Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 May 2020 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 09 MAY 2020 College Cambridge, Brighton and Oxford Brookes. Mother ...... Mary Wimbush Produced by David Tyler Johnny ...... Michael Packer SAT 00:00 William Golding - Lord of the Flies (b036j238) A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July Joan ...... Joanne Pearce Gift For Darkness 2019. Pauline ...... Amy Pemble Since their plane crashed into a deserted island, the group of SAT 02:30 1835 (b012gpr4) Bridie ...... Annie Hayes surviving schoolboys have awaited rescue by mainting a signal The Reluctant Aristocrat Keith ...... Robin Summers fire. In order to prove he's not a feckless, idle aristocrat, Belport Chef (Harry) ...... Brian Smith But as tensions rose amongst the group factions have emerged manages to kick off the world's first rail strike - in the process Director: Caroline Raphael causing a split. Jack and his hunters have set up camp at a rocky proving to everyone that he's a feckless, idle aristocrat... First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1985 outcrop they call Castle Rock while Ralph, Piggy, Simon and a Comic saga of an aristocrat and his servant who struggle to find SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b04hvy0l) few stragglers have remained at the shelters with the signal fire. things to do in the mid- 1830s. Series 34 And it's the fire that the hunters so desperately crave. Belport ...... Paul Rider Andrew Adonis on Joseph Bazalgette Conclusion of William Golding's classic fable. Ned ...... Jason Done Matthew Parris hears from Labour peer Lord Adonis why Ralph . . . . . Finn Bennett Arbuthnot ...... Roy Barraclough Joseph Bazalgette, the Victorian engineer, has his nomination as Jack . . . . . Richard Linnell George ...... Simon Greenall a Great Life. Piggy . . . . . Kasper Hilton Hille Charlie ...... Jonathan Keeble Bazalgette, the grandson of a French immigrant who made a Simon . . . . . Jack Kane Written and directed at BBC Manchester by Jim Poyser. fortune lending money to the Hanoverian royal family, is one of Maurice . . . . . Barney Herrin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. the most important of the great Victorian engineers. He not only Sam . . . . . Bradley Shedden SAT 03:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence built a sewage system for London which wiped out cholera in Eric . . . . . Tomi Fry (b008ncs3) the city, he also built the famous Embankments, laid out several Roger . . . . . Edward Bracey Episode 2 of the main thoroughfares and built or improved many of the Bill . . . . . Gabriel Brody Despite Newland Archer's marriage to May, he is still obsessed city's landmark bridges. Yet he is far less well-known than his Littleun . . . . . Isaac Andrews with thoughts of Ellen Olenska. flamboyant contemporary Brunel and less celebrated than the Mother . . . . . Stephanie Racine Conclusion of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel creators of the railways. With the help of Joseph Bazalgette's Officer . . . . . Adam Nagaitis about a passionate life-long love affair which breaks all the great-great-grandson Sir Peter Bazalgette, the man responsible Narrator . . . . . Ruth Wilson rules of the restrictive high society of 1870's New York. for Ready Steady Cook and Big Brother and now Chairman of Dramatised by Judith Adams. Newland Archer .... Ryan McCluskey the Arts Council, Matthew pieces together the story of Sir Director: Sasha Yevtushenko Ellen Olenska .... Susan Lynch Joseph Bazalgette, "The Sewer King." Conch player: Eilon Morris May Welland ... Kellie Bright Producer Christine Hall Sound design and choral arrangement: Colin Guthrie Augusta Welland .... Lorelei King First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2013. Sillerton Jackson/Riviere ..... Kerry Shale SAT 08:00 Counterpoint (b00jm2np) SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b0076ww3) Julius Beaufort .... Conrad Nelson Series 23 Am I My Brother's Keeper? Lawrence .... Martin T Sherman 2009 Heat 6 Dominic Arkwright and guests Mary Loudon, Morag Joss and Dramatised by Jane Rogers. From London, chairman Paul Gambaccini hosts the wide- Pip Utton discuss brothers, sisters and sibling rivalry. From Director: Nadia Molinari ranging music quiz spanning every era. 2006. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2008. With Brian Haynes from London, Alistair Smith from SAT 01:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000hwpg) SAT 04:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000hwpk) Lymington and Nicholas Tucker from Lewes. 3. An Egg Farm in Norfolk Interviews to inspire Producer Paul Bajoria. On the trail of wartime secrets, Boyd Stuart has been sent to Amanda Litherland revisits the Podcast Radio Hour archive to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009. Los Angeles by the British Secret Service to investigate a film see what budding podcasters can learn from some of her most SAT 08:30 The Change (b0076p3r) company. inspirational guests: Series 3 But he's being followed and his contact dies.... Ira Glass talks about the beginnings of This American Life. Episode 3 Len Deighton’s riveting thriller XPD stands for Expedient Dame Kelly Holmes discusses the challenge of moving from With both couples' relationships seemingly over, another Demise. Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. interviewee to interviewer. bombshell hits: there's a baby on the way. How on earth will the Boyd Stuart ...... Trevor Nichols Clare Balding highlights the importance of getting a great idea news be received? Charles Stein ...... Bruce Boa on its feet. Carol …. Lynda Bellingham Max Breslow ...... Bernard Hepton Jay Rayner talks about the joy of conversation over a good George …. Philip Jackson Wever ...... Carl Duering meal. Violet ...... Marcia Warren Reader ...... Colin Starkey George The Poet reveals how he combined disciplines to create Maureen …. Maureen Beattie Case Officer ...... Alan Thompson the award winning Have You Heard George's Podcast. Ken …. James Vaugnan Psychiatrist ...... David Garth Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie talk about the much loved Sonia …. Emma Kennedy Mrs Breslow ...... Mary Wimbush Table Manners. Jerry …. Barnaby Kay Mrs Wever ...... Anne Jameson David Dimbleby shows how it's never too late to start your own Dave …. Mark Powley Hitler ...... David Sinclair series Doctor ...... Rosie Armstrong Producer: Peter King And Stephen Fry expresses his love for podcasts as a unique Diana Aitchison ...... Herself First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1985 medium to feed our curiosity. Series 3 of the sitcom about a married couple's attempts to SAT 01:30 Miss Marple (b007jnl4) SAT 05:00 Electric Ink (b01k9wdn) smooth over their singularly troubled midlife funk - Carol is A Murder Is Announced Series 2 hormonal and 15-stone George is a transvestite. Onlookers can't Episode 5 Episode 5 quite agree on the nature of their dynamic. A further murder has been committed, but just as Miss Marple Freddy punctures Maddox's literary pretensions and uncovers a Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. is piecing her thoughts together - she disappears... scandal. Producer: Elizabeth Freestone Conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit starring June Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson's comic satire set in the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004. Whitfield as the deceptively mild sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. struggling world of newspapers. SAT 09:00 Comedy Greats (b007jtlc) Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. A group of dysfunctional journalists attempt to cover major 1970s Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield news stories whilst grappling with the demands of a multi- Episode 1 Inspector Craddock ...... Ian Lavender platform environment, as circulation figures plummet as the Decade by decade, Barry Cryer keeps on truckin’ with some of Letty Blacklock ...... Sarah Lawson recession means half the workforce is laid off. the funniest and finest shows ever broadcast by the BBC. Colonel Easterbrook ...... Jack Hedley Maddox ..... John Sessions Six favourites plucked from the sensational 1970s schedules of Laura Easterbrook ...... Joanna McCallum Oliver ..... Alex Jennings BBC Radio 2 and 4: Bunch Harmon ...... Molly Gaisford Freddy ..... Stephen Wight * The News Huddlines Patrick Simmons ...... Jamie Glover Carol ..... Polly Frame From 7th November 1979 Mitzi ...... Jenny Funnell Masha ..... Debbie Chazen Roy Hudd’s long-running topical comedy sketch series. Janet Julia Simmons ...... Angela Sims Miles Deanbrook ..... Sean Baker Brown and Chris Emmett help to poke fun at the week’s news Phillipa Haymes ...... Sarah Rice Waiter ..... Adeel Akhtar events featuring Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan and Director: Enyd Williams Producer: Sally Avens ABBA. . First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1999 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010. * All Gas And Gaiters SAT 02:00 The 3rd Degree (m0007bk0) SAT 05:30 Just a Minute (b05nt9bf) Series 1 (6/13) Only Three Can Play Series 9 Series 71 Will Noote's playing away ruin the clerics' game? Clerical University of Plymouth Episode 8 comedy adapted from TV starring Derek Nimmo and William A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this After an incredibly successful debut earlier in this series, David Mervyn. From February 1971. week from the University of Plymouth with specialist subjects Tennant is back on the show, joining Julian Clary, Stephen Fry * The Frankie Howerd Show including History, Geology and Human Biosciences and and Paul Merton. Series 4 - from November 1975 questions ranging from deadly jellyfish to glowing jellyfish via But will he manage to speak for an entire minute this time..? The king of titters reads some ditties and takes on some Jack Straw, Krishna and Planck’s Constant. Subjects include "To Be or Not to Be" and "My Dog's Got No overgrown animals in a spoof sci-fi thriller! With Norma The programme is recorded on location at a different Nose". Ronald, Ray Fell and Timothy Davies. University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against Nicholas Parsons rules over BBC Radio 4's classic panel game * Parsley Sidings three of their Professors in an original and fresh take on an in which the contestants are challenged to speak on a given Series 2 (6/10) A Bird In The Hand academic quiz. subject for a minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation. A rare gull is spotted during a station spring-clean, causing The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT 06:00 Stephen Lowe - Touched (b05qdv20) chaos on the line. Railway station comedy starring Arthur Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow 8th May 1945, Nottingham: Three sisters gather to hear Prime Lowe, Kenneth Connor, Liz Fraser and Ian Lavender. From and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the Minister Winston Churchill pronounce the end of the war in November 1973. students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and Europe. * Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, sport, In the hundred days that follow, before VJ Day, they come to (11/13) Count Down and quite possibly Ed Sheeran. In addition, the Head-to-Head face the haunting reality of the future. Terry helps stressed Bob prepare for his wedding. Adapted rounds see students take on their Professors in their own Stephen Lowe's wartime drama won the 1977 George Devine from TV’s classic sitcom about mismatched friends. Starring subjects, offering plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on Award. James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Joan Hickson and Bill Owen. both sides. Sandra ...... Sian Thomas From October 1975. Other Universities featured in this series include Royal Mary ...... Anne Jameson * Hello Cheeky Holloway University of London, Aberdeen, St Catharine’s Betty ...... Sara Mair-Thomas From October 1979 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 May 2020 Page 2 of 8 Red Rum and sound effects galore! Sketches galore with rapid Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. Bail (the driving force behind its legendary Improbability pun-tastic fun starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin and Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield Drive). Barry Cryer. Music by the Denis King Trio. Inspector Craddock ...... Ian Lavender Bad as this might be, worse is to come when the robots are Produced and scripted by Peter Reed Letty Blacklock ...... Sarah Lawson caught in the act by Zaphod Beeblebrox, who discovers they are Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in June 2003. Dora Bunner ...... Judy Cornwell about to go to a Party, but not intending to take him with them. SAT 12:00 North by Northamptonshire (b00sp454) Mitzi ...... Jenny Funnell In fact they add injury to insult and shoot him instead. Series 1 Julia Simmons ...... Angela Sims Attempting to reach the same party Arthur, Ford and Episode 1 Phillipa Haymes ...... Sarah Rice Slartibartfast use the - surprisingly clean - toilet transportation Sheila Hancock heads a stunning cast including Mackenzie Director: Enyd Williams cubicles of the Starship Bistromath. But something goes wrong Crook, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu and Kevin Eldon in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1999. and Arthur finds himself diverted to a labyrinth wherein dwells this clever, funny and touching series about a small town in the SAT 14:00 Miss Marple (b007jnk6) a creature who appears to nurse a very deep and ancient grudge middle of Northamptonshire as it prepares for a talent night. A Murder Is Announced against him..." Written by and also starring Katherine Jakeways. Episode 3 The Book …. William Franklyn Get to know the local supermarket manager who shares rather There is little doubt that the intended murder victim was Miss Arthur Dent …. Simon Jones more than is usual about his private life over the store's tannoy Blacklock. Will a second attempt be made on her life? Ford Prefect …. Geoff McGivern system. Recently divorced Jan has been trying unsuccessfully to Agatha Christie's whodunit starring June Whitfield as the Marvin …. Stephen Moore 'find herself' with a trip abroad to an elephant sanctuary. But it deceptively mild sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. Trillian …. Susan Sheridan is at home in Wadenbrook that she starts to feel happier with Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. Zaphod Beeblebrox …. Mark Wing-Davey herself as her friendship blossoms with ex-teacher Mary. And, Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield Slartibartfast …. Richard Griffiths joy of joys, could it be that Jan is going to experience a touch Inspector Craddock ...... Ian Lavender Robot Waiter …. Roger Gregg of romance at last? Letty Blacklock ...... Sarah Lawson Zem …. Andy Taylor Meet driving instructor and forthright self-defence teacher Dora Bunner ...... Judy Cornwell Judiciary Pag …. Rupert Degas Esther and her gentle and put-upon Jonathan as they struggle to Bunch Harmon ...... Molly Gaisford Wikkit Voice …. Dominic Hawksley start a family and we meet possibly the only happy couple in Patrick Simmons ...... Jamie Glover First Krikkit Man …. Philip Pope town, Ken and Keith, as they attempt to teach their pet whippets Mitzi ...... Jenny Funnell Second Krikkit Man …. Michael Fenton Stevens to dance for the town talent night. Julia Simmons ...... Angela Sims Henry Blofeld as Himself In this opening episode, Mary starts rehearsals for the town Phillipa Haymes ...... Sarah Rice Fred Trueman as Himself talent night and is shocked by 12 year old Gregory's slide show Mrs Goedler ...... Tessa Worsley Written by Douglas Adams of Victorian ladies. Director: Enyd Williams Music by Philip Pope and Paul ‘Wix’ Wickens Meanwhile Esther sends her husband Jonathan out to collect First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1999 Adapted and Directed by Dirk Maggs money for the Leicestershire Infertile Males Project but he SAT 14:30 Miss Marple (b007jnkp) Producers: Helen Chattwell and Bruce Hyman ends up at The Bricklayer's Arms looking at pictures of A Murder Is Announced An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast elephants with Jan. Episode 4 in October 2004. Narrator ...... Sheila Hancock Everyone realises that the poison was meant for Miss SAT 18:30 The Man in Black (b00grv3d) Rod ...... Mackenzie Crook Blacklock, not Dora Bunner. Suspicion falls on the members of Series 1 Mary ...... Penelope Wilton the group. The White Hare by Lucy Gough Jan ...... Felicity Montagu Agatha Christie's whodunit starring June Whitfield as the When Izzie and Casper move to the country, they imagine an Jonathan ...... Kevin Eldon deceptively mild sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. idyllic lifestyle. But the reality is very different. Izzie's nerves Esther ...... Katherine Jakeways Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. are already frayed, but with threats from a hostile farmer - she Keith ...... John Biggins Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield spots an ill-omen... Landlord ...... Rufus Wright Inspector Craddock ...... Ian Lavender Lucy Gough's tale is introduced by Mark Gatiss as sinister Gregory ...... Sam Cotton Letty Blacklock ...... Sarah Lawson raconteur, The Man in Black. Producer: Claire Jones Bunch Harmon ...... Molly Gaisford Casper ...... Tom Goodman-Hill First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2010. Patrick Simmons ...... Jamie Glover Izzie ...... Janice Acquah SAT 12:30 The Navy Lark (b007k2yc) Mitzi ...... Jenny Funnell Farmer ...... Stephen Critchlow Have Been Redecorating Julia Simmons ...... Angela Sims Café Owner ...... Manjeet Mann HMS Troutbridge needs a facelift preparation for the arrival of Phillipa Haymes ...... Sarah Rice Kaddy ...... Poppy Lee Friar a new senior WREN. Miss Murgatroyd ...... Alice Arnold Horrifying series of tales from The Man in Black. You might Stars Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee and Stephen Murray. Miss Hinchliffe ...... Elizabeth Bell meet him at a luggage carousel in an airport, or behind the desk Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Director: Enyd Williams at an employment agency or he might approach you in the Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive 13 series First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1999 corridor of a care home. between 1959 and 1976. SAT 15:00 Miss Marple (b007jnl4) Wherever you encounter him, he's eager to pass on his stories. The Sub-Lieutenant ...... Leslie Phillips [Repeat of broadcast at 01:30 today] Stories to unsettle and horrify. Stories to haunt you. The Chief Petty Officer ...... Jon Pertwee SAT 15:30 A Good Read (b00qplyl) The Man In Black first appeared in the 1940s as the chilling The Number One ...... Stephen Murray India Knight and Richard Hawley voice who introduced a series of terrifying radio dramas. He Captain Povey ...... Richard Caldicot Columnist India Knight and musician Richard Hawley join Sue returned on Radio 4 in the 1970s and then again in the late Second Officer McCluty ...... Heather Chasen MacGregor to discuss favourite paperbacks. by Nora Ephron, 80s/early 90s. Commander Bell ...... Ronnie Barker John Steinbeck and Adeline Yen Mah. Director: Peter Leslie Wild Uncle ...... Tenniel Evans India's choice: Heartburn by Nora Ephron Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2009. The Padre ...... Michael Bates Publisher. Virago SAT 19:00 Comedy Greats (b007jtlc) Written by Lawrie Wyman. Richard's choice: Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. Publisher. Penguin SAT 22:00 The Boosh (b007jmf4) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September Sue's choice: Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah Stolen 1967. Publisher. Penguin Zookeepers Howard Moon and Vince Noir try to catch an SAT 13:00 Miss Marple (b007jnj3) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2010. animal thief at Bob Fossil's Zoo - with the help of a deer A Murder Is Announced SAT 16:00 Stephen Lowe - Touched (b05qdv20) costume. Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Written by and starring Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Miss Jane SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b04hvy0l) The Boosh is a surreal adventure based on their Perrier Award- Marple, are agog with curiosity over an ad in the local gazette [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] winning comedy show, featuring Howard and Vince's battles which reads: 'A murder is announced and will take place on SAT 18:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with zoo manager Bob Fossil (Rich Fulcher). Friday October 29th at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm'. (b0076nj3) Vince is a regular 'Mowgli in flares' due to his affinity with As the time approaches, the crowds gather at Little Paddocks The Tertiary Phase animals and adoration for all things Seventies, whereas Howard and then the lights go out. Surely it must be a hoax...? Fit The Fifteenth likes to think he's more the brains of the duo, destined for Agatha Christie's whodunit starring June Whitfield as the Slartibartfast provides a rather startling Informational Illusion to better things. deceptively mild sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. give Arthur and Ford the history of the Krikkit Wars, an After BBC radio gave them their big break with this series, they From the book first published in 1950 and dramatised in five intergalactic conflict of billions of years ago, where a seemingly transferred to BBC TV where The Mighty Boosh ran for three parts by Michael Bakewell. innocuous and pleasant race of hominids journeyed beyond the series. Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield black and opaque dust cloud surrounding their solitary planet Producer: Danny Wallace. Inspector Craddock ...... Ian Lavender with its solitary star and were appalled to discover they were not First broadcast on BBB Radio 4 in October 2001. Sir Henry Clithering ...... Graham Crowden alone in the universe but surrounded by many other planets SAT 22:30 And Now in Colour (b007jqfb) Letty Blacklock ...... Sarah Lawson teeming with life. Series 2 Dora Bunner ...... Judy Cornwell The Krikkitmen built lethal white robots wielding war clubs The Great Outdoors Patrick Simmons ...... Jamie Glover which were used to propel small red grenades over vast The sketch show team take their audience on an activity Miss Hinchliffe ...... Elizabeth Bell distances, to destroy everything in their path - in fact, to kill holiday. Colonel Easterbrook ...... Jack Hedley everything everywhere but their masters. Eventually defeated, Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de Laura Easterbrook ...... Joanna McCallum the People of Krikkit (along with robots and family pets) are Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck. Rev Julian Harmon ...... Ioan Meredith sentenced to have their solar system with its Dust Cloud sealed Producer: Lissa Evans Bunch Harmon ...... Molly Gaisford in a Slo-Time envelope, locked by The Wikkit Gate, upon an First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1991. Mitzi ...... Jenny Funnell asteroid which orbits it. SAT 23:00 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b00mg8mx) Miss Murgatroyd ...... Alice Arnold When all of Creation has become extinct the gate will Series 4 Director: Enyd Williams automatically open, allowing them to finish their existence in a Episode 3 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1999. dying universe, alone at last as they have so craved. A horse makes his own packed lunch and there's advice on how SAT 13:30 Miss Marple (b007jnjp) Unfortunately eleven Krikkit Robots were unaccounted for at to become the next Zorro. A Murder Is Announced the time the punishment was carried out, and these unpleasant Plus a boy's effectiveness as a wolf early-warning system is Episode 2 machines are now re-uniting the disparate elements of The Key compromised, and an evangelist refuses to tell people about The invitation to a murder was not a game. Who wants Letty to that Wikkit Gate. Having collected the Wooden Pillar (The Jesus. Blacklock dead? What did Mitzi overhear in the summerhouse? Ashes, now reconstituted into a Cricket stump), The Steel Pillar Sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Agatha Christie's whodunit starring June Whitfield as the (The Artificial Leg Marvin was fitted with by a kindly scrap With Olivia Colman,Sarah Hadland and James Bachman. deceptively mild sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. collector), they now board the Heart of Gold to steal the Gold Producer Gareth Edwards Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 May 2020 Page 3 of 8 Firs broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2009. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001. Munchausen's previous exploits have included riding a SAT 23:30 Earls of the Court (b00rfhpt) SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b09rwg3y) cannonball, being swallowed by a whale and flying to the Moon. The Ides of March Medicine, Science & Engineering The Lord of Lies is now 231 years old, apparently alive and The night of Lloydie's much-publicised toga party is fast Professor Dame Kay Davies well and is arrested on a red carpet at the Cannes film festival. approaching. But can Johnno raise his game in time, and play From Eric Clapton to Schubert. Scientist, Professor Dame Kay That's what he claims. But is he really the Baron? Or is he some the crucial role in the Ides of March sketch? Davies shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young kind of spy, assassin or international terrorist? Could he perhaps Comedy drama series by Will Adamsdale and Stewart Wright Professor Kay Davies has dedicated much of her life to finding be lying? about two Australians down on their luck in London. a cure for the severest form of muscular dystrophy. Before she In a police interview room, the strange old man begins to tell Lloydie ...... Stewart Wright was 40, she'd helped to develop the antenatal test which is now the so-called story of his life to a tired, sceptical and Johnno ...... Will Adamsdale used around the world, then she isolated the gene sequence overwrought detective. This is surely a masterclass in lying. But Woman 1 ...... Alison Pettitt which could be instrumental in treating the condition. what if he is telling "the honest truth"? Because in this age of Woman 2 ...... Keely Beresford It's quite something for a woman who doesn't have an O-level in social networking, where increasingly the media is becoming Director: Sasha Yevtushenko biology. Although, even as a child she did possess that critical the message and opinion passes as fact, who knows what the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010. quality crucial to scientific pioneers: "I loved solving problems," truth is? SAT 23:45 Foley and McColl: The Interview (b0076d8h) she says, "I was very tenacious and would sit in my room until I These days, Munchausen finds the world far more credulous Placebo had finished the problem. I am a sticker." and open to bamboozlement. The duo tell Parky about their lean years. Stars Sean Foley, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2009. Performed by Alistair McGowan Hamish McColl and Michael Parkinson. From March 2003. SUN 10:45 Multi Story Shorts (m0002rhp) Written by David Spicer Home Director: Frank Stirling As a teenager, Laura Rawlings couldn’t wait to spread her wings A Unique production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in SUNDAY 10 MAY 2020 and experience bustling city life. But priorities have changed. December 2016. Join her on moving weekend - as the BBC Radio Bristol SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (b0bhfnq5) SUN 00:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy presenter makes an unexpected return to her rural roots. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] (b0076nj3) Plus Multi Story presenter, Becca Bryers shares some thoughts SUN 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] on her own idea of "home". (b06z5240) SUN 00:30 The Man in Black (b00grv3d) SUN 11:00 Radiolab (b0b3g6cc) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] Series 3 SUN 18:00 Peter Ackroyd - Hawksmoor (b007jq33) SUN 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jnj3) Saving Animals Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Radiolab explores what it means to be special when it comes to Nicholas Dyer, an 18th-century architect, builds churches to the SUN 01:30 Miss Marple (b007jnjp) saving a particular animal. With Jad Abumrad and Robert glory of God, but underpins them with his secret obsession with [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Saturday] Krulwich. the old religion. SUN 02:00 Miss Marple (b007jnk6) Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Nicholas Hawksmoor, a detective in contemporary London, [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur investigates murders that mirror the sacrifices from 300 years SUN 02:30 Miss Marple (b007jnkp) between science, philosophy, and the human experience. before... [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] First broadcast on public radio in the USA. Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed 1985 novel dramatised in two parts SUN 03:00 Miss Marple (b007jnl4) SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (b0bhfnq5) by Nick Fisher. [Repeat of broadcast at 01:30 on Saturday] Lindisfarne: Poetry in Progress Dyer/Hawksmoor ...... Philip Jackson SUN 03:30 A Good Read (b00qplyl) Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with Sir Christopher Wren ...... Norman Rodway [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] 'Lindisfarne: Poetry in Progress'. Anne ...... Miranda Foster SUN 04:00 Stephen Lowe - Touched (b05qdv20) After four centuries - the Lindisfarne Gospel-book returned to Walter ...... Thomas Arnold [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] the North-East of England in in 2013 - not as far as the island Mirabelis ...... Richard Johnson SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b04hvy0l) itself, but to Palace Green Library in Durham. Nat Eliot ...... Ben Crowe [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] To mark the occasion, the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Thomas Hill ...... Jordan Calvert SUN 06:00 Miss Marple (b007jnj3) Arts commissioned 12 poets to respond to the book and to the Ned ...... Andrew Wincott [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] almost-island on which it was created. Hill ...... Terence Edmond SUN 06:30 Miss Marple (b007jnjp) Beaty Rubens followed the poets' progress - sharing crab Tom's Mum ...... Helen Ayres [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Saturday] sandwiches and beer on a coach-trip to the island back in the Woman Tramp (Annie) ...... Richenda Carey SUN 07:00 Miss Marple (b007jnk6) spring and hearing about their progress over the summer and Boy 1 ...... Luke Smith [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] early autumn as they each wrote and recorded their poems. Boy 2 ...... Bradley Sowter SUN 07:30 Miss Marple (b007jnkp) Finally, she hears from the digital artist who created two Teacher ...... Clare Corbett [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] installations where the poems could be enjoyed by the public. Other parts played by the cast. SUN 08:00 Miss Marple (b007jnl4) This is the story of their Poetry in Progress. Recorded on location in London’s Spitalfields and Clerkenwell [Repeat of broadcast at 01:30 on Saturday] Producer: Beaty Rubens and at Soundhouse Studios. SUN 08:30 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. Producer: Janet Whitaker (b007jvz6) SUN 12:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2000. Pearls Mean Tears (b06z5240) SUN 19:00 Radiolab (b0b3g6cc) When Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha sparks uproar - can his Series 5 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] valet save the day? Episode 5 SUN 20:00 Drama (b085hpjw) PG Wodehouse romp adapted by Chris Miller. John Finnemore's fifth series of his multi-award-winning sketch [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie, show, joined as ever by Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b09rwg3y) Joan Sanderson as Aunt Agatha, Pat Coombs as Aileen Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Hemingway, Miriam Margolyes as the Chamber Maid, Brian This week finds John making a heartfelt serving suggestion and SUN 21:45 Multi Story Shorts (m0002rhp) Oulton as Sidney Hemingway and Brian Haines as the Hotel Lawry trying to keep himself busy. And, well, since you ask [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] Manager. him for a curious tale of murder... SUN 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Producer: David Hatch John is the writer and star of Cabin Pressure and John (b06z5240) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1973. Finnemore's Double Acts, regular guest on The Now Show and [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] SUN 09:00 Floggit's (b007jxmk) The Unbelievable Truth. SUN 22:30 Radio Shuttleworth (b007jw00) From 24/08/1956 "One of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite Series 1 Chaos strikes village shopkeepers Gert and Daisy over a some time" - The Guardian Patrick Moore troublesome tree. "The best sketch show in years, on television or radio" - The Sheffield's aspiring singer-songwriter takes to the airwaves once Stars Elsie and Doris Waters as Gert and Daisy. Radio Times more from his very own his front room! With Joan Sims, Anthony Newley, Ronnie Barker, Hugh "The inventive sketch show ... continues to deliver the goods" - Aided by his producer (and sole agent) Ken Worthington, and Paddick and Iris Vandaleur. The Daily Mail his hard-to-please wife Mary, the inimitable John Shuttleworth Originally popular regulars in 'Workers' Playtime' on the BBC "Superior comedy" - The Observer presents celebrity interviews, dodgy keyboard music, and even Home Service during wartime, Gert and Daisy won their own Written by and starring ... John Finnemore dodgier jingles. series, Floggit's, where they've inherited a village general store Original music composed by ... Susannah Pearse Can special guest Sir Patrick Moore help John identify the red in Russett Green. with a ragbag of local characters to deal with. Original music performed by ... Jason Hazeley glow that appears outside the front bay window just before It ran for 2 series between 1956 and 1957. Producer: Ed Morrish bedtime? Scripted by Terry Nation, John Junkin and Dave Freeman. A BBC Radio Comedy production first broadcast on BBC With Sean Cullen and Dylan Goodhew. Producer: Alastair Scott -Johnston Radio 4 in January 2016. Written and performed by Graham Fellows. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1956. SUN 13:00 Comedy Greats (b007jtlc) Producers: Paul Schlesinger and Martin Willis. SUN 09:30 Millport (b0076258) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998. Series 2 SUN 16:00 Drama (b085hpjw) SUN 23:00 Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed (b039cth4) Story David Spicer - Munchausen Series 2 Everyone's telling tales and making up stories - while Moira's Alistair McGowan stars as Baron Munchausen and all the other Forgery acting oddly, no-one's listening to Bob, Agnes has discovered 43 characters in David Spicer's comic drama about truth, lies Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed finds himself immersed in the medicinal benefits of alcohol - and for once Irene doesn't and credibility, bringing the exploits of the legendary Lord of the art world, when a forgery ring is discovered. know what to do... Lies right up to date. Series two of the critically acclaimed sitcom written and Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as Characters from history and fiction collide in a drama featuring performed by Nick Mohammed. ("Delightfully bonkers!" The 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce who hankers after a radio's largest cast of characters but smallest acting company of Guardian). better life on the mainland. the year. This time around Nick is tackling some major crimes - and Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson The original stories, The Surprising Adventures of Baron assisting with some major public events. Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown Munchausen, were the inventions of thief, swindler and satirist, He's also joined by special constables Colin Hoult and Anna Alberto/Robert/Doctor ...... Lewis McLeod Rudolph Raspe, and inspired by the notoriously tall stories of Crilly, who aid and abet him in everything he does. Ena/Bunty ...... Gabriel Quigley the real Baron Munchausen, a braggart soldier who spent most With special guests Margaret Cabourn-Smith, and Wil Bob/Minister ...... Robert Patterson of his subsequent life attempting to sue Raspe. And well he Andrews. Dougie ...... Matt Costello might. Raspe's stories went viral and for the next two hundred Producer: Tilusha Ghelani and Victoria Lloyd. Music arranged by Olly Fox. years his name has become synonymous with outrageous lying - First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. Producer: Lucy Bacon through books, television, film and even diseases. SUN 23:30 Edge Falls (b00djwdf) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 May 2020 Page 4 of 8 Series 2 MON 08:00 The Navy Lark (b008fj41) order to prepare ourselves for tomorrow. Episode 4 Celebrating Their Important Anniversary First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2015. A new pet shop is set to open at Edge Falls retail park, but The crew discover HMS Troutbridge has been afloat for 25 MON 12:00 The Navy Lark (b008fj41) where are all the pets? Stars Frances Barber. From September years, so Pertwee plans some special commemorative gifts... [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] 2008. With Ronnie Barker as Commander Bell, Tenniel Evans as the MON 12:30 Dad's Army (b007jrdx) Admiral and Michael Bates as the Padre. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Stars Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee and Stephen Murray. MON 13:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j124) MONDAY 11 MAY 2020 Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive 13 series MON 13:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgw) MON 00:00 Peter Ackroyd - Hawksmoor (b007jq33) between 1959 and 1976. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] The Sub-Lieutenant ...... Leslie Phillips MON 14:00 Whispers (b007k2sl) MON 01:00 Comedy Greats (b007jtlc) The Chief Petty Officer ...... Jon Pertwee [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday] The Number One ...... Stephen Murray MON 14:30 London Calling (b05ndzw7) MON 04:00 Drama (b085hpjw) Captain Povey ...... Richard Caldicot [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Mrs Povey ...... Heather Chasen MON 15:00 John Mortimer - Glasnost (b007jwds) MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (b0bhfnq5) Commander Bell ...... Ronnie Barker [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] The Admiral ...... Tenniel Evans MON 16:00 TED Radio Hour (m000j128) MON 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme The Padre ...... Michael Bates [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] (b06z5240) Written by Lawrie Wyman. MON 17:00 Safety Catch (b0178ncg) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON 06:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j124) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September MON 17:30 47 Years Without A Clue: A Tribute to Tim 4. The Hitler Minutes 1967. Brooke-Taylor (m000hxzw) Secret Service agent Boyd returns to England to question MON 08:30 Dad's Army (b007jrdx) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Wever, an ex-German soldier who claims he helped load the Series 3 MON 18:00 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare 'Kaiseroda' treasure on to the train and into Hitler's mine. Is he The Captain's Car (b00wt987) telling the truth? When a French general pays a visit to Walmington-on-Sea, All Hallows Len Deighton’s riveting thriller XPD stands for Expedient there's a mighty motoring mix-up for the Home Guard platoon. On a hot summer's evening, a weary traveller is oppressed by Demise. The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard the supernatural atmosphere inside a gigantic cathedral by the Dramatised in 8-parts by Michael Bakewell. platoon. sea. Boyd Stuart ...... Trevor Nichols Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV Read by Richard E Grant. Charles Stein ...... Bruce Boa scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was a popular award-wining Max Breslow ...... Bernard Hepton Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe poet, short story writer and novelist. He wrote for both children Reader ...... Colin Starkey Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier and adults. Kitty ...... Melinda Walker Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn Abridged by Doreen Estall. Billy Stein ...... Ian Tyler Private Frazer …. John Laurie Producer: Lawrence Jackson Mary Breslow ...... Helena Breck Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2010. Deputy Secretary ...... Garard Green Private Pike …. Ian Lavender MON 18:30 A Good Read (b00qvm1h) Case Officer ...... Alan Thompson Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee Kenneth Cranham and Adam Nicolson Section Head ...... Bernard Brown Private Walker …. Larry Martyn Actor Kenneth Cranham and writer Adam Nicolson join Sue Producer: Peter King Lady Maltby …. Betty Marsden MacGregor to discuss their favourite paperbacks: First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1985 Colonel Masters …. Garrard Green Sue MacGregor - The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven MON 06:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgw) Announcer/Newsreader …. John Snagge Publ. Penguin Series 2 Producer: John Dyas Adam Nicolson - Under Storm's Wing by Helen Thomas The Perishing of the Pendragons First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1976. Publ. Carcanet Mystery afloat as a Cornish family's curse starts to unravel. MON 09:00 Whispers (b007k2sl) Kenneth Cranham - Prick up Your Ears by John Lahr Who will come into his rightful inheritance - and will Father Series 3 Publ. Bloomsbury Brown be in time to avert a tragedy? Episode 3 Produced by Tim Dee Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown. Gyles Brandreth chairs the scandals quiz with Anthony Holden, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an Lucy Moore, Dan Tetsell and John O'Farrell. From October MON 19:00 The Navy Lark (b008fj41) uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. 2005. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Father Brown ...... Andrew Sachs MON 09:30 London Calling (b05ndzw7) MON 19:30 Dad's Army (b007jrdx) Flambeau ...... Olivier Pierre In the Beginning [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] The Admiral ...... Edward Kelsey The man behind TV hits Dad's Army and Hi-De-Hi - Jimmy MON 20:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j124) Sir Cecil Fanshaw ...... Brian Hewlett Perry's star-packed comedy about the early wireless days of the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Tregear ...... Keith Kraushaar BBC. MON 20:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgw) Tommy/Walter ...... James Goode Back in 1922, when a microphone jammed if a speaker talked [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Dramatised by John Scotney too loudly, the letters of praise and complaint flooded in. MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m000j128) Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid Then a new Director-General, John Brown, came to take over [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986 the British Broadcasting Company. MON 22:00 47 Years Without A Clue: A Tribute to Tim MON 07:00 Safety Catch (b0178ncg) John Brown ...... Graham Crowden Brooke-Taylor (m000hxzw) Series 2 Colonel Beecham ...... Jimmy Perry [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Brothers in Arms Fred "Keep 'em Laughing" Hicks ...... Roy Hudd MON 22:30 Peter Bradshaw - For One Horrible Moment Darren Boyd is back as reluctant arms dealer Simon McGrath Sergeant Lucas ...... Bill Pertwee (b0084ss4) who is generally a nice chap - he just happens to work as an Roger Eccles ...... Jeffrey Holland Episode 2 arms dealer, or 'Defence and security equipment system Miss Nightingale ...... Joanna Munro Memoirs of a boy in the 1970s. A girl causes excitement and solutions broker' as he prefers to call it. Arthur ...... Toby Longworth self-loathing. Written and read by Peter Bradshaw. From 1999. Whilst battling with his conscience he justifies to himself why Admiral Carpenter ...... Peter Cellier MON 22:45 Armando Iannucci - Facts And Fancies five years on he's still in a job he just fell into - after all, what Jeffrey Stainton ...... Chris Luscombe (b007jrlb) he really wants is to pursue is his career in electronic music. But Bobby Bright ...... Leonard Kirby A Life at the Opera until that takes off he'll stay where he is, and as his mother so Phyllis Godfrey ...... Amanda Bellamy Tackling operas and some thoughts on ears. Producer, writer eloquently puts it, "any job where you get your own desk and a Rex Murray ...... Logan Murray and performer Armando Iannucci presents his own humorous hot dinner can't be all bad". Music by Roy Moore. essays. From December 1997. And so as we renew our acquaintance with Simon we find him, Producer: Jo Clegg. MON 23:00 The News Quiz (m000hwsq) using his 'flair for original ideas' to go to extreme lengths to First broadcast nightly on BBC Radio 2 in September 1994. Series 102 prove to everyone just how badly he feels about doing the job MON 10:00 John Mortimer - Glasnost (b007jwds) Episode 4 he does. Whilst on an official visit to Moscow, novelist Anthea Denham Angela Barnes hosts series 102, leading a panel of regular News Series two of Laurence Howarth's black comedy of modern begins to find the attentions of the young Russian guide and Quiz comics and journalists in rounding up the news stories of morality set in the world of arms dealing. interpreter something more than just flattering. the week. Joining Angela this week is Helen Lewis, Andy Simon McGrath...... Darren Boyd But is he harbouring other motives? Parsons, Kerry Godliman and Simon Evans. Anna Grieg...... Joanna Page Anna Massey stars in John Mortimer's drama. Produced by Suzy Grant Boris Kemal...... Lewis Macleod Anthea Denham ...... Anna Massey A BBC Studios Audio Production Judith McGrath...... Sarah Smart Vladimir Pinchevski ...... Boris Isarov MON 23:30 Radio Active (b05t7gjf) Angela McGrath...... Brigit Forsyth Brian Worsfold ...... Clive Merrison Series 6 Madeleine Turnbull...... Rachel Atkins Charles Hathaway ...... Philip Voss A Thodding By-Election Special Peter...... Gus Brown Misha ...... Michael Poole Expect no bias as Radio Active's Chairman Norman Tonsil Paramedic...... Philip Fox Galya Pinchevski ...... Anna Mazzotti stands as an Independent Candidate in the Thodding By- Written by Laurence Howarth Secretary General ...... Gennady Pokrass Election. Producer: Dawn Ellis. Waiter/BA Captain ...... Peter Craze Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009. Producer: John Tydeman Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. MON 07:30 47 Years Without A Clue: A Tribute to Tim First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1988 Music by Philip Pope and Geoffrey Perkins. Brooke-Taylor (m000hxzw) MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m000j128) Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins with John A celebration of the late actor and comedian Tim Brooke- Series 7 Canter. Taylor, best known to Radio 4 listeners as a founder member of Amateur Hour Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer the self-styled “antidote to panel games”, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Guy Raz explores what it takes to survive, even thrive, when First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986. Clue. The programme features excerpts of his work as well as you're a complete amateur? And are their benefits to be had? reminiscences from friends and colleagues. It’s written and A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting introduced by Graeme Garden. speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) TUESDAY 12 MAY 2020 Producer...Jon Naismith stage. A BBC Studios Production. Guy Raz explores ideas about prevention - what to do today, in TUE 00:00 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare (b00wt987) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 May 2020 Page 5 of 8 [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] John Suchet, Hans Rhieburg and Susan Greenfield reflect on TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b00qvm1h) TUE 09:30 Such Rotten Luck (b0686zvc) the impact of Beethoven's last symphony 'Ode to Joy'. From [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Series 2 2000. TUE 01:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j124) Hunting, Shooting and Wishing TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007wvvh) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Woodhouse arrives at the Pomeroys' country house hoping to [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE 01:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgw) find a patron. Stars Tim Pigott-Smith. From December 1991. TUE 19:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE 10:00 Moll Flanders (b07jwj17) (b007k0kz) TUE 02:00 Whispers (b007k2sl) Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] By Daniel Defoe, adapted by Nick Perry. TUE 20:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j1yg) TUE 02:30 London Calling (b05ndzw7) Daniel Defoe, once more in need of ready money, finds [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] inspiration for a new book when he meets Elizabeth Atkins in TUE 20:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgy) TUE 03:00 John Mortimer - Glasnost (b007jwds) Newgate gaol. She tells him her stranger-than-fiction story; of [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] how she was born in prison to a petty thief and of how she TUE 21:00 Telling Tales (m00035pd) TUE 04:00 TED Radio Hour (m000j128) loved and bargained her way from rags to riches, from [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] prostitution in the streets of London to prosperity on a Virginia TUE 22:00 My Teenage Diary (m000hvlp) TUE 05:00 Safety Catch (b0178ncg) plantation, and then lost it all again. Defoe interprets it all in his [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] characteristic manner, blending fact with fiction, and re- TUE 22:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide (b045fzcm) TUE 05:30 47 Years Without A Clue: A Tribute to Tim inventing his interlocutor as the lusty and resourceful Moll Series 3 Brooke-Taylor (m000hxzw) Flanders. Penny Pinching and Austerity [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] Nick Perry … Dramatist Stephen K Amos is joined by Suzi Ruffell, Tom Rhodes and TUE 06:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j1yg) Jessica Hynes … Moll Flanders Andy Zaltzman to present a guide to penny pinching and 5. Operation Siegfried Ben Miles … Daniel Defoe austerity. Len Deighton … Author Brian Protheroe … Mist Additional material by Stephen Grant and Hugh Sington. Michael Bakewell … Dramatist Elizabeth Bennett … Lady Cholmondley Produced by Colin Anderson. Trevor Nichols … Boyd Stuart Clare Perkins … Nurse First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. David Garth … Sydney Ryden Alex Jarrett … Young Moll TUE 23:00 Nurse (b075szst) Colin Starkey … Reader Blake Ritson … Jemmy Cole Series 2 Bernard Brown … Section Head Sam Rix … Robin Episode 1 Melinda Walker … Kitty Tom Forrister … John A bittersweet comedy drama about a community mental health Ian Tyler … Billy Stein Nick Underwood … Rob nurse created by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings. David Sinclair … MI5 Man Kirsty Oswald … Lucy Liz (Esther Coles), the community psychiatric nurse of the title Bernard Hepton … Max Breslow Sean Baker … Jailer makes her rounds to visit "service users" in their homes. Most Bruce Boa … Charles Stein The Harpsichord was played by Peter Ringrose. of those patients are played by comedy chameleon Paul Helena Breck … Mary Breslow Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. Whitehouse himself – with supporting roles for Rosie Garard Green … Deputy Secretary First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. Cavaliero, Vilma Hollingbery and Cecilia Noble. Alan Thompson … Case Officer TUE 11:00 Telling Tales (m00035pd) Paul Whitehouse brings us an obese bed-bound mummy's boy, TUE 06:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgy) Tim Key an agoraphobic ex-con, a manic ex-glam rock star, ageing rake Series 2 This week’s episode takes a delightfully surreal turn, with the Herbert who hoards his house with possessions and memories, a The Arrow of Heaven award-winning writer and comedian Tim Key. Jewish chatterbox in unrequited love with his Jamaican An American millionaire safe in his fortress, death threats, a Tim won the 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Award with a show that neighbour, and a long-suffering carer and his Alzheimer's- murky past and a bolt from the blue. Father Brown, on his first combined poetry, stand-up and film, and drew praise for the afflicted mother. visit to the United States, unravels the mystery and exposes beauty peeping through the silliness. There are new characters too in the guise of a self-proclaimed thereby a mire of hypocrisy. As well as appearing on stage and screen - most recently as DJ and a Geordie struggling with his wife's job in the world's GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an Sidekick Simon, on Mid Morning Matters, alongside Alan oldest profession. uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. Partridge - Tim has been a radio regular since 2006. He has We follow their humorous, sometimes sad and occasionally Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown, Ed Bishop as Barnard, starred in sketch shows, dramas and documentaries which have moving interactions with Liz, whose job is to assess their Guy Gregory as Harris, Andrew Branch as Wendell and Sean explored first lines in literature and Russian writers. progress, dispense medication and offer support. Prendergast as Norman Drage. We’ll delve into the archives to enjoy highlights, including Nurse gives a sympathetic insight into the world of some of Dramatised by John Scotney Directed in Bristol by Alec Reid. Tim's Late Night Poetry Programme. Since it first aired in society's more marginalised people in a heartfelt and considered First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986. 2012, and over four series, Tim has taken listeners on way. TUE 07:00 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse (b084xgvn) adventures from the studio, to the Shard, St Albans and space. Cast: Series 8 All while sharing poems, quips, and the regular torment of Paul Whitehouse The Boy Who Ran Away From The Circus Lord, a long-suffering musician played by Tom Basden. Esther Coles On a Glasgow rooftop, a former Circus trapeze artist and a sad We hear an episode from 2018, titled Cars, in which Tim picks Margaret Cabourn-Smith and misunderstood young man become connected by up a hitchhiker whilst heading to a boutique hotel with Lord. It's Rosie Cavaliero circumstance and a shared experience of life, as each tells his a A BBC Cymru Wales Production, directed by James Sue Elliott-Nichols story. Robinson. Plus, we briefly explore Russian absurdist poetry, Charlie Higson TV sitcom star Scott Hoatson joins Stanley Baxter in another with a short clip from his 2016 documentary Tim Key Delves Vilma Hollingbery story written especially for him by award winning TV writer Into Danill Kharms And That's That. Jason Maza Michael Chaplin. Made for Radio 4 Extra by Ali Gardiner. Cecilia Noble The play was recorded on Stanley’s 90th birthday earlier this First broadcast in 2019. Written by David Cummings and Paul Whitehouse, with year, marking 77 years of his work in broadcasting. TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007wvvh) additional material by Esther Coles. Cast: [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4 Tam ..... Stanley Baxter TUE 12:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook TUE 23:15 The In Crowd (b00fbc9x) Robbie ... Scott Hoatson (b007k0kz) Series 2 Directed by Marilyn Imrie [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Episode 1 A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast TUE 13:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j1yg) Sketch show from Manchester's Comedy Store with Robin Ince, in 2016. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward. From March 2002. TUE 07:30 My Teenage Diary (m000hvlp) TUE 13:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgy) TUE 23:30 Think the Unthinkable (b01jldck) Series 9 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Series 3 Shazia Mirza TUE 14:00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (b008kty5) Episode 5 Rufus Hound returns for another series of honest, intimate and Episode 2 The hapless consultancy tackle a council's problem with a zoo. hilarious interviews, with famous guests reading from their Clive Anderson hosts the famed improvisation game with Stars Marcus Brigstocke and Robin Ince. From August 2004. genuine teenage diaries. Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, John Sessions and Enn Reitel. From Guests this series are Woman's Hour host Dame Jenni Murray, January 1988. former Goodie Bill Oddie, comedian Shazia Mirza, TUE 14:30 Such Rotten Luck (b0686zvc) WEDNESDAY 13 MAY 2020 impressionist Jan Ravens, podcaster Olly Mann and writer Julie [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Myerson. TUE 15:00 Moll Flanders (b07jwj17) WED 00:00 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare In this first episode of new series, Rufus talks to the comedian [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] (b00wv6ln) Shazia Mirza about her experiences growing up in a strict TUE 16:00 Telling Tales (m00035pd) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] Muslim family in the UK. In her teenage diaries, the young [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED 00:30 Soul Music (b0075zyd) Shazia Mirza describes arguing with her parents, getting a TUE 17:00 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse (b084xgvn) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Saturday job in McDonalds, bumping into a Rick Astley [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED 01:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j1yg) lookalike in a pub and dreaming about becoming a grand slam TUE 17:30 My Teenage Diary (m000hvlp) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] tennis ace. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED 01:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgy) Producer: Harriet Jaine TUE 18:00 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare (b00wv6ln) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4 Seaton's Aunt WED 02:00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (b008kty5) TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007wvvh) Two boys on holiday stay in the creaking house of an eccentric [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Series 6 and sinister aunt, an experience that will mark them forever... WED 02:30 Such Rotten Luck (b0686zvc) Napoleon's Piano Read by Toby Jones. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Neddie Seagoon is conned into pinching the keyboard played at Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was a popular award-wining WED 03:00 Moll Flanders (b07jwj17) the Battle of Waterloo. Stars Spike Milligan. From October poet, short story writer and novelist. He wrote for both children [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] 1955. and adults. WED 04:00 Telling Tales (m00035pd) TUE 08:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook Abridged by Doreen Estall. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] (b007k0kz) Producer: Lawrence Jackson WED 05:00 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse (b084xgvn) The Rich Brothers Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2010. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] The veteran of many parts recalls a slapstick act, and reveals all TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b0075zyd) WED 05:30 My Teenage Diary (m000hvlp) on showbiz cliches. Stars Peter Jones. From July 1986. Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] TUE 09:00 The News Quiz (m000hwsq) Beethoven's Ode to Joy WED 06:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j35p) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 May 2020 Page 6 of 8 A Safe House for Moscow struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who WED 14:30 The Change (b0076p6t) Len Deighton … Author never quite manage to see eye to eye. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Michael Bakewell … Dramatist Starring Prunella Scales as Sarah, Joan Sanderson as Eleanor, WED 15:00 Moll Flanders (b07kl7m5) Trevor Nichols … Boyd Stuart Benjamin Whitrow as Russell and Gerry Cowper as Clare. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] David Garth … Sydney Ryden Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV WED 16:00 The Lives of Harry Towers (m000j35t) Bruce Boa … Charles Stein - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Bernard Hepton … Max Breslow network. WED 17:00 Tomorrow, Today! (b0178s5n) Clifford Rose … Willi Kleiber Producer: Pete Atkin [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Colin Starkey … Reader First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1986. WED 17:30 Quanderhorn (m000htxd) Bernard Brown … Prime Minister WED 09:00 Counterpoint (b00jrnw6) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Melinda Walker … Kitty Series 23 WED 18:00 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare Garard Green … Secretary 2009 Heat 7 (b00wvd6t) Stuart Milligan … Kalkhoven Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz. Crewe William Roberts … Seymour The questions cover every aspect of music - from the classical In the chilly waiting-room of a railway station, an old man Lou Hirsch … Wyn repertoire to world music, show tunes, film scores, jazz, rock relates a disturbing history of a haunting in a job he formerly WED 06:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp3p) and pop. held... Series 2 Three contestants battle it out: Read by Kenneth Cranham. The Mistake of the Machine David Dean from London Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was a popular award-wining A suspect is locked away, but has a prison governor got the Gillian Hensley-Gray from Croydon poet, short story writer and novelist. He wrote for both children right man? Can Father Brown discover the answer as he makes Peter Whitehead from Bromley, Kent and adults. his way across America? Producer: Paul Bajoria Abridged by Doreen Estall. GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. Producer: Lawrence Jackson uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. WED 09:30 The Change (b0076p6t) Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2010. Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown, TP McKenna as Series 3 WED 18:30 Short Cuts (b06np61j) O'Connor, Billy Boyle as McGurk and Don Fellows as Usher. Episode 4 Series 8 Dramatised by John Scotney With George's big birthday looming, he gets two surprises - one Inheritance Directed in Bristol by Alec Reid. from his wife and the other from his mother. From the sounds of the womb to fading memories - Josie Long First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986. Starring Lynda Bellingham as Carol, Philip Jackson as George, hears stories of what we inherit from past generations. WED 07:00 Tomorrow, Today! (b0178s5n) Maureen Beattie as Maureen, Marcia Warren as Violet, Emma Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall Series 2 Kennedy as Sonia and James Vaughan as Ken. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 Prey of the Bog Monster Series 3 of the sitcom about a married couple's attempts to The items feature in the programme are: Comedy series by Christopher William Hill, set in 1962. A smooth over their singularly troubled midlife funk - Carol is George Bernard Shaw BBC producer struggles to make a radio soap set in the hormonal and 15-stone George is a transvestite. Onlookers can't A Conversation unimaginably futuristic world of 2008. quite agree on the nature of their dynamic. Feat. Walter Murch Prey of the Bog Monster: The show avoids censorship by Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. Produced by Niccolò Castelli becoming an outside broadcast. Producer: Elizabeth Freestone https://vimeo.com/136595444 Nigel Lavery ...... Peter Bowles First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004. The Waves Sylvia Hann ...... Cheryl Campbell WED 10:00 Moll Flanders (b07kl7m5) Feat. Sian Phillips Godfrey Winnard ..... John Fortune Episode 2 Interview recorded for the Empathy Museum Sir Angus McNairn ...... Gary Waldhorn By Daniel Defoe, adapted by Nick Perry. http://www.empathymuseum.com/ Hugo Kellerman ...... Joseph Kloska After meeting Elizabeth Atkins in Newgate gaol, Daniel Defoe Every Heart has a Limited Number of Heartbeats Douglas Bennings ...... Jon Glover has begun to turn her stranger-than-fiction life story into the Produced by Martin Johnson and Ann Heppermann Keith Wood ...... Sam Pamphilon narrative of Moll Flanders. He's convinced it will make a best Originally featured in the Serendipity Podcast Veronica Walters ...... Johannah Tincey seller and so placate his many creditors. But he has only http://thesarahawards.com/subscribe/ Henderson ...... Ben Crowe. managed to pen half a manuscript when Elizabeth is arrested WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007v1p4) Produced by Liz Webb and sent back to Newgate, charged with numerous capital [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. offences. Defoe tracks her down so that she can conclude her WED 19:30 After Henry (b007jnsf) WED 07:30 Quanderhorn (m000htxd) story, but can she be saved from a certain fate at the Old [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Quanderhorn 2 Bailey? Will Defoe find a happy ending for his Moll Flanders? WED 20:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j35p) 2. Shoveleth in More Hazelnuts! Dramatist Nick Perry plays fast and loose with this 18th century [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Professor Quanderhorn (James Fleet) and his rag-tag crew – test classic, melding fiction and reality in a manner inspired by WED 20:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp3p) pilot Brian Nylon (Ryan Sampson), clockwork-emotioned Dr Daniel Defoe. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Gemini Janussen (Cassie Layton), caddish Martian hostage Nick Perry … Dramatist WED 21:00 The Lives of Harry Towers (m000j35t) Guuuurk (Kevin Eldon) and Quanderhorn’s part-insectoid son Jessica Hynes … Moll Flanders [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Troy (Freddie Fox), along with factotum Jenkins (John Ben Miles … Daniel Defoe WED 22:00 Quanderhorn (m000htxd) Sessions) – have been scattered through time. Alison Steadman … Mother Midnight [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Reunited in Roman Britain, Brian, Guuuurk and Troy are trying Blake Ritson … Jemmy Cole WED 22:30 What's Funny About ... (m000j35w) to make their way to the rendezvous point in Londinium, when Sean Baker … Jailer The Vicar of Dibley they find themselves arrested and condemned to death for Nick Underwood … Rob TV veterans Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman talk to the crimes against Interior Decoration. Elizabeth Bennett … Mother writers, producers, and performers behind Britain’s biggest TV Can they escape with the help of Brian’s enormous mahogany Jason Barnett … Merchant comedy hits, and hear the inside story of how they brought their phallus (don’t ask)? Clare Perkins … Landlady programmes to the screen. Or will it require some slightly more subtle intervention from Alex Jarrett … Child In this episode, Peter and Jon talk to Dawn French and Richard Dr Janussen? Brian Protheroe … Mr Mist Curtis about their much-loved sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. Starring Kirsty Oswald … Lucy They discuss how to make a fundamentally nice character James Fleet as Professor Quanderhorn James Lailey … Mercer funny, Richard’s curious appetite for writing quite so many Ryan Sampson as Brian Nylon Tom Forrister … Colin weddings, and Dawn’s strangest ever Vicar of Dibley gig. Cassie Layton as Dr Gemini Janussen Sam Rix … Apprentice With Peter and Jon as our guides, we’ll take the opportunity to Freddie Fox as Troy Quanderhorn Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. ask quite how they went about making a great bit of TV Kevin Eldon as Guuuurk WED 11:00 The Lives of Harry Towers (m000j35t) comedy? Who came up with it? How did it get written? We’ll John Sessions as Sergeant 'Jenkins' Jenkins and Churchill 1. Overcoats and Acid Baths talk about the commissioning, the casting, and the reception the Rachel Atkins as Delores Best remembered today as the notorious producer of over a show received when it first aired. Created and Written by Rob Grant and Andrew Marshall hundred cheaply made exploitation movies, Harry Alan Towers Producer: Owen Braben Directed by Andrew Marshall began his long career in radio, a medium in which he created Newly made by Expectation Entertainment for BBC Radio 4 Studio Engineer and Editor: Alisdair McGregor dozens of high quality classic shows including, most famously, Extra. Production Manager: Sarah Tombling ‘The Lives of Harry Lime’, starring Orson Welles. WED 23:30 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash (b0101g5j) Special Thanks to Edward Rowett From his first successful attempts to get his programmes on air Series 3 Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios in the late 1930s, via some unwanted attention from American Episode 1 Produced by Rob Grant and Gordon Kennedy law-enforcement authorities, through to his star-studded Arthur Smith presents music and comedy from his home in An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 productions of the ‘50s, ‘The Lives of Harry Towers’ is the story Balham, South London. There's music in the kitchen, comedy in WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007v1p4) of that pioneering and globe-trotter’s radio career. the front room and poetry on the landing. This week, finding a Series 4 Featured full-length programmes: decent sized performance space amongst the accumulated Agricultural 'Ancock ‘Theatre Royal: The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol’ starring Sir debris that is Arthur's life are Katie Melua, Roisin Conaty, Alun The lad turns farmer - unaware that sneaky Sid's sold him a top Michael Redgrave. Cochrane and Nick Helm cricket ground. ‘Secrets of Scotland Yard: The Acid Bath Murder’ Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith. Starring Tony Hancock, Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Presenter: Adam Roche Williams and Hattie Jacques. Producer: Dominic Delargy Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and fist broadcast in January THURSDAY 14 MAY 2020 Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. 2019. Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007v1p4) THU 00:00 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare (b00wvd6t) Rabinowitz. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Producer: Dennis Main Wilson WED 12:30 After Henry (b007jnsf) THU 00:30 Short Cuts (b06np61j) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1957. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] WED 08:30 After Henry (b007jnsf) WED 13:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j35p) THU 01:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j35p) Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] The Married Man WED 13:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp3p) THU 01:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp3p) Clare's latest love affair proves difficult to keep secret from [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] granny Eleanor. WED 14:00 Counterpoint (b00jrnw6) THU 02:00 Counterpoint (b00jrnw6) Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 May 2020 Page 7 of 8 THU 02:30 The Change (b0076p6t) Meet the Aristocracy of Britain - and take a driving test with a A Recluse [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] difference... One hot evening in the English countryside, a traveller is forced THU 03:00 Moll Flanders (b07kl7m5) More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs and to stay the night at the remote house of a sinister gentleman... [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] parodies. Read by Anthony Head. THU 04:00 The Lives of Harry Towers (m000j35t) Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was a popular award-wining [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] and Bill Oddie. poet, short story writer and novelist. He wrote for both children THU 05:00 Tomorrow, Today! (b0178s5n) Written by Eric Idle, Graeme Garden, David Hatch and Bill and adults. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Oddie. Abridged by Doreen Estall. THU 05:30 Quanderhorn (m000htxd) Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Producer: Lawrence Jackson [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2010. THU 06:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j2hk) quickly developed a cult following. THU 18:30 Great Lives (b04jk3qm) The Geneva Raid Music and songs by Dave Lee and Bill Oddie. Series 34 Len Deighton … Author Producer: Humphrey Barclay Professor Edith Hall on Lucille Ball Michael Bakewell … Dramatist First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in December 1966. Matthew Parris discovers that Edith Hall, Professor of Classics Trevor Nichols … Boyd Stuart THU 09:00 It's Your Round (b019rgtc) at King’s College, London, has a surprising nomination for a David Garth … Sydney Ryden Series 2 Great Life – that of Lucille Ball, the vivacious redhead who in Bruce Boa … Charles Stein Episode 5 the 1950s and 1960s was one of the best-known and best-loved Bernard Hepton … Max Breslow Angus Deayton hosts the show which is totally different every actresses on television, both in the United States and here. Clifford Rose … Willi Kleiber time, as it's the panellists themselves that devise the format. What makes a professor of Greek and Roman writing such a Colin Starkey … Reader Each of the contestants has brought their own round for the great fan of a zany American actress? What was Lucy like Barry Morse … Colonel Pitman other panellists to play. But will they be beaten at their own behind the television persona? Matthew finds out in the Mary Wimbush … Madame Maurig games? company of Carole Cook, Lucy’s long-time friend and protégée. Stuart Milligan … Kalkhoven The rounds featured this episode are: Producer Christine Hall Lou Hirsch … Wyn Lucy Porter's "Who's the Daddy?" in which the other three, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Garard Green … Koch childless, male panellists must complete the quote from a 70's THU 19:00 Round the Horne (b00nth15) THU 06:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp44) parenting bible. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 2 Tom Wrigglesworth's "Dodo's Den" in which each contestant THU 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00tp8gx) The Curse of the Golden Cross must pitch their idea for a new invention that they think will [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] What do an itinerant gambler, an English lady, a steward, a make them their millions. Examples include the "Herring Aid" THU 20:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j2hk) vicar and a professor have in common? And who has the right and the intriguingly titled "Bam". [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] to it? Father Brown finds the answer. Robert Popper's brilliant parlour game, "ORAG" aka "The THU 20:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp44) GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an Opposite Rhyming Animal Game", which is pretty much, er, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. self-explanatory... THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b09rwg3y) Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown, Tim Reynolds as And Lloyd Langford devises a quiz based on Welsh talisman [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] Professor Smaill, Peter Marinker as Mr Tarrant and Natasha and eccentric, Dr William Price, in his round "The Price Is THU 21:45 Multi Story Shorts (m0002rhp) Pyne as Lady Diana Wales. Right". [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Dramatised by John Scotney Producer: Sam Michell. THU 22:00 Ankle Tag (m00010z6) Directed in Bristol by Alec Reid. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986. THU 09:30 Millport (b0076287) THU 22:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jpvx) THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire (b00ss2cq) Series 2 Series 2 Series 1 Growth The Quest for the Other Rabbit's Foot Episode 2 Bunty's nowhere to be found when an EU official arrives to Myths and mucking out at the court of King Arthur. Improvised Sheila Hancock heads a stunning cast including Mackenzie inspect her vegetables. family saga with Paul Merton and Josie Lawrence. From June Crook, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu and Kevin Eldon. Meanwhile the rest of Millport is bitten by the fitness bug, but 1994. This is a clever, funny and touching series about a small town in the lack of any sports facilities poses a few logistical THU 23:00 The Skivers (b0080rd1) the middle of Northamptonshire as it prepares for a talent night. problems... Series 2 It is written by and also stars Katherine Jakeways. Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as Spike Milligan Rehearsals for the town talent night are well underway, with 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a In the final recording at the famous BBC Paris Studios, Nick some of the worst acts ever seen on stage. better life on the mainland. Golson and Tim de Jongh welcome Spike Milligan. From Recently divorced Jan has a surprise visit from neighbour and Stars Lynn Ferguson as Irene, Janet Brown as Moira/Agnes, March 1995. ex-teacher Mary and finds they have more than an untidy hedge Lewis McLeod as Alberto/Robert/Inspector, Gabriel Quigley as THU 23:30 Concrete Cow (b0076jns) in common. Ena/Bunty, Robert Patterson as Bob/Minister and Matt Costello Series 1 Jan's ex, Frank, thinks his new love Angela may be eating too as Dougie. Episode 2 many peanuts. Music arranged by Olly Fox. Temping at NASA and planning permission for the Death Star. Esther knocks Jan to the floor in her self-defence class but wait Producer: Lucy Bacon Sketch show with Robert Webb and Olivia Colman. From - could this be Jonathan coming to Jan's rescue? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001. August 2002. And meanwhile supermarket manager Rod (Mackenzie Crook) THU 10:00 Virginia Woolf - Night and Day (b0076fvb) gets trapped in an upturned shopping trolley. Episode 1 Written by Katherine Jakeways. Virginia Woolf … Author FRIDAY 15 MAY 2020 Produced by Claire Jones. Lavinia Greenlaw … Dramatist First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. Kristen Scott Thomas … Narrator FRI 00:00 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare (b00ww8sr) THU 07:30 Ankle Tag (m00010z6) John Mackay … William Rodney [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Series 2 June Barrie … Aunt Millicent FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b04jk3qm) The Nappy Advert Jacqueline Tong … Mrs Seal [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] The family need to increase their income, so Big Bob gets a job. Paul Nicholson … Mr Clacton FRI 01:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j2hk) Bob – Steve Speirs Jonathan Nibbs … Mr Hilbery [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Gruff – Elis James Phyllida Nash … Mrs Hilbery FRI 01:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp44) Alice – Katy Wix Susannah Corbett … Mary Datchet [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] Lauren – Ruth Bratt Jamie Glover … Ralph Denham FRI 02:00 It's Your Round (b019rgtc) Receptionist – Adelayo Adedayo Dervla Kirwan … Katherine Hilbery [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Canteen Guy – Naz Osmanoglu Mark Meadows … Henry Otway FRI 02:30 Millport (b0076287) Nappy Advert v/o - Anna Leong Brophy THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b09rwg3y) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Written by Benjamin Partridge & Gareth Gwynn [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] FRI 03:00 Virginia Woolf - Night and Day (b0076fvb) Produced by Victoria Lloyd THU 11:45 Multi Story Shorts (m0002rhp) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] A BBC Studios Production [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] FRI 04:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b09rwg3y) THU 08:00 Round the Horne (b00nth15) THU 12:00 Round the Horne (b00nth15) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] Series 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 04:45 Multi Story Shorts (m0002rhp) Episode 1 THU 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00tp8gx) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Kenneth Horne is a doctor who talks to animals, tune into [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire (b00ss2cq) wonderful Radio Balls Pond Road and Julian and Sandy troll THU 13:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j2hk) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] west to The Lazy Bona Ranch. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 05:30 Ankle Tag (m00010z6) With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden. THU 13:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp44) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 06:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j3k1) London. Announcer: Douglas Smith THU 14:00 It's Your Round (b019rgtc) Expedient Demise Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Len Deighton … Author comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric THU 14:30 Millport (b0076287) Michael Bakewell … Dramatist Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Trevor Nichols … Boyd Stuart Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the THU 15:00 Virginia Woolf - Night and Day (b0076fvb) David Garth … Sydney Ryden scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Bruce Boa … Charles Stein 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, THU 16:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b09rwg3y) Bernard Hepton … Max Breslow catchphrases and double-entendres. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] Clifford Rose … Willi Kleiber For series 4, Marty Feldman was replaced by Brian Cooke & THU 16:45 Multi Story Shorts (m0002rhp) Colin Starkey … Reader Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Webster [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Jenny Funnell … Jennifer Music by the Max Harris Group. THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire (b00ss2cq) Ian Tyler … Billy Stein Producer: John Simmonds [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] George Coulouris … Shumuk First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in February 1968. THU 17:30 Ankle Tag (m00010z6) Stuart Milligan … Kalkhoven THU 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00tp8gx) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Helena Breck … Mary Breslow Series 4 THU 18:00 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare Alan Thompson … Case Officer Episode 12 (b00ww8sr) Garard Green … Koch Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 May 2020 Page 8 of 8 FRI 06:30 Father Brown Stories (b0081lvr) Producer: Edward Taylor. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1981. FRI 22:30 Paperback Hell (m000j3k7) Actor and Alibi FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree (m0007k6j) Series 2 A theatrical murder amid much back-stabbing is announced in Series 9 Episode 3 the Chop-House. Father Brown finds himself in the midst of a St Catharine’s College, Cambridge Another chapter from a novel you think you've read before... School for Scandal. A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this The Napoleonic wars invade the airwaves as suspiciously GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an week from St Catharine's College, Cambridge, with specialist fictional author Alexander Cromwell reads from his military uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. subjects including Geography, French and Veterinary Medicine adventure, Thrust's Eagle. Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown, Peter Jeffrey as Mundon and questions ranging from French gender to horse teeth via Starring Michael Fenton Stevens, Rebecca Front, Mel Hudson, Mandeville, Sheila Gram as Mrs Mandeville and Bill Wallis as James Bond and Dick Dastardly. Alex Lowe and Dan Tetsell, Inspector Bagshaw. The programme is recorded on location at a different Written by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell. Dramatised by John Scotney University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against Producer: Lucy Armitage Directed in Bristol by Alec Reid. three of their Professors in an original and fresh take on an First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986. academic quiz. FRI 22:45 Steven Appleby's Normal Life (b007jmzw) FRI 07:00 Electric Ink (b01kkqc9) The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Series 1 Series 2 Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow Normal Death Episode 6 and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the The cartoonist sells his soul to the devil in the hope of securing by Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson. students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and eternal life. Stars Paul McCrink. From August 2001. A comic satire set in the struggling world of newspapers. The science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, sport, FRI 23:00 Inside Alan Francis (b00hr4mz) paper is on the verge of being sold to a Russian gangster. and quite possibly Ed Sheeran. In addition, the Head-to-Head Episode 2 Maddox ..... John Sessions rounds see students take on their Professors in their own Comedy series in which comedian Alan Francis explores the Oliver ..... Alex Jennings subjects, offering plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on workings of his own mind in relation to his life, friends and Freddy ..... Stephen Wight both sides. long-suffering girlfriend Jane. Carol ..... Polly Frame Other Universities featured in this series include Royal Alan has come to the conclusion that he needs to talk to Jane Masha ..... Debbie Chazen Holloway University of London, Aberdeen, Plymouth, Brighton about their relationship. Andrei Zinoviev ..... Ewan Bailey and Oxford Brookes. With Julian Dutton, Barnaby Power, Kali Peacock. Steward ..... Adeel Akhtar Produced by David Tyler FRI 23:30 Dave Podmore (b007qcsw) Producer ..... Sally Avens A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Dave Podmore's Cricket Fix Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson's satire is set in the world 2019. Episode 2 of modern newspapers. FRI 09:30 1835 (b012mbjv) The star cricketer injures Felicity Kendall in a charity celebrity A group of dysfunctional journalists attempt to cover major Down at the Old Bull and Bush cricket match. Stars Chris Douglas. From May 2001. news stories at the same time as grappling with the demands of Aristocrat Belport tries escapology to woo a music hall singer, working in a multi-platform environment, watching circulation but servant Ned is smitten too. Stars Paul Rider. From July figures plummet and the recession causing half the workforce 2004. to be laid off. FRI 10:00 Virginia Woolf - Night and Day (b0076fym) At the heart of the comedy is the relationship between Maddox Episode 2 Bradley, a journalist who mourns the day of proper Virginia Woolf … Author investigative journalism, and Freddy, the online editor who will Lavinia Greenlaw … Dramatist regurgitate a press release quite happily and call it a story. But Kristen Scott Thomas … Narrator they have a grudging respect for the each other as Freddy helps Jamie Glover … Ralph Denham Maddox stay afloat in the world of Twitter, Facebook and John Mackay … William Rodney podcasting and Maddox shows Freddy how to sniff out the real Dervla Kirwan … Katherine Hilbery story. Both are at the mercy of Oliver, the pragmatic Editor Susannah Corbett … Mary Datchet more concerned with keeping his job, and Carol, the news Jacqueline Tong … Mrs Seal editor who believes that circulation will increase if they run June Barrie … Aunt Millicent pieces on Big Mac eating orang-utans and 'intelligent' skunks Phyllida Nash … Mrs Hilbery rather than Maddox's moral crusading diatribes. And only Rebecca Smart … Cassandra Otway Masha, the Russian head of online communities, who wants to FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000j3k5) give away all their content because that is true democracy, Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the knows Freddy's secret; that he's a posh boy from Eton rather people who make them. than a hypercool kid from the street; well that's what Freddy FRI 12:00 Something to Shout About (m000j3k3) thinks anyway. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 07:30 Just a Minute (b07bbd50) FRI 12:30 Never Too Late (b011d6rc) Series 75 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Episode 1 FRI 13:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j3k1) Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 75th series of the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] panel show where participants must try to speak for 60 seconds FRI 13:30 Father Brown Stories (b0081lvr) without hesitation, deviation or repetition. No repetition? That's [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] no small order after nearly 50 years. FRI 14:00 The 3rd Degree (m0007k6j) Paul Merton, now the second most prolific player of the game [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] after Kenneth Williams, will be joined by guests including FRI 14:30 1835 (b012mbjv) series regulars Josie Lawrence, Sheila Hancock, Marcus [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Brigstocke and Gyles Brandreth. Comedian Alexei Sayle, and FRI 15:00 Virginia Woolf - Night and Day (b0076fym) Broadcaster of the Year John Finnemore make their first [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] appearances. FRI 16:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000j3k5) Episode one features Paul Merton, John Finnemore, Gyles [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Brandreth and Sheila Hancock talking about such diverse topics FRI 17:00 Electric Ink (b01kkqc9) as Halley's Comet, Carbon Dating and Answering the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Telephone. FRI 17:30 Just a Minute (b07bbd50) Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Produced by Victoria Lloyd. FRI 18:00 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare FRI 08:00 Something to Shout About (m000j3k3) (b00wwd8m) Series 3 The Almond Tree Episode 8 A man looks back on the complex relationship between his Adrian’s colleagues must cover for him, when DIY calamities at parents and a female friend of his father's. It's one that will home force his absence from the agency. influence the rest of his life... "A light-hearted exposé of the advertising world!". Set in a Read by Julian Wadham. London ad agency called 'Apsley, Addis, Cohen, Barbican, Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was a popular award-wining Blythe, Giddy & Partners'. poet, short story writer and novelist. He wrote for both children Michael Lightfoot …. Michael Medwin and adults. Janet Harris …. Fenella Fielding Abridged by Doreen Estall. Maggie Tufnell …. Eleanor Summerfield Producer: Lawrence Jackson Mavis Willis …Joan Sims Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2010. Adrian Beales …. Nicholas Phipps FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b0076wzf) Mr Blythe/Various …. Warren Mitchell Crime Sells Series three written by Myles Rudge with Ronnie Wolfe. Victoria Coren discusses the morality of crime writing with Producer: John Simmonds. Will Self, Martin Short and Maxim Jakubowski. From February First heard on the Light Programme in November 1961. 2006. FRI 08:30 Never Too Late (b011d6rc) FRI 19:00 Something to Shout About (m000j3k3) Mildred and the Man [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Man-mad Mildred's passions are aroused by the return of an old FRI 19:30 Never Too Late (b011d6rc) flame. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] A surviving episode from the BBC archive of Terry Gregson's FRI 20:00 Len Deighton - XPD (m000j3k1) sitcom a group of highly active pensioners starring Thora Hird. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Hilda Spriggett …. Thora Hird FRI 20:30 Father Brown Stories (b0081lvr) Tommy Preston …. Joe Gladwyn [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Emily Holroyd …. Megs Jenkins FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000j3k5) Mildred Emmett …. Avis Bunnage [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Albert Pickles …. Kenneth Connor FRI 22:00 Just a Minute (b07bbd50) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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