Radio 7 Listings for 18 – 24 April 2009 Page 1 of 6 SATURDAY 18 APRIL 2009 concludes his autobiography. The prolific : Rumpole and the Rotten Apple author meets his new wife and makes peace with his mother. The Old Bailey hack recalls a suspicious case of bribery in the SAT 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jpv4) SAT 04:45 Dirk Bogarde - Jericho (b008vrcp) police force. Written by John Mortimer and stars Maurice The Red Planet Episode 12 Denham. 5. Communication Lost William Caldicott finally discovers the truth about his brother SAT 16:30 Crime Catch-Up (b00jz1dw) With all communications back to Earth lost, the courage of James's disappearance. Concluded by the author. Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Man of God Captain Jet Morgan is severely tested during a meteor swarm... SAT 05:00 18/04/2009 (b00jysx2) The Old Bailey hack recalls the case of a light-fingered vicar. Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971. Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Written by John Mortimer and starring Maurice Denham. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds BBC Radio 7. SAT 17:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00jz1dy) Lemmy …. David Kossoff SAT 08:00 Big Toe Books (b00jysx4) Series 5 Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme. Kirsten Episode 26 Mitch …. Bruce Beeby O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories, featuring Nisha The American funny man presents more comedy and music Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs Nayar reading Broomstick Baby by Ann Jungman. from New York City, with guests the Wynton Marsalis Quintet. Various …. Anthony Marriott SAT 09:00 Unearthing Mysteries (b007k2wn) From 2009. Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips. Series 4 SAT 18:00 The Twilight Zone (b00jz1f0) Producer: Charles Chilton Episode 1 Series 2 First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September Professor Aubrey Manning examines evidence of early horse Pattern for Doomsday 1954. domestication, from excavations in Kazakhstan. A computer selects eight people for a spaceship to escape a SAT 00:30 Fantastic Tales (b007k30x) SAT 09:30 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book (b00csypl) colossal asteroid heading to Earth. Adapted from TV with The White People by Arthur Machen Letting in the Jungle Henry Rollins. The nature of good and evil and the origins of sin are explored Mowgli mounts a rescue and meets the Father of the Cobras. SAT 18:40 Wicca (b007js70) as two learned gentlemen hold a heated theological debate... Stars Nisha K Nayar, Eartha Kitt and Jonathan Hyde. Episode 5 Arthur Machen's intriguing tale read by Ioan Meredith and SAT 10:00 Comedy Controller (b007jw11) As the town of Pentworth remains cut off by an invisible wall - Louise Collins. Eric Sykes can Sergeant Malone prevent a trial that could lead to murder? Fantastic Tales is a collection of weird and wonderful stories Comedian and writer Eric Sykes [05/05/1923 - 04/07/2012] The second book in James Follett's 'The Silent Vulcan Trilogy' from around the world. takes control and picks some of his favourite BBC radio Abridged in 8-parts by Miranda Davis. Read by Nigel Anthony. Director: Gemma Jenkins comedies: Producer: Richard Bannerman Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2007. * The Goon Show: 'Phantom Batter Pudding Hurler' Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2004. SAT 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jsf6) Constable Neddie Seagoon sets out to apprehend Minnie and SAT 19:00 Unearthing Mysteries (b007k2wn) The Man of God Henry's Sussex assailant. Stars Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Rumpole recalls the case of a light-fingered vicar. Harry Secombe. From 12/10/1954. SAT 19:30 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book (b00csypl) "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". * The Al Read Show [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Starring Maurice Denham as ageing barrister-at-law A look at the fire brigade and the morning after the night SAT 20:00 Comedy Controller (b007jw11) Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole before - a collection of the Northern comic's 1950s [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] With Michael Spice as Guthrie Featherstone, John Savident as monologues. From 06/02/1966 SAT 23:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00jz1dy) Judge Bullingham and Denys Hawthorne as Judge George * Round the Horne: Series 4 (6/16) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 today] Frobisher. 's in for a shock from sneaky Kenneth Williams Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John - and bona gifts galore from Julian and Sandy. From Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. Case- 31/03/1968 SUNDAY 19 APRIL 2009 by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central Criminal * The Ken Dodd Show Court of England and Wales. Nude photography and a Scottish monster are on Doddy's SUN 00:00 The Twilight Zone (b00jz1f0) Director: Ian Cotterell chuckles menu. With John Laurie and Patricia Hayes. From [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. 19/07/1964 SUN 00:40 Wicca (b007js70) SAT 01:30 Russell Thorndike - The Further Adventures of * Variety Bandbox [Repeat of broadcast at 18:40 on Saturday] Dr Syn (b008jdcz) With Frankie Howerd, William Ternent, Jerry Allen, Barbara SUN 01:00 Mike Walker - The Sound of Fury (b00bqm6w) Episode 10 Leigh, Peter Sellers, Bill Kerr and Philip Slessor. From [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Smuggling is on the agenda as Syn and Mipps defy the Revenue 22/01/1950 SUN 02:30 Crime Catch-Up (b00jz1dm) Officer, but pay a terrible price. Russell Thorndike's adventure * Take It from Here [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] read by Rufus Sewell. The fall and rise of a Punch & Judy show - and in 'The Glums' SUN 03:00 Crime Catch-Up (b00jz1dp) SAT 02:00 Ladies of Letters (b007jwdc) Ron and Eth are planning their honeymoon. Stars Jimmy [Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday] Ladies of Letters Spring Clean Edwards, Dick Bentley and June Whitfield. From 19/02/1959. SUN 03:30 Crime Catch-Up (b00jz1dr) Episode 5 Producer: Mik Wilkojc [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] Vera uncovers a sinister scandal, and Irene is on her way home. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2005. SUN 04:00 Crime Catch-Up (b00jz1dt) Stars Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge. SAT 13:00 Mike Walker - The Sound of Fury (b00bqm6w) [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Saturday] SAT 02:15 John Mortimer's Life, Love and the Law The life and times of rock 'n' roll singer, Billy Fury. SUN 04:30 Crime Catch-Up (b00jz1dw) (b0075s4z) Stricken with rheumatic fever as a child, and not expected to [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Saturday] The novelist, playwright, QC and Rumpole creator entertains an live beyond the age of 20, Billy Fury went on to become SUN 05:00 19/04/2009 (b00jz2xd) audience with his favourite readings, poems and reminiscences. Britain's answer to Elvis Presley. But if you thought his story Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on SAT 03:00 Charles Kingsley - The Water Babies started with the huge hit 'Halfway to Paradise', think again... BBC Radio 7. (b007wqd5) Anton Lesser stars in Mike Walker’s drama is inspired by real SUN 08:00 Big Toe Books (b00jz2xg) The Other End of Nowhere events. Kirsten O'Brien presents children's stories, featuring Shaun Tom sets off for the Other-End-of-Nowhere. Billy Fury …. Anton Lesser Dooley reading The Illmoor Chronicles by David Lee Stone, Conclusion of Charles Kingsley’s novel dramatised by Berlie Larry Parnes …. Peter Whitman and The Boys' Club by Amanda Swift, read by Andrew Doherty. Stuart Colman …. Robert Glenister Garfield. Starring Julia McKenzie and Timothy West. Russell Harty …. Rory Bremner SUN 09:00 Ladies of Letters (b00k1864) Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby ...... Julia McKenzie Dickie Pride …. Andy Serkis Ladies Of Letters Spring Clean (Omnibus) Charles Kingsley ...... Timothy West Marty Wilde …. Ian Targett Spring cleaning unearths a confusing contraption, while the Tom ...... Oliver Peace Joe Brown …. Alistair McGowan heart attack of a mutual suitor brings deep-seated rivalries to Grimes ...... Philip Jackson Jack Good …. Nicholas Boulton the fore for the proud grandmothers. The Lobster ...... Olivier Pierre Terry …. Peter Watts Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge return as bickering Irene The Salmon ...... Sean Baker The Nurse/Donna …. Siriol Jenkins Spencer and Vera Small, and this time they're full of springtime Lady Salmon ...... Frances Jeater Hugh …. Jeremy Clyde recipes and tips for a long and healthy life. The Turbot ...... Geoffrey Whitehead The Doctor …. Richard Tate Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. The Professor ...... Christopher Good The Stage Door Man …. Ken Sharrock With: Miss Ellie ...... Ciara Janson The Producer …. Tom Bevan Rachel Atkins The Porpoise ...... Sarah-Jane Holm The Interviewer …. James Taylor Christopher Kelham Giant ...... Peter Woodthorpe The Woman in the Street …. Rachel Atkins Ann Beach Herring ...... Gerard McDermott Songs performed by Gavin Stanley. Producer: Liz Webb Gairfowl ...... Frances Jeater Born Ronald Wycherley on 17th April 1940, Billy Fury died First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2013. Older Tom ...... David Antrobus 28th January 1983. SUN 10:15 Elizabeth Buchan - Archaeology (b007jwq0) Truncheon ...... Geoffrey Whitehead Director: Andy Jordan An archaeologist is amazed by her nurse's likeness to an Miss Ellie ...... Ciara Janson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1994 Egyptian painting discovered in a tomb. Read by Janet Maw. Older Ellie ...... Sarah-Jane Holm SAT 14:30 Crime Catch-Up (b00jz1dm) SUN 10:30 Boogie Up the River (b007jv65) With Rosie Wiggins, Victoria Hickson, Alex Bird and Mark Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Confession of Guilt I'll See You on Tower Pier at 11 Guildea as the Water Babies. The Old Bailey hack recalls the case of an immigrant accused Mark Wallington and hellish hound Boogie quest to find the Director: Janet Whitaker of wounding. Written by John Mortimer and stars Maurice source of the Thames. Stars Timothy Spall. From December First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1998. Denham. 1992. SAT 04:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007nf1w) SAT 15:00 Crime Catch-Up (b00jz1dp) SUN 11:00 That Reminds Me (b007jmr3) The Irish Gentry Are Expensive People; A Sort of Despot - The Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Dear Departed Series 1 Irish Landlord The Old Bailey hack recalls a fraud case, based upon some Barry Took The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard ghostly messages. Written by John Mortimer and stars Maurice Comedian, writer and presenter Barry Took reminisces as he Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty. Denham. entertains an audience. SAT 04:15 Singled Out (b00jvsqw) SAT 15:30 Crime Catch-Up (b00jz1dr) Featuring tales of Round the Horne, The News Quiz and Monty Episode 5 Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Gentle Art of Python. True story of the women left alone after the Great War. It takes Blackmail Producer: Claire Jones a valiant woman to remain unmarried. Read by Miriam The Old Bailey hack recalls a case of extortion at his old First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1999. Margolyes. Oxford College. Written by John Mortimer and starring SUN 11:30 Stand Ups and Strumpets (b007jw9j) SAT 04:30 Clinging to the Wreckage (b007jmms) Maurice Denham. Brenda Blethyn The Verdict Postponed SAT 16:00 Crime Catch-Up (b00jz1dt) The actress talks to Professor Alison Oddey about her Supported by .co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 18 – 24 April 2009 Page 2 of 6 influences and big screen roles, including Hollywood. From excerpts from a forthcoming selection. Ladies of Letters Go Global March 2001. SUN 22:30 The Now Show (b00jz5dq) Episode 1 SUN 12:00 Floggit's (b007xrf9) Fresh from 4 - Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical Irene and Vera are back and this time they're going global. From 16/11/1956 look at the week's news. From 10th April 2009. Determined to escape the aftermath of their respective Village shopkeepers Gert and Daisy take in a lost St Bernard SUN 23:00 No Tomatoes (b0080274) Christmases from Hell, first Vera nabs a package to Ibiza, then dog, but it doesn't seem to understand English. Trash Talk Irene sets out to rescue her friend when she falls prey to the Starring Elsie and Doris Waters as Gert and Daisy. Sketch show mixing up language and sounds. Spaghetti charms of Gaston the seductive Gascon. With Joan Sims, Hugh Paddick, , Ron Moody, spellings with Paul Copley and Helen Moon. From October Irene ...... Prunella Scales Iris Vandaleur and Peter Hawkins. 2007. Vera ...... Patricia Routledge Originally popular regulars in 'Workers' Playtime' on the BBC SUN 23:15 Knocker (b0089jjk) The up and down relationship of two mature ladies shared via Home Service during wartime, Gert and Daisy won their own Eligibilliant their barbed correspondence. series, Floggit's, where they've inherited a village general store Market researcher Ian Dunn tackles a run down council tower Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Havman. in Russett Green with a ragbag of local characters to deal with. block. Stars Neil Edmond and Paula Wilcox. From November Producer: Claudine Toutoungi It ran for 2 series between 1956 and 1957. 2007. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2006. Scripted by Terry Nation, John Junkin and Dave Freeman. Episode 2 - Eligibilliant MON 11:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jz7jd) Producer: Bill Gates Halloween in a run down tower block. Constantly mistaken for Series 2 First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November a Trick or Treater (he's stencilled 'Cowabunga' on his pac-a- In Questionable Shape 1956. mac to appeal to his youthful target group) and harassed by London 1947, and a theatre visit sets off a mystery to rival SUN 12:30 Listen to Les (b00jz2xl) children so poor that they have to throw imaginary fireworks, what's happening on stage. Stars and Frances From 18/11/1979 Ian knocks on the Last Door In The Block. After terrifying and Barber. Les Dawson presents 'Love in the Dole Queue', Cosmo extended scrapings, the door is edged open by a rasping old MON 12:00 The Goon Show (b00jz5x2) Smallpiece and brace yourself for another piano sing-along with woman who has struggled to drag her breathing apparatus to the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Les. door.. and who seems to have been expecting him. MON 12:30 Foul Play (b00jz7jg) With Daphne Oxenford and Colin Edwynn. Produced by Tilusha Ghelani Series 3 Music by Brian Fitzgerald. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. Murder Before Matins Scripted and produced by James Casey. SUN 23:30 The Mitch Benn Music Show (b00b5tc3) Crime writers Liza Cody and Reginald Hill try to solve a First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1979. Series 2 deathly mystery in a monastery. SUN 13:00 Alan Ayckbourn - The Norman Conquests Episode 2 Simon Brett hosts the murder quiz. (b007mwg7) The comedian presents a selection of classic comic songs. With With witness statements from Maria McErlane and Lee Living Together special guest singer-songwriter Isy Suttie. From October 2006. Simpson. A weekend of tangled relationships moves to the living room of Producer Liz Anstree a country house. Stars Robin Herford and Diane Bull. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1998. SUN 14:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00jz2xn) MONDAY 20 APRIL 2009 MON 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007k4nk) The Mitch Benn Music Show The Defence of Guthrie Featherstone The comedian presents a selection of classic comic songs. With MON 00:00 Martin Kiszko - Scramble (b007jwnl) Rumpole recalls the tale of a philandering member of special guest Steve Brown. From October 2006. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] chambers. SUN 15:00 Comedy Catch-Up (b00jz2xq) MON 00:30 Daphne du Maurier - The Blue Lenses "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". Ballylenon (b007k4jq) Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law The Americans are desperate to identify the owner of the [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole Hoover cottage. 1956 sleepy Irish town whimsy with TP MON 01:00 Alan Ayckbourn - The Norman Conquests With Michael Spice as Guthrie Featherstone, Angela Thorne as McKenna. (b007mwg7) Marigold Featherstone and Michael Elphick as Bertie Timson. SUN 15:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00jz2xs) [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John Brian Appleton's History of Rock 'n' Roll: Consider Yourself MON 02:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00jz2xn) Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. Case- Dumped Upon [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central Criminal The Brummie musicologist reveals how some of rock's biggest MON 03:00 Comedy Catch-Up (b00jz2xq) Court of England and Wales. names have a lot to thank him for. Stars Graham Fellows. [Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Sunday] Director: Ian Cotterell SUN 15:45 Comedy Catch-Up (b00jz2xv) MON 03:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00jz2xs) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. Elastic Planet: The Train [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday] MON 13:30 (b00jz7jj) The Ministry of Furniture and methodist pirates. Patrick Moore MON 03:45 Comedy Catch-Up (b00jz2xv) Philomel Cottage guest stars in the comedy of connections. [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] When Alex meets Terry she's swept off her feet. He persuades SUN 16:00 Comedy Catch-Up (b00jz2xx) MON 04:00 Comedy Catch-Up (b00jz2xx) her to leave her job with a dot com company and set up a Beachcomber... By the Way [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] business with him - based in an out of the way cottage in the The whimsies of JB Morton performed by Richard Ingrams, MON 04:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00jz2xz) country... John Wells, John Sessions and Patricia Routledge. From March [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Sunday] A new spin on the Queen of the whodunit, Agatha Christie's 1989. MON 05:00 20/04/2009 (b00jz5x0) classic story, dramatised for radio by Mike Walker. SUN 16:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00jz2xz) Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Stars Lizzie McInnerny as Alex, Tom Hollander as Terry, Adam Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and Works of BBC7. Godley as Richard and Struan Rodger as Merlin. William Shakespeare MON 08:00 The Goon Show (b00jz5x2) Producer: Jeremy Mortimer The Royal Dingle Company's voyage around the Bard examines Series 9 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. his comedies. Stars Patrick Barlow and guest Richard E Grant. The Tay Bridge MON 14:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007nfs2) SUN 17:00 That Reminds Me (b007jmr3) On Scotland's crab-ridden shores, Neddie Seagoon is bridging a The Hearts of Steel and the Hearts of Oak; Clearing the Land [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] gap. Stars Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers. From February The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard SUN 17:30 Stand Ups and Strumpets (b007jw9j) 1959. Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] MON 08:30 Dead Ringers (b00jz5x4) MON 14:15 Deborah Cadbury - The Dinosaur Hunters SUN 18:00 Martin Kiszko - Scramble (b007jwnl) Series 4 (b00bf0l8) Episode 1 Episode 3 Episode 1 With music banned by the government of a totalitarian Britain, More celeb sound-alikes with tea-time for Alan Bennett and A bitter 19th-century feud between Gideon Mantell and a battle ensues between good and evil. Stars Clare Corbett. horror at the Simon Bates Hotel. With Jon Culshaw. From April Richard Owen to uncover a buried prehistoric past. Read by SUN 18:30 Daphne du Maurier - The Blue Lenses 2001. Emma Fielding. (b007k4jq) MON 09:00 Ballylenon (b0081m2y) MON 14:30 Where There's a Will (b007v1dd) Episode 1 Series 6 Episode 1 Recovering from a serious eye operation, Marda West discovers Episode 1 Playwright and novelist John Mortimer reads from his book and her vision has been heightened to a frighteningly new degree of Phonsie's keen to send Guard Gallagher to take part in a singing offers lessons in living and growing old disgracefully. clarity. competition in New York. MON 14:45 Walter Lord - A Night to Remember (b007jr36) It makes her fear that people she trusts the most have sinister Series set in the sleepy town of Ballylenon, Co Donegal in 1956. Episode 1 designs against her... Written by Christopher Fitz-Simon. As the RMS Titanic sails to New York, an iceberg is spotted. Daphne du Maurier's two-part fantasy thriller explores the Starring TP McKenna as Phonsie Doherty, Margaret D'Arcy as Martin Jarvis reads a dramatic account of the doomed ocean darker aspects of human nature. Muriel McConkey, Stella McCusker as Vera McConkey, Aine liner. Read by Emma Fielding. McCartney as Vivienne Hawthorne, Gerard Murphy as the MON 15:00 John Mortimer - (b007js6p) Produced and abridged by Gemma Jenkins. Reverend Hawthorne and John Hewitt as Guard Gallagher. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2007. Music arranged and performed by Stephanie Hughes. MON 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00jz7jm) SUN 19:00 Floggit's (b007xrf9) Directed at BBC Belfast by Peter Kavanagh. Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories, featuring SUN 19:30 Listen to Les (b00jz2xl) MON 09:30 Unnatural Acts (b00jz5yt) Kathy Burke reading The Witches by Roald Dahl. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Series 1 MON 17:00 Ballylenon (b0081m2y) SUN 20:00 Ladies of Letters (b00k1864) Chips With Everything [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Is Kit really married to a dirty ruskie commie pinko lefty MON 17:30 Unnatural Acts (b00jz5yt) SUN 21:15 Elizabeth Buchan - Archaeology (b007jwq0) agitator agent? Stars Kit Hollerbach and Jeremy Hardy. From [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] May 1987. MON 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space SUN 21:30 Boogie Up the River (b007jv65) MON 10:00 John Mortimer - The Dock Brief (b007js6p) (b007jpxk) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today] A cynical and unsuccessful, elderly barrister is overjoyed to be The Red Planet SUN 22:00 The No 1 Ladies' Favourite Radio Show assigned a 'dock brief - to defend a husband accused of the 6. The Mysterious Object (b00jz58w) murder of his wife. Weeks have passed since the Mars space fleet lost all contact Just Rocks John Mortimer's legal satire stars Michael Hordern as Wilfred with Earth. Solomon discusses fake diamonds with the Department of Morganhall and David Kossoff as Herbert Fowle. But then Captain Jet Morgan and his crew suddenly receive Gemstones and Narcotics. Also Podcast. Music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins. warnings to turn back, but from whom? SUN 22:20 7 Previews (b00jz58y) Producer: Nesta Pain Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971. I Did It My Way: Simon Brett First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in May 1957. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds The writer chats about his radio life and times. Sound bite-sized MON 11:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3rs) Lemmy …. David Kossoff Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 18 – 24 April 2009 Page 3 of 6 Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1961. the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold Mitch …. Bruce Beeby TUE 08:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00bs464) and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs Series 1 Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan Various …. Anthony Marriott The Caramba Campaign Simpson. Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips. Ludovico - the henpecked Prince of Monte Guano - hears two Producer: Bobby Jaye Producer: Charles Chilton neighbouring states are set to go to war. His wife Plethora First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1972. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1954. badgers him into leading his ragbag of conscripts in search of TUE 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jsgf) MON 18:30 Fantastic Tales (b0084sqq) booty, accompanied by his sons and mistress Rosalie... The Show Folk Delhi by Vandana Singh Neal Anthony's comedy drama set in Renaissance Italy. Rumpole recalls the case of an actress accused of murder. A man living in present-day Delhi is haunted by visions of the Stars David Swift as Ludovico, Sian Phillips as Plethora, "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". city as it was in the past - and how it will be in the future... Graham Crowden as Francesco, Paul Bigley as Alessandro, Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law Vandana Singh’s story is read by Shiv Grewal. Saskia Wickham as Rosalie, Nick Romero as Salvatori, Horace Rumpole. Fantastic Tales is a collection of weird and wonderful stories Christopher Kelham as Guido and Kim Wall as Brother With Derek Farr as Mr Justice Skelton, Peter Woodthorpe as from around the world. Michael. Tommy Pierce and Jonathan Scott as Jarvis Allen. Director: Gemma Jenkins Producer: Helen Williams Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2007. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2001. Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. Case- MON 19:00 The Goon Show (b00jz5x2) TUE 09:00 Second Thoughts (b00jzckp) by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central Criminal [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 3 Court of England and Wales. MON 19:30 Foul Play (b00jz7jg) Name, Set and Match Director: Ian Cotterell [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Newly wed Faith and Bill's married monikers are a sensitive First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. MON 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007k4nk) subject. TUE 13:30 Agatha Christie (b00jzckt) [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today] Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill and Faith beginning Magnolia Blossom MON 20:30 Agatha Christie (b00jz7jj) married life, whilst balancing the demands of his ex-wife, Liza Theo is ready to leave her husband when a financial scandal [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today] and her teenage children, Hannah and Joe. intervenes. Mike Walker's revamped whodunit starring Emilia MON 21:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3rs) Stars Lynda Bellingham as Faith, James Bolam as Bill, Emma Fox. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Gregory as Hannah, Mark Denham as Joe, Geoffrey Whitehead TUE 14:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007p1dj) MON 21:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jz7jd) as Richard and Norman Bird as Mr Burrows. The Peasantry; Superfine Cloth of Home Manufacture [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Series three of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard MON 22:00 Dead Ringers (b00jz5x4) husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran TUE 14:15 Deborah Cadbury - The Dinosaur Hunters MON 22:30 Acropolis Now (b007jwm0) for four series, with a spin-off 'Faith in the Future'. (b00bf979) Series 1 Producer: Paul Schlesinger Episode 2 Heroes First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1991. Naturalist Gideon Mantell and anatomist Richard Owen's feud Frenzying is all the rage in Ancient Athens, but can TUE 09:30 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007jq8k) over the uncovering of the prehistoric world. Read by Emma Aristophanes cash in on the craze? Stars Stephen Moore. From The Pin-Up Girl Fielding. January 2001. Who can be persuaded to pose for the 'What The Butler Saw' TUE 14:30 Where There's a Will (b007jz6h) MON 23:00 Chewin' the Fat (b009rp6q) machine on the pier in Frambourne-on-Sea? Episode 2 Greg Hemphill and Ford Kiernan present Radio Scotland's A seaside saga of pier perpetuation starring , Playwright and novelist John Mortimer has a word or two to say 'topical' banter and sketch show. From February 1998. Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee. about happiness, and how active pursuit of it will fail. MON 23:30 The Nick Revell Show (b007jp51) Arthur Wilson ...... John Le Mesurier TUE 14:45 Walter Lord - A Night to Remember (b007jr3m) Series 1 Frank Pike ...... Ian Lavender Episode 2 Episode 3 Bert Hodges ...... Bill Pertwee After hitting an iceberg, the Titanic's captain tries to discover Struggling writer Nick's mate Craig proves a headache, while Miss Perkins ...... Vivienne Martin how badly the ship has been damaged. Read by Martin Jarvis. Vince the geranium encounters a bee. Dudley Watkins ...... Christopher Biggins Episode 2 of 10. A sitcom for the 1990s, written by and starring comedian Nick Mr Hunter ...... Robin Parkinson. TUE 15:00 John Mortimer - The Summer of a Dormouse Revell. Written by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles, based on the (b007jsrs) With Alistair McGowan, Caroline Gruber, Brian Bowles, Doon Dad's Army characters originally created by Jimmy Perry and [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Mackichan and Alison Sterling. David Croft. TUE 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00jzckw) Producer: Jon Magnusson Producer: Martin Fisher Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1992. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1984. Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories, featuring TUE 10:00 John Mortimer - The Summer of a Dormouse Kathy Burke reading The Witches by Roald Dahl. (b007jsrs) TUE 17:00 Second Thoughts (b00jzckp) TUESDAY 21 APRIL 2009 Journalist, Henry Troutbeck Pottinger is now an old man. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] He stands in the darkening garden of a vicarage by the sea and TUE 17:30 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007jq8k) TUE 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jpxk) looks back on a life which seems to have passed as swiftly as [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Lord Byron's dormouse summer. TUE 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jq0c) TUE 00:30 Fantastic Tales (b0084sqq) John Mortimer's drama stars Paul Scofield as Henry Troutbeck The Red Planet [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Pottinger as an Old Man, as Henry Troutbeck 7. The Shared Nightmare TUE 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007k4nk) Pottinger as a Man and Joe Roberts as Henry Troutbeck As the Mars fleet crew battle to locate Freighter Ship number 6, [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Monday] Pottinger as a Boy. Captain Jet Morgan suffers strange hallucinations... TUE 01:30 Agatha Christie (b00jz7jj) With Oliver Ford Davies as the Rev. Henry Pottinger, Gemma Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Monday] Jones as Dawn Pottinger/Lady Fan, Joanna David as Felicity Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds TUE 02:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3rs) Rewcastle, Imelda Staunton as Mavis Whitney, John Rowe as Lemmy …. David Kossoff [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] Mr Rewcastle and David Allister as Editor/Barman. Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter TUE 02:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jz7jd) With the Willie Brown Uni Band and accordionist Kevin Street. Mitch …. Bruce Beeby [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] Director: Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs TUE 03:00 John Mortimer - The Dock Brief (b007js6p) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. Various …. Anthony Marriott [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE 11:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3sq) Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips. TUE 04:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007nfs2) Ladies of Letters Go Global Producer: Charles Chilton [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Episode 2 First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1954. TUE 04:15 Deborah Cadbury - The Dinosaur Hunters Irene is forced into casual labour when she arrives in Ibiza to TUE 18:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand (b00bf0l8) find she’s inherited her absent friend's debts. (b007jvzk) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Meanwhile Vera’s escaped Gaston's clutches in a beetroot truck Episode 1 TUE 04:30 Where There's a Will (b007v1dd) heading for Trieste, when she falls in with Roman, a Dick Young travels into the past, before recalling he was testing [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] charismatic Transylvanian with a hatred of garlic. a new drug. Psychological thriller read by Julian Wadham. TUE 04:45 Walter Lord - A Night to Remember (b007jr36) Irene ...... Prunella Scales TUE 19:00 The Navy Lark (b007zmrl) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] Vera ...... Patricia Routledge [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE 05:00 21/04/2009 (b00jzckk) The up and down relationship of two mature ladies shared via TUE 19:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jmhk) Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on their barbed correspondence. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] BBC Radio 7. Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Havman. TUE 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jsgf) TUE 08:00 The Navy Lark (b007zmrl) Producer: Claudine Toutoungi [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today] Series 3 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2006. TUE 20:30 Agatha Christie (b00jzckt) Families' Day TUE 11:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzckr) [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today] As the chief fundraises, Cedric Phillips arrives on board HMS Series 2 TUE 21:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3sq) Troutbridge to see his brother, 'the Captain'! Que Reste-t-il de nos Amours? [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Asked to bid for a Monet at auction, the detectives are led on a TUE 21:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzckr) Stars as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie Phillips as trail over the Channel. Stars Anna Massey and Frances Barber. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number One, TUE 12:00 The Navy Lark (b007zmrl) TUE 22:00 The Leopard in Autumn (b00bs464) Ronnie Barker as Lt Commander Stanton, Richard Caldicote as [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Captain Povey and Michael Bates as Cedric Phillips. Plus TUE 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jmhk) TUE 22:30 Wild Things (b007xwxv) Heather Chasen as Ramona, Tenniel Evans as LS Goldstein, and Series 4 Series 2 June Tobin as Charlotte Stanton. A Box in Town Insomnia Albert hinders son Harold's romantic endeavours. Ample can't sleep. Winnie is writing a novel - will Robert help? Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as Stars Doon Mackichan and Miranda Richardson. From Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen Harold. With Yootha Joyce, Katherine Parr and Sheila Grant. December 2003. series between 1959 and 1976. Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association TUE 23:00 Ed Reardon's Week (b00jzcky) with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson Series 3 Scripted by Lawrie Wyman. wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Undercover Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring Ed shaves his beard in order to work unrecognised as a mystery Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 18 – 24 April 2009 Page 4 of 6 shopper. (b007jx6f) Richard Owen marries, while rival Gideon Mantell opens a The comical world of Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, Mrs Garland's Good Deeds museum but is forced to separate from his wife. Read by Emma consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive e-mail. "The over 70's keep fit club has got completely out of hand, Mr Fielding. Christopher Douglas stars as Ed Reardon. Critchley. Can't you see how cruel it is expecting pensioners to WED 14:30 Where There's a Will (b007jz8c) Written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. vault over a horse?" Episode 3 Featuring: More crazy happenings for hapless vicar Timothy Carswell. Reading from his book, playwright and novelist John Mortimer John Fortune Stephen Sheridan's six-part series starring James Grout.. holds forth on war and what makes a terrorist a freedom Stephanie Cole Reverend Timothy Carswell ...... James Grout fighter. Geoffrey Whitehead Mrs Garland ...... Rosemary Martin WED 14:45 Walter Lord - A Night to Remember (b007jr4k) Rita May Simon Garland ...... Daniel Strauss Episode 3 Sally Grace Critchley ...... Fraser Kerr The stricken passengers of the steamship RMS Titanic leave Simon Greenall Dr Warlock ...... Christopher Good their cabins and head to the ship's decks. Martin Jarvis reads Geoffrey McGivern Miss Shaw ...... Auriol Smith Walter Lord's account. Matthew Holness Mr Vaughan ...... Michael Turner WED 15:00 Daphne Du Maurier (b007jlbw) Paul Biggin Mr Shaw ...... Ronald Herdman [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Sally Hawkins Producer: Lissa Evans. WED 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00jzwds) Eve Dallas First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1991. Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. Producer: Simon Nicholls WED 10:00 Daphne Du Maurier (b007jlbw) Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories, featuring First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006. Don't Look Now Kathy Burke reading The Witches by Roald Dahl. TUE 23:30 At Home With The Snails (b007k2xv) John and Laura Bennett are on holiday in Venice, trying to get WED 17:00 After Henry (b007jpt4) Series 1 over the tragic death of their daughter. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Episode 3 They seem to be succeeding, until a blind psychic starts relaying WED 17:30 The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue Alex is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice when his mum messages from beyond the grave... (b007jx6f) thinks she is pregnant. Stars Gerard Foster. From July 2001. Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of slow-dawning terror first [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] published in 1971. WED 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Laura Bennett ...... Anna Chancellor (b007jq2w) WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2009 John Bennett ...... Michael Feast The Red Planet Sister ...... Colette O'Neil 8. Closing-in on Mars WED 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Elidah ...... Carolyn Pickles As Captain Jet Morgan and his crew approach Mars, strange (b007jq0c) Policeman ...... Sean Baker noises and dreams begin to affect them... [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] Waiter ...... Ewan Bailey Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971. WED 00:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand Porter ...... Carl Prekopp Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds (b007jvzk) Dramatised by Ronald Frame. Lemmy …. David Kossoff [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Director: Patrick Rayner Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter WED 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jsgf) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. Mitch …. Bruce Beeby [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Tuesday] WED 11:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3tn) Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs WED 01:30 Agatha Christie (b00jzckt) Ladies of Letters Go Global Various …. Anthony Marriott [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Tuesday] Episode 3 Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips. WED 02:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3sq) Howard is no help in rescuing Vera, so Irene, after breaking out Producer: Charles Chilton [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] of her Ibizan jail, implores Brian to help. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1954. WED 02:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzckr) But when Brian catches up with Vera in Moscow, Vera's WED 18:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] enraging remarks about her new-found intimacy with Irene's (b007jvzp) WED 03:00 John Mortimer - The Summer of a Dormouse son-in-law urge Irene to write an anonymous letter she may Episode 2 (b007jsrs) regret... Transported back six centuries, are the 'fictional' characters [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Irene ...... Prunella Scales Dick meets real? Psychological thriller read by Julian Wadham. WED 04:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007p1dj) Vera ...... Patricia Routledge WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jrp7) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Howard ...... Christopher Kelham [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED 04:15 Deborah Cadbury - The Dinosaur Hunters The up and down relationship of two mature ladies shared via WED 19:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jr1v) (b00bf979) their barbed correspondence. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Havman. WED 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jsgq) WED 04:30 Where There's a Will (b007jz6h) Producer: Claudine Toutoungi [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2006. WED 20:30 Agatha Christie (b00jzwdq) WED 04:45 Walter Lord - A Night to Remember WED 11:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzggl) [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today] (b007jr3m) Series 2 WED 21:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3tn) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] Some Commandment or Other [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED 05:00 22/04/2009 (b00jzggg) When the detectives watch a divorce lawyer's wife, their WED 21:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzggl) Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on operation takes a sinister turn. Stars Anna Massey and Frances [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] BBC Radio 7. Barber. WED 22:00 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b007k02n) WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jrp7) WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jrp7) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Series 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED 22:30 Old Harry's Game (b007jmbz) Cyrano de Hancock WED 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jr1v) Series 3 Chaos looms when Sid confesses he's in love with the lad's Series 3 The Reasonably Fantastic Journey secretary, Grizelda. Not to Be Unwrapped the Burkiss Way Satan and the Professor find a huge empty space in Hell - when Starring Tony Hancock, Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Queen Victoria needs some help with a personal problem - and they enter Scumspawn's brain. Williams and Hattie Jacques. all is revealed 'Upstairs Downstairs'. Andy Hamilton’s devilishly funny sitcom set in Hell. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett Satan …. Andy Hamilton Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. . The Professor …. James Grout Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to Thomas …. Jimmy Mulville Rabinowitz. 1980. Scumspawn …. Robert Duncan Producer: Dennis Main Wilson Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. Other characters played by Felicity Montagu, Philip Pope, Nick First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December Producer: John Lloyd Revel and Michael Fenton Stevens. 1956. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1977. Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer WED 08:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b007k02n) WED 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jsgq) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1999 Series 2 The Fascist Beast WED 23:00 Stand-Up on 7 (b007zd25) Entertaining Mr Stone Rumpole takes on a new pupil and defends a racist politician. Rob Newman Robin surprisingly brings a friend home, but he isn't all he "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". Episode 2 seems. Stars Kay Stonham and Simon Greenall. From May Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law The comedian continues to entertain an audience at London's 2003. Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn. From May 2005. WED 09:00 After Henry (b007jpt4) With John Bott as Judge Jameson, Michael Spice as Guthrie WED 23:45 World of Pub (b008m4ft) Series 3 Featherstone, Lockwood West as Mr Keith and Saeed Jaffrey as Series 1 Wedding Bells Lutuf Khan. Episode 2 'Well, I think it's a mother's duty to keep a maternal eye on her Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John Barry and Garry build the world's first environmentally friendly daughter's emotional entanglements. That's what I always tried Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. Case- bar. Stars Phil Cornwell and John Thomson. From March 1998. to do with you. You know, subtly. At a distance.' by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central Criminal Eleanor has plans for nuptials in the family, but the family has Court of England and Wales. other ideas... Director: Ian Cotterell. THURSDAY 23 APRIL 2009 Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - WED 13:30 Agatha Christie (b00jzwdq) struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who In a Glass Darkly THU 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space never quite manage to see eye to eye. A jealous lover is haunted by a fellow pilot's death and a vision (b007jq2w) Sarah ...... Prunella Scales of murder. Mike Walker's revamped whodunnit with Neil [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Eleanor ...... Joan Sanderson Dudgeon. THU 00:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand Russell ...... Benjamin Whitrow WED 14:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007q9j2) (b007jvzp) Clare ...... Gerry Cowper Ulster's Domestic Linen Industry; Wash Mills, Bleach Greens [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV and Beetling Engines THU 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jsgq) - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Wednesday] network. Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty. THU 01:30 Agatha Christie (b00jzwdq) Producer: Pete Atkin WED 14:15 Deborah Cadbury - The Dinosaur Hunters [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Wednesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1987. (b00bfdt5) THU 02:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3tn) WED 09:30 The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 18 – 24 April 2009 Page 5 of 6 THU 02:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzggl) Irene ...... Prunella Scales THU 20:30 Agatha Christie (b00jzy3m) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] Vera ...... Patricia Routledge [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today] THU 03:00 Daphne Du Maurier (b007jlbw) Nellie Thoroughgood ...... Susan Jameson THU 21:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3vh) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] The up and down relationship of two mature ladies shared via [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU 04:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007q9j2) their barbed correspondence. THU 21:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzy3k) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Havman. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU 04:15 Deborah Cadbury - The Dinosaur Hunters Producer: Claudine Toutoungi THU 22:00 The Right Time (b00c5snp) (b00bfdt5) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2006. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU 11:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzy3k) THU 22:30 Steven Appleby's Normal Life (b007jqqw) THU 04:30 Where There's a Will (b007jz8c) Series 2 Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] A Farewell to Ingleby The Normal Mind THU 04:45 Walter Lord - A Night to Remember (b007jr4k) Detective Daunt's country weekend at an old friend's house Cartoonist Steven takes advantage of modern surgical [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] doesn't go quite as planned. Stars Anna Massey and Frances techniques to reveal the inner workings of the creative artist's THU 05:00 23/04/2009 (b00jzy3f) Barber. brain. Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on THU 12:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook Starring Mark Perry as cartoonist Steven Appleby who takes an BBC Radio 7. (b007jzkv) abnormal look at everyday life. THU 08:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Steven ...... Paul McCrink (b007jzkv) THU 12:30 My Music (b007k084) Mum ...... Rosalind Paul Brian Allington Steve Race quizzes John Amis, Frank Muir, Ian Wallace and Female Steven ...... Rachel Atkins The common image of the breed of actors as selfish, Denis Norden on Quartets and Alma Cogan. From April 1990. Mr Two ...... Ewan Bailey chameleonic and unreliable is almost always quite unjustified. THU 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jsh4) Dad ...... Nigel Betts After all, to be realistic, what sort of professional future could The Case of Identity Other parts played by the cast. someone like that possibly expect to have? Rumpole deals with some dubious alibis in court and in Written by Steven Appleby The doyen of British show business, J Kingston Platt shares chambers. Producer: Toby Swift reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001. experience from the past 40 years. Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law THU 22:45 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea Performed and written by Peter Jones. Horace Rumpole. (b00jzzg3) Producer: Pete Atkin With Robert Harris as Mr Justice Vosper, Michael Spice as Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1986. Guthrie Featherstone, Brian Carroll as Erskine-Brown and The Fitness Club THU 08:30 The Right Time (b00c5snp) Amanda Murray as Phillida Trant. The Laird challenges Dougal to swim, cycle and run in a Series 3 Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John MacAthlon. Stars Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden. From Episode 5 Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. Case- March 2004. Time-share shock, home shopping revenge - and the perils of by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central Criminal THU 23:00 Think the Unthinkable (b007k4p8) redundancy... Court of England and Wales. Series 2 The sketch comedy for people growing older disgracefully. Director: Peter King Blue Herring Stars Eleanor Bron, Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Clive Swift, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. The management consultants plug into media technology. Stars Roger Blake and Paula Wilcox. THU 13:30 Agatha Christie (b00jzy3m) Emma Kennedy and Marcus Brigstocke. From November 2002. Written by Nicholas Barber and Glenn Dakin, Mike Coleman, The Dressmaker's Doll THU 23:30 Brian Appleton's History of Rock 'n' Roll Jan Etherington, Graeme Garden, Mike Haskins, Ged Parsons, A creepy doll with a mind of its own causes alarm along (b00fw3zq) Bob Sinfield, Chris Thompson and Pete Reynolds. London's catwalks. Mike Walker's revamped whodunnit with Come Up and See Me Script Editor: Ged Parsons. Juliet Aubrey. How Brian's interruption of a recording session inadvertently Music by Ronnie & The Rex and Neil Innes. THU 14:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007qb9r) gave Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel their biggest hit. Producer: Claire Jones A Vast Number of People Shipping Off for Pennsylvania and More revelations from rock musicologist and part-time media First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2003. Boston; The Voyage of the Sally studies tutor Brian Appleton THU 09:00 Doctor at Large (b009pp9l) The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Written and performed by Graham Fellows. The Captain's Problem Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty. Producer: Dawn Ellis Ship's doctor Simon Sparrow diagnoses trouble ahead with THU 14:15 Deborah Cadbury - The Dinosaur Hunters First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001. Captain Spratt! (b00bfnkg) THU 23:45 Elastic Planet (b0089jhr) The misadventures of newly qualified doctor, Simon Sparrow - Episode 4 The Shape adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's The term 'dinosaur' is introduced to the world, while Owen and Drugged electricity and artificial icebergs. 'Doctor at Large' published in 1955. Mantell's rivalry intensifies. Read by Emma Fielding. Oliver Postgate narrates a stream of bizarre coincidences in Ben Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as THU 14:30 Where There's a Will (b007jwjs) Moor’s cosmic comedy of connections. Captain Spratt, Ray Cooney as First Mate Jock Hornbeam, Episode 4 With Johnny Ball, Henry Cooper, Kerry Shale, Dan Strauss, Edward Cast as Colonel Smith and Peter Jones as Easter. Playwright and novelist John Mortimer delivers more Michael Troughton, Neil Mullarkey, Siriol Jenkins, Jamie Owen Producer: David Hatch ruminations on the nature of happiness and religion. and Alan Dedicoat. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1969. THU 14:45 Walter Lord - A Night to Remember (b007jr4x) Producer: Jon Naismith THU 09:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00jzy3h) Episode 4 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995 Series 3 As the sinking Titanic issues an SOS, women and children are Filling In ordered into the ocean liner's lifeboats. Read by Martin Jarvis. Supply teachers may come in all shapes and sizes, but, THU 15:00 Daphne Du Maurier (b007k4qn) FRIDAY 24 APRIL 2009 whichever, they’re invariably in short supply. But is King Street [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] lucky to get Mrs Harper..? THU 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00jzy3p) FRI 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jq5b) School comedy created and written by Jim Eldridge. Ten series Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] of this King Street Junior ran between 1985 and 1998. King Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories, featuring FRI 00:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005. Kathy Burke reading The Witches by Roald Dahl. (b007k4lh) Stars Carolyn Pickles as Mrs Devon, Marlene Sidaway as Miss THU 17:00 Doctor at Large (b009pp9l) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Lewis, Michael Cochrane as Mr Maxwell, Teresa Gallagher as [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jsh4) Miss Featherstone, Jacqueline Beatty as Miss Reid, Janice THU 17:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00jzy3h) [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Thursday] Acquah as Mrs Khan, Jillie Meers as Mrs Harper and John [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI 01:30 Agatha Christie (b00jzy3m) McCrea as Daniel. THU 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Thursday] Producer: John Fawcett Wilson (b007jq5b) FRI 02:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3vh) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004. The Red Planet [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] THU 10:00 Daphne Du Maurier (b007k4qn) 9. The Irresistible Light FRI 02:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzy3k) September Tide After their battle to land on Mars, Captain Jet Morgan and his [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] When Cherry comes home to visit her widowed mother Stella, crew prepare to start their explorations... FRI 03:00 Daphne Du Maurier (b007k4qn) she brings her new husband with her. Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] But surprises are in-store, as this is the first time mother and Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds FRI 04:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007qb9r) son-in-law have met. Lemmy …. David Kossoff [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Starring Paula Wilcox, Jonathan Firth and Alice Hart. Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter FRI 04:15 Deborah Cadbury - The Dinosaur Hunters Daphne du Maurier's bittersweet love story set in a beautiful Mitch …. Bruce Beeby (b00bfnkg) house on a Cornish estuary. Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] Stella Martin …. Paula Wilcox Various …. Anthony Marriott FRI 04:30 Where There's a Will (b007jwjs) Evan Davies …. Jonathan Firth Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] Cherry Davies …. Alice Hart Producer: Charles Chilton FRI 04:45 Walter Lord - A Night to Remember (b007jr4x) Robert Hanson …. John Rowe First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] Mrs Tucket …. Susan Jameson 1954. FRI 05:00 24/04/2009 (b00k08ld) Neighbour …. Duncan Walsh Atkins THU 18:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Director: Tracey Neale (b007k4lh) BBC Radio 7. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2005. Episode 3 FRI 08:00 Round the Horne (b007jrlz) THU 11:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3vh) On his next 'trip' back to the 14th century, Dick witnesses Sir Series 2 Ladies of Letters Go Global Henry Champernoune's suspicious death. Read by Julian Episode 5 Episode 4 Wadham. Master Spy Kenneth Horne's on the case of a remote-control Irene’s kept on the move by her island-hopping employees so THU 19:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook guided nuclear banana - and Kenneth Williams throws a fresh can’t prevent Lesley sending Christopher, Irene's treasured only (b007jzkv) tantrum over the show's script. son, out to Moscow to bring back Vera. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] With Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. When Vera explains that she and Christopher are to go on a THU 19:30 My Music (b007k084) Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, dangerous mission for MI6, Irene takes the desperate steps of [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] London. Announcer: Douglas Smith appealing to Nellie Thoroughgood, Chris's adoptive mother, for THU 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jsh4) Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio help [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today] comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 18 – 24 April 2009 Page 6 of 6 Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. Written by Christopher Douglas, Nick Newman and Andrew Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the FRI 13:30 Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home Nickolds. scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and (b007jsmq) Dave ...... Chris Douglas 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, Episode 1 Andy ...... Andrew Nickolds catchphrases and double-entendres. Kindly Detective Inspector Purbright probes dark deeds in the With Nicola Sanderson and Chris Pavlo. Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser world of small-time animal charities. Producer: Richard Wilson Hayes Four. One of Colin Watson's Flaxborough Chronicles dramatised by First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001. Producer: John Simmonds Christopher Denys in 6 parts. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1966. Stars John Rowe as Inspector Purbright, Robin Polley as Sgt. FRI 08:30 Heated Rollers (b007r4ys) Malley, Tricia Wilcock as Mrs Hallam, Paul Downing as Love, Episode 4 Russell Dixon as Dr Fergusson and Ann Rye as Lucilla Teatime. Upstairs Downstairs downgraded, and a toy doll with wrinkles. Producer: Tony Cliff The first ever all-women sketch show made for BBC Radio 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. starring Lynda Bellingham, Gwyneth Strong and Joanna Monro. FRI 14:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007qgnn) With music supplied by the Lorraine Bowen Experience. The American Revolution and Ireland; Free Trade or Else Producer: Maria Esposito The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1999. Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty. FRI 09:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b0081b4f) FRI 14:15 Deborah Cadbury - The Dinosaur Hunters Series 1 (b00bfq10) Episode 2 Episode 5 Moonlight on Mrs Parsons, newts in Lord Shortcake's trouser Owen's dismissal of rival Mantell goes on to the bitter end, but turn-ups, and the police - as ever - on Captain Foulenough's tail. he gets a taste of his own medicine. Read by Emma Fielding. Richard Ingrams, John Wells, John Sessions and Patricia FRI 14:30 Where There's a Will (b007jwk1) Routledge recreate the world of the JB Morton. Episode 5 Running in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975 – JB Morton’s Concluding his book readings, playwright and novelist John surreally comic ‘Beachcomber’ column paved the way for a Mortimer ponders what it actually means to 'make a fuss'. great deal of modern humour. FRI 14:45 Walter Lord - A Night to Remember (b007jr5b) Adapted by Michael Barfield with Richard Ingrams. Episode 5 Announcer: Brian Perkins With only women and children allowed on lifeboats, panic and Producer: Harry Thompson friction spreads aboard the doomed Titanic. Read by Martin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989. Jarvis. FRI 09:30 Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and FRI 15:00 Bruce Bedford - Mire Farm (b00k08lg) Works of William Shakespeare (b007k2gs) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Episode 2 FRI 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00k08ll) The Royal Dingle Company tackles the verse of the Bard. Stars Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. Patrick Barlow, with guest Juliet Stevenson. From September Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories, featuring 1995. Kathy Burke reading The Witches by Roald Dahl. FRI 10:00 Bruce Bedford - Mire Farm (b00k08lg) FRI 17:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b0081b4f) Simon Shaw's first challenge as a diplomat is to reconcile his [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] eccentric family on their farm with the angry villagers of FRI 17:30 Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and Butterdale in Yorkshire. Works of William Shakespeare (b007k2gs) Bruce Bedford’s drama stars Paul Downing as Simon Shaw. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Simon Shaw ...... Paul Downing FRI 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jq7r) John Shaw ...... Stephen Thorne The Red Planet May Shaw ...... June Barrie 10. Freighters Approach Beatrice Shaw ...... Jane Whittenshaw Captain Jet Morgan and his crew are on Mars, but he's alarmed Grandad Shaw ...... Howard Goorney when more of the fleet appear to arrive... Eric Flow ...... Nigel Betts Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971. Vanessa ...... Julia Hills Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Mrs Wentworth ...... Auriol Smith Lemmy …. David Kossoff Vicar ...... Christopher Good Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter Colonel Wince ...... James Green Mitch …. Bruce Beeby Taxi Man ...... John Wood Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs Directed at BBC Bristol by Andy Jordan. Various …. Anthony Marriott First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1990. Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips. FRI 11:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3wb) Producer: Charles Chilton Ladies of Letters Go Global First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November Episode 5 1954. Vera and Christopher undertake a life-threatening undercover FRI 18:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand operation for MI6. (b007k4ms) With no-one else to turn to, Irene combines forces with the ex- Episode 4 pat couple employing her to get Vera and Christopher air-lifted Dick starts realising he's confusing past and present, but out of the diamond mine in which they have been billeted. Magnus urges him to increase the drug dosage. Read by Julian Irene ...... Prunella Scales Wadham. Vera ...... Patricia Routledge FRI 19:00 Round the Horne (b007jrlz) Brian ...... Ewan Bailey [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] The up and down relationship of two mature ladies shared via FRI 19:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b008yrw8) their barbed correspondence. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Havman. FRI 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jshh) Producer: Claudine Toutoungi [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2006. FRI 20:30 Inspector Purbright - Charity Ends at Home FRI 11:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00k08lj) (b007jsmq) Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today] Base Metal FRI 21:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3wb) In foggy London, the detectives meet a charming American, [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] with dangerous consequences. Stars Anna Massey and Frances FRI 21:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00k08lj) Barber. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI 12:00 Round the Horne (b007jrlz) FRI 22:00 Heated Rollers (b007r4ys) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b008yrw8) FRI 22:30 The Nimmo Twins in... (b00jh6jw) From 26/02/1984 Series 1 From the Metropolitan Police to a dead newsreader. Norwich Michael Bentine stars in the ultimate one man show written and The duo desperately seek inspiration for the final script of their performed by the host. series. Stars Karl Minns and Owen Evans. From September Producer: Jamie Rix 2000. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1984. FRI 23:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00cqtgl) FRI 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007jshh) Series 2 The Expert Witness Motivational Speech Rumpole recalls the case of a GP accused of killing his wife. The ex-variety star tries motivational speaking with a snappy "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". slogan and dunce's caps. Stars Steve Delaney. From February Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law 2007. Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole FRI 23:30 Dave Podmore (b007qx6y) With Derek Farr as Mr Justice Skelton and Ellis Dale as Owen Dave Podmore's Cricket Fix Munroe, Episode 3 Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John Dave Podmore refuses to stand idly by as English cricket stares Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. Case- down both barrels of a bottomless doldrum. by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central Criminal On a chaotic overseas tour, his private life takes a turn for the Court of England and Wales. worse. Director: Peter King Christopher Douglas stars as Pod. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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