Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 July 2016 Page 1 of 10

SATURDAY 09 JULY 2016 Adapted by Ellen Dryden. Credits Nancy Carroll stars as Harriette Wilson ­ of the most Presenter: Lynne Truss 00:00 Oscar Wilde (b008lz2g) infamous and talked­about women of the early 19th century. House Fly: The Canterville Ghost, Episode 3 Her lovers included aristocrats, adventurers and even the Soprano Pipstrelle Bat: Pam Ferris Filled with pity for the ghost of the house, Virginia agrees Duke of Wellington, and when they all ceased to support her Producer: Sarah Blunt to help Sir Simon find peace. Read by Alistair McGowan. after her retirement, she had a simple bargain for them ­ Writer: Lynne Truss 00:30 Sounds Natural (b07k0ts9) 'pay up, and I'll keep you out of my memoirs'. 06:00 Daphne Du Maurier ­ The King's General (b00p4klc) Bernard Cribbins A scandalous bestseller of their time, her memoirs reveal a A paralysed beauty and a reckless soldier fall in love From the Meadow Pipit to the Red­Backed Shrike. Actor sharp­witted, good­hearted, infinitely adaptable, madcap during the English civil war. Stars Cathryn Harrison and Bernard Cribbins talks to Derek Jones about his love of bird woman who took on the patriarchy of the time and did Roger Allam. watching, fishing and the importance of conservation ­ aided something close to beating them at their own game. 07:30 The RSC at 50 (b01061hm) by recordings from the BBC Sound Archive. Having finally made contact with the mysterious Lord The First Ten Years Producer: John Burton. Ponsonby, Harriette finds there are all kinds of obstacles James Naughtie explores the history of the Royal Shakespeare First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1972. to their blossoming romance ­ including the small matter of Company as it marks its 50th birthday and reopens its main 01:00 Poirot (b0076tz9) his wife whom everyone agrees is an angel. Harriette's Stratford theatre. Part 2: The First Ten Years. The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Episode 5 former lovers, the dashing Duke of Argyll and the taciturn In the second programme of his three­part series, James Captain Hastings and Detective Inspector Japp are bewildered but loyal Duke of Wellington, are never far from the picture Naughtie explores how the Royal Shakespeare Company came by the antics of Hercule Poirot as he rushes back to Styles and are soon joined by a new, passionate young admirer. The into being in 1961 and its extraordinarily dynamic first ten Court in a state of great excitement. Marquis of Worcester is devoted to Harriette as only a 19 years. Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule year­old can be. He speaks with the two key players ­ Peter Hall and Peter Poirot, Simon Williams as Hastings, Philip Jackson as Japp, Eventually Harriette is persuaded to reveal all in her Brook (both now in their eighties, both still busily working Susan Jameson as Mary, Nichola McAuliffe as Evie, Annabelle memoirs ­ a course of action which leads Wellington to make in theatre) ­ about the stultifying 1950s theatre culture Dowler as Cynthia and Hilda Schroder as Dorcas. one of the most famous remarks in the English Language. which they inherited. As Brook vividly recalls, "those old Original music composed by Tom Smail. Cast: laddie codger actors just boomed away". Dramatist: Michael Bakewell Harriette ...... Nancy Carroll The two Peters discuss other aspects which were ripe for Director: Enyd Williams Ponsonby ...... Charles Edwards change ­ the need for a European­style ensemble, for First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. Wellington ...... Barnaby Kay training in verse­speaking, for longer and more open 01:30 Picking Round Apples (b014qxbg) Argyle ...... Blake Ritson rehearsals, for productions which arose from a particular Steve Carver lives the life of a seasonal apple picker on a Fanny ...... Anna Francolini time rather than simply being wheeled out again and again ­ farm in Herefordshire. Amy ...... Abigail Burdess all RSC hallmarks which are now taken for granted. Veteran In his previous programmes for Radio 4 'Dancing Round the Matthew Lee ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor members of the company Patrick Stewart and Judi Dench recall Mediterranean' and 'Touring Round Torquay' , Steve immersed Poodle Byng/ Doctor/ Beaufort ..... Gus Brown the joys of that time, including, in Dench's case, the himself in a new line of work, living alongside co­workers Porter/ Brougham ...... Jonathan Coote indiscrete joys of affairs which inevitably arose due to the and experiencing their way of life. Leinster ...... Andrew Mudie geographical isolation of Stratford. Contemporary Associate This year he is 'Picking Round Apples' in Herefordshire: Worcester ...... Nigel Thomas Director Greg Doran explains the attraction of working in For a week in mid­August, Steve gave up his home comforts Producer: Ellen Dryden Stratford ­ walking daily, on his way to rehearsals, past and moved into a small campervan parked in the corner of a A First Writes Radio production for BBC Radio 4. the church where Shakespeare was baptized and buried; while field in rural Herefordshire. Credits Hall explains how vital it was to start up a season Every year a small band of retired people establish a Harriette: Nancy Carroll if he was to succeed in turning a group of actors into a make­shift and temporary, but close community. Every day, Ponsonby: Charles Edwards world­class company. all day, they pick apples. The money they earn boosts their Wellington: Barnaby Kay Meanwhile, the current Company dramaturge Jeannie O'Hare pensions, and a simple and quietly sociable life is also a Argyle: Blake Ritson explains how productions of new works by contemporary great draw. Fanny: Anna Francolini writers ­ Pinter, Bond, Hare ­ helped re­energize the RSC, However it's hard work ­ bad backs, scratched arms, and sore Amy: Abigail Burdess culminating in what is often seen as its aesthetic feet are the wounds that must be borne. Matthew Lee: Jonathan Dryden Taylor high­point ­ Brook's Dream in 1971 ­ which, in a rare The retired pickers live in their motor­homes for the Poodle Byng/Doctor/Beaufort: Gus Brown interview, the great Peter Brook himself recalls for the summer, with many over­wintering in Spain when the weather Porter/Brougham: Jonathan Coote programme. begins to cool. No such luxury (or destination) for Steve ­ Leinster: Andrew Mudie The series as a whole features an exclusive breadth of we gave him a basic campervan, with no electrical 'hook­up'; Producer: Ellen Dryden interviews with the key players of the past half century. the use of a microwave in a farm­building, which also houses 04:00 Whispers (b007k2sl) With the help of all five artistic directors: Peter Hall, the showers and loos. Series 3, Episode 3 Trevor Nunn, Terry Hands, Adrian Noble and Michael Boyd; He was cold at night (trekking socks a necessity in bed, Gyles Brandreth chairs the scandals quiz with Anthony luminaries such as Peter Brook, Cicely Berry, Greg Doran, even in August), he got a little sick of microwave meals, Holden, Lucy Moore, Dan Tetsell and John O'Farrell. From Judi Dench, Patrick Stewart and David Tennant; and backstage but he enjoyed meeting the other pickers, appreciating what October 2005. artists, technicians and craftspeople, James Naughtie they meant by 'getting into the zone' of apple picking: 04:30 No Commitments (b01mhqbz) explores both the history of the company and the reasons why reach... pick... put in bucket... reach... pick... put in Series 10, Time With the Family its work matters to the wider British cultural scene. bucket... almost ­ as Steve said ­ like a form of Emily is engaged to Nick, so Roger and Victoria must Producer: Beaty Rubens. meditation. absolutely meet her fiance's parents. Stars Bill Nighy. From Credits Join Steve to find out how he got on 'Picking Round Apples' February 2004. Producer: Beaty Rubens at Tillington Fruit Farm near Ledbury in Herefordshire. 05:00 Winston in Europe (b007tbrv) Presenter: James Naughtie Producer: Karen Gregor. Don't Gush, Nancy 08:00 (b03mcklz) 02:00 Maggie O'Farrell ­ The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Father wants to move abroad, but old rogue Winston's not his The Three Day Week (b00770qd) usual chipper self. Stars Maurice Denham. From March 1992. Forty years ago Britain was plunged into darkness as Prime I Would Like to Go to the Sea 05:30 Rumblings from the Rafters (b07hwxbk) Minister Edward Heath introduced a 3 day working week. By Maggie O'Farrell, abridged by Sally Marmion. House Fly and Soprano Pipistrelle Bat Cities fell dark. Factories and schools closed. People, 5/10. Esme returns to an old family haunt. An annoying House Fly played by Lee Mack and a warm­hearted often wrapped in blankets, worked by candle and torchlight. Read by Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and Eleanor Bron. Soprano Pipistrelle Bat played by Pam Ferris, reveal the At home, people boiled water to wash and children were sent 02:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sjw36) truth about life in a draughty old attic in a house in to school with luminous yellow bands so they could be seen The Habit of Schooling in the second of three very funny tales, written in the gloom. And Britain's three TV channels came to an Michael Morpurgo discovers the reaction to the 1870 Forster and introduced by Lynne Truss, with additional sound abrupt end at ten thirty! Education Act, marking the start of compulsory education for recordings by Chris Watson. For decades, British politics was shaped, perhaps defined, all. The House Fly loves life. "The best bit is the buzzing". He by the events of the early 1970s, with the 3 day week as the 02:30 AS Byatt ­ The Frederica Quartet (b007jstn) loves the aerobatics, dodging the flypapers in the attic and centrepoint. Now it seems almost unimaginable that this Episode 30 "... my favourite manoeuvre, settling on the ceiling. It is could have happened in one of the world's richest countries Alexander hosts a play to raise cash for repairs and a fire unbelievably brilliant" He loves to buzz. But he also loves, so how did it ever get to this point? Could Heath have done at the farm has dire consequences. Stars Indira Varma. what to humans, is a disgusting way of life. He loves to anything different? Michael White of , then a young reporter, takes us back to those extraordinary days 02:45 (b013n5k1) walk around on filth and to poo everywhere and to spread and charts the long­term political significance of the Fire Season, Episode 5 disease "And listen, we don't mind! Not at all. It's the crisis. Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall. least we can do". He would love to spread more diseases and Producer: Jim Frank. A new relief lookout appears on the mountain but the author takes great joy in telling us just exactly how he does this is unsure that he has what it takes to cope alone in the ... perhaps best not to listen if you're eating! 09:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b07kcgks) wilderness. And some smokejumpers arrive to put out a fire, The Soprano Pipistrelle Bat is a very different creature; a The Last Prairie Home Companion which reminds the author of the famous tragedy of the Mann tiny bat with a huge and loving heart. She is nine years old After 42 years on­air, Garrison Keillor hosted this final Gulch fire which inspired Norman Maclean's famous book. and has given birth to a single pup each year. Her newest show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on July 1st 2016. Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job pup, Jethro, is her darling; "... such a lovely little face. Garrison bids a bittersweet goodbye to Lake Wobegon and and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of Chestnut fur. Perfect little ears. He smells like chicken welcomes the Royal American Radio Acting Company, Rich solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire flavour crisps. Ooh, I could eat him." He is six weeks old Dworsky and the band, Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with and weaning ­ proudly catching insects for himself; and this O'Donovan, Heather Masse, Christine DiGiallonardo and some ­ there are fires large and small; spectacular is always a poignant time for this mother­bat, where pride surprises. midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening and sadness mingle. The main concern with Jethro, she finds, A Prairie Home Companion is American public radio's most above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and is that he can't seem to grasp the idea of torpor, "Oh don't popular entertainment programme with four million weekly black bears. mum. Don't go torpid. It's like you're dying", but as she listeners on 500 plus radio stations coast to coast. Read by Kerry Shale knows "torpor is nothing to be scared of, .. torpor is your Produced by Prairie Home Productions. Produced by Jane Marshall friend". 11:00 (b019qblm) A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. House Fly: Lee Mack Stephen Wakelam ­ The Jinx Element Soprano Pipstrelle Bat: Pam Ferris 03:00 (b01jqb92) by Stephen Wakelam Written and introduced by Lynne Truss Publish and Be Damn'd: The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, Edith Wharton's private life was as dramatic as many of her Wildlife sound recordings Chris Watson Episode 2 novels. An encounter with a journalist was to have a seismic Producer Sarah Blunt. effect on her marriage and her work. Supported by .co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 July 2016 Page 2 of 10

Directed by Sally Avens uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love, he him a lot of meals ­ but there's only so much consolation Pullitzer prize winning author Edith Wharton had a long discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, chicken a man can eat. career, which stretched over forty years and included the and awakens to new possibilities. When moping at the pub, Richard meets the seductive Sorrow, publication of more than forty books, many of which have Directed by Jeremy Mortimer who tries to stop him recovering or moving on with his life. been made into films including 'The House of Mirth'. A born The Real George Orwell Will she succeed, or will Richard learn to love again? storyteller her novels are justly celebrated for their vivid A Radio 4 journey through the labyrinth that is the life and Contains some explicit language. settings, satiric wit, ironic style, and moral seriousness. work of George Orwell. Written and performed by Richard Marsh Her characters are often trapped in bad relationships or Of course there is no real George Orwell ­ it was the pen Producer: Ben Worsfield confining circumstances. Her own life stands as an example name of Eric Blair ­ but he was a writer and political A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. of the obstacles that a woman of her time and place had to commentator who is very hard to pin down. Ever since his Credits overcome to find self­realization. Stephen Wakelam's play early death in 1950, he has been at one and the same time Performer: Richard Marsh tells the story of Edith's affair with the journalist Morton the darling of some on both the left and the right of Writer: Richard Marsh Fullerton through the eyes of her friend and fellow writer British politics ­ whilst being reviled by others. For all Producer: Ben Worsfield . Age 47 Edith embarked upon a relationship which the beautiful simplicity of his writing and storytelling 23:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b00qx43h) made her reassess her own marriage to Teddy Wharton, a Orwell/Blair is a complex mass of confusions ­ an Series 2, Episode 4 platonic relationship that did not allow her to share her anti­establishment, pro­English, ex­Etonian ex­policeman and Mark Thomas: The Manifesto. Comedian­activist, Mark Thomas intellectual and artistic interests. socialist, who was ardently anti­authoritarian. He was as creates a People's Manifesto, taking suggestions from his Stephen Wakelam has written many successful radio plays anti­fascist as he was anti­communist, a former Spanish studio audience and then getting them to vote for the best. including 'Adulteries of a Provinical Wife' about Flaubert Civil War soldier who was anti­war but pro the Second World The winner of each show will be enforceable by law, so pay writing Madame Bovary and 'What I Think of My Husband' about War, and so on and so on. attention. Thomas Hardy. Through dramatisations of the key books, through four newly This episode will include policies such as crushing the cars Credits commissioned plays that explore the disjuncture between the of anyone illegally parked in a disabled space; the Edith Wharton: Fenella Woolgar man who was Eric Blair and the writer who was George Orwell, legalisation of Viking­style funerals; and consolidating the Henry James: Allan Corduner and through factual programming and readings, Radio 4 will 's national debt into one easy­to­pay loan. Morton: Patrick Baladi take you on a journey from Burma via Catalonia, Wigan, Jura, Produced by Ed Morrish. Teddy Wharton: Nathan Osgood Manor Farm along the road that led to Nineteen Eighty­Four, Cook: James Lailey one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. Manservant: James Lailey Christopher Eccleston and Pippa Nixon in studio 10 JULY 2016 Mrs Gross: Rachel Atkins Recording as a scene between Winston and Julia in Studio French Admirer: Rachel Atkins 60a. 00:00 The Real George Orwell (b01qhd0y) English Waiter: Simon Bubb Credits [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] French Waiter: Simon Bubb Winston Smith: Christopher Eccleston 01:00 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist (b07kcl7p) Director: Sally Avens Julia: Pippa Nixon [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Writer: Stephen Wakelam O'Brien: Tim Pigott­Smith 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07kcmhg) 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jnxg) Parsons: Kim Wall [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] Syme: Sam Alexander Ill Met by Goonlight 02:15 Sentimental Journey (b0076zp7) Prostitute: Susie Riddell Neddie Seagoon is sent to capture the German general who [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] commands the island of Crete. Stars Spike Milligan. From Actor: Christine Absalom 02:45 Uncle Mort's North Country (b007jl6n) March 1957. Actor: Don Gilet [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] 12:30 Dilemma (b01747kt) Actor: Joe Sims 03:00 Archive on 4 (b03mcklz) Series 1, Episode 1 Actor: Joshua Swinney [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] Sue Perkins puts four guests through the moral and ethical Director: Jeremy Mortimer 04:00 Daphne Du Maurier ­ The King's General (b00p4klc) wringer in this show that looks at the choices we are Writer: Jonathan Holloway [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] bombarded by in Britain , as well as some more 19:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b07kcgks) theoretical problems. Salad or chips? Do you buy local [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] 05:30 The RSC at 50 (b01061hm) produce or from co­ops in Africa? Would you rather live in 21:00 Saturday Drama (b019qblm) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] perfect happiness for ten years or general contentment for [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] 06:00 AS Byatt ­ The Frederica Quartet Omnibus (b07kt2ps) thirty? This is a panel show in which there are no "right" 22:00 Buy Me Up TV (b009fnlx) A Whistling Woman answers ­ but there are some deeply damning ones. Episode 2 Frederica meets an old flame and her new TV series starts From everyday and even surreal either/or situations, to Another chance to hear the comedy series inspired by every but a fire at the farm has a devastating outcome. Stars classic philosophical quandaries, Dilemma is a format to get shopping channel you've ever seen and every product you've Indira Varma. witty, intelligent comic voices sparking off one another. never wanted to buy. 07:15 Out of Armenia (b04w0jfv) The edition features comedians Dave Gorman and Richard The series features Justin Edwards, Colin Hoult, Katherine Paris Herring, actress and writer Rebecca Front, and journalist Jakeways, Ewen MacIntosh, Alex MacQueen and Greg Proops. "The last of the battlefields is the battlefield of the Dominic Lawson. They discuss such quandaries as "Would you Tonight's special guest is Ruth Madoc. imagination ­ and that space is infinite". provide an alibi to someone you hate?" and "Would you 22:30 Knowing Me, Knowing You (b007k0fl) Charles Emmerson continues his journey through the Armenian confront an elderly relative about casual racism at a family Episode 5 diaspora of Europe in Paris ­ Europe's largest, most gathering?", and they debate the relative merits of Silvio Cheesy host Alan Partridge is 'Live from Las Vegas' with a culturally­vibrant and politically­radical Armenian diaspora Berlusconi, Vlad the Impaler, L. Ron Hubbard and Amanda glamorous American co­host. Stars Steve Coogan. From community. Holden. The show was devised by award­winning stand­up and December 1992. With the singing of the Armenian monk­musician Gomidas playing in the background, French­Armenian actor Simon writer Danielle Ward (, Newswipe, Mock The 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b07kd8fr) Abkarian tells Charles the story of how his family was wiped Week). From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club out in Anatolia in 1915, and how Armenians have turned the Producer: Ed Morrish. has two hours of comedy. Plus Cariad Lloyd rounds off her pain of memory into the foundations of a new homeland in 13:00 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist (b07kcl7p) chat about 'improv' with Pippa Evans and Rachel Parris. France. Omnibus. Charles Dance tells five darkly comic tales by the 23:00 I, Regress (b01s0dlz) As Charles is plied with pomegranate wine in the local master of the bizarre. Featuring The Bookseller, Poison, My Series 2, Mirrors Armenian shops of Alfortville, a Paris suburb which filled Lady Love, The Surgeon and The Butler. A dark, David Lynch­ian comedy, ideally suited for an with Armenian refugees in the 1920s, we hear how 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07kcmhg) unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees French­Armenians have become more French than the French Simon Hopkinson Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff themselves ­ counting members of parliament, actors, Chef and writer Simon Hopkinson chooses 'Catch a Falling Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking musicians and the singer Charles Aznavour among their Star' by Perry Como and '21st Century Schizoid Man' by King unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through number. One of the most famous fighters of the French Crimson. their subconscious. resistance, Missak Manouchian, was also Armenian. 14:15 Sentimental Journey (b0076zp7) Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client On a river barge in the Seine, as a mostly Armenian band Shappi Khorsandi who has come to him for a different phobia. As the patient tunes up for an evening concert, we hear mixed Armenian, Arthur Smith takes Iranian comedian Shappi Khorsandi to is put under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the Turkish, Kurdish and Persian music ­ symbol of a younger Paris, where she went as a teenager. Her satirist father was various situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are generation of Paris Armenians opening up, and an embrace of exiled for his humour, but Shappi carries on the family played out for us to hear. The result is a dream­ (or culture as a tool of both memory and peace. tradition. nightmare­) like trip through the patient's mind, as funny Produced by Cicely Fell Producer: Sharon Banoff as it is disturbing. An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. The cast across the series include , Daisy 07:30 Presents The Horne Section (b01dgh8t) 14:45 Uncle Mort's North Country (b007jl6n) Haggard, Steve Furst and Tracy­Ann Oberman. Series 1, Nick Helm Series 1, Beside the Seaside A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone Comedian Alex Horne is joined by his own 5 piece jazz band Carter and Uncle Mort enjoy sea­air and some miserable else's head! for a brand new series of music and comedy. The band will be memories. Peter Tinniswood's saga with Peter Skellern and Produced by Sam Bryant. joined by Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee guest Nick Helm, Stephen Thorne. Credits and explore the relationship between man and dog and 15:00 Archive on 4 (b03mcklz) Actor: Matt Berry dinosaurs and puns. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Producer: Sam Bryant Host .... Alex Horne 23:15 Richard Marsh (b01rlswh) 16:00 Daphne Du Maurier ­ The King's General (b00p4klc) Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland Love and Sweets, Jess [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown Winner of Best Scripted Comedy in the BBC Audio Awards 2014, 17:30 The RSC at 50 (b01061hm) Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier poet and playwright Richard Marsh fuses poetry and prose to [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds tell a heart­breaking and witty tale of losing love, falling 18:00 The Real George Orwell (b01qhd0y) Piano/keyboard .... Joe Stilgoe for a seductive­looking lady called Sorrow, and learning to Nineteen Eighty­Four, Episode 1 Guest performer ....Nick Helm put himself back together. Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway. Producer .... Julia McKenzie. Richard's marriage has fallen apart, and he's a broken man Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth. Sick and Credits locked in a flat full of memories, rattling around like separated from his wife, he lives alone in a one­room flat Presenter: Alex Horne sweets in a bowl. Siobhan's moved out; the flat, half­full, in Victory Mansions in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Performer: Nick Helm is the emptiest thing. On the plus side, his friends cook Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police Producer: Julia McKenzie

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08:00 Ray's a Laugh (b07kwm0j) 17:00 Poetry Extra (b07kwsds) 05:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b01dgh8t) From 30/01/1959 Tales from Ovid: Arachne; Midas [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] Will Ted be able to cope when things take a decidedly chilly BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the 06:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds turn? BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Tales of Ovid'. (b036v8py) Starring Ted Ray. With Kitty Bluett and Kenneth Connor. Poet Ted Hughes continues reading from his award­winning Episode 1 Ray's A Laugh ­ the successor to ITMA ­ follows the comedy reworking of Ovid's Metamorphoses ­ stories of the teeming Radio's dashing hero, Dick Barton is looking forward to a exploits of Ted's life at home with his 'radio' wife Kitty, underworld and overworld of Romanised Greek myth and legend. restful Mediterranean cruise with his faithful pal, Snowy, as well as in a variety of jobs. It ran from 1949­1961. Featuring 'Arachne' and 'Midas', this highly praised but an old colleague has other ideas... Scripted by Bernard Botting and Charles Hart. collection won the 1997 Whitbread prize for poetry and WH The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenoulhet. Smith Literary Award. Kelly as 'Dick Barton ­ Special Agent' in another thrilling Producer: Leslie Bridgmont Ted Hughes: born: 1930 and died: 1998. tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1959. Producer: Susan Roberts adventure. 08:30 Meet the Huggetts (b04mc868) First broadcast in two­parts on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon All at Sea 17:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b01dgh8t) Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between With factory outing looming, Joe and Ethel Huggett find [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings themselves in a mess over money. 18:00 Simon Bovey ­ The Voice of God (b007jwkz) survive. Stars Jack Warner as Joe, Kathleen Harrison as Ethel, Vera Dreamtime Is Over With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding Day as Jane, Anthony Green as Bobby, Charles Leno as Fred What is being built out in a remote Australian desert? And re­recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original Stebbings, Beatrice Varley as Mrs Stebbings and Kenneth what havoc will it wreak? Stars Clare Corbett and Matthew scripts and music, which was made for international Connor as Mr Campbell. Dyktynski. distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, Popular working­class family, the Huggetts first hit the 18:30 Algernon Blackwood ­ The Willows (b007jvdj) lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive cinema screen with a series of Gainsborough films between Episode 3 in Canberra, Australia. 1947 and 1949. Their subsequent BBC radio series ran from The companions prepare for a second night and the inevitable Script by Geoffrey Webb. 1953 to 1962. attack from the island's mysterious forces. Read by Roger Producer: Morris West Scripted by Eddie Maguire. Allam. First broadcast in Australia in April 1949. Producer: Peter Eton 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour (b07kwny1) 06:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012llr0) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1954. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Episode 1 09:00 : A Life Revisited ­ Omnibus 20:00 Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited ­ Omnibus Crime reporter Michael Quigley's evening is ruined when a (b07kwmtm) (b07kwmtm) mysterious master criminal chooses his nightclub to carry With new access to family archive, Philip Eade revisits the [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] out his latest escapade. Read by Danny Webb. life of one of our greatest novelists. Read by Nickolas 21:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07kwnfm) Who is White Face? The "Devil of Tidal Basin" ­ they called Grace. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] him. Out of the slums and filth of London slunk this marauder, dealing death and striking terror into all hearts 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07kwnfm) 21:15 Revisited (b07kwnqc) and confounding the clearest brains of Scotland Yard. Bonnie Tyler [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] All the ingredients of a great mystery are here ­ a Singer Bonnie Tyler chooses 'A Hard Day's Night' by the 22:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section (b01dgh8t) beautiful young girl, a handsome and romantic stranger from Beatles and 'River Deep Mountain High' by Tina Turner. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b07kwnqc) South Africa; a keen crime­reporter from London's Fleet 22:30 Fabulous (b00hlxwn) Street in love with the girl; the dull witted inspector of Conductors, Antonio Pappano Series 1, Episode 2 4 Extra Debut. From Tony Bennett to Giacomo Puccini, Police countered by the brilliant Superintendent from Faye fancies a day under her duvet, but perhaps it would be Scotland Yard. conductor Anthony Pappano shares his castaway choices with more peaceful at the office? Stars Daisy Haggard. From May Sue Lawley. From April 2004. It's a hunt to expose an arch blackmailer ­ bent on 2007. destroying the lives of his victims..... 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour (b07kwny1) 22:45 Peter Bradshaw ­ For One Horrible Moment (b0084ss4) Series 3, Snow White and the Screaming Meemies Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875­1932) was a prolific Episode 2 British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote True stories told live in the USA: Meg Bowles introduces Memoirs of a boy growing up in the 1970s, when a girl caused tales about moving home, being on TV, foster care and last 175 novels ­ including the Four Just Men and Mr JG Reeder excitement and self­loathing. Written and read by Peter series ­ 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and chances. Bradshaw. The Moth is an acclaimed not­for­profit organisation journals. He co­created the movie monster 'King Kong', 23:00 The Secret World (b01mk55k) dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the writing the film's early screenplay. Over 160 films have Series 3, Episode 1 USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and been made of his novels. The impression show that imagines alternative lives for the storytelling novice, who has lived through something Edgar Wallace's novel abridged by Robin Brooks. famous people. Each episode takes place over one day, with extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by Producer: Clive Brill stories unfolding and overlapping from morning to night. the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pacificus Productions and In this third series the team of Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in first broadcast in 2011. Julian Dutton, Duncan Wisbey, Margarter Cabourn­Smith, through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New 06:30 When Harry Met Sally at 20 (b00m6zpr) Jessica Robinson is joined by Debra Stephenson. York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce 4 Extra Debut. Film critic Sarah Churchwell celebrates the In this series, Professor Brian Cox finds himself the object immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New classic romantic film comedy with its writer, Nora Ephron. of excessive female attention, from, amongst others, Kirsty York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts From August 2009. Young and the Queen. Al Pacino reveals his alternative life of the world. 07:00 (b00rv56t) as a balloon twister. Ed Miliband spends a whole day trying The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live Sketches by Boz ­ Series 1, Mr Watkins Tottle to get a batman costume for his son, Peter Sallis discovers and without notes, to standing­room­only crowds worldwide. When a shy, middle­aged bachelor meets the woman of his a new form of energy, and President Obama becomes a pearly The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. dreams, can there really be a happy ending? Stars David king. Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, Collings. The show is written by Bill Dare, Julian Dutton, and Duncan from the humorous to the heart­breaking. 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b07j438b) Wisbey. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic Series 65, Episode 2 It's produced by Bill Dare. Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed The 65th series of Radio 4's multi award­winning antidote to Episode synopsis for ep 1 by the Public Radio Exchange. panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment In this episode, the Arch Bishop of Canterbury tries for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a 12:00 Ray's a Laugh (b07kwm0j) Tweeting for the first time, with disastrous results. return visit to the in Liverpool. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Professor Brian Cox finds himself stalked by various women, Regulars Barry Cryer, Jeremy Hardy and Tim Brooke­Taylor are 12:30 Meet the Huggetts (b04mc868) including the Queen. Al Pacino is a balloon twister, and once again joined on the panel by Rory Bremner with Jack Dee [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Princess Anne reveals her secret life as a trainspotter. in the chair. At the piano ­ Colin Sell. 13:00 AS Byatt ­ The Frederica Quartet Omnibus (b07kt2ps) 23:30 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking (b00773md) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Producer ­ Jon Naismith. Series 1, Episode 4 It is a BBC Studios production. 14:15 Out of Armenia (b04w0jfv) Perrier Award winning comedian Laura Solon continues her new [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] Credits sketch and character comedy series, aided by the voices of Presenter: Jack Dee 14:30 Jessie Burton ­ The Muse: Omnibus (b07k8zlv) Ben Moor, Katherine Parkinson and Ben Willbond. Plus more Panellist: Barry Cryer Episode 1 from the China Lion, the new barn conversion couple and a Panellist: Jeremy Hardy 1967: Odelle Bastien begins her new job as typist and meets return to Chingley Hall. Panellist: Tim Brooke­Taylor her boss Marjorie Quick. Read by Martina Laird and Jessica Panellist: Rory Bremner Raine. Producer: Jon Naismith Credits MONDAY 11 JULY 2016 Reader: Rachel Shelley 08:00 Parsley Sidings (b04dcgpq) Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Series 2, The Flower Show 00:00 Simon Bovey ­ The Voice of God (b007jwkz) Station Master Horace Hepplewhite digs up trouble when he Abridger: Lauris Morgan­Griffiths [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] Producer: Mair Bosworth hosts the village horticultural show. 00:30 Algernon Blackwood ­ The Willows (b007jvdj) Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Kenneth Connor as 15:45 John Burnside ­ Finders Keepers (b07kwqst) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] Percy/Bradshaw/Vicar, Liz Fraser as Gloria, as 4 Extra Debut. The older brother knew the lost dog was quite 01:00 AS Byatt ­ The Frederica Quartet Omnibus (b07kt2ps) Bert, Bill Pertwee as Phineas Perkins and Garrard Green as probably dead, but the pretence of searching continues. Read [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] the Inspector by Richard Pearce. 02:15 Out of Armenia (b04w0jfv) Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway 16:00 Edith Wharton ­ Madame de Treymes (b0089brw) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station John Durham's fight for the woman he loves sparks a 02:30 Jessie Burton ­ The Muse: Omnibus (b07k8zlv) for generations and the current Station Master, Horace, confrontation with a powerful and devious French family. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] hopes that his son Bert will continue the line. Stars Anna Massey as Christiane de Treymes, Philip Voss as 03:45 John Burnside ­ Finders Keepers (b07kwqst) Mild­mannered Ticket Clerk Bert wants to work anywhere but John Durham, Gwen Humble as Fanny de Malrive, Elizabeth [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] on the railways. His colleague, Station Announcer Gloria Kelly as Bessie Boykin and Valerie Sarruf as the Narrator. Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter Percy Valentine is an Adapted from Edith Wharton's novella by John Peacock. 04:00 Edith Wharton ­ Madame de Treymes (b0089brw) archetypal wheeler­dealer and the ancient Signalman, Director: Jane Morgan [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home­made remedies in First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. 05:00 Poetry Extra (b07kwsds) [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is Phineas

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Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop wine buff, can identify a rare vintage in a blind tasting, 18:30 (b00767pt) down the line. he wins a case of the wine in question. When Schofield Huw Edwards & Lesley Chamberlain Producer: Edward Taylor boasts that he has acquired a wine whose obscurity renders Matthew Parris welcomes BBC newsreader, Huw Edwards and First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1973. it unguessable, Pratt suggests they increase their stakes. writer, Lesley Chamberlain to discuss paperbacks by Kingsley 08:30 J Kingston Platt (b01rr6y0) If he fails to identify it, he forfeits both his houses but, Amis, Richard Flanagan and Jonathan Smith. From 2002. Romance if he succeeds, he wins the hand of Schofield's delectable The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis The showbusiness survivor shares a touching tale of daughter in marriage. Despite the girl's protests, Schofield Publisher: Penguin Books unexpected romance. Written and read by Peter Jones. From agrees to the wager. Death Of A River Guide by Richard Flanagan September 1993. Produced and Directed by David Blount Publisher: McPhee Gribble 09:00 Quote... Unquote (b039pdtd) A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. The Learning Game by Jonathan Smith The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. Credits Publisher: Abacus. As ever, a host of interesting celebrities will be joining Storyteller: Charles Dance 19:00 Parsley Sidings (b04dcgpq) Nigel as he quizzes them on the sources of a range of Richard Pratt: Jonathan Hyde [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] quotations and asks them for the amusing sayings or Mike: Mark Heap 19:30 J Kingston Platt (b01rr6y0) citations that they have personally collected on a variety Margaret: Rachel Atkins [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] of subjects. We discover who the most quotable people they Louise: Charlie Russell 20:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds have ever met are and we're treated to their favourite four Housekeeper: Jean Trend (b036v8py) line humorous poems. Writer: Stephen Sheridan [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] This week Nigel is joined by Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray, Director: David Blount 20:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012llr0) News presenter Matt Barbet, Children's Playwright David Wood Producer: David Blount [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] and Journalist and writer Katharine Whitehorn. 14:45 Book of the Week (b013xm61) 20:30 When Harry Met Sally at 20 (b00m6zpr) Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. All Made Up, Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Award­winning author Janice Galloway brings all the Produced by Carl Cooper. 21:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories (b01pqdsc) brilliance of her fiction to bear on her memories of Credits [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Presenter: Nigel Rees adolescence in small­town Scotland. Since the death of their 21:15 Shelagh Delaney ­ Sweetly Sings the Donkey (b01dbytf) Panellist: Jenni Murray father, Janice and her unpredictable older sister, Cora, [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Panellist: Matt Barbet have lived in close quarters with their downtrodden mother. 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b07j438b) Panellist: David Wood But the timid child, who has survived by observing rather [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Panellist: Katharine Whitehorn than acting, is about to hit adolescence. Reader: Peter Jefferson Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. 22:30 Concrete Cow (b04wjtm3) Producer: Carl Cooper Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. Series 2, War A war poet is told that the troops prefer limericks. Sketch 09:30 King Street Junior (b007jnbv) 15:00 Daniel Defoe ­ Robinson Crusoe (b007jqy3) show starring Robert Webb, Beth Chalmers and Chris Pavlo. Series 7, Beside the Seaside [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] From February 2004. Staff and pupils set off on a school trip, but trouble soon 16:00 Quote... Unquote (b039pdtd) erupts at their guest house. Stars James Grout. From May [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] 23:00 (b07j7nvf) Series 16, Episode 4 1992. 16:30 King Street Junior (b007jnbv) It's out with Farage, Gove, Boris, Hodgson, Chris Evans and 10:00 Daniel Defoe ­ Robinson Crusoe (b007jqy3) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] David Cameron. And in with the new: Andrea Leadsom? Episode 1 17:00 Charles Dickens (b00rv56t) 23:30 Elvenquest (b01qwc8m) After ignoring his family's advice, the castaway ends up [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Series 4, The Fat Hog shipwrecked and arrives on an island. Stars Roy Marsden and 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b07j438b) The Questers find themselves seeking succour at the Fat Hog, Tom Bevan. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] a hostelry famed for its excellent cuisine, and run by its 11:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories (b01pqdsc) 18:00 Dangerous Visions (b02x62sy) quixotic headchef Nigressa. Mr Wrong, pt 1 The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 1 Meanwhile, Lord Darkness is having trouble with his new Ball Meg comes to London to buy a second­hand car, but all is not Jane Rogers dramatises her award winning novel set in a of Infinite Vision. as it seems. Chilling tale read by Matilda Ziegler. future where an act of biological terrorism has spread a Starring: 11:15 Shelagh Delaney ­ Sweetly Sings the Donkey (b01dbytf) deadly virus across the world. Maternal Death Syndrome is Darren Boyd as Vidar A girl convalesces in post­war Blackpool with fellow claiming the lives of millions of women and panic is rising. Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech invalids, nuns and the waves. Shelagh Delaney's trilogy As her world collapses, teenager Jessie Lamb, decides that Dave Lamb as Amis stars Beth Squires. if the human race is to survive, it's up to her. Stephen Mangan as Sam 12:00 Parsley Sidings (b04dcgpq) Directed by Nadia Molinari Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Dangerous Visions Season: Ingrid Oliver as Penthiselea 12:30 J Kingston Platt (b01rr6y0) The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's and [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. Phoebe Waller­Bridge as Nigressa 13:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died Written by James Cary. (b036v8py) four years ago, his vision of Producer: Sam Michell. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] what our future might become feels as relevant, satirical 13:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012llr0) and as scary as ever. Radio 4's Dangerous Visions is a season of dramas that explore contemporary takes on future [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] TUESDAY 12 JULY 2016 13:30 When Harry Met Sally at 20 (b00m6zpr) dystopias. Dramatisations of Ballard's seminal works, Drowned World and Concrete Island, straddle the season, and [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] 00:00 Dangerous Visions (b02x62sy) we have asked five leading radio writers ­ Nick Perry, Ed 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell ­ The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] (b00770rf) Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, Michael Butt and Philip Palmer ­ to imagine what life might be like in the near 00:15 Brian Appleyard ­ First Church of the New Millennium Like Sugar in Water (b007jqln) Iris has rescued her newly discovered great­aunt Esme from future if everything goes wrong ­ and their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Monday] the institution where she's been for 61 years. But only her 00:30 A Good Read (b00767pt) grandmother Kitty ­ whose mind is now fractured with clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Alzheimer's ­ remembers the whole story of her sister's 01:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds past. becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South (b036v8py) Poignant story of the shameful treatment of unconventional [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] women in the 1930s and the lengths a woman might go to, for London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice 01:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012llr0) the thing she wants most. becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 on Monday] Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and Eleanor Bron continue Maggie dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel 01:30 When Harry Met Sally at 20 (b00m6zpr) O'Farrell's highly acclaimed novel set between the The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] conventions of 1930's Edinburgh and the freedoms of today. Dangerous Visions ­ you will be disturbed as you see the Abridged by Sally Marmion present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. 02:00 Maggie O'Farrell ­ The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Producer: Di Speirs Credits (b00770rf) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. Jessie: Holliday Grainger [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Joe: Mark Jordon 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00slqvb) 02:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00slqvb) Cath: Joanne Mitchell What Is the Meaning of Empire Day? [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Mandy: Kate Coogan Michael Morpurgo presents readings of the words of children 02:30 (b01pftbg) Sal: Rebecca Ryan exiled from or arrived in Britain under the British Empire. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Baz: Oliver Lee 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01pftbg) 02:45 Book of the Week (b013xm61) Lisa: Nisa Cole A Little Twist of Dahl, Taste [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] Iain: Will Finlason A series of stories by Roald Dahl 03:00 Daniel Defoe ­ Robinson Crusoe (b007jqy3) Director: Nadia Molinari Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Author: Jane Rogers Episode 1: Taste 04:00 Quote... Unquote (b039pdtd) 18:15 Brian Appleyard ­ First Church of the New Millennium Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] (b007jqln) dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre 04:30 King Street Junior (b007jnbv) Episode 1 and amusing by turns, these black comedies are justly famous [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] It's the year 1999. As the TV screens reports of a space for their surprise endings. 05:00 Charles Dickens (b00rv56t) mission, top architect Stephen Rix has a sudden vision of a The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] building that he feels compelled to construct. writer of adult fiction. They are stylishly plotted, vividly 05:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b07j438b) Read by David Horovitch. characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] Brian Appleyard's 1994 novel abridged in 10 episodes by Ed cynicism, presenting as they do, a hilariously bleak view of Thomason. 06:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds family life. Their satisfying conclusions invariably leave Producer Duncan Minshull (b036wtkn) bullies, schemers, adulterers and frauds soundly punished. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. 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The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas 09:30 King of Bath (b047ljr2) 18:00 Dangerous Visions (b02x7h15) Kelly as 'Dick Barton ­ Special Agent' in another thrilling Ars Brevis The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 2 tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring Beau Nash tries to hides his Welsh origins to get royal Jane Rogers dramatises her award winning novel. Society is adventure. approval for his cordial. Starring David Bamber. From March splintering, apocalyptic sects with fundamentalist, Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon 1999. ecological or anti­scientific beliefs are springing up. Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between 10:00 Daniel Defoe ­ Robinson Crusoe (b007jqyc) Panic, chaos and fear reign. When Jessie's own world begins 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings Episode 2 to fall apart and her best friend Sal experiences a shocking survive. Solitude on the desert island gives way to cannibals, act of violence, Jessie realises it is time to take action. With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding mutineers, and a man called Friday. Stars Roy Marsden and Directed by Nadia Molinari re­recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original Tom Bevan. Dangerous Visions Season: scripts and music, which was made for international 11:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories (b01pqn8d) The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, Mr Wrong, part 2 fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive After a fright on the M1, will Meg be able to sell the car Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died in Canberra, Australia. that she now knows is haunted? Read by Matilda Ziegler. four years ago, his vision of Script by Geoffrey Webb. 11:15 Shelagh Delaney ­ Tell Me a Film (b01ddfy6) what our future might become feels as relevant, satirical Producer: Morris West Four women, who first met as convalescents, return to and as scary as ever. Radio 4's Dangerous Visions is a First broadcast in Australia in April 1949. Blackpool as they turn 60. Shelagh Delaney's trilogy stars season of dramas that explore contemporary takes on future 06:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012m9vx) Barbara Marten. dystopias. Dramatisations of Ballard's seminal works, Episode 2 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b00rlb08) Drowned World and Concrete Island, straddle the season, and After musing in his surgery, Dr Marford and Sergeant Elk are [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] we have asked five leading radio writers ­ Nick Perry, Ed soon confronted by a fresh murderous mystery. Read by Danny 12:30 The Men From the Ministry (b016r51w) Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, Michael Butt and Philip Webb. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Palmer ­ to imagine what life might be like in the near future if everything goes wrong ­ 06:30 The Art of Water Music (b0132p7x) 13:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds and their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: Starting with an underwater concert, Midge Ure sounds the (b036wtkn) clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might depths of the complex relationship between music and water. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Water has fascinated classical composers, modernist happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning 13:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012m9vx) musicians and contemporary sound artists alike, and in this becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] programme Midge hears some of the extraordinary ways in of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South 13:30 The Art of Water Music (b0132p7x) which water has been represented, evoked and even used as an London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] instrument by musicians over the centuries. It flows through becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part an extraordinary range of pieces. Midge meets experts on 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell ­ The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel water compositions by Beethoven, Wagner and Debussy and (b00770rz) The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author. explains why Handel's Water Music is not technically I'm Not Going to Get Married, to Anyone Dangerous Visions ­ you will be disturbed as you see the speaking water music at all. To her family's surprise, Esme has a highly desirable present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. While some of the water music we know best might be suitor. Read by Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and Eleanor Credits classical, water continues to appeal to those working at the Bron. Jessie: Holliday Grainger musical cutting edge. Midge has a go at playing a bizarre 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00slxyd) Joe: Mark Jordon instrument called a 'waterphone' and talks to sound artist The Nation's Most Important Asset Cath: Joanne Mitchell Lee Patterson as he performs a strangely hypnotic piece of Michael Morpurgo presents readings of the words of children Sal: Rebecca Ryan 'drip music'. He also listens to recordings of the Danube by about the effect on the 20th­century wars. Baz: Oliver Lee sound artist Annea Lockwood. She believes the sound of 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01pfwhq) Lisa: Nisa Cole running water is itself music, raising the question of A Little Twist of Dahl, The Way up to Heaven Director: Nadia Molinari whether or not water and music are actually different at A series of stories by Roald Dahl Author: Jane Rogers all. Water, it seems, continues to excite, mystify and Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan. 18:15 Brian Appleyard ­ First Church of the New Millennium intrigue, and musicians have engaged with it with whatever Episode 2: The Way Up To Heaven (b007jqm3) instruments they have had at their disposal: orchestras, Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in Episode 2 pianos, and now computers. dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre Can architect Stephen Rix convince others to share in his Midge goes to meet Simon Harding who makes electronic music and amusing by turns, these black comedies are justly famous vision of a new Gothic cathedral? Read by David Horovitch. on his computer using the water sounds from appliances in for their surprise endings. 18:30 The Tingle Factor (b07kyd8d) his house, while Professor Doug James, a computer scientist The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a Ronald Harwood at , explains some of the science behind writer of adult fiction. They are stylishly plotted, vividly Distinguished writer of plays and screenplays, Sir Ronald water's unique musicality. There is a wealth of beautiful characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy Harwood tells Robin Ray about certain moments in music which water music already in existence as this programme shows, cynicism, presenting as they do, a hilariously bleak view of send a shiver down his spine. but water is still a vigorously flowing source of musical family life. Their satisfying conclusions invariably leave Recalling his life and career highlights, including The inspiration, even expanding our ideas of what we consider bullies, schemers, adulterers and frauds soundly punished. Dresser, his selection includes Stravinsky, Duke Ellington music to be. In The Way Up To Heaven, despite living in a New York and Louis Armstrong. Presenter: Midge Ure mansion so vast that it requires its own elevator, the Producer: Andrew Mussett Producer: Tom Rice Fosters are not a happy couple. Mrs Foster has a First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. pathological fear of being late and her husband deliberately 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b00rlb08) 07:00 Spangles 'n' Tights (b04ndrcb) torments her by doing everything as slowly as he can. When [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] she accepts an invitation to visit France, he insists on Pursued by a Bear 19:30 The Men From the Ministry (b016r51w) taking her to the airport only to leave her waiting outside The struggles of a Dublin theatrical costumier. The local [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] in the car. Nearly hysterical, she goes to see what's nun's drama group offers hope. With Doreen Keogh. From 20:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds keeping him but, when she reaches the front door, she hears September 1998. (b036wtkn) a particular sound and realises, if she's cunning, she need 07:30 My Teenage Diary (b07j4qx6) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Series 7, Chris Packham never be late again.. Produced and Directed by David Blount 20:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012m9vx) Naturalist Chris Packham reads from the nature diaries he [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] kept as a teenager, and is interviewed by Rufus Hound about A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. Credits 20:30 The Art of Water Music (b0132p7x) his formative years ­ which were mostly spent up trees, [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] looking for birds. Storyteller: Charles Dance Mr Foster: Kerry Shale 21:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories (b01pqn8d) A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Credits Driver: Kerry Shale 21:15 Shelagh Delaney ­ Tell Me a Film (b01ddfy6) Presenter: Rufus Hound Mrs Foster: Lorelei King [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] Interviewed Guest: Chris Packham Walker: Richard Attlee Producer: David Blount 22:00 My Teenage Diary (b07j4qx6) 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b00rlb08) Director: David Blount [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Series 1, Sixty­Five Today Writer: Stephen Sheridan 22:30 (b01pfy5w) Albert's 65th birthday outing turns into a disaster for son Series 5, A Loved­Up Life Potentially Totally Annihilated Harold. 14:45 Book of the Week (b013ptf2) Bleak Expectations Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as All Made Up, Episode 2 By Mark Evans Harold. Award­winning author Janice Galloway reads extracts from her Volume 5, Chapter 6: "A Loved Up Life Potentially Totally Following the conclusion of their hugely successful new book ­ a compelling account of her adolescence in 1970s Annihilated " association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Scotland. Young Janice has arrived at secondary school Last in the series of the Victorian comedy adventure. The Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in bearing a huge weight of expectation from her eager mother inappropriately­named arbiter of all evil Mister Gently 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, and unpredictable, violent, sister. Benevolent unveils an advent calendar of evil that will featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. culminate on Christmas day with the total destruction of the his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. universe. Only one man can prevent the end of everything for for TV. 15:00 Daniel Defoe ­ Robinson Crusoe (b007jqyc) all time. But at a terrible terrible cost. Is this the end Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] for our hero Pip? Or is it curtains for the whole of Gale Pedrick. 16:00 Counterpoint (b00fl745) creation? And does that mean Harry needn't get Pippa a Produced by Bobby Jaye 2005, Semi­Final 3 Christmas present? First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1966. Ned Sherrin's music quiz with Christopher Moore­Bridger of Produced by Gareth Edwards. 08:30 The Men From the Ministry (b016r51w) Oswestry, Oliver Longstaff of Harrogate and David Muir from Credits Torn to Shreds Bristol. Writer: Mark Evans The bungling duo must dispose of a 75p surplus. Easy? You 16:30 King of Bath (b047ljr2) Sir Philip: Richard Johnson would think so. Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Young Pip Bin: Tom Allen From June 1975. 17:00 Spangles 'n' Tights (b04ndrcb) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Gently Benevolent: Anthony Head 09:00 Dead Ringers (b07j7nvf) Harry Biscuit: James Bachman 17:30 My Teenage Diary (b07j4qx6) [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] Servewell: James Bachman [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 July 2016 Page 6 of 10

Clampvulture: Geoffrey Whitehead Script by Geoffrey Webb. 4 Extra Debut. While Eustacia Vye waits on Egdon Heath for Ripely: Producer: Morris West her former lover Damon Wildeve, his fiancee Tamsin Yeobright Lily: Sarah Hadland First broadcast in Australia in April 1949. has been jilted at the altar. Stars Emma Fielding. Pippa: Susy Kane 06:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012mh0j) 11:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories (b01pr7s3) The Ghost of Christmice: Mark Evans Episode 3 Pont du Gard Producer: Gareth Edwards Whose death has Dr Manford witnessed? What could a lowly Alan and Ruth's unhappy marriage is brought to crisis point 23:00 's Live Address to the Nation (b016x241) small­time light­fingered felon know about it? Read by Danny on a family holiday in France. Read by Matilda Ziegler. Faith Webb. 11:15 Shelagh Delaney ­ Baloney Said Salome (b01ddg0q) Mark Watson continues his quest to improve the world, nimbly 06:30 The Lunatic Line (b012krr9) Four older women with a unique friendship prepare for a assisted by and . Episode 1 farewell. Shelagh Delaney's trilogy concludes. Stars Eileen As broadcast live in November 2011 ­ Mark invites the The 600­mile railway line from the Kenyan coast to Uganda O'Brien. audience join in via tweets and messages to work out how we became known as The Lunatic Line for the astronomical 12:00 The Navy Lark (b01nf2h4) can all make the world a better place. financial and human costs of construction. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Mark asks the big questions that are crucial to our Built by the British between 1895 and 1901 through hostile 12:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jy6l) understanding of ourselves and society ­ in a dynamic and tribal lands and malarial swamps, it was an enormous [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] thought provoking new format he opens the floor to the live engineering challenge. Thousands of workers died during the 13:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds audience and asks them to jump into the conversation via railway's construction, mostly from disease, although the (b036x996) tweets and messages to work out how we can all make the man­eating lions of Tsavo also devoured many. Little wonder [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] world a better place. then that it was opposed as a gigantic folly. 13:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012mh0j) This week Mark looks at "Faith" ­ What is faith? One of the In the first of two programmes, Ayisha Yahya looks back at [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] most used, and feared, words of modern times. Yet these the history of the railway that transformed East Africa 13:30 The Lunatic Line (b012krr9) days, it's often used derisively about religious beliefs and beyond recognition. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] so on. We look at odd things done in the name of 'faith', Producer: Ruth Evans 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell ­ The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox versus the obvious merits of having faith (belief that A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. (b00770sh) will eventually win World Cup, ability to ride out 07:00 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b007jrwc) She Wouldn't Stop Screaming difficult marriages). Should we be more credulous and Series 1, The Heinrich Manoeuvre Esme's tragic fate is sealed amid the New Year celebrations believe people like estate agents? Or LESS credulous and A childless couple are unhealthily obsessed with a model in Edinburgh. Read by Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and destroy our TV sets altogether in case we accidentally village. Stars Simon Greenall and Kay Stonham. From December Eleanor Bron. absorb lies? 2001. Mark Watson is a multi­award winning comedian, including the 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sm4m2) 07:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b04wv049) Cutting the Slum Mind off at the Root inaugural If.Comedy Panel Prize 2006. He is assisted by Tim Series 6, Roy Walker Key, winner of Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2009 and Tom Basden Michael Morpurgo traces the making of Britain's Welfare Marcus Brigstocke persuades his guests to try new State amid concerns for children. who won the If.Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2007. experiences: things they really ought to have done by now. 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01pg3qr) Produced by Lianne Coop. Some experiences are loved, some are loathed, in this show A Little Twist of Dahl, The Hitchhiker 23:30 Danny Robins Music Therapy (b00fq2t4) all about embracing the new. A series of stories by Roald Dahl Episode 3 This week, Marcus persuades Roy Walker, the comedian made Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan. Danny Robins harnesses the power of music to improve the famous by Catchphrase, to see his first ever Shakespeare Episode 3: The Hitchhiker world and solve listeners' problems. play and banter with the audience for the first time. Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in Danny helps the worst five­a­side football team in the Credits dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre country and boosts the confidence of a listener who, at Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke and amusing by turns, these black comedies are justly famous under five feet tall, feels that the world is heightist. Interviewed Guest: Roy Walker With Isy Suttie and special musical guest Connie Fisher. for their surprise endings. 08:00 The Navy Lark (b01nf2h4) The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a Admiral Pertwee's Fleet writer of adult fiction. They are stylishly plotted, vividly There's a mix­up when Pertwee bids for some high­class scrap characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy WEDNESDAY 13 JULY 2016 metal at auction ­ and a whole lot more arrives than he's cynicism, presenting as they do, a hilariously bleak view of expecting! family life. Their satisfying conclusions invariably leave 00:00 Dangerous Visions (b02x7h15) Stars as the Sub­Lieutenant, as bullies, schemers, adulterers and frauds soundly punished. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, In The Hitchhiker, Andrew Pym, a successful author, is 00:15 Brian Appleyard ­ First Church of the New Millennium Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, as driving to London in his brand new BMW. He stops to give a (b007jqm3) Heather, as Mr Merrivale, Michael Bates as Mr hitchhiker a lift. Unwisely, he allows the man to persuade [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Tuesday] Coggins and Tenniel Evans as the Nunkie. him to see if the car can go as fast as its manufacturers 00:30 The Tingle Factor (b07kyd8d) Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS claim. Stopped for speeding, his details are noted down by a [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen policeman who warns him to expect a heavy fine and sends him 01:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds series between 1959 and 1976. on his way. Blithely unconcerned at causing so much trouble, (b036wtkn) Scripted by Lawrie Wyman the hitchhiker starts boasting that he is engaged in a line [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. of work that requires exceptional skills. And it's these 01:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012m9vx) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1965. skills that can get Andrew out of his present difficulty. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 on Tuesday] 08:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jy6l) Produced and directed by David Blount 01:30 The Art of Water Music (b0132p7x) The New Car A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] The lad thinks he should buy a car to keep up appearances, Credits 02:00 Maggie O'Farrell ­ The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox so Sid offers to help. But there's a big surprise when he Storyteller: Charles Dance (b00770rz) takes it for a spin. Andrew Pym: Jonathan Keeble [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] Starring Tony Hancock. With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney Hitchhiker: Kenneth Cranham 02:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00slxyd) James and . Policeman: Ben Crowe [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Writer: Stephen Sheridan Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. Recorded 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01pfwhq) Producer: David Blount by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] Director: David Blount Producer: Dennis Main Wilson 02:45 Book of the Week (b013ptf2) 14:45 Book of the Week (b013xn4d) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1954. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] All Made Up, Episode 3 09:00 Dilemma (b017c9pp) 03:00 Daniel Defoe ­ Robinson Crusoe (b007jqyc) Janice Galloway brings the brilliance of her fiction to bear Series 1, Episode 2 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] on her memories of small­town adolescence. Janice's love of Sue Perkins puts four guests through the moral and ethical learning is about to be disrupted as she is thrown off the 04:00 Counterpoint (b00fl745) wringer in this show show in which there are no "right" [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] straight and narrow by a growing awareness of the opposite answers ­ but there are some deeply damning ones. sex. 04:30 King of Bath (b047ljr2) This edition features comedians Nick Revell and Danielle [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. Ward, journalist Grace Dent, and the lead singer of the Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. 05:00 Spangles 'n' Tights (b04ndrcb) Kaiser Chiefs, Ricky Wilson. They discuss such quandaries as [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] 15:00 Thomas Hardy ­ The Return of the Native (b0076s78) "Would you let an annoying colleague take credit for your [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] 05:30 My Teenage Diary (b07j4qx6) work if it meant they would get a job elsewhere" and "Would 16:00 Dilemma (b017c9pp) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] you take part in a sham marriage?", and they solve some [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] 06:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds Dilemmas from the audience. The show was devised by 16:30 Rent (b04fh18w) (b036x996) award­winning stand­up and writer Danielle Ward (The News [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Episode 3 Quiz, Newswipe, Mock The Week). Dick and Freddie follow a suspect and engage in some Producer: Ed Morrish. 17:00 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b007jrwc) surveillance ­ both discreet and rather more overt. Credits [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas Presenter: Sue Perkins 17:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b04wv049) Kelly as 'Dick Barton ­ Special Agent' in another thrilling Panellist: Nick Revell [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring Panellist: Danielle Ward 18:00 Dangerous Visions (b02x93cy) adventure. Panellist: Grace Dent The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 3 Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon Panellist: Ricky Wilson Jane Rogers dramatises her award winning novel. With the Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between Producer: Ed Morrish death toll from Maternal Death Syndrome rising daily and the 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings 09:30 Rent (b04fh18w) world on the brink of disaster, Jessie becomes convinced survive. Series 1, Episode 5 that she must take action. Her act of heroism could save the With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding It's a full moon, Ruby is away and Paul is lovelorn. Will human race but will those closest to her offer their re­recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original Maria's matchmaking succeed? Stars Patrick Barlow. From June support? scripts and music, which was made for international 1993. Directed by Nadia Molinari distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, 10:00 Thomas Hardy ­ The Return of the Native (b0076s78) Dangerous Visions Season: The adjective Ballardian refers to lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive Episode 1 the writer 'JG Ballard's fearful imaginings of what the near in Canberra, Australia. future might be like. Even though the master creator of Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 July 2016 Page 7 of 10 dystopian futures died four years ago, his vision of what Anton: Tom Goodman­Hill Today, the old British­built railway still runs ­ but only our future might become feels as relevant, satirical and as Actor: Dan Tetsell just ­ and more as a tourist curiosity than a functioning scary as ever. Radio 4's Dangerous Visions is a season of Actor: Josie Lawrence service. Semi­privatised 25 years ago, it has suffered dramas that explore contemporary takes on future dystopias. Director: David Tyler woefully from lack of investment, and today is but a Dramatisations of Ballard's seminal works, Drowned World and Producer: David Tyler decrepit relic of its former self. Concrete Island, straddle the season, and we have asked five Writer: Milton Jones Now Kenya has announced hugely ambitious plans to shunt its leading radio writers ­ Nick Perry, Ed Harris, Michael Writer: James Cary rail network into the 21st century by commissioning a new Symmonds Roberts, Michael Butt and Philip Palmer ­ to Writer: Dan Evans high­speed line with double­decker passenger and freight imagine what life might be like in the near future if 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b07lf10s) trains cruising at up to 100mph, reducing the journey time everything goes wrong ­ and their Dangerous Visions form the The best in contemporary comedy. Iain Lee talks to Jake from Mombasa to Nairobi from 13 hours to three. bedrock of the series: clever, imaginative and disturbing Yapp. Ayisha Yahya travels on the existing creaking line and asks takes on just what might happen. What happens if sleep is 23:00 The Mel and Sue Thing (b0076b3z) whether plans to rebuild and expand the railway network are outlawed? If cloning becomes a matter of course, and your Episode 5 little more than another lunatic notion? Or will they have loved ones are capable of being cloned? If North London A tennis battle of the sexes, TV sleuths and more from Jane as great an economic and social impact on the region as the declares UDI on South London, which has become a wasteland? Austen's lost novella. Sketches with Giedroyc and Perkins. Lunatic Line's original construction? If human sacrifice becomes a part of society? We are also From October 2002. Producer: Ruth Evans running a 5 part dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning 23:30 The Museum of Everything (b00gs2nj) A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. terrifying novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by Series 3, Natural Science 07:00 All the Young Dudes (b01by441) the author. Dangerous Visions ­ you will be disturbed as you The birds and the bees, blue plaques and the human body all Series 2, Mr Soft see the present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. on show this week. With Marcus Brigstocke. From August 2006. Helen needs to finish her ice cream project, while Joe and Credits Maria want younger clientele. Comedy by Jim Sweeney. From Jessie: Holliday Grainger October 2002. Joe: Mark Jordon THURSDAY 14 JULY 2016 07:30 The Chat Show (b07j7j6f) Cath: Joanne Mitchell Episode 2 Mandy: Kate Coogan 00:00 Dangerous Visions (b02x93cy) A new show from the internationally acclaimed master of the Baz: Oliver Lee [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] one­liner Tim Vine sees Tim interview members of his live Lisa: Nisa Cole 00:15 Brian Appleyard ­ First Church of the New Millennium audience as he embarks on a quest to hear the life stories Director: Nadia Molinari (b007jqmh) of the Great British public while simultaneously showcasing Author: Jane Rogers [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Wednesday] his trademark mirthful wordplay and preposterous songs. 18:15 Brian Appleyard ­ First Church of the New Millennium 00:30 Off the Page (b008mb7x) This week's show comes from the Wakefield Theatre Royal (b007jqmh) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] where Tim meets a secretary and sings an imaginary country Episode 3 song. 01:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds Can architect Stephen Rix find financial backing for his Producer: Richard Morris (b036x996) plan to build a Gothic cathedral? Read by David Horovitch. A BBC Studios Production. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] 18:30 Off the Page (b008mb7x) Credits 01:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012mh0j) Now Wash Your Hands Presenter: Tim Vine [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 on Wednesday] Dominic Arkwright chairs the lively discussion series. Producer: Richard Morris 01:30 The Lunatic Line (b012krr9) Is the current obsession with personal hygiene a good thing 08:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] or are we turning ourselves into feeble creatures with no (b008gd6j) defences against the real world? Nicky Taylor gave up 02:00 Maggie O'Farrell ­ The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Series 4, The Present washing altogether for six weeks as part of a social (b00770sh) It's United Potter Day and author Gerald learns that experiment. Val Curtis is an expert on disgust and its place [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] surprises can be double­edged. in the evolution of human behaviour and hygiene. Comedian 02:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sm4m2) The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring Phil Hammond is a GP with scathingly frank views on the [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as nation's health. 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01pg3qr) his wife, Diana. 19:00 The Navy Lark (b01nf2h4) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] With Margot Boyd, Brian Haines and Pauline Letts. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] 02:45 Book of the Week (b013xn4d) Written by Basil Boothroyd. 19:30 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jy6l) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] Producer: Bobby Jaye [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] 03:00 Thomas Hardy ­ The Return of the Native (b0076s78) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1981. 20:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] 08:30 Radio Active (b05t7gjf) (b036x996) 04:00 Dilemma (b017c9pp) Series 6, A Thodding By­Election Special [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Expect no bias as Radio Active's Chairman Norman Tonsil 20:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012mh0j) 04:30 Rent (b04fh18w) stands as an Independent Candidate in the Thodding [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] By­Election. 20:30 The Lunatic Line (b012krr9) 05:00 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b007jrwc) Starring Helen Atkinson­Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton­Stevens. 21:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories (b01pr7s3) 05:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b04wv049) Music by Philip Pope and Geoffrey Perkins. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins with John 21:15 Shelagh Delaney ­ Baloney Said Salome (b01ddg0q) 06:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds Canter. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] (b036xz7w) Producer: Paul Mayhew­Archer First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986. 22:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b04wv049) Episode 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Freddie has made a startling acquisition, attracting more 09:00 Booked (b0075t3c) Series 4, Episode 5 22:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! (b03yqcws) danger. Help arrives from an unexpected source. Ian McMillan chairs the literary quiz with Mark Thomas, Series 1, Books and Booksibility The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas Dillie Keane, Mark Radcliffe and Miles Kington. From July Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they Kelly as 'Dick Barton ­ Special Agent' in another thrilling 1998. think is 'Help!'. tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring King of the one­liners, Milton Jones returns BBC to Radio 4 adventure. 09:30 When the Dog Dies (b046l698) for an amazing 10th series in a new format where he has Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon Series 4, Twilight of the Gods decided to set himself up as a man who can help anyone Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between The final series of Ronnie Corbett's popular sitcom, written anywhere ­ whether they need it or not. Because, in his own 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings by Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. words, "No problem too problemy". survive. Ronnie is granddad Sandy and his old dog is Henry. If the But each week, Milton and his trusty assistant Anton set out With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding dog dies or his lodger moves on, Sandy's children want him to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a new re­recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original to downsize. He doesn't. adventure. So when you're close to the edge, then Milton can scripts and music, which was made for international To help his finances, Sandy, still in the family home, took give you a push. distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, in a young couple as lodgers. But then the man left, leaving This week, Milton Jones is asked to help out with the local lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive the attractive Dolores behind. Sandy's children are quite book festival because the townsfolk are too distracted by in Canberra, Australia. sure Dolores is a gold­digger. Meanwhile, Sandy's opinion their smartphones to.... Sorry, what was I saying? Sorry, Script by Geoffrey Webb. that it would be inhuman to move Henry somewhere unfamiliar just got a text. Producer: Morris West is wearing a bit thin ­ as is the old dog himself. But Written by Milton with James Cary ("Bluestone 42", First broadcast in Australia in April 1949. keeping the dog alive and the lodger happy are one thing, "Miranda") and Dan Evans (who co­wrote Milton's Channel 4 06:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012n3rn) what really concerns Sandy deeply is providing a guiding show "House Of Rooms") the man they call "Britain's funniest Episode 4 hand to his whole family ­ advising here, prompting there, Milton," returns to the radio with a fully­working cast and What crime scene discovery will put pressure on Quigley? responding to any emergency callout. If he kept himself to a shipload of new jokes. What trouble will Bateman's death bring for Janice? Read by himself, things would be a lot simpler and smoother. But a The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman­Hill ("Spamalot", Danny Webb. lot duller too. "Mr. Selfridge") as the ever­faithful Anton, and Dan Tetsell 06:30 The Lunatic Line (b012qq7x) Episode Six: Twilight Of The Gods ("Newsjack"), and features the one and only Josie Lawrence Episode 2 All good things must come to an end and it looks as if Sandy working with Milton for the first time. The 600­mile railway line from the Kenyan port of Mombasa to is going to have to do what he's spent four series avoiding Producer David Tyler's radio credits include Armando Uganda, built by the British between 1895 and 1901 through ­ downsize. Sandy can never replace Dolores, but can he live Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, hostile tribal lands and malarial swamps, became known as without her? Well, he's still got Henry and he's still got Another Case Of Milton Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The "The Lunatic Line". Spiralling costs and massive engineering hope... Nation, The Brig Society, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, The challenges were just a few of the problems facing the Producer: Liz Anstee 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, going railway. Hundreds of Kenyan and indentured Indian labourers A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. back a bit, Radio Active. died during the railway's construction, mostly from disease, Credits Produced and Directed by David Tyler although the man­eating lions of Tsavo also devoured many. Sandy: Ronnie Corbett A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. Yet the railway created modern Kenya, and Nairobi hardly Dolores: Liza Tarbuck Credits existed until the railway workers set up camp there just Mrs Pompom: Sally Grace Himself: Milton Jones over a century ago. Blake: Dave Lamb Ellie: Tilly Vosburgh Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 July 2016 Page 8 of 10

Darren: Kevin Eldon adamant that Jessie should not volunteer to be a Sleeping to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand Producer: Liz Anstee Beauty. Can Jessie be swayed from her path? at being a full­time stand­up comedian, much to his family's Writer: Ian Davidson Directed by Nadia Molinari annoyance who desperately want him to get a 'proper job.' Writer: Peter Vincent Dangerous Visions Season: Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and 10:00 Thomas Hardy ­ The Return of the Native (b0076sb8) The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving Episode 2 fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. family as he tries to pursue his chosen career. Clym Yeobright has returned home from Paris, and a contrived Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died The series is a mix of Nathan's stand­up intercut with meeting between him and Eustacia sparks a mutual interest. four years ago, his vision of what our future might become scenes from his family life. Is he the man she has been dreaming of? With Adam Godley. feels as relevant, satirical and as scary as ever. Radio 4's Janet a.k.a. Mum is probably the kindest and most lenient of 11:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories (b01prccs) Dangerous Visions is a season of dramas that explore the disappointed family members. She loves Nathan, but she Whip Hand contemporary takes on future dystopias. Dramatisations of aint looking embarrassed for nobody! Mrs Bracken is determined that her daughter is going to be a Ballard's seminal works, Drowned World and Concrete Island, Martin a.k.a. Dad works in the construction industry and was star, but Fern has other ideas. Read by Matilda Ziegler. straddle the season, and we have asked five leading radio looking forward to his son getting a degree so the two of 11:15 Shelagh Delaney ­ Country Life (b01pwcyj) writers ­ Nick Perry, Ed Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, them could work together in the same field. But now Nathan Rose deals with foot and mouth disease and a moody nephew, Michael Butt and Philip Palmer ­ to imagine what life might has blown that dream out of the window. then her film­star brother Eddie arrives. With Barbara be like in the near future if everything goes wrong ­ and Shirley a.k.a. Grandma cannot believe Nathan turned down Marten. their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: architecture for comedy. How can her grandson go on stage 12:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might and use foul language and filthy material... it's not the (b008gd6j) happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning good Christian way! [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable So with all this going on in the household what will Nathan 12:30 Radio Active (b05t7gjf) of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South do? Will he be able to persist and follow his dreams? Or [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice will he give in to his family's interference? becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part About Animals 13:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel It turns out Grandma's Achilles heel is a mouse! Nathan (b036xz7w) The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author. can't believe he's lost his fearless Grandma because of a [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Dangerous Visions ­ you will be disturbed as you see the mouse and is determined to catch the mouse and restore his 13:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012n3rn) present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. Grandma to feisty normality. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] Credits Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle 13:30 The Lunatic Line (b012qq7x) Jessie: Holliday Grainger Additional Material by Ola and Maff Brown [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Joe: Mark Jordon Producer: Katie Tyrrell. 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell ­ The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Baz: Oliver Lee Credits (b00770sy) Lisa: Nisa Cole Nathan: Nathan Caton Episode 9 Iain: Will Finlason Mum: Adjoa Andoh Secrets are revealed as Kitty and Esme's memories collide. Director: Nadia Molinari Dad: Curtis Walker Read by Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and Eleanor Bron. Author: Jane Rogers Grandma: Mona Hammond 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sm5xl) 18:15 Brian Appleyard ­ First Church of the New Millennium Robber: Don Gilet They'd Some Queer Ideas at the Clinic (b007jqmx) Steve: Don Gilet Michael Morpurgo discovers how behaviourists and Freudians Episode 4 Producer: Katie Tyrrell battled over upbringing techniques for children. Inspired by his vision, architect Stephen Rix wants his Writer: Nathan Caton 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01pg5p0) mistress to come with him to the country. Read by David Writer: James Kettle A Little Twist of Dahl, Edward the Conqueror Horovitch. Episode 4 of 10. Writer: Ola A series of stories by Roald Dahl 18:30 (b0077722) Writer: Maff Brown Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan. Series 12, Marie Curie 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b07lf1ft) Episode 4: Edward the Conqueror Series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris. The best in contemporary comedy. Iain Lee talks to Jake Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in 4/9. BBC Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh explains how Yapp. dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre Marie Curie achieved iconic status through her work on 23:00 The Mark Steel Revolution (b00fnnz6) and amusing by turns, these black comedies are justly famous radioactivity and weighs up the cost she paid for her The Sexual Revolution for their surprise endings. success. The studio guest is Curie biographer Sarah Dry. From sweetening your breath to the Stonewall Riots, the The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a 19:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter comedian examines the politics of the bedroom. From July writer of adult fiction. They are stylishly plotted, vividly (b008gd6j) 1998. characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] 23:30 Polyoaks (b01p0vfg) cynicism, presenting as they do, a hilariously bleak view of 19:30 Radio Active (b05t7gjf) Series 2, Strange Dr Love family life. Their satisfying conclusions invariably leave [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] In the NHS satire by Dr. Phil Hammond and David Spicer, a bullies, schemers, adulterers and frauds soundly punished. 20:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds general practice somewhere in Bristol is faced with In Edward the Conqueror, Louisa, a retired piano teacher, (b036xz7w) challenges and opportunities in equal measure as they adjust takes in a stray cat. She is astonished at how happy it [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] to another 'biggest shake­up of the NHS in a lifetime'. seems when she plays it some Liszt. Noticing that, like This week, Hugh is asked to chair a new government Liszt, it has warts on its face, she decides that it must be 20:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012n3rn) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] commission, so Polyoaks needs a locum. Practice Manager the re­incarnation of the great composer. Edward, her Betty, ever economic, appoints the cut­price option. monstrously selfish husband, resents the cat's presence and 20:30 The Lunatic Line (b012qq7x) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Everyone is relieved that curmudgeonly Hugh is out of the is ruthlessly dismissive of her theories on its true way, but Roy is suspicious of the interloper and Hugh's big identity. Unabashed, Louisa announces, to Edward's acute 21:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories (b01prccs) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] political opportunity is not turning out quite the way he embarrassment, that she intends to make her findings public. hoped. 21:15 Shelagh Delaney ­ Country Life (b01pwcyj) Produced and directed by David Blount Dr. Roy Thornton...... Nigel Planer [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. Dr. Hugh Thornton...... Simon Greenall 22:00 The Tim Vine Chat Show (b07j7j6f) Credits TV's Dr. Jeremy...... David Westhead [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Storyteller: Charles Dance Betty Crossfield...... Jane Whittenshaw Louisa: Celia Imrie 22:30 The Music Teacher (b03brt31) Nurse Vera Duplessis...... Polly Frame Edward: Geoffrey Whitehead Series 3, Episode 5 Mr. Devlin...... Phil Cornwell Pianist: Charles Ross Richie Webb returns as multi­instrumentalist music teacher Dr. Derek Love...... Darren Benedict Writer: Stephen Sheridan Nigel Penny. Mr. Oberman and Mr. Raisey...... David Holt Director: David Blount Nigel tries to get his online music lessons up and running Polyoaks is written by Dr. Phil Hammond and David Spicer Producer: David Blount but finds himself hampered by an inability to speak Directed by Frank Stirling 14:45 Book of the Week (b013xn57) Portuguese. Meanwhile, with the Arts Centre having been Produced by David Spicer All Made Up, Episode 4 commandeered as a refuge for local flood victims, Belinda is A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. Author Janice Galloway reads from her new book ­ a attempting to keep four hundred wet members of the public compelling memoir of her adolescence in Scotland of the from dripping on the carpet. Directed by Nick Walker 1970s. A misguided attempt to gain control over her life FRIDAY 15 JULY 2016 will set the studious young girl on a collision course with Audio production by Matt Katz her mother. Written and produced by Richie Webb 00:00 Dangerous Visions (b02x97kb) Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. Credits 00:15 Brian Appleyard ­ First Church of the New Millennium 15:00 Thomas Hardy ­ The Return of the Native (b0076sb8) Nigel Penny: Richie Webb (b007jqmx) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Belinda: Vicki Pepperdine [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Thursday] 16:00 Booked (b0075t3c) Lee: Jim North 00:30 Great Lives (b0077722) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Sebastian: Dave Lamb [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] 16:30 When the Dog Dies (b046l698) Louis: Sam Katz 01:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Louis's Mum: Jess Robinson Beverley: Jess Robinson (b036xz7w) 17:00 All the Young Dudes (b01by441) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Xavier: Arcindo Guimaraes Director: Nick Walker 01:30 The Lunatic Line (b012qq7x) 17:30 The Tim Vine Chat Show (b07j7j6f) Producer: Richie Webb [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Writer: Richie Webb 02:00 Maggie O'Farrell ­ The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox 18:00 Dangerous Visions (b02x97kb) 22:45 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing (b01snbm8) (b00770sy) The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 4 Series 2, About Animals [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] Jane Rogers dramatises her dystopian novel: winner of the EPISODE FIVE: ABOUT ANIMALS 02:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sm5xl) Arthur C Clarke Award 2012. Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing ­ tells the story of young, [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] Maternal Death Syndrome is spreading rapidly and Jessie's up­and­coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01pg5p0) world is still in crisis. Her aunt Mandy is desperately ill, first in his family to graduate from University, opted not [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] boyfriend Baz is planning drastic action and her father is Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 July 2016 Page 9 of 10

02:45 Book of the Week (b013xn57) Having been born the previous year, she is re­visiting the After 61 years, Esme knows the truth and confronts her [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] attic before dying. "I remember when I first came in, I sister, Kitty. Concluded by Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and 03:00 Thomas Hardy ­ The Return of the Native (b0076sb8) thought hello, this wouldn't be a bad place to pop off, when Eleanor Bron. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] the time comes." But trying to be brave about her inevitable 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sm8nf) 04:00 Booked (b0075t3c) end is much harder than she expects, "Well, I'm sorry to say Charlie Chaplin Went to France to Teach Ladies How to Dance [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] that for some completely inexplicable reason I totally lost Michael Morpurgo discovers new forms of entertainment 04:30 When the Dog Dies (b046l698) it at the sycamore! I mean what's wrong with me? " But as available for children in the first half of the 20th [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] she settles down to die, a sudden thought changes everything century. 05:00 All the Young Dudes (b01by441) ... 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01pgjyc) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Edible Dormouse: Hugh Dennis A Little Twist of Dahl, The Neck Peacock Butterfly: Amanda Abbington 05:30 The Tim Vine Chat Show (b07j7j6f) A series of stories by Roald Dahl Written and introduced by Lynne Truss [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] Episode 5: Neck Wildlife sound recordings Chris Watson 06:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in Producer Sarah Blunt. (b036ybrp) dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre Credits Episode 5 and amusing by turns, these black comedies are justly famous Presenter: Lynne Truss Jock manages to infiltrate the ground crew in a risky for their surprise endings. Edible Dormouse: Hugh Dennis gambit, while Dick Barton and his chums get more than they The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a Peacock Butterfly: Amanda Abbington bargained for. writer of adult fiction. They are stylishly plotted, vividly Producer: Sarah Blunt The stirring 'Devil's Galop' heralds the arrival of Douglas characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy Writer: Lynne Truss Kelly as 'Dick Barton ­ Special Agent' in another thrilling cynicism, presenting as they do, a hilariously bleak view of 08:00 Something to Shout About (b07l0y14) tale of criminal masterminds, espionage and daring family life. Their satisfying conclusions invariably leave Series 1, Episode 2 adventure. bullies, schemers, adulterers and frauds soundly punished. As baffled customers boycott a new orangeade drink, the Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon In Neck, Sir Basil Turton, a wealthy newspaper magnate, has advertising team must get devious. Davies, Dick Barton ran on the BBC Light Programme between recently taken a young wife. Bossy and openly adulterous, Starring Michael Medwin as Michael, Fenella Fielding as 1946 and 1951, but sadly, very few original recordings the new Lady Turton is despised by Jelks, Sir Basil's Janet, Joan Sims as Mavis, Eleanor Summerfield as Maggie, survive. butler, for her cruel treatment of his master. One morning Nicholas Phipps as Adrian, Tony Fayne as Dick and Warren With the original lost, this is a very authentic sounding she is openly frolicking with her latest lover in the Mitchell as Mr Allbright. re­recording of 'The Cabatolin Diamonds' using the original grounds of the estate, when, for a joke, she sticks her head "A light­hearted exposé of the advertising world!". Set in a scripts and music, which was made for international through a hole in one of Sir Basil's priceless Henry Moore London ad agency called 'Apsley, Addis, Cohen, Barbican, distribution. Happily the audio was rediscovered in 2009, sculptures. When she finds she is stuck, Sir Basil with Blythe, Giddy & Partners', Something To Shout About ran to lurking in the vaults of the National Film and Sound Archive Jelks' assistance, must decide on a course of action. 54 episodes over three series in Canberra, Australia. Produced and directed by David Blount Written by Myles Rudge with Ronnie Wolfe. Script by Geoffrey Webb. A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. Music by The Jingle Belles and The Bernie Fenton Quartet, Producer: Morris West Credits under the direction of Cliff Adams. First broadcast in Australia in April 1949. Storyteller: Charles Dance Producer: John Simmonds Lionel Sturridge: Jamie Glover 06:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012llpk) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1960. Sir Basil Turton: Chris Emmett Episode 5 08:30 The Goon Show (b007jp0s) Lady Turton: Katie Scarfe Confusion reigns. If Lorna isn't an addict, why does she The Histories of Pliny the Elder Jelks: David Ryall seem to have a well­used syringe in her possession? Read by The Romans hit Britain, but Seagoon, Eccles and Bluebottle Major Haddock: Mark Heap Danny Webb. are off to Rome's Colosseum. Stars Spike Milligan. From Writer: Stephen Sheridan 06:30 The I Love You Bridge (b01302s4) March 1957. Director: David Blount A quest for the original lovers of the 'I Love You Bridge' ­ 09:00 Whispers (b007k358) Producer: David Blount a fabulously incongruous message painted on a footbridge on Series 3, Episode 4 14:45 Book of the Week (b013xn65) a hollowed­out housing estate in Sheffield. Gyles Brandreth chairs the scandals quiz with Lucy Moore, All Made Up, Episode 5 Presented by feature film maker, opera director and Anthony Holden, Penny Junor and Julian Fellowes. From Award­winning author Janice Galloway reads an extract from screenwriter, Penny Woolcock, in her first radio October 2005. her new memoir. Teenaged Janice is about to leave the documentary. security of Ardrossan Academy for university, a Perhaps you quietly ask yourself "How do they live like 09:30 No Commitments (b01mmrh8) long­cherished dream of her downtrodden mother. this." / Then out of nowhere the answer / "I love you"/ Series 10, A Bride Too Far Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. scrawled on the highest bridge." (Rowan Blair Colver). Funny Victoria and Emily battle it out over the wedding, while Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. how graffiti can transform cement. How a simple love message Charlotte is feeling left out. Stars Celia Imrie. From scrawled on a bridge between two empty flanks of Brutalist February 2004. 15:00 Thomas Hardy ­ The Return of the Native (b0076sfh) flats can lift our hearts. That's what happened when 10:00 Thomas Hardy ­ The Return of the Native (b0076sfh) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] somebody, somehow, leaned over the perilous edge of this Episode 3 16:00 Whispers (b007k358) narrow footbridge on Norwich Row at Park Hill flats, high Clym and Eustacia are married, but her unhappiness and [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] above Sheffield's train station, and painted: renewed passion for Wildeve threatens all of them. Stars 16:30 No Commitments (b01mmrh8) Clare Middleton I love you will u marry me David Calder. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] We call it The I Love You Bridge. It's visible for miles, 11:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories (b01ps9w4) 17:00 Winston in Europe (b007tzt5) from town. When we set off on this journey we don't know who Child's Play [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] wrote it or when, or even if it all went up at once. We Kate is not appreciated by her husband or daughter, but 17:30 Rumblings from the Rafters (b07jwt65) don't know whether she said 'Yes' or what happened next. receives affection from an unusual source. Read by Matilda [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Nobody knows, not even the people who've worked on the Ziegler. 18:00 Dangerous Visions (b02x9f4n) Estate for years ­ caretaker, needle exchange worker, 11:15 Afternoon Drama (b00sq2n7) The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 5 decorator, or the few (like writer, Rowan, above) who still Shelagh Delaney ­ Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life Jane Rogers won the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2012 with her live there; not even the local builders who are regenerating Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life is a new play by Shelagh novel set in a future where a deadly virus causing pregnant the first flank that the bridge links. Delaney, the award winning writer of A Taste of Honey. women to die in their millions. Jessie becomes increasingly In this programme we follow up all kinds of rumours in the Rose lives alone on a smallholding. When Poppy, her certain that sacrificing her own life for a healthy baby is hope of sourcing the graffiti and its lovers. embittered ex sister in law visits for the weekend, the the most important thing she can do. But her plan to become Producer: Frances Byrnes peace is shattered. Things get worse when they learn that a Sleeping Beauty hits an obstacle. A Rockethouse Production for BBC Radio 4. Boris, Poppy's 20 year old son, has gone missing. Old wounds Directed by Nadia Molinari 07:00 Winston in Europe (b007tzt5) and grievances are aired ­ then Boris turns up out of the Dangerous Visions Season: An Educated Woman blue. His presence brings the women closer again, allowing The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's Arriving in France, the old rogue's talk of Flaubert, for new hope for the future. Both Rose and Poppy sense that fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. Baudelaire and Renoir baffles Nancy. Stars Bill Wallis. From this could be the turning moment for all of them ­ until an Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died March 1992. accident on the beach affects them all. four years ago, his vision of 07:30 Rumblings from the Rafters (b07jwt65) In this witty, poignant play about parenting, rural life, what our future might become feels as relevant, satirical Edible Dormouse and Peacock Butterfly and family ties, Shelagh Delaney demonstrates her skill as a and as scary as ever. Radio 4's Dangerous Visions is a An Edible Dormouse played by Hugh Dennis and a Peacock leading modern dramatist of unusual choices by unusual season of dramas that explore contemporary takes on future Butterfly played by Amanda Abbington reveal the truth about people. dystopias. Dramatisations of Ballard's seminal works, life in an old attic in a house in Amersham in the last of Rose...Barbara Marten Drowned World and Concrete Island, straddle the season, and three very funny tales, written and introduced by Lynne Poppy...Nicola Gardner we have asked five leading radio writers ­ Nick Perry, Ed Truss, with additional sound recordings by Chris Watson. Boris...Tachia Newall Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, Michael Butt and Philip The Edible Dormouse is no Common Dormouse. He is Russian Pianist..Jonathan Scott Palmer ­ to imagine what life might be like in the near and Director...Polly Thomas. future if everything goes wrong ­ extremely serious­minded. He is obsessed with answering the 12:00 Something to Shout About (b07l0y14) and their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: question, "Why are we here?" both the philosophical question [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might and the literal one. No answer satisfies him. So he has 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jp0s) happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning reached his own conclusion, which involves secret agents and [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable a submarine. "I may be rare, cute­looking, and of 13:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South indisputable foreign origin, but I am not stupid." He is (b036ybrp) London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice planning a meeting with his fellow Edible Dormice to discuss [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part their next move. He knows this won't be easy. The others 13:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012llpk) dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel think he is mad. Top of the agenda is what they should call [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author. themselves. "Imagine how it feels to be one of the only 13:30 The I Love You Bridge (b01302s4) Dangerous Visions ­ you will be disturbed as you see the zoological species in existence whose very name says, "Have [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. you ever thought of eating me?" 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell ­ The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Credits The Peacock Butterfly is youthful, intelligent, and ever so (b00770tg) Jessie: Holliday Grainger concerned with being brave and sensible about mortality. Episode 10 Joe: Mark Jordon

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Cath: Joanne Mitchell Sal: Rebecca Ryan Director: Nadia Molinari Author: Jane Rogers 18:15 Brian Appleyard ­ First Church of the New Millennium (b007jqnc) Episode 5 As architect Stephen Rix builds his cathedral, he makes dramatic decision about his life. Read by David Horovitch. 18:30 Sounds Natural (b07l1167) Roger Whittaker From the Wildebeest to the Paradise Flycatcher. Singer Roger Whittaker shares his fascination for the wildlife of East Africa and with Derek Jones ­ aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archive. Producer: John Burton. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1973. 19:00 Something to Shout About (b07l0y14) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] 19:30 The Goon Show (b007jp0s) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] 20:00 Dick Barton ­ Special Agent: The Cabatolin Diamonds (b036ybrp) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] 20:15 Edgar Wallace ­ White Face (b012llpk) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today] 20:30 The I Love You Bridge (b01302s4) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] 21:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories (b01ps9w4) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] 21:15 Afternoon Drama (b00sq2n7) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] 22:00 The Iguanodon (b0075cpk) Two Sausage Rolls Between the Seven of Us A startling revelation for Sam after he survives a sinking and the pirates ­ again. Stars Bernard Cribbins. From December 1997. 22:30 BBC Radio New Comedy Award (b07l11ly) 2016, Heat 5 ­ Cardiff Ten new comedians perform in the fifth heat from The Glee Club, Cardiff. 23:30 Ross Noble Goes Global (b01cjg35) Series 2, Adelaide Weirdness awaits the comedian in the Australian city, with men in leotards and locals with something to hide. From May 2003.

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