Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 May 2021 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 22 MAY 2021 The Virgin ..... Marilyn Nnadebe Writers: Ian Brown and James Hendrie Silvia ..... Susan Jameson Director: Gordon Kennedy SAT 00:00 Planet B (b00j2j7k) Saxon ..... Joseph Ayre An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Series 1 Gorm ..... David Hounslow June 2016. 10. Death's Door Canute ..... Aaron Gelkoff SAT 05:30 The Confessional (m000w3mf) John and Lioba aim to meet in the real world, but can they Gunnar ..... Chris Pavlo Series 1 really escape their virtual reality? Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko. The Confession of Marian Keyes Conclusion of series one of three about a mystery virtual world. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019. Actor, comedian and broadcaster Stephen Mangan presents a Written by Matthew Broughton. SAT 02:30 Be My Guest (b0b520pj) comedy chat show about shame and guilt. John ...... Gunnar Cauthery Patrick Cargill Each week Stephen invites a different eminent guest into his Medley ...... Lizzy Watts Actor Patrick Cargill is best remembered as the star of 'Father virtual confessional box to make three 'confessions'. This is a Cerberus ...... Chris Pavlo Dear Father'. cue for some remarkable storytelling, and surprising insights. Lioba ...... Donnla Hughes Made by Thames TV for ITV, this popular 70s sitcom was We’re used to hearing celebrity interviews where stars are All other parts played by Janice Acquah, Jill Cardo, Stephen written especially for Patrick, who played a writer forever persuaded to show off about their achievements and talk about Critchlow,Paul Rider, Manjeet Mann, Matthew Broughton and struggling with his teenage daughters. their proudest moments. Stephen is not interested in that. He Adjoa Andoh. Patrick says 'Be My Guest' as he shares highlights from his doesn’t want to know what his guests are proud of, he wants to Director: Jessica Dromgoole varied acting career in TV, film and on stage - and plays some know what they’re ashamed of. That’s surely the way to find out Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2009. of his favourite songs. what really makes a person tick. Stephen and his guest reflect SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00p93sw) Inviting a variety of guests from the world of entertainment - with empathy and humour on things like why we get How's My Driving? Be My Guest ran for several series spanning the 1960s and 80s. embarrassed, where our shame thresholds should be, and the Having a driving licence used to be proof you'd grown up and Producer: Richard Burwood value of guilt. could move about on your own. Now it is almost a guilty First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in July 1974. This week the prolific novelist and writer Marian Keyes pleasure. SAT 03:00 Drama (b096fsmx) confesses, from her home in Dublin, details of a disservice she Dominic Arkwright borrowed a car to get to the studio to meet Stardust by Ray Connolly did that still haunts her 20 years after the event. She also tells entrepreneur Alison Larkman (who walked), broadcaster Chris Show me a boy who never wanted to be a rock star and I'll show tales of a lost glove and of Joan of Arc at a fancy dress ball. Serle (on his motor scooter) and actor Patrick Field (bike, train you a liar. Other guests in this series include Dr Phil Hammond, Cariad and bike) to consider the point of driving in the 21st century. Following on from the events of 'That'll be the Day', it's the Lloyd, Joan Bakewell, Suzi Ruffell, Phil Wang and Alastair Producer: Christine Hall early 1960s sand Jim MacLaine is now an aspiring pop Campbell. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009. musician. Written and presented by Stephen Mangan SAT 01:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes He seeks out his old mate Mike, because every pop star needs a With extra material by Nick Doody (b007jsrw) road manager. Devised with Dave Anderson and produced by Frank Stirling 5. The Empty Quarter Written by Ray Connolly, based on the 1974 film of the same A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4 As his quest continues, lawyer George Grant is led into an name. SAT 06:00 Terence Rattigan - The Winslow Boy (b0129678) inhospitable desert - and into the heart of a long-standing Mike .... Greg Wood "It is easy to do justice - very hard to do right". conflict. Jim .... Jack Gordon Let Right Be Done - is the the theme of this drama by Terence Starring Tim Munro. Stevie / Barnacle Tim .... Chris Hannon Rattigan - set just before the First World War. Arabian adventure based on Hammond Innes' 1960 novel. Sally / Mrs Porter-Lee .... Fiona Clarke A father battles to prove the innocence of his son, accused of Adapted by Rene Basilico. Danielle / Air Stewardess .... Verity Henry stealing a postal order at his Edwardian naval college. George Grant ...... Tim Munro Porter Lee / Johnny .... Stephen Marzella His stubborn quest sparks reverberations at the House of Colonel Whittaker ...... Bernard Horsfall JD / Colin Day .... Jason Done Commons. Prince Khalid ...... Raad Rawi Director: Gary Brown. Arthur Winslow ...... Michael Aldridge Salim ...... George Masri First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017. Grace Winslow ...... Pauline Letts David Whittaker ...... Christopher Guard SAT 04:00 Counterpoint (b00s7vtk) Catherine Winslow ...... Sarah Badel Hamid ...... Mamdouh Ashour Series 24 Dickie Winslow ...... Michael Maloney Ali...... Ali Refaie 2010 Heat 7 Ronnie Winslow ...... John McAndrew Boy ...... Yasmin Abdul Rahman Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz from Violet ...... Peggy Page Producer: John Fawcett Wilson. London. Attorney-General ...... Nicholas Courtney First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1984. The questions cover every aspect of music - from the classical John Watherstone ...... David Timson SAT 01:30 Dalziel & Pascoe - Exit Lines (m000w6lw) repertoire to world music, show tunes, film scores, jazz, rock Miss Barnes ...... Margaret Robertson 5. The Comedy is Over and pop. Mrs Beggs ...... Gladys Spencer Three old men dead. Two unsolved problems. Has Detective The three contestants from London, Gosport and Brighton are: Desmond Curry ...... Michael Spice Inspector Pascoe got one answer? Raymond Allen Herbert Ridgeley-Pearce ...... John Rye Donald Gee and Philip Jackson star as detective duo, Andy Simon Heilbron 1st Lord of the Admiralty ...... Patrick Barr Dalziel and Peter Pascoe. Edward McDermott Sir Robert Morton ...... Aubrey Woods Reginald Hill's thriller dramatised by Betty Davies. Producer Paul Bajoria Adapted from Terence Rattigan's stage and TV scripts and Det Insp Pascoe .... Donald Gee First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2010. directed by Ian Cotterell Supt Dalziel .... Philip Jackson SAT 04:30 Bristow (b007tdnn) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1981. Charley .... Charles Simpson Series 3 SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b07wby0q) Mrs Escott .... Barbara Atkinson Of Moles and Men Series 40 Det Con Seymour .... Paul Downing The office rebel returns with some inside information which Cyrus Todiwala on Dadabhai Naoroji Sgt Wield .... Michael Graham Cox must surely lead to promotion. Chef Cyrus Todiwala chooses Dadabhai Naoroji, the 'Grand PC Hector .... Stephen Garlick Michael Williams stars as Bristow Old Man of India' who in 1892 became Britain's first Asian MP Abbiss .... John Bull Frank Dickens' sitcom is based on his famous long-running for Finsbury Central. Cpl Gillott .... Joe Dunlop newspaper cartoon strip about the Chester-Perry buying clerk. He later returned to India and petitioned for the country to be Major Kassell .... Vincent Brimble Bristow ...... Michael Williams self-governing. Gandhi, who was Dadabhai's mentee, would Sir William .... Brian Miller Jones ...... Rodney Bewes later refer to him as the Father of the Nation. Charlesworth .... David King Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan Matthew Parris presents and Zerbanoo Gifford is the expert. Elite .... Tara Dominick Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman Producer: Toby Field Ruddlesdin ....Danny Schiller Gert ...... Liz Frazer First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2016. Moody .... Dale Rapley Daisy ...... Joan Sims SAT 08:00 Whispers (b007k2kg) Director: Matthew Walters Fred Stokes ...... David Battley Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1990. Miss Glockling ...... Carol Starks Episode 1 SAT 02:00 The Transition by Luke Kennard (b08dwyh9) Teacher ...... Jane Booker What is the rather inflammatory connection between Salman Episode 5 Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey Rushdie and The Beatles? Transition mentors Janna and Stu confront Karl and Genevieve Fudge ...... Jon Glover This is the series celebrating our fascination with gossip, with the stark facts of their situation: heavily in debt and no Music: John Whitehall rumour and controversy. prospect of that changing if they continue with their current Producer: Neil Cargill Gyles Brandreth hosts the panel game with scandal on its mind jobs and expectations. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000. and slander at its heart. Karl is becoming increasingly suspicious about the true motives SAT 05:00 The Break (b07gf4s6) The regular team captains are writer and critic, Anthony Holden behind the secretive organisation's 'rehabilitation' programme. Series 1 and actor and writer, Stella Duffy. Bryan Dick reads Luke Kennard's novel, inspired by Sunday, Flipping Sunday Joining them to test their wits, and wit against the most 'Generation Debt', set a few years from now in an unnamed Dawn breaks on a beautiful Sunday morning in Flamford. notorious figures in history are broadcaster, Rosie Millard and British city. Uncle Jeff is on a quest for spiritual comfort and persuades his best-selling author, Jenny Colgan. Abridged by Robin Brooks. nephew Andy to join him by bribing him with the promise of a Producer: Elizabeth Freestone Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. proper roast dinner. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2003. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. They find that the local church has installed a new vicar, the SAT 08:30 Smelling of Roses (b007k0d2) SAT 02:15 Gudrun (m00057rq) Reverend Beverley, who invites Jeff to her bible class that Series 1 Series 6 evening. The words "bring a bible" strike a chill to Jeff's heart. Survival of the Fittest Sigrid He has never owned a bible, and neither has Andy. Rosie’s company hosts a management team building course. It Sigrid's intended husband has discovered her terrible secret and They spend the rest of the day trying to find a bible on a all goes well until the murder mystery dinner, but it isn't Rosie now her life hangs in the balance. Sunday, with Andy's stomach rumbling as he pictures his dinner who makes a killing. Stars Hollie Burgess. slipping further away. On their quest they encounter Derek Prunella Scales in Simon Brett's sitcom. Lucy Catherine's Viking epic of love, revenge and faith Horrox The Mayor, Peter Humfriss, The Town Crier, and a The trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event continues. Set in the 11th century, Gudrun is in the New World, slightly unnerving bookseller. management company, based in Brighton. and her estranged daughter Sigrid in England. Jeff ...... Philip Jackson Rosie ...... Prunella Scales Both mother and daughter have reasons to seek forgiveness as Andy ...... Tom Palmer Kate ...... Arabella Weir they forge a path through lands of unearthly beauty and Reverend Beverley ...... Shobna Gulati Jo ...... Rebecca Callard uncompromising harshness. Derek Horrox the Mayor ...... Rasmus Hardiker Bob ...... Duncan Preston Sigrid ..... Hollie Burgess Peter Humfriss, the Town Crier ...... Mark Benton Tess ...... Annette Badland Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 May 2021 Page 2 of 10 Barry ...... Lee Simpson petty officer in The Navy Lark, to his TV portrayals of the Made by B7 Media. Alex ...... Chris Pavlo dandy Doctor Who and the anarchic scarecrow, Worzel SAT 18:35 Ray Bradbury - There Will Come Soft Rains Dick ...... David Holt Gummidge. (b007k2w1) Producer: Maria Esposito Producers: Richard Latto and Stuart Manning. 2026: With surroundings destroyed and devoid of human life, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in July 2019. an automated house carries on... SAT 09:00 From Gorsemere to Gloomsbury: The Literary SAT 14:00 There Is No Escape (b06grjn7) Dramatisation of Ray Bradbury’s short story Lunacy of Sue Limb (m0009bys) Episode 1 The Woman ...... Joan Miller Shaun Ley takes you on a three-hour guided tour through a Andrew Lawrence's sitcom about a man dissatisfied with his Commentator ...... David King-Wood world of literary lunacy that flows from the pen of dramatist life, whose feeble attempts to run away invariably end with him Music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins Sue Limb. traipsing home defeated. Singers: Ann Dowdall and John Carol Case. The voyage of parody takes the listener from the Lake District In this opening episode, Andrew arrives home from work one Adapted and produced by Nesta Pain. retreat of Romantic poets – a rural idyll rocked by the arrival of evening to find the house even more of a mess than usual. An First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in September the philandering Lord Biro – to gardens of Sizzlinghurst Castle argument with his girlfriend about cleaning escalates and 1962. and the “very modern” politics and personal lives of the Andrew storms out to find something to eat. SAT 19:00 From Gorsemere to Gloomsbury: The Literary Gloomsbury set. After a soul destroying encounter with the woman in the local Lunacy of Sue Limb (m0009bys) The English Civil War gets cavalier treatment in The Sit Crom, shop, who can only recommend frozen turkey dinosaurs for his [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] where a scullery maid attempts to save a king, while in present- meal, Andrew joins his work mate, Lennie, for a consolation SAT 22:00 Rigor Mortis (b007k419) day Norwich two sisters attempt to save their Bed and Breakfast dinner in the pub. Series 1 in Alison & Maud. Later he returns home and is forced to negotiate about a cleaner Episode 1 Shaun discusses the ideas and inspiration behind Sue’s writing through the letterbox before he is finally allowed back in. Dr Webster realises that he recognises the man he’s just with the author herself and talks about turning scripts into Starring: performed a routine autopsy on, but where from? performance with regular cast members, Nigel Planer and Andrew Lawrence His colleague, Professor Donaldson is aghast at the medical Miriam Margolyes. Diane Morgan ethics of the situation whilst Dr Anderson is convinced that Joss Ackland, Denise Coffey, Geoffrey Whitehead, Simon With Rosie Cavaliero and Marek Larwood. there's some kind of conspiracy going on. Callow and Tim Curry star in featured episodes of: Producer: Jane Berthoud Dr Webster can't understand what all the fuss is about... * The Wordsmiths of Gorsemere First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015. Laurence Howarth’s sitcom set in the fascinating, but * Gloomsbury SAT 14:30 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap (b04wwnh8) misunderstood world of the pathology lab. * The Sit Crom Series 2 Dr Anthony Webster ...... Peter Davison * Alison and Maud Episode 1 Dr Ruth Anderson ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman * Lord Byron's Don Juan is performed by Will Kirk. Bridget is back asking who has the best sexism in the world, Professor Donaldson ...... Geoffrey Whitehead * Dorothy Wordsworth's diary is read by Scarlett Courtney. deconstructing a yoghurt advert and taking a look at what Gordon ...... Tom Price Producer: Adam Bowen happens when a perfectly normal woman appears on TV. Chloe ...... Marianne Levy Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in October With token man, Fred MacAulay who reveals a hitherto Simon ...... Gus Brown 2019. unsuspected penchant for certain kitchen cleaning products. David/Patient ...... Stephen Critchlow SAT 12:00 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics (b08h0c9k) As she hasn't managed to single-handedly eradicate sexism, Elaine ...... Beth Chalmers Series 2 Bridget Christie returns in her multi-award winning series about Music by Paul Mottram and Stephanie Benavente. The Neck modern feminism. Producer: Dawn Ellis In 19th-century Whitby, a magician prepares to compete with Bridget thought that she'd be able to put her feet up assuming First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2003. Harry Houdini at a major international Magic Convention. her last series would bomb. Sadly it was a huge success and SAT 22:30 Josie Long: Romance and Adventure (b076p08g) When a ship carrying a cargo of 50 coffins runs aground on the she's had to bang on about feminism ever since. Series 1 town's beach, he suspects Houdini of pulling a huge publicity Written by Bridget Christie. Episode 3 stunt. Producers: Alison Vernon-Smith and Alexandra Smith Josie's 32nd birthday has her questioning whether her dream of Comedy troupe Peepolykus assume the roles of minor First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2015. one day having a family is now unrealistic. characters in great works of fiction and derail the plot of the SAT 15:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Comedy drama about a young woman trying to build a more book through their hapless buffoonery. Better (b00k9dc3) fulfilling life for herself in Glasgow. By John Nicholson and Richard Katz Series 1 Based on characters from the short films "Romance and Javier ...... Javier Marzan Lust Adventure" and "Let's Go Swimming" by Josie Long and John ...... John Nicholson Mark Watson investigates lust as he continues his quest to free Douglas King. Lucy ...... Sanchia McCormack us from the seven deadly sins via stand-up comedy. Josie ...... Josie Long Professor Van Hesling ...... Richard Katz Tim Key and Tim Minchin provide sketches, songs and Darren ...... Darren Osborne Mrs Higgins ...... Chetna Pandya distractions. Roddy ...... Sanjeev Kohli Guard ...... John Dougall Producer: Katie Marsden Kerry ...... Hatty Ashdown Guard ...... Nicholas Murchie First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2007. Eleanor ...... Clare Grogan Peepolykus (pronounced people-like-us) has exported its brand SAT 15:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (b012qtv1) Chris ...... Michael Bertenshaw of irreverent comic theatre to over 100 towns and cities across Series 2 Mona ...... Rebecca Hamilton four continents, often under the auspices of the British Council. Episode 1 Fraser ...... Chris Pavlo Their CV includes two tours of Bangladesh, winning the The human chameleon's host of characters from a chatty school Genevieve ...... Puja Panchkoty audience award at The Tehran Festival, performing to royalty in girl to a decrepit charwoman. Producer: Colin Anderson Brunei, to Indian states people in the Himalayas, a truly Multi-paced, one woman Fast Show showcasing the exceptional A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first disastrous run in Barbados, an unforgettable stint on The Price talent of Lucy Montgomery. broadcast in April 2016. is Right in Australia and other occasional bits of telly for the With: SAT 23:00 Jason Cook's School of Hard Knocks (b03ws221) BBC. Philip Pope Dumping and Proposals With theatre scripts licensed worldwide, they played for 3 Sally Grace Jason Cook continues dispensing advice on how best to navigate months in London’s West End and collaborated with numerous Waen Shepherd the choppy waters of life and come out the other side without organisations. Natalie Walter feeling woozy, using the full spectrum of his own experiences Peepolykus is produced by Eleanor Lloyd Productions. Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by as his educational aids. Director: Sasha Yevtushenko Steven Burge, Jon Hunter, Fay Rusling and Barunka This time, he looks at the two-sides of the romance coin: First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017. O'Shaughnessy. dumping someone and proposing to someone. SAT 12:30 The Elephant Man (b007jsfp) Script Editor: Dan Tetsell Stories from the audience help to throw more light on the Endangered Species Music by Philip Pope matter in hand. Terry Lyon, assistant head keeper of Southwood Zoo, trusts Producer: Katie Tyrrell. With Zoe Harrison and Neil Grainger. animals because most people think he's a waste of space. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2011. Producer: Sam Michell. But as the zoo lurches towards bankruptcy, his future looks SAT 16:00 Terence Rattigan - The Winslow Boy (b0129678) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2014. bleak. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT 23:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b05108h0) DA Barham's eight-part sitcom stars Peter Serafinowicz. SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b07wby0q) Series 6 Terry ...... Peter Serafinowicz [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Dame Kelly Holmes Leonard ...... Chris Emmett SAT 18:00 Dan Dare (b0bfxjs5) Dame Kelly Holmes, a self-confessed chocoholic, tries her first Maureen ...... Geraldine Fitzgerald Series 1 deep fried Mars bar, but will she try the chocolate covered Derek ...... Wayne Forester 3 The Red Moon Mystery 1/2 scorpion? George ...... Geoff Fitzgerald Infected by the evil Mekon's virus and unable to return to Earth, And to conquer her fear of drowning, she tries hypnotherapy. Stephanie ...... Joanna Munro Dan Dare and the crew of the Anastasia are ordered to the Marcus Brigstocke persuades his guests to try new experiences: Adam ...... Richard Pearce desolate planet of Mars... things they really ought to have done by now. DA Barham - alias Debbie Ann - used her gently gender- Adventures based on the Eagle comic strip 'Dan Dare' created Some experiences are loved, some are loathed, in this show all obscured writing name. Aged just 15, she'd sent in comedy in 1950 by the Reverend Marcus Morris and Frank Hampson. about embracing the new. scripts to the BBC. She tragically died in 2003 from heart First of a two-part adventure starring Ed Stoppard. Producer: Bill Dare failure due to anorexia, aged just 26. Dramatised by James Swallow. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015. In her short, brilliant comedy career, she'd written for The Dan Dare ...... Ed Stoppard News Huddlines, Spitting Image, The News Quiz, Weekending, Digby ...... Geoff McGivern Loose Ends, as well as big names like Bob Monkhouse, Graham Professor Peabody ...... Heida Reed SUNDAY 23 MAY 2021 Norton, Rory Bremner and Clive Anderson. Sir Hubert ...... Michael Cochrane Producer: Richard Wilson. Creator ...... Marcus Morris SUN 00:00 Dan Dare (b0bfxjs5) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1996. On-board Computer ...... Dianne Weller [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SAT 13:00 The Jon Pertwee Files (m0006lvy) Ivor Dare ...... Hugh Fraser SUN 00:35 Ray Bradbury - There Will Come Soft Rains Sean Pertwee celebrates his father Jon’s broadcasting career in Sergeant Scott ...... Jake Maskall (b007k2w1) this special documentary made to mark the actor’s birth Corporal Dajani ...... Jalleh Alizadeh [Repeat of broadcast at 18:35 on Saturday] centenary. Dr Harlan Stoll ...... Greg Keith SUN 01:00 The Jon Pertwee Files (m0006lvy) Featuring rediscovered archive material, rare interviews and Teacher ...... Diane Spencer [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] behind-the-scenes recordings. Flamer Spry ...... Ryan Sewell SUN 02:00 There Is No Escape (b06grjn7) From his radio days playing a disreputable postman and a chief Director: Andrew Mark Sewell. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 May 2021 Page 3 of 10 SUN 02:30 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap (b04wwnh8) Amanda ...... Nasreen Hussain voices, and those carrying forward ancient oral traditions. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] Alison ...... Joanna Brookes Thabiso Mohare ('Afurakan') is one of the poets and SUN 03:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Peter ...... Robert Harley entrepreneurs spearheading developments in spoken word Better (b00k9dc3) Caroline ...... Polly Frame. poetry in South Africa, and exploring the possibilities of what [Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday] Producer: Liz Anstee the digital space can offer poets in countries where there's a SUN 03:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (b012qtv1) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. lack of publishing infrastructure, or publishers are pulling back [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05x27d7) from poetry. SUN 04:00 Terence Rattigan - The Winslow Boy (b0129678) Eurovision Thabiso meets the digital pioneers who, as part of the broader [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] Lulu tech revolution in a mobile-first continent, are offering poets SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b07wby0q) From David Bowie to Luciano Pavarotti. across Africa a new outlet for presenting their work in a digital [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] Singer Lulu shares her castaway choices with Michael age. SUN 06:00 The Transition by Luke Kennard (Omnibus) Parkinson. Thabiso talks to Mak Manaka, one of the poets excited by the (b08dxkh2) Born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, Lulu recalls her opportunities to carve their own path, not only against those Episode 1 upbringing in a Glasgow tenement and her subsequent career as who value a published collection as proof of your worth, but Luke Kennard’s intriguing and wry debut novel about a singer and actress. also against the European model of success. capitalism, the housing crisis and a generation in debt. She is still active and performing on stage – including 42nd And he talks to a mentor from the older generation, Professor Set a few years from now, in an unnamed city, the award- Street and concert tours. Keorapatse Kgositsile, the poet laureate of South Africa, to see winning poet imagines what life might be like for young people Lulu was awarded an OBE in 2000. what he makes of it all, asking what the role of the poet has from the squeezed middle-class if our society continues along First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1987. always been in African societies and how that translates into the its current economic path. SUN 10:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00zt5xr) online space, and what he sees the pitfalls as being. 30-something couple Karl and Genevieve (he writes copy for Series 2 Producer: Megan Jones online content providers, she is a primary teacher) live in a Wallace First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2016. room in a shared house; their combined income is less than It was the great travel books written in the 19th century by SUN 12:30 Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics their rent and they're falling ever deeper into debt. Alfred Russell Wallace that inspired Sir David Attenborough (b040hjy4) To help pay off his 17 credit cards, Karl accepts a job himself to achieve great things in the realm of natural history. Series 1 generating 'clickbait' from a stranger online that seems to good But Attenborough tells us that Wallace was more than just a Aspasia to be true. It is. Very soon the messy strands of his and great travel writer. His power of meticulous observation and A fresh look at the ancient world. Genevieve's lives are beginning to unravel. recording as he explored many parts of the world were in the Natalie Haynes, critic, writer and reformed stand-up comedian, Omnibus of the first five of parts abridged by Robin Brooks. highest league imaginable, even for Victorian standards - and brings the ancient world entertainingly up to date. Read by Bryan Dick his power of analysis very much akin with Darwin, his great In the first of four programmes, she profiles a figure from Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. contemporary. ancient Greece or Rome and creates a stand-up routine around First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. Wallace independently came up with a theory of evolution that them. She then goes in search of the links which make the SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07d3fpp) was in parallel to Darwin's thinking - two field naturalists ancient world still very relevant in the 21st century. Pauline Black breaking huge conventions of the time and coming up with the Women in ancient Greece were supposedly not seen, not heard Singer Pauline Black chooses 'My Boy Lollipop' by Millie single most important theory in Biology. How did they resolve and not talked about. Meet Aspasia -the woman who broke all Small and 'Get Up Stand Up' by Bob Marley. the conflict between themselves? the rules – all the more remarkably for the fact that she was the SUN 07:20 Lucy Catherine - Gudrun (m0005gxn) Written and presented by David Attenborough partner of one of the most powerful men in Greece at the time, Series 6 (Omnibus) Producer: Julian Hector Pericles. Episode 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011. Natalie explores how writers and comedians used Aspasia’s Sigrid has arrived in England to marry a man she has never met. SUN 11:00 Sneakernomics (p09fy1zk) reputation as a way of attacking the statesman – a practice She must keep her darkest secrets well-hidden if she is to 2. Dassler vs. Dassler which hasn’t changed much over 2,500 years. survive in this strange land of Saxons and Danes. Sneakernomics is a close encounter with the visionaries, artisans With classicist Sarah B Pomeroy, Dr Ian Jenkins of the British Set in the 11th century, the series follows Gudrun in the New and journeymen who’ve made, and been made, by trainers. Museum and Cate Haste, co-author with Cherie Booth of a World, and her estranged daughter Sigrid in England. Both We’ll follow in the footsteps of mavericks, hustlers and book on the lot of the statesman’s spouse. mother and daughter have reasons to seek forgiveness as they dreamers, and hear their tales of boom and bust, fame and Producer: Christine Hall forge a path through lands of unearthly beauty and infamy, hope and heartbreak. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014. uncompromising harshness. SUN 13:00 The Return by Hisham Matar (Omnibus) Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes written by Lucy Across nine episodes, Sneakernomics tells the extraordinary (b07yk69n) Catherine. origin stories of some of the world’s biggest brands, and how Libyan novelist Hisham Matar’s powerful memoir describes the Sigrid ..... Hollie Burgess sponsorship deals and celebrity culture redefined our state of hope and grief he endured in the two decades since his The Virgin ..... Marilyn Nnadebe relationship with products. It’s also a business story – how father, Jaballa, was kidnapped by Qaddafi's regime in 1990. Silvia ..... Susan Jameson leisure has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry; a sports Imprisoned and kept isolated from other prisoners, Jaballa Sailor (Sc2) / Sailors ..... Chris Harper, Joseph Ayre story – how games became organised and grew into a global managed to send only a handful of letters to his family before Gorm ..... David Hounslow spectacle; and it’s a story of invention – how enthusiastic he disappeared without trace. To this day, no-one is sure what Canute ..... Aaron Gelkoff hobbyist-pioneers often took extraordinary risks that changed happened to him, although it is likely that he died in a massacre Gunnar .... Chris Pavlo the course of sport and fashion. at Abu Salim prison in Tripoli in 1996. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019 Living in exile since the 1970s, Hisham returned to Libya for SUN 08:30 We're in Business (b07md68m) The sneaker story is characterised by fierce competition and the first time in 2012, following the revolution that brought Changing Rooms rivalry. We explore how the quest to be number one tore down Qaddafi and his regime. Can Dudley and Harry get along in their new noisy lodgings? families and friendships apart and divided towns. Above all, In beautiful language, he describes the difficult state of exile, its Stars Peter Jones and Harry Worth. this is the story of the people behind the shoes. What you’ll hear mix of guilt and pain, as well as the powerful meetings with his Peter Jones is small-time businessman, Dudley Grosvenor who's is a mix of interviews with many of the key individuals who’ve uncles and cousins, many of whom had also been imprisoned, always out to make a fast buck - usually at the expense of his played their part in that extraordinary story, interlaced with and for whose release he campaigned tirelessly. side-kick, Harry Worth. moments of fiction inspired by their testimonies and our “You make a man disappear to silence him but also to narrow Written by Marty Feldman, Barry Took and Peter Jones. research. the minds of those left behind, to pervert their soul and limit Dudley ...... Peter Jones their imagination. When Qaddafi took my father, he placed me Harry ...... Harry Worth Written and presented by Nicholas Smith, with 1Xtra presenter in a space not much bigger than the cell Father was in. I paced Miss Boot ...... Irene Handl Ace. The drama is written by Al Smith. back and forth, anger in one direction, hatred in the other, until With Dick Emery. I could feel my insides grow small and hard. And, because I was A selection of surviving episodes from two series broadcast Episode 2 Cast: young, and hatred and anger are a young man’s emotions, I between 1959-1960. tricked myself into thinking the transformation was good, that it Producer: Charles Maxwell. Sepp . . . . . Roger Ringrose was akin to progress, a sign of vigour and strength.” First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1960. Joe . . . . . Aaron Gelkoff Omnibus of five episodes abridged by Anna Magnusson. SUN 09:00 Drop Me Here, Darling (m000v29w) Rudi . . . . . Joe Sims Read by Khalid Abdalla Changing Up Adi . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery Khalid is an actor and political activist born in Britain after his Leslie feels that it’s time to look for a more senior position. Horst . . . . . Mark Edel-Hunt parents were forced to leave Egypt in the late 1970s – his father Starring Leslie Phillips. Fritz . . . . . Ian Dunnet Jnr was a leading student activist there and was imprisoned several Andrew Palmer's comedy about a former property tycoon who’s Eckel . . . . . Stefan Adegbola times. fallen on hard times and is now chauffeur to his wealthy ex- Charles . . . . . Trevor White Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. wife. Clarissa . . . . . Jane Whittenshaw First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2016. Leslie Duggan …. Leslie Phillips Chuck . . . . . Joseph Balderrama SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06chsm1) Caroline Duggan …. Jill Bennett Bill . . . . . Nathan Osgood Bill Nighy Kay …. Norma Ronald Actor Bill Nighy chooses 'Well Did You Evah' by Bing Crosby Michael …. Edward Judd Production Trainee: Marithe Van Der Aa and Frank Sinatra and 'Sign On A Window' by Bob Dylan. Emma …. Eve Karpf Assistant Producer: Ben Hollands SUN 14:20 AL Kennedy - Subterranean Homesick Blues Producer: Edward Taylor Sound: Peter Ringrose (b093m2x1) First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1983. Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko Series 2 (Omnibus) SUN 09:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b007yrh0) John and Maggie return as the lovers attempting to rekindle the Series 2 Special thanks: Joe Foster, Sigi Dassler, Michael Dassler, Abe flames of an on/off affair from their younger days. Episode 3 Aamidor, Charles Slack, Angelo Anastasio, Patrick Nally, John But they discover love doesn't get easier when you're older but When Daniel's brother suggests a night in the pub and Lucy's Boulter, David Jones, Michael McKnight, Helmut Fischer, no wiser. best friend meets a new man, their plans for a week away from Kerstin Neuber and Victoria Purcell. Omnibus of five episodes written by AL Kennedy. other people's problems come seriously unstuck. SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m000wb77) John ..... Bill Nighy Starring David Tennant and Elizabeth Carling. Africa's Digital Poets - Another Kind of Stage 1/2 Maggie ..... Anna Calder-Marshall David Spicer's comedy drama about modern life and Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Director: Sally Avens parenthood, as seen through the eyes of two 30-something non- Africa's Digital Poets - Another Kind of Stage. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2017. parents. In the first of two programmes, Johannesburg based poet SUN 15:30 Be My Guest (b0b520pj) Daniel ...... David Tennant Thabiso Mohare looks at the way digital platforms are serving [Repeat of broadcast at 02:30 on Saturday] Lucy ...... Elizabeth Carling poets across the continent, from emerging writers to established SUN 16:00 Caroline Gawn - Fraud (b0076cpm) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 May 2021 Page 4 of 10 A daring, amoral female crook pits her wits against a top Armando Iannucci First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2008. policeman stuck in an unhappy marriage. Romantic intrigue is And the voice of Tom Baker. MON 07:30 Nature Table (m000w4pf) inevitable. Producer: Sarah Smith Series 2 Starring Philip Glenister and Angela Wynter. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993. Episode 3 Caroline Gawn’s entertaining, stylish detective story, with a Nature Table is comedian, broadcaster and writer Sue Perkins’ definite twist. new comedy ‘Show & Tell’ series celebrating the natural world Faulkes...... Philip Glenister MONDAY 24 MAY 2021 and all its funny eccentricities. Jean Mallory...... Angela Wynter Taking the simple format of a ‘Show & Tell’, each episode Sue Williams...... Ken Bradshaw MON 00:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Curious, If True is joined by celebrity guests from the worlds of comedy and Rodriguez/Ken Restal....Russell Dixon (b00tvmk0) natural history. Each of the natural history guests brings an item Stephens/Diane...... Christine Brennan [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] linked to the wild world to share with the audience, be it an Jack Cooper...... Toby Hadoke MON 00:45 Murder & Mystery (m0003l5g) amazing fact or funny personal anecdote. Each item is a Producer: Polly Thomas [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] springboard for an enlightening and funny discussion, alongside First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003 MON 01:00 The Return by Hisham Matar (Omnibus) fun games and challenges revealing more astonishing facts. We SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000wb77) (b07yk69n) also hear from some of the London Zoo, as they bring us their [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] own natural history ‘show and tells’ for Sue and the guests to SUN 17:30 Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06chsm1) discuss. (b040hjy4) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] Nature Table has a simple clear brief: to positively celebrate [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] MON 02:20 AL Kennedy - Subterranean Homesick Blues and promote the importance of all our planet’s wonderfully wild SUN 18:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Curious, If True (b00tvmk0) (b093m2x1) flora and fauna in an fun and easily grasped way... whilst at the The Grey Woman [Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday] same time having a giggle. A miller's daughter marries a nobleman. But this is no fairy tale. MON 03:30 Be My Guest (b0b520pj) Note: Series 2 was recorded in November 2020, during It's the beginning of a terrifying adventure... [Repeat of broadcast at 02:30 on Saturday] lockdown conditions, so this time round there is no studio Elizabeth Gaskell's collection of intriguing "true" tales MON 04:00 Caroline Gawn - Fraud (b0076cpm) audience. The host, panel and guest zookeepers recorded the dramatised by Sally Hedges. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] series at ZSL London Zoo, socially distanced. Mrs Gaskell ...... Elizabeth Spriggs MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000wb77) Episode 3 Anna ...... Stella Gonet [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] Recorded at London Zoo, this week Sue Perkins is joined by Amante ...... Adjoa Andoh MON 05:30 Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics special guests: Tourelle ...... Struan Rodger (b040hjy4) Lucy Cooke (Zoologist, writer, presenter), Dr. Karim Vahed With Duncan Law, Richard Avery, Mary Wimbush, Andrew [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] (Entomologist) and comedian Felicity Ward. Harrison and Graham Colclough. MON 06:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Written by: Catherine Brinkworth, Kat Sadler & Jon Hunter Producer: Nigel Bryant (b007k372) Researcher: Catherine Beazley An Armada production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 6. Jebel Al-Akhbar Music by Ben Mirin. Additional sounds were provided by The 1998. Politics and practicalities as the water supply is cut to force the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. SUN 18:45 Murder & Mystery (m0003l5g) Emir to negotiate - and a final confrontation. Produced by: Simon Nicholls Series 5 Starring Tim Munro. A BBC Studios Production The Man of the Crowd by Edgar Allan Poe Conclusion of the Arabian adventure based on Hammond Innes' MON 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k094) An unknown man keeps to the shadows. novel. Series 4 In a writing career that spanned barely two decades (he died in Adapted by Rene Basilico. Full House his 41st year) Edgar Allan Poe penned over 70 short stories. George Grant ...... Tim Munro Card sharks fleece Harold Steptoe, so his father Albert steps in. These the American incessantly revised over the years and Colonel Whittaker ...... Bernard Horsfall Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. many became standards of the short form (like ‘The Fall Of The David Whittaker ...... Christopher Guard Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association House of Usher’ or ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’). Ruffin ...... Robert Rietty with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson But for our five fictional tales, we burrow down amongst Poe’s Colonel Goodge ...... Nicholas Courtney wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. lesser-known, and often dark, gems. Captain Chuck Berry ...... David McAlister The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Read by Owen Teale. Sergeant Rashid ...... Adam Hussein Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight Abridger: Pete Nichols Yousif ...... Ali Refaie series on TV. Producer: Karen Rose Trucial Oman Scout ...... Mohammad Sultan Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions. Abdul Zaid Emir of Hadd ...... Renu Setna Harold ...... Harry H Corbett SUN 19:00 Sneakernomics (p09fy1zk) Henry Grant ...... Robert James With Martin Friend, Douglas Blackwell and Michael Kilgarriff. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Betty ...... Jill Lidstone Adapted for radio from their TV scripts by Ray Galton and SUN 20:00 Caroline Gawn - Fraud (b0076cpm) Producer: John Fawcett Wilson. Alan Simpson. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1984. Producer: Bobby Jaye SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05x27d7) MON 06:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1972. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] (b0b51vyp) MON 08:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue SUN 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00zt5xr) 1. The Kind Man (b0075nmn) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] "I don't dig you and I don't dig your tone." Series 4 SUN 22:00 Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics Steve Gardiner - a hip Londoner and Korean War veteran - Episode 2 (b040hjy4) arrives in a small Scottish seaside town where locals are all Sofa-bound TV presenters Mike and Sue discuss children in the [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] under threat from a serial killer dubbed 'The Kind Man'. workplace and threadbare toffs. SUN 22:30 There Is No Escape (b06j21c5) Starring Teddy Johnson. Starring Robert Duncan and Jan Ravens. Episode 2 Edward Boyd's six-part serial thriller is reminiscent of With: Andrew finds himself, like so many others across the country, American radio thrillers of the era, as our hero also addresses us Roger Blake having to spend a few hours over Saturday lunchtime with his directly. Emma Kennedy girlfriend's parents. Steve Gardiner ...... Teddy Johnson Alistair McGowan But Andrew is determined not to go. He hatches a plan to get Jimmy Morton ...... Jimmy Logan Ronni Ancona his workmate to call him in to an "emergency" at work. But all Miss Wylie ...... Marjorie Dalziel Written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie from a format by Bill goes wrong when he gets a flat tyre and the only person who can PC McKenzie ...... John Young Dare come to his rescue is his girlfriend's father. The Police Sergeant ...... Kalman Glass Music by Mark Burton. Sitcom about a man dissatisfied with his life, whose feeble Detective Inspector Gordon ...... Moultrie R. Kelsall Producer: Aled Evans attempts to run away invariably end with him traipsing home Mrs McGann ...... Helen Norman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1999. defeated. Stella ...... Isobel Gardner MON 09:00 Act Your Age (b00qplyn) Starring: Albert ...... Paul Young Series 2 Andrew Lawrence The Porter ...... Eric Wightman Episode 5 Diane Morgan The Tramp ...... Douglas Murchie Simon Mayo hosts the comedy show that pits the comic With Janice Connolly, Marek Larwood and Graham Fellows. Delia Dewar ...... Effie Morrison generations against each other to find out which is the funniest. Producer: Jane Berthoud Wilfred Morton ...... Leonard Maguire Team captains Jon Richardson, Ed Byrne and Johnnie Casson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015. As well as acting, Teddy Johnson sang with his wife Pearl Carr are joined by Tom Wrigglesworth, John Bishop and Tom SUN 23:00 As Told To Craig Brown (b00bbnxt) - coming second in the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest with O'Connor. Episode 5 'Sing Little Birdie'. Johnson was also a DJ on Radio Producers: Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. The Jane Austen industry and car user manuals. Luxembourg and later BBC Radio 2. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2010. Craig Brown introduces a mixture of satire, social observation Produced in Glasgow by Eddie Fraser. MON 09:30 The Elephant Man (b04phhxw) and nonsense. First broadcast on the BBC Regional Home Service - Scotland It Could Be the Zoo Narrated by Juliet Stevenson and Steve Wright in March 1954. Tax problems and incompetent staff are just two of Southwood With John Humphrys, Ronni Ancona, Jon Culshaw, Lewis MON 07:00 Psmith in the City by PG Wodehouse Zoo's problems. MacLeod, Sally Grace, Ewan Bailey and Margaret Cabourn- (b00dsr3b) But the National Lottery is designed to come to the aid of such Smith. Psmith Arranges His Future hopeless causes. Producer: Victoria Lloyd Psmith's powers of persuasion are put to the test when Mike is Peter Serafinowicz stars in Debbie Barham's sitcom about the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2008. dismissed from the bank. life of an elephant zoo keeper. SUN 23:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World (b007jtrr) PG Wodehouse’s comic adventures of the extraordinary Psmith Terry ...... Peter Serafinowicz Series 2 and his friend Mike in the world of Edwardian finance. Leonard ...... Chris Emmett The Unexplained Dramatised by Marcy Kahan. Maureen ...... Geraldine Fitzgerald Every other mystery left answered in a final blockbusting PG Wodehouse ..... Simon Williams Morse ...... Wayne Forester edition. Psmith ..... Nick Caldecott George ...... Geoff Fitzgerald Cult New Age comedy that answers the questions which leave Mike Jackson ..... Inam Mirza Stephanie ...... Joanna Munro other shows scratching their beards. John Bickersdyke ..... Stephen Critchlow Adam ...... Richard Pearce Starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. Mr Gregory ..... Chris Pavlo Producer: Richard Wilson. With: Jo Jackson ..... Dan Starkey First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1996. Rebecca Front Producer: Abigail le Fleming MON 10:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2h) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 May 2021 Page 5 of 10 The King's Son to see if they can, once and for all, change his mind. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. Baby Alexander is born and there's friction between King Philip "Dear oh dear", says Lenny. "That whine! That grating music!" of Macedon and Queen Olympias. Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, Kris Kristofferson, Bryan Ferry, David Wade's six-part serial on the life of Alexander the Great Jools Holland and Al Kooper, who played with Dylan on some TUESDAY 25 MAY 2021 - starring Barry Foster, Simon Ward and Geraldine James. of his most famous albums in the 1960s, are among the defence Translator: Richmond Lattimore team. It seems they have their work cut out. TUE 00:00 Colin Swash - Paradise Lost in Space (b007jnlt) Spirit of Achilles ...... Barry Foster Producer: Patrick Gregory [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Spirit of Patroclus ...... Simon Ward First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b01gh84k) King Philip of Macedon ...... Brian Cox MON 15:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2h) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] Queen Olympias ...... Geraldine James [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE 01:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes Young Alexander ...... Sam Crane MON 16:00 Act Your Age (b00qplyn) (b007k372) Antipatros ...... David March [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Demosthenes ...... Malcolm Sinclair MON 16:30 The Elephant Man (b04phhxw) TUE 01:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness Lysimachos ...... Keith Drinkel [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] (b0b51vyp) Young Hephaistion ...... Gary King MON 17:00 Psmith in the City by PG Wodehouse [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] Aristander ...... Barry Gordon (b00dsr3b) TUE 02:00 The Transition by Luke Kennard (b08dnkhb) Artabazus ...... Philip Anthony [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Kleitos ...... John Evitts MON 17:30 Nature Table (m000w4pf) TUE 02:15 Gudrun (m0005f2s) Leonidas ...... John Webb [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Pusanias ...... James Telfer MON 18:00 Colin Swash - Paradise Lost in Space (b007jnlt) TUE 02:30 What's So Great About ...? (b00c7fbx) Menapis ...... David Thorpe 1. Ruination [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Hellanike ...... Patti Holloway Space travel throws the most unlikely people together. Norman TUE 03:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2h) Barsine ...... Oona Beeson is an idealist with a hand grenade. Max is a cheerful bore who [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Clotho ...... Rachel Atkins won't stop talking. TUE 04:00 Act Your Age (b00qplyn) Lachesis ...... Jill Graham Together, they're set to ruin the lives of some decidedly friendly [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] Atropos ...... Diana Payan aliens. Forever. TUE 04:30 The Elephant Man (b04phhxw) Music: Wilfredo Acosta Six-part black-hole sci-fi comedy by Colin Swash [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] Director: Glyn Dearman Norman ...... Tony Robinson TUE 05:00 Psmith in the City by PG Wodehouse First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1993. Max ...... David Haig (b00dsr3b) MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m000w9sv) Stella ...... Louise Lombard [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] Series 8 Macari ...... Michael Troughton TUE 05:30 Nature Table (m000w4pf) Reinvention Captain Rossiter ...... Dan Strauss [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting Jane ...... Carla Mendonca TUE 06:00 Wimsey (b007jvmh) speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Tony ...... Geoff McGivern The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club stage. Producer: Richard Wilson 1. Armistice Night Manoush Zomorodi explores the challenges posed by First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995. Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the puzzling death of rich, transitioning to the new. How do we reimagine what we thought MON 18:30 A Good Read (b01gh84k) retired General Fentiman who's found dead in an armchair at we knew? Isy Suttie and Beverley Humphreys his gentleman's club. First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2020. Comedian Isy Suttie and opera singer and broadcaster Beverley Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Peter Jones as MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000wlpn) Humphreys share their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Bunter, Martin Jarvis as George Fentiman and John Gabriel as Phillip Schofield Beverley's choice is the Gothic thriller The Shadow of the Wind Mr Murbles. Presenter Phillip Schofield chooses Unforgettable by Nat King by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, which she describes as a "love letter to British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a Cole and Make Me Smile by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel. literature." number of detective novels and short stories by English crime MON 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k094) Isy picks The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan, a sinister writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] tale of two couples in an unnamed European town, which she Club was first published in 1928. MON 12:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue admits does not have a particularly happy ending. Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter (b0075nmn) Harriett's choice is the story of a young man with learning Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] difficulties whose intelligence is enhanced by a scientific Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World MON 13:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes procedure - Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. War. (b007k372) Producer: Toby Field Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that MON 13:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness MON 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007k094) were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. (b0b51vyp) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Adapted for radio in six episodes by Chris Miller. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON 19:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue Producer: Simon Brett. MON 14:00 The Transition by Luke Kennard (b08dnkhb) (b0075nmn) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975. Episode 6 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE 06:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness Luke Kennard's debut novel is set a few years from now and is MON 20:00 The Doomed Oasis, by Hammond Innes (b0b51vyr) inspired by the housing crisis and a generation in serious debt. (b007k372) 2. The Voice Karl and his wife have signed up to a rehabilitation programme [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] As the terror intensifies in the town, Steve Gardiner is drawn in run by THE TRANSITION to avoid a jail sentence for his part MON 20:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness to the search for the Scottish seaside serial killer now dubbed in a credit card skimming scam. As the weeks pass, he is (b0b51vyp) 'The Kind Man'. increasingly suspicious about the secretive organisation's true [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Steve Gardiner ...... Teddy Johnson motives. MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m000w9sv) Jimmy Morton ...... Jimmy Logan Reader: Bryan Dick [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Romily Foster ...... Douglas Murchie Writer: Luke Kennard MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000wlpn) Wilfred Morton ...... Leonard Maguire Abridger: Robin Brooks [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] Detective Inspector Gordon ...... Moultrie R. Kelsall Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. MON 22:00 Nature Table (m000w4pf) The Librarian ...... Leslie Blackater First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Lindy Marshall ...... Hannah Gordon MON 14:15 Gudrun (m0005f2s) MON 22:30 Chain Reaction (b03q8z47) Produced in Glasgow by Eddie Fraser. Series 6 Series 9 First broadcast in April 1954 on the BBC Regional Home Episode 6: Gudrun Neil Innes talks to Graham Linehan Service - Scotland Gudrun's quest takes her on a whaling ship, where the crew Ex-Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band member and Monty Python TUE 07:00 Beauty of Britain (b010y0sh) loathe her doubly for being a woman and a heathen. collaborator Neil Innes continues the chain talking to comedy Series 2 Gudrun ..... Kate Phillips writer and director Graham Linehan. Life in the UK Dag ..... Joseph Ayres Chain Reaction is the long-running host-less chat show where Series 2 of this Radio 4 comedy follows Beauty's continuing Panuk ..... Kenny Blyth last week's interviewee becomes this week's interviewer. adventures among the cauliflower-cheese eating population as Vali ..... Chris Harper Producer: Carl Cooper the Featherdown Agency sends her to provide care for those Freija ..... Samantha Dakin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014. who need it - and occasionally some who don't, but all of whom Sigrid ..... Hollie Burgess MON 23:00 The News Quiz (m000w5wj) have relatives with guilty consciences. Beauty sees herself as an Written by Lucy Catherine. Series 105 inspiration to other African girls hoping to live the dream in Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. Episode 6 Britain. Until she gets the nod from God about which sector of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019. Andy Zaltzman is joined by Geoff Norcott, Anand Menon, the economy would most benefit from her entrepreneurial MON 14:30 What's So Great About ...? (b00c7fbx) Felicity Ward and Eleanor Tiernan for a look back at the week's skills, Beauty will carry on grating the Extra Mature Cathedral Series 1 headlines City, running the assisted baths and trying to understand the Bob Dylan Items on this week's agenda include foreign holidays and sheep. British character. Comedian and actor Lenny Henry asks "What's So Great Stories range from red to green via amber in terms of national The series breaks the embarrassed silence about what happens About...?" people, things, institutions and aspects of importance. to us when we get old and start to lose our faculties. Beauty sees contemporary life that frequently go unexplored, unchallenged Producer: Richard Morris Britain at its best, its worst and also sometimes without its and widely accepted but which he, personally doesn't really buy. Production Coordinator: Cherlynn Andrew-Wilfred clothes on running the wrong way down the M6 with a toy dog In this programme he questions the greatness of Bob Dylan. Sound Editor: Marc Willcox shouting 'Come on!' Lenny - a great fan of Soul music and Rhythm & Blues - gets to A BBC Studios Production In this episode, Beauty Oolonga, a Southern African care grips one recording artist he never really "got": Bob Dylan. MON 23:30 The Jason Byrne Show (b01p2s1y) worker, shares her quirky view of Britain. Beauty's visa to work From the time he was a teenager in Dudley in the early 70s he Series 3 in the U.K. is about to run out. Will she pass her citizenship test had to listen to his schoolmate Greg Stokes tell him what a I Looked Like Gollum at School and be granted indefinite leave to remain and will the "classic" the Dylan album 'Blonde On Blonde' was ; and ever Award-winning comedian Jason Byrne lists the liabilities of handsome, mature Ade be her saviour? Last in series. since friends have been trying to convince him that "His looking good. Beauty ..... Jocelyn Jee Esien Bobness", as Lenny describes him, is the one recording artist to Stand up and sketches with Laurence Howarth and Daisy Liz ..... Rita May whom he should really devote his energies. It's now make or Haggard. Helen ..... Nicola Sanderson break time and Lenny assembles a band of musicians and fans Producer: Julia McKenzie Mrs Gupte ..... Indira Joshi Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 May 2021 Page 6 of 10 Anil ..... Paul Sharma The papers, donated to St John's College, Cambridge Frank and company navigate their way through the annals of Jodie ..... Margaret Cabourn-Smith University, include note books, ramblings, rants about how hard time, picking out and chewing over the funniest, oddest, and Waiter/Receptionist ..... Christopher Douglas it is to write, unfinished scenes and passages never included in most interesting moments in history. Ade ..... Paterson Joseph Douglas Adams' books. Producers: Dan Schreiber and Justin Pollard The music for the series was performed by The West End John Lloyd co-wrote the first series of Hitchhiker's Guide To An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in Gospel Choir. The Galaxy, which started on Radio 4 in 1978. He reveals that January 2015. Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson. he and Douglas Adams had been commissioned to write the TUE 16:30 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqmy) The producer is Tilusha Ghelani. first novel together, following the success of the radio series, [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011. but Douglas decided to "give me the boot" and went on to write TUE 17:00 Beauty of Britain (b010y0sh) TUE 07:30 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000w4t0) the books on his own. The novels have sold something in the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Series 4 region of 14 million copies. TUE 17:30 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000w4t0) America As It Is Now Other contributors to the programmes include the original [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] When Alex Edelman first heard about the Coronavirus he was producer and now novelist Simon Brett; original cast members TUE 18:00 Colin Swash - Paradise Lost in Space on tour in the UK. Coming back to the US and enduring Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern and Mark Wing-Davey; and (b007jnpy) lockdowns, the complete destruction of his livelihood and the Paddy Kingsland of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. 2. Gifting tail-end of the Trump presidency, he talks about the ways he John also discusses how unpublished writings by Douglas Norman and Max are welcomed by the incurably friendly has changed, how America has changed with him and how he Adams have just been used in a new series of The Hitchhiker's Oblivions and soon they're offering priceless gifts - the secret got caught up in a little election of his own. Guide To The Galaxy, about to be transmitted on Radio 4. of fire, contemplation and baked potatoes. Written by Alex Edelman and Max Davis. A Bite Media production for BBC Radio 4. Six-part black-hole sci-fi comedy by Colin Swash With special thanks to TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jvj0) Norman ...... Tony Robinson Adam Brace [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Max ...... David Haig Tasha Dhanraj TUE 12:30 King Street Junior (b007jm74) Stella ...... Louise Lombard Rajiv Karia [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Macari ...... Michael Troughton Alfie Brown TUE 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvmh) Terayz ...... Carla Mendonca Mike Birbiglia [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Tony ...... Geoff McGivern and TUE 13:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness Ken ...... Tom Hollander Danny Jolles (b0b51vyr) Inspector Albermarle ...... Andy Rashleigh Produced by Sam Michell [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Producer: Richard Wilson It is a BBC Studios Production TUE 14:00 The Transition by Luke Kennard (b08dnrz2) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995. TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jvj0) Episode 7 TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b0076mh5) The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy Bryan Dick reads Luke Kennard's 'Generation Debt' inspired Series 4 Moriarty and Grytpype-Thynne set about trying to drown debut novel, set in an unnamed British city a few years from Like a Rolling Stone Neddy Seagoon - for money. Stars Spike Milligan. From now. Robbie Robertson, Al Kooper and Greil Marcus reflect on Bob November 1958. As Genevieve becomes more and more engaged with The Dylan's song that challenged and changed lives. TUE 08:30 King Street Junior (b007jm74) Transition's programme, Karl, by contrast, is increasingly Contributors: Series 3 suspicious about the secretive organisation's motives. Bebe Miller The School Fete Reader: Bryan Dick Robbie Robertson The school are alarmed by the prospect of an outbreak of nits Writer: Luke Kennard Paula Radice just in time for a visit from a celebrity journalist, while Mr Abridger: Robin Brooks Al Kooper Beeston wonders how the school can accommodate a Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. Greil Marcus wheelchair user. Another typical day in the life of King Street First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. CP Lee Junior School. TUE 14:15 Gudrun (m0005f0d) Michael Gray There were ten series of the comedy about King Street Junior Series 6 Bill McGarvey which ran between 1985 and 1998. King Street Junior Revisited Episode 7: Sigrid Producer: Lindsay Leonard ran from 2002 to 2005. Set in the 11th century, the series follows Gudrun in the New First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004. CAST: World, and her estranged daughter Sigrid in England. Both TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jvj0) Phillip Sims...... Karl Howman mother and daughter have reasons to seek forgiveness as they [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Mr Beeston...... James Grout forge a path through lands of unearthly beauty and TUE 19:30 King Street Junior (b007jm74) Mr Holiday...... Tom Watson uncompromising harshness. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Mrs Stone...... ,,,..Margaret John Sigrid escaped the wrath of her intended husband when he was TUE 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvmh) Mr Long...... ,Paul Copley killed by his Saxon neighbours. Now she's a fugitive on the run [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Miss Lewis...... Marlene Sidaway in the English wilderness, with only the boy Canute as company. TUE 20:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness Mrs Rudd...... Vivienne Martin Sigrid ..... Hollie Burgess (b0b51vyr) Mrs Patterson)...... Deirdre Costello The Virgin ..... Marilyn Nnadebe [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Sundar...... David Crane Tofa ..... Debbie Korley TUE 21:00 Archive on 4 (b09tbl2s) Maureen...... Victoria Keady Saxon ..... Joseph Ayre [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Razia...... Caroline Wigley Gorm ..... David Hounslow TUE 22:00 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000w4t0) And with John Craven as himself Canute ..... Aaron Gelkoff [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Created and written by Jim Eldridge Written by Lucy Catherine. TUE 22:30 Revolting People (b00fnrmh) Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Produced by Sasha Yevtushenko. Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1988. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019. And Yet Even More Trying Times TUE 09:00 The News Quiz (m000w5wj) TUE 14:30 Mastering the Art of the Kimono (b017chpt) Samuel is left a fortune by his puritanical Aunt Sybil. But only [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] The kimono may be one of Japan's most enduring cultural if his family can fulfil her final wish. TUE 09:30 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqmy) symbols, but the kimono industry is now in steep decline, and Comedy set just before the American Revolution. April - All Hands to the Pump soon there could be no craftsmen left with the skills to make Written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses. Megan's still keen to escape the farm and study. But her father's them. Stars Jay Tarses as Samuel Oliphant, Andy Hamilton as not listening. Stars Geoffrey Whitehead. From September 2000. In Mastering the Art of the Kimono, the BBC's Japan Sergeant McGurk, James Fleet as Captain Brimshaw, Jan TUE 10:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2n) Correspondent Roland Buerk reports on the crisis in the Ravens as Mary, Hugh Dennis as Ezekiel Spriggs, Penelope I am also Alexander industry, and the efforts being made to ensure ancient skills are Nice as Cora Oliphant, Tony Maudsley as Joshua Oliphant and Alexander is used as a pawn in the war between his parents, and not lost. Phillip Pope as Snavely. is educated by Aristotle. Interviews with: Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer David Wade's six-part serial on the life of Alexander the Great Vox pops with young shoppers in Harajuku, Tokyo First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2001. Spirit of Achilles ...... Barry Foster Yoshio Hada, Kimono specialist who has worked in TUE 23:00 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap (b04xrwhh) Spirit of Patroclus ...... Simon Ward Mitsubushi's kimono department for 50 years. Series 2 King Philip of Macedon ...... Brian Cox 80 year old Setsco Arakawa, Echigo Jofu weaver in Niigata Ethical Filing Alexander ...... Michael Maloney province, and her daughter. Bridget Christie's taken her activism to a whole new level. Well, Young Alexander ...... Sam Crane Nojiri-san, manager and master weaver of obis at Watabun sort of. Hephaistion ...... Alex Jennings company. Multi-award winning series about modern feminism. Young Hephaistion ...... Gary King Takao Watanabe, President of the Nishijin Textile Association. Bridget thought that she'd be able to put her feet up after her Queen Olympias ...... Geraldine James Kihachi Tabata, "national living treasure" and designer/painter last series, she expected it to bomb. Sadly it was a huge success. Aristotle ...... John Moffat of hand-crafted kimonos. But it's OK, because actually she's solved the feminist struggle Demosthenes ...... Malcolm Sinclair Yoko Ichise, small Kimono shop owner all by herself. Lysimachos ...... Keith Drinkel Umeka, geiko/geisha artist She's assisted by token man, Fred MacAulay. Leonidas ...... John Webb Hitosmi Ohkubo, former kimono artist who now runs a honey Written by Bridget Christie. Ptolemy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt shop because there was not enough work. Producers: Alison Vernon-Smith and Alexandra Smith Philotas ...... Michael Onslow Tatsu Kirokai, organiser of "kimono week" sponsored by Mitsui First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2015. Pusanias ...... James Telfer Fudosan. TUE 23:30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Menapis ...... David Thorpe Kayo Igarashi. Editor of Waragu kimono magazine. Better (b00kfx3c) Aristander ...... Barry Gordon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Series 1 Demaratos ...... John Evitts TUE 15:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2n) Pride Music: Wilfredo Acosta [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Mark Watson investigates pride as he continues his quest to free Director: Glyn Dearman TUE 16:00 The Rest is History (b04ws4hy) us from the seven deadly sins via stand-up comedy. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1993. Series 1 Tim Key and Tim Minchin provide sketches, songs and TUE 11:00 Archive on 4 (b09tbl2s) Episode 4 distractions. Don't Panic! It's The Douglas Adams Papers Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of it. Producer: Katie Marsden John Lloyd unearths the private papers of his friend and This comedy discussion show with celebrity guests promises to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2007. colleague Douglas Adams, and discovers more about the help him find out more about it. agonies he went through to write The Hitchhiker's Guide to the With David Baddiel, Emma Kennedy and historian in residence Galaxy. Dr Kate Williams WEDNESDAY 26 MAY 2021 Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 May 2021 Page 7 of 10 WED 00:00 Colin Swash - Paradise Lost in Space Their happy life is interrupted by the arrival of Simon Nielson and OutKast's André 3000 in which they talk about their own (b007jnpy) (Ben Willbond), a man with a mission - a mission to close down acting experiences, and especially recorded for this programme, [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] inefficient libraries. Fortunately, he hates his mission. What he the broadcaster, music journalist and Radio Times Film Editor WED 00:30 Soul Music (b0076mh5) really wants to do is once - just once - get even with his Andrew Collins offers his thoughts on rock stars appearing on [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] inexhaustible supply of high-achieving brothers. screen. WED 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvmh) Written by Morwenna Banks and Rebecca Front Produced by Stuart Ross. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Based on an idea developed with Armando Iannucci Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra. WED 01:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness Produced by David Tyler WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jzg0) (b0b51vyr) A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jzg0) WED 12:30 No Commitments (b007jmvz) WED 02:00 The Transition by Luke Kennard (b08dnrz2) Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] The Monte Carlo Rally WED 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvmm) WED 02:15 Gudrun (m0005f0d) The lad competes in the famous motor race in a very classic car [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] - provided by Sid. WED 13:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness WED 02:30 Mastering the Art of the Kimono (b017chpt) Starring Tony Hancock. (b0b51vyt) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney James and Kenneth [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED 03:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx2n) Williams. WED 14:00 The Transition by Luke Kennard (b08dnws0) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] Special guests: Brian Johnston and Raymond Baxter. Episode 8 WED 04:00 The Rest is History (b04ws4hy) Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Bryan Dick reads Luke Kennard's 'Generation Debt' inspired [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. debut novel, set in an unnamed British city a few years from WED 04:30 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqmy) Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry now. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] Rabinowitz. While Genevieve falls further under the influence of Transition WED 05:00 Beauty of Britain (b010y0sh) Producer: Dennis Main Wilson mentors Stu and Janna; Karl is increasingly suspicious about the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1955. secretive organisation's true motives. WED 05:30 Alex Edelman's Peer Group (m000w4t0) WED 08:30 No Commitments (b007jmvz) Reader: Bryan Dick [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] Series 2 Writer: Luke Kennard WED 06:00 Wimsey (b007jvmm) Bed and Breakfast Abridger: Robin Brooks The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club When Anna becomes a temporary landlady, her sister Charlotte Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. 2. The General's Last Evening offers extra amenities. Stars Rosemary Leach. From August First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. Lord Peter Wimsey probes the mysterious Mr Oliver - and a 1993. WED 14:15 Gudrun (m0005f44) pair of tricky wills. WED 09:00 Whispers (b00b0hml) Series 6 Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Martin Jarvis as Series 1 Episode 8: Gudrun George Fentiman and Allan Cuthbertson as Robert Fentiman. Episode 2 Rescued from the wreck of her whaling boat by a tall, spiritual British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a Discover the truth about how Bram Stoker broke Oscar Wilde's loner, Gudrun believes her saviour to be The Saviour, and a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime heart. man worthy of her love. writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Gyles Brandreth hosts the scandals quiz show that puts naughty Gudrun ..... Kate Philips Club was first published in 1928. before nice, dishing the dirt on the bad boys and girls in history. Jesus ..... Paul Hilton Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Regular team captains writer and critic Anthony Holden and Freija ..... Samantha Dakin Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and writer and actor Stella Duffy are joined by writer and Written by Lucy Catherine. Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World broadcaster Lynne Truss and former editor of the Erotic Produced by Sahsa Yevtushenko. War. Review Rowan Pelling, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019. Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio Producer: Elizabeth Freestone WED 14:30 Charting the Border (b047wnyp) from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003. The writer Garrett Carr has spent the last two years walking the were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. WED 09:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jrrq) Irish border and creating a new map - the Map of Connections. Adapted for radio in six episodes by Chris Miller. Series 1 The border that separates the north and south of Ireland is a Producer: Simon Brett. A Good Cause place of myth - it's been a symbol of danger and the unknown. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975. Rosie’s company is tasked to put together a charity gala concert But few people know what it actually looks like. Garrett has WED 06:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness in aid of the Afghans. explored every inch of it and has found a beautiful and strange (b0b51vyt) But there’s confusion over whether it’s for the people or the world of open bogland and unofficial border crossings. 3. The Ally dogs? Near Derry, he finds a bridge made out of planks. It connects a Despite the suspicious terrified locals, Steve Gardiner makes a Rosie’s company hosts a management team building course. It farmer's property, in the south, to his son across a stream, in the useful ally in the town in his hunt for 'The Kind Man'. all goes well until the murder mystery dinner, but it isn't Rosie north. Steve Gardiner ...... Teddy Johnson who makes a killing. In South Armagh, he tries to find a border farm he visited years Jimmy Morton ...... Jimmy Logan Prunella Scales stars in the first of four series of Simon Brett's ago. Only now the farm is eerily derelict, with 'No Sale' sprayed Delia Dewar ...... Effie Morrison sitcom following the trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and on the walls alongside the image of a kalashnikov. Romily Foster ...... Douglas Murchie her event-management company based in Brighton. Cross-border movement is quietly happening, unchecked and Wilfred Morton ...... Leonard Maguire With Arabella Weir as Kate, Rebecca Callard as Jo, Duncan often unmapped. Garrett takes us back over the land and reveals Detective Inspector Gordon ...... Moultrie R. Kelsall Preston as Bob, Annette Badland as Tess, Joanna Munro as his border-crossings - not found on any other map. Lindy Marshall ...... Hannah Gordon Ginnie and Celia Imrie as Lady Helen. Produced by Rachel Hooper The Old Lady ...... Jean Taylor-Smith Producer: Maria Esposito A Falling Tree production The drunk ...... Phil McCall First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Bill Williams ...... Glenn Michael WED 10:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx30) WED 15:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx30) Produced in Glasgow by Eddie Fraser. Preparation of the Sacrifice [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] First broadcast in April 1954 on the BBC Regional Home Young Alexander goes into battle to prove his manhood. WED 16:00 Whispers (b00b0hml) Service - Scotland Meanwhile, King Philip's remarriage plans cause tension.... [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED 07:00 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics David Wade's six-part serial on the life of Alexander the Great. WED 16:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jrrq) (b08hqf5w) Alexander ...... Michael Maloney [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Series 2 Spirit of Achilles ...... Barry Foster WED 17:00 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics The Nose Spirit of Patroclus ...... Simon Ward (b08hqf5w) By John Nicholson, Javier Marzan and Richard Katz King Philip of Macedon ...... Brian Cox [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] In 17th-century Paris, an early practitioner of plastic surgery Hephaistion ...... Alex Jennings WED 17:30 Shush! (b08nq9wk) has her work cut out when she meets a man with the most Queen Olympias ...... Geraldine James [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] wonderfully large nose. Ptolemy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt WED 18:00 Colin Swash - Paradise Lost in Space In this second series the comedy troupe Peepolykus assume the Philotas ...... Michael Onslow (b007jnt5) roles of minor characters in great works of fiction and derail the Pusanias ...... James Telfer 3. Anyone for Tennis? plot of the book through their hapless buffoonery. Aristander ...... Barry Gordon As the Oblivions have so much time on their hands, it couldn't Director . . . . . Emma Harding Demaratos ...... John Evitts possibly hurt to introduce them to the gentle game of tennis, Producer . . . . . Sasha Yevtushenko. Parmenion ...... John Rye could it? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. Antipatros ...... David March Sci-fi comedy by Colin Swash about two space-age humans WED 07:30 Shush! (b08nq9wk) Demosthene ...... Malcolm Sinclair stranded on a friendly alien planet. Series 2 Attalos ...... John Baddeley Norman ...... Tony Robinson Dewey Decimal Music: Wilfredo Acosta Max ...... David Haig When an International Librarians' Conference looms, Alice and Director: Glyn Dearman Stella ...... Louise Lombard Snoo have to resort to some rather unconventional methods to First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993. Macari ...... Michael Troughton get hold of a passport - methods that include a thousand WED 11:00 Lauren Laverne: Acting the Rock Star Terayz ...... Carla Mendonca hummingbirds, some over-tight jeans and a hilarious anagram. (m000wcjk) Ken ...... Tom Hollander Meet Alice (Rebecca Front) - a former child prodigy who won a 2. Dusty Springfield, Spinal Tap, Beyoncé, Diana Ross & André Producer: Richard Wilson place at Oxford aged 9 but, because Daddy went too, she never 3000 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995. needed to have any friends. She's scared of everything. From The Beatles and David Bowie to Spinal Tap and beyond, WED 18:30 Short Cuts (m0005mtw) Everything that is except libraries and Snoo (Morwenna Banks) across three programmes Lauren Laverne showcases how rock Series 19 - a slightly confused individual with a have-a-go attitude to life, stars lives have been portrayed on radio and screen. Mirror Image marriage, haircuts and reality. Snoo loves books, and fully In the second part of this musical mixtape we'll hear... Josie Long gazes into a mirror as she presents short intends to read one one day. "Dusty Won’t Play" - A drama drawing on eye-witness accounts documentaries and sonic adventures on reflections and doubles. And forever popping into the library is Dr Cadogan (Michael of what happened when Dusty Springfield refused to perform A woman wrestles with an unsettling shadow, the double act Fenton-Stevens) - celebrity doctor to the stars and a man with to segregated audiences in apartheid South Africa. Split Britches explore life as partners and performers and a his finger in every pie. Charming, indiscreet and quite possibly "Back from the Dead: The Return of Spinal Tap" - An excerpt work of sound art offers advice on becoming more becoming... wanted by Interpol, if you want a discrete nip and tuck and then from Peter Curran's 2009 radio special in which he spoke to the Becoming More Becoming photos of it accidentally left on the photocopier, Dr Cadogan is heavy metal 'legends'. Originally made for the Third Coast International Audio your man. We'll also re-visit archive interviews from Beyoncé, Diana Ross Festival ShortDocs competition Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 May 2021 Page 8 of 10 Produced by Sarah Boothroyd [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] Every episode in this series of Souvenir Programme is made up Split Britches THU 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvmm) of scenes from one person's life, played in reverse order. Feat. Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] There's no narrative to the episode; it's still a sketch show, not a Produced by Alia Cassam THU 01:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness sitcom... but the sketches in each episode all happened to one The Detonator (b0b51vyt) person, played by one member of the cast, over the course of Originally made for CBC's Love Me [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] their lifetime. Produced by Sarah Geis, Mira Burt-Wintonick, Cristal THU 02:00 The Transition by Luke Kennard (b08dnws0) This week, we follow our way back through the life of Jerry, Duhaime and 'Kate' [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] starting earlier this year. Sound by Mira Burt-Wintonick THU 02:15 Gudrun (m0005f44) John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme started in 2011 and Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] quickly established itself as "One of the most consistently funny A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in THU 02:30 Charting the Border (b047wnyp) sketch shows for quite some time" (The Guardian), and "One of June 2019. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] the funniest and most inventive new radio comedy shows of WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jzg0) THU 03:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx30) recent years" (The Daily Mail). [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] Written and performed by ... John Finnemore WED 19:30 No Commitments (b007jmvz) THU 04:00 Whispers (b00b0hml) Jerry ... Simon Kane [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] Ensemble ... Lawry Lewin WED 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvmm) THU 04:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jrrq) Ensemble ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Ensemble ... Carrie Quinlan WED 20:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness THU 05:00 A Trespasser's Guide to the Classics Original music composed by .... Susannah Pearse (b0b51vyt) (b08hqf5w) Original music arranged by ... Susannah Pearse and Tim Sutton [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] Recorded and edited by ... Rich Evans at Syncbox Post WED 21:00 Lauren Laverne: Acting the Rock Star THU 05:30 Shush! (b08nq9wk) Production coordinator ... Beverly Tagg (m000wcjk) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Producer ... Ed Morrish [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU 06:00 Wimsey (b007jvmr) A BBC Studios Production WED 22:00 Shush! (b08nq9wk) The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club THU 08:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b010tcrn) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] 3. Mr Oliver Series 7 WED 22:30 Bleak Expectations (b00nyy8s) Probing the last hours of the life of General Fentiman, upper Episode 5 Series 3 class sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey seeks out his grandson. The History of Transport - and the search is on for the Lost City An Evil Life Sort of Explained Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Allan of Atlantis courtesy of Professor Prune. Pip Bin, Harry Biscuit and Gently Benevolent find themselves Cuthbertson as Robert Fentiman and Martin Jarvis as George Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, trapped in the vast emptiness of space. Fentiman. David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. As their doom looks increasingly inevitable, Mr Benevolent British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a Sketches written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with Simon finally explains just why it is that he is so very very evil. number of detective novels and short stories by English crime Brett. Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson Club was first published in 1928. 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter quickly developed a cult following. Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Music and songs by Liam Cohen, Dave Lee and Bill Oddie. Lovely Benevolent ...... Jane Asher Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman War. First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in February 1969. Hardthrasher/Sternbeater/Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio THU 08:30 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007jvb4) Whitehead from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that Treachery With a Cricket Sock in Its Face Miss Christmasham ...... Sarah Hadland were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. Tony meets two old flames and some Russian gangsters. Nick Miss Sweetly Delightful ...... Raquel Cassidy. Adapted for radio in six episodes by Chris Miller. Revell's epic comedy saga with Alison Steadman. From May Producer: Gareth Edwards Producer: Simon Brett. 1997. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975. THU 09:00 The Write Stuff (m000wd0z) WED 23:00 The Problem With Adam Bloom (b007r0c7) THU 06:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness Series 7 Series 1 (b0b51vyw) Richmal Crompton Lending Things 4. The Latest Victim James Walton's literary quiz. Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Steve Gardiner witnesses the Kind Man's latest deadly attack Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by Adam Bloom explores what happens when you give something and hears the dying words of the victim... Miles Kington and novelist Harry Ritchie to someone and then ask for it back. Steve Gardiner ...... Teddy Johnson Author of the week is Richmal Crompton With stand-up reconstructions and help from Rob Rouse. Jimmy Morton ...... Jimmy Logan Reader: Beth Chalmers Written by Adam Bloom. Delia Dewar ...... Effie Morrison Producer: Katie Marsden Producer: Adam Bromley Romily Foster ...... Douglas Murchie First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2003. Wilfred Morton ...... Leonard Maguire THU 09:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b007zkzz) WED 23:15 Tina C (b01bm0q4) Detective Inspector Gordon ...... Moultrie R. Kelsall Series 2 Tina C's Global Depression Tour Lindy Marshall ...... Hannah Gordon Episode 4 China Diana Wheeler-Sproat ...... Eileen McCallum When their new and 'ever so slightly unbearable' friends invite Country legend Tina C challenges the Secretary for the US PC McKenzie ...... John Young them to dinner, Lucy wants to return the offer. But Daniel, Treasury, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the former Mr Dunnsmiur ...... Michael Elder who's expected to cook, is less than convinced... CEO of Goldman Sachs that where they have failed, she can Produced in Glasgow by Eddie Fraser. The second series of David Spicer's comedy drama about come up with a solution to the Global Recession, and sets off on First broadcast in April 1954 on the BBC Regional Home modern life and parenthood, as seen through the eyes of two a six country tour to prove it. Service - Scotland 30-something non-parents. This week she's in China. THU 07:00 Cleaning Up (b052m59s) Starring David Tennant as Daniel, Liz Carling as Lucy, Tina C...Christopher Green Episode 1 Samantha Spiro as Katie, Tony Gardner as Andy, Joanna With Will Hutton, Victoria Inez Hardy and James Lailey. Every night, as time is called and people are spat out onto the Brookes as Alison, Jonathan Aris as Steve and Carla Mendonca Musical arrangements by Duncan Walsh Atkins and streets and squeezed into rides home to dream -tossed beds - as Linda. Christopher Green others are hard at work. Teams of cleaners are in office spaces Producer: Liz Anstee Director Jeremy Mortimer. scrubbing, vaccuming and cleaning up. And right at the bottom First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2012. of the food chain we find our gang - Spit n' Polish tackling the THU 10:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx34) WED 23:30 Vent (b01dlg0k) floors of a plush tower block in Manchester city centre. The Road to Gordium Series 3 In this opening episode, a new cleaner reports for duty. Turns Warrior Alexander becomes King of Macedon and sets out to Ladies and Gentlemen out he and his boss have met before. conquer the world. Ben makes the ambulance journey home to begin life in a Written by Ian Kershaw and with a top hole Northern cast this David Wade's six-part serial on the life of Alexander the Great wheelchair. On the way he remembers an argument about is a funny, sometimes dark comedy about people who always Alexander ...... Michael Maloney cheesecake, invents a panel game and meets Buzz Aldrin. get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.This four part series is about a Spirit of Achilles ...... Barry Foster Dark sitcom about a man in a coma, travelling through the group of people who are thrown together by their work and who Spirit of Patroclus ...... Simon Ward distinctly odd landscape of his own unconscious mind. take as much solace as they can from this. Hephaistion ...... Alex Jennings Written by Nigel Smith. Julie ..... Julie Hesmondhalgh Queen Olympias ...... Geraldine James Ben ...... Neil Pearson Nobby ..... Paul Barber Darius ...... Charles Kay Mary ...... Fiona Allen Dave ..... John Thompson Harpalos ...... Dominic Letts Mum ...... Josie Lawrence Shiv ..... Lauren Socha Perdikkas ...... Mark Straker Blitz ...... Leslie Ash Nita ..... Bhavna Limbachia Charidemos ...... Jonathan Adams Nurse ...... Jo Martin Our Bri ..... Jack Deam Ptolemy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt Derek ...... Stephen Frost Philotas ...... Michael Onslow Marley ...... Spencer Brown Produced at BBC Salford by Alison Vernon-Smith Anteas ...... Barry Gordon Chairman ...... Robert Webb First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015. Simmias ...... John Evitts Buzz ...... Peter Banks THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Antipatros ...... David March Announcer ...... Bruce Alexander (m000w5jh) Demosthene ...... Malcolm Sinclair Bea ...... Scarlett Milburn-Smith Series 9 Nabarzanes ...... John Baddeley Director: Nigel Smith. Episode 3 Music: Wilfredo Acosta First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009. The ninth series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is Director: Glyn Dearman very different to the previous eight. It's still written by John First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993. Finnemore, "one of our best sketch writers", (The Observer), THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05x27d7) THURSDAY 27 MAY 2021 and performed by him with "a great supporting cast of Margaret [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie THU 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00zt5xr) THU 00:00 Colin Swash - Paradise Lost in Space (b007jnt5) Quinlan" (The Telegraph), and there are still sketches and [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] songs. But, with no live studio audience this year, John has THU 12:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b010tcrn) THU 00:30 Short Cuts (m0005mtw) taken the opportunity to try something completely new [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 May 2021 Page 9 of 10 THU 12:30 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007jvb4) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995. (m000w5jh) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU 18:30 Great Lives (b084bmf7) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] THU 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvmr) Series 41 FRI 06:00 Wimsey (b007jvmz) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Lucy Porter on Cary Grant The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club THU 13:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness The comedian and writer Lucy Porter champions Cary Grant as 4. Exhumation (b0b51vyw) her Great Life finding that, despite his troubled relationships Lord Peter Wimsey awaits Doctor Horner's verdict. At a party [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] with women off screen, his on screen charm and generosity thrown by pal Margery, the upper class sleuth does a little more THU 14:00 The Transition by Luke Kennard (b08dr942) towards his female co stars redeems him. Lucy joins Matthew digging. Episode 9 Parris along with Grant's biographer, Geoffrey Wansell, to Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Allan Luke Kennard's debut novel, read by Bryan Dick. discuss the troubled screen icon's humble beginnings in Bristol Cuthbertson as Robert Fentiman and Gabriel Woolf as To avoid being jailed for his part in a credit card scam, Karl and following him to the glamour and wealth of Los Angeles. Inspector Parker. and Genevieve have signed up to a six-month 'rehabilitation' Producer: Maggie Ayre British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a programme run by secretive organisation THE TRANSITION. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. number of detective novels and short stories by English crime One month in: Genevieve is completely assimilated, while Karl THU 19:00 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b010tcrn) writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona is close to full scale rebellion. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Club was first published in 1928. Reader: Bryan Dick THU 19:30 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007jvb4) Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Writer: Luke Kennard [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Abridger: Robin Brooks THU 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvmr) Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] War. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. THU 20:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio THU 14:15 Gudrun (m0005f2y) (b0b51vyw) from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that Series 6 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. Episode 9: Sigrid THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05x27d7) Adapted for radio in six episodes by Chris Miller. Set in the 11th century, the series follows Gudrun in the New [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] Producer: Simon Brett World, and her estranged daughter Sigrid in England. Both THU 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00zt5xr) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975. mother and daughter have reasons to seek forgiveness as they [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] FRI 06:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness forge a path through lands of unearthly beauty and THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (b0b51vyy) uncompromising harshness. (m000w5jh) 5. The Angry Mob Sigrid and Canute have escaped their Saxon captors but their [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] After Delia Dewar implicates him, an angry mob turns on fate hangs in the balance. What will King Sweyn make of THU 22:30 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair (b099yqss) Jimmy Morton. Meanwhile Steve Gardiner discovers his Gudrun's daughter? Series 4 friend's war actions. Sigrid ...... Hollie Burgess The Visit Steve Gardiner ...... Teddy Johnson The Virgin ..... Marilyn Nnadebe A woman returns to her old home to see the changes made by PC McKenzie ...... John Young Dane ..... Christopher Harper her husband and his new wife. She can't believe what she finds, PC Robertson ...... Kalman Glass Sweyn ..... Michael Bertenshaw but she has a unique way of dealing with her disappointment. Lindy Marshall ...... Hannah Gordon Gorm ..... David Hounslow Another in the series of Jenny Eclair's comic monologues where Jimmy Morton ...... Jimmy Logan Canute ..... Aaron Gelkoff four women reach a crisis in their lives. Wilfred Morton - Leonard Maguire Written by Lucy Catherine. Doon Mackichan is one of our leading comic actors. She wrote Detective Inspector Gordon ...... Moultrie R. Kelsall Produced by Sahsa Yevtushenko. and starred in Smack The Pony and Doon Our Way and has Louisa Matthews ...... Nancy Mitchell First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019. recently been seen in Plebs and Two Doors Down. Romily Foster ...... Douglas Murchie THU 14:30 A Kiss Is .... Never Just a Kiss (b01gg8h0) Producer: Sally Avens Bill Williams ...... Glenn Michael The kiss is the most deceptive gesture. Seemingly simple, it is First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2017, Produced in Glasgow by Eddie Fraser. in fact a highly complex action and - depending on the depth of THU 22:45 Brian Appleton's History of Rock 'n' Roll First broadcast in April 1954 on the BBC Regional Home passion used - can ignite a plethora of emotional, sensual and (b00fvm5g) Service - Scotland physical reactions including lowering blood pleasure, extending Consider Yourself Dumped Upon FRI 07:00 The Break (b07h6fmm) life expectancy and helping to choose a mate. Rock musicologist and part-time media studies tutor Brian Series 1 But the kiss we know and practice today, didn't always have Appleton reveals more big names in rock who have a lot to Occupied emotional and erotic overtones. In Roman times a kiss was used thank him for. Andy (Tom Palmer) has found a level of contentment with the as a symbol of power: the lower the rank the nearer the ground Brian performs the first progressive rock song ever written, and world - reading books, watching films, and generally repairing you planted your kiss, only kissing someone on the mouth if you reveals he inadvertently encouraged the Who to smash up their his wounded psyche. Uncle Jeff (Philip Jackson) is having none were their equal. The Greeks believed that breath was the life equipment and was instrumental in Phil Collins becoming the of this and reveals a hitherto unknown secret to Andy, that the of man, and kissing an adored object represented a sort of lead singer in Genesis. dusty shop downstairs from his seaside flat belongs to Jeff. sacrifice. And when European explorers introduced the practice A six-part comedy series written and performed by Graham When necessary, it seems, he offers the community of of kissing in South Africa, the Tsonga people were horrified Fellows. Flamford a valuable service as an electrical repair person. exclaiming "Look at these people! They suck each other! They Producer: Dawn Ellis Jeff lures Andy into the shop and shows him how to use the till. eat each other's saliva and dirt!" So you see, the idea of kissing First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2001. Andy realises it's another of his uncle's ploys, and refuses this someone on the lips hasn't always thrilled people. THU 23:00 The In Crowd (b007jp55) oblique yet unsubtle job offer. But Jeff, never the one to say Today, just about every culture on the planet kisses - but some Series 4 "die", takes his nephew on a job search in which Andy is an cultures are still reluctant. In Arab countries, public displays of Episode 1 unwilling participant. affection can land you in prison - and if you kiss someone in Compulsive Liars Anonymous and a birthday shock. The Visits follow to Fish Shop Frank (Mark Benton), the Tourist Japan, you can find yourself engaged to be married! comedy sketch show from Manchester. Information Office run by the uniformed and uninformed Steph In "A Kiss is...Never Just a Kiss", the former Editor of the Starring Robin Ince, Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate and Pippa (Alison Steadman and Shobna Gulati), and Erotic Review Rowan Pelling tries to discover how and why our Ward. Flamford's as-yet-unlicensed zoo. views of kissing have changed and whether it has lost some of Produced in Manchester by Graham Frost. Writers: Ian Brown and James Hendrie its magic with over-use, and takes a lesson in how to do it for First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. Producer/Director: Gordon Kennedy stage and screen when you've never met the person you're THU 23:30 Safety Catch (b00fkyrd) An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in kissing before. Series 1 June 2016. Presenter: Rowan Pelling Loose Lips Sink Ships FRI 07:30 The Confessional (m000wc13) Producer: Angela Hind Will Simon blow the whistle on his murky world of Series 1 A Pier production international arms dealing? Stars Darren Boyd. From October The Confession of Phil Wang First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012. 2007. Actor, comedian and broadcaster Stephen Mangan presents a THU 15:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx34) comedy chat show about shame and guilt. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Each week Stephen Mangan invites a different eminent guest THU 16:00 The Write Stuff (m000wd0z) FRIDAY 28 MAY 2021 into his virtual confessional box to make three 'confessions' to [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] him. This is a cue for some remarkable storytelling, and THU 16:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b007zkzz) FRI 00:00 Colin Swash - Paradise Lost in Space (b007jnx2) surprising insights as their confessions are put under the [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] microscope. THU 17:00 Cleaning Up (b052m59s) FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b084bmf7) We’re used to hearing celebrity interviews, where stars are [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] persuaded to show off about their achievements and talk about THU 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme FRI 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvmr) their proudest moments. Stephen is not interested in that. He (m000w5jh) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] doesn’t want to know what his guests are proud of, he wants to [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 01:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness know what they’re ashamed of. That’s surely the way to find out THU 18:00 Colin Swash - Paradise Lost in Space (b0b51vyw) what really makes a person tick.Stephen and his guest reflect (b007jnx2) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] with empathy and humour on things like: why we get 4. Martinis FRI 02:00 The Transition by Luke Kennard (b08dr942) embarrassed, where our shame thresholds should be, and the The dangers of tennis are now apparent to the Oblivions - but [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] value of guilt. Martinis? What could possibly go wrong with Martinis? FRI 02:15 Gudrun (m0005f2y) Series guests include Marian Keyes, Cariad Lloyd, Joan Sci-fi comedy by Colin Swash about two space-age humans [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] Bakewell, Suzi Ruffell, Phil Hammond, Alastair Campbell and stranded on a friendly alien planet. FRI 02:30 A Kiss Is .... Never Just a Kiss (b01gg8h0) many more. Norman ...... Tony Robinson [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] This week, award-winning stand-up and sketch comedian, Phil Max ...... David Haig FRI 03:00 David Wade - Alexander (b007jx34) Wang confesses about potty training, supermarket gossip and Stella ...... Louise Lombard [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] getting the wrong end of the stick. Macari ...... Michael Troughton FRI 04:00 The Write Stuff (m000wd0z) Written and presented by Stephen Mangan Terayz ...... Carla Mendonca [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] With extra material by Nick Doody Ken ...... Tom Hollander FRI 04:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b007zkzz) Devised with Dave Anderson and produced by Frank Stirling Tony ...... Geoff McGivern [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4 Clive ...... Guy Witcher FRI 05:00 Cleaning Up (b052m59s) FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007k48l) Jonathan ...... RossAlistair McGowan [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] Series 1 Producer: Richard Wilson FRI 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Something Nasty in the Vault Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 May 2021 Page 10 of 10 An unexploded bomb puts Mainwaring and Wilson in a jam. (b0b51vyy) golf, crochet and pole jumping." Six years after legendary sitcom Dad's Army started on BBC [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Presenter Dominic Arkwright TV, these specially adapted radio versions began recording with FRI 14:00 The Transition by Luke Kennard (b08drky3) Producer: Sarah Langan the original cast. Episode 10 First broadcast on BBC Radio Four in June 2010. Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Moving conclusion of Luke Kennard's debut novel, read by FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007k48l) Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, Bryan Dick. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Arnold Ridley as Private Godfrey, Ian Lavender as Private Although he's been banished to the basement and relegated to FRI 19:30 Semi Circles (b007jxlw) Pike, John Laurie as Private Frazer, Jack Watson as Major The Transition's 'B stream' programme, Karl's only concern is [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Smith and Alan Tilvern as Captain Rodrigues. With John for Genevieve: her increasingly erratic behaviour, which he FRI 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvmz) Snagge as the announcer. knows from long experience, is a precursor to a serious [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Adapted from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's original BBC TV breakdown. Janna and Stu refuse to listen to his concerns, FRI 20:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness scripts by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad. however, and soon his fears are proved correct. (b0b51vyy) Producer: John Dyas Reader: Bryan Dick [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in April 1974. Writer: Luke Kennard FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000wd9b) FRI 08:30 Semi Circles (b007jxlw) Abridger: Robin Brooks [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Series 1 Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. FRI 22:00 The Confessional (m000wc13) A Matter of Life and Death First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Following a school reunion, Ben is cajoled to sign up for life FRI 14:15 Gudrun (m0005f8t) FRI 22:30 The Consultants (b061gtpt) insurance. Subterfuge is called for Series 6 Series 4 The improving story of life and improving times in an Episode 10: Gudrun Episode 4 improving neighbourhood. by Lucy Catherine A 'ladies man' sings about his suspect personal hygiene. Neil Starring Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben The last episode in the current series. Guthrun's love of Jesus, Edmond and James Rawlings' cerebral sketches. From Written by Simon Brett and her desire to return to the Sacred Land, inform the greatest November 2005. Helen ...... Paula Wilcox decision she will make. FRI 23:00 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (b012wjd5) Ben ...... David Wood Gudrun ..... Kate Philips Series 2 Mrs Kelly ...... Pay Heywood Leif ..... Chris Pavlo Episode 2 Alastair ...... Bruce Alexander Heidr ..... Helen Clapp The human chameleon's host of comic characters with a Willy ...... Robert Longden Panuk ..... Kenny Blyth nonagenarian musical. Blythe ...... Bryan Coleman Jesus ..... Paul Hilton With Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Waen Shepherd and Natalie Producer: Pete Atkin Sigrid ..... Hollie Burgess Walter. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1982. Freija ..... Samantha Dakin Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by FRI 09:00 Counterpoint (b00s97hj) Written by Lucy Catherine. Steven Burge, Jon Hunter, Fay Rusling and Barunka Series 24 Produced by Sasha Yevtushenko. O'Shaughnessy. 2010 Heat 8 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019. Script Editor: Dan Tetsell (8/13) Paul Gambaccini chairs the penultimate heat of the 2010 FRI 14:30 Malmesbury: the Philosophy Town (b017551k) Music by Philip Pope tournament. Three amateur music enthusiasts face Paul's Britain's most famous political philosopher Thomas Hobbes was Producer: Katie Tyrrell. questions on a wide variety of musical topics, from the baroque born there, and Malmesbury in Wiltshire wants to become for First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2011. to rock. This week's competitors come from London, Worthing philosophy what Hay-on-Wye is for books, St. Ives for painting, FRI 23:30 Chris Addison's Civilization (b00f68lx) and Hale in Cheshire. As always, there'll be musical extracts or Aldeburgh for music. A Sense of Identity and clues to suit every taste. It is setting out to become the country's special 'Philosophy Chris Addison reveals how "culture" gives a civilisation a sense Producer Paul Bajoria Town'. The scheme is the brainchild of philosophy and small- of identity, and Professor Herring tells all about a conference First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. town enthusiast Michael Cuthbert, and he has got the backing of on deckchairs FRI 09:30 Bristow (b007v1dg) Wiltshire Council and the involvement of the local and long- Continuing his journey through the vast and rich subject of Series 3 established Thomas Hobbes Society. He has also enthused the civilisation, the thinking-idiot's anthropologist explains exactly The Good, the Bad and the Temporary head teacher of Malmesbury School, whose students are being what we need to create a new one. There's a new girl in town, and Bristow knows his office isn't encouraged to take philosophy seriously. With Professor Austin Herring (Geoffrey McGivern), Jo big enough for the two of them. Recently Malmesbury has hosted an annual philosophy festival. Enright and Dan Tetsell. Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the buying clerk from Frank Initially this focused on Hobbes - and the country's leading Producer: Simon Nicholls Dickens' famous newspaper cartoon strip. Syndicated experts came to speak - but now its scope is wider. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2006. internationally, it ran for 41 years in London's Evening Mark Whitaker (who has himself published work on Hobbes) Standard. reports from the Malmesbury Festival. He interviews leading Bristow ...... Michael Williams philosophers who are speaking. These include John Cottingham, Jones ...... Rodney Bewes Simon Glendinning and Angie Hobbs. Professor Hobbs has Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan been designated a 'Town Philosopher', and she also holds an Perkins ...... Leslie Phillips academic title in the Public Understanding of Philosophy. Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman The Festival raises questions as to what philosophy is once it Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey escapes from the academy. Whitaker interviews members of Fudge ...... Jon Glover the audience and local residents about how they see the link Postboy ...... Simon Schatzberger between their town and philosophy. He also explores plans to Stokes ...... David Battley give philosophy a permanent place in Malmesbury. There is talk Sylvana ...... Jackie Neglia of a 'Philosopher's Footpath' from Oxford, of inscriptions of Music: John Whitehall great philosophical sayings on the town's buildings, and of a Producer: Neil Cargill philosophical bookshop-cum-cafe. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000. Producer: Mark Whitaker FRI 10:00 David Wade - Alexander (b00cfwr8) A Square Dog Radio production The Hunt of the God King First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Alexander pursues Darius, conquers Egypt and falls in love with FRI 15:00 David Wade - Alexander (b00cfwr8) Barsine. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] David Wade's six-part serial on the life of Alexander the Great FRI 16:00 Counterpoint (b00s97hj) Alexander ...... Michael Maloney [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Hephaistion ...... Alex Jennings FRI 16:30 Bristow (b007v1dg) Achilles ...... Barry Foster [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Patroclus ...... Simon Ward FRI 17:00 The Break (b07h6fmm) Ptolemy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Philotas ...... Michael Onslow FRI 17:30 The Confessional (m000wc13) Perdikkas ...... Mark Straker [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Simmias ...... John Evitts FRI 18:00 Colin Swash - Paradise Lost in Space (b007jp0g) Philip ...... Sean Barrett 5. Things Hot Up Lysimachos ...... Keith Drinkel When Norman introduces the Oblivions to the pleasures of the Eumenes ...... James Telfer flesh, one thing leads to another... Artzbazus ...... Philip Anthony Sci-fi comedy by Colin Swash about two space-age humans Barsine ...... Teresa Gallagher stranded on a friendly alien planet. Sisygambis ...... Diana Payan Norman ...... Tony Robinson Thais ...... Rachel Atkins Max ...... David Haig The Eunuch ...... Richard Pearce Stella ...... Louise Lombard Music: Wilfredo Acosta Macari ...... Michael Troughton Director: Glyn Dearman Terayz ...... Carla Mendonca First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993. Clive ...... Guy Witcher FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000wd9b) Buzz ...... Peter Serafinowcz Sound Design Producer: Richard Wilson Laura Grimshaw and Jon Holmes immerse themselves in the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995. world of sound design. FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b00sjt9x) FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007k48l) Shoulda Put A Ring On It [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Off The Page presents new writing and provocative debate. FRI 12:30 Semi Circles (b007jxlw) Bidisha, Stella Duffy and Harry Benson have their 400 word [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] essays at the ready - entitled "Shoulda Put A Ring On It." The FRI 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvmz) title comes from a Beyonce single, and provokes each of our [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] guests in a different way. "Marriage? I am not tempted, writes FRI 13:30 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness Bidisha, "it is like all other things I am not tempted by, such as Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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