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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.