Radio 7 Listings for 26 April – 2 May 2008 Page 1 of 6 SATURDAY 26 APRIL 2008 Bailey and Nigel Piper

Radio 7 Listings for 26 April – 2 May 2008 Page 1 of 6 SATURDAY 26 APRIL 2008 Bailey and Nigel Piper. From May 1975. Producer: Phil Clarke * If the Cap Fits: Captain Mainwaring promotes fractious SAT 00:00 Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (b007jpx9) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1996. Private Frazer, with unexpected results. February 1975. Episode 2 SAT 04:30 The Nick Revell Show (b007k24d) * Put That Light Out: Captain Mainwaring's platoon causes After first fleeing The Creature, Victor heads to the mountains Series 1 havoc in Walmington-on-Sea during an air-raid. From February to avenge his brother's murder. Stars John Wood. Episode 4 1975. SAT 01:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Struggling writer Nick has quit smoking and is jetting off, but Snoad and Knowles reflect on how the cast took to re-recording (b007k372) the geraniums don't want him to go. the shows without cameras and discuss the changes that had to 6. Jebel Al-Akhbar A sitcom for the 1990s, written by and starring comedian Nick be made to make the TV scripts work. Politics and practicalities as the water supply is cut to force the Revell. The duo's association with Dad's Army continued with their Emir to negotiate - and a final confrontation. With Alistair McGowan, Caroline Gruber, Brian Bowles, Doon spin off radio comedy series, It Sticks Out Half A Mile. Starring Tim Munro. Mackichan and Alison Sterling. Producer: Martin Dempsey Conclusion of the Arabian adventure based on Hammond Innes' Producer: Jon Magnusson Made for BBC 7 and first brodcast in November 2005. novel. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1992. SAT 12:00 Hercule Poirot (b00rl44w) Adapted by Rene Basilico. SAT 05:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq3z) Five Little Pigs George Grant ...... Tim Munro Marriages Remain Sixteen years after her mother was convicted of murdering her Colonel Whittaker ...... Bernard Horsfall Sorrowful at the departure of his mentor and only friend, the father, Carla Lemarchant desperately seeks the help of Hercule David Whittaker ...... Christopher Guard local school master, 11-year-old Jude Fawley resolves that one Poirot. Ruffin ...... Robert Rietty day he'll follow his teacher to academia - as symbolised by the Convinced her mother was innocent, Carla is prepared for Colonel Goodge ...... Nicholas Courtney gleaming spires of distant Christminster. whatever discovery the Belgian sleuth might make. Captain Chuck Berry ...... David McAlister Growing up, however, Jude finds more obstacles in his path But this is a formidable challenge even for the remarkable Sergeant Rashid ...... Adam Hussein then merely difficulties of study... detective - especially as he's nothing to go on - except five Yousif ...... Ali Refaie Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth suspects who fit strangely into the pattern of a children's Trucial Oman Scout ...... Mohammad Sultan North. nursery rhyme... Abdul Zaid Emir of Hadd ...... Renu Setna Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, Mark Straker as John Moffatt stars as Hercule Poirot. Henry Grant ...... Robert James Carter, June Barrie as Widow Edlin, Constance Chapman as First published in 1943, Agatha Christie's whodunnit Betty ...... Jill Lidstone Aunt Drusilla Fawley, Hazel Ellerby as Annie, John dramatised by Michael Bakewell. , Producer: John Fawcett Wilson. Normington as Phillotson, Elva Makins as Arabella, Jesse Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1984. Lawrence as Young Jude, Esmond Rideout as Farmer Troutham Carla Lemarchant …. Clare Heyhoe SAT 01:30 Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home and Richard Wasley as Tiler. Sir Montague Depleach …. John Woodnutt (b007jtdj) Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller. Elsa Greer …. Suzy Aitchison Episode 5 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986. Caroline Crale …. Jemma Churchill As suspicions over Palgrove grow, Inspector Purbright calls on SAT 06:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00b0qrc) Amyas Crale …. John Hartley his old friend Lucilla Teatime. Series 2 Cale Jonathan …. David Kossoff One of Colin Watson's Flaxborough Chronicles dramatised by Tommy Wants a Knighthood Philip Blake …. Derek Waring Christopher Denys in 6 parts. Comeback duo singer Tommy mounts his own campaign to be Meredith Blake …. Graham Crowden Stars John Rowe as Inspector Purbright, Paul Downing as Love, awarded an MBE. Miss Williams …. Carmel McSharry Russell Dixon as Dr Fergusson, Ann Rye as Lucilla Teatime, 30 years after sweethearts Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr won Angela Warren …. Charlotte Attenborough Geoffrey Banks as Mortimer Hive, Kathryn Hunt as Helen and the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest, the musical double-act are Actor John Moffatt (1922-2012) played Hercule Poirot in 25 Robin Polley as Sgt Malley. back in the big time. productions for BBC Radio. Producer: Tony Cliff June Whitfield and Roy Hudd star in Mike Coleman's sitcom. Director: Enyd Williams First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. Tommy Franklin ...... Roy Hudd First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1994. SAT 02:00 15 Minute Drama (b00b0qj8) Sheila Parr ...... June Whitfield SAT 13:30 Albert and Me (b007jynb) Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street With Pat Coombs, Julian Eardley, Mike Coleman and Edward Series 1 Episode 10 Halstead. Rate of Decline Diana Griffiths's dramatisation of Winifred Holtby's tale of a Music by Frido Ruth. Struggling to bring up his baby son Albert, single dad Bryan woman's journey into self-fulfilment. Producer: Steve Doherty Archer desperately needs cash for his rate arrears. 10/10. Muriel returns to Marshington in Yorkshire for the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1999. Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as annual fete and is faced with a life-changing decision. SAT 06:30 Second Thoughts (b00fnfp3) Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With Harry Fowler as Joe Muriel ...... Clare Goose Series 2 Billings. Godfrey ...... James D'Arcy There Goes the Bride Written by Jim Eldridge. Mrs Hammond ...... Brigit Forsyth It's Faith and Bill's wedding day - can they manage to tie the Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Directed by Pauline Harris. knot? First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1977. SAT 02:15 Nick Warburton - Purvis (b007k1jy) Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill MacGregor and Faith SAT 14:00 26/04/2008 (b00b1p17) A kindly vicar appoints a lonely widower as church safety Greyshott trying to forge a relationship whilst balancing the Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on officer but he proves to be rather accident prone. Stars Peter demands of his ex-wife, Liza and her teenage children, Hannah BBC7. Sallis. From November 2000. and Joe. SAT 17:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00b1p19) SAT 03:00 The Patrick and Maureen Maybe Music Stars Lynda Bellingham as Faith, James Bolam as Bill, Celia More comedy and music from the Ravinia Pavilion, Illinois, Experience (b007k4qk) Imrie as Hilary, Kelda Holmes as Hannah, Mark Denham as with special guest singers Ramblin' Jack Elliot and Jon Troast. Episode 2 Joe, Belinda Lang as Liza, John Baddeley as the Registrar, SAT 18:00 Heroes: The Official Radio Show (b00b1p26) Unhappily married Patrick and Maureen should have split long Richard Tate as the Video Man and Ben Onwukwe as the Series 2 ago, but snipe at each other during their classical music show Cabbie. Episode 1 instead. Series two of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, Jon Holmes and Xanthe Fuller analyse the action from the TV Starring Imelda Staunton as Maureen Maybe and Patrick husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. series. Barlow as Patrick Maybe. A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran SAT 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b00b1p28) Special guest star Juliet Stevenson is not impressed. for four series, with a spin-off ‘Faith in the Future’. Small Gods Doctor ...... Peter Jones Producer: Sioned Wiliam Episode 1 Irina ...... Leonie Mellinger First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1989. Set in a complex state of beliefs, Great God Om appears before John ...... John Ramm. SAT 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00b1nz7) a novice monk - and is soon coming out of his shell... Written by Patrick Barlow. Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. There are gods everywhere on Discworld - you can't swing a Script associate: Nev Fountain SAT 08:00 The Friend in the Corner (b007k1rf) simian librarian without hitting one - except, of course, only a Producer: Claire Jones 1962 few people can see them. Each small god lies in wait, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999. From Two-Way Family Favourites to portable transistors. Six desperately seeking to make someone believe in him. On SAT 03:30 Dial M for Pizza (b007k1k9) selected years in radio history with Daphne Oxenford. Discworld, gods need people more than people need gods, for Series 1 SAT 08:30 Daphne Du Maurier: Frenchman's Creek belief is the food of the gods. Episode 4 (b007k4hp) Terry Pratchett's four-part comic fantasy starring Carl Prekopp, The sketch show takes to the rails for Dr Terror's House of Episode 5 Patrick Barlow and Alex Jennings. With Anton Lesser as the Pizza. Stars Brenda Blethyn and Robert Bathurst. From As Harry plots against the pirate, Lord Rockingham's threat to Narrator. December 1987. Dona is at crisis point. Classic love drama with Lorna Heilbron. Narrator ...... Anton Lesser SAT 04:00 Brian Appleton's History of Rock 'n' Roll SAT 09:00 Dad's Army (b007jw4r) Om ...... Patrick Barlow (b00fvm5g) Permission to Speak, Sir!: Dad's Army on Radio Brutha ...... Carl Prekopp Consider Yourself Dumped Upon They don't like it up 'em! Vorbis ...... Alex Jennings Rock musicologist and part-time media studies tutor Brian After winning their frontline TV offensive, how did the Home Nhumrod ...... Geoffrey Beevers Appleton reveals more big names in rock have a lot to thank Guard win the war of the ears with a rear-guard action for Sasho ...... Philip Fox him for. radio? General Fri'it ...... Sean Barrett Brian performs the first progressive-rock song ever written, and Legendary comedy producer Harold Snoad and actor Michael Quisitor ...... Gerard McDermott reveals he inadvertently encouraged the Who to smash up their Knowles reveal how they went about adapting the classic BBC Other parts played by the cast. equipment and was instrumental in Phil Collins becoming the TV hit series for radio – as the writers Jimmy Perry and David Dramatised by Robin Brooks. lead singer in Genesis. Croft were too busy to do it themselves. Producer: Claire Grove Series of comic lectures, written and performed by Graham Over three hours, enjoy six Dad's Army episodes made for Director: Gordon House Fellows. radio: First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2006. Producer: Dawn Ellis * The Enemy Within the Gates: Captain Mainwaring's platoon SAT 19:00 The Friend in the Corner (b007k1rf) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2001. try to capture Germans for a reward. From February 1974. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT 04:15 Hearing With Hegley (b00b0sgk) * Don't Forget the Diver: The platoon don crazy camouflage in SAT 19:30 Daphne Du Maurier: Frenchman's Creek Series 1 a drill to attack Captain Square's HQ. From February 1975. (b007k4hp) Episode 2 * The Day the Balloon Went Up: Captain Mainwaring gets [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley, presents carried away with the platoon's war effort. From June 1975. SAT 20:00 Dad's Army (b007jw4r) a selection of his work. * When Did You Last See Your Money?: Corporal Jones panics [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] With contributions from Keith Moore, Susan Norton, Andrew when he misplaces £500 collected for the servicemen's canteen. SAT 23:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00b1p19) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 26 April – 2 May 2008 Page 2 of 6 [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 today] Carl fears the attack has caused brain damage, as he keeps Milligan and Larry Stephens. having blackouts. Tom Goodman-Hill reads Alex Garland's Starring: novel. Peter Sellers SUNDAY 27 APRIL 2008 SUN 18:30 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera Harry Secombe (b008jw9j) Spike Milligan SUN 00:00 Heroes: The Official Radio Show (b00b1p26) Episode 2 Jack Train [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Christine Daae has disappeared. Is she with the mysterious First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were SUN 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b00b1p28) Angel of Music? Stars Anna Massey, Peter Guinness and James recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] D'Arcy. shows weren’t kept in the archive. SUN 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b00rl44w) SUN 19:00 Huddwinks (b00b1p9r) With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today] Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. SUN 02:30 Albert and Me (b007jynb) SUN 19:30 Stop Messing About! (b00b1p9t) Announcer: Wallace Greenslade [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Saturday] [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today] Producer: Pat Dixon SUN 03:00 Dad's Army (b007jw4r) SUN 20:00 The Amazing Maurice and His Educated First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1957. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday] Rodents (b00hm3yj) MON 08:30 The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock SUN 06:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00b1p19) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Holmes (b00b2gpj) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Saturday] SUN 21:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club (b007k44b) The Mystery of the Obese Escapologist SUN 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00b1p6m) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] Baker Street’s Great Detective Sherlock Holmes probes the Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. SUN 22:00 The Now Show (b00b1pcc) murky world of a Victorian music hall. SUN 08:00 Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street Omnibus Fresh from 4 - catch up with Punt and Dennis and guests. First Roy Hudd spoofs the famous sleuth in Tony Hare’s comedy (b00fvpdy) heard on Radio 4 on 18th April. series. Episode 2 SUN 22:30 The Right Time (b00b1pcf) With Chris Emmett as Dr Watson, June Whitfield as Mrs Muriel's sister Connie returns home unexpectedly with startling Series 2 Hudson and Geoffrey Whitehead as Moriarty. news. Episode 3 Musical accompaniment: Ian Smith. Set in Yorkshire prior to the First World War, Winifred A good reason for getting a piercing - and a prediction of reality Producer: Chris Neill Holtby's story about a woman's journey - from her teens to TV going over the top... First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1999. womanhood - into independence and self-fulfilment. Sketch show with a mature edge, written and performed by MON 09:00 WC Morrow - Over an Absinthe Bottle Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes dramatised in by Diana people who've lived a bit. (b007jqq4) Griffiths. Stars Eleanor Bron, Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Paula Wilcox, A grim tale of two strangers drinking and gambling their lives Muriel ...... Clare Goose Clive Swift and Roger Blake. away in a San Francisco bar. Read by Doug Cockle. Connie ...... Joanne Froggatt Written by Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Julie Balloo, Ramone MON 09:30 Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home Mr Hammond ...... David Fleeshman Towers, Chris Thompson, Peter Reynolds, John Dowie, Peter (b007jtdt) Mrs Hammond ...... Brigit Forsyth Spence, Colin Bostock-Smith, Ronnie Golden and Andrew Episode 6 Bobby Collins ...... Sam Curtis Nickolds. As Mortimer Hive enters the lion's den - can Inspector Lady Grainger ...... Daryl Fishwick Music by Ronnie & The Rex. Purbright finally unravel the wicked web? Young man ...... Steven Rostance Producer: Helen Williams One of Colin Watson's Flaxborough Chronicles dramatised by Director: Pauline Harris. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2002. Christopher Denys in 6 parts. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. SUN 23:00 A Load of Old Balls (b00b1pch) Stars John Rowe as Inspector Purbright, Geoffrey Banks as SUN 09:15 Elizabeth Buchan - Submersion (b007jwt4) A Load of Old Balls Mortimer Hive, Paul Downing as Love, Russell Dixon as Mimi feels her family are drowning her. How can she keep A Load of Old Balls: Jo Brand's acclaimed academic tome on Booker and Ann Rye as Lucilla Teatime. head above water? Read by Patience Tomlinson. men and how useless some of them have been in history. Producer: Tony Cliff SUN 09:30 Stilgoe's Around (b00b1p8c) Contains strong language. Episode 2 of 2. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. From 22/7/1989 SUN 23:45 2000 Years of Radio (b007tcbl) MON 10:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b2grv) Richard Stilgoe explores the antiques market when he visits Series 1 Episode 1 Christie's Auction rooms with his musical revue. From July Headless - Civil War Radio An unexpected obstacle sparks a beguiling adventure for 1989. Battle reports as they happen - with all the decapitations and diplomat George Darrow. SUN 10:00 The Amazing Maurice and His Educated more. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From November 2000. Published in 1912, The Reef is one of Edith Wharton's most Rodents (b00hm3yj) accomplished yet neglected novels - revealing the submerged A talking cat and rat's scam falls apart. Terry Pratchett's and perilous depths beneath the surface of even the most inspired twist on the Pied Piper story. Starring David Tennant. MONDAY 28 APRIL 2008 conventional of its characters. SUN 11:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club (b007k44b) Starring Ben Miles as George Darrow, Jodhi May as Sophie and Bleak Horse MON 00:00 Doctor Who: The Commentaries (b00b1pb6) Sian Thomas as the Narrator. Timothy Tamperton reports back on the stranger's death wish Series 4 Dramatised by Penny Leicester. on the evil Joshua Farley. Stars Stephen Moore. From October The Sontaran Stratagem Producer: Di Speirs 1988. The Doctor Who cast and crew discuss the fourth episode of the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. SUN 12:00 Radio Fun: The Story of Radio Comedy fourth TV series. MON 10:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the (b007jtcs) MON 00:45 Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House World (b007w3b8) Episode 5 (b007jtn1) Stolen Russell Davies celebrates the performers who helped boost Episode 2 German archaeologist, Von Le Coq, gets drawn into a race with wartime morale. Features Tommy Handley and Richard Eleanor Vance meets the other 'subjects' recruited for a Aurel Stein to 'steal' treasures from the Buddhist Monasteries Murdoch. supernatural experiment - and the man behind it all, Dr and ancient lost oasis towns along the Silk Road crossing the SUN 12:30 Radio Roots (b007jxg7) Montague. Taklamaken and Gobi Deserts. Beryl Reid Shirley Jackson’s spine-chilling Gothic Horror read by Emma Last of three plays by Ray Jenkins based on the diaries of Beryl Reid: Russell Davies celebrates the wireless career of the Fielding. Catherine, Lady McCartney, wife of the British consul in woman who gave us 'Monica' and 'Marlene'. And who lived Abridged in eight parts by Alison Joseph. Kashgar, on the roof of the world in Chinese Turkestan. with ten cats. Episode 4 of 6. Producer: Gemma Jenkins Stars Siobhan Redmond as Catherine McCartney, Alex Jennings SUN 13:00 Huddwinks (b00b1p9r) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997. as George McCartney, Sean Baker as Von Le Coq, Ioan Series 2 MON 01:00 Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street Meredith as Aurel Stein, David Tse as Chiang and Stephen The Curse of the Smollett's Curse! Omnibus (b00fvpdy) Critchlow as Bartus. Melissa and Compton win a holiday, but spurn Herne Bay for [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] Director: Janet Whitaker an adventure in ancient Egypt. Stars Roy Hudd. From June MON 02:15 Elizabeth Buchan - Submersion (b007jwt4) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. 1988. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:15 on Sunday] MON 11:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq4d) SUN 13:30 Stop Messing About! (b00b1p9t) MON 02:30 Stilgoe's Around (b00b1p8c) So Near, So Far Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] His marriage to the local pig breeder's daughter having ended Episode 1 MON 03:00 The Now Show (b00b1pcc) disastrously, Jude once again trains his eyes and thoughts of The follow up series to Round The Horne kicks off with the [Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 on Sunday] academia on the magical Christminster, where his cousin Sue first all nude radio show - with a pull-out supplement. MON 03:30 The Right Time (b00b1pcf) lives... Starring Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Joan Sims and [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Sunday] Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth announcer, Douglas Smith. MON 04:00 A Load of Old Balls (b00b1pch) North. After the unexpected death of Kenneth Horne in 1969, plans [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Sunday] Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, June Barrie as for the next series of Round The Horne were axed. Instead - MON 04:45 2000 Years of Radio (b007tcbl) Widow Edlin, John Normington as Phillotson, Constance using an old catchphrase of Kenneth Williams as a series title - [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Sunday] Chapman as Aunt Drusilla Fawley, Elizabeth Garvie as Sue Kenneth joined Hugh Paddick to continue the comedy tradition MON 05:00 Radio Fun: The Story of Radio Comedy Bridehead, Brian Jackson as Tinker Taylor, Gregory Phillips as and was also reunited with his "Carry On" film co-star Joan (b007jtcs) Jack Stagg, Nicholas Blane as the Policeman, Stella Riley as Sims. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] Miss Fontover, Kim Hicks as Freckles, Jack Harding as the Written by Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Myles Rudge MON 05:30 Radio Roots (b007jxg7) Warder, Andrew Black and Paul Wilce as the students. With the Max Harris Group. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller. Producer: John Simmonds MON 06:00 Huddwinks (b00b1p9r) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1969. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] MON 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jnth) SUN 14:00 27/04/2008 (b00b1p9w) MON 06:30 Stop Messing About! (b00b1p9t) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00b2kh3) BBC7. MON 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00b2gnr) Series 4 SUN 17:00 Radio Fun: The Story of Radio Comedy Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. Episode 9 (b007jtcs) MON 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jnth) Radio awards time - and John and Mary's intruder. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Series 7 More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs and SUN 17:30 Radio Roots (b007jxg7) Shifting Sands parodies. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Soldier Neddie Seagoon heads off to the fort at Waziri, which Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall SUN 18:00 Alex Garland - The Coma (b007m5v9) is drifting into peril. and Bill Oddie. Episode 2 Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Written by Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Eric Idle and Graham Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 26 April – 2 May 2008 Page 3 of 6 Chapman. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Sue Rodwell's four-part murder mystery stars Annette Badland Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue MON 21:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the as DI Gwen Danbury. 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and World (b007w3b8) DI Gwen Danbury …. Annette Badland quickly developed a cult following. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] Joan Danbury …. Gudrun Ure Music and songs by Dave Lee and Bill Oddie. MON 22:00 The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock DS Henry Jacobs …. John Duttine Producer: Humphrey Barclay Holmes (b00b2gpj) Superintendent Phillips …. John Rye First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in November 1966. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Mrs Banks …. Tina Gray MON 13:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children MON 22:30 Dave Podmore (b007ncns) Dr Edward Barker …. Terence Alexander (b007jlkw) Dave Podmore's Cricket Fix Virginia Barker …. Margaret John Episode 1 Episode 1 Stuart Barker …. Jonathan Tafler The complications facing parents when a marriage breaks down What's gone wrong with English cricket recently? Peter Lennox …. Peter Whitman and a new relationship begins. Er.... nothing. But Dave Podmore is going to put that right. Ben Meen …. Peter Tuddenham Joanna Trollope's novel about the traumas and delights of County cricket's arrogant, politically-incorrect, money- Dr Bull …. Don McCorkindale adjusting to a step-family. grabbing, medium-paced trundler par excellence has a plan and The Archivist …. David Jarvis Read by Penelope Wilton. it involves our children. Keith …. Mark Straker Abridged in ten parts by Pat McLoughlin. Christopher Douglas stars as Pod. Jimmy …. Martin Davey Producer: Di Speirs Written by Christopher Douglas, Nick Newman and Andrew Director: Glyn Dearman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. Nickolds. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1994. MON 13:15 Alan Bennett - Telling Tales (b007jnlz) Dave ...... Chris Douglas TUE 10:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b2qv8) Proper Names Andy ...... Andrew Nickolds Episode 2 The writer reminisces about his 1940s Leeds childhood, and the With Henry Allen, Keiran Cadweller, William Hicks, David Diplomat George Darrow is determined to give Sophie a few time his father was taken seriously ill. Rogers, Fiona Howlett and Montanna Thompson. days of happiness in Paris to compensate for her dreary MON 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b00b2ncr) Producer: Richard Wilson prospects. Justice, Power and the Death of Henry First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001. Published in 1912, The Reef is one of Edith Wharton's most It is the 12th century and in an Anglo Saxon England, Henry is MON 23:00 Seymour the Fractal Cat (b007rq8h) accomplished yet neglected novels - revealing the submerged king. Anna Massey narrates the history of the British Isles. Phase Space and perilous depths beneath the surface of even the most MON 13:45 Adventures in Science (b00ffjc2) Jeremy and Natalie battle to save humanity from the control of conventional of its characters. Series 2 computers. Stars Greg Proops and John Hegley. From May Starring Ben Miles as George Darrow, Jodhi May as Sophie, The Morning After the Night Before 1996. Julian Ovenden as Owen and Sian Thomas as the Narrator. Ben Silburn follows the rollercoaster ride of alcohol through our MON 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jsmr) Dramatised by Penny Leicester. bodies and discovers whether science can cure a hangover. Series 1 Producer: Di Speirs MON 14:00 28/04/2008 (b00b2nd4) The Curse of the Mastersons First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on 1760: Aristocratic rabbits and emancipation? TUE 10:15 Martyn Wade - Hermit Lucas (b007jx32) BBC7. An improvised historical saga of a family at war with itself - Staying at home for 25 years, the strange tale of celebrated MON 17:00 Flying the Flag (b00b2nfp) based entirely on audience suggestions. Victorian recluse James Lucas. Stars Anton Lesser and Conleth Series 2 Starring Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Caroline Quentin, Jim Hill. From May 2004. The Opium of the People Sweeney and Phelim McDermott. TUE 11:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq4p) It's Glorious Reindeer Day in the People's Republic. Producer: Phil Clarke The Curse of Consciousness Seasonal goodwill abounds, even if light bulbs and religious First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1993. Rebuffed from going to college at Christminster, Jude learns he tolerance don't... may train for the priesthood elsewhere - perhaps at Melchester, Alex Shearer's Eastern bloc embassy sitcom. where his cousin Sue has become a teacher. Starring Dinsdale Landen as HM Ambassador Mackenzie, Peter TUESDAY 29 APRIL 2008 Denied the possibility of courting her due to his marriage to Acre as William Frost, Moir Leslie as Helen Waterson, John Arabella, Jude can't resist travelling to Melchester to be near Baddeley as Morris and Christopher Benjamin as Colonel TUE 00:00 Bram Stoker's Dracula (b007k0v5) her.... Surikov. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth Producer: Pete Atkin TUE 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b007k0v6) North. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1988. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, John Normington as MON 17:30 Alison and Maud (b007k2vm) TUE 01:00 WC Morrow - Over an Absinthe Bottle Phillotson, Constance Chapman as Aunt Drusilla Fawley, Series 1 (b007jqq4) Elizabeth Garvie as Sue Bridehead, Brian Jackson as Tinker The Unmentionable [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] Taylor, Elva Makins as Arabella, Anthony Morse as Parson, A nasty moment for Bernard in the granny flat or is the TUE 01:30 Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home Alexa Romanes as the Landlady, Melvyn Bedford as the landladies' daddy only joking? (b007jtdt) Shepherd and Abigail Docherty, Adele Griffiths and Bob Sue Limb's sitcom about events at the Abbeyfield Guest House [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Docherty as the children. in Norwich. TUE 02:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b2grv) Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller. Denise Coffey and Miriam Margolyes star as sisters Alison and [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986. Maud. TUE 02:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the TUE 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpvv) Alison …. Denise Coffey World (b007w3b8) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Maud …. Miriam Margolyes [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Monday] TUE 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jn7v) Fathe …. Joss Ackland TUE 03:00 The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Series 5 Mr Mullett …. Chris Emmett Holmes (b00b2gpj) A Winter's Tale Bernard …. Geoffrey Whitehead [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Monday] Harold admits he's planning a holiday - but without his dad Leslie …. Nickolas Grace TUE 03:30 Dave Podmore (b007ncns) Albert. Producer: Jonathan James-Moore. [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Monday] Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003. TUE 04:00 Seymour the Fractal Cat (b007rq8h) Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association MON 18:00 Bram Stoker's Dracula (b007k0v5) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson Episode 1 TUE 04:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jsmr) wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Solicitor Jonathan Harker and his fiance Mina's Transylvanian [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Monday] The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring vampire ordeal begins. Stars Bernard Holley and Frederick TUE 05:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq4d) the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold Jaeger. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. MON 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b007k0v6) TUE 06:00 Alison and Maud (b007k2vm) Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan Mort [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Monday] Simpson. Episode 1 TUE 06:30 Flying the Flag (b00b2nfp) Produced by Bobby Jaye Hopeless young peasant Mort is hired as an apprentice to Death, [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in June 1974. and taken to his home beyond time and space to begin his TUE 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00b2qb9) TUE 13:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children training. Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. (b007jn4k) The fourth of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on TUE 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpvv) Episode 2 Discworld. Series 6 After her marriage breaks down, Nadine is fuelled with Dramatised in four parts by Robin Brooks. Hancock in Hospital bitterness towards her ex-husband. Narrated by Anton Lesser. Laid up with a broken leg, the lad soon regrets a visit from Sid Joanna Trollope's novel about the traumas and delights of Mort ...... Carl Prekopp and Bill. adjusting to a step-family. Death ...... Geoffrey Whitehead Starring Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Joan Read by Penelope Wilton. Lezek ...... Philip Fox Frank and Patricia Hayes. Abridged in ten parts by Pat McLoughlin. Albert ...... Phillip Jackson Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Producer: Di Speirs Hames ...... Jon Glover Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. Ysabell ...... Clare Corbett Producer: Tom Ronald TUE 13:15 Alan Bennett - Telling Tales (b007k4mn) Princess Keli ...... Alice Hart First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December Eating Out Director: Claire Grove 1959. The writer recalls the menu revolution of 1950s Britain, which First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. TUE 08:30 The Mitch Benn Music Show (b00b311z) saw the arrival of frothy coffee and cocktail parties. MON 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jnth) Series 2 TUE 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b00b2t09) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Episode 1 Anarchy MON 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00b2kh3) The comedian presents a selection of classic comic songs. With With the death of Henry, his nephew becomes King. Anna [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] special guest Steve Brown. From October 2006. Massey narrates the history of Britain, with Paul Eddington. MON 20:00 WC Morrow - Over an Absinthe Bottle TUE 09:00 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007jrx2) TUE 13:45 Adventures in Science (b00fg4tr) (b007jqq4) Series 2 Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] 1. Past Imperfect Supermassive Black Holes MON 20:30 Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home The discovery of a skeleton buried in a wood in Suffolk back in Once the stuff of sci-fi, Ben Silburn explores the centre of the (b007jtdt) 1965 sparks a murder investigation. galaxy and the most spectacular objects in the universe. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Detective Inspector Gwen Danbury, with the interfering TUE 14:00 29/04/2008 (b00b2t1d) MON 21:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b2grv) assistance of her mother, tries to ‘un-bury’ the past... Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 26 April – 2 May 2008 Page 4 of 6 BBC7. WED 03:00 The Mitch Benn Music Show (b00b311z) redundant concept in the face of a good story. TUE 17:00 King Street Junior (b007jnc6) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Tuesday] The regular team captains are writer and critic, Anthony Holden Series 7 WED 03:30 Old Harry's Game (b007jmd4) and actor and writer, Stella Duffy. Taking the Rap [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Tuesday] Joining them to test their wits are ex-BBC royal correspondent School trouble is brewing over a pupil playing truant and a strict WED 04:00 Chewin' the Fat (b00b2txb) Jennie Bond and entertainer Geoffrey Durham. disciplinarian on the staff. With Dilys Laye. From May 1992. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Tuesday] Producer: Elizabeth Freestone TUE 17:30 Ayres on the Air (b008p9vh) WED 04:30 Genius (b008gh65) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003. Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Tuesday] WED 13:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children Holidays WED 05:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq4p) (b007jn4y) Pam Ayres's poetry and sketch show looks at holidays, [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] Episode 3 With poems about packing too much and learning to ski at WED 06:00 Ayres on the Air (b008p9vh) After marrying Matthew, Josie wants to be the perfect step- 50-something. [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Tuesday] mum to his three children... Plus sketches about booking a holiday online and getting WED 06:30 King Street Junior (b007jnc6) Joanna Trollope's novel about the traumas and delights of shingles up the Orinoco. [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] adjusting to a step-family. With Geoffrey Whitehead and Felicity Montagu. WED 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00b3104) Read by Penelope Wilton. Producer: Claire Jones Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. Abridged in ten parts by Pat McLoughlin. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004. WED 08:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00b3194) Producer: Di Speirs TUE 18:00 Bram Stoker's Dracula (b007k133) Kenneth Horne remembers Kenneth Williams' biography - or First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. Episode 2 tries to, at any rate. From January 1961. WED 13:15 Alan Bennett - Telling Tales (b007jnmy) Worried Mina awaits news from Transylvania, while Lucy WED 08:30 Dead Ringers (b007k3fm) Aunt Eveline sleepwalks after a shipwreck. Stars Phyllis Logan and Sharon Dumbledore and Gandalf feel the satirical bite of the team, in The writer shares post-war memories of his relatives. They may Maharaj. this show from January 2003. Episode 1 of 4. not have been colourful, but they were definitely eccentric. TUE 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b007k134) WED 09:00 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007jrzt) WED 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b00b32r4) Mort Series 2 Henry Plantagenet Episode 2 2. A Slim Chance Henry II takes to the throne and eventually marries Eleanor of Death sends his apprentice Mort to collect three lives, but the When a minister for Europe is found dead, Detective Inspector Aquitaine. Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain, with lad takes a fancy to one of them - a princess. Gwen Danbury must go undercover to try to solve the case. Paul Eddington. The fourth of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Sue Rodwell's murder mystery stars Annette Badland as DI WED 13:45 Adventures in Science (b00ffnxt) Discworld. Gwen Danbury. Series 2 Narrated by Anton Lesser. DI Gwen Danbury …. Annette Badland Recalling the Past Mort ...... Carl Prekopp Joan Danbury …. Gudrun Ure Ben Silburn journeys around our brain's neural network to Death ...... Geoffrey Whitehead DS Henry Jacobs …. John Duttine discover how it creates and stores memories. Albert ...... Phillip Jackson Supt Phillips …. John Rye WED 14:00 30/04/2008 (b00b34st) Ysabell ...... Clare Corbett Mrs Banks …. Tina Gray Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Princess Keli ...... Alice Hart Eleanor Gedding …. Frances Jeater BBC7. Cutwell ...... Adam Godley Georgina …. Siriol Jenkins WED 17:00 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007js6w) Abbot ...... John Rowe Hans Schmidt …. Sean Barret Series 1 Ammeline ...... Sheila Mitchell Keith …. Mark Straker Episode 2 Stallholder ...... Jon Glover Peggy …. Patti Holloway An Everyday Story of Towering Genius. Maid ...... Liz Sutherland Dr Hunter …. Neville Jason Sue Limb’s four-part soap opera set in and around the Lake Dramatised by Robin Brooks. PC …. Lyndam Gregory District at the turn of the 18th century Director: Gordon House Director: Glyn Dearman Lord Biro arrives with his menagerie. He attempts the seduction First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1994. of both Stinking Iris and Dorothy. His mysterious half-cousin is TUE 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpvv) WED 10:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b32bz) in labour. William is afflicted by his ailment.... [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Episode 3 Dorothy Wordsmith ...... Denise Coffey TUE 19:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jn7v) Paris in the springtime is a dangerous place - a chateau in the William Wordsmith ...... Geoffrey Whitehead [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] October sunlight seems much safer. Darrow arrives at Givre in Samuel Tailor Cholericke ...... Simon Callow TUE 20:00 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007jrx2) pursuit of Anna. Stinking Iris ...... Miriam Margolyes [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Published in 1912, The Reef is one of Edith Wharton's most The Leechpedlar ...... Chris Emmett TUE 21:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b2qv8) accomplished yet neglected novels - revealing the submerged Lord Biro ...... Tim Curry [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] and perilous depths beneath the surface of even the most Teresa Sanseveria ...... Helen Atkinson-Wood TUE 21:15 Martyn Wade - Hermit Lucas (b007jx32) conventional of its characters. Music by Stephen Oliver and sung by Cantabile [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] Starring Ben Miles as George Darrow, Jodhi May as Sophie, Producer: Jonathan James-Moore TUE 22:00 The Mitch Benn Music Show (b00b311z) Julian Ovenden as Owen, Teresa Gallagher as Anna and Sian First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1985. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Thomas as the Narrator. WED 17:30 After Henry (b007jmr5) TUE 22:30 Old Harry's Game (b007jmd4) Dramatised by Penny Leicester. Series 1 Series 3 Producer: Di Speirs The Dinner Party The Beautiful Game First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. Sarah plays hostess, Mother plays the martyr and daughter Clare Satan decides to hold a major football tournament in Hell - The WED 10:15 Martyn Wade - The Other Constance holds a flat-warming party. Underworld Cup. Chatterley (b007k0l7) Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - Andy Hamilton’s devilishly funny sitcom set in Hell. Mrs Chatterley of Gravesend reveals similar interests to her struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who Satan …. Andy Hamilton famous namesake. never quite manage to see eye to eye. The Professor …. James Grout Martyn Wade's comedy set in the 1930s starring Felicity Starring Prunella Scales as Sarah, Joan Sanderson as Eleanor, Thomas …. Jimmy Mulville Montagu and Rachel Atkins. Benjamin Whitrow as Russell, Gerry Cowper as Clare, Richard Scumspawn …. Robert Duncan A failing firm of solicitors is saved from ruin by the prospect of Davies as Leo Dolan and Ellen McIntosh as Gwen. Other characters played by Felicity Montagu, Philip Pope, Nick a literary libel case. But it may involve the rather buttoned up Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV Revel and Michael Fenton Stevens. partner of the firm going way beyond the call of duty. - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer Constance Chatterley ...... Rachel Atkins network. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1999 Miss Priestley ...... Felicity Montagu Producer: Pete Atkin TUE 23:00 Chewin' the Fat (b00b2txb) David Horovitch ...... Mr Greene First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1985. Greg Hemphill and Ford Kiernan are back with more banter Mr Chatterley ...... Jon Glover WED 18:00 Bram Stoker's Dracula (b007k1c0) and sketches in Scotland's comedy favourite. From January Director: Cherry Cookson Episode 3 1998. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. Jonathan lies ill in hospital and sleep-walking Lucy's well-being TUE 23:30 Genius (b008gh65) WED 11:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq5l) causes Mina concern. Stars Bernard Holley and Crawford Series 1 The Unusual Tragedy of Love Logan. Paul Daniels Dashed down by Sue's marriage to Phillotson, Jude returns to WED 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b007k1c1) From the 99p coin to steel drum urinals. Christminster as a stonemason. His drunken speechifying Mort Dave Gorman asks magician Paul Daniels to select the public's makes him the butt of jokes in the local public houses. Episode 3 best loopy idea. Arabella, the wife of his disastrous first marriage, has returned Death has fun in the real world, leaving his daughter Ysabell The first of three radio comedy series where award-winning from Australia, destitute and determined to reclaim him.... and Mort in charge of the life-collecting business. comedian Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest chew over the Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth The fourth of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, North. Discworld. schemes and policies of the public. Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, Elizabeth Garvie as Narrated by Anton Lesser. Producer: Simon Nicholls Sue Bridehead, June Barrie as Widow Edlin, John Normington Mort ...... Carl Prekopp First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2005. as Phillotson, Elva Makins as Arabella, Ian MacFarlane as the Death ...... Geoffrey Whitehead Voice, John Church as Gillingham, Debbie Papworth as Janey, Albert ...... Phillip Jackson Richard Morgan as the Vicar, Hubert Tucker as the Showman Ysabell ...... Clare Corbett WEDNESDAY 30 APRIL 2008 and David Sharp as the Townsman. Princess Keli ...... Alice Hart Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller. Cutwell ...... Adam Godley WED 00:00 Bram Stoker's Dracula (b007k133) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986. Keeble ...... Philip Fox [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED 12:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00b3194) Landlord ...... Jon Glover WED 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b007k134) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Dramatised by Robin Brooks. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED 12:30 Whispers (b007k2zg) Director: Claire Grove WED 01:00 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007jrx2) Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Tuesday] Episode 3 WED 19:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00b3194) WED 02:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b2qv8) “There never was an individual less regretted by his fellow [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] creatures than this deceased King." WED 19:30 Whispers (b007k2zg) WED 02:15 Martyn Wade - Hermit Lucas (b007jx32) Gyles Brandreth reveals who - in the panel show that celebrates [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Tuesday] gossip rather than discretion - believing valour to be a WED 20:00 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007jrzt) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 26 April – 2 May 2008 Page 5 of 6 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Grey …. Peter Kenny Marion Crawford as the Duke, Richard Caldicot as Sir WED 21:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b32bz) Warden …. Diana Payan Raymond Beecham, Garard Green as the Butler, Rosalind [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Director: Glyn Dearman Adams as the Nurse and Fenella Fielding as Kitty Buckingham. WED 21:15 Martyn Wade - The Other Constance First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1994. Producer: David Hatch Chatterley (b007k0l7) THU 10:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b3gv2) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1969. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] Episode 4 THU 17:30 Boogie Up the River (b007jv8w) WED 22:00 Dead Ringers (b007k3fm) Just as Anna's life looks set to begin at last, now that Darrow A Curry at Kelmscot [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] has arrived to claim her - an unexpected surprise awaits him. Jennifer joins Mark and his mutt's Thames quest, but there is a WED 22:30 Acropolis Now (b007jwps) Published in 1912, The Reef is one of Edith Wharton's most surprise on their menu. Stars Timothy Spall. From January Series 2 accomplished yet neglected novels - revealing the submerged 1993. Love and perilous depths beneath the surface of even the most THU 18:00 Bram Stoker's Dracula (b007k1l1) It's Eros night at the Fish Restaurant and, despite the hunger, conventional of its characters. Episode 4 romance is in the air. Stars Stephen Moore. From March 2002. Starring Ben Miles as George Darrow, Jodhi May as Sophie, Renfield's behaviour in his cell worsens, while Van Helsing WED 23:00 Wild Things (b007wr38) Teresa Gallagher as Anna and Sian Thomas as the Narrator. fights to save poorly Lucy. Stars Bernard Holley and Crawford Series 2 Dramatised by Penny Leicester. Logan. Plastic Fantastic Producer: Di Speirs THU 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b007k1l2) The fiery florists discuss Winnie's plans for a surgical boost. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. Mort Stars Doon Mackichan and Miranda Richardson. From THU 10:15 CW Hill - Killing Maestros (b007w5g0) Episode 4 November 2003. Jinxed with mysterious deaths - Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde is Death has disappeared, leaving his apprentice Mort, his WED 23:30 The Big Booth (b007jv50) the 'Scottish Play' of the opera world. daughter Ysabell and Albert the cook to carry on the life- Series 2: The Big Booth Too Conductor Sergei Bodanov convinces himself that he too will collecting operation. Episode 3 suffer from the Opera's course, and tells his therapist that he The conclusion of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy set on Boothby Graffoe meets a man with a replacement tongue and a has six weeks to cure him of this 'evil' before the first Discworld. man in a washing machine. performance... Narrated by Anton Lesser. More guitar-flavoured songs and surreal laughs from Boothby Christopher William Hill's drama starring Bill Nighy as Sergei and Jon Glover as the Duke. Graffoe. Bodanov, Henry Goodman as Dr Carl Lieberman, Lorelei King Mort ...... Carl Prekopp With Stephen Frost , Vivienne Soan, Big Al, Jim Sweeney and as Ruth Lieberman, Sylvestra Le Touzel as Laura van Helden Death ...... Geoffrey Whitehead guitarist Antonio Forcione. and Andrew C Wadsworth as Emile Danacre. Albert ...... Phillip Jackson Written by Boothby Graffoe and Dave Thompson. Pianist: Colin Guthrie Ysabell ...... Clare Corbett Producer: Lucy Armitage Director: Liz Webb Princess Keli ...... Alice Hart First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Cutwell ...... Adam Godley THU 11:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq5z) Rincewind ...... Philip Fox We Wronged No Man Duke ...... Jon Glover THURSDAY 01 MAY 2008 Sue can no longer go on living with Phillotson as his wife, and Dramatised by Robin Brooks. elopes with Jude, who's now free of Arabella. Director: Claire Grove THU 00:00 Bram Stoker's Dracula (b007k1c0) Sue, however, is intensely fearful of further entanglements, and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] cannot but see Jude's natural feelings for her in a brutal, THU 19:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show THU 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b007k1c1) barbaric light.... (b007qg0y) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 01:00 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007jrzt) North. THU 19:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jr4g) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, Elizabeth Garvie as [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] THU 02:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b32bz) Sue Bridehead, June Barrie as Widow Edlin, Elva Makins as THU 20:00 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007js26) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] Arabella, Hazel Ellerby as Annie, Jesse Lawrence as Father [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU 02:15 Martyn Wade - The Other Constance Time, John Linstrum as Dr Vilbert, Barrie Shore as the Rough THU 21:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b3gv2) Chatterley (b007k0l7) Woman and Jerold Wells as the Auctioneer. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Wednesday] Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller. THU 21:15 CW Hill - Killing Maestros (b007w5g0) THU 03:00 Dead Ringers (b007k3fm) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Wednesday] THU 12:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show THU 22:00 The Harpoon (b00b3gv0) THU 03:30 Acropolis Now (b007jwps) (b007qg0y) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Wednesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 22:30 Rigor Mortis (b00b3hjt) THU 04:00 Wild Things (b007wr38) THU 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jr4g) Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Wednesday] Series 3 Episode 2 THU 04:30 The Big Booth (b007jv50) First Prize the Burkiss Way A total lack of corpses sparks a dry spell in the pathology lab. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Wednesday] Enjoy the Dinosaur Cheese Interlude - and Confessions of Stars Peter Davison and Geoffrey Whitehead. From November THU 05:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq5l) People Who Show Off Spherical Bits of Anatomy. 2004. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett THU 23:00 The Million Pound Radio Show (b007k2yt) THU 06:00 After Henry (b007jmr5) . Series 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Wednesday] Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to Episode 1 THU 06:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007js6w) 1980. A Page 3 girl reveals all, and a message from Mikhail [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. Gorbachev. Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell's sharp humour. THU 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00b3gcb) Producer: John Lloyd From March 1989. Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1977. THU 23:30 Tilt (b00b3hnw) THU 08:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show THU 13:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children Episode 6 (b007qg0y) (b007jn5f) The topical sketch show that takes you behind the week's news. Series 2 Episode 4 And then mucks about with it a bit. Episode 6 of 6. Episode 5 Nadine is getting desperate as she struggles with life a single Eric is a far from fair cop and there’s some monkey business in mother... Ernie's latest masterpiece ‘The Mighty Kong’. Joanna Trollope's novel about the traumas and delights of FRIDAY 02 MAY 2008 Written by Eddie Braben. adjusting to a step-family. With Nicola Pagett and Elaine Delmar. Read by Penelope Wilton. FRI 00:00 Bram Stoker's Dracula (b007k1l1) Music from Peter Knight and his Orchestra. Abridged in ten parts by Pat McLoughlin. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Producer: John Browell Producer: Di Speirs FRI 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b007k1l2) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1976. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] THU 08:30 The Harpoon (b00b3gv0) THU 13:15 Alan Bennett - Telling Tales (b007jnng) FRI 01:00 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007js26) Series 1 Unsaid Prayers [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Episode 3 Scared of infection from the communion chalice, the writer FRI 02:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b3gv2) 'Laughing through the Depression' - with a slightly budget issue recalls his Anglican faith throughout army and university life. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] of your nostalgic bumper golden weekly. THU 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b00b3h2y) FRI 02:15 CW Hill - Killing Maestros (b007w5g0) With Julian Dutton, Peter Baynham, Alistair McGowan, Mary The Law, the Church and the Coming Tragedy [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Thursday] Elliot-Nelson and Bryonie Pritchard. With the Assize of Clarendon, Henry begins a major overhaul FRI 03:00 The Harpoon (b00b3gv0) Producer: Sarah Smith of the legal system. Narrated by Anna Massey, with Paul [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Thursday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1991. Eddington. FRI 03:30 Rigor Mortis (b00b3hjt) THU 09:00 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007js26) THU 13:45 Adventures in Science (b00ffpfr) [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Thursday] Series 2 Series 2 FRI 04:00 The Million Pound Radio Show (b007k2yt) 3. A Sheltered Life Flu [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Thursday] Detective Inspector Gwen Danbury comes to the aid of a Ben Silburn goes to war. His enemy is the influenza virus and FRI 04:30 Tilt (b00b3hnw) wrongly accused colleague, and her lonely mother, Joan. the human body is the battlefield. With Professor John Oxford. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Thursday] Sue Rodwell's murder mystery stars Annette Badland as DI THU 14:00 01/05/2008 (b00b3h83) FRI 05:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq5z) Gwen Danbury. Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] DI Gwen Danbury …. Annette Badland BBC7. FRI 06:00 Boogie Up the River (b007jv8w) Joan Danbury …. Gudrun Ure THU 17:00 Doctor at Large (b00b3h85) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Thursday] DS Henry Jacobs …. John Duttine Dr Sparrow of Harley Street FRI 06:30 Doctor at Large (b00b3h85) Supt Phillips …. John Rye Mayhem ensues when Simon Sparrow goes to work at Sir [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] Larry Eaves …. John Moffatt Lancelot Spratt's rather posh practice FRI 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00b3zc8) Emily Porter …. Hilda Braid The misadventures of newly qualified doctor, Simon Sparrow - Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. Arthur Lambert …. Godfrey Kenton adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jrdx) Hesset …. Don McCorkindale 'Doctor at Large' published in 1955. Series 3 Edwards …. Tom Bevan Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as The Captain's Car Alison …. Rachel Atkins Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Howard When a French general pays a visit to Walmington-on-Sea, Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 26 April – 2 May 2008 Page 6 of 6 there's a mighty motoring mix-up for the Home Guard platoon. stonemason. Experience (b007k4xw) The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard Once again there's the old longing to return to Christminster, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] platoon. and Jude makes a resolution... FRI 22:30 Dial M for Pizza (b00b41j9) Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV Conclusion of Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six Series 1 scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. parts by Elizabeth North. Episode 5 Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, June Barrie as The sketch show team take a pop at cops, cabs and cowboys. Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier Widow Edlin, Elizabeth Garvie as Sue Bridehead, John Stars Brenda Blethyn and Robert Bathurst. From December Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn Normington as Phillotson, Elva Makins as Arabella, Hazel 1987. Private Frazer …. John Laurie Ellerby as Annie, Jesse Lawrence as Father Time, Brian FRI 23:00 Brian Appleton's History of Rock 'n' Roll Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley Jackson as Tinker Taylor, Gregory Phillips as Jack Stagg, John (b00fw3zq) Private Pike …. Ian Lavender Linstrum as Dr Vilbert, Alexa Romanes as the Landlady, Judy Come Up and See Me Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee Gibson as the Woman and Brian Gear a as Man in Crowd. How Brian's interruption of a recording session inadvertently Private Walker …. Larry Martyn Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller. gave Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel their biggest hit. Lady Maltby …. Betty Marsden First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986. More revelations from rock musicologist and part-time media Colonel Masters …. Garrard Green FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jrdx) studies tutor Brian Appleton Announcer/Newsreader …. John Snagge [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series of comic lectures, written and performed by Graham Producer: John Dyas FRI 12:30 Just a Minute (b00b40qs) Fellows. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1976. Nicholas Parsons is joined by Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo, Producer: Dawn Ellis FRI 08:30 The Patrick and Maureen Maybe Music Tony Hawks and Fred MacAulay in Glasgow. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001. Experience (b007k4xw) FRI 13:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children FRI 23:15 Hearing With Hegley (b00b41k4) Episode 3 (b007jn5v) Series 1 Patrick and Maureen have hit desperation point and invite a Episode 5 Episode 3 marriage counsellor to advise them on their communication Tom plans a third marriage to Elizabeth, but how will they cope The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley, presents skills live on-air. with his possessive daughter? a selection of his work. It's a recipe for disaster. Joanna Trollope's novel about the traumas and delights of With: Starring Imelda Staunton as Maureen Maybe and Patrick adjusting to a step-family. Keith Moore Barlow as Patrick Maybe. Read by Penelope Wilton. Susan Norton Special guests: Mike Smith and Sarah Greene Abridged in ten parts by Pat McLoughlin. Nigel Piper Doctor ...... Peter Jones Producer: Di Speirs Andrew Bailey Dennis ...... Kevin Eldon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. Producer: Phil Clarke Sergio ...... Simon Greenall FRI 13:15 Alan Bennett - Telling Tales (b007jnnz) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1996. Written by Patrick Barlow. No Mean City FRI 23:30 The Nick Revell Show (b007k2dc) Script associate: Nev Fountain The writer concludes his reminiscences of post-war Leeds, and Series 1 Producer: Claire Jones describes the hold it's always maintained on him into adulthood. Cash First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999. FRI 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b00b4165) Writer Nick struggles for cash, while his geraniums moan about FRI 09:00 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007js4n) Becket Christmas decorations. Series 2 The battle between Church and State culminates in the murder A sitcom for the 1990s, written by and starring comedian Nick 4. The Hostages of an archbishop. Anna Massey narrates the history of the Revell. Detective Inspector Gwen Danbury takes charge when a hostage British Isles with Paul Eddington. With Alistair McGowan, Caroline Gruber, Brian Bowles, Doon is taken by a gunman, but then her feisty mother arrives... FRI 13:45 Adventures in Science (b00fg4tt) Mackichan and Alison Sterling. Conclusion of Sue Rodwell's murder mystery starring Annette Series 2 Producer: Jon Magnusson Badland as DI Gwen Danbury. Sound First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1992. DI Gwen Danbury …. Annette Badland From a violin to your brain, Ben Silburn traces the journey of Joan Danbury …. Gudrun Ure an acoustic wave through our inner ear. DS Henry Jacobs …. John Duttine FRI 14:00 02/05/2008 (b00b41fn) Supt Phillips …. John Rye Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Mrs Banks …. Tina Gray BBC7. Gary Wolsey …. Paul Panting FRI 17:00 PG Wodehouse (b00b41fq) Cathy Bedford …. Elaine Claxton What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning Keets …. Crawford Logan Florence Craye Sharon Keets …. Susannah Corbett Trapped in the Hampshire hamlet of Steeple Bumpleigh, Bertie Colin Jarvis …. Matthew Morgan Wooster meets an old flame. Reporter …. Gavin Muir PG Wodehouse's romp starring Michael Hordern and Richard PC …. David Holt Briers. Director: Glyn Dearman Adapted in seven-parts by Chris Miller. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1994. Jeeves ...... Michael Hordern FRI 10:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b3zz3) Bertie Wooster ..... Richard Briers Episode 5 Florence Craye ..... Bronwen Williams Darrow sets out to persuade Sophie to leave Givre, but Stilton Cheesewright ..... Michael Kilgarriff discovers affairs are much more complicated than he’d realised. Salesman ..... Bruce Bennett Published in 1912, The Reef is one of Edith Wharton's most Producer: Simon Brett accomplished yet neglected novels - revealing the submerged First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1978. and perilous depths beneath the surface of even the most FRI 17:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00b41fs) conventional of its characters. Series 2 Starring Ben Miles as George Darrow, Jodhi May as Sophie, Anyone for a Cruise to Cherbourg? Teresa Gallagher as Anna, Julian Ovenden as Owen and Sian The singing duo wonder why their agent is being Thomas as the Narrator. uncharacteristically nice... Dramatised by Penny Leicester. 30 years after sweethearts Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr won Producer: Di Speirs the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest, the musical double-act are First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. back in the big time. FRI 10:15 Martyn Wade - A Home of Their Own June Whitfield and Roy Hudd star in Mike Coleman's sitcom. (b00b4038) Tommy Franklin ...... Roy Hudd To escape their children who won't leave home, Kenneth and Sheila Parr ...... June Whitfield Clare move to a smaller house - with no space for visitors. With Pat Coombs, Julian Eardley, Edward Halstead, Paul But the couple are soon plagued by former residents and visitors Rogan and Alex Lowe. - unaware that the previous owner Mrs Hooper has departed... Music by Frido Ruth. Martyn Wade's comedy starring David Troughton as Kenneth Producer: Steve Doherty and Barbara Flynn as Clare. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1999. With Margaret Tyzack as Mrs Hooper, Richenda Carey as Miss FRI 18:00 Bram Stoker's Dracula (b007k1tj) Grainger-Taylor, Jonathan Keeble as Mr Norton, Wayne Episode 5 Foskett as Maurice, Harry Myers as George and Colleen With Jonathan's return, Van Helsing is forced to reveal the Prendergast as Jill. shocking truth about Lucy. Stars Bernard Holley and Phyllis Production note: Logan. 'A Home of Their Own' was due to be recorded on location in a FRI 18:30 Book Club (b00b41fv) house used for a number of Martyn's previous plays, but which Terry Pratchett: Welcome to Discworld, or at least to an had become too noisy for period plays. audience with the creator, Terry Pratchett. First broadcast in Ironically during the recording, the cast and crew had to July 2004. decamp to a studio as severe building work at both the back and FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jrdx) front of the house made the recording inaudible. Perhaps the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] house was having the last word..? FRI 19:30 Just a Minute (b00b40qs) Producer: Cherry Cookson [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. FRI 20:00 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007js4n) FRI 11:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007t2h6) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] The Letter Killeth FRI 21:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b3zz3) Into their lives comes little Father Time, the child of Jude and [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Arabella. FRI 21:15 Martyn Wade - A Home of Their Own Sue finds herself bowed down with domestic drudgery and (b00b4038) hardship. Jude returns to his humbler trade of baking because [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] his consumption cannot withstand the outdoor life of a FRI 22:00 The Patrick and Maureen Maybe Music Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/