Radio 4 Extra Listings for 24 – 30 July 2021 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 24 JULY 2021 Dramatised by Christopher Reason. Episode 3 Director: Gary Brown On day 10 of the walk, they spot a narrow boat that reminds SAT 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrts) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017. Laura of the Rosie and Jim boat she remembers from the The World in Peril SAT 02:30 The French East End (b01j5nw4) children's TV show. Episode 10 On a head count, the British capital has long been the sixth But when the owner invites them aboard, it doesn't all go quite The enigmatic Paddy Flynn reveals more about the hierarchy of biggest French city, boasting more French people than Nantes, as they might have expected. asteroid crews. Strasbourg or Bordeaux. Comedy drama written by Katherine Jakeways with Felicity Completing the sci-fi trilogy of the adventures of Captain Jet London's French community is racially and culturally diverse. It Montagu and Olivia Nixon. Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy. has grown far beyond the bourgeois confines of 'Frog Valley' in A mother and daughter are undertaking a two week sponsored Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds well-heeled South Kensington. Lucy Ash meets some of the walk along The Thames Path to raise money for the dead Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp new Gallic Eastenders and asks what their stories can tells us father's charity. Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter about the current state of France and her former colonies. But the mother and father divorced nine years ago and he'd re- Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass The East End's French connection goes back to the 17th married, so relationships between them all have been strained. Other Parts …. Pat Campbell Century when Charles II offered sanctuary to tens of thousands Things come to a head at any mention of the French Oak gable Other Parts and Announcer …. David Jacobs of persecuted French Protestants. Lucy visits Spitalfields, where table that Ros and her now dead ex bought together in Camden. Music composed by Van Phillips many of the Huguenots settled. This has somehow ended up in the stepmother's house, much to Written and produced by Charles Chilton. The Huguenots came to the UK to escape prejudice at home - Ros's annoyance: "I mean she sits at it! It's my table and she sits First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November so are there any modern day parallels? One unlikely Gallic at it." 1955. outpost is New VIc in Newham, London's biggest 6th form Ros ...... Felicity Montagu SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00vy37b) college. It can't really compete with the Lycee Charles de Laura ...... Olivia Nixon Luck Gaulle in Kensington but it does have a high number of Stepmother ...... Katherine Jakeways Are some people just born lucky, or can we control our fate ? Francophone pupils and the demographics are very different. Boat Owner ...... Juliet Cowan Professor Richard Wiseman claims to have begun scientifically These are mainly non-white students from France's Overseas Producer: Jane Berthoud to investigate the concept of luck. In this programme, he writes Departments or former colonies, places like Reunion, A BBC Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in about his interviews with over a thousand so-called lucky and Guadeloupe and Algeria. They crossed the channel partly July 2016. unlucky people, and reveals why resilience and not the because they hope learning English will improve their chances SAT 05:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000xzjl) supernatural is what affects us all. of getting a job and partly because of perceived racial Alun Cochrane: Centrist Dad? Playwright Annie Caulfield describes a brush with voodoo in prejudices in the French system. “A Centrist Dad takes his children to feed the ducks, a west Africa; while sports writer Matthew Syed explains why his The head teacher Eddie Playfair is a pragmatic Brit with a Conservative Dad takes his children duck shooting, a Socialist own sporting success was due in part to growing up in a lucky background in Corsica. He says that finding a job in France is Dad takes his children to a Solidarity With Ducks rally.” Reading postcode. often tough, as payroll taxes and bureaucracy make employers Centrist Dads have a bad reputation. They’re “entirely Presenter: Dominic Arkwright wary of taking on new staff. For non-white applicants it is even responsible for Labour’s Election defeat”, “aggressively Producer: Miles Warde. worse. condescending” and they “like Top Gear too much”. And yet, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. Lucy discovers another group of young French people in Alun Cochrane is fine with being one (albeit one who hasn’t SAT 01:00 Find The Lady (m000f6cv) Hackney. Most of them are designers, artists or work in cutting actually watched Top Gear). 7. In Which Andrew Marsh Finds the Truth edge digital media outfits. Malika Favre, who has just done a Recorded in front of a virtual audience from Salford, this show Andrew Marsh finally deduces who is behind him being framed cover for the Penguin edition of the Kama Sutra, says she finds is Alun’s quest for the centre ground, an area bizarrely for both cheque book fraud - and murder. London a more creative environment and she find English underpopulated in the comedy world. Comedians should poke Starring Noel Johnson. 'hypocrisy' is good for business. fun at all hypocrisy no matter whether it emerges from the right Conclusion of the murder mystery thriller serial by David Ellis. Producer: Lucy Ash or the left, so why are so few stand-ups apparently adept at Andrew Marsh …. Noel Johnson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2012. sniping from the middle? Joyce Marsh …. Madi Hedd SAT 03:00 Margaret Steward - Running Out of Sky Alun investigates whether his politics have changed or if it's the Roger Sherwin …. Douglas Blackwell (b01mny05) world that has changed around him and left a reasonable man Peter Lloyd …. Michael Deacon The 'present day' finds two men, unaware of each other, feeling like an extremist. He is pretty sure he isn’t an actual Detective Sergeant Rankin …. Henry Stamper retracing their steps through the Lincolnshire countryside. baddie. He spends his days writing jokes in ‘Where’s Wally?’ Detective Inspector Adams …. John Bentley An American Second World War airman and an English doctor pyjamas alongside his gluten-free dog. Does that sound like an Alf Jenkins …. Brian Haines find memories of unfinished relationships and ghosts from the extremist to you? Judy Randall …. Eva Haddon past. Written and performed by Alun Cochrane Producer: Betty Davies. Stars William Gaunt and Garrick Hagon. Production co-ordinator: Mabel Wright First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1969. Margaret Steward’s haunting drama. Sound engineer: Michael Smith SAT 01:30 Cordoba (m000y1j1) Tom Mason ... William Gaunt Producer: Richard Morris 1. Written Off Earl Grant .... Garrick Hagon Photo credit: Matt Stronge DT Mitchell 's life is dogged by alcohol, divorce and a dull job Young Tom .... Tom Wright A BBC Studios Production on a newspaper in Swansea. Mrs Mason ... Sunny Ormonde SAT 06:00 HG Wells (m00041c8) But her cynicism evaporates when she stumbles on a chain of Jenny .... Jenny Lee The Island of Dr Moreau murders. Janet Grant ....Elizabeth Kelly A shipwreck leads a young naturalist to Dr Moreau’s secretive Starring Alison Steadman. Eddie .... David Bannerman island, the site of a hideous scientific experiment. Nigel Baldwin’s six part thriller set in south Wales. Johnnie .... Angus Wright First published in 1896, HG Wells' classic adventure story. DT Mitchell …. Alison Steadman Bob .... Paul Downing Dramatised by David Calcutt. Conrad De’Ath …. Bill Stewart Jim .... Andrew Wincott Montgomery ...... Kenneth Colley Thomas …. Alan Towner Director: Sue Wilson Prentice ...... Kim Wall Geraint …. Robin Griffith First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1991. Prentice's Nephew ...... Neal Foster Ieuan …. Robert Pugh SAT 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b0375sfk) Dr Moreau ...... Garard Green Alex …. Leslie Rooney Series 2 Captain Jones ...... Peter Meakin Turner …. Tony Leader Episode 3 Helmar ...... Richard Mitchley Jenny …. Ruth Jones Justin Moorhouse, Bridget Christie and Ainsley Harriott each M'Ling ...... Terry Molloy Charlene …. Louise Holland nominate someone they know well to answer a series of Constans ...... Danny Schiller Richard …. Ian Targett questions and they than have to second guess how they Nurse ...... Janet Dale Coastguard …. Rhodri Hugh answered. Various ...... Alex Jones Directed at BBC Wales by Jane Dauncey. Host Miles Jupp tests Bridget on how well she knows her best Director: Nigel Bryant. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992. friend Rebecca Sewell, Ainsley his best friend, pitch doctor First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1990. SAT 02:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08h0g52) Paul Boross, and Justin his former radio producer Sean Gibson. SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b08b7wd1) Episode 5 What is the one thing that DJ Justin does not like talking about? Series 41 Lizzie is missing her mother dreadfully and troubled by Diner's What is Bridget's worst fear? And who is Ainsley's worst habit? Chris Patten on Pope John XXIII behaviour. She goes to visit Hannah for her reassurance and has All answers and more will be revealed. Chris Patten, Lord Patten of Barnes, nominates a great life who an unexpected encounter. Producer: Sam Michell was born a peasant and became a Pope. News also come from France of the King's trial. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013. Pope John XXIII did well at school but was no star. He wasn't a Set in Bristol in 1792, Helen Dunmore's novel is set against a SAT 04:30 To the Manor Born (b007lzww) striking figure of a man and struggled to keep his weight under backdrop of the French Revolution. A Wife's Prerogative control. It touches on Radical idealism, property speculation, political Audrey makes the most of helping Devere - by pretending she's There was nothing about him that stood out and his election as turmoil and private tragedy... his wife. Pope took many by surprise. But he was the man who began to Read by Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp Starring Penelope Keith and Keith Barron. push the Roman Catholic church into the modern world. Abridged by Sara Davies. Lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her Presenter: Matthew Parris. Producer: Julian Wilkinson beloved Grantleigh Estate, has decamped to the tiny Old Lodge With Eamon Duffy, Professor of the History of Christianity at First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. cottage with her butler in tow. the University of Cambridge. SAT 02:15 The Citadel (b09c0pw6) From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving Producer: Perminder Khatkar Series 1 eye on new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2017. Episode 5 Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his BBC TV script. SAT 08:00 The Motion Show (b00762pb) Denny and Manson are arrested. Can they extricate themselves Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere Series 4 from a scandal that will ruin their careers? Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher Episode 4 Set in the mid-1920s and based on AJ Cronin's ground breaking Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger Debates galore from modern manners - to life in the fast lane. novel. Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka Graeme Garden chairs the quirky battle of words and wit. Andrew Manson, a newly trained doctor, is settling into Frank Middlemass ..... Ned With Jenny Eclair, Hugh Dennis, Stuart Maconie and Greg Drineffy - a South Wales mining town. Mademoiselle Dutoit ..... Rula Lenska Proops. Manson …. Richard Fleeshman First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever Producer: Helen Williams Denny …. Julian Lewis Jones appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2001. Branwell .... Philip Fox Producer: Jane Berthoud SAT 08:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k131) Gwyneth .... Fiona Clarke First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997. Series 2 PC Davies .... Simeon Truby SAT 05:00 Guilt Trip (b07mxt9d) French Connections Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 24 – 30 July 2021 Page 2 of 11 Rosie and her team organise a twinning ceremony for a town on progress, and as war leader he ruthlessly replaced Series 2 the south coast of England with a town on the north coast of unprofessional informality with business-like efficiency. Episode 4 France. He began by setting up a five-man War Cabinet, a reform that Dr Webster meets his doppelganger - entomologist Dr Betsy, But Is it really a step forward for Anglo-French relations? he recommended again on the BBC in the early days of the whilst Gordon hears voices. The trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event Second World War. Lloyd George also created a Cabinet Starring Peter Davison. management company, based in Brighton. Secretariat (now the Cabinet Office), ensuring that a minute Laurence Howarth's black comedy set in the world of the Rosie ...... Prunella Scales was taken of Cabinet meetings and that ministers' decisions pathology lab. Kate ...... Arabella Weir were implemented. Anthony Webster …. Peter Davison Jo ...... Rebecca Callard Yet Lloyd George was also a precursor of presidential-style Ruth Anderson …. Matilda Ziegler Bob ...... Duncan Preston politics. He brought his own advisers and press secretary into Professor Donaldson …. Geoffrey Whitehead Tess ...... Annette Badland Number 10, and his mistress became one of the private Graham …. Tom Price Don ...... Owen Brenman secretaries (the first woman to hold this post). With Marianne Levy, Gus Brown and Alex Lowe. Jean-Luc ...... Simon Greenall Although his presidential tendencies later contributed to his Music by Paul Mottram and Stephanie Benavente. Genevieve ...... Rachel Atkins downfall, his revolution in government had laid the foundations Producer: Dawn Ellis Producer: Maria Esposito for victory in 1918 and remains his legacy in Whitehall. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2004. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2001. Among those taking part are biographers Ffion Hague, Kenneth SAT 22:30 Chain Reaction (b053bq55) SAT 09:00 A Date With Dyall (b06my9rb) Morgan and Roy Hattersley, and historian, Hew Strachan. Series 10 Writer and actor Jonathan Rigby unlocks the vaults of the BBC Producer: Rob Shepherd Reece Shearsmith talks to Bob Mortimer sound archives to explore the broadcasting career of Valentine First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016. Co-creator and star of The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville Dyall. SAT 14:00 Chain Reaction (b052jk2z) and Inside No.9, Reece Shearsmith talks to one half of comedy He reveals the enduring appeal of Dyall's most memorable Series 10 double-act Vic & Bob, creators of Shooting Stars and House of character - the menacing and creepy raconteur 'The Man In Adam Buxton talks to Reece Shearsmith Fools, Bob Mortimer. Black' - and along the way he lifts the lid on some classic BBC Adam Buxton - comedian, actor, technophile and one half of Chain Reaction is the long running hostless chat show series radio horror moments. 'Adam and Joe', Adam Buxton where the previous interviewee becomes the next interviewer. * Radio Dyall talks to Producer: Charlie Perkins Jonathan Rigby profiles the radio work of Valentine Dyall with Reece Shearsmith - co-creator and star of The League of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015. rare archive of Dyall in conversation. Gentlemen, Psychoville and Inside No. 9, SAT 23:00 Sara Pascoe: The Modern Monkey (b09ry6k4) * Here Come The Men In Black Chain Reaction is the long running hostless chat show where the Series 1 Featuring new and exclusive interviews. Actor Edward de interviewee becomes this next interviewer. Murder Souza, a reincarnation of The Man in Black in the 1980's radio Producer: Charlie Perkins Sara Pascoe sets out to explore our modern social world though series Fear On 4, talks for the first time about his interpretation First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015. theories of Evolutionary Psychology and more. of the character. SAT 14:30 Think the Unthinkable (b007k4g0) How does our monkey past influence our modern lives? And the role's latest denizen Mark Gatiss reveals his joy and Series 2 How come we can still get emotionally hijacked by our enthusiasm for portraying radio's most sinister personality. With Genforce primitive emotions? rare archive of Valentine Dyall. Back to transform companies in ways they barely understand, Murder fascinates and intrigues as much as it repels us. * Appointment With Fear the team are working with Genforce - an energy firm with lots Happily the human animal is much more of a pacifist than lots A classic episode from the ground breaking radio horror series to hide. of our other mammal relations, including meerkats (the adverts * Jonathan Rigby's Vault of Horror James Cary’s award-winning sitcom about management have lied to us). But even the most patient among us has Jonathan Rigby is joined by writer Kim Newman and Josephine consultants. probably been driven to murderous thoughts on occasion, Botting from the British Film Institute to chart the history of Ryan ...... Marcus Brigstocke especially when your sister steals your clothes. 'The Man in Black', reveal some memorable radio horror stories Sophie ...... Emma Kennedy From sibling rivalry, to pair bonding this is an informative and and get their teeth into why this genre continues to have us Daisy ...... Catherine Shepherd hilarious look at one of the darker aspects of human behaviour. shivering under the sheets. Owen ...... David Mitchell Recorded on location at The RAF Museum, Colindale * Fear on 4: The Monkey's Paw Chip ...... Greg Proops Written by and starring Sara Pascoe A man makes wishes on a very unusual gift that's been cast with Various ...... Steven Kynman Producer: Alexandra Smith a sinister spell. Stars Oliver Maguire and Trudy Kelly. Music by John Whitehall. A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in * Appointment With Fear Producer: Adam Bromley. February 2018. Another classic episode from the ground breaking radio horror First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2002. SAT 23:30 The Mark Steel Lecture (b007nf6b) series SAT 15:00 Radio Active (b007k1hf) Series 2 * Fear on 4: The Snowman Killing Series 4 Billie Holiday The Man in Black introduces the snowy mystery of a mother Gigantaquiz A profile of the American singer and songwriter. fearing evil in her own home. Stars Edward de Souza and Which lucky contestant is going to win the £10,000 jackpot in Mark Steel lectures humourously about historical figures that Imelda Staunton. Radio Active's massive quiz?!!!! have shaped their era. Producer: Stephen Garner Radio Active is the one and only local national radio station. With: Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in October Starring: Martin Hyder 2015. Helen Atkinson-Wood Carla Mendonca SAT 12:00 Act Your Age (b00zm0mc) Angus Deayton Producer: Lucy Armitage Series 3 Geoffrey Perkins First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2001. Episode 1 Philip Pope Simon Mayo hosts the three-way battle between the comedy Michael Fenton-Stevens generations to find out which is the funniest. Music by Philip Pope and Steve Brown. With Helen Murry, SUNDAY 25 JULY 2021 Will it be the Up-and-Comers, the Current Crop or the Old Nick Wilton and Jamie Rix. Guard who will be crowned, for one week at least, as the Written by Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins with John SUN 00:00 Nick Fisher - Finding Fellows (m0003kcx) Golden Age of Comedy. Buchan. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Holly Walsh is joined by Henry Paker, Lucy Porter by Miles Producer: Jamie Rix SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b0848f95) Jupp and Tom O'Connor teams up with Duggie Brown. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1984. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Devised and Produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. SAT 15:30 The Mel and Sue Thing (b0076b72) SUN 02:00 Chain Reaction (b052jk2z) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011. Episode 6 [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] SAT 12:30 The Navy Lark (b007jmzt) Jane Austen will be reeling from beyond the grave, as we learn SUN 02:30 Think the Unthinkable (b007k4g0) The TV Documentary the true meaning of Sweet Fanny Adams in the final instalment [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] Confusion abounds when HMS Troutbridge gets a makeover of the Mel and Sue's dramatisation of her last, and lost, novella. SUN 03:00 Radio Active (b007k1hf) for TV as a German wartime frigate. Plus a big musical number to finish off the series. What will the [Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday] Stars Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee and Stephen Murray. Old Biddies have to say about that? SUN 03:30 The Mel and Sue Thing (b0076b72) Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS More mayhem from Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive 13 series With Paul Chahidi SUN 04:00 HG Wells (m00041c8) between 1959 and 1976. Written by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] The Sub-Lieutenant ...... Leslie Phillips Producer: Elizabeth Freestone. SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b08b7wd1) The Chief Petty Officer ...... Jon Pertwee First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2002. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] The Number One ...... Stephen Murray SAT 16:00 HG Wells (m00041c8) SUN 06:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (Omnibus) Captain Povey ...... Richard Caldicot [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] (b08hrjh4) Mrs Povey ...... Heather Chasen SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b08b7wd1) Episode 1 Commander Bell ...... Ronnie Barker [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Bristol, 1792: A mysterious burial. Taffy Goldstein ...... Tenniel Evans SAT 18:00 Nick Fisher - Finding Fellows (m0003kcx) The story opens four years earlier as a man hides a body in a Cuthbert...... Michael Bates A computer expert surfs the internet for contacts, concealing gorge. The death is unexplained but four years on, the man has Written by Lawrie Wyman and George Evans. his identity. a wife - Lizzie Fawkes. Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. But what is his identity? Lizzie visits her poorly mother, and tells her of her husband's First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1972. Sci-fi drama written by Nick Fisher. Diner's plans to build a magnificent new terrace overlooking the SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b0848f95) Richard Fellows ……. Nicholas Woodeson. Gorge. Set to be the envy of the city, it’s a huge financial risk Lloyd George's Revolution Sal ……. Sarah Rice for him. Drawing on sound archive and key contemporary witnesses, Geoff ……. David Brooks Helen Dunmore's novel is set against a backdrop social Peter Hennessy tells how David Lloyd George revolutionised Tom ……. Christopher Wright upheaval caused by the French Revolution. It touches on Britain's government when he became prime minister over a Sally ……. Karen Hayley Radical idealism, property, political turmoil and private tragedy. century ago. Other parts played by Alastair Danson, Alison Pettitt and Iwan Dunmore was inspired by real life leading Radical writer Julia In the darkest days of the First World War, Lloyd George Thomas Fawkes, none of whose work survived. The story explores transformed an amateurish approach to government and Director: Peter Kavanagh tensions between generations and genders, and examines the galvanised a war weary country by radically reforming the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1997. idea of legacy as Julia's daughter Lizzie finds herself torn Cabinet, bringing outsiders ('men of push and go') into SAT 19:00 A Date With Dyall (b06my9rb) between her charismatic, self-made husband and her idealistic Whitehall and creating new departments. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] mother. As a radical politician, he always saw government as a force for SAT 22:00 Rigor Mortis (b007qw7n) Omnibus of the first five of ten parts abridged by Sara Davies. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 24 – 30 July 2021 Page 3 of 11 Read by Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp fire to their house after playing with fireworks. As a teenager Charles Aznavour and passes on Jeff Buckley’s version of Producer: Julian Wilkinson. he dreamed of a career as a footballer, but he ended up studying “Hallelujah. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. law at university, and worked as a solicitor in south London. SUN 14:20 A Small Town Murder (Omnibus) (b09w24bt) SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b09jhd5w) In 2015 Bob underwent triple heart bypass surgery. After this – Series 11 Twiggy in a rare diversion from working with Vic – he accepted an Some joyriders have crashed their stolen car and died at the Actress and fashion icon Twiggy chooses 'The Laughing invitation from fellow comedian Paul Whitehouse to get out of scene. Policeman' by Charles Penrose and 'Yesterday' by The Beatles. the house and go fishing, which led to a successful TV series, But what caused the teenagers to rebel? SUN 07:20 AJ Cronin - The Citadel (Omnibus) (b09d9cmq) Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing. Meera Syal returns as family liaison officer, Jackie Hartwell. Series 1 Producer: Sarah Taylor Her job, as ever, is to comfort and support the families of Andrew Manson, a newly trained doctor arrives in Drineffy, a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2019. victims while keeping a watchful eye on their reactions and South Wales mining town. SUN 10:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000y5v2) movements - just in case. He is to be an assistant to the elderly Dr Page. Manson is Love Letters Omnibus of five parts written by Scott Cherry. idealistic and full of enthusiasm but this is soon tempered by The discovery of long hidden World War II letters, between Jackie Hartwell ...... Meera Syal reality when he meets the cynical Dr Denny another doctor in Gilbert and the mysterious "G", reveal a romance between two Peter ...... Matthew Marsh the town. gay soldiers, written in a time when homosexuality was illegal. Karen ...... Sarah Ball Set in the mid 1920s and based on AJ Cronin's ground breaking This story first appeared on the BBC podcast, Multi Story - Alex ...... Ray Fearon novel, which partly inspired Nye Bevan to create the NHS. presented and produced by Becca Bryers, and featuring Brian ...... Ben Onwukwe Omnibus of five episodes dramatised by Christopher Reason. Genevieve Tudor and Allan Price from BBC Radio Shropshire. Dee ...... Ayesha Antoine Manson …. Richard Fleeshman SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m000y5v4) Director: Clive Brill Denny …. Julian Lewis Jones Around the World A Brill production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March Blodwyn .… Sue Jenkins True stories told live in the USA: Catherine Burns introduces 2018. Dr Page / Dr Griffiths …. Seamus O'Neill tales of personal relationships tried and tested around the globe. SUN 15:30 Blue Notes, Cold Nights (b0184rg8) Jenkins / Mr Williams / Miner …. Simon Ludders The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated Thanks to films like "Round Midnight" we all know about black Mrs Williams / Woman / Mrs Pryce / Gaynor .… Kath Weare to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since American musicians escaping racism and putting down roots in Old Thomas / PC Davies .... Simeon Truby 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling Paris. Branwell .... Philip Fox novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and But the story of the African-American and African presence in Gwyneth .... Fiona Clarke yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George Scandinavia has been one of Europe's best-kept secrets. Director: Gary Brown Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in Country blues singer-guitarist Eric Bibb, who learned his craft First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017 Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the in the coffee houses of Greenwich Village but has spent much SUN 08:30 A Life of Bliss (m0001h0b) screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, of his career in Sweden and Finland, explains how jazz and An Expert In Confusion The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at blues players such as trumpeter Don Cherry - step-father of Tony enlists a reluctant David to keep an eye on the daughter of theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the R&B star Neneh Cherry - built new lives in exile. Dexter a family friend. USA, the UK and other parts of the world. Gordon - the star of '"Round Midnight" was one of the George Cole stars in Godfrey Harrison's sitcom about bashful, The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and pioneers, settling in Copenhagen in the early 1960s. bumbling bachelor David Alexander Bliss. without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Over the decades, generous state support for musicians has David Bliss …. George Cole Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. helped the music scene in the region to flourish. Ann Fellows …. Diana Churchill Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the But now that the host nations are facing their own immigration Tony Fellows …. Colin Gordon humorous to the heart-breaking. crisis, will musicians continue to find a welcome? And how Zoe Hunter …. Sheila Sweet The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic easy is it to sustain creativity thousands of miles from your Gwen Cherrell …. Judy Tobin Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed roots? Mrs Tobin …. Belle Chrystall by the Public Radio Exchange. Producer: Mohini Patel 'Psyche' the Dog .... Percy Edwards First broadcast in the USA in 2019. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 December 2011. Six series of 118 episodes of A Life of Bliss ran on the BBC SUN 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (b09jhd5w) SUN 16:00 Drama (b09lvwj4) Home Service from 1953. It moved to BBC TV for a run of six [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] Muriel Spark - Memento Mori episodes in 1969. SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m000y5v6) Muriel Spark's gloriously dark comedy about death. Sadly very few episodes survive in the BBC archive, including Miles Jupp's Muscular Lines Set among a group of elderly people, the story begins with what the first seven starring David Tomlinson. His replacement Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and this appears to be an ordinary crime and ends up as a metaphysical George Cole went to to star in the St Trinian's films and later as week selects Miles Jupp's Muscular Lines. mystery. dodgy Arthur Daley in ITV's Minder. Can a book of poetry for boys which inspired young men at the An anonymous caller repeatedly disturbs the elderly men and Producer: Leslie Bridgmont beginning of the 20th century work its magic on a new women with the message: "Remember you must die." First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1959. generation? Dame Lettie Colston ..... PATRICIA HODGE SUN 09:00 The Arthur Haynes Show (m0009kfl) Comedian Miles Jupp revisits his old prep school with a book Godfrey Colston ..... JIM NORTON From 18/8/1963 of Muscular Lines to see if the stirring verse about battles, Charmian Colston ..... COLETTE O’NEIL Buying a used car where appearances can be deceptive - and exploration and moral values is relevant today. Some of today's Mabel Pettigrew ..... MONICA DOLAN exploring the art of conversation. heroes and explorers reveal the poems that keep them going Alec Warner ..... WILLIAM GAMINARA Arthur Haynes stars in the sketch show series written by Johnny when times get tough. Mrs Anthony/Emmeline Mortimer ..... KATH WEARE Speight. Reader - Leslie Barr Jean Taylor...... ELLIE DARVILL With Producer - David Stenhouse Henry Mortimer/Burglar’s Mate ..... NEIL MCCAUL Nicholas Parsons First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. Olive Mannering ..... ISABELLA INCHBALD Leslie Noyes SUN 12:30 Start/Stop (b07pjkhr) Muriel ..... GEORGIE GLEN Dorothy Dampier Series 3 Adapted by Robin Brooks Graham Stark BnB Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. Barney Galbraith Barney decides to become an Uber driver to boost his income - First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018. Dermot Kelly. and to 'bump into' Alice more often - and Cathy decides to rent SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000y5v6) Music by Joe Brown and the Bruvvers. their spare bedroom out on Air BnB. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Producer: Richard Dingley Meanwhile Evan and Fiona are arguing, and David writes a SUN 17:30 Start/Stop (b07pjkhr) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1963. raunchy bestseller based - to her horror - around Alice. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] SUN 09:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b007v206) Jack Docherty’s sitcom about three marriages in various states SUN 18:00 Val McDermid - Resistance (m000y5v8) Series 1 of disrepair. Episode 3 May the Farce Be With You Barney .... Jack Docherty Scientists in Germany think they've found an antibiotic that's Robert is about to appear in a new London West End farce, but Cathy .... Kerry Godliman effective against Zips. Human trials have been accelerated. The the real farce is what happens in the half hour before the curtain Evan .... John Thomson horror is out there and growing. The countryside has become a rises... Fiona .... Fiona Allen smoking pyre. Government ministers sit in a crisis meeting and John Gordon Sinclair stars in Paul Mayhew-Archer's sitcom. David .... Charlie Higson they simply don't know what to do. Robert Wilson ..... John Gordon Sinclair Alice .... Laura Aikman News reports start to break up and then disappear. Aasmah in Sue ..... Caroline Quentin Producer: Claire Jones her lab talks about the grim prospects with a colleague. It's clear Desmond Shaw ..... Gary Waldhorn A BBC Studio Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in that some countries have collapsed completely. Civil society is Margery Shaw ..... Alison Steadman August 2016. starting to break down. There have been food riots in some Stage Manager ..... Jonathan Kydd SUN 13:00 Days Without End by Sebastian Barry cities. The dead are beginning to back up in the streets. Other Producer: Paul Spencer (Omnibus) (b082m6cx) diseases are flaring up because of the decay and decomposition. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1989. Episode 2 Zoe...... Gina McKee SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000y5v0) With the American Civil War under way, Thomas and John Sam...... Nitin Kundra Comic Castaways 3 Cole are ordered to engage the rebel army. Dr Aasmah...... Chetna Pandya Bob Mortimer Thomas McNulty recounts how he, having fled Ireland when Cheryl...... Emily Pithon From Joni Mitchell to The Who. orphaned during the Great Famine, made his way across Receptionist...... Emily Pithon Comedian Bob Mortimer shares his castaway choices with America as part of the U.S. Cavalry. Home Secretary...... Conrad Nelson Kirsty Young. With his long-time friend and companion John Cole, Thomas Health Minister...... Jonathan Keeble Bob is best known for his work with his comedy partner Vic witnesses the birth of America - from the atrocities committed Editor...... Jonathan Keeble Reeves. against the Native Americans to the horrors of the Civil War - PM...... Malcolm Raeburn For over 30 years, he and Vic have appeared in numerous TV and, ultimately, finds his own family and identity Andreas...... Malcolm Raeburn series together, including Vic Reeves’ Big Night Out, Shooting Written by Irish author and Man Booker Prize finalist, Written by Val McDermid Stars and The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer. Sebastian Barry. Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts Bob first saw Vic performing in a south London pub: Vic was Read by Stanley Townsend. Programme consultant - Christopher Dowson Professor of wearing a Bryan Ferry mask while trying to tap dance with Omnibus of the last five of ten parts abridged by Neville Teller. Microbiology, University of Warwick and Trustee for wooden planks strapped to his feet. Bob found this hugely Producer Gemma McMullan Antibiotic Research UK entertaining, and began to take part in Vic’s shows. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016. Developed through the Wellcome Trust Experimental stories Bob was born in 1959 in Middlesbrough, the youngest of four SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b095b5cm) scheme. boys. His father died in a car crash when he was seven and Bob Robert Webb First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. says he became his mother’s little helper – although he also set Robert Webb inherits “Dance In The Old-Fashioned Way” by SUN 18:45 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist (b07j7ntw) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 24 – 30 July 2021 Page 4 of 11 The Butler Starring Alexei Sayle, Jake Yapp, Nicholas Parsons and Paul First broadcast on BBC Radoi 4 in July 2015. Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in Merton MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000xz43) dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre and Written and performed by Alexei Sayle. Series 75 amusing by turns, these dark comedies are justly famous for Additional Material by Sarah Campbell. Episode 6 their surprise endings, and for their rogues gallery of crooks, Producer: Joe Nunnery This final episode in the programme’s 75th series comes from cheats and schemers. A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in the Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House with a 1000-strong The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a writer of December 2016. remote audience drawn exclusively from Scotland. Join adult fiction, combining black comedy with sly social satire. SUN 23:30 Masala FM (b007jz5q) panellists Andy Hamilton, Rachel Parris, Fred Macaulay and They are stylishly plotted, vividly characterised and made Episode 5 Lee Mack under the reluctant chairmanship of Jack Dee. Piano unforgettable by their breezy cynicism, presenting a hilariously When the Asian radio station's boss gets religion, the on-air accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. bleak view of human nature. result is far from heavenly. Producer - Jon Naismith In The Butler, we meet George Cleaver, the Sausage King of Six-part sitcom written by Meera Syal A BBC Studios production the North, who sells his business and moves to London in order Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nitin Sawheny, Meera Syal and Nina MON 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn4t) to enter society. He employs a butler, Tibbs, to help him to do Wadia. Series 5 this. Tibbs explains that it’s vital Cleaver learns as much as he Music by Nitin Sawhney. A Star Is Born can about fine wines - and, to this end, Tibbs sets about buying Producer: Liz Anstee Harold falls for the leading lady from his drama society - and rare and expensive vintages and educating his employer. Before First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1996. Albert makes an entrance. long, Cleaver feels he no longer needs his butler’s advice. Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert, Harry H Corbett as Harold Cast: and Trevor Bannister as Rupert. With Jo Manning Wilson, Storyteller………..Charles Dance MONDAY 26 JULY 2021 Michael McClain and Nicolette MacKenzie. George Cleaver….Geoffrey Whitehead Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association Mrs Cleaver……...Sarah Badel MON 00:00 Val McDermid - Resistance (m000y5v8) with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson Tibbs……………..Nickolas Grace [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Lord Dungeness….Nicholas Boulton MON 00:45 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist (b07j7ntw) The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring Written by Roald Dahl [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan MON 01:00 Days Without End by Sebastian Barry and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. Director: David Blount (Omnibus) (b082m6cx) Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] Simpson. SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m000y5v4) MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b095b5cm) Produced by Bobby Jaye [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1974. SUN 19:50 Inheritance Tracks (b09jhd5w) MON 02:20 A Small Town Murder (Omnibus) (b09w24bt) MON 08:30 England, Their England by AG Macdonell [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday] (m000y6q3) SUN 20:00 Drama (b09lvwj4) MON 03:30 Blue Notes, Cold Nights (b0184rg8) Episode 5 [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday] Leslie Phillips narrates AG Macdonell's classic comedy first SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000y5v0) MON 04:00 Drama (b09lvwj4) published in 1933, adapted in six parts by Bob Sinfield. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Young Donald Cameron retires injured from the Great War and SUN 21:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000y5v2) MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000y5v6) finds himself with a commission - to write a book about the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] English and their curious habits. SUN 22:00 Start/Stop (b07pjkhr) MON 05:30 Start/Stop (b07pjkhr) Episdoe 5: Donald discovers there is no place for "facts or any [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] of that tommy-rot" in English politics. Leslie Phillips narrates. SUN 22:30 Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian (m000fgst) MON 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b1zss) Donald ... Sam Graham Series 2 Mrs McGinty's Dead Gwladys ... Katy Odey Racism 1. Death Sentence Hodge ... Christopher Benjamin Stand-up series exploring British Chinese culture from BBC A senior Police Officer is not convinced of the guilt of a young Harcourt ... Peter Kelly New Comedy Award finalist Ken Cheng. man sentenced to hang for the savage murder of an elderly Chairlady ... Denise Coffey Dave's Joke of the Fringe Winner, Cambridge mathematics woman. Director: Neil Cargill dropout and professional poker player Ken Cheng returns with So he seeks the help of his old friend and colleague, a certain A Splice of Life production for BBC Radio 2 first broadcast in series exploring free speech, social status, racism and money… celebrated but rather bored Belgian detective - Hercule Poirot. October 1994. Producer: Adnan Ahmed Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt. MON 09:00 Act Your Age (b00zsjz7) A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in From the novel published in 1952 and dramatised by Michael Series 3 February 2020. Bakewell in five parts. Episode 2 SUN 22:45 Charlotte and Lillian (m00094k1) Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt Simon Mayo hosts the three-way battle between the comedy Series 2 Superintendent Spence ...... George Baker generations to find out which is the funniest. 1. The Game Maureen Summerhayes ...... Molly Gaisford Will it be the Up-and-Comers, the Current Crop or the Old Charlotte (Helen Monks) and Lillian (Miriam Margolyes) are Major Summerhayes ...... Ian Masters Guard who will be crowned, for one week at least, as the back, spending time together as part of a Befriend the Elderly Maud Williams ...... Beth Chalmers Golden Age of Comedy? scheme. They may bicker about everything from signs of Mrs Burch ...... Connie Walker Jon Richardson is joined by Andi Osho, Rufus Hound teams up dementia to the appeal of Harry Styles, but underneath it’s clear Mrs Sweetiman ...... Jillie Meers with Andrew Maxwell and Ted Robbins is paired with both they are two kindred spirits. Two selfish, self-absorbed spirits, Mr Scuttle ...... Geoffrey Beevers Roger De Courcey and Nookie Bear. but ones who mirror and rely on each other nonetheless. James Bentley ...... Tom George Devised and produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. Very nearly 30, Charlotte is still living at home with her parents Director: Enyd Williams. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011. and chronically unable to figure out what to do with her life. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006. MON 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008d0hd) Beneath her attempt at do-gooding is barely disguised despair. MON 06:30 Cordoba (m000y6q1) Series 2 She's terrified she is no good. Useless. Unloveable. She looks to 2. Hidden Motives Episode 3 Lillian to provide some meaning to her life - if she can help to Traumatised by finding Jenny hanged, D.T. thinks three recent JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, improve Lillian’s life somehow, she’d feel a lot better about her suicides may be linked. Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From July own. And there’s all the kudos and social media likes that come A thriller set in Wales. Renowned writer Raymond Turner is 1991. with charity work - not to mention the lure of Lillian's large mysteriously blown up on his boat. D.T. Mitchell – ‘Dee’ - a MON 10:00 Gwyn Thomas - All Things Betray Thee spare room. reporter on a local Swansea newspaper, is sent to investigate and (m0007rf4) Lillian meanwhile is still her ebullient self, but her facade hides unearths a web of deceit and cover-ups. D.T.’s life is dogged by 1. Moonlea a nagging fear of what's to come - her body is giving up on her. alcohol abuse, a messy divorce and career frustration. However, In 1835, a travelling harpist arrives in the iron town of Moonlea Lillian's motto is still “Keep Buggering On” – aka keep getting she is reinvigorated with this assignment… in search of his friend. at Charlotte – but increasingly, she’s forced to wonder why. She Written for radio by Nigel Baldwin. When he finds unrest and injustice he tries not to become masks all this by doubling down and manipulating Charlotte CAST: involved. into carrying out all her menial tasks. If Charlotte won’t do Dee Mitchell …. Alison Steadman Gywn Thomas's 1949 novel dramatised in three-parts by Alan them, there are plenty of other volunteers who will. Conrad De’Ath …. Bill Stewart Plater. Charlotte has met a new man, prompting Lillian to offer up her Thomas …. Alan Towner Leigh ... Ian Hughes best dating advice. Things may have changed since Lillian’s day, Geraint …. Robin Griffith John Simon .... Patrick Brennan but some of her suggestions contain hard-won, ageless wisdom. Alex …. Leslie Rooney Helen ..... Melanie Walters The trouble is, Charlotte can't tell which ones – and Lillian may Ieuan …. Robert Pugh Lemuel ... Ray Llewellyn not have her best interests at heart. Jenny …. Ruth Jones Katherine ... Manon Edwards Charlotte ...... Helen Monks Charlene …. Louise Holland Penbury .... Bill Stewart Lillian ...... Miriam Margolyes 'Tina' Turner …. Gudrun Ure Jefferies .... Laurence Allan Written by: Kat Sommers and Holly Walsh. Barry Jones …. Laurence Allan Bannion ....Rhodri Hugh Producer: Lucy Armitage Rachel …. Helen Griffin Isabella .... Helen Gwyn A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Coroner …. Dillwyn Owen Jabez ... Hubert Rees 2019. Original music by Laurie Scott Baker. Felix ... Keiron Self SUN 23:00 Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar Jane Dauncey: Director Mrs Brier ...Anwen Williams (b084bmn9) Produced in Wales and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. Lord Plimmon ... Ric Jerrom Series 1 MON 07:00 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b0608n2d) Music by Ruth Wall History and the Role of the Entertainer Series 1 Harp ... Ruth Wall Alexei explores the role of the entertainer. Along the way he Boredom Violin ... Alison Frances explains why he will never go on Strictly Come Dancing, the Helen looks at the problem of boredom, and the potential Director: Alison Hindell. reason Newsnight needs to be 11 hours long and questions why solution that is gamification. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1996. TV comedy panel shows help rehabilitate the careers of 'war Covering everything from bear-baiting to loyalty points, the MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m000y6q5) criminals'. show also asks how many times you can spot the mystery word? Series 8 The Godfather of Alternative Comedy delivers a mixture of Starring Helen Keen with Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane. Clint Smith - Poet stand-up, memoir and philosophy from behind the counter of Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill. A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting his Imaginary Sandwich Bar. Producer: Gareth Edwards. speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 24 – 30 July 2021 Page 5 of 11 stage. MON 15:00 Gwyn Thomas - All Things Betray Thee Christine Tobin... Ingrid Oliver Manoush Zomorodi talks to poet Clint Smith about his (m0007rf4) Natalie... Emma Sidi experience as a Black parent in America after George Floyd. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Drew... Kiell Smith-Bynoe From 2020. MON 16:00 Act Your Age (b00zsjz7) Jones... Justin Edwards First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2020. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] PJ... Rosie Cavaliero MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000y6q7) MON 16:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008d0hd) Jack Steele & Tony... Adam Riches Darcey Bussell [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Producer Simon Nicholls Ballerina Darcey Bussell chooses ‘Dancing Queen’ by Abba and MON 17:00 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b0608n2d) A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Prokofiev's Adagio from ‘Cinderella’. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] August 2019. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live in May 2021. MON 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000xz43) MON 23:30 Recorded for Training Purposes (b00gdyxx) MON 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn4t) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Series 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Episode 1 MON 12:30 England, Their England by AG Macdonell (b007jrxn) Fast-paced sketch show about modern communication, media (m000y6q3) The World in Peril noise and contemporary obsessions. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Episode 11 With Ben Willbond, Dominic Coleman, Ingrid Oliver, Rachel MON 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b1zss) In Paddy's absence, Captain Jet Morgan and the crew of the Atkins, Lewis Macleod and Julie Mayhew. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Discovery set out to explore the asteroid. Writers: MON 13:30 Cordoba (m000y6q1) It’s April 1972, and Jet and his crew return to Mars in an Rebecca Hobbs [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] attempt to avert the impending Martian invasion. Christina Martin MON 14:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08hm9w6) Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures James McDougall Episode 6 of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the Kate Chedgey Set in Bristol in 1792, Birdcage Walk plays out against a preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. Michael Balazo backdrop of the French Revolution. It touches on Radical Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds John Dorney idealism, property, political turmoil and private tragedy. Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp Daniel Harlos Inspired by the real life of Julia Fawkes, a leading Radical Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter John-Luke Roberts writer, none of whose work has survived, Dunmore explores the Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass Matt Honeyball tensions between generations and genders, and examines the Flynn …. Pat Campbell James Sherwood idea of legacy as Julia's daughter Lizzie finds herself torn Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs Mike Ryan between her charismatic, self made husband and her idealistic Music composed by Van Phillips Michael Rees mother. As her husband John Diner Tredevant speculates on Written and produced by Charles Chilton. Script editors: James Cary, Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris property in Bristol's housing boom, he risks losing everything in First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December Producer: Ed Morrish the social upheaval caused by the French Revolution. 1955. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009. Episode Six: Diner questions where Lizzie has been on her MON 18:30 A Good Read (b01l0dp6) nocturnal wanderings, and a chance encounter with a Kevin Maguire and Lucy Mangan dressmaker on the streets of Bristol reveals a clue to John Harriett Gilbert is joined by the journalist Kevin Maguire and TUESDAY 27 JULY 2021 Diner's past. Lizzie Fawkes decides to visit the dressmaker to the columnist Lucy Mangan to discuss their favourite books. find out more about Diner's first wife Lucie and the mysterious BOOKS FEATURED IN THE PROGRAMME TUE 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrxn) circumstances surrounding her death. Lucy Mangan's choice: 'Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady' [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Helen Dunmore was a prize-winning novelist and poet whose by Florence King TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b01l0dp6) work often explores the interplay between the public and the Publ. Virago [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] personal Kevin Maguire's choice: 'The Clerkenwell Tales' by Peter TUE 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b1zss) The readers are Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp Ackroyd [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] The abridger is Sara Davies Publ. Random House TUE 01:30 Cordoba (m000y6q1) Produced by Julian Wilkinson Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'The Smoking Diaries' by Simon Gray [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] First broadcast in March 2017. Publ. Granta TUE 02:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08hm9w6) MON 14:15 Claudia Roden: A Book of Middle Eastern Producer: Sarah Langan [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Food (b09xjb5v) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2012. TUE 02:15 Claudia Roden: A Book of Middle Eastern Food Episode 1 MON 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn4t) (b09xjb5v) Claudia Roden's A Book of Middle Eastern Food published in [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] 1968, was a major landmark in the history of food writing and MON 19:30 England, Their England by AG Macdonell TUE 02:30 True Tales From the Crypt (b01mqq9g) paved the way for all the TV chefs who followed. Born in 1936 (m000y6q3) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] in Cairo, Claudia Roden was a foreign food correspondent for [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE 03:00 Gwyn Thomas - All Things Betray Thee the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times Magazine. Later, she MON 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b1zss) (m0007rf4) hosted a BBC TV series, Claudia Roden's Mediterranean [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Cookery, and has won many awards and trophies. MON 20:30 Cordoba (m000y6q1) TUE 04:00 Act Your Age (b00zsjz7) With cameos from Yotam Ottolenghi and Claudia's [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] granddaughter, Nelly Wolman, this entertaining dramatisation, MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m000y6q5) TUE 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008d0hd) shines a light on an extraordinary global cook, still traveling the [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] world sharing recipes and cultures. MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000y6q7) TUE 05:00 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b0608n2d) The dramatist Anjum Malik is an established scriptwriter, poet [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] and performer. She was born in Saudi Arabia and has lived in MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000xz43) TUE 05:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000xz43) Pakistan as well several cities in England. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] Episode 1: MON 22:30 Father Figure (b01bw5cc) TUE 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b2vb6) Claudia remembers her early life in Cairo and the nostalgic Series 1 Mrs McGinty's Dead dishes of her childhood. Birthday Lunch 2. Headlines CAST: Family sitcom written by and starring Irish comedian Jason Hercule Poirot is convinced that the brutal murder of an elderly Claudia Roden...... Tracy-Ann Oberman Byrne. woman is connected to a lurid article in a Sunday newspaper Nelly Douek...... Ann Marcuson Much to the consternation of his overbearing mother, Tom Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt. Cesar Douek...... David Fleeshman Whyte decides to cook his dad a birthday lunch for a family get- From the novel published in 1952 and dramatised by Michael Interviewer/Auntie...... Perveen Hussain together. What he intends to put on the table undergoes a Bakewell. Dramatist...... Anjum Malik transformation by serving time, whilst best friend Roddy brings Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt Sound Design...... Eloise Whitmore an especially unappetising contribution to the meal. Ariadne Oliver ...... Julia MacKenzie Producers...... Polly Thomas and Eloise CAST: Superintendent Spence ...... George Baker Whitmore Tom Whyte .... Jason Byrne Mrs Wetherby ...... Rosalind Knight Executive Producer...... Robert Abel Elaine Whyte .... Lucy Montgomery Deirdre Henderson ...... Teresa Gallagher A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Dylan Whyte .... Dominic Applewhite Mrs Upward ...... Jill Balcon April 2018. Mary Whyte .... Pauline McLynn Robin Upward ...... Nick Waring MON 14:30 True Tales From the Crypt (b01mqq9g) Pat Whyte .... Dermot Crowley Eve Carpenter ...... Angela Sims Roger Luckhurst goes in search of the original Curse of the Roddy .... Michael Smiley Guy Carpenter ...... Dominic Colchester Mummy's Tomb, and finds out that it may be more Western Producer: Julia McKenzie Dr Rendell ...... Gerard McDermott invention than Egyptian reality... First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 2021. Director: Enyd Williams. Since its earliest days Hollywood has been obsessed with the MON 23:00 Party's Over (m00076tk) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006. idea of the curse of the pharoahs, the mummy that reawakens to Pilot TUE 06:30 Cordoba (m000y68t) wreak vengeance on the world. Yet Egyptologists deny such What happens when the Prime Minister suddenly stops being 3. Warned Off curses exist in Egyptian tombs. The popular legend of the curse Prime Minister? When reprisals begin against her, Dee recalls why she is so is thought to date from the excavation of the tomb of One day you're the most powerful person in the country, the driven to get to the truth. Tutankhamun by Howard Carter and his backer Lord next you're irrelevant, forced into retirement 30 years ahead of A thriller set in Wales. Renowned writer Raymond Turner is Caernarvon in 1922, and Caernarvon's subsequent death from schedule and find yourself asking 'What do I do now?' mysteriously blown up on his boat. D.T. Mitchell – ‘Dee’ - a an infected mosquito bite. Newspapers were quick to alight on Miles Jupp stars as Henry Tobin - Britain's shortest serving and reporter on a local Swansea newspaper, is sent to investigate and the idea of a curse, and equally quick to blame the curse for any least popular post war PM (he managed 8 months). unearths a web of deceit and cover-ups. D.T.’s life is dogged by subsequent death even tenuously connected with the excavation. We join Henry soon after his crushing election loss. He’s alcohol abuse, a messy divorce and career frustration. However, But Roger Luckhurst believes that the origin of the mummy determined to not let his disastrous defeat be the end of him. she is reinvigorated with this assignment… curse story goes back far earlier than Caernarvon, back into the Instead Henry's going to get back to the top - he's just not sure Written for radio by Nigel Baldwin. nineteenth century, when Britain's empire was at its zenith and how and in what field.. CAST: two curse stories, centring on two swashbuckling sons of In this first episode of the series, Henry is looking to repair his Dee Mitchell …. Alison Steadman empire, Walter Ingram, and Thomas Douglas Murray, set tattered reputation by getting a publishing deal for his memoirs Conrad De’Ath …. Bill Stewart Victorian society alight. What can these earlier tales tell us to set the record straight on his premiership. Geraint …. Robin Griffith about the idea of the Mummy curse? Written by Paul Doolan and Jon Hunter Alex …. Leslie Rooney First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. Henry Tobin... Miles Jupp Ieuan …. Robert Pugh Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 24 – 30 July 2021 Page 6 of 11 Tina Turner …. Gudrun Ure Katherine ... Manon Edwards Dramatist...... Anjum Malik Rachel …. Helen Griffin Helen ..... Melanie Walters Sound Design...... Eloise Whitmore Raymond Turner …. Tony Leader Bannion ....Rhodri Hugh Producers...... Polly Thomas and Eloise Press Officer …. Stacey Jefferson Lemuel ... Ray Llewellyn Whitmore Landlord …. Brendan Charleson Jefferies .... Laurence Allan Executive Producer...... Robert Abel Original music by Laurie Scott Baker. Isabella .... Helen Gwyn A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Jane Dauncey: Director Jabez ... Hubert Rees April 2018. Produced in Wales and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. Felix ... Kieron Self TUE 14:30 Was Gertrude Stein Any Good? (b01r0dys) TUE 07:00 Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers (b098jtq1) Rev Bowen ...Dillwyn Owen Gertrude Stein has been called a genius and an idiot. So which Series 1 Lord Plimmon ... Ric Jerrom was she? For some Stein is on a literary par with her Childhood Music by Ruth Wall contemporaries and friends; James Joyce, T.S Eliot, Marcel Writer and comedian, Andy Hamilton shares his observations Harp ... Ruth Wall Proust or Ezra Pound, but for others she's a fraud, the 'eminent and reminiscences about his personal life and 40 years working Violin ... Alison Frances idiot' of the Modernist period, writing gibberish and passing it in comedy. Director: Alison Hindell. off as art. For starters, Andy recalls his favourite childhood sounds of the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1996. There's no doubting the importance of Stein as a creative ice-cream van and the roar of the Stamford Bridge. Plus his TUE 11:00 Charles Parker Prize (m000y68y) catalyst. She gathered some of the greatest artists of the 20th memories of being an overcautious and yet inattentive parent. 2021 century into her circle, offering financial, emotional and The rest of this four-part series looks at Politics, The Human Sara Parker introduces a new generation of student features intellectual support. Picasso and Hemingway in particular cited Body and Animals. makers, all winners and finalists of the Charles Parker prize her importance to their work. Using comic observation and personal anecdotes he explore 2021 – a prize which was set up in memory of her father. She spent much of her life working on her opus, 'The Making each theme, examining how much (or how little) things have Through the late 1950s and 60s, pioneering radio producer of Americans', a book likened to Joyce's Ulysses in its scale, changed over his 60ish years. Charles Parker, along with folk icons Ewan MacColl and Peggy ambition and incomprehensibility. Does it deserve re- It’s Andy’s thoughtful, social history, but packed with laughs. Seeger, made ‘The Radio Ballads’ , an innovative series which examination? Is it fair that Joyce is lauded and Stein Producer: Claire Jones brought a new landscape of radio storytelling – interweaving marginalised? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017. interview and actuality with MacColl and Seeger’s musical Poet and presenter Ian McMillan asks if Getrude Stein was any TUE 07:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market (m000xzfr) narrative. good? Series 6 Charles’ daughter Sara Parker, herself an award-winning radio Produced in Salford by Nicola Swords. The Super Rich producer, hears this year's very best features on themes ranging First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013. As the waters recede from the tsunami of the global pandemic from gender and race, body image, an asylum seeker, a window TUE 15:00 Gwyn Thomas - All Things Betray Thee and Britain settles into its new relationship with Europe and the cleaner and a secluded all-male swimming place on the outskirts (m0007rnv) World, Simon Evans returns to focus his jokenomics lens on the of Oxford to an invisible army of cleaners battling Covid and a [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] myriad economic challenges and opportunities facing humanity. doctor who turns to his love of the violin for solace with the TUE 16:00 The Rest is History (b075mnxs) Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have had an excellent pandemic. A Gold winning feature remembering 40 years on, the New Cross Series 2 2021 Oxfam report found that the world’s 10 richest billionaires fire which killed 13 black teenagers. Episode 1 have collectively seen their wealth grow by $540 billion over There are extracts from the winning features of: Magdalena Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of it. the last year. And it’s not just the super-rich, it’s true that even Moursy, Hunter Charlton, Chantal Herbert, Isobel Howe and So he's devised a comedy discussion show in order to find out the less obscenely wealthy have got richer during the pandemic. Emma Millen, as well as the five runners-up Stephen Bissett, more about it. The price of Aston Martins and other playthings is sure to rise Shelley Gates, Mariana Araújo Ramos Maia Gonçalves, Ben Along with his historian in residence, Professor Kate Williams, but what does this further bunching of wealth at the top mean Tulloh and Kate White. You can hear the five winners’ work in Frank is joined by Katy Brand and Pierre Novellie, who discuss for the rest of us? full in the series ‘New Storytellers’ on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Hodge - the cat belonging to Doctor Samuel Pepys, Nelson and Simon is joined by Robert Watts, compiler of the Sunday Sounds. Lady Hamilton, and the Lyme Missal. Times Rich List to take a look at the lives and influence of the Producer: Jay Sykes Producers: Mark Augustyn and Justin Pollard Super Rich. A Soundscape Production for BBC Radio 4 Extra. An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April Written and presented by Simon Evans TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jyxq) 2016.. Additional material from Dan Evans [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE 16:30 The Brothers (b00nn2hg) Production co-ordinator: Cherlynn Andrew-Wilfred TUE 12:30 Take Me to Your Reader (m000y68w) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Producer: Richard Morris [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE 17:00 Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers (b098jtq1) Photo credit: Steve Best TUE 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b2vb6) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] A BBC Studios Production [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE 17:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market (m000xzfr) TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jyxq) TUE 13:30 Cordoba (m000y68t) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Series 9 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js0f) The Scarlet Capsule TUE 14:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08hnpmq) The World in Peril Professor Ned Quatermass unravels a mystery around some Episode 7 Episode 12 enigmatic blue serge suits. Stars Spike Milligan. From February Set in Bristol in 1792, Helen Dunmore's novel Birdcage Walk, Jet and Lemmy ignore sinister audio warnings as they approach 1959. plays out against a backdrop of the French Revolution. It the centre of the asteroid. TUE 08:30 Take Me to Your Reader (m000y68w) touches on Radical idealism, property, political turmoil and It’s April 1972, and Jet and his crew return to Mars in an 3. A Change of Medium private tragedy. Inspired by the real life of Julia Fawkes, a attempt to avert the impending Martian invasion. Colin and author Prudence defend the romantic innocence of leading Radical writer, none of whose work has survived, Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures her second novel. Dunmore explores the tensions between generations and of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the A mid ‘80s sitcom set in the publishing house, Roache & genders, and examines the idea of legacy as Julia's daughter preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. Brewer, where erudite, naïve Colin Luscombe fights an uphill Lizzie finds herself torn between her charismatic, self made Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds battle with his bluff MD, Rees John. Colin wants to inform and husband and her idealistic mother. As her husband John Diner Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp educate the world, whilst Rees is only interested in the bottom Tredevant speculates on property in Bristol's housing boom, he Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter line. "Forget literature," says Rees to Colin, "concentrate on risks losing everything in the social upheaval caused by the Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass books.” Stuck in the middle is Janet Hunt. French Revolution. Various …. Pat Campbell CAST: Episode Seven: The news from France darkens, and Lizzie Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs Colin Luscombe …. Tim Brooke-Taylor receives a French visitor - but the visitor has not come to talk of Music composed by Van Phillips Rees John …. Glyn Houston the Revolution. Instead she is searching for Lizzie husband's Written and produced by Charles Chilton. Janet Hunt …. Eve Karpf Diner, and the whereabouts of his first wife's tombstone. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December Prudence Gray …. Nell Brennan An acclaimed poet and award-winning novelist, Helen 1955. Piers Bruce …. Jon Glover Dunmore's work explores the interplay between the public and TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b01cjwtn) Seagram Holt …. John Graham the personal. Series 13 Written by Andrew Palmer. The readers are Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp The Hallelujah Chorus Producer: Edward Taylor The abridger is Sara Davies The Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah is stirring, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1986. Produced by Julian Wilkinson emotional and unmistakable. TUE 09:00 Party's Over (m00076tk) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. The Alzheimer's Society runs a group called 'Singing for the [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE 14:15 Claudia Roden: A Book of Middle Eastern Food Brain'. It's for people with dementia or Alzheimers and their TUE 09:30 The Brothers (b00nn2hg) (b09xjtdb) carers who come together to sing in a group. As music is tied so Series 2 Episode 2 closely to emotional memories, often lyrics and music remain Episode 1 Claudia Roden's A Book of Middle Eastern Food was a firmly fixed in the brain, even though other memories have died A comedy series about the dysfunctional Burbage siblings. landmark cookery book, first published in 1968. At a time away. Michael becomes obsessed by the circus and Nigel has a bizarre when most Britons were enjoying cauliflower cheese and soggy Julia Burton of the Alzheimer's Society recalls the power of the encounter with a Ted Hughes poem. Spaghetti Bolognese on a regular basis, she introduced chick Hallelujah Chorus, as performed at a special event by Singing CAST: peas, sharp flavoured marinades, aubergines and her most for the Brain groups in Wiltshire and Dorset. Nigel Burbage …. Adam Godley popular recipe - orange and almond cake. Mrs Vera Fiton, whose late husband - Ted - had dementia talks Michael Burbage …. Ray Coulthard She is a cookery writer whose love of cooking and exploration about how important the weekly singing group was for both of Oonagh …. Pauline McLynn of culture through recipes has placed her in a unique role. Jay them. Taking Ted from his care home to 'do the Hallelujah' was Zorro …. Alex Lowe Rayner of The Kitchen Cabinet describes her as 'One of the a weekly highlight, he enjoyed it so much, Vera recalls, that Written by Caroline and David Stafford. greatest British food writers working in Britain today - one he'd still be singing in the taxi on the way home. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005. before whom the likes of Nigel Slater, Simon Hopkinson, Carol Pemberton, of the Birmingham-based a capella quintet TUE 10:00 Gwyn Thomas - All Things Betray Thee Nigella and Delia will all willingly bend the knee." 'Black Voices', took part in the reopening concert of (m0007rnv) Episode 2: Birmingham Town Hall in 2007. The programme director 2. Wild Music Now at art school in London, Claudia despairs of British suggested they sing The Messiah, but not as Handel intended, The iron furnaces in Moonlea are about to be closed, and cooking. Everything changes when her beloved parents are rather a daring interpretation arranged by Quincy Jones, called trouble is brewing, but Leigh cannot persuade John Simon to expelled from Egypt and join her. the 'Soulful Messiah'. It's a soul/gospel version which has to be leave. Claudia Roden...... Tracy-Ann Oberman heard to be believed! Carol describes performing it as one of Gywn Thomas's 1949 novel dramatised by Alan Plater. Nelly Douek...... Ann Marcuson the biggest highs of her career to date. Leigh ... Ian Hughes Cesar Douek...... David Fleeshman Jennifer Blakeley runs Alphabet Photography, a photo company John Simon .... Patrick Brennan Interviewer/Auntie...... Perveen Hussain based in Niagara Falls in Canada. She came up with the idea of Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 24 – 30 July 2021 Page 7 of 11 staging a Flash Mob to promote her company. The Hallelujah established several possible suspects of appropriate ages, as the Simon Brett's sitcom stars Rosemary Leach. From November Chorus had long been a favourite piece, and she - along with her murderer of the elderly woman... 1994. local choir - set up a flash-mob in a local shopping mall. The Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt. WED 09:00 The Motion Show (b00762sc) result was emotional, extraordinary... and achieved so much From the novel published in 1952 and dramatised by Michael Series 4 more than the intended aim to boost her business. Passers by , Bakewell. Episode 5 not linked with the choir, joined in... others cried, emotions ran Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt Graeme Garden chairs the debating game with Gyles Brandreth, high. And the resulting You Tube video has now attracted over Ariadne Oliver ...... Julia MacKenzie Scott Capurro, Arthur Smith and Paul Daniels. From June 37 million hits. Superintendent Spence ...... George Baker 2001. Paul Spicer, composer, conductor and organist, describes the Mrs Upward ...... Jill Balcon WED 09:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k1kz) historical backdrop to Handel's exhilarating composition. Robin Upward ...... Nick Waring Series 2 Producer: Karen Gregor. Eve Carpenter ...... Angela Sims The Comeback Kid First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2012. Deirdre Henderson ...... Teresa Gallagher Rosie and her team are asked to relaunch the career of an TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jyxq) Maureen Summerhayes ...... Molly Gaisford ageing children's TV presenter. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Mrs Rendell ...... Susannah Corbett Can they prove that old fashioned entertainment can win out TUE 19:30 Take Me to Your Reader (m000y68w) Mrs Sweetiman ...... Jillie Meers over computer games? [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Director: Enyd Williams. Prunella Scales stars in the second of four series of Simon TUE 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b2vb6) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006. Brett's sitcom following the trials and tribulations of Rosie [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED 06:30 Cordoba (m000y750) Burns and her event-management company based in Brighton. TUE 20:30 Cordoba (m000y68t) 4. Reappearances With Arabella Weir as Kate, Rebecca Callard as Jo, Duncan [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Raymond appears to die again and Dee’s mystery man Preston as Bob, Annette Badland as Tess, David Wood as TUE 21:00 Charles Parker Prize (m000y68y) reappears. Tommy Tummy, James Vaughan as Julian, Jim North as [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] A thriller set in Wales. Renowned writer Raymond Turner is Bernard and Stefan Abingdon and Alice Connor as the TUE 22:00 Simon Evans Goes to Market (m000xzfr) mysteriously blown up on his boat. D.T. Mitchell – ‘Dee’ - a Children, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] reporter on a local Swansea newspaper, is sent to investigate and Producer: Maria Esposito TUE 22:30 Revolting People (b008gc13) unearths a web of deceit and cover-ups. D.T.’s life is dogged by First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2001. Series 3 alcohol abuse, a messy divorce and career frustration. However, WED 10:00 Gwyn Thomas - All Things Betray Thee The God-Given Talent she is reinvigorated with this assignment… (m0007s2w) Joshua enters a log-chopping contest and Cora discovers a gift Written for radio by Nigel Lambert. 3. The Verdict for penning pornography. CAST: The iron workers' uprising is defeated and Leigh has become an Sitcom set just before the American War of Independence. Dee Mitchell …. Alison Steadman accessory to murder. Written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses. Conrad De’Ath …. Bill Stewart Conclusion of Gywn Thomas's novel dramatised by Alan Plater. CAST: Geraint …. Robin Griffith Leigh ... Ian Hughes McGurk .... Andy Hamilton Alex …. Leslie Rooney John Simon .... Patrick Brennan Samuel .... Jay Tarses Ieuan …. Robert Pugh Katherine ... Manon Edwards Captain Brimshaw .... James Fleet Tina Turner …. Gudrun Ure Helen ..... Melanie Walters Mary .... Jan Raven Raymond Turner …. Tony Leader Jefferies .... Laurence Allan Joshua .... Tony Maudsley Bethan …. Sue Jones Davies Clark ... Gerald James Ezekiel .... Hugh Dennis Detective …. Gary Llewellyn Longridge ... Sion Probert Cora .... Penelope Nice Original music by Laurie Scott Baker. Parr ... Ian Rowlands Other parts played by Michael Fenton Stevens and Philip Pope. Jane Dauncey: Director Jabez ... Hubert Rees Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Produced in Wales and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. Penbury .... Bill Stewart First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. WED 07:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b082j3cb) Lemuel ... Ray Llewellyn TUE 23:00 2000 Years of Radio (b007jng1) An Encounter with Mr Handel Lord Plimmon ... Ric Jerrom Series 1 Friedrich Handel is down in the dumps because the King is Music by Ruth Wall Crusade Roadshow growing tired of his music. He heads north to Edinburgh for Harp ... Ruth Wall Join DJ Steve in the Afternoon on his AD 1200 Christian inspiration and meets the ladies of The Fair Intellectual Club - a Director: Alison Hindell. Crusade Roadshow as he gathers up an army of children and the secret scholarly society for girls. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1996. plague-ridden to find salvation and a suntan in the Holy Land. With the help of Marjory, Handel finds a melancholy theme for WED 11:00 Jim Morrison's Will to be Weird (m000h1z5) Six-part series that taps into the radio archive of a bygone age. a new work. Thanks to the efforts of girl-about-town Ishbel and 2: Strange Days Written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Claire Downes, maths genius Alison, he ends up with a much jauntier, raunchier Had Jim Morrison of The Doors not died in mysterious Stuart Lane, Al Holloway, Danny Robbins and Dan Tetsell. tune. circumstances at the tender age of 27 in 1971, he would have Producers: Paul Dodgson & Sean Grundy Lucy Porter's sitcom is set in early 18th Century Scotland. celebrated his 75th birthday in 2018. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000. Friedrich Handel ...... Gus Brown Over three sixty-minute episodes, Paul Gambaccini mixes the TUE 23:15 Jelly Mountain (b00fkp5z) Marjory ...... Samara MacLaren music and poetry of the man with the influences that moulded Episode 3 Ishbel ...... Caroline Deyga the self-proclaimed ‘The Lizard King’. Paul first encountered A visit to the circus heralds arcane amusements. Songs and Alison ...... Jessica Hardwick Morrison in 1967 when, as a young music director on a New stories from Ivor Cutler, with Craig Murray-Orr. From May With Simon Donaldson and Gordon Kennedy Hampshire radio station, he eagerly opened The Doors’ first 1996. Music by Aly Macrae. single ‘Break On Through’. He followed his career from TUE 23:30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Director: Marilyn Imrie beginning to end and, to this day, visits Morrison’s grave in Better (b00cxr1s) Producer: Gordon Kennedy Paris. Series 2 An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in In addition to Paul’s memories and observations, we delve into Courage November 2016. the Radio Archive and feature: The comedian promotes the virtue of courage, with Tim Key WED 07:30 Paul Sinha's General Knowledge (m000y0kp) ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ [Radio 3 29/03/1995] and Tom Basden providing feats of cowardice. From August Series 3 A unique interpretation of William Blake’s 18th century 2008. Episode 1 masterpiece Paul Sinha is an award-winning comedian, a former British ‘Dreadzone Aldous Huxley Readings’ [Radio 1 1995] Quiz Champion and also, according to the Radio Times, the Greg Roberts [now Greg Dread] reads excerpts from ‘Brave WEDNESDAY 28 JULY 2021 UK's "funniest fund of forgotten facts". He returns to Radio 4 New World’] with a third series of his General Knowledge, recounting the Producer: Mik Wilkojc WED 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js0f) amazing true stories that lie behind fascinating nuggets of Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first heard in 2018. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] information. WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b00j1wj3) WED 00:30 Soul Music (b01cjwtn) This episode catches up with the news since the last series of [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] General Knowledge finished in 2020, from those we've lost to WED 12:30 No Commitments (b00s8fxq) WED 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b2vb6) those we've 'liked', and commemorates the Vice President most [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] worthy of being the next to get the 'Hamilton' treatment. WED 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b2zzr) WED 01:30 Cordoba (m000y68t) Written and performed by Paul Sinha [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Additional material by Oliver Levy WED 13:30 Cordoba (m000y750) WED 02:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08hnpmq) Music by Tim Sutton [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Recording engineered by Darren Wardrobe and Mike Smith WED 14:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08hpklm) WED 02:15 Claudia Roden: A Book of Middle Eastern Produced by Ed Morrish Episode 8 Food (b09xjtdb) A Lead Mojo/Somethin' Else co-production for BBC Radio 4 We continue with Helen Dunmore's novel set in Bristol in 1792, [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b00j1wj3) Birdcage Walk plays out against a backdrop of the French WED 02:30 Was Gertrude Stein Any Good? (b01r0dys) Series 3 Revolution. It touches on Radical idealism, property, political [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] The Pet Dog turmoil and private tragedy. Inspired by the real life of Julia WED 03:00 Gwyn Thomas - All Things Betray Thee The lad buys Andree a puppy for her birthday, but to his alarm - Fawkes, a leading Radical writer, none of whose work has (m0007rnv) it won't stop growing! survived, Dunmore explores the tensions between generations [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Starring Tony Hancock. and genders, and examines the idea of legacy as Julia's daughter WED 04:00 The Rest is History (b075mnxs) With Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Andree Melly and Kenneth Lizzie finds herself torn between her charismatic, self made [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] Williams. husband and her idealistic mother. As her husband John Diner WED 04:30 The Brothers (b00nn2hg) Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Tredevant speculates on property in Bristol's housing boom, he [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. risks losing everything in the social upheaval caused by the WED 05:00 Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers (b098jtq1) Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry French Revolution. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] Rabinowitz. Episode Eight: Fear over the beheading of the King of France WED 05:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market (m000xzfr) Producer: Dennis Main Wilson spreads to England and the housing market collapses. Diner [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1955. faces financial ruin and Lizzie must face a frightening truth WED 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b2zzr) WED 08:30 No Commitments (b00s8fxq) about her marriage. Mrs McGinty's Dead Series 3 Helen Dunmore was a prize-winning poet and novelist whose 3. Suspects Time Shift work explores the interplay between the public and the In the respectable village of Broadhinny, Hercule Poirot has Charlotte surprises her sisters with her new younger lover. personal. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 24 – 30 July 2021 Page 8 of 11 The readers are Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp Loose Lips Producer Claire Grove The abridger is Sara Davies Featuring Mark ‘Mr T’ Thompson and Fiona Goffe First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. Produced by Julian Wilkinson Produced by Alan Hall First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam WED 14:15 Claudia Roden: A Book of Middle Eastern Produced by Andrea Rangecroft THURSDAY 29 JULY 2021 Food (b09xkc4k) A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Episode 3 September 2019. THU 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js2r) Claudia Roden's A Book of Middle Eastern Food was a WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b00j1wj3) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] landmark cookery book, first published in 1968. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 00:30 Short Cuts (m0008hww) Claudia was born in 1936 in Cairo. She was a foreign food WED 19:30 No Commitments (b00s8fxq) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b2zzr) Magazine. Later, she hosted a BBC TV series, Claudia Roden's WED 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b2zzr) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] Mediterranean Cookery, and has won many awards and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 01:30 Cordoba (m000y750) trophies. WED 20:30 Cordoba (m000y750) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] With cameos from Yotam Ottolenghi and Claudia's [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU 02:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08hpklm) granddaughter, Nelly Wolman, this entertaining dramatisation WED 21:00 Jim Morrison's Will to be Weird (m000h1z5) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] shines a light on an extraordinary global cook. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU 02:15 Claudia Roden: A Book of Middle Eastern Food Episode 3: WED 22:00 Paul Sinha's General Knowledge (m000y0kp) (b09xkc4k) Claudia's quest for Middle Eastern recipes takes her to [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] embassies, carpet shops and any gathering where she might WED 22:30 Life on Egg (b09k840g) THU 02:30 Opening the Boxes: a Soprano's Secrets meet fellow Middle Easterners. Cooking with her mother brings Series 1 (b0138529) them even closer together. Method [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] CAST: Harry Hill stars in this sitcom set in The Egg, Britain's remotest THU 03:00 Gwyn Thomas - All Things Betray Thee Claudia Roden...... Tracy-Ann Oberman prison, built on a giant prehistoric egg floating in the middle of (m0007s2w) Nelly Douek...... Ann Marcuson the ocean. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] Cesar Douek...... David Fleeshman When famous movie star Brad De Deprrio comes to visit The THU 04:00 The Motion Show (b00762sc) Interviewer/Auntie...... Perveen Hussain Egg in order to research a film role, the team are predictably [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Dramatist...... Anjum Malik excited to welcome him. But will they be able to put up with his THU 04:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k1kz) Sound Design...... Eloise Whitmore outrageous showbiz demands, especially when he asks to share a [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Producers...... Polly Thomas and Eloise cell with The Egg's most dangerous prisoner? THU 05:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b082j3cb) Whitmore Governor Harry ..... Harry Hill [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Executive Producer...... Robert Abel Anne ..... Karen Bartke THU 05:30 Paul Sinha's General Knowledge (m000y0kp) A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 - first broadcast Peter ..... Marek Larwood [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] in April 2018. The Minister ..... Tanya Moodie THU 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b35f2) WED 14:30 Opening the Boxes: a Soprano's Secrets Tim the Helicopter Pilot ..... Dan Maier Mrs McGinty's Dead (b0138529) Brad De Depprio ..... Demetri Goritsas 4. Danger Music critic Michael White was asked to look at some storage Written by Dan Maier Hercule Poirot is very excited because someone has tried to kill boxes, in which were packed the memorabilia of the soprano Producer: Sam Michell him - so he knows he's on the right track. Jennifer Vyvyan, who died in 1974. A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in However, there is somebody else for whose life he particularly For several months, he and her son Jonathan Crown delved January 2018. fears... through them and uncovered the fascinating story of one of WED 22:45 Woof (b0bktmmm) Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt. Britain's most dazzling classical music stars. In this programme, True Tales of Romance and Failure From the novel published in 1952 and dramatised by Michael White reveals his discoveries, from the dramatic roles she Much Loved Son and Fantasist Bakewell. pioneered for Benjamin Britten to her definitive recordings of Myopia and its advantages and ... is that an architect I see Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt Handel, made with Sir Thomas Beecham and Sir Adrian Boult. before me? Ariadne Oliver ...... Julia MacKenzie We learn of her aristocratic roots, a controversial marriage, her Bittersweet comic real life stories written and performed by Superintendent Spence ...... George Baker championing of new music and the baroque revival, as well as a Chris Neill. Robin Upward ...... Nick Waring lifelong struggle against a fatal disease. With Isy Suttie and Martin Hyder. Mrs Upward ...... Jill Balcon We also hear archive recordings of Vyvan herself, and the Producer: Steve Doherty Mrs Rendell ...... Susannah Corbett recollections of her contemporaries April Cantelo, Steuart A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Deirdre Henderson ...... Teresa Gallagher Bedford and John Copley. Above all we hear one of the most September 2018. Maud Williams ...... Beth Chalmers golden voices of the post war era of British music. Music featured: Maureen Summerhayes ...... Molly Gaisford Producer: Alyn Shipton Track: Dance Away Michael ...... Kim Wall An Unique Production Perf: The Bryan Ferry Orchestra Director: Enyd Williams. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Track: Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006. WED 15:00 Gwyn Thomas - All Things Betray Thee Perf: Johnny Maddox THU 06:30 Cordoba (m000y71s) (m0007s2w) Track: September Song 5. Still Waters [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Perf: Dion and The Belmonts Dee finds the elusive Richard, who fled the night she found WED 16:00 The Motion Show (b00762sc) Track: Ladyfingers Jenny hanged. He makes some interesting revelations. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Perf: Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass A thriller set in Wales. Renowned writer Raymond Turner is WED 16:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k1kz) Track: Lo Sceicco Bianco mysteriously blown up on his boat. D.T. Mitchell – ‘Dee’ - a [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Perf: Katyna Ranieri & orchestra reporter on a local Swansea newspaper, is sent to investigate and WED 17:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b082j3cb) Track: I Don't Feel Like Dancin' unearths a web of deceit and cover-ups. Dee’s life is dogged by [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Perf: Scissor Sisters alcohol abuse, a messy divorce and career frustration. However, WED 17:30 Paul Sinha's General Knowledge (m000y0kp) WED 23:00 Radio 9 (b04dykmz) she is reinvigorated with this assignment… [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Series 2 Written for radio by Nigel Baldwin. WED 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js2r) Episode 1 CAST: The World in Peril Urban fox hunting, reckless parenting and faking surgery for Dee Mitchell …. Alison Steadman Episode 13 real. Stars Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker. From June 2005. Conrad De’Ath …. Bill Stewart As the asteroid ship flounders, Mitch and Lemmy make a WED 23:30 Bunk Bed (b093b1x4) Geraint …. Robin Griffith shocking discovery. Series 4 Alex …. Leslie Rooney It’s April 1972, and Jet and his crew return to Mars in an Episode 4 Ieuan …. Robert Pugh attempt to avert the impending Martian invasion. Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not Tina Turner …. Gudrun Ure Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures applied to a particular task. The nearest faraway place. Beth …. Sue Jones Davies of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange thoughts Olwen …. Pam Hopkins preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. which don't have to be shooed into context, but which can be Richard …. Ian Targett Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds followed like balloons escaping onto the air. Gary …. Andrew Wincott Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp Late at night, in the dark and in a bunk bed, your tired mind can Original music by Laurie Scott Baker. Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter wander. Jane Dauncey: Director Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass This is the nearest faraway place for Patrick Marber and Peter Produced in Wales and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. Flynn …. Pat Campbell Curran. Here they try to get the heart of things in an THU 07:00 On the Rocks (b03k2gqn) Various …. Alan Tilvern entertainingly vague and indirect way. This is not the place for Series 1 Rogers/The Martian/Announcer …. David Jacobs typical male banter. Omens Music composed by Van Phillips From under the bed clothes they play each other music and by Christopher William Hill. It's 1937 on the remote Scilly Written and produced by Charles Chilton. archive of HG Wells, a Russian radio station for spies and Island of St. Martin's, where the islanders are resisting the First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December cheesy pop anthems. Work, family, literature, and their own attempts of the Penzance GPO man to modernise the post 1955. badly-scuffed dreams are the funny, if warped, conversational office - around which their world revolves. WED 18:30 Short Cuts (m0008hww) currency. Episode 2: Omens. Old Grace is convinced that strange things Series 20 A Foghorn production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in have started to happen since the new telegraph machine was Family Ties September 2017. installed. A family whose women are bound by activism, poetry between WED 23:45 Tina C (b0076q68) directed by Mary Peate. generations and forging new families in later life. Josie Long Tina C's Tiny Island Tour Sound by Jenni Burnett, Anne Bunting and Graham Harper presents short documentaries about familial connections. Scotland Production Co-ordinator, Jessica Brown. Radical Love Scotland Country singer and global activist Tina C, the comic THU 07:30 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000y0qw) Featuring Ash Sarkar creation of Olivier Award- winning Christopher Green, Episode 3 Produced by Alia Cassam promotes her album 'Not tonight Darlin' I Got a Heartache' in Olga Koch and her digital assistant are on a mission to get A Beautiful Arrangement Glasgow and traces her tartan 'in this year's shade of off-beige healthy, but the topic is very tricky to compute. How can we be Featuring Stefanie Clark and Jane Callahan-Moore terracotta' in Edinburgh. healthy if we don’t know what health even means? What is a Produced by Bill Healy Pianist Duncan Walsh Atkins Placebo, and why don’t we know any of their songs? Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 24 – 30 July 2021 Page 9 of 11 Comedian and Computer Scientist Olga Koch takes a deep dive Episode 9 Jack Evans reveals the Martians' Earth invasion plans to Lemmy into the world of computer science with her trusty virtual We continue with Helen Dunmore's novel, set in Bristol in and Mitch. assistant Algo as the digital duo take the truths that you hold 1792. Birdcage Walk plays out against a backdrop of the It’s April 1972, and Jet and his crew return to Mars in an dear and tear them to shreds using logic, like a teenager on the French Revolution. It touches on Radical idealism, property, attempt to avert the impending Martian invasion. internet. A four part stand-up special exploring Nationality, political turmoil and private tragedy. Inspired by the real life of Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures Beauty, Health and Privacy through the eyes of a woman with Julia Fawkes, a leading Radical writer, none of whose work has of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the half a masters degree in the social science of the internet. By survived, Dunmore explores the tensions between generations preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. applying computer science to the world around her, Olga and and genders, and examines the idea of legacy as Julia's daughter CAST: Algo take an hilarious and pedantic journey to reveal the Lizzie finds herself torn between her charismatic, self made Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds inherent absurdities of the modern world. husband and her idealistic mother. As her husband John Diner Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp Written by Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin Tredevant speculates on property in Bristol's housing boom, he Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter Starring Sindhu Vee as Algo risks losing everything in the social upheaval caused by the Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass Additional Material from Rajiv Karia French Revolution. Various …. Alan Tilvern Produced by Benjamin Sutton Episode Eight: Lizzie is reunited with Thomas, but sees the Rogers/The Martian/Announcer …. David Jacobs A BBC Studios Production scale of her husband's failure as his office is bare and his Music composed by Van Phillips THU 08:00 The Navy Lark (b007jvk6) creditors come to the house shouting for their money. Diner is Written and produced by Charles Chilton. Son of a Sea Lord forced leave and he is determined that Lizzie will go with him. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December Sub-Lieutenant Phillips is up for promotion, but will his Lord Helen Dunmore was a prize-winning poet and novelist whose 1955. Nelson fantasy help or hinder? work explores the interplay between the public and the THU 18:30 Great Lives (b01g9c4w) Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as personal. Series 27 the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Commanding The readers are Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp Gertrude Stein Officer, Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as The abridger is Sara Davies Gertude Stein, American poet, writer and art collector, lived Lady Hamilton, Tenniel Evans as the Admiral and Michael Produced by Julian Wilkinson most of her life in France. She was one of the first people to Bates as the Vice-Admiral. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. spot the genius of Picasso, Cezanne and Matisse, and she Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS THU 14:15 Claudia Roden: A Book of Middle Eastern Food believed she was a genius too. Opinion on that score remains Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen (b09xnl56) divided. series between 1959 and 1976. Episode 4 Erin Pizzey nominates Stein because she inspired her to ‘live a Scripted by Lawrie Wyman and George Evans. Claudia Roden's A Book of Middle Eastern Food was a life without compromise’. Since setting up the world's first Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. landmark cookery book, first published in 1968. At a time refuge for battered women in 1971, Pizzey has campaigned and First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1972. when most Britons were enjoying cauliflower cheese and soggy written about domestic violence, publishing ‘Scream Quietly Or THU 08:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00ktvvt) Spaghetti Bolognese on a regular basis, she introduced chick The Neighbours Will Hear’ and her autobiography ‘This Way Series 4 peas, sharp flavoured marinades, aubergines and her most To The Revolution’. It's Behind You popular recipe - orange and almond cake. Joining presenter Matthew Parris in the studio is Diana Christmas is coming but goodwill is in short supply among the She is a cookery writer whose love of cooking and exploration Souhami, author of ‘Gertrude and Alice’. staff panto cast. of culture through recipes has placed her in a unique role. Jay Producer: Isobel Eaton School comedy created and written by Jim Eldridge. Ten series Rayner of The Kitchen Cabinet describes her as 'One of the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2012. of this King Street Junior ran between 1985 and 1998. King greatest British food writers working in Britain today - one THU 19:00 The Navy Lark (b007jvk6) Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005. before whom the likes of Nigel Slater, Simon Hopkinson, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] CAST: Nigella and Delia will all willingly bend the knee." THU 19:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00ktvvt) Mrs Eastwood …. Brigitte Forsythe Episode 4: [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Miss Lewis …. Marlene Sidaway Claudia's research takes her to the Medieval section of the THU 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b35f2) Mr Maxwell …. Michael Cochrane British Library, for ancient Arabic recipes that she tries out on [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Miss Featherstone …. Teresa Gallagher her children. At last, she finds a publisher. THU 20:30 Cordoba (m000y71s) Miss Reid …. Jacqueline Beatty Claudia Roden...... Tracy-Ann Oberman [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Mrs Khan …. Janice Acquah Nelly Douek...... ,Ann Marcuson THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000y5v0) Mr Long …. Paul Copley Cesar Douek...... David Fleeshman [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] John …. Pax Baldwin Interviewer/Auntie...... Perveen Hussain THU 21:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000y5v2) Ashad …. Daryl Moore Dramatist...... Anjum Malik [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Camilla …. Katy Walker Sound Design...... Eloise Whitmore THU 22:00 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000y0qw) Garry …. Nathan Sykes Producers...... Polly Thomas and Eloise [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Whitmore THU 22:30 Irish Micks and Legends (b01ntgxf) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2005. Executive Producer...... Robert Abel Series 1 THU 09:00 The Write Stuff (m000y71v) A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Deirdre of Sorrows Series 8 April 2018. Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram become Ais and Yaz and are Roald Dahl THU 14:30 A Theatre For Everyman (b04fz0ws) the very best pals. They are taking their role as Ireland's freshest James Walton chairs the literary quiz. The legendary Everyman Theatre in Liverpool has nurtured the story-tellers to the British nation very seriously indeed but they Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by careers of many actors – such as Julie Walters, Anthony Sher , haven't had the time to do much research, learn their lines or Simon Brett and Peter Kemp. Jonathan Pryce and Matthew Kelly. Founded in 1964 by three work out who is doing which parts. Author of the week: Roald Dahl young idealistic students, the theatre has fostered generations of The girls' unconventional way of telling stories involves a Reader: Beth Chalmers heavyweight acting talent in the decades ever since. Closed in concoction of thoroughly inappropriate modern-day metaphors Producer: Katie Marsden 2012 for a £28 million pound refurbishment, the theatre opened and references to many of the ancient Irish stories. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2005. its doors again in March 2014 – having been completely re-built With a natural knack for both comedy and character voices THU 09:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b007vhr4) from the bottom up. Yasmine Akram and Aisling Bea will bring you warm, modern Series 1 Capturing the spirit of a theatre through the voices of some of re-workings of popular ancient Irish stories. Pantomime Cows the writers, actors and directors who worked there – "A Theatre Today it's Deirdre of Sorrows. Robert lands a festive stage role, but ends up drinking before a for Everyman" tells the story of one of the most exciting theatre Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram. show... spaces in England. We take a tour round the new building as Producer: Raymond Lau. John Gordon Sinclair stars in Paul Mayhew-Archer's sitcom. they prepare for their first production; we hear how in the early First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012. Robert Wilson ..... John Gordon Sinclair days, actors had to manage coping with rats in their dressing THU 22:45 Hannah Gadsby: Arts Clown (b055gcdq) Sue ..... Caroline Quentin rooms and getting changed in boiler rooms; how they had no Michelangelo's David Desmond Shaw ..... Gary Waldhorn money and had to make do and mend in order to get a play on – Art historian Hannah Gadsby continues her radio series of With Stephen Yardley, Royce Mills, Susan Sheridan, Anne and how the spirit of the Everyman engendered a sense of comedy lectures about four masterpieces. This week she looks Bryson and Joanna Mackie. family and belonging, in everyone who worked there. at Michelangelo's 'David', the 17ft statue he created between Producer: Paul Spencer Throughout the programme we also capture the spirit that is 1501 and 1504. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1989. Liverpool – recalling the days of hardship and austerity in the Born in Tasmania, Hannah got to know a lot about art from THU 10:00 Sarah Daniels - Sound Barriers (m0002mh0) 1970s; the Toxteth Riots of the 1980s and the Capital of books. But it was only in her 20s when she visited Europe for What's wrong with Mel's baby? And why does she suddenly Culture in 2008 – which went some way in helping to get the the first time, that she saw the art she'd studied 'in the flesh', so befriend her neighbours: a profoundly deaf man and a lonely city back on its feet. to speak. widow? It's a story of originality and imagination, of ups and downs, There in Florence she fell in love with David and in this Sarah Daniels's moving drama triumphs and tragedies, crises and comebacks – but most of all, programme she shares her affection for and knowledge of him, CAST: it's a story of extraordinary talent, of inspiration, of originality with all his imperfections. Audrey …. Patricia Routledge that all makes up of one of the most exciting theatre spaces in Hannah is joined on stage by her very own 'Quotebot' who is Jenny …. Caroline Quentin England. inputted with every quote that's ever been written about art. Ian …. Steve Day Producer: Angela Hind Quotebot sounds remarkably like comedy legend and all-round Director: Sally Avens. A Pier production boffin John Lloyd. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Written by Hannah Gadsby THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000y5v0) THU 15:00 Sarah Daniels - Sound Barriers (m0002mh0) Performed by Hannah Gadsby with her Quotebot aka John [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Lloyd THU 11:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000y5v2) THU 16:00 The Write Stuff (m000y71v) Script edited by Jon Hunter [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Produced by Claire Jones. THU 12:00 The Navy Lark (b007jvk6) THU 16:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b007vhr4) THU 23:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters (b037j6vl) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Series 1 THU 12:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00ktvvt) THU 17:00 On the Rocks (b03k2gqn) Episode 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Master character comedian Colin Hoult presents his much THU 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b35f2) THU 17:30 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000y0qw) anticipated debut comedy series for BBC Radio 4. Enter the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and hilarious world of sketches, THU 13:30 Cordoba (m000y71s) THU 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js56) stories and characters, presented by the sinister Ringmaster. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] The World in Peril Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: Thwor - THU 14:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08hpx61) Episode 14 the mighty (but Leeds-based) god of Thwunder; Len Parker - Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 24 – 30 July 2021 Page 10 of 11 Nottingham-born martial arts and transformers enthusiast; Anna Beth …. Sue Jones Davies From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving Mann - outrageous star of such forgotten silver screen hits such Nurse …. Marie Phillips eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard as 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish Delight' and 'A Bowl For Smith …. Ivor Roberts DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descent. My Bottom'; and many more. Mrs Mitchell …. Lawmary Champion First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever Writers Guild Award-winner Colin Hoult is best known for his Original music by Laurie Scott Baker. appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. highly acclaimed starring roles in 'Being Human', 'Life's Too Jane Dauncey: Director Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence. Short', and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as his many Produced in Wales and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. Producer: Jane Berthoud hit shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also appeared and FRI 07:00 Guilt Trip (b07nrlqx) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997. written for a number of Radio 4 series including 'The Headset Episode 4 FRI 10:00 A Bullet At Balmain's (b00t5jmj) Set' and 'Colin and Fergus' Digi-Radio'. On the last day of the walk, Ros and Laura still have 10 miles to Noel Coward in Post-Liberation Paris, 1948: haute couture, 'Lewis Carol meets The League Of Gentlemen . A beautifully go. But when they oversleep at the hotel they weren't supposed existentialism, jazz . . . and death. staged masterclass in character comedy' - Time Out to be staying at in the first place, it's not looking good. Coward is in Paris to play the lead in his own play 'Present 'Comic gold' - Metro They're hung over and Ruth is organising a big reception for Laughter' in French. But the murder of a promiscuous 'Delightfully funny' - The Telegraph them at Tower Bridge - but will they get there in time? mannequin provides a stylish distraction. Produced by Sam Bryant. Comedy drama written by Katherine Jakeways with Felicity Another adventure for the celebrated playwright, actor, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. Montagu and Olivia Nixon. composer and amateur detective by Marcy Kahan. THU 23:30 Party (b01n1qyg) A mother and daughter are undertaking a two week sponsored Starring Malcolm Sinclair as Noel Coward, Elenor Bron as Lorn Series 3 walk along The Thames Path to raise money for the dead and Lorraine, Tam Williams as Cole Lesley and Linda Marlowe as The Splits divorced father's charity. Will they complete it? Ginette Spanier. The budding politicians are on their way to research for the by- Ros ...... Felicity Montagu Director: Ned Chaillet election. Laura ...... Olivia Nixon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Tom Basden's satirical comedy about a group of young idealists Stepmother ...... Katherine Jakeways FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000y7mt) trying to make waves with their new political party. With Katie Redford, Jeff Rawle Velibor Topic, George Pandemic stories Simon .... Tom Basden Watkins, Nancy Crane and Chris Pavlo. Chrystal Genesis and Chris Pearson recommend podcasts that Duncan .... Tim Key Producer: Jane Berthoud tell the stories of industries, communities and people who are Jared .... Jonny Sweet A BBC Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in starting to get life back on track as Covid restrictions are being Mel .... Anna Crilly July 2016. lifted. Phoebe .... Katy Wix FRI 07:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000y64v) FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jmp0) European Man .. Jot Davies Syd [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Producer: Julia McKenzie. Arthur Smith brings his hit Edinburgh Festival show to Radio 4. FRI 12:30 Second Holmes (b016px9c) First broadcast on Radio 4 in October 2012. Arthur's father Syd was an ordinary man in extraordinary times. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Just 17 when he signed up, he fought at El Alamein, was FRI 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b3fdv) captured and then imprisoned in Colditz and, after the war, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRIDAY 30 JULY 2021 joined the Metropolitan Police. He spent the rest of his working FRI 13:30 Cordoba (m000y7mr) life patrolling the streets of London and had possibly the worst [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js56) arrest rate in the force - having been a prisoner of war he had FRI 14:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08hqm3h) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] no desire to subject anyone else to suffer a loss of liberty. Episode 10 FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b01g9c4w) In this funny and tender evocation of post-war Britain, Arthur The final episode of Helen Dunmore's novel, set in Bristol in [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] brings us Syd's diary entries and conjures up the spirit of his 1792 - Birdcage Walk plays out against a backdrop of the FRI 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b35f2) father, a man of great integrity and humour. French Revolution. It touches on Radical idealism, property, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Recorded in front of a live, socially distanced audience, with political turmoil and private tragedy. Inspired by the real life of FRI 01:30 Cordoba (m000y71s) assistance from his brother Nick and music from Kirsty Julia Fawkes, a leading Radical writer, none of whose work has [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] Newton. survived, Dunmore explores the tensions between generations FRI 02:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08hpx61) Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith and genders, and examines the idea of legacy as Julia's daughter [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] A Yada-Yada Audio production for BBC Radio 4 Lizzie finds herself torn between her charismatic, self made FRI 02:15 Claudia Roden: A Book of Middle Eastern Food FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jmp0) husband and her idealistic mother. As her husband John Diner (b09xnl56) Series 2 Tredevant speculates on property in Bristol's housing boom, he [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] Don't Forget the Diver risks losing everything in the social upheaval caused by the FRI 02:30 A Theatre For Everyman (b04fz0ws) Enlisting the additional services of a bird warbler, a scarecrow French Revolution. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] and a flock of sheep, Captain Mainwaring's Home Guard Episode Ten: Diner is taking Lizzie to the far side of the Gorge FRI 03:00 Sarah Daniels - Sound Barriers (m0002mh0) platoon mount a river attack on Captain Square's HQ. to a secret place. It is here she must confront the truth about [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le what actually happened to Diner's first wife. FRI 04:00 The Write Stuff (m000y71v) Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, Ian Helen Dunmore was a prize-winning poet and novelist whose [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Lavender as Private Pike, John Laurie as Private Frazer and work explores the interplay between the public and the FRI 04:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b007vhr4) Arnold Ridley as Godfrey. personal. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV The readers are Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp FRI 05:00 On the Rocks (b03k2gqn) scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. The abridger is Sara Davies [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1975. Produced by Julian Wilkinson FRI 05:30 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000y0qw) FRI 08:30 Second Holmes (b016px9c) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] 6. The Case of the Missing Link FRI 14:15 Claudia Roden: A Book of Middle Eastern Food FRI 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b3fdv) The grandsons of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson meet a (b09xp0w7) Mrs McGinty's Dead member of the Moriarty family. Episode 5 5. Final Clue Six light-hearted adventures involving the grandsons of Claudia Roden's A Book of Middle Eastern Food was a The chaos of Long Meadows provides Hercule Poirot with his Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson written by Grant Eustace. landmark cookery book, first published in 1968. At a time final clue to unveiling the pitiless murderer. CAST: when most Britons were enjoying cauliflower cheese and soggy But there's also another surprise in store for the Belgian Stamford Holmes …. Peter Egan Spaghetti Bolognese on a regular basis, she introduced chick detective... Dr Watson …. Jeremy Nicholas peas, sharp flavoured marinades, aubergines and her most Conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit starring John James Macpherson …. Simon Hewitt popular recipe - orange and almond cake. Moffatt. Inspector Winter …. David Gooderson Claudia was born in 1936 in Cairo. She was a foreign food Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt Mrs Pettifer …. Lolly Cockerell correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times Ariadne Oliver ...... Julia MacKenzie John Dunn as himself Magazine. Later, she hosted a BBC TV series, Claudia Roden's Superintendent Spence ...... George Baker Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Mediterranean Cookery, and has won many awards and Robin Upward ...... Nick Waring First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1983. trophies. Maud Williams ...... Beth Chalmers FRI 09:00 It's Not What You Know (b037hmyc) With cameos from Yotam Ottolenghi and Claudia's Maureen Summerhayes ...... Molly Gaisford Series 2 granddaughter, Nelly Wolman, this entertaining dramatisation Major Summerhayes ...... Ian Masters Episode 4 shines a light on an extraordinary global cook, still traveling the Eve Carpenter ...... Angela Sims Who is Nick Helm's all time hero? What is the most world sharing recipes and cultures. Guy Carpenter ...... Dominic Colchester embarrassing thing Isy Suttie's mum ever did? Who would play The dramatist Anjum Malik is an established scriptwriter, poet Mrs Rendell ...... Susannah Corbett Dougie Anderson in the film of his life? and performer. She was also a lecturer in creative writing at Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. All these questions, and more, will be answered in the show Manchester Metropolitan University. She was born in Saudi Director: Enyd Williams. hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested on how well Arabia and has lived in Pakistan as well several cities in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006. they know their nearest and dearest. England. FRI 06:30 Cordoba (m000y7mr) Producer: Sam Michell Episode 5: 6. La Pista Falsa First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013. As Claudia continues to research and share recipes from all In the final gripping episode we discover who died, why and if FRI 09:30 To the Manor Born (b007m9wg) over the world, she is celebrated by fellow cooks and still cooks at all… The Spare Room with her family - this time her granddaugher, Nelly, rather than A thriller set in Wales. Renowned writer Raymond Turner is DeVere takes a shine to Mrs fforbes-Hamilton's guest. Is her mother. mysteriously blown up on his boat. D.T. Mitchell – ‘Dee’ - a Audrey jealous?. Claudia Roden...... Tracy-Ann Oberman reporter on a local Swansea newspaper, is sent to investigate and Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton. Nelly Douek...... Ann Marcuson unearths a web of deceit and cover-ups. Dee’s life is dogged by Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere Cesar Douek...... David Fleeshman alcohol abuse, a messy divorce and career frustration. However, Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher Interviewer/Auntie...... Perveen Hussain she is reinvigorated with this assignment… Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger Yotam Ottolenghi...... Yotam Ottolenghi Written for radio by Nigel Baldwin. Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka Young Nelly...... Nelly Wolman CAST: Frank Middlemass ..... Ned Dramatist...... Anjum Malik Dee Mitchell …. Alison Steadman Podge Hodge ..... Zulema Dene Sound Design...... Eloise Whitmore Conrad De’Ath …. Bill Stewart The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced Producers...... Polly Thomas and Eloise Thomas …. Alan Towner to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death Whitmore Alex …. Leslie Rooney leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, Executive Producer...... Robert Abel Ieuan …. Robert Pugh they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage. A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 24 – 30 July 2021 Page 11 of 11 April 2018. Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass FRI 14:30 Paul is Dead (b04l0tvb) Flynn …. Pat Campbell In 1969, with The Beatles in financial and creative turmoil, a Various …. Alan Tilvern strange rumour swept the world. It began with a phone call to a Rogers/The Martian/Announcer …. David Jacobs US chat show - Paul McCartney had been killed in a road Music composed by Van Phillips accident and replaced by the winner of a look-a-like Written and produced by Charles Chilton. competition, William Campbell an orphan from Edinburgh. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1956. And there were clues that could only be revealed by playing the FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b00w227t) Beatles records backwards. Favourite Child It sounds unlikely, but millions of fans believed it. Who was it in your family, and do you have one amongst your We speak with the man who took that phone call, the hoaxer own children? It's the great taboo. who developed the myth, and an expert on folklore who sees Dominic Arkwright is joined by Rebecca Abrams, who bravely uncanny parallels with ancient myths about changelings and the admits that she found it hard to love her first child after her darker side of fairies. second child was born. David Akinsanya grew up in care, aware What does this odd tale tell us about The Beatles' place in our that he was nobody's favourite child. And Bidisha has always cultural history? known she is the most favoured. Why is it that even as adults it The programme includes out takes, clips from interviews and matters so much? New writing and honest, revealing talk in Off rarer versions of Beatles songs. The Page. Produced by Matt Thompson Producer: Beth O'Dea A Rockethouse production First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jmp0) NOTES ON THE MUSIC USED IN THE PROGRAMME [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Wherever possible or appropriate, raw sounding demo or FRI 19:30 Second Holmes (b016px9c) instrumental recordings from The Beatles Anthology albums [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] were used. For ultra lush mixes, the remixed versions from The FRI 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b3fdv) Beatles' Love album were used. Interludes and chit chat were [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] from the Let it Be Naked - Fly on the Wall CD which contains FRI 20:30 Cordoba (m000y7mr) out takes from the Let It Be film recordings. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Timings refer to the actual programme start. FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000y7mt) 0.00 Yesterday (alt acoustic version) (Disc 1, Track 7 - [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Anthology 2, The Beatles) FRI 22:00 Stand-Up Specials (m000y64v) 1.08 Ballad Of Paul (Track 24 - Beatlemaniacs!!! The World of [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Beatles Novelty Records) FRI 22:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show (b007621y) 1.17 I Am The Walrus (no overdubs) (Disc 2, Track 14 - Series 2 Anthology 2, The Beatles) Episode 1 1.37 Revolution 9 (Disc 2, Track 12 - The Beatles, The Beatles) Mel and Vicki battle to stay on-air despite constant 1.53 Ballad Of Paul (Track 24 - Beatlemaniacs!!! The World of interruptions from the Teenage Girls, the Goatee Beard Men's Beatles Novelty Records) Group and various door-to-door salesmen 3.17 I'm Looking Through You (Unissued version) (Disc 1, Special guest stars are Madonna and Roy Walker. Track 15 - Anthology 2, The Beatles) Variety meets sitcom meets sketch show - written and 4.07 Revolution 9 (Disc 2, Track 12 - The Beatles, The Beatles) performed by Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine. 4.17 Revolution 9 (reversed by programme producer) With Dave Lamb, Martin Hyder and Jim North. 5.25 The Fool On The Hill (Demo) (Disc 2, Track 15 - Additional material by Martin Hyder, Jim North, Danny Robins Anthology 2, The Beatles) and Dan Tetsell. 6.33 A Day In The Life (take1/2) (Disc 2, Track 5 - Anthology Script editor: Graeme Garden 2, The Beatles) Music by Richard Webb. 8.16 Strawberry Fields Forever (Track 8 - Magical Mystery Producers: Helen Williams and Claire Jones. Tour, The Beatles) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001. 8.24 I'm Only Sleeping (Rehearsal) (Disc 1, Track 22 - FRI 23:00 Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself (b04grrpq) Anthology 2, The Beatles) Episode 1 9.02 Fly On The Wall (In rehearsal) (Disc 2, Track 1 - Let It The impression and sketch show that looks behind the scenes at Be...Naked, The Beatles) the life and work of star impressionist Lewis Macleod 9.12 Revolution 9 (Disc 2, Track 12 - The Beatles, The Beatles) Lewis has performed on 4 Extra's Newsjack, plus Postman Pat, 10.57 Glass Onion (Remix) (Track 3 - Love, The Beatles) The Phantom Menace and Dead Ringers. 11.12 Glass Onion (Disc 1, Track 3 - The Beatles, The Beatles) With Kate O'Sullivan, Duncan Wisbey and Julian Dutton. 12.07 Eleanor Rigby (Strings Only) (Disc 1, Track 21 - Producer: Lyndsay Fenner Anthology 2, The Beatles) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2014. 13.34 Strawberry Fields Forever (Remix) (Track 13 - Love, FRI 23:30 Think the Unthinkable (b007k4p8) The Beatles) Series 2 14.54 Strawberry Fields Forever (Remix) (Track 13 - Love, Blue Herring The Beatles) The management consultants plug into media technology. Stars 16.47 I'm Looking Through You (Disc 1, Track 15 - Anthology Emma Kennedy and Marcus Brigstocke. From November 2002. 2, The Beatles) 17.33 John, Paul, George & Ringo (Track 1 - Beatlemaniacs!!! The World of Beatles Novelty Records) 18.13 Within You, Without You [Instrumental] (Disc 2, Track 11 - Anthology 2, The Beatles) 21.21 Your Mother Should Know (take 27) (Disc 2, Track 16 - Anthology 2, The Beatles) 23.18 Fly On The Wall (Paul on piano) (Disc 2, Track 1 - Let It Be...Naked, The Beatles) 23.54 Fly On The Wall (Anyone seen John) (Disc 2, Track 1 - Let It Be...Naked, The Beatles) 25.15 Octopus's Garden / Sun King (Remix) (Track 16 - Love, The Beatles) FRI 15:00 A Bullet At Balmain's (b00t5jmj) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI 16:00 It's Not What You Know (b037hmyc) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 16:30 To the Manor Born (b007m9wg) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI 17:00 Guilt Trip (b07nrlqx) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI 17:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000y64v) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js79) The World in Peril Episode 15 Stranded on the surface of the asteroid, Jet Morgan and Doc fight desperately to be rescued. It’s April 1972, and Jet and his crew return to Mars in an attempt to avert the impending Martian invasion. Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. CAST: Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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