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 podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk 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 featured in this series include Royal Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ...... Stephanie Cole and finest shows ever broadcast by the BBC. Holloway University of London, Aberdeen, Plymouth, St 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ...... Roger Allam The original New Romantic brings you six favourite shows Catharine's College Cambridge and Oxford Brookes. Capt. Martin Crieff...... Benedict Cumberbatch plucked from the 1980s schedules of BBC Radio 1 and Radio Produced by David Tyler Arthur Shappey...... John Finnemore 4:- A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 ATC Fitton...... Ewen * Radio Active SAT 02:30 Dry Slopes (b0075178) MacIntosh Series 2 (3/6) Good Day Sport Series 2 Written by John Finnemore Get all the sport results you need from your local national radio Emma Produced and directed by David Tyler station. Stars Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Helen Does the fact that Emma is married, has a son and is moving to A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 Atkinson-Wood, Michael Fenton Stevens and Philip Pope. Mauritius mean that she's no longer interested in Angus - or is SAT 06:00 Georgette Heyer - Friday's Child (b007jq09) From 1982. she just playing hard to get? "I'm going back to London! And I'm going to marry the first * After Henry It would be a lot easier to dine out if he could talk to her instead woman I see!" Series 1 (4/8) The Dinner Party of her answer machine, even though it is a good Listener. So cries young Lord Sheringham when his proposal of marriage Sarah plays hostess, Mother plays the martyr and daughter Clare Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 May 2020 Page 2 of 8 holds a flat-warming party. Stars Prunella Scales, Joan Starring Imelda Staunton as Detective Superintendent Julie Horrifying series of tales from The Man in Black. You might Sanderson, Gerry Cowper and Benjamin Whitrow. From 1985. Enfield. meet him at a luggage carousel in an airport, or behind the desk * Unnatural Acts Atmospheric thriller written by Nick Fisher. at an employment agency or he might approach you in the Series 1 (2/6) A Death in the Family DSI Julie Enfield ..... Imelda Staunton corridor of a care home. As Caroline mourns Monty the gerbil, a séance brings some Dad ...... Geoffrey Matthews Wherever you encounter him, he's eager to pass on his stories. surprises. Stars Jeremy Hardy, Kit Hollerbach and Caroline Stephen Temple ...... Gavin Muir Stories to unsettle and horrify. Stories to haunt you. Leddy. Later series were renamed 'At Home With The Hardys'. Alex Wild ...... Deborah Berlin The Man In Black first appeared in the 1940s as the chilling From 1987. DC Lawrence Evans ...... Ross Livingstone voice who introduced a series of terrifying radio dramas. He * Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful Benjamin Travis ...... Geoffrey Whitehead returned on Radio 4 in the 1970s and then again in the late Series 1 (2/6) Henry Sinclair ...... John Turner 80s/early 90s. Activist turned advertising copywriter, Ken Handley finds Producer: Richard Wortley Producer: Abigail le Fleming himself assigned to the Conservative Party. Stars Martin Jarvis, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1995. Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2009. Wendy Richard, Michael Jayston and Bill Fraser. From 1982. SAT 14:30 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jlbn) SAT 19:00 Comedy Greats (b007k1tc) * Saturday Night Fry The Smithfield Murders [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Series 1 (5/6) 4. A Mushroom Diet SAT 22:00 The Boosh (b007jmg2) Stephen Fry hosts humorous banter and sketches with his The Smithfield community play throws Detective Jazz chums Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent and Superintendent Julie Enfield's meaty murder trail into Vince can't make the porpoise derby because his band's on New Phyllida Law. From 1988. confusion. Faces of Pop and Howard can't relax because he's constantly * The Mary Whitehouse Experience Starring Imelda Staunton as Detective Superintendent Julie being visited by the spirit of jazz. Series 3 (7/12) Enfield. Written by and starring Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt. The original billing proclaimed it was "The show that dares to Atmospheric thriller written by Nick Fisher. The Boosh is a surreal adventure based on the Perrier Award- ignore the issues that other shows would tackle". Starring David DSI Julie Enfield ..... Imelda Staunton winning comedy show, featuring Howard and Vince's battles Baddiel, Rob Newman, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. Series Alex Wild ...... Deborah Berlin with zoo manager Bob Fossil. debuted in 1989. Episode from 1990. Joey Jones ...... Don McCorkindale Howard Moon ...... Julian Barrattt Produced and scripted by Peter Reed Stephen Temple ...... Gavin Muir Vince Noir ...... Noel Fielding First broadcast on BBC 7 in 2003. DS Lawrence Evans ...... Ross Livingstone Bob Fossil ...... Rich Fulcher SAT 12:00 Whispers (b007k358) Benjamin Travis ...... Geoffrey Whitehead With Simon Evans. Series 3 Henry Sinclair ...... John Turner After BBC radio gave them their big break with this series, they Episode 4 Sally ...... Jane Whittenshaw transferred to BBC TV where The Mighty Boosh ran for three Gyles Brandreth chairs the scandals quiz with Lucy Moore, Johnson ...... Jonathan Keeble series. Anthony Holden, Penny Junor and Julian Fellowes. From Rachel Jones ...... Jilly Bond Producer: Danny Wallace. October 2005. Gordon Richards ...... David Timson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001. SAT 12:30 The Goon Show (b007xt2f) Voice 1 ...... David Collings SAT 22:30 And Now in Colour (b0080qg5) Series 6 Voice 2 ...... John Hartley Series 2 The Case of the Missing CD Plates Producer: Richard Wortley Eurospecial Mown down and flattened, frustrated Neddie Seagoon falls foul First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1995. The sketch show team cross the English Channel for a French of diplomatic immunity. SAT 15:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jl8w) link-up. Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike [Repeat of broadcast at 01:30 today] Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de Milligan and Eric Sykes. SAT 15:30 World Book Club (m000j7z0) Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck. Starring: Tracy Chevalier Producer: Lissa Evans Peter Sellers Set in 17th century Holland, Tracy Chevalier's novel vividly First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1991. Harry Secombe imagines the story behind the gaze of the model and what her SAT 23:00 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b00mr4w3) Spike Milligan relationship with the renowned artist might have been. Series 4 First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were The American author answers questions from global listeners Episode 5 recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest about Girl with a Pearl Earring. A date with a slightly disappointing superhero; and the perils of shows weren’t kept in the archive. Presented by Harriett Gilbert. compulsory workplace drinking. With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. Producer: Karen Holden. Sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. First broadcast on the BBC World Service in May 2004. With Olivia Colman,Sarah Hadland and James Bachman. Announcer: Wallace Greenslade SAT 16:00 Georgette Heyer - Friday's Child (b007jq09) Producer Gareth Edwards Producer: Peter Eton [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Firs broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2009. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in October 1955. SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b04tjft0) SAT 23:30 Sarah Millican's Support Group (b00qps89) SAT 13:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jl9k) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Series 1 The Smithfield Murders SAT 18:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1. 'I love a plumber but I'm no boiler'. 1. Filth and Fat and Blood and Foam (b0076npz) 'I love a plumber but I'm no boiler'. A gruesome murder at London's Smithfield meat market sparks The Tertiary Phase Dating outside of your class: would you, should you, could you?' another troubling investigation for Detective Superintendent Fit the Seventeenth 'Help! I love two women at the same time - my mam not Julie Enfield. As Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian and Slartibarfast included'. Starring Imelda Staunton as Detective Superintendent Julie helplessly watch, the Krikkit Robots open the Wikkit Gate and Sarah Millican plays a life counsellor and modern-day agony Enfield. the planet Krikkit is released from its chronostasis in a mind- aunt tackling the nation's problems head on, dishing out real Atmospheric thriller written by Nick Fisher. hurting instant. advice for real people. DSI Julie Enfield ..... Imelda Staunton The Book …. William Franklyn Assisted by her very own team of experts. Dad ...... Geoffrey Matthews Arthur Dent …. Simon Jones Sarah ...... Sarah Millican DS Lawrence Evans ...... Ross Livingstone Ford Prefect …. Geoff McGivern Marion ...... Ruth Bratt Sally ...... Jane Whittenshaw Marvin …. Stephen Moore Terry ...... Simon Daye Benjamin Travis ...... Geoffrey Whitehead Trillian …. Susan Sheridan Chris ...... Steve Edge Joey Jones ...... Don McCorkindale Zaphod Beeblebrox …. Mark Wing-Davey Jamie ...... Nick Mohammed Miss Sayers ...... Linda Regan Eddie the Computer …. Roger Gregg Carol ...... Helen Atkinson Wood. Terence Johns ...... David Bannerman Slartibartfast …. Richard Griffiths Written by Sarah Millican. Rachel Jones ...... Jilly Bond Dominic Hawksley : Acting (adult) Krikkit Commander Producer: Lianne Coop Micky Matthews ...... John Hollis Dispatcher …. Bob Golding First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2010. Doctor ...... Stephen Thorne Krikkit Man One …. Michael Fenton Stevens Producer: Richard Wortley Krikkit Man Two …. Philip Pope First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1995. Announcer …. John Marsh SUNDAY 24 MAY 2020 SAT 13:30 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jl9y) Written by Douglas Adams The Smithfield Murders Music by Philip Pope and Paul ‘Wix’ Wickens SUN 00:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2. Blue Bummarees Adapted and directed by Dirk Maggs (b0076npz) Detective Superintendent Julie Enfield's father gets on well with Producer: Helen Chattwell and Bruce Hyman [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] his paid carer, but her investigation darkens amidst the 'Blue An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast SUN 00:30 The Man in Black (b00h73hw) Bummarees' of the market. There's also a surprise flirtation... in October 2004. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] Starring Imelda Staunton as Detective Superintendent Julie SAT 18:30 The Man in Black (b00h73hw) SUN 01:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jl9k) Enfield. Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Atmospheric thriller written by Nick Fisher. Bombers' Moon by Lucy Kirkwood SUN 01:30 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jl9y) DSI Julie Enfield ..... Imelda Staunton Soldiers Jarvis, Carr and Nisbet are stranded in a remote [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Saturday] Dad ...... Geoffrey Matthews outpost in Afghanistan. They've run out of supplies, trapped by SUN 02:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jlb9) DS Lawrence Evans ...... Ross Livingstone a blizzard, and the man who was going to get help should have [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] Sally ...... Jane Whittenshaw been back hours ago. SUN 02:30 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jlbn) Paulo ..... Sean Barrett If that weren't bad enough, they're shut in with Corporal Rashid. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] Benjamin Travis ...... Geoffrey Whitehead They're sure he's a Jonah - pure bad luck. They're a sitting SUN 03:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jl8w) Joey Jones ...... Don McCorkindale target for the enemy, but there's something worse coming for [Repeat of broadcast at 01:30 on Saturday] Sadie Stern ...... Linda Regan them through the snowy mountains. Something much, much SUN 03:30 World Book Club (m000j7z0) Henry Sinclair ...... John Turner worse... [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] Producer: Richard Wortley Lucy Kirkwood's tale is introduced by Mark Gatiss as sinister SUN 04:00 Georgette Heyer - Friday's Child (b007jq09) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1995. raconteur, The Man in Black. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SAT 14:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jlb9) Jarvis ...... Gunnar Cauthery SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b04tjft0) The Smithfield Murders Carr ...... Mark Bonnar [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] 3. Chef's Special Nisbet ...... Fingal McKiernan SUN 06:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jl9k) There's a fresh dead body down at Clerkenwell, but Detective Rashid ...... Inam Mirza [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Superintendent Julie Enfield's love affair is hotting up - before Keefe ...... Robert Lonsdale SUN 06:30 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jl9y) she becomes a victim of extreme cold. Female Voice ...... Manjeet Mann [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Saturday] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 May 2020 Page 3 of 8 SUN 07:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jlb9) has always been the country's core form of mass Number 43 … Genevieve Gaunt [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] communication - whether the spoken word or, more recently, Number 2 … Lorelei King SUN 07:30 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jlbn) via cassettes and radios. Journalist … Alicia Bayley [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] Verse has, in many areas, taken the place of history books, Operations Controller / Village Voice … Jennifer Healy SUN 08:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jl8w) newspapers and television as the main means of spreading news Instructor / Technician … Glen McCready [Repeat of broadcast at 01:30 on Saturday] and comment. Poets who have real skill - the true bards - have Written and directed by Nicholas Briggs. SUN 08:30 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves the power to shape current events and receive both social and Script Editor: Scott Handcock (b007s5dn) political privileges. Music composed and performed by Jamie Robertson The Great Sermon Handicap Can we integrate any of these elements into British poetry? Producer: Emma Halgh Can Bertie Wooster beat the odds of disaster in an unusual Instead of one Laureate, should we have hundreds of bards Based on the classic ITV series. betting syndicate? reflecting the diversity of our nation - people we can turn to for A Big Finish production. PG Wodehouse's romp starring Michael Hordern and Richard everything from the poetic equivalent of a Times leader to the SUN 19:00 Radiolab (b0b4zwk4) Briers. latest gossip around the parish pump? Can poetry be integrated [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Jeeves ...... Michael Hordern into our daily lives as successfully as in Somalia? SUN 20:00 The Anatomy of Melancholy (b00776pm) Bertie Wooster ..... Richard Briers In discussion with presenter Rageh Omaar, poets from the [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] Revrend Heppenstall ..... Maurice Denhaml Somali community in Britain and expert translators wonder if - SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b09t27rg) Bingo Little ..... Jonathan Cecil through the medium of everything from the spoken word to text [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Eustace ..... David Jason messaging - Somalia's bards might provide the germ of a new SUN 21:45 Multi Story Shorts (m00036cz) Claude ..... Jonathan Lynn form of information sharing in Britain. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] Cynthia ..... Cynthia. Producer: Neil Cargill SUN 22:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Adapted by Chris Miller. A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2010. Carefully (b04l0zq7) Producer: David Hatch SUN 12:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1973. Carefully (b04l0zq7) SUN 22:30 In and Out of the Kitchen (b016ljx7) SUN 09:00 Floggit's (b00ct1wp) Series 2 Series 1 From 09/11/1956 Counter Plot January 1st to 5th A power cut causes chaos in the village. Gossip galore at sisters Richard is alarmed to discover that Uljabaan has Mouth-watering entries from the kitchen diary of cookery Gert and Daisy's general store in Russett Green. commandeered six allotments for some sort of experiment, writer, Damien Trench. Stars Elsie and Doris Waters as Gert and Daisy. while Katrina is more concerned that he's arrested Lucy. But In a mixture of narrative, dialogue and recipes, Damien With Joan Sims, Ron Moody, Ronnie Barker and Hugh what kind of plants is he planting inside the building he has unflinchingly captures every angle of his day-to-day life, "no Paddick. built? matter how grisly or, indeed, how gristly". Originally popular regulars in 'Worker's Playtime' on the BBC Series two of Eddie Robson's sitcom about an alien race that's Damien and his partner, Anthony, deciding on their New Year's Home Service during wartime, Gert and Daisy won own series, noticed an all-at-once invasions of Earth never works out that Resolutions. They start by finally making up their minds to Floggit's, when the duo inherited a village general store with a well. So they've locked the small Buckinghamshire village of commit to each other...namely, by signing up a builder, Mr ragbag of local characters to deal with. It ran for 2 series Cresdon Green behind an impenetrable force-field in order to Mullaney to install a new kitchen which Damien hopes will between 1956 and 1957. study human behaviour and decide if Earth is worth invading. eventually become the food and preparation space that he's Scripted by Terry Nation, John Junkin and Dave Freeman. The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new always dreamed of. Producer: Bill Gates alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for the On top of all this, Anthony decides to get fit and Damien First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November weekend to borrow the money for a deposit for a flat when the decides to do a radio programme about the French bean. But 1956. force-field went up. not everything goes according to plan... SUN 09:30 Millport (b00762cq) So along with Lucy Alexander (the only teenager in the village, Also featuring Damien's easy-to-follow recipes: for a "Super Series 2 willing to rebel against whatever you've got) she forms The Simple" Roast Beef, cooking your own pasta, and "Marvellously The Verdict Resistance - slightly to the annoyance of her parents Margaret Moist Muffins". The islanders unite to try and save The Cumbrae Bar from and Richard who wish she wouldn't make so much of a fuss Damien Trench ...... Miles Jupp closure. This is also much to the annoyance of Field Commander Anthony ...... Justin Edwards Will Irene stay and fight with them or will she take the last ferry Uljabaan who, alongside his unintelligible minions and The Damien's Mother ...... Selina Cadell of the day to the mainland to the new life she's always dreamed Computer (his hyper-intelligent supercomputer), is trying to Mr Mullaney ...... Brendan Dempsey of? actually run the invasion. Ian Frobisher ...... Philip Fox Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as Katrina Lyons ...... Hattie Morahan Researcher ...... Alex Tregear 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce. Richard Lyons ...... Peter Davison Producer: Sam Michell. Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson Margaret Lyons ...... Jan Francis First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011. Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown Lucy Alexander ...... Hannah Murray SUN 23:00 Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed (b03b0yz2) Alberto/Robert/Ferryman ...... Lewis McLeod Field Commander Uljabaan ...... Charles Edwards Series 2 Ena/Bunty ...... Gabriel Quigley The Computer ...... John-Luke Roberts Fugitive Bob/Minister ...... Robert Patterson Ron ...... Dave Lamb DS Nick Mohammed is on the trail of a fugitive, assisted by Dougie ...... Matt Costello Lawrence ...... Michael Bertenshaw longsuffering constables Colin and Anna. Written and Music arranged by Olly Fox. Written by Eddie Robson performed by Nick Mohammed, with Anna Crilly, Colin Hoult, Producer: Lucy Bacon Script-edited by Arthur Mathews Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Will Andrews. Script Editor: First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2001. Producer: Ed Morrish. Johnny Sweet. Producer: Victoria Lloyd. SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b09t27rg) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014. SUN 23:30 Edge Falls (b00drt1r) Medicine, Science & Engineering SUN 13:00 Comedy Greats (b007k1tc) Series 2 Sir Martin Rees [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday] Episode 6 From Edward Elgar to Gabriel Faure. Astrophysicist Sir Martin SUN 16:00 The Anatomy of Melancholy (b00776pm) Innocent celebrations spark disaster at Edge Falls retail park. Rees shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. King James I sets out to discover a remedy for melancholy, Stars Mark Benton and Frances Barber. From October 2008. As well as choosing his eight records, book and luxury, aided by his friend Anton. Astronomer Royal Sir Martin will be discussing his work in A cock and bull's story-worth of glorious, life-affirming cosmic evolution, or, to put it more simply, how the Earth and digression and surreal silliness. MONDAY 25 MAY 2020 Solar System were formed. First published in 1621, Robert Burton's Jacobean tome, very He tells of his belief that it's more difficult to understand a frog loosely dramatised by Lavinia Murray. MON 00:00 The Prisoner (m000jgpv) than the cosmos. King James ..... Derek Riddell [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1997 Anton ..... Paul Hunter MON 01:00 Comedy Greats (b007k1tc) SUN 10:45 Multi Story Shorts (m00036cz) Robert ..... Mark Chatterton [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday] Open Road Ann ..... Carla Henry MON 04:00 The Anatomy of Melancholy (b00776pm) Marianne and Chris Fisher have swapped their five-bedroom Elizabeth ..... Christine Brennen [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] family house in Shropshire, for Trudy the camper van. Fortune teller ...... Ann Rye MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (b0bk1dkw) This is not a holiday, but a complete change in lifestyle - the Courtier ..... Paul David Gough [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] married couple are aiming to step foot in every country in the Director: Polly Thomas MON 05:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade world. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2007. Carefully (b04l0zq7) Multi Story is a BBC podcast, presented and produced by Becca SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (b0bk1dkw) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] Bryers. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] MON 06:00 Agatha Raisin (b011j50h) SUN 11:00 Radiolab (b0b4zwk4) SUN 17:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Series 1 Series 3 Carefully (b04l0zq7) A Marriage of Convenience Oliver Sipple [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Investigating the murder of a militant rambler, Agatha and Radiolab explores the impact on one man's life when he saved SUN 18:00 The Prisoner (m000jgpv) James go undercover as a married couple. Stars Penelope Keith. the life of President Ford. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Series 3 Penelope Keith stars as Agatha Raisin. Krulwich. 1. Free For All Dramatised by David Semple from MC Beaton’s novel. Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Under constant surveillance, Number 6 can trust no-one. The Agatha Raisin …. Penelope Keith Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur regime seems to want 6 to stand as an election candidate to be James Lacey …. Malcolm Sinclair between science, philosophy, and the human experience. Number 2. Mrs Bloxby …. Liza Sadovy First broadcast on public radio in the USA. But when 2’s manifesto seems to be based on the notion of DC Bill Wong …. Ben Crowe SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (b0bk1dkw) freedom, what platform will 6 decide to stand upon? And can Deborah Camden …. Rachel Atkins The Bards of Somalia there ever be freedom in the Village? Mr Boggle …. David Holt Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with The original 17-episode TV series of The Prisoner created Sir Charles Whitaker …. Philip Fox 'The Bards of Somalia' featuring the country's news-reporting intrigue and controversy in equal measure when it first aired in Kelvin …. Bertie Carvell poets. the UK in 1967. Director: Carol Smith What could Britain learn from Somalia - a country where poetry In a taut psychological spy thriller the main character, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. is nothing less than the main means of cultural communication? dehumanised as ‘Number 6’, has committed no crime, save for MON 06:30 Cadfael (b007jlcr) Portrayed abroad as a land beset by gunmen, pirates and having resigned from some unspecified branch of the British The Virgin in the Ice famine, it is also known by those who live there as a Nation of Secret Service. His prison was a heavily guarded coastal village. 1. Casualties of War Poets. Somalia had no written language until 1972 and poetry Number 6 … Mark Elstob Shrewsbury, Winter in the year 1139: Amid a civil war, Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 May 2020 Page 4 of 8 medieval sleuth Brother Cadfael sets out to find a missing boy Little Willie Saves the Day Publisher: OUP and his sister. Back to the BBC's early wireless days of 1922. Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance Written by Ellis Peters and dramatised in five parts by Bert The Daily Sketch says the BBC's programmes are boring. Will by John Berger Coules. DG John Brown finally agree to broadcast some light Publisher: Verso Books Narrator … Sir Michael Hordern entertainment, or will his peccadillo with Auntie Phyllis force First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010. Brother Cadfael … Philip Madoc him over the edge? Either way, Fred "Keep 'Em Laughing" MON 19:00 The Navy Lark (b007k188) Hugh Beringar …. Douglas Hodge Hicks has got an unusual new act for radio. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Leonard …. Leonard Fenton Written by Jimmy Perry, the man behind Dad's Army and Hi- MON 19:30 Dad's Army (b007jrl4) Olivier …. Raad Rawi De-Hi. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Ermina …. Moira Buffini John Brown ...... Graham Crowden MON 20:00 Agatha Raisin (b011j50h) Ives …. Dean Magri Colonel Beecham ...... Jimmy Perry [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Elyas …. Crispin Letts Fred "Keep 'em Laughing" Hicks ...... Roy Hudd MON 20:30 Cadfael (b007jlcr) Abbot Radulfus …. John Church Roger Eccles ...... Jeffrey Holland [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Other parts played by Jonathan Tafler, Steve Hodson, Eric Sergeant Lucas ...... Bill Pertwee MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m000jgk6) Allen, Julian Rhind-Tutt and David Holt. Miss Nightingale ...... Joanna Munro [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Producer: Phil Clarke. Arthur ...... Toby Longworth MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b03j9m1h) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1992. Admiral Carpenter ...... Peter Cellier [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON 07:00 Safety Catch (b017skx3) Jeffrey Stainton ...... Chris Luscombe MON 22:30 Peter Bradshaw - For One Horrible Moment Series 2 Bobby Bright ...... Leonard Kirby (b00890lj) If a Job's Not Worth Doing Rex Murray ...... Logan Murray Episode 4 Simon is totally convinced this week that he is in the right job Isabel Blair ...... Julie Gibbs Memoirs of a boy growing up in the 1970s, a time of electro- and has a duty not only to stay there, but to do his job sloppily. Phyllis Godfrey ...... Amanda Bellamy convulsive shock therapy. Written and read by Peter Bradshaw. His reasoning for this is that if he wasn't there doing the job Producer: Jo Clegg. MON 22:45 Armando Iannucci - Facts And Fancies badly then someone else would be doing it well and that would First broadcast nightly on BBC Radio 2 in September 1994. (b007jrm4) be a much worse scenario. MON 10:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited Episode 4 Then he has the awful, soul shattering realisation, and one (b007k2ms) From writing books to environmental damage, Armando which is something every person in Britain would be ashamed Beginnings Iannucci presents his humorous essays. From January 1998. to admit, that he actually loves his job. Boris of course is in Midway through the war, a disillusioned Captain Charles Ryder MON 23:00 The News Quiz (m000j9kt) heaven at the thought of a soul-mate at work, but Simon decides finds himself posted to a remote country retreat. It's Brideshead Series 102 the only way he can go on is to learn to hate again. Castle, scene of the happiest years of his young, impressionable Episode 6 Series two of Laurence Howarth's black comedy of modern life and the beginnings of his friendship with Sebastian Flyte - Angela Barnes hosts series 102, leading a panel of regular News morality set in the world of arms dealing. whose presence will forever haunt him. Quiz comics and journalists in rounding up the news stories of Simon McGrath...... Darren Boyd Ben Miles and Jamie Bamber star in Evelyn Waugh's most the week. Joining Angela this week is Helen Lewis, Darren Anna Grieg...... Joanna Page famous novel of life, love and a forgotten era. Harriott, Daniel Finkelstein and Jess Fostekew. Boris Kemal...... Lewis Macleod Dramatised in four parts by Jeremy Front. Produced by Suzy Grant Judith McGrath...... Sarah Smart Charles Ryder ...... Ben Miles A BBC Studios Audio Production Angela McGrath...... Brigit Forsyth Sebastian Flyte ...... Jamie Bamber MON 23:30 Radio Active (b007jvxw) Madeleine Turnbull...... Rachel Atkins Julia ...... Anne-Marie Duff Series 6 Richard...... Dan Mersh Cordelia ...... Abby Ford Stop That Crime UK Julius...... Nyahsa Hatendi Brideshead ...... Toby Jones The phone lines are open - as the radio team create their own, Producer: Dawn Ellis. Boy Mulcaster ...... Tom Smith very special reconstructions to help catch criminals. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009. Nanny Hawkins ...... Ann Beach Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b03j9m1h) Jasper ...... Martin Hyder Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. Series 60 Anthony Blanche ...... Geoffrey Streatfeild Music by Philip Pope and Angus Deayton. Episode 3 Hooper ...... Andrew Wincott Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins with Michael The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit to the Collins Scott ...... Brooksbank Fenton-Stevens and Jon Canter. Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Mr Ryder ...... Benjamin Whitrow Producer: David Tyler Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Music by Neil Brand First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1986. special guest Victoria Wood, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Director: Marion Nancarrow Sell provides piano accompaniment. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003. This programme was originally broadcast in November 2013. MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m000jgk6) TUESDAY 26 MAY 2020 Producer - Jon Naismith. Series 7 MON 08:00 The Navy Lark (b007k188) Screen Time - Part 2 TUE 00:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton Seeing Red Guy Raz explores why we present a digital version of ourselves (b007jvbd) Can the inept crew of HMS Troutbridge manage to carry Sir online? How do we transform when we interact inside our [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Willoughby Todhunter-Brown to a secret rendezvous? screens? TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b00r0tvf) Stars Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee and Stephen Murray. MON 12:00 The Navy Lark (b007k188) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE 01:00 Agatha Raisin (b011j50h) Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive 13 series MON 12:30 Dad's Army (b007jrl4) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] between 1959 and 1976. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE 01:30 Cadfael (b007jlcr) The Sub-Lieutenant ...... Leslie Phillips MON 13:00 Agatha Raisin (b011j50h) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] The Chief Petty Officer ...... Jon Pertwee [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE 02:00 Whispers (b007k3bv) The Number One ...... Stephen Murray MON 13:30 Cadfael (b007jlcr) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] Captain Povey ...... Richard Caldicot [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE 02:30 London Calling (b05ps2ns) Russian Minister ...... Heather Chasen MON 14:00 Whispers (b007k3bv) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Dorps ...... Ronnie Barker [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE 03:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited Sir Willoughby Todhunter Brown ...... Tenniel Evans MON 14:30 London Calling (b05ps2ns) (b007k2ms) Russian Frigate Captain...... Michael Bates [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Written by Lawrie Wyman. MON 15:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited TUE 04:00 TED Radio Hour (m000jgk6) Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. (b007k2ms) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE 05:00 Safety Catch (b017skx3) 1967. MON 16:00 TED Radio Hour (m000jgk6) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] MON 08:30 Dad's Army (b007jrl4) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE 05:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b03j9m1h) Series 3 MON 17:00 Safety Catch (b017skx3) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] Is There Honey Still for Tea? [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE 06:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 (b007jpzc) Private Godfrey's humble abode, Cherry Tree Cottage, is MON 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b03j9m1h) Murder Mansion threatened with demolition to make way for a new aerodrome... [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] It's 1934 and a New York warehouse is ablaze on the Lower The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard MON 18:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK East Side. A gang of gun-runners are holed-up until their supply platoon in Walmington-on-Sea. Chesterton (b007jvbd) of ammo explodes. Tough-nut hero, Secret Agent X-9 receives Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV Unaccountable Conduct of Professor de Worms a phone call from wealthy industrialist, Tarleton Powers asking scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. Young poet Syme is chased through the London snow from for his help. Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe Soho to St Paul's by the strange figure of the Professor. Stars Stuart Milligan as X-9 and Connie Booth as Grace Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier Powers. With Rachel Power and William Hootkins Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn Published in 1908, GK Chesterton's most famous novel is read The heroic agent's 4-part adventure was adapted for radio by Private Frazer …. John Laurie in 13-parts by Geoffrey Palmer. Mark Brisenden, from the comic strip created by Dashiell Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley Hammett and Alex Raymond. Syndicated by King Features, it Private Pike …. Ian Lavender Director: Lawrence Jackson ran from 1934 to 1996. Cissie Godfrey …. Joan Cooper Originally agent X-9 had no name, but opted to call himself Colonel/Sir Charles …. Fraser Kerr Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. "Dexter" in the opening tale. Announcer/Newsreader …. John Snagge Author Dashiell Hammett is best remembered for his detective Producer: John Dyas First broadcast in 2005. novels, The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, while cartoonist First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1976. MON 18:30 A Good Read (b00r0tvf) Alex Raymond famously created sci-fi comic hero Flash MON 09:00 Whispers (b007k3bv) Ken Arnold and Jay Griffiths Gordon. Series 3 Museum curator Ken Arnold and writer Jay Griffiths join Sue Produced by Chris Wallis. Episode 5 MacGregor to discuss favourite paperbacks by Ben Goldacre, First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in January 1994. Gyles Brandreth hosts the scandals quiz with Lucy Moore, Edmund Gosse and John Berger TUE 06:30 Cadfael (b007jld1) Anthony Holden, Richard Herring and Louise Doughty. From Bad Science by Ben Goldacre The Virgin in the Ice November 2005. Publisher: Fourth Estate 2. Danger From All Sides MON 09:30 London Calling (b05ps2ns) Father and Son by Edmund Gosse Amid bitter civil war, detective monk Brother Cadfael makes Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 May 2020 Page 5 of 8 headway in his medieval crime hunt, but it's mixed news. TUE 12:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook neighbour, and a long-suffering carer and his Alzheimer's- Author - Ellis Peters (b007k11m) afflicted mother. Brother Cadfael - Philip Madoc [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] There are new characters too in the guise of a self-proclaimed Narrator - Sir Michael Hordern TUE 13:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 (b007jpzc) DJ and a Geordie struggling with his wife's job in the world's Boterel - Andrew Wincott [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] oldest profession. Leonard - Leonard Fenton TUE 13:30 Cadfael (b007jld1) We follow their humorous, sometimes sad and occasionally Elyas - Crispin Letts [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] moving interactions with Liz, whose job is to assess their Ives - Dean Magri TUE 14:00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (b008pbnv) progress, dispense medication and offer support. Hugh - Douglas Hodge Episode 4 Nurse gives a sympathetic insight into the world of some of Ermina - Moira Buffini Clive Anderson hosts more ad-lib fun with Stephen Fry, John society's more marginalised people in a heartfelt and considered Olivier - Raad Rawi Sessions, Kate Robbins and Griff Rhys-Jones. From January way. with Jonathan Tafler, John Fleming, Kate Binchy 1998. Written by David Cummings and Paul Whitehouse, with This is the second series of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. TUE 14:30 Two Doors Down (b0076gzn) additional material by Esther Coles. Dramatised by Bert Coules. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Cast: Music by Peter Salem. TUE 15:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited Paul Whitehouse Producer: Phil Clarke (b007k2nx) Esther Coles First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Margaret Cabourn-Smith TUE 07:00 The Tim Vine Chat Show (b07hj0q6) TUE 16:00 Telling Tales (m0002hp2) Rosie Cavaliero Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Sue Elliott-Nichols Episode 1 TUE 17:00 The Tim Vine Chat Show (b07hj0q6) Charlie Higson A new show from the internationally acclaimed master of the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Vilma Hollingbery one-liner Tim Vine sees Tim interview members of his live TUE 17:30 My Teenage Diary (m000j812) Jason Maza audience as he embarks on a quest to hear the life stories of the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Cecilia Noble Great British public while simultaneously showcasing his TUE 18:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4 trademark gleeful wordplay and preposterous songs. (b007jzqp) TUE 23:15 The In Crowd (b007jpmk) In this first episode of the series Tim talks to a death-defying The Man in Spectacles Series 2 parachutist, hears about a hair-raising brush with a Royal With his new-found ally - the Professor - Gabriel Syme rests up Episode 3 Protection Officer and tells at least two jokes about chickens. before they both set off to confront Doctor Bull. Sketch show from Manchester's Comedy Store with Robin Ince, Producer: Richard Morris Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward. From March 2002. A BBC Studios Production. Published in 1908, GK Chersterton's most famous novel is read TUE 23:30 Old Harry's Game (b008m4f8) TUE 07:30 My Teenage Diary (m000j812) in 13 parts by Geoffrey Palmer. Series 1 Series 9 Introduction Olly Mann Director: Lawrence Jackson Fed up with eternity, Satan decides Hell needs some new guests. Rufus Hound talks to the podcaster Olly Mann about his Stars Andy Hamilton and Jimmy Mulville. From November teenage diaries, and finds out about boarding school life, Olly's Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. 1995. Bar Mitzvah, and his love of the Australian soap Neighbours. Producer: Harriet Jaine First broadcast in 2005. A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4 TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b06g7tf8) WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 2020 TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007yn6x) Series 1 Series 6 You'll Never Walk Alone WED 00:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Rommel's Treasure Carl Davis and Gerry Marsden reflect on the impact of Rodger Chesterton (b007jzqp) Fleeing from Tobruk in 1942, the military leader leaves behind and Hammerstein’s Carousel solo which became an anthem. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] a precious box. Stars Spike Milligan. From October 1955. From 2001. WED 00:30 Soul Music (b06g7tf8) TUE 08:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007yn6x) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] (b007k11m) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED 01:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 An 'Ep' in the Country TUE 19:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007jpzc) The showbiz survivor finds himself the unwitting stooge in (b007k11m) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] some spin for a popular TV soap actress. Stars Peter Jones. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED 01:30 Cadfael (b007jld1) From July 1986. TUE 20:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 (b007jpzc) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] TUE 09:00 The News Quiz (m000j9kt) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED 02:00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (b008pbnv) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE 20:30 Cadfael (b007jld1) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] TUE 09:30 Two Doors Down (b0076gzn) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED 02:30 Two Doors Down (b0076gzn) Series 3 TUE 21:00 Telling Tales (m0002hp2) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Tuned to Moan FM [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED 03:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited Marlborough Road resident Clare needs a babysitter while she TUE 22:00 My Teenage Diary (m000j812) (b007k2nx) lectures in Sligo. Stars Frances Tomelty. From September 2003. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] TUE 10:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited TUE 22:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b099yh8d) WED 04:00 Telling Tales (m0002hp2) (b007k2nx) Series 12 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] New Vistas The Writer in the Van WED 05:00 The Tim Vine Chat Show (b07hj0q6) Friendship with the ebullient Sebastian Flyte continues to open Episode 1 : The Writer In The Van [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] up new vistas for Charles. But for Sebastian, the family is Ed Reardon is back, and after being sent down from University WED 05:30 My Teenage Diary (m000j812) closing in. for misappropriation of funds he finds himself temporarily [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] Evelyn Waugh's most famous novel of life, love and a forgotten living in a hotel trying to write the first in a new series of novels WED 06:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 era. about his eponymous hero, Inspector Masterson, for which he (b007jpzt) Starring Ben Miles as Charles Ryder, Jamie Bamber as has high hopes. These are soon dashed by Ed's agent, Ping, who Carnage at Sea Sebastian Flyte, Anne-Marie Duff as Julia, Eleanor Bron as informs him he must write 'grip-lit' with a girl in the title who The 1930s heroic agent takes on the law to pursue his arch Lady Marchmain, William Hope as Rex Mottram, Abby Ford gets drunk, goes to bed with everyone and then gets chopped enemy in the heart of New York. as Cordelia, Edward Petherbridge as Lord Marchmain, Liza up. Stars Stuart Milligan as X-9 and Connie Booth as Grace Sadovy as Cara, Benjamin Whitrow as Mr Ryder, Thomas Ping also palms Ed and Jaz Milvain off with her new assistant, Powers. With Rachel Power and William Hootkins Arnold as Mr Samgrass, Toby Jones as Brideshead, Tom Smith Maggie, a jam-making, sock knitting 'older' lady (who also Adapted for radio by Mark Brisenden, from the comic strip as Boy Mulcaster, Ann Beach as Nanny, Emma Woolliams as designs draft excluders) whilst she goes "oop North" to trawl created by Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond. Syndicated Death's Head, Laura Doddington as the Sickly Child and Martin the universities for the next generation of stand-ups. Whilst Jaz by King Features, it ran from 1934 to 1996. Hyder as the Sergeant. is furious with being "tossed on the scrapheap" Ed decides to Originally agent X-9 had no name, but opted to call himself Dramatised in four parts by Jeremy Front. give Maggie a chance and is soon rewarded when she gets him a "Dexter" in the opening tale. Music by Neil Brand writing gig on "Your Motorhome Magazine". This turn of Author Dashiell Hammett is best remembered for his detective Director: Marion Nancarrow events not only furnishes him with a small but steady income, novels, The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, while cartoonist First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. but also a new home with floral upholstery, carpet on the ceiling Alex Raymond famously created sci-fi comic hero Flash TUE 11:00 Telling Tales (m0002hp2) and the advantage of letting him and his companion , Elgar, Gordon. Ben Moor celebrate the freedom of the open road Produced by Chris Wallis. BBC Radio 4 Extra celebrates the very best in storytelling, The regular cast this series are joined by guests Monica Dolan, First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in January 1994. showcasing different voices, and different genres, from the Vicki Pepperdine, Don Gilet, Karl Theobald and Tyger Drew- WED 06:30 Cadfael (b007jldd) BBC archives and beyond. Honey. The Virgin in the Ice The series will feature captivating drama, narrative comedy, and Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas 3. Found and Lost incredible factual storytelling, which can change the way you Produced by Dawn Ellis As English civil war rages in Shropshire, monk-cum-sleuth, look at the world. And we'll hear from writers, performers and BBC Studios Production. Brother Cadfael's brave search for Ermina leads him to the producers about the art of telling a good tale. TUE 23:00 Nurse (b077gtw3) isolated medieval manor of Ledditch. The first episode features Ben Moor, a writer and actor whose Series 2 Brother Cadfael - Philip Madoc distinctive style of storytelling has been described as "stand up Episode 3 Narrator - Sir Michael Hordern theatre" and "Jackanory for grown-ups." A bittersweet comedy drama about a community mental health Boteral - Andrew Wincott Ben Moor talks about Coelacanth, which began life as a solo nurse created by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings. Ives - Dean Magri stage show, before he adapted it for Radio 4 in 2006. Named Liz (played by Esther Coles), the community psychiatric nurse Porter - Steve Hodson after an elusive fish, this tale is set in a fantastical world of of the title makes her rounds to visit "service users" in their Elyas - Crispin Letts competitive tree climbing. Coelacanth is both funny and homes. Most of those patients are played by comedy chameleon Leonard - Leonard Fenton poignant and has something to say about love and loneliness. Paul Whitehouse himself – with supporting roles for Rosie Hugh - Douglas Hodge The full story features in this episode of Telling Tales. Cavaliero, Vilma Hollingbery and Cecilia Noble. Ermina - Moira Buffini Presented and produced for Radio 4 Extra by Ali Gardiner. Whitehouse brings us an obese bed-bound mummy's boy, an Dutton - Eric Allan First broadcast in 2019. agoraphobic ex-con, a manic ex-glam rock star, ageing rake This is the second series of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007yn6x) Herbert who hoards his house with possessions and memories, a Dramatised by Bert Coules. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Jewish chatterbox in unrequited love with his Jamaican Music by Peter Salem. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 May 2020 Page 6 of 8 Producer: Phil Clarke Tensions mount as Carol approaches full term and she and would do it. A Mexican farm worker Jessie De La Cruz said, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. George appear on Radio 4's Woman's Hour. 'we have a saying in Spanish, when things look bleak, WED 07:00 Tomorrow, Today! (b017srrs) Starring Lynda Bellingham as Carol, Philip Jackson as George, esperanzas mueren al ultimo. Hope dies last.'" - Studs Terkel Series 2 Maureen Beattie as Maureen, Marcia Warren as Violet, Emma The features in this programme are: Taffy Jones - Protector of the Universe Kennedy as Sonia and Jenni Murray as herself. Dear John Comedy series by Christopher William Hill, set in 1962. Series 3 of the sitcom about a married couple's attempts to Produced by Andrea Rangecroft A BBC producer struggles to make a radio soap set in the smooth over their singularly troubled midlife funk - Carol is Bird in the Breath and Other Hopeful Cargo unimaginably futuristic world of 2008. hormonal and 15-stone George is a transvestite. Onlookers can't Produced by Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker 6/6. Taffy Jones, Protector of the Universe. quite agree on the nature of their dynamic. Send Me Your Location With war imminent, the production relocates to Wales, but is it Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. Produced by Andrea Rangecroft safer? Producer: Elizabeth Freestone Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Nigel Lavery ...... Peter Bowles First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2004. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Sylvia Hann ...... Cheryl Campbell WED 10:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited 2017. Godfrey Winnard ..... John Fortune (b007k2q1) WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007w3y4) Sir Angus McNairn ...... Gary Waldhorn Strains [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Hugo Kellerman ...... Joseph Kloska With their friendship strained, Sebastian continues his drinking WED 19:30 After Henry (b007jnzw) Douglas Bennings ...... Jon Glover and Charles is lured by Paris and art. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Keith Wood ...... Sam Pamphilon Evelyn Waugh's most famous novel of life, love and a forgotten WED 20:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 Mr Thomas ...... Ben Crowe era. (b007jpzt) Tannoy ...... Laura Molyneux Starring Ben Miles as Charles Ryder, Jamie Bamber as [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Porter ...... Peter Marinker Sebastian Flyte, Benjamin Whitrow as Mr Ryder, Eleanor Bron WED 20:30 Cadfael (b007jldd) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2008. as Lady Marchmain, William Hope as Rex Mottram, Anne- [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED 07:30 Quanderhorn (m000j95b) Marie Duff as Julia, Abby Ford as Cordelia, Thomas Arnold as WED 21:00 The Lives of Harry Towers (m000jh1k) Quanderhorn 2 Mr Samgrass, Toby Jones as Brideshead, Eve Best as Celia, [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] 4. I Didn’t Say it was Well Cloaked Geoffrey Streatfeild as Anthony Blanche, Tom Smith as Boy WED 22:00 Quanderhorn (m000j95b) Brian (Ryan Sampson) and Gemma (Cassie Layton) are trained Mulcaster, Carl Prekopp as Kurt, Jemma Churchill as the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] to pass themselves off as convincing Martians, without much Nurse, Andrew Wincott as Wilcox and Martin Hyder as the WED 22:30 What's Funny About ... (m000jh1m) success in Brian’s case. Meanwhile, Jenkins (John Sessions) and Monk. Absolutely Fabulous Troy (Freddie Fox) have all the water removed from their Dramatised in four parts by Jeremy Front. TV veterans Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman talk to the bodies by the pig dehydration device, and hide in Guuuurk’s Music composed by Neil Brand writers, producers, and performers behind Britain’s biggest TV (Kevin Eldon) pocket. Director: Marion Nancarrow comedy hits, and hear the inside story of how they brought their The crew infiltrate the Martian Invasion Vessel, but Guuuurk First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. programmes to the screen. hasn’t counted on meeting an old friend aboard, who may not be WED 11:00 The Lives of Harry Towers (m000jh1k) In this episode, Peter and Jon talk to Jennifer Saunders about as trustworthy as he seems. And isn’t. 3. Scandal with Twist of Lime her BAFTA and Emmy award winning hit Absolutely Fabulous. Back in the Lab, the Professor (James Fleet) works on the Best remembered today as the notorious producer of over a They discuss the inspiration for Edina Monsoon, why bomb-melting ray, with a little help from half a brain in a diving hundred cheaply made exploitation movies, Harry Alan Towers recordings of the show were always finished by 930pm (clue: suit (Rachel Atkins). began his long career in radio, a medium in which he created the BBC bar closed at 10), and what might charitably be The plan is on target, up until the moment Gemma steps into dozens of high quality classic shows including, most famously, described as Jennifer’s “last minute” approach to script the Martian Deep-Memory-Guilt-Testing ray, and is rendered ‘The Lives of Harry Lime’, starring Orson Welles. delivery! frozen by a terrible, long-buried secret. From his first successful attempts to get his programmes on air With Peter and Jon as our guides, we’ll take the opportunity to Starring in the late 1930s, via some unwanted attention from American ask quite how our guests went about making a great bit of TV James Fleet as Professor Quanderhorn law-enforcement authorities, through to his star-studded comedy? Who came up with it? How did it get written? We’ll Ryan Sampson as Brian Nylon productions of the ‘50s, ‘The Lives of Harry Towers’ is the story talk about the commissioning, the casting, and the reception the Cassie Layton as Dr Gemini Janussen of that pioneering and globe-trotter’s radio career. show received when it first aired. Freddie Fox as Troy Quanderhorn In this episode, Adam is joined by radio historian Professor We’ll do our very best to winkle out some backstage secrets Kevin Eldon as Guuuurk Sean Street, biographer Ian Dickerson and researcher Brooke straight from the horse’s mouth, as we hear the unvarnished John Sessions as Sergeant 'Jenkins' Jenkins and Churchill Darnell, truth from the people who were there, and who put these iconic Rachel Atkins as Delores Featured programmes: shows on the telly. Created and Written by Rob Grant and Andrew Marshall Extract of ‘London Playhouse: This Happy Breed’ Original Absolutely Fabulous clips written by: Directed by Andrew Marshall ‘The Lives of Harry Lime: Suzie’s Cue’ Jennifer Saunders Studio Engineer and Editor: Alisdair McGregor Presenter: Adam Roche Based on an original idea by: Dawn French and Jennifer Production Manager: Sarah Tombling Producer: Dominic Delargy Saunders Special Thanks to Edward Rowett Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and fist broadcast in January Producer: Owen Braben Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios 2019. An Expectation production made for BBC Radio 4 Extra. Produced by Rob Grant and Gordon Kennedy WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007w3y4) WED 23:30 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash (b010hcwk) An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 3 WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007w3y4) WED 12:30 After Henry (b007jnzw) Episode 3 Series 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Arthur Smith presents comedy and music from his flat in The Emigrant WED 13:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 Balham, with stand-up comedy from Sean Lock in the living Hancock is keen to emigrate, but is met with refusals from (b007jpzt) room, Annette Fagon on the landing and music from Squeeze in other countries including Australia and Canada. Can Sid help [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] the kitchen. him to leave Britain? WED 13:30 Cadfael (b007jldd) Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. Stars Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011. Jacques and Kenneth Williams. WED 14:00 Counterpoint (b00k3vkk) Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. WED 14:30 The Change (b0076pdx) THURSDAY 28 MAY 2020 Producer: Denis Main Wilson [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1957. WED 15:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited THU 00:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK WED 08:30 After Henry (b007jnzw) (b007k2q1) Chesterton (b007jzrz) Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] The Teapot WED 16:00 The Lives of Harry Towers (m000jh1k) THU 00:30 Short Cuts (b08ffv86) Eleanor wants a video player but how can she raise the cash?. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - WED 17:00 Tomorrow, Today! (b017srrs) THU 01:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 (b007jpzt) struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] never quite manage to see eye to eye. WED 17:30 Quanderhorn (m000j95b) THU 01:30 Cadfael (b007jldd) Starring Prunella Scales as Sarah, Joan Sanderson as Eleanor, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] Benjamin Whitrow as Russell, Gerry Cowper as Clare and WED 18:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK THU 02:00 Counterpoint (b00k3vkk) Nicholas Le Prevost as the Valuer. Chesterton (b007jzrz) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV, The Duel THU 02:30 The Change (b0076pdx) Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV The three men travel to France where Gabriel Syme challenges [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] network. the Marquis to a deadly combat... THU 03:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited Producer: Pete Atkin (b007k2q1) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986. Published in 1908, GK Chersterton's most famous novel is read [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] WED 09:00 Counterpoint (b00k3vkk) in 13 parts by Geoffrey Palmer. THU 04:00 The Lives of Harry Towers (m000jh1k) Series 23 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] 2009 Heat 9 Director: Lawrence Jackson THU 05:00 Tomorrow, Today! (b017srrs) Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] The questions cover every aspect of music - from the classical Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. THU 05:30 Quanderhorn (m000j95b) repertoire to world music, show tunes, film scores, jazz, rock [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] and pop. First broadcast in 2005. THU 06:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 Three contestants battle it out: WED 18:30 Short Cuts (b08ffv86) (b007jq0q) Ian Bayley from Headington, Oxford Series 11 The Powers That Be David Saxon from Northwood, Middlesex Hope Dies Last The all-American hero battles to save gold bullion and solve Gary Williams from Weston-super-Mare Josie Long hears stories of hope found amidst the darkness - Evelyn's disappearance. Producer: Paul Bajoria tales of love letters, hope on the water and the man who has Stars Stuart Milligan as X-9 and Connie Booth as Grace First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. steered 28,000 people safely to shore across treacherous waters Powers. With Rachel Power and William Hootkins WED 09:30 The Change (b0076pdx) from the end of a phone line. The heroic agent's 4-part adventure was adapted for radio by Series 3 "I must admit I'm deeply impressed by people who step out and Mark Brisenden, from the comic strip created by Dashiell Episode 6 do something and say something... whatever dreaming they Hammett and Alex Raymond. Syndicated by King Features, it Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 May 2020 Page 7 of 8 ran from 1934 to 1996. quickly developed a cult following. THU 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00tv7wx) Originally agent X-9 had no name, but opted to call himself Music and songs by Dave Lee and Bill Oddie. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] "Dexter" in the opening tale. Producer: Humphrey Barclay THU 20:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 Author Dashiell Hammett is best remembered for his detective First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1967. (b007jq0q) novels, The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, while cartoonist THU 09:00 Booked (b08l6zhj) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Alex Raymond famously created sci-fi comic hero Flash Series 5 THU 20:30 Cadfael (b007jldr) Gordon. Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Produced by Chris Wallis. Ian McMillan chairs the literary quiz with Dillie Keane, Roger THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b09t27rg) First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in January 1994. McGough, David Stafford and Arthur Smith. From November [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] THU 06:30 Cadfael (b007jldr) 1998. THU 21:45 Multi Story Shorts (m00036cz) The Virgin in the Ice THU 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008m24j) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] 4. The Wolves' Nest Series 3 THU 22:00 Ankle Tag (m000179x) Brother Cadfael searches for Ives Hugonin and Brother Elyas Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] who are missing in a blizzard. JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, John THU 22:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jq14) Author - Ellis Peters Wells, June Whitfield and Joan Sims. From November 1994. Series 2 Brother Cadfael - Philip Madoc THU 10:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited The Jousting Mastersons Narrator - Sir Michael Hordern (b007k2r7) The 15th century family struggles to survive in an overcrowded Ermina - Moira Buffini Stormy Waters castle. Improvised saga with Paul Merton. From July 1994. Leonard - Leonard Fenton Charles is overwhelmed by meeting Julia again on board ship, THU 23:00 Listen Against (b00fl0gk) Hugh - Douglas Hodge but will his relationship with the Marchmain family still prove Series 2 with Jonathan Tafler, Jonathan Adams, Steve Hodson to be jinxed? Episode 2 Le Gaucher - Peter Laird Conclusion of Evelyn Waugh's most famous novel of life, love Time runs away in preparations for the switch-on of the BBC Ives - Dean Magri and a forgotten era. Collider. Radio rearranged by Jon Holmes. From November Olivier - Raad Rawi Starring Ben Miles as Charles Ryder, Jamie Bamber as 2008. This is the second series of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. Sebastian Flyte, Benjamin Whitrow as Mr Ryder, Eleanor Bron THU 23:30 Concrete Cow (b0076jvx) Dramatised by Bert Coules. as Lady Marchmain, William Hope as Rex Mottram, Anne- Series 1 Music by Peter Salem. Marie Duff as Julia, Abby Ford as Cordelia, Thomas Arnold as Episode 4 Producer: Phil Clarke Mr Samgrass, Toby Jones as Brideshead, Eve Best as Celia, King Midas is not sure whether life is as good as gold. Sketch First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. Geoffrey Streatfeild as Anthony Blanche, Tom Smith as Boy show with Robert Webb and Olivia Colman. From September THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire (b00sxj24) Mulcaster, Andrew Wincoot as Wilcox, Liza Sadovy as Cara, 2002. Series 1 Ann Beach as Nanny Hawkins, Edward Petherbridge as Lord Episode 4 Marchmain, Sean Baker as the Doctor and Jonathan Keeble as Sheila Hancock heads a stunning cast including Mackenzie Father MacKay. FRIDAY 29 MAY 2020 Crook, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu and Kevin Eldon. Dramatised in four parts by Jeremy Front. This is a clever, funny and touching series about a small town in Music composed by Neil Brand FRI 00:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton the middle of Northamptonshire as it prepares for a talent night. Director: Marion Nancarrow (b007wpnm) It is written by and also stars Katherine Jakeways. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] It's Town Talent Night at last and Ken and Keith are busy fine- THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b09t27rg) FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b04v382p) tuning their pet whippets' dance routine. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Everyone nervously awaits the arrival of the celebrity judge THU 11:45 Multi Story Shorts (m00036cz) FRI 01:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 (b007jq0q) Lady Ballantyne who is unfortunately in the spotlight for being [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] the most recent Royal racist. THU 12:00 Round the Horne (b00p33gb) FRI 01:30 Cadfael (b007jldr) Jan does her last minute preparations for her trip to Australia. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] Will she be going alone or could she possibly dare to dream that THU 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00tv7wx) FRI 02:00 Booked (b08l6zhj) Jonathan might join her at the last minute? [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] And finally supermarket manager Rod (Mackenzie Crook) gets THU 13:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 FRI 02:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008m24j) to take Tanya from till 4 on a date. The true measure of success (b007jq0q) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] will be how many packets of scampi fries they consume. Will it [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 03:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited (b007k2r7) be just the one? Or perhaps too many to count? THU 13:30 Cadfael (b007jldr) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Written by Katherine Jakeways. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 04:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b09t27rg) Produced by Claire Jones. THU 14:00 Booked (b08l6zhj) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2010. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 04:45 Multi Story Shorts (m00036cz) THU 07:30 Ankle Tag (m000179x) THU 14:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008m24j) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire (b00sxj24) The All-nighter THU 15:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] An attempt to get a good night's sleep results in a visit from the (b007k2r7) FRI 05:30 Ankle Tag (m000179x) police. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] Bob – Steve Speirs THU 16:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b09t27rg) FRI 06:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 (b007jq13) Gruff – Elis James [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] You're the Top Alice – Margareat Cabourn-Smith THU 16:45 Multi Story Shorts (m00036cz) The 1930s action hero finally confronts his nemesis at the top Graham– Ben Willbond [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] of a New York landmark. Sara– Vivienne Acheampong THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire (b00sxj24) Stars Stuart Milligan as X-9 and Connie Booth as Grace Rashid – Phaldut Sharma [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Powers. With Rachel Power and William Hootkins Written by Benjamin Partridge & Gareth Gwynn THU 17:30 Ankle Tag (m000179x) Adapted for radio by Mark Brisenden, from the comic strip Produced by Victoria Lloyd [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] created by Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond. Syndicated A BBC Studios Production THU 18:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK by King Features, it ran from 1934 to 1996. THU 08:00 Round the Horne (b00p33gb) Chesterton (b007wpnm) Originally agent X-9 had no name, but opted to call himself Series 4 The Criminals Chase the Police "Dexter" in the opening tale. Episode 3 As Gabriel Syme engages his opponent in a duel, there's a Author Dashiell Hammett is best remembered for his detective Monstrous goings on for Kenneth Horne with Frankenstein, revelation from the Marquis. novels, The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, while cartoonist more from wonderful Radio Balls Pond Road, while Julian and Alex Raymond famously created sci-fi comic hero Flash Sandy hit the bona ski slopes. Published in 1908, GK Chersterton's most famous novel is read Gordon. With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden. in 13 parts by Geoffrey Palmer. Produced by Chris Wallis. Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in January 1994. London. Announcer: Douglas Smith Director: Lawrence Jackson FRI 06:30 Cadfael (b007jldz) Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio The Virgin in the Ice comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. 5. Discoveries Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Detective monk, Brother Cadfael discovers outlaws have taken Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the First broadcast in 2005. Ives Hugonin prisoner. scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and THU 18:30 Great Lives (b04v382p) 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, Series 35 Author - Ellis Peters catchphrases and double-entendres. Laura Bates on Louisa May Alcott Brother Cadfael - Philip Madoc For series 4, Marty Feldman was replaced by Brian Cooke & Laura Bates, journalist and curator of the Everyday Sexism Narrator - Sir Michael Hordern Johnnie Mortimer and Donald Webster Project, explains to Matthew Parris why the 19th century Elyas - Crispin Letts Music by the Max Harris Group. children's author Louisa May Alcott has her vote for a Great Le Gaucher - Peter Laird Producer: John Simmonds Life. They are joined by Sarah Churchwell, Professor of Axeman/Sergeant - Peter Gunn First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1968. American Literature at the University of East Anglia. Hugh - Douglas Hodge THU 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00tv7wx) Louisa May Alcott is best known as the writer of "Little Ives - Dean Magri Series 4 Women", the story of four sisters growing up during the Civil Leonard - Leonard Fenton Episode 14 War in America. Generations of girls have read the book, which Boterel - Andrew Wincott To mark the end of series 4, it's panto time with Jack and the at first sight seems to be an improving tract on growing up and Ermina - Moira Buffini Beanstalk! becoming a good Christian wife. This is the second series of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs and Both Laura and Sarah have a very different reading of the book Dramatised by Bert Coules. parodies. and believe Louisa May Alcott to have been a remarkable Music by Peter Salem. Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall woman and a dedicated feminist. Producer: Phil Clarke and Bill Oddie. Producer Christine Hall First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. Written by Eric Idle and Bill Oddie. First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. FRI 07:00 Miracles R Us (b00sg1hh) Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue THU 19:00 Round the Horne (b00p33gb) Domestic Arrangements 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] The man lurking outside turns out not to be the private detective Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23 – 29 May 2020 Page 8 of 8 Sylvia supposes, but a potential client. He has inadvertently And even more worrying, has his mother really forgotten to buy additional material by Julian Dutton and Barnaby Power. encouraged a middle-aged American academic, in whom he has him a present? Producer...Julia McKenzie no romantic interest, to have hopes of a shared future. She is Written by and starring Nick Ball. With Louisa Rix as Mum, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2009. arriving next week. Can MiraclesRus help? Robert Hartley, Wayne Forester and Julie Gibbs. FRI 23:30 Dave Podmore (b007r4mh) Caroline...... Deborah Findlay Producer: Gareth Edwards Dave Podmore's Cricket Fix Sylvia...... Anna Massey First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1997. Episode 4 James Linnet ...... David Horovitch FRI 10:00 Peter Tinniswood (b007jx5l) The sporting legend tries to gauge the English team's success in Mary Beth Haldeman...... Laura Shavin The House Swap his own murky way. Stars Christopher Douglas. From June Pianist...... Jeremy Limb Peter Tinniswood … Script Writer 2001. Written by Lesley Bruce Penelope Wilton … Alma Producer: Katie Tyrrell William Hootkins … Sid Music and stings from the music of Nick Drake. Theme: Peter Vaughan … Ferns "When the Day is Done" and stings: "Time of No Reply" and John Hartley … Edgar "Cello Song". Nigel Carrington … Henry FRI 07:30 Cabin Pressure (b00cdsj8) FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000jhm8) Series 1 Podcasting in the pandemic - with The Archers, Deborah Boston Frances-White and more Sitcom about the pilots of a tiny charter airline for whom no How have podcasts changed under current circumstances? job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. Amanda Litherland speaks to cast and crew from The Archers A routine flight to Boston is disrupted by a routine fire, a about their new format - we hear from Sunny Ormonde (Lilian routine lawsuit and a routine corpse. Bellamy) and producer Jess Bunch. Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ...... Stephanie Cole Deborah Frances-White discusses how The Guilty Feminist has First Officer Douglas Richardson ...... Roger Allam adapted and continued despite live audience recordings being Capt Martin Crieff ...... Benedict Cumberbatch impossible for the time being, launching a new one on one Arthur Shappey ...... John Finnemore interview series The Guilty Feminist - The New Normal. ATC Fitton ...... Ewen MacIntosh And a variety of Podcast Radio Hour listeners reveal how the Hamilton Leeman ...... Kerry Shale situation has affected their podcast production, both positively Paramedic ...... Matilda Ziegler and negatively. Written by John Finnemore. FRI 12:00 Something to Shout About (m000jhm5) FRI 08:00 Something to Shout About (m000jhm5) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 3 FRI 12:30 Second Thoughts (b007jvh3) Episode 10 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] With executive Michael Lightfoot away, can the advertising FRI 13:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 (b007jq13) team rise to the challenge? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] "A light-hearted exposé of the advertising world!" Set in a FRI 13:30 Cadfael (b007jldz) London ad agency called 'Apsley, Addis, Cohen, Barbican, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Blythe, Giddy & Partners'. FRI 14:00 The 3rd Degree (m0007xpl) Janet Harris …. Fenella Fielding [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Maggie Tufnell …. Eleanor Summerfield FRI 14:30 Dry Slopes (b070ws38) Mavis Willis …Joan Sims [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Adrian Beales …. Nicholas Phipps FRI 15:00 Peter Tinniswood (b007jx5l) Mr Blythe/Various …. Warren Mitchell [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Series three written by Myles Rudge with Ronnie Wolfe. FRI 16:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000jhm8) Producer: John Simmonds. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December FRI 17:00 Miracles R Us (b00sg1hh) 1961. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI 08:30 Second Thoughts (b007jvh3) FRI 17:30 Cabin Pressure (b00cdsj8) Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Found and Lost FRI 18:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton Bill and Faith are late in love but new to each other - and Bill (b007wqf0) has already got himself into Faith's bad books... The Earth in Anarchy Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill and Faith trying to The allies head for the coastal town using horses, then motor forge a relationship whilst balancing the demands of his ex- cars to outrun their masked pursuers. wife, Liza and her teenage children, Hannah and Joe. Published in 1908, GK Chersterton's most famous novel is read Series one of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, in 13 parts by Geoffrey Palmer. husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. Director: Lawrence Jackson A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. four series, with a spin-off series Faith in the Future. First broadcast in 2005. Stars Lynda Bellingham as Faith, James Bolam as Bill, Celia FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b0076x5w) Imrie as Hilary, Belinda Lang as Liza, Kelda Holmes as Money Hannah, Mark Denham as Joe, Moir Leslie as Grace, John Victoria Coren discusses filthy lucre with the aptly named Samson as Alex, Nicholas Courtney as Ray and Norman Bird as William Cash, Anna Raeburn and actor Jay Benedict. From Ted. 2006. Producer: Pete Atkin FRI 19:00 Something to Shout About (m000jhm5) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1988. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree (m0007xpl) FRI 19:30 Second Thoughts (b007jvh3) Series 9 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Oxford Brookes University FRI 20:00 Dashiell Hammett - Secret Agent X-9 (b007jq13) A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] week from Oxford Brookes University with specialist subjects FRI 20:30 Cadfael (b007jldz) including Anthropology, Motorsport Engineering and Human [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Biology and Biological Sciences and questions ranging from FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000jhm8) myelinated axons to the Neolithic Revolution via Wendy [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Houses and Sabrina The Teenage Witch. FRI 22:00 Cabin Pressure (b00cdsj8) The programme is recorded on location at a different [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against FRI 22:30 Paperback Hell (m000jhmb) three of their Professors in an original and fresh take on an Series 2 academic quiz. How Not To Live The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Celebrity lifestyle gurus Gilly Haberdasher and Dr Graham Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow Golden read from their tie-in book to the strangely popular TV and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the programme, How Not To Live. students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and Starring Michael Fenton Stevens, Rebecca Front, Mel Hudson, science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, sport, Alex Lowe and Dan Tetsell. and quite possibly Ed Sheeran. In addition, the Head-to-Head Written by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell. rounds see students take on their Professors in their own Producer: Lucy Armitage subjects, offering plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. both sides. FRI 22:45 Steven Appleby's Normal Life (b007jqqw) Other Universities featured in this series include Royal Series 1 Holloway University of London, Aberdeen, Plymouth, St The Normal Mind Catharine's College Cambridge and Brighton. As the cartoonist faces surgery, his feminine side explores his Produced by David Tyler brain's inner workings. Stars Paul McCrink. From August 2001. A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 FRI 23:00 Inside Alan Francis (b00j17xy) FRI 09:30 Dry Slopes (b070ws38) Episode 4 Series 2 Comedy series in which comedian Alan Francis explores the Tick Tock workings of his own mind in relation to his life, friends and Angus is nearly 30 but hasn't achieved any of his ambitions. Not long-suffering girlfriend Jane. even the one about moving to Lowestoft. Alan leaves home. What terrible end will be revealed by the Ghost of Birthdays With Julian Dutton, Barnaby Power, Kali Peacock. Written by Yet to Come? Alan Francis, Richard Turner and Anthony Neilson with Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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