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27 June 2008 Page 1 of 7 SATURDAY 21 JUNE 2008 Sheila Parr … Radio 7 Listings for 21 – 27 June 2008 Page 1 of 7 SATURDAY 21 JUNE 2008 Sheila Parr …. June Whitfield Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers. Hetty Stark …. Pat Coombes Written by John Piirto. SAT 00:00 Simon Bovey - The Voice of God (b007jwlh) Murray Franklin …. Julian Eardley Producer: Gerry Jones Can You Hear That Louis Elstein …. Edward Halsted First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. Can You Hear That: The colonel plans to fire the sonic weapon Libby Earnest …. Tracy-Ann Oberman SAT 19:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k1mb) and risk a global catastrophe. Stars Clare Corbett and Matthew Producer: Steve Doherty [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Dyktynski. From February 2006. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001. SAT 19:30 Decline and Fall (b00c5n6v) SAT 00:30 Methuselah's Children by Robert A Heinlein SAT 06:30 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] (b007rsz2) (b007jqb0) SAT 20:00 Barry Took: Mr Point of View (b00c5n6x) 5. New World The Menace of Totleigh Towers [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] After entering the alien temple, a colonist returns as a broken Bertie Wooster is obliged to sort out an amorous mix-up SAT 22:30 Round the Horne (b007jlgd) man. between his friends. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] Paul Birchard continues Robert Heinlein's sci-fi novel. PG Wodehouse romp adapted in six parts by Richard Usborne. SAT 23:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b009qk5f) Set up in the late 19th century, the aim of the Howard Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 today] Foundation is to prolong human life via selective breeding and Wooster, Vivian Pickles as Aunt Dahlia, Ann Davies as financial encouragement. Emerald Stoker, Douglas Blackwell as the Reverend Harold Abridged by Bert Coules. Pinker and Jonathan Cecil as Boko Fittleworth. SUNDAY 22 JUNE 2008 Produced at BBC Scotland by Bruce Young. Producer: David Hatch Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in July 2007. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. SUN 00:00 Heroes: The Official Radio Show (b00c5njs) SAT 01:00 Cadfael (b007jldz) SAT 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00c5hrg) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] The Virgin in the Ice Contact us at: SUN 00:30 Fear on 4 (b00c8zsz) 5. Discoveries Big Toe Books [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] Detective monk Brother Cadfael discovers outlaws have taken BBC Broadcasting House SUN 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvhy) Ives Hugonin prisoner. London [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] Conclusion starring Philip Madoc as Brother Cadfael. W1A 1AA SUN 02:30 Tony's (b007jt0l) Written by Ellis Peters and dramatised by Bert Coules. Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Saturday] Brother Cadfael ...... Philip Madoc [email protected]. SUN 03:00 Barry Took: Mr Point of View (b00c5n6x) Narrator ...... Sir Michael Hordern SAT 08:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k1mb) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday] Ermina ...... Moira Buffini Annabel Meredith SUN 05:30 Round the Horne (b007jlgd) Leonard ...... Leonard Fenton Chic Murray's daughter chats to Sally Magnusson about her life [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 on Saturday] Hugh ...... Douglas Hodge with the legendary Scottish comedian. SUN 06:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b009qk5f) Le Gaucher ...... Peter Laird Producer: Mike Walker [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Saturday] Ives ...... Dean Magri First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in October 2005. SUN 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00c5qdn) Elyas ...... Crispin Letts SAT 08:30 Decline and Fall (b00c5n6v) Contact us at: Axeman ...... Peter Gunn Episode 3 Big Toe Books Boterel ...... Andrew Wincott Grimes has a startling announcement to make and Paul BBC Broadcasting House Other parts played by the cast. Pennyfeather gets a holiday job. Stars Alistair McGowan and London Music by Peter Salem. Jim Broadbent. W1A 1AA Producer: Phil Clarke. SAT 09:00 Barry Took: Mr Point of View (b00c5n6x) Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1992. The late comedian, writer and broadcaster tells his own show [email protected]. SAT 01:30 Bill Murphy - Hallows End (b007k2zc) business story, featuring famous folk and programme excerpts. SUN 08:00 Daughters of Britannia Omnibus (b00c90g6) Wealthy Dubliner Dermot McPhail misguidedly buys a Gothic SAT 11:30 Round the Horne (b007jlgd) Episode 3 mansion on the wild coast of west Cork, but things start going From Russia with Love Katie Hickman examines the lives of "the women of the dramatically wrong when the unscrupulous property developer Master spy Kenneth Horne is in action, plus a tuneful Rambling embassies" through their letters and diaries. and his pampered wife Clodagh move in. Sid Rumpo. Written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman. From SUN 09:15 William Trevor - A Bit on the Side (b00nhq56) Is someone sabotaging Dermot's dream, or is the ancient curse 1965. Sacred Statues of Hallows End at work? SAT 12:00 Wimsey (b007jvhy) Can a statue maker's wife help her neighbours and herself, or is Bill Murphy's whodunit stars Gerry O'Brien as Dermot, Ann Whose Body? her husband being more realistic? Read by Niamh Cusack. Marie Horan as Clodagh, Darragh Kelly as Patrick, Helen A body is found and a body is lost - but whose body has SUN 09:30 Unearthing Mysteries (b007s164) Norton as Aoife and Simon Delaney as Martin/Barman. appeared in a bath in Battersea? Series 5 Producer: Lawrence Jackson Episode 1 Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. Where is the body of famous financier Sir Reuben Levy who Professor Aubrey Manning takes on a mammoth task as he First broadcast in 2007. went to bed one night in his flat in Park Lane and simply investigates the fossilised remains of Norfolk's Lynford Quarry. SAT 02:00 Daughters of Britannia (b007jpqr) disappeared? Debonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey investigates. SUN 10:00 Martyn Wade - Goodnight to Flamboro' Living Without Children (b007jqdl) Tragic tales of separation and loss, as Katie Hickman introduces Dorothy L Sayer's whodunit dramatised for radio by Michelene A dramatised account of the First World War call-up and more letters charting the lives of diplomatic families. Wandor. Starring Gary Bond as Lord Peter Wimsey and John frontline experiences of William Baines, the composer and SAT 02:15 Baldi (b007k4mg) Cater as Bunter. pianist born in November 1899, at Horbury near Wakefield. Series 4 When he died aged 23 in 1922, after a long illness, he had Cross Purposes British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a written about 150 pieces, mostly for piano. He had an eye, and As the priestly sleuth tackles some crossword-related murders, number of detective novels and short stories by English crime an ear, for the natural world. Compositions such as Twilight Father Troy is a surprisingly adept ally. Stars David Threlfall. writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Whose Body? was first published in Woods, Paradise Gardens, Purple Heights and this one - SAT 03:00 Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections 1923. Goodnight To Flamboro - capture the mood of the Yorkshire (b007swd0) landscapes he loved. Series 2 Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Stars Douglas Hodge, Anne Stallybrass, David Calder and Ann Episode 6 Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Bell. Football transfers and Madonna's film career. The duo run Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World Written by Martyn Wade amok with the news, assisted by Richie Webb and Julia Morris. War. Produced by Cherry Cookson SAT 03:30 Dial M for Pizza (b007k3c1) First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1989. Series 2 Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by producer Vanessa Whitburn. SUN 11:30 A Whole New Ball Game (b00c5r8c) Episode 6 Series 1 Takeaway sketches with Robert Bathurst, Morwenna Banks and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987. The Mould in the Gold Jonathan Kydd. From December 1988. SAT 13:30 Tony's (b007jt0l) Father Benedict is holding a Golden Oldie night in honour of SAT 04:00 Lenin of the Rovers (b007jplc) Series 1 the late Gregory Patterson. But is it the right occasion for a Series 1 Charles eulogy from his only son, Robert? Episode 4 Money starts to go missing from the corner-shop barber's till, so Not when Barbara Patterson is determined to ruin the evening. Britain's first communist football team tackles Germany. But who is the thief? Stars Victor Spinetti. From October 1979. A six-part black comedy by Martin Davies what about the revolution? Stars Alexei Sayle. From March SAT 14:00 21/06/2008 (b00c7r6n) Stars Desmond Barrit as Father Benedict, Brenda Blethyn as 1988. Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Mrs Patterson, Paul Parris as Robert Patterson, Charlotte SAT 04:30 The Lee Mack Show (b00c4cd2) BBC7. Coleman as Barbara Patterson, Martino Lazzeri as Guy Toyah Willcox Contact us at: Entwhistle, Mark Straker as Andy, Claire Skinner as Janet and Toyah Willcox joins the sharp comedian for stand-up, sketches CBeebies Radio Jill Meers as the Manageress. and music. With Angela McHale and Steve Brown. From April London, W12 7RJ Producer: Lissa Evans 2005. Phone: 08700 100 700. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1993. SAT 05:00 Anthony Trollope - The Pallisers (b007jwht) SAT 17:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b009qk5f) SUN 12:00 Radio Fun: The Story of Radio Comedy Episode 10 America's poet laureate Billy Collins and The Wailin' Jennys (b007jtnz) As Plantagenet Palliser's government comes under attack, so join our host at the Wolf Trap National Park in Virginia.
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