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Radio 4 Extra Listings for 14 – 20 April 2018 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 14 APRIL 2018 of some extraordinary independent blind women. Stanley Baxter is the guard who rules over the passengers and Peter says, 'I'm used to people describing me as disabled. Fair the timetable with a rod of iron, and he's joined by Beth SAT 00:00 The Scarifyers (b085zygs) enough, I can't see. But I do wonder sometimes whether putting Marshall and David Mara as Scotland Yard's finest and Cathy The King of Winter, Episode 4 me into a disabled category really makes much sense. Some of Sara as a passenger with a secret. As the snow sets in, MI:13's Harry Crow and Professor Dunning my best friends use wheelchairs, but the truth is our needs could Written by Rona Munro race to save Prince George from the homicidal intentions of hardly be more different. I fall over them, they run over me! Directed by Marilyn Imrie Lord Blackthorn - and can they save Great Britain from But over the last 40 years, disabled people have needed a A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. everlasting winter? collective identity to make change possible, to break down SAT 05:30 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (b09yfqst) Stars David Warner as Harry Crow and Terry Molloy as discrimination in jobs, transport, in people's attitudes generally. Hexagonal Phase, Episode 6 Professor Dunning. People have tended to think that this sense of collective identity Simon Jones stars as Arthur Dent in a brand new full-cast series With Guy Henry, Stephen Critchlow, David Benson, Alex in Britain began after the First World War, when so many men based on And Another Thing..., the sixth book in the famous Lowe, Lisa Bowerman and David Bickerstaff. returned with very visible injuries. But the evidence I've Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy. The Scarifyers follows the exploits of 1930s ghost-story writer uncovered making this series reveals it to have begun much Forty years on from the first ever radio series of The Professor Dunning and retired policeman Harry Crow, who earlier. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent and friends together investigate weird mysteries under the auspices of top- This evidence comes from new research into the lives of blind return to be thrown back into the Whole General Mish Mash, in secret government department MI:13. women in the 19th century. We hear the stories of two a rattling adventure involving Viking Gods and Irish Written by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris. extraordinary women who fought the conventions of their time, Confidence Tricksters, with our first glimpse of Eccentrica A Bafflegab Production. Adele Husson and Hippolyte van Lendegem. Independent, Gallumbits and a brief but memorable moment with The SAT 00:30 Mastertapes (b01p40hr) critical, angry - their voices are very modern, and research into Ravenous Bugblatter Beast Of Traal. Series 1, Ray Davies (the B-Side) their lives challenges accepted wisdom about the history of the Starring John Lloyd as The Book, with Simon Jones as Arthur, John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks to disability movement. Geoff McGivern as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod leading performers and songwriters about the album that made With historians Selina Mills, David Turner and Julie Anderson, Beeblebrox, Sandra Dickinson and Susan Sheridan as Trillian, them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at and readings by Emily Bevan and Madeleine Brolly. Jim Broadbent as Marvin the Paranoid Android and Jane the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition includes two Producer: Elizabeth Burke Horrocks as Fenchurch. The cast also includes Samantha Béart, episodes, with John initially quizzing the artist about the album Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University Toby Longworth, Andy Secombe, Ed Byrne, Lenny Henry, in question, and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. Philip Pope, Mitch Benn, Jon Culshaw and Professor Stephen questions. Both editions feature exclusive live performances. SAT 02:30 Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy (b09yhpyt) Hawking. Programme 5, the B-side. Having discussed the making of two Born at Last The series is written and directed by Dirk Maggs and based on classic Kinks albums, 'Lola Versus Powerman and The After the disaster of Tristram's birth, his father thinks up a And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer, with additional Moneygoround, Part One' and 'Muswell Hillbillies' (in the A- scheme to help his unfortunate son. Stars Neil Dudgeon. From unpublished material by Douglas Adams. side of the programme, broadcast on Tuesday 27th November February 2005. Music by Philip Pope and available online), Ray Davies responds to questions from SAT 02:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service Production research by Kevin Jon Davies the audience and performs acoustic live versions of some to the (b07bq049) Written and directed by Dirk Maggs tracks from the albums, both of which were released more than Episode 10 Based on the novel And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer, with forty years ago. Battling the evil Blofeld, Bond joins forces with Draco. All additional material by Douglas Adams Producer: Paul Kobrak. looks plain sailing for 007 and Tracy. Concluded by Joanna Recorded at The Soundhouse Ltd by Gerry O'Riordan SAT 01:00 MJ McGrath - White Heat (b01ntrgb) Lumley. From November 1989. Sound Design by Dirk Maggs Exhumation SAT 03:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure (b007jq5z) Produced by Dirk Maggs, Helen Chattwell and David Morley On the trail of a clue which Inuit hunter and guide Edie has We Wronged No Man A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. found in stepson Joe's bedroom, she returns with Derek and Sue can no longer go on living with Phillotson as his wife, and SAT 06:00 The Barchester Chronicles (b03s6jtx) Willa to his burial place on Craig Island - and they disinter his elopes with Jude, who's now free of Arabella. Anthony Trollope's The Warden body. Sue, however, is intensely fearful of further entanglements, and Anthony Trollope's The Warden, dramatised by Michael What they find there leads them to a resolution of the mystery cannot but see Jude's natural feelings for her in a brutal, Symmons Roberts of his death which they could never have imagined possible. barbaric light.... The Warden is the first story in a series of dramatisations of Concluded by Denise Gough. Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles. White Heat is Essex born MJ McGrath's first novel. Abridged North. The gentle Mr Harding finds his peaceful life disrupted when by Polly Coles. Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, Elizabeth Garvie as his would be son-in-law John Bold calls into question the large Producer: Clive Brill Sue Bridehead, June Barrie as Widow Edlin, Elva Makins as income he receives as warden of Barchester alms house. Mr Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pacificus Productions. Arabella, Hazel Ellerby as Annie, Jesse Lawrence as Father Harding's daughter Eleanor is equally shocked and upset by her SAT 01:30 Arthur Mee - Encyclopaedist (b00cdr0g) Time, John Linstrum as Dr Vilbert, Barrie Shore as the Rough suitor's actions and she sets out to discover why the man she The story of Arthur Mee, the prolific educationalist, editor and Woman and Jerold Wells as the Auctioneer. loves wants to injure someone as well respected and loved as writer whose Children's Encyclopaedia and Children's Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller. her mild mannered father. Newspaper were bought by millions throughout the first half of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986. Mrs Baxter .... Maggie Steed the 20th century. SAT 04:00 It's Your Round (b018g279) Mr Harding .... Tim Pigott-Smith Many children remember fondly the place it occupied on their Series 2, Episode 1 Bishop Grantly .... Andrew Sachs shelves and their knowledge of the world and other cultures The first in a new series in which the panellists bring their own Eleanor .... Claire Price came in large part filtered through the eclectic and eccentric round for the other panellists to play. John Bold .... Bryan Dick lens of Mee's encyclopaedia - Mee was staunchly Christian, Angus Deayton presides over a panel of comedians - Miles Archdeacon Grantly .... Malcolm Sinclair patriotic, imperialist and, to present day readers, a racist as well Jupp, Fred MacAulay, Josie Long and Nick Helm - all trying to Susan Grantly .... Charlotte Emmerson as an energetic campaigner for the temperance movement. beat each other at their own games. Mary Bold .... Georgie Fuller Ian Sansom interviews Mee's biographer Maisie Robson, Featured rounds: Bunce .... Sean Murray publishers who have lovingly curated a huge backlist of Arthur Miles Jupp's 'Test Match Specialists', a quiz using the rules and Abel Handy .... Nick Brimble Mee titles and people who grew up with his encyclopaedia in regulations of the 'world's finest sport' (Miles' words) Tom Towers .... David Seddon pride of place on their bookshelves. Fred MacAulay's 'Play Your Various Different Categories Directed by Susan Roberts SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b08lk54g) Right', like 'Play Your Cards Right', but with other variables Produced by Charlotte Riches Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent, Episode 10 such as Scottish landmarks, household accident statistics, Radio The Barchester Chronicles are Anthony Trollope's much-loved Sarah Perry's award-winning novel set at the end of the 4 presenter's heights and, er, the song 'Do They Know It's series of witty, gently satirical stories of provincial life set nineteenth century and inspired by true events.