Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 March 2019 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 09 MARCH 2019 these sweet currant-and-pastry cakes.Five choice slices of well as big names like Bob Monkhouse, Graham Norton, Rory British sweet treats and the stories behind them.Producer: Libby Bremner and Clive Anderson.Produced by Richard Wilson.First SAT 00:00 A Short History of Vampires (b00z55h6) CrossFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. Quid Pro Quo SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b05y16ms) SAT 05:30 Clare in the Community (b08587nz) Tanya Huff’s deliciously noir tale of an immortal whose lover is Cyrano de Bergerac Series 11 in mortal danger.Read by Genevieve Adam.The ultimate killing Episode 5 You Take the High Road machines. Natalie Haynes introduces a four-part series of dark The final part of Glyn Maxwell's adaptation of Cyrano de It's the social work event of the year and Clare Barker is giving stories, as she examines why the vampire - an iconic figure in Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. Swordsman, Philosopher, Poet the keynote speech; it's the biggest moment of her career. horror-fiction - continues to exert such a powerful hold on our Raconteur - Cyrano is all of these things , but none of them Provided she can actually get there for it. Back at home Brian imaginations...Producer: Gemma JenkinsMade for BBC Radio make him happy. What he wants more than anything is the love and Nali have been taken in by Ray after a barbecue got out of 7 and first broadcast in 2011. of the beautiful Roxane. But he has one huge problem that is as hand. His housekeeping leaves a bit to be desired as far as Nali's SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b0076czy) plain as the nose on his face. Is he too ugly to be loved ? concerned.Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who The Voice Especially when the new handsome cadet Christian de has all the right jargon but never a practical solution.A control Writers Maggie O'Farrell, Niall Griffiths and Lana Citron talk Neuvillette also declares his love for her . However Christian's freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other to Matthew Parris about how they found their voice.In each way with words needs a little help . Cyrano has been helping people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Clare is programme, Matthew Parris introduces a group of writers of him. But after many years and a siege in between is the scheme in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all of fact and fiction: new talent and established names. In the about to unravel ?CYRANO Tom BurkeROXANE/MOTHER which are occasional causes of discomfort to her.Each week we context of a discussion of one of the ideas and pre-occupations SUPERIOR Emily PithonSGT CARBONNE ..Jonathan join Clare in her continued struggle to control both her of our times, each presents a piece on this week's topic.The best KeebleLE BRET Christopher HarperDE GUICHE Conrad professional and private life In today's Big Society there are new writing and the freshest conversation from 2003. NelsonCHRISTIAN Kieran HodgsonRAGUENEAU Roger plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring social SAT 01:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn (b00dbqwq) MorlidgeMusic Harry BlakeDirected in Salford by Susan worker. Or even Clare.Written by Harry Venning and David Episode 9 Roberts RamsdenProducer Alexandra SmithA BBC Studios production. The Dragoons attempt to foil the swashbuckling smugglers' plan SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b040qxkl) SAT 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b009v35c) - but tragedy lies ahead. Read by Rufus Sewell.Christopher Syn, B is for Bauhaus: An A-Z of the Modern World Cards on the Table a brilliant young scholar, is a Doctor of Divinity at Oxford, but Episode 5 1936: The enigmatic Mr Shaitana hosts an unusual dinner party. his eventual decision to throw away the Bible for the sword in a An essential tool kit for understanding the modern world, by the His guests include four sleuths - including Hercule Poirot - and mad quest for vengeance will influence the rest of his Director of London's Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic.Not a four suspected murderers.After dinner, the guests play bridge, life.Russell Thorndike's 18th Century, Kent-based adventure dictionary, though it attempts to tell you all you need know with the sleuths in one room and the suspects in another, where features pirates, smuggling, highwaymen, duels, wicked squires about everything from Authenticity to Zips. It's not an Shaitana watches on. By the end of the game, Shaitana has been and beautiful Spanish ladies. Based on the first two novels autobiography either, though it does offer a revealing and fatally stabbed with a weapon from his collection.Agatha (published 1935 and 1936) in the seven-title sequence, 'Doctor highly personal inside view of contemporary culture.It's about Christie's thriller stars John Moffat as Poirot, Stephanie Cole as Syn on the High Seas' and 'Doctor Syn Returns'. Abridged by what makes a Warhol a genuine fake, the creation of national Ariadne Oliver, Donald Sinden as Colonel Race, Ioan Meredith Doreen Estall.Writer Russell Thorndike (1885-1972) is less identities, the mania to collect. It's also about the world seen as Superintendent Battle, Christopher Godwin as Mr Shaitana, well-known than his sister, the actress Dame Sybil Thorndike, from the rear view mirror of Grand Theft Auto V, and digital David Timson as Dr Roberts, Mary Wimbush as Mrs Lorrimer, but his Doctor Syn novels hold a special place in the affection ornament and why we value imperfection. It's about drinking a Helen Longworth as Anne Meredith, Nigel Anthony as Major of lovers of atmospheric, swashbuckling storytelling bruisingly dry martini in Adolf Loo's American bar in Vienna, Despard, Sarah Paul as Rhoda Dawes, Marlene Sidaway as Mrs everywhere. His novels have been filmed with actors as diverse and about Hitchcock's film sets. It's about fashion and Luxmore and Ewan Bailey as The Butler.From Agatha as George Arliss, Peter Cushing and Patrick McGoohan in the technology, about politics and art.Born in London, Deyan Christie's 1936 novel dramatised by Michael Bakewell.Director: role of Syn, and the Kent village of Dymchurch holds an Sudjic studied architecture in Edinburgh, edited Domus in Enyd Williams.First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. official 'Day of Syn' every other year, to commemorate a home- Milan, was the director of the Venice architecture biennale, and SAT 07:30 Last Chance to See (m00034lt) grown literary folk hero.Producer: Lawrence JacksonMade for a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen. He's the author The Sultan Of Juan Fernandez BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern IrelandFirst broadcast in 2006. of The Language of Things and The Edifice Complex.Episode Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine visit Robinson Crusoe SAT 01:30 Vital Mental Medicine: Shackleton's Banjo 5:W is for War and whether design collections are really the Island, near Chile, to find: a Juan Fernandez Fur Seal. From (b00wdgr5) place for weapons? Y asks is Youtube really so democratic? Z 1989.Series in which Douglas Adams and conservationist Mark As his ship was sinking through the Antarctic pack-ice, Ernest is for Zip and how in the thirties it was the height of modernity. Carwardine go in search of weird, exotic endangered Shackleton allowed each member of his expedition to take 2lbs Deyan Sudjic considers them all.W is for War: are museums animals.Producer: Gaynor ShutteFirst broadcast on BBC Radio of possessions with them as they abandoned ship. One the place for weapons? Y is for Youtube and Z is for Zip.Deyan 4 in 1989. exception was made; Shackleton saved Leonard Hussey's banjo Sudjic considers tRead by Deyan SudjicAbridged by Polly SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b00766q4) saying, "We must have that banjo. It's vital mental medicine."So ColesProduced by Clive BrillA Pacificus Production for BBC The Escape Factory it proved; when Shackleton set off in a small boat to sail to Radio 4. During World War II British prisoners-of-war had a remarkable South Georgia to get help, he left behind on Elephant Island SAT 03:00 Saturday Drama (b041469s) ally in the shape of Britain's other secret service, MI9.Its job twenty-two men. They lived for months under an upturned boat CS Forester's London Noir was to smuggle information and ingenious devices into camps and some old sails. Every Saturday the banjo-playing The Pursued to ensure the success of some of the most daring escape stories meteorologist mounted a concert. He composed songs and 1935: When Marjorie finds Dorothy, her pretty young sister, ever.John Stephen Dalziel finds out more about the organisation whenever they caught a seal to eat brought out his banjo. He lying dead with her head in the oven, the obvious assumption is which was to provide inspiration for Ian Fleming's "Q" in one played, the men sang - and anger and depression were kept at suicide.But the girl's mother, Mrs Clair, a tough-minded woman of the most amazing untold stories of World War II.Produced bay.Leonard Hussey survived, as did his banjo, now in the is not convinced. She believes that Dorothy was murdered by by Pamela Rutherford.First broadcast on Radio 4 in March National Maritime Museum, its skin marked with a dozen Marjorie's cheating husband Ted.Unable to prove her theory, 2002. signatures of members of the failed expedition to the South Mrs Clair begins to cook up a secret, terrible revenge...One of SAT 09:00 The Sondheim Archive (m00034lw) Pole.Tim van Eyken is best known as a squeeze-box player and three seminal psychological thrillers by CS Forester - Multi-award winning actor, singer and director Maria Friedman singer - he was the Song Man in 'War Horse' at the National dramatised by Paul Mendelson.Most famous for his has had an association with the musicals of Stephen Sondheim Theatre.