Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 December 2019 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 07 DECEMBER 2019 Producer: Liz Allard Roy Kinnear and Simon Cadell star in Michael Snelgrove’s First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004. sitcom about the less-than-competent leader of a crack SAT 00:00 David Garnett - Lady into Fox (b00cmz8m) SAT 02:15 A History of Britain in Numbers (b053c3pd) undercover police squad. 2. Escape Series 2 Supt Brabazon ...... Roy Kinnear Despite Richard Tebrick's increased security for their new Voting Dep Asst Commissioner ...... Simon Cadell home, his vixen wife escapes to begin a new family life in the Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority Sigaloff ...... Royce Mills woods... (2012-2017), brings to life the numbers conveying the big WPI Nuttkins ...... Susie Blake David Garnett's terrifying novel of transformation is concluded trends that have transformed the shape and scope of the British MacTooley ...... Alex Norton by Ben Miles. state. Humby ...... Stephen Frost Abridged by Doreen Estall He looks at what governments through the centuries have spent, Derek ...... Anthony Jackson Directed at BBC Northern Ireland by Lawrence Jackson. borrowed, taxed, regulated and built; and he considers how we Donna ...... Karen Archer Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in July 2008. came to organise a national life that reaches into every corner of Producer: Jonathan James-Moore SAT 00:30 Last Orders (b00qpslw) private life, from the delivery of pensions and healthcare to the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1987. Episode 1 surveillance of emails or rules about the temperature of a hot SAT 05:00 1834 (b01137b8) A celebration of the pub landlord and landlady. cup of tea. What Century Are You Living In? With pubs disappearing at the rate of more than three a day , By one measure, the modern British state is roughly 7,000 times Jason Slater is a 21st-century English teacher from Cheadle signalling one of the most rapid cultural shifts of recent times, bigger than the Tudor state. How and why did that happen? Hulme who wakes in 19th-century Macclesfield. half a dozen landlords and landladies reflect on life as a licensee The story of the state unfolds through muddy fields, smugglers In Jim Poyser's riotous comedy of transportation and delight, and explore what we're in danger of losing besides the beer and coves and a Victorian village lock-up. Numbers become sound Jason discovers he's now Tarquin, third son of Lord Belport the buildings. as we hear the dramatic scale of change that has occurred over with a faithful valet, Ned who can't explain what's happened. This rueful view from behind the bar includes reflections on the the centuries. He's also acquired a suspicious brother, Henry; a spurned ex- qualities of a good landlord or landlady; their role as community The evolution of the state may be driven less by party politics girlfriend, Millicent, now going out with Henry; and an over confessional and settler of tap room fights, dispenser of best than party politicians might like us to think. Although the state's excited Luddite-cum-cauliflower farmer. bitter and pearls of wisdom. size and functions are a natural subject of fierce political Jason Slater ...... Michael Begley We hear from old hands like Barbara, an ex-Bunny girl who argument, the impetus for the biggest changes has often come Ned ...... Joe Caffrey runs the Grapes in London's Limehouse; Tetley Dave who from another source - such as war, economic growth, and the Hoskins ...... Kenneth Alan Taylor fought a battle to keep the Shoulder of Mutton from closing in power that arises from knowledge. Lord Belport ...... Mark Chatterton Castleford; Maureen from the Waggon and Horses at Langsett In the final programme of the series, Andrew turns his attention Henry ...... James Nickerson who's famous for her pies ; ex miner Dennis from Barnsley, to enfranchisement. Luddite ...... Toby Hadoke whose concern is health and safety; stand-up comedian Toby- Producer: Michael Blastland Millicent ...... Julia Rounthwaite who recalls lining up six pints apiece for the miners coming off A Whistledown production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas. shift at his auntie's pub in a Yorkshire pit village ; and former February 2015. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2003. Cambridge academic Tim, who's taken early retirement to open SAT 02:30 A House to Let (b00x544m) SAT 05:30 Rich Hall's (US) Breakdown (m000bp4k) his first pub in York - the Pheonix- just as many others are Episode 5 Rich Hall's (US Election) Breakdown shutting up shop. The derelict house finally reveals its sad secrets, but Trottle is Thanksgiving How have these landlords and landladies kept their marriages determined to make it a happy ending. Stars Marcia Warren. Join multi award-winning comedian and US citizen Rich Hall as together , living and working on the premises? How much of a SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b053c3nw) he takes a look across the pond at the current state of US tempatation was it to hit the top shelf and go for the optics after Mary Portas - Shop Girl politics. a hard day's graft behind the bar? Why do they think the pub Episode 5 A combination of stand-up, sketch and interview, Rich Hall's can teach the next generation how to hold their drink .And how Mary Portas reads her moving and hilarious memoir of her (US) Breakdown broadcasts live from the fictional IBBC do they handle an objectionable customer without starting a early years. network in Washington to the whole of the United States. wild-west barroom brawl? Mary has finally found her calling as a window dresser at In this Thanksgiving special Rich and his co-host Nick Doody Producer Lindsay Leonard. Harrods. Under Berge, the Armenian Rudolf Nureyev/Freddie take a closer look at the impeachment process, hear from some First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2010. Mercury look-alike who's known as Queen of the Store, she Democratic presidential hopefuls and listen in as Trump SAT 01:00 Wimsey (m000c2bx) learns to create windows which will make dreams become pardons a turkey... Whose Body? reality and entice customers over the threshold into the magic Written by Rich Hall & Nick Doody with additional material 5. Bunter Brings a Letter kingdom. from Sarah Campbell and Mike Shepherd. In his quest to finally solve the mystery of missing financier Sir She thrives in the frenetic, creative environment, but now that The cast includes Lewis McLeod, Freya Parker and Mike Reuben Levy, Lord Peter Wimsey makes a crucial her dad has sold the family home to move in with his new wife, Wilmot. Interview Guest Dahlia Lithwick (Host of Amicus appointment... she's always desperate for money and lonely in her tiny flat. Podcast, Senior Editor at Slate) Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth. Then, one night, her step mother turns up - with shocking news. Researcher: Mandy Baker British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a Read by the author Production co-ordinator: Candace Wilson number of detective novels and short stories by English crime Abridged by Jo Coombs Producer: Adnan Ahmed writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Whose Body? was first published in Produced by Hannah Marshall A BBC Studios production 1923 A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4 SAT 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b007rd7r) Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter SAT 03:00 Drama (b084tl7z) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Robert Louis Stevenson: Terror in the South Seas When Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot retires to the country to Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World The Ebb Tide grow vegetable marrows, he soon discovers that someone has War Three destitute men steal a schooner. They drink the cargo of planted the seeds of treachery... and of murder. Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio champagne and try to steal a treasure trove of pearls from a Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that local slave-owning trader. Poirot. were broadcast between 1972 and 1975 The second of two dramatisations of Robert Louis Stevenson's First published in 1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was Lord Peter Wimsey...... Ian Carmichael gripping novellas set in Samoa and written while he lived there. dramatised by Michael Bakewell. Bunter...... Peter Jones Starring David Tennant. Hercule Poirot .… John Moffatt Sir Julian Freke...... Bernard Archard At the height of his powers, Stevenson tackled the most Dr Sheppard …. John Woodvine Inspector Charles Parker...... Gabriel Woolf pressing theme on the islands - the vicious effects of Roger Ackroyd …. Laurence Payne Piggott/Dr Colegrove...... Geoffrey Beevers colonialism including slavery, racism, sexual exploitation and Raymond …. Peter Gilmore Dr Grimbold/Sir Reuben Levy...... Wilfred Carter the conflict between traditional and modern values. The Parker the Butler …. Deryck Guyler Lady Levy...... Betty Cardno subjects are as vivid today as in 1894 and these compelling and Caroline …. Diana Olsson Adapted by Chris Miller violent stories feature some of the most driven, dangerous and Miss Russell …. Eva Stuart Producer Simon Brett obsessive characters in fiction. Joseph Conrad drew on these Ralph Paton …. Paul Sirr First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1974. novellas for Heart of Darkness. Flora …. Zelah Clarke SAT 01:30 The Lennon Visitors (b00v1qzc) Narrator - David Tennant Mrs Ackroyd …. Joan Matheson Every year, around 8,000 people from 50 countries pay homage Captain John Davis - Stanley Townsend Kent …. Peter Craze to John Lennon at his childhood home, Mendips. But who are Herrick - Rupert Evans Blunt …. David Goodland these visitors and what do they seek from an ordinary suburban Huish - Charles Davies Inspector Raglan …. Richard Tate semi in Liverpool? Attwater - Nick Sampson Inspector Davis …. Simon Cuff Comedian, Alexei Sayle, took the National Trust tour in 2009 Dramatised by Jane Rogers Ursula …. Karen Archer and was so taken with its 1950s charm and with the spirit of it, Director: Clive Brill Eammond …. Alan Dudley that he's gone back; this time meeting custodian, Colin Hall and A Brill production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Director: Enyd Williams finding out what it's like to live in one of the most famous December 2016. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1987. houses in Liverpool. SAT 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b0639w41) SAT 07:30 The Voices of... (b01n11cz) He also talks to some of those who visited the house when John Series 3 Robert Wyatt Lennon lived there - John's cousin Mike; Colin Hanton, the Episode 5 Robert Wyatt has been recognised as a prog-rock drummer, drummer in John Lennon's band, the Quarrymen; and Freda Which particular football match is Elis James obsessed with? jazz composer, avant-garde cornet player, artist and activist in a Kelly, the Beatles' Club Secretary. And of course just a few of What's Penny Smith's worst habit? What was the worst thing wheelchair. But, above all else, he has been known by one of those 8000 visitors. Russell Grant did as a child? the most instantly recognisable and distinctive voices of the last First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2010 to mark All these burning questions, and more, will be answered in the fifty years. Lennon's 70th birthday show hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested on how Forever associated with Shipbuilding, Elvis Costello's song SAT 02:00 Jennifer Donnelly - A Gathering Light well they know their nearest and dearest. written in reaction to the Falklands War, Wyatt's voice and the (b01683vq) In this case, comedian Elis James picks his radio show co-host, causes he gives voice to are intricately entwined. Episode 5 presenter Penny Smith picks her brother-in-law and astrologer This intimate radio portrait, in his own words, traces Wyatt's Will she stay or will she go? Mattie reads Grace's last letter and Russell Grant picks his mum. journey from the psychedelic excesses of Soft Machine receives some news from Miss Wilcox. And Royal awaits. Producer: Matt Stronge. (appearing both with Jimi Hendrix and at the BBC Proms), As the story behind Grace Brown's death unfolds, 17 year old SAT 04:30 The Phenomenon Squad (b08490hk) through the life-changing accident that has confined him to a Mattie Gokey must chose to between her desire to be a writer, The Devil wheelchair for almost forty years, to recent celebrated musical and the excitement of a first romance. The Beevers are expecting the Devil at No 42. Brabazon and the projects that are reaching new audiences. Jennifer Donnelly's debut novel conlcuded by Vicki Simon. squad are out to foil their plans. Producer: Alan Hall. Abridged by Penny Leicester. Can they save suburbia from Satanism? A Falling Tree production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 December 2019 Page 2 of 11 October 2012. Adrian ...... Ian Conningham highly acclaimed starring roles in 'Being Human', 'Life's Too SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b04y6mw8) Sam ...... Nathan Osgood Short', and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as his many Mustn't Grumble: The Noble British Art of Complaining Eliza ...... Jessica Turner hit shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also appeared and Complaining is a vital component of British life, whether it's Rosemary ...... Rhiannon Neads written for a number of Radio 4 series including 'The Headset formal letters to a utility company, bank or broadband provider, Skipper ...... David Acton Set' and 'Colin and Fergus' Digi-Radio'. or it's an ice-breaker at a bus stop, bemoaning the dreary Carroll ...... Sam Valentine 'Lewis Carol meets The League Of Gentlemen . A beautifully weather. Driscoll ...... Mark Edel-Hunt staged masterclass in character comedy' - Time Out Writer and broadcaster Bidisha sets out to identify why Susie ...... Roslyn Hill 'Comic gold' - Metro complaining is so important to us, and also precisely how we go Director: David Hunter 'Delightfully funny' - The Telegraph about it. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2015. Produced by Sam Bryant. She visits an international language school to hear how students SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (m000c33l) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. learning English react to lessons in 'hedging' (the art of Kelly MacDonald SAT 23:30 Ross Noble Goes Global (b01cjg35) introducing a complaint with apology - "I'm terribly sorry but..", Actor Kelly Macdonald chooses You are My Sunshine by Series 2 "Forgive me for mentioning it but.."); she also meets literary Jimmie Davis and I Love You by Woodkid. Adelaide professor Phil Davis to track complaint through the fictional SAT 14:15 Down Your Way (m000c33n) Weirdness awaits the comedian in the Australian city, with men pages of history, former comedian and classicist Natalie Haynes Sian Phillips in Dinefwr in leotards and locals with something to hide. From May 2003. to found out how the Ancients did it, and journalist Lynne Actress Sian Phillips returns to her childhood haunt of Dinefwr, Truss to find out why we never complain to a hairdresser. an area of villages and valleys north of Swansea and on the Along the way she also meets a professional complainer, Jasper western edge of the Brecon Beacons. SUNDAY 08 DECEMBER 2019 Griegson, who's sent thousands of letters of complaint over the Down Your Way was a schedule staple for decades - starting on years, sometimes in verse, sometimes in medieval script, to find the BBC Home Service in 1946 and ending its run on BBC SUN 00:00 William Boyd - A Haunting (b00765nx) out the best methods of complaining. Radio 4 in 1992. Using a variety of hosts, including Richard [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Bidisha also wonders, finally, whether complaining is actually Dimbleby and Brian Johnston, the programme toured villages, SUN 00:45 The Pond (b06z8twn) good for us - whether the occasional gains we may achieve are towns and cities across the UK. At the height of the series' [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Saturday] worth so much of our energy and spirit. The programme will success in the 1950s, it was attracting 10 million listeners a SUN 01:00 Anne Tyler - Ladder of Years (Omnibus) make use of the ample archive of complaint, from Juvenal to week. (b05n40rr) 'Points of View', Samuel Pepys' diaries to Alf Garnett and Tom Producer: Jill Marshall. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Wrigglesworth. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1990. SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (m000c33l) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2015. SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b04y6mw8) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SAT 09:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Remembered [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN 02:15 Down Your Way (m000c33n) (b04wjh11) SAT 16:00 Hercule Poirot (b007rd7r) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] BBC Radio 4 Extra celebrates the life of the novelist, Elizabeth [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 (b04y6mw8) Jane Howard who died aged 90 on January 2nd 2014. SAT 17:30 The Voices of... (b01n11cz) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] This 3 hour special features material from the BBC archive [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN 04:00 Hercule Poirot (b007rd7r) including two of Howard's short stories, and her choice of SAT 18:00 William Boyd - A Haunting (b00765nx) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] Desert Island Discs from 1995. But it also includes an extract A landscape architect finds himself taken over by an unseen SUN 05:30 The Voices of... (b01n11cz) from her first novel The Beautiful Visit (read by Juliet presence in an aeroplane and is forced to make a strange [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] Stevenson), as well as new interviews with, among others, her drawing which he doesn't recognise. SUN 06:00 Charles Dickens (b00x8c60) step-son Martin Amis and her biographer Artemis Cooper, all He begins to act out of character, lusting after waitresses and A House to Let (Omnibus) recorded at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. butcher's assistants, growing a beard and behaving so strangely A festive tale by three eminent Victorian writers working As well as being the author of 14 novels, and selling more than that he seems to have a breakdown... together - Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth a million books, Howard lived a richly eventful life. She walked Published in 2000, William Boyd's ghost story stars John Gaskell. out of her first marriage to naturalist Peter Scott, taking with Sessions. Distressed by an unsettling sign of life in a derelict house across her just £10, a suitcase and half a novel. She subsequently went Alexander Reif …. John Sessions from her new London home, Sophonisba relies on the on to remove herself from two more marriages. As her life-long Stella Reif …. Emma Currie competitive efforts of an elderly admirer and her manservant to friend, Jacqui Graham, points out, it was enormously brave. John-Jo Harrigan …. Liam Brennan unravel the secrets of the "house to let". "Women just didn't do that." Demarco …. Crawford Logan Omnibus of five episodes. Cathy Rentzenbrink, who presents the programme, says of Leandra …. Eliza Langland Sophonisba ...... Marcia Warren Howard, 'What I find interesting is the way her life and fiction Stewardessr …. Joanna Tope Jabez Jarber ...... Alec McCowen intertwines. I can't think of any other writer where the mistakes Other parts played by the cast. Trottle ...... Brian Croucher of life are transformed, reinterpreted, recycled into such Director: Dave Batchelor Openshaw ...... Sam Dale brilliant novels." First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001. Alice ...... Miranda Keeling Producer: Sarah Wade SAT 18:45 The Pond (b06z8twn) Norah ...... Tracy Wiles First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2015. An old man calls to a frog and then catches it for a sinister Frank ...... Stephen Critchlow SAT 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b00j1wj3) purpose, but will he pay for his crime? Director: Ned Chaillet Series 3 George Parsons reads Nigel Kneale’s short story. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006. The Pet Dog Produced at BBC Bristol by Pamela Howe. SUN 07:15 From the Vineyard (b06sfrkv) The lad buys Andree a puppy for her birthday, but to his alarm - First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1988 Red Burgundy by Peter Bradshaw it won't stop growing! SAT 19:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Remembered A crack wine consultant, who sold fine reds to the Chinese, Starring Tony Hancock. (b04wjh11) describes a sudden change of heart. With Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Andree Melly and Kenneth [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Hugh Dennis reads Peter Bradshaw's short story. Williams. SAT 22:00 It's Jocelyn (b08g7mjt) Producer: Duncan Minshull Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2015. Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Dates SUN 07:30 Start/Stop (b07qc3gc) Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Series 2 of It's Jocelyn - sketches and stand-up from the Series 3 Rabinowitz. wonderful mind of Jocelyn Jee Esien. Friends Producer: Dennis Main Wilson In episode two, Jocelyn talks about a dating, we follow a day in Start/Stop is a sitcom by Jack Docherty about three marriages First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1955. the life of Britain's worst bus driver and Kingston's take away in various states of disrepair. SAT 12:30 Dad's Army (b007jpgq) caters for a vegan customer. Barney and Cathy have been married for ages and it shows, Series 2 This series Jocelyn is joined by Paul Whitehouse as a cockney Evan and Fiona’s marriage is one big, noisy argument and David The Day the Balloon Went Up funeral director, as well as the vocal talents of Ninia Benjamin, is old enough to be Alice’s father. Captain Mainwaring gets carried away with the platoon's war Curtis Walker, Dee Kaate, Gavi Chera and Karen Bartke. Start/Stop follows the story of these three couples as they try to effort. The producer is Suzy Grant and It's Jocelyn is a BBC Studios make the best of their marriages and friendships, and the Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's BBC production. characters are able to stop the action, explain themselves to the TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. SAT 22:30 Revolting People (b00wr9v4) audience and start it all up again. Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe Series 4 This week: 'Friends'. Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier Reunion Barney is being suspiciously nice to Cathy. Fiona wants Evan to Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn Samuel and company hit London, where McGurk has a family invest in her new business but Evan thinks it will be a disaster. Private Fraser …. John Laurie get-together. 1775 America sitcom starring Andy Hamilton. And David is trying not to be so controlling. Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley From May 2006. Cast: Private Pike …. Ian Lavender SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m000cqj6) Barney...Jack Docherty Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee Phil Jerrod (1/2) Cathy...Kerry Godliman Vicar …. Frank Williams From 10.00pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Evan...John Thomson The Verger …. Edward Sinclair Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Angela Barnes chats to Phil Fiona...Fiona Allen Squadron Leader …. Michael Knowles Jerrod. David...Charlie Higson Announcer …. John Snagge SAT 23:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters (b0375b3z) Alice...Laura Aikman Producer: John Dyas Series 1 Written by: Jack Docherty First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975. Episode 3 Producer: Claire Jones SAT 13:00 Anne Tyler - Ladder of Years (Omnibus) Master character comedian Colin Hoult presents his debut A BBC Studio Production (b05n40rr) comedy series. Enter the Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. Episode 2 hilarious world of sketches, stories and characters, presented by SUN 08:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b007jyn7) An unexpected romantic encounter in the grocery aisle sparks the sinister Ringmaster. Tommy Handley tries to set up a newspaper with Mrs Mopp as the beginning of a new adventure for homely Delia Grinstead. Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: Thwor - the Domestic Correspondent. Wartime comedy from 1945. Anne Tyler's unsettling story about marriage, family and hope. the mighty (but Leeds-based) god of Thwunder; Len Parker - ITMA proved to be one of the BBC's most popular radio Delia Grinstead's new job in the sleepy town of Bay Borough Nottingham-born martial arts and transformers enthusiast; Anna comedies ever produced. It was first transmitted just before the draws her into the business of another fractured family. Mann - outrageous star of such forgotten silver screen hits such start of the Second World War in 1939 and ran to 1949. Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes dramatised by Rebecca as 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish Delight' and 'A Bowl For Domestic audiences topped 20 million, and the audience Lenkiewicz. My Bottom'; and many more. worldwide was said to number 30 million. It starred Delia ...... Nancy Crane Writers Guild Award-winner Colin Hoult is best known for his Liverpudlian comic Tommy Handley, who with Ted Kavanagh Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 December 2019 Page 3 of 11 created the series named after the phrase newspapers often used SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour (b09jhd5t) Anna Stepanovna....Alex Tregear to describe Hitler: It's That Man Again! Series 6 Soldiers.....Gerard McDermott, Jonathan Forbes, Henry Devas The original setting on a ship was deemed inappropriate once The Universe of the Seemingly Impossible Original music by John Hardy with Rob Whitehead. war broke out, and was replaced with the Office Of Twerps, True stories told live in the USA. Meg Bowles introduces tales Musicians: Oliver Wilson-Dickson, Tom Jackson, Stacey Blythe with Tommy as Minister of Aggravation and Mysteries. of people encountering the seemingly impossible. and Max Pownall With: The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated Translated by Robert Chandler Jack Train to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since Director: Alison Hindell Dorothy Summers 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2011. Horace Percival novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000c38k) Dino Galvani yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George Winter Poems Sydney Keith Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive and Fred Yule Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the selects Four Seasons: Winter - an anthology of seasonal poems Jean Capra screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, originally broadcast on Winter Solstice 2016. Paula Green The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at Memorable and much loved verse by Robert Burns, Samuel Music from the BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the Taylor Coleridge, Louis MacNeice and Walter De la Mare, read Shadwell. USA, the UK and other parts of the world. by Simon Russell Beale, Noma Dumezweni, Bill Paterson and Script written by Ted Kavanagh. The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and Anton Lesser, join recent poems read by the poets, Kathleen Producer: Francis Worsley without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Jamie, Liz Lochhead, Don Paterson, Simon Armitage and Carol First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in March 1945 Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. Ann Duffy. There is rain and snow and frost and a robin sings SUN 08:30 Educating Archie (b009gc5s) Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the its winter song. And joining these is a new poem by Kayo Archie in Australia humorous to the heart-breaking. Chingonyi remembering a teenage winter in Dagenham. A rare Australian outing for schoolboy Archie Andrews and his The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic The poems, originally broadcast on Winter Solstice 2016 across mentor Peter Brough. Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed the schedule on Radio 4, are gathered together and broadcast Radio ventriloquism recorded in Sydney. With Ronald Chesney, by the Public Radio Exchange. here in this compilation programme. Reg Quartley, Ray Barrett, Betty Parker, June Salter, Wendy SUN 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00yrg3g) Up in the Morning Early by Robert Burns Blacklock and Reginald Goldsworthy Series 2 Read by Bill Paterson Running from 1950-1958, Educating Archie introduced a Kiwi Extract from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon number of soon-to-be household names to listeners, including New Zealand had several species of flightless bird living across Armitage Tony Hancock, Benny Hill, Harry Secombe, Dick Emery, the islands, all of which are now extinct, bar one. The Kiwi has Birds at Winter Nightfall Hattie Jacques, Bruce Forsyth and Max Bygraves - all taking a become one of those species iconic of the country, like the By Thomas Hardy turn in tutoring Archie. Koala to Australia, the Giraffe to Africa and the Alpaca to Read by Sinead Cusack Music by from the ABC Dance Band South America. Historically, New Zealand didn't have ground In the mid midwinter by Liz Lochhead Producer: Harry Freeman predators such as wild cats and stoats - which allowed birds to From new book published by BIRLINN From a series made by ABC in Australia and also first exploit living on the ground. Being flightless in New Zealand Rain by Don Paterson. broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September 1957. was a good way to be a bird. From Rain published by Faber and Faber SUN 09:00 Grossman's War (m000c388) Having filmed Kiwis, Sir David Attenborough muses on the Now Winter Nights Enlarge Stalingrad: Destiny of a Novel (Omnibus) niche the Kiwi occupies on the ground. He argues the Kiwi By Thomas Campion At the end of 1950 a desperate Vasily Grossman wrote to Stalin behaves more like a mammal than a bird, but what mammal do Read by Juliet Stevenson pleading for assistance in bringing his great post war novel you think, in Attenborough's view, the Kiwi most resembles? Snow by Carol Ann Duffy. Stalingrad to print. No answer was ever forthcoming-it would Producer: Julian Hector Was published in The Guardian 24/12/210. be another two years before anyone could read it. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011. A Robin by Walter de la Mare Historian Catherine Merridale chronicles the tortuous passage SUN 12:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b007jyn7) Read by Noma Dumezweni to publication of Grossman’s book to reveal the insane [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Perfect Day by Kathleen Jamie complexities of Soviet censorship and the grim, even SUN 12:30 Educating Archie (b009gc5s) from the Queen of Sheba published by Bloodaxe murderous, politics of a post war Soviet Union almost destroyed [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Read by Kathleen Jamie by war. SUN 13:00 Charles Dickens (b00x8c60) Snowman (also referred to as Winter Song) by Kayo Chingonyi For Grossman, a hugely popular chronicler of the Soviet [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Read by Kayo Chingonyi peoples struggle against the Nazis, the war had robbed him of SUN 14:15 From the Vineyard (b06sfrkv) Specially commissioned his mother, brought mass murder to his fellow Soviet Jews and [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] Snow by Louis MacNeice carried the promise of new freedoms once victory was secured. SUN 14:30 Grandmothers (Omnibus) (m000c38d) From Collected Poems published by Faber and Faber There would be no such outcome. Episode 2 Read by Anton Lesser In the last year of the war it was announced Vasily Grossman's Three very different women’s lives collide in this tender new The Twelve Months new project was to be a novel about the defining battle against novel about grandparents and the children they help to raise. By George Ellis fascism-Stalingrad. Grossman dedicated it to the 'nameless It’s summertime. Nan takes Billy on holiday, whilst Blanche is Read by Bill Paterson heroes who must not be forgotten'. He had already been at work still estranged from her grandchildren. Read by Eleanor Bron. Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on his novel for some 18 months. The next 8 years would see an Written by best-selling writer, Salley Vickers. Read by Simon Russell Beale increasingly maddening & deadly struggle to have his novel Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes read by Eleanor Bron. Producer: Tim Dee. published. His struggle to see STALINGRAD to print coincided Abridger: Salley Vickers First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. with the last great Stalinist purge and campaign of terror Producer: Kirsty Williams SUN 17:30 Start/Stop (b07qc3gc) directed against Stalin’s own Jewish population. The novel First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2019 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] underwent endless revision, censorship and criticism before SUN 15:45 Who Ate All The Pies? (m000c38g) SUN 18:00 Nightmares (b0076nnq) first seeing print in 1952. Sussex Churdle Jilly’s been having recurring nightmares, in which she hears Through Grossman’s own tormented journey Catherine Does anyone eat Sussex churdles anymore? footsteps, meets a grotesquely masked stranger in a lift - or is Merridale explores both the conception of a classic work of Ian McMillan continues his nationwide search for pies, with this picked up by a taxi driver who turns out to be the same person. fiction - translated for the first time into English - and the look at the recipe of liver, bacon, vegetables with a cheese She also dreams of being alone in the house asleep and hearing turbulent, savage post war years of late Stalinism. topping that is undergoing something of a revival. broken glass. It's all very real and very frightening. Omnibus reader: Anton Lesser Producer: Julian May A hospital consultant, who’s attracted to her, offers advice and Producer: Mark Burman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004. the pair become friends. However, the terrifying nightmares First broadcast in five parts on BBC Radio 4 in December SUN 16:00 Grossman's War (b014ptrf) continue... 2019. Life and Fate Gillian Kearney stars in Dave Simpson’s psychological thriller. SUN 10:10 The Listening Project (b05s3r6h) Viktor and Lyuda Jilly ...... Gillian Kearney Elaine and Megan-Rose – Ceramics in the Blood Viktor, a nuclear physicist, is evacuated with his family from Nick ...... Chris Gascoyne Fi Glover with a mother and daughter who took the same course Moscow eastwards to Kazan. Penny ...... Deborah McAndrew in ceramics, but not in the expected order, on how they coped It's October 1942 and the Russians are defending Stalingrad Ben ...... Jonathan Keeble when the daughter was in the year above the mother - another from the ferocious attack of the Germans. Viktor has a James ...... David Harewood conversation in the series that proves it's surprising what you revelatory breakthrough in his research but his wife Lyuda Directed at BBC Manchester by Pauline Harris. hear when you listen. learns of the death of her son and her grief drives a wedge First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004. The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a between the couple: Viktor is drawn to the kindness of Marya, SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour (b09jhd5t) snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the the wife of his close colleague. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant star in Vasily Grossman’s SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00yrg3g) them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. epic saga. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of Set against the ferocious Battle of Stalingrad, Grossman’s huge SUN 20:00 Grossman's War (m000c388) producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate novel charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the turmoil [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC of war and is increasingly seen as the most important Russian SUN 21:10 The Listening Project (b05s3r6h) interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an novel of the 20th century. Its comparison of Stalinism with [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of Nazism was considered by Soviet authorities to be so dangerous SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000c38b) connection between the participants. Most of the unedited that the manuscript itself was arrested. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] conversations are being archived by the British Library and Grossman died in 1964, never knowing that his book would be SUN 22:00 Start/Stop (b07qc3gc) used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique smuggled to the West and eventually published in 1980. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You Dramatised by Mike Walker. SUN 22:30 The Remains of Foley and McColl (b007k4p6) can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting Viktor Shtrum.....Kenneth Branagh Cutting Edge bbc.co.uk/listeningproject Lyuda Shaposhnikova.....Greta Scacchi Sean and Hamish board Boris' Disco Ship to convert offshore Producer: Marya Burgess Nadya.....Ellie Kendrick ravers into fresh, young listeners. SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000c38b) Alexandra .....Ann Mitchell Surreal comedy starring award-winning double act Sean Foley Absent Friends Pyotr Sokolov.....Nigel Anthony and Hamish McColl, the Right Size. Judith Kerr Akhmet Karimov....Stephen Greif With Rose English, Count Arthur Strong, Chris Lamer and From Flanagan to Beethoven. Illustrator and author Judith Kerr Marya Sokolova.....Harriet Walter Mark Stevens. shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From February Leonid Madyarov.....Ralph Ineson Producer: Lissa Evans 2004. Sister.....Elaine Claxton First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2000. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 December 2019 Page 4 of 11 SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m000cr14) Province, along with 500 other children, half of them without Top cops are on the case, when a witness protection programme Phil Jerrod (2/2) parents. The morale of the girls and their teachers was greatly goes catastrophically wrong. Stars Roy Hudd. From August From 10.00pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy improved by two Brownie packs and a Girl Guide Company. 1986. Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Angela Barnes chats again Their sports were organised by Eric Liddell, (Chariots of Fire) MON 10:00 Grossman's War (b014pw49) to Phil Jerrod. until he died. Life and Fate SUN 23:00 2000 Years of Radio (b007scys) This is an extraordinary tale, and it's told by those who were Anna's Letter Series 1 there: Viktor's mother, Anna, writes him a farewell letter in Dark Age FM Margaret Holder, née Vinden. September 1941. It's AD 500, history's most miserable time, when Britain was Beryl Goodland, née Welch. As a Jew in Berdichev, in the Ukraine now occupied by the invaded twice a week and the country was run by a bloke called Kathleen Foster, née Strange. Nazis, she has been forced into a ghetto and understands what Arthur. Mary Previte, née Taylor. will come next. The letter somehow finds its way to Viktor and But there was always Steve in the Afternoon to help Britons Evelyn Heubener, née Davey. is to be a source of strength for him in days to come. through these difficult times Producer Beth O'Dea Anna Semyonovna ..... Janet Suzman Six-part series that taps into the radio archive of a bygone age. Programme consultant Janie Hampton. Kenneth Branagh, Janet Suzman, David Tennant, Greta Scacchi Written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Claire Downes , First broadcast on BBC Radio in March 2010. and Harriet Walter star in Vasily Grossman's epic saga. Stuart Lane, Al Holloway, Danny Robbins and Dan Tetsell. MON 07:00 55 and Over (b01p09pb) Set against the ferocious Battle of Stalingrad, Life and Fate is a Producers: Paul Dodgson & Sean Grundy Episode 3 sweeping historical tale that charts the fate of both a nation and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2000. With new partners on the scene the possibility of progeny a family in the turmoil of war and is increasingly hailed as the SUN 23:15 Hannah Gadsby: Arts Clown (b054tfhw) suddenly seems more likely. But not everyone is so keen on most important Russian novel of the 20th century. Its Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait later-in-life breeding. comparison of Stalinism with Nazism was considered by Soviet Aussie comedian and art historian Hannah Gadsby continues Juliet Stevenson and Philip Jackson star in Peter Souter's authorities to be so dangerous that the manuscript itself was her comedy lectures about art, looking this time at Jan Van comedy about love, sex and other foolhardy mistakes made by arrested and Grossman was told that it would not be published Eyck's masterpiece 'The Arnolfini Portrait'. the modern 50pluser. for at least 200 years. He died in 1964, never knowing that his She shares how she first came to study the portrait, the mystery Jane ..... Juliet Stevenson book would be smuggled to the West and eventually published behind it and why people have remained so fascinated by it Ray ..... Philip Jackson in 1980. down the years. Tony ..... Patrick Brennan Dramatised by Mike Walker Plus she puts an image of Vladimir Putin in your head that you Heather ..... Liza Sadovy Original music by John Hardy with Rob Whitehead. will find hard to shake. Honey ..... Stephanie Racine Performed by Oliver Wilson-Dickson, Tom Jackson, Stacey Born in Tasmania, Hannah's first encounters with art were Sam ..... Adam Nagaitis Blythe and Max Pownall solely through books. When she worked in a bookshop after Dr Miller ..... Robert Blythe Translated by Robert Chandler graduating, she realised the craze for Dan Brown's 'The Da Portia ..... Sarah Thom Director: Alison Hindell Vinci Code' had parallels with critics' sleuth-like 'readings' of Director: Helen Perry. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2011. 'The Arnolfini Portrait'. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012. MON 10:15 Grossman's War (b014pw4m) Written by Hannah Gadsby. MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000bvxd) Life and Fate Performed by Hannah Gadsby with her Quotebot aka John Series 72 Krymov and Zhenya - Lovers Once Lloyd. New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth October 1942. Evacuated from Moscow to Kuibyshev before Script edited by Jon Hunter The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the New the invading German army, the beautiful Yevgenia (Zhenya), Producer: Claire Jones Theatre Royal in Portsmouth. Tim Brooke-Taylor and Tony Lyuda's sister, is alone. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2015. Hawks take on Rachel Parris and Marcus Brigstocke with Jack While she tackles Soviet bureaucracy for the residence permit SUN 23:30 Radio 9 (b04gnvtq) Dee in the chair. Colin Sell attempts piano accompaniment. she needs for food, her ex-husband, the Commissar Nikolai Series 2 Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Studios production. Krymov, is posted into the heart of the battle for Stalingrad, Episode 4 MON 08:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket hundreds of miles away. It's back to groovy 1960s London and a doctor obsessed with (b04mhkrs) Continuing Vasily Grossman's epic saga. Womble songs. Stars Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker. From Series 1 Nikolai Krymov ..... David Tennant July 2005. Marigold's Wedding Zhenya Shaposhnikova ..... Raquel Cassidy A wedding provides ample opportunity for some trademark Jenni ..... Eleanor Bron gossip. General Rodimtsev ..... Bruce Alexander MONDAY 09 DECEMBER 2019 Starring Dame Hilda Bracket and her lifelong companion Dr Major Byerozkin ..... Sam Dale Evadne Hinge. District Inspector Grishin ..... Peter Polycarpou MON 00:00 Nightmares (b0076nnq) The dear ladies reside in the Suffolk village of Stackton Tressel. Limonov .... Adrian Scarborough [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] This was the genteel setting for three Radio 4 series between Seryozha Shaposhnikov ..... Freddie Fox MON 01:00 Charles Dickens (b00x8c60) 1977 and 1979, with further spin-off seasons on Radio 2 until With Elaine Claxton, James Lailey, Gerard McDermott, Simon [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] 1990. In the early 1980s, they expanded over to BBC TV with Bubb, Alun Raglan, Jonathan Forbes, Carl Prekopp, and Katie MON 02:15 From the Vineyard (b06sfrkv) the series Dear Ladies. Angelou. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] Dame Hilda Bracket ...... George Logan Dramatised by Jonathan Myerson MON 02:30 Grandmothers (Omnibus) (m000c38d) Dr Evadne Hinge ...... Patrick Fyffe Original music by John Hardy with Rob Whitehead [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] Violet ...... Daphne Oxenford Director: Jonquil Panting MON 03:45 Who Ate All The Pies? (m000c38g) Leonard ...... Joe Black Producer: Alison Hindell [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] Scripted by Mike Craig, Lawrie Kinsley and Ron McDonnell. Set against the ferocious Battle of Stalingrad, this huge novel MON 04:00 Grossman's War (b014ptrf) Producer: James Casey charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the turmoil of [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1977. war and is increasingly hailed as the most important Russian MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000c38k) MON 08:30 Dad's Army (b007jpkw) novel of the 20th century. Its comparison of Stalinism with [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] Series 3 Nazism was considered by Soviet authorities to be so dangerous MON 05:30 Start/Stop (b07qc3gc) A Man of Action that the manuscript itself was arrested. Grossman died in 1964, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] When a landmine sparks martial law, a reporter catches Captain never knowing that his book would be smuggled to the West MON 06:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007wltd) Mainwaring in charge. and eventually published in 1980. Leaves of the Dead Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2011. 1. Proverbs and Punctures from Hell scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m000c578) Feisty detective superintendent Julie Enfield investigates an Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe Peering Deeper into Space inexplicable killing at the British Library in London. Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier Host Guy Raz explores the explosion of new discoveries about Imelda Staunton stars as Julie Enfield in Nick Fisher’s Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn our universe – what are the implications and what mysteries atmospheric four-part thriller. Private Frazer …. John Laurie remain? Julie Enfield ...... Imelda Staunton Private Pike …. Ian Lavender A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting Dad ...... Geoffrey Matthews Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Lawrence Evans ...... Ross Livingstone Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee stage. Stephen Arnold ...... Alex Lowe Private Walker ...... Larry Martyn First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2018. Amanda Thorne ...... Janet Maw Town Clerk ...... Julian Orchard MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (b0824q6c) Richard Baker ...... Ioan Meredith Mr Norris ...... Jonathan Cecil PP Arnold Arthur Morton ...... Stephen Thorne Inspector Baker ...... Fraser Kerr American soul singer PP Arnold chooses 'River Deep Mountain Tony ...... Sean Baker Producer: John Dyas High' by Ike & Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin's 'Natural Terry Faulkner ...... Hugh Dickson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1976. Woman'. Sal ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman MON 09:00 Just a Minute (b01lhbgx) MON 12:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket Melanie Sharp ...... Colleen Prendergast Series 64 (b04mhkrs) Dorothy ...... Shirley Dixon Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Phil Carter ...... Christopher Scott Join Nicholas Parsons and friends for the first of another series MON 12:30 Dad's Army (b007jpkw) Producer: Richard Wortley of the grandaddy of all panel games. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997. Panellists Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Liza Tarbuck and Graham MON 13:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007wltd) MON 06:30 Captured by Pirates (b00rdwm5) Norton join Nicholas for the verbal equivalent of the Olympics. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Kate Silverton uncovers the story of the English schoolgirls who It's an energetic game this week - but who will win gold medal MON 13:30 Captured by Pirates (b00rdwm5) were captured by pirates off the China coast, and later ended up for the greatest gift of the gab? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] in a Japanese concentration camp with Eric Liddell. Paul talks about The Biggest Fib he Ever Told, Sue Perkins MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b07h6zg9) In 1935, the SS Tungchow was taken over by a dozen Chinese divulges a lot of information about her Famous Friends, Liza Graham Greene: The Third Man pirates as it emerged from the Yangtse River. They were Tarbuck speaks knowledgeably on the subject of Fake Tan and Heard of Harry Lime? expecting a cargo of gold bullion but instead found three lady Graham Norton gives his tips on How To Annoy The Audience. Samuel West reads from the classic Graham Greene novella teachers and seventy British missionaries' children, on their way Producer: Claire Jones that inspired one of the most acclaimed films of all time, to Chefoo boarding school on the North China coast. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016. starring Orson Welles. Six years later, in 1941, these same children became enemy MON 09:30 Huddwinks (b00fsmz4) In this episode, as snow falls on a ravaged postwar Vienna, aliens when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour. They were Series 1 penniless pulp Western writer Rollo Martins arrives, hoping to imprisoned in the Weihsien Internment Camp, Shantung Dead Men Don't Eat Pilchards meet his old school chum and hero, Harry Lime. But why isn't Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 December 2019 Page 5 of 11 Harry there to greet him? Rollo is about to learn the first of [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUESDAY 10 DECEMBER 2019 many shocking truths about his greatest friend... MON 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000bvxd) Greene's novella was published the year after the film, The [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 00:00 William Gibson - Pattern Recognition Third Man, was released, but formed the basis of Greene's MON 18:00 William Gibson - Pattern Recognition (b007k1wb) screenplay. The Oscar-wining film, directed by Carol Reed, is (b007k1wb) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] now considered a masterpiece, and was chosen by the BFI as Episode 1 TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b00j71vy) the best British film of the 20th century in 1999. Cayce Pollard is a young American advertising consultant with [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Author: Graham Greene, 1904-91, is one of the most acclaimed an unusual allergy - she's hyper-sensitive to brands and TUE 01:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007wltd) and most popular writers of the 20th century. He won several branding. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] awards for his work including the 1948 James Tait Black It's a pretty lucrative affliction, because Cayce is a 'coolhunter', TUE 01:30 Captured by Pirates (b00rdwm5) Memorial Prize. His novels include: Brighton Rock, The End of employed by multinational companies to test new brands and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] the Affair, The Power and the Glory, and The Honorary logos. She knows, instinctively, what will work - and what TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b07h6zg9) Consul. won't. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Reader: Samuel West But visiting London for what should have been a TUE 02:15 Bone Stories (b090whd4) Abridger: Richard Hamilton straightforward job, Cayce becomes involved in something [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Producer: Justine Willett altogether more mysterious and complicated... TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b019f8bc) Music from the original soundtrack written and performed by Stylish fast-moving thriller by award-winning cult American [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Anton Karas. writer William Gibson. TUE 02:45 Book of the Week (b05mqpgd) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2016. Read by Lorelei King. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] MON 14:15 Bone Stories (b090whd4) Abridged by Ron Roberts. TUE 03:00 Grossman's War (b014pw49) Series 1 Producer: David Jackson Young. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Irish Giant Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2007. TUE 03:15 Grossman's War (b014pw4m) The first of five stories in which evolutionary biologist Ben MON 18:30 A Good Read (b00j71vy) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Monday] Garrod follows a trail of clues beginning with a bone or Thea Gilmore and Paul Gambaccini TUE 04:00 Just a Minute (b01lhbgx) skeleton and leading to a fascinating revelation. Sue MacGregor and her guests - musician, Thea Gilmore and [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] Ben explores the link between an 18th century skeleton in the broadcaster, Paul Gambacinni - discuss their favourite TUE 04:30 Huddwinks (b00fsmz4) Hunterian Museum and Brendan Holland from County Tyrone paperbacks by Chinua Achebe, JG Farrell and Jose Eduardo [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] who reached a height of 6'10" and has been diagnosed with Agualusa. TUE 05:00 55 and Over (b01p09pb) gigantism. Ben follows a trail of clues and discovers how recent Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] findings could mean that in the future there are no more Irish Publisher: Penguin Red Classics TUE 05:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000bvxd) giants. The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] Producer Sarah Blunt. Publisher: Phoenix TUE 06:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nn2k) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017. The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa (Author), Leaves of the Dead MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b019f8bc) Daniel Hahn (Translator) 2. Stacks and Baps and Amulets Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome Publisher: Arcadia Feisty detective superintendent Julie Enfield begins to unravel Episode 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2009. the murder in the British Library when she learns of a second Why does Ethan Frome walk with a limp? And what is the MON 19:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket killing - a new "mummy" in the Egyptian rooms... tragedy that befell him over twenty years earlier? A visitor to (b04mhkrs) Imelda Staunton stars as Julie Enfield in Nick Fisher’s the town attempts to find out. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] atmospheric thriller. Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham MON 19:30 Dad's Army (b007jpkw) Julie Enfield ...... Imelda Staunton Mattie .....Jessica Raine [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Dad ...... Geoffrey Matthews Zeena .....Laurel Lefkow MON 20:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007wltd) Lawrence Evans ...... Ross Livingstone Denis Eady ..... Christopher Webster [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Stephen Arnold ...... Alex Lowe Post Mistress ..... Adjoa Andoh MON 20:30 Captured by Pirates (b00rdwm5) Amanda Thorne ...... Janet Maw Andrew Hale ..... Paul Moriarty [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Ken ...... Ioan Meredith Edith Wharton ..... Fenella Woolgar MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m000c578) Tony ...... Sean Baker written by Edith Wharton [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Terry Faulkner ...... Hugh Dickson Dramatised by Lin Coghlan MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (b0824q6c) Melanie Sharp ...... Colleen Prendergast Directed by Sally Avens [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] Dorothy ...... Shirley Dixon Ethan Frome is one of Edith Wharton's most enduring and MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000bvxd) Phil Carter ...... Christopher Scott powerful stories. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Producer: Richard Wortley Set against the cold, grey, bleakness of a New England winter. MON 22:30 Bleak Expectations (b00nw3rs) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997. Ethan Frome scrapes a living from his woodlot whilst trapped in Series 3 TUE 06:30 Bridging the Gulf (b01q97lb) an unhappy marriage with his hypochondriac wife, Zeena. A A Horrible Life Un-Ruined and Then Re-Ruined a Lot Razia Iqbal joins the women architecture students who are ray of light enters Ethan's life when his wife's cousin Mattie Pip, Harry, Pippa and Ripely are reduced to abject poverty on planning to make a difference to the urban environment of the arrives to help. His life is transformed as he falls in love with the banks of the Thames. Will Pip and Harry be able to find Gulf region. Mattie but their fate is determined by their circumstances and work, or will they have to end their days eating mud and From a western perspective, we often get the impression that the stifling conventions of the time. listening to the gloating of Mr Benevolent? the Middle East doesn't offer women much in the way of equal Ethan Frome was deemed shocking when first published as it Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. opportunities. But in the United Arab Emirates, women appeared to condone infidelity. What many readers did not Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson architects are helping design and build their own cities. In Abu know was that many of the novella's themes mirrored real Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen Dhabi, for example, the Urban Planning Council has women events in the life of Edith Wharton. Her own story is told in an Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head ensuring that the built environment will cope with their needs as accompanying play 'The Jinx Element' that explores her own Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman much as those of big business. sexless marriage and a passionate affair that begun when she Barker Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead Razia visits the American University of Sharjah. Its College of was 47. Ripely ...... Sarah Hadland Architecture, Art and Design has a highly respected course, and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012. Pippa ...... Susy Kane Razia joins the students on campus. What she finds remarkable MON 14:45 Book of the Week (b05mqpgd) Vegetarian Lion ...... Mark Evans is the self-confidence and enterprise of the young women who Boundless Producer: Gareth Edwards have come from all of the Middle East and North Africa and Episode 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009 who make up the majority of the class. She'll speak to students When a man called Noah invites you on a boat trip... MON 23:00 The Now Show (m000c2j0) and tutors to analyse what their futures will hold for them in the Teresa Gallagher reads Kathleen Winter's story of her journey Series 55 Gulf and beyond. as the Writer-in-Residence on a boat travelling through the Episode 7 Producer: Mark Rickards. Northwest Passage, and how the voyage became as much an Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand- First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013. exploration of her own roots as a venture into the arctic ice up and sketches. They're joined by Phil Wang, Lee Ridley, Jess TUE 07:00 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqnd) fields. Robinson and Gemma Arrowsmith. June - An Ill Wind Kathleen Winter was born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead. When Katie Perrior gives us insight into what it's like doing PR for As a storm descends on the village, the talk is all electric. Stars she was still young, the family emigrated to Newfoundland. politicians on the campaign trail. Geoffrey Whitehead and Lisabeth Miles. From September Winter, who now lives in Montreal, was a TV scriptwriter and a It was written by the cast with additional material by Sarah 2000. newspaper columnist before turning her hand to short stories. Morgan, Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch, Aidan Fitzmaurice and TUE 07:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (m000bx2c) Her first collection of stories - 'boYs' - was published in 2007 Mandy Baker. Series 5 and her first novel 'Annabel' came out three years later. It was a BBC Studios production. Episode 4 'Annabel' was shortlisted for the three main Canadian literary MON 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews (m000cqnh) In the last episode of series 5, Dad attempts to take centre stage. prizes in 2010 - the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers' Dominic Holland (1/3) Starring Tom Wrigglesworth, Paul Copley, Kate Anthony and Writers' Trust Prize and the Governor General's Award. From 10.00pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Elizabeth Bennett. Boundless was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Award for non- Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Paul Garner chats to Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle with fiction. Dominic Holland. additional material by Miles Jupp. Abridged by Pete Nichols MON 23:30 Radio Active (b007jpck) Produced by Richard Morris Producer: Karen Rose Series 5 A BBC Studios Production A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Music Festival TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007k43y) March 2015. Mike Flex and Mike Channel host Radio Active's very own live The Affair of the Lone Banana MON 15:00 Grossman's War (b014pw49) music extravaganza. Neddie Seagoon tracks young Fred Nurke, who’s vanished from [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey his banana-growing family's home. MON 15:15 Grossman's War (b014pw4m) Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] Music by Philip Pope, Steve Brown and Geoffrey Perkins. Milligan. MON 16:00 Just a Minute (b01lhbgx) Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins with John Starring: [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Docherty, Moray Hunter and Jeremy Pascall. Peter Sellers MON 16:30 Huddwinks (b00fsmz4) Producer: Jamie Rix Harry Secombe [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1985 . Spike Milligan MON 17:00 55 and Over (b01p09pb) First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 December 2019 Page 6 of 11 recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest most important Russian novel of the 20th century. Its A Viking Funeral. shows weren’t kept in the archive. comparison of Stalinism with Nazism was considered by Soviet Teresa Gallagher reads Kathleen Winter's story of her journey With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. authorities to be so dangerous that the manuscript itself was as the Writer-in-Residence on a boat travelling through the Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. arrested and Grossman was told that it would not be published Northwest Passage, and how the voyage became as much an Announcer: Wallace Greenslade for at least 200 years. He died in 1964, never knowing that his exploration of her own roots as a venture into the arctic ice Producer: Peter Eton book would be smuggled to the West and eventually published fields. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in October 1954. in 1980. Kathleen Winter was born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead. When TUE 08:30 Round the Horne (b007jlx6) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. she was still young, the family emigrated to Newfoundland. Series 3 TUE 11:00 Telling Tales (m000c55w) Winter, who now lives in Montreal, was a TV scriptwriter and a Episode 4 Tenx9 Storytelling newspaper columnist before turning her hand to short stories. Kenneth Horne heads up the river and swings by Julian and We turn to the truth this week, celebrating the art of live Her first collection of stories - 'boYs' - was published in 2007 Sandy's Bona Antiques shop just off the Portobello Road. storytelling in Belfast. and her first novel 'Annabel' came out three years later. Rambling Syd Rumpo sings 'The Taddle Groper's Dance'. The journalist Paul Doran and poet Pádraig Ó Tuama launched 'Annabel' was shortlisted for the three main Canadian literary With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Tenx9 as a small monthly gathering, in the front room of the prizes in 2010 - the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers' Pertwee. Black Box, in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter. Writers' Trust Prize and the Governor General's Award. Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, The event has now expanded to 15 cities, and festivals, around Boundless was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Award for non- London. Announcer: Douglas Smith the world, and selected stories have featured in the BBC Radio fiction. Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio Ulster series, Tell Tales, which is presented by Kathy Clugston. Abridged by Pete Nichols comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Kathy introduces her favourite story, which recalls a young Producer: Karen Rose Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, couple’s memorable night in a Parisian bistro. The other tales A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the from the Tenx9 archives cover friendship and fear during The March 2015. scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and Troubles, a work appraisal that led to award-winning TUE 15:00 Grossman's War (b014pxnv) 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, acceptance, a secret pregnancy, and a young band’s compelling [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] catchphrases and double-entendres. live debut. TUE 15:15 Grossman's War (b014q001) Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Paul and Pádraig also share a few storytelling tips and reflect [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] Hayes Four. upon the power of stories to promote healing and TUE 16:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b06bnbpn) Producer: John Simmonds understanding. Series 15 First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1967. Made for Radio 4 Extra. Episode 5 TUE 09:00 The Now Show (m000c2j0) TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007k43y) David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to TUE 09:30 Stilgoe's Around (b007k3xj) TUE 12:30 Round the Horne (b007jlx6) see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their City of London [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] opponents. Richard Stilgoe goes into Britain's financial heartland to dispel TUE 13:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nn2k) David O'Doherty, Susan Calman, Jon Richardson and Arthur the myths of money-making. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Smith are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate With Belinda Lang, Tim Piggott Smith, Charles Collingwood TUE 13:30 Bridging the Gulf (b01q97lb) inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Yorkshire, fizzy drinks, skin and Kathryn Tickell. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] and pirates. Written by Richard Stilgoe. TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b07hg4vq) The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the Producer: Neil Cargil Graham Greene: The Third Man team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1989. Everybody's in a Racket Produced by Jon Naismith TUE 10:00 Grossman's War (b014pxnv) Second-rate thriller writer Rollo Martins has arrived in a snow- A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. Life and Fate bound postwar Vienna to meet his old school chum Harry Lime TUE 16:30 Kalangadog Junction (b09dlz94) Vera and Her Pilot – only to find that Harry has recently been killed in a car Episode 4 In a forest in northern Russia, Lenya, a pilot, longs to see his accident. Len takes over Gaelene's Olympic training schedule - a recipe pregnant girlfriend, Vera. She is stranded in Stalingrad with her And now the police are accusing him of racketeering. Rollo is for trouble with Madge. Meanwhile, Thomas and Jane father, Stepan. Her mother (another sister of Lyuda) has desperate to clear his old friend’s name, and already the endeavour to find some time for romance. drowned in the Volga. She watches the planes hoping to catch circumstances of Harry’s death are proving suspicious… Six-part comedy drama series by Moya O'Shea. sight of Lenya. Samuel West reads from the classic Graham Greene novella Starring Caroline Quentin as Jane, John Duttine as Thomas, Kenneth Branagh, Janet Suzman, David Tennant, Greta Scacchi that inspired one of the most acclaimed films of all time, Niall Ashdown as Jimmy, Toby Longworth as Pete, Brian and Harriet Walter star in Vasily Grossman’s epic saga. starring Orson Welles. Bowles as Len, Joanna Monro as Madge, Julie Gibbs as Milly, Lenya Viktorov ..... Luke Treadaway Author: Graham Greene June Whitfield as Phoebe and Moya O'Shea as Gaylene. Vera Spiridonov ..... Morven Christie Reader: Samuel West Producer: Liz Anstee Pavel Andreyevich ..... Malcolm Tierney Abridger: Richard Hamilton First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. Stepan Spiridonov ..... Kenneth Cranham Producer: Justine Willett TUE 17:00 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqnd) Skotnoy ..... Jonathan Forbes Music from the original soundtrack written and performed by [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Solmatin ..... Carl Prekopp Anton Karas. TUE 17:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (m000bx2c) Mukhin ..... Simon Bubb First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2016. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Zakabluka ..... Gerard McDermott TUE 14:15 Bone Stories (b090xwq1) TUE 18:00 William Gibson - Pattern Recognition Dramatised by Jonathan Myerson. Series 1 (b007k1xp) Original music by John Hardy with Rob Whitehead West Runton Mammoth Episode 2 Performed by Carl Prekopp & Gerard McDermott Evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod heads to a Norfolk beach to Advertising guru Cayce Pollard’s been employed to search for Translated by Robert Chandler hear how a raging storm led to the discovery of one of the the maker of a mysteriously addictive online film called "the Director: Alison Hindell oldest mammoth skeletons ever to have been found in the UK footage". Set against the ferocious Battle of Stalingrad, Life and Fate is a and the best preserved skeleton of this species in the world. Now the Coolhunter’s search takes her to Tokyo - where the sweeping historical tale that charts the fate of both a nation and The skeleton revealed a treasure trove of information about life mystery deepens... a family in the turmoil of war and is increasingly hailed as the some 600,000 to 700,000 years ago. William Gibson's fast-moving 21st Century detective thriller, most important Russian novel of the 20th century. Its Producer Sarah Blunt. Read by Lorelei King. comparison of Stalinism with Nazism was considered by Soviet First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017. Abridged by Ron Roberts. authorities to be so dangerous that the manuscript itself was TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b019f9hc) Producer: David Jackson Young. arrested and Grossman was told that it would not be published Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in February 2007. for at least 200 years. He died in 1964, never knowing that his Episode 2 TUE 18:30 Sounds Natural (b08yf6wv) book would be smuggled to the West and eventually published Zeena goes away to visit a Doctor and Ethan and Mattie are left Frank Thornton in 1980. alone together for the first time. 'Are You Being Served?' actor Frank Thornton shares his First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham fascination for birds with Derek Jones. TUE 10:15 Grossman's War (b014q001) Mattie ..... Jessica Raine The Snipe, Oriole and Towhee are among his choice of Life and Fate Zeena ..... Laurel Lefkow recordings from the vast BBC Sound Archives. Journey Andrew Hale ..... Paul Moriarty Produced in Bristol by John Burton. Sofya, a Jewish doctor, is taken prisoner in Stalingrad and put Edith Wharton ..... Fenella Woolgar First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980. on a cattle-truck going west to Poland. written by Edith Wharton TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007k43y) A German SS officer, Liss, oversees the building of the gas Dramatised by Lin Coghlan [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] chambers and entertains Eichmann on an inspection tour. Liss is Directed by Sally Avens TUE 19:30 Round the Horne (b007jlx6) convinced that the Nazi and Soviet systems are more similar Ethan Frome is one of Edith Wharton's most enduring and [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] than their followers like to think. powerful stories. Set against the cold, grey, bleakness of a New TUE 20:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nn2k) Kenneth Branagh, Janet Suzman, David Tennant, Greta England winter. Ethan Frome scrapes a living from his woodlot [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Scacchi, Samuel West, John Sessions and Harriet Walter star in whilst trapped in an unhappy marriage with his hypochondriac TUE 20:30 Bridging the Gulf (b01q97lb) Vasily Grossman's epic saga. wife, Zeena. A ray of light enters Ethan's life when his wife's [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Sofya Levinton ..... Sara Kestelman cousin Mattie arrives to help. His life is transformed as he falls TUE 21:00 Telling Tales (m000c55w) Liss ..... Samuel West in love with Mattie but their fate is determined by their [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Eichmann ..... John Sessions circumstances and the stifling conventions of the time. TUE 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (m000bx2c) Mostovskoy ..... Peter Marinker Ethan Frome was deemed shocking when first published as it [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] David ..... Laurence Belcher appeared to condone infidelity. What many readers did not TUE 22:30 Armstrong and Miller (b00t1bct) Musya ..... Christine Kavanagh know was that many of the novella's themes mirrored real Episode 1 Lyusia...... Deeivya Meir events in the life of Edith Wharton. Her own story is told in an Time management plus some special detectives. Khmelkov...... Henry Devas accompanying play 'The Jinx Element' which explores her own Sketches and songs with Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong With Adeel Akhtar, Sean Baker, Sam Dale and Sally Orrock sexless marriage and a passionate affair that begun when she in their first series for radio. Dramatised by Mike Walker. was 47. With Samuel West and Tony Gardiner. Director: Alison Hindell First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012. Producer: Gareth Edwards Set against the ferocious Battle of Stalingrad, Life and Fate is a TUE 14:45 Book of the Week (b05nv8l1) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1998. sweeping historical tale that charts the fate of both a nation and Boundless TUE 22:45 Jelly Mountain (b00fkp5z) a family in the turmoil of war and is increasingly hailed as the Episode 2 Episode 3 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 December 2019 Page 7 of 11 A visit to the circus heralds arcane amusements. Songs and happy. Completely, totally happy. And having lived with epic saga. stories from Ivor Cutler, with Craig Murray-Orr. From May anxiety for so long, it was something of a surprise to discover 1996. something new that gave her feelings of joy. So, in Susan Captain Grekov ..... Joseph Millson TUE 23:00 Chat Show Roulette (b05r40rf) Calman Makes Me Happy, she explores and explains the other Commissar Krymov ..... David Tennant Episode 6 things in life that bring her happiness. Vasya ..... Stephen Hogan Justin Edwards is the host of the new improvised chat show. His This week, aided and abetted by her studio audience and her Katya ..... Katie Angelou guests are Pippa Evans, Hugh Dennis, Robert Popper and Matt wife Lee, Susan investigates food and drink, looking at its Lyakhov ..... Carl Prekopp Lucas - with musical accompaniment from James Sherwood. emotional importance above and beyond mere sustenance and Polyakov ..... Peter Polycarpou Devised by Ashley Blaker and Justin Edwards. pondering why a bad meal can ruin an entire day. Seryozha Shaposhnikov ..... Freddie Fox Produced by Ashley Blaker Produced by Lyndsay Fenner Batrakov ..... James Lailey A John Stanley production for BBC Radio 4. Written by Susan Calman and Jon Hunter Zubarev ..... Gerard McDermott TUE 23:30 Think the Unthinkable (b007m4dz) Production Co-ordinator: Tamara Shilham Bunchuk ..... Jonathan Forbes Series 2 A Somethin’ Else production for BBC Radio 4 Riddlington Plastic WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b00j283q) Dramatised by Jonathan Myerson. The consultants marvel at the world wide web, and Ryan gets Series 3 embroiled in a protest. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From The Jewel Robbery Director: Jonquil Panting November 2002. The lad's getting a new car, so Sid makes the most of the opportunity. Producer: Alison Hindell Starring Tony Hancock, Bill Kerr, Sidney James. Andree Melly WEDNESDAY 11 DECEMBER 2019 and Kenneth Williams. Set against the ferocious Battle of Stalingrad, this huge novel Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the turmoil of WED 00:00 William Gibson - Pattern Recognition Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. war and is increasingly hailed as the most important Russian (b007k1xp) Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry novel of the 20th century. Its comparison of Stalinism with [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] Rabinowitz. Nazism was considered by Soviet authorities to be so dangerous WED 00:30 Sounds Natural (b08yf6wv) Producer: Dennis Main Wilson that the manuscript itself was arrested. Grossman died in 1964, [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1955. never knowing that his book would be smuggled to the West WED 01:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nn2k) WED 08:30 Listen to Les (b00kmn1b) and eventually published in 1980. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] From 11/09/1983 WED 01:30 Bridging the Gulf (b01q97lb) Cissie Braithwaite is in despair as she instructs Ada First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2011. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Shufflebotham on the finer points of ballet. WED 11:00 Laura Barton's American Road Trip WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b07hg4vq) Starring Les Dawson. With Roy Barraclough, Daphne Oxenford (m000c54q) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] and Colin Edwynn. 2. The Southern States WED 02:15 Bone Stories (b090xwq1) Music by Brian Fitzgerald. Using BBC Archives, writer Laura Barton takes to the road for [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] Scripted and produced by James Casey. an audio adventure across the USA - from New York to WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b019f9hc) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1983. California. In this episode: [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED 09:00 Many a Slip (b007jv0k) ‘World Roots: An Appalachian Road Trip’ [2009] WED 02:45 Book of the Week (b05nv8l1) From 08/08/1978 ‘Conversations with the Blues’ [1961] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] Roy Plomley challenges Eleanor Summerfield and Gillian ‘French Men Desire Good Children’ [1992] WED 03:00 Grossman's War (b014pxnv) Reynolds to battle David Nixon and Tim Rice in the panel game ‘South and West’ [2017] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] to spot mistakes. Producer: Luke Doran. WED 03:15 Grossman's War (b014q001) Featuring more tune-twisters from Steve Race. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2018. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Tuesday] Devised and written by Ian Messiter. WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b00j283q) WED 04:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b06bnbpn) Producer: Martin Fisher [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1978. WED 12:30 Listen to Les (b00kmn1b) WED 04:30 Kalangadog Junction (b09dlz94) WED 09:30 Mind Your Own Business! (b009xyw7) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] The Premature Berth WED 13:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nnhx) WED 05:00 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqnd) Tycoon Jimmy's lavish new yacht infuriates his head of finance. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] Stars Bernard Cribbins and Frank Thornton. From January WED 13:30 The Art of Water Music (b0132p7x) WED 05:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (m000bx2c) 1988. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED 10:00 Grossman's War (b014qnct) WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b07hhqtk) WED 06:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nnhx) Life and Fate Graham Greene: The Third Man Leaves of the Dead Abarchuk I'd like to hear him squeal Welcome to the Nightmare Life and Fate: Abarchuk In a snow-bound postwar Vienna, writer Rollo Martins is still Feisty Detective Superintendent Julie Enfield probes a third Kenneth Branagh, Janet Suzman, David Tennant, Greta the on hunt for evidence to clear Harry Lime’s name. killing. Could it be a ritual murder? Stars Imelda Staunton. Scacchi, Malcolm Storry and Harriet Walter star in this eight But the web of lies and deceit surrounding his old friend’s death WED 06:30 The Art of Water Music (b0132p7x) hour dramatisation of Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. is growing ever more intricate.…And who is the mysterious Starting with an underwater concert, Midge Ure sounds the Set against the ferocious Battle of Stalingrad, Life and Fate is a third man, said to be present at Harry's death? depths of the complex relationship between music and water. sweeping historical tale that charts the fate of both a nation and Samuel West continues reading from the classic Graham Water has fascinated classical composers, modernist musicians a family in the turmoil of war and is increasingly hailed as the Greene thriller that inspired the acclaimed 1949 film. and contemporary sound artists alike, and in this programme most important Russian novel of the 20th century. Its Author: Graham Greene Midge hears some of the extraordinary ways in which water has comparison of Stalinism with Nazism was considered by Soviet Reader: Samuel West been represented, evoked and even used as an instrument by authorities to be so dangerous that the manuscript itself was Abridger: Richard Hamilton musicians over the centuries. It flows through an extraordinary arrested and Grossman was told that it would not be published Producer: Justine Willett range of pieces. Midge meets experts on water compositions by for at least 200 years. He died in 1964, never knowing that his Music from the original soundtrack written and performed by Beethoven, Wagner and Debussy and explains why Handel's book would be smuggled to the West and eventually published Anton Karas. Water Music is not technically speaking water music at all. in 1980. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2016. While some of the water music we know best might be Lyuda's ex-husband, Abarchuk, is still a staunch believer in the WED 14:15 Bone Stories (b090ygbd) classical, water continues to appeal to those working at the Party even though he was sent to a Russian labour camp some Series 1 musical cutting edge. Midge has a go at playing a bizarre years ago. In November 1942, he assumes his son, Tolya, is Mary Rose Archer instrument called a 'waterphone' and talks to sound artist Lee fighting for the motherland and composes a letter to him about Evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod tries his hand at pulling a Patterson as he performs a strangely hypnotic piece of 'drip his beliefs; beliefs that may have been shaken by a recent medieval long bow and discovers how studies of the skeletons music'. He also listens to recordings of the Danube by sound encounter with his former mentor, Magar. of the archers who sank with the Mary Rose could help patients artist Annea Lockwood. She believes the sound of running Dramatised for radio by Mike Walker with dyspraxia. water is itself music, raising the question of whether or not Abarchuk ..... Malcolm Storry Producer Sarah Blunt. water and music are actually different at all. Water, it seems, Rubin ..... Peter Polycarpou First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017. continues to excite, mystify and intrigue, and musicians have Barkhatov ..... Alun Raglan WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b019fxjc) engaged with it with whatever instruments they have had at Magar ..... Sean Baker Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome their disposal: orchestras, pianos, and now computers. Mishanin ..... Jonathan Forbes Episode 3 Midge goes to meet Simon Harding who makes electronic With Simon Bubb, James Lailey, Stuart Mcloughlin and Daniel Ethan and Mattie's idyll is shattered by the return of Zeena. music on his computer using the water sounds from appliances Rabin Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham in his house, while Professor Doug James, a computer scientist Original music by John Hardy with Rob Whitehead Mattie ..... Jessica Raine at Cornell University, explains some of the science behind Translated by Robert Chandler Zeena ..... Laurel Lefkow water's unique musicality. There is a wealth of beautiful water Directed and Produced by Alison Hindell Jotham Powell ..... Adam Billington music already in existence as this programme shows, but water First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Denis Eady ..... Christopher Webster is still a vigorously flowing source of musical inspiration, even WED 10:15 Grossman's War (b014qnd6) Widow Homan ...... Victoria Inez Hardy expanding our ideas of what we consider music to be. Life and Fate Edith Wharton ..... Fenella Woolgar Presenter: Midge Ure Building 6/1 - Those Who Were Still Alive Written by Edith Wharton Producer: Tom Rice Late October 1942. Building 6/1 is a former apartment building Dramatised by Lin Coghlan A Pier Production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August in the centre of Stalingrad, being held by a rag-tag band of Directed by Sally Avens 2011. Russian soldiers against all the odds, in the teeth of the German Ethan Frome is one of Edith Wharton's most enduring and WED 07:00 The Change (b00p2jn5) advance. powerful stories. Series 1 Set against the cold, grey, bleakness of a New England winter. When a Man Loves a Woman Soon the building, and its charismatic Commander, Captain Ethan Frome scrapes a living from his woodlot whilst trapped in Ken comforts Carol, who despairs over transvestite hubby Grekov, are a legend across Russia. But inside the building, an unhappy marriage with his hypochondriac wife, Zeena. A George. Stars Lynda Bellingham and Chris Ellison. From Commissar Krymov has arrived to tackle what appears to be ray of light enters Ethan's life when his wife's cousin Mattie December 2001. subversion, while the radio operator, Katya, falls in love with arrives to help. His life is transformed as he falls in love with WED 07:30 Susan Calman Makes Me Happy (m000bxjz) his nephew, Seryozha. Mattie but their fate is determined by their circumstances and Episode 3 the stifling conventions of the time. Taking part in Strictly Come Dancing made Susan Calman Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant star in Vasily Grossman’s Ethan Frome was deemed shocking when first published as it Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 December 2019 Page 8 of 11 appeared to condone infidelity. What many readers did not Libby ... Sarah Kendall hotelier and funeral undertaker, Phonsie Doherty, would seek to know was that many of the novella's themes mirrored real Ptolemy … Philip Pope rule the roost in Ballylenon. However, other forces have their events in the life of Edith Wharton. Her own story is told in the Megan/Na ... Nina Conti own guiding principles, and where the McConkey sisters and play 'The Jinx Element' which explores her own sexless Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden Mr Doherty, aided by The Vindicator, would dominate marriage and a passionate affair that begun when she was 47. Produced by Katie Tyrrell. reactionary thinking, a dangerous liberal tendency is First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2010. championed by Vivienne and Rev. Samuel Hawthorne, and the WED 14:45 Book of the Week (b05nv8sd) WED 23:30 The Consultants (b0628g9r) somewhat unlikely, Guard Gallagher. The antagonism between Boundless Series 4 these camps is only ever thinly veiled. Episode 3 Episode 5 In this brand new series, Christopher Fitz-Simon takes a jocose Teresa Gallagher reads Kathleen Winter's story of her journey Two travellers stumble upon a very unusual pub quiz. Neil but jaundiced look at 1960's Ireland, where we discover as the Writer-in-Residence on a boat travelling through the Edmond and James Rawlings' cerebral sketches. From Muriel McConachie , 62. Spinster remnant of a family once Northwest Passage, and how the voyage became as much an November 2005. active in politics, Muriel inherited the corner shop and, due to exploration of her own roots as a venture into the arctic ice her Councillor father's influence, has the Post Office franchise. fields. Known as the eyes of Ballylenon, Muriel, the Honouree Episode 3: In the Sermermuit Valley, the author is thrilled by a THURSDAY 12 DECEMBER 2019 Secretary of the Development Association, has a long-term symphony of ice. 'understanding' with its Chair, Phonsie Doherty. She is a gentle Kathleen Winter was born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead. When THU 00:00 William Gibson - Pattern Recognition personality, but misses nothing and can see a midge on a mare's she was still young, the family emigrated to Newfoundland. (b007k1yz) arse in Tyrone. Winter, who now lives in Montreal, was a TV scriptwriter and a [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] We also discover, Vera McConachie, 61, Muriel's younger and newspaper columnist before turning her hand to short stories. THU 00:30 The Palace of Laughter (b007tbvx) more forthright spinster sister who runs the 10-line manual Her first collection of stories - 'boYs' - was published in 2007 [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Telephone Exchange and is known as the Ears of Ballylenon. and her first novel 'Annabel' came out three years later. THU 01:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nnhx) Every call goes through her switchboard, its content noted, 'Annabel' was shortlisted for the three main Canadian literary [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] discussed and any necessary action taken. She also writes the prizes in 2010 - the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers' THU 01:30 The Art of Water Music (b0132p7x) Horoscope anonymously for the Donegal Vindicator. Writers' Trust Prize and the Governor General's Award. This [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] The McConkey's closest confidant is Phonsie [Alphonsus] year, Boundless was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Award for THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b07hhqtk) Doherty. 58. Phonsie is a widower, proprietor of the Swilly non-fiction. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] Arms Hotel and of Doherty's Estate Agency and Funeral Abridged by Pete Nichols THU 02:15 Bone Stories (b090ygbd) Furnishers and Chair of the Development Association. Up to Producer: Karen Rose [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] the present is politically 'in' and therefore in the way of A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b019fxjc) knowing what grants and subsidies are available for all manner WED 15:00 Grossman's War (b014qnct) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] of projects. His relationship with Muriel McConachie is [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU 02:45 Book of the Week (b05nv8sd) proprietorial rather than romantic. WED 15:15 Grossman's War (b014qnd6) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] If there is a thorn in the side of this trio it is, Vivienne [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] THU 03:00 Grossman's War (b014qnct) Hawthorne, 30, the former Miss Boal. Bright, breezy, busy WED 16:00 Many a Slip (b007jv0k) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] primary schoolteacher. Organist and choir-mistress of the [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU 03:15 Grossman's War (b014qnd6) Presbyterian congregation. Though seemingly rationalist, WED 16:30 Mind Your Own Business! (b009xyw7) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Wednesday] Vivienne is secretly much influenced by horoscopes. She is [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU 04:00 Many a Slip (b007jv0k) supporter of cultural causes like the music festival and WED 17:00 The Change (b00p2jn5) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] architectural conservation. And though apparently [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU 04:30 Mind Your Own Business! (b009xyw7) straightforward, she achieves certain aims by devious means. WED 17:30 Susan Calman Makes Me Happy (m000bxjz) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Ballylenon by Christopher Fitz-Simon [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU 05:00 The Change (b00p2jn5) Muriel McConkey -Margaret D'Arcy WED 18:00 William Gibson - Pattern Recognition [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Vera McConkey -Stella McCusker (b007k1yz) THU 05:30 Susan Calman Makes Me Happy (m000bxjz) Phonsie Doherty -Gerard Murphy Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Mrs Vivienne Hawthorne -Aine McCartney 'Coolhunter' Cayce Pollard is mugged in Tokyo, but who is THU 06:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nwbj) Rev. Samuel Hawthorne -Dermot Crowley behind her assailants? Fast-moving thriller read by Lorelei Leaves of the Dead Kevin 'Stumpy' Bonnar - Gerard McSorley King. From February 2007. Pyramids in the Spider Guard Gallagher -Frankie McCafferty WED 18:30 The Palace of Laughter (b007tbvx) Can detective superintendent Julie Enfield manage to escape Daniel O'Searcaigh - James Greene Series 1 before she becomes the next murder victim? Stars Imelda Monsignor McFadden - Niall Cusack Glasgow Pavilion Theatre Staunton. Aubrey Frawley - Chris McHallem Geoffrey Wheeler's affectionate look at one of Scotland's last THU 06:30 The Legacy of Uncle Tom (b03j9lv8) Polly Acton - Joanna Munro variety venues, which legend claims is haunted. From March When Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in Eamonn Doyle - Patrick Fitzsymons 2002. 1852, it immediately caused a stir and created a groundswell of Mr Boylan - Derek Bailey WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b00j283q) anti-slavery feeling. Legend has it that when Stowe visited the Directed By Eoin O'Callaghan. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] White House during the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln THU 07:30 Tom Allen Is Actually Not Very Nice (m000c0cl) WED 19:30 Listen to Les (b00kmn1b) greeted her with the words 'So you're the little woman who Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] wrote the book that made this great war!'. A new series from Tom Allen, star of Mock The Week, Bake WED 20:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nnhx) The novelist and critic Erica Wagner examines the lasting Off Extra Slice, The Apprentice: You're Fired and fresh from a [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] legacy of this book, from its abolitionist beginnings to the racial sell out solo performance at The London Palladium. WED 20:30 The Art of Water Music (b0132p7x) stereotypes Stowe's characters became. To be called an 'Uncle Tom Allen is Actually Not Very Nice explores what happens [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Tom' is one of the harshest racial slurs that can be thrown at an when Tom's calm and collected exterior collapses. He used to WED 21:00 Laura Barton's American Road Trip African-American person, and yet the idea of the submissive be such a nice boy but what has happened to turn him naughty? (m000c54q) race traitor is quite different from Stowe's original character. With help from the assembled studio audience, Tom works out [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Erica explores the part that Uncle Tom's Cabin played in the how best to navigate some tricky social situations and how to WED 22:00 Susan Calman Makes Me Happy (m000bxjz) politics of race in America, and how the ground that it broke, in keep a lid on his fury when confronted with life's small [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] fact, resulted in its own demise. The programme ranges from injustices. WED 22:30 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash (b00s0hn9) Stowe's home in Brunswick Maine, where Harriet Beecher Featuring Gabby Best. Series 2 Stowe harboured a runaway slave, to the American Antiquarian Photo credit: Edward Moore @edshots Episode 2 Society in Massachusetts and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Producer: Richard Morris Comedy and music from the Arthur Smith residence. With in Connecticut, where the wealth of spin-off merchandise are A BBC Studios Production Paloma Faith, Miles Jupp and Tom Wrigglesworth. explored. Joan Hedrick, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her THU 08:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b05ncjz0) WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m000cqhp) biography Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life sets Stowe in From 18/04/1965 Dominic Holland (2/3) historical context and the award-winning choreographer Bill T Home wine-making tips from Andy Mann, and poetic tributes From 10.00pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Jones, and the playwright Robert Alexander bring the novel's to those who watch over us at night. With John Laurie. From Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Paul Garner chats again to story right up to date. The Legacy of Uncle Tom traces the April 1965. Dominic Holland. reactions to this work from the Abolition Movement, through THU 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b008m22m) WED 23:00 Clare in the Community (b00slqvv) the Civil Rights Movement to the Rodney King beating in 1991 Series 3 Series 6 and the murder of Trayvon Martin last year. Race and politics Episode 3 Luck of the Irish remain at the heart of this story, as does every person's right to Genghis Khan Reincarnated - and an incompetent zoo keeper. Clare Barker is the self-absorbed social worker who has the liberty. More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs and right jargon for every problem she comes across, though never parodies. a practical solution. But there are plenty of challenges out there Producer: Philippa Geering Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. A Unique production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. The team at the Family Centre has been shaken around and November 2013. Written by John Esmond and Bob Larbey, Graeme Garden, shuffled about. Clare is now Acting Team Leader, as Irene has THU 07:00 Ballylenon (b00yj976) David Lund and Bill Oddie. job-swapped. And whilst Irene is in Melbourne the team here Series 8 Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue are joined by Libby – an Aussie and a lezzie, proud to be both, Agroturismo in Irlande 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and and after Clare’s job. Ballylenon, County Donegal. Pop. 1,999 was founded by St quickly developed a cult following. But it is in the nature of hell to be unchanging, and most of the Lenon of Padua, when he fell into the river at this spot in 953. Music and songs by Dave Lee and Bill Oddie. regulars are present and correct for a further round of Ballylenon is situated on the shores of Lough Swilly with Producer: Humphrey Barclay frustration, despair, disappointment, team meetings and eleven entrancing views of Muckish Mountain, in the Diocese of Derry First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in March 1966. o’clock cakes at the Sparrowhawk Family Centre. and Raphoe. (Note: Ballylenon is a fictional name, but the other THU 09:00 It's Your Round (b00yrfwr) This week: Clare is delighted to discover she has an Irish landmarks are identifiable.) Series 1 ancestor... In this society, there exists an uneasy balance of interests. Episode 2 Clare ... Sally Phillips Communication has all the appearances of power, and in "It's Your Round" is the comedy panel show where the format Helen ... Liza Tarbuck Ballylenon, communication means the local Telephone is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the panellists has Brian ... Alex Lowe Exchange and Post Office. Both these are firmly in the control brought along their own round for the others to play, meaning Ray ... Richard Lumsden of sisters, Vera and Muriel McConkey, who in cahoots with that each show is unique, untried, and unpredictable. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 December 2019 Page 9 of 11 This episode Andy Parsons, Rebecca Front, Miles Jupp and Directors: Alison Hindell and Jonquil Panting. Episode 4: On Dundas Island, the arctic animals lay claim to prog-rock legend, Rick Wakeman battle it out to see who can their habitat. beat each other at their own games. Producer: Alison Hindell. Kathleen Winter was born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead. When Enjoy the hilarity that ensues when each of them play the she was still young, the family emigrated to Newfoundland. games they've brought along. Can the teams guess the concept Set against the ferocious Battle of Stalingrad, Vasily Grossman’s Winter, who now lives in Montreal, was a TV scriptwriter and a for Rick's new prog rock album in his "What's The Concept?" huge novel charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the newspaper columnist before turning her hand to short stories. round? And what happens when the teams have to play Andy's turmoil of war and is increasingly hailed as the most important Her first collection of stories - 'boYs' - was published in 2007 inventively titled "It's Not Your Round"? And would Rebecca Russian novel of the 20th century. Its comparison of Stalinism and her first novel 'Annabel' came out three years later. Front like to marry Prince William? Find out the answers to with Nazism was considered by Soviet authorities to be so 'Annabel' was shortlisted for the three main Canadian literary these questions and more in this show. dangerous that the manuscript itself was arrested. Grossman prizes in 2010 - the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers' Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure died in 1964, never knowing that his book would be smuggled Writers' Trust Prize and the Governor General's Award. This everyone comes out of it with their reputations intact. to the West and eventually published in 1980. year, Boundless was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Award for Writers: Angus Deayton and Paul Powell non-fiction. Devised by Benjamin Partridge First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2011. Abridged by Pete Nichols Producer: Sam Michell. THU 11:00 Laura Barton's American Road Trip Producer: Karen Rose THU 09:30 Change at Oglethorpe (b007k04h) (m000c567) A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 The Brew That Is True 3. California Bound THU 15:00 Grossman's War (b014qnlj) June's passion for station manager, David has so far been Using BBC Archives, writer Laura Barton takes to the road for [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] unrequited. But an interesting recipe in Old Cronwick's Book of an audio adventure across the USA - from New York to THU 15:15 Grossman's War (b014qnwg) Potions from Field and Forest should change all that... California. In this episode: [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] Meanwhile, Rocket is expecting to meet an old flame when the ‘Inside Track: Cowgirls’ [1998] THU 16:00 It's Your Round (b00yrfwr) Royal Train is diverted through the station. ‘A Bright Light in the Night’ [2005] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Peter Morfoot's comedy stars Michael Williams as Rocket, ‘American Beauty: Death Valley Opera’ [1995] THU 16:30 Change at Oglethorpe (b007k04h) Peter Davison as David, Rosemary Martin as June, Phillippa ‘On the Town’ [1980] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Wilson as Points, Madge Hindle as Hattie and Chris Emmett as ‘Not Yet, Jayette’ [1992] THU 17:00 Ballylenon (b00yj976) Sodd. Other parts played by Paul Jenkins. Producer: Luke Doran. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Producer: Gareth Edwards First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2018. THU 17:30 Tom Allen Is Actually Not Very Nice (m000c0cl) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1995. THU 12:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b05ncjz0) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU 10:00 Grossman's War (b014qnlj) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 18:00 William Gibson - Pattern Recognition Life and Fate THU 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b008m22m) (b007k208) Lieutenant Peter Bach [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Episode 4 Peter Bach, a German officer, is wounded and treated at a THU 13:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nwbj) Searching for footage clues, 'coolhunter' Cayce locates the military field hospital in November 1942. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] menacing Baranov. Lorelei King reads the fast-moving thriller. THU 13:30 The Legacy of Uncle Tom (b03j9lv8) From February 2007. The brief respite from the fighting gives him time to [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU 18:30 Great Lives (b03q8z43) contemplate his secret affair with a Russian girl, Zina, an affair THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b07hj3xh) Series 32 that he roughly denies when confronted with it. Graham Greene: The Third Man Mark Constantine on Kahlil Gibran Do you believe in ghosts? Businessman Mark Constantine chooses Lebanese-American Kenneth Branagh, Janet Suzman, David Tennant, Greta Scacchi Faced with the harsh fact that his old friend Harry Lime wasn’t author of ‘The Prophet’, Khalil Gibran. With Matthew Parris. and Harriet Walter star in Vasily Grossman's epic saga. the hero he thought him to be, Rollo is drowning his sorrows. Snubbed and practically ignored by the literary establishment in Doubting he’ll ever track down the third man present at Harry’s the West, but regarded by millions as a world-class poet his Lieutenant Peter Bach ..... Geoffrey Streatfeild death, or even get Harry’s girl to fall in love with him, Rollo's work, The Prophet, published in 1923, has never been out of Gerne ..... Lloyd Thomas desperate to leave the war-torn city. But the elusive Harry Lime print and next to the bible is the biggest selling book in Fresser ..... Michael Shelford is about to shock him one more time…. America. The Goalkeeper ..... Tony Bell Samuel West continues reading Graham Greene's classic Businessman Mark Constantine champions the poet and Zina ..... Jessica Raine thriller, which was the inspiration for the 1949 film, starring together with the actor Nadim Sawalha. Matthew Parris is the Hospital Sister ..... Christine Kavanagh Orson Welles. presenter. Hospital Orderly ..... David Seddon Author: Graham Greene Producer : Perminder Khatkar Reader: Samuel West First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014. Dramatised by Jonathan Myerson. Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU 19:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b05ncjz0) Producer: Justine Willett [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Original music by John Hardy with Rob Whitehead Music from the original soundtrack written and performed by THU 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b008m22m) Anton Karas. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Director: Alison Hindell First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2016. THU 20:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nwbj) THU 14:15 Bone Stories (b0910n6v) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Set against the ferocious Battle of Stalingrad, Life and Fate is a Series 1 THU 20:30 The Legacy of Uncle Tom (b03j9lv8) sweeping historical tale that charts the fate of both a nation and Dodo [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] a family in the turmoil of war and is increasingly hailed as the The Dodo is byword for extinction, or at least it has been. THU 21:00 Laura Barton's American Road Trip most important Russian novel of the 20th century. Its Evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod discovers how the skeletal (m000c567) comparison of Stalinism with Nazism was considered by Soviet remains of this extinct bird may hold the key to life beyond the [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] authorities to be so dangerous that the manuscript itself was grave and that extinction could be a thing of the past. THU 22:00 Tom Allen Is Actually Not Very Nice (m000c0cl) arrested and Grossman was told that it would not be published Producer Sarah Blunt. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] for at least 200 years. He died in 1964, never knowing that his First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017. THU 22:30 Newsjack (m000c56c) book would be smuggled to the West and eventually published THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b019gy9t) Newsjack Unplugged, Series 4 in 1980. Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome Episode 8 Episode 4 Darren Harriott hosts Newsjack's little brother with this week's First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2011. Ethan becomes determined to escape his marriage and runaway satirical instalment THU 10:15 Grossman's War (b014qnwg) with Mattie. THU 22:45 The Goldfish Bowl (m000c56h) Life and Fate Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham Series 1 Novikov's Story Mattie ..... Jessica Raine Episode 8 November, 1942. Novikov, a tank commander, prepares his Zeena ..... Laurel Lefkow As their owners quarrel, is it the end for fish Anton and Liam? troops for Operation Uranus, the campaign which is to be the Edith Wharton .... Fenella Woolgar With Shaun Prendergast and Hamish McColl. From October turning point in the Battle of Stalingrad. Written by Edith Wharton 1998. Dramatised by Lin Coghlan THU 23:00 Mr and Mrs Smith (b01b9kdj) On his way to the front, he visits Zhenya, his lover, in Directed by Sally Avens Sally's Birthday Kuibyshev. He dreams of marrying her but she is still torn Ethan Frome is one of Edith Wharton's most enduring and Episode 2 - Sally's Birthday between him and Krymov. She tells an anecdote about Krymov powerful stories. An audience sitcom about a couple in marriage counselling. and Trotsky, a slip of the tongue that leads to betrayal. Set against the cold, grey, bleakness of a New England winter. Will and Annabelle attend her mum's 60th Birthday Party. Will Ethan Frome scrapes a living from his woodlot whilst trapped in makes an effort to get on with his straight talking father-in-law Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant star in Vasily Grossman’s an unhappy marriage with his hypochondriac wife, Zeena. A John. epic saga. ray of light enters Ethan's life when his wife's cousin Mattie FULL CAST DETAILS: arrives to help. His life is transformed as he falls in love with Will Smith ..... Will Smith Pyotr Pavlovich Novikov ..... Don Gilet Mattie but their fate is determined by their circumstances and Annabelle Smith ..... Sarah Hadland Getmanov ..... Philip Jackson the stifling conventions of the time. Guy ..... Paterson Joseph Nyeudobnov ..... Peter Wight Ethan Frome was deemed shocking when first published as it John ..... Geoffrey Whitehead Zhenya Shaposhnikova ..... Raquel Cassidy appeared to condone infidelity. What many readers did not Sally ..... Susie Blake Nicky ..... Simon Bubb know was that many of the novella's themes mirrored real Shop Assistant ..... Tracy Wiles Vershkov ..... Stuart Mcloughlin events in the life of Edith Wharton. Her own story is told in a Written by ..... Will Smith Galina Terentyevna ..... Jane Whittenshaw play 'The Jinx Element' which explores her own sexless Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani Mashuk ..... Peter Polycarpou marriage and a passionate affair that begun when she was 47. ABOUT THE SERIES: Zhakharov ..... Sean Baker First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012. A year into married life and already things are a little creaky. THU 14:45 Book of the Week (b05nvb23) So, following Will's unimaginative anniversary present (a With Jonathan Forbes, James Lailey, Daniel Rabin and Alun Boundless draining rack), Annabelle has signed them up for a course of Raglan Episode 4 marriage counselling. Teresa Gallagher reads Kathleen Winter's story of her journey Each week, counsellor Guy mediates a recent dispute between Dramatised by Mike Walker as the Writer-in-Residence on a boat travelling through the Will and Annabelle, with flashbacks to the events that spawned Northwest Passage, and how the voyage became as much an the argument, and by the end, the couple find marital Original music by John Hardy with Rob Whitehead exploration of her own roots as a venture into the arctic ice equilibrium once more. Sort of. fields. Guy arbitrates, usually leaning towards Annabelle's more Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 December 2019 Page 10 of 11 sensible point of view. In contrast to Will's uptightness, Guy is First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2003. Life and Fate laconic and urbane and clearly irritates Will. FRI 07:30 Fred at The Stand (b09cz4d4) Krymov in Moscow The writer and comedian Will Smith leads the starry cast of Mr Series 1 Moscow, Winter 1942. Commissar Nikolai Krymov has been and Mrs.Smith. Will's writing credits include Armstrong and Johns, Storrie, Brister and Graffoe denounced and arrested. He's taken to the dreaded Lubyanka Miller (BBC1), Harry and Paul (BBC1), Moving Wallpaper Fred MacAulay introduces some of the funniest comedians in prison in Moscow: a place where, in the past, he has denounced (ITV1), Time Trumpet (BBC2), the multi-award winning The the UK doing what they do best - pure stand-up comedy. others. Thick Of It (BBC2) in which he also appears as Phil Smith, and Recorded at The Stand Comedy Club in Edinburgh. Meanwhile his ex-wife Zhenya arrives in Moscow, to stay with Veep (HBO). This week, Dave Johns tells tales of coping with stardom Viktor and Lyuda, and to face the consequences of her actions. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. following the success of I, Daniel Blake, Glaswegian Ashley Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant star in Vasily Grossman's THU 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews (m000cqkf) Storrie tries to get one over her father at Christmas time, Jen epic saga. Dominic Holland (3/3) Brister is proud to not to be a biological mother, and Boothby Commissar Nikolai Krymov ..... David Tennant From 10.00pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Graffoe is himself and cares not what anyone thinks. Viktor Shtrum ..... Kenneth Branagh Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Paul Garner chats again to A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. Lyuda Shaposhnikova ..... Greta Scacchi Dominic Holland. FRI 08:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jrr7) Zhenya Shaposhnikova ..... Raquel Cassidy THU 23:30 Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice Series 3 Marya Sokolova ..... Harriet Walter (b05ssqpn) The Next to Last Burkiss Way Nadya ..... Ellie Kendrick Series 1 Waves are parted as the team take on the Holly Bibbly - and Katsenelenbogen ..... Ewan Bailey Episode 4 another edition of Syrup on Sunday. NKVD Interrogator ..... Elliot Levey Comedian Deborah Frances-White was adopted as a baby in Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett With Simon Bubb, Elaine Claxton, Jonathan Forbes, James Australia and has only recently discovered her true life mother. . Lailey, Gerard McDermott, Chris Pavlo, Peter Polycarpou, Carl Now, in the last of the series, Deborah attempts to find her real Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to Prekopp, Alun Raglan and Susie Riddell father. 1980. Dramatised by Jonathan Myerson. Unfortunately, her birth mother's recall is none too good and, Scripted by David Renwick and Andrew Marshall. Directors: Alison Hindell and Jonquil Panting despite much probing, she seems unable to remember which of Producer: John Lloyd Producer: Alison Hindell her partners could be the true dad. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1978. Set against the ferocious Battle of Stalingrad, Vasily Grossman's So, with the voices of Thom Tuck, Alex Lowe and Celia FRI 08:30 Something to Shout About (m000c58t) huge novel charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the Pacqola, Deborah sets out on one last Google-driven attempt to Series 3 turmoil of war and is increasingly hailed as the most important complete the circle. Episode 4 Russian novel of the 20th century. Its comparison of Stalinism Producer: Alan Nixon Michael receives a windfall and the vultures soon circle in with Nazism was considered by Soviet authorities to be so A So Television production for BBC Radio 4. search of loans. dangerous that the manuscript itself was arrested. Grossman ‘Something To Shout About’ debuted in July 1960, hot on the died in 1964, never knowing that his book would be smuggled heels of the demise of both ‘The Goon Show’ and ‘Hancock’s to the West and eventually published in 1980. FRIDAY 13 DECEMBER 2019 Half Hour’. The show had big boots to fill, but managed, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2011. running to 54 episodes over three series across two years. The FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000c592) FRI 00:00 William Gibson - Pattern Recognition series is based in a London advertising agency called ‘Apsley, 100 Podcast Radio Hours! (b007k208) Addis, Cohen, Barbican, Blythe, Giddy & Partners’. Podcast Radio Hour celebrates its 100th episode by looking [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] CAST: back on some of the best FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b03q8z43) Michael Lightfoot …. Michael Medwin FRI 12:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jrr7) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Janet Harris …. Fenella Fielding [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 01:00 Julie Enfield Investigates (b010nwbj) Maggie Tufnell …. Eleanor Summerfield FRI 12:30 Something to Shout About (m000c58t) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Mavis Willis …Joan Sims [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 01:30 The Legacy of Uncle Tom (b03j9lv8) Adrian Beales …. Nicholas Phipps FRI 13:00 Charles Paris: So Much Blood (m000c58m) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] Mr Botting/Various …. Warren Mitchell [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b07hj3xh) Written by Myles Rudge and Ronnie Wolfe. FRI 13:30 In Search of the Holy Whale (b00xnynk) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Producer: John Simmonds. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 02:15 Bone Stories (b0910n6v) First heard on the Light Programme in October 1961. FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b07hj93g) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI 09:00 It's Not What You Know (b0640pnx) Graham Greene: The Third Man FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b019gy9t) Series 3 Bloody fool [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] Episode 6 Harry Lime is very much alive, but no longer the heroic figure FRI 02:45 Book of the Week (b05nvb23) Who does Susan Calman often get mistaken for? What does from Rollo Martins’ school days. In a snow-covered, war-torn [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] Vernon Kay consider his career lowlight? What's the naughtiest Vienna, Rollo decides to confront his old friend over the FRI 03:00 Grossman's War (b014qnlj) thing Sara Pascoe did as a child? terrible crimes he’s said to have committed. But, first he has to [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] All these burning questions, and more, will be answered in the track him down.... FRI 03:15 Grossman's War (b014qnwg) show hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested on how Samuel West reads the final part of Graham Greene's classic [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Thursday] well they know their nearest and dearest. thriller - the inspiration for the 1949 film, starring Orson FRI 04:00 It's Your Round (b00yrfwr) In this case, comedian Susan Calman picks her friend, presenter Welles. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Vernon Kay picks his old university pal, and comedian Sara Author: Graham Greene FRI 04:30 Change at Oglethorpe (b007k04h) Pascoe chooses her mum. Reader: Samuel West [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Producer: Matt Stronge. Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI 05:00 Ballylenon (b00yj976) FRI 09:30 The Phenomenon Squad (b084p6qt) Producer: Justine Willett [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Fraud Music from the original soundtrack written and performed by FRI 05:30 Tom Allen Is Actually Not Very Nice (m000c0cl) The undercover police squad try to foil a massive art fraud. But Anton Karas. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] Crispin Pollock has other ideas. Stars Roy Kinnear. From First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2016. FRI 06:00 Charles Paris: So Much Blood (m000c58m) October 1987. FRI 14:15 Bone Stories (b0910svm) The Photo Call FRI 10:00 Grossman's War (b014qxbd) Series 1 An actor dies as the thespian sleuth is rehearsing in Edinburgh - Life and Fate Man-eating Tiger is it murder? Simon Brett's thriller stars Francis Matthews. A Hero of the Soviet Union Evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod stares into the jaws of a man- FRI 06:30 In Search of the Holy Whale (b00xnynk) November, 1942. Krymov denounces Grekov as an enemy of eating tiger and learns how samples from the bones are In this sequel to In Search Of The Holy Quail, broadcaster Marc the state. providing vital evidence in understanding the role of predation Riley and two more friends from the world of popular music, After speeches marking the 25th anniversary of the Revolution on our evolutionary behaviour. Were our early ancestors Richard Hawley and Jarvis Cocker, set out on a quirky quest to at which he is cold-shouldered by his colleagues, he slips out to primarily hunters or hunted? find some of the world's most spectacular and elusive sights. find Stepan Spiridonov at the Central Power Station. He recalls Producer Sarah Blunt. Riley's whale-watching passion has taken him from Baja, the heady days of 1917 and Lenin's funeral and compares those First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017. Mexico to Iceland but in 2003 he discovered that some of the ideals with the days of the show-trials. FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b019h2b6) most amazing sights could be seen right on our doorstep in Kenneth Branagh, Janet Suzman, David Tennant, Kenneth Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome Skibereen, Ireland. Cranham, Greta Scacchi and Harriet Walter star Vasily Episode 5 Keen to share his discovery, Marc persuades his curious friends Grossman's epic saga. Mattie and Ethan take desperate measures not to be separated. to set sail on the very rough seas in the hope of an exhilarating Nikolai Krymov ..... David Tennant Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham encounter with these elusive creatures. As they struggle to find Stepan Spiridonov ..... Kenneth Cranham Mattie ..... Jessica Raine their sea legs our intrepid three contemplate life, the universe Pryakhin ..... Gerard McDermott Zeena ..... Laurel Lefkow and the most important questions - how do you stop your glasses Pavel Andreyev ..... Malcolm Tierney Mrs Hale ..... Tracy Wiles falling off and why shouldn't you sing to whales? Ogibalov ..... Carl Prekopp Edith Wharton ..... Fenella Woolgar Producer: John Leonard Makuladze ..... James Lailey by Edith Wharton A Smooth Operations production first broadcast on BBC Radio Dramatised by Jonathan Myerson. dramatised by Lin Coghlan 4 in January 2011. Original music by John Hardy with Rob Whitehead. Directed by Sally Avens FRI 07:00 1834 (b011db7v) Translated by Robert Chandler. Ethan Frome is one of Edith Wharton's most enduring and The Time Machine Director: Alison Hindell powerful stories. Jason decides the invention of the toasted sandwich maker will Set against the ferocious Battle of Stalingrad, Life and Fate is a Set against the cold, grey, bleakness of a New England winter. sort out his new 19th-century life. sweeping historical tale that charts the fate of both a nation and Ethan Frome scrapes a living from his woodlot whilst trapped in 21st-century teacher, Jason Slater, is coming to terms with a family in the turmoil of war and is increasingly hailed as the an unhappy marriage with his hypochondriac wife, Zeena. A waking up in 19th-century Macclesfield. most important Russian novel of the 20th century. Its ray of light enters Ethan's life when his wife's cousin Mattie In Jim Poyser's riotous comedy of transportation and delight, comparison of Stalinism with Nazism was considered by Soviet arrives to help. His life is transformed as he falls in love with Jason is now Tarquin, third son of Lord Belport with a faithful authorities to be so dangerous that the manuscript itself was Mattie but their fate is determined by their circumstances and valet, Ned. arrested and Grossman was told that it would not be published the stifling conventions of the time. Stars Michael Begley as Jason Slater, Joe Caffrey as Ned, for at least 200 years. He died in 1964, never knowing that his Ethan Frome was deemed shocking when first published as it Kenneth Alan Taylor as Hoskins, Mark Chatterton as Lord book would be smuggled to the West and eventually published appeared to condone infidelity. What many readers did not Belport, Glenn Cunningham as Stubbs and Julia Rounthwaite as in 1980. know was that many of the novella's themes mirrored real Millicent. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2011. events in the life of Edith Wharton. Her own story is told in Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas. FRI 10:15 Grossman's War (b014qxbs) 'The Jinx Element' that explores her own sexless marriage and a Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 December 2019 Page 11 of 11 passionate affair that begun when she was 47. Douglas King. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012. Josie Josie Long FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b05nvb6f) Darren Darren Osborne Boundless Margaret Clare Grogan Episode 5 PCSO Officer Chris Pavlo As the passengers prepare for journey's end, there is an The Podcaster Jesse Thorn unscheduled stop. Shondra Claudia O'Doherty Teresa Gallagher concludes Kathleen Winter's story of her Unfeasably Handsome Man John Early journey as the Writer-in-Residence on a boat travelling through Written by Josie Long the Northwest Passage, and how the voyage became as much an Producer: Colin Anderson exploration of her own roots as a venture into the arctic ice First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. fields. FRI 23:00 The Iguanodon (b0075cj0) Kathleen Winter was born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead. When Big Fat Liars she was still young, the family emigrated to Newfoundland. Don O'Reilly discovers smoking and hiding do not mix - and Winter, who now lives in Montreal, was a TV scriptwriter and a they all come second in a run-in with some very insistent newspaper columnist before turning her hand to short stories. pirates. Her first collection of stories - 'boYs' - was published in 2007 The passengers and crew of 'The Iganodon' are still adrift in the and her first novel 'Annabel' came out three years later. Woe Betides. 'Annabel' was shortlisted for the three main Canadian literary A three-part comedy adventure by Paul Lucas. prizes in 2010 - the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers' Starring Paul Haigh as Sam Varley, Bernard Cribbins as Mr Writers' Trust Prize and the Governor General's Award. Brook, Rosemary Leach as Isabel, Dermot Crowley as Don Boundless was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Award for non- O'Reilly, John Arthur as the Captain, Patsy Byrne as Harriet fiction. and Sally Phillips as Laura. Abridged by Pete Nichols Other parts played by Fred Harris and Kevin Eldon. Producer: Karen Rose Producer: Jo Clegg A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1997. March 2015. FRI 23:30 The Mel and Sue Thing (b00769tt) FRI 15:00 Grossman's War (b014qxbd) Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Bergerac and Lovejoy on Leather Island, and Ukraine's FRI 15:15 Grossman's War (b014qxbs) Eurovision entry. Sketches with Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] From October 2002. FRI 16:00 It's Not What You Know (b0640pnx) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 16:30 The Phenomenon Squad (b084p6qt) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI 17:00 1834 (b011db7v) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI 17:30 Fred at The Stand (b09cz4d4) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 18:00 William Gibson - Pattern Recognition (b007k21k) Episode 5 In seedy Moscow, 'coolhunter' Cayce meets the maker of the footage. Lorelei King concludes the fast-moving thriller. From February 2007. FRI 18:30 Last Orders (b00qx1m5) Episode 2 Conclusion of a two-part celebration of the pub landlord and landlady. With pubs disappearing at the rate of more than three a day, signalling one of the most rapid cultural shifts of recent times, half a dozen landlords and landladies reflect on life as a licensee and explore what we're in danger of losing besides the beer and the buildings. This rueful view from behind the bar includes reflections on the qualities of a good landlord or landlady; their role as community confessional and settler of tap room fights, dispenser of best bitter and pearls of wisdom. We hear from old hands like Barbara, an ex-Bunny girl who runs the Grapes in London's Limehouse; Tetley Dave who fought a battle to keep the Shoulder of Mutton from closing in Castleford; Maureen from the Waggon and Horses at Langsett who's famous for her pies; ex miner Dennis from Barnsley, whose bête noir is health and safety; stand-up comedian Toby- who recalls lining up six pints apiece for the miners coming off shift at his auntie's pub in a Yorkshire pit village; and former Cambridge academic Tim, who's taken early retirement to open his first pub in York - the Phoenix- just as many others are shutting up shop. How have these landlords and landladies kept their marriages together , living and working on the premises? How much of a tempatation was it to hit the top shelf and go for the optics after a hard day's graft behind the bar? Why do they think the pub can teach the next generation how to hold their drink. And how do they handle an objectionable customer without starting a wild-west barroom brawl? Producer Lindsay Leonard. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2010 FRI 19:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jrr7) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 19:30 Something to Shout About (m000c58t) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 20:00 Charles Paris: So Much Blood (m000c58m) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 20:30 In Search of the Holy Whale (b00xnynk) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000c592) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI 22:00 Fred at The Stand (b09cz4d4) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 22:30 Josie Long: Romance and Adventure (b077jp15) Series 1 Episode 4 Comedy drama about a young woman trying to build a more fulfilling life for herself in Glasgow. Josie and Darren go camping but find themselves disastrously ill equipped for the great outdoors. Based on characters from the short films "Romance and Adventure" and "Let's Go Swimming" by Josie Long and Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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