SATURDAY 01 JUNE 2024

SAT 00:00 Soul Music (b00763hf)
Series 2
In the Mood
Swing number 'In The Mood' has the power to conjure up the war years like no other.
Now known throughout the world for the treatment it received in the hands of Glenn Miller and his orchestra, it started life back in 1930 when the main riff was recorded by Wingy Manone as Tar Paper Stomp.
How Glenn worked his magic is explained by trombonist Paul Tanner, the last surviving member of the original band.
With critic Alyn Shipton.
Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks.
Producer: Lucy Lunt
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001.
SAT 00:30 Great Aunt Mary's Tune (b0084ldp)
Mary Neal was a suffragette, social-worker, colleague and later adversary of Cecil Sharp during the great English Folk Dance revival at the start of the 20th century.
Lucy Neal goes in search of a home for the valuable archive of her once renowned great great-aunt.
Readers:
Geraldine James
John Rowe
Producer: Beaty Rubens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007.
SAT 01:00 RD Wingfield - Cat and Mouse Game (m001znvt)
'Now' look here, Inspector, I'm not a patient man at the best of times. You've barged your way in here and you've made some impertinent remarks. If you're here on official business. get straight to the point. If not, then I must ask you to leave - now! '
When a wealthy woman goes missing, her husband is suspected of murder.
But who, exactly, is leading the investigation?
Starring Hugh Burden and Michael Kilgarriff.
Features Nigel Havers in a very early role.
A play for radio written by RD Wingfield.
Robinson .... Hugh Burden
John Crampton .... Michael Kilgarriff
Gerry Landers .... Jill Shilling
Arnold .... Wilfrid Carter
Mr James .... Douglas Blackwell
Ada Page .... Sheila Grant
Mr Dennett .... Leslie Heritage
Jones .... Nigel Havers
Producer: David H Godfrey
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1971.
SAT 01:45 Ian Rankin - Beggars Banquet (b00mw69h)
5. The Hanged Man
A contract killer, Mort, wanders through the fairground in search of his victim, one of the minor attractions.
He arrives at the table of Gypsy Rose Lee who invites him to have a reading or some healing - she is a psychic healer after all.
He reluctantly agrees.
Read by Steven McNicoll.
From a collection of short stories by crime writer Ian Rankin.
Abridged and produced by David Jackson Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2002.
SAT 02:00 The Older Woman (b021n6sq)
Series 1
Episode 3
Journalist Roy's plan to insinuate himself further into his old teacher Jane's good books gets a boost when she needs his help to save a tree.
But a major obstacle remains in the path of fulfilment, in the macho form of Chad Mann - Media Hero and Jane's current lover.
Starring Zoe Wanamaker and Martin Clunes.
Tony Bagley's romantic comedy drama serial with a twist.
Miss Callaghan......Zoe Wanamaker
Roy Hitchcock......Martin Clunes
Elsa.......Toyah Willcox
Mr Say.....David Troughton
Chad.........Nicky Henson
Wyn.........Sue Roderick
Dick......Geoff McGivern
Mickey,.......John Baddeley
Reporter.....Keith Drinkel
Host...........David Holt
Presenter.......Melanie Hudson
Producer: Paul Schlesinger:
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1993.
SAT 02:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jrtv)
Series 4
Remember the Burkiss Way
It's the clash of the game shows!
Can the team manage to win the car?
Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to 1980.
Starring:
Fred Harris
Jo Kendall
Nigel Rees
Chris Emmett
Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick.
Producer: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1979.
SAT 03:00 Says on the Tin (b00gl50p)
Schokolade
Eliott finds nothing to laugh about while promoting a German chocolate called Laughing.
Starring Michael Brandon.
Christopher William Hill's sitcom about an American advertising man, forced to relocate to London.
Eliott Thurber ...... Michael Brandon
Esther Finn ...... Samantha Bond
Hannah Walker ...... Pippa Haywood
Zadie ...... Joannah Tincey
Baz ...... Inam Mirza
Mandelbrot ...... Malcolm Tierney
Interpreter ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Other parts played by Dan Starkey, Janice Acquah and Jonathan Tafler.
Producer: Liz Webb
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009.
SAT 03:30 The Nature of Spring by Jim Crumley (m000400g)
5. Renaissance
In a series of poetic vignettes, nature writer Jim Crumley paints a captivating picture of Scotland’s wilderness in spring and the joys of observing its abundant wildlife.
In this episode, Jim encounters ospreys, woodcock, greenfinches, and watches a pine marten cross paths with a vixen.
Abridged by Linda Cracknell.
Concluded by Simon Tait.
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2019.
SAT 03:45 Curious Under the Stars (m000hhss)
Series 10: Things of Stone
Part 5
Magical drama set in Glan Don, a mysterious village perched on the wild Welsh coast.
The fate of The Druid’s Rest hangs in the balance as Gareth and Diane must decide its future.
Diane ...... Emma Sidi
Emlyn ...... Ifan Huw Dafydd
Gareth ...... Richard Elis
Megan ...... Aimee Ffion Edwards
Matty ...... Siw Hughes
The Ghost ..…. Owain Gwynn
Anwen ...... Juno Robinson
Written by Alan Harris.
Series created by Meic Povey.
Director: James Robinson
A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2020.
SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree (m00199w7)
Series 12
Bangor University
Steve Punt hosts the battle of wits as three students from Bangor University take on their professors.
A funny and dynamic general knowledge quiz show with specialist subjects including Education, Film Studies and Zoology with Herpetology.
Questions range from the Miracle at Cana to the sex life of Komodo Dragons.
And you can play along to the well-known game, Name Five Famous Spaniards.
Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2022.
SAT 04:30 Hidden Treasures (m001znvy)
Daphne du Maurier - The Scapegoat
1956. Le Mans, the Chateau de St Gilles.
A chance encounter at a French railway station leads an English tourist into assuming the presence and personality of an enigmatic stranger.
Starring Hugh Burdon and Beatrix Lehmann.
Written by Daphne du Maurier.
Dramatised by Archie Campbell.
Jean de Gué/John, the narrator .... Hugh Burden
Gaston, a chauffeur/Maitre Talbert ....Michael Harbour
Paul de Gué .... Geoffrey Beevers
Renee, his wife .... Kate Binchy
Blanche, his sister .... Cecile Chevreau
Francoise .... Betty Huntley-Wright
Old Comtesse .... Beatrix Lehmann
Marie-Noel .... Elizabeth Proud
Julie .... Gladys Spencer
Bela .... Eva Stuart
Charlotte .... Betty Baskcomb
Hotel Patron/Police Commissaire/Marquis .... William Fox
Driver/Jacques/Dr Moutier .... Gerald Cross
Mercier/Bank Clerk/Dr Lebrun .... Douglas Blackwell
Barmaid/Germaine/Nun .... Bridget McConnel
Director: Archie Campbell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1972.
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‘The Scapegoat’ is part of BBC Radio 4 Extra's Hidden Treasures collection, selected from titles returned to the BBC by various collectors.
Our warm thanks go to our friends at the Radio Circle.
SAT 06:00 Road to Normandy (m0005nyw)
For 40 years, Dave has put behind him the fact that he landed on the Normandy beaches on D-Day – 6th June 1944.
He doesn't remember his comrades with any special affection and has no wish to indulge in memories.
But in June 1984, he goes back to Normandy and faces the ghosts of the past.
And there's one ghost in particular...
Starring Ronald Pickup.
Written by Douglas Livingstone.
Dave …. Ronald Pickup
Pete …. Mick Ford
Simon …. Trevor Nichols
Thelma …. Brenda Blethyn
Bill …. Douglas Livingstone
Mary …. Tessa Worsley
Harry Price .... David Garth
Arthur …. Sam Kelly
Major Morris .... David Sinclair
Sergeant Floyd .... Stephen Thorne
Tim .... Garard Green
French Woman …. Gwen Cherrell
Other veterans:
John Church
Richard Durden
Adrian Egan,
Ronald Herdman
Gordon Reid
Christopher Scott
Robin Summers
Alan Thompson
Director: Jane Morgan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1985.
SAT 07:30 Margaret Atwood - The Testaments (Omnibus) (m0008pq5)
Episode 1
Margaret Atwood's powerful and long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, set 15 years after the events of her dystopian masterpiece.
The Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within.
Now the testimonies of three different women bring the story to a dramatic conclusion.
We hear from infamous Aunt Lydia. From Agnes, a young girl who has only known life in Gilead; and from Daisy, a teenage girl in living in Canada.
Omnibus of the first five of fifteen parts abridged by Katrin Williams.
Read by:
Sara Kestelman
Katherine Press
Samantha Dakin
Producer: Justine Willett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2019.
***** Margaret Atwood is the author over 50 books, including novels such as Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy.
Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when he Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series.
SAT 08:45 Marriott's Monologues (b00sp3xq)
Peter Goodwright
Monologist, Peter Goodwright, tells of the plight of the Ramsbottom Family in Runcorn Ferry and The Jubilee Sovereign.
Series of the famous monologues of Marriott Edgar.
Music by Brian Fitzgerald.
Produced at BBC Manchester by Mike Craig.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1991.
SAT 09:00 Educated Evans by Edgar Wallace (b03y7ldm)
Inside Information
Skint horse tipster Evans gets an unlikely helping hand from a self-righteous police inspector.
Roy Hudd stars as a self-styled "sporting authority" in 1920's Camden Town in London.
Edgar Wallace's humorous novel, first published in 1924.
Dramatised in four parts by Richard Quick.
Narrator …. Freddie Jones
Educated Evans …. Roy Hudd
Inspector Pine …. Andrew Sachs
The Miller …. Michael Roberts
Mrs Rankin …. Pat Coombs
Albert Shanks …. Simon Treves
Miss Mavis …. Elizabeth Mansfield
George Canfyn …. Charles Collingwood
Music by Philip Glassborow and Rick Cardinall.
Director: Dirk Maggs
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996.
SAT 09:30 The Arthur Haynes Show (m0008x0v)
From 28/07/1963
Old money and a sit-down protest.
Arthur Haynes stars in the sketch show series written by Johnny Speight.
With
Nicholas Parsons
Leslie Noyes
Gary Watson
Music by Joe Brown & The Bruvvers.
Producer: Richard Dingley
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1963.
SAT 10:00 Dr Hannah Fry: Codebreaker (m000xtcw)
3. Bletchley Park and Beyond
As a mathematician, Dr Hannah Fry specialises in understanding patterns of human behaviour.
Nowhere does the human factor smash headlong into the reality of numbers than in the secretive world of code-breaking.
In the last of three programmes, Hannah is delving into the BBC archives to present a fascinating selection of features all about codes, secrets and ciphers.
Plus insights galore from Hannah’s two experts who’ve got numbers and words covered: Maths teacher Bobby Seagull - author of ‘The Life-changing Magic of Numbers’ and Richard Rogan - editor of The Times Cryptic Crossword.
Featuring:
* THE BLETCHLEY GIRLS [BBC Radio 4 2015]
* An extract from THE INFINITE MONKEY CAGE: GCHQ [BBC Radio 4 2018]
Producer: Kevin Core
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in February 2020.
SAT 11:00 Road to Normandy (m0005nyw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 12:30 Margaret Atwood - The Testaments (Omnibus) (m0008pq5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 13:45 Marriott's Monologues (b00sp3xq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]
SAT 14:00 Educated Evans by Edgar Wallace (b03y7ldm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 14:30 The Arthur Haynes Show (m0008x0v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
SAT 15:00 Dr Hannah Fry: Codebreaker (m000xtcw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Arthur C Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama (b00hy5yt)
Episode 2
What is the secret at the heart of the space object known as Rama?
Why, years after the event, has Commander William Norton never spoken about what he found there?
Starring Richard Dillane.
Conclusion of Arthur C Clarke's sci-fi novel.
Dramatised by Mike Walker.
William Norton ...... Richard Dillane
Li Kwok ...... Paul Courtenay Hyu
Pieter Rousseau ...... Jimmy Akingbola
Jimmy Pak ...... Robert Lonsdale
Aruna Calvert ...... Archie Panjabi
Gerry ...... Inam Mirza
Ruby Barnes ...... Janice Acquah
Laura Ernst ...... Ania Sowinski
Indira Gopal ...... Shelley King
Erl King ...... Peter Marinker
Tamara Ruiz ...... Jill Cardo
Tan Sun ...... Jonathan Tafler
Henning ...... Paul Rider
Director: Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2009.
SAT 17:00 Road to Normandy (m0005nyw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 18:30 Margaret Atwood - The Testaments (Omnibus) (m0008pq5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 19:45 Marriott's Monologues (b00sp3xq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]
SAT 20:00 Educated Evans by Edgar Wallace (b03y7ldm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 20:30 The Arthur Haynes Show (m0008x0v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
SAT 21:00 Dr Hannah Fry: Codebreaker (m000xtcw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Paul Sinha's General Knowledge (m000m5kh)
Series 2
Episode 4
Paul Sinha is an award-winning comedian, the reigning British Quiz Champion and also, according to the Radio Times, the UK's "funniest fund of forgotten facts".
Paul recounts the amazing true stories that lie behind fascinating nuggets of information.
This episode ranges from the funniest Clives in history, via the first anti-Nazi Oscar winner, to the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and the real, uncredited, writer of one of rock music's most famous songs.
Recorded virtually, with an audience of 200 people watching Paul from the comfort of their own home.
Written and performed by Paul Sinha.
Producer: Ed Morrish
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2020.
SAT 22:30 Sarah Millican's Support Group (b011ppyc)
Series 2
6. ' I've finally found what I'm looking for...'
"Bullying at work - a trapeze artist who's been pushed off her perch"
"I've finally found what I'm looking for...Terry, it's you!"
Sarah Millican is a life counsellor and modern-day agony aunt tackling the nation's problems head on, dishing out real advice for real people.
Assisted by her very own team of experts of the heart - man of the people local cabbie Terry, and self qualified counsellor Marion.
Sarah tackles the nation's problems head on and has a solution for everything.
Sarah ...... Sarah Millican
Marion ...... Ruth Bratt
Terry ...... Simon Daye
Judy ...... Anna Crilly
Evan ...... Elis James
Written by Sarah Millican.
Producer: Lianne Coop
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.
SAT 23:00 Son of Cliche (b00p4mcr)
Freddie Fortune
From a spoof Melvyn Bragg to a signing chimp.
Featuring 'The Further Reasonably Exciting Adventures of Captain Invisible and the See-Thru Kid'.
Sketch comedy starring:
Chris Barrie
Nick Maloney
Nick Wilton
Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.
Producer: Alan Nixon
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1984.
SAT 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jr0v)
Series 3
The Masterson Bunch
Suffragettes split the Masterson family, sparking drama at the races.
The award-winning improvised historical comedy.
Based entirely on audience suggestions - this is the unfolding saga of the Mastersons - a family at war with itself.
Starring:
Paul Merton
Josie Lawrence
Lee Simpson
Jim Sweeney
Phelim McDermott
Caroline Quentin
Producer: Phil Clarke
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1995.

SUNDAY 02 JUNE 2024

SUN 00:00 Arthur C Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama (b00hy5yt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Saturday]
SUN 01:00 Road to Normandy (m0005nyw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]
SUN 02:30 Margaret Atwood - The Testaments (Omnibus) (m0008pq5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]
SUN 03:45 Marriott's Monologues (b00sp3xq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Saturday]
SUN 04:00 Educated Evans by Edgar Wallace (b03y7ldm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday]
SUN 04:30 The Arthur Haynes Show (m0008x0v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Saturday]
SUN 05:00 Dr Hannah Fry: Codebreaker (m000xtcw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Saturday]
SUN 06:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001ztz6)
Actors
Goldie Hawn
Hollywood's prototype dizzy blond, Goldie Hawn is castaway by Kirsty Young.
Like most things in Tinseltown the image is somewhat at odds with the reality.
Goldie is an Academy Award winner and producer who's been on the A list for 40-odd years, starring alongside Peter Sellers, Walter Matthau and Woody Allen.
She's now transmuted from fantasy pin-up to best selling author - she writes parenting manuals and spearheads a childhood learning initiative.
She tells Kirsty about her journey from dancing in sleazy go-go bars to bagging an Oscar, how she coped with the difficulties her early success brought her and how she met her husband of 29 years, Kurt Russell.
DISC ONE: The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
DISC TWO: Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Overture to Romeo and Juliet
DISC THREE: Frank Sinatra - Fly Me to the Moon
DISC FOUR: Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
DISC FIVE: The Beatles - Let It Be
DISC SIX: John Barry - I had a farm in Africa
DISC SEVEN: Gipsy Kings - Volare
DISC EIGHT: John Lennon - Imagine
BOOK CHOICE: The Art of Loving - Erich Fromm
LUXURY CHOICE: Lip gloss
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Frank Sinatra - Fly Me to the Moon
Producer: Cathy Drysdale
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012.
SUN 06:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lcmcq)
Series 1
Songsters
Humans aren't the only species who sing. Many birds do and even another ape.
What messages are conveyed in the syllables, melodies and repeated phrases, and who is listening?
Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
Produce: Julian Hector
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.
SUN 07:00 Poetry Extra (m001ztz9)
Between the Ears - Miss Birdie's Letter
Poet Daljit Nagra selects Between the Ears - Miss Birdie's Letter taking poet Karen McCarthy Woolf to Kingston, Jamaica.
Karen follows the trail of a letter sent to her Jamaican grandmother by her Church, commending her on 67 years of faithful service.
The trip takes her back to her father’s village, and to 1918, when her grandmother sets off for downtown Kingston from the poor country parish of St Catherine, a district that had been under a state of emergency as part of a government crackdown on gang violence.
What would life have been like for a rural migrant at the end of the First World War? And how does that compare to today?
Written and performed by Karen McCarthy Woolf.
Pastor…..Wyllie Longmore
Sound design Sharon Hughes
Producer: Susan Roberts
Director: Sharon Sephton
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in October 2018.
SUN 07:30 The Nature of Spring by Jim Crumley (Omnibus) (m00047rt)
Nature writer Jim Crumley paints a captivating picture of Scotland’s wilderness in Spring and the joys of observing its abundant wildlife.
In his observations, the staccato, jazzily-inventive sound of the mistle thrush singing for a mate acts as a harbinger of Spring while kestrels hover over the Stirlingshire hills and peregrine falcons act out their courtship.
A majestic sea eagle with its vast wingspan swoops incongruously over the Lowland hills and a peregrine starts to mimic the eagle’s flight pattern.
He visits Colonsay and Shetland, where he encounters cuckoos, snipe, eiders, oystercatchers, choughs, yellow hammers, starlings, corncrakes, red-throated divers and some basking grey seals into the bargain.
And he takes in the fertile small island of Lismore in Loch Linnhe.
There is no shortage of wildlife from sandpipers, greenshanks and black-throated divers to ospreys, woodcock and greenfinches not to mention a pine marten crossing paths with a vixen.
Omnibus of five poetic vignettes read by Simon Tait.
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2019.
SUN 08:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001ztzc)
Natalie Cassidy
EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy chooses Frank Sinatra’s ‘It Happened In Monterey’ and ‘Hand In My Pocket’ by Alanis Morissette.
SUN 08:50 Curious Under the Stars (m001ztzf)
Series 10 (Omnibus) - Things of Stone
Magical drama set in Glan Don, a mysterious village perched on the wild Welsh coast.
Diane returns to the village to find Gareth and Emlyn are running the pub into the ground.
And then disaster strikes.
Omnibus of five parts written by Alan Harris.
Diane .... Emma Sidi
Emlyn .... Ifan Huw Dafydd
Gareth .... Richard Elis
Megan .... Aimee Ffion Edwards
Matty .... Siw Hughes
The Ghost …. Owain Gwynn
Anwen .... Juno Robinson
Series created by Meic Povey.
Director: James Robinson
A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2020.
SUN 10:00 Tony's (b00ty00c)
Series 2
Under Investigation
The hair salon is getting unexpected customers - could the taxman be sniffing around?
Starring Victor Spinetti.
More misadventures of cornershop barber, Tony - a beleaguered Italian in his 40s.
Written by Jim Eldridge.
Tony …. Victor Spinetti
Stanley …. Deryck Guyler
Maisie …. Deborah Watling
Charlie ...... Chris Emmett
Income Tax Clerk ...... Nick Tate
Customer ...... Sonia Fraser
Other parts played by the cast.
Incidental music by Max Harris.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1981.
SUN 10:30 Much Binding in the Marsh (b018sjr1)
From 10/05/1950
Still looking for work, the ex-RAF gang turns its hand to babysitting.
Starring Kenneth Horne and Richard 'Stinker' Murdoch.
With:
Sam Costa
Maurice Denham
Diana Morrison
Barbara Leigh
Written by Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne.
Music by the Augmented Dance Orchestra conducted by Stanley Black.
Much Binding in the Marsh ran from 1944 to 1954 initially set at a remote RAF station before being converted to a country club and later the action moved to a newspaper. (The show also ran for a season with commercial breaks on Radio Luxembourg).
Producer: Leslie Bridgmont
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1950.
SUN 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001ztz6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SUN 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lcmcq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]
SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m001ztz9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
SUN 12:30 The Nature of Spring by Jim Crumley (Omnibus) (m00047rt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SUN 13:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001ztzc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:40 today]
SUN 13:50 Curious Under the Stars (m001ztzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]
SUN 15:00 Tony's (b00ty00c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
SUN 15:30 Much Binding in the Marsh (b018sjr1)
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SUN 16:00 Wally K Daly (b007js66)
Before the Screaming Begins
3. Revelation
The sinister intentions of the alien invaders are finally revealed.
Can the Earth fight back?
Gripping sci-fi conclusion written by Wally K Daly.
Tom Harris ...... James Laurenson
Sally Harris ...... Jennifer Piercey
Prime Minister ...... Patrick Troughton
AP Smith ...... Donald Hewlett
Detective Sergeant Forbes ...... Robert Trotter
Prime Minister's Wife ...... Katherine Parr
MP ...... Peter Williams
Brosteaux ...... Nigel Graham
Corporal Wilkes ...... Geoffrey Leesley
Corporal Johnson ...... Eric Allen
Cabinet Minister ...... Maggie Ollerenshaw
Silkin ...... Peter Wickham
Alien Voice ...... Malcolm Gerard
Alien Controller ...... Manning Wilson
Before the Screaming Begins is the first of Wally K Daly's sci-fi trilogy.
It continues with The Silent Scream and With a Whimper to the Grave.
Director: Martin Jenkins
First broadcast as a 90 minute Saturday-Night Theatre production on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.
SUN 16:30 The Darker Side of the Border (b00ck4fs)
3. The Brownie of the Black Haggs by James Hogg
Lady Wheelhope has a reputation as a violent mistress to those under her power.
Yet when desire for a mysterious servant overwhelms her, it's her own soul she yields to terrible risk...
Written by James Hogg.
Dramatised by Marty Ross.
Series of three Scottish 19th century tales of terror and mystery.
Lady Wheelhope ...... Irene MacDougall
The Laird ...... Paul Young
Merodach ...... James Chisholm
Bessie ...... Mary Riggans
Wattie ...... James Bryce
Adam ...... Alec Heggie
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2003.
SUN 17:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001ztz6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SUN 17:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lcmcq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]
SUN 18:00 Poetry Extra (m001ztz9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
SUN 18:30 The Nature of Spring by Jim Crumley (Omnibus) (m00047rt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SUN 19:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001ztzc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:40 today]
SUN 19:50 Curious Under the Stars (m001ztzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 today]
SUN 21:00 Tony's (b00ty00c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
SUN 21:30 Much Binding in the Marsh (b018sjr1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]
SUN 22:00 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries (b00vkw57)
September and October
Autumn brings gloom for Sylvia Plath, Thomas Hardy and Max Clifford.
Satirist Craig Brown dips into the private lives of public figures from the 1960's to the present day.
Written by Craig Brown.
Voiced by:
Jan Ravens
Alistair McGowan
Lewis McLeod
Ewan Bailey
Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Dolly Wells
Producer: Victoria Lloyd
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010.
SUN 22:30 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair (m000jw1g)
Series 6
Getting Together
A divorcee feels liberated after years of marriage.
But a family dinner to celebrate her son's engagement - and a meeting with her ex-husband's new girlfriend - causes her to take a step she never imagined...
Starring Pauline McLynn.
Series of comic monologues written by Jenny Eclair.
Producer: Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2020.
SUN 22:45 Paperback Hell (b0076cd4)
Series 1
Disco Shoes by Mike Horner
A series of four chapters by four different authors, all of them imaginary, all of them straight out of the bestseller charts - and none of them very good.
Kicking off with, Chapter 15 of Disco Shoes by Mike Horner.
Jack is ill in hospital. Old girlfriend Katie re-emerges distracting him from dependable Suzie.
Jack …… Alex Lowe
Suzie …… Mel Hudson
Katie …… Rebecca Front
Colin …… Michael Fenton Stevens
Mike Horner …… Dan Tetsell
Ghost-written by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell.
Producer: Lucy Armitage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.
SUN 23:00 Josie Long: Romance and Adventure (b076p08g)
Series 1
Episode 3
Josie's 32nd birthday has her questioning whether her dream of one day having a family is now unrealistic.
Comedy drama about a young woman trying to build a more fulfilling life for herself in Glasgow.
Based on characters from the short films "Romance and Adventure" and "Let's Go Swimming" by Josie Long and Douglas King.
Josie ...... Josie Long
Darren ...... Darren Osborne
Roddy ...... Sanjeev Kohli
Kerry ...... Hatty Ashdown
Eleanor ...... Clare Grogan
Chris ...... Michael Bertenshaw
Mona ...... Rebecca Hamilton
Fraser ...... Chris Pavlo
Genevieve ...... Puja Panchkoty
Written by Josie Long.
Producer: Colin Anderson
A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2016.
SUN 23:30 Liam Williams: Ladhood (b06qk005)
Series 1
House Party
Liam Williams - a two-time Edinburgh Festival Award nominated comedian - shares his teenage misadventures in the Yorkshire suburbs.
With evocative monologues by "Adult Liam" being interjected with flashback scenes from his teenage years, this four-part series was recorded in Leeds and stars teens from Yorkshire.
Each episode delves into Liam's memories of his first fight, virginity loss, the best house party ever organised, and his marvellous outwitting of an entire teaching staff.
This is the New Labour, post-mining, aspirational heartland, meeting 50 Cent and Generation Y ennui, represented in a bourgeois radio format - by one of Britain's most exciting comedians.
Adult Liam ...... Liam Williams
Young Liam ...... Alfie Field
Bradley Dixon ...... Sam Shaw
Cranny ...... Matthew Hudson
Ralph Fletcher ...... George Richardson
Dale McIllroy ...... Oliver Gower
Batty ...... Lee Rockley
Roy Cao ...... lan McCarthy
Bad Lad ...... Jacob Clarke
Girl at Party ...... Hannah Waring
Producer: Arnab Chanda
A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.

MONDAY 03 JUNE 2024

MON 00:00 Wally K Daly (b007js66)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]
MON 00:30 The Darker Side of the Border (b00ck4fs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001ztz6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday]
MON 01:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lcmcq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Sunday]
MON 02:00 Poetry Extra (m001ztz9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:30 The Nature of Spring by Jim Crumley (Omnibus) (m00047rt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday]
MON 03:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001ztzc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:40 on Sunday]
MON 03:50 Curious Under the Stars (m001ztzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:50 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 Tony's (b00ty00c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 Much Binding in the Marsh (b018sjr1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 Whodunnits (b01b1zss)
Mrs McGinty's Dead
1. Death Sentence
A senior Police Officer is not convinced of the guilt of a young man sentenced to hang for the savage murder of an elderly woman.
So he seeks the help of his old friend and colleague, a certain celebrated but rather bored Belgian detective - Hercule Poirot.
Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars John Moffatt as the Belgian sleuth.
From the crime novel published in 1952
Dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell.
Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt
Superintendent Spence ...... George Baker
Maureen Summerhayes ...... Molly Gaisford
Major Summerhayes ...... Ian Masters
Maud Williams ...... Beth Chalmers
Mrs Burch ...... Connie Walker
Mrs Sweetiman ...... Jillie Meers
Mr Scuttle ...... Geoffrey Beevers
James Bentley ...... Tom George
Director: Enyd Williams.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006.
MON 06:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mc27)
1. Old Friends Meet
Early in 1914, two men meet in the wilds of German East Africa - one is a German, the other an Englishman.
Both men are roughly the same age, both share a similar background and each man looks almost identical to the other.
This similarity gives Leopold von Ragastein a perfect opportunity...
Starring David Robb.
E Phillips Oppenheim's mystery thriller - first published in 1920.
Dramatised in five parts by Barry Campbell
Sir Everard Dominey / Leopold von Ragastein ...... David Robb
Dr Schmidt ...... Phillip Manikum
Mangan ...... William Eedle
Princess Eiderstrom ...... Narissa Knights
Seaman ...... William Hope
Duchess of Worcester ...... Anne Jameson
Duke of Worcester ...... Garard Green
Capt Bartram ...... Graham Pountney
Director: Brian Miller
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1985.
MON 07:00 Minor Adjustment (b0b0x50b)
Lollipops and Roses
Daughter Kate launches a campaign to help a lollipop man and family life is disrupted by a well-meaning TV documentary crew.
Six-part comedy series about the Stubbs family - cartoonist Richard, therapist Sarah and their daughters - Kate, aged 16 and three-year-old Amy who has Down's Syndrome.
Starring Peter Davison and Samantha Bond.
Written by son and father team, Andy and Eric Merriman - inspired by Andy's own four-year-old daughter, Sarah. Eric famously wrote legendary BBC comedy series 'Beyond Our Ken'.
Richard ...... Peter Davison
Sarah ...... Samantha Bond
Ron Miller ...... Peter Jones
Kate ...... Claire Russell
Amy ...... Sarah Merriman
Emma ...... Heather Jones
Michael ...... Stephen Critchlow
Chris ...... Keith Drinkel
Producer: Gareth Edwards
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996
MON 07:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jp46)
Series 6
The Seven Steptoerai
When the Steptoes fall victim to threats, Albert decides it time to fight back.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.
Classic sitcom about the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold.
Written for BBC TV and adapted for BBC Radio by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett
Frankie Barrow ...... Henry Woolf
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1976.
MON 08:00 A Short Gentleman (b018xt55)
Episode 1
Robert sails through all his exams, but finding a girlfriend is more testing.
Hugh Bonneville stars as Robert Purcell, QC, a perfect specimen of the British Establishment, who applies faultless legal logic to his disastrous personal life.
Jon Canter's comic novel adapted by Robin Brooks.
Robert Purcell ..... Hugh Bonneville
Father ...... James Hayes
Mother ...... Nichola McAuliffe
Young Robert ...... Josef Lindsay
Pilkington ...... Ewan Bailey
Ticky Moxon-Smith ...... Katherine Jakeways
Judy Page ...... Tracy Wiles
Alan Temperley ...... Gerard McDermott
'Brilliant, but for God's sake don't let this book fall into the hands of any women - if they find out what we're really like we'll never hear the end of it.' Charlie Higson
'A witty, accomplished, and highly entertaining warning about the folly of ambition.' Mail on Sunday
'Elegantly written, civilised and genuinely funny.' The Scotsman
'Robert is infectious. You might just catch yourself bringing his loathsome logic to your own domestic dilemmas.' Time Out.
Jon Canter read Law at Cambridge, where he was President of Footlights, then worked as an advertising copywriter before becoming a radio and TV scriptwriter. His comic novels include Seeds of Greatness, A Short Gentleman and Worth.
Director: Jonquil Painting.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in From January 2012.
MON 08:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016h03)
1. The Blitz Begins
Two sisters, four nights, one city.
April, 1941: Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.
Many won’t make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.
Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman – as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz.
Lucy Caldwell's timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.
Abridged in ten parts by Rowan Routh.
Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg
Producer: Gemma McMullan
A BBC Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4, First broadcast in April 2022.
**** Lucy Caldwell is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and two collections of short stories: Multitudes and Intimacies. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2021 for ‘All the People Were Mean and Bad.’
MON 08:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvt9)
D-Day Minus 6 - Putting You Through
The world is waiting for the Allied invasion of Europe, but no one knows when or where it will happen.
The first of five plays about everyday life in Britain and France.
Wednesday 31st May 1944. At a telephone switchboard somewhere in London, two young operators enjoy a short break from their duties.
Narrator .... Juliet Stevenson
Aurora .... Julie Austin
Georgina .... Lucy Paterson
Written by Patricia Hannah, from a story by Mike Walker.
Director: David Jackson Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.
MON 09:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m001zlzh)
Series 81
Episode 3
The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit to the King George’s Hall in Blackburn. Marcus Brigstocke and Henning Wehn take on Vicki Pepperdine and Tony Hawks with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment.
Producer - Jon Naismith.
A Random production for BBC Radio 4
MON 09:30 A British History in Weather (b07bbbjk)
6. Holiday on Ice
Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has written and painted itself into the cultural life of Britain. When the rivers froze: frost fairs and merry making on ice.
The winter of 1608-9 was so cold that the Thames froze over. The great highway of London was at a halt. Then, tents were being thrown up and barrels of ale rolled out. Soon there was bowling and skittles, musicians were playing, there was dancing, drinking, eating. The out-of-work ferrymen set aside their oars and took charge of the impromptu carnival.
A British History in Weather is a celebration of the British climate and a life story of those who have lived in it.
Music by Jon Nicholls.
Producer: Tim Dee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.
MON 09:45 Daily Service (m001zvtc)
Psalms - Songs of Praise - Sing to the Lord
A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.
Theme: Psalms - Songs of Praise - Sing to the Lord
Psalm 145: 1-8
Led by Laura Darrall
MON 10:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m000z61s)
Stuck!
True stories told live in the USA: Sarah Austin Jenness introduces tales about being stuck in thoughts, places and situations.
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 February 2019.
MON 10:55 Inheritance Tracks (m000b07m)
Marty Wilde
Singer Marty Wilde chooses ‘Blowing Wild’ by Frankie Laine and ‘Rock Around The Clock’ by Bill Haley & His Comets.
MON 11:00 Whodunnits (b01b1zss)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 11:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mc27)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 12:00 Minor Adjustment (b0b0x50b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
MON 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jp46)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 13:00 A Short Gentleman (b018xt55)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 13:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016h03)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 13:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvt9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]
MON 14:00 Just a Minute (b00dncjg)
Series 53
Episode 10
Nicholas Parsons presides over the devious game where panellists are challenged to speak for one minute without hesitation, deviation or repetition.
From the Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames.
With:
Paul Merton
Chris Addison
Julian Clary
Sue Perkins
Subjects include: Glitz & Glamour, The End of Time, The Mother of Invention and Closing Time.
Created by Ian Messiter
Producer: Tilusha Ghelani
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2008.
MON 14:30 The Nimmo Twins In... (b00jh6jr)
Series 1
Killing Time
Mr Pike takes on many mundane jobs - with the zeal of a former assassin.
Stars Karl Minns and Owen Evans.
Comedy series written by Karl Minns.
Mr Pike ….. Karl Minns
Cummings …. Owen Evans
Nastro Azuro …. Toby Longworth
Fungi …. Andrew McGibbon
Gun Seller …. Peter Marrant
Armstrong, Mr Fox, Pilot …. David Thorpe
Miss Prisim, the old woman, the supervisor …. Kath Burlinson
Patsy …. Alison Goldie
Producer: Julian Mayers
First broadcast in BBC Radio 4 in September 2000.
MON 15:00 Blood Count (b0400mh7)
A day in the musical life and relationship of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn as they record Strayhorn's final composition, 'Blood Count'.
An interview with Time Magazine reveals some truths about their working methods and the question of artistic credit.
The action takes place during a recording session, and is based on extensive research into the working relationship of the two men.
Written by Ian Smith.
Duke Ellington ..... Clarke Peters
Billy Strayhorn ..... Don Gilet
Elaine Robillard ..... Ashleigh Haddad
Harry Carney ..... Steve Toussaint
Musicians:
Matt Home (drums)
Andrew Cleyndert (bass)
Dave Newton (piano)
Ian Smith (trumpet)
Alan Barnes (reeds)
Director: Martin Smith
A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2014.
MON 15:45 Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland by Carson McCullers (b09483j8)
Affairs in the music department were running smoothly.
There was only this nagging apprehension about Madame Zilensky.
Mr Brook could not work it out.
Carson McCullers' short story read by Shelley Thompson.
Producer: Duncan Minshull
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1991.
MON 16:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m000z61s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 16:55 Inheritance Tracks (m000b07m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:55 today]
MON 17:00 Whodunnits (b01b1zss)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 17:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mc27)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 18:00 Minor Adjustment (b0b0x50b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
MON 18:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jp46)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 19:00 A Short Gentleman (b018xt55)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016h03)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 19:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvt9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]
MON 20:00 Just a Minute (b00dncjg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]
MON 20:30 The Nimmo Twins In... (b00jh6jr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]
MON 21:00 Blood Count (b0400mh7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]
MON 21:45 Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland by Carson McCullers (b09483j8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 today]
MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m001zlzh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 22:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b007jwpj)
Series 2
Episode 2
The Marriage Emporium running low on Indian brides - and "Fifty Ways To Leave Your Mother".
Starring:
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Kulvinder Ghir
Nitin Sawhney
Meera Syal
Nina Wadia
Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC TWO from 1998 to 2001.
Written by Richard Pinto, Sharat Sardana, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Sanjeev Kohli.
Script Editor: Sharat Sardana
Producer: Anil Gupta.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1997.
MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m00203fx)
Danny Beard 1/3
From 10pm until midnight, seven days a week, The Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. And tonight, Stephen Bailey interviews the comic, drag queen and singer Danny Beard.
MON 23:00 Dead Ringers (m001zmbm)
Series 24
Episode 6
As always, the team treat all the political parties with equal contempt.

With writing from Tom Jamieson, Nev Fountain, Laurence Howarth, Ed Amsden & Tom Coles, Rob Darke, Edward Tew, Sophie Dixon and Cody Dahler.

A BBC Studios Audio Production

Producer: Bill Dare
Exec Producer: Richard Morris
Production Coordinator: Dan Marchini
Sound Design: Rich Evans
MON 23:30 Dave Podmore (b007wqf2)
Dave Podmore's Cricket Night
Episode 2
Pod's attempts to find alternative employment after another poor season lead him to Whitecoats College.
Here, he faces the ultimate challenge of becoming a first-class umpire.
Written by Christopher Douglas, Nick Newman and Andrew Nickolds.
Pod ...... Christopher Douglas
Andy Hamer ...... Andrew Nickolds
With:
Nick Newman
Nichola Sanderson
Ewan Bailey
Chris Pavlo
John Kettley
Producer: Richard Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2004.

TUESDAY 04 JUNE 2024

TUE 00:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m000z61s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:55 Inheritance Tracks (m000b07m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:55 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 Whodunnits (b01b1zss)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mc27)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Minor Adjustment (b0b0x50b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jp46)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 A Short Gentleman (b018xt55)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Monday]
TUE 03:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016h03)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Monday]
TUE 03:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvt9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 Just a Minute (b00dncjg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:30 The Nimmo Twins In... (b00jh6jr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 Blood Count (b0400mh7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:45 Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland by Carson McCullers (b09483j8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 Whodunnits (b01b2vb6)
Mrs McGinty's Dead
2. Headlines
The Belgian sleuth is convinced that the brutal murder of an elderly woman is connected to a lurid article in a Sunday newspaper.
Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt
Ariadne Oliver ...... Julia MacKenzie
Superintendent Spence ...... George Baker
Mrs Wetherby ...... Rosalind Knight
Deirdre Henderson ...... Teresa Gallagher
Mrs Upward ...... Jill Balcon
Robin Upward ...... Nick Waring
Eve Carpenter ...... Angela Sims
Guy Carpenter ...... Dominic Colchester
Dr Rendell ...... Gerard McDermott
Director: Enyd Williams.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006.
TUE 06:30 The Great Impersonation (m000m9yd)
2. The Homecoming
A chance meeting of two former 'lookalike' schoolfriends in German East Africa, results in the death of one of them.
The other returns to England, under the name of Sir Everard Dominey.
On this espionage mission, he aims to take up a powerful position in society, as the country moved towards inevitable conflict with Germany.
Starring David Robb.
E Phillips Oppenheim's mystery thriller - first published in 1920.
Dramatised by Barry Campbell
Sir Everard Dominey / Leopold von Ragastein ...... David Robb
Seaman ...... William Hope
Prince Terniloff ...... Tim Meats
Princess Temiloff ...... Angela Phillips
Princess Eiderstrom ...... Narlssa Knights
Mangan ...... William Eedle
Middleton ...... Paul Nicholson
Mrs Marston ...... Gwen Cherrell
Parkins ...... Howard Hoffmann
Lady Dominey ...... Melinda Walker
Director: Brian Miller
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1985.
TUE 07:00 Semi Circles (b007jtyy)
Series 2
A Lack of Moral Fibre
Christmas is coming and Ben is getting fat, but will going on a fibre diet with Helen raise his spirits?
The improving story of life and improving times in an improving neighbourhood.
Starring Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben
Written by Simon Brett
Helen ...... Paula Wilcox
Ben ...... David Wood
Mrs Kelly ...... Pay Heywood
Alastair ...... Tony Millan
Neil ...... Nick Wilton
Britt ...... Rosalind Adams
Blythe ...... Bryan Coleman
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1982
TUE 07:30 The Goon Show (b007jscs)
Series 5
Under Two Floorboards
In true Beau Geste style, Neddie Seagoon joins the foreign legion in disgrace.
Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.
Starring:
Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan
First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.
With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.
Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Producer: Peter Eton
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1955.
TUE 08:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b083r1jj)
An Engagement with Mr Hogarth
A young painter named William Hogarth has been employed to paint Edinburgh Society beauty Ishbel.
Science whizz Alison is making potions for her brother Robert. Hogarth finds inspiration, but Alison faces ruin unless Marjory and Kennedy can save the day.
Public and private morality come under the spotlight in Lucy Porter's 18th Century sitcom.
William Hogarth …… Gus Brown
Ishbel …… Caroline Deyga
Alison …… Jessica Hardwick
Robert …… Simon Donaldson
Marjory …… Samara MacLaren
Kennedy …… Gordon Kennedy
Music by Aly Macrae
Director: Marilyn Imrie
Producer: Gordon Kennedy
An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2016.
TUE 08:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016h45)
2. The Aftermath
Audrey announces her engagement and Emma witness the aftermath of the air raid.
Two sisters, four nights, one city.
April, 1941: Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.
Many won’t make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.
Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman – as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz.
A timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.
Lucy Caldwell is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and two collections of short stories: Multitudes and Intimacies. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2021 for ‘All the People Were Mean and Bad.’
Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg
Abridged by Rowan Routh
Produced by Gemma McMullan
A BBC Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4, First broadcast in April 2022.
TUE 08:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvvc)
D-Day Minus 5 - Taking Leave
The world is waiting for the Allied invasion of Europe, but no one knows when or where it will happen.
On 1 June 1944 a Tommy makes an unscheduled visit to a Welsh school.
Narrator .... Juliet Stevenson
Peggy .... Mali Harries
Ben .... Steven Meo
Written by Arnold Evans, from a story by Mike Walker.
Director: Gilly Adams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.
TUE 09:00 Joe Lycett's Obsessions (m000czy3)
Series 2
Clara Amfo and Carol Kirkwood
Joe Lycett's second series, exploring the nation's weird and wonderful obsessions by getting to know a selection of famous and not so famous guests.
Joining him on the sofa is weather presenter Carol Kirkwood, who shares her obsession with a cat called Donald, whilst Radio 1 DJ Clara Amfo reveals her love of trainers.
Joe also welcomes members of the public to share their secret passions, as well as this week's VOP (very obsessed person), Paul Fraine, who introduces Joe to the world of Live Action Role Play.
Written and performed by Joe Lycett.
With material from James Kettle and additional material from Catherine Brinkworth and Kat Sadler.
Produced by Suzy Grant.
A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2020.
TUE 09:30 A British History in Weather (b07bbyj2)
7. Rain
Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has written and painted itself into the cultural life of Britain. Why does British rain fall on British people?
Imagine a history told in rain. From King Offa's Mercia, to Saint Swithin, Milton and Dr Johnson. How do they feel? Do they go indoors? Does the rain they see an ill omen or a blessing? It never rains in the same way twice, and even in the same shower, no two people see it in the same way.
The shipping forecast takes us on a ritual tour of rain as it falls in darkness on the sea. Images form of places we have probably never been. Listening, we think of others listening. Rain, then showers. Moderate, occasionally poor.
Music by Jon Nicholls.
Producer: Tim Dee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.
TUE 09:45 Daily Service (m001zvvh)
Psalms - Songs of Praise - Praise the Lord
A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.
Theme: Psalms - Songs of Praise - Praise the Lord
Psalm 150
Led by Greg Finn
Praise
Elevation Worship
Psalm 150 (Praise the Lord)
Keith & Kristyn Getty & Matt Redman
Shout to the Lord
Darlene Zscheh
TUE 10:00 A Good Read (b08dnrqg)
Lionel Shriver and Mae Martin
Author Lionel Shriver and comedian Mae Martin join Harriett Gilbert to talk about books they love by John Knowles, HG Wells and Anne Enright.
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
The Door in The Wall by HG Wells
Publisher: Read Books/HG Wells Library
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Publisher: Vintage
Producer: Beth O'Dea
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017.
TUE 10:30 The Seven Car Parks of Croydon (b00vk2fx)
Sue Perkins revisits her former hometown of Croydon to ask just how South London's 'Mini-Manhattan' became the butt of so many jokes, mocked by comedians from the great Morecambe and Wise to Basil Brush.

With a skyline made up of 60's brutalist office blocks and re-clad 80's ones, Croydon's aesthetics are hard to love, but whether you're heading to town from Gatwick Airport, commuting from the South Coast, or a new immigrant registering at the Home Office's Lunar House, Croydon is your welcome to London.
With a powerful sense of nostalgia tinged with panic, Sue, who's joined by fellow comedian Steve Punt, lurks on the stairwells and top storeys of seven car parks in Croydon, trying to get a new perspective on local planning decisions, past and present. She hears historic tales of Elizabeth the First and punk svengali Malcolm McLaren, Bridget Riley - Queen of OpArt - and the emergence of the hottest current urban music Dubstep.

Vincent Lacovara, fan of Croydon, and its current urban planner believes these concrete viewing platforms can provide a fresh vantage point from which the history and super-future of Croydon can be laid out before Sue - so that she can see all the possibilities it had to offer her, and which she missed growing up. The great architectural commentator Nikolaus Pevsner said Croydon's skyline was 'thrilling from a distance' but maybe that's the problem - up close it takes a trained or loving eye to appreciate the uniqueness of Croydon - and after all we can't all come from the Cotswolds.
The time has come to reassess the concrete dreams of the 1960's - and Sue is the woman to do it.
Producers Sara Jane Hall and Gillian Darlington.
First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2010.
TUE 11:00 Whodunnits (b01b2vb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 11:30 The Great Impersonation (m000m9yd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 12:00 Semi Circles (b007jtyy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
TUE 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jscs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 13:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b083r1jj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 13:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016h45)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 13:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvvc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]
TUE 14:00 The Personality Test (b00mvs9s)
Series 2
Antony Worrall-Thompson
Celebrity chef and writer Antony Worrall-Thompson quizzes a panel about himself.
With:
Sue Perkins
Will Smith
Robin Ince
Lucy Porter
Series with changing hosts who quiz the panel.
Script by Richard Turner and Simon Littlefield
Devised and produced by Aled Evans.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006.
TUE 14:30 Artists (b01b36ry)
Series 2
Special Happy Places
De-cluttering his house, Gerard's friends all get gifts, leaving Tamsin less than thrilled.
A return to the Cornish cultural mecca of St Ives, and a close-knit community of artists who usually hate each other's work, and sometimes hate each other as well.
Nisha ...... Mina Anwar
Gerard ...... Graham Crowden
Marcus ...... Dave Lamb
Dolores ...... Pauline McLynn
Josef ...... Ben Miller
Tamsin ...... Vicki Pepperdine
Weinberg …. John Rowe
Written by Gareth Edwards.
Producer: Katie Tyrell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.
TUE 15:00 Alan England - I'll Be Caesar (m001zvvk)
Alan England's play is set in the National Service days of the 1950s.
When a young female tutor in charge of a residential education course for all ranks settles on Julius Caesar as her study text, she can't possibly foresee that events in the classroom will soon begin to mirror those of the play.
CAST:
Captain McIntyre .... Russell Dixon
Griff .... John Basham
Angela .... Saskia Downs
Dave .... Anthony Cairns
Peter .... John Graham Davies
Jim .... Ian Mercer
Jonathan .... Marcus Romer
Director: Dave Sheasby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1993
TUE 16:00 A Good Read (b08dnrqg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
TUE 16:30 The Seven Car Parks of Croydon (b00vk2fx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]
TUE 17:00 Whodunnits (b01b2vb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 17:30 The Great Impersonation (m000m9yd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 18:00 Semi Circles (b007jtyy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
TUE 18:30 The Goon Show (b007jscs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 19:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b083r1jj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016h45)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 19:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvvc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]
TUE 20:00 The Personality Test (b00mvs9s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]
TUE 20:30 Artists (b01b36ry)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]
TUE 21:00 Alan England - I'll Be Caesar (m001zvvk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]
TUE 22:00 Joe Lycett's Obsessions (m000czy3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
TUE 22:30 Think the Unthinkable (b01mtkqn)
Series 4
Be Happy
The bumbling management consultants grapple with physical perfection for Phil's gym.
James Cary’s award-winning sitcom about a team of incompetent management consultants.
Starring:
Ryan ...... Marcus Brigstocke
Owen ...... David Mitchell
Sophie ...... Beth Chalmers
Daisy ...... Catherine Shepherd
With Geoffrey McGivern, Martin Hyder and Marianne Levy
Producer: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2005.
TUE 23:00 Rubbish (b00899qv)
Series 2
Surveillance
While testing out his latest initiative - a tannoy system that works in conjunction with the CCTV system - Martin becomes its next victim.
Will he be able to clear his name?
Reece Dinsdale stars as local government officer, cynic and manic-depressive, Martin Christmas in Tony Bagley's sitcom.
Martin ...... Reece Dinsdale
Barney ...... Matthew Cottle
John ...... Neil Dudgeon
Banks ...... Ewan Bailey
Tannoy ...... Martin Trenaman
Producer: Claire Bartlett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007.
TUE 23:30 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science (b04003l7)
Series 3
Episode 2
The only radio comedy programme to give you an accurate overview of the science of space travel.
What is humanity's enduring obsession with UFOs?
How long have we been seeing them?
What might they really be?
And what questions might their possible occupants be asking about us?
Starring:
Helen Keen
Peter Serafinowicz
Susy Kane
Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill.
Producer: Gareth Edwards
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014.
TUE 23:45 Hearing with Hegley (b03sb6t8)
Series 2
Episode 7
A bespectacled John Hegley celebrates the wearing of glasses.
The poet laureate of alternative comedy entertains a London audience in Barnet.
With Nigel Piper and The Popticians
Producer: Phil Clarke
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1998.

WEDNESDAY 05 JUNE 2024

WED 00:00 A Good Read (b08dnrqg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 The Seven Car Parks of Croydon (b00vk2fx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Whodunnits (b01b2vb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 The Great Impersonation (m000m9yd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 Semi Circles (b007jtyy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:30 The Goon Show (b007jscs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b083r1jj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Tuesday]
WED 03:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016h45)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Tuesday]
WED 03:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvvc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 The Personality Test (b00mvs9s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:30 Artists (b01b36ry)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 Alan England - I'll Be Caesar (m001zvvk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 Whodunnits (b01b2zzr)
Mrs McGinty's Dead
3. Suspects
In the respectable village of Broadhinny, the Belgian sleuth has established several possible suspects of appropriate ages, as the murderer of the elderly woman...
Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt
Ariadne Oliver ...... Julia MacKenzie
Superintendent Spence ...... George Baker
Mrs Upward ...... Jill Balcon
Robin Upward ...... Nick Waring
Eve Carpenter ...... Angela Sims
Deirdre Henderson ...... Teresa Gallagher
Maureen Summerhayes ...... Molly Gaisford
Mrs Rendell ...... Susannah Corbett
Mrs Sweetiman ...... Jillie Meers
Director: Enyd Williams.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006.
WED 06:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mdbl)
3. Lady Dominey
Pursued by the passionate Princess Eiderstrom, the man claiming to be Sir Everard Dominey returns to 'his' ancestral home in Norfolk, where he has a lucky escape.
The Kaiser then demands a meeting...
Starring David Robb.
E Phillips Oppenheim's mystery thriller - first published in 1920.
Dramatised by Barry Campbell
Sir Everard Dominey / Leopold von Ragastein ...... David Robb
Parkins / Stillwell ...... Howard Hoffmann
Mangan ...... William Eedle
Mrs Marston ...... Gwen Cherrell
Lady Dominey ...... Melinda Walker
Dr Harrison/Duke of Worcester ...... Garard Green
Seaman ...... William Hope
The Kaiser/Middleton ...... Paul Nicholson
Duchess of Worcester ...... Anne Jameson
Prince Terniloff ...... Tim Meats
Princess Eiderstrom ...... Narissa Knights
Director: Brian Miller
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1985.
WED 07:00 Winston (b007jn9c)
Winston in Love
I'm in Love, I'm in Love
Nancy has now fallen in love with Roland from the Ministry of Whatsisname.
So she doesn't like to recall what happened with Winston under the old beech tree at Winterleaf Gunner...
Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial.
Winston …. Bill Wallis
Father …. Maurice Denham
Nancy …. Shirley Dixon
Rosie …. Liz Goulding
William .… Christian Rodska
Director: Shaun MacLoughlin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1990.
WED 07:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jygy)
Series 1
The Boxing Champion
When the lad hits the gym, he knocks down a prize boxer completely by chance - which gives Sid an idea...
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's classic comedy about the life and times of Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock.
Starring Tony Hancock.
With:
Moira Lister
Bill Kerr
Sidney James
Kenneth Williams
Paul Carpenter
Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott.
Music recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.
Producer: Dennis Main Wilson
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1954.
WED 08:00 Hazelbeach (b0088nnw)
Series 1
Gardening
Ronnie has a devious idea to get Nick's ex-girlfriend back. What could possibly go wrong?
Starring Jamie Foreman.
Caroline and David Stafford's comedy drama about the mysterious Ronnie Hazelbeach.
Ronnie ...... Jamie Foreman
Nick ...... Paul Bazely
Chloe ...... Tracy Wiles
James ...... John Dougall
Harry ...... Simon Treves
Producer: Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007.
WED 08:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016hbg)
3. Discovery
Emma finds the happiness she has been searching for.
Two sisters, four nights, one city.
April, 1941: Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.
Many won’t make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.
Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman – as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz.
A timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.
Lucy Caldwell is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and two collections of short stories: Multitudes and Intimacies. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2021 for ‘All the People Were Mean and Bad.’
Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg
Abridged by Rowan Routh
Produced by Gemma McMullan
A BBC Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4, First broadcast in April 2022.
WED 08:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvz5)
D-Day Minus 4 - Harry and Gloria
The world is waiting for the Allied invasion of Europe, but no one knows when or where it will happen.
Harry is a Canadian soldier, bound for Normandy. He knows D-Day is coming, and he knows he must say goodbye to Gloria, the English woman he'll be leaving behind.
Narrator .... Juliet Stevenson
Harry .... Ryan McCluskey
Gloria .... Kaye Wragg
Written by Katie Hims, from a story by Mike Walker.
Director: Gordon House
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.
WED 09:00 Robin Ince's Reality Tunnel (m001ngwk)
Fossils of the Mind
In the first of his two-part series Robin talks about love, books, and his love of books. He explores how we sometimes find it difficult to express our love and shares stories of the delight he's experienced on his travels. It is also a cautionary tale, warning of the dangers of not sharing praise and admiration before it's too late.
Escaping the confines of The Infinite Monkey Cage, comedian Robin Ince takes us on a journey through his Reality Tunnel in his second two-part stand-up series, recorded specially for Radio 4.
For over 30 years Robin Ince has been discharging fascinating thoughts, unusual knowledge, and infectious excitement into the universe. Over this time, these disparate, dusty specs of information have steadily clumped together and formed into an entity known as the 'Reality Tunnel'.
Previously, Robin's live appearances have only been visible to those astute enough to be tracking his trajectory; those with a keen enough eye to catch a fleeting glimpse of him as he twinkles through their orbit, emitting his ideas, shedding light on the human condition, before vanishing again into the distance. But now, using specialist recording tools and fancy editing, this phenomenon has been captured in high resolution audio for all to hear.
Praise for series 1
- “I was practically in tears of joy and wonder. I found it deeply moving and profoundly comforting”
- “It is a thing of beauty and joy and a thing for me amid an ocean of things that aren't!”
- “it’s good to know I'm not the only one with those 'thoughts'”
Writer / Performer ... Robin Ince
Voice Over ... Cody Dahler
Producer ... Carl Cooper
Production Coordinator ... Mabel Wright
Sound Manager ... Jerry Peal
Sound Editor ... Joshan Chana
Original Music ... Dan Antopolski
Picture by Steve Best
BBC Studios Production for Radio 4
WED 09:30 A British History in Weather (b07bdd27)
8. In Cloudland
Are the British to clouds what the Inuit are to snow? Alexandra Harris tells the story of the weather’s role in our cultural life.
Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has written and painted itself into the cultural life of Britain. Are we to clouds what the Inuit was to snow?
Cloud meant 'hill' in Middle English, a solid, earthy thing. Looking at a cumulus cloud, rising bumpy and steep-sided above us, it's easy to see why. For a while in the fourteenth century, the same Northumbrian poem could contain both the tangible and the metaphorical, before the earthy meaning gradually faded, leaving its solid residue in our vocabulary in the form of ‘clot’ and ‘clod’. The figurative meaning soared, and clouds were ever after phenomena of the sky.
Music by Jon Nicholls.
Producer: Tim Dee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.
WED 09:45 Daily Service (m001zvz9)
Psalms - Songs of Praise - Songs of thanksgiving
A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.
Theme: Psalms - Songs of Praise - Songs of thanksgiving
2 Samuel 22: 1-7
Led by Kirsty Thorpe
I sing the Almighty power of God
St Michael's Singers
Come let us sing of a wonderful Love
Rugby School Choir
O for a thousand tongues to sing
Leyland Band; Manchester Chorale; St Michael’s Singers
WED 10:00 What If... (b0076lry)
D-Day Failed?
In a special D-Day edition of the series which rewrites history, Professor Christopher Andrew, and a group of distinguished guests, discuss what would have happened if the Allied landings in Normandy had not succeeded.
In the Map Room of Southwick House are:
D-Day veteran John Gritten, who was on board a landing craft moored in nearby Southampton Sound
Professor David Stafford (University of Edinburgh)
Professor Dennis Showalter (Colorado Liberal Arts College in the United States)
Dr Soenke Neitzel (University of Mainz in Germany)
Dr Gary Sheffield (Kings College London and the Joint Services Staff College in Shrivenham).
Presenter: Professor Christopher Andrew (University of Cambridge)
Producer: Mark Smalley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.
WED 11:00 Whodunnits (b01b2zzr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 11:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mdbl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 12:00 Winston (b007jn9c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
WED 12:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jygy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 13:00 Hazelbeach (b0088nnw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 13:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016hbg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 13:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvz5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]
WED 14:00 Dilemma (b01r0h4y)
Series 2
Episode 3
Sue Perkins puts Dave Gorman, Anita Anand, Mark Evans and Jenny Eclair through the moral and ethical wringer.
Comedian Dave Gorman is cheating higher, faster and stronger; journalist Anita Anand deals with an unexpected guest; creator of Bleak Expectations Mark Evans gets a hand in the bush (but no birds); and comedian Jenny Eclair embraces dating in the digital age.
There are no "right" answers - but there are some deeply damning ones.
Devised by Danielle Ward.
Producer: Ed Morrish
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013.
WED 14:30 Two Doors Down (b008gbvs)
Series 2
Mythical Kings and Iguanas
Saffron is a typical mother, multi-tasking her aromatherapy business with trying to feng shui her bathroom and coping with a four year old desperately missing their ex-pet iguana.
So no surprise she needs Sally's help when things go wrong...
Starring Stella McCusker.
Annie McCartney's sitcom about the bohemian Belfast residents of Marlborough Road, saved from chaos by their cleaning lady, Sally.
Sally ...... Stella McCusker
Clare ...... Marcella Riordan
Evie ...... Katy Gleadhill
Trevor ...... Des McAleer
Simon ...... Patrick Gleadhill
Anna ...... Hannah R Gordon
Saffron ...... Ali White
Victor ...... Alan Mckee
Director: Tanya Nash
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002.
WED 15:00 Wallis - The Life and Legends of Wallis Simpson (b0855gx9)
A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody
1986: Wallis Simpson is facing a lonely and miserable death, a virtual prisoner of her obsessive lawyer, Maitre Blum.
As the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis was reviled for causing King Edward VIII to abdicate his throne to marry her.
But what was she really like?
Starring Stockard Channing.
Elizabeth Proud's three-part drama about the Duchess of Windsor.
Wallis Simpson .... Stockard Channing
Maitre Blum .... Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Win Spencer .... Lewis Hancock
Ernest Simpson/Commander Lewis Little .... Stephen Thorne
Bessie Merryman .... Helen Horton
Anna Warfield/Foxie .... Jill Graham
Georges/Robbie …. Chris Emmett
Uncle Sol .... Ed Bishop
Nurse Christine/Corinne Mustin .... Sara Coward
Nurse Dominique/Mary Raffray .... Susan Bovell
Kitty Rogers .... Teresa Gallagher
Bigelow/Hugh .... Peter MacQueen
Herman Rogers/Chevy Chevalier .... William Dufris
Producer: Sue Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1996.
WED 16:00 What If... (b0076lry)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
WED 17:00 Whodunnits (b01b2zzr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 17:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mdbl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 18:00 Winston (b007jn9c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
WED 18:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jygy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 19:00 Hazelbeach (b0088nnw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 19:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016hbg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 19:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvz5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]
WED 20:00 Dilemma (b01r0h4y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]
WED 20:30 Two Doors Down (b008gbvs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]
WED 21:00 Wallis - The Life and Legends of Wallis Simpson (b0855gx9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]
WED 22:00 Robin Ince's Reality Tunnel (m001ngwk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
WED 22:30 I Think I've Got a Problem (b00cl6vl)
Series 2
Episode 3
Things are looking up for Tom - he's got a new job working at the zoo, which he loves, and he's also met a rather nice girl called Pi, who works with the birds, and what's more, it seems that Pi also has a band in her head.
Everything looks perfect, so surely the band in Tom's head couldn't possibly ruin things for him this time...could they?
Starring Suggs and Bob Monkhouse.
Andrew McGibbon and Nick Romero's everyday story about a man who can't stop himself from breaking into song.
Suggs ..... Tom Caine
Bob Monkhouse ..... Dr Boone
Phil Cornwell ..... Bouche
Andrew McGibbon ..... Jake
Nick Romero ..... Monty DeVere
Bill Nighy ..... Malc
Julia Deakin ..... Phelia
Toby Longworth ..... Clammy
Pi ..... Debra Stephenson
Songs: Andrew McGibbon. Nick Romero and Suggs
Producers: Andrew McGibbon and Dawn Ellis.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2003.
WED 23:00 Chain Reaction (b072my2p)
Series 11
3. Ian Hislop interviews Victoria Coren-Mitchell
Comedian and satirist Ian Hislop turns interviewer as he talks to the writer and presenter Victoria Coren-Mitchell about her wide and varied career in writing, quizzing and cards.
Chain Reaction is the long running hostless chat show where this week's interviewee becomes next week's interviewer.
Ian Hislop is a long-standing team captain on 'Have I Got News for You' and the editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye. As a dedicated fan and student of history, he has made several acclaimed documentaries on wide-ranging subjects including conscientious objectors and The Beeching Report.
Victoria Coren-Mitchell is a columnist for The Observer and GQ amongst other publications and has presented myriad documentaries on subjects as varied as The Bohemians and Mary Poppins. As well as a prolific writing career, she keeps order on the popular and fiendishly difficult television quiz, 'Only Connect'. She is also well-known as one of the world's top professional poker players and has achieved huge success at the card table.
Producer: Richard Morris
A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2016.
WED 23:30 The Big Booth (b007jv50)
Series 2: The Big Booth Too
Episode 3
Boothby Graffoe meets a man with a replacement tongue and a man in a washing machine.
More guitar-flavoured songs and surreal laughs from Boothby Graffoe.
With:
Stephen Frost
Vivienne Soan
Big Al
Jim Sweeney
Guitarist: Antonio Forcione
Written by Boothby Graffoe and Dave Thompson.
Producer: Lucy Armitage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001.

THURSDAY 06 JUNE 2024

THU 00:00 What If... (b0076lry)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Whodunnits (b01b2zzr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mdbl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Winston (b007jn9c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jygy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Hazelbeach (b0088nnw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Wednesday]
THU 03:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016hbg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvz5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Dilemma (b01r0h4y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 Two Doors Down (b008gbvs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 Wallis - The Life and Legends of Wallis Simpson (b0855gx9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 Whodunnits (b01b35f2)
Mrs McGinty's Dead
4. Danger
The Belgian sleuth is very excited because someone has tried to kill him - so he knows he's on the right track.
However, there is somebody else for whose life he particularly fears...
Agatha Christie's whodunnit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt
Ariadne Oliver ...... Julia MacKenzie
Superintendent Spence ...... George Baker
Robin Upward ...... Nick Waring
Mrs Upward ...... Jill Balcon
Mrs Rendell ...... Susannah Corbett
Deirdre Henderson ...... Teresa Gallagher
Maud Williams ...... Beth Chalmers
Maureen Summerhayes ...... Molly Gaisford
Michael ...... Kim Wall
Director: Enyd Williams.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006.
THU 06:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mdp7)
4. The Messenger
Things start to unravel for spy Leopold von Ragastein as he battles to keep two women happy.
News arrives from Africa....
Starring David Robb.
E Phillips Oppenheim's mystery thriller - first published in 1920.
Dramatised by Barry Campbell.
Sir Everard Dominey / Leopold von Ragastein ...... David Robb
Lady Dominey ...... Melinda Walker
Nurse/Duchess ...... Anne Jameson
Parkins/Pelham ...... Howard Hoffman
Dr Harrison ...... Garard Green
Heggs/Ludwig Miller ...... Mark Straker
Middleton ...... Paul Nicholson
Prince Terniloff ...... Tim Meats
Seaman ...... William Hope
Princess Eiderstrom ...... Narissa Knights
Director: Brian Miller
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1985.
THU 07:00 Patterson (m000mdnd)
Episode 2
The first day of term starts badly for Andrew Patterson in his new university department.
Starring Lewis Fiander as Patterson with John Barron as the Vice-Chancellor.
Comedy serial set in a provincial university by Malcolm Bradbury and Christopher Bigsby
Patterson ...... Lewis Fiander
Professor Misty ...... Richard Vernon
Jane ...... Judy Parfitt
Melissa ...... Maureen Lipman
Vice-Chancellor ...... John Barron
Mrs Vice-Chancellor ...... Irene Prador
Cuthbertson ...... Richard O'Callaghan
Probity ...... Jack May
Victor ...... Hugh Thomas
Sandra ...... Liza Hayden
Amy Spade ...... Maggie Steed
Producer: Geoffrey Perkins
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in February 1981.
THU 07:30 Dad's Army (b007jqjv)
Series 3
Asleep in the Deep
Walker and Godfrey get trapped in a pumping station, but so do their rescuers from the rest of the Home Guard platoon.
The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon in Walmington-on-Sea.
Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Walker …. Larry Martyn
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Announcer …. John Snagge
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1976.
THU 08:00 The Break (b0b5sqkb)
Series 2
The Clench
Andy and Jeff clash with The Mayor as a missing sweet shop sets off a tale of kompromat, corruption and coastal erosion.
Stars Philip Jackson, Alison Steadman and Mark Benton.
Comedy by Ian Brown and James Hendrie set in the eccentric seaside town of Flamford following City burn-out Andy Chambers
Andy ...... Tom Palmer
Jeff ...... Philip Jackson
Frank ...... Mark Benton
Mrs Steggles ...... Alison Steadman
Truepenny ...... Rasmus Hardiker
Bryony ...... Shobna Gulati
Producer: Gordon Kennedy
An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast on in June 2018.
THU 08:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016hg0)
4. The Dance
The Floral Hall dance ends in panic as another air raid strikes.
Two sisters, four nights, one city.
April, 1941: Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.
Many won’t make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.
Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman – as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz.
A timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.
Lucy Caldwell is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and two collections of short stories: Multitudes and Intimacies. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2021 for ‘All the People Were Mean and Bad.’
Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg
Abridged by Rowan Routh
Produced by Gemma McMullan
A BBC Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4, First broadcast in April 2022.
THU 08:45 D-Day Minus (m001zw71)
D-Day Minus 3 - Lilly's Mum
The world is waiting for the Allied invasion of Europe, but no one knows when or where it will happen.
On 3rd June 1944 Margaret, down from Coventry, tracks down her runaway daughter in London.
Narrator .... Juliet Stevenson
Lilly .... Emily Chennery
Margaret .... Alison Belbin
Eddie .... Ricci Harnett
Written by Louise Ramsden, from a story by Mike Walker.
Director: Peter Leslie Wild
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.
THU 09:00 Rhysearch (m000wsyp)
Series 1
1. Are Billionaires Evil?
Comedian Rhys James investigates topics that the rest of us are too busy to be bothered with.
1. Are Billionaires Evil?
Is money the root of all evil, or the solution to all your problems?
Everyone has big questions, but very few people have time to find the answers. Lucky for them, there’s one man with a completely empty diary. Join Rhys James as he interviews experts, conducts experiments and guesses his way to a solution. Join him as he does the Rhysearch.
Written and presented by Rhys James
Guest... Grace Blakeley
Guest... David Brown
Guest... Deborah Meaden
Produced by Carl Cooper
Executive Producer: Pete Strauss
This is a BBC Studios Production
THU 09:30 A British History in Weather (b07bft85)
9. Storm
Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has written and painted itself into the cultural life of Britain. An island at sea - the storms of King Lear and Turner and others.
Any storm has its drama. The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, like his contemporary Turner, knew the particular exhilaration of them. Blowing in from the Bristol Channel, the gales are funnelled into the bowl of heathland known as the Valley of the Rocks, where they beat around furiously, trying to get free. Coleridge wanted to be in the midst of this great weather theatre, opening himself to its energy, feeling its effects on his skin, his nerves, his imagination.
Music by Jon Nicholls.
Producer: Tim Dee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.
THU 09:45 Daily Service (m001zw75)
On the 80th anniversary of D-Day
Lord Richard Dannatt marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day with a service of thanksgiving and remembrance for the lives of those who paid the ultimate price for our nation's freedom.
O God our help in ages past (Westminster Abbey Choir)
Psalm 46
Hear my Prayer (Purcell - The Sixteen)
Eternal Father, Strong to Save (Huddersfield Choral Society)
Bible reading by Anna Spearpoint
THU 10:00 Great Lives (b00768nc)
Lord Byron
Writer Sue Limb chooses 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' poet, Lord Byron. With Humphrey Carpenter.
The biographical series in which a distinguished guest chooses someone who's inspired their life. Will their hero stand up to intensive scrutiny and merit the description of having led a great life?
Presented by Humphrey Carpenter
Produced by Miles Warde
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
THU 10:30 Sir John Soane at Home (b0075g7y)
The hidden history of Sir John Soane's museum. Sir John was one of the foremost architects of the Regency era.
Rosemary Hill uncovers the story of the family's social and domestic life detailed in personal diaries discovered at the museum in London.
Readings by David Bradley and Sonia Ritter.
Producer Hannah Andrassy
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999.
THU 11:00 Whodunnits (b01b35f2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 11:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mdp7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 12:00 Patterson (m000mdnd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
THU 12:30 Dad's Army (b007jqjv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 13:00 The Break (b0b5sqkb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 13:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016hg0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 13:45 D-Day Minus (m001zw71)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]
THU 14:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m000ytph)
Series 26
Episode 4
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 insects, words, parties, and supermarkets.
Zoe Lyons
Richard Osman
Henning Wehn
Holly Walsh
Producer: Jon Naismith
A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2021.
THU 14:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00s5xtl)
Series 2
The Bonfire of the Sanities
Salvatore has returned to Monte Guano with a peasant crowd of bretheren and sisteren.
All are bent on making his family throw their worldly goods onto the Bonfire of the Vanities.
Desperate for him to take his rantings elsewhere, Plethora hatches a devious plan...
Comedy drama set in Renaissance Italy devised by Neal Anthony.
Starring David Swift and Sian Phillips.
Written by Roger Danes
Ludovico …. David Swift
Plethora …. Sian Phillips
Francesco …. Graham Crowden
Rosalie …. Saskia Wickham
Alessandro …. Paul Bigley
Salvatore …. Nick Romero
Guido …. Chris Kelham
Father Ignazio …. Kim Wall
Producer: Dawn Ellis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002.
THU 15:00 Wallis - The Life and Legends of Wallis Simpson (b0855tzh)
Tea for Two
As Maitre Blum manipulates Wallis, she recalls her first marriage and her attempts to meet a prince.
As the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis was reviled for causing King Edward VIII to abdicate his throne to marry her.
But what was she really like?
Starring Stockard Channing.
Elizabeth Proud's three-part drama about the Duchess of Windsor.
Wallis Simpson .... Stockard Channing
The Prince of Wales .... Christopher Cazenove
Maitre Blum .... Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Ernest Simpson.... Stephen Thorne
Perry .... Christopher Scott
Douglas .... David Monico
Bessie Merryman .... Helen Horton
Nurse Christine/Thelma Furness .... Sara Coward
Nurse Dominique/Sybil .... Susan Bovell
Nancy .... Sunny Ormonde
Kitty Rogers .... Teresa Gallagher
Ben Thaw/Herman Rogers .... William Dufris
Producer: Sue Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1996.
THU 16:00 Great Lives (b00768nc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
THU 16:30 Sir John Soane at Home (b0075g7y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]
THU 17:00 Whodunnits (b01b35f2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 17:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mdp7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 18:00 Patterson (m000mdnd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
THU 18:30 Dad's Army (b007jqjv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 19:00 The Break (b0b5sqkb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 19:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016hg0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 19:45 D-Day Minus (m001zw71)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]
THU 20:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m000ytph)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]
THU 20:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00s5xtl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]
THU 21:00 Wallis - The Life and Legends of Wallis Simpson (b0855tzh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]
THU 22:00 Rhysearch (m000wsyp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
THU 22:30 Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed (b018xtw1)
Series 1
Episode 4
Uh oh, not another bank Heist... Kerching!
Join DS Nick Mohammed and his colleagues at Tilford Road Police Station as they attempt to solve something akin to that bit at the start of The Dark Knight.
Written by and starring Nick Mohammed.
With:
Anna Crilly
Colin Hoult
Producer: Victoria Lloyd
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012.
THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m00203fz)
Danny Beard 2/3
From 10pm until midnight, seven days a week, The Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. And tonight, Stephen Bailey interviews the comic, drag queen and singer Danny Beard.
THU 23:00 Clare in the Community (b01ptzm9)
Series 8
Fifty Shades of Ray
The team's anxiety over possible redundancies is overshadowed when they hear some shattering news concerning Ray.
Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the right jargon but never a practical solution.
A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her.
Join Clare in her continued struggle to control both her professional and private life
In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare.
Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden
Clare ...... Sally Phillips
Brian ...... Alex Lowe
Megan ...... Nina Conti
Ray ...... Richard Lumsden
Helen ...... Liza Tarbuck
Simon ...... Andrew Wincott
Libby ...... Sarah Kendall
Peter ...... Patrick Brennan
Fireman ...... Patrick Brennan
Major ...... Robert Blythe
Producer: Katie Tyrrell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2013.
THU 23:30 And the Winner Is... (b0106z05)
Series 2
Episode 3
Matt Lucas hosts his alternative awards show – The Lucases - as selected by his guests.
Awards include the Lucas for Least Scary Tabloid Scare Story, Ghastliest Hairstyle Since Hair Was Invented and Most Fanciable Cartoon Character.
Nominations are provided by Matt's guests:
Limmy
Holly Walsh
Marc Wootton
But the ultimate decision is down to the whim of the host.
Devised by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. Programme associate: Ged Parsons.
Producer: Ashley Blaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 2011.

FRIDAY 07 JUNE 2024

FRI 00:00 Great Lives (b00768nc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Sir John Soane at Home (b0075g7y)
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FRI 01:00 Whodunnits (b01b35f2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mdp7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Patterson (m000mdnd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 Dad's Army (b007jqjv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 The Break (b0b5sqkb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Thursday]
FRI 03:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016hg0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Thursday]
FRI 03:45 D-Day Minus (m001zw71)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m000ytph)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00s5xtl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 Wallis - The Life and Legends of Wallis Simpson (b0855tzh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Whodunnits (b01b3fdv)
Mrs McGinty's Dead
5. Final Clue
The chaos of Long Meadows provides Hercule Poirot with his final clue to unveiling the pitiless murderer.
But there's also another surprise in store for the Belgian detective...
Conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunnit starring John Moffatt.
Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt
Ariadne Oliver ...... Julia MacKenzie
Superintendent Spence ...... George Baker
Robin Upward ...... Nick Waring
Maud Williams ...... Beth Chalmers
Maureen Summerhayes ...... Molly Gaisford
Major Summerhayes ...... Ian Masters
Eve Carpenter ...... Angela Sims
Guy Carpenter ...... Dominic Colchester
Mrs Rendell ...... Susannah Corbett
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Director: Enyd Williams.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006.
FRI 06:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mdn8)
5. The Truth Revealed
The Kaiser’s plans gather pace and the mystery of the black wood is revealed.
And at last it's time for the man supposed to be Sir Everard Dominey to reveal his true identity.
Is he Sir Everard, or the Prussian von Ragastein?
Conclusion of E Phillips Oppenheim's mystery thriller.
Starring David Robb.
Dramatised by Barry Campbell
Sir Everard Dominey / Leopold von Ragastein ...... David Robb
Prince Terniloff ...... Tim Meats
Pelham/Parkins ...... Howard Hoffmann
Lady Dominey ...... Melinda Walker
Seaman ...... William Hope
Williams ...... Brian Gear
Mrs Marston ...... Gwen Cherrell
Dr Harrison ...... Garard Green
Middleton/Reynolds ...... Paul Nicholson
Princess Eiderstrom ...... Narissa Knights
Dr Schmidt ...... Phillip Manikum
Director Brian Miller
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1985.
FRI 07:00 The Older Woman (b02qt773)
Series 1
Episode 4
When journalist Roy spots a planning application for a barn next to Jane's house, his knight in shining armour fantasies seem to have become a reality.
Meanwhile his boss has set up home in the office, complete with dog and soap-on-a-rope.
Starring Zoe Wanamaker and Martin Clunes.
Tony Bagley's romantic comedy drama serial with a twist.
Miss Callaghan ...... Zoe Wanamaker
Roy Hitchcock ...... Martin Clunes
Elsa ...... Toyah Wilcox
Mr Say ...... David Troughton
Chad ...... Nicky Henson
Wyn …. Sue Roderick
Dick …. Geoff McGivern
Leland …. Bryan Dick
Hannibal Lecter …. David Holt
Helen …. Melanie Hudson
Paul Vaughan ...... Himself
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1993.
FRI 07:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jrxq)
Series 4
Rise from the Grave the Burkiss Way
Dracula and Oedipus Rex get a good going over from 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: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1979.
FRI 08:00 Says on the Tin (b00gqzw0)
Chowder
Eliott, Esther and Hannah compete aggressively to promote American Chowder to the British consumer.
Starring Michael Brandon.
Christopher William Hill's sitcom about an American advertising man, forced to relocate to London.
Eliott Thurber ...... Michael Brandon
Esther Finn ...... Samantha Bond
Hannah Walker ...... Pippa Haywood
Zadie ...... Joannah Tincey
Baz ...... Inam Mirza
Sal ...... John Guerrasio
Other parts played by:
Stephen Critchlow
Jonathan Tafler
Dan Starkey
Gunnar Cauthery
Donnla Hughes
Producer: Liz Webb
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009.
FRI 08:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016hjf)
5. Frontline
Emma finds herself on the frontline witnessing the brutality of war.
Two sisters, four nights, one city.
April, 1941: Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.
Many won’t make it through, and no one who does will remain unchanged.
Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman – as they try to survive the horrors of the four nights of bombing which were the Belfast Blitz.
A timeless and heart-breaking novel about living under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves.
Lucy Caldwell is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and two collections of short stories: Multitudes and Intimacies. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2021 for ‘All the People Were Mean and Bad.’
Read by Lisa Dwyer Hogg
Abridged by Rowan Routh
Produced by Gemma McMullan
A BBC Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4, First broadcast in April 2022.
FRI 08:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvc6)
D-Day Minus 2 - Drop Zone
The world is waiting for the Allied invasion of Europe, but no one knows when or where it will happen.
On 4th June 1944 in France, Father Pierre receives an urgent message to call on Mme de Rochers at her chateau. Life under German occupation has changed the lives of the locals in unexpected ways.
Narrator .... Juliet Stevenson
Father Pierre .... Bill Wallis
Louise .... Claudia Harrison
Madame des Rochers .... Avril Elgar
Written by Hilary Fannin, from a story by Mike Walker.
Director: Tanya Nash
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.
FRI 09:00 Michael Spicer: No Room (m001zgcv)
5. Pink
A long overdue enquiry into an ill advised away-day. May contain strong language.

No Room features an up-to-the-minute take on current events, alongside character-filled sketches which brilliantly capture everything that provokes us - culture, politics, work...and other people.

Michael is famous for his Room Next Door government advisor character whose withering take downs of politicians have amassed more than 100 million views and helped keep his audience sane in fractured times.

Writer, Performer and Co-Editor: Michael Spicer

Composer and Sound Designer: Augustin Bousfield

Producer: Matt Tiller

A Tillervision production for BBC Radio 4
FRI 09:15 Michael Spicer: No Room (m001zgcx)
6. Blue
Famous white man in dream travel show shock. Comedian Michael Spicer shines a light on global conflict and bog roll.
No Room features an up to the minute take on current events, alongside character-filled sketches which brilliantly capture everything that provokes us - culture, politics, work...and other people.
Michael is famous for his Room Next Door government advisor character whose withering take downs of politicians have amassed more than 100 million views and helped keep his audience sane in fractured times.
Writer, Performer and Co-Editor: Michael Spicer
Composer and Sound Designer: Augustin Bousfield
Producer: Matt Tiller
A Tillervision production for BBC Radio 4
FRI 09:30 A British History in Weather (b07bfxhs)
10. Beginnings and Endings
Alexandra Harris concludes the story of how the weather has written and painted itself into the cultural life of Britain.
In Oscar Wilde's essay 'The Decay of Lying', a character proposes that we see in nature what art shows us to be there. He contends that the London fogs barely existed before artists started painting them. Then suddenly there were Whistler effects every night in Battersea and Monets rising up from the Thames. Art, he says, invented the fog. Well, that may be ridiculous, but perhaps there's a wisp of truth in it.
Music by Jon Nicholls.
Producer: Tim Dee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.
FRI 09:45 Daily Service (m001zvcc)
Psalms - Songs of Praise - Give thanks
A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.
Theme: Psalms - Songs of Praise - With understanding also
1 Corinthians 14:15-19.
Led by Bishop David Walker
Ye that know the Lord is Gracious
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir
I will sing with the spirit
Natalie and Belinda, BBC Young Choristers of the Year 2024
But for the Grace
Lucy Grimble
FRI 10:00 Soul Music (b0367sl2)
Series 16
Lili Marlene
Stories of love, loss and friendship through the Second World War favourite, Lili Marlene.
She was made famous by Marlene Dietrich - with songs sung by soldiers on both sides.
Series about pieces of music with a powerful emotional impact
Producer: Maggie Ayre.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013.
FRI 10:30 The Art of Adultery (b0717gdz)
Natalie Haynes explores why infidelity has inspired artists, writers and dramatists since the Ancient Greeks.
For centuries, popular culture has been enthralled by infidelity, moving from the ancient tales of Helen of Troy and Medea through to the popularity of modern day dramas like 'The Affair' and 'Doctor Foster'.
Along the way, few artists of note seem to have been able to avoid its dramatic appeal, whether Chaucer in Miller's Tale, Shakespeare in 'Othello' or Tolstoy in 'Anna Karenina' and 'War and Peace'. In 'The Art of Adultery'.
Natalie Haynes sets out to find out what the nature of that appeal might be, and also considers whether the way the basic story of unfaithful partners tells us anything about the times and places from where the particular stories are born.
Natalie meets author Julian Barnes to talk about his own novel 'Talking it Over' as well as attitudes to infidelity in 19th century France.
She visits Tate Britain to find out how attitudes on this side of the Channel were changing during the same period.
Filmmaker Jane Gillooly talks about her documentary 'Suitcase of Love and Shame' featuring recordings made by a straying couple for each other in 1960s America.
And Natalie hears from novelist Stella Duffy about how recent changes in attitudes have affected how gay and lesbian literature has tackled the subject.
Producer: Geoff Bird
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.
FRI 11:00 Whodunnits (b01b3fdv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 11:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mdn8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 12:00 The Older Woman (b02qt773)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
FRI 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jrxq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
FRI 13:00 Says on the Tin (b00gqzw0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 13:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016hjf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 13:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvc6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]
FRI 14:00 The 3rd Degree (m0019k3h)
Series 12
Lancaster University
Steve Punt hosts the battle of wits as three students from Lancaster University take on their professors.
A funny and dynamic general knowledge quiz show with specialist subjects English Literature, Marketing and French.
Contestants are asked questions on topics ranging from Les Immortels and Roland Barthes to shopping trolleys and Philip K Dick.
Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2022.
FRI 14:30 Arrested Development (b0075vh3)
Episode 1
Penny and Dave are getting married, but there are a few hiccups - Penny's hair being just one of them.
She wanted the Julia Roberts look but has ended up with a Mrs Merton instead.
Starring Letitia Dean, Phil Cornwell and Julian Rhind-Tutt.
Simon Warne's four-part comedy serial.
Penny ...... Letitia Dean
Bob ...... Phil Cornwell
Andy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Joy ...... Maggie McCarthy
Kate ...... Susannah Doyle
Frank ...... Roger Walker
Producer: Tracey Neale
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000.
FRI 15:00 Wallis - The Life and Legends of Wallis Simpson (b0855wfh)
The Melody Lingers On
Wallis realises marrying an ex-king means broken promises, plus doubtful acquaintances and scandal.
As the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis was reviled for causing King Edward VIII to abdicate his throne to marry her.
But what was she really like?
Starring Stockard Channing.
The conclusion of Elizabeth Proud's three-part drama about the Duchess of Windsor.
Wallis Simpson .... Stockard Channing
Duke of Windsor .... Christopher Casenove
Maitre Blum .... Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Churchill/Georges .... Chris Emmett
Foxie .... Jill Graham
Nancy .... Sunny Ormonde
Noel Coward/Von Stohrer/1st Embassy Official …. John Webb
Nurse Christine .... Sara Coward
Nurse Dominique .... Susan Bovell
Penelope Ross/Lady Mosley .... Joanna Monro
Douglas .... David Monico
Stanley/Von Ribbentrop .... Keith Drinkel
Maj. Gray Phillips/BBC Announcer .... Tim Meats
2nd Embassy Official .... David Holt
Producer: Sue Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1996.
FRI 16:00 Soul Music (b0367sl2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
FRI 16:30 The Art of Adultery (b0717gdz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]
FRI 17:00 Whodunnits (b01b3fdv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 17:30 The Great Impersonation (m000mdn8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 18:00 The Older Woman (b02qt773)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
FRI 18:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jrxq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
FRI 19:00 Says on the Tin (b00gqzw0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 These Days by Lucy Caldwell (m0016hjf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 19:45 D-Day Minus (m001zvc6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]
FRI 20:00 The 3rd Degree (m0019k3h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Arrested Development (b0075vh3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Wallis - The Life and Legends of Wallis Simpson (b0855wfh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 today]
FRI 22:00 Michael Spicer: No Room (m001zgcv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
FRI 22:15 Michael Spicer: No Room (m001zgcx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:15 today]
FRI 22:30 Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking (b00bw01s)
Series 2
Episode 2
Divorcee Carol has a fruit surplus and Adrian is asked to be a Bond girl.
Award-winning comedian Laura Solon's sketch and character comedy series
With:
Rosie Cavaliero
Ben Moor
Ben Willbond
With additional material by Stephen Carlin, Ben Moor and Charlie Miller.
Producer: Colin Anderson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008.
FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m00203g1)
Danny Beard 3/3
From 10pm until midnight, seven days a week, The Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. And tonight, Stephen Bailey interviews the comic, drag queen and singer Danny Beard.
FRI 23:00 The Problem With Adam Bloom (b019jtl7)
Series 3
Technology
The comedian explores the barriers and dilemmas which technology creates in normal everyday relationships.
Fast-paced and inventive comedy, written by and starring Adam Bloom
With:
Rob Rouse
Hattie Hayridge
Stefano Paolini
Producer: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2005.
FRI 23:30 Crème de la Crime (b00824r5)
Series 2
A Pyramid Scheme
Michael Feydeau -TV's much loved Inspector Niblett - and crime expert, David Pershore probe the mysterious curse of a mummy.
Tales from the vaults of villainy.
Written by and starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
With:
Olivia Colman
Ewan Bailey
Chris Pavlo
Director: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002.
FRI 23:45 Irish Micks and Legends (b01ntgxf)
Series 1
Deirdre of Sorrows
Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram become Ais and Yaz and are the very best pals.
They are taking their role as Ireland's freshest story-tellers to the British nation very seriously indeed but they haven't had the time to do much research, learn their lines or work out who is doing which parts.
The girls' unconventional way of telling stories involves a concoction of thoroughly inappropriate modern-day metaphors and references to many of the ancient Irish stories.
With a natural knack for both comedy and character voices, Yasmine Akram and Aisling Bea will bring you warm, modern re-workings of popular ancient Irish stories.
Today it's Deirdre of Sorrows.
Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram.
Producer: Raymond Lau
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012.