Radio 4 Extra Listings for 3 – 9 April 2021 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 03 APRIL 2021 endured a long decline, taking a hard hit during the recession. town of Stockport, once the centre of the hatting industry. Now they are drawing a new crowd - surfers. Many come to He takes a trip on the infamous 192 bus, visits the world SAT 00:00 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0tb) learn the basics, while others travel from far overseas to sample famous hat museum and tries to get to the bottom of how one of 2. Tomb Ireland's waves, considered by many to be world-class, on a par its suburbs ended up with an infestation of marauding peacocks. Earth's last living man, Robert Neville, discovers that his wife's with anything found in Hawaii, Australia or California. In this series Mark visits Stockport in Greater Manchester, tomb is a lair for vampires. Mark learns that a few intrepid souls began to explore remote Colchester in Essex, Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire, The Royal Richard Matheson's 1954 cult classic set in 1976 USA. One of waves along Ireland's coastline in the early 1960's, sometimes Borough of Kingston Upon Thames, Lynton in North Devon the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, combining dressed only in jeans and t-shirt as they braved the freezing and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. sci-fi and horror. waters. Now with modern wetsuits and affordable boards, Written and performed by ... Mark Steel Read by Angus McInnes. everyone wants to learn. Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller. In Bundoran, Mark meets the surfer instructor who feels the Production co-ordinator ... Hayley Sterling Producer: Eilidh McCreadie ocean saved his life. In Portrush, he meets a six time Irish surf Producer ... Carl Cooper Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Scotland and first champion with a lifestyle that nearly destroyed him. And then A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in broadcast in January 2006. there are the surfers who risk their lives for the ultimate thrill - 2016. SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00lh453) surfing monstrous waves up to 60 feet high. SAT 06:00 Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows You're Fired! It's not The Beach Boys, bronzed bodies or bikinis - this is (b00fyl8x) Whether it is dressed up as 'downsizing', 'delayering', 'realigning Coldwater California. Mole, Rat and Badger try to curb the wild ways of their friend, the business' or simply having to 'let people go', firing or being Producer: Conor McKay Toad as they set out on their famous adventure. fired is still a painful process. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2014. Dramatised and narrated by Alan Bennett. Broadcaster Anna Raeburn, writer Jeremy Clarke and SAT 03:00 Laurie Graham - Perfect Meringues (b0075m9z) Starring Richard Briers, Derek Waring, Nickolas Grace and psychologist Linda Blair join Dominic Arkwright to discuss the Being a cook on TV was meant to lead to fame, fortune and a Adrian Scarborough. consequences of being sacked. rich social life. Alan Bennett's acclaimed Royal National Theatre version of SAT 01:00 Stand By For West (m000tp74) But for miserable Lizzie Partridge, it means dinners-for-one Kenneth Grahame classic story first published in 1908. Inspector West at Bay and a stroppy adolescent daughter, Eleanor. Mole ... Adrian Scarborough 4. Conflict in Kensington Starring Imelda Staunton. Rat ... Richard Briers Inspector West of Scotland Yard focuses on a former prison Written by Laurie Graham. Toad ... Nickolas Grace inmate and his secretary's flat. Lizzie Partridge …. Imelda Staunton Badger ... Derek Waring Starring Patrick Allen and Sarah Lawson. Louie …. Christopher Biggins Albert ... Terence Rigby John Creasey's detective thriller dramatised by Maurice Kim …. Lesley Joseph Otter ... John Hartley Travers. With Stephen Moore, Nina Wadia, Patricia Brake, Angela Chief Weasel ... David March Chief Inspector Roger West .... Patrick Allen Moran, June Barrie, Christopher Grimes, Sarah Pearman and Weasel Norman ... Stephen Tompkinson Janet .... Sarah Lawson Michael Wilson. Rupert ... Graham Seed Det -Insp Bill Sloan .... Derek Newark Producer: Viv Beeby. Monlca ... Allson Dowling Mark Lessing .... James Kerry First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1999. Magistrate ... Leslie Phillips Eve Wedlake .... Anna Gilcrist SAT 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b01d2rz3) Narrator: Alan Bennett Jacob Kennedy .... Peter Williams Series 1 Other cast members: Clara Kennedy .... Margaret Woolfit Episode 4 Amy Stanton, Belinda Baldwin, Danny Schiller, David Holt, Peter Kennedy .... John Pullen Miles Jupp presides over more relation revelations in the show David Sinclair, Elizabeth Mansfield, Geoffrey Matthews, Jack Producer: John Browell where it's not what you know that matters, but who. And more Stevens, James Hall, James Taylor, Jeffrey Holland,, Jessie First broadcast on Radio 2 in May 1969. importantly, how well you know them. Holder, Jill Graham, Luciano Macis, Lucie Fitchett, Maria SAT 01:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bk193) Writer and broadcaster, Emma Freud, stand-up Tom Charles, Natasha Pyne, Paul Panting, Peter Acre, Peter Kenny, Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 1 Wrigglesworth and BBC 6Music’s Shaun Keaveny, each Peter Whitman, Sam Gordon, Simon Treves, Stefan Arestis, The Noble Bachelor nominate one of their intimate circle to answer a series of Tina Gray, Tom Bevan, Victoria Gunning and Victoria The great detective is hired to find why a bride mysteriously questions and the try to second-guess how their nominees Wojciechowska disappeared just hours after getting married. responded. Original music and songs by Jeremy Sams. Starring Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes. Emma picks her son, Jake, Tom his dad, Richard, and Shaun Musicians: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale originally appeared in 'The plumps for younger brother, Paul. Sara Clarke, Williams Cox, Julia Findon, Nicola Hadley, Anna Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' published in the Strand Producer: Sam Michell. Hemery, Juliet Leighton-Jones, Christopher O'Neal, Jane Magazine in 1891. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012. Pickles, Andrew Roberts, Jeremy Sams, Jane Sebba, Kate Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs SAT 04:30 Fat Chance (b01b3fp9) Somerby, Missak Takoussian, Keith Thompson and Christopher Doctor Watson …. Norman Shelley Weighty Matters Wells Lestrade …. Frederick Treves A TV star turns up at Wendy Bottomley's slimming club and Producer: David Blount Lord Saint Simon …. William Eedle Graham unwisely divulges his secret to Lee... First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1994. Mrs Moulton …. Jane Jordan Rogers Jenny McDade's high-fat bittersweet comedy for those SAT 08:00 Heresy (b07fg6tt) Francis May Moulton …. Jerold Wells believing there's a thin person inside them begging to get out. Series 10 Adapted by Michael Hardwick. Graham Pitscottie ..... Gareth Corke Episode 5 Producer: Frederick Bradnum Wendy Bottomley ..... Janine Duvitski Victoria Coren Mitchell presents the show which dares to First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1959. Clive Bottomley ..... Michael Troughton commit heresy. SAT 02:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b079rgy5) Soo Pitscottie ..... Anne Reid With comedians Lee Mack and David Baddiel and performer Episode 10 Tina Tattersall ..... Julia Deakin and QI elf Andrew Hunter Murray. A family crisis brings Claire and her mother together, leading Kelly Chambers ..... Tilly Gaunt Together they discuss Netflix, father figures and Katie Hopkins. her to realise what she needs to do to resolve her search for her Lee Dubs ..... Harry Myers An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June vocation. Mrs Enright ..... Frances Jeater 2016. Lisa Owens' comic debut, depicting thirtysomething Claire Producer: Sally Avens SAT 08:30 Snap (b00tf82j) Flannery's life as it unravels in minute and spectacular ways. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1999. Series 1 Concluded by Emily Bruni. SAT 05:00 Clare in the Community (b083p889) Episode 2 Abridged by Robin Brooks. Series 11 After their split, Molly and Doug are determined to prove they Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. Unfaithful can have a life without each other. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. Brian's been going through Clare's emails and made an And maybe they would, if it wasn't for Doug's elderly mum SAT 02:15 Gudrun (b096jf3p) upsetting discovery. misbehaving... Series 2 He's insisted on a couple's therapy session although Clare isn't Paul Mendelson’s sitcom stars Rebecca Lacey and Paul Episode 5 taking proceedings entirely seriously. Venables. With her way of life threatened, Gudrun risks everything when Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the Molly …. Rebecca Lacey she engages in a war of words with ruthless convert the right jargon but never a practical solution. Doug …. Paul Venables Norwegian King, Olaf Tryggvason. A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in Kaz …. Soumaya Keynes Starring Kate Phillips. other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Ryan …. Jessie Sullivan Lucy Catherine’s re-telling of the Icelander classic, The Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all Scarlet …. Rebecca Front Laxdoela Saga. of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her. Annie …. Marlene Sidaway Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, must forge her Clare continues her struggle to control both her professional and Raymond …. Jonathan Tafler path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising private life. In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges Producer: David Ian Neville harshness. out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003. Gudrun ...... Kate Phillips Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden. SAT 09:00 I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Again Freija ...... Samantha Dakin Clare ...... Sally Phillips (b01r5495) Bolli ...... Gavi Singh Chera Brian ...... Alex Lowe Bill Oddie celebrates the cult BBC radio comedy series that Sigrid ...... Rosie Boore Vanessa...... Amita Dhiri originated from the Cambridge University Footlights - I'm Olaf Tryggvason ...... Samuel James Clive...... Alex Macqueen Sorry, I'll Read That Again - with three hours of history and Norwegian Jarl ...... Simon Ludders Producer: Alexandra Smith hysteria. With Humphrey Barclay. Director: Gemma Jenkins. A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Featuring: First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017. November 2016. * Clips of Cambridge Circus. SAT 02:30 Cold Water California (b048jfly) SAT 05:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b07tbfmw) * I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again: Series 2 (5/9) With freezing waters and long dark winters, Ireland may seem Series 7 Singing dogs - and the tale of Martin Copperwick. Starring Tim an unlikely place to surf. Stockport Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and But the surfing industry is growing fast and may even aid "Welcome to Stockport - Home of Stockport College" Bill Oddie. From November 1965. recovery of recession hit coastal communities north and south Mark Steel returns for a seventh series of the award winning * I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again: Series 6 (9/13) of the border. show that travels around the country, researching the history, Worries over Bill Oddie's singing voice - and Shakespeare's Mark Patterson has surfed for over 30 years, and is fascinated heritage and culture of six towns that have nothing in common funny side. Starring John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme by the role the ocean is playing in replenishing small coastal but their uniqueness, and performs a bespoke evening of Garden : Acting (adult) Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo towns like Portrush in Northern Ireland, and Bundoran in the comedy for the local residents. Kendall and Bill Oddie. From June 1968. Republic of Ireland. Once bustling seaside resorts, both have In the first programme, Mark visits the Greater Manchester * I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again: Series 7 (13/13) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 3 – 9 April 2021 Page 2 of 10 A look at love, sex and marriage - plus the tense climax to the Series 3 82 year old Barry offers advice about dating for the older hunt for the Time Trousers. Stars John Cleese, Tim Brooke- Episode 1 generation. To his amazement, Hilary is happy to discuss her Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Robin Ince, Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward are the recent experience in the field. Oddie. From April 1969. strange personalities who make up the In Crowd. Barry invites an audience to his weekly lunch club where he * I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again: 25th Anniversary Edition Meet the travel agent who won't let anyone go further than scrutinises themes close to his heart. With club secretary Hilary The original cast of John Cleese, Tim Brook Taylor, Graeme Lowestoft and the army officer who can't wait to offer himself to rein him in, and club treasurer Peter providing support on the Garden and Bill Oddie reunite to celebrate 25 years of the up as the first to be eaten in a crisis. civic hall piano, this is the ultimate life-style guide for an ageing programme. From December 1989 Plus the cultural hooligans who smash up beautiful things, and nation. Producer: Nick St George Wendy Clapper who thinks a trip to see the Northern Lights Barry is a cockney moved to the suburbs during the war. He is Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in March 2013 means a weekend in Blackpool. not given to looking at the old days through rose coloured SAT 12:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cz8np) Sketch show from Manchester's Comedy Store. spectacles, and is well up to speed with current trends. A Series 4 Producer: Graham Frost seemingly harmless old boy, he lures people into a false sense of Episode 6 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002. security, delivering hilariously stinging rebukes or erudite It’s Tommy and Sheila’s anniversary – 40 years in showbiz! SAT 15:00 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (b00w20zg) assessments of how the world is treating the over 60s. Lewis is hoping it’ll pass quietly and cheaply. But will a short Series 1 Stand-up comedy crossed with sitcom, the show plays out in hospital stay force Tommy to start taking life easier? Episode 1 real time as if we are eavesdropping on a civic hall meeting Mike Coleman's sitcom starring Roy Hudd and June Whitfield. Meet a masseuse who likes to ensure her clients are relaxed and group. Ageing showbiz couple Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr battle a cleaning lady who knows her place Written by Alex Lowe and Alex Walsh-Taylor. on with their second stab at fame. Tim Vincent's Mum checks into a hotel - and all the way from Barry ...... Alex Lowe Tommy Franklin …. Roy Hudd Las Vegas, Candi Karmel the 80-year-old diva who can't stop Hilary ...... Stephanie Cole Sheila Parr …. June Whitfield performing. Peter ...... Philip Pope Hetty Stark …. Pat Coombes Characters galore courtesy of Lucy Montgomery. Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor Murray …. Julian Eardley With Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Waen Shepherd and Natalie Executive Producer: Kevin Dawson Louis Elstein …. Edward Halsted Walter A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Vicky Blunt/Nurse …. Emma Kennedy Written by Lucy Montgomery, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Steven May 2016. Music by Frido Ruth. Burge, Jon Hunter and Holly Walsh SAT 23:00 It's Jocelyn (b06wg7rw) Producer: Steve Doherty Script Editor: Dan Tetsell Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002. Music by Philip Pope Episode 4 SAT 12:30 Round the Horne (b00j05x7) Producer: Katie Tyrrell Meet a monosyllabic shop assistant, a pair of terrible African Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. Drummers and a two terrible bedroom DJ's called 'Uncooth Episode 13 SAT 15:30 Son of Cliche (b00p4mcr) Youth FM'. Kenneth Horne Master Spy gets an Eiffel while Julian and Freddie Fortune Jocelyn Jee Esien vents her frustration at the world around her Sandy offer some animal advice at their new shop in Chelsea, From a spoof Melvyn Bragg to a signing chimp. through sketches and stand-up. Bona Pets. Rambling Sid Rumpo sings a special song of Featuring 'The Further Reasonably Exciting Adventures of With Curtis Walker, Ninia Benjamin and Kevin J. Cornwall. Captain Invisible and the See-Thru Kid'. Producer: John Pocock With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Sketch comedy starring: A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first Pertwee. Chris Barrie broadcast in January 2016. Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, Nick Maloney SAT 23:30 World of Pub (b00cm91k) London. Announcer: Douglas Smith Nick Wilton. Series 2 Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Episode 3 comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Producer: Alan Nixon Dodgy Phil hatches a sporting scheme to improve the fortunes Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1984. of Barry and Garry's bar. Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the SAT 16:00 Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows Tony Roche's comedy about the world's worst pub in London's scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and (b00fyl8x) East End. 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Dodgy Phil ...... John Thomson catchphrases and double-entendres. SAT 18:00 Nightfall (m000ttvf) Barry ...... Phil Cornwell Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Series 4 Garry ...... Alistair McGowan Hayes Four. The Old Post Road With Debra Stephenson, Kim Wall and Tony Roche. Producer: John Simmonds Late for a dinner engagement, Steven and Wendy take a Special effects: Carl Phillips and Nick Romero. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1965. shortcut down a deserted road where they encounter a series of Music: Bill Bailey SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b09th2km) increasingly bizarre paranormal events. Producer: Jane Berthoud The Bald Truth Nightfall is a series of supernatural and horror dramas made by First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999. For thousands of years, bald men have been the subject of Canada’s CBC Radio that ran from 1980-83. It went on to ridicule. As a result they've felt ashamed and have resorted to become one of the most popular shows in the network’s history. desperate measures to hide their condition. During 100 episodes over three seasons, Nightfall featured a SUNDAY 04 APRIL 2021 During the decades when hair style was a cultural battleground mix of original stories and adaptations of classic tales between youth and the establishment, the balding man was at Wendy …. Jayne Eastwood SUN 00:00 Nightfall (m000ttvf) the bottom of the heap. No prime minister since Clement Attlee Steven …. Geoff Bowes [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] has been bald. Ned Archer …. Sandy Ramer SUN 00:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind (b007jltw) But increasingly, bald men are coming out of the closet and Other parts played by Michael Wincott, Jon Granick, Alan [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] shaving their heads - and some women too. Research shows that Fawcett and David Calderisi SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b09th2km) bald men are perceived as less attractive but more dominant. Host … Henry Ramer [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Now that we are more relaxed about hair style, and more willing Writer: William Lane SUN 02:00 Barry's Lunch Club (b07889gb) to tolerate tonsorial diversity, are bald men finally able to shed Producer: Bill Howell [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] the stigma? And could the comb-over finally make a come First broadcast on the CBC in March 1982. SUN 02:30 The In Crowd (b00sbrl6) back? SAT 18:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind (b007jltw) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] Ian Marchant, who has shaved his head since the early 1980s, 3. Unexpected Visitations SUN 03:00 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (b00w20zg) investigates. Believing the apparently simple-minded Flora Kiery may be the [Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday] Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. key to the strange genetic mutation they've discovered on the SUN 03:30 Son of Cliche (b00p4mcr) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2018. Isle of Luig, Professor Curtis Lark and John Cornelius persuade [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] SAT 14:00 Barry's Lunch Club (b07889gb) her to leave the island and come with them to London. SUN 04:00 Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows Travel They believe that only by exhaustive laboratory tests can they (b00fyl8x) Alex Lowe is 82 year old Barry, who invites an audience to his ever hope to solve the mystery of her extraordinary telepathic [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] weekly lunch club where he scrutinises themes close to his powers... SUN 06:00 Lisa Owen - Not Working (Omnibus) (b07blljq) heart. Starring Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. Episode 2 With club secretary Hilary to rein him in, and club treasurer John Cornelius .... Peter Cushing Claire Flannery has quit her marketing job in order to search Peter providing support on the civic hall piano, this is the Curtis Lark .... Vincent Price for her true vocation. But months have passed and she's no ultimate life-style guide for an ageing nation. Flora Kiery .... Sandra Clarke closer to understanding what she wants to do with her life. In this opening session, Barry responds to a question about Kalman Baromek .... Steve Playtus It doesn't help that Luke, her long-term partner, is passionate travel for the over 60s and relates his disastrous holiday Joan .... Joan Mathieson about his job, which also happens to be one of the worthiest in experiences on a cruise ship and at an activity holiday. Purser .... Andrew Sear the world... he's training to be a brain surgeon. Barry is a cockney moved to the suburbs during the war. He is Written by Rene Basilico from an idea by Robert Holmes. In addition, she's fallen out badly with her mother - who refuses not given to looking at the old days through rose coloured Producer: John Dyas to accept Claire's revelation that her grandfather exposed spectacles, and is well up to speed with current trends. A First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1977. himself to her with she was little. It hadn't seemed like a big seemingly harmless old boy, he lures people into a false sense of SAT 19:00 I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Again deal to Claire at the time, but her mother's reaction has left her security, delivering hilariously stinging rebukes or erudite (b01r5495) hurt and reeling... assessments of how the world is treating the over 60s. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Lisa Owens's comic debut novel tells the story of a life Stand-up comedy crossed with sitcom, the show plays out in SAT 22:00 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap (b01rgmfd) unravelling in minute and spectacular ways, voicing the real time as if we are eavesdropping on a civic hall meeting Series 1 questions we've all asked ourselves but never dared to say out group. Episode 4 loud. Written by Alex Lowe and Alex Walsh-Taylor Bridget investigates women in comedy as she answers that old Concluded by Emily Bruni Barry ...... Alex Lowe chestnut 'Are Women Funny?' Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes abridged by Robin Hilary ...... Stephanie Cole Last of a four-part stand-up comedy series on the state of Brooks. Peter ...... Philip Pope British feminism today. Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor With Fred MacAulay First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. Executive Producer: Kevin Dawson Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith SUN 07:10 Tweet of the Day (m000jtmd) A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013. Tweet Take 5 : The Curlew April 2016. SAT 22:30 Barry's Lunch Club (b07908hv) The bubbling calls of the curlew, the largest of our European SAT 14:30 The In Crowd (b00sbrl6) Dating for the over 60s wading birds, brings joy to a summer upland as it does to the Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 3 – 9 April 2021 Page 3 of 10 estuary in the depths of winter. For this episode we bring you Morwenna Banks to slash their budget and there’s a new Head of the local Clinical three thoughts of the curlew gathered together in a longer Alice Lowe Commissioning Group who eats GPs for breakfast. format from some of the best loved editions from the Radio 4 Producer: Simon Nicholls The practice’s calamitous ‘celebrity’ Dr Jeremy who doesn’t series Tweet of the Day. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007. know what a Clinical Commissioning Group is, continues to This extended version of Tweet of the Day features behavioural SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000tvp2) dodge alimony payments, malpractice suits and the new scary biologist Professor Andy Radford, writer Amy Liptrot and Comic Castaways 2 practice Nurse Monica wildlife presenter Martin Hughes-Games. Matt Lucas Jeremy...... David Westhead Producer Andrew Dawes From Danny Kaye to Queen. Hugh...... Simon Greenall SUN 07:20 Lucy Catherine - Gudrun (b097lr1s) Comedy performer and writer, Matt Lucas shares his castaway Monica...... Polly Frame Series 2 (Omnibus) choices with Kirsty Young. Roy...... Nigel Planer Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, forges her As one half of the team that created the hit TV show Little Stephanie Simons...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising Britain, Matt has been responsible for dreaming up such Patients...... Duncan Wisbey and Zalie Burrow harshness. Left reeling from the part she played in her lover's characters as Vicky Pollard, the Asbo teenager who swapped Director: Frank Stirling death she's determined to rebuild her family and win back the her baby for a Westlife CD and Dafydd, the Welsh homosexual A Unique production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May trust of her husband. who is adamant he's "the only gay in the village". 2016. Starring Kate Phillips. When he was six years old Matt's hair fell out and as a result he SUN 13:00 The Nature of Spring by Jim Crumley Lucy Catherine’s re-telling of the epic Icelander classic, The acquired a certain local notoriety - from then on it simply never (Omnibus) (m00047rt) Laxdoela Saga. occurred to him that he wouldn't go on to become famous. At Nature writer Jim Crumley paints a captivating picture of Omnibus of the five episodes of Series 2. the start of this century, he was still struggling to have his work Scotland’s wilderness in Spring and the joys of observing its Gudrun ….. Kate Phillips commissioned and thought of abandoning his career in comedy. abundant wildlife. Freija ….. Samantha Dakin Today, Matt Lucas is one of the most popular and recognisable Omnibus of five poetic vignettes read by Simon Tait. Bolli ….. Gavi Singh Chera entertainers in Britain. Producer: Bruce Young Sigrid ….. Rosie Boore First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006. First broadcast in five-parts on BBC Radio 4 in April 2019. Olaf ….. Philip Fox SUN 10:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b01130qm) SUN 14:10 Tweet of the Day (m000rv68) Hrefna/Gaddja ….. Kerry Gooderson Series 2 Tweet Take 5 : Great Spotted Woodpecker Director: Gemma Jenkins Cuckoo It was only in the 1930's that it was finally proved that great The first series ended with the death of Gudrun's lover, Kjartan, The Cuckoo is one of the iconic brood parasites of the world - spotted woodpeckers use their bill to provide that familiar killed by his best friend and brother, Bolli. Bolli is married to the bird that cons another species into taking its egg as its own drumming sound in woodlands during late winter and early Gudrun. He suspects his wife was behind the blood feud that and rears the chick to fledging. spring. These birds are one of conservation success stories as led to Kjartan's death. Kjartan married into Norwegian royalty In the single frame of the Cuckoo you have a long distance their population is increasing even in urban landscapes, as we'll and when his wife returns to Iceland with plans to convert the migrant, travelling from Africa to breeding grounds in the hear in this extended version of the series featuring Chris country to Christianity it becomes clear her motives are far temperate north, and back again. Packham, naturalist Brett Westwood and Professor Chris from pious. The Cuckoo does not raise its own chick and across a range of Baines. Gudrun is under the protection of Freija, the Norse Goddess of Cuckoo individuals, they parasitise several species of bird - all Producer : Andrew Dawes for BBC Audio in Bristol love and war. She can sometimes be as slippery a customer as much smaller than they are. SUN 14:20 Ladies of Letters (b00k1864) her protégée. Freija's voice cries out for a new kind of Sir David Attenborough explores the world of the Cuckoo and Ladies Of Letters Spring Clean (Omnibus) leadership. Is she really on Gudrun's side or does she have an not only marvels at their natural history but tells the story of Spring cleaning unearths a confusing contraption, while the agenda of her own? how a wildlife cameraman resolved a scientific mystery - and heart attack of a mutual suitor brings deep-seated rivalries to Suspicious of how power and ambition are wielded by men how the Cuckoo itself harbours yet more secrets to science and the fore for the proud grandmothers. Gudrun's left feeling increasingly isolated. She longs for the natural history. Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge return as bickering Irene freedom to live her life according to her own rules, beholden to Producer: Julian Hector. Spencer and Vera Small, and this time they're full of springtime no-one. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011 recipes and tips for a long and healthy life. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017. SUN 11:00 Radiolab (m000tvp5) Written by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. SUN 08:30 A Life of Bliss (b049y7mw) Series 7 With: Maxine The Great Vaccinator Rachel Atkins Shy David Bliss needs courage to pursue Maxine, while his Radiolab explores the work Maurice Hilleman, who created Christopher Kelham brother-in-law Tony battles to win a contract. over 40 vaccines, including one for mumps. With Jad Abumrad. Ann Beach George Cole stars in Godfrey Harrison's sitcom about bashful, Until now, the fastest vaccine ever made - for mumps - took Producer: Liz Webb bumbling bachelor David Alexander Bliss. four years. And while our current effort to develop a covid-19 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2013. David Bliss …. George Cole vaccine involves thousands of people working around the clock, SUN 15:30 Spellbound: Siouxsie and the Banshees Ann …. Diana Churchill the mumps vaccine was developed almost exclusively by one (b01n9z0v) Tony …. Colin Gordon person: Maurice Hilleman. Hilleman cranked out more than 40 As the bright white heat of punk faded few bands survived and Psyche the Dog …. Percy Edwards other vaccines over the course of his career, including 8 of the emerged from the aftermath, stronger and more unique than Maxine …. Sarah Lawson 14 routinely given to children. He arguably saved more lives Siouxsie and the Banshees. TC Rowland …. Hugh Manning than any other single person. And through his work, Hilleman Led by the unmistakable force of Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Six series of 118 episodes of A Life of Bliss ran on the BBC embodied the instincts, drive, and guts it takes to marshall the Steven Severin, the Banshees carved a musical legacy that is Home Service from 1953. It moved to BBC TV for a run of six human body’s defenses against a disease. But through him we without parallel. episodes in 1969. also see the struggle and the costs of these monumental Originally meeting as part of the 'Bromley Contingent' that Sadly very few episodes survive in the BBC archive, including scientific efforts. gravitated around punk pioneers The Sex Pistols, Susan Janet the first seven starring David Tomlinson. His replacement This episode was reported by Matt Kielty and Heather Radke, Ballion met Steven Bailey at a Roxy Music concert at Wembley George Cole went to to star in the St Trinian's films and later as and produced by Matt Kielty. in 1975, bonding over suburban boredom, a love of Bowie, dodgy Arthur Daley in ITV's Minder. From WNYC first broadcast in 2020 on NPR in the USA. Hitchcock and 'Cabaret' style nocturnal fun. The BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenhoulet. SUN 11:55 Tweet of the Day (m000jtmd) Armed with a handful of ideas, suburban isolation, borrowed Producer: Leslie Bridgmont [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] equipment, the duo entered the furnace of punk intent on First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in August 1957. SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m000tvp7) smashing down the established musical order and sculpting a SUN 09:00 Drop Me Here, Darling (m000tvp0) Poems for the Spring Equinox dark and alluring legacy. Fear of Driving Daljit Nagra visits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Miranda Sawyer talks to Siouxsie about the legendary gig at the Confusion reigns over Leslie’s driving and his prowess in the compilation programme: Four Seasons - Poems for the Spring infamous 100 Club as well as her and Steven Severin's part in bedroom... Equinox - a collection celebrating the arrival of spring, longer TV folklore by appearing on the Today show where the Sex Starring Leslie Phillips. days and new beginnings. Pistol's Steve Jones and John 'Rotten' Lydon' swore at presenter Andrew Palmer's comedy about a former property tycoon who’s With poems by Robin Robertson, Stevie Smith, Louise Gluck, Bill Grundy revealing to the nation the filth and the fury of fallen on hard times and is now chauffeur to his wealthy ex- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, Ben Jonson, AE punk rock. wife. Housman and Patrick Kavanagh. Through Banshee's biographer and fan Mark Paytress, Leslie Duggan …. Leslie Phillips BBC Radio 4's former poet-in-residence, Alice Oswald reads a journalist Alexis Petridis and acclaimed producer Nigel Gray, Caroline Duggan …. Jill Bennett poem written specially for the vernal equinox, Jackie Kay reads Sawyer unearths how the band quickly bolted from the fading Claire/Moira …. Norma Ronald Life Mask and London's Young People's Poet Laureate and spark of punk and carved out an unparalleled legacy of five Dave …. Michael Robbins Caleb Femi reads his poem about how spring arrives in a albums in five years. Heather …. April Walker concrete environment, Anti-Winter. From 1978's stark, Velvet Underground inspired 'The Scream' Dr Rogers …. Richard Davies Readers include, David Calder, Clark Peters, Noma through band fall-outs, commercial and critical success, to the Producer: Edward Taylor Dumezweni, Harriet Walter, Simon Russell Beale, Siobhan neo-psychedelic, post punk of 'Kaleidoscope', the hugely First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1983. Redmond, Bill Patterson and Anton Lesser. influencial dark wave 'JuJu' and the quixotic, exotic and erotic SUN 09:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b00kfdtp) Producer: Sarah Addezio. and 'A Kiss in the Dreamhouse' this a unique insight into a Series 3 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018. genre and era defying band. The Libel Action SUN 12:30 Polyoaks (b07bc1nz) Producer: James Roberts As grumpy writer Ed updates obituaries, he produces a savage Series 4 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2012. profile of an old friend. Eight Days a Week SUN 16:00 Jon Wynne-Tyson: Marvellous Party The comical world of Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, The staff of the dysfunctional West Country surgery have their (b08n400b) consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive e-mail. work cut out to provide 'a truly 7 day service'. 1950s Las Vegas: sparks fly as Noel Coward gets a visit from Christopher Douglas stars as Ed Reardon. TV’s Dr. Jeremy has a possible solution, but it remains to be his old close friend, Esme Wynne-Tyson. Written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. seen if it’s ethical. Stanley Baxter stars as Noel Coward and Dorothy Tutin as Featuring: Nigel Planer and Simon Greenall star in the Health Service Esme Wynne-Tyson. John Fortune satire by Dr Phil Hammond and David Spicer. A child actress in London’s West End, Esme became a close Stephanie Cole The Polyoaks surgery is plagued by strikes, endless new friend of the young Noel Coward. Here her son, Jon, imagines a Geoffrey Whitehead management initiatives, staff shortages, militant patients, eight meeting in the city of Las Vegas, between his mother and Rita May day weeks, privatisation – and all these things are entirely their Coward in middle-age. Simon Greenall fault, apparently. Noel ...... Stanley Baxter Sally Hawkins The dysfunctional Bristol surgery run by warring doctors, Esme ...... Dorothy Tutin Philip Jackson brothers Roy and Hugh Thornton alternates between embracing Gary ...... Peter Whitman David Cann and collapsing under reforms. They’re a nurse down, they’ve got Waiter/Bellboy/Engineer ...... David Holt Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 3 – 9 April 2021 Page 4 of 10 Written and adapted for radio by Jon Wynne-Tyson. Producer: Alan Nixon whistle. Director: Neil Cargill First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1983. Devised by Ian Messiter First broadcast on the BBC World Service in May 1994. SUN 23:30 Radio 9 (b0419ml6) Produced by Victoria Lloyd SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000tvp7) Series 1 A BBC Studios Production [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Episode 3 MON 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlws) SUN 17:30 Polyoaks (b07bc1nz) "The 'accidentalist' movement in art explained plus sponsored Series 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] surgery. Death in the Family SUN 18:00 Algernon Blackwood - The Nemesis of Fire Delve into the recesses of a twisted comedy brain. Distraught Harold Steptoe must break some sad news to his (m000tvp9) Written and performed by Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker. father, Albert. 'We are facing a mental phenomenon: it is aware of your mind With Sarah Walton, John Stevenson, Stefan Frank, Janice Vee, Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. as a force, a power - it is not aware of you as a person. All Matt Wilkinson and Michelle Gomez. Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association energy is finally controlled by the mind. Grasp this fact: and Producers: Johnny Daukes and Katie Marsden with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson you hold the universe in your hand.' First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003. wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Dr John Silence investigates the appearance of smoke and The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert spontaneous fires at an English manor house. Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight One of the John Silence series of Stories of the Supernatural MONDAY 05 APRIL 2021 series on TV. and the Uncanny by Algernon Blackwood. Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell Adapted by Shelia Hodgson. MON 00:00 Algernon Blackwood - The Nemesis of Fire Harold ...... Harry H Corbett Dr John Silence .... Malcolm Haves (m000tvp9) Adapted for radio from their TV scripts by Ray Galton and Stephen Hubbard .... Fraser Kerr [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Alan Simpson. Col Wragge .... Hector Ross MON 00:45 Black and White by Jan Mark (b0886z4c) . Ellen Wragge .... Grizelda Hervey [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] Producer: Bobby Jaye Dr Corbin .... Denis McCarthy MON 01:00 The Nature of Spring by Jim Crumley First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1971. Jane .... Madeleine Cemm (Omnibus) (m00047rt) MON 08:30 Mr Finchley Goes to Paris (b00g27dk) Porter ....Jack Carr [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] Episode 1 Cabby/Waiter .... David Ericsson MON 02:10 Tweet of the Day (m000rv68) Mr Finchley finds himself on his way to Paris to track down a Producer: Harry Catlin [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] rather irresponsible client. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1974. MON 02:20 Ladies of Letters (b00k1864) But before he sets off, he has an important question to put to a SUN 18:45 Black and White by Jan Mark (b0886z4c) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday] certain widow of his acquaintance... 2. Old Money MON 03:30 Spellbound: Siouxsie and the Banshees Richard Griffiths returns as shy solicitor's clerk, Edgar Gary gets an ancient two-shilling coin in his change, but he (b01n9z0v) Finchley. doesn't reckon on its looming deadly effect. [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday] Series two of the adventures written by Victor Canning. Read by Malcolm Raeburn. MON 04:00 Jon Wynne-Tyson: Marvellous Party Mrs Crantel ...... Anna Cropper Written by Jan Mark and abridged by Peter Kerry. (b08n400b) Mr Sprake ...... James Grout Producer: Martin Jameson [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Lawrence Hume ...... Piers Gibbon First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in September 1993. MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000tvp7) Mrs Patten ...... Jill Graham SUN 19:00 Radiolab (m000tvp5) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] David White ...... James Taylor [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON 05:30 Polyoaks (b07bc1nz) Mavis ...... Teresa Gallagher SUN 19:55 Tweet of the Day (m000jtmd) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] The Frenchman ...... Barry Gordon [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] MON 06:00 Stand By For West (m000tw31) Narrated by James Villiers. SUN 20:00 Jon Wynne-Tyson: Marvellous Party Inspector West at Bay Adapted in six parts by Andy and Eric Merriman. (b08n400b) 5. Package for Peril Producer: Gareth Edwards [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] Chief Inspector Roger West's investigations continue - until he First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May 1994. SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000tvp2) receives a booby trapped package. MON 09:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b08n2gjl) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Starring Patrick Allen and Sarah Lawson. Series 18 SUN 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b01130qm) John Creasey's detective thriller dramatised by Maurice Episode 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] Travers. David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN 22:00 Polyoaks (b07bc1nz) Chief Inspector Roger West .... Patrick Allen are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Janet ....Sarah Lawson see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their SUN 22:30 I, Regress (b01rr6cg) Sir Guy Chatworth .... Maurice Hedley opponents. Series 2 Detective Inspector Bill Sloan .... Derek Newark From colour and vegetables to pizza and carpets. Cats Mark Lessing .... James Kerry David O'Doherty, Richard Osman, Zoe Lyons and Marcus Matt Berry plays a a corrupt and bizarre regression therapist in Eve Wedlake ....Anna Gilcrist Brigstocke are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate this dark, Lynch-meets-Kaufman-style comedy. Jacob Kennedy .... Peter Williams inaccuracy. Unsuspecting clients are taken on twisted, misleading journeys Peter Kennedy .... John Pullen Producer: Jon Naismith through their subconscious. Producer: John Browell A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4 first Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client who First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1969. broadcast in April 2017. has come to him for a different phobia. As the patient is put MON 06:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09c5440) MON 09:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 1 (b0076hv6) situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played out Shoscombe Old Place Episode 1 for us to hear. The result is a dream (or nightmare-like) trip The great detective heads to Berkshire to investigate strange Twenty years married to Catherine of Aragon - and no son for through the patient's mind, as funny as it is disturbing. events at a racing stable... the King. Should she take all the blame? With: Starring Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes. Jonathan Coy stars as Henry VIII Steve Pemberton Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale originally appeared in 'The An unreliable history, created and written in six parts by Barry Daisy Haggard Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' published in the Strand Grossman. Sally Okafor Magazine in 1891. Henry VIII ...... Jonathan Coy A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs Catherine of Aragon ...... Carla Mendonca else's head! Doctor Watson …. Norman Shelley Thomas Cromwell ...... Milton Jones Producer: Sam Bryant John Mason/Coachman …. Frederick Treves The Chronicler ...... Alfred Burke First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013. Mrs Norlett/Pageboy …. Fanny Carby Donna Elvira ...... Sheila Steafel SUN 22:45 Bird Island (b042z66l) Josiah Barnes …. Ronald Baddiley Cardinal Wolsey ...... John Rowe Series 2 Sir Robert Norbarton …. Godfrey Kenton The Pope ...... Stephen Gretf Episode 2 Mr Norlett …. Robert Sansom Music by Jim Parker. Young scientist Ben tests out a new coat, suitable for the cold Stephens/Dog …. Frank Atkinson Producer: John Fawcett Wilson climate in Antarctica. Adapted by Michael Hardwick. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003. Meanwhile Jane celebrates her birthday. Producer: Frederick Bradnum MON 10:00 Drama (b09jx8mp) Ben ...... Reece Shearsmith First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1959. Steve Waters - Saving the Blue Graham ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt MON 07:00 Ayres on the Air (b01ms34r) The Large Blue was always a magnificent and rare creature but, Shanghai Solitaire Voice ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt Series 4 by the early 1970s, it was very nearly extinct. Jane ...... Katy Wix Spring That was when Professor Jeremy Thomas, then a PHD student, Atmospheric comedy about a cheery scientist based in Sub- Popular poet Pam Ayres presents a series of poetry and sketch was tasked with saving this iconic butterfly. And yet their Antarctica by Katy Wix. shows about the seasons. numbers were critically low even as he began. It’s Ben’s trip of a lifetime, but in a vast icy landscape with Starting with Spring, Pam ponders flowers and animals, spring Throughout the rest of the 1970s, he spent the summer months dodgy internet. Feeling lonely, he shares his thoughts via an elections plus she has some unusual tips for spring cleaning. out in the field, at a secret location on Dartmoor, attempting to audio 'log' on his dictaphone. Her poems include: I Was Standing by the Cow; Heaps of Stuff; discover the reason for their decline and, if possible, to reverse Graham is a fellow nerdy scientist so their exchanges are Barking: Fleeced and the Snoring Poem. it. As the population dwindled away, the professor became mumbled. Ben’s even more awkward around new arrival Jane, With Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead locked in an increasingly desperate race against time. though he’s not entirely sure why. Producer: Claire Jones. This ground breaking work has been enormously influential on Producer: Tilusha Ghelan First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in September 2012. conservation practice to this day, having profound First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2014. MON 07:30 Just a Minute (m000tmls) consequences for other butterflies and for wider conservation SUN 23:00 Son of Cliche (b00p1jb9) Series 86 practice. What started as one man, on his own, on the moors, The Weird Dimension Episode 6 has grown into a group of individuals and agencies whose Something weird is happening. Nothing is outside of the Lucy Porter hosts a special episode of Just a Minute where she ongoing work remains vitally important. comedy team’s power! challenges guests Nish Kumar, Josie Lawrence, Zoe Lyons and Steve Waters, inspired by this work, has invented the characters Winner of 1984 Sony Gold Award for Best Light Entertainment Gyles Brandreth to talk on subjects including The Art of and settings in this delicate and essential drama. Programme. Queuing, and Oomph! Hesitation, deviation, and repetition are Michael Pennington and Joshua McGuire star as Professor Sketch comedy with Chris Barrie, Nick Maloney and Nick strictly forbidden. This episode was produced using remote Jeremy Thomas. Wilton. recording technology, with both panel and audience joining Older Jeremy ...... Michael Pennington Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. from their homes all over the world. Caroline Barlow blows the Younger Jeremy ...... Josh McGuire Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 3 – 9 April 2021 Page 5 of 10 Marston ...... Anton Lesser ‘Cherry’ Ingram is a portrait of this little-known Englishman, a Lexx with music supplied by Huge Davies . Gough ...... Paul Copley story of Britain and Japan in the 20th century and an Voice Actors: Emily Lloyd-Saini and Kieran Hodgson Caro ...... Hannah Steele exploration of the delicate blossoms whose beauty is admired Producer: Pete Strauss Johnny ...... Tim Chipping around the world. Production Co-Ordinator: Carina Andrews Sound Design by Alisdair McGregor In this opening episode, the author keeps seeing the name of Editor/Engineer: David Thomas Assistant Producer Robbie MacInnes Collingwood Ingram associated with the preservation of ancient BBC Studios Production Director: Boz Temple-Morris cherries, and wants to find out more about this fascinating man. MON 23:30 Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music (b0076yxj) A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast Written and translated by Naoko Abe Series 3 in December 2017. Read by Hattie Morahan Episode 4 MON 10:45 One Hundred and Forty Characters Abridged by Isobel Creed and Lizzie Davies Mitch Benn and his band are stranded on a mysterious desert (b0156mnq) Producer: Lizzie Davies island after an unfortunate in-flight alpaca barbecue incident. Songbirds by Oliver Emanuel A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first This gives Mitch an opportunity to sing a touching love song to A young man, devastated by a messy relationship break-up, broadcast in March 2019. his own guitar, for Kirsty Newton sings about bright new worlds finds solace in bird watching. MON 14:30 Ramblings (b07fl5by) and some of the other survivors have a very dark secret. Robin Laing reads Oliver Emanuel's short story. Series 33 It's music, comedy and a harsh fight for existence on a Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. The Cotswold Way mysterious island. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2011. Clare Balding joins Graham Hoyland and his partner, Gina Stars Mitch Benn, with Robin Ince, MON 11:00 Here's the Thing (b0b3fxvc) Waggott, as they retrace the steps they took in 2015 along the With Brendon Burns, Tasha Baylis, Kirsty Newton and Steven Sarah Jessica Parker and Ian Schrager Cotswold Way as part of their three month epic walk of 500 Kynman. Alec Baldwin explores the lives of the actress, Sarah Jessica miles, following the progress of the spring as it spread up Producer: Adam Bromley Parker, and New York's Studio 54 nightclub founder, Ian England from the south coast to Gretna Green. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2006. Schrager. They planted an acorn every mile and are thrilled to discover Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin gives the listener unique some of them have grown. They talk to Clare about the joy they entrée into the lives of artists, policy makers and performers. felt in sharing this journey, their favourite rucksack snacks and TUESDAY 06 APRIL 2021 Alec sidesteps the predictable by taking listeners inside the their future walking plans. dressing rooms, apartments, and offices. Producer: Lucy Lunt TUE 00:00 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0wz) After shooting the pilot for Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2016. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Parker told HBO she didn't want to go through with the project. MON 15:00 Drama (b09jx8mp) TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b01blgsp) But after the first day's taping, she says, she "didn't want to be [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] anywhere else." MON 15:45 One Hundred and Forty Characters TUE 01:00 Stand By For West (m000tw31) Ian Schrager is in the hospitality business. Hotels or nightclubs, (b0156mnq) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] uptown or downtown, Miami or Manhattan, Schrager defines [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE 01:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09c5440) luxury and leisure. In 1977, he co-founded Studio 54, which MON 16:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b08n2gjl) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] quickly became the epitome of the disco era. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE 02:00 Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively Here's the Thing has its roots in public radio. In 2009, Alec MON 16:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII (b09cyby5) joined with producers Lu Olkowski, Trey Kay, Kathie Russo, (b0076hv6) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] and Emily Botein to find fresh ways to engage in conversation [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE 02:15 'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman who saved on the radio. The group developed the idea of a new show that MON 17:00 Ayres on the Air (b01ms34r) Japan's Blossoms (m0003ctm) at its heart would look at what makes interesting people tick and [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] create a platform for new and emerging ideas to be presented. MON 17:30 Just a Minute (m000tmls) TUE 02:30 Ramblings (b07fl5by) From WNYC Studios, New York. First heard in the USA in [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] 2016. MON 18:00 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0wz) TUE 03:00 Drama (b09jx8mp) MON 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlws) 3. Vampires [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Tortured by memories, Robert Neville, Earth's last living man, TUE 03:45 One Hundred and Forty Characters (b0156mnq) MON 12:30 Mr Finchley Goes to Paris (b00g27dk) steps up his fight against the vampires. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Richard Matheson's 1954 cult classic set in 1976 USA. One of TUE 04:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b08n2gjl) MON 13:00 Stand By For West (m000tw31) the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, combining [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] sci-fi and horror. TUE 04:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII MON 13:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09c5440) Read by Angus McInnes. (b0076hv6) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] MON 14:00 Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively Producer: Eilidh McCreadie TUE 05:00 Ayres on the Air (b01ms34r) (b09cyby5) Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] Reality and Metaphor January 2006. TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (m000tmls) From the Garden of Eden to Monet's water lilies at Giverny - MON 18:30 A Good Read (b01blgsp) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] Penelope Lively considers the metaphorical garden. Bonnie Greer and Simon Brett TUE 06:00 Stand By For West (m000tvs2) Stephanie Cole begins this intimate meditation on gardening, Harriett Gilbert and her guests - writer, Bonnie Greer and Inspector West at Bay literature and creativity. scriptwriter, Simon Brett - discuss their favourite books by 6. Shadow of Darkness Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is Alberto Méndez, Michael Green and Annie Proulx. After opening a booby trapped parcel, Chief Inspector Roger partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at 'Blind Sunflowers' by Alberto Mendez West lies in Moorfields eye hospital in London. home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her Publisher: Arcadia Books Starring Patrick Allen and Sarah Lawson. Oxfordshire garden and the smaller urban garden in the North ''The Art of Coarse Acting' by Michael Green John Creasey's detective thriller dramatised by Maurice London home she lives in today. Publisher: Samuel French Travers. In this intimate and eloquent work of narrative non-fiction, one 'The Shipping News' by Annie Proulx Chief Inspector Roger West .... Patrick Allen of the UK's most cherished and admired writers uses the garden Publisher: Fourth Estate Janet ....Sarah Lawson to break open the world for us, and examines how we might First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2012. Sir Guy Chatworth .... Maurice Hedley encourage our lives to bloom. MON 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlws) Detective Inspector Bill Sloan .... Derek Newark Abridged by Siân Preece [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Mark Lessing ....James Kerry Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. MON 19:30 Mr Finchley Goes to Paris (b00g27dk) Eve Wedlake .... Anna Gilcrist First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Charles Kennedy .... Ian Frost MON 14:15 'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman who saved MON 20:00 Stand By For West (m000tw31) Producer: John Browell Japan's Blossoms (m0003ctm) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1969. Episode 1 MON 20:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09c5440) . Collingwood Ingram, known as 'Cherry' after his defining life's [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE 06:30 Wimsey (b007jw7f) work, was born in 1880 and lived to a 100 years old, witnessing MON 21:00 Here's the Thing (b0b3fxvc) Five Red Herrings a fraught century of conflict and change. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] 1. The Body in the Burn Ingram's interest was piqued by visits to Japan in 1902 and MON 22:00 Just a Minute (m000tmls) Aristocratic sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, goes on a Scottish 1907, and further when he moved to The Grange in Benenden, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] fishing holiday in Kircudbright, but ends up catching more than Kent in 1919 and discovered two magnificent cherry trees in MON 22:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b04svfsc) trout - when he's called upon to investigate the death of a local the neglected garden of his new family home. They reminded Series 2 artist. him of his Japanese trips and he fell in love with cherry The Separatists Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey. blossoms - or sakura - dedicating much of his life to their When the lights from a new zebra crossing outside Tom's The British gentleman detective features in a number of cultivation and preservation. parent's house causes insomnia in the Wrigglesworth household, detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, On a further visit to Japan in 1926, to find new specimens and Tom's dad is forced to take matters into his own hands and Dorothy L Sayers. meet other experts, Ingram was shocked at the loss of local cause a fuss. Not perhaps in the way everyone else would ‘The Five Red Herrings’ was first published in 1931. Adapted cherry diversity - a consequence of industrialisation and though... for radio in eight episodes by Chris Miller. modernisation driven by the need to rebuild after a devastating Meanwhile, Tom is down in London preparing himself for a Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael earthquake destroyed vast areas of traditional housing. There visit from the bailiffs. Bunter …. Peter Jones was also an unsettling political undercurrent and pernicious With Kate Anthony, Paul Copley and Judy Parfitt. Murdoch …. Bruce Bennett ideology at work. A cloned cherry, the Somei-yoshino, was Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle. With Miles Waters …. Bill Wallace taking over the landscape and becoming the symbol of Japan's Jupp. Campbell/Dr Cameron …. Trevor Martin expansionist ambitions. Producer: Katie Tyrrell McAdam …. Alaric Cotter For Ingram, the most striking absence from the Japanese cherry First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014. Sgt Dalziel …. John Graham scene was that of Taihaku, a brilliant ‘great white’ cherry tree. A MON 23:00 The Now Show (m000tp8g) Mrs Strachan …. Hazel McBride proud example of this tree grew in his English garden and he Series 58 Strachan …. Gordon Clyde swore to return it to its native home. Multiple attempts to send Episode 6 Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Taihaku scions back to Japan ended in failure, but Ingram Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand- Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and persisted. Over decades, he became one of the world’s leading up and sketches in front of a remote audience - and all from Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World cherry experts and shared the joy of sakura both nationally and their own home! War. internationally. Every spring we enjoy his legacy. Joining them from a safe distance is Geoff Norcott and Laura Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 3 – 9 April 2021 Page 6 of 10 from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that Ruby …. Vivienne Rochester First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. Paul …. Dave Lamb TUE 14:15 'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman who saved Producer: Simon Brett. Eva …. Sarah Parkinson Japan's Blossoms (m0003cyk) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1978. Producer: Liz Anstee Episode 2 TUE 07:00 Quanderhorn (b0bbp001) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1998. Having decided to become a world expert in cherry trees from The Quanderhorn Xperimentations TUE 09:00 The Now Show (m000tp8g) his home in Kent, ‘Cherry’ Ingram now had the daunting task of Fear! Terror! Gut-wrenching Horror! Arg Arg. Please! [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] achieving that accolade. It's 1952, as usual. TUE 09:30 The Brothers (b007k4nx) Read by Hattie Morahan. Having fired the Dangerous Giant Space Laser at the alien Series 1 Portrait of a little-known Englishman, a story of Britain and vessel containing his crew, Quanderhorn creates "improved" Episode 1 Japan in the 20th century and an exploration of the delicate duplicates of them all as replacements. A couple of years ago brothers Nigel and Michael gave up blossoms whose beauty is admired around the world. Meanwhile the originals - having luckily escaped the blast by respectable careers to set up a website-design company. That Collingwood Ingram, known as 'Cherry' after his defining life's triggering the Mercurian metadrive thanks to an astonishingly was their first mistake... work, was born in 1880 and lived to 100, witnessing a fraught angry outburst from Guuuurk - find themselves marooned in a Starring Adam Godley and Raymond Coulthard. century of conflict and change. strange forest which the Martian deduces is somewhere in the First of three comedy series by Caroline and David Stafford. Written and translated by Naoko Abe Crab Nebula. Nigel ...... Adam Godley Abridged by Isobel Creed and Lizzie Davies The professor receives a dire warning from his future self, as an Michael ...... Raymond Coulthard Producer: Lizzie Davies ancient alien ziggurat emerges at Piccadilly Circus Tube Station Oona ...... Pauline McLynn A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first - just by the chocolate machine. He hastens to London to Zorro ...... Pearce Quigley broadcast in March 2019. investigate with his new assistants. Producer: Marc Beeby TUE 14:30 The Flower Fields (b01nb02j) Our heroes are slightly surprised when a number 43 bus to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004. There's a gold rush in Cornwall; it's been going on for over a Highgate Woods arrives unexpectedly and they race to TUE 10:00 The Carlingford Chronicles - Miss century - producing the first flowers of spring, daffodils Piccadilly Circus to confront the professor and their Marjoribanks (b00l60zl) especially. doppelgangers. 1. Lucilla's Revolution Like mining, it's marked the landscape, and there are networks But Prime Minister Churchill has plans of his own to deal with Lucilla Marjoribanks, a large and determined girl, returns from of tiny fields west of Mousehole and in the Isles of Scilly. Quanderhorn, and summons up his crack Lab Busting bomber school with one purpose in life - to be a comfort to her recently Smaller than tennis courts, they nestle, safe from the wind squadron. widowed father - and to avoid all proposals of marriage... between high hedges, warm on south facing terraced cliffs. The Quanderhorn Xperimentations - an adventure beyond Starring Teresa Gallagher and Elizabeth Spriggs. From these old flower fields, called quillets, came something human understanding. Margaret Oliphant's humorous novel dramatised in four-parts even more valuable than the 'Golden Harvest' of early blooming Professor Quanderhorn ...... James Fleet by Elizabeth Proud. daffodils - delicate Cornish violets, carnations and anemones. Brian Nylon ...... Ryan Sampson Lucilla Marjoribanks ...... Teresa Gallagher From Victorian times to the 1960s fragrant bunches of these Dr Gemini Janussen ...... Cassie Layton Dr Marjoribanks ...... Roy Hanlon sped overnight by Guuuurk ...... Kevin Eldon Mrs Oliphant ...... Elizabeth Spriggs rail to reach the morning London markets. Troy Quanderhorn ...... Freddie Fox Mr Cavendish ...... Keith Drinkel Michael Bird - who lives in St Ives - listens while Bill Harvey Winston Churchill/Jenkins ...... John Sessions Barbara Lake ...... Elizabeth Mansfield works the plots his father tended. They are too small to admit Synthetic Voice ...... Rachel Atkins Tom Marjoribanks ...... Nicholas Murchie machines and depend on the long-handled Cornish shovel. At Created and written by Rob Grant and Andrew Marshall Mrs Nelly Woodburn ...... Elizabeth Proud Churchtown Farm on St Martins in the Scillies, Keith Low Directed by Andrew Marshall Colonel Chiley ...... Garard Green explains how the fields were created. Music by Peter Brewis Mr Cavendish ...... Keith Drinkel Michael walks the cliff gardens with the archaeologist Graeme Engineered, Edited and Sound designed by Alistair McGregor Mrs Chiley ...... Ann Windsor Kirkham, who interprets the landscape they pass through, Production Manager: Sarah Tombling Mrs Mortimer ...... Kate Binchy including the industry's mysterious skills and traditions. And he Produced by Rob Grant and Gordon Kennedy Fanny ...... Siriol Jenkins meets Bob Paterson at London’s Covent Garden market who Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios Edward ...... David Holt remembers selling the violets and anemones that came on the An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in The Rev Bury ...... John Fleming Penzance trains, and hopes he might again. July 2018. Mrs Centum ...... Theresa Streatfield Producer: Julian May TUE 07:30 Reluctant Persuaders (m000tlw0) Maria Brown ...... Melanie Hudson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2012. Series 4 Mr Holder ...... Eric Allan TUE 15:00 The Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Episode 5: Have A Break Nancy ...... Joanna Wake Marjoribanks (b00l60zl) It’s lunch hour at Hardacre’s, and Joe (Mathew Baynton) is Music by Malcolm McKee. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] taking five minutes out of his day to practice mindfulness. Or Producer: Sue Wilson TUE 16:00 The 3rd Degree (b07bthdt) he would be, if he didn’t keep getting interrupted. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992. Series 6 Amanda (Josie Lawrence) wants the conference room, Teddy TUE 11:00 Rites of Spring (b009jh4f) The University of Chester (Rasmus Hardiker) wants to eat Joe’s lunch, and Hardacre Nature writer Richard Mabey presents an exploration of the Steve Punt hosts the battle of wits as three students from the (Nigel Havers) just wants to know what on earth he’s doing. natural phenomena of spring and its connections with literature University of Chester take on their professors. As he attempts to negotiate himself five minutes of peace, Joe and art. A funny and dynamic quiz show with specialist subjects finds himself dragged into a discussion of different methods of Richard has kept nature diaries since he was a teenager and including Archaeology, English and Computer Science and self-improvement, self-help, and self-realisation. retraces some of his old haunts in the Chilterns where he used questions ranging from looms to Lemmy via Oscar Wilde and Cast: spend hours walking around by rivers and woods observing Microsoft Windows. Nigel Havers – Hardacre spring rites. Producer: David Tyler. Mathew Baynton – Joe He’s also joined in Norfolk by bird expert Mark Cocker and A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May Josie Lawrence – Amanda together they will be chasing the "spring tide" in Breydon 2016. Rasmus Hardiker – Teddy Water. TUE 16:30 The Brothers (b007k4nx) Written by Edward Rowett One of the most respected and senior nature writers in the UK, [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Directed by Alan Nixon Ronald Blythe shows Richard the delights of spring in Suffolk. TUE 17:00 Quanderhorn (b0bbp001) Script edited by Mark Evans Ronald has been writing about the countryside for more than [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Edited and Engineered by Jerry Peal sixty years and he and Richard discuss how climactic change TUE 17:30 Reluctant Persuaders (m000tlw0) Production Manager: Sarah Tombling has affected the season. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Based on an original idea by Edward Rowett and Robert Jonathan Bate explores further with Richard the literary TUE 18:00 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0y9) Frimstone connections with spring. 4. Distraction Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios, London Cornish artist, Kurt Jackson is best known for his dramatic Earth's last living man, Robert Neville, edges towards a cure, Produced by Gordon Kennedy landscapes and his ecological artistic work. He discusses with but then he gets distracted. An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 Richard how spring affects him and his work as an artist. Richard Matheson's 1954 cult classic set in 1976 USA. One of TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jprr) Producer: Sarah Taylor the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, combining The Man Who Never Was First broadcast on on BBC Radio 3 in March 2008. sci-fi and horror. The Brits must trick the enemy. A 1958 remake of the 1956 TUE 11:45 Snowdrops by Leslie Norris (m0002lyn) Read by Angus McInnes. spoof of the war film based on the 1953 book. Amidst the fragility of life, a 6-year old boy eagerly anticipates Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller. Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike the first snowdrops of spring... Producer: Eilidh McCreadie Milligan. Gareth Armstrong reads Leslie Norris's short story. Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in Starring: Producer: Caroline Sarll January 2006. Peter Sellers First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1991. TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b00v1pk9) Harry Secombe TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jprr) Series 10 Spike Milligan [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] The Emperor First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were TUE 12:30 Rent (b0675byd) Beethoven's fifth and final piano concerto, The Emperor is recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] majestic and moving in equal measure. shows weren’t kept in the archive. TUE 13:00 Stand By For West (m000tvs2) Richard McMahon plays extracts and discusses the virtuosic it With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] demands. Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. TUE 13:30 Wimsey (b007jw7f) Australian film producer, Hal McElroy, talks about using the Announcer: Wallace Greenslade [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Adagio (the second movement) to illustrate the classic 1970s Producer: Charles Chilton TUE 14:00 Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively film Picnic at Hanging Rock. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1958. (b09cz3m5) That was where Andrew Law – who was Chaplain at Malvern TUE 08:30 Rent (b0675byd) The Written Garden College - first heard the piece. He describes the Adagio as being Series 4 Penelope Lively's intimate meditation on gardening, literature 'one of those pieces of art which it is worth being alive to have Episode 6 and creativity continues as she turns her attention to the garden heard'. Maria and Richard have their lives back. For Paul and Ruby, it's in fiction. Concert pianist, James Rhodes, describes how The Emperor decision time... Read by Stephanie Cole. was central to his childhood and his developing love of The conclusion of Lucy Flannery's award-winning sitcom about Penelope Lively uses the garden to break open the world for us, Beethoven's piano music. Maria and Richard Reynolds and their lodgers. and examines how we might encourage our lives to bloom. Music teacher and singer, Prue Hawthorne, recalls how her Maria …. Barbara Flynn Abridged by Siân Preece father (an amateur clarinetist) labouriously transcribed by hand Richard …. Patrick Barlow Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. the horn and clarinet sections of the first movement so they Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 3 – 9 April 2021 Page 7 of 10 could play along with the record in their living room. WED 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b07bthdt) Doris Rogers Also contributing is the renowned Beethoven biographer, John [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] Molly Weir Suchet. WED 04:30 The Brothers (b007k4nx) Hugh Morton Concert pianist Richard McMahon has now retired as a teacher [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Clive Baxter at the Royal Welsh School of Music and Drama. WED 05:00 Quanderhorn (b0bbp001) David Enders Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] Written by Bebe Daniels, Bob Block and Ronnie Hanbury. appeal. WED 05:30 Reluctant Persuaders (m000tlw0) Music by the BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Paul Producer: Karen Gregor [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] Fenoulhet. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2010. WED 06:00 Stand By For West (m000twkn) Producer: Tom Ronald TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jprr) Inspector West at Bay First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1953 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] 7. Bullets in Bell Street . TUE 19:30 Rent (b0675byd) Chief Inspector Roger West returns home from the hospital - to WED 08:30 Alison and Maud (b007k2d1) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] news of another murder... Series 1 TUE 20:00 Stand By For West (m000tvs2) Starring Patrick Allen and Sarah Lawson. Family Hold Back [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] John Creasey's detective thriller dramatised by Maurice Travers How does Maud manage to come up trumps in the middle of TUE 20:30 Wimsey (b007jw7f) Chief Inspector Roger West .... Patrick Allen the night? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Janet .... Sarah Lawson Sue Limb's sitcom about events at the Abbeyfield Guest House TUE 21:00 Rites of Spring (b009jh4f) Sir Guy Chatworth .... Maurice Medley in Norwich. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Det-Insp Bill Sloan .... Derek Newark Denise Coffey and Miriam Margolyes star as sisters Alison and TUE 21:45 Snowdrops by Leslie Norris (m0002lyn) Mark Lessing .... James Kerry Maud. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 today] Eve Wedlake .... Anna Gilcrist Alison …. Denise Coffey TUE 22:00 Reluctant Persuaders (m000tlw0) Jacob Kennedy .... Peter Williams Maud …. Miriam Margolyes [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Clara Kennedy .... Margaret Woolfit Mr Mullett …. Chris Emmett TUE 22:30 Danny Robins Music Therapy (b00fgts9) Producer: John Browell Mr Ducket …. Geoffrey Whitehead Episode 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1969. Mrs Ducket …. Judy Flynn Danny Robins harnesses the power of music to improve the WED 06:30 Wimsey (b00s6492) Producer: Jonathan James-Moore. world to help humanity - and a dormouse. Five Red Herrings First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2002. With Isy Suttie, beatboxer Beardyman and the Finchley 2. Disappearances WED 09:00 The Motion Show (b00768f5) Children's Music Group. As Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the mysterious death of Series 3 Written by Danny Robins with Isy Suttie and Danielle Ward. unpopular artist, Sandy Campbell - key suspects keep vanishing. Episode 1 Producer: Ben Walker Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey – the aristocratic Debates galore over the North/South divide, glorious failure – First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2008. amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers. and blowing your own trumpet. TUE 23:00 The Allotment (b08h08rd) Dramatised by Chris Miller. Graeme Garden chairs the quirky battle of words and wit. Esther takes refuge from a troubled world on her allotment Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael With Steve Punt, Simon Fanshawe, Dan Gaster and Jenny where she finds serenity among the vegetables and loses herself Bunter …. Peter Jones Eclair. in her beekeeping. Sir Maxwell Jameson …. Garard Green Producer: Helen Williams While daughter Molly uses the shed as a makeshift study for her Sgt Dalziel …. John Graham First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000 exams love-sick Robert has come to ask Esther to take him on a Mrs Faron …. Frances Jeater WED 09:30 Snap (b00thqvk) tour of her bee hive, but the spell is broken when Geoff wades Miss Selby …. Nell Brennan Series 1 in in a makeshift beekeeping outfit in search of his stolen Miss Cochran …. Audrey Muir Episode 3 pumpkin. Inspector MacPherson …. Don McKillopp Doug's furious when he discovers Molly plans to take in a Welcome to a quirky, warm world where troubles get lost in the Allcock …. Peter Wickham lodger. long grass and small things can bring contentment. Hammond/PC Duncan …. David Strong Plus their best friends having a party, so it could be awkward if Written by and starring Esther Coles (BBC Two's ‘Nurse’). Betty …. Heather Bell both Molly & Doug get an invite... Esther ...... Esther Coles Jock Graham …. Christopher Scoular Paul Mendelson’s sitcom about life for a couple after they've Robert ...... Mark Benton Producer: Simon Brett. split. Geoff ...... Paul Whitehouse First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1978. Molly …. Rebecca Lacey Molly ...... Patricia Allison WED 07:00 Tickets Please (b00p1nm5) Doug …. Paul Venables Sally ...... Arabella Weir Episode 3 Kaz …. Soumaya Keynes Grandma Maggs ...... Jane Horrocks Love among the train-staff on the 9.27 London to Exeter Scarlet …. Rebecca Front Producer: Gareth Edwards flourishes, but with the unwelcome addition of Diana's amorous Annie …. Marlene Sidaway A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in mum. And why is her Dad squashing Carol's muffins? Raymond …. Jonathan Tafler October 2017. Sitcom on rails by Mark Maier. Gwynneth Williams …. Jennifer Hill TUE 23:30 The (Almost) Accidental Adventures of Bell and Robin...... Jeremy Swift Producer: David Ian Neville Todd (m0004fw9) Nadine...... Alex Kelly First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2003. A Whale of a Time Peter...... Malcolm Tierney WED 10:00 The Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Bell and Todd are all at sea - and then a whale called George Carol...... Tessa Nicholson Marjoribanks (b00l6gdv) appears. Carl...... Nicholas Boulton 2. Skirmishes Fed up with narrating the lives of two men bickering on an Diana...... Melissa Advani Lucilla's "Thursday" has been a success, but Mr Cavendish is allotment, mischievous Diana has thrown Bell and Todd into a Linda...... Kate Layden showing an interest in Barbara Lake and that is not part of her mad and mysterious world of her own devising. Keith...... Stephen Hogan plan. Neither is the arrival of Archdeacon Beverley. June Whitfield in John Eggleston's adventure series. Producer: Peter Kavanagh Starring Teresa Gallagher and Elizabeth Spriggs. Diana ...... June Whiltfield First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009. Margaret Oliphant's humorous novel dramatised by Elizabeth Bell ...... Matthew Bell WED 07:30 Future Empire-fect (m000tlb6) Proud. Todd ...... Toby Longworth Episode 2 Lucilla Marjoribanks ...... Teresa Gallagher Producer: Liz Anstee In their previous BBC Radio 4 series, Empire-ical Evidence, Dr Marjoribanks ...... Roy Hanlon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1997. comedians Andy Zaltzman and Anuvab Pal travelled to each Mrs Oliphant ...... Elizabeth Spriggs TUE 23:45 Hearing With Hegley (b00b0sgk) other’s home cities and walked around, taking in the sights and Mr Cavendish ...... Keith Drinkel Series 1 sounds and taste and feel of the bustling metropoli of London Barbara Lake ...... Elizabeth Mansfield Episode 2 and Kolkata, before performing stand-up in crowded rooms full Mrs Nelly Woodburn ...... Elizabeth Proud The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley, presents of people laughing loudly and maybe even sharing snacks. Colonel Chiley ...... Garard Green a selection of his work. In Future Empire-fect, their new series recorded in March Mr Cavendish ...... Keith Drinkel With contributions from Keith Moore, Susan Norton, Andrew 2021, they won’t be doing that. Mrs Chiley ...... Ann Windsor Bailey and Nigel Piper. What they will be doing is looking at the future of the Mrs Mortimer ...... Kate Binchy Producer: Phil Clarke relationship between Britain and India in fields such as politics, Lydia Brown ...... Siriol Jenkins First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1996. medicine, cricket, culture, cricket, trade, hospitality and cricket. Edward ...... David Holt In this second episode, they finally get to the important issue - Mrs Centum ...... Theresa Streatfield cricket. And also tourism, education and comedy. But mainly Maria Brown ...... Melanie Hudson WEDNESDAY 07 APRIL 2021 cricket. Mr Lake ...... Eric Allan Praise for Empire-ical Evidence: Rosie Lake ...... Joanna Myers WED 00:00 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0y9) "Surprisingly successful as both entertainment and education." Mr Woodburn ...... Christopher Scott [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] The Telegraph Archdeacon Beverley ...... Paul Daneman WED 00:30 Soul Music (b00v1pk9) "I was intrigued by Andy Zaltzman and Anuvab Pal's ambition Mr Centum ...... Peter Penry-Jones [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] and then surprised to find myself chuckling at their chutzpah." Lady Richmond ...... Jill Graham WED 01:00 Stand By For West (m000tvs2) The Spectator Music by Malcolm McKee. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Writer/Perfomer: Andy Zaltzman Producer: Sue Wilson WED 01:30 Wimsey (b007jw7f) Writer/Perfomer: Anuvab Pal First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Producer: Ed Morrish WED 11:00 4 Extra Goes Gardening (m000twkq) WED 02:00 Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 1. Great Gardens: Gertrude Jekyll (b09cz3m5) WED 08:00 Life With The Lyons (m00027sj) The great gardener, Gertrude Jekyll, once said: [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Ben's Birthday "A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful WED 02:15 'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman who saved Ben’s dropping hints about his birthday to the family, but will watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches Japan's Blossoms (m0003cyk) they remember? entire trust." [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] Comedy with a real-life American family - starring Bebe Through her fascination with colour, cottage gardens and WED 02:30 The Flower Fields (b01nb02j) Daniels and Ben Lyon. experimentation, it has been said she "changed the face of [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] With: England more than any save the Creator and perhaps Capability WED 03:00 The Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Barbara Lyon Brown". Marjoribanks (b00l60zl) Richard Lyon Penelope Keith explores Miss Jekyll's own 10-acre garden – the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Horace Percival enchanting Munstead Wood in Surrey – and along the way Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 3 – 9 April 2021 Page 8 of 10 unearths some horticultural wisdoms and delights from the BBC Earth's last living man, Robert Neville, steps up his hunt for the Tim ...... Ewan Bailey sound archive. root of the plague. Ted ...... Kim Wall Joining Penelope to discuss Gertrude's influence and changing Richard Matheson's 1954 cult classic set in 1976 USA. One of Rebecca ...... Colleen Prendergast horticultural fashions are broadcaster and author, James Wong, the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, combining Music: David Pickvance author Catherine Horwood and Munstead Wood's head sci-fi and horror. Producer: Jonquil Panting gardener, Annabel Watts. Read by Angus McInnes. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2006. Featured BBC Archive: Great Gardens - Gertrude Jekyll meets Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller. Chris Serle from 1984 Producer: Eilidh McCreadie Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions and first Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in THURSDAY 08 APRIL 2021 broadcast in February 2014.. January 2006. WED 12:00 Life With The Lyons (m00027sj) WED 18:30 Short Cuts (m0003kth) THU 00:00 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b00cfzw4) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 18 [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] WED 12:30 Alison and Maud (b007k2d1) Early Spring THU 00:30 Short Cuts (m0003kth) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] As the days lengthen and a new season approaches, Josie Long [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] WED 13:00 Stand By For West (m000twkn) presents short documentaries and adventures in sound inspired THU 01:00 Stand By For West (m000twkn) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] by the Rilke poem Early Spring. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] WED 13:30 Wimsey (b00s6492) The People Who Feel THU 01:30 Wimsey (b00s6492) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Featuring Henry Cordova [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] WED 14:00 Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively Produced by Ariana Martinez THU 02:00 Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively (b09czrbh) Falling Like Blossom (b09czrbh) The Fashionable Garden Featuring Naoko Abe [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] Penelope Lively considers gardening according to the dictates Produced by Sarah Cuddon THU 02:15 'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman who saved of fashion. Lilia is Listening Japan's Blossoms (m0003d6s) Read by Stephanie Cole. Originally made for the podcast Love Me [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] Penelope uses the garden to break open the world for us, and https://www.cbc.ca/radio/loveme/in-the-distance-1.4899506 THU 02:30 Living World (b010xy2r) examines how we might encourage our lives to bloom. Produced by Sara Brooke Curtis, with Cristal Duhaime, Mira [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] Abridged by Siân Preece Burt-Wintonick and Sarah Geis THU 02:55 Tweet of the Day (m000lz6l) Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. Mix by Cristal Duhaime [Repeat of broadcast at 14:55 on Wednesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. Readings by Stacia Brown THU 03:00 The Carlingford Chronicles - Miss WED 14:15 'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman who saved Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Marjoribanks (b00l6gdv) Japan's Blossoms (m0003d6s) A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] Episode 3 March 2019. THU 04:00 The Motion Show (b00768f5) On his 1926 trip, Ingram is invited to speak at the annual WED 19:00 Life With The Lyons (m00027sj) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] meeting of the Cherry Association of Japan. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 04:30 Snap (b00thqvk) He has grave concerns for the future of some native species... WED 19:30 Alison and Maud (b007k2d1) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Read by Hattie Morahan. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU 05:00 Tickets Please (b00p1nm5) Portrait of a little-known Englishman, a story of Britain and WED 20:00 Stand By For West (m000twkn) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Japan in the 20th century and an exploration of the delicate [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 05:30 Future Empire-fect (m000tlb6) blossoms whose beauty is admired around the world. WED 20:30 Wimsey (b00s6492) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Collingwood Ingram, known as 'Cherry' after his defining life's [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU 06:00 Stand By For West (m000twjm) work, was born in 1880 and lived to 100, witnessing a fraught WED 21:00 4 Extra Goes Gardening (m000twkq) Inspector West at Bay century of conflict and change. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] 8. Finale for a Vendetta Written and translated by Naoko Abe WED 22:00 Future Empire-fect (m000tlb6) Chief Inspector Roger West and his wife Janet rush to their Abridged by Isobel Creed and Lizzie Davies [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] local school... Producer: Lizzie Davies WED 22:30 Elvenquest (b00wdjz9) Patrick Allen and Sarah Lawson star in the conclusion of John A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first Series 2 Creasey's detective thriller. broadcast in March 2019. Episode 4 Chief Inspector Roger West .....Patrick Allen WED 14:30 Living World (b010xy2r) The search for the Sword of Asnagar is put on hold when Vidar Janet ..... Sarah Lawson Dymock Daffodils is summoned home by his father. Sir Guy Chatworth ..... Maurice Hedley Writer and naturalist Paul Evans visits the famous daffodils of Meanwhile Lord Darkness also returns home from his Mark Lessing ..... James Kerry Dymock. Necromancer's convention, proud holder of the 'Medal of Sir Guy Chatworth .... Maurice Hedley This corner of north Gloucestershire is home to some of the Chang', the prize for being 'Necromancer's Necromancer'. Det -Insp Bill Sloan .... Derek Newmark very best wild daffodil spectacles in the British Isles, plants However, it turns out that Lord Darkness may not have won it Mark Lessinu .... James Kerry whose pale primrose flowers with egg-yolk trumpets spill over entirely fairly, so he sets about trying to cover his tracks. Eve Wedlake ....Anna Gilcrist motorway verges, infiltrate hedgerows and crowd into copses The fates of Lord Darkness and the Questers are drawn together Jacob Kennedy ..... Peter Williams for a few precious weeks in late March and early April. when they both end up having to cross the Gorge of Doom. But Clara Kennedy .... Margaret Woolfit The area is also famous for hosting a remarkable collection of first they must pass the mysterious Bridge Keeper who controls Charles Kennedy .... Ian Frost poets just before the First World War, lured there by the idea the only passage across. And he charges a heavy price... Benson .... Peter Thompson of a rural idyll. Among them were Edward Thomas, who was Fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth written by Anil Gupta Dramatised by Maurice Travers. killed in action, and the visiting American poet Robert Frost, and Richard Pinto. Producer: John Browell whose verse, "The Road Not Taken" includes the well-known Sam …. Stephen Mangan First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1969. line "two roads diverged in a yellow wood". Was this perhaps a Lord Darkness …. Alistair McGowan THU 06:30 Wimsey (b00s6brb) reference to the tides of Dymock daffodils? The Bridge Keeper …. Gus Brown Five Red Herrings Paul finds out from his guides Roy Palmer, folklorist and Dean/Kreech …. Kevin Eldon 3. Bicycles chairman of the Dymock Poets Society, and botanist Ray Vidar …. Darren Boyd One of six suspects over the death of Sandy Campbell, Jock Woods, who reveals the resilience and also the vulnerability of Amis – The Chosen One …. Dave Lamb Graham has let slip that he knows rather more than he pretends. this surprising flower, which is showing promise as a relief for Penthiselea …. Sophie Winkleman Lord Peter Wimsey investigates. dementia. Producer: Sam Michell Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey – the aristocratic Blending literature, history and wildlife, Living World takes the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010. amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers. poets' path into the heart of wild daffodil country in this unique WED 23:00 Radio Active (b007jvcs) Dramatised by Chris Miller. corner of England and revels in the coming of spring. Series 3 Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael Producer: Brett Westwood Radio Active's Funday in Blackport Hammond/PC Duncan …. David Strong First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011. Have fun and plenty of it with Radio Active's fun day out on the Jock Graham …. Christopher Scoular WED 14:55 Tweet of the Day (m000lz6l) promenade in Blackport. Inspector MacPherson …. Don McKillopp Tweet Take 5 : Song Thrush Enough games, celebrities and competitions to generate a great Jaime Mair/The Constable …. Jonathan Scott Perched high in a tree the song thrush has a varied and rather deal of fun. Plus, somebody MUST win a Radio Active Car Ferguson …. Iain Blair liquidescent call which can travel a far distance across the Sticker. Mrs McGregor …. Miriam Margoyles countryside. Listening to this song, more often a melody of two Starring : Helen McGregor …. Yvonne Gillan notes from the darkest days of winter, is a favourite of nature Helen Atkinson-Wood PC Ross …. Gordon Kane lovers and poets alike. With over 100 variations in song Angus Deayton Producer: Simon Brett. recorded, some have even described it as like following a small Geoffrey Perkins First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1978. stream bubbling over uneven pebbles so providing an ever Philip Pope THU 07:00 Rob Newman (m0000mrv) varied repertoire of sound twists and turns. For this extended Michael Fenton-Stevens Rob Newman's Total Eclipse of Descartes version of Tweet of the Day we hear from Sir David Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. With Jon Thought Experiments Attenborough and from music philosopher David Rothenberg. Canter, Roger Planer, Antony Nicholson, Moray Hunter and Mixing stand-up and sketches, comedian Rob Newman tackles Producer Andrew Dawes John Docherty. the world of philosophy, with a look at the thorniest of thought WED 15:00 The Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Producer: Jamie Rix experiments through history, including a famous Shakespeare- Marjoribanks (b00l6gdv) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1983. typing monkey. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED 23:30 Weak at the Top (b00tlwzg) Produced by Jonathan Harvey. WED 16:00 The Motion Show (b00768f5) Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2018. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Otters THU 07:30 Meet David Sedaris (m000tnr4) WED 16:30 Snap (b00thqvk) John Weak turns Smokehouse as green as the Jolly Green Giant, Series 8 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] while saving Sir Marcus from an eco-Nazi who insists on paper Instalment 3 WED 17:00 Tickets Please (b00p1nm5) underwear. What with the whole world grinding to a viral halt and [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Starring Alexander Armstrong as marketing maestro and "totty" everything, this special series of essays and diary entries is WED 17:30 Future Empire-fect (m000tlb6) magnet John Weak. recorded at the Sussex home of the world-renowned storyteller. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Hayley ...... Clare Perkins In 2021, it's 25 years since David Sedaris first shared his very WED 18:00 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b00cfzw4) Sir Marcus ...... Geoffrey Whitehead particular world view with the listeners to BBC Radio 4, having 5. Hunting Bill Peters ...... Ron Cook brought us The SantaLand Diaries back in 1996. In this eighth Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 3 – 9 April 2021 Page 9 of 10 series of Meet David Sedaris, he continues to entertain with Dr Marjoribanks ...... Roy Hanlon 6. Shock sardonic wit and incisive social critiques. Mrs Oliphant ...... Elizabeth Spriggs Crushed by his dog's death, Robert's vampire quest continues, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent Mr Cavendish ...... Keith Drinkel with a shock in store. humour writers and, in 2019, was elected to the American Barbara Lake ...... Elizabeth Mansfield Richard Matheson's 1954 cult classic set in 1976 USA. One of Academy of Arts and Letters. The great skill with which he Mrs Nelly Woodburn ...... Elizabeth Proud the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, combining slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness Colonel Chiley ...... Garard Green sci-fi and horror. proves that he's a master of satire and one of the most observant Mr Cavendish ...... Keith Drinkel Read by Angus McInnes. writers addressing the human condition today. Mrs Chiley ...... Ann Windsor Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller. Sedaris's first book, Barrel Fever (1994), which included The Mrs Mortimer ...... Kate Binchy Producer: Eilidh McCreadie SantaLand Diaries, was a critical and commercial success, as Edward ...... David Holt Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in were his follow-up efforts, Naked (1997), Holidays on Ice Mrs Centum ...... Theresa Streatfield January 2006. (1997) and Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000). He became known Mr Lake ...... Eric Allan THU 18:30 Great Lives (b07pgvjz) for his bitingly funny recollections of his youth, family life and Rosie Lake ...... Joanna Myers Series 40 travels, making semi-celebrities out of his parents and siblings. Mr Woodburn ...... Christopher Scott Dag Hammarskjold David Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammy Awards Archdeacon Beverley ...... Paul Daneman Sometime around midnight of September 17 1961, a plane for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. His latest Tom Marjoribanks ...... Nicholas Murchie approached an airstrip near Ndola in what was then northern international best-selling book is a collection of stories entitled General Travers ...... John Webb Rhodesia. Calypso. A feature film adaptation of his story C.O.G. was Music by Malcolm McKee. The plane was a DC6, and on board the second ever secretary released after a premier at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. Producer: Sue Wilson general of the United Nations, an aristocratic Swede called Dag Producer: Steve Doherty First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. Hammarskjold. He was on his way to try and mediate a war in A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000tvp2) the Congo, but the plane crashed and Hammarskjold was killed. THU 08:00 Round the Horne (b00hzh39) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] Was it an accident? The debate continues to this day. Series 1 THU 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b01130qm) Joining Matthew Parris to discuss the life and death of Episode 14 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Hammarskjold are the journalist Georgina Godwin and the Special agent Kenneth Horne probes a pirate invasion of the THU 12:00 Round the Horne (b00hzh39) academic Susan Williams, author of Who Killed BBC, while Kenneth Williams throws a hissy fit. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Hammarskjold? A dramatic and detailed discussion focuses on How sure are Binkie Huckaback and Dame Celia Molestrangler THU 12:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four (b0148r4n) the events surrounding his death. about their latest movie revival? [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Producer: Miles Warde And at the Studio Bona, is Mr Horne up to flexing his deltoids THU 13:00 Stand By For West (m000twjm) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016. for photographers Julian and Sandy? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 19:00 Round the Horne (b00hzh39) With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill THU 13:30 Wimsey (b00s6brb) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Pertwee. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU 19:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four (b0148r4n) Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, THU 14:00 Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] London. Announcer: Douglas Smith (b09d3w1j) THU 20:00 Stand By For West (m000twjm) Round the Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio Time, Order and the Garden [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Penelope's intimate meditation on gardening, literature and THU 20:30 Wimsey (b00s6brb) Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, creativity continues as she presents gardening as the ultimate [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the defiance of time. THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000tvp2) scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and Read by Stephanie Cole. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, Penelope uses the garden to break open the world for us, and THU 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b01130qm) catchphrases and double-entendres. examines how we might encourage our lives to bloom. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Abridged by Siân Preece THU 22:00 Meet David Sedaris (m000tnr4) Hayes Four. Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Producer: John Simmonds First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. THU 22:30 The World of Simon Rich (b07fl6t9) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1965. THU 14:15 'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman who saved Series 1 THU 08:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four (b0148r4n) Japan's Blossoms (m0003cpn) Episode 3 Progress Is Power Episode 4 Simon Rich has been Saturday Night Live's youngest writer, a 'Difficult Day? C'mon, smile it all away!' By the mid 1930s, the link between cherries and national staff writer for Pixar and a regular contributor to The New Is smiling really the answer to Edward's troubles? identity was firmly established in Japan. Yorker - as well as one of the funniest short story writers of his Starring Robert Lindsay. Yet diplomats used the blossoms as benign propaganda, hiding generation. Futuristic sitcom by Richard Turner and William Osborne with sinister intentions. Now the American brings his enchanting, absurd world to radio a nod to George Orwell. Read by Hattie Morahan. with his first British comedy show. Edward ...... Robert Lindsay Portrait of a little-known Englishman, a story of Britain and The series takes us across time and space, from the design of Sophie ...... Siobhan Redmond Japan in the 20th century and an exploration of the delicate the universe and prehistoric love triangles to the terrors of life Charles ...... Paul Shearer blossoms whose beauty is admired around the world. as an unused condom inside a teenager’s wallet. With Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Richard Turner, David Collingwood Ingram, known as 'Cherry' after his defining life's Performing the stories alongside Simon is a cast of UK comic Goodland and Christopher Barr. work, was born in 1880 and lived to 100, witnessing a fraught talent: Producer: Nick Symons century of conflict and change. Peter Serafinowicz First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1985. Written and translated by Naoko Abe Tim Key THU 09:00 Genius (b00850j1) Abridged by Isobel Creed and Lizzie Davies Cariad Lloyd Series 3 Producer: Lizzie Davies Jamie Demetriou Charlie Brooker A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first Joseph Morpurgo Speeding motorway services? Two year dogs? broadcast in March 2019. Claire Price. Dave Gorman asks writer and humourist Charlie Brooker to THU 14:30 A Spring Clean Symphony (b01rlsv4) Producer: Jon Harvey select the public's best loopy idea. Someone, somewhere, is scrubbing, wiping, brushing or Executive Producer: Richard Wilson Award-winning comedian Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest zapping. A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius Love it or hate it, cleaning is part of our everyday lives and, in 2016. inventions, schemes and policies of the public. Spring in particular, there's a surge in cleaning activities as we THU 23:00 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (b00w7c95) Producer: Simon Nicholls throw open the windows and purge our lives of the accumulated Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007. winter grime. Episode 2 THU 09:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b0132tk0) In this composed feature, Nina Perry brings to light the rituals Meet Daisy, the chattering public school girl's, parents and find Series 3 and personal stories of the spring clean and interweaves them out why the Mona Lisa has been dumped by the Laughing Alka Salsa with specially composed music. Cavalier. Maureen persuades Wendy to join her on a salsa weekend in How has cleaning changed over the generations? Is our attitude Plus, a Police Officer who can't find the right words, a street Bognor. Robin reluctantly goes along too, so he can visit a to cleaning nature or nurture? To what extent are our cleaning survey that probes too far and Candi Karmel's sister makes an model village. habits indicative of an inward state? And is cleaning about appearance. Meanwhile, Derek has discovered a new drug - coffee. And he's goodness, purity and perfection - or about living a healthy, germ A multi-paced, showcase for the exceptional talent of Lucy already addicted. free existence? Montgomery. Sitcom about the mundane lives of childless couple, Robin and Nina rolls up her sleeves and spring cleans with her 96-year-old With Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Waen Shepherd and Natalie Wendy and their friends and neighbours - with a twist. grandmother, Gwen. She speaks to Angela Levin about the Walter. Wendy ...... Kay Stonham significance of spring cleaning within the Jewish faith. And she Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by Robin ...... Brian Capron asks Professor Sally Bloomfield and Dr Robert Aunger, from Steven Burge and Dan Tetsell. Derek ...... Martin Trenaman the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, what is Music by Philip Pope Maureen ...... Amelia Bullmore "clean"? Producer: Katie Tyrrell. Written by Kay Stonham. Producer: Nina Perry First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010. Devised by Kay Stonham and Simon Greenall A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in THU 23:30 Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life Producer: Helen Williams 2013. (m000fvzp) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. THU 15:00 The Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Series 3 THU 10:00 The Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Marjoribanks (b00l6l5l) Spring Marjoribanks (b00l6l5l) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Multi-award winning comedian and author Mark Watson 3. Lucilla's Luck THU 16:00 Genius (b00850j1) continues his probably doomed quest to make sense of the Mrs Mortimer is surrounded by a mystery which Lucilla can't [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] human experience. unravel. Archdeacon Beverley seems to be involved but who THU 16:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b0132tk0) Expect jokes galore and a few songs with Mark aided by the else? Lucilla is determined to give advice, but Mr Cavendish [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] sardonic musical brilliance of Flo and Joan. may not want to hear it... THU 17:00 Rob Newman (m0000mrv) And Mark has a fresh comedy friend in each show. For starters, Starring Teresa Gallagher and Elizabeth Spriggs. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] it's Lou Sanders. Margaret Oliphant's humorous novel dramatised by Elizabeth THU 17:30 Meet David Sedaris (m000tnr4) A time of new beginnings, lambs and other cliches. Proud. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Spring kicks off this series about the four seasons of the year Lucilla Marjoribanks ...... Teresa Gallagher THU 18:00 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k10v) and the seasons of a human life, as Mark - at the halfway point Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 3 – 9 April 2021 Page 10 of 10 of his expected lifespan - considers what might come next... Hugo ...... Andrew Wincott Producer: Sally Avens Producer: Lianne Coop Joan ...... Sarah Thom First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1999. An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Mrs Singh ...... Nina Wadia FRI 10:00 The Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Marjoribanks March 2020. Cilla ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo (b00l74dw) Anarchist ...... Colin Hoult 4. The Battle Lost and Won PC ...... Colin Hoult Ten years have passed and Lucilla worries that she might have FRIDAY 09 APRIL 2021 Producer: Alexandra Smith "gone off". A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in When the MP for Carlingford dies, it seems that the two FRI 00:00 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k10v) December 2016. contenders, Mr Ashburton and Mr Cavendish are not of that [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI 07:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b07v2mdz) opinion. FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b07pgvjz) Series 7 Conclusion of Margaret Oliphant's humorous novel starring [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Colchester Teresa Gallagher and Elizabeth Spriggs. FRI 01:00 Stand By For West (m000twjm) Colchester - The oldest recorded town in Britain Lucilla Marjoribanks ...... Teresa Gallagher [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Mark Steel returns for a seventh series of the award-winning Dr Marjoribanks ...... Roy Hanlon FRI 01:30 Wimsey (b00s6brb) show that travels around the country, researching the history, Mrs Oliphant ...... Elizabeth Spriggs [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] heritage and culture of six towns that have nothing in common Mr Cavendish ...... Keith Drinkel FRI 02:00 Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively but their uniqueness, and performs a bespoke evening of Barbara Lake ...... Elizabeth Mansfield (b09d3w1j) comedy for the local residents. Mrs Nelly Woodburn ...... Elizabeth Proud [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] "The oldest hot cross bun in the world was baked in Colchester" Colonel Chiley ...... Garard Green FRI 02:15 'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman who saved Mark visits the Essex town of Colchester and walks through the Mr Cavendish ...... Keith Drinkel Japan's Blossoms (m0003cpn) streets where 'Emperor Claudius once rode triumphantly on the Mrs Chiley ...... Ann Windsor [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] first elephant in Britain', before Boudicca burnt the place to the Edward ...... David Holt FRI 02:30 A Spring Clean Symphony (b01rlsv4) ground, that was. He visits 'Jumbo', the town's iconic, Victorian Mrs Centum ...... Theresa Streatfield [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] water tower and he delves into the history of Colchester Zoo. Mr Holden ...... Eric Allan FRI 03:00 The Carlingford Chronicles - Miss Marjoribanks Mark also discovers how several nursery rhymes have their Rosie Lake ...... Joanna Myers (b00l6l5l) origins in Colchester and he investigates the town's rivalry with Mr Ashburton ...... Christopher Scott [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Chelmsford. Tom Marjoribanks ...... Nicholas Murchie FRI 04:00 Genius (b00850j1) In this series Mark visits Stockport in Greater Manchester, Mr Black ...... John Webb [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Colchester in Essex, Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire, The Royal Maria Brown ...... Melanie Hudson FRI 04:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b0132tk0) Borough of Kingston Upon Thames, Lynton in North Devon Mr Centrum ...... Peter Penry-Jones [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. Lady Richmond ...... Jill Graham FRI 05:00 Rob Newman (m0000mrv) Written and performed by ... Mark Steel Nancy ...... Joanna Wake [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair Mr Bury ...... John Fleming FRI 05:30 Meet David Sedaris (m000tnr4) Production co-ordinator ... Hayley Stirling Major Brown ...... Jonathan Adams [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] Producer ... Carl Cooper Dramatised by Elizabeth Proud. FRI 06:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qs41) A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first Music by Malcolm McKee. 1. Alarm Call broadcast in 2016. . Producer: Sue Wilson Cantankerous criminal psychologist Dr Morelle investigates the FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jlfs) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. mystery death of a wealthy French baroness in a hotel. Series 1 FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000v3wr) Ernest Dudley's Harley Street psychiatrist-turned-detective uses The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage The Sound of Spring psychology as well as criminology to hunt down lawbreakers by Summer, 1940: Convinced a German invasion has begun, Chris Pearson and Amanda Litherland recommend podcasts deducing their felonious personalities. Captain Mainwaring and his men mount a gun placement at exploring British wildlife. Following on from the success of the 1949 Hammer Film 'Dr Godfrey's cottage. Dr Mya Rose Craig aka Birdgirl talks about the benefits of Morelle: The Case Of The Missing Heiress', this is the first of Chaos, inevitably, ensues... nature and birdwatching in both the city and the countryside, 13 BBC radio episodes. The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard with her podcast Get Birding. British film veteran, Cecil Parker stars as Dr Morelle with platoon in Walmington-on-Sea. Ecologist Penny Green chats about the Knepp Wildland Podcast Sheila Sim as his long-suffering assistant, Miss Frayle Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV - sharing stories from the rewilding estate in West Sussex. Dr Morelle …. Cecil Parker scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. Recommended podcasts this week: Miss Frayle …. Sheila Sim Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe Tweet of the Day Hotel Waiter …. Sydney Tafler Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter Mlle Rolin …. Tonia Bern Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn Wildflower Half Hour Anthony Winter …. Hugh Manning Private Walker …. James Beck Get Birding Hotel Receptionist …. Molly Rankin Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley The Science Of Birds Miss Shawcroft …. Kathleen Helme Private Pike …. Ian Lavender 99% Invisible Audio recovered by BBC Radio 4 Extra listener, Steve Arnold. Private Frazer …. John Laurie The Casual Birder Director: Leslie Bridgmont Cissie Godfrey …. Nan Brawnton Knepp Wildland Podcast First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1957. Percy the Parrot …. Percy Edwards The Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation: hands-on conservation. FRI 06:30 Wimsey (b007jw80) Announcer …. John Snagge Lancashire Wildlife Trust Podcast Five Red Herrings Producer: John Dyas Nature’s A Hoot 4. Bunter Investigates First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1974. FRI 12:00 BBC News Special (m000vj72) As Lord Peter Wimsey continues his hunt for the murderer of FRI 08:30 The Alan Davies Show (b007jsk4) Continued coverage from BBC News following the death of the Scottish artist Sandy Campbell, his manservant Bunter takes the Episode 6 Duke of Edinburgh. initiative. Struggling actor Alan has a date with an X-rated actress, whilst FRI 16:00 BBC News Special (m000vj74) Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey – the aristocratic Peruvian Flu strikes at the Gazette. Continued coverage from BBC News following the death of the amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers. Alan Davies stars in his own sitcom. Duke of Edinburgh. Dramatised by Chris Miller. Written by Ben Silburn, Tony Roche and Alan Davies. FRI 20:00 BBC News Special (m000vj76) Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael Alan ...... Alan Davies Continued coverage from BBC News following the death of the Bunter …. Peter Jones Murray ...... Alan Francis Duke of Edinburgh. Parker …. Stephen Thorne Kate ...... Ronni Ancona Inspector MacPherson …. Don McKillopp With Debra Stephenson and Kevin Eldon. Miss Selby …. Nell Brennan Producer: Jane Berthoud Miss Cochran …. Audrey Muir First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998. Bob Anderson …. Henry Knowles FRI 09:00 Counterpoint (b00rdwrf) Ferguson …. Iain Blair Series 24 Strachan …. Gordon Clyde 2010 Heat 1 Producer: Simon Brett. Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1978. The questions cover every aspect of music - from the classical FRI 07:00 Clare in the Community (b084bmf9) repertoire to world music, show tunes, film scores, jazz, rock Series 11 and pop. Momento Three contestants battle it out: Riots have broken out on the Sparrowhawk estate and ruined David Walker from London the team's family fun day. Paul Webster from Tyne & Wear In all the chaos, Clare has lost her memory and is roaming the Judy Woolfe from Kent streets, encountering all sorts of characters as she tries to work Producer: Paul Bajoria out who she is. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010. Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the FRI 09:30 Fat Chance (b01bn4qm) right jargon but never a practical solution. Secrets and Lies A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in Will Graham be the next Blue Peter presenter and why did other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Tina's husband leave her? Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all Jenny McDade's high-fat bittersweet comedy for those of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her. believing there's a thin person inside them begging to get out. Clare continues her struggle to control both her professional and Graham Pitscottie ..... Gareth Corke private life. In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges Wendy Bottomley ..... Janine Duvitski out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. Clive Bottomley ..... Michael Troughton Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden. Soo Pitscottie ..... Anne Reid Clare ...... Sally Phillips Tina Tattersall ..... Julia Deakin Brian ...... Alex Lowe Kelly Chambers ..... Tilly Gaunt Nali ...... Nina Conti Lee Dubs ..... Harry Myers Libby ...... Sarah Kendall Mrs Enright ..... Frances Jeater Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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