SATURDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2022

SAT 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jnzy)
Earthsearch II
5. Sundeath
On an abandoned artificial sun, the crew of Challenger probes the computer in charge.
James Follett's cult sci-fi drama is a gripping sequel to his original Earthsearch.
Commander Telson ...... Sean Arnold
Sharna ...... Amanda Murray
Darv ...... Haydn Wood
Astra ...... Kathryn Hurlbutt
Bran ...... Michael Maloney
Angel One ...... Sonia Fraser
Angel Two ...... Gordon Reid
Solaria ...... Pauline Letts
Elkeran ...... Nicholas Courtney
Elka ...... Jill Lidstone
Tidy ...... David Gooderson
Halsten ...... David McAlister
Director: Glyn Dearman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1982.
SAT 00:30 Shah Rukh Khan's Heroes (b06sg8ss)
The Ordinary Man
Bollywood's Shah Rukh Khan's concludes his celebration of personal heroes by dedicating his last show to the ordinary man - "a man who is normal, like you and I."
Revisiting his father's view that it is special to be down-to-earth, Shah Rukh talks about the hard work he believes he has invested to cover up his lack of talent. He reveals he has the same fear of failure today as when he started working in Indian cinema.
He talks about his faith in God and how he truly believes himself to be an ordinary man - doing things exactly like normal men.
Shah Rukh shares a story of a common man who lives in Mumbai, India. We hear about a typical day in this man's life; making his own food, travelling to work in an overcrowded train and the need for him to come home and make his wife happy and mother comfortable with little to spend on life's luxuries.
He says "it's not the cost of the shirt or jacket that you wear, it's just how much you enjoy wearing it", explaining that ordinary people are heroes because they enjoy life despite the world's issues.
Producer: Ranjit Doal
First broadcast on the BBC Asian Network in June 2012.
SAT 01:00 John Mortimer Presents: The Trials of Marshall Hall (b007k2zd)
5. The Case of the Green Bicycle
Did Ronald Light shoot a woman cyclist dead?
Sir Edward Marshall Hall sets out to prove his innocence.
True stories of crime and trial in a bygone age featuring the formidable barrister.
Introduced by Rumpole of the Bailey's creator, John Mortimer.
Dramatised by Michael Butt.
Tom Baker stars as Sir Edward Marshall Hall.
With:
Neal Swettenham
David Allister
Nicky Rainsford
Jonathan Tafler
John Hartley
Director: Michael Fox
A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 2, first broadcast in December 1996.
SAT 01:30 Wimsey (b007jwcn)
Murder Must Advertise
1. Death Comes to Pym's Publicity
After the unexplained death of a junior copywriter at a top advertising agency, Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover.
Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey – the British gentleman detective created by Dorothy L Sayers.
First published in 1933 and adapted in six episodes by Alistair Beaton.
Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.
Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Chief Inspector Parker …. Allan Cuthbertson
Mr Ingleby …. John Quentin
Mr Willis …. Richard O'Callaghan
Miss Meteyard …. Frances Jeater
Mr Hankin …. Frank Williams
Miss Rossiter …. Joanna Wake
Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations broadcast from 1972 to 1975.
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1979.
SAT 02:00 Believe Me by Eddie Izzard (b08x9813)
5. Marathons
The idea of taking on unusual sporting challenges appealed to Eddie Izzard – so she took on a gruelling regime of running back to back marathons throughout the length of the UK
In this memoir, Eddie has taken us on a journey through her life - one during which she's discovered much about herself along the way, and come to terms with not fitting into the box that most of us like to put people in.
With a nod to the surreal humour and disarming candour of her shows, and some occasional digressions, Believe Me tells the story of a child losing their mother yet who’s risen to become a star of comedy and drama, a leading advocate of total clothing rights, and an extreme runner of marathons.
Written and concluded by Eddie Izzard.
Director: Lizzie Davies
Abridged and produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2017.
SAT 02:15 Henry James (b0b1tgb0)
The Wings of the Dove
Episode 10
Following Milly's death, Merton is grief-stricken and Kate isn't prepared for the consequences.
Will Milly's death change their lives irrevocably?
Conclusion of Henry James's passionate and heart-breaking novel about desire and money.
Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths.
Kate ...... Aisling Loftus
Merton ...... Nico Mirallegro
Milly ...... Jodie Comer
Director: Nadia Molinari
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2018.
SAT 02:30 Calling Hereford (b00mwrh9)
Since 1978, staff at the world's largest earth satellite station in Herefordshire have watched global news unfold - immediate, raw and unedited.
The fall of the Berlin Wall, the British task force landings on the Falklands and the collapse of the Twin Towers - journalists from across the world have beamed their pictures to Madley. Decades before YouTube and the internet made instant, raw images available, staff here have seen history unfold, often live and uncensored.
Hugh Sykes visits the site where many of his own reports from around the world have flashed across the huge bank of TV screens.
Staff, past and present, recall the images that affected them, and their immediate community. Particularly poignant were the images and information coming in about operations in the Falklands, as some workers have connections with the SAS at nearby Hereford.
Madley has a curious place in the local community. The 32-metre diameter metal monster dominates the local landscape, and moves less than an inch a day as it tracks a satellite 22,000 miles away in the skies above the Indian Ocean. The dish is surrounded by a nature reserve, and the nearby primary school who come to work and play have the iconic dish as part of their school crest.
Its site - originally Street House Farm - was notable only for a disused airfield, once used to carry Rudolf Hess to stand trial at Nuremberg. But this remote part of Herefordshire was also a sheltered bowl of rock between the Malvern Hills and the Black Mountains - rock strong enough to carry a 300-tonne satellite dish and isolated enough to screen out all electronic background noise.
For Hugh Sykes, this is new territory - a link in the technological chain which has remained invisible and unseen, until now.
Producer: John Byrne
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2009.
SAT 03:00 Arthur Conan Doyle - Micah Clarke (m000kp3k)
5. The End of it All
Thanks to the treachery of their guide and the eventual flight of their leader, the Duke of Monmouth's forces were routed at Sedgemoor.
Sir Gervas slain, Reuben wounded and captive, Micah left the field and turned his horse's head away from the west.
Starring Martyn Read, Patrick Troughton and James Bryce.
Conclusion of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's historical novel set to the backdrop of the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion.
Dramatised by Constance Cox.
Micah ... Martyn Read
Decimus Saxon .... Patrick Troughton
Reuben Lockarby .... James Bryce
Judge Jeffreys ... John Gabriel
Master Helstrop .... Peter Wickham
Master Tetheridge ... Stephen Thorne
Major Ogilvy .... Gregory de Polnay
Captain Steele ... William Hope
Captain John ... Edward Cast
Captain Pogram ... Robin Summers
Joseph Clarke .... Nicholas Courtney
Mrs Clarke .... Gwen Cherrell
Sgt Greddar ... Peter Acre
Hangman Broderick ... Colin Starkey
Clerk of the Court ... Brian Smith
Foreman of the Jury ... Christopher Douglas
Jem ... David Sinclair
Old man ... David Garth
Guard ... William Eedle
Ruth ... Jenny Funnell
Director: by David Johnston
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1985.
SAT 04:00 Whispers (b007k2sf)
Series 3
Episode 2
Gyles Brandreth hosts the quiz show with scandal on its mind and slander at its heart.
Richard Herring and Louise Doughty join team captains Lucy Moore and Anthony Holden to run the gauntlet of gossip.
Producer: Victoria Lloyd
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2005.
SAT 04:30 Ballylenon (b00807h2)
Series 5
Episode 5
Wrangling over the Hoover cottage continues, as Stompy's protest backfires.
Series set in the sleepy town of Ballylenon, County Donegal in 1956.
Written by Christopher Fitz-Simon.
Phonsie Doherty …. TP McKenna
Muriel McConkey …. Margaret D'Arcy
Vera McConkey …. Stella McCusker
Mrs McFinney …. Aine McCartney
Stumpy Bonnat …. Gerard McSorley
Josie Doherty …. Cathy White
Packy McGoldrick …. Charlie Bonnar
Bohunkus Smith …. BJ Hogg
Music arranged and performed by Stephanie Hughes.
Director: Eoin O'Callaghan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1998.
SAT 05:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully (b04l0zq7)
Series 2
Counter Plot
Return of the sitcom about aliens invading the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green.
Richard Lyons is alarmed to discover Uljabaan has commandeered six allotments for some sort of experiment, while his daughter Katrina is more concerned that he's arrested Lucy.
But what kind of plants is he planting inside the building he's built?
Written by Eddie Robson.
Starring Hattie Morahan and Peter Davison.
Noticing all-at-once invasions of Earth never work out too well, these aliens have locked the village behind an impenetrable force-field in order to study human behaviour and to decide if Earth is worth invading.
The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for a weekend to borrow the deposit for a flat.
So along with Lucy Alexander (the only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against whatever you've got) she formed The Resistance - slightly to the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard.
This is also much to the annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who, alongside his unintelligible minions and The Computer (his hyper-intelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run the alien invasion.
Katrina Lyons ...... Hattie Morahan
Richard Lyons ...... Peter Davison
Margaret Lyons ...... Jan Francis
Field Commander Uljabaan ...... Charles Edwards
Lucy Alexander ...... Hannah Murray
The Computer ...... John-Luke Roberts
Ron ...... Dave Lamb
Lawrence ...... Michael Bertenshaw
Script-edited by Arthur Mathews.
Producer: Ed Morrish.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014.
SAT 05:30 Now You're Asking with Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn (m001464z)
The Child Care Problem
Marian and Tara tackle jealousy, code switching, frizzy hair and wandering accents and much more.
Marian Keyes is a multi award-winning writer, with a total of over 30 million of her books sold to date in 33 languages. Her close friend Tara Flynn is an actress, comedian and writer. Together, these two friends have been through a lot, and now want to use their considerable life experience to help solve their listeners' biggest - and smallest - problems.
From dilemmas about life, love and grief, to the perils of laundry or knowing what to say at a boring dinner, we’ll find out what Marian and Tara would recommend - which might not solve the problem exactly, but will make us all feel a bit better.
Recorded in Dublin with emails received from listeners around the world, the hosts invite you to pull up a chair at their virtual kitchen table as they read and digest their inbox.
Got a problem you want Marian and Tara to solve? Email: marianandtara@bbc.co.uk.
Producer: Steve Doherty.
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
SAT 06:00 Centenier - The Deep End (m0014f72)
On Jersey, locals elect centeniers - unpaid officers - to protect their rights and to work with police to ensure justice is done.
Richard Hamon is the island's youngest centenier and one of the cleverest.
But even he is mystified and horrified by the sinister train of events that follow a straight-forward robbery.
Events threaten the well-being, perhaps even the very existence, of his own family...
Starring Neil Dickson and Rosalind Adams.
Crime thriller written by Alan Downer.
Richard Hamon .... Neil Dickson
Paula .... Rosalind Adams
Desmond Dean .... Reginald Marsh
Piers Dupoy .... Dominic Rickhards
DS Michel .... Philip Sully
Louise Cabot .... Cara Kelly
Ron Hazell .... Michael Deeks
Marigold Lebeau .... Petra Davies
Ben Lebeau .... Ian Michie
Martin Hamon .... Benjamin Ramsland
DC Le Pape .... Ken Cumberlidge
Director: David Johnston
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1989.
SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b09ly6rt)
Series 44
Justin Marozzi on Herodotus
Herodotus - father of history or father of lies?
Matthew Parris introduces a sparky discussion about a writer whose achievements include a nine book account of a war between east and west - the Persian invasions of Greece.
Justin Marozzi proposes him not just as an historian, but as geographer, explorer, correspondent, the world's first travel writer, and an irrepressible story teller to boot.
Backing him up is Professor Edith Hall, who sees Herodotus as the author of a magnificent work of prose. But Matthew Parris wrestles with whether he was historian or hack.
* Justin Marozzi is the author of the award winning Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood.
* Edith Hall is Professor in the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus - modern day Bodrum in Turkey - wrote about Croesus, Darius, Xerxes and Leonidas, plus the battles of Marathon, Thermopylae and Pl ataea. His books also embrace much of the rest of the known world.
Producer: Miles Warde
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018.
SAT 08:00 The Write Stuff (b00776r3)
Series 10
John Keats
James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary correctness.
Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by Peter Kemp and Sue Limb.
Author of the week is John Keats.
Reader: Beth Chalmers
Producer: Katie Marsden
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2007.
SAT 08:30 All the Young Dudes (b019m2ys)
Series 2
Still Crazy
Patrick wonders who Green Day are and Joe turns into a doting daddy.
The lives of Patrick and wife Helen after returning to the town where he was born.
Comedy drama written by and starring Jim Sweeney.
Patrick .... Jim Sweeney
Helen .... Cathryn Harrison
Billy .... Steve Steen
Moira .... Sadie Shimmin
Joe .... Stephen Frost
Maria .... Flaminia Cinque
Charlie .... Izzy de Rosario
Also starring Michael Fenton Stevens
Producer: Steve Doherty
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2002.
SAT 09:00 Open Mike: Mike Craig's Radio Memoirs (b00c0077)
Mike Craig was a prolific producer and writer of over 1200 comedy shows for both BBC Radio and TV.
These included: Morecambe and Wise, Ken Dodd, Jimmy Tarbuck, Al Reid, Harry Worth and The Grumbleweeds
It was Mike who wrote the legendary high-kicking sketch on the 1976 Morecambe and Wise Christmas TV Show with newsreader Angela Rippon.
In this 3 hour showcase of his radio memoirs, Mike presents a selection of his own favourites:
* Castle's On The Air
Record-breaking Roy Castle brings you espionage, The Three Musketeers and the perils of powering a car with cooking sherry explained by Stanley Unwin.
From 1975.
* Jimmy's Cricket Team - series.1 (3/8)
Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket with a letter from his mammy and more! With Bill Pertwee, Peter Goodwright and Noreen Kershaw. Written by Eddie Braben.
From 1990.
* Bernie Clifton's Comedy Shop
From restaurants to great moments in history - a non-stop barrage of gags. With Caroline Turner, Tony Pearce and Pat Mooney.
From 1982.
* Ho-di-ho starring The Grumbleweeds
The Grumbleweeds decide to go on holiday to Maplin's holiday camp. With Ruth Madoc and Paul Shane.
From 1986.
* Al Read Says Such Is Life
The Lancashire sausage-maker turned comedian illustrates pages of his autobiography with excerpts from his classic performances.
From 1987
* Ken Dodd's Easter Special
From the City Varieties Theatre, Leeds, Spring is in the air and Doddy's tackling romance and there's trouble at t'mill. With Johnny Moore, Paula Tilbrook,
From 1988.
Based mainly in Manchester, Mike retired from the BBC in 1993. He died in 2010 aged 75.
Recorded at BBC Manchester and compiled for transmission by Mik Wilkojc.
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in June 2008
SAT 12:00 The Wilsons Save the World (b09f39tt)
Series 1
Holiday
Michael and Maxine Wilson and their teenage daughters, Lola and Cat (plus their bearded dragon Chomsky, and about 150,000 bees) have resolved to live a cleaner, greener, serener life.
Starring Marcus Brigstocke and Kerry Godliman.
Sitcom about trying to live ethically and do the right thing.
Written by Marcus Brigstocke and Sarah Morgan.
Millions of people try every day to make 'good' choices and do the 'right thing', be ethical, charitable and community minded. It's hard. Most of us live with hypocrisy and failure all the time but keep on trying.
The Wilsons, good folk that they are, are trying about 20% harder and learning to live with about 19% more failure. They are not giving up.
In this opening episode Max needs a holiday and so does Mike but what's the right choice ethically?
As they balance the appeal of hot sun versus a carbon-neutral campsite Cat has her own agenda and Lola wrestles with the rights and wrongs of charity.
Mike ...... Marcus Brigstocke
Maxine ...... Kerry Godliman
Lola ...... India Brown
Cat ...... Mia Jenkins
Paul ...... Mike Wozniak
Producer...Julia McKenzie
A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2017.
SAT 12:30 The Jason Explanation of... (b007jpwr)
Money
David Jason sets out in his probe of modern life as he tries to comprehend cash.
Following in the footsteps of Lord Clark, Dr Bronowski and Professor Galbraith, David unravels the mysteries of the universe and the meaning of life.
With:
Miriam Margolyes
Royce Mills
Written by Colin Bostock Smith, Andy Hamilton and Barry Pilton.
Music by John Owen Edwards
Producer: Geoffrey Perkins
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in September 1977.
SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b09q9zgc)
The Death of Illegitimacy
Illegitimacy once meant you were a 'bastard'.
MP Caroline Flint wants to know what the word 'illegitimate' means now.
Caroline has always been open about her unmarried Mum having her when she was 17 and that she had her first son before she got married. Caroline describes her own family's story as a Catherine Cookson novel. There are suspicions that her widowed great-grandmother had an illegitimate child. Her grandmother's older sister had an illegitimate child during the First World War with an American soldier who was brought up as though his mother was his sister.
She explores the archives to find out if the stigma has died out with social historian Jane Robinson and discusses the issue with best-selling crime author Martina Cole and MP Jess Phillips.
Martina, who is also an ambassador for the single parent families' charity Gingerbread, became a single parent by choice when she was 18 and then again 20 years later. Jess conceived her son when she was 22 and had been with her boyfriend for barely a month.
Is the biggest deal today not whether a child is illegitimate but whether she bears her father's surname?
Has the cloak of illegitimacy really fallen because daddy is willing to say publicly: she's mine?
Producer: Lissa Cook
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.
SAT 14:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b01pz9xz)
Series 2
The Review
Cookery writer Damien Trench once again opens his life up to the public as we follow him through another few days in his life.
It's a new year and Damien and Anthony are undergoing fresh works on their house. They are "going upstairs" (having a loft conversion) and so Mr Mullaney, their builder, is once again installed to look after the project.
Meanwhile, Anthony and Damien discuss what to do with their spare room, and Ian Frobisher, Damien's agent, convinces him to do a restaurant review, as a favour to Pink Floyd.
Sitcom written by and starring Miles Jupp, charting the life of cookery writer Damien Trench and his partner Anthony.
Damien Trench ...... Miles Jupp
Anthony MacIlveny ...... Justin Edwards
Damien's Mother ...... Selina Cadell
Mr Mullaney ...... Brendan Dempsey
Ian Frobisher ...... Philip Fox
Helen ...... Georgina Rich
Waitress ...... Sarah Thom
Producer: Sam Michell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2013.
SAT 14:30 Ian D Montfort Is: Unbelievable (b01ks6gt)
Pilot with Melanie Sykes
Be amazed! - and entertained!
Spirit medium Ian D Montfort channels conversations from "the other side" as he reveals the deepest darkest secrets of his audience.
With guest Melanie Sykes, who will act as what is known in psychic circles as "a trusted witness".
Written and performed by Tom Binns.
With additional material by Richard Turner.
This pilot comedy showcase spawned Ian's following series.
Producer: Julia McKenzie
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in July 2012.
SAT 15:00 My Teenage Diary (b0b5t820)
Series 8
Debbie McGee
Debbie McGee reminisces about her years as a hard-working student at London's Royal Ballet School.
Best known as the assistant and wife of the late magician Paul Daniels, Debbie shares extracts from her teenage diaries with Rufus Hound
Producer: Harriet Jaine
A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2018.
SAT 15:30 Where to, Mate? (m000j2sq)
"...Walt Disney has a sister...?"
Follow taxi drivers Bernie and Ben as we eavesdrop on their taxi journeys around North West England.
Starring Peter Slater and Jo Enright.
In this opening episode, Bernie picks up Milton and they strike up a friendship. Ben picks up a healer who tries to help him against his will.
A semi-improvised comedy recorded on location in a car in Manchester.
Based on ideas by Jason Wingard and Carl Cooper.
Ben was the first driver to work at the firm and he’s seen it all. He likes 80s movies and arguing about nothing, but tries to help passengers out with their problems whenever he can.
Bernie has left her husband in Birmingham and escaped to Manchester to work as the only female driver at All Star Cars. She didn’t get out on her own much before she got this job, but she’s making up for it now.
Featuring local voices and character actors/comedians from the North.
Ben ..... Peter Slater
Bernie ..... Jo Enright
Milton ..... Christopher J Hall
The Healer ..... Lisa Moore
Saj ..... Abdullah Afzal
Controller ..... Jason Wingard
Controller ..... Abdullah Afzal
Additional voices and material by the cast and crew.
With additional material and production support by Hannah Stevenson.
Director: Jason Wingard
Producer: Carl Cooper
A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2020.
SAT 15:45 Warhorses of Letters (b01p4252)
Series 2
Episode 2
The world's greatest epistolary equine love story.
The Duke of Wellington's horse Copenhagen's romance with Marengo (Napoleon's horse) has led to a proposal of marriage.
But planning a wedding is fraught with arguments for our gay horses...church or wood?
Should people be invited or just horses?
And which of them is the groom?
Marengo ..... Stephen Fry
Copenhagen ..... Daniel Rigby
Narrator ..... Tamsin Greig
Written on their behalf by Marie Phillips and Robbie Hudson.
Producer: Gareth Edwards.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012.
SAT 16:00 Centenier - The Deep End (m0014f72)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b09ly6rt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 Angela Carter - Vampirella (b06tfv03)
Could finding true love free Count Dracula's daughter from her ‘dreadful wheel of destiny’?
Anna Massey stars as the last-in-line of the undead on the eve of the First World War.
Angela Carter's reimagining of the familiar vampire narrative.
Countess Vampirella/Elizabeth Ba'athory …. Anna Massey
Count Dracula …. David March
Henri Blot …. Sawney Beane
Hero …. Richard O'Callaghan
Mrs. Beane …. Betty Hardy
Angela later rewrote this radio play as a short story 'The Lady in the House of Love'.
Director: Glyn Dearman.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in July 1976.
SAT 19:00 Open Mike: Mike Craig's Radio Memoirs (b00c0077)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair (b06pbxjr)
Series 2
Lorna's Holiday
As Lorna recuperates in a five star hotel in Dubrovnik she acidly observes the two families staying in the villa next door.
But what she sees threatens her own future as well as theirs...
Starring Lesley Sharp.
Leading actresses star in Jenny Eclair's comic series about women facing a crisis in their lives.
Producer: Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2015.
SAT 22:15 Earls of the Court (b00qvpk2)
Earls Reunited
Lloydie returns after years of travel to find best mate Johnno still living in their old flat.
But their former gang has disbanded and times have changed. Worse still, the sins of the past are about to catch up with them.
Comedy drama series about two Australians down on their luck in London.
Written by and starring Will Adamsdale and Stewart Wright.
Lloydie ...... Stewart Wright
Johnno ...... Will Adamsdale
Bonzo ...... Rufus Wright
Kirsty ...... Keely Beresford
Shalk ...... Michael Shelford
Brett ...... David Seddon
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2010.
SAT 22:30 The Problem With Adam Bloom (b01bl9xm)
Series 3
God
Adam ponders matters spiritual involving burglars, Bruce Forsyth and Mr Tickle.
Fast-paced and inventive comedy, written by and starring Adam Bloom
With:
Brendon Burns
Hattie Heyridge
Alfie Joey
Producer: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2005.
SAT 23:00 Ian D Montfort Is: Unbelievable (b01qj7q2)
Series 1
With Angela Griffin
Celebrity spirit medium and psychic Ian D Montfort makes contact with the celebrity 'spirit guides' secretly chosen by audience members.
He reveals personal stories making them laugh-out-loud one moment and gasp in surprise the next.
Each episode features a celebrity guest who gets a 'private' reading from Ian.
Coronation Street and Holby actress Angela Griffin reveals more than she bargained for as a traumatic day at P.E. is revisited.
Ian D Montfort is a comedy character created Tom Binns.
Written by Tom Binns, Tony Cowards, Simon Littlefield and Richard Turner.
Producer: Julia McKenzie
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 2013.
SAT 23:30 The Absolutely Radio Show (b08xzcvk)
Series 2
Episode 4
It's a fractious Stoneybridge Town Council meeting where there's controversy even when there's no agenda.
The Little Girl gives her take on US politics, Frank Hovis reveals how he met his wife and the Commissionaire explains how to manage a border wall between countries.
Calum Gilhooley makes a mountain out of buying a cup of coffee and Gwynedd shocks Denzil when she reveals her new beachwear - a beaver skin furkini.
The team look at the rise of mobile phone zombies and there's a song about the pitfalls of being a self help junkie, while ageing rockers Joe and Davie try to resurrect the old magic in the recording studio.
The cast of TV's hugely popular sketch show revisit some of their much-loved sketch characters, while also introducing some newcomers to the show.
Starring:
Peter Baikie
Morwenna Banks
Moray Hunter
Gordon Kennedy
John Sparkes
Gus Beattie
In 2013, the group that made their name on Channel Four in the 1980s and 90s got back together for BBC Radio 4's Sketchorama: Absolutely Special - which won the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Live Scripted Comedy.
Producers: Gordon Kennedy & Gus Beattie
An Absolutely/Gusman production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2017.