SATURDAY 01 APRIL 2023

SAT 00:00 Jill Hyem - The Mind's Eye (m000205d)
Lizzie returns home from working abroad to look after her grandmother.
On the plane, she meets a very pleasant young student with whom she becomes friends when he visits her in Suffolk.
But is there any connection between his interest in her and the nightmares her grandmother has been having?
Starring Emily Bruni and Michael Higgs.
Jill Hyem’s dark drama.
Lizzie ...... Emily Bruni
Alice ...... Bridget Turner
Ned ...... Michael Higgs
Anil ...... Nitin Ganatra
Marion ...... Ann Beach
Pat ...... Sandra Clark
Man on plane ...... Peter Darney
Director: Cherry Cookson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2002.
SAT 00:45 Algernon Blackwood's Ghost Stories (m001kj39)
1. The Willows
Two travellers camped in the wilderness encounter malevolent forces beyond their understanding.
Selection of supernatural tales by English short-story writer Algernon Blackwood.
Abridged by Fiona McAlpine
Read by Hugh Ross.
Director: Clive Brill
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2006.
SAT 01:00 Design for Murder: Noel Coward (b00t2y9b)
Actor, playwright, songwriter, director and star - Noel Coward never quite added sleuth to his astonishing achievements.
But just before the war with Hitler, there's a gap in his memoirs.
Is there a murder mystery within those days...?
Starring Malcolm Sinclair and Eleanor Bron.
Marcy Kahan’s mystery about a highly improbable and flamboyant amateur detective.
Noel Coward ...... Malcolm Sinclair
Lorn Loraine ...... Eleanor Bron
Winifrid Ashton ...... Krisin Milward
Cole Lesley ...... Tam Williams
Edward Shale ...... Nicholas Boulton
Judith Christopher/Greta Cunningham ...... Gemma Saunders
Tony Morrell ...... Joe Dunlop
Hoskins ...... Don McCorkindale
Piano: Neil Brand
Director: Ned Chaillet
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2000.
SAT 02:00 The Sand Leopard (m001khgr)
3. The Hi-Jackers
Searching for sunken Second World War gold bullion, the Peregrine has been seized by two new crew members.
But why?
Berkely Mather's thriller serial.
Straker .... Neil McCallum
Casey .... Jerold Wells
Pete .... David Bauer
Abdul .... Geoffrey Matthews
Sergei .... Malcolm Hayes
Perry .... Christine Finn
Producer: Robin Midgley
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1961.
SAT 02:30 Sherlock Holmes (b04nhm9d)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 5
The Solitary Cyclist
Who is the strange man following Violet Smith as she cycles to see her mother?
Sherlock Holmes investigates...
Starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective tale first published in 1903.
Adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Sherlock Holmes ...... Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson ...... Norman Shelley
Violet Smith ...... Jane Wenham
Carruthers: ...... Norman Claridge
Mrs Smith: ...... Gladys Spencer
Woodley ...... Malcolm Hayes
Mrs Hudson ...... Janet Morrison
Landlord ...... Peter O'Shaughnessy
Williamson ...... George Merritt
Producer Graham Gauld
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1964.
SAT 03:00 Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls (m0006tz5)
10. Memories
As Charlie prepares for his imminent wedding to Niamh, memories of the break up with Fran surface, giving Charlie cause for reflection on what happened after they split up.
Concluded by James Norton.
When Charlie Lewis meets Fran Fisher in the summer of 1996, he is at something of a loose end. School is out and so is the sun, but his future is not looking bright. He has been hit hard by his parents' split and is not happy about the role assigned to him by his mother - keeping an eye on his depressed and bankrupt father.
Failure hangs in the air - not just the closure of his father's record shop but also Charlie's inability to complete most of his GCSE exams. But then Fran Fisher almost literally stumbles across him and a whole new world opens up.
Abridged by Isobel Creed and Jill Waters
Producer: Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2019.
SAT 03:15 Flying Visits (m00076nt)
5. The Buck stops here
Hayleigh has summoned up her courage to address the Council Committee.
Can she persuade them to ban 15 minute homecare visits?
Written by Charlotte Bogard Macleod.
Hayleigh ...... Claire Rushbrook
Mr. Ellison ...... Karl Johnson
Brenda ..... Elizabeth Counsell
Louisa Standling ...... Catherine Cusack
Chloe ...... Emily Meechan
George ...... Jonny Holden
Councillor ...... Paul Hickey
Directed by David Hunter.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2019.
SAT 03:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b05nvjm7)
Series 2
Episode 1
Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates an 18th century bet.
Can he walk from London's Royal Academy to the Royal Exchange building while blindfolded in under one hour?
Written by and starring Tim FitzHigham.
Additional material by Jon Hunter and Paul Byrne.
Producer: Joe Nunnery.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2015.
SAT 04:00 Steptoe and Son (b00rdsv7)
Series 1
The Bird
Harold Steptoe is furious when his date Roxanne is late for dinner.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.
Classic sitcom about the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett
Roxanne ...... Marion Stone
The 1962 BBC TV comedy pilot 'The Offer' sparked a run of 8 series.
Adapted for BBC radio from the TV script by Gale Pedrick.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1966.
SAT 04:30 Babblewick Hall (b01nchms)
Series 1
Episode 4
With a General Election on the horizon, Fenton Babblewick has the chance to represent his constituents in Parliament, as Babblewicks have been doing for centuries.
Only the rakish Thomas Berridge - confirmed gambler and general desperado - stands between Fenton and a glamorous political career...
Starring Nicholas Le Prevost and Forbes Masson.
Scott Cherry’s sitcom set in the 18th-century.
Fenton Babblewick ...... Nick Le Prevost
Augustus Snipe ...... Forbes Masson
Barney ...... David Antrobus
Jack ...... Sam Kelly
Molly ...... Gillian Bevan
Berridge ...... Jeremy Clyde
Dribb ...... John Baddeley
Music by Paul Mottram.
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1996.
SAT 05:00 Act Your Age (b00qvm9f)
Series 2
Episode 6
Comedy show pitting the comic generations against each other to find out which is the funniest.
Hosted by Simon Mayo.
With Team Captains:
Jon Richardson
Lucy Porter
Roy Walker
Guest Comics:
Hills Barker
Tommy Cannon
Bobby Ball
Producers: Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2010.
SAT 05:30 Trevor's World of Sport (b00n5vsn)
Series 3
Episode 2
Trevor is keen to sign the agency's first Muslim client. But do the others think this is a good idea?
And why has Ralph been marooned on an island?
Starring Neil Pearson.
Andy Hamilton's comedy about an honourable sports agent in a dishonourable world.
Trevor ...... Neil Pearson
Sammy ...... Paul Reynolds
Ralph ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
Theresa ...... Rosalind Ayres
Heidrun ...... Cosima Shaw
Barry ...... Abdul Salis
Meryl ...... Claire Skinner
Mohammad ...... Kayvan Novak.
Written and produced by Andy Hamilton
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007.
SAT 06:00 Drama (m0004sb9)
Live and Let Die
007’s most exotic adventure - New York, Florida, Jamaica - with a stellar international cast, recorded on location in America.
Bond tracks down monstrous Mr Big in Harlem. Big is importing priceless gold coins to finance Russian spy operations and captures Bond. Beautiful, mysterious Solitaire is also a prisoner.
Bond escapes. Solitaire follows. They pursue the source of the gold, first to Florida where Solitaire is captured by Mr Big's minions.
007 continues on to Jamaica. But can he survive the barracudas? Will he rescue Solitaire, recover the treasure and bring Mr Big to justice? Well, there’s a fair chance. He is James Bond!
Written by Ian Fleming.
Starring Toby Stephens and Kevin Daniels.
Dramatised by Archie Scottney.
James Bond …... Toby Stephens
Mr Big …... Kevin Daniels
Solitaire …... Rutina Wesley
‘M’ …... John Standing
Leiter …... Josh Stamberg
Tee-Hee …... Michael A. Shepperd
Whisperer/Blabber …... Lovensky Jean-Baptiste
Quarrel …... Ron Cephas Jones
Baldwin …... John Cothran
Strangways …... Jonathan Cake
‘The Robber’ …... James Morrison
Dexter …... JD Cullum
Halloran …... Jake Green
MC/Maitre d’ …... Gilbert Glenn Brown
Connie/Operator …... Anna Louise Plowman
G-G/Waitress …... Janine Barris
Flannel/Conductor …... Larry Powell
Mrs Stuyvesant …... Anna Mathias
Voice of Ian Fleming …... Martin Jarvis
Other parts played by:
Darren Richardson
Alan Shearman,
André Sogliuzzo
Matthew Wolf
Specially composed music by Mark Holden and Julian Nicholson.
Producer: Rosalind Ayres.
Director: Martin Jarvis

A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2019.
SAT 07:30 The Freedom Papers (Omnibus) (b0bgpfw1)
'The Freedom Papers' is a collaboration with Edinburgh International Book Festival and BBC Radio 4.
It's a pivotal point in our modern history in terms of political uncertainty and challenges to social justice.
This motivated Edinburgh's International Book Festival to commission 52 writers to explore ideas related to freedom.
In a unique take on the Book of the Week slot, we showcase very different perspectives on freedom from some of the world's most exciting literary voices, including Sandip Roy, Nicola Davies, Carmen Maria Machado, Rory Maclean and Karen Lord.
Omnibus of five parts.
Producer: Victoria McArthur
First broadcast on Radio 4 in August 2018.
SAT 08:45 Uncle Mort's North Country (b007jrb8)
Series 2
My Friend Dornford
Carter Brandon and his uncle take a day trip to see Arthur Scargill's 'twin'
Peter Tinniswood’s continuing tales of Carter Brandon and his curmudgeonly uncle.
Uncle Mort and his Yorkshire based family first appeared in Tinniswood’s novel ‘A Touch Of Daniel’.
In addition to radio adaptations, this earned them a run of four BBC TV series of ‘I Didn't Know You Cared’ from 1975 to 1979.
Uncle Mort …. Stephen Thorne
Carter Brandon …. Peter Skellern
Dornford Scargill …. Jim Broadbent
Narrator …. Christian Rodska
Producer: Pete Atkin.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1989.
SAT 09:00 We're in Business (b07md68m)
Changing Rooms
Can Dudley and Harry get along in their new noisy lodgings?
Stars Peter Jones and Harry Worth.
Peter Jones is small-time businessman, Dudley Grosvenor who's always out to make a fast buck - usually at the expense of his side-kick, Harry Worth.
Written by Marty Feldman, Barry Took and Peter Jones.
Dudley ....... Peter Jones
Harry ....... Harry Worth
Miss Boot ....... Irene Handl
With Dick Emery.
A selection of surviving episodes from two series broadcast between 1959-1960.
Producer: Charles Maxwell.
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1960.
SAT 09:30 Whack-O! (b062n97r)
The £25 Outing Money
Professor Jimmy Edwards' elevation to PhD status comes at a cost - to someone else!
Starting life on BBC TV before transferring to radio, Chiselbury School is run "for the sons of gentlefolk".
Headmaster, Professor James Edwards, MA never misses a trick when it comes to exploiting the students and their parents. Sports pitches are given over to growing vegetables, which the boys nurture for their head to sell. Classes never exceed 95 pupils - 50 if private tuition is paid for at five guineas extra.
It's only thanks to the efforts of the devoted deputy head, Mr Pettigrew, that the school exists at all.
Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
Adapted by David Climie.
June Whitfield ...... Matron
Roddy Maude-Roxby ...... Mr Potter
Laidman Browne as Mr. Fowler
Roger Shepherd ...... Lumley
David Lott ...... Taplow
With Harold Berens and Sam Kydd.
Producer: Edward Taylor
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1961.
SAT 10:00 Steve Penk's Radio Nightmares (m000hn28)
2. One More Time
Broadcaster Steve Penk digs out some of the funniest clips of live radio mistakes.
Plus, exclusive access to his own collection of audio material from around the world.
Radio bloopers have been around for as long as radio itself. They’re mainly endearing and add a humanising element to the radio and to the presenters on it.
A blooper is defined as an embarrassing public blunder, but as long as it's someone else's mistake, most of us are quite capable of getting past the embarrassment to enjoy the humour. The immediacy of live-to-air radio is part of its strength, but also very exposing. If there's a slip of the tongue, it's broadcast into the ether moments later, especially in the early days of broadcast radio when almost everything was done live on the air.
There have been some celebrated 'bloopers' over the years - from 'colourful' language, to laughing fits, technical glitches to amusing mispronunciations.
The second of a three-part compilation.
Producer: Stephen Garner
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in November 2018.
SAT 11:00 Drama (m0004sb9)
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SAT 12:30 The Freedom Papers (Omnibus) (b0bgpfw1)
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SAT 13:45 Uncle Mort's North Country (b007jrb8)
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SAT 14:00 We're in Business (b07md68m)
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SAT 14:30 Whack-O! (b062n97r)
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SAT 15:00 Steve Penk's Radio Nightmares (m000hn28)
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SAT 16:00 Jill Hyem - The Mind's Eye (m000205d)
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SAT 16:45 Algernon Blackwood's Ghost Stories (m001kj39)
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SAT 17:00 Drama (m0004sb9)
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SAT 18:30 The Freedom Papers (Omnibus) (b0bgpfw1)
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SAT 19:45 Uncle Mort's North Country (b007jrb8)
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SAT 20:00 We're in Business (b07md68m)
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SAT 20:30 Whack-O! (b062n97r)
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SAT 21:00 Steve Penk's Radio Nightmares (m000hn28)
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SAT 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (b03b0yf2)
Series 3
Episode 3
John Finnemore with another sketch-packed show.
This episode features a song about an unheralded inventor, a touching reunion and a normal man.
Written by and starring John Finnemore.
With:
Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Carrie Quinlan
Lawry Lewin
Simon Kane
Producer: Ed Morrish
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2013.
SAT 22:30 I, Regress (b01rvpw6)
Series 2
Thunder
Can Dr Berry help Heron with his fear of thunder?
A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an unsettling and surreal late night listen.
Unsuspecting clients are taken on twisted, misleading journeys through their subconscious.
Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client who has come to him for a different phobia. As the patient is put under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played out for us to hear. The result is a dream (or nightmare-like) trip through the patient's mind, as funny as it is disturbing.
Written by and starring Matt Berry.
With:
Steve Furst
Isabel Fay
Sally Okafor
Producer: Sam Bryant
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013.
SAT 22:45 Crème de la Crime (b008f8hc)
Series 3
This Carriage for Justice
Michael Feydeau and David Pershore probe a murder and false accusations.
Recalled by Michael Feydeau -TV's much-loved Inspector Niblett - and crime expert David Pershore
Using a daring mixture of reconstructions, interviews, music and specially made noises, tales from the vaults of villainy.
Written by and starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
With:
Olivia Colman
Ewan Bailey
Steve Kynman
Director: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2003.
SAT 23:00 Nick Revell: BrokenDreamCatcher (b0bkv1vr)
Series 1
Nick Revell v Lily, Evil Cat Queen of Earth Planet and the Laughing Fridge
A series of contemporary comic tales that could almost be true. Anything can happen when this master storyteller combines comedy with magical realism - and it probably will.
This week we learn that cats injected with nanobots which consequently form a neural lace, will almost certainly get up to no good.
Written and performed by Nick Revell
Producer: Steve Doherty
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 23:30 Will Smith's Midlife Crisis Management (b00grsdt)
Episode 6
Will tackles his lack of success with women with the help of Ed, an American love guru.
As ever, Will Smith seeks help and advice - primarily from his godfather Peter - on coping with the onset of middle age.
Starring Will Smith
Comedy by Will Smith and Roger Drew.
Peter ...... Roger Allam
Ed ...... Simon Greenall
Girlfriend ...... Jill Cardo
First date ...... Janice Acquah
Second date ...... Donnla Hughes
Third date ...... Dan Starkey
Waiter ...... Roger Drew
Producer: Tilusha Ghelani
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009.

SUNDAY 02 APRIL 2023

SUN 00:00 Wally K Daly (b007js6f)
625Y
1. Discovery
Research scientist Kate Brown makes a dramatic discovery in he r laboratory about human genes.
But when her news starts to spread, events rapidly spiral out of control...
Starring Amanda Root and Geoffrey Whitehead.
Wally K Daly's intriguing two-part sci-fi drama.
Kate Brown …. Amanda Root
Professor Slingsby …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Joe Barnard …. Jon Strickland
Reporter …. Elizabeth Conboy
Prime Minister …. Chris Tranchell
Minister of Defence …. Ian Masters
Major Peters …. Brett Usher
Danny Flowers …. Stuart Milligan
Lab Technician …. Harry Myers
Minister of Health …. Sandra Clark
Director: Gordon House.
First broadcast as a one hour drama on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999.
SUN 00:30 Simon Bovey - Cold Blood (b007jv38)
1. Freezerville
A group of scientists are conducting research in the Antarctic, the most pristine environment on Earth - but there are black clouds on the horizon.
Welcome to the dark, dark world of Cold Blood...
Simon Bovey's five-part sci-fi thriller made in 2005 but set in 2015.
Anaya …. Ndidi Del Fatti
Deborah Marks …. Helen Longworth
Max Bellingfield …. Stuart McLoughlin
Commander Taft …. Tom Mannion
Bowers …. Tim McMullan
Director: Marc Beeby
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in January 2005.
SUN 01:00 Drama (m0004sb9)
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SUN 02:30 The Freedom Papers (Omnibus) (b0bgpfw1)
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SUN 03:45 Uncle Mort's North Country (b007jrb8)
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SUN 04:00 We're in Business (b07md68m)
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SUN 04:30 Whack-O! (b062n97r)
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SUN 05:00 Steve Penk's Radio Nightmares (m000hn28)
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SUN 06:00 Poetry Extra (m001knqg)
The Poetry of Instagram
Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects The Poetry of Instagram featuring the work of Rupi Kaur.
Poets writing on the social media platform 'Instagram' have amassed millions of followers, and have a global audience that responds to their work instantaneously.
In this programme we explore the way readers all over the world react to the work of Rupi Kaur, one of the best known of these poets, and ask how 'Instagram' itself is influencing the form and style of poems (including the haiku of Johnathan Rice, who satirises the way we increasingly live through social media).
Rupi Kaur and Johnathan Rice are amongst the 'Instagram Poets' who are now so popular they have published books. Kaur's latest is 'the sun and her flowers' (Simon and Schuster), whilst Rice's is 'Farewell my Dudes: 69 Dystopian Haikus' (Hat and Beard Press).
Music was specially composed for this documentary by Scanner, a musician who is interested in the relationship between technology and speech. He has previously worked on projects with artists including Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, and Laurie Anderson.
Presented and produced by Faith Lawrence.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018.
SUN 06:30 Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls (Omnibus) (m000708f)
Episode 2
While Charlie works a shift at the petrol station, his accomplice Harper arrives to do some business.
Concluded by James Norton.
When Charlie Lewis meets Fran Fisher in the summer of 1996, he is at something of a loose end. School is out and so is the sun, but his future is not looking bright. He has been hit hard by his parents' split and is not happy about the role assigned to him by his mother - keeping an eye on his depressed and bankrupt father.
Failure hangs in the air - not just the closure of his father's record shop but also Charlie's inability to complete most of his GCSE exams. But then Fran Fisher almost literally stumbles across him and a whole new world opens up.
Omnibus of the last five of ten parts abridged by Isobel Creed and Jill Waters.
Produced by Jill Waters.
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2019.
SUN 07:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001knql)
Blake Harrison
Inbetweener Blake Harrison chooses ‘Sweet Child o' Mine’ by Guns N' Roses and ‘Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen’ by Baz Luhrman.
SUN 07:50 Flying Visits (Omnibus) (m0007cn5)
Leonardo is not on the horizon.
Claire Rushbrook stars as Hayleigh, a resourceful and conscientious care-worker pushed to the limits by a system that still relies on 15 minute homecare visits.
It's not just Mr Ellison's ceiling that is in danger of collapsing.
Omnibus of five parts written by Charlotte Bogard Macleod.
Hayleigh ...... Claire Rushbrook
Mr. Ellison ..... Karl Johnson
Mel ...... Debbie Korley
Chloe ...... Emily Meechan
Councillor ...... Paul Hickey
Director: David Hunter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2019.
SUN 09:00 Harry Worth (b09pv7kd)
Things Could Be Worse
The Best Policy
Harry finds a wallet and, being an honest chap, hands it in.
What could possibly go wrong?
Harry blunders his way through another catalogue of mishaps.
Starring Harry Worth.
With:
John Baddeley
John Graham
Miriam Margolyes
Written by David McKellar and David Renwick.
Producer: Simon Brett.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1976.
SUN 09:30 Something to Shout About (m00054xk)
Series 2
Episode 20
A dog owned by Janet’s beatnik friend lands a role in an ad campaign for new savoury snacks.
'A light-hearted exposé of the advertising world!'
Set in a London ad agency called 'Apsley, Addis, Cohen, Barbican, Blythe, Giddy & Partners'.
Written by Myles Rudge with Ronnie Wolfe.
Michael …. Michael Medwin
Janet …. Fenella Fielding
Mavis …. Joan Sims
Maggie …. Eleanor Summerfield
Adrian …. Nicholas Phipps
Other parts by Warren Mitchell
Producer: Eric Miller
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1961.
SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01m273d)
Longplay
Jamie Cullum
Jazz pianist and singer, Jamie Cullum reveals his castaway choices.
In a specially extended edition for BBC Radio 4 Extra, Jamie shares his life story with Kirsty Young and explains his musical, book and luxury choices.
Despite failing his grade four piano exam and, by his own admission, barely being able to read music, Jamie Cullum has become hugely popular. He is particularly celebrated for his live shows and in this very special recording, he performed three of his musical choices.
The interview was recorded in front of an audience at St George's in Bristol.
DISC ONE: Do You Know what it Means to Miss New Orleans? – Eddie DeLange and Louis Alter [peformed live by Jamie Cullum]
DISC TWO: The Lamb – John Tavener
DISC THREE: Brown Paper Bag - Roni Size / Reprazent
DISC FOUR: Tiny Dancer - Elton John and Bernie Taupin [peformed live by Jamie Cullum]
DISC FIVE: All Things To All Men (feat. Roots Manuva) (feat. Roots Manuva) - The Cinematic Orchestra
DISC SIX: My Girls – Animal Collective
DISC SEVEN: Concerning the UFO Sighting near Highland Illinos - Sufjan Stevens
DISC EIGHT: I Think it’s Going to Rain Today – Randy Newman [peformed live by Jamie Cullum]
BOOK CHOICE - On the Road - Jack Kerouac
LUXURY CHOICE - A huge stack of white paper and pencils
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE - I Think it’s Going to Rain Today – Randy Newman
Desert Island Discs was created by Roy Plomley
Producer: Leanne Buckle
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in August 2012.
SUN 11:00 Poetry Extra (m001knqg)
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SUN 11:30 Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls (Omnibus) (m000708f)
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SUN 12:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001knql)
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SUN 12:50 Flying Visits (Omnibus) (m0007cn5)
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SUN 14:00 Harry Worth (b09pv7kd)
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SUN 14:30 Something to Shout About (m00054xk)
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SUN 15:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01m273d)
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SUN 16:00 Wally K Daly (b007js6f)
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SUN 16:30 Simon Bovey - Cold Blood (b007jv38)
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SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m001knqg)
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SUN 17:30 Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls (Omnibus) (m000708f)
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SUN 18:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001knql)
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SUN 18:50 Flying Visits (Omnibus) (m0007cn5)
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SUN 20:00 Harry Worth (b09pv7kd)
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SUN 20:30 Something to Shout About (m00054xk)
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SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01m273d)
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SUN 22:00 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show (b0076283)
Series 2
Episode 3
Second World War stand-up comedian Edie Trinder joins Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine for some Blitz humour - and another war hero literally drops in!
Plus tips on relaxation from the Dirty Sloanes and more from the Gory Nuns and the Goatee Beard Men's Group.
Variety meets sitcom meets sketch show - written and performed by Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine.
With:
Dave Lamb
Martin Hyder
Jim North.
Additional material by Martin Hyder and Jim North.
Script editor: Graeme Garden
Music by Richard Webb.
Producers: Helen Williams and Claire Jones.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.
SUN 22:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters (b01s259m)
Series 1
Bob and Marie
Isy Suttie presents some unique tales, recounting a series of love stories affecting people she's known throughout her life, told partly through song.
Sometimes Isy has merely observed other people's love lives; quite often she's intervened, changing the action dramatically - for better or worse. Intertwined within these stories are related real life anecdotes from Isy's own, often disastrous, love life.
In this final episode, Isy returns to Matlock to take driving lessons from instructor Bob, who she learns has a crush on another pupil, the mysterious Marie. While Isy tries to master an impeccable 3 point turn, she attempts to unite Bob with the girl of his dreams and discovers some important lessons in love of her own.
With her multi-character and vocal skills, plus her guitar, Isy creates a hilarious and deeply moving world, sharing with us her lessons in life and love.
Produced by Lianne Coop.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013.
SUN 23:00 Life With Lederer (m001knqs)
Series 2
The Interview
Helen reveals her methods for coping with life, by brushing up her interview technique and landing a job.
Written by and starring Helen Lederer.
With:
Malcolm Raeburn
Christopher Campbell
Victoria Finney
Sandra Maitland
Produced at BBC Manchester by Paul Z Jackson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991.
SUN 23:15 The Kneebone Bonanza (b01rgjq4)
Episode 5
The Kneebone's house has collapsed into a mine shaft.
Will they get out before the bulldozers flatten the site?
Carl Grose's wildly inventive Cornish comedy about family, death, love and hope.
Maddy ..... Alex Tregear
Dwight/Duke ..... Ed Gaughan
Slick ..... Michael Shelford
Director: Claire Grove.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013.
SUN 23:30 Lemn Sissay's Origin Stories (b07wpf5q)
1. The Bed under the Stairs
Batman was an orphan; Lisbeth Salander, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was an orphan; Superman was an orphan and a foundling. Cinderella was a foster child. Darth Vader - well, they can't all be winners.
Taking a comic and poetic angle, Lemn Sissay compares reality against the treatment of children raised in care, orphans and foster children in popular culture. Because it surely says something about how we view them that we create so many for fiction?
In this opening episode, Lemn compares his experiences as a foster child to the life of Harry Potter.
Like Harry, Lemn was never told the truth about what happened to his parents. Like Harry, he found his foster parents harsh and unforgiving. But, like Harry, he came through those problems, avoided the dementors, and grew up.
As well as storytelling, comedy and poetry, Lemn imagines an interview with Vernon and Petunia Dursley - Harry's foster parents. Finally, they get to tell their side of the story.
Written and performed by Lemn Sissay.
Producer: Ed Morrish
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2016.

MONDAY 03 APRIL 2023

MON 00:00 Poetry Extra (m001knqg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday]
MON 00:30 Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls (Omnibus) (m000708f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Sunday]
MON 01:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001knql)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:40 on Sunday]
MON 01:50 Flying Visits (Omnibus) (m0007cn5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:50 on Sunday]
MON 03:00 Harry Worth (b09pv7kd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 Something to Shout About (m00054xk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday]
MON 04:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01m273d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 La Vie de Boheme (m001knm9)
1. Money
Tales of Bohemian life in Paris in the 1840s written by Henry Murger.
The inspiration for Puccini's famous opera 'La Boheme' and some not so famous ones, Murger's tales are largely autobiographical about his artistic friends and their girls in their Parisian garrets.
Translated and dramatised in two parts by John Clifford.
Rodolphe .... Samuel West
Mimi .... Trevyn McDowell
Colline .... Clive Merrison
Musette .... Louise Lombard
Marcel .... Jamie Glover
Uncle .... Edward de Souza
Nephew .... Ian Masters
Concierge .... Margaret John
Landlord .... David March
Cafe Proprietress .... Kristin Milward
Waiter .... Peter Whitman
Musical Arranger: Gordon Langford
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1994
MON 06:00 The Sand Leopard (m001knm7)
4. The Rendezvous
The Peregrine has been seized from the control of Captain Geth Straker.
Will Sergei and Perry reveal their plans for the search for gold sunk during the Second World War?
Berkely Mather's thriller serial.
Straker .... Neil McCallum
Casey .... Jerold Wells
Karianides .... Andreas Malandrinos
Sergei .... Malcolm Hayes
Perry .... Christine Finn
Pete .... David Bauer
Abdul Shakoor .... Geoffrey Matthews
Producer: Robin Midgley
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1961.
MON 06:30 Sherlock Holmes (m00094nh)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 5
The Bruce-Partington Plans
Secret documents are found on the body of a Woolwich Arsenal clerk.
Sherlock Holmes investigates...
Starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective tale first published in 1908.
Adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Sherlock Holmes ...... Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson ...... Norman Shelley
Mrs Hudson ...... Janet Morrison
Mycroft Holmes ...... Felix Felton
Inspector Lestrade ...... Humphrey Morton
Colonel Walter ...... Philip Cunningham
Violet Westbury ...... Mary Chester
Sidney Johnson ...... John Boxer
Producer Graham Gauld
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1964.
MON 07:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0076kxr)
1. Escape?
Lonely, ignored and ill-treated, the orphaned Jane Eyre is growing up at Gateshead.
When she arrives at Thornfield Hall, it's not only the presence of Mr Rochester that she finds unsettling...
Charlotte Bronte's bold and passionate story of a woman's search for independence and love on her own terms.
First published in 1847 - and abridged in fifteen parts by Sally Marmion.
Read by Anne-Marie Duff.
Producer: Di Speirs
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2004.
MON 07:15 Ship of Lies (m00040lh)
1. New York
Weeks after her fiancé, a musician who drowned on the Titanic dies, Emma Heyer is still inconsolable.
She reads the reports from the survivors endlessly. Each night she goes into fitful sleep, imagining the dead man’s final moments.
It’s a doubly tragic death because he only joined the ship at the last moment, substituting for another band member who fell ill.
It seems that he died heroically still playing with the other members of the ship’s band. But a disparity - which at first seems minor - is emerging about what they were playing as the ship sank.
Some who were on board are adamant it was the hymn Nearer My God To Thee. Others are equally insistent that it was a waltz tune, Song of Autumn.
It seems a simple matter to resolve. She takes the money she’s been saving for the wedding and travels to New York and the headquarters of the White Star line.
The officials have nothing to tell her and, although sympathetic to her loss, seem somewhat over anxious to get rid of her. Just what exactly are they hiding? It’s then that she meets Danny Gunther, a newspaper man hungry for a story.
Written in five parts by Ron Hutchinson.
Emma …… Jasmine Hyde
Danny …… Colin Stinton
Havermayer …… Matt Rippy
Doctor ....… Patrick Bailey
Nurse …… Laurel Lefkow
Director: Eoin O'Callaghan
A Big Fish Radio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2019.
MON 07:30 Lobby Land (m0007dkc)
Series 2
Sideways Moves
Tom Shriver MP decides the time is right to reap the benefits of a cash-in memoir, and Sam wants a piece of the action.
But is there more to their relationship than meets the eye?
Sam Peakes ...... Yasmine Akram
Tom Shriver MP ...... Charlie Higson
Mia Phillips ...... Cariad Lloyd
Gideon Burnside ...... Dan Tetsell
Nathan Edmonds ...... Daniel Lawrence Taylor
Written by Jon Harvey, Christopher Davies and Sarah Dempster
Producer: Jon Harvey
A Naked production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2019.
MON 08:00 Round the Horne (b00srqjv)
Series 4
Episode 5
Announcer Douglas Smith is taken for a spin in 'Relatively Grand Prix' - while at the Bona Male Model Agency, Julian and Sandy sign up some brand new talent.
One of BBC Radio’s most influential and groundbreaking series packed full of colourful characters, parodies, memorable catchphrases, and double-entendres.
Starring:
Kenneth Horne
Kenneth Williams
Hugh Paddick
Betty Marsden
Announcer: Douglas Smith
Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, London.
Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four.
Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio comedy Beyond Our Ken. Using the same cast and producer, Barry Took and Marty Feldman wrote the brilliantly inventive - and sometimes outrageous - scripts for the first three series.
Series 4 is written by Barry Took with Brian Cooke & Johnnie Mortimer and Donald Webster.
Music by the Max Harris Group.
Producer: John Simmonds
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1968.
MON 08:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jv2q)
Series 2
Episode 3
A seven foot squirrel drives ad man Ken Handley nuts, but can some face cream help?
Starring Martin Jarvis.
Guy Jenkin and Jon Canter’s satire set in the competitive world of advertising
Ken Handley ...... Martin Jarvis
Sandy ...... Christopher Godwin
Freddie ...... Lockwood West
Deborah ...... Rosalind Ayres
Ambrose ...... Paul Jesson
Leo Gale ...... Glyn Owen
Christina ...... Jo Manning Wilson
Receptionist ...... Maggie McCarthy
George ...... Peter Tuddenham
With:
Joss Ackland
Imelda Staunton
James Griffiths
John Shrapnel
David Tate
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1984.
MON 09:00 All the Way from Memphis (b00mpqkn)
Series 2
Episode 6
James Walton tests and tickles the knowledge of industry pundits and people passionate about pop music.
Regulars Tracey MacLeod and Andrew Collins are joined by:
Singer, Clare Grogan
Journalist, Danny Kelly
Reader: Beth Chalmers
Written and researched by James Walton
Producer: Dawn Ellis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2006.
MON 09:30 Ring Around the Bath (b00p2hb4)
Series 1
Car Boot
Stella is a middle aged woman having a crisis - her grown up children refuse to leave home.
And worse, her husband doesn't mind!
Lucy Clare and Ian Davidson's sitcom about a rather topsy turvy household.
Starring Duncan Preston and Penny Downie.
Stella tries to dejunk the house. Everything useless must go, including her grown-up kids.
Patrick ...... Duncan Preston
Stella ...... Penny Downie
Alison ...... Claudie Blakely
Rick ...... Bruce McKinnon
Egg ...... Daniela Denby-Ashe
Xanthe ...... Catherine Shepherd
Driving instructor.........Andrew Westfield
Producer: Elizabeth Freestone
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2003.
MON 10:00 La Vie de Boheme (m001knm9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today]
MON 11:00 The Sand Leopard (m001knm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 11:30 Sherlock Holmes (m00094nh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 12:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0076kxr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
MON 12:15 Ship of Lies (m00040lh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
MON 12:30 Lobby Land (m0007dkc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 13:00 Round the Horne (b00srqjv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 13:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jv2q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 14:00 All the Way from Memphis (b00mpqkn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 14:30 Ring Around the Bath (b00p2hb4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
MON 15:00 La Vie de Boheme (m001knm9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today]
MON 16:00 The Sand Leopard (m001knm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 16:30 Sherlock Holmes (m00094nh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 17:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0076kxr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
MON 17:15 Ship of Lies (m00040lh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
MON 17:30 Lobby Land (m0007dkc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 18:00 Round the Horne (b00srqjv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 18:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jv2q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 19:00 All the Way from Memphis (b00mpqkn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 19:30 Ring Around the Bath (b00p2hb4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
MON 20:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m00161ks)
Series 12
Heroes, Icons & Superstars
True stories told live in the USA: Jay Allison introduces storytellers encountering the people they’ve always wanted to meet.
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 the USA in March 2020.
MON 20:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000snr3)
Skin
Singer Skin chooses to inherit ‘Pastime Paradise' by Stevie Wonder and passes on ‘Strange Fruit’ by Nina Simone.
MON 21:00 Mastertapes (b01ntfw1)
Series 1
Paul Weller (the A-Side)
Paul Weller talks about 'The Gift', the Jam's final album.
Series in which leading performers and songwriters talk about the album that made them or changed them.
Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios, each edition includes two episodes - the A-side and B-side.
In this one (The A side), John Wilson asks Paul about the album in question, and then, in the accompanying B-side, the audience puts the questions.
Both editions feature exclusive live performances.
30 years after the band's split, Paul discusses 'The Gift' - the last album for The Jam.
The band's only No 1 album, it marked a musical departure from the classic Jam sound to a more soul-influenced style, and it ushered in Weller's ideas for the Style Council. It was an album that didn't just focus on the state of society, it also had a lot to say about where music was going in the 1980s - and it included the classic No 1 'Town Called Malice' as well as 'Running On The Spot' and 'Carnation'.
Paul also plays exclusive live versions of some of the tracks on the album.
Complete versions of the songs performed in the programme (and others) can be heard on the 'Mastertapes' pages on the Radio 4 website, where all the programmes of the series can also be downloaded and other musical goodies accessed.
Producers: Paul Kobrak & India Rakusen
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012.
MON 21:30 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (b007jl96)
1. The Posting
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed.
If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness.
But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
Margaret Attwood’s multi award-winning futuristic dystopian novel first published in 1985.
Abridged in ten parts by Katie Campbell.
Read by Buffy Davis.
Producer: Sally Avens.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1995.
MON 21:45 The Whisperer In Darkness (m000lhkt)
Episode 1
An unexpected phone call turns Matthew Heawood’s attention to a mystery in the gloom of Rendlesham Forest.
Folklore, paranormal, otherworldly? Up for debate, but fertile ground for a new investigative podcast, that’s for sure.
One question still lingers, will our host be re-joined by his roaming researcher, Kennedy Fisher?
The duo’s last venture patched together frantic updates from Baghdad, as they pursued suspected occultists in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Very little hope lingered of solving the mystery, and maybe even less that Kennedy would return home safe. But for now, a new investigation calls.
Following the success of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Radio 4 commissions a return to this HP Lovecraft-inspired universe.
Once again, the podcast embraces Lovecraft’s crypt of horror, braving the Sci-Fi stylings of The Whisperer in Darkness.
Henry Akeley, an old student from Dr Eleanor Peck’s folklore and witchcraft course, has gone missing.
Could this be Heawood's next story?
Kennedy Fisher ...... Jana Carpenter
Matthew Heawood ...... Barnaby Kay
Eleanor Peck ...... Nicola Walker
Henry Akeley ...... David Calder
Producer: Karen Rose

Director/Writer: Julian Simpson

Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, first broadcast in August 2020.
MON 22:00 The Museum of Curiosity (m001kgrl)
Series 17
Episode 6
In this series finale of The Museum of Curiosity, John Lloyd and Anna Ptaszynski are joined by comedian Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes, insect champion Bridget Nicholls and explorer Levison Wood who come armed with a wonder of the ancient world, a wonder of the natural world, and a wonderful artefact of 90s nostalgia.
The Museum’s exhibits were catalogued by Mike Turner, Mandy Fenton and Lydia Mizon of QI.
Producer: Sam Holmes & Leying Lee
Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Nicholls
Sound: David Thomas
A BBC Studios production.
MON 22:30 iGod (b00wwc1r)
Robot
We all worry about the end of the world, as economists and environmentalists speak in apocalyptic terms everyday.
iGOD says that trying to predict the end of the world is as pointless as moisturising an elephant's elbow.
Late-night comedy starring Simon Day and David Soul.
Written Sean Gray - one of the head writers of the BAFTA award-winning The Thick Of It.
In each episode, an unnamed, all-seeing narrator (David Soul) shows us that it is stupid to be worrying, as he looks back at some of the most entertaining apocalypses on parallel Earths.
Each week our case study is a normal bloke called Ian (Simon Day) who manages to accidentally initiate the apocalypse of a different parallel world through a seemingly harmless single act (telling a lie, being lazy, cooking some lambshanks).
A succession of comic vignettes ensue that escalate to the end of a parallel world.
Producer: Simon Nicholls
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010.
MON 22:45 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea (b00jzzg3)
Series 2
The Fitness Club
The Laird challenges Dougal to swim, cycle and run in a MacAthlon.
Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden star as the two Scotsmen famed for their appearances on BBC Radio’s I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
With Alison Steadman as their cleaning-lady-cum-housekeeper, Mrs Naughtie, and Jeremy Hardy as the local Laird.
Hamish ...... Barry Cryer
Dougal ...... Graeme Garden
Mrs Naughtie ...... Alison Steadman
The Laird ...... Jeremy Hardy
With:
John Garden
Ros Stephen
Kylie Davies
Scott Hammond
Peter Rosser
Brian Berkins
Producer: Jon Naismith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2004.
MON 23:00 The Now Show (m001kh5b)
Series 62
Episode 3
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches. They're joined by Daliso Chaponda who is exploring the small boats crisis, Olga Koch is giving us “a girl’s guide to dating a tech bro in 2023” & Beardyman sings about the upcoming robot apocalypse.
The show is written by the cast with additional material from Jade Gebbie, Catherine Brinkworth, Carl Carzana & Kate Dehnert.
Voice actors: George Fouracres & Katie Norris
Sound: Marc Willcox & Gary Newman
Executive Producer: Pete Strauss
Producer: Sasha Bobak
Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls
A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4
MON 23:30 Masala FM (b007jz5q)
Episode 5
When the station's boss gets religion, the on-air result proves to be far from heavenly.
Asian radio station sitcom written by Meera Syal.
Starring:
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Nitin Sawheny
Meera Syal
Nina Wadia
Music by Nitin Sawhney.
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1996.

TUESDAY 04 APRIL 2023

TUE 00:00 La Vie de Boheme (m001knm9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 The Sand Leopard (m001knm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Sherlock Holmes (m00094nh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0076kxr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:15 Ship of Lies (m00040lh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 Lobby Land (m0007dkc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 Round the Horne (b00srqjv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Monday]
TUE 03:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jv2q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 All the Way from Memphis (b00mpqkn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:30 Ring Around the Bath (b00p2hb4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 La Vie de Boheme (m001knmf)
2. Outcasts
Things are starting to go wrong for lovers Rodolphe and Mimi and Marcel and Musette.
The harsh realities of life start intruding on their happy world in the garret.
Conclusion of of Henry Murger's tales of Bohemian life in Paris in the 1840s.
Dramatised by John Clifford.
Rodolphe .... Samuel West
Mimi .... Trevyn McDowell
Colline .... Clive Merrison
Musette .... Louise Lombard
Marcel .... Jamie Glover
Uncle .... Edward de Souza
Waiter .... Peter Whitman
Other parts played by:
Ian Masters
Kristin Milward
Malcolm Ward
Musical Arranger: Gordon Langford
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1994
TUE 06:00 The Sand Leopard (m001kntf)
5. I'll Settle For Leopards
As the search for wartime gold continues aboard the Peregrine, what will be the cost of Geth Straker’s attempt to save ship-mate, Karianides?
Berkely Mather's thriller serial.
Geth Straker .... Neil McCallum
Karianides .... Andreas Malandrinos
Landau .... George Hagan
Sergei .... Malcolm Hayes
Perry .... Christine Finn
Pete .... David Bauer
Habib .... Mohammed Talib
Arab man .... Tom Watson
Arab man .... Anthony Hall
Producer: Robin Midgley
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1961.
TUE 06:30 Sherlock Holmes (m00094ml)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 5
The Three Garridebs
To inherit a fortune, an American asks the sleuth to find two men with his surname.
Another case for Sherlock Holmes.
Starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective tale first published in 1924.
Adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Sherlock Holmes ...... Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson ...... Norman Shelley
Mrs Hudson ...... Janet Morrison
Inspector Lestrade ...... Humphrey Morton
John Garrideb ...... Eric Anderson
Nathan Garrideb ...... Charles E Stickill
Holloway ...... Harold Reese
Adapted for radio by Michael Hardwick.
Producer Graham Gauld
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September 1964.
TUE 07:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0999tp3)
2. A New Beginning
Lonely, ignored and ill-treated, the orphaned Jane Eyre is growing up at Gateshead.
Freed from the humiliations inflicted by her aunt, Jane hopes for a new beginning.
Charlotte Bronte's bold and passionate story of a woman's search for independence and love on her own terms.
Abridged by Sally Marmion.
Read by Anne-Marie Duff
Producer: Di Speirs
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2004.
TUE 07:15 Ship of Lies (m0003ztr)
2. Doubt
Gunther takes Emma to a bar in waterfront Red Hook to meet an Irishman who claims to have worked in the Belfast shipyard where the Titanic was built.
He’d been worried about the ship’s structural soundness, in particular in the keel plates that would have been exposed to unprecedented stress in this huge vessel.
He also claims that the ship was doomed even before it left port.
Emma is unsettled by a dawning fear that establishing any kind of truth about the Titanic is going to be harder than she thought.
Returning to Red Hook to follow up, they see the harbour police hauling a body out of the Hudson River. It’s the Belfast shipyard worker. It’s either an accidental drowning or somebody has made sure he’s silenced.
Written by Ron Hutchinson.
Emma …… Jasmine Hyde
Danny …… Colin Stinton
Havermayer …… Matt Rippy
Doctor ...... Patrick Bailey
Nurse …… Laurel Lefkow
Director: Eoin O'Callaghan
A Big Fish Radio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2019.
TUE 07:30 Cleaning Up (b053c3p4)
2. True Love?
They say there's someone for everyone, has Shiv found true love?
Every night, as time is called and people are spat out onto the streets and squeezed into rides home to dream -tossed beds - others are hard at work.
Teams of cleaners are in office spaces scrubbing, vacuuming and cleaning up.
And right at the bottom of the food chain we find our gang - Spit n' Polish tackling the floors of a plush tower block in Manchester city centre.
Sitcom written by Ian Kershaw.
Julie ..... Julie Hesmondhalgh
Nobby ..... Paul Barber
Dave ..... John Thompson
Shiv ..... Lauren Socha
Nita ..... Bhavna Limbachia
Our Bri ..... Jack Deam
Produced at BBC Salford by Alison Vernon-Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015.
TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jpgm)
Series 8
King Solomon's Mines
Neddie Seagoon loses at roulette, so heads off in search of legendary African riches.
Ground breaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens.
With:
Peter Sellers
Spike Milligan
Harry Secombe
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: Charles Chilton
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1957.
TUE 08:30 For Better or for Worse (b00gfsmm)
Series 1
Episode 4
Sweethearts Bernard and Iris scour the neighbourhood for his sulking dad.
Starring Gorden Kaye and Su Pollard.
Vince Powell’s sitcom about the turbulent relationship of an odd couple.
Iris ...... Su Pollard
Bernard ...... Gorden Kaye
Wilf ...... David Ross
Daisy ...... Paula Tilbrook
Police Sergeant ...... Peter Wheeler
Doreen ...... Julie Higginson
Tommy ...... Roger John-Lee
Produced in Manchester by Mike Craig.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1993.
TUE 09:00 Who Goes There? (b00fy2r0)
Series 3
Episode 6
Martin Young chairs the quiz which looks at the noteworthy and the notorious from history.
Tackling the biographical teasers are team captains Francis Wheen and Fred Housego.
With guests:
Carol Sarler
Rachel Holmes
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2000.
TUE 09:30 No Commitments (b007jp2j)
Series 8
My Turn Now
Anna's sisters Charlotte and Victoria are even more self-absorbed than usual.
Simon Brett’s sitcom about the lives and squabbles of three very different sisters.
Anna …... Rosemary Leach
Charlotte ..…. Celia Imrie
Victoria …... Angela Thorne
Eddie.........James Greene
Mr Van Den Hoop........Colin Starkey
Music by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Producer: Maria Esposito
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2002.
TUE 10:00 La Vie de Boheme (m001knmf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today]
TUE 11:00 The Sand Leopard (m001kntf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 11:30 Sherlock Holmes (m00094ml)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 12:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0999tp3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
TUE 12:15 Ship of Lies (m0003ztr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
TUE 12:30 Cleaning Up (b053c3p4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 13:00 The Goon Show (b007jpgm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 13:30 For Better or for Worse (b00gfsmm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 14:00 Who Goes There? (b00fy2r0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
TUE 14:30 No Commitments (b007jp2j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
TUE 15:00 La Vie de Boheme (m001knmf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today]
TUE 16:00 The Sand Leopard (m001kntf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 16:30 Sherlock Holmes (m00094ml)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 17:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0999tp3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
TUE 17:15 Ship of Lies (m0003ztr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
TUE 17:30 Cleaning Up (b053c3p4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 18:00 The Goon Show (b007jpgm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 18:30 For Better or for Worse (b00gfsmm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 19:00 Who Goes There? (b00fy2r0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
TUE 19:30 No Commitments (b007jp2j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
TUE 20:00 TED Radio Hour (m000z0b5)
Series 8
Making Amends
A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) stage.
Manoush Zomorodi explores what makes a true apology? How does making amends for past mistakes influence our future?
First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2020.
TUE 20:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000gt1g)
Ainsley Harriott
Chef Ainsley Harriott chooses Be My Life's Companion by the Mills Brothers and I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl by Nina Simone.
TUE 21:00 Mastertapes (b01nxh35)
Series 1
Paul Weller (the B-Side)
Following on from the A-side of this two-part programme, now the audience get to ask Paul Weller the questions about The Gift, the Jam's final album.
He also performs acoustic live versions of some of the tracks from the album which was released 30 years ago.
With John Wilson.
Complete versions of the songs performed in the programme (and others) can be heard on the 'Mastertapes' pages on BBC Radio 4's website, where all the programmes of the series can also be downloaded and other musical goodies accessed.
Producers: Paul Kobrak & India Rakusen
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012.
TUE 21:30 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (b008d0jh)
2. The Waiting Room
Offred ponders an offer made by her doctor.
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed.
If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
Margaret Attwood’s multi award-winning futuristic dystopian novel.
Abridged by Katie Campbell.
Read by Buffy Davis.
Producer: Sally Avens.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.
TUE 21:45 The Whisperer In Darkness (m000lml4)
Episode 2
Heawood and Kennedy go to Henry Akeley's house in Rendlesham Forest, to see if there's a story.
An unexpected phone call turned Matthew Heawood’s attention to a mystery in the gloom of Rendlesham Forest.
Folklore, paranormal, otherworldly? Up for debate, but fertile ground for a new investigative podcast, that’s for sure. He's re-joined by roaming researcher, Kennedy
Fisher?
The duo’s last venture patched together frantic updates from Baghdad, as they pursued suspected occultists in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Very little hope lingered of solving the mystery, and maybe even less that Kennedy would return home safe. But for now, a new investigation calls.
Kennedy Fisher ...... Jana Carpenter
Matthew Heawood ...... Barnaby Kay
Producer: Karen Rose

Director/Writer: Julian Simpson

Exec producer Caroline Raphael
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, first broadcast in August 2020.
TUE 22:00 You Heard It Here First (m001kh6w)
Series 1
Episode 1
Chris McCausland asks a panel of comedians to live in an audio-only world, deciphering brainteaser sound cues for points and pride whilst trying not to muck about too much along the way.

In this episode, contestants try to figure out what on earth is being advertised on the TV, guess what famous objects or locations children are trying to describe, and work out the age of women based solely on the sound of their voice.

The competing comedians are Rhys James and Donna Preston, taking on Alasdair Beckett-King and Ria Lina.

Producer: Sasha Bobak
Executive Producer: Pete Strauss
Production Co-ordinator: Becky Carewe-Jeffries
Sound editor: Jerry Peal

Theme music ‘Colour me Groovy’ by The Rich Morton Sound

Recorded at the Backyard Comedy Club, Bethnal Green
TUE 22:30 Innes Own World (b017gwqz)
Episode 3
Neil Innes shares some breakfast dramas and memories of touring the USA with the Bonzo Dog Band.
The radio show that spits the Gargle of Existence into the Bathroom Sink of Being and introduces the Man of Substance to the Woman of Intuition.
Written and performed by Neil Innes.
Script Editor: John Dowie
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.
TUE 23:00 The (Almost) Accidental Adventures of Bell and Todd (m00046g0)
Stowaways
Fed up narrating the lives of two men bickering on an allotment, mischievous Diana decides to shake their lives up...
June Whitfield stars as Diana in John Eggleston's six-part comedy adventure series.
With Matthew Bell as Bell and Toby Longworth as Todd
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1997.
TUE 23:15 Fabulous (b00hlxwn)
Series 1
Episode 2
Faye fancies a day under her duvet, but perhaps it would be more peaceful at the office?
Daisy Haggard stars as Faye in Lucy Clarke’s sitcom about a woman who wants to be fabulous but can't cope.
With:
Olivia Colman
Adam Buxton
Katy Brand
Matthew Holness
Laura Solon
Anne Reid
Joanna Scanlan
Eve Dallas
Joanna Neary
John Dougall
Music by Osymyso.
Producer: Simon Nicholls
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2007.
TUE 23:30 Old Harry's Game (b00cgsrw)
Series 5
Power Politics
Satan infiltrates the White House and the United Nations.
Meanwhile, a dangerous subversive infiltrates Hell.
Andy Hamilton’s devilishly funny sitcom set in Hell.
Satan …. Andy Hamilton
Thomas …. Jimmy Mulville
Scumspawn …. Robert Duncan
Other characters played by:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Hugh Dennis
Tony Maudsley
Felicity Montagu
Philip Pope
Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005.

WEDNESDAY 05 APRIL 2023

WED 00:00 La Vie de Boheme (m001knmf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 The Sand Leopard (m001kntf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 Sherlock Holmes (m00094ml)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0999tp3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:15 Ship of Lies (m0003ztr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Tuesday]
WED 02:30 Cleaning Up (b053c3p4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 The Goon Show (b007jpgm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Tuesday]
WED 03:30 For Better or for Worse (b00gfsmm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 Who Goes There? (b00fy2r0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:30 No Commitments (b007jp2j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tnrv2)
1. The Kidnapping
During May 1931, the revolutionary situation in Baskul worsened and Air Force machines arrived from Peshawar to evacuate the residents.
A few miscellaneous aircraft were also employed - among them one lent by the Maharajah of Chandapore.
Four passengers took off in this plane: Miss Roberta Brinklow, of the Eastern Mission; Henry D Barnard, a US citizen; Hugh Conway, HM Consul; and Captain Charles Mallinson, HM Vice-Consul.
Mysteriously none of them reached their destination...
Stars Derek Jacobi.
James Hilton's novel about Shangri-La, the mystical lamasery hidden in the mountains of Tibet.
Dramatisatised in three parts by Barry Campbell.
Hugh Conway ...... Derek Jacobi
Mallinson ...... Andrew Branch
Barnard ...... Alan Tilvern
Miss Brinklow ...... Carol Marsh
Rutherford ...... John Livesey
Wyland ...... Sion Probert
Hilton ...... Alaric Cotter
Sanders ...... Gary Cady
Doctor ...... John Bull
Chang ...... Garard Green
Pianist: Antony Miall
Producer: Graham Gauld
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1981.
WED 06:00 The Sand Leopard (m001knst)
6. The Leopard Crouches
The Sand Leopard
A thriller in eight parts by Berkely Mather: Geth Straker, captain of the Peregrine, gets an offer to search for sunken Italian World War Two gold bullion. Stars Neil McCallum.
6.
Searching for World War Two sunken gold, can Straker take back the Peregrine and contact the Sand Leopard?
Cast:
Geth Straker ... Neil McCallum
Casey .... Jerold Wells
Karianides ... Andreas Malandrinos
Abdul .... Geoffrey Matthews
Sand Leopard .... Marne Maitland
Habib .... Mohammed Talib
Arab .... Anthony Hall
Arab .... Tom Watson
Producer: Robin Midgley
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1961.
WED 06:30 Sherlock Holmes (m0009568)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 5
The Norwood Builder
A young solicitor is accused of murder and arson.
Another case for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective.
Starring Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Dr Watson.
Mrs Hudson ...... Janet Morrison
Inspector Lestrade ...... Humphrey Morton
McFarlane ...... Henry Stamper
Mrs Lexington ...... Eva Stuart
Jonas Oldacre ...... Hamlyn Benson
Mrs McFarlane ...... Molly Weir
Policeman 1 ...... Alaric Cotter
Policeman 2 ...... Fraser Kerr
Adapted for radio by Michael Hardwick.
Producer Graham Gauld
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September 1964.
WED 07:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0999xkr)
3. Friendship
Lonely, ignored and ill-treated, the orphaned Jane Eyre is growing up at Gateshead.
With her ambitions crushed at the Institute for Orphans, Jane’s hopes are restored by friendship.
Anne-Marie Duff reads Charlotte Bronte's bold and passionate story of a woman's search for independence and love on her own terms. First published in 1847.
Abridged in 15 parts by Sally Marmion.
Producer: Di Speirs
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.
WED 07:15 Ship of Lies (m0003z84)
3. Danger
With McBride now dead, feared murdered, it begins to dawn on Emma and Danny that their investigation in New York may be putting their own lives at grave risk.
Given the financial consequences of the Titranic’s loss – insurance claims are already running into the millions – the Marconi Company isn’t admitting any liability. Indeed, it seems to be reluctantly providing only the information it’s required to by law.
That’s still a considerable mass of material and, buried inside it, is a copy of a telegram which purported to come from the White Star line in the immediate aftermath of the first report of trouble. It countermanded the SOS, stating that the ship sustained minor damage, no one has been injured and it's steaming unhindered to New York.
"What if somebody sent that fake telegram to make money in the stock market?" Danny suggests.
Emma discovers two lists of names. One is the definitive list of the fifteen hundred or so people who died on the ship. The other is much shorter, but much more significant. It’s the names of those who were booked to travel on the Titanic but cancelled at the last moment. The names of those who stood to benefit by the sinking. And Danny claims he now knows what their motives were in wanting it go down and who were the real targets of what was, in effect, mass murder.
Emma …… Jasmine Hyde
Danny …… Colin Stinton
Havermayer …… Matt Rippy
Doctor ....… Patrick Bailey
Nurse …… Laurel Lefkow
Written by Ron Hutchinson
Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan
A Big Fish Radio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2019.
WED 07:30 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics (b06grwnt)
Series 1
Mr Gray's Decorators
In 19th-century London, a butler struggles to keep pace with the destructive lifestyle of his employer, a hauntingly good-looking and impressionable young man of means. The butler hires painter-decorators to carry out repairs but when they accidentally damage a portrait hidden in the attic, they find that it has alarming effects on the young man.
The comedy troupe Peepolykus assume the roles of minor characters in great works of fiction and derail the plot of the book through their hapless buffoonery.
Written by John Nicholson, Richard Katz and Javier Marzan
Cast:
Richard . . . . . Richard Katz
Javier . . . . . Javier Marzan
John . . . . . John Nicholson
Dorian Gray . . . . . Blake Ritson
Sybil . . . . . Rebecca Hamilton
Lord Henry . . . . . Stephen Critchlow
Basil . . . . . Sam Dale
Young Dorian . . . . . Evie Killip
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b0186wj0)
Series 3
The Blackboard Jungle
The Lad is a young master in a school full of juvenile delinquents. A parody of the controversial 1955 movie of the same name.
Starring Tony Hancock.
With Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Andree Melly and Kenneth Williams.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.
Producer: Dennis Main Wilson
Recovered episode first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1955.
WED 08:30 21st Century Blues (m001knsy)
The Golfing Chaffinch
In the year 2032, golf is made illegal. What is a golfer to do?
It’s 2099. Donald Pleasence plays ‘Chaff’ Chaffinch. He was born at 23.55 on December 31st 1999 and is now approaching his 100th birthday. Chaff is a stylite – a religious zealot who lives on top of a column overlooking the Ethiopian desert – where he reflects his family history, and on the horrors and absurdities of the new millennium.
Adapted by Steve Walker from his 1995 novel of the same name.
CAST:
Chaff Chaffinch …. Donald Pleasance
Severiano Chaffinch …. Shaun Scott
Scampi …. Rachel Atkins
Moira …. Marcella Riordan
Warder Pughs …. Tom Bevan
Police Voice …. Malcolm Ward
Mr Skipper …. Dominic Letts
Sir Claude …. James Taylor
Carstairs …. Nicholas Boulton
Birdie …. Sean Scanlon
Mrs Crowhurst …. Lala Lloyd
The Judge …. John Evitts
Nick …. Peter Kenny
Other parts played by members of the cast.
Music arranged and performed by Neil Brand.
The theme sung by Peter Kenny and Nicholas Boulton.
Director: Eoin O'Callaghan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1994.
WED 09:00 It's Not What You Know (b036v9hd)
Series 2
Episode 1
Frank Skinner, Grace Dent and Jonathan Agnew each nominate someone they know well to answer a series of questions and they than have to second guess how they answered.
Host Miles Jupp tests Frank on how well he knows his friend and radio co-host Emily Dean, Grace her best friend, the Times columnist Caitlin Moran, and Jonathan his wife's best friend Anne Davies.
What is Frank's favourite drink? Who is Grace's favourite writer? And what would Jonathan do if he wasn't a cricket commentator?
All answers and more will be revealed.
Producer: Sam Michell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013.
WED 09:30 The Small World of Dominic Holland (b007wpz1)
Growing Up
Comedian Dominic Holland points out the pitfalls of growing up, becoming an adult and having children.
Stand-up and sketches with Simon Greenall, Sally Grace and Dave Lamb.
Producer: Maria Esposito
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2000.
WED 10:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tnrv2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today]
WED 11:00 The Sand Leopard (m001knst)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 11:30 Sherlock Holmes (m0009568)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 12:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0999xkr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
WED 12:15 Ship of Lies (m0003z84)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
WED 12:30 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics (b06grwnt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 13:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b0186wj0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 13:30 21st Century Blues (m001knsy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 14:00 It's Not What You Know (b036v9hd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
WED 14:30 The Small World of Dominic Holland (b007wpz1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
WED 15:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tnrv2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today]
WED 16:00 The Sand Leopard (m001knst)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 16:30 Sherlock Holmes (m0009568)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 17:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0999xkr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
WED 17:15 Ship of Lies (m0003z84)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
WED 17:30 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics (b06grwnt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 18:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b0186wj0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 18:30 21st Century Blues (m001knsy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 19:00 It's Not What You Know (b036v9hd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
WED 19:30 The Small World of Dominic Holland (b007wpz1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
WED 20:00 Archive on 4 (m000gksj)
Lights, Camera, Inaction: An Existential Guide to the Movies
From Woody Allen to the Truman Show via Groundhog Day and Taxi Driver; Matthew Sweet examines the many and varied ways that cinema communicates existentialist ideas. Both in ways we expect and in ways that we don't (step forward Bridget Jones).
Cinema is very good at explaining Existentialism and capturing its various moods and feelings; but its deeper than that. The language of existentialism with its heroes, choices and crises sounds suspiciously like the language of screenwriting. They are, after all, both ways of trying to create meaning and narrative out of nothing. The blank page that confronts a screenwriter confronts all of us as we decide how to live. As Jean Paul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir and Albert Camus would tell us - the blank page is us; the film of our lives is waiting to be made.
Films included in the programme:
The Music Box (1932) directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach
Groundhog Day (1993) directed by Harold Ramis; produced by Harold Ramis and ‎Trevor Albert
Play it Again Sam (1972) directed by Herbert Poss; produced by Arthur P Jacobs.
Love and Death (1975) directed by Woody Allen; produced by Charles H Joffe
Bridget Jones Diary (2001) directed by Sharon Maguire; Produced by Tim Bevan, Jonathan Cavendish and Eric Fellner.
Taxi Driver (1976) directed by Martin Scorsese; produced By Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips.
Casablanca (1943) directed by Michael Curtiz; produced by Hal B. Wallis
The Rebel (1961) directed by Robert Day; produced by W.A Whittaker
The Truman Show (1998) directed by Peter Weir; produced by Scott Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Edward S. Feldman, Adam Schroeder.
Produced by James Cook and Mair Bosworth.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2020.
WED 21:00 Short Cuts (b040hx6q)
Series 5
Between
Josie Long presents a series of mini-documentaries exploring the idea of being in limbo.
From the story of a journalist impersonating a journalist in an Afghan village based in Canada to the music of answer machine messages, Josie examines what happens when we are neither here nor there.
Between
Feat. Jurate Jurkeviciene
Produced by Sara Parker
The Village
Feat. Chris Bowman
Produced by Sophie Black
The Gallery
Feat. Fernando Maquieira
Produced by Sarah Cuddon
http://www.fernandomaquieira.com/index.php?/projects/out-of-mind/
'Messages'
From 'Portraits in Absentia'
Composed and Performed by Jocelyn Pook
http://www.jocelynpook.com/
Nine Months
Feat. Jane Dolby
Produced by Hana Walker-Brown
http://singing-fishwife.blogspot.co.uk/
Produced by Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2014.
WED 21:30 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (b008f3nv)
3. The Ceremony
Offred sees how non-conformists are treated and begins her duty as surrogate child-bearer.
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
Margaret Attwood’s multi award-winning futuristic dystopian novel first published in 1985.
Abridged by Katie Campbell.
Read by Buffy Davis.
Producer: Sally Avens.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.
WED 21:45 The Whisperer In Darkness (m000lsm2)
Episode 3
An unexpected phone call turns Matthew Heawood’s attention to a mystery in the gloom of Rendlesham Forest. Folklore, paranormal, otherworldly? Up for debate, but fertile ground for a new investigative podcast, that’s for sure. One question still lingers, will our host be re-joined by his roaming researcher, Kennedy Fisher?
The duo’s last venture patched together frantic updates from Baghdad, as they pursued suspected occultists in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Very little hope lingered of solving the mystery, and maybe even less that Kennedy would return home safe. But for now, a new investigation calls.
Following the success of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, (Silver, British Podcast Awards) Radio 4 commissions a return to this HP Lovecraft-inspired universe. Once again, the podcast embraces Lovecraft’s crypt of horror, braving the Sci-Fi stylings of The Whisperer in Darkness.
Heawood and Kennedy’s investigation into the disappearance of Henry Akeley leads them to Rendlesham Forest and an event which took place in December 1980.
Kennedy Fisher ...... .Jana Carpenter
Matthew Heawood ...... Barnaby Kay
Henry Akeley ...... David Calder
Albert Wilmarth ...... Mark Bazeley
Perry ...... Robert Glenister
Peniston ...... Ben Crowe
Child's voice ...... Edie Simpson
Producer: Karen Rose

Director/Writer: Julian Simpson

Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, first broadcast in August 2020.
WED 22:00 Ellie Taylor's Safe Space (m001kh34)
Series 3
Episode 1: The Internet
Ellie Taylor welcomes you to "Safe Space", a place where anyone can offload their controversial opinions without fear of judgment.
This week she wants to abolish the Internet, arguing that the online world isn't real and as a society we're far too reliant on it. Joining Ellie to help prove her point is regular sidekick Robin Morgan.
With special guest: Author, Filmmaker and Co-Host of MTV's Catfish UK, Oobah Butler. Oobah's best known for creating The Shed at Dulwich, a fictional restaurant which in 2017 became the top-rated venue in London on TripAdvisor, despite having never served a dish. He chats to Ellie about how he used the Internet to create his fictional restaurant and why he thinks people are too ready to trust what they read online.
Written by and starring Ellie Taylor and Robin Morgan.
Producer: Georgia Keating
Executive Producer: James Robinson
Production Co-ordinator: Becky Carewe-Jeffries
Sound editor: Marc Willcox
A BBC Studios production for Radio 4
WED 22:30 Daphne Sounds Expensive (b07ks18z)
Series 1
Pirates
The gang set sail for New York but are waylaid by George's mathematical ineptitude.
Join critically-acclaimed sketch trio, Daphne, as they pull out all the stops in a dazzling array of peculiar characters, whacky scenarios, dodgy remarks, curious observations, minor altercations and major peacemaking - served on a bed of catchy little numbers with a live nine-piece band.
Written by and starring: Jason Forbes, Phil Wang & George Fouracres
Featuring Sir Willard White, Emma Sidi & David Elms
Original music composed by Jeff Carpenter
Musical Director: Freddie Tapner
Piano: Freddie Tapner
Drums: Ben Hartley
Bass: Rob Grist
Percussion: Ben Burton
Trumpet: Michael Maddocks
Tenor Sax: Greg Sterland
Trombone: Elliot Pooley
Violin: Hannah Bell
Cello: Nick Squires
Production Coordinator: Hayley Sterling
Producer: Matt Stronge
A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2016.
WED 23:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b01cj461)
Pilot
Alex Horne and his band learn to speak 'jazz' and head into space. With explorer Benedict Allen. Series warm-up from March 2011.
WED 23:30 This Is Craig Brown (b00fd63s)
Hallucinations
Mixing satire, social observation and nonsense, this week Craig Brown examines narcotics and Top of the Pops.
With Edward Fox, Rory Bremner, Harry Enfield, Melanie Hudson, Geoffrey McGivern, Felicity Montagu, Hugo Weaving, Hugh Massinberd and John Humphrys.
Written and introduced by Craig Brown
Script Editor Simon Littlefield
Producer: Simon Nicholls
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2004.
WED 23:45 Jelly Mountain (b00fd63q)
Episode 1
Ivor Cutler's unique views on language, justice - and scratching people's backs.
With Craig Murray-Orr, Dylan Edwards, Beverley Crew and Alison O'Kill.
Producer: Neil Cargill
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1996.

THURSDAY 06 APRIL 2023

THU 00:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tnrv2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 The Sand Leopard (m001knst)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Sherlock Holmes (m0009568)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0999xkr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 Ship of Lies (m0003z84)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics (b06grwnt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b0186wj0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Wednesday]
THU 03:30 21st Century Blues (m001knsy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b036v9hd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 The Small World of Dominic Holland (b007wpz1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tp809)
2. Shangri-La
The aeroplane carrying Conway, Mallinson, Barnard and Miss Brinklow crash-landed on a high pass in the Karakoram mountains.
Out of the Tibetan wilderness suddenly appeared the Chinese man Chang.
Stars Derek Jacobi.
James Hilton's novel about Shangri-La, the mystical lamasery hidden in the mountains of Tibet.
Dramatisatised by Barry Campbell.
Hugh Conway ...... Derek Jacobi
Mallinson ...... Andrew Branch
Barnard ...... Alan Tilvern
Miss Brinklow ...... Carol Marsh
Chang ...... Garard Green
Hilton ...... Alaric Cotter
High Lama ...... Alan Wheatley
Pianist: Antony Miall
Producer: Graham Gauld
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1981.
THU 06:00 The Sand Leopard (m001knvc)
7. The Long Dive
The Sand Leopard
A thriller in eight parts by Berkely Mather: Geth Straker, captain of the Peregrine, gets an offer to search for sunken Italian World War Two gold bullion. Stars Neil McCallum.
7.
With the true nature of the treasure revealed, which side with Geth Straker choose?
Cast:
Geth Straker ... Neil McCallum
Casey .... Jerold Wells
Karianides ... Andreas Malandrinos
Abdul .... Geoffrey Matthews
Sand Leopard .... Marne Maitland
Habib .... Mohammed Talib
Arab .... Anthony Hall
Arab .... Tom Watson
Producer: Robin Midgley
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1961.
THU 06:30 Sherlock Holmes (m00094zr)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 5
The Sussex Vampire
A Peruvian woman is accused of sucking her children's blood.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective investigates.
Stars Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Dr Watson.
Ferguson ...... Stephen Jack
Dolores ...... Gladys Spencer
Mrs Ferguson ...... Josefina Ray
Mrs Mason ...... Margaret Welfit
Jack ...... Peter Bartlett
Adapted for radio by Michael Hardwick.
Producer Graham Gauld
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September 1964.
THU 07:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0999yzc)
4. A New Home
Lonely, ignored and ill-treated, the orphaned Jane Eyre is growing up at Gateshead.
Jane has a new home, Thornfield Hall, and meets her new employer for the first time.
Anne-Marie Duff reads Charlotte Bronte's bold and passionate story of a woman's search for independence and love on her own terms. First published in 1847.
Abridged in 15 parts by Sally Marmion.
Producer: Di Speirs
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.
THU 07:15 Ship of Lies (m0003zbn)
4. Misinformation
The story that Danny tells seems fantastical but he backs it up with copious documentation.
The names he mentions – the Rothschilds, the Astors, JP Morgan and the Vanderbilts - are only vaguely known to Emma and he has to quickly sketch in who they are, the Robber Barons who control Wall Street and who are also are deeply involved in machinations in the City of London. They are among the the richest and most ruthless men in the world.
Some kind of high level dispute involving billions of dollars and the re-shaping of the world’s monetary order has made some of them the implacable enemies of the others. It seems to involve the creation of a central bank which will in effect be privately owned by Morgan’s allies.
Emma’s head has been spinning as she listens to this story, backed up as it is by newspaper reports and other documents. Is it true?
Danny says it’s for the reader to make up their own mind. He’s a journalist and, in the end, maybe in this modern world there can be two or three or even more alternative facts and realities.
When she asks what he means by saying that he might not publish the story, he says there might be a bigger payday in not publishing it.
Emma …… Jasmine Hyde
Danny …… Colin Stinton
Havermayer …… Matt Rippy
Doctor ...... Patrick Bailey
Nurse …… Laurel Lefkow
Written by Ron Hutchinson.
Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
A Big Fish Radio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2019.
THU 07:30 On the Rocks (b03k2gqn)
Series 1
Omens
Old Grace is convinced that strange things have started to happen since the new telegraph machine was installed.
It's 1937 on St. Martin's - a remote island of the Isles of Scilly.
Islanders are resisting the attempts of the Penzance GPO man to modernise the post office - around which their world revolves.
Written by Christopher William Hill.
Frank Gunwallow ...... Joseph Kloska
Mary ...... Bec Applebee
Grace ...... Christine Absalom
Tommy ...... Stuart Fox
Ben ...... Alex Palmer
Len ...... Ed Gaughan
Tregarthan ...... Peter Marinker
Morwenna ...... Alex Tregear
Pender ...... Christopher William Hill
Sound by Jenni Burnett, Anne Bunting and Graham Harper.
Diirector: Mary Peate
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2013.
THU 08:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jr4g)
Series 3
First Prize the Burkiss Way
Enjoy the Dinosaur Cheese Interlude - and Confessions of People Who Show Off Spherical Bits of Anatomy.
Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett .
Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to 1980.
Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick.
Producer: John Lloyd
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1977.
THU 08:30 The World As We Know It (b00fnrkf)
Around the World in 80 Hours
It's Bank Holiday weekend and Donna, Johnny, Patrick and Abigail see no reason to end their usual habits just because the world has ended.
So they do what they usually do and go away on holiday. But with the choice of anywhere in the world, where will they go?
Sitcom by Luke Sorba.
Donna ...... Meera Syal
Johnny ...... Toby Longworth
Patrick ...... Luke Sorba
Abigail ...... Carla Mendonca
The Stranger ...... Simon Greenall
Producer: Elizabeth Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1999.
THU 09:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m000dq2p)
Series 23
Episode 5
David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies.
They compete against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their opponents.
The panellists are obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as actors, rules, dogs and Finland.
Susan Calman
Graeme Garden
Sindhu Vee
Lloyd Langford
Produced by Jon Naismith.
A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2020.
THU 09:30 The Right Time (b007wp6k)
Series 1
Episode 1
A sketch show about modern life, written and performed by Baby Boomers who have lived a bit of it.
With Eleanor Bron, Clive Swift, Paula Wilcox, Roger Blake and Neil Innes.
Live music by Ronnie and The Rex.
Written by Colin Bostock-Smith, Peter Spence, Michael Fitch, Jeremy Pascall, John Pidgeon, David McGillivray and Melvyn Dover.
Producer: Helen Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001.
THU 10:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tp809)
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THU 11:00 The Sand Leopard (m001knvc)
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THU 11:30 Sherlock Holmes (m00094zr)
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THU 12:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0999yzc)
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THU 12:15 Ship of Lies (m0003zbn)
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THU 12:30 On the Rocks (b03k2gqn)
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THU 13:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jr4g)
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THU 13:30 The World As We Know It (b00fnrkf)
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THU 14:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m000dq2p)
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THU 14:30 The Right Time (b007wp6k)
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THU 15:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tp809)
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THU 16:00 The Sand Leopard (m001knvc)
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THU 16:30 Sherlock Holmes (m00094zr)
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THU 17:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0999yzc)
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THU 17:15 Ship of Lies (m0003zbn)
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THU 17:30 On the Rocks (b03k2gqn)
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THU 18:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jr4g)
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THU 18:30 The World As We Know It (b00fnrkf)
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THU 19:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m000dq2p)
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THU 19:30 The Right Time (b007wp6k)
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THU 20:00 Steve Penk's Radio Nightmares (m000hn28)
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THU 21:00 Great Lives (p00glw45)
Max Miller
In a career spanning four decades, the original Cheeky Chappie wowed music hall audiences and starred in over a dozen films but failed to make an impact on radio.
He was known for his risqué humour and run-ins with the censors, but did this great comic lead a truly great life?
Journalist Garry Bushell joins Matthew Parris to champion Max Miller's claim to greatness. With Roy Hudd, who worked with Miller and performed a tribute act to him.
Producer: Jolyon Jenkins
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2006.
THU 21:30 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (b008f3pt)
4. Birth Day
Offred sees her friend give birth, evoking memories of her feminist mother.
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
Margaret Attwood’s multi award-winning futuristic dystopian novel first published in 1985.
Abridged by Katie Campbell.
Read by Buffy Davis.
Producer: Sally Avens.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.
THU 21:45 The Whisperer In Darkness (m000lz7d)
Episode 4
An unexpected phone call turns Matthew Heawood’s attention to a mystery in the gloom of Rendlesham Forest. Folklore, paranormal, otherworldly? Up for debate, but fertile ground for a new investigative podcast, that’s for sure. One question still lingers, will our host be re-joined by his roaming researcher, Kennedy Fisher?
The duo’s last venture patched together frantic updates from Baghdad, as they pursued suspected occultists in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Very little hope lingered of solving the mystery, and maybe even less that Kennedy would return home safe. But for now, a new investigation calls.
Following the success of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, (Silver, British Podcast Awards) Radio 4 commissions a return to this HP Lovecraft-inspired universe. Once again, the podcast embraces Lovecraft’s crypt of horror, braving the Sci-Fi stylings of The Whisperer in Darkness.
Kennedy and Heawood start to doubt Henry Akeley’s sanity.
Kennedy Fisher ...... Jana Carpenter
Matthew Heawood ...... Barnaby Kay
Henry Akeley ...... David Calder
Albert Wilmarth ...... Mark Bazeley
Perry ...... Robert Glenister
Peniston ...... Ben Crowe
Child's voice ...... Edie Simpson
Producer: Karen Rose

Director/Writer: Julian Simpson

Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, first broadcast in August 2020.
THU 22:00 Meet David Sedaris (m001kh7l)
Series 9
6. Sweet Land of Liberty
“He bowed his head slightly. ‘We dress to serve you, my Prince’. And that was that. My decision made.”
Vegan tour managers, hotels, coffee shops and British children all get the Sedaris treatment in the final instalment for this series. With a big decision to be mulled over, David weighs up some of the differences he's found between the USA and the UK and works them into a new essay, "Sweet Land of Liberty". The show closes with an hilarious extract from his diaries about two teenagers and their virtue signalling mother.
Producer: Steve Doherty
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4
THU 22:30 Eric Idle - Radio 5 (b04yg6ys)
From 26/05/1973
"Radio 2 has on at the moment a rather lovely blue frock". Continuity confusion from Eric Idle.

An eclectic hour of music choices with self-penned sketches, for which Eric provides all of the voices.

Radio 5 was Eric Idle's first solo venture, post-Monty Python, for BBC Radio 1.

Ever the innovator, Idle's Radio 5 pre-dated the real BBC network of that name by some 18 years!

Producer: Clive Burrows

First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 medium wave and VHF in May 1973.
THU 23:30 A Look Back at the Nineties (b007jqk5)
1995
Sponsoring the British Army, the impact of total European integration - and the House of Commons votes for the Honesty Act...
Recorded in 1993 - 'the comedy team look back' at the rest of 1990s yet to happen - starting with 1995.
Starring:
Brian Perkins
Kate Robbins
Special guest: Chris Barrie
A satirical review set on New Year's Eve 1999 - the Sony Gold award-winning comedy recalls the events from 1995 to 1999.
Predicted by 'Spitting Image' writers Mark Burton, John O'Farrell and Pete Sinclair.
Producer: Caroline Leddy
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1993.

FRIDAY 07 APRIL 2023

FRI 00:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tp809)
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FRI 01:00 The Sand Leopard (m001knvc)
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FRI 01:30 Sherlock Holmes (m00094zr)
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FRI 02:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b0999yzc)
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FRI 02:15 Ship of Lies (m0003zbn)
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FRI 02:30 On the Rocks (b03k2gqn)
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FRI 03:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jr4g)
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FRI 03:30 The World As We Know It (b00fnrkf)
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FRI 04:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m000dq2p)
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FRI 04:30 The Right Time (b007wp6k)
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FRI 05:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tp95x)
3. The Inheritance
That four people should be kidnapped in India and flown over a thousand miles to the lamasery of Shangri-La was incredible enough.
But then Hugh Conway discovered during an audience with the High Lama that he was conversing with a man who was 250 years old.
Stars Derek Jacobi.
Conclusion of James Hilton's novel about Shangri-La, the mystical lamasery hidden in the mountains of Tibet.
Dramatisatised by Barry Campbell.
Hugh Conway ...... Derek Jacobi
Mallinson ...... Andrew Branch
Barnard ...... Alan Tilvern
Miss Brinklow ...... Carol Marsh
Chang ...... Garard Green
Hilton ...... Alaric Cotter
High Lama ...... Alan Wheatley
Lo-Tsen ...... Pik-Sen Lim
Rutherford ...... John Livesey
American ...... Crawford Logan
Doctor ...... John Bull
Pianist: Antony Miall
Producer: Graham Gauld
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1981.
FRI 06:00 The Sand Leopard (m001kp9p)
8. Surface Break
The Sand Leopard
A thriller in eight parts by Berkely Mather: Geth Straker, captain of the Peregrine, gets an offer to search for sunken Italian World War Two gold bullion. Stars Neil McCallum.
8.
Can Straker and Abdul avoid the chasing Karianides, and foil his and the Sand Leopard’s sinister plans?
Cast:
Geth Straker ... Neil McCallum
Casey .... Jerold Wells
Karianides ... Andreas Malandrinos
Sergei .... Malcolm Hayes
Perry ... Christine Finn
Abdul .... Geoffrey Matthews
Arab .... Tom Watson
Arab .... Stanley Lebor
Producer: Robin Midgley
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1961.
FRI 06:30 Sherlock Holmes (m0009bwg)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 5
The Red-Headed League
A red-haired visitor asks the detective to probe a millionaire's bizarre job offer.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective investigates.
Stars Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Dr Watson.
Jabez Wilson ...... Victor Lonad
Vincent Spaulding ...... Peter Marinker
Duncan Ross ...... Frank Dunn
Inspector Jones ...... Gabriel Woolf
Merryweather ...... Eric Andard
Adapted for radio by Michael Hardwick.
Producer Graham Gauld
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September 1964.
FRI 07:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b099b048)
5. Mr Rochester
Lonely, ignored and ill-treated, the orphaned Jane Eyre is growing up.
Jane learns a little of Mr Rochester's history - and comes to his aid for the second time.
Anne-Marie Duff reads Charlotte Bronte's bold and passionate story of a woman's search for independence and love on her own terms. First published in 1847.
Abridged in 15 parts by Sally Marmion.
Producer: Di Speirs
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.
FRI 07:15 Ship of Lies (m0003zyh)
5. Conspiracy
With Danny missing, and Pinkertons in menacing mood, Emma’s certain she is facing an organised conspiracy. Or could she just be the victim of too much information?
She came to New York to find answers but has instead ended up in a maze of questions. Is Danny right – there is no objective truth? Will the technology of this new century, which promised to reveal it, offer only more ways to avoid and obscure it?
Delirious with exhaustion, she is hit by a car. Waking, she’s in a hospital and a doctor is with her. The doctor encourages Emma to talk. It all comes out in a rush – her grief at her fiancé’s death, inability to accept it, need to get answers, then her journey to New York and the bewildering things she’s found here.
When the doctor asks her if she’s any proof the alleged fiancé even existed, she says his letters to her and photograph are in her stolen purse. She has nothing to prove that he died, or that he ever lived. She doesn’t even have evidence of who she is herself.
"How long will I be here?" she asks.
"As long as it takes to cure you. Or until you can provide the proof that this man really existed."
Produce the facts which prove her case. After all, Facts are facts, aren’t they?
Emma …… Jasmine Hyde
Danny …… Colin Stinton
Havermayer …… Matt Rippy
Doctor ....… Patrick Bailey
Nurse …… Laurel Lefkow
Written by Ron Hutchinson
Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan
A Big Fish Radio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2019.
FRI 07:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b05pnw2q)
Series 2
Episode 2
Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates a 19th century bet.
Can his pig (Gwladys) cross a bridge quicker than a waterman can row the width of the river beneath?
Producer: Joe Nunnery.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
FRI 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b00rlb08)
Series 1
65 Today
Albert Steptoe's 65th birthday outing turns into a disaster for his son Harold.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.
Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962.
The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of 8 series on TV.
Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett
With Ian Burford and David Charlesworth
Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Gale Pedrick.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1966.
FRI 08:30 Babblewick Hall (b01nh8zv)
Series 1
Episode 5
A future as a distinguished Parliamentarian beckons Fenton to London.
However, putting the finishing touches to his maiden speech, Fenton Babblewick is unaware of the tortuous journey which lies ahead - and his travelling companions who’ll be the source of much irritation.
Is this the moment Augustus has been waiting for? An escape to London, free at last from the horrors of Yorkshire.
Starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Fenton Babblewick and Forbes Masson as Augustus Snipe.
Scott Cherry’s six-part sitcom set in the 18th-century.
Fenton Babblewick ...... Nick Le Prevost
Augustus Snipe ...... Forbes Masson
Barney ...... David Antrobus
Jack ...... Sam Kelly
Mrs Maddison ...... Sara Coward
Maddison ...... John Baddeley
Highwayman ...... Stephen Critchlow
Music by Paul Mottram.
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1996.
FRI 09:00 The Museum of Curiosity (m0010ndq)
Series 16
Episode 1
Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Holly Walsh welcome:
* Comedian and writer Jamie MacDonald
* Art critic and author Jennifer Higgie
* Artist Francis Hamel
The Museum's Guest Committee donate a blue badge to talk about the ways the country is becoming more accessible, the first self portrait ever painted of an artist at work at the easel – painted by Catharina van Hemessen in 1548.
Researchers: Mike Shepherd, Mike Turner, Emily Jupitus and Jack Chambers of QI.
Produced by Anne Miller
A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2021.
FRI 09:30 Trevor's World of Sport (b00nd0th)
Series 3
Episode 3
The sports agent tries to prove that people deserve a second chance.
Andy Hamilton's comedy about an honourable sports agent in a dishonourable world.
Trevor ...... Neil Pearson
Sammy ...... Paul Reynolds
Ralph ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
Theresa ...... Rosalind Ayres
Heidrun ...... Cosima Shaw
Barry ...... Abdul Salis
Meryl ...... Claire Skinner
Dean ...... Philip Pope
Written and produced by Andy Hamilton
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2007.
FRI 10:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tp95x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today]
FRI 11:00 The Sand Leopard (m001kp9p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 11:30 Sherlock Holmes (m0009bwg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 12:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b099b048)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
FRI 12:15 Ship of Lies (m0003zyh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
FRI 12:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b05pnw2q)
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FRI 13:00 Steptoe and Son (b00rlb08)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 13:30 Babblewick Hall (b01nh8zv)
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FRI 14:00 The Museum of Curiosity (m0010ndq)
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FRI 14:30 Trevor's World of Sport (b00nd0th)
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FRI 15:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tp95x)
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FRI 16:00 The Sand Leopard (m001kp9p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 16:30 Sherlock Holmes (m0009bwg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 17:00 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (b099b048)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
FRI 17:15 Ship of Lies (m0003zyh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
FRI 17:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b05pnw2q)
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FRI 18:00 Steptoe and Son (b00rlb08)
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FRI 18:30 Babblewick Hall (b01nh8zv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 19:00 The Museum of Curiosity (m0010ndq)
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FRI 19:30 Trevor's World of Sport (b00nd0th)
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FRI 20:00 Frankly Speaking (b05t3f72)
Harold Lloyd
Silent film comedy great, Harold Lloyd, answers questions from Liam O'Leary and Peter Duval Smith.
Heralding from the same era as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd was one of the most popular film comedians of the golden age of silent film. After starting acting aged just 12, Lloyd reveals he never wanted to be a matinee idol. He also attributes his success to a good cameraman and carefully crafted stunts.
Launched in 1952, Frankly Speaking was a completely novel and ground breaking BBC series. Initially there were three interviewers and the series was both unrehearsed and unscripted.
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1962.
FRI 20:20 Inheritance Tracks (m000h0mh)
Robert Carlyle
Actor Robert Carlyle chooses ‘Watching The Wheels’ by John Lennon and ‘Waiting On A Friend’ by The Rolling Stones.
FRI 20:30 Soul Music (b00dvtpn)
Series 7
What a Wonderful World
Louis Armstrong recorded the classic 'What a Wonderful World' in 1967, amidst civil rights demonstrations and protests against the Vietnam War.
It was a song written for him. Was it naïve or a powerful anthem for peace?
Featuring:
Prof. Peter Ling
Laurence Bergreen
Simon Weston
Katie Melua
Troy Andrews
Milan Bertosa
Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional appeal.
Producer: Sara Conkey
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2008.
FRI 21:00 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (m000k9bf)
Series 16
The Sting in the Tail
"What’s the point of wasps?" asks listener Andrew, who is fed up with being pestered. For this series, with lockdown learning in mind, Drs Rutherford and Fry are investigating scientific mysteries for students of all ages. Do wasps do anything to justify their presence as a picnic menace?
Ecologist Seirian Sumner researches social wasp behaviour and champions their existence. Not only do yellow jacket wasps perform important ecological services as generalist pest controllers of aphids, caterpillars and flies in the UK, they have complex societies and may even perform pollination services, making them more like their better-loved bee cousins than many might think.
However, much remains unknown about wasps’ contribution to our ecosystem. Seirian works with entomologist Adam Hart, and together they run The Big Wasp Survey each summer, a citizen science project dedicated to find out more about UK wasp species and their populations. Prof. Hart sets up an experimental picnic with Dr Rutherford to try and attract some native wasps, and discusses why they are so maligned.
But in some parts of the world UK wasp species have become a major problem. Just after World War II, having unwittingly chosen some aircraft parts destined for New Zealand as their overwintering home, some wasp queens woke up in the city of Hamilton. With no natural predators or competitors, they quickly established a growing population. Fast forward to today, and by late summer the biomass of wasps becomes greater than all the birds, rodents and stoats in the southern island’s honeydew beech forests. Multiyear nests have been discovered that are over three metres tall and contain millions of wasps. Researcher Bob Brown is digging into wasp nests back in the UK to discover which species keep wasps in check here, and whether they might work as biological control.
This causes the doctors to ponder the problems of humans moving species around the planet. Accidental or even well-meaning introductions all too often become invasive. As climate change and urbanisation accelerate, wasps may become more helpful in some ways and more harmful in others.
Presenters: Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford
Producer: Jen Whyntie
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020.
FRI 21:30 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (b008fdxt)
5. The Commander
Offred responds to a bizarre request from her commander.
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
Margaret Attwood’s multi award-winning futuristic dystopian novel first published in 1985.
Abridged by Katie Campbell.
Read by Buffy Davis.
Producer: Sally Avens.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.
FRI 21:45 The Whisperer In Darkness (m000m4bv)
Episode 5
An unexpected phone call turns Matthew Heawood's attention to a mystery in the gloom of Rendlesham Forest. Folklore, paranormal, otherworldly? Up for debate, but fertile ground for a new investigative podcast, that's for sure. One question still lingers, will our host be re-joined by his roaming researcher, Kennedy Fisher?
The duo's last venture patched together frantic updates from Baghdad, as they pursued suspected occultists in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Very little hope lingered of solving the mystery, and maybe even less that Kennedy would return home safe. But for now, a new investigation calls.
Following the success of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, (Silver, British Podcast Awards) Radio 4 commissions a return to this HP Lovecraft-inspired universe. Once again, the podcast embraces Lovecraft's crypt of horror, braving the Sci-Fi stylings of The Whisperer in Darkness.
Heawood and Kennedy are starting to make progress with the Henry Akeley investigation. Or so they think.
Kennedy Fisher ...... Jana Carpenter
Matthew Heawood ...... Barnaby Kay
Albert Wilmarth ...... Mark Bazeley
Henry Akeley ...... David Calder
Ben ...... Ben Crowe
Tania ...... Gabrielle Glaister
Slide ...... Ferdinand Kingsley
Mystery woman ...... Nicola Stephenson
Child's voice ...... Edie Simpson
Producer: Karen Rose

Director/Writer: Julian Simpson

Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, first broadcast in August 2020.
FRI 22:00 Angela Barnes: You Can't Take It With You (m0001v7w)
Series 2
Domestic Bliss
Award winning comedian and super-sharp everywoman Angela Barnes tackles life and love and, with the help of the audience, packs herself a fantasy coffin.
In part tribute to Angela's beloved late father - a larger than life gregarious character, he was a sex shop manager, naturist, and a big fan of caravans and pranks - Angela celebrates his carpe diem approach to life, and his motto "You Can't Take It With You".
When her father died very suddenly in 2008, Angela and her family proved him wrong and stuffed his coffin with sentimental keepsakes for his final journey. Angela now does the very same thing, nominating objects that she would choose to send on with her as mementoes of her life, and asking the audience to share items they would take with them, all acting as prompts for contemplative, heart-warming and captivating comedy.
Angela Barnes is a vivacious, critically acclaimed stand-up comic from Maidstone, Kent. After a career in health and social care, at the age of 33, she decided to pursue a long-held ambition and give comedy a go. Within a couple of years, Angela and her witty worldview had won the 2011 BBC New Comedy Award by a public vote, secured a weekly star slot in Channel 4's Stand Up For The Week and appeared on numerous radio and television shows including Loose Ends, The Now Show, The News Quiz (BBC Radio 4), Russell Howard's Good News (BBC 3), and Mock The Week and Live at the Apollo (BBC 2). She has been the host of BBC Radio 4 Extra's Newsjack for the last two series.
An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4
First broadcast in 2019.
FRI 22:30 Beauty of Britain (b010t6yh)
Series 2
Mission Command
Beauty Oolonga struggles with an irascible gentleman and the Featherdown office struggle with Social Services' new pilot scheme for elder care.
This means assessment exercises are based on the battle principles of General von Moltke of the Prussian Army...'
Starring Jocelyn Jee Esien.
Beauty's adventures continue as the Featherdown Agency sends her to provide care for the elderly.
Beauty’s Zimbabwean Shona background has taught her to respect age. She sees Britain at its best and its worst
Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson
Beauty ..... Jocelyn Jee Esien
Derek ..... Oscar James
Nicole/Topaz/Tiffany ..... Morwenna Banks
Karen ..... Nicola Sanderson
Sally ..... Felicity Montagu
Olivia/PhD Student .....Vicki Pepperdine
Music by The West End Gospel Choir.
Producer : Tilusha Ghelani
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.
FRI 23:00 The East Coast Listening Post (m000611k)
Series 2
Pig
The East Coast Listening Post was created by Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated duo Lazy Susan.
American reporters and sisters, Jenna and Dana Johnson, return to the UK to investigate the people of Great Britain.
In this episode, Jenna and Danameet Ruby Thudd, a young woman who shares her apartment with an ex-micro pig called Cleopatra.
Written and performed by Celeste Dring and Freya Parker.
With performances from:
David Elms
Jessie Cave
Producer: Suzy Grant
A BBC Studios Scripted Comedy production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2019.
FRI 23:15 Lenny Henry's Rogues Gallery (b09fy6ng)
Series 2
D.A.N.T.E.
A frustrated artist is given a robot butler by her husband to cater for her every whim. But it soon turns out that might not be enough...
A darkly comic monologue written by Lenny Henry and performed by Tanya Moodie.
Producer: Sam Michell
A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2017.
FRI 23:30 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash (b0101g5j)
Series 3
Episode 1
Arthur Smith presents music and comedy from his home in Balham, South London.
There's music in the kitchen, comedy in the front room and poetry on the landing.
Finding a decent sized performance space amongst the accumulated debris that is Arthur's life are:
Katie Melua
Roisin Conaty
Alun Cochrane
Nick Helm
Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011.