Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 July 2021 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 17 JULY 2021 Narrator ...... James Fleet First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013. Beryl Bainbridge ...... Samantha Bond SAT 04:30 To the Manor Born (b007k4vh) SAT 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrdj) Author: Brendan King Sons of the Fathers The World in Peril Abridger: Pete Nichols Clearing out the cellar - Audrey finds more than she'd Episode 5 Producer: Karen Rose bargained for. Jet and Lemmy monitor strange calls coming in on the ship-to- A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Starring Penelope Keith and Keith Barron. ship intercom. September 2016. Lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her Completing the sci-fi trilogy of the adventures of Captain Jet SAT 02:15 Shardlake (b09l2299) beloved Grantleigh Estate, has decamped to the tiny Old Lodge Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy. Heartstone cottage with her butler in tow. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Episode 10 From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp Concluding Colin MacDonald's dramatisation of the Tudor eye on new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere. Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter mystery novel by C.J. Sansom. Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his BBC TV script. Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass Matthew Shardlake is on board the Mary Rose when the Audrey fforbes-Hamilton …. Penelope Keith Various …. Alan Tilvern warship is sunk in battle with the loss of more than four Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs hundred lives. Among the handful of survivors, Shardlake Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher Music composed by Van Phillips reports back to Queen Catherine with the results of his Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger Written and produced by Charles Chilton. investigations into the Curteys children and the family of Sir Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1955. Nicholas Hobbey. And he pays a final visit to Ellen Fettiplace Frank Middlemass ..... Ned SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00vrxk3) in the Bedlam. First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever On the Road Matthew Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. "The facts are that four out of five male children start life Hugh Curteys ..... Will Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence. predisposed in favour of adventure," wrote Peter Fleming in Howard George Leacon ..... Finn den Hertog Producer: Jane Berthoud 1933. "They do it because they want to. It suits them. It is their Queen Catherine ..... Emily Wachter First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1997. cup of tea." Sir Richard Rich .... Nicholas Murchie SAT 05:00 Guilt Trip (b07m7833) In this travel themed edition, Dominic Arkwright asks domestic Ellen Fettiplace ..... Kath Weare Episode 2 obsessive Lucy Mangan and Johnny Green, the former road Sailor 1 ..... Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong It's day six of the walk and Ros is concerned that they aren't manager of the Clash, whether this is really the case. Sailor 2 ..... Philip Bretherton doing enough to revive the bond between them, while Laura is Writer Justin Marozzi weighs in with a compelling account of a Other parts played by members of the cast. worried that she doesn't have a passion and focus in her life. mercury drinker he met in Uzbekistan, while debate centres on Writer ..... C. J. Sansom Will they both find what they are looking for? whether the nomadic urge is innate. Dramatist ..... Colin MacDonald Comedy drama written by Katherine Jakeways with Felicity Producer: Miles Warde Director ..... David Jackson Young Montagu and Olivia Nixon. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. A mother and daughter are undertaking a two week sponsored SAT 01:00 Find The Lady (m000dz0w) SAT 02:30 Essex, My Essex (b03w38q3) walk along The Thames Path to raise money for the dead 2. In Which Andrew Marsh Loses a Car Essex born and bred, writer Ian Sansom goes back to the county father's charity. Andrew Marsh is reeling from the shock news about his friend which made him who he is. But the mother and father divorced nine years ago and he'd re- Roger. Ian's grandparents moved there from east-end London to fulfil married, so relationships between them all have been strained. With growing police suspicions over his role in the loss of his their dreams. For them, Essex was a promised land of milk and Things come to a head at any mention of the French Oak gable cheque book, Andrew decides to start his own fraud honey, of golden harvests and Harvester restaurants. table that Ros and her now dead ex bought together in Camden. investigation Ian left 30 years ago and hasn't really been back since. This has somehow ended up in the stepmother's house, much to Starring Noel Johnson. But a lot can happen in 3 decades and in that time just about Ros's annoyance: "I mean she sits at it! It's my table and she sits Thriller serial by David Ellis. everything has happened to Essex. When Ian left there was no at it." Andrew Marsh …. Noel Johnson Essex man, no jokes about Essex girls, no Birds of a Feather, no Ros ...... Felicity Montagu Joyce Marsh …. Madi Hedd Gavin and Stacey, and The Only Way is Essex was a mere glint Laura ...... Olivia Nixon Detective Sergeant Rankin …. Henry Stamper in the average commuter's eye. Stepmother ...... Katherine Jakeways Constable …. Peter Baldwin Now, with the London-overspill county occupying a new space Boyfriend ...... Tim Key Harry Yates …. Leonard Fenton in the public imagination, Ian retraces the steps back to his past. With Javone Prince, Evie Killip and Amelia Lowdell. Salesman …. Rolf Lefebvre Talking to people who've stayed there, meeting family and Producer: Jane Berthoud Constable …. Peter Baldwin friends, going back to landmarks that meant something to him A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first Margaret Everard …. Eva Haddon in his younger days, Ian finds out what's changed. broadcast in July 2016. Producer: Betty Davies. Between the low-rise housing and out-of-town retail parks, he SAT 05:30 Taboo (m000xskv) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1969. finds an anarchist community which uses the county as a place Kate Copstick and special guests Desiree Birch, Scott Capurro, SAT 01:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002cvc) to reimagine life's possibilities. Tanyalee Davies, Jordan Gray, Roger Mahony, Tim Renkow The Mystery of the Blue Train Plus a secret nuclear bunker from which a post-apocalyptic and Kate Smurthwaite tackle the tricky subject of taboo in 5. A Dancer's Revenge Essex generation would emerge and a retired vice Lord comedy, exploring what's wrong with woke, who can say what After Ruth Kettering was found murdered on the Blue Train Lieutenant who hopes limericks can change perception of Essex to whom, where and when, and asking why can't we all just with her priceless rubies stolen, both her husband Derek and girls. lighten up and laugh. Unless you object to the use of the word former lover are suspects. This is it. This is his Essex. lighten... which is not meant in any sense of lighter being So when Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot discovers the latter Producer: Conor Garrett better... has recently acquired a set of rubies, the case would seem to be First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2014. Written and Presented by Kate Copstick cut and dried. SAT 03:00 Inspector Chen (b08dmgjw) With Special Guests: Desiree Burch, Scott Capurro, Tanyalee Or is it..? Series 2 Davis, Jordan Gray, Roger Mahony, Tim Renkow and Kate Starring Maurice Denham. 3. The Mao Case Smurthwaite Agatha Christie's thriller based on a short story, The Plymouth It's a dangerous and politically sensitive case for Inspector Chen Studio Engineer and Editor: Gerry O'Riordan Express. when he's asked to investigate the sudden change of fortune of Produced by Gordon Kennedy Hercule Poirot …. Maurice Denham the granddaughter of Chairman Mao's mistress. Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios Katherine Grey …. Janet Maw Starring Jamie Zubairi. An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 Rufus Van Aldin …. Robert Beatty Qiu Xiaolong's mysteries featuring the academic turned Special SAT 06:00 JCW Brook - Jonas (b083gwvc) Derek Ketterin …. Anthony Smee Case Squad detective set in 1990s Shanghai. Married friends Max and Julie, and Hugo and Pat enjoy cordial Major Knighton …. Michael Deacon Inspector Chen ...... Jamie Zubairi bridge nights. Mirelle …. Judy Buxton Party Secretary Li ...... Daniel York One evening, after deciding to try out a Ouija board that Max Monsieur Carrege …. Gordon Reid Mr Xie ...... David Yip found in a junk shop, they become embroiled in a spiritual Le Comte de la Roche …. Nigel Graham Jiao ...... Alice Hewkin mystery. Mason …. Pauline Letts Old Hunter ...... David Hounslow Is the board cursed..? Zia …. Jane Leonard Lieutenant Song ...... Chike Chan A spirit world mystery written by JCW Brook. Papopoulos …. Ronald Herdman Long ...... Paul Chan Max Brown …. Julian Holloway George …. Edward de Souza Yong ...... Keziah Joseph Julie Brown …. Anna Cropper Waiter …. Jamie Roberts Peng ...... David Sterne Hugo Stevens …. John Rye Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. Gu ...... John Dougall Pat Stevens …. Prunella Scales Director: David Johnston. Hua ...... John Bowler Waitress …. Carole Boyd First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1985. Ling ...... Natasha Cowley Mohammet Asif …. David March SAT 02:00 Beryl Bainbridge: Love By All Sorts Of Means Maid ...... Catriona McFarlane Other parts played by the cast. (b07tc375) Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson Producer: Ian Cotterell 5. Accidental Meeting Sparks Success Director: David Hunter. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1975. A biography of the novelist who denied that she ever wrote First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b088fg46) fiction, maintaining that her books were based on her SAT 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b036v9hd) Series 41 experiences. "What is more peculiar, more riveting, devious and Series 2 Len Goodman on Lionel Bart horrific than real life?" she said. Episode 2 Len Goodman's great life was one of the biggest figures in But while her own life was the primary source for her books, Frank Skinner, Grace Dent and Jonathan Agnew each nominate creating British musicals and pop music in the 1960's. she was never afraid of adding a little colour. someone they know well to answer a series of questions and The writer and lyricist behind the hit musical Oliver, knew The author Brendan King is a freelance translator, editor and they than have to second guess how they answered. everybody who was anybody, made a fortune and partied with reviewer, with a special interest in late nineteenth century Host Miles Jupp tests Frank on how well he knows his friend Royalty. But like many who flourished in that era he also lost French literature. He completed his PhD on Joris-Karl and radio co-host Emily Dean, Grace her best friend, the Times everything in a blitz of booze, drugs and bad behaviour. Huysmans' life and work at Birkbeck College, London, in 2004. columnist Caitlin Moran, and Jonathan his wife's best friend Len Goodman makes a case for why he regards Bart as a Between 1987 and 2010, King worked for Beryl Bainbridge, Anne Davies. genius. and helped prepare a number of the novels she wrote during this What is Frank's favourite drink? Who is Grace's favourite With Matthew Parris. period for publication, including the book she was working on writer? And what would Jonathan do if he wasn't a cricket Helping Len him to unravel the story of his hero the expert at the time of her death, The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress, which commentator? witness is broadcaster David Stafford who has co-written a was published posthumously. All answers and more will be revealed. biography on Lionel Bart named after Bart's second most Readers: Producer: Sam Michell. famous musical: Fings Aint Wot They Used T'Be . Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 July 2021 Page 2 of 11 Producer: Perminder Khatkar. Adapted by Michael Barfield with Richard Ingrams. time. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 January 2017. Announcer: Brian Perkins The painting 'Olympia' was first shown in Paris in 1865. The SAT 08:00 The Motion Show (b00762kw) Producer: Harry Thompson reclining nude made a lot of people very angry at the time. Series 4 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1991. Hannah explains what makes 'Olympia' a cornerstone of Episode 3 SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b07tqbw0) modern art and what brings her personally back to this painting Debates galore from returning to nature - to joining Big Period Drama Politics again and again. Brother. Steven Fielding, Professor of Political History at Nottingham She is assisted by her very own 'Quotebot' who has been Graeme Garden chairs the quirky battle of words and wit. University, asks whether the portrayal of class relations in inputted with every quote that's ever been written about art. It With Marcus Brigstocke, Steve Punt, Stuart Maconie and Jenny period dramas - Downton Abbey, Upstairs Downstairs and Noël sounds remarkably like comedy legend and all-round boffin, Eclair. Coward's play Cavalcade - had any political effect. John Lloyd. Producer: Helen Williams Steven sees striking parallels between the dramas; all three are Written by Hannah Gadsby. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2001. set in the early decades of the twentieth century in wealthy Script edited by Jon Hunter SAT 08:30 Smelling of Roses (m000xtcr) households with servants; all three portray the relationship of Producer: Claire Jones Series 2 the upper classes with their servants as essentially benevolent; First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2015. Romance Is Dead all three appeared at times of national crisis (the 1930s, the SAT 15:45 Jelly Mountain (b00fd63q) Rosie's event management company arranges activities for the 1970s and after the 2008 financial crash); and a Conservative Episode 1 partners of conference. delegates for a major finance company. government was voted in after each one. Ivor Cutler's unique views on language, justice - and scratching Meanwhile Kate thinks this is her ticket back to a high-flying Steven investigates whether there is a pattern here. Are these people's backs. job.... dramas just comforting entertainment or could they have had a With Craig Murray-Orr, Dylan Edwards, Beverley Crew and Prunella Scales stars in the second of four series of Simon subtle effect on voting habits? And how accurate is the Alison O'Kill. Brett's sitcom following the trials and tribulations of Rosie portrayal of relations between the ruling classes and their Producer: Neil Cargill Burns and her event-management company based in Brighton. servants? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1996. With Arabella Weir as Kate, Rebecca Callard as Jo, Duncan Featuring a specially recorded interview with Downton creator SAT 16:00 JCW Brook - Jonas (b083gwvc) Preston as Bob, Annette Badland as Tess, Debbie Norman as Julian Fellowes, and an archive interview with the Script Editor [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Sheila Wilkinson and Alan Cowan as Philip Wilkinson. of Upstairs Downstairs, Alfred Shaughnessy, that hasn't been SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b088fg46) Producer: Maria Esposito broadcast before. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2001. With archive material from Noël Coward, Sheridan Morley, SAT 18:00 Andrew Dallmeyer - Potted History (m000xyws) SAT 09:00 Growing Pains (b09b23xz) Jean Marsh, Eileen Atkins, and Sir John Gielgud, and Eccentric Ruben Chomsky has invented an incredible device to Grace Dent slams the door and locks herself in her teenage contributions from Coward's biographer Philip Hoare, Upstairs listen to sounds captured on ancient pottery when it was first bedroom. Downstairs expert Richard Marson, and Selina Todd, Professor thrown on the wheel. Where better to rifle through the BBC Radio archives to of Modern British History at Oxford University. Now he needs the help of someone to ‘acquire’ some from his celebrate the awkward, emotional, and unfortunately inevitable First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2016. local museum... adolescent experience? SAT 14:00 Revolting People (b0089mbr) Written by Andrew Dallmeyer. Grace reminisces about the daily heartbreak and arguments of Series 3 Anna Hewison .... Irene MacDougall her own teenage years growing up in 1970s Carlisle. Young Love Ruben Chomsky ....Tom Watson She investigates what it was really like for the teenage boys she Captain Brimshaw receives fresh orders from his father - to Patrick Selby-Wright .... Crawford Logan thought had it so easy. BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Nihal return to England and marry his cousin... ‘Alice’ .... Michael Perceval-Maxwell Arthanayake paints a portrait of his own formative years. Sitcom set just before the American War of Independence. Mr Butterfield .... John Buick Young Adult author Steven Camden goes back to the park to Written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses. With Eliza Langland, John Ramage and Ann-Louise Ross as the conjure up memories of adolescent boredom and longing. McGurk …. Andy Hamilton voices on the pottery. We visit Ambridge over the decades to see how teenagers have Samuel …. Jay Tarses Directed in Edinburgh by Finlay Welsh. been portrayed in The Archers on BBC Radio 4. Captain Brimshaw …. James Fleet First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1996. And Grace persuades some real life teenagers to explain their Mary …. Jan Ravens SAT 19:00 Growing Pains (b09b23xz) lives, lingo and of course mobile phones to her. Joshua …. Tony Maudsley [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Along the way - with a few teenage stroppy tantrums - Grace Lord Brimshaw …. Hugh Dennis SAT 22:00 Rigor Mortis (b007qhq4) dips into archives: Emily …. Penelope Nice Series 2 * Too Old To Rock and Roll, Too Young To Die Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Episode 3 Documentary made by Sara Conkey in 1995, featuring the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004. Pathologist Ruth's fibs over her career and love-life backfire reminiscences of people who were teenagers during the Blitz SAT 14:30 Bunk Bed (b092g8gg) when her mum arrives. (Clips from 'Casablanca' and 'Gone With The Wind' Courtesy Series 4 Starring Peter Davison. of Turner International) Episode 2 Laurence Howarth's black comedy set in the world of the * I Capture The Castle Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not pathology lab. Part 1 of Jane Rodgers adaptation of Dodie Smith's classic applied to any particular task - the nearest faraway place which Anthony Webster …. Peter Davison novel, starring Holliday Grainger as Cassandra Mortmain allows us to drift. The state between wakefulness and deep Ruth Anderson …. Matilda Ziegler * My Teenage Diary slumber where strange thoughts can be followed like balloons Ruth’s Mother, Moira …. Paula Wilcox Richard Herring opens up his teenage diary for Rufus Hound floating through the air. Professor Donaldson …. Geoffrey Whitehead * Summer with Monika Late at night, in the dark and in a bunk bed, your tired mind can Graham …. Tom Price Dramatisation of Roger McGough's iconic poem about young wander through unchartered territory. Chloe …. Marianne Levy love in the 1960's. Starring Mark McGann and Katy This is the chat show with a difference. Police Constable …. Gus Brown Carmichael. Written by and starring unlikely bedfellows, Patrick Marber and Norman Pace …. Lewis Aaltonen Producer: Jessica Treen Peter Curran. Music by Paul Mottram and Stephanie Benavente. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in October Award-winning actor and director Kathy Burke shares her Producer: Dawn Ellis 2017. memories of reading saucy novels aloud for an audience of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004. SAT 12:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b080xj88) fellow teenagers in the 1970s. SAT 22:30 Chain Reaction (b052jk2z) An Encounter with Mr Newton Curran and Marber fight over concepts of male sensitivity, only Series 10 Lucy Porter's sitcom set in pre-enlightenment Edinburgh. to be severely admonished by Kathy, and they discuss how the Adam Buxton talks to Reece Shearsmith Intellectual giant Isaac Newton is in town and he's struggling words of The Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen now mock them Adam Buxton - comedian, actor, technophile and one half of with a new theory to explain why things keep falling on his in middle-age. 'Adam and Joe', Adam Buxton head. Producer: Peter Curran talks to He encounters the members of the Fair Intellectual club - a A Foghorn production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Reece Shearsmith - co-creator and star of The League of secret society for the scholarly improvement of young ladies. August 2017. Gentlemen, Psychoville and Inside No. 9, With the help of carefree socialite Ishbel, devout clergyman's SAT 15:00 Party (b01mqq72) Chain Reaction is the long running hostless chat show where the daughter Marjory and maths boffin Alison, the penny finally Series 3 interviewee becomes this next interviewer. drops. The Curry Producer: Charlie Perkins Mr Newton also has to contend with Alison's idiot brother Return of the satirical comedy about a group of young idealists First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015. Robert, Ishbel's ancient retainer Kennedy and a rented trying to make waves with their new political party. SAT 23:00 The Skivers (b007jq44) pineapple. The group reconvene after their Summer break and the Series 1 Isaac Newton ...... Gavin Mitchell ambition steps up a gear. Britt Ekland Ishbel ...... Caroline Deyga Written by Tom Basden. New age DIY, the wonders of Sweden and Sinatra sings punk. Marjory ...... Samara MacLaren Simon .... Tom Basden Nick Golson and Tim de Jongh's skilful sketch show with Alison ...... Jessica Hardwick Duncan .... Tim Key special guest Britt Ekland who's not in the mood for romance. Robert ...... Simon Donaldson Jared .... Jonny Sweet Written and performed by Nick Golson and Tim de Jongh. Kennedy ...... Gordon Kennedy Mel .... Anna Crilly With Peter Bradshaw and Mel Giedroyc Music by Aly Macrae. Phoebe .... Katy Wix Producer: Jon Naismith Director: Marilyn Imrie Producer .... Julia McKenzie. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1994. Producer: Gordon Kennedy First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012. SAT 23:30 The Mark Steel Lecture (b007md98) An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in SAT 15:30 Hannah Gadsby: Arts Clown (b05419l4) Series 2 November 2016. 1. Edouard Manet's Olympia Che Guevara SAT 12:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b007jv6b) Art historian Hannah Gadsby kicks off her comedy lectures A profile of the revolutionary leader who became a left-wing Series 2 about four masterpieces, with Edouard Manet's masterpiece hero, despite chronic asthma. Episode 1 'Olympia'. Mark Steel lectures humourously about historical figures that The further adventures of Mr Justice Cocklecarrot, Captain She shares her first encounter with the art work as well as have shaped their era. Foulenough, Dr Strabismus (whom God preserve) of Utrecht looking at what critics had to say about it at the time it was With: and Big White Carstairs. created. Martin Hyder Richard Ingrams, John Wells, John Sessions and Patricia Born in Tasmania, Hannah's first encounters with art was via Carla Mendonca Routledge recreate the world of the JB Morton. books. These taught her the language of art appreciation, but Producer: Lucy Armitage Running in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975 – JB Morton’s also legitimised her desire to look at 'boobs'. This was just as First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2001. surreally comic ‘Beachcomber’ column paved the way for a well as Hannah realised in her teens that she was 'a little bit great deal of modern humour. lesbian' but homosexuality was still illegal in Tasmania at that Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 July 2021 Page 3 of 11 SUNDAY 18 JULY 2021 Arthur Haynes stars in the sketch show series written by Johnny two editions of Time for Verse - featuring Charles Causley and Speight. William Whitehead. Plus Three Score and Ten with Iain SUN 00:00 Andrew Dallmeyer - Potted History (m000xyws) With Crichton Smith. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Nicholas Parsons Time For Verse: Charles Causley 2/5 SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b07tqbw0) Leslie Noyes The second of five programmes in which George MacBeth [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Dorothy Dampier interviews Charles Causley about his life and poetry. SUN 02:00 Revolting People (b0089mbr) Graham Stark Featuring Poems – “Timothy Winters”; “School At Four [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] Music by The Hedley Ward Trio. O’Clock”; “I Saw A Jolly Hunter”; “Ou Phrontis”. SUN 02:30 Bunk Bed (b092g8gg) Producer: Richard Dingley Reader - Michael Deacon [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1963. Produced by Alec Reid SUN 03:00 Party (b01mqq72) SUN 09:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b00zf4tk) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1988. [Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday] Series 1 Time For Verse: Poets Laureate - William Whitehead SUN 03:30 Hannah Gadsby: Arts Clown (b05419l4) Educating Robert (1715-85) [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] Sue manages to get actor Robert some work instructing drama From a series about some famous and some forgotten holders of SUN 03:45 Jelly Mountain (b00fd63q) at her school. the office. [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Saturday] Is he a natural teacher or a natural disaster? Compiled and presented by Sean Street SUN 04:00 JCW Brook - Jonas (b083gwvc) John Gordon Sinclair stars in Paul Mayhew-Archer's sitcom. Readers - Martin Jarvis, Adrian Cairns and David Goodland [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] Robert Wilson ..... John Gordon Sinclair Producer - Margaret Bradley SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b088fg46) Sue ..... Caroline Quentin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] With: Three Score And Ten: Iain Crichton Smith SUN 06:00 Beryl Bainbridge: Love By All Sorts Of Means John Clive Ian McMillan introduces archive recordings of Iain Crichton (Omnibus) (m000xz8g) Jennifer Piercey Smith reading three of his poems from Poetry Now, October A biography of novelist Beryl Bainbridge who denied that she Jo Kendall 1976 [Producer - Stewart Conn] and September 1981 [Producer ever wrote fiction. Richard Tate - Fraser Steel]. She maintained that her books were based on her experiences. Joan Walker Three Score And Ten producer - Sharon Sephton “What is more peculiar, more riveting, devious and horrific David Learner First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2016 than real life?" she said. Ian Targett SUN 12:30 Start/Stop (b07nrzjd) But while her own life was the primary source for her books, Melinda Walker Series 3 she was never afraid of adding a little colour. Richard Pearce Cathy's Dad Starting with her early years at Formby. Producer: Paul Spencer Sitcom by Jack Docherty about three marriages in various states Omnibus of five parts abridged by Pete Nichols. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1989. of disrepair. Narrator ...... James Fleet SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b04v2lv7) Barney and Cathy have been married for ages and it shows, Beryl Bainbridge ...... Samantha Bond Comic Castaways 3 Evan and Fiona’s marriage is one big, noisy argument and David Author Brendan King worked for Beryl Bainbridge between Sarah Millican is old enough to be Alice’s father. 1987 and 2010. From Paul McCartney to Wham! Start/Stop follows the story of these three couples as they try to He helped prepare a number of the novels she wrote during this Comedian Sarah Millican shares her castaway choices with make the best of their marriages and friendships, and the period for publication, including the book she was working on Kirsty Young. characters are able to stop the action, explain themselves to the at the time of her death, The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress, which Her every woman yet no-holds-barred style of comedy has audience and start it all up again. was published posthumously. brought her sell-out tours and several of her own highly This week: 'Cathy's Dad'. Producer: Karen Rose successful TV series. Revelling in normality and drawing on the Cathy's Dad is in a nursing home but Cathy wants him to come A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in difficult, intimate and ofter extruciating moments of being and live with them, especially since he's just developed a September 2016. human, she dares to say what most of us are thinking, only she's condition where the wrong words come out all the time. Barney SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b05zlmfv) much funnier. is not keen but then realises he can use looking after Cathy's Iain Banks A Geordie, born in South Shields, her dad was an engineer Dad to make him seem more caring and, as it turns out, more Novelist Iain Banks inherits the folk song Shenandoah, sung by down the mines and her mum was a hairdresser. They attractive to Alice. Paul Robeson, and passes on For A Dancer by Jackson Browne. encouraged their daughter in her storytelling and performing Meanwhile David gives his daughter a big role in the school SUN 07:20 Shardlake (Omnibus) (b09m5vdx) even though her childhood shyness meant she'd recite her play. And Evan finds there are some pluses to Fiona losing her Heartstone poetry from behind the living room curtains. voice after a throat operation. Episode 2 Later it was pain that first propelled her onto the stage when a But will Cathy's Dad ever be able to tell Barney what he thinks Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack broken early marriage provided the catalyst she needed to find of him? Barak journey to Portsmouth with Sir Nicholas Hobbey and his the courage to confront the glaring judgement of the audience's Cathy's Dad...John Sparkes young ward, Hugh Curteys. gaze. Her rise was then rapid. Within four years she was Barney...Jack Docherty Preparations for a naval battle with the French are gathering awarded the Best Newcomer prize at the Edinburgh Fringe. Cathy...Kerry Godliman pace, and Hugh – anxious to enlist in spite of Sir Nicholas’s She says, "People come along and think, 'oh she's being too Evan...John Thomson strong objections – demonstrates his archery skills to Captain rude'. They don't realise I'm just like this at home. People think Fiona...Fiona Allen Leacon. Meanwhile Shardlake has an unexpected and typically I'm prim and proper at home but I'm not - I'm just me David...Charlie Higson unpleasant encounter with his old enemy Sir Richard Rich. transplanted onto the stage". Alice...Laura Aikman Colin MacDonald’s dramatisation of the Tudor mystery novel First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 December 2014. Written by: Jack Docherty by CJ Sansom. SUN 10:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000xz8j) Producer: Claire Jones Omnibus of the last five of ten parts. New Normal A BBC Studios Production first heard on BBC Radio 4 in Matthew Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger Following the loss of his hearing, Ewan channelled his energy August 2016. Jack Barak ..... Bryan Dick into his passion for tennis; playing the game at the top level, SUN 13:00 Days Without End by Sebastian Barry Nicholas Hobbey ..... David Seddon representing Team GB in deaf tennis. Until another change in (Omnibus) (b0824r0d) High Curteys ..... Will his hearing forced him to step away. Episode 1 Howard Dyrick ..... Philip Bretherton This story first appeared on the BBC podcast, Multi Story - A novel by the Irish author and Man Booker Prize finalist, George Leacon ..... Finn den Hertog presented and produced by Becca Bryers, and featuring BBC Sebastian Barry. Priddis ..... Clive Hayward Radio Wiltshire's Sue Kinnear. Thomas McNulty recounts how he, having fled Ireland when Sir Richard Rich ..... Nicholas Murchie SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m000xz8l) orphaned during the Great Famine, made his way across Phillip West ..... Chris Pavlo The Rest is History America as part of the U.S. Cavalry. With his long-time friend Other parts played by members of the cast. True stories told live in the USA: Meg Bowles introduces and companion John Cole, Thomas witnesses the birth of Director: David Jackson Young stories of history, disaster and incredible survival. America - from the atrocities committed against the Native First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. In this hour, an ancient instrument, a life-changing disaster, and Americans to the horrors of the Civil War - and, ultimately, SUN 08:30 A Life of Bliss (m0001dd0) survival in the face of genocide. People who experienced finds his own family and identity. A Woman Scorned history, and its artifacts, firsthand. Reader Stanley Townsend Phil asks David to help him with his ex-girlfriend, who is The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated Abridger Neville Teller stymying his love-life. to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since Producer Gemma McMullan George Cole stars in Godfrey Harrison's sitcom about bashful, 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016 bumbling bachelor David Alexander Bliss. novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06y0mqj) David Bliss …. George Cole yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George Tessa Peake-Jones Anne Fellows …. Diana Churchill Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in Actress Tessa Peake-Jones chooses 'She Loves You' by The Tony Fellows …. Colin Gordon Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the Beatles, and 'Every Breath You Take' by The Police. Phil Bender …. Donald Sinden screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, SUN 14:20 The Professor by Charlotte Bronte (Omnibus) Zoe Hunter …. Sheila Sweet The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at (b00m9jbj) ‘Psyche’ the Dog …. Percy Edwards theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the Episode 2 Estelle Livingstone …. Maxine Audley USA, the UK and other parts of the world. William becomes intrigued by the shy and gentle Frances, but Wanda Goddard …. Virginia Winter The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and someone is watching him from the shadows. Six series of 118 episodes of A Life of Bliss ran on the BBC without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The The least-known of Charlotte Bronte's novels: a subtle, Home Service from 1953. It moved to BBC TV for a run of six Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. ambiguous and unsettling love story. episodes in 1969. Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes dramatised by Rachel Sadly very few episodes survive in the BBC archive, including humorous to the heart-breaking. Joyce. the first seven starring David Tomlinson. His replacement The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic Starring Paul Venables as William Crimsworth, Roger May as George Cole went to to star in the St Trinian's films and later as Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed Pelet, Niamh Cusack as Zoraide Reuter, Claire Price as dodgy Arthur Daley in ITV's Minde by the Public Radio Exchange. Frances, Penelope Rawlins as Sylvie, Shaun Dooley as Hunsden Producer: Leslie Bridgmont First broadcast in the USA in 2019. and and Jack Joseph Miller as the Boy First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1959. SUN 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (b05zlmfv) Director: Tracey Neale SUN 09:00 The Arthur Haynes Show (m0009cn2) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. From 11/08/1963 SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m000xz8n) SUN 15:30 Don't Go in the Water! (b04f9fs8) Arthur has a run in with his neighbour before attempting a spot Charles Causley, William Whitehead and Iain Crichton Smith Jaws made the scientist Dr Gareth Fraser what he is today - a of clairvoyance. Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects lecturer in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, and shark jaw Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 July 2021 Page 4 of 11 specialist, at the University of Sheffield's Department of Robert has been given by the King of Agrabah as reward for Carol Ransome …. Jenny McCracken Animal and Plant Sciences. saving the life of his eldest son? It’s Friday evening and the Bill Rodney …. Wilfrid Carter This is his exploration of Jaws - the fiction of the rogue shark banks are closed. There’s only one thing for it, they must find a Producer: Betty Davies. that enthralled Gareth when he was a boy in South Wales, secret hiding place somewhere in their house. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1969. looking out on the dark silt of the Bristol channel, wondering Cast: MON 06:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002hdp) what lay beneath. Storyteller……..Charles Dance The Mystery of the Blue Train Even the eminent Professor David Sims (of the Marine Robert Sandy…..Simon Williams 6. The Mask of The Marquis Biological Association and University of Southampton) admits Betty Sandy…….Emma Fielding 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned' is an adage that Derek to looking out for the fins of Great Whites when he's out Prince…………..Sope Dirisu Kettering isn't likely to forget since his snubbed mistress, the tagging toothless basking sharks in Devon and Cornwall. Inspector……….Chris Stanton tempestuous Mirelle, has denounced him to the police as his Can the story really still have such power over our psyches? Written by Roald Dahl wife's murderer! Jaws was written by Peter Benchley in 1974, and turned into the Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan But somehow Hercule Poirot just can't get that mysterious first summer cinema blockbuster, by Stephen Spielberg, a year Director: David Blount figure 'the Marquis' out of his mind. later. A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 Conclusion of Agatha Christie's thriller dramatised in six parts It may have inspired Gareth to swim with sharks - despite his SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m000xz8l) by Michael Bakewell. father's fisherman's tales of sea monsters - yet it petrified other [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] CAST: people out of the water for good. SUN 19:50 Inheritance Tracks (b05zlmfv) Hercule Poirot …. Maurice Denham Gareth asks what innate fears Jaws taps into - the fear of being [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] Katherine Grey …. Janet Maw eaten alive, like in Hansel and Gretel, or of the deep, dark SUN 20:00 Henry James (m000y1kd) Rufus Van Aldin …. Robert Beatty unknown of the sea. He asks how realistic Jaws' tale of a Great [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] Major Knighton …. Michael Deacon White killing machine really is and what impact it still has today SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b04v2lv7) Lenox …. Moir Leslie - both on sharks and on new generations of swimmers, either [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Zia …. Jane Leonard running from the water after flashbacks from the film or SUN 21:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000xz8j) Papopolous …. Ronald Herdman running into the waves determined to grow up to be another [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] Monsieur Carrege …. Gordon Reid Matt Hooper, the story's charismatic shark scientist. SUN 22:00 Start/Stop (b07nrzjd) Director: David Johnston. Producer: Frances Byrne [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1985. A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in SUN 22:30 The Mel and Sue Thing (b0076b72) MON 07:00 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b05zl1b6) August 2014. Episode 6 Series 1 SUN 16:00 Henry James (m000y1kd) Jane Austen will be reeling from beyond the grave, as we learn Other People The Aspern Papers the true meaning of Sweet Fanny Adams in the final instalment Helen looks at the challenges posed by other people. Determined to succeed where his colleague failed, a literary of the Mel and Sue's dramatisation of her last, and lost, novella. What are the unspoken rules that make society work? How can editor insinuates himself into the decaying Venetian villa of the Plus a big musical number to finish off the series. What will the we make the internet polite? How did air-conditioners win an elderly Miss Juliana Bordereau and her niece Miss Tina. Old Biddies have to say about that? election? And are emoticons completely pointless (sad face)? He clearly wants something from Juliana. But what can it be? A More mayhem from Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. Helen Keen is joined by Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane for dark and intimate tale about deceit and obsession. With Paul Chahidi a comic account of the big problems that have beset humanity Henry James's novel dramatised by Amanda Dalton. Written by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. over the centuries, and the surprising ways we have devised to The Editor ...... Zubin Varla Producer: Elizabeth Freestone. solve them. Juliana ...... Sian Phillips First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2002. Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill. Tina ...... Julia Rounthwaite SUN 23:00 Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar Producer: Gareth Edwards Mrs Prest ...... Susan Twist (b083p88m) A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first Henry James ...... John Lynch Series 1 broadcast in June 2015. Director Gary Brown Careerism MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000xsvf) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2018. Alexei reveals the surprising reason he disappeared from our Series 75 SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000xz8n) TV screens in the 1990's, recounts a chance meeting with Ed Episode 5 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Miliband, discusses rampant nepotism in most coveted careers The godfather of all panel shows returns with a recording from SUN 17:30 Start/Stop (b07nrzjd) and draws a striking comparison between capitalism and all you the Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House with a 1000-strong [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] can eat buffets. remote audience drawn exclusively from the North of England. SUN 18:00 Val McDermid - Resistance (m000xz8q) The Godfather of Alternative Comedy delivers a mixture of Join panellists Andy Hamilton, Rachel Parris, Fred Macaulay Episode 2 stand-up, memoir and philosophy from behind the counter of and Lee Mack under the eagle auspices of the show’s reluctant Part 2. A mystery disease seems to be spreading and nobody's his Imaginary Sandwich Bar. chairman, Jack Dee. Colin Sell accompanies on the piano. quite sure how it's travelling. Is it in the air we breathe? Is it in Written and performed by Alexei Sayle. Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Studios production the water we drink ? Is it in the food we eat? Additional Material from Liam Beirne. MON 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn1s) Zoe is trying to get an interview with Aasmah about the Producer: Joe Nunnery Series 5 research that's being funded into the disease. But Aasmah's not A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Come Dancing talking, on orders from above. Politics has entered the game. November 2016 Albert sets out to help son Harold to conquer his fear of Barry Tomlinson is the chief of Public Health in England. He's SUN 23:30 Masala FM (b007zjm8) ballroom dancing. a desperately worried man. He persuades the minister that it's Episode 4 Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as time for a crisis meeting. Politicians hate the word 'crisis' unless The station's only attracting Z-list Asian celebrities, but then a Harold. With Clifford Norgate as the Milkman. they're well on the way to solving it, so the minister is top member of 'royalty' phones in... Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association determined not to make a big deal out of it. Six-part sitcom written by Meera Syal with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson Meanwhile, Josef Nowak is facing a nightmare at the pig farm. Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nitin Sawheny, Meera Syal and Nina wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. His animals are dying and nothing the vet can do is helping. Wadia. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring Zoe and Jamie talk about what they might do to avoid being Music by Nitin Sawhney. the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold caught up in the epidemic. His aunt has a smallholding in the Producer: Liz Anstee and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. Welsh mountains; they could load the car up with tins and dried First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1996. Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan food and hole up there till the worst has passed. Zoe is torn Simpson. between wanting to protect them and wanting to be a good Produced by Bobby Jaye journalist and get to the heart of what's going on ... MONDAY 19 JULY 2021 First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in June 1974. Zoe ...... Gina McKee MON 08:30 England, Their England by AG Macdonell Jamie ...... Jason Done MON 00:00 Val McDermid - Resistance (m000xz8q) (m000y01m) Sam ...... Nitin Kundra [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Episode 4 Lisa ...... Angela Lonsdale MON 00:45 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist (b07j699j) Leslie Phillips narrates AG Macdonell's classic comedy first Dr Aasmah ...... Chetna Pandya [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] published in 1933, adapted in six parts by Bob Sinfield. Cheryl ...... Emily Pithon MON 01:00 Days Without End by Sebastian Barry Young Donald Cameron retires injured from the Great War and Tomlinson ...... Conrad Nelson (Omnibus) (b0824r0d) finds himself with a commission - to write a book about the Health Minister/Nowak ...... Jonathan Keeble [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] English and their curious habits. Gilbert/Andreas ...... Malcolm Raeburn MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06y0mqj) Episdoe 4: Can Donald survive exploring England’s adopted Written by Val McDermid [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] game, the Scottish game of golf? And can he negotiate his way Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts MON 02:20 The Professor by Charlotte Bronte (Omnibus) around the world of international diplomacy? Programme consultant - Christopher Dowson Professor of (b00m9jbj) Donald Cameron .... Sam Graham Microbiology, University of Warwick and Trustee for [Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday] Sir Henry Wooton .... Christopher Benjamin Antibiotic Research UK MON 03:30 Don't Go in the Water! (b04f9fs8) Carteret-Pendragon .... Peter Kelly Developed through the Wellcome Trust Experimental stories [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday] Interpreter .... Katy Odey scheme. MON 04:00 Henry James (m000y1kd) Davies .... Shaun Prendergast First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Director: Neil Cargill SUN 18:45 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist (b07j699j) MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000xz8n) A Splice of Life production for BBC Radio 2 first broadcast in The Surgeon [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] October 1994. Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in MON 05:30 Start/Stop (b07nrzjd) MON 09:00 Act Your Age (b00zm0mc) dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre and [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] Series 3 amusing by turns, these dark comedies are justly famous for MON 06:00 Find The Lady (m000f0fx) Episode 1 their surprise endings, and for their rogues gallery of crooks, 3. In Which Andrew Marsh Loses a Lady Simon Mayo hosts the three-way battle between the comedy cheats and schemers. Suspected of both murder and cheque book fraud, Andrew generations to find out which is the funniest. The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a writer of Marsh’s own investigations leads him to the shady Excelsior Will it be the Up-and-Comers, the Current Crop or the Old adult fiction, combining black comedy with sly social satire. Club... Guard who will be crowned, for one week at least, as the They are stylishly plotted, vividly characterised and made Noel Johnson stars in a seven-part thriller serial by David Ellis. Golden Age of Comedy. unforgettable by their breezy cynicism, presenting a hilariously Andrew Marsh …. Noel Johnson Holly Walsh is joined by Henry Paker, Lucy Porter by Miles bleak view of human nature. Joyce Marsh …. Madi Hedd Jupp and Tom O'Connor teams up with Duggie Brown. In The Surgeon, Robert Sandy and his wife are faced with a Margaret Everard …. Eva Haddon Devised and Produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. dilemma - where should they conceal the priceless diamond Peter Lloyd …. Michael Deacon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 July 2021 Page 5 of 11 MON 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b0089jcr) the town. Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey Series 2 Set in the mid 1920s and based on A J Cronin's ground breaking Written by Nev Fountain & Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Episode 2 novel, which partly inspired Nye Bevan to create the NHS. Ed Amsden & Tom Coles, James Bugg, Simon Alcock, Edward JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, Manson …. Richard Fleeshman Tew, Jane McCutcheon & Vivienne Riddoch, Sophie Dickson, Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From July Denny …. Julian Lewis Jones Jeffrey Aidoo, Rajiv Karia & Tasha Dhanraj 1991. Blodwyn Page .… Sue Jenkins Producer: Bill Dare MON 10:00 Drama (b08njn47) Dr Page / Dr Griffiths …. Seamus O'Neill Production Coordinator: Sarah Sharpe The Rosenthals Jenkins / Mr Williams …. Simon Ludders A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4 Eskimo Day Mrs Williams / Woman .… Kath Weare MON 23:30 Hal (b08nk59c) 1996 and it's interview day at Cambridge University. As well as Old Thomas .... Simeon Truby Series 2 nerves, hopefuls Pippa from Cheltenham and Neil from By A J Cronin. Actors Blackburn must also endure the embarrassment of their parents' Dramatised by Christopher Reason The second series of the sitcom with Hal Cruttenden finds the company. But as the day progresses, it seems it's not the Director - Gary Brown hapless house husband still trying to cope with his mid-life children who are most in need of help... Producers Gary Brown and Pauline Harris crisis and doubting his every move. Written by Jack Rosenthal First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017. His wife Sam (Kerry Godliman) is still a highly successful Adapted for radio by Amy Rosenthal MON 14:30 Frequently Asked Questions (b00lszh8) business woman, his two daughters Lily and Molly continue to Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow Writer Ian Sansom examines the changing nature of the grow into teenagers and find their dad just a little annoying, his Playwright Amy Rosenthal's father, Jack, was a prolific and relationship, and contact, between authors and their readers. bitter and embittered sister Pippa (Abigail Cruttenden) has much-loved dramatist and this is the first of two linked comedy With contributions from Susan Hill, Hilary Mantel, Michael inconveniently decided to stay with Hal alongside her angry dramas he wrote in the 1990s ("Cold Enough for Snow" follows Rosen, Toby Lift, Joanna Prior, Linda Grant, Geoffrey Dyer, teenage son Oberon, racist neighbour Penny (Ronni Ancona) next Friday). Amy has adapted her father's dramas for radio and Monica Ali, Robert McCrum, Nikki Gerrard and Sean French proves to be a major thorn in Hal's side and best mates Fergus written a new drama, "Thin Ice", inspired by what happened Producer: Sara Davies (Ed Byrne) and Barry (Gavin Webster) hinder rather than help when she went to University. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. Hal's goal of finding himself. A stellar cast includes Ben Miles (Wolf Hall, The Crown), MON 15:00 Drama (b08njn47) In this final episode of the series, after a challenging few weeks, Pooky Quesnel (The A Word), Nicholas Gleaves (Scott & [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Hal Cruttenden tries to calm things down by hosting a dinner Bailey) and Lucy Robinson (Cold Feet). Real-life father and MON 16:00 Act Your Age (b00zm0mc) party with Sam to show off their new basement - with wholly son, Timothy and Samuel West, guest star as fictional father [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] unexpected results. and son, James and Simon. Simon's a University lecturer trying MON 16:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b0089jcr) Written by Hal Cruttenden and Dominic Holland to juggle interviews and persuade his father to go into a home. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Produced by Paul Russell But his father is not quite ready to give in yet.... MON 17:00 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b05zl1b6) An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. The potential Cambridge students are played by Rosie Day [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] (Outlander; Screen International Star of Tomorrow) and David MON 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000xsvf) Moorst (Winner of the Emerging Talent Award at the London [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUESDAY 20 JULY 2021 Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2015). MON 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2017. (b007jrgw) TUE 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrgw) MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m000y01p) The World in Peril [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Series 8 Episode 6 TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b01ks53g) Climate Mindset Captain Jet and Lemmy are not the only ones to heed the [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting mysterious voice. TUE 01:00 Find The Lady (m000f0fx) speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] stage. of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the TUE 01:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002hdp) Manoush Zomorodi explores how human beings are coming preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] together to fight a global threat: climate crisis. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds TUE 02:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08gxddh) First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2020. Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000y01r) Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter TUE 02:15 The Citadel (b09by75r) Mary Beard Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Classicist Mary Beard chooses musical collaborations ‘Bridge Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs TUE 02:30 Frequently Asked Questions (b00lszh8) Over Troubled Water’ and ‘Sisters Are Doin' It For Music composed by Van Phillips [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Themselves’. Written and produced by Charles Chilton. TUE 03:00 Drama (b08njn47) MON 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn1s) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1955. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON 18:30 A Good Read (b01ks53g) TUE 04:00 Act Your Age (b00zm0mc) MON 12:30 England, Their England by AG Macdonell Tim Coates and Jon Plowman [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] (m000y01m) Harriet Gilbert and her guests - comedy producer, Jon Plowman TUE 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b0089jcr) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] and publisher, Tim Coates - discuss favourite books by James [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] MON 13:00 Find The Lady (m000f0fx) Christie, Tobias Wolff and Patrick deWitt. TUE 05:00 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b05zl1b6) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Tim Coates' choice: 'Dear Miss Landau' by James Christie [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] MON 13:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002hdp) Jon Plowman's choice: 'Old School' by Tobias Wolff TUE 05:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000xsvf) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'The Sisters Brothers' by Patrick [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] MON 14:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08gxddh) deWitt TUE 06:00 Find The Lady (m000dz4c) Episode 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2012. 4. In Which Andrew Marsh Finds his Car Helen Dunmore's novel, set in Bristol in 1792, Birdcage Walk is MON 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn1s) Andrew Marsh is on the run - suspected of both murder and set against a backdrop of the French Revolution. It touches on [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] cheque book fraud. Radical idealism, property, political turmoil and private tragedy. MON 19:30 England, Their England by AG Macdonell News arrives about the whereabouts of Sheila Ramsey. Inspired by the real life of Julia Fawkes, a leading Radical (m000y01m) Noel Johnson stars in a seven-part thriller serial by David Ellis. writer, none of whose work has survived, Dunmore explores the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Andrew Marsh …. Noel Johnson tensions between generations and genders, and examines the MON 20:00 Find The Lady (m000f0fx) Margaret Everard …. Eva Haddon idea of legacy as Julia's daughter Lizzie finds herself torn [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Detective Sergeant Rankin …. Henry Stamper between her charismatic, self made husband and her idealistic MON 20:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002hdp) Peter Lloyd …. Michael Deacon mother. As her husband Diner Tredevant speculates on property [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Joe …. Antony Viccars in Bristol's housing boom, he risks losing everything in the MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m000y01p) Max Freeman …. Francis de Wolff social upheaval caused by the French Revolution. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Shirley .... Kathleen Helme Today in Episode One: A mysterious burial. The story opens MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000y01r) Alf Jenkins …. Brian Haines four years earlier as a man hides a body in a gorge. The death is [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] Sheila Ramsey …. Jan Edwards unexplained but four years later, the man has a wife - Lizzie MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000xsvf) Written by David Ellis. Fawkes. Lizzie visits her mother who is ill, and tells her of her [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Producer: Betty Davies. husband's Diner's plans to build a magnificent new terrace MON 22:30 Father Figure (b01bl4fb) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1969. overlooking the Gorge. It is to be the envy of the city but for Series 1 TUE 06:30 Craddock and Co (b007jsvl) Diner a huge financial risk. People Carrying 1. The Crompton Canvas An acclaimed poet and award-winning novelist, Helen Tom Whyte and his family are on their way to a wedding. It's A violent burglary leads Victorian detective Charles Craddock Dunmore's work often explores the interplay between the public all going well until they hit a traffic jam. Before long traffic to a sinister rendezvous. and the personal, most famously in The Siege and The Betrayal, laws are being broken, the rescue services are on their way and Lucy Greenwood travels from Lancashire to London to work and most recently Exposure. there are a few surprises awaiting them in a lay-by... with her Uncle Charles at his London book shop - but soon Hattie Morahan is a stage, film and TV actress who won A family sitcom written by and starring Irish comedian Jason discovers he has another profession as a private investigator. numerous awards for her portrayal of Nora in the Young Vic Byrne. CAST: production of A Doll's House. She was part of the cast of CAST: Charles Craddock …. Martin Jarvis Outnumbered and recently appeared in BBC TVs My Mother Tom Whyte .... Jason Byrne Lucy Greenwood …. Emma Tate and Other Strangers. Elaine Whyte .... Lucy Montgomery Grout …. Struan Rodger The readers are Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp Dylan Whyte .... Dominic Applewhite Leopold Kransky …. Stephen Thorne The abridger is Sara Davies Mary Whyte .... Pauline McLynn Slip …. Lyndham Gregory Produced by Julian Wilkinson. Pat Whyte .... Dermot Crowley Peggie McLavety …. John Evitts First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. Roddy .... Michael Smiley Captain John Trevail …. Gareth Armstrong MON 14:15 The Citadel (b09by75r) Producer: Julia McKenzie. Written by Chris Thompson. Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 2012. Director: John Taylor. Episode 1 MON 23:00 Dead Ringers (m000xv8l) First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1993. Andrew Manson, a newly trained doctor arrives in Drineffy, a Series 21 TUE 07:00 55 and Over (b01p3hnx) South Wales mining town. He is to be an assistant to the elderly Episode 6 4. Old v Young Dr Page. Manson Includes a look back at events since Sunday’s historic Euros Hearts are more fragile than previously thought when disaster is idealistic and full of enthusiasm but this is soon tempered by final and an unusual challenge for Ronan Keating. strikes and old lovers are forced to confront their new younger reality when he meets the cynical Dr Denny another doctor in With Jon Culshaw, Lewis Macleod, Jan Ravens, Debra replacements around a hospital bed. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 July 2021 Page 6 of 11 Juliet Stevenson and Philip Jackson star in Peter Souter's point this is in their own lives. was first published in 1914. To mark the centenary of its romantic comedy about love, sex and other foolhardy mistakes Amy Rosenthal's drama, "Thin Ice", is inspired by what really publication, author Colm Tóibín explores some of the Dublin made by the modern 50-pluser. happened when she went to University. locations haunted by Joyce's characters in those stories and talks Jane ..... Juliet Stevenson Written by Jack Rosenthal to contemporary writers Anne Enright and John Banville about Ray ..... Philip Jackson Adapted by Amy Rosenthal the influence of Dubliners on their own work. Tony ..... Patrick Brennan Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow These 15 stories were written when Ireland was ablaze with Heather ..... Liza Sadovy First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017. converging and contradictory ideas about identity, history and Honey ..... Stephanie Racine TUE 11:00 Archive on 4 (b0848f95) culture. And the book itself had a protracted and anguished Sam ..... Adam Nagaitis Lloyd George's Revolution publication history. Between 1905, when Joyce first sent a Portia ..... Sarah Thom Drawing on sound archive of David Lloyd George and key manuscript to a publisher, and June 1914, when the book was Director: Helen Perry. contemporary witnesses, Peter Hennessy tells how Lloyd finally published, Joyce's manuscript was rejected 18 times, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012. George revolutionised Britain's government when he became because of its sexual content and references to real people. TUE 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week (m000xs0c) prime minister a century ago. In the darkest days of World War Colm is a passionate guide to Joyce's stories and in his Series 14 I, Lloyd George transformed an amateurish approach to company, we visit many of the buildings and locations featured Platinum Writer government and galvanised a war weary country by radically in the stories, such as Mulligans pub, St Francis Xavier church Ed is once more in financial crisis following Elgar’s huge vets reforming the Cabinet, bringing outsiders ('men of push and and 15 Ushers Island - the house that features in the last story, bill. Gone is the fancy new car, the trips out, and the fodder go') into Whitehall and creating new departments. 'The Dead'. He talks to writers, academics and Dubliners box. Staying home isn’t so much a rule now as a necessity As a radical politician, Lloyd George always saw government as themselves about the continuing power and resonance of these driven by lack of funds, and live streaming is the new Theatre. a force for progress, and as war leader he ruthlessly replaced stories. But there is light on the horizon when Ed is offered the chance unprofessional informality with business-like efficiency. He Contributors include Terence Brown, Anne Fogarty, Jonathan to write the script for a new movie by Jaz Milvain. Maggie has began by setting up a five-man War Cabinet, a reform that he Creasy, Brendan Kilty and Caroline Elbay. also secured Ed a job writing biographies for ‘ordinary people’ recommended again on the BBC in the early days of World War Extracts from the stories are read by Stephen Rea. which pays well, includes a free car and earns Ed the plaudit of II. ‘I had for some time come to the conclusion, that to entrust The songs from Dubliners are performed by Noel O'Grady, ‘Platinum Writer’. The problem is, Ed can only choose one job the direction of the war to a Sanhedrin of some twenty Kevin McDermott & Ralph Richey, Marie Shannon and Susan – which is it to be? ministers, chosen largely for party reasons, and all engaged in Kilty. Cast list ep 6 the administration of departments which demanded their whole First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Ed Reardon………..Christopher Douglas attention, was worse than worthless.’ Lloyd George also created TUE 15:00 Drama (b08p537j) Ping…………….……..Barunka O’Shaughnessy a Cabinet Secretariat (now the Cabinet Office), ensuring that a [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Jaz……………………..Philp Jackson minute was taken of Cabinet meetings and that ministers' TUE 16:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b08dnkh0) Maggie……………….Pippa Haywood decisions were implemented. Series 10 Eli………………………..Lisa Coleman Yet Lloyd George was also a precursor of presidential-style Episode 6 Jake…………………….Sam Pamphillon politics. He brought his own advisers and press secretary into John Lloyd & Jo Brand with guests Michelle Wolf, Bee Wilson Olive…………………..Stephanie Cole Number 10, and his mistress became one of the private and Henry Eliot. This week the Museum considers a 24-hour Pearl…………………..Brigit Forsyth secretaries (the first woman to hold this post). Although his news channel, a 1,000 year long piece of music and the smell of Stan……………………Geoffrey Whitehead presidential tendencies later contributed to his downfall, his fresh coffee. Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas revolution in government had laid the foundations for victory in Researched by Anne Miller of QI and Mike Turner. Produced by Dawn Ellis 1918 and remains his legacy in Whitehall. Among those taking The production coordinator was Sophie Richardson. Production Co-ordinator: Cherlynn Andrew-Wilfred part in the programme are biographers Ffion Hague, Kenneth The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin. Sound Recordist and Editor: David Thomas Morgan and Roy Hattersley, and historian, Hew Strachan. It was a BBC Studios Production. A BBC Studios Production Producer: Rob Shepherd First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jyp0) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. TUE 16:30 Millport (b0075ttx) Series 9 TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jyp0) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Dishonoured - Again [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE 17:00 55 and Over (b01p3hnx) Neddie Seagoon gets a bank job, but is it wise to put him in TUE 12:30 Take Me to Your Reader (m000y0cz) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] charge of the gold vault? Stars Spike Milligan. From January [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE 17:30 Ed Reardon's Week (m000xs0c) 1959. TUE 13:00 Find The Lady (m000dz4c) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 08:30 Take Me to Your Reader (m000y0cz) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrkp) 2. The Old Man and the Sea TUE 13:30 Craddock and Co (b007jsvl) The World in Peril Colin is in a flat panic when he mislays a red hot autobiography [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Episode 7 manuscript. TUE 14:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08gxx7m) Frank Rodger's messages continue to arrive, but whereabouts on A mid ‘80s sitcom set in the publishing house, Roache & Episode 2 Mars is he? Brewer, where erudite, naïve Colin Luscombe fights an uphill The second episode of Helen Dunmore's novel, set in Bristol in Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures battle with his bluff MD, Rees John. Colin wants to inform and 1792, Birdcage Walk is set against a backdrop of the French of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the educate the world, whilst Rees is only interested in the bottom Revolution. It touches on Radical idealism, property, political preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. line. "Forget literature," says Rees to Colin, "concentrate on turmoil and private tragedy. Inspired by the real life of Julia Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds books.” Stuck in the middle is Janet Hunt. Fawkes, a leading Radical writer, none of whose work has Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp CAST: survived, Dunmore explores the tensions between generations Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter Colin Luscombe …. Tim Brooke-Taylor and genders, and examines the idea of legacy as Julia's daughter Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass Rees John …. Glyn Houston Lizzie finds herself torn between her charismatic, self made Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs Janet Hunt …. Eve Karpf husband and her idealistic mother. As her husband Diner Music composed by Van Phillips Aubrey Sallis …. Deryck Guyler Tredevant speculates on property in Bristol's housing boom, he Written and produced by Charles Chilton. Anne Sallis …. Nell Brennan risks losing everything in the social upheaval caused by the First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1955. Mike …. Jon Glover French Revolution. TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b01c7pqb) Written by Andrew Palmer. Lizzie's mother has shocking news which explains her sickness. Series 13 Producer: Edward Taylor And Lizzie and her property developer husband Diner must Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1986. display their house to prospective buyers. The powerful song, Non, je ne regrette rien, made famous by TUE 09:00 Dead Ringers (m000xv8l) An acclaimed poet and award-winning novelist, Helen Edith Piaf, is this week's Soul Music. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] Dunmore's work often explores the interplay between the public Written in 1960 by Charles Dumont, in a fit of despair, he gave TUE 09:30 Millport (b0075ttx) and the personal, most famously in The Siege and The Betrayal, the music to lyricist Michel Vaucaire, but was surprised by the Series 1 and most recently Exposure. words he wrote. Dumont thought the song should be about war The Letter Hattie Morahan is a stage, film and TV actress who won or revolution. Vaucaire explained he wanted to give the song to It's turnip season - and a letter arrives for Irene promising to numerous awards for her portrayal of Nora in the Young Vic Edith Piaf. She was living in Paris at the time, having recently change her life for ever. production of A Doll's House. She was part of the cast of finished her 'suicide tour' during which she had collapsed. At But when push comes to shove, is she ready to leave the dismal Outnumbered and recently appeared in BBC TVs My Mother that time, Piaf didn't think much of Charles Dumont and tried island backwater she so unlovingly calls home? and Other Strangers. to cancel their appointment. But on hearing the song, Piaf told Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as The readers are Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp Dumont that with this song, she would sing again. 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a The abridger is Sara Davies Contributers include; better life on the mainland. Produced by Julian Wilkinson. Charles Dumont who lives in Paris at the same apartment, with Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. the same piano on which he wrote the song in 1960. He plays Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown TUE 14:15 The Citadel (b09byqhw) the song on the very same piano. Alberto/Robert/Bob ...... Lewis McLeod Series 1 Lord Lamont, who became associated with the song when asked Ena/Bunty/Betty ...... Gabriel Quigley Episode 2 by a reporter which he regretted most - talking about the 'green Doogie ...... Matt Costello Manson and Denny deal with an outbreak of typhoid in the shoots of recovery' or allegedly singing in the bath after the The Minister ...... Robert Paterson town. Denny is convinced he knows the cause of it and is withdrawal of Britain from the Exchange Rate Mechanism. Producers: Lucy Bacon and Kathy Smith determined to do something about it. Lamont famously replied 'Je ne regrette rien.' First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000. Manson …. Richard Fleeshman Christine Bovill, who tours a one-woman show about Piaf's life. TUE 10:00 Drama (b08p537j) Denny …. Julian Lewis Jones Carolyn Birke, biographer of Piaf. The Rosenthals Blodwyn .… Sue Jenkins First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. Cold Enough for Snow Branwell .... Philip Fox TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jyp0) 1996 Two sets of parents plot to keep their children apart whilst Dr Page / Dr Griffiths …. Seamus O'Neill [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] they're studying to get into University. But it isn't the children Miner / Mr Williams …. Simon Ludders TUE 19:30 Take Me to Your Reader (m000y0cz) they should be worrying about.... Mrs Pryce / Patient .… Kath Weare [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] This is the second drama written by Jack Rosenthal and adapted By A J Cronin. TUE 20:00 Find The Lady (m000dz4c) for radio by his playwright daughter, Amy. Both dramas had a Dramatised by Christopher Reason. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] huge impact at the time they were originally broadcast on TV. Director - Gary Brown TUE 20:30 Craddock and Co (b007jsvl) The last drama saw Pippa and Neil arrive from Cheltenham and Producers - Pauline Harris and Gary Brown [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Blackburn respectively for their interviews at Cambridge. Now, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017. TUE 21:00 Archive on 4 (b0848f95) they're working towards their A levels. And as their future TUE 14:30 Walking With the Dead (b03srddc) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] looks uncertain, both sets of parents realise quite what a turning James Joyce's revolutionary short story collection, Dubliners, TUE 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week (m000xs0c) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 July 2021 Page 7 of 11 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Hamlet …. Michael Onslow Rosie and her team organise a twinning ceremony for a town on TUE 22:30 Revolting People (b008ff6d) Written by Chris Thompson. the south coast of England with a town on the north coast of Series 3 Director: John Taylor. France. A Kiss Is Just a Kiss First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1993. But Is it really a step forward for Anglo-French relations? Samuel turns his shop into a bar called Sam's place...and an old WED 07:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b081tdph) Prunella Scales stars in the second of four series of Simon flame called Ingrid turns up. A Rendezvous with Mr Voltaire Brett's sitcom following the trials and tribulations of Rosie Sitcom set just before the American War of Independence. Lucy Porter's sitcom takes us to Edinburgh in the early 18th Burns and her event-management company based in Brighton. Written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses. Century. Monsieur Voltaire (Lewis Macleod) has been thrown With Arabella Weir as Kate, Rebecca Callard as Jo, Duncan McGurk ...... Andy Hamilton out of France for immorality and has come to see his old friend Preston as Bob, Annette Badland as Tess, Owen Brenman as Samuel ...... Jay Tarses Robert (Simon Donaldson). He trades philosophical maxims Don, Simon Greenall as Jean-Luc and Rachel Atkins as Captain Brimshaw ...... James Fleet with Ishbel (Caroline Deyga) and the fellow members of her Genevieve. Mary ...... Jan Ravens secret society - Alison (Jessica Hardwick) and Marjory (Samara Producer: Maria Esposito Joshua ...... Tony Maudsley Maclaren). First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2001. Ezekiel ...... Hugh Dennis The scholarly young ladies teach him the value of free speech WED 10:00 Drama (b08pdy07) Cora ...... Penelope Nice and a brand new use for a broom handle. The Rosenthals Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Music by Aly Macrae Thin Ice First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. Director: Marilyn Imrie Amy Rosenthal's tribute to her father, Jack Rosenthal, inspired TUE 23:00 2000 Years of Radio (b007scys) Producer: Gordon Kennedy by an unusual pact they made when she - very reluctantly - went Series 1 An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. to university in 1993. Dark Age FM WED 07:30 Unite (m000xr90) This affectionate tribute from playwright Amy Rosenthal to her It's AD 500, history's most miserable time, when Britain was Series 1 father - the award-winning dramatist and writer Jack Rosenthal invaded twice a week and the country was run by a bloke called The Wedding - is part of a trilogy of dramas being broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Arthur. New sitcom series starring Radio 4 favourite Mark Steel (Mark Amy has adapted 2 of his dramas - "Eskimo Day" and "Cold But there was always Steve in the Afternoon to help Britons Steel’s In Town, The News Quiz), Claire Skinner Enough for Snow". His dramas look at empty nest syndrome through these difficult times (Outnumbered), Elliot Steel and Ivo Graham. from the parents' point of view. Her drama looks at it - but, as Six-part series that taps into the radio archive of a bygone age. When Tony (Mark Steel), a working class, left-wing South she describes it, from the point of view of the bird! Written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Claire Downes , Londoner, falls in love and moves in with Imogen (Claire by Amy Rosenthal Stuart Lane, Al Holloway, Danny Robbins and Dan Tetsell. Skinner), an upper middle class property developer, their sons - Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow Producers: Paul Dodgson & Sean Grundy disenfranchised Croydon rude boy Ashley (Elliot Steel) and Frist broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2000. Oxbridge-educated crypto currency king Gideon (Ivo Graham) WED 10:45 An Arrangement in Grey and Black by Deborah TUE 23:15 Jelly Mountain (b00fh6vz) - are forced to live under the same roof and behave like the Moggach (b007mwdd) Episode 2 brothers neither of them ever wanted. In 1871, Whistler paints a masterpiece picture of his mother. A Ivor Cutler's unique views on how to promote a child's growth. In this episode, on the day before Tony and Imogen's wedding, century later, it reappears. Songs and stories, with Craig Murray-Orr. From May 1996. Gideon is adding the finishing touches to his "masterpiece" of a Read by Susannah York. TUE 23:30 Cliche (m000y0d3) speech (four months in the making), Ashley needs to try and Producer: Pam Fraser Solomon From 20/4/1981 complete his driving test before the ceremony, Tony is First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1997. From a game show for toffs to the Loch Ness monster. struggling to pay an overdue car fine and Imogen's mum takes WED 11:00 Jim Morrison's Will to be Weird (m000gvkt) Sketches galore with Simon Molloy and Carole Hayman. From her to a spa hotel to relax, but instead tries to convince her she's 1: Break On Through April 1981. marrying the wrong man. Had Jim Morrison of The Doors not died in mysterious Cast: circumstances at the tender age of 27 in 1971, he would have Tony - Mark Steel celebrated his 75th birthday in 2018. Over three sixty-minute WEDNESDAY 21 JULY 2021 Imogen - Claire Skinner episodes, Paul Gambaccini mixes the music and poetry of the Ashley - Elliot Steel man with the influences that moulded the self-proclaimed ‘The WED 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Gideon - Ivo Graham Lizard King’. Paul first encountered Morrison in 1967 when, as (b007jrkp) Rebecca - Ayesha Antoine a young music director on a New Hampshire radio station, he [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] Geraldine - Isla Blair eagerly opened The Doors’ first single ‘Break On Through’. He WED 00:30 Soul Music (b01c7pqb) Nigel/Automated phone - Simon Greenall followed his career from beginning to end and, to this day, visits [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Tamsin - Susannah Fielding Morrison’s grave in Paris. WED 01:00 Find The Lady (m000dz4c) Customer Services operator- Ruth Bratt In addition to Paul’s memories and observations, we delve into [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Car clamper/ Registrar - Marcus Brigstocke the Radio Archive and feature: WED 01:30 Craddock and Co (b007jsvl) Hotel Manager - Simon Humphreys ‘Cult Heroes: Jim Morrison’ [Radio 5 Live 18/12/1990] Tony [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Driving Examiner/ MC/ Policeman - Stefano Paolini Slattery looks back at Morrison’s volatile career WED 02:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08gxx7m) Young wedding guest - Nessa Eriksson ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ [Radio 4 26/03/2006] The life, work and [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Written by - Barry Castagnola, Elliot Steel and Mark Steel lasting influence on Jim Morrison of French poet Arthur WED 02:15 The Citadel (b09byqhw) (additional material from the cast) Rimbaud. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] Executive Producer - Marios Stylianides Producer: Mik Wilkojc. WED 02:30 Walking With the Dead (b03srddc) Producer/Director - Barry Castagnola Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first heard in 2018. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] Sound Recordist and Editor - Jerry Peal WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k251) WED 03:00 Drama (b08p537j) Production Co-ordinator - George O’Regan [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Runner - James Potter WED 12:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008p8q2) WED 04:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b08dnkh0) A Golden Path/ Rustle Up production for BBC Radio 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k251) WED 13:00 Find The Lady (m000dyks) WED 04:30 Millport (b0075ttx) Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] The Marrow Contest WED 13:30 Craddock and Co (b007jsvx) WED 05:00 55 and Over (b01p3hnx) The green-fingered lad takes on the authorities to save his pride [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] and joy. WED 14:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08gybf9) WED 05:30 Ed Reardon's Week (m000xs0c) Starring Tony Hancock, Bill Kerr, Sidney James. Andree Melly Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] and Kenneth Williams. Helen Dunmore's novel, set in Bristol in 1792, Birdcage Walk is WED 06:00 Find The Lady (m000dyks) Announcer: Kenneth Williams set against a backdrop of the French Revolution. It touches on 5. In Which Andrew Marsh Loses a Witness Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Radical idealism, property, political turmoil and private tragedy. Andrew discovers there's more to Sheila Ramsey and Margaret Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Inspired by the real life of Julia Fawkes, a leading Radical Everard than meets the eye - and that his life is in jeopardy... Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry writer, none of whose work has survived, Dunmore explores the Noel Johnson stars in a seven-part thriller serial by David Ellis. Rabinowitz. tensions between generations and genders, and examines the Andrew Marsh …. Noel Johnson Producer: Dennis Main Wilson idea of legacy as Julia's daughter Lizzie finds herself torn Sheila Ramsey …. Jan Edwards First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1955. between her charismatic, self made husband and her idealistic Margaret Everard …. Eva Haddon WED 08:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008p8q2) mother. As her husband Diner Tredevant speculates on property Peter Lloyd …. Michael Deacon The Old Dunkirk Spirit in Bristol's housing boom, he risks losing everything in the Alf Jenkins …. Brian Haines Harold Perkins has no materials to rebuild post-war Britain, social upheaval caused by the French Revolution. Joe …. Antony Viccars which well suits the workmates. News from France threatens to destabilise Europe and the Bill Rodney …. Wilfred Carter Six anarchic tales from those demob days “when we was going overthrow of the French king makes Diner anxious that it will Shirley …. Kathleen Helme to build the new Jerusalem - you know, before the world turned upset the housing market and scare off potential buyers. Lizzie Detective Inspector Adams …. John Bentley lax and sour”. is preoccupied with the safe delivery of her mother's new baby. Detective Sergeant Rankin …. Henry Stamper Stars Norman Rossington as Big Jim, Roland Curram as Harold An acclaimed poet and award-winning novelist, Helen Dr Fergus …. Malcolm Hayes Perkins, Harold Goodwin as Old Ned, David John as Nimrod, Dunmore's work often explores the interplay between the public Producer: Betty Davies. Sylvester McCoy as Turps, David Beckett as Chick, Norman and the personal, most famously in The Siege and The Betrayal, First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1969. Bird as Fortescue and Norman Mitchell as PC Speedworth. and most recently Exposure. WED 06:30 Craddock and Co (b007jsvx) Narrated by Bernard Cribbins. Hattie Morahan is a stage, film and TV actress who won 2. The Play's the Thing Written by Ted Walker. numerous awards for her portrayal of Nora in the Young Vic 1899: Victorian bookseller-cum-detective Charles Craddock Producer: Martin Fisher production of A Doll's House. She was part of the cast of and his niece, Lucy, investigate mysterious backstage dramas at First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1987. Outnumbered and recently appeared in BBC TVs My Mother a London theatre. WED 09:00 The Motion Show (b00762pb) and Other Strangers. CAST: Series 4 The readers are Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp Charles Craddock …. Martin Jarvis Episode 4 The abridger is Sara Davies Lucy Greenwood …. Emma Tate Graeme Garden chairs the debating game with Jenny Eclair, Produced by Julian Wilkinson. Grout …. Struan Rodger Hugh Dennis, Stuart Maconie and Greg Proops. From June First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. James Price …. David Thorpe 2001. WED 14:15 The Citadel (b09byxlt) Rufus Weatherby …. Colin Pinney WED 09:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k131) Series 1 Rex Radford …. Barry J. Gordon Series 2 Episode 3 Elizabeth Barnes …. Teresa Gallagher French Connections Denny tries to persuade Manson to go along with his plans to rid Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 July 2021 Page 8 of 11 the town of the source of the typhoid epidemic. ocean, is Britain's most remote prison. Girl at the Station …. Gretta Gouriet Manson …. Richard Fleeshman So there's no better place to send Patsy Potts, one of the nation's Bill Rodney …. Wilfred Carter Denny …. Julian Lewis Jones most tricky prisoners, who's a master of disguise and escaped Alf Jenkins …. Brian Haines By A J Cronin. from every other prison they've tried to keep her in. But when Detective Sergeant Rankin …. Henry Stamper Dramatised by Christopher Reason. Tim arrives on The Egg with Patsy in the helicopter, she's Detective Inspector Adams …. John Bentley Director - Gary Brown nowhere to be found, and worse, no-one knows what she Peter Lloyd …. Michael Deacon Producers - Gary Brown and Pauline Harris actually looks like... Producer: Betty Davies. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. Governor Harry ..... Harry Hill First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1969. WED 14:30 Blue Notes, Cold Nights (b0184rg8) Anne ..... Karen Bartke THU 06:30 Craddock and Co (b007jsw5) Thanks to films like "Round Midnight" we all know about black Peter ..... Marek Larwood 3. My Dear Isabelle American musicians escaping racism and putting down roots in The Minister ..... Tanya Moodie Spring, 1900: The reappearance of a woman from his past Paris. But the story of the African-American and African Tim the Helicopter Pilot ..... Dan Maier persuades Victorian private investigator, Charles Craddock, to presence in Scandinavia has been one of Europe's best-kept Prisoner Gyles Brandreth ..... Gyles Brandreth help find her kidnapped husband in France, but niece Lucy secrets. Country blues singer-guitarist Eric Bibb, who learned Written by Dan Maier realises there are hidden perils. his craft in the coffee houses of Greenwich Village but has Producer: Sam Michell CAST: spent much of his career in Sweden and Finland, explains how A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Charles Craddock …. Martin Jarvis jazz and blues players such as trumpeter Don Cherry - step- December 2017. Lucy Greenwood …. Emma Tate father of R&B star Neneh Cherry - built new lives in exile. WED 22:45 Woof (b0bk1mrr) Grout …. Struan Rodger Dexter Gordon - the star of '"Round Midnight" was one of the True Tales of Romance and Failure Isabelle Vallance …. Frances Jeater pioneers, settling in Copenhagen in the early 1960s. Over the The Price of Luxury Leopold Kransky …. Stephen Thorne decades generous state support for musicians has helped the A bruising encounter at the greengrocer’s and the Sir Aubrey Blake …. Colin Pinney music scene in the region to flourish. But now that the host transformative effects of a hard-boiled egg Monsieur Vallance …. Malcolm Ward nations are facing their own immigration crisis, will musicians Bittersweet comic real life stories written and performed by Walter Smith …. Michael Onslow continue to find a welcome? And how easy is it to sustain Chris Neill. Written by Chris Thompson. creativity thousands of miles from your roots? With Isy Suttie and Martin Hyder. Director: John Taylor. WED 15:00 Drama (b08pdy07) Producer: Steve Doherty First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1993. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in THU 07:00 On the Rocks (b03jfk21) WED 15:45 An Arrangement in Grey and Black by Deborah September 2018. Series 1 Moggach (b007mwdd) WED 23:00 Radio Active (b007k1hf) Spies [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] Series 4 It's 1937 on the remote Scilly Island of St. Martin's. WED 16:00 The Motion Show (b00762pb) Gigantaquiz Here, the islanders are resisting the attempts of the Penzance [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Which lucky contestant is going to win the £10,000 jackpot in GPO man to modernise the post office - around which their WED 16:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k131) Radio Active's massive quiz?!!!! world revolves. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Written by Christopher William Hill. WED 17:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b081tdph) Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. Frank Gunwallow ...... Joseph Kloska [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Music by Philip Pope and Steve Brown. With Helen Murry, Mary ...... Bec Applebee WED 17:30 Unite (m000xr90) Nick Wilton and Jamie Rix. Grace ...... Christine Absalom [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Written by Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins with John Tommy ...... Stuart Fox WED 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Buchan. Ben ...... Alex Palmer (b007jrnf) Producer: Jamie Rix Len ...... Ed Gaughan The World in Peril First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1984. Tregarthan ...... Peter Marinker Episode 8 WED 23:30 Bunk Bed (b092r7zv) Morwenna ...... Alex Tregear Overwhelmed by the Martian attack, Jet Morgan and his crew Series 4 Pender ...... Christopher William Hill wake up in the dark. Episode 3 Anthony ...... David Seddon Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures The critically acclaimed show featuring playwright Patrick Sound by Jenni Burnett, Anne Bunting and Graham Harper. of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the Marber and publisher and broadcaster Peter Curran as they talk Diirector: Mary Peate preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. in-depth nonsense late at night in a Bunk Bed. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2013. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds The lights are off, and a cultural crime committed against Sir THU 07:30 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000xtbj) Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp Kingsley Amis by Curran is debated - alongside the merits of a Episode 2 Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter miniature German Schnauzer dog versus those of Marber's Olga Koch and her digital assistant Algo return to unpack Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass impressive tortoise, Tony, for the title Mankind's Best Friend. Beauty and the Beauty standards, but its hard to understand Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs A Foghorn Company production for BBC Radio 4, first something that is defined only by itself. Music composed by Van Phillips broadcast in September 2017. Comedian and Computer Scientist Olga Koch takes a deep dive Written and produced by Charles Chilton. WED 23:45 Tina C (b0076q33) into the world of computer science with her trusty virtual First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November Tina C's Tiny Island Tour assistant Algo as the digital duo take the truths that you hold 1955. England dear and tear them to shreds using logic, like a teenager on the WED 18:30 Short Cuts (m00088n4) The country singer and global activist brings her unique brand internet. A four part stand-up special exploring Nationality, Series 20 of gingham-flavoured repartee to explore the US and UK's Beauty, Health and Privacy through the eyes of a woman with Mary Oliver special relationship. Stars Christopher Green. From Jan 2005 half a masters degree in the social science of the internet. By "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and applying computer science to the world around her, Olga and precious life?" Algo take an hilarious and pedantic journey to reveal the - Mary Oliver THURSDAY 22 JULY 2021 inherent absurdities of the modern world. Josie Long heads out alone into nature to present short Written by Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin documentaries and adventures in sound inspired by the poet THU 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrnf) Starring Sindhu Vee as Algo Mary Oliver. From a meditation on the seasons amid the [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Additional Material from Rajiv Karia changing climate, to an exploration of wanting with Laura THU 00:30 Short Cuts (m00088n4) Produced by Benjamin Sutton Barton. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] A BBC Studios Production Wild and Precious THU 01:00 Find The Lady (m000dyks) THU 08:00 The Navy Lark (b007jmzt) Featuring Laura Barton [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] The TV Documentary Mary Oliver - Listening to the World (edited extract) THU 01:30 Craddock and Co (b007jsvx) Confusion abounds when HMS Troutbridge gets a telly Interview by Krista Tippett [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] makeover as a German wartime frigate. This interview was originally produced for The On Being THU 02:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08gybf9) CAST: Project [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] The Sub-Lieutenant …. Leslie Phillips onbeing.org THU 02:15 The Citadel (b09byxlt) The Chief Petty Officer …. Jon Pertwee To Fail as a Witness [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] The Commanding Officer …. Stephen Murray Featuring Anne Fosburg THU 02:30 Blue Notes, Cold Nights (b0184rg8) Captain Povey …. Richard Caldicot Produced by Ariana Martinez [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] Ramona Povey …. Heather Chasen Special thanks to Anne Fosburg and collaborator Mitchell THU 03:00 Drama (b08pdy07) The Rear Admiral …. Michael Bates Johnson for the early correspondence that motivated this work. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] The Admiral …. Tenniel Evans Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam THU 03:45 An Arrangement in Grey and Black by Deborah Freda …. June Whitfield Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Moggach (b007mwdd) Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Wednesday] Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen September 2019. THU 04:00 The Motion Show (b00762pb) series between 1959 and 1976. WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k251) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Scripted by Lawrie Wyman and George Evans. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 04:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k131) Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. WED 19:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008p8q2) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1972. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU 05:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b081tdph) THU 08:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00kn4l8) WED 20:00 Find The Lady (m000dyks) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Series 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 05:30 Unite (m000xr90) In the News WED 20:30 Craddock and Co (b007jsvx) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] The difference between fact and fiction and opinion...that's [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU 06:00 Find The Lady (m000f7h9) easily defined isn't it? Ask Miss Reid. WED 21:00 Jim Morrison's Will to be Weird (m000gvkt) 6. In Which Andrew Marsh Finds a Friend School comedy created and written by Jim Eldridge. Ten series [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Having discharged himself from hospital and assumed a false of this King Street Junior ran between 1985 and 1998. King WED 22:00 Unite (m000xr90) identity, Andrew Marsh heads to the Excelsior... Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Noel Johnson stars in a seven-part thriller serial by David Ellis. Stars Brigitte Forsythe as Mrs Eastwood, Marlene Sidaway as WED 22:30 Life on Egg (b09jvp37) Andrew Marsh …. Noel Johnson Miss Lewis, Michael Cochrane as Mr Maxwell, Teresa Series 1 Dr Fergus …. Malcolm Hayes Gallagher as Miss Featherstone, Jacqueline Beatty as Miss Reid, Mistress of Disguise Constable …. Nicholas Edmett Janice Acquah as Mrs Khan, Paul Copley as Mr Long and The Egg, floating on a giant prehistoric egg in the middle of the Judy Randall …. Eva Haddon Amanda Gordon as Miss Spivey. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 July 2021 Page 9 of 11 Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Producers - Gary Brown and Pauline Harris Lloyd. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2005. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. Script edited by Jon Hunter THU 09:00 The Write Stuff (m000y10v) THU 14:30 Dicing With Dragons (b0076mwd) Producer: Claire Jones Series 8 Long before Peter Jackson made it respectable, teenage boys First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2015. Iris Murdoch fought imaginary orcs and dragons. With Kim Newman. From THU 23:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters (b0375b3z) James Walton chairs the literary quiz with captains Sebastian 2004. Series 1 Faulks, John Walsh joined by Nigel Williams and Jonathan THU 15:00 Mike Dorrell - Penny Gaffs and Angel Places Episode 3 Myerson. (m000y10x) Master character comedian Colin Hoult presents his debut Author of the week: Iris Murdoch [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] comedy series. Enter the Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and Reader: Beth Chalmers THU 16:00 The Write Stuff (m000y10v) hilarious world of sketches, stories and characters, presented by Producer: Katie Marsden [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] the sinister Ringmaster. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2005. THU 16:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b007v206) Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: Thwor - THU 09:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b007v206) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] the mighty (but Leeds-based) god of Thwunder; Len Parker - Series 1 THU 17:00 On the Rocks (b03jfk21) Nottingham-born martial arts and transformers enthusiast; Anna May the Farce Be With You [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Mann - outrageous star of such forgotten silver screen hits such Robert is about to appear in a new London West End farce, but THU 17:30 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000xtbj) as 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish Delight' and 'A Bowl For the real farce is what happens in the half hour before the curtain [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] My Bottom'; and many more. rises... THU 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrr5) Writers Guild Award-winner Colin Hoult is best known for his John Gordon Sinclair stars in Paul Mayhew-Archer's sitcom. The World in Peril highly acclaimed starring roles in 'Being Human', 'Life's Too Robert Wilson ..... John Gordon Sinclair Episode 9 Short', and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as his many Sue ..... Caroline Quentin Frank Rodgers' memory starts to return, but he remembers hit shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also appeared and Desmond Shaw ..... Gary Waldhorn something terrible. written for a number of Radio 4 series including 'The Headset Margery Shaw ..... Alison Steadman Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures Set' and 'Colin and Fergus' Digi-Radio'. Stage Manager ..... Jonathan Kydd of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the 'Lewis Carol meets The League Of Gentlemen . A beautifully Producer: Paul Spencer preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. staged masterclass in character comedy' - Time Out First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1989. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds 'Comic gold' - Metro THU 10:00 Mike Dorrell - Penny Gaffs and Angel Places Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp 'Delightfully funny' - The Telegraph (m000y10x) Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter Produced by Sam Bryant. October 1857: As problems in author Charles Dickens's Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. marriage come to a head, he feels the pressure mounting. Other Parts …. Pat Campbell THU 23:30 Party (b01mwvkw) One night, unable to sleep, he walks the 30 miles from his home Other Parts and Announcer …. David Jacobs Series 3 in London to Gad's Hill in Kent. But he can't shake off the Music composed by Van Phillips The Grundy voices in his head. Written and produced by Charles Chilton. The prospective politicians visit Phoebe and 'The Grundy' in Written by Mike Dorrell. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November hospital. Dickens .... Richard Tate 1955. Satirical comedy about a group of young idealists trying to Georgina .... Siobhan Redmond THU 18:30 Great Lives (b08b7wd1) make waves with their new political party. Wilkie Collins .... Andrew Wincott Series 41 Written by Tom Basden. Catherine .... Alexandra Mathie Chris Patten on Pope John XXIII Simon .... Tom Basden Barker .... Simon Ludders Chris Patten, Lord Patten of Barnes, nominates a great life who Duncan .... Tim Key Mrs Barker .... Ruth Jones was born a peasant and became a Pope. Pope John XXIII did Jared .... Jonny Sweet Pancks .... Robert Harper well at school but was no star. He wasn't a striking figure of a Mel .... Anna Crilly Ellen .... Claire Cage man and struggled to keep his weight under control. There was Phoebe .... Katy Wix Mr Dick .... David Middleton nothing about him that stood out and his election as Pope took Male Nurse .... Jot Davies Director: Alison Hindell many by surprise. But he was the man who began to push the Producer .... Julia McKenzie. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2001. Roman Catholic church into the modern world. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012. THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b04v2lv7) Chris Patten is joined by Eamon Duffy, Professor of the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge. THU 11:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000xz8j) Presented by Matthew Parris. FRIDAY 23 JULY 2021 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Producer: Perminder Khatkar THU 12:00 The Navy Lark (b007jmzt) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2017. FRI 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrr5) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 19:00 The Navy Lark (b007jmzt) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] THU 12:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00kn4l8) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b08b7wd1) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU 19:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00kn4l8) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] THU 13:00 Find The Lady (m000f7h9) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 01:00 Find The Lady (m000f7h9) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 20:00 Find The Lady (m000f7h9) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] THU 13:30 Craddock and Co (b007jsw5) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 01:30 Craddock and Co (b007jsw5) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU 20:30 Craddock and Co (b007jsw5) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] THU 14:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08h08kp) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 02:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08h08kp) Episode 4 THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b04v2lv7) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Helen Dunmore's novel, set in Bristol in 1792, Birdcage Walk is [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] FRI 02:15 The Citadel (b09c0m4p) set against a backdrop of the French Revolution. It touches on THU 21:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000xz8j) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] Radical idealism, property, political turmoil and private tragedy. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] FRI 02:30 Dicing With Dragons (b0076mwd) Inspired by the real life of Julia Fawkes, a leading Radical THU 22:00 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000xtbj) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] writer, none of whose work has survived, Dunmore explores the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 03:00 Mike Dorrell - Penny Gaffs and Angel Places tensions between generations and genders, and examines the THU 22:30 Irish Micks and Legends (b01nq4j1) (m000y10x) idea of legacy as Julia's daughter Lizzie finds herself torn Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] between her charismatic, self made husband and her idealistic Tir Na Nog FRI 04:00 The Write Stuff (m000y10v) mother. As her husband Diner Tredevant speculates on property Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram become Ais and Yaz and are [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] in Bristol's housing boom, he risks losing everything because of the very best pals. They are taking their role as Ireland's freshest FRI 04:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b007v206) the social upheaval caused by the French Revolution. story-tellers to the British nation very seriously indeed but they [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Lizzie has a new baby brother, but must confront a terrible loss. haven't had the time to do much research, learn their lines or FRI 05:00 On the Rocks (b03jfk21) She is also unsettled by her husband's past, and the story of his work out who is doing which parts. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] husband's first wife - a French woman called Lucie. The girls' unconventional way of telling stories involves a FRI 05:30 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000xtbj) An acclaimed poet and award-winning novelist, Helen concoction of thoroughly inappropriate modern-day metaphors [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] Dunmore's work often explores the interplay between the public and references to many of the ancient Irish stories. FRI 06:00 Find The Lady (m000f6cv) and the personal, most famously in The Siege and The Betrayal, With a natural knack for both comedy and character voices 7. In Which Andrew Marsh Finds the Truth and most recently Exposure. Yasmine Akram and Aisling Bea will bring you warm, modern Andrew Marsh finally deduces who is behind him being framed Hattie Morahan is a stage, film and TV actress who won re-workings of popular ancient Irish stories. for both cheque book fraud - and murder. numerous awards for her portrayal of Nora in the Young Vic Today it's Tir Na Nog. The gripping conclusion of David Ellis's thriller serial starring production of A Doll's House. She was part of the cast of Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram Noel Johnson. Outnumbered and recently appeared in BBC TVs My Mother Producer: Raymond Lau. Andrew Marsh …. Noel Johnson and Other Strangers. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012. Joyce Marsh …. Madi Hedd The readers are Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp THU 22:45 Hannah Gadsby: Arts Clown (b054tfhw) Roger Sherwin …. Douglas Blackwell The abridger is Sara Davies 2. Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait Peter Lloyd …. Michael Deacon Produced by Julian Wilkinson. Aussie comedian and art historian Hannah Gadsby continues Detective Sergeant Rankin …. Henry Stamper First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. her comedy lectures about art, looking this time at Jan Van Detective Inspector Adams …. John Bentley THU 14:15 The Citadel (b09c0m4p) Eyck's masterpiece 'The Arnolfini Portrait'. Alf Jenkins …. Brian Haines Series 1 She shares how she first came to study the portrait, the mystery Judy Randall …. Eva Haddon Episode 4 behind it and why people have remained so fascinated by it Producer: Betty Davies. Denny has persuaded Manson to take direct action to rid down the years. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1969. Drineffy of the source of its typhoid problem. But will they get Plus she puts an image of Vladimir Putin in your head that you FRI 06:30 Cordoba (m000y1j1) away with it? will find hard to shake. 1. Written Off Manson …. Richard Fleeshman Born in Tasmania, Hannah's first encounters with art were A thriller set in Wales. Renowned writer Raymond Turner is Denny …. Julian Lewis Jones solely through books. When she worked in a bookshop after mysteriously blown up on his boat. DT Mitchell, a reporter on a Gwyneth .... Fiona Clarke graduating, she realised the craze for Dan Brown's 'The Da local Swansea newspaper, is sent to investigate and unearths a Gaynor .... Kath Weare Vinci Code' had parallels with critics' sleuth-like 'readings' of web of deceit and cover-ups. By A J Cronin. 'The Arnolfini Portrait'. DT's life is dogged by alcohol abuse, a messy divorce and Dramatised by Christopher Reason. Written by Hannah Gadsby. career frustration. However, she is reinvigorated with this Director - Gary Brown Performed by Hannah Gadsby with her Quotebot aka John assignment… Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 July 2021 Page 10 of 11 Written for radio by Nigel Baldwin. Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer The abridger is Sara Davies DT Mitchell …. Alison Steadman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1983. Produced by Julian Wilkinson. Conrad De’Ath …. Bill Stewart FRI 09:00 It's Not What You Know (b0375sfk) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. Thomas …. Alan Towner Series 2 FRI 14:15 The Citadel (b09c0pw6) Geraint …. Robin Griffith Episode 3 Series 1 Ieuan …. Robert Pugh Justin Moorhouse, Bridget Christie and Ainsley Harriott each Episode 5 Alex …. Leslie Rooney nominate someone they know well to answer a series of Denny and Manson are arrested. Can they extricate themselves Turner …. Tony Leader questions and they than have to second guess how they from a scandal that will ruin their careers? Jenny …. Ruth Jones answered. Manson …. Richard Fleeshman Charlene …. Louise Holland Host Miles Jupp tests Bridget on how well she knows her best Denny …. Julian Lewis Jones Richard …. Ian Targett friend Rebecca Sewell, Ainsley his best friend, pitch doctor Branwell .... Philip Fox Coastguard …. Rhodri Hugh Paul Boross, and Justin his former radio producer Sean Gibson. Gwyneth .... Fiona Clarke Directed in Wales by Jane Dauncey. What is the one thing that DJ Justin does not like talking about? PC Davies .... Simeon Truby First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. What is Bridget's worst fear? And who is Ainsley's worst habit? by A J Cronin. FRI 07:00 Guilt Trip (b07mxt9d) All answers and more will be revealed. Dramatised by Christopher Reason. Episode 3 Producer: Sam Michell Director/Producer Gary Brown On day 10 of the walk, they spot a narrow boat that reminds First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. Laura of the Rosie and Jim boat she remembers from the FRI 09:30 To the Manor Born (b007lzww) FRI 14:30 The French East End (b01j5nw4) children's TV show. A Wife's Prerogative On a head count, the British capital has long been the sixth But when the owner invites them aboard, it doesn't all go quite Audrey makes the most of helping Devere - by pretending she's biggest French city, boasting more French people than Nantes, as they might have expected. his wife. Strasbourg or Bordeaux. Today London's French community is Comedy drama written by Katherine Jakeways with Felicity Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton. racially and culturally diverse. It has grown far beyond the Montagu and Olivia Nixon. Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere bourgeois confines of 'Frog Valley' in well-heeled South A mother and daughter are undertaking a two week sponsored Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher Kensington. Lucy Ash meets some of the new Gallic Eastenders walk along The Thames Path to raise money for the dead Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger and asks what their stories can tells us about the current state of father's charity. Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka France and her former colonies. But the mother and father divorced nine years ago and he'd re- Frank Middlemass ..... Ned The East End's French connection goes back to the 17th married, so relationships between them all have been strained. Mademoiselle Dutoit ..... Rula Lenska Century when Charles II offered sanctuary to tens of thousands Things come to a head at any mention of the French Oak gable The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced of persecuted French Protestants. Lucy visits Spitalfields, where table that Ros and her now dead ex bought together in Camden. to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death many of the Huguenots settled, and at the Denis Severs House This has somehow ended up in the stepmother's house, much to leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, museum hears the story of one silk merchant who lived there in Ros's annoyance: "I mean she sits at it! It's my table and she sits they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage. the 1680s. She meets the French owner of a nearby wine bar at it." From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving with a lunch menu inspired by the hardworking Huguenots who Ros ...... Felicity Montagu eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard once walked the streets now filled with sari shops and Laura ...... Olivia Nixon DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descent. Bangladeshi restaurants. Stepmother ...... Katherine Jakeways First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever The Huguenots came to the UK to escape prejudice at home - Boat Owner ...... Juliet Cowan appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. so are there any modern day parallels? One unlikely Gallic Producer: Jane Berthoud Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence. outpost is New VIc in Newham, London's biggest 6th form A BBC Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Producer: Jane Berthoud college. It can't really compete with the Lycee Charles de July 2016. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997. Gaulle in Kensington but it does have a high number of FRI 07:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000xzjl) FRI 10:00 Margaret Steward - Running Out of Sky Francophone pupils and the demographics are very different. Alun Cochrane: Centrist Dad? (b01mny05) These are mainly non-white students from France's Overseas “A Centrist Dad takes his children to feed the ducks, a The 'present day' finds two men, unaware of each other, Departments or former colonies, places like Reunion, Conservative Dad takes his children duck shooting, a Socialist retracing their steps through the Lincolnshire countryside. An Guadeloupe and Algeria. They have crossed the channel partly Dad takes his children to a Solidarity With Ducks rally.” American Second World War airman and an English doctor because they hope learning English will improve their chances Centrist Dads have a bad reputation. They’re “entirely find memories of unfinished relationships and ghosts from the of getting a job and partly because of perceived racial responsible for Labour’s Election defeat”, “aggressively past. prejudices in the French system. condescending” and they “like Top Gear too much”. And yet, Margaret Steward’s haunting drama The head teacher Eddie Playfair is a pragmatic Brit with a Alun Cochrane is fine with being one (albeit one who hasn’t Tom Mason ... William Gaunt background in Corsica. He says that finding a job in France is actually watched Top Gear). Earl Grant .... Garrick Hagon often tough, as payroll taxes and bureaucracy make employers Recorded in front of a virtual audience from Salford, this show Young Tom .... Tom Wright wary of taking on new staff. For non-white applicants it is even is Alun’s quest for the centre ground, an area bizarrely Mrs Mason ... Sunny Ormonde worse. CVs are reputedly routinely thrown in the bin for having underpopulated in the comedy world. Comedians should poke Jenny .... Jenny Lee the wrong postcode or a North African surname. fun at all hypocrisy no matter whether it emerges from the right Janet Grant ....Elizabeth Kelly Unemployment among children and grandchildren of or the left, so why are so few stand-ups apparently adept at Eddie .... David Bannerman immigrants in the outskirts of French cities runs at around 60%. sniping from the middle? Johnnie .... Angus Wright We meet, Hamid Senni, a young businessman with Moroccan Alun investigates whether his politics have changed or if it's the Bob .... Paul Downing roots who wrote a book called De la Cité (the French term for a world that has changed around him and left a reasonable man Jim .... Andrew Wincott council estate) à La City. When he told his first boss in France feeling like an extremist. He is pretty sure he isn’t an actual Director: Sue Wilson that he wanted to become a manager, he was laughed at and baddie. He spends his days writing jokes in ‘Where’s Wally?’ First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. thrown out of his office. Now he runs a lucrative consultancy pyjamas alongside his gluten-free dog. Does that sound like an FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000y1j4) company in Mayfair. Cleo Soazandry also feels there is far less extremist to you? Religious Drama discrimination here in London. A former Miss Madagascar, Written and performed by Alun Cochrane Chris Pearson and Ella Watts recommend drama podcasts turned TV presenter and businesswoman, she once lived in the Production co-ordinator: Mabel Wright exploring religion. Parisian suburbs but decided to cross the channel in her early Sound engineer: Michael Smith FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007qrzs) teens. She shows Lucy her secret French London - a night spot Producer: Richard Morris [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] popular with the African Francophone community. Photo credit: Matt Stronge FRI 12:30 Second Holmes (b0169ljq) Lucy discovers another group of young French people in A BBC Studios Production [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Hackney. Most of them are designers, artists or work in cutting FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007qrzs) FRI 13:00 Find The Lady (m000f6cv) edge digital media outfits. Malika Favre, who has just done a Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] cover for the Penguin edition of the Kama Sutra, says she finds Sons of the Sea FRI 13:30 Cordoba (m000y1j1) London a more creative environment and she find English Out on river patrol, Captain Mainwaring's Home Guard platoon [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] 'hypocrisy' is good for business. gets lost in fog in the English Channel... FRI 14:00 Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (b08h0g52) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. CAST: Episode 5 FRI 15:00 Margaret Steward - Running Out of Sky Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe Helen Dunmore's novel, set in Bristol in 1792, Birdcage Walk is (b01mny05) Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier set against a backdrop of the French Revolution. It touches on [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn Radical idealism, property, political turmoil and private tragedy. FRI 16:00 It's Not What You Know (b0375sfk) Private Frazer …. John Laurie Inspired by the real life of Julia Fawkes, a leading Radical [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley writer, none of whose work has survived, Dunmore explores the FRI 16:30 To the Manor Born (b007lzww) Private Pike …. Ian Lavender tensions between generations and genders, and examines the [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Various …. Timothy Bateson idea of legacy as Julia's daughter Lizzie finds herself torn FRI 17:00 Guilt Trip (b07mxt9d) Announcer …. John Snagge between her charismatic, self made husband and her idealistic [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Six years after legendary sitcom Dad's Army started on BBC mother. As her husband Diner Tredevant speculates on property FRI 17:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000xzjl) TV, these specially adapted radio versions were recorded with in Bristol's housing boom, he risks losing everything because of [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] the original cast. the social upheaval caused by the French Revolution. FRI 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrts) Adapted from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's original BBC TV Lizzie is missing her mother dreadfully and troubled by Diner's The World in Peril scripts by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad. behaviour. She goes to visit Hannah for her reassurance and has Episode 10 Producer: John Dyas an unexpected encounter. News also come from France of the The enigmatic Paddy Flynn reveals more about the hierarchy of First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in June 1974. King's trail. asteroid crews. FRI 08:30 Second Holmes (b0169ljq) An acclaimed poet and award-winning novelist, Helen Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures 5. The Case of the Neglected Farm Dunmore's work often explores the interplay between the public of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the The grandsons of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson go to and the personal, most famously in The Siege and The Betrayal, preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. Dorset, where a wife is in danger. and most recently Exposure. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Six light-hearted adventures involving the grandsons of Hattie Morahan is a stage, film and TV actress who won Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson written by Grant Eustace numerous awards for her portrayal of Nora in the Young Vic Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter Starring Peter Egan as Stamford Holmes, Jeremy Nicholas as production of A Doll's House. She was part of the cast of Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass Dr Watson, Steve Hodson as Tom Wigley, Hugh Dickson as the Outnumbered and recently appeared in BBC TVs My Mother Other Parts …. Pat Campbell Vicar, Fiona Walker as Sarah Callington, Ronald Baddiley as and Other Strangers. Other Parts and Announcer …. David Jacobs Bob Swannock and Alexandra Mathie as Kate Wigley. The readers are Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp Music composed by Van Phillips Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 July 2021 Page 11 of 11 Written and produced by Charles Chilton. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1955. FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b00vy37b) Luck Are some people just born lucky, or can we control our fate ? Professor Richard Wiseman claims to have begun scientifically to investigate the concept of luck. In Off The Page he writes about his interviews with over a thousand so-called lucky and unlucky people, and reveals why resilience and not the supernatural is what affects us all. Playwright Annie Caulfield describes a brush with voodoo in west Africa; while sports writer Matthew Syed explains why his own sporting success was due in part to growing up in a lucky Reading postcode. Dominic Akwright presents, and the producer is Miles Warde. 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The Way Things Are Roger McGough's reflections on life, death and BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme. With the accompaniment of long-time musical collaborator Andy Roberts. Recorded at the Bath Festival. Producer: Sara Davies First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2000. FRI 23:15 The Shuttleworths (b01ncg5h) Series 4 Hello, Hello, Hello John Shuttleworth enters the age of the mobile phone, but is he fully future-prepared? Stars Graham Fellows. From March 2003. FRI 23:30 Think the Unthinkable (b007k4g0) Series 2 Genforce The management consultants work with a suspicious energy company. Stars Emma Kennedy and Marcus Brigstocke. From November 2002.

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