Radio 4 Extra Listings for 11 – 17 April 2015 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 11 APRIL 2015 pat couple employing her to get Vera and Christopher air-lifted Series 3 out of the diamond mine in which they have been billeted. Episode 3 SAT 00:00 Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu Irene ...... Prunella Scales It's havoc in the Reynolds household as the preparations for the (b007sw35) Vera ...... Patricia Routledge baby's naming ceremony reach a climax. 2. The Deal Brian ...... Ewan Bailey Series 3 of Lucy Flannery's award-winning sitcom about Maria The ghoulish Vanderhausen seals his deal with Rose's uncle who The up and down relationship of two mature ladies shared via and Richard Reynolds and their lodgers. is unaware that his pupil Godfrey Schalken is in love with her... their barbed correspondence. Stars Barbara Flynn as Maria, Patrick Barlow as Richard, Linda Ian McDiarmid concludes the unabridged reading of Sheridan Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Havman. Polan as Amy, Vivienne Rochester as Ruby, Dave Lamb as Le Fanu's supernatural tale. Producer: Claudine Toutoungi Paul, Sally Grace as Mother and Chris Emmett as Father. Producer: Lawrence Jackson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2006. Producer: Liz Anstee. Made for BBC 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b00rzrsx) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1997. First broadcast in June 2005. Michael Chabon - Manhood for Amateurs SAT 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme SAT 00:30 My Life in Five Songs (b00p6v33) Episode 5 (b01n6sjq) Series 1 Jason Butler Harner continues to read from Pulitzer prize- Series 2 Edwyn Collins winning author Michael Chabon's moving, warm and witty Episode 5 The Corries signing Sally Free and Easy and David Bowie's memoir about life as a husband, father and son. John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, regular Conversation Piece are two of the songs Edwyn Collins has In exploring what it means to be a man today, Chabon reflects guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things like chosen as being really important to him. He talks to Phil on the personal and family history that haunts him even as it's Miranda and Family Guy, records a second series of his hit Cunningham about the significance of these songs and the three being written every day. At the centre of a large and complex sketch show. others he's picked in My Life in 5 Songs. family, and with four young children, Chabon evokes memories The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by The SAT 01:00 Paul Temple (b007w2hz) of his childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce and of Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny sketch Paul Temple and the Alex Affair moments of painful adolescent comedy. shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It featured 7. The Girl in Brown In the final episode, Michael Chabon is forced to confront his Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive relationship The debonair detective returns to Canterbury in search of teenage daughter's emerging sexuality, and his own feelings of with honey, how The Archers sounds to people who don't listen 'Alex', when Leo Brent looks to be in danger. protectiveness and helplessness towards her. to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde decided whose Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple "For a while everything about my daughter's entrance into turn it was to do the washing up. and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for puberty, her emerging new self and the concomitant interest of This week sees some moth-based lunacy, and a heartwarming BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. boys in her, discomfited me. And the part of it that made me tale of the days before health and safety. All of which is, as Paul Temple …. Peter Coke squirm the most was how depressingly trite my discomfort was. you'll see, "awesome". Steve …. Marjorie Westbury Was that the kind of father I had turned out to be? Standing on John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars Sir Graham Forbes …. James Thomason the front porch with my shotgun under one arm, cartoonishly John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Inspector Crane …. Haydn Jones interrogating my daughter's cartoonish dates?" Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. It is produced Wilfred Davis …. Basil Jones Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven by Ed Morrish. Ricky …. Frank Henderson novels including The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and The SAT 06:00 Black Bartlemy's Treasure (b007jwdn) Dr Kohima …. Roy Lefebvre Yiddish Policeman's Union. He has been described by the Jeffrey Farnol's swashbuckling tale of piracy, love and death on Leo Brent …. Dennis Hawthorne Guardian as 'a spectacular writer' and by the New York Times a desert island. Starring Steven Pacey and Julia Swift. Taxi Driver …. Alan Dudley as 'one of his generation's most eloquent voices'. SAT 07:30 Unearthing Mysteries (b007mwg6) Walter …. David Brierly Jason Butler Harner has starred in films such as The Changeling Series 1 Thomas …. Leroy Lingwood with Angelina Jolie, as well as numerous TV series including Lost Map of London Producer: Martin C Webster Law and Order and John Adams. An accomplished stage actor, With no surviving copies of London's oldest known map, First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1968. he has just appeared on the London stage in Serenading Louie Professor Aubrey Manning traces its Tudor origins. SAT 01:30 Going to Pieces in the Box (b00p61zg) at the Donmar Warehouse. SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b01pt74f) Janet Ellis, host of the 1980s Children's BBC series Jigsaw, Producer: Jane Greenwood. This is a Loftus production for Rural Rides presents a celebration of the history and the art of the jigsaw BBC Radio 4. Mark Steel's review of reporters' journeys round Britain, puzzle. SAT 03:00 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss (b00gszmm) starting with William Cobbett, the great English journalist and More art - typically sentimental, traditional art - has made its Loving and Losing radical campaigner who was born 250 years ago. Mark talks to way into more homes via the jigsaw puzzle than virtually any Despite the continuing feud between their families Philip has a veteran horseman Dylan Winter and analyses a classic radio and other medium. While it has since become the purveyor of plan that he believes will restore happiness to Maggie Tulliver. TV genre that owes more than it realises to Cobbett - the comforting landscapes to the masses, it started life as an Starring Michael Fitzgerald and Sylvestra Le Touzel. tradition of going out and taking a look at Britain. educational tool championed by the likes of philosopher John The conclusion of George Eliot’s 19th century novel. The formula is a simple one: a hired hack goes on a whistle-stop Locke. In 1760, London mapmaker John Spilsbury mounted Maggie ...... Sylvestra Le Touzel tour of a part of the country that's unfamiliar to him (it's usually one of his maps on hardboard and cut it into pieces to help Tom ...... Richard Pearce a him) and then publishes his ill-informed impressions together children learn geography. Philip ...... Michael Fitzgerald with any wild generalisations he cares to base upon them. Janet tells the story of how, since then, it has become such a Stephen ...... Nicholas Gilbrook In print, it starts with Cobbett's 'Rural Rides' and ends with the core feature of childhoods across the world. She hears how Mrs Tulliver ...... Tina Gray likes of Bill Bryson, Beryl Bainbridge and of course Mark Steel, jigsaws hit their first major peak during the Great Depression, Dr Wakem ...... Roger Hume taking in along the way such scribblers as James Boswell, when 10 million a week were bought by families looking for Bob ...... Paul Downing J.B.Priestley and George Orwell. In radio it's Tom Vernon ('Fat cheap pastimes, and how they were used by immigration Lucy Dean ...... Moir Leslie Man on a Bicycle'), Ray Gosling, the many incarnations of officers on Ellis Island to determine who should be allowed into Dr Cairn ...... Simon Carter 'Down Your Way'... and Mark Steel (again). In TV it runs from the land of the free. Janet also explores how popular culture has Pianist: Harold Rich Alan Whicker to Clare Balding and Griff Rhys Jones. flirted with the jigsaw, in novels and films as diverse as Dramatised by Michelene Wandor. When it's done well, Cobbettry can celebrate the differences Mansfield Park, Citizen Kane and, most powerfully, Georges Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Philip Martin. between us. It can give us an insight into people and places we Perec's novel, Life: A User's Manual. She hears from academics First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1991. might be interested to know more about; it can illuminate the and enthusiasts including Margaret Drabble, who explain the SAT 04:00 All the Way from Memphis (b00j26h0) human condition by shining a light on particular examples. jigsaw's great allure. Series 1 When it's done badly - as it often is - Cobbettry can be feeble, Janet hears how jigsaws continue to be incredibly popular, Episode 2 patronising and full of cliches. In his own prejudiced and over- having evolved into 3-D puzzles and of course made their way James Walton's pop music history quiz with Andrew Collins, simplified whistle-stop tour, Mark Steel demonstrates that onto the internet, where no young children's games site is Tracey MacLeod, Carol Decker and David Hepworth.