Radio 4 Extra Listings for 30 November – 6 December 2013 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2013 Ena/Bunty/Betty ...... Gabriel Quigley relationships that grew out of them. Doogie ...... Matt Costello The programme also hears from poet Alan Brownjohn about SAT 00:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream (b009mbjn) The Minister ...... Robert Paterson the experience of sitting for Fay, and examines an archive of Fight for the Future Producers: Lucy Bacon and Kathy Smith prints, contact sheets and letters from her sitters, held in the Jurgen and Kate are desperate to get the weapon away before all First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000. British Library since her death in 2005, with photo critic and is lost... SAT 02:30 The Change (b00nxcbs) editor Sue Steward. Conclusion of Simon Bovey's sci-fi adventure series set during Series 1 SAT 08:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b019jqtz) the Second World War. Lipstick Series 7 Stars Rory Kinnear as Jurgen Rall, Tim McMullan as Major Carol's attempts at keeping George's little hobby a secret are Episode 14 Barton, Joannah Tincey as Kate Richey, Ben Crowe as thwarted when they bump into Maureen... From Minnesota, the American funny man presents the Lieutenant Dundas, Rachel Atkins as Trudi Schenk, Peter Lynda Bellingham and Chris Ellison star as troubled hormonal VocalEssence ensemble, plus news from deeply frozen Lake Marinker as Brigadier Erskine and Laura Molyneux as wife Carol whose husband George has revealed that he's a Wobegon. From 2011. Slipstream. transvestite. SAT 09:00 A Taste of Funny with Denis Norden (b007s6p7) Other parts played by Simon Treves, Sam Pamphilon, Alex Sitcom by Gavin Petrie and Jan Etherington. From Jimmy Durante and Jack Benny - via Beyond The Fringe Lanipekun and Lloyd Woolf. Carol ...... Lynda Bellingham - to Alan Coren, Linda Smith and Victoria Wood. Producer: Marc Beeby George ...... Chris Ellison Comedy writer Denis Norden curates three hours of personally- Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2008. Violet ...... Sylvia Syms chosen comedy listening, based on his own collection of SAT 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b008pc0b) Maureen ...... Maureen Beattie comedy albums, and from wading through nine decades of his Guards! Guards! Dave ...... Mark Powley own accumulated radio memories. Episode 5 Ken ...... James Vaughan Denis explains to Nick Baker how as a young serviceman, the "That dragon isn't going to accept any mealy-mouthed, wishy- Jerry ...... Richard Standing humour on the American Forces Network played a huge part in washy liberal nonsense.... Do you know what you're getting with Sonia ...... Emma Kennedy widening his comedy horizons. Whether it was Bette Davis a dragon? Unashamed strong leadership." Producer: Maria Esposito sparring with Jimmy Durante or Judy Garland joking with Bob The dragon strikes. But will Captain Vimes triumph? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001. Hope, he salutes the one-liners, irreverent put downs and insults Stars John Wood and Martin Jarvis. SAT 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt51p) on shows like 'Command Performance'. The 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on The Looking Glass War Denis also recalls the first American comedy vinyl in Britain Discworld. Episode 2 and reflects on the topical, improvisational tones of Mort Sahl's Narrator …. Martin Jarvis Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's novel, the jazz-inflected comedic riffs. He and Frank Muir booked Mort Captain Vimes …. John Wood fourth to feature spymaster George Smiley. on the BBC. We also hear some Shelley Berman and routines Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes As Leiser's clandestine mission into East German territory chronicling 1960s changing gender relations, with male/female Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne proceeds, it soon becomes clear that nothing is quite what it duos like Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Lady Ramkin …. Helen Atkinson-Wood seems. Returning to his British comedy roots, Denis enlarges on his Carrot …. Robert Gwilym Leclerc ...... Ian McDiarmid penchant for "acoustic humour" and his love of language-based Lord Vetinari …. Crawford Logan George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale laughter. Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher Avery ...... Patrick Kennedy Plus highlights of Denis's own material - leading to a Chief Merchant …. Jeff Nuttall Haldane ...... Philip Jackson masterclass in the construction of jokes as well as a tribute to Librarian …. Michael Roberts Fred Leiser ...... Piotr Baumann his late writing partner, Frank Muir. Little Girl …. Kate McEnery Jack Johnson ...... Ben Crowe Denis Norden's influence on the British comedy landscape Director: John Taylor Anna ...... Ania Sowinski includes not only co-creating British sitcom's first dysfunctional First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in December 1992. Sarah ...... Fenella Woolgar family, the Glums (Take it From Here) but also a period as SAT 01:00 Wimsey (b007jzky) Control ...... John Rowe Comedy Consultant for BBC TV, alongside Frank Muir. Later, The Nine Tailors Carol ...... Annabelle Dowler he and Frank spent decades on BBC Radio's My Word! and My 5 A Question of Identity Official ...... Philip Fox Music! Denis was also ITV's long-serving presenter of comedy Following his trip to France, Lord Peter Wimsey takes a step Soldiers ...... Matt Addis, Benjamin Askew cock-ups for 'It'll Be Alright on The Night'. closer to identifying the killer. Directed by Marc Beeby. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Test Bed Productions. Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth. SAT 04:00 Enid Bagnold - The Amorous Ghost (b00m9jbl) First broadcast in 2013. Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery dramatised by Alistair Mr Templeman's wife is away, but it seems someone is sleeping SAT 12:00 Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin: Omnibus Beaton. in her nightgowns. Read by Paul Daneman. (b03jrz8d) Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael SAT 04:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre As Pushkin prepares to fight a duel, his wife begs to hear his Bunter …. Peter Jones (b007ncyz) most famous story. Based on the poem. Stars Geoffrey Rev Theodore Venables …. Phillip Latham Aristide Bruant Streatfeild. Supt Blundell …. Timothy Bateson The socialist club owner questions his success. John Peacock's SAT 13:10 Chain Gang (b03jpqpj) Mrs Venables …. Noel Dyson play based on Toulouse-Lautrec's characters. Stars Bernard Hill Series 4 Nobby Cranton …. Stephen Greiff and Julie Covington. Episode 9 Emily …. Jenny Twigg SAT 05:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008kkz1) Made for 4 Extra. The story told by its listeners, which began Potty Peak …. Anthony Hyde Series 2 with a mistimed proposal and a wrong turning. Join in at Donnington …. John Church Episode 6 bbc.co.uk/radio4extra. Narrator …. John Westbrook JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, SAT 13:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzy3k) Producer: Martin Fisher Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From August Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980. 1991. A Farewell to Ingleby SAT 01:30 Father Brown Stories (b0081lvr) SAT 05:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jzm2) Detective Daunt's country weekend at an old friend's house Series 2 Series 1 doesn't go quite as planned. Stars Anna Massey and Frances Actor and Alibi Out To Launch Barber. A theatrical murder amid much back-stabbing is announced in Rosie's company is set to launch the autobiography of the SAT 14:00 Steptoe and Son (b00t4qmv) the Chop-House. Father Brown finds himself in the midst of a country's most famous footballer, Lloyd Gratton. Series 2 School for Scandal. The lives of Rosie and her granddaughter Jo are shaken by the My Old Man's a Tory Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown. return to Rosie's daughter Kate after a long spell working Angry Albert disrupts Harold's Labour party meeting. GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an abroad. Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. Prunella Scales in the first of four series of Simon Brett's Harold. With Dudley Foster as Stonelake and Beth Boyd as Father Brown ...... Andrew Sachs sitcom following the trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and Miss Frobisher. Mundon Mandeville ...... Peter Jeffrey her event-management company based in Brighton. Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association Mrs Mandeville ...... Sheila Grant With Arabella Weir as Kate, Rebecca Callard as Jo, Duncan with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson Inspector Bagshaw ...... Bill Wallis Preston as Bob, Annette Badland as Tess, Jon Glover as Greg wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Ashton Jarvis ...... David Brierly Turnball, Tracy-Ann Oberman as Lalage Croxton-Sackville and The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring Norman Knight ...... Charles Baillie Will Ing as Lloyd Gratton. the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold Lady Miriam Talbot ...... Fleur Chandler Producer: Maria Esposito and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. Miss Maroni ...... Karen Ascoe First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000. Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Mrs Sans ...... Pauline Letts SAT 06:00 The Other Side of the Hill (b010t4pb) Gale Pedrick. House Manager ...... Jonathan Scott It's a Long Way From Talavera Produced by Bobby Jaye Dramatised by John Scotney The 1808-1813 peninsular campaign of the Duke of First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1967. Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid. Wellington. First of Peter Luke's two linked plays with Michael SAT 14:30 Harry Worth (b00r2jxk) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1986. Pennington. Thirty Minutes Worth SAT 02:00 Millport (b0075ttx) SAT 07:30 Sitting for Fay (b00lb6q7) The Holiday Series 1 Christine Finn discovers a rich seam of literary life in Harry Worth's doctor prescribes him a sunshine holiday. The Letter photographer Fay Godwin's work. Starring Harry Worth. It's turnip season - and a letter arrives for Irene promising to Best known for her later landscape work, Godwin spent the With Jacqueline Clarke, Charles Collingwood, Julie Higginson change her life for ever. 1970s and 80s taking portraits of some of the leading figures of and Milton Johns. But when push comes to shove, is she ready to leave the dismal the literary scene. Many iconic book-jacket images were taken Script by Vince Powell. island backwater she so unlovingly calls home? by her, including a sultry Ted Hughes with that lock of hair Producer: Mike Craig Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as falling over his face, Philip Larkin and the rubber plant, Seamus First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1988. 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a Heaney and the tree, Desmond Morris in a safari suit, a pensive SAT 15:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b019jqtz) better life on the mainland. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Keith Waterhouse slumped in a basket [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Stars Lynn Ferguson as Irene, Janet Brown as Moira/Agnes, chair and Salman Rushdie with a hookah. SAT 16:00 The Other Side of the Hill (b010t4pb) Lewis McLeod as Alberto/Robert/Bob, Gabriel Quigley as Christine gained access to Godwin's home and studio as it was [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Ena/Bunty/Betty, Matt Costello as Doogie and Robert Paterson being prepared for sale, and with Godwin's friend, photographic SAT 17:30 My Teenage Diary (b01k290n) as the Minister. historian Roger Taylor, examined the archive. It shows that Series 4 Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson many of Godwin's later collaborations on books of landscapes - Robert Webb Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown most notably with Ted Hughes, but also with Richard Ingrams Another brave celebrity revisits their formative years by Alberto/Robert/Bob ...... Lewis McLeod and Philip Larkin - were born in the portrait sittings and the opening up their intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 30 November – 6 December 2013 Page 2 of 8 in public for the very first time. When Carolyn makes a foolish bet with her pilots, what better space. Rufus Hound is joined by actor Robert Webb whose hilarious place for a race against time than a sleepy Spanish airfield? Plus SUN 17:00 Bill Taylor - Likely Stories (b00ttmnj) and sometimes abrasive teenage diary documents the highs and we learn about the thermodynamic properties of boiled sweets [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] lows of being seventeen - and the perils of kissing a girl at a and the kinetic thrust of white wine. SUN 17:30 Herge - The Adventures of Tintin (b007jvd0) party when you don't really fancy her. Starring [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Producer: Harriet Jaine Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole SUN 18:00 Stanislaw Lem - Solaris (b00pf12m) A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam Episode 1 SAT 18:00 Fear on 4 (b007jmcr) Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Benedict Cumberbatch A psychologist is sent to a rundown space station to find out Series 1 Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore what has happened to its crew. When his long-dead young wife The Face Senor Quintanilla ..... Michael Fenton-Stevens turns up, he suddenly finds himself in serious trouble. A woman's terrifying dream turns into reality. Stars Rosalind Diego ..... Javier Marzan Stanislaw Lem's famous modern sci-fi classic dramatised by Ayres. Introduced by the Man in Black, Edward De Souza. Written by John Finnemore. Hattie Naylor. SAT 18:30 HG Wells (b007jwgt) Produced & directed by David Tyler Starring Ron Cook as Kris, Stuart Richman as Sartoris, Tim A Dream of Armageddon A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 McMullan as Snow, Joanne Froggatt as Rheya and Maxine Stranger SUN 08:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jm5c) Burth as the Woman. A stranger on a train reveals his secret. When he dreams, he Series 1 Music by Alice Trueman enters a future reality of an advanced civilization descending Escape from Prison the Burkiss Way Sound Design: Steve Brooke into senseless war. Read in two-parts by Robert Bathurst. Improve your IQ and go on the Auntie Quiz in the cult sketch Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas Written in 1901, this is a disturbing vision of the future - as show. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. Wells comes uncannily close to predicting the horrors of the The Burkiss Way to dynamic living - radio's first SUN 19:00 It's a Funny Business (b01h7p9d) Second World War. correspondence course. No stamp needed. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] English author and political philosopher, HG Wells is Dynamic instruction from Denise Coffey, Nigel Rees, Chris SUN 19:30 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k0n4) recognised as one of sci-fi's founding-fathers. Within his own Emmett and Fred Harris. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] lifetime, he became a literary celebrity, earning praise from Dynamic scripts by Andrew Marshall, John Mason and David SUN 20:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jm5c) contemporaries such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad. His Renwick with dynamic production by Simon Brett. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] influence was wide reaching; George Orwell in particular - "The First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1976. SUN 20:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007k13n) minds of all of us, and therefore the physical world, would be SUN 08:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007k13n) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] perceptibly different if Wells never existed." In recent years his Series 8 SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b03jss9k) work has enjoyed a renaissance, including Steven Spielberg's Help, It's a Girl [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] 2005 film of War Of The Worlds. The cheeky schoolboy faces his biggest fear when he has to SUN 21:45 Alex Shearer - Getting a Life (b007k4br) Wells died on August 13th, 1946, aged 79. take a girl to school. Stars Jimmy Clitheroe. From January [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] Producer: Gemma Jenkins 1965. SUN 22:00 Cabin Pressure (b00lxh3r) Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2006. SUN 09:00 Bill Taylor - Likely Stories (b00ttmnj) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT 19:00 A Taste of Funny with Denis Norden (b007s6p7) I Should Be So Lucky SUN 22:30 The Remains of Foley and McColl (b007m4dx) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Teenager Ellie has trouble adjusting after her mother's death. Subtle SAT 22:00 Sabotage (b007jwv4) Jean Alexander stars in this modern retelling of Cinderella. Sean Foley and Hamish McColl investigate the art of subtlety Series 1 SUN 09:30 Herge - The Adventures of Tintin (b007jvd0) by visiting a Jane Austen novel. Episode 1 Series 2 Surreal comedy starring award-winning double act Sean Foley Mark Talbot hosts Sabotage's exciting comedy night with top The Seven Crystal Balls and Hamish McColl, the Right Size. performers: Aisling Bea, Mike Wozniak, Ben Mellor, James When explorers return from Peru and fall mysteriously ill, the With: Acaster and Liam Williams at London's historic Hoxton Hall in intrepid boy reporter is on the case. Stars Richard Pearce. Rose English Hackney. SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b03jss9k) Count Arthur Strong Producer: Anna Silver. TV Writers Chris Larner Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Hat Trick Productions. Andrew Davies Producer: Lissa Evans First broadcast in November 2013. 4 Extra Debut. From Beethoven to Bonnie Tyler, screenwriter First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000. SAT 23:00 Adam Baron - Shut Eye (b00snbw5) Andrew Davies shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young. SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b03my8zn) Episode 4 From August 2007. For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the A fresh discovery in the hunt for a serial killer turns private eye SUN 10:45 Alex Shearer - Getting a Life (b007k4br) best laughs around. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats to Noman Billy Rucker into a suspect. Stars David Morrissey. When a person sees their life going the other way on the back Hosni. SAT 23:30 Scandinavian Chiller (b0112d7g) of a lorry, what can they do? SUN 23:00 Vent (b00v3qsn) Hakan Nesser - Woman With Birthmark Brian Parr reads Alex Shearer’s short story. Series 2 Episode 2 Producer: Pauline Stone Alternatives Inspector Van Veeteren investigates a man's apparently First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1997. What would comatose Ben's life be like if it was a Hollywood motiveless murder. Scandinavian chiller read by Michael SUN 11:00 It's a Funny Business (b01h7p9d) movie? Maloney. John Inman Dark sitcom following the thoughts of comatose patient Ben 'I'm free!'. The popular sitcom star recalls his showbusiness written by Nigel Smith. career in conversation with Mike Craig. From February 1986. Starring Neil Pearson as Ben Smith, Fiona Allen as Mary, Josie SUNDAY 01 DECEMBER 2013 SUN 11:30 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k0n4) Lawrence as Mum and Leslie Ash as Blitzkrieg. Michael Sellers With Nicholas Hutchison, Jo Martin and Mark Perry. SUN 00:00 Fear on 4 (b007jmcr) Peter Sellers' son Michael chats to Sally Magnusson about the Producer: Gareth Edwards [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] ups and downs of growing up with a famous funny father. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007. SUN 00:30 HG Wells (b007jwgt) Producer: Mike Walker SUN 23:30 The Maltby Collection (b00mbbkh) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in September 2005. Series 3 SUN 01:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b019jqtz) SUN 12:00 EF Benson - Miss Mapp (b010gkq4) Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Walter has staff to fire and a broken heart to mend, but worst of SUN 02:00 Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin: Omnibus SUN 13:15 Food for Thought (b00mz8tj) all, his wife's come back to him and seems intent on pandering (b03jrz8d) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] to his every whim... [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN 13:30 Hercule Poirot (b009z4c6) Geoffrey Palmer and Julian Rhind-Tutt star in series 3 of David SUN 03:10 Chain Gang (b03jpqpj) Death in the Clouds Nobbs’ sitcom about a small museum of paintings and sculpture. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday] Hercule Poirot investigates a murder high in the sky. Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt SUN 03:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzy3k) On a flight from Le Bourget to Croydon, on which the Belgian Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] sleuth is an apprehensive passenger, a woman is found dead. Prunella Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins SUN 04:00 The Other Side of the Hill (b010t4pb) A doctor on board is inclined to put it down to a wasp-sting, but Susie Maltby ...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] Poirot suspects it's a case of murder... Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond SUN 05:30 My Teenage Diary (b01k290n) First published in 1935, Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] Moffatt as Hercule. Eva Tattle ...... Julia Deakin SUN 06:00 EF Benson - Miss Mapp (b010gkq4) Philip Jackson ..... Chief Inspector Japp Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley Omnibus, part 2 Geoffrey Whitehead ..... Monsieur Fournier Stelios Constantinopoulis ...... Chris Pavlo The busybody of the small English village of Tilling continues Murray Melvin ..... Daniel Clancy Gloria Brindle ...... Helen Atkinson Wood. to observe the Major and Captain Puffin. Stars Frances Barber. Teresa Gallagher ..... Jane Grey Producer: Colin Anderson SUN 07:15 Food for Thought (b00mz8tj) Carolyn Jones ..... Lady Horbury First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2009. Series 1 Ben Crowe ..... Norman Gale Rabbi Lionel Blue Andrew Harrison ..... Jean Dupont Journalist Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food, shape Bruce Purchase ..... Dr Bryant MONDAY 02 DECEMBER 2013 and affect individual lives. Liza Sadovy ..... Elise Grandier With the table set for Shabbat-eve, Lionel Blue looks back on Priyanga Elan ..... Anne Richards MON 00:00 Stanislaw Lem - Solaris (b00pf12m) his unorthodox life. As Britain's first openly gay Rabbi, often Steven Critchlow ..... Airline Steward [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] referred to as "cherub-faced", he tells Nina how food has been Dramatist: Michael Bakewell MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b03jss9k) inextricably linked with personal transformation, from changing Director: Enyd Williams [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] tastes and a fluctuating waistline to transformed circumstances First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. MON 01:45 Alex Shearer - Getting a Life (b007k4br) and shifting beliefs. However, he still remembers watching his SUN 15:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jm5c) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] grandmother cooking potato latkes and eating them on toast or [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON 02:00 It's a Funny Business (b01h7p9d) with apple sauce. It was the kind of food that fed the family, the SUN 15:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007k13n) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Sunday] neighbours and, he implies, the soul. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON 02:30 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k0n4) The producer is Tamsin Hughes, and this is a Wise Buddah SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 on Sunday] production for BBC Radio 4. (b03jsf3w) MON 03:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jm5c) SUN 07:30 Cabin Pressure (b00lxh3r) Mel Giedroyc presents the best of the 4 O'Clock Show, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] Series 2 including Dick and Dom's How Dangerous Is Your School and MON 03:30 Hercule Poirot (b009z4c6) Johannesburg Chris Hadfield, the astronaut who played Space Oddity in [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 30 November – 6 December 2013 Page 3 of 8 MON 05:00 Bill Taylor - Likely Stories (b00ttmnj) Scripted by Lawrie Wyman [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON 14:00 Mary Brunton - Self Control (b011j6lv) MON 05:30 Herge - The Adventures of Tintin (b007jvd0) Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. Two Suitors [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] Laura Montreville is loved by two men - a reckless libertine and MON 06:00 Wimsey (b007jznj) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1967. a dignified but reserved landowner. In a world where polite The Nine Tailors MON 09:00 Heresy (b00k3zzb) society and sexual hypocrisy rub shoulders easily, can she 6 A Damnable Business Series 6 choose wisely between passion and virtue? Lord Peter Wimsey identifies the mystery body, but he's yet to Episode 4 Mary Brunton’s romantic tale set in Perthshire and London - name the killer. Victoria Coren hosts the show that thinks the unthinkable. With dramatised in ten parts by Gerda Stevenson. Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth. journalists Euan Ferguson and Tanya Gold, and comedian . Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery dramatised by Alistair David Mitchell. From May 2009. In the opening episode, Colonel Hargrave's sexual advances are Beaton. MON 09:30 House on Fire (b00qf6ls) too much for Laura - and she places her suitor on a two-year Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael Series 1 probation. Rev Theodore Venables …. Phillip Latham Filth Narrated by Maureen Beattie. Supt Blundell …. Timothy Bateson "Filth" Laura ...... Gerda Stevenson Nobby Cranton …. Stephen Greiff A return to Hogarth Road to see how Vicky and Matt are Hargrave ...... Andrew Wincott Will Thoday …. Keith Drinkell getting on with their house-sharing arrangements. Unfortunately Lady Harriet Montreville ...... Phyllida Law Mary Thoday …. Claire Clifford they are having a slight disagreement over who should do the Jeannie ...... Colette O'Neil Narrator …. John Westbrook clearing up. In fact, the only thing they do agree on is that no Montreville ...... Bernard Horsfall Producer: Martin Fisher one should do the clearing up. So what do you do when the very Mary Brunton was a Scottish novelist much admired by Jane First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980. last bowl has been used up? Austen; and Self Control, first published in 1811, deals with MON 06:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm5wr) Vicky - Emma Pierson similar themes to Sense and Sensibility. 1. Advertising Matt - JODY LATHAM Producer: Bruce Young Bulldog Hugh Drummond is a hero, patriot, sportsman and Julie - JANINE DUVITSKI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003. quintessential English gentleman. Peter - PHILIP JACKSON MON 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00shhrj) A de-mobilised army officer in the First World War, Donny - Sebastian Cardinal How I Wish I Were a Boy Drummond knows how to fight hard and play fair and there is With Fergus Craig & Colin Hoult Michael Morpurgo discovers middle-class boys went to 19th- precious little that can shake him. Directed by Clive Brill & Dan Hine century public schools as a shield from too much female Finding peace unbearably tedious, he puts an ad in the Produced by Clive Brill influence. newspaper offering his services to any client who can offer A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress adventure. MON 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1v0) (b007tdnk) Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Episode 6 Written by "Sapper" (Herman McNeile) and abridged by Episode 1 As judge Guy Stockdale pursues his affair with Merrion, his Neville Teller Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's classic family are affected in unexpected ways. Read by Barbara Producer: John Simpson novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley. Flynn. Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in November 2009. Ever since the capture and torture of their agent in MON 14:45 Tea and Biscuits (b00m0w31) MON 07:00 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7) Czechoslovakia, the British Secret Intelligence Service has been Episode 1 Series 3 in trouble. Now, the government has been forced to call George Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge in Episode 3 Smiley back from retirement to investigate the whole incident that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit. Change is in the air when Amanda and Richard get happily and to seek out the mole they believe to be at the heart of the Hardeep joins a group enjoying tea and biscuits before they engaged. But when Lucy and Daniel opt to change their lives, service. take part in their British Citizenship ceremony at Brent Town Lucy resolves not to tell anyone. George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale Hall. What Daniel hasn't told Lucy is that he can't keep a secret... Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. David Spicer's comedy drama about modern life and Jim Prideaux ...... Anthony Calf MON 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1v0) parenthood, as seen through the eyes of two 30-something non- Peter Guillam ...... Ewan Bailey [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] parents. Oliver Lacon ...... Alex Jennings MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03b34m4) Starring David Tennant as Daniel, Liz Carling as Lucy, Tracy- Ricki Tarr ...... Jamie Foreman This week, Mel hears how to prepare food with the taste of Ann Oberman as Katie, Tony Gardner as Andy, Nasreen Irina ...... Vera Filatova paradise. Today, she hears how to slice into a coconut like an Hussain as Amanda and Dave Lamb as Richard. Mendel ...... Kenneth Cranham expert to produce an exotic fruit salad. Producer: Liz Anstee Connie Sachs ...... Maggie Steed MON 17:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Magyar ...... Peter Majer (b00scz3l) MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b03j9m1h) Roddy Martindale ...... Philip Fox Series 1 Series 60 Bill Roach ...... Ryan Watson. Episode 4 Episode 3 MON 11:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b00757f0) The dear ladies attempt to stage Evadne's murder mystery. Stars The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit to the Episode 1 Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket. From September Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme 4 Extra Debut. Wartime in Broadcasting House, and myriad 1979. Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by hopes and fears come and go in the course of newsgathering. MON 17:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7) special guest Victoria Wood, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Read by Penelope Wilton. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Sell provides piano accompaniment. MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b03jssmv) MON 18:00 The Scarifyers (b018sltw) This programme was originally broadcast in November 2013. Kathy Burke, Robert Webb, Sara Cox, Kim Wilde, Arthur The Secret Weapon of Doom Producer - Jon Naismith. Smith, Tindersticks Episode 1 MON 08:00 Round the Horne (b007w4df) It's Nil by Mouth for Clive, who talks to award-winning actress, Dunning has literary trouble, while Lionheart searches for a Series 4 comedian and director Kathy Burke, who's directing riotous mysterious object. Stars Nicholas Courtney and Terry Molloy, Episode 2 comedy 'Once a Catholic'. Set in a convent girls' school in 1957, with guests Leslie Phillips and Nigel Havers. Kenneth Horne stars in a roaring 1920s film spoof 'Thoroughly where the nuns at Our Lady of Fatima preach chastity and MON 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b008p506) Modern Willy', Rambling Syd Rumpo sings of a nadger and diligence as the swinging sixties approach. Final exams loom. Guards! Guards! Julian and Sandy come over all transcendental with Bona The day of reckoning is nigh. But for the girls in class 5A, their Episode 6 Gurumat. last year in uniform is set to be one of discovery of the less holy "Last Desperate Chances always work. Besides, I'll be using my With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden. kind. 'Once a Catholic' is at London's Tricycle Theatre until lucky arrow..." Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, 18th January 2014. All Captain Vimes needs to save the city is a million-to-one London. Announcer: Douglas Smith Clive's Kept Hangin' On by singer and presenter Kim Wilde, chance. Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio who shot to fame in 1981 with her smash hit 'Kids In America' First published in 1989, the 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric and is the most-charted British solo female act of the 1980s. fantasy stories set on Discworld. Conclusion of six parts Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Kim's in a festive mood with a new album of part original songs dramatized by Michael Butt. Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the / part classic Yuletide tunes. She sings 'Hey Mr Snowman' from CAST: scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and 'Wilde Winter Songbook'. Narrator …. Martin Jarvis 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, Arthur Smith's Born Sloppy with DJ Sara Cox, whose new Captain Vimes …. John Wood catchphrases and double-entendres. Radio 2 show 'Sounds of the '80s' looks at a decade that saw Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes Marty Feldman had moved on so series 4 is written by Barry synthesizers, ghetto blasters and the moonwalk explode on to Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne Took with Brian Cooke & Johnnie Mortimer and Brian the music scene. It was the age of New wave and synth pop, hip- Lady Ramkin …. Helen Atkinson-Wood Webster. hop, hard rock and glam metal, leaving a legacy of shellsuits, Carrot …. Robert Gwilym Music by the Max Harris Group. mobile phones, the CD, the Yuppie and even ET. 'Sounds of the Lord Vetinari …. Crawford Logan Producer: John Simmonds '80s' is on 30th November at 22.00. Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1968. Clive's tuned in to comedian and actor Robert Webb, who First Guard …. Jeff Nuttall MON 08:30 The Navy Lark (b007xwmd) returns to the Radio 4 airwaves alongside David Mitchell with Joint First Guard …. Michael Roberts Series 9 their distinctive and lopsided views on the world through Death …. Himself Deliberately Abandoned satirical sketches and surreal characters. The second episode of Director: John Taylor Can the inept crew of HMS Troutbridge discover where the rest 'That Mitchell and Webb Sound' is on 3rd December at 18.30. First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in December 1992. of the fleet has gone? With more music from Nottingham's gloriously lugubrious pop- MON 19:00 Round the Horne (b007w4df) noir balladeers Tindersticks, who perform 'This Fire Of [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Autumn' from their album 'The Something Rain'. MON 19:30 The Navy Lark (b007xwmd) Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Producer: Sukey Firth. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Heather, MON 12:00 Round the Horne (b007w4df) MON 20:00 Wimsey (b007jznj) Ronnie Barker as Commander Bell, Tenniel Evans as Uncle and [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Michael Bates as the Sea Lord. MON 12:30 The Navy Lark (b007xwmd) MON 20:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm5wr) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS MON 13:00 Wimsey (b007jznj) MON 21:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b00757f0) Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] series between 1959 and 1976. MON 13:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm5wr) MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b03jssmv) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 30 November – 6 December 2013 Page 4 of 8 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Neddie Seagoon escapes an invasion and finds Utopia. childhood, both real and romanticised, appeared in art and MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b03j9m1h) literature. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike TUE 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress MON 22:30 Heresy (b00k3zzb) Milligan. (b007tkgf) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Episode 7 MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b03jtgc4) Starring: Taking Merrion to dinner at Simon and Carrie's house, Guy Series 9 Peter Sellers realises that his grandson Jack is unhappy. Read by Barbara Episode 4 Harry Secombe Flynn. A satirical review of the week's news chaired by Sandi Toksvig. Spike Milligan TUE 14:45 Tea and Biscuits (b00m5qjb) With guest panellists Grace Dent, Fred MacAulay and Justin Episode 2 Edwards, joining regular Jeremy Hardy. First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge in MON 23:45 Hearing With Hegley (b03jpvjt) recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit. Series 3 shows weren’t kept in the archive. After you give blood at one of the National Blood Service Episode 4 Centres, tea and biscuits are on the menu to restore the donors. The Luton laureate visits the Cheltenham Literary Festival, and With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. Hardeep meets those about to offer their own life-giving liquid, finds that some poems just don't want to be read. From and enjoy the warm offering afterwards. February 2000. Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1v7) Announcer: Wallace Greenslade [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUESDAY 03 DECEMBER 2013 TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01rb2j2) Producer: Peter Eton Mel joins California's Meteorite Zombies, hears from The TUE 00:00 The Scarifyers (b018sltw) Tiger Who Came to Tea author Judith Kerr, and introduces the [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in November 1955. next episode of Philip Ridley's book Meteorite Spoon. TUE 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b008p506) TUE 08:30 Harry Worth (b00r7q2v) TUE 17:00 A Whole New Ball Game (b00ck2dq) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Thirty Minutes Worth Series 1 TUE 01:00 Wimsey (b007jznj) The Camera Found Wanting [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Harry Worth's got a new camera - and havoc awaits at a To Robert's dismay, his sister, Barbara, is about to succumb to TUE 01:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm5wr) wedding. temptation in the shape of biker Andy Hunt. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] The amiable, woolly-minded bumbler, causes more confusion! His mother can't help to save her, so he enlists the help of TUE 02:00 Heresy (b00k3zzb) Starring Harry Worth. Father Benedict as an avenger... [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] With Jacqueline Clarke, Charles Collingwood, Julie Higginson A six-part black comedy by Martin Davies TUE 02:30 House on Fire (b00qf6ls) and John Savident. Stars Desmond Barrit as Father Benedict, Brenda Blethyn as [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Written by Vince Powell. Mrs Patterson, Paul Parris as Robert Patterson, Charlotte TUE 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1v0) Producer: Mike Craig Coleman as Barbara Patterson, Martino Lazzeri as Guy [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1988. Entwhistle, Mark Straker as Andy and Claire Skinner as Janet. TUE 04:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b00757f0) TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b03jtgc4) Producer: Lissa Evans [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1993. TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b03jssmv) TUE 09:45 Hearing With Hegley (b03jpvjt) TUE 17:30 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k0zf) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE 05:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket TUE 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1v7) TUE 18:00 The Scarifyers (b018zvmf) (b00scz3l) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy The Secret Weapon of Doom [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] Episode 2 Episode 2 TUE 05:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7) Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's classic The plot thickens as the Fantasists' creations seem to be coming [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] novel. to life. Stars Nicholas Courtney and Nigel Havers. TUE 06:00 Wimsey (b007jzpw) George Smiley, called back from retirement, tries to piece TUE 18:30 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride (b0092n8g) The Nine Tailors together the events of the past to find the mole he believes is The Night Owls 7 All Is Not Explained tearing apart the British Secret Intelligence Service. Assembled monster turned B&B landlady, Brenda investigates a Lord Peter Wimsey goes snooping to try and establish who George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale mysterious Whitby radio host. Stars Joanna Tope and Monica killed Geoffrey Deacon - and how. Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor Gibb. Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth. Control ...... John Rowe TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jmrj) Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery dramatised by Alistair Peter Guillam ...... Ewan Bailey [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Beaton. Percy Alleline ...... Bill Paterson TUE 19:30 Harry Worth (b00r7q2v) Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael Ricki Tarr ...... Jamie Foreman [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Supt Blundell …. Timothy Bateson Toby Esterhase ...... Sam Dale TUE 20:00 Wimsey (b007jzpw) Rev Theodore Venables …. Phillip Latham Bill Haydon ...... Michael Feast [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Will Thoday …. Keith Drinkell Roy Bland...... David Hargreaves TUE 20:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm9s4) Jim Thoday …. Malcolm Terris Sam Collins ...... Nicholas Boulton. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Engineer …. Leonard Fenton TUE 11:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007k2n4) TUE 21:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007k2n4) Hezekiah Lavender …. Michael Spice Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Sluice Keeper …. Peter Tudenham Wartime in Broadcasting House sees a visit from a boozy TUE 21:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx3z) Narrator …. John Westbrook French General with misguided words of hope. Read by [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Producer: Martin Fisher Penelope Wilton. TUE 22:00 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b03jb1wp) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1980. TUE 11:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx3z) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 06:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm9s4) Series 1 TUE 22:30 The Castle (b0080xwh) 2. Warning The Troubles of This Life Series 1 Tricked into abducting the wrong man, dangerous Peterson The lively events in the parish of Over Stowey, from the 1799 Episode 6 gives a stern warning to the ex-officer. Read by Julian Rhind- diary of Somerset parson, William Holland. Stars Ronald Sitcom by Kim Fuller, set in a medieval castle with some Tutt. Pickup. remarkably modern trappings. TUE 07:00 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k0zf) TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jmrj) Featuring an art exhibition, a strolling footpad, a dodgy flat- Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] pack scaffold and a lawnmower. Mr Finchley runs into an ancient mariner who has many tales to TUE 12:30 Harry Worth (b00r7q2v) Sir John Woodstock ...... James Fleet tell of his life at sea, each one taller than the last. Meanwhile, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Sir William De Warenne ...... Neil Dudgeon following hot on his tail is Oliver Watt-Anselm, the worst TUE 13:00 Wimsey (b007jzpw) Lady Anne Woodstock ...... Susan Earl private eye in the world... [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Cardinal Duncan ...... Jonathan Kydd Victor Canning's novel about the adventures of a man and his TUE 13:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm9s4) Lady Charlotte ...... Ingrid Oliver horse-drawn caravan touring the 1930s countryside of Kent. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Master Henry Woodstock ...... Steven Kynman CAST: TUE 14:00 Mary Brunton - Self Control (b011km7g) Sam Tree ...... Toby Ross-Bryant. Mr Finchley .... Richard Griffiths A Future Lost TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b03my8zq) Horace Blane …. John Bird Laura's skills as a painter are praised by a London artist - but For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the Bob Trilby …. Chris Emmett her father receives some terrible news about his investments... best laughs around. Tonight, Tom Wrigglesworth chats to Carl Oliver Watt-Anselm …. Jon Glover Published in 1811, Mary Brunton’s romantic tale set in Donnelly. Narrated by James Villiers. Perthshire and London - dramatised in ten parts by Gerda TUE 23:00 Delve Special (b007jq1p) Adapted in six parts by Andy and Eric Merriman. Stevenson. Series 3 Producer: Gareth Edwards Laura Montreville is loved by two men - a reckless libertine and A Rocket for Defence First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1993. a dignified but reserved landowner. In a world where polite Reporter David Lander investigates whether we really need the TUE 07:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b03jb1wp) society and sexual hypocrisy rub shoulders easily, can she new 'Sea Snake' torpedo. Series 5 choose wisely between passion and virtue? Every year each British taxpayer gives £700 to the Ministry of Episode 1 Narrated by Maureen Beattie. Defence for new nuclear weapons. The future of farming - battery penguins; Thomas Hardy's Hargrave ...... Andrew Wincott Would we be better off putting an extra lock on the door and exciting idea to make his books even sadder; and the very Lady Harriet Montreville ...... Phyllida Law having a fortnight in Bermuda? confusing goings on in a cash-register shop. Laura ...... Gerda Stevenson Presented by David Lander with assistance from Stephen Fry. Comedy from the lopsided world of David Mitchell and Robert Jeannie ...... Colette O'Neil Studio production by Jack Klaff, Brenda Blethyn and Harry Webb. Montreville ...... Bernard Horsfall Enfield. With Olivia Colman and James Bachman. Mr Foster ...... David Timson Dramatic reconstructions by Felicity Montagu, Robert Bathurst Producer: Gareth Edwards Producer: Bruce Young and Mark Arden. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2013. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003. Researched and compiled by Tony Sarchet. TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jmrj) TUE 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00shl8f) Editor: Paul Mayhew-Archer Series 6 Reinstated Divinity Delve Special ran for four series from 1984 to 1987 and later Shangri-La Again Michael Morpurgo discovers how the Victorian obsession with transferred to TV as: This is David Lander. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 30 November – 6 December 2013 Page 5 of 8 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1986. WED 07:30 What Does the K Stand For? (b03jdw6r) WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b012lm9q) TUE 23:30 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] (b00y2sq7) Who Am I? WED 13:00 Wimsey (b007jzr6) Series 2 Young Stephen wrestles with his identity and gets some career [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] The Root of All Evil advice from his useless but enthusiastic teacher. WED 13:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nmzm3) Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith, Mordrin McDonald is Stephen K Amos's sitcom about his own teenage years, growing [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] a 2000 year old Wizard living in the modern world where up black, gay and funny in 1980s South London. WED 14:00 Mary Brunton - Self Control (b011kqj4) settling garden disputes and watching Countdown are just as Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos. London important as slaying the odd Jakonty Dragon. Stephen K Amos ... Stephen K Amos Laura and her father travel to London in search of their lost This week Mordrin recruits ally and former Wizard activist Ben Young Stephen ... Shaquille Ali-Yebuah annuity - and meet a man who talks like a parrot, dresses like a The Brown to settle a garden dispute with his neighbour Jill. Stephanie Amos ... Fatou Sohna monkey, and smells like a civet-cat. Cast: Virginia Amos ... Ellen Thomas Published in 1811, Mary Brunton’s romantic tale set in Mordrin: David Kay Vincent Amos ... Don Gilet Perthshire and London - dramatised in ten parts by Gerda Bernard The Blue: Jack Doherty Miss Collins ... Gemma Whelan Stevenson. Ben The Brown: Arnold Brown Jayson ... Frankie Wilson Laura Montreville is loved by two men - a reckless libertine and Jill: Katrina Bryan PE Teacher ... Harry Jardine a dignified but reserved landowner. In a world where polite Councillor Campbell: Callum Cuthbertson Producer: Colin Anderson society and sexual hypocrisy rub shoulders easily, can she Ash: Greg McHugh First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2013. choose wisely between passion and virtue? Sickie-More: Johnny Austin WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnbl) Narrated by Maureen Beattie. Producer/Director: Gus Beattie Series 5 Hargrave ...... Andrew Wincott A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. The Scandal Magazine Lady Harriet Montreville ...... Phyllida Law TUE 23:45 Date With Fate (b0090x8s) The lad takes action over scandal rag Blabbermouth's scurrilous Laura ...... Gerda Stevenson Nice Little Number claims of him cavorting with Mabel Biggs the cigarette girl. Jeannie ...... Colette O'Neil Vernon Hedges sets out to disprove the existence of Lady Luck. Stars Tony Hancock. Montreville ...... Bernard Horsfall Harold Wing Pinero is your host. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Montague De Courcy ...... Tom Goodman-Hill Another of four comic close encounters with fate written by Williams. Wilkins ...... David Timson Gary Parker and Phil Whelans. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Warren ...... Thomas Arnold Vernon ...... Philip Jackson Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. Producer: Bruce Young Harold Wing Pinero ...... Charles Gray Producer: Tom Ronald First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003. Arthur ...... Michael Troughton First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1958. WED 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00shrwl) Dory/Shelley ...... Tracy Wiles WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b012lm9q) Father, Is It Time? All other parts played by Toby Longworth. Series 8 Michael Morpurgo reveals children's working lives during the Producer: Paul Schlesinger Episode 3 Industrial Revolution - up chimneys, in factories and down First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1996. Hard times for Radio Prune - are ads the answer? Plus one mines. woman's struggle to get a phone. WED 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, (b007tm4d) WEDNESDAY 04 DECEMBER 2013 David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. Episode 8 Sketches written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie Guy tries to reassure Merrion about their future, but all his WED 00:00 The Scarifyers (b018zvmf) Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue family problems prove a big distraction. Read by Barbara [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and Flynn. WED 00:30 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride (b0092n8g) quickly developed a cult following. WED 14:45 Tea and Biscuits (b00m5qjd) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Music and songs by Graeme Garden, Liam Cohen and Dave Episode 3 WED 01:00 Wimsey (b007jzpw) Lee. Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge in [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit. WED 01:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm9s4) First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1970. John Chapple keeps thousands of bees in his garden and looks [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED 09:00 Know Your Place (b01b3b6b) after hives all over London, from the Royal Parks to housetops WED 02:00 The News Quiz Extra (b03jtgc4) Out of the Closet in Hackney. But at least twice a day, everything stops for a cup [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] Ramsay needs help after a close call with the local gangster. of tea and a biscuit. Ringing a bell to alert his neighbour that the WED 02:45 Hearing With Hegley (b03jpvjt) Ramsay Potts is the jobsworth caretaker at a crumbling kettle is on the boil, John invites Hardeep to join him and [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] Edwardian block of flats, pursued by the over-amorous cleaner neighbour Dennis in his daily ritual. WED 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1v7) Elsie. A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Starring Roy Dotrice as Ramsay and Patricia Hayes as Elspeth WED 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1w3) WED 04:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices Spurgeon. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] (b007k2n4) Sitcom written by Andrew Palmer and Nell Brennan. WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03b4lrr) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] With John Graham, John Blythe and James Taylor. Mel's Taste of Paradise is the Perfect Homemade Strawberry WED 04:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx3z) Producer: Edward Taylor Ice Cream. Plus she hears from the first man in space and has [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1983. the next chapter of Philip Ridley's Meteorite Spoon. WED 05:00 A Whole New Ball Game (b00ck2dq) WED 09:30 All the Way from Memphis (b00jj529) WED 17:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] Series 1 (b007vgg5) WED 05:30 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k0zf) Episode 5 Bingo and the Little Woman [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] James Walton's pop music history quiz with Tracey MacLeod, Bertie Wooster turns into a romantic novelist (again) when WED 06:00 Wimsey (b007jzr6) Andrew Collins, David Hepworth and Carol Decker. From Bingo Little falls in love (again). The Nine Tailors January 2005. PG Wodehouse romp starring Richard Briers and Michael 8 Nine Tailors Make a Man WED 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1w3) Hordern. Can upper class sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey finally solve the Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Jeeves ...... Michael Hordern baffling mystery of the murder of Geoffrey Deacon? Episode 3 Bertie Wooster ..... Richard Briers Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth. Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's classic Lord Bittlesham ..... Ronald Fraser The conclusion of Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery. novel. Bingo Little ..... Jonathan Cecil Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael George Smiley, called back from retirement, is reaching the end Adapted by Chris Miller. Bunter …. Peter Jones of his hunt to find the mole he believes is tearing the British Producer: David Hatch Supt Blundell …. Timothy Bateson Secret Intelligence Service apart. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1973. Rev Theodore Venables …. Phillip Latham George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale WED 17:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00cbm6c) Mrs Venables...Noel Dyson Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Will Thoday …. Keith Drinkell Control ...... John Rowe WED 18:00 The Scarifyers (b019chhw) Harry Gotobed …. Alexander John Peter Guillam ...... Ewan Bailey The Secret Weapon of Doom First Sluice Keeper …. Michael Spice Jim Prideaux ...... Anthony Calf Episode 3 Second Sluice Keeper …. Peter Tudenham Mendel ...... Kenneth Cranham Lionheart and Bright believe they've tracked down the deadly Narrator …. John Westbrook Magyar ...... Peter Majer object. But have they? Stars Nicholas Courtney and Leslie Dramatised by Alistair Beaton. Ricki Tarr ...... Jamie Foreman Phillips. Producer: Martin Fisher Toby Esterhase ...... Sam Dale WED 18:30 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride (b00941pb) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1980. Bill Haydon ...... Michael Feast The Vintage Costumed Hero Ball WED 06:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nmzm3) Karla ...... Philip Fox Monstrous B&B landlady Brenda gets a murderous surprise at a 3. Grappling Polyakov ...... Stephen Greif superheroes convention. Stars Joanna Tope and John Paul In his ongoing battle with the evil Peterson, our hero has to Steve Mackelvore ...... Piers Wehner Hurley. grapple with a gorilla. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. Mrs McCraig ...... Kate Layden WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnbl) WED 07:00 The Leopard in Autumn (b00cbm6c) Bill Roach ...... Ryan Watson. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 1 WED 11:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b012lm9q) Plethora Princess Regent (b007ypbc) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Awaiting news of a new pope, Plethora takes over Monte Episode 3 WED 20:00 Wimsey (b007jzr6) Guano and Ludovico takes to his bed. Wartime in Broadcasting House. American reporters arrive [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Neal Anthony's 16th-century comedy drama about the chaotic from France, and odd living arrangements are made. Read by WED 20:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nmzm3) lives of the ruling family of Renaissance Italy's most Penelope Wilton. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] inconsequential city-state. WED 11:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx44) WED 21:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices Stars David Swift as Ludovico, Sian Phillips as Plethora, Series 1 (b007ypbc) Graham Crowden as Francesco, Paul Bigley as Alessandro, The Fruits of the Earth [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Saskia Wickham as Rosalie, Nick Romero as Salvatore, In the year 1800, parson William Holland battles with the WED 21:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx44) Christopher Kelham as Guido and Kim Wall as Father Ignazio. Somerset farmers and sees the harvest in. Stars Ronald Pickup. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Producer: Helen Williams WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnbl) WED 22:00 What Does the K Stand For? (b03jdw6r) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 30 November – 6 December 2013 Page 6 of 8 WED 22:30 Act Your Age (b0100gr6) Gerald …. David Horovitch diary of Somerset parson William Holland. Stars Ronald Series 3 Edith …. Elizabeth Spriggs Pickup. Episode 3 The Reverend Bronte …. Geoffrey Whitehead THU 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jnqc) Simon Mayo hosts the three-way battle between the comedy Charlotte …. Sarah Jane Holm [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] generations to find out which is the funniest. Mrs Gaskell/Emily Bronte …. Frances Jeater THU 12:30 Take It From Here (b01nrmxs) Will it be the Up-and-Comers, the Current Crop or the Old Equity …. David Antrobus [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Guard who will be crowned, for one week at least, as the Director: Cherry Cookson THU 13:00 John Creasey - The Toff on the Farm Golden Age of Comedy? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1998. (b007jrq3) Holly Walsh is joined by Sean Walsh, Lucy Porter teams up THU 07:30 The Secret World (b03jfc4f) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] with Hal Cruttenden and Tom O'Connor is paired with Dave Series 4 THU 13:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nn7s8) Spikey. Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Devised and produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. From Al Pacino to Jenni Murray - the show that shines a light THU 14:00 Mary Brunton - Self Control (b011kw71) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011. on the private world of public people is back! A New Admirer WED 23:00 Pick Ups (b00nkxfc) MP William Hague is at a loose end so volunteers to do some Colonel Hargrave pursues Laura from Perthshire to London - Series 2 cleaning for his colleagues. where Laura meets a new admirer. Carpe Diem Hollywood’s Al Pacino is convinced that Jools Holland is an Published in 1811, Mary Brunton’s romantic tale set in Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi company. alien sending secret messages with his music. Perthshire and London - dramatised in ten parts by Gerda Lind endures a dinner date in a bid to secure the future of Irwell It can only be the strange goings on in the impression comedy Stevenson. Cars, while Mike's pick-up is on a quest for sexual and personal with a difference. Laura Montreville is loved by two men - a reckless libertine and liberation. With a dignified but reserved landowner. In a world where polite Mike ...... Paul Loughran Jon Culshaw society and sexual hypocrisy rub shoulders easily, can she Lind ...... Lesley Sharp Julian Dutton choose wisely between passion and virtue? Dave ...... Phil Rowson Lewis MacLeod Narrated by Maureen Beattie. Alan ...... Parvez Qadir Jess Robinson Laura ...... Gerda Stevenson Simon De Vere ...... James Quinn Debra Stephenson Hargrave ...... Andrew Wincott Shelly ...... Naomi Radcliffe Duncan Wisbey Lady Harriet Montreville ...... Phyllida Law Johnny ...... Peter Keeley. Producer: Bill Dare Jeannie ...... Colette O'Neil WED 23:30 Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun (b007k1qh) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2013. Montreville ...... Bernard Horsfall Belfast THU 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jnqc) Montague De Courcy ...... Tom Goodman-Hill Goldilocks, Robert the Bruce and body awareness. Series 2 Wilkins ...... David Timson From Queen's University, Belfast. Mum's Army Warren ...... Thomas Arnold Stewart Lee and Richard Herring’s mix of sharp sketches and When Captain Mainwaring decides to open up his Home Guard Producer: Bruce Young situations, stand up topical gags and banter. unit to women, Mrs Gray catches his eye. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2003. With Peter Baynham, Ronni Ancona and John Thomson. Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV THU 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sjp2l) Lee and Herring went to write and star in their successful TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. I Ain't a Child transfer to BBC Two in 1995. Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe Michael Morpurgo tells the story of Victorian street children Cult BBC Radio 1 series first broadcast in October 1993. Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier and the organisations that grew up to rescue them. Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn THU 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress Private Fraser …. John Laurie (b007tcj1) THURSDAY 05 DECEMBER 2013 Private Pike …. Ian Lavender Episode 9 Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley Simon makes a stand against his mother Laura over her divorce THU 00:00 The Scarifyers (b019chhw) Private Walker Larry Martyn battle with her unfaithful husband Guy. Read by Barbara Flynn. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Mrs Fox …. Mollie Sugden THU 14:45 Tea and Biscuits (b00m5qjg) THU 00:30 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride (b00941pb) Mrs Gray …. Carmen Silvera Episode 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Edith Parish ...... Wendy Richard Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge in THU 01:00 Wimsey (b007jzr6) Announcer …. John Snagge that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] Producer: John Dyas The sounds of the waltz, jive and rumba bring couples to their THU 01:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nmzm3) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1975. feet as they glide round the ballroom. But it is the tea break [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU 08:30 Take It From Here (b01nrmxs) when the conversation really flows, as Hardeep finds out when THU 02:00 Know Your Place (b01b3b6b) From 15/06/1953 he visits the Bushey Tea Dance Club. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Fun afloat, aboard aircraft carrier HMS Indefatigable. Stars A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. THU 02:30 All the Way from Memphis (b00jj529) Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols. From June THU 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz20) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] 1953. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1w3) THU 09:00 Hazelbeach (b0084hvy) THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03b4trt) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] Series 1 Mel hears from the astronaut who played the flute in orbit, THU 04:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007ypbc) Mother learns how to power a mobile phone with urine, and finds out [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] Nick's worst fears come true, while Ronnie tries to sell heart- how birds got their names. THU 04:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx44) rate monitors to fans of Monty Python. THU 17:00 Ballylenon (b007znmy) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] Caroline and David Stafford's comedy stars Jamie Forman as Series 5 THU 05:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves Ronnie Hazelbeach. Episode 4 (b007vgg5) Ronnie ...... Jamie Foreman Guard Gallagher gets new lodgings, as arguments rage over the [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] Nick ...... Paul Bazely cottage. THU 05:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00cbm6c) Chloe ...... Tracy Wiles Series set in the sleepy town of Ballylenon, Co Donegal in 1956. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] James ...... John Dougall Written by Christopher Fitz-Simon. THU 06:00 John Creasey - The Toff on the Farm Vince ...... Simon Treves Starring TP McKenna as Phonsie Doherty, Margaret D'Arcy as (b007jrq3) Andrea ...... Liza Sadovy Muriel McConkey, Stella McCusker as Vera McConkey, Aine 1. Trouble for Sale Producer: Marc Beeby McCartney as Vivienne Hawthorne, Gerard Murphy as Rev The Honourable Richard Rollison (the Toff) is offered the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007. Hawthorne, Marcella Riordan as Peg Sweeney, John Guiney as chance to buy a small farm in Sussex. THU 09:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00pqn27) Father O'Flatley and Charlie Bonnar as Packy McGoldrick. But when a man mysteriously disappears, the amateur sleuth Two of Our Spies Are Missing Music arranged and performed by Stephanie Hughes. soon realises something is amiss... When Bill meets the organisation's most effective but least sane Director: Eoin O'Callaghan John Creasey's thriller starring Terence Alexander. assassin, it's up to Sharla and Mark to find them. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. Dramatised in six parts by Roy Lomax Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of THU 17:30 Bookcases (b00srvks) The Toff ...... Terence Alexander inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Jolly ...... Robert Dorning Bill ...... Richard Lumsden THU 18:00 The Scarifyers (b019jt64) Gillian Selby ...... Heather Stoney Sharla ...... Nina Conti The Secret Weapon of Doom Vicar ...... Jeffrey Segal Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya Episode 4 Monty Morne ...... Terrence Hardiman Ian ...... Paterson Joseph Will the Colonel open Pandora's Box? Will the writers' Bert ...... Frank Jarvis Mrs Davies ...... Lucy Montgomery inventions be their downfall? Stars Nicholas Courtney, Nigel Mr Brandt ...... Ed Bishop Channing ...... Ewan Bailey Havers and Leslie Phillips. Other parts played by the cast Tim the Tea Boy ...... Joe Thomas THU 18:30 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride (b009gctd) Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Secretary ...... Tessa Nicholson Our Frank First broadcast on the BBC World Service in March 1977. Other parts played by the cast. A cliff-top drama for Whitby landlady Brenda, when her THU 06:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nn7s8) Producer: Katie Tyrrell monstrous old fiance appears. Stars Joanna Tope and Monica 4. Following First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2010. Gibb. Britain is in peril and Potts is in danger. Our hero follows his THU 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz20) THU 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jnqc) enemy to Paris. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. The Honourable Schoolboy [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 07:00 Bookcases (b00srvks) Episode 1 THU 19:30 Take It From Here (b01nrmxs) Series 1 It's 1975, and spymaster George Smiley takes charge of dealing [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Bronte Country with a betrayal. Stars Simon Russell Beale and Hugh THU 20:00 John Creasey - The Toff on the Farm London 1853: The orderly life of religious publishers, Spavin Bonneville. (b007jrq3) and Spavin, is set to transformed by an actress and her son. THU 11:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007ys09) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Cordelia is setting her sights on one of the partners, while her Episode 4 THU 20:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nn7s8) son Primus fancies taking over the firm, starting with hopes of Wartime in Broadcasting House. We learn of Annie, her piano [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] 'acquiring' Charlotte Bronte... tuner Dad and her spirited first day. Read by Penelope Wilton. THU 21:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007ys09) Series 1 of Martyn Wade's Victorian era comedy stars Michael THU 11:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx4d) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Cochrane and Maggie Steed. Series 1 THU 21:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx4d) Primus …. Michael Cochrane Pastoral [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Cordelia …. Maggie Steed Poor parishioners revolt and curious medical problems in the THU 22:00 The Secret World (b03jfc4f) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 30 November – 6 December 2013 Page 7 of 8 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] When a Man Loves a Woman THU 22:30 Elvenquest (b00w22h6) FRI 06:00 John Creasey - The Toff on the Farm (b007jrsr) Ken drops into comfort Carol, but is soon in despair over her Series 2 2. Dead On Arrival transvestite hubby George. Episode 2 Someone is very keen to acquire Selby Farm, where the owner's Can she ever accept his new life choices? Amis' over-eating has forced him to put on weight. brother has disappeared. Lynda Bellingham and Chris Ellison star as troubled hormonal This would be fine, were it not for the fact that he is the Can amateur sleuth, the Toff - the Honourable Richard wife Carol whose husband George has revealed that he's a "Chosen One" and everyone knows Chosen Ones cannot be Rollison- find out what's really going on? transvestite. seen to be too pudgy. He is a role model after all. So the John Creasey's thriller starring Terence Alexander. Sitcom by Gavin Petrie and Jan Etherington. Questers take him to see the sorcerer, Dietica, where he is put Dramatised by Roy Lomax Carol ...... Lynda Bellingham on a punishing new regime - along with the rest of our noble The Toff ...... Terence Alexander George ...... Chris Ellison band of heroes. Jolly ...... Robert Dorning Violet ...... Sylvia Syms But, as ever, danger lurks round every corner in Lower Earth Gillian Selby ...... Heather Stoney Maureen ...... Maureen Beattie and it is not long until Dietica reveals his true plans for the Monty Morne ...... Terrence Hardiman Dave ...... Mark Powley Questers. And it involves more than just staying away from Bert ...... Frank Jarvis Ken ...... James Vaughan carbs. Mr Brandt ...... Ed Bishop Jerry ...... Richard Standing Fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth written by Anil Gupta Other parts played by the cast Sonia ...... Emma Kennedy and Richard Pinto. Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Producer: Maria Esposito Sam …. Stephen Mangan First broadcast on the BBC World Service in March 1977. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001. Lord Darkness …. Alistair McGowan FRI 06:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nnpb3) FRI 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz64) Dietica …. Sanjeev Bhaskar 5. Godalming The Honourable Schoolboy Dean/Kreech …. Kevin Eldon The ex-officer heads to Godalming to protect Phyllis. And are Episode 2 Vidar …. Darren Boyd the Duchess' pearls safe? Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. The Americans make their presence felt, and tragedy strikes in Amis – The Chosen One …. Dave Lamb FRI 07:00 Smelling of Roses (b007jrhd) Hong Kong. Stars Simon Russell Beale and Hugh Bonneville. Penthiselea …. Sophie Winkleman Series 1 FRI 11:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007ynnm) Producer: Sam Michell Positive Thinking Episode 5 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. Rosie's company goes New Age, promoting the Brighton leg of Wartime in Broadcasting House. Annie's hard musical expertise THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b03my8zt) a lecture tour by a Californian positive-thinking guru. wins her few friends among top brass. Read by Penelope For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the Prunella Scales stars in Simon Brett's sitcom. Wilton. best laughs around. Tonight, Tom Wrigglesworth chats to Carl The trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event FRI 11:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx4j) Donnelly. management company. Series 2 THU 23:00 Sarah Millican's Support Group (b010twf6) Rosie ...... Prunella Scales Don't Look Down Your Nose at Me, Sir Series 2 Kate ...... Arabella Weir Unruly parishioners, lazy farmers and a bucolic manservant - 1. 'My partner is too controlling - a fight for the TV remote' Jo ...... Rebecca Callard the life of Somerset parson William Holland. Stars Ronald "My partner is too controlling - a fight for the television Bob ...... Duncan Preston Pickup. remote" Tess ...... Annette Badland FRI 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jld2) "I'm a non drinker with no friends - should I just buy a cat?" Darcy Philpotts ...... Alison Skilbeck [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Sarah Millican returns as a life counsellor and modern-day Lyndon Merchant ...... Kerry Shale FRI 12:30 Yes Minister (b007jlgh) agony aunt tackling the nation's problems head on, dishing out Producer: Maria Esposito [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] real advice for real people. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000. FRI 13:00 John Creasey - The Toff on the Farm (b007jrsr) Assisted by her very own team of experts of the heart - man of FRI 07:30 Meet David Sedaris (b03jysr6) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] the people local cabbie Terry, and self qualified counsellor Series 4 FRI 13:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nnpb3) Marion, Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Sarah tackles the nation's problems head on and has a solution One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC Radio 4 FRI 14:00 Mary Brunton - Self Control (b011lcx2) for everything. doing what he does best. Desperation Sarah ...... Sarah Millican There are two stories, this week: "The Happy Place", dealing Laura's father is ill, their money is running out and Colonel Marion ...... Ruth Bratt with the ups and downs of a colonoscopy; and "The Shadow of Hargrave is growing desperate. Terry ...... Simon Daye Your Smile", about how the right lighting can make us all look Published in 1811, Mary Brunton’s romantic tale set in Linda ...... Diane Morgan good. Perthshire and London - dramatised in ten parts by Gerda Matthew ...... Will Smith Producer: Steve Doherty Stevenson. Written by Sarah Millican. A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. Laura Montreville is loved by two men - a reckless libertine and Producer: Lianne Coop FRI 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jld2) a dignified but reserved landowner. In a world where polite First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011. Series 2 society and sexual hypocrisy rub shoulders easily, can she THU 23:30 Rubbish (b00770g2) Homes Fit for Heroes choose wisely between passion and virtue? Series 1 Harold quarrels with his Dad Albert over his plan to pack him Narrated by Maureen Beattie. Diversity off to travel the world. Laura ...... Gerda Stevenson Meet Martin Christmas, local government officer, cynic and Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. Hargrave ...... Andrew Wincott manic-depressive. Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association Mrs Stubbs ...... Phyllida Law Martin is in search for inner peace but is held back by his yearly with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson Beggar ...... Colette O'Neil visit to the diversity workshop, by having to come up with wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Montreville ...... Bernard Horsfall slogans for a rubbish bus and by pagans in the Youth and The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Montague De Courcy ...... Tom Goodman-Hill Leisure department trying to recruit him. Then to top it all he Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight Producer: Bruce Young keeps seeing the image of a bloke with metal plate in his jaw. series on TV. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003. Reece Dinsdale stars in the first of two series by Tony Bagley. Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell FRI 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sjw36) Martin ...... Reece Dinsdale Harold ...... Harry H Corbett The Habit of Schooling Karen ...... Oriane Messina Miss Lottersby ...... Marie Makino Michael Morpurgo discovers the reaction to the 1870 Forster Roger ...... Paul Copley Matron ...... Olwen Brookes. Education Act, marking the start of compulsory education for Don ...... Mark Maier Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by all. Sarah ...... Nicola Walker Gale Pedrick. FRI 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress Bryan ...... Neil Edmond Produced by Bobby Jaye (b007tcbf) Barney ...... James Lance First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1967. Episode 10 Chris ...... Jim North FRI 08:30 Yes Minister (b007jlgh) As Guy and Merrion make decisions, the Stockdale family must Adam ...... Paul Reynolds Series 1 come to terms with all the changes. Read by Barbara Flynn. Producer: Claire Bartlett Jobs for the Boys FRI 14:45 Tea and Biscuits (b00m5qjj) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2006. As Sir Humphrey warns on Public-Private Partnership, MP Jim Episode 5 Hacker learns it takes two to Quango. Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge in Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds. that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit. FRIDAY 06 DECEMBER 2013 Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn satirical sitcom ran on BBC TV Specialist palliative care is offered at the Peace Hospice, and on between 1980 and 1984. Yes Minister is centred around the the social side that includes the chance to chat over a cup of tea FRI 00:00 The Scarifyers (b019jt64) hapless Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service underlings and a biscuit. Hardeep joins the patients, staff and volunteers. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby and A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI 00:30 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride (b009gctd) obsequious Bernard. FRI 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz64) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Jim Hacker ...... Paul Eddington [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI 01:00 John Creasey - The Toff on the Farm (b007jrq3) Sir Humphrey Appleby ...... Nigel Hawthorne FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03b55jx) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Bernard ...... Derek Fowlds Mel finds out what it's like on a real volcanic island, hears from FRI 01:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nn7s8) Frank Weisel ...... Bill Nighy one of the last astronauts to walk on the moon, and has the final [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] Sir Desmond ...... Richard Vernon chapter in Philip Ridley's Meteorite Spoon. FRI 02:00 Hazelbeach (b0084hvy) Joe Morgan ...... Richard Davies FRI 17:00 Capital Gains (b007qgnq) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] George ...... Arthur Cox Series 1 FRI 02:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00pqn27) Conway ...... Kerry Francis Risk Capital [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Himself ...... Gordon Clough Amateur philosopher, Julius Hutch is looking forward to FRI 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz20) Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin. spending his retirement just "pottering". [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] First broadcast on Radio 4 in November 1983. But one morning, he wakes early to find that his life is changed FRI 04:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007ys09) FRI 09:00 Girls Will Be Girls (b0081vs4) forever... [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] From 02/12/1989 Peter Jones stars as Julius Hutch. FRI 04:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx4d) The Bobo girls take to the stage with music and comedy. First of two series written by Collin Johnson. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] Starring Rebecca Front and Sioned Wiliam. From December Julius Hutch ...... Peter Jones FRI 05:00 Ballylenon (b007znmy) 1989. Mrs Pauline Tone ...... Celestine Randall [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI 09:30 The Change (b00p2jn5) Kate ...... Justine Midda FRI 05:30 Bookcases (b00srvks) Series 1 Sexton Lewis ...... Jeffrey Wickham Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 30 November – 6 December 2013 Page 8 of 8 News Reader ...... Collin Johnson Producer: Andy Jordan. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995. FRI 17:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jrhd) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI 18:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b008h44x) The Parasite A man starts having terrifying dreams in which he's plagued by a monstrous creature. Yet - although hideously repellent - the parasite seems strangely familiar to him... First published in 1953, Arthur C Clarke's tale is read by Nicholas Boulton. Arthur C Clarke, along with Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, are known as Science-Fiction's "Big Three". Their work was key to the 1950s and 60s being recognised as the genre's Golden Age. Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007. FRI 18:30 JG Ballard - The Recognition (b007jqxc) What is the story behind the bizarre circus that rolls into town one Midsummer's eve? Fantastical tale read by Michael Maloney. FRI 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jld2) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 19:30 Yes Minister (b007jlgh) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 20:00 John Creasey - The Toff on the Farm (b007jrsr) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 20:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nnpb3) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 21:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007ynnm) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI 21:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx4j) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI 22:00 Meet David Sedaris (b03jysr6) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 22:30 The Consultants (b007k2w7) Series 3 Episode 6 Unisex barbers and wrong telephone numbers. Cerebral sketch show with Neil Edmond and Justin Edwards. From January 2005. FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b03myb3q) For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs around. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats to Ed Byrne. FRI 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b007jpdn) Series 2 G.U.T. For centuries, scientists have tried in vain to work out the grand unifying theory behind the universe. Satan sits the Professor down and teaches it to him... Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell. Satan ...... Andy Hamilton The Professor ...... James Grout Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan Other characters played by Philip Pope, Felicity Montagu and Nick Revell. Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998. FRI 23:30 The Mary Whitehouse Experience (b007jmp2) From 24/02/1990 Manchester's 1996 Olympic bid is mocked. Sketches, stand-up and general ranting from David Baddiel, Rob Newman, Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and others. From February 1990.

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