Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2021 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 16 JANUARY 2021 guest on camera at the time was a befuddled looking Walter Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey Poucher. Richard Blobb ...... Norman Bird SAT 00:00 The Routemasters by Andrew McGibbon Yet when it came to staging and managing your life Walter Miss Golightly ...... Lucy Akhurst (b007jnsh) perhaps was ahead of the game and knew things that would Postboy ...... Simon Schatzberger 4. Wolfie and Beetie have surprised both Grace Jones and Russell Harty. Here was a Receptionist ...... Zeena Eate Raymond and Hildegard kidnap Beethoven and Mozart in their metrosexual man decades before he was supposed to have Music composed and performed by John Whitehall. plot to create the greatest ever rock band. evolved. Hayden Lorimer, geographer at Glasgow University Producer: Neil Cargill Herr Grubberman comes clean, while Bernie finally discovers and committed hill-runner, explores the life and times of the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1999. the truth about who - or what- is driving the time bus. Perfumed Mountaineer. SAT 05:00 Dot (b071skpf) Starring Amanda Donohoe as Hilderghast, Andrew McGibbon Producer: Tim Dee Series 1 as Raymond, Karl Minns as the Conductor, Owen Evans as First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. The Extraordinary Example of the Ha'penny Exchange Bernie, Nick Romero as Mozart, Andy Mulligan as Herr SAT 03:00 Drama (b08n22rp) A little East End snotling has infiltrated the Cabinet War Grubberman, Dan Freedman as Glenn Miller, Alex Lowe as The Hours by Michael Cunningham Rooms. But Dot's got important propaganda work to do. Taffy and Sophie Aldred as Spikea. Episode 2 How will she dispose of the little gremlin, whilst simultaneously Written by Andrew McGibbon. Additional material by Rob The Pulitzer winning book by Michael Cunningham inspired by concocting a stirring, yet pithy slogan for the war effort? For Colley and Kevin Greening. Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. Starring Rosamund Pike, King and country, she'll bally well try! Theme by Ozzy Temple and other music by Nick Romero. Fenella Woolgar and Teresa Gallagher. Comic adventures with Dot and the gals from personnel in the Producer: Julian Mayers Three very separate women. They live in different locations and rollicking wartime comedy by Ed Harris. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. different eras but they are bound by their passion for Virginia Dot ..... Fenella Woolgar SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00hlbp4) Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway. As they experience life on a Myrtle ..... Kate O'Flynn Organisation Tuesday in June, their thoughts and experiences echo each other Peg ..... Freya Parker Dominic Arkwright chairs a discussion on the word and become intertwined. Millicent ..... Jane Slavin 'organisation' with former director general of the British In Richmond in 1923, Virginia Woolf (Fenella Woolgar) sits Peabody ..... David Acton Council Sir David Green, punk poet Attila the Stockbroker and down to write a novel calling her heroine Mrs Dalloway. In Los Ha'penny ..... Alicia Ambrose-Bayly writer Jay Griffiths. Angeles in 1949, Laura (Teresa Gallagher) sits in bed reading Matron ..... Susan Jameson SAT 01:00 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nnpb3) Mrs Dalloway. In New York in the 1990s, Clarissa (Rosamund Right Honourable Washtunrub ..... Sean Baker 5. Godalming Pike) goes out to buy flowers for a party mirroring the start of Director: Jessica Mitic The ex-officer heads to Godalming to protect Phyllis. And are the day for the fictional Mrs Dalloway. The party is for her best First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. the Duchess' pearls safe? Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. friend Richard who long ago dubbed her Mrs Dalloway. SAT 05:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000r31x) SAT 01:30 Cadfael (b007jldz) Weaving together themes of bisexuality, mental illness, middle Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Egg-sistential Crisis The Virgin in the Ice age, the trials of creativity, parental guilt, marital discord, Stand-up Kiri Pritchard-Mclean brings a special show to BBC 5. Discoveries suburban isolation, infertility, friendship and loss - the three Radio 4 all about millennials and why they have stopped Detective monk Brother Cadfael discovers outlaws have taken stories become one. procreating. Ives Hugonin prisoner. In the second and concluding episode, Virginia, Laura and Producer: Suzy Grant Conclusion starring Philip Madoc as Brother Cadfael. Clarissa all experience conflict between their need to be free BBC Studios Production Written by Ellis Peters and dramatised by Bert Coules. and their domestic responsibilities and ties. Virginia Woolf SAT 06:00 Anthony Hope - The Prisoner Of Zenda Brother Cadfael ...... Philip Madoc creates a pivotal moment when Mrs Dalloway sees a book in a (b01qkm4l) Narrator ...... Sir Michael Hordern shop window open at a page with a song from Shakespeare's The great swashbuckling story of the English gentleman Rudolf Ermina ...... Moira Buffini Cymbeline. It haunts her - and it haunts Laura and Clarissa too. Rassendyll and his adventures in the East European province of Leonard ...... Leonard Fenton As their stories become interwoven there more and more Ruritania. Epic historical tale of subterfuge and doppelgangers. Hugh ...... Douglas Hodge parallels. Starring Julian Glover as King Rudolf/Rudolf Rassendyll, Nigel Le Gaucher ...... Peter Laird Michael Cunningham's enormously popular and critically Stock as Colonel Sapt, Hannah Gordon as Princess Flavia and Ives ...... Dean Magri successful book won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Martin Jarvis as Rupert of Hentzau. Elyas ...... Crispin Letts inspired the film starring Nicole Kidman. He called his story Adapted by Eric Maschwitz and Kay Patrick Axeman ...... Peter Gunn The Hours because that was a title that Virginia Woolf had Original music (1939) by Robert Chignell and Leslie Woodgate Boterel ...... Andrew Wincott considered. He says Mrs Dalloway was a huge influence on his Cast: Other parts played by the cast. life because he read the novel as a response to a dare when he Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf .... Julian Glover Music by Peter Salem. was 15 and then decided to be a writer. Colonel Sapt .... Nigel Stock Producer: Phil Clarke. Sony Award winning writer Frances Byrnes adapted the book Princess Flavia .... Hannah Gordon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1992. for radio. Count Fritz .... David Timson SAT 02:00 Robb Wilton: I Should Say So (b01lk6wp) Cast: Rupert of Hentzau .... Martin Jarvis Series 1 Vanessa/Sally .... Lia Williams Duke Michael .... Michael Spice The Bigamist Virginia .... Fenella Woolgar Antoinette de Mauban .... Anne Kidd Robb Wilton (1881-1957) was one of the most popular music Laura ….Teresa Gallagher Lord Burlesdon .... Clive Swift hall and radio comics of the 1930s and 1940s. Richie … Jack Towbin Lady Rose Burlesdon/ Innkeeper .... Diana Bishop Famed as an all-round pessimist - what would he have made of Clarissa …. Rosamund Pike Countess Helga .... Hilda Schroder 1980s Britain - trying to solve a tricky marital problem? Julia … Haley McGee Rosa .... Cherry Gilliam Michael Williams stars as Robb Wilton - making as little sense Walter/Dan ….Corey Johnson Captain Detchard .... Terry Scully out of life as he did 40 years before... Leonard …. David Annen Johann .... Sam Dastor Written by Allen Saddler. Nelly …. Rachel Atkins Josef .... Haydn Jones Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller Composer: Gene Pritsker Train guard .... William Sleigh First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1986. Pianist: Carollyn Eden Bersonin .... David Gooderson SAT 02:15 Gregory Evans - Blood and Milk (b07qc3g7) Sound Design: Steve Bond Customs officer .... Brian Haines Series 1 Adapted for radio by Frances Byrnes Producer: Martin Jenkins Episode 10 Directed by Judith Kampfner and Polly Thomas First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1973. Things come to a head when Meg makes an offer to predatory Produced by Judith Kampfner SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b06wd26b) dairyman Iolo Jones and Annie confronts the creepy Madog Executive Producer Celia De Wolff Series 38 Prys. Last in the series. A Corporation For Independent Media production Nitin Sawhney on Jeff Buckley Megan Evans ….. Bettrys Jones First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. Musician and performer Nitin Sawhney champions the life of Samuel Singer ….. David Horovitch SAT 04:00 The Personality Test (b007tzff) Jeff Buckley who he regards as a genius singer, songwriter. Annie Riley ….. Alice Haig Series 3 The expert is Steve Abbott who was a friend of Buckley's and Nance Barker ….. Clare Perkins Toyah Willcox released his debut record. Madog Prys ….. James Lailey Pop sensation and actress Toyah Willcox is in the hot seat Presenter: Matthew Parris Iolo Jones ….. Nick Underwood posing questions all about her. Producer: Perminder Khatkar. Moses Lipski ….. Brian Protheroe Tackling the ultra-personal quiz are Sue Perkins, Caroline First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. Sergeant Fred Wensley ….. Jason Barnett Quinlan, Robin Ince and Will Smith. SAT 08:00 All the Way from Memphis (b00mpqkn) by Gregory Evans Comedy quiz presented by a new guest host every show. All the Series 2 Directed by Marc Beeby questions are about them. Episode 6 In 1900 over half London's milk came from Welsh dairies. One Script by Simon Littlefield and Kieron Quirke. James Walton tests and tickles the knowledge of industry of those dairies, on the Commercial Road, was owned and run Devised and produced by Aled Evans. pundits and people passionate about pop music. by the writer’s family. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. Team captains Tracey MacLeod and Andrew Collins are joined First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2016. SAT 04:30 Bristow (b007r031) by Clare Grogan and Danny Kelly to be put through their SAT 02:30 The Perfumed Mountaineer (b01hf12x) Series 2 musical paces Hayden Lorimer explores the double life of Walter Poucher: When Melancholy Autumn Comes to Chester-Perry Reader: Beth Chalmers mountain photographer and perfumer. The promise of a Christmas bonus lifts Bristow's spirits - for Written and researched by James Walton Poucher invented the perfume 'Bond Street' and also wrote once, his generosity knows no bounds... But then he takes Producer: Dawn Ellis upland guidebooks. He was a pioneer of mountain photography matters into his own hands when it becomes clear that a bonus First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. from the 1930s onwards and devised guidebooks that used for Chester Perry staff isn't forthcoming. SAT 08:30 Rent (b00752fm) photos to help hillwalkers and climbers. But he had a second Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the buying clerk from Frank Series 3 life as well - in 1923 he had published a three volume handbook Dickens' famous newspaper cartoon strip. Syndicated Episode 3 on perfumes and cosmetics that remains in print and, working internationally, it ran for 41 years in London's Evening It's havoc in the Reynolds household as the preparations for the for the perfumers Yardley, he invented one of their signature Standard. baby's naming ceremony reach a climax. smells, the perfume Bond Street. These unlikely twin lives came Bristow ...... Michael Williams Series 3 of Lucy Flannery's award-winning sitcom about Maria together when he field tested his fragrances and make-up across Jones ...... Rodney Bewes and Richard Reynolds and their lodgers. the hills and fells of Britain. Sweaty mountaineers were not Jonathan Quartly ...... Bernard Cribbins Stars Barbara Flynn as Maria, Patrick Barlow as Richard, Linda quite sure what to make of Walter but he resolutely and happily Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan Polan as Amy, Vivienne Rochester as Ruby, Dave Lamb as continued to mix his two lives and interests. In a celebrated Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman Paul, Sally Grace as Mother and Chris Emmett as Father. moment of TV history in 1980 the pop singer Grace Jones Molly ...... Sheila Reid Producer: Liz Anstee. attacked the chat show host Russell Harty live on air, the other Rupert Clement ...... Royce Mills First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1997. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2021 Page 2 of 10 SAT 09:00 Miriam Margolyes' Adventures in Radio SAT 13:30 Cadfael (b007jld1) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] (b07qcf7j) The Virgin in the Ice SAT 22:00 I Think I've Got a Problem (b007xvrp) Much-loved actress Miriam Margolyes looks back over her 2. Danger From All Sides Series 1 radio lives, choosing some of her favourite performances from Amid bitter civil war in 1139, detective monk Brother Cadfael Episode 3 the BBC Radio Archive. makes headway in his medieval crime hunt, but it's mixed news. Tom gets a job as an international courier and has to deliver a Despite winning awards (BAFTA), Miriam’s on the record as Starring Philip Madoc as Brother Cadfael. package to a contact in Spain. saying she has many regrets in her stage career, but when it Written by Ellis Peters and dramatised by Bert Coules. However, after his "imaginary" band spark mayhem on the comes to her radio back catalogue, she’s immensely proud. Brother Cadfael ...... Philip Madoc plane, Tom and Sadie find themselves caught up in a world of Since she joined the BBC Radio Drama Repertory Company in Narrator ...... Sir Michael Hordern death and deception. 1965 – radio has been a true love. Boterel ...... Andrew Wincott Still, if a good song won't cheer them all up, nothing will. Miriam's choices include: Leonard ...... Leonard Fenton Andrew McGibbon and Nick Romero's everyday story about a * Sentimental Journey (Radio 4 1999) where she made an Elyas ...... Crispin Letts man who can't stop himself from breaking into song. emotional trip to Belarus, with Arthur Smith to find out more Ives ...... Dean Magri Suggs ..... Tom Caine about her family history; Hugh ...... Douglas Hodge Bob Monkhouse ..... Dr Boone * After Albert (Radio 4 1996) where she plays a feisty Queen Ermina ...... Moira Buffini Mika Simmons ..... Sadie Victoria, with surprising desires, after the death of Prince Olivier ...... Raad Rawi Phil Cornwell ..... Bouche Albert; Other parts played by Jonathan Tafler, John Fleming, Kate Michael Roberts ..... Clammy Clemence * The Queen and I (Radio 4, 1992) in a Sony Radio Academy Binchy Andrew McGibbon ..... Jake Best Actress winning performance, Miriam brings to life Sue Music by Peter Salem. Nick Romero ..... Monty DeVere Townsend’s (Adrian Mole) comic tale about the House of Producer: Phil Clarke. Emma Clarke ..... Air Stewardess Windsor, whose members are rather down on their luck; First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1992. Songs: Andrew McGibbon. Nick Romero and Suggs * The Child (1979, Radio 4) where she stars in Olwen SAT 14:00 Cadfael (b007jldd) Director: Chris Neill Wymark’s sensitive story about a mother caring for her The Virgin in the Ice Producers: Torquil MacLeod. Julian Mayers and Andrew daughter who has profound mental health issues; 3. Found and Lost McGibbon. * Dickens’ Women (Radio 4, 1991) Miriam chooses a favourite As the 1139 English civil war rages in Shropshire, monk-cum- First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2001. character, Miss Havisham, from her celebrated one-woman sleuth, Brother Cadfael's brave search for Ermina leads him to SAT 22:30 What Does the K Stand For? (b04xrl8k) show stage show, recorded for Radio 4; the isolated medieval manor of Ledditch. Series 2 * The Picnic (Radio 3, 1985) Miriam stars with Timothy West Starring Philip Madoc as Brother Cadfael. Balham's Got Talent in Anthony Horowitz’s powerful story based on a real event in Written by Ellis Peters and dramatised by Bert Coules. Who’s got talent? the Soviet Union in 1981; Brother Cadfael ...... Philip Madoc Stephen K Amos's sitcom about growing up black, gay and * Singular Women, (Radio 4, 1997) Miriam becomes Stella, the Narrator ...... Sir Michael Hordern funny in 1980s south London. manageress of a chocolate shop, demonstrating the power of the Boterel ...... Andrew Wincott Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos. radio monologue to create a magical link of imaginations Leonard ...... Leonard Fenton Stephen K Amos … Stephen K Amos between an actor, a character and the listener. Elyas ...... Crispin Letts Young Stephen … Shaquille Ali-Yebuah Producer: Peter McHugh Ives ...... Dean Magri Stephanie Amos … Fatou Sohna Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in August Porter ...... Steve Hodson Virginia Amos … Ellen Thomas 2016. Hugh ...... Douglas Hodge Vincent Amos … Don Gilet SAT 12:00 The Jack Benny Program (m000rcxw) Ermina ...... Moira Buffini Miss Bliss … Michelle Butterly I Was Betrayed Dutton ...... Eric Allan Jayson Jackson … Frankie Wilson The cast plead to be paid before performing in a medical Music by Peter Salem. Mary ... Nadia Kamil drama. Producer: Phil Clarke. Producer: Colin Anderson On radio, The Jack Benny Show ran from February 1932 to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1992. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2015. May 1955. From that date, new shows were produced for SAT 14:30 Cadfael (b007jldr) SAT 23:00 Mark Steel's in Town (b07vs3mw) television but there were re-runs on radio until 1958. Over the The Virgin in the Ice Series 7 years, the programme was sponsored by a diverse range of 4. The Wolves' Nest Hebden Bridge products from jelly, to tyres and cigarettes. Brother Cadfael searches for Ives Hugonin and Brother Elyas "That was So Hebden Bridge" With a fine cast of supporting players Benny made his show who are missing in a blizzard. Mark visits the beautiful Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge, into one of the all-time great radio comedies, portraying him as Starring Philip Madoc as Brother Cadfael. where he discovers how this former mill town and one time likeable character, despite being vain, argumentative and a Written by Ellis Peters and dramatised by Bert Coules. home of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath become the new age, skinflint. It’s classic comedy that stood the test of time. Brother Cadfael ...... Philip Madoc multi cafe, hippie friendly, lesbian capital of Britain that it is With Eddie Anderson as the irrepressible Rochester, Mary Narrator ...... Sir Michael Hordern today. Livingstone, Dennis Day, The Sportsmen Quartet, announcer Ermina ...... Moira Buffini Mark Steel's award winning show that travels around the Don Wilson and orchestra conducted by Bob Crosby. Leonard ...... Leonard Fenton country, researching the history, heritage and culture of six First broadcast on the Columbia Broadcasting System in Hugh ...... Douglas Hodge towns that have nothing in common but their uniqueness, and January 1950. Le Gaucher ...... Peter Laird performs a bespoke evening of comedy for the local residents. SAT 12:30 Round the Horne (b00j05vh) Ives ...... Dean Magri Written and performed by ... Mark Steel Series 1 Olivier ...... Raad Raw Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair Episode 1 Outlaw ...... Jonathan Adams Production co-ordinator ... Hayley Stirling The bona beginnings of one of the BBC's most popular Soldier ...... Steve Hodson Producer ... Carl Cooper comedies. The story so far, the BBC's Backroom Boys and part Sergeant ...... Jonathan Tafler A BBC Radio Comedy production first broadcast on BBC one of The Clissold Saga. Other parts played by the cast. Radio 4 in 2019. Starring Kenneth Horne. With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Music by Peter Salem. SAT 23:30 4 at the Store (b00ddx9h) Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. Producer: Phil Clarke. Series 2 Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1992. Episode 4 London. Announcer: Douglas Smith SAT 15:00 Cadfael (b007jldz) Stand-up at London's Comedy Store with host Simon Bligh, Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio [Repeat of broadcast at 01:30 today] Andrew Maxwell, Pierre Hollins and Simon Evans. From comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric SAT 15:30 A Good Read (b0128q6y) January 2002. Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Fay Weldon and Louise Welsh Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the Fay Weldon, Louise Welsh and Harriett Gilbert discuss scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and favourite books by Lionel Shriver, HG Wells and Jean Rhys. SUNDAY 17 JANUARY 2021 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys catchphrases and double-entendres. Publisher: Penguin SUN 00:00 Jules Verne (m000rcxz) Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Fay Weldon's choice: The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Hayes Four. Publisher: Penguin SUN 01:00 Cadfael (b007jlcr) Producer: John Simmonds We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1965. Publisher: Serpent's Tail SUN 01:30 Cadfael (b007jld1) SAT 13:00 Cadfael (b007jlcr) Producer: Beth O'Dea [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Saturday] The Virgin in the Ice First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. SUN 02:00 Cadfael (b007jldd) 1. Casualties of War SAT 16:00 Anthony Hope - The Prisoner Of Zenda [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] Shrewsbury, Winter in the year 1139: Amid a civil war, (b01qkm4l) SUN 02:30 Cadfael (b007jldr) medieval sleuth Brother Cadfael sets out to find a missing boy [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] and his sister. SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b06wd26b) SUN 03:00 Cadfael (b007jldz) Starring Philip Madoc as Brother Cadfael. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 01:30 on Saturday] Written by Ellis Peters and dramatised in five parts by Bert SAT 18:00 Jules Verne (m000rcxz) SUN 03:30 A Good Read (b0128q6y) Coules. The Mysterious Island [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] Narrator … Sir Michael Hordern Three very different people escape the American Civil war by SUN 04:00 Anthony Hope - The Prisoner Of Zenda Brother Cadfael … Philip Madoc stealing a balloon - which crashes near a deserted island. But (b01qkm4l) Hugh Beringar …. Douglas Hodge perhaps it is not quite as deserted as they think it is... [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] Leonard …. Leonard Fenton Cyrus Harding ...... Nathan Osgood SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b06wd26b) Olivier …. Raad Rawi Grace Spilett ...... Kerry Gooderson [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] Ermina …. Moira Buffini Neb ...... Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong SUN 06:00 Robb Wilton: I Should Say So (Omnibus) Ives …. Dean Magri Tom Ayrton ...... Rupert Holliday Evans (m000rbj0) Elyas …. Crispin Letts Captain Nemo ...... Sagar Arya If Robb Wilton were brought back to life from his heyday as Abbot Radulfus …. John Church Written by Jules Verne one of Britain's most popular music hall and radio comics of the Other parts played by Jonathan Tafler, Steve Hodson, Eric Dramatised by Gregory Evans 1930s and 1940s, what would his pessimistic personality reflect Allen, Julian Rhind-Tutt and David Holt. Directed by Marc Beeby on now? Music by Peter Salem. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2018. Michael Williams stars as legendary 1940s radio star and all- Producer: Phil Clarke. SAT 19:00 Miriam Margolyes' Adventures in Radio round pessimist Robb Wilton. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1992. (b07qcf7j) Well, here he is, making as little sense out of life now as he did Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2021 Page 3 of 10 forty years ago... Sir David recalls a key moment in his life, when he broke open - for whom every turn of her life is marked by the weather: Written by Allen Saddler. a piece of Leicestershire limestone and there in his hand was an rain, snow, a summer heatwave, a thunderstorm, the threat of a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1986. ammonite. flood. All our lives are weather-bound but for Zoe the weather SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b073gtrg) Over the intervening years, fossils have fascinated him and he is more than just what goes on behind the scenes. Joan Baez has become a great collector, even of the odd fake. Young Zoe and Alice ...... Sydney Wade American folk singer Joan Baez chooses 'Tonerna' sung by Jussi Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural Young Shaun ...... Rhys Gannon Bjorling and her own song 'Diamonds and Rust'. histories of creatures and plants from around the world. Older Zoe ...... Patsy Ferran SUN 07:20 Gregory Evans - Blood and Milk (b07s3hmb) Producer: Julian Hector Older Shaun ...... David Reed Series 1 Omnibus, Part 2/2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2009 Juliet ...... Laura Elphinstone Thrilling series set in 1890s Whitechapel. Welsh farm girl SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m0007013) Jim ...... Sam Troughton Megan Evans comes to London to visit her brother who is Series 9 Zoe's mum ...... Katy Carmichael running the family's dairy business - but her brother is strangely The Ties That Bind Zoe's dad ...... Tristan Sturrock unwelcoming. True stories told live in the USA: Catherine Burns introduces Music by Jon Nicholls Megan Evans ….. Bettrys Jones tales of the struggles, support and safety that family provides. Directed by Tim Dee Luc Evans ….. Trystan Gravelle The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. Samuel Singer ….. David Horovitch to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since SUN 15:30 Bellydancing and the Blues (b01pg3qt) Moses Lipski ….. Brian Protheroe 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling Dancer and drummer Guy Schalom hunts out the spirit of the Annie Riley ….. Alice Haig novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and new Egypt in one of its biggest cultural exports. To our ears, by Gregory Evans yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George Baladi is the music of the bellydancer - kitsch and mock-Arab. Directed by Marc Beeby Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in But in its true form it is the essence of Egypt, 'of the country', In 1900 over half London's milk came from Welsh dairies. One Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the 'home' in the deepest sense. of those dairies, on the Commercial Road, was owned and run screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, Our journey begins in Berlin, as bejwelled dancers from across by the writer’s family. The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at Europe gather on a theatre stage ready to do battle for the title First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016. theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the 'Miss Bellydance 2012'. They might not all know it, but the SUN 08:30 PG Wodehouse (b00bfq14) USA, the UK and other parts of the world. music which accompanies their gyrations is a knot of What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and contradictions: an essence of the east inspired by western Sundry Happenings in a Garden without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The musical traditions, the spirit of rural Egypt made urban. Bertie Wooster must mend bridges after the debacle of the fake Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. But the deepest contradictions rest with the very people who burglary. Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the perform Baladi. What seems to us a provocative, alluring, even PG Wodehouse romp adapted in seven-parts by Chris Miller. humorous to the heart-breaking. licentious dance for women in fact has roots in a ceremonial Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic dance for men. As we discover in Cairo, deep divisions remain Wooster, Jonathan Cecil as Boko Fittleworth, Peter Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed between those who think it is a vital expression of the oriental Woodthorpe as Percy, Lord Worplesden, Bronwen Williams as by the Public Radio Exchange. spirit and those committed to regenerating sexual stereotypes. Florence Craye and Denise Bryer as Edwin the Boy Scout. SUN 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (b073gtrg) So what is the reality of bellydance and Baladi in the new Producer: Simon Brett [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] Egypt? Can it find any place amongst the street rappers and pop First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m000rbj4) artists or is this an artform about to be consigned to realms of SUN 09:00 The TV Lark (b01b3flq) The Echo Chamber - Contains Strong Language Festival the tourist-pleasing clubs and cafes? As with so much in this Z Ambulances Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects a rapidly changing culture, answers prove difficult to find. A live drama serial could make money for Troutbridge TV. But programme featuring a nominee for this year's TS Eliot prize. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. can they manage to produce it? This special edition of the Echo Chamber is presented by Paul SUN 16:00 David Wade - Power of Attorney (b007w3c3) After 4 series of 'The Navy Lark', the BBC decided the comedy Farley and was recorded at the BBC Contains Strong Language Moral: If you have a rich aunt who is slightly dotty, think twice crew needed a new setting, so where better than brand new festival in Hull. before attempting to defraud her of her money – as hard-up independent station, Troutbridge TV? Jacob Polley, Caroline Bird, Wayne Holloway-Smith and Mary Geoffrey and Annabelle soon discover. However, after just 10 episodes, this proved to be only a Jean Chan share poems about beginnings, arrivals and coming David Wade's comedy stars Geoffrey Palmer as Geoffrey temporary change of course for the crew of HMS Troutbridge - of age. Campion, Geraldine McEwan as Annabelle Campion, Joan as the crew were soon back aboard 'The Navy Lark'. Presenter: Paul Farley Matheson as Aunt Beattie, Katherine Parr as Mrs Penny and Stars Jon Pertwee as the Floor Manager, Leslie Phillips as The Producer: Mair Bosworth John Moffatt as Corvo. Director, Stephen Murray as the Producer, Ronnie Barker as First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018. Producer: Glyn Dearman Fatso Johnson and Richard Caldicote as the Deputy Controller. SUN 12:30 The Casebook of Max and Ivan (b099wv45) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. Scripted by Lawrie Wyman Series 2 SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000rbj4) Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. Case #139 - Help! The Aged! [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1963 Cack-handed private eyes Max and Ivan are in a state of SUN 17:30 The Casebook of Max and Ivan (b099wv45) . penury, with mad landlord Malcolm going to extreme lengths to [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] SUN 09:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b007jzkw) get his hands on their rent. Nonetheless, Max seems ready to SUN 18:00 A Sting in the Tale (b0076jsy) Series 2 jack in the business when he discovers that his Great Uncle 4. Sally Go Round the Moon Them and Us Bernard (guest star Richard Wilson) might be in trouble. Are the pressures of her job the reason Sally is hearing the Joy and consternation as Wendy is promoted at work, but Robin But when he and Ivan investigate Bernard's retirement home voice of a child that no-one else can hear? Or is she being is suspended. Stars Kay Stonham and Simon Greenall. From and meet the terrifying Sister Geraldine, all might not be as it haunted? May 2003. seems. A ghostly tale by Natalia Power. SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000rbj2) Written by Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez CAST: Comic Castaways Developed by John Stanley Productions Sally …. Jaimi Barbakoff David Baddiel Produced by Ben Walker Laura …. Rachel Atkins David Baddiel is a comedian and writer. Known both for his A Retort production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Receptionist …. Frances Jeater solo work and for his comedic collaborations with, among October 2017. Stacey Wilson …. Ioan Meredith others, Rob Newman and Frank Skinner, he has also written a SUN 13:00 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Lost Stories (Omnibus) Simon …. David Thorpe screenplay, a musical and several books. Born in 1964 to Jewish (b08swvx1) Voice …. Jessica Crossley parents, the second of three boys, he was brought up in Dollis A selection of stories taken from a collection of previously Pianist and Musical Director: Clement Power Hill, London. His father was a scientist from Swansea and his unpublished work by F Scott Fitzgerald, I'd Die For You: and Director: Pauline Harris mother was a refugee, whose family had to flee from Nazi Other Lost Stories. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Germany. When David was 13, his older brother Ivor played The series opens with an extract from editor Anne Margaret SUN 18:30 Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood him sketches by Derek and Clive which kindled his appetite to Daniel's essay and the atmospheric vignette, 'Thank You For (b007jvxy) become a comedian. The Light'. 3. Ancient Forces He read English at Cambridge and became vice-president of the Read by Laurel Lefkow and Karen Bartke. Vesin has been travelling in France when he finds himself Footlights before starting out on the London comedy circuit. Romance, parties, cocktails and glamour - as a young writer in stopping off for one night in a sleepy medieval town. There he Together with Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and Rob Newman, he the 1920s F Scott Fitzgerald gave the magazines what they meets Ilse the beautiful innkeeper's daughter and becomes was part of The Mary Whitehouse Experience for Radio 1 and wanted. He had little choice; short stories were his bread and bewitched by her. later BBC 2. Rob and David went on to create Newman and butter. But as the author matured he yearned to explore darker Vesin starts wondering whether the people actually come alive Baddiel in Pieces, and were the first comedians to sell out territory. at night and wonders if the town is in the hands of cats. Vesin Wembley Arena with a gig in 1993, prompting newspapers to This desire wasn't cushioned by wealth; The Great Gatsby begins to feel uneasy and that strange forces are tugging at his declare comedy "the new rock 'n' roll". David then formed a hadn't sold well and as the Depression crunched in the early very being. comedy partnership with Frank Skinner and they hosted 30s, Fitzgerald was hit by large medical bills for both himself by Algernon Blackwood Fantasy Football League and later Baddiel and Skinner and his wife Zelda. Despite the financial pressures he resisted An Unabridged Reading in 4 episodes for Radio 4 Extra's The Unplanned. They co-wrote the lyrics to one of the best-known the easy censorship requested by editors, who balked at 7th Dimension football songs, Three Lions. Fitzgerald's portrayal of confusing generational freedoms, sex Read by Philip Madoc In 2005, David took a break from performance and before marriage, divorce and working women. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005. concentrated on writing novels for adults and children's books Growing increasingly uncompromising about deletions and SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m0007013) as well as the script for a film, which became a musical, The sanitisations, Fitzgerald preferred to let these stories lie in wait [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Infidel. He returned to stand-up in 2013 with a show about until their time came. SUN 19:50 Inheritance Tracks (b073gtrg) fame. He recently mined his parents' idiosyncrasies and the rare Producer: Eilidh McCreadie [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] form of dementia from which his father suffers for a stand-up First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017. SUN 20:00 David Wade - Power of Attorney (b007w3c3) show entitled My Family: Not the Sitcom. His partner is fellow SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (m000rbj6) [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] comedian and writer Morwenna Banks. They have two teenage John Lanchester SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000rbj2) children. The writer chooses Bach’s Partita no.1 in B flat major BWV [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Presenter: Kirsty Young 825 from Dinu Lipatti and Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Hong SUN 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00m45d2) Producer: Cathy Drysdale. Kong Garden. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018. SUN 14:20 Clouds in Trousers by Katie Hims (Omnibus) SUN 22:00 The Casebook of Max and Ivan (b099wv45) SUN 10:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00m45d2) (b079r9jc) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Series 1 Katie Hims' drama, inspired by Alexandra Harris' book SUN 22:30 I, Regress (b018xs90) Faking Fossils 'Weatherland', imagines Zoe as a woman growing up weathered Series 1 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2021 Page 4 of 10 Episode 1 Dramatist: Michael Bakewell Magnus Pym .... Julian Rhind-Tutt A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an Director: Enyd Williams Jack Brotherhood .... Bill Paterson unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees Matt First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. Rick Pym .... Michael Maloney Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff MON 07:00 Turf Wars (b00zf33t) Mary .... Ruth Gemmell Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking An Incident at the Border Lippsie .... Melody Grove unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through Nigel Planer stars as a border-guard in Kieran Lynn's comedy Syd Lemon .... Ewan Bailey their subconscious. about boundaries that are both territorial and personal. Sefton Boyd .... Tom Forrister Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client who Arthur and Olivia take the sun in their local park on a beautiful Nigel .... Gerard McDermott has come to him for a different problem (quitting smoking, fear summer's day. Olivia is reading a newspaper article on their Georgie .... Samara MacLaren of water, etc). As the patient is put under hypnosis, we 'enter' country's new-found independence. It seems that no-one knows Fergus .... Tom Stuart their mind, and all the various situations the hypnotherapist quite what the terms are for the secession. Arthur couldn't care Peggy Wentworth .... Aoife McMahon takes them through are played out for us to hear. The result is a less. He's apolitical and just enjoying watching the ducks. Other parts are played by the cast. dream- (or nightmare-) like trip through the patient's mind, as Suddenly a soldier arrives, dragging a tape across the ground, Director: Bruce Young funny as it is disturbing. marking out the new border. He barges between the two young Made by BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4 and first broadcast in Episode 1: Karen House-Water (Katherine Parkinson) visits Dr lovers. Now one is on one side of the new border, and one on July 2017. Berry to treat her fear of water, and finds that the cure can the other! MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m000rcz3) sometimes be worse than the disease - via mermaids, the titanic, Arthur's attempt to cross is met with a stun-gun jolt from the Series 7 and talking dolphins. guard, who has as little understanding of the new rules as the Jumpstarting Creativity The cast across the series include Katherine Parkinson (IT couple. He just knows he has been trained to be suspicious of A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting Crowd), Morgana Robinson (The Morgana Show), Simon everyone who isn't from 'this country' which now includes speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Greenall (I'm Alan Partridge), Jack Klaff (Star Wars, For Your Arthur! stage. Eyes Only), Tara Flynn (The Impressions Show, Stewart Lee's How can our lovers be reunited? Guy Raz explores how creativity is linked to our greatest Comedy Vehicle), Alex Lowe (Barry From Watford, The Peter Reiver ..... Nigel Planer breakthroughs and triumphs. How can we rekindle it? Serafinowicz Show), and Derek Griffiths (Playschool, Bod, and Olivia ..... Leah Brotherhead First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2019. The Royal Exchange). Arthur ..... Joseph Kloska MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (b05xxf96) A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone Directed by Peter Kavanagh. Suzanne Vega else's head! First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. The singer Suzanne Vega inherits 'Where Have All the Flowers First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012. MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth (m000r36s) Gone?' by Pete Seeger, and passes on 'Masters of War' by Bob SUN 22:45 The Shuttleworths (b007jtnf) Series 25 Dylan. Series 3 Episode 1 MON 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b00sbh9h) Chic Ken David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Sheffield singer John Shuttleworth starts envying his agent are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to MON 12:30 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k0zf) Ken's bachelor lifestyle. Stars Graham Fellows. From October see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] 1997. opponents. MON 13:00 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nskjl) SUN 23:00 The Penny Dreadfuls (b00gpbcs) Frankie Boyle, Sara Pascoe, Miles Jupp, and Holly Walsh are [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] More Brothers Faversham the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON 13:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tk5) Titus Faversham subjects as varied as London, divorce, names and bats. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] The story of Victorian Britain's greatest sporting hero. Produced by Jon Naismith MON 14:00 Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen (b084x0n8) The comedy trio's swashbuckling family romp. A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4 The Sisters' Lovers Written by and starring Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom MON 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b00sbh9h) Two Puritan spinsters have harboured their maid Babette since Tuck. Series 1 she fled revolutionary Paris 12 years ago. While the With Miles Jupp and Ingrid Oliver. The Bath Frenchwoman cuts a mysterious figure in their small Norwegian Script edited by Richard Turner. Harold's plan for a proper bathroom upset his father Albert. village and her employers have secrets of their own, together Producer: Julia McKenzie Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as they have created a haven for each other and the needy of the Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2008. Harold. parish. When Babette unexpectedly comes into money, her only SUN 23:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World (b007qx6z) Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association wish is to create a special meal in gratitude. Series 1 with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson Sylvestra Le Touzel reads Karen Blixen’s classic story. The Universe wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Producer: Eilidh McCreadie The spoof TV sci-fi star explains life's big mysteries. Stars The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016. Richard Herring, Stewart Lee and Tom Baker. From October the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold MON 14:15 Wild Things by Charlotte Jones (b082x79m) 1992. and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. Davina's Episode Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by The transformative Brighton Ladies Sea Swimming Club alters Gale Pedrick. lives. Five very different women's paths cross at this tough wild MONDAY 18 JANUARY 2021 Produced by Bobby Jaye swimming club. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September Why does 70 year old Davina force herself to swim in the MON 00:00 A Sting in the Tale (b0076jsy) 1966. freezing sea, despite her rheumatoid arthritis, and will she be [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON 08:30 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k0zf) able to keep the stagnating club that she founded afloat. MON 00:30 Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood Episode 2 By Charlotte Jones (b007jvxy) Mr Finchley runs into an ancient mariner who has many tales to Davina ..... Sheila Reid [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] tell of his life at sea, each one taller than the last. Meanwhile, Angie ..... Josie Lawrence MON 01:00 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Lost Stories (Omnibus) following hot on his tail is Oliver Watt-Anselm, the worst Jane ..... Karen Bartke (b08swvx1) private eye in the world... Cassie ..... Keziah Joseph [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] Victor Canning's novel about the adventures of a man and his Directed by Liz Webb MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (m000rbj6) horse-drawn caravan touring the 1930s countryside of Kent. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] CAST: MON 14:30 My Family’s Fight For Civil Rights (b047zlc5) MON 02:20 Clouds in Trousers by Katie Hims (Omnibus) Mr Finchley .... Richard Griffiths Baroness Oona King, the former British Labour MP, has an (b079r9jc) Horace Blane …. John Bird American side to her family that played a variety of key roles in [Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday] Bob Trilby …. Chris Emmett the Civil Rights Movement. Her grandfather and uncles worked MON 03:30 Bellydancing and the Blues (b01pg3qt) Oliver Watt-Anselm …. Jon Glover with Martin Luther King in The Albany Movement, a campaign [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday] Narrated by James Villiers. of mass protests that tried to desegregate their home town in MON 04:00 David Wade - Power of Attorney (b007w3c3) Adapted in six parts by Andy and Eric Merriman. Georgia. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Producer: Gareth Edwards Oona travelled to Albany to speak to members of the movement MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000rbj4) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1993. on the 50th anniversary of the passing of The Civil Rights Act, [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] MON 09:00 Hidden Treasures (b05p6jmr) the legislation which forced the Southern States to give African MON 05:30 The Casebook of Max and Ivan (b099wv45) Syon House Americans the equality which was their right under the [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] From dining habits to the wonders of metamorphic furniture Constitution. MON 06:00 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nskjl) Lars Tharp chairs the light-hearted Antiques Quiz from the Oona discovers that the violence meted out to black protesters 6. Foiling London home of the Duke of Northumberland, Syon House. by the authorities affected her family directly. Her uncle CB Can our hero foil evil Peterson's plan to overthrow the With John Bly, Christine Lalumia, Clive Stewart-Lockhart and King, the first black lawyer in the town, was beaten up by a government? Sapper's yarn is concluded by Julian Rhind-Tutt. Max Rutherston. local Sherriff for asking to see his client in the cells. And her MON 06:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tk5) Producers: Elizabeth Abrahams and Annie Bristow. Aunt Marion lost her baby after she was beaten up by the The Mysterious Affair at Styles First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998. police. Episode 1 MON 09:30 Babblewick Hall (b04p56x5) Interviewees include Pastor Boyd of the Shiloh Baptist Church, It's 1916 and in a quiet English village, Belgian sleuth, Hercule Series 2 who is now in his mid 80s and bravely allowed protesters to Poirot and Captain Hastings become joyously re-acquainted. Episode 4 meet at his church; Charles Sherrod of the Student Non-Violent But beneath the seeming tranquillity, murder is brewing. Debts are mounting and the squire has an ulterior motive when Co-ordinating Committee, who brought the campaign for voting Agatha Christie’s 1920 crime thriller. he visits Lady Keene. With Sophie Thompson. From September rights and desegregation to Albany; John Perdew, who came CAST: 1998. from Harvard to help the fight and faced the death sentence on Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt MON 10:00 Drama (b08wmwyy) false charges; Chief Judge Herbert Phipps of the Atlanta Court Hastings …. Simon Williams John le Carré - A Perfect Spy of Appeals; and Chevene King, the lawyer son of CB King, who Evie …. Nichola McAuliffe 1. Disappearance is now fighting racial injustice in Georgia. Emily …. Jill Balcon 'Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen Producer: David Morley Alfred …. Hugh Dickson if you love.' A Bite Media production John …. Sean Arnold So says Magnus Pym, the spy of the title; and he has betrayed a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Mary …. Susan Jameson lot in his life - countries, friends and lovers. MON 15:00 Drama (b08wmwyy) Lawrence …. Nicholas Boulton When Magnus disappears after his father's funeral MI6 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Cynthia …. Annabelle Dowler launches an urgent manhunt to prevent his defection. MON 16:00 Hidden Treasures (b05p6jmr) Dorcas …. Hilda Schroder John le Carré's spy novel dramatised in three parts by Robert [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Original music composed by Tom Smail. Forrest. MON 16:30 Babblewick Hall (b04p56x5) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2021 Page 5 of 10 [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUESDAY 19 JANUARY 2021 1957. MON 17:00 Turf Wars (b00zf33t) TUE 08:30 Winston (b007k4b8) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jx5r) Series 1 MON 17:30 The Unbelievable Truth (m000r36s) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] A Happy Family [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b012fcyr) Nancy has recently moved to the village with sister Rosie, MON 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] brother William and her Father. (b007jx5r) TUE 01:00 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nskjl) When Winston, the local poacher and handyman, is thrown out The Red Planet [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] by his wife because of his infidelities, he invites himself to stay 1. Mayhem on the Moon TUE 01:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tk5) with them and starts to spoil the family by acquiring a brand Captain Jet Morgan and his crew aboard Discovery blast off for [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] new freezer for them, by doing all the washing and ironing and their epic mission to Mars - but there's a problem... TUE 02:00 Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen (b084x0n8) by cooking them superb meals. Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] But they are deeply suspicious. What could be Winston's Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds TUE 02:15 Wild Things by Charlotte Jones (b082x79m) motives? Lemmy …. David Kossoff [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial stars Bill Wallis as Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter TUE 02:30 My Family’s Fight For Civil Rights (b047zlc5) Winston, Maurice Denham as Father, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, Mitch …. Bruce Beeby [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Liz Goulding as Rosie and Christian Rodska as William. Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs TUE 03:00 Drama (b08wmwyy) Directed at BBC Bristol by Shaun MacLoughlin. Various …. Anthony Marriott [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] First broadcast on BBC Radio in April 1989. Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips. TUE 04:00 Hidden Treasures (b05p6jmr) TUE 09:00 The News Quiz (m000r5pf) Producer: Charles Chilton [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September TUE 04:30 Babblewick Hall (b04p56x5) TUE 09:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00c6vrj) 1954. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Series 3 MON 18:30 A Good Read (b012fcyr) TUE 05:00 Turf Wars (b00zf33t) Episode 2 Juliet Barker and John O'Farrell [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] Sheila raises Tommy's suspicions and blood pressure, but there's Satirical writer John O'Farrell and historian Juliet Barker talk to TUE 05:30 The Unbelievable Truth (m000r36s) method in her madness. Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books - all of which use an [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] Ageing showbiz couple Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr unusual blend of fact and fiction. TUE 06:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl continue their second stab at fame. They evoke the lives of the Brontes, the worst civilian disaster (b012qqvq) Series 3 of Mike Coleman’s six-part sitcom, of World War II and the British mandate in Palestine. Episode 1 CAST: The Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan Robert Forester is now living in Langley, Pennsylvania, after a Tommy Franklin …. Roy Hudd Publisher: Headline Review messy divorce. Sheila Parr …. June Whitfield The Report by Jessica Francis Kane He's escaped his oppressive wife and has no need to see a Hetty Stark …. Pat Coombes Publihser: Portobello Books psychiatrist again.So why is he outside Jenny Theirolf's house, Murray Franklin …. Julian Eardley Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz watching her every move? Louis Elstein …. Edward Halsted Publisher: Vintage Patricia Highsmith's intriguing tale of obsession stars John Jack Dunne …. William Franklyn Producer Beth O'Dea Sharian as Robert Forester, Adrian Lester as Greg Wyncoop, Music by Frido Ruth. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Joanne McQuinn as Jenny Theirolf and Matt Rippy as Jack Producer: Steve Doherty MON 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b00sbh9h) Neilsen. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Adapted by Shaun McKenna. TUE 10:00 Drama (b08x4s6f) MON 19:30 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k0zf) Music composed and performed by David Chilton John le Carré - A Perfect Spy [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Director: Marion Nancarrow 2. A Perfect Mystery MON 20:00 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nskjl) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. When Magnus Pym disappears after his father's funeral MI6 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE 06:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tng) launches an urgent manhunt to prevent his defection. MON 20:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tk5) The Mysterious Affair at Styles But Pym is on a search of his own to solve the central mystery [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Episode 2 of his life - what made him the perfect spy. MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m000rcz3) In the blistering summer heat, tensions are mounting at Styles John le Carré's spy novel dramatised by Robert Forrest. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Court. It will not be long before Captain Hastings has to call Magnus Pym .... Julian Rhind-Tutt MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (b05xxf96) upon the services of Hercule Poirot. Jack Brotherhood .... Bill Paterson [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] Agatha Christie’s 1920 crime thriller. Axel .... Anton Lesser MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth (m000r36s) CAST: Peggy Wentworth .... Aoife McMahon [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt Syd Lemon .... Ewan Bailey MON 22:30 The Celebrity Voicemail Show (b08dnws2) Hastings …. Simon Williams Clerk .... Ewan Bailey Series 2 Emily …. Jill Balcon Kate .... Tracy Wiles Nigel Farage Alfred …. Hugh Dickson Tom .... Adam Thomas Wright The Celebrity Voicemail Show is an entirely fictitious comedy John …. Sean Arnold Sabina .... Sanchia McCormack show written, improvised and starring only Kayvan Novak in Mary …. Susan Jameson Nigel .... Gerard McDermott which he imagines what it might be like to hear the Lawrence …. Nicholas Boulton Other parts are played by the cast. answerphone messages of the rich and famous. Cynthia/Annie …. Annabelle Dowler Director: Bruce Young This week we listened to Nigel Farage's voicemail as he flies Dorcas …. Hilda Schroder Made by BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4 and first broadcast in off to America. Evie …. Nichola McAuliffe July 2017. The producer was Matt Stronge. Dr Bauerstein …. Robert Portal TUE 11:00 Archive on 4 (b08n1hnh) A BBC Studios production. Mr Wells …. Richard Syms The 90s: A Holiday from History MON 22:45 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Original music composed by Tom Smail. Jonathan Freedland re-examines the 1990s from a new angle - Tea (b007k1wk) Dramatist: Michael Bakewell recalling it as a rare period of peace and prosperity. But could it Series 2 Director: Enyd Williams also be the decade which ultimately led to Trump and Brexit? The Monster in the Loch First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. Sandwiched between the end of the Cold War and the war on The elderly Scotsmen have a monstrous encounter in the great TUE 07:00 Showstopper (b00yqvk0) terror, the 1990s now look like an oasis of calm. The decade outdoors. Stars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Alison 6. Bedlam witnessed the end of apartheid in South Africa, the fall of the Steadman. From March 2004. Showstopper! The Improvised Musical is a brand new comedy Soviet Union and peace in Northern Ireland. As a result, people MON 23:00 The News Quiz (m000r5pf) in which the Showstopper team create a hilarious improvised became preoccupied by more domestic dramas. Just as the UK Series 104 musical on the spot - with the songs, plot and characters based was gripped by the saga of Charles and Diana's marriage, the Episode 3 entirely on suggestions from the live studio audience. Americans were hooked on the OJ Simpson trial. This week Andy's guests are Nish Kumar, Felicity Ward, Lucy The cast includes Pippa Evans, Ruth Bratt, Dylan Emery, Lucy Jonathan unearths a rich selection of archive and hears from Porter and Gavin Webster. Trodd, Sean McCann and Oliver Senton. MPs John Redwood and Harriet Harman about their A titanic clash between Team Lock em Up and Team Lock em Produced by Sam Bryant. perspectives on this most unusual decade. But he also argues Down. In an attempt to distract from the globe's currently lower First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. that some of the forces unleashed in that decade would only than average performance, this week's programme features TUE 07:30 Beta Female (m000r3p7) start to manifest themselves in the middle of the 2010s - with some "future news". Series 1 the rise of Donald Trump and the UK's decision to leave the Written by Andy Zaltzman with additional material from Max Episode 1 EU. Davis, Alice Fraser, Simon Alcock and Celya AB. Beta Female is a semi-autobiographical sitcom by Amna Producer: Laurence Grissell. Producer: Richard Morris Saleem, starring Kiran Sonia Sawar (Black Mirror, Pure) as First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. A BBC Studios Production Amna, a young woman trying to find her place in the world - in TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jpcq) MON 23:30 At Home With The Snails (b00c8rbm) her work, in her relationships, and in her family. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Series 2 The Accent: When a colleague misidentifies Amna's accent, she TUE 12:30 Winston (b007k4b8) Episode 3 takes the opportunity for a change of identity. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Snail obsessed Alex’s plan to rescue snails by bringing them Amna ... Kiran Sonia Sawar TUE 13:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl home hits a snag.., Sunnha ... Hiftu Quasem (b012qqvq) George and Beverly continue faking their deaths in order to Issa ... Atta Yaqub [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] bring their family closer. Nora ... Evelyn Lockley TUE 13:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tng) Second series of Gerard Foster's comedy drama Sam ... Darren Kuppan [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] George ..... Geoffrey Palmer Theo ... Tom Stourton TUE 14:00 Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen (b084x8x8) Beverley ..... Angela Thorne Written by Amna Saleem A Letter from Paris Alex ..... Gerard Foster Produced & directed by Ed Morrish Martine and Phillipa are astonished when a woman arrives on Rose ..... Miranda Hart A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 their doorstep carrying a letter of introduction from an old Hosana ..... Debra Stephenson TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jpcq) friend. Before long the new arrival has quietly transformed their Roger ..... Richie Webb Series 8 lives. Producer: Jane Berthoud The Space Age Sylvestra Le Touzel reads Karen Blixen’s classic story. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002. Neddy and Crun attempt to launch Min into space, but she gets Producer: Eilidh McCreadie stuck up the chimney. Stars Spike Milligan. From November First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2021 Page 6 of 10 TUE 14:15 Wild Things by Charlotte Jones (b082ymp3) Special guest: singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock. Adapted by Shaun McKenna. Jane's Episode Written by Boothby Graffoe and Dave Thompson. Music composed and performed by David Chilton The transformative Brighton Ladies Sea Swimming Club alters Producer: Julia McKenzie Director: Marion Nancarrow lives. Five very different women's paths cross at this tough wild First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2001. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. swimming club. TUE 23:00 James Acaster's Findings (b04pv6kv) WED 06:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076trz) Why has Jane left friends and family in Australia and Series 1 The Mysterious Affair at Styles exchanged the warm Australian waters for the freezing rough 4. Paint Episode 3 sea round Brighton pier. Triple Foster's nominated comedian James Acaster presents the Emily Inglethorp has suddenly died - apparently of strychnine By Charlotte Jones results of his research. This week, he's been investigating poisoning. Captain Hastings has asked Hercule Poirot to Jane ..... Karen Bartke 'Paint'. With Nathaniel Metcalfe ('Fresh from the Fringe') and investigate and there's a visit from Detective Inspector Japp of Davina ..... Sheila Reid Bryony Hannah ('Call the Midwife'). Scotland Yard. Angie ..... Josie Lawrence Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. Agatha Christie’s 1920 crime thriller. Shelley ..... Michele Austin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014. CAST: Cassie ..... Keziah Joseph TUE 23:15 Expenses Only (b07m7lmp) Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt Jet Ski Man ..... John Bowler 4. Journalism Hastings …. Simon Williams Directed by Liz Webb Put away your P45, you're not going to need it – it's Expenses Japp …. Philip Jackson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016. Only. Our two young interns Tim and Miranda face the Alfred …. Hugh Dickson TUE 14:30 Miniature Mountains (b0076f9s) responsibility of interning interns, the incredulity of old rivals Evie …. Nichola McAuliffe From "currant buns" to models of the Matterhorn? and the banality of local Amateur Dramatics, as they long to John …. Sean Arnold Gardening writer Stephen Anderton explores the changing progress from their internship in the tough world of Journalism. Mary …. Susan Jameson fashions in rock gardening - looking at the influence of the Expenses Only is a narrative sketch show by writer Alex Lynch, Lawrence …. Nicholas Boulton Northamptonshire landowner who wanted a landscape for his centred around internships and the world of work experience. Cynthia …. Annabelle Dowler gnomes and the diminutive Yorkshireman who described his In each episode, the show's two leading twenty-something Dorcas …. Hilda Schroder alpines as "sulky" but who changed our view of the rockery. protagonists, Tim (enthusiastic worker) and Miranda (jaded The Coroner …. Peter Howell First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. graduate), attempt to break into a different industry through a Dr Bauerstein …. Robert Portal TUE 15:00 Drama (b08x4s6f) series of increasingly challenging placements. Mr Mace …. Harry Myers [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] The series is made up of an ensemble cast and is also tied Summerhayes/Rustic …. Don McCorkindale TUE 16:00 Who Goes There? (b0075z3c) together using linking sketches, signature ad-breaks and the Original music composed by Tom Smail. Series 4 Narrator who, with his deadpan delivery and wry commentary, Dramatist: Michael Bakewell Episode 4 guides us through the schadenfreude and chaos that unravels Director: Enyd Williams Martin Young chairs the quiz which looks at the noteworthy and across an episode. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. the notorious from history. Cast: WED 07:00 Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice Tackling the biographical teasers are team captains Francis Tim... Rasmus Hardiker (b07wtkg1) Wheen and Fred Housego with guests Claire Rayner and David Miranda... Lucy Beaumont Series 2 Aaronovitch. Narrator... Robert Glenister Papa Was a Rolling Stone Producer: Liz Anstee Player... Kathryn Bond Award-winning writer and comedian Deborah Frances-White First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000. Player... Simon Bubb searches for her birth father. Following her highly successful TUE 16:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00c6vrj) Player... Beth Goddard first series, Deborah continues her international adventures. Her [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Player... Matt Green unique style mixes reality and comedy as she retells her true-life TUE 17:00 Showstopper (b00yqvk0) Player... Simon Greenall story. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Player... Christine Kavanagh In the company of a distinguished cast of comedy actors - Alex TUE 17:30 Beta Female (m000r3p7) Player... Paul G Raymond Lowe (Barry from Watford), Margaret Cabourn-Smith (John [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Player... Lorna Shaw Finnemore's Sketchbook) and Laurence Dobiesz (What The TUE 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jpkd) Player... Kellie Shirley Papers Say) - Deborah's quest spans the globe revealing a cast The Red Planet Player... Tom Glenister of eccentric characters from the Trenchcoat Detective Agency 2. What's Wrong with Whittaker? Recorded live at Bush Hall, London. to the Australian Salvation Army, locally known as the Salvos. Freighter No 2 of Captain Jet Morgan's Mars space fleet is in Creator / Writer: Alex Lynch An invited audience enjoys the breadth and depth of her writing trouble. Additional material by Charlotte Michael which the Guardian called "gripping and compelling' and which But when radio mechanic Lemmy and motor engineer Steve Director: Celia De Wolff won Deborah Frances-White the 2016 Writers Guild Award for tried to cross over from the flagship, Discovery, to put the Executive Producer: Peter Hoare Best Scripted Comedy for Half a Can of Worms - the first show trouble right, Steve became unhitched from his safety line and A Pier production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August in last-year's Radio 4 series. is now drifting in the void... 2016. A So Radio production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971. TUE 23:30 Mark Tavener - Absolute Power (b007v1pd) October 2016. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Series 2 WED 07:30 Conversations from a Long Marriage Lemmy …. David Kossoff Episode 3 (m000r4w0) Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter Can spin kings Prentiss McCabe turn a failed novelist into a Series 2 Mitch …. Bruce Beeby best seller? Stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. From February Heartbreak Hotel Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs 2001. Conversations from a Long Marriage is a two-hander, starring Various …. Anthony Marriott Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam, as a long-married couple who Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips. met in the Summer of Love and are still passionate about life, Producer: Charles Chilton WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY 2021 music and each other. We listen to – and empathise with - their First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September dangling ‘conversations’ covering everything from health scares, 1954. WED 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space jealousy and confessions, to TV incompatibility and sourdough TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b00mr2wr) (b007jpkd) bread. Series 8 [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] In Episode three, Roger is best man at their friend’s second You've Got a Friend WED 00:30 Soul Music (b00mr2wr) marriage, in a country hotel, and Joanna makes excessive Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] demands of room service. appeal. WED 01:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl Written by Jan Etherington. Produced and directed by Claire Written by Carole King and made famous by James Taylor, (b012qqvq) Jones. Production co-ordinator Beverly Tagg. A BBC Studios You've Got a Friend won a Grammy Award in 1971. In this [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Production. programme people tell how this song has affected their life. WED 01:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tng) WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpvv) Contributors [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Series 6 Carole King WED 02:00 Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen (b084x8x8) Hancock in Hospital Nick Barraclough [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Laid up with a broken leg, the lad soon regrets a visit from Sid Marcella Erskine WED 02:15 Wild Things by Charlotte Jones (b082ymp3) and Bill. Estelle Williams [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] Starring Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Joan Karen Garner WED 02:30 Miniature Mountains (b0076f9s) Frank and Patricia Hayes. James Taylor [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. WED 03:00 Drama (b08x4s6f) Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jpcq) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Producer: Tom Ronald [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED 04:00 Who Goes There? (b0075z3c) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December TUE 19:30 Winston (b007k4b8) [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] 1959. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED 04:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00c6vrj) WED 08:30 Up the Garden Path (b008hq47) TUE 20:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Series 3 (b012qqvq) WED 05:00 Showstopper (b00yqvk0) Taking It on the Chin [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] As Izzy's love-life grows ever more complicated - she's in for a TUE 20:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tng) WED 05:30 Beta Female (m000r3p7) big surprise. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] Imelda Staunton stars as Isabelle 'Izzy' Comyn. TUE 21:00 Archive on 4 (b08n1hnh) WED 06:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl With Mike Grady as Dick, Marty Cruickshank as Maria, [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] (b012wzzj) Nicholas Le Prevost as Michael, Rene Zagger as Razors, Neil TUE 22:00 Beta Female (m000r3p7) Episode 2 McCaul as Bill and Phyllida Nash as Louise. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Jenny has fallen for Robert Forester, though he's not certain of Tumbling from one love entanglement to another, 30-something TUE 22:30 The Big Booth (b007k32y) his feelings for her. teacher Izzy has a predilection for inappropriate men. Series 2: The Big Booth Too Meanwhile, her ex-fiance, Greg, is very certain. He wants Jenny A six-part radio sequel first adapted from Sue Limb’s 1984 Episode 2 back - and Robert is in the way. novel. The last of three series which ran from 1987 to 1993. Boothby stays the night in a haunted Scottish castle. Patricia Highsmith's intriguing tale of obsession stars John Granada also adapted the series for ITV. More guitar-flavoured songs and surreal laughs from Boothby Sharian as Robert Forester, Adrian Lester as Greg Wyncoop, Producer: Jonathan James-Moore Graffoe. Joanne McQuinn as Jenny Theirolf and Matt Rippy as Jack First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1993. With Stephen Frost, Vivienne Soan, Big Al and Kevin Eldon. Neilsen. WED 09:00 The Motion Show (b0075wj0) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2021 Page 7 of 10 Series 2 Directed by Liz Webb the disguises have been applied by Tina's boyfriend Owen, Episode 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016. Spencer is incensed and proceeds to have a fight with the Dr Phil Hammond chairs the debating game with Gyles WED 14:30 Who Wears The Trousers? - George Burns and supermarket delivery driver for being early. Brandreth, Tony Hawks, Jo Caulfield and Arthur Smith. From Gracie Allen (m000rdkg) A Big Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May January 2000. 4 Extra Debut. How Gracie Allen went from being comedic foil 2017. WED 09:30 Rent (b00752lq) to her husband George Burns to a popular laughter-making star. WED 23:00 Lobby Land (m00076vg) Series 3 From 2003. Series 2 Episode 4 WED 15:00 Drama (b08xxgld) Brecon Bad Maria turns agony aunt, but is Paul finally turning all grown-up [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Sam heads to Wales to cover the fallout from the Brecon and and responsible? WED 16:00 The Motion Show (b0075wj0) Radnorshire by-election, giving Mia the worst birthday of her Series 3 of Lucy Flannery's award-winning sitcom about Maria [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] life. and Richard Reynolds and their lodgers. WED 16:30 Rent (b00752lq) Starring Yasmine Akram, Charlie Higson, Cariad Lloyd, Dan CAST: [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Tetsell and Daniel Lawrence Taylor. Maria …. Barbara Flynn WED 17:00 Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice Written by Jon Harvey, Christopher Davies and Sarah Dempster Richard …. Patrick Barlow (b07wtkg1) Produced by Jon Harvey Amy …. Linda Polan [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] A Naked production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August Ruby …. Vivienne Rochester WED 17:30 Conversations from a Long Marriage 2019. Paul …. Dave Lamb (m000r4w0) WED 23:30 Alun Cochrane's Fun House (b01rvpvf) The Mother …. Sally Grace [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] The Bathroom The Checkout Girl …. Sarah Parkinson WED 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Comedian Alun Cochrane has a 25 year mortgage which he can Producer: Liz Anstee. (b007jpnn) only pay off by being funny. In this series he takes us on a room First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1997. The Red Planet by room, stand up tour of his house. WED 10:00 Drama (b08xxgld) 3. Extreme Dreams He has a fridge that beeps at him when he doesn't move quickly John le Carré - A Perfect Spy James Whitaker’s curious behaviour causes concern for Captain enough and a fire alarm he can't reach. His relationship with his 3. Deception Jet Morgan, as bad dreams plague the rest of his crew bound for house is a complicated one. As the MI6 manhunt closes in on Magnus Pym he attempts to Mars... A hoarder of funny and original observations on everyday life, solve the mystery of what - or who - created his talent for Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971. Alun invites us to help him de-clutter his mind and tidy his deception. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds ideas into one of those bags that you hoover all the air out of Was it the betrayal and lies of his con man father, Rick? Or the Lemmy …. David Kossoff and keep under your bed. This show will help Alun and his man who recruited him to MI6 - Jack Brotherhood? Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter house work through their relationship issues and prevent a Or was it Axel, the Czech agent he has known since his teens? Mitch …. Bruce Beeby separation that Alun can ill afford; at least not until the market All of them have marked his life in some way. . Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs picks up anyway. Conclusion of John le Carré's spy novel starring Julian Rhind- Various …. Anthony Marriott Starring ... Alun Cochrane and Gavin Osborn Tutt. Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips. Written by ... Alun Cochrane and Andy Wolton Dramatised by Robert Forrest. Producer: Charles Chilton Produced by ... Carl Cooper. Magnus Pym .... Julian Rhind-Tutt First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September Axel .... Anton Lesser 1954. Jack Brotherhood .... Bill Paterson WED 18:30 Short Cuts (b0b42z8t) THURSDAY 21 JANUARY 2021 Mary .... Ruth Gemmell Series 16 Rick Pym .... Michael Maloney Beginnings THU 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Kate/Marjory/Waitress .... Tracy Wiles Josie Long presents short documentaries about creating (b007jpnn) Georgie .... Samara MacLaren something out of nothing, fresh starts and the beginning of the [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Fergus .... Tom Stuart end. THU 00:30 Short Cuts (b0b42z8t) Nigel .... Gerard McDermott From a band that existed before they'd ever met each other to [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Caroline .... Aoife McMahon the new beginnings which bring sweet, if painful, endings in a THU 01:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl Syd Lemon/Police Super .... Ewan Bailey relationship between a mother and daughter. (b012wzzj) Tom Adam .... Thomas Wright The Dandelion Adventure [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] Other parts are played by the cast. Produced by Geoff Bird THU 01:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076trz) Director: Bruce Young Good Year for the Roses [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] Made by BBC Scotland for BBC Radio 4 and first broadcast in Produced by Sophie Townsend THU 02:00 Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen (b084xrdb) July 2017. Meteor Shower [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] WED 11:00 Michael Palin's Radio Adventures (m000rdkd) Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen THU 02:15 Wild Things by Charlotte Jones (b0832rj6) 3. Ripping Yarns Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] In a completely different broadcast from London’s BBC Radio A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast on THU 02:30 Who Wears The Trousers? - George Burns and Theatre John McCarthy meets with Michael Palin to celebrate May 2018. Gracie Allen (m000rdkg) the actor-adventurer’s remarkable life and career as heard on WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpvv) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] BBC radio. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 03:00 Drama (b08xxgld) Michael Palin has been a Python, a world traveller, author, actor WED 19:30 Up the Garden Path (b008hq47) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] and screenwriter, and often described as “Britain’s Nicest Man”. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU 04:00 The Motion Show (b0075wj0) However one area which is often overlooked from his long and WED 20:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] impressive career are his fascinating radio contributions. (b012wzzj) THU 04:30 Rent (b00752lq) Featuring extracts from his mighty canon of work including his [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] famous diaries, interviews about his comedy and travel work, WED 20:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076trz) THU 05:00 Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice documentaries and dramas. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] (b07wtkg1) Recorded in front an enthusiastic audience, we discover Palin’s WED 21:00 Michael Palin's Radio Adventures (m000rdkd) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] love for radio as we hear a treasure trove of archives on an [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU 05:30 Conversations from a Long Marriage eclectic mix of subjects and plenty memories of Monty Python. WED 22:00 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m000r4w0) Producer: Stephen Garner (m000r4w0) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in December [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU 06:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl 2017. WED 22:30 The Croft & Pearce Show (b0738kr6) (b0131yvn) WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpvv) Episode 2 Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] A sketch show from award-winning duo Croft and Pearce, As each day passes with Greg still missing after the fight, WED 12:30 Up the Garden Path (b008hq47) rising stars of the UK comedy scene. Detective Lippenholtz is finding Robert's story harder to [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] These Edinburgh Fringe favourites were the breakout hit of believe. WED 13:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl BBC Radio 4's Sketchorama and have performed sell-out shows Patricia Highsmith's intriguing tale of obsession stars John (b012wzzj) in London, New York and around the UK. Sharian as Robert Forester, Adrian Lester as Greg Wyncoop, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Packed with sharply observed characters, this debut from writer- Joanne McQuinn as Jenny Theirolf, Briony Glassco as Nickie WED 13:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076trz) performers Hannah Croft and Fiona Pearce is not to be missed. Jurgen and Peter Marinker as Detective Lippenholtz. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] In the second episode, a failed novelist is unable to hide her Adapted by Shaun McKenna. WED 14:00 Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen (b084xrdb) bitterness when confronted with an old friend’s success, maths Music composed and performed by David Chilton The Turtle teacher Miss Trent falls hopelessly and publicly in love with a Director: Marion Nancarrow Babette’s excitement grows as she makes detailed preparations new member of staff, and an IT manager is baffled at the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. for her special meal. Meanwhile Martine and Phillipa grow technical ineptitude of his colleague. THU 06:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tw5) heavy hearted at the thought of Babette’s inevitable return to Written and performed by Hannah Croft and Fiona Pearce The Mysterious Affair at Styles France with her lottery windfall. Producer: Liz Anstee Episode 4 Sylvestra Le Touzel reads Karen Blixen’s classic story. A CPL production for BBC Radio 4 Hercule Poirot, Captain Hastings and Detective Inspector Japp Producer: Eilidh McCreadie WED 22:45 Cracking Up (b08pfq5n) have become heavily involved with the case, but everyone in the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016. Series 1 household has an alibi for the time of the murder. WED 14:15 Wild Things by Charlotte Jones (b0832rj6) A Recipe for Disaster Agatha Christie’s 1920 thriller. Angie's Episode Psychotherapist divorcee Spencer Pandy attempts to reassert his CAST: The transformative Brighton Ladies Sea Swimming Club alters parental credentials through the medium of a Banqueté Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt lives. Five very different women's paths cross at this tough wild Mexicano - though ex-wife Tina is bemused at his request for Hastings …. Simon Williams swimming club. the children to arrive at 6:30 for 7. Japp …. Philip Jackson What difficult secret is Angie refusing to share with the group? Spencer's search for authentic corn chips and guacamole leads John …. Sean Arnold By Charlotte Jones to him being forcibly ejected from a supermarket, arrested at Mary …. Susan Jameson Angie ..... Josie Lawrence Chalk Farm station and close to being reported for humiliating Lawrence …. Nicholas Boulton Davina ..... Sheila Reid a distraught female client. Evie …. Nichola McAuliffe Jane ..... Karen Bartke Children Dylan and Tilly arrive for the meal dressed as Dorcas …. Hilda Schroder Cassie ..... Keziah Joseph Zapatistas with huge, magic marker moustaches. Discovering Mr Phillips …. Ioan Meredith Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2021 Page 8 of 10 Sir Ernest …. Michael Mears Quotes read by Sally Grace board one of the Mars freighters. Costumier's Assistant …. Richard Katz Production Coordinator: Candace Wilson Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971. Original music composed by Tom Smail. Produced by Simon Nicholls Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Dramatist: Michael Bakewell A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Lemmy …. David Kossoff Director: Enyd Williams December 2019. Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. THU 09:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b0088zqz) Mitch …. Bruce Beeby THU 07:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b064z75b) Series 2 Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs Series 4 Take the High Road Various …. Anthony Marriott The Panel Show Robin is driving to Glasgow, but Wendy lets the train take the Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips. Damien is persuaded to appear on topical TV panel show "I Beg strain. Stars Kay Stonham and Simon Greenall. From May Producer: Charles Chilton Your Pardon" in order to boost his profile ahead of his street 2003. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September food series. Meanwhile, Anthony and Mr Mullaney's property THU 10:00 Ethel Lena White - The Lady Vanishes 1954. business has developed to the point at which they can now start (b017557m) THU 18:30 Great Lives (b06ycr4x) buying somewhere to do up. Will Anthony plump for the right A train, a missing governess and evil Nazi plans for Europe. All Series 38 property though? aboard for a gripping ride to adventure. Eliza Manningham-Buller chooses Abraham Lincoln Starring: Dramatised by Neville Teller from Ethel Lina White’s novel Former director of MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller, tells Miles Jupp as Damien Trench ‘The Wheel Spins’. Matthew Parris why she regards Abraham Lincoln as a great Justin Edwards as Anthony CAST: life. Philip Fox as Ian Frobisher Miss Froy …. Renee Asherson But will her hero stand up to intensive scrutiny and merit the Brendan Dempsey as Mr Mullaney Iris …. Jenny Funnell description of having led a great life? The expert is Dr Tony Mark Edel-Hunt as The Auctioneer/Ivan Wilberforce …. Mark Tandy Hutchison, from the American Studies Department at the Alex Tregear as Livi Hollinshead Maximillan Hare …. Mark Payton University of Nottingham. and Dr Traunitz/Stephen Yardley …. Richard Durden The producer is Perminder Khatkar. Stephen Critchlow as Gavin Colthorpe Baroness/Mrs Todhunter …. Shirley Dixon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. The producer was Sam Michell Prince Frederick/Mr Barnes/Porter …. Jonathan Keeble THU 19:00 Round the Horne (b00j05w2) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2015. Baron Hoffmeir/Mr Todhunter …. Michael Roberts [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 07:30 Elephant in the Room (m000r4wn) Ian Bretherton/Ticket Collector …. Geoffrey Beevers THU 19:30 Wally Who? (b08t1h6n) Series 2 Evelyn Flood-Porter/Frau ummer …. Geraldine Fitzgerald [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Episode 2 Rose Flood-Porter/Frau Kummer …. Jan Shand THU 20:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl Sarah Millican's hit panel show returns, using surveys to Mrs Barnes …. Karen Lewis (b0131yvn) discover who is the most Average Jolene and who is the most The book was also adapted as a 1938 British thriller film [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Maverick Matilda. This week's sparkling panel features Jo directed by Alfred Hitchcock THU 20:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tw5) Brand, Ruth Bragg, Sara Cox and Daliso Chaponda. Director: Andy Jordan [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Surveys on subjects including childhood, daily rituals and First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1999. THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000rbj2) favourite cheese are the basis for Sarah's questions to the THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000rbj2) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] panellists, discovering who is the closest to, and furthest from, [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] THU 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00m45d2) the average. Surprising quirks, hilarious insights and unexpected THU 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00m45d2) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] anecdotes are revealed along the way. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] THU 22:00 Elephant in the Room (m000r4wn) The winner will be the most average. But joint winner will be THU 12:00 Round the Horne (b00j05w2) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] the most different - the furthest from the norm. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU 22:30 Old Harry's Game (b00bf9z0) A little bit like a dinner party, but one where you know all of THU 12:30 Wally Who? (b08t1h6n) Series 4 the spoons. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Beautiful England Written by Sarah Millican, Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Jess THU 13:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl As Satan sets out to prove England is the worst nation, Fostekew, Juliet Meyers and Sian Harries. (b0131yvn) Scumspawn tackles a lager lout. Satanic sitcom stars Andy Produced by Lianne Coop. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Hamilton. From April 2001. A Chopsy production for BBC Radio 4 THU 13:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tw5) THU 23:00 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries (b00vcms4) THU 08:00 Round the Horne (b00j05w2) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] May and June Series 1 THU 14:00 Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen (b0850153) Satirist Craig Brown dips into the private lives of public figures Episode 2 General Loewenhielm's Speech from the 1960's to the present day. Kenneth Horne's secrets from the BBC backroom boys and The members of Martine and Phillipa’s church are joined by the May & June. As the summer heats up passions rise for Barbara continuing 'The Clissold Saga'. sophisticated figure of General Loewenhielm as they meet for Cartland and Edwina Currie. With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Babette’s special meal, created to honour the Dean’s memory. Voiced by Jan Ravens, Alistair McGowan, Lewis McLeod, Pertwee. Sylvestra Le Touzel reads Karen Blixen’s classic story. Ewan Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Dolly Wells. Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, Producer: Eilidh McCreadie Written by Craig Brown. London. Announcer: Douglas Smith First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016. Produced by Victoria Lloyd. Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio THU 14:15 Wild Things by Charlotte Jones (b0833sfc) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Cassie's Episode THU 23:30 The Headset Set (b01nq7dx) Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, The transformative Brighton Ladies Sea Swimming Club alters Series 2 Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the lives. Five very different women's paths cross at this tough wild Episode 2 scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and swimming club. Sketches set in a call centre called Smile 5, a mail order 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, Can newcomer Cassie be accepted by the group after stealing catalogue company that sells anything and everything. On the catchphrases and double-entendres. from them? Smile 5 call centre floor, Bernie is excessively angry over her Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser By Charlotte Jones missing lunch. Hayes Four. Cassie ..... Keziah Joseph Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu Producer: John Simmonds Shelley ..... Michel Austin Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1965. Davina ..... Sheila Reid Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult THU 08:30 Wally Who? (b08t1h6n) Jane ..... Karen Bartke Various characters ..... Lucy Montgomery The Painting Angie ..... Josie Lawrence Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Phaldut sharma "Good Grief. There's all my old love letters in there. Listen to Police Officer ..... John Bowler Script editor: James Kettle. this one: "My dearest darling. I will kill myself if you won't see Directed by Liz Webb Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. me on Tuesday. I adore you, I want you. Little Petal Wettikins." First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016. First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2012. You know Eric, I often wonder why I never posted them..." THU 14:30 Up A Gum Tree (b0075kfc) After his Uncle Ben's funeral, Wally Thornton unearths some It's a health-giving, circulation-boosting, teeth-preserving, hidden treasures. breath-freshening, digestion-aiding, brain-clearing, chest- FRIDAY 22 JANUARY 2021 Starring Tony Brandon as Wally. With Chris Ellison, John developing, nerve-settling national past time. Love it or hate it, Jardine, Nick Maloney and Rosalind Knight. chewing gum is here to stay. But it turns out it's not only today's FRI 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jprf) Tony Brandon's BBC career was mainly as a disc-jockey for teenagers who munch on gum. The ancient remains of a gum [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Radio 1 and 2 from 1967-1982, but as an actor, he also buried with a stone-age teenager have also been discovered. FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b06ycr4x) recorded the comedy series 'The Family Brandon' and 'Wally So just how long has chewing gum been around? Pete [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Who?'. McCarthy takes you on a whirlwind tour of the bubblegum FRI 01:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. years. (b0131yvn) Theme and incidental music by Debbie Katz. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Produced in Manchester by Mike Craig. THU 15:00 Ethel Lena White - The Lady Vanishes FRI 01:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tw5) First broadcast on BBC Radio in November 1982. (b017557m) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] THU 09:00 Quote... Unquote (m000bvwz) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI 02:00 Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen (b0850153) Ken Cheng, Helen Lewis, Luke Jennings THU 16:00 Quote... Unquote (m000bvwz) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Quote … Unquote, the popular celebrity quotations quiz, [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI 02:15 Wild Things by Charlotte Jones (b0833sfc) returns for its 55th series. THU 16:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b0088zqz) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of celebrity guests on the origins [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI 02:30 Up A Gum Tree (b0075kfc) of sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the famous panel to THU 17:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b064z75b) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] share their favourite anecdotes. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI 03:00 Ethel Lena White - The Lady Vanishes Across forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by writers, THU 17:30 Elephant in the Room (m000r4wn) (b017557m) actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy types. Kenneth [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Sir Ian McKellen and Peter THU 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jprf) FRI 04:00 Quote... Unquote (m000bvwz) Ustinov... have all graced the Quote...Unquote stage. The Red Planet [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] Episode 1 4. Meteors! FRI 04:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b0088zqz) Stand up comedian Ken Cheng Captain Jet Morgan and his crew must take action in their battle [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Journalist and author Helen Lewis against a cluster of meteors. FRI 05:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b064z75b) Author and dance critic Luke Jennings The mystery over Whitaker deepens - as tragedy strikes on [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2021 Page 9 of 10 FRI 05:30 Elephant in the Room (m000r4wn) Hannah, Mark Denham as Joe, Rebecca Front as Rachel and Ian (b00jn4m2) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] Targett as Gideon. Ludwig Koch was once as famous as David Attenborough, as FRI 06:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl Series two of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, pioneering as 'Blue Planet' and as important as the BBC Natural (b01381wz) husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. History Unit. They all owe their existence to this German Episode 4 A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran refugee who first recorded the music of nature. Through his Robert has been shot. Could Greg Wyncoop - who has not been for four series, with a spin-off 'Faith in the Future'. archive and new field recordings the poet Sean Street tells the seen since they both fought by the river - really have done it? Producer: Sioned Wiliam story of Ludwig Koch. Or is his body lying in the morgue? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1989. When Sean Street was recording in a store-room at the Science Patricia Highsmith's intriguing tale of obsession stars John FRI 09:00 The Personality Test (b007vt9q) Museum for a Radio 4 archive programme he came across a Sharian as Robert Forester, Adrian Lester as Greg Wyncoop, Series 3 grey crate, stencilled, as if it belonged to a band on tour, with Briony Glassco as Nickie Jurgen and Peter Marinker as Eve Pollard KOCH on it. This was the disc-cutting machine which Ludwig Detective Lippenholtz. All about Eve – writer and ex-newspaper editor Eve Pollard is Koch used for a decade to make the recordings of birds, Adapted by Shaun McKenna. in the hot seat posing questions all about her. mammals and insects that led to a new field of study, of Music composed and performed by David Chilton Tackling the ultra-personal quiz are Sue Perkins, Caroline broadcasting and the creation of the BBC's Natural History Director: Marion Nancarrow Quinlan, Robin Ince and Will Smith. Unit. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. Comedy quiz presented by a new guest host every show. All the Sean and his producer then began investigating and discovered FRI 06:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tz9) questions are about them. . that Koch made the first ever wildlife recording, of a bird, The Mysterious Affair at Styles Script by Simon Littlefield and Kieron Quirke. when he was eight, in 1889 - and that it still exists in the BBC's Episode 5 Devised and produced by Aled Evans. archives. Captain Hastings and Detective Inspector Japp are bewildered First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. Koch was an effusive man and this led to several confrontations by the antics of Hercule Poirot as he rushes back to Styles Court FRI 09:30 Bristow (b007rgl8) with Nazi officials, whom he despised. There is an in a state of great excitement. Series 2 extraordinary recording of him telling the story of a Berliner Agatha Christie’s 1920 thriller. The Power of the Press whose bullfinch sang 'The Internationale'. He was carted off to CAST: The Chester-Perry buying clerk crusades to improve conditions prison and the bird 'executed'. "Under dictatorship," Koch Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt for cleaning ladies. observed, "even songbirds suffer". He came to England, worked Hastings …. Simon Williams Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the buying clerk from Frank with Julian Huxley on theories of animal language, and Japp …. Philip Jackson Dickens' famous newspaper cartoon strip. Syndicated recorded birds from the Scillies to Shetland. Mary …. Susan Jameson internationally, it ran for 41 years in London's Evening In 1940 he joined the BBC and soon became a household name, Evie …. Nichola McAuliffe Standard. beloved of comedians (there's a great sketch by Peter Sellers Cynthia …. Annabelle Dowler Bristow ...... Michael Williams parodying him at work) because of his resolute pronunciation of Dorcas …. Hilda Schroder Jones ...... Rodney Bewes English as if it were German. Lawrence …. Nicholas Boulton Gert ...... Liz Fraser As well as being wonderful radio in itself his work was of great Alfred …. Hugh Dickson Daisy ...... Joan Sims significance. It inspired producer Desmond Hawkins to start Original music composed by Tom Smail. Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan 'The Naturalist', (using Koch's enchanting recording of a curlew Dramatist: Michael Bakewell Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman as its signature tune). Sean Street uses his recordings and Director: Enyd Williams Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey contributions of those who worked with him in what becomes a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. Stationmaster ...... Jon Glover natural history programme in itself, with Koch the subject and FRI 07:00 Dot (b072j327) Stoke ...... David Battley Sean exploring his habits and habitat. Series 1 Hickford ...... Roger Lloyd Pack There is also an attempt to record curlews as he did so The Mystery at St Horribly-Vulture's School for Boys Lift Boy ...... Ian Kelland successfully, to shed light on the achievements of this Dot's sent to St Horribly Vulture's School for Boys to enlist a Music composed and performed by John Whitehall. courageous, influential and loveable genius. Today sound- teacher for 'Shhhh Bletchley Park'. Producer: Neil Cargill recordists use tiny digital machines and sophisticated But is he the right sort of chap for the job? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1999. microphones. But there are other problems - traffic, planes, Comic adventures with Dot and the gals from personnel in the FRI 10:00 Gerry Huxham - Russian Roulette (b007t4ll) people - and fewer, shyer curlews. rollicking wartime comedy by Ed Harris. Dramatised events based on the life of the Russian novelist Producer: Julian May Dot ..... Fenella Woolgar Fyodor Dostoyevsky, when he undertook a potentially First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. Myrtle ..... Kate O'Flynn disastrous bet that led to the writing of ‘The Gambler’. FRI 15:00 Gerry Huxham - Russian Roulette (b007t4ll) Millicent ..... Jane Slavin Written by Gerry Huxham. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Peabody ..... David Acton Dostoyevsky .... David Troughton FRI 16:00 The Personality Test (b007vt9q) Mr Belltower ..... Brian Protheroe Anna ..... Amanda Gordon [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Apsley ..... Sam Rix Gregory .... Keith Drinkel FRI 16:30 Bristow (b007rgl8) Director: Jessica Mitic Alexis .... Robert Harper [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. Polina ... Elaine Pyke FRI 17:00 Dot (b072j327) FRI 07:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000rbpz) Grandmama ....Shirley Dixon [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Imran Yusuf: Relabelled General .... Denys Hawthorne FRI 17:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000rbpz) We all have labels. Some we're given and some we actively Stellovsky .... Stephen Thorne [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] choose. In his first show for Radio 4 Imran Yusuf ponders one Dubarry .... Christopher Scott FRI 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jpv4) label he was born with - man. With Ioan Meredith, Chris Pavlo, Colleen Prendergast and The Red Planet How do you learn to be a man and what does being a 'man' even Mark Bonnar 5. Communication Lost mean? In this autobiographical audience show, Imran looks at Director: Janet Whitaker With all communications back to Earth lost, the courage of where he got his role models from as a boy, what he thought First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. Captain Jet Morgan is severely tested during a meteor swarm... being a man was all about and how that view changed radically FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000rdtl) Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971. as he became an adult. Jackie Chan might have been his Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds inspiration when he was young but it was a woman who sparked people who make them. Lemmy …. David Kossoff self-awareness and change. FRI 12:00 The Men from the Ministry (b00zvcml) Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter This is a very funny and honest account of his life and changing [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Mitch …. Bruce Beeby attitudes to manliness. FRI 12:30 Second Thoughts (b007jx69) Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs Imran earned a Best Newcomer nomination in the Fosters [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Various …. Anthony Marriott Awards for his first Edinburgh show in 2010. FRI 13:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips. Written and presented by Imran Yusuf (b01381wz) Producer: Charles Chilton Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September A Yada-Yada Audio production for BBC Radio 4 FRI 13:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tz9) 1954. FRI 08:00 The Men from the Ministry (b00zvcml) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b00hr4lk) The Moving Target FRI 14:00 Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen (b0850b4c) Meeting a Star The bumbling bureaucrats take charge of Britain's first space The Great Artist Dominic Arkwright, James Delingpole, Agnes Poirier and launch. As the exquisite food and wine are consumed, old fractures are Michael Simkins discuss stardom and our reaction to fame. A weekly tribute to all those who work in government healed and broken friendships mended. But the true cost of the From February 2009. departments. feast will become clear when Babette reveals the truth about her FRI 19:00 The Men from the Ministry (b00zvcml) Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. With Norma past. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Ronald, John Graham and Ronald Baddiley. Sylvestra Le Touzel reads Karen Blixen’s classic story. FRI 19:30 Second Thoughts (b007jx69) Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham. Producer: Eilidh McCreadie [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] 'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016. FRI 20:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from FRI 14:15 Wild Things by Charlotte Jones (b0833x3h) (b01381wz) 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, Shelley's Episode [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows The transformative Brighton Ladies Sea Swimming Club alters FRI 20:30 Hercule Poirot (b0076tz9) in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC lives. Five very different women's paths cross at this tough wild [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Radio 4 Extra. swimming club. FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000rdtl) Producer: Edward Taylor Shelley is not a member of the club, but her life and that of her [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in July 1970. daughter, depend on it. FRI 22:00 Stand-Up Specials (m000rbpz) FRI 08:30 Second Thoughts (b007jx69) By Charlotte Jones [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Series 2 Shelley ..... Michele Austin FRI 22:30 The Consultants (b007k3fh) Youth and Consequences Cassie ..... Keziah Joseph Series 3 Bill's new young image leaves Faith feeling old on her birthday. Angie ..... Josie Lawrence Episode 4 Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill MacGregor and Faith Davina ..... Sheila Reid The boys of St Battery's get their own back on the school bully. Greyshott trying to forge a relationship whilst balancing the Jane ..... Karen Bartke Sketches and songs with Justin Edwards. From January 2005. demands of his ex-wife, Liza and her teenage children, Hannah Police Officer ..... John Bowler FRI 23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b01q7bq4) and Joe. Directed by Liz Webb Series 5 Stars Lynda Bellingham as Faith, James Bolam as Bill, Celia First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016. Les Dennis Imrie as Hilary, Belinda Lang as Liza, Kelda Holmes as FRI 14:30 Ludwig Koch and the Music of Nature Les Dennis tries his first ever taste of cheese, reads The Lion Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16 – 22 January 2021 Page 10 of 10 The Witch and the Wardrobe, hears his first ever Rolling Stones Album and watches the hit comedy The Inbetweeners. He gives his verdict to Marcus Brigstocke. Produced by Bill Dare. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2013. FRI 23:30 Richard Herring's Objective (b00vhgc7) Series 1 The St George's Flag Comedian Richard Herring reclaims those things we have given a bad name to. Today he's reclaiming the English National Flag from any associations with far right extremists. Why does the man and woman on the street have no idea when St George's day is? Who is St George? Richard asks a vexillologist (flag expert) about how flags have come to symbolise nations.He also talks to anthropologist Kate Fox who has studied the behaviour of the English, about why the English are not natural flag waving patriots. The show was recorded in front of an audience. Producer: Tilusha Ghelani First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.

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