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Radio 7 Listings for 21 – 27 November 2009 Page 1 of 6 SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2009 Julia ...... Anne-Marie Duff Mark Tavener's High Table, Lower Orders Cordelia ...... Abby Ford The Dean sets his sights on promotion. Mark Tavener's comedy- SAT 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b007jlb2) Mr Samgrass ...... Thomas Arnold thriller set in a Cambridge college. Stars Samuel West. Earthsearch I Brideshead ...... Toby Jones SAT 15:00 Crime Catch-Up (b00p1ggy) First Footprint City Wilcox ...... Andrew Wincott Mark Tavener's High Table, Lower Orders As the starship Challenger returns to its solar system after a Celia ...... Eve Best Can Simon prove who the killer is and stop more murders? 115-year-long search for a planet suitable for colonisation - it's Anthony Blanche ...... Geoffrey Streatfeild Mark Tavener's comedy-thriller with Geoffrey Palmer and a home that the crew have never known. Boy Mulcaster ...... Tom Smith Samuel West. Born aboard the craft, the four-strong space crew must come to Cara ...... Liza Sadovy SAT 15:30 Crime Catch-Up (b00p1gh0) terms with some shocking news... Nanny Hawkins ...... Ann Beach Sara Paretsky's Bitter Medicine: Friendship James Follett's 10-part adventure serial in time and space. Lord Marchmain ...... Edward Petherbridge Private eye VI Warshawski is suspicious when a young pregnant Commander Telson ...... Sean Arnold Doctor ...... Sean Baker girl dies in hospital. Sara Paretsky's thriller stars Sharon Gless. Sharna ...... Amanda Murray Father MacKay ...... Jonathan Keeble SAT 16:00 Crime Catch-Up (b00p1gh2) Astra ...... Kathryn Hurlbutt Dramatised by Jeremy Front. Sara Paretsky's Bitter Medicine: The Lion's Den Darv ...... Haydn Wood Music by Neil Brand Private eye VI Warshawski's investigation into a girl's death Angel One ...... Sonia Fraser Director: Marion Nancarrow drags her into gangland. Sara Paretsky's thriller stars Sharon Angel Two ...... Gordon Reid First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003. Gless. Sentinel ...... Alexander John SAT 04:00 This Sceptred Isle: Dynasties (b00nybty) SAT 16:30 Crime Catch-Up (b00p1gh4) Simon ...... David Bradshawe The Dalrymples Sara Paretsky's Bitter Medicine: The Monkfish Files Director: Glyn Dearman Christopher Lee's vivid account of the impact of Britain's most An anti-abortion riot breaks out as private eye VI Warshawski's First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1981. powerful families. Narrated by Anna Massey. murder probe continues. Sara Paretsky's thriller stars Sharon SAT 00:30 The House on the Borderland by William Hope SAT 04:15 Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters Gless. Hodgson (b007wznx) (b00bbmfd) SAT 17:00 The Original Godfather (b009kgnd) 2. The Siege Episode 5 Legendary writer and TV presenter Denis Norden chats to Paul After beginning to read the ragged manuscript purporting to be The Sherlock Holmes author writes to his mother debating his Jackson about the legacy of his radio comedy partnership with written by an old recluse, the narrator and his sister face the knighthood offer. Extracts read by Forbes Masson and John Frank Muir. swine-like supernatural creatures' terrifying siege... Dougal. The history of British sitcom is peppered with outstanding Read by Jim Norton. SAT 04:30 Michelle Magorian - Goodnight Mister Tom writing teams, not least Galton & Simpson, Clement & La First published in 1908, William Hope Hodgson's fantasy (b007jy2w) Frenais, French & Saunders, Curtis & Elton and Aherne & novella is now seen as a classic of early, Edwardian sci-fi. Episode 10 Cash. But the very first - the veritable Godfathers of broadcast Abridged in four parts by Doreen Estall. Willie gets news of his mother, as his future life is finally comedy - were Denis Norden and Frank Muir. Producer: Lawrence Jackson resolved. Michelle Magorian's wartime tale read by David Born within two years of each other (Frank in 1920, Denis two Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. Brierley. years later), they shared similar RAF backgrounds and First broadcast in September 2007. SAT 04:45 Quartered Safe Out Here (b00nybv0) entertainment apprenticeships. After the Second World War, SAT 01:00 VI Warshawski (b007jl5y) Episode 10 Muir landed a job with the BBC, writing for fellow ex-airman Bitter Medicine Author George MacDonald Fraser concludes reading his 1945 Jimmy Edwards and Norden joined a variety agency, writing 3. The Monkfish Files recollections of front-line soldiering in Burma. for as many as 163 comedians. An anti-abortion riot breaks out as the private eye's murder SAT 05:00 21/11/2009 (b00p1g5b) Finally in 1947 they were brought together over lunch by probe continues. Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Charles Maxwell (other reports claim it was fellow scriptwriter Sharon Gless stars in Sara Paretsky's thriller as private BBC Radio 7. Ted Kavanagh) in the hope that they might hit it off. Thus investigator V.I. Warshawski. SAT 08:00 Big Toe Books (b00p1g5d) started a 40 (plus) year partnership which kicked off with Take Dramatised by Michelene Wandor. Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories - featuring It From Here (1947-58) – still to be heard on BBC Radio 4 V.I. Warshawski …. Sharon Gless Little Darlings by Sam Llewelyn and read by Lesley Joseph. Extra. Lottie Herschel …. Eleanor Bron SAT 09:00 An English Journey (b00941ht) Their partnership continued into the early 1990s via My Word! Bobby Mallory …. Bill Hootkins Episode 2 (1956-1990) and My Music (1967-1991). Both series are still Peter Burgoyne …. William Dufris Retracing JB Priestley's footsteps of 1933, poet Lemn Sissay repeated in Australia and USA. Rioter …. Alice Arnold heads north to complete his odyssey around England. In between they wrote for countless stars from Bernard Braden Diaz …. Chris Pavlo SAT 09:30 Charles Dickens (b007tcgx) and Peter Sellers to Benny Hill and Bob Monkhouse. Pedro/Judge …. Ioan Meredith Oliver Twist Paul Jackson explores their legacy with Denis himself, and Carol/Rioter …. Joanna Monro Dark Secrets hears from their long suffering secretary, Brenda Talbot and Dick …. John Sharian As the orphan recovers from his injuries, a dying woman fellow writers Dick Vosburgh, Eric Sykes, Ray Galton, Alan Rioter …. Jonathan Adams reveals the truth about his past. Dickens dramatisation with Pam Simpson and Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais. Mr Contreras …. Kerry Shale Ferris and John Grillo. Frank Muir passed away in 1998 and Denis Norden in 2018. Fabiano …. Robert Harper SAT 10:00 James Follett's Men, Martians and Machines Producer: Paul Kobrak Dieter Monkfish …. Sean Baker (b007jp32) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. Producer: Janet Whitaker Novelist, playwright and screenwriter James Follett is nothing if SAT 17:55 Chain Gang (b00p1gh6) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1997. not prolific - many of his dramas graced BBC Radio's schedules Series 3 - Paper, Scissors, Stone SAT 01:30 Cadfael (b007k28z) throughout the 1980s and 90s - most notably the Destruction Episode 9 Dead Man's Ransom Factor, The Light of a Thousand Suns and Earthsearch. The Chain Gangers are nearly 2 months in to their mini-epic 5. A Helping Hand According to his website, he's one of the few English language now. This week Susan's wedding reveals something special With a strong case against Elis, will Brother Cadfael solve the authors published in China. Over 25 novels have made him one about her. sheriff's murder? of the most borrowed authors in British libraries. SAT 18:00 Ben Moor - Undone (b0090vcf) Conclusion of Ellis Peters’ medieval thriller dramatised by Bert Over 3 hours, James introduces some of his own BBC radio Series 2 Coules. highlights: Unification Cadfael …. Philip Madoc * The Devil to Pay Edna must avert an inter-dimensional apocalypse at Tankerton's Hugh Beringar …. Jonathan Tafler A car crash on a hot deserted road. A camper on hand to drag wedding. Sister Magdalen …. Susannah York the driver from the wreckage. What's the story? Stars Derek Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga about magazine editor Edna Elis …. Jason Hughes Seaton. From 1979. Turner entering a parallel world where her version of London is Melicent …. Kate Odey * The Man Who Invented Yesterday replaced with the city of Undone. Prince Owain …. Sion Probert Scientist, Sir Max is delighted when his experiments come to Edna Turner ...... Alex Tregear Eliud …. Mark Lewis Jones fruition. His most recent, however, takes him slightly by Tankerton Slopes ...... Ben Moor Ithel/Herbard …. Shaun Prendergast surprise... Stars Alan Rowe. From 1979. Billy/Carlo ..... Duncan Wisbey Cristina …. Siobahn Flynn * Destruction Factor - episode 1 Ida ..... Sophie Duvall Villager …. David Holt Can a corporation's new plant strain mutation bring relief to Vicar ..... John Dougall Narrator …. Michael Kitchen famine stricken countries? Stars Paul Copley and Rosalind Prince ..... Kevin Eldon Music by Peter Salem. Adams. From 1978. Other parts played by the cast. Producer: Lissa Evans * Earthsearch I Producer: Colin Anderson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1991. Episode 2/10 First Footprint City Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Radio Comedy and first SAT 02:00 Meera Syal - Anita and Me (b007jvvd) Heading for a home they've never known, the crew of starship broadcast in February 2008. Episode 10 Challenger must come to terms with shock news. Stars Sean SAT 18:30 The Man in Black (b00p1gh8) On the eve of her 11-plus, the exam seems to be the least of Arnold. From 1981 Series 2 Meena's worries. Meera Syal reads her own novel. * Earthsearch I 4. Angels in Disguise by Nicola Jones SAT 02:15 The Medical Detectives (b007k0qq) Episode 10/10 Earthfall For years, Emily has entertained her friend Nathaniel for tea. The Epping Jaundice The crew locate an Earth-like planet, but the Angels are not Her son David and his wife think Nathaniel is a figment of the A strange epidemic sweeps through the inhabitants of a quiet beaten yet.