Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 June 2021 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 12 JUNE 2021 Revealing 1948 portrait of Bolventor School in Cornwall. Mrs Birkett ...... Stewart Cairns Just 24 pupils aged five to 15, in two classrooms with two Bishop Briggs ...... Michael Redmond SAT 00:00 Haunted (b01qyntg) teachers, plus headmaster Reginald Bennetts and his wife. Songs of Praise Presenter ...... Effie Summers Which One? by R Chetwynd-Hayes In this experimental programme, BBC engineers had set-up Producer: Gus Beattie for Gusman Productions. 1940: A fire warden team are put to the severest test during a microphones around this tiny remote village school in the A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in bombing raid. Will they all survive? middle of Bodmin Moor in the Autumn of 1947. August 2018. R Chetwynd-Hayes's creepy tale dramatised by Patricia Mays. Microphones and cables were left to allow children to get used SAT 05:30 The Confessional (m000wsjf) Drayton ..... Reginald Marsh to them. Series 1 Hughes ..... Garrard Green This programme was recorded over a week with the head as The Confession of Lucy Porter Raymond ..... Robert Glenister presenter, plus the stories of two former pupils, who attended Actor, comedian and broadcaster Stephen Mangan presents a Smithers ..... Adrian Egan the school when it opened in 1877. comedy chat show about shame and guilt. Jackson ..... Nigel Graham (The school closed in 1994). Each week Stephen invites a different eminent guest into his David ..... Graham Conway. Producer: Brandon Acton-Bond virtual confessional box to make three 'confessions'. This is a Director: Derek Hoddinott First broadcast on the BBC West of England Home Service. cue for some remarkable storytelling, and surprising insights. First broadcast on the BBC World Service in July 1984. It evoked so many vivid memories for listeners and sparked a We’re used to hearing celebrity interviews, where stars are SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00sq1vx) wider broadcast on the BBC Home Service in December 1948 persuaded to show off about their achievements and talk about Poetry Schmoetry (except for Scotland and Wales). their proudest moments. Stephen isn't interested in that. He 'Poetry Schmoetry.' More provocative and thoughtful new SAT 03:00 Jeremy Front - The Long Weekend (b0076cwx) doesn’t want to know what his guests are proud of, he wants to writing and discussion with Dominic Arkwright Former school chums Sophie and Gemma re-unite after 20 know what they’re ashamed of. That’s surely the way to find out With ex-Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, writer Guy Browning years at Sophie's country estate. what really makes a person tick. Stephen and his guest reflect and performance poet, Rachel Pantechnicon. But the idyllic sounding long weekend takes a turn for the with empathy and humour on why we get embarrassed, where Andrew talks about the elemental power of poetry; 'Poetry is unexpected. our shame thresholds should be, and the value of guilt. for the most humane, as well as the most humanising aspect of Starring Emma Fielding and Jane Slavin. This week, comedian Lucy Porter apologises for a youthful the self.' Black comedy written by Jeremy Front. indiscretion, discusses the disadvantages of PVC and reveals a Guy describes poetry as a 'tattered umbrella between you and Gemma ...... Emma Fielding secret as yet untold. the sun', and Rachel tells of her doomed attempt to retrace the Sophie ...... Jane Slavin Other guests in this series include Cariad Lloyd, Dr Phil wanderings of the Ancient Mariner. Toby ...... Stephen Tompkinson Hammond, Clarke Peters, Suzi Ruffell, Marian Keyes, Phil Andrew also indulges us with a reading from a contender for Inspector Fenton ...... Clive Merrison Wang, Joan Bakewell, Nigel Planer and Alastair Campbell. the 'worst poem ever written' award. Dodo ...... Clare Corbett Written and presented by Stephen Mangan Producer: Sarah Langan Freddie ...... Robert Portal With extra material by Nick Doody. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2010. Ivor ...... Ben Crowe Devised with Dave Anderson SAT 01:00 Detective (b01s8pyv) Director: Sally Avens Produced by Frank Stirling Series 3 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003. A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4 8. Death at the Weekend SAT 04:00 Counterpoint (b00sfwmk) SAT 06:00 Len Deighton - The Ipcress File (b01697h2) A trio of tragic deaths is overshadowed when an escaped Series 24 An unnamed agent is ensnared in a sinister plot to brainwash prisoner strikes closer to home. 2010 Semi-final 1 scientists and trade them across the Iron Curtain. Starring Ray Brooks and Stephen Garlick. Paul Gambaccini chairs the first semi-final of 2010’s search to Len Deighton's gripping Cold War thriller was first published in Last in the series of tough stories of crime and detection in find the nation's musical mastermind. 1962. London by Robert Barr Paul has plenty of musical clues and anecdotes, and, as always, Ian Hart stars in Mike Walker's taut dramatisation. DS Brook …. Ray Brooks the competitors will have to choose from an eclectic selection The Agent …. Ian Hart DC Tully …. Stephen Garlick of 'special subjects' on which to answer individual questions. Colonel Ross …. James Laurenson DS Harrison …. Peter Cleall The three retuning contestants are from the south of England: Major Dalby …. Jonathan Coy Chief Inspector Roach …. Stephen Yardley Martin Hoskins Chico …. Jamie Bamber Kathy …. Lesley Manville Edward McDermott Jean …. Fenella Woolgar Alan Waters …. Clive Panto Judy Woolf Alice …. Rachel Atkins John Sullivan …. Henry Stamper Producer Paul Bajoria Jay …. Peter Marinker Mr Percival …. John Hollis First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2010. Skip …. Kerry Shale Steve Gray/Doctor …. Peter Acre SAT 04:30 Bristow (b007w5jb) Keightley …. Adam Tedder Mrs Walters …. Stella Tanner Series 3 Adem …. Raad Rawi Producer: Martin Fisher Repaying Mr Piper Battersby …. John Sharian First broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 2 in August 1984. Why is Bristow surrounded by incompetents? He has a theory - Producer: Toby Swift SAT 01:30 Falco (b008l1cb) and determines to bumble toward the proof. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2004. Shadows in Bronze Michael Williams stars as Bristow. SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b08587nx) 5. Surprise Frank Dickens' sitcom is based on his famous long-running Series 41 Roman sleuth Falco closes in on his man, but gets more than he newspaper cartoon strip about the Chester-Perry buying clerk. Orlando Murrin on Dinu Lipatti bargained for from Helena's old school friend... Bristow ...... Michael Williams For many piano music lovers, Dinu Lipatti [1917-1950], the Starring Anton Lesser. Jones ...... Rodney Bewes Romanian concert pianist, stands head and shoulders above Lindsey Davis's witty detective, Marcus Didius Falco patrols Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan others. the streets of 1st-century Rome. Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman Dinu lived during a time of great turbulence, leaving his native Falco ...... Anton Lesser Perkins ...... Leslie Phillips Romania for Switzerland at the outbreak of the Second World Helena Justina ...... Anna Madeley Gert ...... Liz Fraser War. He left behind a wealthy family but they subsequently lost Atius Pertinax ...... Sean Connolly Daisy ...... Joan Sims everything under communism. Larius ...... Christopher Kelham Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey Food writer and former chef, Orlando Murrin explains his love Silvia ...... Sara Poyzer Fudge ...... Jon Glover for Lipatti's music and his fascination with his life. It has led Marcellus...... Paul Webster Postboy ...... Simon Schatzberger him to spending time trying to save Lipatti's family home from Aufidius Crispus ...... Bertie Carvel Stokes ...... David Battley demolition in Bucharest. Aemilius Rufus ...... Timothy Watson Miss Pleasant ...... Jackie Neglia He joins Matthew Parris and the London based Romanian Gordianus ...... Christian Rodska Music: John Whitehall concert pianist Alexandra Dariescu to champion the life and Aenelia ...... Jaimi Barbakoff Producer: Neil Cargill work of one of classical music's greatest 20th century talents. Dramatised by Mary Cutler. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000. Producer: Maggie Ayre Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. SAT 05:00 Fags, Mags and Bags (b0bf64gh) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2005. Series 8 SAT 08:00 Whispers (b007k356) SAT 02:00 Crime Down Under: The Dry by Jane Harper A Song for Lenzie Series 1 (b092rckg) The return of more shop based shenanigans and over the Episode 4 Episode 5 counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty The great and the good are torn from their pedestals in glee in Policeman Aaron Falk has become embroiled in the mysterious sidekick Dave. the panel show that proves there's no smoke without fire. brutal deaths of the Hadler family. Set in a Scots-Asian corner shop, the award winning series Gyles Brandreth is your host. But Falk is not the only one who’s kept a secret for 20 years... returns with all the shop regular characters, and guest The regular team captains are writer and critic, Anthony Holden Richard Goulding reads Jane Harper's Austrailan crime thriller. appearances along the way, from the likes of Sean Biggerstaff, and actor and writer, Stella Duffy. Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. Mina Anwar, Greg McHugh and Simon Greenall. Writer Jenny Colgan and broadcaster Rosie Millard join them First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017. In this opening episode, Ramesh discovers to his horror than as they attempt to dish the dirt on the bad boys and girls in SAT 02:15 Gudrun (m000t031) Sanjay hasn't been entirely truthful about his college education history. Series 7 after The Bish spots him busking in East Kilbride. Producer: Elizabeth Freestone Episode 10 Join the staff of Fags, Mags and Bags in their tireless quest to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003. The final series in Lucy Catherine’s Viking epic of love, bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke with Arabic SAT 08:30 Snap (b00tqqjc) revenge and faith inspired by the Icelandic sagas. writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh Mahju has Series 2 Gudrun comes face to face with her destiny. built it up over the course of over 30 years and is a firmly Episode 2 Stars Kate Phillips. entrenched, friendly presence in the local area. He is joined by Kaz is having problems at school and wants her dad to have a The conclusion of Lucy Catherine’s Viking epic of love, his shop sidekick, Dave. firm talk with her PE teacher from hell. revenge and faith inspired by the Icelandic sagas. Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both Meanwhile, Molly’s concerned about Dawn who’s concerned Gudrun ….. Kate Phillips surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach to about Raymond. Is he having an affair? Freija ….. Samantha Dakin shop-keeping, but natural successors to the business. Ramesh is Paul Mendelson’s sitcom about life for a couple after they've Truda ….. Charlotte East keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them - whether they split. Kjartan ….. Ian Dunnett Jnr like it or not! Molly …. Rebecca Lacey Pope ….. Roger Ringrose Written by and starring Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli. Doug …. Paul Venables Jesson at 7 ….. Harry Clarke Ramesh ...... Sanjeev Kohli Kaz …. Soumaya Keynes Director: Gemma Jenkins Dave ...... Donald McLeary Ryan …. Jessie Sullivan First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2021. Sanjay ...... Omar Raza Annie …. Marlene Sidaway SAT 02:30 The School on the Moor (b092k9jp) Alok ...... Susheel Kumar Raymond …. Jonathan Tafler Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 June 2021 Page 2 of 11 Dawn …. Samantha Spiro NASA and IBM were enlisted to help Kubrick craft his vision. broadcast in November 2015. Producer: David Ian Neville And he speaks to scientists, critics and filmmakers to examine SAT 15:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters (b041y1n3) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004. the film's enduring influence on science, design and popular Series 2 SAT 09:00 The Changing Sound of Radio (b0bn22mh) culture. Eleanor and Mr Woodfield Since he was first given a tape recorder in 1967, wildlife sound Interviewees: Isy Suttie returns to her Derbyshire home town of Matlock and recordist Chris Watson has been fascinated by the possibilities * Maggie Aderin-Pocock, space scientist observes the unfolding romance between dinner lady, Eleanor, of sound. * Piers Bizony, science journalist and teacher, Mr Woodfield. In this three-hour showcase, he revisits that first machine – and * Victoria Broackes, Senior Curator, V&A Museum Both are unhappily married, but find solace in their workplace demonstrates cutting edge recording and editing equipment. * Catherine Constable, Professor of Film Studies, Warwick friendship. Chris tells the story of technological advances in radio from the University Isy's Sony Award winning show, recounts a series of love stories first outside broadcast, through the BBC Radiophonic * John Landis, film director affecting people she's known throughout her life, told partly Workshop to the latest explosion in podcasting. * Christopher Nolan, film director through song. We hear from some of Chris's favourite broadcasters, dip into * Georgina Orgill, Stanley Kubrick Archivist, University of the Sometimes Isy has merely observed other people's love lives; his collection of sound recordings, and hear programmes via Arts London. quite often she's intervened, changing the action dramatically - podcasting and Sound Art Radio, as well as classics from the Producer: Jane Long for better or worse. Intertwined within these stories are related BBC Archive: A Hidden Flack production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in real life anecdotes from Isy's own, often disastrous, love life. * Orchestra Under The Waves April 2018. With her multi-character and vocal skills, and accompanied by A unique musical compilation made of sounds recorded under SAT 14:00 Elvenquest (b01616lj) her guitar, Isy creates a hilarious and deeply moving world, water. Evelyn Glennie presents. Series 3 sharing with us her lessons in life and love. * The Ditch Episode 1 "A voice you want to swim in" The Independent 2010 BBC Radio 4 drama by Paul Evans about a wildlife sound When Sam is left behind to "guard the stuff" whilst the others Producer: Lyndsay Fenner recordist who goes missing, leaving some intriguing recordings are off killing the Man-munching Giant of Rankor he is First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014. behind... Stars Jimmy Yuill. accosted by a beautiful maiden, Eirwen, who has been kept SAT 16:00 Len Deighton - The Ipcress File (b01697h2) * Fifteen Inches Per Second captive in the giant's castle and takes Sam to be her rescuer. She [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] 2004 documentary celebrating quarter-inch magnetic tape promptly proposes, throwing the future of the Questers' SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b08587nx) which revolutionised the recording of sound. Fellowship into jeopardy. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] * Six House Parties Meanwhile, Lord Darkness' attempts to conquer Lower Earth SAT 18:00 Dan Dare (b0bj6qq8) An episode of the podcast 'Imaginary Advice', created by poet take a new turn when Kreech discovers an ancient prophesy Series 1 and performer Ross Sutherland. enabling Lord Darkness to create the "UnChosen One", an evil 6. Marooned on Mercury 2/2 * The Iron Speaks - When The Far Becomes Near spirit that is the only being that can defeat the Chosen One. Dan Dare and the Anastasia crew assist allies old and new to Creative documentary about radio broadcasting in the United Problem is, it means Lord Darkness has to impregnate a thwart the evil Mekon, who plots revenge on Venus. Arab Emirates. Contributors include Dr Zaki Nussaibeh, Salim hideous, misshapen creature. If only there was one of those Adventures based on the Eagle comic strip 'Dan Dare' created Obaid Al Alelee, Dr Yousef Aydabi and Dr. Arif Al Sheikh. close to hand... in 1950 by the Reverend Marcus Morris and Frank Hampson. Voiceovers by Frank Key, William English and Bijan Fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth written by Anil Gupta Conclusion of a two-part adventure starring Ed Stoppard. Daneshmand. Producers: Christopher John Weaver and Fari and Richard Pinto. Dramatised by Marc Platt. Bradley. ( Originally aired as part of Six Pillars, on Resonance Sam …. Stephen Mangan Dan Dare …. Ed Stoppard FM https://www.resonancefm.com/ ) Lord Darkness …. Alistair McGowan Digby …. Geoff McGivern Producer: Jessica Treen Dean/Kreech …. Kevin Eldon Professor Peabody …. Heida Reed Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in October Vidar …. Darren Boyd The Mekon …. Raad Rawi 2018. EirwenMartha Howe-Douglas Sondar …. Bijan Daneshmand SAT 12:00 Quote... Unquote (b07vnglv) Amis ‘The Chosen One’ …. Dave Lamb Ergolux …. Kelly Burke Cressida Cowell, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Helen Zaltzman & Penthiselea …. Sophie Winkleman On-board Computer …. Dianne Weller Michael Billington Producer: Sam Michell Garlock …. Nicholas Briggs Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns with its First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2011. Crewman Galloway …. Alistair Lock 40th anniversary series. SAT 14:30 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science (b00z5hrv) Director: Andrew Mark Sewell. Nigel Rees quizzes his guests on the origins of sayings and well- Series 1 Made by B7 Media in 2016. known quotes, and they share their favourite anecdotes. Episode 1 SAT 18:35 HG Wells (m000wy4p) * Children's author, Cressida Cowell Funny, off-beat but factually accurate account of the science of The Treasure in the Forest * Journalist, biographer and crime novelist, Ruth Dudley rockets and the brilliant but occasionally warped brains behind Three men from different backgrounds come together for one Edwards it all. purpose - gold. * Podcaster, broadcaster and writer, Helen Zaltzman Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane look at the Motivated by greed and a growing hatred of each other - the * Author and arts critic, Michael Billington three fathers of modern rocket science: experience turns these desperate men into mad dogs. Reader: Sally Grace * 19th Century self-taught Russian visionary Eduardovich And you know what happens to mad dogs? Producer: Carl Cooper Tsiolkovsky and his dreams of orbiting space stations and Stars Joss Ackland, Michael Bryant and Christopher Cazenove. A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Martian colonies; HG Wells’s short story was first published in 1894. September 2016. * American Robert H Goddard, derided in The New York Dramatised by Michael Robson. SAT 12:30 The 27-Year Itch (b0b1txr3) Times in the 1920s for his prediction of a lunar landing (A De Witt …. Joss Ackland All Play and No Work Makes Jill an Unemployment Statistic retraction was printed after the Apollo 11 launch); Hooker …. Christopher Cazenove Dorothy and Edward Atkinson are Sidcup's premier warring * Transylvanian-German Hermann Oberth with his brilliant Evans …. Michael Bryant couple with a marriage to challenge even the most determined theories about space travel and his horrifying theories about Director: Derek Hoddinott of counsellors. racial supremacy. First broadcast on the BBC World Service in April 1976. Dorothy is keen to land a job, but what about cooking Edward's Plus Helen reveals the surprising connection between space SAT 19:00 The Changing Sound of Radio (b0bn22mh) dinner? travel and a coach tour of the Jewels of the Rhineland. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden star in Barry Pilton's marital Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill. SAT 22:00 Welcome to Wherever You Are (b09h6k1g) mayhem sitcom. Producer: Gareth Edwards Series 1 Edward ...... Hugh Paddick First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011. Episode 2 Dorothy ...... Betty Marsden SAT 14:45 Gus Murdoch's Sacred Cows (b00fcbgm) Andrew Maxwell hosts a truly global stand-up show, in which With Alison Steadman and Bill Wallis. 1. Pubs comedians perform from wherever on the planet they happen to After notching up multiple BBC radio series together of Is the concept of the pub is dead? be, to an audience in the BBC Radio Theatre, London. 'Beyond Our Ken' and 'Round The Horne' - most memorably as Incisive reporter Gus Murdoch investigates Britain's public With: ageing juvenile Binkie Huckaback and Dame Celia houses. Tats Nzonzo Molestrangler - Hugh and Betty were reunited on-air, almost a Written by and starring Stephen Carlin. Sharul Channa decade later in 'The 27 Year Itch'. With: Ari Eldjárn Producer: Geoffrey Perkins Rachel Atkins Tats Nkonzo reveals how the Rainbow Nation is doing; First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1978. Christopher Douglas Andrew finds out if Singapore has changed since he was last SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b09y6wg3) Chris Pavlo there with Sharul Channa; The Ultimate Trip: Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey Renton Skinner And get up to speed with Iceland/Denmark rivalry with Christopher Frayling explores the lasting influence of Stanley Dan Tetsall Reykjavik's own Ari Eldjárn. Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke's 1968 sci-fi masterpiece. Producer: Tilusha Ghelani Photo credit: Matt Stronge 2001: A Space Odyssey was released into the world in April Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in November 2008. Producer: Ed Morrish 1968. Puzzling, infuriating, inspiring and thrilling, it captivated SAT 15:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b06pbwzh) A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in audiences at the time and, 50 years on, continues to exert a Series 3 November 2017. powerful effect on our thinking about the present and the Broadband on the Run SAT 22:30 Elvenquest (b016c8y5) future. Tom and his Dad fret about some potentially uncomfortable Series 3 This remarkable movie was the result of a synthesis of two very brushes with the law while Mum prepares for the arrival of a Episode 2 different visions. new lodger. As they continue their search for the Sword of Asnagar, the Based on his own short story The Sentinel, it was written by Series 3 of the sitcom where Tom Wrigglesworth phones home noble Questers are lead to a quiet countryside town, which British author Arthur C Clarke - a futurist of uncanny ability. for his weekly check-in with his Mum, Dad and Gran - giving they’ve heard may hold their prize. The film director was Stanley Kubrick - an American working us a glimpse into his background and influences shaping his But it’s been razed to the ground by ruthless barbarians, lead by in the UK, whose previous works included gladiator epic, temperament, opinions and hang-ups. blood-thirsty Ragnar Half-tooth, who’s taken the Sword taken as Spartacus and savage nuclear satire, Dr Strangelove. Tom ...... Tom Wrigglesworth booty. In order to get it back, the Questers decide to Marketed as The Ultimate Trip, 2001 became an essential Granny ...... Elizabeth Bennett masquerade as barbarians and enter Ragnar's camp... experience for younger audiences - many of whom saw it Dad ...... Paul Copley Meanwhile, Kreech tells Lord Darkness that his annual multiple times, and sometimes in an enhanced state of Mum ...... Kate Anthony regeneration is coming up and that he needs to get some sleep in consciousness. But alongside its wildly psychedelic visions, With Chris Pavlo. order to avoid meeting the new Dawn which will send his body 2001 also presented an extraordinarily convincing and intricate Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle. With Miles crumbling into dust. vision of future space travel. Jupp. Problem is, getting to sleep when it really matters is easier said Cultural historian and writer, Christopher Frayling travels back Producer: Richard Morris than done. And Lord Darkness is suddenly overcome by a nasty in time to the creation of 2001, hearing how organisations like A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first bout of insomnia... Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 June 2021 Page 3 of 11 Fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth written by Anil Gupta Freija ….. Samantha Dakin and journeymen who’ve made, and been made, by trainers. and Richard Pinto. Truda ….. Charlotte East We’ll follow in the footsteps of mavericks, hustlers and Vidar ...... Darren Boyd John Crescentius ….. Roger Ringrose dreamers, and hear their tales of boom and bust, fame and Dean/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon Servant ….. Ian Dunnett Jnr infamy, hope and heartbreak. Amis aka The Chosen One ...... Dave Lamb Director: Gemma Jenkins Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2021. Across nine episodes, Sneakernomics tells the extraordinary Sam ...... Stephen Mangan SUN 08:30 We're in Business (b07pwyhm) origin stories of some of the world’s biggest brands, and how Ragnar Half-tooth ...... Daniel Rigby The Parrot sponsorship deals and celebrity culture redefined our Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman Dudley and Harry's rent is overdue. Can a new visitor help them relationship with products. It’s also a business story – how Producer: Sam Michell. out? leisure has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry; a sports First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2011. Stars Peter Jones and Harry Worth. story – how games became organised and grew into a global SAT 23:00 Jason Cook's School of Hard Knocks (b03yqjgv) Peter Jones is small-time businessman, Dudley Grosvenor who's spectacle; and it’s a story of invention – how enthusiastic Pregnancy and In-Laws always out to make a fast buck - usually at the expense of his hobbyist-pioneers often took extraordinary risks that changed Jason Cook guides you through more murky waters and unseen side-kick, Harry Worth. the course of sport and fashion. eddies that bedevil the waters of life. Written by Marty Feldman, Barry Took and Peter Jones. This time, it’s the trials and tribulations of discovering your Dudley ...... Peter Jones The sneaker story is characterised by fierce competition and partner is pregnant, plus the perils and preoccupations of Harry ...... Harry Worth rivalry. We explore how the quest to be number one tore meeting your in-laws for the first time. Miss Boot ...... Irene Handl families and friendships apart and divided towns. Above all, Jason draws on his own experiences to illustrate what, and what Sid ...... Dick Emery this is the story of the people behind the shoes. What you’ll hear not, to do - so that your life can be happier and more successful. Parrot ...... Peter Hawkins is a mix of interviews with many of the key individuals who’ve Well, possibly... A selection of surviving episodes from two series broadcast played their part in that extraordinary story, interlaced with With Zoe Harrison and Neil Grainger. between 1959-1960. moments of fiction inspired by their testimonies and our Producer: Sam Michell. Producer: Charles Maxwell. research. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2014. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in March 1960. SAT 23:30 Two Episodes of Mash (b01mqqht) SUN 09:00 The Arthur Haynes Show (b00zl7rv) Written and presented by Nicholas Smith, with 1Xtra presenter Series 2 From 23/06/1963 Ace. The drama is written by Al Smith. Episode 3 Lead-swinging Arthur visits his doctor - and will a dodgy couple Diane, Joe and David break loose from BBC Security and go on really buy a posh mansion? Episode 5 Cast: the run around Radio 4. Arthur Haynes stars in the sketch show series written by Johnny Hear them crash into programmes like Book At Bedtime and Speight. Paul . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery The Archers, before making their getaway with Aled Jones... With Steve . . . . . Aaron Gelkoff An animation of their Fishing Sketch by Tom Rourke can been Nicholas Parsons Tony . . . . . Arun Blair-Mangat seen on BBC Radio 4 Extra's website. Patricia Hayes Bill . . . . . Nathan Osgood A mix of silly, surreal sketches and banter starring Diane Lesley Noyes Barbara . . . . . Jane Whittenshaw Morgan, and Joe Wilkinson. Music by the Temperance Seven. Shoji . . . . . Daniel York Loh With: Part of a selection of surviving episodes. Phil . . . . . Trevor White David O'Doherty Songs by Janie Marden. John . . . . . Mark Edel-Hunt Paul Harry Allen Producer: Richard Dingley Doug . . . . . Joseph Balderrama Bobbie Pryor First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1963. Rob . . . . . Wilf Scolding Gary Newman SUN 09:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b0080q77) Aled Jones. Series 2 Production Trainee: Marithe Van Der Aa Producer: Clair Wordsworth Episode 6 Assistant Producer: Ben Hollands First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012. Lucy's offer to help a first-time celebrity author write a book Sound: Peter Ringrose finds her stuck in a remote Cornish cottage with an ex-Page 3 Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko model and a neurotic mother. SUNDAY 13 JUNE 2021 This leaves Daniel to have an unusual boys’ night out... Special thanks: Walt Frazier, Art Simburg, Tony Alva, Steve Starring David Tennant and Elizabeth Carling. Van Doren, Jeff Johnson, Julie Dixon, Bob Woodell, Peter SUN 00:00 Dan Dare (b0bj6qq8) David Spicer's comedy drama about modern life and Moore, Russ Gater, Cindy Yoshimura, Patricia James, Clare [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] parenthood, as seen through the eyes of two 30-something non- Ewing and Jamie Larsen. SUN 00:35 HG Wells (m000wy4p) parents. SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m000wycg) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:35 on Saturday] Daniel …. David Tennant The Echo Chamber - Sam Riviere & Emily Berry SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b09y6wg3) Lucy …. Liz Carling Poet Daljit Nagra continues to explore the BBC's poetry archive [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Katie …. Samantha Spiro and selects The Echo Chamber. SUN 02:00 Elvenquest (b01616lj) Andy …. Tony Gardner Paul Farley presents a discussion on place, myth and inspiration [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] Suzie …. Paula Wilcox with Sam Riviere and Emily Berry. SUN 02:30 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science (b00z5hrv) Producer: Liz Anstee Producer: Tim Dee [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2015. SUN 02:45 Gus Murdoch's Sacred Cows (b00fcbgm) SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b08ltmyt) SUN 12:30 To Hull and Back (b09tcnm7) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] Honoured Actors Series 3 SUN 03:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b06pbwzh) Mark Rylance Fourth in Show [Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday] From Beethoven to Nina Simone. When Sophie's new boyfriend Imran tells her he doesn't like her SUN 03:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters (b041y1n3) Actor Mark Rylance shares his castaway choices with Kirsty glasses, Sophie becomes desperate for a new pair of designer [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] Young. Givenchy spectacles. But the salon's client list is still worryingly SUN 04:00 Len Deighton - The Ipcress File (b01697h2) Born in Kent and brought up in America where his father was a short and she can't get the money together for such an [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] teacher, Mark played Hamlet for the first time while he was still expensive purchase. But when she hears that there's a dog show SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b08587nx) at school. coming to town with big cash prizes to be won for well groomed [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] Since then he’s become particularly well known for his pets, Sophie realises how she might be able to make her SUN 06:00 The Dry by Jane Harper (Omnibus) (b094865z) acclaimed and award-winning Shakespearean stage roles. He designer glasses dream become a reality. Meanwhile, Sheila Episode 1 won an Olivier and a Tony award for his portrayal of Johnny makes a worrying discovery and Jean meets a potential A family has been brutally killed on their farm outside the small 'Rooster' Byron in Jez Butterworth's 'Jerusalem' onstage in both girlfriend... Australian country town of Kiewarra. Britain and the USA. Written by Lucy Beaumont It hasn't rained for two years, farms are failing and tensions in He’s also appeared in a number of film roles, was the first Production Co-ordinator - Luke Mason the community are running unbearably high. It seems Luke artistic director of London’s Globe Theatre - a post he held for a Producer - Sam Michell Hadler reached snapping point, killed his wife and child and decade - and his portrayal of Thomas Cromwell in BBC TV’s A BBC Studios Production. committed suicide. adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall brought him to a wider First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018. When policeman Aaron Falk returns to his hometown for his audience. SUN 13:00 Fear by Sir Ranulph Fiennes (Omnibus) old friend's funeral, he’s keen to escape again. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015. (b083h75t) He certainly doesn't want to be reminded of the secret he and SUN 10:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b010y0r7) Sir Ranulph Fiennes has climbed the Eiger and Mount Everest. Luke shared 20 years earlier... Series 2 He’s crossed both Poles on foot. He’s been a member of the Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes. Chimps SAS, and fought a bloody guerrilla war in Oman. Read by Richard Goulding. They say - David Attenborough reports - that we share more of Yet he confesses that his fear of heights is so great that he'd Author Jane Harper is a journalist who moved from the UK to our genes with chimpanzees than any other species alive today. rather send his wife up a ladder to clean the gutters than do it Australia in 2008. The Dry is her first novel which won awards And this proximity of Homo Sapiens to the chimpanzee himself. after publication in Australia. motivated him even more to film behaviour never before seen. The world's greatest explorer delves into his own experiences to Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. It had been known for some time that chimps hunt monkeys for try to explain what fear is, how it happens and how he has First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017. meat, but it would be a first to film it for TV audiences. To film overcome it so successfully. SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b0670fpv) such a hunt required days of waiting and tracking a troop He examines key moments from history where fear played an Michael Morpurgo through the Equatorial African forest - and when the hunt came important part in the outcome of a great event. He shows us Writer Michael Morpurgo chooses Mozart's Horn Concerto No and was over it changed Sir David Attenborough's view of how the brain perceives fear, how that manifests itself in us, 4 and Piano Sonata number 11. chimps and their importance to us, forever. and how we can transform our perceptions, shedding new light SUN 07:20 Lucy Catherine - Gudrun (m000wycc) Written and presented by David Attenborough. on one of humanity's strongest emotions. Series 7 (Omnibus) Producer: Julian Hector Sir Ranulph analyses his own fear of heights - despite being a Episode 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011. highly accomplished mountaineer. Gudrun has discovered her son, Jesson, and friend, Truda, are in SUN 11:00 Sneakernomics (p09fy2tx) He looks back at fears haunting him while at Eton school, plus danger and she sets out to rescue them. 5. The Birth of Cool the terrors he confronted while in the SAS - as he considers the The conclusion of Lucy Catherine’s Viking epic of love, How celebrity began to change the face of sport, and how psychology of our irrational fears. revenge and faith inspired by the Icelandic sagas. boards went from surf to street. Omnibus of five parts. Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes Written and read by Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Gudrun ….. Kate Phillips Sneakernomics is a close encounter with the visionaries, artisans Producer: David Roper Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 June 2021 Page 4 of 11 A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first you like, however hateful, and the right not to be offended. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] broadcast in November 2016. Now Jamie has to decide how to be true to himself in a society MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b08hr771) SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b08hr771) where intolerance has become acceptable, and Marian confronts [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] Michaela Strachan what she might need to do to keep him safe. MON 02:20 A Small Town Murder (Omnibus) (b090wdl6) TV presenter and environmentalist Michaela Strachan chooses Starring Suzanne Packer and Connor Allen. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday] 'Asimbonanga' by Johnny Clegg and 'Earth Song' by Michael Gary Owen’s absorbing drama about the political becoming MON 03:30 Caribbean Domino Club (b040lthj) Jackson. personal - and how an apparently liberal society can threaten [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday] SUN 14:20 A Small Town Murder (Omnibus) (b090wdl6) those who don't conform. MON 04:00 Bruce Bedford - Mire Farm (b00k08lg) Series 10 Marian .... Suzanne Packer [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Karla's husband seems to be the victim of a deliberately set fire, Jamie .... Connor Allen MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000wycg) while one of Jackie's previous cases, involving the death of a With Brendan Charleson and Claire Cage [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] young prostitute, refuses to go away. Director: Gilly Adams MON 05:30 To Hull and Back (b09tcnm7) With a lack of progress on the case, the victim's father tries to A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4 first [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] hunt down the killer himself. broadcast in June 2018. MON 06:00 Agatha Christie (b01qm7p4) Meera Syal stars as Family Liaison Officer, Jackie Hartwell. SUN 18:45 James Follett - The Devil to Pay (b06yk87w) Murder is Easy Omnibus of five parts of Scott Cherry's intimate drama. A car crash on a hot deserted road; a camper on hand to drag 1. Encounter on a Train The role of the family liaison officer is always both to support the driver from the blazing wreck. The start of an action-packed Ex-policeman Luke Fitzwilliam doesn't believe little old Miss the victim and keep a watchful eye out for clues. Many adventure play?... Not quite. Listen on. Pinkerton when says she's off to Scotland Yard to report a serial suspicious deaths are the result of family troubles. Stars Norman Rodway as the Devil and Derek Seaton as the killer on the loose in her quiet English village. Jackie ...... Meera Syal Camper. But he's soon forced to reconsider... Peter ...... Matthew Marsh Director: Glyn Dearman Agatha Christie's thriller first published in 1939. Karla ...... Anna Marie Cseh First broadcast in Double Act – a selection of plays from Just Dramatised in three parts by Joy Wilkinson. Dee ...... Tanya Moodie Before Midnight on BBC Radio 4 in 1979. Luke .... Patrick Baladi Brian ...... Ben Onwukwe SUN 19:00 Sneakernomics (p09fy2tx) Bridget .... Lydia Leonard Produced and directed by Clive Brill [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Lord Whitfield .... Michael Cochrane A Brill production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August SUN 20:00 Bruce Bedford - Mire Farm (b00k08lg) Miss Waynflete .... Marcia Warren 2017. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] Miss Pinkerton .... Marlene Sidaway SUN 15:30 Caribbean Domino Club (b040lthj) SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b08ltmyt) Billy Bones/Rivers .... Patrick Brennan Benjamin Zephaniah explores the passion, community and [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Reverend Wake .... Thomas Wheatley history of Britain's high-octane Caribbean domino clubs, where SUN 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b010y0r7) Rose .... Lizzy Watts each table is a stage and every game tells a story. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] Abbott .... Paul Stonehouse The mesmerising sound of dominoes being shuffled keeps SUN 22:00 To Hull and Back (b09tcnm7) Ellsworthy .... Ben Crowe many players at the table into the small hours. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Dr Thomas .... Will Howard Benjamin visits his home town of Birmingham to find out how SUN 22:30 The Mel and Sue Thing (b00769ql) Major Horton .... Robert Blythe the dominoes scene has changed since his father taught him to Episode 1 Director: Mary Peate play, and learns how the "bones" have been the soundtrack to Weird characters and surreal chat from Mel Giedroyc and Sue First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013. centuries of Caribbean history, a thread linking slave Perkins. MON 06:30 Falco (b008m17q) plantations to south London bus stations. Featuring Jane Austen's Last Novella and a duet sung by Cliff Shadows in Bronze Amid the high-decibel action of the Anglo-Caribbean Domino Richard and Delia Smith. 6. Showdown League Final, clubs from all over the UK battle it out in a fierce Mel and Sue are best known as the scrumptious cake-filling on A final showdown for Roman sleuth Falco - but his reunion showdown of mind games, table slamming and dramatic the BBC's The Great British Bake Off. with Helena proves bittersweet. winning poses. With Paul Chahidi Starring Anton Lesser. Benjamin hears stories of some of the nation's finest players – Producer: Elizabeth Freestone. Lindsey Davis's witty detective, Marcus Didius Falco patrols Black Hat, The Enforcer, Lady Sassy, Big C, Virgo, The First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2002. the streets of 1st-century Rome. Screamer – and finds out how the "sweet sound of the shuffle" SUN 23:00 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science (b00zf34s) Falco ...... Anton Lesser plays on their subconscious, long after the slamming and Series 1 Petronius ...... Ben Crowe cheering have died down. Episode 2 Helena Justina ...... Anna Madeley Featuring: Helen Keen's off-beat but true account of the history of space Decimus Camillus ...... Robert Lister Kenneth Ward flight. Vespasian ...... Michael Tudor Barnes Earl John With Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane. Silvia ...... Sara Poyzer Kingsley Douglas * How Wernher Von Braun went from SS officer to American Tullia ...... Fiona Clarke Errol Richards space supremo to Disney children's presenter Gordianus ...... Christian Rodska Carlton Witter * America's home-grown rocket genius Jack Parsons and his Atius Pertinax ...... Sean Connolly Mervin Stuart unhealthy interest in Satanism Dramatised by Mary Cutler. Janet Francis * The surprising story of Fix the French Space Cat Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. Gary Lewis Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2005. Austin Agard Producer: Gareth Edwards MON 07:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b040h6xq) Rudi Page First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011. Series 1 Millicent Wilks SUN 23:15 Gus Murdoch's Sacred Cows (b00fgq45) Episode 2 Clive Milanese 2. Bank Hols Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates a 'gamble Donald Douglas Incisive reporter Gus Murdoch investigates the pros and cons of Anglaise' from 1811. He's attempting to get a cheeseboard to Felix Whittley bank holidays. travel a distance of four and a half miles in under 100 throws. Vida Tucker. Written by and starring Stephen Carlin. Challenge number one? Getting permission to have the A151 Thanks to: Anita Witter, Kingsley Douglas, Norris Mckenzie With: closed down for the purposes of cheeseboard tossing. and the Anglo-Caribbean Domino League. Neil Edmond Comedian-author-adventurer Tim FitzHigham recreates a series Producer: Cicely Fell Margaret Cabourn-Smith of bizarre bets from the 18th and 19th centuries. Executive producer: Lyn Champion Stephen Carlin Written by and starring Tim FitzHigham. A Redlight production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April Helen Longworth Additional material by Jon Hunter and Paul Byrne and sums and 2014. Chris Pavlo support from Joe Oldak. SUN 16:00 Bruce Bedford - Mire Farm (b00k08lg) Producer: Tilusha Ghelani Produced by Colin Anderson. Simon Shaw's first challenge as a diplomat is to reconcile his Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in November 2008. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014. eccentric family on their farm with the angry villagers of SUN 23:30 Alice's Wunderland (b01l1dlg) MON 07:30 Nature Table (m000wrnq) Butterdale in Yorkshire. Series 1 Series 2 Paul Downing stars in Bruce Bedford’s drama. Episode 3 Episode 6 Simon Shaw ...... Paul Downing A trip round Wunderland, the Poundland of magical realms. It's Nature Table is comedian, broadcaster and writer Sue Perkins’ John Shaw ...... Stephen Thorne a kingdom much like our own, and also nothing like it in the new comedy ‘Show & Tell’ series celebrating the natural world May Shaw ...... June Barrie slightest. and all its funny eccentricities. Beatrice Shaw ...... Jane Whittenshaw Stay a while and meet waifs and strays, wigshops and witches, Taking the simple format of a ‘Show & Tell’, each episode Sue Grandad Shaw ...... Howard Goorney murderous pensioners and squirrels of this delightful land as is joined by celebrity guests from the worlds of comedy and Eric Flow ...... Nigel Betts they go about their bizarre business. natural history. Each of the natural history guests brings an item Vanessa ...... Julia Hills A sketch show written and performed by Alice Lowe. linked to the wild world to share with the audience, be it an Mrs Wentworth ...... Auriol Smith Also starring: amazing fact or funny personal anecdote. Each item is a Vicar ...... Christopher Good Richard Glover springboard for an enlightening and funny discussion, alongside Colonel Wince ...... James Green Simon Greenall fun games and challenges revealing more astonishing facts. We Taxi Man ...... John Wood Rachel Stubbings also hear from some of the London Zoo, as they bring us their Directed at BBC Bristol by Andy Jordan. Clare Thompson own natural history ‘show and tells’ for Sue and the guests to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1990. Marcia Warren discuss. SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000wycg) Producer: Sam Bryant Nature Table has a simple clear brief: to positively celebrate [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2012. and promote the importance of all our planet’s wonderfully wild SUN 17:30 To Hull and Back (b09tcnm7) flora and fauna in an fun and easily grasped way... whilst at the [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] same time having a giggle. SUN 18:00 Gary Owen - Freedom (m000wycj) MONDAY 14 JUNE 2021 Note: Series 2 was recorded in November 2020, during Marian has always told her son, Jamie, that it is fine to be gay, lockdown conditions, so this time round there is no studio fine to be who you really are and that, in years to come, of MON 00:00 Gary Owen - Freedom (m000wycj) audience this time round. The host, panel and guest zookeepers course it will be possible for him to marry another man or adopt [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] recorded the series at ZSL London Zoo, socially distanced. children. MON 00:45 James Follett - The Devil to Pay (b06yk87w) Episode 6 All this changes when a newly elected coalition government [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] Recorded at London Zoo, this week Sue Perkins is joined by decides political correctness has got out of hand and passes a MON 01:00 Fear by Sir Ranulph Fiennes (Omnibus) special guests: Freedom Law that licenses both the freedom to say whatever (b083h75t) Dr. Helen Scales (Marine Biologist), Dr. Erica McAlister Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 June 2021 Page 5 of 11 (Senior Curator, Diptera, Natural History Museum) and from future pandemic outbreaks – from anthropology to Earthsearch I comedian Felicity Ward. ecology. 1. Planetfall Written by: Catherine Brinkworth, Kat Sadler & Jon Hunter First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2020. The starship Challenger has been on a 115-year-long mission Researcher: Catherine Beazley MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000wyc4) exploring other galaxies for suitable Earth-like planets to Music by Ben Mirin. Additional sounds were provided by The Steve Davis colonise. Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Snooker player Steve Davis shares Sea Song by Robert Wyatt The present four crew members were born on the Challenger Produced by: Simon Nicholls and Swimming with the Snake by Tim Smith. and have never left it. From birth they've been looked after by A BBC Studios Production MON 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jmhk) two 'Angels' - voices surrounding and guiding their every move. MON 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jmhk) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] They follow their advice without question. A dangerous Series 4 MON 12:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue situation, perhaps, if the Angels aren't that angelic after all... A Box in Town (b007511h) James Follett's ten-part adventure serial in time and space. Albert hinders son Harold's romantic endeavours. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] CAST: Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. MON 13:00 Agatha Christie (b01qm7p4) Commander Telson …. Sean Arnold Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Sharna …. Amanda Murray with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson MON 13:30 Falco (b008m17q) Astra …. Kathryn Hurlbutt wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Darv …. Haydn Wood The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert MON 14:00 Crime Down Under: The Dry by Jane Harper Angel One …. Sonia Fraser Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight (b0938k97) Angel Two …. Gordon Reid series on TV. Episode 6 Christopher Scott …. Sinclair Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell A family has been brutally killed on their farm outside the small Director: Glyn Dearman Harold ...... Harry H Corbett Australian country town of Kiewarra. It hasn't rained for two First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1981. With Yootha Joyce, Katherine Parr and Sheila Grant. years, farms are failing and tensions in the community are MON 18:30 A Good Read (b01jqsyj) Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan running unbearably high. It seems that Luke Hadler reached Michele Hanson and Roger Highfield Simpson. snapping point, killed his wife and child and then committed Columnist and author Michele Hanson and Director of External Producer: Bobby Jaye suicide. Affairs at the Science Museum Group Roger Highfield discuss First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1972. When policeman Aaron Falk returns to his hometown for his their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. MON 08:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue old friend's funeral he wants to get away again as soon as Michele Hanson's choice: 'Humphry Clinker' by Tobias (b007511h) possible. He certainly doesn't want to be reminded of the secret Smollett Series 4 he and Luke shared twenty years earlier. But as he's unwillingly Roger Highfield's choice: 'The Emperor of All Maladies' by Episode 5 drawn into the investigation into the Hadler deaths, the past Siddhartha Mukherjee Sofa-bound TV presenters Mike and Sue share some eyebrow- keeps getting in the way. Questions mount and suspicion Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'A Murder of Quality' by John le raising revelations about their pasts... spreads through the town, and Falk must face what's hidden in Carré Starring Robert Duncan and Jan Ravens. his own past to help him solve the secrets of the present. Producer: Toby Field With Roger Blake, Alistair McGowan and Ronnie Ancona. In this episode, lies, alibis and a confrontation muddy the First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2012. Written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie from a format by Bill investigation. MON 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jmhk) Dare. Crime Down Under showcases some of the best crime fiction [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Music by Mark Burton. from contemporary Australia MON 19:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue Producer: Aled Evans Jane Harper is a journalist who moved from the UK to (b007511h) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1999. Australia in 2008. She lives in Melbourne and currently writes [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote (b07w9jg3) for the Herald Sun. She won the Victorian Premier's Literary MON 20:00 Agatha Christie (b01qm7p4) Arnold Brown, Lissa Evans, Christopher Frayling & Erica Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2015, and The Dry is [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Wagner her first novel. It was named the Australian Book Industry MON 20:30 Falco (b008m17q) Nigel Rees quizzes his guests on the origins of sayings and well- Association's Book of the Year, and the Australian Independent [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] known quotes, and they share their favourite anecdotes. Bookseller 2017 Indie Book of the Year. MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m000wyc2) * Comedian and writer, Arnold Brown Read by Richard Goulding [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] * Director, producer and author, Lissa Evans Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000wyc4) * Educationalist and writer, Christopher Frayling First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] * Author and critic, Erica Wagner MON 14:15 Gregory Evans - Blood and Milk (b09cy7hy) MON 22:00 Nature Table (m000wrnq) Reader: Sally Grace Series 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Producer: Carl Cooper Episode 1 MON 22:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b06pxm45) A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Young Welsh woman, Megan Evans, is growing her dairy Series 3 September 2016. business with considerable success. But this success has bred The Madman in the Attic MON 09:30 The Elephant Man (b04tvk7m) some powerful enemies and they will stop at nothing to ruin With Tom's Dad advocating some rather drastic "rationalizing", All Features Great and Small her. Tom realises that it might be time for him to have a clear-out As Valentine's Day approaches, some of the staff at the zoo are Meg ....Bettrys Jones himself. keen to find romance. Samuel ….. David Horovitch Series 3 of the sitcom where Tom Wrigglesworth phones home Peter Serafinowicz stars in Debbie Barham's sitcom about the Dora Lipski ….. Chetna Pandya for his weekly check-in with his Mum, Dad and Gran, giving life of an elephant zoo keeper. Iolo Jones ….. Philip Fox listeners a glimpse into his family background and the Terry Lyon …. Peter Serafinowicz Bren Evans ….. David Sturzaker influences that have shaped his temperament, opinions and hang- Leonard …. Chris Emmet Customer ….. Julie Teal ups. Adam …. Richard Pearce by Gregory Evans Tom ...... Tom Wrigglesworth Stephanie …. Joanna Monro Directed by Marc Beeby Dad ...... Paul Copley Morse …. Wayne Forester In 1900 over half London's milk came from Welsh dairies. One Mum ...... Kate Anthony Sammy …. Nicola Walker of those dairies, on the Commercial Road, was owned and run Granny ...... Elizabeth Bennett Elsa …. Jane Dolamore by the writer's family. Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle. With Miles Barry Norman / David Attenborough …. Alistair McGowan First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. Jupp. Producer: Richard Wilson. MON 14:30 Doing It In The Street (b011cffl) Producer: Richard Morris First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1996. Actor and academic Martin Reeve occasionally takes to the A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first MON 10:00 Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas (b007jtsj) streets under the performance name of Mr Lucky, the Man with broadcast in November 2015. Knowl, 1864 the Raining Umbrella. MON 23:00 Dead Ringers (m000wtsz) Maud Knollyes is the daughter and heiress of a rich, eccentric It's an act he's been doing for the last twenty-five years or so, Series 21 recluse. After he dies, young Maud is placed in the guardianship since he first teamed up with street theatre company Avanti Episode 1 of her Uncle Silas. Display. He's fascinated by the way that street theatre, or Will England come out of lockdown on the 21st of June, how This is intended to be a public declaration of one man's outdoor performance which is free and accessible to anyone should the last series of Line of Duty have ended, and will Tom confidence in his brother, for Silas was disgraced years before... passing by, affects our perceptions of the spaces around us: Cruise ever finish Mission Impossible 7? Starring Teresa Gallagher. shopping centres, streets and squares, buildings, parks and The writing squad for the series: Tom Jamieson and Nev Sheridan le Fanu's Victorian gothic horror novel. public places. Fountain, Laurence Howarth, Tom Coles & Ed Amsden, Dramatised in three parts by Alan Drury. For him, it's a more radical and dangerous art form than might Jeffrey Aidoo, Simon Alcock, James Bugg, Sarah Campbell, Maud ... Teresa Gallagher be imagined, with its roots in the political turbulence of the Nastassia Dhanraj , Athena Kugblenu, Sophie Dickson, Rajiv Austin.... Graham Crowden 1960s when companies like Welfare State International decided Karia, Vivienne Riddoch & Jane Mccutcheon , Edward Tew. Madame de la Rougierre ... Dorothy Tutin to take art and performance out of theatres and galleries onto Producer: Bill Dare Lady Monica Knollye ... Joan Sims the streets as a deliberate counter-cultural tactic. Although it Production Coordinator: Sarah Sharpe Mary Quince ... Kathleen Byron may now feel less radical, often confined to festivals, civic A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4. Mrs Rusk ... Tessa Worsley celebrations and corporate entertainment, he believes street MON 23:30 The Jason Byrne Show (b01pfrm4) Dr Bryerley .... John Hartley theatre can still make us see the world differently, and stop Series 3 Dudley ... Jonathan Keeble traffic momentarily to make the familiar seem, just for a Use Your Imagination to Have the Best Fun Tom Brice.... Roger May moment, unfamiliar and extraordinary. Jason Byrne looks at the subject of technology – getting all Mr Grimston .... Geoffrey Whitehead First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. nostalgic over the novelty of 24 hour photos. The Rough Fellow ....Stephen Critchlow MON 15:00 Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas (b007jtsj) Amongst the audience, he discovers a human wheelbarrow; an Pianist: Michael Haslam [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] advertiser who struggles to give a name to things and everything Director: Enyd Williams MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote (b07w9jg3) he needs to recreate the sounds of a Clangers' convention. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Ocotber 1995. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Themed audience comedy show with high-energy stand-up and MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m000wyc2) MON 16:30 The Elephant Man (b04tvk7m) sketches featuring Laurence Howarth and Margaret Cabourn- Series 8 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Smith. Episode 7 MON 17:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b040h6xq) Producer: Julia McKenzie A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) MON 17:30 Nature Table (m000wrnq) stage. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Manoush Zomorodi explores how we can protect ourselves MON 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jl9p) TUESDAY 15 JUNE 2021 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 June 2021 Page 6 of 11 TUE 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jl9p) In these globally ‘unprecedented times’ Ed is enjoying protesting his rights of access to his children. There's no single [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] unprecedented times himself as he has become financially dominant image, though. We have gay dads, soft dads, TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b01jqsyj) independent and is living in a superb, stylish capsule urban disciplinarian dads, workaholic dads, stay-at-home dads and [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] living unit. This new lifestyle comes curtesy of the conversion absentee dads. This is rich and rewarding territory, and the TUE 01:00 Agatha Christie (b01qm7p4) of no longer required office space to flats made affordable by archive comes both from the public and private sphere. We [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] the timely arrival of his state pension. hear experts and writers on fatherhood, famous dads like David TUE 01:30 Falco (b008m17q) For the first time in twenty years, he can afford to eat three Beckham and Sir Bob Geldof, and civilian dads' tales too. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] meals a day and has the luxury of not having to do anything he Seismic events and cultural awakenings have shaped and re- TUE 02:00 Crime Down Under: The Dry by Jane Harper doesn’t want to, so can settle down to a long-cherished project – shaped the figure of the father and yet today we still question (b0938k97) his memoirs. That is if Jenna, the previous occupant of the who he really is. Why? [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] urban unit when it was office space, would stop visiting his fire Mark also talks to fatherhood experts and those who have been TUE 02:15 Gregory Evans - Blood and Milk (b09cy7hy) escape because she misses the gossip and bantz she no longer watching the changing role of the father with a passionate [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] gets when working from home. interest over the decades - MP David Lammy, Adrienne TUE 02:30 Doing It In The Street (b011cffl) But old habits die hard for Ed and he is soon distracted not only Burgess from the Fatherhood Institute and Professor Charlie [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] by the joys of Prosecco o’clock , but also the temptation of the Lewis. TUE 03:00 Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas (b007jtsj) flip-flops lying tantalisingly outside the discount shop in town. Produced by Sarah Cuddon [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] The regular cast this series are joined by guests Maggie Steed, A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote (b07w9jg3) Kathryn Drysdale, Mina Anwar and Phaldut Sharma. 2017. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] Cast list ep 1: TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jy5b) TUE 04:30 The Elephant Man (b04tvk7m) Ed Reardon………..Christopher Douglas [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Ping…………….……..Barunka O’Shaughnessy TUE 12:30 Winston (b007qzh8) TUE 05:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b040h6xq) Jaz Milvain…….……Philip Jackson [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] Stan……………………Geoffrey Whitehead TUE 13:00 Agatha Christie (b01qwd30) TUE 05:30 Nature Table (m000wrnq) Pearl…………………..Brigit Forsyth [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] Olive…………………..Stephanie Cole TUE 13:30 Paul Temple (b00rlb29) TUE 06:00 Agatha Christie (b01qwd30) Jenna…………………Mina Anwar [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Murder is Easy Instructor…………..Nicola Sanderson TUE 14:00 Crime Down Under: The Dry by Jane Harper 2. Enlisting Help Assistant……………Tom Price (b0938v9x) Luke Fitzwilliam can no longer believe that so many deaths in Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas Episode 7 the tiny village of Wychwood-under-Ashe are a coincidence, Produced by Dawn Ellis A family has been brutally killed on their farm outside the small and he's determined to find out the truth. He enlists the help of Production Co-ordinator Cherlynn Andrew-Wilfred Australian country town of Kiewarra. It hasn't rained for two Bridget, Lord Waynflete's attractive young fiancee. A BBC Studios Production years, farms are failing and tensions in the community are Agatha Christie's thriller dramatised in three parts by Joy TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jy5b) running unbearably high. It seems that Luke Hadler reached Wilkinson. Queen Anne's Rain snapping point, killed his wife and child and then committed CAST: Min is counting rain drops, but why is everyone so wet? Is suicide. Luke .... Patrick Baladi royalty to blame? Stars Spike Milligan. From December 1958. When policeman Aaron Falk returns to his hometown for his Bridget .... Lydia Leonard TUE 08:30 Winston (b007qzh8) old friend's funeral he wants to get away again as soon as Lord Whitfield .... Michael Cochrane Winston Comes to Town possible. He certainly doesn't want to be reminded of the secret Miss Waynflete .... Marcia Warren Has Anyone Seen Winston? he and Luke shared twenty years earlier. But as he's unwillingly Miss Pinkerton .... Marlene Sidaway The family has moved to London. Old rogue Winston spends drawn into the investigation into the Hadler deaths, the past Billy Bones/Rivers .... Patrick Brennan hours up a tree in the garden, but nd then he disappears... keeps getting in the way. Questions mount and suspicion Reverend Wake .... Thomas Wheatley Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial stars Bill Wallis as spreads through the town, and Falk must face what's hidden in Rose .... Lizzy Watts Winston, Maurice Denham as Father, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, his own past to help him solve the secrets of the present. Abbott .... Paul Stonehouse Liz Goulding as Rosie and Christian Rodska as William. in this episode, tensions in town mount, a lie is exposed and a Ellsworthy .... Ben Crowe Director: Shaun MacLoughlin. secret uncovered. Dr Thomas .... Will Howard First broadcast on BBC Radio in January 1990. Crime Down Under showcases some of the best crime fiction Major Horton .... Robert Blythe TUE 09:00 Dead Ringers (m000wtsz) from contemporary Australia. Director: Mary Peate [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] Jane Harper is a journalist who moved from the UK to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013. TUE 09:30 Millport (b0075sxz) Australia in 2008. She lives in Melbourne and currently writes TUE 06:30 Paul Temple (b00rlb29) Series 1 for the Herald Sun. She won the Victorian Premier's Literary Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case The Storm Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2015, and The Dry is 1. The Unlucky One A pensioner mysteriously disappears from the town of Millport her first novel. It was named the Australian Book Industry Should Howard Gilbert hang for the murder of a model? The on the Isle of Cumbrae, off the west coast of Scotland. Association's Book of the Year, and the Australian Independent victim's father thinks he's innocent. The suave sleuth Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as Bookseller 2017 Indie Book of the Year. investigates. 30-something barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a better Read by Richard Goulding Another intriguing case for BBC Radio's smoothest investigator life on the mainland. Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. and his glamorous wife written by Francis Durbridge. Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson TUE 14:15 Gregory Evans - Blood and Milk (b09cz0jn) CAST: Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown Series 3 Paul Temple …. Peter Coke Alberto/Robert/Bob ...... Lewis McLeod Episode 2 Steve …. Marjorie Westbury Ena/Bunty/Betty ...... Gabriel Quigley Megan Evans refuses to believe that the man claiming to be her Charlie …. James Beattie Doogie ...... Matt Costello half-brother is who he says he is. But he has documents to prove Wilfred Stirling …. Charles Leno DJ ...... Robert Paterson it and now Meg's business is under threat. Sir Graham Forbes …. Lester Mudditt Producer: Lucy Bacon Meg ….. Bettrys Jones Detective Inspector Kingston …. Duncan McIntyre First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2000. Samuel ….. David Horovitch Betty Wayne …. Grizelda Hervey TUE 10:00 Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas (b007jtsp) Fred Wensley ….. Samuel James Lance Reynolds …. Richard Williams Bartram-Haugh, 1865 Brenig Evans ….. David Sturzaker Dick Metcalf …. Cyril Shaps Young heiress Maud Knollyes appears to have no choice about Iolo Jones ….. Philip Fox From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective her future... Customer ….. Simon Ludders Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, Sheridan le Fanu's Victorian gothic horror novel dramatised by by Gregory Evans solved case-after-case in one of BBC radio's most popular Alan Drury. Directed by Marc Beeby series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails Maud .... Teresa Gallagher First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore Silas .... George Cole TUE 14:30 Ella in Berlin (b01s09z5) cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, Lady Monica Knollys .... Joan Sims Jazz singers Cleveland Watkiss and Dame Cleo Laine listen to usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. Madame de la Rougierre .... Dorothy Tutin Ella Fitzgerald's Mac the Knife, when she forgot the words in Producer: Martyn C. Webster Mary Quince ... Kathleen Byron Berlin on 13 February 1960, and then have a go themselves. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954. Mrs Rusk ... Tessa Worsley For post-war Germany jazz, which had been banned under TUE 07:00 Ayres on the Air (b03sb0lq) Milly ... Jane Whittenshaw Hitler, was the music of freedom. When Norman Granz first Series 5 Dudley ... Jonathan Keeble brought his Jazz at the Philharmonic tours to Europe in the Self-Sufficiency Dr Bryerley .... John Hartley 1950s, Germans flocked to the concerts and Oscar Peterson and Pam Ayres regales her audience with poems, stories and Zamiel .... George A Cooper Ella Fitzgerald were soon firm favourites. sketches, this week on a subject close to her heart: self- Beauty ... Becky Hindley In February 1960, the German part of the tour opened in Berlin. sufficiency. She is joined on stage by Felicity Montagu and Wyatt ... Pauline Letts Mac the Knife, from Brecht's Threepenny Opera, had been a Geoffrey Whitehead, with Geoffrey playing her long-suffering Charke's servant ... David Collings number one for Bobby Darin for nine weeks the previous year, husband 'Gordon'. Dr Slaithwaite .....John Evitts and Ella's friend Louis Armstrong had a hit with it in 1956. But Pam discusses her love of allotments, knitting and her more Tom Brice.... Roger May Ella had never sung it. As a tribute to the people of Berlin, she recent love of beekeeping. The Coachman .... Stephen Critchlow decided she would. She did, but not the version they knew. Yet Poems include: The Allotment Rustler, Over-Penguinisation, Mr Grimston .... Geoffrey Whitehead it was this Behold My Bold Provider, Stuck on You and The Litter Moron. Pianist: Michael Haslam improvisation that would win her two Grammy awards. Sketch writers: James Bugg, Grainne McGuire, Andy Wolton Director: Enyd Williams Cleveland Watkiss, for whom Ella Fitzgerald has always been and Tom Neenan. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1995. an inspiration, explores her virtuoso improvisation and scat- Producer: Claire Jones. TUE 11:00 Archive on 4 (b08tv9th) singing, in the company of another virtuoso performer, Dame First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014. Father's Day Cleo Laine. They hear from people who were there that night in TUE 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week (m000wrl0) Mark Thomas examines how the image of dad has been made the Deutschlandhalle, including tour manager, Fritz Rau, pianist Series 14 and re-made over the decades. Paul Smith and guitarist Jim Hall, and from the author of a Prosecco o’Clock This is a personal journey into the BBC archives and beyond. forthcoming cultural biography of Ella Fitzgerald, Judith Tick. Author of several plays, television dramas, works of non- Mark's own Dad was tough. Mark says he's a softee as a father. Cleveland Watkiss won the London Jazz Award for Best fiction, letters to the BBC about the pitiful decline in standards Do we need more definition of what it is to be dad? Vocalist in 2010 and was voted Wire/Guardian Jazz Awards of literature and grammar, and master of the abusive email – Ed While motherhood is traditionally twinned with apple pie, one best vocalist for three consecutive years. He's had a life-long Reardon is back. strong image of fatherhood is a man dressed in a batman suit passion for Cleo Laine and finally had the opportunity to meet - Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 June 2021 Page 7 of 11 and sing with - her in the course of making this programme! Episode 1 Dr Thomas .... Will Howard Producer: Marya Burgess A cheeky round-up of a week's worth of BBC radio that never Major Horton .... Robert Blythe First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. happened. Director: Mary Peate TUE 15:00 Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas (b007jtsp) Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes rewind and mangle real First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] programmes from across the networks - featuring Scott Mills, WED 06:30 Paul Temple (b00rlwgt) TUE 16:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b087pvqk) Gordon Brown, Steve Wright and John Humphrys - and put Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case Series 10 them back together the wrong way round. 2. The Third Shoe Episode 1 The brain-child of writer, comic and broadcaster Jon Holmes. Howard Gilbert has been convicted for the murder of his model This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his new Producer: Bill Dare girlfriend, Brenda. But did he really kill her? The debonair curator Jo Brand welcome the science communicator, musician First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007. sleuth and his wife pay him a visit in jail. and comedian Helen Arney; a man who has lived as a goat in TUE 23:00 Liam Williams: Ladhood (b096jb2f) Another intriguing case for BBC Radio's smoothest investigator the Alps for 6 days and built his own toaster from the ground Series 2 and his glamorous wife written by Francis Durbridge. up; and the captain of a fourteen storey £350 million pound Episode 1 CAST: cruise ship, The Queen Elizabeth, Captain Aseem Hashmi. Comedian Liam Williams recounts his youthful misadventures Paul Temple …. Peter Coke This week, the Museum's Guest Committee catch up on the in this autobiographical sitcom. Episode one sees Liam Steve …. Marjorie Westwood latest 4 elements to be added to the periodic chart, flip through anxiously awaiting A-Level results before trying to find his feet Charlie …. James Beattie a history book from the future, which is all about now; and the in a most alien of new environments, Cambridge University. Wilfred Stirling …. Charles Leno thing that keeps a sea captain grounded, figuratively as well as Music: Detective Inspector Kingston …. Duncan McIntyre literally, his 12-ton anchor. - When I Was A Lad - Tom O'Connor Lance Reynolds …. Richard Williams The show was researched by Anne Miller of QI and Mike - Reptilia - The Strokes Howard Gilbert …. David Peel Turner. - I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Arctic Mrs Talbot …. Anne Cullen The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin. Monkeys Dick Metcalf …. Cyril Shaps The production coordinator was Sophie Richardson. - Is This It - The Strokes Warder …. Geoffrey Bond It was a BBC Studios Production. - I Planted A Thought - Arthur Russell From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2017. - Wounder - Burial Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, TUE 16:30 Millport (b0075sxz) - Glorious (Town) - Captain solved case-after-case in one of BBC radio's most popular [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] - Mozart's Piano Concerto No.2 in B Flat Major - K.39 - series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails TUE 17:00 Ayres on the Air (b03sb0lq) Murray Perahia and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] - Infinitum/Auntie's Lock - Flying Lotus cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, TUE 17:30 Ed Reardon's Week (m000wrl0) - Prelude to a Kiss - Alicia Keys usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] - My Love - Justin Timberlake Producer: Martyn C. Webster TUE 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jlb2) - Rat Cage - Beastie Boys First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954. Earthsearch I - Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis WED 07:00 Hobby Bobbies (b04pshk4) 2. First Footprint City - Don't Feel Like Dancing - Scissor Sisters Series 2 As the starship Challenger returns to its solar system after a - Paris (Aeroplane remix) - Friendly Fires Sinkhole 115-year-long search for a planet suitable for colonisation - it's - Kennedy- The Wedding Present When an enormous sinkhole opens up, the useless police a home that the crew have never known. - Oh My God - The Kaiser Chiefs officers need to do a little more than "look into it". Born aboard the craft, the four-strong space crew must come to - Jynweyhek Ylow - Aphex Twin Britain's longest serving PCSO is paired with the laziest in Dave terms with some shocking news... - Shoot The Poets - The Cribs Lamb's sitcom. (Dave is the voice of TV's Come Dine With James Follett's ten-part adventure serial in time and space. - Come To The Bar - Pete and the Pirates Me) CAST: Written and performed by Liam Williams Geoff...... Richie Webb Commander Telson …. Sean Arnold Producer: Joe Nunnery Nigel...... Nick Walker Sharna …. Amanda Murray Ladhood is a BBC Studios Production. The Guv...... Sinead Keenan Astra …. Kathryn Hurlbutt First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017. Nina...... Pooja Shah Darv …. Haydn Wood TUE 23:30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Bernie...... Chris Emmett Angel One …. Sonia Fraser Better (b00kvq7t) Geoff's Dad.....Noddy Holder Angel Two …. Gordon Reid Series 1 Sentinel …. Alexander John Wrath Producer: Steve Doherty Simon …. David Bradshawe Mark Watson investigates wrath as he continues his quest to A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Director: Glyn Dearman free us from the seven deadly sins via stand-up comedy. November 2014. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1981. Tim Key and Tim Minchin provide sketches, songs and jealous WED 07:30 Shush! (b08r1wd8) TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b0145x7m) glances. Series 2 Series 12 Producer: Katie Marsden A Fairy Tale Ending Dear Lord and Father of Mankind First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2007. When family come to call, Snoo runs into problems with a The words of one of our most loved hymns, Dear Lord and grape and Alice has to learn a tricky manoeuvre. Father of Mankind, were taken from the last six verses of John Meet Alice (Rebecca Front) - a former child prodigy who won a Greenleaf Whittier's poem, The Brewing of Soma, an attack on WEDNESDAY 16 JUNE 2021 place at Oxford aged 9 but, because Daddy went too, she never ostentatious and overt religious practise. But it wasn't until over needed to have any friends. She's scared of everything. fifty years later, that a school master at Repton in Derbyshire WED 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jlb2) Everything that is except libraries and Snoo (Morwenna Banks) had the inspiration to pair it with a tune by Sir Hubert Parry, [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] - a slightly confused individual with a have-a-go attitude to life, thus confirming it as a favourite for school assemblies, funerals WED 00:30 Soul Music (b0145x7m) marriage, haircuts and reality. Snoo loves books, and fully and weddings. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] intends to read one one day. The current Director of Music at Repton, John Bowley, explains WED 01:00 Agatha Christie (b01qwd30) And forever popping into the library is Dr Cadogan (Michael how this happened, while composer and conductor Bob Chilcott [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Fenton Stevens) - celebrity doctor to the stars and a man with explains why this was a musical mariage made in heaven. WED 01:30 Paul Temple (b00rlb29) his finger in every pie. Charming, indiscreet and quite possibly We hear from those for who whom the hymn has special [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] wanted by Interpol, if you want a discrete nip and tuck and then significance, including the MP from Gloucester, Richard WED 02:00 Crime Down Under: The Dry by Jane Harper photos of it accidentally left on the photocopier, Dr Cadogan is Graham; when briefly imprisoned in a Libyan gaol in 1978 he (b0938v9x) your man. found enormous comfort in the words and tune. Pipe Major [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Their happy life is interrupted by the arrival of Simon Nielson Ross Munro remembers recording the piece in the swelting heat WED 02:15 Gregory Evans - Blood and Milk (b09cz0jn) (Ben Willbond), a man with a mission - a mission to close down of Basra with members of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] inefficient libraries. Fortunately, he hates his mission. What he film director Joe Wright recalls how the inclusion of this hymn WED 02:30 Ella in Berlin (b01s09z5) really wants to do is once - just once - get even with his was central to the power of his famous scene depicting the [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] inexhaustible supply of high-achieving brothers. evacuation of Dunkirk in his film, Atonement. WED 03:00 Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas (b007jtsp) Written by Morwenna Banks and Rebecca Front Contributors: [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Based on an idea developed with Armando Iannucci John Bowley WED 04:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b087pvqk) Produced by David Tyler Richard Graham [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. Ian Bradley WED 04:30 Millport (b0075sxz) WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k0xt) Bob Chilcott [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Series 1 Joan Lambley WED 05:00 Ayres on the Air (b03sb0lq) The End of the Series Ross Munro [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] The lad himself and the gang reminisce over how they first all Richard Hoyes WED 05:30 Ed Reardon's Week (m000wrl0) first met. Joe Wright [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] Starring Tony Hancock. Producer: Lucy Lunt WED 06:00 Agatha Christie (b01r0gpc) With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney James and Kenneth First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Murder is Easy Williams. TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jy5b) 3. Burden of Proof Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Luke and Bridget are getting closer, in spite of themselves. As Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. TUE 19:30 Winston (b007qzh8) they discover yet another body, they think they know who the Recorded by the BBC Augmented Revue Orchestra conducted [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] murderer is, but will they be able to prove it? by Harry Rabinowitz. TUE 20:00 Agatha Christie (b01qwd30) Agatha Christie's thriller dramatised in three parts by Joy Producer: Dennis Main Wilson [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Wilkinson. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1955. TUE 20:30 Paul Temple (b00rlb29) CAST: WED 08:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008g6v4) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Luke .... Patrick Baladi Transport of Delight TUE 21:00 Archive on 4 (b08tv9th) Bridget .... Lydia Leonard Demobbed Old Ned heads south after the war and joins a [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Lord Whitfield .... Michael Cochrane special construction team. TUE 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week (m000wrl0) Miss Waynflete .... Marcia Warren Six anarchic tales from those demob days “when we was going [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Miss Pinkerton .... Marlene Sidaway to build the new Jerusalem - you know, before the world turned TUE 22:30 Listen Against (b0088nnz) Billy Bones .... Patrick Brennan lax and sour”. Series 1 Rose .... Lizzy Watts CAST: Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 June 2021 Page 8 of 11 Big Jim …. Norman Rossington Jane Harper is a journalist who moved from the UK to Featuring Tricia Davies Nearn Harold Perkins …. Roland Curram Australia in 2008. She lives in Melbourne and currently writes Produced by Alan Hall Old Ned …. Harold Goodwin for the Herald Sun. She won the Victorian Premier's Literary Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Nimrod …. David John Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2015, and The Dry is Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Turps … Sylvester McCoy her first novel. It was named the Australian Book Industry A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Chick …. David Beckett Association's Book of the Year, and the Australian Independent June 2019. The Farmer …. Douglas Blackwell Bookseller 2017 Indie Book of the Year. WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k0xt) The Farmer’s Daughter …. Karen Ascoe Read by Richard Goulding [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Narrator …. Bernard Cribbins. Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. WED 19:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008g6v4) Written by Ted Walker. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Producer: Martin Fisher WED 14:15 Gregory Evans - Blood and Milk (b09czn81) WED 20:00 Agatha Christie (b01r0gpc) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1987. Series 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED 09:00 Whispers (b007k3br) Episode 3 WED 20:30 Paul Temple (b00rlwgt) Series 1 Samuel has disappeared and Meg is frantic. But the stakes are [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Episode 5 raised when a body is discovered in the Thames mud that WED 21:00 Laura Barton's American Road Trip The ins and outs of the abdication crisis in the quiz show that threatens to ruin Meg, her business and her ally Dora Lipski. (m000c54q) loves scandals. Meg ….. Bettrys Jones [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Biographer Anthony Holden and actress Stella Duffy are joined Samuel ….. David Horovitch WED 22:00 Shush! (b08r1wd8) by writer Lynne Truss and journalist Rowan Pelling. Dora Lipski ….. Chetna Pandya [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Hosted by the least discreet man in Britain, Gyles Brandreth. Fred Wensley ….. Samuel James WED 22:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters (b042l78d) Producer: Elizabeth Freestone Brenig Evans ….. David Sturzaker Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003. Iolo Jones ….. Philip Fox Rosa and Matthew WED 09:30 Snap (b00ttmvf) Police Surgeon ….. Emilio Doorgasingh Isy Suttie returns to BBC Radio 4 with a brand new series of Series 2 Asher ….. Simon Ludders her Sony Award Winning show, recounting a series of love Episode 3 Customer ….. Julie Teal stories affecting people she's known throughout her life, told Trying to be mature and adult after their separation, Doug and by Gregory Evans partly through song. Molly attempt to bury their differences to find out what's wrong Directed by Marc Beeby Sometimes Isy has merely observed other people's love lives; with their son Ryan First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. quite often she's intervened, changing the action dramatically - Paul Mendelson’s sitcom stars Rebecca Lacey as Molly, Paul WED 14:30 Tim Key Delves Into Daniil Kharms And That’s for better or worse. Intertwined within these stories are related Venables as Doug, Soumaya Keynes as Kaz, Jessie Sullivan as All (b072n5xc) real life anecdotes from Isy's own, often disastrous, love life. Ryan, Marlene Sidaway as Annie, Samantha Spiro as Dawn and Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) is one of Russia's great lost In this episode, Isy recounts the tale of Rosa and Matthew, a Richard Firth as Ansel. absurdists – a writer whose world still alarms, shocks and hypnotherapist and an osteopath who work a few doors apart Producer: David Ian Neville bewitches more than half a century after he died in prison and find it difficult to express their feelings for each other. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004. during the siege of Leningrad. With her multi-character and vocal skills, and accompanied by WED 10:00 Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas (b007jtst) In his short, almost vignette-like writings, nothing is sacred or her guitar, Isy creates a hilarious and deeply moving world, Revelations as it seems. His narrators dip in and out of moments, describing sharing with us her lessons in life and love. Heiress Maud Knollyes increasingly believes her life is in curious, often disturbing events before getting bored and WED 23:00 Radio Active (b008s3jb) danger... leaving his characters to their fates. Old ladies plummet from Series 4 Conclusion of Sheridan le Fanu's Victorian gothic horror novel windows, townsfolk are bludgeoned to death with cucumbers, The Martin Brown Show dramatised by Alan Drury. others wander around in search of glue, sausages or nothing. By A big break for "Mr Hospital Radio" himself, as Martin Brown Maud .... Teresa Gallagher turns pointless and harrowing, they are funny. Very funny. And gets his very own show on Radio Active. Silas ... George Cole they are funny now. Radio Active is the one and only local national radio station. Madame de la Rougierre .... Dorothy Tutin Comedian, Russophile and crumpled polymath Tim Key has Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Lady Monica Knollys ... Joan Sims been entranced by Kharms' beautiful, horrible, hilarious world Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. Mary Quince .... Kathleen Byron for years. But is there more to Kharms than a series of curious Music by Philip Pope and Steve Brown. Milly ... Jane Whittenshaw happenings cooked up by an eccentric mind in a troublesome Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. With Jon Dudley .... Jonathan Keeble world? Key suspects there is. And he's prepared to delve. Canter. Zamiel .... George A Cooper As he delves, he encounters Noel Fielding, Alice Nakhimovsky, Producer: Jamie Rix Beauty .... Becky Hindley Matvei Yankelevich, Peter Scotto, Tony Anemone and Daniil First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1984. Sarah Mangles ...Linda Regan Kharms. WED 23:30 Vent (b01flqm7) Wyatt .... Pauline Letts Produced by Steven Rajam. Series 3 Tom Brice ..... Roger May First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. Victoria The Coachman ..... Stephen Critchlow WED 15:00 Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas (b007jtst) Ben begins to resent being pushed around, and imagines a Mrs Sewell ..... Joan Littlewood [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] different life back in Victorian times when he might have got Dr Bryerly .....John Hartley WED 16:00 Whispers (b007k3br) things his own way a bit more often - until he gets into an Pianist: Michael Haslam [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] argument with Benjamin Disraeli... Director: Enyd Williams WED 16:30 Snap (b00ttmvf) Dark sitcom about a man in a coma, travelling through the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1995. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] distinctly odd landscape of his own unconscious mind. WED 11:00 Laura Barton's American Road Trip WED 17:00 Hobby Bobbies (b04pshk4) Written by Nigel Smith. (m000c54q) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Ben ...... Neil Pearson 2. The Southern States WED 17:30 Shush! (b08r1wd8) Mary ...... Fiona Allen Using BBC Archives, writer Laura Barton takes to the road for [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Mum ...... Josie Lawrence an audio adventure across the USA - from New York to WED 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jlbf) Blitz ...... Leslie Ash California. In this episode: Earthsearch I Nurse ...... Jo Martin ‘World Roots: An Appalachian Road Trip’ [2009] 3. Sands of Kyros Derek ...... Stephen Frost ‘Conversations with the Blues’ [1961] The Challenger's crew has returned to its solar system to Marley ...... Spencer Brown ‘French Men Desire Good Children’ [1992] discover that a million years has passed on Earth while only 115 Disraeli ...... Matthew Kelly ‘South and West’ [2017] years had passed on their starship. Bea ...... Scarlett Milburn-Smith Producer: Luke Doran. After their devastating news, the four-strong crew face peril Grocer ...... Nigel Hastings First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2018. from a once benign force... Director: Nigel Smith WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k0xt) James Follett's ten-part adventure serial in time and space. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] CAST: WED 12:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008g6v4) Commander Telson …. Sean Arnold [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Sharna …. Amanda Murray THURSDAY 17 JUNE 2021 WED 13:00 Agatha Christie (b01r0gpc) Astra …. Kathryn Hurlbutt [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Darv …. Haydn Wood THU 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jlbf) WED 13:30 Paul Temple (b00rlwgt) Angel One …. Sonia Fraser [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Angel Two …. Gordon Reid THU 00:30 Short Cuts (m000678y) WED 14:00 Crime Down Under: The Dry by Jane Harper Sentinel …. Alexander John [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] (b0939hpy) George …. John McAndrew THU 01:00 Agatha Christie (b01r0gpc) Episode 8 Director: Glyn Dearman [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] A family has been brutally killed on their farm outside the small First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1981. THU 01:30 Paul Temple (b00rlwgt) Australian country town of Kiewarra. It hasn't rained for two WED 18:30 Short Cuts (m000678y) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] years, farms are failing and tensions in the community are Series 19 THU 02:00 Crime Down Under: The Dry by Jane Harper running unbearably high. It seems that Luke Hadler reached Press Record (b0939hpy) snapping point, killed his wife and child and then committed The sounds of an empty apartment, the last tape of a loved one, [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] suicide. the bootleg VHS tapes that helped inspire a musical movement THU 02:15 Gregory Evans - Blood and Milk (b09czn81) When policeman Aaron Falk returns to his hometown for his and an erotic audio audition are at the heart of this edition of [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] old friend's funeral he wants to get away again as soon as Short Cuts. Josie Long presents short documentaries and THU 02:30 Tim Key Delves Into Daniil Kharms And That’s possible. He certainly doesn't want to be reminded of the secret adventures in sound about significant recordings that have All (b072n5xc) he and Luke shared twenty years earlier. But as he's unwillingly impacted people's lives. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] drawn into the investigation into the Hadler deaths, the past That DAT THU 03:00 Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas (b007jtst) keeps getting in the way. Questions mount and suspicion Produced by Natalie Kestecher [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] spreads through the town, and Falk must face what's hidden in The Stains THU 04:00 Whispers (b007k3br) his own past to help him solve the secrets of the present. Featuring Diane Lane and Allison Wolfe [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] In this episode, Falk's assumptions are shaken, about the past Produced by Allyson McCabe THU 04:30 Snap (b00ttmvf) and the present Sound Portrait of a Flat [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Crime Down Under showcases some of the best crime fiction Produced by Jessica Gordon Braye THU 05:00 Hobby Bobbies (b04pshk4) from contemporary Australia. A Place for Us [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 June 2021 Page 9 of 11 THU 05:30 Shush! (b08r1wd8) Recorded and edited by ... Rich Evans at Syncbox Post THU 14:00 Crime Down Under: The Dry by Jane Harper [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Production coordinator ... Beverly Tagg (b093b1x2) THU 06:00 Father Brown Stories (b007jp1b) Producer ... Ed Morrish Episode 9 Series 1 A BBC Studios Production A family has been brutally killed on their farm outside the small The Blue Cross THU 08:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b011ckn4) Australian country town of Kiewarra. It hasn't rained for two The cream of London's police force in association with France's Series 7 years, farms are failing and tensions in the community are finest detective fail to apprehend arch villain Flambeau, the Episode 8 running unbearably high. It seems that Luke Hadler reached master of disguise. Fifth Division football - and Professor Prune goes on a snapping point, killed his wife and child and then committed Their suspicions fall on a tall Roman Catholic priest and they Victorian adventure. suicide. set off in vain pursuit. However it’s the little English priest who Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, When policeman Aaron Falk returns to his hometown for his seems to be behaving oddly. David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. old friend's funeral he wants to get away again as soon as Series of GK Chesterton's stories about the insightful clerical Sketches written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie possible. He certainly doesn't want to be reminded of the secret sleuth dramatised by John Scotney. Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue he and Luke shared twenty years earlier. But as he's unwillingly Starring Andrew Sachs as Father Brown and Olivier Pierre as 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and drawn into the investigation into the Hadler deaths, the past Flambeau. quickly developed a cult following. keeps getting in the way. Questions mount and suspicion With Bill Wallis as Bagshaw, Alan Thompson as the Sergeant, Music and songs by Bill Oddie, Liam Cohen and Dave Lee. spreads through the town, and Falk must face what's hidden in Ellen McIntosh as the Shopkeeper, Trader Faulkner as the Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge his own past to help him solve the secrets of the present. Restauranteur, John Abineri as Valentine, Trevor Nichols as the First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1969. In this episode, a chance remark sets Falk onto the trail of the Constable, Graham Blockey as the Porter and Robin Summers THU 08:30 The 27-Year Itch (b0b2ndmd) killer. as the Waiter. You're Never Too Old to Stay at Home Jane Harper is a journalist who moved from the UK to Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid. Dorothy and Edward visit Clacton to try and pep up their Australia in 2008. She lives in Melbourne and currently writes First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1984. marriage. for the Herald Sun. She won the Victorian Premier's Literary THU 06:30 Paul Temple (b00rm20y) Dorothy and Edward Atkinson are Sidcup's premier warring Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2015, and The Dry is Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case couple with a marriage to challenge even the most determined her first novel. It was named the Australian Book Industry 3. Peter Galino of counsellors. Association's Book of the Year, and the Australian Independent After the discovery of the body of key witness, Mary Talbot, Barry Pilton's marital mayhem sitcom stars Hugh Paddick as Bookseller 2017 Indie Book of the Year. there's drama back at her flat - and suave sleuth Paul worries Edward and Betty Marsden as Dorothy. Read by Richard Goulding that wife Steve is in danger. With Aubrey Woods and Nigel Lambert. Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. Another intriguing case for BBC Radio's smoothest investigator After notching up multiple BBC radio series together of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017. and his glamorous wife written by Francis Durbridge. 'Beyond Our Ken' and 'Round the Horne' - most memorably as THU 14:15 Gregory Evans - Blood and Milk (b09d3r7v) CAST: aging juvenile Binkie Huckaback and Dame Celia Series 3 Paul Temple …. Peter Coke Molestrangler - Hugh and Betty were reunited on-air, almost a Episode 4 Steve …. Marjorie Westwood decade later in 'The 27 Year Itch'. Meg must take drastic action when her self-proclaimed half- Charlie …. James Beattie Producer: Geoffrey Perkins brother, Bren Evans, increases his demands. Meanwhile the Wilfred Stirling …. Charles Leno First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1978. police suspect Meg may be involved in the murder of gangster Detective Inspector Kingston …. Duncan McIntyre THU 09:00 Who Goes There? (b064cy21) Moses Lipski. Lance Reynolds …. Richard Williams Series 6 Meg ….. Bettrys Jones Betty Wayne …. Grizelda Hervey Episode 4 Samuel ….. David Horovitch Peter Galino …. Robert Rietty Martin Young presents the biographical quiz show. Dora Lipski ….. Chetna Pandya From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Team captains Francis Wheen and Fred Housego are joined by Fred Wensley ….. Samuel James Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, novelist Lynne Truss and biographer Anthony Holden. Brenig Evans ….. David Sturzaker solved case-after-case in one of BBC radio's most popular Producer: Elizabeth Freestone Iolo Jones ….. Philip Fox series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2002. Asher ….. Simon Ludders and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore THU 09:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b007r42w) by Gregory Evans cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, Series 1 Directed by Marc Beeby usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. A Stiff Audition First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. Producer: Martyn C. Webster Young actor Robert Wilson is desperately seeking work. THU 14:30 The Best of Everything (b01ljl56) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954. At last an audition comes up. He doesn't need to rigidly stick to The Best of Everything was written by Rona Jaffe in 1958 and THU 07:00 Cleaning Up (b054tl73) the script - just be rigid. became an instant best seller. It was a novel about the travails of 4. Surprise Sitcom by Paul Mayhew-Archer. four working girls in the early 50s. Every night, as time is called and people are spat out onto the Robert Wilson …. John Gordon Sinclair The book was devoured by the Mad Men generation of women streets and squeezed into rides home to dream -tossed beds - Desmond Shaw …. Gary Waldhorn entering the world of work for the first time. They worked in others are hard at work. Teams of cleaners are in office spaces Sue …. Caroline Quentin publishing houses and for advertising agencies. They dreamed scrubbing, vaccuming and cleaning up. And right at the bottom with Ron Pember, Jo Kendall, Joanna Mackie, Jonathan Kydd, of leaving the typing pool behind and rising to the rank of of the food chain we find our gang - Spit n' Polish tackling the Michael Graham Cox and Melinda Walker copyist or editor. Jaffe crystallized the contradictions of this floors of a plush tower block in Manchester city centre. Producer: Paul Spencer generation; ambitious and independent, yet constrained by their Written by Ian Kershaw and with a top hole Northern cast this First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1989. own traditional notions of femininity - desperate to marry, not is a funny, sometimes dark comedy about people who always THU 10:00 Abdication (b084d8cq) to be 'left on the shelf, yet yearning for opportunity and get the fuzzy end of the lollipop. This four part series is about a 1. The King's Matter independence. group of people who are thrown together by their work and who Stanley Baldwin and Cosmo Lang are determined that Edward Jaffe's heroines reflected the real lives of these proto feminist take as much solace as they can from this. VIII will not turn back the clock and impose his will on the American women. Julie treats Nita to a little surprise. governance of England by marrying the American divorcee This programme looks at the importance of the 'Best of Julie ..... Julie Hesmondhalgh Wallis Simpson. Everything' - reissued after Mad Men's lotharia Don Draper was Nobby ..... Paul Barber If Edward and Mrs Simpson were to have their way, the Church spotted reading it in bed. Why did it speak so clearly to this Dave ..... John Thompson of England would suffer disestablishment and the national generation? What of Jaffe herself - she never married - Shiv ..... Lauren Socha government would collapse. rejecting the road that so repulsed, yet beguiled her heroines. Nita ..... Bhavna Limbachia In essence, this is the story of two men determined to persuade The Best of Everything is presented by the writer Vivien Our Bri ..... Jack Deam the King from a marriage they feel is not only unsuitable, but Goldman, who read the book as a girl in England. Alex... Justin Moorhouse also wrong. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. Written by Ian Kershaw Jim Broadbent stars as Stanley Baldwin, Hugh Ross as Cosmo THU 15:00 Abdication (b084d8cq) Produced in Salford by Alison Vernon-Smith Lang and Anthony Calf plays Edward VIII. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2015. Tomorrow, the story is told from the point of view of Wallis THU 15:45 RK Narayan Stories (b01dbfnc) THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Simpson, as imagined from the memoirs of those based with [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] (m000wsyb) her in the south of France at that time. THU 16:00 Who Goes There? (b064cy21) Series 9 Written by Christopher Lee [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Episode 6 Directed by Celia de Wolff THU 16:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b007r42w) The ninth series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is A Pier production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] very different to the previous eight. It's still written by John December 2016. THU 17:00 Cleaning Up (b054tl73) Finnemore, "one of our best sketch writers", (The Observer), THU 10:45 RK Narayan Stories (b01dbfnc) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] and performed by him with "a great supporting cast of Margaret Trail of the Green Blazer THU 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Over the cacophony of a bustling Indian market, pickpocket (m000wsyb) Quinlan" (The Telegraph), and there are still sketches and Raju is drawn to a man wearing a distinctive jacket. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] songs. But, with no live studio audience this year, John has Taken from R.K. Narayan’s short story collection ‘Malgudi THU 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jlbs) taken the opportunity to try something completely new. Day’s, published in 1943. Earthsearch I John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme started in 2011 and Read by Sam Dastor. 4. The Solaric Empire quickly established itself as "One of the most consistently funny Producer: Duncan Minshull Searching for Earth - which has mysteriously vanished from the sketch shows for quite some time" (The Guardian), and "One of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1991. solar system - two of the crew of the starship Challenger have the funniest and most inventive new radio comedy shows of THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b08ltmyt) landed on neighbouring planet, Kyros. recent years" (The Daily Mail). [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] At first it appears to be uninhabited, but Astra and Darv soon Written by ... John Finnemore THU 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b010y0r7) discover otherwise... Newt ... John Finnemore [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] James Follett's ten-part adventure serial in time and space. Russ ... Lawry Lewin THU 12:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b011ckn4) CAST: Deborah ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Commander Telson …. Sean Arnold Jerry ... Simon Kane THU 12:30 The 27-Year Itch (b0b2ndmd) Sharna …. Amanda Murray Vanessa ... Carrie Quinlan [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Astra …. Kathryn Hurlbutt Other parts played by the cast. THU 13:00 Father Brown Stories (b007jp1b) Darv …. Haydn Wood Original music composed by .... Susannah Pearse [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Angel One …. Sonia Fraser Original music performed by ... Susannah Pearse and Sally THU 13:30 Paul Temple (b00rm20y) Angel Two …. Gordon Reid Stares [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Thale …. Graham Faulkner Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 June 2021 Page 10 of 11 Helan …. Judy Franklin [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] what really makes a person tick. Stephen and his guest reflect Thorden …. John Bott FRI 02:30 The Best of Everything (b01ljl56) with empathy and humour on why we get embarrassed, where Spegal …. Stephen Garlick [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] our shame thresholds should be, and the value of guilt. Director: Glyn Dearman FRI 03:00 Abdication (b084d8cq) In this edition, Nigel Planer - writer, actor and one of the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1981. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] original ‘alternative comedians’, co-founder of The Comic Strip THU 18:30 Great Lives (b085ttcd) FRI 03:45 RK Narayan Stories (b01dbfnc) - wrestles with three episodes from his life that have been Series 41 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Thursday] plaguing his conscience for decades. Ruth Holdaway on Helen Rollason FRI 04:00 Who Goes There? (b064cy21) Other guests in this series include Cariad Lloyd, Dr Phil Ruth Holdaway, the Chief Executive of Women in Sport picks [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Hammond, Clarke Peters, Suzi Ruffell, Marian Keyes, Phil the sports broadcaster Helen Rollason who in 1990 became the FRI 04:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b007r42w) Wang, Joan Bakewell, Lucy Porter and Alastair Campbell. first woman to present Grandstand. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Written and presented by Stephen Mangan Helen Rollason trained as a teacher, but after stints in FRI 05:00 Cleaning Up (b054tl73) With extra material by Nick Doody community and local radio moved to the BBC to report for and [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Devised with Dave Anderson later present the children's News programme 'Newsround'. She FRI 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Produced by Frank Stirling kept her hand in with sport and made history in 1990 when she (m000wsyb) A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4 was appointed as the first female presenter of the BBC's [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jm92) flagship sports programme 'Grandstand'. Sport was largely a FRI 06:00 Father Brown Stories (b00y25xk) Series 1 male-dominated world at the time and there were plenty both Series 1 Sorry Wrong Number inside and outside the Corporation who would have happily 2. The Queer Feet A downed German plane sees the Home Guard platoon have seen her fail. Death in a small hotel. Who stole the silver fish service? How attempting to employ Captain Mainwaring's phone box drill... John Caunt who helped Helen write her autobiography joins the many waiters are there? And how did all this lead to a glimmer Six years after legendary sitcom Dad's Army started on BBC discussion, and there are contributions from Clare Balding, of repentance? TV, these specially adapted radio versions began recording with James Pearce and Deb Crook. Series of GK Chesterton's stories about the insightful clerical the original cast. Producer: Toby Field sleuth dramatised by John Scotney. Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. Starring Andrew Sachs as Father Brown and Olivier Pierre as Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, Ian THU 19:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b011ckn4) Flambeau. Lavender as Private Pike, John Laurie as Private Frazer, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] With Matt Brenner as the Colonel, Christopher Scott as Duke, Graham Stark as Private Walker, Bill Pertwee as the ARP THU 19:30 The 27-Year Itch (b0b2ndmd) Kerry Shale as Hector, David Graeme as Lever, Arnold Warden, Pearl Hackney as Mrs Pike, Avril Angers as the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Diamond as Giovanni, Robin Summers as Jean-Pierre, David Telephonist and John Forrest as the Lieutenant. With John THU 20:00 Father Brown Stories (b007jp1b) Sinclair as the Doctor and Alan Thompson as Audley. Snagge as the announcer. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid. Adapted from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's original BBC TV THU 20:30 Paul Temple (b00rm20y) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1984 scripts by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 06:30 Paul Temple (b00rm4xk) Producer: John Dyas THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b08ltmyt) Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in May 1974. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] 4. La Mortella FRI 08:30 Semi Circles (b0962xwz) THU 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b010y0r7) Hot on the heels of a tip from Peter Galino, the debonair sleuth Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] and wife Steve head to London's La Mortella club to hunt down A Bit on the Side THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme clues. What is the connection between Bagpuss as Beethoven's Fifth (m000wsyb) Another intriguing case for BBC Radio's smoothest investigator and what does it have to do with the Controller of BBC1? [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] and his glamorous wife written by Francis Durbridge. Ben and Helen wonder if they’re missing out on adventures THU 22:30 Political Animals (b01lv38q) CAST: beyond the marital bed. Series 1 Paul Temple …. Peter Coke The improving story of life and improving times in an Wilberforce Steve …. Marjorie Westwood improving neighbourhood. Wilberforce, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office 1973-1987, Charlie …. James Beattie Starring Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben. reflects on his life with Margaret Thatcher. Sir Graham Forbes …. Lester Mudditt Written by Simon Brett The first in a series of four scurrilous talks given by well- Lynne Ferguson …. Peggy Hassard Helen ...... Paula Wilcox known, if unreliable, Downing Street cats, who relate their trials Lance Reynolds …. Richard Williams Ben ...... David Wood and tribulations under four different Prime Ministers. Louis Fabian …. Olaf Olsen Mrs Kelly ...... Pay Heywood Starring Clive Swift. Waiter …. Arthur Lawrence Alastair ...... Bruce Alexander Written by Tony Bagley. From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Nigel ...... James Griffiths Director: Marc Beeby Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, Blythe ...... Bryan Coleman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2012. solved case-after-case in one of BBC radio's most popular Linda ...... Jill Lidstone THU 22:45 Brian Appleton's History of Rock 'n' Roll series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails Producer: Pete Atkin (b00fw3yp) and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1982. My Turn to Be Poorly cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, FRI 09:00 Counterpoint (b00sj69z) The Brummie musicologist reveals the impact of so many rock usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. Series 24 legends dying at the age of 27. Stars Graham Fellows. From Producer: Martyn C. Webster 2010 Semi-final 2 October 2001. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954. Three contestants who have won their respective heats return to THU 23:00 The In Crowd (b06ds1y8) FRI 07:00 Fags, Mags and Bags (b0bfywgp) face Paul Gambaccini's questions on all aspects of music, in the Series 4 Series 8 second semi-final of the 2010 competition. Episode 4 The Rubington's Doobrery 9000 As ever, there'll be a wide selection of musical extracts to suit Memory issues and is Mary really Mary? Manchester sketch The hit series returns for an eighth series with more shop based all tastes. One contestant will win a place in the Final in a show with Kate Ward, Smug Roberts and Robin Ince. From shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, courtesy of fortnight's time. June 2004. Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. Written by and Producer Paul Bajoria THU 23:30 Absolute Power (b007xwmc) starring Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010." Series 3 Set in a Scots-Asian corner shop, the award winning Fags, Mags FRI 09:30 To the Manor Born (b007jpzw) Episode 2 and Bags sees a return of all the shop regular characters, and The Rhythms of the Earth Can Prentiss and McCabe's medicine help the government sort some guest appearances along the way, from the likes of Moray Audrey fforbes-Hamilton must educate the new squire into the out the NHS? Hunter, Lorraine McIntosh & Mina Amwar. ways of the Lord of the Manor. A swipe at the cults of celebrity and spin, Absolute Power In this episode, Ramesh gets his fiancé Malcolm jealous when CAST: centres around the PR agency, Prentiss McCabe, a company set it's revealed that the Cash and Carry promotions manager, Audrey fforbes-Hamilton …. Penelope Keith up by a couple of ex-BBC, long-term staffers. The partners spin Helena (played by Lorraine McIntosh), fancies him. Richard DeVere …. Keith Barron news stories to benefit their invariably loathsome clients. Join the staff of Fags, Mags and Bags in their tireless quest to Marjory Frobisher …. Angela Thorne CAST: bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke with Arabic Brabinger …. Nicholas McArdle Charles Prentiss …. Stephen Fry writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh Mahju has Mrs Polouvicka …. Margery Withers Martin McCabe …. John Bird built it up over the course of over 30 years and is a firmly Ned …. Frank Middlemass Sir Archibald Sullivan …. Tony Gardner entrenched, friendly presence in the local area. He is joined by The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced Sandy …. Siobhan Hayes his shop sidekick, Dave. to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death Clive …. Tom George Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, Maurice …. David Timson surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach to they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage. Written by Mark Tavener. shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business. Ramesh is From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving Producer: Dawn Ellis keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them - whether they eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2002. like it or not! DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descendent. Producer: Gus Beattie for Gusman Productions. First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. FRIDAY 18 JUNE 2021 August 2018. Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his TV script. FRI 07:30 The Confessional (m000wyx7) Producer: Jane Berthoud FRI 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jlbs) Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1997. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] The Confession of Nigel Planer FRI 10:00 Abdication (b085g2tq) FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b085ttcd) Actor and broadcaster Stephen Mangan presents a comedy chat 2. The Crisis of Wallis Simpson [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] show about shame and guilt. Another take on a well known piece of British history. Wallis FRI 01:00 Father Brown Stories (b007jp1b) Each week Stephen invites a different eminent guest into his Simpson's view of the abdication crisis as imagined from [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] virtual confessional box to make three 'confessions' . This is a memoirs of those involved between December 4th and FRI 01:30 Paul Temple (b00rm20y) cue for some remarkable storytelling, and surprising insights. December 12th 1936 and based with her in the south of France [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] We’re used to hearing celebrity interviews, where stars are at that time. FRI 02:00 Crime Down Under: The Dry by Jane Harper persuaded to show off about their achievements and talk about With a clearer mind, having fled to France to escape the (b093b1x2) their proudest moments. Stephen's not interested in that. He publicity and press intrusion surrounding her impending [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] doesn’t want to know what his guests are proud of, he wants to marriage to Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson tries to persuade the FRI 02:15 Gregory Evans - Blood and Milk (b09d3r7v) know what they’re ashamed of. That’s surely the way to find out King not to abdicate and convince him they can continue their Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 June 2021 Page 11 of 11 relationship without the need to marry. FRI 15:00 Abdication (b085g2tq) Prison Ain't All That Bad Written by Nicola Baldwin [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] The student politicians of the new political Party use prison- Directed by Celia de Wolff FRI 15:45 RK Narayan Stories (b01dbqjv) based TV shows as inspiration for forming their policy on crime A Pier production for Radio 4, first broadcast in December [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] and punishment. 2016. FRI 16:00 Counterpoint (b00sj69z) Second series of Tom Basden's satirical comedy. FRI 10:45 RK Narayan Stories (b01dbqjv) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Simon ..... Tom Basden Father's Help FRI 16:30 To the Manor Born (b007jpzw) Duncan ..... Tim Key Swami is the pupil. Samuel is the teacher. A classroom battle is [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Jared ..... Jonny Sweet about to start. Read by Zia Mohyeddin. FRI 17:00 Fags, Mags and Bags (b0bfywgp) Mel ..... Ann Crilly FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m0008jwm) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Phoebe ..... Katy Wix Plant podcasts with Frances Tophill FRI 17:30 The Confessional (m000wyx7) Producer: Julia McKenzie From September 2019. Frances Tophill of Gardeners' World [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2011. and producer Clara Nissen get out into the garden to dig up FRI 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007s19b) some fascinating - and surprising - podcasts about plants. Plus, Earthsearch I Charlotte Petts on her award-winning show 'Growing Wild', and 5. The Pools of Time Jane Perrone on her indoor gardening podcast 'On the Ledge'. Darv and Astra, two of the starship's crew, are in grave danger FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jm92) after being taken prisoner by the inhabitants of Zelda 5. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Their crewmates Telson and Sharna are in hot pursuit aboard FRI 12:30 Semi Circles (b0962xwz) the Challenger... [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] James Follett's ten-part adventure serial in time and space. FRI 13:00 Father Brown Stories (b00y25xk) CAST: [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Commander Telson …. Sean Arnold FRI 13:30 Paul Temple (b00rm4xk) Sharna …. Amanda Murray [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Astra …. Kathryn Hurlbutt FRI 14:00 Crime Down Under: The Dry by Jane Harper Darv …. Haydn Wood (b093hf97) Angel One …. Sonia Fraser Episode 10 Angel Two …. Gordon Reid A family has been brutally killed on their farm outside the small Helan …. Judy Franklin Australian country town of Kiewarra. It hasn't rained for two Thorden …. John Bott years, farms are failing and tensions in the community are Spegal …. Stephen Garlick running unbearably high. It seems that Luke Hadler reached Custodian of the Past …. Eve Karpf snapping point, killed his wife and child and then committed Old Man …. Godfrey Kenton suicide. Director: Glyn Dearman When policeman Aaron Falk returns to his hometown for his First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1981. old friend's funeral he wants to get away again as soon as FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b00svndm) possible. He certainly doesn't want to be reminded of the secret Lost he and Luke shared twenty years earlier. But as he's unwillingly Provocative and thoughtful new writing and discussion, drawn into the investigation into the Hadler deaths, the past presented by Dominic Arkwright. keeps getting in the way. Questions mount and suspicion British backpacker, Jamie Neale, was given up for dead when spreads through the town, and Falk must face what's hidden in he was lost for two weeks in the Australian bush last year. He his own past to help him solve the secrets of the present. joins Louise Doughty and Hugh Thomson as all three write 10/10: Falk and Raco confront the killer, and the threat of about and share their experiences of being Lost. tragedy. Produced by Beatrice Fenton. Crime Down Under showcases some of the best crime fiction FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jm92) from contemporary Australia. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Jane Harper is a journalist who moved from the UK to FRI 19:30 Semi Circles (b0962xwz) Australia in 2008. She lives in Melbourne and currently writes [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] for the Herald Sun. She won the Victorian Premier's Literary FRI 20:00 Father Brown Stories (b00y25xk) Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2015, and The Dry is [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] her first novel. It was named the Australian Book Industry FRI 20:30 Paul Temple (b00rm4xk) Association's Book of the Year, and the Australian Independent [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Bookseller 2017 Indie Book of the Year. FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m0008jwm) Read by Richard Goulding [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. FRI 22:00 The Confessional (m000wyx7) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 14:15 Gregory Evans - Blood and Milk (b09d43ws) FRI 22:30 Seekers (b05wyrqg) Series 3 Series 2 Episode 5 So What Did I Miss? Having revealed Bren Evans to be a fraud, Megan must now Stuart is back from America, and there's been big changes at tackle her real enemy. Samuel, meanwhile, is forced to reveal the Essex job centre while he's been away. some surprising secrets of his own. Series 2 of the job seeking sitcom starring Mathew Horne, Meg ...... Bettrys Jones Daniel Mays, Tony Way and Zahra Ahmadi. Samuel ...... David Horovitch Stuart ------Mathew Horne Dora Lipski ...... Chetna Pandya Joseph ------Daniel Mays Fred Wensley ...... Samuel James Terry ----- Tony Way Iolo Jones ...... Philip Fox Nicola ------Zahra Ahmadi Asher ...... Simon Ludders Vanessa ----- Natalie Walter Hettie Goldstein ...... Julie Teal Gary Probert ----- Steve Oram by Gregory Evans Ralph ------Ian Conningham Directed by Marc Beeby Mr Thompson ------Sam Dale First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. Written by Steve Burge. FRI 14:30 Melencolia (b044gp6c) Producer: Victoria Lloyd Albrecht Durer was the Steve Jobs of his day. Master engraver, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2015. painter and unafraid of mixing creativity with a keen eye for FRI 23:00 Sounding Off with McGough (b007jlwb) business. He was well regarded in his own lifetime and Episode 1 acknowledged as the most important artist of the Northern Roger McGough looks at life, love, happiness, heroes, villains Renaissance. Among his many works, it's his master print and embarrassing relations. Melencolia 1 which is the most written about and which Poetic reflections on the business of poetry, to the continues to intrigue those who look at it. Created in 1514, it accompaniment of long-time musical collaborator Andy has perplexed and inspired some of the greatest minds in Roberts. history. The print adorned the studies of both Sigmund Freud Recorded in Bath. and Albert Einstein. Producer: Sara Davies Art historian Dr. Janina Ramirez is fascinated by this work and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000. the secrets it contains from the brooding angel to the magic FRI 23:15 The Shuttleworths (b01mlrf0) square. In this programme she's on a quest to find out if it's Series 4 possible to decode this intricate engraving. She sees a couple of Cough in the Loft prints at the British Museum with Giulia Bartrum and Dora Singer/songwriter John Shuttleworth complete with an Thornton. We hear how the work inspired composer, Sir electronic keyboard. Harrison Birtwistle to compose his Melencolia I for his friend, Episode 1: A Cough in the Loft the clarinettist, Alan Hacker. Janina lectures her students on the Mary is busy having a clear-out and asks John to put some work and hears their initial response to the symbols and she things in the loft for storage. Whilst up there he hears an old meets former art student, David Lol Perry who had the print on digital watch bleeping and so, armed with cheese and piccalilli his wall and became mesmerised by it. sandwiches for fortification, he decides to sit in and wait until it Writer and art historian, Patrick Doorly, author of The Truth bleeps once more in a quest to find it. about Art sheds light on the print and suggests that in order to Written and performed by Graham Fellows truly understand it, you also need to know your Plato. Produced by Dawn Ellis Join Janina on her quest to decode Durer. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Producer: Sarah Taylor FRI 23:30 Party (b011vg9k) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Series 2 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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