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.