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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 1985­86 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 part­time 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, stamp­collecting 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, side­aching woofers, gags and ­ let's be honest ­ the Starring Ray Brooks as long­serving, ducking­and­diving 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 bell­and­buzzer 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 ex­prisoners 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 half­hour 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 new­found 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 four­part comedy­drama 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 Elliott­Nicholls, 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. Stars Justin Salinger. 'The Meeting Point'. A playwright and novelist Lucy's theatre pursues other legends to immortalise. Today he meets Maria SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b08kbdjm) credits include the award­winning 'Leaves', 'Guardians' and 'Notes Callas and her poodle and finds himself in an opera of his own Tom Fletcher to Future Self'. For radio she has written the Imison Award­ making. Singer­songwriter Tom Fletcher of McFly chooses 'Kids Wanna winning 'Girl from Mars', 'Avenues of Eternal Peace', 'Witch Directed by Sally Avens Rock' by Bryan Adams and 'I Get Around' by The Beach Boys. Week' a dramatization of Diana Wynne Jones' novel for BBC Jon Canter is an award winning comedy writer for both television SAT 14:15 Pam Ayres' Open Road (b007kdbd) Radio 4 Extra, and most recently she adapted her stage play and radio. He recently penned the radio series 'Believe It' starring The Welsh Valleys 'Notes to Future Self' for Radio 4. Richard Wilson but his work goes back to Spitting Image. He is Pam returns to Wales to see how the valleys have been Read by Anne­Marie Duff also the author of several books and has been called our greatest transformed since she first visited as a teenager in the 1970s, Abridged by Doreen Estall living comic novelist. when the landscape was black with coal dust. Producer Heather Larmour. Miles Jupp is an actor and stand up. He is best known for playing Series in which poet and raconteuse, Pam Ayres takes to the open SAT 02:15 The People of the British Museum (b009prl1) Nigel in the series 'Rev' and is a regular contributor to R4 panel road, visiting eight places in Britain to hear tales from the people Treasure and Healing games and 'Have I Got News For You' on BBC1. In March he who live there. Danny Danziger visits the coin and medal collections, with a will open in a new play at the National Theatre: 'Rules For Producer: Simon Elmes Swedish coin the size of a tea­tray and millions of art prints. Living'. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 2000. SAT 02:30 George Eliot ­ Adam Bede (b007jns8) Arabella Weir is best known for her roles in The Fast Show and SAT 14:45 Uncle Mort's Celtic Fringe (b007jnbx) Episode 5 Posh Nosh (written with Jon Canter) and for writing several Series 1, Episode 3 As Hetty receives a gift from the captain, Adam waits in the books including the international best seller Does My Bum Look A Good Day for Banning: The Welsh odyssey continues for wings hoping she will marry him. Stars Thomas Arnold. Big in This? Carter Brandon as he and his uncle stay at a very eccentric hotel. SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b01hxhnb) SAT 06:00 John Moore ­ A Portrait of Elmbury (b08k9n7f) With Sam Kelly. Episode 3 of 5. Pico Iyer ­ The Man within My Head, Episode 5 The residents of an English market town face the challenges of SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b00kmhl4) "The high, thin light was turning the shacks and shanties on the life between the two world wars and economic depression. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] hills to gold as I put my thoughts of Graham Greene behind me." Adapted from the Brensham Trilogy novels by John Moore. SAT 16:00 John Moore ­ A Portrait of Elmbury (b08k9n7f) The travel writer Pico Iyer (author of Video Nights in Performed by the Worcester Theatre Company and adapted for [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] radio from an original production staged at the Swan Theatre, Kathmandu, Falling Off The Map) has always wandered the SAT 17:30 Yes Yes Yes (b00tcstj) Worcester. world with a mentor 'looking on'. Whether it be Bogota, Cuba, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Stars David Beames as William Hart, Willoughby Gray as the California, Japan, the man inside Iyer's head, as he puts it, is SAT 18:00 The Twilight Zone (b08kbj6y) Colonel, Lennox Greaves as Bardolph/General Bouverie, Simon always Graham Greene. And it is Greene's fights with faith, his Series 4, Nothing in the Dark Walter as Pistol/Mr Rendcombe, Robert Locke as reservations about innocence, his generous spirit, that are really An old lady barricades herself into her condemned apartment, Nym/MrBowles and Maureen Flynn as Miss Benedict. inspiring. In the course of five episodes and from various fearing ­ that for both of them ­ time is up. Music arranged and directed by Simon Walter. destinations the author describes his fascination for the great Written by George Clayton Johnson and adapted by MJ Eliot. Directed in Birmingham by Pat Trueman man.. Stars Marshall Allman, Roslyn Alexander, Jeff Morrow, Doug First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. Pico Iyer is back in Bogota and a journey outside the city causes a James and Mike Starr ­ with Stacy Keach as the narrator.

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Originally a cult sci­fi and horror TV series created by Rod SUN 07:30 My Teenage Diary (b04tlk9h) SUN 15:45 Mervyn Peake ­ Same Time, Same Place Serling and broadcast in the USA on CBS from 1959 to 1964, Series 6, Oona King (b08kgmn9) The Twilight Zone was first adapted by American producer Carl Rufus Hound is joined by the Labour politician Baroness Oona 4 Extra Debut. A bored young man searches for love and Amari in 2002 as a 40­minute radio drama series. King. Through her diaries we discover her growing up from a adventure, and finds that horror lurks beneath the surface. Read Rod Serling had managed to electrify the new medium of roller­skating 11 year­old who wants a new hamster to a 19 year­ by Ian Targett. television ­ so armed with a licence from CBS and the Serling old politics student who wants to be Prime Minister. SUN 16:00 Saturday Drama (b01jg740) estate, Amari's slick adaptions are based on the original TV Produced by Harriet Jaine Hattie Naylor ­ The Forgotten scripts. A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. A young girl emerges from a forest after a nameless war, knowing Actor Stacy Keach (best known here as TV detective Mike SUN 08:00 All Gas and Gaiters (b007jpqw) nothing of where she has come from or where she has been. She Hammer) takes Serling's original role as narrator ­ with a full cast, The Bishop Gives a Present finds the local doctor, Charonne, trapped in the briar. After she music and sound effects. The Archdeacon's not too keen on celebrating the Dean's silver has freed him he takes her back to his village where she lives in Produced and directed by Carl Amari and for Falcon Picture wedding. secret in his house. But she has been spotted by the villagers who Group. Starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon, William Mervyn as wish to call Charonne to account for his conduct in the war. SAT 18:40 James Follett ­ Wicca (b007jsc5) the Bishop, Jonathan Cecil as Bishop's Chaplain ­ the Reverend As the pressure on Charonne mounts he disappears into a familiar Episode 7 Mervyn Noote and John Barron as the Dean. With Joan story in which the young girl takes a leading role. Questions of Will Mike Malone's rescue attempt place 'witches' Ellen and Sanderson as Mrs Pugh­Critchley. guilt, memory and responsibility are all raised in The Forgotten, Vikki in even more danger? The ecclesiastical sitcom started life as a TV pilot in Comedy Hattie Naylor's dark retelling of the story of The Sleeping Beauty. The second book in James Follett's 'The Silent Vulcan Trilogy' Playhouse, ahead of a run on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971. Selected Abridged in 8­parts by Miranda Davis. scripts were revised and re­recorded for radio. The play stars Tim McMullan as Charonne, Ruth Mitchell as Producer: Richard Bannerman Written for radio by Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps. Sylvanne and Laura Greenwood as Ireena. Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2004. Producer: David Hatch. Cast: SAT 19:00 The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1972. Anton ...... John Biddle Made Us Laugh (b08kbct7) SUN 08:30 ITMA ­ It's That Man Again (b007k31b) Ireena and Rosa ...... Laura Greenwood [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] From 12/02/1948 Young Charonne ...... Harry McEntire SAT 22:00 28 Acts in 28 Minutes (b01nswqw) Great excitement for Tommy Handley as he receives an offer of a Charonne ...... Tim McMullan Series 1, Episode 2 Hollywood contract. Sylvanne ...... Ruth Mitchell John Humphrys gives 28 performers 60 seconds to entertain. With Jack Train, Lind Joyce, Hugh Morton, Deryck Guyler, Fred Marie ...... Sally Orrock With Sarah Millican, Scott Capurro and Roger McGough. From Yule, Joan Harben, Diana Morrison and Hattie Jacques. Writer: Hattie Naylor June 2006. It's That Man Again ­ ITMA made a radio superstar of Tommy Director: Paul Dodgson SAT 22:30 Will Smith's Midlife Crisis Management Handley (1894­1949) and had more than 20 million devoted A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. (b00glnb3) listeners to the BBC Home Service each week ­ with millions SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (b08kgnjx) Episode 5 more around the world. The show's title came from a newspaper I'm A Lumberjack Comedy series in which comedian Will Smith seeks help and headline used in stories about Adolf Hitler in the lead up to the BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's advice ­ primarily from his godfather Peter ­ on coping with the Second World War. radio poetry archive with 'I'm A Lumberjack' featuring peripatetic onset of middle age. Catchphrases like "TTFN ­ Ta­Ta for now" and "Can I Do You English writer, James Lasdun. To help Will become less cautious, Peter asks rock singer Alex to Now, Sir?" coupled with a frenetic, topical approach made it When James moved to wooded New York State his wife gave advise him. Will surprises Alex by revealing that he was once in a utterly distinctive. him a chainsaw. He had to either learn to chop down trees or risk band himself. From 1939 to 1949, over 310 episodes were broadcast, breaking his home and garden being taken over by the resurgent forests of Will ...... Will Smith away from existing comedy and music hall conventions with an the eastern states of the USA. Peter ...... Roger Allam anarchic and irreverent style ­ created by its writer Ted Kavanagh. But how should a clumsy townee, good with his words but not Alex ...... Dan Tetsell BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Rae Jenkins. with his hands, take to the woods? With help from some of the Dan ...... Roger Drew Producer: Francis Worsley. champion axemen of the Lumberjack World Championships at Stripper ...... Manjeet Mann First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1948. Hayward, Wisconsin, he learns the underhand chop, the standing Stag ...... Paul Rider. SUN 09:00 Howard Cunnell ­ Fathers and Sons: Omnibus block chop, the hot saw, and much of the wisdom and lore of the SAT 23:00 Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs (b08kbtfk) world of tall trees and tough men. (b00trxr0) Fatherless Howard Cunnell attempts to be a father to his daughter Produced in Bristol by Tim Dee Episode 3 ­ who is now becoming his son. Read by James Lailey. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. Another chance to hear Rhod Gilbert's comedy show featuring SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b08kbv2s) SUN 17:30 My Teenage Diary (b04tlk9h) comedy regulars Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies, along with Anne Marie Duff [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Sarah Millican who takes a weekly look at The Six Stages of Actress Anne­Marie Duff chooses 'Distant Drums' by Jim Reeves SUN 18:00 The Price of Fear (b007jnhf) Woman. and 'Till There Was You' by The Beatles. To My Dear, Dear Saladin This third episode features live music from Kid British, including SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b08kbv2v) Horror legend Vincent Price introduces a tale of a cat ­ and its hits Lost in London, Winner and upcoming single Two Out of Centenarians, Dr Bill Frankland unusual inheritance. Seven, and the guest comedian is Edinburgh Comedy Award 4 Extra Debut. From Handel to Engelbert Humperdinck. Allergy To Emily, Great Aunt Hesta leaves her entire fortune, including winner, Mark Watson. specialist Bill Frankland's castaway choices. With Kirsty Young. her home, Longbridge Manor. Join Rhod for his Rant on irritating products, delve into Rhods From August 2015. To her beloved cat, Saladin, she bequeaths continuing life on the Confessions where Lloyd Langford impresses the girls with his SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour (b08kgm32) estate. But Emily's husband, Freddie has other ideas and dearly French and see if Greg Davies can tempt you with his Indecent Series 4, The Money Paradox pays the price... Proposal involving the Chuckle Brothers. Guy Raz explores how money motivates, tricks, satisfies and Starring Edward Woodward as Freddie, Annette Crosbie as disappoints us. What is our monetary future? Emily, Steve Hodson as Smiley and Lewis Stringer as the A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting Solicitor SUNDAY 26 MARCH 2017 speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) stage. Scripted by William Ingram. SUN 11:55 The Listening Project (b03m819z) Producer: John Dyas SUN 00:00 The Twilight Zone (b08kbj6y) Eileen and Amanda ­ Costume Drama First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1983. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a wardrobe mistress SUN 18:30 A Sting in the Tale (b0076jlc) SUN 00:40 James Follett ­ Wicca (b007jsc5) and her assistant about the costumes they sew and their current Myrtle, Mahonia and Rue [Repeat of broadcast at 18:40 on Saturday] preparations for The Snow Queen. In an attempt to escape her recurring nightmares, a young SUN 02:00 CJ Sansom ­ Revelation: Omnibus (b08kbd7r) The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot landscape gardener decides on a drastic course of action. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer Briony Glassco's spine­tingling tale stars Rachel Atkins as Myrtle, Lydia Leonard as Getty, Gbemisola Ikumelo as Mahonia SUN 03:10 Inheritance Tracks (b08kbdjm) to have a conversation with someone close to them about a and Cherie Taylor­Battiste as Rue. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] subject they've never discussed intimately before. The Director: David Hunter SUN 03:15 Pam Ayres' Open Road (b007kdbd) conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation ­ they're not BBC interviews, SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour (b08kgm32) SUN 03:45 Uncle Mort's Celtic Fringe (b007jnbx) and that's an important difference ­ lasts up to an hour, and is then [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] edited to extract the key moment of connection between the SUN 19:55 The Listening Project (b03m819z) SUN 04:00 John Moore ­ A Portrait of Elmbury (b08k9n7f) participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being [Repeat of broadcast at 11:55 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection SUN 20:00 Howard Cunnell ­ Fathers and Sons: Omnibus SUN 05:30 Yes Yes Yes (b00tcstj) of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second (b08kbtfk) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] decade of the millennium. You can upload your own [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN 06:00 George Eliot ­ Adam Bede Omnibus (b00c90f0) conversations or just learn more about The Listening Project by SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks (b08kbv2s) Episode 1 visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] Staffordshire, 1799. One of Lisbeth Bede's sons has marriage on Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN his mind, but there is trouble ahead. Stars Ann Scott­Jones. 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b08kbv2v) SUN 12:00 All Gas and Gaiters (b007jpqw) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN 07:15 A Box of Wittgensteins (b00g44sj) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN The One­Handed Pianist 22:00 My Teenage Diary (b04tlk9h) SUN 12:30 ITMA ­ It's That Man Again (b007k31b) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] The great­niece of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Margaret [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Stonborough, talks to artist and historian Michael Huey as she SUN 22:30 Down the Line (b012lm5p) SUN 13:00 George Eliot ­ Adam Bede Omnibus (b00c90f0) delves into six boxes of newly­inherited family archives. As she Series 3, The Elderly, Consumer Rights and the Countryside [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] digs deeper into the talented but tortured lives of the Old people and consumer rights get the Gary Bellamy phone­in SUN 14:15 A Box of Wittgensteins (b00g44sj) Wittgensteins she finds her cramped London house becoming treatment. Stars Rhys Thomas and Simon Day. From January [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] ever more crowded with her larger­than­life forbears. 2008. SUN Margaret uncovers details of the life of her great uncle Paul 14:30 Sarah Pinborough ­ Behind Her Eyes: Omnibus SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b08k1t9z) Wittgenstein who, after the First World War, was determined to (b08kgmn7) Arthur Smith chats to Gareth Joyner, the man behind the actress, continue his career as a concert pianist, despite the loss of his Episode 1 singer, and former barmaid from Rotherham, Myra DuBois. right arm. Single mum Louise meets the man of her dreams in a bar, but SUN 23:00 The In Crowd (b06cqzvm) The readers are Sarah Finch, Nicholas Rowe and Dan Starkey. there is a catch. Read by Rosie Cavaliero and Tracy Wiles. Series 4, Episode 3 Predicting the future and sequin waste. Manchester sketch show with Kate Ward, Smug Roberts and Robin Ince. From June 2004. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 25 – 31 March 2017 Page 3 of 8

SUN 23:30 Jon Ronson On (b01rw4q3) Producer Beaty Rubens. MON 10:00 Charles Dickens ­ The Personal History of David Series 7, Being Normal MON 07:00 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me (b0076sm2) Copperfield (b007jmv1) As a new edition of the American Diagnostic and Statistical Series 2, Swingin' Down the Lane The Beginning of a Long Journey Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published this year, writer No Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me David has met and fallen in love with Dora Spenlow. Uriah Heep and documentary maker Jon Ronson travels around the UK Series 2 confides in him that he loves Agnes Wickfield and hopes to marry meeting people whose behaviour might be considered normal, but Episode 3 of 4 ­ Swingin' Down the Lane her. may soon fall under the criteria of some brand new disorders. Roy and George hear that an old bandleader, Gillie Truman, is on Charles Dickens described this novel as his "favourite child". He goes to a competitive eating competition in Bristol to speak to his deathbed and George is keen to visit. But Roy fell out with Dramatised in ten­parts by Betty Davies. a man who has been obsessed with his weight. And he visits Gillie fifty years earlier and sees no reason to bury the hatchet. Stars Gary Cady as David Copperfield, Miriam Margolyes as Adam Buxton, who may be a candidate for "intermittent Don Warrington..... Roy Betsey Trotwood, John Moffatt as Mr Murdstone, Timothy Spall explosive disorder" as he is prone to losing his temper in an Yvonne Brewster..... Vi as Ham Peggotty, Maggie McCarthy as Peggoty, David Burke as explosive way. Sam Kelly..... George Mr Peggoty, Mary Wimbush as Mrs Gummidge and Phil Daniels Psychiatrist Dr Joanna Moncrieff says she believes the DSM is George Layton..... Barry as Uriah Heep. amplifying a tendency to label more and more people as having Caroline Lee Johnson..... Bernadette Producer: Marilyn Imrie health problems. While Dr Jeffrey Lieberman, president elect of Marcus Powell..... Victor First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. the American Psychiatric Association, which publishes the DSM, Michael Bertenshaw..... Gillie MON 11:00 The Time Being (b01shsv8) defends the manual saying it does not attempt to pathologise Angie Wallis..... Laura Series 6, Marathon normal behaviour such as anger but look at repeated behaviour. Mike Kearsey..... Trombonist The latest season of The Time Being brings another showcase for Jon also hears from David Aaronovitch who was sent to a Written by Marcus Powell new voices, none of whom have been previously broadcast. psychiatrist by his parents for being a shouty teenager and he Producer Carol Smith. Previous series have brought new talent to a wider audience and wonders if, these days, he would be misdiagnosed? Finally Jon MON 07:30 Just a Minute (b08j9zqh) provided a stepping stone for writers who have since gone on to speaks to Alex Trenchard who tells his story for the first time of Series 77, Episode 5 enjoy further success both on radio and in print, such as Tania how his obsession with his music festival resulted in a prison Just A Minute is 50 years old this year! Nicholas Parsons has Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, Sally Hinchcliffe and Joe Dunthorne. sentence. been hosting since day one, and continues to host with skill and Marathon by Claire Powell Producer: Lucy Greenwell panache! This week our panellists are Paul Merton, Shelia An extra­marital affair ­ long­nourished by alcohol ­ starts going A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. Hancock, Tom Allen and Gyles Brandreth, who will endeavour to badly wrong when the man starts to get fit: training for a half­ talk on a given subject for sixty seconds without repetition, marathon with his son. hesitation or deviation. Claire Powell was born and brought up in south­east London. She MONDAY 27 MARCH 2017 Find out what Paul Merton's best chat up line is! How much does graduated from UEA's Creative Writing (Prose) MA in 2012, Sheila Hancock know about Queen Victoria? What isn't Gyles where she received the year's highest mark for a dissertation, and MON 01:00 George Eliot ­ Adam Bede Omnibus (b00c90f0) Brandreth's cup of tea and can Tom Allen get his first full was awarded the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Bursary and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] minute? Malcolm Bradbury Continuation Grant. She has just signed up for MON 02:15 A Box of Wittgensteins (b00g44sj) Beverly Tagg blows the whistle and it was produced by Matt her first half­marathon. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] Stronge. A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON 02:30 Sarah Pinborough ­ Behind Her Eyes: Omnibus Just A Minute is a BBC Studios production. MON 11:15 David Pownall ­ Barbara Allen (b00hp7mw) (b08kgmn7) MON 08:00 Not in Front of the Children (b08kgtqt) The mystery of love's compelling power, explored in a drama [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] Series 2, Friendships Old, Friendships New based on one of the best­loved folk songs of all time. The story of MON 03:45 Mervyn Peake ­ Same Time, Same Place Jennifer finds her first day alone in the new cottage rather lonely. high­born Jemmy Grove's unrequited obsession with beautiful (b08kgmn9) Starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner, Francis Matthews as artisan girl, Barbara Allen. [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] Henry Corner, Charlotte Mitchell as Mary, Roberta Tovey as Stars Keith Barron as John, Benedict Sandiford as Jemmy, Trudi, Jill Riddick as Amanda, Hugo Keith­Johnston as Robin, MON 04:00 Saturday Drama (b01jg740) Honeysuckle Weeks as Barbara Allen, Adam Godley as Silas and Benny Lee as the Disc Jockey, Jeffrey Segal as Mr Hobson, [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Natasha Pyne as Mrs Allen. Jordan Rogers as Dorothy Jane, Gwenda Wilson as Pam and Written by David Pownall. MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (b08kgnjx) Olwen Griffiths as Mrs Hobson. Director: Peter Kavanagh [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] The second series of comedy mishaps of the Corner family: First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. MON 05:30 My Teenage Diary (b04tlk9h) Jennifer and Henry and their three children Trudi, Amanda and MON 12:00 Not in Front of the Children (b08kgtqt) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] Robin. Not in Front of the Children originally ran for four series [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON 06:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g16ll) from 1967 to 1970 on BBC TV. Richard Waring adapted his own MON 12:30 Dad's Army (b007jscw) Series 2, Missing From Home scripts for this radio version, now fully restored from the original [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Detective Sergeant Dave Brook investigates another missing reel­to­reel tapes. MON person, but is he seeing connections where there are none? 13:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g16ll) Wendy Craig won a Best Actress BAFTA award for the TV [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr starring version of Not in Front of the Children in 1969. This was the first Ray Brooks as long­serving, ducking­and­diving DS Dave Brook MON 13:30 Who the Wild Things Are (b00c5j0j) of several housewife roles that Wendy Craig was to play on [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] with Christopher Blake as his assistant, Detective Constable Blair television. Later series included And Mother Makes Three/Five MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01r9cb8) Maxton. and Butterflies. Lucy Caldwell ­ All the Beggars Riding, Episode 6 With Peter Cleall as Detective Constable Harrison, Stephen Music by Ronnie Hazlehurst If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (Trad.) Yardley as Chief Inspector Roach, William Booker as Michael Producer: Trafford Whitelock. After the death of her mother, Lara Moorhouse finds herself Kemp, Keith Drinkel as Mr Kemp and David Lodge as Charles. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1970. besieged with questions about her childhood that she never had Writer Robert Barr is well remembered for his work on BBC TV's MON 08:30 Dad's Army (b007jscw) 'Z­Cars' and 'Softly Softly'. the courage to ask her mother when she was alive. In particular, Series 1, Operation Kilt questions about her father. Producer: Martin Fisher Captain Mainwaring's squad are challenged to try and capture the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. When Lara and her younger brother Alfie were children, their headquarters of the Highland platoon. father, an eminent surgeon, died in a helicopter crash. He had MON 06:30 Who the Wild Things Are (b00c5j0j) Six years after legendary sitcom Dad's Army started on BBC TV, Another chance to hear Philip Glassborow's exploration of the been largely absent from their lives, spending much of his time these specially adapted radio versions began recording with the working in Belfast during the Troubles and only coming back to origins and immense appeal of "Where the Wild Things Are", the original cast. multi­million selling children's classic by the late Maurice Sendak London two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier Clinic where he had first met their mother years before. as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, Arnold Ridley The story of Max's adventures when he sails away to the land For unbeknownst to her, Lara's father had another life in Belfast; as Private Godfrey, Ian Lavender as Private Pike, John Laurie as a wife, other children: another family. where the Wild Things Are has become an acknowledged classic Private Frazer, Jack Watson as Captain Ogilvy and Pearl Hackney of children's literature since it won the American Caldecott Medal As she delves into her parents' lives and the story of their as Mrs Pike. With John Snagge as the announcer. relationship, Lara confronts her own past, and theirs, and for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year in 1964. But Adapted from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's original BBC TV what is it really about and what are the reasons for its immense discovers an unexpected legacy from her father's hidden double scripts by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad. life. appeal? Generations of children, parents, teachers and Producer: John Dyas psychoanalysts have had their opinions. And, intriguingly, over All the Beggars Riding is Lucy Caldwell's third novel. In 2011 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1974. Lucy won the The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was the years, Sendak himself, who died recently aged 83 ­ has MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote (b04gr8jn) offered not one but many different stories of its genesis. awarded the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize for her second novel Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for its 50th 'The Meeting Point'. A playwright and novelist Lucy's theatre Did it grow out of the over­protective love of his mother, the series. stories told to him by his father, comments made by his foreign­ credits include the award­winning 'Leaves', 'Guardians' and 'Notes In almost forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by writers, to Future Self'. For radio she has written the Imison Award­ sounding aunts and uncles (their hairy nostrils and warty faces actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy types. Kenneth peering down and declaring "you're so good I could eat you winning 'Girl from Mars', 'Avenues of Eternal Peace', 'Witch Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, Ian KcKellen, Week' a dramatization of Diana Wynne Jones' novel for BBC up!" .....) the insecurity of immigrant life in Depression New Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... have all graced the York, the deaths of most of his family in the Holocaust, his love Radio 4 Extra, and most recently she adapted her stage play Quote Unquote stage. 'Notes to Future Self' for Radio 4. of the movie King Kong...... or all of these things? Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of celebrity guests on the origins Presenter Philip Glassborow talks with Sendak's British editor, Read by Anne­Marie Duff of sayings and well­known quotes, and gets the famous panel to Abridged By Doreen Estall Judy Taylor, to his long­time friend, the distinguished writer and share their favourite anecdotes. playwright Tony Kushner and to the American children's Producer Heather Larmour. Episode 6 MON 14:15 An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy literature expert Leonard Marcus, who takes him back to the Actress, writer and comedienne Maureen Lipman Hodgkin (b04k9gjl) haunts of Sendak's childhood in Brooklyn. He is astonished to Presenter and newsreader Penny Smith Episode 1 discover that in all the extensive press, radio and television Journalist, political commentator and president of YouGov Peter The correspondence of Dorothy Hodgkin (1910­1994), broadcast coverage of Sendak, nobody has ever thought to consult any Kellner for the first time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her winning children. Every great children's book, has a world beyond its Comedian, writer and actor Sanjeev Kohli the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964. Her letters, introduced by creator and here the Year 2 children of an Oxfordshire primary Presenter ... Nigel Rees her biographer Georgina Ferry, reveal a passionate and gentle school have their say. Angry mothers and fathers with big hairy Reader ... Charlotte Green woman who juggled pioneering research in x­ray crystallography feet both feature in their interpretations of who the Wild Things Producer ... Carl Cooper. really are. with bringing up three children, while her husband Thomas spent MON 09:30 The World As We Know It (b00fks6k) With a thrilling new reading by Henry Goodman and extensive much of his time in Africa. Babytalk use of Jewish Klezmer music, this programme will shed new light From an early age, Dorothy ran the family home, looking after The last four people on Earth plus the mysterious stranger ponder on who the Wild Things really are and act as a fitting legacy to her younger siblings while her parents travelled the world. In continuing the human race. Stars Meera Syal. From May 1999. the late, great master. 1928, Dorothy's parents encouraged her to apply to Oxford

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University to read chemistry. They were confident in her MON 20:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g16ll) by Andy Secombe ­ Harry's son. Not heard since then, this is a intellectual ability but her father did worry that, without a good [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] real piece of comedy history. haircut, her appearance might let her down. MON 20:30 Who the Wild Things Are (b00c5j0j) The first modern sitcom, Hancock's Half Hour made stars of Tony Dorothy's university friend, Betty Murray, described her as 'quite [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Hancock, Sid James and Kenneth Williams, and launched Ray the most interesting woman in College'. She was passionate about MON 21:00 The Time Being (b01shsv8) Galton and Alan Simpson on one of the most successful comedy­ chemistry, choosing to spend her 21st birthday in the lab and [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] writing partnerships in history. But 20 episodes of the show are became interested in x ray crystallography, a new technique for MON 21:15 David Pownall ­ Barbara Allen (b00hp7mw) missing from the BBC archives. Now, after two highly successful revealing the internal structure of molecules. She also enjoyed [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] series, another five of those episodes have been lovingly re­ archaeology and painstakingly completed intricate paintings of MON 22:00 Just a Minute (b08j9zqh) recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. ancient mosaics. All the while, her distant but devoted mother [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Tonight's episode: The Crown Jewels. As Hancock is absent, Bill repeatedly warned her not to work too hard. is staying with Harry Secombe. They decide to show Andree the MON 22:30 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (b00d7bf5) Dorothy Hodgkin remains the only British woman to have been sights of London but get caught up in Sid's plot to steal the Crown Series 4, Episode 4 awarded a Nobel Prize for science. She really ought to be a Jewels. The comedy strongman wrestles the news into submission with household name. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and with the classic the help of Andy Zaltzman, Matt Kirshen and Will Smith. From Producer: Anna Buckley. score newly recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra, the show September 2008. MON 14:30 George Eliot ­ Adam Bede (b007jntf) stars Andy Secombe, Kevin Eldon, Simon Greenall, Robin MON 23:00 The Now Show (b08jf2ln) Episode 6 Sebastian and Susy Kane. The Crown Jewels was first broadcast Series 50, 24/03/2017 Staffordshire, 1799: When Hetty meets with the Captain in on the 26th April, 1955. Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and guests present the week in news Donnithorne Woods, Adam takes action. Produced by Ed Morrish & Neil Pearson. through stand­up and sketches. George Eliot's haunting story of love betrayed and love rewarded Written by Ray Galton & Simpson MON 23:30 The Sofa of Time (b00hxzc8) dramatised in 15 episodes by Robert Forrest. Music recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Captain Chapel and the Crabs An immediate bestseller in 1859, Eliot's second novel established Levon Parikian. Milford sets out to rescue the Crab Prince. Stars Mark Heap, Nick her reputation and paved the way for masterpieces such as The A BBC Radio Comedy Production. Frost, Kevin Eldon and Peter Serafinowicz. From November Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch. TUE 08:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead (b00gffj3) 2002. Starring Thomas Arnold as Adam, Katherine Igoe as Hetty, Ann From 15/03/1971 Scott­Jones as Lisbeth, Richard Greenwood as Arthur, John A rival to the Bard of Avon, the challenge of buying an antique Kielty as Seth, Crawford Logan as Mr Irwine and Victoria teaspoon and a sleepless night. Liddelle as Dinah. TUESDAY 28 MARCH 2017 A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker. Director: Patrick Rayner. With Terence Brady and Pauline Yates. Pianist: Gordon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. TUE 00:00 Washington Irving ­ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Langford. Guitarist: Dick Abell. MON 14:45 Book of the Week (b01hw6g3) (b007wlpm) Written by Terence Brady, Donald Churchill, David Climie, John Hedge Britannia, Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Graham, Charles Mackay, Spike Milligan, Peter Spence, Roger Written by Hugh Barker. Read by Tim Key. TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b0076j1m) Till, Gerald Wiley ( Ronnie's Barker's pseudonym) and Gordon Hugh Barker, a hedge enthusiast, has journeyed across Britain to [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Langford. explore its remarkable variety of hedgerows. TUE 01:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g16ll) Producer John Fawcett­Wilson The checkerboard pattern of lowland Britain as seen from the air [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1971. reveals a history of boundaries and enclosures. The author's TUE 01:30 Who the Wild Things Are (b00c5j0j) TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry (b00xj4lb) childhood weekends were spent contributing to this millennia old [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] The Great Footwear Scandal obsession for tidy borders by clipping the hedges of his parents TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01r9cb8) The bumbling civil servants must find 5000 boats, fast. Stars suburban garden. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Wilfrid Hyde­White and Richard Murdoch. From October 1962. Over the course of his travels he discovers how hedges are TUE 02:15 An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy TUE 09:00 The Now Show (b08jf2ln) amongst our most ancient monuments, meets hedgelaying Hodgkin (b04k9gjl) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] champions and topiary fanatics, and sees the lengths to which [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE 09:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b0081lf5) some people will go to annoy the neighbours. Along the way he TUE 02:30 George Eliot ­ Adam Bede (b007jntf) Series 1, Episode 4 tells how a connection between paradise and the garden hedge [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Merv gains strong support from an unlikely source when the cafe grew up, why the British Army planted a barrier hedge hundreds TUE 02:45 Book of the Week (b01hw6g3) faces closure. Stars Mervyn Stutter. From December 2001. of miles long in India, and how the notorious enclosures during [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE 10:00 Charles Dickens ­ The Personal History of David the Industrial Revolution turned the country upside­down. TUE 03:00 Charles Dickens ­ The Personal History of David Copperfield (b007jmxm) Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters Copperfield (b007jmv1) Wickfield and Heep A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] David takes a job with his old headmaster, and Dora is feeling MON 15:00 Charles Dickens ­ The Personal History of David TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote (b04gr8jn) worried. Stars Phil Daniels, Gary Cady and Joanna Myers. Copperfield (b007jmv1) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE 11:00 The Time Being (b01slrsy) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE 04:30 The World As We Know It (b00fks6k) Series 6, Llama Sutra MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote (b04gr8jn) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] The latest season of The Time Being offers another showcase for [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE 05:00 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me (b0076sm2) new writers, none of whom have had their work broadcast before. MON 16:30 The World As We Know It (b00fks6k) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] Previous series provided a stepping stone for writers who have [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (b08j9zqh) gone on to enjoy further success both on radio and in print ­ such MON 17:00 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me (b0076sm2) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] as Tania Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, Sally Hinchcliffe and Joe [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Dunthorne. TUE 06:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g1xxz) MON Programme 2: Llama Sutra by Melanie Whipman 17:30 Just a Minute (b08j9zqh) Series 2, A Very Private Affair Things get complicated for a couple undergoing IVF after they [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Detective Sergeant Dave Brook gets a tip off from Tessa, and the visit the llama farm. MON 18:00 Washington Irving ­ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow mystery of Kemp's missing wife gets more and more complex... Melanie Whipman lives in a leafy Surrey village with her (b007wlpm) Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr. husband, teenage twins, dog, cats and chickens. She has an MA in Episode 1 Starring Ray Brooks as long­serving, ducking­and­diving DS Creative Writing and is currently a PhD student at the University In New York State, a few years after the American War of Dave Brook with Christopher Blake as his assistant, Detective of Chichester. Her short stories have been listed or placed in Independence, a tale of two love rivals and a headless horseman Constable Blair Maxton. various competitions and her work has appeared online and in unfolds. With Jacqueline Tong as Judy, Keith Drinkel as Mr Kemp, several magazines and anthologies. Her story, Peacock Girl, was Sleepy Hollow school teacher, Ichabod Crane is determined to Deirdre Costello as Tessa Mitchell and Jill Lidstone as Mary. the winner of this year's Rubery Prize. win the heart of wealthy farmer's daughter, Katrina Van Tassell. Producer: Martin Fisher Reader: Camilla Marie Beeput Not only does he face opposition from local buck, Brom Bones, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. Produced by Jeremy Osborne but it would also appear that supernatural forces are against him. TUE 06:30 Where Were You When Bambi's Mother Was A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. An eccentric New Yorker by the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker Shot? (b007692f) TUE 11:15 Martin Sorrell ­ Trapped (b01hc5tq) narrates this bizarrely comic tale. Ian Christie explores the impact the animated classic had on a The heroes of the great Exeter theatre fire of 1887. Martin Washington Irving's classic tale set in 17th­century America. generation of children growing up in war­torn Britain. From Sorrell's recreation of real events. With Geoffrey Whitehead. Narrated by Martin Jarvis August 2002. Musical score and sound design by award­winning composer, TUE 12:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead (b00gffj3) TUE 07:00 Girlies (b08kgzq5) David Pickvance. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Episode 3 The Sleepy Hollow choir: Ayesha Antoine, Delroy Brown, John TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry (b00xj4lb) Dan and Sonal move house. Vinny and Ali try to assert some Cummins, Gerard McDermott, Carolyn Pickles, Sophie Roberts, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] control over their young son, who's causing havoc because Nick Sayce and Ella Smith. TUE Vinny's pregnant. Ramesh turns up unannounced... 13:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g1xxz) Producer: Gemma Jenkins Four­part comedy serial written by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2005. Khan. TUE 13:30 Where Were You When Bambi's Mother Was MON 18:30 A Good Read (b0076j1m) Stars Ameet Chaana as Ramesh, Bharti Patel as Vinny, Zita Sattar Shot? (b007692f) Brian Sewell & Josephine Hart as Tula, Roger Liddle as Dan, Alice Arnold as Marianne, Sophie [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Sue MacGregor and her guests ­ art critic, Brian Sewell and Irish Levy as Alia, Nyla Levy as Sara, Shaheen Khan as Jabeen, Sudha TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01r9cry) writer, Josephine Hart ­ discuss favourite books by Bernhard Bhuchar as Sonal, Sakuntala Ramanee as Samina, Charubala Lucy Caldwell ­ All the Beggars Riding, Episode 7 Schlink, Simon Raven and Barbara Vine. From 2003 Chokshi as Masi, Susan Sheridan as Karan, Shiv Grewal as If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (Trad.) A Dark­Adapted Eye By Barbara Vine Salim, Burt Caesar as Ali and Omar Salimi as Javed. After the death of her mother, Lara Moorhouse finds herself Publisher: Penguin Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Kristine Landon­Smith. besieged with questions about her childhood that she never had The Rich Pay Late by Simon Raven First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977. the courage to ask her mother when she was alive. In particular, Publisher: Vintage TUE 07:30 The Missing Hancocks (b08jb9nq) questions about her father. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink The Crown Jewels When Lara and her younger brother Alfie were children, their Publisher: Phoenix. The Missing Hancocks recreates those episodes of the classic father, an eminent surgeon, died in a helicopter crash. He had MON 19:00 Not in Front of the Children (b08kgtqt) Hancock's Half Hour that have been wiped or lost from the been largely absent from their lives, spending much of his time [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] archive. Something else has gone missing in this episode from the working in Belfast during the Troubles and only coming back to MON 19:30 Dad's Army (b007jscw) second series ­ the lad 'imself, who had absconded to Rome. In London two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] 1955, he was replaced for the first three episodes by the Goon Clinic where he had first met their mother years before. Show's Harry Secombe. In this recreation, he has been replaced For unbeknownst to her, Lara's father had another life in Belfast; Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 25 – 31 March 2017 Page 5 of 8 a wife, other children: another family. A four­part sketch show co­written by and starring comedian and writer Gaylene Gould explores what it means to be a griot today. As she delves into her parents' lives and the story of their actress Kerry Godliman. When modern culture uses the term as a shorthand ­ what does it relationship, Lara confronts her own past, and theirs, and Kerry is a married mother of two, a stand up comedian and has mean to call someone a griot? discovers an unexpected legacy from her father's hidden double two children. Her life can only properly function with her daily Hereditary griot Seckou Keita, leads a music workshop at a life. list ­ if she didn't compile this vital list, her life would simply fall primary school, teaching harp­like instrument the Kora. At the All the Beggars Riding is Lucy Caldwell's third novel. In 2011 apart. age of 10, Tunde Jegede travelled from England to Gambia to Lucy won the The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was Each week, this series looks at a different list and delves into train with a master kora player. He now collaborates with both awarded the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize for her second novel Kerry's madcap world by looking at various elements of that orchestras and the hip­hop artist HKB FiNN ­ who has changed 'The Meeting Point'. A playwright and novelist Lucy's theatre week's list in sketches, narrative and stand up. the way he approaches writing lyrics and embraced the griot credits include the award­winning 'Leaves', 'Guardians' and 'Notes In this final episode, Kerry's List involves changing sheets, label. Sona Jobarteh, Tunde's sister, is a hereditary griot. She to Future Self'. For radio she has written the Imison Award­ buying a kids book on where babies come from, getting her roots gives Gaylene a lesson in kora playing and discusses how her sex winning 'Girl from Mars', 'Avenues of Eternal Peace', 'Witch done, learning to knit, not drifting off, reading a classic and affects the role and why she is reluctant to call herself a griot. Week' a dramatization of Diana Wynne Jones' novel for BBC dusting the plants. Award winning poet and performer Inua Ellams has been Radio 4 Extra, and most recently she adapted her stage play Joining Kerry is her husband Ben (played by her real husband performing at the National Theatre and Malian musician 'Notes to Future Self' for Radio 4. Ben Abell) and her five year old daughter Elsie (played by Fatoumata Diawara sells out gigs internationally­ both are called Read by Anne­Marie Duff Melissa Bury) together with a range of bizarre characters ­ griot by their fans but aren't entirely comfortable with the label. Abridged by Doreen Estall including an enthusiastic council environment worker, some Fatoumata believes she couldn't address topics like female Producer Heather Larmour. disgruntled satsumas, a bored therapist, a Fairy Jeanmother and a circumcision as a griot. London based spoken word artist Zena TUE 14:15 An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy very keen gym instructor. Edwards explains why she wants to honour the tradition. Hodgkin (b04lc3kj) Any busy parent who's ever compiled a list of their own will Reflecting on the importance of the tradition in its purest form, Episode 2 relate to Kerry Godliman's incident filled world. Tunde Jedege says "every time a griot dies it's like a library The correspondence of the Nobel Prize winning scientist, Dorothy The cast includes David Pusey (who co­wrote the series), Bridget burning down." Hodgkin (1910­1994), introduced by her biographer, Georgina Christie, Lucy Briers, Rosie Cavaliero and Nicholas Le Prevost. Producer Claire Bartleet. Ferry. Kerry Godliman is fast establishing herself as a highly skilful WED 07:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k371) In the early 1930s, Dorothy embraced x­ray crystallography, stand up comic and actress, from her recent appearances on Live Series 3, The Eager Young Student working with her phD supervisor and lover, J.D. Bernal. Letters at The Apollo (BBC 1), Derek (C4) and Our Girl (BBC 1). Young Mikhail discovers that it's not easy being a Jew. Stars that were both scientific and highly personal flew back and forth Producer: Paul Russell Tracy­Ann Oberman and David De Keyser. From February 2002. between them, as they tried to determine the internal structure of An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. WED 07:30 Rich Hall's (US) Breakdown ­ 60 Days of Trump complex molecules. TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b08lpsdq) (b08jbdrm) Producer: Anna Buckley. From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club Washington D.C.'s favourite political call­in show returns to TUE 14:30 George Eliot ­ Adam Bede (b007jntx) has two hours of comedy. Plus Cariad Lloyd chats to Jenny Bede. Radio 4 as stand­up legend Rich Hall and a selection of Episode 7 TUE 23:00 Concrete Cow (b0076js0) comedians from both sides of the Atlantic reflect on the first 60 Shocked Captain Arthur is forced to face the facts over Adam's Series 1, Episode 3 days of Donald Trump's presidency. feelings for Hetty. Stars Thomas Arnold and Richard Greenwood. The complication of ordering coffee and finding Captain Oates. Speaking to American pundits, comics and of course hearing TUE 14:45 Book of the Week (b01j6qs0) Sketch show with Robert Webb and Olivia Colman. From August extensively from the man on the street the show will explore how Hedge Britannia, Episode 2 2002. radically one of the most interesting countries on the planet has Written by Hugh Barker. Read by Tim Key. TUE 23:30 We Are Klang: Amazing Lives (b007k3hw) changed in 60 short days. Hugh Barker, a hedge enthusiast, has journeyed across Britain to Max Phantasmo A BBC Studios Production. explore its remarkable variety of hedgerows. The controversial American comedian, by those who know him. WED 08:00 The Navy Lark (b00pymrq) Our Neolithic ancestors figured out how to bend trees to their will Spoof starring Greg Davies and Steve Hall. From April 2007. Povey an Admiral at Last and developed the art of coppicing. A skill that is renewing itself Captain Povey's wife Ramona lands him in a Singapore stew. in 21st century competitions. Stars Stephen Murray and Jon Pertwee. From September 1973. Over the course of his travels he discovers how hedges are WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH 2017 WED 08:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b007wp6j) amongst our most ancient monuments, meets hedgelaying The Last of the McHancocks champions and topiary fanatics, and sees the lengths to which WED 00:00 Washington Irving ­ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The lad inherits a Scottish castle and starts feuding with his nasty some people will go to annoy the neighbours. Along the way he (b007wvk4) neighbour. tells how a connection between paradise and the garden hedge [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] Stars Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie grew up, why the British Army planted a barrier hedge hundreds WED 00:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... (b0090f6p) Jacques and Kenneth Williams. of miles long in India, and how the notorious enclosures during [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] the Industrial Revolution turned the country upside­down. WED 01:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g1xxz) With special guest James Robertson Justice as Seamus McNasty. Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED 01:30 Where Were You When Bambi's Mother Was Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. TUE 15:00 Charles Dickens ­ The Personal History of David Producer: Denis Main Wilson Shot? (b007692f) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1957. Copperfield (b007jmxm) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED 09:00 Dilemma (b03szh9f) WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01r9cry) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 16:00 Puzzle Panel (b00yrrgg) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Episode 8 Sue Perkins presents a third series of Dilemma, the panel show WED 02:15 An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Scratch your head along with Chris Maslanka, Dr Victor Bryant, where she puts four guests through the moral and ethical wringer Hodgkin (b04lc3kj) Dr Doreen Baxter and William Hartston. From July 1998. by posing a series of finely­balanced dilemmas and then cross­ [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] TUE 16:30 Babblewick Hall (b01nlzcw) examining them on their answers. WED 02:30 George Eliot ­ Adam Bede (b007jntx) Series 1, Episode 6 This week, Sue is joined by comedians Kerry Godliman and [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] Squire Fenton's downfall looks imminent with the arrival of his John­Luke Roberts, journalist and broadcaster Julia Hartley­ WED scheming father. Stars Nicholas Le Prevost. From January 1996. 02:45 Book of the Week (b01j6qs0) Brewer and ex­footballer Clarke Carlisle, who collectively [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] TUE 17:00 Girlies (b08kgzq5) attempt to resolve dilemmas based around dinosaur bones, injured WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] 03:00 Charles Dickens ­ The Personal History of David guinea pigs, and unethical banks. They also assert their moral TUE 17:30 The Missing Hancocks (b08jb9nq) Copperfield (b007jmxm) correctness over giving directions and selling state secrets. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] The show was devised by the actor and award­winning comedian WED TUE 18:00 Washington Irving ­ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 04:00 Puzzle Panel (b00yrrgg) Danielle Ward. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] "A non­irritating, hilarious panel show" (Radio Times) (b007wvk4) WED Presenter ... Sue Perkins Episode 2 04:30 Babblewick Hall (b01nlzcw) Producer ... Ed Morrish. Ichabod Crane sets out to win the heart of Katrina Van Tassel. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED Martin Jarvis reads Washington Irving's supernatural classic. WED 05:00 Girlies (b08kgzq5) 09:30 Up the Garden Path (b0080p54) Series 2, Hot Water TUE 18:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... (b0090f6p) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] With more love entanglements, Izzy is finding life back in Series 1, The English Patient WED 05:30 The Missing Hancocks (b08jb9nq) England rather confusing. Stars Imelda Staunton. From October Paul Gambaccini traces the history of the Oscars and tells the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] 1998. stories behind award­winning films. WED 06:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g3npg) WED 4/4. The English Patient Series 2, The Placer 10:00 Charles Dickens ­ The Personal History of David Paul talks to author Michael Ondaatje about the adaptation of his Stolen goods and warehouses pre­occupy Detective Sergeant Copperfield (b007jmxy) novel. Publicist Tony Angelloti recalls how he ran the campaign Dave Brook and DC Maxton. Just as the Kemp trail has gone Mischief to persuade the Academy that this film was a winner. cold, there's a fresh lead. As Dora continues to struggle, David receives news about Emily. TUE 19:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead (b00gffj3) Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr. Stars Miriam Margolyes, Sheila Hancock and Phil Daniels. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Starring Ray Brooks as long­serving, ducking­and­diving DS WED 11:00 The Time Being (b02119cs) TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry (b00xj4lb) Dave Brook with Christopher Blake as his assistant, Detective Series 6, The Dog Track [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Constable Blair Maxton. The latest season of The Time Being brings another showcase for With Stephen Yardley as Chief Inspector Roach, Peter Cleall as new voices, none of whom have been previously broadcast. TUE 20:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g1xxz) Detective Constable Harrison, Philip Talbot as Fred Rees, Tony Previous series have brought new talent to a wider audience and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Steedman as Roy Howard and Spencer Banks as George. provided a stepping stone for writers who have since gone on to TUE 20:30 Where Were You When Bambi's Mother Was Producer: Martin Fisher enjoy further success both on radio and in print, such as Tania Shot? (b007692f) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, Sally Hinchcliffe and Joe Dunthorne. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED 06:30 Modern Day Griot (b01jhb34) The Dog Track by Rebecca F. John TUE 21:00 The Time Being (b01slrsy) How are modern musicians re­imagining the role the West A young woman visits the dog track for the first time, and weighs [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] African griot? Traditionally griots belong to particular West up a matter of life and death. TUE 21:15 Martin Sorrell ­ Trapped (b01hc5tq) African families who act as oral historians, advisors, story­tellers Rebecca F. John was born in 1986 and grew up in Pwll, a small [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] and musicians for their culture. Now a generation of artists living village on the Welsh coast. She has previously worked as a ski TUE 22:00 The Missing Hancocks (b08jb9nq) in the West, who have African roots, are learning musical instructor and in the financial sector, and holds an MA in Creative [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] techniques from the masters but creating songs and stories with Writing from Swansea University. TUE 22:30 Kerry's List (b01shw0r) contemporary relevance. Reader: Rakie Ayola Series 1, Episode 4 In a programme rich in musical sounds and poetic storytelling, Producer: Jeremy Osborne

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A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED 18:30 Off the Page (b00w227t) THU 05:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k371) WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama (b00d0hw2) Favourite Child [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Ian Kershaw ­ Alan and Jean's Incredible Journey Who was it in your family, and do you have one amongst your THU 05:30 Rich Hall's (US) Breakdown ­ 60 Days of Trump Alan and Jean Warburton decide to spend their holiday in their own children? It's the great taboo. (b08jbdrm) bedroom. Poignant comedy drama starring Julie Hesmondhalgh. Dominic Arkwright is joined by Rebecca Abrams, who bravely [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] WED 12:00 The Navy Lark (b00pymrq) admits that she found it hard to love her first child after her THU 06:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g3vpn) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] second child was born. David Akinsanya grew up in care, aware Series 2, Death in a Lonely Place WED 12:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b007wp6j) that he was nobody's favourite child. And Bidisha has always In the wake of their discovery, DS Brook and DC Maxton collect [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] known she is the most favoured. Why is it that even as adults it together everything they've learned, and talk to Kemp. WED 13:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g3npg) matters so much? New writing and honest, revealing talk in Off Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] The Page. Starring Ray Brooks as long­serving, ducking­and­diving WED 13:30 Modern Day Griot (b01jhb34) Producer Beth O'Dea. Detective Sergeant Dave Brook with Christopher Blake as his [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED 19:00 The Navy Lark (b00pymrq) assistant, Detective Constable Blair Maxton. WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01r9rts) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] With Stephen Yardley as Chief Inspector Roach, Garard Green as Lucy Caldwell ­ All the Beggars Riding, Episode 8 WED 19:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b007wp6j) Mott, Haydn Wood as Sergeant Lindsey and Keith Drinkel as Mr If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (Trad.) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Kemp. After the death of her mother, Lara Moorhouse finds herself WED 20:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g3npg) Producer: Martin Fisher besieged with questions about her childhood that she never had [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. the courage to ask her mother when she was alive. In particular, WED 20:30 Modern Day Griot (b01jhb34) THU 06:30 Miniature Mountains (b0076f9s) questions about her father. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Times gardening correspondent Stephen Anderton explores the When Lara and her younger brother Alfie were children, their WED 21:00 The Time Being (b02119cs) changing fashions in rock gardening, from the Northamptonshire father, an eminent surgeon, died in a helicopter crash. He had [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] landowner who wanted a landscape for his gnomes to the been largely absent from their lives, spending much of his time WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama (b00d0hw2) Yorkshireman who described his alpines as 'sulky' but who working in Belfast during the Troubles and only coming back to [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] changed our view of the rockery. From May 2003. London two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street WED 22:00 Rich Hall's (US) Breakdown ­ 60 Days of Trump THU 07:00 In the Chair (b007jsvd) Clinic where he had first met their mother years before. (b08jbdrm) Episode 3 For unbeknownst to her, Lara's father had another life in Belfast; [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Hack George Cragge is convinced that the minister for a wife, other children: another family. WED 22:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages (b036twsn) information has something to hide and the BBC Chairman gets As she delves into her parents' lives and the story of their Series 2, The Elephant Malcolm implicated... relationship, Lara confronts her own past, and theirs, and Births, Deaths and Marriages ­ returning for a second series ­ is Mark Tavener's six­part satirical comedy thriller stars Michael discovers an unexpected legacy from her father's hidden double the sitcom set in a Local Authority Register Office where the staff Williams as George Cragge, Barry Foster as DCI Frank Jefferson, life. deal with the three greatest events in anybody's life. Hugh Laurie as the Prime Minister, Richard Griffiths as Crichton­ All the Beggars Riding is Lucy Caldwell's third novel. In 2011 Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan Potter, John Bird as Martin, Stephen Fry as Charles Prentiss, Lucy won the The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was Partridge), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is a Rebecca Front as Marcia Mallon, Kenneth Cranham as Jim awarded the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize for her second novel stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any wedding Hardie, Geoffrey Whitehead as Director of Personnel, Simon 'The Meeting Point'. A playwright and novelist Lucy's theatre service if the width of the bride infringes health and safety. He's Greehall as the Chancellor, Jonathan Keeble as John and Susie credits include the award­winning 'Leaves', 'Guardians' and 'Notes single but why does he need to be married? He's married Brann as Caroline. to Future Self'. For radio she has written the Imison Award­ thousands of women. Music by Paul Mottram. winning 'Girl from Mars', 'Avenues of Eternal Peace', 'Witch Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been Producer: Paul Schlesinger Week' a dramatization of Diana Wynne Jones' novel for BBC parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and Malcolm) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. Radio 4 Extra, and most recently she adapted her stage play into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just about love and THU 07:30 Meet David Sedaris (b0680s8t) 'Notes to Future Self' for Radio 4. romance, it's got to be about making a profit in our new age of Series 5, Loggerheads Read by Anne­Marie Duff austerity. One of the world's best storytellers is back on BBC Radio 4 doing Abridged by Doreen Estall There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried he'll what he does best. Producer Heather Larmour. end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may get her This week, we find how turtles have featured in the writer's life WED 14:15 An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the only parent in since childhood in Loggerheads and we hear a final extract from Hodgkin (b04lc3pz) the office, is a mother to them all. his peerless diaries. Episode 3 In this first episode, Malcolm makes the mistake of doing a local Produced by Steve Doherty The correspondence of Nobel Prize winning scientist, Dorothy radio interview after a trip to the dentist, while Lorna wants to A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. Hodgkin (1910­1994), introduced by her biographer, Georgina raise the profile of the office by inviting the press to witness a THU 08:00 Jim the Great (b01spd8m) Ferry. sham marriage bust by the UK Border Agency. Luke is appalled Series 1, The Great Celtic Arms Race In the 1940s, Dorothy worked on the structure of a new medicine at Mary's love of men in uniform, while Anita has some King Jim is bested by King Cedric. Then he acquires a new toy ­ with a miraculous reputation, penicillin: making her first big unexpected news. a 'thunderlog'. breakthrough while breastfeeding her daughter Liz and with her Producer: Simon Jacobs Historical regal romp starring Jimmy Edwards. peripatetic husband, Thomas, living and working away from A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. With Julian Orchard, John Baddeley, Andrew Palmer, Ronald home. Somerville College invented maternity pay for her, a WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b08lpsqf) Baddiley, Jon Glover, Joan Sanderson and Kenneth Connor. benefit which Dorothy accepted rather reluctantly. As ever, her From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club Jim The Great ran for 2 series on BBC Radio 2 between 1976 ­ mother urged her to go gently but, inspired by her discoveries, has two hours of comedy. Plus Cariad Lloyd chats again to Jenny 1979. Dorothy worked harder than ever. Bede. Producer: Edward Taylor Producer: Anna Buckley. WED 23:00 Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes (b03lsbks) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1977. WED 14:30 George Eliot ­ Adam Bede (b007jnvd) Series 3, Leisure THU 08:30 Know Your Place (b019m16k) Episode 8 Barry Island, The Royal Welsh Show and The Seven Wonders of Health Can Damage Your Smoking Preacher Mr Irwine visits Mrs Bede, who is unimpressed at the Wales are scrutinised by comedian Elis James and guests. From Can caretaker Ramsay quit cigarettes to keep his job? Stars Roy prospect of her son's marriage to Hetty. Stars Thomas Arnold. December 2013. Dotrice and Patricia Hayes. From July 1983. WED 14:45 Book of the Week (b01j6qth) WED 23:30 The Mark Steel Lecture (b007jv2j) THU 09:00 Guess What? (b061fth0) Hedge Britannia, Episode 3 Series 1, WG Grace Episode 2 Written by Hugh Barker. Read by Tim Key. The radical comedian profiles the 'first modern celebrity' in Animal, vegetable or mineral? Barry Took's revised 20 questions. Hugh Barker, a hedge enthusiast, has journeyed across Britain to English cricketing and Victorian society. From September 1999. With Geoffrey Durham and Hattie Hayridge. From April 1998. explore its remarkable variety of hedgerows. THU 09:30 Country Matters (b00lnd0x) Topiary ­ was probably brought to these islands by the Romans, Episode 4 the controversy lingers on. THURSDAY 30 MARCH 2017 Dave and Cathy's quest for locally produced food proves Over the course of his travels he discovers how hedges are problematic. Stars Jonathan Tafler and Lesley Sharp. From May amongst our most ancient monuments, meets hedgelaying THU 00:00 Washington Irving ­ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1994. champions and topiary fanatics, and sees the lengths to which THU (b007xrtx) 10:00 Charles Dickens ­ The Personal History of David some people will go to annoy the neighbours. Along the way he [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Copperfield (b007jn0g) tells how a connection between paradise and the garden hedge THU My Beloved Dora grew up, why the British Army planted a barrier hedge hundreds 00:30 Off the Page (b00w227t) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Mr Micawber confides in David about Uriah Heep, and Dora's of miles long in India, and how the notorious enclosures during health causes concern. Stars Phil Daniels and Sheila Hancock. THU 01:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g3npg) the Industrial Revolution turned the country upside­down. THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] 11:00 Four Bare Legs in a Bed (b021n6s4) Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters The Bed THU 01:30 Modern Day Griot (b01jhb34) A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. The first of three stories from Helen Simpson's collection, Four [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] WED 15:00 Charles Dickens ­ The Personal History of David Bare Legs in a Bed, read by Rosie Cavaliero. The Bed. THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01r9rts) Copperfield (b007jmxy) An impulse purchase in a department store changes a woman's [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] life. THU WED 16:00 Dilemma (b03szh9f) 02:15 An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Producer: Sarah Langan. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Hodgkin (b04lc3pz) THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama (b01h7cdt) WED 16:30 Up the Garden Path (b0080p54) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] Martyn Hesford ­ Mrs Lowry and Son [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU 02:30 George Eliot ­ Adam Bede (b007jnvd) Mrs Lowry and Son WED 17:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k371) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] Written by Martyn Hesford [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU 02:45 Book of the Week (b01j6qth) Artist L. S. Lowry lived all his life with his over­bearing mother WED 17:30 Rich Hall's (US) Breakdown ­ 60 Days of Trump [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] Elizabeth. Bed­ridden and bitter, Elizabeth actively tried to (b08jbdrm) THU 03:00 Charles Dickens ­ The Personal History of David dissuade her bachelor son from pursuing his artistic ambitions, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Copperfield (b007jmxy) whilst never failing to voice her opinion at what a disappointment WED 18:00 Washington Irving ­ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] he is to her. This powerful drama imagines the impact this (b007xrtx) THU 04:00 Dilemma (b03szh9f) obsessive mother and son relationship had on the great artist. Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Directed by Gary Brown Ichabod Crane comes face­to­face with his worst nightmare. THU 04:30 Up the Garden Path (b0080p54) Produced by Charlotte Riches. Martin Jarvis concludes Washington Irving's supernatural classic. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 25 – 31 March 2017 Page 7 of 8

THU 12:00 Jim the Great (b01spd8m) Vanderhausen... Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] An unabridged reading in 2 episodes read by Ian McDiarmid. Starring Ray Brooks as long­serving, ducking­and­diving THU 12:30 Know Your Place (b019m16k) Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814­1873) is regarded by many critics Detective Sergeant Dave Brook with Christopher Blake as his [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] as the greatest master of the English ghost story. A product of the assistant, Detective Constable Blair Maxton. THU 13:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g3vpn) decaying Anglo­Irish culture of the early and mid­19th Century, With Stephen Yardley as Chief Inspector Roach, Peter Cleall as [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] he sums up in his work better than any of his contemporaries the Detective Constable Harrison, Jacqueline Tong as Judy, John THU 13:30 Miniature Mountains (b0076f9s) fears and dreads that may haunt the sensitive individual. Judd as Detective Sergeant Kelly, Tony Caunter as Carson and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Producer: Lawrence Jackson Gary Cady as James Clark. THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01r9swb) Made for BBC 7 by BBC Northern Ireland and first broadcast in Producer: Martin Fisher Lucy Caldwell ­ All the Beggars Riding, Episode 9 2005. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (Trad.) THU 18:30 Great Lives (b00fzw0z) FRI 06:30 Miles Jupp in a Locked Room (b01hw6h8) After the death of her mother, Lara Moorhouse finds herself Series 17, Billy Marsh 1/1 besieged with questions about her childhood that she never had Series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris. There's a fresh corpse! But that room hasn't been opened for the courage to ask her mother when she was alive. In particular, Michael Grade and William G Stewart champion the life of the years! Locked Room Mysteries astonished and delighted crime questions about her father. theatrical agent Billy Marsh, the man who helped to turn fans in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. But as Miles Jupp When Lara and her younger brother Alfie were children, their Morecambe and Wise, Norman Wisdom and Bruce Forsyth into discovers, the Locked Room continues to infuriate and delight, father, an eminent surgeon, died in a helicopter crash. He had household names. inspiring writers in Japan and France. But how many ingenious been largely absent from their lives, spending much of his time THU 19:00 Jim the Great (b01spd8m) solutions can be wrung out of a body, a sealed chamber, and the working in Belfast during the Troubles and only coming back to [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] imagination of a dedicated writer? You'll be surprised... London two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street THU 19:30 Know Your Place (b019m16k) FRI 07:00 Romantic Friction (b00764mh) Clinic where he had first met their mother years before. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Episode 4 For unbeknownst to her, Lara's father had another life in Belfast; THU 20:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g3vpn) Brian has gone to the Shetland Isles to make giant fibreglass a wife, other children: another family. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] ducks and romance writer, Anna's head is throbbing because she's As she delves into her parents' lives and the story of their THU 20:30 Miniature Mountains (b0076f9s) been hitting the cooking sherry. relationship, Lara confronts her own past, and theirs, and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Her book is on hold, her characters are unhappy and her publisher discovers an unexpected legacy from her father's hidden double THU 21:00 Four Bare Legs in a Bed (b021n6s4) is nagging her for a finished copy. Is there any chance of a happy life. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] ending? All the Beggars Riding is Lucy Caldwell's third novel. In 2011 THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama (b01h7cdt) Michelle Read's four­part comedy­drama stars Samantha Bond Lucy won the The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] and Hugh Bonneville. With Beth Chambers, Michelle Read, Kammy Darweish, Adjoa awarded the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize for her second novel THU 22:00 Meet David Sedaris (b066zvy9) Andoh, Andrew Wincott, Sue Elliott­Nicholls, Michael Fenton 'The Meeting Point'. A playwright and novelist Lucy's theatre [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 today] Stevens and Ewan Bailey. credits include the award­winning 'Leaves', 'Guardians' and 'Notes THU 22:30 Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed (b03bdsyt) Producer: Dawn Ellis to Future Self'. For radio she has written the Imison Award­ Series 2, Security First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001. winning 'Girl from Mars', 'Avenues of Eternal Peace', 'Witch DS Nick Mohammed is asked to provide additional security for a FRI 07:30 Boswell's Lives (b0547ntj) Week' a dramatization of Diana Wynne Jones' novel for BBC major event, aided and abetted by long­suffering colleagues Colin Series 1, Boswell's Life of Pinter Radio 4 Extra, and most recently she adapted her stage play and Anna. Written and performed by Nick Mohammed, with by Jon Canter 'Notes to Future Self' for Radio 4. Anna Crilly, Colin Hoult, Margaret Cabourn­Smith and Will Comedy as James Boswell Dr Johnson's celebrated biographer Read by Anne­Marie Duff Andrews. Script Editor: Johnny Sweet. Producer: Victoria Lloyd. pursues other legends to immortalise. Today he attempts to write Abdriged by Doreen Estall THU 23:00 Elastic Planet (b007js6h) the biography of Pinter but finds himself the victim of a betrayal. Producer Heather Larmour. The Train Directed by Sally Avens THU 14:15 An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy The Ministry of Furniture and methodist pirates. Patrick Moore Jon Canter is an award winning comedy writer for both television Hodgkin (b04lc564) guest stars in the comedy of connections. and radio. He recently penned the radio series 'Believe It' starring Episode 4 THU 23:15 The Shuttleworths (b00scy0g) Richard Wilson but his work goes back to Spitting Image. He is The correspondence of Dorothy Hodgkin (1910­1994) introduced Series 5, Smells Like White Spirit by her biographer, Georgina Ferry. also the author of several books and has been called our greatest Ken Worthington needs Jon to write a catchy pop song at short living comic novelist. After the war, Dorothy juggled pioneering research with bringing notice, but John's DIY duties prove a serious obstacle. Will he be up three children. Having cracked the structure of penicillin in Miles Jupp is an actor and stand up. Miles Jupp is an actor and able to complete the song in time to meet Ken's deadline? stand up. He is best known for hosting The News Quiz on Radio 1945, she embarked on an even more complicated molecule, John is created and performed by Graham Fellows, and the series vitamin B12, while her husband Thomas spent long periods living 4. is produced by Dawn Ellis. Harry Enfield is a Bafta award winning performer, writer and and working in Africa. Elected as one of the first female fellows THU 23:30 Hut 33 (b01kbhx3) of The Royal Society aged just 36, Dorothy's reputation as a director. He starred with Paul Whitehouse in Harry and Paul's Series 3, Entente Cordiale Story of the Two's last year winnng a British Comedy Award for world class researcher was growing, rapidly. Bletchley Park, 1942: can the wartime code breakers improve Producer: Anna Buckley. best sketch show. Anglo­French relations with a little derring­do? FRI 08:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00qyqd9) THU 14:30 George Eliot ­ Adam Bede (b007jnvw) Stars Tom Goodman­Hill as Archie, Robert Bathurst as Professor Episode 9 Series 2, Episode 7 Charles Gardner, Fergus Craig as Gordon, Alex MacQueen as 3rd London bus gospel and a visit to Nibbling­On­The­Bone. Adam is distraught over Hetty standing accused and locked up Lt. Joshua Featherstonhaugh­Marshall, Olivia Colman as Minka behind prison bars. Stars Thomas Arnold and Katherine Igoe. More quick­fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs plus TV and Lill Roughley as Mrs Best. and cinema parodies. THU 14:45 Book of the Week (b01j6qvz) Written by James Cary. Hedge Britannia, Episode 4 Stars Tim Brooke­Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Producer: Adam Bromley Kendall and Bill Oddie. Written by Hugh Barker. Read by Tim Key. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009. Hugh Barker, a hedge enthusiast, has journeyed across Britain to Written by Clive James, John Esmonde & Bob Larbey, Peter explore its remarkable variety of hedgerows. Vincent and David McKellar . Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue An enthusiast's account of how Britain's history has been mapped FRIDAY 31 MARCH 2017 by hedges. Today we hear about Captain Leyland's legacy. 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following. Over the course of his travels he discovers how hedges are FRI 00:00 Sheridan Le Fanu ­ Schalken the Painter amongst our most ancient monuments, meets hedgelaying Songs by Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke­Taylor, with music by Dave (b007jvp4) champions and topiary fanatics, and sees the lengths to which Lee. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] some people will go to annoy the neighbours. Along the way he Producer: Humphrey Barclay FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b00fzw0z) tells how a connection between paradise and the garden hedge First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in November 1965. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] grew up, why the British Army planted a barrier hedge hundreds FRI 08:30 The Goon Show (b007jz4z) FRI of miles long in India, and how the notorious enclosures during 01:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g3vpn) The Gold Plate Robbery the Industrial Revolution turned the country upside­down. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Ned Seagoon goes overseas to pursue some stolen booty, but can Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters FRI 01:30 Miniature Mountains (b0076f9s) Bloodnok be far behind? Stars Spike Milligan. From February A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] 1959. THU 15:00 Charles Dickens ­ The Personal History of David FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01r9swb) FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree (b05wq1jc) Copperfield (b007jn0g) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Series 5, University of Surrey [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI 02:15 An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three University students take on a team of three of their professors. THU 16:00 Guess What? (b061fth0) Hodgkin (b04lc564) Coming this week from the University of Surrey, The 3rd Degree [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at cultivating the THU 16:30 Country Matters (b00lnd0x) FRI 02:30 George Eliot ­ Adam Bede (b007jnvw) next generation of Radio 4 listeners while delighting the current [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] ones. THU FRI 02:45 Book of the Week (b01j6qvz) 17:00 In the Chair (b007jsvd) The Specialist Subjects in this episode are Politics, Business and [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI 03:00 Charles Dickens ­ The Personal History of David Physics and the questions range from Black Friday and the Gang THU 17:30 Meet David Sedaris (b066zvy9) Of Four to Gandhi and George Michael ­ and the show boasts not Copperfield (b007jn0g) Series 5, Calypso; Follow Me one, but two jokes about Quantum Mechanics. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] One of the world's best storytellers is back on BBC Radio 4 doing The show is recorded on location at a different University each FRI 04:00 Guess What? (b061fth0) what he does best. week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of their [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] This week: the story of an unorthodox minor operation in Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on an academic FRI Calypso, a reflection on selfie culture in Follow Me and a final 04:30 Country Matters (b00lnd0x) quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most extract from his diaries (5/6) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] stringent standards of academic rigour ­ but with lots of facts and Produced by Steve Doherty FRI 05:00 In the Chair (b007jsvd) jokes thrown in for good measure. A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General THU 18:00 Sheridan Le Fanu ­ Schalken the Painter FRI 05:30 Meet David Sedaris (b066zvy9) Knowledge, quick­fire bell­and­buzzer rounds and the 'Highbrow (b007jvp4) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Thursday] and Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not only the Episode 1 FRI 06:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g457y) students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and In 17th Century Leyden, young Flemish painter Godfrey Series 2, The Point of No Return science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, film, Schalken's love for his master's daughter, Rose, receives a setback DS Dave Brook and DC Blair Maxton get moving on the Kemp and One Direction. when a mysterious visitor comes calling one night by the name of case, but are they too late...? 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Now Show also delights in all facets of knowledge, not just in the require any special comment as 'more use is made of the talents Bryn ..... Lloyd Langford Humanities (his educational background) but in the sciences as that women share equally with men'. Fifty years later her hope Ray ..... Paul Copley well. He has made a number of documentaries for Radio 4, has still not been fulfilled. Dorothy Hodgkin remains the only Tanya ..... Victoria Elliott including The Poet Unwound ­ The History Of The Spleen, as British woman to have been awarded a Nobel Prize for science. Charlie ..... Mark Chatterton well as a half­hour comedy for Radio 4's Big Bang Day set in the Producer: Anna Buckley. Producer: Steven Canny Large Hadron Collider, called The Genuine Particle. FRI 14:30 George Eliot ­ Adam Bede (b007jnwb) In one version of his life, Justin is a loveable celebrity who is Producer: David Tyler Episode 10 successful, funny, and stopped in the street by adoring fans. He's A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. Preacher Dinah visits her cousin Hetty, who languishes under the man who has everything. FRI 09:30 Tickets Please (b00ny7k4) sentence of death in jail. Stars Katherine Igoe and Vicki Liddelle. In the more realistic version he's a DJ in a slightly shabby local Episode 2 FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b01j6qz4) radio station who gets hassled by the occasional oddball on the By Mark Maier Hedge Britannia, Episode 5 street. And he's the man who hopes for everything. The 9.27 London to Exeter emotional rollercoaster continues as Written by Hugh Barker. Read by Tim Key. And at home? Well, it's chaotic. His wife has left him, taking the train staff's personal embroilments deepen. Now one of the Hugh Barker, a hedge enthusiast, has journeyed across Britain to custody of his 8­year­old son Justin jnr. So he's back on the wedding party is joining in the melee. And why are there explore its remarkable variety of hedgerows. market. So he's currently living in his father­in­law's spare room fingerholes in the muffins? Hedge People ­ from those who created the extravagantly absurd in Bury. The only person who understands him is his Gran, living Robin...... Jeremy Swift hedges of stately homes to those who campaign today for the in luxury in an old folk's home in Warrington. Oh, and his Nadine...... Alex Kelly preservation of our living margins. producer Bryn but this might not be such a good thing. Peter...... Malcolm Tierney Over the course of his travels he discovers how hedges are Everyone Quite Likes Justin is written by Justin Moorhouse and Carol...... Tessa Nicholson amongst our most ancient monuments, meets hedgelaying Jim Poyser. Justin is a comedian who sells out gigs across the Carl...... Nicholas Boulton champions and topiary fanatics, and sees the lengths to which country. He has also written plays, a previous show for Radio 4 Diana...... Melissa Advani some people will go to annoy the neighbours. Along the way he and the first series of Everyone Quite Likes Justin. Jim Poyser is a Linda...... Kate Layden tells how a connection between paradise and the garden hedge writer and producer of enormous experience in both radio and Keith...... Stephen Hogan grew up, why the British Army planted a barrier hedge hundreds television. other parts played by Piers Wehner, Philip Fox and Joseph of miles long in India, and how the notorious enclosures during Recorded in front of an audience in Manchester. Cohen­Cole the Industrial Revolution turned the country upside­down. FRI 23:30 The Skivers (b00j5l87) Directed by Peter Kavanagh. Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters Series 3, Episode 3 FRI 10:00 Charles Dickens ­ The Personal History of David A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. Nightclubbing in London, courtesy of Peter Stringfellow. Sketch Copperfield (b007jn0r) FRI 15:00 Charles Dickens ­ The Personal History of David show with Nick Golsen and Tim de Jongh. From January 1997. I Have Loved You All My Life Copperfield (b007jn0r) As tragedy strikes, David is forced to contemplate his future. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Stars Miriam Margolyes, Sheila Hancock and Gary Cady. FRI 16:00 The 3rd Degree (b05wq1jc) FRI 11:00 Four Bare Legs in a Bed (b0222fgn) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] An Interesting Condition FRI 16:30 Tickets Please (b00ny7k4) The second of three stories from Helen Simpson's collection, Four [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Bare Legs in a Bed, read by Rosie Cavaliero. FRI 17:00 Romantic Friction (b00764mh) 2/3 An Interesting Condition. Fear and loathing in an antenatal [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] class. FRI 17:30 Boswell's Lives (b0547ntj) Producer: Sarah Langan. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 11:15 Tanika Gupta ­ The Queen's Retreat (b0075kw3) FRI 18:00 Sheridan Le Fanu ­ Schalken the Painter Bela is a keen chess player, but when her husband cheats on her, (b007sw35) she retreats from life's game. Episode 2 A romance with chess by Tanika Gupta. The ghoulish Vanderhausen seals his deal with Rose's uncle and Stars Shelley King as Bela, David Allister as Andrew, Alice takes her away. 17th­century mystery concluded by Ian Arnold as Fran, Derek Walmsley as Marco, June Barrie as Carla, McDiarmid. Tilly Gaunt as Louise and Lexi Rose as Kate. FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b01qgr4h) Director: Jonquil Panting Series 15, Peggy Lee's Is That All There Is? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. Is That All There Is, the Leiber and Stoller song made famous by FRI 12:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00qyqd9) Peggy Lee, is based upon a short story by Thomas Mann called [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] 'Disillusionment', but those who know and love it feel it's FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jz4z) inspirational rather than a cynical, world weary musical take on [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] existentialism and the futility of life. FRI 13:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g457y) Soul Music finds the compelling individual stories behind our [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] collective love of music. FRI 13:30 Miles Jupp in a Locked Room (b01hw6h8) Producer: Maggie Ayre. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 19:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00qyqd9) FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b01r9wdk) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Lucy Caldwell ­ All the Beggars Riding, Episode 10 FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b007jz4z) If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (Trad.) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] After the death of her mother, Lara Moorhouse finds herself FRI 20:00 Robert Barr ­ Detective (b04g457y) besieged with questions about her childhood that she never had [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] the courage to ask her mother when she was alive. In particular, FRI 20:30 Miles Jupp in a Locked Room (b01hw6h8) questions about her father. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] When Lara and her younger brother Alfie were children, their FRI 21:00 Four Bare Legs in a Bed (b0222fgn) father, an eminent surgeon, died in a helicopter crash. He had [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] been largely absent from their lives, spending much of his time FRI 21:15 Tanika Gupta ­ The Queen's Retreat (b0075kw3) working in Belfast during the Troubles and only coming back to [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] London two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street FRI 22:00 Boswell's Lives (b0547ntj) Clinic where he had first met their mother years before. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] For unbeknownst to her, Lara's father had another life in Belfast; FRI a wife, other children: another family. 22:30 Spotlight Tonight with Nish Kumar (b08k34tz) As she delves into her parents' lives and the story of their Series 1, 29/03/2017 relationship, Lara confronts her own past, and theirs, and We all like to think we know about the news and yet, whilst jokes discovers an unexpected legacy from her father's hidden double about Boris Johnson's haircut are all well and good, do you still life. have that nagging suspicion there's important things going on All the Beggars Riding is Lucy Caldwell's third novel. In 2011 beneath the headlines you'd like to know about? Well, help is at Lucy won the The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was hand! Nish Kumar is here to cast his spotlight on the week's most awarded the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize for her second novel talked about news items, taking an in­depth look at the biggest 'The Meeting Point'. A playwright and novelist Lucy's theatre stories from the past seven days to scrutinise what's actually credits include the award­winning 'Leaves', 'Guardians' and 'Notes going on beneath the bluster. to Future Self'. For radio she has written the Imison Award­ Recorded on the day of transmission, Spotlight Tonight brings winning 'Girl from Mars', 'Avenues of Eternal Peace', 'Witch you the most reactive up to date in­depth look at the news. Week' a dramatization of Diana Wynne Jones' novel for BBC Starring Nish Kumar & Sarah Campbell. Radio 4 Extra, and most recently she adapted her stage play Written by Robin Morgan, Sarah Campbell, Max Davis, Gabby 'Notes to Future Self' for Radio 4. Hutchinson­Crouch, Nish Kumar, and Tom Neenan. Read by Anne­Marie Duff It was produced by Matt Stronge and was a BBC Studios Abridged by Doreen Estall Production. Producer Heather Larmour. FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b08m0blv) FRI 14:15 An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to David Baddiel. Hodgkin (b04lc6h3) FRI Episode 5 23:00 Everyone Quite Likes Justin (b01n0wj1) The correspondence of Dorothy Hodgkin (1910­1994) introduced Series 2, Episode 5 by her biographer, Georgina Ferry. by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser Later in life, Dorothy combined scientific research with actively Justin's still living with his father­in­law, still working with his campaigning for peace, travelling to China and Russia during the ex­wife and still calling on his Gran for her words of wisdom. Cold War and later writing to her former student, Margaret This week he also has to cope with a chance of his big break. Thatcher. Justin ..... Justin Moorhouse On receiving the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964, she said she Gran ..... Anne Reid hoped that, in future, a woman winning such a prize would not Lisa ..... Christine Bottomley

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