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Radio 4 Extra Listings for 25 – 31 March 2017 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 25 MARCH 2017 roadside drama, which has him asking questions of Graham SAT 07:30 Yes Yes Yes (b00tcstj) Greene again.. Series 1, The Last Gasp Gold SAT 00:00 Stephen Baxter - Voyage (b007q9ld) Reader Paul Bazely John Rawling relives the 1991 World Athletics Championships 1985-86 Project Ares Producer Duncan Minshull. when Britain©s 400m men©s relay team beat the USA to gold. The first manned Mars mission blasts off on a perilous voyage of SAT 03:00 Charles Dickens - The Personal History of David SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b00kmhl4) discovery - both scientific and personal. Stars Laurel Lefkow. Copperfield (b007jmtp) Lynne Truss - Did I Really Ask That? SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b01mw2dj) Good and Bad Angels Lynne Truss shares her personal treasure trove of interviews with Series 14, Bach©s St Matthew Passion David falls in love, and questions his friendship with Steerforth. world famous writers. Bach©s St Matthew Passion was written in 1727 and was probably Stars Miriam Margolyes, Sheila Hancock and Phil Daniels. Between 1980 and 1990, Lynne was a part-time arts journalist, first performed as part of the Good Friday Service at SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b05vx4dx) meeting and interviewing many giants of the theatre, including Thomaskirche in Leipzig. This programme explores ways in Series 5, Aston University Arthur Miller, Tom Stoppard, Simon Gray, Athol Fugard and which Bach©s St Mattew Passion touches and changes people©s A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three Anthony Minghella. For over 20 years these cassettes gathered lives. Guitarist Andrew Schulman describes what happened when University students take on a team of three of their professors. dust in her garage, but now Lynne airs them and finds out, with he was played this music whilst he was in a coma. James Jacobs Coming this week from Aston University, The 3rd Degree is a horror and humour, what her younger self was like as an talks about the St Matthew Passion providing solace in difficult funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at cultivating the next interviewer, and what she learnt from meeting these great talents. times during childhood. And singer Emma Kirkby, conductor generation of Radio 4 listeners while delighting the current ones. SAT 09:00 The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Paul Spicer and musical historian Simon Heighes explore how the The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Law, Psychology and Made Us Laugh (b08kbct7) music works and what it©s like to perform. Computer Science and the questions range from Wile E Coyote Satire and Sitcoms Producer: Rosie Boulton. and manslaughter to tennis balls, stamp-collecting and the Treaty Instead of guest Comedy Controllers, choosing their comedy SAT 01:00 Robert Barr - Detective (b04fgwcj) of Westphalia. favourites, it is now the turn of those who, in their own ways, Series 2, Four Faces of Crime The show is recorded on location at a different University each have to take the blame for many of the shows often featured on DS Brook and DC Harrison meet the eccentric Mr Parsons. week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of their Radio 4 Extra. Between them, Paul Jackson, Beryl Vertue, John Meanwhile a gruesome meat axe murder is investigated... Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on an academic Lloyd and Jimmy Mulville have well over a 150 years of gut- Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr. quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most busting, side-aching woofers, gags and - let©s be honest - the Starring Ray Brooks as long-serving, ducking-and-diving DS stringent standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and occasional horrific mistimed silence. Dave Brook with Christopher Blake as his assistant, Detective jokes thrown in for good measure. In front of an audience in the iconic Radio Theatre in Constable Blair Maxton. The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Broadcasting House - the home of British Radio comedy - they With Stephen Yardley as Chief Inspector Roach, Peter Cleall as Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the ©Highbrow reveal why they do it and what it was (and is) that made them Detective Constable Harrison, Jacqueline Tong as Judy, Derek and Lowbrow© round cunningly devised to test not only the laugh. Francis as Peter Parsons and Johnny Wade as Tommy. students© knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and Programme 2. Satire and Sitcoms - The Real Comedy Controllers Producer: Martin Fisher science, but also their Professors© awareness of television, film, travel back to the 60s and 70s to celebrate the satire boom... to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. and One Direction. trace the development of sitcoms both here and abroad... and to SAT 01:30 The Secret Power of Trees (b01p7fgv) The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on The remember the golden years of BBC Entertainment. Episodes Britain©s woodlands were planted for timber or hunting but Now Show also delights in all facets of knowledge, not just in the featured include: nowadays you©re as likely to find ex-prisoners or mentally ill Humanities (his educational background) but in the sciences as * Round The Horne elderly folk in the woods. With the rise of "social forestry", well. He has made a number of documentaries for Radio 4, Kenneth Horne blasts off boldly in ©Journey to Uranus©, a ditty woodlands have come to be seen as therapeutic and healing, and including The Poet Unwound - The History Of The Spleen, as from Rambling Sid Rumpo and ©Bona Books© with Julian and not just by new age eco types. In Japan, doctors take seriously the well as a half-hour comedy for Radio 4©s Big Bang Day set in the Sandy. First broadcast in April 1968. practice of "forest air bathing", and claim all kinds of health Large Hadron Collider, called The Genuine Particle. * Steptoe & Son - Come Dancing benefits from simply being in the woods. Ian Marchant explores Producer: David Tyler Albert sets out to help son Harold to conquer his fear of ballroom whether trees really do have miraculous powers and asks what A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. dancing. Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett happened to the idea of forests as scary places, full of evil spirits SAT 04:30 Tickets Please (b00nv6nh) as Harold. With Clifford Norgate as the Milkman. First broadcast and outlaws. Episode 1 in June 1974. Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. A wedding party en route to Exeter is delayed by a car on the * The Eric Morecombe and Ernie Wise Show SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01r78by) track. Railway sitcom starring Jeremy Swift. From November The duo welcome Penelope Keith, who does her own intro before Lucy Caldwell - All the Beggars Riding, Episode 5 2009. performing in Ern©s sketch what he wrote. From October 1977. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (Trad.) SAT 05:00 Romantic Friction (b00764j4) * The Hitchhiker©s Guide to the Galaxy - Primary Phase. Fit the After the death of her mother, Lara Moorhouse finds herself Episode 3 Sixth. besieged with questions about her childhood that she never had Romance writer, Anna is blissfully happy, Brian is finding that Arthur and company escape from a war, but exactly when have the courage to ask her mother when she was alive. In particular, grading sand paper is fun when he©s thinking about Anna, and they escaped to? By Douglas Adams. From April 1978. questions about her father. even faithful cockney muse Minnie is happy because it looks as if Series Producers: Paul Kobrak and Dixi Stewart. When Lara and her younger brother Alfie were children, their Anna©s new-found romance is spilling over into her prose. Made for BBC Radio Extra. father, an eminent surgeon, died in a helicopter crash. He had But could there be a cloud on the horizon when Brian©s old friend SAT 12:00 Guess What? (b00757gr) been largely absent from their lives, spending much of his time Dougie unexpectedly turns up with the tempting offer of building Episode 1 working in Belfast during the Troubles and only coming back to fibreglass ducks in the Shetland Islands? Animal, vegetable or mineral? Barry Took©s revised 20 questions. London two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Michelle Read©s four-part comedy-drama stars Samantha Bond With Geoffrey Durham and Helen Atkinson Wood. From April Clinic where he had first met their mother years before. and Hugh Bonneville. 1998. For unbeknownst to her, Lara©s father had another life in Belfast; With Beth Chambers, Michelle Read, Kammy Darweish, Adjoa SAT 12:30 Up the Garden Path (b00803k9) a wife, other children: another family. Andoh, Andrew Wincott, Sue Elliott-Nicholls, Michael Fenton Series 2, Arrivals and Departures As she delves into her parents© lives and the story of their Stevens and Ewan Bailey. Returning from a year in San Francisco, Izzy Comyn lands in a relationship, Lara confronts her own past, and theirs, and Producer: Dawn Ellis great deal of confusion. Stars Imelda Staunton. From October discovers an unexpected legacy from her father©s hidden double First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001. 1988. life. SAT 05:30 Boswell©s Lives (b05415pv) SAT 13:00 CJ Sansom - Revelation: Omnibus (b08kbd7r) All the Beggars Riding is Lucy Caldwell©s third novel. In 2011 Series 1, Boswell©s Life of Callas Episode 1 Lucy won the The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was by Jon Canter Lawyer detective Shardlake and his assistant hunt a ruthless killer awarded the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize for her second novel Comedy as James Boswell Dr Johnson©s celebrated biographer on the streets of Tudor London.