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Radio 4 Extra Listings for 20 – 26 May 2017 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 20 MAY 2017 A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. SAT 04:30 No Commitments (b007cnzv) Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. SAT 00:00 Ted Chiang - Understand (b007scyn) Series 13, Blue RabbitsComedy series by Simon Brett following Producer: Tom Ronald Episode 4Reynolds and Leon prepare for a battle of minds. Who the fortunes of three fortysomething sisters. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1958. will survive? The climax of Ted Chiang©s thriller read by Rhashan 5/6. Blue Rabbits SAT 13:00 The Kneebone Bonanza - Omnibus (b01rky6l) Stone. A generational conflict erupts over how a baby©s nursery should A mysterious American turns up at Scrap Metal and Haulage. A SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b036k8v8) be decorated. Meanwhile, has Charlotte finally found true love? wry Cornish comedy by Carl Grose. Stars Alex Tregear. Series 16, Rodrigo©s Concierto de Aranjuez for GuitarWritten by Anna ...... Rosemary Leach SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b08r40fk) Joaquin Rodrigo in 1939, the Concierto de Aranjuez is a guitar Victoria ...... Angela Thorne David RodiganDJ David Rodigan chooses ©You Don©t Have To classic. It was written amid the chaos of the Spanish Civil War, Charlotte ...... Felicity Montagu Say You Love Me© by Dusty Springfield and ©Feeling Soul© by and in circumstances of poverty and personal tragedy. This Emily ...... Lisa Coleman Bob Andy. programme explores how the piece touches and changes people©s Eddie ...... James Green SAT 14:15 Frankly Speaking (b05s8j39) lives. Nick ...... Kieran Hill Brian EpsteinBrian Epstein, 29 year old manager of the Beatles The composer©s daughter Cecilia Rodrigo explains how the blind Patrick ...... Michael Simkins. talks about his life to Bill Grundy. composer was inspired by the fountains and gardens of the palace SAT 05:00 Boogie Up the River (b007jv65) He was a quiet, well-spoken public schoolboy, RADA student, of Aranjuez. Nelício Faria de Sales recounts an unforgettable I©ll See You on Tower Pier at 11Mark Wallington and hellish from a very comfortably-off Liverpool family. But knowing performance deep inside one of Brazil©s largest caves, while hound Boogie quest to find the source of the Thames. Stars nothing of the world of pop - how did Epstein find himself in the David B Katague remembers how the piece got him through a Timothy Spall. From December 1992. world of agents and impresarios? difficult period of separation from his family in the Philippines. SAT 05:30 Wordaholics (b04fzc7p) As well as the Beatles, he represented other artistes including Guitarist Craig Ogden explains the magic of the piece for a Series 3, Episode 1The return of the work-obsessed panel game. Cilla Black. Three years after this interview, Brian Epstein performer, and actor Simon Callow recalls how hearing the piece Comedians Lloyd Langford, Holly Walsh, Paul Sinha and Natalie tragically died at the age of 32, after reportedly taking his own was a formative experience for him during his schooldays, when Haynes join Gyles Brandreth for the panel game about words that life. it turned rural Berkshire into a piece of Spain. will make you laugh your socks off. Launched in 1952, Frankly Speaking was a completely novel and Producer: Melvin Rickarby. On this week©s show Lloyd Langford delicately tells us whey ground breaking BBC series. Initially there were three SAT 01:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan (b01ms576) avocados are called avocados; Natalie Haynes explains what the interviewers and the series was both unrehearsed and unscripted. PreparationHunter has tasked Callan to kill German businessman modern term astroturfing is; Paul Sinha unlocks the meaning pf First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1964. Rudolf Schneider. Now all he needs is a gun from Lonely. the German word handschuhsanbalwerfer and Holly Walsh shares SAT 14:45 Marriott©s Monologues (b00sp3xq) Read by Ben Miles. her favourite example of prison slang. Peter GoodwrightPeter Goodwright treats us to a perilous voyage Originally published in 1969 under the title ©A Magnum for The panel also suggest words that don©t yet exist, but should. on the Runcorn Ferry courtesy of Marriott Edgar. Schneider©, James Mitchell©s novel tells the story of his infamous What could they mean by ©a Clarkson©, ©messcalation©, ©trage© and SAT 15:00 Something Is Terribly Wrong (b0076hxp) TV character, David Callan (originally played by Edward ©appointmentia©? [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Woodward) and features the other regulars, Hunter, Meres and Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle. SAT 16:00 The Forsyte Saga (b06z0ybl) Lonely. Producer: Claire Jones. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Abridged by Adrian Bean SAT 06:00 The Forsyte Saga (b06z0ybl) SAT 17:30 Hardeep©s Sunday Lunch (b01nx3ph) Producer: Joanna Green The Forsytes, Episode 1From the novels of John Galsworthy [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions. Dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna SAT 18:00 Doctor Who (b08r41ft) SAT 01:30 Classic Toys (b0075fz2) Of all his beautiful possessions, wealthy solicitor Soames Forsyte Leviathan, Episode 1When the TARDIS materializes near a castle From Sindy to Scalextric, Emma Freud explores the yo-yoing considers his wife, Irene, the most beautiful. Why then does she in a sinister medieval society, the Doctor and Peri befriend Gurth, fortunes of children©s toys in the playroom and market place. want separate bedrooms? a terrified youth who is attempting to flee the village.... From December 1998. Original music composed by Neil Brand An adventure originally written for the BBC©s Doctor Who TV SAT 02:00 15 Minute Drama (b01sjn57) Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow series but never made. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Country CookBy Anne The first dramatisation of all 9 books in John Galsworthy©s The Colin Baker stars as the Sixth Doctor. Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz Forsyte Saga. An epic tale of sex, money and power in the lives With Nicola Bryant as Peri, Howard Gossington as Gurth, John Episode Five - The Country Cook of an upper middle-class family in London, it spans 50 years from Banks as Herne the Hunter, Beth Chalmers as Althya, Jamie Cody©s obsession with his brother Ezra©s fiancee, country girl 1886 to 1936. Parker as Wulfric and Derek Carlyle as Siward. Ruth, becomes a determined campaign. SAT 07:30 Hardeep©s Sunday Lunch (b01nx3ph) Written by Brian and Paul Finch Director: David Hunter. Series 1, Episode 1Hardeep Singh Kohli travels around the Director: Ben Bentley. SAT 02:15 Life at 24 Frames a Second (b00xhfg3) country cooking Sunday lunch with families and communities, Made by Big Finish and reversioned for broadcast by BBC Radio You Must Remember ThisDavid Thomson, author of The introducing some of his favourite recipes, learning about their 4 Extra. Biographical Dictionary of Film, continues his idiosyncratic food and hearing some amazing stories. In the first programme in SAT 19:00 Miranda Hart: From Hampshire to Hollywood journey through the collective dream of cinema. Episode 5: You this 6 part series Hardeep meets Avril and Ron Head. Over the (b08r3xx1) Must Remember This. "Every movie is about time passing away last 30 years they have dedicated much of their lives to caring for [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] children and in particular those with special medical needs. As and memory trying to say it was a story." SAT 22:00 The Ape That Got Lucky (b008039f) well as having 3 children of their own they have adopted two Producer: Mark Burman. Language and CommunicationChris Addison©s spoof lectures children and fostered 138. At a time when foster carers are SAT 02:30 Ladies of Letters (b012211j) exploring human evolution. With Geoffrey McGivern as increasingly in short supply for the growing number of children Ladies of Letters Go Green, Episode 5The floating Malaysian Professor Austin Herring. From August 2005. who need care, Avril and Ron talk about how the values and wedding ends in chaos. Can the Ladies ever be reconciled? With SAT 22:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b01rl1y3) beliefs that underpin their approach to fostering. As Hardeep Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. Series 2, With guests Matt Lucas and Liane CarrollNew series of cooks them Sunday lunch he hears the story of how they became SAT 02:45 Writing at the Kitchen Table (b0075smk) the comedy show hosted by Alex Horne and his five piece band foster carers and the highs and lows they have experienced over Episode 5Writer Elizabeth Clark suffers a collapse and opens a and specially written, original music. Guests across this series the years. cookware shop. Helena Bonham Carter concludes Artemis include Phill Jupitus, Charlie Baker, Nick Mohammed, Doc Producer: Amanda Hancox Cooper©s biography. Brown, Matt Lucas and Danny Baker. Dawn Bryan. SAT 03:00 The Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Marjoribanks This sixth episode explores the theme of the four seasons. Guest SAT 08:00 Something Is Terribly Wrong (b0076hxp) (b00l60zl) starring Matt Lucas who performs some songs with the band and "Something is Terribly Wrong" - the chilling words spoken by a Lucilla©s RevolutionLucilla Marjoribanks, a large and determined jazz singer Liane Carroll who is conducted by Alex with the aid radio reporter when President John F Kennedy was shot. girl, returns from school with one purpose in life - to be a comfort of a ping pong ball. Using vivid archive material, Alan Thompson charts the to her recently widowed father - and to avoid all proposals of Host .... Alex Horne confusion and shock as the unbelievable was confirmed. marriage..