Radio 4 Extra Listings for 18 – 24 June 2016 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 18 JUNE 2016 Episode 1/2 Manchester Ship Canal and eventually reaches Liverpool's Outcast from the church, community, and closest friends for a Albert Dock. SAT 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids crime he did not commit, Silas Marner's trust and faith falls A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. (b007jrll) away. A broken, disillusioned man, exiled, he builds a new SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b01s02zb) Episode 10 faith, that will never let him down: gold. He weaves his cloths, Dr K With most of the population blinded, Bill Masen is determined counts his money, baptises himself with the coins of his new Henry Kissinger is the most celebrated figure in US foreign to find Josella. But where does he start? Cult novel read by religion. When tragedy strikes again and all his money is stolen policy, despite having left office over thirty-five years ago. Roger May. he's bereft and grief stricken. Then on New Year's Eve a vision His much-vaunted "opening to China" with President Nixon in SAT 00:30 Sounds Natural (b01slst0) of gold flickers before the flames. Spilling locks are tumbling 1972, his détente policy with the Soviet Union during the Cold Peter Cushing coins. For a moment Silas is reunited with his lovely sovereigns. War and his shuttle diplomacy across the Middle East, all saw Award-winning actor Peter Cushing takes a break from making And then he sees a little child. Dr. Kissinger guiding American interests and seeking durable horror films to discuss his enthusiasm for the British SILAS MARNER...... George Costigan power balances. Ever since then, each US president has sought countryside and its wildlife - aided by recordings from the BBC SARAH/PRISCILLA ...... Fiona Clarke out Kissinger's sage advice. Sound Archive. WILLIAM/JEM/GODFREY...... Conrad Nelson But Kissinger's reputation has a darker side. Some critics still Peter tells Derek Jones how he used to spend hours with his late MINISTER/MACEY...... Seamus O'Neill find inexcusable the Americans' bombing of Cambodia and wife Helen watching wild birds from their home on the estuary SNELL/BRYCE...... Leigh Symonds involvement in Chile's 1973 military coup. They also deplore at Whitstable in Kent. DUNSEY/DOWLAS...... James Nickerson what they see as his indifference to human rights. Peter Cushing, OBE: born 1913 - died 1994. SQUIRE ...... Terence Wilton In this programme, Mark Malloch Brown, a former Foreign Producer: John Burton. DOLLY...... Deborah McAndrew Office minister and top official at the United Nations, presents First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1972. AARON (child)...... George Herbert a personal perspective on Dr. K. SAT 01:00 Raffles (b01p10th) NANCY/MOLLY...... Maeve Larkin As a young man in the 1960s and 1970s, Mark was repelled by Series 1 Directed by Pauline Harris. what he saw as Kissinger's ruthless realpolitik and apparent 3. A Costume Piece SAT 04:00 We've Been Here Before (b00g1rsp) downplaying of the plight of peoples from IndoChina to Latin Reuben Rosenthall has made his millions in the diamond fields Series 2 America. of South Africa, and it seems only right and proper to Raffles Episode 4 However, over the course of his own long career, Mark's view that some of this wealth should be redistributed. Clive Anderson hosts the panel show that pokes fun at events of of Dr K has changed. The collapse of communism, the rise of But his attempts to seize the diamonds don't quite go according the past. China and the problems left unresolved by the invasions of to plan, as a low-key stakeout spirals into a terrifying scramble The topical historical satirical panel show setting out to prove Afghanistan and Iraq have led Mark to view Kissinger's insights for survival. that there's nothing new under, or in, The Sun. into foreign policy - and how to achieve stability and security - EW Hornung's early Raffles stories dramatised by David Buck. Nick Revell and Gyles Brandreth battle it out against Helen more sympathetically. Starring Jeremy Clyde and Michael Cochrane. Atkinson-Wood and John O'Farrell. As Kissinger's 90th birthday nears, Mark asks: what are the AJ Raffles ...... Jeremy Clyde Producer: Ed Morrish lessons of Dr K's thinking and practice for our own times? Bunny ...... Michael Cochrane First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004. Also taking part are the historian, Margaret MacMillan; the Reuben Rosenthall ...... Geoffrey Matthews SAT 04:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k1mc) colleague and critic of Henry Kissinger, Morton Halperin; the 'Slammer' Purvis ...... John Hollis Series 1 long-standing Kissinger aide, Winston Lord; and the author of Jala ...... Alton Kumalo The Engagement the award-winning critique of America's bombing of Lady 1 ...... Natasha Pyne Rabbi Sue's announcement sparks fury from her rival Rabbi Cambodia, William Shawcross. Lady 2 ...... Jane Leonard Abraham. Producer Simon Coates. Odd Bodd ...... Graham Blockey The first of three series of Barry Grossman’s comedy-drama SAT 09:00 Steve Punt's Hancock Cuttings (b04n61gw) Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. about the collision between the old and the new in the Jewish Tony Hancock fan Steve Punt presents oddities and rarities Directed by Gordon House community of Hillfield. featuring the lad himself: A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast Starring David De Keyser as Rabbi Abraham Fine. Tracy-Ann * BBC TV's Face To Face interview (1960) in November 1985. Oberman as Rabbi Su Jacobs, Doreen Mantle as Sadie Fine, Episode from the TV series in which John Freeman cross- SAT 01:30 The Manchester Writers (b00tbck6) Henry Goodman as Melvin, Jonathan Kydd as Brian, Diane examined leading personalities of the day. Here he interviews John Harris explores the work of a group of authors who Keen as Fay, John Bennett as David and Ben Crowe as Gary. the radio and TV comedian, Tony Hancock. captured a northern social realism in the 1930s with writing that Music: Max Harris. * 'Ancock's Anthology – the BBC Light Programme’s went on to shape the views of northern living for generations. Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Christmas Day miscellany of the comic’s favourite music, Walter Greenwood, Howard Spring and Louis Golding wrote First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. readings and an interview with Stirling Moss (25/12/1964) about Greater Manchester at a time of severe economic SAT 05:00 Crowned Hudds (b00q9px6) * The Missing Page – the Pye Records re-recording of the TV depression and great poverty and their novels describe A Comedy of Arrows episode (1965) On a visit to Cheam Library, the lad is appalled conditions that have resonances with our life today - cuts in King John gets ambushed. Roy Hudd's historical royal romp, to be told he has some outstanding fines to pay. With Graham welfare, increased unemployment and a coalition government. with June Whitfield and Jeffrey Holland. From August 1995. Stark, Clive Dunn and Frank Thornton. Written by Ray Galton Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole', Golding's 'Magnolia Street' SAT 05:30 Meet David Sedaris (b0125g85) & Alan Simpson. and Spring's 'Fame is the Spur' depict a tough, working class Series 2 * Educating Archie (19/10/1951) life and although the three authors wrote from slightly different Nuit of the Living Dead and The End of the Affair Tony Hancock, Julie Andrews and Hattie Jacques join perspectives, they describe people enduring a grim, hard The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and wisecracking schoolboy Archie Andrews. Cinema high-jinks existence in an industrial landscape. charm to BBC Radio 4 for a series of audience readings. This and Dr Hancock lets Archie use his 'Wishing Chair'. Radio As the final parts of industrial Manchester and Salford are week: what not to do with a mouse, in front of strangers in ventriloquism from Peter Brough. Written by Eric Sykes. finally transformed by investment and modernisation, 'The "Nuit of the Living Dead" and the ups and downs of along term * The first ever episode of Hancock's Half Hour – 'The First Manchester Writers' visits the streets that inspired these authors relationship get the Sedaris treatment in "The End of the Night Party' (BBC Light Programme 02/11/1954) The lad and hears how their work has endured and influenced ideas of Affair" throws a launch party for his new series, but things don't quite northern England. Producer: Steve Doherty go to plan. With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Kenneth First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2010. A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. Williams and Gerald Campion. Written by Ray Galton & Alan SAT 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007jx8b) SAT 06:00 Death at Broadcasting House (b07grh62) Simpson. Desperation An actor is strangled during the live broadcast of a murder Producer: Mik Wilkojc. Reconciliation is on the cards, with the recognition of unspoken mystery play at the BBC’s London HQ. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2014 devotion. Concluded by Juliet Stevenson. Once it's off-air, the cast discover that the victim really is dead SAT 12:00 Charles Dickens (b00r66xt) SAT 02:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00s9f4y) - and millions of listeners must have heard the crime being Sketches by Boz: Series 1 A Thousand Histories and Fables committed! The Tuggses at Ramsgate Michael Morpurgo learns about the impact of printing, and how Starring John Moffatt, Peter Sallis and Jeremy Clyde. It seems that money cannot buy you love. A comic story it raised fears among adults that it was corrupting children. Whodunit first adapted for the cinema in 1934 by Val Gielgud starring Nicholas Farrell, Christopher Hancock and Frances SAT 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsmm) and Holt Marvell from their book of the same name. Jeater. Still Life, Part 7/7 Julian Caird ...... John Moffatt SAT 12:30 A Whole 'Nother Story (b00763tm) Daniel becomes disillusioned with home and the church, and Detective Inspector Spears ...... Peter Sallis Series 1 there is some disturbing news for Stephanie. Rodney Fleming ...... Jeremy Clyde Older CAST: BBC DG ...... Graham Crowden Cassie and Pete would be a great couple, if they weren't so busy Older Frederica …. Rosemary Leach Leopold Dryden ...... Bill Nighy being friends. Bill …. Geoffrey Whitehead Isabel Dryden ...... Diana Quick The first of three series of Amanda Murphy’s comedy-drama Alexander …. Adam Kotz Stewart Evans ...... Julian Glover series about a friendship between a man and a woman. Stephanie …. Helen Longworth Detective Sergeant Ring ...... Nicky Henson Starring Debra Stephenson as Cassie and David Lamb as Pete. Marcus …. Carl Prekopp Macdonald ...... David Holt Rebecca ...... Mika Simmons Clemency …. Sandra Clark Higgins ...... Gavin Muir PJ ...... Brendan Burns Gideon …. Stephen Critchlow Pat ...... Caroline Strong Dad ...... Mike Grady Daniel …. Sean Dooley Topsy ...... Becky Hindley Mum ...... Anne Reid William …. Tom Glenister Guy Bannister ...... Roger May Producer: Graham Frost Written by A.S. Byatt and dramatised by John Harvey. Surgeon ...... John Hartley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2001. Producer: Mary Peate. Adapted for radio by Sue Rodwell and recorded on location. SAT 13:00 Unsuitable Men With Familiar Smiles First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. Director: Enyd Williams (Omnibus) (b07grp8f) SAT 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1996. Christine has hidden her past from her family. (b07gk2qv) SAT 07:30 Three Rivers (b00lc66g) But now she must reveal her extraordinary history of A Triumphant Evening The Mersey relationships with unsuitable men and their adventures together. With the conference underway, Stevens's abilities as a butler are Hardeep Singh Kohli travels from source to sea of three major These will feature the jazz scene, the Profumo Affair, Rome tested when his father is taken ill. Read by John Moffatt. From rivers that are being regenerated after years of neglect and and her biggest - and most surprising - secret! January 1990. industrial use. But she starts with the Queen's Coronation and the kidnapping SAT 03:00 Classic Serial (b07jgrhb) Hardeep begins his journey along the Mersey beside the River of a very important horse... Silas Marner Goyt in the Peak District, the main tributary of the Mersey. He Written by Caroline and David Stafford. Episode 2 visits Stockport, which is the official beginning of the Mersey, Omnibus of five episodes. Silas Marner by George Eliot and spots the plaque which announces that fact hidden behind a Christine ..... Eleanor Bron dramatised by Richard Cameron Sainsbury's store. From there, Hardeep ventures on to the Sally ..... Tracy Wiles Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 18 – 24 June 2016 Page 2 of 9 Director: Marc Beeby Producer: Armando lannucci Steelwire/Jude Mason …. Mark Heap First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2016. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1992. Winifred …. Barbara Flynn SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07grpkd) SAT 23:00 I, Regress (b01rlnj4) Male Voice …. Ian Masters Ray Quinn Series 2 Alexander …. Adam Kotz Actor, singer, dancer Ray Quinn chooses 'My Special Angel' by Rubber Alan …. Kenny Blyth Malcolm Vaughan and 'Eye of the Tiger' by Survivor. Matt Berry plays a a corrupt and bizarre regression therapist in Begbie …. Ben Onwukwe SAT 14:15 Sentimental Journey (b007563l) this dark, Lynch-meets-Kaufman-style comedy. Written by A.S. Byatt and dramatised by John Harvey. Ingrid Pitt Unsuspecting clients are taken on twisted, misleading journeys Producer: Mary Peate Arthur Smith accompanies the star of numerous 'Hammer through their subconscious. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. House of Horror' films, Ingrid Pitt, on a trip back to Argentina. Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client who SUN 07:15 Robb Wilton: I Should Say So (b039bbjz) Producer: Sharon Banoff has come to him for a different phobia. As the patient is put Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various The Hospital SAT 14:45 Uncle Mort's North Country (b007jl5d) situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played out Robb Wilton (1881 - 1957) was one of the most popular music Series 1 for us to hear. The result is a dream (or nightmare-like) trip hall and radio comics of the 1930s and 1940s. Fallen Comrades through the patient's mind, as funny as it is disturbing. Famed as an all-round pessimist - what would he have made of Carter and his uncle Mort sup a poignant pint at the Old With: 1980s Britain: can he lend a medical hand? Comrades Club. Bob Mortimer Michael Williams stars as Robb Wilton - making as little sense Peter Tinniswood’s continuing tales of Carter Brandon and his Tracy-Ann Oberman out of life as he did 40 years before... curmudgeonly uncle. Sally Okafor Written by Allen Saddler. Uncle Mort and his Yorkshire based family first appeared in A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone Producer: Brian Miller Tinniswood’s novel ‘A Touch Of Daniel’ which earned them a else's head! First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1988. run of four series of ‘I Didn't Know You Cared’ on BBC TV Producer: Sam Bryant SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b01dhrn5) from 1975 to 1979. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013. Series 7 Uncle Mort …. Stephen Thorne SAT 23:15 Richard Marsh (b01rl8p1) Spanish Elvis Carter Brandon …. Peter Skellern Love and Sweets Arthur puts on en event in an ill friends Spanish bar. With Liza Marcus …. John Samson Love From Afar Minelli and a Spanish Elvis auditioning, Arthur can do nothing The Doorman …. Steve Hodson Richard Marsh plays a character called Richard ("We're not other than perform himself to make sure the night goes off with The Barman …. Alan Dudley exactly alike, although we do look similar") and fuses poetry a real bang. Narrator …. Christian Rodska and prose to tell witty and honest tales of his whirlwind Count Arthur Strong - one time Variety Star, now sole Producer: Pete Atkin. romance with Siobhan. From the excitement and silliness of proprietor and owner of Doncaster's Academy of Performance - First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1987. young love, to cars covered in sweets, broken dreams, trans- is a show business legend, raconteur, and lecturer SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b01s02zb) American road trips and a seductive-looking lady called Sorrow. extraordinaire. He stars in a Sitcom with regular sidekick [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Richard is an award-winning poet and playwright, and a new Wilfred Taylor, Master Butcher, and a host of other characters. SAT 16:00 Death at Broadcasting House (b07grh62) voice for Radio 4. He's a magnetic personality whose All false starts and nervous fumbling, badly covered up by a [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] beautifully crafted stories are hilarious one moment and heart- delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance, and an expert in SAT 17:30 Three Rivers (b00lc66g) breaking the next. everything from the world of entertainment to the origin of the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Richard and Siobhan meet sharing sweets at their dead-end species, everyday life with Arthur is an enlightening experience. SAT 18:00 Doctor Who (b07grtrz) temp job. They quickly become friends, but Richard's nervous Cast: Industrial Evolution of taking the plunge and declaring that he has feelings for her. Steve Delaney Episode 2 After he finally plucks up the courage to (drunkenly) woo her, Mel Giedroyc The Doctor discovers there's more than one alien interfering they embark on an exhilarating new relationship. Richard Alastair Kerr with industrial progress of 19th-century Earth. begins to fall for Siobhan, but he's worried - she wants to keep Martin Marquez After following Thomas Brewster to Samuel Belfrage's brass their relationship a secret at work. Will a grand romantic David Mounfield mill in Ackleton, the Doctor and Evelyn have discovered some gesture in the corner shop win her heart? Producer: John Leonard unexpected truth about his business. Written and performed by Richard Marsh A Komedia Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. Starring Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Maggie Stables as Producer: Ben Worsfield SUN 08:00 Ray's a Laugh (b07gt434) Evelyn Smythe, John Pickard as Thomas Brewster, Rory A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. From 02/01/1959 Kinnear as Samuel Belfrage, Stephen Gibson as Warren Brown SAT 23:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b00qcn23) A clerical error means Ted thinks his bachelor days have and Joannah Tincey as Clara Stretton. Series 2 returned - will he be able to cope? Writer: Eddie Robson Episode 1 Starring Ted Ray. With Kitty Bluett and Kenneth Connor. Producer: Nicholas Briggs. Mark Thomas: The Manifesto. Comedian-activist, Mark Ray's A Laugh - the successor to ITMA - follows the comedy A Big Finish production. Thomas creates a People's Manifesto, taking suggestions from exploits of Ted's life at home with his 'radio' wife Kitty, as well SAT 19:00 Steve Punt's Hancock Cuttings (b04n61gw) his studio audience and then getting them to vote for the best. as in a variety of jobs. It ran from 1949-1961. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] The winner of each show will be enforceable by law, so pay Scripted by Bernard Botting and Charles Hart. SAT 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b03hwbrr) attention. BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenoulhet. Series 1 This edition includes policies such as restricting Prime Producer: Leslie Bridgmont Out of Our Tree Ministers to two full terms of office; the introduction of a First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1959. Tom's father is engrossed in putting together the Wrigglesworth maximum wage; and making all 4x4s transparent. SUN 08:30 Floggit's (b007jxmk) Family Tree which is leaving Tom's mother at a loose end. Tom Produced by Ed Morrish. From 24/08/1956 suggests she gets in a lodger for company. Chaos strikes village shopkeepers Gert and Daisy over a Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups is a 30 minute phone call from troublesome tree. Tom ringing his parents for his weekly check-in. As the SUNDAY 19 JUNE 2016 Stars Elsie and Doris Waters as Gert and Daisy. conversation unfolds, Tom takes time out from the phone call to With Joan Sims, Anthony Newley, Ronnie Barker, Hugh explain the situation, his parent's reactions and relate various SUN 00:00 Doctor Who (b07grtrz) Paddick and Iris Vandaleur. anecdotes from the past which illustrate his family's views. And [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Originally popular regulars in 'Workers' Playtime' on the BBC sometimes he just needs to sound-off about the maddening SUN 01:00 Unsuitable Men With Familiar Smiles Home Service during wartime, Gert and Daisy won their own world around him and bemoan everyday annoyances. (Omnibus) (b07grp8f) series, Floggit's, where they've inherited a village general store A fascinating and hilarious glimpse into Tom Wrigglesworth, [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] in Russett Green. with a ragbag of local characters to deal with. his family background and the influences that have shaped his SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07grpkd) It ran for 2 series between 1956 and 1957. temperament,opinions and hang-ups. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] Scripted by Terry Nation, John Junkin and Dave Freeman. During all this Hang Ups explores class, living away from SUN 02:15 Sentimental Journey (b007563l) Producer: Alastair Scott -Johnston 'home', trans-generational phenomena, what we inherit from our [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1956. families and how the past repeats in the present. All in a 30 SUN 02:45 Uncle Mort's North Country (b007jl5d) SUN 09:00 Margo Jefferson - Negroland: Omnibus minute phone call. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] (b07gt7zp) 'Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-ups' gets underneath the skin of SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 (b01s02zb) Margo Jefferson was born in Chicago in 1947. 'Negroland is my Tom and the Wrigglesworth family, so sit back and enjoy a bit [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] name for a small region of Negro America where residents of totally legal phone hacking. SUN 04:00 Death at Broadcasting House (b07grh62) were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. Cast: [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07jm6cz) Tom Wrigglesworth ...Tom SUN 05:30 Three Rivers (b00lc66g) Natascha McElhone Judy Parfitt ... Granny [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] Actress Natascha McElhone chooses 'Jamming' by Bob Marley Paul Copley ... Dad SUN 06:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (Omnibus) & the Wailers and 'Lean on Me' by Bill Withers. Kate Anthony ... Mum (b07gry2w) SUN 10:15 World Book Club (b07gt7zy) David Reed ... Henry Still Life Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle The arrivals of a new baby and a singular new vicar have big 4 Extra Debut. Deborah Moggach talks about her novel set Additional Material by Miles Jupp impacts on the lives of the Potter family. during a speculative bubble in 1630s Amsterdam. With Harriett Producer: Katie Tyrrell. The conclusion of ‘Still Life’ and first half of ‘Babel Tower’. Gilbert. From October 2015. SAT 22:30 Knowing Me, Knowing You (b007jsdd) CAST: SUN 11:05 Inheritance Tracks (b046csgp) Episode 2 Older Frederica …. Rosemary Leach Nicholas Parsons A-ha! Chat show host Alan Partridge faces up to nine-year-old Middle Frederica …. Indira Varma Nicholas Parsons reminisces to 'In the Mood' by Glenn Miller prodigy Simon Fisher, American hypnotist, Janey Katz and Hugh Pink …. Mark Umbers and passes on 'Children Will Listen' by Stephen Sondheim. controversial lawyer Nick Ford. Pippy Mammott …. Deborah Findlay SUN 11:10 The Moth Radio Hour (b07gt804) Classic chat from On the Hour's supreme sports reporter and his Nigel …. Mark Bazeley Series 3 guests from the world of theatre, politics and emotional tragedy. Leo …. Jack Langan Women in the World With thanks to Alan's chief researcher Steve Coogan Ginnie …. Hannah Dee True stories told live in the USA: Sarah Austin Jenness Assistant researchers: Ruth …. Jasmine Hyde introduces tales of survival, swimming and personal Patrick Marber Mary …. Ruby Williams independence. Rebecca Front Will …. Alex Etchart The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated Doon Mackichan Bill/First Caller …. Geoffrey Whitehead to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since David Schneider. Daniel …. Shaun Dooley 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 18 – 24 June 2016 Page 3 of 9 novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and Cope, Colin Dexter, Antique Roadshow's Henry Sandon and the MON 02:30 Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler (Omnibus) yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George many Housman fans of Worcestershire and Shropshire. Elvis (b07gtdmh) Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in attempts to meet Housman himself, listens to the bells of [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the Bredon, goes in search of the loveliest of cherry trees and even MON 03:45 The Parcel of Dreams (b007vcn7) screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, finds poetry in a Brewery. [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at Producer: Frank Stirling MON 04:00 Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wakefield (b00rs19x) theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the An Unique production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2011. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] USA, the UK and other parts of the world. SUN 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b01dhrn5) MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (b07gtdmk) The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The SUN 18:00 Drama (b014f9qf) MON 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. Paul Evans - The Shining Guest (b01dhrn5) Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the Following an anonymous tip off, a body is discovered in the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] humorous to the heart-breaking. Welsh hills. At first thought to be recent murder victim because MON 06:00 Raffles (b01p3d3w) The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic of items found with the body, analysis reveals it to be thousands Series 1 Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed of years old. A series of events are triggered which appear to 4. Nine Points of the Law by the Public Radio Exchange. reveal a parallel world. Like the Shining Guest ants which Bunny is forced to extemporise when Raffles' theft of a SUN 12:00 Ray's a Laugh (b07gt434) inhabit Wood ants' nests and seem invisible to their highly valuable painting seems to go wrong. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] aggressive hosts, the inhabitants of this secret world, the guests, EW Hornung's early Raffles stories dramatised by David Buck. SUN 12:30 Floggit's (b007jxmk) have existed at the edges of our reality throughout time. Starring Jeremy Clyde and Michael Cochrane. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Recorded on location, this haunting and atmospheric drama is AJ Raffles ...... Jeremy Clyde SUN 13:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (Omnibus) written and narrated by Paul Evans. Bunny ...... Michael Cochrane (b07gry2w) Gwen : Alex Tregear Addenbrooke ...... David Buck [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Voice: Maria Jardardottir Craggs ...... Nigel Graham SUN 14:15 Robb Wilton: I Should Say So (b039bbjz) Wildlife sound recordist: Chris Watson Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] Sound editor: Mike Burgess Directed by Gordon House SUN 14:30 Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler (Omnibus) Producer / Director: Sarah Blunt. A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast (b07gtdmh) SUN 18:45 Diana Hendry - The Lady of the Sea (b07gtgsc) in November 1985. Episode 1 4 Extra Debut. Saul takes his daughter out for long evening MON 06:30 Overexposed (b00q3cm3) Anne Tyler's contemporary response to Shakespeare's The drives and tells his wife that it helps to settle them both. Read Back in 1990, a small group of photojournalists set out to Taming of the Shrew follows the story of college drop-out Kate by Lin Sagovsky. witness world events. They went to Yugoslavia, Angola, Battista, who keeps house for her widowed father and 15 year SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour (b07gt804) Rwanda and Iraq. old sister, Bianca. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:10 today] Two were shot dead, and everyone was changed. Kate also works at a preschool nursery where her forthright SUN 19:45 Margo Jefferson - Negroland: Omnibus All of the contributors, including the presenter Miles Warde, ways win her the affection of the children but are not (b07gt7zp) were students at the London College of Printing. They went to appreciated by the school's principal who would prefer her to [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] work for Reuters, the Observer and the New York Times, and exercise a little tact, restraint and diplomacy when dealing with SUN 20:55 Inheritance Tracks (b07jm6cz) won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer, World Press the parents. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] Photo and several Emmys. They began work in an era when When her obsessively dedicated scientist father makes SUN 21:00 World Book Club (b07gt7zy) access was still easy, and the dangers perhaps not fully uncharacteristic use of his mobile phone to summon her to his [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] understood. lab, she is not prepared for what he has in mind. SUN 21:55 Inheritance Tracks (b046csgp) "While I was doing this course I did a work placement and Omnibus of the first five of ten parts read by Liza Ross. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:05 today] stayed in touch with the picture editor. So when the war started Anne Tyler's novels include Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b01dhrn5) in former Yugoslavia, I went to see him. He gave me the (1983), The Accidental Tourist (1985) and the Pulitzer [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] accreditation, he gave me the film and I drove to war in my Prize–winning, Breathing Lessons (1988). She’s also won the SUN 22:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jq3n) little Renault Five." Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award and Series 2 The programme follows up what happened next, providing an the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012, Anne won The Gangrene of the Mastersons intimate, authoritative account of life as a photojournalist. The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. The Masterson's epic Crimean War struggle of carnage, Contributors include James Hill, Gary Calton, Sandra Balsells, Abridged by Isobel Creed carnality and cads. Paul Lowe - the current course director of the LCC - and Colin Producer: Jill Waters The award-winning improvised historical family saga based Jacobson, former picture editor at the Independent Magazine. A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first entirely on audience suggestions. Producer: Miles Ware broadcast in June 2016. Starring Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Jim Sweeney, Lee First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. SUN 15:45 The Parcel of Dreams (b007vcn7) Simpson, Phelim McDermott and Caroline Quentin. MON 07:00 Charles Dickens (b00rd444) A writer wants to tell a story about a private detective in Producer: Phil Clarke Sketches by Boz: Series 1 California, but will his characters let him? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1994. The Bloomsbury Christening Experimental detective story by Louis Robinson and Richard SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b07hxb5s) The arrival of a bouncing boy is good news indeed, but not for Lewis in which the characters want to be independent of the The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to Steve miserable bachelor Nicodemus Dumps. Stars Nicholas Farrell. script. Bugeja. MON 07:30 Just a Minute (b07ffj3k) Read by Colin Stinton SUN 23:00 Think the Unthinkable (b01jb1xy) Series 75 Produced at BBC Pebble Mill by Anne-Marie Cole. Series 3 Episode 5 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1989. Matsons Electronics Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 75th series of the SUN 16:00 Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wakefield (b00rs19x) Electrical retailer, Matson’s, needs a boost – but are they ready panel show where participants must try to speak for 60 seconds A dull middle-aged man whose life has been monotonously for the sort of kick delivered by this bunch? without hesitation, deviation or repetition. No repetition? That's ordinary for years, devises a plot to temporarily leave home and James Carey's sitcom about a clueless bunch of management no small order after nearly 50 years. observe the effect on his wife from a flat opposite. consultants, Unthinkable Solutions, effortlessly screwing-up Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Alexei Sayle and Graham Norton But he stays away much longer than expected - and it becomes their clients' businesses. join Nicholas Parsons, and try to avoid hesitation, deviation or more and more difficult for him to return... Starring: repetition as they talk about diverse subjects like Virginia David Haig stars in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story Marcus Brigstocke Wade, Beef Wellington, and Physics for Beginners. dramatised by Martyn Wade. Robin Ince Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. Wakefield ...... David Haig Catherine Shepherd Produced by Victoria Lloyd. Hawthorne ...... John Rowe Beth Chalmers MON 08:00 Parsley Sidings (b01prccq) Mrs Wakefield ...... Richenda Carey Written by James Carey. Series 1 Mr Lucas Ferris ...... Jonathan Keeble Producer: Adam Bromley. The Concert Mrs Brand ...... Jennie Stoller First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004. Can showbiz seduce Station Master Horace Hepplewhite away Doctor ...... Gordon Reid SUN 23:30 Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking from the railways? Producer: Cherry Cookson (b00bz9zn) Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Ian Lavender as Bert, Liz First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001 Series 1 Fraser as Gloria, Kenneth Connor as Percy and Charlotte SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (b07gtdmk) Episode 1 Mitchell as Miss Pennyfeather. Beacons and Blue Remembered Hills Meet a reluctant beekeeper, two feuding librarians and a man Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the determined to strike a deal with Santa. station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station for BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Beacons and Blue Perrier award-winning comedian Laura Solon's sketch and generations and the current Station Master, Horace, hopes that Remembered Hills'. character comedy series his son Bert will continue the line. Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk An examination of the enduring popularity of AE Housman in a With Ben Moor, Katherine Parkinson and Ben Willbond. Bert wants to work anywhere but on the railways. His colleague, journey through the Shropshire of his most famous sequence of Written by Laura Solon. With additional material by the cast, Station Announcer Gloria Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter poems. Carl Cooper, Tony Roche and Andy Marlatt. Percy Valentine is an archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Actor, poet and broadcaster Elvis McGonagall (aka Richard Producer: Colin Anderson Signalman, Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made Smith) takes Housman's longest sequence (written when he was First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007. remedies in equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is in London) to the places that the poet was remembering as he Phineas Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop explored some of the themes at the core of his work. At the down the line. heart of 'A Shropshire Lad' is a real sense of Englishness, MONDAY 20 JUNE 2016 Re-created Announcements by Keith Skues. unusual in a collection that concerns itself with personal and Producer: Edward Taylor political themes in such a raw and vulnerable way - loss, grief, MON 00:00 Drama (b014f9qf) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1972. suicide, sexuality, nature and joy. What did the settings of 'A [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON 08:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook Shropshire Lad' - Shropshire and Worcestershire - mean to MON 00:45 Diana Hendry - The Lady of the Sea (b07gtgsc) (b007k11m) Housman? [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] An 'Ep' in the Country Elvis visits many of the locations that inspired Housman's verse MON 01:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (Omnibus) The off-screen doings of TV soap opera stars are often more - London, Bromsgrove, Bredon Hill, Ludlow, The Wrekin and (b07gry2w) interesting than the actual programmes, particularly if you never talks to people along the way about these evocative landscapes, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] watch the programme concerned. asking them to read their favourite poems on the way. MON 02:15 Robb Wilton: I Should Say So (b039bbjz) British show business doyen, J Kingston Platt shares Contributors include Andrew Motion, Martin Newell, Wendy [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 18 – 24 June 2016 Page 4 of 9 experience from the past 40 years. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Beth Chalmers Performed and written by Peter Jones. MON 14:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm27) Catherine Shepherd Producer: Pete Atkin Episode 1 Steven Kynman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1986 1630s Amsterdam: Artist Jan Van Loos falls for his married Abigail Burdess MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote (b038c0f2) subject... Chris Pavlo The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. Deborah Moggach's bestselling story of passion set during 17th Written by James Cary. As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he quizzes century Holland's tulip mania. Producer: Adam Bromley them on the sources of a range of quotations and asks them for Read by Emma Fielding and William Gaminara. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2004. the amusing sayings or citations that they have personally First published in 1999. Abridged in ten parts by Elizabeth MON 23:00 Dead Ringers (b07flhlm) collected on a variety of subjects, including quotations they Bradbury. Series 16 wish they'd said and family sayings they have grown up with. Producer: Sarah Johnson Episode 1 This week Nigel is joined by Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. The topical satirical show that mixes political vituperation with News presenter Matt Barbet, Children's Playwright David MON 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sbpg0) media savaging is back. With a referendum on Europe, a Wood and Journalist and writer Katharine Whitehorn. Learn to Die presidential election in America and the BBC in crisis, the team Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. Exploring a thousand years of British childhood, Michael will focus on the things that matter, and quite a few things that Produced by Carl Cooper. Morpurgo examines Puritanism and the effects of the don't, like Top Gear and most things on BBC Three. MON 09:30 King Street Junior (b007jn8j) Reformation. MON 23:30 The Vote Now Show (b07gdlkf) Series 7 MON 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsnk) EU and Yours Witch Hunt Babel Tower, Part 1/8 The Now Show: EU & Yours, is a comic take on the EU A peeved parent asks whether teacher knows best, and Mrs Frederica has given up her care-free, independent Cambridge Referendum, recorded just hours before broadcast, four days Rudd won't take no for an answer. Stars James Grout. From lifestyle. before polling stations open. Should we stay or should we go? April 1992. CAST: We definitely won't be giving a definitive answer, but Steve MON 10:00 Portrait of a Lady (b00chj5g) Older Frederica …. Rosemary Leach Punt, Hugh Dennis, Jon Holmes, Mitch Benn and some special Innocence Middle Frederica …. Indira Varma guests will be here to help you make up your mind. Young and beautiful, Isabel Archer thinks that she is in control Hugh Pink …. Mark Umbers Presenter ... Steve Punt of her fate. Pippy Mammott …. Deborah Findlay Presenter ... Hugh Dennis Little does she know, however, that others behind the scenes are Nigel …. Mark Bazeley Guest ... Jon Holmes pulling the strings. Leo …. Jack Langan Guest ... Mitch Benn Henry James's popular novel, dramatised in three parts by Written by A.S. Byatt and dramatised by John Harvey. Producer ... Ed Morrish Rachel Joyce. Producer: Mary Peate. A BBC Studios Production. Isabel Archer ...... Anna Maxwell Martin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. Madame Merle ...... Haydn Gwynne MON 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day Lord Warburton ...... Robert Bathurst (b07gxhrv) TUESDAY 21 JUNE 2016 Mrs Touchett ...... Gayle Hunnicutt On Into Dorset Mr Touchett ...... Peter Marinker On his trip to Cornwall to see Miss Kenton, Stevens faces some TUE 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids Ralph Touchett ...... Paul Venables awkward questions about his former employer. Read by John (b007jrm1) Henrietta Stackpole ...... Laurel Lefkow Moffatt. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Caspar Goodwood ...... Corey Johnson Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 Booker Prize winner abridged by TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b00767cz) Mr Bantling ...... Dan Starkey Catherine Czerkawska. After a lifetime of service as butler in [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Narrator ...... William Hope one of the great stately homes of England, Stevens belatedly TUE 01:00 Raffles (b01p3d3w) Pianist: Duncan Walsh Atkins puts his life into perspective. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Director: Tracey Neale. Producer: Marilyn Imrie TUE 01:30 Overexposed (b00q3cm3) First broadcast in July 2008. A BBC Radio 4 Book At Bedtime from January 1990. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] MON 11:00 Book of the Week (b0135q6c) MON 15:00 Portrait of a Lady (b00chj5g) TUE 02:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm27) Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Episode 1 MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote (b038c0f2) TUE 02:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sbpg0) A compelling exploration of the making of one of Britain's [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] most influential First World War poets - Edward Thomas, who MON 16:30 King Street Junior (b007jn8j) TUE 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsnk) is perhaps best-remembered for his poem 'Adlestrop'. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Matthew Hollis's new biography is an account of Thomas's final MON 17:00 Charles Dickens (b00rd444) TUE 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day five years and of his momentous and mutually-inspiring [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] (b07gxhrv) friendship with the American poet, Robert Frost. MON 17:30 Just a Minute (b07ffj3k) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] Although an accomplished prose-writer and literary critic, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 03:00 Portrait of a Lady (b00chj5g) Edward Thomas only began writing poetry in 1914, at the age MON 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] of 36. Before then, Thomas had been tormented by what he (b007jrm1) TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote (b038c0f2) regarded as the banality of his work, by his struggle with Episode 11 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] depression and by his marriage. Bill and Coker are reunited with some of the original University TUE 04:30 King Street Junior (b007jn8j) But as his friendship with Frost blossomed, Thomas wrote group - but Josella isn't with them. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] poem after poem, and his emotional affliction began to lift. The Roger May continues a 17-part unabridged reading of John TUE 05:00 Charles Dickens (b00rd444) two friends began to formulate poetic ideas that would produce Wyndham's cult sci-fi novel - an unsettlingly vivid and [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] some of the most remarkable verse of the twentieth century. thrillingly realised tale of ecological apocalypse. TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (b07ffj3k) But the First World War put an ocean between them: Frost Producer: Susan Carson [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] returned to the safety of New England, while Thomas stayed to Made for BBC 7 by BBC Northern Ireland and first broadcast TUE 06:00 Raffles (b01p3hkh) fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and those not taken - in 2004. Series 1 that are at the heart of this remarkable book, which culminates MON 18:30 A Good Read (b00767cz) 5. Wilful Murder in Thomas's tragic death on Easter Monday 1917. Frank Delaney & Jackie Kay Bunny is horrified when gentleman thief Raffles calmly Read by Tobias Menzies Rosie Boycott and fellow writers Frank Delaney and Jackie Kay declares he wants to try a different crime - by planning to Abridged by Richard Hamilton discuss books by Kate Grenville, Ernest Hemingway and Jean commit a murder. Produced by Emma Harding Rhys. From 2002. EW Hornung's early Raffles stories dramatised by David Buck. 'Now All Roads Lead to France' is published by Faber and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Starring Jeremy Clyde and Michael Cochrane. Faber. Publisher: Penguin AJ Raffles ...... Jeremy Clyde Matthew Hollis is the author of a volume of poetry, 'Ground Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway Bunny ...... Michael Cochrane Water', which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Publisher: Arrow Crawshay ...... Ron Pember Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the Forward Prize The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville Sergeant/Waiter ...... John Church for Best First Collection. This is his first prose book. Publisher: Picador. Inspector MacKenzie ...... Henry Stamper MON 11:15 Cafe Royal (b07gxfjb) MON 19:00 Parsley Sidings (b01prccq) Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. London's Cafe Royal has long been famous as a meeting-place [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Director: Gordon House for writers, artists, and colourful personalities. This is a MON 19:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast fascinating cultural history of conversation capturing the period (b007k11m) in November 1985. flavour of a unique venue. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE 06:30 A House for the End of Life (b00wr7rp) Featuring well-known figures in the literary and artistic world MON 20:00 Raffles (b01p3d3w) Once upon a time architects made magnificent buildings in the of the 1950s: Sir Max Beerbohm, John Betjeman, Sir Compton [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] name of health and wellbeing. The Greeks built spas around the Mackenzie, Alan Dent, Nina Hamnett, Wyndham Lewis, Edgar MON 20:30 Overexposed (b00q3cm3) great theatres, the medievals made cathedrals of their hospitals Lustgarten, Louis Golding, Eric Maschwitz, Hebert Marshall, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] and opened them to pilgrims. Malcolm Muggeridge, Beverley Nichols, Hesketh Pearson, Alan MON 21:00 Book of the Week (b0135q6c) Susan Marling looks at work architects are doing now to Pryce-Jones, Sir John Rothenstein and Dilys Powell. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] dramatically enhance small healthcare buildings - especially Narrated by Roger Livesey. MON 21:15 Cafe Royal (b07gxfjb) Maggie centres which are for cancer sufferers and hospices for Arranged by Guy Deghy and edited by Sasha Moorsom. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] people with life-shortening diseases. Many of these buildings Producer: DG Bridson MON 22:00 Just a Minute (b07ffj3k) are inspirational. They show the power of good design and First broadcast on the BBC Home Service on 28th December [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] beautiful gardens in lifting the human spirit and restoring to the 1955. MON 22:30 Concrete Cow (b04t6vjy) patient a sense of dignity and individuality. MON 12:00 Parsley Sidings (b01prccq) Series 2 Susan speaks to leading architects Rem Koolhaus, Richard [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Marriage Murphy and Ian Clark. She visits the award winning St Oswald's MON 12:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook A couple are forced to put an exact price on love, a hi-fi hospice in Newcastle, and the Maggie centre by Frank Gehry in (b007k11m) obsessive goes too far and Turing needs IT support.. Dundee. Julia Neuberger talks about our contemporary attitude [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Second series of the four-part sketch show in which anything is to death and ways in which architects are confronting it. MON 13:00 Raffles (b01p3d3w) possible. Producer: Susan Marling [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Starring: A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in MON 13:30 Overexposed (b00q3cm3) Robert Webb December 2010. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 18 – 24 June 2016 Page 5 of 9 TUE 07:00 Two Doors Down (b0086dhm) Episode 2 (b007jrmd) Series 1 A compelling exploration of the making of one of Britain's Episode 12 Ranting and Railings most influential First World War poets - Edward Thomas, who Bill and Coker check out of Tynsham Manor and set out to Miss Black's vision is for all houses to have matching Victorian is perhaps best-remembered for his poem 'Adlestrop'. track down the rest of the University group. Cult novel read by railings - and hers must be authentic. But her lodger, Victor Matthew Hollis's new biography is an account of Thomas's final Roger May. sparks chaos when he gets the erection dates muddled up. five years and of his momentous and mutually-inspiring TUE 18:30 The Tingle Factor (b07h0z8v) The bohemian residents of Marlborough Road in Belfast are friendship with the American poet, Robert Frost. Peter Skellern saved from chaos by their cleaning lady, Sally. Although an accomplished prose-writer and literary critic, Singer-songwriter and pianist, Peter Skellern talks to Robin Ray Frances Tomelty stars in Annie McCartney's sitcom. Edward Thomas only began writing poetry in 1914, at the age about the sounds which stirs his emotions. Sally ...... Frances Tomelty of 36. Before then, Thomas had been tormented by what he Recalling his life and career, Peter's selection includes Ketty Miss Black ...... Roma Tomelty regarded as the banality of his work, by his struggle with Lester, Phil Harris and commentary from a legendary Apollo Fintan ...... Gerard Murphy depression and by his marriage. spaceflight. Evie ...... Katy Gleadhill But as his friendship with Frost blossomed, Thomas wrote Producer: Andrew Mussett Victor ...... Alan Mckee poem after poem, and his emotional affliction began to lift. The First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. Saffron ...... Ali White two friends began to formulate poetic ideas that would produce TUE 19:00 Over the Garden Wall (b04v986b) Anna ...... Bethan Lloyd some of the most memorable verse of the twentieth century. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Simon ...... Patrick Gleadhill But the First World War put an ocean between them: Frost TUE 19:30 The Men from the Ministry (b016dgvc) Trevor ...... Gerard McSorley returned to the safety of New England, while Thomas stayed to [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Directed at BBC Belfast by Tanya Nash. fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and those not taken - TUE 20:00 Raffles (b01p3hkh) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2001. that are at the heart of this remarkable book, which culminates [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE 07:30 My Teenage Diary (b07ffxtj) in Thomas's tragic death on Easter Monday 1917. TUE 20:30 A House for the End of Life (b00wr7rp) Series 7 In today's episode, the first meeting of Edward Thomas and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Michael Rosen Robert Frost marks the start of a life-changing friendship. TUE 21:00 Book of the Week (b0135z1h) Poet and broadcaster Michael Rosen reads from his teenage Read by Tobias Menzies [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] diaries which focus on growing up as a naughty schoolboy in Abridged by Richard Hamilton TUE 21:15 Drama (b007748q) the 1960s, his early enthusiasm for politics and his warm, loving Produced by Emma Harding [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] and unusual family life. 'Now All Roads Lead to France' is published by Faber and TUE 22:00 My Teenage Diary (b07ffxtj) He discusses his formative years with Rufus Hound. Faber. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Producer: Harriet Jaine AUTHOR: Matthew Hollis is the author of a volume of poetry, TUE 22:30 Bleak Expectations (b01p41hd) Executive Producer: Aled Evans 'Ground Water', which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize Series 5 A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the Forward An Alrightish Life Savagely Frozen to Bits 2016. Prize for Best First Collection. This is his first prose book. Pip races to Antarctica to thwart another fiendish plot by his TUE 08:00 Over the Garden Wall (b04v986b) TUE 11:15 Drama (b007748q) evil ex-guardian, Mr Gently Benevolent. From 07/10/1948 Annamaria Murphy - Rosie's Beauty Mark Evans's epic Victorian comedy in the style of Charles Norman Evans plays toothless Lancastrian housewife Fanny By Annamaria Murphy. Dickens. Fairbottom, later inspiring Les Dawson's homage Ada. From Rosie runs a beauty parlour in her village. Most of her clients Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson October 1948. come to talk and Rosie is invited to share some of the dark Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen TUE 08:30 The Men from the Ministry (b016dgvc) secrets that make up the community in which she lives. Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head She'll Have To Go Rosie Craze ...... Mary Woodvine Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman Can the bungling bureaucrats save their secretary from the Martha Taper ...... Barbara Jefford Clampvulture ..... Geoffrey Whitehead scrap heap? Lily Harvey ...... Amanda Lawrence Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. Ellen Hosken ...... Mandy Simons Pippa ..... Susy Kane With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley, John Graham and Gillie Michael Harvey ...... Stephen Hall Explorer ..... Mark Evans Graham. Irish Reilly ...... Charles Barnecut Producer: Gareth Edwards Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham. Directed by Claire Grove. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2012. 'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 TUE 12:00 Over the Garden Wall (b04v986b) TUE 23:00 Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] (b00911f4) 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, TUE 12:30 The Men from the Ministry (b016dgvc) Episode 3 however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] In an optimistic attempt at cultural review, Craig Children and in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC TUE 13:00 Raffles (b01p3hkh) Martin Bain-Jones throw a Come As You Aren't party. Radio 4 Extra. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong star as the pompous Producer: Edward Taylor TUE 13:30 A House for the End of Life (b00wr7rp) critics. First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in September 1974. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] With: TUE 09:00 Dead Ringers (b07flhlm) TUE 14:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm2s) Charlie Condou [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] Episode 2 Melissa Lloyd TUE 09:30 Ayres on the Air (b01n6yj5) As tulip mania grips Amsterdam, Sophia's attraction to Jan Tony Gardner Series 4 increases. Read by Emma Fielding and William Gaminara. Written by Ben Miller, Alexander Armstrong, David Mitchell Winter TUE 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sbrlb) and Robert Webb. Popular poet Pam Ayres concludes her series of poetry and It Was a Precious Child Producer: Jon Rolph sketch shows about the seasons with a look at winter. Michael Morpurgo explores how the Puritan ethos affected First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1998. . children and the way of family life. TUE 23:30 The Remains of Foley and McColl (b007m4dx) Subjects include that magic combination of cold weather and TUE 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsnw) Subtle broken boilers; the art of comparing ailments with an update of Babel Tower, Part 2/8 Sean Foley and Hamish McColl investigate the art of subtlety the Yuletide song The 12 Days of Christmas and, as we reach Daniel gets an urgent phone call about his daughter. by visiting a Jane Austen novel. the end of the Winter season ,Pam tells how to fan the dying CAST: Surreal comedy starring award-winning double act Sean Foley flame of passion, come Valentine's Day. Older Frederica …. Rosemary Leach and Hamish McColl, the Right Size. Poems include: Who's Had My Scissors, Ever Since I Had Me Ginnie …. Hannah Dee With: Op and Insomnia. Ruth …. Jasmine Hyde Rose English With Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead Mary …. Ruby Williams Count Arthur Strong Producer: Claire Jones. Will …. Alex Etchart Chris Larner First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in October 2012. Bill/First Caller …. Geoffrey Whitehead Producer: Lissa Evans TUE 10:00 Portrait of a Lady (b00cly4q) Daniel …. Shaun Dooley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000. Deceit Steelwire …. Mark Heap The beautiful and free-spirited Isabel Archer is now a very rich Winifred …. Barbara Flynn woman. Male Voice …. Ian Masters WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016 Two men have declared their love for her, but she does not want Written by A.S. Byatt and dramatised by John Harvey. to be married. Producer: Mary Peate. WED 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids Resolved to enjoy her fortune, she begins her travels... First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. (b007jrmd) Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce. TUE 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] Isabel Archer ...... Anna Maxwell Martin (b07h0tnj) WED 00:30 The Tingle Factor (b07h0z8v) Madame Merle ...... Haydn Gwynne At Moscombe Near Tavistock [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Lord Warburton ...... Robert Bathurst Lord Darlington asks Stevens to make changes to the staff, WED 01:00 Raffles (b01p3hkh) Mrs Touchett ...... Gayle Hunnicutt which leads to a clash with Miss Kenton. Read by John Moffatt. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Gilbert Osmond ...... Colin Stinton From January 1990. WED 01:30 A House for the End of Life (b00wr7rp) Ralph Touchett ...... Paul Venables TUE 15:00 Portrait of a Lady (b00cly4q) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Henrietta Stackpole ...... Laurel Lefkow [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED 02:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm2s) Caspar Goodwood ...... Corey Johnson TUE 16:00 Counterpoint (b00f6sw0) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Mr Bantling ...... Dan Starkey 2005 WED 02:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sbrlb) Countess Gemini ...... Barbara Barnes Heat 9 [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] Pansy Osmond ...... Penelope Rawlins Ned Sherrin hosts the music quiz with Adrian Clark of London, WED 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsnw) Edward Rosier ...... Nyasha Hatendi Richard De Lacey from Suffolk and John Hambley from [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] Mother Catherine ...... Joan Walker London. WED 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day Mother Justine ...... Liz Sutherland TUE 16:30 Ayres on the Air (b01n6yj5) (b07h0tnj) Narrator ...... William Hope [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] Pianist: Duncan Walsh Atkins TUE 17:00 Two Doors Down (b0086dhm) WED 03:00 Portrait of a Lady (b00cly4q) Director: Tracey Neale. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2008. TUE 17:30 My Teenage Diary (b07ffxtj) WED 04:00 Counterpoint (b00f6sw0) TUE 11:00 Book of the Week (b0135z1h) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France TUE 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids WED 04:30 Ayres on the Air (b01n6yj5) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 18 – 24 June 2016 Page 6 of 9 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. Geraldine Fitzgerald as Kate, Colin Salmon as Gruchen, Giles WED 05:00 Two Doors Down (b0086dhm) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1965. Fagan as Dave and Andrew Wincott as Nurse Downs. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED 08:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b00dyp5l) Music composed and performed by Keith Waite. WED 05:30 My Teenage Diary (b07ffxtj) The First Night Party Director: Pam Fraser Solomon [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] The lad throws a launch party - with cocktails and dinner - for First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. WED 06:00 Raffles (b01p3mq2) his very first half hour, but things don't quite go to plan. WED 12:00 The Navy Lark (b00lmqts) Series 1 Starring Tony Hancock. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] 6. The Chest of Silver With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Gerald Campion WED 12:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b00dyp5l) With Inspector MacKenzie's suspicions about Raffles' and Kenneth Williams. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] professional life growing, AJ decides it's time to visit Scotland. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. WED 13:00 Raffles (b01p3mq2) But Bunny is not to go with him: he has the responsibility of Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] guarding Raffles' illegally-acquired silver plate. Producer: Dennis Main Wilson WED 13:30 3D In Perspective (b00wdgmq) Starring Jeremy Clyde and Michael Cochrane. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] EW Hornung's early Raffles stories dramatised by David Buck. 1954. WED 14:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm38) Inspector MacKenzie ...... Henry Stamper WED 09:00 Jest a Minute (b0133g72) Episode 3 Man at Turkish Baths ...... David Garth Series 1 Jan and Sophia's attraction to each other is overwhelming, but Man at Turkish Baths ...... Garard Green Episode 5 can it stay secret? Read by Emma Fielding and William Man at Bank ...... Richard Durden Justin Moorhouse, Sarah Millican, Chris Corcoran and Jeff Gaminara. Man at Bank ...... Robin Summers Green star in Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz. From September WED 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sbx09) Clerk ...... Brian Smith 2006. The Vast Usefulness of Reading Porter ...... Adrian Egan WED 09:30 Rent (b04crvbz) Michael Morpurgo explores education's expansion for boys in Cabman ...... Gordon Reid Series 1 the 17th century, and when boyhood ended and manhood Flunkey ...... David Learner Episode 2 began. Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. Now they've got students Paul and Ruby as lodgers, Maria and WED 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsp4) Directed by Gordon House Richard are finding out they're not as young and groovy as Babel Tower, Part 3/8 A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast they'd thought... Frederica's fraught marriage is put under even greater strain in 1985. House share comedy about taking in lodgers written by Lucy when she makes a discovery. WED 06:30 3D In Perspective (b00wdgmq) Flannery. CAST: Bringing together the science of 3D TV with a wide-ranging Maria ...... Barbara Flynn Older Frederica …. Rosemary Leach history of art and entertainment, Andrew Collins examines our Richard ...... Patrick Barlow Middle Frederica …. Indira Varma centuries-old fascination with representing the world that exists Amy ...... Linda Polan Nigel …. Mark Bazeley in three visual dimensions. In modern 3D entertainment, today's Ruby ...... Diane Louise-Jordan Alexander …. Adam Kotz technologists are fighting the same battles with geometry, depth Paul ...... Toby Longworth Hugh Pink …. Mark Umbers of field, light and texture as 15th Century painters. Award- Producer: Liz Anstee. Bill …. Geoffrey Whitehead winning visual effects supervisor, Paddy Eason discusses the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1993. Daniel …. Shaun Dooley debt that 3D imaging owes to its painterly predecessors. WED 10:00 Portrait of a Lady (b00cq3jj) Written by A.S. Byatt and dramatised by John Harvey. At The National Gallery, art historian Professor David Truth Producer: Mary Peate. Ekserdjian explains how, from the changing shape of a canvas Isabel has been married to the handsome and urbane Gilbert First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. to the arrival of oil paint, the architects and artists of the Osmond for three years. WED 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day Renaissance, challenged our notions of reality. Andrew enters a Like a sparkling and brilliant jewel, she is part of his collection (b07h166x) world of optical illusion, trawling piles of perspective pictures of beautiful things, but she is about to discover a startling truth. A Trying Situation and stereo photographs at The Bill Douglas Centre for The Conclusion of Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel As Stevens reflects on his service to Lord Darlington, he begins History of Cinema and Popular Culture. Lecturer in Victorian Joyce. to question if it was in a worthy cause. Read by John Moffatt. Studies, John Plunkett explains, the appeal of 18th and 19th Isabel Archer ...... Anna Maxwell Martin From January 1990. century optical or 'philosophical' toys, made possible by good Madame Merle ...... Haydn Gwynne WED 15:00 Portrait of a Lady (b00cq3jj) lenses and mirrors. Often dismissed as novelty, they emerged Lord Warburton ...... Robert Bathurst [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] from groundbreaking research on the physiology of vision. Mrs Touchett ...... Gayle Hunnicutt WED 16:00 Jest a Minute (b0133g72) The history of 3D is littered with failed technologies, including Gilbert Osmond ...... Colin Stinton [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] 3D films that predate cinema sound. Professor Neil Dodgson Ralph Touchett ...... Paul Venables WED 16:30 Rent (b04crvbz) from The Computer Laboratory in Cambridge is a 3D expert. Henrietta Stackpole ...... Laurel Lefkow [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] He outlines the obstacles, in particular the poorly paid Caspar Goodwood ...... Corey Johnson WED 17:00 A Whole 'Nother Story (b00763xr) projectionist and ultimately the limitations of human vision. Countess Gemini ...... Barbara Barnes [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Neuroscientist Dr Sue Barry, understands the visceral appeal of Edward Rosier ...... Nyasha Hatendi WED 17:30 Heresy (b07fg6tt) 3D. Aged 50, she experienced her first thrilling sense of 3D Mother Catherine ...... Joan Walker [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] immersion after years of being 'stereoblind' and suggests why Narrator ...... William Hope WED 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids we are so preoccupied with experiencing virtual 3D space. Pianist: Duncan Walsh Atkins (b007jrmt) Producer: Tamsin Hughes Director: Tracey Neale. Episode 13 A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2008. More determined than ever to find his friend Josella, Bill Masen December 2010. WED 11:00 Book of the Week (b01381n5) faces a tough decision. Cult novel read by Roger May. WED 07:00 A Whole 'Nother Story (b00763xr) Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France WED 18:30 Off the Page (b008h4rc) Series 1 Episode 3 Anything But Shy Velvet Pants and Padded Bras A compelling exploration of the making of one of Britain's Dominic Arkwright, Susie Scott, Carl Honoré and Olivia After her terrible rejection, Pete tries to convince Cassie that most influential First World War poets - Edward Thomas, who Stewart-Liberty discuss why shyness is now a social stigma. she’s definitely not a sad old cat-keeping spinster. is perhaps best-remembered for his poem 'Adlestrop'. From 2007. But it's becoming clear that they haven't been quite as Matthew Hollis's new biography is an account of Thomas's final WED 19:00 The Navy Lark (b00lmqts) disinterested in each other's love lives as perhaps they've five years and of his momentous and mutually-inspiring [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] appeared... friendship with the American poet, Robert Frost. WED 19:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b00dyp5l) The first of three series of Amanda Murphy’s comedy-drama Although an accomplished prose-writer and literary critic, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] series about a friendship between a man and a woman. Edward Thomas only began writing poetry in 1914, at the age WED 20:00 Raffles (b01p3mq2) Starring Debra Stephenson as Cassie and David Lamb as Pete. of 36. Before then, Thomas had been tormented by what he [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] PJ ...... Brendan Burns regarded as the banality of his work, by his struggle with WED 20:30 3D In Perspective (b00wdgmq) Dad ...... Mike Grady depression and by his marriage. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Mum ...... Anne Reid But as his friendship with Frost blossomed, Thomas wrote WED 21:00 Book of the Week (b01381n5) Producer: Graham Frost poem after poem, and his emotional affliction began to lift. The [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2001. two friends began to formulate poetic ideas that would produce WED 21:15 Dave Sheasby - The Amazing Ratman Story WED 07:30 Heresy (b07fg6tt) some of the most remarkable verse of the twentieth century. (b007mb5v) Series 10 But the First World War put an ocean between them: Frost [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Episode 5 returned to the safety of New England, while Thomas stayed to WED 22:00 Heresy (b07fg6tt) Victoria Coren Mitchell presents the show which dares to fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and those not taken - [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] commit heresy. that are at the heart of this remarkable book, which culminates WED 22:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! (b03wq26m) With comedians Lee Mack and David Baddiel and performer in Thomas's tragic death on Easter Monday 1917. Series 1 and QI elf Andrew Hunter Murray. In today's episode, Edward Thomas and Robert Frost have an Smugglers Together they discuss Netflix, father figures and Katie Hopkins. emotional encounter with a hostile gamekeeper, and Thomas Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June sits down to write his first poem. think is 'Help!'. 2016. Read by Tobias Menzies King of the one-liners, Milton Jones returns BBC to Radio 4 for WED 08:00 The Navy Lark (b00lmqts) Abridged by Richard Hamilton an amazing 10th series in a new format where he has decided to Series 7 Produced by Emma Harding set himself up as a man who can help anyone anywhere - Mr Murray Is Victimised 'Now All Roads Lead to France' is published by Faber and whether they need it or not. Because, in his own words, "No Captain Povey decides 'divide and rule' is the best way to deal Faber. problem too problemy". with the crew of HMS Troutbridge. AUTHOR: Matthew Hollis is the author of a volume of poetry, But each week, Milton and his trusty assistant Anton set out to Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the 'Ground Water', which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize help people and soon find they're embroiled in a new adventure. Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the Forward So when you're close to the edge, then Milton can give you a Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Heather, Prize for Best First Collection. This is his first prose book. push. Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson and Tenniel Evans as the WED 11:15 Dave Sheasby - The Amazing Ratman Story This week, the local seafarers' pub starts serving only coffee, Admiral. (b007mb5v) there's no denying it's rum....the coffee, that is. So who better Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS An old man has a tale to tell about a piper, a mare and a town than Milton to sort it out? Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen plagued with rats. Written by Milton with James Cary ("Bluestone 42", series between 1959 and 1976. But no one wants to listen, unless his story makes good TV... "Miranda") and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 Scripted by Lawrie Wyman Dave Sheasby's drama stars Bernard Cribbins as Jack, show "House Of Rooms") the man they call "Britain's funniest Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 18 – 24 June 2016 Page 7 of 9 Milton," returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a THU 07:00 All the Young Dudes (b019m2ys) astronomer Swithin St Cleeve on the lonely tower on her estate, shipload of new jokes. Series 2 a story of passion and sacrifice begins. The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Spamalot", Still Crazy Lady Constantine ...... Maggie O'Neill "Mr. Selfridge") as the ever-faithful Anton, and Dan Tetsell Patrick wonders who Green Day are, and Joe turns into a doting Swithin St Cleeve ...... Blake Ritson ("Newsjack"), and features the one and only Josie Lawrence daddy. Written by and starring Jim Sweeney. From September Parson Torkingham ...... Conrad Nelson working with Milton for the first time. 2002. Tabitha Lark ...... Amy Humphreys Producer David Tyler's radio credits include Armando THU 07:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision (b07fl6sk) Fellows ...... Stephen Tomlin Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, Series 2 Granny Martin ...... Pauline Jefferson Another Case Of Milton Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Planes, Trains and Automobiles Louis ...... Richard Heap Nation, The Brig Society, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, Paul Sinha returns for a second series of his History Revision, Joshua ...... Carter Dowland The 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, going the show that uncovers the fascinating stories that we've Directed by Stefan Escreet. back a bit, Radio Active. forgotten in our onward march of progress. In the last series we THU 11:00 Book of the Week (b0138521) Produced and Directed by David Tyler learned how Alexander Graham Bell did NOT invent the Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. telephone, and that the World Cup final of 2014 could only Episode 4 WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b07hxbjg) have happened because of the 1415 invasion of Morocco. A compelling exploration of the making of one of Britain's The best in contemporary comedy. Tiff Stevenson chats to In this episode, Paul asks "How did we get here?", quite most influential First World War poets - Edward Thomas, who Alice Fraser. literally, getting the studio audience to tell him how they got to is perhaps best-remembered for his poem 'Adlestrop'. WED 23:00 The Mel and Sue Thing (b00769tt) the BBC Radio Theatre, and then regaling them with stories Matthew Hollis's new biography is an account of Thomas's final Episode 2 from the history of transport. From the area of London that five years and of his momentous and mutually-inspiring More comedy mayhem starring Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. became a Russian train station, to the man who revolutionised friendship with the American poet, Robert Frost. Continuing the adventures of spoilt Harriet and her pushy aunt both the motor industry and the music charts, to the names of Although an accomplished prose-writer and literary critic, in the second part of Jane Austen's lost novella, Fanny Adams airports around the world, this programme about the world of Edward Thomas only began writing poetry in 1914, at the age Meet the grumpy French au pairs, plus a special preview planes, trains and automobiles will provide fascinating facts and of 36. Before then, Thomas had been tormented by what he performance of the Ukranian entry for next year's Eurovision surprising stories (unless you listen on a weekend, when a bus regarded as the banality of his work, by his struggle with Song Contest. replacement service is in operation). depression and by his marriage. With Paul Chahidi "Sinha's gift for finding humour in it all makes him worth a But as his friendship with Frost blossomed, Thomas wrote Written by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. listen" - The Telegraph poem after poem, and his emotional affliction began to lift. The Producer: Elizabeth Freestone. Written and performed by Paul Sinha two friends began to formulate poetic ideas that would produce First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2002. Produced by Ed Morrish some of the most remarkable verse of the twentieth century. WED 23:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show (b0075t8y) A BBC Radio Comedy Production. But the First World War put an ocean between them: Frost Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2016. returned to the safety of New England, while Thomas stayed to Episode 3 THU 08:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and those not taken - Being a 'breatharian' sparks disaster for host Mel. (b007jz94) that are at the heart of this remarkable book, which culminates Variety meets sitcom meets sketch show - written and Series 3 in Thomas's tragic death on Easter Monday 1917. performed by Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine. The Flat In today's episode, Thomas wrestles with the conundrum of With Martin Hyder, Keith Wickham and Jim North. Author Gerald and his wife Diana's holiday abroad is far from whether to enlist. A poem by his friend Robert Frost forces his Script editor: Graeme Garden relaxing. hand. Producers: Claire Jones and Helen Williams The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring Ian Read by Tobias Menzies First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2000. Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his Abridged by Richard Hamilton wife, Diana. Produced by Emma Harding With Michael McClain, Fiona Mathieson and Garard Green. 'Now All Roads Lead to France' is published by Faber and THURSDAY 23 JUNE 2016 Written by Basil Boothroyd. Faber. Producer: Bobby Jaye AUTHOR: Matthew Hollis is the author of a volume of poetry, THU 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1979. 'Ground Water', which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize (b007jrmt) THU 08:30 Radio Active (b07h1k5h) for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the Forward [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Series 5 Prize for Best First Collection. This is his first prose book. THU 00:30 Off the Page (b008h4rc) Wey Hey, It's Saturday THU 11:15 Drama (b00cc9hh) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] A special train gets named, while Aaron the Aardvark very Nell Leyshon - War Bride THU 01:00 Raffles (b01p3mq2) grudgingly joins the Saturday kids show. By Nell Leyshon. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey The Second World War is over and Eleanor and Clarence are on THU 01:30 3D In Perspective (b00wdgmq) Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. a ship, emigrating to Canada. Young Eleanor is running away [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] Music by Steve Brown, Philip Pope and Geoffrey Perkins. from the farm she grew up on - and her parents don't know. THU 02:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm38) Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins with John When Eleanor discovers that her childhood sweetheart Frank is [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] Cantor, John Docherty and Moray Hunter. also on board, she starts to retreat from Clarence into the world THU 02:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sbx09) Producer: Jamie Rix of her imagination. Eleanor is vulnerable a long way from [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1985. home. Who can she trust? THU 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsp4) THU 09:00 Booked (b0075skq) Eleanor ...... Charlotte Emmerson [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] Series 4 Clarence ...... Simon Lee Phillips THU 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day Episode 2 Frank ...... Joseph Kloska (b07h166x) Ian McMillan chairs the irreverent writing game. Directed by Susan Roberts. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] Regular panellists Mark Thomas and Dillie Keane are joined by THU 12:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU 03:00 Portrait of a Lady (b00cq3jj) Arthur Smith and David Stafford. (b007jz94) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] Producer: Marc Jobst [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 04:00 Jest a Minute (b0133g72) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1998. THU 12:30 Radio Active (b07h1k5h) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU 09:30 When the Dog Dies (b044h9bk) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU 04:30 Rent (b04crvbz) Series 4 THU 13:00 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgw) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Ships That Pass [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 05:00 A Whole 'Nother Story (b00763xr) Another chance to hear the much missed Ronnie Corbett in the THU 13:30 The Mystery of Father Brown: Ann [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] final series of his popular sitcom by Ian Davidson and Peter Widdecombe Investigates (b010xzzf) THU 05:30 Heresy (b07fg6tt) Vincent. Ronnie is granddad Sandy and his old dog is Henry. If [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] the dog dies or his lodger moves on, Sandy's children want him THU 14:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm3t) THU 06:00 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgw) to downsize. He doesn't. Episode 4 Series 2 To help his finances, Sandy, still in the family home, took in a Sophia must act quickly to stop her affair being revealed to her The Perishing of the Pendragons young couple as lodgers. But then the man left - leaving the husband. Read by Emma Fielding and William Gaminara. Mystery afloat as a Cornish family's curse starts to unravel. attractive Dolores behind. AndSandy's children are quite sure THU 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00scw5x) Who will come into his rightful inheritance - and will Father she's a gold-digger. Sandy's opinion that it would be inhuman to But Can She Spin? Brown be in time to avert a tragedy? move Henry somewhere unfamiliar is wearing a bit thin - as is Michael Morpurgo learns how girls' education regressed in the Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown. the old dog himself. 16th century, with the sinful Eve as the main female archetype. GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an Keeping the dog alive and the lodger happy is one thing, but THU 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jspg) uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. what really concerns Sandy deeply is providing a guiding hand Babel Tower, Part 4/8 Father Brown ...... Andrew Sachs to his whole family - advising here, prompting there, responding Nigel goes in search of Frederica, who has left, taking Leo with Flambeau ...... Olivier Pierre to any emergency callout. If he kept himself to himself, of her. The Admiral ...... Edward Kelsey course, things would be a lot simpler and smoother. But a lot CAST: Sir Cecil Fanshaw ...... Brian Hewlett duller too. Middle Frederica …. Indira Varma Tregear ...... Keith Kraushaar Episode Three - Ships That Pass Alan …. Kenny Blyth Tommy/Walter ...... James Goode Sandy is worried about memory loss. His son has a morbid fear Thomas …. Gerard McDermott Dramatised by John Scotney of sofas. Sandy could help, but he's booked a holiday in an igloo Rupert Parrott …. Robert Portal Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid with a man he doesn't really like. When he takes a fashionable Jude Mason …. Mark Heap First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986 memory cure, he remembers some things that were better left Nigel …. Mark Bazeley THU 06:30 The Mystery of Father Brown: Ann forgotten. Hugh Pink …. Mark Umbers Widdecombe Investigates (b010xzzf) Written by Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent Bill …. Geoffrey Whitehead 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Producer: Liz Anstee Alexander …. Adam Kotz Innocence of Father Brown. Ann Widdecombe goes on the trail A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. Leo …. Jack Langan of G.K.Chesterton's crime solving priest whose unlikely THU 10:00 Classic Serial (b00m5sr5) Written by A.S. Byatt and dramatised by John Harvey. methods make him one of the great heroes of the Golden Age Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower Producer: Mary Peate. of Detective Fiction. She talks to fans A.N.Wilson and Simon Episode 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. Brett, and traces the creation of Father Brown to the friendship Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of star- THU 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day between Chesterton and Mgr John O'Connor, an Irish Priest crossed lovers in the West Country. (b07h1gvt) who later converted Chesterton to Catholicism. When Lady Viviette Constantine discovers the handsome young Little Compton, Cornwall Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 18 – 24 June 2016 Page 8 of 9 Stevens's professional calm is interrupted by a new guest, and a Alice Fraser. The first production of Howard Brenton's play Never So Good momentous meeting with Miss Kenton. Read by John Moffatt. THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b007jvj6) brought to life on stage the experiences of Harold Macmillan. From February 1990. Series 4 In this programme, which reflects on real life events set against THU 15:00 Classic Serial (b00m5sr5) Sleep their fictional portrayal, Peter Curran discusses the production [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Satan has never been to sleep, so Thomas and the Professor try with Brenton, Jeremy Irons, who played Macmillan, and Lord THU 16:00 Booked (b0075skq) to give him forty winks. Devilish sitcom stars Andy Hamilton. Alexander Stockton, the grandson of Macmillan and his close [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] From April 2001. companion in later life.Producer Kevin DawsonA Whistledown THU 16:30 When the Dog Dies (b044h9bk) THU 23:30 Polyoaks (b01ns7vz) production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Series 2 FRI 07:00 Crowned Hudds (b00qh0lv) THU 17:00 All the Young Dudes (b019m2ys) A Question of Psychology Grecian 2001 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Have you ever wondered about the profitability of mental Liberation for Helen of Troy? Roy Hudd's historical royal THU 17:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision (b07fl6sk) health? Or why your locum looks familiar? Or what's so romp, with June Whitfield and Chris Emmett. From September [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] fascinating on your doctor's computer? Or what that funny rash 1995. THU 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids is? And how long he's had it? These and other questions may FRI 07:30 Clare in the Community (b038xtdd) (b007jrnw) well be answered in this brand new series of the Radio 4 satire Edinburgh Special: In Treatment Episode 14 set in Polyoaks, that flagship of enlightened West Country Clare and Brian's relationship has always been fraught but with As his hunt for Josella continues, Bill Masen also tries to help General Practice at the forefront of a constantly reforming communication at an all time low the couple try relationship the orphaned Susan. Cult novel read by Roger May. NHS. counselling. A one-off episode recorded in Edinburgh at the THU 18:30 Great Lives (b007766p) Nigel Planer stars as Dr. Roy Thornton and Simon Greenall as Festival. Series 12 his brother Dr. Hugh Thornton in a clinic always at odds with Joe Strummer itself over diagnoses, funding, clinical commissioning groups, Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the Comedian and broadcaster Phill Jupitus chooses the lead singer Jeremy Hunt and the ever more dubious commercial activities right jargon but never a practical solution. A control freak, of The Clash, Joe Strummer. With Matthew Parris. From April of their associate, TV's Dr. Jeremy (David Westhead), who's Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other people's lives 2007. still diagnosing with Google, selling patent remedies and on both a professional and personal basis. Clare is in her THU 19:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter generally teetering on the brink of any number of malpractice thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all of which are (b007jz94) suits. occasional causes of discomfort to her. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] If you want to know what it's really like to live and work in the THU 19:30 Radio Active (b07h1k5h) brave new world of modern health care - or why your GP often Clare struggles to control both her professional and private life [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] has that confused expression on their face - visit Polyoaks and and in this special one-off episode recorded at the Edinburgh THU 20:00 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgw) ask for a second opinion. Fringe Festival - Clare's professional life is impacting on her [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] CAST: personal life as she and Brian seek help with their relationship. THU 20:30 The Mystery of Father Brown: Ann Dr. Roy Thornton ...... Nigel Planer After all, Clare gives of herself everyday at work - is it her fault Widdecombe Investigates (b010xzzf) Dr. Hugh Thornton ...... Simon Greenall there's little left for Brian's dreary problems at the end of the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TV's Dr. Jeremy ...... David Westhead day? THU 21:00 Book of the Week (b0138521) Betty Crossfield ...... Jane Whittenshaw [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Nurse Vera Duplessis ...... Polly Frame In Treatment - Cast THU 21:15 Drama (b00cc9hh) Mr. Devlin ...... Phil Cornwell [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] The Practice's patients and associates were played by Mel Written by Harry Venning THU 22:00 Paul Sinha's History Revision (b07fl6sk) Hudson and Duncan Wisbey. Producer: Katie Tyrrell. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Polyoaks is written by Dr. Phil Hammond and David Spicer and FRI 08:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? THU 22:30 The Music Teacher (b039q5ft) directed by Frank Stirling. (b007md8j) Series 3 Producer: Frank Stirling Boys' Night In Episode 2 A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. Terry's in despair over his mate Bob's stag night. Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier and Rodney Bewes as Nigel Penny. Bob Ferris. With Michael Stainton. Belinda's decision to allow the Arts Centre to be a wedding FRIDAY 24 JUNE 2016 Created and scripted for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La venue means Nigel is charged with providing the music. But his Frenais. efforts to soundtrack the happiest day of Ebony's life are FRI 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids Adapted for radio and produced by John Browell. somewhat hampered by a tone deaf bridesmaid, a pupil with a (b007jrnw) Audio recovered from a BBC Treasure Hunt. phobia of sharps and flats and the need to have his piano re- [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1975. tuned every five minutes. FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b007766p) FRI 08:30 The Goon Show (b00b5pg1) Directed by Nick Walker [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Series 7 Audio production by Matt Katz FRI 01:00 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgw) The Mysterious Punch-up-the Conker Written and produced by Richie Webb [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Stand by for a thrilling pursuit of a mysterious nose assailant! A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. FRI 01:30 The Mystery of Father Brown: Ann Widdecombe Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike THU 22:45 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing (b01s8mpr) Investigates (b010xzzf) Milligan and Larry Stephens. Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] Starring: About Careful Driving FRI 02:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm3t) Peter Sellers Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing - tells the story of young, up- [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Harry Secombe and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the FRI 02:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00scw5x) Spike Milligan first in his family to graduate from University, opted not to use [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] Jack Train his architecture degree but instead to try his hand at being a full- FRI 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jspg) First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were time stand-up comedian, much to his family's annoyance who [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest desperately want him to get a 'proper job.' FRI 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day shows weren’t kept in the archive. Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and (b07h1gvt) With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. family as he tries to pursue his chosen career. FRI 03:00 Classic Serial (b00m5sr5) Announcer: Wallace Greenslade The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with scenes [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Producer: Pat Dixon from his family life. FRI 04:00 Booked (b0075skq) First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1957. Janet a.k.a. Mum is probably the kindest and most lenient of the [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI 09:00 Whispers (b00n90xf) disappointed family members. At the end of the day she just FRI 04:30 When the Dog Dies (b044h9bk) Series 3 wants the best for her son. However, she aint looking [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Episode 1 embarrassed for nobody! FRI 05:00 All the Young Dudes (b019m2ys) Gyles Brandreth chairs the scandals quiz with Anthony Holden, Martin a.k.a. Dad is clumsy and hard-headed and leaves running [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Lucy Moore, Penny Junor and Julian Fellowes. From October the house to his wife (she wouldn't allow it to be any other FRI 05:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision (b07fl6sk) 2005. way). [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI 09:30 No Commitments (b01m431l) Shirley a.k.a. Grandma cannot believe she left the paradise in FRI 06:00 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgy) Series 10 the West Indies and came to the freezing United Kingdom for a Series 2 The Real World better life so that years later her grandson could 'tell jokes!' It's The Arrow of Heaven Charlotte de-clutters and Anna provides a love nest. Simon not the good Christian way! An American millionaire safe in his fortress, death threats, a Brett's tale of three sisters. Stars Bill Nighy. From January So with all this going on in the household what will Nathan do? murky past and a bolt from the blue. Father Brown, on his first 2004. Will he be able to persist and follow his dreams? Or will he give visit to the United States, unravels the mystery and exposes FRI 10:00 Classic Serial (b00m8pvn) in to his family's interference? thereby a mire of hypocrisy. Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower About Careful Driving Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown. Episode 2 Nathan Caton acknowledges that his Dad loves his car more GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of star- than him. uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. crossed lovers in the West Country. Nathan ..... Nathan Caton Father Brown ...... Andrew Sachs Viviette and Swithin have married in secret, but chance and Mun ..... Adjoa Andoh Barnard ...... Ed Bishop convention conspire against them and painful sacrifices have to Dad ..... Curtis Walker Harris ...... Guy Gregory be made. Grandma ..... Mona Hammond Wendell ...... Andrew Branch Lady Constantine ...... Maggie O'Neill Sue ..... Chizzy Akudolu Norman Drage ...... Sean Prendergast Swithin St Cleeve ...... Blake Ritson Police Officer ..... Don Gilet Brander Merton ...... Richard Durden Parson Torkingham ...... Conrad Nelson Police Officer 2 ..... Ola Peter Wayne ...... Johnny Myers Tabitha Lark ...... Amy Humphreys Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle. Matt ...... Harry Towb Fellows ...... Stephen Tomlin Additional Material by Ola and Maff Brown. Customs Officer ...... Tim Reynolds Louis ...... Richard Heap Produced by Katie Tyrrell. Dramatised by John Scotney Bishop Helmsdale ...... Russell Dixon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2013. Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid. Joshua ...... Carter Thomas THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b07hxbn1) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986. Directed by Stefan Escreet. The best in contemporary comedy. Tiff Stevenson chats to FRI 06:30 Based on a True Story (b00g63pz) FRI 11:00 Book of the Week (b0138yky) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 18 – 24 June 2016 Page 9 of 9 Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Episode 5 FRI 16:30 No Commitments (b01m431l) A compelling exploration of the making of one of Britain's [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] most influential First World War poets - Edward Thomas, who FRI 17:00 Crowned Hudds (b00qh0lv) is perhaps best-remembered for his poem 'Adlestrop'.Matthew [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Hollis's new biography is an account of Thomas's final five FRI 17:30 Clare in the Community (b038xtdd) years and of his momentous and mutually-inspiring friendship [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] with the American poet, Robert Frost. Although an FRI 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids accomplished prose-writer and literary critic, Edward Thomas (b007jrp9) only began writing poetry in 1914, at the age of 36. Before Episode 15 then, Thomas had been tormented by what he regarded as the In a world ravaged by the Triffids, survivor Bill Masen works banality of his work, by his struggle with depression and by his hard to make a new home for his new family. Read by Roger marriage.But as his friendship with Frost blossomed, Thomas May. wrote poem after poem, and his emotional affliction began to FRI 18:30 Sounds Natural (b07h4xwy) lift. The two friends began to formulate poetic ideas that would Percy Edwards produce some of the most memorable verse of the twentieth From Willow Warblers to Little Crakes. Bird-imitator, animal century. But the First World War put an ocean between them: impersonator and entertainer, Percy Edwards discusses his love Frost returned to the safety of New England, while Thomas of the British countryside and, in particular, its birdlife with stayed to fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and those Derek Jones - aided by recordings from the BBC Sound not taken - that are at the heart of this remarkable book, which Archive. Percy Edwards MBE: born 1908 - died 1996. culminates in Thomas's tragic death on Easter Monday 1917.In Producer: John Burton.First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in today's episode, Thomas says a final farewell to his friends and January 1972. family in early 1917 and leaves for France, just as his first FRI 19:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? collection of poems nears publication. Read by Tobias (b007md8j) MenziesAbridged by Richard HamiltonProduced by Emma [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Harding'Now All Roads Lead to France' is published by Faber FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b00b5pg1) and Faber.AUTHOR: Matthew Hollis is the author of a volume [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] of poetry, 'Ground Water', which was shortlisted for the FRI 20:00 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgy) Whitbread Prize for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. This is his first FRI 20:30 Based on a True Story (b00g63pz) prose book. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 11:15 Drama (b0156n74) FRI 21:00 Book of the Week (b0138yky) The Kneebone Cadillac [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] by Carl Grose. United Downs is a little known area of Cornwall FRI 21:15 Drama (b0156n74) with derelict engine-houses, vast scrap yards and apocalyptic [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] dumping grounds. It is also the home of the legendary FRI 22:00 Clare in the Community (b038xtdd) Boneshaker Stock Car Races. Scrap dealer Jed Kneebone has [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] left his prized 1956 Cadillac Eldorado, to his children. When FRI 22:30 BBC New Comedy Awards (b07h4y3n) one of them decides to enter it in the Boneshaker the family are 2016 set on a collision course.Directed by Claire GroveThe Heat 2 - London Kneebones have hard lives, weird vehicles and a love of Ten new comedians compete in the second heat. Nish Kumar is Country and Western music. When scrap dealer Jed Kneebone your host from Up The Creek Comedy Club in London. dies his three children are left in serious trouble. Could the FRI 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews (b07hxdvp) legendary Boneshaker Stock Car Races be the answer? The The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to Barry Kneebone Cadillac is a wry Cornish comedy about family, Ferns. death, love and hope by outstanding Cornish writer Carl FRI 23:30 The Consultants (b0076pz9) Grose.The United Downs Stock Car Races near St Day in Series 2 Cornwall really does exist. Lots of old bangers, armoured trucks Episode 5 and souped-up hearses enter the Blockbuster . The play takes a The Adventure-Bakers make a time-strudel and travel through little license in terms of the prize-money but everything else is history. for real. And the Kneebone Cadillac has a predominantly The Consultants are Neil Edmond, Justin Edwards and James Cornish cast including Amanda Lawrence (Government Rawlings. Inspector, Young Vic), Ed Gaughan (Bafta nominated film Producer: Will Saunders Skeletons) and Charles Barnecut and Carl Grose from Kneehigh First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2003. Theatre Company. FRI 12:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (b007md8j) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b00b5pg1) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 13:00 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgy) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 13:30 Based on a True Story (b00g63pz) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 14:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever (b007jm4d) Episode 5 Can Sophia's plan fool her husband and keep her affair a secret? Read by Emma Fielding and William Gaminara. FRI 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00scz3n) Overburdened with Children Michael Morpurgo tells the story of the Poor Law, a forerunner of the welfare state and a safety net for many poor children. FRI 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jsps) Babel Tower, Part 5/8 Frederica visits the doctor and makes a major decision. Daniel learns the identity of his mystery caller. CAST: Frederica …. Indira Varma Thomas Poole …. Gerard McDermott Winifred …. Barbara Flynn Daniel …. Shaun Dooley Nigel …. Mark Bazeley Bill …. Geoffrey Whitehead Mary …. Ruby Williams Leo …. Jack Langan Jude Mason …. Mark Heap Begbie …. Ben Onwukwe Written by A.S. Byatt and dramatised by John Harvey. Producer: Mary Peate. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. FRI 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day (b07h1gyj) Evening, Weymouth Stevens finally meets Miss Kenton, but the event makes him question the worthiness of his life's work. Read by John Moffatt. From February 1990. FRI 15:00 Classic Serial (b00m8pvn) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI 16:00 Whispers (b00n90xf) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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