Radio 4 Extra Listings for 6 – 12 February 2021
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Radio 4 Extra Listings for 6 – 12 February 2021 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 06 FEBRUARY 2021 Dramatised by Ellen Dryden Childhood memories draw obsessed Ben Wheeler back to a Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris lake. SAT 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jqlg) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. Ellen Dryden’s murder mystery. The Red Planet SAT 02:30 Dancing Round the Mediterranean (b008jhjr) CAST: 15. Hypnosis With his dancing shoes, Steve Carver joins a cruise ship as a Ben Wheeler .... James Aubrey Cold-handed Maclean attacks Lemmy, but the plucky radio 'gentleman host', so no one feels like a 'wallflower'. From 2007. Isobel ... Karen Archer operator fights back... SAT 03:00 Owen Holder - Alice's Friend (b04hkk1m) Val .... Pauline Yates Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971. When 84 year old Alice employs Len as her chauffeur, a Ruth .... Frances Jeater CAST: genuine friendship gradually develops between them. Moonstone .... Teresa Gallagher Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds But Alice's son and daughter don’t approve, thinking Len’s after Chris .... Barry Woolgar Lemmy …. David Kossoff the old woman's money. Even Len's wife and family begin to Jamie .... Nicholas Boulton Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter resent the amount of time he gives her... Rick .... David Thorpe Mitch …. Bruce Beeby Owen Holder’s drama stars Rosie .... Isabelle Huet Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs Alice ...... Joyce Carey Tom .... John Prendergast Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips. Enid ...... Pauline Letts Child's voice .... Hayley Thomas Producer: Charles Chilton Len, ...... Harold Goodwin Detective Sergeant .... Steve Hodson First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November Charles ...... David Gooderson Constable .... Angus Wright 1954. Muriel ...... Jean Trend Reporter .... Michael Onslow SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00j16kr) Donald ...... Spencer Banks Mother .... Rachel Atkins Imposter Syndrome Robert ...... Stephen Garlick Woman at Lake .... Lala Lloyd Imposter Syndrome: Dominic Arkwright, Julian Baggini, Kathy Phyllis ...... Theresa Streatfeild Man at Lake .... James Taylor Sykes and Xanthe Clay discuss feeling insecure. From Mr Hampton ...... Owen Holder Newsreader .... Lynda Gregory December 2009. Writer: Owen Holder Director: Ned Chaillet SAT 01:00 The Blackburn Files (b007w3zt) Pianist: Neil Rhoden First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1993. Series 2 Director: Ian Cotterell SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b076hrcq) 4. A Case of Whistle and Run First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. Series 39 A routine case for private eye Stephen J Blackburn starts to SAT 04:00 Say the Word (b00764mj) Nancy Dell'Olio chooses the life of Lucrezia Borgia look like his final investigation Episode 2 Nancy Dell'Olio champions Lucrezia Borgia, a Renaissance One of four more cases for the private investigator and his Frank Delaney's panel game revolving around the English woman who was much maligned. government scheme-funded assistant Tracey. Set in a South language from the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, Lucrezia Borgia was the Pope's daughter and, over the Yorkshire town that's seen better days. Gloucestershire. centuries, her name has been a byword for poison, incest and CAST: With Sheridan Morley, Jan Dalley, Humphrey Carpenter and intrigue. Novels, television series, plays and an opera have been Stephen J. Blackburn …. Finetime Fontayne Katie Fforde. written about her. But was she just a victim of malicious gossip Tracey Duggan …. Judy Flynn On hand to offer a witty perspective on the world of words are that vastly exaggerated her actual misdeeds? Mam …. Rita May the Nimmo Twins Nancy Dell'Olio explains why she identifies with Lucrezia Angela …. Daryl Fishwick Producer: Simon Elmes Borgia and with the help of historian Sarah Dunant attempts to Rodney …. Christopher Kent First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001. debunk some of the myths. Scripted by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby SAT 04:30 The Sit Crom (b00lvmwp) Produced by Perminder Khatkar. Producer: Dave Sheasby The Secret Knocke First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1991. Mercy's disguise is revealed, Father Francis is perplexed in his SAT 08:00 The Motion Show (b0075wtm) SAT 01:30 Robert Barr - Detective (b04g457y) hole, Tobias denigrates the vegetables, Arise Higgs and his Series 2 Series 2 platoon are billeted on Firebasket Hall and Gazebo has lethal Episode 3 10. The Point of No Return orders. Dr Phil Hammond chairs the debating game with Tony Hawks, DS Dave Brook and DC Blair Maxton get moving on the Kemp Sue Limb's six-part comedy set during the English Civil War in Simon Fanshawe, Steve Punt and Arthur Smith. From January case, but are they too late? the days of Oliver Cromwell. 2000. Stories of crime and detection in London by Robert Barr. Sir John Firebasket ...... Joss Ackland SAT 08:30 Rent (b00752yh) CAST: Lady Anne Firebasket ...... Denise Coffey Series 3 DS Dave Brook …. Ray Brooks Tobias Thynne ...... Clive Merrison Episode 6 DC Blair Maxton …. Christopher Blake Mercy, alias Melissa ...... Miriam Margoyles It's time for Paul and Ruby to decide upon their future, which Chief Inspector Roach …. Stephen Yardley Father Francis ...... Nickolas Grace could spell the end of life as we know it at chez Reynolds... DC Harrison …. Peter Cleall Slow Ned ...... Chris Emmett Conclusion of series 3 of Lucy Flannery's award-winning Judy …. Jacqueline Tong Gazebo Fogg ...... Jack Klaff sitcom about Maria and Richard Reynolds and their lodgers. DS Kelly …. John Judd Captain Arise Higgs ...... Alun Armstrong Stars Barbara Flynn as Maria, Patrick Barlow as Richard, Linda Carson …. Tony Caunter Posthumous ...... Nicky Henson Polan as Amy, Vivienne Rochester as Ruby and Dave Lamb as James Clark …. Gary Cady Counter Tenor ...... Peter Hayward Paul. Writer Robert Barr is well remembered for his work on BBC Lettice ...... Jane Whittenshaw Producer: Liz Anstee. TV's 'Z-Cars' and 'Softly Softly'. Music by Colin Sell. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1997. Producer: Martin Fisher Producer: Jonathan James-Moore SAT 09:00 Pam Ayres - The Radio Years (b09w3762) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. In a special show recorded at The Storyhouse Theatre in SAT 02:00 The Muse by Jessie Burton (b07j7pdk) SAT 05:00 Rudy's Rare Records (b00xhh6w) Chester, as part of the City's literary festival, broadcaster Paul Episode 5 Series 3 Blezard meets with Pam Ayres to celebrate the author and When on a summer’s day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the "No Richie, No Cry" poet’s remarkable life and BBC radio career. steps of the Skelton gallery in London to take up a position as Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record shop Pam Ayres has been a writer, broadcaster, and entertainer for typist, she little realises how significantly her life is about to in Birmingham. over 40 years, and is one of the few authors who has had books change. For there she meets the glamourous and enigmatic Adam and his Dad, Rudy attempt to fill the gap left by Richie in the Sunday Times bestseller charts in almost every decade Marjorie Quick, who soon takes Odelle into her confidence and having gone to University with Salsa evening classes. since the 1970s. In front of an enthusiastic audience she reflects encourages her to pursue her dream of writing. But Odelle Adam ...... Lenny Henry on the radio years that have encompassed many programmes senses there is something that Quick is holding back, and when Rudy ...... Larrington Walker including Open Road, Ayres On The Air, That Reminds Me, ‘Rufina and the Lion’, a lost Spanish masterpiece is brought to Richie ...... Joe Jacobs Just A Minute, With Great Pleasure, Desert Island Discs and the gallery, Odelle begins to suspect that the mystery behind the Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey many more. painting’s origins and her mentor’s secrecy may be somehow Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon As Paul Blezard charts the highs and lows of her life we hear connected. Doreen ...... Claire Benedict rare radio footage including an early appearance with Frankie The truth about ‘Rufina and the Lion’ lies in 1936 and a large Written by Danny Robins Howerd and with her unique brand of humour Ayres recalls her house in rural Spain, where Olive Schloss, the daughter of Produced by Lucy Armitage love of working on radio and introduces a new poem exclusive renowned art dealer Harold Schloss and his beautiful but fragile First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2011. to 4 Extra. wife Sarah, is harbouring artistic ambitions of her own. When SAT 05:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000rv7y) ** With Great Pleasure (1979). Pam Ayres presents her artist and revolutionary Isaac Robles and his half-sister Teresa Elvis McGonagall: Full Tartan Jacket personal choice of poetry & prose with Martin Jarvis providing come into their lives, passion, art, and politics collide, with Elvis McGonagall performs the pick of a year’s biting and the readings. explosive and devastating consequences for them all. savagely funny satire in a blend of provocative verse and ** That Reminds Me (2002) Poet, writer and broadcaster Pam Weaving between events in 1967 and those of 1936, a powerful politically savvy stand-up comedy. It's imbued with his Ayres entertains an audience with stories, poems and anecdotes story of love, obsession, identity, authenticity and deception customary searing wit, wordplay and anarchic invective. about her life and career. unfolds in this highly anticipated new novel from Jessie Burton, Pulling no punches, Elvis directs his scurrilous diatribes at the ** Ayres on the Air (2014) A classic episode from series 5 with author of the best-selling The Miniaturist. powers-that-be from Westminster to Waitrose, taking aim at the Geoffrey Whitehead and Felicity Montagu.