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5 May 2017 Page 1 of 8 Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28 April – 5 May 2017 Page 1 of 8 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 guest-host dangers of stepping into the irony-free 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 eighteen-century 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. White-clad 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 co-starred 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 (1974-87). 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 mid-life 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 RaeSinger-songwriter 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, Jean-Baptiste Baratte - a young engineer ADA: When it comes to whose child, Flora might decide.
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