Radio 4 Extra Listings for 31 July – 6 August 2021 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 31 JULY 2021 extraordinary global cook, still travelling the world sharing Another adventure for the celebrated playwright, actor, recipes and cultures. composer and amateur detective by Marcy Kahan. SAT 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js79) Claudia Roden ……. Tracy-Ann Oberman Noel Coward …… Malcolm Sinclair The World in Peril Nelly Douek ……. Ann Marcuson Lorn Loraine …… Eleanor Bron Episode 15 Cesar Douek ……. David Fleeshman Cole Lesley …… Tam Williams Stranded on the surface of the asteroid, Captain Jet Morgan and Interviewer/Auntie ……. Perveen Hussain Ginette Spanier …… Linda Marlowe Doc fight desperately to be rescued. Yotam Ottolenghi ……. Yotam Ottolenghi Monique …… Susy Kane Completing the sci-fi trilogy of the adventures of Captain Jet Young Nelly ……. Nelly Wolman Beatrice …… Jaimi Barbakoff Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy. Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Chester Flyete …… Everal Walsh Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Producers: Polly Thomas & Eloise Whitmore Jean-Marc Delafosse …… William Hootkins Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp Executive Producer: Robert Abel Vendeuse …… Francis Jeater Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast Director: Ned Chaillet Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass in April 2018. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003. Flynn …. Pat Campbell SAT 02:30 Paul is Dead (b04l0tvb) SAT 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b037hmyc) Various …. Alan Tilvern In 1969, with The Beatles in financial and creative turmoil, a Series 2 Rogers/The Martian/Announcer …. David Jacobs strange rumour swept the world. Episode 4 Music composed by Van Phillips It began with a phone call to a US chat show - Paul McCartney Who is Nick Helm's all time hero? Written and produced by Charles Chilton. had been killed in a road accident and replaced by the winner of What is the most embarrassing thing Isy Suttie's mum ever did? First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1956. a look-a-like competition, William Campbell an orphan from Who would play Dougie Anderson in the film of his life? SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00w227t) Edinburgh. All these questions, and more, will be answered in the show, Favourite Child And there were clues that could only be revealed by playing the where panellists are tested on how well they know their nearest Who was the favourite in your family, and do you have one Beatles records backwards. and dearest. amongst your own children? It sounds unlikely, but millions of fans believed it. Hosted by Miles Jupp. It's the great taboo. We speak with the man who took that phone call, the hoaxer Producer: Sam Michell Dominic Arkwright is joined by Rebecca Abrams, who bravely who developed the myth, and an expert on folklore who sees First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013. admits that she found it hard to love her first child after her uncanny parallels with ancient myths about changelings and the SAT 04:30 To the Manor Born (b007m9wg) second child was born. darker side of fairies. The Spare Room David Akinsanya grew up in care, aware that he was nobody's What does this odd tale tell us about The Beatles' place in our DeVere takes a shine to Mrs fforbes-Hamilton's guest. Is favourite child. cultural history? Audrey jealous? And Bidisha has always known she is the most favoured. Featuring out takes, clips from interviews and rarer versions of Starring Penelope Keith and Keith Barron. Why is it that even as adults it matters so much? Beatles songs. Lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her More new writing and honest, revealing talk Producer: Matt Thompson beloved Grantleigh Estate, has decamped to the tiny Old Lodge Producer: Beth O'Dea A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in cottage with her butler in tow. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. October 2014. From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving SAT 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b01b3fdv) **** NOTES ON THE MUSIC USED IN THIS eye on new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere. Mrs McGinty's Dead PROGRAMME **** Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his BBC TV script. 5. Final Clue Wherever possible or appropriate, raw sounding demo or Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere The chaos of Long Meadows provides Hercule Poirot with his instrumental recordings from The Beatles Anthology albums Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher final clue to unveiling the pitiless murderer. were used. Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger But there's also another surprise in store for the Belgian For ultra lush mixes, the remixed versions from The Beatles' Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka detective... Love album were used. Interludes and chit chat were from the Frank Middlemass ..... Ned Conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit starring John Let it Be Naked - Fly on the Wall CD which contains out takes Podge Hodge ..... Zulema Dene Moffatt. from the Let It Be film recordings. First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt Timings refer to the actual programme start. appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. Ariadne Oliver ...... Julia MacKenzie 0.00 Yesterday (alt acoustic version) (Disc 1, Track 7 - Producer: Jane Berthoud Superintendent Spence ...... George Baker Anthology 2, The Beatles) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997. Robin Upward ...... Nick Waring 1.08 Ballad Of Paul (Track 24 - Beatlemaniacs!!! The World of SAT 05:00 Guilt Trip (b07nrlqx) Maud Williams ...... Beth Chalmers Beatles Novelty Records) Episode 4 Maureen Summerhayes ...... Molly Gaisford 1.17 I Am The Walrus (no overdubs) (Disc 2, Track 14 - On the last day of the walk, Ros and Laura still have 10 miles to Major Summerhayes ...... Ian Masters Anthology 2, The Beatles) go. But when they oversleep at the hotel they weren't supposed Eve Carpenter ...... Angela Sims 1.37 Revolution 9 (Disc 2, Track 12 - The Beatles, The Beatles) to be staying at in the first place, it's not looking good. Guy Carpenter ...... Dominic Colchester 1.53 Ballad Of Paul (Track 24 - Beatlemaniacs!!! The World of They're hung over and Ruth is organising a big reception for Mrs Rendell ...... Susannah Corbett Beatles Novelty Records) them at Tower Bridge - but will they get there in time? Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. 3.17 I'm Looking Through You (Unissued version) (Disc 1, Comedy drama written by Katherine Jakeways with Felicity Director: Enyd Williams. Track 15 - Anthology 2, The Beatles) Montagu and Olivia Nixon. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006. 4.07 Revolution 9 (Disc 2, Track 12 - The Beatles, The Beatles) A mother and daughter are undertaking a two week sponsored SAT 01:30 Cordoba (m000y7mr) 4.17 Revolution 9 (reversed by programme producer) walk along The Thames Path to raise money for the dead and 6. La Pista Falsa 5.25 The Fool On The Hill (Demo) (Disc 2, Track 15 - divorced father's charity. Will they complete it? Alex's predictions of death have been proved to be true. Anthology 2, The Beatles) Ros ...... Felicity Montagu Will anyone take up journalist DT Mitchell's quest for justice? 6.33 A Day In The Life (take1/2) (Disc 2, Track 5 - Anthology Laura ...... Olivia Nixon Starring Alison Steadman. 2, The Beatles) Stepmother ...... Katherine Jakeways Conclusion of Nigel Baldwin’s thriller serial set in south Wales. 8.16 Strawberry Fields Forever (Track 8 - Magical Mystery With Katie Redford, Jeff Rawle Velibor Topic, George DT Mitchell …. Alison Steadman Tour, The Beatles) Watkins, Nancy Crane and Chris Pavlo. Conrad De’Ath …. Bill Stewart 8.24 I'm Only Sleeping (Rehearsal) (Disc 1, Track 22 - Producer: Jane Berthoud Thomas …. Alan Towner Anthology 2, The Beatles) A BBC Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Alex …. Leslie Rooney 9.02 Fly On The Wall (In rehearsal) (Disc 2, Track 1 - Let It July 2016. Ieuan …. Robert Pugh Be...Naked, The Beatles) SAT 05:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000y64v) Beth …. Sue Jones Davies 9.12 Revolution 9 (Disc 2, Track 12 - The Beatles, The Beatles) Syd Nurse …. Marie Phillips 10.57 Glass Onion (Remix) (Track 3 - Love, The Beatles) Arthur Smith brings his hit Edinburgh Festival show to Radio 4. Smith …. Ivor Roberts 11.12 Glass Onion (Disc 1, Track 3 - The Beatles, The Beatles) Arthur's father Syd was an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Mrs Mitchell …. Lawmary Champion 12.07 Eleanor Rigby (Strings Only) (Disc 1, Track 21 - Just 17 when he signed up, he fought at El Alamein, was Original music by Laurie Scott Baker. Anthology 2, The Beatles) captured and then imprisoned in Colditz and, after the war, Directed at BBC Wales by Jane Dauncey. 13.34 Strawberry Fields Forever (Remix) (Track 13 - Love, joined the Metropolitan Police. He spent the rest of his working First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992. The Beatles) life patrolling the streets of London and had possibly the worst SAT 02:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08hqm3h) 14.54 Strawberry Fields Forever (Remix) (Track 13 - Love, arrest rate in the force - having been a prisoner of war he had Episode 10 The Beatles) no desire to subject anyone else to suffer a loss of liberty. Diner is taking Lizzie to the far side of the Gorge to a secret 16.47 I'm Looking Through You (Disc 1, Track 15 - Anthology In this funny and tender evocation of post-war Britain, Arthur place. 2, The Beatles) brings us Syd's diary entries and conjures up the spirit of his It is here she must confront the truth about what actually 17.33 John, Paul, George & Ringo (Track 1 - Beatlemaniacs!!! father, a man of great integrity and humour. happened to Diner's first wife... The World of Beatles Novelty Records) Recorded in front of a live, socially distanced audience, with Based in Bristol in 1792, Helen Dunmore's novel is set against a 18.13 Within You, Without You [Instrumental] (Disc 2, Track assistance from his brother Nick and music from Kirsty backdrop of the French Revolution. 11 - Anthology 2, The Beatles) Newton. It touches on radical idealism, property speculation, political 21.21 Your Mother Should Know (take 27) (Disc 2, Track 16 - Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith turmoil and private tragedy... Anthology 2, The Beatles) A Yada-Yada Audio production for BBC Radio 4 Concluded by Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp 23.18 Fly On The Wall (Paul on piano) (Disc 2, Track 1 - Let It SAT 06:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat Abridged by Sara Davies. Be...Naked, The Beatles) (b007k2b8) Producer: Julian Wilkinson 23.54 Fly On The Wall (Anyone seen John) (Disc 2, Track 1 - J, Harris, George and Montmorency the dog, feel they are in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017 Let It Be...Naked, The Beatles) need of a little holiday. SAT 02:15 Claudia Roden: A Book of Middle Eastern Food 25.15 Octopus's Garden / Sun King (Remix) (Track 16 - Love, So they decide to take a boat trip along the River Thames. (b09xp0w7) The Beatles) Starring Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Horne and Hubert Gregg. 5. Celebrated SAT 03:00 Noel Coward Mysteries - A Bullet At Balmain's Hubert Gregg's musical adaptation of Jerome K Jerome's As Claudia continues to research and share recipes from all (b00t5jmj) famous Victorian comic novel. over the world, she is celebrated by fellow cooks but still Noel Coward in Post-Liberation Paris, 1948: haute couture, George ...... Leslie Phillips prepares meals with her family, including granddaughter Nell, existentialism, jazz . . . and death. Harris ...... Kenneth Horne rather than her mother. Coward is in Paris to play the lead in his own play 'Present 'J' ...... Hubert Gregg Published in 1968, Claudia Roden's book was a major landmark Laughter' in French. Montmorency ...... Percy Edwards in the history of food writing and paved the way for all the TV But the murder of a promiscuous mannequin provides a stylish Station Master ...... Arthur Howard chefs who followed. distraction. Driver/ Landlord ...... Fred Yule Anjum Malik’s entertaining dramatisation, shines a light on an Malcolm Sinclair stars as Noel Coward. Other parts played by: Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 31 July – 6 August 2021 Page 2 of 11 Lewis Stringer family quarrel, betrayal and a public fall from grace. 1. The Game Arthur Gomez Simon Fanshawe examines the literary legacy and complex Charlotte and Lillian are back, spending time together as part of Anthony Hall private lives of Maugham in the company of writers, a Befriend the Elderly scheme. They may bicker about Michael Deacon performers, biographers and family members. everything from signs of dementia to the appeal of Harry Styles, Barbara Mitchell Producer: Mike Greenwood but underneath it’s clear they are two kindred spirits. Two Elizabeth Morgan Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions and first selfish, self-absorbed spirits, but ones who mirror and rely on Dorriet Wells broadcast in February 2015. each other nonetheless. Peggy Butt SAT 12:00 Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers (b098jtq1) Very nearly 30, Charlotte is still living at home with her parents John Baddeley Series 1 and chronically unable to figure out what to do with her life. BBC Augmented Revue Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Childhood Beneath her attempt at do-gooding is barely disguised despair. Lockyer. Writer and comedian, Andy Hamilton shares his observations She's terrified she is no good. Useless. Unloveable. She looks to Singers: and reminiscences about his personal life and 40 years working Lillian to provide some meaning to her life - if she can help to Joan Brown in comedy. improve Lillian’s life somehow, she’d feel a lot better about her Cliff Adams Singers For starters, Andy recalls his favourite childhood sounds of the own. And there’s all the kudos and social media likes that come Dorothy Dorow ice-cream van and the roar of the Stamford Bridge. Plus his with charity work - not to mention the lure of Lillian's large Jillian Gray memories of being an overcautious and yet inattentive parent. spare room. Sylvia King The rest of this four-part series looks at Politics, The Human Lillian meanwhile is still her ebullient self, but her facade hides Ray Cook Body and Animals. a nagging fear of what's to come - her body is giving up on her. John O’Neil Using comic observation and personal anecdotes he explore Lillian's motto is still “Keep Buggering On” – aka keep getting Producer: Mark White each theme, examining how much (or how little) things have at Charlotte – but increasingly, she’s forced to wonder why. She First broadcast on the BBC Home Service on Boxing Day 1962. changed over his 60ish years. masks all this by doubling down and manipulating Charlotte SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b01g9c4w) It’s Andy’s thoughtful, social history, but packed with laughs. into carrying out all her menial tasks. If Charlotte won’t do Series 27 Producer: Claire Jones them, there are plenty of other volunteers who will. Gertrude Stein First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017. Charlotte has met a new man, prompting Lillian to offer up her Gertude Stein, American poet, writer and art collector, lived SAT 12:30 The Brothers (b00nn2hg) best dating advice. Things may have changed since Lillian’s day, most of her life in France. Series 2 but some of her suggestions contain hard-won, ageless wisdom. She was one of the first people to spot the genius of Picasso, Episode 1 The trouble is, Charlotte can't tell which ones – and Lillian may Cezanne and Matisse, and she believed she was a genius too. Michael becomes obsessed by the circus - and Nigel has a not have her best interests at heart. Opinion on that score remains divided. bizarre encounter with a Ted Hughes poem. Charlotte ...... Helen Monks Erin Pizzey nominates Stein because she inspired her to ‘live a Return of the sitcom about the dysfunctional Burbage siblings. Lillian ...... Miriam Margolyes life without compromise’. Written by Caroline and David Stafford. Written by: Kat Sommers and Holly Walsh. Since setting up the world's first refuge for battered women in Nigel Burbage …. Adam Godley Producer: Lucy Armitage 1971, Pizzey has campaigned and written about domestic Michael Burbage …. Ray Coulthard A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in violence, publishing ‘Scream Quietly Or The Neighbours Will Oonagh …. Pauline McLynn October 2019. Hear’ and her autobiography ‘This Way To The Revolution’. Zorro …. Alex Lowe SAT 15:00 Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself (b04grrpq) Joining presenter Matthew Parris in the studio is Diana Director: Marc Beeby Episode 1 Souhami, author of ‘Gertrude and Alice’. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005. The impression and sketch show that looks behind the scenes at Producer: Isobel Eaton SAT 13:00 Charles Parker Prize (m000y68y) the life and work of star impressionist Lewis Macleod First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2012. 2021 Lewis has performed on BBC Radio 4 Extra's Newsjack, plus SAT 08:00 The Motion Show (b00762sc) Sara Parker introduces a new generation of student features Postman Pat, The Phantom Menace and Dead Ringers. Series 4 makers, all winners and finalists of the Charles Parker prize With: Episode 5 2021 – set up in memory of her father. Kate O'Sullivan Debates galore from the state of politics - to the existence of Through the late 1950s and 60s, pioneering radio producer Duncan Wisbey supernatural forces. Charles Parker, along with folk icons Ewan MacColl and Peggy Julian Dutton Graeme Garden chairs the quirky battle of words and wit. Seeger, made ‘The Radio Ballads’ , an innovative series which Producer: Lyndsay Fenner With Gyles Brandreth, Scott Capurro, Arthur Smith and Paul brought a new landscape of radio storytelling – interweaving First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2014. Daniels. interview and actuality with MacColl and Seeger’s musical SAT 15:30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Producer: Helen Williams narrative. Better (b00cxr1s) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2001. Charles’ daughter Sara Parker, herself an award-winning radio Series 2 SAT 08:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k1kz) producer, hears this year's very best features on themes ranging Courage Series 2 from gender and race, body image, an asylum seeker, a window Mark Watson promotes the virtue of courage The Comeback Kid cleaner and a secluded all-male swimming place on the outskirts Fresh from his quest to free us from the seven deadly sins in his Rosie and her team are asked to relaunch the career of an of Oxford to an invisible army of cleaners battling Covid and a first series - Mark turns his attention to six virtues. ageing children's TV presenter doctor who turns to his love of the violin for solace with the Tim Key and Tim Minchin provide poetry, music and feats of Can they prove that old fashioned entertainment can win out Gold winning feature remembering 40 years on, the New Cross cowardice. over computer games? fire which killed 13 black teenagers. Producer: Katie Marsden Prunella Scales stars in Simon Brett's sitcom. There are extracts from the winning features of: Magdalena First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2007. The trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event Moursy, Hunter Charlton, Chantal Herbert, Isobel Howe and SAT 16:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat management company, based in Brighton. Emma Millen, as well as the five runners-up Stephen Bissett, (b007k2b8) Rosie ...... Prunella Scales Shelley Gates, Mariana Araújo Ramos Maia Gonçalves, Ben [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Kate ...... Arabella Weir Tulloh and Kate White. SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b01g9c4w) Jo ...... Rebecca Callard You can hear the five winners’ work in full in the series ‘New [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Bob ...... Duncan Preston Storytellers’ on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. SAT 18:00 Stephen Mulrine - Ivan The Fool and Vasilisa Tess ...... Annette Badland Producer: Jay Sykes The Wise (m00027jp) Tommy Tummy ...... David Wood Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Soundscape Productions. “This is a very peculiar story....” Julian ...... James Vaughan SAT 14:00 Sara Pascoe: The Modern Monkey (b09ry6k4) And so it is, with a man-eating witch, a talking doll, a dead Bernard ...... Jim North Series 1 princess and a live skeleton - the source of all the world's evil. Children ...... Stefan Abingdon /Alice Connor Murder But the course of true love never did run smooth and Ivan the Producer: Maria Esposito Sara Pascoe sets out to explore our modern social world though Fool is determined to marry the beautiful Vasilisa, no matter First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2001. theories of Evolutionary Psychology and more. what the obstacles... SAT 09:00 The Lives and Work of Somerset Maugham How does our monkey past influence our modern lives? Nicholas McArdle narrates Stephen Mulrine’s magical drama. (b054051p) How come we can still get emotionally hijacked by our Ivan The Fool …… Jonathan Tafler William Somerset Maugham was one of the most commercially primitive emotions? Koschei …… John Rye successful English writers ever. Murder fascinates and intrigues as much as it repels us. Vasilisa The Wise …… Victoria Carling His plays, short stories and novels effortlessly sold in their Happily the human animal is much more of a pacifist than lots Baba Yaga …… Pauline Letts millions; his work on stage, page and screen drew huge of our other mammal relations, including meerkats (the adverts Doll …… Caroline Gruber audiences. have lied to us). But even the most patient among us has Tsaritsa …… Julie Berry Maugham remains the English writer most adapted for film and probably been driven to murderous thoughts on occasion, The Priest …… Alan Dudley TV. And yet he described himself as possessing only a "knack" especially when your sister steals your clothes. Director: Matthew Walters for writing and his place among the literary greats as being only From sibling rivalry, to pair bonding this is an informative and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1987. "in the first row of the second rate". Despite his huge popularity hilarious look at one of the darker aspects of human behaviour. SAT 19:00 The Lives and Work of Somerset Maugham with a mass audience, the literary establishment dismissed him Recorded on location at The RAF Museum, Colindale (b054051p) as "middle brow". Written by and starring Sara Pascoe [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] The subjects he wrote about, and his complex and exotic Producer: Alexandra Smith SAT 22:00 Rigor Mortis (b007r5lr) lifestyle moulded the image of the successful 20th century A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Series 2 writer - a wide circle of famous friends, a villa in the South of February 2018. Episode 5 France, the adulation of readers across the globe and the ears of SAT 14:30 Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian (m000fgst) St Luke's Hospital Pathology holds its first ‘scratch night’ for the Empire's leaders. Series 2 work in progress. His own long life, too, reads like the plot for a novel. Born 1. Racism Starring Peter Davison. when Disraeli was Prime Minister, he died when the 60s were Stand-up series exploring British Chinese culture from BBC Laurence Howarth's black comedy set in the world of the in full swing. He trained as a doctor, dedicated himself to being New Comedy Award finalist Ken Cheng. pathology lab. a writer, and spent time as a First World War spy. He travelled Dave's Joke of the Fringe Winner, Cambridge mathematics Dr Webster .... Peter Davison the globe in search of material for stories - chronicling the dropout and professional poker player Ken Cheng returns with Dr Anderson .... Matilda Ziegler boredom, frustration and scandals of the colonial class of series exploring free speech, social status, racism and money… Professor Donaldson: .... Geoffrey Whitehead empire builders. Producer: Adnan Ahmed Gordon .... Tom Price His private life was complicated. In England he seemed a pillar A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Chloe .... Marianne Levy of the establishment, yet he set up an exotic and promiscuous February 2020. Simon .... Gus Brown lifestyle in a villa on the Cote d'Azur with a succession of gay SAT 14:45 Charlotte and Lillian (m00094k1) with Beth Chalmers and Steven Kynman lovers. His last years were marked by an extraordinary, toxic Series 2 Music by Paul Mottram and Stephanie Benavente. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 31 July – 6 August 2021 Page 3 of 11 Producer: Dawn Ellis correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times unable to have children. Sue was in a relationship with the TV First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004. Magazine. Later, she hosted a BBC TV series, Claudia Roden's presenter Anna Richardson. SAT 22:30 Chain Reaction (b05417lh) Mediterranean Cookery, and has won many awards and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2017. Series 10 trophies. SUN 10:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000ydvz) Bob Mortimer talks to Vic Reeves Featuring cameos from Yotam Ottolenghi and Claudia's Embracing Yoga One half of comedy double-act Vic & Bob, Bob Mortimer, granddaughter, Nelly Wolman. Jal grew up in Preston, thinking yoga was just something talks to Anjum Malik’s entertaining five-part dramatisation shines a grannies did in the temple and resisting suggestions she gave it a The other half of comedy double-act Vic & Bob, Vic Reeves. light on an extraordinary global cook, still traveling the world go herself. It wasn't until her husband Richard suggested a Vic & Bob are best know as the creators and stars of The Smell sharing recipes and cultures. spontaneous trip to India that she truly connected to the spiritual of Reeves and Mortimer, Shooting Stars and House of Fools. Omnibus of five parts. practise. Chain Reaction is the long running hostless chat show where Claudia Roden ……. Tracy-Ann Oberman This story originally appeared on the BBC podcast, Multi Story. last week's interviewee becomes this week's interviewer. Nelly Douek ……. Ann Marcuson Presented by Becca Bryers and produced by Versha Nayee. Producer: Charlie Perkins Cesar Douek ……. David Fleeshman SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m000ydw1) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2015. Interviewer/Auntie ……. Perveen Hussain Out of Step, Out of Place SAT 23:00 Sara Pascoe: The Modern Monkey (b09snj96) Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore True stories told live in the USA: Jenifer Hixson introduces Series 1 Producers: Polly Thomas & Eloise Whitmore tales of outsiders, of being at odds....and moving beyond. Jealousy Executive Producer: Robert Abel The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated How does our monkey past influence our modern lives and how A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since come we can still get emotionally hijacked by our primitive April 2018. 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling emotions? SUN 08:30 A Life of Bliss (m0001mzg) novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and Sara Pascoe investigates an emotion that we don't often like to A Slave of Fashion yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George admit to - Jealousy. David’s father takes up art, much to his amusement - until he Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in It's unattractive but in evolutionary terms, it's a survival tactic - has to pose for a portrait... Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the it's good to be competitive for resources. But in the modern George Cole stars in Godfrey Harrison's sitcom about bashful, screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, world, are we just hairless apes comparing ourselves on social bumbling bachelor David Alexander Bliss. The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at media? And what can we do about it? David Bliss …. George Cole theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the Recorded on location at The Foundling Museum in London. Anne Fellows …. Diana Churchill USA, the UK and other parts of the world. Written by and starring Sara Pascoe Tony Fellows …. Colin Gordon The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and Producer: Alexandra Smith Zoe Hunter …. Sheila Sweet without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Mrs Bliss …. Gladys Young Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. February 2018. Mr Bliss …. Carleton Hobbs Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the SAT 23:30 The Mark Steel Lecture (b007qhq3) Lord Garland …. William Mervyn humorous to the heart-breaking. Series 2 'Psyche' the Dog …. Percy Edwards The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic Karl Marx Six series of 118 episodes of A Life of Bliss ran on the BBC Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed A profile of the influential revolutionary thinker and Home Service from 1953. It moved to BBC TV for a run of six by the Public Radio Exchange. philosopher. episodes in 1969. First heard on PRX in February 2019. Mark Steel lectures humourously about historical figures that Sadly very few episodes survive in the BBC archive, including SUN 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (b091vqr1) have shaped their era. the first seven starring David Tomlinson. His replacement [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] With: George Cole went to to star in the St Trinian's films and later as SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m000ydw3) Martin Hyder dodgy Arthur Daley in ITV's Minder. Adventures In Poetry - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's Carla Mendonca Producer: Leslie Bridgmont day?" Producer: Lucy Armitage First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1959. As part of our Dive Into Summer season, poet Daljit Nagra First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2001. SUN 09:00 Not in Front of the Children (b08bs9qt) selects an edition of Adventures in Poetry - "Shall I compare Series 2 thee to a summer's day?" Old Grey Mare Adventures In Poetry - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's SUNDAY 01 AUGUST 2021 Jennifer is 'expecting' and the family are expectant - a country day?" Sonnet No 18 by William Shakespeare. week-end is planned, but some alarms spoil the excursions. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" asks Richard Wilson, SUN 00:00 Stephen Mulrine - Ivan The Fool and Vasilisa Starring Wendy Craig and Francis Matthew. as he explores some of the hidden meanings and resonance of The Wise (m00027jp) The comedy mishaps of the Corner family - Jennifer and Henry Shakespeare’s much-loved sonnet. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] and their three kids Trudi, Amanda and Robin. Reader – Andrew Hilton SUN 01:00 Charles Parker Prize (m000y68y) Jennifer Corner …. Wendy Craig Producer – Sara Davies [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Henry Corner …. Francis Matthews First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. SUN 02:00 Sara Pascoe: The Modern Monkey (b09ry6k4) Mary …. Charlotte Mitchell SUN 12:30 Start/Stop (b07qc3gc) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] Trudi …. Roberta Tovey Series 3 SUN 02:30 Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian (m000fgst) Robin …. Hugo Keith-Johnston Friends [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] Amanda …. Jill Riddick Start/Stop is a sitcom by Jack Docherty about three marriages SUN 02:45 Charlotte and Lillian (m00094k1) Dr Steele …. Ross Hutchinson in various states of disrepair. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] Four series were first shown on BBC TV from 1967 to 1970. Barney and Cathy have been married for ages and it shows, SUN 03:00 Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself (b04grrpq) Richard Waring adapted his own scripts for this radio version, Evan and Fiona’s marriage is one big, noisy argument and David [Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday] now fully restored from the original reel-to-reel tapes. Wendy is old enough to be Alice’s father. SUN 03:30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Craig won a Best Actress BAFTA award for the TV version of Start/Stop follows the story of these three couples as they try to Better (b00cxr1s) Not in Front of the Children in 1969. make the best of their marriages and friendships, and the [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] Music by Ronnie Hazlehurst characters are able to stop the action, explain themselves to the SUN 04:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat Producer: Trafford Whitelock. audience and start it all up again. (b007k2b8) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1970. This week: 'Friends'. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN 09:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b007vhr4) Barney is being suspiciously nice to Cathy. Fiona wants Evan to SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b01g9c4w) Series 1 invest in her new business but Evan thinks it will be a disaster. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] Pantomime Cows And David is trying not to be so controlling. SUN 06:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (Omnibus) Robert lands a festive stage role, but ends up drinking before a Cast: (b08jlx5b) show... Barney...Jack Docherty Episode 2 John Gordon Sinclair stars in Paul Mayhew-Archer's sitcom. Cathy...Kerry Godliman Diner questions where Lizzie has been on her nocturnal Robert Wilson ..... John Gordon Sinclair Evan...John Thomson wanderings, and a chance encounter with a dressmaker on the Sue ..... Caroline Quentin Fiona...Fiona Allen streets of Bristol reveals a clue to John Diner's past. Desmond Shaw ..... Gary Waldhorn David...Charlie Higson Lizzie Fawkes decides to visit the dressmaker to find out more With Stephen Yardley, Royce Mills, Susan Sheridan, Anne Alice...Laura Aikman about Diner's first wife Lucie and the mysterious circumstances Bryson and Joanna Mackie. Written by: Jack Docherty surrounding her death. Producer: Paul Spencer Producer: Claire Jones Based in Bristol in 1792, Helen Dunmore's novel is set against a First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1989. A BBC Studio Production backdrop of the French Revolution. SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000ydvx) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. It touches on radical idealism, property speculation, political Comic Castaways 3 SUN 13:00 A Sting in the Tale (Omnibus) (m000ydw5) turmoil and private tragedy... Sue Perkins Dave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife, from his Omnibus of the last five of ten parts abridged by Sara Davies. From Pergolesi to T.Rex. childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in Read by Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp Comedian and TV presenter, Sue Perkins shares her castaway experimental taxidermy to his groundbreaking research into the Producer: Julian Wilkinson. choices with Kirsty Young. mysterious ways of the bumblebee and his mission to protect First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. She and her friend Mel Giedroyc first appeared as a comedy our rarest bees. SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b091vqr1) duo at the Edinburgh Fringe over 20 years ago and together Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent, the short-haired Donna Leon they presented the first seven series of The Great British Bake bumblebee now only exists in the wilds of New Zealand, the Crime novelist Donna Leon chooses Handel's 'Da Tempeste' as Off. descendants of a few queen bees shipped over in the nineteenth sung by Joyce DiDonato, and 'Myself I Shall Adore' by Cecilia Born at the end of the 1960s, Sue grew up in Croydon, the century. Bartoli. eldest of three siblings. By her own description a "shy and Dave Goulson shares exclusive research into these curious SUN 07:20 Claudia Roden: A Book of Middle Eastern Food awkward" child, she nonetheless made it to Cambridge creatures, looks at history's relationship with the bumblebee and (Omnibus) (b09ycynh) University to study English. She and Mel met at a Footlights offers advice on how to protect it for all time. Claudia remembers her early life in Cairo and the nostalgic open mic gig soon after she'd arrived. Their first joint high- We'll also hear about bumblebee sniffer dogs, how bees dishes of her childhood. profile success was landing a new live daytime programme on navigate their way home and why you should remember these Tracy-Ann Oberman stars as Claudia Roden. Channel 4 called Light Lunch, which turned them into tiny furry friends next time you pour ketchup on your fish and Published in 1968, Claudia's book was a major landmark in the household names. chips. history of food writing and paved the way for all the TV chefs Sue also formed a second presenting partnership, making One of the UK's most respected conservationists and the who followed. historical food programmes with Giles Coren. When she was 38 founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Goulson Born in 1936 in Cairo, Claudia was a foreign food she was diagnosed with a benign brain tumour which left her combines Gerald Durrell-esque tales of a child's growing Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 31 July – 6 August 2021 Page 4 of 11 passion for nature with a deep insight into the crucial example of her style, not just for her incomparable prose, but But is love blind, or just stupid? importance of the bumblebee. also in the dizzying twists and turns of perception, fantasy and Sitcom written by Meera Syal He details the minutiae of life in their nests, sharing fascinating myth. Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nitin Sawheny, Meera Syal and Nina research into the effects intensive farming has had on our bee Controversially influenced by De Sade, she embraced the Wadia. populations and on the potential dangers if we continue down erotic, explored our deepest and darkest urges, and subverted Music by Nitin Sawhney. this path. the roles of hunter and prey, master and mistress so that, instead Producer: Liz Anstee Omnibus of five parts. of male sexuality, it is the female that becomes transgressive First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1996. Read by Tim McInnerny. and powerful. Producer: Joanne Green Anne ...... Sophie Cookson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2013. The Marquis ...... Jasper Britton MONDAY 02 AUGUST 2021 SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b0bkr96j) Mother ...... Rakie Ayola Gyles Brandreth Jean Yves ...... Nigel Pilkiington MON 00:00 David Lemon - The Tunnel (b07mz0h8) Gyles with Maurice Chevalier & Hermione Gingold’s I Sound Design: Lucinda Mason Brown [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Remember It Well and The Muppets’ Simon Smith and His Director / Producer: Fiona McAlpine MON 00:45 Get Carter: The Bloody Chamber (b0bkqt8g) Amazing Dancing Bear." An Allegra production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] SUN 14:20 Tessa Hadley - The Past (Omnibus) (b069npc6) September 2018. MON 01:00 A Sting in the Tale (Omnibus) (m000ydw5) Episode 1 SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m000ydw1) [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] Tessa Hadley's powerful and haunting novel is a beautifully [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b0bkr96j) observed portrait of a family and the change wrought by time SUN 19:50 Inheritance Tracks (b091vqr1) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] across the generations. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] MON 02:20 Tessa Hadley - The Past (Omnibus) (b069npc6) Three middle-aged sisters and a brother meet up in their SUN 20:00 Peter Terson - Getting to Know Mr [Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday] grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. Schmeigelow (b071c6t2) MON 03:30 Paul is Dead (b04l0tvb) Under the idyllic surface, there are immediate tensions. Secrets, [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 02:30 on Saturday] misunderstandings and passion play out as the characters shift SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000ydvx) MON 04:00 Peter Terson - Getting to Know Mr and reappraise and a way of life - bourgeois, literate, ritualised - [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Schmeigelow (b071c6t2) winds down to its inevitable end. SUN 21:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000ydvz) [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] While the siblings circle each other, and the adolescents [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000ydw3) approach each other, the children watch and come to their own SUN 22:00 Start/Stop (b07qc3gc) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] conclusions. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] MON 05:30 Start/Stop (b07qc3gc) Read by Sian Thomas. SUN 22:30 Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian (m000fq8s) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] Tessa Hadley is one of Britain's finest writers, an acute observer Series 2 MON 06:00 Paul Temple (b007jn5m) of character, time and place and the most published short story 2. Money Paul Temple and the Lawrence Affair writer in the New Yorker in recent years. Stand-up series exploring British Chinese culture from BBC 1. The Little Things Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes. New Comedy Award finalist Ken Cheng. Holidaying out-of-season in the fishing village of Downburgh, Abridged by Sally Marmion. Dave's Joke of the Fringe Winner, Cambridge mathematics the suave detective faces peril linking mystery deaths with a Producer: Di Speirs dropout and professional poker player, Ken Cheng explores disappearance. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2015. money. Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple SUN 15:30 Paul is Dead (b04l0tvb) Producer: Adnan Ahmed and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for [Repeat of broadcast at 02:30 on Saturday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020. BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife SUN 16:00 Peter Terson - Getting to Know Mr SUN 22:45 Charlotte and Lillian (m0009cfh) Paul Temple …. Peter Coke Schmeigelow (b071c6t2) Series 2 Steve …. Marjorie Westbury In 1925, the future designer Cecil Beaton came down from 2. The Rival Mary Gardner …. Dorothy Holmes-Gore Cambridge deeply in debt. Charlotte and Lillian are back, spending time together as part of Freeman …. Allan McClelland His one ambition, to be accepted by the aristocratic and artistic. a Befriend the Elderly scheme. They may bicker about Bob Gardner …. Leonard Trolley But his father decided that he should learn to be a businessman everything from signs of dementia to the appeal of Harry Styles, Detective Inspector Ivor …. Manning Wilson and sent him to work in the City. but underneath it’s clear they are two kindred spirits. Two Charlie …. James Beattie Julian Firth stars as Cecil Beaton in Peter Terson's drama. selfish, self-absorbed spirits, but ones who mirror and rely on Sir Graham Forbes …. Lester Mudditt Cecil Beaton ..... Julian Firth each other nonetheless. Brian Dexter …. Simon Lack William Eedle ..... Papa Very nearly 30, Charlotte is still living at home with her parents Johnny Tico …. Brian Haines Christian Rodska ..... Mr Schmeigelow and chronically unable to figure out what to do with her life. Linda Tico …. Belle Chrystall Mama ..... June Barrie Beneath her attempt at do-gooding is barely disguised despair. Commissionaire …. James Thomason Nancy ..... Joanna MacKie She's terrified she is no good. Useless. Unloveable. She looks to Between 1938 and 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably Baba ..... Jenny Funnel Lillian to provide some meaning to her life - if she can help to suave amateur detective Paul Temple and glamorous journalist Agnes Robertson ..... Susan Sheridan improve Lillian’s life somehow, she’d feel a lot better about her wife Steve solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's Mr Skinner ..... Brian Miller own. And there’s all the kudos and social media likes that come most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated, well-heeled Boy Ie Bas ..... Paul Downing with charity work - not to mention the lure of Lillian's large world of cocktails and fast cars. Director: Shaun MacLoughlin spare room. Producer: Martyn C Webster First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1990. Lillian meanwhile is still her ebullient self, but her facade hides First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1956. SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000ydw3) a nagging fear of what's to come - her body is giving up on her. MON 06:30 Peeler (m0005zkz) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Lillian's motto is still “Keep Buggering On” – aka keep getting 1. The New Force SUN 17:30 Start/Stop (b07qc3gc) at Charlotte – but increasingly, she’s forced to wonder why. She Sir Robert Peel’s new Metropolitan Police force proves [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] masks all this by doubling down and manipulating Charlotte unpopular sparking deep political unrest. SUN 18:00 David Lemon - The Tunnel (b07mz0h8) into carrying out all her menial tasks. If Charlotte won’t do Starring Mick Ford and Richard E Grant. Britain 2056: George and his granddaughter are fleeing a them, there are plenty of other volunteers who will. Patrick Carroll’s six-part crime series set in 1830, a year after chaotic and economically desperate land in an attempt to reach Lillian leaves Charlotte an answerphone message telling her not the Metropolitan Police Act created the 'Peelers'. a rumoured safe haven across the water. to come round any more, but Charlotte doesn't take rejection PC Martin Quin ...... Mick Ford Can George deliver Chloe to safety with her faith in the future lying down. She turns up at Lillian’s house unannounced, where Jeremiah Morley ...... James Booth intact? things go from bad to worse when she discovers she has a rival Sir Robert Peel ...... Norman Jones David Lemon's sci-fi drama is set after the collapse of the for Lillian’s approval. Lord Trowle ...... Richard E Grant information age. Charlotte …… Helen Monks Colonel Brown ...... Peter Jeffrey George ….. Jonathan Coy Lillian …… Miriam Margolyes Richard Mayne ...... Killian McKenna Chloe ….. Georgia Groome Written by: Kat Sommers and Holly Walsh Maria Staples ...... Joanna Myers Simon ….. Neil Grainger Producer: Lucy Armitage Sergeant Dutton ...... Ronald Herdman Mitch ….. Nicola Ferguson A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Inspector Beale ...... Timothy Bateson Kenneth/The Captain ….. Sargon Yelda October 2019. PC Atkinson ...... Alan Barker Pamela ….. Adie Allen SUN 23:00 Josh Howie's Losing It (b07pgwp0) PC Smythe ...... Mark Straker Joel ….. James Lailey Series 2 Lord Laverton ...... James Greene French solider ….. Scarlett Brookes The Announcement Mr Yardley ...... Richard Pearce Director: : Gemma Jenkins. Stand-up comic Josh comes to terms with the impending birth Arthur Jenkins ...... Ian Lindsay First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2016. of his first child. Rev Charkes Lyton ...... Timothy Carlton SUN 18:45 Get Carter: The Bloody Chamber (b0bkqt8g) Josh and his wife Monique attend a family funeral where Josh Singer: Martin Carthy. The Bloody Chamber manages to fall out with everyone and spectacularly fails to Director: Janet Whitaker The first of five stories to gobble you up. keep the news of the pregnancy under wraps. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1991. From Angela Carter's iconic collection of fairy stories and Sitcom starring Josh Howie and Pippa Evans. MON 07:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b05nvjm7) dramatised by Olivia Hetreed. Written by Josh Howie. Series 2 Angela Carter's re-telling of the story of Bluebeard. A young With: Episode 1 pianist marries a wealthy aristocrat, a Marquis, much older than Spencer Brown Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates an 18th herself and with three previous wives, all mysteriously Carol Dance century bet. deceased. Stella Duffy Can he walk from London's Royal Academy to the Royal Finding herself alone in the empty castle, with nothing to do but Kerry Godliman Exchange building while blindfolded in under one hour? play the piano, she cannot resist entering the one room the Steve Jameson Written by and starring Tim FitzHigham. Marquis has forbidden to her. Peter Walsingham Additional material by Jon Hunter and Paul Byrne. At the time of writing The Bloody Chamber in the late 1970s, Producer: Ashley Blaker Producer: Joe Nunnery. Carter was disaffected by both sides of the feminist debate. She A Black Hat production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015. re-worked traditional fairy tales from her own unique, literary August 2016. . MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth (m000y5fq) outsider’s point of view, putting women at the centre of the SUN 23:30 Masala FM (b0080p9x) Series 26 stories. Episode 6 Episode 1 With their feisty heroines and rgiastic mash-up of beasts, shape- Love is in the air at Masala FM as their first wedding resulting David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians shifters and ghouls, her extraordinary tales are the most perfect from Khalid's matrimonial phone-in looms. are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 31 July – 6 August 2021 Page 5 of 11 see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their From 2020. CAST: opponents. First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2020. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Holly Walsh, Henning Wehn, Zoe Lyons, and Richard Osman MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000ydct) Lemmy …. Alfie Bass are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on Victoria Hislop Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter subjects as varied as the Ancient Romans, tea, crustaceans and Author Victoria Hislop chooses ‘Take Five’ by The Dave Mitch …. Don Sharp balls. Brubeck Quartet and ‘Pio Poli’ by Michalis Hatzigiannis. Various ….Alan Tylvern Produced by Jon Naismith First broadcast on Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4 in June 2021. Rogers/The Martian …. David Jacobs A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4 MON 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn7v) Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips. MON 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn7v) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Written and produced by Charles Chilton. Series 5 MON 12:30 England, Their England by AG Macdonell First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1956. A Winter's Tale (m000ygm1) MON 18:30 A Good Read (b01n11pc) Harold admits he's planning a holiday - but without his dad [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Val McDermid and Alex Horne Albert. MON 13:00 Paul Temple (b007jn5m) Harriett Gilbert is joined by the Scottish crime writer Val Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] McDermid and the comedian and neologist Alex Horne. Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association MON 13:30 Peeler (m0005zkz) BOOKS DISCUSSED: with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Why be Happy When you Could be Normal by Jeanette wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. MON 14:00 British Summer Time Begins by Ysenda Winterson The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring Maxtone-Graham (m000lmtl) Publisher Vintage the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold Summer Opens Out Remembering Babylon by David Malouf and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. Ysenda Maxtone Graham interviews people from all walks of Publisher Vintage Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan life to discover how they were shaped by the long months of Open by Andre Agassi Simpson. summer. An entertaining and sometimes wistful chronicle of Publisher Harper Collins Produced by Bobby Jaye British school holidays. Producer: Mark Smalley First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in June 1974. Episode 1: Summer Opens Out First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2012. MON 08:30 England, Their England by AG Macdonell As the school bell signals the end of term, the delicious MON 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn7v) (m000ygm1) possibilities of the summer lie ahead. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Episode 6 Abridged by Rosemary Goring MON 19:30 England, Their England by AG Macdonell Leslie Phillips narrates AG Macdonell's classic comedy first Read by Fenella Woolgar (m000ygm1) published in 1933, adapted in six parts by Bob Sinfield. First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 2020. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Young Donald Cameron retires injured from the Great War and MON 14:15 Promenade Rock by Christopher Denys MON 20:00 Paul Temple (b007jn5m) finds himself with a commission - to write a book about the (b0076d7c) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] English and their curious habits. 1. The Landlady and Her Lovers MON 20:30 Peeler (m0005zkz) Episdoe 6: Donald finds himself at the mercy of a rampaging Recently widowed, Eirlys Richards welcomes a new guest at her [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] fox hunt and a society ball. lively boarding house in Llantwit-on-Sea. MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m000ydcr) Donald Cameron .... Sam Graham A ten-part series by Christopher Denys set in the 1950s heyday [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Mr Fielding .... Peter Kelly of the Great British seaside holiday. MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000ydct) Mrs Fielding .... Denise Coffey Starring Nerys Hughes as Eirlys Richards, Russell Boulter as [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] Esmeralda .... Kate Odey Matthew Dolan, Iwan Thomas as Iorweth Jenkins, Christopher MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m000y5fq) Mr Still away .... Christopher Benjamin Scott as Arnold Pilton, Andy Hockley as Cox'n Hughes, Ian [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Major General .... Robin Bailey Brooker as the Newsreader and Tina Gray as Mother. MON 22:30 Father Figure (b01c3dlh) Director: Neil Cargill Director: Sue Wilson Series 1 A Splice of Life production for BBC Radio 2 first broadcast in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. The Wake October 1994. MON 14:30 Summer Over England (b01222wl) House husband Tom is forced to confront his deepest fears at MON 09:00 Act Your Age (b0100gr6) Poet Nigel Forde presents a seasonal reflection. his uncle's laying out. Series 3 Summer more than any other time of year is richly represented Family sitcom written by and starring Irish comedian Jason Episode 3 in the recordings held in the BBC Archive. 'Summer Over the Byrne. Simon Mayo hosts the three-way battle between the comedy British Isles' was a famous 1937 feature programme evoking Much to the consternation of his overbearing mother, Tom generations to find out which is the funniest. the moment when the country could perhaps relax a little, ease Whyte decides to cook his dad a birthday lunch for a family get- Will it be the Up-and-Comers, the Current Crop or the Old its braces and its stays, and stretch out in the long grass ...and together. What he intends to put on the table undergoes a Guard who will be crowned, for one week at least, as the hope it wouldn't rain. transformation by serving time, whilst best friend Roddy brings Golden Age of Comedy? It was also a vaguely patriotic and - with hindsight - prophetic an especially unappetising contribution to the meal. Holly Walsh is joined by Sean Walsh, Lucy Porter teams up programme capturing an era that was about to be blown apart by CAST: with Hal Cruttenden and Tom O'Connor is paired with Dave the off-stage murmurs of war from Europe. But there's much Tom Whyte .... Jason Byrne Spikey. more - Laurie Lee recalling the 'Hill Cricket' played on summer Elaine Whyte .... Lucy Montgomery Devised and produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. days in the Cotswold villages of his youth, Alistair Cooke Dylan Whyte .... Dominic Applewhite First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011. describing a day at Lords and that other immortal voice of Mary Whyte .... Pauline McLynn MON 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008g29h) cricket, John Arlott, recalling long shadows and steepling Pat Whyte .... Dermot Crowley Series 2 catches. Vita Sackville-West describes the joys of great summer Roddy .... Michael Smiley Episode 4 gardens; Henry Williamson forsakes otters to hymn the beauty Producer: Julia McKenzie JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, of Devon and we catch the sound of conflict in 1964 when First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 2021. Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From August Britain's seaside became a battleground for disaffected MON 23:00 Party's Over (m000y7tp) 1991. youngsters... Series 1 MON 10:00 Drama (b0bf59rz) Producer: Simon Elmes Road Trip Tove Jansson - The Summer Book First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2010. What happens when the Prime Minister suddenly stops being In The Summer book by Tove Jansson (author of the Moomin MON 14:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b011ppq4) Prime Minister? books) a woman and her six-year-old granddaughter Sophia Series 2 One day you're the most powerful person in the country, the spend a summer together on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland. Nectar next you're irrelevant, forced into retirement 30 years ahead of They talk about life, nature, religion - everything but their The beautiful thick, sweet and luscious tasting delicacy of schedule and find yourself asking 'What do I do now?' feelings about Sophia's mother's death and their love for one honey is one of the world's natural goodies. Miles Jupp stars as Henry Tobin - Britain's shortest serving and another. This wonderfully humane and atmospheric book is Indigenous peoples from all over the world will go to great least popular post war PM (he managed 8 months). dramatised by the poet and playwright Amanda Dalton from the lengths to get the honey from wild bees - and for most of us less We join Henry soon after his crushing election loss. He’s translation by Thomas Teal. connected to the natural world, we love this product of bees determined to not let his disastrous defeat be the end of him. Sophia Jansson, the real-life model for Sophia and niece of bought from the shop. Instead Henry's going to get back to the top - he's just not sure Tove, narrates this radio adaptation. Her own mother, Signe Honey is nectar and David Attenborough poignantly points out how and in what field. Hammarsten-Jansson informed the character of the this "was the first bribe in nature..." - it evolved 100,000,000 This week Henry is reluctantly en route to a wedding while grandmother. years ago with the flowering plants and drove the evolutionary battling to stem some potentially damaging leaks from his Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. relationship between animals and plants. former closest aide. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018. Written and presented by Sir David Attenborough. Henry Tobin... Miles Jupp MON 10:45 Summer Taste (b007twpz) Producer: Julian Hector. Christine Tobin... Ingrid Oliver Italian Ice Cream First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2011. Natalie... Emma Sidi Author Charlotte Mendelson recounts her passion for raspberry MON 15:00 Drama (b0bf59rz) Jones... Justin Edwards sorbet and the lasting impact it has had on her. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Written by Paul Doolan and Jon Hunter A series in which a chef helps a writer recall the powerful MON 15:45 Summer Taste (b007twpz) Produced by Richard Morris and Simon Nicholls memories forever associated with a dish first tasted during the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] Production co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow long, hot days of summer. MON 16:00 Act Your Age (b0100gr6) Sound design: Marc Willcox Italian ice cream manufacturer Dante Mansi on the raspberry [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] A BBC Studios Production sorbet and chocolate ice cream which always make Charlotte MON 16:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008g29h) MON 23:30 Recorded for Training Purposes (b00gm512) Mendelson recall her failed ‘Room with a View’ experience in [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Series 3 Florence aged 17. MON 17:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b05nvjm7) Episode 2 Producer: Beaty Rubens [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Fast-paced sketch show about modern communication, media First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2007. MON 17:30 The Unbelievable Truth (m000y5fq) noise and contemporary obsessions. MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m000ydcr) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] With Ben Willbond, Dominic Coleman, Ingrid Oliver, Rachel Series 8 MON 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js9j) Atkins, Lewis Macleod and Julie Mayhew. Ingrained Injustice The World in Peril Writers: A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting Episode 16 Matthew Morton speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Captain Jet Morgan and the crew of the Discovery ambush the Andy Flood stage. Lunar Controller. Eddie Robson Manoush Zomorodi and Whitney Pennington Rodgers explore Continuing the 20-part serial - the third of Charles Chilton's Christopher Stanners how racism has become embedded in everyday American life. classic sci-fi trilogy set in 1972. Madeleine Brettingham Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 31 July – 6 August 2021 Page 6 of 11 Stephen Carlin about both his personal life and his 40 years working in A long hot summer begins with Lizzie re-christened Betty - or Damian Nicolaou comedy. should that be Cinderella? - by her Italian hosts. Between daily Mike Ryan Over this 4 part series, Andy looks at Childhood, Politics, The chores and child-minding, dreams of becoming Sophia Loren Matt Hurst Human Body and Animals. Using comic observation and grow hazy. That is until her knight in shining armour arrives, in Samatha Kellow personal anecdotes he will explore each theme, examining how a Cinquecento, and Lizzie's romantic Brief Encounter begins. Sean Grant much (or how little) things have changed in the 60ish years he's A joyous romantic comedy, and an ode to Italy, youth and Stuart Beale been on this planet. Each programme will provide 30 minutes of summertime. Based on a true story. Thomas Gladstone thoughtful, social history, but packed with laughs. Directed by Helen Perry Script editors: James Cary, Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris In this episode Andy shares his political memoirs, from being A BBC Cymru/Wales Production. Producer: Ed Morrish escorted from the playground in 1963 for singing a rude song First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009. about the Profumo affair, through encounters with Jim TUE 10:45 Summer Taste (b007vw1l) Callaghan, although he won't be talking about Brexit because The Pastry Knife life is too short. A series in which a chef helps a writer recall the powerful TUESDAY 03 AUGUST 2021 Andy was born in Fulham in 1954, read English at Cambridge memories forever associated with a dish first tasted during the and then in 1976 began writing comedy for BBC radio, on long, hot days of summer. TUE 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js9j) programmes like Week Ending and The News Huddlines. In Distinguished chef Sophie Grigson recreates the apple pie [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] 1990, he and Guy Jenkin created Drop the Dead Donkey for which brings back powerful memories of Tessa Hadley's TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b01n11pc) Channel 4. Andy has spent much of his working life making grandmother and the versatile, trusty old kitchen implement she [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] acute observations about politics and family life. In 2007, again used TUE 01:00 Paul Temple (b007jn5m) with Guy Jenkin, he created the massive TV hit, Outnumbered, Producer: Beaty Rubens [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] which celebrated the chaos of life with young children. More First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2007. TUE 01:30 Peeler (m0005zkz) recently they created the highly topical Ballot Monkeys and TUE 11:00 The Last Seaside Orchestra (b01knsjz) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] Power Monkeys for Channel 4, which charted the absurdities of This is the story of the last professional seaside orchestra in TUE 02:00 British Summer Time Begins by Ysenda the General Election and then the EU Referendum. For over 20 Britain. Maxtone-Graham (m000lmtl) years he has been playing the part of Satan in his R4 sitcom, Once, classical music had a natural home in holiday resorts [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Old Harry's Game. Andy is also a popular panellist on shows across the country: 'Hastings and New Brighton had their own TUE 02:15 Promenade Rock by Christopher Denys such as The News Quiz and Have I Got News For You. symphony orchestras; the young Malcolm Sargent started out as (b0076d7c) Produced by Claire Jones conductor of the orchestra in Llandudno; Wagner was played in [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. Whitby.' (The Times). But Scarborough Spa Orchestra led the TUE 02:30 Summer Over England (b01222wl) TUE 07:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market (m000y6k7) way, based in their magnificent Victorian building on the town's [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Series 6 sweeping South Bay. TUE 02:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b011ppq4) The High Street 100 years later they're still there. At a time when orchestras [Repeat of broadcast at 14:50 on Monday] As the waters recede from the tsunami of the global pandemic struggle for audiences, conductor Matthew Rowe goes to TUE 03:00 Drama (b0bf59rz) and Britain settles into its new relationship with Europe and the Scarborough to experience for himself the unique connection [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] World, Simon Evans returns to focus his jokenomics lens on the between this small group of musicians and the thousands of TUE 03:45 Summer Taste (b007twpz) myriad economic challenges and opportunities facing humanity. tourists who come each summer just to hear them play. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Monday] Did the collapse in 2020 of the Arcadia Group, Debenhams and The leading musicians, conductors and singers of the twentieth TUE 04:00 Act Your Age (b0100gr6) Bonmarché to name but three signal the final death knell for the century all performed at Scarborough, with names such as [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] British High Street? What will replace it – Coffee Shops, Nail violinist Max Jaffa and conductor Alick Maclean drawing huge TUE 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008g29h) bars and Tattoo Parlours? Charity shops recycling and ever crowds through the decades. The orchestra plays nine concerts a [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] thinner and endlessly diminishing stock of new items, initially week, and still generates that kind of anticipation and interest TUE 05:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b05nvjm7) bought on line? among the audience members. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] Or will new one on one services like personal trainers and Thai Matthew believes that a conductor must do more than simply TUE 05:30 The Unbelievable Truth (m000y5fq) Yoga practitioners replace tired rails of fashion wear? Will turn his back to the room and perform; he must break down [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] everywhere become Brighton, basically? barriers and make classical music less daunting for those who TUE 06:00 Paul Temple (b007rqzp) Perhaps Hot-Shops, where everyone has a shop for a day, or a are not aficionados. He's intrigued to know the secret of the Spa Paul Temple and the Lawrence Affair week, at a time, to market their goods - much as Harley St Orchestra's warm relationship with their audience. 2. Salty West surgeons have always found adequate. Recorded on location in Scarborough during the orchestra's The daughter of the head of CI5, Sylvia Ross has disappeared, Simon investigates whether it is indeed all doom and gloom or 99th summer season, Matthew Rowe traces this musical but the suave detective and his wife Steve are hot on the trail... if the perhaps a new role still to be played by bricks and mortar survival story. Francis Durbridge's thriller. shops. If department stores are crashing out then who (apart Producer: Serena Field CAST: from the obvious online behemoths like Amazon) could start to First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2011. Paul Temple …. Peter Coke cash in? TUE 11:45 Summer Picnic by Elizabeth Jane Howard Steve …. Marjorie Westbury Simon is joined by Diane Wehrle, Insights Director at (b08tj1vl) Charlie …. James Beattie Springboard, for some expert analysis. A woodland glade, a perfect picnic... a girl grows up, a woman Sir Graham Forbes …. Lester Mudditt Written and presented by Simon Evans grows old. Mary Gardner …. Dorothy Holmes-Gore Additional material from Dan Evans Perfectly observed short story. Max Burford …. Allan McClelland Production co-ordinator: Cherlynn Andrew-Wilfred Written by Elizabeth Jane Howard Brian Dexter …. Simon Lack Producer: Richard Morris Read by June Barrie Mille …. Geoffrey Hodson Photo credit: Steve Best Producer: Pat Pryor Workman/Elderly Waiter …. Jeffrey Segal A BBC Studios Production First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b00jz5x2) TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b00jz5x2) Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, Series 9 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular The Tay Bridge TUE 12:30 Take Me to Your Reader (m000ycb2) series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails On Scotland's crab-ridden shores, Neddie Seagoon is bridging a [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore gap. Stars Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers. From February TUE 13:00 Paul Temple (b007rqzp) cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, 1959. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. TUE 08:30 Take Me to Your Reader (m000ycb2) TUE 13:30 Peeler (m00061yc) Producer: Martyn C. Webster 4. I Thought I'd Never Stop [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1956. Roache & Brewer has two big hits on its hands – for all the TUE 14:00 British Summer Time Begins by Ysenda TUE 06:30 Peeler (m00061yc) wrong reasons. Maxtone-Graham (m000lmgh) 2. Riots A mid ‘80s sitcom set in the publishing house, Roache & The People You Were Stuck With PC Martin Quin is charged with assault, the riots worsen and Brewer, where erudite, naïve Colin Luscombe fights an uphill Ysenda Maxtone Graham interviews people from all walks of the blackmail plot thickens. battle with his bluff MD, Rees John. Colin wants to inform and life to discover how they were shaped by the long months of Patrick Carroll’s six-part crime series set in 1830, a year after educate the world, whilst Rees is only interested in the bottom summer. An entertaining and sometimes wistful chronicle of the Metropolitan Police Act created the 'Peelers'. line. "Forget literature," says Rees to Colin, "concentrate on British school holidays. PC Martin Quin ...... Mick Ford books.” Stuck in the middle is Janet Hunt. Episode 2: The People You Were Stuck With Jeremiah Morley ...... James Booth CAST: Charting the solitary weeks of the only child versus the slaps Sir Robert Peel ...... Norman Jones Colin Luscombe …. Tim Brooke-Taylor and kicks of battling siblings. Lord Trowle ...... Richard E Grant Rees John …. Glyn Houston Abridged by Rosemary Goring Colonel Brown ...... Peter Jeffrey Janet Hunt …. Eve Karpf Read by Fenella Woolgar Richard Mayne ...... Killian McKenna Eunice Pimm …. Joan Sanderson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020. Maria Staples ...... Joanna Myers Written by Andrew Palmer. TUE 14:15 Promenade Rock by Christopher Denys Sergeant Dutton ...... Ronald Herdman Producer: Edward Taylor (b0076d7r) Inspector Beale ...... Timothy Bateson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1986. 2. The Chef PC Atkinson ...... Alan Barker TUE 09:00 Party's Over (m000y7tp) Henpecked hotelier and lover of Eirlys Richard, Arnold Pilton Francis Place ...... Mark Straker [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] must battle to replace his chef. PC Rourke ...... James Greene TUE 09:30 The Brothers (b00ntdnr) But can he withstand the attentions of the formidable Theda Mr Yardley ...... Richard Pearce Series 2 Pilton and her pet poodle? John Staples ...... Ian Lindsay Episode 2 Christopher Denys' ten-part series set in the booming 1950s Rev Charkes Lyton ...... Timothy Carlton The two dysfunctional siblings Nigel and Michael win an award. seaside resort of Llantwit-on-Sea. Singer: Martin Carthy. Stars Raymond Coulthard and Adam Godley. From October Starring Nerys Hughes as Eirlys Richards, Russell Boulter as Director: Janet Whitaker 2005. Matthew Dolan, Christopher Scott as Arnold Pilton and Tina First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1991. TUE 10:00 Drama (b09qd0m0) Gray as Mother. TUE 07:00 Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers (b099ypqj) Elizabeth Lewis - Becoming Betty Director: Sue Wilson Series 1 In 1986 Elizabeth Lewis dreamed of a glorious summer in Italy. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Politics Working as an au pair in a remote picturesque village she TUE 14:30 Natural Histories (b080t7df) Andy Hamilton is a familiar and much-loved voice on Radio 4. planned to cook Italian, learn Italian, be Italian. There was so Cricket Now he presents a collection of observations and reminiscences much hope to be dashed... When natural history presenter Brett Westwood is invited to Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 31 July – 6 August 2021 Page 7 of 11 stroll around the streets of London with a ‘singing cricket‘ as a Other parts played by Philip Pope and Michael Fenton Stevens. Richard Mayne ...... Killian McKenna companion he is following a tradition which can be traced back Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Maria Staples ...... Joanna Myers over a thousand years ago to before the Tang Dynasty in China First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. Sergeant Dutton ...... Ronald Herdman when people kept crickets in cages and enjoyed their songs. TUE 23:00 2000 Years of Radio (b007tcbl) Frederick Roe ...... Timothy Bateson This custom began in the Royal Courts when the Emperor’s Series 1 Sergeant Cazalet ...... Alan Barker concubines placed caged crickets near their pillows so they Headless - Civil War Radio Lord Laverton ...... James Greene could enjoy the songs during the night. The practise was soon A spoof documentary about the English Civil War, told as if Arthur Jenkins ...... Ian Lindsay taken up by local people who carried crickets around in tiny there was radio at the time. Mrs Gascoyne ...... Elizabeth Bell cages. Written by and starring Marcus Brigstocke, Claire Downes, Peter The Sceever ...... Fraser Kerr In London, Brett meets Lisa Hall, a sound artist who has Stuart Lane, Al Holloway, Danny Robbins and Dan Tetsell with Beth ...... Susan Sheridan brought the tradition right up to date with a tiny audio player additional material from Sean Grundy. Lucy ...... Elizabeth Kelly fitted with a set of speakers that are small enough to be First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000. Singer: Martin Carthy. concealed in a pocket. TUE 23:15 Jelly Mountain (b00fr1z3) Director: Janet Whitaker Lisa explains the effect is like wearing ‘a perfume’ of song Episode 4 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991. which masks the ugly urban sounds. Could this audio trend Musing on old cuppas and paying with Fool's Gold. Songs and WED 07:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b0833vn0) catch on? stories from Ivor Cutler, with Craig Murray-Orr. From May A Sojourn with Mr Swift Producer Sarah Blunt 1996. It's festival time in Edinburgh, but in the early 18th century it's First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016. TUE 23:30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially not a place for comedians and actors, but priests and storytellers TUE 15:00 Drama (b09qd0m0) Better (b00d0sjl) like Jonathan Swift. This young Irish clergyman wants help with [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Series 2 his tales, and the members of the Fair Intellectual Club are keen TUE 15:45 Summer Taste (b007vw1l) Patience to help him win the So You Think You're Holy competition. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] The comedian examines the virtue of holding your horses. With Alison's idiot brother Robert needs assistance too - and an TUE 16:00 The Rest is History (b0769tsq) poetry and songs by Tim Key and Tom Basden. From August unfortunate mix-up leads to the creation of a literary Series 2 2008. masterpiece. Episode 2 Lucy Porter's sitcom set in early 18th Century Scotland. Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of it. CAST: So he's devised a comedy discussion show in order to find out WEDNESDAY 04 AUGUST 2021 Alison...... Jessica Hardwick more about it. Ishbel...... Caroline Deyga Along with his historian in residence, Professor Kate Williams WED 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jscg) Margory...... Samara MacLaren Frank is joined by Al Murray and Isy Suttie, who discuss Robin [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] Robert...... Simon Donaldson Hood, wartime slogans, Annie Oakley and a statue-related WED 00:30 Soul Music (b01m5hhy) Kennedy...... Gordon Kennedy history mystery. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Mr Swift...... Keith Fleming Producers: Mark Augustyn and Justin Pollard WED 01:00 Paul Temple (b007rqzp) Music by Aly Macrae An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Director: Marilyn Imrie 2016. WED 01:30 Peeler (m00061yc) Producer: Gordon Kennedy TUE 16:30 The Brothers (b00ntdnr) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED 02:00 British Summer Time Begins by Ysenda November 2016. TUE 17:00 Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers (b099ypqj) Maxtone-Graham (m000lmgh) WED 07:30 Paul Sinha's General Knowledge (m000y6p4) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Series 3 TUE 17:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market (m000y6k7) WED 02:15 Promenade Rock by Christopher Denys Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] (b0076d7r) Paul Sinha is an award-winning comedian, a former British TUE 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jscg) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] Quiz Champion and also, according to the Radio Times, the The World in Peril WED 02:30 Natural Histories (b080t7df) UK's "funniest fund of forgotten facts". He returns to Radio 4 Episode 17 [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] with a third series of his General Knowledge, recounting the With few resources available, Jet and his crew race to make WED 03:00 Drama (b09qd0m0) amazing true stories that lie behind fascinating nuggets of radio contact. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] information. Continuing the 20-part serial - the third of Charles Chilton's WED 03:45 Summer Taste (b007vw1l) This episode finally lives up to the title of the series, by classic sci-fi trilogy set in 1972. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Tuesday] focusing mainly on facts and stories regarding generals. But it's CAST: WED 04:00 The Rest is History (b0769tsq) also, somehow, connected to Kevin Bacon, and there's time at Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] the end to take a look at things you probably don't know about Lemmy …. Alfie Bass WED 04:30 The Brothers (b00ntdnr) Oscar-winning actresses. Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Written and performed by Paul Sinha Mitch …. Don Sharp WED 05:00 Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers (b099ypqj) Additional material by Oliver Levy Various ….Alan Tylvern [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] Recording engineered by Darren Wardrobe and Mike Smith Rogers/The Martian …. David Jacobs WED 05:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market (m000y6k7) Produced by Ed Morrish Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] A Lead Mojo/Somethin' Else co-production for BBC Radio 4 Written and produced by Charles Chilton. WED 06:00 Paul Temple (b007s45n) WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b00j283q) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1956. Paul Temple and the Lawrence Affair Series 3 TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b01m5hhy) 3. The Handbag The Jewel Robbery Series 14 A drive-by shooting and the victim's last words, pose more The lad's getting a new car, so Sid makes the most of the Dvorak's New World Symphony Swiss puzzles for the suave detective and his wife. opportunity. While for many, it will be always associated with brown bread, Francis Durbridge's thriller. Starring Tony Hancock. the Largo from Dvorak's New World Symphony is an enduring CAST: With Bill Kerr, Sidney James. Andree Melly and Kenneth a piece that never fails to move and inspire. We hear from the Paul Temple …. Peter Coke Williams. anti- apartheid campaigner Albie Sachs, who explains that Steve …. Marjorie Westbury Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. through whistling the theme while in solitary confinement, he Charlie …. James Beattie Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. was able to make contact with the wider world and kept his Sir Graham Forbes …. Lester Mudditt Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry spirit and hope alive. Mary Gardner …. Dorothy Holmes-Gore Rabinowitz. Margaret Caldicott recalls the important role the piece played in Detective Inspector Vosper …. Arthur Ridley Producer: Dennis Main Wilson her mother's life while in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. Linda Tico …. Belle Chrystall First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1955. Producer Lucy Lunt. Johnny Tico …. Brian Haines WED 08:30 No Commitments (b00sbs1y) TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b00jz5x2) Brian Dexter …. Simon Lacl Series 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Ernest de Silva …. John Gabriel Material Values TUE 19:30 Take Me to Your Reader (m000ycb2) Captain Jansen …. Jeffrey Segal Emily and Charles are unsympathetic over Roger's job loss, so [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Ed/George …. Leonard Trolley it is Anna to the rescue. Stars Celia Imrie. From December TUE 20:00 Paul Temple (b007rqzp) Nurse …. Beth Boyd 1994. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Luigi …. Manning Wilson WED 09:00 The Motion Show (b07bpq37) TUE 20:30 Peeler (m00061yc) Sergeant Bell/Barker …. Hamilton Dyce Series 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Sergeant Thomas/Smith …. Gordon Davies Episode 6 TUE 21:00 The Last Seaside Orchestra (b01knsjz) From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Graeme Garden chairs the debating game with Gyles Brandreth, [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, Steve Punt, Marcus Brigstocke and Andy Parsons. From July TUE 21:45 Summer Picnic by Elizabeth Jane Howard solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular 2001. (b08tj1vl) series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails WED 09:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k1tg) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 today] and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore Series 2 TUE 22:00 Simon Evans Goes to Market (m000y6k7) cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, Trade Secrets [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. Confidentiality proves a headache for Rosie when she, Kate and TUE 22:30 Revolting People (b008h6np) Producer: Martyn C. Webster Jo are all asked to organise top secret events... Series 3 First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1956. Prunella Scales stars in the second of four series of Simon Over the Rainbow WED 06:30 Peeler (m00061yp) Brett's sitcom following the trials and tribulations of Rosie Mary discovers that there's no place like home. 3. Reputation Burns and her event-management company based in Brighton. Sitcom set just before the American War of Independence. Lord Trowle and PC Quin meet in Court and Jeremiah Morley With Arabella Weir as Kate, Rebecca Callard as Jo, Duncan Written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses. meets his match in Mrs Gascoygne. Preston as Bob, Annette Badland as Tess, Edward de Souza as McGurk ...... Andy Hamilton Patrick Carroll’s six-part crime series set in 1830, a year after Oleg, Gillian Hanna as Kirsten and Simon Trinder as Robert. Samuel ...... Jay Tarses the Metropolitan Police Act created the 'Peelers'. Producer: Maria Esposito Captain Brimshaw ...... James Fleet PC Martin Quin ...... Mick Ford First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2001. Mary ...... Jan Ravens Jeremiah Morley ...... James Booth WED 10:00 Roger McGough - Summer With Monika Joshua ...... Tony Maudsley Sir Robert Peel ...... Norman Jones (b00bws4x) Ezekiel ...... Hugh Dennis Lord Trowle ...... Richard E Grant Dramatisation of poet Roger McGough's iconic, magical tale of Cora ...... Penelope Nice Colonel Brown ...... Peter Jeffrey love in the 1960s. Stars Mark McGann and Katy Carmichael. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 31 July – 6 August 2021 Page 8 of 11 Dramatised by the poet for radio, with music by Andy Roberts. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] applied to a particular task. The nearest faraway place. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. WED 16:00 The Motion Show (b07bpq37) Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange thoughts WED 10:35 Roger McGough - Postscript: Summer With [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] which don't have to be shooed into context, but which can be Monika (b00bwsdj) WED 16:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k1tg) followed like balloons escaping onto the air. Late at night, in the Talking about the enigmatic muse for his 1960s magical poem [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] dark and in a bunk bed, your tired mind can wander. of love, Roger McGough reveals who Monika really was. WED 17:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b0833vn0) This is the nearest faraway place for Patrick Marber and Peter First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Curran. Here they try to get the heart of things in an WED 10:45 Summer Taste (b007vd4h) WED 17:30 Paul Sinha's General Knowledge (m000y6p4) entertainingly vague and indirect way. This is not the place for Sardines [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] typical male banter. From under the bed clothes they play each A series in which a chef helps a writer recall the powerful WED 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jsfq) other music and archive of H G Wells, a Russian radio station memories forever associated with a dish first tasted during the The World in Peril for spies, and cheesy pop anthems. long, hot days of summer. Episode 18 Work, family, literature, and their own badly-scuffed dreams French chef Alexis Gauthier recreates a meal of tinned With the Martians in pursuit, Jet and the crew try desperately to are the funny, if warped, conversational currency sardines, stolen potatoes and an unidentified herb, first eaten by get a message to Earth. Produced by Peter Curran author Tim Pears and his friend when hitch-hiking in the South Continuing the 20-part serial - the third of Charles Chilton's A Foghorn production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in of France as teenagers in 1977. classic sci-fi trilogy set in 1972. September 2017. Producer: Beaty Rubens CAST: WED 23:45 Tina C (b0076q9g) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2007. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Tina C's Tiny Island Tour WED 11:00 Jim Morrison's Will to be Weird (m000h93s) Lemmy …. Alfie Bass Ireland 3: The End Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter Country singer Tina C, the comic creation of Christopher Had Jim Morrison of The Doors not died in mysterious Mitch …. Don Sharp Green, searches for her forebears in Ireland. From February circumstances at the tender age of 27 in 1971, he would have Various ….Alan Tylvern 2005. celebrated his 75th birthday in 2018. Rogers/The Martian …. David Jacobs Over three sixty-minute episodes, Paul Gambaccini mixes the Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips. music and poetry of the man with the influences that moulded Written and produced by Charles Chilton. THURSDAY 05 AUGUST 2021 the self-proclaimed ‘The Lizard King’. Paul first encountered First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1956. Morrison in 1967 when, as a young music director on a New WED 18:30 Short Cuts (m0008nwp) THU 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jsfq) Hampshire radio station, he eagerly opened The Doors’ first Series 20 [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] single ‘Break On Through’. He followed his career from The Archivist THU 00:30 Short Cuts (m0008nwp) beginning to end and, to this day, visits Morrison’s grave in The tattered book worth risking everything for, the man who [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Paris. can't forget and chronicling history one voice message at a time. THU 01:00 Paul Temple (b007s45n) In addition to Paul’s memories and observations, we delve into Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] the Radio Archive and feature: sound about record keepers. THU 01:30 Peeler (m00061yp) ‘The Cemetery Confessions’ [Radio 4 06/05/2004] Memories [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] A star-studded cast interprets the final confessions of some of Featuring Bob Petrella THU 02:00 British Summer Time Begins by Ysenda the many notable occupants of the Cimetiere du Pere-Lachaise, Produced by Andrea Rangecroft Maxtone-Graham (m000llxz) Paris. Messages from Manus Island [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] Producer: Mik Wilkojc Featuring Behrouz Boochani THU 02:15 Promenade Rock by Christopher Denys Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first heard in 2018. Produced by Femi Oriogun-Williams (b0076d8c) WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b00j283q) The Exercise Book [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Featuring Jeremiah THU 02:30 Dreaming By the Pool (b0075kll) WED 12:30 No Commitments (b00sbs1y) Produced by Andrea Rangecroft [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Production Team: Eleanor McDowall and Alia Cassam THU 03:00 Roger McGough - Summer With Monika WED 13:00 Paul Temple (b007s45n) Producer: Andrea Rangecroft (b00bws4x) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast on [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] WED 13:30 Peeler (m00061yp) BBC Radio 4 in September 2019. THU 03:35 Roger McGough - Postscript: Summer With [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b00j283q) Monika (b00bwsdj) WED 14:00 British Summer Time Begins by Ysenda [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:35 on Wednesday] Maxtone-Graham (m000llxz) WED 19:30 No Commitments (b00sbs1y) THU 03:45 Summer Taste (b007vd4h) Where You Happened To Be [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Wednesday] Ysenda Maxtone Graham interviews people from all walks of WED 20:00 Paul Temple (b007s45n) THU 04:00 The Motion Show (b07bpq37) life to discover how they were shaped by the long months of [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] summer. A touching and sun-drenched chronicle of British WED 20:30 Peeler (m00061yp) THU 04:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k1tg) school holidays. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Episode 3: Where You Happened To Be WED 21:00 Jim Morrison's Will to be Weird (m000h93s) THU 05:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b0833vn0) From dappled fields to city bombsites; stables to slag heaps – [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] when going away for a break was practically unheard of, WED 22:00 Paul Sinha's General Knowledge (m000y6p4) THU 05:30 Paul Sinha's General Knowledge (m000y6p4) children made the most of their environment. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Abridged by Rosemary Goring WED 22:30 Life on Egg (b09l0fqz) THU 06:00 Paul Temple (b007jn7r) Read by Fenella Woolgar Series 1 Paul Temple and the Lawrence Affair First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020. Stand-In 4. Return to Downburgh WED 14:15 Promenade Rock by Christopher Denys When Peter is sent back to the mainland to undergo some Pondering the mystery over the handbag, the suave detective (b0076d8c) urgent diversity training, Harry and Ann are given a and his wife, Steve follow up a fresh lead... 3. The Hotelier replacement guard by The Minister. Francis Durbridge's thriller. Frustrated hotel manager Arnold Pilton takes his first steps as Warder Leo Hatchet is a tough, uncompromising new screw and CAST: an entrepreneur, but it takes Matthew to see the real soon makes his mark on the prison's regime. But in doing so, Paul Temple …. Peter Coke opportunities... has he destroyed The Egg's ambiance? And what about Peter? Steve …. Marjorie Westbury Christopher Denys' ten-part series set in the booming 1950s Will The Minister allow him to return to The Egg, if Hatchet's Charlie …. James Beattie seaside resort of Llantwit-on-Sea. already doing his job quicker and better? Max Burford …. Allan McLelland Starring Nerys Hughes as Eirlys Richards, Russell Boulter as Governor Harry .... Harry Hill Detective Inspector Vosper …. Arthur Ridley Matthew Dolan, Christopher Scott as Arnold Pilton and Terry Ann .... Karen Bartke Johnny Tico …. Brian Haines Molloy as Owain Owen. Peter .... Marek Larwood Ernest de Silva …. John Gabriel Director: Sue Wilson The Minister .... Tanya Moodie Detective Inspector Ivor …. Manning Wilson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Tim the Helicopter Pilot .... Dan Maier Doris …. Dorothy Holmes-Gore WED 14:30 Dreaming By the Pool (b0075kll) Warder Leo Hatchet .... Dan Maier Telephone Operator/Police Sergeant …. Michael Turner Jack Dee takes a humorous look at the history of the back- Prisoner Gyles Brandreth .... Gyles Brandreth From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective garden swimming pool and tells tales of how pool desires Written by Dan Maier. Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, inevitably lead to disaster. Producer: Sam Michell solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular Presenter: Jack Dee A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails Contributors January 2018. and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore Michael Cavillo WED 22:45 The Problem With Adam Bloom (b00g3xwp) cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, Zoe Dean Series 2 usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. David Reynolds Problems Producer: Martyn C. Webster Jim Johnson Adam Bloom has a problem. He's fed up with having problems. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1956. Ian Betts But would not having problems really be any better? THU 06:30 Peeler (m00061r6) Tricia Carr With Rob Rouse and Stefano Paolini. Imprisonment Duncan Goodhew Written by Adam Bloom. Lord Trowle and PC Quin meet in Court and Jeremiah Morley John Dawes Producer: Adam Bromley meets his match in Mrs Gascoygne. Thomas AP Van Leeuwen First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2004. Patrick Carroll’s six-part crime series set in 1830, a year after Reader: John Sayers WED 23:00 Radio 9 (b04fgtgy) the Metropolitan Police Act created the 'Peelers'. Producer: David Prest Series 2 PC Martin Quin ...... Mick Ford First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. Episode 2 Jeremiah Morley ...... James Booth WED 15:00 Roger McGough - Summer With Monika An unusual travel diary, very dangerous racing and faking Sir Robert Peel ...... Norman Jones (b00bws4x) skiing downhill. Stars Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker. From Lord Trowle ...... Richard E Grant [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] July 2005. Colonel Brown ...... Peter Jeffrey WED 15:35 Roger McGough - Postscript: Summer With WED 23:30 Bunk Bed (b0952zm0) Richard Mayne ...... Killian McKenna Monika (b00bwsdj) Series 4 Maria Staples ...... Joanna Myers [Repeat of broadcast at 10:35 today] Episode 5 Sergeant Dutton ...... Ronald Herdman WED 15:45 Summer Taste (b007vd4h) Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not Frederick Roe ...... Timothy Bateson Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 31 July – 6 August 2021 Page 9 of 11 Sergeant Cazalet ...... Alan Barker David Spicer's comedy drama about modern life and [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Turnkey ...... Mark Straker parenthood, as seen through the eyes of two 30-something non- THU 17:00 On the Rocks (b03kvby1) Lord Laverton ...... James Greene parents. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] John Staples ...... Ian Lindsay Starring David Tennant as Daniel, Liz Carling as Lucy, Tracy- THU 17:30 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000y6sw) Rev Charkes Lyton ...... Timothy Carlton Ann Oberman as Katie, Tony Gardner as Andy and Kate [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Mrs Gascoyne ...... Elizabeth Bell Robbins as Katriona. THU 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jshx) Florrie ...... Susan Sheridan Producer: Liz Anstee The World in Peril Mrs Gregory ...... Elizabeth Kelly First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Episode 19 Singer: Martin Carthy. THU 10:00 Drama (b0b6bzhc) Despite their best efforts, Jet and the crew are prised from their Director: Janet Whitaker Anton Chekhov - Wild Honey ship by the Martians. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991. Episode 1 Continuing the 20-part serial - the third of Charles Chilton's THU 07:00 On the Rocks (b03kvby1) When Wild Honey was first produced at the National in 1984, classic sci-fi trilogy set in 1972. Series 1 Ian McKellen played Platonov at the same age as David CAST: Movies Tennant is here. The role is a big show off part and the play is a Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Movies. Morwenna is bored of island life. rumbustious cornucopia of characters and themes covering Lemmy …. Alfie Bass It's 1937 on the remote Scilly Island of St. Martin's, where the sexual comedy, morality, melodramatics, the state of Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter islanders are resisting the attempts of the Penzance GPO man to contemporary Russia and a hint of tragedy. Mitch …. Don Sharp modernise the post office - around which their world revolves. The play was discovered in a bank vault in 1920, sixteen years Various ….Alan Tylvern Written by Christopher William Hill. after Chekhov's death - with the title page of the play missing, Rogers/The Martian …. David Jacobs Directed by Mary Peate. leading to its rather varied history of titles. The original piece Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips. Sound by Jenni Burnett, Anne Bunting and Caleb Knightley was nearly six hours long and Michael Frayn has done a Written and produced by Charles Chilton. Production Co-ordinator, Jessica Brown. masterful job of turning the work into something First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1956. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. quintessentially Chekhovian. THU 18:30 Great Lives (b08kv5f6) THU 07:30 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000y6sw) "I love everyone - and everyone loves me. I insult them, I treat Series 42 Episode 4 them abominably - and they love me just the same!" Gary Kemp on EW Godwin Olga and Algo are back to talk about Privacy. Does encryption Village schoolmaster Platonov has it all - wit, intelligence, a Gary Kemp, songwriter and guitarist with hit 80s band Spandau actually work? Why can’t anyone set a good password? And comfortable and respectable life in provincial Russia, and the Ballet, chooses the architect and designer Edward William what do we need privacy for anyway? attentions of four beautiful women - one of whom is his Godwin as his great life. Comedian and Computer Scientist Olga Koch takes a deep dive devoted wife. As summer arrives and the seasonal festivities Gary began collecting pieces of Godwin's work as soon as he into the world of computer science with her trusty virtual commence, the rapidly intensifying heat makes everyone giddy started making money from hit singles in the 1980s. He's assistant Algo as the digital duo take the truths that you hold with sunlight, vodka and passion. remained fascinated by the life and work of the man who dear and tear them to shreds using logic, like a teenager on the CAST: formed part of the Aesthetic Movement in the 19th century, internet. A four part stand-up special exploring Nationality, Dr Triletzky...... Elliot Levey designed houses for Oscar Wilde and James Whistler, and Beauty, Health and Privacy through the eyes of a woman with Anna Petrovna...... Sasha Behar influenced Charles Rennie Mackintosh. half a masters degree in the social science of the internet. By Porfiry Semyonovich Glagolyev...... Christian Rodska The guest expert is Dr Aileen Reid. applying computer science to the world around her, Olga and Sergey...... John Hollingworth Producer: Maggie Ayre. Algo take an hilarious and pedantic journey to reveal the Colonel Triletzky...... Rupert Vansittart First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. inherent absurdities of the modern world. Sofya...... Eva Feiler THU 19:00 The Navy Lark (b007jmsx) Written by Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin Marko...... Nigel Cooke [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Starring Sindhu Vee as Algo Marya Yefimovna Grekova...... Prisca Bakare THU 19:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00l2jgz) Additional Material from Rajiv Karia Platonov...... David Tennant [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Produced by Benjamin Sutton Sasha...... Olivia Darnley THU 20:00 Paul Temple (b007jn7r) A BBC Studios Production Gerasim Kuzmich Petrin...... Ben Onwukwe [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 08:00 The Navy Lark (b007jmsx) Osip...... Forbes Masson THU 20:30 Peeler (m00061r6) Opportunity Knockers Director Clive Brill [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Will a star be born? The crew audition for a talent contest Producer Clive Brill THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000ydvx) aboard HMS Troutbridge. Writer Anton Chekhov [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] CAST: Adaptor Michael Frayn THU 21:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000ydvz) Sub-Lieutenant …. Leslie Phillips First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2018. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Chief Petty Officer …. Jon Pertwee THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000ydvx) THU 22:00 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000y6sw) Commanding Officer …. Stephen Murray [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Captain Povey …. Richard Caldicot THU 11:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000ydvz) THU 22:30 Irish Micks and Legends (b01nxw2q) WREN Simkins …. Heather Chasen [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Series 1 The Admiral …. Tenniel Evans THU 12:00 The Navy Lark (b007jmsx) Children of Lir The Vice-Admiral …. Michael Bates [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram become Ais and Yaz and are Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS THU 12:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00l2jgz) the very best pals. They are taking their role as Ireland's freshest Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] story-tellers to the British nation very seriously indeed but they series between 1959 and 1976. THU 13:00 Paul Temple (b007jn7r) haven't had the time to do much research, learn their lines or Scripted by Lawrie Wyman and George Evans. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] work out who is doing which parts. Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. THU 13:30 Peeler (m00061r6) The girls' unconventional way of telling stories involves a First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1972. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] concoction of thoroughly inappropriate modern-day metaphors THU 08:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00l2jgz) THU 14:00 British Summer Time Begins by Ysenda and references to many of the ancient Irish stories. Series 4 Maxtone-Graham (m000lmyy) With a natural knack for both comedy and character voices To the Barricades Domestic Departures Yasmine Akram and Aisling Bea will bring you warm, modern Miss Featherstone gets arrested. Is she the right sort of person Ysenda Maxtone Graham interviews people from all walks of re-workings of popular ancient Irish stories. to teach children? life to discover how they were shaped by the long months of Today it's Children of Lir. CAST: summer. A touching and sun-drenched chronicle of British Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram. Mrs Eastwood …. Brigitte Forsythe school holidays. Producer: Raymond Lau Miss Lewis …. Marlene Sidaway Episode 4: Domestic Departures First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012. Mr Maxwell …. Michael Cochrane The early rises and cramped car journeys of the domestic THU 22:45 Hannah Gadsby: Arts Clown (b05n00f1) Miss Featherstone …. Teresa Gallagher holiday contrast with the joy and freedom to be found on the 4. Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Miss Reid …. Jacqueline Beatty beach. Aussie stand up comedian and art historian Hannah Gadsby Mrs Khan …. Janice Acquah Abridged by Rosemary Goring presents a comedy art lecture, this week on the subject of Mr Long …. Paul Copley Read by Fenella Woolgar Picasso's angry 1907 masterpiece 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon'. The Chairman …. Hugh Dickson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020. It was as an art history student in Canberra in her early 20s that Mrs Smithers …. Helen Longworth THU 14:15 Promenade Rock by Christopher Denys she was first introduced to this canvas and it took her a long Mr Allen …. Ben Crowe (b0076d8w) time to grow to love it. She takes us on her personal journey School comedy created and written by Jim Eldridge. Ten series 4. The Silver Gumshoe through hate, to eventual love, explaining along the way why of this King Street Junior ran between 1985 and 1998. King Llantwit-on-Sea's bandmaster Jenks decides he wants to marry this piece is so pivotal in art history. Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005. Eirlys - but first he needs to hire a private detective... With the help of her Quotebot - who sounds remarkably like Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Christopher Denys' ten-part series set in the booming 1950s John Lloyd - Hannah explores 'Les Dems' rebellion, anger and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2005. seaside resort of Llantwit-on-Sea. revolution and the painting's place in modern art. She also THU 09:00 The Write Stuff (m000yfrh) Starring Nerys Hughes as Eirlys Richards, Russell Boulter as decides Picasso was 'a bit of a dick'. Series 8 Matthew Dolan, Iwan Thomas as Iorweth Jenkins, Siriol Jenkins Written by Hannah Gadsby and edited by Jon Hunter. John Milton as Gwenny Jenkins and David Holt as PC Ianto Evans. Producer: Claire Jones James Walton chairs the literary quiz with Sebastian Faulks and Director: Sue Wilson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2015. John Walsh who are joined by team mates Louise Doughty and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. THU 23:00 The Museum of Everything (b00899zt) Wendy Holden. THU 14:30 Sunflowers (b0076ddv) Series 1 Author of the week: John Milton To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Van Gogh's birth, an Welcome to the Museum of Everything Reader: Beth Chalmers evocation of the artist and the passion for sunflowers that Feel free to wander round our many galleries and experience Producer: Katie Marsden obsessed him during his final fraught year. the history of everything. Learn about the history of everything. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2005. Tim Marlow investigates with Antony Sher as Van Gogh. Learn about the history of wicker, tour a stately home and THU 09:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b008x3lt) Producer: Merilyn Harris discover the real identity of Jack the Ripper. Series 3 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Danny Robins Episode 1 THU 15:00 Drama (b0b6bzhc) and Dan Tetsell. Andy and Katy have a lovely new baby and Daniel has a [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] With Lucy Montgomery. brilliant new job. THU 16:00 The Write Stuff (m000yfrh) Music by Dominic Haslam and Ben Walker. But Lucy has a horrible new feeling. Is Daniel about to leave [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor her for a woman called Katriona who's obsessed with cheese? THU 16:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b008x3lt) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2004. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 31 July – 6 August 2021 Page 10 of 11 THU 23:30 Party (b01n6rsf) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991. Episode 2 Series 3 FRI 07:00 The Wilsons Save the World (m0002r74) David Tennant stars in the second part of Michael Frayn's Radio Series 2 adaptation of Chekhov's early play. The budding politicians get a crucial radio interview ahead of Library Village schoolmaster Platonov has it all - wit, intelligence, a the upcoming by election. Maxine Wilson continues to occupy the local library despite the comfortable and respectable life in provincial Russia, and the Tom Basden's satirical comedy about a group of young idealists council closing it and things take a turn for the worse when it attentions of four beautiful women - one of whom is his trying to make waves with their new political party. looks like eviction is on the cards. Daughter Cat can’t really see devoted wife. As summer arrives and the seasonal festivities Simon .... Tom Basden the point of libraries anyway, with the internet, and it becomes commence, the rapidly intensifying heat makes everyone giddy Duncan .... Tim Key clear that Mike doesn’t fully grasp what they really mean either. with sunlight, vodka and passion. Jared .... Jonny Sweet As things take a turn towards the more confrontational Mike CAST: Mel .... Anna Crilly recruits a veteran activist, much to Max’s horror. Dr Triletzky...... Elliot Phoebe .... Katy Wix Mike…Marcus Brigstocke Levey Alison the radio producer .... Rachel Stubbings Max…Kerry Godliman Anna Petrovna ...... Sasha Radio Interviewer .... Peter Curran Cat..Mia Jenkins Behar Drama interviewee ...Jot Davies Lola…India Brown Porfiry Semyonovich Glagolyev...... Christian Producer: Julia McKenzie. Pauline...Liza Tarbuck Rodska First broadcast on Radio 4 in October 2012. Various roles...Kiell Smith-Bynoe Sergey...... John Writers…Marcus Brigstocke and Sarah Morgan Hollingworth Producer...Julia McKenzie Colonel Triletzky...... Rupert FRIDAY 06 AUGUST 2021 A BBC Studios production. Vansittart First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019. Sofya...... Eva FRI 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jshx) FRI 07:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000ydpx) Feiler [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Tessa Coates: Resting Witch Face Marko...... Nigel FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b08kv5f6) Sunday Evening Comedy Cooke [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jmrm) Marya Yefimovna Grekova...... Prisca FRI 01:00 Paul Temple (b007jn7r) Series 2 Bakare [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] If the Cap Fits Platonov...... David FRI 01:30 Peeler (m00061r6) Captain Mainwaring decides to promote fractious Private Tennant [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] Frazer with some unexpected results. Sasha...... Olivia FRI 02:00 British Summer Time Begins by Ysenda CAST: Darnley Maxtone-Graham (m000lmyy) Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe Gerasim Kuzmich Petrin...... Ben [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Sgt Wilson …. John Le Mesurier Onwukwe FRI 02:15 Promenade Rock by Christopher Denys Cpl Jones …. Clive Dunn Osip...... Forbes (b0076d8w) Pt Pike …. Ian Lavender Masson [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] Pt Frazer …. John Laurie Adapted by Michael Frayn FRI 02:30 Sunflowers (b0076ddv) Pt Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley Produced and Directed by Clive Brill [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee A Brill production for BBC Radio 4 FRI 03:00 Drama (b0b6bzhc) Col Square …. Geoffrey Lumsden First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2018. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] The Verger …. Edward Sinclair FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000yfs6) FRI 04:00 The Write Stuff (m000yfrh) Gen Menzies and Sgt McKenzie …. Fraser Kerr Summer Scrapbook [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Announcer/Newsreader …. John Snagge As part of 4 Extra's Summer Season, Podcast Radio Hour FRI 04:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b008x3lt) Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV presents postcards from producers, presenters, comedians and [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. friends recommending some great listens for the Summer. FRI 05:00 On the Rocks (b03kvby1) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1975. FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jmrm) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI 08:30 Semi Circles (b007jts2) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 05:30 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000y6sw) Series 2 FRI 12:30 Semi Circles (b007jts2) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] A Complete Break [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 06:00 Paul Temple (b007s6jt) Ben's exhausted after working hard on his company’s new FRI 13:00 Paul Temple (b007s6jt) Paul Temple and the Lawrence Affair bedtime drink. So he and his wife Helen plan a holiday... [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] 5. A Present for Steve The improving story of life and improving times in an FRI 13:30 Peeler (m00061r0) More mystery afloat, as the worried detective tackles Salty improving neighbourhood. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] West and uncovers links to Steve. Starring Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben FRI 14:00 British Summer Time Begins by Ysenda Francis Durbridge's thriller. Written by Simon Brett Maxtone-Graham (m000lnn2) CAST: Helen ...... Paula Wilcox Journeys Abroad Paul Temple …. Peter Coke Ben ...... David Wood Ysenda Maxtone Graham interviews people from all walks of Steve …. Marjorie Westbury Mrs Kelly ...... Pay Heywood life to discover how they were shaped by the long months of Charlie …. James Beattie Alastair ...... Tony Millan summer in this entertaining and touching chronicle of British Mrs Purdie …. Molly Rankin Kevin ...... Stuart Organ school holidays. Brian Dexter …. Simon Lack Julian ...... Mark Wing-Davey Episode 5: Journeys Abroad Stan Walters …. Denis Goacher Maureen ...... Miranda Forbes From driving and camping on the continent to the heady Salty West …. Brewster Mason Doctor ...... Robert Rietty pleasures of an all-inclusive package, the summer holiday as Linda Tico …. Belle Chrystall Producer: Pete Atkin generations of Britons know it is about to change for ever. Johnny Tico …. Brian Haines First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1982 Abridged by Rosemary Goring George …. Leonard Trolley FRI 09:00 It's Not What You Know (b037tnxt) Read by Fenella Woolgar Detective Inspector Ivor …. Manning Wilson Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2020. 1st Girl/3rd Girl …. Beth Boyd Episode 5 FRI 14:15 Promenade Rock by Christopher Denys 2nd Girl …. Dorothy Holmes-Gore What is Masterchef finalist Kirsty Wark's signature dish? What (b0076d9g) Telephone Operator/Waiter …. James Thomason is Andrew Maxwell's best character trait? What is Francis 5. The Longshoremen From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Wheen's greatest fear? Deck-chair attendant and fisherman, Cox'n Hughes is Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, All these questions, and more, will be answered in the show victimised by the local fishing community. solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested on how well Matthew decides to find out why. series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails they know their nearest and dearest. Christopher Denys' ten-part series set in the booming 1950s and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore Producer: Sam Michell seaside resort of Llantwit-on-Sea. cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013. Starring Nerys Hughes as Eirlys Richards, Russell Boulter as usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. FRI 09:30 To the Manor Born (b007n1wj) Matthew Dolan, Andy Hockley as Cox'n Hughes, Owen Producer: Martyn C. Webster An Englishman's Home Garmon as Round-the-Bay Baynon and Keith Drinkel as Griff First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1956. When Devere installs new security cameras, Audrey declares Gadabout. FRI 06:30 Peeler (m00061r0) war. Director: Sue Wilson Blaggard Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Lord Trowle and PC Quin meet in Court and Jeremiah Morley Richard DeVere...... Keith Barron FRI 14:30 Sand Between the Toes (m000ygm3) meets his match in Mrs Gascoygne. Marjory Frobisher...... Angela Thorne Evocative interviews with people remembering the childhood Patrick Carroll’s six-part crime series set in 1830, a year after Brabinger...... Nicholas McArdle excitement of looking forward to their annual seaside holiday the Metropolitan Police Act created the 'Peelers'. Mrs Polouvicka...... Margery Withers and their sadness when it was all over. The sights, sounds and PC Martin Quin ...... Mick Ford Ned...... Frank Middlemass scents of the seaside and an historical document of transport, Jeremiah Morley ...... James Booth PC Dottle...... Kevin Eldon entertainment, accommodation and food in 1920s and 30s Sir Robert Peel ...... Norman Jones The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced Britain. Lord Trowle ...... Richard E Grant to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death Producer Peter Hoare Colonel Brown ...... Peter Jeffrey leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1984. Richard Mayne ...... Killian McKenna they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage. FRI 15:00 Drama (b0b6fbs1) Maria Staples ...... Joanna Myers From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Frederick Roe ...... Timothy Bateson eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard FRI 16:00 It's Not What You Know (b037tnxt) Lord Laverton ...... James Greene DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descendent. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] John Staples ...... Ian Lindsay First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever FRI 16:30 To the Manor Born (b007n1wj) Rev Charkes Lyton ...... Timothy Carlton appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. Written for [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Florrie ...... Susan Sheridan radio by Peter Spence. FRI 17:00 The Wilsons Save the World (m0002r74) Mrs Gregory ...... Elizabeth Kelly Producer: Jane Berthoud [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Peter The Screever ...... Frazer Kerr First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997. FRI 17:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000ydpx) Singer: Martin Carthy. FRI 10:00 Drama (b0b6fbs1) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Director: Janet Whitaker Anton Chekhov - Wild Honey FRI 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jsl4) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 31 July – 6 August 2021 Page 11 of 11 The World in Peril Episode 20 As the invasion fleet reaches Earth, can Jet Morgan and his crew save the day? Continuing the 20-part serial - the third of Charles Chilton's classic sci-fi trilogy set in 1972. CAST: Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Lemmy …. Alfie Bass Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter Mitch …. Don Sharp Various ….Alan Tylvern Rogers/The Martian …. David Jacobs Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips. Written and produced by Charles Chilton. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1956. FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b00w7cww) My Own Private Utopia How, and where, and with whom, do you want to lead your life ? Most of us don't ask ourselves this very often, preferring instead to slide along, taking what may be acceptable and conventional as enough. But what if you do pursue an answer, as one of our guests, Tobias Jones, is trying to do, in a ten acre wood? The full title of Thomas More's work Utopia included the words, "A truly golden little book, no less beneficial than entertaining, of a republic's best state ...." But has Utopia ever been achieved ? Rob Penn and Amanda Mitchison think definitely not. The problem is the presence of other people, and so a private Utopia is the best that can ever be achieved. Rob Penn, presenter of a recent tv documentary about building the perfect bike, outlines very clearly what it means to him. But Tobias Jones, author of the Dark Heart of Italy and Utopian Dreams, argues very clearly that the woodland life he is now establishing with his family and guests should not be so easily dismissed. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "Human beings will be happier not when they cure cancer or get to Mars ... but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again." Dominic Arkwright presents. The producer is Miles Warde. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010. FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jmrm) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 19:30 Semi Circles (b007jts2) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 20:00 Paul Temple (b007s6jt) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 20:30 Peeler (m00061r0) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000yfs6) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI 22:00 Stand-Up Specials (m000ydpx) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 22:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show (b0076254) Series 2 Episode 2 The duo get some help from war veteran and stand-up comedian Edie Trinder, who valiantly steps in when Mel loses her voice. Plus more from the Gory Nuns and the Goatee Beard Men's Group. Special guest stars are rapper Eminem and opera diva Leslie Garrett. Variety meets sitcom meets sketch show - written and performed by Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine. With Dave Lamb, Martin Hyder and Jim North. Additional material by Martin Hyder and Jim North. Script editor: Graeme Garden Music by Richard Webb. Producers: Helen Williams and Claire Jones. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001. FRI 23:00 Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself (b04hvy0q) Episode 2 The impression and sketch show that looks behind the scenes at the life and work of star impressionist Lewis Macleod Lewis has performed on 4 Extra's Newsjack, plus Postman Pat, The Phantom Menace and Dead Ringers. With Kate O'Sullivan, Duncan Wisbey and Julian Dutton. Producer: Lyndsay Fenner First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2014. FRI 23:30 Think the Unthinkable (b007k4wm) Series 2 Barrington Comprehensive The management consultants try reversing the fortunes of an inner city school. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From November 2002.

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