Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 May 2016 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 07 MAY 2016 much-loved characters, this time through adult eyes. This Episode 5 abridgement for Book at Bedtime brings a compelling and Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of it. SAT 00:00 Ben Moor - Undone (b008zdkt) important release to Radio 4. So he's devised a comedy discussion show in order to find out Series 2 Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb more about it. Unwelcome for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into the Along with his historian in residence, Professor Kate Williams, Edna and Tankerton return to her home town and attend a fete comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her Frank is joined by Miles Jupp and Zoe Lyons, who discuss King worse than death. beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship with Arthur, Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon and Josephine, and Sir Staring Alex Tregear and Ben Moor. Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same place Walter Raleigh. Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga about magazine editor Edna where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother Jem, and Producers: Mark Augustyn and Justin Pollard Turner entering a parallel world where her version of London is the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust shattered An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May replaced with the city of Undone. before she is able to become her own woman. 2016. Edna Turner ...... Alex Tregear Harper Lee is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill A SAT 06:00 Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote (b007k0m0) Tankerton Slopes ...... Ben Moor Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept over Episode 2 Billy/Carlo ..... Duncan Wisbey and revered by generations since its publication in 1960. She The Adventures of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de Ie Rosie Turner ...... Emma Kennedy lives in Monroeville, Alabama. Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra. Other parts played by the cast. Read by Fenella Woolgar The intrepid Don Quixote is challenged by the Knight of the Producer: Colin Anderson Written by Harper Lee Mirrors. The classic adventure published in 1605. Adapted by Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Radio Comedy and first Abridged by Robin Brooks John Arden. broadcast in February 2008. Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. Starring Bob Grant as Don Quixote, Bernard Cribbins as SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b00drrl5) SAT 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion Sancho Panza, Ronald Baddiley as Cervantes, David Sumner as Series 7 (b00jrnzd) Father Perez and Peter Wheeler as Barber-Surgeon. Chopin's Ballade No 1 in G Minor The Clothes We're In - The State of Men's Fashion Now Music composed by Stephen Boxer. Chopin's Ballade clearly tells a story, and yet that story differs With women's hemlines acting as a social and economic Director: Alfred Bradley for each person who hears or plays it. barometer, Laurence asks what men's fashion says about the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. Pianist Peter Donohoe heads a cast of people whose lives have state we are in. SAT 07:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of been shaped and changed by hearing and playing this SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b0184vh4) Modern American Literature (b00r2cm3) technically demanding, emotionally turbulent piece of music. Legacy: High Green Walls Landscapes, Interiors, Underworlds Featuring: Episode 5 Mark Lawson tells the story of how American writing became Peter Donohoe Cath Staincliffe's drama series returns with High Green Walls. the literary superpower of the 20th century, telling the nation's Pete Rosskamm When the weekly list of unclaimed estates is published, probate stories of money, power, sex, religion and war. Edi Bilimoria researchers, brother and sister team Dan and Rachel, search John Updike, author of the Rabbit quartet of novels, always Richard Bielecki backwards through the family line to find the true heir and get a remembered being inspired by the 1960s Pop Art of Andy Andrew Armstrong slice of the fortune. Warhol and others: an attempt to catch the visual reality of Dr Jay B. Hess The search for deceased reclusive artist Susie P's heir is finally modern America. Updike responded by trying to achieve Joshua Wright over. Twin sister Barbara is still alive but Dan and Rachel are something similar in fiction, depicting the lives of people from Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional disturbed to discover that she has been living in an institution places and backgrounds which had often been ignored. Richard appeal. since the 1950's following a leucotomy that left her severely Ford (The Sportswriter trilogy), John Irving (The Cider House Producer: Rosie Boulton disabled. Rules), Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping, Gilead) and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2008. DAN.....William Ash Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections) also reflect on this mission SAT 01:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00d8yxp) RACHEL.....Claire Keelan to describe the external and internal nature of life in the United Episode 5 SUSAN.....Ellie Meigan Rose States in all its regional and personal variety. The swashbuckling daredevil returns to Kent - but makes a new BARBARA.....Kellie Shirley SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b04jhfqk) enemy. Read by Rufus Sewell. MR WHITE.....Malcolm Raeburn Joan Littlewood and the People's Theatre Christopher Syn, a brilliant young scholar, is a Doctor of KELLY.....Fiona Clarke "Such a woman might easily have been burned as a witch." Divinity at Oxford, but his eventual decision to throw away the Directed by Nadia Molinari. Kenneth Tynan Bible for the sword in a mad quest for vengeance will influence SAT 02:45 John Heilpern - A Patriot for Us (b0076y8y) When Sir Richard Eyre was head of the National Theatre he the rest of his life. Episode 5 wrote to Joan Littlewood asking if he could put on a production Russell Thorndike's 18th Century, Kent-based adventure John Osborne was bankrupt with terrible debts, but continued to of her masterpiece, Oh What a Lovely War. He got a postcard features pirates, smuggling, highwaymen, duels, wicked squires entertain one and all with champagne. Read by Gareth Thomas. in reply. Something to this effect: Dear Richard...I don't know and beautiful Spanish ladies. Based on the first two novels SAT 03:00 Stella Gibbons - Nightingale Wood (b01pkjwp) what you're doing in that building...you should blow it up. (published 1935 and 1936) in the seven-title sequence, 'Doctor Episode 2 To her core, Joan Littlewood was an anti-establishment figure. Syn on the High Seas' and 'Doctor Syn Returns'. Abridged by The young, widowed and pretty Viola Wither finally has the This programme illustrates her determination to create a theatre Doreen Estall. chance to escape her stifling in-laws in Essex. Whilst they are for everybody, touring villages and towns in Northern England Writer Russell Thorndike (1885-1972) is less well-known than spending a month in the Lakes, she and her sister-in-law Tina for nearly a decade and then - when the company settled in East his sister, the actress Dame Sybil Thorndike, but his Doctor Syn escape to Stanton on Sea. London - sending letters to the local trade unions to advertise novels hold a special place in the affection of lovers of Viola is still pining for the dashing Victor Spring - who has the theatre to working people. atmospheric, swashbuckling storytelling everywhere. His novels kissed her - and Tina for the beautiful chauffeur, Saxon - Did she succeed in attracting the audiences she wanted? Sir have been filmed with actors as diverse as George Arliss, Peter likewise. But is it all hopeless? Richard Eyre gives his take on this question, along with Cushing and Patrick McGoohan in the role of Syn, and the Kent Stella Gibbons’ sparkling pre-war comedy of manners Professor Nadine Holdsworth and critic Michael Billington. village of Dymchurch holds an official 'Day of Syn' every other dramatised in two-parts by Christopher William Hill. The programme pieces together a selection of the best archive year, to commemorate a home-grown literary folk hero. Starring Victoria Hamilton as Tina, Dinah Stabb as Mother, from Joan's career. The actors she trained - Victor Spinetti, Producer: Lawrence Jackson Paul Moriarty as Father, Francine Chamberlain as Viola Simon Avis Bunnage, Brian Murphy - explain why working for Joan Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland Bubb as Victor, dam Billington as Saxon, Adjoa Andoh as was different to working with other directors. Murray Melvin, First broadcast in 2006. Edna, Alex Rivers as Hetty, Joan Walker as Phyllis, Ian Masters still going strong and curating the archive at Stratford East, SAT 01:30 Svelte Sylvia and the Hollywood Trimsters as Spurrey, James Lailey as Uncle Frank, Gerald McDermott as introduces us to the Theatre Royal where Joan directed her (b00tgwlc) Mr Brodhurst. company for over 20 years. Madame Sylvia was a tiny, opinionated Norwegian who became Director: Marion Nancarrow Here at the Theatre Royal, Joan created the shows which made the toast of 1920s Hollywood. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. her name - Brendan Behan's The Hostage, Shalegh Delaney's A Employed by Pathe studios, her legendary violent massage SAT 04:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b01ng413) Taste of Honey, Frank Norman's Fings Ain't Wot They Used technique kept stars such as Gloria Swanson ready for their Series 5 T'Be, and of course Oh What a Lovely War. The programme close-ups. Roberts, Cottrell Boyce, Nyman gives a taste of these shows and how they succeeded in being She claimed to be able to make fat ooze from the pores like Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, controversial, innovative, and entertaining at the same time. mashed potato through a colander. A shrewd businesswoman, Professor John Lloyd CBE is joined by comedian Jimmy Carr Produced by Isabel Sutton she made herself into a brand, marketing her techniques for the fifth series. A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. through books, articles and radio programmes across America. Three guests are invited to donate one item each and explain SAT 09:00 Shakespeare: Thereby Hangs A Tale (b01ghgjn) She made her name at a time when the movie boom meant not why it deserves a place in the museum. A Celebration of the Swan of Avon presented by actor and just stars, but audiences were starting to become more self- John and Jimmy welcome screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, broadcaster Simon Russell Beale CBE. conscious about physical appearance. actor/writer/magician Andy Nyman and anatomist Dr Alice A collection of programmes from the BBC archives inspired by She was the very first fitness guru, and kick-started our modern Roberts. and about the glover's son from Stratford. In true Shakespearian obsession with working out. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. style, there will be comedy, tragedy and history: Karen Krizanovich, a film critic and accredited personal trainer, SAT 04:30 No Commitments (b01709vv) * Great Lives – William Shakespeare (BBC Radio 4, 2011) goes to Hollywood in search of Sylvia's story. Series 9 Matthew Parris, TV producer and novelist Daisy Goodwin and She goes to Sylvia's house and the studio where she worked, and Meeting the Family Shakespeare director Dominic Dromgoole discuss what we reads her racy newspaper columns. But she also assesses Will Victoria get more than she bargained for when Emily know, and don't know, about Will's life. Sylvia's legacy, questioning the role that fitness and beauty play brings her new boyfriend home? Stars Angela Thorne. From * Macbeth or Unlucky For Some (BBC Radio 4, 1979) in modern Hollywood as she talks to a celebrity personal trainer January 2003. John Wells stars in a mini-Macbeth from the Edinburgh and joins a class of hula-hoopers on Santa Monica beach. SAT 05:00 Winston (b0080hsj) Festival of 1979. Was Sylvia a pioneering trailblazer - or can we blame her for Winston in Love * Lenny and Will (BBC Radio 4, 2006) the darker side of today's obsession with the body beautiful? Figuratively Speaking Comic-turned-Shakespearian Lenny Henry goes in search of the Producer: Kate Taylor Nancy sparks concern by eloping with Roland. Meanwhile Bard in a programme which indirectly led to him playing A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Father declares he's in love with Mrs Sunderland - figuratively Othello. With Dame Judi Dench and Sir Peter Hall. August 2010. speaking, of course. * Mrs Shakespeare (BBC Radio 4, 1998) SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b065xk29) Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial stars Bill Wallis as Radio dramatisation of Robert Nye's raunchy novel inspired by Go Set a Watchman Winston, Maurice Denham as Father, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, Shakespeare's will: "Item: I gyve unto my wief my second best Episode 10 Liz Goulding as Rosie and Christian Rodska as William. bed with the furniture." Stars Maggie Steed and Kenneth GO SET A WATCHMAN Director: Shaun MacLoughlin Cranham as William and Anne. In the literary event of the year Harper Lee's explosive second First broadcast on BBC Radio in January 1991. * Shakespeare Stories – Romeo & Juliet (BBC Radio 4, 2005) novel has finally been published. Believed lost for decades after SAT 05:30 The Rest is History (b078wsdl) Professor Carol Rutter explores Shakespeare's use of literary the publication of 'To Kill A Mockingbird', this book revisits Series 2 sources for his plots. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 May 2016 Page 2 of 10 * Hark! (clip) (BBC Radio 3, 2008) attempts to uncover the individuality and solve mankind's problems at a stroke. Written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Danny Robins sounds of Shakespeare's London. And if you happen to be a devious American senator with a and Dan Tetsell. * Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and Works of ready supply of frozen dolphins' brains, you give yourself an With Lucy Montgomery. William Shakespeare (BBC Radio 4, 1995) excellent chance of ruling the world as well ... Music by Dominic Haslam and Ben Walker. Comedy featuring the National Theatre of Brent, which brings Steve Walker's tense drama 'The Dolphinarium' stars Michael Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor its 'unique' vision to Julius Caesar, with a little help from guest Cochrane, Bill Paterson and Madhav Sharma. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2005. stars Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walter. Sir Hartley Tixover ...... Michael Cochrane There's also readings of Shakespeare's sonnets, enhanced with Duncan MacNab ...... Bill Paterson music and effects, featuring Sir Ian McKellen. Jiddu Dutt ...... Madhav Sharma SUNDAY 08 MAY 2016 Producer: Nick St. George. Senator Muldoon ...... Ed Bishop Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in April 2012. Bobby Muldoon ...... Briony Glassco SUN 00:00 Steve Walker - The Dolphinarium (b079rkxp) SAT 12:00 Elephants to Catch Eels (b007mcc4) Mr Takashita ...... Eiji Kusuhara [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Series 1 Constanza ...... Avril Clarke SUN 01:00 Clouds in Trousers by Katie Hims (Omnibus) Episode 1 Mrs Carthaverbourne ...... Helen Horton (b079r9jc) If smugglers were the rock stars of the day, Tamsyn Trelawny Master Rao ...... Renu Setna [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] was Drumlin Bay's very own Ms Dynamite-ee-ee. Other parts played by Andrew Branch, Kristin Milward, David SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b079rb02) But how will she cope when a keen young soldier from London Antrobus and Michael Tudor Barnes. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] is appointed the new local customs collector.? Director: Gordon House SUN 02:15 Frankly Speaking (b079rbns) 18th century Cornish village sitcom by the writers of Dead A BBC Radio 4/BBC World Service production first broadcast [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] Ringers - Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain. in April 1995. SUN 02:45 Could Do Better (b007znr4) Starring Lucy Speed as Tamsyn Trelawny, John Bowe as Jago SAT 19:00 Shakespeare: Thereby Hangs A Tale (b01ghgjn) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] Trelawny, Cameron Stewart as Major Thomas Falconer, [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 (b04jhfqk) Andrew McGibbon as Captain Marriot, Martin Hyder as Squire SAT 22:00 What Does the K Stand For? (b03ktz0w) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] Bascombe, Julia Deakin as Lady Mary, Mark Felgate as Dewey Series 1 SUN 04:00 Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote (b007k0m0) and Phil Nice as Various Characters. First Love [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] Producer: Jan Ravens. Young Stephen falls in love, makes a self-discovery and breaks SUN 05:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003. his first heart. Modern American Literature (b00r2cm3) SAT 12:30 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting Stephen K Amos's sitcom about his teenage years, growing up [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] (b00fnfnx) black, gay and funny in 1980s South London. SUN 06:00 Cath Staincliffe - Legacy: High Green Walls Series 2 Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos. (b079s2f7) Fragile Peace Himself ... Stephen K Amos Omnibus: Probate researchers Dan and Rachel are on a Linda takes on the mantle of Kofi Annan as she tries to broker a Young Stephen ... Shaquille Ali-Yebuah challenging quest to find an heir to a fortune. Stars William Ash fragile peace between her elderly neighbour Betty and live-in Stephanie Amos ... Fatou Sohna and Claire Keelan. builder Chris. In the strife-torn streets of East London, can Virginia Amos ... Ellen Thomas SUN 07:15 A Woman's World (b00wr8pl) bingo and musical theatre ever be reconciled? Vincent Amos ... Don Gilet The Nail Bar Sitcom written by and starring Linda Smith. Miss Collins ... Gemma Whelan The series on men with jobs in female workplaces continues With Femi Elufowoju Jnr, Jeremy Hardy, Margaret John, PE Teacher ... Harry Jardine with the story of Gareth Apajee, a nail bar worker from Martin Hyder and Chris Neill. Fanni ... Emerald O'Hanrahan Swansea. Gareth tells Chris Ledgard why he decided to train in Producer: Jon Rolph Violin ... Rachel Barnes the beauty industry and discusses the reaction of his family, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. Producer: Colin Anderson colleagues and customers. Chris visits Gower College in SAT 13:00 Clouds in Trousers by Katie Hims (Omnibus) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2013. Swansea and hears that men are starting to take up places on (b079r9jc) SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci - Facts and Fancies beauty therapy courses, but are still in a very small minority. Katie Hims' drama, inspired by Alexandra Harris' book (b007jrlb) SUN 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b01gvq3l) 'Weatherland', imagines Zoe as a woman growing up weathered A Life at the Opera Series 8 - for whom every turn of her life is marked by the weather: Tackling operas and some thoughts on ears. Rosicrucian Armageddon 2 rain, snow, a summer heatwave, a thunderstorm, the threat of a Producer, writer and performer Armando Iannucci presents his Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, flood. All our lives are weather-bound but for Zoe the weather own collection of humorous essays. complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and his never- is more than just what goes on behind the scenes. Compiled by Jenny Baynes. ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever scraps Young Zoe and Alice ...... Sydney Wade Producer: Jonathan James-Moore his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and cat Young Shaun ...... Rhys Gannon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1997. together. Older Zoe ...... Patsy Ferran SAT 22:45 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard Ed joins the modern gaming fraternity when he meets Graham Older Shaun ...... David Reed (b01kbjdj) Pearson - the man who gave the world 'Rosicrucian Juliet ...... Laura Elphinstone Series 3 Armageddon' - and is hired to add some authentic 'oldenspeak' Jim ...... Sam Troughton The Start, the Middle, and the End of Time to its sequel - 'Rosicrucian Armageddon 2'. Whilst he tries to Zoe's mum ...... Katy Carmichael Step into the magically mundane world that is the life of 21st get to grips with NPC's, orbs and the Quest for the Grail his Zoe's dad ...... Tristan Sturrock Century Wizard Mordrin McDonald. An isolated 2000-year-old daughter unexpectedly arrives complete with son, Smile, Music by Jon Nicholls Scottish sorcerer with enough power in his small finger to Japanese tea infuser, dream catcher and native American chants Directed by Tim Dee destroy a town, yet hasn't enough clout to get a speed bump to purge Ed's flat. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. installed outside his cave by the local Council. Even for such a SUN 08:00 The Clitheroe Kid (b007ym1v) SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b079rb02) skilful sorcerer - modern life is rubbish! Series 2 Tony Christie In this episode Mordrin (David Kay) decides he has to do Trouble With Higginbottom Singer Tony Christie chooses 'Come Back to Me' by Sammy something to rescue his chances of ever getting together with When disaster strikes for schoolboy Jimmy, he desperately Davis Jr and 'The Folks Who Live on the Hill' by Peggy Lee. Heather (Hannah Donaldson), who has just announced her needs to raise some cash. SAT 14:15 Frankly Speaking (b079rbns) engagement to slime-ball Aiden (Donald Pirie). He asks Starring Jimmy Clitheroe as The Clitheroe Kid. With Peter Hermione Gingold Bernard The Blue (Jack Docherty) to borrow the Timepiece of Sinclair as Grandfather, Patricia Burke as Mother, Diana Day as The sharp-tongued, eccentric star of stage and film, Hermione Trapathia to travel back in time and make up for all the missed Susan and Leonard Williams as Theodore Craythorpe. Gingold discusses her career with renowned journalist John opportunities with Heather. The Clitheroe Kid ran from 1958 - 1972 - gaining audiences Freeman and theatre critic Philip Hope-Wallace. Cast: above 10 million at its peak. Aged 63 when interviewed, the English-born actress was by Mordrin ...... David Kay Its Lancashire born star, Jimmy Clitheroe (1921-1973) was just then based in the USA and had been living in New York for Geoff ...... Gordon Kennedy 4'3" tall, with a rather shrill voice making him a very believable five years. Bernard ...... Jack Docherty naughty schoolboy - despite being 35 when it began as a one-off Hermione Gingold was born in 1897 and died in 1987. Heather ...... Hannah Donaldson show. Created by James Casey in 1956, a pilot followed and Launched in 1952 on the BBC Home Service, Frankly Speaking Aiden ...... Donald Pirie series 1 proper in 1958. Both writing and producing, James was a novel, ground breaking series. Unrehearsed and DJ ...... Johnny Austin stayed with his creation until it finally came off-air. Jimmy died unscripted, the traditional interviewee/interviewer pairing was Written by David Kay & Gavin Smith. a year later aged just 51. initially jettisoned for three interviewers firing direct questions. Produced by Gus Beattie Theme music by Alan Roper and played by the BBC Northern Early critics described it as 'unkempt', 'an inquisition' and A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. Dance Orchestra conducted by Alyn Ainsworth - with Jimmy described the guest as prey being cornered, quarry being SAT 23:00 Masala FM (b007x0c9) Leach at the Electronic Organ. pursued - with calls to axe the unscripted interview. But the Episode 1 Scripted by James Casey and Frank Roscoe format won out and eventually won over its detractors. Masala FM is East London's premier Asian community radio Producer: James Casey Unknown or very inexperienced broadcasters were employed as station. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1959. interviewers, notably John Betjeman, Malcolm Muggeridge and Owner, Mr Krishna, wants to make some changes and SUN 08:30 Doctor in the House (b007k4s5) Penelope Mortimer. Only 40 or so of the original 100 everyone's scared, except for visiting Bollywood celebrity Out-Patients programmes survive. Johnny 'Muscles' Patel... Medic Simon Sparrow misdiagnoses a boil, while Taffy keeps First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1960. Six-part sitcom written by Meera Syal volunteering for night-shifts. SAT 14:45 Could Do Better (b007znr4) Starring: The misadventures of student doctor Simon Sparrow - adapted Stephen Fry Sanjeev Bhaskar for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's novel 'Doctor Robert Booth summons writer and comic actor Stephen Fry to Nitin Sawheny in the House' published in 1952. his study for a quiet word about his school reports. From Meera Syal Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as November 1987. Nina Wadia Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Edward Cast SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b04jhfqk) Music by Nitin Sawhney. as Taffy Evans and Carol Mason as Nurse. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Producer: Liz Anstee Special guest star: Irene Handl as Mrs Clark. SAT 16:00 Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote (b007k0m0) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1996. Producer: David Hatch [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT 23:30 The Museum of Everything (b007k4r1) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1968. SAT 17:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Series 2 SUN 09:00 The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel Modern American Literature (b00r2cm3) By Royal Appointment (Omnibus) (b079s5n2) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Discover the joys of musical theatre, learn all about the wonder A close up and intimate natural history by John Lewis-Stempel. SAT 18:00 Steve Walker - The Dolphinarium (b079rkxp) of the sea, plus marvel at the monarchy with the museum's new By taking an abandoned field close to his farm, he observes in Kill every living dolphin, we are told, and you destroy human royal theme park. minute detail the behaviour of plants, birds and animals that are Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 May 2016 Page 3 of 10 being displaced by agribusiness. In telling the story of one field, Milk Wood'. By the end of the 1980s, his poetry had firmly [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] he tells the story of our countryside, our language, our religion established his reputation on the other side of the Berlin Wall, MON 02:30 Lisa Owen - Not Working (Omnibus) and our food. But in transforming one field, he creates a haven in Communist East Germany. Former Berlin correspondent (b079ywgp) for one particular animal close to his heart - the brown hare. Stephen Evans explores how Dylan Thomas became a cultural [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] Writer: John Lewis-Stempel export for the British during the Cold War, and how his work MON 03:45 Nan Woodhouse (b01bmjtk) Abridger Barry Johnston helped sustain a generation of East Germans struggling with a [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] Reader: Bernard Hill totalitarian state trying to control what they read, wrote and MON 04:00 Saturday Drama (b00mz3pq) Producer: David Roper thought. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first Producer: Gareth Jones MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (b079yy3s) broadcast in May 2016. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b079s5n4) SUN 17:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b01gvq3l) MON 05:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b01gvq3l) Frances Ruffelle [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] Singer Frances Ruffelle chooses 'All Your Pals May Leave You' SUN 18:00 The Female Ghost (b007517g) MON 06:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00db5kw) by Kate Carney and 'Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien' by Edith Piaf. The Demon Lover Episode 6 SUN 10:15 World Book Club (b079s64s) Mrs Drover nervously returns to her old London house in the When Mipps re-appears on the scene, daring smuggling runs F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Blitz to discover a letter on the hall table - a reminder of a soon follow. Read by Rufus Sewell. Jay McInerney and Anne Margaret Daniel discuss F Scott special rendezvous she can't fully recollect. Christopher Syn, a brilliant young scholar, is a Doctor of Fitzgerald's classic Jazz Age novel. With Harriett Gilbert. From A series of ghostly stories by women dramatised by Christopher Divinity at Oxford, but his eventual decision to throw away the May 2013. Hawes. Bible for the sword in a mad quest for vengeance will influence SUN 11:15 The Moth Radio Hour (b079s6nk) Elizabeth Bowen's eerie tale stars Jenny Howe as Mrs Drover, the rest of his life. Series 2 Stephen Thorne as , Jonathan Keeble as the Soldier, Christopher Russell Thorndike's Kent-based adventure featuring pirates, Paul Bowles, Exile, and a Bar Mitzvah Scott as Mr Drover, Maggie Steed as Elizabeth Bowen, Shirley smuggling, highwaymen, duels, wicked squires and beautiful True stories told live in the USA: George Dawes Green Dixon as Mother and Stephen Thorne as Father. Spanish ladies. Based on the first two novels (published 1935 introduces tales of family conflict, Morocco and meeting your Producer: Marion Nancarrow and 1936) in the seven-title sequence, 'Doctor Syn on the High neighbours. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1997. Seas' and 'Doctor Syn Returns'. Abridged by Doreen Estall. The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated SUN 18:30 Voices From the Grave (b007jwn6) Writer Russell Thorndike (1885-1972) is less well-known than to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since The Parson his sister, the actress Dame Sybil Thorndike, but his Doctor Syn 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling Back from missionary work abroad, Reverend Martin Stokes novels hold a special place in the affection of lovers of novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and stumbles into a nightmare of biblical proportions abroad. atmospheric, swashbuckling storytelling everywhere. His novels yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George David Varela's horror stars Mark Bazeley as Rev. Martin have been filmed with actors as diverse as George Arliss, Peter Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in Stokes, Lynne Verrall as Mrs Cameron, Geoffrey Beevers as Cushing and Patrick McGoohan in the role of Syn, and the Kent Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the Bishop Millcock, Wayne Foskett as Randall, Stephen Hogan as village of Dymchurch holds an official 'Day of Syn' every other screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, Sid and Gerard McDermott as Joseph. year, to commemorate a home-grown literary folk hero. The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at Voices From The Grave is a series of four chilling and intimate Producer: Lawrence Jackson theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the dramas, inspired by existing ghost stories from around Britain. Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland USA, the UK and other parts of the world. The writers make these stories more than simply scary - they First broadcast in 2006. The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and are studies of humanity, love, rage and despair, of passion, MON 06:30 Australian Wanted in Woodhall Spa without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The longing and pain. (b00wsqv9) Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. David has written plays for BBC Radio 4 as well as for TV and Chris Ledgard tells the story of one small-scale international Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the film. cricket exchange and explores its rich history: the tradition of humorous to the heart-breaking. Producer: Luke Fresle overseas cricketers playing for amateur clubs in the backwaters The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007. of England. Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour (b079s6nk) 'Australian wanted for Woodhall Spa Cricket Club'. Such by the Public Radio Exchange. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] adverts can be found on any number of English cricket club SUN 12:00 The Clitheroe Kid (b007ym1v) SUN 19:45 The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel websites. All over England, small cricket clubs welcome foreign [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] (Omnibus) (b079s5n2) players for the summer eason, committing themselves to SUN 12:30 Doctor in the House (b007k4s5) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] supporting the players - with work or accommodation - on the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN 20:55 Inheritance Tracks (b079s5n4) understanding that they'll bring a sparkle to the score sheet. SUN 13:00 Cath Staincliffe - Legacy: High Green Walls [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] This documentary follows one such exchange at Potterne (b079s2f7) SUN 21:00 World Book Club (b079s64s) cricket club in Wiltshire and weaves in its rich and fascinating [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] history - which has seen some noble names playing in obscure SUN 14:15 A Woman's World (b00wr8pl) SUN 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week (b01gvq3l) places. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Chris meets Zimbabwean cricketer Dylan Higgins, who's come SUN 14:30 Lisa Owen - Not Working (Omnibus) SUN 22:30 Hearing With Hegley (b00bbnvw) to this quintessentially English village club direct from Harare. (b079ywgp) Series 1 The team captain is Graham Gaiger, who runs the construction Episode 1 Episode 5 company that provides Dylan with a job. Will the incoming Thirtysomething Claire Flannery has quit her job to discover The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley, presents sporting hero meet the expectation of the club? And how do her true vocation, only to realise she has no idea how to go a selection of his work. overseas players go down with the local girls? about finding it. With contributions from Keith Moore, Susan Norton, Andrew A fascinating, light-hearted observational documentary with a In her muddled but somehow impeccable logic she discovers Bailey and Nigel Piper. backbone of social history, on what happens when a new face is that, 'the more time you have, the less time you have'. As the Producer: Phil Clarke brought into the bosom of a tight band of sporting fanatics. weeks stretch into months with nothing to show but an First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1996. Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery overflowing internet search history and an unintended feud with SUN 22:45 No Tomatoes (b0081snn) MON 07:00 Elephants to Catch Eels (b007nchq) her mother, Claire finds herself sinking under pressure and Doctor Doom Series 1 wondering where her life fell apart. A moody fridge speaks out to Paul Copley and Helen Moon. Episode 2 Lisa Owens's comic debut novel tells the story of a life Sketch show mixing up language and sounds. From October Sly barmaid Tamsyn Trelawny and her band of smugglers battle unravelling in minute and spectacular ways, voicing the 2007. to try and outwit local customs officer, Captain Marriott. questions we've all asked ourselves but never dared to say out SUN 23:00 The Shuttleworths (b007m950) 18th century Cornish village sitcom by the writers of Dead loud. John Shuttleworth's Open Mind Ringers - Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain. Read by Emily Bruni Vampires Starring Lucy Speed as Tamsyn Trelawny, John Bowe as Jago Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes abridged by Robin On the trail of vampires, John Shuttleworth visits Whitby. Trelawny, Cameron Stewart as Major Thomas Falconer, Brooks. But when the investigation hits full tilt he gets worried about the Andrew McGibbon as Captain Marriot, Martin Hyder as Squire Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. health of next-door neighbour Ken Worthington. Could he be Bascombe, Julia Deakin as Edna, Mark Felgate as Dewey and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. Dracula's latest victim? Phil Nice as Roy. SUN 15:45 Nan Woodhouse (b01bmjtk) Sheffield's premier singer-songwriter continues his probe into Producer: Jan Ravens. The Reconstruction Job unsolved phenomena. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003. Retirement didn't suit Tommy at all. But perhaps the new life of With a guest appearance by Fame Academy's Alistair Griffin. MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b0785rmw) the mill had something to offer him. Read by Russell Dixon. Written and performed by Graham Fellows. Series 16 SUN 16:00 Saturday Drama (b00mz3pq) Additional material by Dean Wilkinson. Episode 5 Annie Caulfield - The Von Trapps And Me Producer: Dawn Ellis David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians Annie Caulfield's comedy tells the famous story of the Von First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2006. are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to Trapp family singers from the perspective of the Princess SUN 23:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages (b01hxt9l) see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their Yvonne, the woman Captain Von Trapp jilted in order to marry Series 1 opponents. Maria. Episode 1 Henning Wehn, Jon Richardson, Susan Calman and Jack Dee Princess Yvonne ...... Helen Froggatt Chief registrar Malcolm Fox is a stickler for regulations at are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on Helena ...... Helen Baxendale Woodborough Register Office. Sitcom set in a local registry subjects as varied as the British aristocracy, funerals, nudity and Captain Von Trapp ...... James Fleet office, starring David Schneider. From May 2012. rubber. Maria ...... Helen Ayres The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the Boy ...... Benjamin Askew team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Girl ...... Lizzy Watts MONDAY 09 MAY 2016 Produced by Jon Naismith Reverend Mother ...... Caroline Guthrie A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. Sam ...... Mark Meadows MON 00:00 The Female Ghost (b007517g) MON 08:00 Parsley Sidings (b01nw83v) Directed by Mary Ward-Lowery. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Series 1 SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (b079yy3s) MON 00:30 Voices From the Grave (b007jwn6) The Beauty Queen Contest Cold War Poet [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] Parsley Sidings' glamorous announcer Gloria Simpkins is BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the MON 01:00 Cath Staincliffe - Legacy: High Green Walls pressured into promoting the sleepy station. BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Cold War Poet'. (b079s2f7) Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Ian Lavender as Bert, Kenneth Within a year of his death, Dylan Thomas exploded into [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] Connor as Percy, Liz Fraser as Gloria and John Graham as occupied West Germany with his popular radio play 'Under MON 02:15 A Woman's World (b00wr8pl) Phineas Perkins. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 May 2016 Page 4 of 10 Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway F Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel about aspiration in boom-time Johnny Ball & David Aaronovitch station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station for America. Read in 10-parts by Sam Robards. Matthew Parris is joined by TV presenter Johnny Ball and the generations and the current Station Master, Horace, hopes that Abridged by Neville Teller. journalist David Aaronovitch to discuss paperbacks by JG his son Bert will continue the line. Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk Producer: Duncan Minshull Farrell, Hugh Thompson and Flann O'Brien. From 2002. Bert wants to work anywhere but on the railways. His colleague, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien Station Announcer Gloria Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter MON 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Publisher: Flamingo Percy Valentine is an archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Psychology and the Mind (b0415hb6) The White Rock by Hugh Thompson Signalman, Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made High Anxieties Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson remedies in equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is Psychology is as old as the human race. People have always The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell Phineas Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop sought to understand what makes us think, feel and act the way Publisher: Phoenix Press. down the line. we do. MON 19:00 Parsley Sidings (b01nw83v) Re-created Announcements by Keith Skues. In Episode 1, Martin examines the government's plan for a [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Producer: Edward Taylor national 'happiness index' and traces our search for ourselves MON 19:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1971. back to the ancients. (b007jzkv) MON 08:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook The term 'psychology' was first used in about 1600 and means, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] (b007jzkv) literally, 'study of the soul'. But it was only in the late 19th MON 20:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00db5kw) Brian Allington century that psychology emerged as a separate science. Today it [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] The common image of the breed of actors as selfish, draws on the intellectual legacy of philosophy, physiology and, MON 20:30 Australian Wanted in Woodhall Spa chameleonic and unreliable is almost always quite unjustified. increasingly, neurobiology and social science. (b00wsqv9) After all, to be realistic, what sort of professional future could The author and broadcaster Martin Sixsmith retrained as a [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] someone like that possibly expect to have? psychologist in the last decade, following careers as a BBC MON 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fbr) The doyen of British show business, J Kingston Platt shares correspondent and government adviser. Martin's experience [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his both studying applied psychology and as a recipient of therapy MON 21:15 Hamlet (b03xhkyv) experience from the past 40 years. reflects the growing acceptance of psychological counselling in [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Performed and written by Peter Jones. Britain and the lessening of the stigma attached to mental MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b0785rmw) Producer: Pete Atkin illness. There has been a growth of interest in the therapeutic [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1986. aspects of psychology, but many of us still have a frustratingly MON 22:30 Kevin Eldon Will See You Now (b01l7vnm) MON 09:00 The Write Stuff (b00qj216) incomplete knowledge of its history, techniques and broader Series 1 Series 12 applications. Welcome Anton Chekhov This series taps into a defining aspect of modern existence and Comedy's best kept secret ingredient gets his own sketch show. THE WRITE STUFF addresses the widespread desire to know more, charting the Sketches, characters, sound effects, bit of music, some messin' James Walton presides over another episode of the literary quiz. path from today's democratisation of psychological care back to about, you know... John Walsh and Lynne Truss return as team captains with guests early beliefs, the birth of modern experimental psychology, the In this episode, a robot king, a 50s Spaceman, a ghastly Lottery, Peter Kemp and Tibor Fischer. related 'psy professions' - psychiatry and psychotherapy - and some crabs, a kitten, disco and John Donne. The author of the week and subject for pastiche is Anton the splits and controversies of the 20th century. Kevin Eldon is a comedy phenomenon. He's been in virtually Chekhov and the reader is Beth Chalmers. Produced by Alan Hall and Sara Parker every major comedy show in the last fifteen years, but not PRODUCER SAM MICHELL. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. content with working with the likes of Chris Morris, Steve MON 09:30 Tony's (b007jt0l) MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b0145xz7) Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Harry Enfield and Paul Series 1 Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad Whitehouse, Stewart Lee, Julia Davis and Graham Linehan, he's Charles Getting to Know You finally decided to put together his own comedy series for BBC Money starts to go missing from the corner-shop barber's till, so Episode 1 - Getting to know you. Radio 4. who is the thief? Stars Victor Spinetti. From October 1979. 2005. Bee, a London journalist, contacts May, an Iraqi After all the waiting - Kevin Eldon Will See You Now. MON 10:00 Maria Edgeworth - The Absentee (b079z6rw) academic, about life in her battle-scarred country. Neither Appearing in this episode are Amelia Bullmore (I'm Alan Episode 1 foresees the dramatic events that will change their lives. Partridge, Scott & Bailey), Julia Davis (Nighty Night), Paul Lady Clonbrony, determined to be accepted by fashionable May ..... Souad Faress Putner (Little Britain), Justin Edwards (The Consultants) and London society, has sunk her family into debt to the Bee ..... Fenella Woolgar David Reed (The Penny Dreadfuls) with special guest Philip moneylender, Mordecai. Ali ..... Zubin Varla Pope (Radio Active). She wants her son to make a good marriage, but his affections Justin ..... Stephen Hogan Written by Kevin Eldon, with additional material by Jason are not to be bought. Eva/Ayasha ..... Deeivya Meir Hazeley and Joel Morris (Flight Of The Conchords, That Published in 1812, Maria Edgeworth's novel stars Stephen Rea Militia Man/Official/Minister ..... Peter Polycarpou Mitchell & Webb Sound) and Anna Healy. Newsnight director ..... Jonathan Forbes Original music by Martin Bird Dramatised in two parts by Nick McCarty. Lawyer/Octavia ..... Elaine Claxton Produced & directed by David Tyler Lord Colambre... Stephen Rea Director..... Peter Kavanagh. A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. Grace Nugent... Anna Healy MON 14:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b07b0fh8) Lord Clonbrony... T P McKenna (b079zfs9) Series 17 Lady Clonbrony... Francine Mulrooney Episode 1 Episode 4 Whipp ... Ben Onwukwe Hunting for SPECTRE boss Ernst Stavro Blofeld in France, Jeremy Hardy, Sarah Kendall, Michael Deacon and Holly Paddy/Larry... Billy Boyle agent 007 James Bond meets a tragic contessa. Joanna Lumley Walsh are Miles' guests for this episode of News Quiz Extra, Sir Terence O'Fay ... James Berwick reads Ian Fleming's thriller in ten parts. the bumper bonus version of Friday's programme. Moredecai ... Terence Edmond First published in 1963, this was Fleming's 11th Bond novel, Producer.... Tamara Shilham Sir James Brooke ... David Bannerman sandwiched between 'The Spy Who Loved Me' and 'You Only A BBC Radio Comedy Production. With Fraser Kerr, Danielle Allan, Emma Gregory,Jenny Howe, Live Twice'. In movie terms, this was the sixth of the original MON 23:45 Paperback Hell (b0076cp2) Elizabeth Kelly, Auriol Smith, Ian Lindsay and Andrew Bond movie franchise with George Lazenby playing the hero Series 1 Wincott. and Diana Rigg as Tracy. Ensign Mandalay's Hat Producer: Claire Grove The reader Joanna Lumley had a small, unnamed role in the Can male pattern baldness be cured? Another spoof chapter of a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1991. 1969 film of 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', being simply bestseller. With Dan Tetsell and Alex Lowe. From June 2003. MON 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fbr) referred to as 'The English Girl'. Shaft Abridged by Michael Bakewell. An awkward encounter between a suited American and a Producer: David Benedictus TUESDAY 10 MAY 2016 pregnant woman in a stuck lift. Written and read by Anne First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989. Enright. MON 15:00 Maria Edgeworth - The Absentee (b079z6rw) TUE 00:00 Ben Moor - Undone (b0090vcf) MON 11:15 Hamlet (b03xhkyv) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Episode 1 MON 16:00 The Write Stuff (b00qj216) TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b00765v8) The Castle of Elsinore in Denmark. The court is uneasy. The [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] king of Denmark has recently died and the throne has been MON 16:30 Tony's (b007jt0l) TUE 01:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00db5kw) claimed by the king's brother, Claudius. Prince Hamlet, still in [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] mourning for his father, distrusts Claudius and believes that MON 17:00 Elephants to Catch Eels (b007nchq) TUE 01:30 Australian Wanted in Woodhall Spa (b00wsqv9) what has happened at the court 'cannot come to good' [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] Original music composed and realised by Roger Goula MON 17:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b0785rmw) TUE 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Director: Marc Beeby [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] (b007jmy8) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. MON 18:00 Ben Moor - Undone (b0090vcf) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] MON 12:00 Parsley Sidings (b01nw83v) Series 2 TUE 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Unification and the Mind (b0415hb6) MON 12:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook Edna must avert an inter-dimensional apocalypse at Tankerton's [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] (b007jzkv) wedding. TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b0145xz7) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga about magazine editor Edna [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] MON 13:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00db5kw) Turner entering a parallel world where her version of London is TUE 02:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] replaced with the city of Undone. (b079zfs9) MON 13:30 Australian Wanted in Woodhall Spa Edna Turner ...... Alex Tregear [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] (b00wsqv9) Tankerton Slopes ...... Ben Moor TUE 03:00 Maria Edgeworth - The Absentee (b079z6rw) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Billy/Carlo ..... Duncan Wisbey [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] MON 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Ida ..... Sophie Duvall TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff (b00qj216) (b007jmy8) Vicar ..... John Dougall [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] Episode 1 Prince ..... Kevin Eldon TUE 04:30 Tony's (b007jt0l) "I had a view of water, a partial view of my neighbour's lawn Other parts played by the cast. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] and the consoling proximity of millionaires." Producer: Colin Anderson TUE 05:00 Elephants to Catch Eels (b007nchq) It's the Jazz Age in roaring 1920s America. Nick Carraway Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Radio Comedy and first [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] moves to the East Coast, next door to the mysterious playboy, broadcast in February 2008. TUE 05:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b0785rmw) Jay Gatsby. MON 18:30 A Good Read (b00765v8) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 May 2016 Page 5 of 10 TUE 06:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbblm) With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden. University specializing in Jane Austen. Bee Rowlatt works at Episode 7 Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, the BBC World Service in London as a reporter. For some time The swashbuckling adventurer becomes the Scarecrow - leader London. Announcer: Douglas Smith they've been exchanging emails initially as part of Bee's work of the smuggling Night Riders. Read by Rufus Sewell. Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio and a curious friendship has grown up. Christopher Syn, a brilliant young scholar, is a Doctor of comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric May ..... Souad Faress Divinity at Oxford, but his eventual decision to throw away the Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Bee ..... Fenella Woolgar Bible for the sword in a mad quest for vengeance will influence Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the Ali ..... Zubin Varla the rest of his life. scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and Justin ..... Stephen Hogan Russell Thorndike's 18th Century, Kent-based adventure 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, Eva/Ayasha ..... Deeivya Meir features pirates, smuggling, highwaymen, duels, wicked squires catchphrases and double-entendres. Marty departed after series Militia Man/Official/Minister ..... Peter Polycarpou and beautiful Spanish ladies. Based on the first two novels 3. Newsnight director ..... Jonathan Forbes (published 1935 and 1936) in the seven-title sequence, 'Doctor Scripted by Barry Took, Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer. Lawyer/Octavia ..... Elaine Claxton Syn on the High Seas' and 'Doctor Syn Returns'. Abridged by Music by the Max Harris Group. Director..... Peter Kavanagh. Doreen Estall. Producer: John Simmonds TUE 14:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service Writer Russell Thorndike (1885-1972) is less well-known than First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in May 1968. (b07b2sbd) his sister, the actress Dame Sybil Thorndike, but his Doctor Syn TUE 08:30 The Men from the Ministry (b0153cxh) Episode 2 novels hold a special place in the affection of lovers of Plane Madness Having rescued the beautiful contessa, 007 gains an unlikely atmospheric, swashbuckling storytelling everywhere. His novels Events take off as the idle duo welcome an office efficiency ally and a lead in his search for Blofeld. Read by Joanna have been filmed with actors as diverse as George Arliss, Peter expert. Lumley. From October 1989. Cushing and Patrick McGoohan in the role of Syn, and the Kent Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. With Norma TUE 15:00 Maria Edgeworth - The Absentee (b07b2phd) village of Dymchurch holds an official 'Day of Syn' every other Ronald, Ronald Baddiley, John Graham and Dilys Laye. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] year, to commemorate a home-grown literary folk hero. Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham. TUE 16:00 Counterpoint (b00df97y) Producer: Lawrence Jackson 'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 2005 Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from Episode 3 First broadcast in 2006 . 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, Ned Sherrin hosts the music quiz with Peter Ashman and TUE 06:30 Not Fade Away (b00tt5cv) however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows Steven Gore from Buckinghamshire and Judicaelle Hammond How do you end a piece of music? For 500 years pieces always in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC of London. had a clear ending. But in the 20th Century music often ended Radio 4 Extra. TUE 16:30 Flying the Flag (b00c39mw) with a fade out instead. Stuart Maconie looks at how and why Producer: Edward Taylor Series 3 this change came about. First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in June 1974. Drugs, Mr Ambassador? Pop songs often fade but classical music nearly always has a TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b07b0fh8) "Drugs, Mr Ambassador?" very clear ending, often a climax with all the performers playing [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] "We didn't need drugs in my day, William. We had something a rousing cadence which almost guaranteed applause. TUE 09:45 Paperback Hell (b0076cp2) else to sustain us - we called them standards." An early exception is Haydn's Farewell Symphony of 1772 [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] Fortified by caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, the diplomats tackle which ends with the players leaving the stage one by one, until TUE 10:00 Maria Edgeworth - The Absentee (b07b2phd) the drug barons. there are only two players left. Haydn wrote it as a hint that the Episode 2 Series 3 of Alex Shearer's Eastern bloc embassy sitcom. players needed a break. Lord Colambre has travelled to Ireland for the first time to visit Starring Dinsdale Landen as HM Ambassador Mackenzie, Peter Holst's Planets Suite (written 1914 -16) ends with a chorus of the Clonbrony estates. Acre as William Frost, Moir Leslie as Helen Waterson, Stephen women's voices sound fading into nothing - perhaps the first But unknown to him, Lady Dashfort is determined to trap him Greif as US Ambassador Spiro Weinberg and Christopher true example of a fade in music. into marriage with her daughter Isabel. Benjamin as Colonel Surikov. At the same time, recording technology was developing and Stephen Rea and Anna Healy star in the conclusion of Maria Producer: Neil Cargill fades could be created by moving away from the recording Edgeworth's novel First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1990. horn. And record companies began imposing endings for Lord Colambre... Stephen Rea TUE 17:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting commercial reasons or to fit it onto a side of a 78 record, Grace Nugent... Anna Healy (b00fn0jh) sometimes with quite brutal results. Paddy... Billy Boyle [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] With the advent of modern recording techniques it became easy Whipp ... Ben Onwukwe TUE 17:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters (b041y1n3) to create a fade electrically and from the 1950s onwards this Sir Terence O'Fay ... James Berwick [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] became commonplace. Lord Clonbrony... T P McKenna TUE 18:00 The House on the Borderland by William Hope But it was in the 1960s when the fade came into its own, Lady Clonbrony... Francine Mulrooney Hodgson (b007x08g) particularly with the iconic 2 minute fade of Hey Jude. 0'Halloran.... Shay Gorman 1. The Manuscript So has the fade out simply become a lazy way to end a song? Garraghty...John O'Mahoney Two friends are camping near the bleak ruins of a huge old And what happens when that song is played live and a fade isn't With Fraser Kerr, Danielle Allan, Emma Gregory, Jenny Howe, house in a remote spot in the west of Ireland, when they possible? Elizabeth Kelly, Auriol Smith, Ian Lindsay, Andrew Wincott discover a ragged manuscript. Stuart Maconie draws from his own experience as a dj and we and Terence Edmond. It purports to be the journal of an old recluse who once lived in also hear from Stephen Johnson presenter of BBC Radio 3's Dramatised by Nick McCarty. the house with his sister. The manuscript describes his Discovering Music, Jacob Smith Lecturer in Film and Producer: Claire Grove terrifying experiences of being besieged by supernatural Television Studies and remastering engineer Roger Beardsley. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1991. creatures and another dimension... And Martyn Ware of Heaven 17 talks about ending songs live TUE 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fc5) Read by Jim Norton. that faded out in the studio versions. Tiger Man First published in 1908, William Hope Hodgson's fantasy First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. As the second Gulf War erupts, Simon wants to 'retard thought novella is now seen as a classic of early, Edwardian sci-fi. TUE 07:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting implantation'. Written by Mimi Thebo. Read by Stephen Abridged in four parts by Doreen Estall. (b00fn0jh) Perring. Producer: Lawrence Jackson Series 2 TUE 11:15 Hamlet (b03yns3l) Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. Poltergeist Episode 2 First broadcast in September 2007. Linda Smith's life of Riley is interrupted by an idle poltergeist The ghost of Hamlet's father has told Hamlet that he was TUE 18:30 Best of British Laughs - Morecambe and Wise after a Psychic Fayre, and live-in builder Chris reveals an murdered by Claudius. Hamlet wants revenge - but is the ghost (b07b30dr) unwanted Gift. telling him the truth? From early days to their rise as kings of comedy, Eric Sitcom written by and starring Linda Smith. Original music composed and realised by Roger Goula Morecambe and Ernie Wise reminisce with Barry Took. With Femi Elufowoju Jnr, Jeremy Hardy, Margaret John, Director: Marc Beeby The duo recall their big breaks and the importance of good Martin Hyder and Chris Neill. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. writers in their success, initially Sid Green and Dick Hills and Producer: Jon Rolph TUE 12:00 Round the Horne (b00td9bn) later Eddie Braben. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Illustrated with excerpts from BBC and private recordings TUE 07:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters (b041y1n3) TUE 12:30 The Men from the Ministry (b0153cxh) Surviving episode from Barry Took's series of interviews with Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] some of the greats of British comedy. Eleanor and Mr Woodfield TUE 13:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbblm) Producer: John Browell Isy Suttie returns to her Derbyshire home town of Matlock and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1971 observes the unfolding romance between dinner lady, Eleanor, TUE 13:30 Not Fade Away (b00tt5cv) TUE 19:00 Round the Horne (b00td9bn) and teacher, Mr Woodfield. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Both are unhappily married, but find solace in their workplace TUE 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby TUE 19:30 The Men from the Ministry (b0153cxh) friendship. (b007jmyr) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Isy's Sony Award winning show, recounts a series of love stories Episode 2 TUE 20:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbblm) affecting people she's known throughout her life, told partly Nick becomes embroiled in the workings of Tom's affair and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] through song. the stories of Gatsby's extravagant parties. Read by Sam TUE 20:30 Not Fade Away (b00tt5cv) Sometimes Isy has merely observed other people's love lives; Robards. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] quite often she's intervened, changing the action dramatically - TUE 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology TUE 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fc5) for better or worse. Intertwined within these stories are related and the Mind (b041dm1y) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] real life anecdotes from Isy's own, often disastrous, love life. The Freudian Age TUE 21:15 Hamlet (b03yns3l) With her multi-character and vocal skills, and accompanied by In Episode 2, Martin traces a line from current government [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] her guitar, Isy creates a hilarious and deeply moving world, interest in 'talking cures' back to the father of psychoanalysis, TUE 22:00 Isy Suttie's Love Letters (b041y1n3) sharing with us her lessons in life and love. Sigmund Freud, visiting Freud's private apartments and also [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] "A voice you want to swim in" The Independent Europe's oldest mental asylum, the Narrenturm - literally, the TUE 22:30 The Guns of Adam Riches (b01qfjmz) Producer: Lyndsay Fenner Tower of Fools - in Vienna. Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014. Producers: Alan Hall and Sara Parker Mastermind TUE 08:00 Round the Horne (b00td9bn) A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. Mastermind intends to kill the audience, unless a brave Series 4 TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b0145xzc) challenger from the front row can defeat him. Episode 13 Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad Character comedy from 2011 Edinburgh Award winner, Adam Five Go Mad In Ancient Rome, shock news from 'Woman of Secrets Riches. the Year' - and Kenneth Horne discovers Julian and Sandy are Episode 2 - Secrets. With fast-paced, offbeat sketches, songs (there are no songs) multilingual. 2005. May Witwit is an English Literature lecturer at Baghdad and a generous dollop of audience interaction. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 May 2016 Page 6 of 10 Written by Adam Riches village of Dymchurch holds an official 'Day of Syn' every other Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen With Cariad Lloyd and Jim Johnson. year, to commemorate a home-grown literary folk hero. series between 1959 and 1976. Producers: Simon Mayhew-Archer & Rupert Majendie. Producer: Lawrence Jackson Scripted by Lawrie Wyman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013. Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b07chn4m) First broadcast in 2006. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1964. The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats WED 06:30 Launching The Style Decade (b00s7dvt) WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00j3f88) to Tom Walker. Launched in 1980, Robert Elms investigates the origins and Series 9 TUE 23:00 Vent (b00szjy0) influence of The Face, the 'style bible' of the 80s. The magazine Episode 1 Series 1 was at the forefront of a remarkable change in the visual Back after their own individual projects, the bickering comedy Wouldn't You Like to Get Away landscape of Britain in the 1980s: from Sunday newspaper team reconvenes for series 9. Mary and Mum have a break when Ben's unconscious body gets supplements, to television ads, to ordinary high street shop Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, driven to a medical conference in Birmingham. But they can't fronts. David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. quite bring themselves to leave the hospital. Until 1980 music magazines were black and white broadsheet Sketches written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. Meanwhile, Ben's mind also takes a trip. Unfortunately, it's a papers like the NME and Melody Maker. Then in the summer Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue trip back to the hotel in Paris, where he had the most miserable of 1980 The Face changed all that. Started by the former NME ‘Cambridge Circus’, ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and night of his life. and Smash Hits editor Nick Logan, it brought a flash of colour quickly developed a cult following. Dark sitcom written by Nigel Smith. to the magazine industry, mixing pop, politics, photography, Music and songs by Bill Oddie, Liam Cohen and Dave Lee. CAST: fashion and style, all tied together by the iconic design of art Producers: David Hatch/John Cassels Ben …. Neil Pearson director Neville Brody. First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in November 1973. Jean/Mum …. Josie Lawrence The Face advocated that music didn't matter unless everyone WED 09:00 The Motion Show (b00762sc) Mary …. Fiona Allen looked good. With the innovative marriage of fashion and Series 4 Blitzkrieg …. Leslie Ash music, 'the best dressed magazine' quickly became the arbiter of Episode 5 with Dave Lamb, Mark Perry, Jo Martin, Hils Barker, Giles style and cool in 1980s England. Graeme Garden chairs the debating game with Gyles Brandreth, New, Lucy Montgomery, Scarlett Milburn-Smith and Elizabeth At its most successful The Face was at the forefront of every Scott Capurro, Arthur Smith and Paul Daniels. From June Bell. major youth movement and was pivotal in launching the career 2001. Producer: Gareth Edwards of models Kate Moss and photographer Juergen Teller. Taking WED 09:30 Change at Oglethorpe (b007jzwk) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2006. stock, publisher Nick Logan and Neville Brody reveal what they The Thin Controller TUE 23:30 The Wilson Dixon Line (b00kjh14) believe to be the lasting impact of The Face on style and design. David Clare, Oglethorpe’s new Station Master, has got off to a Sweet Home Colorado Producer: Barney Rowntree bad start - falling through the cafe window, being shot at and Cowboy philosopher Wilson Dixon reminisces about his A Somethin Else production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in attacked by a prize ferret - but things look likely to get a lot dysfunctional family and his upbringing in Cripple Creek. 2010. worse when he tries to sack Rocket... Continuing his affectionate tribute to the philosophy of country WED 07:00 Married (b007tm4g) Peter Morfoot's railway sitcom stars Peter Davison and Michael music, Wilson shares more of his viewpoints through songs and Series 2 Williams. anecdotes. The Truth Is Out There David ...... Peter Davison Introduced by Johnnie Walker. Robin uses a scam from his old universe to make himself rich Rocket ...... Michael Williams Saddled up with sidekick Snake Wizzelteats, his observations in his new universe. June ...... Rosemary Martin on everyday life draw the audience into world full of larger than In the process he attracts the attention of the security services Points ...... Phillippa Wilson life characters and situations. and learns the horrible truth about Operation War of the Hattie ...... Madge Hindle Written and performed by Jesse Griffin. Worlds. Sodd ...... Chris Emmett Sidekick Snake Wizzelteats is performed by Jesse Budd. Hugh Bonneville stars in Tony Bagley's comedy. Other parts played by Tessa Worsley, John Hartley and Recorded with an audience at BBC Maida Vale, London. Robin .... Hugh Bonneville Jonathan Keeble. Producer: Lianne Coop Lesley .... Josie Lawrence Producer: Gareth Edwards First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May 2009. Dirk .... Steve Frost First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1995. Murdo …. Lewis MacLeod WED 10:00 Classic Serial (b01lsts9) Elaine …. Janet Ellis Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2016 Vernon …. Simon Greenall Episode 1 Ned …. Sam Bradley Dramatised by Judith Adams with original music by Nico WED 00:00 The House on the Borderland by William Hope Producer: Claire Jones Muhly. Hodgson (b007x08g) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000. Michael Maloney and Barbara Flynn star in this story of an old [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED 07:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Hanseatic merchant family fighting to keep their commercial WED 00:30 Best of British Laughs - Morecambe and Wise Carefully (b04nv6m8) supremacy in the changing world of 1840s Europe. (b07b30dr) Series 2 Four generations of Buddenbrooks try to sustain their [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Testing Times inheritance - a once highly successful trading company in the WED 01:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbblm) It's the day after Lucy's 18th birthday, and her parents aren't port of Lubeck on the Baltic Sea - in a world where the old [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] happy, and not only because she took that bottle of rum from ways no longer work. WED 01:30 Not Fade Away (b00tt5cv) their drinks cabinet. They think she is wasting her life being Harmonium and Flute by Rick Juckes. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] part of the resistance, so unless she can pass her A Levels Technical Presentation by David Fleming Williams. WED 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby they're going to stop her coming to the meetings. Produced by Chris Wallis (b007jmyr) Does it really take a village to raise a child? Or will they make A Watershed production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] things worse? WED 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fcp) WED 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Series two of Eddie Robson's sitcom about an alien race that Putting It Across Psychology and the Mind (b041dm1y) have noticed that those all-at-once invasions of Earth never Can Colin command authority when he becomes the manager [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] work out that well. So they've locked the small of an over-35s amateur football team? Written and read by Matt WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b0145xzc) Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green behind an Harvey. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] impenetrable force field in order to study human behaviour and WED 11:15 Hamlet (b03ynvdd) WED 02:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service decide if Earth is worth invading. Episode 3 (b07b2sbd) The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new In an attempt to find out whether Claudius murdered his father, [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for the Hamlet has arranged for a play featuring a similar murder to be WED 03:00 Maria Edgeworth - The Absentee (b07b2phd) weekend to borrow the money for a deposit for a flat when the performed before the court. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] force field went up. Original music composed and realised by Roger Goula WED 04:00 Counterpoint (b00df97y) So along with Lucy Alexander (the only teenager in the village, Director: Marc Beeby [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] willing to rebel against whatever you've got) she forms The First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. WED 04:30 Flying the Flag (b00c39mw) Resistance - slightly to the annoyance of her parents Margaret WED 12:00 The Navy Lark (b01ly8wn) [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] and Richard who wish she wouldn't make so much of a fuss, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED 05:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting and much to the annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who, WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00j3f88) (b00fn0jh) alongside his unintelligible minions and The Computer (his [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] hyperintelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run the WED 13:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbj0y) WED 05:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters (b041y1n3) invasion. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] Katrina Lyons ...... Hattie Morahan WED 13:30 Launching The Style Decade (b00s7dvt) WED 06:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbj0y) Richard Lyons ...... Peter Davison [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Episode 8 Margaret Lyons ...... Jan Francis WED 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Charlotte tries to discover the identity of The Scarecrow as an Lucy Alexander ...... Hannah Murray (b007jmz5) old foe of Christopher's arrives in Kent. Read by Rufus Sewell. Field Commander Uljabaan ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt Episode 3 Christopher Syn, a brilliant young scholar, is a Doctor of Computer ...... John-Luke Roberts Nick experiences the beauty and allure of Gatsby's summer Divinity at Oxford, but his eventual decision to throw away the Carl ...... Don Gilet parties and meets their elusive host. Read by Sam Robards. Bible for the sword in a mad quest for vengeance will influence Colin ...... Don Gilet WED 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of the rest of his life. Script-edited by Arthur Mathews Psychology and the Mind (b041dmzy) Russell Thorndike's 18th Century, Kent-based adventure Producer: Ed Morrish. It's All about Sex features pirates, smuggling, highwaymen, duels, wicked squires First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014. Freud's development of a new psychological science, and beautiful Spanish ladies. Based on the first two novels WED 08:00 The Navy Lark (b01ly8wn) psychoanalysis, provoked controversy because of his focus on (published 1935 and 1936) in the seven-title sequence, 'Doctor Series 6 sexuality. Syn on the High Seas' and 'Doctor Syn Returns'. Abridged by Johnson's Memoirs In episode 3, Martin examines Freud's legacy, with audio Doreen Estall. When Johnson gets set to take the literary world by storm with archive of his one-time colleague then rival Carl Gustav Jung, Writer Russell Thorndike (1885-1972) is less well-known than his memoirs, Pertwee decides to intervene. his daughter Anna Freud and a new interview with Christopher his sister, the actress Dame Sybil Thorndike, but his Doctor Syn Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Hampton, author of the play 'The Talking Cure'. novels hold a special place in the affection of lovers of Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Producer: Alan Hall atmospheric, swashbuckling storytelling everywhere. His novels Ronnie Barker as Able Seaman Johnson and Heather Chasen as A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. have been filmed with actors as diverse as George Arliss, Peter Heather. WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b0145xzt) Cushing and Patrick McGoohan in the role of Syn, and the Kent Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 May 2016 Page 7 of 10 An Escape Producers: Paul Dodgson & Sean Grundy Stephen who is alongside them in this job exchange. How they Episode 3 - An Escape. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2000. deal with issues ranging from land conservation to animal 2005. May Witwit is a lecturer at Baghdad University, Bee WED 23:15 Guy Browning's Small Talk (b0076d91) welfare and how far experiences in their own landscapes can Rowlatt a reporter for the BBC World Service. For many Series 1 translate into ideas for their new ones, is at the heart of the months they've conducted a curious and moving Duvet Control recordings. correspondence by email. At last, faced by continuous threats to The battle of the sexes rages over cold feet and tog ratings. The The Tswalu game reserve in South Africa is currently owned by her life, May pleas with Bee to help her and her husband writer shares more deep thoughts on trivia. From March 2003. Nicky Oppenheimer's family but was originally the vision of the escape. Bee decides to discuss it with her husband Justin, a WED 23:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (b012qtv1) Manchester entrepreneur Stephen Boler. In a four year period reporter for 'Newsnight'. This is a true story. Series 2 he established the 100 000 hectare reserve and introduced May ..... Souad Faress Episode 1 thousands of game animals, including sable and roan antelope, Bee ..... Fenella Woolgar The human chameleon's host of characters from a chatty school Cape buffalo and cheetah. Following his death in 1999 the Ali ..... Zubin Varla girl to a decrepit charwoman. Oppenheimers purchased Tswalu and set about the task of Justin ..... Stephen Hogan Multi-paced, one woman Fast Show showcasing the exceptional restoring the Kalahari to itself: hunting was stopped, farm Eva/Ayasha ..... Deeivya Meir talent of Lucy Montgomery. buildings and fences were removed and indigenous game like Militia Man/Official/Minister ..... Peter Polycarpou With: the endangered desert black rhino and black-maned Kalahari Newsnight director ..... Jonathan Forbes Philip Pope lions were brought home. The Oppenheimer's regularly spent Lawyer/Octavia ..... Elaine Claxton Sally Grace time at Lord Dalhousie's Invermark estate in Scotland and Director..... Peter Kavanagh. Waen Shepherd although the lands were vastly different the realities of WED 14:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service Natalie Walter overseeing them was not: the idea of an exchange arose from a (b07b3c6d) Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by desire to broaden the experiences of the two management Episode 3 Steven Burge, Jon Hunter, Fay Rusling and Barunka teams. Bond receives confirmation of Blofeld's whereabouts and O'Shaughnessy. Dylan Smith, Tswalu's Projects Manager, is engaged in a huge adopts a disguise in pursuit of his quarry. Read by Joanna Script Editor: Dan Tetsell conservation effort which allows many endangered animals to Lumley. From October 1989. Music by Philip Pope flourish. In some cases, surpluses are used to restock other WED 15:00 Classic Serial (b01lsts9) Producer: Katie Tyrrell. reserves. In Scotland there is a harsher reality; Invermark is a [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2011. traditionally run sporting estate and it's continued survival is WED 16:00 The Motion Show (b00762sc) dependant on producing Red Grouse and Red Deer for [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] shooting. Andy Malcolm and the other five gamekeepers who WED 16:30 Change at Oglethorpe (b007jzwk) THURSDAY 12 MAY 2016 work this 55,000 acre highland wilderness take 700 deer and up [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] to 1200 brace of grouse annually. However they are quick to WED 17:00 Married (b007tm4g) THU 00:00 The House on the Borderland by William Hope point out that there are many other beneficiaries. "It's a well [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Hodgson (b007wznx) documented fact that managing moorland for grouse improves WED 17:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] habitat and increases biodiversity. And at peak times the estate Carefully (b04nv6m8) THU 00:30 Off the Page (b007vl1x) employs up to 40 seasonal workers- grousebeaters, ghillies, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] ponymen and the like. That, in turn, boosts the local economy. WED 18:00 The House on the Borderland by William Hope THU 01:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbj0y) All of this is not always appreciated politically. Hodgson (b007wznx) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] Andy Malcolm's life in Kalahari takes some adjusting to: from 2. The Siege THU 01:30 Launching The Style Decade (b00s7dvt) the tortoise ambling across the road, to adrenalin filled ventures After beginning to read the ragged manuscript purporting to be [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] when he's tracking rhinos and zapping lions: "It's the end of a written by an old recluse, the narrator and his sister face the THU 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby most amazing week...I'm aware of how much I haven't told you. swine-like supernatural creatures' terrifying siege... (b007jmz5) I haven't told you just how amazing this place really is; how Read by Jim Norton. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] extraordinary it is to be seeing so many different animals, birds, First published in 1908, William Hope Hodgson's fantasy THU 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of insects and plants; and how perplexing it is not to know what novella is now seen as a classic of early, Edwardian sci-fi. Psychology and the Mind (b041dmzy) they are; how strange it feels to be in an environment that holds Abridged in four parts by Doreen Estall. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] potential dangers. It's a place that, if it weren't for the roads, Producer: Lawrence Jackson THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b0145xzt) you could imagine nobody had ever been here before you. Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] When I get up in the morning, the first thing I do is open the First broadcast in September 2007. THU 02:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service doors and listen. Back home, you can always hear a river or WED 18:30 Off the Page (b007vl1x) (b07b3c6d) burn, or the wind in the trees, or a dog barking, or a plane flying Lunch is for Wimps [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] over. Here it's a stillness that's more like total deafness. And as I Dominic Arkwright discusses whether we should enjoy a good THU 03:00 Classic Serial (b01lsts9) have breakfast, I listen to the world waking up. lunch, with Giles Coren, Lucy Kellaway and Martin Rowson. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] "And I still haven't scratched the surface of Tswalu..It has a vast From August 2007. THU 04:00 The Motion Show (b00762sc) area of plain crossed with dunes, parallel but half a mile WED 19:00 The Navy Lark (b01ly8wn) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] between them, it has mountains that look higher than anything [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 04:30 Change at Oglethorpe (b007jzwk) we've got and far more inaccessible due to the incredibly WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00j3f88) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] broken ground, it has hidden glens and I've even seen a pond! It [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU 05:00 Married (b007tm4g) has big open areas and dense thicket, it has trees that look so old WED 20:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbj0y) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] and gnarled that they might have seen the very first white men. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 05:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade And it's hot." WED 20:30 Launching The Style Decade (b00s7dvt) Carefully (b04nv6m8) Meanwhile in Scotland Dylan is also adjusting - particularly [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] given the dramatic change in temperature and the very different WED 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fcp) THU 06:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbqwq) tasks undertaken, from cutting firewood for the bothies to [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Episode 9 shovelling gravel into potholes: "this has been one of the most WED 21:15 Hamlet (b03ynvdd) The Dragoons attempt to foil the swashbuckling smugglers' plan unusual weeks I have spent in my entire life.Invermark is an [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] - but tragedy lies ahead. Read by Rufus Sewell. incredible place - I have often heard of the Scottish Highlands WED 22:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Christopher Syn, a brilliant young scholar, is a Doctor of and yet when one hears such talk, one is never truly able to Carefully (b04nv6m8) Divinity at Oxford, but his eventual decision to throw away the capture the essence of a place. In order for this to happen, for a [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Bible for the sword in a mad quest for vengeance will influence place to be indelibly imprinted on ones mind and soul, one WED 22:30 Start/Stop (b03b2zb3) the rest of his life. needs to be drawn into its very heart and soul." Series 1 Russell Thorndike's 18th Century, Kent-based adventure Producer: Sue Mitchell. Fundraiser features pirates, smuggling, highwaymen, duels, wicked squires THU 07:00 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves Three couples sail off into the sunset. And sink. and beautiful Spanish ladies. Based on the first two novels (b007jqb0) Jack Docherty’s sitcom about love, marriage and despair. (published 1935 and 1936) in the seven-title sequence, 'Doctor The Menace of Totleigh Towers Starring Jack Docherty, Charlie Higson, Katherine Parkinson, Syn on the High Seas' and 'Doctor Syn Returns'. Abridged by Bertie Wooster is obliged to sort out an amorous mix-up John Thomson, Fiona Allen and Kerry Godliman. Doreen Estall. between his friends. With their marriages in various states of disrepair - a school Writer Russell Thorndike (1885-1972) is less well-known than PG Wodehouse romp adapted in six parts by Richard Usborne. fundraiser proves unusually challenging for all of them. his sister, the actress Dame Sybil Thorndike, but his Doctor Syn Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie Barney ...... Jack Docherty novels hold a special place in the affection of lovers of Wooster, Vivian Pickles as Aunt Dahlia, Ann Davies as Cathy ...... Kerry Godliman atmospheric, swashbuckling storytelling everywhere. His novels Emerald Stoker, Douglas Blackwell as the Reverend Harold Fiona ...... Fiona Allen have been filmed with actors as diverse as George Arliss, Peter Pinker and Jonathan Cecil as Boko Fittleworth. David ...... Charlie Higson Cushing and Patrick McGoohan in the role of Syn, and the Kent Producer: David Hatch Evan ...... John Thomson village of Dymchurch holds an official 'Day of Syn' every other First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. Alice ...... Katherine Parkinson year, to commemorate a home-grown literary folk hero. THU 07:30 Don't Start (b06vnmy9) Producer Steven Canny Producer: Lawrence Jackson Series 3 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2013. Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland Medical WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b07chn7w) First broadcast in 2006. What do long term partners really argue about? The third series The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats THU 06:30 Big Game, Little Game (b00txjsg) of Frank Skinner's sharp comedy. Starring Frank Skinner and to Tom Walker. Episode 1 Katherine Parkinson. WED 23:00 2000 Years of Radio (b007scys) Mark Stephen charts a unique swap involving two gamekeepers In this episode, Kim is not happy when a theoretical debate Series 1 - one from the Kalahari, the other from the Angus Glens. about her demise reveals Neil's yearning for an accordion. Dark Age FM Gamekeeper Andy Malcolm is swapping 40,000 acres of The first and second series of Don't Start met with instant It's AD 500, history's most miserable time, when Britain was heather moorland high in the Angus Glens for a reserve on the critical and audience acclaim: invaded twice a week and the country was run by a bloke called edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. The game warden from "That he can deliver such a heavy premise for a series with such Arthur. there will travel to Scotland in a unique swap documented for a lightness of touch is testament to his skills as a writer and, But there was always Steve in the Afternoon to help Britons BBC Radio 4. given that the protagonists are both bookworms, he's also through these difficult times The programmes offer the very different perspectives of permitted to use a flourish of fine words that would be lost in Six-part series that taps into the radio archive of a bygone age. Scottish gamekeeper Andy Malcolm and his South African his stand-up routines." Jane Anderson, Radio Times Written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Claire Downes , counterpart Dylan Smith. Both men track their experiences in "Frank Skinner gives full rein to his sharp but splenetic Stuart Lane, Al Holloway, Danny Robbins and Dan Tetsell. the form of audio diaries and in reflections to presenter Mark comedy. He and his co-star Katherine Parkinson play a Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 May 2016 Page 8 of 10 bickering couple exchanging acerbic ripostes in a cruelly Director: Marc Beeby THU 21:15 Hamlet (b03yqj3h) precise dissection of a relationship." Daily Mail First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] "...a lesson in relationship ping-pong..." Miranda Sawyer, The THU 12:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU 22:00 Don't Start (b06vnmy9) Observer (b0080r03) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Don't Start is a scripted comedy with a deceptively simple [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 22:15 The Pin (b06kgbgd) premise - an argument. Each week, our couple fall out over THU 12:30 Radio Active (b007k1r1) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:45 today] another apparently trivial flashpoint. Each week, the stakes [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU 22:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But these are no THU 13:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbqwq) (b042ztrc) ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other with increasingly [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Series 3 absurd images, unexpected literary references and razor sharp THU 13:30 Big Game, Little Game (b00txjsg) Tom Basden analysis of their beloved's weaknesses. Underneath the cutting [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Stand-up Alex Horne and his band explore the theme of home wit, however, there is an unmistakable tenderness. THU 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby and leisure through live music and comedy. An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. (b007jmzm) With songs about radiators, a pork pie and Wayne Rooney THU 07:45 The Pin (b06kgbgd) Episode 4 amongst others. Series 1 Nick finds out more about Gatsby, but can he believe all that he Band...Joe Auckland, Mark Brown, Will Collier, Ben Reynolds, Episode 2 discovers? Read by Sam Robards. Ed Sheldrake Join Alex and Ben in their weird twist on the double-act sketch THU 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of With guest comedian Tom Basden. show. Psychology and the Mind (b041dn0f) Producer: Julia McKenzie Strap in for a 15 minute delve in to a world of oddness Pavlov's Bell First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2014. performed in front of a live studio audience. Starting with the 'conditioned reflex' that the Russian THU 23:00 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation (b04jlrxv) The Pin are an award-winning comedy duo, and legends of physiologist Ivan Pavlov famously identified while studying Series 10 Edinburgh festival. They deconstruct the sketch form, in a show dogs, Martin explores the development of a significant How to Be a Good Citizen that exists somewhere between razor-sharp smartness and alternative to the Freudian way of thinking, 'behaviourism' - Stand by your radios! Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves utterly joyous silliness. including recordings of the controversial American psychologist with a broadcast of national comic import! After a sold-out run in Edinburgh, and a string of hilarious BF Skinner and an interview with his daughter Deborah, who as In this programme, Jeremy attempts to understand citizenship, performances across BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC 3, Channel 4, a child was the subject of her father's close scientific to examine the State and to spell surveillance. Looking over his and Comedy Central, this is The Pin's debut solo show. Join observations. shoulder at the script will be Gordon Kennedy (Absolutely) and them as they celebrate, make, collapse and rebuild their jokes, Producer: Alan Hall Carla Mendonça. each other, and probably the radio too. A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. Jeremy Hardy engages in a free and frank exchange of his For fans of Adam and Joe, Vic and Bob, and Fist of Fun - a THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b0145xzw) entrenched views. Passionate, polemical, erudite and unable to show of absurd offerings from two loveable idiots. Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad sing, Producer: Sam Bryant. Getting it Right Few can forget where they were when they first heard "Jeremy First broadcast in Radio 4 in October 2015. Episode 4 - Getting it right. Hardy Speaks To The Nation". The show was an immediate THU 08:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter Bee, a British journalist, has been helping May, an Iraqi smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on a Saturday night, (b0080r03) university teacher, to escape from the terrible violence in Iraq . which was particularly astonishing since the show went out on Series 2 Their first attempt was poorly planned and a failure. This time Thursdays. The Light Entertainment department was besieged, The Tiff they realize they must be more self-disciplined and plan things questions were asked in the House and Jeremy Hardy himself Author Gerald and his wife Diana squabble over a lunch date. far more professionally. Bee, whose just had her third baby became known as the man responsible for the funniest show on The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring Ian Elsa, goes to see an immigration lawyer. radio since Money Box Live with Paul Lewis. Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his May ..... Souad Faress Since that fateful first series, Jeremy went on to win Sony wife. Bee ..... Fenella Woolgar Awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for With Geoffrey Matthews and Edward Kelsey. Ali ..... Zubin Varla Chemistry. He was a much-loved regular on both The News Written by Basil Boothroyd. Justin ..... Stephen Hogan Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. Producer: Bobby Jaye Eva/Ayasha ..... Deeivya Meir Written by Jeremy Hardy. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1977. Militia Man/Official/Minister ..... Peter Polycarpou Produced by David Tyler. THU 08:30 Radio Active (b007k1r1) Newsnight director ..... Jonathan Forbes A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Series 4 Lawyer/Octavia ..... Elaine Claxton 2014. David Chizzlenutt Director..... Peter Kavanagh. THU 23:30 Hardeep at The Stand (b016lr70) The Radio Active Rep perform Dickens's literary classic - live THU 14:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service Series 1 Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey (b07bb72s) Episode 3 Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. Episode 4 3/6 Music by Philip Pope. Adopting a cover identity, 007 hits Switzerland in search of the Hardeep Singh Kohli takes to The Stand's tiny stage to Written by Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins with John Cantor, elusive Blofeld. Joanna Lumley reads Ian Fleming's thriller. introduce a selection of jokes, stories and revelations from Moray Hunter, John Docherty and Michael Fenton-Stevens. From October 1989. some of the world's best comedians. Producer: Jamie Rix THU 15:00 Classic Serial (b01m0f2b) First up it's the brilliant Carl Donnelly, talking about his dance First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1984. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] moves and problems with cars, Jo Caulfield tells us about her THU 09:00 The Food Quiz (b07b3myf) THU 16:00 The Food Quiz (b07b3myf) move to Edinburgh and Lee Camp combines political ranting Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] with some killer one liners. Episode 2 THU 16:30 Artists (b00xglb7) The programme was recorded late at night in a comedy club, so On Jay Rayner's menu are Marguerite Patten, Clement Freud, [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] inevitably it contains adult themes and the occasional naughty Loyd Grossman and Valentina Harris. From August 2004. THU 17:00 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves word. THU 09:30 Artists (b00xglb7) (b007jqb0) THU 23:45 Knocker (b00890vp) Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Privinvasionacy Inspired THU 17:30 Don't Start (b06vnmy9) Armed with a broken clipboard, puny incentives, inappropriate Grumpy Tamsin is uninspired and blames Dolores, who aims [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] footwear and an unflagging commitment to the Market for a loan to rent her own studio. Stars Mina Anwar. From April THU 17:45 The Pin (b06kgbgd) Researcher's Code of Conduct, Ian Dunn seeks the precious 2003. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:45 today] opinions of a hostile public. THU 10:00 Classic Serial (b01m0f2b) THU 18:00 The House on the Borderland by William Hope CAST: Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks Hodgson (b007www2) Ian Dunn …. Neil Edmond Episode 2 3. The Pit Mary/Mrs Rapidis …. Paula Wilcox Dramatised by Judith Adams with original music by Nico Will the narrator and his dog survive a watery entrapment? Mrs Worth …. Julia Deakin Muhly. First published in 1908, William Hope Hodgson's fantasy Ms Shape …. Tina Gray Michael Maloney, Barbara Flynn. Joseph Millson and Clare novella is now seen as a classic of early, Edwardian sci-fi. Mr Bluff …. Simone Treves Corbett star in this story of an old Hanseatic merchant family Read by Jim Norton. Written by Neil Edmond fighting to keep their commercial supremacy in the changing Abridged in four parts by Doreen Estall. Producer: Tilusha Ghelani world of 1840s Europe. Producer: Lawrence Jackson First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2007. Four generations of Buddenbrooks try to sustain their Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. inheritance - a once highly successful trading company in the First broadcast in September 2007. port of Lubeck on the Baltic Sea - in a world where the old THU 18:30 Great Lives (b055fzbs) FRIDAY 13 MAY 2016 ways no longer seem to work. It's 1848, and the revolutionary Series 11 tide running through Europe has finally reached Lubeck. Will John H Hammond FRI 00:00 The House on the Borderland by William Hope the old merchant families hold on to power? Of the In a career that stretched from 1932 to 1985, legendary record Hodgson (b007www2) Buddenbrook children, only Tom remains to learn the business. producer John Hammond discovered Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Toni is in Hamburg married to Herr Grunlich, and Christian has Aretha Franklin and Bruce Springsteen. He also worked FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b055fzbs) gone to England but would rather be in Valparaiso. tirelessly to end race discrimination in the music industry. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Harmonium and Flute by Rick Juckes Record producer Joe Boyd discusses Hammond's career with FRI 01:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbqwq) Technical Presentation by David Fleming Williams Matthew Parris and with Dunstan Prial, author of a new [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Directed by Chris Wallis biography of Hammond. FRI 01:30 Big Game, Little Game (b00txjsg) An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. THU 19:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] THU 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fd3) (b0080r03) FRI 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Enough Said [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] (b007jmzm) Michael is worried that he might not be able to have children THU 19:30 Radio Active (b007k1r1) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] with his wife, but he has a plan. Written by Philip Gross. Read [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology by Andrew Hilton. THU 20:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbqwq) and the Mind (b041dn0f) THU 11:15 Hamlet (b03yqj3h) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] Episode 4 THU 20:30 Big Game, Little Game (b00txjsg) FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b0145xzw) Following Hamlet's accidental murder of Polonius, Laertes [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] returns to Elsinore bent on revenge. THU 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fd3) FRI 02:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service Original music composed and realised by Roger Goula [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] (b07bb72s) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 May 2016 Page 9 of 10 [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] Starring: FRI 14:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service FRI 03:00 Classic Serial (b01m0f2b) Peter Sellers (b07bft32) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Harry Secombe Episode 5 FRI 04:00 The Food Quiz (b07b3myf) Spike Milligan In the guise of Sir Hilary Bray, Bond contacts Blofeld and [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were learns more about his Alpine hideaway. Read by Joanna FRI 04:30 Artists (b00xglb7) recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest Lumley. From October 1989. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] shows weren’t kept in the archive. FRI 15:00 Classic Serial (b01m4c90) FRI 05:00 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] (b007jqb0) Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. FRI 16:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b01nl675) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Announcer: Wallace Greenslade [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 05:30 Don't Start (b06vnmy9) Producer: Pat Dixon FRI 16:30 No Commitments (b01773xl) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in December 1956. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI 05:45 The Pin (b06kgbgd) FRI 09:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b01nl675) FRI 17:00 Winston (b007jncr) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:45 on Thursday] Series 5 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI 06:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbwts) Hughes, Czerski, Finkelman FRI 17:30 The Rest is History (b079mhls) Episode 10 Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] The devastated daredevil sets out to take revenge on his Professor John Lloyd CBE is joined by comedian Jimmy Carr FRI 18:00 The House on the Borderland by William Hope enemies - one by one. Concluded by Rufus Sewell. for the fifth series. Hodgson (b007wxhs) Christopher Syn, a brilliant young scholar, is a Doctor of Three guests are invited to donate one item each and explain 4. The Wound Divinity at Oxford, but his eventual decision to throw away the why it deserves a place in the museum. Back from his voyage, the narrator sees a sinister green hand at Bible for the sword in a mad quest for vengeance will influence John and Jimmy welcome comedian Sean Hughes, physicist Dr his window... the rest of his life. Helen Czerski and cuneiform expert Dr Irving Finkel. First published in 1908, William Hope Hodgson's fantasy Russell Thorndike's 18th Century, Kent-based adventure First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. novella is now seen as a classic of early, Edwardian sci-fi. features pirates, smuggling, highwaymen, duels, wicked squires FRI 09:30 No Commitments (b01773xl) Concluded by Jim Norton. and beautiful Spanish ladies. Based on the first two novels Series 9 Abridged by Doreen Estall. (published 1935 and 1936) in the seven-title sequence, 'Doctor Houseroom Producer: Lawrence Jackson Syn on the High Seas' and 'Doctor Syn Returns'. Abridged by Anna's love-life seems to be on an even keel, but can the same Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. Doreen Estall. be said for Roger? Stars Angela Thorne. From January 2003. First broadcast in September 2007. Writer Russell Thorndike (1885-1972) is less well-known than FRI 10:00 Classic Serial (b01m4c90) FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b00mbkk4) his sister, the actress Dame Sybil Thorndike, but his Doctor Syn Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks Series 8 novels hold a special place in the affection of lovers of Episode 3 Allegri's Miserere atmospheric, swashbuckling storytelling everywhere. His novels The final part of Thomas Mann's Nobel Prize winning story of a Allegri wrote the chord sequence for his Miserere in the 1630s have been filmed with actors as diverse as George Arliss, Peter 19th Century merchant family struggling to keep pace with for use in the Sistine Chapel during Holy Week. Cushing and Patrick McGoohan in the role of Syn, and the Kent changing times. J Thomas and Gerda's son Hanno shows no It then went through the hands of a 12-year-old Mozart, village of Dymchurch holds an official 'Day of Syn' every other aptitude for business, but may make a great musician. Mendelssohn and Liszt until it finally reached England in the year, to commemorate a home-grown literary folk hero. Dramatised by Judith Adams with original music by Nico early 20th century and got fixed into the version we know Producer: Lawrence Jackson Muhly. today. Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland Technical presentation by David Fleming Williams The soaring soprano line that hits the famous top C and never First broadcast in 2006. Produced and directed by Chris Wallis fails to thrill has become a firm favourite for concert audiences FRI 06:30 Big Game, Little Game (b00v1rh8) An Autolycus Production for BBC Radio 4. around the world. Episode 2 FRI 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fdm) Textile designer Kaffe Fassett, writer Sarah Manguso and In the second of two programmes, Mark Stephen charts a A Steady Chap conductor Roy Goodman explain how they have all been deeply unique swap involving two gamekeepers - one from the A daughter starts to worry after her divorced mother meets a affected by this beautiful piece of music. Kalahari, the other from the Angus Glens. new man. Is he too good to be true? Written by Gillian Tindall. With Peter Phillips. Gamekeeper Andy Malcolm is swapping 40,000 acres of Read by Clare Corbett. From June 2003. Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional heather moorland high in the Angus Glens for a reserve on the FRI 11:15 Hamlet (b03yqyzc) appeal. edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. The game warden from Episode 5 Producer: Rosie Boulton there will travel to Scotland in a unique swap documented for Hamlet has returned unexpectedly to Elsinore where Claudius First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2009. BBC Radio 4. and Laertes have laid plans to murder him during a fencing FRI 19:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? The programmes offer the very different perspectives of match. (b007jrms) Scottish gamekeeper Andy Malcolm and his South African Original music composed and realised by Roger Goula [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] counterpart Dylan Smith. Both men track their experiences in Director Marc Beeby FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b007jws9) the form of audio diaries and in reflections to presenter Mark First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Stephen who is alongside them in this job exchange. How they FRI 12:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? FRI 20:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbwts) deal with issues ranging from land conservation to animal (b007jrms) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] welfare and how far experiences in their own landscapes can [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 20:30 Big Game, Little Game (b00v1rh8) translate into ideas for their new ones, is at the heart of the FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jws9) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] recordings. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? (b0076fdm) Producer: Sue Mitchell. FRI 13:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbwts) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI 07:00 Winston (b007jncr) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 21:15 Hamlet (b03yqyzc) Winston in Love FRI 13:30 Big Game, Little Game (b00v1rh8) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Clip Clop, Clip Clop [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 22:00 The Rest is History (b079mhls) Father says he's going to marry Mrs Sunderland and cut the rest FRI 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (b007jn01) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] of the family off without a bean. Episode 5 FRI 22:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme It's his wedding day. But is he serious? Nick discovers the reason behind Gatsby's parties - his need to (b03bdsny) Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial stars Bill Wallis as be reunited with someone from his past. Read by Sam Robards. Series 3 Winston, Maurice Denham as Father, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, FRI 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology Episode 4 Liz Goulding as Rosie and Christian Rodska as William. and the Mind (b041dn37) John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, regular Director: Shaun MacLoughlin. Talking Cures? guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things like First broadcast on BBC Radio in February 1991. Martin considers some of the therapies that combined the Miranda, presents a third series series of his hit sketch show. FRI 07:30 The Rest is History (b079mhls) psychoanalytic principles of Freud and Jung with the behaviour The first series was described as 'sparklingly clever' by The Series 2 modifying techniques of the mid-Twentieth Century's other Daily Telegraph and 'one of the most consistently funny sketch Episode 6 significant psychological movement 'behaviourism'. shows for quite some time' by The Guardian. The second series Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of it. With reference to the 'Gloria' tapes that featured the same won Best Radio Comedy at both the Chortle and Comedy.co.uk So he's devised a comedy discussion show in order to find out patient being treated by three different 'talking cures' - Albert awards, and was nominated for a Sony award. more about it. Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy, Fritz Perls's This time around, John promises to stop doing silly sketches Along with his historian in residence, Professor Kate Williams, Gestalt Therapy and Carl Rogers's Person Centred Therapy. about nonsense like Winnie the Pooh's honey addiction or how Frank is joined by Josie Long and Kevin Eldon, who discuss Series consultant, Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, University goldfish invented computer programming, and concentrate Captain Blood, Drake's Drum, Bloody Mary and E.R.N.I.E. of London. instead on the the big, serious issues. Producers: Mark Augustyn and Justin Pollard Producer: Alan Hall This fourth episode of the series contains a sketch that is much, An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. much too rude; advice on how to deal with bullies; and an 2016. FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b013ptf6) accidental visit to Ambridge. FRI 08:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad Written by and starring John Finnemore, with Margaret (b007jrms) A House in Chawton Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. Birthday Boy May's name has appeared on a terrorist death list. She and her Producer: Ed Morrish. Bob bungles a surprise birthday party for Terry. husband Ali are desperate to escape from Iraq. Bee, a British FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b07chnpr) Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier, Rodney Bewes as Bob journalist, has managed to arrange a university place for May, The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats Ferris and Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers. but to get to Britain they must first get to Jordan. At the last to Andy Zaltzman. Created and scripted for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La moment Ali's Jordanian visa is refused. May resolves to go by FRI 23:00 Dave Podmore (b007t32j) Frenais. Adapted for radio by Patrick Tilley. herself to Jordan and sort out the problem. This is a true story. Dave Podmore's World of Cricket Producer: John Browell May ..... Souad Faress Episode 3 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1975. Bee ..... Fenella Woolgar Asked to advise on a new cricketing film, the star player causes FRI 08:30 The Goon Show (b007jws9) Ali ..... Zubin Varla havoc in Hollywood. Series 7 Justin ..... Stephen Hogan Sitcom about the exploits of talentless, amateurish, smug, inept What's My Line? Eva/Ayasha ..... Deeivya Meir and self-deluding English cricketer Dave Podmore. Can anyone guess the unusual professions in a special edition of Militia Man/Official/Minister ..... Peter Polycarpou Starring Chris Douglas and Andrew Nickolds with Chris Pavlo the 1950s BBC TV quiz? Newsnight director ..... Jonathan Forbes and Nicola Sanderson. Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Lawyer/Octavia ..... Elaine Claxton Written by Chris Douglas, Andrew Nickolds and Nick Milligan and Larry Stephens. Director..... Peter Kavanagh. Newman. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 7 – 13 May 2016 Page 10 of 10 Producer: Richard Wilson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. FRI 23:30 Ross Noble Goes Global (b007jvt7) Series 1 Ireland Travelling from rainy Sligo to busy Dublin, the comedian performs for the locals and learns to play the penny whistle - badly. Producer: Danny Wallace First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2002.

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