Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 May 2021 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 15 MAY 2021 Producer: Jill Waters comedy chat show about shame and guilt. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998. Each week Stephen invites a different eminent guest into his SAT 00:00 Planet B (b00j0hqr) SAT 03:00 Mrs Henry Wood - East Lynne (m0006ljw) virtual confessional box to make three 'confessions' are made to Series 1 5. The Yearning of a Broken Heart him. This is a cue for some remarkable storytelling, and 5. The Smart Money No sooner has Lady Isabel been betrayed by the wicked Francis surprising insights. John and Medley are transported to a world of orgies and Levison than she is left unrecognisably disfigured by a terrible We’re used to hearing celebrity interviews where stars are circuses, where the slaves seek a new leader. train crash. persuaded to show off about their achievements and talk about Ten-part series about a mystery virtual world. What is to become of her? their proudest moments. Stephen isn't interested in that. He Written by Paul May. Mrs Henry Wood's novel dramatised by Michael Bakewell. doesn’t want to know what his guests are proud of, he wants to John ...... Gunnar Cauthery Mrs Henry Wood ... Rosemary Leach know what makes them ashamed. That’s surely the way to find Lioba ...... Donnla Hughes Lady Isabel ... Moir Leslie out what really makes a person tick. Stephen and his guest Medley ...... Lizzy Watts Mr Carlyle ... David Collings reflect with empathy and humour on things like why we get Cerberus ...... Chris Pavlo Miss Cornelia ... Maxine Audley embarrassed, where our shame thresholds should be, and the Trader 1 ...... Janice Acquah Barbara Hare ... Julie Berry value of guilt. Trader 2 ...... Robert Lonsdale Richard Hare ... Kim Wall This week, writer, podcaster and ‘confessional’ comedian, Suzi Wheeler ...... Paul Rider Justice Hare ... Brian Hewlett Ruffell recalls disruptive behaviour in class, a disastrous Regulator ...... Stephen Critchlow Joyce ... Jo Kendall romantic break-up and the most embarrassing cab ride of her Lyall ...... Inam Mirza Afy.... Angela Crow life. Fracta ...... Jill Cardo Little Isabel ... Bernadette Windsor Other guests *in this series include Marian Keyes, Cariad Other parts played by the cast. Little William ... Ben Robb Lloyd, Joan Bakewell, Phil Hammond and Phil Wang. Director: Jessica Dromgoole Baby Archibald ... Alexander Goodman Written and presented by Stephen Mangan Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2009. Wilson ... Betty Huntley Wright With extra material by Nick Doody SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00p6rr2) The Rev Little ... David Garth Devised with Dave Anderson and produced by Frank Stirling Me Time Mrs Latimer ... Pauline Letts A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4 Having it all is no longer enough - if you haven't factored some Director: David Johnston SAT 06:00 Death at Broadcasting House (b07grh62) 'me time' into your diary you're missing out. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1987. An actor is strangled during the live broadcast of a murder Dominic Arkwright asks journalist Anna Raeburn, clinical SAT 04:00 Counterpoint (b00s2w22) mystery play at the BBC’s London HQ. psychologist Oliver James and writer Phoebe Gibson to explain Series 24 Once it's off-air, the cast discover that the victim really is dead how it works. 2010 Heat 6 - and millions of listeners must have heard the crime being Producer: Christine Hall Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz from committed! First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009. Manchester. Starring John Moffatt, Peter Sallis and Jeremy Clyde. SAT 01:00 RD Wingfield (b0089kpv) The questions cover every aspect of music - from the classical Whodunit first adapted for the cinema in 1934 by Val Gielgud Daylight Robbery repertoire to world music, show tunes, film scores, jazz, rock and Holt Marvell from their book of the same name. 'Elderly lady living alone in remote house, willing to take in and pop. Julian Caird ...... John Moffatt paying guests.' The three contestants from Glasgow, Cheadle and Blackpool Detective Inspector Spears ...... Peter Sallis When Miss Pickering puts this ad in the newspaper, she has an are: Rodney Fleming ...... Jeremy Clyde ulterior motive. Wilson Bain BBC DG ...... Graham Crowden So have the four gentlemen who reply... Mick Frankel Leopold Dryden ...... Bill Nighy Monica Grey stars in RD Wingfield’s crime drama. Christopher Rodwell Isabel Dryden ...... Diana Quick Miss Pickering .... Monica Grey Producer: Paul Bajoria Stewart Evans ...... Julian Glover Colonel Fryatt .... Norman Shelley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2010. Detective Sergeant Ring ...... Nicky Henson Dr Brown .... Jonathan Scott SAT 04:30 Two Doors Down (b008j0lm) Macdonald ...... David Holt Harris .... Peter Woodthorpe Series 2 Higgins ...... Gavin Muir Wakeson .... Howard Goorney Out of Tune Pat ...... Caroline Strong Bank Manager .... Lewis Stringer Miss Black throws a dinner party in honour of Sean Rafferty Topsy ...... Becky Hindley Woman in Telephone Kiosk .... Daisy Bell who’s in Belfast to interview her lodger Fintan for BBC Radio Guy Bannister ...... Roger May Jones .... Brian Gear 3. Surgeon ...... John Hartley Woman in Crowd .... Elizabeth Havelock Musical prodigy Simon’s asked to play for the guests, but he has Adapted for radio by Sue Rodwell and recorded on location. Constable .... Douglas Leach other ideas... Director: Enyd Williams Car Driver .... David Ponting Starring Stella McCusker. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1996. Other parts played by the cast. Annie McCartney's sitcom about the bohemian Belfast residents SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b07vs2hb) Directed at BBC Bristol by John Cardy. of Marlborough Road, saved from chaos by their cleaning lady, Series 40 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1977. Sally. AA Gill on Arthur Neville Chamberlain SAT 01:45 Murder & Mystery (b0b2n44h) Sally ...... Stella McCusker The writer and critic AA Gill nominates Neville Chamberlain as Series 1 Clare ...... Marcella Riordan his great life. Nobody Move by Sophie Hannah Evie ...... Katy Gleadhill But his choice is someone who is regarded as one of the worst A woman asks her family not to make mess before a house- Victor ...... Alan Mckee Prime Ministers Britain has ever had. Chamberlain is someone viewing. Miss Black ...... Roma Tomelty entrenched in popular legend, as the man who failed to stand up Read by Monica Dolan. Fintan ...... Gerard Murphy to Hitler. An occasional series of stories from life's murkier places. Layla ...... Emily Walmsley So will AA Gill’s choice stand up to the scrutiny and will he be Taken from Sophie Hannah's 'Something Untoward: Six Tales Simon ...... Patrick Gleadhill able to convince presenter Matthew Parris that this was a great Of Domestic Terror (2012) Tony ...... Robert Patterson life? Producer: Jeremy Osborne Trevor ...... Des McAleer To help tell the story of Arthur Neville Chamberlain they are Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk productions and Fidelma ...... Aine McCartney joined by Stuart Ball, Professor of Modern British History at first broadcast in May 2018. Anna ...... Hannah R Gordon the University of Leicester. SAT 02:00 Someone Like Me by Miles Kington (b00dpspz) With Sean Rafferty as Himself. Producer: Perminder Khatkar Episode 5 Director: Tanya Nash First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2016. A shock at the age of 18 from his sausage-loving father... First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002. SAT 08:00 The Motion Show (b0075dc8) Broadcaster, writer and musician, Miles Kington continues his SAT 05:00 The Break (b07ffb29) Series 3 account of an endearingly eccentric childhood. Series 1 Episode 6 Abridged by Richard Hamilton. Dead Man's Dinner Debates galore over smelly food on trains - and is sex over- Producer: Emma Harding Jeff and his nephew Andy are contacted by the editor of The rated? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005 Flamford Bugle. They have won a slap-up dinner for two at Graeme Garden chairs the quirky battle of words and wit. SAT 02:15 Gudrun (m0001kb9) Flamford's poshest eaterie, The Royal Albion Hotel. With Hugh Dennis, Boothby Graffoe, Steve Punt and Stuart Series 5 Eagerly anticipating the night out of a lifetime, Andy and Jeff's Maconie. Episode 10 dreams of gourmet heaven quickly deteriorate into the Producer: Helen Williams Gudrun has been captured and faces execution at dawn. Have nightmare of a lifetime. The prize had been promised to local First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2000 all her allies deserted her? citizen Wally Metcalfe, but he died just after the draw. Now his SAT 08:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jrl9) Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, must forge her widow is on the warpath with her two burly sons. Series 1 path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising Social media doesn't help either, and in no time there is a mob Sleeping Partners harshness. baying for Jeff and Andy's blood. Rosie is arranging the activities for partners of delegates to a Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and faith inspired Andy ...... Tom Palmer major finance company's conference. by the Icelandic sagas. Jeff ...... Philip Jackson Kate meanwhile sees it as her ticket back into a high-flying Gudrun . . . . . Kate Phillips Frank ...... Mark Benton job... Freija . . . . . Samantha Dakin PC Clark ...... Mark Benton Prunella Scales in Simon Brett's sitcom. Dag . . . . . Cameron Percival Corinne ...... Alison Steadman The trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event Bolli. . . . . Lewis Bray Joyce ...... Alison Steadman management company, based in Brighton. Sigrid . . . . Rosie Boore Morag ...... Alison Steadman Rosie ...... Prunella Scales Guard 2 . . . . . Michael Bertenshaw Kevin ...... Rasmus Hardiker Kate ...... Arabella Weir Heidr . . . . . Jeanette Percival Mira ...... Shobna Gulati Jo ...... Rebecca Callard Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. Chris ...... Gordon Kennedy Bob ...... Duncan Preston First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2018. Writers: Ian Brown and James Hendrie Tess ...... Annette Badland SAT 02:30 The Surgeon Of Crowthorne (b00758bl) Director: Gordon Kennedy Sheila Wilkinson ...... Debbie Norman True story about Dr William Chester Minor, a mentally ill An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Philip Wilkinson ...... Alan Cowan American surgeon, who posted scholarly contributions June 2016. Producer: Maria Esposito illustrating the way words were used - to the New English SAT 05:30 The Confessional (m000vy28) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000. Dictionary (later Oxford English Dictionary) from his rooms in Series 1 SAT 09:00 Writing Yorkshire (b007jy0t) Broadmoor. The Confession of Suzi Ruffell Poet, radio presenter, and Yorkshireman Ian McMillan takes a Readings by John Rowe and Brian Parr. Actor, comedian and broadcaster Stephen Mangan presents a literary tour around God's Own Country to visit the streets, Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 May 2021 Page 2 of 10 towns, cities and moors that have inspired so much classic Best Man Speeches and Weddings Dan Dare ...... Ed Stoppard writing. Comedian Jason Cook uses his life experiences to help us better Digby ...... Geoff McGivern From Ian's own home town of Barnsley and his own literary navigate the choppy waters of life. Professor Peabody ...... Heida Reed hero Barry Hines, to the Moors of Haworth that will forever In this opening episode, Jason examines the pitfalls of making Mekon ...... Raad Rawi belong to The Brontës, we're exploring a county bursting at the best man speeches, with advice on how to make a wedding Sondar ...... Bijan Daneshmand seams with writers and writing. memorable. Treen General ...... Amber Aga Ian chats to Blake Morrison, author of 'And When Did You With Zoe Harrison and Neil Grainger. Flight Engineer ...... David O'Mahony Last See Your Father?' about the idiosyncratic way that Jason was the creator of BBC2's comedy Hebburn. Flight Control ...... Kelly Burke Yorkshiremen speak. Producer: Sam Michell On-board Computer ...... Dianne Weller He also visits the offices of Peepal Tree Press to hear from poet First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2014. Director: Andrew Mark Sewell. Khadijah Ibrahiim, who writes about her Jamaican Yorkshire SAT 14:30 Safety Catch (b00fc4vp) Made by B7 Media. identity. Series 1 SAT 18:40 The Garden of Time by JG Ballard (m0001h0s) Along the way, Ian shares this Yorkshire-flavoured selection Show Me You Care "The garden of the villa extended for some two hundred yards from the BBC Archives: Simon McGrath likes to think of himself as a good citizen. below the terrace, sloping down to a miniature lake, spanned by * A Kestrel for A Knave He donates blood, recycles his newspapers and has adopted two a white bridge... Here in the garden the air seemed brighter. As Episode 1 of the 2008 adaptation of Barry Hines novel read by tigers. was his custom before beginning his evening stroll, Count Axel James Anthony Pearson. He just also happens to be an arms dealer... looked out across the plain to the final rise...and saw that the * Still Angry After All These Years Starring Darren Boyd as Simon McGrath. advance column of an enormous army was moving slowly over Documentary following Barry Hines as he returns to the streets First of three series of Laurence Howarth’s black comedy of the horizon..." of Barnsley modern morality. The Count manages to repel the advance of the army by * The Shuttleworths - Mini Break in Giggleswick. Comedy With: magically re-arranging time - time and time again! But soon the starring Graham Fellows. Joanna Page tools that help him will no longer will work. * Wuthering Heights Lewis MacLeod So how will he and his beloved wife - who is indoors, playing a Episode 4 from the 2018 adaptation by Rachel Joyce of Emily Sarah Smart Mozart rondo - manage to survive the threat, as it marches Bronte's novel Brigit Forsyth forward, closer and closer... * Writers on Themselves - Ted Hughes Ben Onwukwe Read by Allan Corduner. Ted Hughes' essay 'The Rock', first heard on the Third Producer: Dawn Ellis Abridged and produced by Duncan Minshull. Programme in 1963 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2007. First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in June 2010. * Billy Liar SAT 15:00 Tina C (b01b1jwx) SAT 19:00 Writing Yorkshire (b007jy0t) The final episode of the 1991 adaptation Tina C's Global Depression Tour [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] * A Chip in the Sugar Australia SAT 22:00 Rigor Mortis (b007m331) Alan Bennett reads his classic monologue Country legend Tina C challenges the Secretary for the US Series 1 Producer: Jessica Treen Treasury, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the former Episode 6 Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in September CEO of Goldman Sachs. The pathologists are invited to assist the celebrated Dutch 2018. Where they have failed, she can come up with a solution to the anatomist, Professor Raymond van den Hoogenband, in the first SAT 12:00 Mae Martin's Guide to 21st Century Addiction Global Recession. ever 'live' radio autopsy. (b09byzdk) So Tina has set off on a six country tour to prove it - and her Laurence Howarth’s sitcom set in the fascinating, but What Makes a Habit an Addiction? next stop is down under. misunderstood world of the pathology lab. Mae Martin is kicking the habit. Tina C ...... Christopher Green Dr Anthony Webster ...... Peter Davison She’s exploring how we as a society think about addiction, and With: Dr Ruth Anderson ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman on a personal level, trying to understand who she is now she's no Andrew Cornell Professor Donaldson ...... Geoffrey Whitehead longer addicted to anything. Victoria Inez Hard Gordon ...... Tom Price Through the lens of her own experience, this guide follows Mae James Lailey Chloe ...... Marianne Levy chronologically through a lifetime of obsessive behaviour and Musical arrangements by Duncan Walsh Atkins and Simon ...... Gus Brown addiction with all her characteristic wit and levity. Christopher Green Prof Van den Hoogenband ...... Chris Pavlo What makes a habit an addiction? Director: Jeremy Mortimer. Music by Paul Mottram and Stephanie Benavente. As a young child, Mae may not have been addicted yet, but she First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012. Producer: Dawn Ellis was certainly OBSESSED. She's never just "liked" things, she's SAT 15:15 Bunk Bed (b07j68qd) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003. always loved them. Mae is finally drawing connections between Series 3 SAT 22:30 Josie Long: Romance and Adventure (b075tddy) her obsessive, all-consuming patterns of behaviour, and Episode 5 Series 1 examining why they might occur. Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not Episode 2 Written by and starring Mae Martin – an award-winning stand- applied to a particular task. The nearest faraway place. Josie swears off romance and almost imediately finds herself in up and Edinburgh comedy award nominee. Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange thoughts a budding relationship with Darren's former flatmate, Roddy. With: which don't have to be shooed into context, but which can be Comedy drama from award-winning comedian Josie Long Dr Gabor Mate followed like balloons escaping onto the air. Late at night, in the about a young woman trying to build a new, more fulfilling life Carolyn Taylor dark and in a bunk bed, your tired mind can wander. for herself in Glasgow. Producer: Alexandra Smith This is the nearest faraway place for Patrick Marber and Peter Based on characters from the short films "Romance and A BBC Studios Production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Curran. Adventure" and "Let's Go Swimming" by Josie Long and November 2017. Here they try to get the heart of things in an entertainingly Douglas King. SAT 12:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jyyw) vague and indirect way. This is not the place for typical male Josie ...... Josie Long Cinderella Hancock banter. Darren ...... Darren Osborne Bill bans the Lad from the National Film Ball, but then there's a From under the bed clothes they play each other music, and Roddy ...... Sanjeev Kohli knock at the door. archive of Angela Carter, ex-Prime Ministers, a Castrato singer, Kerry ...... Hatty Ashdown Starring Tony Hancock. and an elephant playing the piano. Eleanor ...... Clare Grogan With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Dora Bryan, Paul Work, family, literature, and their own badly-scuffed dreams Chris ...... Michael Bertenshaw Carpenter and Kenneth Williams. are the funny, if warped conversational currency. Janie ...... Georgie Glen Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. A Foghorn Company production for BBC Radio 4 first Mona ...... Rebecca Hamilton Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. broadcast in December 2018. Fraser ...... Chris Pavlo Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry SAT 15:30 Sean Lock - 15 Storeys High (b09kct7r) Rabinowitz. Series 1 Written by Josie Long Producer: Dennis Main Wilson Episode 5 Produced by Colin Anderson First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1955. A romantic neighbour and a group of aggressive children try to A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b09tybwl) disturb Sean’s peace. broadcast in April 2016. The Advance Guard of the Avant-garde However much Sean tries to avoid the rest of the world, SAT 23:00 Jason Cook's School of Hard Knocks (b03w32c0) In the 1960s, a group of writers set about shaking up the polite occasionally it will try to engage with him. Asking Out and First Dates conventions of the British realist tradition through a whole Starring Sean Lock Field marshal of mirth and high priest of Hebburn, Jason Cook range of experimental approaches. Written by Sean Lock and Martin Trenaman. dispenses advice on how best to navigate the choppy waters of Sound poets created some of the strangest programmes ever With: life and come out the other side without feeling woozy, using broadcast by the BBC, while the likes of BS Johnson cut holes Tracy-Ann Oberman the full spectrum of his own experiences as his educational aids. in the pages of his novels - and in the case of his book 'The Peter Serafinowicz In this episode, Jason examines how to successfully ask Unfortunates' published the unbound chapters in a box for the Martin Trenaman someone out. reader to mix up and read in whatever order they wished. Chris Pavlo Discover the traps to be avoided when going on a first date - Johnson and similarly minded writers like Ann Quin, Bob Script Editor: Robert Fraser-Steele using Jason's trademarked "Place, Face, Case" methodology, Cobbing, Alan Burns and Christine Brooke-Rose were Producer: Chris Neill Stories from the audience help to throw more light on the prominent in their day, appearing regularly on TV and radio, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1999. matter in hand. but they've now largely been forgotten. SAT 16:00 Death at Broadcasting House (b07grh62) With Zoe Harrison and Neil Grainger. Using some of the rich archive these writers left behind, DJ [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Producer: Sam Michell Taylor sets out to tell their story, with the help of Johnson's SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b07vs2hb) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2014. biographer Jonathan Coe, editor of a new Ann Quin collection [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT 23:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b05077kz) Jennifer Hodgson, novelist Eimear McBride and poetry critic SAT 18:00 Dan Dare (b0bf49hj) Series 6 Jeremy Noel Tod. Series 1 Reece Shearsmith Borrowing some of their techniques Taylor argues that while we 2 The Voyage to Venus 2/2 Reece Shearsmith had never had a driving lesson - until now. may no longer talk about this group of determinedly Arriving at Venus, will brilliant test pilot, Dan Dare, be able to Marcus Brigstocke also persuades him to try wallpapering for experimental figures, many of today's most prominent writers, hold his own against a cunning new enemy? the first time. from David Mitchell to Alice Oswald, owe them a debt of Adventures based on the Eagle comic strip 'Dan Dare' created Series which persuades guests to try new experiences: things gratitude. in 1950 by the Reverend Marcus Morris and Frank Hampson. they really ought to have done by now. Producer: Geoff Bird Dramatic conclusion of a two-part adventure starring Ed Some experiences are loved, some are loathed, in this show all First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018. Stoppard. about embracing the new. SAT 14:00 Jason Cook's School of Hard Knocks (b03vgr6q) Dramatised by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle. Producer: Bill Dare Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 May 2021 Page 3 of 10 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2015. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1983. Production Trainee: Marithe Van Der Aa SUN 09:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b007xrsn) Assistant Producer: Ben Hollands Series 2 Sound: Peter Ringrose SUNDAY 16 MAY 2021 Episode 2 Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko When Lucy joins a school reunion website and is contacted by SUN 00:00 Dan Dare (b0bf49hj) an old classmate, youthful indiscretions return to haunt Daniel's Special thanks: Mike Holt, Angelo Anastasio, Dr Todd Boyd, [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] best friend Andy. Michael Dassler, Sigi Dassler, David Jones, Joe Foster, SUN 00:40 The Garden of Time by JG Ballard (m0001h0s) Starring David Tennant and Elizabeth Carling. Professor Akilah Carter-Francique, the Adi & Käthe Dassler [Repeat of broadcast at 18:40 on Saturday] David Spicer's comedy drama about modern life and Memorial Foundation, Helmut Fischer, Kerstin Neuber and SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b09tybwl) parenthood, as seen through the eyes of two 30-something non- Victoria Purcell. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] parents. SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m000w4cq) SUN 02:00 Jason Cook's School of Hard Knocks (b03vgr6q) Daniel ...... David Tennant No Ideas But In Things: The Poetry of William Carlos Williams [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] Lucy ...... Elizabeth Carling Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects SUN 02:30 Safety Catch (b00fc4vp) Katie ...... Samantha Spiro No Ideas But In Things: The Poetry of William Carlos [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] Andy ...... Tony Gardner Williams. SUN 03:00 Tina C (b01b1jwx) Amanda ...... Nasreen Hussain Presented by poet Annie Freud, with the former American Poet [Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday] Producer: Liz Anstee. Laureate Billy Collins, and poets August Kleinzahler and Mark SUN 03:15 Bunk Bed (b07j68qd) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. Ford. [Repeat of broadcast at 15:15 on Saturday] SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05wcxj6) William Carlos Williams is known as a revolutionary figure in SUN 03:30 Sean Lock - 15 Storeys High (b09kct7r) Eurovision poetry but, in comparison to his friend Ezra Pound and [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] Graham Norton American writers including TS Eliot and Gertrude Stein, who SUN 04:00 Death at Broadcasting House (b07grh62) From Grace Jones to his duet with Dolly Parton. sought a more exciting environment for creativity in Europe, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] TV presenter and comedian, Graham Norton shares his Williams lived a strikingly conventional life. SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b07vs2hb) castaway choices with Sue Lawley. A doctor for more than 40 years serving the New Jersey town of [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] Graham was once voted the most powerful man in comedy with Rutherford, he relied on his patients and the America around SUN 06:00 Someone Like Me by Miles Kington (Omnibus) four BAFTAs and an international Emmy under his belt. him to create a distinctively American verse. His lifelong quest (m000w4cj) He's best known for his TV chat shows for Channel 4 and the was that poetry should mirror the speech of the American Broadcaster, writer and musician Miles Kington reads from his BBC, as well as the annoying Father Noel in Father Ted. He's people. account of an endearingly eccentric childhood. compared the two channels to the difference between a night A second generation immigrant, he sought to make something From his earliest memory of an event before his own birth – to out with your friends or a family Christmas lunch. Media critics of the people and for the people in America. the drama of his first kidnapping. pondered how his camp brand of adult humour would translate Williams' sense of ordinary people, living in a real place not an Omnibus of five parts - abridged by Richard Hamilton. to mainstream TV. Graham went on to host a weekly show for imagined city of ancient relics and memory, defined America Producer: Emma Harding BBC Radio 2, before switching to Virgin Radio. for him and infused his work. He got rid of the high blown First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005. Originally born Graham Walker in Dublin in 1963, he was poetic language of Europe, paring down his verse to essential, SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b09z6207) brought up in the small town of Bandon in West Cork. As a unemotional, broken lines. His famous poem The Red Joanna Trollope child he loved TV describing it as a 'window to life' and a world Wheelbarrow, published in 1923, is 16 words on 8 lines. Novelist Joanna Trollope inherits 'La Mer' by Charles Trenet he wanted to be part of. He was awarded the Pullitzer prize for poetry, posthumously, in and passes on 'Mythical Kings and Iguanas' by Dory Previn. He began an English and French degree at University College the year he died 1963. SUN 07:20 Lucy Catherine - Gudrun (m0001m4w) Cork but dropped out after his first year and went to America He is America's first true poet. Series 5 (Omnibus) where he lived in a hippy commune in San Francisco. He Producer: Kate Bland Episode 2 eventually returned and enrolled at the Central School of A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in On the run from the church, Gudrun finds love in her mountain Speech and Drama in London with the ambition of becoming 2012. hideout an actor. SUN 12:30 Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and faith inspired He changed his name to Norton - as the actor's union Equity (b03zy1c6) by the Icelandic sagas. infomed him they already had another Graham Walker on their Series 1 Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, must forge her books. Virgil path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004. Natalie Haynes, critic, writer and reformed stand-up comedian, harshness. SUN 10:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00zm4j4) brings the ancient world entertainingly up to date. Iceland is now an occupied country, its people forced to convert Series 2 In each episode, she profiles a figure from ancient Greece or to Christianity by rival Norse kingdoms. After many years Earthworms Rome and creates a stand-up routine around them. She then away, with plans to overthrow the regime and rescue her Although Charles Darwin is especially well known for his work goes in search of the links which make the ancient world still daughter who is being brought up in the new faith, Gudrun once on the Theory of Evolution through his seminal work "On the very relevant in the 21st century. more sails into Icelandic waters. Origin of Species", he also published a lot of his research on For starters, Natalie considers the work of the Roman poet Omnibus of the last five of ten parts earthworms. Virgil, ranging from his hints on bee-keeping to his great work Gudrun . . . . . Kate Phillips Earthworms fascinated Darwin, so much so that his The Aeneid. Freija . . . . . Samantha Dakin observations led him to believe that they showed marked Dido is the classic wronged woman and the Aeneid contains the Dag . . . . . Cameron Percival intelligence. And earthworms fascinate Sir David Attenborough best ding-dong between a man and a woman in all Latin Sylvia . . . . . Carolyn Pickles too. literature, culminating in Dido’s memorable promise “If you go Bolli . . . . . Lewis Bray He recalls a visit to Australia to film the giant earthworm and I’m going to kill myself and then I will pursue you from beyond Aslak . . . . . Tony Turner intriguingly used his ears more than any other sense to find death with black fires!” Sigrid . . . . . Rosie Boore them. What did they sound like and what did they look like? He With Pamela Helen Stephen who's sung Dido in Purcell's Dido Frederick . . . . . Simon Scardifield reveals all. and Aeneas, bee-keeper Gordon Cutting and Dr Llewelyn Heidr . . . . . Jeanette Percival Producer: Julian Hector Morgan who talks about the greatest poet in the Roman world. Volva . . . . . Carolyn Pickles First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011. Producer: Christine Hall. Guard 2 . . . . . Michael Bertenshaw SUN 11:00 Sneakernomics (p09fy1ch) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014. Warrior . . . . . Don Gilet 1. The Town of Bent Necks SUN 13:00 The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (Omnibus) Kjartan . . . . . Luke MacGregor Trainers? Sneakers? Whatever you call them - they are amongst (b07ykcys) Director: Sasha Yevtushenko the most iconic cultural objects of our time. But their evolution Episode 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2018. is a story rarely told until now. Anna O'Donnell's health continues to deteriorate. SUN 08:30 We're in Business (b007jydd) Nurse Lib Wright turns to Sister Michael for help - only to find Dudley and Harry's Reunion Sneakernomics is a close encounter with the visionaries who’ve support in an unexpected place... With Dudley behind bars, surely Harry's safe from his crooked made, and been made, by trainers. We’ll follow in the footsteps Anna’s fast began as a self-inflicted and earnest expression of scheming? of mavericks, hustlers and dreamers, and hear their tales of faith - subsisting only on what she calls "manna from heaven". Stars Peter Jones and Harry Worth. boom and bust, fame and infamy, hope and heartbreak. Locals in her small rural village of 1850s Ireland are baffled Peter Jones is small-time businessman, Dudley Grosvenor who's while tourists flock in their droves. always out to make a fast buck - usually at the expense of his It’s 100 years since salesman Chuck Taylor joined Converse and Nurse Lib has been hired to determine whether or not Anna is a side-kick, Harry Worth. the Chuck Taylor All-Star was born, perhaps the most iconic fraud. Can she get to the root of why the child may actually be Written by Marty Feldman, Barry Took and Peter Jones. trainer of all time. Across nine episodes, we trace the the victim of murder in slow motion..? Dudley ...... Peter Jones extraordinary transformation that has happened since, telling Emma Donoghue’s magnetic novel is a tale of two strangers Harry ...... Harry Worth the origin stories of some of the world’s biggest brands and how transforming each other's lives, a powerful psychological Miss Boot ...... Irene Handl leisure evolved into a multi-billion-dollar industry. thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil in its many masks. With Dick Emery and Frederick Treves. Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes concluded by Carey A selection of surviving episodes from two series broadcast The sneaker story is characterised by fierce competition and Mulligan between 1959-1960. rivalry. We explore how the quest to be No. 1 tore families and Abridged by Neville Teller Producer: Charles Maxwell. friendships apart, divided towns, and sometimes even distorted Producer: Gemma McMullan First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1960. sporting ideals. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2016. SUN 09:00 Drop Me Here, Darling (m000w4cl) SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b0b89fsh) In Praise of Older Men Presented by Nicholas Smith, (author of Kicks: The Great Simon Mayo PA Clare feels emotional as she turns thirty. Caroline sets out to American Story of Sneakers) and 1Xtra presenter Ace, with The DJ chooses 'Love Unrequited Robs Me of My Rest' from cheer her up. drama written by multi award-winning playwright and Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan, and 'Graceland' by Paul Starring Leslie Phillips. screenwriter Al Smith. Simon. Andrew Palmer's comedy about a former property tycoon who’s SUN 14:20 Marcy Kahan - Lunch (b05n7vy3) fallen on hard times and is now chauffeur to his wealthy ex- Episode 1 Cast: Series 5 (Omnibus) wife.‘ Old flatmates Bill and Bella return for for the conclusion of the Leslie Duggan …. Leslie Phillips Adi . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery award winning platonic romantic comedy. Caroline Duggan …. Jill Bennett Rudi . . . . . Joe Sims Bella has returned from her honeymoon on safari where it turns Claire/Mrs Elliott …. Norma Ronald Jesse . . . . . Arun Blair-Mangat out she had more to worry about than the man eating animals. Ben...... Joe Dunlop Kathe . . . . . Charlotte East Omnibus of five episodes written by Marcy Kahan. Producer: Edward Taylor Friedl . . . . . Ceciliah Appiah Bill ..... Stephen Mangan Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 May 2021 Page 4 of 10 Bella ..... Claire Skinner traipsing home defeated. Ellie .... Tara Dominick Director: Sally Avens. In this opening episode, Andrew arrives home from work one Det Con Seymour .... Paul Downing First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013. evening to find the house even more of a mess than usual. An PC Hector .... Stephen Garlick SUN 15:30 Tehrangeles (b01n0sc7) argument with his girlfriend about cleaning escalates and Ruddlesdin .... Danny Schiller Comedian Maz Jobrani takes a journey to Tehrangeles - home Andrew storms out to find something to eat. Director: Matthew Walters to the largest Iranian diaspora in the world, right in the heart of After a soul destroying encounter with the woman in the local First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1990. Los Angeles. shop, who can only recommend frozen turkey dinosaurs for his MON 07:00 Psmith in the City by PG Wodehouse Recorded on location, Iranian stand-up comedian and actor Maz meal, Andrew joins his work mate, Lennie, for a consolation (b00dp7lw) Jobrani begins his journey in a street lined with Iranian stores, dinner in the pub. Stirring Times with Comrade Waller restaurants, beauty salons, cafes and businesses, where everyone Later he returns home and is forced to negotiate about a cleaner Comedy series following the adventures of the extraordinary speaks Farsi and all the shop signs are in Persian. through the letterbox before he is finally allowed back in. Psmith and his friend Mike in the world of Edwardian finance. But this is not downtown Tehran - this is Westwood Boulevard Starring: Psmith and Mike discover the secret passion of the kindly Head in Los Angeles, a stone's throw from affluent Beverly Hills, Andrew Lawrence of Cash. where 22% of the population are Iranian, and whose former Diane Morgan P.G. Wodehouse ..... Simon Williams Iranian born mayor Jimmy Delshad epitomizes the With Rosie Cavaliero and Marek Larwood. Psmith ..... Nick Caldecott extraordinary success of Iranians in LA. Producer: Jane Berthoud Mike Jackson ..... Inam Mirza When bookshop owner Bijan Khalili set up shop here over 30 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015. Edward Waller ..... Ryan Watson years ago, there were only a few Persian stores. He and others SUN 23:00 As Told To Craig Brown (b00b71ds) Mr Waller ..... Jonathan Tafler along Westwood Boulevard tell the story of how and why the Episode 4 Comrade Prebble ..... Chris Pavlo LA community steadily grew into a Mecca for hundreds of Eating too much and the end of the world. Bill ..... Dan Starkey thousands of Iranians. And how, against the backdrop of 32 Craig Brown introduces a mixture of satire, social observation Ada ..... Jill Cardo years of hostility between America and Iran since the 1979 US and nonsense. Plebeian ..... Stephen Critchlow hostage crisis, they have succeeded in making their mark. Narrated by Juliet Stevenson and Steve Wright Plebeian ..... Robert Lonsdale Even Bravo TV (creators of The Kardashians) have recently With John Humphrys, Ronni Ancona, Jon Culshaw, Lewis By PG Wodehouse. aired a hit reality TV show about the lives of a group of affluent MacLeod, Sally Grace, Ewan Bailey and Margaret Cabourn- Dramatised by Marcy Kahan. Beverly Hills Iranians. Smith. Produced by Abigail le Fleming LA based Iranian- American comedian and actor Maz Jobrani Producer: Victoria Lloyd First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. delves into the heart of this unique and diverse microcosm of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2008. MON 07:30 Nature Table (m000vxzc) Iran in the heart of LA, otherwise known as Tehrangeles, to SUN 23:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World (b007jtql) Series 2 reveal the surprising stories and insights into the lives of Series 2 Episode 2 Iranians who have recreated Little Tehran in the City of Angels. The Scheme of Things Nature Table is comedian, broadcaster and writer Sue Perkins’ Producer: Shoku Amirani Where does Britain fit in the Theatre of Being? new comedy ‘Show & Tell’ series celebrating the natural world First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012. Cult New Age comedy that answers the questions which leave and all its funny eccentricities. SUN 16:00 Peter Whalley - The Absent Guest (b0076lcv) other shows scratching their beards. Taking the simple format of a ‘Show & Tell’, each episode Sue When an absent guest of a dinner party is discovered murdered Starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. is joined by celebrity guests from the worlds of comedy and – one by one, the remaining guests become suspects... With: natural history. Each of the natural history guests brings an item Peter Whalley’s sharp and tense whodunit. Rebecca Front linked to the wild world to share with the audience, be it an Ian .....Robert Pickavance Armando Iannucci amazing fact or funny personal anecdote. Each item is a Lynn...Deborah Findlay And the voice of Tom Baker. springboard for an enlightening and funny discussion, alongside Mike.....John Thomson Producer: Sarah Smith fun games and challenges revealing more astonishing facts. We Julie...... Katy Cavanagh First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993. also hear from some of the London Zoo, as they bring us their Claire....Denise Welch own natural history ‘show and tells’ for Sue and the guests to Alan.....John Kazek discuss. Director: Pauline Harris MONDAY 17 MAY 2021 Nature Table has a simple clear brief: to positively celebrate First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2004. and promote the importance of all our planet’s wonderfully wild SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000w4cq) MON 00:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Curious, If True (b00tvmjy) flora and fauna in an fun and easily grasped way... whilst at the [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] same time having a giggle. SUN 17:30 Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics MON 00:45 Murder & Mystery (m0003kx9) Note: Series 2 was recorded in November 2020, during (b03zy1c6) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] lockdown conditions, so this time round there is no studio [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] MON 01:00 The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (Omnibus) audience. The host, panel and guest zookeepers recorded the SUN 18:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Curious, If True (b00tvmjy) (b07ykcys) series at ZSL London Zoo, socially distanced. Lois the Witch [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] Episode 2 Newly arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, a Warwickshire girl MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b0b89fsh) Recorded at London Zoo, this week Sue Perkins is joined by finds herself drawn into a Puritan family's world of visions, [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] special guests: malice and - apparently - demonic possession... MON 02:20 Marcy Kahan - Lunch (b05n7vy3) Lucy Cooke (Zoologist, writer, presenter), Lee Davies (Fungi Elizabeth Gaskell's collection of intriguing "true" tales [Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday] curator, Kew Gardens) and actress and comedian Sally Phillips. dramatised by Sally Hedges. MON 03:30 Tehrangeles (b01n0sc7) Written by: Catherine Brinkworth, Kat Sadler & Jon Hunter Mrs Gaskell ...... Elizabeth Spriggs [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday] Researcher: Catherine Beazley Lois ...... Carolyn Backhouse MON 04:00 Peter Whalley - The Absent Guest (b0076lcv) Music by Ben Mirin. Additional sounds were provided by The Grace ...... Sandra Berkin [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Prudence ...... Amy Draper MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000w4cq) Produced by: Simon Nicholls With Heather Emmanuel, Susan Jeffrey, Richard Avery, [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] A BBC Studios Production Jonathan Wyatt, Andrew Harrison, Stephen Tomlin and Anna MON 05:30 Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics MON 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k01b) Keene. (b03zy1c6) Series 3 Producer: Nigel Bryant [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] Robbery With Violence An Armada production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in MON 06:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Terrified Albert lies to son Harold after accidentally breaking October 1998. (b007jsql) his treasured porcelain collection. SUN 18:45 Murder & Mystery (m0003kx9) 1. The Journey to Arabia Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as Series 5 A newspaper article and an almost-forgotten client send young Harold. With Gwendolyn Watts and Richard Griffiths. Metzengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe English lawyer George Grant on a mystery trip. Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association A Plague on both your Houses. Edgar Allan Poe's first Starring Tim Munro. with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson published short story (January 1932). Arabian adventure based on Hammond Innes' 1960 novel. wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. In a writing career that spanned barely two decades (he died in Adapted in six parts by Rene Basilico. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring his 41st year) the American penned over seventy 70 stories. George Grant ...... Tim Munro the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold These he incessantly revised over the years and many became Henry Grant ...... Robert James and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. standards of the short form (like ‘The Fall Of The House of Alexander Erkhard ...... John Malcolm Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Usher’ or ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’). Ruffini ...... Robert Rietty Gale Pedrick. But for our five fictional tales, we burrow down amongst Poe’s Betty ...... Jill Lidstone Producer: Bobby Jaye lesser-known, and often dark, gems. Tessa ...... Nadia Hammam First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May 1971. Read by Owen Teale. Taxi Driver ...... Nadim Sawalha MON 08:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue Abridger: Pete Nichols Hotel receptionist ...... Neville Rofaila (b007517q) Producer: Karen Rose Akhmed ...... Ali Refaie Series 4 Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions and Producer: John Fawcett Wilson. Episode 1 first broadcast in March 2019. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1984. Sofa-bound TV presenters Mike and Sue discuss property, SUN 19:00 Sneakernomics (p09fy1ch) MON 06:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6mb) holidays and their hopes for a TV award. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] 1. Die My Dear Doctor? That's The Last Thing I'll Do ... Starring Robert Duncan and Jan Ravens. SUN 20:00 Peter Whalley - The Absent Guest (b0076lcv) Three old men die within hours of each other - and one of them With Roger Blake, Emma Kennedy and Toby Longworth. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] murdered... Written by Hugh Rycroft and David Spicer from a format by SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05wcxj6) Donald Gee and Philip Jackson star as detective duo, Andy Bill Dare. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Dalziel and Peter Pascoe. Music by Mark Burton. SUN 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00zm4j4) Reginald Hill's 2008 thriller dramatised in five parts by Betty Producer: Aled Evans [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] Davies. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1999. SUN 22:00 Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics Det Insp Pascoe .... Donald Gee MON 09:00 Act Your Age (b00qhrxb) (b03zy1c6) Supt Dalziel .... Philip Jackson Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Deputy Chief Con .... Michael Elwyn Episode 4 SUN 22:30 There Is No Escape (b06grjn7) Det Insp Headingley .... Christopher Good Simon Mayo hosts the comedy show that pits the comic Episode 1 Dr Sowden .... Ben Onwukwe generations against each other to find out which is the funniest. Andrew Lawrence's sitcom about a man dissatisfied with his Sgt Wield .... Michael Graham Cox Team captains Jon Richardson, Ed Byrne and Johnnie Casson life, whose feeble attempts to run away invariably end with him Charlesworth .... David King are joined by Mike Wozniak, Robin Ince and Ted Robbins. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 May 2021 Page 5 of 10 Producers: Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. She must keep her darkest secrets well-hidden if she is to Series 105 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2010. survive in this strange land of Saxons and Danes. Episode 5 MON 09:30 The Elephant Man (b007jsfp) Sigrid ..... Hollie Burgess Andy Zaltzman presents a look back at the week's headlines Endangered Species The Virgin ..... Marilyn Nnadebe with Danny Finkelstein, Zoe Lyons, Catherine Bohart and Peter Serafinowicz stars in DA Barham's sitcom about the life Silvia ..... Susan Jameson Darren Harriott. of Terry Lyon, an elephant keeper at his local zoo. He gets on Sailor (Sc2) / Sailors ..... Chris Harper, Joseph Ayre This week, the panel dissect the Queen's Speech, unpick the better with animals than people. As the zoo lurches towards Gorm ..... David Hounslow local election results, and enjoy a rare quickfire round. bankruptcy, his future looks bleak. Co-stars Chris Emmet as Canute ..... Aaron Gelkoff Written by Andy Zaltzman with additional material from Alice Leonard. Gunnar .... Chris Pavlo Fraser, Max Davis, Rajiv Karia and Hannah Platt. DA Barham - alias Debbie Ann - used her gently gender- Written by Lucy Catherine. Producer: Gwyn Rhys Davies obscured writing name. Aged just 15, she'd sent in scripts to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019. Production Coordinator: Cherlynn Andrew-Wilfred BBC comedy programmes. In 2003 she tragically died from MON 14:30 Mannequins (b0075zhk) Sound Editor: Marc Willcox heart failure due to anorexia, aged only 26. In her short, brilliant Sue Limb uncovers the secret world of mannequins, their early A BBC Studios Production comedy career, she'd written for The News Huddlines, Spitting history, changing shapes and styles. With Mary Quant. MON 23:30 The Jason Byrne Show (b01p03v9) Image, The News Quiz, Weekending, Loose Ends, as well as big Glamorous, influential, spooky and silent ... they haunt the high Series 3 names like Bob Monkhouse, Graham Norton, Rory Bremner streets. Sue Limb uncovers the secret world of the Mannequin, Ever Been Proposed to in a Pub? and Clive Anderson. hearing about their early history, their changing shapes and Award-winning comedian Jason Byrne muses on the merits of Produced by Richard Wilson. styles as she goes up to her arm pits in clay, glass fibre and matrimony. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1996. papier mache, as the latest designs roll out of the factories. Stand up and sketches with Laurence Howarth and Daisy MON 10:00 Mrs Henry Wood - East Lynne (m0006ltz) Contributors: Haggard. 6. An MP for West Lynne Michael Southgate Producer: Julia McKenzie Mr Carlyle faces opposition as he stands for Parliament, while Adel Rootstein First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2010. Lady Isabel’s misery is deepened by her return to East Lynne Kevin Alpino Mrs Henry Wood's novel dramatised by Michael Bakewell. John Taylor Mrs Henry Wood ... Rosemary Leach Len Gifford TUESDAY 18 MAY 2021 the Lady Isabel ... Moir Leslie Mary Quant Mr Carlyle .... David Collings Dr. Dee Dawson TUE 00:00 Planet B (b00j1c4w) Francis Levison ....Anthony Edridge Rosemary Harden [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Miss Cornelia .... Maxine Audley Marilyn Dumars TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b01dhrn3) Barbara Hare .... Julie Berry Edward Stammers [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Richard .... Kim Wall Judith Fane TUE 01:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Justice Hare .... Brian Hewlett First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. (b007jsql) Lord Mount Severn .... Stephen Thorne MON 15:00 Mrs Henry Wood - East Lynne (m0006ltz) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Joyce ... Jo Kendall [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE 01:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6mb) Dill .... Tim Reynolds MON 16:00 Act Your Age (b00qhrxb) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] Little Isabel ... Bernadette Windsor [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b08crt6p) Little William .... Ben Robb MON 16:30 The Elephant Man (b007jsfp) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Young Lord Vane .... Sean Arnold [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE 02:15 Gudrun (m00055mh) Pinner/Dobede ... Colin Starkey MON 17:00 Psmith in the City by PG Wodehouse [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Ball ... Peter Acre (b00dp7lw) TUE 02:30 Mannequins (b0075zhk) Bethel .... Stephen Harrold [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] James ... Michael Tudor Barnes MON 17:30 Nature Table (m000vxzc) TUE 03:00 Mrs Henry Wood - East Lynne (m0006ltz) Dr Martin .... Tim Munroe [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Director: David Johnston MON 18:00 Planet B (b00j1c4w) TUE 04:00 Act Your Age (b00qhrxb) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1987. Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m000w3f6) 6. The Wild Gang TUE 04:30 The Elephant Man (b007jsfp) Series 8 John finds himself in the brutal and violent world of the virtual [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Episode 3 untamed Wild West, where Chuck's gang rule by gun law... TUE 05:00 Psmith in the City by PG Wodehouse A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting Ten-part series about a mystery virtual world. (b00dp7lw) speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Written by Matthew Broughton [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] stage. John ...... Gunnar Cauthery TUE 05:30 Nature Table (m000vxzc) As Guy Raz says goodbye to the show – he explores how life Lioba ...... Donnla Hughes [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] experiences teach us, and how hindsight can shape our futures. Medley ...... Lizzy Watts TUE 06:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2019. Cerberus ...... Chris Pavlo (b007jsqw) MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000w3f8) Chuck Flint ...... David Bedella Bahrain-Sharjah-Dubai Craig Charles All other parts played by Inam Mirza, Jill Cardo, Paul Rider, An innocent search for an elusive oilman leads lawyer George Poet, actor and DJ Craig Charles chooses Billie Holiday's Dan Starkey and Adjoa Andoh. Grant into a maze of political intrigue. 'Strange Fruit' and Wilson Pickett singing 'Hey Jude'. Director: Jeremy Mortimer Arabian adventure based on Hammond Innes' 1960 novel MON 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k01b) Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2009. adapted in six parts by Rene Basilico. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON 18:30 A Good Read (b01dhrn3) Starring Tim Munro as George Grant, Robert Rietty as Ruffini, MON 12:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue Frances Barber and Grace Dent George Roubicek as Otto Smith, David McAlister as Captain (b007517q) Writer Grace Dent and actress Frances Barber talk to presenter Chuck Berry, Garard Green as Sir Philip Gorde, Helena Breck [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Harriett Gilbert about the books they most love, as Susan Whittaker, Nadim Sawalha as the Waiter and MON 13:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes From BBC Radio 4's More Than Words Listening Festival in Mohammad Sultan as the Driver. (b007jsql) Bristol. Producer: John Fawcett Wilson. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Books chosen: First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1984. MON 13:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6mb) Grace Dent chooses: Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford. TUE 06:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6md) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Frances Barber chooses A Thousand Splendid Suns by Aghan- 2. What Does it Signify? MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b08crt6p) born novelist Khaled Hosseini. Exit Lines by Reginald Hill dramatised in five parts by Betty The Transition by Luke Kennard And Harriett Gilbert chooses: Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood. Davies. Episode 1 Producer Beth O'Dea With Donald Gee and Philip Jackson. An intriguing and wry debut novel about capitalism, the housing First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. 2: What Does It Signify? crisis and a generation in debt. Set a few years from now, in an MON 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k01b) Pascoe wonders about the two sudden deaths. unnamed city, award-winning poet Luke Kennard imagines [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Director Matthew Walters what life might be like for young people from the squeezed MON 19:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue Cast: middle-class if our society continues along its current economic (b007517q) Det Insp Pascoe .... Donald Gee path. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Supt Dalziel .... Philip Jackson Thirty-something couple Karl and Genevieve (he writes copy MON 20:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Det Chief Constable .... Michael Elwyn for online content providers, she is a primary teacher) live in a (b007jsql) Det Insp Headingley .... Christopher Good room in a shared house; their combined income is less than [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Mrs Escott .... Barbara Atkinson their rent and they're falling ever deeper into debt. To help pay MON 20:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6mb) Det Con Seymour .... Paul Downing off his seventeen credit cards, Karl accepts a job generating [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Ruddlesdin .... Danny Schiller 'clickbait' from a stranger online that seems to good to be true. MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m000w3f6) Sgt Price .... Michael Graham Cox It is. Very soon the messy strands of his and Genevieve's lives [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Abbiss/Sgt Myers .... John Bull are beginning to unravel. MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000w3f8) Corp Gillott I Warden .... Joe Dunlop Reader: Bryan Dick [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] Mrs Frostick .... Anna Cropper Writer: Luke Kennard MON 22:00 Nature Table (m000vxzc) Stella Abbiss .... Elizabeth Mansfield Abridger: Robin Brooks [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Mrs Warsop .... Susan Sheridan Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. MON 22:30 Chain Reaction (b03phrws) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. Series 9 TUE 07:00 Beauty of Britain (b010t6yh) MON 14:15 Gudrun (m00055mh) Grant Morrison talks to Neil Innes Series 2 Series 6 Comic book legend Grant Morrison continues the chain talking Mission Command Sigrid to writer, performer, musician and Monty Python collaborator Series 2 of this Radio 4 comedy follows Beauty's continuing Set in the 11th century, the series follows Gudrun in the New Neil Innes. adventures among the cauliflower-cheese eating population as World, and her estranged daughter Sigrid in England. Both Chain Reaction is the long-running host-less chat show where the Featherdown Agency sends her to provide care for those mother and daughter have reasons to seek forgiveness as they last week's interviewee becomes this week's interviewer. who need it - and occasionally some who don't, but all of whom forge a path through lands of unearthly beauty and Producer: Carl Cooper have relatives with guilty consciences. Beauty sees herself as an uncompromising harshness. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014. inspiration to other African girls hoping to live the dream in Sigrid has arrived in England to marry a man she has never met. MON 23:00 The News Quiz (m000vz9b) Britain. Until she gets the nod from God about which sector of Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 May 2021 Page 6 of 10 the economy would most benefit from her entrepreneurial Judge .... Michael Bilton most interesting moments in history. skills, Beauty will carry on grating the Extra Mature Cathedral Director: David Johnston Producers: Dan Schreiber and Justin Pollard City, running the assisted baths and trying to understand the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1987. An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in British character. TUE 11:00 The Jon Pertwee Files (m0006lvy) December 2014. The series breaks the embarrassed silence about what happens Sean Pertwee celebrates his father Jon’s broadcasting career in TUE 16:30 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqmj) to us when we get old and start to lose our faculties. Beauty sees this special centenary documentary. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Britain at its best, its worst and also sometimes without its Featuring rediscovered archive material, rare interviews and TUE 17:00 Beauty of Britain (b010t6yh) clothes on running the wrong way down the M6 with a toy dog behind the scenes recordings. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] shouting 'Come on!' From his radio days playing a disreputable postman and a chief TUE 17:30 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000vwt4) Beauty of Britain is a narrative comedy written by Christopher petty officer in The Navy Lark, to his TV portrayals of the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Douglas (of Ed Reardon fame) and Nicola Sanderson. dandy Doctor Who and the anarchic scarecrow, Worzel TUE 18:00 Planet B (b00j1hzf) Episode 5 'Mission Command' Gummidge. Series 1 Beauty Oolonga, a Southern African care worker, shares her Producers: Richard Latto and Stuart Manning. 7. Catharsis quirky view of Britain. Beauty struggles with an irascible First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2019. John captains a battleship in a world so real that he forgets who gentleman and the Featherdown office struggle with Social TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jq80) he is. Can Medley make him remember? Services' new pilot scheme for elder care in which the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Ten-part series about a mystery virtual world. 'Assessment exercises are based on the battle principles of TUE 12:30 King Street Junior (b007jm6n) Written by Dawn Webb. General von Moltke of the Prussian Army.' [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] John ...... Gunnar Cauthery Beauty ..... Jocelyn Jee Esien TUE 13:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Medley ...... Lizzy Watts Derek ..... Oscar James (b007jsqw) Cerberus ...... Chris Pavlo Nicole/Topaz/Tiffany ..... Morwenna Banks [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Lioba ...... Donnla Hughes Karen ..... Nicola Sanderson TUE 13:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6md) All other parts played by Robert Lonsdale, Janice Acquah, Inam Sally ..... Felicity Montagu [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Mirza, Jill Cardo, Stephen Critchlow, Dan Starkey and Adjoa Olivia/PhD Student .....Vicki Pepperdine TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b08dwy6q) Andoh. Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson The Transition by Luke Kennard Director: Jessica Dromgoole The producer is Tilusha Ghelani Episode 2 Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2009. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Debut novel set in an unnamed British city, a few years from TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b0137vtp) TUE 07:30 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000vwt4) now. Writer Luke Kennard imagines what life might be like for Series 12 Series 4 young people from the squeezed middle-class if society Mendelssohn's Octet Dead Jews continues along its current economic path. This exploration of the impact that Mendelssohn's Octet has had Award-winning comedian Alex Edelman asks why Jews are still Thirty-something Karl has avoided a jail sentence for on different people's lives, demonstrates the healing power of so problematic for so many. With the rise of QAnon and unwittingly aiding a credit card skimmer. Instead, he and his music in a variety of situations around the world. elected members of congress like Marjorie Taylor Greene, wife Genevieve have been offered a place on The Transition - a Mendelssohn wrote his Octet for double string quartet in 1825 antisemitism has somehow crept into the mainstream, especially six month 'rehabilitation programme' in which they will live when he was only 16 years old. Despite his youth, this is a in America, and a lot of it still seems to go unchecked. As an rent-free with two mentors, Stu and Janna, who will help them mature and brilliant piece of music described in this programme observant Jew himself, he looks at all the ways his faith, and get back on their feet. It's an organisation he's never heard of by the interviewees as "carnivalesque", "a romp", "a party". people's reaction to it, impacts his life and the ways in which before but, when they arrive for their first briefing, Karl is Choreographer Bill T Jones describes the way in which the society still fails to understand the issues many Jews like him surprised to see how large the HQ is, and how well established. Octet showed his company how to keep living during the have to live with. Reader: Bryan Dick onslaught of AIDS in the 80's. Cellist Raphael and violinist Written by Alex Edelman and Max Davis Writer: Luke Kennard Elizabeth Wallfisch talk about falling in love whilst learning this With special thanks to Abridger: Robin Brooks music in the 70's. South Korean Lisa Kim tells a story about Alfie Brown Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. going on tour with the New York Philharmonic to North Korea Tasha Dhanraj First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. and her intense fear and mistrust being replaced by wonder Rajiv Karia TUE 14:15 Gudrun (m00057mf) when they played the Octet with a North Korean Quartet. And Mike Birbiglia Series 6 Matthew Trusler describes the importance of playing this work and Episode 2: Gudrun after the death of his son. Danny Jolles Exiled with two companions, loyal Dag and infatuated Heidr, The recording of the Mendelssohn Octet featured in the Produced by Sam Michell Guthrun's ship drifts ever west, to a land of new possibilities, programme is by the Emerson String Quartet on Deutsche It is a BBC Studios Production and new dangers. Gramophon. TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jq80) Gudrun ..... Kate Phillips First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Series 9 Leif ..... Chris Pavlo TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jq80) The Million Pound Penny Heidr ..... Helen Clapp [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Two tales for the price of one - The Sockjelly Murder and the Panuk ..... Kenny Blyth TUE 19:30 King Street Junior (b007jm6n) story of Ned The Miser! With Peter Sellers. From November Dag ..... Joseph Ayres [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] 1958. Freija ..... Samantha Dakin TUE 20:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes TUE 08:30 King Street Junior (b007jm6n) Written by Lucy Catherine. (b007jsqw) Series 3 Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Under Canvas First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019. TUE 20:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6md) Camping proves fun for the children - but will the teachers TUE 14:30 The Grace of Jeff Buckley (b048hxpk) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] survive the great outdoors? Stars Karl Howman. From March Since his desperately early death in May 1997, there's been an TUE 21:00 The Jon Pertwee Files (m0006lvy) 1988. inevitable mythologising about the life and music of Jeff [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE 09:00 The News Quiz (m000vz9b) Buckley. Perhaps it's not surprising that in the posthumous rush TUE 22:00 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000vwt4) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] to acknowledge his genius, memories have been clouded or, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 09:30 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqmj) retrospectively, given a silver lining. TUE 22:30 Revolting People (b00fkx2m) February - Pulling Out all the Stops The quiet, uncertain foundations of his reputation were laid on Series 2 Megan awaits news, Mr Bootle considers his position and Mr a solo tour of Europe three years earlier, in March 1994 - and, Some More Trying Times Jenkins considers Megan. Stars Geoffrey Whitehead. From in particular, during one day. On the 18th March, Buckley was Sergeant McGurk takes up spying, Samuel enters showbiz and August 2000. scheduled for a photo shoot (with Kevin Westenberg), an Ezekiel gets stuck. TUE 10:00 Mrs Henry Wood - East Lynne (m0006n5p) appearance on BBC GLR and his first proper London concert, Comedy set just before the American Revolution. 7. Until Eternity at a folk club called Bunjies. Written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses. Sir Francis Levison has been dramatically arrested for the In 'The Grace of Jeff Buckley', those who were there speak for Stars Jay Tarses as Samuel Oliphant, Andy Hamilton as murder of Hallijohn, while at East Lynne a terrible gloom the first time about the man and his music: Buckley's American Sergeant McGurk, James Fleet as Captain Brimshaw, Jan descends as little William grows weaker daily. manager Dave Lory, record company owner Steve Abbott, Ravens as Mary, Hugh Dennis as Ezekiel Spriggs, Penelope Can the two great mysteries that have befallen the Carlyle booking agent Emma Banks and photographer Kevin Nice as Cora Oliphant, Tony Maudsley as Joshua Oliphant and family be unravelled? Westenberg share intimate memories that have so far not Susie Blake as Elizabeth Oliphant. Conclusion of Mrs Henry Wood's novel dramatised by Michael featured in the Buckley biography. Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Bakewell. And the programme also includes rare archive: the GLR radio First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2001. Mrs Henry Wood ... Rosemary Leach session that has not been heard since that live broadcast in 1994 TUE 23:00 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap (b04wwnh8) the Lady Isabel ... Moir Leslie - including an astonishing version of 'Grace' - and, exclusively, Series 2 Mr Carlyle .... David Collings a private interview that Buckley recorded on the eve of this tour Episode 1 Francis Levison .... Anthony Edridge but decided not to release. Bridget is back asking who has the best sexism in the world, Miss Cornelia ... Maxine Audley Together, these glimpses offer a portrait of a young man whose deconstructing a yoghurt advert and taking a look at what Barbara Hare ... Julie Berry voice and musicianship, as well as his irresistible charisma and happens when a perfectly normal woman appears on TV. Little William ... Ben Robb the trauma of his early death, touched millions. With token man, Fred MacAulay who reveals a hitherto Afy .... Angela Crow Produced by Alan Hall. unsuspected penchant for certain kitchen cleaning products. Richard Hare .... Kim Wall A Falling Tree production As she hasn't managed to single-handedly eradicate sexism, Mrs Hare ... Joan Matheson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Bridget Christie returns in her multi-award winning series about Justice Hare .... Brian Hewlett TUE 15:00 Mrs Henry Wood - East Lynne (m0006n5p) modern feminism. Lord Mount Severn: Stephen Thorne [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Bridget thought that she'd be able to put her feet up assuming Dill: Tim Reynolds TUE 16:00 The Rest is History (b04vk0c1) her last series would bomb. Sadly it was a huge success and Joyce: Jo Kendall Series 1 she's had to bang on about feminism ever since. Ball: Peter Acre Episode 3 Written by Bridget Christie. James: Mlchael Tudor Barnes Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of it. Producers: Alison Vernon-Smith and Alexandra Smith Dobede .... Colin Starkey This comedy discussion show with celebrity guests promises to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2015. Bethel .... Stephen Harrold help him find out more about it. TUE 23:30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Mr Jiffin .... Sebastian Stride With John Lloyd, Katy Brand and historian in residence Dr Better (b00k9dc3) Usher .... Paul Gregory Kate Williams Series 1 Rubiny ... Nicholas Goldwyn Frank and company navigate their way through the annals of Lust Cler ...: David Goodland time, picking out and chewing over the funniest, oddest, and Mark Watson investigates lust as he continues his quest to free Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 May 2021 Page 7 of 10 us from the seven deadly sins via stand-up comedy. organisations including Neal Street Productions, Aardman, NT, an African leader. Tim Key and Tim Minchin provide sketches, songs and The Kevin Spacey Foundation and currently with Brunel Now, many years later, there’s to be another attempt. distractions. University on Stuck - working with schools to adopt Reluctantly, Harry is drawn into the plot. Producer: Katie Marsden improvisation into the curriculum. Past forays on Radio 4 have RD Wingfield’s thriller stars Bob Peck as Harry Davies. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2007. included a co-penned series with Rik Mayall, a star-studded With Julie Berry as Jenny Brown, Aubrey Woods as Tom adaptation of A Christmas Carol and a live recording of The Crossland, Peter Howell as Colonel Travers, Tim Reynolds as Hound of the Baskervilles. Peepolykus is produced by Eleanor Reynolds, Alan Dudley as Joe and Stephen Thorne, Michael WEDNESDAY 19 MAY 2021 Lloyd Productions. Tudor Barnes and Paul Gregory as the Police and Secret Service Director . . . . . Sasha Yevtushenko Agents, WED 00:00 Planet B (b00j1hzf) By John Nicholson and Richard Katz Director: Ian Cotterell [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987 WED 00:30 Soul Music (b0137vtp) WED 07:30 Alone (m000vx3w) WED 11:00 Lauren Laverne: Acting the Rock Star [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Series 3 (m000w2zt) WED 01:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Best Man Wins 1. David Bowie, Velveteens & The Monkees (b007jsqw) A sitcom about five single, middle aged neighbours living in From The Beatles and David Bowie to Spinal Tap and beyond, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] flats in a converted house in North London .- written by Moray across three programmes Lauren Laverne showcases how rock WED 01:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6md) Hunter and starring Angus Deayton, Abigail Cruttenden, Pearce stars lives have been portrayed on radio and screen. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Quigley, Kate Isitt and Bennett Arron, In the first part of this lovingly compiled long-playing WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b08dwy6q) Mitch (Angus Deayton) is a widower and part-time therapist retrospective we'll hear... [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] who is looking to put his life back together now that he is single "The Final Take: Bowie in the Studio" - Jon Culshaw’s portrayal WED 02:15 Gudrun (m00057mf) and living with Will (Pearce Quigley), his younger, more of David Bowie during the recording of his final album [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] volatile and unhappily divorced half-brother. Elsewhere in the Blackstar. WED 02:30 The Grace of Jeff Buckley (b048hxpk) building are schoolteacher Ellie (Abigail Cruttenden) who is "Queens of Noise: Get It On" - An episode from the drama [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] shy, nervous and holds a secret candle for Mitch. Overly honest, about a fictional female group chasing rock stardom in the late WED 03:00 Mrs Henry Wood - East Lynne (m0006n5p) frustrated actress Louisa (Kate Isitt), and socially inept IT nerd 1980s written by The Farm's Roy Boulter and Louise Wener [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Morris (Bennett Arron) complete the line-up of mis-matched from Sleeper. WED 04:00 The Rest is History (b04vk0c1) neighbours. "Witness History: The Monkees" - A look at how a group of [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] In the sixth and final episode, Best Man Wins, Mitch turns actors in the 1960s, who were originally hired to play wannabe WED 04:30 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqmj) down Ellie’s request to partner her to a wedding and Will offers pop stars, became the world's first 'manufactured' boy band. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] to accompany her instead. This causes Mitch to regret his In addition to this, the broadcaster, music journalist and Radio WED 05:00 Beauty of Britain (b010t6yh) decision and panic, as Ellie and Will seem to really hit it off Times Film Editor Andrew Collins offers his thoughts on the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] while preparing for their big day out. phenomenon of the rock biopic. WED 05:30 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000vwt4) Cast: Produced by Stuart Ross. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] Angus Deayton- Mitch Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra. WED 06:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Abigail Cruttenden- Ellie WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jz69) (b007jsr5) Pearce Quigley- Will [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Escape to Saraifa Kate Isitt- Louisa WED 12:30 No Commitments (b007jmvh) A flight into the desert - and a first encounter with a living Bennett Arron- Morris [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] legend. Created and Written by Moray Hunter WED 13:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Arabian adventure for English lawyer George Grant, based on Script Edited by Ian Brown and James Hendrie (b007jsr5) Hammond Innes' 1960 novel adapted in six parts by Rene Directed by Moray Hunter and Gordon Kennedy [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Basilico. Recorded and Edited by Jerry Peal WED 13:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6mx) Starring Tim Munro as George Grant, Bernard Horsfall as Production Manager: Sarah Tombling [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Colonel Whittaker, George Roubicek as Otto Smith, Farouk El- Based on an original idea developed in association with Dandy WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b08dwy7v) Demerdash as Sheikh Makhmud, Raad Rawi as Prince Khalid, Productions The Transition by Luke Kennard Garard Green as Sir Philip Gorde, Geoffrey Hinsliff as Jack Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios Episode 3 Entwistle, Ali Refaie as the Sheikh's Messenger and Produced by Gordon Kennedy Bryan Dick reads Luke Kennard's debut novel, inspired by Mohammad Sultan as the Palace Guard. An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 'Generation Debt', set a few years from now in an unnamed Producer: John Fawcett Wilson. WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jz69) British city. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1984. Series 1 Mentors Janna and Stu lay down The Transition's ground rules, WED 06:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6mx) A Trip to France as Karl and Genevieve slowly adjust to life as protégés on the 3. Bugger Bognor. Who Killed Robert Deeks? The lad's longing to sample life across the English Channel, but six-month 'rehabilitation' programme. Exit Lines by Reginald Hill dramatised in five parts by Betty Sid's got other ideas. Reader: Bryan Dick Davies. Starring Tony Hancock. Writer: Luke Kennard With Donald Gee and Philip Jackson. With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney James and Kenneth Abridger: Robin Brooks 3: 'Bugger Bognor' Who killed Robert Deeks? Williams. Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. How did Parrinder die? Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. Director Matthew Walters Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. WED 14:15 Gudrun (m000570d) Cast: Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Series 6 Det Insp Pascoe .... Donald Gee Rabinowitz. Episode 3: Sigrid Supt Dalziel .... Philip Jackson Producer: Dennis Main Wilson Set in the 11th century, the series follows Gudrun in the New Deputy Chief Constable .... Michael Elwyn First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1955. World, and her estranged daughter Sigrid in England. Both Det Insp Headingley .... Christopher Good WED 08:30 No Commitments (b007jmvh) mother and daughter have reasons to seek forgiveness as they Dr Sowden .... Ben Onwukwe Series 2 forge a path through lands of unearthly beauty and Det Con Seymour .... Paul Downing The Big Break uncompromising harshness. PC Hector .... Stephen Garlick Charlotte's keen to show off her new TV director boyfriend Sigrid has arrived in England to marry a man she has never met. Sgt Wield .... Michael Graham Cox Dan, who's got her a job. Stars Josie Lawrence. From August He is a bore and a brute, and she must keep her darkest secret Mrs Frostick .... Anna Cropper 1993. hidden from him. Mr Frostick .... Michael Kilgarriff WED 09:00 Whispers (b007k2kg) Sigrid ..... Hollie Burgess Sgt Myers .... John Bull Series 1 The Virgin ..... Marilyn Nnadebe Andrea .... Jane Slavin Episode 1 Silvia ..... Susan Jameson Major Kassell .... Vincent Brimble What is the rather inflammatory connection between Salman Priest ..... Michael Bertenshaw Sir William .... Brian Miller Rushdie and The Beatles? Gorm ..... David Hounslow Customs man .... Date Rapley Celebrating our fascination with gossip, rumour and Written by Lucy Catherine. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. controversy. Gyles Brandreth hosts the panel game with scandal Produced by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED 07:00 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics on its mind and slander at its heart. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019. (b08h0c9k) Regular team captains writer and critic Anthony Holden and WED 14:30 The Man Who Made Mock Turtle Soup Series 2 writer and actor Stella Duffy are joined by broadcaster Rosie (b0076pxb) The Neck Millard and best-selling author Jenny Colgan to test their wits, Bill Lloyd investigates the life of Alexis Poyet, the first In 19th-century Whitby, a magician prepares to compete with and wit against the most notorious figures in history. Victorian celebrity chef. With Michel Roux and AN Wilson. Harry Houdini at a major international magic convention. When Producer: Elizabeth Freestone Alexis Soyer was Britain's first celebrity chef, 150 years before a ship carrying a cargo of fifty coffins runs aground on the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2003. Jamie Oliver. He opened England first public restaurant, wrote town's beach, he suspects Houdini of pulling a huge publicity WED 09:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k0d2) bestselling cookery books and created relishes that his friends, stunt. Series 1 Mssrs Crosse and Blackwell, marketed. He invented the soup In this second series, the comedy troupe Peepolykus assume the Survival of the Fittest kitchen as a means of alleviating the Irish Potato Famine and roles of minor characters in great works of fiction and derail the Rosie’s company hosts a management team building course. It revolutionised army catering. plot of the book through their hapless buffoonery. all goes well until the murder mystery dinner, but it isn't Rosie Michel Roux tries out one of his most famous recipes while Peepolykus (pronounced people-like-us) has exported its brand who makes a killing. Ruth Brandon, Martin Jarvis and AN Wilson tell his remarkable of irreverent comic theatre to over 100 towns and cities across Prunella Scales stars in the first of four series of Simon Brett's story. four continents, often under the auspices of the British Council. sitcom following the trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. The company's varied CV includes two tours of Bangladesh, her event-management company based in Brighton. WED 15:00 RD Wingfield - Deadfall (b0084hrk) winning the audience award at the Tehran Arts Festival, With Arabella Weir as Kate, Rebecca Callard as Jo, Duncan [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] performing to royalty in Brunei, to Indian statespeople in the Preston as Bob, Annette Badland as Tess, Lee Simpson as WED 16:00 Whispers (b007k2kg) Himalayas, a truly disastrous run in Barbados, an unforgettable Barry, Chris Pavlo as Alex and David Holt as Dick. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] stint on The Price is Right in Australia and other occasional bits Producer: Maria Esposito WED 16:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k0d2) of telly for the BBC. Their theatre scripts are licensed world First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] wide and their award-winning musical with NYMT:UK is WED 10:00 RD Wingfield - Deadfall (b0084hrk) WED 17:00 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics pencilled for re-launch. The company has also played for 3 Demolition expert Harry Davis is a retired British special agent. (b08h0c9k) months in the West End and collaborated with numerous In his service days he was part of a disastrous plot to assassinate [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 May 2021 Page 8 of 10 WED 17:30 Alone (m000vx3w) Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] applied to a particular task. The nearest faraway place. Mae's exploring how we as a society think about addiction, and WED 18:00 Planet B (b00j1z95) Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange thoughts on a personal level, trying to understand who she is now she's no Series 1 which don't have to be shooed into context, but which can be longer addicted to anything. Through the lens of her own 8. Retreat followed like balloons escaping onto the air. Late at night, in the experience, Mae Martin's Guide to 21st Century Addiction John and Medley arrive in a strange religious retreat. Is it a cult dark and in a bunk bed, your tired mind can wander. follows Mae chronologically through a lifetime of obsessive or can it offer real enlightenment? This is the nearest faraway place for Patrick Marber and Peter behaviour and addiction with all her characteristic wit and Ten-part series about a mystery virtual world. Curran. Here they try to get the heart of things in an levity. Written by Thomas Crowe. entertainingly vague and indirect way. This is not the place for Episode 2 - Why are some people more susceptible to addiction John ...... Gunnar Cauthery typical male banter. From under the bed clothes they play each than others? And what can we do about it? Medley ...... Lizzy Watts other music, and archive of Angela Carter, ex-Prime Ministers, Sober, un-obsessed, and single for the first time in her life, Mae Cerberus ...... Chris Pavlo a Castrato singer, and an elephant playing the piano. is asking: Who am I when I'm NOT addicted? And what's next? Lioba ...... Donnla Hughes Work, family, literature, and their own badly-scuffed dreams Mae looks at how society views addiction and recovery, and All other parts played by Robert Lonsdale, Janice Acquah, Jill are the funny, if warped conversational currency. what connections we can make between identifying why people Cardo, Stephen Critchlow, Manjeet Mann, Malcolm Tierney A Foghorn Company production for BBC Radio 4, first feel the need to self-soothe, and helping them on the road to and Adjoa Andoh. broadcast in July 2016. recovery in a compassionate way. Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED 23:45 Fabulous (b00j6jkj) Written by and starring Mae Martin Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2009. Series 1 With Dr Gabor Mate WED 18:30 Short Cuts (m0005f10) Episode 6 Producer Alexandra Smith Series 19 Sitcom by Lucy Clarke about a woman who wants to be Production Coordinator Beverley Tagg Desire Lines Fabulous but can't cope. A BBC Studios Production. Looking for love online, the desire lines we walk to a lover's With Daisy Haggard, Adam Buxton, Joanna Scanlan, Joanna First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. house and the untethering of a breast-feeding baby from its Neary, Matthew Holness, Eve Dallas, Katy Brand, Olivia THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme mother - Josie Long presents short documentaries and Colman. (m000vypf) adventures in sound about being drawn towards the ones we Music by Osymyso. Series 9 love. Episode 2 Desire Lines The ninth series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is Featuring Laura Barton THURSDAY 20 MAY 2021 very different to the previous eight. It's still written by John The Real Tom Banks Finnemore, "one of our best sketch writers", (The Observer), Produced by Jesse Cox THU 00:00 Planet B (b00j1z95) and performed by him with "a great supporting cast of Margaret Sound Engineer Timothy Nicastri [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Originally made for Radiotonic on ABC Radio National THU 00:30 Short Cuts (m0005f10) Quinlan" (The Telegraph), and there are still sketches and Untethered [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] songs. But, with no live studio audience this year, John has Featuring Nell Frizzell THU 01:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes taken the opportunity to try something completely new Production Team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam (b007jsr5) Every episode in this series of Souvenir Programme is made up Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] of scenes from one person's life, played in reverse order. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in THU 01:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6mx) There's no narrative to the episode; it's still a sketch show, not a May 2019. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] sitcom... but the sketches in each episode all happened to one WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jz69) THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b08dwy7v) person, played by one member of the cast, over the course of [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] their lifetime. WED 19:30 No Commitments (b007jmvh) THU 02:15 Gudrun (m000570d) Episode two is all about Deborah, and takes place between a [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] catchup Zoom in lockdown one, and a bedtime story she was WED 20:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes THU 02:30 The Man Who Made Mock Turtle Soup told in 1962. (b007jsr5) (b0076pxb) John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme started in 2011 and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] quickly established itself as "One of the most consistently funny WED 20:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6mx) THU 03:00 RD Wingfield - Deadfall (b0084hrk) sketch shows for quite some time" (The Guardian), and "One of [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] the funniest and most inventive new radio comedy shows of WED 21:00 Lauren Laverne: Acting the Rock Star THU 04:00 Whispers (b007k2kg) recent years" (The Daily Mail). (m000w2zt) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Written and performed by ... John Finnemore [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU 04:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k0d2) Deborah ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED 22:00 Alone (m000vx3w) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Ensemble ... Lawry Lewin [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU 05:00 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics (b08h0c9k) Ensemble ... Simon Kane WED 22:30 Bleak Expectations (b00nw3rs) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Ensemble ... Carrie Quinlan Series 3 THU 05:30 Alone (m000vx3w) Recorded and edited by ... Rich Evans at Syncbox Post A Horrible Life Un-Ruined and Then Re-Ruined a Lot [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Production coordinator ... Beverly Tagg Pip, Harry, Pippa and Ripely are reduced to abject poverty on THU 06:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Producer ... Ed Morrish the banks of the Thames. Will Pip and Harry be able to find (b007jsrj) A BBC Studios Production work, or will they have to end their days eating mud and The Doomed Oasis THU 08:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b010mztj) listening to the gloating of Mr Benevolent? A celebration and a shattered dream, as English lawyer George Series 7 Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. Grant continues his hunt for a missing client. Episode 4 Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson Arabian adventure based on Hammond Innes' 1960 novel Investigating hobbies - and Professor Prune's Electric Trousers Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen adapted in six parts by Rene Basilico. end up deep in the briny. Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head Starring Tim Munro as George Grant, Bernard Horsfall as Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman Colonel Whittaker, Raad Rawi as Prince Khalid, John Malcolm David Hatch and Jo Kendall. Barker Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead as Alexander Erkhard, Garard Green as Sir Philip Gorde, Ali Sketches written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with John Ripely ...... Sarah Hadland Refaie as Yousif, Farouk El-Demerdash as Sheikh Makhmud Junkin and John Cleese. Pippa ...... Susy Kane and Adam Hussein as Sheikh Abdullah. Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Vegetarian Lion ...... Mark Evans Producer: John Fawcett Wilson. 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and Producer: Gareth Edwards First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1984. quickly developed a cult following. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009 THU 06:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6mz) Music and songs by Liam Cohen and Dave Lee. WED 23:00 The Problem With Adam Bloom (b007qs2d) 4. All My Possessions for One Moment of Time Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge Series 1 Exit Lines by Reginald Hill dramatised in five parts by Betty First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in February 1969. Mobiles Davies. THU 08:30 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007jv9c) You can answer a mobile phone anywhere, including a cinema. With Donald Gee and Philip Jackson. The Prisoner Should you say anything if somebody does? 4: 'All My Possessions for One Moment of Time' Tony goes on the run and the spaniel's secret is revealed. Nick Adam Bloom attempts to tackle this tricky situation. Helped or hindered by his boss Andy Dalziel , Pascoe is no Revell's epic saga with Peter Serafinowicz. From May 1997. With the help of Rob Rouse , Stefano Paolini and Sarah nearer a solution to the three deaths. THU 09:00 The Write Stuff (m000w551) Kennedy Director: Matthew Walters Series 7 Written by Adam Bloom. Cast: Samuel Pepys Producer: Adam Bromley Det Insp Pascoe .... Donald Gee James Walton's literary quiz. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2003. Supt Dalziel .... Philip Jackson Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by WED 23:15 Tina C (b01bb7qh) Mrs Escott .... Barbara Atkinson Nicholas Lezard and Nigel Williams. Tina C's Global Depression Tour Det Con Seymour .... Paul Downing Author of the week is Samuel Pepys. Europe Sgt Wield .... Michael Graham Cox Reader: Beth Chalmers Country legend Tina C challenges the secretary for the US Charlesworth .... David King Producer: Katie Marsden Treasury, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and the former Mrs Soper .... Anna Cropper First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. CEO of Goldman Sachs that where they have failed, she can Mr Soper .... Michael Kilgarriff . come up with a solution to the global recession, and sets off on Andrea .... Jane Slavin THU 09:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b007yrh0) a six country tour to prove it. Charley .... Charles Simpson Series 2 This week she visits Europe Ellie .... Tara Dominick Episode 3 Tina C ...Christopher Green Abbiss .... John Bull When Daniel's brother suggests a night in the pub and Lucy's With Paul Mason and Victoria Inez Hardy Warden .... Joe Dunlop best friend meets a new man, their plans for a week away from Musical arrangements by Duncan Walsh Atkins and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. other people's problems come seriously unstuck. Christopher Green THU 07:00 Mae Martin's Guide to 21st Century Addiction The second series of David Spicer's comedy drama about Director Jeremy Mortimer. (b09czrbc) modern life and parenthood, as seen through the eyes of two First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2012. Why Are Some More Susceptible Than Others? 30-something non-parents. WED 23:30 Bunk Bed (b07jzxdl) Mae Martin is kicking the habit. Starring David Tennant as Daniel, Liz Carling as Lucy, Nasreen Series 3 Award-winning stand-up and Edinburgh comedy award Hussain as Amanda, Joanna Brookes as Alison, Robert Harley Episode 6 nominee 2017 Mae Martin presents a brand new series for as Peter and Polly Frame as Caroline. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 May 2021 Page 9 of 10 Producer: Liz Anstee [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] 2007. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. THU 16:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b007yrh0) THU 10:00 Drama (b095pjkx) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] That'll Be the Day by Ray Connolly THU 17:00 Mae Martin's Guide to 21st Century Addiction FRIDAY 21 MAY 2021 It's 1959 and young Jim Maclaine seems to have it all. He's (b09czrbc) good looking and destined to go to a good university. But he's [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI 00:00 Planet B (b00j250y) haunted by the father that abandoned him and his mother when THU 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] he was small. Is he ready for the normal life mapped out for (m000vypf) FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b07wby0q) him? Or is he restless like his old man? Based on the seventies [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] hit film. THU 18:00 Planet B (b00j250y) FRI 01:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Jim …. Jack Gordon Series 1 (b007jsrj) Mother/Landlady …. Emily Pithon 9. The Fast Track [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Father/History Teacher .… Conrad Nelson Still stuck in a virtual world, it's John's last chance to save Lioba FRI 01:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6mz) Terry …. Chris Hannon by navigating an escape path. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] Linda …. Verity Henry Ten-part series about a mystery virtual world. FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b08dwyg0) Jeanette .… Natalie Grady Written by Paul May. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Mike .... Greg Wood John ...... Gunnar Cauthery FRI 02:15 Gudrun (m00057sk) Director/Producer: Gary Brown. Medley ...... Lizzy Watts [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017. Cerberus ...... Chris Pavlo FRI 02:30 Burrell's Bequest (b0457snm) THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05wcxj6) Lioba ...... Donnla Hughes [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] All other parts played by Janice Acquah, Jill Cardo, Stephen FRI 03:00 Drama (b095pjkx) THU 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00zm4j4) Critchlow, Inam Mirza, Paul Rider and Adjoa Andoh. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI 04:00 The Write Stuff (m000w551) THU 12:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b010mztj) Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2009. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 18:30 Great Lives (b07wby0q) FRI 04:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b007yrh0) THU 12:30 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007jv9c) Series 40 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Cyrus Todiwala on Dadabhai Naoroji FRI 05:00 Mae Martin's Guide to 21st Century Addiction THU 13:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Chef Cyrus Todiwala chooses Dadabhai Naoroji, the 'Grand (b09czrbc) (b007jsrj) Old Man of India' who in 1892 became Britain's first Asian MP [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] for Finsbury Central. He later returned to India and petitioned FRI 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme THU 13:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6mz) for the country to be self-governing. Ghandi, who was (m000vypf) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Dadabhai's mentee, would later refer to him as the Father of the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b08dwyg0) Nation. Matthew Parris presents and Zerbanoo Gifford is the FRI 06:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes The Transition by Luke Kennard expert. (b007jsrw) Episode 4 Producer: Toby Field The Empty Quarter Bryan Dick reads Luke Kennard's 'Generation Debt' inspired First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. As his quest continues, lawyer George Grant is led into an debut novel, set in an unnamed British city a few years from THU 19:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b010mztj) inhospitable desert - and into the heart of a long-standing now. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] conflict. To prevent him going to jail for his part in a card skimming THU 19:30 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007jv9c) Arabian adventure based on Hammond Innes' 1960 novel scam, Karl and Genevieve have signed up to a six-month [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] adapted in six parts by Rene Basilico. 'rehabilitation' programme run by a mysterious organisation The THU 20:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Starring Tim Munro as George Grant, Bernard Horsfall as Transition. Forced to give up their bedsit and move in with their (b007jsrj) Colonel Whittaker, Raad Rawi as Prince Khalid, George Masri mentors, the pair are slowly adjusting to life as 'protégés'. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] as Salim, Christopher Guard as David Whittaker, Ali Refaie as Exercise is a key part of the course and mentor Stu tests Karl's THU 20:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6mz) Ali, Mamdouh Ashour as Hamid and Yasmin Abdul Rahman as physical and emotional mettle with a punishing gym workout. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] the Arab Boy. Reader: Bryan Dick THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05wcxj6) Producer: John Fawcett Wilson. Writer: Luke Kennard [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1984. Abridger: Robin Brooks THU 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00zm4j4) FRI 06:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6lw) Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] 5. The Comedy is Over First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Exit Lines by Reginald Hill dramatised in five parts by Betty THU 14:15 Gudrun (m00057sk) (m000vypf) Davies. Series 6 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] With Donald Gee and Philip Jackson. Episode 4: Gudrun THU 22:30 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair (b098n4vk) 5: 'The Comedy Is Over' Rescued from the Thule by Leif Ericsson, Gudrun's gratitude Series 4 Three old men dead. Two unsolved problems. Has Pascoe got leaves her open to his attempts to convert her. The Last Day one answer? Gudrun ..... Kate Phillips It's Miss Cavendish's last day at school and retirement looms Director Matthew Walters Leif ..... Chris Pavlo but surely it can't go completely unmarked, that's enough to Stereo Heidr ..... Helen Clapp send even the most sensible woman over the edge. Cast: Dag ..... Joseph Ayres The first in a series of by Jenny Eclair's comic monologues Det Insp Pascoe .... Donald Gee Freija ..... Samantha Dakin where four women reach a crisis in their lives. Supt Dalziel .... Philip Jackson Written by Lucy Catherine. Vicki Pepperdine is one of the country's leading comic actors. Charley .... Charles Simpson Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. She co-wrote and starred in the sit-com 'Getting On' and can Mrs Escott .... Barbara Atkinson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019. currently be seen in The Windsors. Det Con Seymour .... Paul Downing THU 14:30 Burrell's Bequest (b0457snm) Jenny Eclair is a comedian, novelist and actress. She blazed a Sgt Wield .... Michael Graham Cox In 1944 William Burrell gifted his extraordinary art collection trail for female comedians and is now a stalwart of the comedy PC Hector .... Stephen Garlick to the City of Glasgow. Alvin Hall reveals the story of the circuit. Abbiss .... John Bull shipping magnate who made a huge cultural impact in Glasgow, Producer: Sally Avens Cpl Gillott .... Joe Dunlop yet remains himself a shadowy figure, a 'Victorian magpie' First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017, Major Kassell .... Vincent Brimble eclipsed by the splendour of his collection. THU 22:45 Brian Appleton's History of Rock 'n' Roll Sir William .... Brian Miller Burrell amassed the most outstanding range of Degas' works (b00fvg6h) Charlesworth .... David King anywhere in Europe; a huge range of Chinese and Islamic Art; Eight Miles Low Elite .... Tara Dominick plus tapestries and sculptures to rival the collections of the In a series of lectures, rock musicologist and part-time media Ruddlesdin ....Danny Schiller world's top museums. 70 years ago, he stipulated in his bequest studies tutor Brian Appleton attempts to assert his rightful place Moody .... Dale Rapley that the collection should never be loaned overseas. Debate is in the music history books. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. currently raging over whether this highly unusual collection Charting the beginnings of Brian's influence on the rock world FRI 07:00 The Break (b07gf4s6) should be allowed to travel to other museums and galleries when, as a young boy, he met apprentice gravedigger Rod Series 1 around the world. Stewart in Highgate cemetery and, with the help of a maggot, Sunday, Flipping Sunday The imposing Pollock House sits in parkland 3 miles from gave him the idea for Maggie May... Dawn breaks on a beautiful Sunday morning in Flamford. Glasgow. Here again, the terms of Burrell's request were A six-part comedy series written and performed by Graham Uncle Jeff is on a quest for spiritual comfort and persuades his challenged. He insisted that the collection shouldn't be located Fellows. nephew Andy to join him by bribing him with the promise of a within 14 miles of Glasgow, concerned about the effects of air Producer: Dawn Ellis proper roast dinner. pollution on the exhibits. After his death, this was overturned First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2001. They find that the local church has installed a new vicar, the when the Pollock site became available - the conclusion being THU 23:00 1966 and All That (b01phm54) Reverend Beverley, who invites Jeff to her bible class that that air pollution is less of a factor nowadays. A similar The 1980s and 90s evening. The words "bring a bible" strike a chill to Jeff's heart. argument is being used in the current debate, with air travel and Neil Knock-Knock becomes leader of the Labour Party; Jeffrey He has never owned a bible, and neither has Andy. cutting edge techniques for the transportation of art minimising Archer reveals he's won the Nobel Prize; Lloads of London They spend the rest of the day trying to find a bible on a the risks. goes pear-shaped; and John Minor stands against himself . . . Sunday, with Andy's stomach rumbling as he pictures his dinner This raises interesting legal questions - and also provides a peg and loses. slipping further away. On their quest they encounter Derek to dig deeper into the little-known life of the man behind the Craig Brown's satirical history of Britain reaches the 1980s and Horrox The Mayor, Peter Humfriss, The Town Crier, and a collection, and the fine art of transporting art. Financier and art 90s. slightly unnerving bookseller. collector, Alvin Hall visits Glasgow's much-loved Burrell Stars Joss Ackland, Eleanor Bron, Rory Bremner, Ewan Bailey, Jeff ...... Philip Jackson Museum in Pollok Park and, by tracing the journey of the Margaret Cabourn-Smith and John Humphrys. Andy ...... Tom Palmer objects of the collection, gains an insight into the character of Producer: Victoria Lloyd Reverend Beverley ...... Shobna Gulati an extraordinary man, who helped transform the fortunes of the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2006. Derek Horrox the Mayor ...... Rasmus Hardiker city where he'd amassed his own fortune. THU 23:30 Safety Catch (b00fgq18) Peter Humfriss, the Town Crier ...... Mark Benton First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Series 1 Writers: Ian Brown and James Hendrie THU 15:00 Drama (b095pjkx) A Wanting Man Director: Gordon Kennedy [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Arms dealer Simon struggles to understand why other people An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in THU 16:00 The Write Stuff (m000w551) hold his job against him. Stars Darren Boyd. From October June 2016. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 May 2021 Page 10 of 10 FRI 07:30 The Confessional (m000w3mf) Stardust by Ray Connolly FRI 16:00 Counterpoint (b00s7vtk) Series 1 Show me a boy who never wanted to be a rock star and I'll show [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] The Confession of Marian Keyes you a liar. Following on from the events of 'That'll be the Day', FRI 16:30 Bristow (b007tdnn) Actor, comedian and broadcaster Stephen Mangan presents a it's the early sixties and Jim Maclaine is now an aspiring pop [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] comedy chat show about shame and guilt. musician. He seeks out his old mate Mike, because every pop FRI 17:00 The Break (b07gf4s6) Each week Stephen invites a different eminent guest into his star needs a road manager. Based on the seventies film of the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] virtual confessional box to make three 'confessions'. This is a same name. FRI 17:30 The Confessional (m000w3mf) cue for some remarkable storytelling, and surprising insights. Mike .... Greg Wood [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] We’re used to hearing celebrity interviews where stars are Jim .... Jack Gordon FRI 18:00 Planet B (b00j2j7k) persuaded to show off about their achievements and talk about Stevie / Barnacle Tim .... Chris Hannon Series 1 their proudest moments. Stephen is not interested in that. He Sally / Mrs Porter-Lee .... Fiona Clarke 10. Death's Door doesn’t want to know what his guests are proud of, he wants to Danielle / Air Stewardess .... Verity Henry John and Lioba aim to meet in the real world, but can they know what they’re ashamed of. That’s surely the way to find out Porter Lee / Johnny .... Stephen Marzella really escape their virtual reality? what really makes a person tick. Stephen and his guest reflect JD / Colin Day .... Jason Done Ten-part series about a mystery virtual world. with empathy and humour on things like why we get Directed by Gary Brown. Written by Matthew Broughton. embarrassed, where our shame thresholds should be, and the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017. John ...... Gunnar Cauthery value of guilt. FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000m6c4) Medley ...... Lizzy Watts This week the prolific novelist and writer Marian Keyes Steve Coogan on Alan Partridge's return to audio Cerberus ...... Chris Pavlo confesses, from her home in Dublin, details of a disservice she First broadcast in September 2020. Lioba ...... Donnla Hughes did that still haunts her 20 years after the event. She also tells It's been 29 years since the character of Alan Partridge made All other parts played by Janice Acquah, Jill Cardo, Stephen tales of a lost glove and of Joan of Arc at a fancy dress ball. his debut in the Radio 4 satirical radio show On The Hour. Critchlow,Paul Rider, Manjeet Mann, Matthew Broughton and Other guests in this series include Dr Phil Hammond, Cariad Since then Steve Coogan's inept Norfolk broadcaster has seen Adjoa Andoh. Lloyd, Joan Bakewell, Suzi Ruffell, Phil Wang and Alastair huge success with various TV shows and even a feature film, Director: Jessica Dromgoole Campbell. Alpha Papa. Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2009. Written and presented by Stephen Mangan This week Alan makes a return to audio with a brand new FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b00p93sw) With extra material by Nick Doody podcast 'From The Oasthouse' - available to download from How's My Driving? Devised with Dave Anderson and produced by Frank Stirling Audible. Having a driving licence used to be proof you'd grown up and A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4 Steve Coogan chats to Amanda Litherland about the benefits of could move about on your own; now it is almost a guilty FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jlw7) making comedy that's for ears only, and shares some of the pleasure. Series 1 secrets behind Alan Partridge's 30 year success. Dominic Arkwright borrowed a car to get to the studio to meet Under Fire Later, Amanda is joined by the writer and critic Scott Bryan to entrepreneur Alison Larkman (who walked), broadcaster Chris On fire-watch with Godfrey, Frazer thinks a local resident of recommend more of the latest new listens, including: Serle (on his motor scooter) and actor Patrick Field (bike, train Walmington-on-Sea s signalling to the enemy... Poppy Hillstead Has Entered The Chat and bike) to consider the point of driving in the 21st century. Six years after legendary sitcom Dad's Army started on BBC Futile Attempts At Surviving Tomorrow - (Kim Noble and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. TV, these specially adapted radio versions began recording with Novel) FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jlw7) the original cast. My Year In Mensa (Jamie Loftus) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le The Bomb (BBC World Service) FRI 19:30 Semi Circles (b007jxl1) Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, Media Tribe (Shaunagh Connaire) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Arnold Ridley as Private Godfrey, John Laurie as Private On Things We Left Behind (Acast) FRI 20:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Frazer, Geoffrey Lumsden as Colonel Square, Avril Angose as Book Off (Joe Haddow) (b007jsrw) Mrs Keene and David Goodison as Murphy. With John Snagge The Two Shot Podcast (Craig Parkinson) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] as the announcer. Chasing Charlie (Freemantle Australia) FRI 20:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6lw) Adapted from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's original BBC TV FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jlw7) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] scripts by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000m6c4) Producer: John Dyas FRI 12:30 Semi Circles (b007jxl1) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in April 1974. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 22:00 The Confessional (m000w3mf) FRI 08:30 Semi Circles (b007jxl1) FRI 13:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Series 1 (b007jsrw) FRI 22:30 The Consultants (b060qsl2) A Nice Area [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Series 4 An action committee is formed when a foreign owner applies to FRI 13:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6lw) Episode 3 open a new restaurant in the area. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Galileo is too busy to party with the Pope. Award-winning The improving story of life and improving times in an FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime (b08dwyh9) comedy with Justin Edwards and Neil Edmond. From improving neighbourhood. The Transition by Luke Kennard November 2005. Starring Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben Episode 5 FRI 23:00 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (b012qtv1) Written by Simon Brett Bryan Dick reads Luke Kennard's 'Generation Debt' inspired Series 2 Helen ...... Paula Wilcox debut novel, set in an unnamed British city a few years from Episode 1 Ben ...... David Wood now. The human chameleon's host of characters from a chatty Mrs Kelly ...... Pat Heywood Transition mentors Janna and Stu confront Karl and Genevieve schoolgirl to a decrepit charwoman. Alastair ...... Bruce Alexander with the stark facts of their situation: heavily in debt and no Multi-paced, one-woman fast show showcasing the exceptional Roger ...... Ben Aris prospect of that changing if they continue with their current talent of Lucy Montgomery. Mo ...... Penelope Nice jobs and expectations. Karl is becoming increasingly suspicious With Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Waen Shepherd and Natalie Mr Mukerjee ...... Tariq Yunis about the true motives behind the secretive organisation's Walter. Producer: Pete Atkin 'rehabilitation' programme. Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1982 Reader: Bryan Dick Steven Burge, Jon Hunter, Fay Rusling and Barunka FRI 09:00 Counterpoint (b00s7vtk) Writer: Luke Kennard O'Shaughnessy. Series 24 Abridger: Robin Brooks Script Editor: Dan Tetsell 2010 Heat 7 Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. Music by Philip Pope Paul Gambaccini is in the chair for the latest heat of the general First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. Producer: Katie Tyrrell. knowledge music quiz, with amateur music enthusiasts bidding FRI 14:15 Gudrun (m00057rq) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2011. for a chance to become musical mastermind of 2010. Series 6 FRI 23:30 Chris Addison's Civilization (b00f2zsd) This week's trio come from London, Gosport in Hampshire and Episode 5: Sigrid A Working Society Brighton in East Sussex. As usual, there are musical extracts Set in the 11th century, the series follows Gudrun in the New Charting our bumpy evolution, Chris Addison explains why he ranging across many styles and eras, to keep them on their toes. World, and her estranged daughter Sigrid in England. Both chose to spell civilisation with a Z. Producer Paul Bajoria mother and daughter have reasons to seek forgiveness as they Continuing his journey through the vast and rich subject of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2010. forge a path through lands of unearthly beauty and civilisation, the thinking-idiot's anthropologist explains exactly FRI 09:30 Bristow (b007tdnn) uncompromising harshness. what we need to create a new one. Series 3 Sigrid's intended husband has discovered her terrible secret and With Professor Austin Herring (Geoffrey McGivern), Jo Of Moles and Men now her life hangs in the balance. Enright and Dan Tetsell. The office rebel returns with some inside information which Sigrid ..... Hollie Burgess Producer: Simon Nicholls must surely lead to promotion. The Virgin ..... Marilyn Nnadebe First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2006. Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the buying clerk from Frank Silvia ..... Susan Jameson Dickens' famous newspaper cartoon strip. Syndicated Saxon ..... Joseph Ayre internationally, it ran for 41 years in London's Evening Gorm ..... David Hounslow Standard. Canute ..... Aaron Gelkoff Bristow ...... Michael Williams Gunnar ..... Chris Pavlo Jones ...... Rodney Bewes Written by Lucy Catherine. Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan Produced by Sasha Yevtushenko. Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019. Gert ...... Liz Frazer FRI 14:30 Be My Guest (b0b520pj) Daisy ...... Joan Sims Patrick Cargill Fred Stokes ...... David Battley 'Father Dear Father' TV sitcom star Patrick Cargill says 'Be My Miss Glockling ...... Carol Starks Guest' as he shares highlights from his varied acting career in Teacher ...... Jane Booker TV, film and on stage - and plays some of his favourite songs. Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey Inviting a variety of guests from the world of entertainment - Fudge ...... Jon Glover Be My Guest ran for several series spanning the 1960s and 80s. Music: John Whitehall Producer: Richard Burwood Producer: Neil Cargill First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1974. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000. FRI 15:00 Drama (b096fsmx) FRI 10:00 Drama (b096fsmx) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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