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Radio 4 Extra Listings for 14 – 20 May 2016 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b013ptf6) Grace Metalious, Couples by John Updike and Portnoy's Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad Complaint by Philip Roth. And in spite of a widespread belief SAT 00:00 The House on the Borderland by William Hope A House in Chawton that America had become unshockable, there continued to be Hodgson (b007wxhs) May's name has appeared on a terrorist death list. She and her bursts of controversy over works of literature dealing with sex, 4. The Wound husband Ali are desperate to escape from Iraq. Bee, a British including Tony Kushner's Angels in America - subtitled A Gay Back from his voyage, the narrator sees a sinister green hand at journalist, has managed to arrange a university place for May, Fantasia on National Themes - Edmund White's A Boy's Own his window... but to get to Britain they must first get to Jordan. At the last Story, Susanna Moore's In the Cut and Patricia Cornwell's First published in 1908, William Hope Hodgson's fantasy moment Ali's Jordanian visa is refused. May resolves to go by introduction of the first lesbian character in a mainstream crime novella is now seen as a classic of early, Edwardian sci-fi. herself to Jordan and sort out the problem. This is a true story. series. The programme also features Nicholson Baker's Concluded by Jim Norton. May ..... Souad Faress response to discovering - in the Starr Report - that his erotically Abridged by Doreen Estall. Bee ..... Fenella Woolgar explicit book Vox was one of the love gifts given by Monica Producer: Lawrence Jackson Ali ..... Zubin Varla Lewinsky to President Clinton. Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. Justin ..... Stephen Hogan SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b03z3ghc) First broadcast in September 2007. Eva/Ayasha ..... Deeivya Meir Portraying Real Lives SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b00mbkk4) Militia Man/Official/Minister ..... Peter Polycarpou Actress Maxine Peake meets with actors and, in a series of one Series 8 Newsnight director ..... Jonathan Forbes to one conversations, discusses the challenges of portraying the Allegri's Miserere Lawyer/Octavia ..... Elaine Claxton real-life character as opposed to the fictional. Allegri wrote the chord sequence for his Miserere in the 1630s Director..... Peter Kavanagh. Maxine Peake has tackled many factual roles, including Tracey for use in the Sistine Chapel during Holy Week. SAT 02:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service Temple in Confessions of a Diary Secretary, Joan le Mesurier It then went through the hands of a 12-year-old Mozart, (b07bft32) in Hancock and Joan, the title role in The Secret Diaries of Miss Mendelssohn and Liszt until it finally reached England in the Episode 5 Anne Lister, Anne Scargill in Queens of the Coal Age, Stephen early 20th century and got fixed into the version we know In the guise of Sir Hilary Bray, Bond contacts Blofeld and Hawking's secretary in the 2015 film The Theory of today. learns more about his Alpine hideaway. Read by Joanna Everything, and her infamous portrayal of Myra Hindley in See The soaring soprano line that hits the famous top C and never Lumley. From October 1989. No Evil. fails to thrill has become a firm favourite for concert audiences SAT 03:00 Classic Serial (b01m4c90) Most actors will only face a critical backlash if their portrayal around the world. Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks of King Lear or Jimmy Porter does not meet expectation, but Textile designer Kaffe Fassett, writer Sarah Manguso and Episode 3 what happens if their subject is real? How does this change the conductor Roy Goodman explain how they have all been deeply The final part of Thomas Mann's Nobel Prize winning story of a actor's approach to the character research, is it better or worse affected by this beautiful piece of music. 19th Century merchant family struggling to keep pace with to meet them, does this restrict the boundaries or increase the With Peter Phillips. changing times. J Thomas and Gerda's son Hanno shows no empathy? And what happens if that character is regarded as evil Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional aptitude for business, but may make a great musician. in the public psyche? appeal. Dramatised by Judith Adams with original music by Nico In discussion with friends and colleagues such as Michael Producer: Rosie Boulton Muhly. Sheen, Sally Hawkins, Patricia Hodge, Monica Dolan, Shaun First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2009. Technical presentation by David Fleming Williams Evans and Anne Scargill we discover how different the SAT 01:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbwts) Produced and directed by Chris Wallis approach can and has to be. Episode 10 An Autolycus Production for BBC Radio 4. Producer: Elizabeth Foster. The devastated daredevil sets out to take revenge on his SAT 04:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b01nl675) First broadcast as part of BBC Radio 4's Character Invasion. enemies - one by one. Concluded by Rufus Sewell. Series 5 From 2014. Christopher Syn, a brilliant young scholar, is a Doctor of Hughes, Czerski, Finkelman SAT 09:00 I Did It My Way (b0092lb4) Divinity at Oxford, but his eventual decision to throw away the Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Roy Hudd Bible for the sword in a mad quest for vengeance will influence Professor John Lloyd CBE is joined by comedian Jimmy Carr Much-loved comedian and actor Roy Hudd talks to Peter Reed the rest of his life. for the fifth series. about his radio life and times, with behind-the-scenes stories of Russell Thorndike's 18th Century, Kent-based adventure Three guests are invited to donate one item each and explain making his on-air hit shows: features pirates, smuggling, highwaymen, duels, wicked squires why it deserves a place in the museum. The News Huddlines (06/06/79). Poking fun at topical events and beautiful Spanish ladies. Based on the first two novels John and Jimmy welcome comedian Sean Hughes, physicist Dr and personalities, this series ran for 25 years on BBC Radio 2 (published 1935 and 1936) in the seven-title sequence, 'Doctor Helen Czerski and cuneiform expert Dr Irving Finkel. when Roy was joined by Chris Emmett and his leading ladies Syn on the High Seas' and 'Doctor Syn Returns'. Abridged by First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. Janet Brown, Alison Steadman and June Whitfield. Doreen Estall. SAT 04:30 No Commitments (b01773xl) The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Writer Russell Thorndike (1885-1972) is less well-known than Series 9 (16/01/1999). Roy dons his deerstalker to investigate 'The Case his sister, the actress Dame Sybil Thorndike, but his Doctor Syn Houseroom of the Clockwork Fiend' with June Whitfield. novels hold a special place in the affection of lovers of Anna's love-life seems to be on an even keel, but can the same The Sony Radio Academy Gold award-winning Huddwinks atmospheric, swashbuckling storytelling everywhere. His novels be said for Roger? Stars Angela Thorne. From January 2003. (14/08/86). Chris Emmett and Denise Coffey join Roy for have been filmed with actors as diverse as George Arliss, Peter SAT 05:00 Winston (b007jncr) 'Railway '86 - The Movie!': British Rail's new 'Silver Bullet' Cushing and Patrick McGoohan in the role of Syn, and the Kent Winston in Love train ends up as a runaway express to Aberdeen. village of Dymchurch holds an official 'Day of Syn' every other Clip Clop, Clip Clop Roy also reveals his more dramatic side in Peter Tinniswood's year, to commemorate a home-grown literary folk hero. Father says he's going to marry Mrs Sunderland and cut the rest play The Scan (29/09/1999). Compulsive talker Ernest seeks Producer: Lawrence Jackson of the family off without a bean. reassurance from a protective nurse. Roy's co-star is Judy Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland It's his wedding day. But is he serious? Cornwell. First broadcast in 2006. Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial stars Bill Wallis as Produced by Mik Wilkojc. SAT 01:30 Big Game, Little Game (b00v1rh8) Winston, Maurice Denham as Father, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, SAT 12:00 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves Episode 2 Liz Goulding as Rosie and Christian Rodska as William. (b007jqb0) In the second of two programmes, Mark Stephen charts a Director: Shaun MacLoughlin. The Menace of Totleigh Towers unique swap involving two gamekeepers - one from the First broadcast on BBC Radio in February 1991. Bertie Wooster is obliged to sort out an amorous mix-up Kalahari, the other from the Angus Glens. SAT 05:30 The Rest is History (b079mhls) between his friends. Gamekeeper Andy Malcolm is swapping 40,000 acres of Series 2 PG Wodehouse romp adapted in six parts by Richard Usborne. heather moorland high in the Angus Glens for a reserve on the Episode 6 Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. The game warden from Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of it. Wooster, Vivian Pickles as Aunt Dahlia, Ann Davies as there will travel to Scotland in a unique swap documented for So he's devised a comedy discussion show in order to find out Emerald Stoker, Douglas Blackwell as the Reverend Harold BBC Radio 4. more about it. Pinker and Jonathan Cecil as Boko Fittleworth. The programmes offer the very different perspectives of Along with his historian in residence, Professor Kate Williams, Producer: David Hatch Scottish gamekeeper Andy Malcolm and his South African Frank is joined by Josie Long and Kevin Eldon, who discuss First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980.