Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28 May – 3 June 2016 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 Following the Second World War, psychologists wanted to Kirsty Young, Andrew Marr, Evan Davies, Garry Richardson & understand how so many ordinary Germans could have agreed Melvyn Bragg. SAT 00:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton to participate in the Nazis' atrocities. This dramatisation brings out the intellectual spine of Lewis (b007wqf0) Martin Sixsmith looks at their attempts to explain the banality Carroll's classic story - while losing none of the fun. The Earth in Anarchy of evil, including the controversial experiments of Stanley When Alice crashes through the looking glass she enters a world The allies head for the coastal town using horses, then motor Milgram and Philip Zimbardo. And he talks to Oxford set out like a giant chess board and discovers science, maths, cars to outrun their masked pursuers. Professor Miles Hewstone about how far social psychology has poetry, riddles, and wordplay. It is instantly entertaining and Published in 1908, GK Chersterton's most famous novel is read come in clarifying how we think and act within a group. tantalizingly offers the listener more than meets the ear. in 13 parts by Geoffrey Palmer. Series consultant, Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, University In this fast-moving and surrealist world, Alice has to decode the Director: Lawrence Jackson of London. bizarre rules of the mirror-world. If Alice can get to The Eighth Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. Produced by Sara Parker Square she will be Queen. Lewis Carroll is ever present. He sets First broadcast in 2005. A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. out the chess game for Alice, teasing the listener into having an SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b00mk6tc) SAT 02:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves overview of his story and exploring the ideas within it. Series 8 (b007jrjy) On her chess journey Alice will meet the Red & White Queen, Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme, by Thomas Tallis Episode 10 Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum (who might be Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional Winston writes from Canada. Randolph leaves Oxford for a more familiar than the listener can possibly imagine) and the appeal. lecture tour of the USA. With Alex Jennings and Sylvestra Le Red & White Knights. But there's a twist here - Alice will also Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis Touzel. From February 1999. discover that Radio 4 can be found on the other side of the When Vaughan Williams wrote his Tallis Fantasia in 1910, he SAT 02:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? glass. changed the course of British music. Here at last was a piece of (b00yc4vx) Published for Christmas 1871 this story is the mirror image of music which was no longer under the Teutonic influence, but Episode 5 Alice In Wonderland: the characters are chess pieces instead of which drew on old English hymn tunes and folk idioms for its Test your own will to live, and how to write a funny book about cards. It is Winter rather than Summer and time runs themes. As the string music builds to a climax, interviewees tell cancer. Miles Kington's last letters. With Michael Palin. backwards. Tim Burton's film was 'inspired' by Lewis Carroll's how this music has brought solace and hope in times of tragedy SAT 03:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov books but it wasn't Lewis Carroll's book. This is a chance for and changed the course of their lives. (b00yc3jw) the Radio 4 listeners to discover the real thing and show them When composers Herbert Howells and Ivor Gurney heard the Episode 5 why this classic appeals to philosophers, linguists and chess premiere of Vaughan Williams' Tallis Fantasia in Gloucester Following Ivan's dramatic appearance at his brother's trial, fans, prefaced Modernism, has provoked a wealth of academic Cathedral in 1910, it's said that they walked the streets of Katerina prepares to deal Dmitry a fatal blow. study, and in doing so remind them of the bits they loved in Gloucester all night because of the sheer excitement of Starring Roy Marsden. childhood (and the bits they've forgotten). possibility that this new piece had awakened in them. Conclusion of Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final novel Mathematician Carroll, prefaced his book with a chess problem. This programme tells how the beauty and richness of Vaughan published in 1880. It is claimed the game is a part of a sequence of numbers - that Williams' Tallis Fantasia awakened a life long love of classical Dramatised by Melissa Murray. Alice's journey is code - that Carroll was flirting with music in a nine year old boy at bedtime; how it served as Dmitry ...... Paul Hilton numerology and esotericism. It is intriguing because Carroll comfort for an artist in despair and how it brought solace to a Ivan ...... Nicholas Boulton loved number games and puzzles. He was frighteningly clever. grieving father Alyosha ...... Carl Prekopp He regularly invented things. You could say he was the Mark Contributors: Katerina ...... Juliet Aubrey Zuckerberg of his time. Michael Kennedy Grushenka ...... Katy Cavanagh SAT 07:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Ian Clarke Lise ...... Emma Noakes Modern American Literature (b00rfhzx) EM Marshall Mrs Khoklakova ...... Rachel Atkins The Celebrity Tour Rolf Jordan Grigory ...... Desmond McNamara Mark Lawson tells the story of how American writing became Peter Phillips Devil ...... Sam Dale the literary superpower of the 20th century, telling the nation's Harry Atterbury Judge ...... Ian Masters stories of money, power, sex, religion and war. Colin Wood Prosecutor ...... Philip Fox Among the millions of words written by modern American Producer: Rosie Boulton Fetyukovich ...... Mark Straker authors, one of the most important is 'I'. The autobiographical, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. Bystanders ...... Paul Richard Biggin/ Saikat Ahamed first-person story - featuring authors in light disguise or even SAT 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b012yv9b) Original music by David Pickvance. under their own names - has become an increasingly significant Series 1 Directors: Marc Beeby and Colin Guthrie literary genre. London Pride First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006. Philip Roth and John Updike wrote long sequences of stories George Dixon is showing new boy in blue, Andy Crawford, the SAT 04:00 We've Been Here Before (b00ft41b) about fictional famous American authors - Nathan Zuckerman ropes on the beat of Dock Green in London's East End. Series 2 and Henry Bech - who can be read as versions of their own Much to PC Crawford's surprise, Dixon is prepared to bend the Episode 1 histories. Later, Roth went further, with several books including rules in order to arrest one of a gang of safebreakers. Clive Anderson hosts the panel show that pokes fun at events of characters with his own name, just as Norman Mailer would Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David the past. refer to himself in non-fiction books as 'Mailer'. This is one of Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy Second series of the topical historical satirical panel show the devices of the 'New Journalism', developed by Tom Wolfe Crawford. setting out to prove that there's nothing new under, or in, The and Hunter S Thompson, which put the reporter at the heart of Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The Sun. the story. Blue Lamp' which ended with Dixon being shot dead. However, Gyles Brandreth and Arthur Smith battle it out against John Conversely, some authors, including JD Salinger and Thomas Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series running O'Farrell and Arabella Weir. Pynchon, were so appalled by the prospect of the publicity from 1955 to 1976. Producer: Ed Morrish circuit that they preferred to vanish completely. PC George Dixon ...... David Calder First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. Beginning on 'The Philip Roth Tour' of Newark, New Jersey, in PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant SAT 04:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k0wh) which Liz Del Tufo takes tourists to sites featured in the Jack Judd ...... MacDonnell Series 1 author's work, Mark Lawson reflects on the way in which a Emmy Judd ...... Avril Elgar The New Synagogue celebrity culture has made writers play with their public Lenny Judd ...... Jacob Dylan A single phone call turns the comfortable world of Rabbi Fine personalities, talking to Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe, Bret Easton Agar ...... Jonathan Tafler is turned upside down. Ellis, Jay McInerney, Dave Eggers and Professor Diane Fred Jenkins ...... Eddie Martin The first of three series of Barry Grossman’s comedy-drama Roberts. Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by about the collision between the old and the new in the Jewish SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b06vg1ph) Sue Rodwell. community of Hillfield. Utopias Produced in Bristol by Jeremy Howe and Viv Beeby. Starring David De Keyser as Rabbi Abraham Fine. Tracy-Ann First published in 1516, Michael Symmons Roberts examines First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2005. Oberman as Rabbi Su Jacobs, Doreen Mantle as Sadie Fine, the intellectual legacy of Thomas More's celebrated book, SAT 01:30 He Belonged to Glasgow - The Will Fyffe Story Henry Goodman as Melvin, Jonathan Kydd as Brian and Sarah 'Utopia'. It is a book that generated an idea that has been hotly (b00vky75) Rice as Ruth. contested throughout the hundreds of years since its release. Born in Dundee in 1885, Will Fyffe became synonymous with a Music: Max Harris. More had been on a trade mission to Antwerp, and spent much different city when his song 'I Belong To Glasgow' captured the Producer: John Fawcett Wilson of his time talking to fellow humanist scholars like Erasmus nation's hearts. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. about the notion of an ideal society and what it might look like. After spending his formative years in touring theatre, Will SAT 05:00 Crowned Hudds (b00plhpx) Out of those conversations came the book, a slippery tale that Fyffe switched to comedy and music hall, and became a Odd Stuart blurs fact and fiction and which has left readers ever since headline act throughout Scotland. Along with his contemporary A new slant on King Charles II. Roy Hudd's historical royal trying to fathom whether More was indeed presenting his island Harry Lauder, his humour transcended the regional stage and romp, with June Whitfield and Chris Emmett. From September of Utopia, where equality is paramount and greed attacked, as a appearances all over Britain led to five Royal Variety 1994. model society or as a salutary tale. performances. SAT 05:30 Meet David Sedaris (b01211y4) Half a millennium on, Michael Symmons Roberts heads to A leading film star of the 1930s and 40s, he made one Series 2 Antwerp himself to find out more about the actual book, that so Hollywood film, although this burgeoning career was put on Me Talk Pretty One Day; It's Catching many make reference without ever having opened its pages. He hold as war broke out and he returned to entertain the troops. The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and finds out that partly for safety's sake (the text being one on level An accident in 1947 led to his untimely death, but his body of charm to BBC Radio 4 for a series of audience readings. This a critique of contemporary England) it was published abroad work lives on through his songs, sketches and films. week the perils of an American learning French in Paris in "Me and in Latin; he also hears about its great popularity, how it led In this programme, singer-songwriter and Deacon Blue Talk Pretty One Day" and an essay dealing with a friend's many to try and set up their own perfect communities, and frontman Ricky Ross looks at Fyffe's life, career and legacy concern for cleanliness; "It's Catching". examines the irony that More would rather have seen this book with family, film historians and music hall experts, including Producer: Steve Doherty about an equal society burned rather than seeing it translated Professor Jeffrey Richards, and Will Fyffe's daughter, Eileen. A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. into the vernacular and therefore made available to all. Producer: Elizabeth Foster SAT 06:00 Saturday Drama (b01pf5d7) Along the way, Michael also eavesdrops on figures from the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. Lewis Carroll - Alice through the Looking Glass BBC archives describing what their personal Utopias might SAT 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River (b00nf0tr) By Lewis Carroll, dramatised by Stephen Wyatt It's mid-winter, look like - including Tony Benn, Jeanette Winterson, Aldous Adam in Paradise the snow is falling against the window, and Alice is learning Huxley, Nawal El Saadawi and Ian Banks. William stakes his claim on Thornhill's Point, but other people how to play chess but then, on a whim, she goes to the mirror First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2016. have the same idea. Read by Ron Cook. and pretends her black kitten is the Red Queen and suddenly SAT 09:00 Doctor Who (b0076jh7) SAT 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology everything changes ... Who Made Who and the Mind (b042lp8w) With Jim Al-Khalili, Roger McGough, Jenni Murray, Jane Five decades doesn't mean much to a time traveller, but after We Do What We're Told Garvey, Eric Robson, Pippa Greenwood, Peter Donaldson, fifty years, the Doctor is still a mystery. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28 May – 3 June 2016 Page 2 of 9 Radio 4 Extra doesn't have all the answers, but we can shed a conversation unfolds, Tom takes time out from the phone call to Professor Jeff Hearn talks to Chris Ledgard about his little light. Not just a TV phenomenon, Doctor Who has also explain the situation, his parent's reactions and relate various relationship with the academic world of Women's Studies. taken us into strange new sonic realms and the written word. anecdotes from the past which illustrate his family's views. And After a group of female staff at Bradford University set up the Mark Gatiss examines the Target novels, which offered a sometimes he just needs to sound-off about the maddening UK's second Women's Studies postgraduate course in the early glimpse into those early stories before video. We hear from world around him and bemoan everyday annoyances. 1980s, Jeff Hearn was asked to teach on it. Professor Hearn - surviving cast and crew of the original pilot episode, the people During all this Hang Ups explores class, living away from who describes himself as a profeminist - found himself, he says, who gave the show its unique sound in Dance of the Daleks, and 'home', trans-generational phenomena, what we inherit from our "on an ambiguous margin of Women's Studies." Now a finally we catch up with Susan - the Doctor's Granddaughter, families and how the past repeats in the present. All in a 30 professor of Gender Studies in Sweden, he and his colleagues last seen on 22nd-century Earth. minute phone call. discuss his work as a man on the fringe of academic feminism. In between, John Lloyd, AL Kennedy and others who recall 'Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-ups' gets underneath the skin of SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b01cjwv9) those monochrome early years examine what makes them so Tom and the Wrigglesworth family, so sit back and enjoy a bit Series 7 special. Hosting it is Tracy-Ann Oberman, not only a star of of totally legal phone hacking. The Viewing Friday Night Dinner and Eastenders but a Doctor Who Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle Arthur finds a cunning way of nosing around a neighbours villainess in her own right. Additional Material by Miles Jupp home, as he masquerades as a potential purchaser, he also Tracy-Ann Oberman is an actor and writer with an extensive Producer: Katie Tyrrell. receives interesting news from an old friend in Spain. variety of diverse credits; Big Train, Toast of London and SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci - Facts And Fancies Count Arthur Strong (Steve Delaney) - one time Variety Star, Monroe to name but three. For Doctor Who fans she will be (b007jrmj) now sole proprietor and owner of Doncaster's Academy of known as Yvonne Hartman - the woman who saw off Rose and Monster-Eyed Bugs Performance - is a show business legend, raconteur, and set up Torchwood. From diseases to identity cards, lecturer extraordinaire. He stars in a Sitcom with regular SAT 12:00 Charles Parker Prize (b07d2vfx) Producer, writer and performer Armando Iannucci concludes sidekick Wilfred Taylor, Master Butcher, and a host of other 2016 his own collection of humorous essays. characters. Charles Parker was a talented radio producer who worked with Compiled by Jenny Baynes. All false starts and nervous fumbling badly covered up by a Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger over 50 years ago to create Producer: Jonathan James-Moore delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance, and an expert in the famous series of 'radio ballads'. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1998. everything from the world of entertainment to the origin of the Each year a team of radio professions meet to decide the SAT 22:45 Ida Barr: Artificial Hip Hop (b00v72r5) species, everyday life with Arthur is an enlightening experience. winners of an award dedicated to his memory. For the past 12 Diversity Cast: years the Charles Parker Award has been presented to the best Ida Barr is a music hall singer who has embraced hip hop and Steve Delaney feature made by students studying radio at universities and rap, reflecting the cultural diversity of London's East End, Mel Giedroyc colleges throughout the UK. In this programme Charles's where she has been living in retirement for several decades. Alastair Kerr daughter Sara Parker, herself an award-winning radio producer, With her genuine love of talking to people, Ida sets out David Mounfield reviews this year's competition, talks to the judges, plays investigate a new topic in each episode, creating a unique brand Producer: John Leonard extracts from some of the entries, meets the prize-winners and of music hall, hip-hop fusion with beat boxer Shlomo. A Komedia production for BBC Radio 4. plays their Bronze, Silver and Gold Award-winning features. Ida’s subject this time is "Diversity". SUN 08:00 Ray's a Laugh (b07d39yl) Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Soundscape Productions. Written by and starring Christopher Green as Ida Barr. From 17/10/1958 SAT 13:00 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City (Omnibus) Producer: Claire Grove Ted wants to make some home improvements, but can he (b07d2vlz) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2010. manage to wangle a loan from the bank? Mary Ann in Autumn SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b07dbv0k) Starring Ted Ray. With Kitty Bluett and Kenneth Connor. 2008 in San Francisco and Mary Ann returns with some big The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to Ray's A Laugh - the successor to ITMA - follows the comedy news to share with Michael. Stars Kate Harper and Trevor Richard Gadd. exploits of Ted's life at home with his 'radio' wife Kitty, as well White. From May 2016. SAT 23:00 Masala FM (b007zjm8) as in a variety of jobs. It ran from 1949-1961. SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07d2wt7) Episode 4 Scripted by Bernard Botting and Charles Hart. Peter White The station's only attracting Z-list Asian celebrities, but then a BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenoulhet. Broadcaster Peter White chooses 'Ma She's Making Eyes At top member of 'royalty' phones in... Producer: Leslie Bridgmont Me' by Marie Adams and 'Golden Slumbers' by The Beatles. Six-part sitcom written by Meera Syal First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1958. SAT 14:15 Frankly Speaking (b07d2z3f) Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nitin Sawheny, Meera Syal and Nina SUN 08:30 Doctor in the House (b007mwkh) Allen Lane Wadia. Marriage-itis Publisher and founder of Penguin books, Allen Lane answers Music by Nitin Sawhney. Medic Simon Sparrow must cope with both his hangover and a the questions posed by George Scott, Margaret Lane and Walter Producer: Liz Anstee bad case of cold feet. Allen. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1996. The misadventures of student doctor Simon Sparrow - adapted Aged 58 when interviewed, Allen talks of his life as a SAT 23:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin (b01292g0) for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's novel 'Doctor pioneering paperback publisher and his discovery of DH Series 1 in the House' published in 1952. Lawrence. Episode 2 Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as Sir Allen Lane was born in 1902 and died in 1970. Justin is a Manchester DJ who tries to balance love, work and Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Edward Cast Launched in 1952 on the BBC Home Service, Frankly Speaking everything else without much success. as Taffy Evans and Norma Ronald as Matron/Vera. was a novel, ground breaking series. Unrehearsed and Now his job seems to be on the line. Producer: David Hatch unscripted, the traditional interviewee/interviewer pairing was Starring Justin Moorhouse, Anne Reid and Paul Copley. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1968. initially jettisoned for three interviewers firing direct questions. Sitcom written by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser. SUN 09:00 Aarathi Prasad - In the Bonesetter's Waiting Early critics described it as 'unkempt', 'an inquisition' and Despite his messy life, Justin always remains positive. Every Room: Omnibus (b07d3bj4) described the guest as prey being cornered, quarry being new day is a new opportunity, "When life throws you lemons, Aarathi Prasad explores the ancient and modern in Indian pursued - with calls to axe the unscripted interview. But the make lemonade". medicine. Read by Sudha Bhuchar. format won out and eventually won over its detractors. Recorded in front of an audience in Manchester. SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07d3fpp) Only 40 or so of the original 100 programmes survive. Anne Reid ..... Gran Pauline Black First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1961. Christine Bottomley ..... Lisa Singer Pauline Black chooses 'My Boy Lollipop' by Millie SAT 14:45 Could Do Better (b03p85pm) Justin Moorhouse ..... Justin Small and 'Get Up Stand Up' by Bob Marley. Wendy Cope Lloyd Langford ..... Bryn SUN 10:15 World Book Club (b07d3fpr) Robert Booth summons poet and ex-teacher Wendy Cope to his Paul Copley ..... Ray Neil Gaiman - American Gods study for a quiet word about her school reports. From Susan Cookson ..... Tanya 4 Extra Debut. Neil Gaiman, voted by listeners as the November 1988. Producer: Steven Canny programme's 'most wanted' guest, joins Harriett Gilbert and SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b06vg1ph) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2011 invited audience. From September 2013. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN 11:15 The Moth Radio Hour (b07d3fs9) SAT 16:00 Saturday Drama (b01pf5d7) Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUNDAY 29 MAY 2016 Live from Sydney SAT 17:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of True stories told live: David Crabb introduces a special show Modern American Literature (b00rfhzx) SUN 00:00 Doctor Who (b07d3137) from Australia with tales around the theme of 'the razor's edge'. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated SAT 18:00 Doctor Who (b07d3137) SUN 01:00 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since The Crimes of Thomas Brewster (Omnibus) (b07d2vlz) 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and 2010: The Doctor teams up with an old associate to track down SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07d2wt7) yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George an imposter in a battle to save the Earth from rogue androids. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in Starring Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Maggie Stables as SUN 02:15 Frankly Speaking (b07d2z3f) Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the Evelyn Smythe, John Pickard as Thomas Brewster and Anna [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, Hope as DI Menzies. SUN 02:45 Could Do Better (b03p85pm) The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at Writer: Jonathan Morris [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the Producer: David Richardson SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 (b06vg1ph) USA, the UK and other parts of the world. A Big Finish production. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and SAT 19:00 Doctor Who (b0076jh7) SUN 04:00 Saturday Drama (b01pf5d7) without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. SAT 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b03fdh2c) SUN 05:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the Series 1 Modern American Literature (b00rfhzx) humorous to the heart-breaking. Time to Celebrate [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic When Tom phones home we find out why he hates celebrations, SUN 06:00 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed why his mum can't stop organising them and why his father (b007jrkh) by the Public Radio Exchange. needs an electric whisk. Omnibus, part 2 SUN 12:00 Ray's a Laugh (b07d39yl) Classic Wrigglesworth rants combined with a fascinating and The letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill. War, traffic [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] hilarious glimpse into his family background and the influences accidents and unexpected house purchases. Starring Alex SUN 12:30 Doctor in the House (b007mwkh) that have shaped his temperament, opinions and hang-ups. Jennings. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups is a 30 minute phone call from SUN 07:15 A Woman's World (b00wrbs1) SUN 13:00 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves Tom ringing his parents for his weekly check-in. As the Women's Studies (b007jrkh) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28 May – 3 June 2016 Page 3 of 9 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2005. SUN 14:15 A Woman's World (b00wrbs1) SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b01cjwv9) MON 06:30 How the Rest Got Home (b00sjngj) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] The miracle of Dunkirk carries an air of finality about it in the SUN 14:30 Landmarks (Omnibus) (b05qdqsq) SUN 22:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jpvx) popular mind. More than 300,000 troops evacuated, ending Robert Macfarlane visits some inspiring places, to meet the Series 2 Allied - especially British - involvement on the Continent. people and 'collect' the words that evoke the area. The Quest for the Other Rabbit's Foot But this is simply untrue. He recalls happy days at Walnut Tree Farm, Suffolk, home to a Myths and mucking out in the Masterson’s adventures at the Nearly 200,000 non-French Allied troops continued to see famous swimmer of moats and ponds, lakes and rivers. Readers court of King Arthur. action in France, some only arriving after Dunkirk. Tobias Menzies and the author. The award-winning improvised historical family saga based How The Rest Got Home tells some of their stories: those who Abridged for radio by Penny Leicester. entirely on audience suggestions. survived the sinking of the Lancastria (Britain's worst-ever Omnibus producer: Duncan Minshull Starring Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Jim Sweeney, Lee maritime disaster); those who founded the escape routes to the First broadcast in five parts on BBC Radio 4 in 2015. Simpson, Phelim McDermott and Caroline Quentin. south coast of France; those who only reached home after five SUN 15:45 Fay Weldon Stories (b007jztv) Producer: Phil Clarke tortured years in German captivity, following humiliating Inspector Remorse First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1994. capture at St Valery-en-Caux. There were SO many different 4 Extra Debut. An art critic sits in a church on Easter Friday, SUN 23:00 Think the Unthinkable (b01hbrw8) ways back. contemplating what she has to be remorseful for. Read by Series 3 The programme hears from a string of veterans in their late 80s Patricia Hodge. Iota Credit Cards and 90s. There's Henry Harding, whose leap off the Lancastria SUN 16:00 Marcy Kahan - Death at the Desert Inn The management consultants tackle credit card security, with saved his life - he still has the watch he was wearing at the time, (b00t6v8d) the morally dubious Owen. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From July its hands frozen. Scotsmen Bill Crighton and Andrew Cheyne $300,000 dollars are left in a satchel in Noel Coward's Las 2004. recall the sheer terror of Rommel's bombardment at St Valery, Vegas suite, and so he sets off again on his unexpected SUN 23:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages (b01jrqr1) and the emotion of their eventual return to Aberdeen after five posthumous career as a detective. Series 1 years' hard labour as German prisoners. Marcy Kahan's crime thriller stars Malcolm Sinclair as Noel Episode 4 On archive tape, Helen Long remembers the cloak and dagger Coward, Eleanor Bron as Lorn Lorraine. Tam Williams as Cole In this episode, the team are horrified that the media have been business of hiding and protecting post-Dunkirk escapees in the Lesley, Belinda Lang as Judy Garland and Jake Broder as Joe invited to one of Malcolm's citizenship ceremonies, Anita's got brothels of Marseilles. Glaser. problems with childcare and Luke's having a 'quarter life' crisis. Presenter and military historian Saul David has been a close The Desert Inn, scene of one of his greatest cabaret triumphs, is Births, Deaths and Marriages is a new sitcom set in a Local observer of the forgotten stories of continuing heroism and the setting for "a highly probable Noel Coward Murder Authority Register Office where the staff deal with the three tragedy after Dunkirk. He visits the Normandy coastline where Mystery", complete with Judy Garland, a showgirl, a Broadway greatest events in anybody's life. much of the action took place. agent, an unlikely croupier, a US Congressman and Coward's Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan An Andrew Green production for BBC Radio 4. act, with half of Hollywood in the audience. Partridge), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is a MON 07:00 Elephants to Catch Eels (b007r4mg) Another crime to be solved with the Master's favourite weapon stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any wedding Series 1 - wit. service if the width of the bride infringes health and safety. Episode 5 Director: Ned Chaillet He's single but why does he need to be married? He's married Tamsyn's had enough of doing all the smuggling and getting First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. thousands of women. none of the credit so is determined to quit. SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (b07d3htz) Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been But when she discovers there's a new charismatic smuggler in David Walliams on Philip Larkin parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and Malcolm) town, emergency measures are called for! BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just about love and 18th century Cornish village sitcom by the writers of Dead BBC's radio poetry archive with David Walliams on Philip romance, it's got to be about making a profit in our new age of Ringers - Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain. Larkin. austerity. Starring Lucy Speed as Tamsyn Trelawny, John Bowe as Jago Actor David Walliams is a great admirer of Philip Larkin's There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried Trelawny, Cameron Stewart as Major Thomas Falconer, poetry, and to mark the 25th anniversary of the poet's death, he he'll end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may get Andrew McGibbon as Captain Marriot, Martin Hyder as Squire talked to former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, who wrote a her words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the only Bascombe, Mark Felgate as Dewey, Imelda Staunton as widely acclaimed biography of Larkin, about why he finds this parent in the office, is a mother to them all. Courageous Kate and Mark Perry as Hobbs. poetry so appealing. Cast: Producer: Jan Ravens. Walliams chooses a selection of the poems he likes best, some Malcolm ...... David Schneider First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003. well-known and some far less so, to explore the central themes Lorna ...... Sarah Hadland MON 07:30 Just a Minute (b07btlmc) that recur throughout Larkin's work. It's a fascinating three-way Anita ...... Sandy McDade Series 75 meeting of minds: the actor, the biographer and the poet they Luke ...... Russell Tovey Episode 2 both admire. Mary ...... Sally Bretton Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 75th series of the The poems are read by Philip Larkin, Tom Courtenay and Mr. Arnold/Peter Stephenson ...... Andrew Brooke panel show where participants must try to speak for 60 seconds Patrick Romer. Bereaved woman/New Citizen/Mum ...... Jane Whittenshaw without hesitation, deviation or repetition. No repetition? That's Producer: Sara Davies Producer: Simon Jacobs no small order after nearly 50 years. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Alexei Sayle and Graham Norton SUN 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b01cjwv9) join host Nicholas Parsons and the topics on the cards include [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Clock-watching, Cardigan Bay, and A Hot Potato. SUN 18:00 Utopia (b06y9b6t) MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. 2016 saw the 500th Anniversary of Thomas More's classic work Produced by Victoria Lloyd. of speculative fiction, which has entered the culture so deeply MON 00:00 Utopia (b06y9b6t) MON 08:00 Parsley Sidings (b01p8pl1) that the name of his fictional island is the accepted term for our [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Series 1 hopes and dreams of a better society. MON 01:00 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves The Excursion Poet Michael Symmons Roberts dramatisation brings More's (b007jrkh) Railway Station Master Horace Hepplewhite decides Parsley strange and enchanting island to life, told through the memoirs [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] Sidings needs to boost passenger numbers with train excursions. of Raphael Hythloday. MON 02:15 A Woman's World (b00wrbs1) Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Ian Lavender as Bert, Kenneth More goes on a diplomatic trip to Antwerp, to sort out a dispute [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] Connor as Percy, Liz Fraser as Gloria and John Graham as the in the commercial wool trade between Britain and the MON 02:30 Landmarks (Omnibus) (b05qdqsq) American Tourist. Netherlands. While he is there he meets an old man who is [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway clearly widely travelled. MON 03:45 Fay Weldon Stories (b007jztv) station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station for More complains about the petty politics of the trade dispute, [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] generations and the current Station Master, Horace, hopes that and the old stranger bemoans the state of contemporary society. MON 04:00 Marcy Kahan - Death at the Desert Inn his son Bert will continue the line. Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk There is a better way, he says, and I have seen it. The stranger (b00t6v8d) Bert wants to work anywhere but on the railways. His colleague, introduces himself as the explorer and adventurer Raphael [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Station Announcer Gloria Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter Hythloday, who at the height of his career of was sent out from MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (b07d3htz) Percy Valentine is an archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Antwerp to explore an unmapped and remote part of the ocean. [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] Signalman, Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made After months of sailing, he chanced upon an island society MON 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b01cjwv9) remedies in equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is unlike any he had seen before. The island was called 'Utopia'. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] Phineas Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop Utopia fleshes out the story of Raphael's visit to the island, MON 06:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b013216n) down the line. giving us vivid descriptions of the place and its society, its laws Series 1 Re-created Announcements by Keith Skues. and social patterns and customs. Needle in a Haystack Producer: Edward Taylor All the bearings for this new drama are be taken from the rules A baby's life is in danger when some pep pills go missing and First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1972. and descriptions of the island in More's book, and the clues he George Dixon causes a stir at home when he offers PC MON 08:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook gives about Raphael's visit. Crawford the spare room... (b007k0bg) RAPHAEL HYTHLODAY - Raad Rawi Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David Hollywood and Back YOUNG RAPHAEL - Nacho Aldeguer Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy The veteran of many parts recalls one of the worst screen THOMAS MORE / ACHORIAN - Michael Peavoy Crawford. performances never seen. PETER GILES - Cameron Blakeley Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The British show business doyen, J Kingston Platt shares ABRAXA - Emily Pithon Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his BARZANES - Jonathan Keeble However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series experience from the past 40 years. MACARIA - Fiona Clarke running from 1955 to 1976. Performed and written by Peter Jones. Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. PC George Dixon ...... David Calder Producer: Pete Atkin First heard on BBC Radio 4 in January 2016. PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1986. SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour (b07d3fs9) Archie ...... Jonah Cook MON 09:00 The Write Stuff (b00r0yml) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Billy Monks ...... Michael Carolan Series 12 SUN 19:45 Aarathi Prasad - In the Bonesetter's Waiting Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks JD Salinger Room: Omnibus (b07d3bj4) Nancy Harris ...... Carol MacReady James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Mrs Monks ...... Kate Byers correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are SUN 20:55 Inheritance Tracks (b07d3fpp) Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by joined by Tibor Fischer and Peter Kemp. The author of the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] Sue Rodwell. week and subject for pastiche is JD Salinger, and the reader is SUN 21:00 World Book Club (b07d3fpr) Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. Beth Chalmers. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28 May – 3 June 2016 Page 4 of 9 MON 09:30 Tony's (b00tdlr8) Alexander …. Adam Kotz A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. Series 1 Winifred …. Barbara Flynn MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b07d7b01) The Italian Connection Daniel …. Shaun Dooley Series 17 The salon and owner are attacked by gangsters, but can a cousin Producer: Mary Peate. Episode 7 speak their language? Stars Victor Spinetti. From November First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002. Susan Calman, Holly Walsh, Francis Wheen and Dane Baptiste 1979. MON 14:45 Book of the Week (b011tz8h) are Miles' guests for this episode of News Quiz Extra, the MON 10:00 Dave Sheasby - Five Summers and Johnny James Joyce - A Biography bumper bonus version of Friday's programme. Onion (b00vzz1p) Episode 1 Producer..... Tamara Shilham Anne, now in her later years, recalls a chance meeting with "Living In Ireland had lost all meaning for Joyce; and the lure of A BBC Studios Production. Michel, a young French onion seller, and how this develops into 'exile' began to possess him. But if he was to elope with Nora he MON 23:45 Stewart Permutt - Singular Women (b00755cm) a friendship and then a love affair over five summers would need to secure an income, and would Nora go with him? Dora (1956-1960) of intense meetings and long winters of letters. Fortunately, she was as captivated by him as he was by her..." Lesley Joseph recreates her stage role as Dora, a 'person of A cross-channel love story by Dave Sheasby. Our five part reading of this voluminous account looks at restricted growth' whose performances are under threat. From Anne...... Susan Jameson Joyce's years spent in Europe, when he held down menial jobs, 1997. Mum...... Edna Dore caroused a lot, experienced the ups and downs of married life, Young Anne...... Ella Smith but still managed to produce works of literature that stand the Young Mum...... Carolyn Pickles test of time. TUESDAY 31 MAY 2016 Michel...... James French 1. Gordon Bowker's study of the great writer, abridged for radio Dad...... Delroy Brown by Penny Leicester, begins with his early life in Dublin, which TUE 00:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton Director: David Hunter is full of japes with friends and then an eye to exile... (b007jzyb) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2005. Narrator Jim Norton and the voice of Joyce is Andrew Scott. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] MON 11:00 Heidi Amsinck - Copenhagen Confidential MON 15:00 Dave Sheasby - Five Summers and Johnny TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b007675y) (b01j2ld7) Onion (b00vzz1p) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] The Last Tenant [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b013216n) Written by Heidi Amsinck MON 16:00 The Write Stuff (b00r0yml) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Read by: Jack Klaff [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE 01:30 How the Rest Got Home (b00sjngj) In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi Amsinck, MON 16:30 Tony's (b00tdlr8) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] Copenhagen and its surrounds are places of twilight and [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River (b00nhsgh) shadows: mysterious places where strange, occasionally bad MON 17:00 Elephants to Catch Eels (b007r4mg) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] things happen. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology The Last Tenant MON 17:30 Just a Minute (b07btlmc) and the Mind (b042zcqh) Jan Vettegren is convinced that the office building he's bought [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] is a steal - once you get past the wear-and-tear, creaks and MON 18:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK TUE 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsfz) strange recurring smells. But none of his colleagues are happy Chesterton (b007jzyb) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] to work alone there. 11. The Pursuit of the President TUE 02:45 Book of the Week (b011tz8h) Heidi Amsinck, a writer and journalist born in Copenhagen, has After the sunset confrontation between motor cars, the [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] covered Britain for the Danish press since 1992, including a detectives return to London to accost Sunday. TUE 03:00 Dave Sheasby - Five Summers and Johnny spell as London Correspondent for the broadsheet daily Jyllands- Published in 1908, GK Chesterton's most famous novel is read Onion (b00vzz1p) Posten. Heidi has written numerous short stories for radio in 13 parts by Geoffrey Palmer. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] including, most recently, the three story set Danish Noir (2010), Director: Lawrence Jackson TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff (b00r0yml) which was also produced by Sweet Talk for BBC Radio 4. A Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University First broadcast in 2005. TUE 04:30 Tony's (b00tdlr8) of London, Heidi lives in Surrey with her husband and two MON 18:30 A Good Read (b007675y) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] young sons. Michael Berry and Nick Broomfield TUE 05:00 Elephants to Catch Eels (b007r4mg) Producer: Jeremy Osborne Rosie Boycott talks to the documentary filmmaker Nick [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. Broomfield and the mathematical physicist Sir Michael Berry, TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (b07btlmc) MON 11:15 Drama (b011jvyz) about favourite books by Jack London, Philip Roth and Paul [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] Ewa Banaszkiewicz - SBLT (Single But Living Together) Scott. From 2002. TUE 06:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133pl2) by Ewa Banaszkiewicz The Human Stain by Philip Roth Series 1 What happens if you separate but circumstances force you to Publisher: Vintage Crawford's First Pinch continue to live together? People of the Abyss by Jack London Some unsavoury postcards turn up on the Dock Green beat and Alex thinks she can make it work with a list of rules but then Publisher Pluto Press the link to a recent spate of bicycle thefts makes PC Andy emotions begin to get in the way. Staying On by Paul Scott Crawford desperate to notch up his first arrest. Directed by Sally Avens. Publisher: Mandarin. Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David MON 12:00 Parsley Sidings (b01p8pl1) MON 19:00 Parsley Sidings (b01p8pl1) Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Crawford. MON 12:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook MON 19:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The (b007k0bg) (b007k0bg) Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series MON 13:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b013216n) MON 20:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b013216n) running from 1955 to 1976. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] PC George Dixon ...... David Calder MON 13:30 How the Rest Got Home (b00sjngj) MON 20:30 How the Rest Got Home (b00sjngj) PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks MON 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River (b00nhsgh) MON 21:00 Heidi Amsinck - Copenhagen Confidential Joe Cooney ...... Tom McClane A Crowd of Neighbours (b01j2ld7) Ned Cooney ...... Michael Fenton Stevens William and Sal meet some fellow river-dwellers at Thornhill's [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Hilda Cooney ...... Rebecca Smart Point. A story of belonging and ownership read by Ron Cook. MON 21:15 Drama (b011jvyz) Paul De Witt ...... Christian Rodska MON 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by Psychology and the Mind (b042zcqh) MON 22:00 Just a Minute (b07btlmc) Sue Rodwell. The Stages of Life [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. In this programme Martin Sixsmith looks at the stages of MON 22:30 Kevin Eldon Will See You Now (b01m0pqk) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2005. human development from childhood to old age, including Erik Series 1 TUE 06:30 Who Was Joyce Hatto? (b00tt6f6) Erikson's psychosocial model with its eight phases of the human The One with Anubis, Almighty Jackal-Headed God of the In June 2006, the death was announced of the pianist Joyce life cycle. Egyptian Underworld Hatto. She was heralded as a great lost genius of classical He examines Jean Piaget's influential work on childhood Comedy's best kept secret ingredient gets his own sketch show. music- a reclusive woman who almost never performed in development and John Bowlby's theory of attachment between Sketches, characters, sound effects, bit of music, some messin' public, but who in later life had created sublime recordings in mother and child. about, you know... private. He considers how the study of animals such as Konrad Lorenz's In this episode, Kevin goes into space, meets a bandit and A few months later it emerged that those recordings were fake- work with geese on imprinting and Harlow's controversial evokes the powerful gods of Ancient Egypt. Not all at the same lifted from other performers and tweaked in the studio - which experiments with baby monkeys informed research, as well as time, obviously - that would be weird. No, separately. leaves a question hanging. talking to Bristol University's Professor Bruce Hood about early Kevin Eldon is a comedy phenomenon. He's been in virtually Biographer Anne Sebba sets out to discover: 'Who was Joyce years development and theory of mind. every major comedy show in the last fifteen years, but not Hatto?' Produced by Sara Parker. content with working with the likes of Chris Morris, Steve 'In the final few years of her life, she released a huge range of A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Harry Enfield and Paul CD recordings which swamped the market and were praised to MON 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsfz) Whitehouse, Stewart Lee, Julia Davis and Graham Linehan, he's the hilt by a select band of reviewers,' says Anne, 'I remember The Virgin in the Garden, Part 1/8 finally decided to put together his own comedy series for BBC thinking, Where had this amazing talent been all these years'? In 1950s Yorkshire, Frederica Potter is still living at home, but Radio 4. Then, after a pile of glowing obituaries, which told of her four senses something exciting... After all the waiting - Kevin Eldon Will See You Now. decade battle with cancer, these recordings of the pianist Joyce The first of four AS Byatt novel adaptations chronicling the Appearing in this episode are Amelia Bullmore (I'm Alan Hatto were branded as fake - copies of commercial recordings lives of the Potter family, set against the social and political Partridge, Scott & Bailey), Julia Davis (Nighty Night), Rosie made by other artists, - not by Joyce at all. landscape of England of 1953-1970. Cavaliero (Peep Show), Paul Putner (Little Britain), Justin Joyce's husband, William Barrington Coupe, the sound engineer The Frederica Quartet comprises of 'The Virgin in the Garden' Edwards (The Consultants) and David Reed (The Penny for her recordings, said that he alone was to blame for the (1978), 'Still Life' (1985), 'Babel Tower' (1996) and 'A Dreadfuls) with special guest Phil Cornwell as David Bowie deception- acting purely out of love, and replacing passages of Whistling Woman' (2002). circa 1973. his wife's playing with other artists. Dramatised in 30 parts by John Harvey. Written by Kevin Eldon. But behind the final deception, there is an intriguing story of an Older Frederica …. Rosemary Leach With additional material by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris incredibly talented pianist marred by ill-health. Young Frederica …. Hannah Watkins (Flight Of The Conchords, That Mitchell & Webb Sound). The conductor George Hurst talks about working with Joyce in Bill .... Geoffrey Whitehead Original music by Martin Bird. the early 1960s. The novelist Rose Tremain recalls Joyce as an Stephanie …. Helen Longworth Produced and directed by David Tyler inspirational piano teacher. The critic Lewis Foreman Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28 May – 3 June 2016 Page 5 of 9 remembers an extraordinary performance at Guildford. TUE 11:15 Drama (b011p7t0) (b008zs1b) Producer: David Prest Jimmy McAleavey - Hearing Voices [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] A Whistledown Production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in D.I. James McCoy is an old style, hard-man copper, who though TUE 17:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters (b01s8cp3) September 2010. tempted by an offer of redundancy, determines to nail the killer [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 07:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting of a colleague involved in undercover work. McCoy knows TUE 18:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton (b008zs1b) what he has to do to gain a conviction, but for the first time in (b007jvck) Series 2 his career he finds himself undermined not only by a 12. The Six Philosophers Neighbourhood Watch psychopathic murderer, but by a somehow familiar voice in his The men pursue Sunday - as he flees them aboard a hot air Linda's tortoise, Sir Cliff, has been sprung from his high head which ridicules and emasculates him, and threatens to balloon. security facility. Can the Neighbourhood Watch group find the completely destroy him. Published in 1908, GK Chesterton's most famous novel is read culprit? Hearing Voices by Jimmy McAleavey in 13 parts by Geoffrey Palmer. Sitcom written by and starring Linda Smith. James McCoy - Tim McInnerny Director: Lawrence Jackson With Femi Elufowoju Jnr, Jeremy Hardy, Martin Hyder, The Voice - Danny Webb Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. Margaret John and Chris Neill. Kenny -Ian Bartholomew First broadcast in 2005. Special guest: Dillie Keane McKenzie - Daniel Rabin TUE 18:30 The Tingle Factor (b07d7yr3) Producer: Jon Rolph Fairleigh - Ewan Bailey Alan Ayckbourn First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. Anika - Jane Slavin Playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn talks to Robin Ray about the TUE 07:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters (b01s8cp3) Davide - Nyasha Hatendi music which stirs his emotions. Recorded in Scarborough. Series 2 Psychologist - Joanna Munroe In between his music choices, Alan remembers his musical George and Louise Hearing Voices was directed and produced by Eoin father, recounts some of his successes and flops - and how he Isy Suttie recounts the tale of George and Louise, set against the O'Callaghan. became the owner of a special cat. backdrop of the Matlock Ceilidh over Christmas and New Year TUE 12:00 Round the Horne (b00tlwzb) Producer: Andrew Mussett 2014. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1992. Another love story, told partly through song. TUE 12:30 The Men from the Ministry (b007jp1t) TUE 19:00 Round the Horne (b00tlwzb) Sometimes Isy has merely observed the lives of others; quite [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] often she's intervened, changing the action dramatically - for TUE 13:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133pl2) TUE 19:30 The Men from the Ministry (b007jp1t) better or worse. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Intertwined within these stories are related real life anecdotes TUE 13:30 Who Was Joyce Hatto? (b00tt6f6) TUE 20:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133pl2) from her own, often disastrous, love life. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] With her award-winning multi-character and vocal skills, and TUE 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River (b00nhw1l) TUE 20:30 Who Was Joyce Hatto? (b00tt6f6) accompanied by her guitar, Isy creates a hilarious and deeply Give a Little, Take a Little [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] moving world, sharing with us her lessons in life and love. William and Sal Thornhill must learn to live next to their new TUE 21:00 Opening Lines (b00d4f0g) Producer: Lyndsay Fenner Aboriginal river bank neighbours. Read by Ron Cook. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2014. TUE 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology TUE 21:15 Drama (b011p7t0) TUE 08:00 Round the Horne (b00tlwzb) and the Mind (b042zsy1) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Series 4 DNA and Darwin TUE 22:00 Isy Suttie's Love Letters (b01s8cp3) Episode 16 Martin Sixsmith looks at how our DNA and the development of [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Listeners have their say - and there's a bona surprise for Julian our brains inform who we are and how we think. TUE 22:30 The Guns of Adam Riches (b01qwj0j) and Sandy. He re-examines the nature versus nurture debate and considers Series 1 Kenneth Horne hosts the last ever show. With Kenneth the claims of evolutionary psychology from Robert Sapolsky's The Third Pole Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden. work with baboons to the increasing interest in epigenetics. In this final episode, the award-winning comedian Adam Riches Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, He talks to geneticist Steve Jones of University College London tells the story of Martin, an audience member from London, London. Announcer: Douglas Smith and visits the Oxford Brain bank to interview neuropathologist who started the evening as an unsuspecting software developer, Round the Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio Margaret Esiri about the structure of the brain. but ended it as the greatest explorer ever to walk the earth. As comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Producer: Sara Parker Martin battles to be the first man to reach the "Third Pole", he Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. is faced by many challenges, including a rival team of Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsgc) Norwegians, led inexplicably by the German filmmaker, scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and The Virgin in the Garden, Part 2/8 Werner Herzog. 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, Desperate Frederica Potter auditions for a play about Elizabeth Written by and starring Adam Riches. catchphrases and double-entendres. Marty departed after Series I written by her father's colleague, the beautiful Alexander Also starring Cariad Lloyd, Jim Johnson and Simon Yadoo. 3. Wedderburn. Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer and Rupert Majendie. Written by Barry Took, Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer. The Virgin in the Garden is the first of four AS Byatt novel First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. Music by the Max Harris Group. adaptations chronicling the lives of the Potter family, set against TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b0138y1m) Producer: John Simmonds the social and political landscape of England of 1953-1970. For two hours, seven nights a week, the Comedy Club offers First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in June 1968. Older Frederica …. Rosemary Leach the best laughs. Plus tonight, Tom Wrigglesworth chats to Amy TUE 08:30 The Men from the Ministry (b007jp1t) Young Frederica …. Hannah Watkins Howerska. Sky High Crowe …. Dudley Sutton TUE 23:00 Vent (b00t6v4j) Construction chaos abounds for the bungling bureauacrats over Alexander …. Adam Kotz Series 1 a new office block. Wilkie …. James Callis Switching Off Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. Jenny …. Hannah Dee As he lies unconscious in intensive care, Ben's mind takes him With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley and John Graham. Stephanie …. Helen Longworth on the most difficult journey yet. Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham. All four novels dramatised in 30 parts by John Harvey. Travelling through the landscape of his own chaotic brain, it 'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 Producer: Mary Peate. looks surprisingly like Mordor. and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002. In the real world, it's time to see if Ben can breathe on his own. 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, TUE 14:45 Book of the Week (b011v1bb) Dark sitcom written by Nigel Smith. however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows James Joyce - A Biography Ben …. Neil Pearson in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC Episode 2 Jean …. Josie Lawrence Radio 4 Extra. "Living In Ireland had lost all meaning for Joyce; and the lure of Mary …. Fiona Allen Producer: Edward Taylor 'exile' began to possess him. But if he was to elope with Nora he Blitzkrieg …. Leslie Ash First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in July 1974. would need to secure an income, and would Nora go with him? With Dave Lamb, Mark Perry, Jo Martin, Tim Whitnall and TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b07d7b01) Fortunately, she was as captivated by him as he was by her..." Scarlett Milburn-Smith [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] Our five part reading of this voluminous account looks at Producer: Gareth Edwards TUE 09:45 Stewart Permutt - Singular Women (b00755cm) Joyce's years spent in Europe, when he held down menial jobs, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2006. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] caroused a lot, experienced the ups and downs of married life, TUE 23:30 The Remains of Foley and McColl (b007jrl6) TUE 10:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior (b03m7vj1) but still managed to produce works of literature that stand the The Real You The Young Lady in Black test of time. Their BBC producer forces Sean and Hamish to get proper Mrs Oliphant wrote her last chapter of the Chronicles of 2. Joyce and Nora have left Ireland for Pola and then Trieste, jobs. Carlingford when Lucilla Marjoribanks married Tom. where literary ambitions are at odds with the need to eke out a Surreal comedy starring award-winning double act, Sean Foley It's now 1875 and Mrs Oliphant returns to the town to focus on living. So maybe Joyce's brother Stannie should join them? and Hamish McColl - the Right Size. Phoebe Beecham's family - with the jealousies and rivalries of TUE 15:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior (b03m7vj1) With: Carlingford between the Church and the Dissenters and Society [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Rose English and its shopkeepers. TUE 16:00 Counterpoint (b00drrzf) Count Arthur Strong Stars Elizabeth Spriggs as Mrs Oliphant, Charlotte 2005 Chris Lamer Attenborough as Phoebe, Junior, Michael Onslow as Clarence Episode 6 Mark Stevens Copperhead, Timothy West as Copperhead, Elizabeth Proud as Ned Sherrin hosts the music quiz with Oliver Longstaff and Producer: Lissa Evans Mrs Copperhead, Norman Bird as Mr Beecham, Ann Windsor Peter Robinson of Harrogate and Jane Prust from Leeds. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2000. as Phoebe, Snr, John Hollis as Tozer, Cathy Sara as Ursula, TUE 16:30 Ayres on the Air (b01ms34r) Peter Jeffrey as Mr May, Fiona Christie as Janey May, Richard Series 4 Derrington as Reginald May, David King as Sir Robert Dorset, Spring WEDNESDAY 01 JUNE 2016 Sunny Ormonde as Ann Dorset and Oona Beeson as Sophy Popular poet Pam Ayres presents a series of poetry and sketch Dorset. shows about the seasons. WED 00:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Music composed and played by Malcolm McKee. Starting with Spring, Pam ponders flowers and animals, spring Chesterton (b007jvck) Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Sue Wilson. elections plus she has some unusual tips for spring cleaning. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. Her poems include: I Was Standing by the Cow; Heaps of Stuff; WED 00:30 The Tingle Factor (b07d7yr3) TUE 11:00 Opening Lines (b00d4f0g) Barking: Fleeced and the Snoring Poem. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Series 10 With Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead WED 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133pl2) The Deep Producer: Claire Jones. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Miranda and Andy's idyllic holiday in the tropics ends up First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in September 2012. WED 01:30 Who Was Joyce Hatto? (b00tt6f6) exposing rifts in their relationship. Read by Helen Longworth. TUE 17:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28 May – 3 June 2016 Page 6 of 9 WED 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River (b00nhw1l) Leading Seamen Goldstein. Sixsmith examines the impact of neuroscience on what we [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS know about the way we think, feel and act. WED 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen He undergoes transmagnetic cranial stimulation to map the Psychology and the Mind (b042zsy1) series between 1959 and 1976. workings of his brain and he looks down a microscope at the [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] Scripted by Lawrie Wyman Oxford Brain Bank to see what individual brain cells can tell us. WED 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsgc) Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. He listens to the chattering of neurons communicating with [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1964. each other through a single wire implanted in a rat's brain and WED 02:45 Book of the Week (b011v1bb) WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00j1c4p) finds out why London cabbies have larger hippocampi than the [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] Series 9 rest of us. WED 03:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior (b03m7vj1) Episode 4 Producer: Sara Parker [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] What's My Kink? - and Prune Playhouse presents The Search A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. WED 04:00 Counterpoint (b00drrzf) for the Nile. WED 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsgn) [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, The Virgin in the Garden, Part 3/8 WED 04:30 Ayres on the Air (b01ms34r) David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. Marcus Potter's increasingly strange behaviour is making his [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] Sketches written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. sisters very concerned. WED 05:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue The Virgin in the Garden is the first of four AS Byatt novel (b008zs1b) ‘Cambridge Circus’, ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and adaptations chronicling the lives of the Potter family, set against [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] quickly developed a cult following. the social and political landscape of England of 1953-1970. WED 05:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters (b01s8cp3) Music and songs by Bill Oddie, Liam Cohen and Dave Lee. Older Frederica …. Rosemary Leach [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] Producers: David Hatch/John Cassels Young Frederica …. Hannah Watkins WED 06:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0132tjy) First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in November 1973. Marcus …. Carl Prekopp Series 1 WED 09:00 Jest a Minute (b012n3rz) Simmonds …. Adam Godley Dixie Series 1 Bill …. Geoffrey Whitehead When things go missing from the Dixon household Doris, the Episode 2 Winifred …. Barbara Flynn downtrodden girl from next door, is exposed as a petty thief. Justin Moorhouse, Rob Deering, Chris Corcoran and Tom Allen Stephanie …. Helen Longworth But it's Mary Dixon who comes to her rescue, against George's hit London in Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz. From September Daniel …. Shaun Dooley wishes, and who earns the admiration of Andy Crawford... 2006. All four novels dramatised in 30 parts by John Harvey. Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David WED 09:30 Change at Oglethorpe (b007k0mg) Producer: Mary Peate. Calder as PC George Dixon nnd David Tennant as Andy The Unquiet American First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002. Crawford. An exciting new engine could soon be running on the quiet rural WED 14:45 Book of the Week (b011vg8x) Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The railway - but there's a big catch. How can the staff make James Joyce - A Biography Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. Oglethorpe look like a busy, modern station? Episode 3 However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series Peter Davison and Michael Williams star in Peter Morfoot's "Living In Ireland had lost all meaning for Joyce; and the lure of running from 1955 to 1976. railway sitcom. 'exile' began to possess him. But if he was to elope with Nora he PC George Dixon ...... David Calder David ...... Peter Davison would need to secure an income, and would Nora go with him? PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant Rocket ...... Michael Williams Fortunately, she was as captivated by him as he was by her..." Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks June ...... Rosemary Martin Our five part reading of this voluminous account looks at Mrs Davies ...... Esther Elliott Points ...... Phillippa Wilson Joyce's years spent in Europe, when he held down menial jobs, Doris Monroe ...... Sarah Counsell Hattie ...... Madge Hindle caroused a lot, experienced the ups and downs of married life, Mr Monroe ...... Roland Oliver Sodd ...... Chris Emmett but still managed to produce works of literature that stand the Harry Lane ...... Paul Currier York ...... Don Fellows test of time. Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by Producer: Gareth Edwards 3. Exile leads to Rome which is not an idyll but all Sue Rodwell. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1995. 'Pprrpffrrppff' to Joyce. So it's back to Stannie in Trieste... Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. WED 10:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior (b03m7vj3) WED 15:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior (b03m7vj3) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2005. A New Gentleman [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED 06:30 Banishing Eve (b00rd4f1) Phoebe Beecham has met Clarence Copperhead at a Ball in WED 16:00 Jest a Minute (b012n3rz) Episode 1 London. His wealthy father disapproves of her, and she [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Historian of the ancient world Bettany Hughes uses the latest fortuitously leaves London to visit her sick Grandmother in WED 16:30 Change at Oglethorpe (b007k0mg) scholarship to take us back to the 2nd century AD, as pagan Carlingford but gets a shock on arrival... [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Europe began to embrace Christianity. What emerged out of Stars Elizabeth Spriggs as Mrs Oliphant, Charlotte WED 17:00 Married (b00804fg) this crucible of religious change marked the beginning of the Attenborough as Phoebe, Junior and Peter Jeffrey as Mr May. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] end for women as religious leaders for a millennium and half. Dramatised from Margaret Oliphant's 1876 novel by Elizabeth WED 17:30 Heresy (b07c2t5p) Common wisdom would have it that women went from Proud. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] goddesses to flower arrangers in just over a century. But why - Producer: Sue Wilson WED 18:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK and was it that straightforward? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. Chesterton (b007ww7m) Bettany finds that the history of women in the early church is WED 11:00 Opening Lines (b00d4f0l) 13. The Accuser written more in the fragments of stone left behind than in the Series 10 As Sunday presides over a feast, Lucien Gregory appears. scriptures. She visits Rome and traces the activities of women Put the Radiator on, Get the Coffee Going Gabriel Syme finds himself back in Saffron Park. in the early church as they fought hand in hand with men to see Series showcasing cutting-edge contemporary writing. Published in 1908, GK Chesterton's most famous novel is their faith survive. Things got more difficult after Christianity In Anna Britten's story, a young decorator's encounter with a concluded by Geoffrey Palmer. became the recognised religion of the Roman Empire and middle-aged divorcee and a dragonfly give him unexpected Director: Lawrence Jackson beyond. But this is not just a tale of capitulation and inspiration for a colour scheme. Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. annihilation; women fought doggedly for their positions. From Read by Mike Bailey. First broadcast in March 2005. Nicea to Northumbria, Bettany follows the decline - but not WED 11:15 Andy Rashleigh - Be Prepared (b0076m8m) WED 18:30 Off the Page (b007x3f6) quite fall - of women in the early church. Ian McKellen stars as one of the key figures of the early 20th Know Your Place WED 07:00 Married (b00804fg) century, Robert Baden-Powell. The founder of the Scout Dominic Arkwright, Peregrine Worsthorne, Joolz Denby and Series 2 movement looks back on a life embodying the spirit of Imperial Francis Gilbert discuss 'knowing your place'. From August Serenity adventure. From the balcony of his home, he regrets, he gives 2007. It's been a taxing few months for Robin in his new universe, but thanks, he wonders if he has at last found something like WED 19:00 The Navy Lark (b01mhnh2) at last he seems to have tapped into that well of inner peace. harmony and peace... [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Or is there a more obvious explanation? Written by Andy Rashleigh. WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00j1c4p) Hugh Bonneville stars in Tony Bagley's comedy. Baden Powell ...... Ian McKellen [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Robin .... Hugh Bonneville Olave ...... Zoe Waites WED 20:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0132tjy) Lesley .... Josie Lawrence Boy McLaren ...... Nicholas Boulton [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Dirk .... Stephen Frost Manning ...... Jon Glover WED 20:30 Banishing Eve (b00rd4f1) Ned .... Sam Bradley Wolseley ...... John Rowe [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Maxine .... Ann Gosling Proudfoot ...... Philip Fox WED 21:00 Opening Lines (b00d4f0l) Producer: Claire Jones Peter ...... George Hammond [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000. Nurse ...... Alice Hart WED 21:15 Andy Rashleigh - Be Prepared (b0076m8m) WED 07:30 Heresy (b07c2t5p) Director: Cherry Cookson. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Series 10 First broadcast on Radio 4 in July 2004. WED 22:00 Heresy (b07c2t5p) Episode 2 WED 12:00 The Navy Lark (b01mhnh2) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED 22:30 Start/Stop (b03c46ts) which dares to commit heresy . WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00j1c4p) Series 1 Her guests this week are Alex Horne, Jonny Woo and Richard [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Lunch Osman. Together they discuss money, dress codes and sexy TV WED 13:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0132tjy) A comedy about three couples sailing off in to the sunset. And dramas. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] sinking. Producer: Daisy Knight WED 13:30 Banishing Eve (b00rd4f1) This week a lunch invitation looks like it might change An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] everything. 2016. WED 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River (b00nj7cs) Written and starring Jack Docherty. With Charlie Higson. WED 08:00 The Navy Lark (b01mhnh2) A Time of Fear Producer: Steven Canny Series 6 Tensions between the white farmers and the Aboriginals start to Jack Docherty Stuck on a Sandbank escalate. Read by Ron Cook. Jack has an exceptional record of making stand-out comedy. He The crew of HMS Troutbridge is set for shore leave - if they WED 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of first performed at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the can just manage to complete one tiny mission first. Psychology and the Mind (b0435c89) comedy sketch group The Bodgers and went on to write for Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Mapping the Brain radio and television including: Spitting Image, Alas Smith and Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, From early research into how different areas of the brain Jones, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Absolutely, The Lenny Henry Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Heather, function to President Barack Obama's announcement in 2013 of Show, Max Headroom, Weekending, The News Huddlines and Ronnie Barker as Able Seaman Johnson and Tenniel Evans as a one hundred million dollar brain mapping project, Martin a ton of other things. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28 May – 3 June 2016 Page 7 of 9 He has also performed in a huge variety of comedy shows continues to explore gender tension at the heart of the new Series 10 including in The Comic Strip Presents, The Morwenna Banks religion. Pink or Blue Show, Monarch of the Glen, Red Dwarf V, The Old Guys and As Christianity became the state religion in the Roman Empire Series showcasing cutting-edge contemporary writing. Badults. He has also featured in the Radio 4 comedies Baggage and spread into Europe, Bettany follows the concerted efforts to In Elizabeth Wells's story, gender stereotyping and and Mordrin MacDonald - 21st Century Wizard and has remove women from spiritual life. The church was becoming dysfunctional families are seen through a teenager's eyes in appeared on various comedy panel shows including Have I Got organised and its creed defined - and as the church fathers met small-town Canada. News For You and It's Only TV But I Like It. Jack presented in Nicea and Ephesus they were faced with a decision that Read by Maggie Blake. his own show The Jack Docherty Show which ran for 2 years on would affect the status of women for the next thousand years. THU 11:15 Jennifer Curry - The Man on the Green Bicycle Channel 5. How were women to be seen in the new church? The two (b007644w) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. characters of Eve and Mary dominated the debate and had The remarkable love affair between the famous translator of WED 23:00 2000 Years of Radio (b007jnh4) profound effects on the religious perception of women. Oriental poetry, Arthur Waley, and Alison Grant is reflected in Series 1 But women fought doggedly for their positions. Bettany sets out this tribute to their extraordinary relationship which spanned Mad - Georgian Radio to re-discover these women from Rome, Greece and a windy many years - and finally culminated in marriage shortly before Full Age of Enlightenment updates, plus the Earl of Sandwich Whitby and finds that the history of women in the early Church his death in 1966. lives up to his name. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From November is written as much in the fragments of stone left behind as in the Jennifer Curry's drama based on real events. 2000. official scriptures. Stars Ronald Pickup as Arthur Waley, Maureen O'Brien as WED 23:15 Guy Browning's Small Talk (b0076n25) THU 07:00 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves Alison Grant, Carolyn Jones as Beryl, Helen Longworth as the Series 2 (b007jqjc) Student, Roy Lonnen as Hugh and Ewan Bailey as John. How to Pack Spode Is Unsuccessful Producer: Cherry Cookson Start naked and pretend to get dressed - bad luck if the taxi Gussie Fink-Nottle upsets his fiancee when he looks elsewhere First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. comes early. The writer shares travel tips. From September on the menu. THU 12:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter 2004. PG Wodehouse romp adapted in six parts by Richard Usborne. (b007jykd) WED 23:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (b0137yqf) Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 2 Wooster, Paul Eddington as Lord Sidcup, Jonathan Cecil as THU 12:30 Radio Active (b007k2hv) Episode 4 Gussie Fink-Nottle, Denise Coffey as Stiffy Bing, Aimi [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] The human chameleon's host of comic characters from a MacDonald as Madeline Bassett and Douglas Blackwell as the THU 13:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133g6t) deluded teenager to a nonagenarian Diva. Rev. Harold Pinker [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Multi-paced, one woman Fast Show starring Lucy Montgomery. Producer: David Hatch THU 13:30 Banishing Eve (b00rl4kn) With: First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Philip Pope THU 07:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision (b07c4tq7) THU 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River (b00njcrc) Sally Grace Series 2 It is Just Like Mine Waen Shepherd Women William and the Aboriginals struggle on for ownership of the Natalie Walter Paul looks at the forgotten women of history. From warriors to Hawksbury river banks. Read by Ron Cook. Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by Steve inventors to civil rights activists, Paul unearths some stories, THU 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Burge, Jon Hunter, Fay Rusling, Abigail Burdess, Suk Pannu, that for reasons of sexism and patriarchy, we never got told Psychology and the Mind (b0435kkj) Andy Wolton and Joseph Morpurgo. about at school. You're welcome, ladies. Man, Machine and Memory Script Editor: Dan Tetsell Paul Sinha returns for a second series of the show that uncovers In the 1950s, mathematician and Bletchley Park code breaker Producer: Katie Tyrrell the fascinating stories that we've forgotten in our onward march Alan Turing envisaged a sophisticated computer whose First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2011. of progress. In the last series we learned how Alexander mechanical generation of responses would be indistinguishable Graham Bell did NOT invent the telephone, and that the World from that of a human. Cup final of 2014 could only have happened because of the In this programme Martin Sixsmith looks at the way this THURSDAY 02 JUNE 2016 1415 invasion of Morocco. metaphor of human cognition has informed research into "Sinha's gift for finding humour in it all makes him worth a memory and perception. THU 00:00 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK listen" - The Telegraph He considers the work of the 1930s Cambridge psychologist Chesterton (b007ww7m) Written and performed by Paul Sinha Frederic Bartlett and the American memory specialist George [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Produced by Ed Morrish Miller. He talks to Alan Baddeley who with Graham Hitch THU 00:30 Off the Page (b007x3f6) A BBC Radio Comedy Production first broadcast on BBC developed a new theory of working memory, and to Peter [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Radio 4 in 2016. Thompson of the University of York about the way our brains THU 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0132tjy) THU 08:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter perceive and process information - sometimes failing to spot [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] (b007jykd) the most obvious. THU 01:30 Banishing Eve (b00rd4f1) Series 3 Producer: Sara Parker [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] The Leak A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. THU 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River (b00nj7cs) Author Gerald becomes obsessed with his wife Diana's sense of THU 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsh1) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] smell. The Virgin in the Garden, Part 4/8 THU 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring Ian Stephanie and Daniel declare their feelings for each other but Psychology and the Mind (b0435c89) Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his her father reacts badly. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] wife, Diana. The Virgin in the Garden is the first of four AS Byatt novel THU 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsgn) With Edward Kelsey. adaptations chronicling the lives of the Potter family, set against [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] Written by Basil Boothroyd. the social and political landscape of England of 1953-1970. THU 02:45 Book of the Week (b011vg8x) Producer: Bobby Jaye Young Frederica …. Hannah Watkins [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1979. Daniel …. Shaun Dooley THU 03:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior (b03m7vj3) THU 08:30 Radio Active (b007k2hv) Bill …. Geoffrey Whitehead [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] Series 5 Winifred …. Barbara Flynn THU 04:00 Jest a Minute (b012n3rz) Episode 3 Stephanie …. Helen Longworth [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] It's Martin Brown's one and only chance to do something useful All four novels dramatised in 30 parts by John Harvey. THU 04:30 Change at Oglethorpe (b007k0mg) with his life, as owner Sir Norman Tonsil generously pays for Producer: Mary Peate. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] him to become an all-round entertainer, for as long as it keeps First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002. THU 05:00 Married (b00804fg) him away from the radio station. THU 14:45 Book of the Week (b011vh4m) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey James Joyce - A Biography THU 05:30 Heresy (b07c2t5p) Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. Episode 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Music by Philip Pope and Steve Brown. "Living In Ireland had lost all meaning for Joyce; and the lure of THU 06:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133g6t) Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins with John 'exile' began to possess him. But if he was to elope with Nora he Series 1 Canter, John Docherty, Moray Hunter and Richard Curtis. would need to secure an income, and would Nora go with him? Rock, Rattle and Roll Producer: Jamie Rix Fortunately, she was as captivated by him as he was by her..." When a fanatical Spurs fan has his prized football rattle stolen, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1985. Our five part reading of this voluminous account looks at an FA cup tie provides the perfect excuse for a weekend away THU 09:00 The Food Quiz (b07db8j5) Joyce's years spent in Europe, when he held down menial jobs, in Blackpool for Andy and Mary. Series 2 caroused a lot, experienced the ups and downs of married life, Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David Episode 5 but still managed to produce works of literature that stand the Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy On Jay Rayner's menu are Clement Freud, Angela Hartnett, test of time. Crawford. Jennifer Sharp and Iqbal Wahhab. From September 2004. 4. It's February 1914, Joyce is 32. Tensions in Trieste increase Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The THU 09:30 Artists (b00y9453) with the prospect of war. Exile now means Zurich, a haven for Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. Series 1 writers and artists and gossip. Jung is there, so is Lenin, but However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series A Brush With Death Joyce wants running from 1955 to 1976. Gerard organises Tamsin's first solo exhibition, but she's got so to focus on writing Ulysses. PC George Dixon ...... David Calder much else to do. Stars Vicki Pepperdine. From April 2003. THU 15:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior (b03m7vk2) PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant THU 10:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior (b03m7vk2) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks An Unmitigated Cub THU 16:00 The Food Quiz (b07db8j5) Ben Harvey ...... Andrew Sachs Phoebe has made the acquaintance of the Mays in Carlingford. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Jessie Harvey ...... Jacqueline Tong Although of opposing religious persuasions, Reginald is strongly THU 16:30 Artists (b00y9453) Chris Miller ...... Alex McLaren attracted to her - and the arrival of Mr Northcote, the new non- [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Jim ...... Stuart Crossman conformist minister, causes friction which is not based on THU 17:00 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by purely ecclesiastical differences. (b007jqjc) Sue Rodwell. Stars Elizabeth Spriggs as Mrs Oliphant, Charlotte [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. Attenborough as Phoebe, Junior and Peter Jeffrey as Mr May. THU 17:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision (b07c4tq7) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2005. Dramatised from Margaret Oliphant's 1876 novel by Elizabeth [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU 06:30 Banishing Eve (b00rl4kn) Proud. THU 18:00 Edgar Allan Poe (b007jpt5) Episode 2 Producer: Sue Wilson The Fall of the House of Usher In the second part of her series charting the role of women in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. Episode 1 the founding of the Christian Church, historian Bettany Hughes THU 11:00 Opening Lines (b00d4f0n) What power does the family's ancestral home hold over Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28 May – 3 June 2016 Page 8 of 9 Roderick and Madeline Usher? FRI 05:00 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves Originally lost from the archive, the audio was recovered in a A man's descent into madness seems bound to the house of his (b007jqjc) BBC Treasure Hunt. ancestors. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1975. First published in 1839, Edgar Allan Poe's gothic horror story in FRI 05:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision (b07c4tq7) FRI 08:30 The Goon Show (b009qwz0) two parts. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] Series 7 Read by Sean Barrett. FRI 06:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133ldd) Wings Over Dagenham Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in September 2003. Series 1 Move aside Orville and Wilbur, Neddie Seagoon is the pioneer THU 18:30 Great Lives (b007728l) Roaring Boy aviator. Series 11 Mary and Andy have some exciting news for George, but he's Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Albert Einstein nowhere to be found - and on the other side of Dock Green, a Milligan and Larry Stephens. Time Magazine called him The Man of the Century and others desperate young man with a gun is on the run. Starring: have said he was 'the greatest Jew since Jesus'. His theories still Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David Peter Sellers make our brains spin, but what was Einstein like as a person? Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy Harry Secombe TV science presenter Professor Kathy Sykes discusses the Crawford. Spike Milligan archetypal crazy genius with Matthew Parris and Einstein's Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were biographer, John Gribbin. Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest THU 19:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series shows weren’t kept in the archive. (b007jykd) running from 1955 to 1976. With George Chisholm, the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] PC George Dixon ...... David Calder Geldray. THU 19:30 Radio Active (b007k2hv) PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks Announcer: Wallace Greenslade THU 20:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133g6t) Doug Beale ...... Carl Prekopp Producer: Pat Dixon [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Diana Johnson ...... Hayley Docherty First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in December 1956. THU 20:30 Banishing Eve (b00rl4kn) Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by FRI 09:00 We've Been Here Before (b00fy1g5) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Sue Rodwell. Series 2 THU 21:00 Opening Lines (b00d4f0n) Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2005. Clive Anderson hosts the panel show that pokes fun at events of THU 21:15 Jennifer Curry - The Man on the Green Bicycle FRI 06:30 The Ambassador's Reception (b00rv5dc) the past. (b007644w) "Being thrown out of the US embassy in Ankara with Arthur The topical historical satirical panel show setting out to prove [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Miller - a voluntary exile - was one of the proudest moments of that there's nothing new under, or in, The Sun. THU 22:00 Paul Sinha's History Revision (b07c4tq7) my life." Gyles Brandreth and Natalie Haynes battle it out against John [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] In March 1985 Harold Pinter and American playwright Arthur O'Farrell and Richard Herring. THU 22:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section Miller took a trip to Turkey that culminated in their being Producer: Ed Morrish (b045bqt6) thrown out of the American Ambassador's dinner party held in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. Series 3 Arthur Miller's honour. They were not in Turkey for a play or a FRI 09:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007jwbj) Cariad Lloyd and Gwyneth Herbert literary event but to draw attention to the ruthless limits being Series 1 Alex Horne and his five-piece band tackle the theme of the set on freedom of expression in Turkey at that time, and the The TV Stars Tudors versus The Vikings featuring a battle, a huge many writers languishing in prison. Rabbi Su is set to appear on TV, but Rabbi Abraham is not motivational song and a prequel to Barry Manilow's "Mr. Pinter, you don't seem to understand the realities of the impressed - or so it seems. Copacabana. situation here. Don't forget, the Russians are just over the The first of three series of Barry Grossman’s comedy-drama Special guest comedian: Cariad Lloyd. border. You have to bear in mind the political reality, the about the collision between the old and the new in the Jewish Band: Joe Auckland, Mark Brown, Will Collier, Ben Reynolds, diplomatic reality, the military reality." community of Hillfield. Ed Sheldrake. Writer and journalist Maureen Freely retraces their footsteps Starring David De Keyser as Rabbi Abraham Fine. Tracy-Ann With singer Gwyneth Herbert. and takes us on a journey across Istanbul into the homes and Oberman as Rabbi Su Jacobs, Doreen Mantle as Sadie Fine, Producer: Charlie Perkins. meeting places of the Turkish literati who in the 1980s were Henry Goodman as Melvin, Jonathan Kydd as Brian, Sheila First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2014. oppressed, imprisoned and tortured for their opinions. Until Steafel as Sue's Mum, Peter Landi as Gareth Broughton and THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b021zvz3) then the world had turned a blind eye to their plight. Did Pinter Rebecca Gethings as Fiona Collins. For two hours, seven nights a week, the Comedy Club offers and Miller's trip draw attention to a regime that was cruelly Music: Max Harris. the best laughs. Plus tonight, Tom Wrigglesworth chats again to persecuting its people or were hopes raised only to be quashed Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Amy Howerska. again with the realisation that military strategy was more First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b00bf9z0) important to the world than human rights? FRI 10:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior (b03m7vkc) Series 4 Evoking images of country full of promise yet stunted by doubt A Guilty Bit of Paper Beautiful England and distrust Maureen hears from painters, writers, and In the final episode of her Carlingford Chronicles, Mrs As Satan sets out to prove England is the worst nation, publishers - those who remember the trip vividly, those who Oliphant recounts how Mr May, beset on all sides by debt, is Scumspawn tackles a lager lout. Satanic sitcom stars Andy were locked up for speaking their mind, and the new generation swept towards the conclusion of his deceitful action. Hamilton. From April 2001. of authors. She finds out whether Turkey is a better, safer and Amongst the close little coterie of lovers, there is a surprise and THU 23:30 Hardeep at The Stand (b017pj3t) freer place to be a writer today than it was in the spring of 1985 a disappointment. Series 1 or whether having an opinion that deviates from the official line Stars Elizabeth Spriggs as Mrs Oliphant, Charlotte Episode 6 remains a dangerous path to tread. Attenborough as Phoebe, Junior, Peter Jeffrey as Mr May and 6/6 Producer: Gemma Newby Timothy West as Mr Copperhead. This week we hear a very familiar voice in a very familiar An All Out production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2010. Dramatised from Margaret Oliphant's 1876 novel by Elizabeth setting, it's Scotland's number one stand up comedian Fred FRI 07:00 Crowned Hudds (b00psrfz) Proud. MacAulay - that man simply has funny bones. Hardeep chats Fourth Wedding and Some Funerals Producer: Sue Wilson with Sarah Millican about her "catastrophic" career, there's a bit Poking fun at King Henry VIII, it's Roy Hudd's historical royal First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. of stand up from the amazing Neil Delamere and some jokes romp, with June Whitfield and Chris Emmett. From August FRI 11:00 Alex Shearer - Play Chopsticks for Me about wonky teeth and texting from Ireland's titter merchant 1995. (b04d0kl3) Colm O'Regan. FRI 07:30 Spotlight Tonight with Nish Kumar (b07ctlnq) The Great Stromberg is a great piano teacher, but his student THU 23:45 Knocker (b008g2dm) Pilot begins to suspect that he may be a fraud. Read by Jonathan Confidentialitydence We all like to think we know about the news and yet, whilst Keeble. Experimental kitchen wipes sorely test market researcher Ian jokes about George Osborne's new haircut are all well and FRI 11:15 Sue Teddern - Picking Up the Pieces (b0076dyr) Dunn. Stars Neil Edmond and Paula Wilcox. From December good, do you still have that nagging suspicion there's important Emma's husband was killed after intervening in a burglary. 2007. things going on beneath the headlines you'd like to know about? Back at work, her friends have no idea what to say so she finds Well, help is at hand! Nish Kumar is here to cast his spotlight herself feeling increasingly lonely. on the week's most talked about news items, taking an in-depth By chance, she meets the uncle of one of her husband's killers, FRIDAY 03 JUNE 2016 look at the biggest stories from the past seven days to scrutinise and an unlikely friendship develops. what's actually going on beneath the bluster. Sue Teddern's drama stars Nicola Stephenson as Emma, Shaun FRI 00:00 Edgar Allan Poe (b007jpt5) In tonight's show, Nish gets to grip with the EU and the Dingwall as Ross, Clare Corbett as Clare, Laura Doddington as [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] scaremongering coming from both sides, press regulation in Ken, Priyanga Elan as Mina and Andrew Harrison as Ian. FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b007728l) light of Paddling Pool-gate, and the seemingly impenetrable Director: Mary Peate [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] TTIP. Meanwhile, intrepid reporter Diane Steer puts the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. FRI 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133g6t) Remain campaign's predictions to the test. FRI 12:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Starring Nish Kumar, Kieran Hodgson, Cariad Lloyd, and Freya (b007jrx4) FRI 01:30 Banishing Eve (b00rl4kn) Parker. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] Written by Liam Beirne, Sarah Campbell, Max Davis, Gabby FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b009qwz0) FRI 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River (b00njcrc) Hutchinson-Crouch, Nish Kumar, and Tom Neenan. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] The research producer was Rachel Wheeley. FRI 13:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133ldd) FRI 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology The production coordinator was Sophie Richardson. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] and the Mind (b0435kkj) It was produced by Matt Stronge and was a BBC Studios FRI 13:30 The Ambassador's Reception (b00rv5dc) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] Production. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsh1) FRI 08:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? FRI 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River (b00njx8d) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] (b007jrx4) A New Emptiness FRI 02:45 Book of the Week (b011vh4m) Storm in a Tea Chest William Thornhill makes his choice, but will he reap his [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] Bob and Terry take a trip down memory lane. reward? Ron Cook reads the hard-hitting conclusion. FRI 03:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior (b03m7vk2) Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier, Rodney Bewes as Bob FRI 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Ferris and Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers. and the Mind (b04368f7) FRI 04:00 The Food Quiz (b07db8j5) With Robert Gillespie. A Problem of Consciousness [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Created and scripted for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La In this programme, Martin Sixsmith examines the 'hard FRI 04:30 Artists (b00y9453) Frenais. Adapted for radio by Patrick Tilley. problem' of consciousness and the work of psychologists such [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Producer: John Browell as Susan Blackmore who believe it is 'just an illusion'. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28 May – 3 June 2016 Page 9 of 9 He asks what drives us to think and act as we do, and questions FRI 22:00 Spotlight Tonight with Nish Kumar (b07ctlnq) the role of freewill and morality. He discovers how emotions [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] affect our cognitive functions and examines the importance of FRI 22:30 Armando Iannucci (b007jzbt) insight, including Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Kohler's work Series 2 with chimpanzees. Episode 1 He looks at Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman's 'thinking From world religious strife to greeting cards and crank calls. fast and thinking slow' model and the impact decision making Armando lannucci hosts wry comical discussion, sketches and has not only on individuals but also for the success of the music. economy and society. With Rebecca Front, David Schneider and Richard Herring. Produced by Sara Parker Written by Armando Iannucci, Peter Baynham, Richard Series consultant, Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, University Herring, Stewart Lee and Ben Moor. of London. Producer: Sarah Smith A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in March 1994. FRI 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jshd) FRI 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews (b07gdbgz) The Virgin in the Garden, Part 5/8 For two hours, seven nights a week, the Comedy Club offers In the year of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Bill Potter has the best laughs. Plus Arthur Smith chats to Deborah Frances- difficulty in accepting his daughter Stephanie's desire to marry White. the local curate, Daniel Orton FRI 23:30 The Consultants (b0076pm3) The Virgin in the Garden is the first of four AS Byatt novel Series 2 adaptations chronicling the lives of the Potter family, set against Episode 2 the social and political landscape of England of 1953-1970. The Consultants are facing legal problems after Jack and Jill's Older Frederica …. Rosemary Leach accident at work and the unfortunate demise of Dr Foster Young Frederica …. Hannah Watkins during an activity weekend in The Cotswolds. Bill …. Geoffrey Whitehead There's also a chance to re-remember their recently destroyed Winifred …. Barbara Flynn war serial "we dive to serve". Stephanie …. Helen Longworth The Consultants are Neil Edmond, Justin Edwards and James Daniel …. Shaun Dooley Rawlings. Mrs. Thone …. Sandra Clark Producer: Will Saunders Alexander …. Adam Kotz First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003. Mrs. Orton …. Bridget Turner All four novels dramatised in 30 parts by John Harvey. Producer: Mary Peate. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002. FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b011vhsg) James Joyce - A Biography Episode 5 "Living In Ireland had lost all meaning for Joyce; and the lure of 'exile' began to possess him. But if he was to elope with Nora he would need to secure an income, and would Nora go with him? Fortunately, she was as captivated by him as he was by her..." Our five part reading of this voluminous account looks at Joyce's years spent in Europe, when he held down menial jobs, caroused a lot, experienced the ups and downs of married life, but still managed to produce works of literature that have stood the test of time. 5. To Trieste, then later to Paris, and by 1919 it's the efforts of some determined women, Margaret Anderson, Harriet Weaver and Sylvia Beach, who help Joyce in the publication of Ulysses. FRI 15:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior (b03m7vkc) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI 16:00 We've Been Here Before (b00fy1g5) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 16:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007jwbj) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI 17:00 Crowned Hudds (b00psrfz) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI 17:30 Spotlight Tonight with Nish Kumar (b07ctlnq) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 18:00 Edgar Allan Poe (b007jsry) The Fall of the House of Usher Episode 2 As his behaviour starts to change, Roderick Usher reveals his terrible secret... A man's descent into madness seems bound to the house of his ancestors. Edgar Allan Poe's classic gothic horror story, first published in 1839. Concluded by Sean Barrett. Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in September 2003. FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b00mr2wr) Series 8 You've Got a Friend Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional appeal. Written by Carole King and made famous by James Taylor, You've Got a Friend won a Grammy Award in 1971. In this programme people tell how this song has affected their life. Contributors Carole King Nick Barraclough Marcella Erskine Estelle Williams Karen Garner James Taylor First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. FRI 19:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (b007jrx4) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b009qwz0) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 20:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133ldd) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 20:30 The Ambassador's Reception (b00rv5dc) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 21:00 Alex Shearer - Play Chopsticks for Me (b04d0kl3) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI 21:15 Sue Teddern - Picking Up the Pieces (b0076dyr) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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