Radio 4 Extra Listings for 5 – 11 March 2016 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 05 MARCH 2016 appeared in the same scientific journal. Each had independently SAT 04:00 Wildbrain (b0729kh8) "rediscovered" the rules of inheritance that Gregor Mendel had 1997 - Heat 4 SAT 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jmt2) found four decades earlier in his solitary investigations of pea Lionel Kelleway visits Derbyshire, to test three contestants' Operation Luna plants. wildlife knowledge in the BBC Natural History Unit's quiz. 5. The First of Many Kathy Willis reassesses Mendel's famous pea experiments in the SAT 04:30 No Commitments (b007jp1m) The stalled rocket ship prevents Captain Jet Morgan and his light of his attempts to uncover what happens over several Series 8 crew from returning to Earth. generations when hybrid plants are created. As historian Jim Fresh Starts Written and produced by Charles Chilton. Endersby explains, Mendel's initial results may have stunned Former TV soap star Charlotte finds the path to self-knowledge. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds him and shown what plant breeders might have suspected for Stars Rosemary Leach and Celia Imrie. From January 2002. Lemmy Barnett …. Alfie Bass decades, but science now had mathematical laws to create new SAT 05:00 Dry Slopes (b0729jgv) Doc …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter varieties. Series 2 Mitch …. David Williams Historian Greg Radick sheds light on how Mendelism, in the The Invisible Man Other parts played by David Jacobs years leading up to the First World War, became heavily Nobody seems to pay Angus much attention these days. Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips. promoted by Cambridge botanist William Bateson and was put He tries telling his problems to a psychiatrist, but has trouble The original 1953 recordings of this futuristic series were into action by the first Professor of Agricultural Botany, Roland making himself heard. erased. Biffen. His success in creating new wheat hybrids is explained Written by and starring Nick Ball. This series was re-recorded and first broadcast on the BBC by a unique international assembly of wheat ears from the early Angus ...... Nick Ball Light Programme in April 1958. 1900s, curated by Mark Nesbitt, Head of Kew's economic Mum ...... Mum SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b0076xfb) botany collection. With Robert Hartley and Wayne Forester. Series 5 Producer Adrian Washbourne. Producer: Gareth Edwards Ol' Man River SAT 02:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997. 'Old Man River' flowed out of the 1927 musical "Show Boat" (b00mfhv8) SAT 05:30 Wordaholics (b01rr48h) with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein Episode 10 Series 2 (pictured). Neely has won an Academy Award, but her second marriage is Episode 2 It remains with us today as both a political anthem of oppressed already on the rocks. Jacqueline Susann drama with Madeleine Gyles Brandreth hosts the comedy panel show challenging people and a song of deep comfort. Sung by a hospital porter it Potter. guests to display their knowledge of words and language. was the last song that market trader Dave Everett heard before SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b00z9pzr) Katy Brand and Alex Horne compete against Richard Herring he went into surgery and it calmed his fears. To Miss With Love and Natalie Haynes to find out who knows more about words. Tony Benn recalls hearing the great Paul Robeson singing it at Episode 5 Katy Brand reveals an unexpected love of Proverbs in the Old the House of Lords Tea Room. Including interviews with Tony Written by Katharine Birbalsingh. Testament and takes a guess at what 'cougar juice' meant at the Benn, Paul Robeson Jr and Cleo Laine. A third of teachers leave within their first term on the job. This turn of the 20th century; Richard Herring explains why his Featuring: one wouldn't quit for all the world. favourite West County word from his schooldays is 'wasp'; Hugh Fordin Meet Furious - sixteen, handsome and completely out of Natalie Haynes guesses the meaning of the German word Tony Benn control. Nothing frightens him and no one can get through to 'zechpreller' which has no direct translation in English, and Alex Dave Everett him. Now meet Munchkin - a sweet kid with glasses who's an Horne coins his very own onomatopoeia to describe a Cleo Laine easy target and needs protecting. Then there's Seething and snowflake landing on a bubble. Steve Abrams Deranged, two girls who are brimming with bad attitude; Fifty Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle. Paul Robeson Jr and Cent, who act like gangsters but are afraid of getting beaten Producer: Claire Jones Ian Bradley up; and Stoic, a brilliant young mind struggling to survive. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013. Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of In the midst of them all, there is a bodyguard and bouncer, a SAT 06:00 Hood (b072nn3t) our necks. counsellor and confidante, a young woman whose job it is to King's Command Producer: Nicola Humphries motivate and inspire them and somehow keep them out of Summoned by King John, Philip De Nicholay, the Sheriff of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006. trouble: their teacher. None will make it through the year Nottingham, finds himself with the power to grant the man SAT 01:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jl8s) unscathed. Some may not even make it at all. known as Robin Hood a pardon. But there is a price to pay. But The Net and the Canal Spanning a year of shocking truths and hard-won victories, of for Philip, there lies betrayal that will set former friends on a Beyond the Firewall fights and phone-thefts, teenage pregnancies and the dreaded new path. Detective Superintendent Julie Enfield thinks she's moving OFSTED report, this is the remarkable diary of an inner-city Stars Lee Ingleby as Philip De Nicholay, Peter Greenall as closer to a solving the murder mystery, but her internet school teacher. Revealing the extraordinary chaos, Little John, Damian Cooper as Will Scarlet, Sean Connolly as tormentor has other ideas... mismanagement and wrong-thinking that plague our education Brother Tuck, Anthony Milles as Robert De Loxley, Sarah The conclusion of Nick Fisher's atmospheric thriller. system, it is a funny, surprising and sometimes heartbreaking McKendrick as Lady Marion and Billy Miller as King John.. Starring Imelda Staunton as Julie Enfield, Geoffrey Matthews journey from the frontlines of the classroom to the heart of Director: Iain Meadows. as Dad, Ross Livingstone as DS Lawrence Evans, Denys modern Britain. Produced by Iain Meadows and Matt Hopper for Spiteful Hawthorne as Goodfellow and Jane Whittenshaw as Charmaine. Katharine Birbalsingh has been teaching in the state school Puppet Entertainment. Producer: Richard Wortley system in London for over a decade. Her dream is for all SAT 07:30 You're Entering The Twilight Zone (b00mk6t9) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. schools to become interesting and exciting places of learning, Alan Dein explores the classic American television series The SAT 01:30 Ruby Murray: The Secret Story of Curry where children feel safe, happy and free to aim to be the best Twilight Zone, as well as the life and imagination of its creator, (b00rtg89) that they can be. Rod Serling. The British are mad about curry - 'Ruby Murray' in Cockney Read by Adjoa Andoh Fifty years ago, Serling ushered audiences into a new realm of rhyming slang. Produced by Clive Brill light and shadow. He had already electrified the new medium of Alkarim Jivani speaks to curry lovers north and south of the A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. television with his powerful dramas and their explorations of border to find out how curry came to be so intimately linked SAT 03:00 Classic Serial (b0122r2m) race, morality and capitalism, but now he offered glimpses of with the British sense of identity. LP Hartley - The Hireling American dreams and nightmares. Historically, the English have been seen as distrustful of Episode 2 SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b01nnw8t) foreigners and wary of foreign food. So the nation's long love In this 1957 thriller by the author of The Go-Between, Tuning In affair with curry - which is as much working class as colonial - L.P.Hartley, ex-Sergeant Stephen Leadbitter, raised from an The press fulminated, the enthusiasts were frustrated, and the is a surprising one. Even more curious is how this passion for unhappy working class childhood between the wars, is on a radio manufacturers fumed. Despite the fact that Marconi had curry is now recognised as part of the British identity. Vindaloo peacetime mission to business success as a chauffeur and car invented radio before Queen Victoria had celebrated her was the unofficial song of England's 1998 World Cup team - an for hire. He uniformly despises his clients, especially the ladies, Diamond Jubilee in 1897, radio in Britain took another 25 years unlikely battlecry for English football fans. In 2001, Robin until the young, widowed, naive and immensely rich Lady to begin an official service to listeners. But when, on November Cook, then Foreign Secretary, declared that chicken tikka Franklin hires him to take her on trips to cathedrals which she 14th 1922 the British Broadcasting Company's station at masala was the nation's most popular dish. Chicken tikka had visited with her late husband. Marconi House radiated to an awaiting nation "This is 2LO masala is even included by the Ministry of Defence in its Lady Franklin has been in mourning for her late husband - a calling" for the first time under the company's name, it marked operational ration packs to bring the troops some home man considerably older than her and an invalid - for two years, the start of the first and most distinguished public-service radio comfort. and is finding it impossible to return to normal life. In the station in the world. Contributors include: confines of the car, and in search of a cure for her depression, As part of the celebrations to mark nine decades of the BBC, * Madhur Jaffrey, whose enormously popular 1982 BBC TV she shares her burden with him. He obliges with a story of his historian Dominic Sandbrook explores the long and involved series Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery revolutionised British own, a fiction, which grows, monster-like, to plague the pre-BBC history of radio in Britain, how Britain's broadcaster Indian cuisine. inventor. Two alien classes are put on a collision course, causing got going and developed into an institution dedicated to * Michelin-starred chef, Atul Kochhar (Great British Menu, salvation or destruction to all involved, from the epicentre of an entertainment, education and information, discovers why Saturday Kitchen), known for his masterful use of spices and unexpected burst of love. Australian diva Dame Nellie Melba was involved, and how the Indian twist to modern British cuisine. Simon Day (The Simon Day Show (R4), The Fast Show) stars improbably-named Captain Plugge made his first commercial * Namita Panjabi, Group Director, Masala World as the lonely damaged anti-hero and Lisa Dillon (Cranford, broadcast to Britain, sponsored by Selfridges department store, (Veeraswamy, Chutney Mary, Amaya, and Masala Zone). Bright Young Things) as the hugely rich and very young widow from the Eiffel Tower. From Marconi to Savoy Hill via an old * Neil Hind at Defence Food Services, Defence Equipment and who is the unwitting cause of his downfall. Kenneth Cranham army hut in Essex, the story of the early radio in Britain. Support, Ministry of Defence (Defence Equipment and Support narrates. Producer: Simon Elmes. buys equipment and supports the UK army, navy and airforce Dramatised by Judith Adams from the novel by L.P.Hartley. SAT 09:00 Comedy Greats (b007k3x4) around the world). Cast: The Noughties Producers: Catriona Oliphant / Ian Willox Narrator ...... Kenneth Cranham Episode 1 Executive Producer: Simon Berthon Steve Leadbitter ..... Simon Day Decade by decade, Barry Cryer showcases some of the funniest A Chrome Radio Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Lady Franklin ..... Lisa Dillon and finest shows ever broadcast by the BBC. April 2010. Hughie ..... Joseph Millson Baz finally reaches the 21st century of radio comedy with his SAT 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Diamond as Big as the Constance ..... Ursula Burton first selection from the noughties: Ritz (b074h8jl) Clarice ..... Nicola Duffett * The Small World of Dominic Holland Episode 5 Simmonds ..... Anthony Gleave Series 1 (6/6) Can John and Kismine escape as Percy's hidden family estate Bert Standing ..... Kevin James Dominic ponders the journey of life to adulthood. Stand-up and falls under attack? Concluded by Garrick Hagon. Landlady ..... Jane Purcell sketches with Dave Lamb, Sally Grace and Simon Greenall. SAT 02:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04bryyz) Porter ..... Andrew Cullimore From 2000. Patterns from Crossed Peas Producer/Director: Chris Wallis * At Home With The Snails In 1900 three papers by three botanists, unknown to each other, An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. Series 1 (1/4) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 5 – 11 March 2016 Page 2 of 10 Fed-up Alex has done nothing since university, but then he being prepared for execution by hanging from a railroad bridge Jameson, Jamie Glover and Harry Myers. discovers an unusual hobby. Stars Geoffrey Palmer, Angela in Alabama. Thinking of his wife and children, the condemned Omnibus of episodes six to ten of fifteen - dramatised by Thorne, Gerard Foster and Miranda Hart. From 2001. man's tale is told in flashbacks until his final fate is revealed... Yvonne Antrobus. * Clare in the Community Based on Ambrose Bierce's short story originally published in Producer: Claire Grove Series 1 (4/6) 1890 and adapted by MJ Elliot. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. Social worker Clare Barker is racked with relief when her most Starring Christian Stolte, Rob Riley, Danny Goldring, Susan SUN 07:15 Clive Dunn - Definitely Dunn (b072s2zc) detested client dies. Stars Sally Phillips, Alex Lowe, Richard Hart and John Hoogenakker. Grandad and the Elephant Lumsden, Gemma Craven, Ellen Thomas and Nina Conti. From Narrator: Stacy Keach. Don't panic! Memories of Dad's Army star Clive Dunn, who 2004. Originally a cult sci-fi and horror TV series created by Rod played Lance-Corporal Jack Jones for nearly a decade on TV, * Radio Shuttleworth Serling and broadcast in the USA on CBS from 1959 to 1964, radio and film between 1968 to 1977. Series 2 (5/6) The Twilight Zone was first adapted by American producer Recalling highlights from his first 50 years in entertainment, 1997 Eurovision Song Contest winner Katrina Leskanich drops Carl Amari in 2002 as a 40-minute radio drama series. Clive recalls his first TV appearances and recording his chart- into visit Sheffield singer John Shuttleworth, but his wife Mary Rod Serling had managed to electrify the new medium of topping greatest hit. gets the ironing board out. From 2000. television - so armed with a licence from CBS and the Serling Clive was aged 68 at the time of recording. He died in Portugal * Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better estate, Amari's slick adaptions are based on the original TV in 2012, aged 92. Series 1 (3/6) Pride scripts. Producer: Edward Taylor Welsh comic Mark continues his quest to free us from the Actor Stacy Keach (best known here as TV detective Mike First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1988. seven deadly sins. With Tim Key and Tim Minchin. From 2007. Hammer) takes Serling's original role as narrator - with a full SUN 07:30 Mr Blue Sky (b01dp51w) * Little Britain cast, music and sound effects. Series 2 Series 2 (3/4) Director: JoBe Cerny Sorry Fat fighting with Marjorie and the hypnotic Kenny Craig. Back Produced by Carl Amari for the Falcon Picture Group. In this week's episode, Harvey's cat Lucky has gone missing, where it started out - Matt Lucas and David Walliams's oddball SAT 18:40 James Follett - The Pentworth Trilogy but does her disappearance have anything to do with the book- TV smash hit - without the cameras. From 2002. (b007jr6v) burning neighbour (played by Simon Day)? Robbie develops a Produced and scripted by Peter Reed. Temple of the Winds crush on an older woman and Jax rekindles her relationship Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in August 2003. Episode 1 with the builder Rakesh. SAT 12:00 PG Wodehouse (b00bfq14) A violent storm in West Sussex triggers a series of strange Harvey Easter (played by Mark Benton), 46, is the eternal What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning encounters for teenager Vikki Taylor. Read by Nigel Anthony. optimist. He is able to see the good in every situation, the silver Sundry Happenings in a Garden SAT 19:00 Comedy Greats (b007k3x4) lining within every cloud, the bright side to every bit of bad Bertie Wooster must mend bridges after the debacle of the fake [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] news. burglary. SAT 22:00 James Acaster's Findings (b01rg23c) This, however, is his downfall. Someone for whom the glass is PG Wodehouse romp adapted in seven-parts by Chris Miller. Pilot Episode: Bread always half-full can be difficult to live with, as his wife of 19 Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie Stand-up comedian James Acaster presents the results of his in- years, Jacqui (played by Claire Skinner), knows all too well. Wooster, Jonathan Cecil as Boko Fittleworth, Peter depth research into the subject of 'bread', assisted by his trusty Even as life deals Harvey and the Easter family a series of Woodthorpe as Percy, Lord Worplesden, Bronwen Williams as sidekick Nathaniel Metcalfe, in this brand new comedy show sadistic blows, Harvey looks on the positive side. It's Florence Craye and Denise Bryer as Edwin the Boy Scout. for BBC Radio 4. pathological with him. The way Jax sees it, instead of dealing Producer: Simon Brett We'll find out why the French struggle to come up with a with the problems of their marriage and their teenage kids, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. snappy slogan to advertise Brioche, learn why the Bagel is so Harvey's optimism is actually his way of avoiding engagement SAT 12:30 No Commitments (b007jp1m) trendy, and discover the hidden anti-bread propaganda pushed with the big issues. [Repeat of broadcast at 04:30 today] at children through the medium of fairytales. Mr Blue Sky is about one man battling to remain positive in SAT 13:00 Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre: Omnibus Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. moments of crisis, and one woman battling to live with someone (b072rsqx) SAT 22:30 Boyle's Law (b00n12rr) who has his head in the clouds. Episode 1 Pilot for a new comedy by Suk Pannu about tough-talking cop Cast: Charlotte Bronte's most beloved novel - the iconic and Inspector Vincent Boyle, head of data storage. Banned from Harvey Easter ..... Mark Benton dangerous love story starring Amanda Hale and Tom Burke. doing any actual detecting nowadays, he saves his 'catlike' Jacqui Easter ..... Claire Skinner SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b072rsxt) instincts for reading difficult situations among workmates and Charlie Easter ..... Rosamund Hanson Rob Brydon acting as a father figure to the community support officers. Robbie Easter ..... Tyger Drew Honey Welsh actor and comedian Rob Brydon chooses 'You Are My Boyle ...... Sanjeev Bhaskar Kill-R ..... Javone Prince Sunshine' by Bing Crosby and 'That's Why I'm Here' by James Fox ...... Anna Chancellor Rakesh Rathi ..... Navin Chowdhry Taylor. Adams ...... Meredith MacNeill Dr Ray Marsh ..... Justin Edwards SAT 14:15 Drama (b010y37b) Commander Norris ...... Nicholas Farrell Mr Leopold ..... Simon Day Judith Kampfner - Unfinished Business Shankar ...... Nitin Ganatra Sean Calhoun .... Michael Legge Judith Kampfner's play about how a quick Internet search can Waitres ...... Kate Layden. Written by Andrew Collins change the lives of two families who never knew of each other's SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b07303q7) Title Music Arrangement by Jim Bob existence. The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith is joined by Producer/Director: Anna Madley Based on the actual story of one man's impulse to discover more Rob Auton. An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. about his absent father and the fragile friendship he then forms SAT 23:00 Jason Cook's Happiness HQ (b0112ydx) SUN 08:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b072s3gk) with the man who was perhaps closest to the dad he never The comedian Jason Cook is joined by Chris Ramsey, From 03/06/1943 knew. The words of the letters they send are taken from the real psychiatrist Dr Sandra Scott and his own mum, Pat, as they take Can Tommy Handley take care of all the guests at his new hotel email correspondence they exchanged. All names have been a vivacious look at happiness in the workplace. In this pilot in the legendary wartime comedy. changed and additional characters invented. episode of the comedy, the team discuss what is Britain's ITMA proved to be one of the BBC's most popular radio After a family tragedy, fifty-year old Simon decides to discover happiest job and what we can do to make our professional lives comedies ever produced. It was first transmitted just before the all he can about the mystery that has haunted him for decades. more cheerful. start of the Second World War in 1939 and ran to 1949. Neither Simon nor his mother, know anything about the SAT 23:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b00lbt3y) Domestic audiences topped 20 million, and the audience whereabouts of Simon's dad. The last they knew of him was Series 1 worldwide was said to number 30 million. It starred that he was a flamboyant artist in Florence, some time in the Episode 2 Liverpudlian comic Tommy Handley, who with Ted Kavanagh 1970s. The renowned comedian and activist tries to shape policies, created the series named after the phrase newspapers often used A chance search on the Internet leads to an artist in Tucson including honesty for politicians and truthful ads. From July to describe Hitler: It's That Man Again! Arizona. Jeff Rodriguez was once taught by Simon's dad and 2009. The original setting on a ship was deemed inappropriate once became his business partner. After some initial suspicion from war broke out, and was replaced with the Office Of Twerps, Jeff, the men exchange messages that are more like old- with Tommy as Minister of Aggravation and Mysteries. fashioned letters, revealing more to each other as trust grows SUNDAY 06 MARCH 2016 Other settings followed - a seaside resort, and a war factory between them. which by 1943, for this run of episodes, had been turned into a Just when Simon thinks he's learns the truth, new revelations SUN 00:00 The Twilight Zone (b072rwl0) hotel. complicate the story. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Featuring a host of supporting characters including Dorothy Meanwhile, his relationship with his only child, his teenage son SUN 00:40 James Follett - The Pentworth Trilogy Summers as Mrs Mopp and Jack Train as Colonel Humphrey Owen, is put under increasing strain, as Simon appears to be (b007jr6v) Chinstrap. abandoning his responsibilities in favour of exploring a distant [Repeat of broadcast at 18:40 on Saturday] Producer: Francis Worsley and unreachable past. SUN 01:00 Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre: Omnibus First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1943. Cast: (b072rsqx) SUN 08:30 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead Simon Sachanah ..... Daniel Gerroll [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] (b00j0hbp) Owen Sachanah ..... Tom Datnow SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b072rsxt) Series 2 Marjorie Robinson ..... Sandra Shipley [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] Episode 7 Dr Anna Carter ..... Christa Scott-Reed SUN 02:15 Drama (b010y37b) A forgetful actor, a grave digger's wedding - and people who Jeff Rodriguez ..... Shawn Elliot [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] use lots of words but say very little. Tina Rodriguez ..... Leslie Lyles SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 (b01nnw8t) A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker. Radio Announcer ..... Sydney Beveridge [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] With Terence Brady, Pauline Yates and John Graham. Technical Direction: Scott Lehrer SUN 04:00 Hood (b072nn3t) Pianist: Gordon Langford. Producer/Director: Judith Kampfner [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] Written by Tony Bilbow and Mike Fentiman, Guy Boas, A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SUN 05:30 You're Entering The Twilight Zone (b00mk6t9) Terence Brady, David Climie, John Graham, Charles Griffin, SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b01nnw8t) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] Kevin Paul and Harold Arkthorp, Allan Scott and Chris Bryant, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN 06:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls Peter Spence and Gerald Wiley. SAT 16:00 Hood (b072nn3t) (Omnibus) (b00mj3g2) Producer John Fawcett-Wilson [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Episode 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1972. SAT 17:30 You're Entering The Twilight Zone (b00mk6t9) 1945 and war is over. Set on showbiz careers in New York, SUN 09:00 The Real Henry James (Omnibus) (b072s4hn) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Anne, Jennifer and Neely move in together Henry James was not only a great novelist - he also wrote a SAT 18:00 The Twilight Zone (b072rwl0) Jacqueline Susann's 1960s best seller. Three beautiful young great deal of entertaining non-fiction, producing reviews and Series 3 women become best friends as they carve out careers in the essays on a wide variety of subjects. To mark the centenary of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge entertainment industry. his death, these five anthologies reveal James through his With his neck in a noose, plantation-owner Peyton Farquhar is Stars Madeleine Potter, Barbara Barnes, Julia Ford, Susan letters, memoirs, essays and private notebooks. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 5 – 11 March 2016 Page 3 of 10 The anthology has been selected by Professor Philip Horne of SUN 16:00 Zoe Fairbairns - The Belgian Nurse (b00772vr) to make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. University College London, who is founding General Editor of The story of a friendship that created one of the 20th century's Nish is joined this week by Vivienne Acheampong, Kieran a major scholarly edition of James's fiction and has re- best-selling novels and films. Hodgson and Emma Sidi. transcribed the notebooks for an authoritative new edition. When American writer Kathryn Hulme meets a Belgian nurse The Production Coordinator was Sophie Richardson. Reader: Henry Goodman on a UN Relief Programme after the Second World War, she Newsjack was produced by Matt Stronge and Paul Sheehan With introductions by Olivia Williams doesn't understand why Marie-Louise Habets is so unwilling to It was a BBC Radio Comedy Production. Producer: Elizabeth Burke talk about herself. SUN 23:30 The Nick Revell Show (b00ct94s) A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4 It's only later that Marie-Louise admits she has recently left her Series 2 SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b072s5f0) convent - a confession that reaches a worldwide audience The Promised Land Ruby Wax through the book and then the film of The Nun's Story. As writer Nick gets a lucky Hollywood break, his geraniums are Brash comedian and actress Ruby Wax chooses 'Twist and Written by Zoe Fairbairns. terrorised by an old foe. Shout' by The Beatles and 'You Can Close Your Eyes' by James Kathryn Hulme ...... Debora Weston A sitcom for the 1990s, written by and starring comedian Nick Taylor. Marie-Louise Habets ...... Rachel Atkins Revell. SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b072s5f3) Pierre ...... John Moraitis With: Comedy Writers Fred Zinneman ...... Garrick Hagon Alistair McGowan Armando Iannucci Audrey Hepburn ...... Christine Kavanagh Doon MacKichan 4 Extra Debut. From Bach to Sibelius, comedy writer and Mother Benedict ...... Jane Ridley Brian Bowles producer Armando Iannucci makes his castaway choices. With Director: Sara Davies Alison Sterling Sue Lawley. From April 2006. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007. John Guerrasio SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour (b072s73v) SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (b072sj34) Producer: Ioan Magnusson Series 2 Lost Voices - Rosemary Tonks First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1993. Mother, Mommy, Mama, Mom BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the True stories told live in the USA: Catherine Burns introduces BBC's radio poetry archive. tales about motherhood. With actress Molly Ringwald. 'Lost Voices' features Rosemary Tonks. For a female poet in MONDAY 07 MARCH 2016 The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated the 1960s Rosemary Tonks was unusually candid about to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since adventures in steamy cafes and illicit hotel bedrooms. She MON 00:00 Classic Serial (b01lh971) 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling published two extraordinary books of poetry which were [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and heavily influenced by the eroticism of 19th century French MON 01:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George poets. And then she fell silent. By the end of the 1970s, she'd (Omnibus) (b00mj3g2) Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in disappeared from public life. Brian Patten talks to some other [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the poets about Tonks's writing and asks if it has survived the MON 02:15 Clive Dunn - Definitely Dunn (b072s2zc) screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, 1960s. Then, right at the end of the programme, he receives [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at some new information. MON 02:30 We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the Producer: Christine Hall Jackson (Omnibus) (b072sbd8) USA, the UK and other parts of the world. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2009. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and SUN 17:30 Mr Blue Sky (b01dp51w) MON 03:45 EM Forster - Ansell (b072sbp4) without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. SUN 18:00 Classic Serial (b01lh971) MON 04:00 Zoe Fairbairns - The Belgian Nurse (b00772vr) Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the John Wyndham - The Chrysalids [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] humorous to the heart-breaking. Episode 2 MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (b072sj34) The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic science fiction classic [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed dramatised by Jane Rogers. MON 05:30 Mr Blue Sky (b01dp51w) by the Public Radio Exchange. Genetic mutation has devastated the world. Any deviation is [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] SUN 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00zm4j4) seen as the work of the devil, ruthlessly hunted out and MON 06:00 Wilkie Collins - Who Killed Zebedee? Series 2 destroyed. David Strorm is one of a group of young people who (b007jq0p) Earthworms can communicate by transferring thought-shapes. In God Episode 1 Although Charles Darwin is especially well known for his work fearing, law abiding Waknuk, David and his friends would be Given just days to live, a Victorian policeman is ready to make on the Theory of Evolution through his seminal work "On the classed as Mutants. Will David be forced to flee to the Fringes, his final confession Origin of Species", he also published a lot of his research on the lawless territory inhabited by mutants or risk discovery? He candidly reveals his involvement in a murder case many earthworms. Directed by Nadia Molinari years before. As a young police constable in London, he recalls Earthworms fascinated Darwin, so much so that his Written in 1955 Wyndham's novel explores the dangers how a young woman burst in with news of a gruesome killing... observations led him to believe that they showed marked inherent in discrimination and the threats posed by religious Detective story by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1881. intelligence. And earthworms fascinate Sir David Attenborough fundamentalism. The 'Old People' who caused the apocalypse Read by Ronald Pickup. too. are depressingly like us: ' They were shut off by different Producer: Joanne Reardon He recalls a visit to Australia to film the giant earthworm and languages and different beliefs. They created vast problems Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in October 2003. intriguingly used his ears more than any other sense to find then buried their heads in the sands of idle faith.' The children MON 06:30 Rocking the Blitz Club (b00rz61w) them. What did they sound like and what did they look like? He of the future (the Chrysalids) are able to 'think-together' and so Midge Ure takes us back to the Blitz Club in London's Covent reveals all. can rise above the selfish violence and conflicting religions of Garden where the 'New Romantics' came of age. Producer: Julian Hector the past. Wyndham's story of a group of persecuted teenagers is The club first opened its doors in 1979 at the height of another First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011. more timely than ever in our post-Fukushima, war-riven, recession and Midge explores how the flamboyant Blitz scene SUN 12:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b072s3gk) genetically engineered and religiously divided world. Jane offered an escape from the hard economic reality that he and [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Rogers is a playwright and novelist, her latest novel The his contemporaries were facing. SUN 12:30 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead Testament of Jessie Lamb won the Arthur C Clarke Award this Midge remembers how "walking into the Blitz was like stepping (b00j0hbp) year. out of time, you never knew what period it was set in. It was a [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour (b072s73v) total mish-mash of styles, full of blurred genders and make-up SUN 13:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] for girls and boys". The Blitz crowd were christened the 'New (Omnibus) (b00mj3g2) SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00zm4j4) Romantics' because of what Midge calls their "nostalgia for the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] future". SUN 14:15 Clive Dunn - Definitely Dunn (b072s2zc) SUN 20:00 The Real Henry James (Omnibus) (b072s4hn) The Blitz was a seedbed for creative talent, full of musicians, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] designers, photographers and stylists. John Galliano first SUN 14:30 We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks (b072s5f0) flaunted his ideas there, Spandau Ballet played their early gigs Jackson (Omnibus) (b072sbd8) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] and a young Boy George took the coats. Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b072s5f3) A new sound emerged from the club - the synthesizer-based Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] electropop pioneered by Midge in his bands Visage and Blackwoods — until a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into SUN 22:00 Mr Blue Sky (b01dp51w) Ultravox. The success of the Blitz bands brought wealth and the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of the murders, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] fame, but the "extreme hedonism" of the 'New Romantic' Constance has returned home, where Merricat protects her SUN 22:30 The Shuttleworths (b007jm47) movement led many into very dark places. from the curiosity and hostility of the villagers. Series 2 Finally, Midge explores why the 1980s 'New Romantic' synth “If you haven’t read We Have Always Lived In The Castle you The Birthday Bench sound has seen a revival in the current recession. are missing out.” Neil Gaiman. Sheffield’s aspiring singer/songwriter John Shuttleworth spots Midge meets former Blitz Kids including: Gary Kemp (Spandau “Her greatest book…at once whimsical and harrowing.” Donna the perfect birthday gift for his agent. But Ken’s got other Ballet), Gary Numan, Robert Elms, Rusty Egan, Steve Strange Tartt. ideas... (Visage), Stephen Jones (milliner) and Dylan Jones, to revisit “A masterpiece of Gothic suspense.” Joyce Carol Oates. Written and performed by Graham Fellows. what was undoubtedly a golden era of British pop music. Shirley Jackson, who died in 1965, was perhaps best known for Producer: Paul Schlesinger Producer: Melissa FitzGerald her short story, The Lottery, and her novel, The Haunting Of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1995. A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Hill House, twice filmed and thought to be the last word in SUN 22:45 The In Crowd (b007jpmk) April 2010. haunted-house tales. Her work has received increasing attention Series 2 MON 07:00 The Right Time (b0076mmf) from literary critics in recent years. She’s influenced such Episode 3 Series 4 writers as Stephen King and Nigel Kneale. A woman obsessed with making soup – and the furniture Episode 5 Reader: Bryony Hannah removal men who think they're on TV’s Antiques Roadshow. Musing on middle-age and a near-death experience turns out Abridger: Jeremy Osborne Sketch show from Manchester's Comedy Store. mundane. Producer: Karen Rose With Robin Ince, Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward. Sketch show about growing older disgracefully. A Sweet Talk production first broadcast in five parts on BBC Producer: Graham Frost Stars Eleanor Bron, Dudley Sutton, Roger Blake, Paula Wilcox. Radio 4 in 2018 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2002. Clive Swift and Barry Cryer. SUN 15:45 EM Forster - Ansell (b072sbp4) SUN 23:00 Newsjack (b07295ph) Written by Colin Bostock-Smith, Jill Brodie & John Pidgeon, "Books! I don't hold with books in the country. What you want Series 14 Barry Cryer, Dave Dixon, Jan Etherington, Alan Stafford and is recr'ation and h'air and h'exercise." Two childhood friends go Episode 4 Chris Thompson & Pete Reynolds. onto lead very different lives. EM Forster's short story read by This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into Script editor: George Poles. Peter Kenny. sketches, one-liners and vox-pops written by the public. Trying Music by Ronnie & The Rex. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 5 – 11 March 2016 Page 4 of 10 Producer: Katie Marsden Produced by Jeremy Osborne Operation Luna First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004. Made for BBC Radio 4Extra by Sweet Talk. 6. The Irresistible Force MON 07:30 Just a Minute (b071sn2k) MON 11:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007k241) Captain Jet Morgan decides to investigate the dark side of the Series 74 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes moon, before the ship returns to Earth. Episode 2 The Man With the Twisted Lip Futuristic tale set in 1965 written and produced by Charles Gyles Brandreth, Tim Rice & Esther Rantzen join Paul Merton Trailing a missing man, the detective enters one of London's Chilton. and Nicholas Parsons as they try to speak without deviation, vilest opium dens. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael Williams. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds hesitation or repetition on such diverse subjects as Bubble & MON 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jr4t) Lemmy Barnett …. Alfie Bass Squeak, Kiwis and A Leap Year in the classic panel game. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Doc …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON 12:30 Listen to Les (b0180fmx) Mitch …. David Williams MON 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jr4t) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] All Other Parts …. David Jacobs Series 3 MON 13:00 Wilkie Collins - Who Killed Zebedee? Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips. The Cricket Match (b007jq0p) The original 1953 recordings of this futuristic series were Captain Mainwaring goes into bat when the Home Guard [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] erased. platoon are challenged to play a match against the wardens.. MON 13:30 Rocking the Blitz Club (b00rz61w) This series was re-recorded and first broadcast on the BBC The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Light Programme in April 1958. platoon in Walmington-on-Sea. MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01n9yg5) MON 18:30 A Good Read (b00763q1) Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV Patricia Ferguson - The Midwife's Daughter Sheena McDonald & Chris Woodhead scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. Episode 1 Matthew Parris and his guests broadcaster Sheena McDonald Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe By Patricia Ferguson and former chief inspector of schools Chris Woodhead discuss Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier Read by Joanna Tope favourite books by John Cowper Powys, Edward Platt and Peter Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the new novel by Novick. From 2001. Private Frazer …. John Laurie Orange Prize listed author Patricia Ferguson is the Books discussed: Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley compassionate and moving story of two sisters and the young Wolf Solant by John Cowper Powys Private Pike …. Ian Lavender black orphan who changes their lives. Pub: Penguin Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee Violet Dimond has a terrible nightmare about her dead daughter Holocaust and Collective Memory by Peter Novick Private Walker …. Larry Martyn but wonders if the dream may not strictly be her own. Pub: Bloomsbury Vicar …. Frank Williams Abridged by Robin Brooks Leadville by Edward Platt Verger …. Edward Sinclair Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. Pub: Picador. Announcer/Newsreader …. John Snagge MON 14:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04cb9gw) MON 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jr4t) Producer: John Dyas Towards the Light [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1976. The Nobel prize for Chemistry was awarded to German MON 19:30 Listen to Les (b0180fmx) MON 08:30 Listen to Les (b0180fmx) scientist Richard Willstatter in 1915 for his analysis of the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] From 20/01/1985 green plant pigment chlorophyll. It marked a significant MON 20:00 Wilkie Collins - Who Killed Zebedee? Les Dawson pays tribute to a feisty barber, Cosmo Smallpiece moment in the long history of piecing together the many (b007jq0p) chairs a chat show and with Les at the piano, the Ink Blots help elements that contribute to photosynthesis - the process by [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] to murder a song. which plants draw in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and MON 20:30 Rocking the Blitz Club (b00rz61w) With Daphne Oxenford, Eli Woods and Colin Edwynn. together with light and water can generate their own glucose and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Music by Brian Fitzgerald. release oxygen back into the air. The limits of this process were MON 21:00 Graham Swift - England and Other Stories Scripted and produced by James Casey. now clear (b04j2333) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1985. Kathy Willis hears from historian Jim Endersby about defining [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON 09:00 The Write Stuff (b00f9vnx) moments in photosynthesis' long history and from Kew's Head MON 21:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007k241) Series 8 of Conservation Biotechnology about how artificially elevating [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Robert Burns levels of carbon dioxide in the air,a technique long developed MON 22:00 Just a Minute (b071sn2k) James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary by horticulturists to produce bigger fruit and vegetable crops, is [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] correctness, flanked by captains Sebastian Faulks and John now having dramatic effects on successful reintroduction of MON 22:30 Chris Addison's Civilization (b00f2zsd) Walsh and guests Harry Ritchie and Simon Brett. The author of cultivated endangered plants back into the wild. A Working Society the week and subject for pastiche is Robert Burns and the And as scientists understand the different methods that plants Charting our bumpy evolution, Chris Addison explains why he reader is Beth Chalmers. use to photosynthesise, Kathy Willis hears from Oxford plant chose to spell civilisation with a Z. MON 09:30 King Street Junior (b007jmjs) scientist Jane Langdale who's part of a network of international Continuing his journey through the vast and rich subject of Series 6 scientists who are attempting to mend a fundamental flaw in the civilisation, the thinking-idiot's anthropologist explains exactly In Real Terms process of photosynthesis which could improve future rice what we need to create a new one. When expenditure exceeds income, Mr Beeston faces tough yields by 50% With: decisions over the new school year. Stars Karl Howman and Producer Adrian Washbourne. Professor Austin Herring (Geoffrey McGivern) James Grout. MON 14:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls Jo Enright MON 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gq5y) (b00mjktk) Dan Tetsell Time of Hope Episode 11 Producer: Simon Nicholls Lewis Eliot starts his rise to power by escaping from the 1956: Neely's Hollywood career has collapsed. Back in New First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2006. drudgery of a council clerk's office in Leicester in the 1920s by York she and Anne go to see Neely's old rival Helen Lawson in MON 23:00 The Now Show (b071x885) passing exams to study at the Bar in this first episode of CP a new show. Series 48 Snow's epic novel sequence about the English Establishment Jacqueline Susann's 1960s best seller. Three beautiful young Episode 1 and Power. women are best friends carving out careers in the entertainment Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Mae Martin, Marcus Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway industry. Brigstocke and Gemma Arrowsmith to present the week in With Adam Godley as Lewis Eliot and narrated by David Haig Stars Madeleine Potter, Barbara Barnes, Kerry Shale, Sally news through stand-up and sketches. George Passant ... Bill Wallis Dexter and Coleen Prendergast. This week the gang take a look at the impending EU Marion ... Laura Doddington Dramatised in fifteen parts by Yvonne Antrobus. Referendum and discuss the fallout from Super Tuesday with Sheila Knight ... Anastasia Hille Producer: Claire Grove Channel 4 News' Chief Writer Felicity Spector. Herbert Getliffe ... Stephen Moore First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. MON 23:30 Elvenquest (b01616lj) Percy Hall ... Danny Webb MON 14:45 Book of the Week (b00zlfh1) Series 3 Charles March ... Jamie Glover John Julius Norwich - The Popes Episode 1 Leonard March ... John Standing Episode 1 When Sam is left behind to "guard the stuff" whilst the others Katherine March ... Carla Simpson Well known for his histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the are off killing the Man-munching Giant of Rankor he is Ann Simon .... Emma Woolliams Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich accosted by a beautiful maiden, Eirwen, who has been kept Mrs Getliffe ... Suzanna Hamilton has now turned his attention to the oldest continuing institution captive in the giant's castle and takes Sam to be her rescuer. She Revd Knight ...Brett Usher in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St promptly proposes, throwing the future of the Questers' Directed by Jeremy Howe and Sally Avens Peter himself - traditionally (though by no means historically) Fellowship into jeopardy. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003. the first pope - to the present day. Of the 280-odd holders of Meanwhile, Lord Darkness' attempts to conquer Lower Earth MON 11:00 Graham Swift - England and Other Stories the supreme office, some have unquestionably been saints; take a new turn when Kreech discovers an ancient prophesy (b04j2333) others have wallowed in unspeakable iniquity. enabling Lord Darkness to create the "UnChosen One", an evil Fusilli John Julius Norwich begins reading The Popes today in suitably spirit that is the only being that can defeat the Chosen One. A packet of pasta from the supermarket shelf reawakens a sensational fashion, with a 9th century scandal, believed for Problem is, it means Lord Darkness has to impregnate a father's loss. Read by Ewan Bailey. several centuries and doubted for as many again. The pope hideous, misshapen creature. If only there was one of those The 25 short stories that comprise England and Other Stories reputed to have given birth on a Roman street, who inspired a close to hand... mark Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed bizarre and unlikely ritual which was inflicted on future Fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth written by Anil Gupta novels. The stories dwell on the essence of Englishness and pontiffs to ensure their gender was male... meet Pope Joan. and Richard Pinto. those chosen place us on the eve of the Battle of Trafalgar, in a Producer: David Roper Sam …. Stephen Mangan barbers, a supermarket, a laboratory and Macintyre's A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. Lord Darkness …. Alistair McGowan warehouse, and in each place and time, Swift perfectly captures MON 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gq5y) Dean/Kreech …. Kevin Eldon a universal truth from the minutiae of lives. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Vidar …. Darren Boyd "This is a sharp, beautiful collection: every story quick and MON 16:00 The Write Stuff (b00f9vnx) EirwenMartha Howe-Douglas readable but leaving in the memory a core, a residue of [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Amis ‘The Chosen One’ …. Dave Lamb thoughtfulness" The Guardian MON 16:30 King Street Junior (b007jmjs) Penthiselea …. Sophie Winkleman Graham Swift came to prominence with this second novel [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Producer: Sam Michell Shuttlecock, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in MON 17:00 The Right Time (b0076mmf) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2011. 1983. That same year, Swift's Waterland, set in the Fens earned [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] him a place on the shortlist for the Booker prize. Swift would MON 17:30 Just a Minute (b071sn2k) go on to win the Booker prize in 1996 with his novel Last [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUESDAY 08 MARCH 2016 Orders, which became a film starring Michael Caine, Tom MON 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Courtney, Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. (b007jmtk) TUE 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 5 – 11 March 2016 Page 5 of 10 (b007jmtk) Series 4 mark Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Episode 4 novels. The stories dwell on the essence of Englishness and TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b00763q1) A funny turn round the table with 'The Knights of Camelot' and those chosen place us on the eve of the Battle of Trafalgar, in a [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] a bona peek in Kenneth Horne's wardrobe, courtesy of Julian barbers, a supermarket, a laboratory and Macintyre's TUE 01:00 Wilkie Collins - Who Killed Zebedee? and Sandy. warehouse, and in each place and time, Swift perfectly captures (b007jq0p) With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden. a universal truth from the minutiae of lives. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, "This is a sharp, beautiful collection: every story quick and TUE 01:30 Rocking the Blitz Club (b00rz61w) London. Announcer: Douglas Smith readable but leaving in the memory a core, a residue of [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio thoughtfulness" The Guardian TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01n9yg5) comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Graham Swift came to prominence with this second novel [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Shuttlecock, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in TUE 02:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04cb9gw) Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the 1983. That same year, Swift's Waterland, set in the Fens earned [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and him a place on the shortlist for the Booker prize. Swift would TUE 02:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, go on to win the Booker prize in 1996 with his novel Last (b00mjktk) catchphrases and double-entendres. Orders, which became a film starring Michael Caine, Tom [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Marty Feldman had moved on so series 4 is written by Barry Courtney, Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. TUE 02:45 Book of the Week (b00zlfh1) Took with Brian Cooke & Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Produced by Jeremy Osborne [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] Webster. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk. TUE 03:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gq5y) Music by the Max Harris Group. TUE 11:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007k25c) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Producer: John Simmonds The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff (b00f9vnx) First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1968. The Blue Carbuncle [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE 08:30 The Men from the Ministry (b0133g6y) The detective must solve a case where the only clues are a TUE 04:30 King Street Junior (b007jmjs) Bridge Under Troubled Water Christmas goose and a hat. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Grumbling Hampshire locals oppose the bungling duo's plans Williams. TUE 05:00 The Right Time (b0076mmf) for a river crossing. TUE 12:00 Round the Horne (b00spqnx) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] A weekly tribute to all those who work in government [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (b071sn2k) departments. TUE 12:30 The Men from the Ministry (b0133g6y) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. With Norma [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE 06:00 Wilkie Collins - Who Killed Zebedee? Ronald, Ronald Baddiley and John Graham. TUE 13:00 Wilkie Collins - Who Killed Zebedee? (b007jq12) Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham. (b007jq12) Episode 2 'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] With just days to live, a Victorian policeman continues his final and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from TUE 13:30 Mandela in His Own Words (b00wr4j3) confession from his death bed. 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] With mystery still surrounding the brutal murder of John however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01ncj0v) Zebedee, he recalls his determination to solve the case when the in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC Patricia Ferguson - The Midwife's Daughter rest of the police force had given up. Radio 4 Extra. Episode 2 Detective story by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1881. Producer: Edward Taylor By Patricia Ferguson Concluded by Ronald Pickup First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in March 1973. Read by Joanna Tope Producer: Joanne Reardon TUE 09:00 The Now Show (b071x885) The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in October 2003. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who TUE 06:30 Mandela in His Own Words (b00wr4j3) TUE 09:30 Mr and Mrs Smith (b01bgp22) changes their lives. Nelson Mandela wrote a letter every day of his life. He also Pilot Episode - The Anniversary Violet has had a nightmare about her dead daughter, Ruth, and wrote diaries, kept notebooks, scratched out ideas for speeches A weekend break to celebrate their anniversary ends in disaster sets off to visit her twin sister, Bea, whose dream it may and doodled his thoughts and meditations on scraps of paper. for Will and Annabelle. Will's terrible anniversary present is the actually have been. In this programme Fergal Keane takes a journey through this last straw so Annabelle signs them up for marriage counselling. Abridged by Robin Brooks special archive, which was bequeathed to the Nelson Mandela Guy mediates between Will and Annabelle, with flashbacks to Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. Foundation in 2009 and published by Macmillan in the book the events that spawned the argument. By the end, the couple TUE 14:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04cc1wy) 'Conversations With Myself' in October 2010. find marital equilibrium once more. Sort of. Multiple Genes The archive reveals surprises, painful reminders and A repeat of the pilot episode from last year, ahead of the new In 1903 a cluster of evening primrose in an abandoned potato unanswered questions and offers insight into the experiences series which begins next week. Sitcom by Will smith. field outside the Dutch town of Hilversum caught the eye of which led to Mandela's daily disciplines, life lessons and to the EPISODE CAST DETAILS: German botanist Hugo de Vries. Its huge blooms and large moral and political vision which inspired and continues to Will Smith ..... Will Smith leaves appeared to suggest the sudden development of a new inspire so many. Annabelle Smith ..... Sarah Hadland species. Around the same time in Kew Gardens a mysterious We hear the voice of someone who is communicating not Guy, Darryl ..... Paterson Joseph primula hybrid appeared. The new discipline of plant genetics necessarily to a particular audience but who is laying out his John, TV repairman ..... Geoffrey Whitehead soon revealed that this curious trick was being driven by personal thoughts. We are also given snatches of audio archive - Receptionist, Sally ..... Morwenna Banks multiplication of chromosomes inside the plant cell nucleus. conversations between Mr Mandela and one of his closest Written by ..... Will Smith Professor Kathy Willis examines this phenomenon - known as friends and colleagues, Ahmed Kathrada speaking on a range of Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani polyploidy ( "multiple forms") - and how insights into this subjects from lessons on how to fire a rifle, to Tracy Chapman. ABOUT THE SERIES peculiarity can contribute to the evolutionary success of plants. We hear Mandela's reflections as an activist with the ANC in The writer and comedian Will Smith leads the starry cast of Mr It may also hold the answer to one of the botanical world's the 1960s. We hear his voice at the moment he is told he will be and Mrs.Smith. Sarah Hadland (Miranda, The Mitchell and greatest mysteries - why so soon after appearing in the fossil sent to Robben Island, and in more personal moments, recalling Webb Look, Moving Wallpaper) stars as Will's wife Annabelle. record did the flowering plants suddenly explode into the dreams about his wife Winnie and his children, during his years Paterson Joseph (Peep Show, Survivors, Green Wing) plays bewildering range of species we see today. apart from his family. We hear diary excerpts written on the Counsellor Guy. The series also includes Geoffrey whitehead With contributions from historian Jim Endersby, Keeper of night of his release from Pollsmoor in February 1990, and (Reggie Perrin, Worst Week of My Life) , Susie Blake Kew's Jodrell Lab Mark Chase, and Jodrell Laboratory drafts of his very early speeches as leader of the ANC. And we (Coronation Street; Victoria Wood as Seen on TV) and geneticist Illia Leitch. hear extracts from letters and diaries written during his years in Morwenna Banks (Absolutely; Skins; Saxondale). Producer Adrian Washbourne. retirement, as he observes the ongoing political struggles of his Will's writing credits include Armstrong and Miller (BBC1), TUE 14:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls country. Harry and Paul (BBC1), Moving Wallpaper (ITV1), Time (b00mjnwj) Producer: Sarah Cuddon Trumpet (BBC2), the multi-award winning The Thick Of It Episode 12 A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. (BBC2) in which he also appears as Phil Smith, and the Just as Jennifer finds love and happiness, tragedy strikes. Stars TUE 07:00 55 and Over (b01nt3xm) upcoming Veep (HBO). Madeleine Potter, Kerry Shale and Nathan Osgood. 1. Out of Tune TUE 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gtdx) TUE 14:45 Book of the Week (b00zlhhl) Ray and Jane's marriage is rocked by some very bad singing and The Conscience of the Rich John Julius Norwich - The Popes late-life crises take hold. 1920s Episode 2 Starring Juliet Stevenson and Philip Jackson. Lewis Eliot gets caught up in a political scandal that engulfs the Well known for his histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the Multi-award winning writer, Peter Souter's comedy about love, family of his best friend Charles March. Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich sex and other foolhardy mistakes made by the modern CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English has now turned his attention to the oldest continuing institution 50-pluser. Establishment and Power. in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Jane ..... Juliet Stevenson Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway Peter himself - traditionally (though by no means historically) Ray ..... Philip Jackson With Adam Godley as Lewis Eliot and narrated by David Haig the first pope - to the present day. Tony ..... Patrick Brennan George Passant ... Bill Wallis Of the 280-odd holders of the supreme office, some have Heather ..... Liza Sadovy Marion ... Laura Doddington unquestionably been saints; others have wallowed in Honey ..... Stephanie Racine Sheila Knight ... Anastasia Hille unspeakable iniquity. Sam ..... Adam Nagaitis Herbert Getliffe ... Stephen Moore John Julius Norwich continues his history of the papacy today Director: Helen Perry Percy Hall ... Danny Webb with a period of immense political turmoil. In 1152 Frederick First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012. Charles March ... Jamie Glover Barbarossa became King of the Romans - determined to take TUE 07:30 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting Leonard March ... John Standing his place as successor to the great Charlemagne. At the same (b007jsf7) Katherine March ... Carla Simpson time the Norman King William of Sicily harboured Series 1 Ann Simon .... Emma Woolliams expansionist ambitions and in Rome the threat of civil war A Day Trip to Romney Marsh Mrs Getliffe ... Suzanna Hamilton simmered. In the middle stood the only English pope in the Linda and her chums head to the coast, letting the train increase Revd Knight ...Brett Usher Papacy's history: Nicholas Breakspear, Hadrian IV. the strain. Directed by Jeremy Howe and Sally Avens Producer: David Roper Comedy series written by and starring Linda Smith. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003. A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. With Femi Elufowoju Jr, Jeremy Hardy, Martin Hyder, TUE 11:00 Graham Swift - England and Other Stories TUE 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gtdx) Margaret John, Chris Neill and Mark Steel. (b04j29zn) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Producer: Lucy Armitage Holly and Polly TUE 16:00 It's Your Round (b00zf4nz) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001. A love story, and how it happens. Read by Jenny Funnell Series 1 TUE 08:00 Round the Horne (b00spqnx) The 25 short stories that comprise England and Other Stories Episode 5 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 5 – 11 March 2016 Page 6 of 10 Angus Deayton hosts the comedy panel show with no format. TUE 23:30 Think the Unthinkable (b007m4dz) WED 07:30 Chain Reaction (b071vkwl) Tim Key, Micky Flanagan, Bridget Christie and Nick Hancock Series 2 Series 11 battle it out to see who can beat each other at their own games Riddlington Plastic Al Murray interviews Ian Hislop each has brought along. The consultants marvel at the world wide web, and Ryan gets Pub Landlord creator, Al Murray passes the baton to the What is Micky's 'Cockney Rhyming Slang Charades' all about embroiled in a protest. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From comedian and satirist Ian Hislop. and is it any fun to play? Can anyone understand the rules to November 2002. Chain Reaction is the long running hostless chat show where Tim's 'No More Women'? And what is Bridget's idea of her this week's interviewee becomes next week's interviewer. 'Fantasy Funeral'? Find out the answers to these questions, and After an early foray into stand-up as a character called 'The more, in this show. WEDNESDAY 09 MARCH 2016 Murderer', Al Murray created his famous Pub Landlord Angus valiantly tries to make sure everyone comes out of it character in the mid nineties as part of a touring show with with their reputations intact. WED 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Harry Hill. The Pub Landlord went on to tour venues and Reader: Christine Kavanagh (b007jmvs) festivals worldwide before making his own chat show and Writers: Angus Deayton, Ged Parsons and Paul Powell [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] sitcom for Sky. Outside of the Pub Landlord, Al is well known Devised by Benjamin Partridge WED 00:30 The Palace of Laughter (b007vcw2) as a presenter of history documentaries and more recently as a Producer: Sam Michell. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] candidate for parliament when he stood against Nigel Farage in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011. WED 01:00 Wilkie Collins - Who Killed Zebedee? South Thanet during the UK General Election of 2015. TUE 16:30 Mr and Mrs Smith (b01bgp22) (b007jq12) Al's guest Ian Hislop is much more used to the cut and thrust of [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] British politics both as a long-standing team captain on 'Have I TUE 17:00 55 and Over (b01nt3xm) WED 01:30 Mandela in His Own Words (b00wr4j3) Got News for You' and as the editor of satirical magazine [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Private Eye. As a dedicated fan and student of history, he has TUE 17:30 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01ncj0v) made several acclaimed documentaries on wide-ranging (b007jsf7) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] subjects including conscientious objectors and The Beeching [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED 02:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04cc1wy) Report. TUE 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] Al grills Ian on his early days writing for such comedians as (b007jmvs) WED 02:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls Harry Enfield, asks how we should define the role of the satirist Operation Luna (b00mjnwj) and poses the intriguing question, 'what's it like being sued?' 7. Is this The Earth? [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] Producer: Richard Morris As Captain Jet Morgan's crew are pursued on the dark side of WED 02:45 Book of the Week (b00zlhhl) A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first the moon, they drift dangerously off course. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] broadcast in March 2016. Written and produced by Charles Chilton. WED 03:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gtdx) WED 08:00 The Navy Lark (b01jt25y) Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Series 6 Lemmy Barnett …. Alfie Bass WED 04:00 It's Your Round (b00zf4nz) The Struggle for Promotion Doc …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] A new naval directive lets Pertwee apply for a commission. Mitch …. David Williams WED 04:30 Mr and Mrs Smith (b01bgp22) All Other Parts …. David Jacobs [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips. WED 05:00 55 and Over (b01nt3xm) Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, The original 1953 recordings of this futuristic series were [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] Richard Caldicote as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as erased. WED 05:30 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting Heather and Michael Bates as the Padre and Tenniel Evans as This series was re-recorded and first broadcast on the BBC (b007jsf7) Taffy Goldstein. Light Programme in May 1958. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] TUE 18:30 The Palace of Laughter (b007vcw2) WED 06:00 Craddock and Co (b007jsvl) Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Series 1 1. The Crompton Canvas Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen Grand Blackpool A violent burglary leads Victorian detective Charles Craddock series between 1959 and 1976. Known after its architect Frank Matcham as "Matcham's to a sinister rendezvous. Masterpiece", the Grand Theatre, Blackpool, is a sumptuously Lucy Greenwood travels from Lancashire to London to work Scripted by Lawrie Wyman decorated tribute to the greatness of Victorian theatre design. with her Uncle Charles at his London book shop - but soon Bernard Cribbins , Bill Pertwee and Mike Harding are among discovers he has another profession as a private investigator. Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. those recalling their appearances there. CAST: Series in which Geoffrey Wheeler visits variety theatres around Charles Craddock …. Martin Jarvis First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November the United Kingdom. Lucy Greenwood …. Emma Tate 1963. Producer: Libby Cross Grout …. Struan Rodger WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b012xpyk) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2002. Leopold Kransky …. Stephen Thorne Series 8 TUE 19:00 Round the Horne (b00spqnx) Slip …. Lyndham Gregory Episode 5 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Peggie McLavety …. John Evitts It's music all the way on Wonderful Radio Prune with Dave TUE 19:30 The Men from the Ministry (b0133g6y) Captain John Trevail …. Gareth Armstrong "the Rave" Hatch. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Written by Chris Thompson. Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo TUE 20:00 Wilkie Collins - Who Killed Zebedee? Director: John Taylor. Kendall and Bill Oddie. (b007jq12) First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1993. Sketches written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED 06:30 Plumbers and Penguins (b00wr6qk) Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue TUE 20:30 Mandela in His Own Words (b00wr4j3) Stories of some of the tradesmen who live and work on 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Antarctica. quickly developed a cult following. TUE 21:00 Graham Swift - England and Other Stories In the summer of 2009, British Antarctic Survey very publicly Music and songs by Bill Oddie, Liam Cohen and Dave Lee. (b04j29zn) recruited 43 plumbers, carpenters, mechanics, electricians and Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] doctors to spend 18 months working on their most southerly First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1970. TUE 21:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007k25c) research stations - promising "the most exhilarating experience WED 09:00 It's Not What You Know (b036v9hd) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] of a lifetime". Chris Eldon Lee discovers what actually Series 2 TUE 22:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting happened to the new recruits. Almost 2000 tradesman applied Episode 2 (b007jsf7) to be parted from their white vans and sent into whiteout Frank Skinner, Grace Dent and Jonathan Agnew each nominate [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] conditions. Doctors were also hired to care for their welfare in someone they know well to answer a series of questions and TUE 22:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b040h6xq) such extreme conditions. they than have to second guess how they answered. Series 1 Mark Green, a 48-year-old Bristol plumber, was sent to Halley Host Miles Jupp tests Frank on how well he knows his friend Episode 2 Research Station on the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula. and radio co-host Emily Dean, Grace her best friend, the Times Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates a 'gamble His job is to keep water supplies flowing at temperatures of columnist Caitlin Moran, and Jonathan his wife's best friend Anglaise' from 1811. He's attempting to get a cheeseboard to minus 50 Celsius. 30-year-old Claire Lehman, a recently Anne Davies. travel a distance of four and a half miles in under 100 throws. qualified Wiltshire GP, was posted to Rothera, on the western What is Frank's favourite drink? Who is Grace's favourite Challenge number one? Getting permission to have the A151 shore of the Peninsula. writer? And what would Jonathan do if he wasn't a cricket closed down for the purposes of cheeseboard tossing. Like everybody else in Antarctica, both have had to learn brand commentator? Comedian-author-adventurer Tim FitzHigham recreates a series new skills to help keep their Bases going. Mark finds himself All answers and more will be revealed. of bizarre bets from the 18th and 19th centuries. abseiling down precipitous crevasses and learning to be a sea- Producer: Sam Michell. Written by and starring Tim FitzHigham. ice driver's mate. Claire is refuelling planes and supplying all First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013. Additional material by Jon Hunter and Paul Byrne and sums and the field scientists with freshly baked Christmas Cakes. WED 09:30 The Party Line (b00sx226) support from Joe Oldak. Producer: Chris Eldon Lee Series 1 Produced by Colin Anderson. A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Episode 5 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014. December 2020. Family friction for Duncan Stonebridge as MPs debate the TUE 23:00 World of Pub (b007sygy) WED 07:00 Married (b007w523) Religious and Racial Hatred Bill. Stars James Fleet. From June Series 2 Series 1 2005. Episode 2 Episode 5 WED 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gyjd) The Red Lion's almost bankrupt - can Dodgy Phil get the Just as he is starting to make the most of his new life, Robin is The Masters, Part 1 punters back? whisked back to his old universe where his doppelganger has 1920s. Lewis Eliot is teaching in a Cambridge College when an Tony Roche's comedy about the world's worst pub in London's been wreaking havoc... election is called for a new Master. East End. Hugh Bonneville stars in Tony Bagley's comedy. CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English Establishment Dodgy Phil ...... John Thomson Robin ...... Hugh Bonneville and Power. Barry ...... Phil Cornwell Lesley ...... Josie Lawrence Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway Garry ...... Alistair McGowan Dirk ...... Steve Frost With Adam Godley as Lewis Eliot and narrated by David Haig With Debra Stephenson and Simon Greenall. Julia ...... Barbara Murray Francis Getliffe ... Andy Taylor Special effects: Carl Phillips and Nick Romero. Penny ...... Melanie Hudson Winslow ... Clive Merrison Music: Bill Bailey Drunk ...... Harry Myers Brown ... Philip Franks Producer: Jane Berthoud Producer Claire Jones Calvert ... Adam Levy First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1999. Jago ... David Calder Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 5 – 11 March 2016 Page 7 of 10 Nightingale ... Jeremy Child A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THURSDAY 10 MARCH 2016 Chrystal ... Matthew Marsh WED 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gyjd) Crawford ... Hugh Quarshie [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Mrs Jago... Joanna Monroe WED 16:00 It's Not What You Know (b036v9hd) (b007jmw8) SIr Horace Timberlake... Ian Hogg [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Directed by Jeremy Howe and Sally Avens WED 16:30 The Party Line (b00sx226) THU 00:30 Off the Page (b072zkkm) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] WED 11:00 Graham Swift - England and Other Stories WED 17:00 Married (b007w523) THU 01:00 Craddock and Co (b007jsvl) (b04j2dsd) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] Articles of War WED 17:30 Chain Reaction (b071vkwl) THU 01:30 Plumbers and Penguins (b00wr6qk) It is September 1805 and a young lieutenant awaits his first [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] naval action with some trepidation. Read by Ewan Bailey. WED 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01ncjfs) The 25 short stories that comprise England and Other Stories (b007jmw8) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] mark Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed Operation Luna THU 02:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04cffpd) novels. The stories dwell on the essence of Englishness and 8. The Time Travellers [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] those chosen place us on the eve of the Battle of Trafalgar, in a Captain Jet Morgan and his crew find themselves on a curiously THU 02:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls barbers, a supermarket, a laboratory and Macintyre's familiar planet as visitors arrive. (b00mjs2l) warehouse, and in each place and time, Swift perfectly captures Futuristic tale set in 1965 written and produced by Charles [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] a universal truth from the minutiae of lives. Chilton. THU 02:45 Book of the Week (b00zm07y) "This is a sharp, beautiful collection: every story quick and Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] readable but leaving in the memory a core, a residue of Lemmy Barnett …. Alfie Bass THU 03:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gyjd) thoughtfulness" The Guardian Doc …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] Graham Swift came to prominence with this second novel Mitch …. David Williams THU 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b036v9hd) Shuttlecock, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in All Other Parts …. David Jacobs [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] 1983. That same year, Swift's Waterland, set in the Fens earned Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips. THU 04:30 The Party Line (b00sx226) him a place on the shortlist for the Booker prize. Swift would The original 1953 recordings of this futuristic series were [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] go on to win the Booker prize in 1996 with his novel Last erased. THU 05:00 Married (b007w523) Orders, which became a film starring Michael Caine, Tom This series was re-recorded and first broadcast on the BBC [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Courtney, Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. Light Programme in May 1958. THU 05:30 Chain Reaction (b071vkwl) Produced by Jeremy Osborne WED 18:30 Off the Page (b072zkkm) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk. Putting Your Foot in It THU 06:00 Craddock and Co (b007jsvx) WED 11:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007k26n) Dominic Arkwright discusses putting your foot in it, with 2. The Play's the Thing The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Melissa Kite, Dominic Holland and Annie Nightingale. From 1899: Victorian bookseller-cum-detective Charles Craddock The Speckled Band August 2006. and his niece, Lucy, investigate mysterious backstage dramas at After her twin sister dies screaming in terror, a woman seeks WED 19:00 The Navy Lark (b01jt25y) a London theatre. the detective's help. Star Clive Merrison and Michael Williams. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] CAST: WED 12:00 The Navy Lark (b01jt25y) WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b012xpyk) Charles Craddock …. Martin Jarvis [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Lucy Greenwood …. Emma Tate WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b012xpyk) WED 20:00 Craddock and Co (b007jsvl) Grout …. Struan Rodger [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] James Price …. David Thorpe WED 13:00 Craddock and Co (b007jsvl) WED 20:30 Plumbers and Penguins (b00wr6qk) Rufus Weatherby …. Colin Pinney [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Rex Radford …. Barry J. Gordon WED 13:30 Plumbers and Penguins (b00wr6qk) WED 21:00 Graham Swift - England and Other Stories Elizabeth Barnes …. Teresa Gallagher [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] (b04j2dsd) Hamlet …. Michael Onslow WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01ncjfs) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Written by Chris Thompson. Patricia Ferguson - The Midwife's Daughter WED 21:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007k26n) Director: John Taylor. Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1993. By Patricia Ferguson WED 22:00 Chain Reaction (b071vkwl) THU 06:30 Beat It: The World of The Modern Drummer Read by Joanna Tope [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] (b00vkwvc) The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and WED 22:30 Andrew Lawrence: How Did We End Up Like When John Lennon was asked if Ringo was the best drummer moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who This? (b01p0sbk) in the world he quipped " He wasn't even the best drummer in changes their lives. Violence the Beatles". Lennon's natural put-down is typical of the way Violet has taken Grace home to Silkhampton where she causes Andrew Lawrence continues his comic explanation of our drummers are belittled within music circles. quite a stir. And Violet receives an unwelcome visitor. development via stand up, sketch and song. Presenter Phill Jupitus challenges this notion with the help of a Abridged by Robin Brooks This time, Andrew explores violence. cross-section of musicians to discover how they have gained Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. Sara Pascoe and Marek Larwood assist. this reputation? WED 14:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04cffpd) Producer: Jane Berthoud We hear from Clem Burke (drummer with Blondie) and Dr. Battling Bark and Beetle First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012. Marcus Smith who together have proven scientifically that By the end of the First World War the mysterious sudden death WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b074v66j) Clem burns a similar amount of calories during a concert as a of elms was a common sight across Belgium and the The best in contemporary comedy. Jessica Fostekew talks food premiership footballer. Phil Collins (Genesis) and Stewart Netherlands. Dutch researchers managed to elucidate the real and funnies with George Egg. Copeland (The Police), explain how they cope with the physical culprit amidst rumours of drought or wartime gas poisoning. It WED 23:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b01qlhjh) demands of performing and how these veterans react to the was a fungus thought to originate from America, carried by a Series 2 negative image of the drummer. beetle and the disease rather unfairly gained its name Dutch elm The Literary Festival Having established the physical demands made on drummers disease. Diagnosis produced no cure and it soon advanced Damien and Anthony arrive at a literary festival to promote does this exclude women? Dame Evelyn Glennie thinks not as across the channel to Britain. Damien's book about the culinary habits of the Great Poets. she believes the physicality is not an obstacle. The programme Professor Kathy Willis talks to the head of Kew's arboretum, Despite the charming hotel and the peaceful surroundings, the also hears from Kenny Jones (The Small Faces, The Faces and Tony Kirkham, on the disease's impact amidst complacency, cookery writer can barely disguise his chagrin at his talk being The Who) who still features a drum solo in his set but has the and how the emergence of a vigorous new fungal strain was to in a tent smaller to other writers he considers lesser than him. drum solo had its day? Has the modern drummer discarded this completely transform the landscape during its peak in the But he soon has the opportunity to get the audience he feels he indulgence and settled for keeping time at the back? If so why? 1970's. deserves when a fellow author is knocked unconscious and For many, the drummer is the joker in the group, Phil Selway Now that the principle replacement for lost elms, ash, itself has Damien is asked to fill in. But can he rise to the occasion? of Radiohead explains within the ranks of Britain's moodiest fallen victim to the latest disease to hitch a ride on incoming Written by Miles Jupp. band, there is not too much light hearted banter but he does see nursery stock, Paul Smith, Head of Kew's Millennium Seed Damien Trench ...... Miles Jupp his role as a supporting one for the others to be creative. Bank, explains why this new disease could be easier to control. Anthony MacIlveny ...... Justin Edwards This whimsical programme hears its fair share of drummer Producer Adrian Washbourne. Gary McDade ...... Ben Crowe jokes which happily filter through this engaging half hour and WED 14:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls Sound Man ...... Ben Crowe yes we discover what Phil Collins thought of the gorilla (b00mjs2l) Bill Trumpetz ...... Toby Longworth crashing his way through 'In The Air Tonight" for that famous Episode 13 The Lady ...... Sarah Thom chocolate TV commercial. After the tragedy, Neely gets agitated and Anne gets a visit Marion Duffett ...... Lesley Vickerage Beat It - The World Of the Modern Drummer an exhaustive and from an old flame. Stars Madeleine Potter and Susan Jameson. Producer: Sam Michell fun exploration of life at the back. WED 14:45 Book of the Week (b00zm07y) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013. Producer: John Sugar John Julius Norwich - The Popes WED 23:30 At Home With The Snails (b007k3hb) A Sugar Production for BBC Radio 4. Episode 3 Series 2 THU 07:00 PG Wodehouse (b00bt4vw) Well known for his histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the Episode 2 What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich George and Beverley have feigned their deaths to see how their Schemes and Ruses has now turned his attention to the oldest continuing institution children will cope with the grief. Bertie Wooster is much in demand, but his best-laid plans go in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Alex is missing his parents, but his snail obsession is back with awry as he lands in a bit of pickle... Peter himself - traditionally (though by no means historically) a vengeance... P.G. Wodehouse’s romp adapted in seven-parts by Chris Miller. the first pope - to the present day. Of the 280-odd holders of Second series of Gerard Foster's comedy drama CAST: the supreme office, some have unquestionably been saints; George ..... Geoffrey Palmer Jeeves …. Michael Hordern others have wallowed in unspeakable iniquity. Beverley ..... Angela Thorne Bertie Wooster …. Richard Briers Irresistible to women, the father of at least six children before Alex ..... Gerard Foster Boko Fittleworth …. Jonathan Cecil he became pope, Rodrigo Borgia became a byword for Rose ..... Miranda Hart Percy, Lord Worplesden …. Peter Woodthorpe deviousness and corruption. Bribes helped him become pope Hosana ..... Debra Stephenson Florence Craye …. Bronwen Williams and his notorious son Cesare helped him run the Vatican. As Producer: Jane Berthoud Nobby Hopwood …. Rosalind Adams described by John Julius Norwich in today's episode of The First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002. Edwin the Boy Scout …. Denise Bryer Popes the Papacy of 1492 was a very different world. Producer: Simon Brett Producer: David Roper First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 5 – 11 March 2016 Page 8 of 10 THU 07:30 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On Nightingale ... Jeremy Child choice as pope at any time and certainly not during the (b071whf9) Chrystal ... Matthew Marsh revolutionary tumult of the late eighteenth century. In today's Series 1 Crawford ... Hugh Quarshie episode of The Popes, John Julius Norwich explores one of the Holiday with John Finnemore Mrs Jago... Joanna Monroe most dangerous times for the authority of the Vatican. Susan Calman is the least relaxed person she knows. She has no SIr Horace Timberlake... Ian Hogg Producer: David Roper down time, no hobbies (unless you count dressing up your cats Directed by Jeremy Howe and Sally Avens A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. in silly outfits) and her idea of relaxation is to play Grand Theft First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003. THU 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gzk8) Auto, an hour into which she is in a murderous rage with sky THU 11:00 Graham Swift - England and Other Stories [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] high blood pressure. Her wife had to threaten to divorce her to (b04j2p0z) THU 16:00 The Food Quiz (b072zq3m) make her go on holiday last year. Her first for four years. But Tragedy, Tragedy [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] she's been told by the same long-suffering wife, that unless she At Macintyre's warehouse, Mick Hammond turns the THU 16:30 The Senses (b072zxm4) finds a way to switch off, and soon, she's going to be conversation to the nature of tragedy. Read by Ewan Bailey. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] unbearable. The 25 short stories that comprise England and Other Stories THU 17:00 PG Wodehouse (b00bt4vw) So Susan is going to look at her options and try to immerse mark Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] herself in the pursuits that her friends find relaxing, to find her novels. The stories dwell on the essence of Englishness and THU 17:30 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On inner zen and outer tranquillity. Each week she will ditch the those chosen place us on the eve of the Battle of Trafalgar, in a (b071whf9) old Susan Calman and attempt to find the new Susan Calm, in a barbers, a supermarket, a laboratory and Macintyre's [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] typically British leisure pursuit. warehouse, and in each place and time, Swift perfectly captures THU 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space This time John Finnemore takes her on a spontaneous holiday. a universal truth from the minutiae of lives. (b007jmwq) Keep Calman Carry On is an audience stand up show in which "This is a sharp, beautiful collection: every story quick and Operation Luna Susan reports on how successful she's been - both at relaxing readable but leaving in the memory a core, a residue of 9. An Offer of Help and at the pursuit itself - as well as playing in and discussing a thoughtfulness" The Guardian Captain Jet Morgan and his crew have returned to Earth, but it's handful of illustrative clips from her efforts. It's an attempt to Graham Swift came to prominence with this second novel not as they left it. find out how people find solace or sanctuary in these worlds and Shuttlecock, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in Written and produced by Charles Chilton. how Susan can negotiate her own place in them. 1983. That same year, Swift's Waterland, set in the Fens earned Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Producer: Lyndsay Fenner. him a place on the shortlist for the Booker prize. Swift would Lemmy Barnett …. Alfie Bass First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. go on to win the Booker prize in 1996 with his novel Last Doc …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jnqv) Orders, which became a film starring Michael Caine, Tom Mitch …. David Williams Series 6 Courtney, Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. All Other Parts …. David Jacobs Live Now, Paye Later Produced by Jeremy Osborne Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips. The tax inspector catches up with Albert Steptoe and son Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk. The original 1953 recordings of this futuristic series were Harold is not impressed. THU 11:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007k27y) erased. Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes This series was re-recorded and first broadcast on the BBC Harold. The Engineer's Thumb Light Programme in May 1958. Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan A young man with severe injuries and a chilling tale arrives at THU 18:30 Great Lives (b0076yft) Simpson. Watson's surgery. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael Williams. Series 9 Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jnqv) Tamara Karsavina Harold ...... Harry H Corbett [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris. Anna Mr Greenwood ...... George A Cooper THU 12:30 Radio Active (b007jvfx) Raeburn nominates ballerina Tamara Karsavina, the leading With Michael Shannon and Peter Williams. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] female dancer in Diaghilev's Ballet Russes from its beginning in Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association THU 13:00 Craddock and Co (b007jsvx) 1909 until 1922. In England she coached Margot Fonteyn and with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] created roles for Frederick Ashton. From May 2006. wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. THU 13:30 Beat It: The World of The Modern Drummer THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jnqv) The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring (b00vkwvc) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU 19:30 Radio Active (b007jvfx) and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01ncjyn) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Produced by Bobby Jaye Patricia Ferguson - The Midwife's Daughter THU 20:00 Craddock and Co (b007jsvx) First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in February 1976. Episode 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 08:30 Radio Active (b007jvfx) By Patricia Ferguson THU 20:30 Beat It: The World of The Modern Drummer Series 3 Read by Joanna Tope (b00vkwvc) Lunchtime With Anna The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Anna Dapter moves her Breakfast Show to lunchtime this week moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who THU 21:00 Graham Swift - England and Other Stories to accommodate the revised menu in the Radio Active Canteen. changes their lives. (b04j2p0z) 'Lunchtime with Anna' features live coverage of the Buy British Grace is accepted as part of the Silkhampton community. At a [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Exhibition, from London's Olympia and carrots. school sports day, she catches a glimpse - for the first time - of THU 21:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007k27y) Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey another person who looks like her. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. Abridged by Robin Brooks THU 22:00 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On Music by Philip Pope and Steve Brown. Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. (b071whf9) Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. With Jon THU 14:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04cfhqt) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Canter, Michael Fenton-Stevens, Moray Hunter, John Docherty Hunt for Diversity THU 22:30 Newsjack (b07301mk) and Roger Planer. Agriculture tends to favour the best food varieties but this is Series 14 Producer: Jamie Rix often a trade off with beneficial traits such as resistance to Episode 5 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1983. disease or tolerance to drought. During the 1920s the Russian This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into THU 09:00 The Food Quiz (b072zq3m) botanist Nikolai Vavilov, having witnessed famine on a large sketches, one-liners and vox-pops written by the public. Trying Series 1 scale, became increasingly concerned about the potential loss of to make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. Episode 5 locally adapted varieties and spent his life studying crop plants Nish is joined this week by Daniel Barker, Natasia Demetriou On Jay Rayner's menu are Clement Freud, Marguerite Patten, in their wild habitats. and Alison Thea-Skot. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Sonya Kidney. From October Professor Kathy Willis examines Vavilov's pioneering work and The Production Coordinator was Sophie Richardson. 2003. his search for pools of genetic variability - so called "centres of Newsjack was produced by Paul Sheehan and Matt Stronge. THU 09:30 The Senses (b072zxm4) origin" amongst the wild relatives of our domesticated crops It was a BBC Radio Comedy Production. The Sixth Sense that could help sustain future plant breeding for human use. THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b074v6b9) Conversation is far from neighbourly when the occupants of an Vavilov's story has a tragic end but, as we hear, his legacy lives The best in contemporary comedy. Jessica Fostekew has a old cemetery greet a new arrival and discover their lack of on in seedbanks such as Kew's Millennium Seedbank at culinary chat with comedian George Egg. common ground. Wakehurst Place whose Crop Wild Relatives Project is THU 23:00 Believe It! (b01j5nw6) Buckmaster ...... Geoffrey Palmer collecting and assessing new potential amongst the original Series 1 Sarah ...... Sylvestra Le Touzel progenitors of our domestic crops. Power Mildred ...... Joan Sims With contributions from archaeobotanist Dorian Fuller, Kew's Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has Kitchie ...... Brian Murphy curator of economic botany Mark Nesbitt, Crop Wild Relatives always said he'd never write one. Ridley ...... Peter Blythe Project coordinator Ruth Eastwood, and head of the Based on glimmers of truth, BELIEVE IT is the hilarious, Olivia ...... Jane Booker Millennium Seedbank Paul Smith. bizarre, revealing (and, most importantly, untrue) celebrity Gordon ...... Michael Kilgareth Producer Adrian Washbourne. radiography of Richard Wilson. Last in Bob Sinfield's comedy series who explains: "The six half- THU 14:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls He narrates the series, weaving in and out of dramatised scenes hour plays dealt respectively with the five obvious senses plus (b00mk688) from his fictional life-story. He plays a heavily exaggerated the er...other one". Episode 14 version of himself: a Scots actor and national treasure, Producer: Neil Cargill Lyon is back and Anne still has feelings for him, despite being unmarried, private, passionate about politics, theatre and First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in February 1990. engaged to Kevin. Stars Madeleine Potter and Barbara Barnes. Manchester United (all true), who's a confidant of the powerful THU 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gzk8) THU 14:45 Book of the Week (b00zm1kv) and has survived childhood poverty, a drunken father, years of The Masters, Part 2 John Julius Norwich - The Popes fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction, The politics of the Cambridge college where Lewis teaches Episode 4 charity work, secret work for governments and fierce rivalry becomes poisonous as the country stands on the brink of war. Well known for his histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the with Sean Connery (not true). All the melodramatic staples of CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English Establishment Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich celebrity-autobiography are wonderfully undercut by Richard's and Power. has now turned his attention to the oldest continuing institution deadpan delivery. Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St (The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed With Adam Godley as Lewis Eliot and narrated by David Haig Peter himself - traditionally (though by no means historically) reference to his famous catchphrase.) Francis Getliffe ... Andy Taylor the first pope - to the present day. Richard is supported by a small core cast viz: Winslow ... Clive Merrison Of the 280-odd holders of the supreme office, some have David Tennant Brown ... Philip Franks unquestionably been saints; others have wallowed in John Sessions Calvert ... Adam Levy unspeakable iniquity. Lewis Macleod Jago ... David Calder Nepotistic, vain, pompous and idle - Pius VI was not an ideal Arabella Weir Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 5 – 11 March 2016 Page 9 of 10 And Jane Slavin Gyles Brandreth chairs the word-obsessed comedy panel show. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Who play anyone and everyone! Lloyd Langford and Susie Dent compete against Dave Gorman The Noble Bachelor Ghost written by Jon Canter and Natalie Haynes to find out who has the most word know- When a missing bride's clothes appear in a lake, the sleuth is Produced by: Clive Brill how. bound to investigate. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. Dave Gorman guesses the meaning of the phrase 'living on Williams. THU 23:30 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash (b01075pz) Queen Street' from the late 1800s; Natalie Haynes unravels the FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b009rnlw) Series 3 word 'autodysomophobia'; Lloyd Langford guesses the meaning [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Episode 2 of the Yiddish word 'farpotshket'; and Susie Dent shares her FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jnb4) Arthur Smith with more music and comedy from his actual flat love of the current Liverpool word 'twirlies' and explains the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] in Balham, south London. meaning of the word 'quockerwodger'. FRI 13:00 Craddock and Co (b007jsw5) Jenny Eclair is in the front room, Simon Evans on the landing, Both teams also have a go at coming up with modern phrases to [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] John Smallshaw delivers poetry and Alex Wilson and his salsa replace the old cliches 'When life give you lemons, make FRI 13:30 Once in a Blue Moon: The Songs of Lal combo are in the kitchen. lemonade' and 'Beauty is only skin deep'. Waterson (b00vrvqh) Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011. Producer: Claire Jones FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01nd3jk) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013. Patricia Ferguson - The Midwife's Daughter FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b009rnlw) Episode 5 FRIDAY 11 MARCH 2016 Series 6 By Patricia Ferguson The Fete Read by Joanna Tope FRI 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space The lad rashly agrees to tempt Sir Laurence Olivier to open the The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and (b007jmwq) East Cheam Garden Fete. moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Starring Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Wilfred changes their lives. FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b0076yft) Babbage, Jack Watson and Hugh Morton. Violet hears about her sister's overreaction to a description of [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Grace and suspects that Bea has been keeping a secret from her. FRI 01:00 Craddock and Co (b007jsvx) Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. Abridged by Robin Brooks [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Producer: Tom Ronald Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI 01:30 Beat It: The World of The Modern Drummer First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December FRI 14:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04cfvg3) (b00vkwvc) 1959. Botanical Medicine [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI 08:30 The Goon Show (b007jnb4) In 1947 Sir Robert Robinson received the Nobel prize for FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01ncjyn) Series 6 Chemistry "in recognition of his investigations of plant products [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Scradje of biological importance, especially the alkaloids". This FRI 02:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches (b04cfhqt) With Britain's boots exploding, Neddie Seagoon tries to tackle a powerful family of plant chemicals was proving a potent [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] national 'scradje' shortage. medical tool. FRI 02:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Professor Kathy Willis traces the natural role of alkaloids in (b00mk688) Milligan. plants and the first attempts to isolate one of the best know - [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] Starring: quinine, from chinchona bark growing in the Andes. This FRI 02:45 Book of the Week (b00zm1kv) Peter Sellers development gave rise to the emergence of a new kind of [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] Harry Secombe laboratory scientist equally able to handle botanical and FRI 03:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gzk8) Spike Milligan chemical data. As Mark Nesbitt, Keeper of Kew's Economic [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were Botany Collection explains, this was to eliminate the chance and FRI 04:00 The Food Quiz (b072zq3m) recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest guesswork in identifying "good" plants from "bad". [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] shows weren’t kept in the archive. Professor Monique Simmons of Kew's Jodrell Laboratory, FRI 04:30 The Senses (b072zxm4) With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. assesses why chemicals from the plant kingdom are still needed [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. in the fight against some of our most challenging diseases, from FRI 05:00 PG Wodehouse (b00bt4vw) Announcer: Wallace Greenslade breast cancer to cardiovascular disease, and how making the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Producer: Peter Eton nuanced connections between plant species is central to success FRI 05:30 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in March 1956. in this field. (b071whf9) FRI 09:00 Wildbrain (b07308t6) Producer Adrian Washbourne. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] 1997 - Heat 5 FRI 14:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls FRI 06:00 Craddock and Co (b007jsw5) Lionel Kelleway visits Arundel to test three contestants' wildlife (b00mlxk3) 3. My Dear Isabelle knowledge in the BBC Natural History Unit's quiz. Episode 15 Spring, 1900: The reappearance of a woman from his past FRI 09:30 No Commitments (b007jp22) Betrayed by Neely, and with Lyon becoming more distant, persuades Victorian private investigator, Charles Craddock, to Series 8 Anne turns to the dolls. Stars Madeleine Potter and Barbara help find her kidnapped husband in France, but niece Lucy New Age Differences Barnes. realises there are hidden perils. Victoria gets all intellectual, while Charlotte is on a spiritual FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b00zm3hq) CAST: path. Stars Angela Thorne and Celia Imrie. From January 2002. John Julius Norwich - The Popes Charles Craddock …. Martin Jarvis FRI 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017h805) Episode 5 Lucy Greenwood …. Emma Tate The Light and the Dark Well known for his histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the Grout …. Struan Rodger As the Second World War erupts, Lewis Eliot heads to Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich Isabelle Vallance …. Frances Jeater Whitehall and his love life takes an unexpected turn. has now turned his attention to the oldest continuing institution Leopold Kransky …. Stephen Thorne CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English Establishment in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Sir Aubrey Blake …. Colin Pinney and Power. Peter himself - traditionally (though by no means historically) Monsieur Vallance …. Malcolm Ward Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway the first pope - to the present day. Of the 280-odd holders of Walter Smith …. Michael Onslow With Adam Godley as Lewis Eliot and narrated by David Haig the supreme office, some have unquestionably been saints; Written by Chris Thompson. Hector Rose ...Rupert Vansittart others have wallowed in unspeakable iniquity. Director: John Taylor. Roy Calvert .... Adam Levy In the final episode of The Popes, John Julius Norwich First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1993. Houston Eggar ... Peter Marinker concludes with the election of the people's pope John XXIII a FRI 06:30 Once in a Blue Moon: The Songs of Lal Willy Romantovski ... Kenneth Collard welcome antidote to Pius XII. Expected to be nothing more Waterson (b00vrvqh) Gilbert Cooke ... Anthony Calf than a brief, caretaker pope, John turned out to be anything but. Lal Waterson's voice was stark but captivating and it's been said Margaret Davidson ...Juliet Aubrey Dragging the Church into the twentieth century, he shook the that the songs she wrote were close to German cabaret or Rosalind ... Anne-Marie Duff world. chanson. They were lyrically ambitious and melodically Betty Vane ... Carla Simpson Producer: David Roper powerful. Directed by Jeremy Howe and Sally Avens A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. Since her death in 1998, her reputation has grown and now she First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003. FRI 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017h805) is placed alongside the great singer song-writers like Nick FRI 11:00 Graham Swift - England and Other Stories [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Drake and Richard Thompson. She was a member of the (b04j2yrc) FRI 16:00 Wildbrain (b07308t6) famous Waterson family and numbered among other relatives People Are Life [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] the folk singer Martin Carthy and his daughter Eliza. It's the last customer of the day for a Cypriot barber and the FRI 16:30 No Commitments (b007jp22) In this feature, Robin Denselow explores the life and legacy of conversation turns toward friendship. Read by Ewan Bailey. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Lal Waterson and assesses her impact on song-writers today. The 25 short stories that comprise England and Other Stories FRI 17:00 1835 (b0125lgl) Producer: Emma Kingsley mark Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. novels. The stories dwell on the essence of Englishness and FRI 17:30 Wordaholics (b01rvptv) FRI 07:00 1835 (b0125lgl) those chosen place us on the eve of the Battle of Trafalgar, in a [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] All at Sea barbers, a supermarket, a laboratory and Macintyre's FRI 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jmx1) Aristocrat Belport and his servant Ned are called up to serve in warehouse, and in each place and time, Swift perfectly captures Operation Luna the navy aboard the HMS Fortunate. Fortunate by name, a a universal truth from the minutiae of lives. 10. The Citadel magnet for French cannons by nature... "This is a sharp, beautiful collection: every story quick and Stranded in Earth's past, the Voice tries tempting Captain Jet Comic saga of an aristocrat and his servant who struggle to find readable but leaving in the memory a core, a residue of Morgan and his crew out into the city of the aliens. things to do in the mid- 1830s. thoughtfulness: The Guardian Futuristic tale set in 1965 written and produced by Charles Belport ...... Paul Rider Graham Swift came to prominence with this second novel Chilton. Ned ...... Jason Done Shuttlecock, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Black Pete ...... Roy Barraclough 1983. That same year, Swift's Waterland, set in the Fens earned Lemmy Barnett …. Alfie Bass Collins ...... Simon Greenall him a place on the shortlist for the Booker prize. Swift would Doc …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter Tony Nelson ...... Jonathan Keeble go on to win the Booker prize in 1996 with his novel Last Mitch …. David Williams Written and directed at BBC Manchester by Jim Poyser. Orders, which became a film starring Michael Caine, Tom All Other Parts …. Deryck Guyler First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. Courtney, Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips. FRI 07:30 Wordaholics (b01rvptv) Produced by Jeremy Osborne The original 1953 recordings of this futuristic series were Series 2 Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk. erased. Episode 3 FRI 11:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007k297) This series was re-recorded and first broadcast on the BBC Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 5 – 11 March 2016 Page 10 of 10 Light Programme in May 1958. Producer: Lucy Armitage FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b0076xj6) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2001. Series 5 FRI 23:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b01pgs6z) Widor's Toccata Series 3 Ever since Widor's Toccata was included in two Royal wedding Episode 6 ceremonies in the 1960's, this display of fireworks at the organ The Archers and The Waltons with a twist, and the Minx Twins has become a firm favourite for married couples to exit the tackle feminism. Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar. From June 1998. Church by in the UK. Organist Thomas Trotter dissects the music and dispels the myths about playing Widor's Toccata. Organist Daniel Roth explains what it's like to be Widor's direct successor as present day organist at the St Sulpice in Paris. And record producer Simon Cooper talks about hearing a synthesized version of the piece as a 7 year old which switched him on to music for the first time and led him to become a composer himself Featuring: Thomas Trotter John Berry Simon Cooper Daniel Roth Dr Francis Jackson Katherine Dienes Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks. Producer: Rosie Boulton First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006. FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b009rnlw) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b007jnb4) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 20:00 Craddock and Co (b007jsw5) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 20:30 Once in a Blue Moon: The Songs of Lal Waterson (b00vrvqh) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 21:00 Graham Swift - England and Other Stories (b04j2yrc) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI 21:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007k297) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI 22:00 Wordaholics (b01rvptv) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 22:30 Rudy's Rare Records (b01nb1s7) Series 4 Best Local Business EPISODE TWO: BEST LOCAL BUSINESS Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record shop in Birmingham. Starring Lenny Henry, Larrington Walker and some terrific tunes. Rudy's Rare Records is a tiny down at heel old reggae record shop in Birmingham - one of a dying breed; a place with real soul, stacked with piles of vinyl, where the slogan is "if we don't have it - them don't mek it". It's owned by the charismatic, irrepressible Rudy Sharpe (Larrington Walker), reluctantly helped out by his long-suffering neurotic son Adam (Lenny Henry) and Handsworth's first, black, surly girly goth, Tasha (Natasha Godfrey). Rudy has recently married his long-term love interest Doreen (Claire Benedict) which is leaving his best friend Clifton (Jeffery Kissoon) feeling left out. But business is not booming and Adam enters a competition for the Best Local Business hoping the publicity and the prize money will give the record shop a much needed boost. It also means war between Rudy's Rare Records and Clifton's Blooms. Adam ..... Lenny Henry Rudy ..... Larrington Walker Tasha ..... Natasha Godfrey Doreen ..... Claire Benedict Clifton ..... Jeffery Kissoon Richie ..... Joe Jacobs Darnell ..... Javone Prince Secret Shopper ..... Sarah Thom Ainsley Harriott ..... Himself Twitch ..... Adam Nagaitis Written by Paula Hines Script Editor: Danny Robins Producer: Katie Tyrrell Music in this episode: GET UP EDINA DESMOND DEKKER RUN THIS TOWN JAY Z, RIHANNA & KANYE WEST FUSSIN AND FIGHTING BOB MARLEY BE PREPARED WINSTON SAMUEL DON'T PLAY NO GAME THAT I CAN'T WIN BEASTIE BOYS FEAT. SANTIGOLD DO I WORRY DERRICK HARRIOT NO FRIEND DELROY WILLIAMS. FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b074v7wl) From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats to Adam Riches. FRI 23:00 The Mark Steel Lecture (b007jlw6) Series 2 Lord Byron The life and times of the 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' Romantic poet, Lord Byron. Mark Steel lectures humourously about historical figures that have shaped their era. With: Melanie Hudson Martin Hyder Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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