Radio 4 Extra Listings for 11 – 17 January 2014 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 11 JANUARY 2014 Miles Deanbrook ..... Sean Baker Series 7 Waiter ..... Adeel Akhtar Episode 20 SAT 00:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jnlt) Producer: Sally Avens From Nashville, Tennessee, the American funny man welcomes 1. Ruination First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010. singer Emmylou Harris and master fiddler Stuart Duncan. From Space travel throws the most unlikely people together. SAT 03:00 Charles Chilton - Another Time of My Life 2011. Norman is an idealist with a hand grenade. Max is a cheerful (b0075m1p) SAT 09:00 The Rudest Man in Britain (b03rxc77) bore who won't stop talking. Part of BBC Radio 4 Extra's tribute to the remarkable talent of The Rudest Man in Britain excavates the archives from the Together, they're set to ruin the lives of some decidedly friendly writer and producer Charles Chilton, who died on 2 January perspective of Gilbert Harding - a well-loved radio personality aliens. Forever. 2013 at the age of 95. who went on to achieve wider television exposure as star of long- Six-part black-hole sci-fi comedy by Colin Swash Charles Chilton worked for the BBC for 46 years. In 1973, he running panel shows such as 'What's My Line?' once watched Norman ...... Tony Robinson continued to recall his varied early career. by millions. Clever, amusing and often outrageous, Harding was Max ...... David Haig It all started when a friend had made him a crystal set and one a familiar voice of wireless who became a pioneer of popular Stella ...... Louise Lombard of Chilton's favourite things was listening to the radio in bed. In TV. But behind the public persona, there was a troubled and Macari ...... Michael Troughton 1932, radio was the wonder of the age and the BBC was a conflicted character. To create a profile of Gilbert Harding's Captain Rossiter ...... Dan Strauss prestigious place to work. It was a time of high unemployment life and sample his broadcasting work Simon Fanshawe will Jane ...... Carla Mendonca but John Reith, who was badly wounded in the First World draw on Stephen Wyatt's play Dr Brighton and Mr Harding, in Tony ...... Geoff McGivern War, was anxious to employ ex-soldiers and others who had which Harding (played by Roger Allam) wrestles with his inner Producer: Richard Wilson suffered from the war. Chilton was a 15-year-old war orphan demons and fantasies, knowing also that he is in increasingly First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995. and so it was that, in January 1933, he was lucky enough to be poor health (hence his reason for moving to the coast to SAT 00:30 Jenny Stephens - Project Archangel (b00wmr9r) given his first job in the spectacular, newly built Broadcasting embrace 'Dr Brighton'). Episode 3 House in London. Simon samples excerpts from Round Britain Quiz, What's My Malcolm discovers why he ended up in the sewers of Moscow, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1973. Line?, and The Brains Trust and a complete edition of Twenty and he is asked to complete a task for Victor. Stars Dan Hagley. SAT 03:45 Hearing With Hegley (b0075s38) Questions - which, as a format, still stands up well. He also SAT 01:00 Wimsey (b00sbvcv) Series 2 revisits Harding's seminal 1960 Face to Face television Have His Carcase Episode 3 interview with John Freeman, where he broke down on camera 5. Too Perfect an Alibi Poet John Hegley doing what he does best - entertaining an when the questioner touched a nerve. Simon Fanshawe explores As the desperate upper class sleuth fails to confirm his theories, audience with verse. With Nigel Piper. From September 1998. the development of many now familiar formats on Radio and the elusive witness Perkins turns up... SAT 04:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03npbkf) TV - and assembles a fascinating and rounded portrait of this Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey – the aristocratic Episode 5 tortured but much loved polymath. amateur detective created by Dorothy L Sayers. Why are four bookworms covered in wounds and bruises? Producer: Mike Greenwood. Dramatised by Alistair Beaton. Donna Tartt's thriller, read by William Hope. SAT 12:00 Carmen - Omnibus (b03p83r7) Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael SAT 04:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlsd) Inspired by both the original tale and the opera, this new version Harriet Vane …. Maria Aitken The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Series 1 features songs in Romany and English. With Candis Nergaard. Inspector Umpelty …. Nigel Stock Black Peter SAT 13:15 Baldi (b007k0b9) Henry Weldon …. Warren Clarke The Baker Street sleuth probes the grisly murder of a retired Series 3 Julian Perkins …. Richard O'Callaghan whaling skipper. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael Williams. The Sick Rose Nurse …. Judy Franklin SAT 05:00 Huddwinks (b00b52ch) Paolo Baldi discovers that a priceless hybrid plant leads to little Jem Pollack …. Haydn Wood Series 2 peace and serenity in the newly designed garden of Narrator …. John Westbrook The Dead Walk at Midnight! contemplation - as he and Tina are soon digging round in the Producer: Martin Fisher A reporter arrives to investigate mysterious happenings at a murderous world of gardening. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1981. haunted manor. David Threlfall stars as the murder-solving priest, Paolo Baldi. SAT 01:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b012yv9b) Roy Hudd stars in Laurie Rowley’s comic parodies. Written by Martin Meenan. Series 1 With: With Tina Kellegher as Tina Mahon, TP McKenna as Father London Pride Denise Coffey Troy, Owen Roe as Rynne, Margaret D'Arcy as Mrs Reid, George Dixon is showing new boy in blue, Andy Crawford, the Chris Emmett Victoria Smurfit as Claire, Adrian Dunbar as Kearney, Pat ropes on the beat of Dock Green in London's East End. David Gooderson Laffan as Meadows, Mark O'Regan as Sheridan, Anne Marie Much to PC Crawford's surprise, Dixon is prepared to bend the Fred Harris Horan as Megan and Deirdre Monaghan as Gloria. rules in order to arrest one of a gang of safebreakers. Producer: Jonathan James-Moore Format by Barry Devlin. Developed and produced by BBC Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1988. Northern Ireland. Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy SAT 05:30 Chambers (b007jnjc) Script Editor: Gemma McMullan Crawford. Series 1 Recorded at RTE's studios in Dublin. Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The The Right to Silence Director: Mark Lambert Blue Lamp' which ended with Dixon being shot dead. However, Hostilities between pompous Fuller-Carp and Ruth have First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series running intensified, and a walking holiday in the Lake District with an SAT 14:00 Dad's Army (b007jp6h) from 1955 to 1976. influential judge would seem to provide the perfect break. Series 2 PC George Dixon ...... David Calder However, a Crimewatch obsessed hotelier, an ambiguous fax Fallen Idol PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant and an impending murder trial conspire to turn the weekend During platoon training, fellow officers lead Captain Jack Judd ...... MacDonnell into a nightmare which even the allure of the hotel's Nick Ross Mainwaring astray. Emmy Judd ...... Avril Elgar Carvery cannot redeem. Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Lenny Judd ...... Jacob Dylan Clive Coleman’s sitcom about the questionable practices of a Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, Agar ...... Jonathan Tafler group of barristers. John Laurie as Private Frazer, Ian Lavender as Private Pike and Fred Jenkins ...... Eddie Martin John Fuller Carp ...... John Bird Arnold Ridley as Godfrey. Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by Hilary Tripping ...... James Fleet Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV Sue Rodwell. Ruth Quirke ...... Lesley Sharp scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. Produced in Bristol by Jeremy Howe and Viv Beeby. Vince ...... Jonathan Kydd Producer: John Dyas First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2005. Austin Weave ...... Jonathan Kydd First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975. SAT 02:00 Millport (b00761z4) Other parts ...... Peter Serafinowcz SAT 14:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlnf) Series 2 Producer Paul Schlesinger Series 3 Dark Secrets First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996. TB or Not TB Irene enlists Bob's help when strange events send the tiny SAT 06:00 Noel Coward - This Happy Breed (b0081qyf) Sixty years of smoking takes its toll on Albert Steptoe. Scottish island into disarray. The inter-war life of the Gibbons family in their new suburban Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as home. Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a Starring John Moffatt, Rosemary Leach and Doris Hare. with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson better life on the mainland. Noel Coward's play covers a 20-year period from June 1919, wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson when the Gibbons family move in to their new home near The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown London’s Clapham Common, to when they moved out in June Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight Alberto/Robert/Doctor ...... Lewis McLeod 1939. series on TV. Ena/Bunty ...... Gabriel Quigley Frank Gibbons …. John Moffatt Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell Dougie ...... Matt Costello Ethel …. Rosemary Leach Harold ...... Harry H Corbett Bob/Minister ...... Robert Patterson Mrs Flint …. Doris Hare Receptionist ...... Jo Manning Wilson Music arranged by Olly Fox. Queenie …. Alice Arnold Adapted for radio from their TV scripts by Ray Galton and Producer: Lucy Bacon Bob …. Robert Lang Alan Simpson. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001. Sylvia …. Anna Cropper Producer: Bobby Jaye SAT 02:30 Electric Ink (b01k9wdn) Billy …. Michael Maloney First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1971. Series 2 Vi …. Julia Swift SAT 15:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b01cv84c) Episode 5 Phyllis …. Elizabeth Mansfield [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Freddy punctures Maddox's literary pretensions and uncovers a Reg …. John McAndrew SAT 16:00 Noel Coward - This Happy Breed (b0081qyf) scandal. Sam …. Simon Treves [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson's comic satire set in the Written in 1939, This Happy Breed was not staged until 1942. It SAT 17:30 Meet David Sedaris (b03npb2y) struggling world of newspapers. was adapted as a film in 1944 directed by David Lean and Series 4 A group of dysfunctional journalists attempt to cover major starring Robert Newton, Celia Johnson and John Mills. The Sea Section; Dog Days news stories whilst grappling with the demands of a multi- Director: Glyn Dearman One of the world's best storytellers is back on BBC Radio 4. platform environment, as circulation figures plummet as the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1989. This week, dealing with family tragedy in 'The Sea Section' and recession means half the workforce is laid off. SAT 07:30 Simon Schama - Baseball and Me (b00y8v8d) some comic verse about our canine friends in 'Dog Days'. Maddox ..... John Sessions Episode 1 Producer: Steve Doherty Oliver ..... Alex Jennings After 30 years living in the USA, why is English-born historian A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. Freddy ..... Stephen Wight Simon Schama mad about the bat-and-ball skills of the Boston SAT 18:00 Atomic Tales (b007jx70) Carol ..... Polly Frame Red Sox? And Mother Makes Millions Masha ..... Debbie Chazen SAT 08:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b01cv84c) A chilling world without children? The battle is on to save the Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 11 – 17 January 2014 Page 2 of 9 human race from ravaged Earth. Coach Trip Cedric ...... Christopher Scott 1950s American sci-fi spoof. Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur Harold ...... Keith Drinkel Starring the talents of: Strong is an expert in everything from the world of Alfred ...... Mark Bonner John Guerrasio entertainment to the origins of the species, all false starts and Bryan ...... Jim Wall Jeff Harding nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a delicate sheen of Alexander ...... Jonathan Kitchens Allison Warnyca bravado and self-assurance. James ...... Rory Jennings Lewis McLeod After an attempted coach trip to Bridlington goes terribly Mrs Kidder ...... Ann Beach Colin Stinton wrong, Arthur decides the only way out of a sticky situation is Madam Joilet ...... Joanna Monro Liza Ross. to go 'native'. Martine ...... Alice Arnold Written by Adam Tandy and Nat Sones. With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and Miss Ellis ...... Amanda Gordon Producer: Adam Bromley. Alastair Kerr. Wimborne ...... Lewis Jones Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in August 2006. SUN 08:00 The Burkiss Way (b00gs0fr) Inspector Dessin ...... Steve Hodson SAT 18:30 Jenny Stephens - Project Archangel (b00wmznd) Series 2 Sergeant Wetherall ...... Chris Pavlo Episode 4 Gain Spiritual Fulfilment the Burkiss Way Sergeant Cornish ...... Alex Lowe The reason for Mike's involvement with the Nablovski colony is A dangerous pantomime gang escapes, as the team go Director: Enyd Williams revealed, and also why Moira's case is so heavy. Stars Dan 'Nationwide'. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1997 Hagley. The Burkiss Way to Dynamic Living from radio's Advanced SUN 15:00 The Burkiss Way (b00gs0fr) SAT 19:00 The Rudest Man in Britain (b03rxc77) Correspondence Course [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] All you have to do is fill in your name here: take out all the SUN 15:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007jt2l) SAT 22:00 4 Stands Up (b00jjkpk) vowels and consonants and make an anagram of what remains [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Series 3 to gain access to the latest lesson. SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show Episode 2 With instruction from Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett (b01rs2gs) Chris Addison hosts more big names from the top of the and Fred Harris. With the best of this week's 4 O'Clock Show, Mel Giedroyc comedy circuit, including Sarah Millican, James Sherwood and Scripts by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. heads off to the exotic East on a magic duvet for desert food, Jeff Green. From April 2009. Producer: Simon Brett extraordinary camel noises and special effects. SAT 22:30 The Lee Mack Show (b00bbnvy) Cult sketch show first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December SUN 17:00 The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier (b0112flx) Tony Hadley 1976. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Tony Hadley joins the quick-fire comic for stand-up, sketches SUN 08:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007jt2l) SUN 17:30 Just William - Live! (b007jy2q) and music. With Angela McHale and Trevor Crook. From Series 8 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] March 2005. It's All in the Mind SUN 18:00 Doctor Who (b018jk6s) SAT 23:00 P Division (b007jx62) When the cheeky schoolboy's gang needs a meeting venue, it's The Pyramids of Mars Condition Purple time for more trickery. Stars Jimmy Clitheroe. From February Episode 1 Episode 2 1965. The Time Lord and Sarah Jane are in Victorian England to The police post-mortem has shown that prostitute, Stephanie SUN 09:00 The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier (b0112flx) confront an ancient menace held captive in Egypt. Fourth Craigellachie had an 'I belong to Dino' tattoo. But who is Dino Episode 3 Doctor adventure read by Tom Baker. and what did he have to do with her murder? Journeying to Switzerland, Ruth, Bronia, Edek and Jan must SUN 18:30 Edgar Allan Poe (b007jpt5) Peter Turnbull's story about his Glaswegian cops dramatised by avoid the Burgomaster, who hunts Polish refugees. Stars Hester The Fall of the House of Usher Stephen Mulrine. Cox. Episode 1 DCI Donoghue …. Martin Cochrane SUN 09:30 Just William - Live! (b007jy2q) What power does the family's ancestral home hold over DS Ray Sussock …. Ralph Riach Series 1 Roderick and Madeline Usher? Karen …. Gaylie Runciman The Sweet Little Girl in White A man's descent into madness seems bound to the house of his DC King …. John Buick Violet Elizabeth Bott arrives in the scruffy schoolboy's life. ancestors. DC Montgomery …. Frank Gallagher Martin Jarvis plays all of Richmal Crompton's characters. First published in 1839, Edgar Allan Poe's gothic horror story in Tuesday Noon …. Alex McAvoy SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b03p8667) two parts. Mr Keyes …. Robert Trotter Absent Friends Read by Sean Barrett. Mrs Olive Keyes …. Kay Gallie Richard Griffiths Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in September 2003. WPC Elka Willems …. Ann Louise Ross 4 Extra Debut. From the Beatles to Schumann, character actor SUN 19:00 That Reminds Me (b007jnhk) Dino …. Alexander Morton Richard Griffiths shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Produced at BBC Glasgow by Hamish Wilson. From January 2006. SUN 19:30 Dad Made Me Laugh (b00d3k8c) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1993. SUN 10:45 Afternoon Reading (b00nk4lm) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] SAT 23:30 Jennifer Donnelly - A Gathering Light Tales From the Low Countries SUN 20:00 The Burkiss Way (b00gs0fr) (b015n9xs) My Father's Photo Album [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Episode 3 When the Dutch-Moroccan character at the centre of SUN 20:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007jt2l) Mattie shares a boat with Royal and discovers Miss Wilcox's Abdelkader Benali's short story learns that his mother is ill, he's [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] library. But will she destroy Grace's letters? compelled to make a long-overdue visit to his parents' house in SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b03p8667) As the story behind Grace Brown's death unfolds, 17 year old Rotterdam. The visit proves to be the start of a journey through [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Mattie Gokey must chose to between her desire to be a writer, his childhood, family history and sense of himself. SUN 21:45 Afternoon Reading (b00nk4lm) and the excitement of a first romance. Read by Khalid Abdalla [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] Jennifer Donnelly's debut ovel read by Vicki Simon. Translated by David McKay SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00h34d1) Abridged by Penny Leicester. Abridged and produced by Emma Harding. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Producer: Liz Allard SUN 11:00 That Reminds Me (b007jnhk) SUN 22:30 The News Quiz (b0076sj0) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004. Series 2 Tribute to Simon Hoggart SAT 23:45 The Late Alfred Hitchcock Presents (b00tr2pc) Sir Clement Freud Tribute to Simon Hoggart with Andy Hamilton and Fred The Perfectionist The legendary 'Just a Minute' star recalls his colourful life, and MacAulay, and the much-missed Linda Smith and Alan Coren. By Margaret St Clair. Sponger Charles goes to live with his his famous psychoanalyst grandfather Sigmund. From October From July 2005. Aunt Muriel, who takes her still life art work deadly seriously. 2000. SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b03sg4rl) Stars Michael Roberts. SUN 11:30 Dad Made Me Laugh (b00d3k8c) The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith is Max Hudd joined by the lovely ladies of Fascinating Aida. Roy Hudd's son chats to Sally Magnusson about his life with the SUN 23:00 King Cutler (b008yt5q) SUNDAY 12 JANUARY 2014 star of 'News Huddlines', 'Coronation Street' and more. King Cutler V Producer: Mike Walker A message to the nation from Phyllis King and Ivor Cutler. SUN 00:00 Atomic Tales (b007jx70) First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in September 2006. Visitors bear gifts of words to add to their collection of poems, [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN 12:00 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves songs and stories. SUN 00:30 Jenny Stephens - Project Archangel (b007jrkh) With Dylan Edwards , David Lloyd, Ted Harrison and Craig (b00wmznd) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Murray-Orr. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN 13:15 Could Do Better (b03p85pm) Producer: Neil Cargill SUN 01:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b01cv84c) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in February 1990. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN 13:30 Miss Marple (b007jvgc) SUN 23:30 Jon Ronson On (b0076pmb) SUN 02:00 Carmen - Omnibus (b03p83r7) 4.50 From Paddington Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] Miss Marple's friend Mrs McGillicuddy arrives for a visit to St. Being Invisible SUN 03:15 Baldi (b007k0b9) Mary Mead claiming she's just witnessed a murder during her Journalist and broadcaster Jon Ronson tries to find out how to [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] rail journey from London. be invisible with the help of a collection of extraordinary stories SUN 04:00 Noel Coward - This Happy Breed (b0081qyf) On another train running alongside her carriage, she explains which try to illuminate the human condition. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] how a blind flew up revealing a man slowly strangling a woman He talks to Frank Ahearn, whose job it is to make people SUN 05:30 Meet David Sedaris (b03npb2y) – until she slumped down. But next day, when there are no vanish; comedian Jon Holmes, whose parents are 'invisible' to [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] newspaper reports of a corpse, the spinster sleuth sets about her him as he is adopted; and Maggie O'Farrell who recalls her time SUN 06:00 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves own murder investigation. as a chamber maid, cleaning hotel rooms while guests carried (b007jrkh) Set in the days of steam railways, Agatha Christie's whodunit on extremely personal activities. Omnibus, part 2 stars June Whitfield stars as Jane Marple. The letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill. War, traffic First published in 1957 and dramatised for by Michael accidents and unexpected house purchases. Starring Alex Bakewell. MONDAY 13 JANUARY 2014 Jennings. Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield SUN 07:15 Could Do Better (b03p85pm) Mrs McGillicuddy ...... Joan Sims MON 00:00 Doctor Who (b018jk6s) Wendy Cope Lucy Eyelesbarrow ...... Susannah Harker [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Robert Booth summons poet and ex-teacher Wendy Cope to his Detective Inspector Craddock ...... Ian Lavender MON 00:30 Edgar Allan Poe (b007jpt5) study for a quiet word about her school reports. From Luther Crackenthorpe ...... John Woodnutt [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] November 1988. Emma Crackenthorpe ...... Janet Maw MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b03p8667) SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00h34d1) Inspector Bacon ...... Sean Baker [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] Series 4 Dr Quimper ...... Stephen Thorne MON 01:45 Afternoon Reading (b00nk4lm) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 11 – 17 January 2014 Page 3 of 9 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Music by the Max Harris Group. Spirit', and from rising young singer Zara McFarlane, who MON 02:00 That Reminds Me (b007jnhk) Producer: John Simmonds performs 'Open Heart' from her new album 'If You Knew Her'. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Sunday] First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in April 1968. MON 02:30 Dad Made Me Laugh (b00d3k8c) MON 08:30 The Navy Lark (b03ph1bs) Producer: Sukey Firth. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 on Sunday] Frustrating the Spark of Invention MON 12:00 Round the Horne (b00szhvg) MON 03:00 The Burkiss Way (b00gs0fr) Can Able Seaman Johnson win a 'man-powered flight' [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] competition, despite the assistance of Pertwee? MON 12:30 The Navy Lark (b03ph1bs) MON 03:30 Miss Marple (b007jvgc) Stars Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee and Stephen Murray. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS MON 13:00 Wimsey (b00scvsc) MON 05:00 The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier (b0112flx) Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive 13 series [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] between 1959 and 1976. MON 13:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b013216n) MON 05:30 Just William - Live! (b007jy2q) The Sub-Lieutenant ...... Leslie Phillips [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] The Chief Petty Officer ...... Jon Pertwee MON 14:00 15 Minute Drama (b00gqpr3) MON 06:00 Wimsey (b00scvsc) The Number One ...... Stephen Murray Vita Sackville-West - All Passion Spent Have His Carcase Captain Povey ...... Richard Caldicot Episode 1 6. All a Question of Time Heather ...... Heather Chasen Adaptation of the 1931 novel by Vita Sackville-West about an Will inspiration strike? Able Seaman Johnson ...... Ronnie Barker old widow who defies her children to embark on an The upper class sleuth battles to finally unmask a killer. Taffy Goldstein ...... Tenniel Evans independent life after her husband dies. Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey – the aristocratic The Padre...... Michael Bates Lady Slane ...... Honor Blackman amateur detective created by Dorothy L Sayers. Written by Lawrie Wyman. Mr FitzGeorge ...... Alec McCowen The conclusion dramatised by Alistair Beaton. Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. Herbert Holland ...... John Nicholas Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1967. Carrie ...... Phyllida Nash Harriet Vane …. Maria Aitken MON 09:00 2525 (b03ph1bv) Kay Holland ...... Patrick Romer Inspector Umpelty …. Nigel Stock Episode 4 Mr Bucktrout ...... Paul Nicholson Leila Garland …. Rosalind Ayres In the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive... Mr Gosheron ...... Peter Ellis Saunders …. John Webb then it may sound something like this. Set 511 years in the Genoux ...... Sonia Elliman Polwhistle …. Alan Dudley future, 2525 invites you to hear more snippets of our future Police Inspector ...... Russell Boulter Tom …. Andrew Secombe from talking toilets to the church devoted to the worship of The Deborah Holland ...... Annabel Scholey Narrator …. John Westbrook Beatles. Directed by Sara Davies. Producer: Martin Fisher Written by Colin Birch, Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris, Jane MON 14:15 A Short History of Ireland (b007k3dq) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1981. Lamacraft, Alex Lowe, Paul Putner, Tim Perry, John Luke The Wars of the Gael and the Gall; Viking Towns and Cities MON 06:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b013216n) Roberts and Eddie Robson The country's epic story continues with the terror of the Viking Series 1 Produced by Ashley Blaker invasion and the big fight back. With Richard Dormer. Needle in a Haystack A John Stanley production for BBC Radio 4. MON 14:30 Helen Dunmore - The Betrayal (b00wdflk) A baby's life is in danger when some pep pills go missing and MON 09:30 At Home With the Hardys (b007jmtv) A Tricky Case George Dixon causes a stir at home when he offers PC As Time Goes By In her latest novel, The Betrayal, Helen Dunmore returns to the Crawford the spare room... At Caroline's party the guests try not to mention the C word - Soviet Union, and to the city of Leningrad whose history she so Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David Casablanca. Stars Jeremy Hardy and Kit Hollerbach. From June powerfully evoked in her best-seller The Siege. Now, a decade Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy 1990. later, starvation and bitter cold have been replaced with fear and Crawford. MON 10:00 Lee Hall - Spoonface Steinberg (b007jnsq) suspicion, as the people of Leningrad do their best to keep their Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The Spoonface is seven years old, autistic and terminally ill with heads down and their lives unremarkable in an era of Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. cancer. She's fascinated by opera and by the way her parents accusations, arrests and the midnight knock at the door. However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series behave. With the help of their cleaner, Mrs Spud, she tries to running from 1955 to 1976. come to terms with her extraordinary life. Anna and Andrei have survived the siege, married and together PC George Dixon ...... David Calder Lee Hall's award-winning monologue is performed by Becky have brought up Anna's brother Kolya. They want their lives to PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant Simpson. be ordinary - but when the son of a senior secret police official Archie ...... Jonah Cook First broadcast in 1997, it elicited such an extraordinary is admitted to the hospital where Andrei is a paediatrican, Billy Monks ...... Michael Carolan response from BBC Radio 4 listeners that a repeat was Andrei finds himself outmanoeuvred by the more politically Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks scheduled within days of the original transmission. astute and face to face with a man who has the power to destroy Nancy Harris ...... Carol MacReady Originally the final part of Hall's quartet of dramas examining him and his family. Mrs Monks ...... Kate Byers the experience of growing up from the perspective of children, Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by Spoonface Steinberg was subsequently adapted for TV and the Helen Dunmore's evocative portrait of one couple living in the Sue Rodwell. stage. Lee Hall went on to receive an Academy Award shadow of Stalin conveys both the sense of all pervading Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. nomination for his screenplay of Billy Elliot, later turned into a menace, from neighbours, from colleagues, from the state, and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2005. stage musical. the struggle to remain humane and true in the face of it. As the MON 07:00 PG Wodehouse (b00bfq14) Producer: Kate Rowland net tightens around Andrei and his life becomes the stuff of What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997. nightmares, she also tells a compelling and page-turning tale. Sundry Happenings in a Garden MON 11:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03ph302) Bertie Wooster must mend bridges after the debacle of the fake Episode 6 Helen Dunmore is a novelist and short story writer whose many burglary. Richard recovers from his illness, but makes an odd discovery works include 'A Spell of Winter', winner of the Orange Prize PG Wodehouse romp adapted in seven-parts by Chris Miller. about Henry. Donna Tartt's thriller, read by William Hope. and 'The Siege' which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie From April 1995. of the Year and the Orange Prize and has sold over 100,000 Wooster, Jonathan Cecil as Boko Fittleworth, Peter MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b03pd2nc) copies. Woodthorpe as Percy, Lord Worplesden, Bronwen Williams as Ed Byrne, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Peter May, Scottee, Zara Florence Craye and Denise Bryer as Edwin the Boy Scout. McFarlane, Gregory Porter The Reader is Sara Kestelman, who also read The Siege in 2001 Producer: Simon Brett Clive Anderson talks to Sanjeev Bhaskar about the return of for Book at Bedtime. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. The Kumars. After a 7 year break the multi-award winning, The abridger is Sally Marmion and the producer is Di Speirs. MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b03nt7cn) much loved television family bound back with a new home - a MON 14:45 Book of the Week (b00vkpk6) Series 12 flat in Hounslow behind Dad's homewares and gift shop. Philip Larkin - Letters to Monica Episode 2 Episode 1 David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians Each week Sanjeev struggles to interview celebrity guests Philip Larkin's Letters to Monica span the forty years of their are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to despite continued interference by his family members. 'The relationship from 1946 when they met, until Larkin's death in see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their Kumars' starts on Wednesday 15th January at 9pm on Sky 1985. They only came to light after Monica Jones died in 2001, opponents. 1HD. when nearly two thousand letters were discovered in Larkin's Marcus Brigstocke, Holly Walsh, John Finnemore and Rufus house in Hull. This never previously published correspondence, Hound are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate Clive meets Peter May, author of the best-selling Lewis trilogy edited by Anthony Thwaite, offers a unique insight into inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Eton, babies, Russia and to learn more about his love of islands... and murder. His latest Larkin's most intimate thoughts. hats. book is set on an island off the Canadian coast - home to Philip Larkin writes to Monica about his poetry, his lack of The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the only130 inhabitants - the wealthiest of whom has just been inspiration, his mundane life in Belfast and then Hull, his team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. discovered murdered. relationship with her, with his friends (notably Kingsley Amis), Producer: Jon Naismith 'Entry Island' is out now, published by Quercus Books. his parents and with his other lover Maeve. They often discuss A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. books and reading, writers and writing, and their shared love MON 08:00 Round the Horne (b00szhvg) Scottee talks to Sue Tilley about her friend, the late Leigh animals and Beatrix Potter. Larkin's letters are infused with the Series 4 Bowery - legendary performance artist, fashion designer and music he's listening to, the work he's immersed in, his general Episode 8 '80s club promoter. Leigh introduced Sue to Lucian Freud. domesticity, the food he's eaten, the sounds from the flats In 'Around The World in Ten Minutes' Douglas Smith plays the Freud's 1995 portrait of her, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, was below: they paint a vivid picture of the real world that inspired world, while Julian and Sandy are bursting into 'Bona Songs'. sold in 2008 for £17.2 million - the highest price paid for a his poetry. Stars Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and painting by a living artist. Sue's book, Leigh Bowery: The Life Read by Hugh Bonneville, who recently appeared in ITV's Betty Marsden. and Times of an Icon is available now to download. Downton Abbey and BBC TV's The Silence. He has previously Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, played Larkin in Love Again on BBC 4. London. Announcer: Douglas Smith Irish comedian Ed Byrne is a miserable old git. So instead of In Episode 1, the letters are introduced by Anthony Thwaite, a Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio celebrating his 40th birthday, he's used incipient old age to craft close friend of Larkin and the editor of the collection Letters to comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric a cynical observational show, The Roaring Forties: "There are Monica. Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, seven billion people on the planet and I only have time to be The abridger is Miranda Davies and the producer Lucy Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the friends with10 of them". Is Clive one of them? 'Ed Byrne - The Collingwood. scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and Roaring Forties' is on tour from February 2014. Episode 1: 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, Larkin arrives in Belfast to take up his new job as librarian at catchphrases and double-entendres. Music from Grammy-nominated jazz and soul singer Gregory the University and struggles to self- publish a collection of Written by Barry Took, Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke. Porter, who sings the title track from his new album 'Liquid poetry. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 11 – 17 January 2014 Page 4 of 9 MON 15:00 Lee Hall - Spoonface Steinberg (b007jnsq) Sophie Stott ...... Emma Kennedy TUE 07:30 Chain Reaction (b03nt8bk) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Daisy ...... Catherine Shepherd Series 9 MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03ph421) Timandra ...... Olivia Colman Frankie Boyle talks to Grant Morrison Mel is back with the first part of classic children's story Emil Clive ...... Mark Heap Comedian Frankie Boyle continues the chain talking to comic and the Detectives by Erich Kastner, which tells the tale of a Brian ...... Simon Godley book legend Grant Morrison. young German boy and his crime-solving friends. Boris ...... Simon Greenall They're talking Batman, where ideas come from and the future MON 17:00 The World As We Know It (b00fy2qt) Script associates: Paul Mayhew-Archer and Ed Drew. of humanity. Donna's Leaving Do Music by John Whitehall. Chain Reaction is the long-running host-less chat show where The Stranger revealed that the doomsday device was activated Producer: Adam Bromley. last week's interviewee becomes this week's interviewer. by someone inside the house. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001. Producer: Carl Cooper Donna thinks it may be time to start afresh somewhere else. But First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014. would she really go and will they discover what really caused TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jn16) the end of the world? TUESDAY 14 JANUARY 2014 Series 6 Sitcom by Luke Sorba. The Tales of Montmartre Donna ...... Meera Syal TUE 00:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jnpy) Paris, passion and duplicity abound in the tangled lives of two Johnny ...... Toby Longworth [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] talented painters. Patrick ...... Luke Sorba TUE 00:30 Planet B (b00hxnfg) Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Abigail ...... Carla Mendonca [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Milligan. The Stranger ...... Simon Greenall TUE 01:00 Wimsey (b00scvsc) Starring: Producer: Elizabeth Anstee [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Peter Sellers First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1999. TUE 01:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b013216n) Harry Secombe MON 17:30 PG Wodehouse (b00bfq14) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] Spike Milligan [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE 02:00 2525 (b03ph1bv) First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were MON 18:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jnpy) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest 2. Gifting TUE 02:30 At Home With the Hardys (b007jmtv) shows weren’t kept in the archive. Norman and Max are welcomed by the incurably friendly [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. Oblivions and soon they're offering priceless gifts - the secret TUE 03:00 Lee Hall - Spoonface Steinberg (b007jnsq) Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. of fire, contemplation and baked potatoes. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Announcer: Wallace Greenslade Colin Swash's sci-fi comedy about two space-age humans TUE 04:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03ph302) Producer: Peter Eton stranded on a friendly alien planet. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1956. Norman ...... Tony Robinson TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b03pd2nc) TUE 08:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Max ...... David Haig [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] Flywheel (b007ynfd) Stella ...... Louise Lombard TUE 05:00 The World As We Know It (b00fy2qt) Series 1 Macari ...... Michael Troughton [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] Episode 4 Terayz ...... Carla Mendonca TUE 05:30 PG Wodehouse (b00bfq14) It's a dog's life for shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel when a Tony ...... Geoff McGivern [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] Pekingese goes missing. Ken ...... Tom Hollander TUE 06:00 Paul Temple (b007jn5m) Recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows charting the Inspector Albermarle ...... Andy Rashleigh Paul Temple and the Lawrence Affair adventures of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his Producer: Richard Wilson The Little Things assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. Originally broadcast with sponsors First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995. Holidaying out-of-season in the fishing village of Downburgh, on America's NBC radio network in the 1930s. The scripts were MON 18:30 Planet B (b00hxnfg) the suave detective faces peril linking mystery deaths with a rediscovered in 1988. Series 1 disappearance. Groucho Marx as Waldorf T Flywheel ...... Michael Roberts 1. Golden Moments Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple Chico Marx as Emmanuel Ravellias ...... Frank Lazarus Grieving for his girlfriend Lioba, John gets a shock. and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for With Lorelei King and Graham Hoadly. A malfunction on Planet B means John Armstrong keeps re- BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark living his girlfriend Lioba's funeral over and over again - or With Lester Mudditt as Sir Graham Forbes. Brisenden. does he..? With Leonard Trolley as Bob Gardner and Manning Wilson as Music arranged and conducted by David Firman. Ten-part sci-fi series about a mystery virtual world. Detective Inspector Ivor. Producer: Dirk Maggs Written by Matthew Broughton. From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1990. John ...... Gunnar Cauthery Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, TUE 09:00 The Now Show (b03pctrw) Lioba ...... Donnla Hughes solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] Medley ...... Lizzy Watts series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails TUE 09:30 Spread a Little Happiness (b00ktdb2) Cerberus ...... Chris Pavlo and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore Series 1 Council Official ...... Paul Rider cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, Episode 3 Funeral Man ...... Malcolm Tierney usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. Comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a Yorkshire Cherry ...... Janice Acquah Producer: Martin C Webster sandwich bar. Danny ...... Stephen Critchlow First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1956. A recent jog to work seems to have improved more than Hope Arcade Manager ...... Inam Mirza TUE 06:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133pl2) and Jodie's muscles, judging by the number of breakfast baps Director: Jessica Dromgoole Series 1 they are selling. Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2009. Crawford's First Pinch Hope ...... Suranne Jones MON 19:00 Round the Horne (b00szhvg) Some unsavoury postcards turn up on the Dock Green beat and Jodie ...... Susan Cookson [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] the link to a recent spate of bicycle thefts makes PC Andy Dave ...... Neil Dudgeon MON 19:30 The Navy Lark (b03ph1bs) Crawford desperate to notch up his first arrest. Ray ...... Shaun Prendergast [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David Ben ...... Ben Crowe MON 20:00 Wimsey (b00scvsc) Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy Directed by Chris Wallis. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Crawford. TUE 10:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2h) MON 20:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b013216n) Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The The King's Son [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. Baby Alexander is born and there's friction between King Philip MON 21:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03ph302) However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series of Macedon and Queen Olympias. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] running from 1955 to 1976. David Wade's six-part serial on the life of Alexander the Great MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b03pd2nc) PC George Dixon ...... David Calder - starring Barry Foster, Simon Ward and Geraldine James. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant Translator: Richmond Lattimore MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b03nt7cn) Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks Spirit of Achilles ...... Barry Foster [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Joe Cooney ...... Tom McClane Spirit of Patroclus ...... Simon Ward MON 22:30 2525 (b03ph1bv) Ned Cooney ...... Michael Fenton Stevens King Philip of Macedon ...... Brian Cox [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Hilda Cooney ...... Rebecca Smart Queen Olympias ...... Geraldine James MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b03sqv11) Paul De Witt ...... Christian Rodska Young Alexander ...... Sam Crane The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Sara Pascoe is Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by Antipatros ...... David March joined by Bob Mortimer's Norwegian son, Daniel Simonsen. Sue Rodwell. Demosthenes ...... Malcolm Sinclair MON 23:00 The Now Show (b03pctrw) Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. Lysimachos ...... Keith Drinkel Series 42 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2005. Young Hephaistion ...... Gary King Episode 1 TUE 07:00 Snap (b00tf82j) Aristander ...... Barry Gordon Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Elis Series 1 Artabazus ...... Philip Anthony James for a comic romp through the week's news. With Mitch Episode 2 Kleitos ...... John Evitts Benn, Jon Holmes and Laura Shavin. After their split, Molly and Doug are determined to prove they Leonidas ...... John Webb Written by the cast with additional material from Andy Wolton, can have a life without each other. Pusanias ...... James Telfer Jane Lamacraft and Paul Davighi. Produced by Colin Anderson. And maybe they would, if it wasn't for Doug's elderly mum Menapis ...... David Thorpe MON 23:30 Think the Unthinkable (b007jm3k) misbehaving... Hellanike ...... Patti Holloway Series 1 Paul Mendelson’s sitcom stars Rebecca Lacey and Paul Barsine ...... Oona Beeson Moore and Burmans Venables. Clotho ...... Rachel Atkins Ailing high street retailer Moore and Burman desperately needs Molly …. Rebecca Lacey Lachesis ...... Jill Graham help. They must be desperate to enlist the services of Doug …. Paul Venables Atropos ...... Diana Payan Unthinkable Solutions! Kaz …. Soumaya Keynes Music: Wilfredo Acosta Ryan persuades them to go for a radical publicity campaign, Ryan …. Jessie Sullivan Director: Glyn Dearman Daisy facilitates his nervous breakdown and Sophie decides to Scarlet …. Rebecca Front First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1993. take charge of her love life with some decisive action. Annie …. Marlene Sidaway TUE 11:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03ph7cq) James Cary’s award-winning sitcom about management Raymond …. Jonathan Tafler Episode 7 consultants. Producer: David Ian Neville Richard finally learns what Henry and the others were fleeing - Ryan Packer ...... Marcus Brigstocke First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003. a ritual gone wrong. William Hope reads Donna Tartt thriller. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 11 – 17 January 2014 Page 5 of 9 From April 1995. Starring Dinsdale Landen as HM Ambassador Mackenzie, Peter WED 00:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jnt5) TUE 11:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jp76) Acre as William Frost, Moir Leslie as Helen Waterson, [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Series 1 Christopher Benjamin as Colonel Surikov and Stephen Greif as WED 00:30 Planet B (b00hxqnk) Charles Augustus Milverton US Ambassador Spiro Weinberg. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] To trap an evil blackmailer, the Baker Street sleuth dons a Producer: Neil Cargill WED 01:00 Paul Temple (b007jn5m) cunning disguise. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael Williams. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1992. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jn16) TUE 17:30 Snap (b00tf82j) WED 01:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133pl2) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] TUE 12:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and TUE 18:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jnt5) WED 02:00 The Now Show (b03pctrw) Flywheel (b007ynfd) 3. Anyone for Tennis? [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] As the Oblivions have so much time on their hands, it couldn't WED 02:30 Spread a Little Happiness (b00ktdb2) TUE 13:00 Paul Temple (b007jn5m) possibly hurt to introduce them to the gentle game of tennis, [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] could it? WED 03:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2h) TUE 13:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133pl2) Colin Swash's sci-fi comedy about two space-age humans [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] stranded on a friendly alien planet. WED 04:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03ph7cq) TUE 14:00 15 Minute Drama (b00h438m) Norman ...... Tony Robinson [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] Vita Sackville-West - All Passion Spent Max ...... David Haig WED 04:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jp76) Episode 2 Stella ...... Louise Lombard [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] Adaptation of the 1931 novel by Vita Sackville-West. Macari ...... Michael Troughton WED 05:00 Flying the Flag (b00dr99l) Lady Slane rejects her children's plans for her old age and Terayz ...... Carla Mendonca [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] begins to make a new life and two eccentric new friends in Ken ...... Tom Hollander WED 05:30 Snap (b00tf82j) Hampstead. Producer: Richard Wilson [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] Lady Slane ...... Honor Blackman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995. WED 06:00 Paul Temple (b007rqzp) Mr FitzGeorge ...... Alec McCowen TUE 18:30 Planet B (b00hxqnk) Paul Temple and the Lawrence Affair Herbert Holland ...... John Nicholas Series 1 Salty West Carrie ...... Phyllida Nash 2. New Boy The daughter of the head of CI5, Sylvia Ross has disappeared, Kay Holland ...... Patrick Romer Convinced his girlfriend Lioba is alive in a virtual world, a but the suave detective and his wife Steve are hot on the trail... Mr Bucktrout ...... Paul Nicholson nostalgic leap sends John to a brutal school. Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple Mr Gosheron ...... Peter Ellis Sci-fi series about a mystery virtual world. and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for Genoux ...... Sonia Elliman Written by Matthew Broughton. BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. Police Inspector ...... Russell Boulter John ...... Gunnar Cauthery With Lester Mudditt as Sir Graham Forbes. Deborah Holland ...... Annabel Scholey Lioba ...... Donnla Hughes With Dorothy Holmes-Gore as Mary Gardner and James Directed by Sara Davies. Medley ...... Lizzy Watts Beattie as Charlie. TUE 14:15 A Short History of Ireland (b007k3fq) Cerberus ...... Chris Pavlo From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf; A Trembling Sod Teacher ...... Stephen Critchlow Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, The country's epic story continues with a long-standing ruler Mark Swift ...... Inam Mirza solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular and the impact of events in the year 1014. With James Greene. Dean Sullivan ...... Robert Lonsdale series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails TUE 14:30 Helen Dunmore - The Betrayal (b00wgzr2) Donna Sullivan ...... Manjeet Mann and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore A Diagnosis Pip Blanc ...... Janice Acquah cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, In her novel, The Betrayal, Helen Dunmore returns to the Soviet Roger Farina ...... Malcolm Tierney usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. Union, and to the city of Leningrad whose history she so Announcer ...... Jonathan Tafler Producer: Martin C Webster powerfully evoked in her best-seller The Siege. Now, a decade Random boy ...... Paul Rider First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954. later, starvation and bitter cold have been replaced with fear and Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED 06:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0132tjy) suspicion, as the people of Leningrad do their best to keep their Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2009. Series 1 heads down and their lives unremarkable in an era of TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jn16) Dixie accusations, arrests and the midnight knock at the door. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] When things go missing from the Dixon household Doris, the TUE 19:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and downtrodden girl from next door, is exposed as a petty thief. In today's episode: It is 1952, Leningrad and Andrei and Anna Flywheel (b007ynfd) But it's Mary Dixon who comes to her rescue, against George's are just trying to live ordinary lives. But when the son of the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] wishes, and who earns the admiration of Andy Crawford... feared secret police official, Vulkov, is admitted into his TUE 20:00 Paul Temple (b007jn5m) Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David hospital, Andrei finds himself, against his better judgement, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Calder as PC George Dixon nnd David Tennant as Andy manoeuvred into seeing him. Now he is faced with a vulnerable TUE 20:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133pl2) Crawford. patient and a worrying diagnosis. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The TUE 21:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03ph7cq) Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. The Reader is Sara Kestelman, the abridger is Sally Marmion [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series and the producer is Di Speirs. TUE 21:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jp76) running from 1955 to 1976. TUE 14:45 Book of the Week (b00vkwrx) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] PC George Dixon ...... David Calder Philip Larkin - Letters to Monica TUE 22:00 Chain Reaction (b03nt8bk) PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks Episode 2: Larkin gives Monica feedback on her conversational TUE 22:30 The Mark Steel Lecture (b007qhq3) Mrs Davies ...... Esther Elliott style, meets EM Forster and ponders the difficulty of writing a Series 2 Doris Monroe ...... Sarah Counsell new novel. Karl Marx Mr Monroe ...... Roland Oliver Philip Larkin's Letters to Monica span the forty years of their The radical comedian offers his assessment of the influential Harry Lane ...... Paul Currier relationship from 1946 when they met, until Larkin's death in revolutionary thinker and philosopher. From April 2001. Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by 1985. They only came to light after Monica Jones died in 2001, TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b03sqv13) Sue Rodwell. when nearly two thousand letters were discovered in Larkin's The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Sara Pascoe is Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. house in Hull. This never previously published correspondence, joined by Bob Mortimer's Norwegian son, Daniel Simonsen. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2005. edited by Anthony Thwaite, offers a unique insight into TUE 23:00 The Museum of Everything (b007k0zt) WED 07:00 Tales From the Mausoleum Club (b007jnsr) Larkin's most intimate thoughts. Series 1 Jess of the B'ournevilles Philip Larkin writes to Monica about his poetry, his lack of School Parties Welcome Mr Sturdy arrives at the Club with a tale of West Country inspiration, his mundane life in Belfast and then Hull, his The Museum enjoys a visit from some schoolchildren as they paganism. Stars Timothy Spall. From July 2003. relationship with her, with his friends (notably Kingsley Amis), learn the origin of scampi in the new Undersea Adventure WED 07:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b03nt9w6) his parents and with his other lover Maeve. They often discuss display. Series 5 books and reading, writers and writing, and their shared love Written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Danny Robins Glastonbury animals and Beatrix Potter. Larkin's letters are infused with the and Dan Tetsell. Mark Steel returns to Radio 4 for a fifth series of the award music he's listening to, the work he's immersed in, his general With Lucy Montgomery. winning show that travels around the country, researching the domesticity, the food he's eaten, the sounds from the flats Music by Dominic Haslam and Ben Walker. history, heritage and culture of six towns that have nothing in below: they paint a vivid picture of the real world that inspired Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor common but their uniqueness, and does a bespoke evening of his poetry. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2004. comedy in each one. Read by Hugh Bonneville, who recently appeared in Downton TUE 23:30 Creme de la Crime (b0084ssn) Abbey and BBC TV's The Silence and played Larkin in Love Series 2 As every high street slowly morphs into a replica of the next, Again on BBC 4. The Spy Who Laughed Me Mark Steel's in Town celebrates the parochial, the local and the The abridger is Miranda Davies and the producer Lucy Michael Feydeau -TV's much loved Inspector Niblett - and unusual. From Corby's rivalry with Kettering to the word you Collingwood. crime expert, David Pershore probe a case of treason back in can't say in Portland, the show has taken in the idiosyncrasies of TUE 15:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2h) 1945 - a powerful mix of theft, illegality, murder, murder and a towns up and down the country, from Kirkwall to Penzance, [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] bit more murder... from Holyhead to Bungay. TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03ph8zb) Tales from the vaults of villainy written by and starring Steve Mel jumps aboard some famous steam engines with a trip to the Punt and Hugh Dennis. This first edition of the series comes from Glastonbury, National Railway Museum in York, and there's more from Director: Adam Bromley Somerset, which lives up to every expectation of being the most current story Emil and the Detectives. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. new-agey, hippyish town Mark has ever visited. He talks about TUE 17:00 Flying the Flag (b00dr99l) TUE 23:45 Mastering the Universe (b00spqnz) the Tor and King Arthur, visits the two chain shops on the High Series 4 Series 1 Street, is given an unusual reason for not being able to get into Endangered Species Food and Drink his dressing room, and makes a crucial mistake when it comes Desperate to be seen to be Green, the Ambassadors from both Professor Joy Klamp explores the miserable world of our to cider. From January 2014. East and West try to reconcile materialism with ecological menus. Stars Dawn French and Christopher Douglas. From common sense. November 2005. Written and performed by ... Mark Steel Agreement on policies proves impossible and time is running Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair out: diplomacy may soon be extinct. Production co-ordinator ... Trudi Stevens Series 4 of Alex Shearer's Eastern bloc embassy sitcom. WEDNESDAY 15 JANUARY 2014 Producer ... Ed Morrish. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 11 – 17 January 2014 Page 6 of 9 WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnjm) Adaptation of the 1931 novel by Vita Sackville-West. Ken ...... Tom Hollander Series 5 Lady Slane's retirement in Hampstead is interrupted when she is Tony ...... Geoff McGivern The Unexploded Bomb visited by a figure from her past, whose memories force her to Clive ...... Guy Witcher When the lad gets a surprise in the cellar, Sid sees his chance to take stock of her own life. Jonathan ...... RossAlistair McGowan make some money. Lady Slane ...... Honor Blackman Producer: Richard Wilson Stars Tony Hancock. Mr FitzGeorge ...... Alec McCowen First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Herbert Holland ...... John Nicholas WED 18:30 Planet B (b00hxyy0) Williams. Carrie ...... Phyllida Nash Series 1 Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Kay Holland ...... Patrick Romer 3. Freakshow Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. Mr Bucktrout ...... Paul Nicholson Searching for his girlfriend Lioba, John arrives at a bizarre Producer: Tom Ronald Mr Gosheron ...... Peter Ellis music festival - but is this world a trap? First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1958. Genoux ...... Sonia Elliman Sci-fi series about a mystery virtual world. WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b013n0q0) Police Inspector ...... Russell Boulter Written by Dawn King. Series 8 Deborah Holland ...... Annabel Scholey John ...... Gunnar Cauthery Episode 8 Directed by Sara Davies. Lioba ...... Donnla Hughes With the rise of the Common Market in mind, Radio Prune WED 14:15 A Short History of Ireland (b007k3gn) Medley ...... Lizzy Watts goes International. The Rape of Dervogilla; At Baginbun Ireland Was Lost and Cerberus ...... Chris Pavlo Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Won Ringmaster ...... Paul Rider David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. The country's colourful and vivid story continues with events Epiphany ...... Janice Acquah Sketches written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. leading up to the Norman invasion. With Frances Tomelty. Reporter 2 ...... Dan Starkey Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue WED 14:30 Helen Dunmore - The Betrayal (b00wgzrr) Reporter 3 ...... Inam Mirza 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and The Best Chance of Survival Karen ...... Manjeet Mann quickly developed a cult following. As the doctor in charge of Gorya's case, it falls to Andrei to tell Autograph Hunters ...... Audience/Cast Music and songs by Bill Oddie, Liam Cohen and Dave Lee. his father, Vulkov, what the boy's best, indeed only, chance of Other parts played by the cast. Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge survival is. The stakes are raised even higher as the two men Director: Jessica Dromgoole First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in April 1970. meet. Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2009. WED 09:00 Winston (b00pync3) Helen Dunmore's sequel to 'The Siege' read by Sara Kestelman. WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnjm) Winston Back Home Set ten years on, the starvation and bitter cold of the war years [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] A Born Natural of Leningrad have been replaced with fear and suspicion. City WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b013n0q0) Old rogue Winston's plot to be alone with Nancy gets an residents do their best to keep their heads down and their lives [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] unexpected boost from Father. unremarkable in an era of accusations, arrests and the midnight WED 20:00 Paul Temple (b007rqzp) Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial stars Bill Wallis as knock at the door. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Winston, Maurice Denham as Father, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, Helen Dunmore (1952-2017) was the writer of 12 novels and 10 WED 20:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0132tjy) Liz Goulding as Rosie and Christian Rodska as William. poetry collections winning several accolades for her work. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Director: Shaun MacLoughlin. Abridged by Sally Marmion WED 21:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03phdnz) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1994. Producer: Di Speirs [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED 09:30 The Adventures of John and Tony (b007k1s6) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. WED 21:15 Don Haworth - Recce (b007qspy) The Hiking Holiday WED 14:45 Book of the Week (b00vkxn5) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] John and his best friend Tony find face dodgy hotels and Philip Larkin - Letters to Monica WED 22:00 Mark Steel's in Town (b03nt9w6) sinister monks, but love is in the air... Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Written by John Hegley. Philip Larkin's Letters to Monica span the forty years of their WED 22:30 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive Starring John Hegley, Simon Munnery, Terry Malloy, Sunny relationship from 1946 when they met, until Larkin's death in (b007x6kn) Ormonde and Andy Hockley. 1985. They only came to light after Monica Jones died in 2001, Series 3 Original music by Nigel Piper. when nearly two thousand letters were discovered in Larkin's Episode 3 Director: Anne Edyvean. house in Hull. This never previously published correspondence, Topical piffle and outrageous fibs from Armando and his First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1999. edited by Anthony Thwaite, offers a unique insight into special guests Dara O Briain, Simon Evans and David Quantick. WED 10:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2n) Larkin's most intimate thoughts. From August 2007. I am Also Alexander Philip Larkin writes to Monica about his poetry, his lack of WED 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b007jm9l) Alexander is used as a pawn in the war between his parents, and inspiration, his mundane life in Belfast and then Hull, his Series 3 is educated by Aristotle. relationship with her, with his friends (notably Kingsley Amis), This Thing Called Love Michael Maloney, Barry Foster and Simon Ward star in David his parents and with his other lover Maeve. They often discuss Satan worries about his image, and the Professor is concerned Wade's serial on the life of Alexander the Great. books and reading, writers and writing, and their shared love over his widow's remarriage. Alexander ...... Michael Maloney animals and Beatrix Potter. Larkin's letters are infused with the Andy Hamilton’s devilishly funny sitcom set in Hell. Spirit of Achilles ...... Barry Foster music he's listening to, the work he's immersed in, his general Satan …. Andy Hamilton Spirit of Patroclus ...... Simon Ward domesticity, the food he's eaten, the sounds from the flats The Professor …. James Grout King Philip of Macedon ...... Brian Cox below: they paint a vivid picture of the real world that inspired Thomas …. Jimmy Mulville Young Alexander ...... Sam Crane his poetry. Scumspawn …. Robert Duncan Hephaistion ...... Alex Jennings Read by Hugh Bonneville, who recently appeared in Downton Other characters played by Philip Pope, Michael Fenton Young Hephaistion ...... Gary King Abbey and BBC TV's The Silence and played Larkin in Love Stevens, Felicity Montagu and Nick Revell Queen Olympias ...... Geraldine James Again on BBC 4. Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer Aristotle ...... John Moffat The abridger is Miranda Davies and the producer Lucy First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1999. Demosthenes ...... Malcolm Sinclair Collingwood. WED 23:30 Absolute Power (b007v1pd) Lysimachos ...... Keith Drinkel Episode 3: Larkin successfully gains the Head Librarianship in Series 2 Leonidas ...... John Webb Hull, has his collection 'The Less Deceived' published and is Episode 3 Ptolemy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt frustrated by his new neighbours. Can spin kings Prentiss McCabe turn a failed novelist into a Philotas ...... Michael Onslow WED 15:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2n) best seller? Stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. From February Pusanias ...... James Telfer [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] 2001. Menapis ...... David Thorpe WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03phg54) Aristander ...... Barry Gordon Mel Giedroyc has a rummage through Rob Brydon's Inheritance Demaratos ...... John Evitts Tracks, and there's the next episode of current story Emil and THURSDAY 16 JANUARY 2014 Music: Wilfredo Acosta the Detectives. Director: Glyn Dearman WED 17:00 No Commitments (b007cnzv) THU 00:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jnx2) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1993. Series 13 [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] WED 11:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03phdnz) Blue Rabbits THU 00:30 Planet B (b00hxyy0) Episode 8 Comedy series by Simon Brett following the fortunes of three [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] After the horrific revelation from Henry, Richard learns more fortysomething sisters. THU 01:00 Paul Temple (b007rqzp) about Bunny's growing significance. Donna Tartt thriller read 5/6. Blue Rabbits [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] by William Hope. From April 1995. A generational conflict erupts over how a baby's nursery should THU 01:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0132tjy) WED 11:15 Don Haworth - Recce (b007qspy) be decorated. Meanwhile, has Charlotte finally found true love? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] A study of Tom, a seemingly affable man, easy-going and Anna ...... Rosemary Leach THU 02:00 Winston (b00pync3) concerned about all the right things. Victoria ...... Angela Thorne [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] So why does he find himself isolated and alone with his family Charlotte ...... Felicity Montagu THU 02:30 The Adventures of John and Tony (b007k1s6) on a hillside farm? A TV company's intention to film him at Emily ...... Lisa Coleman [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] work reveals the reason why. Eddie ...... James Green THU 03:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2n) Don Haworth's drama stars Michael Tudor Barnes as Tom, Nick ...... Kieran Hill [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] Joanna Mackie as Angela and Anna Cropper as Joan. Patrick ...... Michael Simkins. THU 04:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03phdnz) Director: Kay Patrick WED 17:30 Tales From the Mausoleum Club (b007jnsr) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU 04:15 Don Haworth - Recce (b007qspy) WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnjm) WED 18:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jnx2) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] 4. Martinis THU 05:00 No Commitments (b007cnzv) WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b013n0q0) The dangers of tennis are now apparent to the Oblivions - but [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Martinis? What could possibly go wrong with Martinis? THU 05:30 Tales From the Mausoleum Club (b007jnsr) WED 13:00 Paul Temple (b007rqzp) Colin Swash's sci-fi comedy about two space-age humans [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] stranded on a friendly alien planet. THU 06:00 Paul Temple (b007s45n) WED 13:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0132tjy) Norman ...... Tony Robinson Paul Temple and the Lawrence Affair [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Max ...... David Haig The Handbag WED 14:00 15 Minute Drama (b00h44b0) Stella ...... Louise Lombard A drive-by shooting and the victim's last words, pose more Vita Sackville-West - All Passion Spent Macari ...... Michael Troughton Swiss puzzles for the suave detective and his wife. Episode 3 Terayz ...... Carla Mendonca Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 11 – 17 January 2014 Page 7 of 9 and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2000. Abridged by Sally Marmion BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. THU 09:30 HR (b00txgsc) Producer: Di Speirs With Lester Mudditt as Sir Graham Forbes. Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. With Dorothy Holmes-Gore as Mary Gardner, John Gabriel as Consulting THU 14:45 Book of the Week (b00vky4q) Ernest de Silva and Arthur Ridley as Detective Inspector Having nursed Peter through retirement blues, Sam himself Philip Larkin - Letters to Monica Vosper. succumbs to the dreaded sense of purposelessness. Then Peter Episode 4 From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective gets an ad looking for experienced consultants. They're made! Philip Larkin's Letters to Monica span the forty years of their Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, Nigel Williams' comedy drama series charting the misfortunes relationship from 1946 when they met, until Larkin's death in solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague. 1985. They only came to light after Monica Jones died in 2001, series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce when nearly two thousand letters were discovered in Larkin's and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost house in Hull. This never previously published correspondence, cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, Waiter ..... Sam Dale edited by Anthony Thwaite, offers a unique insight into usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. Director: Peter Kavanagh. Larkin's most intimate thoughts. Producer: Martin C Webster First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2010 Episode 4: First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954. THU 10:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx30) Larkin works on his poem about 'An Arundel Tomb' which he THU 06:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133g6t) Preparation of the Sacrifice first saw with Monica and ponders the nature of their Series 1 Young Alexander goes into battle to prove his manhood, relationship. Rock, Rattle and Roll meanwhile King Philip's remarriage plans cause tension.... Read by Hugh Bonneville, who recently appeared in Downton When a fanatical Spurs fan has his prized football rattle stolen, Michael Maloney, Barry Foster and Simon Ward star in David Abbey and BBC TV's The Silence and played Larkin in Love an FA cup tie provides the perfect excuse for a weekend away Wade's serial on the life of Alexander the Great. Again on BBC 4. in Blackpool for Andy and Mary. Alexander ...... Michael Maloney The abridger is Miranda Davies and the producer Lucy Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David Spirit of Achilles ...... Barry Foster Collingwood. Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy Spirit of Patroclus ...... Simon Ward THU 15:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx30) Crawford. King Philip of Macedon ...... Brian Cox [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The Hephaistion ...... Alex Jennings THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03pj2vh) Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. Queen Olympias ...... Geraldine James Mel Giedroyc explores the secrets of super sleuth Sherlock However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series Ptolemy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt Holmes, and there's the fourth part of current story Emil and running from 1955 to 1976. Philotas ...... Michael Onslow the Detectives, by Erich Kastner. PC George Dixon ...... David Calder Pusanias ...... James Telfer THU 17:00 Ballylenon (b007jpnw) PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant Aristander ...... Barry Gordon Series 6 Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks Demaratos ...... John Evitts Episode 4 Ben Harvey ...... Andrew Sachs Parmenion ...... John Rye Residents await news of Guard Gallagher's performance in New Jessie Harvey ...... Jacqueline Tong Antipatros ...... David March York while the Hawthornes fret about their declining Chris Miller ...... Alex McLaren Demosthene ...... Malcolm Sinclair congregation. Jim ...... Stuart Crossman Attalos ...... John Baddeley Series set in the sleepy town of Ballylenon, Co Donegal in 1956. Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by Music: Wilfredo Acosta Written by Christopher Fitz-Simon. Sue Rodwell. Director: Glyn Dearman Starring TP McKenna as Phonsie Doherty, Margaret D'Arcy as Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993. Muriel McConkey, Stella McCusker as Vera McConkey, Aine First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2005. THU 11:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03pj28f) McCartney as Vivienne Hawthorne, Gerard Murphy as Rev THU 07:00 Lenin of the Rovers (b00cfzz8) Episode 9 Samuel Hawthorne, Gerard McSorley as Stumpy Bonnar, Ali Series 2 Richard becomes more and more involved in Henry's plans to White as Josie Doherty and Charlie Bonnar as Packy Apocalypse Des deal with Bunny. Donna Tartt thriller read by William Hope. McGoldrick. Felchester Rovers take a break in the socialist idyll of El From April 1995. Music arranged and performed by Stephanie Hughes. Telvador - but a war is raging. Stars Alexei Sayle. From April THU 11:15 Andrew Rissik - The Psychedelic Spy Directed at BBC Belfast by Peter Kavanagh. 1989. (b008kkj9) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Running Scared THU 17:30 Lenin of the Rovers (b00cfzz8) (b0156jzr) Billy Hindle's given up his job as an assassin, but then his old [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Series 1 boss Snark turns up. THU 18:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jp0g) Episode 1 Andrew Rissik's thriller is set in 1968 and written in the style of 5. Things Hot Up John Finnemore, writer and star of Cabin Pressure, regular the Bond movies. When Norman introduces the Oblivions to the pleasures of the guest on The Now Show and popper-up in things like Miranda Starring James Aubrey as Billy Hindle, Gerald Harper as Sir flesh, one thing leads to another... and That Mitchell and Webb Look returns with half an hour of Richard Snark and Lisa Rowe-Beddoe as Marianne. Colin Swash's sci-fi comedy about two space-age humans his own sketches, each funnier than the last. Although, hang on, Directed by Glyn Dearman stranded on a friendly alien planet. that system means starting the whole series with the least funny First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. Norman ...... Tony Robinson sketch. Might need to rethink that. OK, it's a new show filled THU 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jp95) Max ...... David Haig with sketches written and performed by John Finnemore, but [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Stella ...... Louise Lombard now no longer arranged in strict order of funniness. Also, he's THU 12:30 Take It From Here (b00cl50x) Macari ...... Michael Troughton cut the sketch that would have gone first. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Terayz ...... Carla Mendonca This week's show sees a big job, a small job, the career path of THU 13:00 Paul Temple (b007s45n) Clive ...... Guy Witcher the average TV executive, and a tiger with a gun. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Buzz ...... Peter Serafinowcz John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars THU 13:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133g6t) Producer: Richard Wilson John Finnemore. It also features Carrie Quinlan (The News [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995. Quiz, The Late Edition), Lawry Lewin (The Life & Times of THU 14:00 15 Minute Drama (b00h44sj) THU 18:30 Planet B (b00hy943) Vivienne Vyle, Horrible Histories) and Simon Kane (Six Vita Sackville-West - All Passion Spent Series 1 Impossible Things). Episode 4 4. New Rome Producer: Ed Morrish. Adaptation of the 1931 novel by Vita Sackville-West. John and Medley are transported to a world of orgies and THU 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jp95) Lady Slane's new-found friendship with Mr FitzGeorge is circuses, where the slaves seek a new leader. Series 2 ended when he dies suddenly, leaving a legacy that comes as a Ten-part series about a mystery virtual world. A Wilson (Manager) shock to her children. Written by Simon Bowen. Captain Mainwaring is aghast when his chief clerk comes up in Lady Slane ...... Honor Blackman John ...... Gunnar Cauthery the world. Mr FitzGeorge ...... Alec McCowen Lioba ...... Donnla Hughes Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Herbert Holland ...... John Nicholas Medley ...... Lizzy Watts Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, Carrie ...... Phyllida Nash Cerberus ...... Chris Pavlo John Laurie as Private Frazer, Ian Lavender as Private Pike and Kay Holland ...... Patrick Romer Odius ...... Stephen Critchlow Arnold Ridley as Godfrey. Mr Bucktrout ...... Paul Nicholson Magnolia ...... Janice Acquah Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV Mr Gosheron ...... Peter Ellis Bay ...... Robert Lonsdale scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. Genoux ...... Sonia Elliman Chi ...... Josef Altin Producer: John Dyas Police Inspector ...... Russell Boulter Viscus ...... Jill Cardo First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975. Deborah Holland ...... Annabel Scholey Cassius Maximus ...... Malcolm Tierney THU 08:30 Take It From Here (b00cl50x) Directed by Sara Davies. Malicius ...... Inam Mirza From 07/01/1954 THU 14:15 A Short History of Ireland (b007k3hm) Bloddy ...... Paul Rider The Glums debate culinary insularity, and Jim and Bentley A Tale of Two Sieges; Henry II Comes to Ireland Red ...... Dan Starkey ponder pathos. With Jimmy Edwards and Alma Cogan. From The country's epic story continues with the Norman invasion Other parts played by the cast. January 1954. and the arrival of fresh royalty. With Richard Dormer. Director: Pam Marshall THU 09:00 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqm4) THU 14:30 Helen Dunmore - The Betrayal (b00wgztk) Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2009. December - Sauce for the Goose You Can Be a Doctor Anywhere THU 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jp95) Under the shadow of the Long Mynd, Megan is out to save Although Volkov's son has been discharged from hospital, Anna [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Gudrun from a plucking. and Andrei know they've done the unthinkable and come to the THU 19:30 Take It From Here (b00cl50x) Sue Limb’s pastoral sitcom follows six months in the life of the notice of someone powerful enough to destroy their lives. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Jones family, who live on a small farm in rural Wales. They must leave nothing to chance, but how far can they THU 20:00 Paul Temple (b007s45n) Mr Jones ...... Geoffrey Whitehead escape? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Ma Jones ...... Lisabeth Miles Helen Dunmore's sequel to 'The Siege' read by Sara Kestelman. THU 20:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133g6t) Megan Jones ...... Rebecca Front Set ten years on, the starvation and bitter cold of the war years [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Owen Jones ...... Matthew Morgan of Leningrad have been replaced with fear and suspicion. City THU 21:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03pj28f) Bootle ...... Michael Fenton Stevens residents do their best to keep their heads down and their lives [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Mr Jenkins ...... Nickolas Grace unremarkable in an era of accusations, arrests and the midnight THU 21:15 Andrew Rissik - The Psychedelic Spy Recorded on location. knock at the door. (b008kkj9) Music composed by John Whitehall. Helen Dunmore (1952-2017) was the writer of 12 novels and 10 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Producer: Jonathan James Moore. poetry collections winning several accolades for her work. THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 11 – 17 January 2014 Page 8 of 9 (b0156jzr) Crawford. Civil Servant …. Ellen McIntosh [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The The Man on the Train …. William Eedle THU 22:30 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea Blue Lamp', which ended with Dixon being shot dead. Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin. (b0076zx3) However, Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1984. Series 3 running from 1955 to 1976. FRI 09:00 Millport (b0076221) There's Something About Mrs Naughtie PC George Dixon ...... David Calder Series 2 Mrs Naughtie comes into a large inheritance from her PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant Avowal mysterious Uncle Nab and attracts the not altogether Mary Dixon ...... Charlie Brooks Irene and Moira aren't speaking, Alberto and Ena have fallen unwelcome advances of Hamish, Dougal and the Laird. Doug Beale ...... Carl Prekopp out over the minestrone and Agnes has declared World War III Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden star as the two Scotsmen Diana Johnson ...... Hayley Docherty on the Minister's trousers. Just how are villagers going to solve famed for their appearances on BBC Radio’s I'm Sorry I Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by their dispute if no one is talking to each other... Haven't A Clue. Sue Rodwell. Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as With Alison Steadman as their cleaning-lady-cum-housekeeper, Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe. 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a Mrs Naughtie, and Jeremy Hardy as the local Laird. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2005. better life on the mainland. Producer: Jon Naismith FRI 07:00 Chambers (b007znmz) Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2006. Series 1 Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown THU 22:45 Tina C (b0076q68) The Cab Rank Rule Alberto/Robert ...... Lewis McLeod Tina C's Tiny Island Tour Fuller-Carp faces a dilemma when asked to represent animal Ena/Bunty ...... Gabriel Quigley Scotland rights activists, having just accepted an invitation to go fox- Bob/Minister ...... Robert Patterson The country singer and global activist promotes her new album hunting with some influential High Court judges. Dougie ...... Matt Costello in Glasgow and traces her tartan in Edinburgh. Stars Nor is it just Fuller-Carp's dignity which is on the line, as LAM Music arranged by Olly Fox. Christopher Green. From January 2005. (Lawyers against Meat) is ready to pounce... Producer: Lucy Bacon THU 23:00 Inside Alan Francis (b00hlf5j) Clive Coleman’s sitcom about the questionable practices of a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001. Episode 1 group of barristers. FRI 09:30 Electric Ink (b01kkqc9) Comedian Alan Francis explores the workings of his own mind John Fuller Carp ...... John Bird Series 2 in relation to his life, friends and long-suffering girlfriend Jane. Hilary Tripping ...... James Fleet Episode 6 Alan realises he must have done something wrong to annoy Ruth Quirke ...... Lesley Sharp Maddox's future is uncertain as a rather shady character plans to Jane, but can't remember what it is? Vince ...... Jonathan Kydd buy the newspaper. With Julian Dutton, Barnaby Power, Kali Peacock. Simon De Vere ...... Jonathan Coy Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson's comic satire set in the Producer Julia McKenzie Rob ...... Paul Shearer struggling world of newspapers. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2009. Mr Porteus ...... Keith Drinkel A group of dysfunctional journalists attempt to cover major THU 23:30 The Problem With Adam Bloom (b018zvmk) Mrs Porteus ...... Ann Beach news stories whilst grappling with the demands of a multi- Series 3 Producer Paul Schlesinger platform environment, as circulation figures plummet as the Reading First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996. recession means half the workforce is laid off. Adam Bloom investigates his fear of reading aloud. Just what is FRI 07:30 Warhorses of Letters (b03pdhkq) Maddox ..... John Sessions the point of books? Series 3 Oliver ..... Alex Jennings After very negative but funny experiences at school, the Episode 1 Freddy ..... Stephen Wight comedian managed to avoid reading a book for much of his First in a new series of the world's best-loved epistolary equine Carol ..... Polly Frame adult life. But he does find one novel that inspires him to start comedy-romance, as we reveal more of the recently-discovered, Masha ..... Debbie Chazen reading again. passionate letters between the Duke of Wellington's horse Andrei Zinoviev ..... Ewan Bailey Written by and starring Adam Bloom. Copenhagen (played by Daniel Rigby) and Napoleon's steed Steward ..... Adeel Akhtar With Rob Rouse, Hattie Hayridge and Stefano Polini. Marengo (played by Stephen Fry), with an introduction by Producer: Sally Avens Producer: Adam Bromley Tamsin Greig. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2011. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2005. Beginning at the height of the Battle of Waterloo and Marengo's FRI 10:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx34) close brush with death our heroes deal with the aftermath of The Road to Gordium battle as Marengo becomes part of the spoils of war. Will defeat Warrior Alexander becomes King of Macedon and sets out to FRIDAY 17 JANUARY 2014 bring him exile to St Helena at his master's side, or will be be conquer the world. untied with his true love Copenhagen? And if the latter, should Michael Maloney and Barry Foster star in David Wade's serial FRI 00:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jp0g) they rebrand themselves as hot new power-couple on the life of Alexander the Great. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Mopenhagen? Or Carengo? Alexander ...... Michael Maloney FRI 00:30 Planet B (b00hy943) Written by Robbie Hudson and Marie Phillips Spirit of Achilles ...... Barry Foster [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Produced by Gareth Edwards. Spirit of Patroclus ...... Simon Ward FRI 01:00 Paul Temple (b007s45n) FRI 07:45 Political Animals (b01lv38q) Hephaistion ...... Alex Jennings [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Series 1 Queen Olympias ...... Geraldine James FRI 01:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133g6t) Wilberforce Darius ...... Charles Kay [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] Wilberforce, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office 1973-1987, Harpalos ...... Dominic Letts FRI 02:00 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqm4) reflects on his life with Margaret Thatcher. Perdikkas ...... Mark Straker [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Starring Clive Swift. Charidemos ...... Jonathan Adams FRI 02:30 HR (b00txgsc) The first in a series of four scurrilous talks given by well- Ptolemy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] known, if unreliable, Downing Street cats. Philotas ...... Michael Onslow FRI 03:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx30) Tony Bagley assists each feline to relate their trials and Anteas ...... Barry Gordon [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] tribulations under four different Prime Ministers. Simmias ...... John Evitts FRI 04:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03pj28f) Director: Marc Beeby Antipatros ...... David March [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2012. Demosthene ...... Malcolm Sinclair FRI 04:15 Andrew Rissik - The Psychedelic Spy (b008kkj9) FRI 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlqh) Nabarzanes ...... John Baddeley [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] Series 3 Music: Wilfredo Acosta FRI 05:00 Ballylenon (b007jpnw) Without Prejudice Director: Glyn Dearman [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] Harold persuades Albert to leave their rag and bone yard to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993. FRI 05:30 Lenin of the Rovers (b00cfzz8) move out to suburbia. FRI 11:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03pm1hw) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as Episode 10 FRI 06:00 Paul Temple (b007jn7r) Harold. With Edward Kelsey, Garrard Green and Trevor The murder has finally been committed. However, a phone call Paul Temple and the Lawrence Affair Martin. complicates things. Donna Tartt thriller read by William Hope. Return to Downburgh Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association From April 1995. Pondering the mystery over the handbag, the suave detective with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson FRI 11:15 Andrew Rissik - The Psychedelic Spy (b007k1nx) and his wife, Steve follow up a fresh lead... wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Mondays Are Hell Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring Forced to give up Marianne, assassin Billy Hindle is and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold blackmailed into one last job. Stars James Aubrey and Joanna BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. Lumley. With Lester Mudditt as Sir Graham Forbes. Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by FRI 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlqh) With Allan McClelland as Max Burford, John Gabriel as Ernest Gale Pedrick. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] de Silva, Dorothy Holmes-Gore as Doris and Arthur Ridley as Produced by Bobby Jaye FRI 12:30 Yes Minister (b007k0fx) Detective Inspector Vosper. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1971. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective FRI 08:30 Yes Minister (b007k0fx) FRI 13:00 Paul Temple (b007jn7r) Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular The Skeleton in the Cupboard FRI 13:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133ldd) series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails MP Jim Hacker gets the better of Sir Humphrey over a crisis in [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore Derbyshire. FRI 14:00 15 Minute Drama (b00h45n1) cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds. Vita Sackville-West - All Passion Spent usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's satirical sitcom centred around Episode 5 Producer: Martin C Webster the hapless MP Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service Adaptation of the 1931 novel by Vita Sackville-West. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954. underlings headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby Lady Slane's decision about what to do with the vast fortune left FRI 06:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133ldd) and obsequious Bernard. to her by her friend Mr FitzGeorge outrages her family, but a Series 1 It first ran on BBC TV between 1980 and 1984. visit from her great-granddaughter brings hope for the future. Roaring Boy Jim Hacker …. Paul Eddington Lady Slane ...... Honor Blackman Mary and Andy have some exciting news for George, but he's Sir Humphrey Appleby …. Nigel Hawthorne Mr FitzGeorge ...... Alec McCowen nowhere to be found - and on the other side of Dock Green, a Bernard Woolley …. Derek Fowldes Herbert Holland ...... John Nicholas desperate young man with a gun is on the run. Dr Cartwright …. Ian Lavender Carrie ...... Phyllida Nash Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David Alex Andrews …. Clive Merrison Kay Holland ...... Patrick Romer Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy Civil Servant …. Peter Acre Mr Bucktrout ...... Paul Nicholson Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 11 – 17 January 2014 Page 9 of 9 Mr Gosheron ...... Peter Ellis Regulator ...... Stephen Critchlow Genoux ...... Sonia Elliman Lyall ...... Inam Mirza Police Inspector ...... Russell Boulter Fracta ...... Jill Cardo Deborah Holland ...... Annabel Scholey Other parts played by the cast. Directed by Sara Davies. Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI 14:15 A Short History of Ireland (b007k3jg) Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2009. Conquests and a Failed Treaty; John, Lord of Ireland FRI 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlqh) The country's epic story. There are terrible battles under King [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Henry II, and then a new leader arrives. With Frances Tomelty. FRI 19:30 Yes Minister (b007k0fx) FRI 14:30 Helen Dunmore - The Betrayal (b00wgzvb) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] We Always Find Them Out FRI 20:00 Paul Temple (b007jn7r) There are rumours about Gorya's health. As Anna and Andrei [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] are given a warning to try to get out of Leningrad, is it already FRI 20:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b0133ldd) too late to escape the tightening noose? [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Helen Dunmore's sequel to 'The Siege' read by Sara Kestelman. FRI 21:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03pm1hw) Set ten years on, the starvation and bitter cold of the war years [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] of Leningrad have been replaced with fear and suspicion. City FRI 21:15 Andrew Rissik - The Psychedelic Spy (b007k1nx) residents do their best to keep their heads down and their lives [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] unremarkable in an era of accusations, arrests and the midnight FRI 22:00 Warhorses of Letters (b03pdhkq) knock at the door. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Helen Dunmore (1952-2017) was the writer of 12 novels and 10 FRI 22:15 Political Animals (b01lv38q) poetry collections winning several accolades for her work. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:45 today] Abridged by Sally Marmion FRI 22:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b015fkl4) Producer: Di Speirs Series 4 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. Kathy Burke FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b00vkyyv) Marcus Brigstocke invites actress Kathy Burke to try some new Philip Larkin - Letters to Monica experiences, like visiting Harrods in London. Episode 5 Whether the experiences are banal or profound, the show is Philip Larkin's Letters to Monica span the forty years of their about embracing the new and getting out of our comfort zones. relationship from 1946 when they met, until Larkin's death in The title comes from the fact that the show's producer and 1985. They only came to light after Monica Jones died in 2001, creator Bill Dare had never seen the film Star Wars. when nearly two thousand letters were discovered in Larkin's Producer: Bill Dare house in Hull. This never previously published correspondence, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2011. edited by Anthony Thwaite, offers a unique insight into FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b03sg4zj) Larkin's most intimate thoughts. The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats Episode 5: Larkin looks back at his life leading up to his fiftieth to comedian Kevin Day. birthday and despite the success of The Whitsun Weddings, FRI 23:00 Little Britain (b008l1sx) wonders if he has achieved all that he set out to. Anthony Series 1 Thwaite concludes the episode. Episode 5 Read by Hugh Bonneville, who recently appeared in Downton Back where it premiered, Matt Lucas and David Walliams' Abbey and BBC TV's The Silence and played Larkin in Love oddball TV smash hit - without the cameras. Again on BBC 4. Hypnotist Kenny Craig goes swimming, ex-mafia man Joey the In Episode 5, the letters are concluded with comment from Stool visits the library and Fat Fighters leader Marjorie Dawes Anthony Thwaite, a close friend of Larkin and the editor of the receives some bad news. collection Letters to Monica. The sketch show which examines ordinary life in Britain as The abridger is Miranda Davies and the producer Lucy lived by some less than ordinary British folk. Collingwood. With Jean Ainslie, Tom Baker, Samantha Power and Paul FRI 15:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx34) Putner. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Music: David Arnold FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03pm37k) Producer: Ashley Blaker. Mel Giedroyc breaks open the piggy bank and explores the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2001. changing value of pocket money through the years. And there's FRI 23:30 The Simon Day Show (b01jxtf2) the final part of current story Emil and the Detectives. Series 2 FRI 17:00 Huddwinks (b00fsmz6) Tony Becton Series 2 Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The The Idiots Have Landed! Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. Each A Second World War tale of derring-do, to dispose of Adolf week one of Simon's comic characters come to perform at The Hitler at his Bavarian lodge. Mallard while the staff struggle with rivalries, self-doubt and Roy Hudd stars in Laurie Rowley’s comic parodies. the new owner's vision for the theatre's future. With: This week reformed violent offender Tony Becton returns to Denise Coffey The Mallard Theatre with stories of his rehabilitation and new Chris Emmett life in a park. David Gooderson Cast list: Fred Harris Tony Becton ..... Simon Day Producer: Jonathan James-Moore Emanuel Akinyemi ..... Felix Dexter First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1988. Pat Bennet ... Morwenna Banks FRI 17:30 Chambers (b007znmz) Ron Bone / Wozak ..... Simon Greenall [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Written by Simon Day FRI 18:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jp39) Produced by Colin Anderson. 6. Sacrifice Oblivio is in the grip of an Ice Age. When the UME spaceship lands on the surface, Norman and Max make a sacrifice... Conclusion of Colin Swash’s sci-fi comedy about two space-age humans stranded on a friendly alien planet. Norman ...... Tony Robinson Max ...... David Haig Stella ...... Louise Lombard Macari ...... Michael Troughton Suzy ...... Carla Mendonca Louise ...... Ronni Ancona Ume ...... Lorelei King Vince ...... Daniel Main Producer: Richard Wilson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995. FRI 18:30 Planet B (b00j0hqr) Series 1 5. The Smart Money John and Medley are transported to a world of orgies and circuses, where the slaves seek a new leader. Ten-part series about a mystery virtual world. Written by Paul May. John ...... Gunnar Cauthery Lioba ...... Donnla Hughes Medley ...... Lizzy Watts Cerberus ...... Chris Pavlo Trader 1 ...... Janice Acquah Trader 2 ...... Robert Lonsdale Wheeler ...... Paul Rider Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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