Radio 7 Listings for 2 – 8 August 2008 Page 1 of 6 SATURDAY 02 AUGUST 2008 Tommy Franklin …. Roy Hudd SAT 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Sheila Parr …. June Whitfield (b007jmsm) SAT 00:00 Wally K Daly (b007jv1s) Hetty Stark …. Pat Coombes Operation Luna The Children of Witchwood Murray …. Julian Eardley 4. Is There Anybody Out There? Episode 5 Louis Elstein …. Edward Halsted Captain Jet Morgan and his crew face catastrophe when their Jackie's extraordinary telepathic powers attract the evil Hilaire …. Paul Rogan. rocket loses power. attentions of the eerie Cranford family. Music by Frido Ruth. Written and produced by Charles Chilton. SAT 00:30 Isaac Asimov's Jokester (b007jwnj) Producer: Steve Doherty Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Vast computer Multivac runs global affairs, but can it explain First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002. Lemmy Barnett …. Alfie Bass where man's sense of humour comes from? Read by Henry SAT 06:30 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves Doc …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter Goodman. (b007jxf5) Mitch …. David Williams SAT 01:00 (b007jm4n) Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum Other parts played by David Jacobs Evil Under the Sun What with young Bingo Little in love for the umpteenth time, Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips. Episode 5 Aunt Agatha and her plans to marry Bertie off to the The original 1953 recordings of this futuristic series were Determined to pinpoint the American starlet's killer, the formidable Honoria Glossop, and the troublesome twins, erased. Belgian sleuth invites everyone on his list of suspects to a Claude and Eustace - there's just no peace for poor Bertie. This series was re-recorded and first broadcast on the BBC picnic. Only one man can save the day - the inimitable Jeeves. Light Programme in April 1958. The finale of Agatha Christie's whodunit starring John Moffatt PG Wodehouse's romp starring and Richard SAT 18:30 Fear on 4 (b007jq0d) as Hercule Poirot. Briers. Series 4 Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt Jeeves …. Michael Hordern Playing God Colonel Weston …. George Baker Bertie Wooster …. Richard Briers The Man in Black reveals how homeless people face falling Christin Redfern …. Susannah Corbett Mortimer Little …. Ronald Fraser prey to unscrupulous operators. Patrick Redfern …. Iain Glen Bingo Little …. Jonathan Cecil Another in a series of nerve-tinglers from Fear on 4. Rosamund Darnley …. Sabina Franklyn Mabel …. Ann Davies Starring Melanie Hudson as Alma and Edward de Souza as the Linda Marshall …. Lindsey Fawcett Adapted by Chris Miller. Man in Black. Captain Kenneth Marshall …. Robin Ellis Producer: David Hatch With Nicholas Murchie as Tom, Ann Windsor as Hilary, Inspector Colgate …. Gerrard McDermott First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1973. Margaret Heery as Mrs Drewitt, Peter Gunn as the Police Horace Blatt …. John Hartley SAT 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00csypg) Sergeant, Melinda Walker as the Sister, David Bannerman as Gladys …. Nicol Forbes Contact us at: PC Crambles, John Church as the Doctor and Eric Allen as Carrie Gardener …. Wendy Craig Big Toe Books Ralph. Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. BBC Broadcasting House Written by Denise Sims. Producer: Enyd Williams Producer: Martin Jenkins First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998. W1A 1AA First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. SAT 01:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4xx) Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: SAT 19:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b00csypj) Wasted Years bigtoe@.co.uk. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Episode 10 SAT 08:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b00csypj) SAT 19:30 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book (b00csypl) A series of armed robberies bears an uncanny resemblance to a Piers Nimmo [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] spate of crimes Inspector Resnick investigated ten years earlier. He made a career out of playing 'Hapless Twits', but the real SAT 20:00 Radio Heads (b007jqgf) SAT 02:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00cqzj4) Derek Nimmo was rather more sophisticated. From August [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] The Temptation 2006. SAT 23:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b007xrfb) Emma meets wealthy land owner Rodolphe Boulanger, and SAT 08:30 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book (b00csypl) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 today] succumbs to temptation... Letting in the Jungle A French masterpiece of betrayal and wantonness; the first Mowgli mounts a rescue and meets the Father of the Cobras. great novel of adultery starring John Hurt.. Stars Nisha K Nayar, and Jonathan Hyde. SUNDAY 03 AUGUST 2008 Narrator ...... John Hurt SAT 09:00 Radio Heads (b007jqgf) Charles ...... Conrad Nelson Bobby Jaye SUN 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Emma ...... Sarah Smart Bobby Jaye (b007jmsm) Rodolphe Boulanger ...... Jude Akuwudike The one-time Head of Radio Light Entertainment and 'Steptoe [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Madame Lefrancois ...... Siobhan Finneran and Son' producer selects the shows he either produced or SUN 00:30 Fear on 4 (b007jq0d) Monsieur Homais ...... David Fleeshman commissioned: [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] Gustave Flaubert's novel is dramatised by Diana Griffiths from The Ken Dodd Show (20/08/1972); Steptoe and Son: TB or not SUN 01:00 Peter Ackroyd - The House of Doctor Dee a translation by Margaret Mauldon. TB (11/04/1971); After Henry: The Cowboy (01/05/1985); (b0080gm9) Producer: Pauline Harris Radio Active: Euroshow (12/07/1983); The Small Intricate Life [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. of Gerald C Potter (14/12/1977); Yes Minister: The Writing on SUN 02:30 Hordes of the Things (b007jqwz) SAT 02:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007jw6t) the Wall (08/11/1983). [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Saturday] Mr Reliable SAT 12:00 Peter Ackroyd - The House of Doctor Dee SUN 03:00 Radio Heads (b007jqgf) It's Mr Openshaw's job to listen to people. He goes to their (b0080gm9) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday] houses to listen to them talk. Matthew Palmer is left an old house in London's Clerkenwell. SUN 06:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b007xrfb) Mrs Flenswick is one of his visitees. But he doesn't listen to her Once owned by an Elizabethan scholar who was reputedly [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Saturday] at all... involved in black magic, the house hides dark secrets... SUN 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00ct1wr) Peter Tinniswood's drama stars Peter Sallis as Mr Oakenshaw Peter Ackroyd's 1993 novel, dramatised by Alan Drury. Contact us at: and Edna Dore as Mrs Flenswick. Stars Philip Glenister as Matthew Palmer, Anthony Ofoegbu as Big Toe Books Director: Enyd Williams Daniel Moore, Gerard McDermott as Edward Kelley, Nigel BBC Broadcasting House First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. Anthony as Dr John Dee, Stephen Thorne as Matthew's father, London SAT 03:00 Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections Carolyn Jones as Matthew's mother, David Bannerman as W1A 1AA (b007jrs4) Geoffrey, Tracy-Ann Oberman as Mrs John Dee, Alison Pettitt Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: Series 3 as Audrey, Jillie Meers as Mrs Lucas, John Rowe as Laurie and [email protected]. Episode 4 James Bell as the little boy. SUN 08:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (Omnibus) From bigotry to West End shows, the comic duo present more Director: Claire Grove (b00ct1wf) topical comedy, with guest Debra Stephenson. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997. Episode 1 SAT 03:30 And Now in Colour (b007jmql) SAT 13:30 Hordes of the Things (b007jqwz) Beautiful Emma meets and marries Doctor Charles Bovary. Series 1 Episode 3 He's happy for the first time in his life - unlike Emma, who's Back to the Studio A startling discovery is made by one defender of Albion. distraught that her marriage lacks the passion and excitement of The sketch show team take their audience on a trip to the Andrew Marshall and John Lloyd's four-part epic Tolkien her fantasies. cinema – but where are the all-star special guests? parody. A French masterpiece of betrayal and wantonness; the first Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de CAST: great novel of adultery. Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck. King Yulfric the Wise …. Paul Eddington Starring John Hurt as the narrator, Conrad Nelson as Charles, Producer: Lissa Evans The Chronicler …. Patrick Magee Sarah Smart as Emma and Brigit Forsyth as Madame Bovary First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1990. Crown Prince Veganin …. Simon Callow Snr. SAT 04:00 The Atkinson People (b007k1qg) Agar …. Christian Rodskar Gustave Flaubert's novel is dramatised by Diana Griffiths from Sir Benjamin Fletcher Radox the Green …. Frank Middlemass a translation by Margaret Mauldon. Rowan Atkinson's satirical investigation into the life of the Maliadoc …. Hugh Thomas Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes. fictional master orator. With Hugh Thomas. From April 1979. King Yulfric's First Assistant Advisor …. David Ross Producer: Pauline Harris SAT 04:30 In One Ear (b007jrfn) Mother of Agar …. Miriam Margolyes First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2006. More shenanigans originally broadcast 'live' with Nick Wilton, Queen Elfreda …. Maggie Steed SUN 09:15 HE Bates - Three Country Stories (b007jv1q) Helen Lederer, Clive Mantle and Steve Brown. The High Bishop of Zylbor …. Aubrey Woods Series 1 SAT 05:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jlm7) Golin Longshanks …. Jonathan Lynn Time Episode 5 Producer: Geoffrey Perkins Three old men sit and watch the world go by, but one has a very Vengeful Heathcliff has wickedly schemed to force Catherine First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1980. youthful secret of vitality. Read by David Neal. to marry his ailing son Linton. Stars John Duttine and Sharon SAT 14:00 02/08/2008 (b00csypn) SUN 09:30 Take It From the Chorus (b007k2rh) Duce. Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on The Chorus on Screen SAT 06:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cr32p) BBC7. Time for your close-up! Caroline Quentin investigates life Series 4 Contact us at: among the hoofers and the impact of film and TV. Episode 4 CBeebies Radio SUN 10:00 Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate Tommy and Sheila try sort out their son Murray's career and London, W12 7RJ (b007jp62) love-life – and Sheila seems to have a new hobby... Phone: 08700 100 700. A glamorous invitation to a grand party at Hampton - home of Ageing showbiz couple Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr battle SAT 17:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b007xrfb) the fabulously wealthy Montdores and their beautiful daughter on with their second stab at fame. Our lyrical American host and his pack of poets present a Polly - brings Fanny into the world of the 1920s aristocracy - Mike Coleman's sitcom starring Roy Hudd and June Whitfield. special poetry compilation. and in and out of love when the temperature drops... Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 2 – 8 August 2008 Page 2 of 6 Published in 1949, Nancy Mitford's novel dramatised by Claire Episode 2 W1A 1AA Luckham. Vicky and Burt stop in Gatlin to report a crime. The town seems Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: Stars Amanda Root as Fanny, Barbara Jefford as Lady deserted until Burt makes an alarming discovery in the church. [email protected]. Montdore, Teresa Gallagher as Polly, Jenny Howe as Veronica, SUN 19:00 The Clitheroe Kid (b007k0ds) MON 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jpcq) Jon Strickland as Uncle Davey, Patience Tomlinson as Aunt [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today] Series 8 Emily, Tessa Worsley as Aunt Sadie, Ioan Meredith as Uncle SUN 19:30 Floggit's (b00ct1wp) The Space Age Matthew, Stephen Critchlow as Boy Dougdale, Sarah-Jane [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today] Neddy and Crun attempt to launch Min into space, but she gets Holm as Jassy, Tilly Gaunt as Victoria, William Hope as Cedric SUN 20:00 Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate stuck up the chimney. Stars Spike Milligan. From November and Tom Beard as Alfred. (b007jp62) 1957. Director: Marion Nancarrow [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON 08:30 Radio Shuttleworth (b007jw00) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. SUN 21:30 Up the Garden Path (b007wpnk) Series 1 SUN 11:30 Up the Garden Path (b007wpnk) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] Patrick Moore Series 1 SUN 22:00 The Now Show (b00ct1wh) Sheffield's aspiring singer-songwriter takes to the airwaves once Tangled Webs Catch up with Punt and Dennis and guests. more from his very own his front room! The complex life and loves of Izzy Comyn, with her propensity SUN 22:30 The Maltby Collection (b00ct1wk) Aided by his producer (and sole agent) Ken Worthington, and for telling lies. Series 1 his hard-to-please wife Mary, the inimitable John Shuttleworth Tumbling from one love entanglement to another, 30 something Episode 5 presents celebrity interviews, dodgy keyboard music, and even teacher Izzy Comyn has a predilection for inappropriate men. The senior management team head off to a conference on the dodgier jingles. stars as Izzy. Isle of Wight, leaving Rod in charge of the museum... Can special guest Sir Patrick Moore help John identify the red Adapted by Sue Limb from her 1984 novel into 3 radio series Geoffrey Palmer and Julian Rhind-Tutt star in David Nobbs’ glow that appears outside the front bay window just before which ran from 1987 to 1993. Granada also adapted the series sitcom about a small museum of paintings and sculpture. bedtime? for ITV. Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt With Sean Cullen and Dylan Goodhew. Izzy ...... Imelda Staunton Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer Written and performed by Graham Fellows. Maria ...... Marty Cruickshank Prunella Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins Producers: Paul Schlesinger and Martin Willis. Michael ...... Nicholas Le Prevost Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998. Dick ...... Mike Grady Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley MON 09:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jprs) Class 4C: Eva Tattle ...... Julia Deakin Series 1 Sarah Doyle Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern A Case of Making Good Kerryann White Stelios Constantinopolis ...... Chris Pavlo A rich woman receives a mysterious parcel of tenners and the Mark Monero Dave Edgecumbe ...... Anthony Glennon past unfolds like a flower. Can redundant pitman turned Sam Smart Lofty Harmsworth ...... Simon Treves discrete private investigator, Stephen J Blackburn solve the Producer: Jonathan James-Moore Gus ...... John Dougall case? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1987. Producer: Colin Anderson One of five cases for the ex-pitman turned investigator and his SUN 12:00 Comediennes (b007m661) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2007. government scheme-funded assistant Tracey. Set in a South Joyce Grenfell SUN 23:00 Knocker (b0089jjk) Yorkshire town that's seen better days. The matriarch of the comic monologue recalls her career as a Eligibilliant Starring Fine Time Fontayne as Stephen J Blackburn, Judy much loved performer and writer. Market researcher Ian Dunn tackles a run down council tower Flynn as Tracey Duggan. SUN 12:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007jp3v) block. Stars Neil Edmond and Paula Wilcox. From November With Rita May, Vanessa Rosenthal, Lorraine Peters, Lucia Series 1 2007. Laratonda and Robin Polley. Sandy Powell Episode 2 - Eligibilliant Scripted by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby "Can You Hear Me Mother?" Halloween in a run down tower block. Constantly mistaken for Directed for BBC North East by Dave Sheasby Famed for his catchphrase and comic ventriloquism, Mark a Trick or Treater (he's stencilled 'Cowabunga' on his pac-a- First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1989. Radcliffe profiles the career of Rotherham entertainer, Sandy mac to appeal to his youthful target group) and harassed by MON 09:30 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Powell. children so poor that they have to throw imaginary fireworks, Spy (b008g278) A six-part series exploring the tradition of the northern Ian knocks on the Last Door In The Block. After terrifying and 'R' comedian. extended scrapings, the door is edged open by a rasping old Ashenden, a writer by profession, has returned from the First Producer: Bernadette McConnell woman who has struggled to drag her breathing apparatus to the World War and is approached by a colonel who offers him a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. door.. and who seems to have been expecting him. position in the Secret Service. SUN 13:00 The Clitheroe Kid (b007k0ds) Produced by Tilusha Ghelani Ashenden is perfect due to his profession and his knowledge of Series 8 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. many European languages. He's despatched to Geneva the next James, the Little Gentleman SUN 23:15 No Tomatoes (b0080274) day with the warning that "if he does well, he'll get no thanks, When Granddad comes into money, the naughty schoolboy is Trash Talk and if he gets into trouble, he'll get no help". faced with boarding school. Stars Jimmy Clitheroe. From Sketch show mixing up language and sounds. Spaghetti A series of short stories based on William Somerset Maugham's November 1964. spellings with Paul Copley and Helen Moon. From October own First World War experiences SUN 13:30 Floggit's (b00ct1wp) 2007. Read by Alex Jennings From 09/11/1956 SUN 23:30 4 at the Store (b00ct1wm) Abridged by Neville Teller A power cut causes chaos in the village. Gossip galore at sisters Series 1 Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan Gert and Daisy's general store in Russett Green. Episode 2 Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007. Stars Elsie and Doris Waters as Gert and Daisy. Stand-up at London's Comedy Store, with host Simon Bligh, MON 10:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00ct506) With Joan Sims, Ron Moody, Ronnie Barker and Hugh John Mann, Marian Unfaithful and Paul Tonkinson. From The Affairs Paddick. December 1998. Beautiful Emma Bovary is planning to elope with her lover, Originally popular regulars in 'Worker's Playtime' on the BBC Rodolphe. Home Service during wartime, Gert and Daisy won own series, A French masterpiece of betrayal and wantonness; the first Floggit's, when the duo inherited a village general store with a MONDAY 04 AUGUST 2008 great novel of adultery starring John Hurt.. ragbag of local characters to deal with. It ran for 2 series Narrator ...... John Hurt between 1956 and 1957. MON 00:00 Jenny Stephens - Project Raphael (b008pc2y) Charles ...... Conrad Nelson Scripted by Terry Nation, John Junkin and Dave Freeman. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Emma ...... Sarah Smart Producer: Bill Gates MON 00:30 Children of the Corn (b007jr4f) Rodolphe Boulanger ...... Jude Akuwudike First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] Madame Bovary Snr ...... Brigit Forsyth 1956. MON 01:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (Omnibus) Monsieur Lheureux ...... Seamus O'Neill SUN 14:00 03/08/2008 (b00ct1wt) (b00ct1wf) Felicite ...... Sarah Jane Hallworth Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] Gustave Flaubert's novel is dramatised by Diana Griffiths from BBC7. MON 02:15 HE Bates - Three Country Stories (b007jv1q) a translation by Margaret Mauldon. Contact us at: [Repeat of broadcast at 09:15 on Sunday] Producer: Pauline Harris CBeebies Radio MON 02:30 Take It From the Chorus (b007k2rh) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. London, W12 7RJ [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] MON 10:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective Phone: 08700 100 700. MON 03:00 The Now Show (b00ct1wh) (b007jmhd) SUN 17:00 Comediennes (b007m661) [Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 on Sunday] The Metropolitan Line Murder [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] MON 03:30 The Maltby Collection (b00ct1wk) Journalist Polly seeks help from an enigmatic old customer in a SUN 17:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007jp3v) [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Sunday] London teahouse over her friend's killing. Stars Bernard [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] MON 04:00 Knocker (b0089jjk) Hepton. SUN 18:00 Jenny Stephens - Project Raphael (b008pc2y) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Sunday] MON 11:00 Caesar! (b00ct508) 3. Alarms MON 04:15 No Tomatoes (b0080274) Series 1 Malcolm and Polly set alarms ringing at Scarpendale, and the [Repeat of broadcast at 23:15 on Sunday] Meeting at Formiae Laughing Dog secrets are finally revealed. MON 04:30 4 at the Store (b00ct1wm) Julius Caesar secretly seeks senate leaders Cicero and Cato's Starring Deborah McAndrew and Aneirin Hughes. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Sunday] support to shake up the rule of Rome. Stars David Troughton. Agents from beyond the grave must help Britain's Intelligence MON 05:00 Comediennes (b007m661) MON 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jpcq) gather secrets from the mysterious Nablovski Colony. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Conclusion of the sci-fi thriller by Jenny Stephens. MON 05:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007jp3v) MON 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b007jv6g) Agent Finch ...... Deborah McAndrew [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] Greek legends get lampooned and Bill Oddie sings the Agent Evans ...... Aneirin Hughes MON 06:00 The Clitheroe Kid (b007k0ds) telephone directory. With John Cleese and Jo Kendall. Agent Raphael ...... John Flitcroft [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] MON 13:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007lnqr) Malcolm Holmes ...... Dan Hagley MON 06:30 Floggit's (b00ct1wp) Biggles Gets a Letter Moira Holmes ...... Sunny Ormonde [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] Answering an old chum's call for help, heroic fighter pilot Polly Williams ...... Emily Chennery MON 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00ct3z9) Major James Bigglesworth flies off to Fort Beaver. Emily Cross ...... Sophie Samuda Contact us at: Michael Palin reads 'Captain' WE Johns' gripping adventure. Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. Big Toe Books First published in 1939, 'Biggles Flies North' was adapted in Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in January 2008. BBC Broadcasting House eight parts by George Hearton. SUN 18:30 Children of the Corn (b007jr4f) London WE Johns (1893-1968) wrote nearly 100 books about Biggles Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 2 – 8 August 2008 Page 3 of 6 and his loyal sidekicks Algy, Ginger and Smyth. Offred looks to her future. Read by Buffy Davis. Povey decides that the Island is an ideal spot to test a new gun Producer: Marilyn Ireland MON 18:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale firing mechanism, on Pertwee's birthday. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1981. (b008d0jh) TUE 08:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (b007jrcc) MON 13:15 John Gielgud - Gielgud's Letters (b0082ckb) The Waiting Room Episode 1 Episode 1 Offred ponders an offer made by her doctor. A chilling vision It ran for 10 series on Channel 4 and found success in America, Actor Sir John Gielgud's remarkable life told through his of a dystopian world of female oppression. Read by Buffy but the hit TV improvisation game actually started life on BBC letters. In 1936, he was in New York. Read by Derek Davis. radio. Jacobi. MON 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jpcq) When it began in January 1988, this show adopted a format MON 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007jslb) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] with two regular team captains - Fry and Sessions and two The Kingdom of William and Mary MON 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b007jv6g) guests each week, with Colin Sell at the piano. Witchcraft and war preparations mark the beginning of William [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] In this first edition of the pioneering series, John Sessions, and Mary's reign. narrates the history of Britain. MON 20:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jprs) Dawn French, Stephen Fry and Lenny Henry are tasked to MON 13:45 Men of Stone (b00ct8w6) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] improvise by series chairman Clive Anderson. Series 1 MON 20:30 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Rounds include ghastly guests at a party and Goldilocks and the Portland - The Jurassic Park Spy (b008g278) Three Bears performed as never before. The story of Portland Rock and the quarrying of its famous [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Devised and compiled by Mark Leveson. Additional material by stone in Dorset. Julian Richards investigates Mesolithic MON 21:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00ct506) Martin Booth. masonry. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Producer: Dan Patterson. MON 14:00 04/08/2008 (b00ct8w8) MON 21:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective TUE 09:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jps6) Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on (b007jmhd) Series 1 BBC7. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] A Case of Parma Violets Contact us at: MON 22:00 Radio Shuttleworth (b007jw00) Trailing a distinctive perfume, Betty Shuttleworth turns to CBeebies Radio [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] private investigator Stephen J Blackburn when she suspects her London, W12 7RJ MON 22:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b007k0g6) husband's having an affair... Phone: 08700 100 700. Series 1 One of five cases for the ex-pitman turned investigator and his MON 17:00 To the Manor Born (b007k4vh) government scheme-funded assistant Tracey. Set in a South Sons of the Fathers The author needs a new roof, so his agent sorts him a pitch to Yorkshire town that's seen better days. Clearing out the cellar - Audrey finds more than she'd write for TV. Stars Christopher Douglas. From January 2005. Starring Fine Time Fontayne as Stephen J Blackburn, Judy bargained for. MON 23:00 The Nick Revell Show (b00ct94s) Flynn as Tracey Duggan. Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton. Series 2 With Rita May, Christine Cox, Gerry Kersey and Anne Rye. Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere The Promised Land Scripted by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher As writer Nick gets a lucky Hollywood break, his geraniums are Directed for BBC North East by Dave Sheasby Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger terrorised by an old foe. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1989. Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka A sitcom for the 1990s, written by and starring comedian Nick TUE 09:30 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Frank Middlemass ..... Ned Revell. Spy (b008g6v9) The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced With: The Traitor to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death Alistair McGowan Ashenden is despatched to a small hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, Doon MacKichan to try and buy the allegiance of a German informant - English they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage. Brian Bowles charmer Grantley Caypor. But when it transpires that he's not to From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving Alison Sterling be bought, Ashenden has few options left and is forced to try eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard John Guerrasio and turn him in. DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descent. Producer: Ioan Magnusson A series of short stories based on William Somerset Maugham's First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1993. own First World War experiences appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. MON 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jqyg) Read by Alex Jennings Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence. Series 3 Abridged by Neville Teller Producer: Jane Berthoud Masterson Rides Again Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1997. The life of young Billy at his Victorian boarding school. Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007. MON 17:30 Bristow (b00ct8w3) The award-winning improvised historical Masterson family saga TUE 10:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00ctjz2) Series 1 based entirely on audience suggestions. An Unexpected Turn The Great Escape Starring Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Jim Sweeney, Lee As part of her convalescence, Charles takes Emma to the Bristow plots the summer holiday of a lifetime - in Mudsea. Simpson, Phelim McDermott and Caroline Quentin. theatre in Rouen and life takes an unexpected turn. Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the Chester-Perry buying Producer: Phil Clarke A French masterpiece of betrayal and wantonness; the first clerk. He is but a small cog in a gigantic wheel... and he knows First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1995 great novel of adultery starring John Hurt.. it. Narrator ...... John Hurt Adapted from by Frank Dickens from his famous newspaper Charles ...... Conrad Nelson cartoon strip. Syndicated internationally, it ran for 51 years TUESDAY 05 AUGUST 2008 Emma ...... Sarah Smart from 1961. Monsieur Homais ...... David Fleeshman Bristow …. Michael Williams TUE 00:00 Marty Ross - Catch My Breath (b007k378) Leon Dupuis ...... James D'Arcy Jones …. Rodney Bewes [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Gustave Flaubert's novel is dramatised by Diana Griffiths from Mrs Purdy …. TUE 00:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale a translation by Margaret Mauldon. Hewitt …. Owen Brenman (b007jl96) Producer: Pauline Harris Miss Sunman …. Katy Odey [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. Fudge …. Jon Glover TUE 00:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale TUE 10:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective BJ …. Christopher Benjamin (b008d0jh) (b007jmgw) Post Boy …. Simon Schatzberger [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Monday] The York Mystery Francine …. Carol Starks TUE 01:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jprs) A ragged old customer applies his uncanny deductive powers to Turner …. David Ryall [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] a bookmaker's murder. Stars Bernard Hepton and Suzanne Other parts played by the cast. TUE 01:30 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Burden. Music: John Whitehall Spy (b008g278) TUE 11:00 Caesar! (b00ctjz4) Producer: Neil Cargill [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1999. TUE 02:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00ct506) The Arena MON 18:00 Marty Ross - Catch My Breath (b007k378) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] As Julius's appointed heir, young Octavian uses his legendary Episode 1 TUE 02:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective skills to outwit enemies and rule Rome. Stars Richard Johnson. On the run from a women's prison in the Scottish Highlands, (b007jmhd) TUE 12:00 The Navy Lark (b007k00g) Kate and Colleen are given refuge in a vast country mansion by [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] a charming but rather enigmatic host, Adam Strachan. TUE 03:00 Radio Shuttleworth (b007jw00) TUE 12:30 The Al Read Show (b00ctjz6) It could be a decision they come to regret... [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Monday] From 14/10/1995 The storyline for Marty Ross's supernatural five-part thriller is TUE 03:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b007k0g6) Arriving home late, Al's wife thwarts his efforts to try and based around the notion, found in old Scottish folk tales, of the [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Monday] relax. Beatha Greimach - literally 'The Breath TUE 04:00 The Nick Revell Show (b00ct94s) A compilation of the legendary Northern comic's 1950s Thief' - a celtic demon said to lure victims into a kiss which [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] monologues. would drain the soul from their bodies. TUE 04:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jqyg) Originally produced at BBC North by Ronnie Taylor Kate ...... Claire Knight [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Monday] Compilation produced by Mike Craig. Colleen ...... Suzanne Donaldson TUE 05:00 Caesar! (b00ct508) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1995. Strachan ...... Liam Brennan [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE 13:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007lzws) Old Strachan ...... John Shedden TUE 06:00 Bristow (b00ct8w3) At the Three Star Saloon Donnie ...... Lewis Howden [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Monday] When the pilot hero finds his chum is missing from the Isla ...... Eileen McCallum TUE 06:30 To the Manor Born (b007k4vh) aerodrome, he crosses swords with the evil McBain. Read by Octavia ...... Lucy Patterson [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] Michael Palin. From August 1981. DC Carbeth ...... James Bryce TUE 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00ctjz0) TUE 13:15 John Gielgud - Gielgud's Letters (b0082g2s) WPC Briggs ...... Jill Riddiford Contact us at: Episode 2 Dennis ...... Finlay McLean Big Toe Books In 1952, John Gielgud travelled to Hollywood to star in Julius Producer: Bruce Young BBC Broadcasting House Caesar. Derek Jacobi reads his remarkable letters. Made for BBC 7 by BBC Radio Scotland. First broadcast in London TUE 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007jslq) 2007. W1A 1AA The Origin of the Jacobites MON 18:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: During the Jacobite rebellion, William III faced frequent (b007jl96) [email protected]. skirmishes in Scotland. Anna Massey narrates the history of Episode 1 TUE 08:00 The Navy Lark (b007k00g) Britain. A chilling vision of a dystopian world of female oppression. The Gun Mechanism Test TUE 13:45 Men of Stone (b00ctkgp) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 2 – 8 August 2008 Page 4 of 6 Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in October 1992. Flynn as Tracey Duggan. Quarrying, Cruelty and the Crown TUE 23:00 The Boosh (b007jmf4) With John Graham Davies, Norman Mills, Ray Ashcroft and Julian Richards tells the story of the early days of quarrying for Stolen Bill Rodgers. Portland stone in Dorset and its royal connections. Zookeepers Howard Moon and Vince Noir try to catch an Scripted by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby TUE 14:00 05/08/2008 (b00ctkgt) animal thief at Bob Fossil's Zoo - with the help of a deer Directed for BBC North East by Dave Sheasby Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on costume. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1989. BBC7. Written by and starring and Julian Barratt, WED 09:30 Ashenden, Gentleman Spy (b00ctl7l) Contact us at: The Boosh is a surreal adventure based on the Perrier Award- Giulia Lazzari CBeebies Radio winning comedy show, featuring Howard and Vince's battles Based on Somerset Maugham's experiences during the first London, W12 7RJ with zoo manager Bob Fossil. World War. Determined to entrap a renowned traitor, Ashenden Phone: 08700 100 700. Vince is a regular 'Mowgli in flares' due to his affinity with co-opts a dancer. TUE 17:00 King Street Junior (b007jnn0) animals and adoration for all things Seventies, whereas Howard WED 10:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00ctlgz) Series 9 likes to think he's more the brains of the duo, destined for Torment Financial Times better things. Emma's sweet murmurs and kisses ravish Léon's soul, but there Who'd be a school crime reporter? Young Rafat learns the hard Howard Moon ...... Julian Barrattt seems to Leon something shadowy and ominous slipping way. Vince Noir ...... Noel Fielding between them. Created by Jim Eldridge, ten series of this comedy about a Bob Fossil ...... Rich Fulcher A French masterpiece of betrayal and wantonness; the first junior school ran between 1985 and 1998. King Street Junior Graham ...... great novel of adultery starring John Hurt.. Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005. Bloke ...... Simon Evans Narrator ...... John Hurt Written by Paul Copley. After BBC radio gave them their big break with this series, they Charles ...... Conrad Nelson Stars Karl Howman as Mr Sims, James Grout as the transferred to BBC TV where ran for three Emma ...... Sarah Smart Headmaster, Margaret John as Mrs Stone, Deirdre Costello as series. Monsieur Homais ...... David Fleeshman Mrs Patterson, Paul Copley as Mr Long, Marlene Sidaway as Producer: Danny Wallace. Leon Dupuis ...... James D'Arcy Miss Lewis, Vivienne Martin as Mrs Rudd, Tom Watson as Mr First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001. Monsieur Lheureux ...... Seamus O'Neill Holliday, Danny Webb as Bill Clay, Tilly Vosburgh as Sandra TUE 23:30 Ivor Cutler - A Stuggy Pren (b00ctktw) Justin ...... Sam Curtis Clay, Dax O'Callaghan as Damon Clay, Robert Thomas as Episode 4 Gustave Flaubert's novel is dramatised by Diana Griffiths from Jamie, Anthony Hamblin as Rafat and Sara French as Shireen. Poet and composer Ivor Cutler on bargain hunting, water a translation by Margaret Mauldon. Producer: John Fawcett Wilson flowers and 'Beelyploomkins'. From June 1994. Producer: Pauline Harris First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1997. TUE 23:45 Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle (b00ctkty) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. TUE 17:30 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007jpvy) Episode 5 WED 10:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective The First Meeting Grass seed, mud and digging ditches. (b007jmhx) Pike and Hodges campaign to save the pier, while Uncle Arthur Songs, stories and poems from humourist Ivor Cutler, with The Body in the Barge upsets Mavis Craig Murray-Orr, Alison O'Kill, Dylan Edwards and Beverley A River Thames corpse sparks a complex mystery for the astute A seaside saga of pier perpetuation starring John Le Mesurier, Crew. old teahouse customer. Stars Bernard Hepton and Suzanne Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee. Producer: Neil Cargill Burden. Arthur Wilson ...... John Le Mesurier First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in June 1997. WED 11:00 Caesar! (b00ctml6) Frank Pike ...... Ian Lavender Series 1 Bert Hodges ...... Bill Pertwee Peeling Figs for Julius Miss Perkins ...... Vivienne Martin WEDNESDAY 06 AUGUST 2008 His name is now a byword for depravity, but growing up in Fred Guthrie ...... Glynn Edwards Tiberius's court, how evil was Emperor Caligula? Stars David Written by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles, based on the WED 00:00 Marty Ross - Catch My Breath (b007k387) Tennant. characters originally created by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED 12:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00ctl7g) Producer: Martin Fisher WED 00:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1984. (b008f3nv) WED 12:30 Trivia Test Match (b00ctml8) TUE 18:00 Marty Ross - Catch My Breath (b007k387) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] The rules of cricket are applied to a quiz show with trivia Episode 2 WED 00:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale questions, captained by Willie Rushton and Tim Rice. Fugitives Kate and Colleen hide from the police - but who's (b008f3pt) WED 13:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007m474) hiding with them? [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Tuesday] The Jupiter Heads Northward Marty Ross's five-part supernatural thriller. WED 01:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jps6) Biggles faces more trouble from the evil McBain as he prepares Kate ...... Claire Knight [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Tuesday] to leave the local saloon. Read by Michael Palin. From August Colleen ...... Suzanne Donaldson WED 01:30 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman 1981. Strachan ...... Liam Brennan Spy (b008g6v9) WED 13:15 John Gielgud - Gielgud's Letters (b0082h7m) Old Strachan ...... John Shedden [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Episode 3 Donnie ...... Lewis Howden WED 02:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00ctjz2) In 1959, actor John Gielgud faced the threat of blackmail over Isla ...... Eileen McCallum [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] his homosexuality. Derek Jacobi reads his remarkable letters. Octavia ...... Lucy Patterson WED 02:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective WED 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007jslx) DC Carbeth ...... James Bryce (b007jmgw) The Battle of the Boyne WPC Briggs ...... Jill Riddiford [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Tuesday] The exiled James II seeks to inspire an Irish rebellion. Anna Dennis ...... Finlay McLean WED 03:00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (b007jrcc) Massey narrates the history of Britain. Producer: Bruce Young [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Tuesday] WED 13:45 Men of Stone (b00ctt4x) Made for BBC 7 by BBC Radio Scotland. First broadcast in WED 03:30 The Mark Steel Solution (b007jmsj) Series 1 2007. [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Tuesday] The Choice of the Professionals TUE 18:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale WED 04:00 The Boosh (b007jmf4) From Jones to Parry via Wren and Lutyens - Julian Richards (b008f3nv) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Tuesday] tells the story of Dorset's Portland stone and London's The Ceremony WED 04:30 Ivor Cutler - A Stuggy Pren (b00ctktw) cityscape. Offred sees how non-conformists are treated and begins her [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Tuesday] WED 14:00 06/08/2008 (b00ctt4z) duty as surrogate child-bearer. Read by Buffy Davis. WED 04:45 Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle (b00ctkty) Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on TUE 18:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Tuesday] BBC7. (b008f3pt) WED 05:00 Caesar! (b00ctjz4) Contact us at: Birth Day [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] CBeebies Radio Offred sees her friend give birth, evoking memories of her WED 06:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007jpvy) London, W12 7RJ feminist mother. Read by Buffy Davis. [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Tuesday] Phone: 08700 100 700. TUE 19:00 The Navy Lark (b007k00g) WED 06:30 King Street Junior (b007jnn0) WED 17:00 All the Young Dudes (b007s74l) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] Series 1 TUE 19:30 The Al Read Show (b00ctjz6) WED 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00ctl7d) Waterloo Sunset [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Contact us at: It's the end of the line for Patrick, but Joe and Maria may have TUE 20:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jps6) Big Toe Books some good news to share. Stars Jim Sweeney. From August [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] BBC Broadcasting House 2001. TUE 20:30 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman London WED 17:30 After Henry (b007jpwp) Spy (b008g6v9) W1A 1AA Series 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: Poor Relations TUE 21:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00ctjz2) [email protected]. "No, they're lovely. They'd never make me feel awkward. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED 08:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00ctl7g) They'll keep inviting me, even if I never ask them back. That's TUE 21:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective From 15/12/1963 not the problem. It's my pride. I want to be equal with them. I (b007jmgw) Kenneth Horne presents the torrid tale of the Sultry Seductress don't want to traipse around in their wake like something out of [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] from Seville, including 'Carmen to the Garden' or 'Not Now, Anita Brookner." TUE 22:00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (b007jrcc) I'm Bizet'. With Betty Marsden. From December 1963. Proud Sarah suffers her mother's nosiness, as well as some [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED 08:30 (b00ctl7j) unexpected advances. TUE 22:30 The Mark Steel Solution (b007jmsj) BAFTA bungles its awards, while hitting the cobbles, I say, its Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - Series 1 'Fred Elliot' The Musical. struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who All Judges Must Be Ex-Convicts WED 09:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jpsn) never quite manage to see eye to eye. Radical proposals to change our lives for the better, with a Series 1 Sarah ...... Prunella Scales drastic legal shake-up. A Case of Brotherly Love Eleanor ...... Joan Sanderson Written by Mark Steel and Pete Sinclair, who also perform with Private investigator Stephen J Blackburn hunts for a Canadian's Russell ...... Benjamin Whitrow the help of Maria McErlane. long-lost brother, decades after their cruel separation.... Clare ...... Gerry Cowper Give him 30 minutes and Mark will convince you of anything in One of five cases for the ex-pitman turned investigator and his Neville ...... Ian Thompson the series that aims to prove that the ridiculous really is very government scheme-funded assistant Tracey. Set in a South Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV sensible indeed. Yorkshire town that's seen better days. - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV Producer: Turan Ali Starring Fine Time Fontayne as Stephen J Blackburn, Judy network. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 2 – 8 August 2008 Page 5 of 6 Producer: Pete Atkin [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Wednesday] THU 11:00 Caesar! (b00ctvxg) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1987. THU 03:00 Dead Ringers (b00ctl7j) Series 2 WED 18:00 Marty Ross - Catch My Breath (b007k391) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Wednesday] The Best of Mothers Episode 3 THU 03:30 The Little Big Woman Radio Show (b007jlr1) The murderous tale of Emperor Nero and his interfering mother Two women. Two Adams - but what's the connection? Are they [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Wednesday] Agrippina. Stars Jonathan Forbes and Frances Barber. "Demon" or "Liberator"? THU 03:45 Quando, Quando, Quando (b0081rfw) THU 12:00 Take It From Here (b00ctvxd) Marty Ross's supernatural five-part thriller. [Repeat of broadcast at 22:45 on Wednesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Kate ...... Claire Knight THU 04:00 Think the Unthinkable (b00cttcm) THU 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b007js9k) Colleen ...... Suzanne Donaldson [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Wednesday] Series 4 Strachan ...... Liam Brennan THU 04:30 Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years Avoid Like the Plague the Burkiss Way Old Strachan ...... John Shedden (b007jsmf) The Grim Reaper arrives, keen to spread the Red Death. Donnie ...... Lewis Howden [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Wednesday] Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett. Isla ...... Eileen McCallum THU 05:00 Caesar! (b00ctml6) Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to Octavia ...... Lucy Patterson [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] 1980. DC Carbeth ...... James Bryce THU 06:00 After Henry (b007jpwp) Written by Andrew Marshall and . WPC Briggs ...... Jill Riddiford [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Wednesday] Producer: David Hatch Dennis ...... Finlay McLean THU 06:30 All the Young Dudes (b007s74l) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1979. Producer: Bruce Young [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU 13:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007lzbj) Made for BBC 7 by BBC Radio Scotland. First broadcast in THU 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00ctvxb) Some Grim Encounters 2007. Contact us at: The crackle of vicious machine-gun fire from another plane WED 18:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale Big Toe Books forces the Jupiter to take action. Read by Michael Palin. From (b008fdxt) BBC Broadcasting House August 1981. The Commander London THU 13:15 John Gielgud - Gielgud's Letters (b0082j2s) Offred responds to a bizarre request from her commander. W1A 1AA Episode 4 Chilling vision of female oppression. Read by Buffy Davis. Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: In 1970, Gielgud contemplates taking a part in an exciting new WED 18:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale [email protected]. play at London's Royal Court Theatre. Read by Derek Jacobi. (b008fdxv) THU 08:00 Take It From Here (b00ctvxd) THU 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007jsm7) Ofglen Dick Bentley and Jimmy Edwards ponder their future, while War in Europe More surprises from the Commander, as Offred reveals how The Glums meet Eth's family. With June Whitfield. William's campaign against the French sparks another financial the current situation came about. Read by Buffy Davis. THU 08:30 Married (b007ys7j) crisis for the monarchy. Anna Massey narrates the history of WED 19:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00ctl7g) Series 2 Britain. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Betrayal THU 13:45 Men of Stone (b00cv175) WED 19:30 Trivia Test Match (b00ctml8) Divorced and penniless he may be, but Robin is about to Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] discover that life can be sweet in his new universe - even if it is Island Life Then WED 20:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jpsn) at someone else's expense. Julian Richards takes a trip through time to uncover some of [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Hugh Bonneville stars in Tony Bagley's comedy. Portland's social history, from pregnant brides to taboo WED 20:30 Ashenden, Gentleman Spy (b00ctl7l) Robin .... Hugh Bonneville mammals. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Lesley .... Josie Lawrence THU 14:00 07/08/2008 (b00cv177) WED 21:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00ctlgz) Dirk .... Stephen Frost Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Murdo …. Lewis MacLeod BBC7. WED 21:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective Ned …. Sam Bradley Contact us at: (b007jmhx) Maxine …. Ann Gosling : CBeebies Radio [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] DS Cotton …. Simon Roberts London, W12 7RJ WED 22:00 Dead Ringers (b00ctl7j) Producer: Claire Jones Phone: 08700 100 700. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000. THU 17:00 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jv5j) WED 22:30 The Little Big Woman Radio Show (b007jlr1) THU 09:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jpt3) Series 2 Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow Series 1 Episode 6 Temp Cynthia dreams of stardom, but her friends' jobs are A Case of Plagiarism Ad man Ken Handley faces his own emergency when he's under threat. So are her boyfriend and the cat. Stars Llewella Private investigator Stephen J Blackburn is called in when coerced into a Samaritans campaign. Stars Martin Jarvis. From Gideon. writer Hartley J Newton is convinced his TV script has been March 1984. WED 22:45 Quando, Quando, Quando (b0081rfw) pinched... THU 17:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k23r) Love and Marriage One of five cases for the ex-pitman turned investigator and his Series 2 The salon is offering special two-for-one cuts. Brides and government scheme-funded assistant Tracey. Set in a South Direct Action grooms are queuing up for days in the hope of getting an Yorkshire town that's seen better days. A man with a tape measure sparks a crisis for Rabbi Fine. appointment. A childhood sweetheart of Rene's appears Starring Fine Time Fontayne as Stephen J Blackburn, Judy Barry Grossman’s comedy-drama about the collision between unexpectedly, hoping to rekindle their love. Flynn as Tracey Duggan. the old and the new in the Jewish community of Hillfield. Brothers Rene, Carlo and Charlie Quando chop, snip and crimp With Gerry Kersey, Christine Cox, Peter Bell and James Rabbi Abraham Fine ...... David De Keyser their lucky clients into shape at London's finest hair salon. Tomlinson. Rabbi Su Jacobs ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman Six-part comedy written and performed by Rainer Hersch and Scripted by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby Sadie Fine ...... Doreen Mantle Mark Maie. With Stephen Greif and Catherine Tate. Directed for BBC North East by Dave Sheasby Melvin ...... Henry Goodman Producer: Claire Jones First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1989. Su’s Mum ...... Sheila Steafel First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1999. THU 09:30 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Mr Biggins ...... Geoffrey Whitehead WED 23:00 Think the Unthinkable (b00cttcm) Spy (b008gcmq) Bernard Blatt ...... Simon Schatzberger Series 2 Miss King Music: Max Harris. Christmas Party Agent Ashenden finds his Swiss hotel is a hive of activity for Producer: John Fawcett Wilson The consultants' drunken office party looks like a recipe for spies from both sides of the war and is summoned to the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2000. festive disaster. Starring Marcus Brigstocke. From December deathbed of an English governess who wants the ear of one of THU 18:00 Marty Ross - Catch My Breath (b007k3b0) 2002. her countrymen before she dies. Episode 4 WED 23:30 Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years A series of short stories based on William Somerset Maugham's It's party time for Adam Strachan, but his house guests prove to (b007jsmf) own First World War experiences be far from ordinary... Cold Turkey with Dan and Nick Read by Alex Jennings Marty Ross's supernatural five-part thriller. Fish Gordon has only 48 hours to save the aquarium. Abridged by Neville Teller Kate ...... Claire Knight A comedy extravaganza written by and featuring Dan Freedman Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan Colleen ...... Suzanne Donaldson and Nick Romero Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007. Strachan ...... Liam Brennan Meet characters including Incy Wincy Quincy, spider THU 10:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00ctvhj) Old Strachan ...... John Shedden pathologist. Misfortune Donnie ...... Lewis Howden Music by the Gents. By dint of buying on credit and never paying, by constantly Isla ...... Eileen McCallum Producer: Julian Mayers trying to fill the void in her inner life, Emma finds herself in Octavia ...... Lucy Patterson Pilot for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in August 1998 serious trouble... DC Carbeth ...... James Bryce A French masterpiece of betrayal and wantonness; the first WPC Briggs ...... Jill Riddiford great novel of adultery starring John Hurt.. Dennis ...... Finlay McLean THURSDAY 07 AUGUST 2008 Narrator ...... John Hurt Producer: Bruce Young Emma ...... Sarah Smart Made for BBC 7 by BBC Radio Scotland. First broadcast in THU 00:00 Marty Ross - Catch My Breath (b007k391) Monsieur Homais ...... David Fleeshman 2007. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Leon Dupuis ...... James D'Arcy THU 18:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale THU 00:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale Monsieur Lheureux ...... Seamus O'Neill (b008flfr) (b008fdxt) Rodolphe Boulanger ...... Jude Akuwudike The Wife's Proposal [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Felicite ...... Sarah Jane Hallworth Serena Joy reveals a radical solution to help Offred's attempt to THU 00:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale Maitre Guillaumin ...... Russell Dixon bear her a child. Read by Buffy Davis. (b008fdxv) Gustave Flaubert's novel is dramatised by Diana Griffiths from THU 18:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Wednesday] a translation by Margaret Mauldon. (b008flfs) THU 01:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jpsn) Producer: Pauline Harris Jezebels [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. Offred comes across her old friend in very disturbing THU 01:30 Ashenden, Gentleman Spy (b00ctl7l) THU 10:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective surroundings. Chilling vision of female oppression. Read by [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] (b007jmjf) Buffy Davis. THU 02:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00ctlgz) The de Genneville Peerage THU 19:00 Take It From Here (b00ctvxd) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] A murder shatters Polly, as the old man's crime-solving efforts [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 02:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective meet furious resistance. With Bernard Hepton and Suzanne THU 19:30 The Burkiss Way (b007js9k) (b007jmhx) Burden. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 7 Listings for 2 – 8 August 2008 Page 6 of 6 THU 20:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jpt3) The comic duo reveal the truth about house buying and Series 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] celebrate famous singing families. With Pauline McLynn. Episode 5 THU 20:30 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman FRI 09:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jpvg) Will singers Tommy and Sheila finally achieve the recognition Spy (b008gcmq) Series 2 they deserve – a Golden Goblet? [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] 1. A Case of Frinks and Moores Ageing showbiz couple Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr battle THU 21:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00ctvhj) When an open-air sculpture exhibition is raided, pitman-turned- on with their second stab at fame. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] private eye Steven J Blackburn is thrown into the jungle of Mike Coleman's sitcom starring Roy Hudd and June Whitfield. THU 21:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective international dealing. Tommy Franklin …. Roy Hudd (b007jmjf) CAST: Sheila Parr …. June Whitfield [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] Stephen J. Blackburn …. Finetime Fontayne Hetty Stark …. Pat Coombes THU 22:00 Married (b007ys7j) Tracey Duggan …. Judy Flynn Murray …. Julian Eardley [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Rollo …. Christopher Wilkinson Louis Elstein …. Edward Halsted THU 22:30 On the Town with the League of Gentlemen Kerenski …. John Graham Davies Laura Chapel …. Nicola Blake (b007k273) Dempsey …. Kieran Cunningham Music by Frido Ruth. Death by Mau Mau Scripted by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby Producer: Steve Doherty The misfits of the remote northern town are having a fun run - Producer: Dave Sheasby First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002. and is there a nasty bug going round? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1991. FRI 18:00 Marty Ross - Catch My Breath (b007k3bt) The first incarnation of the award-winning black comedy, about FRI 09:30 Ashenden, Gentleman Spy (b00cvb9c) Episode 5 the "local people" of Spent - before it hit TV. Mr Harrington's Washing The truth about Isla is revealed. Will Kate and Colleen finally Starring , Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. Ashenden encounters an American who refuses to defer to the manage to escape..? Written by the cast and Jeremy Dyson. Bolsheviks, with ugly consequences. Abridged by Neville Conclusion of Marty Ross's supernatural five-part thriller. The League of Gentlemen won a Perrier Edinburgh Festival Teller. Kate ...... Claire Knight award in 1997 and this radio series debuted in the same year. FRI 10:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00cvbj4) Colleen ...... Suzanne Donaldson They also won a Sony Radio Award. The cult series switched to Mounting Debts Strachan ...... Liam Brennan TV for three series on BBC 2 from 1999, plus stage shows and Emma has tried and exhausted every effort to repay her debts, Old Strachan ...... John Shedden a feature film. but feels that she's left with only one course of action... Donnie ...... Lewis Howden Producer: Sarah Smith Gripping conclusion of the French masterpiece of betrayal and Isla ...... Eileen McCallum First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1997. wantonness. Octavia ...... Lucy Patterson THU 23:00 The Skivers (b007jpsp) Narrator ...... John Hurt DC Carbeth ...... James Bryce Series 1 Emma ...... Sarah Smart WPC Briggs ...... Jill Riddiford CharlesConrad Nelson Dennis ...... Finlay McLean Lecturer Leslie Phillips guest stars in Nick Golson and Tim de Monsieur Homais ...... David Fleeshman Producer: Bruce Young Jongh's skilful sketch show. Berthe Bovary ...... Daisy Jones Made for BBC 7 by BBC Radio Scotland. First broadcast in From the people who brought you ‘And Now in Colour’. Victor Lariviere ...... Martin Reeve 2007. Written and performed by Nick Golson and Tim de Jongh. Justin ...... Sam Curtis FRI 18:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale With: Gustave Flaubert's novel is dramatised by Diana Griffiths from (b008f8f5) Mel Giedroyc a translation by Margaret Mauldon. Nick Peter Bradshaw Producer: Pauline Harris Offred embarks on Serena Joy's plan and witnesses the brutality Producer: Jon Naismith First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. of the new regime. Read by Buffy Davis. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1994. FRI 10:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective FRI 18:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale THU 23:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00cv179) (b0088zsz) (b008f8f6) Series 2 The Dublin Mystery Episode 10 Just a Minute A dying businessman appears to have settled his will, but Serena Joy confronts Offred in the climax to the chilling, After arguing all day, the former variety star sparks confusion revenge wreaks family havoc. Stars Bernard Hepton and dystopian vision of female subjugation. Concluded by Buffy when he arrives at the BBC. Stars Steve Delaney. From March Suzanne Burden. Davis. 2007. FRI 11:00 Caesar! (b00cvbk1) FRI 19:00 Listen to Les (b00cv8t7) Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] The Glass Ball Game FRI 19:30 Just a Minute (b00cvbtw) FRIDAY 08 AUGUST 2008 The story of Emperor Hadrian and his relationship with [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Antinous, who died in mysterious circumstances. Stars Andrew FRI 20:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jpvg) FRI 00:00 Marty Ross - Catch My Breath (b007k3b0) Garfield. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI 12:00 Listen to Les (b00cv8t7) FRI 20:30 Ashenden, Gentleman Spy (b00cvb9c) FRI 00:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] (b008flfr) FRI 12:30 Just a Minute (b00cvbtw) FRI 21:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00cvbj4) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Paul Merton, Graham Norton, Clement Freud and Richard [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI 00:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale Morton join Nicholas Parsons at the Edinburgh Festival. FRI 21:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective (b008flfs) FRI 13:00 WE Johns - Biggles Flies North (b007lrnj) (b0088zsz) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Thursday] Southward Again [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] FRI 01:00 The Blackburn Files (b007jpt3) With the Jupiter stranded, thoughts of rescue fade as the chums FRI 22:00 Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] realise who is roaring towards them. Read by Michael Palin. (b007jwbw) FRI 01:30 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman From August 1981. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Spy (b008gcmq) FRI 13:15 John Gielgud - Gielgud's Letters (b0082kbb) FRI 22:30 And Now in Colour (b007jscz) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Episode 5 Series 2 FRI 02:00 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00ctvhj) Now in his 70s, Gielgud appears in a film called Arthur. He Stately Home [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] continues to act well into his 90s. Concluded by Derek Jacobi. The team take the audience on a posh day out. Starring Tim de FRI 02:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective FRI 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007jsml) Jongh, William Vandyck and Tim Firth. From January 1991. (b007jmjf) The Death of King Billy and the Coming of Queen Anne FRI 23:00 The Atkinson People (b007k1z5) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Thursday] A truce is declared in Europe and all change for royalty as George Dupont FRI 03:00 Married (b007ys7j) Queen Mary dies. Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain. The French philosopher remains an enigma, despite an [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Thursday] FRI 13:45 Men of Stone (b00cvdf7) exhaustive biography. Rowan Atkinson's satirical probe. From FRI 03:30 On the Town with the League of Gentlemen Series 1 April 1979. (b007k273) Island Life Now FRI 23:30 The of Dr Caligari (b007jq2f) [Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Thursday] Is the Dorset stone industry's future underground? And what do A Word in Your Ear FRI 04:00 The Skivers (b007jpsp) you do with a worked-out quarry? Julian Richards investigates. The dark, surreal goings-on in a nightclub owned by Dr [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Thursday] FRI 14:00 08/08/2008 (b00cvdg0) Caligari. A late night DJ drops in. Starring John Woodvine. FRI 04:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00cv179) Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on From 1991. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Thursday] BBC7. FRI 05:00 Caesar! (b00ctvxg) Contact us at: [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] CBeebies Radio FRI 06:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k23r) London, W12 7RJ [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Thursday] Phone: 08700 100 700. FRI 06:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jv5j) FRI 17:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] (b007jvz6) FRI 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00cv8t5) Pearls Mean Tears Contact us at: When Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha sparks uproar - can his Big Toe Books valet Jeeves save the day? BBC Broadcasting House PG Wodehouse's romp starring Michael Hordern and Richard London Briers. W1A 1AA Jeeves ...... Michael Hordern Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: Bertie Wooster ..... Richard Briers [email protected]. Aunt Agatha ..... Joan Sanderson FRI 08:00 Listen to Les (b00cv8t7) Aileen Hemingway ..... Pat Coombs Les Dawson on the British sense of humour, animal noises Sidney Hemingway ..... Brian Oulton galore and a piano sing-along. With Daphne Oxenford. From Chamber Maid ..... Miriam Margolyes January 1981. Hotel Manager ..... Brian Haines. FRI 08:30 Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections Adapted by Chris Miller. (b007jwbw) Producer: David Hatch Series 3 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1973. Episode 5 FRI 17:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cvjvf) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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