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Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10 – 16 August 2013 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 10 AUGUST 2013 Masha ...... Debbie Chazen Music from the Max Harris Orchestra Freddy ...... Ben Willbond Scripted by Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville, Laurence Marks SAT 00:00 Daphne du Maurier - The Blue Lenses Announcer ...... Matt Addis and Maurice Gran, (b007k4rp) With additional material by Tom Mitchelson. Producer: Richard Willcox Episode 2 Director: Sally Avens First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1978. Afer discovering she's able to see things that others can't, Marda First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2009. SAT 09:00 Comedy Greats (b007k3ck) West fears for her survival in this dangerous new world. SAT 03:00 Don Haworth - Challenged (b0075s00) 1990s The conclusion of Daphne du Maurier's two-part fantasy thriller Set in a remote part of the Pennines, a widowed mother and her Episode 2 exploring the darker aspects of human nature. son battle to come to terms with the passage of time when hired Barry Cryer presents Week Ending, People Like Us, The Very Read by Emma Fielding. worker, Tom arrives. World of Milton Jones, Children's Hour with Armstrong and Produced and abridged by Gemma Jenkins. Son Harry, who has learning difficulties, is described by his Miller, The Mark Steel Solution and Knowing Me, Knowing Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2007. school as 'challenged'. You. SAT 00:30 The House on the Borderland by William Hope With Tom's encouragement he finds new confidence, but this SAT 12:00 The Diary of Samuel Pepys Omnibus (b03853pt) Hodgson (b007wxhs) creates fresh conflict for the trio. 1667 4. The Wound Atmospheric drama by Don Haworth. On New Year's Day 1667, Samuel Pepys awakes to find the Back from his voyage, the narrator sees a sinister green hand at Anne ...... Brigit Forsyth Thames covered in ice, while some parts of London still his window... Tom ...... Paul Copley smoulder from last year's Great Fire. Stars Kris Marshall. First published in 1908, William Hope Hodgson's fantasy Harry ...... Matthew Booth SAT 13:15 Baldi (b007k01n) novella is now seen as a classic of early, Edwardian sci-fi. Producer: Pauline Harris Series 2 Concluded by Jim Norton. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2000. Scratching the Surface Abridged by Doreen Estall. SAT 04:00 The Greengrocer's Apostrophe (b01gnp4v) The priest-cum-sleuth gets embroiled in mystery and death on a Producer: Lawrence Jackson Alice, Hanging in There pot-holing expedition. Stars David Threlfall and Tina Kellegher. Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. Comic tales inspired by those hand-written signs offering SAT 14:00 Dad's Army (b007jm92) First broadcast in September 2007. "Apple's and Banana's" which can be found in every town in Series 1 SAT 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jpmx) Britain. Sorry Wrong Number A Caribbean Mystery When Alice is cast aside from her high-flying career she finds a A downed German plane sees the Home Guard platoon Episode 5 novel way to occupy her time. Armed only with a balaclava and attempting to employ Captain Mainwaring's phone box drill... After two murders and an attempted suicide, amateur sleuth a pot of paint, she starts to vent her anger on sloppy Six years after legendary sitcom Dad's Army started on BBC Miss Marple is battling to find a link. punctuation. TV, these specially adapted radio versions began recording with The conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit starring June A story by Ronald Frame, read by Tracy Wiles. the original cast. Whitfield as Miss Marple. Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Miss Marple …. June Whitfield SAT 04:15 Dave Sheasby - Showing Promise (b007m6tg) Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, Ian Mr Rafiel …. George A. Cooper With her creative writing course threatened financially, Lavender as Private Pike, John Laurie as Private Frazer, Tim Kendall …. David Thorpe Marjorie's glad to see a new face arrive - even if Harry lacks Graham Stark as Private Walker, Bill Pertwee as the ARP Molly Kendall …. Alison Pettit some of the graces she's accustomed to... Warden, Pearl Hackney as Mrs Pike, Avril Angers as the Esther Walters …. Yvonne Edgell Dave Sheasby’s drama stars Heather Stoney as Marjorie, Gerry Telephonist and John Forrest as the Lieutenant. With John Evelyn Hillingdon …. Carolyn Jones Kersey as Brian, John Branwell as John, Lorraine Peters as Snagge as the announcer. Edward Hillingdon …. Christopher Wright Jean, Daphne Oxenford as Florence and Graham Roberts as Adapted from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's original BBC TV Lucky Dyson …. Tracy-Ann Oberman Harry. scripts by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad. Jackson …. Andrew Wincott Director: Tony Cliff Producer: John Dyas Canon Prescott …. David King First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in May 1974. Dr Graham .... John Rowe SAT 05:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b0085j96) SAT 14:30 Steptoe and Son (b00rlb08) Dramatised by Michael Bakewell Series 1 Series 1 Director: Enyd Williams Episode 6 65 Today First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1997. The First Attempt To Reach The Moon - and a slice of Albert Steptoe's 65th birthday outing turns into a disaster for his SAT 01:30 Ruth Rendell Stories (b00b65bw) Edwardian life. son Harold. Burning End Richard Ingrams, John Wells, John Sessions and Patricia Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. Fed up caring for her mother-in-law, Linda is worried when a Routledge recreate the world of the JB Morton. Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association glass vase seems to have caused a fire. Read by Sue Johnston. Running in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975 – JB Morton’s with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson SAT 01:45 Dick Barton - Special Agent: The Cabatolin surreally comic ‘Beachcomber’ column paved the way for a wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Diamonds (b037xng7) great deal of modern humour. The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Episode 20 Adapted by Michael Barfield with Richard Ingrams. Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of 8 series As romance blossoms between two of Dick Barton's friends, Announcer: Brian Perkins on TV. they finally confront their main target in Bristol. Producer: Harry Thompson Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas Kelly First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1989. Harold ...... Harry H Corbett as 'Dick Barton - Special Agent' in another thrilling tale of SAT 05:30 The Right Time (b00c34ks) With Ian Burford and David Charlesworth criminal masterminds, espionage and daring adventure. Series 3 Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon Episode 4 Gale Pedrick. Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between A country house weekend, friends reunited and a dinner party Producer: Bobby Jaye 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings survive. surprise... First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1966. With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding re- The sketch comedy for people growing older disgracefully. SAT 15:00 The Frankie Howerd Variety Show (b008hvt4) recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original scripts Stars Eleanor Bron, Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Clive Swift, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] and music, which was made for international distribution. Roger Blake and Paula Wilcox. SAT 16:00 Saturday Drama (b00g1rvd) Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, lurking in the Written by Colin Bostock Smith, John Dowie, Graeme Garden, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, Jan Etherington, Mike Haskins, Ged Parsons, David Spicer and SAT 17:30 Jo Caulfield's Speakeasy (b037sdys) Australia. Peter Usher. Episode 1 Script by Geoffrey Webb. Script Editor: Ged Parsons. Jo Caulfield hosts some of the best writers and comedians in the Producer: Morris West Music by Ronnie & The Rex and Neil Innes. UK as they take to the stage at The Scottish Storytelling Centre First broadcast in Australia in April 1949. Producer: Claire Jones to share a true story with us. SAT 02:00 King Street Junior (b007jnq3) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2003. Lloyd Langford tells us about his rather unusual first day at Series 10 SAT 06:00 Saturday Drama (b00g1rvd) work; Nathan Caton has a story about middle-class assumptions The Rivals Nicholas Wright - Mrs Klein and middle-class prejudice; Scottish playwright Keir McAllister In the red corner, Mr Sims and in the blue - Mr Long! Seconds Nicholas Wright's dramatisation of the troubled relationship gets the tables turned on him by a young woman dressed in out as they compete for a job. between influential child psychoanalyst Melanie Klein and her black; Jo tells us how a crossword puzzle nearly started a riot on Created and written by Jim Eldridge, ten series of this comedy own children. a train; and there's a life-affirming story about love and hope about a junior school ran between 1985 and 1998. King Street Faced with coming to terms with the news of the death of her from Jason Cook. Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005. son, Mrs Klein decides against going to his funeral. Frustrated Created by Jo Caulfield and Kevin Anderson Written by Andy Rashleigh. with her mother's behaviour, Klein's daughter Melitta confronts Producer: Richard Melvin Stars Karl Howman as Mr Sims, James Grout as the her with some home truths.