Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 April 2016 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 09 APRIL 2016 focusing on EM Forster and his famous remark, "If I had to Philip has returned to Europe from America after his brother choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, appeared to commit suicide in Amsterdam. SAT 00:00 Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror (b036q7t8) I hope I should have the guts to betray my country". Dr Matt His search for the truth takes him from England to Holland and Waves of Evil Cook places this remark - shocking at the time - in the context Italy... Sir James Monmouth's eerie obsession reaches a terrifying of Forster's hidden sexual orientation. Winston Graham's novel was the first winner of the Crime conclusion, but is that the end of the story? Forster began his masterpiece, A Passage to India, before the Writers' Association award for best crime novel of the year in Conclusion of Susan Hill's atmospheric and chilling ghost story war, in optimism about the possibility of friendships and love 1955. read by Gareth Armstrong, with John Moffatt as the narrator. across the nations. As Dr Santanu Das explains, he completed it, Dramatised by Juliet Ace. Abridged in five parts by Oliver Reynolds. after the War, in a far bleaker mood. Philip Turner ...... Alex Jennings Producer: Jocelyn Boxall Meanwhile, amongst the less highly educated classes, groups of Martin Coxon ...... Roger Lloyd Pack First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. work-mates were being conscripted into the army. Thomas Leonie Winter ...... Kate Buffery SAT 00:15 Roald Dahl (b041ym4c) Dixon explores this new role for friendship - as a recruiting Charlotte Weber ...... Vivian Pickles The Man From the South sergeant - and its tragic consequences. Captain Sanbergh ...... Norman Jones Win a car or lose a finger - what will be the result of an old Producer: Beaty Rubens Hermina Maas ...... Helen Cooper man's bizarre bet? Read by Terry Molloy. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014. Van Renkum ...... Terence Edmond SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b008tn7d) SAT 02:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room Tholen ...... Timothy Morand Series 6 (b00srvkl) With Eric Allen, Ronald Herdman, Siriol Jenkins, Cassie Spem in Alium Episode 5 McFarlane, Neil Roberts, David Sinclair, Matthew Sim and Thomas Tallis's work is one of the most elaborate and Pregnant Jane books an appointment at an abortion clinic, but Auriol Smith. spectacular pieces of choral music ever written. Mavis offers her an illegal alternative. Stars Lynne Seymour. Producer: Ned Chaillet Scored for 40 voices, the piece is best sung and heard in the SAT 02:45 Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (b007jylg) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1991 round in order to appreciate an extraordinary sonic experience. Unspeakable Rituals and Outlandish Beliefs SAT 07:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Choral conductor Simon Halsey and Michael Morpurgo discuss Travel writer Paul Theroux describes the bizarre traditions and Modern American Literature (b00qj2nv) the music's spine-tingling effect on both performers and ceremonies that he encountered during his travels. Fighters and Writers listeners. Stuart Milligan reads the last extract from Paul's book of travel Mark Lawson tells the story of how American writing became Featuring: essays. the literary superpower of the 20th century, telling the nation's Graeme Fife Producer: Duncan Minshull stories of money, power, sex, religion and war. John Davies First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2000. Mark traces the way a group of young Americans returning Clive Stafford-Smith SAT 03:00 Classic Serial (b0183r3q) from WWII turned the US into a literary superpower. Series about pieces of music with a powerful emotional impact. François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel Contributors include Philip Roth, Toni Morrison and Edward Producers: Rosie Boulton & Melvin Rickarby Gargantua Albee as well as Norman Mailer, John Updike and Kurt First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2008. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais. Dramatised by Vonnegut, the last three recorded in the final major interviews SAT 01:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl Lavinia Murray. of their lives. (b012wzzj) Ep 2 - Pantagruel. Drawing on interviews with dozens of key writers and critics, Episode 2 Concluding the bawdy and scatological adventures of Medieval Mark Lawson examines the role of authors in capturing the Jenny has fallen for Robert Forester, though he's not certain of giants. This episode concentrates on the story of Gargantua's nature of the US and explores the successes and controversies his feelings for her. son, Pantagruel and his morally dubious friend Panurge, as they of America's literary output. He shows how differences of race, Meanwhile, her ex-fiance, Greg, is very certain. He wants Jenny go on a quest to discover whether marriage is for them. On the region and gender informed and expanded the stories being back - and Robert is in the way. way they have many adventures before they come before the told. And he nominates his candidate for the title of the most Patricia Highsmith's intriguing tale of obsession stars John Seer of the Holy Bottle who gives them a definitive judgement. unfairly neglected great American novelist. Sharian as Robert Forester, Adrian Lester as Greg Wyncoop, Rabelais.....David Troughton SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b0076xwv) Joanne McQuinn as Jenny Theirolf and Matt Rippy as Jack Gargantua....Robert Wilfort Royal Tours Neilsen. Pantagruel....Justin Edwards 4 Extra Debut. Denys Blakeway looks at the history and Adapted by Shaun McKenna. Panurge...Conrad Nelson purpose of the royal tour, exploring the travels of Queen Music composed and performed by David Chilton Friar Jean....Jonathan Keeble Elizabeth II. From April 2006. Director: Marion Nancarrow Jacqueline/Seer...Fiona Clarke SAT 09:00 Comedy Controller (b007jpfr) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. Librarian/Secretary...Mark Chatterton Stephen Fry SAT 01:30 Ken and Mark and Robert (b00tdznx) Producer Gary Brown Stephen Fry, actor, writer, wit and naughty national treasure Legendary film-maker Ken Russell is in the studio with Mark This tale is a dizzying blend of fantasy, comedy, philosophy and chooses his favourite comedies from the BBC radio archive. Kermode recalling his love of music, which inspired such films scatological humour. The world's a messy place. All the big For Stephen, radio comedy inhabits the very way 'I write and as Mahler, Tommy and The Music Lovers as well as many TV mock-heroic novels that followed - Don Quixote, Tristram think'. He takes us back to his childhood, curled up and documentaries. Shandy, Gulliver's Travels, Ulysses - are about mess, they're listening to programmes like Men From the Ministry (1972). He Meanwhile, in the adjacent studio, musician Robert Ziegler is about slops and slime, encyclopedic in their efforts to remembers his friend Douglas Adams, who Stephen recalls also talking about Ken's love of music... to Twiggy, Glenda encompass humanity in all its bawdy, chaotic, grungy, and thought the whole world through...only backwards, no better Jackson MP, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Lord Bragg and painful reality. And like Gargantua and Pantagruel they're also displayed than in the very first Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. very funny. The Rabelaisian world view is founded on the (1978). Can Ken hear what they are saying about him? Can they hear assumption that the humourless are not yet wise - and these He relives the thrill of being offered the chance to write his what Ken is saying about them? tales insist you learn to laugh at humanity. very own radio show, and asking his friends Hugh Laurie and Producer: David Roper Gargantua and Pantagruel is dramatised by Lavinia Murray, one Emma Thompson to help out in Saturday Night Fry (1988). A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4 first of our leading radio playwrights whose credits include 'The Stephen marvels at the brilliance of the team behind the broadcast in August 2010. Anatomy of Melancholy' and 'The Confessions of an English ultimate news show On the Hour (1992) including Armando SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b01sjn6b) Opium Eater'. Iannucci, Chris Morris and Steve Coogan. John le Carré - A Delicate Truth SAT 04:00 Wildbrain (b076w83n) He explains what it's like to experience, from the comedy coal Truth Must Out 1997 - Final face, an absolute radio classic, the antidote to panel games: I'm If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good Lionel Kelleway presents the final of the natural history quiz Sorry I Haven't A Clue (2003). And chooses his own antidote to men do nothing, how can they remain silent? Damian Lewis from the home of the British Birdwatching Fair at Rutland radio phone in shows, the award winning Down The Line begins reading A Delicate Truth, the brand new novel from the Water. (2007), starring Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson - who master of his genre, John le Carré, a novel which tells the story SAT 04:30 No Commitments (b007jp4g) Stephen knew as comedy saplings. of a good man who must choose between his conscience and his Series 8 For Stephen, TV is often a greedy, one dimensional medium. duty to the Service. All Roads Lead to Rome For him listening to radio "is so much more". An undercover counter-operation in the British colony of Roger's jealousy leads him to an unexpected confrontation. Producer: Peter McHugh. Gibraltar; a middle-ranking man from the Foreign Office Stars Celia Imrie, Angela Thorne and Bill Nighy. From SAT 12:00 The Emerald Green Show (b076c11b) serving as 'eyes on' and reporting to an ambitious Minister; the February 2002.