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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.