Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 August 2014 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 23 AUGUST 2014 Long Summer Traveller Site. When young couple Charity and * Crossed Swords Sol arrive on the site, their new neighbours Lovvie and Nelius Excited Harold Steptoe lets greed get the better of him. Stars SAT 00:00 Book at Beachtime (b012216d) are forced to make some difficult decisions when they discover Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. From July 1967. Joanna Trollope - Daughters-in-Law Sol's dark secret. Starring Candis Nergarrd and written by * The Desperate Hours Episode 5 Traveller Dan Allum. Some unwelcome visitors arrive at the rag and bone yard. .Stars The truth about the suspected affair emerges and Rachel makes Written by Dan Allum Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H Corbett and Leonard Rossiter. From plans for the future. Produced/Directed by Charlotte Riches. May 1974. Simmering tensions threaten the harmony of a close-knit SAT 05:00 After Henry (b007jnh1) * Oh What a Beautiful Mourning family. Series 2 The family clash at the funeral of Albert's brother. Stars Wilfrid Joanna Trollope's bestseller concluded by Jane Whittenshaw The Cold Brambell and Harry H Corbett. From February 1976 Abridged by Viv Beeby Sarah, her mother Eleanor and daughter Clare battle with colds * Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard Producer: Gemma Jenkins - and each other. Sceptical Harold slams Albert's claims about the power of Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in June 2011. Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - spiritualism. Stars Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H Corbett and SAT 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b015cslf) struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who Patricia Routledge. From March 1976. The Diary of Samuel Pepys - Series 2 never quite manage to see eye to eye. Producer: Sarah Wade. Episode 5 Starring Prunella Scales as Sarah, Joan Sanderson as Eleanor, Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in February 2006. Pepys plays a trick on Sir William by stealing his silver tankard Benjamin Whitrow as Russell, Gerry Cowper as Clare and Peter SAT 12:00 Kate Chopin - The Awakening (Omnibus) and sending an anonymous ransom note demanding thirty Howell as the Doctor, (b04f80fz) shillings for its return. The diarist ends 1661 as he began, Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV When it was published in 1899, Kate Chopin's novel shocked worrying that he's spending too much money on going to see - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV society and divided critics. Respectable, married Edna plays and drinking wine. He makes a resolution to be much network. Pontellier, 28, is away from her home in New Orleans, more restrained in his pleasures next year. Producer: Pete Atkin holidaying on Grand Isle in the Gulf of Mexico with her Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1986. husband and children. Teaching her to swim is the debonair Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways SAT 05:30 Bangers and Mash (b0075gnn) young Robert Lebrun, known for forming an attachment with a Will . . . John Biddle Episode 2 different woman every summer. Despite warnings from her Captain Ferrers . . . Ewan Bailey Kingsley's done a runner, and the catering company is going more conventional friend, Adele, Edna falls incontrovertibly for Sir William . . . Richard Mitchley bust. Now Jimmy needs to find a book-keeping genius. Robert. When he leaves Louisana for Mexico, Edna realises Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by Six-part comedy series by Katie Hims. she's been "awakened" and questions everything: her marriage, Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany Stars Catherine Harvey as Martina, Gerard McDermott as her position, the society she lives in. But what is left for her? Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David Jimmy, Roger May as Juan Jose, Marlene Sidaway as Mrs The novel is regarded by many as the first in a new wave of Miller. Violin and viola by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice Olney and Jane Whittenshaw as Carol. modern American literature. Produced and directed by Marion Baxter. Director: Cat Horn Nancarrow. Historical consultant: Liza Picard First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999. SAT 13:15 Baldi (b007k4nn) Sound by Nigel Lewis SAT 06:00 Adam Dalgliesh - A Certain Justice (b00lbgqz) Series 4 A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. Brilliant criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge secures the acquittal The Devil's Eye SAT 00:45 God's Architect (b00xjv0n) of a young man from the charge of murdering his aunt. The priestly sleuth is confronted by shipwrecks and a remote Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain But this sparks a series of bizarre events, starting with her own Irish island community's mysterious past. Stars David Threlfall. Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain: The architect finds murder.... SAT 14:00 The Navy Lark (b00bzfsf) a new love, but his professional life declines and personal Gentleman Commander Adam Dalgliesh takes charge of the Series 1 misery beckons. Read by Haydn Gwynne. case. The Missing Jeep SAT 01:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash (b00s7dw0) First published in 1997, PD James's thriller dramatised by Pertwee's in a pickle over Commander Shaw's inspection Series 2 Neville Teller. aboard HMS Troutbridge. Episode 4 Adam Dalgliesh ...... Philip Franks Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as Arthur Smith invites us into his Balham flat in south London for Venetia Aldridge ...... Geraldine James the Chief Petty Officer, Dennis Price as Number One, Richard comedy, music and entertainment. Desmond Ulrick ...... Kenneth Cranham Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Heather, Michael With his guests: Nine Below Zero, Phill Jupitus, Josh Drysdale Laud ...... Michael Maloney Bates as Commander Shaw, Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson and Widdecombe and Marlon Davies. Simon Costello ...... Nicholas Boulton Tenniel Evans as LS Goldstein/Uncle Sebastian. Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith Garry Ashe ...... Harry Myers Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2010 Octavia Aldridge ...... Tracy Wiles Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen SAT 01:30 Fry's English Delight (b00m68s5) Janet Carpenter ...... Susan Jameson series between 1959 and 1976. Series 2 Edmund Froggett ...... James Taylor Scripted by Lawrie Wyman. Hallo! Kate Miskin ...... Susannah Doyle Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English Hubert Langton ...... Ian Masters First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1959. language. Mark Rawlstone ...... Richard Katz SAT 14:30 Doctor in the House (b007jt0n) Hallo! Stephen says 'goodbye' with a programme about 'hallo', Mrs Buckley ...... Melinda Walker In the Wards and how it came to be one of the world's favourite words. Lois ...... Sandra James Young Unleashed on the patients, the medics are unprepared for the SAT 02:00 Agatha Christie (b00qcjl3) Michael Cole ...... Damian Lynch formidable Sister Virtue. Towards Zero Naughton ...... Hugh Dickson The misadventures of student doctor Simon Sparrow - adapted Episode 4 Anna ...... Colleen Prendergast for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's novel 'Doctor Adaptation by Joy Wilkinson of Agatha Christie's detective Other parts played by the cast. in the House' published in 1952. novel. Composer: David Pickvance Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as Now Nevile is in the clear, suspicion has turned on Audrey for Director: Tracey Neale Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Edward Cast the murder of Lady Tresselian. But no-one can find her, and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2005. as Taffy Evans, Joan Sanderson as Sister Virtue and Irene MacWhirter is convinced she's innocent. SAT 07:30 Yes Yes Yes (b00t8xfp) Handl as Mrs Clark. Nevile ...... Hugh Bonneville Series 1 Producer: David Hatch MacWhirter ...... Tom Mannion The Last Stand Recorded at the BBC Paris studio in London. Audrey ...... Claire Rushbrook John Rawling relives the cricket-packed drama of the second First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1968. Mary ...... Julia Ford Test between England and West Indies at Lord's in 1963. SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b00qfzcw) Latimer ...... Joseph Kloska SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b00qfzcw) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Kay ...... Lizzy Watts Open Sesame SAT 16:00 Adam Dalgliesh - A Certain Justice (b00lbgqz) Inspector Leach ...... Philip Fox Konnie Huq looks back at four decades of Sesame Street, the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Royde ...... Stephen Hogan experimental American children's television show which mixed SAT 17:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b00x9zdj) Sergeant ...... Matt Addis radical educational techniques with extraordinary subject matter Series 3 Directed by Mary Peate. and subversive humour. Episode 2 SAT 02:30 Ladybird, Ladybird (b00765nt) SAT 09:00 The Big Steptoe Radio Show: Ray Galton and Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas collates policies suggested by The story of a publishing phenomenon - and the last vestiges of Alan Simpson (b007jwm9) the studio audience to add to his People's Manifesto. a 1950s childhood. The duo behind the BBC's legendary rag and bone men comedy These policies are intended to improve our world, nation or just Ladybird Books summons up ankle socks , sleeveless fair isle - writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson present their favourite our own lives, with tonight's agenda including: pullovers and days of innocence. episodes of Steptoe and Son. 1. 50% Minimum Participation in Elections But as the Loughborough based company closes down its This includes the very first episode, 'The Offer' – originally 2. Converting Fast Food into Renewable Gas Midlands operation and is swallowed up by Penguin - it's the made for BBC TV's 'Comedy Playhouse' - one of ten one-off 3. Imposing an Earning Cap of £30k on All Bank Employees end of an era. comedies penned by Ray and Alan. BBC bosses viewed it as a Plus there are plenty of "any other business?" suggestions from Produced at BBC Manchester by Lindsay Leonard. sweetener for the duo, who'd recently parted company with the studio audience. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001. Tony Hancock. Despite several strong concepts, only 'The SAT 18:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jmc2) SAT 03:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnwx) Offer' progressed from pilot to series development. Series 1 Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend The TV pilot aired in January 1962, followed by the first 3. The Silver Strangers The Trap Springs Steptoe series in June starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H "The two strange figures drifted over from their ship to ours - On his deathbed, Wrayburn proposes to Lizzie. Others also Corbett as father and son duo, Albert and Harold Steptoe. they were heading for the main outside air lock..." prepare to meet their maker. Stars Simon Cadell and Pippa Revealing how the series was created, the writers also explain After drifting without power, the crew of Space Force receive a Guard. why it prompted concerns in Parliament. mysterious message and spot a spacecraft... SAT 04:00 Lucy Wood - Diving Belles (b019m333) The duo's selected episodes were all adapted from the TV Charles Chilton's intergalactic adventure starring Barry Foster Countless Stones scripts and recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio by Gale and Nicky Henson. Questioning her past decisions, Rita sees her future bound to Pedrick. Captain Saxon Berry .... Barry Foster the standing stones above her village. Read by Amanda * The Offer Chipper .... Nicky Henson Lawrence. As the rag and bone father and son argue, Harold is set to leave. Magnus .... Nigel Stock SAT 04:15 Drama (b01l1dkp) Stars Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. From July 1966. Lauderic .... Tony Osoba Atching Tan by Dan Allum * Pilgrim's Progress with Wendy Murray and Teresa Stretfeild. Atching Tan: A Gypsy Wife Old soldier Albert Steptoe is eager to revisit Flanders. Stars Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Colourful and authentic drama set around the goings-on of Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. From June 1967. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1984. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 August 2014 Page 2 of 8 SAT 18:30 Ben Moor - Undone (b00f6ddb) SUN 05:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b00x9zdj) Sue also hears some hitherto unreported and little known stories Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] of both the pain and the excitement of life under the Dome. Unrelated SUN 06:00 The Diary of Samuel Pepys Omnibus (b0162jg4) Sue is joined by: Edna interrogates The Prince, learns more about her own 1661 Jennie Page, the Dome's former Chief Executive. powers and takes on the public information porn industry. In an attempt to save money, Pepys makes a new year resolution Mike Davies, the flamboyant architect who designed the Dome Staring Alex Tregear and Ben Moor. to cut back on theatre-going and drinking. He fails for a whole structure. Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga about magazine editor Edna year. Kris Marshall returns as the famous diarist. Lord Charles Falconer, the Minister for the Dome who Turner entering a parallel world where her version of London is SUN 07:15 The Piano Lesson (b0075q3w) succeeded Peter Mandelson. replaced with the city of Undone. Behind Bars Eva Jiricna, designer of the Dome's 'Spirit Zone'. Edna Turner ...... Alex Tregear Jeremy Nicholas finds out what learning the piano means to Peter Higgins, who created the 'Play Zone'. Tankerton Slopes ...... Ben Moor Paul, a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder. From Producer: Dilly Barlow Billy ...... Duncan Wisbey November 1999. A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. Ida ...... Sophie Duval SUN 07:30 Chain Reaction (b00mtpl4) SUN 10:45 Colin Dexter Short Stories (b007lnpx) Prince ...... Kevin Eldon Series 3 Monty's Revolver Other parts played by the cast. Jack Dee interviews Jeremy Hardy When a special gun is auctioned, one collector is alarmed to end Producer: Colin Anderson The two comedians get chatting in the tag-team talk show, up facing the wrong end of the barrel. Read by Joe Dunlop. Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Radio Comedy and first where this week's guest is next week's interviewer. From SUN 11:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b01704sz) broadcast in February 2008. February 2007. Series 7 SAT 19:00 The Big Steptoe Radio Show: Ray Galton and SUN 08:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b007jynj) Episode 4 Alan Simpson (b007jwm9) Will a compromising photo put Tommy Handley's political From St Augustine in Florida, the American funny man [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] ambitions at risk? welcomes the Nashville Bluegrass Band and local vocalist JJ SAT 22:00 Ross Noble Goes Global (b007jvsn) With Jack Train, Dorothy Summers, Horace Percival, Diana Grey. From 2010. Series 1 Morrison, Dino Galvini, Sydney Keith, Fred Yule, Joan Capra SUN 12:00 The Diary of Samuel Pepys Omnibus (b0162jg4) South Africa and Paula Green. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] The stand-up comic tries to climb Table Mountain and It's That Man Again - ITMA made a radio superstar of Tommy SUN 13:15 The Piano Lesson (b0075q3w) discovers that Cape Town has some very posh monkeys... Handley (1894-1949) and had more than 20 million devoted [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] Producer: Danny Wallace listeners to the BBC Home Service each week - with millions SUN 13:30 Dick Francis (b007mw9r) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2002. more around the world. The show's title came from a newspaper Enquiry SAT 22:30 The Comedy Club at the Edinburgh Festival headline used in stories about Adolf Hitler in the lead up to the When a jockey is framed and loses his licence, he is determined Fringe (b04f825c) Second World War. to clear his name. Thriller starring Tony Osoba, Robert Lang 2014 Catchphrases like "TTFN - Ta-Ta for now" and "Can I Do You and Bill Nighy. Episode 1 Now, Sir?" coupled with a frenetic, topical approach made it SUN 15:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b007jynj) Arthur Smith looks back across the biggest arts festival in utterly distinctive. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Europe, with news, reviews and much more from the Fringe From 1939 to 1949, over 310 episodes were broadcast, SUN 15:30 Stop Messing About! (b00b1p9t) and beyond. breaking away from existing comedy and music hall [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SAT 22:35 Ivor Cutler - A Stuggy Pren (b00bxv1v) conventions with an anarchic and irreverent style - created by SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show Episode 1 its writer Ted Kavanagh. (b04f8bq2) Doing the Bathroom. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Cave Girl, Liverpool and Accents Succulent insights into life as it unfolds in one man's sitting Producer: Francis Worsley. Mel's highlights from the past week on the 4 O'Clock Show, room. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in November 1944. including the wonderful whistling language of the Canary Humorist Ivor Cutler dispenses a concoction of songs, poetry, SUN 08:30 Stop Messing About! (b00b1p9t) Islands and the art of putting on a fireworks display. stories and a Stuggy Pren to his visitors: New Zealand sculptor Series 1 SUN 17:00 Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time Craig Murray-Orr and Orpington penciller Alison O'Kill. Episode 1 (b00qmbkt) Producer: Neil Cargill The follow up series to Round The Horne kicks off with the [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in May 1994. first all nude radio show - with a pull-out supplement. SUN 18:00 Short Stories by Robert Heinlein (b00lblq5) SAT 22:50 The Comedy Club at the Edinburgh Festival Starring Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Joan Sims and The Green Hills of Earth Fringe (b04f828m) announcer, Douglas Smith. Rhysling, the blind singer of the spaceways, captures the beauty 2014 After the unexpected death of Kenneth Horne in 1969, plans of space and complexities of being a spaceman in songs about Episode 2 for the next series of Round The Horne were axed. Instead - his heroic adventures. Arthur Smith looks back across the biggest arts festival in using an old catchphrase of Kenneth Williams as a series title - Snatches of his music are interwoven with the story of how he Europe, with news, reviews and much more from the Fringe Kenneth joined Hugh Paddick to continue the comedy tradition lost his sight and became Earth's unofficial chronicler of the and beyond. and was also reunited with his "Carry On" film co-star Joan universe. SAT 22:55 Chris Addison's Civilization (b00dy51z) Sims. Read by Adam Sims. Cities and Laws Written by Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Myles Rudge Written in 1947, 'The Green Hills of Earth' is recognised as one What are the flaws in the urban democratic system? With the Max Harris Group. of the best-ever sci-fi stories by master writer, Robert A Continuing his journey through the vast and rich subject of Producer: John Simmonds Heinlein (1907-1988). civilisation, Chris Addison explains exactly what we need to First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1969. Produced and abridged by Gemma Jenkins. create a new one. SUN 09:00 Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007. With: (b00qmbkt) SUN 18:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k167) Professor Austin Herring (Geoffrey McGivern) Series 2 9. Attack Jo Enright Episode 1 With the new society on the attack, Robert Neville refuses to Dan Tetsell Sandy Chalmers takes an affectionate look back at the much leave his house. Producer: Simon Nicholls loved BBC institution Children's Hour, which ran from 1922 to Richard Matheson's 1954 cult classic set in 1976 USA. One of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2006. 1964 on the BBC Home Service. Sandy was first involved with the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, combining SAT 23:25 The Comedy Club at the Edinburgh Festival Children's Hour as a child from 1953 to close down in 1964. sci-fi and horror Fringe (b04f831q) Her selection in this edition: Concluded by Angus McInnes. 2014 The Big Pond: The Unhappy Dragon, by Bertha Lonsdale. A Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller. Episode 3 short play first broadcast in 1960 narrated by Trevor Hill. With Producer: Eilidh McCreadie Arthur Smith looks back across the biggest arts festival in Karal Gardner, Joseph Hancock and Brian Trueman. Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in Europe, with news, reviews and much more from the Fringe The Fishing Bear, written and read by Bob Congdon. From January 2006. and beyond. 1954. SUN 19:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b01704sz) SAT 23:30 Richard Herring's Objective (b016wzrz) Toytown Plays: The Conversion of Mr. Growser, by SG Hulme [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Series 2 Beaman. The Parade of the Tin Soldiers introduces a Toytown SUN 20:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b007jynj) The Golliwog adventure featuring Larry the Lamb and Dennis the Dachshund. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] 'The golliwog' has been the cause of much controversy. With Derek McCulloch, Arthur Wyan, Ralph de Kohan, Felix SUN 20:30 Stop Messing About! (b00b1p9t) Richard debates whether it's an object we should reclaim, or Felton, Norman Shelley and Stephen Jack. From 1951. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] consign to the dustbin of history? Produced by Peter Reed. SUN 21:00 The Reunion (b00tf9bl) Series in which Richard Herring tries to see whether SUN 10:00 The Reunion (b00tf9bl) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] controversial objects we've grown to hate can be reclaimed. The Dome SUN 21:45 Colin Dexter Short Stories (b007lnpx) With Emma Kennedy and Ava Vidal. Sue MacGregor gathers together the key people responsible for [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] Producer: Tilusha Ghelani building, co-ordinating and realising the creative concepts that SUN 22:00 Chain Reaction (b00mtpl4) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011. became The Millennium Dome at Greenwich. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Following Labour's landslide election victory in May 1997, the SUN 22:30 The Comedy Club at the Edinburgh Festival Prime Minister Tony Blair was determined to change the way Fringe (b04f8czm) SUNDAY 24 AUGUST 2014 Britain saw itself and he seized upon the idea - mooted under 2014 the outgoing Tory government - to have a major event to Episode 4 SUN 00:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jmc2) celebrate the forthcoming new millennium. Arthur Smith looks back across the biggest arts festival in [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] After much discussion and heated argument it was decided to Europe, with news, reviews and much more from the Fringe SUN 00:30 Ben Moor - Undone (b00f6ddb) build a dome on the site of a disused gasworks on East London's and beyond. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] Greenwich peninsular. It would stage a grand millennium SUN 22:35 Ivor Cutler - A Stuggy Pren (b00cmjv9) SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b00qfzcw) extravaganza and house a year-long exhibition to rival the 1951 Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] Festival of Britain. Alison O'Kill wants to read Ivor Cutler a poem, while Craig SUN 02:00 Kate Chopin - The Awakening (Omnibus) It was a hugely controversial decision from the very start, and Murray-Orr can't think with the sun in his eyes. (b04f80fz) became a project rife with argument, sackings and constant A tale-toddling kittle of poems, songs and stories from the [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] flack from the press. lodgings of humorist Ivor Cutler. SUN 03:15 Baldi (b007k4nn) The person who took the brunt of the criticism was Chief Passers-through include sculptor Craig Murray-Orr and [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] Executive Jennie Page, who was eventually sacked - shortly apprentice wordsmith Alison O'Kill. SUN 04:00 Adam Dalgliesh - A Certain Justice (b00lbgqz) after the opening night. This is the first time she has spoken Producer: Neil Cargill [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] publically about her personal millennium experience. First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in May 1994. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 August 2014 Page 3 of 8 SUN 22:50 The Comedy Club at the Edinburgh Festival Series 70 Mrs Weston ...... Patience Tomlinson Fringe (b04f8czp) Episode 2 Harriet Smith ...... Ellie Beaven 2014 Hosted by the legendary Nicholas Parsons and recorded at the Mr Weston ...... Andrew Wincott Episode 5 Edinburgh Festival - how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds Jane Fairfax ...... Beth Chalmers Arthur Smith looks back across the biggest arts festival in without hesitation, repetition or deviation? Gyles Brandreth, Frank Churchill ...... Tom Hollander Europe, with news, reviews and much more from the Fringe Paul Merton and Sue Perkins find out. Dramatised in two parts by April de Angelis. and beyond. MON 08:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook Music: Martin Souter and Sarah Stowe SUN 22:55 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off (b007jrq6) (b007k19l) Director: Jonquil Panting Series 1 My Stag Movie, part 1/2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000. Moscow The veteran auditionee recalls how sometimes talent can be MON 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fbr) Cycling solo on a tandem, the inept student is Russia-bound, found in the unlikeliest places - and sometimes it can't be found Shaft fundraising for donkeys. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From August at all... An awkward encounter between a suited American and a 2002. British show business doyen, J Kingston Platt shares pregnant woman in a stuck lift. Written and read by Anne SUN 23:25 The Comedy Club at the Edinburgh Festival reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his Enright. Fringe (b04f8czr) experience from the past 40 years. MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b04f8fbd) 2014 Performed and written by Peter Jones. Danny Wallace, Rodney P, Robin Hobb, Matthew Parker, Leo Episode 6 Producer: Pete Atkin Leigh, Luke Sital-Singh, Bitter Ruin Arthur Smith looks back across the biggest arts festival in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1986 From 1946 until the end of his life, Ian Fleming lived for two Europe, with news, reviews and much more from the Fringe MON 08:30 The Navy Lark (b007jsdx) months of every year at the house he built on Jamaica's north and beyond. Series 1 coast. All the Bond novels and stories were written here. In his SUN 23:30 Jon Ronson On (b007lz6n) Operation Fag End new book Goldeneye, Matthew Parker tells Danny how for Series 3 With a top brass inspection due, 50,000 duty-free cigarettes are Fleming, Jamaica was the perfect mix of British old-fashioned The Internet Date from Hell headed to the island! imperial values, and of the dangerous and sensual; the same Journalist Jon Ronson investigates the extraordinary story of Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as curious combination that made the Bond novels so appealing Mary Turner Thompson, who experienced the worst internet the Chief Petty Officer, Dennis Price as Number One, Richard and successful. date ever which lasted seven years and was to cause the total Caldicot as Captain Povey, Pamela Buck as Joyce, Michael Fact or Fiction: The Life and Times of a Ping Pong Hustler is a devastation of her life. Bates as Commander Shaw, Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson and chronicle of the final three years of Marty Reisman's life, a Edinburgh-based Mary met and married a man who told her he Tenniel Evans as Squadron Leader Pertwee. former international table tennis champion-turned-money was a CIA agent. Jon visits her in Scotland and hears the Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS player. Pursuing notoriety through his idiosyncratic lifestyle and incredible twisting and turning love story of Will and Mary. Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen motivated by his love of fame and Ping Pong, he inadvertently Will carried a gun and had to dash off to Israel at a moment's series between 1959 and 1976. has to face his biggest fear: mortality. Film maker Leo Leigh notice; Mary was left holding the baby, never knowing when he Scripted by Lawrie Wyman. talks about how he chronicled Marty's complex mix of childlike would come back, and was unable to contact him. She even Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. excitement, eccentric narcissism and constant charm. feared a terrorist attack on her home. But the most bizarre twist First broadcast on the Light Programme in April 1959. Twenty years after the publication of classic novel Assassin's was still to come. MON 09:00 It's Your Round (b00yz3t4) Apprentice, Robin Hobb returns to her best-loved characters Series 1 with Fool's Assassin. One of the world's finest writers of epic Episode 3 fiction, Robin was raised in Alaska, where she learned how to MONDAY 25 AUGUST 2014 Angus Deayton hosts the comedy panel show with no format. raise a wolf cub, skin a moose and survive in the wilderness. Arthur Smith, Lucy Montgomery, Tom Wrigglesworth and Will Why hasn't the food-obsessed British public caught on to curry MON 00:00 Short Stories by Robert Heinlein (b00lblq5) Smith battle it out to see who can beat each other at their own goat or ackee and salt fish like it has korma, kebab and chicken [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] games. chow-mein? For Notting Hill Carnival weekend, Rodney P, the MON 00:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k167) Find out the hilarity that ensues when each of them play the Godfather of UK Rap, talks to Nikki Bedi about his mission to [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] games they've brought along. What will Arthur make of Tom's get to the bottom of this multicultural mystery. MON 01:00 The Reunion (b00tf9bl) "Re-wound, Sped Up Played Backwards"? How will Twitter-fan With music from BITTER RUIN who perform Diggers from [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] Will Smith get on with Lucy's "Twitter-witter-witter-who" their album Waves and more music from LUKE SITAL- MON 01:45 Colin Dexter Short Stories (b007lnpx) game? And how much would it take for Tom Wrigglesworth to SINGH who performs Nothing Stays The Same from his album [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] change his name to Adolf Hitler when he plays Arthur Smith's The Fire Inside MON 02:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b007jynj) round? Producer: Sukey Firth. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] Angus Deayton valiantly tries to make sure everyone comes out MON 12:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook MON 02:30 Stop Messing About! (b00b1p9t) of it with their reputations intact. (b007k19l) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] Writers: Angus Deayton, Ged Parsons and Paul Powell [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON 03:00 Chain Reaction (b00mtpl4) Devised by Benjamin Partridge MON 12:30 The Navy Lark (b007jsdx) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] Producer: Sam Michell. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON 03:30 Dick Francis (b007mw9r) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011. MON 13:00 Detective (b04f8g8h) [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON 09:30 My First Planet (b04fc5pq) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON 05:00 Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time Series 2 MON 13:30 The Last Picture Show (b0076xk5) (b00qmbkt) Day Trip to Terror! [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] What better time for Social Media to kick in than on a MON 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b0125j6y) MON 06:00 Detective (b04f8g8h) dangerous search-and-rescue mission on the planet's surface? SJ Watson - Before I Go to Sleep Series 2 And just why is Lillian replacing her nose? Episode 1 1. A Dream of Riches The return of the hit sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and What if you lost your memory every time you went to sleep? A robbery from a scrap merchant turns out to be a far from Vicki Pepperdine (Getting On) set on a shiny new planet. How would you cope with having to relearn your history every straightforward case - and a 'quiet' student proves to be anything Welcome to the colony. We're aware that, having been in deep day only to lose it again? but... cryosleep for 73 years, you may be in need of some In SJ Watson's desperately compelling and ambitious debut Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr supplementary information. thriller, a woman has no memory of who she is. featuring long-serving, ducking-and-diving DS Dave Brook and Unfortunately, Burrows the leader of the colony has died on the She lives in the suburbs cared for by her husband, she can't his assistant, Detective Constable Blair Maxton. voyage so his Number 2, Brian (Nicholas Lyndhurst), is now in work, she doesn't have any friends, she's trying to live a normal CAST: charge. He's a nice enough chap, but no alpha male, and his life but she can't remember anything when she wakes up in the DS Dave Brook …. Ray Brooks desire to sort things out with a nice friendly meeting infuriates morning. Slowly she starts to try and rebuild her memory, to DC Blair Maxton …. Christopher Blake the colony's Chief Physician Lillian (Vicki Pepperdine), who'd piece together what has happened to her, who she is. Peter Cleall as Detective Constable Harrison really rather everyone was walking round in tight colour-coded This is Christine's story. Judy …. Jacqueline Tong tunics and saluting each other. She's also in charge of Project This Debut thriller has been attracting a lot of attention and is Mrs Brown …. Betty Alberge Adam, the plan to conceive and give birth to the first colony- part of Radio 4 Extra's Book at Beachtime Special Season. Chief Inspector Roach …. Stephen Yardley born baby. Unfortunately, the two people hand-picked for this Abridged by Alison Joseph Carson …. Tony Caunter purpose - Carol and Richard - were rather fibbing about being a Read by Stella Gonet Inspector Stevens …. Nicholas Courtney couple, just to get on the trip. Produced by Lucy Collingwood Writer Robert Barr is well remembered for his work on BBC Add in an entirely unscrupulous Chief Scientist, Mason and also MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01b9b7s) TV's 'Z-Cars' and 'Softly Softly'. Archer, an idiot maintenance man who believes he's an The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3 Producer: Martin Fisher "empath" rather than a plumber, and you're all set to answer the Episode 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. question - if humankind were to colonise space, is it destined to Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways return as Mr and Mrs MON 06:30 The Last Picture Show (b0076xk5) succumb to self-interest, prejudice and infighting? (By the way, Pepys in Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the diary for 1662 - a John Wilson meets behind-the-scenes staff and visitors to major the answer's "yes". Sorry.) year which begins badly when Sam accidentally whacks art exhibitions in London, as they come to a close. From March Written by Phil Whelans Elizabeth in the eye with his elbow as he's waking up. On 2006. Produced and Directed by David Tyler Twelfth Night they enjoy a feast, including eighteen mince pies, MON 07:00 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. with their neighbours, Lord and Lady Batten, who are also (b0075ng9) MON 10:00 Jane Austen (b008h3ns) celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary on that day. There's Series 3 Emma more entertainment on a night out at the theatre when they see Episode 1 1. The Matchmaker Romeo and Juliet - but decide it's the worst play - and the worst Sofa-bound TV presenters Mike and Sue take on party food and Emma Woodhouse - handsome, clever and rich - is a young acted - they've ever seen. reading, plus therapy - could it have helped the Beatles and woman so blessed by life that she declares she will never marry. Cast Henry VIII? However, she is determined to find the right match for her new Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall Series 2 of Bill Dare's sitcom stars Robert Duncan and Jan friend Harriet Smith. Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways Ravens. Jane Austen's sparkling comedy of love and marriage first Captain Holmes . . . Andrew Wincott With Ronnie Ancona, Alistair McGowan, Roger Blake and published in 1815. Sir William Batten . . . Richard Mitchley Steve Punt. Emma Woodhouse ...... Eve Best Lady Batten . . . Marilyn le Conte Music by Mark Burton. Mr Elton ...... David Bamber Will . . . John Biddle Producer: Aled Evans Mr Knightley ...... Robert Bathurst Captain Cook/Mr Saville . . . Matthew Gravelle First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1998. Mr Woodhouse ...... Norman Rodway Jane . . . Rebecca Newman MON 07:30 Just a Minute (b04dk891) Miss Bates ...... Marcia Warren Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 August 2014 Page 4 of 8 Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany TUESDAY 26 AUGUST 2014 Series 2 Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David 2nd October 1799 Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice TUE 00:00 Book at Beachtime (b0125j6y) Domestic bliss is enhanced by the arrival of John Sheets. Views Baxter. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] are exchanged on the desirability of the married state. And a Historical consultant: Liza Picard TUE 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b01b9b7s) game of cricket is proposed... Sound by Nigel Lewis [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] An everyday story of towering genius in Sue Limb's six-part A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. TUE 00:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream (b00yqtxr) soap opera, set in and around the Lake District at the turn of the MON 14:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream (b00yqtxr) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] 18th century. Episode 1 TUE 01:00 It's Your Round (b00yz3t4) Stars Geoffrey Whitehead as William Wordsmith, Denise Memoirs of Tory grandee and Thatcher adviser, Ferdinand [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] Coffey as Dorothy Wordsmith, Simon Callow as Samuel Tailor Mount. Italy and mysteries of cold cream. Read by Oliver Ford TUE 01:30 A Good Read (b04fc6y4) Cholericke, Miriam Margolyes as Stinking Iris, Chris Emmett Davies. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] as the Leechpedlar and Nicky Henson as John Sheets. MON 15:00 Jane Austen (b008h3ns) TUE 02:00 Detective (b04f8g8h) Music by Stephen Oliver and performed by Cantabile. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Producer: Jonathan James-Moore MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04fc6tb) TUE 02:30 The Last Picture Show (b0076xk5) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1987. Richard Hammond reads the next episode of Chitty Chitty Bang [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE 10:00 Jane Austen (b008h4xg) Bang Flies Again, Mel meets some unusual mummies, and TUE 03:00 Jane Austen (b008h3ns) Emma listeners learn how to make some very tasty pancakes. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] 2. Proposal MON 17:00 Second Thoughts (b00fnfp3) TUE 04:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fbr) Emma's composure is threatened by two new arrivals in Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] Highbury - Mr Elton's new wife and Mr Weston's handsome There Goes the Bride TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b04f8fbd) son. It's Faith and Bill's wedding day - can they manage to tie the [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] Conclusion of Jane Austen's sparkling comedy of love and knot? TUE 05:00 Second Thoughts (b00fnfp3) marriage first published in 1815. Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill MacGregor and Faith [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] Emma Woodhouse ...... Eve Best Greyshott trying to forge a relationship whilst balancing the TUE 05:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue Mr Elton ...... David Bamber demands of his ex-wife, Liza and her teenage children, Hannah (b0075ng9) Mr Knightley ...... Robert Bathurst and Joe. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] Mr Woodhouse ...... Norman Rodway Stars Lynda Bellingham as Faith, James Bolam as Bill, Celia TUE 06:00 Detective (b04fc958) Miss Bates ...... Marcia Warren Imrie as Hilary, Kelda Holmes as Hannah, Mark Denham as Series 2 Mrs Weston ...... Patience Tomlinson Joe, Belinda Lang as Liza, John Baddeley as the Registrar, 2. Two on the Run Harriet Smith ...... Ellie Beaven Richard Tate as the Video Man and Ben Onwukwe as the Detective Sergeant Dave Brook finds himself pursuing a pair of Mr Weston ...... Andrew Wincott Cabbie. foolish students - and fighting for a share of police resources. Frank Churchill ...... Tom Hollander Series two of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr Mrs Elton ...... Josie Lawrence husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. featuring long-serving, ducking-and-diving DS Dave Brook and Mr Elton ...... David Bamber A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran his assistant, Detective Constable Blair Maxton. Servant ...... Helen Ayres for four series, with a spin-off ‘Faith in the Future’. CAST: Music: Martin Souter Producer: Sioned Wiliam DS Dave Brook …. Ray Brooks Dramatised by April de Angelis. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1989. DC Blair Maxton …. Christopher Blake Director: Jonquil Panting MON 17:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue Chief Inspector Roach …. Stephen Yardley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. (b0075ng9) DC Harrison …. Peter Cleall TUE 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fc5) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Judy …. Jacqueline Tong Tiger Man MON 18:00 It's Your Round (b00yz3t4) DS Kelly …. John Judd As the second Gulf War erupts, Simon wants to 'retard thought [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Anna …. Emily Morgan implantation'. Written by Mimi Thebo. Read by Stephen MON 18:30 A Good Read (b04fc6y4) Clark …. Gary Cady Perring. Mavis Nicholson and Toyah Willcox Drayton …. Stephen Garlick TUE 11:15 John Graham - Resting (b01p7j2n) 4 Extra Debut. Tom Sutcliffe, Mavis Nicholson and Toyah Producer: Martin Fisher Murder, theft and romance in a home for elderly actors. Stars Willcox discuss books by Anne Tyler, Ben Okri and F Scott First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. Googie Withers, Wendy Hiller, Michael Denison and Jimmy Fitzgerald. From March 1998. TUE 06:30 The Storytellers (b00770r5) Jewel. From April 1991. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Adrian Chiles investigates the growing ranks of Britain's TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jpcq) Publisher: Penguin professional storytellers, guardians of our oral tradition and [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] The Famished Road by Ben Okri performers of hundreds of ancient fables that resonate with TUE 12:30 Doctor in the House (b007jt20) Publisher: Vintage modern meaning. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler TUE 07:00 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club (b007jqjk) TUE 13:00 Detective (b04fc958) Publisher: Vintage. The Charge of the Boys' Brigade [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON 19:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook Miss Primrose is ordered to travel to South Africa and murder TUE 13:30 The Storytellers (b00770r5) (b007k19l) General Cheeseman. With Alison Steadman. From September [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] 1988. TUE 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b0125m78) MON 19:30 The Navy Lark (b007jsdx) TUE 07:30 Meet David Sedaris (b03lnprh) SJ Watson - Before I Go to Sleep [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Series 4 Episode 2 MON 20:00 Detective (b04f8g8h) #2 to Go; Innocents Abroad What if you lost your memory every time you went to sleep? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC Radio 4 How would you cope with having to relearn your history every MON 20:30 The Last Picture Show (b0076xk5) doing what he does best. day only to lose it again? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] This week, in "#2 to Go", a trip to China does not work out well In SJ Watson's desperately compelling and ambitious debut MON 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fbr) for David - especially on the food front. thriller, a woman has no memory of who she is. She lives in the [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] The second story is called "Innocents Abroad" and tackles the suburbs cared for by her husband, she can't work, she doesn't MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b04f8fbd) tricky tightrope of "going native" when learning a foreign have any friends, she's trying to live a normal life but she can't [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] language. remember anything when she wakes up in the morning. Slowly MON 22:00 Just a Minute (b04dk891) Producer: Steve Doherty she starts to try and rebuild her memory, to piece together what [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. has happened to her, who she is. MON 22:30 My First Planet (b04fc5pq) TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jpcq) This is Christine's story. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Series 8 Abridged by Alison Joseph MON 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b00whwzs) The Space Age Read by Stella Gonet Series 6 Neddy and Crun attempt to launch Min into space, but she gets Produced by Lucy Collingwood Psychiatry stuck up the chimney. Stars Spike Milligan. From November TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01b9jnw) Edith quizzes Satan about "The Fall", but Satan sees it more as 1957. The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3 "The Push" and feels God has anger-management issues. TUE 08:30 Doctor in the House (b007jt20) Episode 2 Andy Hamilton's comedy set in Hell. Our First Operation In Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of Pepys' diary for 1662, Sam Starring Andy Hamilton as Satan, Annette Crosbie as Edith, Sir Lancelot Spratt causes alarm for medic Simon Sparrow in wants to go on a jaunt to Portsmouth with Captain Cook - a trip Robert Duncan as Scumspawn and Jimmy Mulville as Thomas. the operating theatre. combining navy business with pleasure. But Elizabeth is not so Other characters played by Michael Fenton Stevens, Philip The misadventures of student doctor Simon Sparrow - adapted keen on him going without her, especially as he insists on Pope and Felicity Montagu for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's novel 'Doctor sending her away from London to the country where she'll get Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer in the House' published in 1952. no visitors. On Sam's return they see a puppet show at Covent First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007. Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as Garden, and catch up on court gossip with Lord Sandwich - the MON 23:30 World of Pub (b007v1dk) Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Edward Cast new Queen is about to arrive from Portugal but the King is still Series 2 as Taffy Evans and Ann Murray as Sister. spending most nights with his mistress, Lady Castlemaine. Episode 4 Producer: David Hatch CAST Dodgy Phil lays on an unusual awards ceremony to improve the Recorded at the BBC Paris studio in London. Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall faded fortunes of Barry and Garry's pub. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1968. Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways Tony Roche's comedy about the world's worst pub in London's TUE 09:00 Who Goes There? (b007w4f8) Sir William Batten . . . Richard Mitchley East End. Series 2 Sir William Coventry . . . Andrew Wincott Dodgy Phil ...... John Thomson Episode 4 Jane . . . Rebecca Newman Barry ...... Phil Cornwell Martin Young chairs the quiz looking at lives of the noteworthy Captain Cook . . . Matthew Gravelle Garry ...... Alistair McGowan and notorious from the history books. Mr Hollier . . . Gareth Pierce Bob ...... Tony Roche Tackling the biographical teasers are team captains Francis Lord Sandwich . . . Blake Ritson With Debra Stephenson and Simon Greenall. Wheen and Fred Housego with guests Polly Toynbee and Miles Will . . . John Biddle Special effects: Carl Phillips and Nick Romero. Kington. Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by Music: Bill Bailey Producer: Aled Evans Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany Producer: Jane Berthoud First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1998. Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1999. TUE 09:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007jsn0) Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 August 2014 Page 5 of 8 Baxter. shopkeeping, even if he is treated like a slave. Townshend. From June 2006. Historical consultant: Liza Picard Then of course there are Ramesh's sons, Sanjay and Alok, both WED 07:00 An Actor's Life for Me (b00rzqpw) Sound by Nigel Lewis surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach to Series 3 A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. shopkeeping. But they are natural successors to the business and The Police Farce TUE 14:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream (b00yrshz) Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them - Robert Wilson is acting in a disorderly manner. Episode 2 whether they like it or not. Farcical sitcom about the trials and tribulations of a young actor Shooting with father leads to farce and tragedy. Tory grandee Cast: desperately seeking work. Ferdinand Mount's memoir, read by Oliver Ford Davies. Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kohli John Gordon Sinclair stars in Paul Mayhew-Archer's sitcom. TUE 15:00 Jane Austen (b008h4xg) Dave ..... Donald Mcleary Robert ..... John Gordon Sinclair [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Sanjay ..... Omar Raza Desmond Shaw ..... Gary Waldhorn TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04fcczd) Alok ..... Susheel Kumar Sue ..... Gina McKee Inventions galore on today's show as Mel visits the British Dr Southwell ..... Kevin Eldon With: Inventions Show and hears about how some familiar things Mrs Begg ..... Marjory Hogarth Toby Longworth were invented. Plus a visit to the workshop of a goldsmith. Mrs Armstrong ..... Maureen Carr Simon Slater TUE 17:00 Up the Garden Path (b0089kjs) Lovely Sue ..... Julie Wilson Nimmo Jon Glover Series 3 Bra Jeff ..... Steven McNicol Millie Tiffin New Men Producer: Gus Beattie Harriet Thorpe Izzy moves into a new flat and faces a new term, but will she A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. Andrew Berkeley find a new man? TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b04g4mwr) Producer: Diane Messias Tumbling from one love entanglement to another, 30 something The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Aisling Bea chats First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1993. teacher Izzy Comyn has a predilection for inappropriate men. to Sharon Horgan. WED 07:30 Dead Ringers (b04dn1ry) Imelda Staunton stars as Izzy. TUE 23:00 The Maltby Collection (b00ct1wk) Series 12 An 6-part radio sequel adapted from Sue Limb’s 1984 novel. Series 1 Episode 4 The last of 3 series which ran from 1987 to 1993. Granada also Episode 5 After a rest of 7 years, the classic, award winning impressions adapted the series for ITV. The senior management team head off to a conference on the show is back with a new cast of characters. Izzy ...... Imelda Staunton Isle of Wight, leaving Rod in charge of the museum... No one will be safe from the merciless parodies, as the show Dick ...... Mike Grady Geoffrey Palmer and Julian Rhind-Tutt star in David Nobbs’ takes down every programme, institution and politician you Michael ...... Nicholas Le Prevost sitcom about a small museum of paintings and sculpture. hold dear. Maria ...... Marty Cruickshank Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis Louise ...... Phyllida Nash Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer MacLeod, Debra Stevenson. Razors ...... Rene Zagger Prunella Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins Producer: Bill Dare. Marianne ...... Deborah Findlay Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond WED 08:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jr1v) Gwyn ...... Sion Probert Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley Series 3 Brown ...... Geoffrey McGivern Eva Tattle ...... Julia Deakin Not to Be Unwrapped the Burkiss Way Producer: Jonathan James-Moore Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern Queen Victoria needs some help with a personal problem - and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1993. Stelios Constantinopolis ...... Chris Pavlo all is revealed 'Upstairs Downstairs'. TUE 17:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club (b007jqjk) Dave Edgecumbe ...... Anthony Glennon Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Lofty Harmsworth ...... Simon Treves . TUE 18:00 Who Goes There? (b007w4f8) Gus ...... John Dougall Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Producer: Colin Anderson 1980. TUE 18:30 Musical Legends (b016wzww) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2007. Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. Gerry Marsden TUE 23:30 And Now in Colour (b007jscz) Producer: John Lloyd 1/1 Gerry and the Pacemakers made pop history when their Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1977. first three singles reached the top of the pop charts in the Stately Home WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00f6r5f) 1960's. The team take the audience on a posh day out. Starring Tim de Series 2 Signed by Brian Epstein their first single 'How Do You Do It' Jongh, William Vandyck and Tim Firth. From January 1991. Episode 1 was originally given to The Beatles but the Fab Four decided A trendy couple debate "what's in and what's out" - and a against it and the song, which was recorded in the famous lonesome two-headed giant. Abbey Road Studio in London, launched Gerry and the WEDNESDAY 27 AUGUST 2014 More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs plus Pacemakers in 1963. Later that year 'I Like It' and 'You'll Never TV and cinema parodies. Walk Along' secured their place in pop history. WED 00:00 Book at Beachtime (b0125m78) Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo The group featured in the film Ferry Cross The Mersey which [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Kendall and Bill Oddie. showed the sights and sounds of Liverpool at the time. The WED 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b01b9jnw) Written by John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Tony Hendra, Brian group's leader Gerry Marsden wrote the title song which was a [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] Cooke, Johnnie Mortimer and Hugh Woodhouse. top ten hit for the band. WED 00:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream (b00yrshz) Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Gerry went on to star on the West End Stage in Charlie Girl [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and with Anna Neagle and Derek Nimmo. WED 01:00 Who Goes There? (b007w4f8) quickly developed a cult following. Gerry's still touring and playing the hits and will be appearing [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Tuesday] Songs by Bill Oddie and Jean Hart with music by Dave Lee. this month in Perth, Glasgow and Aberdeen. WED 01:30 Musical Legends (b016wzww) Producer: Humphrey Barclay Talking to Tom Morton, Gerry recalls his friendship with John [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in October 1965. Lennon, those extraordinary days when they topped the pop WED 02:00 Detective (b04fc958) WED 09:00 Dilemma (b017c9pp) charts and Tom asks him how, after nearly fifty years in the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Series 1 business , how do you do it? WED 02:30 The Storytellers (b00770r5) Episode 2 TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jpcq) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Sue Perkins puts Nick Revel, Danielle Ward, Grace Dent and [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED 03:00 Jane Austen (b008h4xg) Ricky Wilson through the moral and ethical wringer in the show TUE 19:30 Doctor in the House (b007jt20) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] where there are no "right" answers - but some deeply damning [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED 04:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fc5) ones... TUE 20:00 Detective (b04fc958) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] Would you let an annoying colleague take credit for your work [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED 04:15 John Graham - Resting (b01p7j2n) if it meant they would get a job elsewhere? TUE 20:30 The Storytellers (b00770r5) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] Would you take part in a sham marriage? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED 05:00 Up the Garden Path (b0089kjs) Plus the panel try to solve some Dilemmas from the audience. TUE 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fc5) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] Devised by Danielle Ward. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED 05:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club (b007jqjk) Producer: Ed Morrish. TUE 21:15 John Graham - Resting (b01p7j2n) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED 06:00 Detective (b04fcx1d) WED 09:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jv5j) TUE 22:00 Meet David Sedaris (b03lnprh) Series 2 Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] 3. A Meeting With Anna Episode 6 TUE 22:30 Fags, Mags and Bags (b010t5wm) Tension between DS Dave Brook and DS Sam Kelly is showing. Ad man Ken Handley faces his own emergency when he's Series 4 Meanwhile Anna asks for help. Can she be trusted? coerced into a Samaritans campaign. Stars Martin Jarvis. From Ayabassa Alan Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr March 1984. More shop based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, featuring long-serving, ducking-and-diving DS Dave Brook and WED 10:00 David Cook - Walter Now (b00gh9dg) courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. his assistant, Detective Constable Blair Maxton. by David Cook. In 1982 Channel 4 launched with "Walter", Written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli, CAST: directed by Stephen Frears and starring Ian McKellen as a man Fags, Mags & Bags has proved a hit with the Radio 4 audience DS Dave Brook …. Ray Brooks with learning difficulties. More than 25 years later award- with this series picking up a Writers' Guild nomination for best DC Blair Maxton …. Christopher Blake winning writer David Cook brings us up to date with Walter's comedy in 2011. Chief Inspector Roach …. Stephen Yardley life and Ian McKellen recreates his extraordinary performance. In this episode, which guest stars Kevin Eldon, the new dance DC Harrison …. Peter Cleall Walter.....Ian McKellen craze Ayabassa sweeps the town. Meanwhile Dave finds a new Judy …. Jacqueline Tong Steph.....Becky Hindley friend in the shape of the local doctor which puts Ramesh's DS Kelly …. John Judd Mr Herd.....Malcolm Tierney nose out. Anna …. Emily Morgan Mary.....Anna-Marie Heslop So join the staff of Fags, Mags and Bags in their tireless quest PC Anderson …. Stephen Garlick Bernard.....Robert Londsdale to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke with Arabic Clark …. Gary Cady Terry.....Gunnar Cauthery writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Jenkins …. David Milner Tom.....Edmund Davies Ramesh Mahju has built up the business over the course of Producer: Martin Fisher Mrs Hall.....Jill Cardo thirty years, and is a firmly entrenched feature of the local area. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. Boy.....Ceallach Spellman However, he does apply the "low return" rules of the shop to all WED 06:30 School of Rock (b0076ypk) Director Claire Grove other aspects of his life. Folk, Jazz and Rock 'n' Roll In November 1982, a Channel 4 launched with "Walter" by He is ably assisted by his shop sidekick Dave, a forty-something 4 Extra Debut. Andy Kershaw goes back to Leeds University to David Cook, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Ian underachiever who shares Ramesh's love of the art of see how jazz, folk and rock went to college. With Pete McKellen as a man with learning difficulties. It was an Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 August 2014 Page 6 of 8 outstandingly truthful social commentary, heartbreaking and [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] thought provoking. More than 25 years later award-winning WED 18:30 Off the Page (b00769n0) THU 05:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b00rzqpw) writer David Cook brings us up to date with Walter's life in Style [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] 'Walter Now' and Sir Ian McKellen recreates his extraordinary 4 Extra Debut. Novelists Richard Francis and Michael THU 06:00 Detective (b04fgp85) performance. Bracewell and former Design Museum director Alice Series 2 Walter is now a pensioner. Following the death of his mother Rawsthorn debate 'style'. From September 2002. 4. Contract to Kill Walter spent many years living in a psychiatric hospital. When Matthew Parris introduces a group of writers of fact and DC Maxton finds himself in line for a possible promotion, that was closed down he moved to hostel accommodation where fiction: new talent and established names. In the context of a while DS Brook gets a visit from a mystery woman... he is isolated and lonely. When his support worker hears of a discussion of one of the ideas and pre-occupations of our times, Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr house share with three others he suggests Walter. But Walter is each presents a piece on this week's topic. featuring long-serving, ducking-and-diving DS Dave Brook and twice the age of the rest. Will they accept him? Will he cope The best new writing and the freshest conversation from 2002. his assistant, Detective Constable Blair Maxton. with independent living? Will they integrate with the WED 19:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jr1v) CAST: community around them? [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] DS Dave Brook …. Ray Brooks Sir Ian McKellen is best known for Gandalf in The Lord of the WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00f6r5f) DC Blair Maxton …. Christopher Blake Rings. Other recent films include The Da Vinci Code and The [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Chief Inspector …. Stephen Yardley X-Men. His portrayal of King Lear for the RSC in 2006-7 was WED 20:00 Detective (b04fcx1d) DC Harrison …. Peter Cleall much acclaimed and was released on DVD in January 2009. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Judy …. Jacqueline Tong David Cook is a stage and television actor who began to write WED 20:30 School of Rock (b0076ypk) DS Kelly …. John Judd novels in the early 1970s. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Anna …. Emily Morgan WED 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fcp) WED 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fcp) Tessa Mitchell …. Deidre Costello Putting It Across [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Ronald Blake …. Roy Holder Can Colin command authority when he becomes the manager WED 21:15 Annie Caulfield - On the Field (b01pkmq6) Desk Sergeant …. Steve Hodson of an over-35s amateur football team? Written and read by Matt [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Producer: Martin Fisher Harvey. WED 22:00 Dead Ringers (b04dn1ry) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. WED 11:15 Annie Caulfield - On the Field (b01pkmq6) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU 06:30 School of Rock (b0076ysk) Craig has joined the army to get away from football, but WED 22:30 Elvenquest (b01616lj) From Glory Days to Disco somehow the game has followed him to Basra. Stars Daniel Series 3 Andy Kershaw investigates how the arrival of punk and disco Abelson. Episode 1 affected the student music scene. With Captain Sensible. From WED 12:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jr1v) When Sam is left behind to "guard the stuff" whilst the others June 2006. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] are off killing the Man-munching Giant of Rankor he is THU 07:00 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00f6r5f) accosted by a beautiful maiden, Eirwen, who has been kept (b007jrfl) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] captive in the giant's castle and takes Sam to be her rescuer. She Series 1 WED 13:00 Detective (b04fcx1d) promptly proposes, throwing the future of the Questers' Focus [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Fellowship into jeopardy. Jason reckons his cheating ex-girlfriend wants him back, Dave WED 13:30 School of Rock (b0076ypk) Meanwhile, Lord Darkness' attempts to conquer Lower Earth gets his new company car - and Karen brings home a potential [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] take a new turn when Kreech discovers an ancient prophesy new member of the family. WED 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b0125mth) enabling Lord Darkness to create the "UnChosen One", an evil The lives of the Stockport-based, Conroy family - in series 1 of SJ Watson - Before I Go to Sleep spirit that is the only being that can defeat the Chosen One. Jim Poyser and Damian Lanigan's comedy drama. Episode 3 Problem is, it means Lord Darkness has to impregnate a Starring Dominic Monaghan as Jason, John McArdle as Eddie, What if you lost your memory every time you went to sleep? hideous, misshapen creature. If only there was one of those Beverley Callard as Maureen. Jason Done as Michael, Stefan How would you cope with having to relearn your history every close to hand... Escreet as Dave, Emma Clarke as Collete and Jo-Anne Knowles day only to lose it again? Fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth written by Anil Gupta as Debbie and Chris Pavlo as Hugo. In SJ Watson's desperately compelling and ambitious debut and Richard Pinto. Music: Big George thriller, a woman has no memory of who she is. She lives in the Sam …. Stephen Mangan Producer: Neil Mossey suburbs cared for by her husband, she can't work, she doesn't Lord Darkness …. Alistair McGowan First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1999. have any friends, she's trying to live a normal life but she can't Dean/Kreech …. Kevin Eldon THU 07:30 Susan Calman Is Convicted (b01qjb1y) remember anything when she wakes up in the morning. Slowly Vidar …. Darren Boyd Series 1 she starts to try and rebuild her memory, to piece together what EirwenMartha Howe-Douglas Equal Marriage has happened to her, who she is... Amis ‘The Chosen One’ …. Dave Lamb Susan Calman explores issues on which she has strong opinions This is Christine's story. Penthiselea …. Sophie Winkleman - starting with the hot political topic of Equal Marriage from a Abridged by Alison Joseph Producer: Sam Michell personal perspective. Read by Stella Gonet First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2011. When Susan was younger, she thought marriage was silly. A Produced by Lucy Collingwood WED 23:00 The Shuttleworths (b007m950) patriarchal institution which she would never buy into. That was WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01bb7jc) John Shuttleworth's Open Mind until she grew up, fell in love and wanted more than anything to The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3 Vampires get married - except she couldn't. Episode 3 On the trail of vampires, John Shuttleworth visits Whitby. Susan relates her own personal experiences on this matter; In Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of 1662, Samuel witnesses the But when the investigation hits full tilt he gets worried about the including the minutiae of the legislation governing her recent death of Henry Vane, a Puritan executed after an unfair trial. At health of next-door neighbour Ken Worthington. Could he be civil partnership ceremony, as well as examining the well- home he tends to his appearance, by having Jane comb out his Dracula's latest victim? trodden arguments against the issue. hair which is 'foul with powdering and other troubles', and Sheffield's premier singer-songwriter continues his probe into Producer: Lyndsay Fenner. bathe his feet in herbs. There is much discussion of the new unsolved phenomena. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013 - before new Queen's poor fashion sense - she wears old fashioned With a guest appearance by Fame Academy's Alistair Griffin. legislation was passed. farthingales and has a hairstyle not seen in England for years. Written and performed by Graham Fellows. THU 08:00 Parsley Sidings (b007jp7p) Elizabeth, meanwhile, appears to be going deaf - until Mr Additional material by Dean Wilkinson. Series 2 Hollier, the doctor, comes to the rescue. Producer: Dawn Ellis A Night Out CAST First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2006. A stranded passenger sparks a chain of disasters at the sleepy Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall WED 23:30 Sarah at the Stand (b014qt9s) railway station. Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways Episode 4 Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Kenneth Connor as Henry Vane/Swan . . . Matthew Gravelle Sarah Millican is in Edinburgh for stand-up and backstage chat Bradshaw/Clara, Liz Fraser as Gloria, Ian Lavender as Bert, Lord Sandwich . . . Blake Ritson with Stephen Carlin and Jim Jefferies. From October 2010. John Graham as the Inspector/Minister and Hilary Pritchard as Jane . . . Rebecca Newman WED 23:45 Poets' Tree (b00srg4q) Doris. Mr Hollier . . . Gareth Pierce Episode 4 Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by Paul Hamilton looks at pop music's poetic merits plus a tribute station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station for Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany to an unheralded genius. Stars Kevin Eldon. From April 2008. generations and the current Station Master, Horace, hopes that Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David his son Bert will continue the line. Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice Bert wants to work anywhere but on the railways. His colleague, Baxter. THURSDAY 28 AUGUST 2014 Station Announcer Gloria Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter Historical consultant: Liza Picard Percy Valentine is an archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Sound by Nigel Lewis THU 00:00 Book at Beachtime (b0125mth) Signalman, Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made A BBC Cymru Wales Production, directed by Kate McAll. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] remedies in equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is WED 14:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream (b00yrw87) THU 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b01bb7jc) Phineas Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] down the line. After a letter from the bank manager, Ferdinand needs THU 00:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream (b00yrw87) Producer: Edward Taylor employment. The writer and politician's memoir read by Oliver [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1973. Ford Davies. THU 01:00 Dilemma (b017c9pp) THU 08:30 Take It From Here (b01b1s9l) WED 15:00 David Cook - Walter Now (b00gh9dg) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] From 26/03/1958 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU 01:30 Off the Page (b00769n0) The 10th anniversary Show, with a 'Pygmalion' spoof and The WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04fd4q2) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Operatic Weather Forecast. Mel visits the Museum of Flight and learns how to fly, meets THU 02:00 Detective (b04fcx1d) Starring Professor Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and June the Red Arrows and learns about ejector seats. Plus, sing along [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] Whitfield. with the man who wrote the music for Mary Poppins. THU 02:30 School of Rock (b0076ypk) Music from Wallace Eaton and the Keynotes and the BBC WED 17:00 Hats Off (b00n4901) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz. Series 2 THU 03:00 David Cook - Walter Now (b00gh9dg) Scripted by Frank Muir and Denis Norden. Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] Producer: Charles Maxwell Maureen Lipman compiles and reinterprets monologues, letters THU 04:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fcp) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1958. and songs originally written and performed by Joyce Grenfell. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU 09:00 Too Much Information (b00n1023) WED 17:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b00rzqpw) THU 04:15 Annie Caulfield - On the Field (b01pkmq6) Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] Waft Tourist Information attempt to justify a huge donation WED 18:00 Dilemma (b017c9pp) THU 05:00 Hats Off (b00n4901) from the Heritage Lottery Fund with a hastily erected papier- Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 August 2014 Page 7 of 8 mâché historical model - but it turns out disastrously sexual! William is becoming tiresome in more ways than one - he's thinks she is pregnant. Stars Gerard Foster. From July 2001. Neil Warhurst's four-part comedy drama set in the idiosyncratic untidy in the office, and pays too much for materials. In August THU 23:30 Think the Unthinkable (b01mtkqn) world of a tourist information office. the Queen comes to town by barge and Samuel goes to watch - Series 4 WARREN ...... JEFF RAWLE it's so busy and crowded he can't get a boat, even for 8 shillings. Be Happy DOUGLAS ...... MALCOLM TIERNEY Then some scaffolding collapses and people are injured. Sam The bumbling management consultants grapple with physical HEATHER...... LIZA SADOVY notes that the only person of 'quality' who tries to help is the perfection for Phil's gym. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From LUCY...... JOANNAH TINCEY King's mistress, Lady Castlemaine, who tends to an injured October 2005. BRYAN...... PAUL BARNHILL child. Sam is also worried about his new neighbour, Sir John MR JEFFERSON...... STEPHEN HOGAN Minnes, who keeps questioning him over their shared Producer: Liz Webb boundaries. FRIDAY 29 AUGUST 2014 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009. CAST THU 09:30 The Small World of Dominic Holland Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall FRI 00:00 Book at Beachtime (b0125070) (b007v2f5) Elizabeth Pepys . . Katherine Jakeways [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Shopping Jane . . . Rebecca Newman FRI 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b01bb9ch) The comedian shares his thoughts on money and shopping. Sir William Batten . . . Richard Mitchley [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] Six-part series illustrating the Domedic minutiae of life. Sir John Minnes . . . Alun Raglan FRI 00:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream (b00ysn2n) Stand-up and sketches with Simon Greenall, Sally Grace and Captain Cook . . . Matthew Gravelle [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] Dave Lamb. Lord Sandwich . . . Blake Ritson FRI 01:00 Too Much Information (b00n1023) Producer: Maria Esposito Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2000. Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany FRI 01:30 Great Lives (b019fx9s) THU 10:00 Classic Serial (b01pt998) Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Janet Frame - An Angel at My Table Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice FRI 02:00 Detective (b04fgp85) Episode 1 Baxter. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Janet Frame was New Zealand's best known but least public Historical consultant: Liza Picard FRI 02:30 School of Rock (b0076ysk) author. The author of twelve novels, four story collections, one Sound by Nigel Lewis [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] book of poetry and three volumes of autobiography, even at the A BBC Cymru Wales production directed by Kate McAll. FRI 03:00 Classic Serial (b01pt998) height of her success Frame shunned publicity, which had the THU 14:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream (b00ysn2n) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] effect of making the media and her readership even more Episode 4 FRI 04:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fd3) intrusively interested. A surprise new job at the heart of the Thatcher government. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] Frame's story is extraordinary. As her biographer Michael King Tory grandee Ferdinand Mount's memoir, read by Oliver Ford FRI 04:15 Georgia Pritchett - Stay (b007jw2n) said, "her family was an anvil on which disasters fell". But it Davies. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] was the issue of Frame's mental health which generated the THU 15:00 Classic Serial (b01pt998) FRI 05:00 No Commitments (b007jmst) most conjecture. To set the record straight about the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] circumstances of her committal to mental hospitals and being THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04fgskw) FRI 05:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once diagnosed with schizophrenia, in the early 80's Janet Frame Mel heads out with the cowboys of Madagascar, learns all about (b007jrfl) wrote her autobiography; three volumes entitled 'To The Island aerobatics with a stunt pilot, takes a tour of a submarine and [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] (1982), An Angel At My Table and The Envoy From Mirror meets a man who makes a living with Lego. FRI 06:00 Detective (b04fgwcj) City (both 1984). THU 17:00 No Commitments (b007jmst) Series 2 It was after the publication of "An Angel At My Table", at a Series 2 5. Four Faces of Crime time when several of her books had gone out of print, that Frail Memorials DS Brook and DC Harrison meet the eccentric Mr Parsons. Frame's literary status was cemented. When later the books Sisterly sparring erupts when Anna organises a service for a Meanwhile a gruesome meat axe murder is investigated... were made into an award winning film by Jane Campion, her friend. Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr writing was introduced to an international audience. Simon Brett’s sitcom about the lives and squabbles of three very featuring long-serving, ducking-and-diving DS Dave Brook and This two-part radio adaptation is by Anita Sullivan. different sisters. his assistant, Detective Constable Blair Maxton. With students from Houghton Valley School and Wellington Anna …. Rosemary Leach CAST: High School, New Zealand Victoria …. Nicola Pagett DS Dave Brook …. Ray Brooks Adapted for radio by - Anita Sullivan Charlotte …. Josie Lawrence DC Blair Maxton …. Christopher Blake Music: Simon Russell Emily …. Lisa Coleman Chief Inspector Roach …. Stephen Yardley Sound Design: David Thomas Judy …. Teresa Gallagher DC Harrison …. Peter Cleall Production Assistants: Sarah Tombling and Kathy Caton Jeremy …. Ronald Herdman Judy …. Jacqueline Tong Associate Producer: Andrew Foster (New Zealand) John …. Dominic Letts Peter Parsons … Derek Francis A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. Music by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Tommy …. Johnny Wade THU 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fd3) Producer: Paul Schlesinger Producer: Martin Fisher Enough Said First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1993. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. Michael is worried that he might not be able to have children THU 17:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once FRI 06:30 School of Rock (b0076ywb) with his wife, but he has a plan. Written by Philip Gross. Read (b007jrfl) Live at Leeds Again by Andrew Hilton. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Andy Kershaw is backstage as The Who return to play a gig at THU 11:15 Georgia Pritchett - Stay (b007jw2n) THU 18:00 Too Much Information (b00n1023) Leeds University. With Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. Lonely Lizzie runs a dog kennels. Her teenage daughter is [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] From June 2006. aiming for sainthood. Tim, the kennels' handyman, strives daily THU 18:30 Great Lives (b019fx9s) FRI 07:00 Bangers and Mash (b0075gv1) to avoid the small calamities that seem to seek him out. Series 26 Episode 3 But romance is in the air when the new doctor arrives... Gracie Allen A health inspector calls. Will the struggling catering team have Georgia Pritchett's romantic comedy stars Sophie Thompson as Matthew Parris is joined by the actress Emma Kennedy to to halt pie production? Lizzie, Duncan Preston as Dr Perkins, Sheridan Smith as Emily, explore the life of the American comedienne Gracie Allen. Six-part comedy series by Katie Hims. Timothy Spall as Tim, Elizabeth Bell as Mrs Beresford and George Burns and Gracie Allen were a hugely successful stage Stars Catherine Harvey as Martina, Gerard McDermott as Gavin Muir as Dr James. act who went on to conquer the new media of radio and Jimmy, Roger May as Juan Jose, Jane Whittenshaw as Carol Director: Marilyn Imrie television. But, unusually for the time, it was Gracie who was and Anthony Zaki as the Health Inspector. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. getting all the laughs, whilst George played the straight man. Director: Cat Horn THU 12:00 Parsley Sidings (b007jp7p) For actress and comic Emma Kennedy, Gracie was a pioneering First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] female comic who, with her energy, wit and "illogical logic", FRI 07:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b00xhzjc) THU 12:30 Take It From Here (b01b1s9l) paved the way for the likes of Lucille Ball and Roseanne Barr. Series 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Professor Brian Ward provides the expert analysis. Episode 3 THU 13:00 Detective (b04fgp85) THU 19:00 Parsley Sidings (b007jp7p) Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas, considers the blue-sky [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] political policy suggestions of the public. THU 13:30 School of Rock (b0076ysk) THU 19:30 Take It From Here (b01b1s9l) This week's agenda: [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] 1) Nationalise British Music Festivals THU 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b0125070) THU 20:00 Detective (b04fgp85) 2) Abolish Stamp Duty SJ Watson - Before I Go to Sleep [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] 3) Reduce Voting Age to 16 Episode 4 THU 20:30 School of Rock (b0076ysk) Plus more weird and wonderful suggestions from the studio What if you lost your memory every time you went to sleep? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] audience, submitted as "Any Other Business". How would you cope with having to relearn your history every THU 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fd3) FRI 08:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show day only to lose it again? [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] (b007qv81) In SJ Watson's desperately compelling and ambitious debut THU 21:15 Georgia Pritchett - Stay (b007jw2n) Series 3 thriller, a woman has no memory of who she is. She lives in the [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Episode 1 suburbs cared for by her husband, she can't work, she doesn't THU 22:00 Susan Calman Is Convicted (b01qjb1y) Legendary comic duo Eric and Ernie play wine-tasting have any friends, she's trying to live a normal life but she can't [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] connoisseurs, pay tribute to marriage guidance service and remember anything when she wakes up in the morning. Slowly THU 22:30 Radio 9 (b04fgtgy) enjoy an afternoon in the garden. she starts to try and rebuild her memory, to piece together what Series 2 Written by Eddie Braben. has happened to her, who she is. Episode 2 With Allan Cuthbertson and Ann Hamilton. This is Christine's story. An unusual travel diary, very dangerous racing and faking Singing guest: Anita Harris Abridged by Alison Joseph skiing downhill. Stars Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker. From Music from Max Harris and his Orchestra. Read by Stella Gonet July 2005. Producer: Bobby Jaye Produced by Lucy Collingwood THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b04g4mwt) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1977 THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01bb9ch) The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Aisling Bea chats FRI 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3 to Sharon Horgan. (b007jzss) Episode 4 THU 23:00 At Home With The Snails (b007k2xv) Series 3 In Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the diary for 1662, Sir Series 1 The Clock William Batten is having a storey added to his house - so Sam Episode 3 Author Gerald and his wife Diana hear some bumps in the decides to keep up with the neighbours and do the same. Sir Alex is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice when his mum night. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 August 2014 Page 8 of 8 The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring Ian FRI 13:00 Detective (b04fgwcj) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 20:30 School of Rock (b0076ywb) wife, Diana. FRI 13:30 School of Rock (b0076ywb) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] With Douglas Blackwell and Patricia Hughes. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fdm) Written by Basil Boothroyd. FRI 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b0124v3t) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Producer: Bobby Jaye SJ Watson - Before I Go to Sleep FRI 21:15 Drama (b01ngrwp) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1979. Episode 5 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI 09:00 The 99p Challenge (b007js0s) What if you lost your memory every time you went to sleep? FRI 22:00 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b00xhzjc) Series 2 How would you cope with having to relearn your history every [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Episode 1 day only to lose it again? FRI 22:30 Father Figure (b01c3dlh) Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Jack In SJ Watson's desperately compelling and ambitious debut The Wake Docherty, Pater Baynam, Armando Iannucci and Simon Pegg. thriller, a woman has no memory of who she is. She lives in the Set in London this is a Belfast-tinged sitcom post 'The Troubles' The game where someone stands to leave the studio 99p richer suburbs cared for by her husband, she can't work, she doesn't but suffused with old sectarian enmities. It's centred around than when they came in. have any friends, she's trying to live a normal life but she can't young couple Tom and Elaine Murphy [called Jason and Chloe Producer: David Tyler remember anything when she wakes up in the morning. Slowly in the pilot] and their son Dylan [in the pilot they had young First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2000. she starts to try and rebuild her memory, to piece together what kids called Mikey and Lewis]. For childcare reasons, Jason has FRI 09:30 Rent (b04fh18w) has happened to her, who she is. recently given up his job at the 'Irish Republican theme pub' Series 1 This is Christine's story. meaning that Elaine - a hospital doctor - is the breadwinner. Episode 5 Abridged by Alison Joseph Jason's parents [Mary and Paddy] are staunch Irish Catholics. It's a full moon, Ruby's away and Paul's lovelorn. Will Maria's Read by Stella Gonet The mother disapproves of their Protestant daughter-in-law, but matchmaking succeed and will Richard ever finish the Produced by Lucy Collingwood the father tries to keep the peace. Chloe's parents [Jarleth and gardening? FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01bbb68) Tina] hold equally extreme Protestant views. House share comedy about life with lodgers written by Lucy The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3 Series regulars include Jason Byrne, as well as Sharon Horgan Flannery. Episode 5 [Pulling], Pauline McLynn [Father Ted], Michael Smiley Maria ...... Barbara Flynn In Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the diary for 1662, Samuel's [Spaced], Paul Putner [Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle], and Richard ...... Patrick Barlow brother, Tom, is in love and hoping to marry. But he has West End star Paul Nicholas [Just Good Friends]. Others Ruby ...... Diane Louise-Jordan exaggerated his income and after some toing and froing, his featured in the series include Simon Nye, Caroline Quentin, Amy ...... Linda Polan fiancée breaks the engagement, much to Tom's distress. Lord Mathew Horne, Kevin Eldon, Stewart Lee, Liza Tarbuck, Tim Paul ...... Toby Longworth Sandwich tells Sam that there is hidden treasure undiscovered in Minchin, Miriam Margolyes, Michael Kitchen, and Rhys Producer: Liz Anstee the Tower - and charges Samuel with trying to find it. The year Thomas. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1993. ends with Elizabeth unwell in bed and Sam feeding her FRI 23:00 Chain Reaction (b012x130) FRI 10:00 Classic Serial (b01q76l0) Christmas treats. Series 7 Janet Frame - An Angel at My Table CAST Simon Day talks to Peter Hook Episode 2 Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall Chain Reaction is Radio 4's tag-team interview show. Each The autobiography of Janet Frame, dramatised for radio by Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways week, a figure from the world of entertainment chooses another Anita Sullivan. Lord Sandwich . . . Blake Ritson to interview; the next week, the interviewee turns interviewer, Frame was New Zealand's best known but least public writer. Tom . . . Gareth Pierce and they in turn pass the baton on to someone else - creating a The author of 12 novels, four story collections, one book of Mr Wade . . . Matthew Gravelle 'chain' throughout the series. poetry and three volumes of autobiography, even at the height Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by This seventh series started with Rhys Thomas interviewing of her success Frame shunned publicity - which had the effect Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany Simon Day. This week, Simon is asking the questions, and has of making the media and her readership even more intrusively Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David chosen one of his musical heroes: Peter Hook, best known for interested. It was the issue of her mental health which generated Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice playing bass in Joy Divison and New Order, and for co-owning the most conjecture. Baxter. and running one of the most famous nightclubs in the world - In her twenties she spent four and a half years in mental Historical consultant: Liza Picard which lost £10 for every punter who walked through the door hospitals and was wrongly diagnosed with schizophrenia. Her Sound by Nigel Lewis for over a decade. The interview skips through the early days of writing saved her; the success of her first collection of short A BBC Cymru Wales production directed by Kate McAll. punk, Joy Division's transformation into New Order, and Peter's stories (The Lagoon and Other Stories) convincing doctors that FRI 14:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream (b00ysqf2) new career as a DJ. "I thought DJs were arrogant and overpaid", she did not need a planned lobotomy. Episode 5 he says, "So when I became one I fitted right in". To "set the record straight" about the circumstances of her A dramatic moment in political history and a return to damsons. FRI 23:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b01nwbhk) committal to mental hospitals, in the early 80's Janet Frame Ferdinand Mount's memoir concluded by Oliver Ford Davies. Series 3 wrote her autobiography; three volumes entitled 'To The Is-land FRI 15:00 Classic Serial (b01q76l0) Episode 1 (1982) An Angel At My Table and The Envoy From Mirror [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] The Kapoors visit a stately home, food for thought from Smeeta City (both 1984). It was after the publication of "An Angel At FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04fh1qs) Smitten, Showbiz Kitten and why the royal family are Indian... My Table", at a time when several of her books had gone out of Mel Giedroyc meets a parachuting teddy bear, takes a trip Starring: print, that Frame's literary status was cemented. around the world in a camper van, visits the National Motor Sanjeev Bhaskar An Angel At My Table Episode 2 of 2 Museum and cooks up a tasty tattie scone. Kulvinder Ghir In episode two, after a failed suicide attempt, Janet agrees to a FRI 17:00 After Henry (b007k2z7) Meera Syal short period in hospital to recuperate. But the arrival of her Series 2 Nina Wadia mother to take her home triggers a reaction in Janet that will Bedside Manners Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch have calamitous repercussions for years to come. Poorly Sarah's in hospital and must cope with visits from her comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to All other roles were played by members of the cast. mother and daughter. 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC TWO from 1998 to With thanks to Houghton Valley School and Wellington High Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - 2001. School, New Zealand. struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who Scripted by Richard Pinto, Sharat Sardana, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Adapted for radio by Anita Sullivan never quite manage to see eye to eye. Bhaskar and Sanjeev Kohli. Music - Simon Russell Starring Prunella Scales as Sarah, Joan Sanderson as Eleanor, Script Editor: Sharat Sardana Sound design - David Thomas Gerry Cowper as Clare, Benjamin Whitrow as Russell and Producer: Anil Gupta. Productions assistants -Sarah Tombling and Kathy Caton Deborah Findlay as the Sister. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998. Associate producer - Andrew Foster (New Zealand) Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV Producer/Director - Karen Rose - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. network. FRI 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fdm) Producer: Pete Atkin A Steady Chap First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1986. A daughter starts to worry after her divorced mother meets a FRI 17:30 Bangers and Mash (b0075gv1) new man. Is he too good to be true? Written by Gillian Tindall. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Read by Clare Corbett. From June 2003. FRI 18:00 The 99p Challenge (b007js0s) FRI 11:15 Drama (b01ngrwp) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Andy Walker - The Man Who Jumped From Space FRI 18:30 Pioneers (b00wmvmt) The real life story of Captain Joe Kittinger and Project Series 1 Excelsior. As jet planes flew higher and faster in the 1950s, the David Blunkett USAF became increasingly worried about the safety of flight David Blunkett talks about how failure wasn't an option during crew who had to eject at high altitude. So Project Excelsior was his rise to political high office. initiated to perfect a parachute system that would allow a safe, Blind from birth, he talks openly about the isolation of controlled descent after a high-altitude ejection. attending boarding school from the age of four, as well as the Producer Gary Brown trauma of losing his father at the age of twelve. Project Excelsior was initiated in 1958 to design a parachute Coming from a deprived background, David recognised very system that would allow a safe, controlled descent after a high- quickly that his route out of poverty was through education and altitude ejection. against all odds, he graduated from Sheffield University at the To test the parachute system, staff at Wright Field built a 200 ft age of 22. (61 m) high helium balloon with a capacity of nearly 3 million David went on to become the youngest-ever councillor on cubic feet (85,000 m³) that could lift an open gondola and test Sheffield City Council, and climbed his way through the pilot into the stratosphere. Joe Kittinger, who was test director political ladder to become the first ever blind Home Secretary. for the project, made three ascents and test jumps. This is the First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2010. story of the three jumps. FRI 19:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show FRI 12:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (b007qv81) (b007qv81) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter FRI 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b007jzss) (b007jzss) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 20:00 Detective (b04fgwcj) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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