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Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 May 2020 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 23 MAY 2020 Written by and starring Nick Ball. is rejected by Isabella, the Incomparable. Angus ...... Nick Ball True to his word, he takes the even younger Hero Wantage as SAT 00:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton Mum ...... Mum his bride... (b007w525) With Robert Hartley, Wayne Forester and Julie Gibbs. Published in 1944, Georgette Heyer’s Regency tale of romance The Exposure Producer: Gareth Edwards dramatised by John Peacock. Sunday unmasks one of the anarchists as a Scotland Yard First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1997. Viscount Anthony Sheringham …. James Frain detective, leaving Gabriel Syme in despair. SAT 03:00 Edmund Gosse - Father and Son (b0076vm0) Hero Wantage …. Elli Garnett Episode 2 Montagu Revesby …. Nicholas Boulton Published in 1908, GK Chersterton's most famous novel is read Baptised aged ten and now growing up, lonely Edmund is torn Lady Saltash …. Mary Wimbush in 13 parts by Geoffrey Palmer. between his father and the terrible secret in his heart. Ferdy Fakenham …. Julian Rhind-Tutt Derek Jacobi stars as Edmund Gosse. Jasper Tarleton …. Simon Russell Beale Director: Lawrence Jackson Conclusion of Edmund Gosse's uniquely frank memoir of a Lord George Wrotham …. Ian Hughes Victorian childhood. Tender, comic and lyrical, this is his Jason …. Peter Kenny Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. account of the spiritual struggle between a lonely boy and his Isabella Milborne …. Annabel Mullion charismatic father. Gil …. Paul Panting First broadcast in March 2005. Dramatised by Nick Warburton. Ruth …. Cathy Sara SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b0076x2p) Edmund Gosse ...... Derek Jacobi Lady Sheringham …. Susan Sheringham It's Not You, It's Me Phlip Henry Gosse ...... Roger Allam Jane Bagshot …. Eva Stuart Victoria Coren on how we avoid uncomfortable moments, with Young Edmund ...... Steven Williams Mrs Milborne …. Tessa Worsley Martin Newell, Dr Cosmo Hallstrom and Susannah Jowett. Eliza Brightwen ...... Jane Whittenshaw Lady Jersey …. Jilly Bond From February 2006. Ella Smith ...... Mrs Brown The Postboy …. David Antrobus SAT 01:00 Agatha Raisin (b011f5km) Brother Fawkes ...... Gerard McDermott Groombridge …. David Bannerman Series 1 Preacher ...... Wayne FoskettJ Music by Trevor Allan Davies The Walkers of Dembley Teacher ...... John Cummins Producer: Ned Chaillet. Keen to get closer to James - the sleuth gets embroiled in a saga Brethren/Villagers ...... Delroy Brown First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1995. of murder, lust and Wellington Boots. Brethren/Villagers ...... Nick Sayce SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b04tjft0) Penelope Keith stars as Agatha Raisin. Brethren/Villagers ...... Sophie Roberts Series 35 Dramatised by David Semple from MC Beaton’s novel. Brethren/Villagers ...... Ayesha Antoine Arthur Smith on Emil Zátopek Agatha Raisin …. Penelope Keith Producer: Jonquil Panting Matthew Parris – himself current holder of the House of James Lacey …. Malcolm Sinclair First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2005. Commons marathon record time – meets comedian Arthur Mrs Bloxby …. Liza Sadovy SAT 04:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000j9yh) Smith, who also turns out to have been a runner when he was DC Bill Wong …. Ben Crowe Super short series, Jacob Hawley, and other new releases younger, and whose choice for a Great Life is an athlete whom Deborah Camden …. Rachel Atkins Amanda Litherland and Caroline Crampton recommend super he has admired since his childhood. Mr Boggle …. David Holt short podcasts. And Jacob Hawley chats about his latest series Emil Zátopek emerged onto the international stage in 1948 Sir Charles Whitaker …. Philip Fox for BBC Sounds, 'Jacob Hawley's Job Centre'. when he became a sensation at the Olympics in London, but it Jessica Keller …. Alice Hart Recommended this week was his performance in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics which put Kelvin …. Bertie Carvell Short series to learn something: him in the record books. Already an established distance Director: Carol Smith The World According to Sound runner, he bagged gold in the 5000 and 10000 metres and then, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. 50 Things That Changed The Modern Economy having previously given no hint that he would be a champion SAT 01:30 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jl8w) The Story Behind marathon runner, he also won that race. The Smithfield Murders On This Day In Esoteric Political History The expert witness is Pat Butcher, writer and ex-runner, who is 5. A Passion for Hunting Something Short fiction/story series: working on a biography of Zátopek, and he argues that no-one With big business involved, Detective Superintendent Julie Listen, Rinse, Repeat is likely ever to equal Zátopek's achievement in winning gold in Enfield finds herself trapped with hired killers underneath Chompers three different distance events. Smithfield meat market... The Roommate From Hell Zátopek retired from competitive running in 1957 and later fell Starring Imelda Staunton as Detective Superintendent Julie Havisham Kills Time heavily out of favour with the post- Dubcek regime in Enfield. Sam Walker's Desert Island Diaries Czechoslovakia but was rehabilitated after 1989 and remains a Conclusion of Nick Fisher's atmospheric thriller. Short thoughtful podcasts: much-cherished hero in Czech Republic and among the running DSI Julie Enfield ..... Imelda Staunton 10 Things That Scare Me community. Dad ...... Geoffrey Matthews Now For Tomorrow Producer Christine Hall. Stephen Temple ...... Gavin Muir The Rob Auton Daily Podcast First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Alex Wild ...... Deborah Berlin The Slowdown SAT 08:00 Counterpoint (b00jwxzx) Joey Jones ...... Don McCorkindale New Podcasts: Series 23 DS Lawrence Evans ...... Ross Livingstone Jacob Hawley's Job Centre 2009 Heat 8 Sally ...... Jane Whittenshaw The Missionary Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz. Rachel Jones ...... Jilly Bond Swipe Left Swipe Left The questions cover every aspect of music - from the classical Benjamin Travis ...... Geoffrey Whitehead You can contact the show by emailing repertoire to world music, show tunes, film scores, jazz, rock Henry Sinclair ...... John Turner [email protected] and pop. Johnson ...... Jonathan Keeble SAT 05:00 Miracles R Us (b00scx37) Three contestants battle it out: Gordon Richards ...... David Timson Flux Producer: Paul Bajoria Voice 1 ...... David Collings Caroline is running Household Solutions on her own from the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009. Voice 2 ...... John Hartley student rooms she is renting - just leaflets through doors, SAT 08:30 The Change (b06l3287) Producer: Richard Wortley offering a family back-up service. Series 3 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1995. After a chance meeting, Sylvia is sure she could be helpful to Episode 5 SAT 02:00 The 3rd Degree (m0007qbm) the business. Caroline is sure she couldn't. The family learn about Carol's condition - and Sonia finally Series 9 Sylvia persists and, against her better judgement, Caroline gets confronts Dave about his suspicious behaviour. University of Brighton drawn in. Can they manage to turn their service into a good Carol …. Lynda Bellingham A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this business? George …. Philip Jackson week from the University of Brighton with specialist subjects Sitcom in four parts by Lesley Bruce. Violet ...... Marcia Warren including Biomedical Sciences, Marketing and History and Sylvia ..... Anna Massey Maureen …. Maureen Beattie Globalization and questions ranging from Chinese state Caroline ..... Deborah Findlay Ken …. James Vaugnan infrastructure to the heraldic name for a squirrel via Tanya ..... Alison Pettitt Sonia …. Emma Kennedy Trypanosoma and tzatziki. Producer: Katie Tyrrell Jerry …. Barnaby Kay The programme is recorded on location at a different First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2010. Dave …. Mark Powley University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against SAT 05:30 Cabin Pressure (b00cb5k4) Nurse ...... Rosie Armstrong three of their Professors in an original and fresh take on an Series 1 Series 3 of the sitcom about a married couple's attempts to academic quiz. Abu Dhabi smooth over their singularly troubled midlife funk - Carol is The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam star in hormonal and 15-stone George is a transvestite. Onlookers can't Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow the sitcom about the pilots of a tiny charter airline for whom no quite agree on the nature of their dynamic. and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. Written Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and by John Finnemore, writer for The News Quiz, The Now Show, Producer: Elizabeth Freestone science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, sport, and That Mitchell & Webb Sound. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2004. and quite possibly Ed Sheeran. In addition, the Head-to-Head In this week’s episode, the town of Bristol, a cat and a SAT 09:00 Comedy Greats (b007k1tc) rounds see students take on their Professors in their own thermostat combine to present Martin with a career-breaking 1980s subjects, offering plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on crisis. Episode 1 both sides. Cast: Decade by decade, Barry Cryer showcases some of the funniest Other Universities