SATURDAY 19 MARCH 2022
SAT 00:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jpgm)
Episode 10
Kennedy goes to the Devil’s Reef trailer park in search of Charles Ward’s books and experiments.
Award-winning Julian Simpson's HP Lovecraft-inspired universe as seen through the prism of podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.
The story began with a missing-person investigation; Charles Dexter Ward has vanished from a secure psychiatric hospital in Rhode Island. Two months later his psychiatrist Doctor Willett murders a woman in Highgate, England. Are the two events connected?
Kennedy Fisher ...... Jana Carpenter
Tregorre …… Nathan Osgood
Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
Music by Tim Elsenburg
Producer: Karen Rose
Director/Writer: Julian Simpson
A Sweet Talk production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2018.
SAT 00:15 And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer (b0133m09)
Episode 10
Constant Moan saves the Earthlings, while Ford decides he likes life on Nano.
Zaphod heads off into improbability and Arthur goes on a research trip...
Conclusion of Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
Abridged by Penny Leicester.
Read by Stephen Mangan.
With Peter Serafinowicz as the Guide.
Producer: Heather Larmour
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.
SAT 00:30 And the Academy Award Goes To... (b00h3wlv)
Series 2
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
Paul Gambaccini explores the potboiler novel that spawned not only one of the most violent 'family' movies ever, but also led to an even more successful sequel.
An offer that can't be refused...
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola - the stars of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II included Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert De Niro.
Series about how some of the greatest Oscar-winning films were made, and what they tell us about the history of the time.
Producer: Jane Lewis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009.
SAT 01:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l9mm)
5. Universal General Hire
As the danger mounts, Hilary is forced to hang on for rescue from the sky.
Starring Angela Pleasance.
Christopher Bidmead's spy adventure about a woman with exceptional computing skills.
Hilary …. Angela Pleasance
Beresford …. Rolf Lefebvre
Cannon …. Nigel Anthony
Jean …. Hilda Kriseman
Dr Reece …. John Pullen
Mortimer …. Dinsdale Landen
Le Noir …. Charles Hyatt
Matron …. Margaret Wolfit
Williams …. Peter Tuddenham
Dr Wormald …. Malcolm Hayes
Girl …. Jo Manning Wilson
Nurse …. Deborah Dallas
Rick …. Andrew Sachs
Michael …. Brian Hewlett
Technician …. James Thompson
Fernberg …. Kerry Francis
Policeman / Guard …. Brian Haines
Producer: John Tydeman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1970.
SAT 01:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqdy)
Killing Orders
6. No One Is Lucky Forever
Battling to finally confront her attacker, private eye VI Warshawski must go undercover.
Conclusion of Sara Paretsky's thriller about a feisty Chicago private investigator.
Kathleen Turner stars as VI Warshawski.
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor.
VI Warshawski .… Kathleen Turner
Roger Ferrant …. Martin Shaw
Uncle Stefan …. Maurice Denham
O'Faolin …. John Bennett
Gabriella …. Avril Clark
Lotty Herschel …. Miriam Karlin
Mrs Paciorek …. Helen Horton
Father Carroll …. Don Fellows
Walter Novick …. Colin McFarlane
Murray Ryerson …. Kerry Shale
Rosa …. Eileen Way
Father Pelly …. Colin Stinton
Dr Paciorek …. Norman Jones
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1991.
SAT 02:00 Sound by Bella Bathurst (b08rg43m)
5. Changing?
By 2009, Bella has made her peace with her hearing loss.
She's found ways to cope, and ways to be happy. And she assumes this is the way life will always be.
Then a routine visit to her audiologist changes everything.
In 1997, Bella began to go deaf. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next 12 years deafness shaped her life.
Sound draws on this experience, exploring the practical and emotional impact of losing your hearing, and what it teaches you about listening and silence, music and noise.
Concluded by Adjoa Andoh.
Abridged by Jo Coombs.
Producer: Hannah Marshall
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2017.
SAT 02:15 A Monkey With a Box of Paints: Berthe Morisot (b00764b5)
5. Opening
The first Impressionist exhibition finally opens, and Berthe has to face the wrath of the reactionary critics.
But her sister Edma offers a glimmer of light.
Conclusion of Jane Beeson's series looking at female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot through her correspondence with her mother and sister.
Berthe ... Sarah-Jane Holm
Cornelie ... Pauline Munro
Manet ...Simon Chandler
Edma .... Alison Pettitt
Guichard .... Robert Lister
Woolf ... Ian Brooker
Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Peter Leslie Wild.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001.
SAT 02:30 The Balancing Bluebottle (b00jz7cc)
Percy Smith was the greatest pioneer of the natural history film-making - tackling subjects from flies to slime mould.
During the 1920s in his principal studio, the back garden of his home in north London, he developed innovative microscope - and time-lapse photography which still looks impressive today.
Tim Boon of London's Science Museum talks to historians and Sir David Attenborough.
Producer: Tim Dee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009.
SAT 03:00 Jill Paton Walsh - A Piece of Justice (b010vyt7)
When Fran gets the chance to take over the biography of the great mathematician Gideon Summerfield, she rapidly discovers there's a mystery over a few days he went missing in August 1978.
Her friend Imogen Quy is the first to realise she may be in danger...
Jill Paton Walsh's novel featuring college nurse and amateur sleuth, Imogen Quy.
Starring Barbara Flynn.
Dramatised by Neville Teller.
Imogen Quy ..... Barbara Flynn
Janet Somerfield ..... Rosemary Leach
Francis Bullion ..... Tracy Wiles
Josh ..... Robert Harper
Dr Mistral ..... James Greene
Lady Buckmote ..... Marlene Sidaway
Sir William Buckmote ..... Geoffrey Whitehead
Professor Maverack ..... Colin Starkey
Meredith Bagadeuce ..... Peter Howell
Pamela Zephyr ..... Di Botcher
David Swann ..... Iwan Thomas
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998.
SAT 04:00 Guess What? (b00757gr)
Episode 1
Animal, vegetable or mineral?
Barry Took hosts a revised version of popular radio parlour game of 20 questions.
On the panel:
Geoffrey Durham
Sir Jeremy Hanley
Helen Atkinson Wood
Written by Michael Dines.
Producer: Andy Aliffe
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1998.
SAT 04:30 Girlies (b08lb7rd)
Series 1
Episode 4
Sonal calls on Samina's legal expertise.
Meanwhile Jabeen gets welcome news from husband, Joe.
Five 30-something Asian women get together for "girlie" evenings
Comedy serial written by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan.
Tula …. Zita Sattar
Vinny …. Bharti Patel
Jabeen …. Shaheen Khan
Sonal …. Sudha Bhuchar
Samina …. Sakuntala Ramanee
Ramesh …. Ameet Chaana
Dan …. Roger Liddle
Marianne …. Alice Arnold
Alia …. Sophie Levy
Sara …. Nyla Levy
Masi …. Charubala Chokshi
Karan …. Susan Sheridan
Salim …. Shiv Grewal
Ali …. Burt Caesar
Javed …. Omar Salimi
Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Kristine Landon-Smith.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1977.
SAT 05:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully (b04p87r7)
Series 2
Exit Strategy
Uljabaan is determined to fail his annual inspection, in order to be sent to a better posting.
But he'll need Kat and Lucy's help in order to make it work - and he can do without any surprises, such as the identity of the Zone Commander who'll be conducting the inspection...
Eddie Robson's sitcom about aliens invading the village of Cresdon Green.
Starring Hattie Morahan and Peter Davison.
Aliens have locked villagers 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's been trying to actually run the alien invasion.
Katrina Lyons ...... Hattie Morahan
Richard Lyons ...... Peter Davison
Margaret Lyons ...... Jan Francis
Lucy Alexander ...... Hannah Murray
Field Commander Uljabaan ...... Charles Edwards
The Computer ...... John-Luke Roberts
Zone Commander Ravella ...... Nina Sosanya
Script-edited by Arthur Mathews
Producer: Ed Morrish.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014.
SAT 05:30 Now You're Asking with Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn (m0015c0s)
The High School Problem
Marian and Tara tackle an over-familiar flatmate, a caustic mother-in-law, love at a distance and high school anxieties with trademark kindness and good humour in the final episode of the series.
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 your 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 for series 2, which is due in the autumn? Email: marianandtara@bbc.co.uk.
Producer: Steve Doherty.
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
SAT 06:00 Grant Eustace - The Salamander Chest (b09t0r99)
Striving to seek out the true identity of her father, Alice Selwood discovers 1870s England can be a dangerous place.
But first she must find her beloved Arthur in Oxford...
Starring Ben Daniels and Jane Slavin.
Grant Eustace’s exciting sequel to Absolute Discretion, in which chemistry student Arthur Vernet – and love of Alice’s life - investigated a mystery around the home of the Earl of Warminster and his family...
Arthur Beresford .... Ben Daniels
Alice Selwood ... Jane Slavin
Arbuthnot .... Philip Latham
Ryder .... Jonathan Adams
Priestley .... David Brierley
Blennerhome ... John Baddeley
Cunningham ... Andrew Branch
Murchison ... Sean Barratt
Mrs Wiseman ... Geraldine Fitzgerald
Polzean .... Terry O'Brien
Brecknell ... Philip Anthony
Goatcher .... Snoo Wilson
Director Alec Reid
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1993.
SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b09z4k9z)
Series 45
Adrian Utley of Portishead on Miles Davis
Miles Davis - trumpeter, composer, bandleader - is championed by Adrian Utley of Portishead.
"He's always been really important in my life, right from early on when my dad used to play him. It was part of the atmosphere of our house."
From the early years with Charlie Parker via Kind of Blue to playing in front of 600,000 hippies on the Isle of Wight, Miles Davis was a musician who never stood still. "Always listen for what you can leave out," he used to say.
Portishead's seminal 1990s album Dummy seems to have taken advice from the man. As Adrian Utley explains to presenter Matthew Parris: "The darkness and the sense of space is the thing that I have assimilated from Miles ... he's in my DNA."
With Richard Williams, author of The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music.
Producer: Miles Warde
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2018.
SAT 08:00 Booked (b007544j)
Series 1
Episode 5
The Dong with the luminous nose honks hooters with Cyrano de Bergerac, and Obelix encounters the mighty Goliath.
Sniff versus biff?
Outrageous parody, biting wit and bizarre couplings from:
Mark Thomas
Dillie Keane
Miles Kington
Roger McGough
Ian McMillan chairs the irreverent literary game.
Producer: Marc Jobst
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1995.
SAT 08:30 All the Young Dudes (b01cjmb5)
Series 2
Summer Holiday
Summer has finally arrived - but the notion of stopping work appeals less to some than to others.
The final episode of Jim Sweeney's comedy drama tracing the divergent lives of old school friends.
Patrick ...... Jim Sweeney
Helen ...... Cathryn Harrison
Billy ...... Steve Steen
Moira ...... Sadie Shimmin
Joe ...... Stephen Frost
Maria ...... Flaminia Cinque
Charlie ...... Izzy De Rosario
Dennis ...... Dave Lamb
Amanda ...... Emma Kennedy
Producer: Steve Doherty
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2002.
SAT 09:00 Hackers And Humphreys All (b06vc0qn)
'Yes Prime Minister' made its BBC TV debut on the same day in 1986 that Michael Heseltine quit the cabinet in a row with the Prime Minister.
Made to celebrate 30 years of one of Britain's best loved sit-coms, BBC Radio 4 Extra explores the relationship between the real world of Whitehall and this timeless satire.
Sir Antony Jay, a former political speech writer, and Jonathan Lynn, now a Hollywood film director, wrote every word of the scripts between them.
In exclusive interviews with Shaun Ley, they share the secrets of the political sitcom's success.
Shaun discovers the sources who blabbed and how New Labour ministers were influenced by Jim Hacker's serial defeats at the hands of Sir Humphrey.
He also visits the very heart of the British government, the Cabinet Room, to find out how true to life some of the plotlines really were.
Featuring four classic BBC TV episodes of Yes Prime Minister:
Starring Paul Eddington as the Prime Minister Jim Hacker, Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey and Derek Fowlds as Bernard.
* The Key
When Prime Minister Hacker's political advisor complains about losing her old office, Sir Humphrey decides to take action.
First shown on BBC TWO in 1986.
* The National Education Service
Hacker wants to axe the Department of Education and Science to slash bureaucracy and save cash - giving it directly to schools. Sir Humphrey is appalled.
First shown on BBC TWO in 1988.
* A Diplomatic Incident
When Jim Hacker discovers the French are planning some dirty tricks to get political advantage, the PM turns the tables on them.
First shown on BBC TWO in 1987.
* The Grand Design
Jim Hacker considers cancelling the Trident programme after discovering some interesting facts about the UK's defence system.
First shown on BBC TWO in 1986.
Directed for BBC TV by Sydney Lotterby.
Other contributors include:
Sir Richard Mottram
Edwina Currie
Lord Bernard Donoughue
Lord Peter Hennessey
Graham McCann
Sir Tony Blair
Producer: Adam Bowen for BBC News - Westminster.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in January 2016.
SAT 12:00 Ayres on the Air (b007k0pq)
Series 1
Human Deterioration
Pam Ayres kicks off her own series of poetry and sketches.
She's starting with the theme of deterioration.. of eyesight, figure, memory......the list goes on!
Featuring poems about being Too Fat and buying a Wonderbra.
Plus sketches about being Topless at 60 and how to spice up your love life with a little celebrity fantasy.
With:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Felicity Montagu
Written by Pam Ayres, Chris Thompson, Peter Reynolds and Jan Etherington.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004.
SAT 12:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b00v2pbf)
Series 2
Awards
Tamsyn is keen to win the coveted Smuggling Personality of the Year award at the annual Jethro awards.
It's 1793 and in the small Cornish village of Drumlin Bay, heroic smuggler Tamsyn Trelawny is still running rings around the customs men, assisted by her drunken father Jago.
Written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain.
Tamsyn Trelawny …… Sheridan Smith
Jago Trelawny …… John Bowe
Major Thomas Falconer …… Cameron Stewart
Captain Marriot …… Andrew McGibbon
Squire Bascombe …… Martin Hyder
Dewey …… Mark Felgate
Hobbs …… Mark Perry
Mum …… India Fisher
Producer: Jan Ravens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2004.
SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b01465z9)
Robert Robinson
Robert Robinson is best remembered as the chairman of BBC TV's classic quiz 'Ask the Family' and BBC Radio 4's 'Brain of Britain'.
But in a career spanning many decades, he also made travel programmes, Points of View, the Today programme and Stop the Week which ran on Radio 4 from 1974 to 1992.
Laurie Taylor takes a look at the life and work of one of Britain's broadcasting legends in the company of some of the former contributors to Stop the Week; Ann Leslie, Matthew Parris, Sarah Harrison and Nick Tucker.
There are also contributions from Will Wyatt, Victor Lewis-Smith and Hunter Davis and a wealth of archive that reveals a complex man, a consummate wordsmith and one of the first TV celebrities.
Robert died aged 83 in 2011.
Producer: Helen Lee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2011.
SAT 13:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lcmcq)
Series 1
Songsters
Humans aren't the only species who sing. Many birds do and even another ape.
What messages are conveyed in the syllables, melodies and repeated phrases, and who is listening?
Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
Produce: Julian Hector
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.
SAT 14:00 The Harpoon (b007m747)
Series 2
Episode 1
Yes, Madam! The Empire's favourite weekly is back on the shelves!
Nostalgia galore in the first of four lovingly hand-tooled issues of this acclaimed comedy series awaits your collection - this one a bumper summer edition.
With:
Susie Brann
Alistair McGowan
Mary Elliot-Nelson
Julian Dutton
Peter Baynham
Producer: Sarah Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1992.
SAT 14:30 My Teenage Diary (b0b9wsb1)
Series 8
Helen Lederer
Helen Lederer recalls her school days in South-East London, when she was far more interested in boys than in school work.
The comedian and actress shares tales of her teenage past with Rufus Hound.
Producer: Harriet Jaine
A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2018.
SAT 15:00 Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years (b007jsmf)
Pilot: Cold Turkey with Dan and Nick
Fish Gordon has only 48 hours to save the aquarium.
A comedy extravaganza written by and starring Dan Freedman and Nick Romero
Meet characters including Incy Wincy Quincy, spider pathologist.
Music by the Gents.
Producer: Julian Mayers
Pilot for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in August 1998
SAT 15:30 In and Out of the Kitchen (b01qw8m7)
Series 2
On Location
Damien is sent on location to the Lake District to film a chunk of his new series for Sky Arts about "poets and their palates".
But when the sunshine turns to driving rain, Damien's spirits are further dampened when it appears Anthony might not be missing him quite as much as he had hoped...
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
Gary McDade ...... Ben Crowe
Sound Man ...... Ben Crowe
Mr Mullaney ...... Brendan Dempsey
Marion Duffett ...... Lesley Vickerage
Producer: Sam Michell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013.
SAT 16:00 Grant Eustace - The Salamander Chest (b09t0r99)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b09z4k9z)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 The Prisoner (m0003tsb)
Series 2
5. Living in Harmony
Number 6 is out-of-this-world when he meets an old ally. Just how much is his freedom really worth?
The original 17 episode TV series of The Prisoner created intrigue and controversy in equal measure when it first aired in the UK in 1967.
In a taut psychological spy thriller the main character, dehumanised as ‘Number 6’, has committed no crime, save for having resigned from some unspecified branch of the British Secret Service. His prison was a heavily guarded coastal village.
Under constant surveillance, Number 6 can trust no-one and relentlessly works to establish who his captors are. As the audio re-imagining continues, we discover more about the enigma of the personal life of Number 6.
Number 6 …. Mark Elstob
Number 2 …. Deirdre Mullins
Number 2 …. Michael Cochrane
Number 9/90 …. Sara Powell
Number 26 …. Helen Goldwyn
Astronauts …. Nicholas Briggs
Music: Jamie Robertson
Script Editor: Jamie Anderson.
Written and directed by Nicholas Briggs.
A Big Finish Production - based on the classic ITV series.
SAT 19:00 Hackers And Humphreys All (b06vc0qn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair (b06s9l5m)
Series 2
Waiting For Billy
Patsy and Billy are a rock and roll Darby and Joan. She's been with him through the good times and now the bad.
But with the money gone and the band members dying off, can Patsy's secret stay hidden for good?
Starring Anita Dobson.
Leading actresses star in Jenny Eclair's comic series about women facing a crisis in their lives.
Produce: Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2015.
SAT 22:15 Earls of the Court (b00rp1dt)
The Hangover
Is Lloydie ready for what is coming when Johnno makes a hungover, life-changing decision?
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
Desk Clerk ...... Alison Pettitt
Announcer ...... Keely Beresford
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.
SAT 22:30 Chain Reaction (b00gsb85)
Series 2
Alexei Sayle Interviews Lenny Henry
Tough-talking comedian Alexei Sayle interviews actor and comedian, Lenny Henry.
This is the tag talk show series where the guest turns interviewer in the next show.
Recorded with an audience, the interviews focus on the life, career and the passions of the interviewee but often prove to be as revealing about the interviewer.
Producer: Tilusha Ghelani
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2005.
SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m0015krz)
Nigel Planer 1/3
From
10.00pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. Jon Holmes chats to the comedy legend Nigel Planer.
SAT 23:00 The Simon Day Show (b010t7qt)
Series 1
Dave Angel
1990s Eco-Warrior Dave Angel performs on stage - and a confused delivery man arrives with gifts from a star.
Simon Day and his characters welcome you to The Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK.
Each week one of them comes to perform - with highlights of that night's show plus all the backstage and front-of-house happenings.
Written by Simon Day.
Dave Angel / White Van Man ..... Simon Day
Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd
Goose ..... Felix Dexter
Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall
Producer: Colin Anderson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.
SAT 23:30 Hut 33 (b00wfwyl)
Series 2
Getting Heavy
Hut 33 has come bottom in the ranking at Bletchley Park, and the code breakers must do something to prove themselves.
James Cary's sitcom set at Bletchley Park - the top-secret home of the Second World War codebreakers.
Charles …. Robert Bathurst
Archie …. Tom Goodman-Hill
Minka …. Olivia Colman
Mrs Best …. Lill Roughley
Gordon …. Fergus Craig
Joshua … Alex McQueen
With Lisa Sutherland, Arnab Chanda and Ben Crowe.
Producer: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008.
SUNDAY 20 MARCH 2022
SUN 00:00 The Prisoner (m0003tsb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Saturday]
SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b01465z9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 on Saturday]
SUN 01:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lcmcq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:50 on Saturday]
SUN 02:00 The Harpoon (b007m747)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Saturday]
SUN 02:30 My Teenage Diary (b0b9wsb1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Saturday]
SUN 03:00 Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years (b007jsmf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
15:00 on Saturday]
SUN 03:30 In and Out of the Kitchen (b01qw8m7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
15:30 on Saturday]
SUN 04:00 Grant Eustace - The Salamander Chest (b09t0r99)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Saturday]
SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b09z4k9z)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 on Saturday]
SUN 06:00 Sound by Bella Bathurst (Omnibus) (b08s2wjf)
In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf at the age of 28.
Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away.
She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next 12 years deafness shaped her life.
Sound draws on this experience, exploring the practical and emotional impact of losing your hearing, and what it teaches you about listening and silence, music and noise.
Bella embarks on a sailing trip with friends. She doesn't want to admit her hearing is getting worse, but out at sea even more sound gets lost.
As the weather worsens and Bella mishears instructions from the captain, has she put the whole boat in danger?
Read by Adjoa Andoh.
Omnibus of five parts abridged by Jo Coombs
Producer: Hannah Marshall
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.
SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b082m62y)
Enya
Irish singer-songwriter Enya chooses Claude Debussy's 'Nocturnes: Nuages' and her own composition 'Orinoco Flow'.
SUN 07:20 A Monkey With a Box of Paints: Berthe Morisot (Omnibus) (b0bj6qq0)
Jane Beeson tells the story of the female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot through her correspondence with her mother and sister.
As the first impressionist exhibition opens to the ridicule of the critics, the first stirrings of Berthe's talent are recalled with an early encounter with Édouard Manet.
Omnibus of five parts.
Berthe ... Sarah-Jane Holm
Cornelie ... Pauline Munro
Manet ...Simon Chandler
Edma .... Alison Pettitt
Guichard .... Robert Lister
Woolf ... Ian Brooker
Written by Jane Beeson.
Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Peter Leslie Wild
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001.
SUN 08:30 Doctor in the House (b007k437)
Sex and St Swithins
Medic Simon Sparrow breaks hospital rules by flirting with a pretty new nurse.
The misadventures of student doctor, Simon Sparrow.
Starring Richard Briers.
With special guest star, Irene Handl.
Adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's 'Doctor in the House' published in 1952.
Simon Sparrow …. Richard Briers
Sir Lancelot Spratt …. Geoffrey Sumner
Tony Benskin …. Ray Cooney
Taffy Evans …. Edward Cast
Sister …. Barbara Mitchell
Nurse Michaels ...... Carol Marsh
Ginger ...... Tanya Robinson
Mrs Clarke ...... Irene Handl
Producer: David Hatch
Recorded at the BBC Paris studio in London.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1968.
SUN 09:00 All Gas and Gaiters (b007jpjp)
Series 2
The Bishop Gains a Reputation
Clerical confusion abounds over the Archdeacon's tell-all book.
Ecclesiastical sitcom which started life on BBC TV.
Written and adapted by husband-and-wife team, Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps.
The Archdeacon …. Robertson Hare
The Bishop …. William Mervyn
The Dean …. John Barron
The Bishop's Chaplain …. Jonathan Cecil
Mr Brown ...... Michael Kilgarriff
All Gas and Gaiters started life as a TV pilot in Comedy Playhouse, ahead of a run on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971.
Selected scripts were revised and re-recorded for radio.
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1972.
SUN 09:30 Boswell's Lives (b05vh1p4)
Series 1
Boswell's Life of Johnson
James Boswell attempts to write a biography of another famous Johnson - Boris - when he is Mayor of London.
But he finds him a fiendish opponent especially on the whiff-whaff table.
Jon Canter’s sitcom sees Dr Johnson's celebrated biographer, James Boswell pursue other legends to immortalise.
James Boswell ..... Miles Jupp
Boris Johnson ...... Alistair McGowan
Director: Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2015.
SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0015kw8)
Oscar Winners 2
Steve McQueen
From Prince to Miles Davis.
Turner prize-winning artist and director, Steve McQueen shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young.
Steve's 2013 film '12 Years a Slave' won Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards. He is the first black British director to win the Best Picture Oscar.
Along with reaching the top of two professions he has also managed to please the diverging demands of his parents - his father wanted him to get a trade, his mother urged him to do what he wanted.
He says, "I want to make films that are essential. We're all going to die and we haven't got a lot of time on this planet. Life goes very quickly, so we might as well make films people will go to see because they need it or want it."
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2014.
SUN 10:45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (m000bxhj)
Series 14
The End of the World
"What would become the dominant species if, or when, humans go extinct?"
This cheery question leads Drs Rutherford and Fry to embark on an evolutionary thought experiment.
Zoologist Matthew Cobb questions whether humans really are the dominant species. Ecologist Kate Jones explains why some species are more extinction-prone than others. Plus Phil Plait, AKA The Bad Astronomer, busts some myths about why the dinosaurs went extinct.
Send your questions for future series, along with any Curio correspondence for the podcast, to: curiouscases@bbc.co.uk
Presenters: Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford
Producer: Michelle Martin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.
SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m0015kwb)
Series 12
When We Were Young
True stories told live in the USA: Meg Bowles stories of childhood, growing up, and growing pains.
The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts of the world.
The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year.
Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the humorous to the heart-breaking.
The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed by the Public Radio Exchange.
First heard on PRX in 2020.
SUN 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (b082m62y)
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07:10 today]
SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m0015kwd)
The Poetry Olympian - Michael Horovitz at 75
Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects The Poetry Olympian - Michael Horovitz at 75. Celebrating the British beat poet and musician. Presented by Simon Warner.
The British Beat poet and musician Michael Horovitz was 75 on April 4th 2010, and in this lively celebration of a lifetime's idiosyncratic poetry output, his admirer, music lecturer and writer Simon Warner, makes the case that no-one has had a greater influence on the development of British poetry over the last 50 years.
Horovitz has spent decades publishing and promoting the verse of the English underground, often at his own expense and in the face of establishment indifference.
His notion that poetry should be seen and heard, often with music has been shared and developed in collaboration with notable musicians from Stan Tracy to Damon Albarn.
His influence on publishing has been as significant as his impact on performance. In 1959 he launched New Departures, which first published works by Beckett, Burroughs and Ginsberg. The magazine grew into a famously anarchic touring show which brought poetry, music, visual art and performance to venues all over Britain during the counterculture explosion of the 1960s.
Since 1980 he organised a a number of Poetry Olympics events that have showcased, inventive and inspiring collaborations between poets and musicians.
Simon Warner charts the impact of this energetic and eccentric provoker of the establishment and talks to those who have worked with him including poets Pete Brown, Roger McGough, John Hegley, Valerie Bloom and Libby Houston, musicians Laurie Morgan and Damon Albarn, and writer Barry Miles.
Produced by Sara Davies
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.
SUN 12:30 HR (b00tppbm)
Series 2
Surfing
Sam and Peter occupy their retirement time surfing the net.
Peter has created a flattering, but deeply inaccurate online profile for himself, and now has a date.
Sam is determined to go along...
Nigel Williams' comedy drama series charting the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague.
Peter .... Jonathan Pryce
Sam .... Nicholas Le Prevost
Janice .... Christine Kavanagh
Drab Woman .... Sally Orrock
Madwoman .... Helen Belbin
Man .... Tony Bell
Director: Peter Kavanagh.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2010.
SUN 13:00 The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (Omnibus) (b007js72)
Sue Townsend is one of our most celebrated comic writers. 'The Growing Pains' is the second book serialised in her exquisitely funny Adrian Mole series, read by Harry McEntire.
Adrian continues to battle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life. Following on from 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4', it is now 1982 and Adrian is 15.
Adrian's parents are back together and his mother is pregnant, much to Adrian's surprise and embarrassment. As the summer holidays begin, Adrian is still troubled by his spotty skin, but he continues to feel that his intellectual prowess sets him apart from his peers. His aspirations for poetic fame and fortune are undimmed. Whilst his mother heads off with her women's group to Greenham Common, Adrian's own interest in politics starts to grow, alongside his dislike for Margaret Thatcher. As his parents struggle to make ends meet and to sort out their differences, Adrian enjoys a more settled relationship with Pandora but is eager to move things on a stage further.
Omnibus of five episodes abridged by Sara Davies.
Producer: Alexa Moore
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.
SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07bkw1s)
Carlos Acosta
Cuban ballet dancer Carlos Acosta chooses NG La Banda's 'Echale Limon' and Polo Montanez's 'Un Millon de Estrellas'.
SUN 14:20 A Small Town Murder (Omnibus) (m000dqkw)
Series 14
After many years service as a Family Liaison Officer Jackie is retiring.
But she has ongoing cases - and they are not so happy about her leaving.
Starring Meera Syal.
Written by Scott Cherry
Jackie ...... Meera Syal
Peter ...... Matthew Marsh
Dee ...... Ayesha Antoine
Gary ...... Michael Higgs
Lorraine ...... Abigail Cruttenden
Karen ...... Nicola Stuart Hill
Hadley ...... Sarah Lambie
Ryan ...... Phil Yarrow
Steve ...... Scott Cherry
Dave ...... Alec Newman
Other parts played by the cast
Director: Clive Brill
A Brill Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2020.
SUN 15:30 A Sound British Adventure (b01lsyjg)
Passionate about electronic music - comedian Stewart Lee takes a remarkable musical journey.
After the Second World War, a small group of electronic pioneers began tinkering with their army surplus kit to create new sounds and music.
Tristram Cary started the first electronic music studio in Britain but, while France, Germany, Italy and the USA had lavishly funded research centres, British electronic music remained the preserve of boffins on a budget.
This make do and mend approach prevailed long after austerity Britain gave way to the swinging 60s.
Stewart talks to Peter Zinovieff who developed EMS synthesizers from a shed at the bottom of his garden in Putney. Paul McCartney of the Beatles put on his wellies to take a look.
Unsurprisingly, the electronic community in Britain was a small, intimate group. Daphne Oram devoted decades to developing a 'drawn sound' electronic composition system that never really quite worked.
Brian Hodgson reveals how experimental and electronic festivals were held in the 1960s, including The Million Volt Light and Sound Rave at which the Beatles' electronic piece Carnival Of Light had its only public airing.
Stewart also discovers how the BBC radiophonic workshop broke new musical ground with BBC TV’s Doctor Who.
Experts in the history of electronic music, including author and musician Mark Ayers and Goldsmiths College lecturer in computer studies Dr Michael Grierson give the boffins' view and Portishead's Adrian Utley explains why the early forays in electronics are still relevant today.
Producer: John Sugar
A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2012.
SUN 16:00 Gaston Leroux - The Perfume of the Lady in Black (m00016b4)
France’s most dangerous man, Frederic Larson, is finally laid to rest. But who is the mysterious woman at his graveside?
Journalist Joseph Rouletabille is intrigued but must look to his own past to solve the mystery...
Starring Nicholas Boulton.
Written by Gaston Leroux - the author of 'The Phantom of the Opera'.
Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan from a translation by Margaret Costa.
Rouletabille …. Nicholas Boulton
Sainclair …. Charles Simpson
Inspector Larson …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Mathilda …. Suzanna Hamilton
Rance/Uncle Marius …. Stephen Thorne
Darzac/Steward …. Alastair Danson
Beauvais/Captain …. David Timson
Edith/Postmistress …. Alison Pettitt
Director: David Blount
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2000.
SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m0015kwd)
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12:00 today]
SUN 17:30 HR (b00tppbm)
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12:30 today]
SUN 18:00 Ghosts From The Past (m000d020)
Black Stockings and Broken Mirrors by Bernadette Crosthwaite
A tragic accident returns to haunt Christine when she befriends her new neighbour...
Bemadette Crosthwaite's ghostly first play written for radio.
Christine ...... Maureen O’Brien
Mrs Falkener ...... Margot Boyd
'Go Way from My Window’ is sung by Melanie Hudson.
Director: Martin Jenkins.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1992.
SUN 18:45 Short Stories by LP Hartley (b03zjlq7)
1. Night Fears
A nightwatchman takes on a new job, but is he prepared for anyone he might meet?
Read by Robert Lang.
Series of creepy tales written by LP Hartley.
Producer: Peter Kavanagh
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1988.
SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m0015kwb)
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11:00 today]
SUN 19:50 Inheritance Tracks (b082m62y)
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07:10 today]
SUN 20:00 Gaston Leroux - The Perfume of the Lady in Black (m00016b4)
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16:00 today]
SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0015kw8)
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10:00 today]
SUN 21:45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (m000bxhj)
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10:45 today]
SUN 22:00 HR (b00tppbm)
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SUN 22:30 Delve Special (b007k4fc)
Series 2
The Secret Disservice
David Lander probes MI5 in a tale of dirty tricks, purple herrings and mauve sheep.
Presented by David Lander with assistance from Stephen Fry.
Studio production by Brenda Blethyn, Tony Robinson, Jack Klaff and Stephen Frost.
Dramatic reconstruction by Felicity Montague, Robert Bathurst and Phil Nice.
Researched and compiled by Tony Sarchet.
Editor: Paul Mayhew-Archer
Delve Special ran for four series from 1984 to 1987 and later transferred to TV as: This is David
Lander.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1985.
SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m0015kwh)
Nigel Planer 2/3
From
10.00pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. And Jon Holmes chats more to the comedy legend Nigel Planer.
SUN 23:00 Edge Falls (m000hhfy)
Series 2
Episode 1
It's Pink Thursday! Get 20% off for coming out as gay.
Starring Frances Barber and Mark Benton.
Return of the sitcom about the retail park where they stop at nothing to part you from your money.
Written by Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst.
Mick ...... Mark Benton
Sonya ...... Frances Barber
Rez ...... Emil Marwa
Valerie ...... Sarah Hadland
Darryl ...... Paul Barnhill
Rebecca ...... Liz Sutherland
Miranda ...... Lindsay Allen
Graham ...... Neil Warhurst
Director: Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2008.
SUN 23:30 Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years (b007jyzh)
Pundemonium!
It's Pundemonium!
A comedy extravaganza written by and featuring Dan Freedman and Nick Romero
With Richard Coles.
Music by the Gents.
Producer: Julian Mayers
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1998.
MONDAY 21 MARCH 2022
MON 00:00 Ghosts From The Past (m000d020)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Sunday]
MON 00:45 Short Stories by LP Hartley (b03zjlq7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:45 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (Omnibus) (b007js72)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07bkw1s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:10 on Sunday]
MON 02:20 A Small Town Murder (Omnibus) (m000dqkw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:20 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 A Sound British Adventure (b01lsyjg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
15:30 on Sunday]
MON 04:00 Gaston Leroux - The Perfume of the Lady in Black (m00016b4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m0015kwd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 HR (b00tppbm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l87w)
6. The Cross of Light
Hilary is getting closer to the facts, but will she be able to face the truth?
Starring Angela Pleasance.
Conclusion of Christopher Bidmead's spy adventure,
Hilary …. Angela Pleasance
Beresford …. Rolf Lefebvre
Cannon …. Nigel Anthony
Jean …. Hilda Kriseman
Mortimer …. Dinsdale Landen
Maximillian …. Harold Kasket
Dr Reece …. John Pullen
Fernberg …. Harry Francis
Matron …. Margaret Wolfit
Dr Wormald …. Malcolm Hayes
Esther …. Patricia Gallimore
Keredic / Waiter …. John Rye
Nurse …. Deborah Dallas
Rick …. Andrew Sachs
Producer: John Tydeman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1970.
MON 06:30 Kipling in Love (b06ssm4h)
His Wedded Wife
India, 1885: When a young subaltern joins a high-caste regiment he becomes the butt of a captain's jokes.
Until finally the worm turns...
The first of eight plays based on short stories written by Rudyard Kipling
Dramatised by Ed Thomason.
Henry... Richard Pearce
Watson... Michael Troughton
Reynolds... Lyndham Gregory
Colonel Humphrey... Barry J Gordon
The Padre... Richard Bates
Emily... Elaine Claxton
Bess... Vlvienne Rochester
Mulvaney... Jack Klaff
Ortheris... Terry John
Other parts played by Tom Bevan and Amerjit Deu.
Producer: Adrian Bean
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1994.
MON 07:00 Daliso Chaponda: Citizen of Nowhere (b0b0v5hh)
Series 1
How It All Began
Malawian Comedian Daliso Chaponda looks at the relationship between the UK and Africa.
Both countries have had a long a complicated past. Looking at their history, Daliso is our relationship guidance counsellor, helping us navigate the rocky historical waters between the two places.
A Malawian comedian who grew up all over the world, Daliso straddles cultural divides. He will help us all better understand how to sort out our differences. Or not...
Daliso begins by looking at the origins of the relationship, as he asks how did the UK and Africa first meet?
Written and performed by Daliso Chaponda
The Other Guy ...... James Quinn
Theme music by Lawi.
Image by Steve Ullathorne.
Producer: Carl Cooper
A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2018.
MON 07:30 Just a Minute (m00159qz)
Series 88
Episode 4
Sue Perkins challenges Lucy Porter, Shaparak Khorsandi, Julian Clary and Paul Merton to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation.
The long running national treasure of a parlour game is back, with subjects this week ranging from Fear of Flying to Victoria Wood.
Production co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow
Sound editor: Marc Willcox
Producer: Hayley Sterling
A BBC Studios Production
MON 08:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead (b00yhx5s)
Series 2
Episode 5
Angry antique dealers, a word from the Minister for population - and it's not the end of the world
A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker.
With:
Terence Brady
Pauline Yates
Pianist: Gordon Langford.
Banjo: Dick Abell
Written by Terence Brady, Peter N Christie, Donald Churchill, Bert Fisher, John Graham, Christopher Langham, Roy Lomax, Chris Miller, Katie Moss, Myles Rudge and Gordon Langford, Allan Scott and Chris Bryant, and Gerald Wiley.
Producer John Fawcett-Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1972.
MON 08:30 Chambers (b007jttl)
Series 1
QC at Any Cost
John Fuller-Carp, the Machiavellian head of chambers, is determined to become a QC and will perform almost any moral contortion to achieve his goal.
When left-wing Ruth Quirke, rumoured to be the daughter of a High Court judge, applies to join chambers at Forecourt Buildings, Fuller-Carp's imagination goes into overdrive. A hotline to the Lord Chancellor and promotion seems inevitable.
But will his "New Labour" image amount to anything..?
Starring John Bird, James Fleet and Lesley Sharp.
Clive Coleman’s sitcom about the questionable practices of a group of barristers.
John Fuller Carp ...... John Bird
Hilary Tripping ...... James Fleet
Ruth Quirke ...... Lesley Sharp
Vince ...... Jonathan Kydd
Judge ...... Gavin Muir
Suggs ...... John Baddeley
Brinsley ...... Alex Lowe
Jen ...... Jane Whittenshaw
Producer Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996.
MON 09:00 Wordaholics (b01dtkjd)
Series 1
Episode 6
Gyles Brandreth hosts the comedy panel show in which guests are challenged to display their knowledge of words and language.
On the panel: Richard Herring, Jenny Eclair, Alex Horne and Natalie Haynes.
Letter of the week is that cheeky 5th letter of the alphabet - F.
The panellists reveal their favourite words and invent new phobias.
Plus they try to guess the meaning of some words no longer in our common parlance, taken from a glossary of provincial words from Herefordshire in 1839. Yes - words such as cockshut, taplash, pulfin and giglet...
Writers: James Kettle and Jon Hunter.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012.
MON 09:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b00mjq8m)
Series 3
Episode 1
Like many a menopausal flower child before him, Merv discovers his inner cowboy.
This, plus a surprise gift from his uncle Lonesome Larry Pond has him dreaming of the open road again.
But can you park a horse on double yellows?
Return of the sitcom set in ‘Cyber Pass’, an internet café.
Written by and starring Mervyn Stutter.
Merv …. Mervyn Stutter
Pam …. Lill Roughley
Nev …. Gyuri Sarossy
Chantal …. Tracy-Ann Oberman
Dibden …. John Challis
Dilkes …. Chris Ettridge
Various …. Geoffrey McGivern
Songs by Mervyn Stutter.
Performed by Swamp Things.
Producer: Simon Nicholls
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.
MON 10:00 A Tale of Two Cities: Aleppo and London (b0b3bb2c)
2011/2012
Charles Dickens's iconic story of love, revolution and redemption, updated and set in contemporary Aleppo and London.
Dickens' original novel is a powerful portrayal of personal sacrifice set against the turbulent backdrop of political change.
As resonant today as it was then, the redemption of flawed humanity is at the heart of award-winning writer Ayeesha Menon's bold reworking.
The story of a chance resemblance between a feckless lawyer and a troubled exile, both in love with the same woman, is updated to modern-day London and war-torn Syria.
However, in this modern version, the driving forces are two women - British Syrian journalist Lina Mahmoud and her nemesis, Taghreed Daffar.
It's a classic tale reimagined as a provocative and moving drama for today.
In this opening episode - 2011/2012 - it's the Arab Spring and peaceful protests in Syria lead to a release of political prisoners.
When Dr Mahmoud is freed after 30 years, he is sheltered by Taghreed and Emad Daffar, and brought to the UK by his old friend Jarvis Lorry and the daughter he has never met, foreign correspondent Lina.
Back in London, Jarvis persuades his nephew Sid Carton, a flawed but brilliant advocate, to represent Syrian émigré doctor Shwan Dahkurdi against terrorism charges.
When Lina and Shwan meet, they are immediately attracted.
But Dr Mahmoud's release has set in train a series of events that none of them can escape...
Taghreed ...... Fatima Adoum
Lina ...... Lara Sawalha
Jarvis ...... Phil Davis
Shwan Dahkurdi ...... Khalid Abdalla
Sid ...... Shaun Parkes
Dr Mahmoud ...... Nadim Sawalha
Cameraman ...... Shiv Grewal
Emad ...... Raad Rawi
Yakub ...... George Georgiou
Samia ...... Nathalie Armin
Syrian Protestor ...... Ahmed Aziz
Development concept written by Silas Parry.
Producer: Gill Parry
Director: Polly Thomas
Producer for Goldhawk Productions: Emma Hearn
Executive Producer: John Dryden
A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2018.
MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m0015lvb)
Series 8
Body Talk
A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) stage.
Manoush Zomorodi and physician and writer Jen Gunter explore what does it really means to be healthy and to care for our bodies?
First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2021.
MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m0015lvd)
Neil Morrissey
The actor Neil Morrissey chooses The Streak by Ray Stevens and Fantasy by Earth, Wind & Fire.
MON 12:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead (b00yhx5s)
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08:00 today]
MON 12:30 Chambers (b007jttl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
MON 13:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l87w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
MON 13:30 Kipling in Love (b06ssm4h)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
MON 14:00 Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe (b063n3sw)
Episode 1
The poet Hannah Lowe reads her memoir about her Jamaican father and her relationship with him during her childhood in Essex. Using a notebook found after his death and letters and interviews with family, she recreates his childhood and young adult years in the decades before he met her mother.
Episode 1:
Jamaica, 1935: a young boy is repeatedly beaten by his Chinese father. Both man and boy are drawn to the throw of the dice. Decades later, a young woman in Ilford mourns the death of her gambling father.
Read by the author, Hannah Lowe, with recreated and imagined sections of Chick’s life read by Colin Salmon.
Abridged and produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2015.
MON 14:15 Irene Nemirovsky - The Misunderstanding (m000252y)
Episode 1
Yves is a disappointed young man, scarred by the First World War. He returns to the Spanish resort where he spent blissful childhood holidays, and becomes infatuated by the beautiful, bored Denise, whose rich husband is away on business and Denise falls passionately in love with him.
But their relationship is snagged by both personal and social thorns and back in Paris their love is challenged by a mutual misunderstanding. The story alternates from the perspective of the lovers.
Yves - Joseph Kloska
Denise - Sarah Smart
Francette - Charlotte Sienna Lee
Jessaint - Jake Ferretti
Waiter - Evan Jones
Translated by Sandra Smith
Dramatised by Lin Coghlan
Produced and directed by Pauline Harris
Further info:
The Misunderstanding published in 1926 has been described as Nemirovsky's Madame Bovary. In this early novel she examines the effects of an extra-marital affair. The story alternates from the perspective of the lovers so from the man to the woman.
Nemirovsky displays a kind of hidden regret that human beings are so imperfect. Real excoriating passionate emotion, expressed with truthful intensity and cool wit leaps from every page/scene. Fire banked down with ice. It's a brilliant synthesis that illuminates the gaping fissures in the French class system wrought by the first world war and industrialisation.
MON 14:30 The Art of Re-mastering (b00s3h40)
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores digital re-mastering: is it the art of restoring music to its original glory; or just another way of selling us music we already own?
The whole of the Beatles back catalogue was re-released in re-mastered form; a quick search of any record store or online shop will reveal that a large number of recordings have been re-mastered, from very old crackly recordings to very recent releases.
But what do the words 'digitally re-mastered' on a cd actually mean?
Sara visits London's iconic Abbey Road Studios to meet some of the engineers who re-master recordings there. She asks them and others from the music industry what re-mastering actually means. She learns that sometimes re-mastering can be as much about what to leave in as what to leave out. And is it an advantage to have the original artist involved in the process?
She also considers the consumer's point of view; we've already bought these recordings on vinyl and cd (and possibly cassette as well) so why do we need to buy them again? Can the average listener hear any difference between the original version of (for instance) a pop song from the 1960s and the re-mastered version?
Sara looks at the technology that is used to clean up very old recordings, where the music is often buried almost completely beneath noise and the sonic distortions caused by very primitive recording equipment.
Whatever your view is of the value of re-mastering, what is clear is that the re-mastering engineers Sara meets treat the work they do with great care and reverence - they are often uncovering moments in history.
Producer: Nick Holmes
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2010.
MON 15:00 A Tale of Two Cities: Aleppo and London (b0b3bb2c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
MON 16:00 Wordaholics (b01dtkjd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
MON 16:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b00mjq8m)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
MON 17:00 Daliso Chaponda: Citizen of Nowhere (b0b0v5hh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
MON 17:30 Just a Minute (m00159qz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
MON 18:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jvs0)
Episode 11
Award-winning writer/director Julian Simpson creates an HP Lovecraft-inspired universe through the prism of podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.
The story begins with a missing-person investigation; Charles Dexter Ward has vanished from a secure psychiatric hospital in Rhode Island. Two months later his psychiatrist Doctor Willett murders a woman in Highgate, England. Are the two events connected?
Kennedy is trapped in a tunnel underneath the Devil’s reef Trailer Park. And she is not alone.
Kennedy Fisher ...... Jana Carpenter
Producer: Karen Rose
Director/Writer: Julian Simpson
Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
Music by Tim Elsenburg
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.
MON 18:15 HG Wells (b01mlrdw)
The First Men in the Moon
Episode 1
1901: Penniless businessman Mr Bedford meets the brilliant Cavor, a scientist on the brink of developing a material that can block gravity.
Together, they prepare to embark on an expedition to the moon...
First published in 1901, HG Wells’ novel abridged in five parts by Neville Teller.
Read by Tim Pigott-Smith.
Producer: David Roper
Made by Heavy Entertainment for BBC Radio 4 and first broadcast in July 2009.
MON 18:30 A Good Read (b03hvx6r)
Michael Dobbs and Katie Puckrik
Harriett Gilbert and her guests - author, Michael Dobbs and broadcaster, Katie Puckrik - discuss their favourite books by Kevin Myers, Jennifer Egan and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. .
Watching the Door - Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast by Kevin Myers
Publisher: Atlantic
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Corsair
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher: Penguin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2013.
MON 19:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead (b00yhx5s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
MON 19:30 Chambers (b007jttl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
MON 20:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l87w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
MON 20:30 Kipling in Love (b06ssm4h)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m0015lvb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m0015lvd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:50 today]
MON 22:00 Just a Minute (m00159qz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
MON 22:30 On the Town with the League of Gentlemen (b0081tbs)
The Wedding
Reg finds Barbara through the local Close Encounters dating agency.
The first incarnation of the award-winning black comedy, about the "local people" of the town of Spent - before it hit TV.
Starring Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton.
Written by the cast and Jeremy Dyson.
The League of Gentlemen won a Perrier Edinburgh Fesvital award in 1997 and this radio series debuted in the same year. They also won a Sony Radio Award. The cult series switched to TV for three series on BBC 2 from 1999, plus stage shows and a feature film.
Producer: Sarah Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1997.
MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m0015lvh)
Nigel Planer 3/3
From
10.00pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. And tonight, Jon Holmes chats to the comedy legend Nigel Planer.
MON 23:00 The Now Show (m0015bbz)
Series 60
Episode 2
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches. They're joined by Jess Fostekew, Ken Cheng and Jazz Emu.
Jess talks us through all the things she's doing to distract herself from the news, Ken takes on the cost of living crisis and Jazz Emu issues a challenge to Gordon Ramsay.
Voice Actors: Luke Kempner and Gemma Arrowsmith
Producer: Pete Strauss
Production Co-Ordinator: Sarah Sharpe
BBC Studios Production
MON 23:30 Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes (b01pgjbt)
Series 2
Outlaws
Twm Sion Cati, Jesse James and Bartholomew Roberts.
Comedian Elis James compares key figures in Welsh history to determine the ultimate heroes of Wales.
With Ben Partridge and Nadia Kamil.
Written by Elis James, Gareth Gwyn and Benjamin Partridge.
Producer: Sharif Shahwan
First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales in December 2012.
TUESDAY 22 MARCH 2022
TUE 00:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jvs0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:15 HG Wells (b01mlrdw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:15 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b03hvx6r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l87w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Kipling in Love (b06ssm4h)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe (b063n3sw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:15 Irene Nemirovsky - The Misunderstanding (m000252y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 The Art of Re-mastering (b00s3h40)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 A Tale of Two Cities: Aleppo and London (b0b3bb2c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 Wordaholics (b01dtkjd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b00mjq8m)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 Daliso Chaponda: Citizen of Nowhere (b0b0v5hh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (m00159qz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00w190h)
Murder in the Title
1. Sabotage?
By Jeremy Front
Based on the novel by Simon Brett
A series of nasty accidents befall the cast of the play Charles is appearing in. Is it bad luck or is someone out to sabotage the production?
Charles Paris ..... Bill Nighy
Frances ..... Suzanne Burden
Maurice ..... Jon Glover
Fabio ..... Theo Cross
Tony ..... Sam Dale
Lindsay ..... Christine Kavanagh
Ronnie ..... Sean Baker
Sean ..... Iain Batchelor
Phoebe ..... Claire Harry
Chris ..... Henry Devas
Landlady ..... Sally Orrock
Barmaid ..... Leah Brotherhead
Directed by Sally Avens
As ever, Charles is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation especially in the form of women and alcohol. His intentions may be good but somehow the results always go wrong
He's been out of work so long now he feels he may never get a job and he's driving Frances his semi-ex-wife mad.
So when he's offered a small role in an awful play up in Rugland she nearly pushes him out the door.
But as always with Charles murder is never far behind.
TUE 06:30 Kipling in Love (b06strdn)
Lispeth
Eight plays based on short stories by Rudyard Kipling, dramatised for radio by Ed Thomason.
2: Lispeth.
India. 1886. While waiting for a delayed train, an English woman befriends an old Indian woman who tells her a tale of love and loss that has a terrible outcome.
Lispeth.... Mamta Kaash
Paul Cordray... Dominic Letts
Alice.... Shelley Thompson
Old Lispeth... Charubala Chokshi
Walter Grogan... Peter Penry Jones
Edith... Tina Gray
Boy... Rajeev Mukkar
Proprietor/Saddhu ... Bhasker
Stationmaster.... Lyndam Gregory
Frank.... Colin Pinney
Producer Adrian Bean
First broadcast in October 1994.
TUE 07:00 Ayres on the Air (b008p9vh)
Series 1
Holidays
Pam Ayres's poetry and sketch show looks at holidays,
With poems about packing too much and learning to ski at 50-something.
Plus sketches about booking a holiday online and getting shingles up the Orinoco.
With Geoffrey Whitehead and Felicity Montagu.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004.
TUE 07:30 The World of Simon Rich (m0015b04)
Series 3
Episode 2
Simon Rich is a one-man comedy phenomenon, described by The Guardian as "the funniest man in America" and with credits including The Simpsons, Pixar movies and Saturday Night Live. He created the hit sitcom Miracle Workers starring Steve Buscemi and Daniel Radcliffe, and his debut movie An American Pickle was released in 2020, starring Seth Rogen.
Now Simon returns to Radio 4 with a third series of his charmingly absurd stories, performed by a top-drawer British cast. Featuring parenting pirates, a baby detective, an unlikely retelling of Beauty And The Beast, and a super monster being promoted into management, this is unlike anything else you’ll hear this year.
Starring Mat Baynton, Ed Eales-White, Kieran Hodgson, Cariad Lloyd, Claire Price and Adjani Salmon
Produced by Jon Harvey and Clarissa Maycock
Editor: David Thomas
Executive Producer: Polly Thomas
A Naked production for BBC Radio 4
TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b012bz13)
The Booted Gorilla (Found?)
A trap must be laid on an African jungle safari, and Bluebottle gets a surprise.
Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.
Starring:
Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan
First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.
With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.
Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Producer: Peter Eton
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in November 1954.
TUE 08:30 King Street Junior (b007jmhb)
Series 5
Bon Voyage
Experience has taught Mr. Beeston that a trouble-free school trip is virtually a contradiction in terms as King Street Junior pupils brush up their French on a school trip to Calais. Mrs Rudd is chatted up and agrees to take a parcel back to England.
Created and written by Jim Eldridge.
Ten series of this comedy about King Street Junior School ran between 1985 and 1998. King Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005.
Mr Sims …............... Karl Howman
Mr Beeston …........ James Grout
Mr Holliday …........Tom Watson
Mrs Stone …. ...........Margaret John
Mr Long …............. Paul Copley
Miss Lewis …........ Marlene Sidaway
Msr Chantal........Andre Maranne
Yvette............Carolle Rousseau
Coach Driver.........Donald Gee
Joanne.............Claire Hearnden
Matthew Coates.........Asam
Nicholas Greenshields....Sundar
Sebastian Brennan......Neil
Jason.......Trevor Thomas
Rosia.....Claire Buckfield
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1990.
TUE 09:00 The Now Show (m0015bbz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:00 on Monday]
TUE 09:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b00v7v1j)
Series 2
Highwaymen
Major Thomas Falconer attempts to become more of a cad to win Tamsyn, but she’s more concerned her disloyal fans are being poached by "Boyz 2 Rob", the hunky band of highwaymen that is taking Drumlin Bay by storm.
It's 1793 and in the small Cornish village of Drumlin Bay, heroic smuggler Tamsyn Trelawny is still running rings around the customs men, assisted by her drunken father Jago.
Written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain.
Starring Sheridan Smith as Tamsyn Trelawny, John Bowe as Jago Trelawny, Cameron Stewart as Major Thomas Falconer, Andrew McGibbon as Captain Marriot, Martin Hyder as Squire Bascombe, Mark Felgate as Dewey, Mark Perry as Hobbs and India Fisher as Alice.
Producer: Jan Ravens.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2004.
TUE 10:00 A Tale of Two Cities: Aleppo and London (b0b42t59)
2013/2014
Charles Dickens's iconic story of love, revolution and redemption, updated and set in contemporary Aleppo and London.
Boldly reworked as provocative and moving drama by Ayeesha Menon - updated to modern-day London and war-torn Syria.
The driving forces are now two women - British Syrian journalist Lina Mahmoud and her nemesis, Taghreed Daffar.
Events move on to 2013/2014.
Lina is reporting from Aleppo when she is confronted by Taghreed, now in the Free Syrian Army, accusing her of not speaking the truth.
Back in London, Lina and Shwan fall in love but, when his dark family secret is revealed, it propels Dr Mahmoud's descent into madness, driving the two lovers apart. Sid confesses his unrequited love for Lina, promising always to protect her and those she loves.
Meanwhile Shwan desperately returns to Syria to rescue his old housekeeper, Samia, and is trapped by Taghreed's terrible plan for vengeance.
Taghreed ...... Fatima Adoum
Lina ...... Lara Sawalha
Jarvis ...... Phil Davis
Shwan ...... Khalid Abdalla
Sid ...... Shaun Parkes
Dr Mahmoud ...... Nadim Sawalha
Jerry ...... Shiv Grewal
Driver ...... Shiv Grewal
Emad ...... Raad Rawi
Yakub ...... George Georgiou
General ...... George Georgiou
Samia ...... Nathalie Armin
Fadi ...... Ammar Haj Ahmad
Local Doctor ...... Ammar Haj Ahmad
Syrian Protestor ...... Ahmed Aziz
Development concept written by Silas Parry.
Producer: Gill Parry
Director: Polly Thomas
Producer for Goldhawk Productions: Emma Hearn
Executive Producer: John Dryden
A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2018.
TUE 11:00 Archive on 4 (m0002g6z)
PE - A History of Violence
When Matthew Sweet was taking his daughter to secondary school open days, he noticed a pattern emerging - the PE teachers were intelligent and thoughtful people with clear and sophisticated ideas about the social and psychological benefits of their subject.
What had happened to the PE teachers of old, who were represented in popular culture by bullies and drill sergeant types like Mr Sugden in Kes and Bullet Baxter in Grange Hill?
He sent out a tweet - “Why was PE the only subject in which humiliation was considered part of the learning process?” Hours later, he had collected literally hundreds of traumatic anecdotes – a culture of bullying and sadism, described by students put off sport for life.
In this programme, Matthew haunts gyms, playing fields and communal changing rooms of PE’s past, to interrogate former PE teachers.
What’s the point of PE? Did it once do more harm than good?
“Team spirt?” says a young teacher from a Dagenham comprehensive school in a Panorama from the 1980s, “You mean the team spirit that managed to get so many thousands and millions of people killed in World War I?" A decade earlier, in a series about physical education, Ron Pickering suggested that dance was “the most controversial element of physical education".
Matthew finds followers of Rudolf Laban and PE pioneer Madame Österberg. He also meets a torturous bully in Andrew Davies’ 1970 play, Is That Your Body, Boy? Nearing retirement and struggling to come terms with the changing curriculum, Cracker Carstairs mourns the loss of the old PE lessons. “I am not afraid of pain. That is what life is all about.”
With Dr Anne Elliott, sports scientist and senior lecturer at the London Sports Institute, Middlesex University and Margaret Whitehead, former physical education teacher, PE consultant and editor of Physical Literacy: Throughout the Lifecourse.
A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2019.
TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b012bz13)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 King Street Junior (b007jmhb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
TUE 13:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00w190h)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
TUE 13:30 Kipling in Love (b06strdn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
TUE 14:00 Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe (b063n58m)
Episode 2
The poet Hannah Lowe reads from her memoir about her Jamaican father and her relationship with him during her childhood in Essex. Using a notebook found after his death and letters and interviews with family, she recreates his childhood and young adult years in the decades before he met her mother.
Episode 2 Hannah traces her father's childhood with his own cruel father and his escape to Liverpool and London in the late 1940s.
Read by the author, Hannah Lowe, with recreated and imagined sections of Chick’s life read by Colin Salmon.
Abridged and produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2015.
TUE 14:15 Irene Nemirovsky - The Misunderstanding (m000255w)
Episode 2
From Denise's perspective. Denise, a married woman, on holiday in Hendaye falls passionately in love with Yves, a veteran of the Great War. When they return to Paris Yves is poor and must return to his mundane office job . Denise feels the tone of their relationship change without understanding why; she wants him more than ever.
Denise - Sarah Smart
Yves - Joseph Kloska
Francette - Charlotte Sienna Lee
Ja Ja- Rupert Hill
Madame Franchevielle - Emma Gregory
Translated by Sandra Smith
Dramatised by Lin Coghlan
Produced and directed by Pauline Harris
TUE 14:30 The Secret History of Bagpipes (b007jzbj)
We all know about bagpipes: deafeningly loud, dangling from the arm of a kilted Scotsman, and the quintessential symbol of Celtic aggression and pride.
Or do we?
Tom Morton wrestles with the truth about this most peculiar of instruments with contributions from former war correspondent Kate Adie, numerous pipers and pipe-makers, and one man who was prepared to go to court to protect the right to play his pipes.
Producer: Michael Surcombe
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2004.
TUE 15:00 A Tale of Two Cities: Aleppo and London (b0b42t59)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 The 3rd Degree (b0b91t07)
Series 8
University of Dundee
A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this week from the University of Dundee.
Specialist subjects include Geography, Art and Physics, and questions ranging from Rachel Whiteread and Röntgen Rays to the Shiba Inu from the meme and Gnasher from The Beano.
Recorded on location at a different University each week, three Undergraduates are pitted against three of their Professors in an original and fresh take on an academic quiz.
The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, sport, and quite possibly Justin Bieber. In addition, the Head-to-Head rounds see students take on their Professors in their own subjects, offering plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both sides.
Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2018.
TUE 16:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b00v7v1j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
TUE 17:00 Ayres on the Air (b008p9vh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
TUE 17:30 The World of Simon Rich (m0015b04)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
TUE 18:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jvz6)
Episode 12
Award-winning writer/director Julian Simpson creates an HP Lovecraft-inspired universe through the prism of podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.
The story begins with a missing-person investigation; Charles Dexter Ward has vanished from a secure psychiatric hospital in Rhode Island. Two months later his psychiatrist Doctor Willett murders a woman in Highgate, London. Are the two events connected?
Today - the Legend of Ipqu-Aya.
Matthew Heawood …… Barnaby Kay
Charles Dexter Ward …… Samuel Barnett
Doctor Willett …… Mark Bazeley
Eleanor Peck …… Nicola Walker
Producer: Karen Rose
Director/Writer: Julian Simpson
Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
Music by Tim Elsenburg
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.
TUE 18:15 HG Wells (b01mltrs)
The First Men in the Moon
Episode 2
Cavor has invented a new material blocking the effect of gravity. After covering a sphere with the substance, he and Mr Bedford travel far from Earth to the Moon's surface.
Here they encounter a strange new world...and new life forms.
First published in 1901, HG Wells’ novel abridged by Neville Teller.
Read by Tim Pigott-Smith.
Producer: David Roper
Made by Heavy Entertainment for BBC Radio 4 and first broadcast in July 2007
TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b05stg0l)
Series 20
Scarborough Fair
"Tomorrow we're going in search of a song and in search of a dream of England which has travelled right around the world" - Will Parsons
No one can be sure of the true origins of the song Scarborough Fair. It's a melody of mystery, of voices of old, of ancient days. It's travelled through land and time, drawing singers and listeners in where ever they maybe.
For Will Parsons and Guy Hayward it's a song that has inspired a pilgrimage through a landscape that is embodied in the lyrics. Setting off from Whitby Abbey, they journey to Scarborough on foot, sensing the song as they go, learning to sing it, interpreting it in a new way just as thousands of traditional singers have done throughout time.
This too is the landscape of Martin Carthy, the 'father of folk' who has made his home along the Yorkshire coast. It was from this legendary singer that Paul Simon first learnt Scarborough Fair, creating a version that came to represent a generation continuing its journey far and wide, weaving its spell in many different guises, never truly being pinned down.
Decades on Harpist Claire Jones recorded a version of her own. Arranged by her husband, the composer Chris Marshall, hers is a very personal journey through unexpected illness to recovery. Whilst for Mike Masheder it is a song that brings memories of his wife Sally, who approached the journey of life with love and equanimity.
"It can change or stay the same. And the more it changes, the more it stays the same" - Martin Carthy
With expert contribution from Sandra Kerr, musician and lecturer at Newcastle University School of Arts and Culture.
Producer: Nicola Humphries
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2015
TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b012bz13)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 King Street Junior (b007jmhb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
TUE 20:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00w190h)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
TUE 20:30 Kipling in Love (b06strdn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
TUE 21:00 Archive on 4 (m0002g6z)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
TUE 22:00 The World of Simon Rich (m0015b04)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
TUE 22:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b0194mxx)
Series 3
Wigan
In this third series comedian Mark Steel visits six more UK towns to discover what makes them and their inhabitants distinctive.
He creates his material especially for each town and performs the show in front of a local audience.
During the series 'Mark Steel's In Town' Mark will visit Berwick-Upon Tweed, Holyhead, Basingstoke, Douglas (Isle of Man), Bungay and Wigan.
Episode 6 - Mark performs a show for the residents of Wigan, where he talks about entering pie eating competitions, living under floorboards, and the radicalism of George Formby.
Written and performed by Mark Steel with additional material by Pete Sinclair
Produced by Sam Bryant
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012.
TUE 23:00 The Harpoon (b007n0st)
Series 2
Episode 2
Broadcasting secrets are revealed in the nostalgic spoof of boys' adventure story papers.
Fun, frolics, and much, much, more. Subscribe now!
With Susie Brann, Alistair McGowan , Mary Elliot-Nelson, Julian Dutton and Peter Baynham.
Producer: Sarah Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1992.
TUE 23:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b00j0h9n)
Series 2
Sandi Toksvig
Marcus Brigstocke gets Sandi Toksvig to try some new experiences, seeing the world from a whole new level. From March 2009.
WEDNESDAY 23 MARCH 2022
WED 00:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jvz6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:15 HG Wells (b01mltrs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:15 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 Soul Music (b05stg0l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00w190h)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 Kipling in Love (b06strdn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe (b063n58m)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:15 Irene Nemirovsky - The Misunderstanding (m000255w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Tuesday]
WED 02:30 The Secret History of Bagpipes (b007jzbj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 A Tale of Two Cities: Aleppo and London (b0b42t59)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b0b91t07)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b00v7v1j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 Ayres on the Air (b008p9vh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 05:30 The World of Simon Rich (m0015b04)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00w77k5)
Murder in the Title
2. Victim
By Jeremy Front
Based on the novel by Simon Brett
Charles has been the victim of an attempted stabbing.
Can he find the murderer before he strikes again or
will Charles be fired from the cast first?
Charles Paris ..... Bill Nighy
Frances ..... Suzanne Burden
Maurice ..... Jon Glover.
Fabio ..... Theo Cross
Tony ..... Sam Dale
Sean ..... Iain Batchelor
Ronnie ..... Sean Baker.
Phoebe ..... Claire Harry
Chris ..... Henry Devas
Landlady ..... Sally Orrock
Barmaid ..... Leah Brotherhead.
Directed by Sally Avens
As ever, Charles is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation especially in the form of women and alcohol. His intentions may be good but somehow the results always go wrong
He's been out of work so long now he feels he may never get a job and he's driving Frances his semi-ex-wife mad.
So when he's offered a small role in an awful play up in Rugland she nearly pushes him out the door.
The production is as creaky as anything Charles has ever appeared in but the next play the theatre is scheduled to do is much more controversial. Soon a protest group has formed calling for a 'Porn Free Rugland'.
And nasty accidents begin to befall members of the cast and crew.
WED 06:30 Kipling in Love (b06svtfc)
Venus Annodomini
Eight plays based on short stories by Rudyard Kipling, dramatised for radio by Ed Thomason.
3: Venus Annodomini
India, 1886. The Venus has captured many a heart of an officer in the regiment, but her attraction is only skin-deep as one unlucky captain discovers.
Tom Gayerson... Alex Jennings
Kitty.... Moir Leslie
Watson... Michael Troughton
Colonel Hunphreys... Barry J Gordon
Teddy Reynolds... Lyndam Gregory
Dorothea Mountjoy... Frances Jeater
Tuppy Mason... Graham Seed
Arnold Davidson... Richard Tate
Gayerson Senior... Timothy Carlton
Gwen... Rachel Atkins
Ben Lindsay...John Evitts
Producer Adrian Bean
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1994.
WED 07:00 Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar (m0008wm0)
Series 3
Kings of Comedy
Alexei outlines his problem with Morecambe and Wise, and discusses his issues with the Trade Unions.
Plus he offers a fable taught by the Zen Master Wudang mountains in China.
Written and performed by Alexei Sayle
Producer: Joe Nunnery
A BBC Studios Production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2019.
WED 07:30 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m0015bfj)
Series 3
Travelling Light
Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam star in Jan Etherington’s award-winning comedy, as a couple who are passionate about life and each other. This week: Joanna plans a mountain trek but doesn’t think Roger’s knee is up to it. She reveals she’s asked the advice of the adventurer Rix Roden, which infuriates Roger, who suspects an attraction between them. Joanna heads off up the mountain, leaving Roger home alone. But perhaps not lonely?
Conversations from a Long Marriage won the Voice of the Listener and Viewer Award for Best Radio Comedy in 2020.
‘Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam have had illustrious acting careers but can they ever have done anything better than Jan Etherington’s two hander? This is a work of supreme craftsmanship.’ RADIO TIMES
‘Peppered with nostalgic 60s hits and especially written for the pair, it’s an endearing portrait of exasperation, laced with hard won tolerance – and something like love.’ THE GUARDIAN
‘The delicious fruit of the writer, Jan Etherington’s experience of writing lots of TV and radio, blessed by being acted by Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam. Treasure this one, produced by Claire Jones. Unlike many a current Radio 4 ‘comedy’, this series makes people laugh’ GILLIAN REYNOLDS. SUNDAY TIMES
‘You’ve been listening at my window, Jan’. JOANNA LUMLEY
‘The writing is spot on and Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam exquisite. So real, so entertaining. Please never stop making such terrific radio’. BBC DUTY LOG
‘Absolutely brilliant!! May it never end!’ BBC DUTY LOG
Conversations from a Long Marriage is written by Jan Etherington. It is produced and directed by Claire Jones. It is a BBC Studios Production.
WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnmp)
Series 5
Hancock's School
Inspired by Bill and supplied by Sid, the Lad turns his home into a centre of learning.
Stars Tony Hancock.
With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott.
Producer: Tom Ronald
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1958.
WED 08:30 If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? (b00sg1sl)
Series 2
Les Connections Dangereuses
The graduate trio's money worries take a back seat, when they set up a romantic dinner. Both Giles and Judith think they might get lucky. Stars Douglas Hodge.
Comedy drama series about three frustrated flatmates still underachieving in their 30s.
Written by Paul Shearer and Richard Turner.
Giles ……............... Douglas Hodge
David ……............. Paul Bigley
Judith …… ............Amanda Root
Other parts played by Colleen Prendergast, Hugh Bonneville and Margaret Robertson
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1996
WED 09:00 Booked (b007549n)
Series 1
Episode 6
Dr Faustus brews up with Willy Wonka, and Ma Larkin bares all to the butler from Remains of the Day.
For the last time in this series, Miles Kington, Mark Thomas, Roger McGough and Dillie Keane deliver their wicked thoughts in the irreverent literary game.
Chaired by Ian McMillan.
Producer: Marc Jobst
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995.
WED 09:30 Spangles 'n' Tights (b04ndrcb)
Pursued By a Bear
A rundown Dublin theatrical costumier is struggling to come to terms with modern working practices.
When an order comes in from a local nun's drama group, it leads to a mix-up with the Gaiety Theatre's opera production.
The opening episode of Christopher Fitz-Simon's five-part comedy.
Dessie Doyle ...... David Kelly
Violet Doyle ...... Pauline McLynn
Antony Gogan ...... Eugene O'Brien
Mr McNamara ...... Frank Kelly
Sister Accumulata ...... Doreen Keogh
Mr Hornibrooks ...... Mark Mulholland
P.J Clohessy ...... Derry Power
Music played by John Trotter.
Directed at BBC Belfast by Roland Jaquarello.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1998.
WED 10:00 A Tale of Two Cities: Aleppo and London (b0b4zf0t)
2016
Charles Dickens's iconic story of love, revolution and redemption, updated and set in contemporary Aleppo and London.
Boldly reworked as provocative and moving drama by Ayeesha Menon - updated to modern-day London and war-torn Syria.
The driving forces are now two women - British Syrian journalist Lina Mahmoud and her nemesis, Taghreed Daffar.
Events conclude in 2016.
East Aleppo is devastated by years of siege. Lina has not returned since having her young daughter, Serena - while Shwan has disappeared in Syria, not knowing he is a father.
When a kidnap video arrives on Jarvis' desk, threatening Shwan's execution, Lina embarks on a desperate mission to save him, followed closely by Sid, determined to make good on his promise.
Meanwhile, Taghreed's obsessive need for revenge has pushed her over the edge.
Taghreed ...... Fatima Adoum
Lina ...... Lara Sawalha
Jarvis ...... Phil Davis
Shwan ...... Khalid Abdalla
Sid ...... Shaun Parkes
Dr Mahmoud ...... Nadim Sawalha
Jerry ...... Shiv Grewal
Emad ...... Raad Rawi
Yakub ...... George Georgiou
Samia ...... Nathalie Armin
Fadi ...... Ammar Haj Ahmad
Local Doctor ...... Ammar Haj Ahmad
Development concept written by Silas Parry.
Producer: Gill Parry
Director: Polly Thomas
Producer for Goldhawk Productions: Emma Hearn
Executive Producer: John Dryden
A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2018.
WED 11:00 The Changing Sound of Radio (m000g3y2)
1: Under Water and in the Garden
Since he was first given a tape recorder in 1967, musician and wildlife sound recordist, Chris Watson, has been fascinated by the possibilities of sound.
In the first of three programmes, he tells the story of the technological advances in radio from the first Outside Broadcast, through the Radiophonic Workshop and to advent of podcasting.
For starters, Chris fires up his first ever tape recorder and we hear some of Chris's radio moments.
Featuring:
* Orchestra Under The Waves - presented by Evelyn Glennie [ BBC Radio 4 1996 ]
* Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird [ BBC Radio 3 2000 ]
* Oh, Whistle and I'll Come To You [ BBC Home Service 1963 ]
Producer: Jessica Treen
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in October 2018.
WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnmp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
WED 12:30 If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? (b00sg1sl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
WED 13:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00w77k5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
WED 13:30 Kipling in Love (b06svtfc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
WED 14:00 Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe (b063n7m3)
Episode 3
The poet Hannah Lowe reads from her memoir about her Jamaican father and her relationship with him during her childhood in Essex. Using a notebook found after his death along with letters and interviews with family, she recreates his childhood and young adult years in the decades before he met her mother.
Episode 3:
Two childhoods - a mother rejects a son, then a daughter disowns her father.
Read by the author, Hannah Lowe, with recreated and imagined sections of Chick’s life read by Colin Salmon.
Abridged and produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2015.
WED 14:15 Irene Nemirovsky - The Misunderstanding (m000253q)
Episode 3
Yves's finances are in dire straits but he gets an opportunity to start afresh with a friend in Finland. Denise is distraught at the lack of contact from him.
Irene Nemirovsky's debut novel is a brilliant synthesis that illuminates the gaping fissures in the French class system wrought by the first world war and industrialisation.
Denise - Sarah Smart
Yves - Joseph Kloska
Jean Lors - Jake Ferretti
Francette - Charlotte Sienna Lee
Adel - Emma Gregory
Translated by Sandra Smith
Dramatised by Lin Coghlan
Produced and directed by Pauline Harris
WED 14:30 The Nose School (b00tr3ps)
A "Nose" is the nickname for that rare breed, the perfume-creator.
In the world of perfume "Noses" hold the same status as couturiers, painters or composers.
Rosie Goldsmith visits the world-famous Nose School in Versailles to learn the art of perfume-making. She talks to students, teachers and successful "Noses" about this ancient and secretive art which feeds a multi-million pound industry.
Rosie meets some aspiring Nose students, plus the most famous Nose in the world - Jacques Polges of Chanel.
Producer: Anna Raphael
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2005.
WED 15:00 A Tale of Two Cities: Aleppo and London (b0b4zf0t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
WED 16:00 Booked (b007549n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 16:30 Spangles 'n' Tights (b04ndrcb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
WED 17:00 Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar (m0008wm0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
WED 17:30 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m0015bfj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
WED 18:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jw18)
Episode 13
Award-winning writer/director Julian Simpson creates an HP Lovecraft-inspired universe through the prism of podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.
The story begins with a missing-person investigation; Charles Dexter Ward has vanished from a secure psychiatric hospital in Rhode Island. Two months later his psychiatrist Doctor Willett murders a woman in Highgate, London. Are the two events connected?
The drama continues with The Legend of Ipqu-Aya - Part 2.
Matthew Heawood …… Barnaby Kay
Eleanor Peck …… Nicola Walker
Producer: Karen Rose
Director/Writer: Julian Simpson
Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
Music by Tim Elsenburg
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.
WED 18:15 HG Wells (b01mlzcm)
The First Men in the Moon
Episode 3
The intrepid explorers encounter advanced, intelligent beings on the Moon - but it's a meeting of worlds that proves far from harmonious...
First published in 1901, HG Wells’ novel abridged by Neville Teller.
Read by Tim Pigott-Smith.
Producer: David Roper
Made by Heavy Entertainment for BBC Radio 4 and first broadcast in July 2007.
WED 18:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007js75)
Series 1
Frank Randle
He was 'a gargoyle, a grotesque - and the funniest man alive'.
Mark Radcliffe tells the story of 'the bad lad of showbiz'. Frank Randle - the rebel from Wigan who hiked his way to stardom.
A six-part series exploring the tradition of the northern comedian.
Producer: Bernadette McConnell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnmp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
WED 19:30 If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? (b00sg1sl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
WED 20:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00w77k5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
WED 20:30 Kipling in Love (b06svtfc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
WED 21:00 The Changing Sound of Radio (m000g3y2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
WED 22:00 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m0015bfj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
WED 22:30 Kevin Eldon Will See You Now (b08mb3wt)
Series 3
Tarquin & the Tiny Studio
More thrilling adventures of Commander Topper Hargreaves and his faithful dog Duke, a sneak preview of a new opera with extra wine gums, and of course some vitreous castanets.
Comedy's best kept secret ingredient, Kevin Eldon returns with another series of his own sketch show.
After all the waiting - Kevin Eldon Will See You Now.
Also starring:
Amelia Bullmore
Julia Davis
Paul Putner
Justin Edwards
David Reed
Rosie Cavaliero
Written by Kevin Eldon with additional material by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris (A Touch Of Cloth and, yes, those modern Ladybird books)
Original music by Martin Bird.
Produced and directed by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2017. .
WED 23:00 Radio Active (b00gsy6s)
Series 7
Mike Says - Here's a Bit of Talent
Your chance to help Radio Active spot the stars of the future - and wreck any career they might have had.
Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens.
Music by Philip Pope and Angus Deayton - with guest singer Kate Robbins.
Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. With Michael Fenton-Stevens.
Producer: David Tyler
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1987.
WED 23:30 Dave Podmore (b007qcsw)
Dave Podmore's Cricket Fix
Episode 2
Dave Podmore, the cricketer's cricketer is due to get the call any day now. But will it be from the Test selectors or VAT inspectors?
And Felicity Kendall had better watch out...
Christopher Douglas stars as Pod.
Written by Christopher Douglas, Nick Newman and Andrew Nickolds.
Dave ...... Chris Douglas
Andy ...... Andrew Nickolds
Producer: Richard Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.
THURSDAY 24 MARCH 2022
THU 00:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jw18)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:15 HG Wells (b01mlzcm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:15 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007js75)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00w77k5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Kipling in Love (b06svtfc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe (b063n7m3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 Irene Nemirovsky - The Misunderstanding (m000253q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 The Nose School (b00tr3ps)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 A Tale of Two Cities: Aleppo and London (b0b4zf0t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Booked (b007549n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 Spangles 'n' Tights (b04ndrcb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar (m0008wm0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m0015bfj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00wdf4d)
Murder in the Title
3. Killer?
By Jeremy Front
Based on the novel by Simon Brett
Charles is appearing in 'The Message is
Murder', a terrible play; so bad
that someone wants to kill off the cast.
Charles Paris ..... Bill Nighy
Frances ..... Suzanne Burden
Maurice ..... Jon Glover.
Fabio ..... Theo Cross
Tony ..... Sam Dale
Sean ..... Iain Batchelor
Ronnie ..... Sean Baker.
Elaine ..... Christine Kavanagh
Phoebe ..... Claire Harry
Chris ..... Henry Devas
Frank ..... Tony Bell
Protestor ..... Sally Orrock
Barmaid ..... Leah Brotherhead.
Directed by Sally Avens
As ever, Charles is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation especially in the form of women and alcohol. His intentions may be good but somehow the results always go wrong
He's been out of work so long now he feels he may never get a job and he's driving Frances his semi-ex-wife mad.
So when he's offered a small role in an awful play up in Rugland she nearly pushes him out the door.
The production is as creaky as anything Charles has ever appeared in but the next play the theatre is scheduled to do is much more controversial. Soon a protest group has formed calling for a 'Porn Free Rugland'.
And nasty accidents begin to befall members of the cast and crew.
THU 06:30 Kipling in Love (b06sx2f5)
The Courting of Dinah Shadd
Eight plays based on short stories by Rudyard Kipling, dramatised for radio by Ed Thomason.
4. The Courting of Dinah Shadd
India, 1880. Sergeant Terence Mulvaney is a dark horse "Good 'cause the regiment has to know me for the best soldier in it. Better 'cause I have to know myself for the worst man."
Dinah...Teresa Gallagher
Mulvaney...Jack Klaff
Learoyd... Steve Hodson
Ortheris... Terry John
Shadd... Barry J Gordon
Ma Shadd... Marcella Riordan
Judy Sheehy... Cathy Sara
Ma Sheehy.... Elaine Claxton
Gayerson.... Alex Jennings
Reporter ... John Evitts
Dempsey ... Dominic Letts
Reynolds ... Lyndham Gregory
Watson ....Michael Troughton
Lascelles....Gareth Armstrong
Other parts played by Tom Bevan, Peter Kenny and Colin Thomas
Producer Adrian Bean
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1994.
THU 07:00 It's a Fair Cop (b060bf6c)
Series 2
TWOC
Policeman turned comic Alfie Moore asks his audience whether they've ever taken something without the owner's consent (TWOC)?
Series in which the audience makes the policing decisions as Alfie takes them through a real-life crime scenario.
Written and performed by Alfie Moore.
Script Editor: Will Ing
Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2015.
THU 07:30 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b09b19y6)
Series 2
Women
This week's Big Problem with Helen Keen is; Women
You may not immediately identify women as a problem but, when 'normal' has meant 'male' for centuries how does that affect our perception of women from the past and how does it affect women in the present.
As humanity faces a very big raft of very varied problems, many of them of its own making, here is a series of optimistic, scientifically literate yet comically nimble shows that offer a sweeping overview of the biggest challenges we face and the science behind them. We look at the often surprising solutions of past generations and the likely and unlikely solutions of the future and present a scrupulously researched comedy celebrating human ingenuity.
Written by Helen Keen, Jenny Laville, Lloyd Langford and Carrie Quinlan and special thanks to Marc Abrahams and Dr Stuart Richie.
Cast: Helen Keen, Jon Culshaw and Susy Kane.
Producer was Katie Tyrrell and it was a BBC Studios Production.
THU 08:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b007jx9k)
Series 1
The Birthday Present
Busy writing his new crime novel, Gerald doesn't want to be disturbed - but Diana has other ideas...
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author written by Basil Boothroyd.
Starring Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife and more successful writer, Diana.
With Michael McClain
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter ran from 1976 to 1981
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1976.
THU 08:30 After Henry (b007k47s)
Series 3
Guilty Secrets
'She does have her sensitivities. And this.... for a woman ... any woman ... even my mother - I'd have thought it would strike at the whole image she has of her entire marriage.'
Sarah tidies up husband Henry's study four years after his death.
Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who never quite manage to see eye to eye.
Sarah ...... Prunella Scales
Eleanor ...... Joan Sanderson
Russell ...... Benjamin Whitrow
Clare ...... Gerry Cowper
Rod ...... Paul Sirr
Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV , Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV network.
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1987.
THU 09:00 The Personality Test (b00mbl3k)
Series 1
Jennie Bond
Former BBC Royal Correspondent Jennie Bond quizzes a panel about herself.
Sue Perkins, Alan Carr and Lucy Porter battle with queries based on Jenny's life, whims and interests
Series in which a fresh host every episode quizzes a comedy panel about themselves.
Script by Richard Turner
Devised & produced by Aled Evans.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2006.
THU 09:30 Tomorrow, Today! (b012n3rs)
Series 1
What Price Utopia
Comedy series by Christopher William Hill, set in 1961. A BBC producer struggles to make a radio soap set in the unimaginably futuristic world of 2006.
The government tries to use the programme for a very dark purpose.
With Peter Bowles, Cheryl Campbell, John Fortune, Gary Waldhorn.
THU 10:00 John Buchan - The 39 Steps (b00lbnys)
1. The Milkman Sets Out on His Travels
A man is murdered in Richard Hannay's London flat.
So he goes on the run pursued by the police - and a gang of German spies intent on recovering a secret notebook which could destroy the British naval fleet...
David Robb and Tom Baker star in John Buchan's ever-popular spy-thriller.
First published in 1915 and dramatised in two parts by Bert Coules.
Hannay ...... David Robb
Bullivant ...... Tom Baker
Scudder ...... William Hope
Hawk ...... Struan Rodger
Charlotte ...... Tracy Wiles
Johnners ...... Phillip Joseph
Jopley ...... Thomas Arnold
Chairman ...... Gordon Reid
Crofter ...... Kenny Blyth
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.
THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0015kw8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Sunday]
THU 11:45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (m000bxhj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 on Sunday]
THU 12:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b007jx9k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 12:30 After Henry (b007k47s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 13:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00wdf4d)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 13:30 Kipling in Love (b06sx2f5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 14:00 Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe (b0638xbg)
Episode 4
The poet Hannah Lowe reads from her memoir about her Jamaican father and her relationship with him during her childhood in Essex. Using a notebook found after his death and letters and interviews with family, she recreates his childhood and young adult years in the decades before he met her mother.
Episode 4
Hannah's Jamaican Chinese father Chick is 65 and he decides to take his Ilford family back to the place of his birth.
Read by the author, Hannah Lowe, with recreated and imagined sections of Chick’s life read by Colin Salmon.
Abridged and produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2015.
THU 14:15 Irene Nemirovsky - The Misunderstanding (m00025c2)
Episode 4
Denise invites Yves to a restaurant with friends but it only serves to remind him of his lack of wealth. They're pushed further apart, and Denise is desperate to reconcile their relationship.
Denise - Sarah Smart
Yves - Joseph Kloska
Mr. Clarke/Jessaint - Jake Ferretti
Mrs. Clarke/Mme Franchevielle - Emma Gregory
Translated by Sandra Smith
Dramatised by Lin Coghlan
Produced and directed by Pauline Harris
THU 14:30 Fiery Inspiration: Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement (b06j1kdp)
Episode 1
The novelist and poet Bernardine Evaristo explores the complex and controversial man who played a key role in the development of the Black Arts Movement in the United States, and looks back at how the energy of that cultural phenomenon in 1960s America, inspired her as an emerging Black writer in 1980s Britain.
In Part I, Bernardine Evaristo returns to Rose Bruford College where she took her first steps towards building a career in the Arts, and she travels to New York to trace the steps that Amiri Baraka took towards establishing the Black Arts Movement.
Presenter - Bernardine Evaristo
Contribtuors:
Patricia St. Hilaire
Paulette Randall
Hazel Carey
Angelina Fiordellisi
Professor Jerry Gafio Watts
Readings: Verity-May Henry, Chris Jack
Producer: Ekene Akalawu
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
THU 15:00 John Buchan - The 39 Steps (b00lbnys)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
THU 16:00 The Personality Test (b00mbl3k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 16:30 Tomorrow, Today! (b012n3rs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
THU 17:00 It's a Fair Cop (b060bf6c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
THU 17:30 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b09b19y6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 18:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jxw0)
Episode 14
Award-winning writer/director Julian Simpson creates an HP Lovecraft-inspired universe through the prism of podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.
The story begins with a missing-person investigation; Charles Dexter Ward has vanished from a secure psychiatric hospital in Rhode Island. Two months later his psychiatrist Doctor Willett murders a woman in Highgate, London. Are the two events connected?
Heawood receives the call he’s been waiting for
Kennedy Fisher …… Jana Carpenter
Matthew Heawood …… Barnaby Kay
George Shepley …… Adam Godley
Eleanor Peck …… Nicola Walker
Ezra Weedon …… Alun Armstrong
Treggore …… Nathan Osgood
Producer: Karen Rose
Director/Writer: Julian Simpson
Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
Music by Tim Elsenburg
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.
THU 18:15 HG Wells (b01mm3cf)
The First Men in the Moon
Episode 4
Intrepid explorers Bedford and Cavor must run for their lives to escape the inhabitants of the moon - the Selenites.
First published in 1901, HG Wells’ novel abridged by Neville Teller.
Read by Tim Pigott-Smith.
Producer: David Roper
Made by Heavy Entertainment for BBC Radio 4 and first broadcast in July 2007.
THU 18:30 Great Lives (b09zxl90)
Series 45
Laura Serrant on Audre Lorde
Professor of Nursing, Laura Serrant, chooses the life of the black, gay poet and activist Audre Lorde who still inspires the women's movement today.
She tells Matthew Parris why Audre has meant so much to her both personally and professionally.
Professor Akwugo Emejulu of Warwick University is the expert witness.
Presented by Matthew Parris.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2018.
THU 19:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b007jx9k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 19:30 After Henry (b007k47s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 20:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00wdf4d)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 20:30 Kipling in Love (b06sx2f5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0015kw8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Sunday]
THU 21:45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (m000bxhj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 on Sunday]
THU 22:00 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b09b19y6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 22:30 Listen Against (b00txhld)
Series 3
Episode 4
A disaster on the island from Desert Island Discs, and BBC presenters go commercial.
Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes look back at a week's worth of radio and TV that never happened.
Produced by Sam Bryant and Jon Holmes.
Made by the BBC on behalf of the BBC for the BBC and first broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on BBC Radio 4 in September 2010.
THU 23:00 The Maltby Collection (b00xn9fp)
Series 2
Episode 3
Will the museum's first ever Sunday opening run smoothly?
Starring Julian Rhind-Tutt and Geoffrey Palmer.
David Nobbs’ sitcom about a small art museum staffed by eccentrics and obsessives.
Rod Millet …. Julian Rhind-Tutt
Walter Brindle …. Geoffrey Palmer
Prunella Edgcombe …. Rachel Atkins
Julian Crumb-Loosely …. Ben Willbond
Wilf Arbuthnot …. Geoff McGivern
Eva Tittle …. Julia Deakin
Des Wainwright …. Michael Smiley
Stelios Constantinopoulis …. Chris Pavlo
Susie Maltby …. Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Marina …. Marina Koem
Andros …. Stephen Critchlow
Gloria Brindle …. Helen Atkinson-Wood
Producer: Colin Anderson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008.
THU 23:30 A Look Back at the Future (b01rqbqk)
2010
It's the Year of the Toddler Power.
Recorded in June 1994, Brian Perkins, Kate Robbins and Griff Rhys Jones recall 2010 - a year that was yet to happen.
Everything you wanted to know then, about the 21st century.
Written by Mark Burton, John O'Farrell and Pete Sinclair.
Producer: Caroline Leddy
First broadcast (with the aid of a crystal ball) on Radio 4 in July 1994.
FRIDAY 25 MARCH 2022
FRI 00:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jxw0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:15 HG Wells (b01mm3cf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:15 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b09zxl90)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00wdf4d)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Kipling in Love (b06sx2f5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe (b0638xbg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:15 Irene Nemirovsky - The Misunderstanding (m00025c2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 Fiery Inspiration: Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement (b06j1kdp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 John Buchan - The 39 Steps (b00lbnys)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 The Personality Test (b00mbl3k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 Tomorrow, Today! (b012n3rs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 It's a Fair Cop (b060bf6c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b09b19y6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00wlbvx)
Murder in the Title
4. Murderer?
By Jeremy Front
Based on the novel by Simon Brett
Someone wants to close The Regent
Theatre, and is willing to murder to do so.
Charles Paris ..... Bill Nighy
Frances ..... Suzanne Burden
Maurice ..... Jon Glover.
Tony ..... Sam Dale
Sean ..... Iain Batchelor
Elaine ..... Christine Kavanagh
Phoebe ..... Claire Harry
Chris ..... Henry Devas
Martha ..... Sally Orrock
Directed by Sally Avens
As ever, Charles is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation especially in the form of women and alcohol. His intentions may be good but somehow the results always go wrong
He's been out of work so long now he feels he may never get a job and he's driving Frances his semi-ex-wife mad.
So when he's offered a small role in an awful play up in Rugland she nearly pushes him out the door.
The production is as creaky as anything Charles has ever appeared in but the next play the theatre is scheduled to do is much more controversial. Soon a protest group has formed calling for a 'Porn Free Rugland'.
Nasty accidents begin to befall members of the cast and crew. It seems someone wants to close down the theatre and they will even murder to get their way.
FRI 06:30 Kipling in Love (b06sx9sy)
In the Pride of His Youth
Eight plays based on short stories by Rudyard Kipling, dramatised for radio by Ed Thomason.
5: In the Pride of His Youth
London, 1880. Dreams of a career in India are dashed when young Dicky Hatt marries his Bella. But when a post is offered, he can't resist pretending he is still single ...
Dicky Hatt.... Samuel West
Bella..... Louise Germaine
Guy.... Dominic Letts
Sidney.... Michael Onslow
Wali Dad.... Lyndam Gregory
Lalun... Meera Syal
Macklin... John Evitts
Sergeant-Major... Al Hunter-Ashton
Farmer... Gurdial Sira
Registrar... James Taylor
Mrs Chalmers....Elaine Claxton
Producer Adrian Bean
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1994.
FRI 07:00 All Those Women (b085z1bb)
Series 2
Episode 1
Comedy series by Katherine Jakeways about four generations of women living under one roof.
Between new schools, lunch clubs ('I might just crochet myself a death certificate') and teacher training, everyone seems to have something new on the horizon, everyone apart from Maggie that is. Even Nigel is going to the gym. But perhaps Maggie can be persuaded to take a chance on a meeting?
All Those Women explores familial relationships, ageing, marriages – it's about life and love and things not turning out quite the way that you'd expected them to. Join Hetty, Maggie, Jen and Emily as they struggle to resolve their own problems, and support one another.
Hetty ...... Marcia Warren
Maggie ...... Lesley Manville
Jen ...... Sinead Matthews
Emily ...... Lucy Hutchinson
David ...... Denis Lill
Stuart ...... Nick Underwood
Heather ...... Katherine Jakeways
Judith ...... Alison Belbin
Elderly Woman ...... Clare Perkins
Producer: Alexandra Smith
A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2016.
FRI 07:30 Stand-Up Specials (m00132k3)
George Fouracres: Black Country Gentlemon
A new Sunday night stand-up special from celebrated comedy star, George Fouracres (Daphne, Pls Like, Raised by Wolves) who tells his story of growing up living with his Grandad and brothers in Wolverhampton.
Expect tales of wearing a bowtie on childhood trips to McDonalds (always dress for dinner), being woken up at
4:30am by his Grandad’s screeching mynah bird in the kitchen and really really wanting to become a priest. This is the story of George's love for the Black Country and how his eccentric upbringing has made him a true Black Country ‘Gentlemon’.
Producer: Richard Morris
Production co-ordinator: Beverly Tagg
A BBC Studios Production
FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jqlx)
Series 3
We Know Our Onions
Jones's van is commandeered for the platoon's anti-tank gun exercise - but the trouble is it's also full of Hodges' consignment of onions.
The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon in Walmington-on-Sea.
Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Private Walker …. Larry Martyn
Captain Ramsay …. Alan Tilvern
Sergeant Baxter …. Michael Middleton
Announcer/Newsreader …. John Snagge
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1976.
FRI 08:30 Bristow (b00cbcpg)
Series 1
Fair Shares
Takeover tangles as Bristow learns that Chester Perry is making a takeover bid for the firm across the street.
He thinks that if he surreptitiously invests in rivals Miles and Rudge, he can make a mint...
Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the Chester-Perry buying clerk. He is but a small cog in a gigantic wheel... and he knows it.
Adapted from by Frank Dickens from his famous newspaper cartoon strip. Syndicated internationally, it ran for 51 years from 1961.
Bristow ...... Michael Williams
Jones ...... Rodney Bewes
Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan
Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman
Fudge ...... Jon Glover
Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey
Prunella Peach ...... Carol Starks
Fred Stokes ...... David Battley
Post Boy ...... Simon Schatzberger
Music: John Whitehall
Producer: Neil Cargill
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1999.
FRI 09:00 Guess What? (b061fth0)
Episode 2
Animal, vegetable or mineral?
Barry Took hosts a revised version of popular radio parlour game of 20 questions.
Regular Geoffrey Durham is joined by Hattie Hayridge and Dick Vosburgh.
Written by Michael Dines.
Producer: Andy Aliffe
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1998
FRI 09:30 Bookcases (m0004tvc)
Series 2
Self Help
There are some eccentric and desperate plans to save Spavin and Spavin from financial ruin involving Prince Albert and Samuel Smiles.
Second series of Martyn Wade’s comedy series set in a Victorian publishing house.
Starring Michael Cochrane as Primus, Maggie Steed as Cordelia, David Horovitch as Gerald, Elizabeth Spriggs as Edith, Joan Sims as Mrs Quirk, Charles Simpson as Simeon, Ioan Meredith as Prince Albert/Smiles, Stephen Critchlow as John, Rachel Atkins as Mrs Beeton and Becky Hindley as Lizzie Siddal.
Director: Cherry Cookson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001.
FRI 10:00 John Buchan - The 39 Steps (b00lbtl4)
2. The Coming of the Black Stone
A gang of German spies is hot in pursuit of Richard Hannay and a notebook which contains the secret of the 39 steps.
Hannay must solve the mystery of the steps if he's to save the British naval fleet from certain destruction...
David Robb and Tom Baker star in the conclusion of John Buchan's spy-thriller.
Hannay ...... David Robb
Bullivant ...... Tom Baker
Hawk ...... Struan Rodger
Charlotte ...... Tracy Wiles
Johnners ...... Phillip Joseph
Jopley ...... Thomas Arnold
Chairman ...... Gordon Reid
Sir Harry ...... Stuart McQuarrie
Dramatised by Bert Coules.
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.
FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m0015m01)
Comedy Club
Radio 4 Extra's Comedy Club presenters offer their podcast recommendations.
FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jqlx)
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FRI 12:30 Bristow (b00cbcpg)
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FRI 13:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00wlbvx)
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FRI 13:30 Kipling in Love (b06sx9sy)
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FRI 14:00 Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe (b063n285)
Episode 5
The poet Hannah Lowe reads from her memoir about her Jamaican father and her relationship with him during her childhood in Essex. Using a notebook found after his death and letters and interviews with family, she recreates his childhood and young adult years in the decades before he met her mother.
Episode 5. Hannah forges her own path as her father's life dwindles.
Read by the author, Hannah Lowe, with recreated and imagined sections of Chick’s life read by Colin Salmon.
Abridged and produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2015.
FRI 14:15 Irene Nemirovsky - The Misunderstanding (m00025f5)
Episode 5
The couple's relationship stands on precipice as a mutual misunderstanding challenges it's core.
Denise - Sarah Smart
Yves - Joseph Kloska
Ja Ja - Rupert Hill
Translated by Sandra Smith
Dramatised by Lin Coghlan
Produced and directed by Pauline Harris
FRI 14:30 Fiery Inspiration: Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement (b06kbjdw)
Episode 2
The novelist and poet Bernardine Evaristo explores the complex and controversial man who played a key role in the development of the Black Arts Movement in the United States, and looks back at how the energy of that cultural phenomenon in 1960s America, inspired her as an emerging Black writer in 1980s Britain.
In Part 2, Bernardine Evaristo travels to Newark, the city where Amiri Baraka spent much of his life, she talks to the poets Sonia Sanchez and Nikki Giovanni – two luminaries of the Black Arts Movement, and she returns to the UK to ask whether it's time for a new Black Arts Movement in this country.
Presenter - Bernardine Evaristo
Contributors
Professor Komozi Woodward
Sonia Sanchez
Nikki Giovanni
Charlie Hanson
Paulette Randall
Patricia St. Hilaire
Producer : Ekene Akalawu
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
FRI 15:00 John Buchan - The 39 Steps (b00lbtl4)
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FRI 16:00 Guess What? (b061fth0)
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FRI 16:30 Bookcases (m0004tvc)
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FRI 17:00 All Those Women (b085z1bb)
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FRI 17:30 Stand-Up Specials (m00132k3)
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FRI 18:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jx5c)
Episode 15
Award-winning writer/director Julian Simpson creates an HP Lovecraft-inspired universe through the prism of podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.
The story begins with a missing-person investigation; Charles Dexter Ward has vanished from a secure psychiatric hospital in Rhode Island. Two months later his psychiatrist Doctor Willett murders a woman in Highgate, London. Are the two events connected?
“This is how it ended.”
Kennedy Fisher …… Jana Carpenter
Doctor Lyman …… Steven Mackintosh
Matthew Heawood …… Barnaby Kay
George Shepley …… Adam Godley
Lucy Hawthorne …… Phoebe Fox
Ezra Weedon …… Alun Armstrong
Treggore …… Nathan Osgood
Producer: Karen Rose
Director/Writer: Julian Simpson
Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
Music by Tim Elsenburg
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.
FRI 18:15 HG Wells (b01mmrhb)
The First Men in the Moon
Episode 5
Intrepid explorers Bedford and Cavor’s first mission to the moon comes to a surprising and unexpected conclusion.
First published in 1901, HG Wells’ novel abridged by Neville Teller.
Concluded by Tim Pigott-Smith.
Producer: David Roper
Made by Heavy Entertainment for BBC Radio 4 and first broadcast in July 2007.
FRI 18:30 And the Academy Award Goes To... (b00hh0mr)
Series 2
Crash
And the Academy Award Goes to... Crash.
The series about Oscar-winning films and what they tell us of the time that gave rise to them.
Paul Gambaccini tackles the film that was loved and reviled in equal measure by the very same LA society whose darker side the film set out to explore.
Crash, the controversial 2006 Oscar winner, is a film that explores the tensions within the USA.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jqlx)
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FRI 19:30 Bristow (b00cbcpg)
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FRI 20:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00wlbvx)
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FRI 20:30 Kipling in Love (b06sx9sy)
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FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m0015m01)
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FRI 22:00 Stand-Up Specials (m00132k3)
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FRI 22:30 Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation (b017chqv)
Passion
Mark Watson continues his quest to improve the world, nimbly assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden.
As broadcast live in November 2011 - Mark will be asking the big questions that are crucial to our understanding of ourselves and society - in a dynamic and thought provoking new format he opens the floor to the live audience and asks them to jump into the conversation via tweets and messages to work out how we can all make the world a better place.
This time Mark looks at "Passion" - Passion encompasses some of our most human qualities: emotion, energy desire. But is it a dangerous thing? In their hit Desire, U2 sang: 'Desire!/Desire!' But that isn't hugely helpful, that's just repeating the word over and over again. So we'll go into a bit more detail.
We are all passionate about something, whether it's sex, personal satisfaction, or sexy personal satisfaction. Without passion we're inert. But with passion, we can sometimes be all too ert. Where do we draw the line between normal passions, and being one of these guys like Othello who let themselves down and kill a girl over a hanky?
Producer: Lianne Coop.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011.
FRI 23:00 State of the Nations (b085xcfk)
Wales
Elis James hosts four stand-up shows from the four nations of the United Kingdom exploring what it means to be variously Welsh, English, Scottish and Northern Irish today.
Elis kicks off at the Lyric theatre in his home town of Carmarthen to share thoughts on Wales and Welshness.
With Tudur Owen, Mike Bubbins and Kiri Pritchard-McLean.
Producer: Richard Morris
A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2016.
FRI 23:30 My Booze Hell, by Little Johnny Cartilage (b00dwnds)
Malcolm MacDonald's Sideburns
The not-terribly-true autobiography of 1970s idol Little Johnny Cartilage.
His descent into obscurity begins with the launch of Cartilage Family and includes extracts from his infamous appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs with Sue Lawley.
Written by and starring Johnny Meres.
With:
Sue Lawley
Ben Miller
Peter Serafinowicz
Geoff McGivern ,
Rosemary Martin
Deborah Berlin
Producer: Gareth Edwards
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1996.
FRI 23:45 Bird Island (b01jrknt)
Series 1
Episode 1
On the one hand, Ben is on the trip of a lifetime to Sub-Antarctica. On the other, he's trapped in an icy hell with one other person, a dodgy internet connection and a dictaphone. Loneliness is something of a problem. His fellow travelling scientist Graham should alleviate this, but the tragi-comic fact is, they are nerdy blokes, so they can only stumble through yet another awkward exchange. Ben experiences all the highs and lows that this beautiful, but lonely place has to offer but fails miserably to communicate this to Graham. So, Ben shares his thoughts with us in the form of an audio 'log'.
Bird Island is written by Katy Wix, one half of the sketch Duo 'Anna and Katy'. Katy is a writer performer who has made appearances in 'Miranda', 'Outnumbered' and stars regularly as Daisy in 'Not Going Out'.
EPISODE ONE:
Bird Island is the story of Ben, a young scientist working in Antarctica, trying to socially adapt to the loneliness by keeping a cheery audio diary on his Dictaphone. An atmospheric 15 minute non-audience comedy. In episode 1, Ben loses his watch and logs on to a dating website.
With Reece Shearsmith as Ben and Julian Rhind-Tutt as Graham
Written by ..... Katy Wix
Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2012.