Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10 – 16 July 2021 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 10 JULY 2021 explores the boundaries of love and friendship and the they know their nearest and dearest. allegiances that we have to one another. The depth of feeling In this case, Alan Johnson picks his son Jamie, Diane Morgan SAT 00:00 Wally K Daly (b007js66) that the inhabitants of Aldwinter share are matched by their city her father Peter and Frankie Boyle his mate Stuart to answer Before the Screaming Begins counterparts as they strive to find the courage to express and questions about each other. Episode 3 understand their deepest desires, and strongest fears. Producer: Sam Michell. The sinister intentions of the alien invaders are finally revealed. The villagers confront the myth of the Essex Serpent for the last First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. Can the Earth fight back? time. Cora and Will are forced to re-examine their relationship SAT 04:30 To the Manor Born (b007k4mq) Conclusion of Before the Screaming Begins - the first of Wally and their future. Vive Le Sport K Daly's sci-fi trilogy which continues with The Silent Scream Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979. She has a PhD in When Devere invites Audrey to go skiing, he ends up being and With a Whimper to the Grave. creative writing at Royal Holloway which she completed under taken for a ride. Tom Harris ...... James Laurenson the supervision of Andrew Motion. She has been writer in Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton. Sally Harris ...... Jennifer Piercey residence at the Gladstone Library and is the winner of a Shiva Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere Prime Minister ...... Patrick Troughton Naipaul award for travel writing. Her first novel, After Me Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher AP Smith ...... Donald Hewlett Comes The Flood won the East Anglian Book of the Year Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger Detective Sergeant Forbes ...... Robert Trotter Award in 2014. The Essex Serpent was Waterstone's Book Of Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka Prime Minister's Wife ...... Katherine Parr The Year in 2016 and was short-listed for the Costa Novel Frank Middlemass ..... Ned MP ...... Peter Williams Award 2016. She lives in Norwich. Geoffrey Whitehead ..... Dr Horton Brosteaux ...... Nigel Graham Writer: Sarah Perry Melanie Hudson ..... Receptionist Corporal Wilkes ...... Geoffrey Leesley, Abridger: Jeremy Osborne The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced Corporal Johnson ...... Eric Allen Reader: Ruth Gemmell to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death Cabinet Minister ...... Maggie Ollerenshaw Producer: Rosalynd Ward leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, Silkin ...... Peter Wickham A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage. Alien Voice ...... Malcolm Gerard April 2017. From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving Alien Controller ...... Manning Wilson SAT 02:15 Shardlake (b09k8qzc) eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard Director: Martin Jenkins Heartstone DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descent. First broadcast as a 90 minute Saturday-Night Theatre Episode 5 First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever production on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake returns in the fifth of C J appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00vky79) Sansom's Tudor mysteries. At Hoyland, there’s growing rivalry Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence. Living Cheap between Sir Nicholas Hobbey’s young son David and his ward Producer: Jane Berthoud "My name is David Collins. I'm 69 years old and I live in an Hugh Curteys. Meanwhile Shardlake travels to nearby First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1997. almshouse." Rolfswood to find out more about the mysterious past of Ellen SAT 05:00 Guilt Trip (b07lhg2q) Everyone tells us we are living in tough times, so three guests Fettiplace, the Bedlam inmate he befriended in the course of Episode 1 explain what that means for them. David Collins is an actor who another case two years previously. A mother and daughter undertake a two week sponsored walk has found a medieval sounding solution - an almshouse - to the Justin Salinger and Bryan Dick return as Matthew Shardlake along The Thames Path to raise money for the dead father's big squeeze. Laurie Penny is a 23 year-old recent graduate who and Jack Barak in Colin MacDonald's atmospheric charity. writes for free on her blog Penny Red, and until recently was dramatisation of the best-selling novel by C J Sansom. But the mother and father divorced nine years ago and he'd re- living in a house she described as a scene from 'Withnail and I.' Matthew Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger married, so relationships between them all have been strained. And Pauline Black, the lead singer of the Selecter, resists the Jack Barak ..... Bryan Dick Things come to a head at any mention of the French Oak gable charge that it was her baby boomer generation that has spent all Hugh Curteys ..... Will Howard table that Ros and her now dead ex bought together in Camden. the money and messed up the economy for everyone else. David Hobbey ..... Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong This has somehow ended up in the step-mother's house, much Presenter Dominic Arkwright Rev Seckford ..... Neil McCaul to Ros's annoyance: "I mean she sits at it! It's my table and she Producer Miles Warde Nicholas Hobbey ..... David Seddon sits at it." First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. Abigail Hobbey ..... Isabella Inchbald Comedy drama written by Katherine Jakeways with Felicity SAT 01:00 Destination - Fire! (m000xmrh) Other parts played by members of the cast. Montagu and Olivia Nixon. Series 3 Writer ..... C J Sansom Ros ...... Felicity Montagu 8. Deadly Spark Dramatist ..... Colin MacDonald Laura ...... Olivia Nixon Fire Investigator ‘Q’ Barnaby probes an explosion at a car body Director ..... David Jackson Young Stepmother ...... Katherine Jakeways repair shop. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. Boyfriend ...... Tim Key Starring Robert Beatty. SAT 02:30 Australian Rap (b010y30r) With Jeff Rawle and Velibor Topic. Philip Levine’s adventures of fire investigating sleuth, Quentin Rapping out dreamtime stories: a new outlet for Australian In this opening episode, mother and daughter are just starting ‘Q’ Barnaby. Aboriginal youth. out and in her usual putting-her-large-foot-firmly-in-it manner Selection of surviving episodes rescued from the BBC archive. For years the Australian Aboriginal community have struggled Ros gets her daughter's ex-boyfriend to drop them at the source, ‘Q’ Barnaby …. Robert Beatty to be heard. But as Mark Rickards discovers, today the youth but without any prior warning to the daughter. The renewed Valerie Chrane …. Gudrun Ure have found a new voice through music and 'desert rap'. bonding Ros is hoping for may be a bit bumpier than expected. Eric Bishop .... Nigel Graham Speaking to the first rappers to use their own Aboriginal Especially when along the way Ros also manages to offend George Newton .... Wilfrid Carter language, Mark Rickards finds that the traditions of dreamtime pretty much everyone she meets - not least an Eastern European Frank Cole .... Bruce Beeby storytelling have been reinvigorated by rap music. Although the camp site warden. Saunders .... Arthur Lawrence style originated in the USA, Aboriginal youth have adapted it to Producer: Jane Berthoud Mrs Newton .... Joan Matheson suit their own needs. It can be used to tell the stories of life in A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first Inspector Hackett .... Duncan McIntyre the outback or life in the city, and to represent the often broadcast in July 2016. Director: Martyn C Webster. unheard voices of the Aboriginal people. SAT 05:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000xlkf) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1966. Mark visits an Aboriginal radio station which has helped bring Lucy Porter: Back in the Family Way SAT 01:30 New Creatives Dramas (m000xmrk) indigenous rap to a wider audience, and looks at the challenges Following her previous, very popular In the Family Way shows, Series 2 of getting mainstream recognition. Radio 4 favourite Lucy returns with another examination of 5. Things We Never Said & The Caretaker Today younger rappers are talking about a brighter future for domestic life, covering everything from the dramatic to the Fresh storytelling from first time writers and producers. the Aboriginal people, and their music shows hopeful signs for dreary. Part of BBC Introducing Arts supported by BBC Arts and Arts the gradual evolution of Australia itself. This time, Lucy looks at the effects of the pandemic on our Council England. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. relationships with family, friends and neighbours. The last year BBC Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones presents two thought SAT 03:00 The Mayor of Casterbridge (b00bvc00) has been hard on people who were separated from their nearest provoking short dramas from the next generation of dramatists. 3. The Stranger and dearest, but it’s also been no picnic for those who were Things We Never Said by Sam Obigbesan. Henchard sets about rebuilding his life but then, appearance of locked up with their loved ones. What is it like traveling without sight? On the road to a a stranger in Casterbridge, threatens to unravel everything. Home schooling, working from the kitchen table, zoom quizzes memorial party a man tries to come to terms with grief as well Conclusion of Thomas Hardy's tragic story of a man who with cousins, clapping with the neighbours - Lucy explores all as navigate the world as a blind person. spends his life trying to atone for one terrible action that led to the things that have brought us together, while also driving us Featuring the voice of Douglas Walker the loss of his wife and child. apart. We look forward to the year 2041 and ponder what they’ll Script mentor: Kate McAll Dramatised in three parts by Helen Edmundson. make of it in the future. Producers: Anna Campbell and Paul Dodgson MICHAEL HENCHARD...... John Lynch Talented comedian and impressionist Luke Kempner is on hand A Rural Media production ELIZABETH-JANE...... Ruth Wilson again to help Lucy bring her thoughts to life. As always, he The Caretaker by Salman Shaffi DONALD FARFRAE...... Paul Higgins displays his range of comic voices, including an impressive When Alia reluctantly returns home for her estranged mother’s LUCETTA...... Emma Fielding impersonation of Lucy’s next door neighbour Yvonne. funeral, she finds herself confronted by childhood memories FURMITY WOMAN...... Maggie Steed Back In The Family Way was recorded at Lucy’s local village and nightmares. Now she is finally home again, will she have a ABEL WHITTLE...... Burn Gorman hall, with a socially distanced audience of her family, friends second chance to save the little sister that was lost long ago? JOPP...... Conrad Nelson and neighbours. Let’s see if any of them are still speaking to her Featuring the voices of Richard Hand, Bhasker Patel, Payal NEWSON...... Jonathan Keeble after this show. Mistry and Rani Moorthy SOLOMON LONGWAYS...... Russell Dixon Written by Lucy Porter Composer: Louis Palfrey CHRISTOPHER CONEY...... David Fielder Starring Lucy Porter and Luke Kempner Producers: Tony Churnside and Eloise Whitmore MOTHER CUXSOM...... Sue Ryding Additional Material: Gabby Hutchinson Crouch and Mike A Naked Production for Tyneside Cinema MARTHA...... Vashti Maclachlan Shepherd Series theme music by Pete Judge PHOEBE...... Lorna Lewis Production Manager: Sarah Tombling Producer Paul Dodgson Directed by Nadia Molinari Studio Engineer and Editor: Jerry Peal Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. Production Runners: Sahara Dennis, Kareem Elshehawy, Sakshi SAT 02:00 The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (b08lk54g) SAT 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b036kbm5) Gupta Episode 10 Series 2 Produced and Directed by Gordon Kennedy Sarah Perry's award-winning novel set at the end of the Episode 1 Would not have been possible without Marilyn Imrie nineteenth century and inspired by true events. What is Frankie Boyle's worst habit? What is the best piece of Recorded Live at Pinner Village Hall Moving between Essex and London, myth and modernity, Cora advice Diane Morgan's dad ever gave her? Which government An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 Seaborne's spirited search for the Essex Serpent encourages all department did Alan Johnson most like being in charge of? SAT 06:00 Inspector Morse (b08k12z8) around her to test their allegiance to faith or reason in an age of All these questions, and more, will be answered in the show House of Ghosts rapid scientific advancement. At the same time, the novel hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested on how well An original drama written by Alma Cullen around the Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10 – 16 July 2021 Page 2 of 11 characters of Morse and Lewis created by Colin Dexter. The Comedy series that explores the triumphs and disasters of encounter with a violinist and, is France the answer? focus is on the time in Morse's career when his mind was human ingenuity. Producer: Steve Doherty developing its incisive edge and his personal life was at its most Helen Keen together with co-stars Peter Serafinowicz and Susy A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in complex. Kane look at the biggest problems that have faced our species September 2018. The year is 1987, and Morse is at the theatre, where the young since the dawn of time, and describe humanity's incredible and SAT 15:00 Rigor Mortis (b007mdgd) actress playing Ophelia dies on stage during a performance of sometimes absurd solutions. Series 2 Hamlet. A Suspicious Death inquiry begins. Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill Episode 1 When a suspect is murdered, Morse becomes convinced that the Producer: Gareth Edwards Doctor Webster gets a little carried away when Professor two deaths do, somehow, connect with what happened at an A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first Donaldson suggests that the team get to know the people they're Oxford student production of Hamlet which he was a part of in broadcast in June 2015. autopsying. 1962. SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b09nqnxw) Starring Peter Davison. Inspector Morse ... Neil Pearson The Medium Is the Message Laurence Howarth's black comedy set in the world of the DS Lewis ... Lee Ingleby Generation X author Douglas Coupland explores the ideas, pathology lab. Supt Strange … Pip Torrens sound and vision of media seer Marshall McLuhan who in the Dr Webster ...... Peter Davison Philip Woolf … Stephen Critchlow 1960s coined the phrases "the medium is the message" and "the Dr Anderson ...... Matilda Ziegler Lawrence Baxter … Timothy Watson global village". Professor Donaldson ...... Geoffrey Whitehead Paul Kincaid … Allan Corduner Marshall McLuhan was the first great prophet of what would Gordon ...... Tom Price Ellen Underwood … Samantha Bond become digital mass media and indeed the global media village Chloe ...... Marianne Levy Verity Carr … Isla Blair - a thinker and writer of near supernatural foresight. Simon ...... Gus Brown Harriet Baxter … Janine Harouni Trained as a literary scholar, throughout his career McLuhan Mr Reeve ...... Nicholas Boulton Writer: Alma Cullen not only examined the relationship between form and content in Music by Paul Mottram and Stephanie Benavente. Director: Marilyn Imrie the media itself, offering dazzling arguments for the importance Producer: Dawn Ellis Directed by Marilyn Imrie of medium over content, but anticipated the very idea of online First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004. A Catherine Bailey production networks, virtual reality, multiple interfaces, social media and SAT 15:30 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters (b036mykr) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. most importantly of all, how new technologies rewire us by Series 1 SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b04dyk53) stealth, endlessly transforming our identities and our Episode 1 Series 1 communities. "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools Enter the Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and hilarious world of Louis Armstrong shape us," he said. sketches, stories and characters, presented by the sinister Band leader Chris Barber chooses the legendary jazz trumpeter, Drawing on cutting-edge thinking about networks and Ringmaster. Louis Armstrong. With Humphrey Carpenter. cybernetics, McLuhan foresaw a fully wired, connected world, Master character comedian Colin Hoult's debut comedy series. The biographical series in which a distinguished guest chooses which would bring to an end the isolated consumption of print. Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: Thwor - someone who's inspired their life. Will their hero stand up to New cross-border (effectively online) communities would form, the mighty (but Leeds-based) god of Thwunder; Len Parker - intensive scrutiny and merit the description of having led a great breaking old political barriers, creating genuinely new kinds of Nottingham-born martial arts and transformers enthusiast; Anna life? From 2002. electronic identity. But with this McLuhan offered a warning: Mann - outrageous star of such forgotten silver screen hits such SAT 08:00 The Motion Show (b00762gh) older ideas of privacy and the self would evaporate under new as 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish Delight' and 'A Bowl For Series 4 media he said, leading to the rise of what he called 'discarnate' My Bottom'; and many more. Episode 2 man - the lost, disembodied user extended across an Writers Guild Award-winner Colin Hoult is best known for his Graeme Garden chairs the debating game with Gyles Brandreth, unrelenting, unforgiving electronic global nervous system. highly acclaimed starring roles in 'Being Human', 'Life's Too Sue Perkins, Steve Punt and Marcus Brigstocke. From June McLuhan's ideas seem more prescient than ever. As Douglas Short', and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as his many 2001. Coupland puts it: 'The future has never happened so quickly, to hit shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also appeared and SAT 08:30 Snap (m00016gc) so many people, in such an extreme way - just as Marshall written for a number of Radio 4 series including 'The Headset Series 2 predicted, an uncanny prophet of our own digital age.' Set' and 'Colin and Fergus' Digi-Radio'. Episode 6 Contributors include novelist Tom McCarthy, DJ Spooky, Producer: Sam Bryant. Doug and Molly go on a secret date in the countryside. Andrew McLuhan, biographer Philip Marchand, the media First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013. They both want to be together again, but now they've told each theorists Shannon Mattern and Bernard Dionysus Geoghegan, SAT 16:00 Inspector Morse (b08k12z8) other, getting close isn't as simple as they thought it would be... Zak Kyes the graphic designer, philosopher James Garvey, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Paul Mendelson’s sitcom stars Rebecca Lacey as Molly, Paul filmmaker Jonathan Meades and former network engineer Tung- SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b04dyk53) Venables as Doug, Soumaya Keynes as Kaz, Jessie Sullivan as Hui Hu, who has written on McLuhan and 1970s guerrilla [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Ryan, Marlene Sidaway as Annie, Samantha Spiro as Dawn and television. SAT 18:00 Bryony Lavery - 272 Attempts (b0076mn4) Jonathan Tafler as Raymond and Richard Firth as Ansel. Presenter: Douglas Coupland An isolated house. The discovery of children's graves. A large Producer: David Ian Neville Producer: Simon Hollis number of tagged children in the house. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004. A Brook Lapping production Award- winning playwright Bryony Lavery explores the world SAT 09:00 Howerd's Ways: The Radio Times of Frankie First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018. of genetics. Howerd (b01gvwzh) SAT 14:00 Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar CAST: The life and BBC radio career of Frankie Howerd – the (b080tynb) Patrick Lear …. Malcolm Sinclair celebrated King of Titters. Series 1 Helen Lear …. Penelope Wilton His last agent Tessa Le Bars talks to Peter Reed and shares her Pretending and Sandwiches Chisobe Oylele …. Adjoa Andoh memories of this icon of British comedy. Featuring: The Godfather of Alternative Comedy delivers a mixture of Dr Serkassie …. Deborah Findlay * The Frankie Howerd Show: stand-up, memoir and philosophy from behind the counter of Chavez …. Stephen Hogan Doggy doing with the BBC DG and Frankie's memoirs. Titters his Imaginary Sandwich Bar. Cupido …. Alice Hart galore with stand-up and sketches from the legendary comic. Alexei Sayle explores his impulse to pretend and love of Colonel Treves …. John Rowe With June Whitfield and Ray Fell. (BBC Radio 2 from June sandwiches. Dr Cortes …. Philip Fox 1973) Along the way he reveals the little known origin of the prawn Dr Chang …. Joanna McCallum * Radio Lives – Frankie Howerd: cocktail, debunks the myth that the Earl of Sandwich was the Father Sifacis …. Jon Glover His highs were high, his lows were low. How did he get to be so first person to put a bit of meat between two slices of bread and with Lulu Popplewell, Anton Rice and Jessica Crossley funny? Dylan Winter finds out from childhood friends, variety discusses the hidden depths of Taylor Swift. Director: Claire Grove artistes and those who knew Frankie very well. (BBC Radio 4 Written and performed by Alexei Sayle First Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004. from July 1995) Original music and lyrics by Tim Sutton SAT 19:00 Howerd's Ways: The Radio Times of Frankie * Variety Bandbox: Producer: Joe Nunnery Howerd (b01gvwzh) An early radio appearance for Frankie Howerd on a bill with A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Philip Slessor, Derek Roy, (Alberto) Semprini, Vanessa Lee November 2016. SAT 22:00 Rigor Mortis (b00b3hjt) and Billy Ternent & His Orchestra. (BBC Light Programme SAT 14:30 Life on Egg (b087p3sm) Series 2 from June 1953) Series 1 Episode 2 * Now Listen: Inspection A total lack of corpses sparks a dry spell in the pathology lab. Gags from Frankie Howerd, plus sketches with Carol Allen, Harry Hill runs Britain's remotest prison, The Egg, along with Stars Peter Davison and Geoffrey Whitehead. From November Robertson Hare and Kenneth Connor. (BBC Light Programme his two assistants, Peter and Anne. But escape rates have gotten 2004. from April 1965) out of control and so the government has decided to send two SAT 22:30 Elvenquest (b017757w) * Desert Island Discs: inspectors to look things over. Series 3 Frankie Howerd chats to Roy Plomley and makes his castaway Will Harry and his team survive their strenuous checks? Find Episode 6 choices. (BBC Radio 4 from January 1982) out in "Life on Egg". When the Questers get drunk to celebrate Vidar's birthday, Sam Producer: Mik Wilkojc Harry ..... Harry Hill tries once again to gain (albeit with customary cack- Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in April 2012. Anne ..... Karen Bartke handedness) the affections of Penthiselea, much to her SAT 12:00 The Write Stuff (m000xmkk) Peter ..... Marek Larwood consternation. Meanwhile, Lord Darkness is anxious to get one Series 8 Minister ..... Alison Belbin over his old nemesis, Kaybar the Maleficent, and so decides to Lord Byron Tim ..... Jason Forbes do something really newsworthy and light the "Beacon of James Walton's literary quiz. Skulk ..... Jason Forbes Doom". Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by Jones ..... Dan Maier If the "Beacon of Doom" is lit then the runes dictate that one of Simon Brett and Peter Kemp. Written by Dan Maier the Questers must do battle in hand-hand combat with Lord Author of the week is Lord Byron Producer: Sam Michell Darkness himself. And so, to impress Penthiselea, Sam Reader: Beth Chalmers A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in volunteers to be that Quester. Problem is, Sam doesn't have the Producer: Katie Marsden January 2017.. first idea how to fight hand-to-hand. Fortunately, nor it seems, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2005. SAT 14:45 Woof (b0bgrtmh) does Lord Darkness. Should make for an interesting showdown SAT 12:30 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b05xh31b) True Tales of Romance and Failure then... Series 1 A Foreign Tongue Vidar ...... Darren Boyd Death Bittersweet comic real life stories written and performed by Dean/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon The biggest problem of them all - death. Chris Neill Amis, aka the "Chosen One" ...... Dave Lamb From praying for life everlasting to uploading our minds into a With Martin Hyder and Isy Suttie. Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan giant cloud of data - is there anything at all we can do to avoid We start with Chris Neill's amusing love life tales including his Sam ...... Stephen Mangan it? first love, Pierre-Claude from his school French book, an Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10 – 16 July 2021 Page 3 of 11 Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto interview and interrogate - some disdainful of the hunchbacked have to feel as if I've struggled a bit." Producer: Sam Michell. lawyer; some obstructive and even dangerous; some not at all Producer: Isabel Sargent First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011. what they seem... And as Shardlake and his sidekick travel the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. SAT 23:00 The Skivers (b007jwrv) countryside in their search for the truth, everywhere they see SUN 10:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000xsqy) Series 1 signs of preparations for war. For just across the Channel the A Changing Body Rodney Bewes French fleet is getting ready to attack. A potentially life-saving double-mastectomy, has an unexpected Fathers' Mastermind, and a new-style triathlon. Justin Salinger and Bryan Dick return as Matthew Shardlake side effect of body confidence for BBC Radio London Nick Golson and Tim de Jongh's skilful sketch show with and Jack Barak in Colin MacDonald's atmospheric presenter Claira Hermet. special guest Rodney Bewes who reveals his specialist subject. dramatisation of the best-selling novel by CJ Sansom. This story originally appeared in the BBC England podcast, Written and performed by Nick Golson and Tim de Jongh. Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger Multi Story - presented and produced by Becca Bryers. With Peter Bradshaw and Mel Giedroyc Barak ..... Bryan Dick SUN 11:00 Sneakernomics (p09fy38g) Producer: Jon Naismith Queen Catherine …. Emily Wachter 9. Footnotes First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1994. Ellen Fettiplace …. Kath Weare Sneakernomics is a close encounter with the visionaries, artisans SAT 23:30 The Mark Steel Lecture (b007jlx9) Dyrick …. Philip Bretherton and journeymen who’ve made, and been made, by trainers. Series 2 Goodryke …. Clive Hayward We’ll follow in the footsteps of mavericks, hustlers and Leonardo da Vinci Sir Richard Rich …. Nicholas Murchie dreamers, and hear their tales of boom and bust, fame and The radical comedian profiles the Italian artist and scholar. Was George Leacon …. Finn den Hertog infamy, hope and heartbreak. he a genius or a hopeless absent-minded buffoon? From March Sir Nicholas Hobbey …. David Seddon Across nine episodes, Sneakernomics tells the extraordinary 2001. Hugh Curteys …. Will Howard origin stories of some of the world’s biggest brands, and how Abigail Hobbey …. Isabella Inchbald sponsorship deals and celebrity culture redefined our David Hobbey …. Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong relationship with products. It’s also a business story – how SUNDAY 11 JULY 2021 Reverend Seckford …. Neil McCaul leisure has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry; a sports Philip West …. Chris Pavlo story – how games became organised and grew into a global SUN 00:00 Bryony Lavery - 272 Attempts (b0076mn4) Feaveryear …. Gary Duncan spectacle; and it’s a story of invention – how enthusiastic [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Other parts played by members of the cast. hobbyist-pioneers often took extraordinary risks that changed SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b09nqnxw) Writer ..... C. J. Sansom the course of sport and fashion. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Dramatist ..... Colin MacDonald The sneaker story is characterised by fierce competition and SUN 02:00 Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar Director ..... David Jackson Young rivalry. We explore how the quest to be number one tore (b080tynb) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018 families and friendships apart and divided towns. Above all, [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] SUN 08:30 A Life of Bliss (m00019gc) this is the story of the people behind the shoes. What you’ll hear SUN 02:30 Life on Egg (b087p3sm) A Spy in the Camp is a mix of interviews with many of the key individuals who’ve [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] David needs to find a new secretary and finds himself landed played their part in that extraordinary story, interlaced with SUN 02:45 Woof (b0bgrtmh) with his boss’s niece. moments of fiction inspired by their testimonies and our [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] Godfrey Harrison's sitcom about shy, bumbling bachelor David research. SUN 03:00 Rigor Mortis (b007mdgd) Alexander Bliss. Written and presented by Nicholas Smith, with 1Xtra presenter [Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday] Beginning in 1953, it ran for six series of 118 episodes Ace. The drama is written by Al Smith. SUN 03:30 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters (b036mykr) concluding in 1969 - but few survive in the BBC archive. (A Episode 9 Cast: [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] TV series was made in 1969). For the first seven episodes, Rob . . . . . Wilf Scolding SUN 04:00 Inspector Morse (b08k12z8) David Tomlinson played David, but the rest starred the future Phil . . . . . Trevor White [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] star of the St Trinian's films - destined to find great fame as the Waitress . . . . . Cecilia Appiah SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b04dyk53) dodgy Arthur Daley in ITV's Minder - George Cole. Production Trainee: Marithe Van Der Aa [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] CAST: Assistant Producer: Ben Hollands SUN 06:00 The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (Omnibus) David Bliss …. George Cole Sound: Peter Ringrose (b08mk5q8) Anne Fellows …. Diana Churchill Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko Episode 2 Tony Fellows …. Colin Gordon Special thanks: Peter Moore, Julie Dixon, Nelson Farris, Sonny Cora seeks help from her London friend, Dr Luke Garrett. Her Zoe Hunter …. Sheila Sweet and Pam Vaccaro, Paul Litchfield, Anna Bryher, Rob Harrison, friendship with Will is tested. Meanwhile, the summer heat 'Psyche' the Dog …. Percy Edwards Mimmy Kowell, Matt Powell, Sebastien Kopp, Angel Martinez, seems to banish all thoughts of the Essex Serpent. Mr Hood …. Barry K. Barnes Bob Woodell, Sigi Dassler, Michael Dassler, John Boulter, Joe Sarah Perry's award-winning novel, set at the end of the Gwen Cherrell …. Marcia Hammond as Gwen Cherrell Foster, Joe Franklin, Gary Aspden, Clare Ewing, Adam nineteenth century and inspired by true events. Miss Robertson …. Sheila Manahan Gibbons and Simon Ward. Moving between Essex and London, myth and modernity, Cora Producer: Leslie Bridgmont SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m000xsr1) Seaborne's spirited search for the Essex Serpent encourages all First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1959. Pick a Sky and Name It around her to test their allegiance to faith or reason in an age of SUN 09:00 The Arthur Haynes Show (m000945t) Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects rapid scientific advancement. At the same time, the novel From 04/08/1963 Pick a Sky and Name It featuring successful millennial poet explores the boundaries of love and friendship and the Arthur is taken to court for disturbing the peace and then offers Momtaza Mehri from Somalia. allegiances that we have to one another. The depth of feeling to sell his organs. How did Momtaza Mehri go from net savvy 6th former to that the inhabitants of Aldwinter share are matched by their city The comic characters of popular comedian Arthur Haynes in successful millennial poet? counterparts as they strive to find the courage to express and Johnny Speight's sketches. A house belonging to her grandmother is the closest poet understand their deepest desires, and strongest fears. After originally working with Charlie Chester on a number of Momtaza Mehri has ever come to having a permanent home. Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979. She has a PhD in series for BBC Radio, Arthur Haynes (1914-1966) became a Aside from summer months in London, Momtaza’s family creative writing at Royal Holloway which she completed under big star on ITV in the late 1950s/early 1960s picked its way across the Middle East. the supervision of Andrew Motion. She has been writer in With Nicholas Parsons, Leslie Noyes, Dorothy Dampier and “Then I just realise, I’m having this typical Somali experience residence at the Gladstone Library and is the winner of a Shiva Graham Stark. where we’re literally going to the places that would be Naipaul award for travel writing. Her first novel, After Me Music by Peter Crawford & His Trio. considered the bad ‘hoods.” Comes The Flood won the East Anglian Book of the Year Producer: Richard Dingley Across a sea, another gulf, was the country her parents no Award in 2014. The Essex Serpent was Waterstone's Book Of First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1963. longer called home. The Year in 2016 and was short-listed for the Costa Novel SUN 09:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b007szmj) Talking with her mother, Momtaza revisits the childhood Award 2016. She lives in Norwich. Series 1 experiences that shaped her outlook and her coming of age as a Writer: Sarah Perry Separate Troubles millennial poet. Abridger: Jeremy Osborne Robert and Sue have fallen out and she’s chucked him out. Poetry extracts are taken from: Reader: Ruth Gemmell What could possibly bring them together again? I believe in the transformative power of cocoa butter and Producer: Rosalynd Ward John Gordon Sinclair stars in Paul Mayhew-Archer's sitcom. breakfast cereal in the afternoon A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Robert Wilson ..... John Gordon Sinclair Manifesto for those carrying dusk under their eyes April 2017. Desmond Shaw ..... Gary Waldhorn The Sag SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b0b7cnyx) Sue ..... Caroline Quentin Shan Fiona Shaw With: Wink Wink The actress chooses 'Father and Son' by Cat Stevens, and the Sally Grace November 1997 final chorus of 'Dialogues of the Carmelites' by Francis Rosemary Martin “The internet just switched up the entire game,” Momtaza says. Poulenc. Jean Campbell-Dallas Producer: Tamsin Hughes SUN 07:20 Shardlake (Omnibus) (b09lsn4q) Christopher Scott A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4 Heartstone Jonathan Kydd First broadcast in 2017. Episode 1 John Baddeley SUN 12:30 Start/Stop (b07myyr1) It begins with a summons from Queen Catherine Parr: "Master Producer: Paul Spencer Series 3 Shardlake, I would welcome your personal counsel on a case..." First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1989. Tinder It ends with the sinking of the warship, the Mary Rose: "So tall, SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000xsqv) Start/Stop is a sitcom by Jack Docherty about three marriages so grand. I was on her when she went down..." In between, Comic Castaways 3 in various states of disrepair. lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Lee Mack Barney and Cathy have been married for ages and it shows, Barak find themselves embroiled in two murky investigations - Kirsty Young interviews the comedian Lee Mack. Evan and Fiona’s marriage is one big, noisy argument and David the first involving the "monstrous wrongs" allegedly perpetrated He writes and stars in the BBC One hit show "Not Going Out". is old enough to be Alice’s father. by wealthy cloth merchant Sir Nicholas Hobbey against his His stand-up tours do great business and his lightening sharp Start/Stop follows the story of these three couples as they try to young ward, Hugh Curteys; the second concerning the troubled comedy reflexes are also put to good use on a number of prime- make the best of their marriages and friendships, and the past of a Bedlam inmate called Ellen Fettiplace. A patient for time panel shows. characters are able to stop the action, explain themselves to the nearly 20 years, Ellen is frightened and lonely - and in love with His first ever performance was doing impressions for his school audience and start it all up again. Shardlake. mates, but it took him more than ten years to pluck up the This week: 'Tinder'. Barney and Cathy come up with a plan to The Hobbey-Curteys case leads Shardlake and Barak to Sir courage to step on stage. Leaving school with two O'levels and a find out which of them is the most attractive. What could Nicholas's estate near Portsmouth, in Hampshire. "And the way cheeky grin, he had a stint as Red Rum's stable boy and a bash possibly go wrong? Meanwhile Alice has joined a life drawing to Hampshire lay through West Sussex. Where Ellen came at being a professional darts player. class but husband David is jealous and wants to replace the from." He says of his comedy career "I'm the kind of person that, if I person sitting for it. Two mysteries to unravel. A parade of intriguing characters to don't think it's hard work, I worry that it's not worthwhile. I Barney ...... Jack Docherty Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10 – 16 July 2021 Page 4 of 11 Cathy ...... Kerry Godliman Starring Janet Maw, Nigel Anthony, miriam Margolyes and Plus the penultimate episode of Jane Austen's lost novella, Evan ...... John Thomson Elizabeth Proud Sweet Fanny Adams, still cruelly ignored by the critics as a Fiona ...... Fiona Allen Rose Tremain’s drama based on historic events. work of minor importance David ...... Charlie Higson . More mayhem from Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. Alice ...... Laura Aikman Emily Davison .... Janet Maw With Paul Chahidi Written by: Jack Docherty King George V ...... Nigel Anthony Written by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. Producer: Claire Jones Queen Mary.... Miriam Margolyes Producer: Elizabeth Freestone. A BBC Studio Production. Mrs Pankhurst ....Elizabeth Proud First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2002. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016. Other parts played by Doreen Hepburn, Tessa Worsley, Melanie SUN 23:00 Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar SUN 13:00 A Dangerous Innocence by Elizabeth Jane Hudson, Stephen Critchlow and John Turner. (b0832mwg) Howard (Omnibus) (b07wxrsh) Director: Gordon House Series 1 The biography of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, author of First broadcast on the BBC World Service in August 1995. Political Beliefs The Cazalet Chronicles, who died in 2014, from biographer SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000xsr1) Alexei explores his political beliefs system, looking back at his Artemis Cooper. Marriage, motherhood and Jane's first [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] childhood in a communist household, his career as a drug-dealer writings. SUN 17:30 Start/Stop (b07myyr1) and his physical attraction to Boris Johnson. Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote brilliant novels about what love [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] The Godfather of Alternative Comedy delivers a mixture of can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she SUN 18:00 Val McDermid - Resistance (m000xsr3) stand-up, memoir and philosophy from behind the counter of sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to Episode 1 his Imaginary Sandwich Bar. be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage Part 1. It's the Solstice music festival, when 150,000 people Written and performed by Alexei Sayle. and the war, she turned to fiction. Her first novel, The Beautiful descend on a farm in the North-East for the open-air event of Producer: Joe Nunnery Visit, won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize - she went on to write the summer. The audience pours in from all over the UK and A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in fourteen more, of which the best-loved were the five volumes beyond. The artistes come from all round the globe. The November 2016 of The Cazalet Chronicle. journalists likewise. SUN 23:30 Masala FM (b007jypp) Following her divorce from her first husband, the celebrated Among the hacks is Zoe Meadows, who has left her husband Episode 3 naturalist Peter Scott, Jane embarked on a string of high-profile Jamie and two small children at home to watch the event on TV. When one of Auntieji's disgruntled listeners decides to take affairs. Yet the image of a sophisticated woman hid a romantic For really, if you weren't working, who would actually want to matters in to his own hands, Khalid may be the only one who innocence which clouded her emotional judgement. She was be there, partying for a weekend without adequate sanitary can save the station. nearing the end of a disastrous second marriage when she met facilities on what is, at its heart, an agricultural site? Six-part sitcom written by Meera Syal Kingsley Amis, and for a few years they were a brilliant and You wouldn't go hungry, though. Well, you might if you Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nitin Sawheny, Meera Syal and Nina glamorous couple - until that marriage too disintegrated. She thought too closely about those hundreds of food stalls Wadia. settled in Suffolk where she wrote and entertained friends, but desperate to keep their costs down, not asking too many Music by Nitin Sawhney. her turbulent love life was not over yet. In her early seventies questions of their meat suppliers, not really caring whether Producer: Liz Anstee Jane fell for a conman. His unmasking was the final disillusion, those hand-crafted pork sausages are from pigs stuffed full of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1996. and inspired one of her most powerful novels, Falling. antibiotics on the intensive farming unit they came from. One Artemis Cooper interviewed Jane several times in Suffolk. She of those food stalls is Sam's Sausage Sandwiches, run by Sam also talked extensively to her family, friends and and Lisa Shore. MONDAY 12 JULY 2021 contemporaries, and had access to all her papers. Her biography Zoe owes them a great deal. Since becoming a mother and explores a woman trying to make sense of her life through her wanting fewer hours she has taken a step back from MON 00:00 Val McDermid - Resistance (m000xsr3) writing, as well as illuminating the literary world in which she investigative journalism and has settled for covering the softer [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] lived. stories such as Solstice. Even this wouldn't have been possible MON 00:45 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist (b07j571j) Author: Artemis Cooper without Sam and Lisa who stepped in to look after the kids [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] Reader: Greta Scacchi when both her and Jamie were working... MON 01:00 A Dangerous Innocence by Elizabeth Jane Abridger: Sara Davies Zoe ...... Gina McKee Howard (Omnibus) (b07wxrsh) Producer: Simon Richardson and Elizabeth Allard. Jamie ..... Jason Done [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. Sam ..... Nitin Kundra MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b0blvlbm) SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b0blvlbm) Lisa ...... Angela Lonsdale [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] Kim Wilde Baz ...... Henry Devas MON 02:20 The Professor by Charlotte Bronte (Omnibus) Singer Kim Wilde chooses Cilla Black's Anyone Who Had a Will ...... Ashley Margolis (b00m4vxd) Heart and Everything Put Together Falls Apart by Paul Simon. Tina ...... Verity-May Henry [Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday] SUN 14:20 The Professor by Charlotte Bronte (Omnibus) Dr Adamson ...... Verity-May Henry MON 03:30 Linard's Travels (b047bzl0) (b00m4vxd) James/Nowak ...... Jonathan Keeble [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday] Episode 1 Resistance was written by Val McDermid MON 04:00 Rose Tremain (b0214tf2) Orphaned William Crimsworth is a young man with nothing. As Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] he sets out to make his way in the world he doesn't want to be Programme consultant - Christopher Dowson Professor of MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000xsr1) indebted to anyone. But running parallel with this need for self- Microbiology, University of Warwick and Trustee for [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] control is the desperate need to love - and be loved in return. Antibiotic Research UK. MON 05:30 Start/Stop (b07myyr1) The least known of Charlotte Bronte's novels: a subtle, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] ambiguous and unsettling love story. SUN 18:45 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist (b07j571j) MON 06:00 Destination - Fire! (m000xsx1) Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes dramatised by Rachel My Lady Love, My Dove Series 3 Joyce. Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in 9. Fire Proof William Crimsworth ...... Paul Venables dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre and Fire Investigator ‘Q’ Barnaby finds a link between a cottage fire Edward Crimsworth ...... Jonathan Keeble amusing by turns, these dark comedies are justly famous for and a suspicious death elsewhere. Lord Tynedale ...... Gerard McDermottand their surprise endings, and for their rogues gallery of crooks, Starring Robert Beatty. Mrs Crimsworth ...... Ruth Sillers cheats and schemers. Philip Levine’s adventures of fire investigating sleuth, Quentin Director: Tracey Neale The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a writer of ‘Q’ Barnaby. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. adult fiction, combining black comedy with sly social satire. Selection of surviving episodes rescued from the BBC archive. SUN 15:30 Linard's Travels (b047bzl0) They are stylishly plotted, vividly characterised and made ‘Q’ Barnaby …. Robert Beatty Deep and distinguished, yet rugged and wise, Linard Davies unforgettable by their breezy cynicism, presenting a hilariously Valerie Chrane …. Gudrun Ure serves the next customer wanting their bag wrapped in cling bleak view of human nature. Inspector Hackett .... Duncan McIntyre film at the Airport Travel Agency in San Francisco. Linard In My Lady Love, My Dove, starring Penelope Keith, we meet Mrs Craig …. Beatrice Kane deals with the packages that the airlines won't and swears by his Arthur and Pamela Beauchamp, a wealthy couple who like to Mrs Reed …. Vera Lennox motto, 'We don't say no'. play bridge. However, they are continually being beaten by the Alan Craig .... Tim Seely Perhaps it's this can-do attitude that has earned him a reputation Snapes – a younger couple who stay with them as house guests. Fire-Officer Thomas .... Nigel Graham for dealing with urns. 'We must have had over a hundred urns'. But Pamela has devised a cunning way of getting her own back. Sgt Collins .... Hamlyn Benson A traffic cop stored his father's ashes with Linard while putting Cast: Pearson .... Henry Stamper on a function at his house. He would occasionally pop in and Storyteller……..Charles Dance Police Operator .... Gordon Gardner ask, 'How's my dad doing? Linard would reply, 'He's doing Pamela…………Penelope Keith Director: Martyn C Webster great, he ain't bothering nobody!' Arthur………….Richard O’Callaghan First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1966. A Korean girl flying to Atlanta left the ashes of her mother with Henry…………..Nicholas Boulton MON 06:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002cd6) Linard, never to be picked up. He now considers the deceased Sally……………Jaimi Barbakoff The Mystery of the Blue Train his business partner, talking to her on long night shifts. Yet he Written by Roald Dahl 1. Heart of Fire does feel a little responsible for 'Grandma' as he calls her, as he Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan The 'Heart of Fire' is one of the world's legendary jewels which accidentally broke the urn and the ashes scattered onto the Director: David Blount once adorned the crown of the Tsars. But legend proclaims the floor. So Grandma is now forever in San Francisco Airport. A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 stunning ruby brings death in its wake. The Airport Travel Agency deals with all kinds of artefacts, SUN 19:00 Sneakernomics (p09fy38g) So the American millionaire Rufus Van Aldin may live to regret from a set of house keys to a bass violin, kayak, or extra-large [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] his purchase... dog kennel (minus the dog). The unofficial historian of the SUN 20:00 Rose Tremain (b0214tf2) As the glamorous Blue Train carries the rich and the famous to Airport Travel Agency, Carol, gives us a run down of the [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] their beloved Riviera - the future looks far from bright for one strangest items - clown shoes, 10-foot tall carved wooden doors SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000xsqv) passenger... from Bali and a set of fresh moose antlers, to name just a few. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Another case for Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Producer: Peter Shevlin SUN 21:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000xsqy) Poirot. A BlokMedia production [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] First published in 1928, The Mystery of the Blue Train is based First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. SUN 22:00 Start/Stop (b07myyr1) on a short story from 1923, The Plymouth Express. SUN 16:00 Rose Tremain (b0214tf2) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Dramatised in six parts by Michael Bakewell. Who Was Emily Davison? SUN 22:30 The Mel and Sue Thing (b0076b3z) Rufus Van Aldin …. Robert Beatty Emily Davison has a small, tragic place in British history. Episode 5 Katherine Grey …. Janet Maw She was the woman who threw herself in front of the King's Virginia Wade and Tim Henman talk politics, Sweet Fanny Ruth Kettering …. Avril Clarke horse, Anmer, during the running of the Epsom Derby in 1913. Adams talks, well, sweetly, and Lovejoy and Bergerac talk Derek Kettering …. Anthony Smee Why did she do it? nonsense. Major Knighton …. Michael Deacon Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10 – 16 July 2021 Page 5 of 11 Lady Tamplin …. Gwen Cherrell Running in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975 – JB Morton’s MON 14:30 The Countertenor (b017cjmg) Lenox …. Moir Leslie surreally comic ‘Beachcomber’ column paved the way for a Men who sing in falsetto: Bidisha surveys the countertenor Mirelle …. Judy Buxton great deal of modern humour. voice - in classical music and in the music of Jimmy Somerville, Dr Harrison …. Peter Woodthorpe Adapted by Michael Barfield with Richard Ingrams. Smokey Robinson, the Bee Gees and Plan B. She looks at the Krassnine …. John Harrison Announcer: Brian Perkins sexual ambiguity and ethereal quality of a voice that can still Olga …. Tessa Worsley Producer: Harry Thompson make people feel uncomfortable. Zia …. Jane Leonard First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1991. Many people still associate the countertenor sound with the use Scattergood …. Garard Green MON 10:00 Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek of castrati, even though the last of that breed died nearly a Papopolous …. Ronald Herdman (b007jqzj) century ago. The voice is inextricably linked in their minds with Director: David Johnston. Episode 1 the notion of being unmanly, different, lesser or 'other'. At the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1985. When young writer Nikos encounters zest-filled Zorba, his life same time the countertenor sound itself can be so beautiful that MON 07:00 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b05y0qkv) is never the same. This is a middle-aged Greek hero who says it is beguiling; listeners find themselves torn between the Series 1 yes to every experience and adventure that life has to offer... pleasure of the art and their social confusion. Love Nick McCarty's dramatisation of Nikos Kazantzakis's famous Writer and broadcaster Bidisha, fascinated by hearing the voice Helen looks at love and the problems of finding the perfect Greek novel of Alfred Deller on the radio, visits Canterbury Cathedral to mate. Stars Robert Stephens as Zorba, Michael Maloney as Nikos, find out how the voice became part of classical music Including the invention of computer dating; how we might Mary Wimbush as Hortense, Terry Molloy as Mavrondoni, mainstream again after a silence of almost 200 years. chemically engineer love; how the bicycle revolutionised sex; Dominic Taylor as Mimiko, Roger Hume as Anagnosti, Peter She discovers the role of composer Benjamin Britten in having a row in Ikea; and a pair of romantic prairie voles. Meakin as Andonis, Hedli Niklaus as the Mad Woman and Judy bringing the voice back onto the public stage in the part of A comic look at the solutions humanity has devised to deal with Bennett as the Villa Girl. Oberon in a Midsummer Night's Dream, written for Alfred the fundamental problems of survival, starring Helen Keen, Producer: Phillip Martin Deller. Susy Kane and Peter Serafinowicz. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. She visits a voice clinic to see a camera being put down the Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill, MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m000xsx5) throat of a professional countertenor to see exactly what Producer: Gareth Edwards Series 8 happens to a man's vocal cords when he sings in falsetto. And A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first The Biology of Sex she asks - can all men sing in falsetto? broadcast in June 2015. A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting And she looks at the extensive and continuing use of the voice MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000xkzb) speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) in pop music, where it has become more easily accepted than it Series 75 stage. was in classical music when it first became popular again. Episode 4 Manoush Zomorodi explores the complex world of biological With contributions from Mark Deller, Michael Chance, Iestyn Radio 4's antidote to panel comes once again from the Radio sex – it’s not as simple as XX or XY genetics. Davies, Nicholas Clapton, Declan Costello, Ian Aitkenhead, Theatre in Broadcasting House but with a virtual audience First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2020. Rev Richard Coles and Plan B. drawn exclusively from Northern Ireland. MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000xsx7) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. MON 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k27m) Jonathan Dimbleby MON 15:00 Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek Series 5 Presenter Jonathan Dimbleby chooses Rock Around the Clock (b007jqzj) The Desperate Hours by Bill Haley and the final movement of Beethoven's Seventh [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] After news of a jailbreak at Wormwood Scrubs, Albert and Symphony. MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote (b07zyhpy) Harold get some unwelcome visitors. MON 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k27m) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON 16:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b007jv6b) Simpson. MON 12:30 England, Their England by AG Macdonell [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] CAST: (m000xsx3) MON 17:00 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b05y0qkv) Albert …. Wilfrid Brambell [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Harold …. Harry H. Corbett MON 13:00 Destination - Fire! (m000xsx1) MON 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000xkzb) Johnny Spooner …. Leonard Rossiter [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Frank Ferris …. Paddy Joyce MON 13:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002cd6) MON 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jr1s) Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] The World in Peril with Tony Hancock, writers Galton & Simpson wrote ten pilots MON 14:00 Beryl Bainbridge: Love By All Sorts Of Means Episode 1 for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. The Offer was (b07sy32z) It’s April 1972, and Jet and his crew return to Mars in an set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring the lives of rag 1. Early Years at Formby attempt to avert the impending Martian invasion. and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold and it was the A biography of the novelist who denied that she ever wrote Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures spark for a run of eight series for TV. fiction, maintaining that her books were based on her of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the Producer: Bobby Jaye experiences. “What is more peculiar, more riveting, devious and preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in May 1974. horrific than real life?" she said. CAST: MON 08:30 England, Their England by AG Macdonell But while her own life was the primary source for her books, Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds (m000xsx3) she was never afraid of adding a little colour. Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp Episode 3 Episode 1: The early years at Formby. Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter Leslie Phillips narrates AG MacDonell's classic comedy first The author Brendan King is a freelance translator, editor and Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass published in 1933, adapted in six parts by Bob Sinfield. reviewer, with a special interest in late nineteenth century Various …. Alan Tilvern Young Donald Cameron retires injured from the Great War and French literature. He completed his PhD on Joris-Karl Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs finds himself with a commission - to write a book about the Huysmans’ life and work at Birkbeck College, London, in 2004. Music composed by Van Phillips English and their curious habits. Between 1987 and 2010, King worked for Beryl Bainbridge, Written and produced by Charles Chilton. Episdoe 3: Can he survive when has to play cricket in a sleepy and helped prepare a number of the novels she wrote during this First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September little Kentish village? period for publication, including the book she was working on 1955. Donald Cameron .... Sam Graham at the time of her death, The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress, which MON 18:30 A Good Read (b01kjt88) Hodge .... Christopher Benjamin was published posthumously. Sophi Tranchell and Alison Graham Mr Harcourt .... Peter Kelly Readers: Fairtrade entrepreneur Sophi Tranchell, Radio Times television Mr Southcott .... Shaun Prendergast Narrator ...... James Fleet critic Alison Graham, and presenter Harriett Gilbert discuss Director: Neil Cargill Beryl Bainbridge ...... Samantha Bond their favourite reads. A Splice of Life production for BBC Radio 2 first broadcast in Author: Brendan King BOOKS FEATURED IN THE PROGRAMME October 1994. Abridger: Pete Nichols Sophi Tranchell's choice: 'The Man from Beijing' by Henning MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote (b07zyhpy) Producer: Karen Rose Mankell Dan Antopolski, Janet Ellis, Kirsty Lang and John Sergeant A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Alison Graham's choice: 'The Rain Before it Falls' by Jonathan Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for its September 2016. Coe 40th anniversary series. MON 14:15 Shardlake (b09kxqv0) Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'Our Man in Havana' by Graham For forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by writers, actors, Heartstone Greene musicians, scientists and various comedy types. Kenneth Episode 6 Producer: John Byrne Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, Ian KcKellen, Continuing Colin MacDonald’s dramatisation of the Tudor First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... have all graced the mystery novel by C.J. Sansom. MON 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k27m) Quote Unquote stage. Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of guests on the origins of Barak journey to Portsmouth with Sir Nicholas Hobbey and his MON 19:30 England, Their England by AG Macdonell sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the panel to share their young ward, Hugh Curteys. Preparations for a naval battle with (m000xsx3) favourite anecdotes. the French are gathering pace, and Hugh – anxious to enlist in [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Comedian, actor and writer Dan Antopolski spite of Sir Nicholas’s strong objections – demonstrates his MON 20:00 Destination - Fire! (m000xsx1) Presenter, actress and author Janet Ellis archery skills to Captain Leacon. Meanwhile Shardlake has an [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Journalist and Broadcaster Kirsty Lang unexpected and typically unpleasant encounter with his old MON 20:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002cd6) Journalist and ballroom dancer John Sergeant enemy Sir Richard Rich. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Presenter ... Nigel Rees Matthew Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m000xsx5) Reader ... Charlotte Green Jack Barak ..... Bryan Dick [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Producer ... Carl Cooper Nicholas Hobbey ..... David Seddon MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000xsx7) Production co-ordinator ... George Pierpoint High Curteys ..... Will [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] This is a BBC Studios Production. Howard Dyrick ..... Philip Bretherton MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000xkzb) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2016. George Leacon ..... Finn den Hertog [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b007jv6b) Priddis ..... Clive Hayward MON 22:30 Father Figure (b02x9cq5) Series 2 Sir Richard Rich ..... Nicholas Murchie Series 1 Episode 1 Phillip West ..... Chris Pavlo Pilot The further adventures of Mr Justice Cocklecarrot, Captain Other parts played by members of the cast. A new Belfast house-husband has a dog of a first day as he Foulenough, Dr Strabismus (whom God preserve) of Utrecht Writer ..... C.J. Sansom embraces his change of lifestyle. Stars Jason Byrne. From April and Big White Carstairs. Dramatist ..... Colin MacDonald 2010. Richard Ingrams, John Wells, John Sessions and Patricia Director ..... David Jackson Young MON 23:00 Dead Ringers (m000xn05) Routledge recreate the world of the JB Morton. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. Series 21 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10 – 16 July 2021 Page 6 of 11 Episode 5 Rufus Van Aldin …. Robert Beatty Lucian Hyber-Connor ...... Robert Paterson Labour’s Angela Rayner has some unusual items for the team at Ruth Kettering …. Avril Clarke Producers: Lucy Bacon and Kathy Smith The Repair Shop, and there’s a unique perspective on Andy Derek Kettering …. Anthony Smee First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000. Murray’s personal life. Major Knighton …. Michael Deacon TUE 10:00 Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek With Jon Culshaw, Lewis Macleod, Jan Ravens, Debra Mason …. Pauline Letts (b007jqzy) Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey. Chubby …. Jonathan Owen Episode 2 Written by: Nev Fountain & Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Caux …. Adrian Egan Will following Zorba’s advice for life lead to tragedy when Ed Amsden & Tom Coles, James Bugg, Simon Alcock, Sophie Pavett …. David Learner Nikos meets with the young widow? Stars Robert Stephens. Dickson, and Athena Kugblenu. Train Conductor …. Richard Durden TUE 11:00 Archive on 4 (b07tqbw0) Producer: Bill Dare Gendarme …. Ronald Herdman Period Drama Politics Production Coordinator: Sarah Sharpe Director: David Johnston Steven Fielding, Professor of Political History at Nottingham A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1985. University, asks whether the portrayal of class relations in MON 23:30 Hal (b08n22ry) TUE 07:00 55 and Over (b01p09pb) period dramas - Downton Abbey, Upstairs Downstairs and Noël Series 2 3. Offspring? Coward's play Cavalcade - had any political effect. Exes With new partners on the scene the possibility of progeny Steven sees striking parallels between the dramas; all three are The second series of the sitcom with Hal Cruttenden finds the suddenly seems more likely. But not everyone is so keen on set in the early decades of the twentieth century in wealthy hapless house husband still trying to cope with his mid-life later-in-life breeding. households with servants; all three portray the relationship of crisis and doubting his every move. Juliet Stevenson and Philip Jackson star in Peter Souter's the upper classes with their servants as essentially benevolent; His wife Sam (Kerry Godliman) is still a highly successful comedy about love, sex and other foolhardy mistakes made by all three appeared at times of national crisis (the 1930s, the business woman, his two daughters Lily and Molly continue to the modern 50pluser. 1970s and after the 2008 financial crash); and a Conservative grow into teenagers and find their dad just a little annoying, his Jane ..... Juliet Stevenson government was voted in after each one. bitter and embittered sister Pippa (Abigail Cruttenden) has Ray ..... Philip Jackson Steven investigates whether there is a pattern here. Are these inconveniently decided to stay with Hal alongside her angry Tony ..... Patrick Brennan dramas just comforting entertainment or could they have had a teenage son Oberon, racist neighbour Penny (Ronni Ancona) Heather ..... Liza Sadovy subtle effect on voting habits? And how accurate is the proves to be a major thorn in Hal's side and best mates Fergus Honey ..... Stephanie Racine portrayal of relations between the ruling classes and their (Ed Byrne) and Barry (Gavin Webster) hinder rather than help Sam ..... Adam Nagaitis servants? Hal's goal of finding himself. Dr Miller ..... Robert Blythe Featuring a specially recorded interview with Downton creator Hal's vision of himself as a romantic partner are confounded as Portia ..... Sarah Thom Julian Fellowes, and an archive interview with the Script Editor Sam reveals she's catching up with a 'blast from the past'. And Director: Helen Perry. of Upstairs Downstairs, Alfred Shaughnessy, that hasn't been refugee housemate Mahmoud causes a stir. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012. broadcast before. Written by Hal Cruttenden and Dominic Holland TUE 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week (m000xlvb) With archive material from Noël Coward, Sheridan Morley, Produced by Paul Russell Series 14 Jean Marsh, Eileen Atkins, and Sir John Gielgud, and An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Elgar’s Nose contributions from Coward's biographer Philip Hoare, Upstairs April 2017. Episode 5: Elgar’s Nose Downstairs expert Richard Marson, and Selina Todd, Professor Thanks to his weekly pension, Ed is enjoying all manor of new of Modern British History at Oxford University. things like organic food box deliveries, the pleasure of ticking First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2016. TUESDAY 13 JULY 2021 yes to the question ‘Do you Have a TV licence?’ with a clear TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jyf4) conscience and a brand-new car. Elgar, Ed’s trusty feline [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jr1s) companion, is also enjoying this new lifestyle, apart from a TUE 12:30 Take Me to Your Reader (m000xrmc) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] sneeze that he just cannot shake. A trip to the Vet is in order. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b01kjt88) Cast list ep 5 TUE 13:00 Destination - Fire! (m000xrm6) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Ed Reardon………..Christopher Douglas [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE 01:00 Destination - Fire! (m000xsx1) Ping…………….……..Barunka O’Shaughnessy TUE 13:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002cct) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Maggie……………….Pippa Haywood [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE 01:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002cd6) Salesman…………….Phaldut Sharma TUE 14:00 Beryl Bainbridge: Love By All Sorts Of Means [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] Olive…………………..Stephanie Cole (b07synwl) TUE 02:00 Beryl Bainbridge: Love By All Sorts Of Means Pearl…………………..Brigit Forsyth 2. Swept Up by the Stage (b07sy32z) Stan……………………Geoffrey Whitehead A biography of the novelist who denied that she ever wrote [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Vet………………….….Nicola Sanderson fiction, maintaining that her books were based on her TUE 02:15 Shardlake (b09kxqv0) Piers……………………Simon Greenall experiences. “What is more peculiar, more riveting, devious and [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Petroc Trelawny…….Himself horrific than real life?" she said. TUE 02:30 The Countertenor (b017cjmg) Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas But while her own life was the primary source for her books, [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Produced by Dawn Ellis she was never afraid of adding a little colour. TUE 03:00 Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek (b007jqzj) Production Co-ordinator: Cherlynn Andrew-Wilfred The author Brendan King is a freelance translator, editor and [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Sound Recordist and Editor: David Thomas reviewer, with a special interest in late nineteenth century TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote (b07zyhpy) A BBC Studios Production French literature. He completed his PhD on Joris-Karl [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jyf4) Huysmans’ life and work at Birkbeck College, London, in 2004. TUE 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b007jv6b) Series 9 Between 1987 and 2010, King worked for Beryl Bainbridge, [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] The Call of the West and helped prepare for publication a number of the novels she TUE 05:00 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b05y0qkv) Count Moriarty and Grytpype-Thynne sell saxophones to the wrote during this period, including the book she was working on [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] Indians in a cowboy caper. Stars Peter Sellers. From January at the time of her death, The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress, which TUE 05:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m000xkzb) 1959. was published posthumously. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE 08:30 Take Me to Your Reader (m000xrmc) Readers: TUE 06:00 Destination - Fire! (m000xrm6) 1. The Trouble with Billy Narrator ...... James Fleet Series 3 Colin is asked to persuade a pretentious children’s author to Beryl Bainbridge ...... Samantha Bond 11. The Sound of Fire renew his contract with Roache & Brewer. Author: Brendan King Fire Investigator ‘Q’ Barnaby investigates an incident at a A mid-80s sitcom set in the publishing house, Roache & Abridger: Pete Nichols recording studio involving a pop singer. Brewer, where erudite, naïve Colin Luscombe fights an uphill Producer: Karen Rose The third series of the adventures of writer Philip Levine’s fire battle with his bluff MD, Rees John. Colin wants to inform and A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in investigating sleuth, Quentin ‘Q’ Barnaby. Levine’s fascination educate the world, whilst Rees is only interested in the bottom September 2016. with arson “never waned”, with its “numerous motivations line. "Forget literature," says Rees to Colin, "concentrate on TUE 14:15 Shardlake (b09l039p) including; greed, financial reverses, the destruction of evidence, books.” Stuck in the middle is Janet Hunt. Heartstone revenge, jealousy, pyromania and even boredom. Arson is a CAST: Episode 7 crime of secrecy and cold premeditation.” Colin Luscombe …. Tim Brooke-Taylor Continuing Colin MacDonald’s dramatisation of the Tudor CAST: Rees John …. Glyn Houston mystery novel by C.J. Sansom. ' Q ' Barnaby .... Robert Beatty Janet Hunt …. Eve Karpf Shardlake and Barak return to Hoyland, where that evening Johnny Seton .... Nigel Graham Thomas Lipton …. Edward Judd comes “the first of the events that was to change the life of the Dennis Mitchell .... Wilfred Babbage Leonard Barrow …. Joe Dunlop Hobbey family forever” – and a stag hunt on the estate ends Sue Weston .... Jane Wenham Written by Andrew Palmer. with a gruesome discovery. Valerie Chrane .... Gudrun Ure Producer: Edward Taylor Matthew Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger Mr Morgan .... James Thomason First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1986. Jack Barak ..... Bryan Dick Fire Officer Gilby .... Wilfrid Carter TUE 09:00 Dead Ringers (m000xn05) Nicholas Hobbey ..... David Seddon Inspector Hackett .... Duncan McIntyre [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] Hugh Curteys ..... Will Alec Groves .... Anthony Hall TUE 09:30 Millport (b0075tn0) Howard Dyrick ..... Philip Bretherton Director: Martyn C. Webster. Series 1 Abigail Hobbey ..... Isabella Inchbald First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1966. Culture David Hobbey ..... Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong TUE 06:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002cct) Irene fears the worst when a famous restaurant critic books a Feveryear ..... Gary Duncan The Mystery of the Blue Train table at the Ritz Cafe. The reputation of Millport will be printed Vicar ..... Neil McCaul 2. The Blue Train for the whole world to see! Villager …. Clive Hayward Katherine Grey heads to Nice by train but when she gets there, But is he really coming to sample Alberto's food or does he Other parts played by members of the cast. a new acquaintance is found brutally murdered. have a secret agenda? Writer ..... C. J. Sansom Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot is drawn into a tale of murder Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as Dramatist ..... Colin MacDonald and deceit, focussed on one of the world’s legendary jewels... 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a Director ..... David Jackson Young First published in 1928, Agatha Christie's thriller is based on a better life on the mainland. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. short story from 1923, The Plymouth Express. Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson TUE 14:30 Don't Go in the Water! (b04f9fs8) Dramatised in six parts by Michael Bakewell. Moira ...... Janet Brown Jaws made the scientist Dr Gareth Fraser what he is today - a CAST: Alberto/Robert/Ferryman/Bob ...... Lewis McLeod lecturer in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, and shark jaw Hercule Poirot …. Maurice Denham Ena/Bunty/Betty ...... Gabriel Quigley specialist, at the University of Sheffield's Department of Katherine Grey …. Janet Maw Doogie ...... Matt Costello Animal and Plant Sciences. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10 – 16 July 2021 Page 7 of 11 This is his exploration of Jaws - the fiction of the rogue shark [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Pollard .... Henry Stamper that enthralled Gareth when he was a boy in South Wales, TUE 21:00 Archive on 4 (b07tqbw0) Osborne .... Bruce Beeby looking out on the dark silt of the Bristol channel, wondering [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Constable Taylor .... Anthony Jackson what lay beneath. TUE 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week (m000xlvb) Director: Martyn C. Webster. Even the eminent Professor David Sims (of the Marine [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1966. Biological Association and University of Southampton) admits TUE 22:30 Revolting People (b0089mbr) WED 06:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002c9k) to looking out for the fins of Great Whites when he's out Series 3 The Mystery of the Blue Train tagging toothless basking sharks in Devon and Cornwall. Young Love 3. A Meeting at the Villa Marguerite Can the story really still have such power over our psyches? Captain Brimshaw receives fresh orders from his father - to With a victim brutally murdered and a fabulous gem stolen, Jaws was written by Peter Benchley in 1974, and turned into the return to England and marry his cousin... Hercule Poirot starts to 'arrange the facts'. first summer blockbuster, by Stephen Spielberg, a year later. Sitcom set just before the American War of Independence, First published in 1928, Agatha Christie's thriller is based on a It may have inspired Gareth to swim with sharks - despite his Written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses. short story from 1923, The Plymouth Express. father's fisherman's tales of sea monsters - yet it petrified other CAST: CAST: people out of the water for good. McGurk …. Andy Hamilton Hercule Poirot …. Maurice Denham Gareth asks what innate fears Jaws taps into - the fear of being Samuel …. Jay Tarses Katherine Grey …. Janet Maw eaten alive, like in Hansel and Gretel, or of the deep, dark Captain Brimshaw …. James Fleet Rufus Van Aldin …. Robert Beatty unknown of the sea. He asks how realistic Jaws' tale of a Great Mary …. Jan Ravens Derek Kettering …. Anthony Smee White killing machine really is and what impact it still has today Joshua …. Tony Maudsley Major Knighton …. Michael Deacon - both on sharks and on new generations of swimmers, either Lord Brimshaw …. Hugh Dennis Lady Tamplin …. Gwen Cherrell running from the water after flashbacks from the film or Emily …. Penelope Nice Lenox …. Moir Leslie running into the waves determined to grow up to be another Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Mason …. Pauline Letts Matt Hooper, the story's charismatic shark scientist. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004. Chubby …. Jonathan Owen Producer: Frances Byrne TUE 23:00 2000 Years of Radio (b007jndx) Mr Goby …. Brian Smith A Big Fish production Series 1 Monsieur Carrege …. Gordon Reid First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Roman Britain Radio Servant …. David Learner TUE 15:00 Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek It’s 55AD and ancient Britain tries to come to terms with the Dramatised in six parts by Michael Bakewell. (b007jqzy) Roman invasion. DJ Steve-in-the-Afternoon fights the invaders' Director: David Johnston. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] plans to make changes to the nation's favourite radio station - First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1985. TUE 16:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b08crt6f) Iceni Gold. WED 07:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b080xj88) Series 10 Six-part series that taps into the radio archive of a bygone age. An Encounter with Mr Newton Episode 5 Written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Claire Downes , Lucy Porter's sitcom set in pre-enlightenment Edinburgh. This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his Stuart Lane, Al Holloway, Danny Robbins and Dan Tetsell. This week intellectual giant Isaac Newton (Gavin Mitchell) is in curator Jo Brand welcome comedian, screenwriter and Guilty Producers: Paul Dodgson & Sean Grundy town and he's struggling with a new theory to explain why Feminist podcaster Deborah Frances-White; the entomologist First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2000. things keep falling on his head. and bumblebee expert, Professor Dave Goulson; and "that bloke TUE 23:15 Jelly Mountain (b00fd63q) He encounters the members of the Fair Intellectual club - a off Time Team who was Baldrick in Blackadder", Sir Tony Episode 1 secret society for the scholarly improvement of young ladies. Robinson. Ivor Cutler's unique views on language, justice and scratching With the help of carefree socialite Ishbel (Caroline Deyga), This week, the Museum's Guest Committee enshrine the first people's backs. devout clergyman's daughter Marjory (Samara Maclaren) and Englishwoman to make a living as a professional poet, Emilia With Craig Murray-Orr, Dylan Edwards, Beverley Crew and maths boffin Alison (Jessica Hardwick), the penny finally Lanier; speculate on the unusual polyphiloprogenitive strategies Alison O'Kill. drops. of virgin death watch beetles; and pay homage to the moment First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1996. Mr Newton also has to contend with Alison's idiot brother when Blackadder finally went "over the top". TUE 23:30 Cliche (m000xrmp) Robert (Simon Donaldson), Ishbel's ancient retainer Kennedy The show was researched by Anne Miller of QI and Mike From 06/04/1981 (Gordon Kennedy) and a rented pineapple. Turner. From theatre hooligans to Tip Top toupees. Music by Aly Macrae The production coordinator was Sophie Richardson. Sketches galore from Red Dwarf creators, Rob Grant and Doug Director: Marilyn Imrie The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin. Naylor. Producer: Gordon Kennedy It was a BBC Studios Production, first broadcast in February Starring Carole Hayman, Nick Maloney, Simon Molloy and An Absolutely production 2017. Brian Southwood First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. TUE 16:30 Millport (b0075tn0) Music by Peter Lingwood. WED 07:30 Unite (m000xm7k) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Producer: Ron McDonnell Series 1 TUE 17:00 55 and Over (b01p09pb) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1981. Chicken Man [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] New sitcom series starring Radio 4 favourite Mark Steel (Mark TUE 17:30 Ed Reardon's Week (m000xlvb) Steel's in Town, The News Quiz), Claire Skinner [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WEDNESDAY 14 JULY 2021 (Outnumbered), Elliot Steel and Ivo Graham. TUE 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jr4d) When Tony (Mark Steel), a working class, left wing South The World in Peril WED 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Londoner, falls in love and moves in with Imogen (Claire Episode 2 (b007jr4d) Skinner), an upper middle class property developer, their sons - Jet and Lemmy hear weird sounds as they examine asteroids [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] disenfranchised Croydon rude boy Ashley (Elliot Steel) and newly orbiting Earth. WED 00:30 Soul Music (b01bwmw6) Eton and Oxbridge-educated Gideon (Ivo Graham) - are forced Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] to live under the same roof and behave like the brothers neither of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the WED 01:00 Destination - Fire! (m000xrm6) of them ever wanted. preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] In this episode, Ashley starts a new job promoting a local fried CAST: WED 01:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002cct) chicken restaurant, and after inadvertently stopping a jewellery Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] heist, he becomes a national hero. Meanwhile, Gideon and Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp WED 02:00 Beryl Bainbridge: Love By All Sorts Of Means Rebecca open up a vegan pop up cafe, Imogen holds a Jiu Jitsu Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter (b07synwl) class and Tony catches up with one of his old comrades from Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] The Revolutionary Party for Working Workers (Marxist- Various …. Alan Tilvern WED 02:15 Shardlake (b09l039p) Leninist) Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] Tony - Mark Steel Music composed by Van Phillips WED 02:30 Don't Go in the Water! (b04f9fs8) Imogen - Claire Skinner Written and produced by Charles Chilton. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] Ashley - Elliot Steel First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1955. WED 03:00 Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek Gideon - Ivo Graham TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b01bwmw6) (b007jqzy) Rebecca - Ayesha Antoine Series 13 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Stefan - Naz Osmanoglu Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto WED 04:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b08crt6f) Cas - Jamali Maddix Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto, which was famously [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] Len - Dave Johns featured in David Lean's film "Brief Encounter", is one of the WED 04:30 Millport (b0075tn0) Jeremy Vine - Marcus Brigstocke world's most popular pieces of classical. In this programme [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] News Reader - Olivia Lichtenstein people describe the way in which Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano WED 05:00 55 and Over (b01p09pb) Labour MP - Barry Castagnola Concerto has touched and shaped their lives. The programme [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] Eileen/Dorothy - Ruth Bratt features a pianist from Taiwan whose memories of a repressive WED 05:30 Ed Reardon's Week (m000xlvb) Jacob - Stefano Paolini childhood were dispelled by the emotions contained within this [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] Young Boy - James Potter music. Plus a story from an acclaimed pianist from Argentina WED 06:00 Destination - Fire! (m000xtcp) Rachel - Nessa Eriksson who was told she would never play the piano again after a Series 3 Written by Barry Castagnola, Elliot Steel and Mark Steel serious car accident, but who has recently performed this piece 13. A Fire in Time (additional material from the cast and Sian Harries) in New York. And finally an account of the place that this piece Fire investigator ‘Q’ Barnaby looks into a fire at a clothing Executive Producer Mario Stylianides of passionate and heartfelt music played in the life of John Peel factory, when stock is water damaged. Stars Robert Beatty. Producer/Director Barry Castagnola and his family, told by his wife Sheila Ravenscroft. The third series of the adventures of writer Philip Levine’s fire Sound recordist and Editor Jerry Peal The concerto is also given historical and musical context in the investigating sleuth, Quentin ‘Q’ Barnaby. Levine’s fascination Broadcast Assistant Sarah Tombling programme by pianists Peter Donohoe and Howard Shelley. with arson “never waned”, with its “numerous motivations Production Co-ordinator George O'Regan Producer: Rosie Boulton. including; greed, financial reverses, the destruction of evidence, Golden Path and Rustle Up production for BBC Radio 4 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2012. revenge, jealousy, pyromania and even boredom. Arson is a WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k1x5) TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jyf4) crime of secrecy and cold premeditation.” Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] CAST: The Television Set TUE 19:30 Take Me to Your Reader (m000xrmc) ‘Q’ Barnaby …. Robert Beatty Living in the only house in Railway Cuttings without a telly, the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Valerie Chrane …. Gudrun Ure lad takes action. TUE 20:00 Destination - Fire! (m000xrm6) Vickers .... Hector Ross Starring Tony Hancock, Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Andree Melly [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Chesney .... Noel Howlett and Kenneth Williams. TUE 20:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002cct) Diana James .... Jane Wenham Announcer: Kenneth Williams Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10 – 16 July 2021 Page 8 of 11 Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. period for publication, including the book she was working on Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. at the time of her death, The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress, which Music composed by Van Phillips Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry was published posthumously. Written and produced by Charles Chilton. Rabinowitz. Readers: First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1955. Producer: Dennis Main Wilson Narrator ...... James Fleet WED 18:30 Short Cuts (m000824d) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1955. Beryl Bainbridge ...... Samantha Bond Series 20 WED 08:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008m30v) Author: Brendan King Musical Boning Up on History Abridger: Pete Nichols A spider infestation turns into a musical performance, the Harold Perkins wants to dig for postwar Britain, but the Producer: Karen Rose pianist Glenn Gould unpicks the magic of Petula Clark's workmates decide to soil his plans. A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Downtown and Patrick Haggerty talks about Lavender Country, Six anarchic tales from those demob days “when we was going September 2016. which has come to be known as the first gay country music to build the new Jerusalem - you know, before the world turned WED 14:15 Shardlake (b09l0blf) album. lax and sour”. Heartstone Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in Stars Norman Rossington as Big Jim, Roland Curram as Harold Episode 8 sound about music and musicians. Perkins, Harold Goodwin as Old Ned, David John as Nimrod, Continuing Colin MacDonald’s dramatisation of the Tudor Lavender Country Sylvester McCoy as Turps, David Beckett as Chick, Steven mystery novel by C.J. Sansom. Featuring Patrick Haggerty Harrold as Harry, Hilary Mason as Miss Farquhar, Douglas As he continues his investigations into the murky history of the Produced by Thomas Curry, Lauren Eisen and Sofie Strøbeck Blackwell as the Farmer and Ben Aris as Trev the Rev. Hobbey family, Shardlake finally realises the startling truth Downtown Narrated by Bernard Cribbins. about Sir Nicholas Hobbey’s young ward, Hugh Curteys. And in Featuring Glenn Gould Written by Ted Walker. his parallel enquiries into the case of Bedlam inmate Ellen Produced by Alan Hall Producer: Martin Fisher Fettiplace and the traumatic events at Rolfswood nineteen years Spiders! The Musical First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1987. earlier, he boards the Mary Rose for a second interview with Produced by Phil Smith WED 09:00 The Motion Show (b00762kw) Phillip West – an assistant purser on the warship, and Ellen’s Image Credit: Matthew Wilson Series 4 one-time fiancé. Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam Episode 3 Matthew Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Graeme Garden hosts the comic debating game with Marcus Jack Barak ..... Bryan Dick A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Brigstocke, Steve Punt, Stuart Maconie and Jenny Eclair. From Warner ..... Neil McCaul September 2019. June 2001. Priddis ..... Clive Hayward WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k1x5) WED 09:30 Smelling of Roses (m000xtcr) Hugh Curteys ..... Will Howard [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 2 Sir Richard Rich …. Nicholas Murchie WED 19:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008m30v) Romance Is Dead Phillip West …. Chris Pavlo [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Rosie's event management company helps organise a romantic Queen Catherine ..... Emily Wachter WED 20:00 Destination - Fire! (m000xtcp) tour for American tourists. Stars Prunella Scales. From June David Hobbey ..... Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] 2001. Nicholas Hobbey ..... David Seddon WED 20:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002c9k) WED 10:00 Inspector Chen (b08bygsf) Dyrick ..... Philip Bretherton [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Series 2 Sailor ..... Gary Duncan WED 21:00 Dr Hannah Fry: Codebreaker (m000xtcw) 1. A Case of Two Cities Other parts played by members of the cast. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] When the head of the Shanghai anti-corruption squad is found Writer ..... C. J. Sansom WED 22:00 Unite (m000xm7k) dead in compromising circumstances Inspector Chen is drafted Dramatist ..... Colin MacDonald [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] in as "Special Envoy to the Emperor with an Imperial Sword". Director ..... David Jackson Young WED 22:30 Life on Egg (b087tx29) Inspector Chen ...... Jamie Zubairi First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. Series 1 Detective Yu ...... Dan Li WED 14:30 Every Day in Every Way (b01mqq6f) CCTV Catherine Rohn ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner Gillian Darley explores the life of Emile Coué who created the Harry Hill is the governor of the UK's remotest prison, The Zhao ...... Ashley Alymann mantra ‘every day, in every way, I'm getting better'. Egg. However, his resources are limited, so when there is an An ...... Louise-Mai Newberry Positive thinking gurus and hypnotherapists aren't the only ones incident within the prison he is forced to record it in Dong ...... Nicholas Murchie familiar with the phrase 'Every day, in every way, I'm getting watercolours. Gu ...... John Dougall better and better.' It's reputation today is that of a trite, rather That's why he is delighted when he receives a brand new CCTV Secretary ...... Keziah Joseph ineffective 'feel good' relic of yesteryear but the phrase, and the system to monitor goings-on within The Egg. But the system Bao ...... John Bowler man who conjured it up have a fascinating history. soon malfunctions...and Harry has to think quickly to save the Reporter ...... Gavi Singh Chera Writer Gillian Darley explores the work of the Frenchman sanity of his team. By Qiu Xiaolong Emile Coué who, though a mere pharmacist in his native Harry ..... Harry Hill Dramatised by John Harvey France, came to be one of the best known figures of the post Anne ..... Karen Bartke Director: David Hunter. First World War world. His visits to England and America were Peter ..... Marek Larwood First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2017. proceeded by record sales of his books which encouraged Nev ..... Jason Forbes WED 11:00 Dr Hannah Fry: Codebreaker (m000xtcw) advocates in the ways of auto-suggestion. Doubleday ..... Jason Forbes 3. Bletchley Park and Beyond Rev Simone ..... Alison Belbin As a mathematician, Dr Hannah Fry specialises in The scientific community are dismissive of his place in the The Minister ..... Alison Belbin understanding patterns of human behaviour and nowhere does development of psychiatric thinking and development and Written by Dan Maier the human factor smash headlong into the reality of numbers Gillian reveals reports of one event in which he caused chaos Producer: Sam Michell than in the secretive world of code-breaking. amongst a group of shell-shocked soldiers during a 1922 visit to A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in So she's delved into the BBC Radio Archive to present a England. But there are others who say that the 'Every day, in January 2017. fascinating selection of programmes all about codes, secrets and every way' phrase, borrowed to comic effect by Frank Spencer WED 22:45 Woof (b0bh5hpw) ciphers. Have a pen and paper handy, because she'll be amongst others, hides a genuine pioneer in cognitive therapy. True Tales of Romance and Failure presenting you with a code which you can try to crack at home. Using contemporary eye-witness reports and newspaper It's All in a Name On hand to help are two experts who between them have got coverage of his travels, Gillian reveals a character who might None of us are getting any younger and is kitchen matchmaking numbers and words covered. Bobby Seagull is a maths teacher well merit a more measured response from those writing the on the cards? and author of ‘The Life-changing Magic of Numbers’ and popular, as well as the academic, history of 20th-century Bittersweet comic real life stories written and performed by Richard Rogan is the editor of The Times Cryptic Crossword. medicine. Chris Neill. They'll share their insights into codes, and give their takes on a Meanwhile in France a recent conference in his old base in With Isy Suttie and Martin Hyder fascinating selection from the archive. Featuring: Nancy is part of a new interest in the Coué method, ensuring Producer: Steve Doherty The Bletchley Girls [R4 22/07/2015] that 'Every Day, in Every way' he's reputation is, at the very A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in An extract from The Infinite Monkey Cage: GCHQ [R4 least, changing. September 2018. 13/08/2018] Producer: Tom Alban WED 23:00 Radio Active (b007k18c) Producer: Kevin Core First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. Series 4 Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in February WED 15:00 Inspector Chen (b08bygsf) The BioShow 2020. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] The station's biographical series pays tribute to the sensational WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k1x5) WED 16:00 The Motion Show (b00762kw) life of celebrated actor, Sir John Lesley. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Radio Active is the one and only local national radio station. WED 12:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008m30v) WED 16:30 Smelling of Roses (m000xtcr) Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. WED 13:00 Destination - Fire! (m000xtcp) WED 17:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b080xj88) Music by Philip Pope and Steve Brown. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Written by Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins with Jon Canter, WED 13:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002c9k) WED 17:30 Unite (m000xm7k) John Docherty, Moray Hunter, Helen Murry and Nick Wilton. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Producer: Jamie Rix WED 14:00 Beryl Bainbridge: Love By All Sorts Of Means WED 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1984. (b07syyrm) (b007jr72) WED 23:30 Bunk Bed (b092g8gg) 3. Life with Austin The World in Peril Series 4 A biography of the novelist who denied that she ever wrote Episode 3 Episode 2 fiction, maintaining that her books were based on her Captain Jet Morgan and his crew get on the trail of Earth's alien Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not experiences. “What is more peculiar, more riveting, devious and visitors. applied to any particular task - the nearest faraway place which horrific than real life?" she said. Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures allows us to drift. The state between wakefulness and deep But while her own life was the primary source for her books, of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the slumber where strange thoughts can be followed like balloons she was never afraid of adding a little colour. preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. floating through the air. Late at night, in the dark and in a bunk The author Brendan King is a freelance translator, editor and CAST: bed, your tired mind can wander through unchartered territory. reviewer, with a special interest in late nineteenth century Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Bunk Bed, the chat show with a difference, is written by and French literature. He completed his PhD on Joris-Karl Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp stars Patrick Marber and Peter Curran. To kick off the fourth Huysmans’ life and work at Birkbeck College, London, in 2004. Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter series, they invite award-winning actor and director Kathy Between 1987 and 2010, King worked for Beryl Bainbridge, Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass Burke, to share her memories of reading saucy novels aloud for and helped prepare a number of the novels she wrote during this Various …. Alan Tilvern an audience of fellow teenagers in the 1970s. Curran and Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10 – 16 July 2021 Page 9 of 11 Marber fight over concepts of male sensitivity, only to be some special guests. week, Homicide are in desperate need of help. Dramatised by severely admonished by their guest, and the unlikely bedfellows 4. The Dark Side Joy Wilkinson. discuss how the words of The Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen No-one, really, believes they are doing evil. Anakin Skywalker Chen ...... Jamie Zubairi now mock them in middle-age. did not become Darth Vader because he liked being bad, he did Yu ...... Dan Li Producer: Peter Curran it because he believed his pregnant wife was in danger - and so Party Secretary Li ...... Daniel York A Foghorn production. began his journey to the Dark Side. In this final, and possibly Detective Hong ...... Vera Chok First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017. toughest, episode, Lemn examines his bad choices; where he let Jia Ming ...... Nicholas Murchie himself do the wrong thing - and how he has attempted to make White Cloud ...... Elizabeth Chan amends. When must you let go of your memories and live? Xia ...... Natasha Cowley THURSDAY 15 JULY 2021 Written and performed by ... Lemn Sissay Comrade Fan ...... John Bowler Producer ... Ed Morrish Kong ...... Alison Belbin THU 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jr72) BBC Studios productions Sergeant Qi ...... Gavi Singh Chera [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. Shen Wenchang ...... David Sterne THU 00:30 Short Cuts (m000824d) THU 07:30 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000xmls) Director Zhong ...... John Dougall [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Episode 1 Hotel Manager ...... Finlay Robertson THU 01:00 Destination - Fire! (m000xtcp) Join comedian and computer scientist Olga Koch and her digital Receptionist ...... Catriona McFarlane [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] assistant Algo unpack the flag-waving, beer-chugging and Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson THU 01:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002c9k) general absurdity of Nationality. Directed by Toby Swift [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] Comedian and Computer Scientist Olga Koch takes a deep dive First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. THU 02:00 Beryl Bainbridge: Love By All Sorts Of Means into the world of computer science with her trusty virtual THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000xsqv) (b07syyrm) assistant Algo as the digital duo take the truths that you hold [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] dear and tear them to shreds using logic, like a teenager on the THU 11:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000xsqy) THU 02:15 Shardlake (b09l0blf) internet. A four part stand-up special exploring Nationality, [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] Beauty, Health and Privacy through the eyes of a woman with THU 12:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b0125g83) THU 02:30 Every Day in Every Way (b01mqq6f) half a masters degree in the social science of the internet. By [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] applying computer science to the world around her, Olga and THU 12:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00kk7pr) THU 03:00 Inspector Chen (b08bygsf) Algo take an hilarious and pedantic journey to reveal the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] inherent absurdities of the modern world. THU 13:00 David Ellis - Find The Lady (m000f00m) THU 04:00 The Motion Show (b00762kw) Written by Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Starring Sindhu Vee as Algo THU 13:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002chk) THU 04:30 Smelling of Roses (m000xtcr) Additional Material from Rajiv Karia [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Produced by Benjamin Sutton THU 14:00 Beryl Bainbridge: Love By All Sorts Of Means THU 05:00 The Fair Intellectual Club (b080xj88) A BBC Studios Production (b07tbprw) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU 08:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b0125g83) 4. When Beryl met Alan THU 05:30 Unite (m000xm7k) Series 7 A biography of the novelist who denied that she ever wrote [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Episode 13 fiction, maintaining that her books were based on her THU 06:00 David Ellis - Find The Lady (m000f00m) A look at love, sex and marriage - plus a tense climax in the experiences. “What is more peculiar, more riveting, devious and 1. In Which Andrew Marsh Loses a Cheque Book hunt for the Professor Prune's Time Trousers. horrific than real life?" she said. "Cheque books should be regarded as valuable and the bank Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, But while her own life was the primary source for her books, should be promptly advised in a case of loss." David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. she was never afraid of adding a little colour. After second-hand car dealer Andrew Marsh loses a cheque Sketches written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie The author Brendan King is a freelance translator, editor and book, it sparks a dramatic chain of highly suspicious events. Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue reviewer, with a special interest in late nineteenth century Noel Johnson stars in a seven-part thriller serial written by 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and French literature. He completed his PhD on Joris-Karl David Ellis. quickly developed a cult following. Huysmans’ life and work at Birkbeck College, London, in 2004. Andrew Marsh …. Noel Johnson Music and songs by Bill Oddie, Liam Cohen and Dave Lee. Between 1987 and 2010, King worked for Beryl Bainbridge, Roger Sherwin …. Douglas Blackwell Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge and helped prepare a number of the novels she wrote during this Detective Sergeant Rankin …. Henry Stamper First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in April 1969. period for publication, including the book she was working on Joyce Marsh …. Madi Hedd THU 08:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00kk7pr) at the time of her death, The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress, which George …. John Baddeley Series 4 was published posthumously. Peter Lloyd …. Michael Deacon Another Year, Another Head Readers: Carol Ransome …. Jenny McCracken A surprise awaits the school staff at King Street returning from Narrator ...... James Fleet Doctor …. David Brierley their summer holiday. Beryl Bainbridge ...... Samantha Bond Constable …. Peter Baldwin School comedy created and written by Jim Eldridge. Ten series Author: Brendan King Noel Johnson is best remembered as the voice of BBC Radio's of this King Street Junior ran between 1985 and 1998. King Abridger: Pete Nichols Dick Barton Special Agent. Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005. Producer: Karen Rose David Ellis also wrote for BBC TV's Dixon of Dock Green and CAST: A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Z-Cars. Mrs Eastwood …. Brigitte Forsythe September 2016. Producer: Betty Davies. Miss Lewis …. Marlene Sidaway THU 14:15 Shardlake (b09l1wmt) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1969. Mr Maxwell …. Michael Cochrane Heartstone THU 06:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002chk) Miss Featherstone …. Teresa Gallagher Episode 9 The Mystery of the Blue Train Miss Reid …. Jacqueline Beatty Continuing Colin MacDonald’s dramatisation of the Tudor 4. Le Comte de la Roche Mrs Khan …. Janice Acquah mystery novel by C.J. Sansom. After the murder of Ruth Kettering and theft of her jewels, Mr Long …. Paul Copley Shardlake finally uncovers the truth about Ellen Fettiplace and suspicion falls on her none-too-scrupulous former lover, the Rory …. Charlie Barker the events at the Rolfswood foundry nineteen years earlier. And Comte de la Roche, who has a weakness for ladies and Natasha …. Leah Verity-White as he tracks down Sir Nicholas Hobbey’s young ward Hugh expensive gems. Paula …. Rebecca McElroy Curteys to the warship Mary Rose, the lawyer-detective’s two But to Hercule Poirot, nothing is as obvious as it seems... Producer: John Fawcett Wilson investigations begin to converge. First published in 1928, Agatha Christie's thriller is based on a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2005. Matthew Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger short story from 1923, The Plymouth Express. THU 09:00 The Write Stuff (m000y16t) Phillip West …. Chris Pavlo CAST: Series 8 George Leacon ..... Finn den Hertog Hercule Poirot …. Maurice Denham Noël Coward Sir Richard Rich …. Nicholas Murchie Katherine Grey …. Janet Maw Episode 2 Hugh Curteys ..... Will Rufus Van Aldin …. Robert Beatty James Walton presides over team captains Sebastian Faulks and Howard Pelham ..... Gary Duncan Derek Kettering …. Anthony Smee John Walsh with guests Wendy Holden and Loise Doughty. The Officer ..... Philip Bretherton Major Knighton …. Michael Deacon Author of The Week and subject for Sparkling Pastiche is Noel Other parts played by members of the cast. Lady Tamplin …. Gwen Cherrell Coward. The reader is Beth Chalmers. Writer ..... C. J. Sansom Lenox …. Moir Leslie Producer: Katie Marsden Dramatist ..... Colin MacDonald Mirelle …. Judy Buxton THU 09:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b00zf4tk) Director ..... David Jackson Young Mason …. Pauline Letts Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. Le Comte de la Roche …. Nigel Graham Educating Robert THU 14:30 Scotland Meet Murray Lachlan Young Monsieur Caux …. Adrian Egan Sue manages to get Robert some work instructing drama at her (b03m3ntr) Monsieur Carrege …. Gordon Reid school. Is he a natural teacher or a natural disaster? In 1994, a young man named Murray Lachlan Young, who had George …. Edward de Souza CAST: been born in the United States to a Scottish father and an Hipolyte …. Andrew Branch Robert Wilson .... John Gordon Sinclair English mother, went in search of his Scottish roots. Dramatised in six parts by Michael Bakewell. Sue .... Caroline Quentin As a reedy 20-something in a tweed cap, he toured around a Director: David Johnston. With John Clive, Jennifer Piercey, Jo Kendall, Richard Tate, Scotland still recovering from the downturn of the 1980s and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1985. Joan Walker, David Learner, Ian Targett, Melinda Walker and 90s, meeting his Scottish relatives from dank Glasgow to THU 07:00 Lemn Sissay's Origin Stories (b07zyg5w) Richard Pearce. mystical Skye, sometimes bemusing them with his enthusiasm 4. The Dark Side Written by Paul Mayhew-Archer. for all things Scottish. His encounters spurred him into an Batman was an orphan; Lisbeth Salander, The Girl With the Producer: Paul Spencer outpouring of poetry and a re-examination of the role his Dragon Tattoo, was an orphan; Superman was an orphan and a First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1989. Scottish roots played in his life. "The trip was to write a poem foundling. Cinderella was a foster child. Darth Vader - well, THU 10:00 Inspector Chen (b08cq790) that captured the wild heart of Scotland and delivered my they can't all be winners. Lemn Sissay returns to BBC Radio 4 Series 2 Scottishness to me." with a comic and poetic look at the treatment of children raised 2. Red Mandarin Dress Twenty years on, Murray was ready to undertake that trip again. in care, orphans and foster children in popular culture, The fifth in Qiu Xiaolong's series of crime novels following the This time, the cultural context is the referendum on Scottish comparing them with reality. Because it surely says something career of academic turned Special Case Squad detective, Independence. Murray is now an award-winning poet and a well- about how we view them that we create so many for fiction. Inspector Chen. A serial killer is loose on the streets of known voice on the airwaves – BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live Lemn will explore the gap between fiction and reality, based on Shanghai but Chen is otherwise engaged on a high-level and BBC 6 Music. But he is still struggling to grasp his own his own experiences of growing up in care as well as those of corruption case. With bodies appearing at the rate of one a cultural identity. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10 – 16 July 2021 Page 10 of 11 Murray retraces his steps from Edinburgh, via Lochgilphead, to made a lot of people very angry at the time. Here was a Salesman …. Rolf Lefebvre Islay in search of the answers to his personal predicament of reclining nude but this woman had attitude, looking right at the Constable …. Peter Baldwin what it means to be an Anglo-Scot in a time of deep historical observer with no embarrassment or demureness. She was a Margaret Everard …. Eva Haddon change. All the while, he explores what Scottishness means for whore - what of it? Producer: Betty Davies. the people he encounters along the way. And the end result is a The woman who posed for the painting was Victorine Meurent, First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1969. new poem to reflect his journey. not a prostitute but an artist in her own right and, says Gadsby, FRI 06:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002cvc) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. surely she had a major influence on Manet's considerably The Mystery of the Blue Train THU 15:00 Inspector Chen (b08cq790) feminist approach to 'the reclining nude' in this painting. 5. A Dancer's Revenge [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Hannah explains what makes 'Olympia' a cornerstone of After Ruth Kettering was found murdered on the Blue Train THU 16:00 The Write Stuff (m000y16t) modern art and what bring her personally back to this painting with her priceless rubies stolen, both her husband Derek and [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] again and again. former lover are suspects. THU 16:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b00zf4tk) Hannah Gadsby is assisted in this series by her very own And when Hercule Poirot discovers the latter has recently [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] 'Quotebot' who has been inputted with every quote that's ever acquired a set of rubies, the case would seem to be cut and THU 17:00 Lemn Sissay's Origin Stories (b07zyg5w) been written about art. dried ... or is it? [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Quotebot sounds remarkably like comedy legend and all-round First published in 1928, Agatha Christie's thriller is based on a THU 17:30 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000xmls) boffin John Lloyd. short story from 1923, The Plymouth Express. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Written by Hannah Gadsby CAST: THU 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Script edited by Jon Hunter Hercule Poirot …. Maurice Denham (b007k42r) Producer: Claire Jones Katherine Grey …. Janet Maw The World in Peril First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2015. Rufus Van Aldin …. Robert Beatty Episode 4 THU 23:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters (b036vtc2) Derek Ketterin …. Anthony Smee After an attempt on their lives, Jet and crew fight against time Series 1 Major Knighton …. Michael Deacon to blast off back to Mars Episode 2 Mirelle …. Judy Buxton Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures Enter the Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and hilarious world of Monsieur Carrege …. Gordon Reid of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the sketches, stories and characters, presented by the sinister Le Comte de la Roche …. Nigel Graham preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. Ringmaster. Mason …. Pauline Letts CAST: Master character comedian Colin Hoult's debut comedy series. Zia …. Jane Leonard Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: Thwor - Papopoulos …. Ronald Herdman Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp the mighty (but Leeds-based) god of Thwunder; Andy Parker - George …. Edward de Souza Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter Nottingham-born martial arts and transformers enthusiast; Anna Waiter …. Jamie Roberts Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass Mann - outrageous star of such forgotten silver screen hits such Dramatised in six parts by Michael Bakewell. Various …. Alan Tilvern as 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish Delight' and 'A Bowl For Director: David Johnston. Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs My Bottom'; and many more. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1985. Music composed by Van Phillips Writers Guild Award-winner Colin Hoult is best known for his FRI 07:00 Guilt Trip (b07m7833) Written and produced by Charles Chilton. highly acclaimed starring roles in 'Being Human', 'Life's Too Episode 2 First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1955. Short', and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as his many It's day six of the walk and Ros is concerned that they aren't THU 18:30 Great Lives (b088fg46) hit shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also appeared and doing enough to revive the bond between them, while Laura is Series 41 written for a number of Radio 4 series including 'The Headset worried that she doesn't have a passion and focus in her life. Len Goodman on Lionel Bart Set' and 'Colin and Fergus' Digi-Radio'. Will they both find what they are looking for? Len Goodman's great life was one of the biggest figures in Producer: Sam Bryant. Comedy drama written by Katherine Jakeways with Felicity creating British musicals and pop music in the 1960's. The First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013. Montagu and Olivia Nixon. writer and lyricist behind the hit musical Oliver, knew THU 23:30 Party (b01mqq72) A mother and daughter are undertaking a two week sponsored everybody who was anybody, made a fortune and partied with Series 3 walk along The Thames Path to raise money for the dead Royalty. But like many who flourished in that era he also lost The Curry father's charity. everything in a blitz of booze, drugs and bad behaviour. Return of the satirical comedy about a group of young idealists But the mother and father divorced nine years ago and he'd re- Len Goodman makes a case for why he regards Bart as a genius trying to make waves with their new political party. married, so relationships between them all have been strained. and helping him to unravel the story of his hero the expert The group reconvene after their Summer break and the Things come to a head at any mention of the French Oak gable witness is author and broadcaster David Stafford who has co- ambition steps up a gear. table that Ros and her now dead ex bought together in Camden. written a biography on Lionel Bart named after Bart's second Written by Tom Basden. This has somehow ended up in the stepmother's house, much to most famous musical: Fings Aint Wot They Used T'Be . Simon .... Tom Basden Ros's annoyance: "I mean she sits at it! It's my table and she sits Producer: Perminder Khatkar. Duncan .... Tim Key at it." First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 2017. Jared .... Jonny Sweet Ros ...... Felicity Montagu THU 19:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b0125g83) Mel .... Anna Crilly Laura ...... Olivia Nixon [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Phoebe .... Katy Wix Stepmother ...... Katherine Jakeways THU 19:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00kk7pr) Producer .... Julia McKenzie. Boyfriend ...... Tim Key [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012. With Javone Prince, Evie Killip and Amelia Lowdell. THU 20:00 David Ellis - Find The Lady (m000f00m) Producer: Jane Berthoud [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first THU 20:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002chk) FRIDAY 16 JULY 2021 broadcast in July 2016. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 07:30 Taboo (m000xskv) THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000xsqv) FRI 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007k42r) Kate Copstick and special guests Desiree Birch, Scott Capurro, [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Tanyalee Davies, Jordan Gray, Roger Mahony, Tim Renkow THU 21:45 Multi Story Shorts (m000xsqy) FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b088fg46) and Kate Smurthwaite tackle the tricky subject of taboo in [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] comedy, exploring what's wrong with woke, who can say what THU 22:00 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000xmls) FRI 01:00 David Ellis - Find The Lady (m000f00m) to whom, where and when, and asking why can't we all just [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] lighten up and laugh. Unless you object to the use of the word THU 22:30 Irish Micks and Legends (b01nl8gr) FRI 01:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002chk) lighten... which is not meant in any sense of lighter being Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] better... The Salmon of Knowledge FRI 02:00 Beryl Bainbridge: Love By All Sorts Of Means Written and Presented by Kate Copstick Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram become Ais and Yaz and are (b07tbprw) With Special Guests: Desiree Burch, Scott Capurro, Tanyalee the very best pals. They take their role as Ireland's freshest story- [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Davis, Jordan Gray, Roger Mahony, Tim Renkow and Kate tellers to the British nation very seriously indeed but haven't had FRI 02:15 Shardlake (b09l1wmt) Smurthwaite the time to do much research, learn their lines or work out who [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] Studio Engineer and Editor: Gerry O'Riordan is doing which parts. FRI 02:30 Scotland Meet Murray Lachlan Young Produced by Gordon Kennedy The girls' unconventional way of telling stories involves a (b03m3ntr) Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios concoction of thoroughly inappropriate modern-day metaphors [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 and references to many of the ancient Irish stories. FRI 03:00 Inspector Chen (b08cq790) FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007q93v) With a natural knack for both comedy and character voices [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Series 1 Yasmine Akram and Aisling Bea will bring you warm, modern FRI 04:00 The Write Stuff (m000y16t) No Spring for Frazer re-workings of popular ancient Irish stories. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] When Private Frazer loses a Lewis gun's butterfly spring, he Today it's the Salmon of Knowledge. FRI 04:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b00zf4tk) must track down a coffin. Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Six years after legendary sitcom Dad's Army started on BBC Producer: Raymond Lau. FRI 05:00 Lemn Sissay's Origin Stories (b07zyg5w) TV, these specially adapted radio versions began recording with First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2012. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] the original cast. THU 22:45 Hannah Gadsby: Arts Clown (b05419l4) FRI 05:30 Olga Koch: OK Computer (m000xmls) Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le 1. Edouard Manet's Olympia [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, Art historian Hannah Gadsby kicks off her comedy lectures FRI 06:00 David Ellis - Find The Lady (m000dz0w) John Laurie as Private Fraser, Arnold Ridley as Private about four masterpieces, with Edouard Manet's masterpiece 2. In Which Andrew Marsh Loses a Car Godfrey, Bill Pertwee as ARP Warden Hodges, Joan Cooper as 'Olympia'. Andrew Marsh is reeling from the shock news about his friend Miss Barker and Timothy Bateson as Mr Blewitt. With John She shares her first encounter with the art work as well as Roger. Snagge as the announcer. looking at what critics had to say about it at the time it was With growing police suspicions over his role in the loss of his Adapted from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's original BBC TV created. cheque book, Andrew decides to start his own fraud scripts by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad. Born in Tasmania, Hannah's first encounters with art was solely investigation Producer: John Dyas through books. These books taught her the language of art Noel Johnson stars in a seven-part thriller serial by David Ellis. First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in June 1974. appreciation but they also legitimised her desire to look at Andrew Marsh …. Noel Johnson FRI 08:30 Second Holmes (b0161p3d) 'boobs'. This was just as well as Hannah realised in her teens Joyce Marsh …. Madi Hedd 4. The Case of the Shadowed Minister that she was 'a little bit lesbian' but homosexuality was still Detective Sergeant Rankin …. Henry Stamper The grandsons of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson help an illegal in Tasmania at that time. Constable …. Peter Baldwin Member of Parliament who claims he's being followed... The painting 'Olympia' was first exhibited in Paris in 1865. It Harry Yates …. Leonard Fenton Six light-hearted adventures involving the grandsons of Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10 – 16 July 2021 Page 11 of 11 Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, written by Grant Eustace. and helped prepare a number of the novels she wrote during this 1933. "They do it because they want to. It suits them. It is their CAST: period for publication, including the book she was working on cup of tea." Stamford Holmes …. Peter Egan at the time of her death, The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress, which In a travel themed edition of Off The Page, Dominic Arkwright Dr Watson …. Jeremy Nicholas was published posthumously. asks domestic obsessive Lucy Mangan and Johnny Green, the Alex Messinger …. Angela Down Readers: former road manager of the Clash, whether this is really the Mr Belling …. Stuart Organ Narrator ...... James Fleet case. Writer Justin Marozzi weighs in with a compelling Michael …. Jim Reid Beryl Bainbridge ...... Samantha Bond account of a mercury drinker he met in Uzbekistan, while Mrs Waterfield …. Wendy Murray Author: Brendan King debate centres on whether the nomadic urge is innate. Mrs Belling …. Miranda Forbes Abridger: Pete Nichols Producer: Miles Warde Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Producer: Karen Rose First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1983. A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007q93v) FRI 09:00 It's Not What You Know (b036v9hd) September 2016. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 2 FRI 14:15 Shardlake (b09l2299) FRI 19:30 Second Holmes (b0161p3d) Episode 2 Heartstone [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Frank Skinner, Grace Dent and Jonathan Agnew each nominate Episode 10 FRI 20:00 David Ellis - Find The Lady (m000dz0w) someone they know well to answer a series of questions and Concluding Colin MacDonald's dramatisation of the Tudor [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] they than have to second guess how they answered. mystery novel by C.J. Sansom. FRI 20:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002cvc) Host Miles Jupp tests Frank on how well he knows his friend Matthew Shardlake is on board the Mary Rose when the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] and radio co-host Emily Dean, Grace her best friend, the Times warship is sunk in battle with the loss of more than four FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000xtpg) columnist Caitlin Moran, and Jonathan his wife's best friend hundred lives. Among the handful of survivors, Shardlake [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Anne Davies. reports back to Queen Catherine with the results of his FRI 22:00 Taboo (m000xskv) What is Frank's favourite drink? Who is Grace's favourite investigations into the Curteys children and the family of Sir [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] writer? And what would Jonathan do if he wasn't a cricket Nicholas Hobbey. And he pays a final visit to Ellen Fettiplace FRI 22:30 Seekers (b060bng4) commentator? in the Bedlam. Series 2 All answers and more will be revealed. Matthew Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger The Eight Letter Word Producer: Sam Michell. Hugh Curteys ..... Will Stuart says something very silly, and Nicola tries to impress First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013. Howard George Leacon ..... Finn den Hertog Vanessa to gain her confidence. FRI 09:30 To the Manor Born (b007k4vh) Queen Catherine ..... Emily Wachter Matthew Horne, Daniel Mays, Tony Way and Zahra Ahmadi Sons of the Fathers Sir Richard Rich .... Nicholas Murchie star in the sitcom set in a jobcentre. Clearing out the cellar - Audrey finds more than she'd Ellen Fettiplace ..... Kath Weare Stuart ------Matthew Horne bargained for. Sailor 1 ..... Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong Joseph ------Daniel Mays Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton. Sailor 2 ..... Philip Bretherton Terry ----- Tony Way Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere Other parts played by members of the cast. Nicola ------Zahra Ahmadi Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher Writer ..... C. J. Sansom Vanessa ----- Natalie Walter Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger Dramatist ..... Colin MacDonald Gary Probert ----- Steve Oram Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka Director ..... David Jackson Young Written by Steve Burge. Frank Middlemass ..... Ned First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. Producer: Victoria Lloyd. The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced FRI 14:30 Essex, My Essex (b03w38q3) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2015. to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death Essex born and bred, writer Ian Sansom goes back to the county FRI 23:00 Sounding Off with McGough (b007k4tl) leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, that made him who he is. 5. What She Did they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage. Ian's grandparents moved there from the east end of London to Roger McGough's poetic reflections on the perennially fruitful From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving fulfil their dreams. For them, Essex was a promised land of topic of love. eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard milk and honey, of golden harvests and Harvester restaurants. With the accompaniment of long-time musical collaborator DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descent. Ian left 30 years ago and hasn't really been back since. Andy Roberts. First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever But a lot can happen in 30 years and in that time just about Recorded at the Bath Festival. appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. everything has happened to Essex. When Ian left there was no Producer: Sara Davies Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence. Essex man, no jokes about Essex girls, no Birds of a Feather, no First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2000. Producer: Jane Berthoud Gavin and Stacey, and The Only Way is Essex was a mere glint FRI 23:15 The Shuttleworths (b01n6yr5) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1997. in the average commuter's eye. Series 4 FRI 10:00 Inspector Chen (b08dmgjw) Now, with the London-overspill county occupying a new space Every Cloud Has a Silver Wedding Series 2 in the public imagination, Ian retraces his steps back to the When Joan Chitty calls around unexpectedly, John's silver 3. The Mao Case place where he was born and which made him who he is. wedding plans are thwarted. Stars Graham Fellows. From It's a dangerous and politically sensitive case for Inspector Chen Talking to people who've stayed there, meeting family and March 2003. when he is asked to investigate the sudden change of fortune of friends, going back to landmarks that meant something to him FRI 23:30 Richard Herring's Objective (b017mt04) the granddaughter of Chairman Mao's mistress. The sixth in in his younger days, Ian finds out what's changed in Essex since Series 2 Qiu Xiaolong's series of Crime novels. he left. The Old School Tie Inspector Chen ...... Jamie Zubairi Between the low-rise housing and out-of-town retail parks, he Richard Herring examines 'The Old School Tie' an object that Party Secretary Li ...... Daniel York finds an anarchist community which uses the county as a place has come to represent public school networks and contacts. Mr Xie ...... David Yip to reimagine life's possibilities, a secret nuclear bunker from Richard asks if it is acceptable to be prejudice against the posh? Jiao ...... Alice Hewkin which a post-apocalyptic Essex generation would emerge and a Series in which Richard Herring pokes and prods a variety of Old Hunter ...... David Hounslow retired vice Lord Lieutenant who hopes limericks can change controversial objects and sees if the controversy falls out. Lieutenant Song ...... Chike Chan perception of Essex girls. Through vox pops, interviews and stand up comedy Richard Long ...... Paul Chan This is it. This is his Essex. examines the objects' history, meaning and significance and Yong ...... Keziah Joseph Producer: Conor Garrett challenges our assumed logic and stereotypes. Peng ...... David Sterne First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Can we reclaim these objects away from their unfortunate Gu ...... John Dougall FRI 15:00 Inspector Chen (b08dmgjw) associations? Hua ...... John Bowler [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Written by and starring Richard Herring. Ling ...... Natasha Cowley FRI 16:00 It's Not What You Know (b036v9hd) With Emma Kennedy and special guest Alexei Sayle. Maid ...... Catriona McFarlane [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Producer: Tilusha Ghelani By Qiu Xiaolong FRI 16:30 To the Manor Born (b007k4vh) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011. Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Director: David Hunter. FRI 17:00 Guilt Trip (b07m7833) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000xtpg) FRI 17:30 Taboo (m000xskv) British Podcast Awards 2021 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Chris Pearson and Laura Grimshaw report on the British FRI 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrdj) Podcast Awards. The World in Peril FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007q93v) Episode 5 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Jet and Lemmy monitor strange calls on the ship-to-ship FRI 12:30 Second Holmes (b0161p3d) intercom. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] It’s April 1972, and Jet and his crew return to Mars in an FRI 13:00 David Ellis - Find The Lady (m000dz0w) attempt to avert the impending Martian invasion. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures FRI 13:30 Hercule Poirot (m0002cvc) of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’. FRI 14:00 Beryl Bainbridge: Love By All Sorts Of Means CAST: (b07tc375) Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds 5. Accidental Meeting Sparks Success Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp A biography of the novelist who denied that she ever wrote Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter fiction, maintaining that her books were based on her Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass experiences. "What is more peculiar, more riveting, devious and Various …. Alan Tilvern horrific than real life?" she said. Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs But while her own life was the primary source for her books, Music composed by Van Phillips she was never afraid of adding a little colour. Written and produced by Charles Chilton. The author Brendan King is a freelance translator, editor and First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1955. reviewer, with a special interest in late nineteenth century FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b00vrxk3) French literature. He completed his PhD on Joris-Karl On the Road Huysmans' life and work at Birkbeck College, London, in 2004. "The facts are that four out of five male children start life Between 1987 and 2010, King worked for Beryl Bainbridge, predisposed in favour of adventure," wrote Peter Fleming in Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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