Radio 4 Extra Listings for 1 – 7 August 2015 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 01 AUGUST 2015 Directors: Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole With extracts from some of his most memorable comic First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011. performances and eccentric characters. SAT 00:00 Book at Bedtime (b00vfxmc) SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b009ppjq) Recorded at the Secombe Theatre, Sutton, Surrey. George Eliot - The Lifted Veil Kate Summerscale - The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Michael Bentine CBE was born in 1922 and died in 1996. Episode 5 Episode 5 Producer: Andy Aliffe Nigel Cooke reads George Eliot's disturbing tale of Deborah Findlay reads from Kate Summerscale's account of a First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1994. clairvoyance and mind-reading. Victorian murder case that gripped the nation. SAT 08:00 Meeting Myself Coming Back (b00tcsvt) As Latimer begins to lose his mind-reading powers - an old 5/5. Only in 1928, with the arrival of an anonymous letter from Series 2 friend persuades him to take part in an extraordinary Sydney, do the real events at Road Hill House back in 1860 Peter Mandelson experiment. finally come to light. From Labour PR supremo to cabinet minister and peer, and Abridged by Eileen Horne SAT 03:00 Stephen Fagan - The Intersection (b01fhjrq) dubbed "Prince of Darkness" along the way, Peter Mandelson Produced by Clive Brill Working in a London auction house, Chris meets his father by reflects on his life in sound through the BBC archives. In the A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. chance for the first time in 10 years. first programme of the series "Meeting Myself Coming Back" SAT 00:15 Dermot Bolger - Haunting Women (b016q02f) Chris has grown up and his father has grown old. where guests replay the sound archive of their life, he talks to The Riding Crop Neither of them knows whether their meeting will prove to be John Wilson about his career, hears recordings of his younger A bitter dispute between sisters 200 years ago means a precious an important beginning - or just a sad accident... self and discusses how he has changed over the decades. wedding gift must be cared for in the present. Family drama by Stephen Fagan. Lord Mandelson grew up with Labour in his blood - his SAT 00:30 Fry's English Delight (b012fbpn) Starring John le Mesurier as Father, Frank Grimes as Chris, grandfather was the Labour cabinet minister Herbert Morrison. Series 4 Jane Knowles as the American woman, Christopher Scott as After university and early jobs, he became first the party's The Mouth George, Alan Dudley as Lord Wrighton, Haydn Wood as Lord Director of Campaigns and Communications and then MP for "If you were an intelligent designer, would you combine the Soper and Stephen Garlick as Bernie. Hartlepool. After Labour's 1997 General Election victory, he food processor and the word processor in the same unit?" asks Director: Margaret Windhau served in Tony Blair's cabinet but was forced to resign twice - Stephen Fry in this intimate portrait of the most important part First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1981 once over a home loan and the second over the Hinduja of speech. SAT 04:00 All the Way from Memphis (b00mb1r1) passport affair. After a move to Brussels as EU Trade Evolutionary biologists can't agree whether the complexities of Series 2 Commissioner, a surprise request by the new Prime Minister eating and speaking are linked. But the evolution of the mouth Episode 3 Gordon Brown saw him given a cabinet post for an is important. It date stamps the start of language and of modern James Walton tests and tickles the knowledge of industry unprecedented third time, serving this time as a Peer in the humanity. As soon as we had the equipment to speak, we pundits and people passionate about pop music. House of Lords. started, for example, to make art. We hear from a lipreader, Team captains Tracey MacLeod and Andrew Collins are joined In this programme, John Wilson takes Lord Mandelson through who explains why we all hear mouths with our eyes. by Danny Kelly and Clare Grogan to be put through their the sound archive of his life from his earliest appearance in the Ventriloquist Nina Conti explains how she has learned to over- musical paces. 1970s up to the Labour's 2010 election defeat. We hear about rule the automatic functions of her mouth. A facial surgeon Reader: Beth Chalmers his role as a moderniser of the Labour Party, his work in gives us the tour of the inside of the mouth and a psychologist Written and researched by James Walton Government and his very public resignations. discusses humanity's earliest form of happy oral communication Producer: Dawn Ellis Producer: Emma Kingsley. - or language. The smile. But are smiles conscious or First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2006. SAT 09:00 Clowning Around on 4 Extra (b03xcl02) unconscious? The psychologist and the lipreader also explain SAT 04:30 Boogie Up the River (b007jv6z) Tony Lidington traces the role of the clown in British humour, what distinguishes English mouths. And it's not the stiff upper Sonning, I'll Definitely Meet You in Sonning from the Great Grimaldi through stars of circus, pantomime lip. Mark and his manic mutt are rowing up the Thames, but will and pierrots, to modern entertainers and even activists. The programme gives us key information about the Jennifer ever come on board? Stars Timothy Spall. From Drawing on his own performances, BBC archive and development of language. The human mouth's structure is December 1992. contemporary experts, Tony traces the clown's evolution from unique among primates. If chimpanzee or neanderthal mouths SAT 05:00 Rent (b063rvm6) Shakespeare's plays, whose rustic clowns and court fools could had developed the same physical structure, would they be able Series 4 speak uncomfortable truths to those in power. He recreates the to speak? The answer comes with the help of a monkey, Episode 2 role of "the Great Grimaldi", whose panto clown became the interviewed by Stephen in the studio. He just happened to come Paul and Ruby are busy house hunting. Meanwhile Maria and most popular entertainment of Regency London and defined the along with Nina Conti. Richard are in the money - what will they do with it all? clown's image for generations to come. Light is also cast on the We also learn of a design fault unique to human mouths. The Lucy Flannery's award-winning sitcom about Maria and popular 19th century travelling circuses, the enormous appeal of benefit of the power of speech has a potentially fatal downside. Richard Reynolds and their lodgers. pantos and harlequinades and the successful careers - and often Producer: Nick Baker Maria …. Barbara Flynn tragically short lives - of entertainers like Dan Leno, once A Testbed Production for BBC Radio 4. Richard …. Patrick Barlow hailed as "the funniest man in the world". SAT 01:00 John Mortimer Presents: The Trials of Marshall Ruby …. Vivienne Rochester The days of organized leisure time for working people and the Hall (b007k2zd) Paul …. Dave Lamb growth of the middle class produced new diversions and the era The Case of the Green Bicycle With Sarah Parkinson of mass entertainment. White-clad Pierrot troupes entertained True stories of crime and trial in a bygone age, starring Tom Producer: Liz Anstee. visitors at seaside resorts and troops abroad as Britain Baker as Britain's celebrated barrister, Sir Edward Marshall First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998. descended into two World Wars. The tradition of physical Hall. SAT 05:30 Wordaholics (b01c7lk6) theatre and anarchic comedy clowning continued in the latter Did Ronald Light shoot a woman cyclist dead? Sir Edward sets Series 1 half of the 20th century, with The Goon Show and characters out to prove his innocence. Episode 1 like Professor Wallofski, created by Max Wall. Introduced by Rumpole of the Bailey's creator John Mortimer. Wordaholics is the comedy panel game all about words. Tony also explores the role of the clown today, still active in With Jonathan Tafler and David Alistair. Gyles Brandreth presides as Stephen Fry, Natalie Haynes, circus and panto and even in political demonstrations. Dramatised by Michael Butt. Milton Jones and Lloyd Langford vie for supremacy in the ring. Made for Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions. Director Michael Fox Wordaholics is clever, intelligent, witty and unexpected. There SAT 12:00 Round the Horne (b007jrlz) A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 2 from 1996. are toponyms, abbreviations, euphemisms, old words, new Series 2 SAT 01:30 A Thor in One's Side (b00772pf) words, cockney rhyming slang, Greek gobbledegook, plus the Episode 5 In 1947, a crew of intrepid and hard-bitten Norwegians first set panellists' picks of the ugliest and the most beautiful words. Master Spy Kenneth Horne's on the case of a remote-control out on what was, on the face of it, a pretty flimsy premise - that Find out the meaning of words like giff-gaff, knock-knobbler guided nuclear banana - and Kenneth Williams throws a fresh you could cross the mighty Pacific Ocean from Peru to and buckfitches - the difference between French marbles, tantrum over the show's script. Polynesia with nothing more solid than a balsa wood raft. French velvet and the French ache - hear the glorious poetry of With Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. That raft, the Kon-Tiki, and the exploits of those Norwegians, the English language, as practiced from writers varying from Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, led by the visionary Thor Heyerdahl, were to become world William Shakespeare to Vanilla Ice - and spend half an hour London.