Radio 4 Extra Listings for 29 May – 4 June 2021 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 29 MAY 2021 Sigrid ..... Hollie Burgess books, watching films, and generally repairing his wounded Freija ..... Samantha Dakin psyche. Uncle Jeff is having none of this and reveals a hitherto SAT 00:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jp0g) Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko. unknown secret to Andy, that the dusty shop downstairs from 5. Things Hot Up First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019. his seaside flat belongs to Jeff. When necessary, it seems, he When Norman introduces the Oblivions to the pleasures of the SAT 02:30 Malmesbury: the Philosophy Town (b017551k) offers the community of Flamford a valuable service as an flesh, one thing leads to another... Britain's most famous political philosopher Thomas Hobbes was electrical repair person. Colin Swash's sci-fi comedy about two space-age humans born there, and Malmesbury in Wiltshire wants to become for Jeff lures Andy into the shop and shows him how to use the till. stranded on a friendly alien planet. philosophy what Hay-on-Wye is for books, St. Ives for painting, Andy realises it's another of his uncle's ploys, and refuses this Norman ...... Tony Robinson or Aldeburgh for music. oblique yet unsubtle job offer. But Jeff, never the one to say Max ...... David Haig It is setting out to become the country's special 'Philosophy "die", takes his nephew on a job search in which Andy is an Stella ...... Louise Lombard Town'. The scheme is the brainchild of philosophy and small- unwilling participant. Macari ...... Michael Troughton town enthusiast Michael Cuthbert, and he has got the backing of Visits follow to Fish Shop Frank, the Tourist Information Terayz ...... Carla Mendonca Wiltshire Council and the involvement of the local and long- Office run by the uniformed and uninformed Steph and Pippa, Clive ...... Guy Witcher established Thomas Hobbes Society. He has also enthused the and Flamford's as-yet-unlicensed zoo. Buzz ...... Peter Serafinowcz head teacher of Malmesbury School, whose students are being Jeff ...... Philip Jackson Producer: Richard Wilson encouraged to take philosophy seriously. Andy ...... Tom Palmer First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995. Recently Malmesbury has hosted an annual philosophy festival. Frank ...... Mark Benton SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00sjt9x) Initially this focused on Hobbes - and the country's leading Corinne ...... Alison Steadman Shoulda Put A Ring On It experts came to speak - but now its scope is wider. Joyce ...... Alison Steadman Dominic Arkwright introduces more new writing and Mark Whitaker (who has himself published work on Hobbes) Mr Truepenny ...... Rasmus Hardiker provocative debate. reports from the Malmesbury Festival. He interviews leading Writers: Ian Brown and James Hendrie Bidisha, Stella Duffy and Harry Benson have their 400 word philosophers who are speaking. These include John Cottingham, Director: Gordon Kennedy essays at the ready - entitled "Shoulda Put A Ring On It." The Simon Glendinning and Angie Hobbs. Professor Hobbs has An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in title comes from a Beyonce single, and provokes each guest in a been designated a 'Town Philosopher', and she also holds an June 2016. different way. academic title in the Public Understanding of Philosophy. SAT 05:30 The Confessional (m000wc13) "Marriage? I am not tempted, writes novelist Bidisha, "it is like The Festival raises questions as to what philosophy is once it Series 1 all other things I am not tempted by, such as golf, crochet and escapes from the academy. Whitaker interviews members of The Confession of Phil Wang pole jumping." the audience and local residents about how they see the link Actor, comedian and broadcaster Stephen Mangan presents a Harry Benson runs marriage courses for the Bristol Community between their town and philosophy. He also explores plans to comedy chat show about shame and guilt. Family Trust, and is author of Let's Stick Together. Stella give philosophy a permanent place in Malmesbury. There is talk Each week Stephen Mangan invites a different eminent guest Duffy is a playwright and novelist. of a 'Philosopher's Footpath' from Oxford, of inscriptions of into his virtual confessional box to make three 'confessions' to Producer: Sarah Langan great philosophical sayings on the town's buildings, and of a him. This is a cue for some remarkable storytelling, and First broadcast on BBC Radio Four in June 2010 philosophical bookshop-cum-cafe. surprising insights as their confessions are put under the SAT 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvmz) Producer: Mark Whitaker microscope. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club A Square Dog Radio production We’re used to hearing celebrity interviews, where stars are 4. Exhumation First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. persuaded to show off about their achievements and talk about Lord Peter Wimsey awaits Doctor Horner's verdict. SAT 03:00 David Wade - Alexander (b00cfwr8) their proudest moments. Stephen is not interested in that. He At a party thrown by pal Margery, the upper class sleuth does a The Hunt of the God King doesn’t want to know what his guests are proud of, he wants to little more digging. Alexander pursues Darius, conquers Egypt and falls in love with know what they’re ashamed of. That’s surely the way to find out Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth. Barsine. what really makes a person tick.Stephen and his guest reflect Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery dramatised by Chris Michael Maloney and Alex Jennings star in David Wade's serial with empathy and humour on things like: why we get Miller. on the life of Alexander the Great. embarrassed, where our shame thresholds should be, and the Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael Alexander ...... Michael Maloney value of guilt. Robert Fentiman ...... Allan Cuthbertson Hephaistion ...... Alex Jennings Series guests include Marian Keyes, Cariad Lloyd, Joan Inspector Parker ...... Gabriel Woolf Achilles ...... Barry Foster Bakewell, Suzi Ruffell, Phil Hammond, Alastair Campbell and Mr Murbles ...... John Gabriel Patroclus ...... Simon Ward many more. Dr Horner ...... Blain Fairman Ptolemy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt This week, award-winning stand-up and sketch comedian, Phil Dr Penberthy ...... Christopher Emmett Philotas ...... Michael Onslow Wang confesses about potty training, supermarket gossip and Marjorie Phelps ...... Rosalind Adams Perdikkas ...... Mark Straker getting the wrong end of the stick. Mrs Rushworth ...... Olwen Griffiths Simmias ...... John Evitts Written and presented by Stephen Mangan Producer: Simon Brett Philip ...... Sean Barrett With extra material by Nick Doody First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975. Lysimachos ...... Keith Drinkel Devised with Dave Anderson and produced by Frank Stirling SAT 01:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness Eumenes ...... James Telfer A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4 (b0b51vyy) Artzbazus ...... Philip Anthony SAT 06:00 Kind Hearts and Coronets (b007jnpv) 5. The Angry Mob Barsine ...... Teresa Gallagher Louis Mazzini should be heir to a dukedom but his family, the After Delia Dewar implicates him, an angry mob turns on Sisygambis ...... Diana Payan snobbish D'Ascoynes have cut Louis off because his mother Jimmy Morton. Thais ...... Rachel Atkins married badly. Meanwhile Steve Gardiner discovers his friend's war actions. The Eunuch ...... Richard Pearce Vengeful and hate-filled, he sets out to regain his rightful place Teddy Johnson stars in Edward Boyd's serial thriller. Music: Wilfredo Acosta by wreaking revenge on the D'Ascoyne family, but is then Steve Gardiner ...... Teddy Johnson Director: Glyn Dearman arrested for a killing he didn't commit. PC McKenzie ...... John Young First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993. Ealing film comedy adaptation starring Harry Enfield as the PC Robertson ...... Kalman Glass SAT 04:00 Counterpoint (b00s97hj) D'Ascoyne family. With Michael Kitchen, Haydn Gwynne, Lindy Marshall ...... Hannah Gordon Series 24 Timothy Bateson and David Lodge. Jimmy Morton ...... Jimmy Logan 2010 Heat 8 Adapted by Gilbert Travers Thomas from Robert Hamer and Wilfred Morton - Leonard Maguire Paul Gambaccini chairs the penultimate heat of the 2010 John Dighton's screenplay. Detective Inspector Gordon ...... Moultrie R. Kelsall general knowledge music quiz. Louis Mazzini ...... Michael Kitchen Louisa Matthews ...... Nancy Mitchell Three amateur music enthusiasts face Paul's questions on a wide The D'Ascoyne Family ...... Harry Enfield Romily Foster ...... Douglas Murchie variety of musical topics, from the baroque to rock. Edith D'Ascoyne ...... Haydn Gwynne Bill Williams ...... Glenn Michael The three contestants are from London, Worthing and Hale: Sibella ...... Lynsey Baxter Produced in Glasgow by Eddie Fraser. Sue Barnard Elliott ...... Timothy Alcock First broadcast in April 1954 on the BBC Regional Home E Goh Crown Counsel ...... Michael Denison Service - Scotland Martin Hoskins Inspector Burgoyne ...... David Lodge SAT 02:00 The Transition by Luke Kennard (b08drky3) Producer Paul Bajoria Governor ...... Geoffrey Whitehead Episode 10 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2010. Mrs Mazzini ...... Zulema Dene Although he's been banished to the basement and relegated to SAT 04:30 Bristow (b007v1dg) Lionel ...... David Timpson The Transition's 'B stream' programme, Karl's only concern is Series 3 Warder Smith ...... John Hartley for Genevieve: her increasingly erratic behaviour, which he The Good, the Bad and the Temporary Perkins ...... Jonathan Keeble knows from long experience, is a precursor to a serious There's a new girl in town, and Bristow knows his office isn't Priscilla ...... Tracy Wiles breakdown. big enough for the two of them. Duchess ...... Jane Whittenshaw Janna and Stu refuse to listen to his concerns, however, and Michael Williams stars as Bristow. Young Louis ...... Roger May soon his fears are proved correct. Frank Dickens' sitcom is based on his famous long-running Boatman ...... Ross Livingstone Bryan Dick reads the moving conclusion of Luke Kennard's newspaper cartoon strip about the Chester-Perry buying clerk. Defence Counsel ...... David Collings novel Bristow ...... Michael Williams Warder ...... Stephen Critchlow Abridged by Robin Brooks. Jones ...... Rodney Bewes Other parts played by the cast. Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan Original music composed by Barrington Pheloung. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. Perkins ...... Leslie Phillips Music from the film composed by Ernest Irving and Wolfgang SAT 02:15 Gudrun (m0005f8t) Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman Amadeus Mozart. Series 6 Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey Producer: Andy Jordan. Episode 10: Gudrun Fudge ...... Jon Glover First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1996. Gudun's love of Jesus, and her desire to return to the Sacred Postboy ...... Simon Schatzberger SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b084bmf7) Land, inform the greatest decision she will make. Stokes ...... David Battley Series 41 Stars Kate Phillips. Sylvana ...... Jackie Neglia Lucy Porter on Cary Grant Conclusion of series 6 of Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, Music: John Whitehall Comedian and writer Lucy Porter champions Cary Grant as her revenge and faith Producer: Neil Cargill Great Life finding that, despite his troubled relationships with Gudrun ..... Kate Philips First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000. women off screen, his on screen charm and generosity towards Leif ..... Chris Pavlo SAT 05:00 The Break (b07h6fmm) his female co stars redeems him. Heidr ..... Helen Clapp Series 1 Lucy joins Matthew Parris along with Grant's biographer, Panuk ..... Kenny Blyth Occupied Geoffrey Wansell, to discuss the troubled screen icon's humble Jesus ..... Paul Hilton Andy has found a level of contentment with the world - reading beginnings in Bristol and following him to the glamour and Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 29 May – 4 June 2021 Page 2 of 10 wealth of Los Angeles. The papers, donated to St John's College, Cambridge Director: Andrew Mark Sewell. Producer: Maggie Ayre University, include note books, ramblings, rants about how hard Made by B7 Media First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016. it is to write, unfinished scenes and passages never included in SAT 18:30 The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley SAT 08:00 Whispers (b00b0hml) Douglas Adams' books. (b007jw60) Series 1 John Lloyd co-wrote the first series of Hitchhiker's Guide To A young man works for a powerful alchemist. Feeling jilted in Episode 2 The Galaxy, which started on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. He reveals love and consumed with jealousy towards a rival, he secretly Discover the truth about how Bram Stoker broke Oscar Wilde's that he and Douglas Adams had been commissioned to write the drinks one of his Master's potions hoping to cure himself of heart. first novel together, following the success of the radio series, these emotions. Gyles Brandreth hosts the scandals quiz show that puts naughty but Douglas decided to "give me the boot" and went on to write Instead, he’s soon facing a living hell… before nice, dishing the dirt on the bad boys and girls in history. the books on his own. The novels have sold something in the Frankenstein author, Mary Shelley's fantastical tale explores The regular team captains are writer and critic, Anthony Holden region of 14 million copies. man's fascination with eternal life and elixirs. and actor and writer, Stella Duffy. Other contributors include the original producer and now Read by Shaun Dooley. Joining them to test their wits are writer and broadcaster, Lynne novelist Simon Brett; original cast members Simon Jones, Producer: Gemma Jenkins Truss and former Erotic Review editor, Rowan Pelling. Geoffrey McGivern and Mark Wing-Davey; and Paddy Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in December 2005. Producer: Elizabeth Freestone Kingsland of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. SAT 19:00 Soul Music Mixtapes (b09m5mfr) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003. John also discusses how unpublished writings by Douglas [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT 08:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jrrq) Adams were used in a further series of The Hitchhiker's Guide SAT 22:00 Welcome to Wherever You Are (b07gh57z) Series 1 To The Galaxy. Pilot A Good Cause A Bite Media production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Andrew Maxwell hosts a truly global stand-up show, in which Rosie’s company is tasked to put together a charity gala concert March 2018. comedians perform from wherever on the planet they happen to in aid of the Afghans. SAT 14:00 The In Crowd (b007jp55) be, via high quality phone lines and internet video, to a live But there’s confusion over whether it’s for the people or the Series 4 audience in the BBC Radio Theatre, London. dogs? Episode 1 This pilot features award-winning comedians in Jakarta, St Prunella Scales in Simon Brett's sitcom. Compulsive Liars Anonymous and a birthday shock. Petersburg, and Los Angeles, giving the range of observations a The trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event Comedy sketch show from Manchester. little wider than in a typical stand-up show, Subjects covered management company, based in Brighton. Starring Robin Ince, Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate include being the freedoms afforded to women; how powerful Rosie ...... Prunella Scales Ward. Vladimir Putin really is; and why Canada probably doesn't exist. Kate ...... Arabella Weir Producer: Graham Frost With: Jo ...... Rebecca Callard First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004. Sakdiyah Ma'ruf Bob ...... Duncan Preston SAT 14:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b05108h0) Igor Meerson Tess ...... Annette Badland Series 6 Guy Branum Ginnie ...... Joanna Munro Dame Kelly Holmes Andrew Maxwell is a multiple Edinburgh Comedy Award Lady Helen ...... Celia Imrie Dame Kelly Holmes, a self-confessed chocoholic, tries her first nominee and a regular on BBC Radio 4. Producer: Maria Esposito deep fried Mars bar, but will she try the chocolate covered Producer: Ed Morrish First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000. scorpion? A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in SAT 09:00 Soul Music Mixtapes (b09m5mfr) And to conquer her fear of drowning, she tries hypnotherapy. June 2016. Cerys Matthews delves into the archives to present a specially Marcus Brigstocke persuades his guests to try new experiences: SAT 22:30 Josie Long: Romance and Adventure (b077jp15) curated mixtape of her favourite stories from across 25 series things they really ought to have done by now. Series 1 of the BBC Radio 4's Soul Music. Some experiences are loved, some are loathed, in this show all Episode 4 Each episode of Soul Music takes a different piece of music – it about embracing the new. Josie and Darren go camping but find themselves disastrously ill might be a pop song, or a hymn, or a piece of classical music or Producer: Bill Dare equipped for the great outdoors. world music – and looks at why it moves us and what it means First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015. Comedy drama about a young woman trying to build a more to different people. SAT 15:00 Josie Long: Romance and Adventure (b076p08g) fulfilling life for herself in Glasgow. Cerys's choices include: Series 1 Based on characters from the short films "Romance and * Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, Mozart's Requiem in D Minor Episode 3 Adventure" and "Let's Go Swimming" by Josie Long and * Bob Marley's Redemption Song, Puccini's La Boheme Josie's 32nd birthday has her questioning whether her dream of Douglas King. * Sam Cooke's A Change is Gonna Come. one day having a family is now unrealistic. Josie ...... Josie Long Producer: Mair Bosworth Comedy drama about a young woman trying to build a more Darren ...... Darren Osborne Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in January fulfilling life for herself in Glasgow. Margaret ...... Clare Grogan 2018. Based on characters from the short films "Romance and PCSO Officer ...... Chris Pavlo * Listen out for archive series of Soul Music regularly broadcast Adventure" and "Let's Go Swimming" by Josie Long and The Podcaster ...... Jesse Thorn on BBC Radio 4 Extra Douglas King. Shondra ...... Claudia O'Doherty SAT 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k094) Josie ...... Josie Long Unfeasably Handsome Man ...... John Early Series 4 Darren ...... Darren Osborne Written by Josie Long. Full House Roddy ...... Sanjeev Kohli Producer: Colin Anderson Card sharks fleece Harold Steptoe, so his father Albert steps in. Kerry ...... Hatty Ashdown A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. Eleanor ...... Clare Grogan broadcast in April 2016. Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association Chris ...... Michael Bertenshaw SAT 23:00 Jason Cook's School of Hard Knocks (b03xgl4g) with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson Mona ...... Rebecca Hamilton Job Interviews and Office Politics wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Fraser ...... Chris Pavlo Jason Cook uses the lessons learnt from his bitter experiences to The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Genevieve ...... Puja Panchkoty help sweeten the lives of listeners. Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight Written by Josie Long. This time, he holds forth on the best ways to pass a job series on TV. Producer: Colin Anderson interview and how to wend one's way through the perilous Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first pastures of office politics. Harold ...... Harry H Corbett broadcast in April 2016. Zoe Harrison and Neil Grainger, help to police the prairie of the With Martin Friend, Douglas Blackwell and Michael Kilgarriff. SAT 15:30 The Jason Byrne Show (b01p2s1y) public's problems. Adapted for radio from their TV scripts by Ray Galton and Series 3 Producer: Sam Michell Alan Simpson. I Looked Like Gollum at School First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2014. Producer: Bobby Jaye Award-winning comedian Jason Byrne lists the liabilities of SAT 23:30 Two Episodes of Mash (b01mdl9r) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1972. looking good. Series 2 SAT 12:30 Cleaning Up (b052m59s) Stand up and sketches with Laurence Howarth and Daisy Episode 1 1. New Recruit Haggard. Diane Morgan and Joe Wilkinson discover they don't actually Every night, as time is called and people are spat out onto the Producer: Julia McKenzie have a radio series at all. streets and squeezed into rides home to dream -tossed beds - First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 2010. A mix of silly, surreal sketches and banter. others are hard at work. Teams of cleaners are in office spaces SAT 16:00 Kind Hearts and Coronets (b007jnpv) The series features an absurd narrative, making fun of its new scrubbing, vacuuming and cleaning up. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] home at BBC Radio 4, after starting life on BBC Radio 2. And right at the bottom of the food chain we find our gang - SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b084bmf7) With: Spit n' Polish tackling the floors of a plush tower block in [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] David O'Doherty Manchester city centre. SAT 18:00 Dan Dare (b0bgpgk3) Paul Harry Allen In the first of four episodes, a new cleaner reports for duty. Series 1 Peter Donaldson Turns out he and his boss have met before. 4. The Red Moon Mystery 2/2 Ken Bruce Written by Ian Kershaw and with a top hole Northern cast, this Dare and the crew of the Anastasia skip dimensions - and Bobbie Pryor is a funny, sometimes dark comedy about people who always uncover a peril that could wipe out all life on Earth. Gary Newman get the fuzzy end of the lollipop. Adventures based on the Eagle comic strip 'Dan Dare' created You can also see an animation of one sketch via the BBC Radio Julie ..... Julie Hesmondhalgh in 1950 by the Reverend Marcus Morris and Frank Hampson. 4 Extra website - it's a fishy tale. Nobby ..... Paul Barber Conclusion of a two-part adventure starring Ed Stoppard. Animation: Tom Rourke. Dave ..... John Thompson Dramatised by James Swallow. Producer: Clair Wordsworth Shiv ..... Lauren Socha Dan Dare .... Ed Stoppard First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2012. Nita ..... Bhavna Limbachia Digby .... Geoff McGivern Our Bri ..... Jack Deam Professor Peabody .... Heida Reed Sir Hubert .... Michael Cochrane SUNDAY 30 MAY 2021 Produced at BBC Salford by Alison Vernon-Smith The Creator .... Marcus Morris First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015. On-board Computer .... Dianne Weller SUN 00:00 Dan Dare (b0bgpgk3) SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b09tbl2s) Ivor Dare .... Hugh Fraser [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Don't Panic! It's The Douglas Adams Papers Sgt Scott .... Jake Maskall SUN 00:30 The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley John Lloyd unearths the private papers of his friend and Corp Dajani .... Jalleh Alizadehi (b007jw60) colleague Douglas Adams, and discovers more about the Dr Harlan Stoll .... Greg Keith [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] agonies he went through to write The Hitchhiker's Guide to the The Teacher .... Diane Spencer SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b09tbl2s) Galaxy. Flamer Spry .... Ryan Sewell [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 29 May – 4 June 2021 Page 3 of 10 SUN 02:00 The In Crowd (b007jp55) David Spicer's comedy drama about modern life and Special thanks: Jeff Johnson, Bob Woodell, Angel Martinez, [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] parenthood, as seen through the eyes of two 30-something non- Julie Dixon, Nelson Farris, Peter Moore, Jamie Larsen, Clare SUN 02:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b05108h0) parents. Ewing and Jeffrey Johnston. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] Daniel ...... David Tennant SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m000wkc1) SUN 03:00 Josie Long: Romance and Adventure (b076p08g) Lucy ...... Elizabeth Carling Africa's Digital Poets - Breaking the Window with a Poem 2/2 [Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday] Katie ...... Samantha Spiro Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects SUN 03:30 The Jason Byrne Show (b01p2s1y) Andy ...... Tony Gardner Africa's Digital Poets - Breaking the Window with a poem part [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] Alison ...... Joanna Brookes 2/2. SUN 04:00 Kind Hearts and Coronets (b007jnpv) Steve ...... Jonathan Aris Johannesburg-based performance poet Thabiso Mohare talks to [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] Linda ...... Carla Mendonca poets in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya who have embraced SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b084bmf7) Producer: Liz Anstee the digital space to disseminate their work, and looks at how it [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. has served them in continuing a tradition of the poet expressing SUN 06:00 The Transition by Luke Kennard (Omnibus) SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05sy1yw) resistance and representing the conscience of a people. (b08fs6r1) Eurovision The role of the court poet or griot was to point out to the Episode 2 Sandie Shaw powers-that-be that they were messing up. Some of the most Karl and his wife have signed up to a rehabilitation programme From Guy Mitchell to the Beatles. vital work being produced and performed now still reflects that run by THE TRANSITION to avoid a jail sentence for his part Singer and psychotherapist, Sandie Shaw MBE shares her role, as poets carve their own path, tackling issues as they see in a credit card skimming scam. castaway choices with Kirsty Young. fit, or as part of protest movements such as Fees Must Fall in As the weeks pass, he is increasingly suspicious about the With her melodic, velvety voice, bare feet and Sassoon bob, South Africa. secretive organisation's true motives... Sandie was the epitome of everything that was swinging about Thabiso talks to poets who write to agitate, and assesses how Luke Kennard's novel is set a few years from now and is the 1960s. much the digital age is influencing the way emerging poets inspired by the housing crisis and a generation in serious debt. She was just 17 when she first topped the charts with ‘Always write and perform their work. The phenomenon of certain Omnibus of the last five of ten parts abridged by Robin Brooks. Something There to Remind Me’ and went on to become poems going viral (by Warsan Shire and Suli Breaks for Read by Bryan Dick Britain's first Eurovision winner with Puppet on a String. Sandie example), and the Def Poetry Jam shows drew several of South Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. loathed the song at the time, but more recently came to terms Africa's most prominent young performance poets to their First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. with it after recording a new version which is, she says, rather chosen craft. SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06vc384) forlorn. But with the development of digital across Africa, their focus is Ian Hart Along with the highs have been terrible lows - years that she shifting: they're not just looking to the West any more. Influenced by music from his home town, actor Ian Hart selects calls her dark ages, when, without money or creative freedom, Although US influence is strong in spoken word poetry, digital The Beatles' 'In My Life' and passes on 'The Message' by Dr she felt hopeless. It was Buddhism that turned her fortunes is allowing emerging poets to look instead to their home-grown Dre. around and became central to her life. talent for inspiration, and to foster Pan-African approaches. As SUN 07:20 Lucy Catherine - Gudrun (m0005nyy) Now, Sandie says, she can’t believe the journey life has taken well as enabling African narratives, some digital platforms are Series 6 (Omnibus) her on and she is preparing for a final flourish as a performer. also affording more chances for people to use their mother Episode 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010. tongue to speak to their own communities, which mainstream Guthrun's quest takes her on a whaling ship, where the crew SUN 10:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b0100j9q) print publishers have rarely been interested in, or able to loathe her doubly for being a woman and a heathen. Series 2 support. Set in the 11th century, the series follows Gudrun in the New Hummers Thabiso Mohare ('Afurakan'), a spoken word poet based in World, and her estranged daughter Sigrid in England. Both Hummingbirds are given spectacular names motivated by their Johannesburg, is one of the poets and entrepreneurs mother and daughter have reasons to seek forgiveness as they striking colours, patterns and shimmering metallic iridescence; spearheading developments in spoken word poetry in South forge a path through lands of unearthly beauty and their names are beautiful as are the birds. Africa, and exploring the possibilities of what the digital space uncompromising harshness. David Attenborough has filmed them on several occasions and can offer poets in countries where publishers are pulling back Starring Kate Philips and Hollie Burgess. is fascinated by their agility and flying skills to drink nectar from poetry. Thabiso talks to the digital pioneers who, as part Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes written by Lucy from flowers inaccessible to any other animal. And propelled of the broader tech revolution in a mobile-first continent, are Catherine. by this rocket fuel of nature they are capable of flying great offering poets across Africa a new outlet for presenting their Gudrun ..... Kate Philips distances and living life in the fast lane. work in a digital age. Sigrid ..... Hollie Burgess Enchanting in this story is how moved David Attenborough is Produced by Megan Jones. Dag ..... Joseph Ayres when recalling a story of their conservation; a rare piece of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. Panuk ..... Kenny Blyth good news he comments. SUN 12:30 To Hull and Back (b09rx3vt) Vali ..... Chris Harper Written and presented by Sir David Attenborough Series 3 Freija ..... Samantha Dakin Producer: Julian Hector Last Chance Salon The Virgin ..... Marilyn Nnadebe First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011. On her way back from Hull station following a failed attempt to Tofa ..... Debbie Korley SUN 11:00 Sneakernomics (p09fy247) get onto the Vidal Sassoon hairdressing course in London, Saxon ..... Joseph Ayre 3. The Committee of Sleep Sophie is knocked over by a car. Gorm ..... David Hounslow How an Oregon track coach ignited the running boom in By way of compensation the driver, Alison, a frequent church- Canute ..... Aaron Gelkoff America. goer, offers Sophie a disused hair salon that she has access to Director: Jessica Dromgoole. thanks to her church's outreach work. Sophie accepts Alison's First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019. Sneakernomics is a close encounter with the visionaries, artisans offer. SUN 08:30 We're in Business (b007jydz) and journeymen who’ve made, and been made, by trainers. But with only a week to make the salon a going concern, will The Gorilla We’ll follow in the footsteps of mavericks, hustlers and Sophie manage to make a success of it? When Dudley breaks the Major's stuffed gorilla, he, Harry and dreamers, and hear their tales of boom and bust, fame and Starring Lucy Beaumont and Maureen Lipman. Miss Boot seek a replacement. infamy, hope and heartbreak. Lucy Beaumont’s warm-hearted sitcom set in Hull where a Stars Peter Jones and Harry Worth. daughter tries to escape her overbearing mother. Peter Jones is small-time businessman, Dudley Grosvenor who's Across nine episodes, Sneakernomics tells the extraordinary Sophie ...... Lucy Beaumont always out to make a fast buck - usually at the expense of his origin stories of some of the world’s biggest brands, and how Sheila ...... Maureen Lipman side-kick, Harry Worth. sponsorship deals and celebrity culture redefined our Jean ...... Kerrie Marsh Written by Marty Feldman, Barry Took and Peter Jones. relationship with products. It’s also a business story – how Ernie ...... Norman Lovett Dudley ...... Peter Jones leisure has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry; a sports Alison ...... Annie Sawle Harry ...... Harry Worth story – how games became organised and grew into a global Trish ...... Debra Baker Miss Boot ...... Irene Handl spectacle; and it’s a story of invention – how enthusiastic Producer: Sam Michell With Dick Emery, Hugh Paddick and Paddy Edwards. hobbyist-pioneers often took extraordinary risks that changed A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in A selection of surviving episodes from two series broadcast the course of sport and fashion. February 2018. between 1959-1960. SUN 13:00 The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Producer: Charles Maxwell. The sneaker story is characterised by fierce competition and Gordon (Omnibus) (b07zf850) First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in March 1960. rivalry. We explore how the quest to be number one tore Angela Carter was one of English literature's most inventive SUN 09:00 The Arthur Haynes Show (b00zdbmj) families and friendships apart and divided towns. Above all, writers. From 26/11/1962 this is the story of the people behind the shoes. What you’ll hear Edmund Gordon's illuminating biography was the first to be A visit from the School Inspector, crazy capers at the Post is a mix of interviews with many of the key individuals who’ve authorised 25 years after her death in 1992. Office - and a man gets his head stuck in some railings. played their part in that extraordinary story, interlaced with It features interviews with close friends, collaborators, lovers Arthur Haynes stars in the sketch show series written by Johnny moments of fiction inspired by their testimonies and our and family members. Speight. research. Edmund was granted access to Angela’s journals, letters and With manuscripts and so created a vivid portrait of her Nicholas Parsons Written and presented by Nicholas Smith, with 1Xtra presenter unconventional and extraordinary life. Patricia Hayes Ace. The drama is written by Al Smith. Read by Emma Fielding Lesley Noyes Omnibus of five parts abridged by Sara Davies. Music by the Temperance Seven. Episode 3 Cast: Producer: Elizabeth Allard Part of a selection of surviving episodes. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2016. After working with Charlie Chester on a number of series for Bill . . . . . Nathan Osgood SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b077s3qj) BBC Radio, Arthur Haynes (1914-1966) became a big star on Phil . . . . . Trevor White Phil Tufnell ITV from the late 1950s. Jeff . . . . . Ian Dunnett Jnr Cricketer Phil Tufnell chooses 'Soul Limbo' by Booker T and Producer: Richard Dingley Shoji . . . . . Daniel York Loh the MGs and 'Can't Take My Eyes Off You' performed by First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November Dale . . . . . Wilf Scolding Gloria Gaynor. 1962. Carolyn . . . . . Cecilia Appiah SUN 14:20 How Does That Make You Feel? (b08pmsmp) SUN 09:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b007zkzz) Bob . . . . . Mark Edel-Hunt Series 8 (Omnibus) Series 2 Truck Driver . . . . . Joseph Balderrama As psychotherapist Martha continues her dealings with clients – Episode 4 some of them have made a few changes to their circumstances. When their new and 'ever so slightly unbearable' friends invite Production Trainee: Marithe Van Der Aa On a trip to Newcastle, which to his surprise is even further them to dinner, Lucy wants to return the offer. But Daniel, Assistant Producer: Ben Hollands north than Leeds, MP Richard Fallon finds that his newly who's expected to cook, is less than convinced... Sound: Peter Ringrose acquired Twitter account has been hacked. Starring David Tennant and Elizabeth Carling. Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko Omnibus of five episodes written by Shelagh Stephenson. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 29 May – 4 June 2021 Page 4 of 10 Richard Fallon ..... Roger Allam Andrew attempts to beat his workmate, Lennie, to a promotion. Teddy Johnson stars in the conclusion of Edward Boyd's six- Martha ..... Frances Tomelty But when all inevitably goes wrong, he then has to find a home part serial thriller. Director: Eoin O'Callaghan for the dishwasher and tumble-dryer his girlfriend has already Steve Gardiner ...... Teddy Johnson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017. bought. Wilfred Morton ...... Leonard Maguire SUN 15:30 What's So Great About ...? (b00c7fbx) Sitcom about a man dissatisfied with his life, whose feeble Romily Foster ...... Douglas Murchie Series 1 attempts to run away invariably end with him traipsing home Lindy Marshall ...... Hannah Gordon Bob Dylan defeated. Detective Inspector Gordon ...... Moultrie R. Kelsall Comedian and actor Lenny Henry asks "What's So Great Starring: Jimmy Morton ...... Jimmy Logan About...?" people, things, institutions and aspects of Andrew Lawrence The Porter ...... Eric Wightman contemporary life that frequently go unexplored, unchallenged Diane Morgan Produced in Glasgow by Eddie Fraser. and widely accepted but which he, personally doesn't really buy. With Marek Larwood, Lizzie Roper and David Hounslow. First broadcast in May 1954 on the BBC Regional Home In this episode, he questions the greatness of Bob Dylan. Producer: Jane Berthoud Service - Scotland Lenny - a great fan of Soul music and Rhythm & Blues - gets to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015. MON 07:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b01qldm8) grips one recording artist he never really "got". From the time SUN 23:00 Henry Normal: A Normal... (b07m4wyh) Pilot episode he was a teenager in Dudley in the early 70s he had to listen to Family Award winning comedian-author-adventurer, Tim FitzHigham his schoolmate Greg Stokes tell him what a "classic" the Dylan Henry Normal presents a comic and poetic look at his family and his nemesis Alex Horne recreate a bizarre bet which was album 'Blonde On Blonde' was; and ever since friends have life – centred around his son, Johnny, who was diagnosed with originally wagered by the 4th Duke of Queensbury in 1753. been trying to convince him that "His Bobness", as Lenny "mildly severe" autism. The bet: that Tim can pass a missive over a distance of fifty describes him, is the one recording artist to whom he should Through stand-up and poetry, Henry explores what this means miles in one hour, using only the means that would have been really devote his energies. for Johnny, for himself, and his wife, Angela. available to a gentleman in 1753. It's now make or break time and Lenny assembles a band of Recorded with an audience in Henry's hometown of Brighton, Written by Tim FitzHigham and Jon Hunter, with additional musicians and fans to see if they can, once and for all, change the show paints just one portrait of life with autism; there are material from Paul Byrne. his mind. many versions of it, and this is Johnny's. Produced by Colin Anderson. "Dear oh dear", says Lenny. "That whine! That grating music!" Henry Normal is a multi-award winning writer, producer and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, Kris Kristofferson, Bryan Ferry, poet. He starred in Channel 4's Packet of Three, co-wrote The MON 07:30 Nature Table (m000wcd0) Jools Holland and Al Kooper, who played with Dylan on some Royle Family and The Mrs Merton Show, and founded Baby Series 2 of his most famous albums in the 1960s, are among the defence Cow productions with Steve Coogan, which produced Gavin & Episode 4 team. Stacy, The Trip and Camping. Nature Table is comedian, broadcaster and writer Sue Perkins’ It seems they have their work cut out. Written and performed by Henry Normal new comedy ‘Show & Tell’ series celebrating the natural world Producer: Patrick Gregory Producer: Ed Morrish and all its funny eccentricities. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008. A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Taking the simple format of a ‘Show & Tell’, each episode Sue SUN 16:00 Stephen Wakelam - Death at the Bed End July 2016. is joined by celebrity guests from the worlds of comedy and (m0005tlg) SUN 23:30 Alice's Wunderland (b01kkr59) natural history. Each of the natural history guests brings an item Publication of a biography of Charlotte Bronte sparks the threat Series 1 linked to the wild world to share with the audience, be it an of libel suit. So a detective heads to Yorkshire to discover more. Episode 1 amazing fact or funny personal anecdote. Each item is a Steve Wakelam's drama is based on true events. A trip round Wunderland, the Poundland of magical realms. It's springboard for an enlightening and funny discussion, alongside Sergeant Jack Down ..... Kenneth Cranham a kingdom much like our own, and also nothing like it in the fun games and challenges revealing more astonishing facts. We Patrick Bronte ..... James Greene slightest. also hear from some of the London Zoo, as they bring us their Mr Nicholls ..... Stephen Hogan Stay a while and meet waifs and strays, wigshops and witches, own natural history ‘show and tells’ for Sue and the guests to Harry ..... Declan Wilson murderous pensioners and squirrels of this delightful land as discuss. Betty ..... Shirley Dixon they go about their bizarre business. Nature Table has a simple clear brief: to positively celebrate Dr Crosby ..... Geoffrey Whitehead A sketch show written and performed by Alice Lowe. and promote the importance of all our planet’s wonderfully wild Martha ..... Helen Longworth Also starring: flora and fauna in an fun and easily grasped way... whilst at the Sugden ..... Steve Hodson Richard Glover same time having a giggle. Grundy ..... Philip Fox Simon Greenall Note: Series 2 was recorded in November 2020, during Director: Janet Whitaker Rachel Stubbings lockdown conditions, so this time round there is no studio First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2004. Clare Thompson audience this time round. The host, panel and guest zookeepers SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000wkc1) Marcia Warren recorded the series at ZSL London Zoo, socially distanced. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] Producer: Sam Bryant Episode 4 SUN 17:30 To Hull and Back (b09rx3vt) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2012. Recorded at London Zoo, this week Sue Perkins is joined by [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] special guests: SUN 18:00 Thomas Hardy - The Withered Arm (b0076wvt) Billy Heaney (Zoologist & wildlife presenter), Dr. Claire Asher Dangerous dreams and consequential curses. MONDAY 31 MAY 2021 (Science writer) and comedian and writer Josie Long. Victoria Hamilton and Susan Jameson star in a highly charged Written by: Catherine Brinkworth, Kat Sadler & Jon Hunter tale of two women in the grip of passions beyond their control. MON 00:00 Thomas Hardy - The Withered Arm (b0076wvt) Researcher: Catherine Beazley Set in Wessex, Thomas Hardy's classic short story is a masterful [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Music by Ben Mirin. Additional sounds were provided by The drama of psychological suspense. MON 00:45 Murder & Mystery (m0003tdx) Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Dramatised by Louise Doughty. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] Produced by: Simon Nicholls Gertrude Lodge ...... Victoria Hamilton MON 01:00 The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund A BBC Studios Production Rhoda Brook ...... Susan Jameson Gordon (Omnibus) (b07zf850) MON 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k0k6) James Lodge ...... Ewan Bailey [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] Series 4 Edward ...... Nick Sayce MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b077s3qj) Is That Your Horse Outside? Mr Mason ...... Nick Brimble [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] Albert Steptoe advises son Harold on the art of seduction. Ida ...... Ella Smith MON 02:20 How Does That Make You Feel? (b08pmsmp) Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. Dairy Man ...... John Cummins [Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday] Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association Hangman ...... Gerard McDermott MON 03:30 What's So Great About ...? (b00c7fbx) with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson Landlord ...... Wayne Foskett [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday] wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Serving Girl ...... Ayesha Antoine MON 04:00 Stephen Wakelam - Death at the Bed End The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Director: Claudine Toutoungi. (m0005tlg) Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2006. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] series on TV. SUN 18:45 Murder & Mystery (m0003tdx) MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000wkc1) Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell Series 5 [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] Harold ...... Harry H Corbett MS. Found in a Bottle by Edgar Allan Poe MON 05:30 To Hull and Back (b09rx3vt) With Jo Manning Wilson and John Samson. A storm sweeps the east coast of Java. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] Adapted for radio from their TV scripts by Ray Galton and In a writing career that spanned barely two decades (he died in MON 06:00 Wimsey (b007jvn1) Alan Simpson. his 41st year) the American penned over seventy short stories. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Producer: Bobby Jaye These he incessantly revised over the years and many became 5. At Lady Dormer's First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1972. standards of the short form (like ‘The Fall Of The House of Discovering General Fentiman was poisoned, Lord Peter MON 08:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue Usher’ or ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’). Wimsey decides to probe Miss Dorland's hobby. (b00756vl) But for our five fictional tales, we burrow down amongst Poe’s Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth. Series 4 lesser-known, and often dark, gems. Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery dramatised by Chris Episode 3 Read by Owen Teale. Miller. Sofa-bound TV presenters Mike and Sue turn their attention to Abridger: Pete Nichols Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael 'ageing' and 'alcohol'. Producer: Karen Rose Robert Fentiman ...... Allan Cuthbertson Starring Robert Duncan and Jan Ravens. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions, first Inspector Parker ...... Gabriel Woolf With Roger Blake, Alistair McGowan and Ronnie Ancona. broadcast in April 2019. Sheila Fentiman ...... Frances Jeater Written by George Jeffrie and Bert Tyler-Moore from a format SUN 19:00 Sneakernomics (p09fy247) Ann Dorland ...... Amanda Reiss by Bill Dare. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Mrs Munns ...... Ysanne Churchman Music by Mark Burton. SUN 20:00 Stephen Wakelam - Death at the Bed End Nellie ...... Judy Bridgland Producer: Aled Evans (m0005tlg) Mr Munns ...... Clifford Norgate. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1999. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] Producer: Simon Brett MON 09:00 Act Your Age (b00qvm9f) SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05sy1yw) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1975. Series 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON 06:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness Episode 6 SUN 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b0100j9q) (b0b5t0pp) Simon Mayo hosts the comedy show that pits the comic [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] 6. Who Is 'The Kind Man'? generations against each other to find out which is the funniest. SUN 22:00 To Hull and Back (b09rx3vt) With locals terrorised by a homicidal maniac in the small Team captains Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Roy Walker [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Scottish town - can Steve Gardiner finally unravel the identity are joined by Hills Barker and Cannon and Ball. SUN 22:30 There Is No Escape (b06kcbw8) of 'The Kind Man'? Producers: Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. Episode 3 Meanwhile Steve Gardiner discovers his friend's war actions. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2010. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 29 May – 4 June 2021 Page 5 of 10 MON 09:30 The Elephant Man (b007k2c7) Gudrun is under the protection of Freija, the Norse Goddess of I Won't Eat Bread From a Puddle Keeper vs Keeper love and war. Freija’s voice cries out for a new kind of Jason Byrne looks at the subject of fears with members of the There's a new arrival at the zoo and Terry must mark his leadership. She can sometimes be as slippery a customer as her audience revealing an eccentric range of phobias include feet; territory. protégée - is she really on Gudrun’s side or does she have an boats in dry docks and being forced to eat white bread out of Debbie Barham's 8-part sitcom about the life of an elephant zoo agenda of her own? puddles. keeper. MON 14:30 Paint It Black (b007jxq4) Themed audience comedy show with high-energy stand-up and Starring Peter Serafinowicz as Terry Lyon, Chris Emmet as "Henry Moore would have given his hind teeth to have created sketches with Laurence Howarth and Daisy Haggard. Leonard, Geoff McGivern as George, Geraldine Fitzgerald as something like this." Producer: Julia McKenzie Maureen, Richard Pearce as Adam, Joanna Monro as Stephanie Felicity Finch Accompanies a group of cave artists as they First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. and Wayne Forester as Morse. brave the dark and claustrophobic atmosphere of tunnels and Producer: Richard Wilson. the magnificence of gigantic chambers deep beneath the earth's First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1996. surface in their quest to paint the underground world. TUESDAY 01 JUNE 2021 MON 10:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007q9by) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. Great Son of Ammon MON 15:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007q9by) TUE 00:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jp39) The King confronts and conquers, as he faces the end of the [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] span of years allotted by The Fates. MON 16:00 Act Your Age (b00qvm9f) TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b01j5my9) Conclusion of David Wade's serial on the life of Alexander the [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Great MON 16:30 The Elephant Man (b007k2c7) TUE 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvn1) Alexander ...... Michael Maloney [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Hephaistion ...... Alex Jennings MON 17:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b01qldm8) TUE 01:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness Achilles ...... Barry Foster [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] (b0b5t0pp) Patroclus ...... Simon Ward MON 17:30 Nature Table (m000wcd0) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] Ptolemy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 02:00 Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by Philotas ...... Michael Onslow MON 18:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jp39) Lauren Elkin (b07mwqf9) Perdikkas ...... Mark Straker 6. Sacrifice [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Bagoas ...... Matthew Sim Oblivio is in the grip of an Ice Age. TUE 02:15 Gudrun (m000sqrb) Artzbazus ...... Philip Anthony When the UME spaceship lands on the surface, Norman and [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Krateros ..... David Thorpe Max make a sacrifice... TUE 02:30 Paint It Black (b007jxq4) Simmias ...... John Evitts Conclusion of Colin Swash’s sci-fi comedy about two space-age [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Kalas ...... Malcolm Sinclair humans stranded on a friendly alien planet. TUE 03:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007q9by) Oxyartes ...... John Hollis Norman ...... Tony Robinson [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Kalanos ...... Renu Setna Max ...... David Haig TUE 04:00 Act Your Age (b00qvm9f) Kallisthenes ...... Jonathan Adams Stella ...... Louise Lombard [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] Page ...... James Telfer Macari ...... Michael Troughton TUE 04:30 The Elephant Man (b007k2c7) The Fates ...... Rachel Atkins Suzy ...... Carla Mendonca [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] The Fates ...... Jill Graham Louise ...... Ronni Ancona TUE 05:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b01qldm8) The Fates ...... Dana Payan Ume ...... Lorelei King [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] Music: Wilfredo Acosta Vince ...... Daniel Main TUE 05:30 Nature Table (m000wcd0) Director: Glyn Dearman Producer: Richard Wilson [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995. TUE 06:00 Wimsey (b007jvn3) MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m000wkvb) MON 18:30 A Good Read (b01j5my9) The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Series 8 Steve Backshall and Geraldine Bedell 6. Ann Dorland IRL - online Deadly 60 presenter Steve Backshall and Editor of Gransnet With two suspects missing, Lord Peter Wimsey battles to A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting Geraldine Bedell discuss their favourite books with Harriett pinpoint the poisoner. speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Gilbert. Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth. stage. Geraldine picks 'The Idea of Perfection' by Kate Grenville, a Conclusion of Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery. Manoush Zomorodi explores where IRL – in real life – and the touching romance between two people in the eccentric little Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael online world meet. Can we develop rules to navigate the virtual backwater of Karakarook, Australia. Robert Fentiman ...... Allan Cuthbertson safely? Steve opts for a chilling ghost-story set around a scientific George Fentiman ...... Martin Jarvis First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2020. expedition to the Arctic Circle in 1937 - 'Dark Matter' by Inspector Parker ...... Gabriel Woolf MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000wkvd) Michelle Paver. Ann Dorland ...... Amanda Reiss Mica Paris Harriett's choice is 'In the Country of Men' by Hisham Matar, a Sheila Fentiman ...... Frances Jeater Singer Mica Paris chooses Come Live with Me Angel by tender coming-of-age story about nine-year-old Suleiman who Dr Penberthy ...... Christopher Emmett Marvin Gaye and Tom Browne - Funkin' for Jamaica. becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on Colonel Marchbanks ...... Wilfrid Carter MON 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k0k6) business. Dramatised by Chris Miller. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Producer: Toby Field Producer: Simon Brett MON 12:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1975. (b00756vl) MON 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k0k6) TUE 06:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] (m000wjkj) MON 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvn1) MON 19:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue 1. You Left Your Baby, But Took The Violin [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] (b00756vl) For Jarvis and Busker Tom, the attraction of the old school MON 13:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] house is that it's near the underground. (b0b5t0pp) MON 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvn1) For Alice, it's an escape from a painful past. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Crime mystery written by Ruth Rendell under the pen name of MON 14:00 Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by MON 20:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness Barbara Vine. Lauren Elkin (b07mwqf9) (b0b5t0pp) Dramatised in four parts by Nick Fisher. Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Tom .... Jonathan Cullen In her book, abridged for radio by Penny Leicester, the author MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m000wkvb) Alice .... Kate Fenwick Lauren Elkin strolls great cities, thinking about distinguished [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Axel .... Mark Strong women who did the same. MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000wkvd) Jarvis .... Kim Wall She loves the word FLANEUR and then the female version - [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] Cecilia .... Ann Beach FLANEUSE. But historically who were these types, and is there MON 22:00 Nature Table (m000wcd0) Jasper .... Stuart Morris a flaneuse today? She also recalls her youthful struggles to walk [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Bienvida .... Verity Watte the New York suburbs. MON 22:30 Chain Reaction (b03s71cz) Tina .... Alice Arnold Read by Julianna Jennings. Series 9 Peter .... Christopher Scott Produced by Duncan Minshull. Graham Linehan talks to Adam Buxton Woman on Tube .... Colleen Prendergast First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016. The final episode in this series sees Father Ted and IT crowd Alice's Mother .... Shirley Dixon MON 14:15 Gudrun (m000sqrb) writer Graham Linehan talking to comedian, actor and one half Ivan .... Chris Pavlo Series 7 of Adam and Joe, Adam Buxton. Woman with Baby .... Elaine Pyke Episode 1 Chain Reaction is the long running host-less chat show where Tannoy .... Alex Lowe The final series in Lucy Catherine’s Viking epic of love, last week's interviewee becomes this week's interviewer. Musicians: Polly Hewett, Roland Robert and Christine Messiter. revenge and faith inspired by the Icelandic sagas Producer: Carl Cooper Director: Marion Nancarrow Gudrun, a young woman from 11th century Iceland, forges her First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2013. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1996. path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising MON 23:00 The News Quiz (m000wdhh) TUE 07:00 Ayres on the Air (b03pmk77) harshness. Having given birth at sea and survived the Series 105 Series 5 treacherous voyage home from the Vinland, Gudrun believes Episode 7 Home her young son, Jesson, is destined for great things. Together, Andy Zaltzman presents a look back at the week's headlines Pam Ayres regales her Radio 4 audience with poems, stories they embark on a pilgrimage to Rome. with guests Lucy Porter, Alice Fraser, Hugo Rifkind and Daliso and sketches, this week on the subject of Home. Gudrun ….. Kate Phillips Chaponda. She is joined on stage by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Freija ….. Samantha Dakin This week a certain select committee hearing and the inaugural Whitehead, with Geoffrey playing her long-suffering husband Truda ….. Charlotte East FALSE or VERY FALSE round. 'Gordon'. Monk ….. Ian Dunnett Jnr Written by Andy Zaltzman with additional material from This week Pam talks about her first home, about the impact of Kjartan ….. Luke MacGregor Eleanor Morton, Rajiv Karia and Simon Alcock. her grown up sons leaving home and about the unwelcome Directed by Gemma Jenkins Producer: Richard Morris prospect of downsizing. There are also looks at how making Despite the warmongering and bloodshed Gudrun is a story of Production Coordinator: Cherlynn Andrew-Wilfred your home more 'vintage' can go too far, some handy hints on family and a mother’s love. An avenging angel forged from Sound Editor: Marc Willcox how to make your child feel more at home if they have to return violence, she continues to try and lead a good life in a man's A BBC Studios Production to the nest post-university, and how your homelife changes world. She longs for the freedom to live her life according to MON 23:30 The Jason Byrne Show (b01p6pxc) when both partners have retired. We are also treated to some her own rules. Series 3 wry observations on how our homes have now become so hi- Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 29 May – 4 June 2021 Page 6 of 10 tech we can barely change channels on the TV, and how to He hears from contemporary commentators with an interest in Director: Claire Grove approach the thorny issue of moving into single beds when your the darker side of human thought. Novelist Lionel Shriver and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. partner's snoring becomes too much to bear. psychotherapist Susie Orbach are among those who explain TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b013f96w) Poems include: A September Song, My Little Grandson & what the apocalypse means to them. Series 12 Pollen on the Wind Ince also searches the archive for practical advice in the event Wichita Lineman Sketch writers: James Bugg, Jan Etherington, Claire Jones, of catastrophe. He meets Professor Lewis Dartnell, a disaster- Wichita Lineman, the ultimate country/pop crossover track, is Grainne McGuire, Andy Wolton and Tom Neenan. expert who explains how to reboot civilisation in the event of the subject of this week's Soul Music. Producer: Claire Jones. apocalypse. David Crary is a lineman from Oklahoma. He describes his job TUE 07:30 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000w9vg) Presenter: Robin Ince - storm-chasing to mend fallen power-lines; travelling on 'dirt Series 4 Producer: Harry Kretchmer roads, gravel roads, paved roads... up in the farmlands of Illinois The Impossibility of Escape First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2017. and Missouri... down south in the Swamplands... it ain't nothing With lockdown changing all our perspectives on what's TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jqbn) to swerve in the middle of the road in your bucket-truck to miss important, Alex Edelman reflects on how things have changed [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] an alligator '. for him and what he now truly values. He takes a personal look TUE 12:30 Winston (b007np4w) He recalls the first time he heard Wichita Lineman, travelling in at what life's really about now that the comedy clubs are closed [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] the back of his family's Station Wagon, listening to the radio... and he can't go anywhere, and investigates how much his TUE 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvn3) thinking that being a lineman 'must be a cool job' if someone's existence has been improved by the arrival of a new flatmate: [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] written a song about it. Also a part-time musician, David has his girlfriend. TUE 13:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet recorded his own version of the song which sums up his Written by Alex Edelman and Max Davis (m000wjkj) working life... on the road, working long hours, away from his With special thanks to [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] wife and six kids. Josh Weller TUE 14:00 Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by Wichita Lineman was written by Jimmy Webb for the Country Simon Alcock Lauren Elkin (b07mxgx8) star Glen Campbell. It tells the story of a lonely lineman in the Charlie Dinkin Episode 2 American midwest, travelling vast distances to mend power and Adam Brace In her book, Lauren Elkin strolls great cities, thinking about telephone lines. Danny Jolles distinguished women who did the same. Released in 1968 it's an enduring classic, crossing the boundary and She describes her own walks through London's Bloomsbury, between pop and country. It's been covered many times, but it's Hannah Einbinder which takes her back to when Virginia Woolf covered the same Glen Campbell's version which remains the best loved and most Producer is Sam Michell route, in her life and in her novels. played. It is a BBC Studios Production. Read by Julianna Jennings. Johnny Cash also recorded an extraordinary and very raw TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jqbn) Produced by Duncan Minshull. version. Peter Lewry, a lifelong Cash fan, describes how this The Mountain Eaters First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016. recording came about, towards the end of Cash's career. Eccles and Ned set out to scoff Everest, with Grytpype-Thynne TUE 14:15 Gudrun (m000sqkh) Meggean Ward's father was a lineman in Rhode Island... her and Moriarty in pursuit. Stars Spike Milligan. From December Series 7 memories of seeing him in green work trousers, a plaid shirt 1958. Episode 2 and black boots, wrapping his cracked hands in bandages every TUE 08:30 Winston (b007np4w) The final series in Lucy Catherine’s Viking epic of love, morning before setting off to climb telephone poles are Winston Comes to Town revenge and faith inspired by the Icelandic sagas. interwoven forever with Wichita Lineman... as a child she A Tweak of Thread On the road to Rome, Gudrun has befriended reckless always felt the song was written for her father, who else? Father's poorly so the family must leave Winterleaf Gunner and adventuress, Truda, and believes their destinies are intertwined. Glen Campbell also gave an interview for this programme. return to London, but Nancy is distraught. Truda has other ideas. Shortly after the interview was recorded, Campbell went public What's going to happen to Winston - village poacher, Gudrun ….. Kate Phillips about his diagnosis of Alzheimer's. His contribution to the philosopher and Romeo? Will he come with them? Will London Freija ….. Samantha Dakin programme is brief, and includes an acoustic performance of survive with Winston? Truda ….. Charlotte East the song. It was a real privilege to record this, appropriately Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial stars Bill Wallis as Tobias ….. Hasan Dixon enough, down the line. Winston, Maurice Denham as Father, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, Abbot Bettega ….. Roger Ringrose Producer: Karen Gregor. Liz Goulding as Rosie and Christian Rodska as William. Young Sigrid ….. Rosie Boore First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Director: Shaun MacLoughlin. Directed by Gemma Jenkins. TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jqbn) First broadcast on BBC Radio in January 1990. TUE 14:30 Inside the Brain of Gerald Scarfe (b08wp16h) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE 09:00 The News Quiz (m000wdhh) The brain - the final frontier. Radio 4 is setting out on an TUE 19:30 Winston (b007np4w) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] exploration of the creative mind. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE 09:30 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqnd) Gerald Scarfe's drawings have intrigued and alarmed for more TUE 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvn3) June - An Ill Wind than fifty years but where do his ideas come from? Professor [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] As a storm descends on the village, the talk is all electric. Stars Vincent Walsh of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience has a TUE 20:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet Geoffrey Whitehead and Lisabeth Miles. From September theory he wants to pursue. Vincent is an expert in the workings (m000wjkj) 2000. of the visual brain; he thinks that two specific areas may be [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE 10:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1mf) talking to each other in an unexpected way, resulting in TUE 21:00 Archive on 4 (b08x2zn8) 1. Wilderness recognisable faces being mixed up with recognisable objects, [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] In 1730, drawn by a wild romantic impulse, Francis Herries hence Mrs Thatcher as an axe, a handbag, and even a shark. TUE 22:00 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000w9vg) moves his family to a tumbledown ancestral house called Now, cartoonist and neuroscientist are going to meet. "I for one [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] 'Herries', ringed by the Cumberland fells. would be fascinated to know what's going on in my brain - TUE 22:30 Revolting People (b00ftcck) Hugh Walpole's historical novel dramatised in four parts by please pursue this," says Gerald Scarfe. Series 2 Eric Pringle. The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde. A Bunch More Trying Times Francis .... Gavin Muir First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. Ezekiel gets a shock, and Mary is wooed by a newly arrived David ... Mark Bonnar TUE 15:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1mf) Captain. Little does she know he's recently been named "Cad of Margaret ... Janet Maw [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] the Year" by the Bounder's Gazette. Deborah ... Jane Whittenshaw TUE 16:00 The Rest is History (b04wrycv) Comedy set just before the American Revolution. Alice Press ... Jane Slavin Series 1 Written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses. Pomfret ... Stephen Thorne Episode 5 CAST: Jannice .... Shirley Dixon Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of it. Samuel Oliphant .... Jay Tarses Father Roache ....Hugh Dickson This comedy discussion show with celebrity guests promises to Sergeant McGurk .... Andy Hamilton Statesman Peel ....Gerard McDermott help him find out more about it. Captain Brimshaw .... James Fleet The Pedlar ....Ioan Meredith With David Mitchell, Steve Hall and historian in residence Dr Mary .... Jan Ravens Benjamin ....Chris Pavlo Kate Williams Ezekiel Spriggs .... Hugh Dennis Young Deborah ....Katie Clarke Frank and company navigate their way through the annals of Cora Oliphant .... Penelope Nice Young David ....George Maguire time, picking out and chewing over the funniest, oddest, and Joshua Oliphant .... Tony Maudsley Others parts by Joseph Head, Robert Harper, Alex Lowe, most interesting moments in history. Dashmount .... Michael Fenton Stevens Alison Pettitt and Christopher Scott Producers: Dan Schreiber and Justin Pollard Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer Director David Blount An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2001. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1997. January 2015. TUE 23:00 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap (b04ykk5j) TUE 11:00 Archive on 4 (b08x2zn8) TUE 16:30 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqnd) Series 2 Apocalypse Nigh [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Episode 3 In 2017 the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set its Doomsday TUE 17:00 Ayres on the Air (b03pmk77) Bridget Christie returns in another series of her multi-award- Clock at two minutes to midnight, their judgement that [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] winning series about modern feminism. humanity had moved closer to its own destruction. It's a theme TUE 17:30 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000w9vg) Bridget thought that she'd be able to put her feet up after her embraced in popular culture, from the surprise-bestseller, The [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] last Radio 4 series, she expected it to bomb. Sadly it was a huge Ladybird Book of the Zombie Apocalypse to armageddon-chic TUE 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b007jl80) success and she's had to bang on about feminism ever since. on the catwalk. Wyrd Sisters But she hasn't managed to single-handedly eradicate sexism so However while politics, pollution and the very real threat of 1. Surprise Bundle she's made a whole new four-part series about it for Radio 4 terrorism may indeed have made our world less stable, science Three witches meet on a blasted heath while murder is in the This week Bridget tries to find a feminist icon who doesn't want broadcaster Robin Ince considers whether our concern with air. to replace the word 'feminism' with 'bootylicious', discusses disaster is also age-old and sometimes imagined. Using the Terry Pratchett 's popular tale dramatised in four parts by Vince how adverts have ruined her sex life, and why twitter is a archive he explores our longstanding preoccupation with the Foxall. sexist's natural habitat. apocalypse, from religion and science to comedy and drama, CAST: She's assisted in this by the series' token man, Fred MacAulay. and what it tells us about the way we think. Granny Weatherwax …. Sheila Hancock The series is written and performed by Bridget Christie and the Drawing on diverse sources from nuclear missile tests to the Nanny Ogg …. Lynda Baron producers are Alexandra Smith and Alison Vernon Smith. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Orson Wells' infamous Magrat Garlick …. Deborah Berlin TUE 23:30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially radio hoax, Ince discovers how destruction has been portrayed Duke Felmet …. Ian Masters Better (b00kkfk6) in different ways across the decades, with archive contributions Lady Felmet …. Kristin Milward Series 1 from thinkers including physicist Richard Feynman and King Verence …. John Hartley Envy philosopher Noam Chomsky. Mrs Vitoller …. Natasha Pyne Mark Watson investigates envy as he continues his quest to free Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 29 May – 4 June 2021 Page 7 of 10 us from the seven deadly sins via stand-up comedy. old rival, some electrical cables and a very dusty dictionary. WED 12:30 No Commitments (b007jmwg) Tim Key and Tim Minchin provide sketches, songs and jealous Meet Alice (Rebecca Front) - a former child prodigy who won a [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] glances. place at Oxford aged 9 but, because Daddy went too, she never WED 13:00 Detective (b01s2kd7) Producer: Katie Marsden needed to have any friends. She's scared of everything. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2007. Everything that is except libraries and Snoo (Morwenna Banks) WED 13:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet - a slightly confused individual with a have-a-go attitude to life, (m000wl9g) marriage, haircuts and reality. Snoo loves books, and fully [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WEDNESDAY 02 JUNE 2021 intends to read one one day. WED 14:00 Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by And forever popping into the library is Dr Cadogan (Michael Lauren Elkin (b07mxt96) WED 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b007jl80) Fenton-Stevens) - celebrity doctor to the stars and a man with Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] his finger in every pie. Charming, indiscreet and quite possibly In her book, Lauren Elkin strolls great cities, thinking about WED 00:30 Soul Music (b013f96w) wanted by Interpol, if you want a discrete nip and tuck and then distinguished women who did the same. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] photos of it accidentally left on the photocopier, Dr Cadogan is She describes Paris, the great walking city. Beneath today's WED 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvn3) your man. concrete lies cobblestones, which gets her thinking about an [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Their happy life is interrupted by the arrival of Simon Nielson earlier age and the remarkable George Sand, who in the 1800's WED 01:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet (Ben Willbond), a man with a mission - a mission to close down promenaded around in gentleman's clothes. (m000wjkj) inefficient libraries. Fortunately, he hates his mission. What he Read by Julianna Jennings. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] really wants to do is once - just once - get even with his Produced by Duncan Minshull. WED 02:00 Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by inexhaustible supply of high-achieving brothers. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016. Lauren Elkin (b07mxgx8) Written by Morwenna Banks and Rebecca Front WED 14:15 Gudrun (m000sr3y) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Based on an idea developed with Armando Iannucci Series 7 WED 02:15 Gudrun (m000sqkh) Produced by David Tyler Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. The final series in Lucy Catherine’s Viking epic of love, WED 02:30 Inside the Brain of Gerald Scarfe (b08wp16h) WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jzps) revenge and faith inspired by the Icelandic sagas. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] Series 1 Gudrun and Truda embark on a quest to find a renowned Holy WED 03:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1mf) A House on the Cliff relic. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] The lad's after a new home, but is it really the best idea to get Gudrun ….. Kate Phillips WED 04:00 The Rest is History (b04wrycv) Sid to build it? Freija ….. Samantha Dakin [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] Starring Tony Hancock. Truda ….. Charlotte East WED 04:30 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqnd) With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr and Sidney James. Nun ….. Emma Handy [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Woman ….. Jane Whittenshaw WED 05:00 Ayres on the Air (b03pmk77) Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Directed by Gemma Jenkins. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry WED 14:30 When Wesley Went to Winchester (b011zm1g) WED 05:30 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000w9vg) Rabinowitz. In 1970, broadcaster Wesley Kerr was awarded a County [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] Producer: Dennis Main Wilson Bursary to study at the prestigious public school Winchester WED 06:00 Detective (b01s2kd7) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1955. College. Over forty years later, he opens the gates of memory Series 3 WED 08:30 No Commitments (b007jmwg) and attends a special reunion to find out what happened to the 1. The Trap Series 2 other bursary boys and explores the scheme's attempts at 'social A suspect in an armed London hold-up asks to see Detective Affair Exchange engineering.' Sergeant Brook - whose new assistant, Jack Tully, arrives and is Victoria is offered the chance of an affair, but will she succumb From a working class background, Wesley was a black foster plunged straight into the sharp end of police work. to Tim's charms? Stars Nicola Pagett. From August 1993. child growing up in Hampshire. With the odds against him, he CAST: WED 09:00 Whispers (b007k2zg) passed the exam and interview and took the opportunity that Detective Sergeant Brook …. Ray Brooks Series 1 was presented to him, later becoming BBC's television news' Detective Constable Tully …. Stephen Garlick Episode 3 first black reporter and later Royal correspondent. His early Thomas Brady …. Stephen Grief 'There never was an individual less regretted by his fellow success even made the national press - one newspaper headlined Detective Sergeant Harrison …. Peter Cleall creatures than this deceased King." 'Coloured Boy Wins place at Public School'. For Wesley and Chief Inspector Roach …. Stephen Yardley Gyles Brandreth reveals who in the panel show that celebrates many of these boys, they were parachuted into a new life at one Tommy …. Michael Ripper gossip rather than discretion, believing valour to be a redundant of Britain's top public schools. Chris Thompson …. Peter Acre concept in the face of a good story. The national bursary scheme, initiated by Winston Churchill, Bill …. Michael Jenner Regular team captains, biographer Anthony Holden, and writer MP Rab Butler and Lord Fleming, ran from 1947 to 1974, after DC Tim O'Brien/Prison Warder …. Anthony Jackson Stella Duffy are joined by the BBC's former royal a request by Churchill that a quarter of public schools places Kathy/Hotel Receptionist …. Eileen Tully correspondent Jennie Bond and entertainer Geoffrey Durham. were to be taken by state school boys and were funded by the More tough stories of crime and detection in London written by Producer: Elizabeth Freestone local education authority. A number of other schools such as Robert Barr. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003. Eton and Rugby also gave bursaries. Robert Barr also wrote TV scripts for the BBC's Z Cars and WED 09:30 Snap (b00tnmtj) At the unique springtime reunion, Wesley meets over thirty Softly Softly. He was also a prize-winning TV producer. Series 2 former pupils, who include a former judge, the man who's Producer: Martin Fisher Episode 1 designing the new Routemaster bus and the Bishop of Gibraltar. First broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 2 in June 1984. Separated for over a year, Doug and Molly are still finding it With stories of strange accents, public school pranks and those WED 06:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet hard to keep out of each other's lives. who struggled to fit into an alien environment, Wesley hears (m000wl9g) When the decree absolute arrives and Doug hears that Molly is how the experience gave them new opportunities and shaped 2. Sledging The District having a drinks party he's furious. But is all as it seems? their lives. The London Underground looms large in the life of Jarvis, Tom Paul Mendelson’s sitcom stars Rebecca Lacey as Molly, Paul Producer: Tamsin Barber and Alice and poses dangers to Jasper. Venables as Doug, Soumaya Keynes as Kaz, Jessie Sullivan as First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. 2: Sledging the District. Ryan, Marlene Sidaway as Annie, Jonathan Tafler as Raymond WED 15:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1nq) "Yeah, sledging. Riding on the train roofs, Jas." But there are and Samantha Spiro as Dawn. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] even greater dangers in store for Jasper. Producer: David Ian Neville WED 16:00 Whispers (b007k2zg) By Barbara Vine. adapted in four parts by Nick Fisher. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] With Martin Keily. Alice Arnold. Christopher Scon. Chris WED 10:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1nq) WED 16:30 Snap (b00tnmtj) Pavlo and Alex Lowe. 2. Forty-Five [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Musicians Polly Hewett. Roland Robert and Christine Messiter Francis encounters Mirabell again and his fate is sealed. WED 17:00 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics (b08jdz0k) Director Marion Nancarrow Meanwhile, the rebels are at the gates of Carlisle. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Cast Hugh Walpole's historical novel dramatised by Eric Pringle. WED 17:30 Shush! (b08pfnqg) Alice .... Kate Fenwick Francis ... Gavin Muir [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Axel .... Mark Strong David ... Mark Bonnar WED 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b007lzwx) Tom .... Jonathan Cullen Deborah ... Jane Whittenshaw Wyrd Sisters Jarvis .... Kim Wall Margaret ... Janet Maw 2. Three Wishes Cecilia .... Ann Beach Mirabell ... Deborah Berlin The new monarch has a troubled conscience and a wife like Daphne .... Llnda Polan Roche ... Hugh Dickson Lucrezia Borgia. The three witches have decisions to make... Jasper .... Stuart Morris Cumberlege ... Gordon Reid Terry Pratchett 's popular tale dramatised in four parts by Vince Bienvida .... Verity Waite Hetty ... Alison Pettitt Foxall. Damon .... James Bell Other parts played by Shirley Dixon, Robert Harper, Carolyn CAST: First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. Jones, Alex Lowe, Gerard McDermott, Ioan Meredith, Chris Granny Weatherwax …. Sheila Hancock WED 07:00 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics (b08jdz0k) Pavlo and Stephen Thorne Nanny Ogg …. Lynda Baron Series 2 Director David Blount Magrat Garlick …. Deborah Berlin The Prophecy First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1997. Duke Felmet …. Ian Masters By Richard Katz and John Nicholson WED 11:00 Lauren Laverne: Acting the Rock Star Lady Felmet …. Kristin Milward In medieval Scotland, a pair of soldiers, fleeing their own (m000wl9j) King Verence …. John Hartley regiment, come face-to-face with a trio of witches on a desolate 3. The Beatles & Elvis Presley Mrs Vitoller …. Natasha Pyne moor. One of them receives a prophecy that he will become From The Beatles and David Bowie to Spinal Tap and beyond, Vitoller …. Gavin Muir King of Scotland. It's a classic case of mistaken identity. across three programmes Lauren Laverne showcases how rock The Fool …. Andrew Branch In this second series, the comedy troupe Peepolykus assume the stars lives have been portrayed on radio and screen. Hwel …. Brian Hibbard roles of minor characters in great works of fiction and derail the In the third part of this lovingly compiled long-playing Director: Claire Grove plot through their hapless buffoonery. retrospective we'll hear... "When Elvis Met The Beatles" - An First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. Director, Sasha Yevtushenko. imagining of the occasion when the King of Rock 'N' Roll and WED 18:30 Short Cuts (m0005t94) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. The Fab Four came face to face in 1965. Series 19 WED 07:30 Shush! (b08pfnqg) The series was produced by Stuart Ross. Nocturne Series 2 Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra. Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in Ticks & Foibles WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jzps) sound about what happens after darkness falls. From Mark When Snoo makes an unexpected purchase, Alice has to face an [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Thomas's childhood nocturnal journeys to a late-night story told Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 29 May – 4 June 2021 Page 8 of 10 in the glow of a turf fire. (m000wl9g) Finnemore, "one of our best sketch writers", (The Observer), The Little Nuneen [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] and performed by him with "a great supporting cast of Margaret Featuring Gerald O'Brien THU 02:00 Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Produced by Regan Hutchins Lauren Elkin (b07mxt96) Quinlan" (The Telegraph), and there are still sketches and Escape [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] songs. But, with no live studio audience this year, John has Featuring Mark Thomas THU 02:15 Gudrun (m000sr3y) taken the opportunity to try something completely new Produced by Sarah Cuddon [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] Every episode in this series of Souvenir Programme is made up The Poem Explains Nothing THU 02:30 When Wesley Went to Winchester (b011zm1g) of scenes from one person's life, played in reverse order. Featuring Peter Beverley [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] There's no narrative to the episode; it's still a sketch show, not a Produced by Peilin Li THU 03:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1nq) sitcom... but the sketches in each episode all happened to one Production team: Andrea Rangecroft and Alia Cassam [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] person, played by one member of the cast, over the course of Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall THU 04:00 Whispers (b007k2zg) their lifetime. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Episode four is about Vanessa, and starts with a television quiz June 2019. THU 04:30 Snap (b00tnmtj) show in 1990, and ends with a fairytale walk in 1921. WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jzps) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme started in 2011 and [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 05:00 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics (b08jdz0k) quickly established itself as "One of the most consistently funny WED 19:30 No Commitments (b007jmwg) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] sketch shows for quite some time" (The Guardian), and "One of [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU 05:30 Shush! (b08pfnqg) the funniest and most inventive new radio comedy shows of WED 20:00 Detective (b01s2kd7) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] recent years" (The Daily Mail). [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU 06:00 Detective (b01s316s) Written and performed by ... John Finnemore WED 20:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet Series 3 Vanessa ... Carrie Quinlan (m000wl9g) 2. A Bit of a Grudge Ensemble ... Lawry Lewin [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] A suspect in an armed London hold-up asks to see Detective Ensemble ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED 21:00 Lauren Laverne: Acting the Rock Star Sergeant Brook - whose new assistant, Jack Tully, arrives and is Ensemble ... Simon Kane (m000wl9j) plunged straight into the sharp end of police work. Original music composed by .... Susannah Pearse [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] CAST: Original music arranged by ... Susannah Pearse and Tim Sutton WED 22:00 Shush! (b08pfnqg) Detective Sergeant Brook …. Ray Brooks Recorded and edited by ... Rich Evans at Syncbox Post [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Detective Constable Tully …. Stephen Garlick Production coordinator ... Beverly Tagg WED 22:30 Bleak Expectations (b00p3380) Detective Sergeant Harrison …. Peter Cleall Producer ... Ed Morrish Series 3 Tommy …. Michael Ripper A BBC Studios Production Lives Lost, Ruined, Wrecked and Redeemed Paul Caville …. Douglas Blackwell THU 08:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b010y71x) Pip and Ripely find themselves facing a vast and evil undead Billy Dale …. David Milner Series 7 army. England has only one hope - that Miss Sweetly Delightful Inspector …. Arnold Diamond Episode 6 can melt Mr Benevolent's cruel, undead heart. Detective Constable Mathieson …. Peter Acre Solutions for unemployment - and Professor Prune hears a Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans More tough stories of crime and detection in London written by strange echo. Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson Robert Barr. Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen Robert Barr also wrote TV scripts for the BBC's Z Cars and David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head Softly Softly. He was also a prize-winning TV producer. Sketches written by Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Andrew Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman Producer: Martin Fisher Fisher. Bishop Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead First broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 2 in June 1984. Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Ripely Bin ...... Sarah Hadland THU 06:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and Miss Sweetly Delightful ...... Raquel Cassidy (m000wlkp) quickly developed a cult following. The Duke of Chelsea ...... Mark Evans 3. Revengeful Love Music and songs by Bill Oddie, Liam Cohen and Dave Lee. Producer: Gareth Edwards The London Underground continues to exert its pull, but Cecilia Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009 faces challenges from an unexpected quarter. Stars Ann Beach. First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in February 1969. WED 23:00 The Problem With Adam Bloom (b007rgld) 3: Revengeful Love THU 08:30 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007rhx1) Series 1 Cecilia is in for another shock -this time from an unexpected The End - At Last Cutting Corners quarter. Tony ends up in South America and Joanna plans an attack on The frugal comedian features an excerpt from his stand-up By Barbara Vine (a pen name for Ruth Rendell), adapted in Yorkshire. Nick Revell's epic comedy saga. From June 1997. show at the Edinburgh Festival. With Rob Rouse. From four parts by Nick Fisher. THU 09:00 Who Goes There? (b00766w1) September 2003. Musicians Polly Hewett , Roland Robert and Christine Messiter Series 6 WED 23:15 Tina C (b01by7d5) Director Marion Nancarrow Episode 1 Tina C's Global Depression Tour Cast Martin Young's famous people quiz. With Francis Wheen, Fred United Kingdom Alice .... Kate Fenwick Housego, Lynne Truss and Anthony Holden. From October Country legend Tina C challenges the Secretary for the US Axel .... Mark Strong 2002. Treasury, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the former Tom .... Jonathan Cullen THU 09:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b008043w) CEO of Goldman Sachs that where they have failed, she can Jarvis .... Kim Wall Series 2 come up with a solution to the Global Recession, and sets off on Cecilia .... Ann Beach Episode 5 a six country tour to prove it. Daphne .... Linda Polan The news that their best friends are expecting a second baby This week she is camping outside St Pauls. Tina .... Alice Arnold sparks an unexpected reaction in Lucy. In desperation, Daniel Tina C...Christopher Green Jasper .... Stuart Morris turns to his mother-in-law for help... With Paul Mason, Victoria Inez Hardy and James Lailey Bienvida .... Verity Waite The second series of David Spicer's comedy drama about Musical arrangements by Duncan Walsh Atkins and Dean .... Martin Kelly modern life and parenthood, as seen through the eyes of two Christopher Green Damon .... James Bell 30-something non-parents. Director Jeremy Mortimer. Peter / Man .... Christopher Scott CAST: First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2012. Daniel / Pilot .... Alex Lowe Daniel .... David Tennant WED 23:30 Vent (b01dw7cx) Alice's Mother .... Shirley Dixon Lucy .... Liz Carling Series 3 Journalist .... Elaine Pyke Katie .... Samantha Spiro Loneliness Is a Crowded Head Waitress .... Janet Maw Andy .... Tony Gardner Ben's life is full of well-meaning people trying to do everything First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. Mary .... Sally Grace for him. Everything, that is, except leave him alone. THU 07:00 Cleaning Up (b053c3p4) Frank .... Bill Fellows He begins to wonder if Robinson Crusoe might have been on to 2. True Love? Producer: Liz Anstee a good thing. They say there's someone for everyone, has Shiv found true First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. Dark sitcom about a man in a coma, travelling through the love? THU 10:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1pw) distinctly odd landscape of his own unconscious mind. Every night, as time is called and people are spat out onto the 3. The Wild Marriage Written by Nigel Smith. streets and squeezed into rides home to dream -tossed beds - It is now 1756 and David is prospering. But Francis roams the Ben ...... Neil Pearson others are hard at work. Teams of cleaners are in office spaces fells searching for something he can never find. Mary ...... Fiona Allen scrubbing, vacuuming and cleaning up. And right at the bottom Hugh Walpole's historical novel dramatised in four parts by Mum ...... Josie Lawrence of the food chain we find our gang - Spit n' Polish tackling the Eric Pringle. Blitz ...... Leslie Ash floors of a plush tower block in Manchester city centre. Francis ... Gavin Muir Nurse ...... Jo Martin Written by Ian Kershaw and with a top hole Northern cast, this David ... Mark Bonnar Derek ...... Stephen Frost is a funny, sometimes dark comedy about people who always Deborah ... Jane Whittenshaw Marley ...... Spencer Brown get the fuzzy end of the lollipop. A group of people thrown Mirabell ... Deborah Berlin Bea ...... Scarlett Milburn-Smith together by their work, take as much solace as they can from Pomfret ... Stephen Thorne Castaway ...... John Kay-Steel this. Sunwood/Bann ... Christopher Scott Waiter ...... Bruce Alexander Julie ..... Julie Hesmondhalgh Denburn ... Keith Drinkel Director: Nigel Smith. Nobby ..... Paul Barber Sarah .... Becky Hindley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009. Dave ..... John Thompson Other parts played by Hugh Dickson, Carolyn Jones, Ioan Shiv ..... Lauren Socha Meredith, Chris Pavlo and Alison Pettitt Nita ..... Bhavna Limbachia Director: David Blount THURSDAY 03 JUNE 2021 Our Bri ..... Jack Deam First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1997. Produced at BBC Salford by Alison Vernon-Smith THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05sy1yw) THU 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b007lzwx) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme THU 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b0100j9q) THU 00:30 Short Cuts (m0005t94) (m000wcyr) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Series 9 THU 12:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b010y71x) THU 01:00 Detective (b01s2kd7) Episode 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] The ninth series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is THU 12:30 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007rhx1) THU 01:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet very different to the previous eight. It's still written by John [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 29 May – 4 June 2021 Page 9 of 10 THU 13:00 Detective (b01s316s) The producer is Perminder Khatkar. More tough stories of crime and detection in London written by [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. Robert Barr. THU 13:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet THU 19:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b010y71x) Robert Barr also wrote TV scripts for the BBC's Z Cars and (m000wlkp) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Softly Softly. He was also a prize-winning TV producer. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU 19:30 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007rhx1) Producer: Martin Fisher THU 14:00 Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] First broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 2 in July 1984. Lauren Elkin (b07mythk) THU 20:00 Detective (b01s316s) FRI 06:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet Episode 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] (m000wlyg) Author Lauren Elkin strolls great cities, thinking about THU 20:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet 4. Out of This World distinguished women who did the same.. (m000wlkp) Axel's influence over the residents of the schoolhouse, near the She spent time in Venice, researching a novel. And here she [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] London Underground, finally extends to Tom. Stars Mark recalls the artist Sophie Calle, who came to the city to 'follow' a THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05sy1yw) Strong. man called 'Henri B'. All in the name of creativity of course.. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] 4: Out of This World. Read by Julianna Jennings. THU 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b0100j9q) By Barbara Vine (a pen name of Ruth Rendell ), adapted by Produced by Duncan Minshull. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Nick Fisher. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016. THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Musicians Polly Hewett , Roland Robert and Christine Messiter THU 14:15 Gudrun (m000srf3) (m000wcyr) Director Marion Nancarrow Series 7 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Cast Episode 4 THU 22:30 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair (b09bz18l) Alice .... Kate Fenwick The final series in Lucy Catherine’s Viking epic of love, Series 4 Axel .... Mark Strong revenge and faith inspired by the Icelandic sagas. The Nannas Tom .... Jonathan Cullen Gudrun and Truda’s plans are thrown into disarray when they Dawn spends her life cleaning for the middle classes and Daphne .... Linda Polan arrive in Rome. fancies she could uncover a few secrets behind the Farrow and Cecilia .... Ann Beach Gudrun ….. Kate Phillips Ball doors. Jarvis .... Kim Wall Freija ….. Samantha Dakin But when she does, it comes at a cost she couldn't imagine... Tina .... Alice Arnold Truda ….. Charlotte East Another in the series of Jenny Eclair's comic monologues where Jasper .... Stuart Morris Garvinicus ….. Jane Whittenshaw four women reach a crisis in their lives. Bienvida .... Verity Waite Nun ….. Emma Handy Tilly Vosburgh has appeared in numerous TV series including Alice's mother .... Shirley Dixon Directed by Gemma Jenkins. EastEnders, Tipping The Velvet, and The Smoking Room and Man/Newsreader .... Alex Lowe THU 14:30 Folk Song, Art Song (b01gg7dm) films such as Atonement, Vera Drake and Boy A. First doctor .... Christopher Scott Christopher Maltman is an award-winning opera singer and Producer: Sally Avens Second doctor .... Colleen Prendergast recitalist. Alongside the lieders, chansons and art songs of his First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2017. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. recital repertoire, he loves nothing more than performing folk THU 22:45 Brian Appleton's History of Rock 'n' Roll FRI 07:00 The Break (b07j40ww) song settings. (b00fw3zq) Series 1 Audiences often respond well, but not all among the folk- Come Up and See Me The Girl from the South singing fraternity are enthusiastic about this genre borrowing. How Brian's interruption of a recording session inadvertently Uncle Jeff (Philip Jackson), out of the blue, decides that his Some contend that folk songs lose much of their impact when gave Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel their biggest hit. nephew Andy (Tom Palmer) needs a girlfriend. Andy decides refined and beautified for the recital stage. More revelations from rock musicologist and part-time media that he does not. Jeff persists - Fish Shop Frank (Mark Benton) Christopher talks to folk singer Eliza Carthy and scholars studies tutor Brian Appleton has his niece visiting from down south, and she is, by all Georgina Boyes and Tim Healey about the uneasy relationship Written and performed by Graham Fellows. accounts, "a lovely girl". between the two musical worlds. Producer: Dawn Ellis While waiting for Andy to agree, Jeff takes him to the local Is the antagonism musical or to do with very English attitudes to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001. hypermarket ostensibly for supplies, but in fact because Jeff has class and accent? And why is it that so many of his opera- THU 23:00 The In Crowd (b0085jl5) read in a magazine that supermarkets are the ideal place for singing colleagues from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and further Series 4 young singles to meet. afield, have no such animosity from their respective folk Episode 2 While Jeff is wrongly detained for shoplifting, Andy runs into cultures? A tricky restaurant customer and a confused football manager. an old flame from London, Liz (Shobna Gulati). She's staying Christopher also talks to his regular recital accompanist Julius Manchester sketch show with Kate Ward and Robin Ince. From with her Uncle Frank - so this is the "lovely girl" Jeff's been Drake and senior colleague Sir Thomas Allen about the best 2004. banging on about! Can Andy rekindle the relationship with his way of approaching this music, searching for a performance THU 23:30 Safety Catch (b00fn9d1) old flame? that is genuine to singer and song alike. Series 1 Writers: Ian Brown and James Hendrie Producer: Tom Alban Whatever Happened to the Unlikely Lad? Producer/Director: Gordon Kennedy First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2012. Arms dealer Simon dreads his school reunion, but could he be An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in THU 15:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1pw) the coolest kid in class? Stars Darren Boyd. From October July 2016. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] 2007. FRI 07:30 The Confessional (m000wjfr) THU 16:00 Who Goes There? (b00766w1) Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] The Confession of Joan Bakewell THU 16:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b008043w) FRIDAY 04 JUNE 2021 Actor, comedian and broadcaster Stephen Mangan presents a [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] comedy chat show about shame and guilt. THU 17:00 Cleaning Up (b053c3p4) FRI 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b007m481) Each week Stephen Mangan invites a different eminent guest [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] into his virtual confessional box to make three 'confessions'. THU 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b084x6m8) This is a cue for some remarkable storytelling, and surprising (m000wcyr) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] insights. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 01:00 Detective (b01s316s) We’re used to hearing celebrity interviews where stars are THU 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b007m481) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] persuaded to show off about their achievements and talk about Wyrd Sisters FRI 01:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet their proudest moments. Stephen's not interested in that. He 3. Hogwatch Night (m000wlkp) doesn’t want to know what his guests are proud of, he wants to The old King is dead. The new ruler has a troubled conscience [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] know what they’re ashamed of. That’s surely the way to find out and a wife on the warpath - in pursuit of the three witches... FRI 02:00 Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by what really makes a person tick. Stephen and his guest reflect Terry Pratchett 's popular tale dramatised in four parts by Vince Lauren Elkin (b07mythk) with empathy and humour on why we get embarrassed, where Foxall. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] our shame thresholds should be, and the value of guilt. CAST: FRI 02:15 Gudrun (m000srf3) This week, legendary broadcaster Joan Bakewell confesses to Granny Weatherwax …. Sheila Hancock [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] gaffes in the Big Apple, escapades in Paris and not being Nanny Ogg …. Lynda Baron FRI 02:30 Folk Song, Art Song (b01gg7dm) outspoken enough. Magrat Garlick …. Deborah Berlin [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] Other guests in the series include Cariad Lloyd, Dr Phil Duke Felmet …. Ian Masters FRI 03:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1pw) Hammond, Clarke Peters, Suzi Ruffell, Marian Keyes, Phil Lady Felmet …. Kristin Milward [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Wang, Lucy Porter, Nigel Planer and Alastair Campbell. King Verence …. John Hartley FRI 04:00 Who Goes There? (b00766w1) Written and presented by Stephen Mangan The Fool …. Andrew Branch [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] With extra material by Nick Doody The Demon …. Gavin Muir FRI 04:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b008043w) Devised with Dave Anderson and produced by Frank Stirling Shawn …. Brian Hibbard [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4 Director: Claire Grove FRI 05:00 Cleaning Up (b053c3p4) FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jm2h) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Series 1 THU 18:30 Great Lives (b084x6m8) FRI 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme The Showing Up of Corporal Jones Series 41 (m000wcyr) Corporal Jones will be forced to retire from the Home Guard, Sir Ben Kingsley on Elie Wiesel [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] unless he manages to complete an assault course in 15 Actor Sir Ben Kingsley tells Matthew Parris why he regards FRI 06:00 Detective (b01s2xl6) minutes.... Elie Wiesel as his great life. A writer, a Nobel laureate, a Series 3 Six years after legendary sitcom Dad's Army started on BBC holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel had to endure the worst horrors 3. Lost Without a Trace TV, these specially adapted radio versions began recording with of mankind and survive the darkest of crimes. In the Holocaust Brook and Tully must sound out their snouts to try and the original cast. he lost his mother, his father and his youngest sister. He once recapture £200,000 of stolen electrical goods. Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le said: “To forget the dead would be to akin to killing them again CAST: Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, a second time”. Detective Sergeant Brook …. Ray Brooks Arnold Ridley as Private Godfrey, Ian Lavender as Private Sir Ben Kingsley regards Wiesel as was one the great voices of Detective Constable Tully …. Stephen Garlick Pike, John Laurie as Private Frazer, Graham Stark as Private the holocaust and says he should never be forgotten and this was Detective Sergeant Harrison …. Peter Cleall Walker and Jack Watson as Major Regan Smith. With John a promise he made to Wiesel. Chief Inspector Roach …. Stephen Yardley Snagge as the announcer. To help tell the story of Elie Wiesel the expert witness is Robert Ma Gregg … Julie May Adapted from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's original BBC TV Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought Mr Hewitt …. Victor Maddern scripts by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad. and an expert in Holocaust Literature at Royal Holloway, Harry/Somers/Voice on Radio …. Johnny Wade Producer: John Dyas University of London. Springer/Barman …. William Hope First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in April 1974. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 29 May – 4 June 2021 Page 10 of 10 FRI 08:30 Semi Circles (b0949hw9) FRI 14:00 Flâneuse: Women Who Walk the Cities by FRI 19:30 Semi Circles (b0949hw9) Series 1 Lauren Elkin (b07myyqx) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] The Quality of Life Episode 5 FRI 20:00 Detective (b01s2xl6) What has Alastair's being in love got to do with Ben's bad luck, Author Lauren Elkin strolls great cities, thinking about [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] and is there still a place for Tammy Wynette in all their lives? distinguished women who did the same. FRI 20:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet The improving story of life and improving times in an There's an intriguing photograph of 'Jinx Allen', taken in (m000wlyg) improving neighbourhood. Florence by Ruth Orkin, and it's mysteries are now revealed. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Starring Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben Then some reveries after wandering the sidewalks of New FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000wlyk) Written by Simon Brett York.. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Helen ...... Paula Wilcox Read by Julianna Jennings. FRI 22:00 The Confessional (m000wjfr) Ben ...... David Wood Produced by Duncan Minshull. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Mrs Kelly ...... Pay Heywood First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016. FRI 22:30 The Consultants (b0628g9r) Alastair ...... Bruce Alexander FRI 14:15 Gudrun (m000ss39) Series 4 Perpetua ...... Patience Tomlinson Series 7 Episode 5 Producer: Pete Atkin Episode 5 Two travellers stumble upon a very unusual pub quiz. Neil First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1982 The final series in Lucy Catherine’s Viking epic of love, Edmond and James Rawlings' cerebral sketches. From FRI 09:00 Counterpoint (b00scgxy) revenge and faith inspired by the Icelandic sagas. November 2005. Series 24 Gudrun is reunited with a figure from her past when she is FRI 23:00 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (b01322dm) 2010 Heat 9 taken to meet the leader of a religious cult. Series 2 (9/13) The ninth and last heat of the 2010 contest comes from Gudrun ….. Kate Phillips Episode 3 Manchester. Paul Gambaccini welcomes three contestants from Freija ….. Samantha Dakin The human chameleon's host of comic characters from a Scotland and the North of England to the general knowledge Garvinicus ….. Jane Whittenshaw chicken shop worker to a honeymooner. music quiz. One of them will win the last remaining place in the Sigrid ….. Hollie Burgess Starring; Lucy Montgomery, semi-finals, which begin next week. The musical extracts in the Leif ….. Chris Pavlo With Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Natalie Walter, Iris Walker and programme encompass classical composers old and modern, Directed by Gemma Jenkins. Waen Shepherd jazz, rock and pop, and musical theatre. FRI 14:30 D-Day Dames (b0457rms) Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by Steve Producer Paul Bajoria In spring 1944 American women war correspondents gathered Burge, Jon Hunter, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Fay Rusling. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2010. in London in anticipation of the D-Day invasion. Women were Script Editor: Dan Tetsell FRI 09:30 Bristow (b007vgv7) not allowed to report from the front line, although that did not Producer: Katie Tyrrell. Series 3 stop Martha Gellhorn. She returned to London as her marriage First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2011. Chapter and Verse to Ernest Hemingway was ending - he had met his next wife, FRI 23:30 Party (b011jrmq) As the Chester-Perry clerk writes for the house journal, he also a war correspondent, in the Dorchester hotel in London as Series 2 learns the meaning of poetic justice. he waited for the invasion to take place. But it was Gellhorn, All Publicity Is Good Publicity Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the buying clerk from Frank who hid on a hospital ship across the channel, who went ashore The young aspiring politicians of the new political Party Dickens' famous newspaper cartoon strip. Syndicated and wrote a dramatic account of it – she was subsequently attempt to step up a gear and get the recognition and publicity internationally, it ran for 41 years in London's Evening disciplined by the authorities as she had no accreditation. they deserve. Standard. Others women, such as Helen Kirkpatrick witnessed All they need to do is sort out the diversity of their group first. Bristow ...... Michael Williams Eisenhower's return from the front as she reported from D-Day Second series of Tom Basden's satirical comedy. Jones ...... Rodney Bewes headquarters. After D-Day itself, women reporters gradually Simon ...... Tom Basden Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan started going to Normandy, such as Lee Miller, who filed Duncan ...... Tim Key Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman dramatic photo-journalism accounts for British Vogue from a Jared ...... Jonny Sweet Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey field hospital and then found herself on the frontlines of the Mel ...... Ann Crilly Fudge ...... Jon Glover siege of St Malo. The women followed the troops across Phoebe ...... Katy Wix Postboy ...... Simon Schatzberger Europe, arriving in Paris for its liberation in August. Photographer ...... Jane Wittenshaw Hickford ...... Roger Lloyd Pack It was a key moment in the history of women war Producer - Julia McKenzie Liftboy ...... Ian Kelland correspondents. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2011. Music: John Whitehall Lyse Doucet recounts their stories with archive audio, readings Producer: Neil Cargill from their articles and letters, interviews with relatives and their First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000. biographers. She explains how the work of women war FRI 10:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1r3) correspondents has changed since then. 4. A Great Age to Be Beginning Producer: Philip Reevell Trapped at Herries with a man she cannot love, Mirabell yearns City Broadcasting production to be free... First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Conclusion of Hugh Walpole's historical novel dramatised by FRI 15:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries (b007k1r3) Eric Pringle. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Francis .... Gavin Muir FRI 16:00 Counterpoint (b00scgxy) David ... Mark Bonnar [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Mirabell ... Deborah Berlin FRI 16:30 Bristow (b007vgv7) Deborah ... Jane Whittenshaw [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Sarah ... Becky Hindley FRI 17:00 The Break (b07j40ww) Benjamin ... Chris Pavlo [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Reverend ... Christopher Scott FRI 17:30 The Confessional (m000wjfr) Harness ... Gerard McDermott [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Other parts played by Stephen Thorne, Linda Polan, Katie FRI 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b007jmq9) Clarke, Joseph Head, Carolyn Jones and George Maguire Wyrd Sisters Director David Blount 4. Degrees of Royalty First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1997. Lancre's new ruler teeters on the edge of madness. The old King FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000wlyk) will be revenged. The three witches set to work! Detective Stories The final part of Terry Pratchett 's popular tale dramatised by Chris Pearson and Caroline Crampton go on the hunt for Vince Foxall. detective listening. CAST: Award winning investigative reporter Madeleine Baran talks to Granny Weatherwax …. Sheila Hancock us about her show In The Dark, and tell us how to her, the least Nanny Ogg …. Lynda Baron interesting part ofreporting on criminal activity is the crime Magrat Garlick …. Deborah Berlin itself. Duke Felmet … Ian Masters Plus, we'll hear how the Victoriocity writers Jen and Chris Lady Felmet …. Kristin Milward Sugden were influenced by early detectives when creating their King Verence …. John Hartley story set in 1887. The Fool …. Andrew Branch We'll also hear about: Vitoller …. Gavin Muir The Tuesday Night Mystery Club Hwel …. Brian Hibbard Meddling Adults Tomjon …. Roger May Up The Creek Director: Claire Grove Murder, We Spoke First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. Veronica Mars Investigations FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b00smq83) Detective Trapp Entitlement Chicano Squad When did what we desire become what we feel we deserve ? In The Casebook of Max & Ivan an age when foreign holidays have become routine and over Dead Drunk Detective 25,000 public sector workers earn £100,000 a year and more, The Amelia Project we tackle this mood of relentless entitlement with Heather The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Brooke, whose tireless use of the Freedom of Information act FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jm2h) helped to break the MPs expenses scandal; stand up Simon [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Evans, whose routine includes a description of his accent as FRI 12:30 Semi Circles (b0949hw9) exotic 'and that's because it is educated'; and Naomi Alderman [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] whose first novel Disobedience won the Orange Award for FRI 13:00 Detective (b01s2xl6) Young Writers and who feels our sense of entitlement should be [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] replaced by a purer feeling of gratitude. The presenter is FRI 13:30 Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet Dominic Arkwright and the producer is Miles Warde. (m000wlyg) FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jm2h) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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