22 February 2008 Page 1 of 6 SATURDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2008 War

Radio 7 Listings for 16 – 22 February 2008 Page 1 of 6 SATURDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2008 war. Waring as Rex Fortescue, Peter Yapp as Percival Fortescue, Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton. Natasha Pyne as Jennifer Fortescue, SAT 00:00 Tanith Lee - Red as Blood (b007jq65) Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere From the book first published in 1953 and dramatised by In a dark Snow White fantasy, the Queen sets out to rescue her Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher Michael Bakewell. stepdaughter from her sinister heritage. Read by Stella Gonet. Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger Director: Enyd Williams SAT 00:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. (b007k4nz) Frank Middlemass ..... Ned SAT 13:30 The Men from the Ministry (b007k13p) Episode 5 PC Dottle ...... Kevin Eldon Seal of Office Becoming obsessed with his alternative life, Dick is in no state The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced The blundering civil servants are tasked with organising a to deal with Vita and her sons. Read by Julian Wadham. to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death military display in London, but there's a terrible mix-up... SAT 01:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face (b008yv5r) leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. 4. The Gathering they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage. With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley and John Graham. Inspector Adam Dalgliesh summons the entire household to From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham. hear his conclusions about the killer of Sally Jupp. eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard 'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 Robin Ellis stars as Dalgliesh with Sian Phillips and Hugh DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descendent. and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from Grant. First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, The climax of PD James's debut crime novel about her appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. Written for however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows gentleman detective. radio by Peter Spence. in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC Inspector Adam Dalgliesh …. Robin Ellis Producer: Jane Berthoud Radio 4 Extra. Mrs Maxie …. Sian Phillips First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997. Producer: Edward Taylor Felix Hearne …. Hugh Grant SAT 06:30 Second Thoughts (b007jx1p) First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in August 1976. Deborah Riscoe …. Beatie Edney Series 1 SAT 14:00 16/02/2008 (b008z9r5) Stephen Maxie …. David Thorpe Nursing a Conscience Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Catherine Bowers …. Oona Beeson Faith nurses poorly Bill, but he's in for a nasty surprise... BBC7. Mrs Proctor …. Jillie Meers Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill MacGregor and Faith SAT 17:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b008z9rx) Victor Proctor …. John Baddeley Greyshott trying to forge a relationship whilst balancing the The American funny man presents comedy and music from Sgt Martin …. Steve Hodson demands of his ex-wife, Liza and her teenage children, Hannah Grand Forks, North Dakota, with the Grammy winning Del James Ritchie …. James Telfer and Joe. McCoury Band. Johnny Wilcox …. Susan Sheridan Staring Lynda Bellingham and James Bolam. SAT 18:00 Space Hacks (b007k2bd) Martha …. Jill Graham Series one of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, Space Hacks Sally Jupp …. Melanie Hudson husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. The Last Postman Dramatised by Neville Teller. A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran Charlie and Moog are discovered. But surely the postman can Producer: Matthew Walters for four series, with a spin-off 'Faith in the Future'. be trusted? With Dan Mersh and Prunella Scales. From First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1993. Faith ...... Lynda Bellingham February 2007. SAT 01:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4ql) Bill ...... James Bolam SAT 18:30 Fear on 4 (b007jn9t) Wasted Years Hannah ...... Kelda Holmes Series 2 Episode 5 Joe ...... Mark Denham The Horn A series of armed robberies bears resemblance to a spate of Liza ...... ,Belinda Lang Three strangers are trapped in a snowstorm on a remote stretch similar crimes DI Resnick investigated ten years ago. Alex ...... John Samson of motorway. SAT 02:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b008yvfb) Treadwell ...... Richard Tate They find themselves listening for the sound of a horn which Reaction and Reform Richard ...... John Moffatt they believe will lead them to safety. Fred is unexpectedly employed, and there's bad news for the Producer: Pete Atkin They are very much mistaken... Lydgates. Stars Caroline Martin and Tom Goodman-Hill. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1988. The Man in Black sets the chilling scene... SAT 02:15 Caroline Gawn - Fresh from the Coast SAT 07:00 Big Toe Books (b008z9gn) Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers. (b007jqxk) Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. Written by Stephen Gallagher 1940s London: Two women uncover a devastating secret that SAT 08:00 Westway Omnibus (b008z9gp) The Man In Black …. Edward de Souza changes their friendship for ever. The BBC World Service drama serial set in and around a busy Nathan …. John Castle Elsie Haworth and Kathleen James are old school friends, medical practice in West London. Mick …. Philip Sully working on the rebuilding of Waterloo Bridge. Elsie is heavily SAT 09:00 Comedy Greats (b007k0v0) David …. Peter Gunn pregnant, but won't reveal the father's name to anyone. The 1950s The Snowplough Driver …. Christopher Scott A police inspector begins to follow the two women, asking Episode 2 The Girl (spectral voice) …. Cara Kelly probing questions about the mysterious father. The plot Decade by decade, Barry Cryer showcases some of the funniest Director: Martin Jenkins thickens and then thickens again... and finest shows ever broadcast by the BBC. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1989. Caroline Gawn's thriller stars Jo Joyner as Elsie, Christine Six more favourite shows plucked from the 1950s schedules of SAT 19:00 Westway Omnibus (b008z9gp) Brennan as Kathleen, Mark Chatterton as the Police Inspector, the BBC Home Service and BBC Light Programme: [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Martin Reeve as Mr Jackson and Ken Bradshaw as Gerhard. * Much Binding in the Marsh: SAT 20:00 Comedy Greats (b007k0v0) Director: Polly Thomas From 28/8/1953 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. The Weekly Bind brings you Mr Mulch's gardening and SAT 23:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b008z9rx) SAT 03:00 Saturday Night Fry (b008yv5q) Patience Gush's poetry. Stars Kenneth Horne, Richard [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 today] Episode 2 Murdoch, Maurice Denham, Dora Bryan and Sam Costa. From Stephen Fry's surreal, erudite sketch show with humorous August 1953. banter and sketches. * Variety Bandbox: SUNDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2008 With Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent and Robert Bathurst. From 22/01/1950 Written by Stephen Fry with additional material by Ian Brown Comedy and songs with Frankie Howerd, Billy Ternent, Jerry SUN 00:00 Space Hacks (b007k2bd) and James Hendrie. Allen, Barbara Leigh, Peter Sellers, Bill Kerr and Philip Slessor. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Producer: Dan Patterson From January 1950. SUN 00:30 Fear on 4 (b007jn9t) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1988. * Just Fancy: [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SAT 03:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b007jv2l) From 08/03/51 SUN 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jvfn) Series 1 A grumpy neighbour and a helicopter ride. Gentle sketch show [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] Episode 2 starring Eric Barker and his wife Pearl Hackney. From March SUN 02:30 The Men from the Ministry (b007k13p) Indian students on a gap year enjoy bustling England's smells at 1951. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Saturday] the airport, the Indian Neighbours are cooking a roast and * Educating Archie: SUN 03:00 Comedy Greats (b007k0v0) Skipinder the Punjabi Kangaroo hops in. From 01/03/1959 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday] Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Nitin Sawhney, Meera Brough makes a bet that he and Archie Andrews can travel SUN 06:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b008z9rx) Syal and Nina Wadia. round the British Isles in eight days. Radio ventriloquism with [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Saturday] Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch Dick Emery, Bernard Bresslaw and Warren Mitchell. From SUN 07:00 Big Toe Books (b008zd8m) comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to March 1959. Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001. * Meet The Huggetts: SUN 08:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch Omnibus Scripted by Sharat Sardana, Richard Pinto and the cast. Loser Pays (b008zd8s) Produced by Gareth Edwards and Anil Gupta. Joe and Fred's attempt to teach their wives a lesson backfires. Episode 3 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996. Stars Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison and Kenneth Connor. Dorothea is shocked to encounter Ladislaw, but delighted to SAT 04:00 The Nimmo Twins in... (b00jh6jt) From September 1957. help out Lydgate. Stars Caroline Martin and Tom Goodman- Series 1 * Hancock's Half Hour: Hill. Exit, Pursued by a Bear Series 5 (7/20) Hancock's School SUN 09:15 Alan Plater Short Stories - A Brief Encounter A provincial theatre company comes a cropper at the hands of a Inspired by Bill and supplied by Sid, the lad turns his home into With Richard Wagner (b007qzh5) mad playwright. Stars Karl Minns. From September 2000. a centre of learning. Stars Tony Hancock. With Sid James, Bill A teacher faces the task of staging the 'Ring Cycle' in a school SAT 04:30 Colin and Fergus's Digi Radio (b007k156) Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams. From March 1958. ranked bottom of the league tables. Read by Barbara Flynn. Series 2 Produced and scripted by Peter Reed SUN 09:30 Unearthing Mysteries (b008zdb2) Episode 2 Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in May 2003. Series 3 The comedy duo tackle an evil fish. More sketches and crazy SAT 12:00 Miss Marple (b007jvfn) Saxon Steel characters. Stars Colin Hoult and Fergus Craig. From January A Pocket Full of Rye Did the Saxons make top-notch steel centuries before it was 2007. With only one bizarre clue to the agonizing death of a wealthy 'invented'? Aubrey Manning investigates. From November SAT 05:00 War and Peace (b007jly4) financier, Miss Marple must unravel a mystery hidden in a 2001. Country Pleasures child's nursery rhyme that is to prove one of the strangest cases SUN 10:00 Alan Plater - Who's Jimmy Dickenson? With Russia and France's uneasy peace, all is not well in the of her life. (b007qzh7) Rostov family. Stars Simon Russell Beale and Leo McKern. Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as the The phrase 'Well, goodnight then....' usually indicates the end of SAT 06:00 To the Manor Born (b007n1wj) deceptively mild sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. With Nicky Henson an evening, but in this case it signals the start of an evening - An Englishman's Home as Inspector Neele, Kristin Miward as Miss Dove, Claira and what an evening. When Devere installs new security cameras, Audrey declares Mackie as Gladys, Joshua Towb as Sergeant Hay, Derek A mysterious man insinuates himself into the lives of a Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 16 – 22 February 2008 Page 2 of 6 suburban couple in Hull. Who is the shady Jimmy Dickenson? name, Chain Reaction is a simple idea of big name stars from At Bertram's Hotel Starring Stephanie Turner as Sara, Sam Kelly as Geoff, David the world of entertainment interviewing others whose work they Episode 1 Fleeshman as Randolph and Sue Jenkins as Marian. appreciate and admire. Deceptively mild amateur sleuth, Jane Marple is being treated Written by Alan Platter. Recorded with an audience, the interviews focus on the life, to a short holiday in London by her niece. Staying at the Directed by Caroline Smith. career and the passions of the interviewee but often prove to be dignified, unostentatious Bertram's Hotel, tucked away in a Recorded in Manchester and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in as revealing about the interviewer. back street of busy Mayfair - here guests can indulge in 1986. Producer: Tilusha Ghelani comforts of a bygone age. SUN 11:30 Tales From the Mausoleum Club (b007k243) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2005. But Miss Marple begins to feel uneasy. Something sinister lurks Heart of Skegness SUN 23:00 Kenny Everett's Radio Days (b007k36m) beneath the polished veneer. Why are so many major crimes The Honourable Clarence Green becomes more entranced as he Series 1 associated in some way with the hotel or somehow implicate the listens to a story of a journey into the very darkest part of Episode 3 eminently respectable people staying there? barbarism. Jingles, chat and tunes. Classic clips of the celebrated disc Published in 1965, Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Starring Jim Broadbent and Matt Frewer. jockey from his commercial radio peak. Featuring Captain Whitfield as Miss Marple. Star-packed curious and macabre comedy series set in a very Kremmen. Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield exclusive London club. Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips Written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie. Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham Curtis ...... Jim Broadbent MONDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2008 Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers Johnson ...... Matt Frewer Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley Captain White ...... Richard Pearson MON 00:00 Ben Moor - Undone (b008zdkt) Mr Humfries ...... Geoffrey Whitehead Green ...... Royce Mills [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Colonel Luscombe ...... Geoffrey Bayldon Mrs Jeves ...... Sheila Steafel MON 00:30 Daphne du Maurier - The Blue Lenses Raymond West ...... Andrew Branch The Boss ...... BillWallis (b007k4rp) Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley Bannister ...... Ron Pember [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] Lady Selina Hazy ...... Margaret Courtenay Welch ...... Michael Ripper MON 01:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch Omnibus Mrs Carpenter ...... Patience Tomlinson Music by Max Harris. (b008zd8s) Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles Producer: Paul Spencer [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] Henry ...... Garard Green First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1987. MON 02:15 Alan Plater Short Stories - A Brief Encounter Ladislaus Malinwoski ...... Gavin Muir SUN 12:00 Stand Ups and Strumpets (b007jw5s) With Richard Wagner (b007qzh5) Rose ...... Jane Whittenshaw Jenny Eclair [Repeat of broadcast at 09:15 on Sunday] Bridget ...... Sarah Plowright Professor Alison Oddey talks to the comedian about writing MON 02:30 Unearthing Mysteries (b008zdb2) Mr Bollard ...... David Collings novels, Lucille Ball and motherhood. From February 2001. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] Dramatised in five-parts by Michael Bakewell. SUN 12:30 Radio Roots (b00jqjh0) MON 03:00 The News Quiz (b008zdm6) Director: Enyd Williams Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 on Sunday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995. Hattie Jacques MON 03:30 Chain Reaction (b00gsb85) MON 09:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4t1) Russell Davies traces the actress' start in broadcasting, using [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Sunday] Wasted Years clips and interview. Featuring Tommy Handley and Beryl Reid. MON 04:00 Kenny Everett's Radio Days (b007k36m) Episode 6 SUN 13:00 Listen to Les (b007wvgq) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Sunday] A series of armed robberies bears an uncanny resemblance to a Classic comedy, sketches and monologues from the king of MON 05:00 Stand Ups and Strumpets (b007jw5s) spate of crimes Inspector Resnick investigated ten years earlier. deadpan humour. Cissie urges Ada to get out more. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] MON 10:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b008zg0p) SUN 13:30 The Al Read Show (b008zdfh) MON 05:30 Radio Roots (b00jqjh0) Revelations Episode 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] Ladislaw learns the truth about Casaubon's will, and about his Hospitals, the Post Office and noisy neighbours. MON 06:00 Listen to Les (b007wvgq) family's past. Stars Martin Hyder and Richard Dillane. A compilation of the legendary Northern comic's 1950s [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] MON 10:15 Anne Holm - I Am David (b007jykb) monologues. MON 06:30 The Al Read Show (b008zdfh) Episode 1 Originally produced at BBC North by Ronnie Taylor [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] A young refugee's brave escape from a labour camp sparks a Compilation produced by Mike Craig. MON 07:00 Big Toe Books (b008zfwd) courageous lone journey. Stars Rory Copus and Andrew First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1998. Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. Wincott. SUN 14:00 17/02/2008 (b008zdfj) MON 08:00 The Goon Show (b008zfwf) MON 11:00 War and Peace (b007k444) Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Series 7 Natasha's Crucible BBC7. The Spectre of Tintagel 1811: Napoleon's troops mass in Poland - and disaster strikes in SUN 17:00 Stand Ups and Strumpets (b007jw5s) Neddie Seagoon reveals his Arthurian roots and goes in search Moscow when Natasha is seduced. Stars Simon Russell Beale. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] of treasure in deepest Cornwall. MON 12:00 The Goon Show (b008zfwf) SUN 17:30 Radio Roots (b00jqjh0) Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Milligan and Larry Stephens. MON 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b008zhkn) SUN 18:00 Ben Moor - Undone (b008zdkt) Starring: Featuring 'Tim Brown's Schooldays' and the classic John and Series 2 Peter Sellers Mary 'I love to be alone in the country' sketch. Unwelcome Harry Secombe MON 13:00 Westway (b008zhkp) Edna and Tankerton return to her home town and attend a fete Spike Milligan It's a busy time at the Health Centre. worse than death. First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were MON 13:15 Back to the Drawing Board (b008zhmd) Staring Alex Tregear and Ben Moor. recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest Episode 1 Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga about magazine editor Edna shows weren’t kept in the archive. Fire-proof grease, happy accidents and the doggy doorbell. Turner entering a parallel world where her version of London is With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. Matthew Harvey explores the fascinating world of inventions. replaced with the city of Undone. Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. MON 13:30 Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson Edna Turner ...... Alex Tregear Announcer: Wallace Greenslade (b007k05g) Tankerton Slopes ...... Ben Moor Producer: Peter Eton 1. Little Water Wanderer Billy/Carlo ..... Duncan Wisbey First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in October 1956. The birth and the beginning of an eventful cubhood in the Rosie Turner ...... Emma Kennedy MON 08:30 Mark Tavener - In the Red (b007k0hz) Devon countryside - seen through the eyes of a young otter. Other parts played by the cast. Episode 5 Nicholas Farrell reads Henry Williamson's classic tale of otter Producer: Colin Anderson A crucial by-election result is due, as the murders continue - but life, first published in 1927. Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Radio Comedy and first reporter George Cragge is on the case. Abridged in five episodes by Sally Marmion. broadcast in February 2008. London is plagued by a series of bizarre murders of bank Producer: Elizabeth Allard SUN 18:30 Daphne du Maurier - The Blue Lenses managers. Hot on the trail of the killer are an old-style Chief First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. (b007k4rp) Police Inspector and BBC Radio's crime correspondent, George MON 13:45 Where There's a Will (b007v1dd) Episode 2 Cragge. Episode 1 Afer discovering she's able to see things that others can't, Marda A blackly humorous murder mystery set in the world of City Playwright and novelist John Mortimer reads from his book and West fears for her survival in this dangerous new world. finance, the BBC and political parties. Dramatised in seven- offers lessons in living and growing old disgracefully. The conclusion of Daphne du Maurier's two-part fantasy thriller parts by Mark Tavener and Peter Baynham from Mark MON 14:00 18/02/2008 (b008zhpm) exploring the darker aspects of human nature. Tavener's novel. Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Read by Emma Fielding. George Cragge ...... Michael Williams BBC7. Produced and abridged by Gemma Jenkins. Frank Jefferson ...... Barry Foster MON 17:00 Beachcomber (b008zhqy) Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2007. Geoffrey Crichton-Potter ...... Stephen Moore Silence in court please, the acrobats are here. Seemingly SUN 19:00 Listen to Les (b007wvgq) Henry ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt unrelated pieces of humour strung wonderfully together. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today] Max ...... Peter Woodthorpe MON 17:30 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? SUN 19:30 The Al Read Show (b008zdfh) Controller Radio 2 ...... Stephen Fry (b007jrt7) [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today] Controller Radio 4 ...... John Bird Guess Who's Coming to Dinner SUN 20:00 Alan Plater - Who's Jimmy Dickenson? Dominic De'ath ...... Benjamin Whitrow Terry is not keen to meet any of Bob's snobbish friends. (b007qzh7) Hercules Fortescue ...... Nicholas Le Prevost Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier, Rodney Bewes as Bob [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Andrew James ...... Peter Serafinowcz Ferris and Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers. SUN 21:30 Tales From the Mausoleum Club (b007k243) Laetitia ...... Victoria Carling With Sheila Fearn, Olive Milbourne, Julian Holloway and [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] Caroline ...... Susie Brann Gretta Gouriet. SUN 22:00 The News Quiz (b008zdm6) Home Secretary ...... Peter Yapp Created and scripted for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La Fresh from 4 - Catch up as Sandi Toksvig and the teams battle Auntie Agony ...... Eva Stuart Frenais. Adapted for radio by Patrick Tilley. it out over the latest news events. Controller BBC 1 ...... Ian McNiece Producer: John Browell SUN 22:30 Chain Reaction (b00gsb85) PA Woman ...... Annabel Mullion Originally lost from the archive, the audio was recovered in a Series 2 With Alice Arnold, Richard Turner and Tim Hope. BBC Treasure Hunt. Alexei Sayle Interviews Lenny Henry Music by Paul Mottram First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1975. One feisty comedian grills another in the tag talk show, where Producer: Paul Schlesinger MON 18:00 The Spaceship (b007w5jc) the guest is next week's interviewer. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. 1. Lost Based on the original BBC Radio 5 programme of the same MON 09:00 Miss Marple (b007jnm7) An alien princess proves to be problematic for the crew of the Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 16 – 22 February 2008 Page 3 of 6 Really Invincible III, Macclesfield Division. TUE 02:15 Anne Holm - I Am David (b007jykb) Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association A five-part sci-fi comedy starring James Fleet. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Monday] with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson Written by Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst. TUE 03:00 Mark Tavener - In the Red (b007k0hz) wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. In the year 2104, a fleet of research cruisers are launched into [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Monday] The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert space – with every moment aboard the Really Invincible III, TUE 03:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World (b007r4mj) Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight Macclesfield Division preserved by wall-to-wall monitoring, [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Monday] series on TV. and transmitted back to Earth. TUE 04:00 Sounding Off with McGough (b007k4lr) Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell Captain Taylor leads a crew that includes: [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] Harold ...... Harry H Corbett * Melissa Patterson: the leather wearing, gun-toting Chief of TUE 04:15 Date With Fate (b008zq34) With Jo Manning Wilson and John Samson. Security [Repeat of broadcast at 23:15 on Monday] Adapted for radio from their TV scripts by Ray Galton and * Science Officer Clive 55: one of 130 identical brothers TUE 04:30 Fellahs Hour with the Cheese Shop (b008zqdx) Alan Simpson. cloned from a single lab egg in Margate [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Monday] Producer: Bobby Jaye * Communications Officer Karen Trex: who just wishes TUE 05:00 War and Peace (b007k444) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1972. everybody could be friends [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE 13:00 Westway (b008zt5k) * Flight Engineer Stuart Jackson: the new boy on his first six- TUE 06:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? Drama serial set in and around a busy medical practice in West year stint in space and still a virgin (b007jrt7) London. What you are about to hear took place live, four years ago, [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Monday] TUE 13:15 Back to the Drawing Board (b008zt90) 70,000 light years from home. TUE 06:30 Beachcomber (b008zhqy) Episode 2 Captain Gordon Taylor …. James Fleet [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] Apart from creativity, great inventions call for patents and Melissa Patterson …. Emily Joyce TUE 07:00 Big Toe Books (b008zrx2) money. Presented by Matthew Harvey, with James Dyson. Karen …. Rose Cavaliero Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. TUE 13:30 Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson Stuart …. Paul Barnhill TUE 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpd5) (b007k06r) Clive …. Neil Warhurst Series 6 2. Confused and Alone Princess Urrgh …. Stephen Hogan The Last Bus Home The young cub becomes confused when his mother abandons Urrgh Emperor …. Jason Chan It's a long walk home in the rain when Sid, Bill and The Lad him, but a new friend awaits. Narrator …. Nicholas Boulton Himself get stranded. Nicholas Farrell reads Henry Williamson's classic tale of otter Director: Sally Avens Starring Tony Hancock. life, first published in 1927. Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in June 2005. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell and Hugo Abridged in five episodes by Sally Marmion. MON 18:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand Morton. Producer: Elizabeth Allard (b007jw07) Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. Episode 6 Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. TUE 13:45 Where There's a Will (b007jz6h) Dick, Vita and family set sail across the bay to Chapel Point, Producer: Tom Ronald Episode 2 the site where Otto Bodrugan once lived. Read by Julian First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1959. Playwright and novelist John Mortimer has a word or two to say Wadham. TUE 08:30 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting about happiness, and how active pursuit of it will fail. MON 19:00 The Goon Show (b008zfwf) (b008zs1b) TUE 14:00 19/02/2008 (b008zt9m) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 2 Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on MON 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b008zhkn) Neighbourhood Watch BBC7. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Linda's tortoise, Sir Cliff, has been sprung from his high TUE 17:00 King Street Junior (b007jmmc) MON 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jnm7) security facility. Can the Neighbourhood Watch group find the Series 6 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] culprit? Emergency MON 20:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4t1) Sitcom written by and starring Linda Smith. It's decision time for Miss Lewis and student Adam's home life [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] With Femi Elufowoju Jnr, Jeremy Hardy, Martin Hyder, causes concern. Stars Karl Howman. From July 1991. MON 21:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b008zg0p) Margaret John and Chris Neill. TUE 17:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jrhd) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Special guest: Dillie Keane Series 1 MON 21:15 Anne Holm - I Am David (b007jykb) Producer: Jon Rolph Positive Thinking [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. Rosie's company goes New Age, promoting the Brighton leg of MON 22:00 Mark Tavener - In the Red (b007k0hz) TUE 09:00 Miss Marple (b007jnmr) a lecture tour by a Californian positive-thinking guru. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] At Bertram's Hotel Prunella Scales stars in Simon Brett's sitcom. MON 22:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World Episode 2 The trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event (b007r4mj) An old acquaintance of amateur sleuth, Miss Marple is about to management company. Series 1 receive a nasty shock... Rosie ...... Prunella Scales Death and the Afterlife Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss Kate ...... Arabella Weir The sci-fi star and inventor explains life's big mysteries. Stars Marple. Jo ...... Rebecca Callard Richard Herring, Stewart Lee and Tom Baker. From October Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield Bob ...... Duncan Preston 1992. Inspector Davy ...... Frederick Jaeger Tess ...... Annette Badland MON 23:00 Sounding Off with McGough (b007k4lr) Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham Darcy Philpotts ...... Alison Skilbeck 4. Heroes and Villains Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips Lyndon Merchant ...... Kerry Shale Roger McGough's poetic reflections on relatives and retsina. Inspector Campbell ...... David Timson Producer: Maria Esposito With the accompaniment of long-time musical collaborator Archdeacon Simmons ...... Preston Lockwood First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000. Andy Roberts. Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley TUE 18:00 The Spaceship (b007w43k) Recorded at the Bath Festival. Ladislaus Malinwoski ...... Gavin Muir 2. Indestructible Producer: Sara Davies Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers Ship's doctor Clive 55 meets his identical cloned twin brother, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000. Colonel Luscombe ...... Geoffrey Bayldon Clive 88. MON 23:15 Date With Fate (b008zq34) Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles Sci-fi comedy starring James Fleet. Along for the Ride Bridget ...... Sarah Plowright Written by Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst. When Colin impersonates a film producer, it sparks dangerous Mr Bollard ...... David Collings In the year 2104, a fleet of research cruisers were launched into consequences. Miss Mottley ...... Sandra James Young space, with every moment aboard the Really Invincible III, Harold Wing Pinero is your host. Egerton ...... Alan Rowe Macclesfield Division preserved by wall-to-wall monitoring, Another of four comic close encounters with fate written by Mrs McCrea ...... Zulema Dene and transmitted back to Earth. Gary Parker and Phil Whelans. Air Terminal Hostess ...... Louisa Seddon What you hear took place live, four years ago, 70,000 light Colin Bond ...... Michael Troughton Dramatised by Michael Bakewell years from home.. Harold Wing Pinero ...... Charles Gray Director: Enyd Williams Captain Gordon Taylor …. James Fleet Monica Ludlow ...... Jenny Howe First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995. Melissa Patterson …. Emily Joyce Flores ...... Mandy Knight TUE 09:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4v7) Karen …. Rose Cavaliero Ralph ...... Stephen Critchlow Wasted Years Stuart …. Paul Barnhill Hostess/Lauren ...... Debbie Stephenson Episode 7 Clive …. Neil Warhurst All other parts ...... Toby Longworth A series of armed robberies bears an uncanny resemblance to a Captain Ponter …. Stephen Hogan Producer: Paul Schlesinger spate of crimes that Inspector Resnick investigated ten years Narrator …. Nicholas Boulton First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1996. earlier. Director: Sally Avens MON 23:30 Fellahs Hour with the Cheese Shop (b008zqdx) TUE 10:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b008zs71) Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in June 2005. Episode 5 Love or Money TUE 18:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand Steve 'not the snooker player' Davis has tool news and talks to Lydgate and Rosy drift further apart as the reality of their debts (b007jw0b) an American with six wives. With Gerard Foster. From June hits home. Stars Caroline Martin and Tom Goodman-Hill. Episode 7 2000. TUE 10:15 Anne Holm - I Am David (b007jvms) Dick witnesses Roger trying to alert Otto of an ambush, and Episode 2 Magnus warns Dick to stay off the drug. Read by Julian The weary young refugee is in despair - until he meets Signora Wadham. TUESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2008 Bang, who changes everything. Stars Rory Copus and Sarah TUE 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpd5) Badel. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE 00:00 The Spaceship (b007w5jc) TUE 11:00 War and Peace (b007k45b) TUE 19:30 Steptoe and Son (b007k0k6) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] The Old World Lost [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] TUE 00:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand 1812 - Napoleon has struck in Russia and the Bolkonsky estate TUE 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jnmr) (b007jw07) is in danger. Stars Simon Russell Beale and Emily Mortimer. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpd5) TUE 20:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4v7) TUE 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jnm7) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b007k0k6) TUE 21:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b008zs71) TUE 01:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4t1) Series 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Is That Your Horse Outside? TUE 21:15 Anne Holm - I Am David (b007jvms) TUE 02:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b008zg0p) Albert Steptoe advises son Harold on the art of seduction. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. TUE 22:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 16 – 22 February 2008 Page 4 of 6 (b008zs1b) Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Director: Enyd Williams WED 20:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4w8) TUE 22:30 Old Harry's Game (b007k1xw) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Series 2 WED 09:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4w8) WED 21:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b00904cg) Assistant Wasted Years [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] With Hell getting overcrowded, Satan decides it's time to hire Episode 8 WED 21:15 Glyn Hughes - Glorious John (b007jtm9) an assistant demon. A series of armed robberies bears an uncanny resemblance to [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell. crimes Inspector Resnick investigated ten years ago. WED 22:00 Dead Ringers (b007jmx4) It's not easy being Satan. Thrown out of heaven by a vengeful, WED 10:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b00904cg) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] white-haired God merely for daring to voice the concerns of Revelations WED 22:30 Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller middle management and condemned for all eternity to listen to As Lydgate attends to a sick Raffles, he receives a welcome (b007jpyk) Edith Piaf and Elvis Presley. Satan may rule the roost, but he's offer of help. Stars Caroline Martin and Nick Fletcher. Episode 2 beset by the poor unfortunates condemned to sit out Eternity WED 10:15 Glyn Hughes - Glorious John (b007jtm9) Martin Bain-Jones and Craig Children do battle at a special with him A music-loving retired lecturer rekindles a childhood music awards ceremony. Satan ...... Andy Hamilton sweetheart in his imagination. Stars David Hargreaves and Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong write and star in their first The Professor ...... James Grout Charlie Ryan. full-length radio comedy series. Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville WED 11:00 War and Peace (b007k46d) With: Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan Borodino Charlie Condou Other characters played by Philip Pope and Felicity Montagu. 1812 - as the armies meet outside Moscow, even the Rostovs Melissa Lloyd Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer are preparing to leave the city. Stars Simon Russell Beale. Tony Gardner First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1998. WED 12:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00901dg) Producer: Jon Rolph TUE 23:00 The Beaton Generation (b008ztqz) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1998. Episode 8 WED 12:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook WED 23:00 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off (b009059h) Join Alistair Beaton, Sir Clement Freud, Janet George and co as (b007jztn) Series 2 they try to forecast the news in the coming week. The TV Spectacular - A Contradiction in Terms Tanzania TUE 23:45 All the World's a Globe (b007jwrt) The veteran of many parts recounts the woeful tale of a 'Gala The bumbling student backpacker sets out on an East African From Scythians to Shakespeare Night in Venice'. safari. Starring Marcus Brigstocke. From October 2003. From the Scythians to the Crusades. It's a story that will confirm the truth of a lot of what you'd WED 23:30 Hair in the Gate (b007k3zl) The history of mankind from the first amoeba to the Second always suspected, and the place in showbiz history of the liver Series 1 World War. sausage sandwich. Episode 4 Presented by the entire cast of the National Theatre of Brent - The doyen of British show business, J Kingston Platt shares The TV arts show team schmooze Hollywood royalty at the Desmond Olivier Dingle and Wallace, aided by Mr Barker. reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his Cannes Film Festival. Stars Harriet Thorpe. From October With guest star Juliet Stevenson. experience from the past 40 years. 1993. Written by Patrick Barlow, with additional material by Jim Performed and written by Peter Jones. Broadbent and Martin Duncan. Producer: Pete Atkin With thanks to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1986. THURSDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2008 Patrick Barlow WED 13:00 Westway (b00904nk) Jim Broadbent Drama serial set in and around a busy medical practice in West THU 00:00 The Spaceship (b007w524) Martin Duncan London. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Producer: Lissa Evans WED 13:15 Back to the Drawing Board (b00904ns) THU 00:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1990. Episode 3 (b007k4tb) What are the risks of debt, and when do you give up? Matthew [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Harvey looks at the characteristics of an inventor. THU 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jnn6) WEDNESDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2008 WED 13:30 Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] (b007jvc4) THU 01:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4w8) WED 00:00 The Spaceship (b007w43k) 3. First Winter [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] As the winter storms arrive in Devon, fish are increasingly hard THU 02:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b00904cg) WED 00:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand to find through the ice. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] (b007jw0b) Nicholas Farrell reads Henry Williamson's classic tale of otter THU 02:15 Glyn Hughes - Glorious John (b007jtm9) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] life, first published in 1927. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Wednesday] WED 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jnmr) Abridged in five episodes by Sally Marmion. THU 03:00 Dead Ringers (b007jmx4) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Tuesday] Producer: Elizabeth Allard [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Wednesday] WED 01:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4v7) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. THU 03:30 Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED 13:45 Where There's a Will (b007jz8c) (b007jpyk) WED 02:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b008zs71) Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Wednesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Reading from his book, playwright and novelist John Mortimer THU 04:00 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off (b009059h) WED 02:15 Anne Holm - I Am David (b007jvms) holds forth on war and what makes a terrorist a freedom [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Wednesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Tuesday] fighter. THU 04:30 Hair in the Gate (b007k3zl) WED 03:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting WED 14:00 20/02/2008 (b00904s6) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Wednesday] (b008zs1b) Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on THU 05:00 War and Peace (b007k46d) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Tuesday] BBC7. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] WED 03:30 Old Harry's Game (b007k1xw) WED 17:00 My Music (b00904tn) THU 06:00 The Michael Bentine Show (b00904tp) [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Tuesday] Steve Race quizzes John Amis, Frank Muir, Ian Wallace and [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Wednesday] WED 04:00 The Beaton Generation (b008ztqz) Denis Norden in their 500th edition. From May 1990. THU 06:30 My Music (b00904tn) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Tuesday] WED 17:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b00904tp) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] WED 04:45 All the World's a Globe (b007jwrt) Punch ups between news reporters and adventurer Alan THU 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00906cp) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Tuesday] Watermain - all in the mind of Michael Bentine. Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. WED 05:00 War and Peace (b007k45b) WED 18:00 The Spaceship (b007w524) THU 08:00 Yes Minister (b007jznv) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] 3. Monster Series 1 WED 06:00 Smelling of Roses (b007jrhd) What are the strange noises coming from the hold? Karen and The Devil You Know [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Tuesday] Melissa investigate. Cabinet reshuffle rumours unsettle MP Jim Hacker and Sir WED 06:30 King Street Junior (b007jmmc) Sci-fi comedy starring James Fleet. Humphrey [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] Written by Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst. Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds. WED 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00901bc) In the year 2104, a fleet of research cruisers were launched into Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's satirical sitcom ran on BBC Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. space, with every moment aboard the Really Invincible III, TV between 1980 and 1984. Yes Minister is centred around the WED 08:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00901dg) Macclesfield Division preserved by wall-to-wall monitoring, hapless Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service underlings Another comic collection of short sketches from Kenneth and transmitted back to Earth. headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby and Horne and company. What you hear took place live, four years ago, 70,000 light obsequious Bernard. WED 08:30 Dead Ringers (b007jmx4) years from home. Jim Hacker ...... Paul Eddington Featuring 'Graham Norton presents the 100 Greatest Afternoon Captain Gordon Taylor …. James Fleet Sir Humphrey Appleby ...... Nigel Hawthorne Plays' and 'The Simpsons in Afghanistan'. Melissa Patterson …. Emily Joyce Bernard ...... Derek Fowlds WED 09:00 Miss Marple (b007jnn6) Karen …. Rose Cavaliero Annie ...... Diana Hoddinott At Bertram's Hotel Stuart …. Paul Barnhill Sir Arnold ...... John Nettleton Episode 3 Clive …. Neil Warhurst George ...... Arthur Cox The morning paper brings some very alarming news for Miss Trevor …. Rob Hastie Waiter ...... Stuart Organ Marple - and a police investigation. Narrator …. Nicholas Boulton Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin. Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss Director: Sally Avens First broadcast on Radio 4 in December 1983. Marple. Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in June 2005. THU 08:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7) Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield WED 18:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand Series 3 Inspector Davy ...... Frederick Jaeger (b007k4tb) Episode 3 Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham Episode 8 Change is in the air when Amanda and Richard get happily Inspector Campbell ...... David Timson Magnus fails to disembark, so Dick realises that he got off the engaged. But when Lucy and Daniel opt to change their lives, Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers train earlier. But there's a discovery. Read by Julian Wadham. Lucy resolves not to tell anyone. Mr Humfries ...... Geoffrey Whitehead WED 19:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00901dg) What Daniel hasn't told Lucy is that he can't keep a secret... Henry ...... Garard Green [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] David Spicer's comedy drama about modern life and Rose ...... Jane Whittenshaw WED 19:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook parenthood, as seen through the eyes of two 30-something non- Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley (b007jztn) parents. Sir Ronald Graves ...... Patrick Allen [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Starring David Tennant as Daniel, Liz Carling as Lucy, Tracy- Mrs Wheeling ...... Tessa Worsley WED 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jnn6) Ann Oberman as Katie, Tony Gardner as Andy, Nasreen Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 16 – 22 February 2008 Page 5 of 6 Hussain as Amanda and Dave Lamb as Richard. generations and the current Station Master, Horace, hopes that FRI 02:15 Pete Lawson - The Deep End (b007jyz3) Producer: Liz Anstee his son Bert will continue the line. Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Thursday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Bert wants to work anywhere but on the railways. His colleague, FRI 03:00 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7) THU 09:00 Miss Marple (b007jnnq) Station Announcer Gloria Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Thursday] At Bertram's Hotel Percy Valentine is an archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient FRI 03:30 Radio Active (b007k18c) Episode 4 Signalman, Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Thursday] Just as one mystery is cleared up, Miss Marple becomes remedies in equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is FRI 04:00 The Million Pound Radio Show (b0090br0) involved in another... Phineas Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Thursday] Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss down the line. FRI 04:30 On the Hour (b0090br1) Marple. Producer: Edward Taylor. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Thursday] Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1973. FRI 05:00 War and Peace (b007jm0v) Inspector Davy ...... Frederick Jaeger THU 18:00 The Spaceship (b007w2s1) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham 4. Dirty FRI 06:00 Parsley Sidings (b007k1b0) Inspector Campbell ...... David Timson Destruction aboard the ship when Clive 55's thirst for scientific [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Thursday] Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips experiment goes wrong. FRI 06:30 King Cutler (b0090bdh) Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers Sci-fi comedy starring James Fleet. [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley Written by Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst. FRI 07:00 Big Toe Books (b0090by5) Sir Ronald Graves ...... Patrick Allen In the year 2104, a fleet of research cruisers were launched into Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. Miss McCrea ...... Zulema Dene space, with every moment aboard the Really Invincible III, FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jqjv) Hoffman ...... Freddie Jones Macclesfield Division preserved by wall-to-wall monitoring, Series 3 Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles and transmitted back to Earth. Asleep in the Deep Sergeant Waddell ...... Ross Livingstone What you hear took place live, four years ago, 70,000 light Walker and Godfrey get trapped in a pumping station, but so do Dramatised by Michael Bakewell years from home. their rescuers from the rest of the Home Guard platoon. Director: Enyd Williams Captain Gordon Taylor …. James Fleet The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995. Melissa Patterson …. Emily Joyce platoon in Walmington-on-Sea. THU 09:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4x2) Karen …. Rose Cavaliero Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV Wasted Years Stuart …. Paul Barnhill scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. Episode 9 Clive …. Neil Warhurst Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe A series of armed robberies bears an uncanny resemblance to a Narrator …. Nicholas Boulton Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier spate of crimes Inspector Resnick investigated ten years earlier. Director: Sally Avens Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn THU 10:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b00906v5) Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in June 2005. Private Pike …. Ian Lavender A Test of Faith THU 18:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley With Lydgate's reputation in tatters, Dorothea is determined to (b007k4vj) Private Frazer …. John Laurie clear his name. Stars Caroline Martin and Tom Goodman-Hill. Episode 9 Private Walker …. Larry Martyn THU 10:15 Pete Lawson - The Deep End (b007jyz3) Wrestling with his guilt, Dick empties the laboratory of all Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee Leni makes a surprising discovery at a public swimming pool. evidence and sets off on a journey. Read by Julian Wadham. Announcer …. John Snagge Moving drama about the loss of a baby. Stars Michelle Holmes. THU 19:00 Yes Minister (b007jznv) Producer: John Dyas From December 1999. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1976. THU 11:00 War and Peace (b007jm0v) THU 19:30 The Burkiss Way (b00jr7fy) FRI 08:30 Saturday Night Fry (b007jt29) At the Gates of Moscow [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Episode 3 1812. As Napoleon arrives, the French imprison Pierre, while THU 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jnnq) Stephen Fry serves up more witty banter and sketches. dying Andrei is reunited with Natasha. Stars Simon Russell [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] With Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent and Julia Hills. Beale. THU 20:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4x2) Written by Stephen Fry with additional material by Ian Brown THU 12:00 Yes Minister (b007jznv) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] and James Hendrie. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 21:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b00906v5) Producer: Dan Patterson THU 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b00jr7fy) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1988. Series 2 THU 21:15 Pete Lawson - The Deep End (b007jyz3) FRI 09:00 Miss Marple (b007jnp6) Get Off With Life The Burkiss Way [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] At Bertram's Hotel Thrills abound as the RAC do their version of 'Gone With the THU 22:00 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7) Episode 5 Wind'. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] The police ask Miss Marple to take part in a little experiment. The Burkiss Way to Dynamic Living THU 22:30 Radio Active (b007k18c) Conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit starring June Appearing for the prosecution and defence: Jo Kendall, Nigel Series 4 Whitfield as Miss Marple. Rees, Chris Emmett and Fred Harris. The BioShow Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield From briefs prepared by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. The station's biographical series pays tribute to the sensational Inspector Davy ...... Frederick Jaeger Under the judicial eye of producer: Simon Brett. life of celebrated actor, Sir John Lesley. Sir Ronald Graves ...... Patrick Allen Cult sketch show first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February Radio Active is the one and only local national radio station. Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham 1977. Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips THU 13:00 Westway (b0090b96) Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers Listen to the latest from our favourite doctors. Music by Philip Pope and Steve Brown. Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles THU 13:15 Back to the Drawing Board (b0090bb6) Written by Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins with Jon Canter, Bridget ...... Sarah Plowright Episode 4 John Docherty, Moray Hunter, Helen Murry and Nick Wilton. Ladislaus Malinowski ...... Gavin Muir Many inventors have poor business skills, but one man is out to Producer: Jamie Rix Sergeant Waddell ...... Ross Livingstone build bridges and change perceptions. Matthew Harvey reports. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1984. Dramatised by Michael Bakewell THU 13:30 Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson THU 23:00 The Million Pound Radio Show (b0090br0) Director: Enyd Williams (b007jvcb) Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995. 4. Prey Episode 4 FRI 09:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4xx) Spring arrives in the Devon countryside, with the smell of man Cricketing bickering - and a telephone moan. Andy Hamilton Wasted Years and the cry of a she-otter. and Nick Revell's sharp-edged topical humour. From Episode 10 Nicholas Farrell reads Henry Williamson's classic tale of otter September 1986. A series of armed robberies bears an uncanny resemblance to a life, first published in 1927. THU 23:30 On the Hour (b0090br1) spate of crimes Inspector Resnick investigated ten years earlier. Abridged in five episodes by Sally Marmion. Series 2 FRI 10:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b0090c8l) Producer: Elizabeth Allard Episode 2 Sunset and Sunrise First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. Alan Partridge is at the Olympics. Barbara Wintergreen is in Dorothea discovers the truth from Mrs Lydgate, and Ladislaw THU 13:45 Where There's a Will (b007jwjs) America. considers his future. Stars Caroline Martin and Richard Dillane. Episode 4 All the news as it happens, if it happens from the BBC's urgent FRI 10:15 If Music Be the Food of Love, Mine's a Jam Playwright and novelist John Mortimer delivers more and incisive news overview. Butty (b007jqsg) ruminations on the nature of happiness and religion. Savagely satirical award-winning comedy starring Chris Morris. Beth has always looked after her drunken father, but when he THU 14:00 21/02/2008 (b0090bcf) With Steve Coogan, David Schneider, Rebecca Front, Patrick dies - she finally discovers her own voice. Stars Sunetra Sarker. Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Marber and Doon Mackichan. FRI 11:00 War and Peace (b007k48s) BBC7. Written by Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci, Richard Herring, The World Transformed THU 17:00 King Cutler (b0090bdh) Steven Wells, David Quantick, Andrew Glover and Stewart 1812. Napoleon's dream of conquest turns to nightmare - and King Cutler VI Lee. his army is forced to retreat. Stars Simon Russell Beale. The final episode. What more can be said? Producer: Armando lannucci FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jqjv) Plenty. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1992. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Songs, poems and stories from Phyllis King , Ivor Cutler and FRI 12:30 Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition their visitors. (b0090drr) With Dylan Edwards , Ted Harrison and Craig Murray-Orr. FRIDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2008 Episode 2 Producer: Neil Cargill Ian McMillan and guests Smug Roberts, Graham Walker, First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in February 1990. FRI 00:00 The Spaceship (b007w2s1) Pauline Daniels and Seymour Mace, play games celebrating THU 17:30 Parsley Sidings (b007k1b0) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] vintage comedy. Series 2 FRI 00:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand FRI 13:00 Crossing the Glacier by Berlie Doherty The Secret Agent (b007k4vj) (b007jv9m) Stationmaster Horace Hepplewhite is warned to expect a VIP, [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Gerda and Pam are two women who find themselves but events take a surprising turn. FRI 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jnnq) emotionally frozen in the past. Short story read by Janet Dale. Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Kenneth Connor as Valentine/ [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI 13:15 Back to the Drawing Board (b0090f2l) Bradshaw/Updike and train driver, Liz Fraser as Gloria, Ian FRI 01:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4x2) Episode 5 Lavender as Bert, John Baddeley as Prince Abdul. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] What happens when you give an inventor time, space and Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway FRI 02:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b00906v5) financial support? Matthew Harvey investigates the pitfalls. station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station for [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI 13:30 Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson (b007jvch) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 16 – 22 February 2008 Page 6 of 6 5. The Chase [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] As the otter basks in the sun, a pack of hounds catch his scent, FRI 21:15 If Music Be the Food of Love, Mine's a Jam sparking a great chase. Butty (b007jqsg) Nicholas Farrell reads Henry Williamson's classic tale of otter [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] life, first published in 1927. FRI 22:00 Saturday Night Fry (b007jt29) Abridged in five episodes by Sally Marmion. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI 22:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b007jv3v) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. Series 1 FRI 13:45 Where There's a Will (b007jwk1) Episode 3 Episode 5 Bhangraman must save the world - and the downside of keeping Concluding his book readings, playwright and novelist John a cow as a family pet Mortimer ponders what it actually means to 'make a fuss'. Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Nitin Sawhney, Meera FRI 14:00 22/02/2008 (b0090f3y) Syal and Nina Wadia. Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch BBC7. comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to FRI 17:00 Second Thoughts (b007jx2l) 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001. Series 1 Scripted by Sharat Sardana, Richard Pinto and the cast. Negative Vetting Produced by Gareth Edwards and Anil Gupta. Faith's not impressed to discover what Bill's mum thinks about First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996. her... FRI 23:00 The Nimmo Twins in... (b00jh6jw) Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill MacGregor and Faith Series 1 Greyshott trying to forge a relationship whilst balancing the Norwich demands of his ex-wife, Liza and her teenage children, Hannah The duo desperately seek inspiration for the final script of their and Joe. series. Stars Karl Minns and Owen Evans. From September Staring Lynda Bellingham and James Bolam. 2000. Series one of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, FRI 23:30 Colin and Fergus's Digi Radio (b007tldk) husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. Series 2 A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran Episode 3 for four series, with a spin-off 'Faith in the Future'. Is it the end for detective Rutherford Lodge? Crazy sketch Faith ...... Lynda Bellingham comedy with duo Colin Hoult and Fergus Craig. From January Bill ...... James Bolam 2007. Hannah ...... Kelda Holmes Joe ...... Mark Denham Hilary ...... Celia Imrie Liza ...... Belinda Lang Steve ...... Guy Brougham Producer: Pete Atkin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1988. FRI 17:30 To the Manor Born (b007jm4q) The Honours List With news of a New Year's Honour for a villager, Audrey is nice to Devere. Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton. Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka Frank Middlemass ..... Ned Brigadier ...... Jonathan Adams The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage. From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descendent. First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his TV script. Producer: Jane Berthoud First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997. FRI 18:00 The Spaceship (b007jvq8) 5. Enemies The crew at last make contact with another race, but not before a minor rebellion on board. Conclusion of the sci-fi comedy starring James Fleet. Written by Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst. In the year 2104, a fleet of research cruisers were launched into space, with every moment aboard the Really Invincible III, Macclesfield Division preserved by wall-to-wall monitoring, and transmitted back to Earth. What you hear took place live, four years ago, 70,000 light years from home. Captain Gordon Taylor …. James Fleet Melissa Patterson …. Emily Joyce Karen …. Rose Cavaliero Stuart …. Paul Barnhill Clive …. Neil Warhurst Ion …. Jason Chan The King of the Dwapeye …. Stephen Hogan Narrator …. Nicholas Boulton Director: Sally Avens Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in June 2005. FRI 18:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand (b007jw0t) Episode 10 At Sir Oliver Carminowe's house, Roger visits the captive Isolda and comes up with a daring plan. Read by Julian Wadham. FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jqjv) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 19:30 Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition (b0090drr) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] FRI 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jnp6) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 20:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4xx) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI 21:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b0090c8l) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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