Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 February 2018 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2018 Episode Five Agatha Christie novel in a poll in September 2015. Mary Ann has an unwelcome encounter with a presence from Directed by Mary Peate. SAT 00:00 BD Chapman - Orbiter X (b0784dyd) her past. Shawna is upset by Michael's revelation. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. Inside the Moon StationDr Max Kramer has tricked the crew of Dramatised by Lin Coghlan SAT 07:30 Byzantium Unearthed (b00dxdcs) Orbiter 2, but what exactly is Unity up to on the Moon? Producer Susan Roberts Episode 1Historian Bettany Hughes begins a series that uses the BD Chapman's adventure in the conquest of space in 14 parts. Director Charlotte Riches latest archaeological evidence to learn more about the empire of Stars John Carson as Captain Bob Britton, Andrew Crawford as For more than three decades, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the Byzantium and the people who ruled it. Captain Douglas McClelland, Barrie Gosney as Flight Engineer City series has blazed a trail through popular culture-from Bettany learns how treasures found in the empire's capital, Hicks, Donald Bisset as Colonel Kent, Gerik Schelderup as Max ground-breaking newspaper serial to classic novel. Radio 4 are modern-day Istanbul, reveal much about the life and importance Kramer, and Leslie Perrins as Sir Charles Day. With Ian Sadler dramatising the full series of the Tales novels for the very first of a civilisation that, whilst being devoutly Christian and the and John Cazabon. time. inheritors of the Romans, was also exotic and eastern. Producer: Charles Maxwell SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b01r123k) SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b04tcbd2) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1959. Tracey Thorn - Bedsit Disco Queen, Episode 5Written and read Malcolm X in OxfordStephen Tuck discovers what brought SAT 00:30 Mastertapes (b01npjpr) by Tracey Thorn. Malcolm X to Oxford in 1964 just weeks before his Series 1, Billy Bragg (the B-Side)John Wilson launches a major Tracey Thorn's memoir takes us from her very early teenage assassination, and how the speech he made there was one of the new series in which he talks to leading performers and diaries, through to juggling school homework with interviews most important of his life. songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. with music journalists, the highs of pop stardom and the lows of For Malcolm X, Oxford was 'hot' - but why? What was it that Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida being dropped by her record company. This is an insider's attracted him there when he was turning down so many other Vale Studios. insight into the music industry, and also a very personal story invitations to speak abroad and when he was preparing to step Programme 1, Side B. 'Talking With The Taxman About which has Tracey's relationship with Ben Watt at the heart of it. up the struggle against racial inequality at home in the United Poetry' - Having discussed the making of his self-proclaimed Tracey gave up music for motherhood without a second States? 'difficult' third album (in the A-side of the programme), Billy thought, but now finds her experience as a parent has freed her These questions lead Stephen Tuck into the remarkable story of Bragg responds to questions from the audience. from her teenage anxieties so she can return to singing on her Malcolm X's last year of life when he travelled in Africa, the He considers the state of protest songs today, reveals what own terms. Middle East and Europe - a year during which this black music he is writing at the moment and explains what poetry he Abridged by Alison Joseph nationalist American Nation of Islam advocate began evolving would discuss with today's taxman. And he plays excerpts from Produced by Allegra McIlroy. into a campaigner for international civil liberties. the album live in front of the audience. SAT 03:00 Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wakefield (b00rs19x) But what also emerges is an untold story of racial discrimination Future Programmes will include Paul Weller talking about the A dull middle-aged man whose life has been monotonously and protest in Oxford, and how we choose to remember the Jam's last album, 'The Gift'; Suzanne Vega recalls the making ordinary for years, devises a plot to temporarily leave home and struggle for racial equality as happening elsewhere - in the of 'Solitude Standing', the album that made her a worldwide observe the effect on his wife from a flat opposite. But he stays Southern States of America, or South Africa - rather than in the superstar; and Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone takes us back to away much longer than expected - and it becomes more and Britain of the late 1950s and early 1960s. the seminal Zombies' record 'Odessey and Oracle' more difficult for him to return. Tuck uses archive from the original debate and the personal Complete versions of the songs performed in the programme Starring David Haig as Wakefield, John Rowe as Nathaniel testimonies of those who knew Malcolm X, as well as some of (and others) can be heard on the 'Mastertapes' pages on the Hawthorne, Richenda Carey as Mrs Wakefield and Jonathan the people who were there at the Oxford Union or at the edge Radio 4 website, where the programmes can also be Keeble as Lucas Ferris. of Britain's own racial fault line fifty years ago, to reveal how downloaded and other musical goodies accessed. Dramatised by Martyn Wade from a short story by Nathaniel Oxford affected Malcolm X and how Malcolm X changed Producer: Paul Kobrak. Hawthorne. Oxford. SAT 01:00 Dick Francis (b007qg3v) Producer: Cherry Cookson Produced by Adam Fowler Bolt, Nemesis for TwoChampion jockey Kit Fielding gets wind First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. that Henri de Brescou plans to kill more horses. Kit is SAT 04:00 Whispers (b007k3bv) SAT 09:00 Mark Billingham's Rule Book of Crime determined to put a stop to this needless slaughter. Series 3, Episode 5Gyles Brandreth hosts the scandals quiz with (b01r19jd) Starring Sian Phillips as Princess Casilia, Eric Allan as Kit Lucy Moore, Anthony Holden, Richard Herring and Louise Best-selling crime writer Mark Billingham has always been Fielding, John Bull as Henri de Brescou and Bill Wallis as Doughty. From November 2005. obsessed with the creative criminal minds of the past. Allardeck. SAT 04:30 Street and Lane (b00vzz09) Over three hours, Mark sets out to detect the clues dropped in Author Dick Francis is acclaimed as one of the greatest thriller Series 2, Estimates DayWhen the Yorkshire builders price up the BBC archives, by his favourite crime writers: Sir Arthur writers in the world. Dramatised by John Ashe. fitting mirrors, they start seeing double... Conan Doyle, Dame Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, PD Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin at BBC Pebble Mill. Series 2 of Ian McMillan and Dave Sheasby's comedy stars James and Henning Mankell. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. Shaun Dooley as Johnny Street, Fine Time Fontayne as Arthur Clues that reveal why their sleuthing creations - Sherlock SAT 01:30 Bette in Britain (b00bzdg8) Lane, Christine Kavanagh as Janet, Mark Straker as John, Sam Holmes, Miss Marple, Philip Marlowe, Adam Dalgliesh and Susan George profiles Hollywood legend Miss Bette Davis, Dale as Franklin and Rachel Atkins as Julia. Kurt Wallander - are so enduring. recalling her visits to Britain and the impact she had on British Producer: David Hunter Having created his own flawed crime fighter, Detective actors, directors and producers. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007. Inspector Tom Thorne, Mark's wrestled with the thorny issue of Reflecting the plotlines of characters she played on screen, SAT 05:00 Capital Gains (b00slqv8) inventing a distinctive new voice amongst a myriad of detecting Bette Davis's visits across the Atlantic left behind stories of Series 2, Stake CapitalWhen an act of civil disobedience greats. What's more important, devious plotting or debauched success, mystery, court battles, failed marriages and sadness. centred around a tea break fails to bring results, Julius Hutch, heroes, a killer in-plain-site or rug-pulling twists? Miss Davis starred in several British films and was inspired by the leader of The Tree Party, turns to games of chance. In plundering the archive for answers, Mark has uncovered a our history and influenced by our culture. She came here in the Starring Peter Jones as Julius Hutch. hidden BBC radio detecting gem. Debuting in the late 1970s 1970s to tour her one-woman show where it has been claimed With Celestine Randall as Pauline Hutch, Justine Midda as and running for a few seasons into the 1980s, it starred an actor on a visit to Cardiff she searched for and found her relatives. Kate, Jeffrey Wickham as Sexton Lewis, Stephen Thorne as Sir who could be a lead in TV classic Cathy Come Home and voice The programme features Davis's memorable appearance at the Gainford Blounty, Jillie Meers as Dahlia Sprout, Collin Johnson an iconic children's cartoon. It was penned by a writer that National Film Theatre and looks at the time she came to the UK as Haiku Jack, David Holt as Ted and Brian Perkins as Himself. worked on TV police dramas Z Cars and Softly Softly. to record an album of songs. Scripted by Collin Johnson. All is revealed in Mark Billingham's Rule Book of Crime. With extracts from her British interviews spanning 30 years the Producers: Andy Jordan and David Blount Producer: Peter McHugh programme includes contributions from actor Wendy Craig, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1997. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2013. broadcaster Wyn Calvin and director Jimmy Sangster. SAT 05:30 The Break (b07h6fmm) SAT 12:00 It's Your Round (b00yjs4p) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 to mark the centenary of the OccupiedAndy (Tom Palmer) has found a level of contentment Series 1, Episode 1The panel for this first episode is Rufus birth of Miss Bette Davis in 2008. with the world - reading books, watching films, and generally Hound, Miles Jupp, Sara Pascoe and Adam Hills. Find out what SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b03q08zt) repairing his wounded psyche. Uncle Jeff (Philip Jackson) is hilarity ensues when each of them play the rounds they've Colin MacInnes - Absolute Beginners, Episode 5September, having none of this and reveals a hitherto unknown secret to brought along, variously entitled "Them Next Door", "What 1958, and racial tension is rising in parts of London. The Andy, that the dusty shop downstairs from his seaside flat Does My Dad Know?", "Come To Romford!" and "Newspaper teenage narrator of Colin MacInnes' cult classic finds himself belongs to Jeff. When necessary, it seems, he offers the Headline or Cryptic Crossword Clue". All these games are caught up along with his friends in the violence that erupts on community of Flamford a valuable service as an electrical untried, untested and unpredictable so it could all end in the streets of his home patch in Notting Hill. As the fighting repair person. disaster. But that's all part of the fun. spreads, Suzette turns up at the Santa Lucia club, but then his Jeff lures Andy into the shop and shows him how to use the till. Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to keep the show brother Vernon arrives with bad news. Andy realises it's another of his uncle's ploys, and refuses this together. Read by Joel MacCormack oblique yet unsubtle job offer. But Jeff, never the one to say Writers: Angus Deayton, Ged Parsons and Paul Powell Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. "die", takes his nephew on a job search in which Andy is an Devised by Benjamin Partridge SAT 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology unwilling participant. Producer: Sam Michell. and the Mind (b04416s8) Visits follow to Fish Shop Frank (Mark Benton), the Tourist SAT 12:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once The Happiness ProjectIn the concluding programme of this Information Office run by the uniformed and uninformed Steph (b0082f0w) 25-part series, Martin Sixsmith looks at where we are now in and Pippa (Alison Steadman and Shobna Gulati), and Series 1, BarbieIt's school reports time - and Eddie needs a loan terms of understanding what makes us think, feel and act the Flamford's as-yet-unlicensed zoo. to start up his own taxi business. way we do. Writers: Ian Brown and James Hendrie The lives of the Stockport-based, Conroy family in the first He re-visits the Government's 2010 pledge to increase Producer/Director: Gordon Kennedy series of Jim Poyser and Damian Lanigan's comedy drama. happiness and well-being and talks to former 'happiness tsar' An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. Starring Dominic Monaghan as Jason, Jason Done as Michael, Richard Layard. He examines initiatives such as the provision SAT 06:00 Saturday Drama (b00vv0n7) Stefan Escreet as Dave, John McArdle as Eddie, Emma Clarke of thousands of newly-trained CBT therapists to make Agatha Christie - And Then There Were NoneAgatha Christie's as Collete, Beverley Callard as Maureen and Jo-Anne Knowles treatment for mental health problems more widely available and famous detective story without a detective, adapted by Joy as Debbie. other ways in which we are being encouraged to modify our Wilkinson. Music: Big George behaviour, asking 'what is happiness' and whether it's Ten guests are separately invited to an island by a person none Producer: Neil Mossey achievable both for an individual and society . of them knows very well, if at-all. When they arrive, it seems First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. Produced by Sara Parker they have all been invited for different reasons. Nothing quite SAT 13:00 Jonathan Myerson - That Was Then (Omnibus) Series consultant: Professor Daniel Pick of Birkbeck, adds up. (b09rwbk3) University of London An anonymous voice accuses each of them of having murdered Series 2 Omnibus 2/2Held at knifepoint - but will the truth set A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. someone. By the end of the first night, one of the guests is dead. Anna free? Tense phone-based thriller starring Rosie Cavaliero SAT 02:30 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City Stranded by a violent storm and tormented by the nursery and Johann Myers. (b07c56hv) rhyme 'Ten Little Soldier Boys', the ten guests fear for their SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b09rwbk5) Mary Ann in Autumn, Episode 5Mary Ann in Autumn by lives. Who is the killer? Is it one of them? Julie HesmondhalghFormer Coronation Street actor Julie Armistead Maupin 'And Then There Were None' was named the world's favourite Hesmondhalgh chooses 'The Joy of Living' by Ewan MacColl Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 February 2018 Page 2 of 8 and 'Reach' by S Club. she is to trust the man. just the girl on the train... SAT 14:15 Down Your Way (b09rwbk7) Will Brian win back Clarissa's affections? And if he does, what Abridged by Neville Teller Wally K Daly in GrangetownPlaywright Wally K Daly spends on earth will he do with them? Producer: Jenny Thompson his 50th birthday visiting his old home of Grangetown near Producer: Anna Madley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015. Middlesbrough, and recalls the voices of childhood. An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. SUN 15:45 Tom Courtenay - Dear Tom (b007k1r4) Down Your Way was a schedule staple for decades - starting on SUN 08:00 Ray's a Laugh (b007jxbb) Episode 4Still at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the BBC Home Service in 1946 and ending its run on BBC From 11/10/49Ted is 'gonged' and argues with Kitty, and student Tom Courtenay is receiving funny and moving letters Radio 4 in 1992. Using a variety of hosts, including Richard reporter George blunders again. from his mother Annie back in Hull. Dimbleby and Brian Johnston, the programme toured villages, Starring Ted Ray. With Kitty Bluett, Peter Sellers, Patricia As agents start to take an interest in the budding actor, Tom is towns and cities across the UK. At the height of the series' Hayes, Fred Yule, Leslie Perrins and Wallace Greenslade. feeling worried when he goes home... success in the 1950s, it was attracting 10 million listeners a Ray's a Laugh - the successor to ITMA - follows the comedy Actor, Sir Tom Courtenay reads more of his memoir of those week. exploits of Ted's life at home with his 'radio' wife Kitty, as well letters. Sian Thomas plays his mother Annie. Producer: Leanne Buckle as in a variety of jobs. It ran from 1949-1961. Published in 2000. Abridged in five parts by Penny Leicester. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. Scripted by Eddie Maguire and Ted Ray. Producer: Sarah Johnson SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b04tcbd2) Music from Bob & Alf Pearson and The Beaux and The Belles. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] BBC Dance Orchestra conducted by Stanley Black. SUN 16:00 Peter Terson - Tales My Father Taught Me SAT 16:00 Saturday Drama (b00vv0n7) Producer: George Inns (b09rwhgn) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in October 1949. Sir George Sitwell is an autocratic recluse running the family SAT 17:30 Byzantium Unearthed (b00dxdcs) SUN 08:30 Harry Worth in Things Could Be Worse estate at Renishaw, ahead of the First World War. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] (b09rwg3t) His other preoccupations are research into medieval pig- SAT 18:00 Doctor Who (b05ysz8d) And So to BedHarry has got back problems, but will a keeping, and making sure his son Osbert isn't allowed to do Trail of the White WormThe legend dates back to Roman reputation for being a hypochondriac work against him? what he wants to do... times, at least: a great White Worm, as wide as a man, slithers Written by David McKellar and David Renwick. Peter Terson's drama stars Sir John Gielgud as Sir George out of the rocks of the Dark Peak Gap to take animals, Starring Harry Worth. With John Baddeley, John Graham and Sitwell, Renee Asherson as Lady Ida Sitwell, Richard Pearce as sometimes even children, for its food. Miriam Margolyes. Osbert Sitwell and Christopher Good as Henry Moat. When the Doctor and Leela arrive in the wilds of Derbyshire, Producer: Simon Brett. Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin only to get caught up in the hunt for a missing girl, they soon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1976. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. discover that the legend of the Worm is very much alive - even SUN 09:00 Miriam Darlington - Owl Sense (Omnibus) SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (b09rwhgq) now, in 1979. (b09rwg3w) In Praise of LimestonePoet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's Worse still, it seems that the Doctor isn't the only renegade A fresh insight into owls and the way we think about this radio poetry archive with 'In Praise of Limestone' featuring WH Time Lord on the trail of this deadly and mysterious Worm... magnificent predator and emblem of wisdom. Read by Teresa Auden's famous poem about the remote Pennine Dales. Tom Baker is the Fourth Doctor, with his ancient warrior Gallagher. After reading it at school, poet Ian McMillan fulfils his companion, Leela, played by Louise Jameson. SUN 10:10 The Listening Project (b06wf7ll) ambition to explore the limestone scenery that inspired the Written by Alan Barnes and directed by Ken Bentley. Jim and Robin - Setting SailFi Glover with friends who are poem. Ian walks in Auden's footsteps, revisiting the places that A Big Finish production. united by their love of the sea and encourage unity through so moved Auden when he was a boy and young man. SAT 19:00 Mark Billingham's Rule Book of Crime traditional seafaring: "If we don't all pull together in one Ian meets Tony Sharpe from Lancaster University, who has (b01r19jd) direction we'll go nowhere" - another conversation in the series looked at how the area impacted on Auden's development as a [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. poet. He also meets local writer and Auden enthusiast Robert SAT 22:00 Old Harry's Game (b007jpd8) The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a Forsythe peering down the deep shaft at Haggs Mine, then Series 2, ComputersThere's trouble in hell, thanks to a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the venturing on in search of the places described in Auden's fundamentalist and a pushy computer. Satanic sitcom starring UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to wartime New Year Letter from America. Andy Hamilton and James Grout. From April 1998. them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. Ian meets mining historian Ian Tyler and local poet Josephine SAT 22:30 Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of Dickinson, whose own work is rooted in the countryside. (b00773md) producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate Producer: Andrew Carter Series 1, Episode 4Perrier Award winning comedian Laura each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Solon continues her new sketch and character comedy series, interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an SUN 17:30 Reception (b039zg2p) aided by the voices of Ben Moor, Katherine Parkinson and Ben hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Willbond. Plus more from the China Lion, the new barn connection between the participants. Most of the unedited SUN 18:00 Fear on 4 (b007jqbb) conversion couple and a return to Chingley Hall. conversations are being archived by the British Library and Life LineThe Man in Black introduces a tale about modern SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b09t2kcv) used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique technology and a chatline where the callers are on hold Naomi Sheldon 2/2The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You forever... Smith chats to Naomi Sheldon. can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting Another in a series of nerve-tinglers from Fear on 4. SAT 23:00 The Mark Steel Solution (b007js6t) bbc.co.uk/listeningproject Starring Nicholas Murchie as Ryan and Edward de Souza as the Series 2, HousingAnother radical proposal as the comedian calls Producer: Marya Burgess. Man in Black. With Jonathan Tafler as Colin, Moir Leslie as for people to be re-housed at random. From July 1994. SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b09rwg3y) Susan, Federay Holmes as Belinda, Ann Windsor as the Life SAT 23:30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Medicine, Science and Engineering, Professor Dame Kay Line Operator. Matthew Morgan as Engineer and Kate Binchy, Better (b00kvq7t) Davies4 Extra Debut. From Eric Clapton to Schubert. Scientist, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Melinda Walker as the Voices. Series 1, WrathThe Welsh comedian continues his quest to free Professor Dame Kay Davies, shares her castaway choices with Written by Stephen Gallagher. us from the seven deadly sins. With Tim Key and Tim Minchin. Kirsty Young. From February 2009. Producer: Martin Jenkins From March 2007. SUN 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (b09r7xc9) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. Series 1, Ben HunteRadio 4 Extra explores the world of SUN 18:30 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn58) podcasts and finds the best on offer. Series 2, A Test of EnduranceHeld captive in an underground SUNDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2018 Each week, Amanda Litherland and a guest presenter city on Mars, the Space Force crew are set to learn their fate... recommend one or two podcasts from the BBC and beyond. Charles Chilton's second intergalactic adventure series in six SUN 00:00 Doctor Who (b05ysz8d) From some of the most popular series, to lesser-known hidden parts. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] gems, they will feature their favourite finds and speak with the Starring Barry Foster as Captain Saxon Berry, Nicky Henson as SUN 01:00 Jonathan Myerson - That Was Then (Omnibus) people who make them. Chipper Barnett, Nigel Stock as Magnus Carter, Tony Osoba as (b09rwbk3) Amanda and this week's guest, journalist Ben Hunte, listen to Lodderick Sincere. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] some LGBT-themed podcasts including Nancy and Homo With Wendy Murray, Willoughby Goddard and Bernard Brown. SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b09rwbk5) Sapiens. Charles Chilton wrote and produced many popular and [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] With Homo Sapiens hosts Will Young and Chris Sweeney. successful radio programmes for the BBC - including the classic SUN 02:15 Down Your Way (b09rwbk7) SUN 12:00 Ray's a Laugh (b007jxbb) 1950s serial 'Journey into Space' - charting the adventures of [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Captain Jet Morgan. This fired the imagination of millions, SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 (b04tcbd2) SUN 12:30 Harry Worth in Things Could Be Worse years before the first moon landing. It was the last radio drama [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] (b09rwg3t) to record higher ratings than the new young upstart television! SUN 04:00 Saturday Drama (b00vv0n7) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN 13:00 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1985. SUN 05:30 Byzantium Unearthed (b00dxdcs) (Omnibus) (b07d2vlz) SUN 19:00 Podcast Radio Hour (b09r7xc9) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN 06:00 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City SUN 14:15 David Benedictus - From the Slips (b09rwg3r) SUN 20:00 Miriam Darlington - Owl Sense (Omnibus) (Omnibus) (b07d2vlz) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] (b09rwg3w) Mary Ann in Autumn2008 in San Francisco and Mary Ann SUN 14:30 Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] returns with some big news to share with Michael. Stars Kate (Omnibus) (b063jmm1) SUN 21:10 The Listening Project (b06wf7ll) Harper and Trevor White. From May 2016. Episode 2Several weeks after her disappearance, Megan's body [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN 07:15 David Benedictus - From the Slips (b09rwg3r) is found buried in Corly Woods... SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b09rwg3y) 4 Extra Debut. During a game, a cricketer dreams of radically The second of two omnibus editions of Paula Hawkins' [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] changing his life, but at what cost? Written and read by David international bestseller with thrilling multi-voice narration. SUN 22:00 Reception (b039zg2p) Benedictus. From November 1997. Starring Sally Hawkins as Rachel, Lyndsey Marshal as Megan [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN 07:30 Reception (b039zg2p) and Zoe Tapper as Anna. SUN 22:30 Meet David Sedaris (b03jysr6) Breaking the RulesReception is a sitcom about two men sitting Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She Series 4, Episode 1One of the world's funniest storytellers is behind a desk, starring Adrian Scarborough, Morwenna Banks knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a back on BBC Radio 4 doing what he does best. and Amit Shah. Written by Paul Basset Davies. row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows There are two stories, this week: "The Happy Place", dealing Brian is very impressed by the expertise of the technician who the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she with the ups and downs of a colonoscopy; and "The Shadow of comes to repair the agency's electronic entry system. Danny calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel Your Smile", about how the right lighting can make us all look thinks he's a pillock. But when Clarissa arrives to inform them could be that happy. good. of a theft from the building, and the technician starts to chat her And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until Producer: Steve Doherty up, Brian changes his tune. He becomes convinced that the the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. visitor is involved in the theft, and persuades Danny to help in Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's SUN 23:00 Newsjack (b09r7t3b) an elaborate sting operation that will show Clarissa how wrong only watched from afar. Now they'll see: she's much more than Series 18, Episode 2BBC Radio 4 Extra's topical sketch show Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 February 2018 Page 3 of 8 Newsjack with host Angela Barnes..... Lloyd and his curator Sally Phillips welcome the satirical Homer arrives at a coastal village. Featuring Jon Pointing, Emma Sidi and Raphael Wakefield comedy songstress Dillie Keane, intrepid Neanderthal expert Carol McGuigan's passionate portrait of a painter and the Script Editors: Ed Amsden and Tom Coles Ella Al-Shamahi, and the writer of Notting Hill, Blackadder and ordinary young woman who changes his life. Producers: Adnan Ahmed and Matt Stronge The Vicar of Dibley, Richard Curtis. Based on American artist Winslow Homer's 1881 visit to Production Co-ordinator: Nick Coupe This week, the Museum's Guest Committee tuck into some Cullercoats, a fishing village on England's north east coast. Newsjack is lovingly assembled with jokes and sketches homemade chutney, get embarrassingly excited about caves and Starring Henry Goodman as Winslow, Joanne Froggatt as supplied by the Great British Public and brought to life by a celebrate some choice bits of Australian slang. Maggie, Charlie Hardwick as Mrs Jefferson, Joe Caffrey as revolving cast of sketch performers. The show was researched by Mike Turner and QI. Andy and Sharon Percy as Belle. This week we order some eggs, campaign for lent and visit The Production Coordinator was Tamara Shilham. Producer: Nadia Molinari "White Planet". The Associate Producer was James Harkin. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. The programme continues to be a showcase for new comedy The Producers were Richard Turner and Anne Miller. MON 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jzg0) writing: anyone can submit material (sketches and one-line It was a BBC Studios Production. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] jokes) - these can be submitted every week of the six week run. MON 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jzg0) MON 12:30 Dad's Army (b007jrl4) Details for submitting material can be found on the Newsjack The Monte Carlo RallyThe lad competes in the famous motor [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] programme page. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kvs8r. race in a very classic car - provided by Sid. MON 13:00 Falco (b00qy0lr) SUN 23:30 The Iguanodon (b0075cbr) Starring Tony Hancock, Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney James [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Away and Slightly to the LeftSam Varley is looking for a lift and Kenneth Williams. MON 13:30 Stefan Gates's Cover Story (b00qfzbw) back to the mainland when his boat is wrecked in a storm. Special guests: Brian Johnston and Raymond Baxter. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Mr Brook is looking for an unforgettable adventure at sea, after Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. MON 14:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007lnqr) a lifetime in custards. Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Biggles Gets a LetterAnswering an old chum's call for help, Neither of them get quite what they're expecting on a boat Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry heroic fighter pilot Major James Bigglesworth flies off to Fort called 'The Iguanodon'... Rabinowitz. Beaver. A three-part comedy adventure by Paul Lucas. Producer: Dennis Main Wilson Michael Palin reads 'Captain' WE Johns' gripping adventure. Starring Paul Haigh as Sam Varley, Bernard Cribbins as Mr First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1955. First published in 1939, 'Biggles Flies North' was adapted in Brook, Rosemary Leach as Isabel, Dermot Crowley as Don MON 08:30 Dad's Army (b007jrl4) eight parts by George Hearton. O'Reilly, John Arthur as the Captain, Patsy Byrne as Harriet Series 3, Is There Honey Still for Tea?A new aerodrome WE Johns (1893-1968) wrote nearly 100 books about Biggles and Sally Phillips as Laura. threatens Private Godfrey's idyllic cottage with demolition. and his loyal sidekicks Algy, Ginger and Smyth. Producer: Jo Clegg Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Producer: Marilyn Ireland First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1997. Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1981. John Laurie as Private Frazer, Arnold Ridley as Private MON 14:15 The History of the Future (b01mhx6v) Godfrey, Ian Lavender as Private Pike, Joan Cooper as Cissie The Oracle of DelphiJuliet Gardiner begins her journey into the MONDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2018 Godfrey and Fraser Kerr as the Colonel/ Sir Charles Renfrew History of the Future with a look at the Oracle of Delphi, the McAlistair. place where the Ancient Greeks went to consult the Oracle and MON 00:00 Fear on 4 (b007jqbb) Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV hear what the future held for them. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. Juliet argues that a history of the future is really a history of MON 00:30 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn58) Producer: John Dyas anxiety, and begins her excavation of how the futurologists of [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1976. their day foretold what was to come, and what these visions says MON 01:00 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote (b07x2s1y) about the pre-occupations of the time. How different were (Omnibus) (b07d2vlz) Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for its prophesies about the future at different points in history? What [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] 40th anniversary series. can ideas about the future tell us about the past? MON 02:15 David Benedictus - From the Slips (b09rwg3r) For forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by writers, actors, People seek reassurance about the future, but that desire is [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] musicians, scientists and various comedy types. Kenneth rooted in their understanding of the present, with its specific MON 02:30 Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, Ian KcKellen, predicaments, and it is these particularities that Juliet will be (Omnibus) (b063jmm1) Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... have all graced the unearthing. Whose master plan does the future represent? Is it [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] Quote Unquote stage. determined by God, or gods, or does man have the power to MON 03:45 Tom Courtenay - Dear Tom (b007k1r4) Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of guests on the origins of change what might seem predetermined? [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the panel to share their This series of ten programmes will range from the Apocalyptic MON 04:00 Peter Terson - Tales My Father Taught Me favourite anecdotes. visions found in the New Testament Book of Revelation, to the (b09rwhgn) Episode 4 enigmatic prophesies of Nostradamus in 16th century France to [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Children's author Cressida Cowell the science fiction dystopias of HG Wells and George Orwell. MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (b09rwhgq) Journalist, biographer and crime novelist Ruth Dudley Edwards In 5th Century BC Greece, the god Apollo and his Oracle at [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] Podcaster, broadcaster and writer Helen Zaltzman Delphi was central to the idea of the future. In a fragmented MON 05:30 Reception (b039zg2p) Autor and arts critic Michael Billington society made up of warring City States with no over-arching [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] Presenter ... Nigel Rees authority people flocked to the Oracle to see what the future MON 06:00 Falco (b00qy0lr) Reader ... Sally Grace held. The Priestess through whom the god Apollo would speak The Iron Hand of Mars, Episode 1The famous detective of Producer ... Carl Cooper would greet a questioner seated on a tripod in an underground Ancient Rome, Falco is sent to the Barbarian forests of Free Production Co-ordinator ... George Pierpoint chamber chewing bay leaves and surrounded by the intoxicating Germany - home to a giant bull, raging Celts and a pagan This is a BBC Studios Production. vapours which escaped through the fault line in the earth on priestess. MON 09:30 Pankhiraj (b07m5jzc) which the Temple was built. Juliet speaks to classicists Nick Starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco, Anna Madely as The Honeymoon Is OverNishith, Sripurna's ex-husband has Lowe and Hugh Bowden, and visits a tarot card reader on Helena Justina and Ben Crowe as Petronius. been having secret meetings with Malati - and Dida turns up Brighton Pier. Dramatised by Mary Cutler. unexpectedly in Manchester. Produced by Victoria Shepherd Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. Tanika Gupta's four-part comedy stars Meera Syal as Malati, A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. Vinny Dhillon as Rehana, Souad Faress as Sripurna, Charubala MON 14:30 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City MON 06:30 Stefan Gates's Cover Story (b00qfzbw) Chokshi as Dida, Vinny Dhillon as Rehana, Geoffrey Beevers (b08wn2jm) When he was four, food writer Stefan Gates appeared on the as Geoffrey and Bhasker Patel as Nishith. The Days of Anna Madrigal, Episode 1Tales of the City: The cover of Led Zeppelin's classic album Houses of the Holy. This Director: Michelle Matherson Frederick Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin. Dramatised by deeply personal programme follows him as he investigates for First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996. Lin Coghlan. the first time the story behind this iconic cover. MON 10:00 Kate Brannigan - The Right Chemistry Episode 1. It is a famously unsettling image. Taken at the Giants Causeway (b007jlm5) The final series of Tales of the City. Now ninety-two, and in Northern Ireland, Stefan and his sister Samantha appear Can fast-talking private investigator Kate Brannigan discover committed to the notion of 'Leaving like a lady', Mrs Madrigal naked climbing up the eerie landscape against a bright orange who is behind a deadly case of blackmail - and a counterfeit has seemingly found peace with the 'Logical' family that has apocalyptic sky. scam - which also involves murder... grown around her. But there are ghosts in her past that are the It's a photo that's dogged Stefan all his life. Ever since he was a Val McDermid's Manchester-based thriller stars Jane key to her identity and they trouble her. Is she prepared to child, the picture has disturbed him, even scared him. He's Hazelgrove as Kate Brannigan, Matthew Dunster as Richard confront them? ambivalent about it; should he be proud of it or is there Barclay, Kathryn Hunt as Shelley, James Quinn as Trevor, Director/Producer Gary Brown something to be ashamed of? He's purposely never found out Martin Reeve as Jackson, Laura Richmond as Gail and Caroline 'The Days of Anna Madrigal' is the ninth novel of Armistead the story behind it. He has never even listened to the record. Sugden as Janice. Maupin's bestselling 'Tales of the City' series. It features one of Now he sets out to revisit that chapter in his life and to confront Producer: Melanie Harris modern literature's most unforgettable characters - Anna his own mixed emotions about it, discovering the story behind First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. Madrigal, the legendary landlady of 28 Barbary Lane as she the image, and its ideas and ethics. He discovers his sister's MON 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories - More Tales of embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past. memories of the difficulties in getting it made, confronts his Village Life (b0759mjt) MON 14:45 Book of the Week (b01r993b) mother about why she let him pose naked as a child and meets The Superstitious Man's StoryLongpuddle villagers discover Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday, Episode 1The Aubrey Powell, the cover art's photographer, from the famous how strange omens surround the death of ex-resident, William first of five extracts from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared graphic design team Hipgnosis. Finally, he makes an emotional Privett. (1891) Read by Richard Mitchley. Diamond's powerful new book, that asks what can traditional journey back to the Giants Causeway to listen to the album for These tales from Thomas Hardy published between 1877 and societies teach us about how we in the west live now? the very first time. 1929, possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of Drawing upon several decades of experience living and working MON 07:00 Winston (b007jn9c) description, the realistic portrayal of the age old lore of Wessex, in Papua New Guinea, Professor Diamond shows how Winston in Love, I'm in Love, I'm in LoveNow that Nancy has the 'Chaucerian' humour and the shrewd insights into human traditional societies can offer an extraordinary window into how fallen in love with Roland from the Ministry of Whatsisname, nature. They tenderly re-create, what was even then, a rapidly our ancestors lived for millions of years - until virtually she doesn't like to remember what happened with Winston vanishing rural world and yet the narratives remain timeless in yesterday, in evolutionary terms - and provide unique, often under the old beech tree at Winterleaf Gunner... their embrace of both the farcical and the tragic aspects of daily overlooked insights into human nature. Exploring how tribal Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial stars Bill Wallis as life. peoples approach essential human problems, from childrearing Winston, Maurice Denham as Father, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, Abridged by Isobel Creed to old age to conflict resolution to health, Diamond reminds us Liz Goulding as Rosie and Christian Rodska as William. Produced by Lizzie Davies that the West achieved global dominance due to specific Director: Shaun MacLoughlin Made for BBC Radio Extra by Waters Company Productions. environmental and technological advantages, but Westerners do First broadcast on BBC Radio in December 1990. MON 11:15 Carol McGuigan - The Painter and the not necessarily have superior ideas about how to live well. MON 07:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b09qcfh1) Fishergirl (b09rwk6y) Read by Crawford Logan. Series 12, Episode 5This week, the Professor of Ignorance John 1881: Two worlds collide when American artist Winslow Abridged by Robin Brooks. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 February 2018 Page 4 of 8 Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote (b07x2s1y) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. MON 15:00 Kate Brannigan - The Right Chemistry [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories - More Tales of (b007jlm5) TUE 04:30 Pankhiraj (b07m5jzc) Village Life (b075fmsz) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] The Winters and The PalmleysThe aged groceress remembers a MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote (b07x2s1y) TUE 05:00 Winston (b007jn9c) lonely old lady from the village, "dead these five-and-twenty [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] year at least" who had good reason to be so aloof from her MON 16:30 Pankhiraj (b07m5jzc) TUE 05:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b09qcfh1) neighbours. (1891) Read by Richard Mitchley. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] These tales from Thomas Hardy published between 1877 and MON 17:00 Winston (b007jn9c) TUE 06:00 Falco (b00qyk7j) 1929, possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] The Iron Hand of Mars, Episode 2Falco and Xanthus travel to description, the realistic portrayal of the age old lore of Wessex, MON 17:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b09qcfh1) Germany and witness the aftermath of a grisly crime on the the 'Chaucerian' humour and the shrewd insights into human [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] way. As the Roman detective tries to deliver the new standard nature. They tenderly re-create, what was even then, a rapidly MON 18:00 BD Chapman - Orbiter X (b077xnzr) to the 14th legion, he receives a rather hostile welcome. At least vanishing rural world and yet the narratives remain timeless in BreakawayCaptain McLelland and Flight Engineer Hicks plan he finds more hospitality at the house of Helena's Tribune their embrace of both the farcical and the tragic aspects of daily to use an unmanned probe in their desperate bid to return to brother, Justinus. life. Earth. Starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco and David Holt Abridged by Isobel Creed First broadcast in 1959, a bold plan to conquer space begins as Xanthus. Produced by Lizzie Davies with prefabricated components of space station 'Orbiter X' Dramatised by Mary Cutler. Made for BBC Radio Extra by Waters Company Productions. being transported up from Earth, but the task proves perilous... Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. TUE 11:15 Nick Warburton - Lawn Wars (b00td4zv) BD Chapman's adventure stars John Carson as Captain Bob First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. A single older woman takes on a gardener, and gets much more Britton, Andrew Crawford as Captain Douglas McClelland, TUE 06:30 The Last Post (b00xn7d4) than she bargained for. Barrie Gosney as Flight Engineer Hicks, Donald Bisset as Since ancient Egyptian times, pigeon post has carried messages Nick Warburton's gentle comedy about relationships, property Colonel Kent, Gerik Schjelderup as Max Kramer and Ian Sadler of love and war. Can it survive the internet? With Tim Pigott- and cricket. as Neasen. Smith. From July 2003. Stars Anna Calder-Marhsall as Alice, Richard Johnson as Shaped like a giant wheel and code-named 'Orbiter X', the TUE 07:00 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once Anthony and Robert Daws as Rob. space station is designed to circle Earth, travelling in a rapid (b007jr5m) With thanks to David Acfield of Essex County Cricket Club for polar orbit - boasting synthetic gravity, produced by the rotation Series 1, The Agony and the EcstasyItalian exchange student off-spin advice. around the central hub. Gian Paolo meets the Conroy family. Eddie's trying not to lose Director: Peter Kavanagh Fact and fiction were curiously interwoven, as a fortnight his patience - or his fare to Gay Pride. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. before broadcast, the Soviet Luna 2 space probe crash landed Jim Poyser and Damian Lanigan's comedy-drama series TUE 12:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b03q5gb0) on the Moon. following the lives of the Conroys, a family living in Stockport. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Producer: Charles Maxwell Starring Dominic Monaghan as Jason, Stefan Escreet as Gian- TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry (b0153cxh) First broadcast in 14 parts on the BBC Light Programme in Paulo, John McArdle as Rav, Chris Paylo as Eddie, Beverley [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] 1959. Callard as Maureen, Jason Done as Michael and Ann Rye as TUE 13:00 Falco (b00qyk7j) MON 18:30 A Good Read (b09rwm1w) Gran and Jo-Anne Knowles as Debbie. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Razia Iqbal and Judith FlandersSue MacGregor and her guests - Music: Big George TUE 13:30 The Last Post (b00xn7d4) BBC journalist Razia Iqbal and author Judith Flanders - discuss Producer: Neil Mossey [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] books by Jhumpa Lahiri, Sybille Bedford and Shirley Hazzard. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1999. TUE 14:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007lzws) From August 2005. TUE 07:30 A Normal... (b09r4qdm) At the Three Star SaloonWhen the pilot hero finds his chum is Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri LovePart three in an occasional series in which the occasional missing from the aerodrome, he crosses swords with the evil Publisher: Flamingo writer Henry Normal uses poetry, storytelling and comedy to McBain. Read by Michael Palin. From August 1981. A Visit to Don Otavio, by Sybille Bedford tackle those subjects so big only radio can possibly contain TUE 14:15 The History of the Future (b01mk2hl) Publisher: Elland Books them. The DruidsJuliet Gardiner continues her journey back to the The Bay of Noon, by Shirley Hazzard Last year Henry brought us his acclaimed show - 'A Normal History of the Future with a look into the society of the Druids Publisher: Virago. Life', which was awarded a Silver ARIA for Best Comedy / and their beliefs about the future. MON 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jzg0) Entertainment production at the 2017 Radio Academy Awards. Druids held a crucial role in Britain, Ireland and Gaul until the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] This time Henry returns with his new show for Valentine's Day first Century AD. Very little evidence of their mysterious MON 19:30 Dad's Army (b007jrl4) - 'A Normal Love', exploring love, romance and other culture remains and we might think of them now as the Roman [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] unreasonable expectations. writers portrayed them, wearing white robes and wreaths of MON 20:00 Falco (b00qy0lr) Henry Normal is a multi-award winning writer, producer and mistletoe and oak leaves, making animal, even human [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] poet. Co-writer of award winning TV programmes such as The sacrifices. One thing is for certain: their powers of prophesy MON 20:30 Stefan Gates's Cover Story (b00qfzbw) Royle Family, The Mrs Merton Show, Coogan's Run and Paul were the sources of awe, fear and political threat to the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Calf, and producer of, amongst many others, Oscar-Nominated conquering Romans who saw them as an alternative power base. MON 21:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories - More Tales of Philomena, The Mighty Boosh, Gavin and Stacey and Alan The Druids are said to have predicted the Fall of the Roman Village Life (b0759mjt) Partridge. Empire. Was this political expediency or something more [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Written and performed by Henry Normal mysterious? Juliet sees ancient spoons which may have been MON 21:15 Carol McGuigan - The Painter and the Produced by Carl Cooper used by the Druids in divination ceremonies. Fishergirl (b09rwk6y) This was a BBC Studios production. Produced by Victoria Shepherd [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE 08:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b03q5gb0) A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. MON 22:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b09qcfh1) Doddy's Daft Half Hour, From 31/01/1971The King of Knotty TUE 14:30 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Ash delves into breaking the rules and brings us Happy News. (b08wp3gf) MON 22:30 Ross Noble Goes Global (b007jvv4) Starring Ken Dodd. With Peter Goodwright, Pat Coombs, The Days of Anna Madrigal, Episode 2Tales of the City: The Series 1, SingaporeSpotting a monkey and shopping malls Teddy Johnson, Talfryn Thomas and Jo Manning Wilson. Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin. Dramatised by galore - the globetrotting comedian is having a bad hair day in Devised and written by Ken Dodd, David McKellar, Norman Lin Coghlan. the city's incredible humidity. Beedle, George Moffat and Malcolm Cameron. Ep 2. Producer: Danny Wallace Doddy's Diddy Orchestra conducted by Geoff Alderson. As Michael and Ben prepare for 'Burning Man' art festival in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002. Producer: Bobby Jaye Nevada, Shawna makes them an offer that could change their MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra (b09rwm24) First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in January 1971. lives. Series 22, Episode 7Made for 4 Extra. Miles Jupp chairs a TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry (b0153cxh) Director/Producer Gary Brown. satirical review of the week's news in an extended version of Plane MadnessEvents take off as the idle duo welcome an TUE 14:45 Book of the Week (b01r9cd8) Friday's programme. office efficiency expert. Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday, War and MON 23:45 Crème de la Crime (b0089jzj) Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. With Norma PeaceWar and peace. Series 3, Carrion up the JungleMichael Feydeau and David Ronald, Ronald Baddiley, John Graham and Dilys Laye. Second extract from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Pershore probe a dastardly case of felony afloat. Stars Steve Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham. Diamond's powerful new book that draws upon his several Punt and Hugh Dennis. From April 2003. 'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 decades of experience living and working in Papua New and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from Guinea. Professor Diamond argues that traditional societies 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, offer a window onto how our ancestors lived for millions of TUESDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2018 however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows years - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms - and can in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC provide unique, often overlooked insights into human nature. TUE 00:00 BD Chapman - Orbiter X (b077xnzr) Radio 4 Extra. Read by Crawford Logan. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Producer: Edward Taylor Abridged by Robin Brooks. TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b09rwm1w) First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in June 1974. Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra (b09rwm24) TUE 15:00 Kate Brannigan - Clean Break (b0089bqv) TUE 01:00 Falco (b00qy0lr) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE 09:45 Crème de la Crime (b0089jzj) TUE 16:00 Jest a Minute (b012yngz) TUE 01:30 Stefan Gates's Cover Story (b00qfzbw) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] Series 1, Episode 4Justin Moorhouse, Alun Cochrane, Chris [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE 10:00 Kate Brannigan - Clean Break (b0089bqv) Corcoran and Tom Wrigglesworth join Rhod Gilbert in the TUE 02:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007lnqr) Fast-talking private eye Kate Brannigan is not amused when comedy quiz. From September 2006. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] thieves steal a Monet painting from a stately home where she TUE 16:30 Such Rotten Luck (b065cbyv) TUE 02:15 The History of the Future (b01mhx6v) has arranged the security. Series 2, Meet My New AgentWill struggling writer [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Kate sets off on a chase that takes her across Europe bringing Woodhouse get a break when he is taken on by a new agent? TUE 02:30 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City her head-to-head with organised crime. Stars Tim Pigott-Smith. From December 1991. (b08wn2jm) Val McDermid's Manchester-based thriller stars Charlotte TUE 17:00 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Coleman as Kate Brannigan, John Lloyd Fillingham as Richard (b007jr5m) TUE 02:45 Book of the Week (b01r993b) Barclay, Noreen Kershaw as Alexis Lee, Joseph Jones as Michal [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] Haroun, Geoff Hinsliff as Dennis O'Brien, Rob Pickavance as TUE 17:30 A Normal... (b09r4qdm) TUE 03:00 Kate Brannigan - The Right Chemistry Henry Naismith, Martin Reeve as Lord James Ballantrae and [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] (b007jlm5) Kathryn Hunt as Della Prentiss. TUE 18:00 BD Chapman - Orbiter X (b077ypfb) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Producer: Melanie Harris The Price of SurvivalUnity are plotting to commandeer the yet Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 February 2018 Page 5 of 8 to be assembled Orbiter X space station for their own evil [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric purposes. WED 00:30 And the Academy Award Goes To... (b00h3wlv) Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, BD Chapman's adventure in the conquest of space in 14 parts. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the Stars John Carson as Captain Bob Britton, Andrew Crawford as WED 01:00 Falco (b00qyk7j) scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and Captain Douglas McClelland, Barrie Gosney as Flight Engineer [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, Hicks, Max Kramer as Gerik Schjelderup as Max Kramer, WED 01:30 The Last Post (b00xn7d4) catchphrases and double-entendres. Arthur Lawrence as Gelbin, Ian Sadle as Neasen, Donald Bisset [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser as Colonel Kent and Leslie Perrins as Sir Charles Day. WED 02:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007lzws) Hayes Four. Producer: Charles Maxwell [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Producer: John Simmonds First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1959. WED 02:15 The History of the Future (b01mk2hl) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1965. TUE 18:30 And the Academy Award Goes To... (b00h3wlv) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED 09:00 Many a Slip (b09s4mfl) Series 2, The Godfather and The Godfather Part IIAnd the WED 02:30 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City Roy Plomley chairs as Eleanor Summerfield and Isobel Barnett Academy Award Goes To... The Godfather & Godfather II. (b08wp3gf) battle David Nixon and Richard Murdoch as they compete in Another chance to catch Paul Gambaccini's series on Oscar- [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] the panel game to spot mistakes. winning films and what they can tell us of the culture and times WED 02:45 Book of the Week (b01r9cd8) With some tune-twisters from Steve Race. that gave birth to them. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] Devised and written by Ian Messiter To kick off the series he explores the potboiler novel that WED 03:00 Kate Brannigan - Clean Break (b0089bqv) Producer: Trafford Whitelock spawned not only one of the most violent 'family' movies ever, [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1973. but also led to an even more successful sequel. An offer that WED 04:00 Jest a Minute (b012yngz) WED 09:30 The Right Time (b009v5dn) can't be refused.. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] Series 2, Episode 1From the perils of seduction to topless TUE 19:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b03q5gb0) WED 04:30 Such Rotten Luck (b065cbyv) sunbathing. 40 is the new 21. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] Sketch show about life, written and performed by people who TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry (b0153cxh) WED 05:00 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once have lived a bit. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] (b007jr5m) Stars Eleanor Bron, Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, Paula Wilcox, TUE 20:00 Falco (b00qyk7j) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] Clive Swift and Roger Blake. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED 05:30 A Normal... (b09r4qdm) Written by Graeme Garden, Neil Innes, John Pidgeon, Jan TUE 20:30 The Last Post (b00xn7d4) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] Etherington, Julie Balloo and Ramone Towers. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED 06:00 Falco (b00qyq1t) Music by Ronnie & The Rex. TUE 21:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories - More Tales of The Iron Hand of Mars, Episode 3Falco has arrived in Germany Producer: Helen Williams Village Life (b075fmsz) and discovered that Gracilis, the Fourteenth Legion's legate, has First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2002. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] gone missing. It looks as though he might be involved in some WED 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b09bbsq9) TUE 21:15 Nick Warburton - Lawn Wars (b00td4zv) corrupt business with the local potters. 13-17 November 1917The first omnibus of Season 12, Giddy [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Falco's inquiries get him into trouble with a centurion, and with Possibility, set in Tynemouth, in the week, in 1917, when TUE 22:00 A Normal... (b09r4qdm) Xanthus the barber reveals an unexpected talent. the Finnish Parliament declared their independence from [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco, Anna Madely as Russia. TUE 22:30 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation (b01r11wm) Helena Justina and David Holt as Xanthus. Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz Series 9, How to Be a Woman in the 21st CenturyStand by your Dramatised by Mary Cutler. Directed by Jessica Dromgoole radios! Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves with a broadcast Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. Story-led by Shaun McKenna of national comic import as he delves into the murky world of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. Sound: Martha Littlehailes womanlitude. Expect polite language from the start. WED 06:30 Letters to Myself (b00dx16j) Composer: Matthew Strachan Welcome to "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation", a series of An insight into the experiences of people who have written Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. debates in which Jeremy Hardy engages in a free and frank letters to themselves to be opened in years to come. Some have WED 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories - More Tales of exchange of his entrenched views. Passionate, polemical, sent letters to a website that acts as a temporary library before Village Life (b075g3n9) erudite and unable to sing, Jeremy returns with a new series of emailing them back to be read at a later date. The programme Netty Sargent's StoryMr Day, the painter, recalls the unusual his show, famous for lines like - also follows a group of young adults as they open letters that circumstances by which Netty Sargent came to own her house. "Kids should never be fashion slaves, especially in the Far East. they wrote to themselves years ago as school leavers. (1891) Read by Richard Mitchley. My 12-year old daughter asked me for a new pair of trainers. I WED 07:00 Ring Around the Bath (b00p8fk7) These tales from Thomas Hardy published between 1877 and told her she was old enough to go out and make her own" and, Series 1, New HousePatrick and Stella find their dream house, 1929, possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of "Islam is no weirder than Christianity. Both are just Judaism but will the children scupper their move? Stars Duncan Preston. description, the realistic portrayal of the age old lore of Wessex, with the jokes taken out." From September 2003. the 'Chaucerian' humour and the shrewd insights into human Few can forget where they were twenty years ago when they WED 07:30 Bridget Christie's Utopia (b09r6fvs) nature. They tenderly re-create, what was even then, a rapidly first heard "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation". The show Series 1, SpiritualityWitness episode 2 of award-winning stand- vanishing rural world and yet the narratives remain timeless in was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on up comedian Bridget Christie's BBC Radio 4 comedy series, their embrace of both the farcical and the tragic aspects of daily a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since the Bridget Christie's Utopia. life. show went out on Thursdays. The Light Entertainment As Bridget Christie struggles to come to terms with current Abridged by Isobel Creed department was besieged, questions were asked in the House world events - Kim Jong-un, the melting polar ice caps and Produced by Lizzie Davies and Jeremy Hardy himself became known as the man parakeets in her garden reminding her of Brexit, she embarks Made for BBC Radio Extra by Waters Company Productions. responsible for the funniest show on radio since Money Box on a comic quest for her Utopia - a way of living that will make WED 11:15 Caroline Gawn - Fresh from the Coast Live with Paul Lewis. her less anxious and enable her to have her first happy wee (b007jqxk) Since that fateful first series, Jeremy went on to win Sony since the Brexit vote in 2016. 1940s London: Two women uncover a devastating secret that Awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for EPISODE 2 : Spirituality changes their friendship for ever. Chemistry. In this second episode of the series, Bridget explores spirituality Elsie Haworth and Kathleen James are old school friends, The show is a Pozzitive production, and is produced by - to see if that will make her happier. Could Yoga, Hinduism or working on the rebuilding of Waterloo Bridge. Elsie is heavily Jeremy's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler. becoming a nun be the answer to all her problems? Or will life pregnant, but won't reveal the father's name to anyone. Written by Jeremy Hardy still be completely rubbish? In her tour of spirituality, Bridget A police inspector begins to follow the two women, asking Produced by David Tyler meets an elderly nun - Sister Agatha - at Bar Convent, hides probing questions about the mysterious father. The plot A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. from an Easter egg hunt and witnesses the aftermath of her thickens and then thickens again... TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b09t2l62) husband getting a wedgie from the ghost of Napoleon. Will any Caroline Gawn's thriller stars Jo Joyner as Elsie, Christine Archie Maddocks 1/2The best in contemporary comedy. Rob of this help her switch off? Brennan as Kathleen, Mark Chatterton as the Police Inspector, Deering chats to Archie Maddocks. Stand-up show recorded in front of a studio audience at the Martin Reeve as Mr Jackson and Ken Bradshaw as Gerhard. TUE 23:00 Seekers (b03gghks) BBC Radio Theatre. Director: Polly Thomas Series 1, Seek HardEPISODE 6: SEEK HARD Starring: Bridget Christie. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. It's an unusual day in the Job Centre when armed robbers, With special guest Sister Agatha. WED 12:00 The Navy Lark (b05tzgds) having been cornered by police after doing a bank job across Producers: Simon Nicholls and Alison Vernon-Smith. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] the road, take everyone hostage. This could be Stuart's chance A BBC Studios Production. WED 12:30 Round the Horne (b00j05wv) to prove to Nicola he's a hero. He needs to do something WED 08:00 The Navy Lark (b05tzgds) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] spectacular to compete with her past boyfriend who Joe claims Mr Murray Goes SickStanton thinks Number One is looking WED 13:00 Falco (b00qyq1t) was none other than Christian Bale. poorly, which gives cunning Pertwee an idea... [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Seekers, is about the characters that regularly frequent a Job Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as WED 13:30 Letters to Myself (b00dx16j) Centre in the Essex town of Rayleigh. Be it the unfulfilled or the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as Number One, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] aspirational staff that work there, or the mixture of jobless Richard Caldicot as Commander Povey, Ronnie Barker as WED 14:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007m474) people from every walk of life, some desperate to get back to Captain Stanton, Heather Chasen as Heather, Michael Bates as The Jupiter Heads NorthwardBiggles faces more trouble from work, some trying their best to never have to work at all. the MO and Tenniel Evans as Uncle Ebenezer Pertwee. the evil McBain as he prepares to leave the local saloon. Read We listen into the mundane, pointless and sometimes The Navy Lark ran for an impressive 13 series on BBC Radio by Michael Palin. From August 1981. bewildering conversations, the petty arguments and pointless between 1959 and 1976. WED 14:15 The History of the Future (b01mk71l) rivalries that people involve themselves in just to relieve the Scripted by Lawrie Wyman. The Book of RevelationJuliet Gardiner continues her look back boredom in the sterile, air conditioned building, they all have to Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. into the History of the Future with the apocalyptic visions of return to day after day. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1960. Divine Judgement in the Book of Revelation. Written by Steven Burge WED 08:30 Round the Horne (b00j05wv) There is some dispute about its authorship but it is generally Produced by Katie Tyrrell. Series 1, Episode 8Who killed the Amazing Proudbasket? And believed that the Revelations of Jesus Christ were TUE 23:30 The Mel and Sue Thing (b0076b0y) Kenneth Horne trolls round to 'Bona Tours' - courtesy of Julian communicated to a mystic, John, while in exile on the island of Episode 4Cinema trips, Jane Austen and a new posh British and Sandy. Patmos off the coast of Turkey. John wrote them down around blockbuster. Sketches with Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. Starring Kenneth Horne. AD 95 and some interpret the Book of Revelation as unveiling From October 2002. With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill events that will take place in the future, when Satan will be cast Pertwee. out and the Second Coming will bring about paradise on earth, Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, others see it as an allegory of the struggle between good and WEDNESDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2018 London. evil. Announcer: Douglas Smith Juliet views the Douse Manuscript, a dazzling 15th century WED 00:00 BD Chapman - Orbiter X (b077ypfb) Round the Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio illuminated Book of Revelation from a period when there was a Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 February 2018 Page 6 of 8 flowering of interest in this vision of future, with its images of (Green Wing, The Hour), Jan Francis (Just Good Friends, THU 07:00 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7) beasts, fires and plagues. Why did the Book's predictions Emmerdale), Peter Davison (A Very Peculiar Practice, Dr Series 3, Episode 3Change is in the air when Amanda and become so pertinent at this particular time? Was this connected Who), Hannah Murray (Skins, Game of Thrones), and John- Richard get happily engaged. But when Lucy and Daniel opt to to anxieties and political aspirations of the Crusades? Juliet Luke Roberts (Spats, BBC Three Live At The Fringe). change their lives, Lucy resolves not to tell anyone. speaks to Professor of Early Modern ideas, Justin Champion. Producer: Ed Morrish. What Daniel hasn't told Lucy is that he can't keep a secret... Produced by Victoria Shepherd WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b09t2lcj) David Spicer's comedy drama about modern life and A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. Archie Maddocks 2/2The best in contemporary comedy. Rob parenthood, as seen through the eyes of two 30-something non- WED 14:30 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City Deering chats to Archie Maddocks. parents. (b08wpd5b) WED 23:00 Danny Robins Music Therapy (b00fgts9) Starring David Tennant as Daniel, Liz Carling as Lucy, Tracy- The Days of Anna Madrigal, Episode 3Tales of the City: The Episode 1Danny uses the power of music to help humanity - Ann Oberman as Katie, Tony Gardner as Andy, Nasreen Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin. Dramatised by and a dormouse. With Isy Suttie and beatboxer Beardyman. Hussain as Amanda and Dave Lamb as Richard. Lin Coghlan. From November 2008. Producer: Liz Anstee Ep 3. WED 23:30 The Guns of Adam Riches (b01qwj0j) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Mrs Madrigal prepares to go back to her home town and Series 1, The Third PoleIn this final episode, the award-winning THU 07:30 Alex Edelman - Millennial (b055jpnw) Michael and Ben argue over Shawna's offer. comedian Adam Riches tells the story of Martin, an audience Alex Edelman, the 25-year-old Bostonian native and winner of Director/Producer Gary Brown. member from London, who started the evening as an the prestigious Best Newcomer Award at the 2014 Edinburgh WED 14:45 Book of the Week (b01r9q05) unsuspecting software developer, but ended it as the greatest Comedy Festival, presents a special half-hour version of his Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday, Child-rearing and explorer ever to walk the earth. As Martin battles to be the first award-winning show about the much misunderstood and DisciplineChild-rearing and discipline. man to reach the "Third Pole", he is faced by many challenges, ridiculed millennial generation and how he has used his wit to Extract from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond's including a rival team of Norwegians, led inexplicably by the bite back. powerful new book that draws upon his several decades of German filmmaker, Werner Herzog. THU 08:00 Marriage Lines (b061ygcr) experience living and working in Papua New Guinea. Professor Written by and starring Adam Riches. Series 2, Episode 5George and Kate get in a tizzy showing-off Diamond argues that traditional societies offer a window onto Also starring Cariad Lloyd, Jim Johnson and Simon Yadoo. baby Helen. how our ancestors lived for millions of years - until virtually Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer and Rupert Majendie. Richard Briers and Prunella Scales star in their second series yesterday, in evolutionary terms - and can provide unique, often based on the mutual love and mistrust of a young married overlooked insights into human nature. couple. Read by Crawford Logan. THURSDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2018 Originating on BBC TV, it was adapted for radio due to its Abridged by Robin Brooks. popularity by Richard Waring from his own TV scripts. Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU 00:00 BD Chapman - Orbiter X (b0783p4d) A decade later, Richard Briers was starring as Tom Good in WED 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b09bbsq9) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] The Good Life whilst Prunella Scales starred as Sybil in Fawlty [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU 00:30 The Tingle Factor (b04plpwz) Towers. They remained friends until Richard Briers' death in WED 16:00 Many a Slip (b09s4mfl) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] 2013. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU 01:00 Falco (b00qyq1t) Producer: Charles Maxwell WED 16:30 The Right Time (b009v5dn) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] Recorded at the BBC Paris Studio in London. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU 01:30 Letters to Myself (b00dx16j) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1967. WED 17:00 Ring Around the Bath (b00p8fk7) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU 08:30 The Goon Show (b007jmrj) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU 02:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007m474) Shangri-La AgainNeddie Seagoon escapes an invasion and finds WED 17:30 Bridget Christie's Utopia (b09r6fvs) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] Utopia. Fantasy novel spoof with Spike Milligan and Harry [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU 02:15 The History of the Future (b01mk71l) Secombe. From November 1955. WED 18:00 BD Chapman - Orbiter X (b0783p4d) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU 09:00 It's Your Round (b00yrfwr) Marooned in SpaceThe evil Unity organization sets about THU 02:30 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City Series 1, Episode 2"It's Your Round" is the comedy panel show planting an insider within the HQ of the Commonwealth Space (b08wpd5b) where the format is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of Project. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] the panellists has brought along their own round for the others BD Chapman's adventure in the conquest of space in 14 parts. THU 02:45 Book of the Week (b01r9q05) to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and Stars John Carson as Captain Bob Britton, Andrew Crawford as [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] unpredictable. Captain Douglas McClelland, Gerik Schjelderup as Max THU 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b09bbsq9) This episode Andy Parsons, Rebecca Front, Miles Jupp and Kramer, Arthur Lawrence as Gelbin, John Witty as Captain [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] prog-rock legend, Rick Wakeman battle it out to see who can Jack Bradley, Donald Bisset as Colonel Kent and Peter Noel THU 04:00 Many a Slip (b09s4mfl) beat each other at their own games. Cook as Control Officer Brown. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Enjoy the hilarity that ensues when each of them play the Producer: Charles Maxwell THU 04:30 The Right Time (b009v5dn) games they've brought along. Can the teams guess the concept First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1959. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] for Rick's new prog rock album in his "What's The Concept?" WED 18:30 The Tingle Factor (b04plpwz) THU 05:00 Ring Around the Bath (b00p8fk7) round? And what happens when the teams have to play Andy's Beryl BainbridgeBeryl Bainbridge shares those musical [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] inventively titled "It's Not Your Round"? And would Rebecca moments which stir strong emotions with Robin Ray. THU 05:30 Bridget Christie's Utopia (b09r6fvs) Front like to marry Prince William? Find out the answers to From classic BBC radio comedies to Shirley Temple, the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] these questions and more in this show. novelist also looks back over her life and career. THU 06:00 Falco (b00qyr9t) Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure Producer: Caroline Adams The Iron Hand of Mars, Episode 4After making enquiries with everyone comes out of it with their reputations intact. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. Claudia, the missing legate's mistress, Falco decides he has to Writers: Angus Deayton and Paul Powell WED 19:00 The Navy Lark (b05tzgds) cross the Rhine into Barbarian territory. Accompanied by Devised by Benjamin Partridge [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Justinus, Helveticus and a motley crew of raw recruits, he sets Producer: Sam Michell. WED 19:30 Round the Horne (b00j05wv) off on his most dangerous journey yet. THU 09:30 The Inimitable Jeeves (b007s5dn) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Things begin to look ominous when they find a deserted Roman The Great Sermon HandicapCan Bertie Wooster beat the odds WED 20:00 Falco (b00qyq1t) camp in the heart of the forest. of disaster in an unusual betting syndicate? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco, Anna Madely as PG Wodehouse romp adapted by Chris Miller. WED 20:30 Letters to Myself (b00dx16j) Helena Justina, David Holt as Xanthus and Gary Lewis as Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Helveticus. Maurice Denham as Rev Heppenstall, Jonathan Cecil as Bingo WED 21:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories - More Tales of Dramatised by Mary Cutler. Little, David Jason as Eustace, Jonathan Lynn as Claude and Village Life (b075g3n9) Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. Carol Marsh as Cynthia. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. Producer: David Hatch WED 21:15 Caroline Gawn - Fresh from the Coast THU 06:30 The Naughty Pictures Committees (b01nt3xk) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1973. (b007jqxk) It's 100 years since the British Board of Film Censors was set THU 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b09bccx6) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] up, yet few people know that it has always been local authorities 20-24 November 1917The second omnibus of Season 12, WED 22:00 Bridget Christie's Utopia (b09r6fvs) that had - and still have - the final say over what films are Giddy with Possibility, set in the week, in 1917, when the Battle [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] shown in their areas. And from the late Forties through to the of Cambrai marked the first mass use of tanks. WED 22:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Seventies, many councils such as Manchester and London used Cast Carefully (b01r7b8n) these powers to push back the boundaries of what was Edie Chadwick ..... Kathryn Beaumont Series 1, Power BlockKatrina Lyons was only visiting Cresdon considered acceptable to public 'taste and decency'. They passed Sarah Illingworth ..... Naomi Frederick Green, the village where she grew up, to borrow some money many films the BBFC had banned, causing the Board to slowly Marion Wardle ..... Laura Elphinstone from her parents. But when she tried to head back to London, it relax its views on nudity and sex in particular. Other councils, Fraser Chadwick ..... Edmund Wiseman turned out alien beings known as the Geonin had lowered a like Sale in Cheshire, tried desperately to hold back the tide of Lester Reed ..... Trevor Fox force field around the village and were refusing to let anyone in X-rated films, insisting they could not be shown in their town Alan Lowther ..... David Seddon or out. without the express permission of the council - which was often Duncan Chadwick ..... Mark Stobbart Unfortunately almost everyone in the village is too cowardly, denied. Ethel Manning ..... Sophie Scott apathetic, polite or stupid to stand up to this alien menace, so Laurie Taylor explores this peculiarly British system of film Iris Reed ..... Charlie Hardwick Katrina has no choice but to start the resistance movement censorship, where the local councils have the power - "people Johnnie Marshall ..... Paul Ready herself. In the cricket pavilion. power" some say - while the national Board has most of the Joyce Lyle ..... Tracy Whitwell EPISODE THREE: Power Block. expertise but no legal powers and its certificates are only Judith Turner ..... Kate Okello Uljabaan is busy with a construction project and asks Margaret guidance. Kenny Stokoe ..... Dean Logan to help with some routine duties in the village - collecting data, He starts his journey in the "birthplace of British Cinema", the Matilda James ..... Hannah Wood checking up on the man they put down the old well, that sort of Regent Street cinema in London, now being refurbished, and Maud Drummond ..... Vineeta Rishi thing. Katrina is dismayed - he's too busy to oppress the along the way he looks at such classics as The Birth of A Baby, Molly Duckett ..... ictoria Bewick humans, so he's getting them to do it to each other. But the the naturist Garden of Eden, the gory Joker Is Wild, the Neil McCaul ..... Hodges construction project involves opening up the force-field that notorious Ulysses, and more. Stanley Hobbs ..... David Nellist surrounds the village. Can Katrina and Lucy sneak a message Finally Laurie looks at how the BBFC has, over recent decades, Trevor Lamb ..... Phillip Correia into the outside world? got much more involved with audiences and so almost Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully is written by eliminated the conflict with local councils that at one time Directed by Allegra McIlroy Eddie Robson (That Mitchell and Webb Sound, Newsjack), and threatened its very existence. Editor: Jessica Dromgoole stars Hattie Morahan (Outnumbered, Critic's Circle & Evening Producer: Mike Hally Story-led by Shaun McKenna Standard Theatre Awards Best Actress'), Julian Rhind-Tutt A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. Sound: Martha Littlehailes Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 February 2018 Page 7 of 8 Composer: Matthew Strachan ElderlyTreatment of the elderly. (b08wqlm7) Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. Extract from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond's [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] THU 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories - More Tales of new book which suggests that traditional societies offer us a FRI 02:45 Book of the Week (b01r9skn) Village Life (b075p19n) window onto how our ancestors lived for millions of years - [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] Old Mrs ChundleKindly soul Mrs Chundle, a little deaf, who until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms - and can provide FRI 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b09bccx6) sought help from the new curate to hear his weekly sermon. unique, often overlooked insights into human nature. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] (1929) Read by Richard Mitchley. Read by Crawford Logan. FRI 04:00 It's Your Round (b00yrfwr) These tales from Thomas Hardy published between 1877 and Abridged by Robin Brooks. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] 1929, possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI 04:30 The Inimitable Jeeves (b007s5dn) description, the realistic portrayal of the age old lore of Wessex, THU 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b09bccx6) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] the 'Chaucerian' humour and the shrewd insights into human [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI 05:00 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7) nature. They tenderly re-create, what was even then, a rapidly THU 16:00 It's Your Round (b00yrfwr) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] vanishing rural world and yet the narratives remain timeless in [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 05:30 Alex Edelman - Millennial (b055jpnw) their embrace of both the farcical and the tragic aspects of daily THU 16:30 The Inimitable Jeeves (b007s5dn) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] life. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI 06:00 Falco (b00r32wz) Abridged by Isobel Creed THU 17:00 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7) The Iron Hand of Mars, Episode 5Roman detective Falco and Produced by Lizzie Davies [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] his fellow prisoners are marched through the forest and finally Made for BBC Radio Extra by Waters Company Productions. THU 17:30 Alex Edelman - Millennial (b055jpnw) meet the legendary Celtic priestess Veleda. THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama (b01r5qgm) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Justinus takes matters into his own hands when he volunteers to Marcy Kahan - Mr Bridger's OrphanCommissioned to THU 18:00 BD Chapman - Orbiter X (b0783r2p) negotiate with her, but Falco is worried that he doesn't fully commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of Noel Operation SalvageCaptain Kent of the Commonwealth Space understand the implications of the meeting. Coward, Mr Bridger's Orphan tells a surprising and little-known Project embarks on a rescue mission. Will the crew of Orbiter 2 Starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco, Gary Lewis as story from his life. It's 1968 and Coward is in Dublin to play the ever get back home? Helveticus and Oliver Hembrough as Justinus. chief gangster in the film The Italian Job. But why has the BD Chapman's adventure in the conquest of space in 14 parts. Dramatised by Mary Cutler. urbane actor and playwright, in failing health, accepted the Stars John Carson as Captain Bob Britton, Andrew Crawford as Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. role? Captain Douglas McClelland, Gerik Schjelderup as Max First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. The play tells the story of how his involvement in the movie Kramer, Arthur Lawrence as Gelbin, Donald Bisset as Colonel FRI 06:30 Captain Fantastic - Bobby Moore (b007kw2v) emerged from a significant encounter during Coward's dynamic Kent, John Witty as Captain Jack Bradley and John Graham as 4 Extra Debut. A profile of England's World Cup winning and humane twenty-year Presidency of the Actors' Orphanage, Captain Knight. captain, Bobby Moore. With contributions from Alan Mullery, revealing the down-to-earth man behind the sometimes waspish Producer: Charles Maxwell Martin Peters, Bobby Charlton and Jimmy Armfield. From May and rarefied public persona. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1959. 2001. Between 2000 and 2008 playwright Marcy Kahan wrote a THU 18:30 Great Lives (b00tt5kn) FRI 07:00 Capital Gains (b00snlx2) quintet of comic plays about Noel Coward for BBC R4, each Series 22, Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne is one of Series 2, Development CapitalThere must be a way to stop the set in a different city at a different stage of his life. Design for the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. He is Haiku Jack Consortium from covering the land in concrete. Murder was a 1930s backstage murder mystery; Blithe Spy took known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and became Accidental billionaire Julius Hutch turns to the law - and goes him to New York on an wartime espionage adventure, famous for his ability to fuse intellectual speculation with casual beyond it.. consistent with his real-life work for British Security Co- anecdotes and autobiography. Montaigne's work continues to Starring Peter Jones as Julius Hutch. ordination; A Bullet At Balmain's interrupted his 1947 Paris influence writers to this day. With Celestine Randall as Pauline Hutch, Justine Midda as stage debut with the death of a fashion-house mannequin; Death Championing his life is the surgeon, scientist, broadcaster and Kate, Jeffrey Wickham as Sexton Lewis, Celestine Randall as At the Desert Inn distracted him from his 1955 Las Vegas politician Professor Robert Winston and providing expert Mrs Pauline Hutch, Stephen Thorne as Sir Gainford Blounty, cabaret debut with the death of a chorus girl; Our Man in witness is the writer Sarah Bakewell, whose recent biography, Jillie Meers as Dahlia Sprout, David Holt as Ted Smoothie and Jamaica re-enlisted him as a spy in 1961, as part of his How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Brian Perkins as Himself. neighbour Ian Fleming's outlandish plot to destabilise Fidel Attempts at an Answer, was recently published to great acclaim. Scripted by Collin Johnson. Castro. Producer: Paul Dodgson. Producers: Andy Jordan and David Blount Mr Bridger's Orphan reunites the cast of the Coward quintet: THU 19:00 Marriage Lines (b061ygcr) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1997. Noel Coward is played by Malcolm Sinclair; his devoted [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 07:30 The Break (b07j40ww) secretary Lorn Loraine by Eleanor Bron; and his devoted Man THU 19:30 The Goon Show (b007jmrj) The Girl from the SouthUncle Jeff (Philip Jackson), out of the Friday, Cole Lesley, by Tam Williams. And it also features [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] blue, decides that his nephew Andy (Tom Palmer) needs a young Finlay Christie, who's making a name for himself as one THU 20:00 Falco (b00qyr9t) girlfriend. Andy decides that he does not. Jeff persists - Fish of our youngest stand up comedians, and who stars in the Radio [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Shop Frank (Mark Benton) has his niece visiting from down 4 comedy series the Gobetweenies. THU 20:30 The Naughty Pictures Committees (b01nt3xk) south, and she is, by all accounts, "a lovely girl". Writer ..... Marcy Kahan [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] While waiting for Andy to agree, Jeff takes him to the local Director ..... Marilyn Imrie. THU 21:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories - More Tales of hypermarket ostensibly for supplies, but in fact because Jeff has THU 12:00 Marriage Lines (b061ygcr) Village Life (b075p19n) read in a magazine that supermarkets are the ideal place for [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] young singles to meet. THU 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jmrj) THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama (b01r5qgm) While Jeff is wrongly detained for shoplifting, Andy runs into [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] an old flame from London, Liz (Shobna Gulati). She's staying THU 13:00 Falco (b00qyr9t) THU 22:00 Alex Edelman - Millennial (b055jpnw) with her Uncle Frank - so this is the "lovely girl" Jeff's been [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] banging on about! How can Andy rekindle the relationship with THU 13:30 The Naughty Pictures Committees (b01nt3xk) THU 22:30 Newsjack (b09rzk0m) his old flame without - annoyingly - oving Jeff right? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Series 18, Episode 3BBC Radio 4 Extra's topical sketch show Writers: Ian Brown and James Hendrie THU 14:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007lzbj) Newsjack with host Angela Barnes. Producer/Director: Gordon Kennedy Some Grim EncountersThe crackle of vicious machine-gun fire Featuring Gabby Best, Arnold Jorge and Luke Kempner. An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. from another plane forces the Jupiter to take action. Read by Script Editors: Gemma Arrowsmith and Jenny Laville FRI 08:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00d0h1b) Michael Palin. From August 1981. Producers: Adnan Ahmed and Hayley Sterling Series 6, Episode 2An apocalyptic weather forecaster - and THU 14:15 The History of the Future (b01mk92q) Production Co-ordinator: Nick Coupe oyster walkies. NostradamusJuliet Gardiner continues her History of the Future Newsjack is lovingly assembled with jokes and sketches Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, with a look into the world of the most famous futurologist of supplied by the Great British Public and brought to life by a David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. them all, Nostradamus. Nostradamus's name is synonymous revolving cast of sketch performers. Written by Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor. with prediction and his poetic quatrains have not been out of The programme continues to be a showcase for new comedy Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue print since they were first published in France in 1555. writing: anyone can submit material (sketches and one-line 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and The prophesies were an instant bestseller all across Europe and jokes) - these can be submitted every week of the six week run. quickly developed a cult following. struck a chord in London too. Widespread fear in France of Details for submitting material can be found on the Newsjack Music and songs by Leon Cohen and Bill Oddie. invasion by the Ottoman Empire made his prophesies with their programme page. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kvs8r. Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge reference to the Anti-Christ seem urgent and people were THU 23:00 Masala FM (b007x0c9) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1968. drawn to the predictions for clues to how to act in a war-torn Episode 1The London Asian radio station toughens up its act. FRI 08:30 Albert and Me (b04b6dbs) present. Five hundred years later people still consult the Stars Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Nina Wadia. From Series 2, High SocietySingle dad Bryan attends a garden fete almanacs of Nostradamus and find in its pages predictions that September 1996. and impresses the guest of honour. seem to have foreseen major current events, the most famous of THU 23:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show (b0076254) Robert Lindsay plays single parent Bryan Archer, struggling to which was the attack on the World Trade Centre on 9/11. Series 2, Episode 2Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine have a find work and raise his baby son. The prophesies are enigmatic, poetically vague and ripe for diabolical visitor while 'Eminem' and 'Lesley Garrett' perform a In the original 1977 series, Bryan was played by the late interpretation, but what is striking is that Nostradamus's words duet. From May 2001. Richard Beckinsale who tragically died in 1979. After a six- can represent the anxieties of the time in which they were year hiatus, the series returned with Bryan's mother and baby written, and ours today. Juliet speaks to Nostradamus experts Albert played once again by Pat Coombs. Peter Lemesurier and Mario Reading. FRIDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2018 With Diana King as Mrs Willis, Marica Warren as Vera, Produced by Victoria Shepherd Gorden Kaye as Edward, Sarah Berger as Lady Samantha and A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI 00:00 BD Chapman - Orbiter X (b0783r2p) Michael Bilton as the Vicar. THU 14:30 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Incidental music by Max Harris (b08wqlm7) FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b00tt5kn) Producer: John Fawcett Wilson The Days of Anna Madrigal, Episode 4Tales of the City: The [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1983. Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin. Dramatised by FRI 01:00 Falco (b00qyr9t) FRI 09:00 Whispers (b007k3jj) Lin Coghlan. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Series 3, Episode 6Gyles Brandreth hosts the scandals quiz with Episode 4. FRI 01:30 The Naughty Pictures Committees (b01nt3xk) Lucy Moore, Anthony Holden, John O'Farrell and Dan Tetsell. As she travels to her home town of Winnemucca, Mrs Madrigal [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] From November 2005. remembers when she was a boy and her intense friendship with FRI 02:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007lzbj) FRI 09:30 Street and Lane (b00w5rgj) Lasko. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Series 2, Going for BrokeThe Yorkshire builders are warned Director/Producer Gary Brown. FRI 02:15 The History of the Future (b01mk92q) over a dodgy landlord - and a birth is imminent... THU 14:45 Book of the Week (b01r9skn) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] Series 2 of Ian McMillan and Dave Sheasby's comedy stars Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday, Treatment of the FRI 02:30 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City Shaun Dooley as Johnny Street, Fine Time Fontayne as Arthur Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 February 2018 Page 8 of 8 Lane, Muzz Khan as Pete and Bethan Walker as Lucy. prefigure the modern tank and helicopter, and tries to In each radio show Ian makes contact with the celebrity 'spirit Producer: David Hunter understand how the culture of 15th century Florence with its guides' secretly chosen by audience members and reveals First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007. political and religious turmoil as well as artistic flowering spoke personal stories that make them laugh-out-loud one moment and FRI 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b09bd8jb) to Leonardo's vision of the future. Many of Leonardo's gasp in surprise the next. Each episode features a different 27 November - 1 December 1917The third omnibus of Season inventions were astonishingly ahead of their time, but he is also celebrity guest who gets a 'private' reading from Ian. This 12, Giddy with Possibility, set in Tynemouth, in the week, in a man firmly of his time, a time in which God, and the episode stars former Corrie and Holby actress Angela Griffin 1917, when Germany and the new Russian government began a Revelation of the judgement of the Apocalypse depicted on the who reveals more than she bargained for as a traumatic day at cessation of hostilities. roof of the Baptistry would determine the end times for all. P.E. is revisited, and other guests across the series are Ruth Cast Juliet speaks to Evelyn Welch and Martin Kemp. Madoc, Hardeep Singh Kohli and Joe Swash. Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b09t2lvn) Sarah Illingworth ..... Naomi Frederick A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. Barry Ferns 1/2The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Isabel Graham ..... Keely Beresford FRI 14:30 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City (b08wr9fp) Smith chats to Barry Ferns. Iris Reed ..... Charlie Hardwick The Days of Anna Madrigal, Episode 5Tales of the City: The FRI 23:00 Listen Against (b00fgt0r) Phyllis Marshall ..... Christine Absalom Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin. Dramatised by Series 2, Episode 1An Archers convention, a live pitbull on the Adeline Lumley ..... Helen Schlesinger Lin Coghlan. Today programme and a Popmaster crisis. Stars Jon Holmes. Bill McCracken ..... Caolan McCarthy Ep 5 From November 2008. Cressida Marshall ..... Isabella Inchbald Michael, Ben and Shawna arrive at the Burning Man festival. FRI 23:30 Chain Reaction (b00m9p30) Ethel Manning ..... Sophie Scott And Mrs Madrigal remembers her troubled relationship with Series 3, Clive Anderson Interviews John LloydSeries in which Edie Chadwick ..... Kathryn Beaumont Lasko. public figures choose others to interview. The previous week's Eva Reynolds ..... Sophie Scott Director/Producer Gary Brown. guest Clive Anderson grabs the microphone to interview his Johnnie Marshall ..... Paul Ready FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b01r9wcb) selected guest, John Lloyd, the man responsible for programmes Kenny Stokoe ..... Dean Logan Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday, Diet and such as Not the Nine O'Clock News, Blackadder, Spitting Lester Reed ..... Trevor Fox HealthDiet and health. Image and QI. Clive asks John about co-writing and falling out Marion Wardle ..... Laura Elphinstone Extract from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond's with Douglas Adams and the key to creating great comedy. Matilda James ..... Hannah Wood powerful new book which suggests that traditional societies Maud Drummond ..... Vineeta Rishi offer a window onto how our ancestors lived for millions of Molly Duckett ..... Victoria Bewick years - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms - and can Peggy Tanney ..... Abbie Andrews provide unique, often overlooked insights into human nature. Joyce Lyle ..... Tracy Whitwell Read by Crawford Logan. Lad 1 ..... Edmund Wiseman Abridged by Robin Brooks. Lad 2 ..... Philip Correia Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. Stanley Hobbs ..... David Nellist FRI 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b09bd8jb) Beatrice Marshall ..... Eviee Lavery [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Cristine de Groot ..... Ysabelle Cooper FRI 16:00 Whispers (b007k3jj) Gussie Marshall ..... Grace Doherty [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Peter Lumley ..... Bea White FRI 16:30 Street and Lane (b00w5rgj) Written by Sarah Daniels [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Directed by Jessica Dromgoole FRI 17:00 Capital Gains (b00snlx2) Story-led by Shaun McKenna [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Sound: Martha Littlehailes FRI 17:30 The Break (b07j40ww) Composer: Matthew Strachan [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. FRI 18:00 BD Chapman - Orbiter X (b0788cnv) FRI 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories - More Tales of Return to WoomeraWith their ship patched up, the crew of Village Life (b075pq6s) Orbiter 2 aim for Earth - but will the Commonwealth Space The Thieves Who Couldn't Help SneezingAn ambush on Project realise the incoming incommunicado ship is a friendly Christmas Eve does not end well for the perpetrators. (1877) one? Read by Richard Mitchley. BD Chapman's adventure in the conquest of space in 14 parts. These tales from Thomas Hardy published between 1877 and Stars John Carson as Captain Bob Britton, Andrew Crawford as 1929, possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of Captain Douglas McClelland, Barrie Gosney as Flight Engineer description, the realistic portrayal of the age old lore of Wessex, Hicks, Donald Bisset as Colonel Kent, John Witty as Captain the 'Chaucerian' humour and the shrewd insights into human Jack Bradley, Leslie Perrins as Sir Charles Day and Peter Noel nature. They tenderly re-create, what was even then, a rapidly Cook as Control Officer Brown. vanishing rural world and yet the narratives remain timeless in Producer: Charles Maxwell their embrace of both the farcical and the tragic aspects of daily First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1959. life. FRI 18:30 Mastertapes (b01nq1c0) Abridged by Isobel Creed Series 1, Suzanne Vega (the A-Side)The second programme of Produced by Lizzie Davies this new series in which John Wilson talks to leading Made for BBC Radio Extra by Waters Company Productions. performers and songwriters about the album that made them or FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama (b01s0qn1) changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the Doug Lucie - The Milky WayIts 1959 and milkman Bob Reilly BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios, each edition includes two has dreams of making it big as a singer, but after yet another episodes. In Episode 1 (The A side), John asks the artist about knock-back begins to realise that Emceeing at the local pub the album in question, and then, in the B-side, the audience puts might be the highlight of his career. Until, that is, he discovers the questions. Both editions feature exclusive live his son Andy and his mates have formed a band. They're not performances. half bad and who better to manage them and lead them to Programme 2, A-side "Solitude Standing". Singer and stardom than Bob himself? Soon the band, christened The songwriter Suzanne Vega discusses the influences behind her Milky Way, begin to have some success, but Bob's hopes and platinum-selling second album, released 25 years ago, which plans for the band's future aren't necessarily those of the band included hits like "Luka" and the title track. themselves, causing friction between father and son and Bob to She explains that it was her manager who saw the potential of reassess his priorities and his long cherished dreams. "Luka" and convinced her that a song with a social message From acclaimed dramatist Doug Lucie a new drama about rock could be a hit. 'n' roll, real life, and realising what dreams in life are really She recalls how the tune for "Tom's Diner" came to her while worth chasing, starring Shaun Dingwall, Belinda Stewart- she was walking down Broadway after having been to the real Wilson, Jemima Rooper, Tim McInnerny, David Cardy, Ted Tom's restaurant. Reilly, Tony Bignell and Theo Gregrory. And she discusses the way in which images and words were part Music by 'The Milky Way' was performed by Doug Lucie, Ian of her life from a very early age and have influenced her work. Lucie, Dave Hillman and George Stenning, with lead vocals by In the next programme (The B-side) it'll be the turn of the Tony Bignell and backing vocals by Theo Gregory and Ted audience to ask Suzanne the questions. Reilly. Producer: Emma Kingsley. Music was performed by Doug Lucie, Ian Lucie, Dave Hillman FRI 19:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00d0h1b) and George Stenning, with lead vocals by Tony Bignell. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THE MILKY WAY was written by Doug Lucie and directed by FRI 19:30 Albert and Me (b04b6dbs) Heather Larmour. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 12:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00d0h1b) FRI 20:00 Falco (b00r32wz) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 12:30 Albert and Me (b04b6dbs) FRI 20:30 Captain Fantastic - Bobby Moore (b007kw2v) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 13:00 Falco (b00r32wz) FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (b09rzmn0) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Series 1, Anna SaleAmanda Litherland is joined by guest host FRI 13:30 Captain Fantastic - Bobby Moore (b007kw2v) Anna Sale from her studio in California. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 22:00 The Break (b07j40ww) FRI 14:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007lrnj) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Southward AgainWith the Jupiter stranded, thoughts of rescue FRI 22:30 Ian D Montfort Is: Unbelievable (b01qj7q2) fade as the chums realise who is roaring towards them. Read by Series 1, With guest, actress Angela GriffinIan D Montfort is a Michael Palin. From August 1981. celebrity spirit medium and psychic, and star of a brand new FRI 14:15 The History of the Future (b01mkzgw) series for Radio 2. A comedy character created by Tom Binns Leonardo da VinciJuliet Gardiner continues her History of the (the man behind hapless hospital radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury) Future with a look at the designs of Renaissance Man Leonardo Ian D Montfort has been a hit at the last three Edinburgh da Vinci. Juliet views his designs for warfare which seem to festivals with his combination of magic and laughter. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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