Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 February 2020 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2020 Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua vision of capitalism, necking energy drinks and telling people Bukta ..... Adeel Akhtar his thighs are really, really strong. He’s terrible. SAT 00:00 Ray Bradbury - The Veldt (m000fh8j) Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker Mrs. Wilkins has worked as tea lady, archivist and maintenance A futuristic cautionary tale about the perils of smart technology, Stiggins ..... Sean Baker guru for 15 years. She knows where the bodies are buried. We where danger prowls in the nursery... Zarin ..... Christopher Simpson must stress that that is a figure of speech. Ray Bradbury's gripping sci-fi story first published in 1950. Mrs Viccary ..... Joanna Monro Graham Quicks ...... Vincent Franklin Lydia/Witch… Diana Olsson Directors: Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole Audrey Carr ...... Rebekah Staton George… John Cazabon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011. Daniel Porter ...... Kieran Hodgson Peter… Jon Hewitt SAT 02:45 Philip Glass - Words without Music (b05t7kpz) Mrs Wilkins ...... Julia Deakin Wendy/Grethel… Nina Ludlow Episode 5 Special guests: David… Bruce Wightman Asked to write the score for visionary 1982 documentary Akif...... Ray Panthaki Adapted by Jack Pulman. Koyaanisqatsi, Glass discovered a new avenue for his musical Black Firebird X...... Matt Green Producer: Frederick Bradnum. composition. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1959. He later worked with Martin Scorsese, writing the soundtrack With Jo Unwin as The Narrator SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b0076sz2) for Kundun (1997). Written by Jack Bernhardt Nowt So Queer as Folk Conclusion of the memoir by Philip Glass, the world-renowned Producer: David Tyler Matthew Parris considers what is and what is not normal. With composer of symphonies, operas and film scores. A Pozzitive production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in Amanda Mitchison, Jude Collins and actor Mat Fraser. From Read by Kerry Shale. February 2020. July 2005. Abridger: Laurence Wareing SAT 05:30 The Skewer (m000f783) SAT 01:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jt9c) Producer: Kirsteen Cameron Series 1 Bad Apples Music details: Episode 6 Episode 2 Track: "Evening Song" (from Satygraha) From the mind of Jon Holmes comes topical satire like you've After an unexpected twist in his latest murder investigation, CD: The Essential Philip Glass never heard it before. Inspector Guscott has asked his old friends from MI6, Colvil Label: Sony SAT 06:00 Neville Watchurst - A Vital Flaw (b00mj27x) and Soames for their discreet assistance. Track: "The Grid" Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler has a serious health problem Christopher Lee's murder-mystery starring Christopher CD: Koyaanisqatsi and Dr Felix Kersten is summoned to treat him. Benjamin and Amanda Redman as intelligence officers Henry Label: Island So successful is he that Himmler's dependency on him is Colvil and Alex Soames. Track: "Closing" established and when war breaks out Kersten is faced with an Henry Colvil …. Christopher Benjamin CD: Glassworks impossible dilemma. Alex Soames …. Amanda Redman Label: CBS John Duttine and Martin Jarivs star in Neville Watchurst's DCI Guscott …. Dudley Sutton First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2015. drama - a truthful account of a relationship which developed in DS Gwen Jenkins …. Sue Jones Davies SAT 03:00 Oscar Wilde (b007jnnk) Germany both before and during the Second World War. Miranda Peel …. Sheila Reid The Picture of Dorian Gray Heinrich Himmler ...... John Duttine Tom Margeson …. Tom Cotcher Episode 2 Dr Felix Kersten ...... Martin Jarvis Charlie Lofthouse …. Alistair McGowan Aristocrat Dorian Gray is living a life of selfish pleasure. But is Rudolf Brandt ...... Christopher Ravenscroft Producer: Pete Atkin retribution on the horizon? Irmgard ...... Louise Jameson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998. Jamie Glover stars in the conclusion of Oscar Wilde's classic Rostery ...... Norman Bird SAT 01:30 Beckett in Brooklyn (b04v30zx) novel dramatised by Nick McCarty. Bernadotte ...... Peter Harding A disembodied mouth hovers 8 feet above the stage and appears Dorian Gray ...... Jamie Glover Hewitt ...... David Monico to oscillate wildly around the pitch-black auditorium. Lord Henry Wotton ...... Ian McDiarmid Poh ...... Dominic Letts Blindfolded, her head strapped into a harness, Irish actor Lisa Basil Hallward ...... Steven Pacey Koch ...... Michael Onslow Dwan delivers the frenetic, roller-coaster stream of Woman ...... Tilly Gaunt Jacobseb ...... Malcolm Ward consciousness that is Samuel Beckett's 'Not I'. Alongside Jim ...... Harry Myers Kivimaeki ...... John Baddeley 'Footfalls' and 'Rockaby', the play forms one part of a trilogy of Duke Geoffrey ...... Edward de Souza Kaltenbrummer ...... Gareth Armstrong intensely demanding one-woman Beckett works which Lisa has Thornton ...... Stephen Critchlow Music composed by Anthea Gomez. been performing to packed houses across the UK & Ireland. Campbell ...... Geoffrey Beevers Directed by Sue Wilson. Now, as Lisa takes her Beckett trilogy across the Atlantic to the Lord ...... Gavin Muir First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1994 Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre, we find her Woman in Opium Den ...... Elizabeth Bell SAT 07:30 Reimagining the City (b03s645s) immersed in a whirlwind of rave reviews, TV appearances and a Lady Narborough ...... Tessa Worsley Series 2 US theatre-going public heavily preoccupied with Ebola, Isis Francis ...... Tom George Birmingham and the uncertainty of our times. Duke John ...... Brett Usher Musician Soweto Kinch offers a different vision of a city he's As the curtain prepares to fall for the last time, we discover the Duchess ...... Alice Arnold loved all his life - Birmingham. true extent of Lisa's commitment to these dark and challenging Director: Gordon House. Soweto often gets a surprised response when he tells people he's roles, what the impact of performing them has been on her and First broadcast on the BBC World Service in January 2000. from Birmingham. For one, he doesn't have an accent. But also, if, 25 years after the Irish playwright's death, she may have SAT 04:00 Funny You Should Ask (b0b3j9rq) as a successful jazz musician and hip hop star, the expectation shown us that Samuel Beckett's work matters more than ever. From 23/07/1979 is often that he should be living in London or New York - or Producer: Conor Garrett Peter Jones hosts the entertainment quiz about comedy as he almost anywhere except Birmingham. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014. tests a panel of experts: But, for Soweto, Birmingham is a place of artistic endeavour SAT 02:00 Paul Murray - The Mark and the Void Sid Colin, Barry Cryer and John Junkin recall memories of and cultural significance on a par with any other major city. (b06445xm) careers and comic colleagues. The city is where he served his cultural apprenticeship in jazz Episode 10 Funny You Should Ask ran for 8 series from 1976 to 1982. and hip hop. "The saxophone called me. I've never seen so The bank fails, a heist is attempted and Claude the Everyman Questions compiled by Michael Pointon. many shiny keys. And the love affair continued from there." banker makes a choice that will change everyone's lives... Producer: Bob Oliver Rogers He left to study history at Oxford but chose to make Paul Murray’s madcap novel of institutional folly - a stirring First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in July 1979. Birmingham his home. "The fact that I've stayed in Birmingham examination of the deceptions carried out in the names of art, SAT 04:30 Dry Slopes (b00ly7c2) sets me apart from the other musicians in London - I can do love and commerce. Series 1 everything from here. There's a camaraderie and respect that Concluded by Peter Serafinowicz. Dry Wit other musicians have for each other in Birmingham." Abridged by Sara Davies. Friendless, jobless Angus writes a requiem to himself. He is Soweto lives in a tower block in Hockley - it's been a place Producer: Jenny Thompson. really a genius, you know that's given him creative input for his albums and music. From First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2015. Nick Ball’s sitcom about the unemployed son of a high-flying his window he can see the Hockley Flyover, a space which was SAT 02:15 Friends & Foes - A Narrative History of mother. the scene of gang fights and crime. In 2009 Soweto decided to Diplomacy (b08ctz6x) Angus Dry ...... Nick Ball turn it into a festival venue. Small Nation, Big Diplomacy Mum ...... Louisa Rix "I've been proud of the fact we've redefined peoples' Professor David Rothkopf discusses the pivotal role of a small With Robert Harley, Toby Longworth and Julie Gibbs. relationships to this space. It's a neglected area. I felt that more nation in negotiating a landmark Middle East peace agreement - Producer: Gareth Edwards than any other area this expressed a lot of the innate the Oslo accords. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1995. contradictions we face in the black community in Britain. I In 1973, a single handshake on the White House lawn between SAT 05:00 The Lentil Sorters (b06pbw9x) wanted to reclaim the space and reclaim the stories." the Israeli and Palestinian leaders marked the end of decades of Multi-Parameter Database Search Producer: Rachel Hooper confrontation and conflict. But this breakthrough was brokered A sitcom set in the Office of Local and National Statistics A Falling Tree production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in not through superpower intervention but with the help of which, depending on who you ask, is either where the real 2014. Norway. power of government resides, or the place where fun goes to SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b0713m3h) Crucially it was done through secret informal communications die. In The Bluff called 'back channel diplomacy'. In this episode, a database linking of Ribena and MI5 makes There is, argues poet Paul Farley, something very particular Professor Rothkopf hears from the negotiators about how they Graham reach for his Stress Cardigan. Also, Jane Austen and a about the bluff that sets it apart from other members of the brought the two sides together under the cover of an academic brick. deception family. conference and how, ultimately, their careful diplomacy Meet the team: More theatrical than a straight-forward, two-dimentional lie, it resulted in the landmark Oslo accords. Graham Quicks, Head of the People and Places Department of can be called, it can be doubled, and often times remains But, as he discovers, back channel diplomacy does not always the LNS. There are three things in the world that Graham will mysterious - we never actually find out whether indeed a work. always have faith in – statistics, the supremacy of filofaxes over particular bluff was just that. A Kati Whitaker production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in computers and the idea that cardigans will never go out of style. It permeates our everyday conversation, with nods of the head 2017. Audrey Carr is the Survey Researcher. She believes and affirmative grunts suggesting that yes indeed we have read SAT 02:30 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (b00yj265) passionately that statistics should be used as a tool to help the Proust, and are of course conversant with Scandinavian Episode 15 man on the street. Fortunately for her, she’s never actually met philosophy; it proves a vital weapon on the sports field and the Safe and with the woman he loves, Ash cannot work out how to “the man in the street”. She’s also passionate about Jane Austen, poker table; and in international relations and military strategy marry her. Les Miserables and pretending that she doesn't work in an remains an invaluable resource. MM Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy office with Daniel. Paul takes to the poker table himself, and speaks to experts Catherine. Daniel Porter is the Data Analyst. He used to work in the City, from a variety of fields, including Jonathan Agnew and Bridget Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi until the City realised he was a colossal waste of space. Daniel Kendal, to delve deeper into the psychology and application of Ash ..... Blake Ritson divides his time between manipulating statistics to further his the bluff. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 February 2020 Page 2 of 11 Along the way he frequently has need to suggest a degree of Comedian Frank Skinner chooses ‘Winter Wonderland’ by Dean Report. knowledge in subjects that in fact remain largely a mystery to Martin and ‘Why Women Don't Like Me?’ by George Formby. Al grills Ian on his early days writing for such comedians as him. SAT 14:15 With Great Pleasure (b00j0q57) Harry Enfield, asks how we should define the role of the satirist Producer: Geoff Bird Les Dennis and poses the intriguing question, 'what's it like being sued?' First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2016. The comedian and actor Les Dennis shares literary favourites, Producer: Richard Morris SAT 09:00 Dr Hannah Fry: Codebreaker (m000fn1n) including Pygmalion, Wuthering Heights, Brideshead Revisited A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first As a mathematician Dr Hannah Fry specialises in understanding and Winnie the Pooh. broadcast in March 2016. patterns of human behaviour. And nowhere does the human Les reads some of the passages, with actors Christopher SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m000fz9c) factor smash headlong into the reality of numbers than in the Cazenove and Jodie McNee. Ruth Bratt 2/3 secretive world of code-breaking. Producer: Christine Hall From 10.00pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy So she's delved into the BBC Radio Archive to present a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2009. Club has two hours of comedy. Jake Yapp chats to improv- fascinating selection of programmes all about codes, secrets and SAT 14:45 Uncle Mort's North Country (b007jrc0) musical-comedy star Ruth Bratt. ciphers. And if you have a pen and paper handy she'll be Series 2 SAT 23:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters (b04xrzdh) presenting you with a code which you can try to crack, offering Young Chocolate Series 2 hints which will help throughout the programme. Carter's uncle fancies a good funeral, so they head off to the Episode 2 On hand to help are two experts who between them have got burial for a boxer. Enter the Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and hilarious world of numbers and words covered. Bobby Seagull is a maths teacher Peter Tinniswood’s continuing tales of Carter Brandon and his sketches, stories and characters, presented by the sinister and author of The Life-changing Magic of Numbers and curmudgeonly uncle. Ringmaster. Richard Rogan is the editor of The Times Cryptic Crossword. Uncle Mort and his Yorkshire based family first appeared in A host of characters are the exhibits at the Carnival - all played They'll share their insights into codes, and give their takes on a Tinniswood’s novel ‘A Touch Of Daniel’ which earned them a by Colin himself. fascinating selection from the archive. Featuring: run of four series of ‘I Didn't Know You Cared’ on BBC TV Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: A creepy delve into the world of cold war number stations - from 1975 to 1979. Wannabe Hollywood screenwriter Andy Parker; Anna Mann - Simon Fanshawe investigates in Tracking the Lincolnshire Uncle Mort …. Stephen Thorne outrageous star of such forgotten silver screen hits such as Poacher. Carter Brandon …. Peter Skellern 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish Delight' and 'A Bowl For David Baddiel tries to understand Cryptic Crosswords. The Undetraker …. Michael Graham Cox My Bottom'; and a host of other characters from acid jazz A famous example of a literary code in Sir Arthur Conan Marcus Potts …. Stan Richards obsessives, to mask workshop coordinators. Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Dancing Narrator …. Christian Rodska Writers Guild Award-winner Colin Hoult is best known for his Men, adapted by Bert Coules. Producer: Pete Atkin. highly acclaimed starring roles in Paul Whitehouse's 'Nurse', In The Bletchley Girls, Tessa Dunlop tracks the stories of just a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1989. 'Being Human', Rickey Gervais' 'Life's Too Short' and 'Derek', few of the often sidelined women who populated the SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b0713m3h) and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as his many hit codebreaking station Bletchley Park in the Second World War, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also appeared and and played their part in significantly shortening the length of SAT 16:00 Neville Watchurst - A Vital Flaw (b00mj27x) written for a number of Radio 4 series including 'The Headset the conflict. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Set' and 'Colin and Fergus' Digi-Radio'. And in a special episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage Katy SAT 17:30 Reimagining the City (b03s645s) Producer: Sam Bryant. Brand joins the team in the security agency GCHQ to talk [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2015. ciphers. SAT 18:00 John Wyndham - The Kraken Wakes SAT 23:30 Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes (m000fn2f) So get your pen ready, join Dr Hannah Fry, listen out for the (m000fn2b) Series 4 clues - and get cracking. Episode 2 Market Towns Producer: Kevin Core Lone alien attacks are replaced by global flooding. Mike and Comedian Elis James determines which Welsh market towns Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in February Phyllis fight to survive as much of the world is submerged and are the nation’s best, pitting Carmarthen and Llangollen against 2020. most of the global population dead or displaced. Hay-on-Wye Image credit: Paul Wilkinson John Wyndham's 1953 novel adapted by Val McDermid. With Benjamin Partridge and Nadia Kamil. SAT 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k4m9) Floods have recently devastated parts of Britain. But what if the First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales in August 2016. Series 4 flood waters never subsided? What if an apparent meteor The Bolshoi Ballet shower was actually the invasion fleet of an alien race? The lad's hopes for a night of dance at London's Covent Garden Mike Watson ...... Paul Higgins SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2020 don't quite go to plan. Phyllis Watson ...... Tamsin Greig Starring Tony Hancock. Becker ...... Richard Harrington SUN 00:00 John Wyndham - The Kraken Wakes With Sidney James, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. Denzel ...... Richard Harrington (m000fn2b) Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Dr Emma Chisholm ...... Sally Carman [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Aziz ...... Abdullah Afzal SUN 01:00 Girls of Riyadh (Omnibus) (m000fn1v) Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Humza ...... Abdullah Afzal [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Rabinowitz. Bill ...... Gareth Cassidy SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (m000fn21) Producer: Dennis Main Wilson Jonah ...... Gareth Cassidy [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1956. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon ...... Nicola Sturgeon SUN 02:15 With Great Pleasure (b00j0q57) SAT 12:30 Such Rotten Luck (b01nvphb) Performed 'as live' with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] Series 1 Conductor: Clark Rundell. SUN 02:45 Uncle Mort's North Country (b007jrc0) Stories Before Bed Composer: Alan E. Williams. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] Woodhouse attempts to write children's fiction. Director and Producer: Justine Potter. SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 (b0713m3h) The ups and downs of a second class writer A Savvy production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] Comedy drama series written by Ronald Hayman 2016. SUN 04:00 Neville Watchurst - A Vital Flaw (b00mj27x) Woodhouse …. Tim Piggott-Smith SAT 19:00 Dr Hannah Fry: Codebreaker (m000fn1n) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] Gila …. Zoe Wanamaker [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN 05:30 Reimagining the City (b03s645s) Seamus …. Stephan Rea SAT 22:00 Josh Howie's Losing It (b07v0hnp) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] Wilhelmina …. Susie Bran Series 1 SUN 06:00 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (Omnibus) Henrietta Masterson …. Miriam Karlin The Route (b064506c) Hamish McVomitory …. Bill Wallis Josh and his wife Monique attend their first NCT class where Episode 3 Mark Grimshaw …. Geoffrey Whitehead he typically manages to fall out with almost everyone. MM Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy Benjamin Witrow …. Gila's Father Sitcom in which stand-up comic Josh comes to terms with the Catherine. Joan Matheson …. Gila's Mother impending birth of his first child. Leaving the Karidkote party, Ash rejoins the Guides in Charlotte aged 17 …. Susan Sheridan Starring Josh Howie and Pippa Evans. Rawalpindi. With Eva Stuart and Shaun Prendergast as the other members Written by Josh Howie. Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi of the Creative Writing Class With Jenny Bede, Stephen Hagan, Caroline Mabey, Debra Ash ..... Blake Ritson Music by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Tammer and Wendy Wason. Jhoti ..... Joseph Samrai Director: Piers Plowright. Producer: Ashley Blaker Kaka-Ji Rao ..... Paul Bhattacharjee First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1989. A Black Hat production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes SAT 13:00 Girls of Riyadh (Omnibus) (m000fn1v) September 2016. Zarin ..... Christopher Simpson The girls of Riyadh are young, attractive and living by Saudi SAT 22:30 Chain Reaction (b071vkwl) Khoda-Daad ..... Sam Dastor Arabia’s strict cultural traditions. Series 11 The third of four omnibuses of this epic drama which spans the Well, not quite... In between dating, shopping, drinking, Al Murray interviews Ian Hislop years between the Indian Mutiny in 1857 and the Siege of the dancing and having fun, they’re still trying to be good Muslims Pub Landlord creator, Al Murray passes the baton to the British Mission in Kabul in 1879. and please their families. But can you be a 21st century woman comedian and satirist Ian Hislop. Directors: Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole and a Saudi woman? Chain Reaction is the long running hostless chat show where First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011. Dramatisation of Rajaa Alsanea's best-selling novel by Claudine this week's interviewee becomes next week's interviewer. SUN 07:15 First for Radio (b07466lb) Toutoungi. After an early foray into stand-up as a character called 'The Series 3 Omnibus of five parts. Murderer', Al Murray created his famous Pub Landlord Re-enactment Gamrah.....Lara Sawalha character in the mid nineties as part of a touring show with An outsider called Marko lands a job at The Well Digger's Sadeem.....Laila Alj Harry Hill. The Pub Landlord went on to tour venues and Wallet Saloon, where mock shoot-outs are staged. Shoot-outs, Michelle.....Jasmine Jones festivals worldwide before making his own chat show and that is, with enigmatic endings. Lamees.....Nyla Levy sitcom for Sky. Outside of the Pub Landlord, Al is well known Patrick Kennedy reads Tea Obreht's short story. Faisal.....Ikky Elyas as a presenter of history documentaries and more recently as a Readings of acclaimed novelists' first stories for radio. Rashid.....Elham Ehsas candidate for parliament when he stood against Nigel Farage in Producer Duncan Minshull Firas.....Moe Bar-El South Thanet during the UK General Election of 2015. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2016. Pilot/ Bookseller.....Ian Conningham Al's guest Ian Hislop is much more used to the cut and thrust of SUN 07:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Tara.....Sinead MacInnes British politics both as a long-standing team captain on 'Have I Carefully (b01r4ycv) Director: Emma Harding Got News for You' and as the editor of satirical magazine Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020. Private Eye. As a dedicated fan and student of history, he has Minimum Volume SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (m000fn21) made several acclaimed documentaries on wide-ranging Katrina Lyons was only visiting Cresdon Green, the village Frank Skinner subjects including conscientious objectors and The Beeching where she grew up, to borrow some money from her parents. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 February 2020 Page 3 of 11 But when she tried to head back to London, it turned out alien Marks and Spencer. Original music by Conrad Nelson. beings known as the Geonin had lowered a force field around First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2006. Director: Gary Brown the village and were refusing to let anyone in or out. SUN 11:00 Radiolab (m000fnvc) Ian Hislop is the editor of Private Eye and a team captain on Unfortunately almost everyone in the village is too cowardly, Series 6 'Have I got News for You'. Nick Newman is a satirical apathetic, polite or stupid to stand up to this alien menace, so Bit Flip cartoonist for The Sunday Times and Private Eye. They have Katrina has no choice but to start the resistance movement Radiolab explores how tiny changes can have cosmic effects on known each other since their schooldays and have written many herself. In the cricket pavilion. us unwitting humans. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. successful TV programmes together including 'My Dad's the Hattie Morahan and Julian Rhind-Tutt star in Eddie Robson's Back in 2003, Belgium was holding a national election. One of Prime Minister' and 'The Wipers Times'. sitcom about an alien invasion of a small English village. their first where the votes would be cast and counted on First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2016. Uljabaan is working on an education programme for after the computers. Thousands of hours of preparation went into making SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000fnvh) invasion, creating a list of books suitable for children to read. it unhackable. And when the day of the vote came, everything We Will Arise and Go Now His chosen advisor is Mrs Leeson from the charity shop. seemed to have gone well. That was, until a cosmic chain of Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive and Katrina is confident she could do a better job, and hopes she events caused a single bit to flip and called the outcome into chooses We Will Arise and Go Now marking the birth of WB could use it for subversive purposes - so she volunteers. But can question. Yeats. she sneak anything past Uljabaan? And can she convince Lucy In this episode of Radiolab, we travel from a voting booth in On the 150th anniversary of WB Yeats' birth, Irish Chair of she's not really being a traitor? Brussels to the driver's seat of a runaway car in the Carolinas, Poetry Paula Meehan, selects three Irish poets who will arise Katrina Lyons ...... Hattie Morahan exploring the massive effects tiny bits of stardust can have on and go with presenter Marie-Louise Muir to The Lake Isle of Field Commander Uljabaan ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt us unwitting humans. Innisfree in County Sligo, a location made famous by Yeats's Margaret Lyons ...... Jan Francis Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. iconic poem of the same name. Richard Lyons ...... Peter Davison Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur Elayne Harrington, aka 'Temper-Mental Miss-Elayneous' is a Lucy Alexander ...... Hannah Murray between science, philosophy, and the human experience. hip-hop poet and spoken word artist from Dublin; Stephen Computer ...... John-Luke Roberts Hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange Sexton a PhD student at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Producer: Ed Morrish world. in Belfast; Paula Cunningham was brought up in Omagh, First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 2013. From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in County Tyrone, and works as a part-time dentist. SUN 08:00 Whack-O! (m000fnv7) 2019. While Yeats's poem speaks of a desire to build 'a cabin of clay Series 2 SUN 12:00 Whack-O! (m000fnv7) and wattles' on Innisfree, Marie-Louise and our three poets will The Wager [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] be sleeping under canvas and cooking on a campfire. As they Headmaster Jim needs to employ all of his guile if he is to win a SUN 12:30 Harry Worth in Things Could Be Worse discover if the reality of this tiny uninhabited island on Lough bet. (b09t27rb) Gill lives up to the bucolic idyll which Yeats so famously Starring 'Professor' Jimmy Edwards. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] portrayed, they'll ask if 'peace comes dropping slow' in the 'bee Starting life on BBC TV before transferring to radio, SUN 13:00 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (Omnibus) loud glade' as they each reflect on how The Lake Isle of Chiselbury School is run "for the sons of gentlefolk". (b064506c) Innisfree resonates with them and come up with their own Headmaster, Professor James Edwards, M.A. never misses a [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] poetic responses to it. trick when it comes to exploiting the students and their parents. SUN 14:15 First for Radio (b07466lb) Produced by Conor Garrett Sports pitches are given over to growing vegetables, which the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015. boys nurture for their head to sell. Classes never exceed 95 SUN 14:30 The Secret Guests (Omnibus) (m000fnvf) SUN 17:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade pupils - 50 if private tuition is paid for at five guineas extra. It's Episode 2 Carefully (b01r4ycv) only thanks to the efforts of the devoted deputy head, Mr. As the IRA close in on the true identities of the young guests, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Potter, that the school exists at all. an accident befalls one of the princesses. SUN 18:00 Nightfall (m000fnvk) Staff and pupils played by June Whitfield, Roddy Maude- BW Black's imagined historical adventure and enthralling Series 3 Roxby, Frederick Treves, Roy Dotrice, John Coxall, Roger mystery concluded by Sorcha Cusack. Lazarus Rising by John Douglas Shepherd, David Lott and Philip Leavermore In 1940, at the height of Blitz, the two young princesses A reporter gets drawn into a web of revenge and darkness when Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden and adapted for radio Elizabeth and Margaret are secretly evacuated from he arrives in a small town to investigate reports of a man who by David Climie. Buckingham Palace for their own safety and sent to an isolated rose from the dead. Producer: Edward Taylor rural estate in neutral Ireland. However Clonmillis Hall may Nightfall is a series of supernatural and horror dramas made by First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1962. prove to be even more dangerous than wartime London… Canada’s CBC Radio that ran from 1980-83. It went on to SUN 08:30 Harry Worth in Things Could Be Worse Irish police detective Strafford has been assigned to watch over become one of the most popular shows in the network’s history. (b09t27rb) the girls during their stay and so must form an uneasy alliance During 100 episodes over three seasons, Nightfall featured a The Wedding with their governess Miss Celia Nashe, an undercover MI5 mix of original stories and adaptations of classic tales. Harry is best man at his best friend Derek's wedding. What officer charged with the princesses’ safety. However, with a Cliff Martin… Neil Munro could possibly go wrong? contingent of soldiers patrolling the woods and rumours of IRA Ella-May Puddister… Ruth Springford Written by David McKellar and David Renwick. terrorists in the vicinity, they soon find their task even more George Sanex… Eric Peterson Starring Harry Worth. treacherous than expected. But is the real threat from outside, Ezra Helbert… Murray Westgate With John Baddeley, John Graham and Miriam Margolyes. or from within Clonmillis Hall itself? Leroy Grant… Ken James Producer: Simon Brett. Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes Theta… Marian Waldman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1976. BW Black is the pen name of acclaimed Irish author John Mort Brunner … John Stocker SUN 09:00 To the Lake (Omnibus) (m000fnv9) Banville. He is the author of several novels, including The Sea, Lucy Sanex… Elva Mai Hoover The term ‘Balkanise’ came into being a century ago to describe which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. In 2013 he was Sarey… Melanie Brown a region fragmented into smaller mutually hostile states. awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Written by John Douglas. Kapka Kassabova explores her own family’s ties to the south- Irish Literature. He has published a number of crime novels, Directed by Bill Howell. west Balkans and their fractured history of exile, discord and most featuring Quirke (an Irish pathologist based in Dublin) First broadcast on CBC Radio in 1980. harmony. A place which has at its heart two lakes of which were adapted into a TV series starring Gabriel Byrne. SUN 18:30 Brian Aldiss - Hothouse (b00mj3gd) exceptional beauty and wilderness, and a gathering of many Abridger, Neville Teller Episode 3 stories and voices. Producer, Michael Shannon The manipulative Morel fungus guides Gren and Poyly's lives Omnibus read by Clare Corbett First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020. without their tribe. Abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed SUN 15:45 Door Stepping (b08zdlrr) Millions of years in the future, a colossal banyan tree covers Producer: Jill Waters We're Getting a Mortgage much of the Earth. In its boughs, the last remnants of humanity A Waters Company production first broadcast in five parts on Things are getting serious for Jude Rogers as she makes the are fighting for survival, terrorized by carnivorous plants and BBC Radio 4 in February 2020. decision to buy her first home in the London suburbs - its where grotesque insect life. SUN 10:10 The Listening Project (b0499spy) she will get married from, have her first child, and she only The Earth has stopped rotating and the Sun's output has Naveed and Amjad – Scouts and Samosas moved out last year... its an emotional moment as she returns to increased. Plants are engaged in a constant tropical forest-style Fi Glover introduces brothers who run the first Muslim Scouts the first home she bought. frenzy of growth driving other life forms to extinction... Group in Wales. Introduced to Beavers, aged 6, a whole new "It's amazing how powerful smell is. Instantly, I see my son as a Brian Aldiss's 1962 sci-fi fantasy read by Gareth Thomas. world opened up to them, and they are keen to share it. baby, scuttling across the wooden floor in his walker. I expect Abridged in five parts by Lu Kemp. The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a my husband to walk through from the kitchen. I hear a cat's Producer: Eilidh McCreadie snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the footsteps upstairs, and stop calling out for our cat, Poppy. She Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2009. UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to lived here for three years, and died, at 15, last summer." SUN 19:00 Radiolab (m000fnvc) them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. Producer: Sara Jane Hall [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017. SUN 20:00 To the Lake (Omnibus) (m000fnv9) producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate SUN 16:00 Drama (b071h2x6) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC Trial by Laughter by Ian Hislop & Nick Newman SUN 21:10 The Listening Project (b0499spy) interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an William Hone is the forgotten hero of free speech in Britain. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of He was a bookseller, publisher and satirist. In 1817, he stood SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b06kp9zv) connection between the participants. Most of the unedited trial for 'impious blasphemy and seditious libel'. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] conversations are being archived by the British Library and His crime was to be funny. Worse than that he was funny by SUN 22:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique parodying religious texts. And worst of all, he was funny about Carefully (b01r4ycv) portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You the despotic government and the libidinous monarchy. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] can upload your own conversations or just learn more about The Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's comedy drama based on the real SUN 22:30 Small Scenes (b04n33th) Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject trial transcripts. Series 2 Producer: Marya Burgess Hone ...... Robert Wilfort Episode 4 SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b06kp9zv) Prince Regent ...... Arthur Bostrom A visit to the Golden Woofers, Grimsby's number one dog show Fashion Cruikshank ...... Conrad Nelson and a farmer genetically engineers some living sausages. George Davies Ellenborough ...... Jonathan Keeble Symphonious sketch show, starring Daniel Rigby, Sara Pascoe, From The Beatles to Luciano Pavarotti. Shepherd ...... David Benson Mike Wozniak, Cariad Lloyd and Henry Paker. Retail legend and fashion designer George Davies shares his Abbott ...... Malcolm Raeburn Written by Benjamin Partridge, Henry Paker and Mike castaway choices with Sue Lawley and talks about his life and Lady Hertford ...... Melissa Sinden Wozniak. work. Sarah ...... Fiona Clarke Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer. In the 1980s George changed the shape of high streets with his Reporter ...... Graeme Hawley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014. chain Next - moving on to successful projects with Asda and Clerk ...... Graeme Hawley SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m000fzd3) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 February 2020 Page 4 of 11 Ruth Bratt 3/3 Midge meets former Blitz Kids including: Gary Kemp (Spandau MON 09:00 Whispers (b00c3nw7) From 10.00pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Ballet), Gary Numan, Robert Elms, Rusty Egan, Steve Strange Series 2 Club has two hours of comedy. Jake Yapp chats to improv- (Visage), Stephen Jones (milliner) and Dylan Jones, to revisit Episode 4 musical-comedy star Ruth Bratt. what was undoubtedly a golden era of British pop music. Gyles Brandreth hosts the quiz show with scandal on its mind SUN 23:00 Newsjack (m000ff90) Producer: Melissa FitzGerald and slander at its heart. Series 22 A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Valerie Grove and Geoffrey Durham join team captains Lucy Episode 2 April 2010. Moore and Anthony Holden to run the gauntlet of gossip. Host Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined this week by Joe Barnes, MON 07:00 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00dkxjl) Producer: Elizabeth Freestone Ciaran Dowd and Emily Lloyd Sani Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004. Script Editors: Ed Amsden and Tom Coles Episode 1 MON 09:30 Huddwinks (b00fsmzb) Production Coordinator: Mabel Wright It's Daniel's birthday and to soften the blow of his impending Series 2 Producers: Leila Navabi and Hayley Sterling middle age, Lucy tries to arrange a birthday party for him. Tom Smollet's Schooldays Newsjack is a BBC Studios Production. However, it seems all their friends are too busy being parents to A young pupil faces up to boarding school life with a fearsome SUN 23:30 Edge Falls (b007tc73) attend. headmaster and a bullying head boy. Series 1 David Tennant and Liz Carling star in David Spicer's sitcom Roy Hudd stars in Laurie Rowley’s comic parodies. Healthy Week about modern life and parenthood, as seen through the eyes of a With: Feel the burn! Edge Falls is going fit, fit, fit. 30-something couple with no kids. Denise Coffey And while there's Pilates in the car park and a separate fat Daniel ...... David Tennant Chris Emmett section in the restaurant one desperate man just wants to return Lucy ...... Liz Carling David Gooderson a sales item. Katie ...... Meera Syal Fred Harris Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst's sitcom following the lives of Charlotte ...... Polly Frame Producer: Jonathan James-Moore the staff of Edge Falls Retail Village starring Sarah Lancashire Bob ...... Toby Longworth First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in July 1988. and Mark Benton. Andy ...... Tony Gardner MON 10:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr51) Mick...... Mark Benton Alison ...... Joanna Brookes A Friendship Betrayed Sonya...... Sarah Lancashire Producer: Liz Anstee Two men's lives run almost in parallel. One is a prince of Rez...... Emil Marwa First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2001. Jerusalem, Judah Ben Hur. The other is known as "He that was Valerie...... Sarah Hadland MON 07:30 Nature Table (m000ffzq) born to be King of the Jews." Rick Turino ...... Anthony Glennon Series 1 Lew Wallace's epic tale stars Jamie Glover as Judah Ben Hur. Miranda...... Lindsay Allen Episode 2 Ben Hur ...... Jamie Glover Victor/Jim...... Neil Warhurst Nature Table is comedian, broadcaster and writer Sue Perkins’ Messala ...... Samuel West Karl...... Paul Barnhill new comedy ‘Show & Tell’ series celebrating the natural world Angel ...... Deborah Berlin Woman...... Rachel Bavidge and all its funny eccentricities. Amrah ...... Phyllis Calvert Director: Sally Avens Taking the simple format of a ‘Show & Tell’, each episode Sue Mother ...... Margaret John First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2007. is joined by celebrity guests from the worlds of comedy and Arrius ...... Derek Waring natural history. Each of the natural history guests brings an item Tirzah ...... Natasha Pyne linked to the wild world to share with the audience, be it an Chief of Rowers ...... Don McCorkindale MONDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2020 amazing fact or funny personal anecdote. Each item is a Man 1 ...... Joshua Towb springboard for an enlightening and funny discussion, alongside Man 2 ...... Michael Tudor Barnes MON 00:00 Nightfall (m000fnvk) fun games and challenges revealing more astonishing facts. We Man in Boat ...... Gavin Muir [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] also hear from some of the London Zoo audience, a mix of Michael Gambon reads from the Bible. MON 00:30 Brian Aldiss - Hothouse (b00mj3gd) London Zoo staff and members of the public, as they bring us Dramatised in four parts by Catherine Czerkawska. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] their own natural history ‘show and tells’ for Sue and the guests Music by Wilfredo Acosta. MON 01:00 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (Omnibus) to discuss. Director: Glyn Dearman (b064506c) Nature Table has a simple clear brief: to positively celebrate First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] and promote the importance of all our planet’s wonderfully wild MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m000fncl) MON 02:15 First for Radio (b07466lb) flora and fauna in a fun and easily grasped way... whilst at the Series 6 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] same time having a giggle. Building Humane Cities MON 02:30 The Secret Guests (Omnibus) (m000fnvf) Episode 2 Guy Raz explores how we can build more humane cities, when [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] Recorded at London Zoo, this week Sue Perkins is joined by the world faces overcrowding and risks to vulnerable people. MON 03:45 Door Stepping (b08zdlrr) special guests wildlife biologist Lizzie Daly, zoologist Billy Cities are symbols of hope and opportunity. But today, [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] Heaney and comedian Jessica Fostekew. This week’s ‘Show & overcrowding and gentrification are hurting their most MON 04:00 Drama (b071h2x6) Tells’ include: Angler fish and grey seals. vulnerable residents. This hour, TED speakers explore how we [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Written by: Catherine Brinkworth, Kat Sadler & Jon Hunter can build more humane cities. MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000fnvh) Researcher: Catherine Beazley A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] Produced by: Simon Nicholls speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) MON 05:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Music by Ben Mirin. Additional sounds were provided by The stage. Carefully (b01r4ycv) Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2018. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] A BBC Studios Production MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000fqy8) MON 06:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jt9p) MON 08:00 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jvtb) Emeli Sandé Bad Apples Series 2 Singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé chooses Bob Marley’s Three Episode 3 Episode 1 Little Birds and Elgar's Cello Concerto performed by In spite of her denials, Home Secretary Maggie Lindley appears All set for divorce and a new home, ad man Ken Handley gets a Jacqueline Du Pre. to be closely linked with Brighton murder victim, Norman Tate. surprise at the agency. MON 12:00 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jvtb) Christopher Lee's murder-mystery starring Christopher Martin Jarvis stars in Guy Jenkin and Jon Canter’s satire set in [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Benjamin and Amanda Redman as intelligence officers Henry the competitive world of advertising MON 12:30 Dad's Army (b007jqh1) Colvil and Alex Soames. Ken Handley ...... Martin Jarvis [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Henry Colvil …. Christopher Benjamin Sandy ...... Christopher Godwin MON 13:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jt9p) Alex Soames …. Amanda Redman Freddie ...... Lockwood West [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] DCI Guscott …. Dudley Sutton Deborah ...... Rosalind Ayres MON 13:30 Rocking the Blitz Club (b00rz61w) Miranda Peel …. Sheila Reid Ambrose ...... Paul Jesson [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Tom Margeson …. Tom Cotcher Angus ...... Michael Jenner MON 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald: The Lost Stories (b08rq1p6) Charlie Lofthouse …. Alistair McGowan Receptionist ...... Janet Stacey Tendeter Introduction & Thank You for the Light Maggie Lindley …. Alphonsia Emmanuel Mr Cheater ...... James Griffiths A selection of stories taken from a collection of previously Producer: Pete Atkin With Joss Ackland, Miriam Margolyes, John Shrapnel, Imelda unpublished work by F Scott Fitzgerald, I'd Die For You: and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998. Staunton and David Tate. Other Lost Stories. MON 06:30 Rocking the Blitz Club (b00rz61w) Producer: Pete Atkin The series opens with an extract from editor Anne Margaret Midge Ure takes us back to the Blitz Club in London's Covent First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1984. Daniel's essay and the atmospheric vignette, 'Thank You For Garden where the 'New Romantics' came of age. MON 08:30 Dad's Army (b007jqh1) The Light'. The club first opened its doors in 1979 at the height of another Series 3 Read by Laurel Lefkow and Karen Bartke. recession and Midge explores how the flamboyant Blitz scene The Big Parade Romance, parties, cocktails and glamour - as a young writer in offered an escape from the hard economic reality that he and Captain Mainwaring wants a parade mascot, so he decides his the 1920s F Scott Fitzgerald gave the magazines what they his contemporaries were facing. Home Guard platoon must catch one. wanted. He had little choice; short stories were his bread and Midge remembers how "walking into the Blitz was like stepping The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard butter. But as the author matured he yearned to explore darker out of time, you never knew what period it was set in. It was a platoon in Walmington-on-Sea. territory. total mish-mash of styles, full of blurred genders and make-up Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV This desire wasn't cushioned by wealth; The Great Gatsby for girls and boys". The Blitz crowd were christened the 'New scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. hadn't sold well and as the Depression crunched in the early Romantics' because of what Midge calls their "nostalgia for the Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe 30s, Fitzgerald was hit by large medical bills for both himself future". Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier and his wife Zelda. Despite the financial pressures he resisted The Blitz was a seedbed for creative talent, full of musicians, Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn the easy censorship requested by editors, who balked at designers, photographers and stylists. John Galliano first Private Frazer …. John Laurie Fitzgerald's portrayal of confusing generational freedoms, sex flaunted his ideas there, Spandau Ballet played their early gigs Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley before marriage, divorce and working women. and a young Boy George took the coats. Private Pike …. Ian Lavender Growing increasingly uncompromising about deletions and A new sound emerged from the club - the synthesizer-based Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee sanitisations, Fitzgerald preferred to let these stories lie in wait electropop pioneered by Midge in his bands Visage and The Verger …. Edward Sinclair until their time came. Ultravox. The success of the Blitz bands brought wealth and Private Walker …. Larry Martyn Producer: Eilidh McCreadie fame, but the "extreme hedonism" of the 'New Romantic' Mrs Pike …. Pearl Hackney First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017. movement led many into very dark places. Announcer/Newsreader …. John Snagge MON 14:15 Friends & Foes - A Narrative History of Finally, Midge explores why the 1980s 'New Romantic' synth Producer: John Dyas Diplomacy (b08dnh1r) sound has seen a revival in the current recession. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1976. Bosnia: Coercive Diplomacy Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 February 2020 Page 5 of 11 They grease the cogs of international relations, yet as agents of Hilary Mantel's blackly comic novel about a professional TUE 03:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr51) history they are all too often overlooked. Professor David medium with a troubled past. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Rothkopf explores the emergence of coercive diplomacy in the Dramatised in ten parts by Caroline Harrington. TUE 04:00 Whispers (b00c3nw7) Balkans conflicts between 1991 and 1999, specifically in Alison ...... Alison Steadman [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] Bosnia and later Kosovo. Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero TUE 04:30 Huddwinks (b00fsmzb) Professor Rothkopf explores what happens when diplomacy Morris ...... Bill Wallis [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] fails and the impact of the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. He Director: Sara Davies TUE 05:00 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00dkxjl) asks what happens when diplomacy takes a decidedly First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] undiplomatic turn into militarism. MON 18:30 A Good Read (b00n0z6f) TUE 05:30 Nature Table (m000ffzq) With contributions from Tony Blair, Malcolm Rifkind, Rory Tom Morris and Martin Rowson [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] Stewart and General Wesley Clark, the programme explores the Sue MacGregor talks to theatre director Tom Morris and TUE 06:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jt9z) new diplomatic doctrine that emerged from these conflicts, cartoonist Martin Rowson about favourite books by Clare Bad Apples assessing how the mistakes and achievements that occurred here Clark, Evelyn Waugh and James Lever. Episode 4 shaped the diplomatic world of today. Tom's choice is a tense thriller set in the dank and murky world With the Home Secretary still denying any nefarious A Kati Whitaker production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in of London's sewers, Martin's selection is a caustic satire of connections with the murdered Norman Tate, Colvil and 2017. British society, and Sue proposes a Booker Prize contender Soames get a breakthrough in their investigation. MON 14:30 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (b00yqhrf) penned by a chimpanzee. Christopher Lee's murder-mystery starring Christopher Episode 16 The Great Stink by Clare Clark Benjamin and Amanda Redman as intelligence officers Henry British attention turns to Afghanistan, and the Guides need the Publisher: Penguin Colvil and Alex Soames. services of a man who could pass for a Shinwari. Work Suspended and Other Stories by Evelyn Waugh Henry Colvil …. Christopher Benjamin MM Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy Publisher: Penguin Classics Alex Soames …. Amanda Redman Catherine. Me Cheeta by James Lever DCI Guscott …. Dudley Sutton Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi Publisher: Fourth Estate Miranda Peel …. Sheila Reid Ash ..... Blake Ritson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009. Tom Margeson …. Tom Cotcher Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker MON 19:00 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jvtb) Charlie Lofthouse …. Alistair McGowan Cavagnari ..... Sam Dale [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Maggie Lindley …. Alphonsia Emmanuel Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes MON 19:30 Dad's Army (b007jqh1) Producer: Pete Atkin Battye ..... Jude Akuwudike [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998. Directors: Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole MON 20:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jt9p) TUE 06:30 Graffiti: Kings on a Mission (b04cfhm3) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] In 1974, one of America's most celebrated cultural figures MON 14:45 Steve Boggan - Gold Fever (b05v7tbt) MON 20:30 Rocking the Blitz Club (b00rz61w) declared graffiti as "the great art of the 70s". Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Back then, thousands of teenagers were vandalising New York, Author Steve Boggan arrives at a town called Happy Camp and, MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m000fncl) in particular the subway system. Yet Norman Mailer described having purchased everything he’ll need for camping and [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] their "passion", their "cool", their "masterpieces in letters six prospecting, heads for the hills in search of gold. MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000fqy8) feet high". Read by Paul Ritter and Sara Markland. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] Who were the teens behind the "tags" - now the veterans of the Gold - for centuries people have been entranced by the riches it MON 22:00 Nature Table (m000ffzq) scene? Why did they create this movement? Were they even promises, thousands have gone wild in their search for it, and [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] thinking about art, politics, protest - or simply writing their since the Financial Crisis the price of gold has reached peaks MON 22:30 Bleak Expectations (b00w2282) names on trains? never seen in history. Series 4 We meet some of those who defied the law (and their parents) All over the world, particularly in the US, people with no A Wretched Life Made Much, Much Sadder and diced with death including pioneers such as Riff 170, experience of prospecting began shopping for shovels, After an embarrassing disaster involving a bridge and a train Jester, Coco 144, Flint Gennari, and Tats Cru. Their efforts pickaxes, gold pans, tents, generators, and all manner of full of puppies and orphans Pip and Harry travel to America on have been replicated far beyond New York – in art galleries and equipment they had no idea how to use. And off they went the SS Massive Britain, where Pip begins a reading tour. in the hands of Arab Spring protesters – and yet their mining. But all is not as it seems and Mister Benevolent lures our hero aspirations were largely apolitical: they were chasing fame and Steve Boggan decided to follow in their footsteps. In 2013 he into a gunfight at the "All Right I Suppose Corral" the acceptance of their peers. packed his bags and flew to San Francisco to join the 21st Mark Evans's epic Victorian comedy in the style of Charles We explore the city's complicated relationship with graffiti, century’s gold rush (the ‘New 49ers’) in a quest to understand Dickens. which it appears to condemn and celebrate in equal measure. the allure of the metal – and maybe find a bit for himself too. Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson Former artists – or "writers" as they prefer to be known – revisit He meets a selection of colourful characters - those who left Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen their old haunts and discuss why they believe they had a right to desk jobs and family life behind to work by the river in Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head "tag", "bomb" and "destroy" New York with markers and spray scorching heat and fresh mountain air, in the hope of striking it Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman paint. rich. Most of them only make enough money to scrape a living, Grimpunch ..... Geoffrey Whitehead The programme paints a vivid picture of a city that became a but Steve is surprised how happy they seem to be. From them, Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland canvas at a time when, according to Norman Mailer, "it looked he gets a crash course in small-scale prospecting. Pippa ..... Susy Kane as if graffiti would take over the world". He also takes us back in time to the original gold rush, two Producer: Gareth Edwards Producer: Steve Urquhart centuries ago, tracing the path of the first intrepid 49ers (in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in particular, a woman called Sarah Royce and her family) who MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (m000fms2) August 2014. abandoned their roots and trekked thousands of miles across Series 28 TUE 07:00 HR (b00j5885) perilous terrain, risking death for the chance of riches. Episode 7 Series 1 Abridged by Libby Spurrier A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Nish Kumar A Bus Pass Producer: Joanna Green MON 23:45 What to Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else The work machine has finally excreted Peter and Sam. Now the A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May (b00tt68z) two friends meet, of all places, in the queue for their senior bus 2015. Series 1 passes. MON 15:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr51) Relationships and Family Nigel Williams’ comedy drama series charting the misfortunes [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Andrew Lawrence addresses the expectation upon us all that we of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague. MON 16:00 Whispers (b00c3nw7) should settle down, get married and have children and the Peter ...... Jonathan Pryce [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] general burdens of family life. Sam ...... Nicholas le Prevost MON 16:30 Huddwinks (b00fsmzb) Last of a four part mini-series of short comedic monologues Man with no teeth ...... Malcolm Tierney [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] taking a light-hearted look at various aspects of conventional Mechanical voice ...... Stephen Critchlow MON 17:00 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00dkxjl) living and the pressure we feel to conform to social norms and Director: Peter Cavanagh [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] ideals. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2009. MON 17:30 Nature Table (m000ffzq) From the Edinburgh Comedy Festival. TUE 07:30 Napoleon Moon (m000dynd) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Written by Andrew Lawrence. Britain of the future is a confusing and silly place: the Britannia MON 18:00 HG Wells - The Invisible Man (m000fncn) Producer: Jane Berthoud Archipelago is a flooded sprawl of walkways drenched in 1. The Strange Man's Arrival First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2010. chemical-rain; homeless robots living abandoned in shop Talented young physicist Griffin takes up residence in the doorways; oligarchs partying in their zero-gravity masquerades village of Iping and the locals are intrigued by his experiments. as the workers sleep soundly in their cars, which circle the An unimaginable outcome awaits.... TUESDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2020 swirling maelstrom of bio-gak that was once our sky. In this HG Wells’ gripping 1937 sci-fi novel about a deranged scientist dystopian cityscape, one man with a large and fragile ego, is abridged in ten parts by Janet Hitchman. TUE 00:00 HG Wells - The Invisible Man (m000fncn) about to fall from the very highest pedestal, only to land on Read by Stephen Murray. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] someone else's feet. His name is Napoleon Moon. Producer: Gordon House TUE 00:15 Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black (b00qzjr4) Napoleon Moon...Paterson Joseph First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1976. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Monday] Cash...Kemah Bob MON 18:15 Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black (b00qzjr4) TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b00n0z6f) All other roles played by Emma Dennis-Edwards and David 1. Voices From the Other Side [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Reed Alison Hart is a professional medium, an awkward, obese, TUE 01:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jt9p) Writer, David Reed disorganised woman, but with a gift for empathy and a good [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Producer, Julia McKenzie platform technique. TUE 01:30 Rocking the Blitz Club (b00rz61w) A BBC Studios Production Her familiar spirits are figures from her chaotic childhood, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b00qpjpm) principal among them a small, foul-mouthed circus performer TUE 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald: The Lost Stories (b08rq1p6) The China Story with disgusting personal habits called Morris who is her [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Neddie Seagoon is Britain's ambassador in China, and he's after unpleasant and bitter spirit guide. TUE 02:15 Friends & Foes - A Narrative History of cash. To try and create some order in her messy existence she has Diplomacy (b08dnh1r) Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike taken on an assistant, the highly efficient but essentially [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Milligan and Eric Sykes. heartless Colette, who, although she is a regular witness to TUE 02:30 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (b00yqhrf) Starring: Alison's gift, is nevertheless a profoundly sceptical companion. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Peter Sellers The two of them are bound together by a need that neither TUE 02:45 Steve Boggan - Gold Fever (b05v7tbt) Harry Secombe wants to recognise. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] Spike Milligan Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 February 2020 Page 6 of 11 First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were Finn den Hertog begins a previously unpublished comic story Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Sarah recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest about the disintegration of a young marriage. Millican welcome: shows weren’t kept in the archive. Taken from F Scott Fitzgerald's collection, I'd Die For You: and * An award-winning Australian comedian who is so much more With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. Other Lost Stories. than a mere joker, Felicity Ward Orchestra conducted by Bruce Campbell. Romance, parties, cocktails and glamour - as a young writer in * The cricket commentator whose association with James Bond Announcer: Wallace Greenslade the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald gave the magazines what they villainy is more than a mere coincidence, Henry Blofeld Producer: Peter Eton wanted. He had little choice; short stories were his bread and * A former chemist from Mars who is more than a Mir First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1955. butter. But as the author matured he yearned to explore darker astronaut, Dr Helen Sharman OBE TUE 08:30 Round the Horne (b00mw69c) territory. The Museum's guests discuss the cultural significance of Series 3 This desire wasn't cushioned by wealth; The Great Gatsby Australians using watermelons as hats; how you can increase Episode 14 hadn't sold well and as the Depression crunched in the early your stature in more ways than one by going into space; how it Trouble at sea for Kenneth Horne in 'The Maltese Brass 30s, Fitzgerald was hit by large medical bills for both himself took an author as inventive as PG Wodehouse to coin the word Monkey', while Julian and Sandy go trolling on a bona fox hunt and his wife Zelda. Despite the financial pressures he resisted 'gruntled' decades after the word 'disgruntled'; the vital with a twist. the easy censorship requested by editors, who balked at importance of toilets; and the coolest possible way of telling With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Fitzgerald's portrayal of confusing generational freedoms, sex mountain trekkers where you were when you first saw the Pertwee. before marriage, divorce and working women. Himalayas. Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, Growing increasingly uncompromising about deletions and Researchers: Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of QI. London. Announcer: Douglas Smith sanitisations, Fitzgerald preferred to let these stories lie in wait Producers: Richard Turner and James Harkin. Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio until their time came. A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. broadcast in January 2016. Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017. TUE 16:30 Hopes and Desires (b0b1v7b4) Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE 14:15 Friends & Foes - A Narrative History of Series 1 scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and Diplomacy (b08dnrq6) The Anniversary Waltz 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, Sanctions: Carrot or Stick? Max and Shirley bicker all day long in their north London deli. catchphrases and double-entendres. How effective are sanctions in contemporary diplomacy? Max believes the customers love their bantering but Shirley's Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Professor David Rothkopf investigates. had enough. Hayes Four. The recent nuclear agreements in Iran and the democratic There must be more to life than this? Producer: John Simmonds opening in Burma were both brought about, at least in part, by Hopes and Desires is a series of comedies about unconscious First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1967. using sanctions. And although sanctions have been a diplomatic yearnings. TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (m000fms2) tool since the 5th century BC, when Athens imposed trade Prunella Scales stars in Jeremy Front's comedy drama. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] blockades on her neighbours, they were rarely used in the 20th Shirley …. Prunella Scales TUE 09:45 What to Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else century. Max …. Roger Allam (b00tt68z) Before the fall of the Berlin wall, there were only two UN Roszinka …. Rebecca Front [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] sanctions - one imposed against Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in Girl …. Rosie Fellner TUE 10:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr5g) 1965, and another against South Africa in 1986. But after the Marcy …. Liza Sadovy Son of Arrius end of the Cold War, the use of sanctions revived as a means of Toastmaster/Old Man …. Bruce Purchase Judah Ben Hur has been falsely accused of attempted murder, curbing human-rights violations, ousting belligerent leaders and Director: Peter Kavanagh sent to the galleys and rescued by Arrius of Rome. He now limiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2003. returns in search of his mother and sister. Professor Rothkopf hears from Lady Cathy Ashton and former TUE 17:00 HR (b00j5885) Lew Wallace's epic tale stars Jamie Glover as Judah Ben Hur. diplomat Robert Cooper, leading negotiators in Iran and Burma [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Ben Hur ...... Jamie Glover respectively, to discover what makes sanctions successful. TUE 17:30 Napoleon Moon (m000dynd) Messala ...... Samuel West A Kati Whitaker production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Simonides ...... Bernard Hepton 2017. TUE 18:00 HG Wells - The Invisible Man (m000fms4) Ilderim ...... Freddie Jones TUE 14:30 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (b00yqn6z) 2. Burglary at the Vicarage Balthasar ...... Michael Hordern Episode 17 Mr and Mrs Bunting investigate a strange disturbance in the Drusus ...... Ian Masters Ash's reports from Afghanistan seem to fall on deaf ears, and study at the vicarage in Iping – but can see nothing... Esther ...... Deborah Berlin he wonders whether the British have any desire to avoid HG Wells’ gripping 1937 sci-fi novel about a deranged scientist Iras ...... Natasha Pyne conflict. abridged by Janet Hitchman. Servant ...... Joshua Towb MM Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy Read by Stephen Murray. Passenger ...... Michael Tudor Barnes Catherine. Producer: Gordon House Malluch ...... Gavin Muir Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1976. Iras ...... Becky Hindley Ash ..... Blake Ritson TUE 18:15 Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black (b00qzjr6) Michael Gambon reads from the Bible. Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua 2. Colette's Story Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska. Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker Colette is an event organiser whose marriage to dull, Music by Wilfredo Acosta. Cavagnari ..... Sam Dale conventional Gavin ends after she has the strange experience of Director: Glyn Dearman Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes holding a phone conversation with Gavin's mother, whom she First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995. Battye ..... Jude Akuwudike later discovers is dead. TUE 11:00 Second God by Teju Cole (b079rfx7) Zarin ..... Chris Simpson Colette's interest in the paranormal leads her to a Psychic Husain, a New York gas station attendant, worries about love. Directors: Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole Extravanganza in Windsor where professional medium Alison is Concerned for his ageing parents back in Pakistan, he makes a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011. performing, and to a subsequent consultation where Alison rash decision which has serious consequences for his TUE 14:45 Steve Boggan - Gold Fever (b05vhwp2) drops a bombshell about her father and then makes her a relationship. Episode 2 surprising job offer. Story specially commissioned from Teju Cole, one of the most Steve Boggan meets a legendary character called Dave Mack Hilary Mantel's blackly comic novel about a professional interesting writers on multiculturalism working today and read who agrees to let him tag along to see some ‘extreme’ medium with a troubled past. by Riz Ahmed. prospecting. Alison ...... Alison Steadman Teju Cole is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer and art Read by Paul Ritter and Sara Markland. Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero historian. His 2011 novel Open City was described by the Gold - for centuries people have been entranced by the riches it Gavin ...... Mark Meadows Guardian as, “an excellent novel about spatial relations, layers promises, thousands have gone wild in their search for it, and Natasha/Renee ...... Adrienne O'Sullivan of urban history and immigrant experience”. Using Cole’s since the Financial Crisis the price of gold has reached peaks Dramatised by Caroline Harrington. trademark insight and subtlety, Second God explores how never seen in history. Director: Sara Davies definitions of love can differ around the world, and what this All over the world, particularly in the US, people with no First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010. means for two people in modern New York. experience of prospecting began shopping for shovels, TUE 18:30 Pioneers (b014qz46) Producer: Simon Richardson pickaxes, gold pans, tents, generators, and all manner of Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. equipment they had no idea how to use. And off they went The Samaritans TUE 11:15 Drama (b05pmrtk) mining. Father Roy Day and Mike Tunstall chat to Clare English about Neil Brand - A Year at the Races Steve Boggan decided to follow in their footsteps. In 2013 he the history of the first 24-hour helpline in the UK, the Nearing the end of his career Groucho Marx meets a young star- packed his bags and flew to San Francisco to join the 21st Samaritans. struck fan, who also happens to be a wisecracking horse doctor. century's gold rush (the 'New 49ers') in a quest to understand The duo recall how the charity's founder, Chad Varah, provided Determined to keep her idol’s star shining, she attempts to teach the allure of the metal – and maybe find a bit for himself too. a lifeline to many vulnerable people. the old funny man some new comedy tricks. He meets a selection of colourful characters - those who left Producer: Philip Sime Neil Brand's fast-talking comedy drama about fame and the desk jobs and family life behind to work by the river in First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2011. lasting power of a witty-one-liner. scorching heat and fresh mountain air, in the hope of striking it TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b00qpjpm) Groucho ….. Toby Jones rich. Most of them only make enough money to scrape a living, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Selma ….. Jenna Augen but Steve is surprised how happy they seem to be. From them, TUE 19:30 Round the Horne (b00mw69c) Loretta ….. Tracy-Ann Oberman he gets a crash course in small-scale prospecting. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Eddie ….. Ewan Bailey He also takes us back in time to the original gold rush, two TUE 20:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jt9z) Director: Helen Perry centuries ago, tracing the path of the first intrepid 49ers (in [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4 first particular, a woman called Sarah Royce and her family) who TUE 20:30 Graffiti: Kings on a Mission (b04cfhm3) broadcast in April 2015. abandoned their roots and trekked thousands of miles across [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b00qpjpm) perilous terrain, risking death for the chance of riches. TUE 21:00 Second God by Teju Cole (b079rfx7) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Abridged by Libby Spurrier [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE 12:30 Round the Horne (b00mw69c) Producer: Joanna Green TUE 21:15 Drama (b05pmrtk) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE 13:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jt9z) 2015. TUE 22:00 Napoleon Moon (m000dynd) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE 15:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr5g) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 13:30 Graffiti: Kings on a Mission (b04cfhm3) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE 22:30 Irish Micks and Legends (b053bq5m) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE 16:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b06ybgxr) Series 2 TUE 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald: The Lost Stories (b08sqr3h) Series 8 Cuchulain and the Hound The Couple, Part 1/3 Ward, Sharman, Blofeld Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram learn how the young Setanta Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 February 2020 Page 7 of 11 became known as Cuchulain, the most famous of all the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Starring Tony Hancock. warriors in ancient Ireland because he played our national sport. WED 04:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b06ybgxr) With Sidney James, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. Series two of the duo's unique comedic, highly irreverent take [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. on Irish folklore. WED 04:30 Hopes and Desires (b0b1v7b4) Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Still the very best pals, Aisling and Yasmine take their role [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry explaining Irish legends to the British nation very seriously WED 05:00 HR (b00j5885) Rabinowitz. indeed. That said, it would appear that they haven't had the time [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] Producer: Dennis Main Wilson to do much research, work out who is doing which parts, edit WED 05:30 Napoleon Moon (m000dynd) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1956. out the chat or learn how to work the sound desk. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED 08:30 One Foot in the Grave (b007jn39) With a vast vault of fantastical myths, mixed with 21st century WED 06:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jtbm) In Luton Airport No-One Can Hear You Scream references to help you along, prepare for some very silly lessons Bad Apples Victor and Margaret Meldrew return from their holiday in in life, love and the crazy shenanigans of old Ireland and Episode 5 Greece. What could possibly go wrong..? modern Irish. While Colvil and Soames are searching the flat of murder Richard Wilson stars as Victor and Annette Crosbie as his long- Producer: Raymond Lau victim Norman Tate, who should walk through the door but ... suffering wife Margaret. A Green Dragon Media production for BBC Radio 4 first Norman Tate. Adapted for radio by David Renwick from his BBC TV script. broadcast in February 2015. Christopher Lee's murder-mystery starring Christopher Victor Meldrew ...... Richard Wilson TUE 22:45 Terry Alderton: More Crazy Now (b0858v5w) Benjamin and Amanda Redman as intelligence officers Henry Margaret Meldrew ...... Annette Crosbie A Lot Of Thoughts Colvil and Alex Soames. Mrs Warboys ...... Doreen Mantle Terry Alderton flexes his comedy muscles with more craziness Henry Colvil …. Christopher Benjamin Nick Swainey ...... Owen Brenman and nonsense. Street Kid, Victor, Ed and The Bear all return for Alex Soames …. Amanda Redman With Jon Glover, Ainslee Foster and Paul Rogan. the last in the current series. DCI Guscott …. Dudley Sutton Winning numerous awards, six series were made for TV plus It’s more Terry, more crazy and happening right now. Miranda Peel …. Sheila Reid numerous specials on BBC ONE from 1990 to 2000. Written by and starring Terry Alderton. Tom Margeson …. Tom Cotcher Producer: Diane Messias Featuring Johnny Spurling Charlie Lofthouse …. Alistair McGowan First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1995. Additional material from Johnny Spurling and Richard Melvin. Maggie Lindley …. Alphonsia Emmanuel WED 09:00 Listomania (b09yhgks) Producers: Johnny Spurling and Sean Kerwin Norman Tate …. Brian Bowles Series 1 Executive Producer: Richard Melvin DS Gwen Jenkins …. Sue Jones Davies Episode 2 A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Producer: Pete Atkin Susan Calman hosts the series exploring the world of the list – December 2016. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998. from the magnificent to the mundane – from the humble 'to do' TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m000g2vw) WED 06:30 Thesiger At 100 (b00wlbvv) list to the bucket list and many more... Matt Forde 1/2 An exploration of the life of photographer and traveller, With Joe Lycett, Celia Pacquola, Holly Walsh and Lloyd From 10.00pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Wilfred Thesiger, who travelled and documented - in thousands Langford. Club has two hours of comedy. And Jon Holmes chats to of photos - both Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Written by James Kettle and Gráinne Maguire with Max Davis political comedian Matt Forde. BBC Security correspondent Frank Gardner, who was and Gabby Hutchinson Crouch. TUE 23:00 Rudy's Rare Records (b00p4mcp) encouraged by Thesiger to learn Arabic, looks back on his Producers: Sam Bryant and Adnan Ahmed. Series 1 fascinating life and reflects how it is through Thesiger's work First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 2015. The Heart of Saturday Night that we currently have such an understanding of the North WED 09:30 Such Rotten Luck (b01p0rq5) Bad news for the trio when burglars ransack their record store African and Arab world. Thesiger lived among the marsh Arabs Series 1 in Brum. of southern Iraq, and he also became famous for crossing the Red Whales in the Funhouse The collisions of life for Grandad Rudy, father Adam and son Rub' al Khali, the "Empty Quarter" of Saudi Arabia, surviving Wordsmith Woodhouse tries an oratorio and some candid Richie living crammed together over an old record store in on less than a pint of water a day. writing about a pregnancy. Birmingham. Gardner talks to Christopher Morton of the Pitt Rivers about The ups and downs of a second class writer Generational comedy written by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell Thesiger's work, and what it reveals of past ways of life, and he Comedy drama series written by Ronald Hayman. from an original idea by Lenny Henry. also speaks to the curator of the exhibition, Philip N Grover Woodhouse ...... Tim Pigott-Smith Adam Sharpe ...... Lenny Henry about ways of interpreting the graphic imagery of the Gila ...... Zoe Wanamaker Richie Sharp ...... Joe Jacobs photographs. Seamus ...... Stephen Rea Rudy Sharpe ...... Larrington Walker Thesiger's biographer Alexander Maitland tells the story of his Wilhelmina ...... Susie Bran Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey wartime service with the SAS and SOE, and explorer Benedict Henrietta Masterson ...... Miriam Karlin Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon Allen assesses the importance of Thesiger's travels and writing. Hamish McVomitory ...... Bill Wallis Doctor ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman Despite Thesiger's keen appreciation of desert peoples and their With Eva Stuart, Susan Sheridan and Shaun Prendergast as the DJ Karel ...... Andrew Brooke way of life, he hated modern society. The only modern other members of the Creative Writing Class. Trev the Hoodie ...... Doc Brown invention he valued was the camera. We hear his voice in Fifth Hump: Red Whales in the Funhouse Producer: Lucy Armitage. historic broadcasts from the 1940s and 50s, his elegant prose Music by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2008. recalling his travels in what is now a lost age. Director: Piers Plowright TUE 23:30 John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music (b0848sqq) Made to mark the centenary of Wilfred Thesiger's birth on 3rd First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in September 1989. Series 2 June 1910. WED 10:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr5x) Episode 3 Producer: Alyn Shipton The Chariot Race John Shuttleworth invites Nick Heyward from Haircut 100 to A Unique production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in The biggest day of Ben Hur 's life dawns -the chariot race with his Sheffield home to perform one of his own songs and also, December 2010. Messala. more importantly, one of his. WED 07:00 The Change (b0076d2r) Each has staked his fortune on the outcome. Each has Ken is very excited as he's heard that Nick has had a spiritual Series 2 everything to lose. awakening and he's keen to learn how he can have one of his Episode 5 Lew Wallace's epic tale stars Jamie Glover as Judah Ben Hur. own. John feels that Ken is being silly wearing a kaftan and Carol and George are set to go away for the weekend together. Ben Hur ...... Jamie Glover beads, but Ken is convinced that Nick can help him and ignores But who's going to wear the dress? Messala ...... Samuel West John. Lynda Bellingham and Chris Ellison star as troubled hormonal Simonides ...... Bernard Hepton Also, Mary is not happy with the smell of the josticks that Ken wife Carol who kicked out her mechanic husband George when Ilderim ...... Freddie Jones has lit so he's ejected by John while Nick wins Mary over with he revealed he's a transvestite. Drusus ...... Ian Masters his rendition of Can't Go Back To Savoury Now. Sitcom by Gavin Petrie and Jan Etherington. Amrah ...... Phyllis Calvert In Top Tips on the Telephone, John learns from Tony Christie Carol …. Lynda Bellingham Mother ...... Margaret John about coping with Eurovision failure! George …. Chris Ellison Esther ...... Deborah Berlin Written and Performed by Graham Fellows. Violet …. Sylvia Syms Tirzah ...... Natasha Pyne With special guests Nick Heyward and Tony Christie. Maureen …. Maureen Beattie Malluch ...... Gavin Muir Producer: Dawn Ellis Ken …. James Vaugnan Iras ...... Becky Hindley A Chic Ken production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Sonia …. Emma Kennedy Gesius ...... Peter Yapp December 2016. Jerry …. Barnaby Kay Pilate ...... Neville Jason Dave …. Mark Powley Assassin ...... Oliver Senton Linda …. Andrew Westfield Roman 1 ...... Joshua Towb WEDNESDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2020 Cassandra …. Paul Chadhidi Servant ...... Michael Tudor Barnes Di …. Di Aitcheson Michael Gambon reads from the Bible. WED 00:00 HG Wells - The Invisible Man (m000fms4) Producer: Elizabeth Freestone. Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003. Music by Wilfredo Acosta. WED 00:15 Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black (b00qzjr6) WED 07:30 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000fgsk) Director: Glyn Dearman [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Tuesday] Series 3 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995. WED 00:30 Pioneers (b014qz46) Mental Health WED 11:00 Writing Yorkshire (m000fnsp) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Award-winning comedian Alex Edelman uses personal 2: From Haworth to Leeds WED 01:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jt9z) experience to discuss mental health and why its relevance today. Poet, radio presenter, and Yorkshireman Ian McMillan [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] With help from his "peer group" at the University of West continues his literary tour around God's Own Country to visit WED 01:30 Graffiti: Kings on a Mission (b04cfhm3) London, Alex examines current attitudes to mental health, and the streets, towns, cities and moors that have inspired so much [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] how people deal with it. classic writing. WED 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald: The Lost Stories (b08sqr3h) Alex Edelman's Peer Group is written and performed by Alex From Ian's own home town of Barnsley and his own literary [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Edelman, with additional material from Alfie Brown, Rebecca hero Barry Hines, to the Moors of Haworth that will forever WED 02:15 Friends & Foes - A Narrative History of Nicholson, David Burstein, Catherine Brinkworth and Kat belong to The Brontës, we're exploring a county bursting at the Diplomacy (b08dnrq6) Sadler. seams with writers and writing. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] It is produced by Sam Michell and is a BBC Studios Production. * Ian visits the Bronte Parsonage Cottage in Howarth, Keighley WED 02:30 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (b00yqn6z) WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k4v4) to learn more about the sisters. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] Series 4 * Wuthering Heights - Episode 4 from BBC Radio 4's 2018 WED 02:45 Steve Boggan - Gold Fever (b05vhwp2) The Income Tax Demand adaptation by Rachel Joyce of Emily Bronte's novel. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] With a tax bill looming, the lad consults crooked chartered * Writers on Themselves: Ted Hughes - Ted's essay 'The Rock', WED 03:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr5g) accountant Sid. first broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in 1963. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 February 2020 Page 8 of 11 * At the offices of Peepal Tree Press in Leeds, Ian meets particular, a woman called Sarah Royce and her family) who So when he found an audio book of John Nettles reading the African-Caribbean poet Khadijh Ibrahim. abandoned their roots and trekked thousands of miles across ancient Chinese text of the Tao, it's become a guiding force to * Desert Island Discs: Barbara Taylor Bradford - from BBC perilous terrain, risking death for the chance of riches. navigate the minefield of his life. Radio 4 July 2003 [Extract] Abridged by Libby Spurrier For starters, Will is seeking justice. The conclusion to Ian’s conversation with Blake Morrison. Producer: Joanna Green With Adam Buxton, Matt Holness, Simon Greenall, Dan Tetsell Producer: Jessica Treen A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May and John Nettles. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in September 2018. 2015. Written by Will Smith and Roger Drew. WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k4v4) WED 15:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr5x) Producer: Tilusha Ghelani [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2007. WED 12:30 One Foot in the Grave (b007jn39) WED 16:00 Listomania (b09yhgks) WED 23:30 Daphne Sounds Expensive (b07m7vzj) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Series 1 WED 13:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jtbm) WED 16:30 Such Rotten Luck (b01p0rq5) Murder [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] The gang must solve a mysterious murder on the Yorkshire WED 13:30 Thesiger At 100 (b00wlbvv) WED 17:00 The Change (b0076d2r) Moors, for the conclusion of series 1. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Join critically-acclaimed sketch trio, Daphne, as they pull out all WED 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald: The Lost Stories (b08sqvlr) WED 17:30 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000fgsk) the stops in a dazzling array of peculiar characters, wacky The Couple, Part 2/3 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] scenarios, dodgy remarks, curious observations, minor Finn den Hertog continues a previously unpublished comic WED 18:00 HG Wells - The Invisible Man (m000fnsr) altercations and major peacemaking - served on a bed of catchy story about the disintegration of a young marriage. 3. Unveiling of the Stranger little numbers with a live nine-piece band. Taken from F Scott Fitzgerald's collection, I'd Die For You: and A confrontation with Mrs Hall results in the stranger revealing Written by and starring: Jason Forbes, Phil Wang & George Other Lost Stories. his unimaginable predicament. Fouracres Romance, parties, cocktails and glamour - as a young writer in HG Wells’ gripping 1937 sci-fi novel about a deranged scientist Featuring Sir Willard White & David Elms the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald gave the magazines what they abridged by Janet Hitchman. Original music composed by Jeff Carpenter wanted. He had little choice; short stories were his bread and Read by Stephen Murray. Orchestrator: Simon Nathan butter. But as the author matured he yearned to explore darker Producer: Gordon House Musical Director: Freddie Tapner territory. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1976. Piano: Jeff Carpenter This desire wasn't cushioned by wealth; The Great Gatsby WED 18:15 Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black (b00qzjr8) Drums: Ben Hartley hadn't sold well and as the Depression crunched in the early 3. An Evil Thing Bass: Rob Grist 30s, Fitzgerald was hit by large medical bills for both himself Colette decides Alison should publish a book, and starts to Percussion: Ben Burton and his wife Zelda. Despite the financial pressures he resisted interview her on tape. She soon realises she's taken on more Trumpet: Michael Maddocks the easy censorship requested by editors, who balked at than she might want to know. Tenor Sax: Greg Sterland Fitzgerald's portrayal of confusing generational freedoms, sex Alison's memories of her childhood in Aldershot turn out to be Trombone: Elliot Pooley before marriage, divorce and working women. profoundly disturbing. Her mother arranged abortions for other Violin: Hannah Bell Growing increasingly uncompromising about deletions and women, but couldn't get rid of her own child, and may well Cello: Nick Squires sanitisations, Fitzgerald preferred to let these stories lie in wait have offered her to a succession of detestable petty thieves and Production Coordinator: Hayley Sterling until their time came. abusers. They lived in squalor, Alison was neglected, and her Producer: Matt Stronge Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. school life and subsequent jobs were messed up by interfering A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017. spirits. She was rescued by a neighbour, Mrs Etchells, who August 2016. WED 14:15 Friends & Foes - A Narrative History of claimed to be her grandmother, and who introduced her to the Diplomacy (b08dnwrh) psychic world. Public Diplomacy: Talking to the World Hilary Mantel's blackly comic novel about a professional THURSDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2020 Professor David Rothkopf explores how public diplomacy medium with a troubled past. changed in aftermath of the September 11th attacks in 2001. Alison ...... Alison Steadman THU 00:00 HG Wells - The Invisible Man (m000fnsr) When the Twin Towers collapsed, so too did many of our Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] assumptions about America herself. All that the West held as Morris ...... Bill Wallis THU 00:15 Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black (b00qzjr8) self-evident about the States - her position as the world's Emmie ...... Katharine Rogers [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Wednesday] supreme power, her national security, her place as the seat of Keith ...... Simon Armstrong THU 00:30 The Palace of Laughter (b0076xb9) freedom and democracy - was thrown in doubt. Mrs McGibbet ...... Sheila Hannon [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Professor Rothkopf looks at the resulting sea-change in Mrs Etchells ...... June Barrie THU 01:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jtbm) diplomatic relations and methods. He hears from Tony Blair, Dramatised in ten parts by Caroline Harrington. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] soldier-turned-MP Rory Stewart and former US Under Director: Sara Davies. THU 01:30 Thesiger At 100 (b00wlbvv) Secretary of State Charlotte Beers, among others, to gain a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] better understanding of where the practice of diplomacy went WED 18:30 The Palace of Laughter (b0076xb9) THU 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald: The Lost Stories (b08sqvlr) wrong in the run up to 9/11. Stateside [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] He asks what lessons we need to learn from the methods of the Episode 1 THU 02:15 Friends & Foes - A Narrative History of past 30 years of diplomatic endeavour - and what new lessons Geoffrey Wheeler explores the history of American vaudeville. Diplomacy (b08dnwrh) we need to take on board for the future. Like Music Hall in Britain, vaudeville was a product of its time; [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] A Kati Whitaker production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in increasing urbanisation, and a desire to present entertainment THU 02:30 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (b00yqn79) 2017. which would appeal to the whole family, led to the development [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] WED 14:30 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (b00yqn79) of vast vaudeville circuits, spanning thousands of miles of THU 02:45 Steve Boggan - Gold Fever (b05vhxqp) Episode 18 barely settled American territory, on which tens of thousands of [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] Ash's increasing sense of his own difference from his friends performers travelled from town to town earning their living. THU 03:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr5x) and fellow soldiers drives him to make a move. Among those who learned their trade in vaudeville were future [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] MM Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy Catherine international stars such as Fred and Adele Astaire, Bob Hope, THU 04:00 Listomania (b09yhgks) Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi Jack Benny and jazz singer Ma Rainey. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Ash ..... Blake Ritson Producer Libby Cross. THU 04:30 Such Rotten Luck (b01p0rq5) Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Zarin ..... Christopher Simpson WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k4v4) THU 05:00 The Change (b0076d2r) Colonel Jenkins ..... Sean Baker [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes WED 19:30 One Foot in the Grave (b007jn39) THU 05:30 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000fgsk) Directors: Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011. WED 20:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jtbm) THU 06:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jtbv) WED 14:45 Steve Boggan - Gold Fever (b05vhxqp) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Bad Apples Episode 3 WED 20:30 Thesiger At 100 (b00wlbvv) Episode 6 Steve meets a character called Duane who freely admits to [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] The precise relationship between the Home Secretary, the having ‘gold fever’. And on a prospecting trip with Tom, the WED 21:00 Writing Yorkshire (m000fnsp) Prime Minister's Press Secretary, and the man murdered on author finds himself in very deep water. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Brighton beach is made uncomfortably clear. Read by Paul Ritter and Sara Markland. WED 22:00 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000fgsk) Conclusion of Christopher Lee's murder-mystery starring Gold - for centuries people have been entranced by the riches it [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Christopher Benjamin and Amanda Redman as intelligence promises, thousands have gone wild in their search for it, and WED 22:30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially officers Henry Colvil and Alex Soames. since the Financial Crisis the price of gold has reached peaks Better (b00kn8k7) Henry Colvil …. Christopher Benjamin never seen in history. Series 1 Alex Soames …. Amanda Redman All over the world, particularly in the US, people with no Sloth DCI Guscott …. Dudley Sutton experience of prospecting began shopping for shovels, Mark Watson investigates sloth as he continues his quest to free Miranda Peel …. Sheila Reid pickaxes, gold pans, tents, generators, and all manner of us from the seven deadly sins via stand-up comedy. Tom Margeson …. Tom Cotcher equipment they had no idea how to use. And off they went Tim Key and Tim Minchin provide sketches, songs and jealous Charlie Lofthouse …. Alistair McGowan mining. glances. Maggie Lindley …. Alphonsia Emmanuel Steve Boggan decided to follow in their footsteps. In 2013 he Producer: Katie Marsden Norman Tate …. Brian Bowles packed his bags and flew to San Francisco to join the 21st First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2007. DS Gwen Jenkins …. Sue Jones Davies century's gold rush (the 'New 49ers') in a quest to understand WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m000g2vy) Producer: Pete Atkin the allure of the metal – and maybe find a bit for himself too. Matt Forde 2/2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1998. He meets a selection of colourful characters - those who left From 10.00pm until midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy THU 06:30 The Singing Fish of Batticaloa (b04bn086) desk jobs and family life behind to work by the river in Club has two hours of comedy. And Jon Holmes chats to "It is said to be heard the clearest on a full moon night... One scorching heat and fresh mountain air, in the hope of striking it political comedian Matt Forde. has to go by boat, plunge an oar into the water, put the other end rich. Most of them only make enough money to scrape a living, WED 23:00 Will Smith Presents the Tao of Bergerac of the oar to one's ear, and listen..." but Steve is surprised how happy they seem to be. From them, (b007tz8w) Since the 18th century, Tamil fishermen have claimed to he gets a crash course in small-scale prospecting. Episode 1 navigate by the mysterious music of the singing fish of the He also takes us back in time to the original gold rush, two Jersey-born comedian Will Smith is obsessed with 1980s BBC Batticaloa lagoon in eastern Sri Lanka. The fishermen's ancient centuries ago, tracing the path of the first intrepid 49ers (in TV detective series Bergerac. name for the creature is oorie coolooroo cradoo (crying shells); Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 February 2020 Page 9 of 11 scientists believe that the underwater choristers are some kind Maxine ...... Ann Gosling Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. of fish. But, after thirty years of civil war and the ravages of the Adrian Turnball ...... Anthony Ofoegbu First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2017. tsunami, does any evidence of this strange nocturnal chorus Arthur Smith ...... Arthur Smith THU 14:15 Friends & Foes - A Narrative History of remain? Producer Claire Jones Diplomacy (b08dr5rg) Restrictions and curfews made it impossible to visit the lagoon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1999. Talking to Terrorists at night and locals, suffering the deprivation of a bitter conflict, THU 10:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr6d) Can or should you negotiate with insurgent groups? Professor had other priorities. The people of Batticaloa became The King Comes into His Kingdom David Rothkopf investigates. disconnected from this ancient cultural symbol. Very few have After the prince's victory in the chariot race, news arrives of his Terrorism is a growing problem for diplomacy. Since it heard the aquatic music, and many believe it's a myth. mother and sister. emerged as a political means in the 1970s, there have been But for Father Lorio, a Jesuit priest present at one of the earliest Conclusion of Lew Wallace's epic tale starring Jamie Glover as constant debates about whether it is appropriate or desirable to recordings of the phenomenon made using a homemade Judah Ben Hur. engage in negotiations with groups who use violence to further hydrophone in the 1950s, the singing fish are the soundtrack to Ben Hur ...... Jamie Glover their political causes. sixty years of profound turmoil and change he's witnessed in the Simonides ...... Bernard Hepton Professor Rothkopf hears from Tony Blair and his chief of region. And for Prince Casinader, a Tamil journalist in his Balthasar ...... Michael Hordern staff, Jonathan Powell, about why they decided to open up the eighties, there's the belief that they could bring a sense of Amrah ...... Phyllis Calvert peace process in Northern Ireland, leading to the Good Friday community and hope to his hometown. Mother ...... Margaret John agreements. Now a group of young Tamil scientists have joined the effort to Esther ...... Deborah Berlin Beyond the case of Northern Ireland, Jonathan Powell believes rediscover this lost symbol. Guided by local fishermen, they Tirzah ...... Natasha Pyne that one should always engage with one's political opponents. embark on an unusual odyssey into the muddy lagoon to capture Malluch ...... Gavin Muir For Tony Blair, groups with religious and otherwordly aims can a new recording and establish if this elusive watery wonder has Iras ...... Becky Hindley be more difficult to engage with successfully. survived to enchant another generation with its song. Guide ...... Neville Jason Professor Rothkopf also talks to psychologist and terrorism With music composed by Adam Nicholas. Man at Inn ...... Joshua Towb expert Anne Speckhard on the psychological profiles of Producers: Cicely Fell & Kannan Arunasalam Man 1 ...... Don McCorkindale terrorists, revealing that many suffer from PTSD and other A Falling Tree production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Man 2 ...... Derek Waring traumas which are often overlooked. Could thinking of the July 2014. Man 3 ...... Peter Yapp perpetrators of violence through this lens make us more willing THU 07:00 Millport (b0075tn0) Man 4 ...... Peter Whitman to negotiate with them? Series 1 Michael Gambon reads from the Bible. A Kati Whitaker production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Culture Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska. 2017. Irene fears the worst when a famous restaurant critic books a Music by Wilfredo Acosta. THU 14:30 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (b00yqn7c) table at the Ritz Cafe. The reputation of Millport will be printed Director: Glyn Dearman Episode 19 for the whole world to see! First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995. The British Mission is welcomed to Kabul, but - it transpires - But is he really coming to sample Alberto's food or does he THU 11:00 Here's the Thing (m000fmw1) on a false premise. have a secret agenda? Amy Schumer/Carol Burnett MM Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as More in depth interviews from WNYC Radio in New York Catherine. 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a hosted by Alec Baldwin. Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi better life on the mainland. Alec Baldwin gives the listener a unique insight into the lives of Ash ..... Blake Ritson Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson artists, policy makers and performers, sidestepping the Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker Moira ...... Janet Brown predictable by taking listeners inside the dressing rooms, Official ..... Kaleem Janjua Alberto/Robert/Ferryman/Bob ...... Lewis McLeod apartments, and offices. Cavagnari ..... Sam Dale Ena/Bunty/Betty ...... Gabriel Quigley Specially curated for BBC Radio 4 Extra, the series continues Jenkyns ..... Sean Baker Doogie ...... Matt Costello with Alec talking with two female stars with comedy at the Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes Lucian Hyber-Connor ...... Robert Paterson heart of what they do so well. Ambrose ..... Iain Batchelor Producers: Lucy Bacon and Kathy Smith In 2015 Alec talked to Amy Schumer, as her meteoric rise in Nakshband Khan ..... Mozaffar Shafeie First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000. comedy gathered pace, with hits that year including the Directors: Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole THU 07:30 The Break (b0b2j4mg) hilarious and transgressive Comedy Central television show First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011. Series 2 "Inside Amy Schumer;" and the feature film "Trainwreck" THU 14:45 Steve Boggan - Gold Fever (b05vj09h) The Longest Day (written by Schumer); Amy talks to Alec about growing up on Episode 4 Welcome back to Flamford. In episode one of the new series. Long Island, playing the worst person ever, and the Pilates class Having learnt the basics from a host of helpful characters, Steve City burn-out Andy returns to his uncle's seaside home. Oddly, they shared a decade ago. heads off along the North Yuba River to try his hand at gold the town has been taken over by Brad Pitt and some Hollywood In the same year Alec met another trailblazing comedy star. prospecting alone. Nazis. Starring Philip Jackson, Tom Palmer and Alison Carol Burnett's stage and screen career is one of the great Read by Paul Ritter and Sara Markland. Steadman. showbiz success stories. From her early days on Broadway, to Gold - for centuries people have been entranced by the riches it An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4. the 11-season run of The Carol Burnett Show, to her luminous promises, thousands have gone wild in their search for it, and THU 08:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b05x8q7d) big-screen turn as Miss Hannigan in Annie, Burnett's numerous since the Financial Crisis the price of gold has reached peaks From 31/08/1975 Emmy and Golden Globe awards and nominations speak to her never seen in history. All over the world, particularly in the US, Doddy and chums turn their attention to cowboys and heroes of plasticity, her genius - and her hilarity. Carol talks to Alec about people with no experience of prospecting began shopping for the past. her life in the limelight. shovels, pickaxes, gold pans, tents, generators, and all manner Starring Ken Dodd. Produced by WNYC in the USA. of equipment they had no idea how to use. And off they went With Jo Manning Wilson, Gretchen Franklin, Talfryn Thomas, Acquired for BBC Radio 4 Extra. First heard on the Here’s The mining. Chris Emmett and Michael McClain. Thing podcast in 2016. Steve Boggan decided to follow in their footsteps. In 2013 he Devised and written by Ken Dodd with Dave Dutton, David THU 11:55 Leonard Rossiter - In a Nutshell (b00sj8sx) packed his bags and flew to San Francisco to join the 21st McKellar, Norman Beadle and Philip & Alan Bessell. Power Struggles century's gold rush (the 'New 49ers') in a quest to understand Doddy's Diddy Orchestra conducted by Geoff Alderson. "He first came to public attention as defender of the earth's the allure of the metal – and maybe find a bit for himself too. Producer: Bobby Jaye ozone layer, which was threatened by intensive American He meets a selection of colourful characters - those who left First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in August 1975. aerosol deodorant usage." desk jobs and family life behind to work by the river in THU 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00srqfn) A breakthrough in 'ecological physics' is scandalously ignored scorching heat and fresh mountain air, in the hope of striking it Series 4 as revealed by Leonard Rossiter. rich. Most of them only make enough money to scrape a living, Episode 1 Written by Barry Pilton. but Steve is surprised how happy they seem to be. From them, The explosive Flying Wombat - and insulted Italians. Series 4 Producer: Louise Purslow he gets a crash course in small-scale prospecting. kick off with more sketches and songs. First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in February 1981. He also takes us back in time to the original gold rush, two Restored from BBC Transcription Service tapes - originally THU 12:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b05x8q7d) centuries ago, tracing the path of the first intrepid 49ers (in edited for sale abroad. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] particular, a woman called Sarah Royce and her family) who Starring John Cleese, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, David THU 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00srqfn) abandoned their roots and trekked thousands of miles across Hatch and Jo Kendall. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] perilous terrain, risking death for the chance of riches. Scripted by John Cleese, Bill Oddie, Clive James, David Hatch, THU 13:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jtbv) Abridged by Libby Spurrier Eric Idle and Graeme Garden. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Producer: Joanna Green With music from Dave Lee and his band. THU 13:30 The Singing Fish of Batticaloa (b04bn086) A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in May Produced by Humphrey Barclay [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] 2015. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1966. THU 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald: The Lost Stories (b08swyvp) THU 15:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr6d) THU 09:00 The Write Stuff (m000fmvz) The Couple, Part 3/3 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Series 4 Finn den Hertog concludes a previously unpublished comic THU 16:00 The Write Stuff (m000fmvz) John Betjeman story about the disintegration of a young marriage. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] James Walton’s literary quiz with Sebastian Faulks, John Walsh, Taken from F Scott Fitzgerald's collection, I'd Die For You: and THU 16:30 Married (b007vkjd) Victoria Coren and Sue Limb. Other Lost Stories. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Author of the week: John Betjeman Romance, parties, cocktails and glamour - as a young writer in THU 17:00 Millport (b0075tn0) Reader: Becky Hindley the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald gave the magazines what they [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Producer: Dawn Ellis wanted. He had little choice; short stories were his bread and THU 17:30 The Break (b0b2j4mg) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001 butter. But as the author matured he yearned to explore darker [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU 09:30 Married (b007vkjd) territory. THU 18:00 HG Wells - The Invisible Man (m000fmw3) Series 1 This desire wasn't cushioned by wealth; The Great Gatsby 4. Mr Thomas Marvel Episode 4 hadn't sold well and as the Depression crunched in the early The stranger cunningly forces a tramp to help him to try and Robin is starting to like his life trapped in a parallel universe as 30s, Fitzgerald was hit by large medical bills for both himself escape the village of Iping. a married man. But then comedian Arthur Smith turns up from and his wife Zelda. Despite the financial pressures he resisted HG Wells’ gripping 1937 sci-fi novel about a deranged scientist his old universe. the easy censorship requested by editors, who balked at abridged by Janet Hitchman. Hugh Bonneville stars in Tony Bagley's comedy. Fitzgerald's portrayal of confusing generational freedoms, sex Read by Stephen Murray. Robin ...... Hugh Bonneville before marriage, divorce and working women. Producer: Gordon House Lesley ...... Josie Lawrence Growing increasingly uncompromising about deletions and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1976. Dirk ...... Steve Frost sanitisations, Fitzgerald preferred to let these stories lie in wait THU 18:15 Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black (b00qzjrb) Ned ...... Sam Bradley until their time came. 4. Death of a Princess Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 February 2020 Page 10 of 11 Colette is woken one night by Alison getting news from beyond Radiophonic Evolution in South Mimms - drawing on die. of Princess Diana's fatal car crash. conference calls, voice notes and life-logs, to tell a compelling In this episode, Daniel and Audrey fight over the Welfare State The tragic accident means business will be heavy for all the and strange story of the technological lengths to which the with the aid of a can of strong lager, a fake police uniform and psychics at the Psychic Fair in Nottingham, and they're not researchers will go to push forward the boundaries of the a beloved British character actor. helped by Alison's disgusting spirit guide, Morris, who is more emerging digital technologies. Meet the team: than usually irritating, patrolling the motorway services, Each week a jiffy bag of sound files arrives at BBC Radio 4. Graham Quicks (Vincent Franklin), Head of the People and desperate to find his mates, and interfering with Alison's friend We listen to the contents to discover what backroom boffins Places Department of the LNS. There are three things in the Mandy. Luke Mourne and Professor Trish Baldock (ably assisted by world that Graham will always have faith in – statistics, the As Alison becomes more disturbed by the darker side of her Shelley – on work experience) have been up to. supremacy of filofaxes over computers and the idea that job, Morris finds his old mate Aitkenside, a development that In this episode, they develop an algorithm to replace continuity cardigans will never go out of style. throws Alison into despair. announcers – resulting in industrial unrest and ‘easy listening’ on Audrey Carr (Rebekah Staton) is the Survey Researcher for the Hilary Mantel's blackly comic novel about a professional every BBC radio network – which is fine if you’re a James Last department. She believes passionately that statistics should be medium with a troubled past. fan. used as a tool to help the man on the street. Fortunately for her, Alison ...... Alison Steadman Luke...... William Beck she's never actually met "the man in the street". She's also Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero Trish...... Emma Kilbey passionate about Jane Austen, Les Miserables and pretending Morris ...... Bill Wallis Shelley...... Lizzy Watts that she doesn't work in an office with Daniel. Mandy ...... Adrienne O'Sullivan Felix...... David Brett Daniel Porter (Kieran Hodgson) is the department's Data Silvana ...... Jacqueline Tong Colin...... Chris Stanton Analyst. He used to work in the City, until the City realised he Dramatised by Caroline Harrington. with Jessica Carroll was a colossal waste of space. Daniel divides his time between Director: Sara Davies Written by Jerome Vincent and Stephen Dinsdale manipulating statistics to further his vision of capitalism, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010. Producer David Blount necking energy drinks and telling people his thighs are really, THU 18:30 Great Lives (b043x48v) A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February really strong. He's terrible. Series 33 2016. Mrs. Wilkins (Julia Deakin) has worked as tea lady, archivist Emma Kirkby on Henry Purcell and maintenance guru for fifteen years. She knows where the Soprano Emma Kirkby discusses the life of English composer bodies are buried. We must stress that that is a figure of speech. Henry Purcell with Matthew Parris. FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2020 Special guests: Despite dying at the age of 36, Purcell was arguably the first Jonty...... Tom Crowley composer to become a national figure, as shown by his funeral FRI 00:00 HG Wells - The Invisible Man (m000fmw3) Stephanie...... Catriona Knox at Westminster Abbey. Living through turbulent times, and [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Pete Postlefake...... Paul Shearer through the reign of three monarchs, Purcell had to cope with FRI 00:15 Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black (b00qzjrb) The Policeman...... Paul Putner shifting Catholic and Protestant regimes while producing a [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Thursday] The Passer-By...... Tessa Coates steady output of religious music. But he also did some of his FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b043x48v) With Jo Unwin as The Narrator most memorable and enduring work for the commercial theatre. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Written by Jack Bernhardt Few composers have set the English language to music so FRI 01:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jtbv) Produced by David Tyler felicitously. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] A Pozzitive production for the BBC After his death, Britain produced few world class composers for FRI 01:30 The Singing Fish of Batticaloa (b04bn086) FRI 07:30 Reluctant Persuaders (m0000mmf) 200 years. To discuss his legacy, Emma and Matthew are joined [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] Series 3 by Purcell scholar Michael Burden FRI 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald: The Lost Stories (b08swyvp) Ideas for Life Producer: Jolyon Jenkins [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Welcome back to Hardacre's, the worst advertising agency in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. FRI 02:15 Friends & Foes - A Narrative History of London, as Edward Rowett's award-winning sitcom returns for THU 19:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b05x8q7d) Diplomacy (b08dr5rg) a third series. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] The second series ended in euphoria, as Hardacre's secured THU 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00srqfn) FRI 02:30 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (b00yqn7c) their biggest ever account - the Cosmos X10 smartphone. Now [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] there's a reality check, as the team realise how woefully ill- THU 20:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jtbv) FRI 02:45 Steve Boggan - Gold Fever (b05vj09h) equipped they are to handle a client of this magnitude. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] Accounts manager Amanda Barnes (Josie Lawrence) THU 20:30 The Singing Fish of Batticaloa (b04bn086) FRI 03:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur (b007jr6d) immediately sets to work hiring new staff, while agency chief [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] and creative director Rupert Hardacre (Nigel Havers) heads into THU 21:00 Here's the Thing (m000fmw1) FRI 04:00 The Write Stuff (m000fmvz) Soho to secure new and grander premises. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Meanwhile on the creative side, copywriter Joe Starling THU 21:55 Leonard Rossiter - In a Nutshell (b00sj8sx) FRI 04:30 Married (b007vkjd) (Mathew Baynton) begins to doubt his ability to deliver work [Repeat of broadcast at 11:55 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] for an account this size, despite reassurance from his art THU 22:00 The Break (b0b2j4mg) FRI 05:00 Millport (b0075tn0) director and best friend Teddy Beech (Rasmus Hardiker), [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] leading Joe to take drastic action. THU 22:30 Newsjack (m000fmw5) FRI 05:30 The Break (b0b2j4mg) Cast: Series 22 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] Nigel Havers- Hardacre Episode 3 FRI 06:00 Deep Six (m000fqk2) Mathew Baynton- Joe Newsjack is a scrapbook sketch show written entirely by the 1. Target Josie Lawrence- Amanda Great British public. Hosted by Kiri Pritchard Mclean 4 Extra Debut. Ex-SAS agent Terry is still hired for special Rasmus Hardiker- Teddy THU 23:00 The Skivers (b007jq44) 'jobs'. But his latest assignment sparks alarm... Stars Freddie Holly Morgan- Singer/Waitress Series 1 Lees. From 1984. Andrew Nolan- Irish Barrista Britt Ekland FRI 06:30 'Down With Skool': The Art of Molesworth An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. New age DIY, the wonders of Sweden and Sinatra sings punk. (b074x71x) FRI 08:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jsl5) Nick Golson and Tim de Jongh's skilful sketch show with Philip Hensher explores the art of the gloriously eccentric Series 5 special guest Britt Ekland who's not in the mood for romance. Molesworth books. Nigel Molesworth is one of the immortal Write Extremely Long Programme Titles the Burkiss Way Written and performed by Nick Golson and Tim de Jongh. characters of British literature - a 1950s prep-school boy, the It's time to meet the Muppets with President Nixon. With Peter Bradshaw and Mel Giedroyc 'goriller of 3B' and the 'curse of St Custard's'. Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett. Producer: Jon Naismith Molesworth's diaries, written by Geoffrey Willans, first Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1994. appeared in Punch and were later developed into four books, 1980. THU 23:30 Sam Simmons is Not a People Person Down with Skool! (1953), How to be Topp (1954), Whizz for Scripted by David Renwick and Andrew Marshall. (b087rm0d) Atomms (1956) and Back in the Jug Agane (1959). Illustrated Producer: David Hatch Whistling by Ronald Searle as a boy's school sequel to Searle's St Trinian's First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980. Comedian. Writer. Ex-Zoo Keeper. Bird Watcher. Definitely drawings, they are still in print today. FRI 08:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and NOT a people person. The books are a kind of satire of 1950s Britain as, after the war, Flywheel (b0081b4j) Sam and Henry are making a documentary series about birds, the upper middle classes faced the onslaught of irreverence, the Series 2 each week - armed with Sam's 'Big Book of Birds' they seek out Welfare State and a new generation that didn’t see why Episode 2 different species. Despite Henry's best efforts, Sam is authority should be respected. Molesworth’s cynical yet naive Shady lawyer, Waldorf T Flywheel turns farmer for a wealthy continually aggravated by the people they run into. Each outlook on life made him popular with young and old readers in Uncle. encounter sparks an investigation into Sam's past, because once the post-war world. He was a very long way from the clean-cut Recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows charting the they've sorted out his issues, they'll really be able to focus on school fantasies which had entertained the British before the adventures of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his the bird-watching. advent of the atomic bomb. assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. Originally broadcast with sponsors Now they're in the Netherlands observing a chicken... The author Geoffrey Willans had worked as a schoolmaster and on America's NBC radio network in the 1930s. The scripts were The unique talents of the multi-award winning comedian Sam understood the cheerful cynicism of boys, while Ronald Searle's rediscovered in 1988. Simmons have landed. illustrative style was dark, Gothic and seething with half-hidden Starring Michael Roberts as Groucho Marx as Waldorf T Written by and starring Sam Simmons obsessions. Searle had spent much of the war in a Japanese Flywheel and Frank Lazarus as Chico Marx as Emmanuel With: concentration camp where he documented the horrors he Ravelli Henry Paker encountered, and elaborate psychological points come through With Lorelei King, Graham Hoadly and Vincent Marzello. Sarah Kendall with concise and economic observation in his drawings. Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark Mike Wilmot With contributions from Steve Bell, Wendy Cope, Max Brisenden. Freya Parker Hastings, Mike Leigh, Chris Riddell, Martin Rowson, Gerald Music arranged and conducted by David Firman. Sound design by Craig Schuftan Scarfe and Posy Simmonds. Producer: Dirk Maggs Music by Craig Schuftan with Lani Bagley Produced by Melissa FitzGerald First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1991. Producers: Joseph Nunnery and Alexandra Smith A Blakeway production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in FRI 09:00 Funny You Should Ask (b0b4fbgc) A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in March 2016. From 13/08/1979 January 2017. FRI 07:00 The Lentil Sorters (b06pv0gx) Peter Jones hosts the entertainment quiz about comedy as he THU 23:45 The Future of Radio (b06ztw0r) Researcher Bias tests a panel of experts: Series 2 A sitcom set in the Office of Local and National Statistics Roy Hudd, Doris Hare and Dick Vosburgh recall memories of Bad Continuity which, depending on who you ask, is either where the real careers and comic colleagues. These programmes reveal the secret work of the Institute of power of government resides, or the place where fun goes to Funny You Should Ask ran for 8 series from 1976 to 1982. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 February 2020 Page 11 of 11 Questions compiled by Michael Pointon. Jenkyns ..... Sean Baker adventure story papers. With Peter Baynham. From September Producer: Bob Oliver Rogers Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes 1991. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1979. Ambrose ..... Iain Batchelor FRI 22:55 Comedy Club Extra (m000fvhg) FRI 09:30 Molesworth (m000fqk5) Nakshband Khan ..... Mozaffar Shafeie Ones to Watch... Home Life Hassan Gul ..... Sagar Arya Kemah Bob As a schoolboy Nigel Molesworth was a terror, but now grown Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. The UK-based American comedian Kemah Bob chats to BBC up, has he left flicking ink pellets behind? Stars William FRI 14:45 Steve Boggan - Gold Fever (b05vj0r4) Radio 4 Extra’s Comedy Club about The Guilty Feminist Rushton. Episode 5 podcast and reads the Shipping Forecast in a British accent. Many trillions of eons ago, Nigel Molesworth was The Curse of Gold - for centuries people have been entranced by the riches it FRI 23:00 Love in Recovery (b0742hlk) St Custards. He's come a long way since those days, and now promises, thousands have gone wild in their search for it, and Series 2 returns with his guide to modern life. since the Financial Crisis the price of gold has reached peaks Gillian Writer: Simon Brett never seen in history. All over the world, particularly in the US, Second series of the award-nominated comedy drama set in Based on characters created by: Geoffrey Willans people with no experience of prospecting began shopping for Alcoholics Anonymous, written by Pete Jackson and inspired Based on characters created by: Ronald Searle shovels, pickaxes, gold pans, tents, generators, and all manner by his own road to recovery. Stars Sue Johnston, John Hannah, Music: Oonagh Bernon of equipment they had no idea how to use. And off they went Eddie Marsan, Rebecca Front, Paul Kaye and Julia Deakin - Producer: Mark Robson mining. with Samantha Bond. Molesworth: William Rushton Steve Boggan decided to follow in their footsteps. In 2013 he Love in Recovery follows the lives of five very different Grimes: Clive Swift packed his bags and flew to San Francisco to join the 21st recovering alcoholics. Taking place entirely at their weekly Louise: Penelope Nice century's gold rush (the 'New 49ers') in a quest to understand meetings, we hear them moan, argue, laugh, fall apart, fall in Gillibrand: Robert Harley the allure of the metal – and maybe find a bit for himself too. love and - most importantly - tell their stories. Peason: Bob Sinfield He meets a selection of colourful characters - those who left In this second episode of the series, the group have a visitor Fotherington-Thomas: Phil Nice desk jobs and family life behind to work by the river in with a story to tell. Gillian (Samantha Bond) doesn't want to Arabella: Chrissy Roberts scorching heat and fresh mountain air, in the hope of striking it join their group, she doesn't want to wait her turn, she doesn't First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987. rich. Most of them only make enough money to scrape a living, even want a biscuit - she just wants to be listened to. FRI 10:00 Michael Punter - Come to Me (b0075685) but Steve is surprised how happy they seem to be. From them, Writer Pete Jackson is a recovering alcoholic and has spent time Theo Popplewell knows he must solve the riddle of his birth for he gets a crash course in small-scale prospecting. in Alcoholics Anonymous. It was there he found support from the sake of his survival in America, where he lives in Kansas. He also takes us back in time to the original gold rush, two the unlikeliest group of disparate souls - with one common But can the answers really lie in a crumbling house on the south centuries ago, tracing the path of the first intrepid 49ers (in bond. As well as offering the support he needed throughout a coast of England? particular, a woman called Sarah Royce and her family) who difficult time, AA also offered a weekly, sometimes daily, dose Michael Punter’s dark comedy stars John Guerrasio as Theo, abandoned their roots and trekked thousands of miles across of hilarity, upset, heartbreak and friendship. Avril Elgar as May, Jane Lapotaire as Greta, Michael perilous terrain, risking death for the chance of riches. There are lots of different kinds of AA meetings. Love in Troughton as Raymond and Patti Love as Winnie. Readers: Paul Ritter and Sara Markland Recovery is about meetings where people tell their stories. Director: Jane Morgan Abridged by Libby Spurrier There are funny stories, sad stories, stories of small victories First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. Producer: Joanna Green and milestones, stories of loss, stories of hope, and those stories FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000fqk8) A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 that you really shouldn't laugh at - but still do, along with the Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the FRI 15:00 Michael Punter - Come to Me (b0075685) storyteller. people who make them. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Written and created by Pete Jackson FRI 12:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jsl5) FRI 16:00 Funny You Should Ask (b0b4fbgc) Producer/Director: Ben Worsfield [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. FRI 12:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and FRI 16:30 Molesworth (m000fqk5) FRI 23:30 Dave Podmore (b007jyjh) Flywheel (b0081b4j) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Dave Podmore's Cricket Night [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 17:00 The Lentil Sorters (b06pv0gx) Episode 1 FRI 13:00 Deep Six (m000fqk2) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] The player's ambitions to make money on the after-dinner [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 17:30 Reluctant Persuaders (m0000mmf) speaker circuit are scuppered. Stars Chris Douglas. From April FRI 13:30 'Down With Skool': The Art of Molesworth [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] 2004. (b074x71x) FRI 18:00 HG Wells - The Invisible Man (m000fqkb) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] 5. Dr Kemp's Visitor FRI 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald: The Lost Stories (b08sqwjc) The invisible man reveals his identity to a shocked fellow Salute to Lucy and Elsie student. Stuart Milligan reads 'Salute to Lucy and Elsie', a previously Unimaginable power and wealth seem to be at his command unpublished story about honour, morals and the gulf between when Griffin, a talented young physicist, discovers a potion that generations taken from a new collection of work by F. Scott makes him invisible to other men. But the drug has deadly side- Fitzgerald. effects and Griffin is unable to prepare an antidote. Romance, parties, cocktails and glamour - as a young writer in Read by Stephen Murray. the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald gave the magazines what they Producer Gordon House. wanted. He had little choice; short stories were his bread and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1976. butter. But as the author matured he yearned to explore darker FRI 18:15 Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black (b00qzjrd) territory. This desire wasn't cushioned by wealth; The Great Escape Gatsby hadn't sold well and as the Depression crunched in the Dramatisation by Caroline Harrington of Hilary Mantel's early 30s, Fitzgerald was hit by large medical bills for both blackly comic novel about a professional medium with a himself and his wife Zelda. Despite the financial pressures he troubled past. resisted the easy censorship requested by editors, who balked at Alison's disgusting spirit guide Morris has been joined by Fitzgerald's portrayal of confusing generational freedoms, sex Donny Aitkenside, one of the violent group of petty criminals before marriage, divorce and working women. who were in and out of the house all through Alison's abusive Growing increasingly uncompromising about deletions and childhood. Alison knows the other members of the spirit gang sanitisations, Fitzgerald preferred to let these stories lie in wait can't be far behind, and decides the only way to escape them is until their time came. They are published now in the collection to move to a new house where they won't want to follow her. I'D DIE FOR YOU: AND OTHER LOST STORIES. Her assistant Colette locates a suitable new development, and Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. the move has the desired effect: Morris hates it, and announces FRI 14:15 Friends & Foes - A Narrative History of he's leaving. At long last, Alison thinks, she's free. Diplomacy (b08drjdx) Alison ...... Alison Steadman The Revolution Will Be Tweeted Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero Professor David Rothkopf explores how cyber diplomacy is Morris ...... Bill Wallis leading to the emergence of a new diplomatic doctrine. Emmie ...... Katharine Rogers Digital diplomacy has become an indispensable communication Aitkenside ...... Simon Armstrong tool for governments. Twitter is now used by heads of state and Directed by Sara Davies. governments in 173 countries. More than half of the world's FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b0076t2d) foreign ministries are now active on social media. Its use is now The Power of the Voice part and parcel of any diplomatic training for ambassadors and Matthew Parris and his guests Peggy Reynolds, Pauline Black diplomats. and Stewart Pearce discuss how your voice can shape your Professor Rothkopf examines the birth of this new cultural everyday life. From August 2005. ecosystem, where every individual in planet is connected for the FRI 19:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jsl5) first time in a new frontier which is transforming the way our [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] politics, economics, security and diplomacy are conducted. He FRI 19:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and speaks with Alec Ross, Hillary Clinton's Senior Advisor for Flywheel (b0081b4j) Innovation when she was Secretary of State, and Jane Holl- [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Lute, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland FRI 20:00 Deep Six (m000fqk2) Security from 2009 to 2013. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] A Kati Whitaker production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in FRI 20:30 'Down With Skool': The Art of Molesworth 2017. (b074x71x) FRI 14:30 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions (b00yqn7f) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Episode 20 FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000fqk8) M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Catherine. The Guides' heroic last stand at the British Mission FRI 22:00 Reluctant Persuaders (m0000mmf) in Kabul is watched helplessly by an imprisoned Ash. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi FRI 22:30 The Harpoon (b007lnx3) Ash ..... Blake Ritson Series 1 Cavagnari ..... Sam Dale Episode 4 Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker A veritable fascinating feast from the nostalgic spoof of boys' Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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