Radio 4 Extra Listings for 2 – 8 June 2012 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 02 JUNE 2012 SAT 04:15 Captain Corelli's Mandolin (b015fv1y) Cult sketch show first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December Earthquake 1976. SAT 00:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn58) An extraordinary heroic act, a slow recovery and a resolution SAT 15:00 Ed Doolan Interviews... (b00rd6ny) Series 2 two generations later. With Tom Goodman-Hill and Stephen [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] A Test of Endurance Greif. SAT 16:00 Martin Conisby's Vengeance (b007jwfq) Held captive in an underground city on Mars, the Space Force SAT 05:00 Millport (b0075tn0) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] crew are set to learn their fate... Series 1 SAT 17:30 Tonight (b01j6t4c) Charles Chilton's second intergalactic adventure series starring Culture Series 2 Barry Foster. Irene fears the worst when a famous restaurant critic books a Episode 4 Captain Saxon Berry ...... Barry Foster table at the Ritz Cafe. The reputation of Millport will be printed Rory Bremner and the team return for another series of Chipper Barnett ...... Nicky Henson for the whole world to see! Tonight, the topical satire show that digs that bit deeper into Magnus Carter ...... Nigel Stock But is he really coming to sample Alberto's food or does he national and international politics. Lodderick Sincere ...... Tony Osoba have a secret agenda? Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of With Wendy Murray, Willoughby Goddard and Bernard Brown. Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as things as it is to make fun of them. With a team that includes Charles Chilton wrote and produced many popular and 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a veteran satirists Andy Zaltzman and Nick Doody and versatile successful radio programmes for the BBC - including the classic better life on the mainland. impressionist and character comedian Kate O'Sullivan, Tonight 1950s serial 'Journey into Space' - charting the adventures of Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson promises to do both. This is half an hour of stand-up, sketches, Captain Jet Morgan. This fired the imagination of millions, Moira ...... Janet Brown and investigative satire. And at the core of the show are Rory's years before the first moon landing. It was the last radio drama Alberto/Robert/Ferryman/Bob ...... Lewis McLeod incisively funny interviews with the most informed guest to record higher ratings than the new young upstart television! Ena/Bunty/Betty ...... Gabriel Quigley commentators on the current political scene. Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Doogie ...... Matt Costello More global crises, more political scandal, more jokes with the First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1985. Lucian Hyber-Connor ...... Robert Paterson word fiscal in them - and some truly brilliant impressions: a SAT 00:30 Doctor Who (b01jcc0m) Producers: Lucy Bacon and Kathy Smith shot in the arm for satire lovers everywhere. The Architects of History First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000. Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling Episode 3 SAT 05:30 Smelling of Roses (b00d8yxr) A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. The Selachians appear to be in control of the Moon, but who is Series 3 SAT 18:00 The Scarifyers (b00dpygr) behind their success? Seventh Doctor adventure stars Sylvester Promises, Promises The Devil of Denge Marsh McCoy and Tracey Childs. Tasked with organising an auction of promises for a posh Episode 1 SAT 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133pl2) school, Rosie finds that it’s not the parents who are upper-crust When a government minister melts in Margate, it's a job for Series 1 so much as the pupils... Lionheart and Dunning. Stars Nicholas Courtney and Terry Crawford's First Pinch More challenges for Rosie Burns running her family's event Molloy. Some unsavoury postcards turn up on the Dock Green beat and management company, where the clients are only part of the SAT 18:30 David Garnett - Lady into Fox (b00ck4gm) the link to a recent spate of bicycle thefts makes PC Andy problem... 1. Vixen Crawford desperate to notch up his first arrest. The third of four series of Simon Brett's sitcom. Richard Tebrick is surprised by his wife Silvia's new habits - Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David Rosie ..... Prunella Scales after her sudden transformation into a vixen. Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy Jo ..... Rebecca Callard First published in 1922, David Garnett's terrifying novel of Crawford. Bob ..... Duncan Preston transformation is read by Ben Miles. Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The Tess ..... Annette Badland Abridged by Doreen Estall Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. Greg ..... Leo Dolan Directed at BBC Northern Ireland by Lawrence Jackson. However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series Trevor ..... Jim North Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in July 2008. running from 1955 to 1976. Producer: Maria Esposito SAT 19:00 Comedy Greats (b007k3ck) PC George Dixon ...... David Calder First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant SAT 06:00 Martin Conisby's Vengeance (b007jwfq) SAT 22:00 Comedy on the Boat (b015n8ps) Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks The seafaring hero faces more pirates and battles afloat. Jeffrey Made for 4 Extra. David Ward, Jason Cook, Marlon Davis and Joe Cooney ...... Tom McClane Farnol's swashbuckling saga with Steven Pacey and Julia Swift. Alistair Barrie are rocking The Tattershall Castle with laughter Ned Cooney ...... Michael Fenton Stevens SAT 07:30 The Complete Caledonian Imbiber (b00pd7cy) on the River Thames. Hilda Cooney ...... Rebecca Smart Let Them Drink Port SAT 22:45 Greg at The Stand (b015n8pv) Paul De Witt ...... Christian Rodska Billy Kay celebrates the Scots drouth for ale, whisky and the Episode 2 Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by great wines of Europe. Greg McHugh introduces stand-up sets from Mike Gunn, Ro Sue Rodwell. SAT 08:00 Ed Doolan Interviews... (b00rd6ny) Campbell and Costaki Economopoulos. From October 2011. Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. Nigel Havers and Topol SAT 23:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nn2k) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2005. A conversation double-bill with dashing actor Nigel Havers Leaves of the Dead SAT 01:30 WC Morrow - Over an Absinthe Bottle from 2005, and Fiddler on the Roof star Topol from 1983. 2. Stacks and Baps and Amulets (b007jqq4) SAT 09:00 Comedy Greats (b007k3ck) Feisty detective superintendent Julie Enfield begins to unravel A grim tale of two strangers drinking and gambling their lives 1990s the murder in the British Library when she learns of a second away in a San Francisco bar. Read by Doug Cockle. Episode 2 killing - a new "mummy" in the Egyptian rooms... SAT 02:00 Are You From the Bugle? (b01jcc07) Barry Cryer presents Week Ending, People Like Us, The Very Imelda Staunton stars as Julie Enfield in Nick Fisher’s Rovers Return World of Milton Jones, Children's Hour with Armstrong and atmospheric thriller. A celebrity is visiting Butterthwaite. Can Graham get the story? Miller, The Mark Steel Solution and Knowing Me, Knowing Julie Enfield ...... Imelda Staunton John Gradwell's six-part sitcom about life in Butterthwaite's You. Dad ...... Geoffrey Matthews local newspaper office. SAT 12:00 Incredible Women (b01jht7w) Lawrence Evans ...... Ross Livingstone Bert Ball …. Jeffrey Holland Series 2 Omnibus Stephen Arnold ...... Alex Lowe Graham Carpenter …. Robert Beck Made for 4 Extra. Rebecca Front and her brother Jeremy tell Amanda Thorne ...... Janet Maw Brenda Thistlethwaite …. Frances Jeater more tales of Britain's great mould-breaking females. Ken ...... Ioan Meredith Arnold Beasley …. David Ryall SAT 13:15 The Medical Detectives (b007k0qq) Tony ...... Sean Baker Vicky Cox …. Sue Devaney The Epping Jaundice Terry Faulkner ...... Hugh Dickson Lawrence Stevens …. Dean Williamson A strange epidemic sweeps through the inhabitants of a quiet Melanie Sharp ...... Colleen Prendergast All other parts played by Rachel Atkins, Mark Gatiss and Peter Essex suburb. Starring Bernard Hepton and Roger Allam. Dorothy ...... Shirley Dixon Serafinowicz. SAT 14:00 The Goon Show (b00b5pg1) Phil Carter ...... Christopher Scott Producer: Kathy Smith. Series 7 Producer: Richard Wortley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1996. The Mysterious Punch-up-the Conker First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997. SAT 02:30 Tickets Please (b00nv6nh) Stand by for a thrilling pursuit of a mysterious nose assailant! SAT 23:30 Wallander - Faceless Killers (b00hxyxt) Episode 1 Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Episode 8 Why does an intercity train journey turn into an emotional Milligan and Larry Stephens. Swedish sleuth Kurt Wallander makes an important discovery in roller-coaster? Starring: his murder probe. Henning Mankell's thriller read by David Because the train staff have to battle with their thwarted Peter Sellers Warner. infatuations - for each other! And those toughies in the wedding Harry Secombe SAT 23:45 Devil in a Blue Dress (b00zvcms) carriage aren't helping matters... Spike Milligan Episode 8 Sitcom on rails by Mark Maier. Jack Train Easy finally comes face to face with Frank Green and it's no Robin …. Jeremy Swift First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were friendly occasion. Walter Mosley's thriller read by Paul Nadine …. Alex Kelly recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest Winfield. Peter …. Malcom Tierney shows weren’t kept in the archive. Diana …. Melissa Advani With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. Linda/Lady …. Kate Layden Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. SUNDAY 03 JUNE 2012 Keith …. Stephen Hogan Announcer: Wallace Greenslade Carol …. Tessa Nicholson Producer: Pat Dixon SUN 00:00 The Scarifyers (b00dpygr) Man One …. Philip Fox First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1957. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Man Two/William …. Joseph Cohen-Cole SAT 14:30 The Burkiss Way (b00gs06p) SUN 00:30 David Garnett - Lady into Fox (b00ck4gm) Producer: Peter Kavanagh Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009. Influence Friends and Win People... SUN 01:00 Ed Doolan Interviews... (b00rd6ny) SAT 03:00 Vivat Rex (b01jcc09) Helpful hints from the Smarty Pants family and Knickertwist [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] Divorce Copperby. SUN 02:00 Incredible Women (b01jht7w) Richard Burton narrates the playwrights' chronicle of the The Burkiss Way to Dynamic Living from radio's Advanced [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] English Crown. Henry VIII desires a male heir. Stars Diana Correspondence Course SUN 03:15 The Medical Detectives (b007k0qq) Rigg. With instruction from Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SAT 04:00 William Trevor Short Stories (b007jvyb) and Fred Harris. SUN 04:00 Martin Conisby's Vengeance (b007jwfq) The Distant Past Learn the Burkiss Way to write a script like Andrew Marshall [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] Two Irish Protestants live contentedly in the past, until the and David Renwick and the Burkiss Way to produce a SUN 05:30 Tonight (b01j6t4c) present catches up with them. Read by Denys Hawthorne. programme like Simon Brett (You'll be amazed at the results!) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 2 – 8 June 2012 Page 2 of 8 SUN 06:00 Chronicles of Ait: Echo Beach (b01jhwq2) Famed for his catchphrase and comic ventriloquism, Mark SUN 23:30 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off (b01jhydc) Omnibus Radcliffe profiles the career of Rotherham entertainer, Sandy Series 3 Echo Beach Omnibus. 4 Extra Debut. Linus has had enough of Powell. Ireland stories, even though he's a writer. Then he meets Alice. A six-part series exploring the tradition of the northern The hapless gap-year student is off to Ireland. Can he get a job Bittersweet romantic fantasy stars Greg Wise. Episodes 1-5. comedian. on a newspaper? Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From March 2005. SUN 07:15 Jackie Wullschlager - Chagall (b00tfqq0) Producer: Bernadette McConnell Episode 4 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. The artist shocks the censor, and then makes his big SUN 12:00 Chronicles of Ait: Echo Beach (b01jhwq2) MONDAY 04 JUNE 2012 breakthrough - thanks to the Germans. Biography read by [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Derek Jacobi. SUN 13:15 Jackie Wullschlager - Chagall (b00tfqq0) MON 00:00 The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss (b00vc8bl) SUN 07:30 The Castle (b01j8gyl) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Series 4 SUN 13:30 HRF Keating - The Murder of the Maharajah MON 00:30 Red Dwarf (b00pdkf4) Highlights and Twilights (b00vfhv3) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, Set in the India of the British Raj - His Highness plays one MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01jhyd3) starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley"), Neil Dudgeon April Fool's joke too many. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] ("Life Of Riley"), Martha Howe-Douglas ("Horrible Histories") Written by H.R.F Keating and dramatised by Neville Teller MON 01:45 A Year in the Life of Ants (b008y6gb) & Ingrid Oliver ("Watson & Oliver") Maharajah …. Zia Mohyeddin [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] The village of Woodstock receives two mysterious visitors - one Dewan …. Renu Setna MON 02:00 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester deathly pale and one deathly orange. Meanwhile, Lady Anne Porgy …. Lyndam Gregory (b01jhyd5) meets the love that dare not speak its name and Sir John meets D S P Howard …. Sam Dastor [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Sunday] the love that can speak its name but can't pronounce it properly Ram Singh …. Amerjit Deu MON 02:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007jp3v) Sir John Woodstock James Fleet Sir Arthur …. Philip Anthony [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 on Sunday] Sir William De Warenne Neil Dudgeon Michael …. Luke Beeson MON 03:00 All Gas and Gaiters (b007jpbw) Lady Anne Woodstock Martha Howe-Douglas Schoolmaster …. Bhasker [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] Cardinal Duncan Jonathan Kydd Dolly …. Rachel Atkins MON 03:30 HRF Keating - The Murder of the Maharajah Lady Charlotte Ingrid Oliver Judy …. Oona Beeson (b00vfhv3) Master Henry Woodstock Steven Kynman Elaine …. Ms Sheila Mitchell [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] Bates Lewis Macleod Frere …. Dominic Letts MON 05:00 Michelle Magorian - Back Home (b010x9qg) with special guest Joe …. Steve Hodson [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] Amy De Childs Jess Robinson Morton …. Barry Gordon MON 05:30 Pamela Brown - The Swish of the Curtain Written by Kim Fuller & Paul Alexander Directed by Matthew Walters (b00r3996) Music by Guy Jackson First broadcast on Radio 4 in November 1993. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] Produced and directed by David Tyler. SUN 15:00 All Gas and Gaiters (b007jpbw) MON 06:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0132tjy) SUN 08:00 All Gas and Gaiters (b007jpbw) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 1 The Bishop Learns the Facts SUN 15:30 Ray's a Laugh (b007js2p) Dixie Clerical confusion reigns when Noote's friend asks him to [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] When things go missing from the Dixon household Doris, the marry her. SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show downtrodden girl from next door, is exposed as a petty thief. Starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon, William Mervyn as (b01jhyd7) But it's Mary Dixon who comes to her rescue, against George's the Bishop, Jonathan Cecil as Bishop's Chaplain - the Reverend Made For 4 Extra. Mel Giedroyc is very brave - she's wishes, and who earns the admiration of Andy Crawford... Mervyn Noote and John Barron as the Dean. With Jo Kendall as surrounded by dragons, dormice, spiders and Diamond Jubilee Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David Julia and Betty Bascombe as Mary. Concert organiser Gary Barlow, for the best of The 4 O'clock Calder as PC George Dixon nnd David Tennant as Andy The ecclesiastical sitcom started life as a TV pilot in Comedy Show. Crawford. Playhouse, ahead of a run on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971. SUN 16:30 Michelle Magorian - Back Home (b010x9qg) Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The Selected scripts were revised and re-recorded for radio. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. Written and adapted by husband-and-wife team, Pauline SUN 17:00 Pamela Brown - The Swish of the Curtain However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series Devaney and Edwin Apps. (b00r3996) running from 1955 to 1976. Producer: David Hatch. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] PC George Dixon ...... David Calder First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1972. SUN 17:30 Groucho Was My Father (b007xrqp) PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant SUN 08:30 Ray's a Laugh (b007js2p) Episode 1 Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks From 6/12/1949 The daughter of cinema's most famous cigar-smoker, Miriam Mrs Davies ...... Esther Elliott Kitty suspects Ted is having an affair - and reporter George Marx Allen tells Tony Staveacre about their unusual Doris Monroe ...... Sarah Counsell dons disguise. relationship. Mr Monroe ...... Roland Oliver Starring Ted Ray. SUN 18:00 The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss (b00vc8bl) Harry Lane ...... Paul Currier With Kitty Bluett, Peter Sellers, Patricia Hayes, Fred Yule and 4. Rescue Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by Leslie Perrins. Dandy spy hero Lucifer Box must rescue the 'perfect victim' to Sue Rodwell. Ray's A Laugh - the successor to ITMA - follows the comedy foil Olympus Mons' dastardly plan to raise the devil. Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. exploits of Ted's life at home with his 'radio' wife Kitty, as well Mark Gatiss continues his own novel. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2005. as in a variety of jobs. It ran from 1949-1961. Abridged by David Jackson Young. MON 06:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082gyz) Scripted by Eddie Maguire and Ted Ray. Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. 1, The Poetical Policeman Music from Bob & Alf Pearson and The Beaux and The Belles. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Scotland and first Mr JG Reeder has the mind of a criminal, using it to uncover BBC Dance Orchestra conducted by Stanley Black. broadcast in 2010. the peculiar circumstances surrounding a bank robbery, the Announcer: Kenneth Kendall SUN 18:30 Red Dwarf (b00pdkf4) death of the night-watchman and the part in the plot played by Producer: George Inns Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers his beautiful daughter. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in December 1949. Episode 3 This first of four stories provides useful insight into the past of SUN 09:00 Michelle Magorian - Back Home (b010x9qg) Lister goes into stasis. Rimmer fails an exam. The rest of the Mr JG Reeder, whose novel methods bring the criminals of Episode 1 crew have a bad day too. Read by Rimmer himself - Chris 1920s London to justice. Wartime evacuee Rusty returns to Britain with an American Barrie. Read by David Horovitch. accent, and meets a mother she doesn't recognise. Stars Mary SUN 19:00 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester Edgar Wallace is best known for his popular detective and Wimbush. (b01jhyd5) suspense stories which earned him the title, "King of the SUN 09:30 Pamela Brown - The Swish of the Curtain [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Modern Thriller." (b00r3996) SUN 19:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007jp3v) Although created at roughly the same time, Mr JG Reeder is the Episode 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] diametric opposite of Sam Spade, Philip Marlow and Mike Is it the final curtain for the children of the Blue Doors Theatre SUN 20:00 All Gas and Gaiters (b007jpbw) Hammer. He is a shabbily dressed, diffident civil servant who Company? Stars Philip Anthony and Caroline Harker. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] prefers a cup of tea and a slice of seed cake to a shot of SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01jhyd3) SUN 20:30 Ray's a Laugh (b007js2p) something stronger. Princess Margaret [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Reeder is a uniquely English detective. An apparent fuddy- 4 Extra Debut. The castaway choices of the Queen's younger SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01jhyd3) duddy working in some obscure capacity in the Public sister who died in 2002. In conversation with Roy Plomley. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Prosecutor's office, he actually has a razor-sharp intellect and is From January 1981. SUN 21:45 A Year in the Life of Ants (b008y6gb) a super-sleuth. He solves his mysteries because he fully SUN 10:45 A Year in the Life of Ants (b008y6gb) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] understands the "criminal mind". Episode 1 SUN 22:00 The Castle (b01j8gyl) Abridged for radio by Neville Teller. Enter the alien and dangerous world of Northumbrian wood [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Producer: Gemma Jenkins ants. Peter France takes an extraordinary journey across the SUN 22:30 Dead Ringers (b00mdyl1) Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in October 2007. seasons. Golden Jubilee Special MON 07:00 Married (b008cbyc) SUN 11:00 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester The impressionists take a right royal look back over 50 years of Series 3 (b01jhyd5) British cultural life. With John Culshaw. From June 2002. Episode 4 The Reluctant Jester SUN 23:00 Dave Podmore (b007t32j) Going for a drive through a time anomaly, Robin, Leslie and The Reluctant Jester Dave Podmore's World of Cricket Dirk end up in Texas. Spanning life, laughter and the paranormal - founding member Episode 3 Hugh Bonneville stars in Tony Bagley's comedy about a of The Goon Show and one of the foremost comic minds of his Asked to advise on a new cricketing film, the star player causes confirmed bachelor Robin Lightfoot dealing with life in a generation - Michael Bentine shares stories of his incredible havoc in Hollywood. parallel universe. career in show business. Sitcom about the exploits of talentless, amateurish, smug, inept Robin .... Hugh Bonneville Michael Bentine CBE was born in 1922 and died in 1996. and self-deluding English cricketer Dave Podmore. Lesley .... Josie Lawrence Producer: Andy Aliffe Starring Chris Douglas and Andrew Nickolds with Chris Pavlo Dirk .... Stephen Frost First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1993. and Nicola Sanderson. Maxine .... Ann Gosling SUN 11:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007jp3v) Written by Chris Douglas, Andrew Nickolds and Nick Doctor/Newsreader//Glop .... Kate Robbins Series 1 Newman. Alan .... Christopher Kelham Sandy Powell Producer: Richard Wilson Arthur Smith .... Himself "Can You Hear Me Mother?" First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. Producer: Claire Jones Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 2 – 8 June 2012 Page 3 of 8 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2001. A divorced mother prepares for another painful meeting with Charles Chilton's second intergalactic adventure series starring MON 07:30 Just a Minute (b01j5fwv) her estranged children. Read by Stella Gonet. Barry Foster. Series 63 MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b01jg7j4) Captain Saxon Berry ...... Barry Foster Episode 3 Freddie Flintoff, Louis Theroux, Alistair McGowan and Chipper Barnett ...... Nicky Henson Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Julian Clary & Greg Proops join Brendan Walker Magnus Carter ...... Nigel Stock Nicholas Parsons for the game in which panellists have to talk Clive's bowled over by cricket legend Freddie Flintoff , who Lodderick Sincere ...... Tony Osoba for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. since retiring from cricket in 2010 is now a broadcasting all- With Wendy Murray, Willoughby Goddard and Bernard Brown. Today Sue Perkins talks on the subject of The Worst Night of rounder. He's presented on BBC Radio Five Live and was team Charles Chilton wrote and produced many popular and my Life, Julian Clary teaches us all about The Vikings, Paul captain on 'A League Of Their Own'. Now Freddie journeys to successful radio programmes for the BBC - including the classic Merton explains How he would Describe his Personality and the far flung corners of the earth for an epic series of wildlife 1950s serial 'Journey into Space' - charting the adventures of Greg Proops enlightens us on the subject of Why the Dinosaurs adventures. 'Freddie Flintoff Goes Wild' is on Discovery Captain Jet Morgan. This fired the imagination of millions, Died Out. Channel on Thursdays at 21.00. years before the first moon landing. It was the last radio drama Producer: Claire Jones. Jon Holmes hopes stand-up comic and actor Alistair McGowan to record higher ratings than the new young upstart television! MON 08:00 Beyond Our Ken (b01jjtn1) will make a Big Impression on him and talks to Alistair about Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer From 15/07/1960 his career impersonating hundreds of famous people. He's First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1985. All is revealed in 'The Kenneth Horne Story' and producer hosting ITV's topical sports entertainment show 'You Cannot Be MON 18:30 Doctor Who (b01jjvss) Jacques Brown gets a surprise. With Kenneth Williams. From Serious' on Saturday nights at 19.30 The Architects of History July 1960. Clive's at home with the world's only 'thrill engineer' Professor Episode 4 MON 08:30 Steptoe and Son (b00rzkyb) Brendan Walker. His new Channel 4 series celebrates the As the Selachians' grip tightens on Moon base, the Time Lord Series 1 science behind the inventions and innovations that transformed reveals his true purpose. Seventh Doctor adventure stars Wallah, Wallah, Catsmeat the way we lived and catapulted an exhausted post-war country Sylvester McCoy and Tracey Childs. The rag and bone business falters when Hercules the horse into the modernity of 1950's Britain. 'The House the 50s Built' MON 19:00 Beyond Our Ken (b01jjtn1) needs a vet. begins Thursday 7th June at 21.00. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. Clive has a Weird Weekend with Louis Theroux, whose MON 19:30 Steptoe and Son (b00rzkyb) Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association broadcasting career has seen him interview anti-zoinists and [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson white supremacists. In 1998, Louis went to San Fernando MON 20:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0132tjy) wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Valley, the hub of America's adult entertainment industry to [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert find out if being a male porn star was one of the best jobs a MON 20:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082gyz) Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of 8 series man can have. Now Louis returns to talk to some of the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] on TV. performers he interviewed 15 years ago to see how they have MON 21:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell fared. 'Twilight of the Porn Stars' is on BBC Two on Sunday (b016w0m4) Harold ...... Harry H Corbett 10th June at 22.00. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] The Vet ...... Eric Woodburn With music from Manchester-based alternative folk rockers MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b01jg7j4) Lionel ...... Leslie Dwyer The Slow Show who perform 'God Only Knows' from their EP [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Charlie ...... Peter Hawkins. 'Brother'. MON 22:00 Just a Minute (b01j5fwv) Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by And the new star of Bluegrass Sarah Jarosz performs 'Annabel [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Gale Pedrick. Lee' from her album 'Follow Me Down'. MON 22:30 The Castle (b01jjtn3) Producer: Bobby Jaye Producer Cathie Mahoney. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1966. MON 12:00 Beyond Our Ken (b01jjtn1) MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b01jjvsv) MON 09:00 The Castle (b01jjtn3) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Made for 4 Extra. Extended edition of the News Quiz, hosted Series 4 MON 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b00rzkyb) by Sandi Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, Boogie Knights [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Susan Calman and Rebecca Front. Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, MON 13:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0132tjy) MON 23:45 Hearing With Hegley (b00b41k4) starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley"), Neil Dudgeon [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Series 1 ("Life Of Riley"), Martha Howe-Douglas ("Horrible Histories") MON 13:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082gyz) Episode 3 & Ingrid Oliver ("Watson & Oliver") [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley, presents The wedding of the decade is almost ruined by 200 tents and an MON 14:00 Alan Plater - Abandoned Projects (b009qx1x) a selection of his work. over-excited woodpecker. Plus Henry, Duncan and De Warenne Gone But Not Forgotten With: gatecrash a rather special Hen Night The playwright recounts his career through some amazing Keith Moore Written by Kim Fuller & Paul Alexander stories he never completed. With Maureen Lipman and Brian Susan Norton Music by Guy Jackson Blessed. Nigel Piper Produced and directed by David Tyler. MON 14:15 This Sceptred Isle (b007jt50) Andrew Bailey MON 09:30 Electric Ink (b01jjtn5) Mutiny In The Royal Navy Producer: Phil Clarke Series 2 Wordsworth waxes lyrical about Revolution in France, while First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1996. Episode 1 the Royal Navy rebels. Anna Massey narrates the history of Maddox has lost the job of news editor and now faces being Britain. sued. MON 14:30 The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (b0101l1v) TUESDAY 05 JUNE 2012 Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson's comic satire set in the Episode 1 struggling world of newspapers. . Scotland Yard's top detective probes a gruesome 1860 country TUE 00:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn5r) Maddox ..... John Sessions house murder. Deborah Findlay reads Kate Summerscale's [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Oliver ..... Alex Jennings account. TUE 00:30 Doctor Who (b01jjvss) Freddy ..... Stephen Wight MON 14:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Carol ..... Polly Frame (b00y9tqk) TUE 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0132tjy) Masha ..... Debbie Chazen Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Keith ..... Sam Dale Things to do before you die, and literary rivalry with an TUE 01:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082gyz) Producer ..... Sally Avens oncologist. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] A group of dysfunctional journalists attempt to cover major Miles Kington died of cancer in January 2008. Given very little TUE 02:00 The Castle (b01jjtn3) news stories at the same time as grappling with the demands of time to live by his doctors, he decided to make cancer "pay its [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] working in a multi-platform environment, watching circulation way" - by coming up with increasingly witty and absurd ideas TUE 02:30 Electric Ink (b01jjtn5) figures plummet and the recession causing half the workforce for this book, as suggested to his agent, Gill. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] to be laid off. With Michael Palin as Miles and Anna Massey as Gill. TUE 03:00 Vivat Rex (b01jjtn7) At the heart of the comedy is the relationship between Maddox Dramatised by Robin Brooks [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Bradley, a journalist who mourns the day of proper Produced by Clive Brill TUE 04:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door investigative journalism, and Freddy, the online editor who will Made for BBC Radio 4 by Pacificus Productions (b016w0m4) regurgitate a press release quite happily and call it a story. But First broadcast in October 2008. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] they have a grudging respect for the each other as Freddy helps MON 15:00 Vivat Rex (b01jjtn7) TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b01jg7j4) Maddox stay afloat in the world of Twitter, Facebook and [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] podcasting and Maddox shows Freddy how to sniff out the real MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01jjvgd) TUE 05:00 At Home With Hinge and Bracket (b008jw8g) story. Both are at the mercy of Oliver, the pragmatic editor The history of the motor car on the anniversary of Henry Ford's [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] more concerned with keeping his job, and Carol, the news first ever automobile. Plus, part 5 of our nature series Parrots TUE 05:30 Married (b008cbyc) editor who believes that circulation will increase if they run and Piranhas. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] pieces on Big Mac eating orang-utans and 'intelligent' skunks MON 17:00 At Home With Hinge and Bracket (b008jw8g) TUE 06:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133g6t) rather than Maddox's moral crusading diatribes. And only Episode 1 Series 1 Masha, the Russian head of online communities, who wants to Dame Hilda Bracket and her lifelong companion, Dr Evadne Rock, Rattle and Roll give away all their content because that is true democracy, Hinge, invite you to eavesdrop on some informal music and When a fanatical Spurs fan has his prized football rattle stolen, knows Freddy's secret; that he's a posh boy from Eton rather conversation. an FA cup tie provides the perfect excuse for a weekend away than a hyper-cool kid from the street; well that's what Freddy Joining them in the music room is international operatic in Blackpool for Andy and Mary. thinks anyway. soprano Rosalind Plowright. Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010. Dame Hilda Bracket ...... George Logan Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy MON 10:00 Vivat Rex (b01jjtn7) Dr Evadne Hinge ...... Patrick Fyffe Crawford. Elizabeth Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The Richard Burton concludes the playwrights' chronicle of the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1990. Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. English Crown. Henry VIII remarries. Stars Sir John Gielgud. MON 17:30 Married (b008cbyc) However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series MON 11:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] running from 1955 to 1976. (b016w0m4) MON 18:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn5r) PC George Dixon ...... David Calder Wednesday Series 2 PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant Series of stories by Dorothy Whipple, an often overlooked Living With Death Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks writer of the interwar years who was described by JB Priestley Elevated to the priesthood of God-King Ra - the captive crew Ben Harvey ...... Andrew Sachs as 'the Jane Austen of her age'. of Space Force seize a chance to escape. Jessie Harvey ...... Jacqueline Tong Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 2 – 8 June 2012 Page 4 of 8 Chris Miller ...... Alex McLaren Chris Miller, Katie Moss, Myles Rudge and Gordon Langford, Unto Death - And Beyond Jim ...... Stuart Crossman Allan Scott and Chris Bryant, and Gerald Wiley. Stranded on the Golden Planet, the Space Force crew must find Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by Producer John Fawcett-Wilson a way to return to Mars. Sue Rodwell. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1972. Conclusion of Charles Chilton's second intergalatic adventure Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b01jjvsv) starring Barry Foster. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2005. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] Captain Saxon Berry ...... Barry Foster TUE 06:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082gzy) TUE 09:45 Hearing With Hegley (b00b41k4) Chipper Barnett ...... Nicky Henson 2. The Troupe [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] Magnus Carter ...... Nigel Stock Intrigued by the arrival in London of a transatlantic visitor he TUE 10:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jm85) Lodderick Sincere ...... Tony Osoba knows to have managed a troupe of actors, Mr JG Reeder tries Episode 1 With Wendy Murray, Willoughby Goddard, Bernard Brown and to get to the bottom of a jewellery fraud. Shipwrecked literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued Mia Soteriou. Read by David Horovitch by Wolf Larsen, demonic skipper of the seal-hunting schooner Charles Chilton wrote and produced many popular and Mr JG Reeder's novel methods bring the criminals of 1920s Ghost. successful radio programmes for the BBC - including the classic London to justice. Jack London's 1904 psychological adventure novel telling of 1950s serial 'Journey into Space' - charting the adventures of Created by Edgar Wallace, he is a uniquely English detective. heroism, survival and love on the high seas. Captain Jet Morgan. This fired the imagination of millions, An apparent fuddy-duddy working in some obscure capacity in Starring Jack Klaff, Kerry Shale and Ian Dury, years before the first moon landing. It was the last radio drama the Public Prosecutor's office, he actually has a razor-sharp Dramatised in four parts by Ed Thomason to record higher ratings than the new young upstart television! intellect and is a super-sleuth. Wolf Larsen ...... Jack Klaff Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Mr JG Reeder solves his mysteries because he fully understands Humphrey Van Weyden ...... Kerry Shale First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1985. the "criminal mind". Mugridge ...... Ian Dury TUE 18:30 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera Abridged for radio by Neville Teller. Johnson ...... Jeffrey Gear (b008hvvp) Producer: Gemma Jenkins Leach ...... Scott Farrell Episode 1 Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in October 2007. Charley ...... David Bannerman Tragedy strikes at the Opera House in 19th century Paris - TUE 07:00 The Sit Crom (b00lvmwp) Owen ...... Terence Edmond home to a fabled ghost. The Secret Knocke Kelly ...... Norman Jonesy Starring Anna Massey as Madame Giry, Peter Guinness as The Mercy's disguise is revealed, Father Francis is perplexed in his Louis ...... Nigel Anthony Phantom, James D'Arcy as Raoul de Chagny Helen Goldwyn as hole, Tobias denigrates the vegetables, Arise Higgs and his Svenson ...... Brett Usher Christine Daaé platoon are billeted on Firebasket Hall and Gazebo has lethal Smoke ...... Anthony Jackson "The Phantom of the Opera" is a classic tale of murder, orders. Harrison ...... Richard Pearce romance and suspense in 19th-century Paris. Gaston Leroux's Sue Limb's six-part comedy set during the English Civil War in Latimer ...... Peter Penry-Jones original novel, "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra" was published in 1911 the days of Oliver Cromwell. Horner ...... Clarence Smith and it's never been out of print since. The subject of countless Sir John Firebasket ...... Joss Ackland Henderson ...... Andrew Wincott plays, films and musicals - this is the first adaptation to Lady Anne Firebasket ...... Denise Coffey Ferry Passenger ...... William Roberts remaining utterly faithful to the spirit and plot of Leroux's Tobias Thynne ...... Clive Merrison Music: Elizabeth Parker - BBC Radiophonic Workshop. original. There are many sequences here which have never Mercy, alias Melissa ...... Miriam Margoyles Singer: Sarah Connolly appeared before in any adaptation. Father Francis ...... Nickolas Grace Director: Adrian Bean Leroux was a prolific writer in many genres, as well as being a Slow Ned ...... Chris Emmett First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991. playboy and globetrotter. But he started out as a journalist, Gazebo Fogg ...... Jack Klaff TUE 11:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door (b016ywr7) which is how he came across the true stories forming the basis Captain Arise Higgs ...... Alun Armstrong Family Crisis for the plot of "The Phantom of the Opera": a misshapen Posthumous ...... Nicky Henson Highly respectable Mr Parker loses his composure when his skeleton unearthed in the foundations of the Paris Opera House, Counter Tenor ...... Peter Hayward daughter's departure threatens his orderly life. Read by Neil a subterranean lake, a fatal accident with the chandelier and, of Lettice ...... Jane Whittenshaw Dudgeon. course, rumours of the Opera Ghost. Music by Colin Sell. TUE 11:15 Martyn Wade - Blue Veils and Golden Sands This adaptation was the first version to include the correct Producer: Jonathan James-Moore (b007jvh7) operatic sequences referred to in the novel: arias from Charles First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. The remarkable story of pioneering BBC Radiophonic Gounod's Faust and his Romeo et Juliette, and Desdemona's TUE 07:30 Cabin Pressure (b012ftrs) Workshop music composer Delia Derbyshire. Starring Sophie famous aria from Rossini's Otello. These were specially Series 3 Thompson. recorded by singers from the ENO and Opera Diva. Newcastle TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jtth) In the novel, The Phantom performs a section of his own self- In this show, love is in the air, but also unfortunately in a small [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] penned opera - Don Juan Triumphant - and this too is included airport in Birmingham - and Martin has to choose between TUE 12:30 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead in this adaptation, composed by classical musician Tim Sutton. career, romance and fixing a very small tail light. Carolyn meets (b00yhx5s) Tim also wrote a new score for the entire adaptation with a a rather dashing pilot whilst Arthur meets a rather boring board [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] theme tune played by violinist Ruth Rogers. game. TUE 13:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133g6t) Freshly translated, dramatised and produced by Barnaby John Finnemore's sitcom about the pilots of a tiny charter [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Edwards. airline for whom no job is too small and many jobs are too TUE 13:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082gzy) A Big Finish Production. difficult. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jtth) With special guests Anthony Head and Mark Williams. TUE 14:00 Alan Plater - Abandoned Projects (b009rp4x) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole Alternative Comedy TUE 19:30 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam The playwright recalls entertaining the idea of being a comic, (b00yhx5s) Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Tom Goodman-Hill and some unusual student shows. With Christian Rodska. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore TUE 14:15 This Sceptred Isle (b007jt5f) TUE 20:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133g6t) Capt. Herc Shipwright ..... Anthony Head Nelson, The Nile and the First Income Tax [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Eddie ..... Mark Williams Nelson tastes victory in the Nile, funded by the nation's first TUE 20:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082gzy) 1st Officer Linda Fairburn ..... Anna Crilly ever income tax. Anna Massey continues the history of Britain. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Producer/Director: David Tyler TUE 14:30 The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (b010fs53) TUE 21:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door (b016ywr7) A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] 2011. Mounting suspicion in a notorious Victorian murder case leads TUE 21:15 Martyn Wade - Blue Veils and Golden Sands TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jtth) the inspector to make a shocking arrest. Read by Deborah (b007jvh7) Series 7 Findlay. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Insurance: The White Man's Burden TUE 14:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? TUE 22:00 Cabin Pressure (b012ftrs) Neddie Seagoon tries to set fire to the English Channel to claim (b00yb307) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] the insurance. Episode 2 TUE 22:30 Hut 33 (b01jk1bx) Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Things to learn before you die, without leaving home. Cancer Series 3 Milligan and Larry Stephens. sufferer Miles Kington's humorous letters. With Michael Palin. Big Machine Starring: TUE 15:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jm85) 1942: can Gordon's new computing invention help the Bletchley Peter Sellers [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Park code-breakers? Harry Secombe TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01jk1bv) James Cary's sitcom set at Bletchley Park - the top-secret home Spike Milligan We'll take a byte out of the big Apple to mark the anniversary of the Second World War codebreakers. Jack Train of one of the world's first personal computers going on sale. Professor Charles Gardner …. Robert Bathurst First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were Plus, we unwrap the Puccini classic opera Tosca. Archie …. Tom Goodman-Hill recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest TUE 17:00 Flying the Flag (b00bx1kd) Gordon ...... Fergus Craig shows weren’t kept in the archive. Series 3 3rd Lieutenant Joshua Fanshawe-Marshall …. Alex MacQueen With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. Our Own Correspondent Minka …. Olivia Coleman Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. Press freedom reaches the People's Republic, closely followed Mrs Best …. Lill Roughley Announcer: Wallace Greenslade by Henry Treebling, Investigative Reporter. Producer: Adam Bromley Producer: Pat Dixon "Surely diplomatic moves are under foot to slow the pace of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1957. reform, Mr Mackenzie?" TUE 23:00 Deep Trouble (b00td8tw) TUE 08:30 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead "Of course not. But how did Treebling find out about them?" Series 2 (b00yhx5s) Series 3 of Alex Shearer's Eastern bloc embassy sitcom. Episode 3 Series 2 Starring Dinsdale Landen as HM Ambassador Mackenzie, Peter A submarine systems failure puts the Goliath crew at the mercy Episode 5 Acre as William Frost, Moir Leslie as Helen Waterson, of a drugs baron. Stars Jim Field Smith. From June 2007. Angry antique dealers, a word from the Minister for population Christopher Benjamin as Colonel Surikov and John Grieve as TUE 23:30 Trevor's World of Sport (b00nd0th) - and it's not the end of the world Treebling. Series 3 A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker. Producer: Neil Cargill Episode 3 With Terence Brady and Pauline Yates. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1990. Andy Hamilton's comedy series about Trevor the sports agent Pianist: Gordon Langford. TUE 17:30 The Sit Crom (b00lvmwp) and his brave attempts to swim safely through the shark tank of Banjo: Dick Abell [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] life. Written by Terence Brady, Peter N Christie, Donald Churchill, TUE 18:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn65) 3/6. Trevor tries to prove that people deserve a second chance. Bert Fisher, John Graham, Christopher Langham, Roy Lomax, Series 2 Trevor ...... Neil Pearson Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 2 – 8 June 2012 Page 5 of 8 Sammy ...... Paul Reynolds Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show about the wrong [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Ralph ...... Michael Fenton Stevens side of life. Guests Father Ted and IT Crowd writer Graham WED 13:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133ldd) Theresa ...... Rosalind Ayres Linehan, comedian Matthew Crosby and Sony-award winning [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Heidrun ...... Cosima Shaw podcaster Helen Zaltzman compete to suggest the best in bad WED 13:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082h2b) Barry ...... Abdul Salis ideas. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Meryl ...... Claire Skinner So Wrong It's Right sees Charlie ask three guests a number of WED 14:00 Alan Plater - Abandoned Projects (b009rr73) Dean ...... Philip Pope. questions testing their powers of creativity and revealing the Wild Pigs of Thorngumbald best embarrassing stories from their lives. This week, the The playwright recalls how his career as an architect ended panel's worst experiences with a stranger and the best ideas for early, but not before an animal encounter. With Christian WEDNESDAY 06 JUNE 2012 the worst new gadget are just two of the challenges faced by the Rodska. panel. WED 14:15 This Sceptred Isle (b00f39kr) WED 00:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn65) Can anyone top Helen's nomination for most annoying modern The Irish Rebellion and Union [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] irritant, 'constructed reality TV'? And will anyone beat Graham Stalemate in the Irish question leads to the resignation of Pitt WED 00:30 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera Linehan's suggestion for a terrible new gadget, the 'exciting the Younger. Anna Massey continues the history of Britain. (b008hvvp) ladder'? WED 14:30 The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (b0102n1l) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also presents Episode 3 WED 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133g6t) BBC4s acclaimed Newswipe and Screenwipe series, and is an Detective Inspector Jack Whicher's prime murder suspect faces [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] award winning columnist for The Guardian. He also won Best questions about the gruesome killing. Read by Deborah Findlay. WED 01:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082gzy) Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009. WED 14:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Produced by Aled Evans (b00yb5vd) WED 02:00 The News Quiz Extra (b01jjvsv) A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007wp6j) Cancer's infrequently asked questions, and notifying the dog. WED 02:45 Hearing With Hegley (b00b41k4) Series 4 Miles Kington's humorous last letters. With Michael Palin. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] The Last of the McHancocks WED 15:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jm8h) WED 03:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jm85) The lad inherits a Scottish castle and starts feuding with his [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] nasty neighbour. WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01jl5gh) WED 04:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door Stars Tony Hancock. Made for 4 Extra. We find out how the computer mouse started (b016ywr7) With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth life, we hear from Apple co-creator Steve Wozniak and learn [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] Williams. about the role hedgehogs played in shaping World War II. WED 04:15 Martyn Wade - Blue Veils and Golden Sands With special guest James Robertson Justice as Seamus WED 17:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves (b007jvh7) McNasty. (b007vgg5) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Bingo and the Little Woman WED 05:00 Flying the Flag (b00bx1kd) Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. Bertie Wooster turns into a romantic novelist (again) when [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] Producer: Denis Main Wilson Bingo Little falls in love (again). WED 05:30 The Sit Crom (b00lvmwp) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1957. PG Wodehouse romp starring Richard Briers and Michael [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter Hordern. WED 06:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133ldd) (b007jy9h) Jeeves ...... Michael Hordern Series 1 Series 2 Bertie Wooster ..... Richard Briers Roaring Boy The Day Lord Bittlesham ..... Ronald Fraser Mary and Andy have some exciting news for George, but he's Author Gerald tries to make amends when he upsets his wife Bingo Little ..... Jonathan Cecil nowhere to be found - and on the other side of Dock Green, a Diana. Adapted by Chris Miller. desperate young man with a gun is on the run. The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring Ian Producer: David Hatch Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1973. Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy wife. WED 17:30 The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue Crawford. With Jo Manning Wilson and Michael McClain. (b007jx3p) Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The Written by Basil Boothroyd. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. Producer: Bobby Jaye WED 18:00 Short Stories by Robert Heinlein (b00lblq5) However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1977. The Green Hills of Earth running from 1955 to 1976. WED 09:00 Coming Alive (b007k2bs) Rhysling, the blind singer of the spaceways, captures the beauty PC George Dixon ...... David Calder Series 1 of space and complexities of being a spaceman in songs about PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant Dance On his heroic adventures. Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks Ex-convict Terry comes to a realisation after Sandra's Snatches of his music are interwoven with the story of how he Doug Beale ...... Carl Prekopp troublesome ex-husband appears. Stars Karl Howman. From lost his sight and became Earth's unofficial chronicler of the Diana Johnson ...... Hayley Docherty March 1999. universe. Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by WED 09:30 Counterpoint (b00f393k) Read by Adam Sims. Sue Rodwell. 2005 Written in 1947, 'The Green Hills of Earth' is recognised as one Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. Episode 8 of the best-ever sci-fi stories by master writer, Robert A First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2005. Ned Sherrin hosts the music quiz with Harry Bancroft of Heinlein (1907-1988). WED 06:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082h2b) Stafford, Peter Kiltie from Leicester and John Taylor of Produced and abridged by Gemma Jenkins. 3. The Green Mamba Lincoln. Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007. The emeralds of Suliman are stolen in North Africa and brought WED 10:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jm8h) WED 18:30 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera to London. Episode 2 (b008jw9j) But the "mamba" (Mr JG Reeder) sets out thwart the thieves' The seal-hunting schooner Ghost journeys on to the herds with Episode 2 plans as he hounds a notorious gangland villain... ruthless captain, Wolf Larsen at the helm. Christine Daae has disappeared. Is she with the mysterious Read by David Horovitch Jack London's 1904 tale of brutality and survival on the high Angel of Music? Stars Anna Massey, Peter Guinness and James Mr JG Reeder's novel methods bring the criminals of 1920s seas, D'Arcy. London to justice. Starring Jack Klaff, Kerry Shale and Ian Dury, WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007wp6j) Created by Edgar Wallace, he is a uniquely English detective. Dramatised by Ed Thomason [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] An apparent fuddy-duddy working in some obscure capacity in Wolf Larsen ...... Jack Klaff WED 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter the Public Prosecutor's office, he actually has a razor-sharp Humphrey Van Weyden ...... Kerry Shale (b007jy9h) intellect and is a super-sleuth. Mugridge ...... Ian Dury [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Mr JG Reeder solves his mysteries because he fully understands Johnson ...... Jeffrey Gear WED 20:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133ldd) the "criminal mind". Leach ...... Scott Farrell [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Abridged for radio by Neville Teller. Owen ...... Terence Edmond WED 20:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082h2b) Producer: Gemma Jenkins Kelly ...... Norman Jones [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in October 2007. Louis ...... Nigel Anthony WED 21:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door (b016z61c) WED 07:00 The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue Smoke ...... Anthony Jackson [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] (b007jx3p) Harrison ...... Richard Pearce WED 21:15 Sarah Daniels - Left in Trust (b01jl5gf) Entertaining Edwin Latimer ...... Peter Penry-Jones [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] "Whenever you're passing , look me up" you said. "No need to Horner ...... Clarence Smith WED 22:00 So Wrong It's Right (b01j5nws) let me know, stay as long as you like..." Henderson ...... Andrew Wincott [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] An old school chum visits hapless vicar Timothy Carswell, Maud Brewster ...... Shelley Thompson WED 22:30 The Museum of Everything (b007k0r6) while two teenage tearaways terrorise residents. Louis ...... Nigel Anthony Series 1 Stephen Sheridan's sitcom series stars James Grout. Music: Elizabeth Parker - BBC Radiophonic Workshop. A Very Important Visitor Reverend Timothy Carswell ...... James Grout Singer: Sarah Connolly. Take a wander around the Museum of Everything- an infinite Miss Tilling ...... Margaret Courtenay Director: Adrian Bean. gallery of strange exhibits and stranger characters. Miss Tapp ...... Jean Heywood First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991. Learn about Mary Queen of Scots' execution and enjoy the Mrs Muir ...... Sarah Thomas WED 11:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door (b016z61c) Sheriff of Nottingham Medieval Disco Experience Mrs Knatchbull ...... Maxine Audley The Handbag Written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Danny Robins Jeremy ...... Christian Robinson A councillor's neglected wife lays a trap for her vainglorious and Dan Tetsell. David ...... Tobias Best husband. Patience Tomlinson reads Dorothy Whipple's story. With Lucy Montgomery. Mr Rainbird ...... David Bannerman WED 11:15 Sarah Daniels - Left in Trust (b01jl5gf) Music by Dominic Haslam and Ben Walker. Constable ...... Ian Lindsay 4 Extra Debut. Writing a play about the National Trust's Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor Edwin ...... Robert Lang founder, Linda uncovers family secrets. Stars Kenneth Cranham First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2004. Producer: Lissa Evans. and Sophie Stanton. WED 23:00 Masala FM (b007jz5q) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1991. WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007wp6j) Episode 5 WED 07:30 So Wrong It's Right (b01j5nws) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] When the Asian radio station's boss gets religion, the on-air Series 3 WED 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter result is far from heavenly. Episode 3 (b007jy9h) Six-part sitcom written by Meera Syal Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 2 – 8 June 2012 Page 6 of 8 Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nitin Sawheny, Meera Syal and Nina With Anne Hamilton, Michael Segal and Arthur Tolcher. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Wadia. Music by Dennis Wilson & His Orchestra. THU 14:00 Alan Plater - Abandoned Projects (b009s8mt) Music by Nitin Sawhney. Producer: John Browell Episode 4 Producer: Liz Anstee First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1975. The playwright recalls a never-realised bleak opera and a film First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1996. THU 08:30 Dad's Army (b007jq38) meant to star Rex Harrison. With John Woodvine. WED 23:30 Any Bloke (b007jzgr) Series 3 THU 14:15 This Sceptred Isle (b007jt5s) Series 2 The Great White Hunter Pitt Goes and Nelson Turns a Blind Eye I Got You Babe Captain Mainwaring causes chaos tracking down Walker's Nelson turns a blind eye at the Battle of Copenhagen and the While Sarah's in labour, she decides to get a few things off her purloined silk parachute. Napoleonic Wars begin. Anna Massey continues the story of chest. Stars Jim Sweeney and Caroline Quentin. From July The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard Britain. 1995. platoon THU 14:30 The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (b0102yy3) Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV Episode 4 scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. Years after the gruesome killing, there's a surprise confession - THURSDAY 07 JUNE 2012 Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe but does it explain what happened? Read by Deborah Findlay. Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier THU 14:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? THU 00:00 Short Stories by Robert Heinlein (b00lblq5) Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn (b00ybzdk) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Private Frazer …. John Laurie Episode 4 THU 00:30 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera Private Pike …. Ian Lavender The perfect funeral and gravestone, and parlez-vous cancer? (b008jw9j) Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley Miles Kington's humorous last letters. With Michael Palin. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Private Walker …. Larry Martyn THU 15:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jmc9) THU 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133ldd) Mrs Pike …. Pearl Hackney [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] Producer: John Dyas THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01jldc3) THU 01:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082h2b) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1976. Made for 4 Extra. We visit a dairy, learn how to make home- [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU 09:00 Huddwinks (b00fsmz4) made ice cream and find out about the sound of an ice-cream THU 02:00 Coming Alive (b007k2bs) Series 1 van. Plus, the story of Mickey Mouse. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Dead Men Don't Eat Pilchards THU 17:00 For Better or for Worse (b00v2smk) THU 02:30 Counterpoint (b00f393k) Top cops are on the case, when a witness protection programme Series 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] goes catastrophically wrong. Stars Roy Hudd. From August Episode 4 THU 03:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jm8h) 1986. A saucy letter sparks suspicions for Iris. Is Bernard having an [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU 09:30 HR (b00tppbm) affair? Stars Su Pollard and Gorden Kaye. From February THU 04:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door (b016z61c) Series 2 1996. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] Surfing THU 17:30 Chambers (b007jp3w) THU 04:15 Sarah Daniels - Left in Trust (b01jl5gf) Sam and Peter occupy their retirement time surfing the net. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] Peter has created a flattering but deeply inaccurate online THU 18:00 Short Stories by Robert Heinlein (b00l3pzz) THU 05:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves profile for himself and now has a date. Ordeal in Space (b007vgg5) Sam is determined to go along. Deeply traumatised astronaut, William Cole is back on earth [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] Nigel Williams' comedy drama series charting the misfortunes recuperating from a terrible accident. THU 05:30 The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague. After being jettisoned into outer-space, he's been left with a (b007jx3p) Peter .... Jonathan Pryce debilitating fear of falling. Facing the prospect of never [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Sam .... Nicholas Le Prevost returning to a job he loves, he's struggling to adapt to life as a THU 06:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00t9tmp) Janice .... Christine Kavanagh civilian... Sicken and So Die Drab Woman .... Sally Orrock Read by Adam Sims. Episode 1 Madwoman .... Helen Belbin Robert A Heinlein (1907-1988) is recognised by many as one of Charles has a role in Twelfth Night, but could this comedy turn Man .... Tony Bell the great masters of sci-fi. into a tragedy? Bill Nighy stars as Simon Brett's actor-cum- Director: Peter Kavanagh. Produced and abridged by Gemma Jenkins. sleuth. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2010. Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007. THU 06:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082hw0) THU 10:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jmc9) THU 18:30 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera 4. The Strange Case Episode 3 (b008lz2f) A wealthy government minister is defrauded of a large sum of With Maud Brewster aboard, the real danger on the schooner's Episode 3 money and suspects his wastrel nephew. voyage is yet to begin... As Christine faces grave danger, a mysterious figure offers to Then he's murdered, so Mr JG Reeder sets out uncover the Jack London's 1904 tale of brutality and survival on the high help her. Stars Anna Massey, Peter Guinness and Helen truth. seas. Goldwyn. Read by David Horovitch Starring Jack Klaff, Kerry Shale and Ian Dury. THU 19:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show Mr JG Reeder's novel methods bring the criminals of 1920s Dramatised by Ed Thomason (b01jl8hs) London to justice. Wolf Larsen ...... Jack Klaff [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Created by Edgar Wallace, he is a uniquely English detective. Humphrey Van Weyden ...... Kerry Shale THU 19:30 Dad's Army (b007jq38) An apparent fuddy-duddy working in some obscure capacity in Mugridge ...... Ian Dury [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] the Public Prosecutor's office, he actually has a razor-sharp Kelly ...... Norman Jones THU 20:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00t9tmp) intellect and is a super-sleuth. Smoke ...... Anthony Jackson [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Mr JG Reeder solves his mysteries because he fully understands Latimer ...... Peter Penry-Jones THU 20:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082hw0) the "criminal mind". Horner ...... Clarence Smith [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Abridged for radio by Neville Teller. Henderson ...... Andrew Wincott THU 21:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door Producer: Gemma Jenkins Maud Brewster ...... Shelley Thompson (b017071m) Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in November 2007. Telefson ...... Charles Millham [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU 07:00 Chambers (b007jp3w) Henderson ...... Andrew Wincott THU 21:15 Drama (b01jl8hv) Series 2 Music: Elizabeth Parker - BBC Radiophonic Workshop. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] The Masons Singer: Sarah Connolly. THU 22:00 The Simon Day Show (b01j6t0s) Turmoil abounds when barrister John Fuller-Carp tries to join a Director: Adrian Bean. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] lodge. Stars John Bird and Sanjeev Bhaskar. From May 1998. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991. THU 22:30 Down the Line (b012lm5p) THU 07:30 The Simon Day Show (b01j6t0s) THU 11:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door Series 3 Series 2 (b017071m) The Elderly, Consumer Rights and the Countryside Tommy Cockles Cover Old people and consumer rights get the Gary Bellamy phone-in Simon Day and his characters once again welcome listeners to A young wife is unable to free herself from the guilt of her treatment. Stars Rhys Thomas and Simon Day. From January The Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. scandalous past. Stella Gonet reads Dorothy Whipple's story. 2008. Each week one of Simon's comic characters come to perform at THU 11:15 Drama (b01jl8hv) THU 23:00 Revolting People (b00wg3mg) The Mallard while the staff struggle with rivalries, self-doubt The Tobacco Merchant's Lawyer Series 4 and the new owner's vision for the theatre's future. Glasgow 1780. Lawyer Enoch Dalmellington represents the George Washington This week popular, blazered entertainer Tommy Cockles arrives ambiguities of Scottish society since the Union. He detests the Captain Brimshaw attempts to broker peace with George at the theatre to find it transformed. There's a new Nigerian corruption of Glasgow's merchants, but can't resist being bought Washington. 1775 America sitcom stars Andy Hamilton. From owner, soundman Goose has been replaced by an authoritarian off by them; he dreams of Scottish independence, but is too May 2006. ex-copper and receptionist Catherine has disappeared off to canny to mention it. And there's a wake-up call to a city whose THU 23:30 Think the Unthinkable (b01jldck) India to find herself. history has always been more rich, varied and morally Series 3 Cast list: ambiguous than the dominant narrative of victimhood allows. Barrington Zoo Tommy Cockles ..... Simon Day Dalmellington ..... Ian McDiarmid Barrington council desperately needs to raise money. They must Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd Directed by Jeremy Mortimer be desperate to call in the services of Unthinkable Solutions, Emanuel Akinyemi ..... Felix Dexter Iain Heggie was born in Glasgow in 1953. 'A Wholly Healthy who create truly unthinkable answers to the problem with Pat Bennet ..... Morwenna Banks Glasgow' , and his John Whiting award-winning play, American Barrington Zoo. Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall Bagpipes, both premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre in James Carey's sitcom about a clueless bunch of management Written by Simon Day Manchester, and were later seen at The Royal Court in London. consultants, Unthinkable Solutions, effortlessly screwing-up Produced by Colin Anderson. Recent plays include' Love Freaks' (a new take of Double their clients' businesses. THU 08:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show Inconstancy) and 'Sauciehall Street'. Starring: (b01jl8hs) THU 12:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show Marcus Brigstocke Series 1 (b01jl8hs) Robin Ince Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Catherine Shepherd Can marriage guidance counsellor Ernie help an angry couple? THU 12:30 Dad's Army (b007jq38) Beth Chalmers And Eric reckons Ern needs to spruce-up his act - so how about [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] With Ewan Bailey, Tilly Gaunt, Simon Greenall and Neil writing a musical? THU 13:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00t9tmp) Edmond. Special singing guest: Salena Jones. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Producer: Adam Bromley. Written by Eddie Braben THU 13:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082hw0) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 2 – 8 June 2012 Page 7 of 8 FRIDAY 08 JUNE 2012 Producer: Simon Brett in many ways an old fashioned soul, Cult sketch show first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December quite at home FRI 00:00 Short Stories by Robert Heinlein (b00l3pzz) 1976. in my own front room, [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI 09:00 Are You From the Bugle? (b01jltzd) on my own settee. FRI 00:30 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera Plastic Balls and Sewing Machines I read, I wrote, (b008lz2f) Butterthwaite is getting a new museum - can Graham get an I painted, I drew. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] exclusive on the opening? Stars Jeffrey Holland. From June Where it came from FRI 01:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00t9tmp) 1996. no one knows [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI 09:30 Tickets Please (b00ny7k4) but it flowed. It flowed. FRI 01:30 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder (b0082hw0) Episode 2 Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster is a drama [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] The 9.27 London to Exeter emotional rollercoaster continues as documentary in which Sophie tells her own story through a FRI 02:00 Huddwinks (b00fsmz4) the train staff's personal embroilments deepen. series of poignant poems written by the award-winning poet [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Now one of the wedding party is joining in the melee. And why Simon Armitage alongside her mother, Sylvia Lancaster FRI 02:30 HR (b00tppbm) are there finger-holes in the muffins? remembering her daughter's shortened life. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Sitcom on rails by Mark Maier. Black Roses : The Killing of Sophie Lancaster written by Simon FRI 03:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jmc9) Robin...... Jeremy Swift Armitage with an interview with Sylvia Lancaster [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Nadine...... Alex Kelly Cast : FRI 04:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door (b017071m) Peter...... Malcolm Tierney SOPHIE ...... Rachel Austin [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] Carol...... Tessa Nicholson Produced in Manchester by Susan Roberts. FRI 04:15 Drama (b01jl8hv) Carl...... Nicholas Boulton FRI 12:00 The Navy Lark (b01jlmzj) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] Diana...... Melissa Advani [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 05:00 For Better or for Worse (b00v2smk) Linda...... Kate Layden FRI 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b00gs0fr) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] Keith...... Stephen Hogan [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 05:30 Chambers (b007jp3w) Other parts played by Piers Wehner, Philip Fox and Joseph FRI 13:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00t9yf6) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Cohen-Cole. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 06:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00t9yf6) Producer: Peter Kavanagh FRI 13:30 Mark McShane - Seance on a Wet Afternoon Sicken and So Die First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009. (b00r89n7) Episode 2 FRI 10:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jmcl) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] The lascivious actor-sleuth fails to impress his ex-wife Frances. Episode 4 FRI 13:45 The Late Alfred Hitchcock Presents (b00tqlfh) Meanwhile, could there be another victim? Stars Bill Nighy. Humphrey and Maud dash for freedom from cruel captain, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today] FRI 06:30 Mark McShane - Seance on a Wet Afternoon Wolf Larsen, but Japan is 600 miles away... FRI 14:00 Alan Plater - Abandoned Projects (b009scn3) (b00r89n7) Conclusion od Jack London's 1904 tale of brutality and survival Contrasting Phone Calls and the Beatles Episode 1 on the high seas. Two late-night phone calls bring playwright Alan Plater very To enhance her reputation, clairvoyant Myra Savage and her Starring Jack Klaff, Kerry Shale and Shelley Thompson.. different news, as he concludes his own story. With Christian husband embark on a terrible course of action. Read by Anton Dramatised by Ed Thomason Rodska. Lesser. Wolf Larsen ...... Jack Klaff FRI 14:15 This Sceptred Isle (b007jt64) FRI 06:45 The Late Alfred Hitchcock Presents (b00tqlfh) Humphrey Van Weyden ...... Kerry Shale Prime Minister in Exile The Waxwork Maud Brewster ...... Shelley Thompson Pitt resigns and the Treaty of Amiens allows breathing space in By AM Burrage. In a reprise of the director's celebrated series Music: Elizabeth Parker - BBC Radiophonic Workshop. the war with France. Anna Massey continues the story of from beyond the grave, convincing effigies become all too real. Director: Adrian Bean. Britain. Stars Michael Roberts. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1991. FRI 14:30 The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (b0103qmn) FRI 07:00 Smelling of Roses (b00dbwtv) FRI 11:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door (b016z738) Episode 5 Series 3 Summer Holiday Years after the murder confession, a letter reveals the truth. A Closed Book A child's innocent remark has devastating consequences for a Deborah Findlay concludes Kate Summerscale's account. Rosie is contracted to organise a literary prize, but finds that not nursemaid. Patience Tomlinson reads Dorothy Whipple's story. Episode 5 of 5. everything goes by the book... FRI 11:15 Drama (b00z62b1) FRI 14:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? More challenges for Rosie Burns running her family's event Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster (b00yc4vx) management company, where the clients are only part of the Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster is an elegy to the Episode 5 problem... young gap-year student who was attacked in Stubbeylee Park, Test your own will to live, and how to write a funny book about Written by Simon Brett. Bacup, Lancashire. She later died on August 24th 2007. This is cancer. Miles Kington's last letters. With Michael Palin. Rosie ..... Prunella Scales an elegy to mark the anniversary of her death, four years later. FRI 15:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf (b007jmcl) Jo ..... Rebecca Callard Aged twenty, Sophie suffered fatal injuries while cradling her [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Bob ..... Duncan Preston boyfriend Rob's head in an attempt to protect him from a FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01jltzj) Tess ..... Annette Badland ferocious attack by a group of youths. Rob survived but Sophie As we finish listening to Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, we Pomme Grantley ..... Joanna Monro went into a coma and never recovered. go on the hunt for mice and rats in Wales, and we join presenter Lancelot Crotty ..... Timothy Alcock Sophie was an intelligent bookish child who showed signs of Peter White - blind since birth - on a flying lesson. Sioned Pugh-Craven ..... Sheila Mitchell wanting to be different from an early age. Political, vegetarian, FRI 17:00 Millport (b0075ttx) Producer: Maria Esposito a pacifist, Sophie had left school with A levels and was thinking Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002. about what to do with her future when it was taken so brutally The Letter FRI 07:30 Comic to Comic (b00807sb) from her. It's turnip season - and a letter arrives for Irene promising to Series 2 Sophie and Rob dressed in a unique way, expressing their change her life for ever. Andy Zaltzman individuality as creative artistic people through goth-style But when push comes to shove, is she ready to leave the dismal The inventive political comedian chats to Bruce Morton and clothes, piercings and make-up, which provoked the fatal attack island backwater she so unlovingly calls home? explains why being a stand-up is the best job in the world. in the early hours of that Saturday morning. Sophie had been Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as FRI 08:00 The Navy Lark (b01jlmzj) dating Rob Maltby, a 21-year-old art student for three years. 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a Series 6 I didn't do sport. better life on the mainland. Demise of the Depth Charges I didn't do meat. Stars Lynn Ferguson as Irene, Janet Brown as Moira/Agnes, With romantic rivalry for Wren Chasen, HMS Troutbridge's Don't ask me to wear that dress: Lewis McLeod as Alberto/Robert/Bob, Gabriel Quigley as new mission goes with a bang. I shan't. Ena/Bunty/Betty, Matt Costello as Doogie and Robert Paterson Why ask me to toe the line, as the Minister. Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the I can't. Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, I was slight or small Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown Ronnie Barker as Commander Stanton, Richard Caldicote as but never petite, Alberto/Robert/Bob ...... Lewis McLeod Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Heather and Michael Bates and nobody's fool; Ena/Bunty/Betty ...... Gabriel Quigley as Lieutenant Bates and Tenniel Evans as the Admiral. no Barbie doll; Doogie ...... Matt Costello no girlie girl. The Minister ...... Robert Paterson Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS I was lean and sharp, Producers: Lucy Bacon and Kathy Smith Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen not an ounce of fat First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000. series between 1959 and 1976. on my thoughts or my limbs. FRI 17:30 Smelling of Roses (b00dbwtv) In my difficult teens [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Scripted by Lawrie Wyman I was strange, I was odd, FRI 18:00 Kurt Vonnegut - The Euphio Question - aren't we all - (b0088zh5) Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. there was something different down at the core. A way of producing and harnessing happiness is revealed when Boy bands and pop tarts left me cold, a physicist plays out the sound of dark matter during a local First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November let's say radio programme. 1963. that I marched to the beat The sound lulls the listeners into a state of euphoria, producing FRI 08:30 The Burkiss Way (b00gs0fr) of a different drum, an effect not unlike a large dose of sedative. Series 2 sang another tune, The ethical and moral implications of marketing this new found Gain Spiritual Fulfilment the Burkiss Way wandered at will product become evident - as the temptation to make money and A dangerous pantomime gang escapes, as the team go through the market stalls control huge numbers of people proves too great. 'Nationwide'. humming protest songs. Kurt Vonnegut's short story is read by Stuart Milligan. The Burkiss Way to Dynamic Living from radio's Advanced I wore studded dog leads One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature, Kurt Correspondence Course around my wrist, Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a cult figure among students in the All you have to do is fill in your name here: take out all the and was pleased as punch 1960s and 1970s with his classics of US counterculture. vowels and consonants and make an anagram of what remains in the pit, at the gig, The bombing of Dresden by allied forces in 1945 was the to gain access to the latest lesson. to be singled out pivotal moment of his life, which informed his best-known With instruction from Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett by a shooting star work 'Slaughterhouse Five'. and Fred Harris. of saliva from Marilyn Manson's lips. Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins Scripts by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. But for all that stuff Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2007. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 2 – 8 June 2012 Page 8 of 8 FRI 18:30 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera (b008p5cw) Episode 4 Raoul and the Persian enter the Phantom's lair to search for Christine. Stars Peter Guinness, Helen Goldwyn and James D'Arcy. FRI 19:00 The Navy Lark (b01jlmzj) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 19:30 The Burkiss Way (b00gs0fr) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 20:00 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00t9yf6) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 20:30 Mark McShane - Seance on a Wet Afternoon (b00r89n7) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 20:45 The Late Alfred Hitchcock Presents (b00tqlfh) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today] FRI 21:00 Dorothy Whipple - The Closed Door (b016z738) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI 21:15 Drama (b00z62b1) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI 22:00 Comic to Comic (b00807sb) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 22:25 The Comedy Club Interviews (b01k0v42) From 10pm - midnight, Sunday to Friday, the Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith talks to stand-up Nish Kumar. FRI 22:30 On the Hour (b007k3zk) Series 1 Episode 4 Why cream maybe good for you - and another motorway goes missing... All the news as it happens, if it happens – and the sport must go on for a bereaved Alan Partridge. Savagely satirical award-winning comedy starring Chris Morris. With Steve Coogan, David Schneider, Rebecca Front, Patrick Marber and Doon Mackichan. Written by Chris Morris, Richard Herring, Steven Wells, Andrew Glover, David Quantick and Stewart Lee. Editor: Armando lannucci First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991. FRI 23:00 Sorry About Last Night (b00ndrql) A Occurrence Andy's dinner party sparks a rift with Julie. Alexei Sayle's quirky couples comedy, with Siobhan Redmond. From November 1999. FRI 23:30 The Cabaret of Dr Caligari (b007xwg7) The Homeless Who Ate London A people-eating blob starts rampaging through the capital. Starring John Woodvine and Sylvester McCoy. From December 1991.

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