Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 August 2014 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 09 AUGUST 2014 Quizmaster .... Graham Blockey master's degree in philosophy and was a fellow of the Royal Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV College of Psychiatrists. After becoming a regular on BBC SAT 00:00 EM Forster - A Passage to India (b007jyv9) - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV Radio 4's Stop the Week in the 1980s, he became Britain's best- Episode 15 network. known psychiatrist and earned his own vehicle, In the As Dr Aziz makes his mind up about Cyril Fielding, he finds Producer: Pete Atkin. Psychiatrist's Chair. Starting in 1982, this series ran until 2001 himself thinking about the late Mrs Moore. Read by Samuel First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1986. and also transferred to TV. Series highlights include West. SAT 05:30 Smelling of Roses (b00fh6w1) conversations with Bob Monkhouse, Cecil Parkinson and Gerry SAT 00:15 Centurions (b007jzjp) Series 4 Adams. Albert Camus: The Outsider Episode 6 Anthony Clare died suddenly in Paris aged 64 in 2007. Ray Davison and Oliver Todd discuss the impact of the author's For Rosie Burns, life offers a fashion show, a potential First broadcast on Radio 4 in October 1998 pioneering novel on post-war European thought and literature. romantic interest...and a parting of the ways. SAT 14:00 The Navy Lark (b04cg41q) SAT 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b00mfkd2) A final assignment for Rosie Burns and the event management Bunging Up David and Caroline Stafford - Au Pairs company, where the clients are only part of the problem... A lost toothbrush sparks chaos amongst the crew aboard HMS Episode 5 Rosie Burns …. Prunella Scales Troutbridge. Comedy by David and Caroline Stafford about manners, Jo …. Rebecca Callard Tenniel Evans as the Admiral, Michael Bates as the morals, accidental chaos and heavy-duty childcare. The story Bob …. Duncan Preston Commander and Lawrie Wyman as AS Tiddy. follows the fortunes of two au pairs, Alvy from Ireland and Tess …. Annette Badland Stars Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee and Stephen Murray. Dorkia from Hungary, who bond over their mutual Brad …. Colin Stinton Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS condemnation of modern parenting. Henry …. Benjamin Whitrow Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive 13 series Major life changes beckon. If only Alvy and Dorika can get that Reggie …. Rowland Davies between 1959 and 1976. vase off Louis' head. Written and produced by Simon Brett. The Sub-Lieutenant ...... Leslie Phillips Dorika ...... Anna Maxwell Martin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2003. The Chief Petty Officer ...... Jon Pertwee Alvy ...... Sharon Gavin SAT 06:00 Emlyn Williams - The Corn Is Green (b04d0kl1) The Number One ...... Stephen Murray Directed by Marc Beeby. Scene: Glansarno, a small village in a remote Welsh Captain Povey ...... Richard Caldicot SAT 00:45 Book at Bedtime (b009fspj) countryside. Heather ...... Heather Chasen Sadie Jones - The Outcast Time: a period of three years in the latter part of the 19th The Admiral ...... Tenniel Evans Desecration century. The Commander ...... Michael Bates Increasingly alone and at odds with the world, self-loathing Teacher Miss Moffat is determined to win local miners over to AS Tiddy ...... Lawrie Wyman Lewis makes a dramatic gesture of despair. Read by Emma her English ways in this semi-autobiographical work by Emlyn Written by Lawrie Wyman. Fielding. Williams. Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. SAT 01:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash (b00s0hn9) Cast - Miss Moffat: Gladys Young. Morgan Evans: Richard First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1969. Series 2 Burton. Welsh folk songs sung by boys from Aberdare County SAT 14:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jqv4) Episode 2 School. Series 3 Arthur Smith invites us into his Balham flat in south London for Adapted for broadcasting by T Rowland Hughes. Produced by How to Succeed in Business The Burkiss Way comedy, music and entertainment. PH Burton. "It's That Script Again!" with fast-talking old-time radio With his guests: Paloma Faith, Miles Jupp and Tom First broadcast on Saturday Night Theatre - BBC Home Service comedy fun - and at the Council Planning Committee, will Wrigglesworth. 27th January 1945. Satan eat a cucumber or offer a million pound bribe? Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith SAT 07:15 Alex Shearer - Play Chopsticks for Me Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2010 (b04d0kl3) Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to SAT 01:30 Fry's English Delight (b00lv1ln) The Great Stromberg is a great piano teacher, but his student 1980. Series 2 begins to suspect that he may be a fraud. Read by Jonathan Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. So Wrong It's Right Keeble. Producer: John Lloyd Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English SAT 07:30 Yes Yes Yes (b00t2y92) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1977. language. Series 1 SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b04d0kl5) Stephen examines how 'wrong' English can become right The Great Escape [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] English. For example, nowadays, more people use the word John Rawling relives the final day of football's 1998/99 season, SAT 16:00 Emlyn Williams - The Corn Is Green (b04d0kl1) 'wireless' in a computer context than in a radio one. With help as Carlisle United battled Scarborough to stay in Division [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] from a lexicographer, an educationalist, a Times sub-editor and Three. SAT 17:15 Alex Shearer - Play Chopsticks for Me a judge, Stephen examines the way in which usage changes SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b04d0kl5) (b04d0kl3) language. In the Dark Tower - Louis MacNeice at the BBC [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] He applauds the council leader who claimed the services 4 Extra Debut. Poet Paul Muldoon recalls a fellow Belfast SAT 17:30 John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music (b04c9xd3) provided by her local authority should be seen as strawberry- wordsmith who innovated radio production, loved rugby and Series 1 flavoured and castigates attempts at banning government jargon drank hard. From January 2007. Leee John of Imagination like step change and synergy. Banning words is fruitless; he SAT 09:00 The BBC Tour (b04d0kl7) Aspiring singer/songwriter John Shuttleworth has been posting favours blue sky thinking, and strawberry flavouring. Savoy Hill, Broadcasting House, Lime Grove, TV Centre, audio cassettes of his "finest songs to date" to pop stars SAT 02:00 Nick Warburton - Paradise (b04cpl74) Maida Vale and Bush House are just some of the iconic BBC throughout the land, in the hope that someone would record his 4 Extra Debut. Antonia swaps her City job for life in the buildings brought alive by Nick Baker in this fascinating tour of material. But all to no avail. country, but why is the cottage she wants so cheap? Stars the archives from 1922 to the present. However, the BBC has very kindly given John a series and Amanda Root and Liz Smith. After the Queen opened the new extension to London asked him to invite pop stars to bring their music to his SAT 02:30 Up A Gum Tree (b0075kfc) Broadcasting House in 2013, regular guided public tours took Sheffield home. So it is that Chas and Dave, Heaven 17, Toyah It's a health-giving, circulation-boosting, teeth-preserving, place. Sculptor Eric Gill's statue of Prospero and Ariel over the Willcox and Leee John find themselves in John's lounge having breath-freshening, digestion-aiding, brain-clearing, chest- 1932 art deco front entrance sparked controversy over part of tea with wife Mary, being flirted with by Mary's friend Joan developing, nerve-settling national past time. Love it or hate it, the latter's anatomy. BBC buildings have made news ever since. and hassled by John's agent Ken Worthington, as they try and chewing gum is here to stay. But it turns out it's not only today's The BBC's first home in Savoy Hill was described by DG Lord perform not only one their greatest hits but more importantly, teenagers who munch on gum. The ancient remains of a gum Reith as a miserable sort of place, but for ten years it broadcast one of John's. buried with a stone-age teenager have also been discovered. a variety of talks and even some agonisingly slow Wimbledon It's the last show in the series this week but John is feeling a So just how long has chewing gum been around? Pete commentaries. little stressed despite the fact all the jingles are recorded. John's McCarthy takes you on a whirlwind tour of the bubblegum Lime Grove in Shepherd's Bush was bought by the BBC in final guest is Leee John from Imagination who's a very busy years. 1949 to temporarily house its fledgling TV service, but it man involved with charity work, singing, acting and making a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. remained in use for 42 years. Ludovic Kennedy shares its documentary - and John is worried that Leee is doing too much SAT 03:00 Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone (b01r81tv) history. and should take things a bit easy. Maybe they could take a trip Episode 4 BBC TV Centre is recalled by perhaps the most celebrity vox to the reservoir to check the levels as that's a very relaxing thing Determined to solve the mystery of the diamond, Blake makes a pop ever assembled. to do? shocking discovery and sets up a re-enactment. Stars Paul Rhys. Cerys Matthews visits the BBC music studio in Maida Vale. But Leee has been working since the age of 13 and is still full of SAT 04:00 Margaret Bonham - The Casino (b007tzqb) Terry Waite returns to Bush House, former home to BBC energy so he's ready to sing one of John's songs, and indeed one The Professor's Daughter World Service which sustained him during his Lebanon of his own. As Leee prepares to sing Body Talk, John settles Four-year-old Britta and her fearful imagination cause social captivity. down to listen and by the end of it feels quite relaxed. But embarrassment for Miss Jenner. Read by Emma Fielding. Members of the public experience the BBC Broadcasting House things get tense once more as Ken tries one last desperate SAT 04:15 John Pilkington - Apostle of Light (b00l6l5j) tour (discontinued in 2016) and BBC Head of History Robert attempt to woo a star to his stable. Will Leee be interested? And Blinded in an accident in the early 19th century, Louis Braille Seatter shares all the facts. will Ken finally get to present the item Ken in the aspires to improve the status of blind people. Stars Adam Producer: Merilyn Harris Konservatory? Godley. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Testbed and first broadcast in Also, there are top tips on the telephone from Anita Harris. SAT 05:00 After Henry (b007k280) August 2014. Written and Performed by Graham Fellows with special guests Series 2 SAT 12:00 The Diary of Samuel Pepys Omnibus (b04d0kl9) Leee John and Anita Harris. Memory Games 1669 Producer: Dawn Ellis 'Mother, you are doing it again. You are defining us. And what's It is 1669, and Sam's affair with his maid has weakened his A Chic Ken production for BBC Radio 4. more, you are wrong. Henry was lovely and endearing, but he marriage. Can his wife Elizabeth ever trust him again? Stars SAT 18:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jmb4) wasn't practical. He couldn't organise himself out of a paper Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways. Series 1 bag.'. SAT 13:10 Inheritance Tracks (b04dq55n) 1. The Voice from Nowhere Daughter Clare's trivia quiz helps Sarah with all her memories Jennifer Saunders "It all began many Earth years ago during the summer of of late husband Henry. Comedian Jennifer Saunders chooses the Q5 theme by Spike 2010..." Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - Milligan, and Kate and Anna McGarrigle's song 'Talk to Me of A routine trip to the moon turns into a nightmare in space for struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who Mendocino' sung by Kate and her children Rufus and Martha Captain Saxon Berry and his crew. never quite manage to see eye to eye. Wainwright. Starring Barry Foster and Nicky Henson. Sarah ...... Prunella Scales SAT 13:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair (b04d0klc) Charles Chilton's intergalactic adventure in six-parts. Eleanor ...... Joan Sanderson Zoe Wanamaker Captain Saxon Berry …. Barry Foster Russell ...... Benjamin Whitrow Actress Zoe Wanamaker opens up to Anthony Clare about her Lemuel ‘Chipper’ Barnett …. Nicky Henson Clare ...... Gerry Cowper childhood, upbringing and relationship with her parents. Magnus Carter …. Nigel Stock Miles ...... David Quilter Born in Dublin, author Anthony held a doctorate in medicine, a Lauderic Sincere …. Tony Osoba Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 August 2014 Page 2 of 8 with Wendy Murray and Teresa Stretfield breaking away from existing comedy and music hall A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. Charles Chilton wrote and produced many popular and conventions with an anarchic and irreverent style - created by SUN 10:45 Fay Weldon Stories (b007jzwj) successful radio programmes for the BBC - including the classic its writer Ted Kavanagh. I, Boadicea 1950s serial 'Journey into Space' with the adventures of Captain BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. The formidable queen of history speaks of the rages and battles Jet Morgan. First broadcast years before the first moon landing, Producer: Francis Worsley. she undertook for her people. Read by Vanessa Redgrave. this fired the imagination of millions, It was the last radio First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1942. SUN 11:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b016lh28) drama to record higher ratings than the new young upstart - SUN 08:30 A Life of Bliss (b04d0n5l) Series 7 television! Penny Gay's Return Episode 2 Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Shy bachelor David Bliss has got some thinking to do when an The American funny man welcomes Ricky Skaggs with First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1984. old flame arrives in town. Kentucky Thunder and singer Heather Masse to his Minnesotan SAT 18:30 Ben Moor - Undone (b007jwq5) Stars George Cole as David Bliss, Petula Clark as Penny Gay, HQ. From October 2010. Series 2 Diana Churchill as Anne Fellows, Colin Gordon as Tony SUN 12:00 David and Caroline Stafford - Au Pairs Unaccompanied Fellows, Sarah Lawson as Maxine Avery and animal Omnibus (b04d0n5g) Edna tries to make sense of a reality without Undone. Are the impersonator Percy Edwards as 'Psyche' the Dog. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] gaps closed? Part of a run of 6 episodes from Godfrey Harrison's sitcom SUN 13:15 The Piano Lesson (b0075pt2) Staring Alex Tregear and Ben Moor. about shy, bumbling bachelor David Alexander Bliss. Beginning [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] Series 2 of Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga about a magazine in 1953, it ran for six series of 118 episodes concluding in 1969 SUN 13:30 The Dark Tower (b04d0vt4) editor called Edna Turner who enters a parallel world where her - but very few survive in the BBC archive. (A TV series was Poetic drama starring Richard Burton as Roland, tasked with version of London is replaced with the city of Undone. made in 1969). For the first 7 episodes, David Tomlinson following in his brother's fatal footsteps and seeking out a terror Edna Turner ...... Alex Tregear played David, but the rest starred the future star of The St that looms in the Dark Tower. Tankerton Slopes ...... Ben Moor Trinian's films, destined to find great fame as the dodgy Arthur Written and produced by Louis MacNiece (1907-1963), the Billy ...... Duncan Wisbey Daley in ITV's Minder - the late George Cole. poet who worked for the BBC from 1940, creating a series of Voodoo Electrician ...... Nitin Ganatra Producer: Leslie Bridgmont remarkable radio features. The Dark Tower was his most Grant ...... Tim Key First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in September 1957. famous work, first heard on the Home Service in 1946 and Other parts played by the cast. SUN 09:00 Just William - Live! (b01ph83g) produced again in 1956. The music for this programme was Producer: Colin Anderson Series 3 specially composed by Benjamin Britten. Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Radio Comedy and first Aunt Arabelle in Charge The work was an allegory concerning fate and free will - the broadcast in January 2008. In 2012, as part of Winchester's Best of British Festival in title taken from the Robert Browning poem, Childe Roland to SAT 19:00 The BBC Tour (b04d0kl7) celebration of the Jubilee, Martin Jarvis performed the second the Dark Tower Came (which itself was taken from [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] of two of Richmal Crompton's comic classics, live on-stage. Shakespeare's King Lear, where Edgar proclaims 'Child SAT 22:00 Vivian Stanshall's Radio Flashes (b04d0ksp) In Aunt Arabelle in Charge, William and his faithful Outlaws Rowland to the dark tower came; / His word was still Fie, foh, Episode 2 (Ginger, Douglas and Henry) encounter a strangely complacent and fum! / I smell the blood of a British man.') Music, comedy and Keith Moon, courtesy of Britain's greatest six year old who is staying in the village. This odious child turns First broadcast on the BBC Home Service 14th May 1956. eccentric. Including more from Colonel Knutt. out to be the hugely famous Anthony Martin, subject of his SUN 14:45 Daphne Du Maurier (b00bdn13) Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band singer Vivian Stanshall took to the mother's best-selling books and poems. The Supreme Artist airwaves of BBC Radio 1 on Saturday 21 August 1971. The Outlaws need to redeem themselves in the admittedly short- The matinee is over, but who is the visitor waiting at the stage Over two hours, relive Vivian's mix of zany comedy and music sighted eyes of Ginger's journalist aunt. She, equally, is door? Michael Drew reads Daphne du Maurier's short story. - including his take on Dick Barton's radio serial "Breath from desperate to secure an exclusive interview with the child star. SUN 15:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b04d0n5j) the Pit". Featuring drummer Keith Moon from The Who. It's soon clear that this wonderfully constructed story is a [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Vivian has previously featured on 4 Extra - thanks to his solo brilliant parody of - who else - A.A. Milne's Christopher Robin. SUN 15:30 A Life of Bliss (b04d0n5l) comedy 'Sir Henry at Rawlinson End', which originated as The packed Winchester audience understood this at once. In [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] sessions for the John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1 in the Jarvis' inhabitation of both the smug infant and Ginger's aunt, SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show mid-1970s. the comedy is unremitting. (b03jsf3w) With Chris Bowler. Produced by John Walters. Can William sort this out and, incidentally, give the horrific Mel Giedroyc presents the best of the 4 O'Clock Show, child his just deserts? Blackmail is the answer, of course. including Dick and Dom's How Dangerous Is Your School and Performed by Martin Jarvis Chris Hadfield, the astronaut who played Space Oddity in SUNDAY 10 AUGUST 2014 Director: Rosalind Ayres space. A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN 17:00 Just William - Live! (b01ph83g) SUN 00:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force (b007jmb4) SUN 09:30 Rosemary Sutcliff - Brother Dusty Feet [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] (b01cvb29) SUN 17:30 Rosemary Sutcliff - Brother Dusty Feet SUN 00:30 Ben Moor - Undone (b007jwq5) Episode 3 (b01cvb29) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] by Rosemary Sutcliff, dramatised by Shaun McKenna [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b04d0kl5) The players get lost in the mists of Kent and find themselves in SUN 18:00 Ghost Zone (b007jx3q) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] a very strange household indeed. Episode 5 SUN 02:00 The Diary of Samuel Pepys Omnibus (b04d0kl9) Hugh is now acting regularly and one of the Dusty Feet. But As the army closes in on the Highland village of Inchbrae, can [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] would he give it all up, if he had a chance of his old dream? the alien presence be defeated? SUN 03:10 Inheritance Tracks (b04dq55n) Hugh ..... Josef Lindsay Conclusion of the sci-fi thriller specially-written for the BBC [Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday] Narrator ..... Adjoa Andoh by Marty Ross. SUN 03:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair (b04d0klc) Tobias Pennyfeather ..... Allan Corduner Stars Simon Tait as Dan Collins, Gayanne Potter as Jill Logan, [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] Jonathan Whiteleaf ..... Peter Hamilton Dyer Joanna Tope as Dr Beth Granger, Sandy Neilson as Captain SUN 04:00 Emlyn Williams - The Corn Is Green (b04d0kl1) Shepherd/Master Heritage ..... Gerard McDermott Cairns, Lesley Hart as Heather Logan, Stevie Hannan as [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] Nicky Bodkin/Martin ..... Gwilym Lee Soldier/Pilot/Jamie and John Paul Hurley as the Technician. SUN 05:15 Alex Shearer - Play Chopsticks for Me Janet/Aunt Alison/Ann ..... Jane Whittenshaw Producer: Bruce Young (b04d0kl3) Thomas Trumpington/Benjamin Bunsell ..... Carl Prekopp Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2004. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Saturday] Producer/Director ..... Marion Nancarrow. SUN 18:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k125) SUN 05:30 John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music (b04c9xd3) SUN 10:00 The Reunion (b00zd8fy) 7. Suspicion [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] Comic Relief *** THIS EPISODE WAS ORIGINALLY DUE TO BE SUN 06:00 David and Caroline Stafford - Au Pairs In this episode of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor gathers BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA LAST FRIDAY, Omnibus (b04d0n5g) together the founding members of Comic Relief. BUT WAS POSTPONED FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF 4 Extra Debut. Manners, morals and heavy-duty healthcare, as The idea first emerged in 1984 when a devastating famine was THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH ** Alvy and Dorika take on parenting. Stars Anna Maxwell Martin. crippling Ethiopia. Inspired by the work of Live Aid, a group of Earth's last living man's shock discovery leaves him feeling From September 2009. people led by writer Richard Curtis decided to tap into the great deeply suspicious. SUN 07:15 The Piano Lesson (b0075pt2) British comedy scene and raise money for Africa. All costs Richard Matheson's 1954 cult classic set in 1976 USA. One of The Essential Key would be covered by sponsors. This would enable the 'Golden the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, combining Jeremy Nicholas finds out what learning the piano means to Pound' principle - that every penny raised should go to charity. sci-fi and horror 15-year-old Nicholas, who is autistic. From November 1999. Comic Relief was launched live on Noel Edmonds' Late, Late Read by Angus McInnes. SUN 07:30 Another Case of Milton Jones (b007j7tc) Breakfast Show on Christmas Day 1985 from a refugee camp in Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller. Series 2 Sudan. Helen Fielding was the Comic Relief documentary Producer: Eilidh McCreadie Mayor of London maker leading the project in Africa at the time. The launch Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in The surreal comedian's latest challenge is to be London's raised £1 million. A few months later Comic Relief staged their January 2006. Mayor, with no ability whatsoever. With Dave Lamb. From first live fundraising show at London's Shaftesbury Theatre SUN 19:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b016lh28) May 2007. with performances by Rowan Atkinson, Ronnie Corbett and [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN 08:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b04d0n5j) Kate Bush. That year, they released their first number one hit SUN 20:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b04d0n5j) From 09/01/1942 single with The Young Ones and Cliff Richard. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Can Mayor Tommy Handley save the day at the local repertory Comic Relief needed a symbol - something which could be sold SUN 20:30 A Life of Bliss (b04d0n5l) theatre? in exchange for a donation and which would give the public a [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] With Jack Train, Horace Percival, Sydney Keith, Clarence way of joining in. On the back of the Red Nose idea came the SUN 21:00 The Reunion (b00zd8fy) Wright, Fred Yule, Dorothy Summers, Kay Cavendish, Pat first ever Red Nose Day TV extravaganza in 1988 - an event [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Ringold and Dino Galvani. which would bring together comedy and charity like never SUN 21:45 Fay Weldon Stories (b007jzwj) It's That Man Again - ITMA made a radio superstar of Tommy before on live national TV. Richard Curtis recalls 'chaos, panic [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] Handley (1894-1949) and had more than 20 million devoted and tears' behind the scenes. The show raised a staggering £15 SUN 22:00 Another Case of Milton Jones (b007j7tc) listeners to the BBC Home Service each week - with millions million and would go on to become an institution. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] more around the world. The show's title came from a newspaper Sue is joined around the table by; Richard Curtis co-founder of SUN 22:30 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off (b00fnfnn) headline used in stories about Adolf Hitler in the lead up to the Comic Relief; Lenny Henry and Griff Rhys Jones who Series 1 Second World War. presented the early TV shows; Helen Fielding who was the first Bolivia Catchphrases like "TTFN - Ta-Ta for now" and "Can I Do You Africa documentary producer and Paddy Coulter, who was The naive gap year student's South American audio diary of his Now, Sir?" coupled with a frenetic, topical approach made it Head of Media at Oxfam and an early Comic Relief board bird-watching mishaps. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From July utterly distinctive. member. 2002. From 1939 to 1949, over 310 episodes were broadcast, Producer: Sarah Cuddon SUN 23:00 Meet David Sedaris (b012f9s3) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 August 2014 Page 3 of 8 Series 2 Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Memento Mori and The Motherless Bear Episode 1 MON 13:30 The Quiz Exchange (b00775h3) The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and It's the comedy panel show with no format! [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] charm to BBC Radio 4 for a second series of audience readings. Find out what hilarity ensues when Rufus Hound, Miles Jupp, MON 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b0129d64) This week: The consequences of buying your partner an antique Sara Pascoe and Adam Hills do battle in the games that each of Jill Mansell - To the Moon and Back skeleton in "Memento Mori" and a dark fable about mourning: them have brought along, Episode 1 "The Motherless Bear". Stand by for "Them Next Door", "What Does My Dad Know?", Set in London's Primrose Hill, Jill Mansell's sparky romantic Producer: Steve Doherty "Come To Romford!" and "Newspaper Headline or Cryptic comedy is about a young widow learning to fall in love with life A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. Crossword Clue". again. SUN 23:30 The Big Booth (b007jrvv) All these games are untried, untested and unpredictable so it Read by Alex Tregear Series 2: The Big Booth Too could all end in disaster. But that's all part of the fun! Abridged by Miranda Davies Episode 5 Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to keep the show Producer: Gemma Jenkins Boothby's script dictatorship is overthrown by the Workers' together. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in July 2011. Collective. Writers: Angus Deayton, Ged Parsons and Paul Powell MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b0135qsk) More guitar-flavoured songs and surreal laughs from Boothby Devised by Benjamin Partridge The Diary of Samuel Pepys Graffoe. Producer: Sam Michell. Episode 1 With Stephen Frost , Kevin Eldon, Vivienne Soan, Big Al and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011. Kris Marshall plays Samuel Pepys, and Katherine Jakeways his Antonio Forcione. MON 09:30 My First Planet (b04d12x5) wife, in this new dramatisation of the famous diaries by Hattie Written by Boothby Graffoe and Dave Thompson. Series 2 Naylor. Producer: Lucy Armitage Adjective from Space! On a freezing day in January 1660, a 26 year old man decides to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2001. It's election time on the colony - Richard goes for the youth start keeping a diary. It's two years since he had a life- vote while Brian's campaign is based on feeding everyone some threatening operation to remove a bladder stone and he's feeling nauseating protein. And just who is the mysterious Security pretty well - despite there being quite a lot to worry about. He's MONDAY 11 AUGUST 2014 Officer hidden on the colony? behind with his rent, he goes out too often, and drinks too The return of the hit sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and much. He lies awake worrying about work, and despite being MON 00:00 Ghost Zone (b007jx3q) Vicki Pepperdine ("Getting On") set on a shiny new planet. happily married, can't keep his hands off other women. For the [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Welcome to the colony. We're aware that, having been in deep next ten years, in his secret diary, Samuel Pepys faithfully MON 00:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k125) cryosleep for 73 years, you may be in need of some records the day's events, and confesses his innermost thoughts. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] supplementary information. He gives us eyewitness accounts of some of the great events of MON 01:00 The Reunion (b00zd8fy) Personnel: the 17th century but he also tells us what people ate, wore, what [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] Unfortunately, Burrows the leader of the colony has died on the they did for fun, the tricks they played on each other, what they MON 01:45 Fay Weldon Stories (b007jzwj) voyage so his Number 2, Brian (Nicholas Lyndhurst), is now in expected of marriage, and of love affairs. Over three hundred [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] charge. He's a nice enough chap, but no alpha male, and his and fifty years may have passed since Pepys first put pen to MON 02:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b04d0n5j) desire to sort things out with a nice friendly meeting infuriates paper but the man and his preoccupations feel surprisingly [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] the colony's Chief Physician Lillian (Vicki Pepperdine), who'd familiar. The world of Samuel Pepys, his wife, his rivals, his MON 02:30 A Life of Bliss (b04d0n5l) really rather everyone was walking round in tight colour-coded lovers and his friends are vividly brought to life in Hattie [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] tunics and saluting each other. She's also in charge of Project Naylor's new adaptation. MON 03:00 Another Case of Milton Jones (b007j7tc) Adam, the plan to conceive and give birth to the first colony- CAST: [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] born baby. Unfortunately, the two people hand-picked for this Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall MON 03:30 The Dark Tower (b04d0vt4) purpose - Carol and Richard - were rather fibbing about being a Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] couple, just to get on the trip. Jane, the maid ..... Rebecca Newman MON 04:45 Daphne Du Maurier (b00bdn13) Add in an entirely unscrupulous Chief Scientist, Mason and also Edward Montagu ..... Blake Ritson [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Sunday] Archer, an idiot maintenance man who believes he's an Landlord ..... Dick Bradnum MON 05:00 Just William - Live! (b01ph83g) "empath" rather than a plumber, and you're all set to answer the John Pepys ..... Stephen Marzella [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] question - if humankind were to colonise space, is it destined to Mrs Hunt ..... Manon Edwards MON 05:30 Rosemary Sutcliff - Brother Dusty Feet succumb to self-interest, prejudice and infighting? (By the way, Mr Hunt ..... Brendan Charleson (b01cvb29) the answer's "yes". Sorry.) Balty ..... Matthew Gravelle [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] Written by Phil Whelans Soldier ..... John Biddle MON 06:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Produced and Directed by David Tyler. Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by Black Bag (b00lwx7d) MON 10:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnh7) Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany Series 2 Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend Hughes. Better Safe Than Sorry Cut Adrift Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David Miller. Violin Hysteria hits Levenford after the GP visits a well-known Lizzie and Gaffer Hexam find a body floating in the River and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice Baxter. hypochondriac. AJ Cronin dramatisation with John Gordon Thames. Dickens dramatisation starring Simon Cadell and Janet Historical consultant: Liza Picard Sinclair. Maw. Sound by Nigel Lewis MON 06:30 The Quiz Exchange (b00775h3) MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00r658y) A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. 4 Extra Debut. Nicholas Parsons traverses India to observe the Rhys Davies Award Winners MON 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b009jd7r) country's enthusiasm for a very British institution, the quiz. Getting Up by Sian Preece Sadie Jones - The Outcast MON 07:00 Elephants to Catch Eels (b007rkg0) 4 Extra Debut. When a young graffiti artist falls into a cave, a Rehabilitation Series 1 surprising discovery reveals the power of art through time. Read After two years in prison, 19-year-old Lewis is home and keen Episode 6 by Gareth David-Lloyd. to make amends, but what will his father do? Read by Emma Smuggler Tamsyn Trelawney joins the customs men to stop MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b04d0l1n) Fielding. Courageous Kate from marrying her dad. Pamela Stephenson Connolly, Pam Ayres, Ella Spira, MON 15:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnh7) Then things take a turn for the even more absurd... Sibongiseni Shabalala, Adrienne Truscott, Nikki Bedi, [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] 18th century Cornish village sitcom by the writers of Dead Ladysmith Black Mambazo MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04d1dd6) Ringers - Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain. To kick off the Loose Ends Edinburgh show, 12 of Te Matitini, Whistling Language, Mushrooms and Moomins Starring Lucy Speed as Tamsyn Trelawny, John Bowe as Jago some of New Zealand's finest Haka performers put on an Mel learns about cloud spotting and the whistling language of Trelawny, Cameron Stewart as Major Thomas Falconer, electrifying display of Maori dance. the Canary Islands. Plus, the first part of Tove Jansson's classic Andrew McGibbon as Captain Marriot, Martin Hyder as Squire Clive giggles with poet and comedienne Pam Ayres, whose tale, Finn Family Moomintroll. Bascombe, Mark Felgate as Dewey, Imelda Staunton as wistful, funny, and perceptive verse captures both the joy and MON 17:00 Second Thoughts (b00fnfnz) Courageous Kate and Mark Perry as Hobbs. unfairness of life. Pam returns to the Fringe with her hair- Series 2 Producer: Jan Ravens. trigger timing and eye for detail. The Rhythm of Strife First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003. Nikki Bedi chats to Sibongiseni Shabalala, a member of choral Bill and Faith bicker over her children, then his ex-wife Liza MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b04cbbll) legends, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and to composer Ella turns up... Series 61 Spira about their collaboration in Zulu ballet 'INALA'. The Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill MacGregor and Faith Episode 6 show celebrates 20 years of democracy in South Africa - a Greyshott trying to forge a relationship whilst balancing the Back for a second week at Bradford's St George's Hall, regulars spiritually and uplifting live story-telling experience, with a demands of his ex-wife, Liza and her teenage children, Hannah Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are cultural explosion of music, song and dance. and Joe. joined on the panel by Andy Hamilton, with Jack Dee in the Clive talks to performer Adrienne Truscott, one-half of the Stars Lynda Bellingham as Faith, James Bolam as Bill, Kelda chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. infamous Wau Wau Sisters. 'Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It' Holmes as Hannah, Belinda Lang as Liza, Brian Bowles as Producer - Jon Naismith. is a show that undoes and does in the rules and rhetoric about Dennis and Danny Schiller as Mr Roper. MON 08:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook rape, comedy and the awkward laughs in between. Series two of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, (b007k0st) More dance as Dr Pamela Stephenson Connolly, the writer and husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. Bravo Chantal! inspiration behind dance drama 'Brazouka', a journey of pulsing A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran The veteran reveals how hunting for financial backing can lead music and explosive energy, tells Clive how, after her stint in for four series, with a spin-off ‘Faith in the Future’. a film producer into many interesting and unusual by-ways of the final of 'Strictly Come Dancing', her pursuit to find the real Producer: Sioned Wiliam the entertainment industry. passion in dancing led her to Brazil, where she founded a dance First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1989. British show business doyen, J Kingston Platt shares company and 'Brazouka' was born. MON 17:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b007rkg0) reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his With music from Ladysmith Black Mambazo, who perform [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] experience from the past 40 years. 'Siyo Phinda Futhi Sibonane' and 'Khulumanaye' from MON 18:00 It's Your Round (b00yjs4p) Performed and written by Peter Jones. 'INALA'. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Producer: Pete Atkin Producer: Sukey Firth. MON 18:30 A Good Read (b04d1d8d) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1986. MON 12:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook John Lanchester and Susannah Clapp MON 08:30 The Navy Lark (b04d11d8) (b007k0st) 4 Extra Debut. Tom Sutcliffe, Susannah Clapp and John The Redundancy Drive [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Lanchester discuss Althea Hayter, Nikolai Gogol and a guide to Captain Povey is keen to clear the decks of HMS Troutbridge, MON 12:30 The Navy Lark (b04d11d8) French cuisine. From February 1998. but Number One fights back. Stars Stephen Murray. From [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol October 1968. MON 13:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Publisher: Penguin Classics. MON 09:00 It's Your Round (b00yjs4p) Black Bag (b00lwx7d) A Sultry Month by Alethea Hayter Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 August 2014 Page 4 of 8 Publisher: Robin Clark. and Anna realize that they don't know why they love each other. First broadcast on the BBC Home Service - Sunday 22 April Larousse Gastromonique Laurence Howarth's black comedy of modern morality set in 1956. Publisher: Reed Books. the world of arms dealing. TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jp6c) MON 19:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook Simon McGrath is a generally nice chap who just fell into arms [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] (b007k0st) dealing and he needs to pay his mortgage just like everyone TUE 12:30 Doctor in the House (b007jsz4) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] else. His real love is electronic music so this is just a stopgap [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON 19:30 The Navy Lark (b04d11d8) until he finds the perfect outlet for it. Okay the gap has lasted TUE 13:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] five years, but that's not the point. Black Bag (b00m0gf8) MON 20:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Simon McGrath...... Darren Boyd [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Black Bag (b00lwx7d) Anna Grieg...... Joanna Page TUE 13:30 Songlines (b04d4pt1) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Boris Kemal...... Lewis Macleod [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON 20:30 The Quiz Exchange (b00775h3) Judith McGrath...... Sarah Smart TUE 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b012pcbb) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Angela McGrath...... Brigit Forsyth Jill Mansell - To the Moon and Back MON 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00r658y) Madeleine Turnbull...... Rachel Atkins Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Sarah...... Di Botcher Ellie begins her new job working for the handsome MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b04d0l1n) Vicar.....Mike Hayward entrepreneur, Zack McLaren. Meanwhile, Tony enjoys a [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Producer: Dawn Ellis. delightful encounter on Primrose Hill. MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b04cbbll) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 07:30 Meet David Sedaris (b03jysr6) Jill Mansell's sparky romantic comedy about learning to fall in MON 22:30 My First Planet (b04d12x5) Series 4 love with life again. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Episode 1 Read by Alex Tregear MON 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b00w6j8w) One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC Radio 4 Abridged by Miranda Davies Series 6 doing what he does best. Producer: Gemma Jenkins Discoveries There are two stories, this week: "The Happy Place", dealing Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in July 2011. Satan introduces Edith to Adam and Eve, but for the father and with the ups and downs of a colonoscopy; and "The Shadow of TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b0137z00) mother of all humanity, they are alarmingly stupid. Your Smile", about how the right lighting can make us all look The Diary of Samuel Pepys Andy Hamilton's comedy set in Hell. good. Episode 2 Starring Andy Hamilton as Satan, Annette Crosbie as Edith, Producer: Steve Doherty In this second episode of Hattie Naylor's new adaptation, Robert Duncan as Scumspawn and Jimmy Mulville as Thomas. A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. Samuel Pepys is on a dangerous, secret mission, helping to Other characters played by Michael Fenton Stevens, Philip TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jp6c) restore King Charles to the English throne. It starts badly. On Pope and Felicity Montagu Series 8 the way across the Channel to Holland Pepys' cabin windows Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer The Great Regent's Park Swim are accidentally blown out by a gun salute, and he turns out to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007. Neddie Seagoon ends up splashing about when he visits a be a poor sailor. As he lies groaning with sea-sicknesses in his MON 23:30 World of Pub (b007sygy) German scientist. Stars Harry Secombe. From October 1957. cabin, he's unimpressed by the suggested remedy of oysters. Series 2 TUE 08:30 Doctor in the House (b007jsz4) Once recovered and ashore in The Hague he's impressed by the Episode 2 Anatomy beauty of the local women, how many languages the Dutch The Red Lion's almost bankrupt - can Dodgy Phil get the More hospital mayhem, as student medic Simon Sparrow speak, and how neat and tidy Holland looks. On the way home, punters back? struggles with dissecting bodies with the King safely on board, he hears the dramatic tale of Tony Roche's comedy about the world's worst pub in London's The misadventures of student doctor Simon Sparrow - adapted Charles' escape from the Battle of Worcester, including how he East End. for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's novel 'Doctor hid all day in an oak tree. Dodgy Phil ...... John Thomson in the House' published in 1952. CAST: Barry ...... Phil Cornwell Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall Garry ...... Alistair McGowan Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Edward Cast Edward Montagu ..... Blake Ritson With Debra Stephenson and Simon Greenall. as Taffy Evans and Norma Ronald as Vera. Will ..... John Biddle Special effects: Carl Phillips and Nick Romero. Producer: David Hatch Mr Banes ..... Matthew Gravelle Music: Bill Bailey Recorded at the BBC Paris studio in London. Charles II ..... Ewan Bailey Producer: Jane Berthoud First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1968. Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999. TUE 09:00 Who Goes There? (b007v2sv) Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany Series 2 Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David Episode 2 Miller. Violin and viola by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice TUESDAY 12 AUGUST 2014 Martin Young chairs the quiz looking at lives of the noteworthy Baxter. and notorious from the history books. Historical consultant: Liza Picard TUE 00:00 Book at Beachtime (b0129d64) Tackling the biographical teasers are team captains Francis Sound by Nigel Lewis [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Wheen and Fred Housego with guests Claire Rayner and Roy A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. TUE 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b0135qsk) Hattersley. TUE 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b009jd80) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Producer: Aled Evans Sadie Jones - The Outcast TUE 00:45 Book at Bedtime (b009jd7r) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998. Sunday [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE 09:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007jshm) Any hopes of a brave new beginning for Lewis have been TUE 01:00 It's Your Round (b00yjs4p) Series 2 dashed. Tensions at home are mounting. Read by Emma [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] 27 July 1799 Fielding. TUE 01:30 A Good Read (b04d1d8d) Stinking Iris brews Laburnum Tea. Cholericke returns secretly. TUE 15:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnhj) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Dorothy's arrangement for the wedding feast are disturbed. And [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE 02:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a a honeymoon is embarked upon... TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04d4wf9) Black Bag (b00lwx7d) An everyday story of towering genius in Sue Limb's six part John Logie Baird, Morse code and writer Edward Carey [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] soap opera, set in and around the Lake District at the turn of the Mel gets a guide to creating sound effects, says happy birthday TUE 02:30 The Quiz Exchange (b00775h3) 18th century. to TV pioneer John Logie Baird and has the next episode of [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] Stars Geoffrey Whitehead as William Wordsmith, Denise Tove Jansson's classic tale Finn Family Moomintroll. TUE 03:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnh7) Coffey as Dorothy Wordsmith, Simon Callow as Samuel Tailor TUE 17:00 Huddwinks (b00fsmz2) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Cholericke, Nickolas Grace as Thomas de Quinine, Miriam Series 1 TUE 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b00r658y) Margolyes as Stinking Iris and Chris Emmett as the Voodoo Island [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] Leechpedlar. A missionary expedition leads to peril in the far flung TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b04d0l1n) Music by Stephen Oliver and performed by Cantabile. Caribbean. Stars Roy Hudd and Denise Coffey. From August [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] Producer: Jonathan James-Moore 1986. TUE 05:00 Second Thoughts (b00fnfnz) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1987. TUE 17:30 Safety Catch (b00w236m) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE 10:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnhj) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE 05:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b007rkg0) Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend TUE 18:00 Who Goes There? (b007v2sv) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] The Golden Dustman [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE 06:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a A jury has found that Mr John Harmon came by his death in TUE 18:30 Musical Legends (b0139466) Black Bag (b00m0gf8) suspicious circumstances. Stars Simon Cadell and Michael Roger Daltrey Series 2 Kitchen. The Who's legendary lead singer Roger Daltrey joins Tom The Levenford Ghost TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00r8hwh) Morton for an in-depth interview about his life and career to A mysterious overnight call leads the GP on a dark and Rhys Davies Award Winners date. From fighting against bullying at school to fighting with dangerous journey. AJ Cronin dramatisation with John Gordon Dammed, by Sarah Wishart his fellow band members over drug use. In this very open and Sinclair. A young woman's grief forces her to view the world through the frank account, Daltrey talks about his passion for singing and TUE 06:30 Songlines (b04d4pt1) sudden sharp focus of heightened emotion. Read by Caryl performing, his move from music to film and the ongoing Somewhere Over the Rainbow Morgan. feelings of loss over the deaths of band members Keith Moon As the film of The Wizard of Oz turns 75, John Cavanagh tells TUE 11:15 Shakespeare - Henry at Agincourt (b04d4tgp) and John Entwistle. the story behind Judy Garland's legendary theme tune. From A sequence from William Shakespeare's Henry V devised for TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jp6c) November 2002. broadcasting on the eve of St George's Day 1956. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE 07:00 Safety Catch (b00w236m) Stars 30-year-old Richard Burton as King Henry V, a role he TUE 19:30 Doctor in the House (b007jsz4) Series 3 had practised atop a mountain in his native Wales as a teenager. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Unforgiveable, That's What You Are Alongside him, as the Chorus, is another celebrated TUE 20:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Heathcote Sanders are under the microscope when some of the Shakespearian actor - John Neville, who along with Burton Black Bag (b00m0gf8) weapons they sold to a hostile government are turned against the dominated the London Old Vic in the 1950s. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] British. This dramatic extract concentrates on the Battle of Agincourt TUE 20:30 Songlines (b04d4pt1) This prompts Simon to wonder if he should be seeking some which was fought on Friday, 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] kind of forgiveness, although of course, he has absolutely Day), near modern-day Agincourt, in northern France. We join TUE 21:00 MacAulay and Co (b04d4x8p) nothing to seek forgiveness for...does he? the scene the night before battle, with "a dreadful note of 2014 Meanwhile his personal life is going fantastically well, until he preparation". Episode 5 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 August 2014 Page 5 of 8 Fred MacAulay brings you the pick of the best comedy from WED 04:15 Shakespeare - Henry at Agincourt (b04d4tgp) Lesley ...... Pauline Siddle the Edinburgh Festival. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] With Joss Ackland, James Griffiths, Miriam Margolyes, John TUE 22:00 Meet David Sedaris (b03jysr6) WED 05:00 Huddwinks (b00fsmz2) Shrapnel, Imelda Staunton and David Tate. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] Producer: Pete Atkin TUE 22:30 Fags, Mags and Bags (b010dhcy) WED 05:30 Safety Catch (b00w236m) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1984. Series 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] . The Bewerdine Spectrum WED 06:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a WED 10:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnlc) The hit Radio 4 series 'Fags, Mags & Bags' returns with more Black Bag (b00m4tty) Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend shop based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, Series 2 The Doll's Dressmaker courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. A Terrible Charm With Gaffer Hexman found dead and John Harmon absent, his Written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli When a Levenford black sheep turns over a new leaf, the GP is father's foreman, Mr Boffin, is the beneficiary. With Simon 'Fags, Mags & Bags' has proved a hit with the Radio 4 audience not convinced. AJ Cronin dramatisation with John Gordon Cadell. with this series picking up a Writers' Guild nomination for best Sinclair. WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00r8hwk) comedy in 2011. WED 06:30 Open the Box (b0075rhq) Rhys Davies Award Winners In this episode Sanjay goes on work experience at the local Set against the relentless 24-hour story of the telephone box's Zeina by Craig Hawes paper, The Lenzie Trumpet, and ends up writing the problem life, from late-night revellers calling for cabs to the clean-up A young journalist dreams of forbidden love on the streets of page which spells disaster for Ramesh and his loyal customers. teams that scour out the box ready for another day, Dubai. Read by Steffan Rhodri. So join the staff of 'Fags, Mags and Bags' in their tireless quest Sara Parker meets those for whom the telephone box is far WED 11:15 Drama (b01684jr) to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke with Arabic more than somewhere to place a call. Mike Harris - Stevenson in Love writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh Mahju has Producer: Simon Elmes Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes built it up over the course of 30 years, and is a firmly First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2000. By Mike Harris. entrenched feature of the local area. Ramesh loves the art of the WED 07:00 An Actor's Life for Me (b00rw8p7) Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic travelogues, journals 'shop'. Series 3 and personal letters. However; he does apply the 'low return' rules of the shop to all Here's Looking At You, Kid Stevenson sets off with a donkey across the Cevennes in France other aspects of his life. Ramesh is ably assisted by his shop Robert discovers acting isn't everything it appears to be... and in the process keeps a journal that later becomes his sidekick Dave, a forty-something underachiever who shares The return of the farcical comedy about the trials and popular travelogue "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes." Ramesh's love of the art of shopkeeping, even if he is treated tribulations of a young actor desperately seeking work. But does his journeying help him to forget the woman he has like a slave. John Gordon Sinclair stars in Paul Mayhew-Archer's sitcom. met and fallen in love with - Fanny Osbourne? Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both Robert Wilson ..... John Gordon Sinclair In 1879 and 1880, three years before he was to write 'Treasure surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach to Desmond Shaw ..... Gary Waldhorn Island', Robert Louis Stevenson was a largely unpublished and shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business, and Sue ..... Gina McKee unsuccessful writer. Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them With: Despite his father's wishes, however, he saw his life in whether they like it or not! Sally Grace literature. In 1876, he had met Fanny Osbourne the woman who Cast: Toby Longworth was to become his lover and later his wife. At the time of their Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kohli Ainsley Foster meeting Fanny was escaping from America with her children - Dave ..... Donald Mcleary Ian Angus Wilkie away from a husband who only brought her misery through his Sanjay ..... Omar Raza Christopher Roe serial infidelities. Alok ...... Susheel Kumar Producer: Diane Messias One of Stevenson's earliest publications was an essay 'On Keith Futures ...... Greg McHugh First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1993. Falling in Love' for The Cornhill magazine. Hilly ..... Kate Brailsford WED 07:30 Dead Ringers (b04cffps) In 1878 Fanny decided that she had to return to America and to Lovely Sue ..... Julie Wilson Nimmo Series 12 her husband. Stevenson embarked on a walk through the Mutton Jeff ..... Sean Scanlan Episode 2 Cevennes with a donkey in 1879 which was later to be Producer: Gus Beattie After a rest of 7 years, the classic, award winning impressions published as 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes' and in A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. show is back with a new cast of characters. August of the same year he resolved to follow Fanny to TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b04fgm4d) No one will be safe from the merciless parodies, as the show America. The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Diane Morgan takes down every programme, institution and politician you His journey was also published - most particularly in 'The chats to musical comedian Tom Adams. hold dear. Amateur Emigrant'. TUE 23:00 The Maltby Collection (b00crj7g) Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis Mike Harris' two plays portray these two enormously significant Series 1 MacLeod, Debra Stevenson. journeys and attempt to capture Stevenson's feelings for Fanny Episode 3 Producer: Bill Dare. and how they affected him on his travels. Rod and Julian are competing for Prunella's affections. WED 08:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jqxd) Producer: Clive Brill Both suitors seek help from the head of security, Des, in Series 3 A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. executing their own grand romantic gesture. Son of the Burkiss Way WED 12:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jqxd) Geoffrey Palmer and Julian Rhind-Tutt star in David Nobbs’ Film 77 presents the premiere of the BBC's first ever motion [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] sitcom about a small museum of paintings and sculpture. picture for radio WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00pgypp) Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer . WED 13:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Prunella Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to Black Bag (b00m4tty) Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond 1980. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. WED 13:30 Open the Box (b0075rhq) Eva Tattle ...... Julia Deakin Producer: John Lloyd [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1977. WED 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b012b1yz) Stelios Constantinopolis ...... Chris Pavlo WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00pgypp) Jill Mansell - To the Moon and Back Andrea Marshall ...... Barunka O'Shaughnessy Series 1 Episode 3 Shop Assistant ...... Jasmine Callan Episode 2 Ellie loves working for her new boss but doesn't fancy him Producer: Colin Anderson Popular music under the lofty eye of a BBC Arts show - and a much to Zack's disappointment. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2007. look back to the unusual year of Nineteen Thirty Foot. Jill Mansell's sparky romantic comedy about learning to fall in TUE 23:30 And Now in Colour (b007wqf1) More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs plus love with life again. Series 1 TV and cinema parodies. Read by Alex Tregear Salisbury Plain Written and performed by Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Abridged by Miranda Davies The sketch show team take their audience on Territorial Army David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie and Anthony Buffery. Producer: Gemma Jenkins manoeuvres – and a surprise Book at Bedtime. Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in July 2011. Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01381n9) Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck. quickly developed a cult following. The Diary of Samuel Pepys Producer: Lissa Evans Songs by Bill Oddie and Hugh Macdonald. Episode 3 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1990 Producer: Humphrey Barclay In episode 3 of Hattie Naylor's adaptation, Pepys returns safely First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in April 1964. across the Channel with the King. Given the task of escorting WED 09:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b00npwh2) the King's spaniel ashore, he finds it hilarious when the dog WEDNESDAY 13 AUGUST 2014 Series 4 misbehaves. The King invites the sick to court, and they come Episode 6 in their thousands to be touched by him and 'cured'. For his part WED 00:00 Book at Beachtime (b012pcbb) David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are in restoring the King, Edward Montagu is knighted and made [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items of Lord Sandwich, and there's a promotion for Samuel. He 's given WED 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b0137z00) truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. the job of Clerk of the Acts for the Navy Board. Samuel and [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] With Arthur Smith, Phill Jupitus, Tony Hawks and Graeme Elizabeth will have their own boatman and a new house in WED 00:45 Book at Bedtime (b009jd80) Garden. Seething Lane. But Pepys has a rival for the job - a Mr Barlow [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED 09:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b00cm8qz) is laying claim to the post - and it's a race against time, and WED 01:00 Who Goes There? (b007v2sv) Series 2 bureaucracy, for Pepys to get his contract signed and sealed! [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Tuesday] Episode 4 CAST WED 01:30 Musical Legends (b0139466) Ken is trying to relax, but even on a date with Deborah, Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] advertising is on his mind. Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways WED 02:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Martin Jarvis stars in Guy Jenkin and Jon Canter’s satire set in Charles II ..... Ewan Bailey Black Bag (b00m0gf8) the competitive world of advertising Edward Montagu ..... Blake Ritson [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Ken Handley ...... Martin Jarvis Mr Beale ..... Lee Mengo WED 02:30 Songlines (b04d4pt1) Sandy ...... Christopher Godwin Robert Holmes ..... Andrew Wincott [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Freddie ...... Lockwood West Mr Payne, the boatman ..... Matthew Gravelle WED 03:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnhj) Deborah ...... Rosalind Ayres Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Ambrose ...... Paul Jesson Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany WED 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b00r8hwh) Corners ...... Don Henderson Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] Benny ...... Karl Howman Miller. Violin and viola by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 August 2014 Page 6 of 8 Baxter. signed up by the BBC - with petrol money as part of the Producer: Sam Bryant. Historical consultant: Liza Picard contract - to broadcast to the nation. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011. Sound by Nigel Lewis Yes, John has been asked to keep an "open mind" and THU 08:00 Parsley Sidings (b04dcgpq) A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. investigate unsolved phenomena that fascinate the nation. Series 2 WED 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b009jd86) In this opening episode, John investigates UFOs. The Flower Show Sadie Jones - The Outcast With the help of sole agent Ken Worthington and special Station Master Horace Hepplewhite digs up trouble when he Temptation telephone guest Patrick Mower. hosts the village horticultural show. As Lewis struggles to work out exactly what Tamsin wants, Written and performed by Graham Fellows. Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Kenneth Connor as their relationship reaches a crisis. Read by Emma Fielding. Producer: Dawn Ellis Percy/Bradshaw/Vicar, Liz Fraser as Gloria, Ian Lavender as WED 15:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnlc) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006. Bert, Bill Pertwee as Phineas Perkins and Garrard Green as the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED 23:30 Sarah at the Stand (b0146j3w) Inspector WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04dbzp9) Episode 2 Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway Bjork, Alistair McGowan and the Inheritance Tracks of Judy Sarah Millican in Edinburgh, with stand-up and backstage with station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station for Finnigan Chris Forbes, Rob Rouse and Brendon Burns. From October generations and the current Station Master, Horace, hopes that Comedian Alistair McGowan praises the humble plum, singer 2010. his son Bert will continue the line. Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk Bjork discusses her love of the Moomins and there is the next WED 23:45 Poets' Tree (b00slxyx) Bert wants to work anywhere but on the railways. His colleague, part of Tove Jansson's classic tale Finn Family Moomintroll. Episode 2 Station Announcer Gloria Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter WED 17:00 Bristow (b007rgl8) Islington poet Paul Hamilton meets a fruit linguist, and visits a Percy Valentine is an archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Series 2 young offenders institute to demonstrate the rehabilitative Signalman, Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made The Power of the Press powers of poetry. remedies in equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is The Chester-Perry buying clerk crusades to improve conditions Poetry magazine spoof with Kevin Eldon and Stewart Lee. Phineas Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop for cleaning ladies. With Olivia Colman and Peter Serafinowicz. down the line. Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the buying clerk from Frank Producer: Ed Morrish Producer: Edward Taylor Dickens' famous newspaper cartoon strip. Syndicated First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2008. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1973. internationally, it ran for 41 years in London's Evening THU 08:30 Take It From Here (b019cg4z) Standard. From 15/05/1957 Bristow ...... Michael Williams THURSDAY 14 AUGUST 2014 Dick Bentley and Jimmy Edwards ponder their future, while Jones ...... Rodney Bewes 'The Glums' meet Eth's family. Gert ...... Liz Fraser THU 00:00 Book at Beachtime (b012b1yz) Starring Professor Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley, June Daisy ...... Joan Sims [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] Whitfield and Wallace Eton. Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan THU 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b01381n9) Classic comedy scripted by Frank Muir and Denis Norden. Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] Music from The Keynotes and the BBC Revue Orchestra with Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey THU 00:45 Book at Bedtime (b009jd86) Peter Akister. Stationmaster ...... Jon Glover [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] Announcer: Brian Matthews Stoke ...... David Battley THU 01:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b00npwh2) Producer: Charles Maxwell Hickford ...... Roger Lloyd Pack [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1957. Lift Boy ...... Ian Kelland THU 01:30 Off the Page (b04dbz9r) THU 09:00 The Write Stuff (b00qvnjh) Music composed and performed by John Whitehall. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Series 12 Producer: Neil Cargill THU 02:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a John Donne First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1999. Black Bag (b00m4tty) James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary WED 17:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b00rw8p7) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU 02:30 Open the Box (b0075rhq) joined by Jane Thynne and Christopher Brookmyre. The author WED 18:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b00npwh2) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] of the week and subject for pastiche is John Donne, and the [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU 03:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnlc) reader is Beth Chalmers. WED 18:30 Off the Page (b04dbz9r) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU 09:30 The Small World of Dominic Holland Mothers THU 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b00r8hwk) (b007jlrq) 4 Extra Debut. Comedy writer Carole Matthews, novelist Carl [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] Growing Up Tighe and playwright Alan McDonald celebrate and criticise THU 04:15 Drama (b01684jr) The comedian points out the pitfalls of growing up, becoming mothers. From September 2002. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] an adult and having children. In each programme, Matthew Parris introduces a group of THU 05:00 Bristow (b007rgl8) The first of a six-part series illustrating the Domedic minutiae writers of fact and fiction: new talent and established names. In [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] of life the context of a discussion of one of the ideas and pre- THU 05:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b00rw8p7) Stand-up and sketches with Simon Greenall, Sally Grace and occupations of our times, each presents a piece on this week's [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Dave Lamb. topic. THU 06:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Producer: Maria Esposito The best new writing and the freshest conversation from 2002. Black Bag (b00m9gqz) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2000. WED 19:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jqxd) Series 2 THU 10:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnln) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] The Accident Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00pgypp) The GP gives temporary shelter to a young woman with a A Riddle Without an Answer [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] bullying husband. AJ Cronin dramatisation with John Gordon While Silas Wegg tries to work out who really owns the WED 20:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Sinclair. inheritance, the Lammles try to make some money by pairing Black Bag (b00m4tty) THU 06:30 The Dalesman (b0075zvj) off Fledgeby. Stars Bill Nighy. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] BBC broadcaster, Harry Gration, leafs through the pages of The THU 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00r0tbs) WED 20:30 Open the Box (b0075rhq) Dalesman, the much-loved publication dedicated to life in the Bath Festival Stories by Candlelight [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Yorkshire Dales. Stowmont, by Sadie Jones WED 21:00 MacAulay and Co (b04dbzpc) Since its first appearance in 1939, its features, drawings and Bath Festival Stories by Candlelight 2014 letters have reflected a changing way of life - from the days The first in a series of supernatural tales commissioned by Episode 6 when the Dales were a closed world to the present when farms Radio 4 for last year's Bath Literature Festival Fred MacAulay brings you the pick of the best comedy from play host to long lines of ramblers and face an uncertain future. 1/3 : Stowmont by Sadie Jones, read by John Telfer. the Edinburgh Festival. Producer Sue Ellis. An 18th century story about a man and the architect he WED 22:00 Dead Ringers (b04cffps) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2000. employs, who are forced to shelter for the night from a snow [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU 07:00 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once storm in the house they have resolved to pull down and replace. WED 22:30 Rudy's Rare Records (b00nfqzj) (b007jr8f) In spite of their rationalism, and beyond their comprehension, Series 2 Series 1 the past asserts itself over their will. Daddy Cool Dib Dib Dib Producer Christine Hall. When his teenage son won't be seen in public with him, Adam Lovelorn Jason must face life without Debbie. Can Michael and THU 11:15 Drama (b016fs6f) is determined to prove that he's got what it takes to be cool. the Sweater Girls' first gig take his mind off being single? Mike Harris - Stevenson in Love And his elderly dad, Rudy, is on hand to give some unexpected The lives of the Stockport-based, Conroy family - in series 1 of The Amateur Emigrant advice. Jim Poyser and Damian Lanigan's comedy drama. By Mike Harris. Sitcom by Danny Robins, set in the finest, feistiest, family-run Starring Dominic Monaghan as Jason, Jason Done as Michael, Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic travelogues, journals record shop in Birmingham. Stefan Escreet as Dave, John McArdle as Eddie, Emma Clarke and personal letters. Adam ...... Lenny Henry as Collete, Beverley Callard as Maureen, Jo-Anne Knowles as In pursuit of the woman he loves Stevenson first catches a Rudy ...... Larrington Walker Debbie and Dan Maier as Mr Bickerstaff. steamer to New York and then undertakes a momentous train Richie ...... Joe Jacobs Music: Big George journey across America - ending in California. But will she Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey Producer: Neil Mossey leave her husband for him. Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1999. In 1879 and 1880, three years before he was to write 'Treasure Doreen ...... Claire Benedict THU 07:30 Listen Against (b01752w7) Island', Robert Louis Stevenson was a largely unpublished and DJ Karel ...... Andrew Brooke Series 4 unsuccessful writer. Tunde ...... Femi Elufowoju Episode 3 Despite his father's wishes, however, he saw his life in Rapper ...... Doc Brown. Another week of radio that never happened. literature. In 1876, he had met Fanny Osbourne the woman who Additional material by Doc Brown and Leah Chillery. Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes rewind and mangle real was to become his lover and later his wife. At the time of their Producer: Lucy Armitage programmes for you to enjoy the wrong way round. meeting Fanny was escaping from America with her children - First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009. Written and created by Jon Holmes away from a husband who only brought her misery through his WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b04fgm4n) With: serial infidelities. The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Diane Morgan Kevin Eldon One of Stevenson's earliest publications was an essay 'On chats to musical comedian Tom Adams. Justin Edwards Falling in Love' for The Cornhill magazine. WED 23:00 The Shuttleworths (b007k4tn) Sarah Hadland In 1878 Fanny decided that she had to return to America and to John Shuttleworth's Open Mind James Bachman her husband. Stevenson embarked on a walk through the UFOs Kim Wall Cevennes with a donkey in 1879 which was later to be Sheffield's number one singer/ songwriter has once more been David Mara published as 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes' and in Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 August 2014 Page 7 of 8 August of the same year he resolved to follow Fanny to THU 20:30 The Dalesman (b0075zvj) which he collates policies suggested by his studio audience into America. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] the People's Manifesto. His journey was also published - most particularly in 'The THU 21:00 MacAulay and Co (b04dckms) This week Mark and the audience consider an agenda which Amateur Emigrant'. 2014 includes a shame-based pay-policy for professional footballers, Mike Harris' two plays portray these two enormously significant Episode 7 compulsory relationship MOTs and the public funding of journeys and attempt to capture Stevenson's feelings for Fanny Fred MacAulay brings you the pick of the best comedy from political parties, plus there's "any other business" suggestions and how they affected him on his travels. the Edinburgh Festival. from the theatre audience. Producer: Clive Brill THU 22:00 Listen Against (b01752w7) Mark also starts to pursue one of the winning policies from last A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] series - that he should invade Jersey. THU 12:00 Parsley Sidings (b04dcgpq) THU 22:30 Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking FRI 08:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] (b00cbptt) (b007qg0y) THU 12:30 Take It From Here (b019cg4z) Series 2 Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Episode 6 Episode 5 THU 13:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Divorcee Carol tries to sell covers - for cushion covers. Eric is a far from fair cop and there’s some monkey business in Black Bag (b00m9gqz) Award-winning comedian Laura Solon's sketch and character Ernie's latest masterpiece ‘The Mighty Kong’. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] comedy series Written by Eddie Braben. THU 13:30 The Dalesman (b0075zvj) With Rosie Cavaliero, Ben Moor and Ben Willbond. With Nicola Pagett and Elaine Delmar. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Written by Laura Solon. Music from Peter Knight and his Orchestra. THU 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b012b96v) Producer: Colin Anderson Producer: John Browell Jill Mansell - To the Moon and Back First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2008. First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1976. Episode 4 THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b04fgm4q) FRI 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter Ellie and Zack grow closer and Tony is over the moon when The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Diane Morgan (b007jz94) Martha finally agrees to see him again. chats to musical comedian Tom Adams. Series 3 Jill Mansell's sparky romantic comedy about learning to fall in THU 23:00 At Home With The Snails (b007k2h6) The Flat love with life again. Series 1 Author Gerald and his wife Diana's holiday abroad is far from Read by Alex Tregear Episode 1 relaxing. Abridged by Miranda Davies Fed-up Alex has done nothing since university, but then he The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring Ian Producer: Gemma Jenkins discovers an unusual hobby. Stars Geoffrey Palmer. From June Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in July 2011. 2001. wife, Diana. THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b0138525) THU 23:30 Dave Podmore (b007jz8b) With Michael McClain, Fiona Mathieson and Garard Green. The Diary of Samuel Pepys Dave Podmore's Cricket Night Written by Basil Boothroyd. Episode 4 Episode 4 Producer: Bobby Jaye In the fourth episode of Hattie Naylor's adaptation, Samuel and After meeting Rory McGrath on TV, minor cricketing celebrity First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1979. Elizabeth have moved into their new house in Seething Lane. Pod is called to Buckingham Palace. FRI 09:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash (b00s3h46) The house needs some work doing so they've got the builders in. Written by Christopher Douglas, Nick Newman and Andrew Series 2 They make an enormous mess and keep sneaking off early. Sam Nickolds. Episode 3 can't stand mess; it's one of his pet hates. Now that Sam has Pod ...... Christopher Douglas Arthur Smith invites us into his Balham flat in south London for been promoted to Clerk of the Acts for the Navy Board, he's Andy Hamer ...... Andrew Nickolds comedy, music and entertainment. inundated with 'gifts' from people hoping to soften him up for a With Andy Hamer, Nichola Sanderson, Chris Pavlo, Ewan With his guests: Doc Brown, Gomez, Henry Paker and Richard favour - a jar of olives from one and some turtle doves from Bailey and Rory McGrath. Herring. another. He's not surprised to find himself being offered bribes Producer: Richard Wilson Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith - that's what happens when you get into a position of power. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2010 There's a fashionable new drink - and Pepys goes to try it - but FRI 09:30 Rent (b04dg72g) he isn't at all impressed and doesn't think that 'tea' will catch on. Series 1 A man who supported the execution of Charles I is hanged, FRIDAY 15 AUGUST 2014 Episode 3 drawn and quartered. Sam goes to watch but finds it a very Student lodgers Paul and Ruby's scheme to cash in on some disturbing sight. FRI 00:00 Book at Beachtime (b012b96v) treasure found in the attic causes a panic. CAST [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] House share comedy about taking in lodgers written by Lucy Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall FRI 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b0138525) Flannery. Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] Maria ...... Barbara Flynn Lord Sandwich ..... Blake Ritson FRI 00:45 Book at Bedtime (b009jd8g) Richard ...... Patrick Barlow Mr Payne /Thomas Harrison..... Matthew Gravelle [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] Amy ...... Linda Polan Plasterer ...... Dick Bradnum FRI 01:00 The Write Stuff (b00qvnjh) Ruby ...... Diane Louise-Jordan Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Paul ...... Toby Longworth Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany FRI 01:30 Great Lives (b04dckd4) Producer: Liz Anstee. Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1993. Miller. Violin and viola by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice FRI 02:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a FRI 10:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnpf) Baxter. Black Bag (b00m9gqz) Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend Historical consultant: Liza Picard [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Some Affairs of the Heart Sound by Nigel Lewis FRI 02:30 The Dalesman (b0075zvj) Wondering what to expect, Bella Wilfer weeps over her A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] contradictory life and fortunes. Stars Simon Cadell and Pippa THU 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b009jd8g) FRI 03:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnln) Guard. Sadie Jones - The Outcast [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI 10:55 Inheritance Tracks (b04dz3p0) Revelations FRI 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b00r0tbs) Tom Jones Fleeing from her brutal father, Kit confronts Lewis and they [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] The Welsh singing legend chooses 'Riders in the Sky' by both learn the other's dark secret. Read by Emma Fielding. FRI 04:15 Drama (b016fs6f) Vaughn Monroe and 'Whole Lot of Shakin Goin On' by Jerry THU 15:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnln) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] Lee Lewis. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI 05:00 King Street Junior Revisited (b00jdp99) FRI 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00r0tbv) THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04dckff) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] Bath Festival Stories by Candlelight Playing games, panning for gold and a moonlit bike ride FRI 05:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once The Ghost Writer by Amanda Craig Mel Giedroyc hears about a magical moonlit bike ride and (b007jr8f) Bath Festival Stories by Candlelight celebrates our love of games. Plus, the fourth part of our story, [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] The second of a series of supernatural tales commissioned by Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson. FRI 06:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Radio 4 for last year's Bath Literature Festival. THU 17:00 King Street Junior Revisited (b00jdp99) Black Bag (b00mcycp) 2/3 The Ghost Writer by Amanda Craig, read by John Telfer Series 2 Series 2 Justin Vest, critically-acclaimed but poorly-selling novelist, is Priorities The Visitor staying temporarily in the home of the late, wildly successful, Education and money - can you have one without the other? A far-off face from the GP's past sets social tensions boiling in very pink and fluffy writer Arabella Fysshe. At first glance they With Carolyn Pickles and Marlene Sidaway. From July 2003. Levenford. AJ Cronin dramatisation with John Gordon Sinclair. don't have much in common - for a start, he's alive and she isn't THU 17:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once FRI 06:30 Children of the Enemy (b00762qs) - but Arabella has some unfinished business with the world. (b007jr8f) The remarkable story of German children who were fostered by Producer Christine Hall. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Dutch families after the Second World War. With Martha FRI 11:15 Dave Sheasby - The Amazing Ratman Story THU 18:00 The Write Stuff (b00qvnjh) Kearney. From June 2001. (b007mb5v) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 07:00 Bangers and Mash (b0075gh6) An old man has a tale to tell about a piper, a mare and a town THU 18:30 Great Lives (b04dckd4) Episode 1 plagued with rats. Series 1 Martina's not sure if she wants to be a nun anymore, so she But no one wants to listen, unless his story makes good TV... Alexander the Great takes work with a catering company and soon lands in a crisis of Dave Sheasby's drama stars Bernard Cribbins as Jack, Writer Frederic Raphael chooses part man, part myth - epic proportions... Geraldine Fitzgerald as Kate, Colin Salmon as Gruchen, Giles Alexander the Great. With Humphrey Carpenter. Six-part comedy series by Katie Hims. Fagan as Dave and Andrew Wincott as Nurse Downs. The biographical series in which a distinguished guest chooses Kingsley ...... Mark Straker Music composed and performed by Keith Waite. someone who's inspired their life. Will their hero stand up to Jimmy ...... Gerard McDermott Director: Pam Fraser Solomon intensive scrutiny and merit the description of having led a great Martina ...... Catherine Harvey First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. life? From 2002. Juan Jose ...... Roger May FRI 12:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show THU 19:00 Parsley Sidings (b04dcgpq) Mrs Olney ...... Marlene Sidaway (b007qg0y) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Director: Cat Horn [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 19:30 Take It From Here (b019cg4z) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999. FRI 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 07:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b00x44lw) (b007jz94) THU 20:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Series 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Black Bag (b00m9gqz) Episode 1 FRI 13:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas returns for another series in Black Bag (b00mcycp) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 August 2014 Page 8 of 8 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI 13:30 Children of the Enemy (b00762qs) FRI 20:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Black Bag (b00mcycp) FRI 14:00 Book at Beachtime (b012bs1w) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Jill Mansell - To the Moon and Back FRI 20:30 Children of the Enemy (b00762qs) Episode 5 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] While Ellie is uncertain about her own love life, she helps to FRI 21:00 MacAulay and Co (b04dg98n) bring another couple back together. 2014 Jill Mansell's sparky romantic comedy about learning to fall in Episode 8 love with life again. Fred MacAulay brings you the pick of the best comedy from Concluded by Alex Tregear the Edinburgh Festival. Abridged by Miranda Davies FRI 22:00 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b00x44lw) Producer: Gemma Jenkins [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in July 2011. FRI 22:30 Father Figure (b01bl4fb) FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b0138yl2) People Carrying The Diary of Samuel Pepys New family sitcom written by and starring Irish comedian Jason Episode 5 Byrne. Tom Whyte and his family are on their way to a In the fifth episode of Hattie Naylor's adaptation, Sam and wedding. It's all going well until they hit a traffic jam. Before Elizabeth have still got the builders in and the mess in the house long traffic laws are being broken; the rescue services are on is driving Sam to distraction. As if that wasn't enough, his their way and there's a few surprises waiting for them in the lay- neighbour's cess pit overflows into the cellar of Sam's house. by. There's no quick solution. It takes five days before the night soil Tom Whyte.... Jason Byrne men come to clear it out. Sam comes home drunk and beats the Elaine Whyte.... Lucy Montgomery maid, Jane, with a broom. Then the weather whips up into a Dylan Whyte .... Dominic Applewhite gale and The Assurance sinks at Woolwich. Sam goes out on the Mary Whyte.... Pauline McLynn river to see the wreckage. The year ends happily with Sam and Pat Whyte.... Dermot Crowley Elizabeth getting on well, the workmen gone and the house tidy, Roddy.... Michael Smiley the King restored to the throne. And so to bed! Producer.... Julia McKenzie. CAST FRI 23:00 The Simon Day Show (b0112ydl) Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall Series 1 Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways Tommy Cockles Mr Blackburne ..... Ewan Bailey Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The Jane, the maid ..... Rebecca Newman Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. Each Mr Payne, boatman ..... Matthew Gravelle week one of Simon's characters come to perform at The Mrs Hunt ..... Manon Edwards Mallard and we hear the highlights of that night's show along Frenchman ..... Ewan Bailey with the back stage and front of house goings on at the theatre Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by itself. Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany This week, comedy legend Tommy Cockles performs at the Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David Mallard and is stunned to discover that manager Ron Bone has Miller. Violin and viola by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice no idea who he is. Baxter. Cast list: Historical consultant: Liza Picard Tommy Cockles ..... Simon Day Sound by Nigel Lewis Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. Goose ..... Felix Dexter FRI 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b009jd8q) Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall Sadie Jones - The Outcast Written by Simon Day Resolution Produced by Colin Anderson. Lewis has hidden in the woods for two days, determined to save FRI 23:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World (b007jtql) Kit from further brutality. Concluded by Emma Fielding. Series 2 FRI 15:00 Charles Dickens (b007jnpf) The Scheme of Things [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Where does Britain fit in the Theatre of Being? FRI 15:55 Inheritance Tracks (b04dz3p0) Cult New Age comedy that answers the questions which leave [Repeat of broadcast at 10:55 today] other shows scratching their beards. FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b04dg98l) Starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. Magic, cats and the Inheritance Books of Jane Elson With: Mel Giedroyc presents a tour of a magic shop, discovers the Rebecca Front hidden messages in a cat's purr and has the final episode of Armando Iannucci Tove Jansson's classic tale, Finn Family Moomintroll. And the voice of Tom Baker. FRI 17:00 After Henry (b007jn96) Producer: Sarah Smith Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993. The Romantic Approach 'It's amazing how much harm winning a war does for the moral fibre of a nation. I mean, you'd never have seen Winston Churchill walking around with a personal stereo.' Clare's been dumped, Eleanor finds a friend and Sarah's listening. Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who never quite manage to see eye to eye. Sarah ...... Prunella Scales Eleanor ...... Joan Sanderson Russell ...... Benjamin Whitrow Clare ...... Gerry Cowper Aubrey ...... Lockwood West Delivery boy ...... David Learner Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV, Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV network. Producer: Pete Atkin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1986. FRI 17:30 Bangers and Mash (b0075gh6) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI 18:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash (b00s3h46) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 18:30 Fry's English Delight (b00m15v8) Series 2 Speaking Proper Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language. It may be that elocution classes for children are being replaced with 'presentation skills' courses for adults, but we still see effective communication as the key to success. Stephen announces a field day for pedants in his investigation into what nowadays counts as 'speaking proper'. FRI 19:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (b007qg0y) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b007jz94) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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