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Radio 4 Extra Listings for 6 – 12 July 2019 Page 1 of 8 Radio 4 Extra Listings for 6 – 12 July 2019 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 06 JULY 2019 variants of the same, raised new debates about what constitutes SAT 05:30 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics (b08k4zw1) a new species. And as Mark Chase, Keeper of Kew's Jodrell Series 2 SAT 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids Laboratory reveals, the arguments continue today.Producer: The Auction (m0006fx1) Adrian WashbournePresenter: Kathy Willis is director of By John NicholsonIn early 20th-century Russia, the future of a World Narrowing science at Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. She is also professor large family estate hangs in the balance. It risks being turned 'The utter loneliness was beginning to get on my nerves.'Killer of long-term ecology and a fellow of Merton College, both at into a golf course.In this second series, the comedy troupe plants are on the rampage across the countryside. Bill sets-off in Oxford University. Winner of several awards, she has spent Peepolykus assume the roles of minor characters in great works search of Josella but finds a new companion...First published in over 20 years researching and teaching biodiversity and of fiction and derail the plot through their hapless 1951, John Wyndham's classic sci-fi novel dramatised by Giles conservation at Oxford and Cambridge. buffoonery.Director . Sasha Yevtushenko. Cooper.Gary Watson …. Bill MasenBarbara Shelley …. Josella SAT 02:30 Mary Brunton - Self Control (b011qm90) SAT 06:00 James Follett - The Light of a Thousand Suns PlaytonJill Cary …. SusanFreda Dowie …. MaryDavid Brierley Kidnapped (b007jv75) …. DennisMargaret Robertson …. JoyceMusic composed by Kidnapped by the love-crazed Hargrave, Laura will inherit a A bizarre chain of unforeseen coincidences sparks a 1990s David Cain.Producer: John Powell.First broadcast on BBC fortune - if she agrees to marry him...Conclusion of Mary British nuclear submarine to prepare to launch an all-out attack. Radio 4 in July 1968. Brunton’s romantic tale set in Perthshire and London - Devastating, unpreventable, unless...James Follett's thriller SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b0076jxf) dramatised by Gerda Stevenson.In a world where polite society starring Manning Wilson as Captain Harrison. Lieutenant Middle Age and sexual hypocrisy rub shoulders easily, can Laura Sinclair ...... John RyeStride ...... Ian ThompsonFloyd ...... Novelist Carol Clewlow, TV writer and novelist David Nicholls Montreville choose wisely between passion and virtue?Narrated Michael ShannonLouise Arnott ...... Sheila MitchellWallis ...... and veteran soul singer Tony Cassidy discuss 'middle age'.In by Maureen BeattieLaura ...... Gerda StevensonMrs Falkland James Hayes The Prime Minister ...... Conrad Phillips Aitkin each programme, Matthew Parris introduces a group of writers ...... Barbara Leigh-HuntHargrave ...... Andrew WincottMrs ...... Sion ProbertMaster-at-Arms ...... Nigel GrahamFisher ...... of fact and fiction: new talent and established names. In the Dougalas ...... Phyllida LawAnnie ...... Tracy-Ann John BullTheodore Pike ...... Vernon Joyner1st Rating ...... context of a discussion of one of the ideas and pre-occupations ObermanMary ...... Emma WoolliamsRobert ...... Stuart Hugh Ross2nd Rating ...... Roger GartlandComputer Operator of our times, each presents a piece on this week's topic.The best McGuganProducer: Bruce YoungFirst broadcast on BBC Radio ...... Carole BoydProducer: Margaret EtallFirst broadcast on new writing and the freshest conversation from 2004. 4 in March 2003. BBC Radio 4 in July 1974 SAT 01:00 Cadfael (b007k28z) SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b04fc2k9) SAT 07:30 Jarvis and Matthew (b07nrzjb) Dead Man's Ransom On Silbury Hill Setting Out A Helping Hand Episode 5 Close friends and closet raconteurs, Christopher Matthew and With a strong case against Elis, will Brother Cadfael solve the Silbury Hill in Wiltshire - together with Stonehenge, Avebury Martin Jarvis take to the streets to share their memories of sheriff's murder?Conclusion of Ellis Peters’ medieval thriller and the remains of numerous barrows - forms part of a entering the world of work in the 1960s - Martin in the theatre, dramatised by Bert Coules.It’s 1141. Beyond the walls of Neolithic landscape about which very little is known or Christopher in advertising.As a distinguished past member of Shrewsbury’s Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, civil war understood.Adam Thorpe describes his book as '"a marble cake the National Youth Theatre and a prize winning graduate from rages. The Deputy Sheriff of Shropshire returns from the Battle of different soils. Memoir, data, theory, streaks of poetry, swirls RADA, Martin's career began at the Library Theatre, of Lincoln with disastrous news that King Stephen has been of fiction" - but he is not alone in having been drawn to explore Manchester, where, among other triumphs, he and Patrick captured. The Sheriff himself has been kidnapped by the the meaning of the largest prehistoric mound in Europe. Artists Stewart starred in a play called The Princess and the Swineherd. Welsh, and England’s very future is uncertain.Philip Madoc …. and archaeologists as well as various cults and neo-pagan Martin got the biggest laugh of the evening by entering with a CadfaelJonathan Tafler …. Hugh BeringarSusannah York …. traditions have focussed on the blank canvas that the hill large cucumber in one hand and crying, 'Look, father, twelve Sister MagdalenJason Hughes …. ElisKate Odey …. presents as a way of exploring our complicated relationship inches long and not a kink in it!'Meanwhile Christopher was MelicentSion Probert …. Prince OwainMark Lewis Jones …. with the past and the people who lived there."An estimated making a smaller, but no less determined, name for himself as a EliudShaun Prendergast …. Ithel/HerbardSiobahn Flynn …. million hours spent on construction rather than herding or junior copywriter in various London advertising agencies where CristinaDavid Holt …. VillagerMichael Kitchen …. cooking or stitching must have had a point, but we don't get it. he achieved distinction with his slogan for the Cheese Bureau - NarratorMusic by Peter Salem.Producer: Lissa EvansFirst Is conjecture a species of fiction? To muddy the difference "Cheese Tastes Quite Nice Sometimes".Producer: Paul broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. further, Silbury insisted on being called 'she'. I obeyed, not out KobrakFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. SAT 01:30 Van Gogh: Seeing Red (b00pfrzs) of New Age winsomeness but from the influence of country SAT 08:00 The Jon Pertwee Files (m0006lvy) Art historian Richard Cork explores the mind of the painter dialect, in which neuter pronouns are as alien as robot leaf Sean Pertwee celebrates his father Jon’s broadcasting career in Vincent van Gogh through his extraordinary letters.Richard blowers."This chalkland memoir told in fragments and this special centenary documentary.Featuring rediscovered Cork explores the mind of Vincent van Gogh through his snapshots, takes a circular route around the hill, a monument archive material, rare interviews and behind the scenes correspondence.A keen and expressive correspondent who which we can no longer climb, and celebrates the urge to stand recordings.From his radio days playing a disreputable postman regaled acquaintances with his views on love, religion and sex, and wonder.Episode 5:All Hallow's Eve 2013 – Silbury and the and a chief petty officer in The Navy Lark, to his TV portrayals he put pen to paper with the same creative vigour as he put stone circle at Avebury, shadows and rituals.Abridged, directed of the dandy Doctor Who and the anarchic scarecrow, Worzel paintbrush to canvas.By the time he walked into a field in the and produced by Jill WatersA Waters Company production for Gummidge.Producers: Richard Latto and Stuart Manning. town of Auvers-sur-Oise and shot himself in the chest, the BBC Radio 4 SAT 09:00 Putting You Through, Caller (b098hjv5) 37-year-old van Gogh had left behind a rich literary legacy that SAT 03:00 Mrs Henry Wood - East Lynne (m0006fwx) In 1958, the Queen made the first direct trunk telephone call. It would, like his painting, outlive his short and tortured The Keepers of the Dead was the beginning of the end for the female operators known as life.Producer: Kate BlandFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Lord Mount Severn has died suddenly, leaving his daughter, the the 'Hello Girls'.Telephone operators had connected callers December 2009. Lady Isabel, destitute.Meanwhile young Richard Hare has since the earliest days of the telephone, eighty years before. SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b06t608f) risked his life, wanted as he is for the murder of Hallijohn, by Despite the intimacy of telephone conversations, subscribers The Provincial Lady Goes Further returning secretly to West Lynne in a desperate attempt to clear willingly accepted the presence of a third voice on the line.In Episode 5 his name.Novel by Mrs Henry Wood dramatised by Michael this three-hour showcase, Shaun Ley uses drama and comedy E M Delafield was great friends with Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Bakewell.Mrs Henry Wood ... Rosemary LeachLady Isabel ... from the BBC archives to demonstrate how the telephone Viscountess Rhondda, and became a director of Time and Tide Moir LeslieMr Carlyle ... David CollingsFrancis Levison ... operator became a valuable dramatic device. With the aid of magazine.When the editor "wanted some light middles", Anthony EdridgeMiss Cornelia ... Maxine AudleyBarbara Hare GPO's own recordings and the BT archive, Shaun explores the preferably in serial form, she promised to "think of something". ... Julie BerryLord Vane ... Stephen ThorneVane's butler ... role of the operator, the strict rules governing their work and And so it was, in 1930, Delafield began writing her largely Michael Tudor BarnesDill / 2nd Creditor ... Tim some official secrets.Including extracts from Liz and Sally, a autobiographical novels detailing the day-to-day life of a ReynoldsMarvel / Servant ... Susie BrannWarburton /Lambert 1960s post office recruitment film, Burn Your Phone - a BBC Devonshire-dwelling upper-middle class lady and her attempts ... Paul GregoryJoyce ..
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