Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2016 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 16 JANUARY 2016 out of his life? Stars Lee Ingleby and Rebecca Callard. ridiculous things to get angry about both come under the 'wrong' SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b00xw4y0) spotlight - as well as the best ideas for the worst new concept SAT 00:00 Ben Moor - Undone (b007jxhj) Alison Gangel - The Sun Hasn't Fallen From the Sky albums. Will anyone beat Susan Calman's pitch for an album Series 1 Episode 5 based on her cat's bid to take part in the 2012 Olympics? Unravelled Overwhelmed by both the atmosphere and the other confident The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also presents Things go from strange to stranger for Edna, Tankerton and students at the Academy of Music, Ailsa has not been attending BBC2's How TV Ruined Your Life, Channel 4's You Have both the Carlos... her Saturday classes. But when the people at the orphanage find Been Watching and 10 O'Clock Live, and writes for The Conclusion of series one of Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga. out and tell her beloved music teacher she is desperate to make Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year' at the 2009 British Edna ...... Sarah Solemani amends. Press Awards for his column, and Best Newcomer at the British Tankerton ...... Ben Moor Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir. Comedy Awards 2009. Carlo ...... Duncan Wisbey Producer: Jane Marshall Produced by: Aled Evans Grant ...... Tim Key A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. Producer: Colin Anderson SAT 03:00 Plantagenet (b02qnn10) SAT 06:00 James Follett - The Light of a Thousand Suns Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in October 2006. Series 2 (b007jv75) SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b0076m2z) Edward II - The Greatest Traitor A bizarre chain of unforeseen coincidences sparks a 1990s Series 4 While Edward's power is prey to his passions, his queen, British nuclear submarine to prepare to launch an all-out attack. Mad About the Boy Isabella, and his most powerful ally, Roger Mortimer, find a Devastating, unpreventable, unless... Noël Coward wrote Mad about the Boy in 1932 for the review passion of their own. James Follett's thriller starring Manning Wilson as Captain Words and Music to celebrate the powerful appeal of the silent Mike Walker's trilogy - inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Harrison. movie star. Stars Sam Troughton as Edward the Second, Hattie Morahan as Most recently it's been taken up as a gay anthem. Isabella, Trystan Gravelle as Mortimer, Joseph Samrai as Prince Lieutenant Sinclair ...... John Rye Sheridan Morley, Sir John Mills, Maria Aitken and Kit Hesketh- Edward and Jonathan Forbes as Despenser. Stride ...... Ian Thompson Harvey explain why this has become the most recorded number Other parts were played by Sean Baker, Simon Bubb, James Floyd ...... Michael Shannon of all Coward's work. Lailey, Peter Polycarpou, Daniel Rabin, and Alun Raglan. Louise Arnott ...... Sheila Mitchell Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jessica Dromgoole. Wallis ...... James Hayes our necks. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. The Prime Minister ...... Conrad Phillips Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b01dtkjn) Aitkin ...... Sion Probert First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. Series 2 Master-at-Arms ...... Nigel Graham SAT 01:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies (b00t5jml) Warwick Fisher ...... John Bull 7 Premiere Coming this week from the University of Warwick, "The 3rd Theodore Pike ...... Vernon Joyner Friendship and family ties are tested as the villagers of Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at 1st Rating ...... Hugh Ross Haverstock hear the sound of wedding bells cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst 2nd Rating ...... Roger Gartland Susan Hill's novel of family ties, friendship and loneliness, set delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a Computer Operator ...... Carole Boyd in a small Midland village. different University each week, and it pits three Producer: Margaret Etall Starring Patricia Hayes as Eleanor Thorne, Gwen Watford as Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a genuinely First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1974 Dorothea Shottery, Stephanie Cole as Alida Thorne, Sian original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 SAT 07:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking Phillips as Isabel Lavender, Anna Cropper as Florence Ames programme, it of course meets the most stringent standards of (b0075pg0) and Pauline Letts as Ma Gaily. academic rigour - but with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for From Taramasalata to Tiramisu - 1980 to 1989 Adapted by Bill Matthews. good measure. Taramasalata, Mayonnaise, Moules Mariniere, Beef Wellington, Music by Peter Salem Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes Venison, Pizza, Tiramisu, Banoffee Pie and Creme Brulee. Producer: Lissa Evans posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union Marguerite Patten mingles diverse recipes of the 1980s with First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities across the memories of the Royal Wedding for Charles and Diana, the SAT 01:30 Fort Dunlop (b00qpmgh) UK. Falklands Conflict, the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Great Giles Poyner, who works in Brand Design at the iconic Fort The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Storm of 1987. Dunlop building, pays tribute to the Birmingham landmark. He, Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Marguerite told us how to make the most of our rations during his mother and grandfather talk about their working lives there. 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not the Second World War in 'Kitchen Front' on the BBC Home Drive through Birmingham on the M6 and you can't fail to only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, Service. She fronted her first BBC TV cookery show in 1947. notice an imposing fort-like building, standing proud against the languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness of Born in Bath, the home economist was widely considered to be city's industrial skyline. The Fort Dunlop building was built for television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the Head-to-Head the first celebrity cook, and wrote more than 170 books with the tyre company in the early 20th century to accommodate the rounds, in which students take on their Professors in their own worldwide sales of 17 million. thousands of workers needed to supply the growing motoring subjects, were particularly lively, and offered plenty of scope A regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and aviation industries. The Dunlop Tyre Company, was one of for mild embarrassment on both sides... programme from 1946, Marguerite's final appearance was in Birmingham's largest employers, and those who worked there The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit surprising, 2011. She was awarded the OBE in 1991 and CBE in 2011. were looked after and had a job for life. But by the end of the with a truly varied range of scores, friendly rivalry, and Born November 4th 1915, Marguerite Patten died just a few century, competition from overseas led to the closure of the moments where students wished they had more than just months short of her 100th birthday in June 2015. site, as Dunlop transferred much of its operation abroad. glanced at that reading list... Producer: Ian Willox The Fort was abandoned in the late 1980s and stood empty for Producer: David Tyler First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. 20 years, until it was taken over by an innovative urban design A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT 08:00 The Archive Hour (b007b36g) company who transformed the vast empty tyre store into state SAT 04:30 Albert and Me (b007jzd2) The Stone of Destiny of the art offices, cafes and shops. Series 2 James Naughtie tells the story of an audacious raid carried out This is where Giles Poyner works as brand design manager. The Breaking Up Is Hard to Do on Christmas Day 1950. Three young men and one woman achingly hip surroundings of his office are a far cry from his Can Bryan save his sister Vera's marriage from breakdown? removed the Stone of Destiny from under King Edward I's 92-year-old grandfather's experience of working at the Fort. He Stars Robert Lindsay and Pat Coombs. Chair in Westminster Abbey, where it had lain since its removal recalls the stench of rubber in the air, the workers arriving by Robert Lindsay plays single parent Bryan Archer struggling to from Scone in Scotland in 1296. The exploit brought the cause canal boat before the road was built and, above all, the sense of find work while raising his baby son, Albert. of Scottish independence to the front pages. To this day, the being part of a family, cared for by a benevolent employer. Bryan Archer ...... Robert Lindsay Stone, now installed in Edinburgh Castle, remains a symbol of Giles's mother Susan also worked at Fort Dunlop as a typist Mum/Albert ...... Pat Coombs the pride of Scotland in its nationhood. during the 1960s. She remembers the generous facilities Mrs Willis ...... Diana King SAT 09:00 Comedy Greats (b007k1tc) provided for the workers, including a pub, theatre and playing Vera ...... Marcia Warren 1980s fields. Edward ...... Gorden Kaye Episode 1 Giles Poyner pays tribute to this iconic Birmingham landmark Incidental music by Max Harris. Decade by decade, Barry Cryer showcases some of the funniest and discovers how his workplace has changed both physically Producer: John Fawcett Wilson and finest shows ever broadcast by the BBC. and culturally over the decades. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1983. The original New Romantic brings you six favourite shows First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2010. SAT 05:00 1834 (b011klyr) plucked from the 1980s schedules of BBC Radio 1 and Radio SAT 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03npbkf) Strong Continental Lager 4:- Episode 5 21st-century teacher Jason decides 19th-century Macclesfield * Radio Active Why are four bookworms covered in wounds and bruises? needs a decent pub with decent beer. Series 2 (3/6) Good Day Sport Donna Tartt's thriller, read by William Hope. In Jim Poyser's riotous comedy of transportation and delight, Get all the sport results you need from your local national radio SAT 02:15 London: Just off the Plane (b00sz4z2) Jason is now Tarquin, third son of Lord Belport with a faithful station. Stars Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Helen Episode 5 valet, Ned. Atkinson-Wood, Michael Fenton Stevens and Philip Pope. Every day planes descend into London, and on board, there is Jason Slater ...... Michael Begley From 1982. likely to be someone who will arrive into the capital for their Ned ...... Joe Caffrey * After Henry very first time. To most of us, another faceless statistic, another Hoskins ...... Kenneth Alan Taylor Series 1 (4/8) The Dinner Party visitor from abroad, one of the 120 million who fly into the Lord Belport ...... Mark Chatterton Sarah plays hostess, Mother plays the martyr and daughter Clare capital every year. But what if we choose find out who they are Stubbs ...... Glenn Cunningham holds a flat-warming party. Stars Prunella Scales, Joan - and what are they thinking of as they step off the plane? Millicent ...... Julia Rounthwaite Sanderson, Gerry Cowper and Benjamin Whitrow. From 1985. Alan Dein goes to Heathrow airport to greet people who've Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas. * Unnatural Acts flown in from anywhere in the world, and explores their hopes First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2003. Series 1 (2/6) A Death in the Family and jet-lagged dreams of London. What does the place mean to SAT 05:30 So Wrong It's Right (b01hkz2n) As Caroline mourns Monty the gerbil, a séance brings some them, why have they come, who do they know in the City? Series 3 surprises. Stars Jeremy Hardy, Kit Hollerbach and Caroline Picked out at random as they wearily wait at the baggage Episode 1 Leddy. Later series were renamed 'At Home With The Hardys'. carousels, his interviewees share revealing, comic, and Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show celebrating one From 1987. sometimes very moving tales of adventure, family reunions, of Britain's favourite subjects - failure. * Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful opportunities, romance and tragedy. And then they head off, He plunders his guests' pasts and creativity over a series of Series 1 (2/6) melting into the London crowds. rounds in which panellists have to be wrong to be right. In this Activist turned advertising copywriter, Ken Handley finds Producer Sara Jane Hall. episode, the guests joining him to try and out-wrong each other himself assigned to the Conservative Party. Stars Martin Jarvis, SAT 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving (b015272f) with their ideas and stories are comedians Lee Mack, Susan Wendy Richard, Michael Jayston and Bill Fraser. From 1982. Episode 5 Calman and "Harry Hill's TV Burp" writer Daniel Maier. * Saturday Night Fry Vic is increasingly indifferent towards Ingrid, but can he let her In this edition the phrase 'keep calm and carry on' and Series 1 (5/6) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2016 Page 2 of 9 Stephen Fry hosts humorous banter and sketches with his SAT 16:00 James Follett - The Light of a Thousand Suns First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. chums Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent and (b007jv75) SAT 23:30 The Big Booth (b007k2ww) Phyllida Law. From 1988. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Series 2: The Big Booth Too * The Mary Whitehouse Experience SAT 17:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking Episode 1 Series 3 (7/12) (b0075pg0) Boothby Graffoe returns with a series of guitar-flavoured songs The original billing proclaimed it was "The show that dares to [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] and surreal laughs. ignore the issues that other shows would tackle". Starring David SAT 18:00 Black Velvet (b007jqnf) From the Pieasance Cabaret Bar at the Edinburgh Festival. Baddiel, Rob Newman, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. Series It's the 17th Century: Young Master Richard forces a servant With Stephen Frost, Kevin Eldon, Big Al, Vivienne Soan and debuted in 1989. Episode from 1990. girl, Annie, to play at being the mistress of Thoresby Hall. Antonio Forcione. Produced and scripted by Peter Reed But it sparks disastrously claustrophobic consequences... Written by Boothby Graffoe and Dave Thompson. First broadcast on BBC 7 in 2003. Tony Ramsay's macabre tale stars Rachel Atkins and Richard Producer: Julia McKenzie SAT 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jqh1) Pearce. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001. Series 3 Recorded on location at Tythrop House in Buckinghamshire. The Big Parade Annie ...... Rachel Atkins Captain Mainwaring wants a parade mascot, so he decides his Master Richard Beckford ...... Richard Pearce SUNDAY 17 JANUARY 2016 Home Guard platoon must catch one. Cousin ...... Christopher Scott The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard Uncle ...... James Taylor SUN 00:00 Black Velvet (b007jqnf) platoon in Walmington-on-Sea. Other parts played by the cast. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV Director: Janet Whitaker SUN 00:45 Roald Dahl (b06wdqb5) scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Saturday] Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe SAT 18:45 Roald Dahl (b06wdqb5) SUN 01:00 Toni Morrison - Beloved (b06wd5f6) Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier The Umbrella Man [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn The Umbrella Man SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06wd9rd) Private Frazer …. John Laurie It's raining, and a seemingly kind old gentleman offers a mother [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley and her daughter an umbrella, for a price. Read by Oona SUN 02:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair (b06wdlbd) Private Pike …. Ian Lavender Beeson. From March 1990. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee SAT 19:00 Comedy Greats (b007k1tc) SUN 03:00 The Archive Hour (b007b36g) The Verger …. Edward Sinclair [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] Private Walker …. Larry Martyn SAT 22:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters (b036vtc2) SUN 04:00 James Follett - The Light of a Thousand Suns Mrs Pike …. Pearl Hackney Series 1 (b007jv75) Announcer/Newsreader …. John Snagge Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] Producer: John Dyas Enter the Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and hilarious world of SUN 05:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1976. sketches, stories and characters, presented by the sinister (b0075pg0) SAT 12:30 The Navy Lark (b01g8dd4) Ringmaster. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] Series 5 Master character comedian Colin Hoult's debut comedy series. SUN 06:00 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving Omnibus HMS Troutbridge Gets a Rocket Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: Thwor - (b015f99x) Paranoia sets in when the crew of HMS Troutbridge are the mighty (but Leeds-based) god of Thwunder; Andy Parker - Episode 1 charged with a top secret mission. Nottingham-born martial arts and transformers enthusiast; Anna Vic Brown is infatuated with his work colleague Ingrid Mann - outrageous star of such forgotten silver screen hits such Rothwell, but how will he manage to break the ice? Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the as 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish Delight' and 'A Bowl For Set in Yorkshire, Stan Barstow's iconic 1960s novel is a Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, My Bottom'; and many more. compelling, poignant and humorous account of 20-year-old Ronnie Barker as Captain Bell, Richard Caldicote as Captain Writers Guild Award-winner Colin Hoult is best known for his Vic's infatuation for Ingrid - which develops into an emotional Povey and Tenniel Evans as Taffy Goldstein. highly acclaimed starring roles in 'Being Human', 'Life's Too crisis, thanks in part to her spiteful friend, Dorothy. Short', and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as his many Dramatised by Stan Barstow's partner Diana Griffiths. Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS hit shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also appeared and Starring Lee Ingleby as Vic Brown, Rebecca Callard as Ingrid Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen written for a number of Radio 4 series including 'The Headset Rothwell, Kate Layden as Mrs Brown and Fine Time Fontayne series between 1959 and 1976. Set' and 'Colin and Fergus' Digi-Radio'. as Mr Brown. Producer: Sam Bryant. Director: Pauline Harris Scripted by Lawrie Wyman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013. First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in 2010. SAT 22:30 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard SUN 07:15 Good Timing (b0076z7f) Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. (b00yjcp6) Do you have a good sense of timing? If timing is an integral Series 2 part of what you do, how do you think about time? First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1963. Birthday Magic In this 'composed feature' the theme of good timing is explored SAT 13:00 Toni Morrison - Beloved (b06wd5f6) This week Mordrin takes on childminding duties for his through conversations with four people with exceptional timing: Omnibus neighbour Jill, but inadvertently gives Tracey a special Wizard professional drummer Dawne Adams, who has played with When Sethe welcomed him into her house, Paul D. thought that edition of Treasure Island to read with disastrous results. Lionel Richie and the Pet Shop Boys; Head Chef Brian Fantoni, life had thrown him a second chance. But then Beloved arrived Featuring and co-written by Scottish stand up David Kay, and who currently works in a regional Italian restaurant in London and he was unable to resist her advances. Now he must steady starring Gordon Kennedy and Jack Docherty with guest star and has previously worked at The Savoy and Claridges; a top himself to face the consequences. Arnold Brown. Mordrin McDonald mixes the magical with the ranking squash player and a stand-up comedian. Toni Morrison's seminal 1987 novel about a haunted house in mundane and offers a hilarious take on the life of a modern day Each of the contributors reflects upon the importance of timing the era that followed the abolition of slavery in the United Wizard. in what they do, how good timing is experienced, how timing States. Melding horror and poetry, this is the story of Sethe, a Cast: can be improved and whether their timing abilities affect other woman who escaped slavery by crossing the Ohio river, but Mordrin ..... David Kay areas of their life, such as time-keeping and time management. who, 18 years later, is still not free. Bernard The Blue ..... Jack Docherty Playing upon the rhythmic and tonal qualities of the Narrator . . . . . Adjoa Andoh Jill ..... Katrina Bryan contributors' observations, composer Nina Perry marries form Sethe . . . . . Nadine Marshall Tracey ..... Rosemary Hollands and content in a radio feature that's akin to a piece of music. Denver . . . . . Pippa Bennett-Warner Producer/ Director: Gus Beattie Producer: Nina Perry Paul D . . . . . Danny Sapani A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. Beloved . . . . . Gugu Mbatha-Raw SAT 22:45 Warhorses of Letters (b01p4252) SUN 07:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide (b01pw39f) Stamp Paid . . . . . Richard Pepple Series 2 Series 2 Baby Suggs . . . . . Alibe Parsons Episode 2 Role Models Omnibus of the last five of ten parts adapted by Patricia The world's greatest epistolary equine love story. Series two of Life: An Idiot's guide again sees Stephen K Amos Cumper. The Duke of Wellington's horse Copenhagen's romance with investigate a series of themes using guest stand-ups and the Original music by Jon Nicholls Marengo (Napoleon's horse) has lead to a proposal of marriage. hilarious audience interaction that he's become famous for. Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. But planning a wedding is fraught with arguments for our gay In episode 1, Stephen tackles "Role Models": Who are our role First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. horses... church or wood? Should people be invited or just models? What does it mean to be a role model? And why did SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06wd9rd) horses? And which of them is the groom? Stephen's parents made him impersonate Trevor McDonald Biddy Baxter Marengo ..... Stephen Fry around the house? The former Blue Peter editor chooses 'Passing By' by Paul Copenhagen ..... Daniel Rigby Guests Sarah Kendall, Gráinne Maguire and James Acaster all Robeson, and Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro'. Narrator ..... Tamsin Greig offer their own perspectives. SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair (b06wdlbd) Written by Robbie Hudson and Marie Phillips Additional material by Christine Rose and Hugh Sington. Nicholas Mosley Producer: Gareth Edwards. Produced by Colin Anderson. Award-winning novelist Nicholas Mosley tells Professor First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012. SUN 08:00 Jim the Great (b011f57l) Anthony Clare about growing up with his father, fascist leader SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06ynwps) Series 1 Oswald Mosley. From 10.00pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy The Turn of the Tide Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare's in depth interviews with Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats again to The King needs to entertain the peasants, what about a lecture prominent people from different walks of life. Kieran Hodgson. on ecology? Starring Jimmy Edwards. From September 1979. Born in Dublin, author Anthony held a doctorate in medicine, a SAT 23:00 The Jason Byrne Show (b01pfrm4) SUN 08:30 A Life of Bliss (b04d0n5l) master's degree in philosophy and was a fellow of the Royal Series 3 Penny Gay's Return College of Psychiatrists. After becoming a regular on BBC Use Your Imagination to Have the Best Fun Shy bachelor David Bliss has got some thinking to do when an Radio 4's Stop the Week in the 1980s, he became Britain's best- Jason Byrne looks at the subject of technology – getting all old flame arrives in town. known psychiatrist and earned his own vehicle, In the nostalgic over the novelty of 24 hour photos. Stars George Cole as David Bliss, Petula Clark as Penny Gay, Psychiatrist's Chair. Amongst the audience, he discovers a human wheelbarrow; an Diana Churchill as Anne Fellows, Colin Gordon as Tony Starting in 1982, this series ran until 2001 and also transferred advertiser who struggles to give a name to things and everything Fellows, Sarah Lawson as Maxine Avery and animal to TV. he needs to recreate the sounds of a Clangers' convention. impersonator Percy Edwards as 'Psyche' the Dog. Anthony Clare died suddenly in Paris aged 64 in 2007. Themed audience comedy show with high-energy stand-up and Part of a run of 6 episodes from Godfrey Harrison's sitcom First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1996. sketches featuring Laurence Howarth and Margaret Cabourn- about shy, bumbling bachelor David Alexander Bliss. Beginning SAT 15:00 The Archive Hour (b007b36g) Smith. in 1953, it ran for six series of 118 episodes concluding in 1969 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Producer: Julia McKenzie - but very few survive in the BBC archive. (A TV series was Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2016 Page 3 of 9 made in 1969). For the first 7 episodes, David Tomlinson of a Governor of the Bank of England, George Galloway. Meet a reluctant beekeeper, two feuding librarians and a man played David, but the rest starred the future star of The St Galloway has Rayverne abducted In return for not to hand him determined to strike a deal with Santa. Trinian's films, destined to find great fame as the dodgy Arthur over to the police - and in order to protect the people he cares Perrier award-winning comedian Laura Solon's sketch and Daley in ITV's Minder - the late George Cole. about - Rayverne is forced to agree to the impossible. He must character comedy series Producer: Leslie Bridgmont steal one of the Exhibition's most famous exhibits: the world's With Ben Moor, Katherine Parkinson and Ben Willbond. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in September 1957. largest diamond, the Koh-i-Noor. Galloway professes idealistic Written by Laura Solon. With additional material by the cast, SUN 09:00 Laura Cumming - The Vanishing Man: reasons for the theft: he fears cutting the diamond to fit the Carl Cooper, Tony Roche and Andy Marlatt. Omnibus (b06wf7l9) centrepiece in the Queen's crown (where it has its place today) Producer: Colin Anderson Spanish genius Velazquez painted few pictures. Did John Snare will degrade the priceless original. But the theft appears First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007. discover a long-lost treasure in 1845? Read by Siobhan impossible. By day the gem is sealed in an iron cage, at night it SUN 23:30 The Harpoon (b00ckyjg) Redmond. sinks into a vault. Rayverne, hounded by the police, spends Series 3 SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06wf7lc) much time among the mechanical wonders of the Exhibition Episode 2 Bob Harris looking for the necessary technical inspiration to carry out the Handy hints on body language, sewing corner and three cheers Broadcaster Bob Harris chooses 'Land of My Fathers', and theft. But has he bitten off more than even he can chew? for Swanky Beaumont! 'Stand By Me', in two versions, by Ben E King and Playing for Simon Bovey's impeccably researched work for Radio 4 has More nostalgic fun in the spoof of boys' adventure story papers. Change. been extremely successful. His plays include 'Red in Tooth and Performed by Alistair McGowan, Peter Baynham, Susie Brann, SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b06wj5yf) Claw', ' The Iceman' - 'a murkily atmospheric Victorian thriller Mary Elliot-Nelson and Julian Dutton. Absent Friends that keeps the shivers coming' (Daily Mail) and the very well Producer: Sarah Smith Denis Healey received Sargasso. Simon is also a film maker. His most recent First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1994. 4 Extra Debut. From Beethoven to Edith Piaf, politician Denis production The Un-gone has been optioned by Miramax. Healey makes his second set of castaway choices. With Kirsty SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (b06wk4t3) Young. From June 2009. The Echo Chamber - Solsticial MONDAY 18 JANUARY 2016 SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour (b06wj67c) BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the Series 1 BBC's radio poetry archive. MON 00:00 Fear on 4 (b007jz4b) Chinatown, Hotdogs and Genetics In 'The Echo Chamber', Paul Farley introduces a poem called [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] True stories told live in the USA: Catherine Burns introduces Tithonus for the year's midnight from Alice Oswald - a poem MON 00:30 Martin Jameson - Ice (b007jlp2) tales about birth and identity. With geneticist Sir Paul Nurse. which lasts as long as dawn - plus music from nykelharpist [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated Griselda Sanderson. MON 01:00 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving Omnibus to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since Producer: Tim Dee. (b015f99x) 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and SUN 17:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide (b01pw39f) MON 02:15 Good Timing (b0076z7f) yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in SUN 18:00 Fear on 4 (b007jz4b) MON 02:30 Alex Garland - The Beach: Omnibus Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the Series 3 (b06wj6s9) screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, A Routine Operation [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at The Man in Black tells how Mary is suffering dreams of MON 03:45 Frederic Raphael - A Fairly Regular Four theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the hospitals ahead of her appendectomy. (b018ts6x) USA, the UK and other parts of the world. [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and Starring Hannah Gordon as Mary, Michael Cochrane as Derek, MON 04:00 Saturday Drama (b00sqgdw) without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Geoffrey Whitehead as the Surgeon and Edward de Souza as [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. the Man in Black. MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (b06wk4t3) Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] humorous to the heart-breaking. Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers. MON 05:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide (b01pw39f) The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed Written by Martyn Wade. MON 06:00 Cadfael (b007jlcr) by the Public Radio Exchange. The Virgin in the Ice SUN 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00yz55m) Producer: Martin Jenkins 1. Casualties of War Series 2 Shrewsbury, Winter in the year 1139: Amid a civil war, Charnia First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. medieval sleuth Brother Cadfael sets out to find a missing boy David Attenborough has always been fascinated by fossils; even SUN 18:30 Martin Jameson - Ice (b007jlp2) and his sister. as a boy he'd spend many hours exploring the local quarry near Episode 2 Starring Philip Madoc as Brother Cadfael. his home in Leicestershire. Michelle is convinced her brother has been abducted by aliens. Written by Ellis Peters and dramatised in five parts by Bert Near his family home was a forest which he visited frequently, But what would they be doing in Manchester? Coules. but didn't hunt for fossils there because he knew the rocks were Retelling of 'The Snow Queen' by Martin Jameson. Narrator … Sir Michael Hordern too old to have any post cards of early life embedded in their Michelle ...... Tara Prendergast Brother Cadfael … Philip Madoc layers. Novod Scaa ...... Ishia Bennison Hugh Beringar …. Douglas Hodge But he was wrong - those rocks harboured a wonderful secret - Gary ...... Gerard McDermott Leonard …. Leonard Fenton a secret that would rattle the cages of the big thinkers of the Stash ...... Vincent Davies Olivier …. Raad Rawi time and would change the story of life on earth for ever. Roth ...... Bradley Lavelle Ermina …. Moira Buffini Written and presented by Sir David Attenborough. Keith ...... Christopher Wright Ives …. Dean Magri Producer: Julian Hector. Bandit ...... Miles Anderson Elyas …. Crispin Letts First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011. Sergeant ...... Christopher Wright Abbot Radulfus …. John Church SUN 12:00 Jim the Great (b011f57l) Chaperoning Child ...... Margaret Jervis Other parts played by Jonathan Tafler, Steve Hodson, Eric [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Director: Sally Avens. Allen, Julian Rhind-Tutt and David Holt. SUN 12:30 A Life of Bliss (b04d0n5l) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1998. Music by Peter Salem. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour (b06wj67c) Producer: Phil Clarke. SUN 13:00 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving Omnibus [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1992. (b015f99x) SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00yz55m) MON 06:30 Big in Bangalore, Big in Beijing (b00n6v4f) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] Episode 1 SUN 14:15 Good Timing (b0076z7f) SUN 20:00 Laura Cumming - The Vanishing Man: With the collapse of The Iron Curtain in the 1980s, a new [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] Omnibus (b06wf7l9) frontier was open for Western Music acts to exploit. SUN 14:30 Alex Garland - The Beach: Omnibus (b06wj6s9) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] For years, fans in Eastern Europe had been starved of live Episode 2 SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06wf7lc) performances by Western bands and singers due to the Crises rock the traveller community in Thailand. As tensions [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] difficulties involved in trying to perform in countries cut off by escalate, Richard dreams of escape. Read by Joe Dempsie. SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b06wj5yf) ideology and politics. So where is the new frontier now? SUN 15:45 Frederic Raphael - A Fairly Regular Four [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] Perhaps bands should look east? With the rise of India and (b018ts6x) SUN 22:00 Life: An Idiot's Guide (b01pw39f) China as economic powerhouses, complete with growing Cheating, competition and class loom large for a male quartet [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] middle classes, are these now the new territories for bands and of tennis players. Read by Norman Rodway. SUN 22:30 Clayton Grange (b01mw5jb) artists to target as they seek new audiences and revenue SUN 16:00 Saturday Drama (b00sqgdw) Series 1 streams? Simon Bovey - Mountain of Light Episode 1 Rajan Datar follows legendary British band Iron Maiden as they by Simon Bovey Anthony Head leads a team of brilliantly stupid scientists. head to Bangalore for a sold out festival appearance. With London, 1851. The world's largest diamond is on show at the This is Clayton Grange, top secret Scientific Institute with a exclusive access Rajan hangs out backstage with singer Bruce Great Exhibition. And John Rayverne must find a way to steal it government brief to solve the global fuel crisis, cheer people up Dickinson, who not only fronts the band, but is also the pilot of to save the people he loves. and make war just a bit more gentle. Meet the scientists who are the specially-converted plane which they use to travel the world John...... Carl Prekopp a bit rubbish at life. And not much better at science. whilst on tour. Emily...... Lizzy Watts Comedy by Neil Warhurst with extra material by Paul Barnhill. Rajan speaks to the promoters who are trying to make India the Hawkesworth....Ben Crowe Saunders ..... Anthony Head new destination of choice for Western music artists and hears Rilke...... Harry Myers Geoff ..... Neil Warhurst from fans who have travelled for days from all parts of the sub Hobbs....Sam Dale Roger ..... Paul Barnhill continent to be at the concert. He also discovers, with surprising Galloway...... Michael Shelford Jameson ..... Stephanie Racine results, which musical genres sell in India and which don't. Cobbet.....David Seddon Helen/Bunty ..... Don Gilet Producer: Tim Mansel. Wyatt.....Nigel Hastings Alan Dobson ..... Paul Stonehouse A Bite Yer Legs production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Directed by Marc Beeby Director: Marion Nancarrow May 2010. STEREO First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012. MON 07:00 Street and Lane (b00vzz09) 1851: London buzzes with the wonders at The Great Exhibition SUN 23:00 Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking Series 2 in Hyde Park. To John Rayverne, housebreaker par excellence, (b00bz9zn) Estimates Day it's harvest time as fine houses stand empty while the occupants Series 1 When the Yorkshire builders price up fitting mirrors, they start attend the spectacle. But his activities have come to the notice Episode 1 seeing double... Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2016 Page 4 of 9 Series 2 of Ian McMillan and Dave Sheasby's comedy stars watery spirits who lured him away. Read by Amanda Lawrence. Wyrd Sisters Shaun Dooley as Johnny Street, Fine Time Fontayne as Arthur MON 11:15 Old Ladies at the Zoo (b03lnyc8) 1. Surprise Bundle Lane, Christine Kavanagh as Janet, Mark Straker as John, Sam Every Monday they go to the zoo, look at the animals, talk Three witches meet on a blasted heath while murder is in the Dale as Franklin and Rachel Atkins as Julia. about their lives and loves - and share a joke or two. Sometimes air. Producer: David Hunter Bruno's jokes are a bit too vulgar for Lily's liking. But one Starring Sheila Hancock, Lynda Baron and Deborah Berlin. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007. Monday... Terry Pratchett's popular tale dramatised in four parts by Vince MON 07:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b06vk8xv) David Ashton's poignant, comic drama was a joint winner of Foxall. Series 8 the 1985 Radio Times Drama Awards. Granny Weatherwax …. Sheila Hancock Walsh, Dubner, Bramwell Starring Liz Smith as Lily and Peggy Mount as Bruno. Nanny Ogg …. Lynda Baron Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Sarah Producer: Jane Morgan. Magrat Garlick …. Deborah Berlin Millican welcome: First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. Duke Felmet …. Ian Masters * Holly Walsh, comedian and would-be medieval scholar MON 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jqjv) Lady Felmet …. Kristin Milward * Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics, a best-selling [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] King Verence …. John Hartley book that turned our understanding of economics on its head MON 12:30 Brothers in Law (b007k25g) Mrs Vitoller …. Natasha Pyne * Dr David Bramwell, author, comic, and adventurer whose [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Hwel …. Brian Hibbard book The No 9 Bus To Utopia recounts his year-long MON 13:00 Cadfael (b007jlcr) Fool …. Andrew Branch pilgrimage in search of a Better Life. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Vitoller …. Gavin Muir The Museum's Guest Committee speculate on what drove MON 13:30 Big in Bangalore, Big in Beijing (b00n6v4f) Death was played by himself. medieval monks to draw obscene doodles on sacred [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] All other parts played by the cast. manuscripts; why a mind-reading microchip could see the end MON 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03ph302) Director: Claire Grove of civilisation as we know it; and an interesting theory about Episode 6 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995. who all those streakers were at 1970s sports events. Richard recovers from his illness, but makes an odd discovery MON 18:30 A Good Read (b00761xy) Researchers: Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of QI. about Henry. Donna Tartt's thriller, read by William Hope. Simon Calder and Satish Kumar Producers: Richard Turner and James Harkin. From April 1995. Matthew Parris and his guests, travel writer Simon Calder and A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first MON 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05rptcs) educationalist Satish Kumar, discuss favourite paperbacks by broadcast in January 2016. The Buddha: Waking India Up Peter Godwin, John O'Farrell and Gita Mehta. From 2001. MON 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jqjv) Over the course of 50 episodes, Sunil Khilnani, director of the Mukiwa by Peter Godwin Series 3 King's India Institute in London, takes listeners on a whirlwind Publisher: Picador Asleep in the Deep journey from ancient India to the 21st century through the The Best a Man Can Get by John O'Farrell Walker and Godfrey get trapped in a pumping station, but so do prism of the life stories of 50 remarkable individuals. He will Publisher: Transworld their rescuers from the rest of the Home Guard platoon. also explore their surprising afterlives, which illuminate both A River Sutra by Gita Mehta The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard the astonishments and urgent conflicts of India today. He begins Publisher: Vintage. platoon in Walmington-on-Sea. with the Buddha, exploring the story of his life and how he has MON 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jqjv) Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV been reinvented in modern India by those who oppose the caste [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. system. "Buddha's solution to suffering lay in the individual MON 19:30 Brothers in Law (b007k25g) Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe mind. But he was also sketching a new form of society," says [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier Professor Khilnani. "He was a moral meritocrat, and to an MON 20:00 Cadfael (b007jlcr) Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn extent a social one too." [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Private Pike …. Ian Lavender Produced by Mark Savage MON 20:30 Big in Bangalore, Big in Beijing (b00n6v4f) Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Private Frazer …. John Laurie remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. MON 21:00 Lucy Wood - Diving Belles (b019jw4n) Private Walker …. Larry Martyn MON 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving (b015fkl6) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee Episode 6 MON 21:15 Old Ladies at the Zoo (b03lnyc8) Announcer …. John Snagge Vic Brown wangles a new job - but the same old confused [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Producer: John Dyas emotions persist when it comes to Ingrid... MON 22:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b06vk8xv) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1976. Set in Yorkshire, Stan Barstow's iconic 1960s novel is a [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON 08:30 Brothers in Law (b007k25g) compelling, poignant and humorous account of 20 year-old MON 22:30 Fags, Mags and Bags (b0105vtt) Series 2 Vic's infatuation for Ingrid - which develops into an emotional Series 4 Circling the Square crisis, thanks in part to her spiteful friend, Dorothy. Magical Mister Murgatroyd Lawyer Roger Thursby defends an author whose publisher Dramatised by Stan Barstow's partner Diana Griffiths. The hit Radio 4 series 'Fags, Mags & Bags' returns with a 4th refuses to print his new book. Starring Lee Ingleby as Vic Brown, Rebecca Callard as Ingrid series with more shop based shenanigans and over the counter Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby, John Glyn-Jones as Rothwell, Kate Layden as Mrs Brown and Seamus O'Neill as philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Grimes, Julia Lockwood as Sally, Bridget Armstrong as Joy, Mr Van Huyton. Dave. Bill Wallis as Denton and Robert Dorning. Director: Pauline Harris Written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli. Others parts by Douglas Blackwell. First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in 2010. 'Fags, Mags & Bags' has proved a hit with the Radio 4 audience Written by Henry Cecil and Basil Dawson. MON 14:45 Book of the Week (b03jz1hq) with the show also collecting a Sony nomination and a Writers' Published in 1955, Henry Cecil's comic legal novel Brothers in Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life Guild award in 2008. This brand new series sees a crop of new Law was adapted first for TV in 1962 by Frank Muir and Denis Episode 1 shop regulars, and some guest appearances along the way from Norden. It provided the first regular starring role for Richard Penelope Fitzgerald's novels were short, spare masterpieces, the likes of Mina Anwar and Kevin Eldon. Briers, who later reprised his role of the idealistic young lawyer self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize In this episode Alok announces his sudden engagement to Roger Thursby for BBC Radio between 1970 and 1972. for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue Siddiqua, the daughter of the local Pennywise empire and shop Producer: David Hatch Flower, was acclaimed as a work of genius. rival to Ramesh. So is it love that is driving Alok, or the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1971. The early novels drew on her own experiences - a boat on the promise of a gadget filled backshop? MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote (b012wdrw) Thames in the 1960s, the BBC in war-time, a failing bookshop So join the staff of 'Fags, Mags and Bags' in their tireless quest Episode 5 in the new series of Quote...Unquote, hosted by Nigel in Suffolk, an eccentric stage-school. The later ones opened out to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke with Arabic Rees. This week's quote fans are legendary actress, Sian to encompass historical worlds which, magically, she seemed to writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh Mahju has Phillips, sports journalist James Richardson, broadcaster possess entirely: Russia before the Revolution, post-war Italy, built it up over the course of 30 years, and is a firmly Edward Stourton and the comedian and actress, Rebecca Front. Germany in the time of the Romantic writer Novalis. entrenched feature of the local area. Ramesh loves the art of the The reader is Peter Jefferson. Fitzgerald's life is as various and as cryptic as her fiction. It 'shop'. Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. spans most of the twentieth century, and moves from a Bishop's However; he does apply the 'low return' rules of the shop to all MON 09:30 King Street Junior (b007jmjc) Palace to a sinking barge, from a demanding intellectual family other aspects of his life. Ramesh is ably assisted by his shop Series 5 to hardship and poverty, from a life of teaching and obscurity to sidekick Dave, a forty-something underachiever who shares The Reunion a blaze of renown. Ramesh's love of the art of shopkeeping, even if he is treated The end of the school year is in sight and Mr Sims comes up She was first published at sixty and became famous at eighty. like a slave. with a bright idea for the evening of Sports Day. Stars Karl This is a story of lateness, patience and persistence - a private Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both Howman. From June 1990. form of heroism. surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach to MON 10:00 Plantagenet (b02qtfn6) Loved and admired, and increasingly recognised as one of the shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business, and Series 2 outstanding novelists of her time, she remains also mysterious Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them Richard II - And All Our Dreams Will End in Death and intriguing. She liked to mislead people with a good whether they like it or not! Richard II, having proved his mettle in quelling the Peasants' imitation of an absent-minded old lady, but under that scatty Cast: Revolt, disappoints his courtiers as he pursues peace and culture front was a steel-sharp brain and an imagination of wonderful Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kolhi as an alternative to fighting and swiving. reach. Dave ..... Donald McLeary Mike Walker's trilogy - inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. This biography by Hermione Lee pursues Fitzgerald's life, her Sanjay ..... Omar Raza 'Plantagenet' tells the story of the birth of a new Europe after writing, and her secret self, with fascinated interest. Alok ..... Susheel Kumar the dark ages. The issues of control, of freedom, of belief, Read by Penelope Wilton Mrs Begg ..... Marjory Hogarth above all, perhaps, the temptations of power which are so Abridged by Libby Spurrier Keith Futures ..... Greg McHugh familiar to us now were new to an age which had no template Producer: Joanna Green Siddiqua ..... Debbie Welsh for domination on this scale. A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. Shahid Mirza ..... Mani Sumal Stars Patrick Kennedy as Richard II, Blake Ritson as Henry MON 15:00 Plantagenet (b02qtfn6) Producer/Director: Gus Beattie Bolingbroke, Alex Tregear as Queen Ann, Peter Polycarpou as [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. Gloucester, Sean Baker as John of Gaunt, James Lailey as MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote (b012wdrw) MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b06wqp3y) DeVere, Stuart McLoughlin as Burley, Simon Bubb as Tyler, [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Series 16 Daniel Rabin as Walworth, Jonathan Forbes as John Ball, Claire MON 16:30 King Street Junior (b007jmjc) Episode 2 Harry as Joan and Alun Raglan as Welshman. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] A satirical review of the week's news chaired by Miles Jupp. Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jessica Dromgoole. MON 17:00 Street and Lane (b00vzz09) Tune in for bonus material from the live recording that didn't First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] quite make it into the regular show. MON 11:00 Lucy Wood - Diving Belles (b019jw4n) MON 17:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b06vk8xv) MON 23:45 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science (b01hxmxk) Diving Belles [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Series 2 An abandoned wife sets out to fetch her husband back from the MON 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b007jl80) Episode 2 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2016 Page 5 of 9 This comic but informative look at the history of space Graham Pitscottie ..... Gareth Corke Luke Treadaway, Al Weaver and Carl Prekopp take the roles of exploration looks this week at the role that leaps of the Wendy Bottomley ..... Janine Duvitski Henry the Fifth, Henry the Sixth and Richard the Third in the imagination have played in the science of rocketry, including Clive Bottomley ..... Michael Troughton conclusion to Mike Walker's dramatic chronicle of the the strange story of Russian Cosmism, and how their mission to Soo Pitscottie ..... Anne Reid Plantagenets. From the greatest glory of the line in the reign of bring back to life everyone who has ever lived produced Tina Tattersall ..... Julia Deakin Henry the fifth, to the brutal infighting of the Wars of the pioneering work on multi-stage rockets: and the even stranger Kelly Chambers ..... Tilly Gaunt Roses, the series charts the ultimate end of the first great story of a plan in the 1950s for a giant spaceship capable of Lee Dubs ..... Harry Myers dynasty of English kings. carrying a hundred and fifty people that could have been built Mrs Enright ..... Frances Jeater TUE 11:00 Lucy Wood - Diving Belles (b019lwzx) using existing technology - Project Orion. There was just one Producer: Sally Avens Of Mothers and Little People snag - it was to be fuelled by nuclear bombs. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1999. A pot of shimmering eye shadow leads to a magical revelation. Starring Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane TUE 07:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! (b06vkg1w) Amanda Lawrence reads Cornish writer Lucy Wood's story. Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill Series 2 TUE 11:15 Andy Barrett - The Perfect Wood (b007jtmh) Produced by Gareth Edwards. The Swimsman When Bill retires from his tedious career in confectionery sales, When Milton discovers the local lido is under threat of closure he looks forward to spending his autumn years indulging in the he unwisely decides to organise a sit-in. But his dreams for a ancient art of lawn bowls. TUESDAY 19 JANUARY 2016 state-of-the-art aquacentre are sunk when his trunks are He and his wife are the best pair in the club and odds-on declared a biohazard. favourites for the Riddington Married Couples Cup. That is, TUE 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b007jl80) Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they until Matt and Jude move in next door... [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] think is 'Help!'. Because each week, Milton and his trusty Stars Geoffrey Palmer as Bill, Stephanie Cole as Margaret, Ben TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b00761xy) assistant Anton (played by Milton regular, Tom Goodman-Hill) Crowe as Matt and Sara Poyzer as Jude. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] set out to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a new Written by Andy Barrett. TUE 01:00 Cadfael (b007jlcr) adventure. Because when you're close to the edge, then Milton Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] can give you a push. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. TUE 01:30 Big in Bangalore, Big in Beijing (b00n6v4f) "Milton Jones is one of Britain's best gagsmiths with a flair for TUE 12:00 Round the Horne (b00n905p) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] creating daft yet perfect one-liners" - The Guardian. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03ph302) "King of the surreal one-liners" - The Times TUE 12:30 The Men from the Ministry (b0124y9s) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] "If you haven't caught up with Jones yet - do so!" - The Daily [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05rptcs) Mail TUE 13:00 Cadfael (b007jld1) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Written by Milton with James Cary (Bluestone 42, Miranda), [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving (b015fkl6) and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 show House TUE 13:30 Big in Bangalore, Big in Beijing (b00sb0gv) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Of Rooms) the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton", returns [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE 02:45 Book of the Week (b03jz1hq) to the radio with a fully-working cast and a shipload of new TUE 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03ph7cq) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] jokes. Episode 7 TUE 03:00 Plantagenet (b02qtfn6) The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ( Spamalot, Mr. Richard finally learns what Henry and the others were fleeing - [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Selfridge) as the ever-faithful Anton, Josie Lawrence and Dan a ritual gone wrong. William Hope reads Donna Tartt thriller. TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote (b012wdrw) Tetsell. From April 1995. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] With music by Guy Jackson. TUE 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05tkznc) TUE 04:30 King Street Junior (b007jmjc) Produced and directed by David Tyler Mahavira: Soldier of Nonviolence [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. Professor Sunil Khilnani of the King's India Institute explores TUE 05:00 Street and Lane (b00vzz09) TUE 08:00 Round the Horne (b00n905p) the life and legacy of Mahavira Jain. Born more than two [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] Series 3 thousand years ago, Mahavira is the inspiration for millions of TUE 05:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b06vk8xv) Episode 17 followers of the Jain religion. It teaches that the way to [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] 'What Shall We Do With The Drunken Nurker?' Rambling Syd liberation and bliss is to live a life of non-violence and TUE 06:00 Cadfael (b007jld1) Rumpo sings - and it's a Horne from home for Kenneth at renunciation. At its heart is a belief that the entire world, from The Virgin in the Ice Julian and Sandy's Bona Guest House. the ground we tread on to the air we breathe, is filled with life: 2. Danger From All Sides With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill our duty is to protect this universe of living souls through non- Amid bitter civil war in 1139, detective monk Brother Cadfael Pertwee. violent action. Mahavira is the last in the line of Tirthankars, makes headway in his medieval crime hunt, but it's mixed news. Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, beings who were said to be able to cross over from the world of Starring Philip Madoc as Brother Cadfael. London. Announcer: Douglas Smith human suffering into the realm of spiritual liberation. Unlike Written by Ellis Peters and dramatised by Bert Coules. Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio the other Tirthankars, we can be certain that he existed. Brother Cadfael ...... Philip Madoc comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric "Mahavira asked his followers to renounce untruths and sex, to Narrator ...... Sir Michael Hordern Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, give up greed and attachment to worldly things - and stop all Boterel ...... Andrew Wincott Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the forms of killing or violence," says Professor Khilnani. "In short, Leonard ...... Leonard Fenton scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and the normal, devious, grasping and aggressive self had to be Elyas ...... Crispin Letts 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, conquered." Ives ...... Dean Magri catchphrases and double-entendres. Produced by Mark Savage Hugh ...... Douglas Hodge Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of Ermina ...... Moira Buffini Hayes Four. remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. Olivier ...... Raad Rawi Producer: John Simmonds TUE 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving (b015grhx) Other parts played by Jonathan Tafler, John Fleming, Kate First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1967. Episode 7 Binchy TUE 08:30 The Men from the Ministry (b0124y9s) Big decisions and mixed emotions for Vic and Ingrid, and their Music by Peter Salem. How Now Brown Cow respective parents. Stars Lee Ingleby and Rebecca Callard. Producer: Phil Clarke. The bumbling bureaucrats spark a right royal mix-up when they From July 2010. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1992. act on the hoof. TUE 14:45 Book of the Week (b03jznq5) TUE 06:30 Big in Bangalore, Big in Beijing (b00sb0gv) A weekly tribute to all those who work in government Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life Episode 2 departments. Episode 2 Rajan Datar follows Iron Maiden to India to seek out Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. With Norma Penelope Fitzgerald's novels were short, spare masterpieces, opportunities for Western music. Ronald, Ronald Baddiley and John Graham. self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize Are the new economies of India and China ripe for Western Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham. for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue music acts to exploit? Rajan heads to Beijing to find out why 'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 Flower, was acclaimed as a work of genius. China is another market western bands are targeting. With a and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from The early novels drew on her own experiences - a boat on the growing, affluent middle class bands ranging from Mumford 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, Thames in the 1960s, the BBC in war-time, a failing bookshop and Sons to Shakira are heading to the Far East in the hope of however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows in Suffolk, an eccentric stage-school. The later ones opened out breaking this huge country. in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC to encompass historical worlds which, magically, she seemed to However, touring China is not an easy proposition for bands. Radio 4 Extra. possess entirely: Russia before the Revolution, post-war Italy, On his travels Rajan discovers a litany of problems for bands Producer: Edward Taylor Germany in the time of the Romantic writer Novalis. trying to become popular in China. Tickets can often be First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in July 1972. Fitzgerald's life is as various and as cryptic as her fiction. It expensive, especially if a band is not popular enough to play TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b06wqp3y) spans most of the twentieth century, and moves from a Bishop's stadium venues. Then there is Government censorship - one [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] Palace to a sinking barge, from a demanding intellectual family festival had to drop all the foreign artists on the bill after it was TUE 09:45 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science (b01hxmxk) to hardship and poverty, from a life of teaching and obscurity to discovered one of the bands, The Buzzcocks, once had some [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] a blaze of renown. songs banned in the UK back in the 1970s. TUE 10:00 Classic Serial (b01f5gvh) She was first published at sixty and became famous at eighty. Then there is the local police who can cancel gigs on a whim Plantagenet: Series 3 This is a story of lateness, patience and persistence - a private and an audience who have few cultural links to the West and are Henry V - True Believers form of heroism. still relatively isolated from Western culture. by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Young Loved and admired, and increasingly recognised as one of the Rajan also discovers why the Icelandic singer Bjork has made prince Hal will inherit an unstable throne, and a kingdom riven outstanding novelists of her time, she remains also mysterious touring China even harder for Western bands, and hears from with heresy and rebellion. Victory over the rebel Hotspur, and and intriguing. She liked to mislead people with a good the strange French band trying to tour this huge country, then the French, will bring peace to England and glory to the imitation of an absent-minded old lady, but under that scatty complete with all their instruments and equipment, using the king - but at what cost to the man? front was a steel-sharp brain and an imagination of wonderful rail network. Hal ...Luke Treadaway reach. Producer: Tim Mansel Catherine...Lydia Leonard This biography by Hermione Lee pursues Fitzgerald's life, her A Bite Yer Legs production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Thomas of Earlham...James Lailey writing, and her secret self, with fascinated interest. May 2010. Sir John Oldcastle...Nicky Henson Read by Penelope Wilton TUE 07:00 Fat Chance (b01b3fp9) Henry IV...Paul Moriarty Abridged by Libby Spurrier Weighty Matters Badby...Simon Bubb Producer: Joanna Green A TV star turns up at Wendy Bottomley's slimming club and Bradmore...Carl Prekopp A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. Graham unwisely divulges his secret to Lee... With Rikki Lawton, Gerard McDermott and Christopher TUE 15:00 Classic Serial (b01f5gvh) Jenny McDade's high-fat bittersweet comedy for those Webster [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] believing there's a thin person inside them begging to get out. Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko TUE 16:00 Act Your Age (b00g0nnv) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2016 Page 6 of 9 Series 1 Anthony Spargo Series 7 Episode 4 Written by Bill Dare and Julian Dutton. Episode 10 Simon Mayo discovers which generation is the funniest. With Producer Bill Dare. Gooseberries and Centurion tanks in Arthur Price's shopping Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Roy Walker. From December First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011. news. 2008. Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, TUE 16:30 Flying the Flag (b009x1kq) David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. Series 2 WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY 2016 Sketches written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie The Space Race Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue What goes up in the era of glasnost must come down, but WED 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b007lzwx) 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and exactly where is still a matter for negotiation... [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] quickly developed a cult following. Alex Shearer's Eastern bloc embassy sitcom. WED 00:30 That Reminds Me (b007jnyc) Music and songs by Bill Oddie, Liam Cohen and Dave Lee. Starring Dinsdale Landen as HM Ambassador Mackenzie, Peter [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge Acre as William Frost, Moir Leslie as Helen Waterson, Stephen WED 01:00 Cadfael (b007jld1) First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1969. Greif as the United States Ambassador, Christopher Benjamin [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED 09:00 Counterpoint (b008x89s) as Colonel Surikov and David Goodland as Olav. WED 01:30 Big in Bangalore, Big in Beijing (b00sb0gv) 1999 Producer: Pete Atkin [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Final First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1988. WED 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03ph7cq) Ned Sherrin hosts the Grand Final with David Hunt of London, TUE 17:00 Fat Chance (b01b3fp9) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Buckinghamshire's Michael Eardley and Len Smith from Essex. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05tkznc) WED 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008g29h) TUE 17:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! (b06vkg1w) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving (b015grhx) Episode 4 TUE 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b007lzwx) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, Wyrd Sisters WED 02:45 Book of the Week (b03jznq5) Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From August 2. Three Wishes [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] 1991. The new monarch has a troubled conscience and a wife like WED 03:00 Classic Serial (b01f5gvh) WED 10:00 Classic Serial (b01fhp34) Lucrezia Borgia. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Plantagenet: Series 3 The three witches have decisions to make... WED 04:00 Act Your Age (b00g0nnv) Henry VI - A Simple Man Starring Sheila Hancock, Lynda Baron and Deborah Berlin. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. The once- Terry Pratchett's popular tale dramatised by Vince Foxall. WED 04:30 Flying the Flag (b009x1kq) great England of Henry V is bankrupt and losing territory in Granny Weatherwax …. Sheila Hancock [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] France. The times call for a strong man who can unite the Nanny Ogg …. Lynda Baron WED 05:00 Fat Chance (b01b3fp9) kingdom. Not the weak, idealistic Henry VI, pleading for peace Magrat Garlick …. Deborah Berlin [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] and incapacitated by bouts of insanity. As the House of York Duke Felmet …. Ian Masters WED 05:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! (b06vkg1w) grows in power, Queen Margaret is forced to take up arms to Lady Felmet …. Kristin Milward [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] protect her royal line. King Verence …. John Hartley WED 06:00 Cadfael (b007jldd) Henry VI... Al Weaver Mrs Vitoller …. Natasha Pyne The Virgin in the Ice Margaret...Aimee Ffion Edwards Vitoller …. Gavin Muir 3. Found and Lost York... Shaun Dooley The Fool …. Andrew Branch As the 1139 English civil war rages in Shropshire, monk-cum- Cardinal Beaufort...Paul Moriarty Hwel …. Brian Hibbard sleuth, Brother Cadfael's brave search for Ermina leads him to Warwick...Gerard McDermott Director: Claire Grove the isolated medieval manor of Ledditch. Somerset...Carl Prekopp First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1995. Starring Philip Madoc as Brother Cadfael. Edward of York...Simon Bubb TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me (b007jnyc) Written by Ellis Peters and dramatised by Bert Coules. With Rikki Lawton, James Lailey and Christopher Webster Series 3 Brother Cadfael ...... Philip Madoc Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. John Fortune Narrator ...... Sir Michael Hordern WED 11:00 Lucy Wood - Diving Belles (b019lypl) Satirist, comedian, writer and actor John Fortune shares Boterel ...... Andrew Wincott The Giant's Boneyard memories of his career with an audience. Leonard ...... Leonard Fenton 12-year-old Gog struggles over feelings for best friend Giving his frank take on fame, John talks of his recent working Elyas ...... Crispin Letts Sunshine, and his mum insisting that he is part giant. Read by encounters with John Bird and Rory Bremner - and names the Ives ...... Dean Magri Zac Fox. top three funniest men that he's met - one of them is Peter Porter ...... Steve Hodson WED 11:15 Vanessa Rosenthal - Bottle Blonde and Cook. Hugh ...... Douglas Hodge Beautiful (b007jw27) John Fortune: Born: 30 June 1939. Died: 31 December 2013. Ermina ...... Moira Buffini Single mum hairdresser Denise is in for a shock from a new Producer: Claire Jones Dutton ...... Eric Allan client. First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in November 2001. Music by Peter Salem. Vanessa Rosenthal's gripping northern town drama with a touch TUE 19:00 Round the Horne (b00n905p) Producer: Phil Clarke. of thriller. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1992. Starring Jeff Hordley as Steve, Jo Joyner as Denise Judith Davis TUE 19:30 The Men from the Ministry (b0124y9s) WED 06:30 The Sound of Magnolias (b00n5404) as Mrs Howden, Ann-Marie Frater as Leanne, Craig Potter as [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Writer Irma Kurtz travels to Paris and Madrid to investigate the Ashley and Rebecca Zienko as Hannah. TUE 20:00 Cadfael (b007jld1) period just before the war when blind Spanish composer Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Rodrigo composed his famous Concerto de Aranjuez. She goes First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. TUE 20:30 Big in Bangalore, Big in Beijing (b00sb0gv) to the gardens of Aranjuez with his only daughter, Cecelia, and WED 12:00 The Navy Lark (b01gklt9) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] talks to guitarist Pepe Romero about the music's lasting impact. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE 21:00 Lucy Wood - Diving Belles (b019lwzx) WED 07:00 The Brothers (b00p2z5w) WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b011ppvg) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE 21:15 Andy Barrett - The Perfect Wood (b007jtmh) Episode 4 WED 13:00 Cadfael (b007jldd) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Zorro saves the day for the dysfunctional web designers, or does [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE 22:00 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! (b06vkg1w) he? Stars Adam Godley and Pauline McLynn. From October WED 13:30 The Sound of Magnolias (b00n5404) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] 2005. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE 22:30 The Show What You Wrote (b036kysj) WED 07:30 It's Jocelyn (b06vkjc0) WED 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03phdnz) Series 1 Series 1 Episode 8 Historical Episode 3 After the horrific revelation from Henry, Richard learns more The Show What You Wrote is a brand new sketch show, which Sketch comedy from Jocelyn Jee Esien. Includes Dionne Button about Bunny's growing significance. Donna Tartt thriller read is made up entirely from sketches sent in by the public. MP, a power hungry traffic warden and a grumpy couple. by William Hope. From April 1995. Recorded in Manchester in front of a live audience, and starring Jocelyn vents her frustration at the world around her through WED 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05tlvb2) John Thomson, Helen Moon, Fiona Clarke and Gavin Webster. sketches and stand-up. Panini: Catching the Ocean in a Cow's Hoofprint We've picked the best sketches from thousands of submissions Jocelyn Jee Esien is delighted to be joined in the cast by Curtis Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in to make each show, and every week we'll be covering a Walker, Ninia Benjamin and Kevin J. London, looks at the life and legacy of Panini, a master of the different theme, from kitchen sink drama, to suspense heavy Producer: John Pocock ancient Sanskrit language who lived around two and a half thrillers. This week's episode is Historical. A BBC Radio Comedy production first broadcast on BBC thousand years ago. His grammar, known as the Astadhyayi, Script editor ...... Jon Hunter Radio 4 in January 2016. had a lasting impact and helped to make Sanskrit the lingua Producers ..... Carl Cooper and Alexandra Smith. WED 08:00 The Navy Lark (b01gklt9) franca of much of Asia for more than a thousand years - not TUE 23:00 Revolting People (b00w48m7) Series 5 through conquest or colonisation but because it served a Ezekiel is Kidnapped The Ghost Ship purpose. Panini's grammar relied on a system that functioned Ezekiel upsets the Baltimore rebels in the 1775 American Could HMS Troutbridge really be the next Marie Celeste? like a powerful algorithm, or a computer programme today. He sitcom. With Andy Hamilton, Jay Tarses and Hugh Dennis. created, "in a mere forty-pages, the most complete linguistic From May 2006. Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the system in history and helped to make Sanskrit the lingua franca TUE 23:30 Les Kelly's Britain (b01753jn) Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, of much of Asia for more than a thousand years". Episode 2 Ronnie Barker as Able Seaman Johnson, Richard Caldicote as Produced by Mark Savage Les Kelly hosts a magazine show from hell. Les is a cross Captain Povey and Tenniel Evans as Taffy Goldstein. With incidental music by composer Talvin Singh. between Jeremy Kyle and a slap in the face. He claims this is Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of the only radio show for 'normal, decent people'. Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. Les meets Britain's first firm of emergency yodelers, a woman Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen WED 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving (b015gzcy) whose claim to fame is that she can walk backwards, and a man series between 1959 and 1976. Episode 8 with such an embarrassing medical condition that Les refuses to Married life for Vic and Ingrid does not go smoothly, and then have him on the show. Scripted by Lawrie Wyman disaster strikes. Stars Lee Ingleby and Rebecca Callard. From Starring Kevin Bishop as Les Kelly. July 2010. With: Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. WED 14:45 Book of the Week (b03k0wmc) Alan Francis Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life Pippa Evans First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1963. Episode 3 Laurence Howarth WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b011ppvg) Penelope Fitzgerald's novels were short, spare masterpieces, Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2016 Page 7 of 9 self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize Series 1 James ...... John Dougall for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue Intercity Harry ...... Simon Treves Flower, was acclaimed as a work of genius. The sketch show team takes the audience to Margate and asks Producer: Marc Beeby The early novels drew on her own experiences - a boat on the 'Whose Pencil Line is it Anyway?' First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007. Thames in the 1960s, the BBC in war-time, a failing bookshop Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme in Suffolk, an eccentric stage-school. The later ones opened out Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck. (b06vmzdy) to encompass historical worlds which, magically, she seemed to Producer: Lissa Evans Series 5 possess entirely: Russia before the Revolution, post-war Italy, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1990 Episode 2 Germany in the time of the Romantic writer Novalis. John Finnemore - writer and star of Cabin Pressure and John Fitzgerald's life is as various and as cryptic as her fiction. It Finnemore's Double Acts, regular guest on The Now Show and spans most of the twentieth century, and moves from a Bishop's THURSDAY 21 JANUARY 2016 The Unbelievable Truth - returns for a fifth series of his multi- Palace to a sinking barge, from a demanding intellectual family award-winning sketch show, joined as ever by a cast of to hardship and poverty, from a life of teaching and obscurity to THU 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b007m481) Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and a blaze of renown. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Carrie Quinlan. She was first published at sixty and became famous at eighty. THU 00:30 Off the Page (b0076xp8) This second episode sees the voice in John's head push him to This is a story of lateness, patience and persistence - a private [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] tipping point; a new approach to the News; and, well, since you form of heroism. THU 01:00 Cadfael (b007jldd) ask him for a tale of espionage... Loved and admired, and increasingly recognised as one of the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme won the BBC Audio outstanding novelists of her time, she remains also mysterious THU 01:30 The Sound of Magnolias (b00n5404) Drama Award for 'Best Scripted Comedy with Live Audience' and intriguing. She liked to mislead people with a good [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] in 2015; and a Radio Academy Silver Award for Comedy in imitation of an absent-minded old lady, but under that scatty THU 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03phdnz) 2014. front was a steel-sharp brain and an imagination of wonderful [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] "One of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite reach. THU 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05tlvb2) some time" - The Guardian This biography by Hermione Lee pursues Fitzgerald's life, her [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] "The best sketch show in years, on television or radio" - The writing, and her secret self, with fascinated interest. THU 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving (b015gzcy) Radio Times Read by Penelope Wilton [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] "The inventive sketch show ... continues to deliver the goods" - Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU 02:45 Book of the Week (b03k0wmc) The Daily Mail Producer: Joanna Green [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] "Superior comedy" - The Observer A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU 03:00 Classic Serial (b01fhp34) Written by and starring ... John Finnemore WED 15:00 Classic Serial (b01fhp34) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] Producer: Ed Morrish [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU 04:00 Counterpoint (b008x89s) John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is a BBC Radio WED 16:00 Counterpoint (b008x89s) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Comedy production. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008g29h) THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn1s) WED 16:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008g29h) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Series 5 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU 05:00 The Brothers (b00p2z5w) Come Dancing WED 17:00 The Brothers (b00p2z5w) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Albert sets out to help son Harold to conquer his fear of [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU 05:30 It's Jocelyn (b06vkjc0) ballroom dancing. WED 17:30 It's Jocelyn (b06vkjc0) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU 06:00 Cadfael (b007jldr) Harold. With Clifford Norgate as the Milkman. WED 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b007m481) The Virgin in the Ice Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association Wyrd Sisters 4. The Wolves' Nest with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson 3. Hogwatch Night Brother Cadfael searches for Ives Hugonin and Brother Elyas wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. The old King is dead. The new ruler has a troubled conscience who are missing in a blizzard. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring and a wife on the warpath - in pursuit of the three witches... Starring Philip Madoc as Brother Cadfael. the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold Starring Sheila Hancock, Lynda Baron and Deborah Berlin. Written by Ellis Peters and dramatised by Bert Coules. and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. Terry Pratchett's popular tale dramatised by Vince Foxall. Brother Cadfael ...... Philip Madoc Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan Granny Weatherwax …. Sheila Hancock Narrator ...... Sir Michael Hordern Simpson. Nanny Ogg …. Lynda Baron Ermina ...... Moira Buffini Produced by Bobby Jaye Magrat Garlick …. Deborah Berlin Leonard ...... Leonard Fenton First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in June 1974. Duke Felmet …. Ian Masters Hugh ...... Douglas Hodge THU 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter Lady Felmet …. Kristin Milward Le Gaucher ...... Peter Laird (b007jtc1) King Verence …. John Hartley Ives ...... Dean Magri Series 1 The Fool …. Andrew Branch Olivier ...... Raad Raw The Pick Up The Demon …. Gavin Muir Outlaw ...... Jonathan Adams When Gerald reveals he's happy to pick up hitchhikers in his Shawn …. Brian Hibbard Soldier ...... Steve Hodson car, Diana is not impressed... Director: Claire Grove Sergeant ...... Jonathan Tafler The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic crime writer written First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1995. Other parts played by the cast. by Basil Boothroyd. WED 18:30 Off the Page (b0076xp8) Music by Peter Salem. Starring Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Something Sensational Producer: Phil Clarke. Mitchell as his wife and more successful writer, Diana. Dominic Arkwright discusses the pitfalls of writing a diary with First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1992. With Jo Manning Wilson. Ion Trewin, Graham Dietz and Kirsty Crawford. From March THU 06:30 Comprehensively Eton (b00s96ng) The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter ran from 1976 to 2006. Jolyon Jenkins on the state-school boys who won scholarships to 1981. WED 19:00 The Navy Lark (b01gklt9) Eton. Bradley, Oscar, Joe and Rishad are bright all-rounders Producer: Bobby Jaye [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] who went from their local comprehensive to the world's most First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1976. WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b011ppvg) famous school. THU 09:00 Genius (b0082b9x) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Eton is probably the most famous school in the world. With Series 3 WED 20:00 Cadfael (b007jldd) fees of almost £30,000 a year, it educates some of Britain's Gyles Brandreth [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] most wealthy and privileged boys. It also offers scholarships A conveyor duvet for quibbling couples? Loaning out our royals WED 20:30 The Sound of Magnolias (b00n5404) and bursaries to a small but growing number of bright and abroad? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] motivated boys who've been educated in the state sector. Dave Gorman asks author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth to WED 21:00 Lucy Wood - Diving Belles (b019lypl) But what does the scholarship scheme mean for the boys? How select the public's best loopy idea. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] are they regarded by the fee-payers? What kind of boy does Award-winning comedian Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest WED 21:15 Vanessa Rosenthal - Bottle Blonde and Eton want as a scholar? Do the scholarship-boys fit in at Eton, chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius Beautiful (b007jw27) or is there a class divide? Do they stand out because their inventions, schemes and policies of the public. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] accents are different or once anonymised in the tail-coat are Producer: Simon Nicholls WED 22:00 It's Jocelyn (b06vkjc0) they woven into Eton's ancient fabric? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Bradley is from Blackpool, his parents are full-time foster THU 09:30 No Commitments (b007jp0p) WED 22:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters (b01hl29y) carers who found out about the Eton scholarship when they read Series 7 Series 2 about it in 'The Sun'. Bradley started at Eton last September in The Wedding Party Compensation Culture what is known as 'F Block' (the equivalent is year 9 in the state Victoria is persuaded to hold a party for Charlotte, but will the Sony Award-winning comedian Tom Wrigglesworth delivers an sector). star attraction be there? With Bill Nighy. From February 2001. open letter to Ken Clarke MP. Oscar Hardy is from Seaford on the south coast, a former young- THU 10:00 Classic Serial (b01dmdnz) He's asking whether compensation culture is actually directly mayor of Seaford and A*grade student; his comprehensive was Plantagenet: Series 3 opposed to the theory of evolution? closing its sixth form so he took a punt on an Eton scholarship - Richard III - The Three Brothers Written by Tom Wrigglesworth, James Kettle and Miles Jupp and succeeded. Jolyon hears from them, and Rishad and Joe, by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Despite Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer. who all won scholarships - and significant bursaries - to attend his rebellious brother Clarence, and the formidable dowager First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2012. Eton College. Queen Margaret, Edward IV manages to bring a modicum of WED 23:00 Listen Against (b0089j50) Producer: Karen Gregor stability to the kingdom of England. But discontent at the power Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2010. of his wife and her family erupt into civil war after his death, Episode 2 THU 07:00 Hazelbeach (b0088nnw) and his brother Richard is forced to take increasingly drastic The show that prises the back off your radio, fiddles around Series 1 steps to uphold Plantagenet power.The final episode of the with the programmes inside and then puts it all back together Gardening series. the wrong way round. Ronnie has a devious idea to get Nick's ex-girlfriend back. Queen Elizabeth...Nancy Carroll Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes get meddling with the Proms, JK What could possibly go wrong? Edward 4th...Simon Bubb and Joel, Any Answers and The Archers. Caroline and David Stafford's comedy stars Jamie Forman as Richard 3rd...Carl Prekopp The brain-child of writer, comic and broadcaster Jon Holmes. Ronnie Hazelbeach. Clarence...Christopher Webster Producer: Bill Dare and Jon Holmes Ronnie ...... Jamie Foreman Margaret...Aimee Ffion Edwards First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007. Nick ...... Paul Bazely Warwick...Gerard McDermott WED 23:30 And Now in Colour (b007jmn1) Chloe ...... Tracy Wiles Stafford...Adam Billington Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2016 Page 8 of 9 Lewis...James Lailey front was a steel-sharp brain and an imagination of wonderful FRIDAY 22 JANUARY 2016 Bishop...Paul Moriarty reach. Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. This biography by Hermione Lee pursues Fitzgerald's life, her FRI 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b007jmq9) THU 11:00 Lucy Wood - Diving Belles (b019m333) writing, and her secret self, with fascinated interest. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Countless Stones Read by Penelope Wilton FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b0076vxc) Questioning her past decisions, Rita sees her future bound to Abridged by Libby Spurrier [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] the standing stones above her village. Read by Amanda Producer: Joanna Green FRI 01:00 Cadfael (b007jldr) Lawrence. A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] THU 11:15 Drama (b0106vj8) THU 15:00 Classic Serial (b01dmdnz) FRI 01:30 Comprehensively Eton (b00s96ng) Lou Ramsden - Pouring Poison [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] by Lou Ramsden THU 16:00 Genius (b0082b9x) FRI 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03pj28f) Hazel spends her life describing plays for visually impaired [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] people. But when she starts to describe the real world to her THU 16:30 No Commitments (b007jp0p) FRI 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05tm4dg) new friend Davy, is she giving an accurate picture of the world [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] around her? She's looking for an escape from the pressures of THU 17:00 Hazelbeach (b0088nnw) FRI 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving (b015h37k) looking after her disabled mother, but is she looking in the right [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] place? A bittersweet romantic drama by award-winning writer THU 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme FRI 02:45 Book of the Week (b03k289h) Lou Ramsden. (b06vmzdy) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] Hazel. . . . . Kathryn Hunt [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 03:00 Classic Serial (b01dmdnz) Davy. . . . . Nicholas Boulton THU 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b007jmq9) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Phil . . . . . Jonathan Keeble Wyrd Sisters FRI 04:00 Genius (b0082b9x) Suzanne . . . . . Alison Pettitt 4. Degrees of Royalty [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Lynne . . . . . Marian Kemmer Lancre's new ruler teeters on the edge of madness. The old King FRI 04:30 No Commitments (b007jp0p) Rob . . . . . Dan Hagley will be revenged. The three witches set to work! [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Theatre Company: Nyasha Hatendi, Starring Sheila Hancock, Lynda Baron and Deborah Berlin. FRI 05:00 Hazelbeach (b0088nnw) Jane Whittenshaw, Stuart McLoughlin, Sean Baker The conclusion of Terry Pratchett's popular tale. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] and Alex Tregear. Granny Weatherwax …. Sheila Hancock FRI 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Produced and directed by Peter Leslie Wild Nanny Ogg …. Lynda Baron (b06vmzdy) Notes Magrat Garlick …. Deborah Berlin [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] Birmingham-born Lou Ramsden's previous play "Dos and Duke Felmet … Ian Masters FRI 06:00 Cadfael (b007jldz) Don'ts for the Mentally Interesting" won the Mind "Mental Lady Felmet …. Kristin Milward The Virgin in the Ice health in the Media" Award for Best Radio Drama, 2009. She King Verence …. John Hartley 5. Discoveries has written several plays for Radio 4, including Sampler T6, The Fool …. Andrew Branch Detective monk Brother Cadfael discovers outlaws have taken Gunpowder Women, and Tree Splitting. She emerged through Vitoller …. Gavin Muir Ives Hugonin prisoner. the BBC Writer's Room "Sparks" scheme. Hwel …. Brian Hibbard Conclusion starring Philip Madoc as Brother Cadfael. Pouring Poison was written after time spent with audio Tomjon …. Roger May Written by Ellis Peters and dramatised by Bert Coules. describers in London theatres. Dramatised by Vince Foxall. Brother Cadfael ...... Philip Madoc THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn1s) Director: Claire Grove Narrator ...... Sir Michael Hordern [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1995. Ermina ...... Moira Buffini THU 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU 18:30 Great Lives (b0076vxc) Leonard ...... Leonard Fenton (b007jtc1) Series 8 Hugh ...... Douglas Hodge [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Nevil Shute Le Gaucher ...... Peter Laird THU 13:00 Cadfael (b007jldr) 4 Extra Debut. Broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis selects 'On the Ives ...... Dean Magri [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Beach' and 'A Town Like Alice' novelist Nevil Shute. With Elyas ...... Crispin Letts THU 13:30 Comprehensively Eton (b00s96ng) Francine Stock. From December 2005. Axeman ...... Peter Gunn [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn1s) Boterel ...... Andrew Wincott THU 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03pj28f) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Other parts played by the cast. Episode 9 THU 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter Music by Peter Salem. Richard becomes more and more involved in Henry's plans to (b007jtc1) Producer: Phil Clarke. deal with Bunny. Donna Tartt thriller read by William Hope. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1992. From April 1995. THU 20:00 Cadfael (b007jldr) FRI 06:30 Open the Vaults (b00p6rr0) THU 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05tm4dg) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Razia Iqbal examines the tradition of banks as patrons of art - a Kautilya: The Circle of Power THU 20:30 Comprehensively Eton (b00s96ng) role which dates back to 14th-century Italy. Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] She also asks what responsibility comes with owning great art, London, looks at the life and legacy of Kautilya, whose treatise THU 21:00 Lucy Wood - Diving Belles (b019m333) particularly in light of the 2007-2008 UK banking crisis. on political power dates back at least two thousand years. The [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Producer: Henrietta Harrison Indian political strategist has been compared to Machiavelli. THU 21:15 Drama (b0106vj8) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. Some say he is more ruthless. Kautilya's text, written on dried [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI 07:00 1834 (b011pw52) palm leaves, lay forgotten for more than a millennium until it THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Dentists and Lovers turned up at a library in Mysore at the turn of the twentieth (b06vmzdy) Ned needs root canal work, but 21st-century Jason needs century, providing inspiration for early Indian nationalists. "The [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] lessons in 19th-century courting. discovery summarily exploded a Western cliché: that Indians THU 22:30 The Secret World (b012mzvm) In Jim Poyser's riotous comedy of transportation and delight, were primarily ethereal, spiritual thinkers," observes Professor Series 2 Jason is now Tarquin, third son of Lord Belport with a faithful Khilnani. "Here was a strategic text--focused on worldly ends, Episode 4 valet, Ned. advocating ruthless means to achieve power." Alan Titchmarsh reveals a dark side when his career is at risk. Jason Slater ...... Michael Begley Producer: Mark Savage Jon Culshaw explores famous folk's private lives. From July Ned ...... Joe Caffrey With incidental music by the composer Talvin Singh. 2010. Hoskins ...... Kenneth Alan Taylor Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of THU 23:00 Susan Calman Is Convicted (b01qm4q4) Lord Belport ...... Mark Chatterton remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. Series 1 Stubbs ...... Glenn Cunningham THU 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving (b015h37k) Death Penalty Millicent ...... Julia Rounthwaite Episode 9 Susan Calman explores issues on which she has strong opinions. Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas. After losing the baby, tensions rise between Vic and Ingrid. Can This week, she examines the issues surrounding the Death First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003. they work things out? Stars Lee Ingleby and Rebecca Callard. Penalty from the perspective gained whilst working on Death FRI 07:30 So Wrong It's Right (b01hxmws) From July 2010. Row. Series 3 THU 14:45 Book of the Week (b03k289h) Susan was always stoically against capital punishment - because Episode 2 Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life that was the expected position for a liberal student to take - and Presented by Charlie Brooker, 'So Wrong It's Right' is a Episode 4 thought that she knew all about it. But it's very easy being so competitive game of failure where coming up with the wrong Penelope Fitzgerald's novels were short, spare masterpieces, liberal when you're sitting in a country that doesn't have the answer is the right thing to do. self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize death penalty. Then, as a law student, she travelled to North Over a series of rounds, Charlie asks three guests a number of for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue Carolina and worked on Death Row for a time. What she questions to rummage through their pasts and test their Flower, was acclaimed as a work of genius. experienced whilst there persuaded her absolutely that she creativity. So Wrong It's Right celebrates the pungent taste of The early novels drew on her own experiences - a boat on the thought Capital Punishment was utterly wrong. disappointment by turning embarrassing mistakes into perverse Thames in the 1960s, the BBC in war-time, a failing bookshop This is a story about the transition from casually adopting triumphs. in Suffolk, an eccentric stage-school. The later ones opened out received opinion to developing your own belief system. In this episode, the guests joining him to try and out-wrong each to encompass historical worlds which, magically, she seemed to Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. other are comedians Lee Mack, Holly Walsh and panel show possess entirely: Russia before the Revolution, post-war Italy, First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2013. legend Barry Cryer. Germany in the time of the Romantic writer Novalis. THU 23:30 The Museum of Everything (b007k1qj) The panel's worst experiences at school and the best ideas for Fitzgerald's life is as various and as cryptic as her fiction. It Series 1 the worst TV News gimmicks are put to the panel. Will anyone spans most of the twentieth century, and moves from a Bishop's The History of the Future surpass Barry Cryer's suggestion of a revamped 'Newsnight' Palace to a sinking barge, from a demanding intellectual family Badgerland goes international and experience the History of the presented by tabloid darling and reality TV superstar Katie to hardship and poverty, from a life of teaching and obscurity to Future. Price? a blaze of renown. Written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Danny Robins The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also presents She was first published at sixty and became famous at eighty. and Dan Tetsell. BBC2's How TV Ruined Your Life, Channel 4's You Have This is a story of lateness, patience and persistence - a private With Lucy Montgomery. Been Watching and 10 O'Clock Live, and writes for The form of heroism. Music by Dominic Haslam and Ben Walker. Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Loved and admired, and increasingly recognised as one of the Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor Press Awards and Best Newcomer at the British Comedy outstanding novelists of her time, she remains also mysterious First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2004. Awards 2009. and intriguing. She liked to mislead people with a good Produced by Aled Evans imitation of an absent-minded old lady, but under that scatty A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2016 Page 9 of 9 FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpd5) David Swann ..... Iwan Thomas Loved and admired, and increasingly recognised as one of the Series 6 Director: Janet Whitaker outstanding novelists of her time, she remains also mysterious The Last Bus Home First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. and intriguing. She liked to mislead people with a good It's a long walk home in the rain when Sid, Bill and The Lad FRI 11:00 Lucy Wood - Diving Belles (b019m52y) imitation of an absent-minded old lady, but under that scatty Himself get stranded. Notes From the House Spirits front was a steel-sharp brain and an imagination of wonderful Starring Tony Hancock. A chronicle of the happenings and lives of the neglectful reach. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell and Hugo inhabitants of a Cornish house. Read by Amanda Lawrence. This biography by Hermione Lee pursues Fitzgerald's life, her Morton. FRI 11:15 Drama (b00zsjys) writing, and her secret self, with fascinated interest. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Mike Harris - The Disappearance of Jennifer Pope Read by Penelope Wilton Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. The Disappearance of Jennifer Pope Abridged by Libby Spurrier Producer: Tom Ronald by Mike Harris in collaboration with Dave and Stefan Pope Producer: Joanna Green First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1959. The extraordinary true story of the disappearance of an English A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI 08:30 The Goon Show (b007jn48) Nurse, in Ecuador, and how her husband and son tracked down FRI 15:00 Jill Paton Walsh - A Piece of Justice (b010vyt7) Series 6 her abductor. Dave and Stefan Pope spend a year in a country [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] The Jet-Propelled Guided Naafi fraught with poverty and corruption, where they barely speak FRI 16:00 The 3rd Degree (b01f5hp1) Grytpype and Moriarty set out to steal the plans for a secret new the language, with next to no money. But with heaps of [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] weapon. determination and good will from a few key characters they FRI 16:30 Albert and Me (b007jzdc) Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike eventually reap the rewards of justice. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Milligan. Further info FRI 17:00 1834 (b011pw52) Starring: In September 2005 Jenny Pope takes a year off to go back [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Peter Sellers packing alone in South America because she believes her FRI 17:30 So Wrong It's Right (b01hxmws) Harry Secombe marriage is over. Dave has been living in the shed prior to this [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Spike Milligan for the last 18 months. But they keep in touch by e-mail and, FRI 18:00 Bill Murphy - Vostok (b007jzm4) First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were gradually, separation brings them back together again - their Three intrepid divers plunge into the world's last unexplored recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest love is reignited. By the time Jennifer reaches Ecuador she's Antarctic lake. Stars Stuart Milligan and Ingvar Sigurdsson. shows weren’t kept in the archive. brought her flight forward as she's missing husband and son. FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b0076m60) With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. But in January 2006, suddenly her e-mails stop and her credit Series 4 Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. cards are emptied. Dave and Jenny's 20 year old son Stefan go Swing Low Sweet Chariot Announcer: Wallace Greenslade to Banyos in Ecuador, to find out what happened. They soon An exploration of the spiritual song, from its origins in slavery Producer: Peter Eton realise that the prime suspect is the security guard at the last in America, to its role in English rugby. From July 2004. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1956. hostel Jenny stayed; a man with a violent past who carries a gun FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpd5) FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree (b01f5hp1) and a machete in his car, who's bank account deposits match [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 2 exactly those of Jennifers withdrawals. A poignant and life FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b007jn48) University of Sussex affirming story of how a father and son's loss and confusion is [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Coming this week from the University of Sussex, "The 3rd channelled into energy and determination to find justice for FRI 20:00 Cadfael (b007jldz) Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at their beloved wife and mother. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpd5) FRI 20:30 Open the Vaults (b00p6rr0) delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] different University each week, and it pits three FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jn48) FRI 21:00 Lucy Wood - Diving Belles (b019m52y) Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a genuinely [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 FRI 13:00 Cadfael (b007jldz) FRI 21:15 Drama (b00zsjys) programme, it of course meets the most stringent standards of [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] academic rigour - but with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for FRI 13:30 Open the Vaults (b00p6rr0) FRI 22:00 So Wrong It's Right (b01hxmws) good measure. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes FRI 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03pm1hw) FRI 22:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World (b007t32k) posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union Episode 10 Series 1 buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities across the The murder has finally been committed. However, a phone call Love UK. complicates things. Donna Tartt thriller read by William Hope. The sci-fi star and his crew set sail on a romantic cruise. With The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General From April 1995. Tom Baker, Richard Herring and Stewart Lee. From November Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the FRI 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives (b05tpy82) 1992. 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not Ashoka: Power and Persuasion FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06ynwvq) only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, Professor Sunil Khilnani of the King's India Institute in London From 10.00pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness of looks at the life and legacy of the emperor Ashoka, who ruled Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats to Jon television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the Head-to-Head over a large part of the Indian sub-continent. He came to power Ronson. rounds, in which students take on their Professors in their own around the time the Romans were fighting Carthage and the FRI 23:00 The Gobetweenies (b01ljwm8) subjects, were particularly lively, and offered plenty of scope Chinese were building their Great Wall but faded from view Series 2 for mild embarrassment on both sides... over time. Rediscovered by the British, he went on to become The Next Story The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit surprising, an inspiration to India's nationalists. Ashoka's symbol of four Tom and Lucy are furious they are not allowed a dog. Their with a truly varied range of scores, friendly rivalry, and lions, each facing in a different direction, can be found on parents say that when kids go between two households it's too moments where students wished they had more than just official Indian documents and the nation's currency. His most complicated. But their mum and dad's love lives are even more glanced at that reading list... remarkable legacy is the rock edicts, public instructions to his tangled. After all, Tom has seen his parents kissing. So where Producer: David Tyler people on correct behaviour - including religious tolerance and does that leave their mum's new third husband, and the unstable A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. his own principle of Dhamma. "Dhamma described the ruler's pet shop owner their dad has been secretly dating? FRI 09:30 Albert and Me (b007jzdc) duty to interest himself in the welfare of his people, their health Written by Marcella Evaristi Series 2 and happiness. It even committed him to planting banyan trees Director: Marilyn Imrie Minder and mango groves along the roads, to provide water and resting Producer: Gordon Kennedy Bryan is offered a job at last, but where will he find a places for travellers . . an early statement about the private faith An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4. babysitter? of a leader and the responsibilities of public office" FRI 23:30 Hard to Tell (b016817k) Stars Robert Lindsay and Pat Coombs. Producer: Mark Savage. Series 1 Single parent Bryan Archer struggles to find work while raising Researcher: Manu Pillai Episode 3 his baby son, Albert. With incidental music by the composer Talvin Singh. Hard To Tell is a four part relationship comedy by Jonny Sweet Bryan Archer ...... Robert Lindsay Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of (Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2009). who Mum/Albert ...... Pat Coombs remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. conjures up characters depicting every relationship from father Mrs Willis ...... Diana King FRI 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving (b015fv20) and daughter to the mirror in the bathroom and the feller hiding Vera ...... Marcia Warren Episode 10 at a party; from the stalker and the stalked to dog owners and Joe ...... Ron Pember Things come to a head in Vic and Ingrid's marriage. Who can their dogs; and from lifelong friends to long term partners and Mr Graham ...... Douglas Blackwell Vic turn to for advice? Stars Lee Ingleby and Rebecca Callard. their dearly departed. Job Centre Clerk ...... David Graham From July 2010. In episode 3, if your son is visiting with his new girlfriend, how Incidental music by Max Harris. FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b03k2gqd) far apart should their beds be placed? Can she be trusted with a Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life remote control? And is it OK to indulge your fondness for First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1983. Episode 5 Helen Mirren? FRI 10:00 Jill Paton Walsh - A Piece of Justice (b010vyt7) Penelope Fitzgerald's novels were short, spare masterpieces, Producer: Lucy Armitage When Fran gets the chance to take over the biography of the self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. great mathematician Gideon Summerfield, she rapidly for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue discovers there's a mystery over a few days he went missing in Flower, was acclaimed as a work of genius. August 1978. The early novels drew on her own experiences - a boat on the Her friend Imogen is the first to realise she may be in danger... Thames in the 1960s, the BBC in war-time, a failing bookshop Dramatised by Neville Teller from the novel by Jill Paton in Suffolk, an eccentric stage-school. The later ones opened out Walsh. to encompass historical worlds which, magically, she seemed to Imogen Quy ..... Barbara Flynn possess entirely: Russia before the Revolution, post-war Italy, Janet Somerfield ..... Rosemary Leach Germany in the time of the Romantic writer Novalis. Francis Bullion ..... Tracy Wiles Fitzgerald's life is as various and as cryptic as her fiction. It Josh ..... Robert Harper spans most of the twentieth century, and moves from a Bishop's Dr Mistral ..... James Greene Palace to a sinking barge, from a demanding intellectual family Lady Buckmote ..... Marlene Sidaway to hardship and poverty, from a life of teaching and obscurity to Sir William Buckmote ..... Geoffrey Whitehead a blaze of renown. Professor Maverack ..... Colin Starkey She was first published at sixty and became famous at eighty. Meredith Bagadeuce ..... Peter Howell( This is a story of lateness, patience and persistence - a private Pamela Zephyr ..... Di Botcher form of heroism. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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