Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 January – 2 February 2018 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 27 JANUARY 2018 Series 3, Episode 2Gyles Brandreth chairs the scandals quiz Jan Ravens and guests chart the journey of changing attitudes to with Anthony Holden, Lucy Moore, Richard Herring and female satire. Recorded with an audience in the BBC Radio SAT 00:00 The Scarifyers (b007wv3h) Louise Doughty. From October 2005. Theatre of Broadcasting House in London. The Thirteen Hallows, Episode 4Professor Dunning and his SAT 04:30 After Henry (b007jnzw) Ever since Donald Trump dubbed Hillary Clinton a 'nasty knightly friend Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr are captured and taken to Series 2, The TeapotEleanor wants a video player but how can woman' during a presidential debate, women the world over King Arthur's final resting place: Barry Island, in Wales. With she raise the cash?. have embraced the term as a battle-cry and responded not only shadowy forces both home and abroad ranged against them, can Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - with a viral campaign on social media but with Nasty Woman T- Harry Crow and the mysterious Mr Merriman save them? struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who shirts, perfumes and cocktails. This spirited response chimes The Scarifyers follows the exploits of 1930s ghost-story writer never quite manage to see eye to eye. with a long tradition of feisty female comedians on the radio. Professor Dunning and retired policeman Harry Crow, who Starring Prunella Scales as Sarah, Joan Sanderson as Eleanor, In a sometimes frank discussion, Jan and her guests - Kiri together investigate weird mysteries under the auspices of top- Benjamin Whitrow as Russell, Gerry Cowper as Clare and Pritchard-McLean, Lauren Pattison and the BBC's radio secret government department MI:13. Nicholas Le Prevost as the Valuer. commissioning editor Sioned William - introduce five classic Stars David Warner as Harry Crow, Terry Molloy as Professor Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV, episodes to illustrate the journey from character comedy to Dunning, Gareth David-Lloyd as Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr, David Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV satire, including: Benson as Mr Merriman and Von Ribbentrop, Margaret network. Sarah Millican's Support Group Cabourn-Smith as Lady Miriam Gore and Ewan Bailey as King Producer: Pete Atkin Goodness Gracious Me Arthur. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986. Bridget Christie Minds The Gap Written by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris SAT 05:00 The Leopard in Autumn (b00c683t) Mae Martin's Guide to 21st-Century Addiction Music by Edwin Sykes Series 1, The Future Begins HerePrince Ludovico battles his Producer: Mohini Patel A Bafflegab Production. enemies in the local tavern while his wife Princess Plethora Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in January SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b0076bhq) tries to reconcile her quarrel-some sons. 2018. Series 3, Moon RiverHenry Mancini and Johnny Mercer's film Neal Anthony's 16th century comedy drama about the chaotic SAT 12:00 Marriage Lines (b05yy74l) theme for Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Audrey Hepburn. With lives of the ruling family of Renaissance Italy's most Series 2, Episode 1George Starling is being driven mad by his Chay Blyth. From November 2002. inconsequential city-state. wife Kate's preparations for their first baby. SAT 01:00 Inspector Grant - The Daughter of Time Stars David Swift as Ludovico, Sian Phillips as Plethora, Richard Briers and Prunella Scales star in their second series (b007k40z) Graham Crowden as Francesco, Paul Bigley as Alessandro, based on the mutual love and mistrust of a young married Episode 4Using more books brought to his hospital bed, Saskia Wickham as Rosalie, Nick Romero as Salvatore, couple. Inspector Grant is determined to prove King Richard III could Christopher Kelham as Guido and Kim Wall as Doctor Dolfini. Originating on BBC TV, it was adapted for radio due to its not have committed the murders... Producer: Helen Williams popularity by Richard Waring from his own TV scripts. Josephine Tey's classic mystery read by Paul Young. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001. A decade later, Richard Briers was starring as Tom Good in Written in the early 1950s, The Daughter of Time was SAT 05:30 Rich Hall's (US) Breakdown (b09m1ht0) The Good Life whilst Prunella Scales starred as Sybil in Fawlty described by The New York Times as 'One of the best Washington D.C.'s favourite political call-in show returns to Towers. They remained friends until Richard Briers' death in mysteries of all time'. Radio 4 as stand-up legend Rich Hall and a selection of 2013. Producer: Bruce Young comedians from both sides of the Atlantic reflect on the first Producer: Charles Maxwell Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland. year of Donald Trump's presidency. Recorded at the BBC Paris Studio in London. SAT 01:30 Wrecked (b00jn0pw) Speaking to American pundits, comics and of course hearing First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1967. Neil McCarthy explores the history of the illicit activities of the extensively from the man on the street the show will explore SAT 12:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jygy) Wirral peninsula's wreckers, who ransacked Liverpool-bound how many of Trump's campaign promises he managed to keep The Boxing ChampionWhen the lad hits the gym, he knocks vessels with notorious ferocity. After the end of the wrecking and how radically one of the most interesting countries on the down a prize boxer completely by chance - which gives Sid an era, huge crowds came to the Victorian seaside resort of New planet has changed over 52 weeks. idea... Brighton, but they too have now gone. Neil tries to discover Cast: Starring Tony Hancock. With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney whether the wild spirit of the wreckers lives on in the area Rich Hall James, Kenneth Williams and Paul Carpenter. today. Nick Doody Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b04vr1j3) Jena Friedman Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. Recorded The Girls of Slender Means, It Was all a Question of Time'Few Lewis MacLeod by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz. people alive at the time were more delightful, more ingenuous, Freya Parker Producer: Dennis Main Wilson more movingly lovely, and as it might happen, more savage than Written by Rich Hall & Nick Doody with additional material by First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November the girls of slender means.' James Kettle and Laura Major. 1954. Emilia Fox reads Muriel Spark's rapier-witted portrait of the Producer - Joe Nunnery SAT 13:00 Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse (Omnibus) lives and loves of a group of genteel but impoverished young A BBC Studios Production. (b04dm0jk) women in postwar London. In the so-called May of Teck Club, SAT 06:00 Martyn Wade - Young Coleridge (b00828lq) Virginia Woolf's classic novel tells the story of the Ramsay a boarding house for single ladies, life carries on as if the world Greta Hall, Keswick: 16th September 1803. The events of one family and their time on the Isle of Skye. Stars Lyndsey were back to normal: elocution lessons, poetry recitals, jostling day in the life of the poet Coleridge cause him to reflect on the Marshal. From August 2014. over suitors and the sharing of a single taffeta gown. But the professional and personal disappointments of recent years. SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b09ptz3y) war has ended and things are not normal and never again will He tries to make sense of his world: his opiate addiction, failure Dawn O'PorterWriter Dawn O'Porter chooses 'Speed of the be. Into this world arrives Nicholas Farringdon, a writer and in love, his poetry and dreams of a utopian community. Sound of Loneliness' by Nanci Griffith and Bruce Springsteen's anachist, who is beguiled by these girls of slender means and Written by Martyn Wade. 'Born to Run'. their giddy, carefree lives. This meeting, we soon learn, will end Starring Tom Wilkinson as Coleridge, Jennie Stoller as Sara, SAT 14:15 Down Your Way (b09ptz40) in his death. Gary Bond as Southey, Christopher Good as Hazlitt, Narissa Miles Kington in FromeIn Somerset's old weaving town, Today: As tragedy strikes the May of Teck Club, time is Knights as Edith Southey, Moir Leslie as Mary Lovell, Amanda journalist Miles Kington discovers a place of mystery - tasting running out for some of the 'girls of slender means'. Murray as Asra, Elizabeth Rider as Prostitute, Brian Smith as silver birch wine and meeting a book-maker and a druid. Spark's 1963 novel, The Girls of Slender Means, has become a Schoolmaster, Christopher Douglas as the Young Man, Down Your Way was a schedule staple for decades - starting on modern classic. Muriel Spark was an award-winning Scottish Elizabeth Lindsay as Hartley and Ellen McIntosh as Mrs the BBC Home Service in 1946 and ending its run on BBC novelist and biographer, known best for her acclaimed novel Fricker. Radio 4 in 1992. Using a variety of hosts, including Richard The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Director: Cherry Cookson Dimbleby and Brian Johnston, the programme toured villages, SAT 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1984. towns and cities across the UK. At the height of the series' and the Mind (b041yf8g) SAT 07:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester success in the 1950s, it was attracting 10 million listeners a Care in the CommunityAt the end of this week of programmes (b01kjtfs) week.