
Maud Williams ...... Beth Chalmers
Maureen Summerhayes ...... Molly Gaisford
Major Summerhayes ...... Ian Masters
Eve Carpenter ...... Angela Sims
Guy Carpenter ...... Dominic Colchester
Mrs Rendell ...... Susannah Corbett
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Director: Enyd Williams.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006.
SAT 01:30 Cordoba (m000y7mr)
6. La Pista Falsa
Alex's predictions of death have been proved to be true.
Will anyone take up journalist DT Mitchell's quest for justice?
Starring Alison Steadman.
Conclusion of Nigel Baldwin’s thriller serial set in south Wales.
DT Mitchell …. Alison Steadman
Conrad De’Ath …. Bill Stewart
Thomas …. Alan Towner
Alex …. Leslie Rooney
Ieuan …. Robert Pugh
Beth …. Sue Jones Davies
Nurse …. Marie Phillips
Smith …. Ivor Roberts
Mrs Mitchell …. Lawmary Champion
Original music by Laurie Scott Baker.
Directed at BBC Wales by Jane Dauncey.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992.
SAT 02:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08hqm3h)
Episode 10
Diner is taking Lizzie to the far side of the Gorge to a secret place.
It is here she must confront the truth about what actually happened to Diner's first wife...
Based in Bristol in 1792, Helen Dunmore's novel is set against a backdrop of the French Revolution.
It touches on radical idealism, property speculation, political turmoil and private tragedy...
Concluded by Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp
Abridged by Sara Davies.
Producer: Julian Wilkinson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017
SAT 02:15 Claudia Roden: A Book of Middle Eastern Food (b09xp0w7)
5. Celebrated
As Claudia continues to research and share recipes from all over the world, she is celebrated by fellow cooks but still prepares meals with her family, including granddaughter Nell, rather than her mother.
Published in 1968, Claudia Roden's book was a major landmark in the history of food writing and paved the way for all the TV chefs who followed.
Anjum Malik’s entertaining dramatisation, shines a light on an extraordinary global cook, still travelling the world sharing recipes and cultures.
Claudia Roden ……. Tracy-Ann Oberman
Nelly Douek ……. Ann Marcuson
Cesar Douek ……. David Fleeshman
Interviewer/Auntie ……. Perveen Hussain
Yotam Ottolenghi ……. Yotam Ottolenghi
Young Nelly ……. Nelly Wolman
Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore
Producers: Polly Thomas & Eloise Whitmore
Executive Producer: Robert Abel
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2018.
SAT 02:30 Paul is Dead (b04l0tvb)
In 1969, with The Beatles in financial and creative turmoil, a strange rumour swept the world.
It began with a phone call to a US chat show - Paul McCartney had been killed in a road accident and replaced by the winner of a look-a-like competition, William Campbell an orphan from Edinburgh.
And there were clues that could only be revealed by playing the Beatles records backwards.
It sounds unlikely, but millions of fans believed it.
We speak with the man who took that phone call, the hoaxer who developed the myth, and an expert on folklore who sees uncanny parallels with ancient myths about changelings and the darker side of fairies.
What does this odd tale tell us about The Beatles' place in our cultural history?
Featuring out takes, clips from interviews and rarer versions of Beatles songs.
Producer: Matt Thompson
A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in October 2014.
**** NOTES ON THE MUSIC USED IN THIS PROGRAMME ****
Wherever possible or appropriate, raw sounding demo or instrumental recordings from The Beatles Anthology albums were used.
For ultra lush mixes, the remixed versions from The Beatles' Love album were used. Interludes and chit chat were from the Let it Be Naked - Fly on the Wall CD which contains out takes from the Let It Be film recordings.
Timings refer to the actual programme start.
0.00 Yesterday (alt acoustic version) (Disc 1, Track 7 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
1.08 Ballad Of Paul (Track 24 - Beatlemaniacs!!! The World of Beatles Novelty Records)
1.17 I Am The Walrus (no overdubs) (Disc 2, Track 14 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
1.37 Revolution 9 (Disc 2, Track 12 - The Beatles, The Beatles)
1.53 Ballad Of Paul (Track 24 - Beatlemaniacs!!! The World of Beatles Novelty Records)
3.17 I'm Looking Through You (Unissued version) (Disc 1, Track 15 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
4.07 Revolution 9 (Disc 2, Track 12 - The Beatles, The Beatles)
4.17 Revolution 9 (reversed by programme producer)
5.25 The Fool On The Hill (Demo) (Disc 2, Track 15 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
6.33 A Day In The Life (take1/2) (Disc 2, Track 5 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
8.16 Strawberry Fields Forever (Track 8 - Magical Mystery Tour, The Beatles)
8.24 I'm Only Sleeping (Rehearsal) (Disc 1, Track 22 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
9.02 Fly On The Wall (In rehearsal) (Disc 2, Track 1 - Let It Be...Naked, The Beatles)
9.12 Revolution 9 (Disc 2, Track 12 - The Beatles, The Beatles)
10.57 Glass Onion (Remix) (Track 3 - Love, The Beatles)
11.12 Glass Onion (Disc 1, Track 3 - The Beatles, The Beatles)
12.07 Eleanor Rigby (Strings Only) (Disc 1, Track 21 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
13.34 Strawberry Fields Forever (Remix) (Track 13 - Love, The Beatles)
14.54 Strawberry Fields Forever (Remix) (Track 13 - Love, The Beatles)
16.47 I'm Looking Through You (Disc 1, Track 15 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
17.33 John, Paul, George & Ringo (Track 1 - Beatlemaniacs!!! The World of Beatles Novelty Records)
18.13 Within You, Without You [Instrumental] (Disc 2, Track 11 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
21.21 Your Mother Should Know (take 27) (Disc 2, Track 16 - Anthology 2, The Beatles)
23.18 Fly On The Wall (Paul on piano) (Disc 2, Track 1 - Let It Be...Naked, The Beatles)
23.54 Fly On The Wall (Anyone seen John) (Disc 2, Track 1 - Let It Be...Naked, The Beatles)
25.15 Octopus's Garden / Sun King (Remix) (Track 16 - Love, The Beatles)
SAT 03:00 Noel Coward Mysteries - A Bullet At Balmain's (b00t5jmj)
Noel Coward in Post-Liberation Paris, 1948: haute couture, existentialism, jazz . . . and death.
Coward is in Paris to play the lead in his own play 'Present Laughter' in French.
But the murder of a promiscuous mannequin provides a stylish distraction.
Malcolm Sinclair stars as Noel Coward.
Another adventure for the celebrated playwright, actor, composer and amateur detective by Marcy Kahan.
Noel Coward …… Malcolm Sinclair
Lorn Loraine …… Eleanor Bron
Cole Lesley …… Tam Williams
Ginette Spanier …… Linda Marlowe
Monique …… Susy Kane
Beatrice …… Jaimi Barbakoff
Chester Flyete …… Everal Walsh
Jean-Marc Delafosse …… William Hootkins
Vendeuse …… Francis Jeater
Director: Ned Chaillet
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003.
SAT 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b037hmyc)
Series 2
Episode 4
Who is Nick Helm's all time hero?
What is the most embarrassing thing Isy Suttie's mum ever did?
Who would play Dougie Anderson in the film of his life?
All these questions, and more, will be answered in the show, where panellists are tested on how well they know their nearest and dearest.
Hosted by Miles Jupp.
Producer: Sam Michell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013.
SAT 04:30 To the Manor Born (b007m9wg)
The Spare Room
DeVere takes a shine to Mrs fforbes-Hamilton's guest. Is Audrey jealous?
Starring Penelope Keith and Keith Barron.
Lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate, has decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage with her butler in tow.
From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving eye on new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere.
Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his BBC TV script.
Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere
Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher
Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger
Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka
Frank Middlemass ..... Ned
Podge Hodge ..... Zulema Dene
First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997.
SAT 05:00 Guilt Trip (b07nrlqx)
Episode 4
On the last day of the walk, Ros and Laura still have 10 miles to go. But when they oversleep at the hotel they weren't supposed to be staying at in the first place, it's not looking good.
They're hung over and Ruth is organising a big reception for them at Tower Bridge - but will they get there in time?
Comedy drama written by Katherine Jakeways with Felicity Montagu and Olivia Nixon.
A mother and daughter are undertaking a two week sponsored walk along The Thames Path to raise money for the dead and divorced father's charity. Will they complete it?
Ros ...... Felicity Montagu
Laura ...... Olivia Nixon
Stepmother ...... Katherine Jakeways
With Katie Redford, Jeff Rawle Velibor Topic, George Watkins, Nancy Crane and Chris Pavlo.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
A BBC Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2016.
SAT 05:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000y64v)
Syd
Arthur Smith brings his hit Edinburgh Festival show to Radio 4.
Arthur's father Syd was an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Just 17 when he signed up, he fought at El Alamein, was captured and then imprisoned in Colditz and, after the war, joined the Metropolitan Police. He spent the rest of his working life patrolling the streets of London and had possibly the worst arrest rate in the force - having been a prisoner of war he had no desire to subject anyone else to suffer a loss of liberty.
In this funny and tender evocation of post-war Britain, Arthur brings us Syd's diary entries and conjures up the spirit of his father, a man of great integrity and humour.
Recorded in front of a live, socially distanced audience, with assistance from his brother Nick and music from Kirsty Newton.
Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith
A Yada-Yada Audio production for BBC Radio 4
SAT 06:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (b007k2b8)
J, Harris, George and Montmorency the dog, feel they are in need of a little holiday.
So they decide to take a boat trip along the River Thames.
Starring Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Horne and Hubert Gregg.
Hubert Gregg's musical adaptation of Jerome K Jerome's famous Victorian comic novel.
George ........ Leslie Phillips
Harris ........ Kenneth Horne
'J' ........ Hubert Gregg
Montmorency ........ Percy Edwards
Station Master ........ Arthur Howard
Driver/ Landlord ........ Fred Yule
Other parts played by:
Lewis Stringer
Arthur Gomez
Anthony Hall
Michael Deacon
Barbara Mitchell
Elizabeth Morgan
Dorriet Wells
Peggy Butt
John Baddeley
BBC Augmented Revue Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Lockyer.
Singers:
Joan Brown
Cliff Adams Singers
Dorothy Dorow
Jillian Gray
Sylvia King
Ray Cook
John O’Neil
Producer: Mark White
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service on Boxing Day 1962.
SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b01g9c4w)
Series 27
Gertrude Stein
Gertude Stein, American poet, writer and art collector, lived most of her life in France.
She was one of the first people to spot the genius of Picasso, Cezanne and Matisse, and she believed she was a genius too. Opinion on that score remains divided.
Erin Pizzey nominates Stein because she inspired her to ‘live a life without compromise’.
Since setting up the world's first refuge for battered women in 1971, Pizzey has campaigned and written about domestic violence, publishing ‘Scream Quietly Or The Neighbours Will Hear’ and her autobiography ‘This Way To The Revolution’.
Joining presenter Matthew Parris in the studio is Diana Souhami, author of ‘Gertrude and Alice’.
Producer: Isobel Eaton
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2012.
SAT 08:00 The Motion Show (b00762sc)
Series 4
Episode 5
Debates galore from the state of politics - to the existence of supernatural forces.
Graeme Garden chairs the quirky battle of words and wit.
With Gyles Brandreth, Scott Capurro, Arthur Smith and Paul Daniels.
Producer: Helen Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2001.
SAT 08:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k1kz)
Series 2
The Comeback Kid
Rosie and her team are asked to relaunch the career of an ageing children's TV presenter
Can they prove that old fashioned entertainment can win out over computer games?
Prunella Scales stars in Simon Brett's sitcom.
The trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event management company, based in Brighton.
Rosie ...... Prunella Scales
Kate ...... Arabella Weir
Jo ...... Rebecca Callard
Bob ...... Duncan Preston
Tess ...... Annette Badland
Tommy Tummy ...... David Wood
Julian ...... James Vaughan
Bernard ...... Jim North
Children ...... Stefan Abingdon /Alice Connor
Producer: Maria Esposito
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2001.
SAT 09:00 The Lives and Work of Somerset Maugham (b054051p)
William Somerset Maugham was one of the most commercially successful English writers ever.
His plays, short stories and novels effortlessly sold in their millions; his work on stage, page and screen drew huge audiences.
Maugham remains the English writer most adapted for film and TV. And yet he described himself as possessing only a "knack" for writing and his place among the literary greats as being only "in the first row of the second rate". Despite his huge popularity with a mass audience, the literary establishment dismissed him as "middle brow".
The subjects he wrote about, and his complex and exotic lifestyle moulded the image of the successful 20th century writer - a wide circle of famous friends, a villa in the South of France, the adulation of readers across the globe and the ears of the Empire's leaders.
His own long life, too, reads like the plot for a novel. Born when Disraeli was Prime Minister, he died when the 60s were in full swing. He trained as a doctor, dedicated himself to being a writer, and spent time as a First World War spy. He travelled the globe in search of material for stories - chronicling the boredom, frustration and scandals of the colonial class of empire builders.
His private life was complicated. In England he seemed a pillar of the establishment, yet he set up an exotic and promiscuous lifestyle in a villa on the Cote d'Azur with a succession of gay lovers. His last years were marked by an extraordinary, toxic family quarrel, betrayal and a public fall from grace.
Simon Fanshawe examines the literary legacy and complex private lives of Maugham in the company of writers, performers, biographers and family members.
Producer: Mike Greenwood
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions and first broadcast in February 2015.
SAT 12:00 Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers (b098jtq1)
Series 1
Childhood
Writer and comedian, Andy Hamilton shares his observations and reminiscences about his personal life and 40 years working in comedy.
For starters, Andy recalls his favourite childhood sounds of the ice-cream van and the roar of the Stamford Bridge. Plus his memories of being an overcautious and yet inattentive parent.
The rest of this four-part series looks at Politics, The Human Body and Animals.
Using comic observation and personal anecdotes he explore each theme, examining how much (or how little) things have changed over his 60ish years.
It’s Andy’s thoughtful, social history, but packed with laughs.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017.
SAT 12:30 The Brothers (b00nn2hg)
Series 2
Episode 1
Michael becomes obsessed by the circus - and Nigel has a bizarre encounter with a Ted Hughes poem.
Return of the sitcom about the dysfunctional Burbage siblings.
Written by Caroline and David Stafford.
Nigel Burbage …. Adam Godley
Michael Burbage …. Ray Coulthard
Oonagh …. Pauline McLynn
Zorro …. Alex Lowe
Director: Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005.
SAT 13:00 Charles Parker Prize (m000y68y)
2021
Sara Parker introduces a new generation of student features makers, all winners and finalists of the Charles Parker prize 2021 – set up in memory of her father.
Through the late 1950s and 60s, pioneering radio producer Charles Parker, along with folk icons Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, made ‘The Radio Ballads’ , an innovative series which brought a new landscape of radio storytelling – interweaving interview and actuality with MacColl and Seeger’s musical narrative.
Charles’ daughter Sara Parker, herself an award-winning radio producer, hears this year's very best features on themes ranging from gender and race, body image, an asylum seeker, a window cleaner and a secluded all-male swimming place on the outskirts of Oxford to an invisible army of cleaners battling Covid and a doctor who turns to his love of the violin for solace with the Gold winning feature remembering 40 years on, the New Cross fire which killed 13 black teenagers.
There are extracts from the winning features of: Magdalena Moursy, Hunter Charlton, Chantal Herbert, Isobel Howe and Emma Millen, as well as the five runners-up Stephen Bissett, Shelley Gates, Mariana Araújo Ramos Maia Gonçalves, Ben Tulloh and Kate White.
You can hear the five winners’ work in full in the series ‘New Storytellers’ on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
Producer: Jay Sykes
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Soundscape Productions.
SAT 14:00 Sara Pascoe: The Modern Monkey (b09ry6k4)
Series 1
Murder
Sara Pascoe sets out to explore our modern social world though theories of Evolutionary Psychology and more.
How does our monkey past influence our modern lives?
How come we can still get emotionally hijacked by our primitive emotions?
Murder fascinates and intrigues as much as it repels us.
Happily the human animal is much more of a pacifist than lots of our other mammal relations, including meerkats (the adverts have lied to us). But even the most patient among us has probably been driven to murderous thoughts on occasion, especially when your sister steals your clothes.
From sibling rivalry, to pair bonding this is an informative and hilarious look at one of the darker aspects of human behaviour.
Recorded on location at The RAF Museum, Colindale
Written by and starring Sara Pascoe
Producer: Alexandra Smith
A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2018.
SAT 14:30 Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian (m000fgst)
Series 2
1. Racism
Stand-up series exploring British Chinese culture from BBC New Comedy Award finalist Ken Cheng.
Dave's Joke of the Fringe Winner, Cambridge mathematics dropout and professional poker player Ken Cheng returns with series exploring free speech, social status, racism and money…
Producer: Adnan Ahmed
A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February 2020.
SAT 14:45 Charlotte and Lillian (m00094k1)
Series 2
1. The Game
Charlotte and Lillian are back, spending time together as part of a Befriend the Elderly scheme. They may bicker about everything from signs of dementia to the appeal of Harry Styles, but underneath it’s clear they are two kindred spirits. Two selfish, self-absorbed spirits, but ones who mirror and rely on each other nonetheless.
Very nearly 30, Charlotte is still living at home with her parents and chronically unable to figure out what to do with her life. Beneath her attempt at do-gooding is barely disguised despair. She's terrified she is no good. Useless. Unloveable. She looks to Lillian to provide some meaning to her life - if she can help to improve Lillian’s life somehow, she’d feel a lot better about her own. And there’s all the kudos and social media likes that come with charity work - not to mention the lure of Lillian's large spare room.
Lillian meanwhile is still her ebullient self, but her facade hides a nagging fear of what's to come - her body is giving up on her. Lillian's motto is still “Keep Buggering On” – aka keep getting at Charlotte – but increasingly, she’s forced to wonder why. She masks all this by doubling down and manipulating Charlotte into carrying out all her menial tasks. If Charlotte won’t do them, there are plenty of other volunteers who will.
Charlotte has met a new man, prompting Lillian to offer up her best dating advice. Things may have changed since Lillian’s day, but some of her suggestions contain hard-won, ageless wisdom. The trouble is, Charlotte can't tell which ones – and Lillian may not have her best interests at heart.
Charlotte ...... Helen Monks
Lillian ...... Miriam Margolyes
Written by: Kat Sommers and Holly Walsh.
Producer: Lucy Armitage
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2019.
SAT 15:00 Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself (b04grrpq)
Episode 1
The impression and sketch show that looks behind the scenes at the life and work of star impressionist Lewis Macleod
Lewis has performed on BBC Radio 4 Extra's Newsjack, plus Postman Pat, The Phantom Menace and Dead Ringers.
With:
Kate O'Sullivan
Duncan Wisbey
Julian Dutton
Producer: Lyndsay Fenner
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2014.
SAT 15:30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better (b00cxr1s)
Series 2
Courage
Mark Watson promotes the virtue of courage
Fresh from his quest to free us from the seven deadly sins in his first series - Mark turns his attention to six virtues.
Tim Key and Tim Minchin provide poetry, music and feats of cowardice.
Producer: Katie Marsden
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2007.
SAT 16:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (b007k2b8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b01g9c4w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 Stephen Mulrine - Ivan The Fool and Vasilisa The Wise (m00027jp)
“This is a very peculiar story....”
And so it is, with a man-eating witch, a talking doll, a dead princess and a live skeleton - the source of all the world's evil.
But the course of true love never did run smooth and Ivan the Fool is determined to marry the beautiful Vasilisa, no matter what the obstacles...
Nicholas McArdle narrates Stephen Mulrine’s magical drama.
Ivan The Fool …… Jonathan Tafler
Koschei …… John Rye
Vasilisa The Wise …… Victoria Carling
Baba Yaga …… Pauline Letts
Doll …… Caroline Gruber
Tsaritsa …… Julie Berry
The Priest …… Alan Dudley
Director: Matthew Walters
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1987.
SAT 19:00 The Lives and Work of Somerset Maugham (b054051p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Rigor Mortis (b007r5lr)
Series 2
Episode 5
St Luke's Hospital Pathology holds its first ‘scratch night’ for work in progress.
Starring Peter Davison.
Laurence Howarth's black comedy set in the world of the pathology lab.
Dr Webster .... Peter Davison
Dr Anderson .... Matilda Ziegler
Professor Donaldson: .... Geoffrey Whitehead
Gordon .... Tom Price
Chloe .... Marianne Levy
Simon .... Gus Brown
with Beth Chalmers and Steven Kynman
Music by Paul Mottram and Stephanie Benavente.
Producer: Dawn Ellis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004.
SAT 22:30 Chain Reaction (b05417lh)
Series 10
Bob Mortimer talks to Vic Reeves
One half of comedy double-act Vic & Bob, Bob Mortimer,
talks to
The other half of comedy double-act Vic & Bob, Vic Reeves.
Vic & Bob are best know as the creators and stars of The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Shooting Stars and House of Fools.
Chain Reaction is the long running hostless chat show where last week's interviewee becomes this week's interviewer.
Producer: Charlie Perkins
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2015.
SAT 23:00 Sara Pascoe: The Modern Monkey (b09snj96)
Series 1
Jealousy
How does our monkey past influence our modern lives and how come we can still get emotionally hijacked by our primitive emotions?
Sara Pascoe investigates an emotion that we don't often like to admit to - Jealousy.
It's unattractive but in evolutionary terms, it's a survival tactic - it's good to be competitive for resources. But in the modern world, are we just hairless apes comparing ourselves on social media? And what can we do about it?
Recorded on location at The Foundling Museum in London.
Written by and starring Sara Pascoe
Producer: Alexandra Smith
A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2018.
SAT 23:30 The Mark Steel Lecture (b007qhq3)
Series 2
Karl Marx
A profile of the influential revolutionary thinker and philosopher.
Mark Steel lectures humourously about historical figures that have shaped their era.
With:
Martin Hyder
Carla Mendonca
Producer: Lucy Armitage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2001.