Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 November 2016 Page 1 of 9

SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2016 a signature was required it created a system that was ripe for with a truly varied range of scores, friendly rivalry, and moments abuse. where students wished they had more than just glanced at that SAT 00:00 Bram Stoker ­ Midnight Tales (b01g9873) As Royal Mail faces an uncertain future, Dominic Sandbrook reading list... The Squaw charts the development of the post office and examines it's impact In this series, the universities are Bristol, Kent, Bedfordshire, An arrogant American earns himself a truly horrific retribution. on literacy, free speech, commerce and communication. Birmingham, Nottingham & Aberystwyth. The final tale from the Dracula author, read by Dyfed Thomas. Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook Overflow (incl Cast Lists) SAT 00:15 15 Minute Drama (b01jhnyc) Historical Consultant: Susan Whyman The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on The Chronicles of Ait ­ The Saxon Stones, Episode 5 Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart Now Show is also someone who delights in all facets of Written by Michael Butt Actors:Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, knowledge, not just in the Humanities (his educational Chronicles of Ait ­The Saxon Stones finds author and one­time Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw background) but in the sciences as well. As well as "The Now TV historian Linus Scott returning to the remote east coast Producer: Joby Waldman Show" he has made a number of documentaries for Radio 4, on settlement of Ait to attend the funeral of his childhood mentor, A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. subjects as varied as "The Poet Unwound ­ The History Of The Kenrick, a scholar of Old English who had rescued the young boy SAT 02:30 Julia Darling ­ Appointments (b0076qmw) Spleen" and "Getting The Gongs" ­ an investigation into awards from a problem background. But also attending the ceremony is a Carla's Facial ceremonies ­ as well as a half­hour comedy for Radio 4's 2008 stranger, Alice Pyper, who, to Scott's surprise, appears to have Maureen does not let her tumour diagnosis stop her from going Big Bang Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, called "The had some connection to the deceased man. When Alice begins for a facial appointment with her daughter. Stars Val McClane. Genuine Particle". This makes him the perfect host for a show snooping around Kenrick's house, Scott confronts her, and the SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b019lzsy) which aims to be an intellectual, fulfilling and informative quiz, first door is opened onto a labyrinthine mystery that leads deep Stop What You're Doing and Read This, The Right Words in the but with wit and a genuine delight in exploring the subjects at into the history of the Saxon Stones and the ominous myth of Right Order hand. Dracamuth. Passionate, funny, revelatory and inspiring, this series is a The 3rd Degree is a Pozzitive production, produced by David Cast: mission statement about the transformative power of reading; Tyler. His radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm Linus Scott . . . . . Greg Wise about the way it inspires us, the tangible impact it can have on our Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, The Brig Society, Thanks Alice Pyper . . . . . Amanda Drew well­being and the importance it holds for us now and will A Lot, Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Jeremy Darlene . . . . . Heather Craney continue to hold in the future. Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, Thurgis . . . . . Richard Hope Stop What You're Doing And Read This! features five of our The 99p Challenge, My First Planet, The Castle and even, going Irwin . . . . . Christopher James finest authors and advocates from the world of publishing. back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits include Paul Merton ­ Lord Ethel . . . . . Jonathan Keeble Michael Rosen, Jeanette Winterson, Tim Parks, Carmen Callil The Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The Paul & Pauline Calf Child Linus . . . . . James Foster and Mark Haddon, are all united here in a passionate belief in the Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon and Produced & Directed by John Taylor distinctive and irreplaceable pleasures and powers of reading. exec producing Victoria Wood's dinnerladies. A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. Their essays argue that reading literature is, and must continue to Producer: David Tyler SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b00zlk07) be, a fundamental part of our daily life, as it directly improves our A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. Series 11, Schubert's Winterreise mental health and well­being, enriches our experience and SAT 04:30 No Commitments (b01r7mlb) Schubert's Winterreise broadens our imaginations. Series 11, Taking Chances Written the year before Schubert's death aged just 31, these 24 As the ways people read, what they read, where they buy their Victoria and Roger have money worries, while Anna has got a songs based on poems by Wilhelm Müller describe a journey that books and in what format are all changing rapidly, this series secret to keep for Emily. Stars Rosemary Leach. From February takes us ever deeper into the frozen landscape of the soul. Singers argues unapologetically for the paramount importance of books 2005. Thomas Hampson, Mark Padmore, Alice Coote and David Pisaro and reading in a fast­moving, dislocated, technology­obsessed SAT 05:00 London Calling (b05ndzw7) describe the experience of immersing themselves in this music. world. In the Beginning And Bernard Keefe tells of the time he sang these songs in From the moment he won six Penguin Classics in a school Back to the BBC's early wireless days of 1922. Hiroshima to survivors of the bomb. competition Mark Haddon has been an avid reader. But it's not The microphone jammed if a speaker talked too loudly, the letters Producer, Rosie Boulton. the plots of books he focuses on but the words themselves, the of praise and complaint flooded in, and then a new Director­ SAT 01:00 John Godey ­ The Taking of Pelham 123 (b01chylv) images they conjure up, the world's they introduce him to. In 'The General, John Brown, came to take over the British Broadcasting Episode 2 Right Words In the Right Order' he explains how reading, and Company. With terrified hostages, the brutal hijackers make demands to the reading the right books at the right time is a life­enhancing Written by Jimmy Perry, the man behind Dad's Army and Hi­De­ Transit Authority. William Hope reads John Godey's thriller. experience. Hi. SAT 01:30 The Poppy Factory (b016x22w) Producer: David Roper Starring Graham Crowden as John Brown, Jimmy Perry as Chris Ledgard explores the story of The Poppy Factory in Surrey A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. Colonel Beecham, Roy Hudd as Fred "Keep 'em Laughing" where, for nearly ninety years, former members of the armed SAT 03:00 Classic Serial (b00dcgdw) Hicks, Bill Pertwee as Sergeant Lucas, Jeffrey Holland as Roger forces have made millions of poppies and wreaths for Tobias Smollett ­ The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Episode 3 Eccles and Joann Munro as Miss Nightingale Remembrance Sunday. Tobias Smollet's uproarious satire of 18th­century life, dramatised Producer: Jo Clegg. In 1922, Major George Howson, the founder of the Disabled by Yvonne Antrobus. First broadcast nightly on BBC Radio 2 in September 1994. Society, wrote to his parents: "I have been given a cheque for The Bramble family's adventures continue as they begin the long SAT 05:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b01s0qnc) £2,000 to make poppies with. It is a large responsibility and will trip home, a journey full of surprises and unexpected revelations. Series 5, Episode 4 be very difficult. If the experiment is successful it will be the start Mathew Bramble ...... Nigel Anthony Activist comedian Mark Thomas considers policy suggestions for of an industry to employ 150 men. I do not think it can be a great Tabitha Bramble ...... Marcia Warren a People's Manifesto. Recorded in the BBC Radio Theatre, success, but it is worth doing." Lydia Melford ...... Helen Longworth London. Producer: Colin Anderson. Major Howson's pessimism was short­lived. His workforce grew Jery Melford ...... Dan Starkey SAT 06:00 Saturday Drama (b01bh91t) rapidly and, a few years later, The Poppy Factory had to move Winifred Jenkins ...... Joanna Page Michael Morpurgo ­ Private Peaceful from the Old Kent Road in London to bigger premises in Humphry Clinker ...... Stuart McLoughlin Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo dramatised by Simon Richmond, Surrey. Soon, more than 350 men had jobs there. Lieutenant Lismahago ...... John Rowe Reade with music by Coope Boyes and Simpson. The factory is still in the same place and still staffed by former Sir Thomas Bullford ...... Trevor Peacock In WW1 over 300 British soldiers were executed by firing squad, servicemen and women and their dependants, some of whom are Oxmington/Dennison ...... Sam Dale some for desertion and cowardice. Many were traumatised by coping with stress disorders. We meet them and hear about the Wilson/French valet ...... Nyasha Hatendi shell­shock. Some 90 years later they received posthumous history of this remarkable institution. Millions of poppies are now Frogmore ...... Stephen Critchlow pardons from the British Government, after a campaign helped by made by home workers in the surrounding area, like Mr and Mrs Other parts played by Chris Pavlo, Joan Walker and Ben Crowe. Michael Morpurgo's novel Private Peaceful . King, all of whom have a connection with the armed services. We Recorded on location in Iddesleigh ­ the Devon village where the go out in the Poppy Van to meet the Kings who, between them, Directed by Marc Beeby. book is set with Michael Morpurgo playing the Vicar and put together five thousand remembrance poppies a week, every SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b041vvvy) Nicholas Lyndhurst Seargent Hanley week of the year. Series 4, Aberystwyth University The Organist was Marjorie Cleverdon We'll hear how the charity is coping with a dwindling workforce A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three Music ­ Coope Boyes and Simpson. and a shift to mechanised production. Flats on the large University students take on a team of three of their professors. Directed on location by Susan Roberts. Richmond site are now let out to provide money which is being Coming this week from Aberystwyth University, "The 3rd SAT 07:30 Hardeep Singh Kohli's Alternative Census used all over the country to help members of the armed forces Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at (b00z61qt) find civilian work. Chris discovers how the money helped cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst Episode 3 Caroline Plank, a Territorial Army Signaller with 8 months' delighting the current ones. In the last programme in this series, Hardeep Singh Kohli travels service in Afghanistan who now lives on a houseboat on the River The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Welsh Literature & to Merthyr Tydfil, Christchurch and Brighton to try out his own Avon. Folklore, Information Management and Art History and the version of the census. Combining some of the questions from the Producer: Chris Ledgard. questions involve alien visitations, a mechanical lifesize doll, a official census, and some of his own, his aim is to engage SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01pglw6) perfect circle, a shark, some scorpions and Swedish massage. householders in an intimate conversation about who they are and Daphne Du Maurier ­ Frenchman's Creek, Episode 5 The show is recorded on location at a different University each what matters to them most. Part adventure, part romance, and set in Cornwall, Daphne Du week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of their Exploring themes of identity, health and religion, Hardeep speaks Maurier's novel tells the powerful love story between Lady Dona Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on an academic to an elderly woman who is the full time carer for her son, a and the French pirate Aubery. quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most retired woman living in 'Gods waiting room' and an unemployed Episode 5 stringent standards of academic rigour ­ but with lots of facts and man who talks of his approach to prayer and faith. Dona enjoys her newfound secret friendship and is invited to jokes thrown in for good measure. With questions that range from the intimate to the irreverent, from accompany the pirates on their next adventure. Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes the factual to the emotional, Hardeep Singh Kohli explores the Read by Adjoa Andoh posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union parts of our lives that box­checking and number counting don't Abridged by Eileen Horne buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities across the allow for, uncovering the individual, everyday experiences of Produced by Clive Brill UK. people across the country. A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Producer: Katie Burningham SAT 02:15 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post Knowledge, quickfire bell­and­buzzer rounds and the 'Highbrow A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. Office (b017x4fv) & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not only the SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b01cj2lf) Freepost students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and The Politics of Art In the early 1800s the post office operated an expensive and science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, film, This "Archive on 4" uses John Berger's ground­breaking 1972 illogical payment system. This forced letter­writers into ever and One Direction... In addition, the Head­to­Head rounds, in BBC­2 series on art and society ­ called "Ways of Seeing" ­ and more imaginative ways of avoiding postage, from using private which students take on their Professors in their own subjects, Tim Marlow's extensive knowledge and popular appeal to do couriers, to hiding letters in barrels of butter, to sending coded were particularly lively, and offered plenty of scope for mild three things. newspapers. MPs were allowed to send letters for free, but as only embarrassment on both sides... First, to show how the programmes challenged, in a revolutionary The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit surprising, Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 November 2016 Page 2 of 9 way, how we think about paintings and understand them. In a desperate bid for water, a city­state plagued by drought has SUN 07:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters (b00y2sdt) Secondly, to reveal how they contributed significantly to broader instituted a system of so­called Gifts, a weekly lottery that leads Series 1, Parking Enforcement social change by offering a compelling new approach to to the sacrifice of its young men. But the Gifts aren't working, and Through the medium of four open letters, the comedian Tom understanding the relationship between painting and wider when the man in charge of the system sees his son's number Wrigglesworth investigates the myriad examples of corporate society. And, thirdly, to consider what the legacy of the series has called up, his faith is sorely tested. lunacy and maddening jobsworths in modern Britain. been for public awareness of art. Producer, Sasha Yevtushenko. In this series his subjects range from traffic wardens to estate John Berger's decision to wear brightly coloured, open­necked SAT 18:45 Dangerous Visions (b047d0wn) agents, with Tom recalling his own funny and ridiculous shirts was arresting enough. But it was his opening­frame The Keepers experiences as well as recounting the absurd encounters of others. vandalism of Botticelli's celebrated canvas "Venus and Mars" Matt Haig's vision in which a man wonders from his cage in a zoo Tom finds himself baffled by the weird world of parking from the National Gallery which broke new ground. It argued that what it means to be human. In a letter to his daughter he describes enforcement. paintings had been stripped of their context to raise money the events leading up to the moment humankind's supremacy SUN 08:00 Take It From Here (b01bl4rd) through sales of reproductions. It also amounted to a wider, came to an end. From 02/04/1958 devastating critique of money­grubbing by the previously Read by Barnaby Kay Eth wants a busier social life in 'The Glums', while Jim and unassailable taxpayer­supported galleries. Produced by Gemma Jenkins Bentley go to the ballet. In the febrile political and social atmosphere of the early Bestselling author of The Humans, A Boy Called Christmas and Starring Professor Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and June Seventies in Britain, "Ways of Seeing" argued powerfully, as we How To Stay Alive. Whitfield. hear in extracts from across the programmes, for understanding SAT 19:00 In the Lumber Room with Saki (b082m09r) Music from Wallace Eaton and the Keynotes and the BBC Revue art in a far more political way. Tim shows how "Ways of Seeing" [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz. was engaged, passionate and up­to­date, explicitly seeking out the SAT 22:00 The Simon Day Show (b011cfmx) Scripted by Frank Muir and Denis Norden. opinions of those ­ notably women and children ­ whose views Series 1, Simon Day Producer: Charles Maxwell had until then been largely ignored. Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The Mallard, First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1958. Tim also considers the wider legacy of the series. In particular, he a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. Each week one SUN 08:30 Jerome K Jerome ­ Three Men on the Bummel demonstrates that Berger's pot­stirring approach changed the way of Simon's characters come to perform at The Mallard and we (b01dtj7q) art is understood. As we again live through leaner economic hear the highlights of that night's show along with the back stage Episode 3 times, Tim finds out how far the message of this series is newly and front of house goings on at the theatre itself. "On the Continent they do sincerely believe that every pertinent. In the final episode of the series British comedy legend and star Englishman is mad. They are as convinced of it as is every SAT 09:00 In the Lumber Room with Saki (b082m09r) of The Fast Show, Down the Line and Bellamy's People, Simon English peasant that Frenchmen live in frogs". Back in 1916 on the battlefield of the Somme, a German sniper Day visits The Mallard Theatre as "himself". Approaching the end of their epic journey by bike, George, Harris brought to an end the life of perhaps Britain's greatest short­story Cast list: and J attempt contemplate the Germans as a nation. writer. Simon Day ..... Simon Day Adapted and performed in three episodes by Jeremy Nicholas. Hector Hugh Munro was a political sketch­writer, foreign Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd Music by Jeremy Nicholas. Performed by The Grimethorpe correspondent, historian and novelist. But he is best known under Goose ..... Felix Dexter Colliery Band the pen name Saki for his short story writing. Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall Producer: Paul Mayhew­Archer Saki's dark and twisted tales make delicious radio drama. Many of Written by Simon Day First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1984. them centre on childish mishief, small acts of rebellion against Produced by Colin Anderson. SUN 09:00 The Apple Orchard: Omnibus (b082m5kz) pretentious or overbearing authority figures, and supernatural SAT 22:30 Little Britain (b008gh5h) Pete Brown charts the cycle of an orchard's year to illuminate the beasts. Series 1, Episode 2 hand­in­hand history of humanity and our most familiar fruit. The stories draw on the author's upbringing in North Devon, Back where it premiered, Matt Lucas and David Walliams' SUN 09:55 Uncle Mort's North Country (b007jrcs) where Saki was raised by his aunts and grandmother. oddball TV smash hit without the cameras. From March 2001. Series 2, 2084 Shaun Ley, who also grew up in Devon, returns to Saki's SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b084f6pk) Carter Brandon takes his uncle off to ponder growing old over a childhood home to explore the environment that made the author. The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to The pint. Peter Tinniswood's adventures with Stephen Thorne. In this three­hour programme, Shaun brings together a series of Thinking Drinkers. SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b082m62y) adaptations, including The Lumber Room, The Toys of Peace, SAT 23:00 The Mary Whitehouse Experience (b007jms5) Enya The She­Wolf, The Schartz­Metterklume Method, Mrs From 25/08/89 Irish singer­songwriter Enya chooses Claude Debussy's Packeltide's Tiger, The Open Window and Sredni Vashtar. David Baddiel, Rob Newman, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis 'Nocturnes: Nuages' and her own composition 'Orinoco Flow'. Contributors include: Sir Richard Eyre, Will Self and Dr Sandie provocatively undress the issues of August 1989. With Mark SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b082m630) Byrne. Thomas. Americans, Alice Walker Producer: Adam Bowen for BBC News ­ Westminster. SAT 23:30 Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes (b0196r9b) 4 Extra Debut. From Beethoven to Stevie Wonder, award­ SAT 12:00 The Personality Test (b00mf3kk) Series 1, Seafarers winning author Alice Walker shares her castaway choices with Series 2, Roy Hattersley Seafarers: Prince Madoc? Swansea Jack? Comparing Welsh Kirsty Young. From May 2013. The former Labour Party deputy leader quizzes a panel about history's key figures to determine Wales's ultimate heroes. From SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour (b082m6cv) himself. With Sue Perkins and Lucy Porter. From December January 2012. Series 3, The Power of Design 2006. Guy Raz explores how design, from buildings to the digital world, SAT 12:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show could be better, bolder and more elegant. (b01sjj1t) SUNDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2016 A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting From 01/05/1978 speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) stage. Chips connoisseurs ­ and Ern hires a French au pair, in the SUN 00:00 Dangerous Visions (b02x98fc) SUN 11:55 In a Nutshell (b00sj9lp) legendary comic duo's final show for the BBC. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Einstein Watch Maker With Anne Hamilton and Allan Cuthbertson and a song from The SUN 00:45 Dangerous Visions (b047d0wn) A Leonard Rossiter monologue musing on technological Nolan Sisters. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Saturday] advances in society as seen in the humble wristwatch. From 1981. Written and adapted by Eddie Braben. SUN 01:00 Jezebel: Omnibus (b082m09t) SUN 12:00 Take It From Here (b01bl4rd) Music from Peter Knight and his Orchestra. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Producer: Bobby Jaye SUN SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May 1978. 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b082m09w) 12:30 Jerome K Jerome ­ Three Men on the Bummel [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SAT 13:00 Jezebel: Omnibus (b082m09t) (b01dtj7q) SUN The story of an older woman, in 1900s France, so obsessed with 02:15 Down Your Way (b082m09y) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] her lost youth, she will stop at nothing. Stars Frances Barber. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN 13:00 Julia Darling ­ Appointments (b05r71h3) SUN SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b082m09w) 03:00 Archive on 4 (b01cj2lf) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Will Young [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN 14:15 Getting on Air: The Female Pioneers (b03ffskk) The inaugural Pop Idol winner Will Young chooses 'Taxman' by SUN 04:00 Saturday Drama (b01bh91t) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] The Beatles and 'Love And Affection' by Joan Armatrading. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN 14:30 Sebastian Barry ­ Days Without End: Omnibus SAT 14:15 Down Your Way (b082m09y) SUN 05:30 Hardeep Singh Kohli's Alternative Census (b082m6cx) Baroness Seear in Bermondsey (b00z61qt) Episode 2 Social scientist, Baroness Seear returns to the close south London [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] Thomas McNulty tells how he and John Cole came to join the US Dockland community of Bermondsey, which she first researched SUN 06:00 Julia Darling ­ Appointments (b05r71h3) Cavalry in Missouri, 1851. Read by Stanley Townsend. in the 1950s. Omnibus SUN 15:45 Deborah Moggach ­ A Real Countrywoman Returning to Peak Frean's biscuit factory which closed in 1989, Maureen Wetherby keeps seeing a shadow out of the corner of (b082q3ml) the Baroness is keen to discover how the local community has her eye. She visits Doctor Merrily for some test results. With Val 4 Extra Debut. A campaign is started to stop a ring road going changed. McLane. through a little wood, but Ruth has an idea. Read by Elizabeth Down Your Way was a schedule staple for decades ­ starting on SUN 07:15 Getting on Air: The Female Pioneers (b03ffskk) Mansfield. the BBC Home Service in 1946 and ending its run on BBC Radio A Level Playing Field SUN 16:00 Saturday Drama (b0077134) 4 in 1992. Using a variety of hosts, including Richard Dimbleby Jane Garvey investigates the stories behind five landmark Adam Thorpe ­ Devastated Areas and Brian Johnston, the programme toured villages, towns and moments in the history of the female voice on radio and Adam Thorpe's play explores civilian grief during and after the cities across the UK. At the height of its success in the 1950s, the television. Great War of 1914­1918 in three interweaving stories. series was attracting 10 million listeners a week. Jacqui Oatley was the first woman to commentate on a football In Berlin, a sculptress is working on a memorial statue to the Baroness Seear was born in 1913 and died in 1997. match on 'Match of the Day' in 2007, but became a focus of volunteers; in the valley of the Somme a glazier is repairing the Producer: Laura Baker media and social networking attention in the process. How easy is blown­out windows of a church; and on the Berkshire Downs a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. it for women with expert knowledge about a subject to get their gardener tends his roses. SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b01cj2lf) voices heard on radio and TV and how close are they to achieving Sofie ...... Eliza Langland [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] a level playing field? And what is currently happening to improve Ernst ...... Finlay Welsh SAT 16:00 Saturday Drama (b01bh91t) the gender balance of expert voices? Reg ...... Richard Greenwood [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] In this final programme in the series, Jane Garvey talks to Jacqui Jess ...... Lucy Paterson SAT 17:30 Hardeep Singh Kohli's Alternative Census Oatley, TV historian Bettany Hughes and award­winning Auguste ...... Jimmy Chisholm (b00z61qt) journalist Lis Howell. Monsieur le Curé ...... Gareth Thomas [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Mrs Lombard ...... Noreen Leighton Producer: Jane Reck SAT 18:00 Dangerous Visions (b02x98fc) Colin ...... Matthew Pidgeon An Alfi Media Ltd production for BBC Radio 4. Death Duty Pianist Leon Coates. By Michael Butt

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SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (b082q3mq) MON 05:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters (b00y2sdt) Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. Lyrical Ballads ­ Children and Childhood [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] Jenny Eclair and Stephen Fry compare what they shop for online BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's MON 06:00 John Godey ­ The Taking of Pelham 123 and Paul Merton and Charles Collingwood discuss how best to go radio poetry archive with Children and Childhood. (b01cv8px) about making an impression. Steve Connor explores the effect on English literature and thought Episode 3 MON 09:30 The Change (b00nsnhx) of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads. Tensions mount for the terrified New York's hostages aboard a Series 1, Over the Rainbow Producers: Julian May and Abigail Appleton. busy commuter train, as the demands of the heavily­armed Transvestite George confuses Ken when he sees him in a dress. First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in October 1998. hijackers reach the Mayor. Stars Lynda Bellingham and Chris Ellison. From December 2001. SUN 17:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters (b00y2sdt) Read by William Hope. MON 10:00 Oscar Wilde (b007jnn1) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] John Godey's thriller abridged in 5­parts by Neville Teller. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Episode 1 SUN 18:00 The Man in Black (b017prn7) A best­seller in 1973, 'The Taking of Pelham 123' was made into "I would give my soul to stay young". Series 4, The Punt the 1974 film starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw, a 1998 A vain aristocrat ­ a gilded and spoilt hedonist ­ makes a Mark Gatiss introduces Christina Balit's tale of an ex­alcoholic on TV­movie remake of the same title, and a 2009 film starring dangerous pact to preserve his youth. the run from more than just his AA buddy. Stars Ian Hogg. Denzel Washington and John Travolta. The novel's impact ­ and Nick McCarty's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic stars Jamie SUN 18:30 Ray Bradbury ­ Golden Apples of the Sun that of the subsequent 1974 film ­ apparently resulted in New Glover as Dorian Gray, Ian McDiarmid as Lord Henry Wotton, (b007jn3z) York's City Transit Authority banning any scheduling of a train Steven Pacey as Basil Hallward, Tilly Gaunt as Sybil Vane, Harry The Flying Machine, The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl departing Pelham station at 1:23 for many years. Myers as Jim Vane and Elizabeth Mansfield as Mrs Vane. From Ray Bradbury's collection of sci­fi short­stories: the terrible Using the pen name John Godey, Brooklyn­born author Morton Director: Gordon House. perils of invention and the murderous dangers of jealousy... Freedgood's crime novels include 'A Thrill a Minute With Jack First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 2000. Starring Don Fellows, Ed Bishop, Turan Ali and Paul Maxwell. Albany', 'Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Kill MON 11:00 Opening Lines (b01kt7cz) Dramatised by Lawrence Gilbert. Today' and 'The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome'. Series 14, The Wild Producer: Peter Hutchings Producer: Heather Larmour A return of the series which gives first­time and emerging short First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1991. Made for BBC Radio Extra by BBC Northern Ireland. story writers their radio debut. SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour (b082m6cv) First broadcast in 2012. Unspoken tensions between a husband and wife escalate during a [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON 06:30 My Empire of Dust (b012r7jx) harsh Alaskan winter in this emotionally charged tale by Gerri SUN 19:55 In a Nutshell (b00sj9lp) Wolfgang Stoecker is on a mission to explore the cultural Brightwell. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:55 today] meanings of dust, swept up from historic buildings. Read by Trevor White SUN 20:00 The Apple Orchard: Omnibus (b082m5kz) Cologne­based artist Stoecker has collected samples of dust from Produced by Gemma Jenkins [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] historic buildings across Europe and beyond. With the help of Gerri Brightwell received an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She has two published novels: Cold SUN 20:55 Uncle Mort's North Country (b007jrcs) scientists and an electro­microscope at Augsburg University he Country, and The Dark Lantern. She teaches as part of the [Repeat of broadcast at 09:55 today] has analysed the dust and discovered it contains tiny fossils, dust Creative Writing program at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks (b082m62y) from the Sahara, pollutants of various kinds and human debris. MON 11:15 Lynn Ferguson ­ Kindling (b0076jzj) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] Aeolian research, research into dust particles and sediments, is an established branch of geographical study, often concerned with Douglas, Ellen and their daughter Jennifer are preparing for their SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b082m630) the history and future of climate change, desertification and annual bonfire night party. Each reveals something they'd rather [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] landscape erosion, but as Wolfgang has discovered, dust can also keep hidden, perhaps even from themselves. SUN 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters (b00y2sdt) tell us something about human culture. Stars Janet Brown as Ellen, Kenneth Bryans as Douglas and the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Wolfgang has been surprised and delighted by the excitement his drama's writer, Lynn Ferguson as Jennifer, SUN 22:30 Listen Against (b00tt5mb) requests for dust generate, and the enthusiasm of curators of Director: Mary Peate Series 3, Episode 3 historic buildings to comply. John Campbell is the Dean's Verger First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. The programme that looks back at a week's worth of radio and at Lincoln cathedral. He received Wolfgang's initial email with MON 12:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jttb) TV that never happened. Michael Burke becomes trapped in the some scepticism but it made sense too, because dust is often on [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Moral Maze, and Any Answers gets a game show makeover. his mind as the person responsible for the upkeep of this great MON 12:30 It Sticks Out Half a Mile (b007jph9) Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes. building. He collected two samples for Wolfgang's collection: [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Produced by Sam Bryant and Jon Holmes. 'secular' dust near the entrance, where the traffic of feet is MON 13:00 John Godey ­ The Taking of Pelham 123 SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b084f6qx) greatest, and 'sacred' dust, near the altar, where traces of candles, (b01cv8px) The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to The incense and sacred silverware are to be found. 'I've challenged [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Thinking Drinkers. him to tell me which is which', says John. 'I like to think that the MON 13:30 My Empire of Dust (b012r7jx) SUN 23:00 The Lach Chronicles (b037jcjt) dust here at Lincoln might contain traces of the pilgrims and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Series 1, Rock and Roll Nation worshippers who've been coming here over the centuries. MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01phfq9) Lach was the King of Manhattan's East Village and host of the Everyone leaves a trace of themselves behind in the dust'. longest running open mic night in New York. He now lives in Daphne Du Maurier ­ Frenchman's Creek, Episode 6 Wolfgang Stoecker is an engaging and charismatic host in this Part adventure, part romance, and set in Cornwall, Daphne Du Scotland and finds himself back at square one, playing in a dive thought­provoking and witty documentary. bar on the wrong side of Edinburgh. Maurier's novel tells the powerful love story between Lady Dona MON 07:00 Heated Rollers (b007s849) and the French pirate Aubery. His night, held in various venues around New York, was called Episode 6 the Antihoot. He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff Buckley and Episode 6 The real Sleeping Beauty, and a women's jail. All­women sketch Lady Dona trades her skirts for the trousers of a cabin boy and many others; he discovered and nurtured lots of talent including show with Lynda Bellingham and Lorraine Bowen. From March Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches ­ but nobody sets sail with the Frenchman and his crew, in a daring bid to steal 1999. a merchant ship from under the noses of her compatriots. discovered him. MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b081lddb) This week we find Lach reminiscing about his influences and he Read by Adjoa Andoh Series 17, Episode 6 Abridged by Eileen Horne shares his thoughts on Jim Morrison, Batman and Tom Petty. David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are Written and performed by Lach Produced by Clive Brill encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. Sound design: Al Lorraine and Sean Kerwin how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their Producer: Richard Melvin MON 14:15 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post opponents. Office (b0183t4g) A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. John Finnemore, Frankie Boyle, Jeremy Hardy and Lucy Porter SUN 23:15 Julian Fox: On a Lonely Planet (b042cpth) The Penny Black are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on The arrival of Universal Penny Postage in 1840 marked the Airports subjects as varied as spies, fire, Norfolk and The Beatles. The home­based travel show hits London's airports to review beginning of the post office as a genuine public service. The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the Introduced by the social reformer, Rowland Hill, he argued that flight options. How about a holiday in Gatwick? From March team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. 2005. lowering the cost of postage would mean more people would send Produced by Jon Naismith more letters leading to wider social benefits and increased profits. SUN 23:30 Radio Shuttleworth (b007ynmh) A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. Series 2, Episode 6 As secretary of the post office, Hill oversaw the implementation MON 08:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jttb) of the world's first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black. Matthew Kelly joins Sheffield singer John for a special edition of Series 3, Ignore These Programme Titles the Burkiss Way Stars in Their Eyes. With Mitch Benn. From March 2000. As Royal Mail faces an uncertain future, Dominic Sandbrook The team pulls open the "Door Handle of the Day" ­ and who will charts the development of the post office and examines it's impact win the "Difficult Time of the Month Competition"? on literacy, free speech, commerce and communication. The Post Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett . Office has become a cherished social institution, linking people MONDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2016 Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to together and extending their vision outward into the wider world. 1980. It's called Royal Mail but it should be known as the People's Post MON 00:00 The Man in Black (b017prn7) Scripted by David Renwick and Andrew Marshall. Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Producer: John Lloyd Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart MON 00:30 Ray Bradbury ­ Golden Apples of the Sun First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1978. Actors: Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, (b007jn3z) MON 08:30 It Sticks Out Half a Mile (b007jph9) Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] Who Owned the Pier? Producer: Joby Waldman MON 01:00 Julia Darling ­ Appointments (b05r71h3) 1948: In the battle to restore the pier in Frambourne­on­Sea, A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] hopes rest on a visit from an electrician... MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01fhrj1) MON 02:15 Getting on Air: The Female Pioneers (b03ffskk) A seaside saga of pier perpetuation starring John Le Mesurier as Mark Lawson ­ The Man Who Knows, Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] Arthur Wilson, Ian Lavender as Frank Pike, Bill Pertwee as Bert It's London in the late 1960's and Dominic Bold of The Morning MON 02:30 Sebastian Barry ­ Days Without End: Omnibus Hodges and Vivienne Martin as Miss Perkins. News is Britain's most successful gossip columnist, celebrated for (b082m6cx) After a pilot episode was made in 1981, Arthur Lowe sadly died. his uncannily intimate knowledge of what goes on in the lives of [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] So this 13­part series was revamped to feature the Dad's Army entertainment stars, politicians, members of the Royal Family and MON 03:45 Deborah Moggach ­ A Real Countrywoman characters played by Pertwee and Lavender instead. The series the aristocracy. (b082q3ml) was later adapted for ITV by Yorkshire TV. But when Bold gets hold of a story involving actress Alice [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] Written by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles, based on the Morney, which she believes she has told only to those closest to characters originally created by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. MON 04:00 Saturday Drama (b0077134) her, she becomes determined to uncover his source in her Producer: Martin Fisher [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] entourage. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1983. MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (b082q3mq) In 'The Man Who Knows' by Mark Lawson MON 09:00 Just a Minute (b00mg2v4) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] Gordon Bannoch was played by Gerard Murphy Series 55, Episode 7 Dominic Bold ..... Jonathan Firth

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Alice Morney ..... Lizzy McInnerny The radical comedian offers his humorous assessment of the was first recognised, and how we can support the next generation Danny Carlton ..... Nickolas Grace influential German composer. From September 2002. of sufferers to cope with this potentially devastating condition. Barney Hamilton ..... Michael Elwyn MON 23:00 The Now Show (b081tjhg) Producer: Lisa Needham Ted Reaney and Sidney ..... Neil Brand Series 49, Episode 2 A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. Rosie Pilks ...... Issy Van Randwyck Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Sarah Kendall, Ellie TUE 07:00 Edgar Wallace ­ Educated Evans (b03zxqb1) and Tubby Marrinner and Taylor, Luke Kempner, Pippa Evans and Dr Tomila Lankina to A Matched Pair Simon Dee ..... Jon Glover present the news via topical stand up and sketches. Can the 1920s tipster avoid police plans and see off a new The song lyrics were written by Mark Lawson US election results, Trump, the soothing powers of the word of 'educated' rival? Stars Roy Hudd, Andrew Sachs and Pat Coombs. And the music was composed and performed by Neil Brand the year, Putin, and puppets. Just some of the topics up for From August 1996. The Director was Eoin O'Callaghan. discussion in this week's episode. TUE 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b081lkn2) MON 14:45 Book of the Week (b019rhzj) Written by the cast with additional material from Jon Hunter, Jane Series 11, Episode 6 Marcus Berkmann ­ A Shed of One's Own: Midlife Without the Lamacraft, Jenny Laville, Robin Morgan and Dan Kiss. Comedy. The curmudgeonly author takes listeners through his Crisis, Episode 1 Producer Alexandra Smith week. For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due BBC Studios Production. TUE 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlg5) warning. One day you are young, free and single; the next you are MON 23:30 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science (b00zf34s) Series 2, Crossed Swords bald, fat and washed­up, with weird tendrils of hair growing out Series 1, Episode 2 After a major find out on his rag and bone round, excited Harold of your ears. None of it seems fair. With age should come dignity Helen Keen presents her off­beat but true account of the history lets greed get the better of him. and respect, but instead everyone makes tired jokes about buying of space flight, aided by Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane. This Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as a motorbike. week how Wernher Von Braun went from SS officer to American Harold. With Derek Nimmo as The Shop Assistant and Michael Marcus Berkmann isn't having it. Having marked his fiftieth space supremo to Disney children's presenter; America's home­ MacLean as The Auctioneer. birthday by hiding under the duvet for six weeks, he is grown rocket genius Jack Parsons and his unhealthy interest in Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association determined to find some light in the all­consuming darkness. Satanism; and the surprising story of Fix the French Space Cat. with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote 'We may have lost our hair, our waistline or our way completely. Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. The Offer But we have also gained a certain amount of guile and what some Produced by Gareth Edwards was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring the lives of might call "gravitas" (and others would call "weight").' It Is Rocket Science is performed by Helen Keen and stars Peter rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold and it was Musing over birth, death and all the messy stuff in between, he Serafinowicz as the Voice of Space, with all other parts played by the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. concludes that however dreadful you look in the mirror today, it Susy Kane. Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Gale will be much worse in ten years' time. His brutally candid MON 23:45 Quando, Quando, Quando (b00800m4) Pedrick. dispatch from the front line is essential listening for anyone over Spies Produced by Bobby Jaye thirty­five ­ as well as all those who want to prepare for what lies A secret tonic formula is stolen from the brothers' hair salon. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1967. ahead... Stars Rainer Hersch and Catherine Tate. From December 1999. TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry (b007k2bx) Marcus Berkmann has spent more than thirty years sitting in front A Motley Crew of various television screens swearing at incompetent England A mission to an oil rig leaves the bungling civil servants all at sea. batsmen. In his leisure time he has written columns on sport for TUESDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2016 Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. From July 1977. Punch, the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Express. He is a TUE 09:00 The Now Show (b081tjhg) regular contributor to Private Eye and has been the Spectator's TUE 00:00 Susan Cooper ­ Over Sea, Under Stone (b082qf3w) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] pop music critic for over twenty years. His books include Rain [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE 09:30 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science (b00zf34s) Men: The Madness of Cricket, Zimmer Men: The Trials and TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b0076dn3) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Monday] Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer, Fatherhood: The Truth and [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE 09:45 Quando, Quando, Quando (b00800m4) A Matter of Facts: The Insider's Guide to Quizzing TUE 01:00 John Godey ­ The Taking of Pelham 123 [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] Read by Toby Longworth (b01cv8px) TUE 10:00 Oscar Wilde (b007jnnk) Producer/Abridger: Joanna Green [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] The Picture of Dorian Gray, Episode 2 A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE 01:30 My Empire of Dust (b012r7jx) The aristocrat is living a life of selfish pleasure. But is retribution MON 15:00 Oscar Wilde (b007jnn1) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] on the horizon? Stars Ian McDiarmid and Jamie Glover. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01phfq9) TUE 11:00 Opening Lines (b01l1g5y) MON 16:00 Just a Minute (b00mg2v4) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Series 14, Cynthia [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE 02:15 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post A return of the series which gives first­time and emerging short MON 16:30 The Change (b00nsnhx) story writers their radio debut. Jay Barnett's quirky story is about [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Office (b0183t4g) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] a dog you could set your watch to. MON 17:00 Heated Rollers (b007s849) TUE Read by Alex Lanipekun. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01fhrj1) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Produced by Robert Howells MON 17:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b081lddb) TUE Jay Barnett writes and reads short stories for his spoken word [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] 02:45 Book of the Week (b019rhzj) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] blog theaftermathofmygreatidea.blogspot.com. His short story MON 18:00 Susan Cooper ­ Over Sea, Under Stone 'Boy' was published in Jawbreakers, the first National Flash TUE 03:00 Oscar Wilde (b007jnn1) (b082qf3w) Fiction Day anthology. He is an editor for Hackney based radio [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] The Parchment station NTS, and every other Monday hosts the 'Down Your TUE 04:00 Just a Minute (b00mg2v4) Holidaying with their great­uncle in Cornwall, siblings Simon, Ward' show on Whipps Cross Hospital Radio. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] Jane and Barney make a curious discovery in a cluttered attic. TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama (b01ngmcl) TUE 04:30 The Change (b00nsnhx) What they expected to be an ordinary summer in the village of Peter Souter ­ What Love Sounds Like [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Trewissick turns into something very unordinary ­ and What Love Sounds Like centres around the meeting of a blind TUE frightening... 05:00 Heated Rollers (b007s849) man, Dom, and a deaf woman, Thea, in a faith­healer's waiting From Susan Cooper's classic sequence of novels "The Dark is [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] room. Dom has only recently gone blind and is at odds with the Rising" dramatised in 4­parts by David Calcutt. Over Sea, Under TUE 05:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b081lddb) world and himself. Thea, using her computer voice generator, Stone was first published in 1965. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] plies him with questions ­ particularly about an old, painful Stars Ronald Pickup as Great Uncle Merry, Naomi Kerbel as TUE 06:00 John Godey ­ The Taking of Pelham 123 relationship which Dom is initially reluctant to talk about. As the Jane, Ben Gutteridge as Simon, Edward Clarke as Barney and (b01d2l36) play progresses we realise that all is not quite as it seems, and that Struan Rodger as Hastings, Episode 4 this meeting may have profound consequences for them both. Music composed and performed by Martin Allcock. After agreeing to pay the ransom demanded by the heavily­armed Alex Jennings and Juliet Stevenson star in a new play by award­ Director: Nigel Bryant. train hijackers, New York's city authorities race to meet the winning playwright Peter Souter First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. deadline for the cash handover. Produced and directed by Gordon House. MON 18:30 A Good Read (b0076dn3) Read by William Hope. TUE 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlg5) Charles Clarke and Valerie Grove John Godey's thriller abridged in 5­parts by Neville Teller. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Rosie Boycott and her guests ­ former MP, Charles Clarke and A best­seller in 1973, 'The Taking of Pelham 123' was made into TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry (b007k2bx) writer, Valerie Grove ­ discuss favourite books by Simon Singh, the 1974 film starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw, a 1998 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Simon Gray and F Scott Fitzgerald. From 2003. TV­movie remake of the same title, and a 2009 film starring TUE 13:00 John Godey ­ The Taking of Pelham 123 Denzel Washington and John Travolta. The novel's impact ­ and Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh (b01d2l36) that of the subsequent 1974 film ­ apparently resulted in New Publisher: Fourth Estate [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Fat Chance by Simon Gray York's City Transit Authority banning any scheduling of a train TUE 13:30 ADHD and Me (b011c0nn) Publisher: Faber departing Pelham station at 1:23 for many years. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald Using the pen name John Godey, Brooklyn­born author Morton TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01phhbh) Publisher: Penguin. Freedgood's crime novels include 'A Thrill a Minute With Jack Daphne Du Maurier ­ Frenchman's Creek, Episode 7 MON 19:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jttb) Albany', 'Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Kill Part adventure, part romance, and set in Cornwall, Daphne Du [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Today' and 'The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome'. Maurier's novel tells the powerful love story between Lady Dona MON Producer: Heather Larmour 19:30 It Sticks Out Half a Mile (b007jph9) and the French pirate Aubery. Made for BBC Radio Extra by BBC Northern Ireland. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Episode 7 First broadcast in 2012. MON 20:00 John Godey ­ The Taking of Pelham 123 Lady Dona succumbs at last to the Frenchman's charms and TUE 06:30 ADHD and Me (b011c0nn) (b01cv8px) enjoys an idyllic voyage with him. But the dream cannot last. Comedian Rory Bremner has found success in his ability to [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Read by Adjoa Andoh switch between impersonating many different people. But behind MON 20:30 My Empire of Dust (b012r7jx) Abridged by Eileen Horne this comic persona is a man who struggles to focus, loses the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Produced by Clive Brill thread and takes on too many tasks that can leave his personal and MON 21:00 Opening Lines (b01kt7cz) A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. professional life in disarray. Rory had always put his chaotic [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE 14:15 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post lifestyle down to his personality. MON 21:15 Lynn Ferguson ­ Kindling (b0076jzj) However, after a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Office (b0184rgd) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Disorder, or ADHD, within his family, Rory has realised he too Business Post MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b081lddb) may have the condition. For this documentary, Rory goes on a The post office played a vital role in the spread of mass [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] personal journey to find out how this condition affects adults, consumerism. MON 22:30 The Mark Steel Lecture (b007qw7m) how attitudes have changed in the two decades since the ADHD Thanks to cheap postage, businesses could advertise and interact Series 3, Ludwig van Beethoven with people in their own homes. When it took over the Parcel Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 November 2016 Page 5 of 9

Post in 1883 the Post Office offered the first genuinely joined up TUE 23:00 Beauty of Britain (b00n4zgv) an act of charity rather than an assault on our personal space? The postal service, leading to a boom in mail order catalogues. Series 1, The Lord Lieutenant's Lady ultimate sodcast is his plan, a 'joycast' of music to unite rather Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook Comedy by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson. Beauty than divide. It turns out to be quite a challenge..... Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart Olonga works as a carer for the Featherdown Agency and sees WED 07:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k2cn) Actors: Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, herself as an inspiration to other African girls hoping to achieve Series 2, The Wedding Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw their goals in the land of semi­skimmed milk. We see Britain Everyone is looking forward to Hillfield's big ceremony, but in Producer: Joby Waldman through her eyes ­ its overheated houses, its disappointing church which synagogue? Stars Tracy­Ann Oberman. From October A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. services and its over­fondness for cauliflower cheese. 2000. TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01ddxbp) Beauty is caught between a warring couple, which is a good WED 07:30 Rich Hall's (US Election) Breakdown (b081qz1f) Mark Lawson ­ The Man Who Knows, Episode 2 distraction from her disastrous crush on worship leader Wayne. Episode 4 New Year's Eve, 1968. Does the Morning News know more about Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien Multi award­winning comedian and US Citizen Rich Hall follows Alice Morney's personal life than she does? Stars Lizzy Nancy Snow ...... Rosemary Leach the closing stages of the US Presidential race, offering an acerbic McInnerny. Miss Macleod ...... Anne Reid look at the electoral system and the two candidates vying for the TUE 14:45 Book of the Week (b01bbz0q) Worship Leader Wayne ...... Javone Prince most important job in the world. Marcus Berkmann ­ A Shed of One's Own: Midlife Without the Sally ...... Felicity Montagu A combination of stand­up, sketch and interview, Rich Hall's (US Crisis, Episode 2 Karen ...... Nicola Sanderson Election) Breakdown broadcasts live from the fictional IBBC For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi network in Washington to the whole of the United States. warning. One day you are young, free and single; the next you are Anil ...... Paul Sharma Rich and his producer Nick Doody take calls from every corner of bald, fat and washed­up, with weird tendrils of hair growing out Mrs Daly/Choir Member ...... Nicola Sanderson the United States to hear the concerns of voters, offering their of your ears. None of it seems fair. With age should come dignity Music by The West End Gospel Choir. take on the issues troubling the American electorate. and respect, but instead everyone makes tired jokes about buying TUE 23:30 The Harpoon (b007k4cc) WED 08:00 The Navy Lark (b016pl5h) a motorbike. Series 1, Episode 1 Sub Lt Philips at Dartmouth Marcus Berkmann isn't having it. Having marked his fiftieth The nostalgic spiffing spoof of adventure story papers for boys. Just how did lovely Leslie become a sub­Lieutenant on HMS birthday by hiding under the duvet for six weeks, he is With Alistair McGowan and Peter Baynham. From September Troutbridge? determined to find some light in the all­consuming darkness. 1991. Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub­Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the 'We may have lost our hair, our waistline or our way completely. Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Richard But we have also gained a certain amount of guile and what some Caldicot as the instructor, Heather Chasen as the nurse, Ronnie might call "gravitas" (and others would call "weight").' WEDNESDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2016 Barker as Chief Petty Officer Ball, Tenniel Evans as Uncle and Musing over birth, death and all the messy stuff in between, he Michael Bates as Captain Aitchison. concludes that however dreadful you look in the mirror today, it WED 00:00 Susan Cooper ­ Over Sea, Under Stone Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS will be much worse in ten years' time. His brutally candid (b082qnxb) Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series dispatch from the front line is essential listening for anyone over [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] between 1959 and 1976. thirty­five ­ as well as all those who want to prepare for what lies WED 00:30 Comic to Comic (b007tcbj) Scripted by Lawrie Wyman. ahead... [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. Marcus Berkmann has spent more than thirty years sitting in front WED 01:00 John Godey ­ The Taking of Pelham 123 First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1967. of various television screens swearing at incompetent England (b01d2l36) WED 08:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b00t5xc7) batsmen. In his leisure time he has written columns on sport for [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] The Greyhound Track Punch, the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Express. He is a WED 01:30 ADHD and Me (b011c0nn) Sid wants the lad evicted, so he reopens a public footpath through regular contributor to Private Eye and has been the Spectator's [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] his country mansion. pop music critic for over twenty years. His books include Rain Starring Tony Hancock, Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Andree Melly WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01phhbh) Men: The Madness of Cricket, Zimmer Men: The Trials and and Kenneth Williams. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer, Fatherhood: The Truth and Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. WED 02:15 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post A Matter of Facts: The Insider's Guide to Quizzing Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Recorded Read by Toby Longworth Office (b0184rgd) by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz. Producer/Abridger: Joanna Green [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] Producer: Dennis Main Wilson A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01ddxbp) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1956. TUE 15:00 Oscar Wilde (b007jnnk) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED 09:00 The Food Quiz (b0076tgx) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED 02:45 Book of the Week (b01bbz0q) Series 3, Episode 2 TUE 16:00 Counterpoint (b082qkw2) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] On Jay Rayner's menu are Hugh Fearnley­Whittingstall, 2006, Semi­Final 2 WED 03:00 Oscar Wilde (b007jnnk) Marguerite Patten, Henrietta Green and Matthew Thorpe. From Ned Sherrin's eclectic music quiz with Ray Allen from Brighton, [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] September 2005. Jonathan Jacob of Chesham and Clive Summers from Bow. WED 04:00 Counterpoint (b082qkw2) WED 09:30 Rent (b007522v) TUE 16:30 Flying the Flag (b00xc71y) [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] Series 3, Episode 1 Series 4, Spiritual Values WED 04:30 Flying the Flag (b00xc71y) The new baby needs a name and Richard does not want to reveal Cash is scarce, as the ambassador hopes capitalism and [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] one of his. Stars Barbara Flynn and Patrick Barlow. From January democracy will conquer communism. Stars Dinsdale Landen. WED 05:00 Edgar Wallace ­ Educated Evans (b03zxqb1) 1997. From June 1992. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED 10:00 Classic Serial (b01k9npd) TUE 17:00 Edgar Wallace ­ Educated Evans (b03zxqb1) WED 05:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b081lkn2) G&W Grossmith ­ The Diary of a Nobody, Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] Johnny Vegas and Katherine Parkinson play Mr and Mrs Pooter TUE 17:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b081lkn2) WED 06:00 John Godey ­ The Taking of Pelham 123 in Andrew Lynch's adaptation of the Grossmith brothers' comic [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] (b01dh8bq) novel of 1892. TUE 18:00 Susan Cooper ­ Over Sea, Under Stone (b082qnxb) Episode 5 The story is a social vignette of Charles, the self­important but The Standing Stones After delivering their final list of demands to the authorities, the highly likeable clerk, his loving wife Carrie and their son William A treasure hunt under a full moon leads Simon, Jane and Barney heavily­armed gang of hijackers aboard a New York subway train (played by Andrew Gower). deeper into danger from dark forces. Stars Ronald Pickup. prepare to make their escape. Much of the action takes place in the house that the Pooters share TUE 18:30 Comic to Comic (b007tcbj) Concluded by William Hope. with their maid Sarah...and the noisy sound of passing trains. The Series 1, Chris Green John Godey's thriller abridged in 5­parts by Neville Teller. Laurels in Brickfield Terrace is frequently visited by colourful The writer­performer tells Bruce Morton about his famous A best­seller in 1973, 'The Taking of Pelham 123' was made into and amusing characters, not least Gowing and Cummings, character, spoof American country singer Tina C. From August the 1974 film starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw, a 1998 Pooter's 'trusty' fairweather friends. 2005. TV­movie remake of the same title, and a 2009 film starring This full dramatisation has a Victorian sit­com feel and stays true TUE 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlg5) Denzel Washington and John Travolta. The novel's impact ­ and to the book ­ with a couple of twists of Lynch's own ­ capturing a [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] that of the subsequent 1974 film ­ apparently resulted in New kind of lower­middle­class aspiration that still has a tangible TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry (b007k2bx) York's City Transit Authority banning any scheduling of a train familiarity in 2012. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] departing Pelham station at 1:23 for many years. In Episode One, the Pooters move in to The Laurels. Charles and TUE 20:00 John Godey ­ The Taking of Pelham 123 Using the pen name John Godey, Brooklyn­born author Morton Carrie attend The Mansion House Ball and Willie arrives home from the bank in Oldham. (b01d2l36) Freedgood's crime novels include 'A Thrill a Minute With Jack Cast: [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Albany', 'Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Kill Charles Pooter ...... Johnny Vegas TUE 20:30 ADHD and Me (b011c0nn) Today' and 'The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome'. Carrie Pooter ...... Katherine Parkinson [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Producer: Heather Larmour Made for BBC Radio Extra by BBC Northern Ireland. William / Lupin ...... Andrew Gower TUE 21:00 Opening Lines (b01l1g5y) First broadcast in 2012. Sarah ...... Sinead Matthews [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED 06:30 The No 219 Sodcast Project (b011v1bq) Cummings (and Horwin) ...... Adrian Scarborough TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama (b01ngmcl) Scourge of public transport and perpetrators of tinny sounds ­ Gowing (and Borset) ...... Stephen Critchlow [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] young people are reclaiming buses and trains with their tiny Farmerson ...... Joe Ransom TUE 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week (b081lkn2) mobile phone speakers and gangster tracks. The 'sodcast' is Trillip ...... Adam Gillen [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] everywhere. But is it really such a menace? Ian McMillan Daisy Mutlar ...... Sarah Sweeney TUE 22:30 The Richest Man in Britain (b00nlx7p) recaptures his own youth when he was ghetto blasting Captain Other parts were played by members of the cast. The Interview Beefheart and sets out on Yorkshire's buses to unpick the Adapted by Andrew Lynch, from the original by George and Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock sodcasting phenomenon. Weedon Grossmith. star and his search for fulfilment. Inspired by a bus campaign to exterminate the sodcaster, he meets Produced by Sally Harrison Trillionnaire rocker Dave Mabbutt is persuaded to preview his passengers newly committed to giving up their music in public, Directed by Marilyn Imrie 'drums­only' version of 1970s classic album, Temple of the and plenty who will fight to the last for their right to peace and A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. Human Mind. quiet. In Hackney he rides with school girls who switch from WED 11:00 Opening Lines (b01l8rbl) Dave Mabbutt ...... Mark Williams tunes on their phones to self­composed raps about school dinner Series 14, The Cairn Dom ...... Russell Tovey ladies, and visits the producer of one of the UK's most sodcasted A return of the series which gives first­time and emerging short Dave's Mum ...... Lynda Bellingham tracks to learn the secrets of remixing music for the lowest of lo­fi story writers their radio debut. Jane the Guardian journalist ...... Kerry Fox. reproduction. The ascent of a mountain assumes heightened significance for a TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b084f782) But can Ian convince a bus­load of sceptics that sharing music is climber in this poignant tale by Sophie Hampton. The best in contemporary comedy. Iain Lee chats to Anna Mann. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 November 2016 Page 6 of 9

Read by Anthony Calf Punch, the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Express. He is a THURSDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2016 Produced by Gemma Jenkins regular contributor to Private Eye and has been the Spectator's Currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Sheffield pop music critic for over twenty years. His books include Rain THU 00:00 Susan Cooper ­ Over Sea, Under Stone (b082qz0l) Hallam University, Sophie Hampton's short stories have been Men: The Madness of Cricket, Zimmer Men: The Trials and [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] published in the Eastern Daily Press, Scribble Magazine and the Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer, Fatherhood: The Truth and THU 00:30 Off the Page (b00lbt3r) Best of MA Writing 2011. A Matter of Facts: The Insider's Guide to Quizzing [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama (b01dgh87) Read by Toby Longworth THU 01:00 John Godey ­ The Taking of Pelham 123 Marty Ross ­ Rough Magick Producer/Abridger: Joanna Green (b01dh8bq) A comedic drama by Marty Ross set in 1605 in the Scottish A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] WED Highlands in which the Royal playwright Shaxberd saves King 15:00 Classic Serial (b01k9npd) THU 01:30 The No 219 Sodcast Project (b011v1bq) James from assassination and attempts to save an innocent girl [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] from being burnt as a witch. WED 16:00 The Food Quiz (b0076tgx) THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01phjbd) 1605. Fearing further terrorist activity following the gunpowder [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] plot, King James transports his court to the Scottish Highlands, WED 16:30 Rent (b007522v) THU 02:15 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post complete with The King's Men, his favoured theatre company. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Office (b0184s2q) This includes middle­aged, careworn, neurotic and pox­troubled WED 17:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k2cn) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] playwright William Shaxberd (although he prefers being called [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01fjt0b) 'Shakespeare'). When the Royal wagons get bogged down on the WED 17:30 Rich Hall's (US Election) Breakdown (b081qz1f) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] moors and a seemingly supernatural attempt is made on the life of [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU 02:45 Book of the Week (b01bbz0z) the paranoid, superstitious James, a local woman, Shona, is WED 18:00 Susan Cooper ­ Over Sea, Under Stone (b082qz0l) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] accused of witchcraft. Shaxberd owes Shona a debt and shaking The Furry Dance THU 03:00 Classic Serial (b01k9npd) off his customary deference to authority he employs all his A carnival twists through the winding streets, as the powers of the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] ingenuity and gift for theatre to help her escape the gallows. But dark close in, Barney becomes isolated. Stars Struan Rodger. who was the real attacker? And does the innocent Shona have THU 04:00 The Food Quiz (b0076tgx) WED 18:30 Off the Page (b00lbt3r) some genuine magic up her sleeve? [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Falling on Your Sword The play takes its prompt from historical facts: James's obsession THU 04:30 Rent (b007522v) Has something happened to the ideas of honour, dignity, duty and with witchcraft and the political paranoia post­Gunpowder Plot; [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] virtue? Are people less willing to fall on their swords than they Shakespeare's being sometimes credited as 'Shaxberd' (might it THU used to do? Is it admirable, anyway, to admit defeat? 05:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k2cn) have been his actual name?), his awkward position at court as a Political journalist Anthony Howard, author and broadcaster [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Catholic glove­maker's son, his rewriting of Scottish history in Anne Atkins and journalist Toby Young join Dominic Arkwright THU 05:30 Rich Hall's (US Election) Breakdown (b081qz1f) 'Macbeth' to flatter King James (Banquo's descendant); as well as to explore the subject through their writing. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] the probably apocryphal story that The King's Men may have WED 19:00 The Navy Lark (b016pl5h) THU 06:00 Jim Eldridge ­ Down Payment on Death toured Scotland prior to the writing of 'Macbeth'. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] (b007jtkk) Producer/director: David Ian Neville. WED 19:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b00t5xc7) A Shot in the Night WED 12:00 The Navy Lark (b016pl5h) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Sick of the espionage business, professional hitman Art Gordo [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED 20:00 John Godey ­ The Taking of Pelham 123 had quit the British Secret Service. But then he's offered big WED 12:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b00t5xc7) money to carry out one last killing... (b01dh8bq) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] The first of a 5­part thriller adapted by Jim Eldridge from his own [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED 13:00 John Godey ­ The Taking of Pelham 123 novel. WED 20:30 The No 219 Sodcast Project (b011v1bq) (b01dh8bq) Stars Dinsdale Landen as Art Gauder, Manning Wilson as Clarke, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] and Frances Jeater as Louise Lenehan. WED 21:00 Opening Lines (b01l8rbl) WED 13:30 The No 219 Sodcast Project (b011v1bq) Producer: John Fawcett­Wilson [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1976. WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama (b01dgh87) WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01phjbd) THU 06:30 Manchester and Liverpool: Britain's American [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Daphne Du Maurier ­ Frenchman's Creek, Episode 8 Civil War (b010xy3l) WED Part adventure, part romance, and set in Cornwall, Daphne Du 22:00 Rich Hall's (US Election) Breakdown (b081qz1f) Historian Tristram Hunt tells a tale of two cities. Maurier's novel tells the powerful love story between Lady Dona [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] In the 1860s, the great port of Liverpool and the industrial and the French pirate Aubery. WED 22:30 Meera Syal's Asian Comedy Night (b037sf5k) powerhouse that was Manchester and its surrounding towns were Episode 8 Episode 2 both deeply involved with America and its great export industry: Harry and Rockingham prepare to trap the pirates, and Dona must Hosts, Meera Syal and Tommy Sandhu continue a special cotton. But when the American Civil War erupted in 1861, it host a dinner for their fellow conspirators. celebration of British Asian stand up comedy from the BBC began to pull the two cities in very different directions. Read by Adjoa Andoh Radio Theatre in London. Tristram begins at the house of Charles Kuhn Prioleau, a South Abridged by Eileen Horne With the Asian Provocateurs, Mickey Sharma, Shazia Mirza, Carolina cotton trader who set up home in Liverpool. Produced by Clive Brill Imran Yusuf, Humza Badman, Kulvinder Ghir, Hyde Panesar and Prioleau took it upon himself to start privately ­ and illicitly ­ A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. Sami Shah. funding a fleet of deadly warships for his embattled Confederate WED 14:15 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post Producer: Jon Holmes homeland. Merseyside shipbuilder Laird's was happy to help. Made for the BBC Asian Network by Tonic Productions and first Office (b0184s2q) What's more, under Abraham Lincoln, the American North broadcast in July 2012. Love Letters blockaded the South and stopped it exporting cotton. Tristram WED Universal penny postage meant people from all backgrounds 23:00 We Know Everything (b082qz7c) hears how this angered many Liverpool businessmen, who began could afford to sustain long distance relationships. But it also led Episode 1 to back the Confederacy, helping to smuggle supplies through the to increased pressure: lovers were expected to write two or three 4 Extra Debut. What is the best aphrodisiac ­ oysters or a naked North's blockade. times a week, even if they lived in the same town. Sales of letter­ woman? Dan Gaster and Paul Powell tackle audience quirky There was even a Bazaar at Liverpool's palatial new St George's writing manuals rocketed, allowing people to copy model questions. From June 1995. Hall, to raise money for the Confederate prisoners. examples of the perfect love letter. WED 23:15 Sir Ralph Stanza's Letter from Salford Meanwhile, the choking­off of cotton supplies from the American Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook (b0076dvc) South had a terrible impact on the mill­workers of Lancashire, Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart Series 2, Treating an Acute Elegy who suddenly found themselves out of work, and increasingly Actors: Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, Can the poet­at­large bring the healing power of poetry to a short of food. Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw medical centre in Salford? Stars James Quinn. From April 2003. This led some to hope for a swift end to the war. And yet, even in Producer: Joby Waldman WED 23:30 In and Out of the Kitchen (b017551m) the throes of 'Cotton Famine', many cotton workers gathered at A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. Series 1, July 15th to 19th Manchester's Free Trade Hall and issued an extraordinary WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01fjt0b) Each episode of In And Out Of The Kitchen features a few entries message to President Lincoln. Mark Lawson ­ The Man Who Knows, Episode 3 from the kitchen diary of cookery writer, Damien Trench. In a They assured him that, though his blockade was imposing great New Year's Day, 1969. Alice Morney is threatening to sack her mixture of narrative, dialogue and recipes, Damien unflinchingly hardship on them, they still supported his battle against slavery. manager over the invasion of her privacy. Stars Jonathan Firth. captures every angle of his life, "no matter how grizzly" as he And this extraordinary gesture led not just to a grateful response WED 14:45 Book of the Week (b01bbz0z) puts it "or, indeed, how gristly". from Lincoln, but a rich political reward.... Marcus Berkmann ­ A Shed of One's Own: Midlife Without the This episode sees Damien and his partner, Anthony, setting off Presenter: Tristram Hunt MP Crisis, Episode 3 for the warm embrace of the Italian countryside so that Damien Producer: Phil Tinline For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due can do some writing for a new book, and their builder Mr With: Thomas Sebrell, Jerry Williams, Michael Benbough­ warning. One day you are young, free and single; the next you are Mullaney can have space to properly fit the granite worktops that Jackson, David Brown and Alan Kidd. bald, fat and washed­up, with weird tendrils of hair growing out Damien's been dreaming of "from what seems like the beginning THU 07:00 Any Other Business (b0140tzv) of your ears. None of it seems fair. With age should come dignity of the Jurassic era". But there's trouble in paradise when Damien Episode 6 and respect, but instead everyone makes tired jokes about buying receives a call to tell him their Umbrian villa has collapsed and 'Star Trek' fever erupts, as a German delegation tours the cultural a motorbike. they will have to go somewhere else. Luckily, Damien's agent, delights of Chesbury. Marcus Berkmann isn't having it. Having marked his fiftieth Ian, is quick to the rescue... Lucy Flannery's local government sitcom stars Nelson David, birthday by hiding under the duvet for six weeks, he is The programme also features Damien's easy­to­follow recipes for: John Duttine, James Grout, Rosy Fordham, Nick Hardy, Howard determined to find some light in the all­consuming darkness. ­ a perfect pasta puttanesca Lew Lewis, Toby Longworth, Jan Ravens, Vivienne Rochester 'We may have lost our hair, our waistline or our way completely. ­ comforting Cornish Pasties and June Whitfield. But we have also gained a certain amount of guile and what some and Producer: Liz Anstee might call "gravitas" (and others would call "weight").' ­ something for the more experimental, "pilchards al limone". First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1995. Musing over birth, death and all the messy stuff in between, he Cast: THU 07:30 The Fair Intellectual Club (b081tdph) concludes that however dreadful you look in the mirror today, it Miles Jupp as Damien Trench A Rendezvous with Mr Voltaire will be much worse in ten years' time. His brutally candid with Lucy Porter's sitcom takes us to Edinburgh in the early 18th dispatch from the front line is essential listening for anyone over Justin Edwards as Anthony Century. Monsieur Voltaire (Lewis Macleod) has been thrown out thirty­five ­ as well as all those who want to prepare for what lies Brendan Dempsey as Mr Mullaney of France for immorality and has come to see his old friend ahead... Philip Fox as Ian Frobisher Robert (Simon Donaldson). He trades philosophical maxims with Marcus Berkmann has spent more than thirty years sitting in front Alex Tregear as the BA Lady/Helpful Student Ishbel (Caroline Deyga) and the fellow members of her secret of various television screens swearing at incompetent England Producer: Sam Michell. society ­ Alison (Jessica Hardwick) and Marjory (Samara batsmen. In his leisure time he has written columns on sport for Maclaren).

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The scholarly young ladies teach him the value of free speech and Episode 9 THU 22:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b081tdph) a brand new use for a broom handle. Dona fights for her life and her lover in the face of Rockingham's [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Music by Aly Macrae jealous rage and struggles to bridge the impossible gulf that THU 22:30 Strangers on Trains (b00dgjgd) Director: Marilyn Imrie divides her and the captured Frenchman. Episode 4 Producer: Gordon Kennedy Read by Adjoa Andoh Lone male travellers share their secret feelings about 'home'. With An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. Abridged by Eileen Horne Nat Segnit and Stewart Wright. From August 2008. THU 08:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b03vcrpy) Produced by Clive Brill THU 22:45 One (b00771mt) Doddy's Comic Cuts A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. Series 1, Episode 4 Could Ken Dodd have invented the mp3­player before its time? A THU 14:15 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post The sketch show where no sketch features more than one voice. musical washer is one of many innovations. From January 1974. Office (b0184v2x) Written by David Quantick and starring Dan Maier, Lizzie Roper, THU 08:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b007js4v) A Community Hub Graeme Garden, Deborah Norton, Andrew Crawford, Dan From 22/01/1984 During the nineteenth century the post office became a central Antopolski, Simon Greenall and Kate Gielgud, with Bill Oddie From a Tibetan mystic to the entire United Nations, the ultimate pillar in the community; a symbol of order, stability and public and Jeremy Clarkson as themselves. one­man show written by the host. From January 1984. service. As well as stamps and stationary, sub­postmasters THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b084f7f3) THU 09:00 The Personality Test (b00mk68l) supplied news, advice and local gossip. From 1862 the Post The best in contemporary comedy. Iain Lee chats to Anna Mann. Series 2, Rick Wakeman Office Savings Bank offered savings accounts to poorer people THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b00wbrwm) Rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman quizzes a panel about himself. for the first time. Series 6, Murderers With Sue Perkins, Will Smith and Lucy Porter. From December As Royal Mail faces an uncertain future, Dominic Sandbrook Edith wants Satan to find out who murdered her, meanwhile 2006. charts the development of the post office and examines it's impact Hell's boiler is on the blink. Satanic sitcom starring Andy THU 09:30 Crazy Big Fish (b0075zms) on literacy, free speech, commerce and communication Hamilton. From October 2007. Crazy for Trying? Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook THU 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jr0v) The Hull women must boost their sluggish ticket sales, and will Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart Series 3, The Masterson Bunch Billy attend the performance? Stars Deborah McAndrew. From Actors: Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, Suffragettes split the family, sparking drama at the races. December 2000. Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw Improvised historical saga with Paul Merton. From July 1995. THU 10:00 Classic Serial (b01kjlhf) Producer: Joby Waldman G&W Grossmith ­ The Diary of a Nobody, Episode 2 A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. Johnny Vegas and Katherine Parkinson play Mr and Mrs Pooter THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01dgh7l) FRIDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2016 in Andrew Lynch's adaptation of the Grossmith brothers' comic Mark Lawson ­ The Man Who Knows, Episode 4 novel of 1892. The Morning News gossip magazine faces legal action over its FRI 00:00 Susan Cooper ­ Over Sea, Under Stone (b082r2rb) The story is a social vignette of Charles, the self­important but illegal sourcing of material. Stars Lizzy McInnerny and Gerard [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Murphy. highly likeable clerk, his loving wife Carrie and their son William FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b008m8l6) THU (played by Andrew Gower). 14:45 Book of the Week (b01bbz1c) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Marcus Berkmann ­ A Shed of One's Own: Midlife Without the Much of the action takes place in the house that the Pooters share FRI 01:00 Jim Eldridge ­ Down Payment on Death (b007jtkk) Crisis, Episode 4 with their maid Sarah...and the noisy sound of passing trains. The [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Laurels in Brickfield Terrace is frequently visited by colourful For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due FRI 01:30 Manchester and Liverpool: Britain's American and amusing characters, not least Gowing and Cummings, warning. One day you are young, free and single; the next you are Civil War (b010xy3l) Pooter's 'trusty' fair­weather friends. bald, fat and washed­up, with weird tendrils of hair growing out [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] This full dramatisation has a Victorian sit­com feel and stays true of your ears. None of it seems fair. With age should come dignity FRI to the book ­ with a couple of twists of Lynch's own ­ capturing a and respect, but instead everyone makes tired jokes about buying 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01phlgs) kind of lower­middle­class aspiration that still has a tangible a motorbike. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] familiarity in 2012. Marcus Berkmann isn't having it. Having marked his fiftieth FRI 02:15 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post In Episode Two, Lupin's lifestyle upsets the measured balance of birthday by hiding under the duvet for six weeks, he is Office (b0184v2x) everyday life, Carrie hosts a seance with Mrs James, while Mr determined to find some light in the all­consuming darkness. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] and Mrs Pooter dine with Franching in Peckham and meet a Mr 'We may have lost our hair, our waistline or our way completely. FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01dgh7l) Hardfur Huttle. But we have also gained a certain amount of guile and what some [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] Cast: might call "gravitas" (and others would call "weight").' FRI 02:45 Book of the Week (b01bbz1c) Charles Pooter ...... Johnny Vegas Musing over birth, death and all the messy stuff in between, he [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] Carrie Pooter ...... Katherine Parkinson concludes that however dreadful you look in the mirror today, it FRI 03:00 Classic Serial (b01kjlhf) William / Lupin ...... Andrew Gower will be much worse in ten years' time. His brutally candid [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Sarah ...... Sinead Matthews dispatch from the front line is essential listening for anyone over FRI 04:00 The Personality Test (b00mk68l) Cummings (and Horwin) ...... Adrian Scarborough thirty­five ­ as well as all those who want to prepare for what lies [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Gowing (and Borset) ...... Stephen Critchlow ahead... FRI 04:30 Crazy Big Fish (b0075zms) Mrs James ...... Jo Neary Marcus Berkmann has spent more than thirty years sitting in front [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Hardfur Huttle ...... John Guerrasio of various television screens swearing at incompetent England FRI 05:00 Any Other Business (b0140tzv) Murray Posh ...... Joe Ransom batsmen. In his leisure time he has written columns on sport for [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Frank Mutlar ...... Adam Gillen Punch, the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Express. He is a FRI 05:30 The Fair Intellectual Club (b081tdph) Lillie Girl / Daisy Mutlar ...... Sarah Sweeney regular contributor to Private Eye and has been the Spectator's [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] pop music critic for over twenty years. His books include Rain Other parts were played by members of the cast. FRI 06:00 Jim Eldridge ­ Down Payment on Death (b007jtkq) Men: The Madness of Cricket, Zimmer Men: The Trials and Adapted by Andrew Lynch, from the original by George and The Double Target Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer, Fatherhood: The Truth and Weedon Grossmith. Retired professional hitman, Art Gordo heads to his friend A Matter of Facts: The Insider's Guide to Quizzing Produced by Sally Harrison Louise's flat to plan his next moves. Read by Toby Longworth Directed by Marilyn Imrie Thriller adapted by Jim Eldridge from his own novel. Producer/Abridger: Joanna Green A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. Stars Dinsdale Landen as Art Gauder and Frances Jeater as A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU 11:00 On the Brink (b01n1vlp) Louise Lenehan. THU Turn Our Backs 15:00 Classic Serial (b01kjlhf) Producer: John Fawcett­Wilson Fifty years ago, the world stood on the brink of nuclear war as the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1976. THU US and Soviet leadership engaged in a 13­day military stand­off 16:00 The Personality Test (b00mk68l) FRI 06:30 The Art Bunker (b012fs6h) over missiles in Cuba. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] This journey inside a mountain in Bosnia reveals the unlikely In A L Kennedy's story, the first in a series looking at the Cuban THU 16:30 Crazy Big Fish (b0075zms) location for a new festival of contemporary art, which aims to Missile Crisis through the eyes of ordinary people, a young [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] help move the country on from a mindset haunted by war. In May woman struggles to make plans for a future that might not exist. THU 17:00 Any Other Business (b0140tzv) 2011, the 1st Time Machine Biennial opened in what might be the Writer: A L Kennedy is an acclaimed novelist, short story­writer, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] strangest art­space ever: a vast, underground bunker, originally and stand­up comedian. Her latest novel is 'The Blue Book'. THU 17:30 The Fair Intellectual Club (b081tdph) built for President Tito and the Yugoslavian military leadership to Reader: Morven Christie [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] survive in the event of nuclear attack from Russia ­ Yugoslavia Producer: Justine Willett. THU 18:00 Susan Cooper ­ Over Sea, Under Stone (b082r2rb) having been expelled from the Cominform group of soviet nations THU 11:15 Sheila Goff ­ A Long Time Dead (b0076plg) The Trust of Logres as far back as 1948. Despite a minor hitch in the proceedings, careful Kath carries on The children near the end of their quest, over sea and under stone, The ARK bunker (the initials stand for Atomska Ratna Komanda with her planned girlie weekend in Paris with bossy Beatrice. but it is not just the tide closing in. With Ronald Pickup. ­ Atomic War Command) took 26 years to build, 280 feet inside a Now she feels free to live a little and really let her hair down... THU 18:30 Great Lives (b008m8l6) mountain overlooking the town of Konjic, near Sarajevo, behind Sheila Goff's drama stars Marion Bailey as Kath, Linda Marlowe Series 14, Howard Florey an entrance disguised by three very ordinary­looking houses. The as Beatrice and Tony Selby as Geoff. 4 Extra Debut. Sir Richard Sykes champions Sir Howard Florey, 75,000 sq ft, U­shaped, concrete labyrinth contains facilities for Director: David Hunter a forgotten key figure in the story of penicillin. With Matthew 350 people to survive for 6 months, and the fixtures and fittings First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. Parris. From January 2008. are perfectly preserved. THU 12:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b03vcrpy) THU 19:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b03vcrpy) Although a nuclear attack never happened, a technologically [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] cruder, brutal, civil war certainly did. And it was as a result of THU 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b007js4v) THU 19:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b007js4v) that war that the previously secret bunker was discovered and [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] handed over to the Bosnian army. In 2009, a committee of art THU 13:00 Jim Eldridge ­ Down Payment on Death THU 20:00 Jim Eldridge ­ Down Payment on Death historians, some from Sarajevo, some from Belgrade, secured (b007jtkk) (b007jtkk) financial backing for the Biennial from the Council of Europe to [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] hold this new festival in the bunker. THU 13:30 Manchester and Liverpool: Britain's American THU 20:30 Manchester and Liverpool: Britain's American Forty five artists were selected, roughly half of whom come from the republics of former Yugoslavia, and the rest representing Civil War (b010xy3l) Civil War (b010xy3l) Russia and the Baltic States, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] USA and the UK. Bob Dickinson travelled to Konjic for the THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01phlgs) THU 21:00 On the Brink (b01n1vlp) opening, witnessed challenging examples of new art from the Daphne Du Maurier ­ Frenchman's Creek, Episode 9 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] region, and interviewed artists, organisers and local people who, Part adventure, part romance, and set in Cornwall, Daphne Du THU 21:15 Sheila Goff ­ A Long Time Dead (b0076plg) until recently, never knew the ARK bunker existed. Maurier's novel tells the powerful love story between Lady Dona [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] and the French pirate Aubery.

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FRI 07:00 London Calling (b05p73y9) back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits include Paul Merton ­ Morning News, is about to face a little exposure of his own. Stars It Pays to Advertise The Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The Paul & Pauline Calf Gerard Murphy. Back to the BBC's early wireless days of 1922. Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon and FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b01bbz1y) Colonel Beecham and Admiral Carpenter are concerned that all exec producing Victoria Wood's dinnerladies. Marcus Berkmann ­ A Shed of One's Own: Midlife Without the their hard work producing the BBC's wireless output is beginning FRI 09:30 No Commitments (b007jmz6) Crisis, Episode 5 to affect their golf swing. Meanwhile, hard­up Children's Hour's Series 11, Ill Winds For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due Uncle Rex is made an offer he really ought to refuse. Roger's retirement looms, while Anna tries to help Charlotte with warning. One day you are young, free and single; the next you are Written by Jimmy Perry, the man behind Dad's Army and Hi­De­ a tricky problem. Sitcom following three 40­something sisters. bald, fat and washed­up, with weird tendrils of hair growing out Hi. Stars Bill Nighy and Celia Imrie. From Feb 2005. of your ears. None of it seems fair. With age should come dignity Starring Graham Crowden as John Brown, Jimmy Perry as FRI 10:00 Nigel Planer ­ On the Ceiling (b01l1vy1) and respect, but instead everyone makes tired jokes about buying Colonel Beecham, Bill Pertwee as Sergeant Lucas and Jeffrey by Nigel Planer a motorbike. Holland as Roger Eccles. Lapo ..... Phil Daniels Marcus Berkmann isn't having it. Having marked his fiftieth Producer: Jo Clegg. Loti ..... Bryan Dick birthday by hiding under the duvet for six weeks, he is determined First broadcast nightly on BBC Radio 2 in September 1994. Pope Julius ..... Gary Waldhorn to find some light in the all­consuming darkness. FRI 07:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b01s4szd) Cardinal Alidosi ..... Roger Lloyd Pack 'We may have lost our hair, our waistline or our way completely. Series 5, Episode 5 Composer ..... Adam Cork But we have also gained a certain amount of guile and what some Comedian­activist Mark Thomas takes his People's Manifesto to Directed by Mary Peate might call "gravitas" (and others would call "weight").' Manchester, with policies on low­cost housing, happier train High up on the wooden scaffolding tower of the Sistine Chapel, Musing over birth, death and all the messy stuff in between, he carriages and novel road safety techniques. Produced by Colin two fresco plasterers get on with the day's work preparing the concludes that however dreadful you look in the mirror today, it Anderson. ceiling for their boss Michelangelo who has not bothered to turn will be much worse in ten years' time. His brutally candid FRI 08:00 Yes Minister (b007jmsk) up for work again. As they do so, they bemoan the uselessness of dispatch from the front line is essential listening for anyone over Series 1, Doing the Honours the great master. thirty­five ­ as well as all those who want to prepare for what lies MP Jim Hacker is outwitted by Sir Humphrey during an economy Pope Julius and Cardinal Alidosi visit the chapel to inspect the ahead... drive. progress of their commission. They are never very impressed, and Marcus Berkmann has spent more than thirty years sitting in front Starring Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker, Nigel Hawthorne as Sir the Pope is more concerned about getting Michelangelo to do his of various television screens swearing at incompetent England Humphrey Appleby and Derek Fowldes as Bernard. funeral monument at a knock­down price. batsmen. In his leisure time he has written columns on sport for With John Nettleton as Sir Arnold, Graham Crowden as the On the Ceiling is not about great artists; it is about those people Punch, the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Express. He is a Master and William Fox as the Bursar. whose names don't go down in history: the ones who do the regular contributor to Private Eye and has been the Spectator's Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn satirical sitcom ran on BBC TV essential drudge work, their frustration at their lack of genius and pop music critic for over twenty years. His books include Rain between 1980 and 1984. Yes Minister is centred around the their pride in their own technical expertise. In this version of Men: The Madness of Cricket, Zimmer Men: The Trials and hapless Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service underlings events, low elements combine to make high art. Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer, Fatherhood: The Truth and headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby and Nigel Planer is best known as Neil in The Young Ones, and as A Matter of Facts: The Insider's Guide to Quizzing obsequious Bernard. Nicholas Craig ­ The Naked Actor. Other television productions Read by Toby Longworth Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin. include Shine on Harvey Moon; Dennis Potter's Blackeyes. On Producer/Abridger: Joanna Green First broadcast on Radio 4 in 1983. stage, Nigel has performed in Simon Gray's Unnatural Pursuits; A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI 08:30 The Goon Show (b00f6gsn) Ben Elton's We Will Rock You and Hairspray. FRI 15:00 Nigel Planer ­ On the Ceiling (b01l1vy1) World War One FRI 11:00 On the Brink (b01n6vnk) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] England and France are at war. Eccles is at lunch. With Spike Four­Minute Warning FRI 16:00 The 3rd Degree (b041zcmf) Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers. From February 1958. Fifty years ago, the world stood on the brink of nuclear war, as [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree (b041zcmf) the US and Soviet leadership engaged in a military stand­off over FRI 16:30 No Commitments (b007jmz6) Series 4, University of Nottingham missiles in Cuba. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three In Marina Lewycka's story, the second in a series looking at the FRI 17:00 London Calling (b05p73y9) University students take on a team of three of their professors. Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of ordinary people, a [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Coming this week from the University of Nottingham, "The 3rd teenage girl wonders how to make the most of her last four FRI 17:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b01s4szd) Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at minutes, should the warning come... [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst Reader: Sian Thomas FRI 18:00 Eric Pringle ­ It's Cold Outside (b082rbmd) delighting the current ones. Writer: Marina Lewycka's novel, 'A Short History of Tractors in Ray wakes to find himself trapped inside his car in a snowdrift. The Specialist Subjects in this episode are British History, Ukrainian', was long­listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and He can't move. He doesn't know who he is ­ or how he came to be Management Studies and Philosophy and the questions range short­listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her most recent there... from the International Monetary Fund., Kierkegaard and Wagner novel is 'Various Pets Dead and Alive'. Eric Pringle's chilling drama stars Kenneth Cranham as Ray, Julia to the Fat Slags and Goofy Producer: Justine Willett. Ford as Sophie, Neville Jason as Gerry and Elaine Claxton as The show is recorded on location at a different University each FRI 11:15 Don Haworth ­ A Summertime (b0076knb) Anna. week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of their Warm and humorous tale of unforeseen happiness and its passing, Director: Cherry Cookson Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on an academic set on the Lancashire moors in 1939. Stars Rachel Ibbotson and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most Julia Rounthwaite. FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b00zsdsn) stringent standards of academic rigour ­ but with lots of facts and FRI 12:00 Yes Minister (b007jmsk) Series 11, Mahler's Adagietto jokes thrown in for good measure. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b00f6gsn) Mahler wrote his 5th Symphony during the summers of 1901 and posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] 1902. The Adagietto is the 4th movement which is thought to buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities across the FRI 13:00 Jim Eldridge ­ Down Payment on Death (b007jtkq) have been inspired by falling in love with Alma who he married UK. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] around this time. This single movement is Mahler's most well The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General FRI 13:30 The Art Bunker (b012fs6h) known piece of music. It was famously used in the 1971 Luchino Knowledge, quickfire bell­and­buzzer rounds and the 'Highbrow [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Visconti film Death in Venice And it was also conducted by & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not only the FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01phn49) Leonard Bernstein at the mass at St Patrick's Cathedral, New students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and Daphne Du Maurier ­ Frenchman's Creek, Episode 10 York on the day of the burial of Robert Kennedy. science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, film, Part adventure, part romance, and set in Cornwall, Daphne Du In this programme, composer David Matthews explains the and One Direction... In addition, the Head­to­Head rounds, in Maurier's novel tells the powerful love story between Lady Dona significance of this piece in Mahler's output. Psychoanalyst which students take on their Professors in their own subjects, and the French pirate Aubery. Anthony Cantle describes listening to it with his mother during were particularly lively, and offered plenty of scope for mild Episode 10 her last days of dementia. Malcolm Reid tells how this piece embarrassment on both sides... With just hours to go before he is hanged, Dona and William signified a change in himself as a young man in the British police The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit surprising, conspire to spring the Frenchman from his prison. But will their force with narrow, racist views, to hearing it in Australia and with a truly varied range of scores, friendly rivalry, and moments plan succeed? shifting his to becoming a liberal. And Helen Epstein explains where students wished they had more than just glanced at that Read by Adjoa Andoh why it was played at her mother's funeral. reading list... Abridged by Eileen Horne Producer, Rosie Boulton. In this series, the universities are Bristol, Kent, Bedfordshire, Produced by Clive Brill FRI 19:00 Yes Minister (b007jmsk) Birmingham, Nottingham & Aberystwyth. A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Producer: David Tyler FRI 14:15 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b00f6gsn) A Pozzitive Television production for BBC Radio 4 Office (b0184vhd) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] The Postal Worker's Strike FRI 20:00 Jim Eldridge ­ Down Payment on Death (b007jtkq) Overflow (incl Cast Lists) By 1890 Britain had a state of the art postal service with six daily [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on The deliveries in Britain's towns. To achieve this service, delivery FRI 20:30 The Art Bunker (b012fs6h) Now Show is also someone who delights in all facets of staff often worked six day weeks with shifts split over a twelve or [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] knowledge, not just in the Humanities (his educational fourteen hour day. In sorting offices, postal staff complained of FRI background) but in the sciences as well. As well as "The Now 21:00 On the Brink (b01n6vnk) leaky roofs and inadequate toilets. Worse still, postmen weren't Show" he has made a number of documentaries for Radio 4, on [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] permitted their own independent union, and in 1890 frustration subjects as varied as "The Poet Unwound ­ The History Of The FRI 21:15 Don Haworth ­ A Summertime (b0076knb) turned to industrial action. Spleen" and "Getting The Gongs" ­ an investigation into awards [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] As Royal Mail faces an uncertain future, Dominic Sandbrook ceremonies ­ as well as a half­hour comedy for Radio 4's 2008 FRI 22:00 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b01s4szd) charts the development of the post office and examines it's impact Big Bang Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, called "The [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] on literacy, free speech, commerce and communication. Genuine Particle". This makes him the perfect host for a show FRI 22:30 Nurse (b03wq2j7) Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook which aims to be an intellectual, fulfilling and informative quiz, Series 1, Episode 3 Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart but with wit and a genuine delight in exploring the subjects at A brand new series starring Paul Whitehouse and Esther Coles, Actors: Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, hand. with Rosie Cavaliero, Simon Day, Cecilia Noble and Marcia Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw The 3rd Degree is a Pozzitive production, produced by David Warren. Producer: Joby Waldman Tyler. His radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm The series follows Elizabeth, a Community Psychiatric Nurse in A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, The Brig Society, Thanks her forties, into the homes of her patients (or Service Users in FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01fjz2n) A Lot, Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Jeremy today's jargon). It recounts their humorous, sad and often Mark Lawson ­ The Man Who Knows, Episode 5 Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, bewildering daily interactions with the nurse, whose job is to Fleet Street, 1969. Dominic Bold, gossip columnist of the The 99p Challenge, My First Planet, The Castle and even, going assess their progress, dispense their medication and offer comfort Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 November 2016 Page 9 of 9 and support. Compassionate and caring, Elizabeth is aware that she cannot cure her patients, only help them manage their various conditions. She visits the following characters throughout the series: Lorrie and Maurice: Lorrie, in her fifties, is of Caribbean descent and has schizophrenia. Lorrie's life is made tolerable by her unshakeable faith in Jesus, and Maurice, who has a crush on her and wants to do all he can to help. So much so that he ends up getting on everyone's nerves. Billy: Billy feels safer in jail than outside, a state of affairs the nurse is trying to rectify. She is hampered by the ubiquitous presence of Billy's mate, Tony. Graham: in his forties, is morbidly obese due to an eating disorder. Matters aren't helped by his mum 'treating' him to sugary and fatty snacks at all times. Ray: is bipolar and a rock and roll survivor from the Sixties. It is not clear how much of his 'fame' is simply a product of his imagination. Phyllis: in her seventies, has Alzheimer's. She is sweet, charming and exasperating. Her son Gary does his best but if he has to hear 'I danced for the Queen Mum once' one more time he will explode. Herbert is an old school gentleman in his late Seventies. Herbert corresponds with many great literary figures unconcerned that they are, for the most part, dead. Nurse is written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings, who have collaborated many time in the past, including on The Fast Show, Down the Line and Happiness. Written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings with additional material from Esther Coles Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Tilusha Ghelani A Down the Line production for BBC Radio 4. FRI 22:45 Jigsaw (b01r0zbh) Series 1, Episode 3 Dan Antopolski, Nat Luurtsema and Tom Craine piece together a selection of silly, clever, dark sketches. Produced by Colin Anderson. FRI 23:00 Blue Jam (b082rbmg) Series 3, Episode 4 From the mind of Chris Morris leaks onto radio in this dreamlike combination of comedy and music. Julia Davis, Kevin Eldon, David Cann, Mark Heap and Amelia Bullmore. Are you still lying curare­still, seeking relief in feigning dead? Then welcome, oo­tazz welcome. Chris Morris is here to help you wallow in the melancholy, for third series of this subversive radio classic. Immediately prior to Blue Jam's initial burst on radio, Chris Morris had caused a furore with Channel 4's Brass Eye. Yet Blue Jam managed to be a total departure from his previous work. Originally airing in the early hours on BBC Radio 1, it's a blend of ambient music, deadpan ( sometimes brutal ) sketches and offbeat monologues. A whole audio landscape of the subconscious, the ad­hoc low­fi sheen of production lending it a kind of verisimilitude. In sharp contrast with the personality­led comedies of recent years, Blue Jam makes a virtue of anonymity. Borat scribe Pater Baynham and Father Ted creator Graham Linehan are among the writers. Rightly winning a clutch of Sony Awards, it remains unique ­ nothing before or after was remotely like it. First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in February 1999.

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