Radio 7 Listings for 5 – 11 July 2008 Page 1 of 6 SATURDAY 05 JULY 2008 'a certain age' with a vivid imagination. from a yachtsman in distress. Lady Edith …. Mary Wimbush Presenter: Peter Reed SAT 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007s19b) Sir Wilfred …. John Moffatt Producer: Mik Wilkojc Earthsearch I Doctor Spofforth …. Bernard Hepton Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in July 2008. 5. The Pools of Time Captain MacWhirter …. Stephen Thorne SAT 12:00 PD James - The Skull Beneath the Skin Darv and Astra, two of the starship's crew, are in grave danger Delgado …. Keith Drinkel (b007w0rb) after being taken prisoner by the inhabitants of Zelda 5. Chief Engineer …. Matthew Morgan Episode 2 Their crew mates Telson and Sharna are in hot pursuit aboard First Officer …. James Telfer As murder suspects mount up, police question Cordelia Grey, the Challenger... Tarleton …. Jonathan Adams and there's another death. Stars Greta Scacchi and John Starring Sean Arnold. Radio kept Mary Wimbush particularly busy throughout her Moffatt. James Follett's adventure serial in time and space. career. She was known to millions as Julia Pargetter in 'The SAT 13:30 Tony's (b007k2tv) Commander Telson …. Sean Arnold Archers' until her death in 2005, shortly after she'd recorded an Series 1 Sharna …. Amanda Murray episode of the BBC's long-running soap opera at the BBC's Is This True Love? Astra …. Kathryn Hurlbutt Mailbox in Birmingham. Still single at 41, the barber's mother - and fate - seem Darv …. Haydn Wood Director: Enyd Williams determined to take a hand. Stars Victor Spinetti. From Angel One …. Sonia Fraser First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1993. November 1979. Angel Two …. Gordon Reid SAT 06:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cbltk) SAT 14:00 05/07/2008 (b00cfmqy) Helan …. Judy Franklin Series 3 Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Thorden …. John Bott Episode 6 BBC7. Spegal …. Stephen Garlick Murray worries that his tubby dad Tommy and Sheila have Contact us at: Custodian of the Past …. Eve Karpf more rolls than roles. CBeebies Radio Old Man …. Godfrey Kenton Ageing showbiz couple Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr London, W12 7RJ Director: Glyn Dearman continue their second stab at fame. Phone: 08700 100 700. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1981. Series 3 of Mike Coleman’s showbiz sitcom. SAT 17:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00cfmt0) SAT 00:30 William Gibson - Pattern Recognition CAST: The American funny man presents comedy and music from the (b007k21k) Tommy Franklin …. Roy Hudd Chateau Ste. Michelle winery, near Seattle. Episode 5 Sheila Parr …. June Whitfield SAT 18:00 Heroes: The Official Radio Show (b00cfmt2) 'Coolhunter' Cayce travels to Moscow for an emotional Hetty Stark …. Pat Coombes Series 2 encounter with the maker of "the footage" - the mysteriously Murray Franklin …. Julian Eardley Episode 11 compelling online film haunting web-surfers around the world. Louis Elstein …. Edward Halsted and Xanthe Fuller analyse the action from the TV But why is Cayce's boss at the ad agency so interested in it? Naomi Shae - Tracy-Ann Oberman series. William Gibson's fast-moving thriller concluded by Lorelei Music by Frido Ruth. SAT 18:30 Fear on 4 (b007jz4b) King. Producer: Steve Doherty Series 3 Abridged by Ron Roberts. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2001. A Routine Operation Producer: David Jackson Young. SAT 06:30 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves The Man in Black tells how Mary is suffering dreams of Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in February 2007. (b007jqgh) hospitals ahead of her appendectomy. SAT 01:00 A Confidential Agent (b00cbk1y) Bartholomew, Blackmail and Barefaced Lies All That Glisters An expensive statue lands Bertie Wooster in a pickle. Starring Hannah Gordon as Mary, Michael Cochrane as Derek, Liz Parker gets involved with a missing person case and PG Wodehouse romp adapted in six-parts by Richard Usborne. Geoffrey Whitehead as the Surgeon and Edward de Souza as uncovers a seedy photographic business in Nick McCarty's Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie the Man in Black. drama. Wooster, Paul Eddington as Roderick Spode, John Le Mesurier SAT 02:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b0080sd5) as Sir Watkin Bassett, Ronald Fraser as Major Plank, Jonathan Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers. Episode 5 Cecil as Boko Fittleworth, Denise Coffey as Stiffy Bing and Hortense makes the journey from Jamaica to London, but she Percy Edwards as Bartholemew the Dog. Written by Martyn Wade. only finds disappointment. Stars Nadine Marshall and Don Producer: David Hatch Gilet. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. Producer: Martin Jenkins SAT 02:15 McLevy (b0082hxv) SAT 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00cfmn8) Series 1 Contact us at: First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. For Unto Us Big Toe Books SAT 19:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k23q) The inspector hits the Victorian streets on the trail of BBC Broadcasting House [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] an ingenious cat-burglar. Brian Cox stars as David Ashton's London SAT 19:30 Decline and Fall (b00cfmnb) sleuth. W1A 1AA [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SAT 03:00 Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: SAT 20:00 I Did It My Way (b00cfmpg) (b00cbk1w) bigtoe@.co.uk. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Series 2 SAT 08:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k23q) SAT 23:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00cfmt0) Episode 8 Jane Milligan [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 today] Street performers and mobile phones. The comic duo's take on Sally Magnusson in conversation with Spike Milligan's daughter the week's events from August 2001. With guest Catherine about life growing up with the legendary Goon show star. From Tate. February 2007. SUNDAY 06 JULY 2008 SAT 03:30 And Now in Colour (b007v2t3) SAT 08:30 Decline and Fall (b00cfmnb) Series 1 Episode 5 SUN 00:00 Heroes: The Official Radio Show (b00cfmt2) Mike's House On the eve of their wedding, Margot sends Paul to Marseille to [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] The sketch show team take the audience to Mike's house, but sort out a little problem for her. Stars Alistair McGowan. SUN 00:30 Fear on 4 (b007jz4b) they get lost. Plus a phone-in on problems with phones... SAT 09:00 I Did It My Way (b00cfmpg) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de Galton and Simpson SUN 01:00 PD James - The Skull Beneath the Skin Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck. The creators of Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son - (b007w0rb) Producer: Lissa Evans comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson chat to Peter [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1990 Reed about their radio life and times. SUN 02:30 Tony's (b007k2tv) SAT 04:00 Lenin of the Rovers (b007jvds) 102 episodes of their classic sitcom Hancock's Half Hour were [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Saturday] Series 2 recorded for BBC Radio between 1954 and 1959. SUN 03:00 I Did It My Way (b00cfmpg) The Felchester Firm 58 episodes of Steptoe and Son were recorded for BBC TV – [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday] Crunchthorpe is a place so hard they dump nuclear waste in the with 51 re-recorded for BBC Radio. SUN 06:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00cfmt0) town centre. The duo's choice from the archive features: [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Saturday] Can the so-called 'Felchester Firm' protect Ricky and the team? * HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR - The Threatening Letters: SUN 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00cfs38) More adventures of communist football club, Felchester Rovers The lad is full of the joys of Spring - until the postman arrives. Contact us at: starring Alexei Sayle. Starring Tony Hancock, Sid James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques Big Toe Books Ricky Lenin ...... Alexei Sayle and . BBC Broadcasting House Jeff Frankly ...... From May 1958 London Frank Lee Brian ...... Kenneth Wolstenholme * THE GALTON AND SIMPSON PLAYHOUSE - Clicquot et W1A 1AA Colonel Brace Cartwright ...... Donald Hewlett Fils: Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: Stevie Stalin ...... Andrew McLean Monsieur Clicquot plans to improve his ailing funeral parlour. [email protected]. Terry Trotsky ...... Phil Cornwell Starring Richard Griffiths and Josie Lawrence. SUN 08:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island Omnibus Announcer ...... John Witty From December 1998. (b008141d) Written by Marcus Berkmann. * FRANKIE HOWERD & JUNE WHITFIELD - 'Up Je Episode 1 Producer: Harry Thompson. T'aime' Jamaican Hortense Roberts emigrates to London. Enthralling First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1989. The duo's 1971 parody of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg's exploration of empire, prejudice, war and love. SAT 04:30 In One Ear (b007jv6t) song originally banned by the BBC SUN 09:15 The Parcel of Dreams (b007vcn7) Helen Lederer, Clive Mantle and Nick Wilton star in this Sony * STEPTOE AND SON AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE A writer wants to tell a story about a private detective in Award winning sketch show. First broadcast live in March 1963 recording from The Royal Variety Performance. California, but will his characters let him? 1985. * STEPTOE AND SON - Porn Yesterday: Experimental detective story by Louis Robinson and Richard SAT 05:00 Peter Tinniswood (b007k354) Harold Steptoe is aghast when he sees for himself 'What the Lewis in which the characters want to be independent of the The Governor's Consort Butler Saw'. script. Mary Wimbush stars as Lady Edith in this play written specially Adapted from the TV script. Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Read by Colin Stinton for her by Peter Tinniswood. Harry H Corbett. Produced at BBC Pebble Mill by Anne-Marie Cole. Lady Edith is sailing with her husband to the tiny South Atlantic From March 1976. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1989. island of St David's, of which he's about to become Governor. * HANCOCK: The Radio Ham: the Pye re-recording: SUN 09:30 Unearthing Mysteries (b007tzqc) Her fellow passengers, not to mention the crew and the The originally BBC TV-only episode performed by The Lad Series 5 exuberant band on board, produce an invigorating and Himself before an audience for an album release in 1961. Tri Radial Cairns somewhat earthy effect on her Ladyship, a frustrated woman of Amateur radio enthusiast Tony Hancock receives a mayday call Professor Aubrey Manning examines possible astronomical Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 5 – 11 July 2008 Page 2 of 6 alignments in prehistoric stone piles discovered in [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today] Simon Greenall as Andy, John Duttine as Ralph and Debra Northumberland. SUN 19:30 Stop Messing About! (b00cft0x) Stephenson as Kirstie. SUN 10:00 RL Stevenson - Weir of Hermiston (b007jsy9) [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today] Producer: Liz Anstee The writer's unfinished tale of passion in the Scottish Lowlands. SUN 20:00 RL Stevenson - Weir of Hermiston (b007jsy9) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999. Completed for radio by Robert Forrest. Stars Paul Young. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON 09:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwb9) SUN 11:30 A Whole New Ball Game (b00cfsz9) SUN 21:30 A Whole New Ball Game (b00cfsz9) Taken at the Flood Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] Episode 1 Tactics SUN 22:00 (b00cft6x) In the London Blitz of 1944, Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot It's the semi-final of the Frewitt Cup, but Father Benedict's Catch up with Punt and Dennis and guests. hears an intriguing story about a man's disappearance. He little tactics manual falls into enemy hands. SUN 22:30 The Maltby Collection (b00cnclw) realises that two years later, he'll become involved with the Robert Patterson knows that victory will come only with the Series 1 event itself... help of the Angel of the Lord. Episode 1 Starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. A six-part black comedy by Martin Davies Rod Millet has always dreamed of working at the Maltby First published in 1948, Agatha Christie's whodunit dramatised Stars Desmond Barrit as Father Benedict, Brenda Blethyn as Collection. in five parts by Michael Bakewell. Mrs Patterson, Paul Parris as Robert Patterson, Charlotte But when he’s appointed deputy curator of painting and Major Porter ...... Derek Waring Coleman as Barbara Patterson, Martino Lazzeri as Guy sculpture, it quickly becomes clear that the son of a self-made Adela Marchmont ...... Virginia McKenna Entwhistle, Mark Straker as Andy, Claire Skinner as Janet and biscuit mogul isn't going to fit into the musty and insular world Lynn Marchmont ...... Susannah Corbett Gordon Reid as Mr Plant, of London antiquities... Frances Cloade ...... Caroline Wildi Producer: Lissa Evans Geoffrey Palmer and Julian Rhind-Tutt star in the first of three Jeremy Cloade ...... Andrew Sachs First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1993. series of David Nobbs’ sitcom about a small museum of Rowley CloadeIfan ...... Ifan Meredith SUN 12:00 Comediennes (b007lmk9) paintings and sculpture. Kathie Cloade ...... Elizabeth Proud Hattie Jacques Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt Rosaleen Cloade ...... Fritha Goodey Hattie Jacques: A clip-packed celebration of the career of the Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer David Hunter ...... Tom George much-loved comedy actress, featuring her memories of Tony Prunella Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins Producer: Enyd Williams Hancock. Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2003. SUN 12:30 Two Coconut Shells, a Blow Lamp and a Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley MON 09:30 Above Suspicion (b007xt7c) Raspberry (b0081r61) Eva Tattle ...... Julia Deakin Episode 1 ...The Story of Comedy Sound Effects on Radio. From farts to Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern With the Second World War looming, a naive young British Goon Show rumbling stomachs. Reece Shearsmith listens in Producer: Colin Anderson couple are swept into the world of espionage. Read by Emma from the 1930s through to The League of Gentlemen. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2007. Currie. SUN 13:00 Frankie Howerd Show (b007jwlq) SUN 23:00 Stand-Up on 7 (b008fxy0) MON 10:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b00819y4) The king of titters reads some ditties and battles giant animals Greg Proops, Back in the UK Episode 6 in a spoof thriller. With Norma Ronald. From November 1975. Greg's gig in Edinburgh, with his views on animals and the Arriving from Jamaica, Hortense discovers post-war is SUN 13:30 Stop Messing About! (b00cft0x) orange world of David Copperfield. cold and dreary. Stars Nadine Marshall and Stephen Series 1 SUN 23:45 Creme de la Crime (b007znpf) Tompkinson. Episode 10 Series 1 MON 10:15 McLevy (b0082k6q) Happy campers on holiday - and Tarzan swings in with Jane and A Bowl Full of Serial Killers Series 1 Cheetah. A melange of multi-murderers for Michael Feydeau -TV's The Trophy Club Stars Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, and much-loved Inspector Niblett - and crime expert David Blocked in his efforts to solve a prostitute's murder, the announcer, Douglas Smith. Pershore detective bends the rules with bitter consequences. With Brian After the unexpected death of Kenneth Horne in 1969, plans Tales from the vaults of villainy written by and starring Steve Cox. for the next series of were axed. Instead - Punt and . MON 11:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2h) using an old catchphrase of Kenneth Williams as a series title - With: The King's Son Kenneth joined Hugh Paddick to continue the comedy tradition Baby Alexander is born and there's friction between King Philip and was also reunited with his "Carry On" film co-star Joan Chris Pavlo of Macedon and Queen Olympias. Sims. Director: Adam Bromley David Wade's six-part serial on the life of Alexander the Great Written by Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Myles Rudge First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001. - starring Barry Foster, Simon Ward and Geraldine James. With the Max Harris Group. Translator: Richmond Lattimore Producer: John Simmonds Spirit of Achilles ...... Barry Foster First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1969. MONDAY 07 JULY 2008 Spirit of Patroclus ...... Simon Ward SUN 14:00 06/07/2008 (b00cft11) King Philip of Macedon ...... Brian Cox Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on MON 00:00 : The Commentaries (b00cftkr) Queen Olympias ...... Geraldine James BBC7. Series 4 Young Alexander ...... Sam Crane Contact us at: Journey's End Antipatros ...... David March CBeebies Radio The Doctor Who cast and crew discuss the final episode of the Demosthenes ...... Malcolm Sinclair London, W12 7RJ fourth TV series. Lysimachos ...... Keith Drinkel Phone: 08700 100 700. MON 01:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island Omnibus Young Hephaistion ...... Gary King SUN 17:00 Comediennes (b007lmk9) (b008141d) Aristander ...... Barry Gordon [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] Artabazus ...... Philip Anthony SUN 17:30 Two Coconut Shells, a Blow Lamp and a MON 02:15 The Parcel of Dreams (b007vcn7) Kleitos ...... John Evitts Raspberry (b0081r61) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:15 on Sunday] Leonidas ...... John Webb [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] MON 02:30 Unearthing Mysteries (b007tzqc) Pusanias ...... James Telfer SUN 18:00 The Darker Side of the Border (b00cft28) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] Menapis ...... David Thorpe Robert Louis Stevenson - Olalla MON 03:00 The Now Show (b00cft6x) Hellanike ...... Patti Holloway During the Peninsular War in Spain a wounded Scottish soldier [Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 on Sunday] Barsine ...... Oona Beeson is sent to stay in a remote house in the hills. The soldier falls in MON 03:30 The Maltby Collection (b00cnclw) Clotho ...... Rachel Atkins love with the daughter of the house, but the family harbour a [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Sunday] Lachesis ...... Jill Graham terrible secret... MON 04:00 Stand-Up on 7 (b008fxy0) Atropos ...... Diana Payan Series of 3 Scottish 19th century tales of terror and mystery. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Sunday] Music: Wilfredo Acosta Written by Robert Louis Stevenson and dramatised by Marty MON 04:45 Creme de la Crime (b007znpf) Director: Glyn Dearman Ross. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Sunday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1993. Alec ...... Paul Blair MON 05:00 Comediennes (b007lmk9) MON 12:00 The Goon Show (b00cghns) Olalla ...... Roxanna Pope [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Felipe ...... Richard Conlon MON 05:30 Two Coconut Shells, a Blow Lamp and a MON 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00cgl74) Senora ...... Carol Ann Crawford Raspberry (b0081r61) Series 5 Carrido ...... Richard Greenwood [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] Episode 8 The Padre ...... Simon Tait MON 06:00 Frankie Howerd Show (b007jwlq) A travelogue of Wales, major surgery - and a trip to Venus. Producer: Bruce Young [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2003. MON 06:30 Stop Messing About! (b00cft0x) parodies. SUN 18:30 Kurt Vonnegut - The Euphio Question [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall (b0088zh5) MON 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00cghnq) and Bill Oddie. A way of producing and harnessing happiness is revealed when Contact us at: Written by Eric Idle, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden. With Ray a physicist plays out the sound of dark matter during a local Big Toe Books Butler and Ian Fagelson. radio programme. BBC Broadcasting House Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue The sound lulls the listeners into a state of euphoria, producing London 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and an effect not unlike a large dose of sedative. W1A 1AA quickly developed a cult following. The ethical and moral implications of marketing this new found Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: Music and songs by Dave Lee, Leon Cohen and Bill Oddie. product become evident - as the temptation to make money and [email protected]. Producer: Humphrey Barclay control huge numbers of people proves too great. MON 08:00 The Goon Show (b00cghns) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1967. Kurt Vonnegut's short story is read by Stuart Milligan. Series 8 MON 13:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007k0wp) One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature, Kurt The Junk Affair Restlessness Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a cult figure among students in the Neddie combs the world for junk, hoping to corner the market Newly-wed Grace returns to Little Hintock with Doctor 1960s and 1970s with his classics of US counterculture. and make a packet. Stars Harry Secombe. From October 1957. Fitzpiers - but not to wedded bliss. The bombing of Dresden by allied forces in 1945 was the MON 08:30 Old Dog and Partridge (b007jvg6) First published in 1887, Thomas Hardy's classic tale of thwarted pivotal moment of his life, which informed his best-known Episode 5 love and ambition set amongst the woodsmen and women of work 'Slaughterhouse Five'. When Jack's old chum Ralph comes to visit with his trophy Little Hintock. Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins wife Kirstie, Jack feels the need to invent a fiancee. Read by Juliet Stevenson. Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2007. Joe Turner’s six-part sitcom stars Michael Williams as Jack, Producer: Di Speirs SUN 19:00 Frankie Howerd Show (b007jwlq) Lisa Coleman as Nicola, Cherry Morris as Mrs Drummond, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 5 – 11 July 2008 Page 3 of 6 MON 13:15 Travels With a Donkey (b00cglj2) fi and horror. Stuck up the Inlet The Camisards Abridged in nine parts by Scott Stainton Miller. HMS Troutbridge runs aground on a naval exercise, landing As his 1878 French mountain adventure continues, Robert Producer: Eilidh McCreadie Phillips in hot water Louis Stevenson recollects battles over religion. Read by Alan Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Scotland and first Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as Cumming. broadcast in 2006. the Chief Petty Officer, Dennis Price as Number One, Richard MON 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007js9q) MON 19:00 The Goon Show (b00cghns) Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Heather, Michael The Rise and Rise of Oliver Cromwell [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Bates as Commander Shaw, Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson and Some Kings lost their heads but only Charles I lost the MON 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00cgl74) Tenniel Evans as Ebenezer Pertwee. monarchy. Anna Massey narrates the history of the British Isles. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series on BBC MON 13:45 Centurions (b007jxdh) MON 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwb9) Radio between 1959 and 1976. Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Scripted by Lawrie Wyman. Biographer John Russell Taylor, and composer Neil Brand MON 20:30 Above Suspicion (b007xt7c) Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. celebrate one of the influential film director's personal [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1959. favourites. MON 21:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b00819y4) TUE 08:30 The Harpoon (b00cgsrm) MON 14:00 07/07/2008 (b00cglkl) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Series 3 Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on MON 21:15 McLevy (b0082k6q) Episode 1 BBC7. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] Is your journey really necessary? Do you know your Contact us at: MON 22:00 Old Dog and Partridge (b007jvg6) submarines? Are you bored with your biscuits? And above all - CBeebies Radio [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] are you German? London, W12 7RJ MON 22:30 Dave Podmore (b007wzp2) The Empire's favourite is back with a special wartime edition of Phone: 08700 100 700. Dave Podmore's Cricket Night the nostalgic spoof of boys' adventure magazines MON 17:00 To the Manor Born (b007jpzw) Episode 3 Performed by Alistair McGowan, Peter Baynham, Susie Brann, The Rhythms of the Earth There's uproar when a Russian billionaire turns Pod's cricket Mary Elliot-Nelson and Julian Dutton. Cash-strapped Lady of the Manor, Audrey fforbes-Hamilton ground into a supermarket, leaving Pod with divided loyalties. Producer: Sarah Smith has been forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her Written by Christopher Douglas, Nick Newman and Andrew First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1994. husband died. Nickolds. TUE 09:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwbk) With her butler Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Pod ...... Christopher Douglas Taken at the Flood Old Lodge cottage. Andy Hamer ...... Andrew Nickolds Episode 2 From this vantage point, Audrey is set to keep a close and With Nick Newman, Nichola Sanderson, Ewan Bailey and The Cloade family are trying to get money from Gordon's disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Chris Pavlo. young widow. It also looks like they would like her out of the Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech Producer: Richard Wilson way - permanently. descendent. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004. Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule She must educate the new squire into the ways of the Lord of MON 23:00 The Nick Revell Show (b007k1n0) Poirot. the Manor... Series 2 Major Porter ...... Derek Waring Starring Penelope Keith and Keith Barron. Homeless Adela Marchmont ...... Virginia McKenna Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his BBC TV script. Nick is a struggling writer in his mid-thirties who speaks to his Lynn Marchmont ...... Susannah Corbett Audrey fforbes-Hamilton …. Penelope Keith geraniums. They, meanwhile, watch on and take stock of his Frances Cloade ...... Caroline Wildi Richard DeVere …. Keith Barron mishaps. Jeremy Cloade ...... Andrew Sachs Marjory Frobisher …. Angela Thorne A sitcom for the 1990s, written by and starring comedian Nick Rowley CloadeIfan ...... Ifan Meredith Brabinger …. Nicholas McArdle Revell. Kathie Cloade ...... Elizabeth Proud Mrs Polouvicka …. Margery Withers With: Rosaleen Cloade ...... Fritha Goodey Ned …. Frank Middlemass Alistair McGowan David Hunter ...... Tom George First piloted for BBC radio, but whisked off to BBC TV before Doon MacKichan Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. Brian Bowles Producer: Enyd Williams Producer: Jane Berthoud Charles McKeown First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2003. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1997. Gabrielle Cowburn TUE 09:30 Above Suspicion (b007xw1l) MON 17:30 Bristow (b00cglkn) Producer: Ioan Magnusson Episode 2 Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1993. On holiday in Europe, naive young couple Frances and Richard Follow That Star MON 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jq3n) try to track down a missing British agent. Read by Emma The troublesome buying clerk tries smuggling a food inspector Series 2 Currie. into chef Gordon Blue's staff canteen. The Gangrene of the Mastersons TUE 10:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b0081cdy) Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the Chester-Perry buying The Masterson's epic Crimean War struggle of carnage, Episode 7 clerk. He is but a small cog in a gigantic wheel... and he knows carnality and cads. Hortense's landlady Queenie tells of her war job, and her boring it. The award-winning improvised historical family saga based husband. Stars Lyndsey Marhsal and Stephen Tompkinson. Adapted from by Frank Dickens from his famous newspaper entirely on audience suggestions. TUE 10:15 McLevy (b007jlj2) cartoon strip. Syndicated internationally, it ran for 51 years Starring Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Jim Sweeney, Lee Series 1 from 1961. Simpson, Phelim McDermott and Caroline Quentin. The Second Shadow Bristow …. Michael Williams Producer: Phil Clarke The Edinburgh detective must secure some rapid counterfeiter Jones …. Rodney Bewes First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1994. convictions, but he's distracted by a woman. Starring Brian Cox. B.J. Bothwick …. Christopher Benjamin TUE 11:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2n) Hewitt …. Owen Brenman I am Also Alexander Miss Sunman …. Katy Odey TUESDAY 08 JULY 2008 Alexander is used as a pawn in the war between his parents, and Station Master …. Jon Glover is educated by Aristotle. Post Boy …. Simon Schatzberger TUE 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007sw34) Michael Maloney, Barry Foster and Simon Ward star in David Mrs Dimple …. Sheila Reid [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Wade's serial on the life of Alexander the Great. Music: John Whitehall TUE 00:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0s3) Alexander ...... Michael Maloney Poducer: Neil Cargill [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Spirit of Achilles ...... Barry Foster First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1999. TUE 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwb9) Spirit of Patroclus ...... Simon Ward MON 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007sw34) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] King Philip of Macedon ...... Brian Cox Earthsearch I TUE 01:30 Above Suspicion (b007xt7c) Young Alexander ...... Sam Crane 6. Across the Abyss [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Hephaistion ...... Alex Jennings The starship Challenger, continuing its search for Earth, has left TUE 02:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b00819y4) Young Hephaistion ...... Gary King Zelda 5 and - with Grand Emperor Thorden on board - is [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Queen Olympias ...... Geraldine James heading toward the star cluster, Tersus 9. TUE 02:15 McLevy (b0082k6q) Aristotle ...... John Moffat Darv is certain that this is where Paradise - a planet discovered [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Monday] Demosthenes ...... Malcolm Sinclair by the second generation crew - is to be found. TUE 03:00 Old Dog and Partridge (b007jvg6) Lysimachos ...... Keith Drinkel Starring Sean Arnold. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Monday] Leonidas ...... John Webb James Follett's adventure serial in time and space. TUE 03:30 Dave Podmore (b007wzp2) Ptolemy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt Commander Telson .... Sean Arnold [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Monday] Philotas ...... Michael Onslow Sharna .... Amanda Murray TUE 04:00 The Nick Revell Show (b007k1n0) Pusanias ...... James Telfer Astra .... Kathryn Hurlbutt [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] Menapis ...... David Thorpe Darv .... Haydn Wood TUE 04:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jq3n) Aristander ...... Barry Gordon Angel One .... Sonia Fraser [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Monday] Demaratos ...... John Evitts Angel Two .... Gordon Reid TUE 05:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2h) Music: Wilfredo Acosta Kroll .... Michael Spice [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] Director: Glyn Dearman Fagor .... Sion Probert TUE 06:00 Bristow (b00cglkn) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1993. Dren .... John Webb [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Monday] TUE 12:00 The Navy Lark (b00v8rt7) Director: Glyn Dearman TUE 06:30 To the Manor Born (b007jpzw) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1981. [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE 12:30 The Al Read Show (b00cgsrp) MON 18:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0s3) TUE 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00cgsrk) From 25/11/1954 1. Immune Contact us at: A nagging wife and secrets of the boys in blue. Monologues and Robert Neville is immune to a plague which has decimated the Big Toe Books sketches from the legendary Northern comic. From November population BBC Broadcasting House 1954. Earth's last living man takes on hordes of survivors turned into London TUE 13:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007jx7z) monstrous vampires. W1A 1AA Suspicions 1954 cult classic set in the United States of America in 1976. Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: Grace turns to her former lover Giles, while her husband is Read by Angus McInnes. [email protected]. devoted elsewhere. Read by Juliet Stevenson. One of the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, TUE 08:00 The Navy Lark (b00v8rt7) TUE 13:15 Travels With a Donkey (b00cgsrr) Richard Matheson's 'I Am Legend' combines the worlds of sci- Series 1 The Heart of the Country Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 5 – 11 July 2008 Page 4 of 6 Robert Louis Stevenson enjoys wild views of French mountains TUE 21:15 McLevy (b007jlj2) Rowley CloadeIfan ...... Ifan Meredith feathered with chestnut trees. Read by Alan Cumming. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] Kathie Cloade ...... Elizabeth Proud TUE 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007jsb4) TUE 22:00 The Harpoon (b00cgsrm) Rosaleen Cloade ...... Fritha Goodey The First Redcoats and The Battle of Naseby [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] David Hunter ...... Tom George 1645 and the Battle of Naseby began, which historians believe TUE 22:30 Old Harry's Game (b00cgsrw) Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. was the start of modern British democracy. Narrated by Anna Series 5 Producer: Enyd Williams Massey. Power Politics First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2003. TUE 13:45 Centurions (b007jxdc) Satan infiltrates the White House and the United Nations. WED 09:30 Above Suspicion (b007xwjp) Anna Akhmatova - Requiem Meanwhile, a dangerous subversive infiltrates Hell. Episode 3 Writer Zinovy Zinik, poet Sarah Maguire and friend Tania Andy Hamilton’s devilishly funny sitcom set in Hell. With two agents contacted, the British couple's search moves to Litvinova discuss the leading Russian poet of her time. Satan …. Andy Hamilton Austria - but they're being followed. Read by Emma Currie. TUE 14:00 08/07/2008 (b00cgsrt) Thomas …. Jimmy Mulville WED 10:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b0081f8j) Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Scumspawn …. Robert Duncan Episode 8 BBC7. Other characters played by Geoffrey Whitehead , Hugh Dennis Hortense's new husband Gilbert reveals how Jamaican fighters Contact us at: , Tony Maudsley, Felicity Montagu and Philip Pope. face racism from Americans and the British. Stars Don Gilet. CBeebies Radio Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer WED 10:15 McLevy (b007jljg) London, W12 7RJ First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005. Series 1 Phone: 08700 100 700. TUE 23:00 Spats (b00cgsrz) The Burning Question TUE 17:00 King Street Junior (b007jnkg) Series 2 An unsolved murder is bringing vigilantes onto the streets. Time Series 9 Society v the Individual is running out for the Edinburgh detective. Stars Brian Cox. A Bridge to Afar Comedian Luke Roberts tries to solve the big arguments using WED 11:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx30) The happiest days of your life? Well, that depends.... light entertainment. With Stephen Critchlow. From July 2008. Preparation of the Sacrifice As workmen dig up the playground, lessons are learned when an TUE 23:30 The Problem With Adam Bloom (b007rgld) Young Alexander goes into battle to prove his manhood, old boy visits the school. Series 1 meanwhile King Philip's remarriage plans cause tension.... Created by Jim Eldridge, ten series of this comedy about a Cutting Corners Michael Maloney, Barry Foster and Simon Ward star in David junior school ran between 1985 and 1998. King Street Junior Value for money is very important these days. Adam Bloom Wade's serial on the life of Alexander the Great. Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005. makes sure you get a full show's worth and are not short Alexander ...... Michael Maloney Written by Paul Copley. changed in any way. Spirit of Achilles ...... Barry Foster Stars Karl Howman as Mr Sims, James Grout as the Helping him conserve the Corporation's pennies is Rob Rouse. Spirit of Patroclus ...... Simon Ward Headmaster, Deirdre Costello as Mrs Patterson, Paul Copley as Written by Adam Bloom. King Philip of Macedon ...... Brian Cox Mr Long, Marlene Sidaway as Miss Lewis, Margaret John as Producer: Adam Bromley Hephaistion ...... Alex Jennings Mrs Stone, Vivienne Martin as Mrs Rudd, Ronald Hines as First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2003. Queen Olympias ...... Geraldine James Harold Harper, John Hollis as Mr Ridley, Carla Prosser as TUE 23:45 Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle (b00cgss2) Ptolemy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt Trish, Danielle Del Guidice as Sophie and Maredith Plancencia Episode 1 Philotas ...... Michael Onslow as May Miao Lee. 'I Am a Yellow Fly' and the tale of a greasy button. Pusanias ...... James Telfer Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Songs, stories and poems from humourist Ivor Cutler, with Aristander ...... Barry Gordon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1996. Craig Murray-Orr, Dylan Edwards and Beverley Crew. Demaratos ...... John Evitts TUE 17:30 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007jph9) Producer: Neil Cargill Parmenion ...... John Rye Who Owned the Pier? First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in June 1997. Antipatros ...... David March 1948: In the battle to restore the pier in Frambourne-on-Sea, Demosthene ...... Malcolm Sinclair hopes rest on a visit from an electrician... Attalos ...... John Baddeley A seaside saga of pier perpetuation starring John Le Mesurier, WEDNESDAY 09 JULY 2008 Music: Wilfredo Acosta Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee. Director: Glyn Dearman Arthur Wilson ...... John Le Mesurier WED 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jld3) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993. Frank Pike ...... Ian Lavender [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED 12:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00cgvh8) Bert Hodges ...... Bill Pertwee WED 00:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0tb) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Miss Perkins ...... Vivienne Martin [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED 12:30 Trivia Test Match (b00cgyjl) Mr Guthrie ...... Glynn Edwards WED 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwbk) Willie Rushton and William Franklin take on Tim Rice and Mr Watkins ...... Barry Gosney [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Tuesday] . The stumps fly at Hurst Cricket Club. Assistant ...... Stuart Sherwin WED 01:30 Above Suspicion (b007xw1l) WED 13:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007jx82) Librarian ...... James Bryce [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Separation Written by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles, based on the WED 02:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b0081cdy) The injured Doctor Fitzpiers writes to Grace, and hopes are characters originally created by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] raised and dashed. Read by Juliet Stevenson. Producer: Martin Fisher WED 02:15 McLevy (b007jlj2) WED 13:15 Travels With a Donkey (b00cgyjn) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1983. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Tuesday] Farewell, Modestine! TUE 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jld3) WED 03:00 The Harpoon (b00cgsrm) As Robert Louis Stevenson's French mountain adventure Earthsearch I [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Tuesday] concludes, there is a last supper with his donkey. Read by Alan 7. New Blood WED 03:30 Old Harry's Game (b00cgsrw) Cumming. Challenger crew members Telson and Sharna have entered the [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Tuesday] WED 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007jsbc) floating hulk of its sister ship and discovered it houses a WED 04:00 Spats (b00cgsrz) The Execution of Charles I population with no knowledge of anything outside their own [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Tuesday] Money had to be found for the war and taxes were high. Anna small world. WED 04:30 The Problem With Adam Bloom (b007rgld) Massey narrates the events leading up to the execution of To them, Earth is eternity... [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Tuesday] Charles. Starring Sean Arnold. WED 04:45 Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle (b00cgss2) WED 13:45 Centurions (b007jxdl) James Follett's adventure serial in time and space. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Tuesday] Buster Keaton - The General Commander Telson .... Sean Arnold WED 05:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2n) Film historian David Robinson and writer David Thomson Sharna .... Amanda Murray [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] celebrate silent film star Buster Keaton and his movie machine. Astra .... Kathryn Hurlbutt WED 06:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007jph9) From December 1999. Darv .... Haydn Wood [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Tuesday] WED 14:00 09/07/2008 (b00cgyjq) Angel One .... Sonia Fraser WED 06:30 King Street Junior (b007jnkg) Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Angel Two .... Gordon Reid [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] BBC7. Fagor .... Sion Probert WED 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00cgvh6) Contact us at: Lenart .... Jane Knowles Contact us at: CBeebies Radio Tandor .... Pauline Letts Big Toe Books London, W12 7RJ Forty One .... John Church BBC Broadcasting House Phone: 08700 100 700. Director: Glyn Dearman London WED 17:00 All the Young Dudes (b00cgyjs) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1981. W1A 1AA Series 1 TUE 18:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0tb) Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: School's Out 2. Tomb [email protected]. Patrick pursues a job at his old school and meets his ex-teacher. Earth's last living man, Robert Neville, discovers that his wife's WED 08:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00cgvh8) Stars Jim Sweeney and Cathryn Harrison. From July 2001. tomb is a lair for vampires. From 14/02/1963 WED 17:30 After Henry (b007jnsf) Richard Matheson's 1954 cult classic set in 1976 USA. One of Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Series 2 the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, combining Marsden pay tribute to the Summer Concert Party. The Married Man sci-fi and horror. WED 08:30 (b00cgvhb) 'Many people have found that a couple of months negotiating Read by Angus McInnes. The impressionist team bring you the nation's favourite police gear levers in golf-club car parks can rather take the edge off Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller. sirens, from the Warwick Arts Centre. romance.' Producer: Eilidh McCreadie WED 09:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwbr) Clare's latest love affair proves difficult to keep secret from Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Scotland and first Taken at the Flood granny Eleanor. broadcast in January 2006. Episode 3 Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - TUE 19:00 The Navy Lark (b00v8rt7) The mysterious visitor has been found dead in his hotel room. struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] But who had the motive to murder him - and why? never quite manage to see eye to eye. TUE 19:30 The Al Read Show (b00cgsrp) Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Sarah ...... Prunella Scales [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Poirot. Eleanor ...... Joan Sanderson TUE 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwbk) Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt Russell ...... Benjamin Whitrow [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Major Porter ...... Derek Waring Clare ...... Gerry Cowper TUE 20:30 Above Suspicion (b007xw1l) Adela Marchmont ...... Virginia McKenna Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Lynn Marchmont ...... Susannah Corbett - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV TUE 21:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b0081cdy) Frances Cloade ...... Caroline Wildi network. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Jeremy Cloade ...... Andrew Sachs Producer: Pete Atkin Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 5 – 11 July 2008 Page 5 of 6 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1986. THU 03:30 The Goldfish Bowl (b007k0x7) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993. WED 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jldg) [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Wednesday] THU 12:00 Take It From Here (b00cfwpt) Earthsearch I THU 03:45 Quando, Quando, Quando (b007xry7) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] 8. Marooned [Repeat of broadcast at 22:45 on Wednesday] THU 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b00cm26d) The Challenger's crew has returned to its solar system to THU 04:00 Think the Unthinkable (b007k4p8) Series 4 discover that a million years has passed on Earth while only 115 [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Wednesday] Is Britain Going the Burkiss Way? Part 1 years had passed on their starship. THU 04:30 Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music (b00cgyp3) All about 'things' and spoofing 'Just A Minute'. Starring Fred After their devastating news, the four-strong crew face peril [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Wednesday] Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett. from a once-benign force. THU 05:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx30) Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to Starring Sean Arnold. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] 1980. James Follett's adventure serial in time and space. THU 06:00 After Henry (b007jnsf) Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. Commander Telson .... Sean Arnold [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Wednesday] Producer: David Hatch Sharna .... Amanda Murray THU 06:30 All the Young Dudes (b00cgyjs) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1979. Astra .... Kathryn Hurlbutt [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU 13:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007jx86) Darv .... Haydn Wood THU 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00cfwpr) Sickness Angel One .... Sonia Fraser Contact us at: With Giles lying desperately ill, Grace believes that only one Angel Two .... Gordon Reid Big Toe Books person can save him. Read by Juliet Stevenson. Sentinel .... Alexander John BBC Broadcasting House THU 13:15 Short stories by DH Lawrence (b007k2kc) George .... John McAndrew London Goose Fair Director: Glyn Dearman W1A 1AA An unexpected fire at Selby's factory proves to be a turning First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1981. Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: point in the relationship between Will and Lois. Read by Peter WED 18:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0wz) [email protected]. Meakin. 3. Vampires THU 08:00 Take It From Here (b00cfwpt) THU 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007jsbp) Tortured by memories, Robert Neville, Earth's last living man, Jimmy Edwards and the gang in a special naval edition, The Republic of England steps up his fight against the vampires. recorded aboard HMS Indefatigable. Upon the execution of Charles I, England becomes a republic. Richard Matheson's 1954 cult classic set in 1976 USA. One of THU 08:30 Married (b007w523) Anna Massey narrates the history of the British Isles. the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, combining Series 1 THU 13:45 Centurions (b007jxb2) sci-fi and horror. Episode 5 Cartier-Bresson - The Decisive Moment Read by Angus McInnes. Just as he is starting to make the most of his new life, Robin is 'Half-way between a tightrope walker and a pickpocket'. A Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller. whisked back to his old universe where his doppelganger has celebration of the photographer who united art and Producer: Eilidh McCreadie been wreaking havoc... documentary. Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in Hugh Bonneville stars in Tony Bagley's comedy. THU 14:00 10/07/2008 (b00cfzks) January 2006. Robin ...... Hugh Bonneville Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on WED 19:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00cgvh8) Lesley ...... Josie Lawrence BBC7. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Dirk ...... Steve Frost Contact us at: WED 19:30 Trivia Test Match (b00cgyjl) Julia ...... Barbara Murray CBeebies Radio [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Penny ...... Melanie Hudson London, W12 7RJ WED 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwbr) Drunk ...... Harry Myers Phone: 08700 100 700. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Producer Claire Jones THU 17:00 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jvtb) WED 20:30 Above Suspicion (b007xwjp) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1999. Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU 09:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwbx) Episode 1 WED 21:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b0081f8j) Taken at the Flood All set for divorce and a new home, ad man Ken Handley gets a [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Episode 4 surprise at the agency. WED 21:15 McLevy (b007jljg) The inquest on the death of the stranger has taken place, but Martin Jarvis stars in Guy Jenkin and Jon Canter’s satire set in [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] Hercule Poirot is greatly disturbed by the shape the case is the competitive world of advertising WED 22:00 Dead Ringers (b00cgvhb) taking... Ken Handley ...... Martin Jarvis [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Sandy ...... Christopher Godwin WED 22:30 The Goldfish Bowl (b007k0x7) Poirot. Freddie ...... Lockwood West Series 1 Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt Deborah ...... Rosalind Ayres Episode 6 Lynn Marchmont ...... Susannah Corbett Ambrose ...... Paul Jesson Liam and Anton witness the break up of Martin and Susan's Rowley CloadeIfan ...... Ifan Meredith Angus ...... Michael Jenner relationship through their goldfish bowl. Starring Shaun Rosaleen Cloade ...... Fritha Goodey Receptionist ...... Stacey Tendeter Prendergast. Superintendent Spence ...... Robert Lang Mr Cheater ...... James Griffiths WED 22:45 Quando, Quando, Quando (b007xry7) Kathie Cloade ...... Elizabeth Proud With Joss Ackland, Miriam Margolyes, John Shrapnel, Imelda Big Head Lionel Cloade ...... Ioan Meredith Staunton and David Tate. The Quando brothers' hair salon is thrown into pandemonium Mrs Leadbetter ...... Mary Wimbush Producer: Pete Atkin when the President of Uruguay arrives for his annual trim. No Frances Cloade ...... Caroline Wildi First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1984. one must mention his enormous head... Jeremy Cloade ...... Andrew Sachs THU 17:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007jwbj) Brothers Rene, Carlo and Charlie Quando chop, snip and crimp Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. Series 1 their lucky clients into shape at London's finest hair salon. Producer: Enyd Williams The TV Stars Six-part comedy written and performed by Rainer Hersch and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003. Rabbi Su is set to appear on TV, but Rabbi Abraham is not Mark Maie. With Stephen Greif and Catherine Tate. THU 09:30 Above Suspicion (b007xwnq) impressed - or so it seems. Producer: Claire Jones Episode 4 The first of three series of Barry Grossman’s comedy-drama First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1999. Getting closer to the British agent in Pertisau, couple Frances about the collision between the old and the new in the Jewish WED 23:00 Think the Unthinkable (b007k4p8) and Richard have sought friends' help. Read by Emma Currie. community of Hillfield. Series 2 THU 10:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b0081k67) Starring David De Keyser as Rabbi Abraham Fine. Tracy-Ann Blue Herring Episode 9 Oberman as Rabbi Su Jacobs, Doreen Mantle as Sadie Fine, The management consultants plug into media technology. Stars Jamaican serviceman Gilbert Joseph joins Queenie for a trip to Henry Goodman as Melvin, Jonathan Kydd as Brian, Sheila Emma Kennedy and . From November 2002. the cinema, but finds the seats are segregated. Stars Don Gilet. Steafel as Sue's Mum, Peter Landi as Gareth Broughton and WED 23:30 Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music (b00cgyp3) THU 10:15 McLevy (b007jq95) Rebecca Gethings as Fiona Collins. Series 2 Series 2 Music: Max Harris. New Music Scene A Good Walk Spoilt Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Is there a minimum number of people that constitutes a scene? After a murder on the links, the Victorian detective First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. What happens if you're the only mod in Austin, Texas? And contemplates a game of golf with desperate stakes. Starring THU 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jldt) why does everything sound like ? Brian Cox. Earthsearch I Mitch Benn tackles these vital issues via the medium of song THU 11:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx34) 9. Star Cluster - Tersus Nine and discusses music, life and Goths. The Road to Gordium Having destroyed the warrior android Fagor, the crew have With , Alfie Joey, Tasha Baylis and Kirsty Newton. Warrior Alexander becomes King of Macedon and sets out to returned safely to the starship Challenger. Written by Mitch Benn and Robin Ince. conquer the world. With their search for Earth resumed, they're heading - in a state Producer: Adam Bromley Michael Maloney and Barry Foster star in David Wade's serial of suspended animation - for Tersus Nine. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2005 on the life of Alexander the Great. Starring Sean Arnold. Alexander ...... Michael Maloney James Follett's adventure serial in time and space. Spirit of Achilles ...... Barry Foster Commander Telson .... Sean Arnold THURSDAY 10 JULY 2008 Spirit of Patroclus ...... Simon Ward Sharna .... Amanda Murray Hephaistion ...... Alex Jennings Astra .... Kathryn Hurlbutt THU 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jldg) Queen Olympias ...... Geraldine James Darv .... Haydn Wood [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Darius ...... Charles Kay Angel One .... Sonia Fraser THU 00:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0wz) Harpalos ...... Dominic Letts Angel Two .... Gordon Reid [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Perdikkas ...... Mark Straker Director: Glyn Dearman THU 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwbr) Charidemos ...... Jonathan Adams First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1981. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Ptolemy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt THU 18:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0y9) THU 01:30 Above Suspicion (b007xwjp) Philotas ...... Michael Onslow 4. Distraction [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Anteas ...... Barry Gordon Earth's last living man, Robert Neville, edges towards a cure, THU 02:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b0081f8j) Simmias ...... John Evitts but then he gets distracted. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] Antipatros ...... David March Richard Matheson's 1954 cult classic set in 1976 USA. One of THU 02:15 McLevy (b007jljg) Demosthene ...... Malcolm Sinclair the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, combining [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Wednesday] Nabarzanes ...... John Baddeley sci-fi and horror. THU 03:00 Dead Ringers (b00cgvhb) Music: Wilfredo Acosta Read by Angus McInnes. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Wednesday] Director: Glyn Dearman Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 5 – 11 July 2008 Page 6 of 6 Producer: Eilidh McCreadie FRI 08:00 Listen to Les (b00c475s) London, W12 7RJ Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in From 17/10/1976 Phone: 08700 100 700. January 2006. Les Dawson shares the tale of a Leonard Shufflebottom – a man FRI 17:00 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves THU 19:00 Take It From Here (b00cfwpt) so thin he was once used as a dipstick. Plus another (b007jqjc) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] unforgettable piano sing-a-long. Spode Is Unsuccessful THU 19:30 The Burkiss Way (b00cm26d) With Daphne Oxenford and Colin Edwynn. Gussie Fink-Nottle upsets his fiancee when he looks elsewhere [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Music by Brian Fitzgerald. on the menu. THU 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwbx) Scripted and produced by James Casey. PG Wodehouse romp adapted in six parts by Richard Usborne. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1976. Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie THU 20:30 Above Suspicion (b007xwnq) FRI 08:30 Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections Wooster, Paul Eddington as Lord Sidcup, Jonathan Cecil as [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] (b00cfvw0) Gussie Fink-Nottle, Denise Coffey as Stiffy Bing, Aimi THU 21:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b0081k67) Series 2 MacDonald as Madeline Bassett and Douglas Blackwell as the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Episode 9 Rev. Harold Pinker THU 21:15 McLevy (b007jq95) The comic duo poke fun at the news of August 2001, from the Producer: David Hatch [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] Edinburgh Festival. With special guest Julia Morris. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. THU 22:00 Married (b007w523) FRI 09:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwc3) FRI 17:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cfzqy) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Taken at the Flood Series 4 THU 22:30 I Think I've Got a Problem (b00cfzrq) Episode 5 Episode 1 Series 2 The Belgian sleuth is going to have to think very fast to unravel Tommy and Sheila's sneaky agent schemes to sell off their back Episode 2 the enigma if he's to prevent another murder in the village... catalogue to a record company – but what’s in it for him? Tom tried to get into his mother's good books by helping out at Conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit starring John Moffatt Ageing showbiz couple Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr battle her folk club, but soon finds himself in the doghouse when the as Hercule Poirot. on with their second stab at fame. band inside his head launch into a jazz number in the middle of Lynn Marchmont ...... Susannah Corbett Series 4 of Mike Coleman’s six-part sitcom starring June her song. Rowley CloadeIfan ...... Ifan Meredith Whitfield and Roy Hudd. In an attempt to make amends he tries to raise money for the Superintendent Spence ...... Robert Lang With Pat Coombs, Julian Eardley and Edward Halstead. church funds and finds himself taking part in a stand-up David Hunter ...... Tom George Music by Frido Ruth. comedy competition... The Maid ...... Debbie Hunt Producer: Steve Doherty Andrew McGibbon and Nick Romero's everyday story about a Dramatised by Michael Bakewell First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. man who can't stop himself from breaking into song. Producer: Enyd Williams FRI 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b00cfzsp) ..... Tom Caine First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003 Earthsearch I Bob Monkhouse ..... Dr Boone FRI 09:30 Above Suspicion (b00cfwdc) 10. Earthfall Phil Cornwell ..... Bouche Episode 5 Despite the difficulties put in their way by the two guardian Andrew McGibbon ..... Jake Mission accomplished, amateur spies Frances and Richard are 'Angels', the crew of the Challenger have found Paradise. Nick Romero ..... Monty DeVere being watched by a man with a duelling scar. Read by Emma It's an earth-like planet originally discovered by the second- Bill Nighy ..... Malc Currie. generation crew. However, the 'Angels' are by no means Julia Deakin ..... Phelia FRI 10:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b00cfwhy) beaten... Toby Longworth ..... Clammy Episode 10 Starring Sean Arnold. Tracy-Ann Oberman The war ends in Europe, but Queenie's husband is still fighting Conclusion of James Follett's ten-part adventure serial in time Songs: Andrew McGibbon. Nick Romero and Suggs in the Far East. Stars Nadine Marshall and Stephen and space. Producers: Andrew McGibbon and Dawn Ellis. Tompkinson. Commander Telson .... Sean Arnold First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2003. FRI 10:15 McLevy (b00cfwp9) Sharna .... Amanda Murray THU 23:00 World of Pub (b007jpby) Series 2 Astra .... Kathryn Hurlbutt Series 2 Wild Justice Darv .... Haydn Wood Episode 1 Stretching out a bony hand towards him, a ghost from the past Angel One .... Sonia Fraser Dodgy Phil comes up with another scheme to fill Barry and returns to haunt the Victorian detective. Starring Brian Cox. Angel Two .... Gordon Reid Garry's East End boozer with punters. FRI 11:00 David Wade - Alexander (b00cfwr8) Director: Glyn Dearman Tony Roche's comedy about the world's worst pub in London's The Hunt of the God King First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1981. East End. Alexander pursues Darius, conquers Egypt and falls in love with FRI 18:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b00cfzw4) Dodgy Phil ...... John Thomson Barsine. 5. Hunting Barry ...... Phil Cornwell Michael Maloney and Alex Jennings star in David Wade's serial Earth's last living man, Robert Neville, steps up his hunt for the Garry ...... Alistair McGowan on the life of Alexander the Great. root of the plague. With Debra Stephenson and Simon Greenall. Alexander ...... Michael Maloney Richard Matheson's 1954 cult classic set in 1976 USA. One of Special effects: Carl Phillips and Nick Romero. Hephaistion ...... Alex Jennings the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, combining Music: Bill Bailey Achilles ...... Barry Foster sci-fi and horror. Producer: Jane Berthoud Patroclus ...... Simon Ward Read by Angus McInnes. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999. Ptolemy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller. THU 23:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00cfzrs) Philotas ...... Michael Onslow Producer: Eilidh McCreadie Series 1 Perdikkas ...... Mark Straker Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in James Bond Simmias ...... John Evitts January 2006. The former variety star has toaster trouble before his talk to the Philip ...... Sean Barrett FRI 19:00 Listen to Les (b00c475s) Women's Institute. Stars Steve Delaney. From January 2006. Lysimachos ...... Keith Drinkel [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Eumenes ...... James Telfer FRI 19:30 Just a Minute (b00cfzdc) Artzbazus ...... Philip Anthony [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] FRIDAY 11 JULY 2008 Barsine ...... Teresa Gallagher FRI 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwc3) Sisygambis ...... Diana Payan [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jldt) Thais ...... Rachel Atkins FRI 20:30 Above Suspicion (b00cfwdc) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] The Eunuch ...... Richard Pearce [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI 00:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0y9) Music: Wilfredo Acosta FRI 21:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b00cfwhy) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Director: Glyn Dearman [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwbx) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993. FRI 21:15 McLevy (b00cfwp9) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI 12:00 Listen to Les (b00c475s) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] FRI 01:30 Above Suspicion (b007xwnq) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 22:00 Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI 12:30 Just a Minute (b00cfzdc) (b00cfvw0) FRI 02:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b0081k67) Nicholas Parsons is joined by Clement Freud, Kit Hesketh- [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Harvey, Peter Jones and Derek Nimmo at Blenheim Palace. FRI 22:30 And Now in Colour (b00cfzx5) FRI 02:15 McLevy (b007jq95) FRI 13:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007jx8b) Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Thursday] Desperation Marathon FRI 03:00 Married (b007w523) Reconciliation is on the cards, with the recognition of unspoken The sketch show team and their studio audience enter the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Thursday] devotion. Concluded by Juliet Stevenson. London Marathon, plus a car valet service with a twist. FRI 03:30 I Think I've Got a Problem (b00cfzrq) FRI 13:15 Short stories by DH Lawrence (b00cfzh6) Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Thursday] The Christening Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck. FRI 04:00 World of Pub (b007jpby) A grown-up family are haunted by their brutal father's Producer: Lissa Evans [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Thursday] influence. Will a new baby bring about a change? Read by Peter First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1990. FRI 04:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00cfzrs) Meakin. FRI 23:00 Lenin of the Rovers (b00cfzz8) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Thursday] FRI 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b00cfzk0) Series 2 FRI 05:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx34) The Lord Protector Apocalypse Des [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] With his new powers and godly duties, Cromwell is asked to Felchester Rovers take a break in the socialist idyll of El FRI 06:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007jwbj) become King. Anna Massey narrates the history of the British Telvador - but a war is raging. Stars Alexei Sayle. From April [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Thursday] Isles. 1989. FRI 06:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jvtb) FRI 13:45 Centurions (b007k176) FRI 23:30 In One Ear (b00cg029) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] Frank Lloyd Wright: Falling on Water Helen Lederer, Clive Mantle, Nick Wilton and Steve Brown FRI 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00cfv61) Dejan Sudji assesses the work and philosophy of the great with comedy and music. First broadcast live in August 1985. Contact us at: American architect, with particular emphasis on his famous Big Toe Books house. BBC Broadcasting House FRI 14:00 11/07/2008 (b00cfzml) London Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on W1A 1AA BBC7. Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: Contact us at: [email protected]. CBeebies Radio Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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