Radio 4 Extra Listings for 4 – 10 January 2020 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 04 JANUARY 2020 Rice, Who Researches and Plays Little-Known Renaissance Music, Jason Slater
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Radio 4 Extra Listings for 4 – 10 January 2020 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 04 JANUARY 2020 Rice, who researches and plays little-known renaissance music, Jason Slater ...... Michael Begley investigates Henry VIII's musical abilties. Did he really Ned ...... Joe Caffrey SAT 00:00 Doctor Who (b08fjg55) compose 'Greensleeves' and other pieces attributed to him? He Hoskins ...... Kenneth Alan Taylor Serpent Crest was certainly a patron of music, appreciating visits from foreign Lord Belport ...... Mark Chatterton Survivors in Space, part 2/2 musicians and expanding the royal musical household. Dr Rice Millicent ...... Julia Rounthwaite The Fourth Doctor and Mrs Wibbsey finally track down the introduces music from the period, recently recorded by the Henry ...... James Nickerson hamlet of Hexford, just as the Skishtari Egg is about to hatch... Brabant Ensemble. He is joined by the Elizabeth Kenny, one of Highwayman ...... Toby Hadoke Tom Baker stars as the Fourth Doctor. the UK's leading lutenists, and together they demonstrate how Duke of Cranmere ...... John Craig Conclusion of Paul Magrs’ five-story adventure, the repertoire reflects Henry's personal concerns, his poltical Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas. The Doctor ...... Tom Baker outlook, his religious convictions and his practical abilities as a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003. Mrs Wibbsey ...... Susan Jameson musician and composer. SAT 05:30 There Was A Young Fellow Named Palin The Visitor ...... David Troughton SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b085yyzf) (m0001rzj) Mike Yates ...... Richard Franklin Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey Michael Palin, Britain’s nicest man, is probably Britain’s busiest Deirdre ...... Nerys Hughes Episode 10 man too, which might explain why he’s asked James Peak to Tish ...... Joanna Tope Catherine returns to her home after her abrupt dismissal from step in and write him some limericks. Reverend Tongue ...... Cornelius Garrett Northanger Abbey. Will she ever know what she did wrong and Limericks are the simplest of verse forms - only five lines, a bit Lucius ...... Sam Hoare more importantly will she ever see Henry Tilney again? of rhyming, and half of the first line "There once was a..." is Producer: Kate Thomas Jane Austen's satire pokes fun at the popular sensationalist already written for you. Made by BBC Audio and reversioned for broadcast by BBC fiction of the day. It's child’s play you’d think - but writing a really good limerick Radio 4 Extra. Catherine ..... Georgia Groome is not as easy as it sounds. SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b0076qjx) Henry ..... Luke Thompson Join Michael and James for a ridiculous half hour that proves, Animal Lovers Mrs Morland ..... Alison Belbin once and for all, that if you want something doing properly you Matthew Parris, Gerard Baker, Manda Scott and Hugh Mr Morland ..... John Bowler should do it yourself. Thomson discuss our relationship with animals. From February Harriet ..... Keziah Joseph With thanks to the National Poetry Library at the Southbank 2005. George ..... Luke MacGregor Centre. SAT 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jxgg) The Book ..... Miriam Margolyes Window Cleaner ….. Harriet Carmichael One, Two Buckle My Shoe Directed by Sally Avens Limerick Expert ….. Chris McCabe (as himself) Episode 5 By Jane Austen Written by Michael Palin and James Peak. With a killer still at large, the Belgian detective finds inspiration Dramatised by Hattie Naylor Producers: Andre Jacquemin and James Peak in the words of a psalm sung by the village church choir. SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b04vqvbq) A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4 Conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit starring John Moffatt Ian Bostridge - Schubert's Winter Journey SAT 06:00 Saturday Drama (b00vv0n7) as Hercule Poirot. Episode 5 Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. Literature, religion and the hurdy-gurdy man. Internationally Ten guests are separately invited to an island by a person none Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt acclaimed tenor Ian Bostridge concludes his exploration of of them knows very well, if at-all. When they arrive, it seems Chief Inspector Japp ...... Philip Jackson Schubert's existential masterpiece Winterreise, Winter's they have all been invited for different reasons. Nothing quite Frank Carter ...... Dominic Colchester Journey. adds up. Alistair Blunt ...... Philip Franks Strange old man, An anonymous voice accuses each of them of having murdered Jane Olivera ...... Amanda Waring Should I go with you? someone. By the end of the first night, one of the guests is dead. Mr Barnes ...... Patrick Godfrey Will you to my songs Stranded by a violent storm and tormented by the nursery Howard Raikes ...... Robert Portal Play your hurdy-gurdy? rhyme 'Ten Little Soldier Boys', the ten guests fear for their Original music composed by Tom Smail. Written and read by Ian Bostridge lives. Who is the killer? Is it one of them? Director: Enyd Williams Abridged by Laurence Wareing Agatha Christie's famous detective story without a detective. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004. Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. First published in 1939. SAT 01:30 The Shipwrecked Bears (b012r6tt) SAT 03:00 Charles Dickens (b01b3fqd) Vera Claythorne ...... Lyndsey Marshal 3,000 teddy bears went missing in 1903, supposedly en route Little Dorrit Cyril ...... Harry Child for New York from their native Germany. Episode 5 Captain Lombard ...... Alex Wyndham Bear expert and storyteller-par-excellence Gyles Brandreth After her father's death Little Dorrit is still in Italy when the Emily Brent ...... Joanna Monro attempts to discover what really happened to these earliest toy newly-married Fanny has a strange visit from Mr Merdle. Dr Armstrong ...... Sean Baker bears. Arthur is struck by disaster and Mrs Clennam is forced to reveal Mr Justice Wargrave ...... Geoffrey Whitehead In 1902 the first ever toy bear was designed in Germany by the family secret at last. Anthony Marston ...... Lloyd Thomas Richard Steiff: Bär 55 PB, a lifelike bear with joints, a humped Conclusion of Charles Dickens's masterpiece of social satire Mr Blore ...... Sam Dale back and a snout. A New York toy company placed an order at and imprisonment. Narracott ...... Adeel Akhtar the Leipzig Toy Fair in 1903 for 3,000 of the novelties to be Starring Sir Ian McKellen as Charles Dickens. General MacArthur ...... John Rowe ready in time for the Christmas market. The bears were made Recorded on location in London. Mr Rogers ...... Wayne Foskett and packed up for shipment, but there is no record of them Charles Dickens ...... Ian McKellen Mrs Rogers ...... Sally Orrock reaching their destination and none of this load of US-bound Arthur Clennam ...... Julian Wadham Hugo ...... Henry Devas bears has ever been found. Mrs Clennam ...... Margaret Tyzack Gramophone Voice ...... Jude Akuwudike The templates, patterns and even photos of this bear exist but Little Dorrit ...... Jasmine Hyde Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson. not even one sample was kept. One popular explanation is that Fanny Dorrit ...... Indira Varma 'And Then There Were None' was named the world's favourite there was a shipwreck and the bears had a watery end. All that John Chivery ...... Ben Crowe Agatha Christie novel in a poll in September 2015. is certain is that if one of these bears turned up now it would be Flintwinch ...... Ioan Meredith Director: Mary Peate 'open chequebook' time for certain museums and collectors. Mr Pancks ...... Philip Joseph First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. Witty, magical and heart-warming, the documentary reveals Mr Doyce ...... Jonathan Keeble SAT 07:30 Beyond Today - The 2010s (m000d69w) fascinating detail behind the making of the bears, including a Mr Merdle ...... Kenneth Cranham The Beyond Today podcast listens in on the big moments, trip to the Steiff factory and a rifle through their detailed Chivery ...... Gordon Reid memes, and the music that defined a decade. archives, as Gyles delights us with this little-known story, and Dramatised by Doug Lucie. Producer: Seren Jones imagines where water-logged bears might have washed up. Music by Mia Soteriou Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery Director: Janet Whitaker Editor: John Shields First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2011. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2001. SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (m0001cwc) SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b06c4l24) SAT 04:00 The Food Quiz (b0076mtq) Elvis Presley Comeback Special Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay Series 2 Paul Morley tells a parallel story of Elvis and America, from the Episode 5 Episode 3 vantage point of the King's finest hour in 1968. Amory begins a new chapter, and a new relationship, in New Journalist and food critic, Jay Rayner gives four contestants a "I've got to do this sooner or later," Elvis says sheepishly, "so I York. good grilling on their knowledge of food and drink. may as well do it now." William Boyd's novel follows one remarkable woman through What's a fucivore's favourite food? How is porridge And so the 1968 Comeback Special begins: his quiff defying the decades of the 20th century. traditionally eaten? Which wine writer had a bit part in a gravity and his leather jumpsuit chafing, as he bursts into an In 1915, Amory’s uncle unknowingly sets her life on its course Hollywood blockbuster? elemental rendition of Heartbreak Hotel. It had been one of his when he gives her a Kodak Brownie No 2 as a present for her Chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, food writers Anissa Helou first singles thirteen years before, initially recorded when he seventh birthday, igniting a lifelong passion for photography. and Sue Lawrence and greengrocer Charlie Hicks chew over was still a teenager living in the Jim Crow South at the Her camera will take her from high society London in the 1920s these culinary conundrums.