Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 April 2021 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 17 APRIL 2021 John Wilson looks back at a career of back-stage battles and the Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair odd on-stage punch-up, including the memories of British Production co-ordinator ... Hayley Stirling SAT 00:00 The Otherworld Child (b07lpf3k) promoter Harvey Goldsmith, Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood and Producer ... Carl Cooper "It was only when she got back to her cottage and the candles Bill Graham's friends and colleagues. A BBC Radio Comedy production first broadcast on BBC were lit, that she saw what a strange creature it was she'd Producer John Goudie Radio 4 in 2019. found..." First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2007. SAT 06:00 Mike Walker - The Sound of Fury (b00bqm6w) Stars Mary Wimbush and Rebecca Wright. SAT 03:00 Kate Brannigan - Clean Break (b0089bqv) The life and times of rock 'n' roll singer, Billy Fury. David Calcutt's play is based on the traditional story of lonely Fast-talking private eye Kate Brannigan is not amused when Stricken with rheumatic fever as a child, and not expected to Alice Proudfoot and her curious discovery in a moonlit wood. thieves steal a Monet painting from a stately home where she's live beyond the age of 20, Billy Fury went on to become Gran ...... Mary Wimbush arranged the security. Britain's answer to Elvis Presley. But if you thought his story Alice ...... Rebecca Wright Kate sets off on a chase that takes her across Europe bringing started with the huge hit 'Halfway to Paradise', think again... Joe ...... Alex Jones her head-to-head with organised crime. Anton Lesser stars in Mike Walker’s drama is inspired by real Peggy ...... Sheila Kelley Val McDermid's Manchester-based thriller stars Charlotte events. Kitty ...... Kimberley Hope Coleman. Billy Fury …. Anton Lesser Abraham ...... Jonathan Wyatt Kate Brannigan ...... Charlotte Coleman Larry Parnes …. Peter Whitman Director: Nigel Bryant Richard Barclay ...... John Lloyd Fillingham Stuart Colman …. Robert Glenister First broadcast in Thirty-Minute Theatre on BBC Radio 4 in Alexis Lee ...... Noreen Kershaw Russell Harty …. Rory Bremner January 1995. Michal Haroun ...... Joseph Jones Dickie Pride …. Andy Serkis SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00nks89) Dennis O'Brien ...... Geoff Hinsliff Marty Wilde …. Ian Targett Leaving the Comfort Zone Henry Naismith ...... Rob Pickavance Joe Brown …. Alistair McGowan Is leaving your comfort zone a form of masochism, or the only Lord James Ballantrae ...... Martin Reeve Jack Good …. Nicholas Boulton way to develop in life? Della Prentiss ...... Kathryn Hunt Terry …. Peter Watts Dominic Arkwright is joined by comedian Rhona Cameron, Producer: Melanie Harris The Nurse/Donna …. Siriol Jenkins mountaineer Andy Cave and journalist Agnes Poirier to write First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1998. Hugh …. Jeremy Clyde about and discuss comfort and pain. SAT 04:00 Counterpoint (b00rm074) The Doctor …. Richard Tate Producer: Beatrice Fenton Series 24 The Stage Door Man …. Ken Sharrock First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009. 2010 Heat 2 The Producer …. Tom Bevan SAT 01:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qww7) Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz. The Interviewer …. James Taylor 6. Voice in the Night The questions cover every aspect of music - from the classical The Woman in the Street …. Rachel Atkins After receiving sinister death threats over the telephone, an repertoire to world music, show tunes, film scores, jazz, rock Songs performed by Gavin Stanley. elderly spinster calls in cantankerous criminal psychologist, Dr and pop. Born Ronald Wycherley on 17th April 1940, Billy Fury died Morelle. Three contestants from from London, Edinburgh and Brighton 28th January 1983. Ernest Dudley's Harley Street psychiatrist-turned-detective uses battle it out at the BBC Radio Theatre in London: Director: Andy Jordan psychology as well as criminology to hunt down lawbreakers by James Ryder Bowman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1994 deducing their felonious personalities. David Coxall SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b07q87sm) Cecil Parker stars as Dr Morelle with Sheila Sim as his long- Neil McNair Series 40 suffering assistant, Miss Frayle Producer: Paul Bajoria Tony Hawks on Marshall Rosenberg Dr Morelle …. Cecil Parker First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010. Marshall Rosenberg was the stern-faced creator of nonviolent Miss Frayle …. Sheila Sim SAT 04:30 Fat Chance (b01byc68) communication, a man who spent his life finding ways to Miss Nicholson …. Hester Paton Brown Better Wed Than Dead eradicate hate. Billy Boy the Dog …. Percy Edwards It's Kelly's wedding day and the rest of the slimming club rally Often armed only with his trademark giraffe and jackal Mr Nicolson …. Alan McClelland round to give her a day she'll never forget - though she may puppets, Rosenberg toured the world teaching a new way of Superintendent Denham …. Fred Yule want to... speaking. Language was key, but to discover the meaning of the Station Officer …. Alan Keith Jenny McDade's high-fat bittersweet comedy for those puppets you'll have to tune in. Julian Smith/Taxi Driver …. John Baker believing there's a thin person inside them begging to get out. Championing Marshall Rosenberg is comedian and author, Audio recovered by BBC Radio 4 Extra listener, Steve Arnold. Graham Pitscottie ..... Gareth Corke Tony Hawks. Director: Leslie Bridgmont Wendy Bottomley ..... Janine Duvitski A sceptical Matthew Parris presents while David Baker of the First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1957. Clive Bottomley ..... Michael Troughton London School of Life fills in the biographical gaps. SAT 01:30 The Toff (b007jr60) Soo Pitscottie ..... Anne Reid Produced at BBC Bristol by Miles Warde The Toff and the Runaway Bride Tina Tattersall ..... Julia Deakin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016. 1. Honeymoon for One Kelly Chambers ..... Tilly Gaunt SAT 08:00 The Motion Show (b00768jd) Barbara Lawn is about to marry the Toff's old chum, Major Lee Dubs ..... Harry Myers Series 3 Guy Lessing - against her father's wishes - in a gripping tale of Mrs Enright ..... Frances Jeater Episode 2 blackmail and murder. Producer: Sally Avens Debates galore over money, radio and having children. Terence Alexander stars as the Toff - upper-class amateur First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1999. Graeme Garden chairs the quirky battle of words and wit. sleuth, the Honourable Richard Rollison. SAT 05:00 Clare in the Community (b084x76y) With Steve Punt, Tony Hawks, Gyles Brandreth and Simon First published in 1959, John Creasey’s The Toff and the Series 11 Bates Runaway Bride dramatised in six parts by Roy Lomax. Joan Alone Producer: Helen Williams The Toff ...... Terence Alexander Joan's birthday offers Clare a really good example of why it's so First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000 Jolly ...... Robert Dorning important to be aware of loneliness and isolation in the SAT 08:30 Snap (b00tky99) Barbara Lessing ...... Rosalind Shanks community. Series 1 Aunt Gloria ...... Peggy Ann Wood With added morris dancing... Episode 4 Holy Joe ...... David Graham Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the Doug's planning a surprise 70th birthday party for his mum. Maggie ...... Frances Jeater right jargon but never a practical solution. Can he get it right without Molly's help? Major Guy Lessing ...... Alan Cuthbertson A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in Paul Mendelson’s sitcom about life for a couple after they've Producer: John Fawcett Wilson other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. split. First broadcast on the BBC World Service in June 1975. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all Molly …. Rebecca Lacey SAT 02:00 Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (b007jylg) of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her. Doug …. Paul Venables Unspeakable Rituals and Outlandish Beliefs Clare continues her struggle to control both her professional and Kaz …. Soumaya Keynes Travel writer Paul Theroux describes the bizarre traditions and private life. In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges Ryan …. Jessie Sullivan ceremonies that he encountered during his travels. out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. Annie …. Marlene Sidaway Stuart Milligan reads the last extract from Paul's book of travel Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden. Dawn …. Rebecca Front essays. Clare ...... Sally Phillips Ansel …. Richard Firth Producer: Duncan Minshull Brian ...... Alex Lowe Producer: David Ian Neville First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2000. Ray ...... Richard Lumsden First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2003. SAT 02:15 Gudrun (b09h6x6k) Libby ...... Sarah Kendall SAT 09:00 When Diane Met Ken (b0bdx3ff) Series 3 Simon ...... Andrew Wincott “I’m not mad, I’ve just read different books.” - Ken Campbell , Episode 5 Joan ...... Sarah Thom the writer, director and actor who was renowned for many an Ragnarok approaches, and Gudrun hopes this bloody battle will Mrs Singh ...... Nina Wadia epic production and theatrical caper. see her reunited with her daughter. Cilla ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo He devoured books and information, and was a seeker of new Starring Kate Phillips. Headmistress ...... Elizabeth Bennett knowledge and experiences. His career flitted expertly between Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and faith inspired Mrs Pickering ...... Nicola Ferguson writing, acting, ventriloquism and gastromancy, improvisation, by the 11th-century Icelandic sagas. Producer: Alexandra Smith epic theatre productions, and one-man touring shows. Ken Gudrun ...... Kate Phillips A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Campbell died on August 31st 2008 aged 66. Freija ...... Samantha Dakin December 2016. Ken was also responsible for the world’s longest play, The Silvia ...... Sanchia McCormack SAT 05:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b07vs3mw) Warp, a 24-hour odyssey. It was originally performed in 1979 Sigrid ...... Rosie Boore Series 7 with a cast including Jim Broadbent, Terry Johnson, and Bill King Olaf Trygvasson ...... Samuel James Hebden Bridge Nighy. When the play was revived in the late 1990s it was King Sweyn ...... Simon Ludders "That was So Hebden Bridge" directed by Ken and his daughter, Daisy Campbell, and boasted Sigrid Haughty ...... Chetna Pandya Mark visits the beautiful Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge, a cast including Neil Edmond, Nina Conti and Diane Morgan – Helmsman ...... Philip Fox where he discovers how this former mill town and one time in fact it was Diane’s first acting job. Norwegian Jarl ...... Tom Forrister home of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath become the new age, In this three hour special Diane celebrates the mad, creative, Director: Gemma Jenkins multi cafe, hippie friendly, lesbian capital of Britain that it is eclectic and innovative work of Ken Campbell. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2017. today. Featuring interviews with Ken from the BBC archive, SAT 02:30 Between Rock and a Good Cause (b008fbnc) Mark Steel's award winning show that travels around the performances of drama, poetry, and comedy from throughout From San Francisco in the 1960s to Live Aid in America, the country, researching the history, heritage and culture of six his career, and a look back at his wide-ranging influence and controversial music promoter Bill Graham was a tough towns that have nothing in common but their uniqueness, and influences. businessman who also staged dozens of benefit concerts, with performs a bespoke evening of comedy for the local residents. Diane is joined by Ken’s friends, family and colleagues some of the biggest names in rock. Written and performed by ... Mark Steel including the playwright Terry Johnson, the ventriloquist and Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 April 2021 Page 2 of 10 comedian Nina Conti, the actor and comedian Neil Edmond, son. Written by Alex Lowe and Alex Walsh-Taylor. Ken's agent Maureen Vincent and his literary agent Nicki Conclusion of Jane Austen's sparkling comedy of love and Barry ...... Alex Lowe Stoddart and Ken’s daughter, the actor, writer and director marriage first published in 1815. Hilary ...... Stephanie Cole Daisy Campbell who all speak of the chaotic, important and life- Emma Woodhouse ...... Eve Best Peter ...... Philip Pope changing role Ken played in all their lives. Mr Elton ...... David Bamber Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor Producer: Laura Grimshaw Mr Knightley ...... Robert Bathurst Executive Producer: Kevin Dawson Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in August Mr Woodhouse ...... Norman Rodway A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2018. Miss Bates ...... Marcia Warren May 2016. SAT 12:00 The Write Stuff (m000v37s) Mrs Weston ...... Patience Tomlinson SAT 23:00 What Does the K Stand For? (b08c0rr5) Series 7 Harriet Smith ...... Ellie Beaven Series 3 Beatrix Potter Mr Weston ...... Andrew Wincott The Riot James Walton's literary quiz. Frank Churchill ...... Tom Hollander The Amos household are caught up in the Brixton riot. Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by Mrs Elton ...... Josie Lawrence Stephen K Amos stars in this sitcom about growing up black, Tracey MacLeod and Jonathan Myerson. Mr Elton ...... David Bamber gay and funny in 1980s south London. Author of the week is Beatrix Potter Servant ...... Helen Ayres Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos. Reader: Beth Chalmers Music: Martin Souter With: Producer: Dawn Ellis Dramatised by April de Angelis. Ellen Thomas First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2004. Director: Jonquil Panting Laurie Kynaston SAT 12:30 The Architects (b050zpxh) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. Bola Okun Series 2 SAT 16:00 Mike Walker - The Sound of Fury (b00bqm6w) Emerald Crankson Airport [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Karen Bartke Architects Sarah and Matt journey north in pursuit of an airport SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b07q87sm) David Sterne. contract that will put Sir Lucien and Partners back on the map. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Producer: Paul Sheehan Meanwhile Tim tries to buddy up with a TV chef who's fond of SAT 18:00 Nightfall (m000v1r9) A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in the sauce. Series 4 February 2017. Arch-Brutalist Sir Lucien founded his architectural practice on Eye of the Beholder SAT 23:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b04vkl9j) a commitment to concrete in all its forms. Fashion has been a Ill-tempered old farmer, Jack, refuses to have surgery for his Series 6 cruel mistress and four decades later things are not going well cataracts. Ann Widdecombe for Sir Lucian and his team of loyal-ish employees. Then a mysterious young man shows up to help him - as the Marcus Brigstocke persuades his guests to try new experiences - Comedy by Jim Poyser with Neil Griffiths. curmudgeon's past comes back to haunt him... starting with politician Ann Widdecombe. Sir Lucien ..... Geoffrey Whitehead Nightfall is a series of supernatural and horror dramas made by Ann tries camping in a tent for the first time and watches as Sarah ..... Anna Crilly Canada’s CBC Radio that ran from 1980-83. It went on to much of The Thick Of It as she can stand on TV. Matt ..... Dominic Coleman become one of the most popular shows in the network’s history. Marcus also offers Ann the chance to drink a Jagerbomb - but Tim ..... Alex Carter During 100 episodes over three seasons, Nightfall featured a will she accept? Murray ..... Peter Forbes mix of original stories and adaptations of classic tales Director: Bill Dare Noel ..... David Hounslow Jack Almond .... Wayne Robson First broadcast on BBC Radio in December 2014. Ella ..... Rhiannon Neads Dan .... Geoff Bowes Director: Toby Swift Miss Baker .... Marian Waldron First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015. Doctor Graham .... Budd Knapp SUNDAY 18 APRIL 2021 SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b08qxd5b) Snooper .... John D. Beresford Close to the Edit Written by Burke Campbell. SUN 00:00 Nightfall (m000v1r9) Filmmaker Mike Figgis explores the story of edited film, audio Produced in Toronto by Stephen Katz. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] and culture, and how the simple process of cutting and splicing First broadcast on CBC Radio in November 1981. SUN 00:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind (b007jlv8) has changed the way people view the world. SAT 18:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind (b007jlv8) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] We are living in an age of the edit. 4. Official Intercessions SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b08qxd5b) From the jump-cuts of Eisenstein and Hitchcock, to the Having brought the apparently simple-minded Flora Keiry to [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] fractured narratives of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, from London, Professor Lark and John Cornelius uncover the sinister SUN 02:00 Jane Austen (b008h3ns) the cut-and-paste sounds of musique concrete and hip-hop, to nature of her true identity - and realise the authorities must be [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] the sensibility of social media (to say nothing of the radio alerted... SUN 03:00 Jane Austen (b008h4xg) feature itself), it's the edit - the cut, the splice; montage and Starring Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. [Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday] juxtaposition - that has ushered us into the present. To some, it's John Cornelius .... Peter Cushing SUN 04:00 Mike Walker - The Sound of Fury (b00bqm6w) the stuff of life itself: chimps, for example, share 99% of our Curtis Lark .... Vincent Price [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] DNA; what matters is the sequencing, the edit. Flora Kiery .... Sandra Clarke SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b07q87sm) There's a year zero to this story of the edit. From the moment Kalman Baromek .... Steve Playtus [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] we get up in the morning until we close our eyes at night, the Ian Sanderson .... Frazer Carr SUN 06:00 Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux (Omnibus) visual reality we perceive is a continuous stream of apparently Gulliver .... William Eadle (m000v6zk) linked images. That's the way we experienced the world for Brigadier Sherman .... Clifford Norgates "Travel is only glamorous in retrospect." So said Paul Theroux, millennia. Then suddenly, just over a century ago, human Gwynt .... Michael Harbour writing once in The Washington Post, beings were confronted with something else: edited film. Written by Rene Basilico from an idea by Robert Holmes. From ‘Trespassing in Florida’ to Unspeakable Rituals and But this isn't an exercise in cinema history. It's about our Producer: John Dyas Outlandish Beliefs’. present culture. A culture in which the invisible mediating hand First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1977. Paul’s best-selling collection of travel essays covers 15 years of of the editor is ever-present. A culture of the 'creative SAT 19:00 When Diane Met Ken (b0bdx3ff) the 40 or so years he's spent travelling. commons' in which we can pull anything out of context and re- [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Omnibus of five episodes. edit it (a gif, an internet meme, a mash-up, a parody of a SAT 22:00 Rigor Mortis (b007k483) Read by Stuart Milligan. political speech) and make the edit itself become an art form. Series 1 Producer: Duncan Minshull Cutting, splicing, sampling -- it's all part of the way the world Episode 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2000. functions now. This is just the beginning. Professor Donaldson introduces a new medical empathy SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (m000v6zp) With Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us, Margie Borschke, scheme, because 'a corpse is a person too'. Stella Duffy Walter Murch and Will Self. Laurence Howarth’s sitcom set in the fascinating, but Writer Stella Duffy chooses 'Life on Mars by David Bowie and Producer: Martin Williams misunderstood world of the pathology lab. You Got To Run by Buffy Sainte-Marie & Tanya Tagaq. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017. Dr Anthony Webster ...... Peter Davison SUN 07:20 Lucy Catherine - Gudrun (b09hwhh2) SAT 14:00 Jane Austen (b008h3ns) Dr Ruth Anderson ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman Series 3 (Omnibus) Emma Professor Donaldson ...... Geoffrey Whitehead Left to burn by her husband for the part she played in the 1. The Matchmaker Gordon ...... Tom Price killing of his best friend, separated from her daughter and cut Emma Woodhouse - handsome, clever and rich - is a young Chloe ...... Marianne Levy adrift from her beloved homeland, Gudrun longs for death. woman so blessed by life that she declares she will never marry. Simon ...... Gus Brown Iceland is now an occupied country, its people forced to convert However, she is determined to find the right match for her new Mrs Renfield ...... Rachel Atkins to Christianity by the ruthless King of Norway, Olaf friend Harriet Smith. Music by Paul Mottram and Stephanie Benavente. Trygvasson. Jane Austen's sparkling comedy of love and marriage first Producer: Dawn Ellis Starring Kate Phillips. published in 1815. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2003. Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and faith inspired Emma Woodhouse ...... Eve Best SAT 22:30 Barry's Lunch Club (b07bfxhq) by the Icelandic sagas. Mr Elton ...... David Bamber Inheritance Omnibus of the five episodes of Series 3. Mr Knightley ...... Robert Bathurst While Dave Marsh the builder fixes the perilous civic hall roof Gudrun ...... Kate Phillips Mr Woodhouse ...... Norman Rodway above them, Barry deals with queries about inheritance tax. Freija ...... Samantha Dakin Miss Bates ...... Marcia Warren How best to utilise your money? Silvia ...... Sanchia McCormack Mrs Weston ...... Patience Tomlinson 82 year old Barry invites an audience to his weekly lunch club Felman ...... Samuel James Harriet Smith ...... Ellie Beaven where he scrutinises themes close to his heart. With club Herborg ...... Sarah Ridgeway Mr Weston ...... Andrew Wincott secretary Hilary to rein him in, and club treasurer Peter Volva ...... Karen Bartke Jane Fairfax ...... Beth Chalmers providing support on the civic hall piano, this is the ultimate life- King Sweyn ...... Simon Ludders Frank Churchill ...... Tom Hollander style guide for an ageing nation. Sigrid Haughty ...... Chetna Pandya Dramatised in two parts by April de Angelis. Barry is a cockney moved to the suburbs during the war. He is Sailor ...... David Sturzaker Music: Martin Souter and Sarah Stowe not given to looking at the old days through rose coloured King Olaf Trygvasson ...... Samuel James Director: Jonquil Panting spectacles, and is well up to speed with current trends. A Norwegian Jarl ...... Philip Fox First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000. seemingly harmless old boy, he lures people into a false sense of Sigrid ...... Rosie Boore SAT 15:00 Jane Austen (b008h4xg) security, delivering hilariously stinging rebukes or erudite Norwegian Jarl ...... Tom Forrister Emma assessments of how the world is treating the over 60s. Director: Gemma Jenkins 2. Proposal Stand-up comedy crossed with sitcom, the show plays out in First broadcast in BBC Radio 4 in December 2017. Emma's composure is threatened by two new arrivals in real time as if we are eavesdropping on a civic hall meeting SUN 08:30 A Life of Bliss (b0499n3t) Highbury - Mr Elton's new wife and Mr Weston's handsome group. Office Secrets Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 April 2021 Page 3 of 10 David Bliss gets entangled in the secretive love life of his Jad Abumrad and the Radiolab team investigate a strange Family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell, finds the body of a secretary. world. young man in Addley Woods. George Cole stars in Godfrey Harrison's sitcom about bashful, From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in He appears to have shot himself... bumbling bachelor, David Alexander Bliss. 2020. Starring Meera Syal. David Bliss …. George Cole SUN 11:55 Inheritance Tracks (m000v6zp) Omnibus of five episodes of Scott Cherry's ever popular crime Ann …. Diana Churchill [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] series. Tony ….Colin Gordon SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m000v70v) Jackie ...... Meera Syal Psyche the Dog …. Percy Edwards Lord Byron and the Hebrew Melodies David Cooper ...... AlecNewman Jennifer …. Eleanor Summerfield Daljit Nagra visits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Lord Peter ...... Matthew Marsh Mr Hood …. Barry K. Barnes Byron and the Hebrew Melodies, featuring Byron’s best loved Hannah Cooper ...... Amanda Root Donald Hood …. Desmond Carrington works, including She Walks in Beauty. Isabel Cooper ...... Eva Feiler Six series of 118 episodes of A Life of Bliss ran on the BBC In 1815, Lord Byron published one of his most famous pieces, Steph Webb ...... FloraMontgomery Home Service from 1953. It moved to BBC TV for a run of six She Walks in Beauty. But it didn’t appear as part of a collection Sandra Hicks ...... Susie Emmett episodes in 1969. of poems - in fact it was produced as one of a number of songs Director: Clive Brill Sadly very few episodes survive in the BBC archive, including in the collection Hebrew Melodies. Byron, tiring of the formula A Brill production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in February the first seven starring David Tomlinson. His replacement that had brought him huge success in earlier works like Childe 2017. George Cole went to to star in the St Trinian's films and later as Harold’s Progress and The Corsair, was approached by Jewish SUN 15:30 All You Need Is Lab - How Science And dodgy Arthur Daley in ITV's Minder. composer Isaac Nathan, who asked him to write religious lyrics Technology Inspired Innovation In Music (b03v9np1) The BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenhoulet. to musical settings that were a mixture of contemporary and Musician and songwriter Midge Ure looks at the many ways Producer: Leslie Bridgmont ancient Synagogue tunes. scientific and technological innovation have stimulated First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in August 1957. Excited by the prospect of examining the Hebrew culture and creativity in pop music. SUN 09:00 Drop Me Here, Darling (m000v6zz) putting his own deep knowledge of the Old Testament to good From the invention of the steel guitar string, through the tape Flat Out for Home use, Byron took up the challenge. He was also keen to impress recorder and the synthesiser, to the drum machine and Leslie adds to his list of woes with problems over his landlord. his future wife, a deeply religious woman who disapproved of Autotune, musicians have always embraced the latest ideas and Starring Leslie Phillips. his insalubrious lifestyle. adapted or distorted them to produce new sounds. Andrew Palmer's comedy about a former property tycoon who’s Byron and Nathan struck up a strong relationship and, over the Musicians Anne Dudley (Art of Noise) and Thomas Dolby join fallen on hard times and is now chauffeur to his wealthy ex- course of the collaboration, produced 29 songs. music journalist David Hepworth and blues researcher Tom wife. Unfortunately for Nathan, Byron’s standard publisher, John Attah, exploring how the laboratory has informed and inspired Leslie Duggan …. Leslie Phillips Murray, wasn’t keen to lose their grip on the poet whose work the studio. Caroline Duggan …. Jill Bennett was funding their expansion and, as Michael Rosen discovers, Midge demonstrates what you can achieve with just a laptop Claire/Mrs Elliott …. Norma Ronald took steps to minimise public recognition of the musical these days - but laments the passing of an age of invention in Dave …. Michael Robins venture, leaving Nathan out of pocket and - for a long time - popular music. Bill Welling …. Richard Davies written out of the Byron story. Featured music includes: Producer: Edward Taylor Producer: Geoff Bird The Beatles First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1983. A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast Chopin SUN 09:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b013cx3p) in March 2016. Thomas Dolby Series 3 SUN 12:30 Polyoaks (b07cx09k) Robert Johnson Dream Genie Series 4 Muddy Waters Derek is devastated when he hears that his ex-wife Jackie is Ladies Strike Little Walter unwell. Patients are complaining about the lack of female doctors at the Charlie Christian After using Wendy as a shoulder to cry on, he rushes to Jackie's surgery. Les Paul and Mary Ford side, leaving Maureen feeling uncharacteristically panicky at the The Polyoaks team want to recruit a woman doctor, but that is The Tornados thought of being without him. easier said than done in the current climate. And when they do The Small Faces Sitcom about the mundane lives of childless couple, Robin and find a candidate, she may be about to strike. Queen Wendy and their friends and neighbours - with a twist. Nigel Planer and Simon Greenall star in the Health Service The Sweet Wendy ...... Kay Stonham satire by Dr Phil Hammond and David Spicer. Stevie Wonder Robin ...... Brian Capron The Polyoaks surgery is plagued by strikes, endless new Band Aid Derek ...... Martin Trenaman management initiatives, staff shortages, militant patients, eight Art of Noise Maureen ...... Amelia Bullmore day weeks, privatisation – and all these things are entirely their Donna Summer Written by Kay Stonham. fault, apparently. Fat Boy Slim Devised by Kay Stonham and Simon Greenall Roy...... Nigel Planer Cher Producer: Helen Williams Hugh...... Simon Greenall Daft Punk First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004. Monica...... Polly Frame Nick Clegg SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000v707) Jeremy...... David Westhead Producer: Trevor Dann Barbara Pym Justice Spicer-Hammond / A Trevor Dann production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in From Strauss to Bithikotsis. Ruth...... Zalie Burrow December 2014. English novelist Barbara Pym shares her castaway choices with Stephanie Simons / SUN 16:00 Drama (b0889yrm) Roy Plomley. Mrs Vinyl...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith April in Paris by John Godber Barbara’s first novels were published in the 1950s, but by the Mr Justice / Mr Stickler / Bet wins a 'Romantic Break' in Paris and drags a reluctant Al early 1960s, she fell out of favour with publishers – until her Mr Toshack...... Julian Dutton along with her as they sample life outside England for the first revival in 1977. Director: Frank Stirling time. Novels include: A Glass of Blessings, Excellent Women, Less A Unique production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June John Godber's comedy was commissioned for the Hull 1992 than Angels, Quartet in Autumn and An Unsuitable 2016. Festival. Over 25 years on, John and Jane Godber revisit the Attachment. SUN 13:00 Conrad and Eleanor by Jane Rogers (Omnibus) roles they played in the original stage production. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1978. (b0806wvl) April in Paris is the third of John Godber's stage plays Photo credit: The Barbara Pym Society Episode 2 performed for BBC radio, following September in the Rain SUN 10:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00yjtg4) The story of a marriage. (2011) and Happy Jack (2015). All three were performed by Series 2 When Conrad fails to return from a science conference, Eleanor Jane and John, like the original theatre productions. Canopy wonders if it is because of the affair she is having. But he has Al ..... John Godber If you walk into a rainforest you are immediately met by quite known about it for years. Bet ..... Jane Godber literally a forest of trees. Perhaps it's because his research into transgenic monkey hearts Director: Toby Swift All the tree trunks look like cathedral pillars, smooth and wet is stalling; perhaps he is sick of having the less successful career First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2017. from the rain. Not a single branch emerges from the trunk for of the two of them? SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000v70v) tens of metres - and when they do you see a breath-taking While he has been the main carer for the children, Eleanor's [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] interlocking jungle of branches and leaves, ferns and flowers work with stem cells has forged ahead. And now the children SUN 17:30 Polyoaks (b07cx09k) and all number of creatures great and small. The canopy is a are all grown up. They suspect Eleanor of murdering their [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] bonanza of tropical forest life, in the bright light and gentle father, but El secretly fears that what has driven Con away is his SUN 18:00 Joseph Wilde - Produce (b0bhfhkm) breeze - a far cry from the dark and humid underworld of the discovery of their daughter Cara's parentage. When a couple discover that they can't have a healthy baby forest floor. While his family in Manchester scrabble for clues and reasons, naturally, Zenith Genomics seems to offer the solution: they can Not surprising then that Sir David Attenborough knew this Conrad - alone, confused, and on the run from a crazed animal create a perfect, bespoke child, with every gene hand-picked. would be a perfect place to film wildlife. rights activist - loses himself in the cold foggy streets of For a price. Producer: Julian Hector Bologna, and revisits the stages of his long marriage to El, from But the parents soon find that perfection brings its own First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011. the happiness of the year of Cara's birth to the grief and anger problems... SUN 11:00 Radiolab (m000v70j) he now feels. Joseph Wilde's unsettling drama, set in the near future, is a dark Series 7 Both partners are forced to re-examine their marriage, and fable about parental expectation - and the pressures of parenting The Wubi Effect become aware of the shifting balance of power between them. in a competitive and commodified world. Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. In the process, they move closer to an understanding of what it Anita .... Laura dos Santos Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur is that matters most to each of them. Tom .... Joseph Kloska between science, philosophy, and the human experience. Omnibus of the final five of ten parts. Dr Ahmed .... Seeta Indrani When we think of China today, we think of a technological Read by Penny Downie, Robert Glenister and Jasmine Hyde Beth .... Amy-Jayne Leigh superpower. From Huawei and 5G to TikTok and viral social Abridged by Eileen Horne Mr Dean .... Ewan Bailey media, China is stride for stride with the United States in the Produced and Directed by Clive Brill Director: Abigail le Fleming world of computing. However, China’s technological A Brill production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2016. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. renaissance almost didn’t happen. And for one very basic SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b065xjzp) SUN 18:45 Black and White by Jan Mark (b088ssr4) reason: The Chinese language, with its 70,000 plus characters, Rafe Spall 3. Nule couldn’t fit on a keyboard. Actor Rafe Spall chooses 'Cherry Coloured Funk' by the When Martin dresses up the old newel post at the bottom of the This is the story of Professor Wang Yongmin, a hard-headed Cocteau Twins and Kate Bush's 'And So Is Love'. stairs to look like a person, it's a big joke. computer programmer who solved this puzzle and laid the SUN 14:20 A Small Town Murder (Omnibus) (b08h0rry) But soon the newel post becomes more lifelike than Martin foundation for the China we know today. Series 9 bargained for... Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 April 2021 Page 4 of 10 Read by Malcolm Raeburn. MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000v70v) Eric Merriman. Written by Jan Mark and abridged by Peter Kerry. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] Producer: Gareth Edwards Producer: Martin Jameson MON 05:30 Polyoaks (b07cx09k) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1994. First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in September 1993. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] MON 09:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b08pdy0h) SUN 19:00 Radiolab (m000v70j) MON 06:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qxc7) Series 18 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] 7. The Will Episode 6 SUN 19:55 Inheritance Tracks (m000v6zp) A young man in distress and an old man in danger: a curious David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] case for the cantankerous criminal psychologist. are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to SUN 20:00 Drama (b0889yrm) Ernest Dudley's Harley Street psychiatrist-turned-detective uses see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] psychology as well as criminology to hunt down lawbreakers by opponents. SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000v707) deducing their felonious personalities. From Delia Smith and robots to rain and Facebook. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Cecil Parker stars as Dr Morelle with Sheila Sim as his long- Holly Walsh, Mark Steel, Elis James and Frankie Boyle are the SUN 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00yjtg4) suffering assistant, Miss Frayle panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] Dr Morelle …. Cecil Parker Producer: Jon Naismith SUN 22:00 Polyoaks (b07cx09k) Miss Frayle …. Sheila Sim A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] David Beaumont …. David Spenser broadcast in May 2017. SUN 22:30 I, Regress (b01s0dlz) Henrietta Vickers …. Nan Kenway MON 09:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII Series 2 Herbert Vickers …. Douglas Young (b0076j10) Mirrors Darrell …. Will Leighton Episode 3 Matt Berry plays a a corrupt and bizarre regression therapist in Director: Leslie Bridgmont With Henry suffering from a surfeit of mothers-in-law, perhaps this dark, Lynch-meets-Kaufman-style comedy. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1957. his luck will change with Jane Seymour? Unsuspecting clients are taken on twisted, misleading journeys MON 06:30 The Toff (b007jr8v) Jonathan Coy stars as Henry VIII through their subconscious. The Toff and the Runaway Bride An unreliable history, created and written in six parts by Barry Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client who 2. The Finger of Suspicion Grossman. has come to him for a different phobia. As the patient is put After bride Barbara's disappearance, the Honourable Richard Henry VIII ...... Jonathan Coy under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various Rollison faces more mystery - on the trail of Major Guy Thomas Cromwell ...... Milton Jones situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played out Lessing's first wife... The Chronicler ...... Alfred Burke for us to hear. The result is a dream (or nightmare-like) trip Terence Alexander stars as the Toff - upper-class amateur Jane Seymour ...... Jasmin Hyde through the patient's mind, as funny as it is disturbing. sleuth, the Honourable Richard Rollison. Lady Margaret ...... Eve Matheson With: John Creasey's thriller dramatised by Roy Lomax. Sir John ...... John Webb Daisy Beaumon Jolly ...... Robert Dorning Antonio ...... Jonathan Kydd Sally Okafor Major Guy Lessing ...... Alan Cuthbertson Music by Jim Parker. Julia Deakin : Acting (adult) Barbara Lessing ...... Rosalind Shanks Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Michael Shelford Doctor ...... Dennis McCarthy First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2003. A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone Kevin Brennan ...... Robert Lawn MON 10:00 Ivan Turgenev - On the Eve (m0005tnw) else's head! Superintendent ...... Godfrey James The Search for Love Producer: Sam Bryant. Producer: John Fawcett Wilson. Who will Elena fall in love with? The artist, Shubin or the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013. First broadcast on the BBC World Service in June 1975. philosopher Bersyenev? The she meets a real hero, Insarov. SUN 22:45 Bird Island (b044ghpd) MON 07:00 Ayres on the Air (b01n20gw) Starring Amanda Root as Elena and Philip Franks as Insarov. Series 2 Series 4 Ivan Turgenev's romantic novella dramatised in two parts by Episode 4 Autumn Michael Crompton. Ben gets a new telescope, and Graham has some big news. Pam Ayres continues her series of poetry and sketch shows Pavel Shubin .... John Lloyd Fillingham Ben ...... Reece Shearsmith about the seasons. Andrei Bersyenev .... Mark Chatterton Graham ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt Autumn includes - what to donate to the harvest festival, Anna .... Jane Cox Jane ...... Katy Wix interesting things to put on a bonfire, checking out retirement Nikolai .... Russell Dixon Beverley ...... Alison Steadman homes in the Autumn of one's life and the choosing a suitable Uvar .... Alan Partington Robin ...... Richard Aldridge evening class for your husband. Zoya ... Saskia Downes Atmospheric comedy about a cheery scientist based in Sub- Her poems week include: I Don't Want to Go to School Mum Fedushka ... Keith Clifford Antarctica by Katy Wix. and The Harvest Hymn. German bully... Martin Oldfield It’s Ben’s trip of a lifetime, but in a vast icy landscape with With Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead. with John Griffin and Stephen Tomlin dodgy internet. Feeling lonely, he shares his thoughts via an Produced by Claire Jones. Director: Michael Fox audio 'log' on his dictaphone. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in October 2012. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. Graham is a fellow nerdy scientist so their exchanges are MON 07:30 Just a Minute (m000v1p5) MON 11:00 Here's the Thing (b0b4zrth) mumbled. Ben’s even more awkward around new arrival Jane, Series 86 Carly Simon and Joe Jackson though he’s not entirely sure why. Episode 8 Alec Baldwin explores the lives of two singer-songwriters, Producer: Tilusha Ghelan Julian Clary hosts a special episode of Just a Minute where she Carly Simon and Joe Jackson - from tough school days to stage First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2014. challenges guests Jo Brand, Gyles Brandreth, Tony Hawks and fright. SUN 23:00 Son of Cliche (b00pbx1y) Shappi Khorsandi to talk on the subjects of her choice for 60 Singer-songwriter Carly Simon talks to Alec Baldwin about Weird Magazines seconds. Hesitation, deviation, and repetition are strictly meeting Bob Dylan, marrying James Taylor, overcoming stage Spoofing student life and a meaty mammal. forbidden. This episode was produced using remote recording fright -- and other stories from her memoir, Boys in The Trees. Sketch comedy with Chris Barrie, Nick Maloney and Nick technology, with both panel and audience joining in from their The English singer-songwriter talks to Alec Baldwin about the Wilton. homes all over the world. Caroline Barlow blows the whistle. evolution of his singing voice, the reason he won't watch the Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Devised by Ian Messiter Grammys, and the British pop bands he actually likes. Producer: Alan Nixon Produced by Victoria Lloyd Here's the Thing has its roots in public radio. In 2009, Alec First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1984. A BBC Studios Production joined with producers Lu Olkowski, Trey Kay, Kathie Russo, SUN 23:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World (b007tm8f) MON 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlnf) and Emily Botein to find fresh ways to engage in conversation Series 2 Series 3 on the radio. The group developed the idea of a new show that Magic TB or Not TB at its heart would look at what makes interesting people tick and Did witches really fly with broomsticks between their legs or Sixty years of smoking takes its toll on Albert Steptoe. create a platform for new and emerging ideas to be presented. did they just get a bit overexcited? Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. From WYNC Studios, New York. First heard in the USA in Series two of the cult comedy that answers the questions which Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association 2017. leave other shows scratching their beards. with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson MON 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlnf) Starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] With: The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert MON 12:30 Mr Finchley Goes to Paris (b007jzrh) Rebecca Front Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Armando Iannucci series on TV. MON 13:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qxc7) And the voice of Tom Baker. Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Producer: Sarah Smith Harold ...... Harry H Corbett MON 13:30 The Toff (b007jr8v) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1993. Receptionist ...... Jo Manning Wilson [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Adapted for radio from their TV scripts by Ray Galton and MON 14:00 A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark Alan Simpson. (b09kxtdb) MONDAY 19 APRIL 2021 Producer: Bobby Jaye Episode 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1971. Muriel Spark's playful and autobiographical novel set amid MON 00:00 Joseph Wilde - Produce (b0bhfhkm) MON 08:30 Mr Finchley Goes to Paris (b007jzrh) London's post-war publishing scene. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Episode 3 War widow Mrs Hawkins enjoys her life; her rooms suit her, MON 00:45 Black and White by Jan Mark (b088ssr4) Edgar finally meets his client and visits a fair. But will this she cherishes good friends and holds a coveted job working [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] bring down the curtain on his visit? with books. But when an author starts to make a nuisance of MON 01:00 Conrad and Eleanor by Jane Rogers (Omnibus) Starring Richard Griffiths as shy solicitor's clerk, Edgar himself, her life will change beyond recognition. (b0806wvl) Finchley. Read by Maggie Service. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] Lawrence Hume ...... Piers Gibbon Abridged by Rosemary Goring. MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b065xjzp) Robert Gillespie ...... James Cohen Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] Mr Hammerton ...... Nicky Henson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. MON 02:20 A Small Town Murder (Omnibus) (b08h0rry) Marie Peters ...... Serena Evans MON 14:15 Gudrun (b0b42v6g) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday] Michel ...... Jeffrey Holland Series 4 MON 03:30 All You Need Is Lab - How Science And Jerome Giraud ...... Simon Roberts Episode 1 Technology Inspired Innovation In Music (b03v9np1) Robert Gillespie ...... James Cohen Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and faith inspired [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday] Gaston ...... David Howarth by the Icelandic sagas MON 04:00 Drama (b0889yrm) Narrated by James Villiers. Gudrun, a young woman from 11th century Iceland, forges her [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Written by Victor Canning and adapted for radio by Andy and path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 April 2021 Page 5 of 10 harshness. Gudrun has risked everything to save her daughter, MON 20:30 The Toff (b007jr8v) 3. No Sleep for the Wicked Sigrid, only to be double-crossed by her supposed ally, King [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] With Guy and Barbara both now murder suspects - the Toff Sweyn of Denmark. Knowing he's made a powerful enemy he MON 21:00 Here's the Thing (b0b4zrth) gets a shock when breaking into the Major's flat. plans to get rid of her. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Terence Alexander stars as the Toff - upper-class amateur Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins MON 22:00 Just a Minute (m000v1p5) sleuth, the Honourable Richard Rollison. Iceland is now an occupied country, its people forced to convert [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Created by John Creasey, The Toff appears in over 60 novels. to Christianity by the ruthless King of Norway, Olaf MON 22:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b04v3838) First published in 1959, The Toff and the Runaway Bride was Trygvasson. The last series saw Gudrun attempt to overthrow Series 2 dramatised in six-parts for the BBC World Service by Roy the regime and rescue her daughter who is being brought up in The Well of Loneliness Lomax. the new faith, by entering into an uneasy alliance with Olaf's When Tom's father uncovers some potentially life-changing Jolly ...... Robert Dorning rival King Sweyn of Denmark. Their scheming saw Olaf meet a news through his research into the family tree, Tom is Superintendent ...... Godfrey James bloody end but instead of supporting Gudrun's campaign to pressganged into helping him find a church which could be Barbara Lessing ...... Rosalind Shanks return to Iceland Sweyn double-crossed her. Now, alone and in devastating for the Wrigglesworth name. Police Officer ...... Clifford Norgate shackles, Gudrun awaits her fate. Meanwhile, Tom's mum and gran enter the cut-throat world of Major Guy Lessing ...... Alan Cuthbertson Despite the warmongering and bloodshed Gudrun is a story of competitive well-dressing. Rose Lessing ...... Denise Buckley family and a mother's love. An avenging angel forged from Tom ...... Tom Wrigglesworth Holy Joe ...... David Graham violence, she continues to try and lead a good life in a man's Granny ...... Judy Parfitt Producer: John Fawcett Wilson. world. She longs for the freedom to make her own rules. Dad ...... Paul Copley First broadcast on the BBC World Service in June 1975. Gudrun is under the protection of Freija, the Norse Goddess of Mum ...... Kate Anthony TUE 07:00 Beauty of Britain (b0100gqp) love and war. Freija's voice cries out for a new kind of Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle. With Miles Series 2 leadership. She can sometimes be as slippery a customer as her Jupp. Citroen UXB protégée - is she really on Gudrun's side or does she have an Producer: Katie Tyrrell No professional care-worker can afford to miss Beauty Olonga's agenda of her own? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014. survival guide to Britain - its overheated houses, its The show is inspired by the famous Laxdaela Saga featuring the MON 23:00 The News Quiz (m000v3qs) disappointing church services and its world-class charity shops. original Nordic Noir heroine, Guðrún Ósvífursdóttir. There is Series 105 Series 2 of this Radio 4 comedy follows Beauty's continuing speculation that the saga was written by a woman. Gudrun has Episode 1 adventures as the Featherdown Agency sends her to provide the same steely determination and in some cases the almost Andy Zaltzman squares up to the week's headlines with care for those who need it - and some who don't, but all of psychopathic single-mindedness of her successors, Lisbeth panellists Hugo Rifkind, Susie McCabe, Daliso Chaponda and whom have relatives with guilty consciences. Salander and Saga Noren, not to mention the ability to scheme, Lucy Porter. Beauty sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls manipulate and bend others to her will in the manner of Panellists lobby for points as they answer questions on the hoping to live the dream in Britain. 'There are plenty of Borgen's wily politician Birgitte Nyborg. Greensill affair and the theft of a giant rabbit. opportunities here. The professional classes are always off sick Kate Phillips is Gudrun. Previous roles include Jane Seymour in Written by Andy Zaltzman with additional material from Alice due to binge drinking and the rest are too lazy to get off the Wolf Hall, Linda in Peaky Blinders and Lise in War & Peace, Fraser, Simon Alcock, Tasha Dhanraj and Jenan Younis. couch to answer the pizza delivery man.' all on BBC1. Producer: Richard Morris The series breaks the embarrassed silence about what happens First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2018. A BBC Studios Production to us when we get old and start to lose our faculties. It shows the MON 14:30 The 'arse that Jack Built (b01ljwm4) MON 23:30 Sean Lock - 15 Storeys High (b09j3dct) process in all its chaotic, tragi-comedy but it does so from the Ian McMillan goes on a quest to find one of Britain's strangest Series 1 point of view of a migrant worker, Beauty, whose Zimbabwean linguistic features. Episode 2 Shona background has taught her to respect age. Beauty sees Somewhere between Sheffield and Chesterfield, people stop Sean's bad-tempered, reckless past catches up with him in the Britain at its best, its worst and also sometimes without its saying house and say something that sounds a lot more like shape of a dead swan. clothes on running the wrong way down the M6 with a toy dog 'arse. It's an isogloss, a kind of linguistic boundary line where Sean Lock is still hiding in Flat 76, Elderberry House, Maydew shouting 'Come on!' accent and dialect changes. Ian calls it the house / arse interface, Estate, failing to keep the world at bay. Beauty is sent to look after Sarah, who lives with both her and with his friend the musician Ray Hearne and linguist Kate Starring Sean Lock, Tim Mitchell, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Peter mother and daughter. A perfect, happy modern family, like the Burland in tow, he sets out to track it down. But can it really be Serafinowicz and Martin Trenaman. kind Beauty has seen in feel-good British movies. With her own as simple as crossing a line on a map? Written by Sean Lock and Martin Trenaman. family being very demanding, it is understandable when Beauty First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. Script Editor: Robert Fraser-Steele begins to get too close. MON 15:00 Ivan Turgenev - On the Eve (m0005tnw) Producer: Chris Neill Beauty... Jocelyn Jee Esien [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1999. Joyce ... Julia McKenzie MON 16:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b08pdy0h) Sarah ... Jenny Agutter [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Lucy ... Catherine Shepherd MON 16:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII TUESDAY 20 APRIL 2021 Sally ... Felicity Montagu (b0076j10) Karen ... Nicola Sanderson [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b007jmk0) The music for the series was provided by The West End Gospel MON 17:00 Ayres on the Air (b01n20gw) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Choir. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b01c7pqv) Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson MON 17:30 Just a Minute (m000v1p5) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] The producer is Tilusha Ghelani. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 01:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qxc7) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011. MON 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b007jmk0) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE 07:30 Bridget Christie: Mortal (m000v2sx) Guards! Guards! TUE 01:30 The Toff (b007jr8v) Birth Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] Episode 1 - Birth Ankh-Morpork, the elucidated brethren of Ebon Night have TUE 02:00 A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark Following on from her hugely successful, award-winning turned their hands to magic. When Zebbo Mooty is (b09kxtdb) previous series – ‘Minds The Gap’ and ‘Utopia’, Bridget now mysteriously vaporised in an alley, Captain Vimes of the watch, [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] turns her attention to Mortality, covering ‘Birth’, ‘Life’, ‘Death’ knows it's time to act. TUE 02:15 Gudrun (b0b42v6g) and ‘The Afterlife’. Can a stolen library book lead to the reinvention of dragons? [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Like many of us forced to work from home during lockdown, First published in 1989, the 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic TUE 02:30 The 'arse that Jack Built (b01ljwm4) Bridget has recorded this series herself in her house, and in her fantasy stories set on Discworld. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] local park, on a pre-sanitised recording device sent to her in the Narrator …. Martin Jarvis TUE 03:00 Ivan Turgenev - On the Eve (m0005tnw) post. Batteries weren’t included. She had to buy them all Captain Vimes …. John Wood [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] herself. Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes TUE 04:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b08pdy0h) In a collection of informative, personal and absurd recordings, Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] she confronts the difficult questions most of us spend our lives Carrot …. Robert Gwilym TUE 04:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII avoiding - all whilst being interrupted by cats, chores, children, The Landlord …. Crawford Logan (b0076j10) foxes and a plumber. Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] “Do twins share a soul or do they get one each?”, “Why don’t Brother Doorkeeper …. Jeff Nuttall TUE 05:00 Ayres on the Air (b01n20gw) we bury our placentas and plant a tree on top of them?” and Brother Fingers …. Michael Roberts [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] “Who’s blocked the toilet again?” Death …. Himself TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (m000v1p5) If you are mortal, then this is the show for you. Dramatised in six parts by Michael Butt. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] Written and performed by Bridget Christie Director: John Taylor TUE 06:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qxg5) With guest appearances from her dad, her sister Eileen and her First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in November 1992. 8. Act of Violence friend Ash. MON 18:30 A Good Read (b01c7pqv) The criminal psychologist is on the case when local amateur Producer... Carl Cooper Martin Stephen and Augustus Casely-Hayford dramatics bring back memories for a man accused of murder... Sound Mixer... Olga M. Reed Harriett Gilbert and her guests, the historian Gus Casely- Ernest Dudley's Harley Street psychiatrist-turned-detective uses Bridget Christie: Mortal is a BBC Studios Production Hayford and educationalist Martin Stephen, consider a clutch of psychology as well as criminology to hunt down lawbreakers by TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b00fgzr6) favourite reads. deducing their felonious personalities. Tiddlywinks Gus chooses a fictional account of the fall-out from the conflict A BBC radio drama series that followed on from the success of After defeat at the hands of Cambridge, Neddie Seagoon seeks in Sierra Leone, Aminatta Forna's "The Memory of Love", the 1949 Hammer Film 'Dr Morelle: The Case of the Missing his gameful revenge. Stars Spike Milligan. From March 1958. which has a natural resonance with Harriett's own choice, Heiress'. TUE 08:30 King Street Junior (b007vhht) "Pavel and I". This is a first novel from Dan Vyleta, set in post- CAST: Series 3 war Berlin. Dr Morelle …. Cecil Parker Fireworks Martin Stephen brings with him Poems of Thomas Hardy Miss Frayle …. Sheila Sim A visit from the fire brigade sparks smouldering discontent selected by Claire Tomalin. Major Penfold …. Ralph Truman amongst the school staff. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. Robert Benson …. Trevor Martin The third series of the gentle sitcom based around life in a MON 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlnf) Professor Stenberg …. Martin Miller junior school. Devised and written by Jim Eldridge, it ran to ten [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Clerk of the Court …. Will Leighton series between March 1985 and November 1998. MON 19:30 Mr Finchley Goes to Paris (b007jzrh) Director: Leslie Bridgmont CAST: [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1957. Philip Sims …. Karl Howman MON 20:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qxc7) TUE 06:30 The Toff (b007jrcm) Mr Beeston, the Headmaster …. James Grout [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] The Toff and the Runaway Bride Mr Holliday, the Deputy Head …. Tom Watson Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 April 2021 Page 6 of 10 Mrs Stone, the School Secretary …. Margaret John were in praise of photocopiers, kitchen appliances, insurance Guards! Guards! Mrs Rudd …. Vivienne Martin salesmen and even tractors... They were made in the 50s, 60s Episode 2 Mr Long …. Paul Copley and later by companies to motivate their staff. Could a long-extinct beast have carried out recent crimes? Miss Lewis …. Marlene Sidaway The people who wrote them were huge Broadway names Will Captain Vimes get any joy from dragonologist and society Mrs Patterson … Deirdre Costello including Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock the men who gave us heavyweight Lady Ramkin? Lisa …. Claire Hearnden Fiddler on the Roof. They were private performances staged at First published in 1989, the 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic David …. Daniel Perry sales conventions and the music was never made available to the fantasy stories set on Discworld. Nurse …. Jill Lidstone public. They were a hidden part of the business world and the Dramatised in six parts by Michael Butt. DC Arnott …. Simon Cuff only reason we now know about them is that some shows were CAST: Raza …. Amanda Bittancourt recorded as souvenirs for the employees - and these have been Narrator …. Martin Jarvis John Fawcett Wilson : Producer discovered by a couple of enthusiastic record collectors, Steve Captain Vimes …. John Wood First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1988. Young and Jonathan Ward. They tell Will Young about their Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes TUE 09:00 The News Quiz (m000v3qs) favourite shows - Detroit Diesel's "Diesel Dazzle" and "A Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] Musical Introduction to 1958 - The Shape of Tomorrow" from Lady Ramkin …. Helen Atkinson-Wood TUE 09:30 The Brothers (b007m477) Westinghouse Appliances. Carrot …. Robert Gwilym Series 1 There were also industrial shows in the UK. We speak to Lord Vetinari …. Crawford Logan Episode 3 choreographer and director Gillian Lynne who produced the Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher Nigel and Michael share a home and work life, but has one got Lyon's Maid musical "With Lyon's Maid, You're Laughing!" in Brother Doorkeeper …. Jeff Nuttall a date? Stars Adam Godley and Raymond Coulthard. 1973. And Herb Kanzell who, following his triumph with The Brother Fingers …. Michael Roberts Produced by Marc Beeby. Westinghouse Appliances show of 1958 wrote musical shows Director: John Taylor First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. for British Rail, Oxo and British Airways. First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in November 1992. TUE 10:00 Ivan Turgenev - On the Eve (m0005tmv) Music played in the programme: TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b00z5c89) The Disappearance Somewhere over the Rainbow - Judy Garland from "The Series 11 Insarov's sudden disappearance is bewildering to Elena. But she Wizard of Oz" soundtrack Simple Gifts is determined to love him, whatever the cost. "Tractor Drivin' Man" by Hank Beebe and performed by Bill Simple Gifts started life as a Shaker Hymn and became Starring Amanda Root as Elena and Philip Franks as Insarov. Shirley - who also sang "On the Street Where You Live" on the incorporated into the hymn Lord of the Dance and Aaron Conclusion of Ivan Turgenev's romantic story of love and "My Fair Lady" soundtrack and provided the voice for Prince Copland's ballet suite Appalachian Spring. patriotism, dramatised in two parts by Michael Crompton. Phillip in Disney's "Sleeping Beauty". Tractor Drivin' Man was n this programme, Nora Guthrie describes the central place this Pavel Shubin .... John Lloyd Fillingham used in several Ford Tractor Shows in the 1960s. tune has played throughout her life. Pete Lashley tells how he Andrei Bersyenev .... Mark Chatterton "My Insurance Man" from the Continental Assurance Company heard it unexpectedly whilst touring in New Zealand. Michael Anna .... Jane Cox 1968 show. Written by Arnold Midlash and Robert WeDyck. Carter explains why his father chose this tune for his famous Nikolai .... Russell Dixon Performed by Beverly Lacek. hymn "Lord of the Dance" and Scott Malchus describes running Uvar .... Alan Partington "Golden Harvest" from the Ford Tractor Show 1959 "Ford-i-f-y a marathon whilst listening to this music. Zoya ... Saskia Downes Your Future" written by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock. Contributors: Fedushka ... Keith Clifford "Big and Beautiful" from the 1966 American Motors show Thomas Swain Priest's wife / old woman .... Ann Rye "Music from AM Route 66" written by Hank Beebe and Bill Michael Carter Kurnatovski .... John Griffin Heyer, performed by Chuck Green. Nora Guthrie Renditch .... Martin Oldfield "Tomorrow, Today" from "the shape of tomorrow, a musical Scott Malchus Lupoyarov ....Stephen Tomlin introduction to 1958" from Westinghouse Appliances, written Pete Lashley Director: Michael Fox by Herb Kanzell and John Wyman, performed by Marilyn Ross. Producer: Rosie Boulton First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. "Nightmare", also from "the shape of tomorrow", written by First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. TUE 11:00 Archive on 4 (b09zn0ln) Herb Kanzell and John Wyman performed by Martin Green. TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b00fgzr6) The Long Shadow of Canary Wharf "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" from Oklahoma! written by [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] In April 1988, work began on a tower destined to transform Rodgers and Hammerstein. TUE 19:30 King Street Junior (b007vhht) London into a global financial capital. "Monroe Man" from the Monroe Calculator Show 1969, music [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Completed in 1991, One Canada Square at Canary Wharf written by Sonny Kippe, lyrics by Joe Lapidos & Glenn Moore, TUE 20:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qxg5) heralded a new world order in which new jobs and new performed by Diane Findlay. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] buildings were meant to improve the lives of all Londoners, not "Tele op blues" from the Lyon's Maid 1973 show, "With Lyon's TUE 20:30 The Toff (b007jrcm) least the mainly white, working class local residents. Maid You're Laughing" written by Denis Norden and Malcolm [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Back then, the Isle of Dogs was an area of high unemployment Mitchell and performed by Julia Sutton. TUE 21:00 Archive on 4 (b09zn0ln) and had the highest concentration of council homes in England. "The Latest" from Cole National Annual Sales Meeting Show [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Whilst there have been winners and losers from the changes of "A Fairy Tale" 1965, performed by Liz Seneff TUE 22:00 Bridget Christie: Mortal (m000v2sx) the past three decades, the voices of these residents, particularly "I Never Enjoyed my Operation More" from the Converters Inc [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] white working class women, have all too rarely been heard. show "The Spirit of '78". No composition credits. Cast: Carol TUE 22:30 Danny Robins Music Therapy (b00fq2t4) Jane Martinson, lived in a council house, attended the local Steffen, Renee Kalen, Alice Dodd, Lee Pelty, and Mike Episode 3 comprehensive and worked on a local market stall on Saturdays Arquette Danny Robins harnesses the power of music to improve the before going on to become a journalist. Join her on a journey "We Were There" from the Detroit Diesel 1966 show "Diesel world and solve listeners' problems. home to a changed Britain, in a programme mixing archive of Dazzle" written by Hank Beebe and Bill Heyer. Danny helps the worst five-a-side football team in the country the time - rich in promise of future prosperity - with a series of "The Answer" from General Electric's Silicon Division's 1973 and boosts the confidence of a listener who, at under five feet intimate and revealing conversations with the East London show "Got to Investigate Silicones" written by Hank Beebe and tall, feels that the world is heightist. denizens of the Isle of Dogs. Bill Heyer, performed by Ron Young, Paul Eichel, & Joy With Isy Suttie and special musical guest Connie Fisher. A documentary originally made to mark the 30th anniversary of Garrett. Special cameo vocal appearance by lyricist Bill Heyer. Producer: Ben Walker Margaret Thatcher ceremonially driving the first pile of the Producer: Rachel Ross First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2008. building. Firrst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012. TUE 23:00 Small Scenes (b03dslfc) Producer: Sue Mitchell TUE 15:00 Ivan Turgenev - On the Eve (m0005tmv) Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2018. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Episode 1 TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b00fgzr6) TUE 16:00 The 3rd Degree (b07dklgc) Dipping in and out of odd stories, there's commentary from the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 6 World Ham Shouting Championships and meet a couple who TUE 12:30 King Street Junior (b007vhht) Birmingham City University are being harassed by a former England football hero. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this After a successful pilot show, this is series one of the TUE 13:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qxg5) week from the Birmingham City University, with specialist symphonious sketch show starring Daniel Rigby, Mike [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] subjects including Visual Communication, English Literature Wozniak, Sara Pascoe and Henry Paker. TUE 13:30 The Toff (b007jrcm) and Sociology, and questions ranging from Squash and Stretch Written by the cast and Benjamin Partridge with additional [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] to Roger McGough via Clement Attlee and the Duckworth- material from Chris Allen and Marc Jones. TUE 14:00 A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark Lewis Method. Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer (b09m6cy1) The programme is recorded on location at a different First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2013. Episode 2 University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against TUE 23:30 The (Almost) Accidental Adventures of Bell and Muriel Spark's playful and autobiographical novel set amid three of their Professors in an original and fresh take on an Todd (m0004xtd) London's post-war publishing scene. academic quiz. The Magic Compass War widow Mrs Hawkins' future prospects look uncertain as The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Todd and Bell’s plan to revamp the royal croquet lawn upsets the Ullswater Press falters: meanwhile there are more pressing Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow the Princess... problems close to home. and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the Mischievous narrator Diana has thrown Bell and Todd into a Read by Maggie Service students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and mad and a mysterious world of her own devising. Abridged by Rosemary Goring science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, sport, June Whitfield stars as Diana in John Eggleston's six-part Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. and quite possibly Justin Bieber. In addition, the Head-to-Head comedy adventure series. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. rounds see students take on their Professors in their own With Matthew Bell as Bell and Toby Longworth as Todd TUE 14:15 Gudrun (b0b42z8f) subjects, offering plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on Producer: Liz Anstee Series 4 both sides. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1998. Episode 2 Other Universities featured in this series include TUE 23:45 Hearing With Hegley (b00b7c59) Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and faith inspired Gloucestershire, Chester, York, Bath and Glasgow. Series 1 by the Icelandic sagas. Produced by David Tyler Episode 4 Gudrun is on a slave ship bound for Constantinople. The slave A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley, presents captain is now in her debt and Gudrun uses her new-found TUE 16:30 The Brothers (b007m477) a selection of his work. influence to plot her escape. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] With contributions from Keith Moore, Susan Norton, Andrew Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. TUE 17:00 Beauty of Britain (b0100gqp) Bailey and Nigel Piper. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2018. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Producer: Phil Clarke TUE 14:30 There is Business Like Show Business TUE 17:30 Bridget Christie: Mortal (m000v2sx) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1996. (b01dhn6r) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Some of the most lavish and expensive musicals ever staged TUE 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b008p7x8) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 April 2021 Page 7 of 10 WEDNESDAY 21 APRIL 2021 Series 3 hated dictatorship of The Generals who ruled Greece as Unpacking The Yada Yada recently as the 1970’s, and as a young officer he did things he WED 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b008p7x8) A sitcom about five single, middle aged neighbours living in was ordered to and of which he is now far from proud. The [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] flats in a converted house in North London .- written by Moray guilt he feels about a man called Merenditis who died while in WED 00:30 Soul Music (b00z5c89) Hunter and starring Angus Deayton, Abigail Cruttenden, Pearce his custody just will not go away and he knows in his heart that [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Quigley, Kate Isitt and Bennett Arron, this new wave of murders is somehow linked to the crimes of WED 01:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qxg5) Mitch (Angus Deayton) is a widower and part-time therapist the past – the crimes he himself committed. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] who is looking to put his life back together now that he is single Kosta Jaritos ...... Philip Jackson WED 01:30 The Toff (b007jrcm) and living with Will (Pearce Quigley), his younger, more Adriani ...... Pamela Miles [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] volatile and unhappily divorced half-brother. Elsewhere in the Katerina ...... Jane Slavin WED 02:00 A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark building are schoolteacher Ellie (Abigail Cruttenden) who is Detective Kula ...... Amaka Okafor (b09m6cy1) shy, nervous and holds a secret candle for Mitch. Overly honest, Detective Vlas ...... Chris Pavlo [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] frustrated actress Louisa (Kate Isitt), and socially inept IT nerd Superintendent Guikas ...... Stephen Boxer WED 02:15 Gudrun (b0b42z8f) Morris (Bennett Arron) complete the line-up of mis-matched Zisis ...... Michael Elwyn [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] neighbours. Katsumbelos ...... Paul Panting WED 02:30 There is Business Like Show Business In the second episode, Unpacking the Yada Yada, a Written by Petros Markaris. (b01dhn6r) disappointed Ellie tries to jog Mitch’s memory regarding their Dramatised for Radio by Michael Butt. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] date, which didn’t happen due to Mitch’s cycling accident, while A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in WED 03:00 Ivan Turgenev - On the Eve (m0005tmv) Will and Louisa have a night out to remember. And then to August 2016. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] forget. And then to pretend never happened. WED 11:00 4 Extra Goes Gardening (m000v8st) WED 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b07dklgc) Cast: 3. Percy Thrower and Christopher Lloyd [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] Angus Deayton- Mitch Penelope Keith explores our horticultural passions and changing WED 04:30 The Brothers (b007m477) Abigail Cruttenden- Ellie fashions through the BBC sound archives. From the home of [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Pearce Quigley- Will the great garden designer Gertrude Jeykll. WED 05:00 Beauty of Britain (b0100gqp) Kate Isitt- Louisa The great gardener, Gertrude Jekyll, once said: [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] Bennett Arron- Morris "A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful WED 05:30 Bridget Christie: Mortal (m000v2sx) Created and Written by Moray Hunter watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] Script Edited by Ian Brown and James Hendrie entire trust." WED 06:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qv83) Directed by Moray Hunter and Gordon Kennedy Through her fascination with colour, cottage gardens and 9. The Black Ruby Recorded and Edited by Jerry Peal experimentation, it has been said she "changed the face of The cantankerous criminal psychologist probes the authenticity Production Manager: Sarah Tombling England more than any save the Creator and perhaps Capability of a fabled gem. Is it cursed? Based on an original idea developed in association with Dandy Brown". Ernest Dudley's Harley Street psychiatrist-turned-detective uses Productions Penelope Keith explores Miss Jekyll's own ten-acre garden – psychology as well as criminology to hunt down lawbreakers by Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios the enchanting Munstead Wood in Surrey – and along the way deducing their felonious personalities. Produced by Gordon Kennedy unearths some horticultural wisdoms and delights from the BBC A BBC radio drama series that followed on from the success of An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 sound archive. the 1949 Hammer Film 'Dr Morelle: The Case of the Missing WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jxyr) Joining Penelope to discuss Gertrude's influence and changing Heiress'. The Idol horticultural fashions are broadcaster and author, James Wong, CAST: Tired of the lad's big-headedness, Bill and Moira decide to author Catherine Horwood and Munstead Wood's head Dr Morelle …. Cecil Parker teach him a lesson. gardener, Annabel Watts. Miss Frayle …. Sheila Sim Starring Tony Hancock. Featured programmes from the BBC Archive: Guy Hampton …. Norman Woodland With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr and Sidney James. Percy Thrower from ‘Beyond the Back Door: That Reminds Sonia Hampton …. Virginia Winter Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Me’ [Home Service 1963] Helen Reynolds …. Louise Gainsborough Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. Recorded Desert Island Discs – Christopher Lloyd [R4 2000] Bill Reynolds …. Richard Bebb by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions and first Aubrey Green …. Desmond Carrington Producer: Dennis Main Wilson broadcast in February 2014 Airline Captain/Various …. John Baker First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jxyr) Director: Leslie Bridgmont 1954 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1957. WED 08:30 Alison and Maud (b007k2vm) WED 12:30 Alison and Maud (b007k2vm) WED 06:30 The Toff (b007jrfz) Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] The Toff and the Runaway Bride The Unmentionable WED 13:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qv83) 4. Death Is No Alibi A nasty moment for Bernard in the granny flat or is the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] As the murder count mounts, the police hunt Richard - and landladies' daddy only joking? WED 13:30 The Toff (b007jrfz) there's a discovery in the River Thames... First of two series of Sue Limb's Bed and Breakfast sitcom [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Terence Alexander stars as the Toff - upper-class amateur about sisters Alison and Maud and their guests at the WED 14:00 A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark sleuth, the Honourable Richard Rollison. Abbeyfield Guest House in Norwich. (b09m7fhp) Created by John Creasey, The Toff appears in over 60 novels. Starring Denise Coffey as Alison, Miriam Margolyes as Maud, Episode 3 First published in 1959, The Toff and the Runaway Bride was Joss Ackland as Father, Chris Emmett as Mr Mullett, Geoffrey Muriel Spark's playful and autobiographical novel set amid dramatised in six-parts for the BBC World Service by Roy Whitehead as Bernard and Nickolas Grace as Leslie. London's post-war publishing scene. Lomax. Producer: Jonathan James-Moore. War widow Mrs Hawkins is perturbed by the poison pen letter Jolly ...... Robert Dorning First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003. sent to neighbour Wanda. However a problem with her beloved Inspector Ellerby ...... Roger Gartland WED 09:00 The Motion Show (b00768mm) career is about to eclipse all other issues. Sergeant ...... Michael Shannon Series 3 Read by Maggie Service Inspector Reno ...... Godfrey James Episode 3 Abridged by Rosemary Goring Robert Lawn ...... Kevin Brennan Graeme Garden chairs the debating game featuring Hugh Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. Barbara Lessing ...... Rosalind Shanks Dennis, Gyles Brandreth, Arthur Smith and Emma Kennedy. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. Producer: John Fawcett Wilson. From July 2000. WED 14:15 Gudrun (b0b48ksp) First broadcast on the BBC World Service in June 1975. WED 09:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jzcd) Series 4 WED 07:00 A Short Gentleman (b018xt55) Series 1 Episode 3 Episode 1 Wise After the Event Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and faith inspired Robert sails through all his exams, but finding a girlfriend is The lives of Rosie and her granddaughter Jo are shaken by the by the Icelandic sagas. more testing. return to Rosie's daughter Kate after a long spell working Gudrun and fellow slave, Marlas, grow closer as they talk of Hugh Bonneville stars as Robert Purcell, QC, a perfect abroad. escape. Meanwhile the slave ship enters the waters of King specimen of the British Establishment, who applies faultless Prunella Scales in the first of four series of Simon Brett's Vladimir of Rus and Gudrun finds the stakes are high when she legal logic to his disastrous personal life. sitcom following the trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and engages in a game of dice. Jon Canter's comic novel 'A Short Gentleman' adapted by her event-management company based in Brighton. Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. Robin Brooks. With Arabella Weir as Kate, Rebecca Callard as Jo, Duncan First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2018. Father ...... James Hayes Preston as Bob, Annette Badland as Tess, Michael Fenton WED 14:30 Idrissa Camara (b03w0200) Mother ...... Nichola McAuliffe Stevens as Mr Blantyre and Stephen Thorne as Mr Joost. A portrait of dancer and choreographer Idrissa Camara. Young Robert ...... Josef Lindsay Producer: Maria Esposito From west Africa to south Wales: Idrissa Camara cuts a Pilkington ...... Ewan Bailey First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000. distinctive figure as he walks his young child to her Welsh- Ticky Moxon-Smith ...... Katherine Jakeways WED 10:00 Drama (b07nng5t) speaking school in suburban Cardiff. Originally from Guinea, Judy Page ...... Tracy Wiles The Final Reckoning Idrissa moved to the city four years ago and now lists Welsh Alan Temperley ...... Gerard McDermott Episode 1 next to Susu, Malinke and Wolof among his languages. 'Brilliant, but for God's sake don't let this book fall into the Set in Greece in 2008, just prior to the elections that will bring Idrissa is a virtuoso dancer and choreographer and since hands of any women - if they find out what we're really like Tsipris to power, The Final Reckoning by Petros Markaris, one arriving in Wales has been working to establish his own dance we'll never hear the end of it.' Charlie Higson of the country’s company, Ballet Nimba. He recently received a bursary to travel 'A witty, accomplished, and highly entertaining warning about most popular writers, is a cleverly disguised police procedural back to his native Guinea in order to formally study and the folly of ambition.' Mail on Sunday which takes us beneath the headlines and exposes a country in document the evolution of dance, music and storytelling there, 'Elegantly written, civilised and genuinely funny.' The Scotsman moral as well as financial crisis. research which will feed into the next Ballet Nimba production. 'Robert is infectious. You might just catch yourself bringing his Our story begins with the quadruple suicide of four elderly In this programme, we'll follow the progress of this new work loathsome logic to your own domestic dilemmas.' Time Out. women, friends who can longer see how to survive in a country interwoven with snapshots from Idrissa's life in Cardiff and his Jon Canter read Law at Cambridge, where he was President of where poverty is an arm of government policy. But somehow life in Guinea, and the tension between the two. Footlights, then worked as an advertising copywriter before the death of these four hapless women precipitates an All music used in the programme by Idrissa Camara/Ballet becoming a radio and TV scriptwriter. His comic novels include outpouring of public anger. And this anger finds expression Nimba. Seeds of Greatness, A Short Gentleman and Worth. when some of Athens’ wealthiest citizens start turning up dead, Producer: Martin Williams Director: Jonquil Painting. causing a dilemma for the Police and in particular, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in From January 2012. Superintendent Kosta Jaritos. WED 15:00 Drama (b07nng5t) WED 07:30 Alone (m000v2qq) Jaritos was once in the Military Police, the strong arm of the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 April 2021 Page 8 of 10 WED 16:00 The Motion Show (b00768mm) Series 3 League footballer's mansion. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Episode 2 Meanwhile Sir Lucien must negotiate a press interview without WED 16:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jzcd) Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not putting his foot in it. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] applied to a particular task. The nearest faraway place. Comedy by Jim Poyser with Neil Griffiths. WED 17:00 A Short Gentleman (b018xt55) Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange thoughts Sir Lucien ..... Geoffrey Whitehead [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] which don't have to be shooed into context, but which can be Tim ..... Alex Carter WED 17:30 Alone (m000v2qq) followed like balloons escaping onto the air. Late at night, in the Sarah ..... Anna Crilly [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] dark and in a bunk bed, your tired mind can wander. Matt ..... Dominic Coleman WED 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b008p9wy) This is the nearest faraway place for Patrick Marber and Peter Danny ..... Richie Campbell Guards! Guards! Curran. Here they try to get the heart of things in an Sean ..... Jude Akuwudike Episode 3 entertainingly vague and indirect way. This is not the place for John ..... Ian Conningham The people of Ankh-Morpork have a no-nonsense approach to typical male banter. From under the bed clothes they play each Computer Caddie/Tony ..... Sam Dale entertainment. While they're looking forward to seeing a dragon other music, and archive of Angela Carter, ex-Prime Ministers, Director: Toby Swift slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing the avenging a Castrato singer, and an elephant playing the piano. Work, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015. warrior baked in his own armour. family, literature, and their own badly-scuffed dreams are the THU 07:30 Meet David Sedaris (m000v2xd) Why is Captain Vimes suspicious? funny, if warped conversational currency. Series 8 First published in 1989, the 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic A Foghorn Company production Instalment 5 fantasy stories set on Discworld. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. What with the whole world grinding to a viral halt and Dramatised in six parts by Michael Butt. WED 23:45 Fabulous (b00hlxwn) everything, this special series of essays and diary entries is CAST: Series 1 recorded at the Sussex home of the world-renowned storyteller. Narrator …. Martin Jarvis Episode 2 In 2021, it's 25 years since David Sedaris first shared his very Captain Vimes …. John Wood Sitcom by Lucy Clarke about a woman who wants to be particular world view with the listeners to BBC Radio 4, having Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes Fabulous but can't cope. brought us The SantaLand Diaries back in 1996. In this eighth Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne With Daisy Haggard, Adam Buxton, Katy Brand, Matthew series of Meet David Sedaris, he continues to entertain with Lady Ramkin …. Helen Atkinson-Wood Holness, Olivia Colman, Laura Solon. sardonic wit and incisive social critiques. Carrot …. Robert Gwilym Music by Osymyso. David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent Lord Vetinari …. Crawford Logan First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. humour writers and, in 2019, was elected to the American Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher Academy of Arts and Letters. The great skill with which he Brother Doorkeeper …. Jeff Nuttall slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness Brother Fingers …. Michael Roberts THURSDAY 22 APRIL 2021 proves that he's a master of satire and one of the most observant Death …. Himself writers addressing the human condition today. Director: John Taylor THU 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b008p9wy) Sedaris's first book, Barrel Fever (1994), which included The First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in December 1992. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] SantaLand Diaries, was a critical and commercial success, as WED 18:30 Short Cuts (m0002z41) THU 00:30 Short Cuts (m0002z41) were his follow-up efforts, Naked (1997), Holidays on Ice Series 18 [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] (1997) and Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000). He became known The Descent THU 01:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qv83) for his bitingly funny recollections of his youth, family life and Falling space debris sparks an adventure across continents - and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] travels, making semi-celebrities out of his parents and siblings. underpants dangling from a tree push a woman into a downward THU 01:30 The Toff (b007jrfz) David Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammy Awards spiral. Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. His latest in sound about The Descent. THU 02:00 A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark international best-selling book is a collection of stories entitled The King and I (b09m7fhp) Calypso. A feature film adaptation of his story C.O.G. was Produced by Natalie Kestecher [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] released after a premier at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. Skylab THU 02:15 Gudrun (b0b48ksp) This week: Featuring Stan Thornton [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] 1. Don't Think About Sex Robots Produced by Hannah Dean THU 02:30 Idrissa Camara (b03w0200) 2. Haven't We Met? Seven Miles Deep [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] 3. On Hoarding Featuring Don Walsh THU 03:00 Drama (b07nng5t) 4. Crystal Ball Produced by Andrea Rangecroft [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] 5. Jazz Hands Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall THU 04:00 The Motion Show (b00768mm) 6. Getting There A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] 7. Skirt March 2019. THU 04:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jzcd) 8. Goldenheart WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jxyr) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Producer: Steve Doherty [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 05:00 A Short Gentleman (b018xt55) A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 WED 19:30 Alison and Maud (b007k2vm) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU 08:00 Round the Horne (b00j7qhl) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU 05:30 Alone (m000v2qq) Series 1 WED 20:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qv83) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Episode 16 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 06:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qsk2) Kenneth Horne spies cosmic traffic wardens, Charles and Fiona WED 20:30 The Toff (b007jrfz) 10. The Wedding Dress are losing their grip, plus melodramas galore at Bona [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Frightened bride-to-be Audrey Templeton is being spooked by Productions thanks to Julian and Sandy. WED 21:00 4 Extra Goes Gardening (m000v8st) noises in the night. Can the psychiatrist-sleuth uncover what's With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] going on? Pertwee. WED 22:00 Alone (m000v2qq) Ernest Dudley's Harley Street psychiatrist-turned-detective uses Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] psychology as well as criminology to hunt down lawbreakers by London. Announcer: Douglas Smith WED 22:30 Elvenquest (b00wqfnn) deducing their felonious personalities. Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio Series 2 A BBC radio drama series that followed on from the success of comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Episode 6 the 1949 Hammer Film 'Dr Morelle: The Case of the Missing Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, The last episode in the series sees the noble band of Questers in Heiress'. Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the a pub and within touching distance of getting their hands on the CAST: scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and Sword of Asnagar. Dr Morelle …. Cecil Parker 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, Lord Darkness still has a few tricks up his sleeve and he's not Miss Frayle …. Sheila Sim catchphrases and double-entendres. about to let the possibility of eternal dominion over Lower Audrey Templeton …. Sulwen Morgan Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Earth slip through his fingers without pulling out all the stops. Evelyn Lambert …. Mary Law Hayes Four. Will the Questers be strong enough to handle the immense Edna Lambert …. Olwyn Brookes Producer: John Simmonds power of the Sword. Or, as ever with these things, will they be Mrs Vezey …. Peggy Thorpe-Bates First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1965. tempted over to the Dark Side...? Commercial Traveller/Ames …. Trevor Martin THU 08:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four (b014sntd) CAST: Director: Leslie Bridgmont Happiness Is Work Sam …. Stephen Mangan First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1957. Edward is now in charge of the environment, but for how long? Lord Darkness …. Alistair McGowan THU 06:30 The Toff (b007jrjk) Orwellian sitcom starring Robert Lindsay. From April 1985. Dean/Kreech …. Kevin Eldon The Toff and the Runaway Bride THU 09:00 The Write Stuff (m000v97q) Vidar …. Darren Boyd 5. Motive for Murder Series 7 Amis ‘The Chosen One’ …. Dave Lamb With fresh clues discovered over Barbara's history - the Toff is Dylan Thomas Penthiselea …. Sophie Winkleman Paris-bound, when police stop his car... James Walton's literary quiz. Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. Terence Alexander stars as the Toff - upper-class amateur Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by Producer: Sam Michell sleuth, the Honourable Richard Rollison. John Sutherland and Sabrina Broadbent. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010. Created by John Creasey, The Toff appears in over 60 novels. Author of the week is Dylan Thomas. WED 23:00 Radio Active (b007js7f) First published in 1959, The Toff and the Runaway Bride was Reader: Beth Chalmers Series 3 dramatised in six-parts for the BBC World Service by Roy Producer: Katie Marsden Edinburgh Festival Lomax. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004. Scotland beware! The national local radio station's weekly arts Jolly ...... Robert Dorning THU 09:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b013plyb) programme has special coverage of the Edinburgh Festival. Inspector Ellerby ...... Roger Gartland Series 3 Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Lady Gloria ...... Peggy Ann Wood Arrivederci Coma Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. Sergeant ...... David Graham Wendy visits Robin in hospital and opens the door on a whole Music by Philip Pope and Mike Schilling. Police Constable ...... John Bull new life. Stars Kay Stonham and Martin Trenaman. From July Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. With Jon Producer: John Fawcett Wilson. 2004. Canter, Richard Curtis, Helen Murray, Nick Wilton, Moray First broadcast on the BBC World Service in June 1975. THU 10:00 Drama (b07pdd80) Hunter, John Docherty and Roger Planer. THU 07:00 The Architects (b051rjpp) The Final Reckoning Producer: Jamie Rix Series 2 Episode 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1983. Refurb It’s 2008, just prior to the Greek elections that will bring Tsipris WED 23:30 Bunk Bed (b07fln54) Matt and Tim are dispatched to Watford to restyle a Premier to power, and a serial killer calling himself The National Tax Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 April 2021 Page 9 of 10 Collector continues to pick off Athens’ wealthy elite with "The Dewey system has its fine points" reflected the librarian, Steven Burge, Jon Hunter and Joe Wilkinson. seeming impunity. picking a parasite from its fur, "But when you're setting out to Music by Philip Pope The mounting numbers of victims dumped at the city's most look for a crucial stolen book within the multi-dimensional Producer: Katie Tyrrell. historical sites is putting Inspector Kostas Jaritos of the Athens folds of L-space, what you really need is a ball of string." First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010. Police under growing political pressure. To make matter worse, Captain Vimes tries to track the dragon... THU 23:30 Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller Jaritos is a man with problems and past of his own to worry First published in 1989, the 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic (b007jpyk) about. And those problems are about to get a whole lot worse. fantasy stories set on Discworld. Dramatised in six parts by Episode 2 The killer has somehow found out about Jaritos’ role with the Michael Butt. Martin Bain-Jones and Craig Children do battle at a special military police under the fascist junta in the 1970s and is about CAST: music awards ceremony. to use this knowledge to devastating effect. Narrator …. Martin Jarvis Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong write and star in their first Inspector Jaritos ...... Phil Jackson Captain Vimes …. John Wood full-length radio comedy series. Adriani Jaritos ...... Pamela Miles Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes With Charlie Condou, Melissa Lloyd and Tony Gardner. Katerina Jaritos ...... Jane Slavin Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne Producer: Jon Rolph Detective Kula ...... Amaka Okafor Lady Ramkin …. Helen Atkinson-Wood First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1998. Detective Vlas ...... Chris Pavlo Carrot …. Robert Gwilym Superintendent Guikas ...... Stephen Boxer Lord Vetinari … Crawford Logan Zisis ...... Michael Elwyn Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher FRIDAY 23 APRIL 2021 Merenditis ...... Paul Panting Brother Doorkeeper …. Jeff Nuttall Nasiotis ...... John McAndrew Brother Fingers …. Michael Roberts FRI 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b008pc2z) Written by Petros Markaris Death …. Himself [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Directed by Eoin O’Callaghan Director: John Taylor FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b07syv25) A Big Fish Radio roduction for Radio 4, first broadcast in First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in December 1992. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] August 2016. THU 18:30 Great Lives (b07syv25) FRI 01:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qsk2) THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000v707) Series 40 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] Maureen Lipman on Dame Cicely Saunders FRI 01:30 The Toff (b007jrjk) THU 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00yjtg4) Actress and writer Maureen Lipman chooses the end-of-life [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] care campaigner, Dame Cicely Saunders. FRI 02:00 A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark THU 12:00 Round the Horne (b00j7qhl) Dame Cicely Saunders was known as ‘the woman who changed (b09m7mmd) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] the face of death’. At almost 6 foot tall, she could be [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] THU 12:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four (b014sntd) intimidating, tiresome and relentless as she devoted her life to FRI 02:15 Gudrun (b0b48wq4) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] ensuring that terminally ill people could die with dignity and [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] THU 13:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qsk2) without pain. Championing the life of Cicely Saunders as her FRI 02:30 Erich Honecker's Rock and Roll Years [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] great life is the actress and writer Maureen Lipman. The expert (b010mt30) THU 13:30 The Toff (b007jrjk) witness is, Professor David Clark, from the University of [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Glasgow. FRI 03:00 Drama (b07pdd80) THU 14:00 A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark Presenter: Matthew Parris [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] (b09m7mmd) Producer: Perminder Khatkar. FRI 04:00 The Write Stuff (m000v97q) Episode 4 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Muriel Spark's playful and autobiographical novel set amid THU 19:00 Round the Horne (b00j7qhl) FRI 04:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b013plyb) London's post-war publishing scene. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] War widow Mrs Hawkins has lost her job after insulting a well- THU 19:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four (b014sntd) FRI 05:00 The Architects (b051rjpp) connected author. However the free time she finds herself with [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] will do wonders for her love life. THU 20:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qsk2) FRI 05:30 Meet David Sedaris (m000v2xd) Read by Maggie Service [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] Abridged by Rosemary Goring THU 20:30 The Toff (b007jrjk) FRI 06:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qsk3) Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] 11. The Gambler First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000v707) The psychiatrist-sleuth tackles a desperate gambling addict in a THU 14:15 Gudrun (b0b48wq4) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] mysterious case of murder. Series 4 THU 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00yjtg4) Ernest Dudley's Harley Street psychiatrist-turned-detective uses Episode 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] psychology as well as criminology to hunt down lawbreakers by Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and faith inspired THU 22:00 Meet David Sedaris (m000v2xd) deducing their felonious personalities. by the Icelandic sagas. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] A BBC radio drama series that followed on from the success of After a successful mutiny Marlas is now captain of the ship. THU 22:30 John Kearns (b05vhf6x) the 1949 Hammer Film 'Dr Morelle: The Case of the Missing Freed from Orm's brutality, the crew sets sail for Episode 1 - The Ticket Heiress'. Constantinople with renewed hope. A glimpse into the oddball mind of John Kearns as he returns CAST: Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. home from work... Dr Morelle …. Cecil Parker First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2018. The first of four 14 minute vignettes from the Winner of the Miss Frayle …. Sheila Sim THU 14:30 Erich Honecker's Rock and Roll Years Main Prize at the 2014 Edinburgh Comedy Festival, as well as Mrs Ludlow …. Harriet Johns (b010mt30) the Best Newcomer Award back in 2013. Mr Ellis …. Desmond Carrington Henning Wehn investigates 'Ostrock' - the rock and pop music Producer: Arnab Chanda Felix Grey …. Jimmy Lavall scene in the old East Germany. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015 Simmons …. Arthur Young During the Cold War, we were given the impression that life THU 22:45 Warhorses of Letters (b01681l4) Man …. Simon Lack behind the Iron Curtain was unrelentingly grim and that Series 1 Girl …. Beryl Calder communist youth suffered from a lack of fashionable clothing Episode 1 Director: Leslie Bridgmont and an earnest adherence to the socialist dream. Deep in the British Library tucked into the slipcover of a book First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1957. But this was not always the case and despite the fact that Erich on the history of Blenheim Palace a packet of extraordinary FRI 06:30 The Toff (b007jrmb) Honecker believed 'beat music' was being used by the enemy to letters has been discovered. The Toff and the Runaway Bride send East German Youth into 'overdrive', he had only limited "Dear Marengo brackets Napoleon's horse close brackets, I've 6. Confrontation in Paris success in placing controls on a thriving rock and pop music never written a letter like this before...." Can the Honourable Richard Rollison finally unravel the scene in the GDR. Thus begins the first passionate letter from Copenhagen, the mystery - and reveal the murderer's identity? It is true that his musicians had to perform in front of a Duke of Wellington's horse, to his hero Marengo in this Terence Alexander stars as the Toff - upper-class amateur committee to obtain a licence to perform, that there was only epistolary equine love story. A story of two horses united by an sleuth, the Honourable Richard Rollison. one - state controlled - record company and that if you fell foul uncommon passion, cruelly divided by a brutal conflict. Created by John Creasey, The Toff appears in over 60 novels. of those in power, your music 'ceased to exist'. But East Warhorses of Letters stars Stephen Fry as Marengo, the First published in 1959, The Toff and the Runaway Bride was German youngsters were listening to Western music being seasoned, famous and just-a-little-bit-short mount of Emperor dramatised in six-parts for the BBC World Service by Roy played on radio stations on the other side of the Wall and so Napoleon. Daniel Rigby stars alongside him as Copenhagen, the Lomax. Erich Honecker ultimately failed to control the musical tastes of frisky young racehorse who as our story begins is about to be Jolly ...... Robert Dorning the GDR teenager. the new mount for the Duke of Wellington. This collection of Carruthers ...... David Graham In 'Erich Honecker's Rock and Roll Years', German comedian their moving letters to each other is introduced by Tamsin Major Guy Lessing ...... Alan Cuthbertson Henning Wehn goes to Berlin in search of a scene unknown to Greig. Robert Lawn ...... Kevin Brennan him when he was growing up in West Germany. He talks to In this episode, the early days of their romance and the early Barbara Lessing ...... Rosalind Shanks Ostrock musicians and fans and uncovers a story that involves, days of the Peninsular Campaign, and as their love blossoms the Inspector ...... Jean Dryant the Stasi, disappearing musicians, lyrics with hidden meanings shadow of impending combat looms over our two heroes. Producer: John Fawcett Wilson. and music that was 'Western' in all but name. Written by novelists Robert Hudson (The Kilburn Social Club) First broadcast on the BBC World Service in June 1975. Produced by Helen Lee. and Marie Phillips (Gods Behaving Badly), directed by Steven FRI 07:00 Clare in the Community (b08587nz) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Canny and produced by Gareth Edwards. Series 11 THU 15:00 Drama (b07pdd80) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2011. You Take the High Road [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU 23:00 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (b00wlg3h) It's the social work event of the year and Clare Barker is giving THU 16:00 The Write Stuff (m000v97q) Series 1 the keynote speech; it's the biggest moment of her career. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Episode 4 Provided she can actually get there for it. Back at home Brian THU 16:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b013plyb) Posh privately educated teenagers Daisy and Maisie show and Nali have been taken in by Ray after a barbecue got out of [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] prospective parents around their school. hand. His housekeeping leaves a bit to be desired as far as Nali's THU 17:00 The Architects (b051rjpp) Joanna Lumley visits her mother with a Christmas present and concerned. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] the Mona Lisa lets us into a secret. Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the THU 17:30 Meet David Sedaris (m000v2xd) Multi-paced, one woman Fast Show showcasing the exceptional right jargon but never a practical solution. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] talent of Lucy Montgomery. A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in THU 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b008pc2z) With Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Waen Shepherd and Natalie other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Guards! Guards! Walter. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all Episode 4 Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17 – 23 April 2021 Page 10 of 10 Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control Chris Pearson and Ali Plumb recommend the best in movie FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jll5) both her professional and private life In today's Big Society podcasts. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] there are plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jll5) FRI 19:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007js6w) social worker. Or even Clare. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden FRI 12:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007js6w) FRI 20:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qsk3) Producer Alexandra Smith [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] A BBC Studios production. FRI 13:00 A Case for Dr Morelle (b007qsk3) FRI 20:30 The Toff (b007jrmb) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 07:30 The Confessional (m000v848) FRI 13:30 The Toff (b007jrmb) FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000v9pt) Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] The Confession of Cariad Lloyd FRI 14:00 A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark FRI 22:00 The Confessional (m000v848) Actor, comedian and broadcaster Stephen Mangan presents a (b09m7n7t) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] new comedy chat show about shame and guilt. Episode 5 FRI 22:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b01pdy85) Each week, Stephen invites a different guest into his virtual Muriel Spark's playful and autobiographical novel set amid Series 3 confessional box to make three confessions - with remarkable London's post-war publishing scene. Episode 5 storytelling and surprising insights. As Mrs Hawkins makes good use of her contacts, she hopes to The man who insists Superman is Indian, and the Bhangra We’re used to hearing celebrity interviews where stars are put her professional troubles at the Ullswater Press behind her. Muffins act cool. Stars Meera Syal and Nina Wadia. From June persuaded to show off about their achievements. Stephen's not Read by Maggie Service 1998. interested in that. He doesn’t want to know about his guests' Abridged by Rosemary Goring FRI 23:00 The Remains of Foley and McColl (b007jrl6) proudest moments, he wants to know what they’re ashamed of. Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. The Real You That’s surely the way to find out what really makes a person First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. The producer forces Sean and Hamish to get proper jobs. tick. FRI 14:15 Gudrun (b0b490sq) Surreal comedy starring award-winning double act Sean Foley Stephen and his guest reflect with empathy and humour on why Series 4 and Hamish McColl, the Right Size. we get embarrassed, where our shame thresholds should be, and Episode 5 With Rose English, Count Arthur Strong, Chris Lamer and the value of guilt. Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and faith inspired Mark Stevens Series guests include Joan Bakewell, Clarke Peters, Phil Wang, by the Icelandic sagas. Producer: Lissa Evans Dr Phil Hammond and more. Delirious from his injury, Grim is gripped by religious fervour First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2000. In this first episode, he takes the confession of the award and threatens the safety of the ship. FRI 23:30 The In Crowd (b00slxxy) winning improvisational comedian, actor and presenter of Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. Series 3 Griefcast, Cariad Lloyd. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2018. Episode 4 Written and presented by Stephen Mangan FRI 14:30 Composer Joseph Horovitz: No Ordinary Joe The coolest bag ladies in the world, swimwear solutions for With extra material by Nick Doody (b012qsdp) dieters who haven't yet reached their target weight and Jonathan Produced by Dave Anderson and Frank Stirling This is the story of a composer of the kind of music that just Tudge, who just can't help putting his foot in it. A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4 fits so beautifully, that you hardly notice yourself humming Another advice-packed sketch show from Manchester's FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jll5) along. Joseph Horovitz is a composer of concertos and ballets, Comedy Store. Series 1 operas and chamber music, yet he is best known for other kinds With Robin Ince, Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward. Sergeant Wilson's Little Secret of music such as Rumpole of the Bailey, and Captain Noah and Producer: Graham Frost Confusion reigns for Sergeant Wilson when Mrs Pike reveals his Floating Zoo. Composer Debbie Wiseman in interview with First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002. news of a "new arrival". Joseph Horovitz, journeys through his remarkable life and Six years after legendary sitcom Dad's Army started on BBC career. TV, these specially adapted radio versions began recording with Captain Noah has been translated into six languages, and has the original cast. proved to be a best seller for Horovitz. The Berkshire Maestros, Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le and conductor David Hill with the Bach Choir, have all recently Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, rehearsed and performed this work, and give their views on why James Beck as Private Walker, Arnold Ridley as Private Captain Noah has been so popular over the past 40 years. Godfrey, Ian Lavender as Private Pike, John Laurie as Private Dancer Wayne Sleep, conductor John Wilson, and television Frazer, Bill Pertwee as Warden Hodges, Pearl Hackney as Mrs executive producer Tony Wharmby, also discuss their Pike and John Snagge as the announcer. collaborations with Horovitz, and give their thoughts on his Adapted from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's original BBC TV music. scripts by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad. Horovitz's story begins with his escape from the Nazis as they Producer: John Dyas entered Vienna in 1938, to then include giving musical First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1974. appreciation lectures during the war to the forces, being FRI 08:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007js6w) awarded two Ivor Novello awards for his later compositions, Series 1 and working with such comic legends as Gerard Hoffnung and Episode 2 Michael Flanders. This life journey has been one of distinction William pledges to protect his sister from the philandering Lord in many ways, yet Horovitz has not been taken as seriously as Byro. Lakeland poets parody with Tim Curry. From March he'd like. Debbie Wiseman grapples with this issue, to 1985. understand why Horovitz has not received the acclaim that his FRI 09:00 Counterpoint (b00rrljw) artistry deserves. Series 24 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. 2010 Heat 3 FRI 15:00 David Pownall (b01sdty0) The third heat in the 2010 series of Counterpoint comes from [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Manchester, with Paul Gambaccini asking the questions. The FRI 16:00 Counterpoint (b00rrljw) contestants are from Scotland and the North of England. As [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] always, the questions test the breadth of their musical FRI 16:30 Two Doors Down (b008fdj0) knowledge and feature a wealth of musical extracts and [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] illustrations. FRI 17:00 Clare in the Community (b08587nz) Produced by Paul Bajoria [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2010. FRI 17:30 The Confessional (m000v848) FRI 09:30 Two Doors Down (b008fdj0) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Series 2 FRI 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b008pc0b) The Feminine Thrust Guards! Guards! Sally smooths the way for Clare's important lecture and helps Episode 5 her realise she might have more important things to worry about "That dragon isn't going to accept any mealy-mouthed, wishy- than her job... washy liberal nonsense.... Do you know what you're getting with Series two of Annie McCartney's four-part sitcom about the a dragon? Unashamed strong leadership." bohemian residents of Marlborough Road in Belfast saved from The dragon strikes. But will Captain Vimes triumph? chaos by their cleaning lady, Sally. First published in 1989, the 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic Starring Stella McCusker as Sally, Marcella Riordan as Clare, fantasy stories set on Discworld. Dramatised in six parts by Katy Gleadhill as Evie, Des McAleer as Trevor, Robert Michael Butt. Patterson as Tony, Aine McCartney as Fidelma, Hannah R CAST: Gordon as Anna and Patrick Gleadhill as Simon. Narrator …. Martin Jarvis Director: Tanya Nash Captain Vimes …. John Wood First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002. Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes FRI 10:00 David Pownall (b01sdty0) Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne I Want to Go Home Lady Ramkin …. Helen Atkinson-Wood And on the eighth day God created language. Little did he Carrot …. Robert Gwilym expect the confusion that would ensue... Lord Vetinari …. Crawford Logan I .... David Bamber Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher Want .... Joanna Monro Chief Merchant …. Jeff Nuttall To Go .... Ben Crowe Librarian …. Michael Roberts Home .... Georgie Alexander Little Girl …. Kate McEnery Cark .... Struan Rodger Director: John Taylor Angel of the Eighth Day .... Andrew Scott First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in December 1992. With John Hartley as the voice of God FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b00ny8gr) Director: Peter Kavanagh I'm H.A.P.P.Y First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. From euphoria to contentment - Miriam Akhtar, Dr Phil FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000v9pt) Hammond, Lucy Mangan and Dominic Arkwright focus on Movie Magic happiness. From 2009. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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