Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 November 2014 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2014 Antony Gogan ...... Eugene O'Brien hitting, macho, spoof documentary set in 2014 - exploring the Mr McNamara ...... Frank Kelly fiasco that WAS the Olympics. Stars Kevin Eldon. SAT 00:00 Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mr Bagshott ...... Bosco Hogan From 2010. Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (b014tt0r) Polly Hoskins ...... Ali White Producer: Martin Dempsey Episode 5 Lady Bletchley ...... Sylvia Syms Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2014. Adrian is worried about his mum's new independence, and what Music played by John Trotter. SAT 12:00 Children in Need: D for Dexter (b04p522x) about his worsening spots? Nicholas Barnes reads Sue Directed at BBC Belfast by Roland Jaquarello. Series 1 Omnibus Townsend's book. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1998. by Amanda Whittington. SAT 00:15 Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag (b00jp108) SAT 06:00 Sherlock Holmes (b04nht15) Skye is eleven years old and she lives with her brother Dexter, Episode 5 Chosen Companions who's two and a half. And Spider the cat, and their Mum. But British wartime double agent and former convict Eddie Richard Usborne - one-time assistant editor of The Strand they're both usually out. Chapman arrives back home. Concluded by Damian Lewis. Magazine - presents his choice of extracts from the Sherlock Skye looks after Dexter and plays with him. He likes it best SAT 00:30 Ladies of Letters (b01m850q) Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. when she plays her guitar, an electric guitar she found under a Ladies of Letters Log On Read by Carleton Hobbs. heap of clothes in her mum's bedroom. The bailiffs didn't take Episode 5 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1970. it even when they came back for the telly. Vera has a busy day with a new arrival at Sheepdippers. With SAT 06:45 Sherlock Holmes (b007jph3) A heart-breakingly brave, funny and beautiful story, one of the Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. From May 2001. His Last Bow highlights of programming for this week's BBC Children in SAT 00:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See His Last Bow Need appeal. Your Father? (b04nvbfk) "There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never The serial was inspired by collaboration with Home-Start UK, a Episode 5 blew on yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a national charity offering support to families struggling to cope, Blake Morrison reads more from his tribute to a cantankerous good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own who receive funding for specific projects from BBC Children father. A family holiday does not bring out the best. From April wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in in Need. 1994. the sunshine when the storm has cleared." Skye...Sydney Wade SAT 01:00 Jest a Minute (b0133g72) Set in 1914, the great sleuth-cum-apiarist is asked to help Dexter...Elsa Rodgers Series 1 England in her darkest hour. Jak...Una McNulty Episode 5 Starring Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes, Michael Williams Evan...Samuel Holland Justin Moorhouse, Sarah Millican, Chris Corcoran and Jeff as Dr Watson and Norman Rodway as Stamford. Alice...Jane Thornton Green star in Rhod Gilbert's quiz. From September Violinist: Leonard Friedman Mags...Sarah Parks 2006. Dramatised by Bert Coules. Director: Enyd Williams Lin...Martha Godber SAT 01:30 My Life in Five Books (b00tky4n) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. Guitar...Pip Moore Series 1 SAT 07:30 The House I Grew Up In (b00cxr1f) Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. Dame Jacqueline Wilson Series 2 SAT 13:10 Inheritance Tracks (b04prn2x) 1/1 Mona Siddiqui Rebecca Front Celebrated children's author Dame Jacqueline Wilson has sold Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood The Thick of It actress shares her love of 'They All Laughed at over 25 million books and is the most borrowed author of the neighbourhoods of influential Britons. Christopher Columbus' and why she will pass on Bach's decade. In conversation with Stuart Cosgrove, Dame Jacqueline Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Studies at Glasgow concerto. reveals the 5 most important books in her life. As well as University, takes Wendy back to her childhood home in SAT 13:15 John Mortimer - Rumpole of the Bailey revealing her literary secrets, she tells Stuart about a childhood Huddersfield. She recalls growing up in a literary family and (b007jz59) with imaginary friends, the impact of a health scare and why her mother's insistence on living separately from the wider Rumpole and the Primrose Path her mother refused to call her a Dame! From 2010. Muslim community. Recuperating at a nursing home, the barrister exposes some SAT 02:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi (b0116778) SAT 08:00 (b011zkly) criminal practices. John Mortimer's dramatisation with Timothy Episode 4 The Light Music Festival West. Unwilling Turkish secret agent Simpson watches a group of Although many Radio 4 listeners grew up tuning in to light SAT 14:00 King Street Junior (b00tt953) 'tourists' while he works as their driver. Read by David orchestral music, it's now largely been forgotten. Most of us will Series 1 Westhead. be still be familiar with at least one very famous piece of light Language Units SAT 02:30 The Poet of Albion (b008cr07) music: 'By The Sleepy Lagoon' - better known as the theme A difficult day for headmaster Mr Beeston, when a proposed Jenny Uglow presents a profile of Wiliam Blake. tune to '' and composed by Eric Coates. unit for immigrant children produces more heat than the school Widely misrepresented as a patriotic conformist, the great poet When BBC Radio was much slimmer than it is - made up central heating system. was a passionate dissident, a political artist deeply at odds with of just the Home Service, the Light Programme and the Third Created and written by Jim Eldridge. his country whose ideas were formed by the turbulent history of Programme - listeners tuned in to hear a live concert for the Ten series of this comedy about King Street Junior School ran the time. Festival of Light Music. it began in 1953 and was broadcast between 1985 and 1998. King Street Junior Revisited ran from Contributors include Blake's biographer Peter Ackroyd and every June. 2002 to 2005. poet and critic Tom Paulin. With the disappearance of the Light Programme in 1967 when Eric Brown …. Peter Davison SAT 03:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tp809) it split into Radios 1 and 2, light music began to disappear from Mr Beeston …. James Grout Shangri-La the airwaves. Eventually its only home was a single slot 'Friday Mr Holliday …. Tom Watson Hugh Conway and the others are stranded in the Tibetan Night is Music Night'. So why did such a popular style of music Mrs Stone …. Margaret John wilderness, but a man named Chang comes to their aid. Stars fade away? Mr Long …. Paul Copley . The music journalist and broadcaster Paul Morley uses BBC Miss Lewis …. Marlene Sidaway SAT 04:00 Short Stories by John McGahern (b00p84px) archive to explore light music at its peak, including interviews Mr Ross …. Nick Stringer Sierra Leone, part 2 with some of the major composers of British light music - Eric Engineer …. Johnny Wade Thanks to his tangled lovelife, a young man assesses his Coates, Ronald Binge and Ernest Tomlinson. He traces its Miss Sope …. Valerie Murray capacity for commitment. Conclusion read by Sean McGinley. decline, and looks at its possible resurgence in 2011, with Janet …. Pru Oliver SAT 04:15 John McGahern - Parachutes (b0075x70) events like the 'Light Fantastic Festival'. Tommy …. Desmond Askew Dumped by his girlfriend, a man tries to drown his sorrows in Paul travels to Preston to meet Ernest Tomlinson and takes a Maria …. Samantha Cahill the in the sharp and funny pub world of 1950s Dublin. tour around the Light Music Society's remarkable archive of Producer: John Fawcett Wilson John McGahern's story dramatised by Patricia Cobey thousands of pieces of light music - all rescued by Tomlinson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1985. Starring Brendan Gleeson as the Narrator, Pauline McLynn as and his daughter Hilary after the BBC and music publishers SAT 14:30 The Mary Whitehouse Experience (b044153k) Claire Mulvey, Mark Lambert as Paddy Mulvey, David Wilmot threw it away. Series 4 as Eamon Kelly and Karen Ardiff as the Woman, Paul also meets Christopher Austin at the Royal Academy of Episode 2 Director: Pam Brighton Music and the young conductor John Wilson, who is passionate The pernicious evil of shampoo and conditioner. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. about light music: for him, this music is not about nostalgia but Starring the double double-acts of and Rob SAT 05:00 After Henry (b007jpt4) beautifully written miniatures of orchestral music. Newman and and . Series 3 SAT 09:00 Deadpan (b04p522v) With Mark Hurst. Wedding Bells What is deadpan? Gary Delaney puzzles it out with BBC Radio 1's alternative comedy with sketches, stand-up and 'Well, I think it's a mother's duty to keep a maternal eye on her the help of actor and director Neil Maskell, writer and the odd spot of audience participation. daughter's emotional entanglements. That's what I always tried comedian Diane Morgan, comedy guru Colin Anderson and Starting in 1989, the foursome's popularity sparked a BBC TV- to do with you. You know, subtly. At a distance.' novelist Marius Brill. transfer of the same name. Eleanor has plans for nuptials in the family, but the family has Three hour showcase includes: Producer: Armando Iannucci other ideas... ** The Format First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in October 1990 Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - Celebrity eaters choose 'Desert Island Biscs'. Radio's posh paper SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b011zkly) struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who tells all. Featuring Alexander Armstrong and . [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] never quite manage to see eye to eye. From 2001. SAT 16:00 Sherlock Holmes (b04nht15) Sarah ...... Prunella Scales ** Stereonation 1/6: Greg, a Kate Bush fan. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Eleanor ...... Joan Sanderson Graham Duff fast-forwards through the world of music SAT 16:45 Sherlock Holmes (b007jph3) Russell ...... Benjamin Whitrow obsessives. From 1998. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today] Clare ...... Gerry Cowper ** S-Laughter In the Dark ep 1/4 Blind Man's Buff SAT 17:30 Chain Reaction (b01l8rbv) Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV In just one night fantasizing blind detective Jack Dunroody Series 8 - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV becomes a sex starlet's lover and her husband's murderer. And Rebecca Front interviews network. that's without doing or seeing either. From 1996. Rebecca Front talks to her Thick Of It co-star and fellow Nude- Producer: Pete Atkin Punt and Dennis: It's Been a Bad Week Series 3 (8/8) a-phobe, comedian Chris Addison about working with First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1987. Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis welcome special guest Leslie Armando Iannucci and embracing his middle-classness through SAT 05:30 Spangles 'n' Tights (b04nv8v5) Nielsen. Topical comedy from April 2000. stand-up The Ambassador ** The Riot That Never Was Producer ..... Carl Cooper The Dublin Theatrical Costumiers are asked to dress a British In 1926, the fledgling BBC sparked a national panic with a "In an unclothed state I look like a child has done a collage with Embassy pageant, only to become embroiled in an unfortunate spoof murderous riot in London. Manager, John Reith's reaction some Twiglets". scandal... was unexpected. Stars Bob Sinfield and Ray Snoddy. From Chris Addison Christopher Fitz-Simon's five-part comedy. 2005 Other episodes in the chain include: Dessie Doyle ...... David Kelly ** What Went Wrong With The Olympics ep 3/4 Rebecca Front being interviewed by the man who knows her Violet Doyle ...... Pauline McLynn Written by Ian Hislop & Nick Newman. Made in 2010 - hard- best, her big brother, Jeremy Front. Supported by .co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 November 2014 Page 2 of 9 Chris Addison in a rare interview with the actually-really-nice- Train Times Written by Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Myles Rudge and-he-doesn't-do-any-of-that-weird-stuff-in-real-life, Derren Time warnings from Paul Copley and Helen Moon. Sketch With the Max Harris Group. Brown; show mixing up language and sounds. From October 2007. Producer: John Simmonds Derren Brown chatting hair, beliefs and Tim Minchin with First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1969. comedy musical megastar and fellow sceptic Tim Minchin; SUN 09:00 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women (b007jqp9) A poorly Tim Minchin being handed tissues whilst attempting SUNDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2014 Good Neighbours to interview with no questions a not-at-all-poorly and hilarious Christmas is coming as the March sisters go to a party, in 19th- Caitlin Moran. SUN 00:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn4v) century New England. Stars Buffy Davis and Jemma Redgrave. Caitlin Moran getting to spend time and talk shoes, Bananarama [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN 09:30 Captain Kidd and the First Fifteen (b04p54n4) and women with her comedy hero . SUN 00:30 Planet B (b00y1whc) Episode 1 And. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] 4 Extra Debut. Captain Kidd is just a game to Harry, until it Jennifer Saunders turning up a week later to find the series has SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b011zkly) turns into a battle for his life. Stars Polly James and Tom ended. Probably. We weren't there because the series had [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] Georgeson. ended. SUN 02:00 Children in Need: D for Dexter (b04p522x) SUN 09:50 Inheritance Tracks (b04prn2x) SAT 18:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jn4v) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] [Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday] Series 2 SUN 03:10 Inheritance Tracks (b04prn2x) SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b04p54n6) The Great Martian Pyramid [Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday] Legal Eagles Landing on Mars, the Space Force crew start explorations - but SUN 03:15 John Mortimer - Rumpole of the Bailey Michael Mansfield find their welcome is far from warm. (b007jz59) Kirsty Young's castaway is the barrister Michael Mansfield. Charles Chilton's second intergalactic adventure series starring [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] He is one of Britain's leading QCs - the Birmingham six, the Barry Foster. SUN 04:00 Sherlock Holmes (b04nht15) Marchioness disaster, the Stephen Lawrence trial and the death Captain Saxon Berry ...... Barry Foster [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] of Jean Charles de Menezes are only a handful of the high Chipper Barnett ...... Nicky Henson SUN 04:45 Sherlock Holmes (b007jph3) profile cases he's been involved in. Magnus Carter ...... Nigel Stock [Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Saturday] He describes himself as a 'radical lawyer' and says he's been Lodderick Sincere ...... Tony Osoba SUN 05:30 Chain Reaction (b01l8rbv) educated by the cases he's taken on. He has become, he says, With Wendy Murray, Willoughby Goddard and Bernard Brown. [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] increasingly angry and radical over the years. "I do feel that Charles Chilton wrote and produced many popular and SUN 06:00 Ladies of Letters (b01mfz16) reputation, standing up for principle, is one of the few ways in successful radio programmes for the BBC - including the classic Ladies of Letters Log On which a difference can be made." 1950s serial 'Journey into Space' - charting the adventures of Omnibus, pt 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2010. Captain Jet Morgan. This fired the imagination of millions, The discovery of email doesn't stop the flow of comic vitriol. SUN 10:45 RK Narayan Stories (b01dc3p8) years before the first moon landing. It was the last radio With Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. From April 2001. A Willing Slave to record higher ratings than the new young upstart television! SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b04prp0s) A contradictory tale of a disciplined but willing servant, who Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Ruthie Henshall resents and desires her true master. Read by Zia Mohyeddin. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May 1985. West End and Broadway star Ruthie Henshall selects From January 1991. SAT 18:30 Planet B (b00y1whc) Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland and Faure's In SUN 11:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b01chxyw) Series 3 Paradisum. Series 7 Haunted SUN 07:15 Roger Deakin - Wildwood: A Journey Through Episode 19 As the rogues face their biggest threat yet, a familiar face Trees (b00j1ywl) From San Diego, the funny man welcomes the United States returns. Virtual reality saga by Dawn King. Stars Lloyd Thomas. Wood Jazz Navy Band Southwest and shares the news from Lake SAT 19:00 Deadpan (b04p522v) Nature writer Roger Deakin is in North Wales to celebrate the Wobegon. From 2011. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] living outdoor sculptures of David Nash. Read by Sean Baker. SUN 12:00 Ladies of Letters (b01mfz16) SAT 22:00 Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation SUN 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b00y28q5) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] (b016x241) Series 7 SUN 13:10 Inheritance Tracks (b04prp0s) Faith Parsnip Junction [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] Mark Watson continues his quest to improve the world, nimbly "Parsnip Junction" SUN 13:15 Roger Deakin - Wildwood: A Journey Through assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden. Radio 4's most curmudgeonly author is back for a new series, Trees (b00j1ywl) As broadcast live in November 2011 - Mark invites the complete with his trusty companion Elgar, his pipe and his [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] audience join in via tweets and messages to work out how we never ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever SUN 13:30 HRF Keating - The Murder of the Maharajah can all make the world a better place. scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and cat (b00vfhv3) Mark asks the big questions that are crucial to our together. Set in the India of the British Raj - His Highness plays one understanding of ourselves and society - in a dynamic and Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas April Fool's joke too many. thought-provoking new format he opens the floor to the live Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy Written by H.R.F Keating and dramatised by Neville Teller audience and asks them to jump into the conversation via tweets Py ..... Katy Wix Maharajah …. Zia Mohyeddin and messages to work out how we can all make the world a Charles ..... Geoffrey Palmer Dewan …. Renu Setna better place. Pearl ..... Rita May Porgy …. Lyndam Gregory This time Mark asks - What is faith? One of the most used, and Olive ..... Stephanie Cole D S P Howard …. Sam Dastor feared, words of modern times. Yet these days, it's often used Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead Ram Singh …. Amerjit Deu derisively about religious beliefs and so on. We look at odd Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas Sir Arthur …. Philip Anthony things done in the name of 'faith', versus the obvious merits of Produced by Dawn Ellis Michael …. Luke Beeson having faith (belief that England will eventually win World Ed finds himself in the middle of some sibling rivalry when Schoolmaster …. Bhasker Cup, ability to ride out difficult marriages). Should we be more Ping's sister, Py, undertakes some work experience at the Dolly …. Rachel Atkins credulous and believe people like estate agents? Or LESS agency. Ed finds the 'can-do' attitude of Py rather refreshing Judy …. Oona Beeson credulous and destroy our TV sets altogether in case we after Ping's normal 'might be a problem' response, particularly Elaine …. Ms Sheila Mitchell accidentally absorb lies? when she finds him some paid work with one Charles Cobbold, Frere …. Dominic Letts Producer: Lianne Coop reinventing the much loved children's classic 'Parsnip Junction'. Joe …. Steve Hodson First broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011. If Ed can withstand Charles' Communist tendencies and his Morton …. Barry Gordon SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive penchant for porn he may be on to a winner. Directed by Matthew Walters (b007wvmw) SUN 08:00 Meet the Huggetts (b00nm0k5) First broadcast on Radio 4 in November 1993. Series 1 Transatlantic Tangle SUN 15:00 Meet the Huggetts (b00nm0k5) Episode 2 The Huggett family are baffled by a mystery letter that arrives [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] The funny man throws open his radio drop-in centre for from America. SUN 15:30 Stop Messing About! (b00cmz01) sketches, chat and big, big fibs. With Mark Steel. From May CAST: [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] 2005. Joe …. Jack Warner SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show SAT 23:00 The Mark Steel Revolution (b00ft5lb) Ethel …. Kathleen Harrison (b04p55by) The Russian Revolution Bobby …. George Howell Honky tonk piano and massive antlers Radical comic Mark Steele re-assesses the historical forces and Jane …. Marion Collins picks the best of this week's shows, including a key players in the Russian Revolution. Fred Stebbings …. Charles Leno search for some creepy crawly water beetles and honky tonk A series of lectures on the theme of revolution, Mark examines Mamie Webb …. Patrica Hayes jazz piano from New Orleans. some of the major historical forces at work during revolutions Popular working-class family, the Huggetts first hit the cinema SUN 17:00 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women (b007jqp9) as well as holding up a mirror to our own age. screen with a series of Gainsborough films between 1947 and [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] With Martin Hyder and Carla Mendonca. 1949. Their subsequent BBC radio series ran from 1953 to SUN 17:30 Captain Kidd and the First Fifteen (b04p54n4) Producer: Phil Clarke 1962. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1998. Scripted by Eddie Maguire. SUN 17:50 Inheritance Tracks (b04prn2x) SAT 23:30 Steven Appleby's Normal Life (b00st0z2) Producer: Jacques Brown [Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday] Series 2 First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September SUN 18:00 Ray Bradbury's Tales of the Bizarre (b04p55c0) Normal Oceanography 1957. Series 1 Cartoonist Steven wades into the world under the sea and gets SUN 08:30 Stop Messing About! (b00cmz01) Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You intimate with a haddock. Series 1 One afternoon in the Confessional, the priest hears a familiar Paul McCrink stars as Steven Appleby with what he laughably Episode 12 voice and smells a familiar smell... describes as ‘insights into normal, everyday life.’ The serialised War Memoirs of Kenneth Williams - and: rev up Ray Bradbury introduces his own spooky tale of confessions With: with bona racing drivers, Ben and Hur! and confectionery dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska. Rosalind Paul Stars Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Joan Sims and The Priest ...... TP McKenna Ewan Bailey announcer, Douglas Smith. Young Man ...... John Yule Nigel Betts After the unexpected death of Kenneth Horne in 1969, plans Director: Hamish Wilson Rachel Atkins for the next series of Round The Horne were axed. Instead - First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995. Written by Steven Appleby using an old catchphrase of Kenneth Williams as a series title - SUN 18:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind (b007jltj) Producer: Kenneth joined Hugh Paddick to continue the comedy tradition 2. Hurried Exodus First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003. and was also reunited with his "Carry On" film co-star Joan On the Isle of Luig, Lark and Cornelius are certain the death of SAT 23:45 No Tomatoes (b0080jxn) Sims. Dr Hugh Dexter was no accident. From his research notes, they Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 November 2014 Page 3 of 9 diagnose a mysterious island sickness. Roger Blake Master Henry Woodstock Steven Kynman The key to the mystery seems to be an apparently simple- Emma Kennedy Bates Lewis Macleod minded 18-year-old, Flora Kiery... Toby Longworth with special guest Starring Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. Written by Hugh Rycroft and David Spicer from a format by Amy De Childs Jess Robinson Written by Rene Basilico from an idea by Robert Holmes. Bill Dare. Written by Kim Fuller & Paul Alexander John Cornelius .... Peter Cushing Music by Mark Burton. Music by Guy Jackson Curtis Lark .... Vincent Price Producer: Aled Evans Produced and directed by David Tyler. Minister Donald Schooler .... Henry Stamper First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1999. MON 10:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tp95x) Shirley Kyle .... Shirley Dixon MON 07:30 (b04nrmgx) The Inheritance Flora Kiery .... Sandra Clarke Series 7 Hugh Conway's old acquaintances try to discover if there's any Mary .... Irene Sutcliffe Episode 6 truth behind his Shangri-La adventure. Stars Derek Jacobi. Police Sergeant .... Frazer Carr This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00yj88f) Purser .... Andrew Sear curator Phill Jupitus welcome Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway's Party Producer: John Dyas Neil Innes, either a musical comedian or a comedy musician or Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1977. possibly both. He was the third member of the surreal Fascinated and preoccupied by the idea of this social event, SUN 19:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b01chxyw) psychedelic jazz pop fusion combo the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Virginia Woolf wrote this story sequence around the same time [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Band; is acknowledged as the seventh member of the Monty as writing the novel Mrs Dalloway. SUN 20:00 Meet the Huggetts (b00nm0k5) Python team; and was, according to some authorities, the 33rd In each of these three stories, glimpse each character's inner [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] member of the Beatles. most thoughts and emotions. as Woolf depicts the intriguing SUN 20:30 Stop Messing About! (b00cmz01) Dr Bradley Garrett, a writer, photographer urban explorer and social world of Mrs Dalloway's party in microscopic detail. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] researcher at Oxford University. He is perhaps the only This story, follows Mrs Dalloway as she runs errands and SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b04p54n6) academic whose studies have resulted in hanging onto a crane at prepares for the party she's hosting... [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] the top of the Shard, being arrested on the tarmac at Heathrow Read by Sylvestra Le Touzel SUN 21:45 RK Narayan Stories (b01dc3p8) for criminal damage and trespassing on private property over Abridged by Miranda Davies [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] 300 times in more than eight countries. Producer: Lucy Collingwood SUN 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week (b00y28q5) Isabel Berncke, a scientist who grew up in the wild mountains First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] of Chile but moved to the UK to study in London, Cambridge MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b04p54yg) SUN 22:30 (b00fyvqy) and Oxford. She's a doctor of cognitive and evolutionary Alan Cumming, Jake Chapman, Jan Ravens, The Growlers, Series 2 anthropology, but her research interests include neuroscience, PHOX Meet the Press music, primatology, poetry, ethnology, complexity theory, Clive Anderson is joined by Alan Cumming, Jake Chapman, International stardom beckons when the social worker appears behavioural ecology and hobbits. Donny Osmond, Jan Ravens and for an eclectic on the radio. Stars Sally Phillips. From November 2005. This week, the Museum's Steering Committee discusses mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b04stkn1) wrapping the Angel of the North up warm, penis fencing, the Growlers and PHOX. The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats lowest-rated prime-time show in American TV history, Producer: Debbie Kilbride. to Nick Doody. London's secret rivers, what makes a tree laugh and why we MON 12:00 Marriage Lines (b04pbltx) SUN 23:00 The Maltby Collection (b00x7glw) should stupidity should be put in an institution. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 2 The show was researched by James Harkin and Molly Oldfield MON 12:30 The Navy Lark (b007k0zg) Episode 2 of QI. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Deputy curator Rod holds a museum press conference, and The producers were Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber. MON 13:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi (b0116gvk) Walter hits on Susie Maltby. Stars Geoffrey Palmer. From June MON 08:00 Marriage Lines (b04pbltx) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] 2008. Series 1 MON 13:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the SUN 23:30 The Remains of Foley and McColl (b007jrrn) The Party Right Order (b0076wt5) Snuff Radio Kate's furious - why haven't they been invited to their friend's [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Sean and Hamish compete in a European Radio Drama party? MON 14:00 Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian competition. A series based on the mutual love and mistrust of two newly- Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (b0153w4w) Surreal comedy starring award-winning weds. Starring Richard Briers as George Starling and Prunella Episode 6 and Hamish McColl, the Right Size. Scales as Kate Starling. Adrian turns 14 at last, but his landmark birthday is nothing like With: Richard Waring’s sitcom based on the mutual love and mistrust he expected. Nicholas Barnes reads Sue Townsend's book. Rose English of two newlyweds. Originating on BBC TV, it ran between MON 14:15 A History of the Brain (b016w808) Count Arthur Strong 1963-65 and was adapted in two series for BBC radio due to its A Hole in the Head Chris Larner popularity. Dr Geoff Bunn's 10 part History of the Brain is a journey Mark Stevens George ...... Richard Briers through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex Producer: Lissa Evans Kate ...... Prunella Scales thing in the known universe. From Neolithic times to the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000. With Rodney Diak, Audrey Nicholson, David Graham and present day, Geoff journeys through the many ideas of what the David Morton. brain is for and how it fulfils its functions. While referencing Written by Richard Waring. the core physiology and neuroscience, this is a cultural, not a MONDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2014 Producer: Charles Maxwell scientific history. What soon becomes obvious is that our First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1965. understanding of this most inscrutable organ has in all periods MON 00:00 Ray Bradbury's Tales of the Bizarre (b04p55c0) MON 08:30 The Navy Lark (b007k0zg) been coloured by the social and political expedients of the day [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Series 1 no less than by the contemporary scope of scientific or MON 00:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind (b007jltj) An Exercise in Filming biological exploration. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] HMS Troutbridge's chance of movie stardom is jeopardised, In Episode 1: A Hole in the Head, the focus is on trepanation, MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b04p54n6) thanks to the navigational skills of Sub-Lieutenant Phillips! the practice of drilling holes in the skull believing that such [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as operations might correct physiological or spiritual problems. MON 01:45 RK Narayan Stories (b01dc3p8) the Chief Petty Officer, Dennis Price as Number One, Richard Trepanation reveals much about the understanding of the brain [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Caldicot as Commander Povey, Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson, from Neolithic to recent times. The Ancient Egyptians, MON 02:00 Meet the Huggetts (b00nm0k5) Heather Chasen as Heather, Michael Bates as Antony J Antony however, rarely trepanned, even though their Secret Book of the [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] and Tenniel Evans as the Admiral. Physician, one of the oldest medical texts in the world, shows MON 02:30 Stop Messing About! (b00cmz01) The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series on BBC that they recognised how damage to the brain can paralyze [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] Radio between 1959 and 1976. limbs on opposite sides of the body. Believing the heart to be MON 03:00 Ed Reardon's Week (b00y28q5) Scripted by Lawrie Wyman. the core organ, they discarded the brain altogether at death, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. since it had no part to play in the afterlife. MON 03:30 HRF Keating - The Murder of the Maharajah First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1959. The series is written and presented by Dr Geoff Bunn of (b00vfhv3) MON 09:00 The Personality Test (b00mrc84) Manchester Metropolitan University. Actors Paul Bhattacharjee [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] Series 2 and Jonathan Forbes provide the voices of those who have MON 05:00 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women (b007jqp9) Adam Hart-Davis written about the brain across the ages. Actor Hattie Morahan [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] Broadcaster, writer and science enthusiast, Adam Hart-Davis gives the Anatomy Lesson establishing the part of the brain to MON 05:30 Captain Kidd and the First Fifteen (b04p54n4) quizzes a panel about himself. be highlighted in each episode - in this instance the cranium and [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] With , Lucy Porter, Will Smith and Robin Ince. the meninges. The original, atmospheric score is supplied by MON 05:50 Inheritance Tracks (b04prn2x) Series with changing hosts who quiz the panel. composer, Barney Quinton. The producer is Marya Burgess. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday] Script by Richard Turner and Simon LIttlefield MON 14:30 Ladies of Letters (b01mgr64) MON 06:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi (b0116gvk) Devised and produced by Aled Evans. Ladies of Letters Log On Episode 5 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006. Episode 6 Arthur Simpson, crook and spy, witnesses a vicious knife fight MON 09:30 The Castle (b01j8gyl) With Irene away, Vera invites a tarot card reader onto the show. and waits for news of Fischer. Read by David Westhead. Series 4 With Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. From May 2001. MON 06:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Highlights and Twilights MON 14:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Right Order (b0076wt5) Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, Your Father? (b04pbqfy) Peter Schickele starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley"), Neil Dudgeon Episode 6 4 Extra Debut. Musician and comedian Rainer Hersch talks to ("Life Of Riley"), Martha Howe-Douglas ("Horrible Histories") Blake Morrison reads more from his tribute to a cantankerous American satirist Peter Schickele about his musical humour. & Ingrid Oliver ("Watson & Oliver") father. Competition between parent and child increases. From From January 2006. The village of Woodstock receives two mysterious visitors - one May 1994. MON 07:00 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue deathly pale and one deathly orange. Meanwhile, Lady Anne MON 15:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tp95x) (b007517q) meets the love that dare not speak its name and Sir John meets [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Series 4 the love that can speak its name but can't pronounce it properly MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04pbqrx) Episode 1 Sir John Woodstock James Fleet Blacksmiths, Baby Talk and Birdwatching Sofa-bound TV presenters Mike and Sue discuss property, Sir William De Warenne Neil Dudgeon Mel Giedroyc gets a guide to the fascinating world of bird- holidays and their hopes for a TV award. Lady Anne Woodstock Martha Howe-Douglas watching and brings you the next part of Anna Sewell's classic Starring Robert Duncan and Jan Ravens. Cardinal Duncan Jonathan Kydd story Black Beauty. With: Lady Charlotte Ingrid Oliver MON 17:00 Second Thoughts (b00kmys6) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 November 2014 Page 4 of 9 Series 3 TUE 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b00yj88f) fighting. Future seasons will be set in Newcastle and Devon, Come as You Were [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] telling the major stories of wartime Britain. Bill tries to disrupt Liza and Richard's affair, and gets involved TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b04p54yg) TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00yjcnr) with 'Emma Peel'. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway's Party Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill and Faith beginning TUE 05:00 Second Thoughts (b00kmys6) Together and Apart married life, whilst balancing the demands of his ex-wife, Liza [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] Fascinated and preoccupied by the idea of this social event, and Faith's teenage children. TUE 05:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue Virginia Woolf wrote this story sequence around the same time Stars Lynda Bellingham as Faith, James Bolam as Bill, Belinda (b007517q) as writing the novel Mrs Dalloway. Lang as Liza, Geoffrey Whitehead as Richard, Jo Kendall as [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] In each of these three stories, glimpse each character's Marjorie, Brian Bowles as Dennis and Ian Lindsay as Ray. TUE 06:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi (b0112cyc) innermost thoughts and emotions as Woolf depicts the Series three of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, Episode 6 intriguing social world of Mrs Dalloway's party in microscopic husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. Arthur Simpson is still on the roof. He has just reluctantly detail A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran robbed the Treasury of the Topkapi Palace. Read by David This story sees two people introduced at Mrs Dalloway's party for four series, with a spin-off 'Faith in the Future'. Westhead. who begin a rather awkward conversation where each of their Producer: Paul Schlesinger TUE 06:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Right internal thoughts about the other is revealed. Until they hit upon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1991. Order (b0076wxd) a subject close to both of their hearts. MON 17:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue Anna Russell Read by Emma Fielding (b007517q) Musician and comedian Rainer Hersch finds out more about the Abridged and produced by Lucy Collingwood [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] 'diva of the classical music send-up'. From February 2006. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. MON 18:00 The Personality Test (b00mrc84) TUE 07:00 Babblewick Hall (b04p56x5) TUE 11:15 Sheila Goff - A Long Time Dead (b0076plg) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Series 2 Despite a minor hitch in the proceedings, careful Kath carries MON 18:30 (b04pbqy2) Episode 4 on with her planned girlie weekend in Paris with bossy Beatrice. Neil Bartlett and Martin Bashir Debts are mounting and the squire has an ulterior motive when Now she feels free to live a little and really let her hair down... 4 Extra Debut. Tom Sutcliffe, Neil Bartlett and Martin Bashir he visits Lady Keene. With Sophie Thompson. From September Sheila Goff's drama stars Marion Bailey as Kath, Linda discuss paperbacks by Frederick Rolfe, Richard Ford and Ian 1998. Marlowe as Beatrice and Tony Selby as Geoff. McEwan. From September 1998. TUE 07:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b04ntvv9) Director: David Hunter Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. Publisher: Wordsworth Classics Lost and Found TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b00f6gsn) Women with Men by Richard Ford When Tom makes his weekly phone call to his parents in [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Publisher: Panther Sheffield he discovers they've been flooded. TUE 12:30 Doctor at Large (b009m43k) Enduring Love by Ian McEwan As his parents manage the clear up operation, Tom reflects on [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Publisher: Vintage. what is important to keep and what isn't. TUE 13:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi (b0112cyc) MON 19:00 Marriage Lines (b04pbltx) With Rita May, Paul Copley and Kate Anthony. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle. With Miles TUE 13:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Right MON 19:30 The Navy Lark (b007k0zg) Jupp. Order (b0076wxd) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Producer: Katie Tyrrell [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON 20:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi (b0116gvk) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014. TUE 14:00 Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b00f6gsn) Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (b0154xfg) MON 20:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the World War One Episode 7 Right Order (b0076wt5) England and France are at war. Eccles is at lunch. After spending a weekend with Nigel, Adrian is convinced he [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike lives in poverty. His mother sends him a letter. Nicholas Barnes MON 21:00 Ian McEwan - Atonement (b00766jh) Milligan. concludes Sue Townsend's book. Episode 6 Starring: TUE 14:15 A History of the Brain (b016wzrd) A tender moment in the library. Sian Thomas continues Ian Peter Sellers The Blood of the Gladiators McEwan's compelling portrait of a family torn apart one Harry Secombe Dr Geoff Bunn's 10 part History of the Brain is a journey summer's evening. Spike Milligan through 5000 years of our understanding of this complex organ THe Booker short-listed novel about love, truth and the First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were in our heads. From Neolithic times to the present day, he difficulty of absolution was adapted into a highly-praised film recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest reveals the contemporary beliefs about what the brain is for and in 2007. shows weren’t kept in the archive. how it fulfils its functions. Abridged by Sally Marmion. Producer Di Spears. With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. While referencing the core physiology and neuroscience, this is First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. a cultural, not a scientific history. What soon becomes obvious MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b04p54yg) Announcer: Wallace Greenslade is that our understanding of this most inscrutable organ has in [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Producer: Charles Chilton all periods been coloured by the social and political expedients MON 22:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b04nrmgx) First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1958. of the day no less than by the contemporary scope of scientific [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 08:30 Doctor at Large (b009m43k) or biological exploration. MON 22:30 The Castle (b01j8gyl) Farewell Las Palmas In Episode 2: The Blood of The Gladiators, the focus is Ancient [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] When ship's doctor Simon Sparrow is caught in a compromising Greek scholarship, with Hippocrates' astonishingly prescient MON 23:00 Extra (b04pbs51) position - twice! - only Easter can save him. belief in the brain as the chief organ of control and his Series 12 The misadventures of newly qualified doctor, Simon Sparrow - debunking of the myth of the 'sacred disease' with his assertion Episode 4 adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's that epilepsy was the result of natural causes. Yet the belief that Made for 4 Extra. Satirical review of the week's news, chaired 'Doctor at Large' published in 1955. a cure lay in the magical properties of blood persisted for by Sandi Toksvig with regular guest Jeremy Hardy, plus Mark Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as centuries. Steel, Angela Barnes and Andy Hamilton. Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as First Mate Jock Hornbeam, The series is entirely written and presented by Dr Geoff Bunn MON 23:45 Quando, Quando, Quando (b00800m4) Patsy Rowlands as Miss Bottomley, Dennis Ramsden as Colonel of Manchester Metropolitan University, with actors Paul Spies Swithinbank, Peter Jones as Easter and Norma Ronald as Bhattacharjee and Jonathan Forbes providing the voices of Spies steal the Quando brothers' secret formula - upsetting the Wendy Swithenbank. those who have written about the brain from Ancient Egypt to delicate equilibrium that's existed for so long between them and Producer: David Hatch the present day, and actor Hattie Morahan giving the Anatomy the Quandos. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1969. Lesson which establishes the part of the brain to be highlighted Brothers Rene, Carlo and Charlie Quando chop, snip and crimp TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b04pbs51) in each episode - in this instance the cerebrum and cerebellum. their lucky clients into shape at London's finest hair salon. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] The original, atmospheric score is supplied by composer, Six-part comedy written and performed by Rainer Hersch and TUE 09:45 Quando, Quando, Quando (b00800m4) Barney Quinton. Mark Maie. With Stephen Greif and Catherine Tate. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] Producer: Marya Burgess. Producer: Claire Jones TUE 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b04cfzxy) TUE 14:30 Ladies of Letters (b01mh0fc) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1999. 4-8 August 1914 (Season 1 start) Ladies of Letters Log On An epic drama series set in Great War Britain exactly a hundred Episode 7 years before it was first broadcast. In the first weekly omnibus Irene wants to use 'Dales Diaries' to launch an appeal for her TUESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2014 edition of Season 1, Folkestone comes to terms with being at son. With Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. From May the hub of Britain's war effort. 2001. TUE 00:00 Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian TUE 14:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (b0153w4w) Written by Katie Hims Your Father? (b04pc07k) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Episode 7 TUE 00:15 A History of the Brain (b016w808) Music: Matthew Strachan Blake Morrison reads more from his tribute to a cantankerous [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Sound: Martha Littlehailes father. Finally, Morrison senior passes away at home. From TUE 00:30 Ladies of Letters (b01mgr64) Directed by Jessica Dromgoole May 1994. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b04cfzxy) TUE 00:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Home Front is a ground-breaking Radio Four radio drama - its [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Your Father? (b04pbqfy) biggest ever - set in Britain during 1914-18, playing a central TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04pc07m) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] role in the BBC's comprehensive offering to mark the Stephen Moffat and Walt Disney TUE 01:00 The Personality Test (b00mrc84) centenaries of World War One. Mel Giedroyc introduces a very special tour of 's [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TARDIS and salutes the anniversary of Mickey Mouse's first TUE 01:30 A Good Read (b04pbqy2) An enthralling fiction, set against a backdrop of fact. Each big-screen appearance. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] episode is set a hundred years to the day before broadcast, and TUE 17:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket TUE 02:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi (b0116gvk) follows one character's day. Together they create a mosaic of (b00s6rcl) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] experience from a wide cross-section of British society, and a Series 1 TUE 02:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Right playful treasure hunt, with historical truths hidden in each story. The Cruise - 1/2 Order (b0076wt5) The dear ladies attempt to fly off to entertain the passengers on [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] Season One is set in Folkestone, a fashionable Edwardian a Mediterranean cruise liner... TUE 03:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon (b00tp95x) seaside resort that quickly became one of the hubs of the Starring Dame Hilda Bracket and her lifelong companion Dr [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] military machine, and close enough to France to hear the Evadne Hinge. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 November 2014 Page 5 of 9 The dear ladies reside in the Suffolk village of Stackton Tressel. are occupied with visons of Sue Lawley, Robbie Williams - and Anthony MacIlveny ...... Justin Edwards This was the genteel setting for three Radio 4 series between an unconventional seduction technique. Gary McDade ...... Ben Crowe 1977 and 1979, with further spin-off seasons on Radio 2 until Dark sitcom written by Nigel Smith. Sound Man ...... Ben Crowe 1990. In the early 1980s, they expanded over to BBC TV with Starring Neil Pearson as Ben Smith, Fiona Allen as Mary, Josie Bill Trumpetz ...... Toby Longworth the series Dear Ladies. Lawrence as Mum and Leslie Ash as Blitzkrieg. The Lady ...... Sarah Thom Dame Hilda Bracket ...... George Logan With Mark Perry, Dave Lamb, Jo Martin, Tim Whitnall, Hils Marion Duffett ...... Lesley Vickerage Dr Evadne Hinge ...... Patrick Fyffe Barker and Kim Wall. Producer: Sam Michell Brigadier Roland Baines ...... Michael Bates Producer: Gareth Edwards First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013. Captain Frobisher ...... Donald Hewlett First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2006. WED 08:00 The Burkiss Way (b007js2t) Scripted by Mike Craig, Lawrie Kinsley and Ron McDonnell. Series 4 Produced at BBC Manchester by James Casey Is Britain Going the Burkiss Way? Part 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1977. WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2014 The Martians Are Coming! Or are they? Is this a spoof? Or a TUE 17:30 Babblewick Hall (b04p56x5) spoof of a spoof? [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED 00:00 Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett. TUE 18:00 Act Your Age (b010mrzk) Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (b0154xfg) Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to Series 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] 1980. Episode 6 WED 00:15 A History of the Brain (b016wzrd) Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. Simon Mayo hosts the three-way battle between the comedy [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] Producer: David Hatch generations to find out which is the funniest. Will it be the Up- WED 00:30 Ladies of Letters (b01mh0fc) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1979. and-Comers, the Current Crop or the Old Guard who will be [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00rxf3m) crowned, for one week at least, as the Golden Age of Comedy. WED 00:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Series 3 This week Holly Walsh is joined by Andrew Lawrence, Rufus Your Father? (b04pc07k) Episode 4 Hound teams up with Paul Foot and Ted Robbins is paired with [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] sell up - and Admiral Lord Nelson's diary. Stu Francis. WED 01:00 Act Your Age (b010mrzk) More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs and Devised and Produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] parodies. TUE 18:30 The Tingle Factor (b04pc255) WED 01:30 The Tingle Factor (b04pc255) Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Alan Coren [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. Alan Coren talks to Robin Ray about which pieces of music stir WED 02:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi (b0112cyc) Written by John Esmond and Bob Larbey, Graeme Garden, his emotions. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Eric Idle, David & Peter Lund and Bill Oddie. From Annette Mills to Louis Armstrong, the humourist, writer WED 02:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Originating from the Cambridge University revue and broadcaster also shares memories of his life and career. Right Order (b0076wxd) 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and Producer: Andrew Mussett [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] quickly developed a cult following. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. WED 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b04cfzxy) Music and songs by Dave Lee and Bill Oddie. TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b00f6gsn) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Producer: Humphrey Barclay [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b00yjcnr) First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in April 1966. TUE 19:30 Doctor at Large (b009m43k) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED 09:00 Whispers (b007k2sf) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED 04:15 Sheila Goff - A Long Time Dead (b0076plg) Series 3 TUE 20:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi (b0112cyc) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED 05:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket Gyles Brandreth chairs the scandals quiz with Anthony Holden, TUE 20:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Right (b00s6rcl) Lucy Moore, and Louise Doughty. From Order (b0076wxd) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] October 2005. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED 05:30 Babblewick Hall (b04p56x5) WED 09:30 Safety Catch (b00fgq18) TUE 21:00 Ian McEwan - Atonement (b00766jz) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] Series 1 Episode 7 WED 06:00 Paul Temple (b007t1kg) A Wanting Man Briony sets out to search for the missing twins. Sian Thomas Paul Temple and the Margo Mystery Simon wonders whether to stay faithful to his girlfriend, when continues reading Ian McEwan's acclaimed study of the power The Coat he suspects a friend of his sister may be attracted to him. of the imagination. A dangerous web of lies and murder awaits Paul Temple when Starring Darren Boyd as Simon McGrath. TUE 21:15 Sheila Goff - A Long Time Dead (b0076plg) his wife Steve disappears... Laurence Howarth’s black comedy of modern morality. Simon [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple is essentially a nice man who also happens to be an arms dealer. TUE 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b04ntvv9) and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for With: [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. Joanna Page TUE 22:30 The Headset Set (b01206cg) With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes, Simon Lack as Lewis MacLeod Series 1 Superintendent Raine, Tommy Duggan as Mike Langdon, Sarah Smart Episode 1 James Beattie as Charlie, June Tobin as Linda Kelburn, Jon Brigit Forsyth It's Sailesh's first day as team leader at Smile5, the mail order Rollason as Tony Wyman and Mary Wimbush as the Telephone Catherine Shepherd catalogue company selling everything from Rolex watches to Operator. Producer: Dawn Ellis lawnmowers, from financial products to phone and broadband, From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007. from holidays to health insurance. Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, WED 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b04d4w69) And somewhere in a brown-field wasteland, miles from the solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular 11-15 August 1914 nearest town, it runs one of the largest call centres operating in series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails As Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary, Folkestone tries to the UK. This is the world of The Headset Set. and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore rally flagging tourism whilst waving local troops off to the Eavesdrop on both sides of the bizarre, horrific and ludicrous cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, front. phone calls when customers call in as events unfold with usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. company staff. Producer: Martin C Webster Written by: Katie Hims & Sean Moffatt Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu First heard on the BBC Light Programme in 1961. Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith WED 06:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Music by: Matthew Strachan Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult Right Order (b0076x0q) Sound: Martha Littlehailes Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Paul sharma The Comedian Harmonists Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood Various ..... Philip Fox Musical comedian Rainer Hersch investigates the 1930s Editor: Jessica Dromgoole Writers: James kettle, Stephen Carlin, Andy Wolton, Ben German comedy singing sensations. From February 2006. Partridge, Colin Hoult, Dan Tetsell, Dale Shaw, Kevin Core, WED 07:00 Change at Oglethorpe (b007k0mg) Home Front is a ground-breaking Radio Four radio drama - its Rob Gilroy and Tom Neenan The Unquiet American biggest ever - set in Britain during 1914-18, playing a central Script editor: Dan Tetsell An exciting new engine could soon be running on the quiet rural role in the BBC's comprehensive offering to mark the Producer: Tilusha Ghelani railway - but there's a big catch. How can the staff make centenaries of the First World War. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Oglethorpe look like a busy, modern station? TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b04tps1k) Peter Davison and Michael Williams star in Peter Morfoot's An enthralling fiction, set against a backdrop of fact. Each The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Jon Holmes chats railway sitcom. episode is set a hundred years to the day before broadcast, and to Luisa Omielan. David ...... Peter Davison follows one character's day. Together they create a mosaic of TUE 23:00 The Thing (b0076b3z) Rocket ...... Michael Williams experience from a wide cross-section of British society, and a Episode 5 June ...... Rosemary Martin playful treasure hunt, with historical truths hidden in each story. Virginia Wade and Tim Henman talk politics, Sweet Fanny Points ...... Phillippa Wilson Adams talks, well, sweetly, and Lovejoy and Bergerac talk Hattie ...... Madge Hindle Season One is set in Folkestone, a fashionable Edwardian nonsense. Sodd ...... Chris Emmett seaside resort that quickly became one of the hubs of the Plus the penultimate episode of Jane Austen's lost novella, York ...... Don Fellows military machine, and close enough to France to hear the Sweet Fanny Adams, still cruelly ignored by the critics as a Producer: Gareth Edwards fighting. Future seasons will be set in Newcastle and Devon, work of minor importance First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1995. telling the major stories of wartime Britain. More mayhem from Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. WED 07:30 In and Out of the Kitchen (b01qlhjh) WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00yjs47) With Paul Chahidi Series 2 Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway's Party Written by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. The Literary Festival The New Dress Producer: Elizabeth Freestone. Damien and Anthony arrive at a literary festival to promote Fascinated and preoccupied by the idea of this social event, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2002. Damien's book about the culinary habits of the Great Poets. Virginia Woolf wrote this story sequence around the same time TUE 23:30 Vent (b00svcbq) Despite the charming hotel and the peaceful surroundings, the as writing the novel Mrs Dalloway. Series 1 cookery writer can barely disguise his chagrin at his talk being In each of these three stories written in Woolf's distinctive style, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go in a tent smaller to other writers he considers lesser than him. glimpse each character's inner most thoughts and emotions as Ben doesn't get out much, but he has a loving and attentive But he soon has the opportunity to get the audience he feels he Woolf depicts the intriguing social world of Mrs Dalloway's family, an active imagination and a comfortable bed, so he can't deserves when a fellow author is knocked unconscious and party in microscopic detail. complain. Damien is asked to fill in. But can he rise to the occasion? In 'The New Dress', Mabel chooses a new yellow dress of a Because he's in a coma, Mary and Mum wonder whether some Written by Miles Jupp. different style to wear to Mrs Dalloway's party. However, the of his favourite music will wake him up, while his own thoughts Damien Trench ...... Miles Jupp moment she arrives she feels wishes she hadn't. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 November 2014 Page 6 of 9 Read by Amanda Root Pierce Egan’s 19th-century comic novel adapted by Dan Tetsell. THU 04:15 Drama (b010t6h0) Abridged by Miranda Davies Pierce Egan .... Geoffrey McGivern [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] Producer: Lucy Collingwood Corinthian Tom .... Greg Wise THU 05:00 Life in London (b01167w4) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Jerry Hawthorn .... Mark Gatiss [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] WED 11:15 Drama (b010t6h0) Bob Logic .... James Bachman THU 05:30 Change at Oglethorpe (b007k0mg) Katie Hims - Lost Property Old Hawthorn .... Christopher Douglas [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] The Wrong Label Corinthian Kate .... Amanda Abbingdon THU 06:00 Paul Temple (b007t1qq) by Katie Hims. London, 1941, and Alice knows that to stop Mrs Belcher .... Laura Shavin Paul Temple and the Margo Mystery your children from being evacuated is to tantamount to siding Mr Primefit .... Dave Lamb Concerning Ted Angus with Hitler. Music: Ben Walker The suave sleuth tries to connect his wife's kidnapping with a Cast Producer: Tilusha Ghelani body dressed in a coat. Narrator ..... Rosie Cavaliero First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2006. Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple Alice ..... Alex Tregear WED 17:30 Change at Oglethorpe (b007k0mg) and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for Queenie ..... Katie Angelou [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. Ray ..... Daniel Cooper WED 18:00 Whispers (b007k2sf) With James Beattie as Charlie, Tommy Duggan as Mike Jim ..... Daniel Rabin [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Langdon, Simon Lack as Superintendent Raine, Hugh Manning Mr Nightingale ..... Stuart McLoughlin WED 18:30 Off the Page (b0076g49) as Larry Cross, Jon Rollason as Tony Wyman, June Tobin as Miss Pearl ..... Bethan Walker Superstition Linda Kelburn, Julian Somers as George Kelburn and Tom Miss Stanwyck ..... Sally Orrock Matthew Parris talks to journalists George Dobell Lilian Watson as Ted Angus. Mr Jones ..... Sean Baker Pizzichini and singer Tony Cassidy about absurd beliefs. From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Mrs Jones ..... Joanna Monro In each programme, Matthew Parris introduces a group of Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, Directed by Jessica Dromgoole writers of fact and fiction: new talent and established names. In solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular The Wrong Label is part one of a trilogy of plays by acclaimed the context of a discussion of one of the ideas and pre- series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails radio dramatist Katie Hims charting one family's tragi-comic occupations of our times, each presents a piece on this week's and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore history of heartbreak and redemption. The trilogy won the 2011 topic. cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Drama, where Rosie Produced by Peter Everett. usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. Cavaliero also picked up the Best Actress award. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Producer: Martin C Webster WED 12:00 The Burkiss Way (b007js2t) WED 19:00 The Burkiss Way (b007js2t) First heard on the BBC Light Programme in 1961. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 06:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Right WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00rxf3m) WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00rxf3m) Order (b0076x3y) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Spike Jones WED 13:00 Paul Temple (b007t1kg) WED 20:00 Paul Temple (b007t1kg) Comedian Rainer Hersch finds out more about the 40s and 50s [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] American big-band musical comic, 'the man who murdered WED 13:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the WED 20:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the music'. From February 2006. Right Order (b0076x0q) Right Order (b0076x0q) THU 07:00 The Elephant Man (b007jsfp) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Endangered Species WED 14:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole (b007js5c) WED 21:00 Ian McEwan - Atonement (b00766kj) Terry Lyon, assistant head keeper of Southwood Zoo, trusts The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole Episode 8 animals because most people think he's a waste of space. Episode 1 Briony tells her story, and all must live by the consequences. But as the zoo lurches towards bankruptcy, his future looks It's 1982 and the Falklands War is underway, but Adrian has Sian Thomas reads Ian McEwan's novel of childhood, love and bleak. other matters on his mind. Sue Townsend's book read by terrible power of the imagination. DA Barham's eight-part sitcom stars Peter Serafinowicz. Nicholas Barnes. WED 21:15 Drama (b010t6h0) Terry ...... Peter Serafinowicz WED 14:15 A History of the Brain (b016x234) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Leonard ...... Chris Emmett The Origin of Common Sense WED 22:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b01qlhjh) Maureen ...... Geraldine Fitzgerald Dr Geoff Bunn's 10 part History of the Brain is a journey [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Derek ...... Wayne Forester through 5000 years of our understanding of this complex organ WED 22:30 Danny Robins Music Therapy (b00fgts9) George ...... Geoff Fitzgerald in our heads. From Neolithic times to the present day, he Episode 1 Stephanie ...... Joanna Munro reveals the contemporary beliefs about what the brain is for and Danny Robins harnesses the power of music to improve the Adam ...... Richard Pearce how it fulfils its functions. world to help humanity - and a dormouse. DA Barham - alias Debbie Ann - used her gently gender- While referencing the core physiology and neuroscience, this is With Isy Suttie, beatboxer Beardyman and the Finchley obscured writing name. Aged just 15, she'd sent in comedy a cultural, not a scientific history. What soon becomes obvious Children's Music Group. scripts to the BBC. She tragically died in 2003 from heart is that our understanding of this most inscrutable organ has in Written by Danny Robins with Isy Suttie and Danielle Ward. failure due to anorexia, aged just 26. all periods been coloured by the social and political expedients Producer: Ben Walker In her short, brilliant comedy career, she'd written for The of the day no less than by the contemporary scope of scientific First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2008. News Huddlines, Spitting Image, The News Quiz, Weekending, or biological exploration. WED 23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash (b010mztl) Loose Ends, as well as big names like Bob Monkhouse, Graham In Episode 3: The Origin of Common Sense, the focus is on Series 3 Norton, Rory Bremner and Clive Anderson. Ancient Rome with Galen's 'animal spirits' gently inflating the Episode 4 Producer: Richard Wilson. ventricles and making thought possible, and on how early Arthur Smith presents comedy and music from his flat in First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1996. Christian scholarship placed the soul in the brain's ventricles. Balham, south London. THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme But with the Dark Ages, it was Islamic scholars who continued With Billy Jenkins, Kevin Eldon, Imran Yusef plus poetry from (b04nvf5n) to explore the brain: Al Razi studied apoplexy or stroke, while Kate Fox Series 4 Ibn Sina proposed that thoughts travelled through the brain in a Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith Episode 5 predictable sequence and identified the 'common sense' in the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011. John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, regular front ventricle. WED 23:30 The Skivers (b007tcph) guest on and popper-upper in things like The series is entirely written and presented by Dr Geoff Bunn Series 1 Miranda, records a fourth series of his hit sketch show. of Manchester Metropolitan University, with actors Paul Ken Campbell 5/6: This penultimate edition of the series presents the only Bhattacharjee and Jonathan Forbes providing the voices of Action from Ancient Greece to 221B Baker Street. detectives who've not had their own TV show yet; a well- those who have written about the brain from Ancient Egypt to Nick Golson and Tim de Jongh's skilful sketch show with disguised sketch about the residents of the savannah; and a the present day, and actor Hattie Morahan giving the Anatomy special guest Ken Campbell revolutionary email exchange.. Lesson which establishes the part of the brain to be highlighted Written and performed by Nick Golson and Tim de Jongh. The first series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme was in each episode - in this instance the ventricles. The original, With Peter Bradshaw and Mel Giedroyc described as "sparklingly clever" by and atmospheric score is supplied by composer, Barney Quinton. Producer: Jon Naismith "one of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite Producer: Marya Burgess. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1994. some time" by . The second series won Best WED 14:30 Ladies of Letters (b01mhlp2) Radio Comedy at both the Chortle and Comedy.co.uk awards, Ladies of Letters Log On and was nominated for a Radio Academy award. The third Episode 8 THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2014 series actually won a Radio Academy award. Can Irene get to the bottom of the story about her son? With In this fourth series, John has written more sketches, like the Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. From May 2001. THU 00:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole (b007js5c) sketches from the other series. Not so much like them that they WED 14:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] feel stale and repetitious; but on the other hand not so different Your Father? (b04pcgkz) THU 00:15 A History of the Brain (b016x234) that it feels like a misguided attempt to completely change the Episode 8 [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] show. Quite like the old sketches, in other words, but about Blake Morrison reads more from his tribute to a cantankerous THU 00:30 Ladies of Letters (b01mhlp2) different things and with different jokes. (Although it's a pretty father. Blake studies his mother's reaction to death. From May [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] safe bet some of them will involve talking animals.) 1994. THU 00:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Written by and starring ... John Finnemore WED 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b04d4w69) Your Father? (b04pcgkz) Also featuring ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04pcgl1) THU 01:00 Whispers (b007k2sf) Producer ... Ed Morrish. Sarah Millican and Vincent Van Gogh [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU 08:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007k2kl) Mel Giedroyc paints a portrait of the amazing life of Vincent THU 01:30 Off the Page (b0076g49) Pike in Love Van Gogh and introduces comedian Sarah Millican's [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Mrs Pike asks Arthur to talk to her son, Frank about the birds Inheritance Tracks. THU 02:00 Paul Temple (b007t1kg) and bees... WED 17:00 Life in London (b01167w4) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] A seaside saga of pier perpetuation starring John Le Mesurier, In Training for a Swell THU 02:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Right Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee. A tour of the sprawling post-Regency Metropolis in the years Order (b0076x0q) Arthur Wilson ...... John Le Mesurier before the Victorians turned up and made everything boring [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] Frank Pike ...... Ian Lavender All in the company of garrulous author Pierce Egan, cocksure THU 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b04d4w69) Bert Hodges ...... Bill Pertwee urbanite Corinthian Tom, his naive Somerset cousin Jerry [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] Miss Perkins ...... Vivienne Martin Hawthorn and their drunken compatriot Bob Logic. THU 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b00yjs47) Avril ...... Carol Hawkins Starring Greg Wise, Mark Gatiss and James Bachman. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] Mavis Pike ...... Janet Davies Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 November 2014 Page 7 of 9 Telephone Engineer ...... Gordon Salkild The Year My Mother Went Missing is the second in a trilogy of [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Written by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles, based on the plays by acclaimed radio dramatist Katie Hims charting one THU 21:00 Ian McEwan - Atonement (b00766l0) characters originally created by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. family's tragi-comic history of heartbreak and redemption. The Episode 9 Producer: Martin Fisher trilogy won the 2011 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Time has passed, and Robbie is serving in the military. Sian First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1983. Drama, where Rosie Cavaliero also picked up the Best Actress Thomas continues reading Ian McEwan's novel about love and THU 08:30 Listen to Les (b007wlff) award. war. From 31/01/1982 THU 12:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007k2kl) THU 21:15 Drama (b010xzzm) Les Dawson reveals the joy of being a father and how to tackle [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] rising crime rates - plus another special piano sing-along. THU 12:30 Listen to Les (b007wlff) THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme With Daphne Oxenford and Colin Edwynn. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] (b04nvf5n) Music by Brian Fitzgerald. THU 13:00 Paul Temple (b007t1qq) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Scripted and produced by James Casey. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 22:30 My Teenage Diary (b014gggx) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1981. THU 13:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Right Series 3 THU 09:00 (b018fll7) Order (b0076x3y) Jo Caulfield Series 8 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] My Teenage Diary returns with four more brave celebrities Episode 4 THU 14:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole (b007js5p) ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their Victoria Coren presents another edition of the show which The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for the dares to commit heresy. Episode 2 very first time. Her guests this week are Rufus Hound and Dr Phil Intrigued by his parents' perturbing behaviour, Adrian realises Rufus Hound is joined by comedian Jo Caulfield whose diaries Hammond and writer and broadcaster Germaine Greer. there's something he hasn't yet seen. Read by Nicholas Barnes. describe her joining a terrible rockabilly band as drummer - Together they have fun exposing the wrong-headedness of THU 14:15 A History of the Brain (b016x2k4) despite the fact she can't play the drums. received wisdom and challenging knee-jerk public reaction to Spirits in the Material World Producer: Harriet Jaine events. Dr Geoff Bunn's 10 part History of the Brain is a journey A Talkback Production for BBC Radio 4. GP, Dr Phil Hammond enthusiastically argues against the through 5000 years of our understanding of this complex organ THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b04tpsqr) received wisdom that people should not self-diagnose using the in our heads. From Neolithic times to the present day, he The best in contemporary comedy. Plus, Jon Holmes chats internet, pointing out that statistically doctors only just beat the reveals the contemporary beliefs about what the brain is for and again to Luisa Omielan. internet in getting it right. Germaine Greer offers some how it fulfils its functions. THU 23:00 At Home With The Snails (b00cbcpb) constructive if controversial advice for self-diagnosers who get While referencing the core physiology and neuroscience, this is Series 2 it wrong: 'Just die!' a cultural, not a scientific history. What soon becomes obvious Episode 4 Germaine also refutes the belief that the sixties were a great is that our understanding of this most inscrutable organ has in After faking their deaths, can George and Beverly finally time to be young by cheerfully recalling the decade as a time of all periods been coloured by the social and political expedients manage to reunite their family? police repression and sexually-transmitted diseases. of the day no less than by the contemporary scope of scientific Conclusion of Gerard Foster's comedy drama And Rufus Hound pours scorn on the suggestion that the best or biological exploration. George ..... Geoffrey Palmer Christmas presents are the ones you make yourself. He warns In Episode 4: Spirits in the Material World, the focus is on Beverley ..... Angela Thorne Victoria Coren that if she turns up at his house on Christmas Thomas Willis, the 17th century physician after whom the Alex ..... Gerard Foster Day with a gift she has baked herself, he will ask her to leave. 'Circle of Willis' - the circuit of arteries supplying blood to the Rose ..... Producer: Brian King brain - is named. Willis' Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves was Hosana ..... Debra Stephenson A Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. a groundbreaking attempt to correlate brain anatomy with Leboeuf ..... Dave Lamb THU 09:30 Alison and Maud (b007k2vm) mental function. A friend of Christopher Wren, the humbly- Yates ..... Tim Verrinder Series 1 born Willis was one of the founder members of the Royal Producer: Jane Berthoud The Unmentionable Society. Yet his ideas were not universally accepted. The First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002. A nasty moment for Bernard in the granny flat or is the Cambridge philosopher, Henry More, considered the brain no THU 23:30 A Look Back at the Nineties (b007jqk5) landladies' daddy only joking? more than 'a bowl of curds'', with no possibility that it could 1995 Sue Limb's sitcom about events at the Abbeyfield Guest House house reason. Sponsoring the British Army, the impact of total European in Norwich. The series is entirely written and presented by Dr Geoff Bunn integration - and the House of Commons votes for the Honesty Denise Coffey and Miriam Margolyes star as sisters Alison and of Manchester Metropolitan University, with actors Paul Act... Maud. Bhattacharjee and Jonathan Forbes providing the voices of Recorded in 1993 - Brian Perkins, Kate Robbins and Chris Alison …. Denise Coffey those who have written about the brain from Ancient Egypt to Barrie 'look back' at the rest of 1990s yet to happen - starting Maud …. Miriam Margolyes the present day, and actor Hattie Morahan giving the Anatomy with 1995. Fathe …. Joss Ackland Lesson which establishes the part of the brain to be highlighted A satirical review set on New Year's Eve 1999 - the Sony Gold Mr Mullett …. Chris Emmett in each episode - in this instance the Circle of Willis and the award-winning comedy recalls the events from 1995 to 1999. Bernard …. Geoffrey Whitehead tiny pineal gland. The original, atmospheric score is supplied by Predicted by 'Spitting Image' writers Mark Burton, John Leslie …. Nickolas Grace composer, Barney Quinton. O'Farrell and Pete Sinclair. Producer: Jonathan James-Moore. Producer: Marya Burgess. Producer: Caroline Leddy First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003. THU 14:30 Ladies of Letters (b01mhmm1) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1993. THU 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b04dqwz4) Ladies of Letters Log On 18-22 August 1914 Episode 9 The week that Folkestone welcomed the first wave of Belgian Vera's family works out their problems on live television. With FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2014 refugees, fleeing the war. Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. From May 2001. THU 14:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See FRI 00:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole (b007js5p) Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz Your Father? (b04pctfp) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Episode 9 FRI 00:15 A History of the Brain (b016x2k4) Music: Matthew Strachan Blake Morrison reads more from his tribute to a cantankerous [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] Sound: Martha Littlehailes father. Blake finally confronts the titular question. From May FRI 00:30 Ladies of Letters (b01mhmm1) Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. 1994. Episode 9 of 9. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] THU 11:00 Original Shorts (b00vhgcf) THU 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b04dqwz4) FRI 00:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Series 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Your Father? (b04pctfp) Angels THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04pcv7d) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] Adam Thorpe's intriguing story, specially written for Original Clowns and Windsor Castle FRI 01:00 Heresy (b018fll7) Shorts, is set within a monastery in the French Alps. Brother Mel Giedroyc puts on her best floppy shoes and explores the [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Dominique wakes from a powerful dream - almost certain he origins of the red nose clown. Plus memories of the night in FRI 01:30 (b0076bnh) has had a vision of an angel. 1992 when Windsor Castle nearly burned down. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Those wings seemed very persuasive as they descended, beating THU 17:00 No Commitments (b00s8fxq) FRI 02:00 Paul Temple (b007t1qq) in a golden blur. But when the local blacksmith and his son Series 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] come up the mountain to repair the great oak cross that stands Time Shift FRI 02:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Right at the top of the pasture, the monk begins to have doubts. Charlotte surprises her sisters with her new younger lover. Order (b0076x3y) What was the real meaning of his dream? Did it represent Simon Brett's sitcom stars Rosemary Leach. From November [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] something more worrying? The answer is surprising and, in 1994. FRI 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b04dqwz4) Adam Godley's heartfelt reading, strangely moving. THU 17:30 The Elephant Man (b007jsfp) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Director: Martin Jarvis [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI 04:00 Original Shorts (b00vhgcf) A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. THU 18:00 Heresy (b018fll7) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] THU 11:15 Drama (b010xzzm) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 04:15 Drama (b010xzzm) Katie Hims - Lost Property THU 18:30 Great Lives (b0076bnh) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] The Year My Mother Went Missing Series 2 FRI 05:00 No Commitments (b00s8fxq) It's 1979, and it's not the first time that Ruthie's mother Benedict Spinoza [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] Queenie has gone missing, but usually she leaves a note. The Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sir Harry Kroto chooses the FRI 05:30 The Elephant Man (b007jsfp) second in Katie Hims' trilogy of plays. philosopher Spinoza. With Humphrey Carpenter. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Cast The biographical series in which a distinguished guest chooses FRI 06:00 Paul Temple (b007t1qp) Narrator ..... Rosie Cavaliero someone who's inspired their life. Will their hero stand up to Paul Temple and the Margo Mystery Ruthie ..... Shannon Flynn intensive scrutiny and merit the description of having led a great A Change of Mind Vincent ..... Ceallach Spellman life? From 2002. The debonair sleuth needs to find out why he's been asked to Marcus ..... Elliot Griffiths THU 19:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile (b007k2kl) halt his murder investigation... Dad ..... Ralph Ineson [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple Ray ..... Daniel Rabin THU 19:30 Listen to Les (b007wlff) and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for Alice ..... Jane Whittenshaw [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife. Queenie ..... Sally Orrock THU 20:00 Paul Temple (b007t1qq) With Simon Lack as Superintendent Raine, James Thomason as PC O'Hara ..... Stuart McLoughlin [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Sir Graham Forbes, Jon Rollason as Tony Wyman, Tommy DI Driscoll ..... Sean Baker THU 20:30 All the Right Notes, Not Necessarily in the Right Duggan as Mike Langdon, Julian Somers as George Kelburn, Directed by Jessica Dromgoole Order (b0076x3y) Joan Matheson as Mrs Fletcher, William Bedle as Bill Fletcher, Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 November 2014 Page 8 of 9 Mary Wimbush as Dr Benkaray, Hugh Manning as Larry Cross Episode 6 communication, within the brain and between the brain and the and Tom Watson as Ted Angus. Justin Moorhouse, Greg Davies, Chris Corcoran and Lucy rest of the body. When John Walsh showed, in 1776, that an eel From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Porter star in Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz. From September could generate electricity, it became possible that human Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, 2006. consciousness also relied on sparks fizzing within the brain. solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular FRI 09:30 Rent (b04pcxh5) Coming at a time when Benjamin Franklin - an acknowledged series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails Series 2 expert on electricity - was signing the Declaration of and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore Episode 5 Independence which asserted that all men are created equal, it cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, When Paul delivers an ultimatum to Ruby, a visit to a fortune- generated a new perspective on the workings of the brain; the usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case. teller with Maria tells them more than they bargained for. old hierarchical model was discarded in favour of the doctrine Producer: Martin C Webster Lucy Flannery's Writers' Guild award-winning sitcom about the of equipotentiality. First heard on the BBC Light Programme in 1961. struggles of Maria and Richard and their lodgers. The series is entirely written and presented by Dr Geoff Bunn FRI 06:30 Celebrating Cecilia! (b00fgsm1) Lucy Flannery's Writers' Guild award-winning sitcom about of Manchester Metropolitan University, with actors Paul Catherine Bott tells the story of St Cecilia, the patron saint of Maria and Richard who take in lodgers. Bhattacharjee and Jonathan Forbes providing the voices of music, examining her role as martyr, saint and muse and as the Maria ...... Barbara Flynn those who have written about the brain from Ancient Egypt to inspiration for some of the great works of music and literature, Richard ...... Patrick Barlow the present day, and actor Hattie Morahan giving the Anatomy including work by Handel, Purcell and Benjamin Britten and Amy ...... Linda Polan Lesson which establishes the part of the brain to be highlighted Chaucer, Pope and Dryden. Catherine learns of Cecilia's Paul ...... Toby Longworth in each episode - in this instance the Corpus Callosum. The gruesome martyrdom and subsequent place in history and Madame Terry ...... Sally Grace original, atmospheric score is supplied by composer, Barney witnesses preparations for the annual festival concert staged in With Sarah Parkinson, Vivienne Rochester, Joanna Brookes and Quinton. her honour. Matthew Bell. Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI 07:00 Spangles 'n' Tights (b04pcw9j) Producer: Liz Anstee. FRI 14:30 Ladies of Letters (b01mhqbq) A Folk Song for Europe First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1995. Ladies of Letters Log On The Dublin theatrical costumiers get embroiled in rivalry FRI 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b04fchmg) Episode 10 between two Lancashire clog troupes. 25-29 August 1914 How will the relationship merry-go-round resolve itself? With Christopher Fitz-Simon's five-part comedy. With the first war-wounded arriving home through Folkestone, Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. From May 2001. Dessie Doyle ...... David Kelly the locals attempt to boost morale with a fundraising event. FRI 14:45 Short stories by DH Lawrence (b007k22t) Violet Doyle ...... Pauline McLynn Her Turn Antony Gogan ...... Eugene O'Brien Written by: Shaun McKenna When her husband's colliery goes on strike, a wife attempts to Mr McNamara ...... Frank Kelly Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews gain a share of his strike pay. Read by Peter Meakin. Mona Scrummitt ...... Noreen Kershaw Music: Matthew Strachan FRI 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b04fchmg) Mr Witherspoon ...... Dave Hill Sound: Martha Littlehailes [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Belfast Woman ...... Maureen Dow Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04pczcp) Music played by John Trotter. Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. City horses and pet names Directed at BBC Belfast by Roland Jaquarello. FRI 11:00 Original Shorts (b00vhhgj) Mel Giedroyc is mucking about with a tour of the city horse First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1998. Series 4 stables in Hyde Park. Plus, there's the final part of Anna FRI 07:30 Hal (b04p5vl1) Keeping Mum Sewell's classic tale Black Beauty. Series 1 Jill Gascoine gives a funny and touching performance as FRI 17:00 After Henry (b007jpwp) Career Brenda, in Rob Green's specially written short story. Series 3 Comedian Hal Cruttenden stars as a stay at home father who is Brenda is a kind, careworn woman of uncertain years who has Poor Relations having a mid-life crisis. been caring for her demanding old Mother for most of her life. "No, they're lovely. They'd never make me feel awkward. Written by Hal Cruttenden and Dominic Holland. But Brenda's a romantic and she's still hoping that her own life They'll keep inviting me, even if I never ask them back. That's WIth Dominic Holland, Ronni Ancona, Ed Byrne, Anna Crilly, might begin sometime, somehow. not the problem. It's my pride. I want to be equal with them. I Jonathan Kydd, Gavin Webster, Dominic Frisby, Samuel She'd love to find her 'Rock'. Perhaps Tom, a porter from the don't want to traipse around in their wake like something out of Caseley, Lucy Robbins and Emily Robbins. local hospital, could fit ? Not if Mum has anything to do Anita Brookner." Hal stars as himself, married to Sam and father to two lovely with it. Hang on, though, does Mum have a hidden agenda? Proud Sarah suffers her mother's nosiness, as well as some girls. The problem is that, as Sam's career blossoms Director: Martin Jarvis unexpected advances. internationally and daughters Lilly and Molly grow up and are A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - no longer dependent on their loving and caring father, Hal feels FRI 11:15 Drama (b0112flb) struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who restless. Katie Hims - Lost Property never quite manage to see eye to eye. So, with the help of his ever unreliable mates Doug, Fergus and A Telegram From the Queen Sarah ...... Prunella Scales Barry, Hal decides to try new things in his life. But, inevitably, For Alice's 100th birthday present, her granddaughter Ruthie Eleanor ...... Joan Sanderson things don't go to plan! sets out to put her family back together again. The final play in Russell ...... Benjamin Whitrow Further challenges come from Hal's now deceased father, who Katie Hims' trilogy of heartbreak and redemption. Clare ...... Gerry Cowper was a true adventurer and all-round hero (something his son Cast Neville ...... Ian Thompson sadly is not) and is starting to appear to Hal at the most Ruthie ..... Rosie Cavaliero Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV inopportune times to give unwelcome advice. Alice ..... Edna Doré - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV In this opening episode, Hal is arranging a special romantic Ted ..... Gary Beadle network. getaway for Sam with some difficulty, Lilly and Molly are Vincent ..... Daniel Rabin Producer: Pete Atkin becoming almost strangers to Hal, his friend Fergus thinks he's Marcus ..... Stuart McLoughlin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1987. finally found love, and Hal is forced to replace Sam in making a Ray ..... Sean Baker FRI 17:30 Spangles 'n' Tights (b04pcw9j) talk at the girls' school as Sam has to go on a work trip abroad. Queenie ..... Jane Whittenshaw [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Producer: Paul Russell Roseanna ..... Alex Tregear FRI 18:00 Jest a Minute (b013f0vy) An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Ella May ..... Joanna Monro [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] November 2014. Receptionist ..... Sally Orrock FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Books (b00tmhq4) FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jygf) Directed by Jessica Dromgoole Series 1 Series 1 Edna Doré stars in A Telegram from the Queen, the final play Andrew O'Hagan The Boxing Champion in this trilogy by acclaimed radio dramatist Katie Hims charting Andrew O'Hagan's first novel was shortlisted for the Booker When the lad hits the gym, he knocks down a prize boxer one family's tragi-comic history of heartbreak and redemption. Prize and his latest novel is making its way to Hollywood. Now completely by chance - which gives Sid an idea... The trilogy won the 2011 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best a successful author living in London, Andrew reveals to Stuart Starring Tony Hancock. With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney Drama, where Rosie Cavaliero also picked up the Best Actress Cosgrove the five most significant books in his life. As well as James, Kenneth Williams and Paul Carpenter. award. revealing his literary secrets, he tells Stuart why he scoured the Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jygf) streets of Bel Air chasing the story of a dog, why he thought Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. Recorded [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] London was a lot like Paisley and how he managed to nurture a by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz. FRI 12:30 The Men from the Ministry (b00zfp3l) love of books when the only book in his childhood home was Producer: Dennis Main Wilson [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] the Kilmarnock phone directory. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November FRI 13:00 Paul Temple (b007t1qp) FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jygf) 1954. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 08:30 The Men from the Ministry (b00zfp3l) FRI 13:30 Celebrating Cecilia! (b00fgsm1) FRI 19:30 The Men from the Ministry (b00zfp3l) The Ship That Wagged Its Tail [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] The bumbling bureaucrats are all at sea making headlines in a FRI 14:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole (b007js60) FRI 20:00 Paul Temple (b007t1qp) mix-up over dogs and boats. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] A weekly tribute to all those who work in government Episode 3 FRI 20:30 Celebrating Cecilia! (b00fgsm1) departments. Adrian's mother is pregnant, and there's a battle to choose the [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. family holiday. Will Adrian's dad get his way? Read by FRI 21:00 Ian McEwan - Atonement (b00766lf) Number One ...... Deryck Guyler Nicholas Barnes. Episode 10 Number Two ...... Richard Murdoch FRI 14:15 A History of the Brain (b016x4t1) The retreat to Dunkirk means Robbie's fortunes hang in the Mildred Murfin ...... Norma Ronald The Spark of Being balance. Sian Thomas reads Ian McEwan's novel about love and With John Graham. Dr Geoff Bunn's 10 part History of the Brain is a journey war. Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham. through 5000 years of our understanding of this complex organ FRI 21:15 Drama (b0112flb) 'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 in our heads. From Neolithic times to the present day, he [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from reveals the contemporary beliefs about what the brain is for and FRI 22:00 Hal (b04p5vl1) 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, how it fulfils its functions. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows While referencing the core physiology and neuroscience, this is FRI 22:30 Party (b01n1qyg) in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC a cultural, not a scientific history. What soon becomes obvious Series 3 Radio 4 Extra. is that our understanding of this most inscrutable organ has in The Splits Producer: Edward Taylor, all periods been coloured by the social and political expedients The budding politicians are on their way to research for the by- First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1969. of the day no less than by the contemporary scope of scientific election. FRI 09:00 Jest a Minute (b013f0vy) or biological exploration. Tom Basden's satirical comedy about a group of young idealists Series 1 In Episode 5: The Spark of Being, the focus is on electricity and trying to make waves with their new political party. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 15 – 21 November 2014 Page 9 of 9 Simon .... Tom Basden Duncan .... Tim Key Jared .... Jonny Sweet Mel .... Anna Crilly Phoebe .... Katy Wix European Man .. Jot Davies Producer: Julia McKenzie. First broadcast on Radio 4 in October 2012. FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b04vdkt5) The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats to Nina Conti. FRI 23:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b01dsy7d) Series 1 Isy Suttie Comedian Alex Horne is joined by his own 5 piece jazz band for a brand new series of music and comedy. This time they make music on the subject of 'hard water'; shine a spotlight on the troubled life of the double bassist and reveal the haunting sound of the 'ocarina'. The band are joined by guest comedian Isy Suttie who persuades Alex to sing in a duet... Producer .... Julia McKenzie. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. FRI 23:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin (b012fqnb) Series 1 Episode 3 An untimely death causes a lifestyle rethink for the Manchester DJ. Starring Justin Moorhouse, Anne Reid and Paul Copley. Sitcom written by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser. Despite his messy life, Justin always remains positive. Every new day is a new opportunity, "When life throws you lemons, make lemonade". Recorded in front of an audience in Manchester. Anne Reid ..... Gran Bernard Wrigley ..... Sven Christine Bottomley ..... Lisa Jim Poyser ..... Vicar Justin Moorhouse ..... Justin Lloyd Langford ..... Bryn Paul Copley ..... Ray Rachel Austin ..... Receptionist Susan Cookson ..... Tanya Producer ..... Steven Canny First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2011.

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