Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10 – 16 September 2016 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b016x42m) Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt Binyavanga Wainaina - One Day I Will Write About This Place, Directed by Claire Grove SAT 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space (b007jqlg) Episode 5 In 1939 Raymond Chandler created a different kind of detective, The Red Planet, Episode 15 By Binyavanga Wainaina. the fast-talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Cold-handed Maclean attacks Lemmy, but the plucky radio Having felt desperately homesick in South Africa, and not Marlowe, for his great novel The Big Sleep. This series brings all operator fights back. 1954 sci-fi classic set in the future of 1971. enjoying his university course, Wainaina has lost his way. But the Philip Marlowe novels to Radio 4©s Saturday Play. The Big Stars David Kossoff. finally he gets the call to return home to Kenya and a memorable Sleep 1939, Farewell My Lovely 1940, The High Window 1942, SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b00rdyrb) family reunion. The Lady in the Lake 1943, The Little Sister 1949 and The Long Series 9, Bach©s Goldberg Variations Read by Freddy Macha. Abridged by Jane Marshall Goodbye 1953, and two lesser known novels, Playback 1958 and Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional Produced by Jane Marshall Poodle Springs, unfinished at the time of his death in 1959. appeal. A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. Toby Stephens is best known for playing megavillain Gustav Bach wrote his Goldberg Variations for harpsichord in the 1740s, SAT 03:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - At Freddie©s (b0076d01) Graves in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002) and but today it©s performed by pianists all over the world. People 4 Extra Debut. In 1960s London, Freddie Wentworth runs the Edward Fairfax Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of describe the place these pieces have in their lives, including a haphazard Temple Stage School in her own inimitable style. Stars Jane Eyre (2006). In autumn 2010 Toby starred as a detective in neuroscientist from New York, pianist Angela Hewitt, a father Margaret Tyzack. Vexed, a three-part comedic television series for BBC Two. He driving his family through the night in the Australian Outback, SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b01s4744) also made his debut at the National Theatre as George Danton in and a woman from Oregon whose life was transformed, perhaps Series 3, University of Leeds Danton©s Death. even saved, by this music. A lively and funny quiz show, hosted by Steve Punt, where a Marlowe is a character we think we know, but do we? He is a SAT 01:00 Wimsey (b00s9f4w) team of three University students take on a team of three of their moral man in an amoral world. This is California in the ©40©s and Have His Carcase, Lord Peter Sets a Trap professors. 50©s, as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, reflecting Murder or suicide? Upper class sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey must Coming this week from the University of Leeds, the specialist all the tarnished glitter of the American Dream. The police are trace a vital clue - a battered old razor. subjects are Civil Engineering, Popular Music Studies and corrupt. The businessmen are well-heeled racketeers with Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Maria Aitken as Psychology, with questions ranging from dada and Dylan, to politicians in their pockets and their daughters have gone to the Harriet Vane, Nigel Stock as Inspector Umplety, Malcolm Ingram concrete and cogwheels - via penguins and postage stamps. bad. It is the taxi-drivers, maids and bartenders who restore as Antoine, Patrick Newell as Salcombe Hardy, Carole Harrison The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Marlowe©s faith in human nature. They scratch out a living at the as Doris, Deirdre Costello as Charis and John Westbrook as the Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds, and the ©Highbrow bottom of the pile and Marlowe is there with them, in his shabby Narrator. and Lowbrow© round cunningly devised to test not only the office with its cracked sign and no air-con, waiting for the next British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a students© knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and client to walk through the door. number of detective novels and short stories by English crime science, but also their Professors© awareness of television, film, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago, but spent most of his writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Have His Carcase was first published in and One Direction. boyhood and youth in England, where he attended Dulwich 1932. The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit surprising, College. In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter with a truly varied range of scores, friendly rivalry, and moments California, where he eventually became director of a number of Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and where students wished they had more than just glanced at that independent oil companies. The Depression put an end to his Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War. reading list. business career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to The host Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on The writing, publishing his first stories in Black Mask. By the time he Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio Now Show, is also someone who delights in all facets of published his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), featuring the from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that knowledge, not just in the Humanities (his educational iconic private eye Philip Marlowe, it was clear that he had not were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. background) but in the sciences as well. He has made a number of only mastered a genre but had set a standard to which others Adapted for radio in six episodes by Alistair Beaton. documentaries for Radio 4, on subjects as varied as "The Poet could only aspire. He died in 1959. Producer: Martin Fisher. Unwound - The History Of The Spleen" and "Getting The Gongs" Stephen Wyatt (dramatist) is a Sony Award Winning Playwright. SAT 01:30 I Remember (b07shhnc) (an investigation into awards ceremonies), as well as a comedy Recent work for R4 includes dramatising three of the Complete 4 Extra Debut. 1961 extract of silent film star Bessie Love on for Radio 4©s Big Bang Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, Ripley series including The Talented Mr Ripley for Saturday how she was discovered by legendary director DW Griffith. With called "The Genuine Particle". Afternoon, The Yellow Plush Papers for 11.30am and Tom Jones Irene Slade. Producer: David Tyler for Classic Serial. His original play Memorials for the Missing SAT 01:40 It Takes All Sorts (b07shhnf) A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. won a Sony Award in 2008. 4 Extra Debut. Actress Lillian Gish tells Howard Lockhart how SAT 04:30 Kathmandu or Bust (b07s6dls) SAT 07:30 What If? (b0075hys) pioneering director DW Griffith influenced her silent screen End of the Road The Fire of London career. From November 1969. The lights of Kathmandu are twinkling on the horizon, and a What if someone had a small blaze one Sunday morning in SAT 02:00 Ronald Frame Short Stories (b007k1lf) haunch of goat is roasting on an open fire. What can possibly go September 1666 in a bakery in London©s Pudding Lane - and had The End of the Season wrong? Starring Richard Ridings. From July 1996. simply thrown a damp cloth over it - instead of managing to Rhona has run away from her relationship problems. At her hotel, SAT 05:00 Dave Sheasby - One Flat Summer (b00752my) destroy much of the 17th century City of London? she comes to an understanding. Read by Jilly Bond. The Eclipse Stakes Series in which Professor Christopher Andrew and his guests re- write history by imagining how past events could have been SAT 02:15 Roger Deakin - Wildwood: A Journey Through After a big loss on the derby, Ken turns to legendary gambler different. Trees (b00j2j7f) Tam Robertshaw. Stars Gerard McDermott. From September Producer: Ian Bell Heartwood 1997. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. Nature writer Roger Deakin visits a library full of apples and SAT 05:30 Sketchorama (b04800pr) SAT 08:00 The Archive Hour (b039g8px) returns home to lay a tree hedge by hand. Read by Sean Baker. Series 3, Episode 2 Southern Journeys SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b018xy28) Tom Tuck presents the pick of the best live sketch groups The story of American traditional music is dominated by the AS Byatt - Possession, Episode 15 currently performing on the UK comedy circuit - featuring three father and son team John and Alan Lomax who discovered, Roland Michell, an academic research assistant, is completing up and coming groups in character, improv, broken and musical recorded, and popularised the music of the poor, the dispossessed some work in the London Library, when he comes across two sketch comedy. and voiceless. During Alan Lomax ©s 1959 tourofthe southern unfinished letters written by the Victorian Poet, Randolph Henry In this programme: states, he was accompanied by his then lover, English folk singer Ash. Theses letters have obviously not been found by anyone else Mixed Doubles. Shirley Collins , and here she tells the story of how he recorded and they are not to his wife but to an unknown woman.