Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 March – 2 April 2021 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 27 MARCH 2021 Robin was a furniture designer best known for his injection Nali ...... Nina Conti moulded polypropylene stacking chair, of which over 20 million Libby ...... Sarah Kendall SAT 00:00 Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler (m000tg86) have been manufactured. Joan ...... Sarah Thom Episode 5 The Days shared a vision of good, affordable design for all. Mrs Singh ...... Nina Wadia Having infiltrated a secret masked ball where the female Together they established themselves as Britain's most Cilla ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo revellers are naked, Fridolin is discovered and must face his celebrated post-war designer couple, often been compared to Zoanna ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo hosts. US contemporaries, Charles Eames and Ray Eames. Roland ...... Colin Hoult Read by Paul Rhys. But despite their growing fame in the 1950s and 60s they Producer: Alexandra Smith Published in 1926, Arthur Schnitzler’s ‘Dream Story’ was remained uncomfortable with the public attention they received. A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in alternately titled ‘Rhapsody’ and, in the original German, They shared a passion for nature and spent more and more time November 2016. ‘Traumnovelle’. outdoors. Lucienne drew much of her inspiration from plants SAT 05:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000tcl3) Credited as the novella that inspired Stanley Kubrick's last film. and flowers and Robin was a talented and obsessive mountain Jacob Hawley: Class Act Translated by JMQ Davies. climber. Stevenage soft lad Jacob Hawley left his hometown behind a Producer: Eugene Murphy Wayne reflects on the many layers to Robin and Lucienne and, decade ago and has ascended Britain's social class system, Made for BBC7 and first broadcast in September 2003. with his wife Gerardine, he draws on their own experiences of moving to London and forging a career in comedy - just in time SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00lbt3r) working as a husband and wife creative team. for commissioners to decide they want more working class Falling on Your Sword Producer: Sarah Cuddon voices. He has now quit the oat milk lattes, drawn a nike tick on Has something happened to the ideas of honour, dignity, duty A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in to his chinos and re-adopted the glottle stop. and virtue? Are people less willing to fall on their swords than August 2011. In this stand-up comedy performance, Jacob dissects his they used to do? Is it admirable, anyway, to admit defeat? SAT 03:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov journey from working class banter boy to Inner-London Political journalist Anthony Howard, author and broadcaster (b00yc3jw) feminist. This is politics for idiots, feminism for lads, love Anne Atkins and journalist Toby Young join Dominic Episode 5 stories for louts and self-care for those who don't bother. Arkwright to explore the subject through their writing. Following Ivan's dramatic appearance at his brother's trial, Are blokes dismissed as bad-feminists purely because they lack Producer: Beatrice Fenton. Katerina prepares to deal Dmitry a fatal blow. the correct language? Are working class people's mental health First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009. Starring Roy Marsden. problems dismissed because our society values tortured artists SAT 01:00 Raffles (m0001p3l) Conclusion of Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final novel over tortured cleaners? And most importantly, is it even worth Series 2 published in 1880. going to a protest if you don’t tell everyone about it? 5. A Trap To Catch A Cracksman Dramatised by Melissa Murray. Written and performed by Jacob Hawley When an American pugilist boasts of inventing a trap to catch Dmitry ...... Paul Hilton Produced by Daisy Knight the cleverest cracksman alive, it’s a challenge Raffles is quite Ivan ...... Nicholas Boulton An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4 unable to resist - with disastrous consequences... Alyosha ...... Carl Prekopp SAT 06:00 Elsie, Doris, Gert and Daisy by Annie Caulfield EW Hornung's Raffles stories about the 'gentleman thief' Katerina ...... Juliet Aubrey (b01kq0wh) starring Jeremy Clyde Grushenka ...... Katy Cavanagh Celia Imrie and Susie Blake star in Annie Caulfield's Dramatised by David Buck. Lise ...... Emma Noakes imaginative celebration of the classic music hall duo, Elsie and AJ Raffles ...... Jeremy Clyde Mrs Khoklakova ...... Rachel Atkins Doris Waters, and their immortal gossipy characters Gert and Bunny Manders ...... Michael Cochrane Grigory ...... Desmond McNamara Daisy. Inspector Mackenzie ...... Henry Stamper Devil ...... Sam Dale Larking about in a recording studio, Elsie and Doris created the Maguire ...... Alan Tilvern Judge ...... Ian Masters ebullient Cockneys, who were to take them away from the East Hambone ...... Peter Banks Prosecutor ...... Philip Fox End and into a world they'd only ever dreamed about. Cruncher ...... Michael Deacon Fetyukovich ...... Mark Straker Doris Walters .... Celia Imrie Ruby ...... Frances Jeater Bystanders ...... Paul Richard Biggin/ Saikat Ahamed Elsie Walters .... Susie Blake Cabbie ...... Alan Dudley. Original music by David Pickvance. Gert .... Tilly Vosburgh Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. Directors: Marc Beeby and Colin Guthrie Daisy .... Tessa Peake-Jones Director: Gordon House First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006. Older Elsie .... Ann Beach A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast SAT 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b01cwvbf) Older Doris .... Barbara Atkinson in June 1988. Series 1 Sam .... David Bradley SAT 01:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr9c) Episode 3 Young Sam .... Chris Wright Episode 15 Miles Jupp hosts the show in which it's not what you know that Mother .... Patience Tomlinson The anonymous would-be assassin is on his way out of the matters, but who. And more importantly, how well you know Father .... Geoffrey Whitehead country - but what does his future hold? them. Jack Warner .... Stephen Critchlow Geoffrey Household's classic British thriller was first published Roisin Conaty, Ed Byrne and Richard Madeley nominate one of Young Jack .... Guy Edwards shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939. their intimate circle to answer a series of questions and they Lord Woolton .... David Timson Concluded by Michael Jayston. then have to second-guess how their nominees responded. Mary .... Jill Graham Producer: David Jackson Young. Roisin picks her best friend, Caroline, Ed chooses his mum, Jill, Kenneth .... Roger May Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2004. and Richard Madeley opts for his daughter, Chloe - all with Kenneth's Mother .... Zulema Dene SAT 02:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b0790qlv) varying degrees of success. Pianist: Colin Guthrie Episode 5 The panel also have to try and predict the responses of Director: Marion Nancarrow No closer to finding her true vocation, Claire spends a weekend legendary football commentator, John Motson, as he is asked First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996 with Luke and his parents. What could go wrong? "what's your favourite film?", "what would you have been if SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b07m5ny0) Lisa Owens' comic debut, depicting thirtysomething Claire you weren't a football commentator?" and "which other famous Hilary Devey on Gracie Fields Flannery's life as it unravels in minute and spectacular ways. TV coat-wearer would you be? The Fonz, Columbo, or A singer, comedian, music hall and film star from Rochdale, Read by Emily Bruni. Paddington Bear?" Gracie Fields was the nation’s darling. But in the midst of Abridged by Robin Brooks. Producer: Sam Michell. World War II, and at the phenomenal peak of her career, our Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012. great life fell in love and married an Italian and had to flee to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016 SAT 04:30 Fat Chance (b019m4rs) America. She was disowned by the British public who called SAT 02:15 Gudrun (b0844vfx) Celebrity Square her a deserter and she was slated in every newspaper. Series 1 Graham becomes Tina Tattersall's escort for the night in a bid Championing this week’s Great Life is businesswoman and TV Episode 5 to make her errant husband jealous - and the rest of the personality Hilary Devey known to viewers of BBC 2's Dragons' Gudrun’s blissful life is interrupted when her childhood slimming club have some surprising news. Den and Channel 4's The Intern. Helping her to unravel the life sweetheart returns from abroad, bringing with him a new wife. Jenny McDade's high-fat bittersweet comedy for those of Gracie Fields is Sebastian Lassandro, President of the Dame Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, must forge her believing there's a thin person inside them begging to get out. Gracie Fields Appreciation Society. path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising Graham Pitscottie ..... Gareth Corke Presenter Matthew Parris harshness. Wendy Bottomley ..... Janine Duvitski Producer Perminder Khatkar Starring Kate Phillips. Clive Bottomley ..... Michael Troughton First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016. Lucy Catherine’s re-telling of the Icelander classic, The Soo Pitscottie ..... Anne Reid SAT 08:00 Heresy (b07dm2pn) Laxdoela Saga. Tina Tattersall ..... Julia Deakin Series 10 Gudrun . . . . . Kate Phillips Kelly Chambers ..... Tilly Gaunt Episode 4 Freija . . . . . Samantha Dakin Lee Dubs ..... Harry Myers Victoria Coren Mitchell presents the show which dares to Bolli . . . . . Gavi Singh Chera Mrs Enright ..... Frances Jeater commit heresy. Kjartan . . . . . Luke MacGregor Producer: Sally Avens With newspaper columnist Julia Hartley-Brewer, TV presenter Olaf . . . . . John Bowler First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1999. Richard Osman and food critic, TV presenter and novelist Giles Vigdis . . . . . Finlay Robertson SAT 05:00 Clare in the Community (b0832fpz) Coren. Hrefna . . . . . Natasha Cowley Series 11 They discuss David Bowie, iceberg houses and The Great Sigrid . . . . . Rosa Yevtushenko Hell on Wheels British Bake Off. Director: Sasha Yevtushenko It's 'Disability Awareness Day' so Clare has taken it upon An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016. herself to raise awareness. Back at home, Nali has plans to 2016. SAT 02:30 Hemingway Days (b013f96m) become an internet sensation. SAT 08:30 Snap (b00td5sb) Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway, who together launched the Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the Series 1 Red or Dead label, have long been admirers of Robin and right jargon but never a practical solution. Episode 1 Lucienne Day, a husband and wife design team from another A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in When a couple have history, how can they ever be history? era. other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Molly and Doug are separating but as he's only moving a few Wayne looks back at their impact on post-war Britain and how Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all streets away, can they make a clean break? they emerged from the FOB to spearhead our understanding of of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her. Paul Mendelson’s sitcom stars Rebecca Lacey and Paul modern design. Clare continues her struggle to control both her professional and Venables. He talks to colleagues, friends and family about their vision and private life. In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges Molly …. Rebecca Lacey their drive and explores some of the less well known areas of out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. Doug …. Paul Venables their personal lives and their creative partnership. Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden. Kaz …. Soumaya Keynes Lucienne was a textile designer. Inspired by abstract art, she Clare ...... Sally Phillips Ryan …. Jessie Sullivan pioneered the use of bright, optimistic, abstract patterns. Brian ...... Alex Lowe Scarlet …. Rebecca Front Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 March – 2 April 2021 Page 2 of 10 Mrs Lonsdale …. Marlene Sidaway Series 3 On the Isle of Luig, Lark and Cornelius are certain the death of Ansel …. Richard Firth The St Valentine's Day Mastersons Dr Hugh Dexter was no accident. From his research notes, they Producer: David Ian Neville Budding starlet Genevieve hits seedy 1920s Hollywood. diagnose a mysterious island sickness. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003. The award-winning improvised historical family saga based The key to the mystery seems to be an apparently simple- SAT 09:00 Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Wrote Too entirely on audience suggestions. minded 18-year-old, Flora Kiery... Much? (b055fy0h) Starring Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Jim Sweeney, Lee Starring Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. How can a writer, whose publisher declared him the 'King of Simpson, Phelim McDermott and Caroline Quentin. Written by Rene Basilico from an idea by Robert Holmes. Thrillers', and was thought to be responsible for a quarter of all Producer: Phil Clarke John Cornelius .... Peter Cushing new books read in Britain by the late 1920s, be largely forgotten First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1995. Curtis Lark .... Vincent Price today? SAT 14:30 The World of Simon Rich (b07cynng) Minister Donald Schooler .... Henry Stamper In this 3 hour archive special, crime writer Mark Billingham Series 1 Shirley Kyle .... Shirley Dixon investigates the life of the man called the 'fiction factory', the Episode 1 Flora Kiery .... Sandra Clarke best-selling author, journalist, playwright, film director and Simon Rich has been Saturday Night Live's youngest writer, a Mary .... Irene Sutcliffe creator of King Kong – Edgar Wallace. staff writer for Pixar and a regular contributor to The New Police Sergeant .... Frazer Carr Wallace's life seems the stuff of fantasy. An illegitimate child Yorker - as well as one of the funniest short story writers of his Purser .... Andrew Sear in London, largely self-educated, he was the newspaper boy generation. Producer: John Dyas who became one of the most famous writers in the world. He Now the American brings his enchanting, absurd world to radio First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1977. sold millions of books, but he was plagued by debts. He died in with his first British comedy show. SAT 19:00 Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Wrote Too Hollywood in 1932, aged 56, after writing the original story for The series takes us across time and space, from the design of Much? (b055fy0h) King Kong. His body was returned by ocean liner in honour to the universe and prehistoric love triangles to the terrors of life [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Britain, only to be reunited with an ocean of outstanding bills. as an unused condom inside a teenager’s wallet. SAT 22:00 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap (b01r9swd) Mark presents some of the best adaptations and documentaries Performing the stories alongside Simon is a cast of UK comic Series 1 about Edgar Wallace from the BBC Radio archive: talent: Episode 3 * A 1951 version of one of Wallace's biggest successes, The Peter Serafinowicz Bridget considers women and their relationship with their Ringer Tim Key, bodies via a lap dance, TOWIE and a fish called Michael. * One of Wallace’s best crime creations, The Mind of Mr JG Cariad Lloyd Fred MacAulay helps her remember some of the key incidents Reeder Jamie Demetriou which brought her to an epiphany and a call to arms. * Loveable racing 'turf tipster' Educated Evans, starring Roy Joseph Morpurgo Four-part stand-up comedy series on the state of British Hudd and Andrew Sachs. Claire Price. feminism today. And though he died in 1932, Mark has a hunch that he may be Producer: Jon Harvey Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith able to hear from Edgar Wallace himself. Executive Producer: Richard Wilson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2013. His work was the source of countless 50s and 60s TV and film A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June SAT 22:30 Barry's Lunch Club (b07889gb) adaptions. His books have sold in their multi-millions. But from 2016. Travel the 'Golden Age' of crime fiction it is Dorothy L Sayers and SAT 15:00 Radio Active (b007jy95) Alex Lowe is 82 year old Barry, who invites an audience to his Agatha Christie who are really remembered today. Was Edgar Series 3 weekly lunch club where he scrutinises themes close to his Wallace just a man who wrote, and did, too much? Euroshow heart. Producer: Peter McHugh Britain's first national local radio station goes continental with With club secretary Hilary to rein him in, and club treasurer Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in March reporters in Berlin, Paris and Madrid. Peter providing support on the civic hall piano, this is the 2015. Let's go Eurowide with a great big Eurowelcome in Germany, ultimate life-style guide for an ageing nation. SAT 12:00 Alison and Maud (b007k1w7) France and Italy for the first ever Euroshow. Broadcasting to In this opening session, Barry responds to a question about Series 1 over 12,000,000 Eurohomes in unforgettable Eurosound. travel for the over 60s and relates his disastrous holiday Fishing for Compliments Starring : experiences on a cruise ship and at an activity holiday. Is there something fishy about Bernard, apart from his VAT Helen Atkinson-Wood Barry is a cockney moved to the suburbs during the war. He is returns? Angus Deayton not given to looking at the old days through rose coloured Bed and Breakfast for Beginners. First of two series of Sue Geoffrey Perkins spectacles, and is well up to speed with current trends. A Limb's sitcom about events at the Abbeyfield Guest House in Philip Pope seemingly harmless old boy, he lures people into a false sense of Norwich. Michael Fenton-Stevens security, delivering hilariously stinging rebukes or erudite Starring Denise Coffey and Miriam Margolyes as sisters Alison Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. With Jon assessments of how the world is treating the over 60s. and Maud. Canter, Moray Hunter and John Docherty. Stand-up comedy crossed with sitcom, the show plays out in Alison …. Denise Coffey Producer: Jamie Rix real time as if we are eavesdropping on a civic hall meeting Maud …. Miriam Margolyes First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1983. group. Written by Alex Lowe and Alex Walsh-Taylor Father …. Joss Ackland SAT 15:30 Old Harry's Game (b00c6jfr) Barry ...... Alex Lowe Mr Mullett …. Chris Emmett Series 5 Hilary ...... Stephanie Cole Bernard …. Geoffrey Whitehead Moral Leadership Peter ...... Philip Pope Marina …. Phyllida Nash Mankind is now so sinful that they're all coming to Hell and the Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor Producer: Jonathan James-Moore place is full to bursting. Executive Producer: Kevin Dawson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2002. The only way to stop the flow is to persuade humanity to be A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in SAT 12:30 Tickets Please (b00nv6nh) good - but that's quite a tall order for the Prince of Darkness. April 2016. Episode 1 Andy Hamilton’s devilishly funny sitcom set in Hell. SAT 23:00 It's Jocelyn (b06vkjc0) Why does an intercity train journey turn into an emotional Satan …. Andy Hamilton Series 1 roller-coaster? Scumspawn …. Robert Duncan Episode 3 Because the train staff have to battle with their thwarted Thomas …. Jimmy Mulville Sketch comedy from Jocelyn Jee Esien. Includes Dionne Button infatuations - for each other! And those toughies in the wedding God …. David Swift MP, a power hungry traffic warden and a grumpy couple. carriage aren't helping matters... The Professor …. James Grout Jocelyn vents her frustration at the world around her through Sitcom on rails by Mark Maier. Other characters played by Philip Pope, Nick Revell and sketches and stand-up. Robin …. Jeremy Swift Michael Fenton Stevens Jocelyn Jee Esien is delighted to be joined in the cast by Curtis Nadine …. Alex Kelly Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Walker, Ninia Benjamin and Kevin J. Peter …. Malcom Tierney First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005. Producer: John Pocock Diana …. Melissa Advani SAT 16:00 Elsie, Doris, Gert and Daisy by Annie Caulfield A BBC Radio Comedy production first broadcast on BBC Linda/Lady …. Kate Layden (b01kq0wh) Radio 4 in January 2016. Keith …. Stephen Hogan [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT 23:30 World of Pub (b007sygy) Carol …. Tessa Nicholson SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b07m5ny0) Series 2 Man One …. Philip Fox [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Episode 2 Man Two/William …. Joseph Cohen-Cole SAT 18:00 Nightfall (m000tn1b) The Red Lion's almost bankrupt - can Dodgy Phil get the Producer: Peter Kavanagh Series 4 punters back? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009. The Repossession Tony Roche's comedy about the world's worst pub in London's SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b0930m3j) Robert, a surviving conjoined twin, begins having nightmares East End. Uses of Literacy Now about the death of his brother Douglas 30 years ago. Dodgy Phil ...... John Thomson Writer and critic DJ Taylor assesses Richard Hoggart's He begins to feel that his twin brother is somehow responsible Barry ...... Phil Cornwell masterpiece The Uses of Literacy. for oddities that are beginning to disturb him... Garry ...... Alistair McGowan This colossal book inspired a slew of post-war histories, as well Nightfall is a series of supernatural and horror dramas made by With Debra Stephenson and Simon Greenall. as Coronation Street and the poet Tony Harrison's 'Them and Canada’s CBC Radio that ran from 1980-83. It went on to Special effects: Carl Phillips and Nick Romero. Uz'. It was the book that inspired Alan Bennett to write. become one of the most popular shows in the network’s history. Music: Bill Bailey Hoggart was born into great poverty in Leeds and wrote During 100 episodes over three seasons, Nightfall featured a Producer: Jane Berthoud movingly about this early life and the people - mainly women - mix of original stories and adaptations of classic tales. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999. who inspired him. Robert/Douglas Stroud .... John Stocker A scholarship boy, he revealed the emotional consequences of Beth .... Mary Pirie moving from one class to another. He also offered a searing Dr Brenner .... Chris Wiggins SUNDAY 28 MARCH 2021 critique of the burgeoning mass media, expressing his concerns Tip .... Neil Dainard that the new literacy was in danger of being swamped by a Hospital Surgeon .... Jon Granik SUN 00:00 Nightfall (m000tn1b) popular press that carefully suppressed anything liable to The Nurse .... Maggie Morris [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] encourage readers to think about the environment they inhabit, Medical Student .... Amanda O'Leary SUN 00:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind (b007jltj) rather than simply wallow in its material comforts. Medical Student .... David Stein [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] Contributors include: author of Estates and Respectable, Lynsey Writer: Arthur Samuels SUN 02:00 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jr62) Hanley, historian David Kynaston, novelist David Lodge and Script Editors: Earl Toppings and John Douglas [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] playwright Alan Bennett. Producer: Bill Howell SUN 02:30 The World of Simon Rich (b07cynng) Producer: Nicola Swords. First broadcast on CBC in April 1981. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017. SAT 18:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind (b007jltj) SUN 03:00 Radio Active (b007jy95) SAT 14:00 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jr62) 2. Hurried Exodus [Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 March – 2 April 2021 Page 3 of 10 SUN 03:30 Old Harry's Game (b00c6jfr) SUN 09:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b00k89mr) to slash their budget and there’s a new Head of the local Clinical [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] Series 3 Commissioning Group who eats GPs for breakfast. SUN 04:00 Elsie, Doris, Gert and Daisy by Annie Caulfield Murder Most Rewritten The practice’s calamitous ‘celebrity’ Dr Jeremy who doesn’t (b01kq0wh) After sending abusive emails, the hack vents his spleen know what a Clinical Commissioning Group is, continues to [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] corporate script writing. dodge alimony payments, malpractice suits and the new scary SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b07m5ny0) The comical world of Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, practice Nurse Monica. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive e-mail. Jeremy...... David Westhead SUN 06:00 Lisa Owen - Not Working (Omnibus) Christopher Douglas stars as Ed Reardon. Hugh...... Simon Greenall (b079ywgp) Written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. Monica...... Polly Frame Episode 1 Featuring: Roy...... Nigel Planer Thirtysomething Claire Flannery has quit her job to discover John Fortune Veronica...... Annette Crosbie her true vocation, only to realise she has no idea how to go Stephanie Cole Stephanie/Mrs O'Neil...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith about finding it. Geoffrey Whitehead Ali Evans...... Caroline Rodgers In her muddled but somehow impeccable logic she discovers Rita May Written by Dr Phil Hammond and Mr David Spicer that, 'the more time you have, the less time you have'. As the Simon Greenall Director: Frank Stirling weeks stretch into months with nothing to show but an Sally Hawkins A Unique production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May overflowing internet search history and an unintended feud with Laura Solon 2016. her mother, Claire finds herself sinking under pressure and Philip Jackson SUN 13:00 Love From Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to His wondering where her life fell apart. David Cann Mother (Omnibus) (b07djzlm) Lisa Owens's comic debut novel tells the story of a life Morwenna Banks "Dear Mama" he always began... unravelling in minute and spectacular ways, voicing the Matthew Holness Spanning decades, a collection of author Roald Dahl's letters to questions we've all asked ourselves but never dared to say out Adam Shipway his mother, Sofie Magdalene. loud. Sally Grace At Repton School in the 1930's he reported back on jolly japes, Read by Emily Bruni Producer: Simon Nicholls and asked 'Mama' to ask his sister to feed his mouse. Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes abridged by Robin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007. Omnibus of five parts. Brooks. SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b010gjmf) Collected by Donald Sturrock and abridged by Katrin Williams. Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. Children's Writers Read by: Rory Kinnear and Donald Sturrock First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. Anthony Horowitz Producer: Duncan Minshull. SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b0br5b64) From Benjamin Britten to Billy Joel. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2016. Ken Bruce Author and screenwriter, Anthony Horowitz OBE shares his SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07zcx0d) Radio 2's Ken Bruce chooses I've Got You Under My Skin by castaway choices with Kirsty Young. Ade Edmondson Frank Sinatra and a very special live performance from Joe The creator of the popular teenage spy, Alex Rider, Anthony's The actor picks Flanders & Swann's 'A Song of the Weather' Brown. first novel was published when he was 23. He's also penned a and Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's 'Jazz Delicious Hot Disgusting Ken inherited his love of Sinatra from his three older siblings slew of TV crime shows including Murder Most Horrid, Cold'. and that, in turn, led to a love of big band and orchestral music Midsomer Murders and Foyle's Law. SUN 14:20 Isaac Asimov - I, Robot (Omnibus) (b08dwwrv) generally. The writer doesn't consider his work great, or even important - The rise of robotics in the 21st century, told through the The Joe Brown track is I'll See You In My Dreams, which but he does like to think it agreeable and surprising. poignant and mysterious story of enigmatic lawyer, Stevie memorably closed the memorial concert for George Harrison. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006. Byerley. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2018 SUN 10:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00kr7bp) As a child, Stevie is raised by Robbie, a robotic childminder, SUN 07:20 Lucy Catherine - Gudrun (b084n0jr) Series 1 because her parents are too busy working. The powerful bond Series 1 (Omnibus) Sloths she forms with the robot is unbreakable. Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, must forge her Sir David muses on the natural history of the sloth - perhaps the Their relationship will change the course of Stevie's life. path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising most lethargic beast in the animal world, and one that he has First published in 1950, Asimov's stories are becoming truer harshness. admitted to wanting to be. with every day that passes. The world that he imagined is now Starring Kate Phillips. Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural upon us. Lucy Catherine’s re-telling of the Icelander classic, The histories of creatures and plants from around the world. Omnibus of five parts. Laxdoela Saga. Producer: Julian Hector Stevie Byerley …. Hermione Norris Omnibus of the five episodes of Series 1. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2009. George Byerley / Doctor .... Derek Riddell Written in the 13th century, it tells of people in the SUN 11:00 Radiolab (m000tvdr) Grace Byerley / SZ-34 (SUZI) …. Dianne Weller Breiðafjörður area of Iceland from the late 9th to the early 11th Series 7 ROBBIE .... Kelly Burke century. It particularly focuses on a love triangle between Damn Bugs Tour Guide …. Rob Blackwood Gudrun, Kjartan and Bolli. Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Young Stevie .... Mia Burgess The Laxdæla saga remains popular and appreciated for its Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur Quinn .... Brendan Coyle poetic beauty and pathetic sentiment. Since the saga has often between science, philosophy, and the human experience. Powell .... Doug Devaney been regarded as an unusually feminine saga, it has been Radiolab explores what would be the cost of wiping out Cutie / Nestor Robots .... Nicholas Briggs speculated that it was composed by a woman. mosquitoes and other pesky insects from the world? With Jad Major Kallner .... Kelly Burke Gudrun . . . . . Kate Phillips Abumrad. Doctor Black .... Gary Turner Freija . . . . . Samantha Dakin If you could wipe mosquitoes, ticks, and other pesky insects Psychiatrist .... Diane Spencer Bolli . . . . . Gavi Singh Chera from the face of the Earth...would you? On this hour of Andrea Ashe .... Corrinne Wicks Kjartan . . . . . Luke MacGregor Radiolab, we speak with the difficulties of sharing a planet with Doctor Lanning .... Michael Cochrane Thordis . . . . . Alison Belbin these pests and what they might actually be doing to help our Original Music: Imran Ahmad Osvif . . . . . John Dougall world. Dramatised by Richard Kurti. Thorvald . . . . . Nicholas Murchie From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in Director: Andrew Mark Sewell Hallbjorn . . . . . Finlay Robertson 2018. A B7 production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SUN 11:55 Inheritance Tracks (b0br5b64) 2017. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] SUN 15:30 Motown - Speaking In The Streets (b03nt8wt) SUN 08:30 Meet the Huggetts (b04mc868) SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m000tnd3) In 1970, Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, set up a Motown All at Sea A Few Don'ts spoken word record label. With the factory outing looming, Joe and Ethel Huggett find Daljit Nagra visits the BBC's poetry archives and selects A Few It was called Black Forum and recorded poetry, civil rights themselves in a mess over money. Don'ts featuring the poetry of Ezra Pound. speeches, African-American soldiers in Vietnam and more. It Stars Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison. The poet Lavinia Greenlaw reappraises Ezra Pound's manifesto, closed in 1973 after eight releases. Those releases have started Popular working-class family, the Huggetts first hit the cinema A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste. to attract interest with some reissued. They stand as a powerful screen with a series of Gainsborough films between 1947 and A century on, what can his lively don'ts do for today's poets? testament to the African-American experience at a turbulent 1949. Their subsequent BBC radio series ran from 1953 to His passion to make poetry as modern as, say, Stravinsky's The time in America. 1962. Rite of Spring (first performed in the same year, 1913) drives The financial educator and spoken word record collector Alvin Joe ...... Jack Warner him to pronounce on adjectives, ornament, metronomes and Hall listens to the recordings and talks to those involved in their Ethel ...... Kathleen Harrison abstraction and in praise of the Image. creation. Jane ...... Vera Day With fellow poets Frances Leviston, Andrea Brady and Richard Featuring: : Bobby ...... Anthony Green Price, and with the visual artist Cornelia Parker, psychologist * Theatre director and producer Woodie King Jr., Producer of Fred Stebbings ...... Charles Leno Sophie Scott and composer John Woolrich, Lavinia explores the “Black Spirits: Festival of New Poets in America”, and “It’s Mrs Stebbings ...... Beatrice Varley dos and don'ts of good poetry and the ins and outs of writing Nation Time: African Visionary Music” Mr Campbell ...... Kenneth Connor manifestos about it. * Professor Suzanne E Smith, author of "Dancing in the Street: Written by Eddie Maguire. Producer: Frances Byrnes Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit" Producer: Peter Eton A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in * Pat Thomas, author of "Listen Whitey: The Sights and Sounds First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1954. 2012. of Black Power 1965 – 1975" SUN 09:00 Drop Me Here, Darling (m000tnd1) SUN 12:30 Polyoaks (b079r537) * Elaine Brown, singer/songwriter of the album “Elaine Brown” Indefinite Articles Series 4 and former leader of the Black Panthers Leslie is offered a job writing a weekly food column. But is it Hello, Goodbye * Suzanne de Passe, former Creative Director and President of too good to be true? Annette Crosbie guest stars in this episode on end of life care. Motown Starring Leslie Phillips. Polyoaks is to become a ‘vanguard’ site as part of the NHS ‘Five * Amiri Baraka, star of “Black Spirits: Festival of New Poets in Andrew Palmer's comedy about a former property tycoon who’s Year Forward View’. Best intentions are subverted by one older America”, “It’s Nation Time: African Visionary Music” and fallen on hard times and is now chauffeur to his wealthy ex- service user’s views on so-called elderly care. civil rights activist, poet, and writer wife. The Polyoaks surgery is plagued by strikes, endless new Black Forum releases: Leslie Duggan …. Leslie Phillips management initiatives, staff shortages, militant patients, eight * Dr Martin Luther King Jr. – Why I Oppose The War In Caroline Duggan …. Jill Bennett day weeks, privatisation – and all these things are entirely their Vietnam Claire …. Norma Ronald fault, apparently. * Stokely Carmichael – Free Huey with John Graham, Garard Green and Gordon Clyde The dysfunctional Bristol surgery run by warring doctors, * Langston Hughes and Margaret Danner – Writers Of The Producer: Edward Taylor brothers Roy and Hugh Thornton alternates between embracing Revolution First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1982. and collapsing under reforms. They’re a nurse down, they’ve got * Guess Who’s Coming Home – Black Fighting Men Recorded Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 March – 2 April 2021 Page 4 of 10 Live In Vietnam In this episode, Ben is all consumed by a new cereal bar while Mrs St Clair …. Hilda Schroder * Ossie Davis and Bill Cosby – Address The Congressional Jane and Graham are completing the Penguin Census. Mrs Whitney …. Eva Stuart Black Caucus Ben ...... Reece Shearsmith Boone …. Frederick Treves * Black Spirits - Festival of New Black Poets in America Graham ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt Mrs Watson …. Sylvia Coleridge * Imamu Amiri Baraka – It’s Nation Time Jane ...... Katy Wix Isa Whitney …. Robert Sansom * Elaine Brown – Elaine Brown Beverley ...... Alison Steadman The Coachman …. Garard Green Producer: Ekene Akalawu Atmospheric comedy about a cheery scientist based in Sub- The Constable …. Joe Sterne First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014. Antarctica by Katy Wix. Producer: Frederick Bradnum SUN 16:00 Mary Baker - The American Dentist (b0blvnxg) It’s Ben’s trip of a lifetime, but in a vast icy landscape with First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1959. "I'm part of the great fabric of European history. When books dodgy internet. Feeling lonely, he shares his thoughts via an MON 07:00 Cooking in a Bedsitter (b09jrkr2) are written about 19th century France, my name will live on in audio 'log' on his dictaphone. Series 2 them". Graham is a fellow nerdy scientist so their exchanges are Bolognese Cutlets Loosely based on Thomas W Evans' Recollections of The mumbled. Ben’s even more awkward around new arrival Jane, Trisha is definitely over Deepak. She really, truly is. Second French Empire, the unlikely tale begins with our tooth- though he’s not entirely sure why. Extracts from Cooking in a Bedsitter are read by Eleanor Bron. obsessed hero arriving in Paris in 1848. Producer: Tilusha Ghelan Beattie Edmondson and Nikesh Patel star in Sue Teddern's Here he quickly becomes indispensable to Napoleon III and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2014. romantic comedy, inspired by Katharine Whitehorn's cookery destined to change the course of history... SUN 23:00 Son of Cliche (b00p4mcr) classic. Colin Stinton stars in Mary Baker's comedy drama about Freddie Fortune Katharine Whitehorn ...... Eleanor Bron democracy, diplomacy and dentistry. From a spoof Melvyn Bragg to a signing chimp. Trisha ...... Beattie Edmondson Dr Thomas W Evans .... Colin Stinton Featuring 'The Further Reasonably Exciting Adventures of Deepak ...... Nikesh Patel Eugenie ... Barbara Durkin Captain Invisible and the See-Thru Kid'. Moira ...... Isabella Inchbald Mrs Evans .... Buffy Davis Sketch comedy with Chris Barrie, Nick Maloney and Nick June ...... Ellie Darvill Dr Edward Crane ... Paul Dubois Wilton. Len ...... Rupert Holliday Evans Napoleon III ... Jonathan Coy Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Malcolm ...... Gary Duncan Mme Lebreton ... Jennie Stoller Producer: Alan Nixon Errol Tayla ...... Kovacevic-Ebong Mr Branwell ... Sean Baker First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1984. Director: Emma Harding. Servant ... Roger May SUN 23:30 Radio 9 (b0421tlp) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2017. Innkeeper ... Jonathan Keeble Series 1 MON 07:30 Just a Minute (m000tcqg) Sir John Burgoyne ... Philip Joseph Episode 2 Series 86 Director: Sally Avens. Welcome to Radio 9 – the notional and irrational home of the Episode 5 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. terminally strange. Gyles Brandreth hosts a special episode of Just a Minute where SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000tnd3) More from the Gay Board Game Olympics, plus Radiohead's he challenges guests Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock, Tony Hawks [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] happy single. and Pippa Evans to talk on the subjects of his choice for 60 SUN 17:30 Polyoaks (b079r537) Written and performed by Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker. seconds. Hesitation, deviation, and repetition are strictly [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] With Sarah Walton, John Stevenson, Stefan Frank, Janice Vee, forbidden. This episode was recorded in the Radio Theatre in SUN 18:00 Matt Bloom - Find Me (b0076h5d) Matt Wilkinson and Michelle Gomez. December 2020, with a remote audience listening in from their Recorded in 2003 and set in 2020. Mary has to travel to Sydney Producers: Johnny Daukes and Katie Marsden homes all over the world. Caroline Barlow blows the whistle. for her son's wedding and reluctantly decides to use the new First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2003. Devised by Ian Messiter Matter Transportation machines that have overtaken aeroplanes Produced by Victoria Lloyd as the main form of global transport. A BBC Studios Production But an error occurs during the process - with terrifying MONDAY 29 MARCH 2021 MON 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlg5) consequences... Series 2 Matt Bloom’s sci-fi thriller stars Julia Watson. MON 00:00 Matt Bloom - Find Me (b0076h5d) Crossed Swords Mary …. Julia Watson [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] After a major find out on his rag and bone round, excited Andrew …. James Nickerson MON 00:45 Black and White by Jan Mark (b087ldt7) Harold lets greed get the better of him. Beatrice …. Ann Rye [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. Helen …. Emma Clarke MON 01:00 Love From Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to His Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association The Mystery Man …. Stuart Richman Mother (Omnibus) (b07djzlm) with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson The Duty Officer …. Neil Bell [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. The Vicar …. Mark Chatterton MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07zcx0d) The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Directed at BBC Manchester by Jim Poyser [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2003. MON 02:20 Isaac Asimov - I, Robot (Omnibus) (b08dwwrv) series on TV. SUN 18:45 Black and White by Jan Mark (b087ldt7) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday] Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell 1. In Black and White MON 03:30 Motown - Speaking In The Streets (b03nt8wt) Harold ...... Harry H Corbett Marjorie has premonitions, but no-one could have guessed how [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday] Shop Assistant ...... Derek Nimmo true they would be on the day of the school photo. MON 04:00 Mary Baker - The American Dentist (b0blvnxg) Auctioneer ...... Michael MacLean Read by Anne Rye. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Written by Jan Mark and abridged by Peter Kerry. MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000tnd3) Gale Pedrick. Producer: Martin Jameson [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] Producer: Bobby Jaye First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in September 1993. MON 05:30 Polyoaks (b079r537) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1967. SUN 19:00 Radiolab (m000tvdr) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] MON 08:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON 06:00 Raffles (m0001qm0) (b0075pbn) SUN 19:55 Inheritance Tracks (b0br5b64) Series 2 Series 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] 6. The Gift of the Emperor Episode 6 SUN 20:00 Mary Baker - The American Dentist (b0blvnxg) Raffles plans the most daring enterprise of his career - the theft Sofa-bound TV presenters Mike and Sue tackle matrimony. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] of a jewel worth £100,000. What makes it work? Where do couples go wrong? SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b010gjmf) But Inspector Mackenzie is hot on his trail. Could the intrepid Starring Robert Duncan and Jan Ravens. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] cracksman's luck finally run out? With Ronnie Ancona, Alistair McGowan, Roger Blake and SUN 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00kr7bp) EW Hornung's Raffles stories about the 'gentleman thief' Christopher Douglas. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] starring Jeremy Clyde Written by Christopher Douglas from a format by Bill Dare. SUN 22:00 Polyoaks (b079r537) Dramatised by David Buck. Music by Mark Burton. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] AJ Raffles ...... Jeremy Clyde Producer: Aled Evans SUN 22:30 I, Regress (b01rlnj4) Bunny Manders ...... Michael Cochrane First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1998. Series 2 Inspector Mackenzie ...... Henry Stamper MON 09:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b08m9kvp) Rubber Von Heumann ...... Frederick Jaeger Series 18 Matt Berry plays a a corrupt and bizarre regression therapist in Miss Werner ...... Zelah Clarke Episode 3 this dark, Lynch-meets-Kaufman-style comedy. Captain ...... Alan Dudley David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians Unsuspecting clients are taken on twisted, misleading journeys Steward ...... Stephen Rashbrook are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to through their subconscious. Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client who Director: Gordon House opponents. has come to him for a different phobia. As the patient is put A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast From bicycles and wine to trees and chocolate. under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various in July 1988. situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played out MON 06:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bbp0c) David O'Doherty, Richard Osman, Zoe Lyons and Marcus for us to hear. The result is a dream (or nightmare-like) trip Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 1 Brigstocke are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate through the patient's mind, as funny as it is disturbing. The Man With the Twisted Lip inaccuracy. With: Dr Watson goes gallantly in search of a missing husband at the Producer: Jon Naismith Bob Mortimer 'Bar of Gold' opium den in Upper Swandam Lane. A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first Tracy-Ann Oberman He has a curious encounter with a tall, old man whose eyes are broadcast in April 2017. Sally Okafor dull, whose skin is wrinkled-and yet whose voice is at once MON 09:30 Married (b00dvdlf) A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone familiar... Series 3 else's head! Starring Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes. The actor played Episode 6 Producer: Sam Bryant the Baker Street sleuth in 80 radio dramas between 1952 and Cantankerous bachelor Robin Lightfoot makes a vital discovery First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2013. 1969. about his parallel universes. SUN 22:45 Bird Island (b042l2xt) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale originally appeared in 'The Hugh Bonneville stars in Tony Bagley's comedy about a Series 2 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' published in the Strand confirmed bachelor dealing with life in a parallel universe. Episode 1 Magazine in 1891. Adapted by Michael Hardwick. Robin .... Hugh Bonneville Ben, a young scientist working in Antarctica, tries to adapt to Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs Lesley .... Josie Lawrence the loneliness by keeping a cheery audio diary on his Doctor Watson …. Norman Shelley Dirk .... Stephen Frost Dictaphone. Inspector Bradstreet …. Ronald Baddiley Maxine .... Ann Gosling Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 March – 2 April 2021 Page 5 of 10 Ned .... Sam Bradley Hrefna/Gaddja ….. Kerry Gooderson [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Muriel .... Janet Ellis Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins MON 19:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue Arthur Smith .... Himself The first series ended with the death of Gudrun's lover, Kjartan, (b0075pbn) Producer: Claire Jones killed by his best friend and brother, Bolli. Bolli is married to [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001. Gudrun. He suspects his wife was behind the blood feud that MON 20:00 Raffles (m0001qm0) MON 10:00 Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns led to Kjartan's death. Kjartan married into Norwegian royalty [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] (b01nvg46) and when his wife returns to Iceland with plans to convert the MON 20:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bbp0c) Episode 1 country to Christianity it becomes clear her motives are far [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Arnold Bennett's powerful story of love, tyranny and rebellion from pious. MON 21:00 Here's the Thing (b0b2jd1n) set against the vitality and harshness of life in the Staffordshire Gudrun is under the protection of Freija, the Norse Goddess of [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Potteries in the late 19th century, love and war. She can sometimes be as slippery a customer as MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000tvdt) Brought up in the repressive tradition of Methodism by her her protégée. Freija's voice cries out for a new kind of [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] miserly father, Anna Tellwright dreams of independence and leadership. Is she really on Gudrun's side or does she have an MON 22:00 Just a Minute (m000tcqg) freedom. On coming of age she learns that she is to inherit a agenda of her own? [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] fortune and realises that she is loved by the charismatic Henry Suspicious of how power and ambition are wielded by men MON 22:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b04ps720) Mynors. Gudrun's left feeling increasingly isolated. She longs for the Series 2 But with the money comes responsibility and a growing bond freedom to live her life according to her own rules, beholden to Running on Empty with one of her tenants William Price. no-one. Tom Wrigglesworth is worried for his health with his invite to Stars Charlotte Riley. The show is inspired by the famous Laxdaela Saga featuring the an adventure-packed stag weekend of "coasteering" – where Dramatised in two parts by Helen Edmundson. original Nordic Noir heroine, Guðrún Ósvífursdóttir. There is you hurl yourself off tall rocks into the sea! Anna.....Charlotte Riley speculation that the saga was written by a woman. Gudrun has But that's nothing compared with what his dad’s preparing Tellwright.....David Schofield the same steely determination and in some cases the almost himself for: the Sheffield marathon. An event he's decided to Young Agnes.....Emilia Harker psychopathic single-mindedness of her successors, Lisbeth enter to get one over on the next door neighbour... William Price.....Michael Socha Salander and Saga Noren, not to mention the ability to scheme, With Kate Anthony, Paul Copley and Judy Parfitt. Titus Price.....James Masters manipulate and bend others to her will. Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle. With Miles Henry Mynors.....Lee Williams First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. Jupp. Beatrice/Older Agnes.....Rosina Carbone MON 14:30 Arnold of the Five Towns (b0477m6z) Producer: Katie Tyrrell Mrs Sutton.....Olwen May Writer Arnold Bennett was a man of many worlds. Born in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014. Revivalist.....Andrew Westfield 1867 amidst the roar and industry of The Potteries, he became a MON 23:00 The Now Show (m000tg6k) Sarah Vodrey.....Jacqueline Redgwell giant of the London literati, renowned far beyond the capital for Series 58 Director: Nadia Molinari works such as The Old Wives' Tale, The Card and Anna of the Episode 5 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011. Five Towns. Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand- MON 11:00 Here's the Thing (b0b2jd1n) But Bennett was not just a novelist. From screenplays to 'how up and sketches in front of a remote audience - and all from Julie Andrews to' books, Evening Standard articles to Woman magazine, he their own home! Alec Baldwin delves into the life of Oscar-winning actress Julie was wildly prolific, unashamed of earning a living from his art, Joining them from a safe distance is Dane Baptiste and Janine Andrews, from theatre days to the legacy of "the nannies": and as capable of describing the minutiae of grand hotels as he Harouni with music supplied by Rachel Parris . Mary Poppins and Maria. was the life of the charwoman. Voice Actors: Chiara Goldsmith and Luke Kempner Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin gives the listener a unique Mourned by the likes of Lord Beaverbrook and Somerset Producer: Pete Strauss entrée into the lives of artists, policy makers and performers. Maugham when he died in 1931, Arnold Bennett earned a level Production Co-Ordinator: Sarah Sharpe Alec sidesteps the predictable by taking listeners inside the of wealth and celebrity in his lifetime of which many writers Editor/Engineer: David Thomas dressing rooms, apartments and offices. might now only dream. BBC Studios Production Here's the Thing has its roots in National Public Radio. In 2009, So why does this man - who once wrote in his journal that he MON 23:30 Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music Alec joined with producers Lu Olkowski, Trey Kay, Kathie "would not care a bilberry for posterity" - seem to have (m000tx6r) Russo and Emily Botein to find fresh ways to engage in somewhat fallen from fame? What's his legacy in his Series 3 conversation on the radio. The group developed the idea of a hometown? And what could his life and work say to 21st Episode 3 new show that at its heart would look at what makes interesting century Britain? Mitch Benn's world tour takes him to exotic places, glamorous people tick and create a platform for new and emerging ideas to In this programme, Bennett fan Samira Ahmed reappraises the locations - and Stansted. This week, he's stranded in the be presented. reputation of this self-made man from the Potteries, visiting departure lounge after a budget airline goes bust. Trapped in From WNYC Studios, New York. First heard in the USA in places as diverse as The Savoy Hotel and Stoke City FC. She duty-free hell with Robin Ince and his band, Mitch is driven 2015. tours Burslem's Bennett landmarks, delves into the archive at crazy by a certain song, played over and over again. Finally, he MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000tvdt) the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and walks the floorboards has to make a musical appeal to Watchdog to free himself from Priyanka Chopra Jonas of the Middleport Pottery as she hears how it inspired one of legal limbo, stuck between passport control and the boarding Actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas picks ‘Desi Girl’ by Shankar Bennett's best-loved works. gate. Mahadevan and ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ by Interviewees include Dame Margaret Drabble, historian and MP Also featuring Alfie Joey, Taha Baylis, Kirsty Newton and Roberta Flack. Tristram Hunt, writer Sathnam Sanghera and many others. Steven Kynman. MON 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlg5) Producer: Alice Bloch Producer: Adam Bromley [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2006. MON 12:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue MON 15:00 Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns (b0075pbn) (b01nvg46) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUESDAY 30 MARCH 2021 MON 13:00 Raffles (m0001qm0) MON 16:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b08m9kvp) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE 00:00 Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler (m000tnkj) MON 13:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bbp0c) MON 16:30 Married (b00dvdlf) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b017cfks) MON 14:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b079njxp) MON 17:00 Cooking in a Bedsitter (b09jrkr2) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Episode 6 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE 01:00 Raffles (m0001qm0) Lisa Owens' witty and poignant debut novel, read by Emily MON 17:30 Just a Minute (m000tcqg) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Bruni. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 01:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bbp0c) Claire Flannery has quit her marketing job in order to search MON 18:00 Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler (m000tnkj) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] for her true vocation. But months have passed and she's no Episode 6 TUE 02:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b079njxp) closer to understanding what she wants to do with her life. It The revelation of Albertine's dream sends Fridolin deeper into [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] doesn't help that Luke, her long-term partner, is passionate chaos as he tries to unravel the mystery of the previous evening. TUE 02:15 Gudrun (b096h4d0) about his job, which also happens to be one of the worthiest in An eight-part of Arthur Schnitzler’s ‘Dream Story’, credited as [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] the world... he's training to be a brain surgeon. the novella that inspired Stanley Kubrick's last film. TUE 02:30 Arnold of the Five Towns (b0477m6z) In addition, she's fallen out badly with her mother – who refuses Published in 1925/26, the work was alternately titled ‘Rhapsody’ [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] to accept Claire's revelation that her grandfather exposed and, in the original German, ‘Traumnovelle’. TUE 03:00 Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns himself to her with she was little. It hadn't seemed like a big It tells the tale of a young doctor who finds that he must come (b01nvg46) deal to Claire at the time, but her mother's reaction has left her to terms with his wife's erotic dreams by embarking on a few [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] hurt and reeling. escapades of his own – a tale of sexual fantasy, jealousy, TUE 04:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b08m9kvp) obsession and death... [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] Read by Emily Bruni. Read by Paul Rhys. TUE 04:30 Married (b00dvdlf) Abridged by Robin Brooks. Translated by J.M.Q. Davies. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. Made for BBC7 and first broadcast in September 2003. TUE 05:00 Cooking in a Bedsitter (b09jrkr2) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. MON 18:30 A Good Read (b017cfks) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] MON 14:15 Gudrun (b096h4d0) Rachel Johnson and Martin Kelner TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (m000tcqg) Series 2 Former editor of The Lady, Rachel Johnson, and journalist and [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] Episode 1 broadcaster Martin Kelner pick their favourite books to discuss TUE 06:00 Stand By For West (m000tn3g) Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and leadership with Harriett Gilbert. Inspector West at Bay inspired by the Icelandic sagas Rachel's choice is about every parent's worst nightmare - the 1. Flashpoint Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, forges her disappearance of a child: Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon. From the novel Inspector West at Bay by John Creasey path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising Martin opts for a weighty story of the capital city and its Dramatised as a serial for radio in eight parts by MAURICE harshness. Left reeling from the part she played in her lover's characters during World War Two: London Belongs to Me by TRAVERS death she's determined to rebuild her family and win back the Norman Collins. Chief Inspector Roger West and his wife, Janet, are involved in trust of her husband. Harriett's choice is the witty and poignant tale of two women, a sinister incident. Gudrun ….. Kate Phillips desperately seeking love, lust and wine: The Bottle Factory This is the third of John Creasey's novels about the detective's Freija ….. Samantha Dakin Outing by Beryl Bainbridge. adventures to be dramatised for radio. Bolli ….. Gavi Singh Chera Producer: Toby Field Patrick Allen and Sarah Lawson, who play the main parts, are Sigrid ….. Rosie Boore First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2011. also husband and wife in real life - but happily their private life Olaf ….. Philip Fox MON 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlg5) is not as hectic, hair-raising and danger-filled as the one they Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 March – 2 April 2021 Page 6 of 10 portray in Stand By For West. Mathew Baynton – Joe [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Maurice Hedley, who plays the Assistant Commissioner at Josie Lawrence – Amanda TUE 13:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bd5bp) Scotland Yard, finds he is a charming old gentleman, but a trifle Rasmus Hardiker – Teddy [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] slow in the uptake. Written by Edward Rowett TUE 14:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b079prly) West's right-hand man on the other hand, the burly Detective Directed by Alan Nixon Episode 7 Inspector Bill Sloan (Derek Newark), is a solid, dependable Script edited by Mark Evans Lisa Owens' "generation-defining" comic debut novel, read by type. Edited and Engineered by Jerry Peal Emily Bruni. West's friend Mark Lessing (James Kerry), is directly involved Production Manager: Sarah Tombling Claire Flannery is searching for her true vocation. But, months in the action, and also has a romantic interest in a mysterious Based on an original idea by Edward Rowett and Robert after she quit her marketing job, she's no closer to young widow called Eve Wedlake (Anna Gilcrist). Frimstone understanding what it is she wants to do with her life. It doesn't 1: Flashpoint in Fleet Street Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios, London help that Luke, her long-term partner, is passionate about his Produced by JOHN BROWELL Produced by Gordon Kennedy job, which also happens to be one of the worthiest in the Chief Inspector Roger West .... Patrick Allen An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 world... he's training to be a brain surgeon. He's been supportive Janet: .... Sarah Lawson TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b00dyb10) up until now, but is starting to lose patience. Sir Guy Chatworth .... Maurice Hedley Ten Snowballs That Shook the World In addition, she's fallen out badly with her mother – who refuses Det -Insp Bill Sloan .... Derek Newark Neddie Seagoon attempts to auction the equator - from a raft. to accept Claire's revelation that her grandfather exposed Mark Lessing .... James Kerry Stars Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers. From February 1958. himself to her with she was little. It hadn't seemed like a big Marino .... Leonard Fenton TUE 08:30 Rent (b066fy4b) deal to Claire at the time, but her mother's reaction has left her Bertie Downs .... John Baddeley Series 4 hurt and reeling. First broadcast on Radio 2 in 1969. Episode 5 Read by Emily Bruni. TUE 06:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bd5bp) Paul and Ruby are delighted to see the back of Dave. Abridged by Robin Brooks. Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 1 Maria and Richard are finding Eva rather harder to get rid of. Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. The Beryl Coronet Lucy Flannery's award-winning sitcom about Maria and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. 'I could, of course, borrow so trifling a sum ten times over from Richard Reynolds and their lodgers. TUE 14:15 Gudrun (b096hcls) my friends' said His Grace, asking the banker for the loan of CAST: Series 2 £50,000 - and he handed over the Beryl Coronet as security. Maria …. Barbara Flynn Episode 2 What happened then sent the distressed banker hurrying to Richard …. Patrick Barlow Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and leadership 221b Baker Street to seek the aid of Sherlock Holmes... Ruby …. Vivienne Rochester inspired by the Icelandic sagas. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale originally appeared in 'The Paul …. Dave Lamb Gudrun's rival in love, Hrefna, returns to Iceland with a band of Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' published in the Strand with Sarah Parkinson and Toby Longworth. missionaries and a plan to convert the country to Christianity. Magazine in 1891. Producer: Liz Anstee Her motives for returning to the land where her husband was CAST: First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998. murdered are far less clear cut. Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs TUE 09:00 The Now Show (m000tg6k) Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. Doctor Watson …. Norman Shelley [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. Miss Parker/Lucy Parr …. Hilda Schroder TUE 09:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cz8np) TUE 14:30 Spellbound: Siouxsie and the Banshees Arthur Holder …. Frederick Treves Series 4 (b01n9z0v) Alexander Holder …. Robert Sansom Episode 6 As the bright white heat of punk faded few bands survived and Roberts …. Ronald Baddiley It’s Tommy and Sheila’s anniversary – 40 years in showbiz! emerged from the aftermath, stronger and more unique than His Grace …. Godfrey Kenton Lewis is hoping it’ll pass quietly and cheaply. But will a short Siouxsie and the Banshees. Led by the unmistakable force of Mary Holder …. Eva Huszar hospital say force Tommy to start taking life easier? Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin, the Banshees carved Carleton Hobbs played the Baker Street sleuth in eighty radio Ageing showbiz couple Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr battle a musical legacy that is without parallel. dramas between 1952 and 1969. on with their second stab at fame. Originally meeting as part of the 'Bromley Contingent' that Adapted by Michael Hardwick. CAST: gravitated around punk pioneers The Sex Pistols, Susan Janet Producer: Frederick Bradnum Tommy Franklin …. Roy Hudd Ballion met Steven Bailey at a Roxy Music concert at Wembley First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1959. Sheila Parr …. June Whitfield in 1975, bonding over suburban boredom, a love of Bowie, TUE 07:00 Quanderhorn (b0b9wbf0) Hetty Stark …. Pat Coombes Hitchcock and 'Cabaret' style nocturnal fun. Armed with a The Quanderhorn Xperimentations Murray …. Julian Eardley handful of ideas, suburban isolation, borrowed equipment, the The Splattered Remains of Undentifiable Organs Incident All Louis Elstein …. Edward Halsted duo entered the furnace of punk intent on smashing down the Over Again Vicky Blunt/Nurse …. Emma Kennedy established musical order and sculpting a dark and alluring It's still 1952. It's always 1952. Music by Frido Ruth. legacy. The Quanderhorn crew find themselves on Advanced Lunar Producer: Steve Doherty Miranda Sawyer talks to Siouxsie about the legendary gig at the Station Q, with no means of returning to Earth and limited First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002. infamous 100 Club as well as her and Steven Severin's part in oxygen supplies. TUE 10:00 Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns TV folklore by appearing on the Today show where the Sex Splitting into two teams after a game of Martian Closey-Eyesie, (b01nvmwm) Pistol's Steve Jones and John 'Rotten' Lydon' swore at presenter Guuuurk (Kevin Eldon) and Troy (Freddie Fox) fall prey to a Episode 2 Bill Grundy revealing to the nation the filth and the fury of ravenous Lunar Man Trap, while Brian (Ryan Sampson) and Arnold Bennett's powerful story of love, tyranny and rebellion punk rock. Gemma (Cassie Layton) stumble upon an intact space craft. set against the vitality and harshness of life in the Staffordshire Through Banshee's biographer and fan Mark Paytress, But there are two problems. Gemma's ear is unwinding, Potteries in the late nineteenth, dramatised by Helen journalist Alexis Petridis and acclaimed producer Nigel Gray, rendering her emotionally unstable, and there's no apparent Edmundson. Sawyer unearths how the band quickly bolted from the fading entrance to the craft. Having inherited a fortune on her twenty first birthday Anna spark of punk and carved out an unparalleled legacy of five Having rather astonishingly escaped their various dilemmas, the Tellwright begins to gain independence and freedom. But on albums in five years. From 1978's stark, Velvet Underground crew encounter yet another conundrum - how exactly is the ship her return from an eventful holiday with the Suttons and Henry inspired 'The Scream' through band fall-outs, commercial and powered? Mynors her joy is marred by some shocking news about one of critical success, to the neo-psychedelic, post punk of Jenkins (John Sessions), the professor's factotum, detects a her tenant's Titus Price. Anna's growing concern for his son 'Kaleidoscope', the hugely influencial dark wave 'JuJu' and the spacecraft approaching Earth which Quanderhorn (James Fleet) William leads her to a defiant act that threatens everything. quixotic, exotic and erotic and 'A Kiss in the Dreamhouse' this a orders him to blast out of the sky, apparently unaware his own Anna.....Charlotte Riley unique insight into a genre and era defying band. crew is aboard. Tellwright.....David Schofield First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. The Quanderhorn Xperimentations - an adventure beyond Young Agnes.....Emilia Harker TUE 15:00 Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns human understanding. William Price.....Michael Socha (b01nvmwm) Cast: Henry Mynors.....Lee Williams [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Professor Quanderhorn- James Fleet Beatrice/Older Agnes.....Rosina Carbone TUE 16:00 The 3rd Degree (b07bbbjp) Brian Nylon- Ryan Sampson Mrs Sutton.....Olwen May Series 6 Dr Gemini Janussen- Cassie Layton Mr Sutton/Coroner.....Jonathan Keeble The University of Gloucestershire Guuurk- Kevin Eldon Sarah Vodrey.....Jacqueline Redgwell A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this Troy Quanderhorn- Freddie Fox Directed by Nadia Molinari. week from the University of Gloucestershire with specialist Winston Churchill/Jenkins- John Sessions First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011. subjects including Biosciences, Media and Religious Studies Synthetic Voice Rachel Atkins TUE 11:00 Archive on 4 (b09th2km) and questions ranging from Betjeman to BB King via Botham Created and written by Rob Grant and Andrew Marshall The Bald Truth and brass instruments. Directed by Andrew Marshall For thousands of years, bald men have been the subject of The programme is recorded on location at a different Music by Peter Brewis ridicule. As a result they've felt ashamed and have resorted to University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against Engineered, Edited and Sound designed by Alistair McGregor desperate measures to hide their condition. During the decades three of their Professors in an original and fresh take on an Production Manager: Sarah Tombling when hair style was a cultural battleground between youth and academic quiz. Produced by Rob Grant and Gordon Kennedy the establishment, the balding man was at the bottom of the The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios heap. No prime minister since Clement Attlee has been bald. Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 But increasingly, bald men are coming out of the closet and and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the TUE 07:30 Reluctant Persuaders (m000td1s) shaving their heads - and some women too. Research shows that students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and Series 4 bald men are perceived as less attractive but more dominant. science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, sport, Episode 4: Ask The Man Who Owns One Now that we are more relaxed about hair style, and more willing and quite possibly Justin Bieber. In addition, the Head-to-Head Hardacre’s advertising agency is shaken when one of their latest to tolerate tonsorial diversity, are bald men finally able to shed rounds see students take on their Professors in their own ads is ridiculed by industry bible Campaign. Copywriter Joe the stigma? And could the comb-over finally make a come subjects, offering plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on Starling (Mathew Baynton) takes the news especially hard, back? Ian Marchant, who has shaved his head since the early both sides. spiralling into depression. 1980s, investigates. Other Universities featured in this series include Chester, York, Amanda (Josie Lawrence) and Hardacre (Nigel Havers) Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. Birmingham City, Bath and Glasgow. compete to pull Joe out of his funk, and prove to the other that First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018. Produced by David Tyler they are the more gifted mentor. Meanwhile Teddy (Rasmus TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b00dyb10) A Pozzitive production Hardiker) has worries of his own, as he attempts to care for a [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 2016. new pet. TUE 12:30 Rent (b066fy4b) TUE 16:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cz8np) Cast: [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Nigel Havers – Hardacre TUE 13:00 Stand By For West (m000tn3g) TUE 17:00 Quanderhorn (b0b9wbf0) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 March – 2 April 2021 Page 7 of 10 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED 01:00 Stand By For West (m000tn3g) The Telegraph TUE 17:30 Reluctant Persuaders (m000td1s) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] "I was intrigued by Andy Zaltzman and Anuvab Pal's ambition [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED 01:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bd5bp) and then surprised to find myself chuckling at their chutzpah." TUE 18:00 Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler (m000tn3l) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] The Spectator Episode 7 WED 02:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b079prly) Writer/Perfomer: Andy Zaltzman Fridolin returns to the house of the masked ball to find the [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Writer/Perfomer: Anuvab Pal mysterious woman who saved his life and has an unpleasant WED 02:15 Gudrun (b096hcls) Producer: Ed Morrish surprise. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 An eight-part of Arthur Schnitzler’s ‘Dream Story’, credited as WED 02:30 Spellbound: Siouxsie and the Banshees WED 08:00 Life With The Lyons (m00022s5) the novella that inspired Stanley Kubrick's last film. (b01n9z0v) The Barbecue Published in 1925/26, the work was alternately titled ‘Rhapsody’ [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] How will the All-American family’s new barbecue fare with the and, in the original German, ‘Traumnovelle’. WED 03:00 Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns neighbours and British weather? Stars Ben Lyon. From January It tells the tale of a young doctor who finds that he must come (b01nvmwm) 1953. to terms with his wife's erotic dreams by embarking on a few [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED 08:30 Alison and Maud (b007k244) escapades of his own – a tale of sexual fantasy, jealousy, WED 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b07bbbjp) Series 1 obsession and death... [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] Lame Ducks Read by Paul Rhys. WED 04:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cz8np) How can Alison avoid a courtship display without hastily Translated by J.M.Q. Davies. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] inventing a husband? Made for BBC7 and first broadcast in September 2003. WED 05:00 Quanderhorn (b0b9wbf0) First of two series of Sue Limb's Bed and Breakfast sitcom TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b00txhfk) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] about sisters Alison and Maud and their guests at the Series 10 WED 05:30 Reluctant Persuaders (m000td1s) Abbeyfield Guest House in Norwich. How Great Thou Art [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] Starring Denise Coffey as Alison, Miriam Margolyes as Maud, The enduring popularity of the hymn, How Great Thou Art is WED 06:00 Stand By For West (m000tnp4) Joss Ackland as Father, Chris Emmett as Mr Mullett and explored in this series that examines those pieces of music that Inspector West at Bay Nickolas Grace as Leslie. never fail to move us. Based on a Swedish poem by Carl Gustav 2. Bombshell in Bournemouth Producer: Jonathan James-Moore. Boberg, the hymn was written by the British missionary Stuart Following the acid attack, Inspector West and his family travel First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2002. Hine in 1949. to Bournemouth for a few days holiday - but there is no respite WED 09:00 Heresy (b07fg6tt) It subsequently become an Elvis Presley classic and as the from ongoing case at Scotland Yard and Roger remains under Series 10 country and western star , Connie Smith explains, it's the piece threat. Episode 5 she always sings to close her show, the stirring lyrics and From the novel Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show soaring melody having the ability to move and inspire audiences Inspector West at Bay by John Creasey which dares to commit heresy. of all ages and backgrounds. Dramatised as a serial for radio in eight parts by MAURICE Her guests this week are comedians Lee Mack and David We also hear from George Beverly Shea, now a hundred and TRAVERS with Baddiel and performer and QI elf Andrew Hunter Murray. one but with clear memories of singing it at hundreds of Billy Chief Inspector Roger West .... Patrick Allen Together they discuss Netflix, father figures and Katie Hopkins. Graham crusades. Janet .... Sarah Lawson An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June Contributors: Sir Guy Chatworth .... Maurice Hedley 2016. Bud Boberg Det -Insp Bill Sloan .... Derek Newark WED 09:30 Snap (b00tf82j) Ray Bodkin Mark Lessing .... James Kerry Series 1 Bev Shea First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1969. Episode 2 Jerry Schilling WED 06:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bhp40) After their split, Molly and Doug are determined to prove they Malcolm Imhoff Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 1 can have a life without each other. David Darg The Blanched Soldier And maybe they would, if it wasn't for Doug's elderly mum First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. Godfrey Emsworth comes back from the Boer War and hasn't misbehaving... TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b00dyb10) been since. Paul Mendelson's sitcom stars Rebecca Lacey as Molly, Paul [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] At the request of Godfrey's friend and fellow-soldier, James Venables as Doug, Soumaya Keynes as Kaz, Jessie Sullivan as TUE 19:30 Rent (b066fy4b) Dodd, can Holmes solve this unusual mystery? Ryan, Rebecca Front as Scarlet, Marlene Sidaway as Annie and [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale originally appeared in 'The Jonathan Tafler as Raymond. TUE 20:00 Stand By For West (m000tn3g) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' published in the Strand Producer: David Ian Neville [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Magazine in 1927. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003. TUE 20:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bd5bp) CAST: WED 10:00 Drama (b09hp7cv) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel TUE 21:00 Archive on 4 (b09th2km) Doctor Watson …. Norman Shelley Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] James M. Dodd …. Frederick Treves James Purefoy stars as Sir Percy Blakeney in Jonathan TUE 22:00 Reluctant Persuaders (m000td1s) Colonel Emsworth …. Robert Sansom Holloway's new adaptation of Baroness Orczy's classic tale, set [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] The Butler …. Frank Atkinson in the French Revolution. TUE 22:30 Revolting People (b00f80zs) Mr Kent …. William Eedle Holloway's political interpretation is brought to life by an Series 1 Godfrey Emsworth …. Denis Coacher ensemble cast including Sienna Guillory as Marguerite An Incredible Amount of Storm Clouds Sir James Saunders …. Norman Claridge Blakeney and Enzo Cilenti as the spine-chilling revolutionary Feared Briton General Venables demands executions by sunset. Carleton Hobbs played the Baker Street sleuth in eighty radio soldier, Henri Chauvelin. 1770 America sitcom stars Andy Hamilton. From February dramas between 1952 and 1969. Muscular acting, pungent words, threat and jeopardy replace the 2000. Adapted by Michael Hardwick. whimsy of other adaptations and are floated on a contemporary, TUE 23:00 Bussmann and Quantick Kingsize (b044w4v4) Producer: Frederick Bradnum filmic score written by Sarah Llewellyn, with sound design by Episode 4 First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1959. Wilfredo Acosta. Buy a compendium of fairy tales from Boney M. WED 07:00 Tickets Please (b00ny7k4) Episode One: A decadent ounce of sketches, monologues and evil chat. Episode 2 It is the year 1792. We witness a revolutionary France in the Originally broadcast live from London's exclusive Imperial By Mark Maier grip of a violent proletarian uprising and a British ruling class Rooms, Mayfair. The 9.27 London to Exeter emotional rollercoaster continues as striving to prevent the same happening here. Written and performed by Jane Bussmann and David Quantick. the train staff's personal embroilments deepen. Now one of the Percy Blakeney...... James Purefoy Also featuring Peter Serafinowicz, Emma Clarke and Steve wedding party is joining in the melee. And why are there Marguerite Blakeney...... Sienna Guillory Brody. fingerholes in the muffins? Andrew Ffoulkes...... Eric MacLennan Producer: Phil Bowker. Robin...... Jeremy Swift Henri Chauvelin...... Enzo Cilenti First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998. Nadine...... Alex Kelly Suzanne De Tournay...... Abby Wain TUE 23:30 The (Almost) Accidental Adventures of Bell and Peter...... Malcolm Tierney Captain Duroc...... Graeme Rose Todd (m00046g0) Carol...... Tessa Nicholson Citizen Brogard...... Mike Rogers Stowaways Carl...... Nicholas Boulton Barsad & Wilmot...... James Camp Fed up narrating the lives of two men bickering on an Diana...... Melissa Advani Music composed by Sarah Llewellyn allotment, mischievous Diana decides to shake their lives up... Linda...... Kate Layden Adapted and directed by Jonathan Holloway June Whitfield stars as Diana in John Eggleston's six-part Keith...... Stephen Hogan Produced by Sally Harrison comedy adventure series. other parts played by Piers Wehner, Philip Fox and Joseph A Darling Woolyback Co-Production for BBC Radio 4, first With Matthew Bell as Bell and Toby Longworth as Todd Cohen-Cole broadcast in December 2017. Producer: Liz Anstee Directed by Peter Kavanagh. WED 11:00 Stage and Screen: Legends - Liza Minnelli First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1997. WED 07:30 Future Empire-fect (m000tccs) (m000tnp6) TUE 23:45 Hearing With Hegley (b009y1s3) Episode 1 Broadway and Hollywood star Liza Minnelli talks to Edward Series 1 In their previous BBC Radio 4 series, Empire-ical Evidence, Seckerson about her career. We hear plenty of songs in full in Episode 1 comedians Andy Zaltzman and Anuvab Pal travelled to each this special recording when Liza talks in detail about her parts The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley, presents other’s home cities and walked around, taking in the sights and in Flora the Red Menace, The Act and The Rink. She also pays a selection of his work. sounds and taste and feel of the bustling metropoli of London tribute to the lyricist Fred Ebb who was the author of virtually With contributions from Keith Moore, Susan Norton, Andrew and Kolkata, before performing stand-up in crowded rooms full all her greatest roles. Bailey and Nigel Piper. of people laughing loudly and maybe even sharing snacks. Interviewer Edward Seckerson Producer: Phil Clarke In Future Empire-fect, their new series recorded in March Producer Bill Lloyd First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1996. 2021, they won’t be doing that. Director Lindsay Pell What they will be doing is looking at the future of the First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on December 25 2006. relationship between Britain and India in fields such as politics, WED 12:00 Life With The Lyons (m00022s5) WEDNESDAY 31 MARCH 2021 medicine, cricket, culture, cricket, trade, hospitality and cricket. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] In this first episode, they take in the pharmaceutical industry, WED 12:30 Alison and Maud (b007k244) WED 00:00 Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler (m000tn3l) business, trade and politics, and how the two nations plan to [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] work together - or not. WED 13:00 Stand By For West (m000tnp4) WED 00:30 Soul Music (b00txhfk) Praise for Empire-ical Evidence: [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] "Surprisingly successful as both entertainment and education." WED 13:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bhp40) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 March – 2 April 2021 Page 8 of 10 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Featuring Rosalind Jana THU 05:00 Tickets Please (b00ny7k4) WED 14:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b079r5lz) The Bystander [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Episode 8 Featuring William Genovese THU 05:30 Future Empire-fect (m000tccs) Lisa Owens' "generation-defining" comic debut novel, read by Produced by Andrea Rangecroft [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Emily Bruni. Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall THU 06:00 Stand By For West (m000tnmy) Claire Flannery is still searching for her true vocation. Months A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Inspector West at Bay after she quit her marketing job, she's no closer to February 2019. 3. Encounter with an Eve understanding what it is she wants to do with her life. It doesn't WED 19:00 Life With The Lyons (m00022s5) From the novel Inspector West at Bay by John Creasey help that Luke, her long-term partner, is passionate about his [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Dramatised as a serial for radio in eight parts by Maurice job, which also happens to be one of the worthiest in the world WED 19:30 Alison and Maud (b007k244) Travers. (he's training to be a brain surgeon). [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Chief Inspector Roger West and his wife, Janet, are involved in In addition, she's badly fallen out with her mother – who refuses WED 20:00 Stand By For West (m000tnp4) a sinister incident. to accept Claire's revelation that her grandfather exposed [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] This is the third of John Creasey's novels about the detective's himself to her with she was little. It hadn't seemed like a big WED 20:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bhp40) adventures to be dramatised for radio. deal to Claire at the time, but her mother's reaction has left her [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Patrick Allen and Sarah Lawson, who play the main parts, are hurt and reeling. WED 21:00 Stage and Screen: Legends - Liza Minnelli also husband and wife in real life - but happily their private life (m000tnp6) is not as hectic, hair-raising and danger-filled as the one they Read by Emily Bruni. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] portray in Stand By For West. Abridged by Robin Brooks. WED 22:00 Future Empire-fect (m000tccs) Maurice Hedley, who plays the Assistant Commissioner at Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Scotland Yard, finds he is a charming old gentleman, but a trifle First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. WED 22:30 Elvenquest (b00w7f23) slow in the uptake. WED 14:15 Gudrun (b096j14s) Series 2 West's right-hand man on the other hand, the burly Detective Series 2 Episode 3 Inspector Bill Sloan (Derek Newark), is a solid, dependable Episode 3 The Quest for the Sword of Asnagar continues and this week type. Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and leadership finds Vidar and his team outside the Citadel of Gondola which West's friend Mark Lessing (James Kerry), is directly involved inspired by the Icelandic sagas. is being laid siege to by the amassed hordes of the evil Lord in the action, and also has a romantic interest in a mysterious The Norwegian priest Refkel has spent the winter working Darkness. But when they get searched on their way into the young widow called Eve Wedlake (Anna Gilcrist). alongside Gudrun on her farm. As spring returns he redoubles Citadel - there's been a lot of trouble with 'suicide fairies' - Sam Chief Inspector Roger West: Patrick Allen his efforts to save her soul. comes across a love potion in Vidar's belongings and his mind Janet: Sarah Lawson Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. unsurprisingly turns from defending the citadel to making his Det -Insp Bill Sloan: Derek Newark First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. move on Penthiselea. Mark Lessing: James Kerry WED 14:30 The Curse of Pendle (b01nxzcj) But the path of true love is never a steady one and Sam's plans Eve Wedlake: Anna Gilcrist Novelist Jeanette Winterson is fascinated by the Pendle witch for marital bliss soon fall apart when he discovers time with an Produced by JOHN BROWELL trials of 1612. 400 years on, in this programme recorded in and amorous Penthiselea isn't all it's cracked up to be, and Vidar First broadcast on Radio 2 in 1969. around the area, she contemplates their history - a tale of drinks the love potion by mistake. THU 06:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bj8wq) ambition, warring families and the superstitions of James I. An all-star cast, featuring: Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 1 The Pendle witch trials of 1612 involved 12 accused, who were Stephen Mangan as 'Sam', The Copper Beeches charged with the murder of 10 people by witchcraft. They are Alistair McGowan as 'Lord Darkness', When a young governess feels threatened by unknown dangers the best documented of all the witchcraft trials in English Christine Kavanagh as 'The High Priestess of Gondola' in a remote country house, Holmes and Watson are quick to fly history. This is a fascinating story which moves beyond the Kevin Eldon as 'Dean/Kreech', to her aid... localised accusation and hysteria of the well-worn Salem trials Darren Boyd as 'Vidar', Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale originally appeared in 'The in the US and draws in the superstitions of James I, the desires Dave Lamb as 'Amis - The Chosen One' Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' published in the Strand of titled families to attract his good favour, and the local Sophie Winkleman as 'Penthiselea' Magazine in 1891. disputes and battles of two 'common' families. The writers are Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto (Goodness CAST: Using the publication of the proceedings by the clerk of the Gracious Me, The Kumars At No. 42) Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs court, Thomas Potts 'The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in The producer is Sam Michell. Doctor Watson …. Norman Shelley the Countie of Lancaster', Jeanette Winterson weaves her own WED 23:00 Radio Active (b008gdb7) Violet Hunter …. Hilda Schroder telling of the trial through the programme, while unearthing the Series 3 Miss Stoper/Mrs Rucastle …. Eva Stuart back story and historic context. Probe Round the Back Mr Rucastle …. Frederick Treves Jeanette explores the local area, visiting key locations as she Radio Active's regular analysis programme, Probe, takes a look Mrs Toller …. Fanny Carby contemplates the "countie" of the time. Even today this area of behind-the-scenes at Britain's first national local radio station Carleton Hobbs played the Baker Street sleuth in eighty radio Lancashire has an above average proportion of Catholic Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey dramas between 1952 and 1969. families and, during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. Adapted by Michael Hardwick. Catholic priests were regularly holding secret mass in the Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. With Jon Producer: Frederick Bradnum remote area of Pendle Hill. At the same time, James I was Canter, Moray Hunter and John Docherty. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1959. obsessed with witchcraft - he even wrote a book about it, Producer: Jamie Rix THU 07:00 Rob Newman (b0bktltg) Daemonologie. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1983. Rob Newman's Total Eclipse of Descartes Finally, Jeanette reflects personally on the trials and what they WED 23:30 Weak at the Top (b00tjnmq) The Music of the Chromosomes have meant to the development of the area. Series 2 One of Britain's finest comedians Rob Newman sets his sights Music composed by David Lloyd-Mostyn and performed by Values on the world of philosophy, unpicking 3000 years of good and Aquilon Marketing maestro John Weak tries to solve the meeting room bad ideas to discover how we got into this mess. In a world gone Produced by Kevin Dawson crisis with some challenging seduction... mad can philosophy provide the answer? A Whistledown production Randy, devious, sexist and workshy, John Weak puts the man In episode three, Rob navigates the wonders and pitfalls of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. into management – in Guy Browning’s sitcom. genetics and internationalism. WED 15:00 Drama (b09hp7cv) Starring Alexander Armstrong as marketing maestro and "totty" Written and performed by Rob Newman [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] magnet John Weak. Edited by John Whitehall WED 16:00 Heresy (b07fg6tt) Hayley ...... Clare Perkins Produced by Jon Harvey [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Sir Marcus ...... Geoffrey Whitehead Executive Producer: Richard Wilson WED 16:30 Snap (b00tf82j) Bill Peters ...... Ron Cook A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Tim ...... Ewan Bailey September 2018. WED 17:00 Tickets Please (b00ny7k4) Giles ...... Stephen Critchlow THU 07:30 Meet David Sedaris (m000tfkv) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Sam ...... Adjoa Andoh Series 8 WED 17:30 Future Empire-fect (m000tccs) Music: David Pickvance Instalment 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Producer: Jonquil Panting What with the whole world grinding to a viral halt and WED 18:00 Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler (m000tnp8) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2006. everything, this special series of essays and diary entries is Episode 8 recorded at the Sussex home of the world-renowned storyteller. Arthur Schnitzler's exploration of jealousy and desire reaches In 2021, it's 25 years since David Sedaris first shared his very its disturbing conclusion. THURSDAY 01 APRIL 2021 particular world view with the listeners to BBC Radio 4, having An eight-part of Arthur Schnitzler’s ‘Dream Story’, credited as brought us The SantaLand Diaries back in 1996. In this eighth the novella that inspired Stanley Kubrick's last film. THU 00:00 Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler (m000tnp8) series of Meet David Sedaris, he continues to entertain with Published in 1925/26, the work was alternately titled ‘Rhapsody’ [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] sardonic wit and incisive social critiques. and, in the original German, ‘Traumnovelle’. THU 00:30 Short Cuts (m0002m3h) David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent It tells the tale of a young doctor who finds that he must come [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] humour writers and, in 2019, was elected to the American to terms with his wife's erotic dreams by embarking on a few THU 01:00 Stand By For West (m000tnp4) Academy of Arts and Letters. The great skill with which he escapades of his own – a tale of sexual fantasy, jealousy, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness obsession and death... THU 01:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bhp40) proves that he's a master of satire and one of the most observant Read by Paul Rhys. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] writers addressing the human condition today. Translated by J.M.Q. Davies. THU 02:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b079r5lz) Sedaris's first book, Barrel Fever (1994), which included The Made for BBC7 and first broadcast in September 2003. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] SantaLand Diaries, was a critical and commercial success, as WED 18:30 Short Cuts (m0002m3h) THU 02:15 Gudrun (b096j14s) were his follow-up efforts, Naked (1997), Holidays on Ice Series 18 [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] (1997) and Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000). He became known Known For... THU 02:30 The Curse of Pendle (b01nxzcj) for his bitingly funny recollections of his youth, family life and Josie Long presents short documentaries about people or places [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] travels, making semi-celebrities out of his parents and siblings. who become known for a single thing. From the contested title THU 03:00 Drama (b09hp7cv) David Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammy Awards of Britain's most haunted village to a tender reflection on an [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. His latest actor defined by their most famous role. THU 04:00 Heresy (b07fg6tt) international best-selling book is a collection of stories entitled Most Haunted [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Calypso. A feature film adaptation of his story C.O.G. was Produced by Ross Sutherland THU 04:30 Snap (b00tf82j) released after a premier at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. Babi [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Producer: Steve Doherty Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 March – 2 April 2021 Page 9 of 10 A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 In addition, she's fallen out badly with her mother – who refuses the universe and prehistoric love triangles to the terrors of life THU 08:00 Round the Horne (b00j05x7) to accept Claire's revelation that her grandfather exposed as an unused condom inside a teenager’s wallet. Series 1 himself to her with she was little. It hadn't seemed like a big Performing the stories alongside Simon is a cast of UK comic Episode 13 deal to Claire at the time, but her mother's reaction has left her talent, starring Peter Serafinowicz and Tim Key, with Cariad Kenneth Horne Master Spy gets an Eiffel while Julian and hurt and reeling. Lloyd, Jamie Demetriou, Joseph Morpurgo and Claire Price. Sandy offer some animal advice at their new shop in Chelsea, Read by Emily Bruni. Producer: Jon Harvey Bona Pets. Rambling Sid Rumpo sings a special song of Abridged by Robin Brooks. Executive Producer: Richard Wilson Cornwall. Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. A Hat Trick production With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. Pertwee. THU 14:15 Gudrun (b096j5df) THU 23:00 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (b00w20zg) Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, Series 2 Series 1 London. Announcer: Douglas Smith Episode 4 Episode 1 Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and leadership Meet a masseuse who likes to ensure her clients are relaxed, a comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric inspired by the Icelandic sagas. cleaning lady who knows her place, Tim Vincent's Mum checks Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, All that Gudrun holds dear is under threat and a betrayal closer into an hotel and all the way from Las Vegas; Candi Karmel the Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the to home forces her to act. 80-year-old diva who can't stop performing. scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. Characters galore courtesy of Lucy Montgomery. 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. With Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Waen Shepherd and Natalie catchphrases and double-entendres. THU 14:30 Inside Intuition (b007w2w3) Walter Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser "The only real, valuable, thing is intuition" was not the advice of Written by Lucy Montgomery, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Steven Hayes Four. an agony aunt or New Age guru, but Albert Einstein. But what Burge, Jon Hunter and Holly Walsh Producer: John Simmonds is intuition and when should we use it? Neuroscientist and Script Editor: Dan Tetsell First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1965. intuition sceptic Dr Mark Lythgoe, tries to find out where these Music by Philip Pope THU 08:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four (b0141xfj) 'gut feeling' come from. Mark's journey takes him to Bingham Producer: Katie Tyrrell Choice Is Progress Farmer's Market, near Nottingham, for a jam tasting First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. Edward Wilson finds his job title changing with alarming experiment and into a London wine bar, for an evening of speed THU 23:30 Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun (b007k272) alacrity. Orwellian sitcom starring Robert Lindsay. From April dating. London 1985. Presenter Dr Mark Lythgoe Bring back Geoffrey to ‘Rainbow’ and some cutting remarks THU 09:00 Genius (b0084ffq) Contributors about Lorena Bobbit. Series 3 David Myers From the BBC Paris Studio, London. Matthew Wright Tony O'Hagan Stewart Lee and Richard Herring’s mix of sharp sketches and A coat for showering and anthems of shame? Eugene Sadler-Smith situations, stand up topical gags and banter. Dave Gorman asks broadcaster Matthew Wright to select the Jeremy Lewis With Peter Baynham, Rebecca Front and John Thomson. public's best loopy idea. Sarah McCarthy Special guest Geoffrey Hayes from ITV kids show Rainbow. Award-winning comedian Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest Professor Richard Wiseman Lee and Herring went to write and star in their successful TV chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius Tammy Van Der Merwe transfer to BBC Two in 1995. inventions, schemes and policies of the public. Jon Smith Cult BBC Radio 1 series first broadcast in November 1993. Producer: Simon Nicholls Producer Michelle Martin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2007. THU 09:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b00kfdtp) THU 15:00 Drama (b09jby2w) FRIDAY 02 APRIL 2021 Series 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] The Libel Action THU 16:00 Genius (b0084ffq) FRI 00:00 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0s3) As the writer updates obituaries, he produces a savage profile of [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] an old friend. Stars Christopher Douglas. From January 2007. THU 16:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b00kfdtp) FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b07npxx3) THU 10:00 Drama (b09jby2w) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel THU 17:00 Rob Newman (b0bktltg) FRI 01:00 Stand By For West (m000tnmy) Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] James Purefoy stars as Sir Percy Blakeney in Jonathan THU 17:30 Meet David Sedaris (m000tfkv) FRI 01:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bj8wq) Holloway's new adaptation of Baroness Orczy's classic tale, set [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] in the French Revolution. THU 18:00 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0s3) FRI 02:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b079rbdc) Holloway's political interpretation is brought to life by an Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] ensemble cast including Sienna Guillory as Marguerite Immune to a plague which has decimated the population, FRI 02:15 Gudrun (b096j5df) Blakeney and Enzo Cilenti as the spine-chilling revolutionary Earth's last living man, Robert Neville, takes on hordes of [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] soldier, Henri Chauvelin. survivors turned into monstrous vampires. FRI 02:30 Inside Intuition (b007w2w3) Muscular acting, pungent words, threat and jeopardy replace the 1954 cult classic set in the United States of America in 1976. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] whimsy of other adaptations and are floated on a contemporary, Read by Angus McInnes. FRI 03:00 Drama (b09jby2w) filmic score written by Sarah Llewellyn, with sound design by One of the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Wilfredo Acosta. Richard Matheson's 'I Am Legend' combines the worlds of sci- FRI 04:00 Genius (b0084ffq) Episode Two: fi and horror. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] At Lord Grenville's ball, Chauvelin's plot is in play. Has Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller. FRI 04:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b00kfdtp) Marguerite's honey-trap worked? Can she save her brother? Producer: Eilidh McCreadie [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] And will the true identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel be revealed? Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Scotland and first FRI 05:00 Rob Newman (b0bktltg) Cast: broadcast in 2006. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Percy Blakeney...... James Purefoy THU 18:30 Great Lives (b07npxx3) FRI 05:30 Meet David Sedaris (m000tfkv) Marguerite Blakeney...... Sienna Guillory Series 40 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] Andrew Ffoulkes...... Eric MacLennan Sara Pascoe on Virginia Woolf FRI 06:00 Stand By For West (m000tp74) Henri Chauvelin...... Enzo Cilenti Sara Pascoe champions the life of Virginia Woolf, author of Inspector West at Bay Suzanne De Tournay...... Abby Wain 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'A Room of One's Own', describing her as a 4. Conflict in Kensington Captain Duroc...... Graeme Rose sensible feminist. STAND BY FOR WEST Citizen Brogard...... Mike Rogers Sara explains why she thinks if she were alive today, Woolf from the novel Barsad & Wilmot...... James Camp would be a comedian, and how through her diaries and letters Inspector West At Bay by John Creasey Music composed by Sarah Llewellyn she's discovered the witty, manic and egotistical Virginia. Dramatised as a serial for radio in eight parts by MAURICE Adapted and directed by Jonathan Holloway Presenter Matthew Parris confesses to struggling with her work. TRAVERS Produced by Sally Harrison Alexandra Harris is the expert. 4: Conflict in Kensington Sound design by Wilfredo Acosta Producer: Toby Field Other parts: Margaret Wolfit Peter Williams , John Pullen A Darling Woolyback Co-Production for BBC Radio 4, first First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. Produced by JOHN BROWELL broadcast in December 2017. THU 19:00 Round the Horne (b00j05x7) Chief Inspector Roger West .... Patrick Allen THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b010gjmf) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Janet .... Sarah Lawson [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] THU 19:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four (b0141xfj) Det -Insp Bill Sloan .... Derek Newark THU 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00kr7bp) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Mark Lessing .... James Kerry [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] THU 20:00 Stand By For West (m000tnmy) Eve Wedlake .... Anna Gilcrist THU 12:00 Round the Horne (b00j05x7) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Jacob Kennedy .... Peter Williams [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 20:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bj8wq) Clara Kennedy .... Margaret Woolfit THU 12:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four (b0141xfj) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Peter Kennedy .... John Pullen [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b010gjmf) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1969. THU 13:00 Stand By For West (m000tnmy) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] FRI 06:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bk193) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00kr7bp) Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 1 THU 13:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bj8wq) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] The Noble Bachelor [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU 22:00 Meet David Sedaris (m000tfkv) The great detective is hired to find why a bride mysteriously THU 14:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b079rbdc) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] disappeared just hours after getting married. Episode 9 THU 22:30 The World of Simon Rich (b07dnvdm) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale originally appeared in 'The Lisa Owens' "generation-defining" comic debut novel, read by Series 1 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' published in the Strand Emily Bruni. Episode 2 Magazine in 1891. Claire Flannery is searching for her true vocation. Months after Simon Rich has been Saturday Night Live's youngest writer, a CAST: she quit her marketing job, she's no closer to understanding staff writer for Pixar and a regular contributor to The New Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs what she wants to do with her life. It doesn't help that Luke, her Yorker - as well as one of the funniest short story writers of his Doctor Watson …. Norman Shelley long-term partner, is passionate about his job, which also generation. Now he brings his enchanting, absurd world to radio Lestrade …. Frederick Treves happens to be one of the worthiest in the world (he's training to with his first British comedy show. Lord Saint Simon …. William Eedle be a brain surgeon). The series takes us across time and space, from the design of Mrs Moulton …. Jane Jordan Rogers Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 27 March – 2 April 2021 Page 10 of 10 Francis May Moulton …. Jerold Wells Lee Dubs ..... Harry Myers FRI 16:30 Fat Chance (b01b3fp9) Carleton Hobbs played the Baker Street sleuth in eighty radio Mrs Enright ..... Frances Jeater [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] dramas between 1952 and 1969. Producer: Sally Avens FRI 17:00 Clare in the Community (b083p889) Adapted by Michael Hardwick. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1999. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Producer: Frederick Bradnum FRI 10:00 Laurie Graham - Perfect Meringues (b0075m9z) FRI 17:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b07tbfmw) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1959. Being a cook on TV was meant to lead to fame, fortune and a [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 07:00 Clare in the Community (b083p889) rich social life. But for miserable Lizzie Partridge, it means FRI 18:00 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k0tb) Series 11 dinners-for-one and a stroppy adolescent daughter, Eleanor. Episode 2 Unfaithful CAST: Earth's last living man, Robert Neville, discovers that his wife's Episode 3 - Unfaithful Lizzie Partridge …. Imelda Staunton tomb is a lair for vampires. Brian's been going through Clare's emails and made an Louie …. Christopher Biggins 1954 cult classic set in the United States of America in 1976. upsetting discovery. He's insisted on a couple's therapy session Kim …. Lesley Joseph One of the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, although Clare isn't taking proceedings entirely seriously. with Stephen Moore, Nina Wadia, Patricia Brake, Angela Richard Matheson's 'I Am Legend' combines the worlds of sci- Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the Moran, June Barrie, Christopher Grimes, Sarah Pearman and fi and horror. right jargon but never a practical solution. Michael Wilson. Read by Angus McInnes. A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in Written by Laurie Graham. Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller. other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Producer: Viv Beeby. Producer: Eilidh McCreadie Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Scotland and first of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her. FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000tzq3) broadcast in 2006. Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b00lh453) both her professional and private life In today's Big Society people who make them. You're Fired! there are plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jlcs) Whether it is dressed up as 'downsizing', 'delayering', 'realigning social worker. Or even Clare. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] the business' or simply having to 'let people go', firing or being Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden FRI 12:30 The Alan Davies Show (m000tp76) fired is still a painful process. Producer Alexandra Smith [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Broadcaster Anna Raeburn, writer Jeremy Clarke and A BBC Studios production. FRI 13:00 Stand By For West (m000tp74) psychologist Linda Blair join Dominic Arkwright to discuss the FRI 07:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b07tbfmw) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] consequences of being sacked. Series 7 FRI 13:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bk193) FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jlcs) Stockport [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] "Welcome to Stockport - Home of Stockport College" FRI 14:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b079rgy5) FRI 19:30 The Alan Davies Show (m000tp76) Mark Steel returns for a seventh series of the award winning Episode 10 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] show that travels around the country, researching the history, Lisa Owens' "generation-defining" comic debut novel, read by FRI 20:00 Stand By For West (m000tp74) heritage and culture of six towns that have nothing in common Emily Bruni. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] but their uniqueness, and performs a bespoke evening of Claire Flannery is searching for her true vocation. Months after FRI 20:30 Sherlock Holmes (b09bk193) comedy for the local residents. she quit her marketing job, she's no closer to understanding [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] In the first programme, Mark visits the Greater Manchester what she wants to do with her life. It doesn't help that Luke, her FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000tzq3) town of Stockport, once the centre of the hatting industry. long-term partner, is passionate about his job, which also [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] He takes a trip on the infamous 192 bus, visits the world happens to be one of the worthiest in the world (he's training to FRI 22:00 Mark Steel's in Town (b07tbfmw) famous hat museum and tries to get to the bottom of how one of be a brain surgeon). [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] its suburbs ended up with an infestation of marauding peacocks. In addition, she's fallen out badly with her mother – who refuses FRI 22:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b01p1plb) In this series Mark visits Stockport in Greater Manchester, to accept Claire's revelation that her grandfather exposed Series 3 Colchester in Essex, Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire, The Royal himself to her with she was little. It hadn't seemed like a big Episode 2 Borough of Kingston Upon Thames, Lynton in North Devon deal to Claire at the time, but her mother's reaction has left her The embarrassing auntie gets hip, and some curious memories and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. hurt and reeling. Her father, thankfully, is completely behind of the British Raj. Written and performed by ... Mark Steel her and helps her understand that her mother just needs time to Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Nina Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair come to terms with what happened. Wadia. Production co-ordinator ... Hayley Sterling Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch Producer ... Carl Cooper Read by Emily Bruni. comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Abridged by Robin Brooks. 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC TWO from 1998 to 2016. Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. 2001. FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jlcs) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. Scripted by Richard Pinto, Sharat Sardana, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Series 1 FRI 14:15 Gudrun (b096jf3p) Bhaskar and Sanjeev Kohli. The Enemy Within the Gates Series 2 Script Editor: Sharat Sardana As their new uniforms arrive, Captain Mainwaring's platoon try Episode 5 Producer: Anil Gupta. to capture Germans - for a cash reward. Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and leadership First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998. Six years after legendary sitcom Dad's Army started on BBC inspired by the Icelandic sagas. FRI 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b00cbpy7) TV, these specially adapted radio versions began recording with With her way of life threatened, Gudrun risks everything when Series 5 the original cast. she engages in a war of words with ruthless convert the The Crusade Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Norwegian King, Olaf Tryggvason Satan starts a quest to improve mankind by infiltrating the Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins. world's great religions. Devilish comedy stars Andy Hamilton. James Beck as Private Walker, Arnold Ridley as Private First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. From September 2005. Godfrey, Ian Lavender as Private Pike, Carl Jaffe as Captain FRI 14:30 Cold Water California (b048jfly) FRI 23:30 The In Crowd (b00sbrl6) Winogrodzki, David Sinclair - all other parts and John Snagge With freezing waters and long dark winters, Ireland may seem Series 3 as the announcer. an unlikely place to surf, but the surfing industry is growing fast Episode 1 Adapted from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's original BBC TV and may even aid recovery of recession hit coastal communities Robin Ince, Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward are the scripts by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad. north and south of the border. strange personalities who make up the In Crowd. Producer: John Dyas Broadcaster Mark Patterson has surfed for nearly 30 years, and Meet the travel agent who won't let anyone go further than First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1974. is fascinated by the role the ocean is playing in replenishing Lowestoft, the army officer who can't wait to offer himself up FRI 08:30 The Alan Davies Show (m000tp76) small coastal towns like Portrush in Northern Ireland, and as the first to be eaten in a crisis, the cultural hooligans who Episode 5 Bundoran in the Republic of Ireland. Once bustling seaside smash beautiful things, and Wendy Clapper who thinks a trip to Topless pics inspire the struggling actor to join an resorts, both have endured a long decline, taking a hard hit see the Northern Lights means a weekend in Blackpool. environmental protest. With Ronnie Ancona and Alan Francis. during the recession. Sketch show from Manchester's Comedy Store. From June 1998. Now they are drawing a new crowd - surfers. Many come to Producer: Graham Frost FRI 09:00 It's Not What You Know (b01d2rz3) learn the basics and taste their first salt-water experience, while First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002. Series 1 others travel from far overseas to sample Ireland's waves, Episode 4 considered by many to be world-class, on a par with anything Miles Jupp presides over more relation revelations in the show found in Hawaii, Australia or California. where it's not what you know that matters, but who. And more Mark learns that a few intrepid souls began to explore remote importantly, how well you know them. waves along Ireland's coastline in the early 60's, sometimes Writer and broadcaster, Emma Freud, stand-up Tom dressed only in jeans and t-shirt as they braved the freezing Wrigglesworth and breakfast show host on BBC 6Music, Shaun waters. Now with modern wetsuits and affordable boards, Keaveny, each nominate one of their intimate circle to answer a everyone wants to learn; from 58 year old Elaine in Portrush, to series of questions and they then have to second-guess how their a group of teenage girls who feel empowered by surfing. nominees responded. Emma picks her son, Jake, Tom his dad, In Bundoran Mark meets the surfer instructor who feels the Richard, and Shaun plumps for younger brother, Paul. ocean saved his life. After losing his job at the height of the Producer: Sam Michell. boom and turning to drink, a radio advert for lifeguard training First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012. set him on a new journey, and a new future by the coast. In FRI 09:30 Fat Chance (b01b3fp9) Portrush Mark meets a 6 time Irish champion who toured the Weighty Matters world chasing his surfing 'drug', until the lifestyle nearly A TV star turns up at Wendy Bottomley's slimming club and destroyed him. And then there are the surfers who risk their Graham unwisely divulges his secret to Lee... lives for the ultimate thrill - surfing monstrous waves up to 60 ft Jenny McDade's high-fat bittersweet comedy for those high. believing there's a thin person inside them begging to get out. It's not The Beach Boys, bronzed bodies or bikinis - this is Graham Pitscottie ..... Gareth Corke Coldwater California. Wendy Bottomley ..... Janine Duvitski First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Clive Bottomley ..... Michael Troughton FRI 15:00 Laurie Graham - Perfect Meringues (b0075m9z) Soo Pitscottie ..... Anne Reid [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Tina Tattersall ..... Julia Deakin FRI 16:00 It's Not What You Know (b01d2rz3) Kelly Chambers ..... Tilly Gaunt [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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