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SATURDAY 29 APRIL 2017 Justice, Lord Judge. Yearns to Care About Stupid Bullshit Again," replied the Onion Other ideas examined in the first series are desire, agony, fame newspaper. We have an interview with the editor about the SAT 00:00 Colin Swash ­ Paradise Lost in Space (b007jp0g) and justice. Wisdom, comedy, liberty, peace and guest­host dangers of stepping into the irony­free zone. Episode 5When the Oblivions are introduced to the pleasures of friendship will be explored in January 2014. The programme also features Armando Iannucci, Kurt Anderson, the flesh, one thing leads to another. Stars David Haig, Michael Producer: Dixi Stewart. Brenda Maddox, Dean Martin, Bert Kaempfert and The Mike Troughton and Tony Robinson. SAT 02:30 Edith Wharton ­ The Reef (b00b719j) Flowers Pops. SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b01qwb2n) Episode 10Anna has succumbed to desire, but can she ever know The producer is Miles Warde. Series 15, Pergolesi's Stabat MaterThe Stabat Mater's imagines happiness? Stars Sian Thomas, Ben Miles and Teresa Gallagher. SAT 09:00 Clowning Around on 4 Extra (b03xcl02) the sufferings of the Virgin Mary at the foot of the cross, and SAT 02:45 Charles Chaplin ­ My Autobiography (b08n42g0) Tony Lidington traces the role of the clown in British humour, Pergolesi's eighteen­century setting remains a choral favourite. Episode 10Taking stock and a fateful decision. How Charlie from the Great Grimaldi through stars of circus, pantomime and Pam Self tells the moving story of how this piece unites her and Chaplin became a legend of silent cinema, concluded by Nigel pierrots, to modern entertainers and even activists. her friend Helen Vaughan, both during life and after. Hawthorne. Drawing on his own performances, BBC archive and Soprano Catherine Bott reflects on the piece's themes. SAT 03:00 Craig Warner ­ A Sense of Things Moving contemporary experts, Tony traces the clown's evolution from The Stabat Mater has been reinterpreted many times over the Forward (b08n42fy) Shakespeare's plays, whose rustic clowns and court fools could years: Sasha Lazard recalls singing it in the school choir, before The true and historical tragedy of the Very Magnificent Lord Don speak uncomfortable truths to those in power. He recreates the later taking the melody and transforming it into a dance version Cristobal Colon, Grand Admiral of the Ocean Sea. role of "the Great Grimaldi", whose panto clown became the most for her album 'The Myth of Red' rechristening it 'Stabat Mater What was the first "American Dream"? popular entertainment of Regency London and defined the IXXI' in the wake of the September 11th attacks. What did Christopher Columbus hope to achieve when he landed clown's image for generations to come. Light is also cast on the Victor Alcantara also sang it as a boy, before returning to the in the New World? popular 19th century travelling circuses, the enormous appeal of piece as an adult and transforming it into a jazz opus. And how did his notable voyage alter the course of his own life? pantos and harlequinades and the successful careers ­ and often Composer and Conductor Paul Spicer examines the musical Craig Warner's play about God and Gold. tragically short lives ­ of entertainers like Dan Leno, once hailed tensions in the piece, likening its opening to "a heartbeat." Starring Ben Kingsley as Don Cristobal Colon, Frances Barber as as "the funniest man in the world". Professor Anthony DelDonna recalls a performance of the Stabat Isabella, Queen of Spain and Simon Russell Beale as Father Luis The days of organized leisure time for working people and the Mater in his hometown of Naples, and reflects on the moment de Torres. growth of the middle class produced new diversions and the era which reaffirmed his his faith. With Patrick Maladhide as Martin Alonso Pinzon, Constance of mass entertainment. White­clad Pierrot troupes entertained Producer: Toby Field Chapman as Anacaona, Hedley Goodall as Guacanagari and visitors at seaside resorts and troops abroad as Britain descended Researcher: Nicola Humphries. David Plimmer as Vincente Pinzon. into two World Wars. The tradition of physical theatre and SAT 01:00 Paul Temple (b007t1sf) Producer: Andy Jordan anarchic comedy clowning continued in the latter half of the 20th Paul Temple and the Margo Mystery, Breakwater HouseAs they First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. century, with The Goon Show and characters like Professor hunt for Julia's killer, a fortune teller in Brighton warns the SAT 04:00 Who Goes There? (b00fnq9s) Wallofski, created by Max Wall. Temples they're in grave danger... Series 3, Episode 4Martin Young's famous people quiz. With Tony also explores the role of the clown today, still active in Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Francis Wheen, Sue Cook, Fred Housego and Annabel Giles. circus and panto and even in political demonstrations. Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC From January 2000. Made for Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions. radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. SAT 04:30 No Commitments (b00776t6) SAT 12:00 Great Scott! It's Terry Scott (b007k1hr) With Jon Rollason as Tony Wyman, James Thomason as Sir Series 13, Old SchoolVictoria is very excited about Emily's Terry Scott pokes fun at public services, future prisons and Graham Forbes, Tommy Duggan as Mike Langdon, Julian pregnancy, but is Roger being premature thinking about the reveals his own life story. Somers as George Kelburn, June Tobin as Linda Kelburn, Joan child's education? Stars Angela Thorne. From April 2007. With June Whitfield, Hugh Paddick, Dilys Watling and Colin Matheson as Mrs Fletcher, Hugh Manning as Larry Cross and SAT 05:00 Old Dog and Partridge (b007w3j9) Jeavons. James Beattie as Charlie. Episode 4Jack is in for a birthday surprise, while a ladykiller Surviving episode of Eric Merriman's Great Scott! which ran for From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul woos barmaid Mrs Drummond. Stars Michael Williams. From one series on BBC Radio 2 beginning in 1971 and later repeated Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved January 1999. in 1972 on BBC Radio 4. Terry Scott co­starred with June Whitfield on both radio and TV, case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They SAT 05:30 Hal (b08n22ry) most notably in BBC1's 'Happy Ever After' and 'Terry and June' inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, Series 2, ExesThe second series of the sitcom with Hal (1974­87). where the women were chic and the men wore cravats ­ a world Cruttenden finds the hapless house husband still trying to cope Producer: John Browell where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed with his mid­life crisis and doubting his every move. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1972. Paul's help with his latest tricky case. His wife Sam (Kerry Godliman) is still a highly successful SAT Producer: Martin C Webster business woman, his two daughters Lily and Molly continue to 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jrtv) First heard on the BBC Light Programme in 1961. grow into teenagers and find their dad just a little annoying, his Series 4, Remember the Burkiss WayIt's the clash of the game SAT 01:30 Up a Gum Tree (b0075kfc) bitter and embittered sister Pippa (Abigail Cruttenden) has shows! Jo Kendall, Chris Emmett, Fred Harris and Nigel Rees try Pete McCarthy takes a whirlwind tour of the world of chewing inconveniently decided to stay with Hal alongside her angry to win the car. gum, from its ancient origins to the present day. From May 1999. teenage son Oberon, racist neighbour Penny (Ronni Ancona) Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01m30p7) proves to be a major thorn in Hal's side and best mates Fergus (Ed 1980. Andrew Miller ­ Pure, Episode 5By Andrew Miller Byrne) and Barry (Gavin Webster) hinder rather than help Hal's Scripted by David Renwick and Andrew Marshall. Abridged by Jeremy Osborne goal of finding himself. Producer: David Hatch Read by John Sessions. In this third episode, Hal's vision of himself as a romantic partner First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1979. It's Paris in 1785. The cemetery of Les Innocents is the oldest in are confounded as Sam reveals she's catching up with a 'blast SAT 13:00 EV Crowe ­ I Confess: Omnibus (b08ns8fs) the city, but it is overflowing and can no longer hold on to its from the past'. And refugee housemate Mahmoud causes a stir. Police officers Henry and Anna are getting married, but their dead. Newcomers to the quarter are overpowered by the smell. It Written by Hal Cruttenden and Dominic Holland engagement party has not gone as planned. Stars Jill Halfpenny. taints the breath and food of the locals. And some believe it can Produced by Paul Russell SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b08ns8fv) even taint the mind. An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. Corinne Bailey RaeSinger­songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae By order of the King, the church and cemetery are to be destroyed SAT 06:00 Shirley Gee ­ Moonshine (b065x8fy) chooses 'Me and Mrs Jones' by Billy Paul and 'There's More to and every last bone rehoused. The place is to be made sweet London, 1937: Harriet Carmichael must battle new nanny Ada Life Than This' by Bjork. again. It shall be made pure. Molesbridge for the love of her young daughter: SAT 14:15 Frankly Speaking (b05ndh2t) Charged with the task, Jean­Baptiste Baratte ­ a young engineer ADA: When it comes to whose child, Flora might decide. Who Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited author Evelyn Waugh is from Normandy ­ arrives in Paris. And thus begins "A year of she cleaves to. Whose bed she chooses in the middle of the night. grilled about his life and career by Charles Wilmot, Jack Davies bones, of grave­dirt, relentless work. Of ... chanting priests. A Who she loves. and Stephen Black year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. HARRIET: Don't be ludicrous. She's my daughter, my flesh and Regarded as one of the most brilliant novelists of his day, Waugh Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived." blood. She belongs to me. loathed the BBC. His grandson Alexander believes that this Episode 5 of 10: In Valenciennes, Baratte meets Lecoeur, a ADA: Flesh and blood is one thing. But belongs. Slippers, interview, along with a cocktail of sleeping draughts, helped to former colleague from his days at the mines, to recruit workers candlesticks, necklaces, they belong. Ask her who she chooses. send him "rather mad". The author later turned his experience on for the excavation of les Innocents. Go on, wake her. Ask her. We're all people, aren't we. All human Frankly Speaking into a scene in his novel 'The Ordeal of Gilbert Andrew Miller was born in Bristol. He studied Creative Writing beings... Not mistress and servant, you said. Let her choose. Pinfold' with Stephen Black becoming the character Angel who at the University of East Anglia in 1991 and finished a PhD in Starring Rosemary Leach as Ada Molesbridge, Carole Boyd as haunts Pinfold in his hallucinations. Critical and Creative Writing at Lancaster University in 1995. He Harriet Carmichael, Katherine Hughes as Flora and John Rowe as Launched in 1952 on the BBC Home Service, Frankly Speaking lives in Somerset. David Carmichael. was a novel, ground breaking series. Unrehearsed and unscripted, His first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published in 1997 and won For her performance as Ada Molesbridge , Rosemary Leach won the traditional interviewee/interviewer pairing was initially the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction). His third, the 1977 Imperial Tobacco Award for the Best Actress. jettisoned for three interviewers firing direct questions ­ straight Oxygen (2001), was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Special music by Roger Limb, BBC Radiophonic Workshop to the point. Whitbread Novel Award. One Morning Like A Bird (2008) was Director: David Spenser Early critics described it as 'unkempt', 'an inquisition' and also produced by Sweet Talk for Book At Bedtime on BBC Radio First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977. described the guest as prey being cornered, quarry being pursued 4. SAT 07:30 Strictly Dance Hall (b0075vmm) ­ with calls to axe the unscripted interview. But the format won Pure is Andrew Miller's sixth novel and won the Costa Book Of Le Balajo, ParisPhilip Sweeney visits one of the last great out and eventually won over its detractors. The Year award in 2011. accordion dance halls, Le Balajo in Paris. From August 1998. Unknown or very inexperienced broadcasters were employed as Produced by Rosalynd Ward SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b03bpv42) interviewers, notably John Freeman, John Betjeman, Malcolm A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. A Brief History of Irony"What is irony ? Why do we need it ? Muggeridge, Harold Hobson, Penelope Mortimer, Elizabeth SAT 02:15 The Ideas That Make Us (b03b2zb9) Does it have any socially redeeming features whatsoever, or is it Beresford and Katherine Whitehorn. Series 1, JusticeThe Ideas That Make Us is a new Radio 4 series merely nasty ?" Only about 40 of the original 100 programmes survive. which reveals the history of the most influential ideas in the story Ian Hislop, John Sergeant, Kathy Lette, Barry Cryer and First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1953. of civilisation, ideas which continue to affect us all today. Madonna join the American satirist Joe Queenan in a search for SAT 14:45 Uncle Mort's Celtic Fringe (b007jrhx) In this 'archaeology of philosophy', the award­winning historian the meaning and purpose of irony ­ or saying one thing to mean Series 2, Lofoten JonesMort and Carter continue sampling Welsh and broadcaster Bettany Hughes begins each programme with the something else. Juvenal, Swift and John Lennon all find a place in hospitality, and come across the sex­mad Jones. Peter first, extant evidence of a single word­idea in Ancient Greek the spotlight, as do the bible, Oliver Cromwell and World War Tinniswood's adventures with Stephen Thorne. culture and travels both forwards and backwards in time, One. SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b03bpv42) investigating how these ideas have been moulded by history and "Some might think it ironic that the BBC has hired an American [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] have impacted on history and the human experience. In this, the presenter for this show," says the presenter, "but the latest chapter SAT 16:00 Shirley Gee ­ Moonshine (b065x8fy) last of five programmes, Bettany explores the idea of justice with in irony's history was written in the United States." The reference [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] philosopher Angie Hobbs, British Museum curator Dr Irving is to the 2001 destruction of the Twin Towers, and the SAT 17:30 Strictly Dance Hall (b0075vmm) Finkel, historian Dr Peter Frankopan and out­going Lord Chief proclamation that the Age of Irony was dead. "Shattered Nation [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

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SAT 18:00 Bryony Lavery ­ 272 Attempts (b0076mn4) Assisted by fellow comedians Thom Tuck, Alex Lowe, and took to rising early to write, and he continued this practice of An isolated house. The discovery of children's graves. A large Cariad Lloyd, Deborah recalls her treks around the streets of daily writing until his death in 1993. For Stafford it was the act of number of tagged children in the house. Award­ winning Brisbane where she gets abducted by a gang of bikers and tries to writing that mattered most. Writers who got stuck he advised to, playwright Bryony Lavery explores of the world of genetics. convert a Cuban jazz musician. "Lower your standards ­ and carry on." Starring Malcolm Sinclair as Patrick Lear, Penelope Wilton as Deborah turns her comic spotlight on the trials of being a trainee His poems are mostly short and accessible, but acquire great Helen Lear, Adjoa Andoh as Chisobe Oylele and Deborah witness and of some of the unexpected fellow travellers she meets depth. They can be tough, too. He was sensitive to landscape, Findlay as Dr Serkassie. on the way, including Peter Andre and Michael Jackson. people, animals, nature and history. So it's not surprising that Ted Director Claire Grove Producer: Alan Nixon Hughes and Sylvia Plath were both admirers. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004. A So Television production for BBC Radio 4. Poet Katrina Porteous visits Lewis and Clark College in Portland, SAT 19:00 Clowning Around on 4 Extra (b03xcl02) SUN 08:00 The Frankie Howerd Variety Show (b007jr6r) Oregon, where for decades Stafford taught, wrote and developed [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] From 07/11/1978Titters aplenty as Frankie Howerd turns agony his ideas. His son Kim takes her to the huge William Stafford SAT 22:00 Shappi Talk (b00lszhj) uncle and has terrible trouble with his announcer. Archive, as Katrina hears recordings of his readings, meets people Series 1, Growing Up in the UKShappi is joined with black Plus stars from the world of entertainment ­ Anita Harris, Aidan J who knew him, and students and poets he continues to influence. comedian Ava Vidal who'll be looking back at her unusual Harvey, George Roper and Bill McGuffie. And she goes out into the wilderness of Oregon to investigate and childhood. Shappi also chats with another 'related' guest­ and this Music from the Max Harris Orchestra reflect on the life, outlook and work of this great American poet. week she talks to author Ben Okri who reveals some amazing Scripted by Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville, Peter Gruner, Producer: Julian May story from his childhood with a very alternative father and some Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. childhood challenges. Producer: Richard Willcox SUN 17:30 Deborah Frances­White Rolls the Dice (b05r3srd) There'll also be a chance for Shappi to chat with the audience and First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1978. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] there'll be a song from Hils Barker. SUN 09:00 Omnibus (b08nsl7s) SUN 18:00 Ray Bradbury ­ Tales of the Bizarre (b007jpx2) Producer: Paul Russell Episode 2There are parallels between Homer's Odyssey and the Series 1, Night Call CollectMarooned accidentally on Mars, An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. journeys of refugees today. Poets who are themselves migrants telephone engineer Barton waits for the rescue rocket and goes on SAT 22:30 Comedy Club at Machynlleth (b08ns9s2) offer new responses to The Odyssey. putting up the phone lines. Then one morning ­ on his 80th 2017, Episode 2Made for 4 Extra. Rob Deering and Laura Lexx SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b08nsl7v) birthday ­ the phone rings. present highlights from the Machynlleth Comedy Festival in front Nicholas EvansThe Horse Whisperer author Nicholas Evans Ray Bradbury introduces his own thriller dramatised by Brian of a live audience. chooses 'That's My Funeral' by Barry Humphries and Steve Sibley. SAT 22:35 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Earle's 'Me and the Eagle'. Starring Kerry Shale. Better (b00k9dc3) SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b08nsl7x) Directed in Edinburgh by Hamish Wilson Series 1, LustThe Welsh comedian sets out on his quest to free us Honoured Actors, Dame Harriet Walter4 Extra Debut. From First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. from the seven deadly sins. With Tim Key and Tim Minchin. Prokofiev to Nina Simone, actress Dame Harriet Walter shares SUN 18:30 Mark Gatiss ­ The Devil in Amber (b00tvk9s) SAT 23:05 Comedy Club at Machynlleth (b08ns9s4) her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From June 2011. Episode 1Opening in 1920s Manhattan, Edwardian dandy and 2017, Episode 3Made for 4 Extra. Rob Deering and Laura Lexx SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour (b08nsl7z) secret agent, Lucifer Box is in hot pursuit of the dodgy dealer present highlights from the Machynlleth Comedy Festival in front Series 4, AnthropoceneGuy Raz explores whether we are in a new responsible for an influx of cheap cocaine to the city. of a live audience. geological age created by human activity? What does that mean Mark Gatiss reads his novel abridged by David Jackson Young. SAT 23:10 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters (b036mykr) for our future? Dashing hero, Lucifer Box is an assassin, spy and sometime Series 1, Episode 1Master character comedian Colin Hoult A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting portrait painter. presents his much anticipated debut comedy series for BBC Radio speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) stage. Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. 4. Enter the Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and hilarious world of SUN 11:55 The Listening Project (b0418wyh) Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Scotland and first sketches, stories and characters, presented by the sinister Adie and Ruth: Adventure in the BloodFi Glover introduces Adie, broadcast in 2010. Ringmaster. who might not have been born if his mother hadn't set off SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour (b08nsl7z) Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: Thwor ­ travelling, and Ruth, who might have had fewer worries if Adie [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] the mighty (but Leeds­based) god of Thwunder; Len Parker ­ hadn't inherited her travel bug ­ another conversation in the series SUN 19:55 The Listening Project (b0418wyh) Nottingham­born martial arts and transformers enthusiast; Anna that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:55 today] Mann ­ outrageous star of such forgotten silver screen hits such as The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot SUN 20:00 Omnibus (b08nsl7s) 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish Delight' and 'A Bowl For My of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Bottom'; and many more. to have a conversation with someone close to them about a SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks (b08nsl7v) Writers Guild Award­winner Colin Hoult is best known for his subject they've never discussed intimately before. The [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] highly acclaimed starring roles in 'Being Human', 'Life's Too conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b08nsl7x) Short', and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as his many hit producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also appeared and each encounter. Every conversation ­ they're not BBC interviews, SUN 22:00 Deborah Frances­White Rolls the Dice (b05r3srd) written for a number of Radio 4 series including 'The Headset Set' and that's an important difference ­ lasts up to an hour, and is then [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] and 'Colin and Fergus' Digi­Radio'. edited to extract the key moment of connection between the SUN 22:30 Comedy Club at Machynlleth (b08nsl84) 'Lewis Carol meets The League Of Gentlemen . A beautifully participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being 2017, Episode 5Made for 4 Extra. Arthur Smith brings you the staged masterclass in character comedy' ­ Time Out archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection best of the 2017 Machynlleth Comedy Festival. 'Comic gold' ­ Metro of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second SUN 22:35 Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun (b007k1z6) 'Delightfully funny' ­ The Telegraph decade of the millennium. You can upload your own Episode 5The cult BBC Radio 1 series hits Greenwich University, Produced by Sam Bryant. conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by London. Starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. From SAT 23:40 Comedy Club at Machynlleth (b08ns9s6) visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject November 1993. Producer: Marya Burgess. 2017, Episode 4Made for 4 Extra. Rob Deering and Laura Lexx SUN 23:05 Comedy Club at Machynlleth (b08nsl86) SUN present highlights from the Machynlleth Comedy Festival in front 12:00 The Frankie Howerd Variety Show (b007jr6r) 2017, Episode 6Made for 4 Extra. Arthur Smith brings you the of a live audience. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] best of the 2017 Machynlleth Comedy Festival. SUN SAT 23:45 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders (b00hqhzh) 13:00 Edith Wharton ­ The Reef (b00b8t5g) SUN 23:10 The Shuttleworths (b007k4tn) The EnlightenmentThe comedian sets out to validate herself [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] John Shuttleworth's Open Mind, UFOsThe Sheffield singer­ through 18th­century philosophy ­ even her frog collection. From SUN 14:15 Melissa Murray ­ Mackerel Fishing (b08nsbbk) songwriter investigates unsolved phenomena, with agent Ken February 2009. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] Worthington and guest Patrick Mower. From March 2006. SUN 14:30 Sarah Hall ­ Wolf Border Omnibus (b05x29w6) SUN 23:40 Comedy Club at Machynlleth (b08nsl8b) Episode 2All is not well at Pennington Hall as Rachel's worst 2017, Episode 7Made for 4 Extra. Arthur Smith brings you the fears come to pass. Compelling new novel about wilderness, best of the 2017 Machynlleth Comedy Festival. SUNDAY 30 APRIL 2017 family, power and love. Read by Hattie Morahan. SUN 23:45 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders (b00htxbs) SUN 15:45 Snapshots in the Dark (b0075qgn) Obscure Animal FactsWith her thirst for knowledge unquenched, SUN 00:00 Bryony Lavery ­ 272 Attempts (b0076mn4) Four Legs MuybridgeColin Ford discovers how Eadweard the comedian aims to become the ultimate quiz show contestant. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Muybridge's photos of animals revolutionised our understanding From March 2009. SUN 01:00 EV Crowe ­ I Confess: Omnibus (b08ns8fs) of movement. From December 1999. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN 16:00 Rachel Joyce ­ Talking (b08nsl82) SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b08ns8fv) "If I drew my town I'd do people with no faces. No ears, no eyes [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] and no tongues." SUN 02:15 Frankly Speaking (b05ndh2t) A Sicilian teenager risks ostracism ­ and worse ­ when she MONDAY 01 MAY 2017 [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] bravely speaks out against the Cosa Nostra. SUN 02:45 Uncle Mort's Celtic Fringe (b007jrhx) Actress Rachel Joyce's first play stars Sarah­Jane Fenton as Anna, MON 00:00 Ray Bradbury ­ Tales of the Bizarre (b007jpx2) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] Jilly Bond as Michela, Kenneth Cranham as the Judge, Natasha [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 (b03bpv42) Pyne as Isabella, Andrew Branch as Pablo, Jonathan Keeble as MON 00:30 Mark Gatiss ­ The Devil in Amber (b00tvk9s) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] Gino and Tess Worsley as Ma. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] Director: Tracey Neale SUN 04:00 Shirley Gee ­ Moonshine (b065x8fy) MON 01:00 Edith Wharton ­ The Reef (b00b8t5g) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (b03z3lbr) SUN 05:30 Strictly Dance Hall (b0075vmm) MON 02:15 Melissa Murray ­ Mackerel Fishing (b08nsbbk) Ask Me: The Poetry of William StaffordBBC Radio 4's Poet in [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive SUN 06:00 Edith Wharton ­ The Reef (b00b8t5g) MON 02:30 Sarah Hall ­ Wolf Border Omnibus (b05x29w6) with 'Ask Me ­ the Poetry of William Stafford'. Omnibus, part 2Anna is suspicious of diplomat George Darrow. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] William Stafford's achievement is extraordinary. He wrote over Can either of them know happiness? Stars Jodhi May, Ben Miles MON 03:45 Snapshots in the Dark (b0075qgn) 20,000 poems, 4,000 of which have been published, in more than and Sian Thomas. [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] 80 books and 2,000 periodicals. But it's the quality of his work SUN MON 07:15 Melissa Murray ­ Mackerel Fishing (b08nsbbk) that distinguishes him. Stafford was the poetry consultant to the 04:00 Rachel Joyce ­ Talking (b08nsl82) 4 Extra Debut. Two young brothers are forced to stay with their Library of Congress ­ the post that became the Poet Laureate of [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] foster aunt but they are desperate to return home. Read by Robert the United States, for years he was Oregon's Laureate and he won MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (b03z3lbr) Harper. the National Book Award. [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] SUN 07:30 Deborah Frances­White Rolls the Dice (b05r3srd) Stafford was born in Kansas in 1914, growing up during the MON 05:30 Deborah Frances­White Rolls the Dice (b05r3srd) Series 1, Episode 2Comedian Deborah Frances­White tells the Depression. A conscientious objector, he spent the Second World [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] true story of her teenage years as a Jehovah's Witness. War in camps, working in forestry. Too exhausted after work he

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MON 06:00 Paul Temple (b007rwkt) MON 13:00 Paul Temple (b007rwkt) make a sacrifice. Paul Temple and the Margo Mystery, Mainly About WymanThe [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Conclusion of Colin Swash 's comedy about two space­age suave sleuth probes whether an international criminal is behind MON 13:30 Leading From the Front (b0076qp7) humans stranded on a friendly alien planet. Julia's murder. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Stars Tony Robinson as Norman, David Hague as Max, Louise Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01m5hkf) Lombard as Stella, Michael Troughton as Macari, Daniel Main as Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC Andrew Miller ­ Pure, Episode 6By Andrew Miller Vince, Lorelei King as Ume, Ronnie Ancona as Louise, Carla radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. Abridged by Jeremy Osborne Mendonca as Suzy and Geoff McGivern as Tony. With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes, Simon Lack as Read by John Sessions. Producer: Richard Wilson Superintendent Raine, Tommy Duggan as Mike Langdon, Julian It's Paris in 1785. The cemetery of Les Innocents is the oldest in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. Somers as George Kelburn, June Tobin as Linda Kelburn/Sidney, the city, but it is overflowing and can no longer hold on to its MON 18:30 A Good Read (b0076jnk) James Beattie as Charlie and Douglas Storm as Detective dead. Newcomers to the quarter are overpowered by the smell. It Anna Raeburn & Paulette RandallSue MacGregor and her guests Inspector Burton. taints the breath and food of the locals. And some believe it can ­ broadcaster and writer, Anna Raeburn and theatre director, From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul even taint the mind. Paulette Randall ­ discuss books by Georgette Heyer, Oliver Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved By order of the King, the church and cemetery are to be destroyed Sacks and Jamaica Kincaid. From 2004. case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They and every last bone rehoused. The place is to be made sweet Awakenings by Oliver Sacks inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, again. It shall be made pure. Publisher: Picador where the women were chic and the men wore cravats ­ a world Charged with the task, Jean­Baptiste Baratte ­ a young engineer These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed from Normandy ­ arrives in Paris. And thus begins "A year of Publisher: Arrow Paul's help with his latest tricky case. bones, of grave­dirt, relentless work. Of ... chanting priests. A Mr Potter by Jamaica Kincaid Producer: Martin C Webster year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Publisher: Vintage. First heard on the BBC Light Programme in 1961. Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived." MON 19:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jrxq) MON 06:30 Leading From the Front (b0076qp7) Episode 6 of 10: The first spades cut the ground of the cemetery, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] 4 Extra Debut. Tommy Pearson examines the role of the but the miners' digging disturbs more than the earth. MON 19:30 Dad's Army (b007s8kl) orchestral leader and its relationship with the conductor and Andrew Miller was born in Bristol. He studied Creative Writing [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] fellow players. From March 2005. at the University of East Anglia in 1991 and finished a PhD in MON 20:00 Paul Temple (b007rwkt) MON 07:00 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k1gh) Critical and Creative Writing at Lancaster University in 1995. He [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Episode 4Edgar Finchley takes to sea, disturbs an intruder, sees lives in Somerset. MON 20:30 Leading From the Front (b0076qp7) double and visits a house of spirits. Stars Richard Griffiths. His first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published in 1997 and won [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b08n2gjl) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction). His third, MON 21:00 Opening Lines (b037525f) Series 18, Episode 4David Mitchell hosts the panel game in Oxygen (2001), was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete Whitbread Novel Award. One Morning Like A Bird (2008) was MON 21:15 David Napthine ­ Unforgettable (b0480grn) against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to also produced by Sweet Talk for Book At Bedtime on BBC Radio [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] smuggle past their opponents. 4. MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b08n2gjl) David O'Doherty, Richard Osman, Zoe Lyons and Marcus Pure is Andrew Miller's sixth novel and won the Costa Book Of [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] The Year award in 2011. Brigstocke are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON 22:30 Comedy Club at Machynlleth (b08ntk44) Produced by Rosalynd Ward inaccuracy on subjects as varied as colour, vegetables, pizza and 2017, Episode 8Made for 4 Extra. Arthur Smith brings you the A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. carpets. best of the 2017 Machynlleth Comedy Festival. Produced by Jon Naismith MON 14:15 The Ideas That Make Us (b03s6mf6) MON 22:35 Machynlleth Stand­Up Show (b08ntk46) A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. Series 2, LibertyBettany Hughes examines changing ideas of 2017Made for 4 Extra. Showcasing acts from Wales' premier MON liberty by allowing a neuroscientist to take control of her brain 08:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jrxq) comedy festival for 2017. Series 4, Rise from the Grave the Burkiss WayDracula and and by perusing the pornography of the French Revolution. MON 23:05 Comedy Club at Machynlleth (b08q79qk) Oedipus Rex get a good going over from Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, The Ideas That Make Us is a Radio 4 series which reveals the 2017, Episode 9Made for 4 Extra. Arthur Smith brings you the Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett. history of the most influential ideas in the story of civilisation, best of the 2017 Machynlleth Comedy Festival. Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to ideas which continue to affect us all today. MON 23:10 News Quiz Extra (b08ntk48) 1980. In this 'archaeology of philosophy', the award­winning historian Series 20, Episode 2Miles is joined by Hugo Rifkind, Katy Brand, Scripted by David Renwick and Andrew Marshall. and broadcaster Bettany Hughes begins each programme with the Rich Hall and Kiri Pritchard­McLean in the extended version of Producer: David Hatch first, extant evidence of a single word­idea in Ancient Greek last Friday's show. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1979. culture and travels both forwards and backwards in time, Our top story is of course the UK General Election. But we're also MON 08:30 Dad's Army (b007s8kl) investigating how these ideas have been moulded by history and talking about the French Presidential elections. Series 2, Put That Light OutCaptain Mainwaring's platoon causes have shaped the human experience. In the first programme of this Producer: Benjamin Sutton havoc in Walmington­on­Sea during an air­raid. series, Bettany examines changing ideas of liberty with A BBC Studios Production. Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier neuroscientist Professor Patrick Haggard, classicist Professor Paul MON 23:55 Comedy Club at Machynlleth (b08q7b00) as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John Laurie Cartledge, historian Dr. Stephen Pigney and Ruth Porter from the 2017, Episode 10Made for 4 Extra. Arthur Smith brings you the as Private Frazer, Ian Lavender as Private Pike and Arnold Ridley Institute of Economic Affairs. best of the 2017 Machynlleth Comedy Festival. as Godfrey. Other ideas examined in this series are comedy, hospitality, Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts wisdom and peace. by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. Producer: Dixi Stewart. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1975. MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01lswcr) MON Oliver Emanuel ­ The Other One, Episode 1By Oliver Emanuel. 09:00 Booked (b0075m3b) TUESDAY 02 MAY 2017 Series 5, Episode 5Ian McMillan chairs the literary quiz with A tense and moving drama, inspired by a set of exceptional true Dillie Keane, Mark Radcliffe, Sophie Hannah and Simon events, that explores the nature of identity and the notion of TUE 00:00 Colin Swash ­ Paradise Lost in Space (b007jp39) Armitage. From December 1998. family. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] MON 09:30 Artists (b019dr8p) A twelve­year­ old girl's world turns upside down when she's told TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b0076jnk) Series 2, Unholy AlliancesTamsin is invited to a wedding. Can an unbelievable truth. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] she persuade anti­traditionalist Josef to accompany her? Stars Ben Director: Kirsty Williams. TUE 01:00 Paul Temple (b007rwkt) Miller. From April 2004. MON 14:45 Book of the Week (b01j5fw2) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] MON 10:00 Wilkie Collins ­ No Name (b007jrhz) Paul French ­ Midnight in Peking, Episode 1By Paul French. TUE 01:30 Leading From the Front (b0076qp7) March 1846A mysterious letter from New Orleans arrives to Read by Crawford Logan. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] disturb the untroubled existence of Combe Raven House in West On a frozen night in January 1937, in the dying days of colonial TUE Somersetshire. Peking, the body of a young woman was found in the shadows of 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01m5hkf) What is the secret being kept by Mr and Mrs Vanstone from their a haunted watchtower. It was Pamela Werner, the daughter of the [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] devoted daughters, Magdalen and Norah? city's former British consul Edward Werner. TUE 02:15 The Ideas That Make Us (b03s6mf6) Wilkie Collins novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabteth A horrified world followed the hunt for Pamela's killer but the [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Bradbury. police investigation drew a blank and the case was forgotten amid TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01lswcr) Directed at BBC Birmingham by Anthony Cornish. the carnage of the Japanese invasion. Only Pamela's father carried [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989. on, employing a network of private investigators to follow the TUE 02:45 Book of the Week (b01j5fw2) MON 11:00 Opening Lines (b037525f) murder trail into Peking's notorious Badlands and back to the [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] Series 15, The Underwater CathedralThe series which gives first­ gilded hotels of the colonial Quarter. TUE 03:00 Wilkie Collins ­ No Name (b007jrhz) time and emerging short story writers their radio debut. Seventy­five years later, deep in the Scotland Yard archives, [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] In Martin Cathcart Froden's beguiling tale about humankind's British historian Paul French accidentally came across the lost TUE 04:00 Booked (b0075m3b) desire to conquer the natural world, a young man answers the case file prepared by Edward Werner and, through his fresh eyes, [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] siren call of the sea and pushes his body to extremes. uncovered the killer's identity. TUE 04:30 Artists (b019dr8p) Read by Stuart McLoughlin An evocative account of the end of an era, the book spent seven [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Produced by Gemma Jenkins. weeks in the South China Morning Post's Top 10 bestsellers list. TUE 05:00 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k1gh) MON 11:15 David Napthine ­ Unforgettable (b0480grn) Abridged by Robin Brooks. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. Have You Heard the Music ManEx­trombonist George can't TUE 05:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b08n2gjl) remember his son's name. But put on some music, and it's MON 15:00 Wilkie Collins ­ No Name (b007jrhz) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] remarkable what he can recall of his days on the road ­ and what TUE 06:00 Paul Temple (b007rwnw) intimate detail. MON 16:00 Booked (b0075m3b) Paul Temple and the Margo Mystery, A Time to WorryThe suave First of three plays about memory by David Napthine. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] sleuth edges one step closer towards solving the murder and Stars Windsor Davies as George, Carol McGuigan as Heather and MON 16:30 Artists (b019dr8p) discovering the identity of The Fence. Jack McBride as Stan. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Director: Jonquil Panting MON 17:00 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k1gh) Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. MON 12:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jrxq) MON 17:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b08n2gjl) With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes, Simon Lack as [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Superintendent Raine, Tommy Duggan as Mike Langdon, Julian MON 12:30 Dad's Army (b007s8kl) MON 18:00 Colin Swash ­ Paradise Lost in Space (b007jp39) Somers as George Kelburn, June Tobin as Linda Kelburn, Joan [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Episode 6Oblivion is in the grip of an Ice Age. Norman and Max Matheson as Mrs Fletcher, Mary Wimbush as Dr Benkaray, Hugh

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Manning as Larry Cross, James Beattie as Charlie and Kenneth Horan. Muriel McConkey, Stella McCusker as Vera McConkey, Aine Dight as Inspector Milton. TUE 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k27m) McCartney as Vivienne Boal, John Hewitt as Guard Gallagher, From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Gerard McSorley as Stumpy Bonnar, Marcella Riordan as Eithne Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry (b007jm1x) Ni Phartalain and Dominic Letts as Aubrey Frawley case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Music arranged and performed by Stephanie Hughes inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, TUE 13:00 Paul Temple (b007rwnw) Director: Eoin O'Callaghan where the women were chic and the men wore cravats ­ a world [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed TUE 13:30 On the Trail of the Templars (b007nt7q) TUE 17:00 Control Group Six (b08ny12d) Paul's help with his latest tricky case. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Producer: Martin C Webster TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01m5k3h) TUE 17:30 Rob Newman's Neuropolis (b08n2wcs) First heard on the BBC Light Programme in 1961. Andrew Miller ­ Pure, Episode 7By Andrew Miller [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 06:30 On the Trail of the Templars (b007nt7q) Abridged by Jeremy Osborne TUE 18:00 Time Hops (b007k1mt) It inspired bestsellers and Hollywood, but Martin Palmer wants to Read by John Sessions. Once Upon a TimeA screwball scientist mouse escapes from the know the truth behind the medieval Knights Templar. From June It's Paris in 1785. The cemetery of Les Innocents is the oldest in future to 1994 and enlists the help of three children to save the 2007. the city, but it is overflowing and can no longer hold on to its planet. TUE 07:00 Control Group Six (b08ny12d) dead. Newcomers to the quarter are overpowered by the smell. It A five­part comedy sci­fi by Alan Gilbey and David Richard­Fox. Series 2, Episode 4After reading a press release announcing his taints the breath and food of the locals. And some believe it can assassination, president Dr Heaven realises that life as a puppet even taint the mind. Stars Sara Crowe as EK6, David Harewood as RV101, Nicola dictator doesn't mean always getting your own way. By order of the King, the church and cemetery are to be destroyed Stapleton as Steph, Paul Reynolds as Baz, Dax O'Callaghan as The second series of the bizarre four­part comedy ­ half sketch and every last bone rehoused. The place is to be made sweet Max, Bradley Lavelle as Harley, Ian Masters as Norton, Margaret show and half psychological thriller. Written and performed by again. It shall be made pure. John as Mrs Miller, Gavin Muir as Scarrion and Oliver Senton as Richard Bean, Andrew Clifford, Clive Coleman and Colin Swash. Charged with the task, Jean­Baptiste Baratte ­ a young engineer Scab. With Geraldine Fitzgerald. from Normandy ­ arrives in Paris. And thus begins "A year of Music by Richard Attree. Producer: Jon Rolph bones, of grave­dirt, relentless work. Of ... chanting priests. A Producer: Nandita Ghose First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997. year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. TUE 07:30 Rob Newman's Neuropolis (b08n2wcs) Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived." TUE 18:30 Fry's English Delight (b01lv4ng) Series 1, When You're SnarlingOne of Britain's finest comedians, Episode 7 of 10: Still recovering from the attack in his bedroom, Series 5, Episode 1David Hockney rightly observes to Stephen Rob Newman, is our guide on a unique audio odyssey of the Baratte starts to make some changes. Fry that it feels odd to be making a programme about colour on brain, taking in everything from love and guilt to robot co­ Andrew Miller was born in Bristol. He studied Creative Writing the radio. In a way, that's the point. Colour is subjective and workers and the unlikely importance of prehistoric trousers. at the University of East Anglia in 1991 and finished a PhD in emotive. The very phrase "colourful language" is a metaphor for It's a witty, fact­packed series mixing stand­up and sketches, Critical and Creative Writing at Lancaster University in 1995. He vividness. But, until quite recently, we've been confused about challenging notions of neuroscience with a new theory that's lives in Somerset. how colour language developed. A discovery by statesman equal parts enlightening and hilarious. His first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published in 1997 and won William Gladstone, who was also a Homer expert, led to a Rob offers an alternative to some of the more bizarre claims in the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction). His third, staggeringly wrongheaded theory. Gladstone helped show that modern popular science, as well as rejigging theories of our Oxygen (2001), was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the most ancient cultures didn't have a word for blue. As a result, it brains in light of what we know about nature, artificial Whitbread Novel Award. One Morning Like A Bird (2008) was was concluded that the ancients had under­developed colour intelligence and Belinda Carlisle. also produced by Sweet Talk for Book At Bedtime on BBC Radio vision. The reality was that they had under­developed Created by the award­winning team behind Robert Newman's 4. vocabularies. Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution. Pure is Andrew Miller's sixth novel and won the Costa Book Of We meet a man who sees no colour but hears it electronically and Written by and starring Rob Newman The Year award in 2011. can "name" colours with audio signals. We also hear from the Co­starring Claire Price and Richard McCabe Produced by Rosalynd Ward head of colour marketing at Dulux paints whose job it is to find Producer: Jon Harvey A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. new words for new colours. And a bilingual woman says she Executive Producer: Richard Wilson TUE 14:15 The Ideas That Make Us (b03s6zmg) might think differently about colour depending on which A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. Series 2, ComedyBettany Hughes considers changing ideas of language she's using. The conclusion ­ how we see colour and TUE 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k27m) comedy by listening to a rat laughing and by giggling at how we describe it can shed light onto how language works. Series 5, The Desperate HoursAfter news of a jail break at schoolboy jokes from Ancient Mesopotamia. Produced by Nick Baker Wormwood Scrubs, Albert and Harold get some unwelcome The Ideas That Make Us is a Radio 4 series which reveals the A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. visitors. history of the most influential ideas in the story of civilisation, TUE 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k27m) Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as ideas which continue to affect us all today. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Harold. With Leonard Rossiter as Johnny Spooner and Paddy In this 'archaeology of philosophy', the award­winning historian TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry (b007jm1x) Joyce as Frank Ferris. and broadcaster Bettany Hughes begins each programme with the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association first, extant evidence of a single word­idea in Ancient Greek TUE 20:00 Paul Temple (b007rwnw) with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote culture and travels both forwards and backwards in time, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. The Offer investigating how these ideas have been moulded by history and TUE 20:30 On the Trail of the Templars (b007nt7q) was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring the lives of have shaped the human experience. In the second programme of [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold and it was this series, Bettany considers changing ideas of comedy with TUE 21:00 Opening Lines (b037gt62) the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. neuroscientist Dr Sophie Scott, Assyriologist Dr. Irving Finkel, [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Gregory TUE 21:15 David Napthine ­ Unforgettable (b0482y65) Simpson. Doran, and comedian John Lloyd. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Produced by Bobby Jaye Other ideas examined in The Ideas that Make Us are idea, desire, TUE 22:00 Rob Newman's Neuropolis (b08n2wcs) First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in May 1974. agony, fame, justice, wisdom, liberty, hospitality and peace. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry (b007jm1x) Producer: Dixi Stewart. TUE 22:30 Cowards (b007h55q) Something About a SoldierThe bumbling civil servants find a TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01m2fgm) Series 1, Episode 5Unusual pets and shock elections in the bizarre demob letter written 20 years before. Oliver Emanuel ­ The Other One, Episode 2By Oliver Emanuel. world of Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key and Lloyd A weekly tribute to all those who work in government Following a DNA test to establish paternity, a mother and father Woolf. From May 2007. departments. have discovered that Laura, their twelve­year­old daughter, isn't TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b08q7b8d) Stars Wilfrid Hyde White and Richard Murdoch. biologically related to either of them. The best in contemporary comedy. Iain Lee chats to Barry Ferns. With Norma Ronald, Warren Mitchell, David Nettheim and Now in the knowledge that the life she's been living should have TUE 23:00 Strap In ­ It's Clever Peter (b01hxmxt) David Graham. belonged to someone else, Laura visits the detective investigating BarryStrap in for fifteen minutes of rip­roaring comedy as Clever Written by Edward Taylor, Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer. how this could have happened. Peter bring you a Health & Safety blowdart, a killer whale and a 'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 and A tense and moving drama, inspired by a set of exceptional true soufflé. 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde­White from 1966. events, that explores the nature of identity and the notion of Clever Peter ­ the wild and brilliantly funny award­winning Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, however the family. sketch team get their own Radio 4 show. BBC's Transcription Service re­recorded 14 shows in 1980 ­ Director: Kirsty Williams. From the team that brought you Cabin Pressure and Another Case never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC Radio 4 TUE 14:45 Book of the Week (b01jlkh8) Of Milton Jones comes the massively bonkers and funny Clever Extra. Paul French ­ Midnight in Peking, Episode 2Read by Crawford Peter, hot off the Edinburgh Fringe and wearers of tri­coloured Producer: Edward Taylor, Logan. jerseys. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1965. Author Paul French reveals the true­crime "cold case" that "If they don't go very far very soon there is no such thing as TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra (b08ntk48) haunted the last days of old Peking. British justice" ­ Daily Telegraph [Repeat of broadcast at 23:10 on Monday] January, 1937. As invading Japanese troops move into the "A masterclass in original sketch comedy" ­ Metro TUE 09:45 Hearing With Hegley (b0075ryg) countryside around Peking, two policemen try desperately to "Pretty much top of the class" ­ The Scotsman Series 3, Episode 2Who wants to be a milliner? The Luton discover who was behind the brutal murder of a young British So ­ laureate entertains a class of schoolchildren and gets fitted for one woman, Pamela Werner. Why "Clever"? of the town's famous hats. From February 2000. Abridged by Robin Brooks. Dunno TUE 10:00 Wilkie Collins ­ No Name (b007jrlw) Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. Why "Peter"? July 1846What next for Magdalen and Norah, suddenly orphaned TUE 15:00 Wilkie Collins ­ No Name (b007jrlw) Not a clue mate with no name and no inheritance? Stars Sophie Thompson and [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Should I listen to the show? Jack May. TUE 16:00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (b008m74n) Yes, of course! Derrr. TUE 11:00 Opening Lines (b037gt62) Episode 3Clive Anderson anchors the improvisations with Starring Richard Bond, Edward Eales­White, William Hartley Series 15, Looking Sadly out of WindowsThe series which gives Stephen Fry, John Sessions, Jimmy Mulville and Nonny and special guest Catriona Knox first­time and emerging short story writers their radio debut. Williams. From January 1988. Written by Richard Bond, Edward Eales­White, William Hartley Daisy Haggard reads Sarah Courtauld's comic tale about a TUE 16:30 Ballylenon (b007k4hw) & Dominic Stone precocious young girl trying to find her place in the world who Series 1, Episode 2A "gramophone record recital" is the Irish Produced & directed by David Tyler decides to adopt John the Baptist as her role model. town's cultural highlight of 1953 ­ the start of something big? A Pozzitive Television Ltd Production for BBC Radio 4. Producer: Robert Howells. Series set in the sleepy town of Ballylenon, Co Donegal, in 1953, TUE 23:15 Political Animals (b01m179f) TUE 11:15 David Napthine ­ Unforgettable (b0482y65) before the days of mass tourism and proper plumbing in every Series 1, Humphreyby Tony Bagley EraserAfter a head injury, Terri keeps notes to help her memory, home. Written by Christopher Fitz­Simon. The second in a series of four talks by well­known Downing but her notebooks begin to contradict each other. With Jo­Anne Starring TP McKenna as Phonsie Doherty, Margaret D'Arcy as Street cats, relating their trials and tribulations under four

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Blur album; from their first in 1992, to seventh and most recent Series 2, HospitalityBettany Hughes samples changing ideas of TUE 23:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b01c7rqd) release in 2003. From being at school, to his first jobs and hospitality by gazing into outer space and by inviting poet and Series 4, Episode 3Comedian­activist Mark Thomas and his relationships, this is John's story of life, love, friendship and author Ben Okri 'round to her house for supper. studio audience consider proposals for a People's Manifesto. growing older, with the new Blur album as a constant backdrop. The Ideas That Make Us is a Radio 4 series which reveals the The Agenda: WED 08:00 The Navy Lark (b016z6pf) history of the most influential ideas in the story of civilisation, 1) Cancel out everyone's debt. The Redundancy DriveCaptain Povey's keen to clear the decks of ideas which continue to affect us all today. 2) Sue Goldman Sachs for their part in the Greek economic HMS Troutbridge, but Number One fights back. In this 'archaeology of philosophy', the award­winning historian collapse. Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub­Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the and broadcaster Bettany Hughes begins each programme with the and Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Commanding Officer, first, extant evidence of a single word­idea in Ancient Greek 3) Increase the indicated speed on car speedometers. Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Heather, culture and travels both forwards and backwards in time, Plus throughout the show there are "any other business" policy Tenniel Evans as the Admiral and Michael Bates and Lawrie investigating how these ideas have been moulded by history and suggestions from the studio audience. Wyman as the Captains. shaped the human experience. In the third programme of this Produced by Colin Anderson. Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS series, Bettany samples changing ideas of hospitality with Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series astronomer Professor Didier Queloz, classicist Professor Paul between 1959 and 1976. Cartledge, poet and author Ben Okri and former Deputy Prime Scripted by Lawrie Wyman. Minister John Prescott. Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. Other ideas examined in The Ideas that Make Us are idea, desire, WEDNESDAY 03 MAY 2017 First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1968. agony, fame, justice, wisdom, comedy, liberty and peace. WED 08:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b00802l8) Producer: Dixi Stewart. WED 00:00 Time Hops (b007k1mt) Series 5, The Publicity PhotographThe lad's new image leads to a WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01m2fmk) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] major makeover away from the camera. Oliver Emanuel ­ The Other One, Episode 3By Oliver Emanuel. WED 00:30 Fry's English Delight (b01lv4ng) Stars Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Following a DNA test to establish paternity, a mother and father [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Jacques and Kenneth Williams. have discovered that Laura, their twelve­year­old daughter, isn't WED 01:00 Paul Temple (b007rwnw) Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. biologically related to either of them. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. Now in the knowledge that the life she's been living should have WED 01:30 On the Trail of the Templars (b007nt7q) Producer: Tom Ronald belonged to someone else, Laura turns detective and tracks down [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1958. the medic in charge on the day she was born and swapped. WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01m5k3h) WED 09:00 Dilemma (b03xf0gm) A tense and moving drama, inspired by a set of exceptional true [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Series 3, Episode 6Sue Perkins presents a third series of events, that explores the nature of identity and the notion of WED 02:15 The Ideas That Make Us (b03s6zmg) Dilemma, the panel show where she puts four guests through the family. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] moral and ethical wringer by posing a series of finely­balanced Director: Kirsty Williams. WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01m2fgm) dilemmas and then cross­examining them on their answers. WED 14:45 Book of the Week (b01jlkhj) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] The show was devised by the actor and award­winning comedian Paul French ­ Midnight in Peking, Episode 3Read by Crawford WED 02:45 Book of the Week (b01jlkh8) Danielle Ward. Logan. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] "A non­irritating, hilarious panel show" (Radio Times) Author Paul French reveals the true­crime "cold case" that Devised by ... Danielle Ward haunted the last days of old Peking. WED 03:00 Wilkie Collins ­ No Name (b007jrlw) Producer ... Ed Morrish. January, 1937. As invading Japanese troops move into the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED 09:30 Up the Garden Path (b0085k01) countryside around Peking, two policemen try desperately to WED 04:00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (b008m74n) Series 2, The More the MerrierCharles learns of Izzy's torrid past, discover who was behind the brutal murder of a young British [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] when her friends join them for a holiday. Stars Imelda Staunton. woman, Pamela Werner. WED 04:30 Ballylenon (b007k4hw) From November 1988. In today's episode, D.C.I. Dennis finally makes a breakthrough in [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED 10:00 Wilkie Collins ­ No Name (b007jrpm) the case, when he discovers blood­spattered clothing belonging to WED 05:00 Control Group Six (b08ny12d) June 1847Aided by the swindler Captain Wragge, Magdalen is one of the main suspects. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] determined to retrieve her inheritance from cousin Noel, but has Abridged by Robin Brooks. WED 05:30 Rob Newman's Neuropolis (b08n2wcs) to deal with the devious Mrs Lecount. Stars Eleanor Bron. Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED 11:00 Opening Lines (b037sdyz) WED 15:00 Wilkie Collins ­ No Name (b007jrpm) WED 06:00 Paul Temple (b007rwp2) Series 15, PrincessThe series which gives first­time and emerging [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Paul Temple and the Margo Mystery, The VisitorWith time short story writers their radio debut. WED 16:00 Dilemma (b03xf0gm) running out, can the suave sleuth finally confront who murdered Philip Arditti reads Atar Hadari's straight­talking monologue. A [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Julia Kelburn? young blade working as a hired hand in a kibbutz kitchen offers WED 16:30 Up the Garden Path (b0085k01) Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and friendly advice on love but his motives are far from clear cut. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC Produced by Gemma Jenkins. WED 17:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b00cfgxs) radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. WED 11:15 David Napthine ­ Unforgettable (b0483q5w) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes, Simon Lack as May All Your Wishes Come TrueEddie is found wandering WED 17:30 The New Blur Album (b04jj113) Superintendent Raine, Tommy Duggan as Mike Langdon, Julian Newcastle with no idea of his past. What should he do until his [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Somers as George Kelburn, June Tobin as Linda Kelburn, Joan memory returns? Stars Derek Walmsley. WED Matheson as Mrs Fletcher, Mary Wimbush as Dr Benkaray, 18:00 Time Hops (b007k1p3) WED 12:00 The Navy Lark (b016z6pf) James Beattie as Charlie and Hugh Manning as Larry Cross. Killing TimeThe chase is on as the children catapult further back [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul in time and find themselves in deep water. Stars David Harewood. WED Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved 12:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b00802l8) WED 18:30 Off the Page (b011plrx) case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Terrible FoodWhat's the worst thing that could be served to you inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, WED 13:00 Paul Temple (b007rwp2) for lunch? Fox lasagne? Tripe? Raw seal blubber? Dominic where the women were chic and the men wore cravats ­ a world [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Arkwright joins three guests for new writing and stimulating where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed WED 13:30 White Stiletto Dreams (b01ks8v7) discussion on the subject of Terrible Food. Paul's help with his latest tricky case. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] His first guest Jonathan McGowan explains how liver turns his Producer: Martin C Webster WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01m5nqw) stomach, but doesn't think anything of eating dead rats ­ as long First heard on the BBC Light Programme in 1961. Andrew Miller ­ Pure, Episode 8By Andrew Miller as they're rats from the countryside. Johann Hari reveals how for WED 06:30 White Stiletto Dreams (b01ks8v7) Abridged by Jeremy Osborne many years he's had a culinary addiction that now makes him Romford Market was vibrant in the 1980s. Now it is struggling to Read by John Sessions. shudder, and Stephanie Calman describes what definitely not to survive ­ a victim of supermarkets and cut­price stores. It's Paris in 1785. The cemetery of Les Innocents is the oldest in serve at a dinner party. Presenter Cathy FitzGerald bought her first ­ and last ­ pair of the city, but it is overflowing and can no longer hold on to its Produced by Beatrice Fenton. white stilettos in the market as a teenager. David Eldridge worked dead. Newcomers to the quarter are overpowered by the smell. It WED 19:00 The Navy Lark (b016z6pf) on the shoe stall. He's now one of Britain's leading playwrights, taints the breath and food of the locals. And some believe it can [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] with credits that include In Basildon at the Royal Court and even taint the mind. WED 19:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b00802l8) Market Boy, a play about Romford that premiered at the National By order of the King, the church and cemetery are to be destroyed [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Theatre. Selling espadrilles isn't obvious training for a playwright, and every last bone rehoused. The place is to be made sweet WED 20:00 Paul Temple (b007rwp2) but in the 1980s the market was a stage. again. It shall be made pure. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] There were the characters (the Fruit & Veg Man, the Leather Charged with the task, Jean­Baptiste Baratte ­ a young engineer WED 20:30 White Stiletto Dreams (b01ks8v7) Boys, and the Lampshade Man) and the dialogue ­ bantering with from Normandy ­ arrives in Paris. And thus begins "A year of [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] the customers was rude, funny, and definitely an art. Cathy and bones, of grave­dirt, relentless work. Of ... chanting priests. A WED 21:00 Opening Lines (b037sdyz) David return to Romford to weigh up what's been lost ­ and see if year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] the stiletto still fits. Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived." WED 21:15 David Napthine ­ Unforgettable (b0483q5w) Producers: Cathy FitzGerald and Matt Thompson Episode 8 of 10: To the consternation of those around him, [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. Baratte asks Heloise Godard to move in with him. WED 22:00 The New Blur Album (b04jj113) WED 07:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b00cfgxs) Andrew Miller was born in Bristol. He studied Creative Writing [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] at the University of East Anglia in 1991 and finished a PhD in Series 3, A Very Nice GirlAs Rabbi Abraham struggles after his WED 22:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages (b038c0dw) Critical and Creative Writing at Lancaster University in 1995. He collapse, Rabbi Su meets a hospital doctor. Stars Tracy­Ann Series 2, Team BondingBirths, Deaths and Marriages is the lives in Somerset. Oberman. From March 2002. sitcom set in a Local Authority Register Office where the staff His first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published in 1997 and won WED 07:30 The New Blur Album (b04jj113) deal with the three greatest events in anybody's life. the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction). His third, You always remember where you were when you first heard Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan Oxygen (2001), was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the certain pieces of music, watched films that were important to you, Partridge), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is a Whitbread Novel Award. One Morning Like A Bird (2008) was were told of big news events. Sometimes when you hear a song stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any wedding also produced by Sweet Talk for Book At Bedtime on BBC Radio you are transported back to the first time you heard it, you service if the width of the bride infringes health and safety. He's Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28 April – 5 May 2017 Page 6 of 8 single but why does he need to be married? He's married THU 02:45 Book of the Week (b01jlkhj) Canterbury to celebrate their 35th Wedding anniversary, with a thousands of women. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] few days off and a visit to the Chaucer experience. But life takes a Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been THU 03:00 Wilkie Collins ­ No Name (b007jrpm) different turn when Peggy, out for a walk in the town, sees a flyer parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and Malcolm) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] for Rumer, the psychic healer, and goes for a tarot reading above into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just about love and THU 04:00 Dilemma (b03xf0gm) the Delphinium Tea Rooms. So begins a chain of events that romance, it's got to be about making a profit in our new age of [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] means Peggy's life will never be the same again. austerity. THU 04:30 Up the Garden Path (b0085k01) The Page of Wands is the new comedy drama from Carole There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried he'll [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Hayman, who co­wrote the long running BBC Radio 4 series end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may get her THU 05:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b00cfgxs) Ladies of Letters. words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the only parent in [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Gwen Taylor stars as Peggy and Louise Plowright as Rumer. the office, is a mother to them all. Cast: THU 05:30 The New Blur Album (b04jj113) In the final episode of the series, the office is reluctantly taking Peggy ...... Gwen Taylor [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] part in a team bonding exercise in the grounds of a country house. Rumer ...... Louise Plowright THU 06:00 Wally K Daly (b00yjy11) Lorna is doing the celebrity wedding of the Honourable Sebastian Ken ...... Alan Leith Orphans in Waiting, FridayThe parents of Mike, Pete and Janey Foster at the same venue but Sebastian wants to have a hymn ­ Jim ...... Peter Pacey Jago disappear overnight ­ and there are mysterious marks in the which Malcolm says is strictly not allowed in a civil ceremony. Teddy ...... Dan Goode garden... Producer: Simon Jacobs Jeremy/bouncer ...... Paul Mundell A spy thriller in six parts by Wally K Daly. A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. Darryl/Someone ...... James Joyce Stars Judy Bennett as Mike, Abigail Docherty as Janey, Simon WED 23:00 Little Monster (b02q78pq) Waitress / Woman ...... Sally Orrock Radford as Peter and Peter Jeffrey as the Headmaster. With other Little Monster follows the fortunes of new mother Karen (Sarah Director: Paul Dodgson parts by Joanna Myers, Timothy Carlton and Andrew Wincott. Hadland) as she struggles to get to grips with her little monster. A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. Audio from the author's own collection. No really, he is literally a monster. Or should that be she is? Or THU 12:00 Marriage Lines (b04mh4km) Producer: Dan Garrett even it is? To be honest it's all a bit of a jumble, but they're opted [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1990. for the name Benjy for now. THU 12:30 Benny Hill (b08nyvmt) THU 06:30 The Dalesman (b0075zvj) Like all babies, Benjy (Cariad Lloyd) keeps growing. Horns [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] 4 Extra Debut. Harry Gration leafs through the pages of a mainly. Scales. Fangs. Tail. Karen never quite knows what's THU magazine dedicated to life in the Yorkshire Dales. With Fred 13:00 Wally K Daly (b00yjy11) going to greet her when she unbolts the reinforced door of his Trueman. From December 2000. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] nursery and turns the padlock on his cot. THU THU 07:00 Electric Ink (b011f3pc) 13:30 The Dalesman (b0075zvj) Not that he's dangerous, of course. Just very excitable. And [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] strong. And surprisingly advanced for his tender age. While most Series 1, Episode 2Circulation is going through the roof as the old newspaper hacks struggle with new media. Stars Robert Lindsay. THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01m68w8) babies lie in their cots looking sweet, Benjy is soon galumphing Andrew Miller ­ Pure, Episode 9By Andrew Miller around the house and bringing in the remains of next door's From June 2009. THU 07:30 Reluctant Persuaders (b08n46dj) Abridged by Jeremy Osborne chickens. And though he may be a monster, he's still Karen's Read by John Sessions. monster. She loves him and she always will, no matter what he Series 2, Think DifferentStarring Nigel Havers, Mathew Baynton and Josie Lawrence. Welcome back to Hardacre's, the worst It's Paris in 1785. The cemetery of Les Innocents is the oldest in puts her through. And he's sometimes very well­behaved, the city, but it is overflowing and can no longer hold on to its especially when his Dad, Nick (Rufus Jones) or Grandma advertising agency in London, for the second series of Edward Rowett's award­winning sitcom. dead. Newcomers to the quarter are overpowered by the smell. It (Geraldine James) are around. taints the breath and food of the locals. And some believe it can While Karen has to cope with one very real monster, she also has This week, things are looking up for Hardacre's. They're pitching for the biggest account of their lives ­ the cutting edge new even taint the mind. to deal with her own 'monsters' ­ the monsters of guilt, envy and By order of the King, the church and cemetery are to be destroyed low self­esteem that gnaw away at her from the inside. She wants smartphone, the Cosmos X10. It's the day of the big pitch and Hardacre (Nigel Havers), Joe and every last bone rehoused. The place is to be made sweet to be the best mother in the world and just ends up behaving like again. It shall be made pure. the worst. (Mathew Baynton), Teddy (Kieran Hodgson), Amanda (Josie Lawrence), and Laura (Olivia Nixon) are waiting to be called in. Charged with the task, Jean­Baptiste Baratte ­ a young engineer Written by Gerard Foster (At Home With The Snails, Horrible from Normandy ­ arrives in Paris. And thus begins "A year of Histories) this is a darkly comic look at modern parenthood, set in They may be waiting rather a long time, in fact, as they appear to have turned up six hours early. bones, of grave­dirt, relentless work. Of ... chanting priests. A our child­obsessed world of big buggies and Little Einsteins. year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. In this pilot episode, Nick and Karen have planned their first As the day unfolds and the wait continues, it emerges that some of the team may have something to hide. Is there more at stake Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived." night away since Benjy was born. But is it worth the trouble ­ and Episode 9 of 10: Following the rape, Lecoeur is hiding in the will they actually have the courage to leave him? than meets the eye? And what does it have to do with Charles Blackwell (guest star Martin Jarvis), Hardacre's oldest and dearest charnels of Les Innocents. He Has a pistol. Armed with only a CREDITS spade, Baratte goes looking for him. Karen ­ Sarah Hadland nemesis? An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. Andrew Miller was born in Bristol. He studied Creative Writing Nick ­ Rufus Jones at the University of East Anglia in 1991 and finished a PhD in THU 08:00 Marriage Lines (b04mh4km) Benjy ­ Cariad Lloyd Critical and Creative Writing at Lancaster University in 1995. He Series 1, The Good NeighboursGeorge and Kate step in when Val ­ Geraldine James lives in Somerset. they overhear their neighbours rowing. Stars Richard Briers and Sammy ­ Bridget Christie His first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published in 1997 and won Prunella Scales. From June 1965. Nina / Receptionist ­ Hannah Wood the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction). His third, THU 08:30 Benny Hill (b08nyvmt) Security Guard ­ Gerard Foster Oxygen (2001), was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Benny Hill TimeFred Scuttle describes his exclusive club for Written by Gerard Foster. Whitbread Novel Award. One Morning Like A Bird (2008) was playboys and a bingo winner heads for Paris. Produced by Ed Morrish. also produced by Sweet Talk for Book At Bedtime on BBC Radio With Peter Vernon, Jan Waters, Patricia Hayes and Anthony WED 23:30 The Rita Rudner Show (b01rvnwv) 4. Sharp, Life's a GambleThe third episode of American comedian Rita Pure is Andrew Miller's sixth novel and won the Costa Book Of Music from the Mike Sammes Singers and the Johnnie Spence Rudner's new sitcom ­ written by herself and her real life The Year award in 2011. Orchestra. husband, Martin Bergman. Produced by Rosalynd Ward Scripted by Benny Hill. Rita continues to face somewhat challenging circumstances as she A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. Producer: John Browel returns to the UK after a fifteen year break. With the help of her THU 14:15 The Ideas That Make Us (b03s9tmc) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1964. husband Martin (Martin Trenaman), she tries to re­establish her Series 2, WisdomBettany Hughes enquires into changing ideas of THU 09:00 Guess What? (b065jht1) comedy career in the UK and her agent arranges for her to play a wisdom by watching a football match and going to a synagogue Episode 7Animal, vegetable or mineral? Barry Took's revised 20 gig for a French industrialist ­ with chaotic results. to hear the Song of Deborah being sung. questions. With Geoffrey Durham, Nigel Dempster and Frances Rita and Martin are also helped by the bizarre Mrs Harrison (the The Ideas That Make Us is a Radio 4 series which reveals the Edmonds. From May 1998. wonderful Phylida Law), a hotelier who has introduced them to history of the most influential ideas in the story of civilisation, THU an array of slightly off kilter characters. And Martin decides to 09:30 Such Rotten Luck (b01nt4qk) ideas which continue to affect us all today. assemble a scratch team of card players to win a fortune at a Series 1, In an Unreal CityWoodhouse is confused by In this 'archaeology of philosophy', the award­winning historian casino and, not unexpectedly, things don't quite go to plan! contradictory accounts. Comedy­drama starring Tim Pigott­Smith and broadcaster Bettany Hughes begins each programme with the Again featuring some classic stand­up comedy from Rita, this and Zoe Wanamaker. From September 1989. first, extant evidence of a single word­idea in Ancient Greek old­fashioned style sitcom has a sterling supporting cast, THU 10:00 Wilkie Collins ­ No Name (b007jrs9) culture and travels both forwards and backwards in time, including Martin Bergman, Michael Fenton­Stevens, Dominic July 1847Disguised as Susan Bygrave, Magdalen begins to suffer investigating how these ideas have been moulded by history and Frisby and Vivienne Avramoff. at the prospect of marrying Noel. But Mrs Lecount suspects her have shaped the human experience. In the fourth programme of Producer: Paul Russell true identity. Stars Jack May and Sophie Thompson. this series, Bettany enquires into changing ideas of wisdom with An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. THU 11:00 Cries of London (b038brrm) footballer Eniola Aluko, philosopher Professor Angie Hobbs, The Tyburn JigA pair of historical tales set in the heart of the Rabbi Laura Janner­Klausner, and papyrologist Professor Dirk capital. Obbink. The Tyburn Jig Other ideas examined in this series are liberty, comedy, Sarah Middleton witnesses her husband's final journey from hospitality and peace. THURSDAY 04 MAY 2017 Newgate to the gallows at Tyburn Tree, but the sight provokes Producer: Dixi Stewart. some surprising emotions. THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01m2fy5) THU 00:00 Time Hops (b007k1p3) Katy Darby studied English Literature at Somerville College, Oliver Emanuel ­ The Other One, Episode 4By Oliver Emanuel. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Oxford and took her MA in Creative Writing at the University of Following a DNA test to establish paternity, a mother and father THU 00:30 Off the Page (b011plrx) East Anglia, where she won the David Higham Award. Her first have discovered that Laura, their twelve­year­old daughter, isn't [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] novel, 'The Unpierced Heart'was published in 2012. She teaches biologically related to either of them. THU 01:00 Paul Temple (b007rwp2) creative writing at City University and co­runs the monthly live In the knowledge that the life she's been living should have [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] fiction event Liars' League. 'Cries Of London' are her first stories belonged to someone else, Laura has ran away from home to find THU 01:30 White Stiletto Dreams (b01ks8v7) for BBC Radio 4. Katy lives in London. the answer to who she is. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] Reader: Hattie Morahan Today she tracks down the woman she believes is her biological THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01m5nqw) Producer: Jeremy Osborne mother and discovers what her life could have been like. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. A tense and moving drama, inspired by a set of exceptional true THU 02:15 The Ideas That Make Us (b03s76cm) THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama (b01jqd43) events, that explores the nature of identity and the notion of [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] Page of WandsWritten by Carole Hayman. family. THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01m2fmk) When Peggy and Ken come to the South Coast town of Warfleet Director: Kirsty Williams. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] they imagine they will exhibit their prize winning pigeon at a convention in the Winter Gardens, then head off to nearby Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28 April – 5 May 2017 Page 7 of 8

THU 14:45 Book of the Week (b01jlkjc) FRI 04:00 Guess What? (b065jht1) creative writing at City University and co­runs the monthly live Paul French ­ Midnight in Peking, Episode 4Read by Crawford [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] fiction event Liars' League. 'Cries Of London' are her first stories Logan. FRI 04:30 Such Rotten Luck (b01nt4qk) for BBC Radio 4. Katy lives in London. Author Paul French reveals the true­crime "cold case" that [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Reader: David Bamber haunted the last days of old Peking. FRI 05:00 Electric Ink (b011f3pc) Producer: Jeremy Osborne Spring, 1937. As invading Japanese troops move into the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. countryside around Peking, two policemen try desperately to FRI 05:30 Reluctant Persuaders (b08n46dj) FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama (b01jxrtk) discover who was behind the brutal murder of a young British [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] Don Shaw ­ Talking to ZeusTalking To Zeus woman, Pamela Werner. FRI 06:00 Wally K Daly (b007jvfc) by Don Shaw A prime suspect is found for Pamela's murder, but is there enough Orphans in Waiting, Saturday AMThe parents of Mike, Janey and Inspired by the book Talking To Zeus, by Jane Shaw; Greek, evidence to arrest him? And will continuing interference from the Peter have disappeared. green, fresh and vivid, this is based on a true story set in the world British consul jeopardise progress in the case? What's in their father's briefcase? renowned environmental gardens called Helikion. Perched on a Abridged by Robin Brooks. And who or what is 'The Hyena'? steep hillside, thirty miles from Athens, Jane starts work as an Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. A spy thriller in six parts by Wally K Daly. intern in the Gardens which are managed by the elderly, feisty, THU 15:00 Wilkie Collins ­ No Name (b007jrs9) Stars Judy Bennett as Mike, Abigail Docherty as Janey, Simon eccentric, garden fanatic Joy. Helikion is at the forefront of the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Radford as Peter, Danny Schiller as the store manager and Auriol battle against global warming. World scientists come to observe THU 16:00 Guess What? (b065jht1) Smith as the woman in the store. and take note. When suddenly the Gardens are under threat of [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Audio from the author's own collection. closure we see how Jane, Joy and the local Greek volunteers THU 16:30 Such Rotten Luck (b01nt4qk) Producer: Dan Garrett combine forces to fight the proposed demise of the Garden. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1990. Joy ..... Brigit Forsyth THU 17:00 Electric Ink (b011f3pc) FRI 06:30 Mannequins (b0075zhk) Jane ..... Verity May Henry [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Sue Limb uncovers the secret world of mannequins ­ their early Pavlos ..... Andonis James Anthony THU 17:30 Reluctant Persuaders (b08n46dj) history, changing shapes and styles. With Mary Quant. From Tom ..... Conrad Nelson [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] October 1998. Debbie ..... Deborah McAndrew. FRI THU 18:00 Time Hops (b007k1q8) FRI 07:00 Old Dog and Partridge (b007jvg6) 12:00 The Goon Show (b0080hxc) Time After TimeSteph stumbles on an unexpected part of the Episode 5When old chum Ralph arrives with a trophy wife, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] puzzle to help Eek's mission to change her planet's fate. Stars landlord Jack invents a fiancee. Stars Michael Williams. From FRI 13:00 Wally K Daly (b007jvfc) Nicola Stapleton. January 1999. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 18:30 Great Lives (b00glbyv) FRI 07:30 Hal (b08nk59c) FRI 13:30 Mannequins (b0075zhk) Series 17, Tony Hancock4 Extra Debut. Poet Pam Ayres chooses Series 2, ActorsThe second series of the sitcom with Hal [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] the lad himself, Tony Hancock. With Matthew Parris and Tony's Cruttenden finds the hapless house husband still trying to cope FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01m7qr1) biographer John Fisher. From January 2009. with his mid­life crisis and doubting his every move. Andrew Miller ­ Pure, Episode 10By Andrew Miller THU 19:00 Marriage Lines (b04mh4km) His wife Sam (Kerry Godliman) is still a highly successful Abridged by Jeremy Osborne [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] business woman, his two daughters Lily and Molly continue to Read by John Sessions. THU 19:30 Benny Hill (b08nyvmt) grow into teenagers and find their dad just a little annoying, his It's Paris in 1785. The cemetery of Les Innocents is the oldest in [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] bitter and embittered sister Pippa (Abigail Cruttenden) has the city, but it is overflowing and can no longer hold on to its dead. Newcomers to the quarter are overpowered by the smell. It THU 20:00 Wally K Daly (b00yjy11) inconveniently decided to stay with Hal alongside her angry taints the breath and food of the locals. And some believe it can [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] teenage son Oberon, racist neighbour Penny (Ronni Ancona) even taint the mind. THU 20:30 The Dalesman (b0075zvj) proves to be a major thorn in Hal's side and best mates Fergus (Ed By order of the King, the church and cemetery are to be destroyed [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Byrne) and Barry (Gavin Webster) hinder rather than help Hal's and every last bone rehoused. The place is to be made sweet THU goal of finding himself. 21:00 Cries of London (b038brrm) again. It shall be made pure. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] In this final episode of the series, after a challenging few weeks, Hal Cruttenden tries to calm things down by hosting a dinner Charged with the task, Jean­Baptiste Baratte ­ a young engineer THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama (b01jqd43) party with Sam to show off their new basement ­ with wholly from Normandy ­ arrives in Paris. And thus begins "A year of [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] unexpected results. bones, of grave­dirt, relentless work. Of ... chanting priests. A THU 22:00 Reluctant Persuaders (b08n46dj) Written by Hal Cruttenden and Dominic Holland year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Produced by Paul Russell Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived." THU 22:30 Clare in the Community (b03sztry) An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. Episode 10 of 10: The miners have built a pyre for their dead Series 9, Panic RoomEpisode 5 ­ Panic Room FRI 08:00 The Goon Show (b0080hxc) comrade and hold a vigil in the ruins of the church. Clare is forced to confront an old phobia after a regular home The Last Goon Show of AllSpike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Andrew Miller was born in Bristol. He studied Creative Writing visit takes an unusual turn. Fortunately Helen is on hand to help. Peter Sellers reunite to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the BBC at the University of East Anglia in 1991 and finished a PhD in Back in the office, Joan is left holding the babies. in 1972. Critical and Creative Writing at Lancaster University in 1995. He Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the Recorded on 30th April 1972, their farewell performance with a lives in Somerset. right jargon but never a practical solution. distinguished audience is broadcast complete with the pre­show His first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published in 1997 and won A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other warm­up at the Camden Theatre, London. It was simultaneously the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction). His third, people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Clare is recorded for broadcast on BBC TV. Oxygen (2001), was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all of which Written by Spike Milligan and featuring: Whitbread Novel Award. One Morning Like A Bird (2008) was are occasional causes of discomfort to her. Peter Sellers: Grytpype­Thynne, Bluebottle, Major Denis also produced by Sweet Talk for Book At Bedtime on BBC Radio Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control both Bloodnok, Henry Crun. 4. her professional and private life In today's Big Society there are Harry Secombe: Neddy Seagoon in floral cretonne. Pure is Andrew Miller's sixth novel and won the Costa Book Of plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring social Spike Milligan: Eccles, Minnie Bannister, Moriarty The Year award in 2011. worker. Or even Clare. With the Ray Ellington Quartet, Max Geldray and the Wally Stott Produced by Rosalynd Ward Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden Orchestra conducted by Peter Knight. A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. Producer Alexandra Smith. Producer: John Browell FRI 14:15 The Ideas That Make Us (b03sb2v3) THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b08q7c1j) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 5th October 1972. Series 2, PeaceBettany Hughes explores changing ideas of peace The best in contemporary comedy. Iain Lee chats to Barry Ferns. FRI 09:00 Who Goes There? (b00ftbnp) through images of war­torn Syria and by talking to a man on the THU 23:00 Rubbish (b0084j26) Series 3, Episode 5Martin Young's famous people quiz. With brink of death. Series 2, InsomniaInsomnia: Local government worker Martin Francis Wheen, Amanda Foreman, Fred Housego and Maria The Ideas That Make Us is a Radio 4 series which reveals the faces a deadly combo ­ new boss, cats and wheelie bins. Stars McErlane. From February 2000. history of the most influential ideas in the story of civilisation, Reece Dinsdale. From October 2007. FRI 09:30 No Commitments (b007772z) ideas which continue to affect us all today. THU 23:30 The Mitch Benn Music Show (b007s5g7) Series 13, Model BehaviourComedy series by Simon Brett In this 'archaeology of philosophy', the award­winning historian Series 1, Episode 1The musical comedian presents his selection following the fortunes of three fortysomething sisters. and broadcaster Bettany Hughes begins each programme with the of some of the finest comic songs. With guest Boothby Graffoe. 3/6. Model Behaviour first, extant evidence of a single word­idea in Ancient Greek From July 2005. Emily's baby hasn't even arrived yet, but Victoria is already into culture and travels both forwards and backwards in time, competitive granny mode. And is it really possible that Eddie the investigating how these ideas have been moulded by history and dentist has a girlfriend? have shaped the human experience. Here Bettany explores Anna ...... Rosemary Leach changing ideas of peace with photojournalist Paul Conroy, Victoria ...... Angela Thorne historians Dr. David Gwynn and Dr. Faisal Devji, Consultant in FRIDAY 05 MAY 2017 Charlotte ...... Felicity Montagu Palliative Medicine Emily Collis and Davor Seselj. Eddie ...... James Greene Other ideas examined in The Ideas that Make Us are idea, desire, FRI 00:00 Time Hops (b007k1q8) George ...... Bruce Alexander agony, fame, justice, wisdom, comedy, liberty, and hospitality. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Felicity ...... Susan Jameson. Producer: Dixi Stewart. FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b00glbyv) FRI 10:00 Wilkie Collins ­ No Name (b007jrw2) 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01m2g5v) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] August 1847Will Magdalen marry her loathed cousin Noel and Oliver Emanuel ­ The Other One, Episode 5By Oliver Emanuel. FRI 01:00 Wally K Daly (b00yjy11) regain her inheritance? When Mme Lecount attempts to outwit Following a DNA test to establish paternity, a mother and father [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] her, she comes across something she hadn't counted on. have discovered that Laura, their twelve­year­old daughter, isn't biologically related to either of them. FRI 01:30 The Dalesman (b0075zvj) FRI 11:00 Cries of London (b038x4xk) In the knowledge that the life she's been living should have [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] On Apollonion ShoresA pair of historical tales set in the heart of belonged to someone else, Laura has spent the last few days FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01m68w8) the capital. tracking down her other family. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] On Apollonian Shores Now she and her parents prepare to meet the girl who was FRI 02:15 The Ideas That Make Us (b03s9tmc) London in the 1830s. Matthew Hathersedge first attempt to drown accidentally swapped with Laura at birth and the parents Laura [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] himself was an embarrassing failure. This time ­ following some should have had. FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01m2fy5) very, very bad reviews for his latest volume of poetry ­ he is A tense and moving drama, inspired by a set of exceptional true [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] determined to leave nothing to chance. events, that explores the nature of identity and the notion of FRI 02:45 Book of the Week (b01jlkjc) Katy Darby studied English Literature at Somerville College, family. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] Oxford and took her MA in Creative Writing at the University of Director: Kirsty Williams. FRI 03:00 Wilkie Collins ­ No Name (b007jrs9) East Anglia, where she won the David Higham Award. Her first [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] novel, 'The Unpierced Heart' was published in 2012. She teaches

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FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b01jlkjk) Paul French ­ Midnight in Peking, Episode 5Read by Crawford Logan. Author Paul French reveals the true­crime "cold case" that haunted the last days of old Peking. Summer, 1937. Pamela Werner's unsolved murder is forgotten amidst the violence and chaos of the Japanese invasion of China. But Pamela's father presses on with his own, unofficial, investigation and makes some shocking discoveries. Abridged by Robin Brooks. Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI 15:00 Wilkie Collins ­ No Name (b007jrw2) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI 16:00 Who Goes There? (b00ftbnp) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 16:30 No Commitments (b007772z) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI 17:00 Old Dog and Partridge (b007jvg6) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI 17:30 Hal (b08nk59c) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 18:00 Time Hops (b007k1rg) Long Time No SeeTime­hopping has brought the children nothing but trouble. Could a dodgy robot really make things better? Stars Sara Crowe. FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b03jb1w1) Series 17, Strange Fruit"Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root..." Billie Holiday's famous song expresses the horror and anguish of those communities subjected to a campaign of lynching in the American South. Soul Music hears the stories of people whose relatives were lynched by white racists and of the various forms of grief, anger and reconciliation that have followed. These include the cousin of teenager Emmett Till, whose killing in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, added powerful impetus to the civil rights movement. Despite its association with the deep south, the song was actually composed in 1930's New York by a Jewish schoolteacher, Abel Meeropol. Meeropol adopted the children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg after they were executed in 1953 as Soviet spies. One of those children, Robert, talks of his adopted father's humanity and his belief that the Rosenberg's were killed in a 'state sanctioned lynching by the American government'. For him, Strange Fruit is a comforting reminder of his adopted father's passionate belief in justice and compassion. Producer: Maggie Ayre. FRI 19:00 The Goon Show (b0080hxc) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 20:00 Wally K Daly (b007jvfc) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 20:30 Mannequins (b0075zhk) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 21:00 Cries of London (b038x4xk) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama (b01jxrtk) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI 22:00 Hal (b08nk59c) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 22:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b03lph8r) Series 5, Episode 4Last in the series of comedy sketches from David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Olivia Colman and James Bachman, including a horror story for slugs; the Escalator brothers inventing the world's first horseless staircase; and the very last programme the BBC ever does... FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b08q7czl) The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to Daisy Campbell. FRI 23:00 Bleak Expectations (b00d7jpx) Series 1, A Youth Utterly CrockedYoung Pip must thwart his evil guardian's plans. Mark Evans's Dickensian spoof stars Richard Johnson. From August 2007. FRI 23:30 Little Britain (b008p522) Series 2, Episode 2Back where it started out. Matt Lucas and David Walliams' oddball TV smash hit without the cameras. From February 2002.

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