Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 October – 2 November 2012 Page 1 of 7 SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 Benedict. Richard Mills - a vulnerable old man - is attacked and burgled. SAT 05:00 Old Dog and Partridge (b007w3j9) He seems lonely so Detective Inspector Gwen Danbury decides SAT 00:00 Philip K Dick - Of Withered Apples (b007jplz) Episode 4 to introduce him to her mother, Joan... As a beautiful woman picks its last withered apple, a dying A ladykiller woos Mrs Drummond and Nicola is determined to Sue Rodwell's three-part detective mystery stars Annette ancient tree is determined to survive. Read by William find the right present for her dad Jack's birthday. Badland as DI Gwen Danbury, Stephanie Cole as Joan Danbury, Hootkins. Joe Turner’s six-part sitcom stars Michael Williams as Jack, Ian Hogg as Richard Mills, Richard Frame as Darren Peters and SAT 00:30 Ben Moor - Undone (b00pkvk9) Lisa Coleman as Nicola, Cherry Morris as Mrs Drummond, John Duttine as Detective Sergeant Henry Jacobs Series 3 Simon Greenall as Andy and Finetime Fontayne as Arthur. Director: Rosemary Watts Unending Producer: Liz Anstee First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. The Notting Hill Carnival sees the potential end of the worlds First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999. SAT 14:00 Listen to Les (b01nh8zx) and new weirdness. Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga with Alex SAT 05:30 Up the Garden Path (b00803k9) From 10/03/1985 Tregear. Series 2 Les Dawson with tales of Britain's first space hero, and the SAT 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (b00kkdkp) Arrivals and Departures Cosmo show discusses birds. The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger Izzy has escaped from the clutches of the adulterous Michael With Daphne Oxenford, Eli Woods and Colin Edwynn. A long-buried secret induces pity and sorrow in the Great and spent the past year on a teachers' exchange scheme in San Music by Brian Fitzgerald. Detective. Francisco, where she shared a flat with the adoring but Scripted and produced by James Casey. Holmes and Watson learn the truth about the death of a lion unappealing Dick. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1985. tamer many years before, which left his wife horribly mutilated As they fly home, Izzy feels her life is more than usually up in SAT 14:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlqh) and hidden behind a veil. A tale of abuse and revenge fuelled by the air. Series 3 the ultimate betrayal of a lover and the physical and emotional Tumbling from one love entanglement to another, 30 something Without Prejudice scars it has left behind. teacher Izzy Comyn has a predilection for inappropriate men. Harold persuades Albert to leave their rag and bone yard to Taken from 'The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes' published in Imelda Staunton stars as Izzy. move out to suburbia. 1927 some years after Holmes' death at the hands of Moriarty, An 8-part radio sequel adapted from Sue Limb’s 1984 novel. Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as this a story from the latter period of Sherlock Holmes The second of 3 series which ran from 1987 to 1993. Granada Harold. With Edward Kelsey, Garrard Green and Trevor mysteries. also adapted the series for ITV. Martin. Read by James Nickerson. Izzy ...... Imelda Staunton Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association Producer: Joanne Reardon Dick ...... Mike Grady with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2004. Maria ...... Marty Cruickshan wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. SAT 01:30 Inspector Barlach - The Judge and his Hangman Michael ...... Nicholas Le Prevost The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring (b01nj2x5) Louise ...... Phyllida Nash the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold Episode 5 Aunt Vinny ...... Rosemary Martin and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. The surprising truth about Schmied's murder is revealed. Charles ...... David Robb Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Bernard Hepton concludes Friedrich Dürrenmatt's novella. Producer: Jonathan James-Moore Gale Pedrick. SAT 01:45 Dick Barton Special Agent - The Paris First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1988. Produced by Bobby Jaye Adventure (b01nj2x7) SAT 06:00 Don Taylor - Underworld (b008wd17) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1971. Episode 20 Harry is out of work. Myra is worried about money and Ted is SAT 15:00 The Frankie Howerd Variety Show (b007jr40) In a thrilling climax, our heroes find themselves off the coast of worried about Socialism. Harry decides to retreat to his study, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] France as Spider's plan plays out. Stars Douglas Kelly. to translate Virgil book six, the famous visit to the Underworld. SAT 16:00 Don Taylor - Underworld (b008wd17) SAT 02:00 Bristow (b00cbcpg) But then the broom cupboard opens and 17th century poet John [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Series 1 Milton appears, to take him on a very particular journey... SAT 17:30 Meet David Sedaris (b01ng26n) Fair Shares Don Taylor's inventive drama stars Stephen Moore as Harry, Series 3 Takeover tangles as Bristow learns that Chester Perry is making Sara Kestelman as Myra, Jack Shepherd as Ted, Michael Put a Lid on It a takeover bid for the firm across the street. Pennington as Milton, Oliver Ford Davies as Philosopher, Paul The multi-award winning American essayist brings more of his He thinks that if he surreptitiously invests in rivals Miles and Daneman as the Chairman, David King as Virgil, Cathy Sara as wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 with a series of audience Rudge, he can make a mint... Chloe, Walter Sparrow as Dad, Neville Jason as Mark and Tom readings. This week we encounter his sister, Tiffany, in a story Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the Chester-Perry buying Bevan as John. called "Put A Lid On It" and hear some more extracts from his clerk. He is but a small cog in a gigantic wheel... and he knows Producer: Jeremy Howe diaries. it. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. Producer: Steve Doherty Adapted from by Frank Dickens from his famous newspaper SAT 07:30 Fowles in Dorset (b00x7frz) A Boom Pictures Cymru production for BBC Radio 4. cartoon strip. Syndicated internationally, it ran for 51 years Chris Ledgard explores a series of previously unheard SAT 18:00 Mike Walker - Alpha (b0080p6l) from 1961. recordings of the novelist John Fowles at work during his time An all-knowing computer appears to have an independent life Bristow ...... Michael Williams as the curator of Lyme Regis Museum. of its own - an abomination for those who believe in a supreme Jones ...... Rodney Bewes The recordings, made in 1978 with some of the oldest residents creator. Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan of Lyme Regis, provide a fascinating record of Dorset life in Father Marquez is sent to interrogate ‘Alpha’ to decide whether Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman the early 20th century, including fishermen recalling the sinking or not it can be allowed to exist. During their conversations, Fudge ...... Jon Glover of HMS Formidable off Lyme in 1915. Marquez finds out far more than he expects about both Alpha Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey Former colleagues talk about working with Folwes and give an and - much more disturbingly - himself... Prunella Peach ...... Carol Starks insight into how his reputation amongst those who knew him Mike Walker’s chilling drama won Gold at the Sony Radio Fred Stokes ...... David Battley well in Lyme compared to his public persona. Academy Awards 2001. Post Boy ...... Simon Schatzberger SAT 08:00 The Frankie Howerd Variety Show (b007jr40) Stars David Calder as Father Marquez, Sarah-Jane Holm as Music: John Whitehall From 24/10/1978 Alpha, John Moffatt as Cardinal Correlli, Ana Sofrenovia as Producer: Neil Cargill Frankie Howerd receives Meals On Wheels by mistake and Katerina, Daniel O'Grady as Tom and Lexi Ross as Sophia. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1999. proves guilty of doing jury service... Original music composed and played by David Chilton. SAT 02:30 Snap (b00tvql2) Plus stars from the world of entertainment - Acker Bilk, Brian Producer: Gordon House Series 2 Coshall, Lois Lane and Alan J Bartley. First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 2001. Episode 4 Music from the Max Harris Orchestra SAT 19:00 Some of Our Archives Were Missing (b0089b35) A problem aired is a problem shared, but will Ryan find a way Scripted by Rory McGrath, Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] to deal with being bullied on his own? Producer: Richard Willcox SAT 22:00 Nancy Harris - The House on the Hill (b01nl7z5) And Molly doesn't care who Doug goes out with now they’re First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1978. By Nancy Harris. A mother's feverish mistrust of her daughter's divorced, but she'd still like to know all the details... SAT 09:00 Some of Our Archives Were Missing (b0089b35) new piano teacher threatens to spiral out of control. Stars Paul Mendelson’s sitcom stars Rebecca Lacey as Molly, Paul Stuart Maconie presents classic programmes thought lost Philippa Stanton. Venables as Doug, Soumaya Keynes as Kaz, Jessie Sullivan as forever, but now returned to the BBC's vaults thanks to attentive SAT 22:30 Colin Dexter Short Stories (b007k4xz) Ryan, Marlene Sidaway as Annie, Samantha Spiro as Dawn and radio fans: Inspector Morse - The Burglar Jonathan Tafler as Raymond. It Sticks Out Half a Mile (19/07/1981) Neighbourly concern about a suspicious stranger sets a new Producer: David Ian Neville Comedy Parade: Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Bolshie Man puzzle for the Oxford-based detective. Read by John Turner. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004. (14/03/1971) SAT 22:45 Colin Dexter Short Stories (b007lnpx) SAT 03:00 Roger Hume - The Campden Wonder Thirty Minute Theatre: The Green Machine (23/04/1975) Monty's Revolver (b00mrhdm) Story Time: Eye Witness Accounts - The Great Fire of London When a special gun is auctioned, one collector is alarmed to end The true account of the mysterious disappearance of William (20/01/1970) up facing the wrong end of the barrel. Read by Joe Dunlop. Harrison, a rent collector in the service of the Campden family Things Could Be Worse (15/09/1976) SAT 23:00 Arthur Smith's Last Hangover (b010j3zq) in Chipping Campden in 1660. The Worst Show on the Wireless (12/02/1975). In 2001, Arthur Smith was nearly dead. He subsequently gave Stars Peter Jeffrey as Sir Thomas Overbury, Richard The BBC's Treasure Hunt initiative of the early noughties up drinking and entered the strange new world of the Derrington as John Perry, Nigel Anthony as Dr Shirley, David focussed its efforts on missing radio and television chronically sober. Holt as Sly/Edward Harrison and Kim Durham as programmes, dating from prior to 1980. It was an invitation to A year on, the comic ruminates about his drinking days and Richard/Nathan. collectors, fans and even former BBC staff who might have booze generally - discovering elderflower presse, mornings and Written by Richard Derrington and Roger Hume. possessed domestic recordings of missing comedies and temptation. His old mucker, actress Caroline Quentin joins Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Sue Wilson. dramas. Among other gems, a missing episode of The Likely Arthur for some sober reflections. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994 Lads was returned. An eclectic collection of radio curios made Producer : Lucy Armitage SAT 04:00 Anton Chekhov (b00qbb8r) its way home - some of them shared in this programme. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2002. Stories by Anton Chekhov Stuart Maconie is a writer and broadcaster - a fixture of BBC SAT 23:30 The Lee Mack Show (b00c4cd2) Bad Weather Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music, and a compadre of fellow radio Toyah Willcox Or to put it another way, what has the husband been up to in legend Mark Radcliffe. Toyah Willcox joins the sharp comedian for stand-up, sketches Moscow? Alistair McGowan reads Constance Garnett's SAT 12:00 The Pillow Book (b01nl7z3) and music. With Angela McHale and Steve Brown. From April translation. From January 1998. Series 5 Omnibus 2005. SAT 04:15 The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (b00k8t2y) In Robert Forrest's thriller, set in 10th century Japan, Yukinari Series 2 returns to find the Lady Shonagon's affections have strayed. The Admirer SAT 13:15 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007jpj1) SUNDAY 28 OCTOBER 2012 Precious makes an unhappy discovery and Mma Makutsi finds Series 2 a fan at the Kalahari typing school for men. Stars Claire Old Dog SUN 00:00 Mike Walker - Alpha (b0080p6l) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 October – 2 November 2012 Page 2 of 7 [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] walk on water? Read by Alice Arnold. finance, the BBC and political parties. Dramatised in seven- SUN 01:00 The Frankie Howerd Variety Show (b007jr40) SUN 11:00 Christopher Brookmyre's Comedy Bookcase parts by Mark Tavener and Peter Baynham from Mark [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] (b01nbwyn) Tavener's novel. SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b01nk1d0) Series 2 George Cragge ...... Michael Williams Time Travel: The Politics of Time Marcus Brigstocke Frank Jefferson ...... Barry Foster As we prepare to put the clocks back tonight, Sean Street 7/8 Geoffrey Crichton-Potter ...... Stephen Moore travels back in time through archive recordings to explore the Author Christopher Brookmyre is joined by comedian Marcus Henry ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt ways in which we have tried to control time itself - from its Brigstocke for an impassioned discussion about Marcus' life Max ...... Peter Woodthorpe standardisation in the 19th century, brought about by the and his book God Collar. Controller Radio 2 ...... Stephen Fry railways, to modern day political decisions about time-zones SUN 11:30 That Reminds Me (b01nlbcp) Controller Radio 4 ...... John Bird and when Summer Time should start and end. Series 5 Dominic De'ath ...... Benjamin Whitrow Most of us remember we get an extra hour in bed tonight - but Richard Griffiths Hercules Fortescue ...... Nicholas Le Prevost when we get up for work on Monday morning will it be lighter The award-winning star of stage, TV and the big screen, actor Andrew James ...... Peter Serafinowcz or darker? Why do we bother to change the clocks? Should we Richard Griffiths recalls his career. Laetitia ...... Victoria Carling change our time-zone and join Central European Time and Series showcasing the reminiscences of well-loved entertainers Caroline ...... Susie Brann consign GMT to the past? And what exactly is time? Can it be chatting to a live audience. Home Secretary ...... Peter Yapp controlled or does it control us as it marches on relentlessly Producer: Claire Jones Auntie Agony ...... Eva Stuart making us older day by day? All these ideas have been debated First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2003. Controller BBC 1 ...... Ian McNiece throughout the years, but are we any nearer being able to define SUN 12:00 Winifred Holtby - South Riding Omnibus PA Woman ...... Annabel Mullion or explain what time is? (b007jrn7) With Alice Arnold, Richard Turner and Tim Hope. With help from curators at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Music by Paul Mottram Sean Street's journey into past recordings takes him backwards SUN 13:15 Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around the Producer: Paul Schlesinger and forward across the many time-zones of Russia, into China's Shipping Forecast (b0176pbp) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. single time-zone, to Venezuela's deliberately political adoption [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN 23:00 Newsjack (b01nj1st) of a half-hour time-zone and to Samoa, who recently travelled SUN 13:30 Cadfael (b007k42n) Series 7 forward in time by losing a whole day. One Corpse Too Many Episode 6 However, if you want to experience Time Travel yourself, listen With England at civil war in 1138 - among the bodies of those Justin Edwards and the team tastefully make fun of the news to the repeat of this programme tonight on BBC Radio 4 Extra accused of treason, lies one that was not executed. stories from the last seven days. which starts and ends at 1am in the hour the clocks go back! Brother Cadfael has a murder on his hands. SUN 23:30 The Boosh (b007jmf4) Producer: Andy Cartwright Mystery starring Glyn Houston as Brother Cadfael. Stolen A Soundscape production for BBC Radio 4. Written by Ellis Peters and dramatised by Alan Downer. Zookeepers Howard Moon and Vince Noir try to catch an SUN 02:00 The Pillow Book (b01nl7z3) Brother Cadfael ...... Glyn Houston animal thief at Bob Fossil's Zoo - with the help of a deer [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] Godith Adeney Jane Slavin costume. SUN 03:15 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007jpj1) King Stephen ...... Richard Tate Written by and starring Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] Gilbert Prestcote ...... John Moffatt The Boosh is a surreal adventure based on the Perrier Award- SUN 04:00 Don Taylor - Underworld (b008wd17) Adam Courcelle ...... Geoffrey Whitehead winning comedy show, featuring Howard and Vince's battles [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] Aline Siward ...... Joan Walker with zoo manager Bob Fossil. SUN 05:30 Meet David Sedaris (b01ng26n) Hugh Berringer ...... Ken Cumberlidge Vince is a regular 'Mowgli in flares' due to his affinity with [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] Edric Flesher ...... Brian Miller animals and adoration for all things Seventies, whereas Howard SUN 06:00 Winifred Holtby - South Riding Omnibus Petronilla Flesher ...... Dilys Laye likes to think he's more the brains of the duo, destined for (b007jrn7) Torold Blund ...... Paul Downing better things. Episode 1 Lame Osbern ...... Ian Targett Howard Moon ...... Julian Barrattt Headmistress Sarah Burton returns to 1930s Yorkshire for a Brother Oswald ...... David Goudge Vince Noir ...... Noel Fielding challenging new post. Producer: Gerry Jones Bob Fossil ...... Rich Fulcher Winifred Holtby's (1898-1935) most famous novel "South First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1990. Graham ...... Lee Mack Riding" was published posthumously in 1936. It's a rich and SUN 15:00 Doctor in the House (b007jsw0) Bloke ...... Simon Evans memorable evocation of the characters of Yorkshire's South [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] After BBC radio gave them their big break with this series, they Riding, their lives, loves and sorrows. SUN 15:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007jtkf) transferred to BBC TV where The Mighty Boosh ran for three Starring Sarah Lancashire as Sarah Burton, Philip Glenister as [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] series. Robert Carne and Carole Boyd as Mrs Beddows. With Susan SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show Producer: Danny Wallace. Cookson, Maggie Tagney, Donald McBride, Lucy Beaumont, (b01nlbw9) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001. Annmarie Hosell and Maya Foa. Mel takes a walk on Ancient Roman streets, makes a Horrible The first of a three-part omnibus dramatised by Gill Adams. Histories Rotten Ancient Roman meal, and hears about spitting Director: Melanie Harris spiders and an eight-year-old entrepreneur. MONDAY 29 OCTOBER 2012 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. SUN 16:30 Horrible Histories (b01nl9r5) SUN 07:15 Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around the [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON 00:00 Doctor Who (b01169bp) Shipping Forecast (b0176pbp) SUN 17:30 Arthur Askey - Before Your Very Eyes [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Hebrides, Faeroes, South East Iceland (b01nlbwc) MON 00:30 Jenny Stephens - Project Archangel Charlie Connelly ends his voyage by discovering some A Little Caution (b00wmp8p) legendary whiskey and land younger than himself. Tom Busy-bee comic Arthur Askey reads his life story. He takes his [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] Goodman-Hills reads. first foray into concert parties and pantomime. From June MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01nlbcm) SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00pg5r6) 1975. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] Series 5 SUN 18:00 Doctor Who (b01169bp) MON 01:45 Winifred Holtby - The Celebrity Who Failed Keep Fit Cobwebs (b01bn5wr) Arthur's keen on taking up a free trial gym membership, but Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] will his doctor approve? Stars Steve Delaney. From January The shocked Time Lord realises how the base's computer will MON 02:00 Christopher Brookmyre's Comedy Bookcase 2010. affect all of their fates, present and future. Fifth Doctor (b01nbwyn) SUN 08:00 Doctor in the House (b007jsw0) adventure stars Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Sunday] St Swithin's SUN 18:30 Jenny Stephens - Project Archangel MON 02:30 That Reminds Me (b01nlbcp) Simon Sparrow dithers over registering to train as a doctor as St (b00wmp8p) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 on Sunday] Swithin's hospital in London. Episode 2 MON 03:00 Doctor in the House (b007jsw0) The misadventures of student doctor Simon Sparrow - adapted Malcolm and Polly travel unexpectedly beneath Moscow, and [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's novel 'Doctor the ghost appears of someone he once knew very well. Stars MON 03:30 Cadfael (b007k42n) in the House' published in 1952. Dan Hagley. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as SUN 19:00 Christopher Brookmyre's Comedy Bookcase MON 05:00 Horrible Histories (b01nl9r5) Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Erik Chitty (b01nbwyn) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] as the Secretary, Beth Boyd as the Sister and Michael Deacon as [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON 06:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yy8yx) the Padre. SUN 19:30 That Reminds Me (b01nlbcp) Episode 1 Special guest star: John le Mesurier as The Dean [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] Unassuming engineer Mr Graham runs for his life across war- Producer: David Hatch SUN 20:00 Doctor in the House (b007jsw0) torn Europe. Classic 1940s thriller read by Richard Greenwood. Recorded at the BBC Paris studio in London. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON 06:30 Falco (b007wpf1) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1968. SUN 20:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007jtkf) The Silver Pigs SUN 08:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007jtkf) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Episode 1 Series 11 SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01nlbcm) Rome, AD 70: Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco chances For Love and Money [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] upon an illegal trade in precious metal (the silver pigs) after The cheeky schoolboy's attempt to play matchmaker spells SUN 21:45 Winifred Holtby - The Celebrity Who Failed mounting a rescue from a kidnap gang. disaster for Alfie. Stars Jimmy Clitheroe. From January 1968. (b01bn5wr) Anton Lesser brings the popular detective to life in Lindsey SUN 09:00 Horrible Histories (b01nl9r5) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] Davis's witty and enthralling adventures set in the days of the The Rotten Romans SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00pg5r6) Roman Empire. Murky myths, blood-drenched battles, and meet the gruesomest [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Dramatised in four parts by Mary Cutler. of gladiators. She scared everyone. Stars author Terry Deary. SUN 22:30 Mark Tavener - In the Red (b007k0hz) Falco …. Anton Lesser SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b01nlbcm) Episode 5 Sosia …. Felicity Jones Ewan McGregor A crucial by-election result is due, as the murders continue - but Lenia …. Gillian Goodman From Chet Baker to Mozart - the castaway choices of actor reporter George Cragge is on the case. Petronius …. Ben Crowe Ewan McGregor, in conversation with Sue Lawley. From London is plagued by a series of bizarre murders of bank Decimus …. Robert Lister December 2001. managers. Hot on the trail of the killer are an old-style Chief Publius …. Richard Derrington SUN 10:45 Winifred Holtby - The Celebrity Who Failed Police Inspector and BBC Radio's crime correspondent, George Pertinax/Julius …. Sean Connolly (b01bn5wr) Cragge. Falco’s Mother …. Frances Jeater Can Amelia deal with the public attention after she learns to A blackly humorous murder mystery set in the world of City Marcia …. Helen Monks Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 October – 2 November 2012 Page 3 of 7 Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. in the most extreme environments. She's one of the team of From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2004. scientists and adventurers on expedition to the Arctic to explore eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard MON 07:00 Safety Catch (b00fgq18) the creation, life and death of icebergs. 'Operation Iceberg' is on DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descent. Series 1 BBC Two Tuesday 30th October and Thursday 1st November at First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever A Wanting Man 21.00. appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. Simon wonders whether to stay faithful to his girlfriend, when Arthur Smith's flying low with original 'rock chick' Suzi Quatro Written for radio by Peter Spence. he suspects a friend of his sister may be attracted to him. who shot to fame in the seventies with hits like 'Devil Gate Producer: Jane Berthoud Starring Darren Boyd as Simon McGrath. Drive' and played bass in American sitcom 'Happy Days'. Her First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997. Laurence Howarth’s black comedy of modern morality. Simon new show is a personal reflection on her life in show business: MON 17:30 Safety Catch (b00fgq18) is essentially a nice man who also happens to be an arms dealer. 'Suzi Quatro...Unzipped' is Live At The Hippodrome, London [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] With: from Monday 29th October until Saturday 3rd November. MON 18:00 Ghost Stories of E Nesbit (b01nlwzw) Joanna Page Clive enjoys some Comic opera with influential activist and The Shadow Lewis MacLeod comedian Mark Thomas. He's on a UK tour with 'Bravo Figaro' Three girls are told a late-night tale of evil, the tragic ending of Sarah Smart the true tale of his father - a builder with a passion for opera, which hits too close to home. Read by Anna Madeley. Brigit Forsyth his degenerative disease and Mark's attempt to put an opera on MON 18:15 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix (b01nlwzy) Catherine Shepherd in a bungalow in Bournemouth. Evil Awaits Producer: Dawn Ellis The Unthanks open the musical floodgates to perform 'Great "I understood nothing then. I was still a child ..." First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007. Northern River' from their album 'Diversions Vol. 3: Songs A postgraduate student's research into the occult brings him MON 07:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b01ng413) from the Shipyards'. under the malign influence of an ancient book of spells - the Series 5 And there's a torrent of instrumental talent from Gregory Alan Matrix Aeternitatis. Roberts, Cottrell Boyce, Nyman Isakov, who performs 'Master & A Hound' from his album Set in contemporary Edinburgh. Jonathan Aycliffe's chilling Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, 'This Empty Northern Hemisphere.' novel abridged in ten parts by Rosemary Goring. Professor John Lloyd CBE is joined by comedian Jimmy Carr Producer: Cathie Mahoney. Read by Robert Paterson for the fifth series. MON 12:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00d7qdn) Producer: David Jackson Young Three guests are invited to donate one item each and explain [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 1997. why it deserves a place in the museum. MON 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlt3) MON 18:30 A Short History of Vampires (b00yhwyc) John and Jimmy welcome screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker actor/writer/magician Andy Nyman and anatomist Dr Alice MON 13:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yy8yx) The ultimate killing machines. Roberts. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Natalie Haynes introduces a four-part series of dark stories, as First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. MON 13:30 Falco (b007wpf1) she examines why the vampire - an iconic figure in horror- MON 08:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00d7qdn) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] fiction - continues to exert such a powerful hold on our Kenneth Horne leads a Regency romp through Beau Brummel's MON 14:00 Winifred Holtby - South Riding (b007jnj0) imaginations... Brighton. With Bill Pertwee. From January 1964. Episode 6 Dan Stevens reads Bram Stoker’s tale: Count Dracula looks out MON 08:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlt3) Headmistress of Kiplington High School, Sarah Burton decides for a curious Englishman. Series 3 Lydia mustn't be allowed to lose a scholarship. Producer: Gemma Jenkins Cuckoo in the Nest Winifred Holtby's (1898-1935) most famous novel "South Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in February 2011. Harold Steptoe is shocked to meet his older half-brother from Riding" was published posthumously in 1936. It's a rich and MON 19:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00d7qdn) Australia. memorable evocation of the characters of Yorkshire's South [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. Riding, their lives, loves and sorrows. MON 19:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlt3) Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association Starring Sarah Lancashire as Sarah Burton, Philip Glenister as [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson Robert Carne and Carole Boyd as Mrs Beddows. MON 20:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yy8yx) wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. With Susan Cookson, Maggie Tagney, Donald McBride, Lucy [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Beaumont, Annmarie Hosell and Maya Foa. MON 20:30 Falco (b007wpf1) Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight Dramatised by Gill Adams. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] series on TV. Director: Melanie Harris MON 21:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvdpz) Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Harold ...... Harry H Corbett MON 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World (b01h6461) MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b01nk14r) Arthur ...... Kenneth J Warren A Time of Change, a Change of Time [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Other parts played by David Brierly Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum, enters MON 22:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b01ng413) Adapted for radio from their TV scripts by Ray Galton and the final week of his object-based history. Taking artefacts [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Alan Simpson. from William Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan MON 22:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00plzyg) Producer: Bobby Jaye and Jacobean playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1971. changing world in which they lived. MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b01nlx02) MON 09:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00plzyg) With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of political Series 5 Series 5 and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil asks what 29/10/2012 Yes Count Arthur the plays would have meant to the public when they were first An extended edition of the News Quiz, chaired by Sandi Outraged by an optician's dispute, Arthur seeks high office in performed. He uses carefully selected objects to explore the Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Hugo Rifkind, Roisin the council elections. Stars Steve Delaney. From January 2010. great issues of the day that preoccupied the public and helped Conaty and Kevin Day. MON 09:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue shape the works, and he considers what they can reveal about MON 23:45 Creme de la Crime (b007jr3j) (b01nlp10) the concerns and beliefs of Shakespearean England. Series 1 Series 2 Programme 16 A TIME OF CHANGE, A CHANGE OF TIME The Cheese Killer Home - A rare domestic clock with an equally rare minute hand and Michael Feydeau and David Pershore review the murderous The lifestyle show hosts have revelations on the "home" and quarter-hour chimes reveals the changing relationship case of Charles Sparrow. Stars Punt and Dennis. From "commune living". Shakespeare's audiences had to time. September 2001. Series 2 of Bill Dare's sitcom stars Robert Duncan and Jan This programme was originally broadcast in 2012. Ravens. Producer: Paul Kobrak. Mike ...... Robert Duncan MON 14:30 Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari (b007jyp5) TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER 2012 Sue ...... Jan Ravens Episode 1 With Roger Blake, Alistair McGowan, Sally Philips and Niall Perilous journeys and vivid locals from Cairo to Cape Town, in TUE 00:00 Ghost Stories of E Nesbit (b01nlwzw) Ashdown. the writer's return to Africa. Read by William Roberts. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Music by Mark Burton. MON 14:45 Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver (b00nm5ww) TUE 00:15 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix (b01nlwzy) Producer: Jo Clegg Mrs Miniver Comes Home; On Hampstead Heath [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Monday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997. Mrs Miniver first appeared in a series of articles on the Court TUE 00:30 A Short History of Vampires (b00yhwyc) MON 10:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jlky) page of 'The Times' newspaper in 1937, and was later [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Episode 1 immortalised in the wartime movie starring Greer Garson. TUE 01:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yy8yx) 1801, and Mr Lockwood visits brooding Heathcliff's The series brings together ten of Jan Struther's original engaging [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] unwelcoming house on the Yorkshire moors. Stars John Duttine stories about an English housewife. TUE 01:30 Falco (b007wpf1) and Amanda Root. Read by Penelope Wilton. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] MON 11:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvdpz) Producer: Sara Davies TUE 02:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00plzyg) The Clangers First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] A young girl turns to her favourite TV programme to make MON 15:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jlky) TUE 02:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue sense of her world. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] (b01nlp10) A powerful collection exploring identity by British born Sri MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01nlwzt) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Lankan writer, Roshi Fernando. Mel introduces a brand new story - A Greyhound of a Girl by TUE 03:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jlky) Read by Amara Karan. Roddy Doyle. As Halloween looms on the horizon, we'll be [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Producer: Gemma Jenkins finding out about a quick, easy recipe for pumpkin soup. TUE 04:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvdpz) Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in March MON 17:00 To the Manor Born (b007jm7w) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] 2012. Plenty More Fish TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b01nk14r) MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b01nk14r) With their love-lives in a tangle, Audrey falls out with Marjory. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] Charles Dance, Mark Thomas, Helen Czerski, Suzi Quatro, Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton. TUE 05:00 To the Manor Born (b007jm7w) Arthur Smith, The Unthanks and Gregory Alan Isakov Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] Clive conspires with Jewel In The Crown Charles Dance about Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher TUE 05:30 Safety Catch (b00fgq18) his career playing bureaucrats and villains in blockbusters like Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] 'Alien 3' and 'The Golden Child'. His new Channel 4 thriller Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka TUE 06:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yyfl3) 'Secret State' was inspired by Chris Mullen's novel 'A Very Frank Middlemass ..... Ned Episode 2 British Coup' and is a classic story of one man against the The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced Surviving a bullet wound, engineer Graham leaves 1940s system which begins on Wednesday 7th November at 22.00. to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death Istanbul by ship with his military secrets. Read by Richard And that's just the tip of the iceberg! Clive sets sail with leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, Greenwood. oceanographer Helen Czerksi, who puts her courage to the test they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage. TUE 06:30 Falco (b007wpz2) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 October – 2 November 2012 Page 4 of 7 The Silver Pigs Scripted and produced by James Casey. Ted ...... Norman Bird Episode 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1985. Producer: Pete Atkin Roman detective, Falco is investigating the mystery of how a TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b01nlx02) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1988. stolen lead ingot containing silver came to be in the bank box of [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE 17:30 Babblewick Hall (b01nlzcw) a senator's daughter. TUE 09:45 Creme de la Crime (b007jr3j) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] And things have taken a turn for the worse, as he's now probing [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE 18:00 Ghost Stories of E Nesbit (b01nm0dy) a murder and - worse still - he's forced to visit a remote and TUE 10:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jllc) John Charrington's Wedding dangerous outpost of the Empire - Britain. Episode 2 A groom promises to be at the church on time, even if he has to Starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco. Heathcliff and Cathy are torn apart, as he plots revenge on come back from the grave to do it. Read by Tobias Menzies. Lindsey Davis's witty and enthralling adventure set in the days Hindley for his degradation. Stars John Duttine and Amanda TUE 18:15 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix (b01nm0f0) of the Roman Empire. Root. Repercussions Falco …. Anton Lesser TUE 11:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvkch) "I threw the book onto the coals. It burst into flame as though Petronius …. Ben Crowe The Turtle soaked in petrol." Decimus …. Robert Lister A fractured family finds solace in a newly hatched egg. Stories Trying to rid himself of an ancient book of spells, postgraduate Publius …. Richard Derrington of Sri Lankan immigrants in Britain, read by Seeta Indrani. student Andrew MacLeod is drawn to a sinister group... Gaius Hilaris …. Ian Brooker TUE 11:15 RF Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days Set in contemporary Edinburgh. Jonathan Aycliffe's chilling Helena …. Fritha Goodey (b00xh3kt) novel abridged in ten parts by Rosemary Goring. Aelia …. Susan Jeffrey Episode 1 Read by Robert Paterson Triferus/Cornix …. Alex Jones It's 1918, and soldier Davy Powlett-Jones, invalided out of the Producer: David Jackson Young Dramatised by Mary Cutler. trenches, must face a new start in life. First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 1997. Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. RF Delderfield's classic novel of life between the wars. TUE 18:30 A Short History of Vampires (b00yqqs8) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2004. Dramatised in five parts by Shaun McKenna. Hero Dust By Kristine Kathryn Rusch TUE 07:00 Babblewick Hall (b01nlzcw) Stars Oliver Milburn as Davy Powlett-Jones, John Wood as The ultimate killing machines. Series 1 Algy Herries, John Rowe as Howarth, Anthony Calf as Carter, Natalie Haynes introduces another dark story, as she examines Episode 6 Alison Pettitt as Beth, Delroy Brown as the Guard, Josh why the vampire - an iconic figure in horror-fiction - continues The downfall of Squire Fenton and Babblewick Hall appears Freeborn as "Nipper" Shawe, Steven Williams as "Chad" Boyer to exert such a powerful hold on our imaginations... imminent with the arrival of Fenton's father who has plans for and Steven Roberts as Briarley. David Horovitch reads Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s tale: Vampire his wayward son. Not least that he should marry the insipid and Director: Marc Beeby slayer Bram is getting old and tired so starts the search for his bewhiskered Harriet. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. successor. Meanwhile, Augustus makes a dramatic discovery... TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jv9v) Producer: Gemma Jenkins Starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Fenton Babblewick and Forbes [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in February 2011. Masson as Augustus Snipe. TUE 12:30 Listen to Les (b01nlzcy) TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jv9v) Conclusion of the first series of Scott Cherry’s sitcom set in the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] 18th-century. TUE 13:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yyfl3) TUE 19:30 Listen to Les (b01nlzcy) Fenton Babblewick ...... Nick Le Prevost [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Augustus Snipe ...... Forbes Masson TUE 13:30 Falco (b007wpz2) TUE 20:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yyfl3) William Babblewick ...... Benjamin Whitrow [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Elizabeth Babblewick ...... Pauline Yates TUE 14:00 Winifred Holtby - South Riding (b007jnjk) TUE 20:30 Falco (b007wpz2) Harriet ...... Courtney King Episode 7 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Septimus Hickey ...... John Moffat When measles confines Midge to school, her father makes a TUE 21:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvkch) Molly ...... Gillian Bevan confession. Stars Sarah Lancashire and Philip Glenister. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Barney ...... David Antrobus TUE 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World (b01h666y) TUE 21:15 RF Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days Jack ...... Sam Kelly Plague and the Playhouse (b00xh3kt) Music by Paul Mottram. Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum, [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Producer: Paul Schlesinger continues his object-based history. Taking artefacts from TUE 22:00 Rudy's Rare Records (b01ng835) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1996. William Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 07:30 Rudy's Rare Records (b01ng835) Jacobean playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly TUE 22:30 Such Rotten Luck (b01nm0f2) Series 4 changing world in which they lived. Series 1 Let It Grow With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of political The Little Grey Man Episode 3: Let It Grow and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil asks what The ups and downs of a second class writer Adam is keen to take on an allotment and work the land with the plays would have meant to the public when they were first First of two comedy drama series written by Ronald Hayman. his Dad, Rudy. Rudy would prefer a patio. performed. He uses carefully selected objects to explore the Woodhouse ...... Tim Pigott-Smith Adam hopes to bond with his Dad, Rudy, whilst they till the great issues of the day that preoccupied the public and helped Gila ...... Zoe Wanamaker earth together on an allotment. However, Rudy prefers to chill shape the works, and he considers what they can reveal about Seamus ...... Stephen Rea with his best friend Clifton and only takes an interest when they the concerns and beliefs of Shakespearean England. Wilhelmina ...... Susie Bran spot a rare and illegal plant growing in the greenhouse. Programme 17. PLAGUE & THE PLAYHOUSE - May 1603 Henrietta Masterson ...... Miriam Karlin Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record shop saw not only a new king but the worst plague outbreak since the Hamish McVomitory ...... Bill Wallis in Birmingham. Starring Lenny Henry, Larrington Walker and Black Death. Its impact and reach is told through a series of Gila’s Dad ...... Benjamin Whitrow some terrific tunes. early seventeenth century proclamations. Gila’s Mum ...... Joan Matheson Rudy's Rare Records is a tiny down at heel old reggae record This programme was originally broadcast in 2012. With Eva Stuart, Susan Sheridan and Shaun Prendergast as shop in Birmingham - one of a dying breed; a place with real Producer: Paul Kobrak. Creative Writing Class members. soul, stacked with piles of vinyl, where the slogan is "if we don't TUE 14:30 Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari (b007w429) Music by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop have it - them don't mek it". It's owned by the charismatic, Episode 2 Director: Piers Plowright irrepressible Rudy Sharpe (Larrington Walker), reluctantly Travel writer Paul Theroux ignores warnings and heads to First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in September 1989. helped out by his long-suffering neurotic son Adam (Lenny Sudan, and learns a lesson in Ethiopia. Read by William TUE 23:00 Acropolis Now (b007jwps) Henry) and Handsworth's first, black, surly girly goth, Tasha Roberts. Series 2 (Natasha Godfrey). Rudy has recently married his long-term TUE 14:45 Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver (b00nm9sb) Love love interest Doreen (Claire Benedict) which is leaving his best The New Car; Guy Fawkes Day It's Eros night at the Fish Restaurant and, despite the hunger, friend Clifton (Jeffery Kissoon) feeling left out. The engaging stories of an English housewife, created for The romance is in the air. Stars Stephen Moore. From March 2002. Adam ...... Lenny Henry Times in 1937 and immortalised on film. Read by Penelope TUE 23:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World (b007qctj) Rudy ...... Larrington Walker Wilton. Series 1 Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey TUE 15:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jllc) Monsters Doreen ...... Claire Benedict [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] The spoof TV sci-fi star explains life's big mysteries. Stars Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01nlzvq) Richard Herring, Stewart Lee and Tom Baker. From October Lucinda ...... Sarah Thom We taste the culinary delights enjoyed state-side on Halloween, 1992. Trader/Customer/Dealer ...... Adam Nagaitis and find out how the television came in to being. Then it's time Written by Danny Robins for part 2 of our story - A Greyhound of a Girl. Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE 17:00 Second Thoughts (b007jvh3) WEDNESDAY 31 OCTOBER 2012 Music featured in this episode: Series 1 ZUNGGUZUNGGUGUZUNGGUZENG * YELLOW MAN Found and Lost WED 00:00 Ghost Stories of E Nesbit (b01nm0dy) THE GATES OF ZION * THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS Bill and Faith are late in love but new to each other - and Bill [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] INCREDIBLE * M BEAT FEAT. GENERAL LEVY has already got himself into Faith's bad books... WED 00:15 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix (b01nm0f0) HERBAL DUB * KING TUBBY Starring Lynda Bellingham as Faith and James Bolam as Bill. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Tuesday] RUMOURS * GREGORY ISAACS Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill and Faith trying to WED 00:30 A Short History of Vampires (b00yqqs8) CARRY GO BRING HOME * THE SELECTER forge a relationship whilst balancing the demands of his ex- [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] GIMME THE LIGHT * SEAN PAUL wife, Liza and her teenage children, Hannah and Joe. WED 01:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yyfl3) HARD TIMES * LEO GRAHAM Series one of four inspired by the real lives of husband and wife [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] RAPPER'S DELIGHT * SUGARHILL GANG. writers, Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. WED 01:30 Falco (b007wpz2) TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jv9v) A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Series 8 for four series, with a spin-off series Faith in the Future. WED 02:00 The News Quiz Extra (b01nlx02) The Spon Plague Faith ...... Lynda Bellingham [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] Britain is gripped by a strange epidemic - leaving a path of bare Bill ...... James Bolam WED 02:45 Creme de la Crime (b007jr3j) knees in its wake. Stars Spike Milligan. From March 1958. Hilary ...... Celia Imrie [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE 08:30 Listen to Les (b01nlzcy) Liza ...... Belinda Lang WED 03:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jllc) From 17/03/1985 Hannah ...... Kelda Holmes [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Lugubrious Les Dawson with a tale of when the worm turned, Joe ...... Mark Denham WED 04:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvkch) and Cosmo discusses modern art. Grace ...... Moir Leslie [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] With Daphne Oxenford, Eli Woods and Colin Edwynn. Alex ...... John Samson WED 04:15 RF Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days Music by Brian Fitzgerald. Ray ...... Nicholas Courtney (b00xh3kt) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 October – 2 November 2012 Page 5 of 7 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] Tim Brown's Schooldays - and John and Mary in the country. and finds a couple slowly going mad. Read by Charlotte WED 05:00 Second Thoughts (b007jvh3) More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs and Emmerson. [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] parodies. WED 18:15 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix (b01nm20n) WED 05:30 Babblewick Hall (b01nlzcw) Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Morocco [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. Andrew journeys to Morocco with the sinister Duncan Mylne, WED 06:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yz7b2) Written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, where a shock awaits him... Episode 3 Eric Idle and Bill Oddie. Jonathan Aycliffe's chilling novel abridged in ten parts by Realising that his would-be killer is on board the ship, Graham Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Rosemary Goring. tries to return to port in Istanbul. Read by Richard Greenwood. 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and Read by Robert Paterson WED 06:30 Falco (b007wpsz) quickly developed a cult following. Producer: David Jackson Young The Silver Pigs Music and songs by Dave Lee, Bill Oddie and Leon Cohen. First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 1997. Episode 3 Producer: Humphrey Barclay WED 18:30 A Short History of Vampires (b00yy6vt) Probing the illegal imports of the ingots, Roman sleuth Falco First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in May 1966. Israbel By Tanith Lee has chanced upon a sinister plot to overthrow the Emperor WED 09:00 At Home With the Hardys (b00lgn62) The ultimate killing machines. Vespasian. Vorsprung Durch Picnik Natalie Haynes introduces another dark story, as she examines And he's also discovered the identity of Helena's ex-husband: Adverts make the heart grow fonder for the four friends. Stars why the vampire - an iconic figure in horror-fiction - continues which has made him realise the plot is much closer to home Jeremy Hardy, Kit Hollerbach and Caroline Leddy. From May to exert such a powerful hold on our imaginations... than he thought. 1990. Mark Bonnar and Claire Harry read Tanith Lee’s tale: A Starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco. WED 09:30 Who Goes There? (b00lbnyx) beautiful vampire hires an artist to paint her portrait, but then Lindsey Davis's witty and enthralling adventure set in the days Series 2 he develops a dangerous obsession... of the Roman Empire. Episode 6 Producer: Gemma Jenkins Falco …. Anton Lesser Martin Young chairs the quiz looking at lives of the noteworthy Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in February 2011. Lenia …. Gillian Goodman and notorious from the history books. WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jp6s) Petronius …. Ben Crowe Tackling the biographical teasers are team captains Francis [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Decimus …. Robert Lister Wheen and Fred Housego with guests Carmen Callil and WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00sm5vs) Falco’s Mother …. Frances Jeater Victoria Glendinning. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Marcia …. Helen Monks Producer: Aled Evans WED 20:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yz7b2) Helena …. Fritha Goodey First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1998. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Titus …. Jonathan Keeble WED 10:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jllp) WED 20:30 Falco (b007wpsz) Domitian …. Declan Wilson Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Dramatised by Mary Cutler. Heathcliff runs off with Isabella, leaving a distraught Cathy WED 21:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvpc2) Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. gravely ill. Stars John Duttine, Amanda Root and Sharon Duce. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2004. WED 11:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvpc2) WED 21:15 RF Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days WED 07:00 The Alan Davies Show (b0085k82) Nil's Wedding (b00xhck3) Episode 2 On her wedding day, Nil reflects on the meaning of home. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Struggling actor Alan minds his girlfriend's talented stunt-dog. Stories of Sri Lankan immigrants in Britain, read by Amara WED 22:00 Gloomsbury (b01n1vlc) The trouble is, it eats everything in sight... Karan. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Alan Davies stars in his own six-part sitcom. WED 11:15 RF Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days WED 22:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once Written by Ben Silburn, Tony Roche and Alan Davies. (b00xhck3) (b01nm20q) Alan ...... Alan Davies Episode 2 Series 2 Murray ...... Alan Francis Despite clashing with the science master in 1920, Davy settles Reunion Kate ...... Ronni Ancona into school life and his wife is expecting. Stars Oliver Milburn. A visitor brings new branches to the Conroy family tree. With Debra Stephenson and Dave Lamb. WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jp6s) The lives of the Stockport-based, Conroy family - in series 2 of Producer: Jane Berthoud [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Damian Lanigan and Jim Poyser's comedy drama. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998. WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00sm5vs) Michael ...... Jason Done WED 07:30 Gloomsbury (b01n1vlc) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Jason ...... Andrew Knott Series 1 WED 13:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yz7b2) Maureen ...... Beverley Callard Desperately Seeking Peace and Quiet [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Eddie ...... John Henshaw A stellar cast of Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman, Nigel WED 13:30 Falco (b007wpsz) Stu ...... Damian Lanigan Planer, Morwenna Banks, Jonathan Coy and John Sessions [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Damian ...... Jim Poyser breathes life into the colourfully chaotic characters of WED 14:00 Winifred Holtby - South Riding (b007jnk2) Barry ...... Chris Pavlo. Gloomsbury, a riotous new comedy about the Bloomsbury Episode 8 Music: Big George Group. As the school gossips about Midge, headmistress Sarah feels for Producer: Neil Mossey The six-part series from the pen of Sue Limb is an affectionate Lydia. Stars Sarah Lancashire and Philip Glenister. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000. send up of the infamous literary group whose arty and WED 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World (b01h73pq) WED 23:00 The Hare Lane Diaries (b00lngwk) adulterous adventures dominated the cultural scene in the early London Becomes Rome Episode 1 20th century. Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum, Jessica rents a room to Rex - each unaware the other is a diarist. In Episode Two, the novelist Ginny Fox is visiting her friends continues his object-based history. Taking artefacts from Stars Frances Barber and David Bamber. From September Vera Sackcloth-Vest and Henry Mickleton, who live in a William Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and 2000. modest unassuming little castle in Kent. Jacobean playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly WED 23:30 Nebulous (b00xhy3p) Ginny has writer's block, so Vera tries desperately to provide changing world in which they lived. Series 3 peace and quiet, gagging the blackbirds and cloaking the gravel With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of political Us and Phlegm paths in velvet. But their tranquil idyll is shattered by the and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil asks what With a 99 percent sick workforce, the Professor faces some explosive arrival of Venus Traduces, hell-bent on recapturing the plays would have meant to the public when they were first very snotty aliens. Stars Mark Gatiss and David Tennant. From Vera's heart with a series of appalling musical serenades. performed. He uses carefully selected objects to explore the June 2008. Ginny's tiresome husband Lionel has followed her incognito great issues of the day that preoccupied the public and helped with a portfolio of herbal remedies, but Henry manages to shape the works, and he considers what they can reveal about detain him in the pantry whilst Ginny and Vera dive under the the concerns and beliefs of Shakespearean England. THURSDAY 01 NOVEMBER 2012 covers to devour a steamy new book, Lady Hattersley's Plover Programme 18. LONDON BECOMES ROME - A set of by the intriguing proletarian writer D.H. Lollipop. The chums designs for the Coronation Procession of James I reveals the THU 00:00 Ghost Stories of E Nesbit (b01nm20l) emerge flushed and enthralled, convinced that they must meet extent of classical knowledge amongst Shakespeare's audience. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] D.H. Lollipop and experience his dangerous animal magnetism This programme was originally broadcast in 2012. THU 00:15 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix (b01nm20n) at first hand. Producer: Paul Kobrak. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Wednesday] Cast: WED 14:30 Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari (b007w4h4) THU 00:30 A Short History of Vampires (b00yy6vt) Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Gosling, her Gardener ..... Nigel Planer Continuing his African journey, the author ponders turning 60 THU 01:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yz7b2) Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy as he returns to Uganda. Read by William Roberts. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks WED 14:45 Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver (b00nmzm7) THU 01:30 Falco (b007wpsz) Mrs Gosling, Housekeeper ..... Alison Steadman Married Couples; At the Dentist's [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] Mrs Ginny Fox ..... Alison Steadman Created in The Times of 1937 and immortalised on film, the THU 02:00 At Home With the Hardys (b00lgn62) Lionel Fox ..... Nigel Planer engaging stories of an English housewife. Read by Penelope [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Produced by Jamie Rix Wilton. THU 02:30 Who Goes There? (b00lbnyx) A Little Brother Production for BBC Radio 4. WED 15:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jllp) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jp6s) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU 03:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jllp) Series 6 WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01nm20j) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] The Smugglers Mel gets dressed up for Halloween and joins some real-life THU 04:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvpc2) Returning from a holiday abroad, Sid tricks the lad and Bill into ghost hunters. Plus the news behind this year's Roald Dahl [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] sneaking in watches. Funny Prize, with chief judge Michael Rosen. THU 04:15 RF Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days Starring Tony Hancock. WED 17:00 Ring Around the Bath (b00nm9sj) (b00xhck3) With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams, Patricia Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] Hayes and Noel Dryden. Return of the Kidi THU 05:00 Ring Around the Bath (b00nm9sj) Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Middle-aged Stella battles to get her grown-up children to leave [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. home. Stars Duncan Preston and Penny Downie. From August THU 05:30 The Alan Davies Show (b0085k82) Producer: Tom Ronald 2003. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September WED 17:30 The Alan Davies Show (b0085k82) THU 06:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yzbpt) 1959. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Episode 4 WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00sm5vs) WED 18:00 Ghost Stories of E Nesbit (b01nm20l) Hiding from his would-be killer Banat, Graham finds an Series 3 The Violet Car unexpected guest waiting in his cabin. Read by Richard Episode 12 A nurse is summoned to a farm to help with an unusual case, Greenwood. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 October – 2 November 2012 Page 6 of 7 THU 06:30 Falco (b007wpcl) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Episode 1 The Silver Pigs THU 14:00 Winifred Holtby - South Riding (b008747v) Comedy set in lower Earth where fantasy writer Sam has been Episode 4 Episode 9 coerced into joining a band of intrepid heroes as they battle the Falco battles to discover who killed Sosia - and to unmask the Headmistress Sarah Burton befriends the father of one of her dread forces of evil in search of the legendary sword of plotters against the Emperor. pupils. Stars Sarah Lancashire and Philip Glenister. Asnagar! He also discovers that true love can cross the boundaries of the THU 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World (b01h75y2) Fantasy sitcom written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. strict Roman class structure... The Theatres of Cruelty Elf Lord, Vidar ...... Darren Boyd Starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco. Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum, Dean The Dwarf ...... Kevin Eldon Conclusion of Lindsey Davis's adventure set in the days of the continues his object-based history. Taking artefacts from Amis, The Chosen One ...... Dave Lamb Roman Empire. William Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Sam ...... Stephen Mangan Falco …. Anton Lesser Jacobean playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan Decimus …. Robert Lister changing world in which they lived. Amazon Princess, Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman Publius …. Richard Derrington With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of political Producers: Anil Gupta & Paul Schlesinger Falco’s Mother …. Frances Jeater and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil asks what First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009. Marcia …. Helen Monks the plays would have meant to the public when they were first THU 23:00 The Million Pound Radio Show (b0090br0) Helena …. Fritha Goodey performed. He uses carefully selected objects to explore the Series 2 Titus …. Jonathan Keeble great issues of the day that preoccupied the public and helped Episode 4 Vespasian …. Michael Tudor Barnes shape the works, and he considers what they can reveal about Cricketing bickering - and a telephone moan. Andy Hamilton Dramatised by Mary Cutler. the concerns and beliefs of Shakespearean England. and Nick Revell's sharp-edged topical humour. From Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. Programme 19. THE THEATRES OF CRUELTY - A human September 1986. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2004. eyeball in a silver setting provides a striking insight to the THU 23:30 The Penny Dreadfuls (b00gpbcq) THU 07:00 Chambers (b007jyrj) theatre of cruelty in Elizabethan and Jacobean Britain. The Brothers Faversham Series 3 This programme was originally broadcast in 2012. Augustus Faversham A Pain in the Back Producer: Paul Kobrak. The story of Victorian Britain's most celebrated magician - John Fuller-Carp becomes distracted by the allure of one of his THU 14:30 Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari (b007w2pr) Augustus Faversham. clients and Ruth is asked to babysit for a friend's electronic pet. Episode 4 The comedy sketch trio present swashbuckling tales of four Clive Coleman's sitcom set in perhaps the country's least In his trip from Cairo to Cape Town, writer Paul Theroux brothers born into the same privileged aristocratic family - spectacular set of chambers. travels by bus to reach a troubled Zimbabwe. Read by William Horatius, Theseus, Leonidas and Augustus. John Fuller Carp ...... John Bird Roberts. Written by and starring Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Hilary Tripping ...... James Fleet THU 14:45 Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver (b00nnmhy) Tuck. Ruth Quirke ...... Sarah Lancashire Doing a Mole; Christmas Shopping Alexandra Faversham ... Ingrid Oliver Vince ...... Jonathan Kydd Created in The Times of 1937 and immortalised on film, the Narrator... Miles Jupp. With Joanna Monro, Geoffrey Whitehead , Peter Gunn and engaging stories of an English housewife. Read by Penelope Producer: Julia McKenzie Tilly Gaunt. Wilton. Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in February 2008. Producer: Paul Schlesinger THU 15:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jllz) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1999. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU 07:30 Andrew Lawrence: How Did We End Up Like THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01nm56w) FRIDAY 02 NOVEMBER 2012 This? (b01njxp8) We meet the judges behind this year's Roald Dahl Funny Prize Dietary Practices and get stuck in to the big debate: hankies or tissues? Plus part 4 FRI 00:00 Ghost Stories of E Nesbit (b01nm5jb) Andrew Lawrence, kicks off his comic explanation of our of our story, Roddy Doyle's A Greyhound of a Girl. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] development via stand up, sketch and song. THU 17:00 Mind Your Own Business! (b009sczf) FRI 00:15 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix (b01nm5jd) In this opening episode, Andrew looks at what goes in to Two Fingers of Suspicion [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Thursday] making our diet: "what we shove in our mouths, dissolve in our Secrets from Brightco's defence job are reaching a foreign FRI 00:30 A Short History of Vampires (b00z55h6) guts and shunt out of our poo pipes". power. But who is responsible for a leak? [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Including a rather different view of fair trade, a comment on Bernard Cribbins and Frank Thornton star in Andrew Palmer’s FRI 01:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yzbpt) road-kill as food and a moving song about the extinction of the sitcom [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Mammoth. Jimmy Bright ...... Bernard Cribbins FRI 01:30 Falco (b007wpcl) Sara Pascoe and Marek Larwood assist. Russell Farrow ...... Frank Thornton [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] Producer: Jane Berthoud Nan Forbes ...... Annette Crosbie FRI 02:00 1834 (b011klyr) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2012. Sue Plant ...... Annee Blott [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] THU 08:00 Parsley Sidings (b01nm56r) With John Graham FRI 02:30 Just a Minute (b007jq7g) The Royal Train Written by Andrew Palmer. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] 4 Extra Debut. The Queen passing the sleepy station sparks Producer: Edward Taylor FRI 03:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jllz) staff excitement. Pilot episode, starring Arthur Lowe and Ian First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1988. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Lavender. From February 1971. THU 17:30 Chambers (b007jyrj) FRI 04:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cwpxn) THU 08:30 Take It From Here (b01nm56t) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] From 31/10/1950 THU 18:00 Ghost Stories of E Nesbit (b01nm5jb) FRI 04:15 RF Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days Professor Jimmy Edwards is not keen to employ Dick Bentley Man-Size in Marble (b00xhz7c) as a lecturer at the BBC Research College. From October 1950. Newlyweds find the cottage of their dreams, but the previous [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] THU 09:00 1834 (b011klyr) evil (and dead) owners threaten to return. Read by Harry FRI 05:00 Mind Your Own Business! (b009sczf) Strong Continental Lager Hadden-Paton. [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] 21st-century teacher Jason decides 19th-century Macclesfield THU 18:15 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix (b01nm5jd) FRI 05:30 Chambers (b007jyrj) needs a decent pub with decent beer. The Sheik [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] In Jim Poyser's riotous comedy of transportation and delight, Returning to Scotland, Andrew becomes increasingly dependent FRI 06:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yzj3n) Jason is now Tarquin, third son of Lord Belport with a faithful on Mylne's support. Episode 5 valet, Ned. Jonathan Aycliffe's chilling novel abridged in ten parts by As the Nazis close in, Graham makes a grim discovery in a Jason Slater ...... Michael Begley Rosemary Goring. cabin aboard the Sestri Levante. Concluded by Richard Ned ...... Joe Caffrey Read by Robert Paterson Greenwood. Hoskins ...... Kenneth Alan Taylor Producer: David Jackson Young FRI 06:30 Virginia Gilbert - Meeting of Minds (b00qbswk) Lord Belport ...... Mark Chatterton First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 1997. Frustrated Martin is offered an amazing opportunity, but is he Stubbs ...... Glenn Cunningham THU 18:30 A Short History of Vampires (b00z55h6) brave enough to take it? Stars Joss Ackland and Adrian Dunbar. Millicent ...... Julia Rounthwaite Quid Pro Quo by Tanya Huff FRI 07:00 Up the Garden Path (b0080p54) Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas. The ultimate killing machines. Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2003. Natalie Haynes introduces the last in a series of dark stories, as Hot Water THU 09:30 Just a Minute (b007jq7g) she examines why the vampire - an iconic figure in horror- With more love entanglements, Izzy is finding life back in Nudism and pitfalls. Nicholas Parsons welcomes Bob fiction - continues to exert such a powerful hold on our England rather confusing. Monkhouse, Kenneth Williams, Derek Nimmo and Clement imaginations... Tumbling from one love entanglement to another, 30 something Freud. From March 1980. Genevieve Adam reads Tanya Huff’s deliciously noir tale of an teacher Izzy Comyn has a predilection for inappropriate men. THU 10:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jllz) immortal whose lover is in mortal danger. Imelda Staunton stars as Izzy. Episode 4 Producer: Gemma Jenkins An 8-part radio sequel adapted from Sue Limb’s 1984 novel. Sixteen years after Cathy's death, her daughter visits the Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2011. The second of 3 series which ran from 1987 to 1993. Granada vengeful Heathcliff. Stars John Duttine and Emma Fielding. THU 19:00 Parsley Sidings (b01nm56r) also adapted the series for ITV. THU 11:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cwpxn) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Izzy ...... Imelda Staunton At the Barndance THU 19:30 Take It From Here (b01nm56t) Dick ...... Mike Grady Preethi gets an unexpected glimpse of what might have been. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Michael ...... Nicholas Le Prevost Stories of Sri Lankan immigrants in Britain, read by Seeta THU 20:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yzbpt) Aunt Vinny ...... Rosemary Martin Indrani. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Charles ...... David Robb THU 11:15 RF Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days THU 20:30 Falco (b007wpcl) Gwyn ...... Dafydd Hywel (b00xhz7c) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Producer: Jonathan James-Moore Episode 3 THU 21:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cwpxn) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1988. Devastated Davy buries himself in school life in1926, and in [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI 07:30 Meet David Sedaris (b01nkt53) writing the book Beth urged him to write. Stars Oliver Milburn. THU 21:15 RF Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days Series 3 THU 12:00 Parsley Sidings (b01nm56r) (b00xhz7c) Easy Tiger; Possession [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] The multi-award winning American essayist brings more of his THU 12:30 Take It From Here (b01nm56t) THU 22:00 Andrew Lawrence: How Did We End Up Like wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 with a series of audience [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] This? (b01njxp8) readings. This week the perils of learning a foreign language by THU 13:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yzbpt) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] audio tape in "Easy Tiger" and when crossing the line in [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 22:30 Elvenquest (b010j3zz) property desire in "Possession". THU 13:30 Falco (b007wpcl) Series 1 Producer: Steve Doherty Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 October – 2 November 2012 Page 7 of 7 A Boom Pictures Cymru production for BBC Radio 4. lived. exploring the audience's deepest fears and neuroses. FRI 08:00 The Navy Lark (b01nmgrk) With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of political FRI 19:00 The Navy Lark (b01nmgrk) Series 7 and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil asked what [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Making a Right Pig's Breakfast the plays would have meant to the public when they were first FRI 19:30 The Burkiss Way (b00bx006) Breaking off her engagement to Leslie, Heather looks elsewhere performed. Carefully selected objects shed light on the great [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] aboard HMS Troutbridge. issues of the day that preoccupied the public and helped shape FRI 20:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yzj3n) Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the the works, and revealed much about the concerns and beliefs of [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Shakespearean England. FRI 20:30 Virginia Gilbert - Meeting of Minds (b00qbswk) Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Heather, In this, the final programme of the series, Neil considers how [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Ronnie Barker as Commander Bell, Michael Bates as the Padre William Shakespeare made the transition from successful FRI 21:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cwv65) and Tenniel Evans as the LS Goldestein. playwright to possibly the greatest dramatist the world has [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS known FRI 21:15 RF Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen Programme 20 SHAKESPEARE GOES GLOBAL - The (b00xj4lg) series between 1959 and 1976. publication of the First Folio of Shakespeare's collected plays in [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Scripted by Lawrie Wyman 1623 began the process of turning an early modern playwright FRI 22:00 Meet David Sedaris (b01nkt53) Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. into a global phenomenon. An annotated copy of the Collected [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1965. Works of Shakespeare reveals the extent to which Shakespeare FRI 22:30 Meanwhile with the Bearded Ladies (b007yvrq) FRI 08:30 The Burkiss Way (b00bx006) has inspired and influenced audiences across the globe and Episode 2 Series 3 through the ages. Lucy wants Kevin's help with a rat. Four women friends cope Not the Burkiss Way This programme was originally broadcast in 2012. with life, work and men. With Ronnie Corbett. From Learn how to offer family planning for rabbits, plus in World of Producer: Paul Kobrak. September 2007. Sport, it's racing from Doncaster and live furniture-eating. FRI 14:30 Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari (b007w3f2) FRI 23:00 The Party Party (b007jx5p) Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett. Episode 5 Episode 6 Cult sketch comedy series, which originally ran from 1976 to Travel writer Paul Theroux's epic journey comes to an end in Microcosm is host to revenge, greed and attempted murder. 1980. South Africa, his final destination. Concluded by William Starring Hugh Laurie, Robert Glenister and Clive Mantle. From Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. Roberts. June 1987. Producer: John Lloyd FRI 14:45 Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver (b00nnp65) FRI 23:30 Genius (b00brvcm) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1978. Back From Abroad; Three Stockings Series 1 FRI 09:00 Bristow (b00cglkn) The engaging stories of an English housewife, created in The Neil Innes Series 1 Times of 1937 and immortalised on film. Read by Penelope From bunk chairs to helium-filled bubble wrap. Follow That Star Wilton. Dave Gorman asks musical comedian Neil Innes to select the The troublesome buying clerk tries smuggling a food inspector FRI 15:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jlm7) public's best loopy idea. into chef Gordon Blue's staff canteen. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Award-winning comedian Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the Chester-Perry buying FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01nmjln) chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius clerk. He is but a small cog in a gigantic wheel... and he knows The story of Tutankhamun, whose tomb was unearthed 90 years inventions, schemes and policies of the public. it. ago this week, followed by the final chapter of this week's Producer: Simon Nicholls Adapted from by Frank Dickens from his famous newspaper story, Roddy Doyle's A Greyhound of a Girl. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2005. cartoon strip. Syndicated internationally, it ran for 51 years FRI 17:00 Old Dog and Partridge (b007jvg6) from 1961. Episode 5 Bristow …. Michael Williams When Jack's old chum Ralph comes to visit with his trophy Jones …. Rodney Bewes wife Kirstie, Jack feels the need to invent a fiancee. B.J. Bothwick …. Christopher Benjamin Joe Turner’s six-part sitcom stars Michael Williams as Jack, Hewitt …. Owen Brenman Lisa Coleman as Nicola, Cherry Morris as Mrs Drummond, Miss Sunman …. Katy Odey Simon Greenall as Andy, John Duttine as Ralph and Debra Station Master …. Jon Glover Stephenson as Kirstie. Post Boy …. Simon Schatzberger Producer: Liz Anstee Mrs Dimple …. Sheila Reid First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999. Music: John Whitehall FRI 17:30 Up the Garden Path (b0080p54) Poducer: Neil Cargill [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1999. FRI 18:00 Ghost Stories of E Nesbit (b01nmjlq) FRI 09:30 Snap (b00tzw0w) The Ebony Frame Series 2 A man inherits a property where he discovers a portrait of a Episode 5 woman that will change his life forever. Read by Anton Lesser. Doug is dating Kaz's PE teacher but just when the relationship FRI 18:15 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix (b01nmjxb) gets a bit more intimate he begins to feel uncomfortable. Voices Grannie Annie and Ernie are hunky dory so that just leaves Kaz "I reached the door and ran outside, but the voices would not on her own. If Kaz is cool with that why isn't anyone else leave me..." happy? Andrew witnesses a mysterious ceremony in a former church Paul Mendelson’s sitcom stars Rebecca Lacey as Molly, Paul and meets with his friend's widow. Venables as Doug, Soumaya Keynes as Kaz, Jessie Sullivan as Jonathan Aycliffe's chilling novel abridged in ten parts by Ryan, Marlene Sidaway as Annie, Samantha Spiro as Dawn and Rosemary Goring. Jonathan Tafler as Raymond. Read by Robert Paterson Producer: David Ian Neville Producer: David Jackson Young First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004. First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 1997. FRI 10:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jlm7) FRI 18:30 Weird Tales (b00vknmp) Episode 5 Series 2 Vengeful Heathcliff has wickedly schemed to force Catherine Connected to marry his ailing son Linton. Stars John Duttine and Sharon WEIRD TALES: Connected Duce. By Melissa Murray FRI 11:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cwv65) Hoarder of horror Lovecraft returns for a new series to share Test more of his chilling tales. A day out with his son gives Rohan new understandings of love. When her brother-in-law is killed in a car crash, Steph is Stories of Sri Lankan immigrants in Britain, read by Paul overcome with sadness. One day, feeling maudlin, she rings his Bazely. mobile number. She just wants to hear his voice really. The next FRI 11:15 RF Delderfield - To Serve Them All My Days day he rings her back... (b00xj4lg) Steph ..... Fiona Glascott Episode 4 Ray ..... Joseph Kloska Davy wants to give Bamfylde's new headmaster his full support Jamie ..... Piers Wehner in 1927, but Alcock won't make it easy for him. Stars Oliver Lovecraft ..... Stephen Hogan Milburn. Mother ..... Kate Layden FRI 12:00 The Navy Lark (b01nmgrk) Jan / Flight Attendant ..... Melissa Advani [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Passenger ..... Ewan Hooper FRI 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b00bx006) Shop Assistant ..... Rhys Jennings [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Passerby ..... John Biggins FRI 13:00 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear (b00yzj3n) Passerby 2 / Estate Agent ..... Tessa Nicholson [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Directed by Mary Peate FRI 13:30 Virginia Gilbert - Meeting of Minds (b00qbswk) Introduced by the mysterious H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales is a [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] series of three chilling and intimate plays for the late night slot FRI 14:00 Winifred Holtby - South Riding (b007jnl0) on Radio 4. Episode 10 Drawing the audience into a claustrophobic and disturbing When tragedy strikes pupil Lydia, headmistress Sarah Burton world, the plays set out to explore the characters' deepest fears takes action. Stars Sarah Lancashire and Philip Glenister. and torments. The series will concentrate on the psychological FRI 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World (b01h7cdr) element of the horror genre stirring the imagination of the Shakespeare Goes Global listener. Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum, One hundred years ago, H.P. Lovecraft created The brings to an end his object-based history. During the past four Necronomicon, a grimoire of lost souls, magical rites and weeks he has taken artefacts from William Shakespeare's time forbidden lore. Locked away, he is after new stories, new blood, and explored how Elizabethan and Jacobean playgoers made to add to his collection. From ghosts to demons, the plays draw sense of the unstable and rapidly changing world in which they the audience into a claustrophobic and disturbing world, Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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