Radio 4 Extra Listings for 20 – 26 March 2021 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 20 MARCH 2021 nation's favourite clown, despite early rejection by the BBC for postcard from the edge of the Union. his "poor diction and unpleasant manner." Recorded remotely in front of a virtual, Northern Irish SAT 00:00 The Spaceship (b007jvq8) Fans, friends and family also help recall the magical mayhem of audience. 5. Enemies Tommy Cooper. Written and performed by Patrick Kielty. The crew at last make contact with another race, but not before Featuring: Michael Parkinson, Barry Cryer and Tom O’Connor. Additional material by Lee Stuart Evans and Jon Hunter. a minor rebellion on board. Producer: Geoff Ballinger Produced by Claire Jones. Conclusion of the sci-fi comedy starring James Fleet. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2002. Executive Producer: Stephen Stewart. Written by Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst. SAT 03:00 Martyn Wade - Stepniak (b00sfby9) Production Coordinator: Tamara Shilham. In the year 2104, a fleet of research cruisers were launched into The bitter-sweet real-life love story of Olive Garnett (sister of Sound Designer: David Thomas. space, with every moment aboard the Really Invincible III, the famous Russian Translator, Constance) who meets and falls A Green Inc production for BBC Radio 4 Macclesfield Division preserved by wall-to-wall monitoring, for a Russian expatriate whose charms hide a secret and rather SAT 06:00 The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (b00wwbcl) and transmitted back to Earth. sinister past... Death and the Dancing Footman What you hear took place live, four years ago, 70,000 light Written by Martyn Wade. Jonathan Royal is a man rich enough to indulge his somewhat years from home. Olive Garnett ...... Justine Waddell extravagant sense of the theatrical. Captain Gordon Taylor …. James Fleet Stepniak ...... David Horovitch But when he bizarrely throws a weekend party for guests with Melissa Patterson …. Emily Joyce Connie Garnett ...... Jennie Stoller good reasons to loathe one another, his malicious comedy Karen …. Rose Cavaliero Fanny Stepniak ...... Elizabeth Bell quickly turns to tragedy - leaving Chief Inspector Roderick Stuart …. Paul Barnhill Olive Rossetti ...... Jasmine Hyde Alleyn investigating murder... Clive …. Neil Warhurst Edward Garnett ...... Charles Simpson Dame Ngaio Marsh's detective thriller stars Nigel Graham. Ion …. Jason Chan Director: Cherry Cookson Dramatised by Alan Downer. The King of the Dwapeye …. Stephen Hogan First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2001. Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn ... Nigel Graham Narrator …. Nicholas Boulton SAT 04:00 It's Not What You Know (b01ckr46) Jonathan Royal ... Laurence Payne Director: Sally Avens Series 1 Aubrey Mandrake ... Steven Pacey Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in June 2005. Episode 2 Sandra Compline ... Avril Clark SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00l5mhs) "The Thick Of It" star, Rebecca Front, Fast Show actor and William Compline ... Stuart Organ Vegas comedian, Simon Day, and award-winning Geordie comic, Nicholas Compline ... Stephen Hattersley Dominic Arkwright, Joe Queenan, Karen Marchbank and Jason Cook nominate one of their intimate circle to answer Chloris Wynne ... Jane Leonard Michael Simkins debate the excesses and quirks of Las Vegas. questions about their relationship, to try and prove how well Dr Francis Hart ... Alan Downer From June 2009. they know them. Mme Elise Lisse ... Natasha Pyne SAT 01:00 Paul Temple (b007w39f) With Miles Jupp chairing – if the panel can predict the Lady Hersey Amblington ... Margaret Ward Paul Temple and the Alex Affair responses their nominees gave, they get points. Troy Alleyn ... Elaine Claxton 8. Introducing Alex Rebecca thinks she knows her father, Charles Front, a retired James Bewling ... Peter Tuddenham The suave sleuth invites the key players to his home, but has he illustrator and calligrapher, pretty well. Simon examines his Reverend Copeland ... Shaun Prendergast finally managed to identify the blackmailing murderer? relationship with best friend, Conrad Butlin, a stylist from Detective Inspextor Fox ... Brian Hewlett Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple Notting Hill in London. And Jason plumps for his mother, Pat, Director: David Johnston and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in the conclusion of another a recruitment consultant from Hebburn in Newcastle - and, it First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1986, intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his turns out, something of a Loose Women fan... SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b07cvlmd) glamorous wife. Producer: Sam Michell. Series 39 Paul Temple …. Peter Coke First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012. Frank Turner on Joseph Grimaldi Steve …. Marjorie Westbury SAT 04:30 Fat Chance (b019fwxg) Frank Turner chooses Joseph Grimaldi, the first celebrity of Sir Graham Forbes …. James Thomason Weigh in with Wendy Pantomime who changed the face of Clowning forever. Inspector Crane …. Haydn Jones Graham joins the members of a slimming club run by Wendy Matthew Parris presents, and Mattie Faint is the expert. Leo Brent …. Dennis Hawthorne Bottomley. Grimaldi was born into a theatrical family, making his stage Wilfred Davis …. Basil Jones Jenny McDade's high-fat bittersweet five-part comedy - for debut aged two dressed as a monkey and being flung around the Ricky …. Frank Henderson those believing there's a thin person inside them begging to get stage on the end of a chain by his tyrannical father. The chain Dr Kohima …. Roy Lefebvre out. snapped but Grimaldi survived, making the papers and turning Mrs Trevelyan …. Barbara Mitchell Graham Pitscottie ..... Gareth Corke Grimaldi into a little celebrity. His performances as 'Clown', Carl Lathom …. Simon Lack Wendy Bottomley ..... Janine Duvitski combining acrobatics, satire and music, made him a big draw Producer: Martin C Webster Clive Bottomley ..... Michael Troughton for the crowds, and his role in 'Mother Goose' turned him into a First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1968. Soo Pitscottie ..... Anne Reid huge star. SAT 01:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr6j) Tina Tattersall ..... Julia Deakin He developed the make-up we now associate with clowns but Episode 10 Kelly Chambers ..... Tilly Gaunt behind this iconic look was a man suffering from depression, The fugitive is pursued through the countryside by the clever Lee Dubs ..... Harry Myers extreme physical disintegration and a series of personal strategies of his sinister nemesis - Major Quive-Smith. Mrs Enright ..... Frances Jeater tragedies. Geoffrey Household's classic British thriller was first published Producer: Sally Avens Frank Turner, former punk and now folk singer-songwriter, shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1999. sees himself primarily as an entertainer and has developed an Read by Michael Jayston. SAT 05:00 Clare in the Community (b082hg9n) interest in Pantomime and Music Hall. For him, Grimaldi gave Producer: David Jackson Young. Series 11 everything to his audiences and physically destroyed himself in Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2004. Fight Them on the Beaches the process - something he sees as honourable. He describes SAT 02:00 Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham Clare is in charge of a day at the seaside for some elderly Grimaldi's farewell speech as one of the most beautiful eulogies (b079rd1y) residents of the estate. to the business of being a performer. Episode 5 They turn out to be a bit more feisty than the Sparrowhawk Producer: Toby Field Chris Packham concludes his painfully honest memoir. He is a team were expecting, which makes it tricky for Clare to impress First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. confirmed outsider - almost overwhelmed – but determined to her new student, Cilla. SAT 08:00 Heresy (b07cx3b9) do things his way, on his terms. Back at home, Brian is coaching Nali for a musical audition. Series 10 Chris is a naturalist, nature photographer and author, best Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the Episode 3 known for his BBC TV work. right jargon but never a practical solution. Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show Chris brings to life his childhood in the 1970s, moving back and A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in which dares to commit heresy. forth through time, to capture recent, more exposing other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. With Lee Mack, Konnie Huq and Dave Gorman. recollections from adulthood. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all Together they talk about CGI, Air BnB and Rupert Murdoch's Read by Chris Packham and Rachel Atkins. of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her. marriage. Abridged by Jo Coombs Clare continues her struggle to control both her professional and An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4 and first broadcast in Producer: Pippa Vaughan private life. In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges June 2016. A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. SAT 08:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b0085j96) May 2016. Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden Series 1 SAT 02:15 44 Scotland Street: Edinburgh for Pretenders Clare ...... Sally Phillips Episode 6 (b07cyvjm) Brian ...... Alex Lowe The First Attempt To Reach The Moon - and a slice of Episode 5 Nali ...... Nina Conti Edwardian life. Will Irene receive a warm welcome on her return to Edinburgh? Ray ...... Richard Lumsden Richard Ingrams, John Wells, John Sessions and Patricia And what of Big Lou and her political boyfriend? Libby ...... Sarah Kendall Routledge recreate the world of the JB Morton. Portrait painter, Angus Lordie, observes the goings on of his Joan ...... Sarah Thom Running in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975 – JB Morton’s neighbours and friends in and around 44 Scotland Street. Mrs Singh ...... Nina Wadia surreally comic ‘Beachcomber’ column paved the way for a Alexander McCall Smith dramatises stories from his bestselling Cilla ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo great deal of modern humour. series, 44 Scotland Street, which continues to delight readers Pauline ...... Clare Perkins Adapted by Michael Barfield with Richard Ingrams. around the world. Dotty ...... Alison Belbin Announcer: Brian Perkins Angus Lordie ...... Crawford Logan Geoff ...... Sean Baker Producer: Harry Thompson Domenica ...... Carol Ann Crawford Producer: Alexandra Smith First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1989. Irene ...... Emma Currie A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in SAT 09:00 Steve Punt's Hancock Cuttings (b04n61gw) Bertie ...... Simon Kerr November 2016. Tony Hancock fan Steve Punt presents oddities and rarities Olive ...... Sophie Lawrence SAT 05:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000t4ky) featuring the lad himself: Big Lou ...... Anita Vettesse Borderline: A postcard from the edge of the Union * BBC TV's Face To Face interview (1960) Alec ...... Simon Donaldson Want to know what's really happening in a post Brexit Northern Episode from the TV series in which John Freeman cross- The New Pretender ...... David Jackson Young Ireland? Join comedian and presenter Patrick Kielty as he talks examined leading personalities of the day. Here he interviews Director: David Ian Neville to the nation from his hometown of Dundrum, County Down, the radio and TV comedian, Tony Hancock. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2016. near the land border with the EU and overlooking the new 'Irish * 'Ancock's Anthology – the BBC Light Programme’s SAT 02:30 Just Like That - Tommy Cooper (m000t756) Sea Border'. Christmas Day miscellany of the comic’s favourite music, Just like that! Milton Jones celebrates the comic genius of From pre ceasefire to post Brexit, Paddy shares his Northern readings and an interview with Stirling Moss (25/12/1964) Tommy Cooper. Ireland experiences and is joined by a (virtual) Northern Irish * The Missing Page – the Pye Records re-recording of the TV The "unattractive young man" who went on to become the audience, who have lived through the same, as he sends a episode (1965) On a visit to Cheam Library, the lad is appalled Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 20 – 26 March 2021 Page 2 of 10 to be told he has some outstanding fines to pay. With Graham In the first of her four-part stand up comedy series on the state CAST: Stark, Clive Dunn and Frank Thornton. Written by Ray Galton of British feminism today, Bridget asks why feminism became John Cornelius …. Peter Cushing & Alan Simpson. a dirty word and whether the modern British woman needs it. Professor Curtis Lark …. Vincent Price * Educating Archie (19/10/1951) An incident involving a man, a smell and a well-known Minister Donald Schooler …. Henry Stamper Tony Hancock, Julie Andrews and Hattie Jacques join bookstore made her ask what place feminism has in modern Mrs Kyle …. Shirley Dixon wisecracking schoolboy Archie Andrews. Cinema high-jinks Britain, whether the fight has been won or is being fought on Flora Kiery …. Sandra Clarke and Dr Hancock lets Archie use his 'Wishing Chair'. Radio different fronts. Plus, why did Bic launch the "Bic for Her" - a Mary …. Irene Sutcliffe ventriloquism from Peter Brough. Written by Eric Sykes. pen specifically designed for a woman's hand? Dr Hugh Dexter …. Frazer Carr * The first ever episode of Hancock's Half Hour – 'The First Fred MacAulay helps her remember some of the key incidents Written by Rene Basilico from an idea by Robert Holmes. Night Party' (BBC Light Programme 02/11/1954) The lad which brought her to an epiphany and a call to arms. Producer: John Dyas throws a launch party for his new series, but things don't quite Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977. go to plan. With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Kenneth First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. SAT 19:00 Steve Punt's Hancock Cuttings (b04n61gw) Williams and Gerald Campion. Written by Ray Galton & Alan SAT 15:00 Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music (b0076yqv) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Simpson. Series 3 SAT 22:00 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap (b01r5s2l) Producer: Mik Wilkojc. Episode 1 Series 1 Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2014 Mitch attempts to break America, but is refused entry at the Episode 2 SAT 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b08kttsw) border for violations of the Patriot Act concerning songs Bridget considers women and their day-to-day relationships Series 18 mocking Dubya Bush and US foreign policy. He’s forced to with each other, via an organic herb puff snack, a church pew Episode 1 play a gig in Moosebutt Canada. and a bag of dirty laundry. David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians Highlights include a ballad from an X-Factor hopeful and the Fred MacAulay helps her remember some of the key incidents are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to truth behind Franz Ferdinand's musical inspiration. which brought her to an epiphany and a call to arms. see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their Mitch Benn returns with a series of music and comedy, joined Four-part stand-up comedy series on the state of British opponents. by Morrissey-obsessive Robin Ince and the Distractions. feminism today, Bridget asks why feminism became a dirty From sheep and islands to Steve Jobs and beans. With Kirsty Newton, Craig Campbell, Jane Perry and Tasha word and whether the modern British woman needs it. John Finnemore, Henning Wehn, Lou Sanders and Miles Jupp Baylis. Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith and Alexandra Smith. are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy. Producer: Adam Bromley. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. Producer: Jon Naismith First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2006. SAT 22:30 Elastic Planet (b007k3h0) A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first SAT 15:30 Elvenquest (b00vy3n6) The Hair broadcast in April 2017. Series 2 A documentary maker films endangered hairstyles. SAT 12:30 Rob Newman (b0bh5hp2) Episode 1 Oliver Postgate narrates a stream of bizarre coincidences in Ben Rob Newman's Total Eclipse of Descartes The return of the fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth. The Moor’s cosmic comedy of connections. The Inheritance intrepid band of Questers, led by Elven Lord, Vidar, set off With Dan Strauss, Doon Mackichan, Kerry Shale, Michael One of Britain's finest comedians Rob Newman sets his sights once again on their search for the Sword of Asnagar which is Troughton, Ben Moor and Alexander Armstrong. on the world of philosophy, unpicking 3000 years of good and the only thing that can free them from the tyranny of the evil Producer: Jon Naismith bad ideas to discover how we got into this mess. Lord Darkness. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995. In a world gone mad can philosophy provide the answer? Joining Vidar on the Quest is Dean, the dwarf, Penthiselea, an SAT 22:45 We Know Everything (b08646s7) In this opening episode, Rob turns the spotlight onto the Amazon warrior princess, Sam, the human, and Amis, the Episode 6 philosophy of education. Chosen One (formerly Sam's dog who took human form when Does colour exist or is it a pigment of our imagination? Dan Written and performed by Rob Newman he arrived in Lower Earth - he alone can wield the Sword of Gaster and Paul Powell tackle audience quirky questions. From Edited by John Whitehall Asnagar that will defeat Lord Darkness). 1995. Producer: Jon Harvey In this opening episode, the Questers are saved from near SAT 23:00 It's Jocelyn (b06tvbz1) Executive Producer: Richard Wilson certain death by a strong and charming loner, who goes by the Series 1 A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in name of Byorthnoth the Brave. But is Byorthnoth quite what he Episode 2 September 2018. seems? And does it really matter when he has such lovely hair? A raft of fresh new characters from Jocelyn including a terrible SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b08xxbt7) Meanwhile, Lord Darkness is back from the Void and has shop assistant, a pair of terrible bedroom DJ's and an old lady The Real Summer of Love discovered that he's lost his immortality... obsessed with dying. 1967 saw the so-called Summer of Love, when thousands Sam ...... Stephen Mangan Jocelyn vents her frustration at the world around her through descended on Haight Ashbury suburb in San Franciso with their Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan sketches and stand-up. From pedantic dinner dates to coping flower power, wacky fashions, drugs and hippy anti- Dean/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon with annoying friends, Jocelyn's life provides a rich seam of establishment message which soon spread around the world. Elf Lord, Vidar ...... Darren Boyd humour. But what did it all mean to British people? Byorthnoth ...... Ben Miles Jocelyn Jee Esien is delighted to be joined in the cast by Curtis Historian and writer Dominic Sandbrook argues that, for the Amazon Princess, Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman Walker, Ninia Benjamin and Kevin J. majority in Britain, the Summer of Love and even 1960s Amis, The Chosen One ...... Dave Lamb Producer: John Pocock Swinging London was a party happening somewhere else. Producer: Sam Michell A BBC Radio Comedy production first broadcast on BBC With the economy running into trouble, Harold Wilson's First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. Radio 4 in January 2016. government devalued the pound. All was not well in British SAT 16:00 The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (b00wwbcl) SAT 23:30 World of Pub (b007jpby) industry, with unofficial wildcat strikes and the country's ports [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Series 2 paralysed by a 10-week strike. Dockers like Colin Ross, his SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b07cvlmd) Episode 1 young wife and baby struggled to feed themselves. Divisions in [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Dodgy Phil comes up with another scheme to fill Barry and society were evident whether, as Colin puts it, 'between the SAT 18:00 Nightfall (m000tfcg) Garry's East End boozer with punters. haves and have-nots' or in multi-racial communities like Series 4 Tony Roche 's four-part comedy starring John Thomson as Brixton. The Book of Hell Dodgy Phil, Phil Cornwell as Barry, Alistair McGowan as Yet the '60s brought a new sense of freedom, tolerance and A failing publishing company receives a mysterious manuscript Garry, Debra Stephenson and Simon Greenall. colour to people's monochrome daily lives. Tourists flocked to from a reclusive author, who happens to have been dead for two Special effects: Carl Phillips and Nick Romero. London fashion haunts such as Carnaby Steet and, in 1967, The years. The book tells of a first-hand account of a soul's Music: Bill Bailey Beatles' Sgt Pepper was declared album of the decade while experience while in Hell. However, the book cannot be printed, Producer: Jane Berthoud barefoot songstress Sandi Shaw won the Eurovision Song photocopied or recorded in any way... First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999 Contest. ‘Nightfall’ was series of supernatural and horror dramas As a pop columnist, Virginia Ironside seemed to have it all. But, produced by Canada’s CBC Radio between July 1980 and June as liberated as she appeared, she felt pressure from the 1983 and went on to become one of the most popular shows in SUNDAY 21 MARCH 2021 permissive society. She had two abortions, one illegally in a the network’s history. Over its one hundred episodes over three Harley Street clinic. seasons, ‘Nightfall’ featured a mix of original stories and SUN 00:00 Nightfall (m000tfcg) In 1967, laws came in legalising abortion and homosexuality. adaptations of classic tales. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] The same year saw the new town Milton Keynes which, CAST: SUN 00:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind (b007jlt5) although not quite the countercultural utopia San Francisco Gordon .... Budd Knapp [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] hippies had hoped for, still represented a kind of idealism - a Linda Ross .... Nonnie Griffin SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b08xxbt7) vision of a suburban good life in the heart of the countryside. Andy .... Patrick Young [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] Producer: Sara Parker Mrs Yenopski …. Lynne Deragon SUN 02:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b04ntvv9) Executive: Samir Shah Pete .... Hugh Webster [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday] A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July The Fireman/The Waiter .... Allen Doremus SUN 02:30 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap (b01r11x0) 2017. Writer: James Mavor Moore [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday] SAT 14:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b04ntvv9) Series Story Editor: Earl Toppings SUN 03:00 Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music (b0076yqv) Series 2 Producer: Bill Howell [Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday] Lost and Found First broadcast on the CBC in March 1981. SUN 03:30 Elvenquest (b00vy3n6) When Tom makes his weekly phone call to his parents in SAT 18:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind (b007jlt5) [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday] Sheffield he discovers they've been flooded. 1. Island Genesis SUN 04:00 The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (b00wwbcl) As his parents manage the clear up operation, Tom reflects on The curiosity of the inhabitants of the remote Scottish island of [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] what is important to keep and what isn't. Luig is aroused when two strangers arrive for the funeral of the SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b07cvlmd) With Rita May, Paul Copley and Kate Anthony. local doctor. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle. With Miles The two men are no strangers to each other, nor were they to SUN 06:00 Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham Jupp. the late Dr Hugh Dexter. One is Professor Curtis Lark - a (Omnibus) (b07bl683) Producer: Katie Tyrrell flamboyant American explorer, scientist and Nobel Prize Chris Packham is a naturalist, nature photographer and author, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014. winner whose research has been in the field of telepathy and best known for his television work. But in his lyrical and SAT 14:30 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap (b01r11x0) telekinesis; the other is John Cornelius - the eminent British painfully honest new memoir, he reveals the life-events which Series 1 brain surgeon. would eventually shape him and change him forever. Episode 1 What starts as a brief visit by two colleagues to honour an old Chris brings to life his childhood in the 1970s, from his After noticing that misogyny, like shiny leggings, had made an friend quickly develops into a series of bizarre and frightening bedroom bursting with birds’ eggs and jam jars, to his feral unexpected comeback - comedian Bridget Christie wonders did events uncovering the presence of forces unknown bent on adventures. But throughout his story is the search for freedom, it ever really go away? world domination... meaning and acceptance in a world that didn’t understand him. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 20 – 26 March 2021 Page 3 of 10 Chris begins his recollections as an introverted, unusual young Jacqueline Wilson Monica...... Polly Frame boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school. Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the former Children's Stephanie Simons...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith This unconventional and uncompromising memoir moves back Laureate Jacqueline Wilson. She's won just about every award Patients...... Kate O'Sullivan and Duncan Wisbey and forth through time, capturing a child’s view of the 60s and going for children's fiction and, in a career spanning more than Written by Dr Phil Hammond and Mr David Spicer 70s – the music, the clothes, the cars – alongside recent, more 30 years, has written more than 80 books. Even as a child she Directed by Frank Stirling exposing recollections from adulthood. knew she wanted to write but, after an inauspicious time at A Unique production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May Produced by Pippa Vaughan for Loftus Media school, she reluctantly trained to be a secretary instead. Then 2016. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. she began to pitch ideas for a new teen magazine, Jackie, her SUN 13:00 Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go (Omnibus) SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07wzr9y) stories were bought and she quickly became a staff writer. (b07g78zh) Judy Tzuke But she was 50 before she devised her most famous creation, Episode 2 English singer-songwriter Judy Tzuke chooses 'My Funny Tracy Beaker. Tracy is a streetwise, feisty girl growing up in the Kazuo Ishiguro's haunting novel of love, friendship and loss. Valentine' sung by Chet Baker and 'Blue' by Joni Mitchell. competitive world of a children's home, who never loses the Kathy, Tommy and Ruth have only ever known the sheltered SUN 07:20 AM Smith - 44 Scotland Street (b07djq6y) hope that one day her mum will come back for her. The book world of Hailsham, a secluded country boarding school. As they Edinburgh for Pretenders (Omnibus) was a breakthrough for Jacqueline and its subsequent television grow up, they begin to understand the true purpose of their Portrait painter, Angus Lordie, observes the goings on of his adaptation introduced her to a mass audience. In 2002 she was isolated upbringing and the fate that lies in store for them. neighbours and friends in and around 44 Scotland Street. Seven awarded an OBE for services to literacy. Ishiguro's brilliant alternative vision of 1990s England is a year-old Bertie Pollok has 'issues' when his domineering mother Favourite track: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 5 in E disquieting exploration of what makes us human and how we Irene organises his social life. And Irene has issues when her flat by Ludwig van Beethoven each find meaning in our lives. husband Stuart offers to take Bertie to Glasgow of all places. Book: The collected works by Katherine Mansfield This Book at Bedtime is an abridged version of the full text of Local café owner Big Lou has a new love in her life whose Luxury: A fairground carousel the novel. politics hark back to the Jacobite days. And then there's Produced by Cathy Drysdale. Written by Kazuo Ishiguro Domenica - an anthropologist - trying to write a report on her First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. Read by Rachel Shelley most recent adventure exploring the lives of modern day SUN 10:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00yrg3g) Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths pirates. An encounter with a gangster, a suspected kidnapping Series 2 Produced by Mair Bosworth. and the possibility of a new political leader ensure life for Kiwi First broadcast in 2016. Scotland Street's residents is never uneventful. New Zealand had several species of flightless bird living across SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b04prn2x) Alexander McCall Smith dramatises stories from his bestselling the islands, all of which are now extinct, bar one. The Kiwi has Rebecca Front series, 44 Scotland Street, which continues to delight readers become one of those species iconic of the country, like the The Thick of It actress shares her love of 'They All Laughed at around the world. Koala to Australia, the Giraffe to Africa and the Alpaca to Christopher Columbus' and why she will pass on Bach's Angus Lordie ...... Crawford Logan South America. Historically, New Zealand didn't have ground concerto. Domenica ...... Carol Ann Crawford predators such as wild cats and stoats - which allowed birds to SUN 14:20 Incredible Women (b08074pw) Irene ...... Emma Currie exploit living on the ground. Being flightless in New Zealand Series 5 (Omnibus) Bertie ...... Simon Kerr was a good way to be a bird. Rebecca Front and Jeremy Front introduce us to an uncannily Stuart ...... David Jackson Young Having filmed Kiwis, Sir David Attenborough muses on the realistic robot, Astrid. Can they distinguish her from a real Big Lou ...... Anita Vettesse niche the Kiwi occupies on the ground. He argues the Kiwi woman? Producer/director: David Ian Neville behaves more like a mammal than a bird, but what mammal do SUN 15:30 Just Like That - Tommy Cooper (m000t756) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. you think, in Attenborough's view, the Kiwi most resembles? [Repeat of broadcast at 02:30 on Saturday] SUN 08:30 Meet the Huggetts (b00p1hnz) Producer: Julian Hector SUN 16:00 Mike Walker - Games (b0bl584z) 'Ail and Hearty First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011. The editor of a 'Lad's Mag' proposes a bet to prevent a talented The family worries when Joe Huggett is seen calling in at the SUN 11:00 Radiolab (m000tppy) and attractive woman journalist leaving for a better job. The doctor's surgery. Series 7 editor then throws her into situations to ensure he wins. Stars Jack Warner as Joe, Kathleen Harrison as Ethel, Malcolm The Cataclysm Sentence Against a backdrop of "Cosi Fan Tutte", Mozart's opera about Ranson as Bobby, Alanna Boyce as Jane and Charles Leno as Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. the perils of love and gambling, a young woman learns about Fred Stebbings. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur malice and manipulation. With Bill Pertwee and Ralph Hallett. between science, philosophy, and the human experience. Written by Mike Walker. Popular working-class family, the Huggetts first hit the cinema One day in 1961, the famous physicist Richard Feynman CAST: screen with a series of Gainsborough films between 1947 and stepped in front of a Caltech lecture hall and posed this Helena .... Angeline Ball 1949. Their subsequent BBC radio series ran from 1953 to question to a group of undergraduate students: “If, in some Gracie ..... Geraldine James 1962. cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and Peter .... David Thorpe Scripted by Eddie Maguire. only one sentence was passed on to the next generation of Don .... Michael Troughton Producer: Jacques Brown creatures, what statement would contain the most information Man …. Kenny Blyth First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1961. in the fewest words?” Producer: Rachel Horan SUN 09:00 Drop Me Here, Darling (m000tfcm) Radiolab explores, when in peril, what’s the one sentence you First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. A Plonking Success would want to pass on to the next generation? SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m000tfcp) Caroline confides in Leslie about a secret business deal. Jad Abumrad and the Radiolab team investigate a strange [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] ‘Drop Me Here, Darling’ ran from December 1982 to February world. SUN 17:30 Polyoaks (b078z6sd) 1983. It starred Leslie Phillips and Jill Bennett as a recently From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] divorced couple, Leslie and Caroline Duggan. He was a 2020. SUN 18:00 Katie Hims - Listening to the Dead (b03mjcb9) successful businessman but has fallen on hard times - following SUN 11:55 Inheritance Tracks (b07wzr9y) 5. Tuesday's Child the ‘80s property crash - and now earns a living by chauffeuring [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] Tuesday grows up assuming her mother abandoned her, despite his wealthy ex, who runs the successful Quantum mail order SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m000tfcp) the voices in her dreams that try to tell her otherwise company. Despite being divorced, their lives are interleaved and Walker of the Downs Tuesday ..... Jeany Spark they keep a close, envious eye on each other’s love lives, Daljit Nagra visits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Walker Tuesday 11 ..... Rose Hilton Hille divulging an enduring mutual fondness. of the Downs featuring the Sussex Downs- the inspiration for Tuesday 3 ..... Rosa Yevtushenko CAST: the 1960s poet Ted Walker. Frank ..... David Seddon Leslie Duggan …. Leslie Phillips Martin Sorrell walks the Sussex Downs which, in the 1960s, Peggy ..... Lisa Stevenson Caroline Duggan …. Jill Bennett provided nature poet Ted Walker with inspiration for some of Maggie ..... Carolyn Pickles Claire …. Norma Ronald his best work. He is joined by Mike Russell from the Sussex Ruby ..... Ami Metcalf Mr Crabbe …. Kenneth Connor Wildlife Trust, who helps to evoke the essence of the land that Nish ..... Paul Bazely Alan Archer …. John Kane Walker loved. Plus Patrick Romer reads a selection of Walker's Oliver 20 ..... Joel MacCormack Written by Andrew Palmer. poems. Oliver 55 ..... Michael Bertenshaw Producer: Edward Taylor Producer - Sara Davies Dan ..... Harry Jardine First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1982. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. Melinda ..... Georgie Fuller SUN 09:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b00k40t0) SUN 12:30 Polyoaks (b078z6sd) Boss ..... Sean Murray Series 3 Series 4 by Katie Hims, The Dig Losing Patients Directed by Jessica Dromgoole Curmudgeonly hack Ed finds rich pickings - and a hint of Nigel Planer and returns in the Health Service satire by Dr Phil First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014. romance - in the world of archaeology. Hammond and David Spicer. The Polyoaks surgery is plagued SUN 18:45 Charles Dickens (b0729ggy) The comical world of Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, by strikes, endless new management initiatives, staff shortages, Tales of the Supernatural consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive e-mail. militant patients, eight day weeks, privatisation – and all these The Queer Chair Christopher Douglas stars as Ed Reardon. things are entirely their fault, apparently. Too many glasses of punch and Tom feels the queer chair in the Written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. The dysfunctional Bristol surgery run by warring doctors, room of his inn turn on him. Read by Adrian Scarborough. Featuring: brothers Roy and Hugh Thornton (Nigel Planer and Simon Extracted from 'The Pickwick Papers', the first of Dickens John Fortune Greenall), alternates between embracing and collapsing under major novels, written in 1836 when he was just 24. Stephanie Cole reforms. They’re a nurse down, they’ve got to slash their budget The last of a series of five tales of the supernatural by Charles Geoffrey Whitehead and there’s a new Head of the local Clinical Commissioning Dickens. Rita May Group who eats GPs for breakfast (Margaret Cabourn-Smith). Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions. Simon Greenall The practice’s calamitous ‘celebrity’ Dr Jeremy (David SUN 19:00 Radiolab (m000tppy) Sally Hawkins Westhead), who doesn’t know what a Clinical Commissioning [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Eve Dallas Group is, continues to dodge alimony payments, malpractice SUN 19:55 Inheritance Tracks (b07wzr9y) Laura Solon suits and the new practice Nurse Monica (Polly Frame). Nurse [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] Mark Watson Monica is on exchange from NHS Scotland and is fuelled by a SUN 20:00 Mike Walker - Games (b0bl584z) Philip Jackson borderline psychotic contempt for patients and colleagues alike. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today] David Cann In this first episode of the series, the staff of Polyoaks are SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000tppw) Miranda Keeling roped into spearheading a new anti-obesity campaign to save [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Producer: Simon Nicholls lives, self respect and money. SUN 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00yrg3g) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007. Roy...... Nigel Planer [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000tppw) Hugh...... Simon Greenall SUN 22:00 Polyoaks (b078z6sd) Children's Writers Jeremy...... David Westhead [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 20 – 26 March 2021 Page 4 of 10 SUN 22:30 Dave Podmore (b007tm7h) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2017. Directors: Marc Beeby and Colin Guthrie Dave Podmore's World of Cricket MON 07:30 Just a Minute (m000t40p) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2006. Episode 4 Series 86 MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m000tfd3) The star player joins a host of Z-list celebrities on a charity Episode 4 Series 7 walk for mauled dog, Shep. Jenny Eclair hosts a special episode of Just a Minute where she Risk Sitcom about the exploits of talentless, amateurish, smug, inept challenges guests Paul Merton, Shappi Khorsandi, Julian Clary A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting and self-deluding English cricketer Dave Podmore. and Pam Ayres to speak for 60 seconds on subjects including speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Starring Chris Douglas and Andrew Nickolds with Chris Pavlo Artificial Intelligence, and A Big Night Out. Hesitation, stage. and Nicola Sanderson. deviation, and repetition are strictly forbidden. This episode Guy Raz explores why do we revere risk-takers, even when Written by Chris Douglas, Andrew Nickolds and Nick was produced using remote recording technology, with both their actions terrify us? Why are some people better at taking Newman. panel and audience joining from their homes all over the world. risks? Producer: Richard Wilson Caroline Barlow blows the whistle. First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2019. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. Devised by Ian Messiter MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000tfd5) SUN 23:00 Newsjack (m000t6jg) Produced by Victoria Lloyd Jonny Greenwood Series 24 A BBC Studios Production Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead chooses his Inheritance Tracks: Episode 4 MON 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jld2) Sweetheart Contract by Magazine, Brotherhood of Man by Newsjack's host Kiri Pritchard-McLean is joined by Luke Series 2 Oscar Peterson and Clark Terry. Kempner, Mali Ann Rees, Jason Forbes and a virtual audience Homes Fit for Heroes MON 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jld2) for the last episode of the series, to make sense of this week in Harold quarrels with his Dad Albert over his plan to pack him [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] news. off to travel the world. MON 12:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue This week, we find out how we might struggle to adapt to office Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as (b0075p4w) life, how Barbie is celebrating Ken's 60 birthday, and what it's Harold. With Marie Makino as Miss Lottersby and Olwen [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] like to deal with the Perseverence Rover's galactic ego . Brookes as the Matron. MON 13:00 Raffles (m0001n5g) Written by - The British Public Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Script Editors - Ed Amsden and Tom Coles with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson MON 13:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr7j) Producers - Gwyn Rhys Davies and Hayley Sterling wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Production Coordinator - Mabel Wright The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring MON 14:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b078xpfq) Newsjack is a BBC Studios Production the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold Episode 1 SUN 23:30 Radio 9 (b0401g9p) and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. Claire quits her job to discover her true vocation - but has no Series 1 Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by idea how to go about finding it. Episode 1 Gale Pedrick. Lisa Owens's comic debut novel tells the story of a life Welcome to Radio 9 - where Dark approaches Silly, shakes Produced by Bobby Jaye unravelling in minute and spectacular ways, voicing the hands, then realises its trousers are round its ankles. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1967. questions we've all asked ourselves but never dared to say out All set in a parallel universe just like ours, but different. MON 08:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue loud. The first in a four-part series, written and performed by Johnny (b0075p4w) Thirtysomething Claire Flannery has quit her job to discover Daukes and Hils Barker. Series 3 her true vocation, only to realise that she has no idea how to go With Sarah Walton, John Stevenson, Stefan Frank, Janice Vee, Episode 5 about finding it. In her muddled but somehow impeccable logic Matt Wilkinson and Michelle Gomez. Sofa-bound TV presenters Mike and Sue tackle stress and she discovers that, 'the more time you have, the less time you Producers: Johnny Daukes and Katie Marsden honesty - plus an everyday problem for Miriam Stoops. have'. As the weeks stretch into months with nothing to show First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Starring Robert Duncan and Jan Ravens. but an overflowing internet search history and an unintended With Ronnie Ancona, Alistair McGowan, Roger Blake and feud with her mother, Claire finds herself sinking under Toby Longworth. pressure and wondering where her life fell apart. MONDAY 22 MARCH 2021 Written by Tim De Jongh from a format by Bill Dare. Lisa Owens was born in 1985 and grew up in Glasgow and Music by Mark Burton. Hertfordshire. After graduating, she spent six years working in MON 00:00 Katie Hims - Listening to the Dead (b03mjcb9) Producer: Aled Evans publishing before leaving to complete an MA in Creative [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1998. Writing at the University of East Anglia. Not Working is her MON 00:45 Charles Dickens (b0729ggy) MON 09:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b08lgq9j) first novel. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] Series 18 Read by Emily Bruni. MON 01:00 Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go (Omnibus) Episode 2 Written by Lisa Owens. (b07g78zh) David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians Abridged by Robin Brooks. [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday] are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b04prn2x) see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] opponents. MON 14:15 Gudrun (b083mrv9) MON 02:20 Incredible Women (b08074pw) John Finnemore, Henning Wehn, Lou Sanders and Miles Jupp Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday] the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on Episode 1 MON 03:30 Just Like That - Tommy Cooper (m000t756) subjects as varied as names, Germany, secrets and nudity. Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, must forge her [Repeat of broadcast at 02:30 on Saturday] Produced by Jon Naismith path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising MON 04:00 Mike Walker - Games (b0bl584z) A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4, first harshness. A new re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga. [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] broadcast in April 2017. Gudrun . . . . . Kate Phillips MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m000tfcp) MON 09:30 Married (b0084rct) Freija . . . . . Samantha Dakin [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday] Series 3 Bolli . . . . . Gavi Singh Chera MON 05:30 Polyoaks (b078z6sd) Episode 5 Kjartan . . . . . Luke MacGregor [Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday] Cantankerous bachelor Robin Lightfoot has encountered many Thordis . . . . . Alison Belbin MON 06:00 Raffles (m0001n5g) strange phenomena since the universes collided. Now he's got to Osvif . . . . . John Dougall Series 2 contend with two Arthur Smiths for the price of one. Thorvald . . . . . Nicholas Murchie 1. The Rest Cure Hugh Bonneville stars in the third series of the comedy drama Hallbjorn . . . . . Finlay Robertson Bunny is surprised and pleased to be invited by Raffles to share about a confirmed bachelor Robin Lightfoot dealing with life in By Lucy Catherine the latter's self-imposed 'rest cure' in a large house in a parallel universe where he has kids and an ex-wife who hates Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko Kensington. him. Gudrun's Saga is based on the famous Icelanders' saga known as But Raffles, needless to say, has his own somewhat nefarious With Josie Lawrence as Lesley, Stephen Frost as Dirk, Ann The Laxdoela Saga. Written in the 13th century, it tells of reasons for wanting to take a holiday... Gosling as Maxine, Christopher Kelham as Alan, Sam Bradley people in the Breiðafjörður area of Iceland from the late 9th Starring Jeremy Clyde as AJ Raffles, Michael Cochrane as as Ned and Arthur Smith as Arthur Smith. century to the early 11th century. The saga particularly focuses Bunny Manders, Christopher Benjamin as Colonel Crutchley, Written by Tony Bagley. on a love triangle between Gudrun, Kjartan and Bolli. Kjartan Laurence Payne as the Porter and Norman Bird as the Cabby. Producer: Claire Jones and Bolli grow up together but the love they both have for EW Hornung's Raffles stories about the 'gentleman thief' First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2001. Gudrun causes enmity between them and, in the end, their dramatised by David Buck. MON 10:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov deaths. The Laxdæla saga remains popular and appreciated for Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. (b00y9455) its poetic beauty and pathetic sentiment. Since the saga has Director: Gordon House Episode 1 often been regarded as an unusually feminine saga, it has been A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast Russia, 1880: The Karamazovs are reunited for a meeting with speculated that it was composed by a woman. in 1988. their father, to discuss Dmitry's inheritance. Kate Phillips makes her radio debut as Gudrun. Previous roles MON 06:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr7j) But the unpredictable Fyodor Karamazov does not look as if include Jane Seymour in Wolf Hall, Linda in Peaky Blinders Episode 11 he's going to play the game... and Lise in War & Peace, all on BBC1. After days holed up in his underground den, the fugitive Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final novel published in Lucy Catherine has written extensively for BBC Radio Drama, emerges - but has he shaken off his pursuer? 1880. including Friday Plays, Classic Serial adaptations and Woman’s Geoffrey Household's classic British thriller was first published Dramatised in five parts by Melissa Murray. Hour series. Her 95' adaptation of THE MASTER AND shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939. Fyodor Karamazov ...... Roy Marsden MARGARITA by Mikhail Bulgakov was broadcast in early 15-part reading read by Michael Jayston. Dmitry ...... Paul Hilton 2015 and won the BBC ‘Best Audio Drama (Adapted); her 2 x Producer: David Jackson Young. Ivan ...... Nicholas Boulton 60' adaptation of Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN was Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2004. Alyosha ...... Carl Prekopp broadcast in December 2012 as well as her half hour ‘Gothic MON 07:00 Cooking in a Bedsitter (b09jcd4g) The Elder ...... Sam Dale Horror’ original LOOTED. Original 10 x 14' Woman’s Hour Series 2 Mrs Khoklakova ...... Rachel Atkins drama series HALFWAY HERE and 2 x 45' Afternoon Drama Green Pea Sandwiches Lise ...... Emma Noakes in the series ‘Riot Girls’, SUSAN AND EMMA were broadcast Beattie Edmondson and Nikesh Patel star in Sue Teddern's Katerina ...... Juliet Aubrey in 2016. Other recent commissions for Radio 4 include BOY romantic comedy, inspired by Katharine Whitehorn's cookery Grushenka ...... Katy Cavanagh and GOING SOLO, adapted from Roald Dahl’s autobiography; classic. Smerdyakov ...... Joseph Kloska LIGHTS, CAMERA, KIDNAP! based on a true story about Deepak takes Trisha on an outing to Oxford. But it's not quite Grigory ...... Desmond McNamara Kim Jong Il. the punting and picnic she expects. Extracts from Cooking in a The Monk ...... Paul Richard Biggin First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016. Bedsitter are read by Eleanor Bron. Katerina's Servant ...... Miranda Keeling MON 14:30 A Mix-Tape for Gus (b04kbjhs) Directed by Emma Harding. Original music by David Pickvance. Young composer Emily Levy sorts through the mix-tapes which Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 20 – 26 March 2021 Page 5 of 10 her brother Gus made for her, and considers their power both to Voice Actors: Jason Forbes and Karen Bartke themselves heading pell mell....for the Moon. hurt and to heal since his premature death in an accident. Producer: Pete Strauss The Quanderhorn Xperimentations - an adventure beyond When she was growing up in Oxford, the young composer and Production Co-Ordinator: Carina Andrews human understanding. musician Emily Levy learned much about music from her Editor/Engineer: David Thomas Cast: adored older brother, Gus. He would make her compilation BBC Studios Production Professor Quanderhorn- James Fleet tapes which brought together his passionate and eclectic taste. MON 23:30 Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music Brian Nylon- Ryan Sampson When he went off to university, the tape-making continued and (b0076ytw) Dr Gemini Janussen- Cassie Layton soon they were also attending gigs and festivals together. Series 3 Guuurk- Kevin Eldon Then Gus died in an accident. Episode 2 Troy Quanderhorn- Freddie Fox Five years on, Emily has begun to listen back to the mix-tapes. How do you get to Aberystwyth? Mitch Benn is on tour and is Winston Churchill/Jenkins- John Sessions She speaks with some of Gus's closest friends about his passion stranded in Central Wales, going round in circles. Trapped with Synthetic Voice Rachel Atkins for music and his particular talent at bringing together him in a car that's far too small is the whimsical music buff Created and written by Rob Grant and Andrew Marshall surprising genres and artists - not to mention his love of Robin Ince. They decide to gig in the first town they find, Directed by Andrew Marshall juggling to music. LLanfyl but manage to antagonise the locals. It's an anarchic Music by Peter Brewis She finds solace in the discovery that sharing Gus' music tastes mix of music, Welsh pride and a miserable local radio DJ. Engineered, Edited and Sound designed by Alistair McGregor with others bestows on him a kind of immortality. Musical highlights are down in the countryside, which shows Production Manager: Sarah Tombling And she reflect on how, in our era of musical choices made by the rural idyll isn't quite paradise and the road to Aberystwyth - Produced by Rob Grant and Gordon Kennedy computer algorithm, the death of someone dear to us represents a chronicle of his failed journey to that mid-Wales coastal Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios the loss of a unique, human algorithm. university town. An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Finally, Emily composes a short piece of music to contribute to Stars Mitch Benn and Robin Ince July 2018. a programme which is, in itself, her own Mix-Tape for Gus. with Kirsty Newton, Tom Price, Lloyd Langford and Tasha TUE 07:30 Reluctant Persuaders (m000t4vx) Producer : Beaty Rubens Baylis. Series 4 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2014. Produced by Adam Bromley Episode 3: At Your Side MON 15:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. It’s Teddy’s (Rasmus Hardiker) birthday, and Joe (Mathew (b00y9455) Baynton) has pulled out all the stops to celebrate – even roping [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] an unwilling Amanda (Josie Lawrence) and Hardacre (Nigel MON 16:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b08lgq9j) TUESDAY 23 MARCH 2021 Havers) into the festivities. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] The celebrations are interrupted by Teddy’s brother Frederick MON 16:30 Married (b0084rct) TUE 00:00 Arthur Schnitzler - Dream Story (m000tfd7) (Kieran Hodgson), who is determined the time has come for [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] Teddy to make something of his life. But Teddy is more MON 17:00 Cooking in a Bedsitter (b09jcd4g) TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b0174gkv) concerned about keeping a promise to Mr Hardacre, in an [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] adventure with cowboys, spies, rock stars, and Milk Tray men. MON 17:30 Just a Minute (m000t40p) TUE 01:00 Raffles (m0001n5g) Cast: [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] Nigel Havers – Hardacre MON 18:00 Arthur Schnitzler - Dream Story (m000tfd7) TUE 01:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr7j) Mathew Baynton – Joe Episode 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] Josie Lawrence – Amanda An eight-part telling of Arthur Schnitzler’s ‘Dream Story’, TUE 02:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b078xpfq) Rasmus Hardiker – Teddy credited as the novella that inspired Stanley Kubrick's last film. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] Kieran Hodgson – Frederick Published in 1925/26, the work was alternately titled ‘Rhapsody’ TUE 02:15 Gudrun (b083mrv9) Written by Edward Rowett and, in the original German, ‘Traumnovelle’. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] Directed by Alan Nixon It tells the tale of a young doctor who finds that he must come TUE 02:30 A Mix-Tape for Gus (b04kbjhs) Script edited by Mark Evans to terms with his wife's erotic dreams by embarking on a few [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] Edited and Engineered by Jerry Peal escapades of his own – a tale of sexual fantasy, jealousy, TUE 03:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Production Manager: Sarah Tombling obsession and death... (b00y9455) Based on an original idea by Edward Rowett and Robert Read by Paul Rhys. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] Frimstone Translated by J.M.Q. Davies. TUE 04:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b08lgq9j) Recorded at The Soundhouse Studios, London Made for BBC7 and first broadcast in September 2003. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] Produced by Gordon Kennedy MON 18:30 A Good Read (b0174gkv) TUE 04:30 Married (b0084rct) An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4 Nerina Pallot and Peter Molyneux [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jv86) Harriett Gilbert is joined by award-winning singer-songwriter TUE 05:00 Cooking in a Bedsitter (b09jcd4g) The White Neddie Trade Nerina Pallot and the computer games industry pioneer Peter [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] Fearless Neddie launches a career as a nude piano dancer with a Molyneux to discuss their favourite books. TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (m000t40p) difference. Starring Spike Milligan. From February 1958. Nerina's choice is an elegiac story of loss and life - The [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE 08:30 Rent (b065k7zn) Sportswriter by Richard Ford. TUE 06:00 Raffles (m0001mfp) Series 4 Peter has picked the gripping and intimate Father-Son story - Series 2 Episode 4 The Road by Cormac McCarthy. 2. Criminologist's Club Maria and Richard's lives are now being ruled by Eva, the Harriett's book is an intriguing and occasionally torrid Bunny is appalled to learn that the Criminologists' Club has nanny, while Paul and Ruby have to contend with his collection of short stories - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by invited Raffles and Bunny to dinner. disreputable cousin, Dave. Carson McCullers. But Raffles sees the opportunity to have a little fun.... Lucy Flannery's award-winning sitcom about Maria and Producer: Toby Field Starring Jeremy Clyde as AJ Raffles, Michael Cochrane as Richard Reynolds and their lodgers. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Bunny, Henry Stamper as Inspector Mackenzie, David March as Stars Barbara Flynn as Maria, Patrick Barlow as Richard, MON 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jld2) Lord Thornaby, Michael Tudor Barnes as Kingsmill, Blain Vivienne Rochester as Ruby and Dave Lamb as Paul. With [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Fairman as Parrington, Simon Hewitt as Ernest, Norman Bird as Sarah Parkinson and Toby Longworth. MON 19:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue Leggett, Paul Sirr as William and John Samson as the Porter. Producer: Liz Anstee (b0075p4w) EW Hornung's Raffles stories about the 'gentleman thief' First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] dramatised by David Buck. TUE 09:00 The Now Show (m000t77q) MON 20:00 Raffles (m0001n5g) Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Director: Gordon House TUE 09:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cvjvf) MON 20:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr7j) A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast Series 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] in 1988. Episode 5 MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m000tfd3) TUE 06:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr7y) Will singers Tommy and Sheila finally achieve the recognition [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Episode 12 they deserve – a Golden Goblet? MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000tfd5) The Major has trapped the fugitive, but can he discover the Sweethearts Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr won the 1962 [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] tragic motive behind his "sporting stalk"? Eurovision Song Contest, but now they're back in the big time. MON 22:00 Just a Minute (m000t40p) Geoffrey Household's classic thriller was first published shortly The problem is, they can’t stand each other… [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] before the outbreak of war in 1939. Fourth series of Mike Coleman's six-part sitcom. MON 22:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b04p85z2) Read by Michael Jayston. CAST: Series 2 Producer: David Jackson Young. Tommy Franklin …. Roy Hudd Point of No Return Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2004. Sheila Parr …. June Whitfield After a mere 21 years of service the Wrigglesworth dishwasher TUE 07:00 Quanderhorn (b0b91t03) Hetty Stark …. Pat Coombes has finally packed in, so Mr Wrigglesworth is bringing Tom's The Quanderhorn Xperimentations Murray …. Julian Eardley mum and his gran down to London to have it out with the A Little Thing Like Chocolate Gates Can't Stop Us Louis Elstein …. Edward Halsted manufacturers at the Ideal Home Show. It's 1952. Laura Chapel …. Nicola Blake A visit which is made inordinately complicated by Mr Again. Music by Frido Ruth. Wrigglesworth's ambitious travel plans... Professor Quanderhorn (James Fleet) and his crew are besieged Producer: Steve Doherty With Kate Anthony, Paul Copley and Judy Parfitt. by a mob of alien-possessed villagers. Their only hope - a highly- First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002. Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle. With Miles trained spy parrot with a bad attitude (Kevin Eldon) and an TUE 10:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Jupp. irritating gramophone record by the Queen of the Hammond (b00yb1sd) Producer: Katie Tyrrell organ. Episode 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014. Having been permanently fitted with a rather dangerous While Alyosha attends the bedside of the dying Elder, relations MON 23:00 The Now Show (m000t77q) experimental bra, Brian (Ryan Sampson) finally steels himself between Dmitry and his father become ever more dangerous. Series 58 to face the nightmare horrors of the professor's cellar, unaware Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final novel published in Episode 4 that a secret camera is set to expose him. 1880. Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand- Meanwhile, Dr Janussen (Cassie Layton) has discovered a Dramatised by Melissa Murray. up and sketches in front of a remote audience - and all from message from Virginia (Rachel Atkins) revealing the terrible Fyodor Karamazov ...... Roy Marsden their own home! secret that turned her into a broccoli monster. Dmitry ...... Paul Hilton Joining them from a safe distance is Lucy Porter fighting for As Troy (Freddie Fox) and Guuuurk (Kevin Eldon) join the not- Ivan ...... Nicholas Boulton our right to protest, Eshaan Akbar analysing our spending habits quite-romantic pair while fleeing the merciless cellar defences, Alyosha ...... Carl Prekopp and a Beyonce inspired song by Jess Robinson and Felix Hagen. Troy inadvertently presses the wrong lift button and they find The Elder ...... Sam Dale Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 20 – 26 March 2021 Page 6 of 10 Mrs Khoklakova ...... Rachel Atkins The programme is recorded on location at a different First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2000. Lise ...... Emma Noakes University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against TUE 23:00 Bussmann and Quantick Kingsize (b044vhlq) Katerina ...... Juliet Aubrey three of their Professors in an original and fresh take on an Episode 3 Grushenka ...... Katy Cavanagh academic quiz. A fraudulently fat sack of sketches, monologues and weird Smerdyakov ...... Joseph Kloska The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General soup, featuring a puritan vet who dishes out tough love to poorly Grigory ...... Desmond McNamara Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow pets. The Monk ...... Paul Richard Biggin and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the Originally broadcast live from London's exclusive Imperial Father Paisy ...... Philip Fox students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and Rooms, Mayfair. Monks ...... Saikat Ahamed science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, sport, Written and performed by Jane Bussmann and David Quantick. Original music by David Pickvance. and quite possibly Justin Bieber. In addition, the Head-to-Head Also featuring Peter Serafinowicz, Emma Clarke and Steve Directors: Marc Beeby and Colin Guthrie rounds see students take on their Professors in their own Brody. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2006. subjects, offering plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on Producer: Phil Bowker TUE 11:00 Archive on 4 (b0930m3j) both sides. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998. Uses of Literacy Now Other Universities featured in this series include TUE 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jr62) The writer and critic DJ Taylor assesses Richard Hoggart's Gloucestershire, Chester, Birmingham City, Bath and Glasgow. Series 3 masterpiece The Uses of Literacy, a colossal book that inspired Produced by David Tyler. The St Valentine's Day Mastersons a slew of post-war histories, as well as Coronation Street and A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May Budding starlette Genevieve hits seedy 1920s Hollywood. the poet Tony Harrison's 'Them and Uz'. It was the book that 2016. Improvised historical family saga with Paul Merton. From inspired Alan Bennett to write. Hoggart was born into great TUE 16:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cvjvf) August 1995. poverty in Leeds and wrote movingly about this early life and [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] the people - mainly women - who inspired him. A scholarship TUE 17:00 Quanderhorn (b0b91t03) boy, he wrote about the emotional consequences of moving [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WEDNESDAY 24 MARCH 2021 from one class to another. He also offered a searing critique of TUE 17:30 Reluctant Persuaders (m000t4vx) the burgeoning mass media, expressing his concerns that the [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED 00:00 Arthur Schnitzler - Dream Story (m000tfbm) new literacy was in danger of being swamped by a popular press TUE 18:00 Arthur Schnitzler - Dream Story (m000tfbm) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] that carefully suppressed anything liable to encourage readers to Episode 2 WED 00:30 Soul Music (b00tt5hs) think about the environment they inhabit, rather than simply Fridolin, disturbed by the revelation of his wife's fantasy, sets [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] wallow in its material comforts. out into the Viennese night to explore his own desires. WED 01:00 Raffles (m0001mfp) Contributors include the author of Estates and Respectable, An eight-part of Arthur Schnitzler’s ‘Dream Story’, credited as [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] Lynsey Hanley, the historian David Kynaston, the novelist the novella that inspired Stanley Kubrick's last film. WED 01:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr7y) David Lodge and the playwright Alan Bennett. Published in 1925/26, the work was alternately titled ‘Rhapsody’ [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] Producer: Nicola Swords. and, in the original German, ‘Traumnovelle’. WED 02:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b0790pyv) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017. It tells the tale of a young doctor who finds that he must come [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jv86) to terms with his wife's erotic dreams by embarking on a few WED 02:15 Gudrun (b0844cp8) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] escapades of his own – a tale of sexual fantasy, jealousy, [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] TUE 12:30 Rent (b065k7zn) obsession and death... WED 02:30 Sir John Soane At Home (b0075g7y) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Read by Paul Rhys. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] TUE 13:00 Raffles (m0001mfp) Translated by J.M.Q. Davies. WED 03:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Made for BBC7 and first broadcast in September 2003. (b00yb1sd) TUE 13:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr7y) TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b00tt5hs) [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Series 10 WED 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b079nfk8) TUE 14:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b0790pyv) Faure Requiem [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] Episode 2 "He wanted it to be something that's consoling and helpful. It's WED 04:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cvjvf) Claire's job hunt falters as she becomes distracted by family the end of their lives where they can rest in peace". [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] responsibilities and a growing concern about her relationship World renowned choral conductor Sir David Willcocks, shares WED 05:00 Quanderhorn (b0b91t03) with Luke. his personal reflections on the Faure Requiem alongside those [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] The comic debut novel by Lisa Owens, depicting a life for whom the music has comforted and inspired. Known for its WED 05:30 Reluctant Persuaders (m000t4vx) unravelling in minute and spectacular ways - and voicing the peaceful and hopeful nature the Faure Requiem has been called [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] questions we've all asked ourselves but never dared to say out 'The lullaby of death'. Whilst Gabriel Faure himself never WED 06:00 Raffles (m0001ngh) loud. spoke directly about what inspired his interpretation of the Series 2 Thirtysomething Claire Flannery has quit her job to discover Requiem, author and biographer Jessica Duchen has speculated 3. The Field of Philippi her true vocation, only to realise that she has no idea how to go that it may have been born out of his experience as a soldier Making a nostalgic return to their school, Raffles and Bunny about finding it. In her muddled but somehow impeccable logic during the Franco-Prussian war. In this edition of Soul music, meet old enemy, 'Soapy' Sudborough, who owns the local bank she discovers that, 'the more time you have, the less time you personal stories of conflict and deliverance are shared from with his father. have'. As the weeks stretch into months with nothing to show across the decades. Reaching from the beaches of Normandy to Raffles, like Caesar at the field of Philippi, is not one to leave but an overflowing internet search history and a growing rift the plains of Afghanistan and into the skies of Salisbury. old scores unsettled... with her mother, Claire finds herself sinking under the pressure. Faure composed the first version of the work, which he called EW Hornung's Raffles stories about the 'gentleman thief' The author Lisa Owens was born in 1985 and grew up in "un petit Requiem" with five movements, of which the Pie Jesu dramatised by David Buck. Glasgow and Hertfordshire. After graduating, she spent six and In Paradisum have become arguably the most popular. Starring Jeremy Clyde as AJ Raffles, Michael Cochrane as years working in publishing before leaving to complete an MA "Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I Bunny, Bernard Brown as Sudborough, Steve Hodson as in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Not put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from Calthorpe, Adrian Egan as Bodley, John Baddeley as Lapwing, Working is her first novel. beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal Michael Deacon as McNa and James Dykes as Young Bunny. Read by Emily Bruni. rest.". Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. Written by Lisa Owens. Contributors Director: Gordon House Abridged by Robin Brooks. David Willcocks A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. Jessica Duchen in 1988. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. Christina Schmid WED 06:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr8d) TUE 14:15 Gudrun (b0844cp8) Paul Hawkins Episode 13 Series 1 Ross Mallock The Major tries to persuade his prisoner to sign a confession - Episode 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. but will he admit his intentions? Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, must forge her TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jv86) Geoffrey Household's classic British thriller was first published path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939. harshness. Modern re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga. TUE 19:30 Rent (b065k7zn) Read by Michael Jayston. Married off to a much older man, Gudrun is now isolated in a [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Producer: David Jackson Young. remote part of the country. Will she fly or fight? TUE 20:00 Raffles (m0001mfp) Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2004. Gudrun . . . . . Kate Phillips [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED 07:00 Tickets Please (b00nv6nh) Freija . . . . . Samantha Dakin TUE 20:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr7y) Episode 1 Osvif . . . . . John Dougall [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] A wedding party en route to Exeter is delayed by a car on the Thorvald . . . . . Nicholas Murchie TUE 21:00 Archive on 4 (b0930m3j) track. Hallbjorn . . . . . Finlay Robertson [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Railway-based sitcom by comic Mark Maier. Volva . . . . . Karen Bartke TUE 22:00 Reluctant Persuaders (m000t4vx) CAST: By Lucy Catherine [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Robin …. Jeremy Swift Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko TUE 22:30 Revolting People (b007jzgq) Nadine …. Alex Kelly First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016. Series 1 Peter …. Malcom Tierney TUE 14:30 Sir John Soane At Home (b0075g7y) A Helluva Lot of Storm Clouds Diana …. Melissa Advani Rosemary Hill uncovers the hidden history of Sir John Soane's Cora learns she is pregnant, but her marriage isn't Linda/Lady …. Kate Layden museum in London detailed in personal diaries. From January consummated. Keith …. Stephen Hogan 1999. Historical sitcom set in Boston in 1770, written by Andy Carol …. Tessa Nicholson TUE 15:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Hamilton and Jay Tarses. Man One …. Philip Fox (b00yb1sd) CAST: Man Two/William …. Joseph Cohen-Cole [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Samuel Oliphant …. Jay Tarses Producer: Peter Kavanagh TUE 16:00 The 3rd Degree (b079nfk8) Sergeant McGurk …. Andy Hamilton First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009. Series 6 Mary Oliphant …. Sophie Thompson WED 07:30 Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar The University of York Captain Brimshaw …. James Fleet (m000t495) A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this Ezekiel Spriggs …. Hugh Dennis Episode 6 week from the University of York, with specialist subjects Cora Oliphant …. Felicity Montagu Granny Kumar is back! Meera Syal’s glorious comedy creation including History of Art, Theatre, TV and Film Studies and Joshua Oliphant …. Tony Maudsley returns, with her great granddaughter Maya (Ambreen Razia) Physics, and questions ranging from Bartok to La Belle Et La Doctor Rutledge …. Philip Pope and arch nemesis “frenemy” Geeta (Harvey Virdi) to chat with Bête via David Bowie and the Chinese Renmimbi. Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer the sisters. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 20 – 26 March 2021 Page 7 of 10 Left alone while her family are stuck in quarantine on a world Makarov ...... Mark Straker Presenter and single girl-about-town Karen will take a leaf out cruise, Granny Kumar decides to host her own series, born out Andrey ...... Philip Fox of Helen Gurley Brown's study on "how to stay single in of frustration at seeing or hearing the same old parade of guests Trifon ...... Paul Richard Biggin superlative style" and will meet the writers, journalists, film and on chat shows (mainly male, pale and stale). Musialowicz ...... Sam Dale TV personalities it has inspired along the way, including Mad She wonders why no one interviews any of the sisters and asks Constable ...... Saikat Ahamed Men creator Mathew Weiner. them about their extraordinary, complex and uplifting stories. Revellers ...... Miranda Keeling/ Bethan Walker A fun, cheeky and sexy look at the changing status of the single So, Gossip and Goddesses is born – Ummi Kumar gathers Original music by David Pickvance. woman through the five decades from its 1962 publication, as together her favourite inspirational women at Wembley Directors: Marc Beeby and Colin Guthrie expressed through the books, TV and films "Sex and the Single Community Centre, aided by her millennial great granddaughter First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2006. Girl" has inspired. Maya and her arch nemesis “frenemy” Geeta, leader of the local WED 11:00 Sisters in Satire: The Pioneering Women of Producer: Rose de Larrabeiti Asian Ladies Silver Bats community group. Comedy (m000tf7d) A Whistledown production The show is a women-only party, where they share stories, 3. Looking at Linda and Where's the F in News First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. laugh loads and chew the fat/dish the dirt/eat the biscuits… From the dawn of broadcast comedy, women played a vital but WED 15:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov A blend of sitcom, silliness and improvised chat, led by the best largely overlooked role; more in the background rather than the (b00yb5ch) kind of interviewers who know how to make anyone talk - two forefront. What impact did the sisters of satire from the 60’s [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] really nosy old Indian women. and 70’s have on the comedy we know today and what was their WED 16:00 Heresy (b07dm2pn) Guests: cultural influence? In the less enlightened sixties and seventies, [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Doctor Who star Mandip Gill and Evening Standard Best women were often the butt of the joke, rather than making WED 16:30 Snap (b00td5sb) Actress award winner Josette Simon them. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Cast: Just because they weren’t the stars of the show didn’t mean their WED 17:00 Tickets Please (b00nv6nh) Ummi Kumar – Meera Syal influence wasn’t felt. June Whitfield, Eleanor Bron and Miriam [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] Geeta Bhandari – Harvey Virdi Margolyes were all quietly but firmly making their name in WED 17:30 Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar Maya Kumar – Ambreen Razia comedies such as The Glums, The Establishment Club and The (m000t495) Written by Meera Syal Betty Witherspoon Show. These women paved the way for [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Music by Sanjeev Bhaskar and Meera Syal comedians and actors such as Jan Ravens, Meera Syal and WED 18:00 Arthur Schnitzler - Dream Story (m000tf7g) Producer: Liz Anstee Linda Smith. Episode 3 A CPL production for BBC Radio 4 Samira Ahmed in conversation with actor and director Arabella A chance meeting and an old friend tells Fridolin of a secret WED 08:00 Life With The Lyons (m0002056) Weir, former radio producer and novelist Lissa Evans discusses masked ball where revellers cavort with beautiful naked I Don't Know What to Get Her some of the best sitcoms from the Radio 4 archives and listen women. Barbara’s worried about her brother’s risqué new girlfriend. again to the The Betty Witherspoon Show, Week Ending and An eight-part of Arthur Schnitzler’s ‘Dream Story’, credited as What will his parents think? Victoria Wood – As Seen On TV and assess the impact these the novella that inspired Stanley Kubrick's last film. Starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Barbara Lyon, Richard Lyon, funny women have had on contemporary comedy and the extent Published in 1925/26, the work was alternately titled ‘Rhapsody’ Horace Percival, Doris Rogers, Molly Weir, David Enders, of their satirical legacy. and, in the original German, ‘Traumnovelle’. Barbara Blair and Brian Smith. Producer: Belinda Naylor It tells the tale of a young doctor who finds that he must come Written by Bebe Daniels, Bob Block and Ronnie Hanbury. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first heard in November to terms with his wife's erotic dreams by embarking on a few Music by the BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Paul 2019. escapades of his own – a tale of sexual fantasy, jealousy, Fenoulhet. WED 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (b04prn2x) obsession and death... Producer: Tom Ronald [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] Read by Paul Rhys. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December WED 12:00 Life With The Lyons (m0002056) Translated by J.M.Q. Davies. 1951. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Made for BBC7 and first broadcast in September 2003. WED 08:30 Alison and Maud (b007k1w7) WED 12:30 Alison and Maud (b007k1w7) WED 18:30 Short Cuts (m0001mf1) Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Series 17 Fishing for Compliments WED 13:00 Raffles (m0001ngh) The Gloaming Is there something fishy about Bernard, apart from his VAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Josie Long presents new short documentaries on searching for returns? WED 13:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr8d) hope in the gathering darkness. First of two series of Sue Limb's Bed and Breakfast sitcom [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] John McCarthy and Brian Keenan look back on a single act of about sisters Alison and Maud and their guests at the WED 14:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b0790q5c) human kindness that glows amid much darker memories, a late Abbeyfield Guest House in Norwich. Episode 3 night conversation explores the hope bound up in playing the CAST: Claire is at a loss as to how to put things right with her mother, lottery, and we hear as voices fade in a Danish hospice. Alison …. Denise Coffey who is refusing to take her calls. The Gloaming Maud …. Miriam Margolyes Lisa Owens' comic debut, depicting a life unravelling in minute Featuring John McCarthy and Brian Keenan Father …. Joss Ackland and spectacular ways. Produced by Geoff Bird Mr Mullett …. Chris Emmett Thirtysomething Claire Flannery has quit her job to discover Fading Bernard …. Geoffrey Whitehead her true vocation, only to realise that she has no idea how to go Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen Marina …. Phyllida Nash about finding it. As the weeks stretch into months with nothing The Lottery Producer: Jonathan James-Moore to show but an overflowing internet search history and a Produced by Phoebe Wang First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2002. growing rift with her mother, Claire finds herself sinking under Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall WED 09:00 Heresy (b07dm2pn) the pressure. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 Series 10 Read by Emily Bruni. WED 19:00 Life With The Lyons (m0002056) Episode 4 Written by Lisa Owens. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show Abridged by Robin Brooks. WED 19:30 Alison and Maud (b007k1w7) which dares to commit heresy. Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Her guests this week are newspaper columnist Julia Hartley- First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. WED 20:00 Raffles (m0001ngh) Brewer, TV presenter Richard Osman and food critic, television WED 14:15 Gudrun (b0844sl1) [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] presenter and novelist Giles Coren. They discuss David Bowie, Series 1 WED 20:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr8d) iceberg houses and The Great British Bake Off. Episode 3 [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, must forge her WED 21:00 Sisters in Satire: The Pioneering Women of 2016. path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising Comedy (m000tf7d) WED 09:30 Snap (b00td5sb) harshness. Modern re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga. [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Series 1 Love is rekindled when Gudrun is visited by old friends. WED 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (b04prn2x) Episode 1 Gudrun . . . . . Kate Phillips [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday] When a couple have history, how can they ever be history? Freija . . . . . Samantha Dakin WED 22:00 Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar Molly and Doug are separating but as he's only moving a few Bolli . . . . . Gavi Singh Chera (m000t495) streets away, can they make a clean break? Kjartan . . . . . Luke MacGregor [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Written by Mendelson. Hallbjorn . . . . . Finlay Robertson WED 22:30 Elvenquest (b00w22h6) CAST: Sailor . . . . . Nicholas Murchie Series 2 Molly …. Rebecca Lacey By Lucy Catherine Episode 2 Doug …. Paul Venables Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko Amis' over-eating has forced him to put on weight. Which Kaz …. Soumaya Keynes First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2016. would be fine, were it not for the fact that he is the "Chosen Ryan …. Jessie Sullivan WED 14:30 Sex and the Single Girl (b018flpg) One" and everyone knows Chosen Ones cannot be seen to be Scarlet …. Rebecca Front Helen Gurley Brown, who died in August, was perhaps best too pudgy. He is a role model after all. So the Questers take him Mrs Lonsdale …. Marlene Sidaway known for her long editorship of US Cosmopolitan Magazine. to see the sorcerer, Dietica, where he is put on a punishing new Ansel …. Richard Firth She took a failing literary rag and turned it into the slick, sexy regime - along with the rest of our noble band of heroes. Producer: David Ian Neville ladies' glossy we know today. Before that she wrote a ground- But, as ever, danger lurks round every corner in Lower Earth First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003. breaking guide for the unmarried professional woman, "Sex and and it is not long until Dietica reveals his true plans for the WED 10:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov the Single Girl". First published in 1962, it encouraged women Questers. And it involves more than just staying away from (b00yb5ch) to embrace the single life and offered advice from make-up to carbs. Episode 3 having an affair. It got more than a few people hot under the CAST: Following the violent encounter at the Karamazov home, collar. Sam …. Stephen Mangan Dmitry flees the town in search of Grushenka. Fifty years on, Karen Krizanovich delves into the story behind Lord Darkness …. Alistair McGowan Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final novel published in the writing of the book and charts the enormous impact it had Dietica …. Sanjeev Bhaskar 1880. and continues to have today. "Sex and the Single Girl" sold two Dean/Kreech …. Kevin Eldon Dramatised by Melissa Murray. million copies in three weeks and went on to influence some of Vidar …. Darren Boyd Dmitry ...... Paul Hilton the greatest success stories of recent decades - Bridget Jones's Amis – The Chosen One …. Dave Lamb Grushenka ...... Katy Cavanagh Diary, Sex and the City and Mad Men among them. The success Penthiselea …. Sophie Winkleman Alyosha ...... Carl Prekopp of the book then landed Helen Gurley Brown the role of Editor- Writers: Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto Lise ...... Emma Noakes in-Chief of Cosmopolitan in the mid-sixties. She went on to Producer: Sam Michell Mrs Khoklakova ...... Rachel Atkins create the "Cosmo girl" and defined the magazine's now First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. Grigory ...... Desmond McNamara instantly recognizable style of lipsticks and sex tips. WED 23:00 Radio Active (b007jy95) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 20 – 26 March 2021 Page 8 of 10 Series 3 Executive Producer: Richard Wilson Walker/ Miranda Keeling Euroshow A Hat Trick production Original music by David Pickvance. Britain's first national local radio station goes continental with First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018. Directors: Marc Beeby and Colin Guthrie reporters in Berlin, Paris and Madrid. Stars Angus Deayton. THU 07:30 Meet David Sedaris (m000t6lt) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2006. Let's go Eurowide with a great big Eurowelcome in Germany, Series 8 THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000tppw) France and Italy for the first ever Euroshow. Broadcasting to Instalment 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] over 12,000,000 Eurohomes in unforgettable Eurosound. What with the whole world grinding to a viral halt and THU 11:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00yrg3g) Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey everything, this special series of essays and diary entries is [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. recorded at the Sussex home of the world-renowned storyteller. THU 12:00 Round the Horne (b00hzphb) Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. With Jon In 2021, it's 25 years since David Sedaris first shared his very [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Canter, Moray Hunter and John Docherty. particular world view with the listeners to BBC Radio 4, having THU 12:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four (b013plyd) Producer: Jamie Rix brought us The SantaLand Diaries back in 1996. In this eighth [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1983. series of Meet David Sedaris, he continues to entertain with THU 13:00 Raffles (m0001p33) WED 23:30 Weak at the Top (b00tgch7) sardonic wit and incisive social critiques. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Series 2 David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent THU 13:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr8w) Booty humour writers and, in 2019, was elected to the American [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] John Weak reveals the feminist metatext of a chocolate bar ad Academy of Arts and Letters. The great skill with which he THU 14:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b0790qc5) that features a bikini-clad model with lips that could suck the slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness Episode 4 hair shirt off a Benedictine monk at 50 yards. proves that he's a master of satire and one of the most observant Claire's mother is still not speaking to her, despite her father's Randy, devious, sexist and workshy, John Weak puts the man writers addressing the human condition today. best efforts to bring the two together. into management – in Guy Browning’s sitcom. Sedaris's first book, Barrel Fever (1994), which included The Thirtysomething Claire Flannery is no closer to finding her true Starring Alexander Armstrong as marketing maestro and "totty" SantaLand Diaries, was a critical and commercial success, as vocation. It doesn't help that she's increasingly distracted from magnet John Weak. were his follow-up efforts, Naked (1997), Holidays on Ice her job search by the growing (and hurtful) rift with her mother Hayley ...... Clare Perkins (1997) and Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000). He became known – following Claire's revelation that her grandfather exposed Sir Marcus ...... Geoffrey Whitehead for his bitingly funny recollections of his youth, family life and himself to her when she was little. As weeks stretch into Bill Peters ...... Ron Cook travels, making semi-celebrities out of his parents and siblings. months, she has little to show but an overflowing internet search Sasha ...... Tracy Wiles David Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammy Awards history and the prospect of spending her first Christmas without Tibet ...... Adjoa Andoh for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. His latest her family. Ski Guy ...... Kim Wall international best-selling books include a collection of stories Read by Emily Bruni. Producer: Jonquil Panting entitled Calypso, an edited selection of diary entries Theft By Written by Lisa Owens. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2006. Finding, and a 'greatest hits' selection called The Best Of Me. Abridged by Robin Brooks. Producer: Steve Doherty Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. THURSDAY 25 MARCH 2021 THU 08:00 Round the Horne (b00hzphb) THU 14:15 Gudrun (b0844tfg) Series 1 Series 1 THU 00:00 Arthur Schnitzler - Dream Story (m000tf7g) Episode 11 Episode 4 [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] Kenneth Horne, Master Spy battles for Britain - and Bona Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, must forge her THU 00:30 Short Cuts (m0001mf1) Homes with Julian and Sandy. path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill harshness. Modern re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga. THU 01:00 Raffles (m0001ngh) Pertwee. Now twice a widow, Gudrun is under threat when her uncles [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, begin to eye her large estate. A husband would ward them off. THU 01:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr8d) London. Announcer: Douglas Smith Gudrun . . . . . Kate Phillips [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio Freija . . . . . Samantha Dakin THU 02:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b0790q5c) comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Bolli . . . . . Gavi Singh Chera [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Thordis . . . . . Alison Belbin THU 02:15 Gudrun (b0844sl1) Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the Olaf . . . . . John Bowler [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and Hakkan . . . . . David Sterne THU 02:30 Sex and the Single Girl (b018flpg) 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, Sigrid . . . . . Rosa Yevtushenko [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] catchphrases and double-entendres. By Lucy Catherine THU 03:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko (b00yb5ch) Hayes Four. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016. [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] Producer: John Simmonds THU 14:30 Motown - Speaking In The Streets (b03nt8wt) THU 04:00 Heresy (b07dm2pn) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1965. In 1970, Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, set up a Motown [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU 08:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four (b013plyd) spoken word label. It was called Black Forum and recorded THU 04:30 Snap (b00td5sb) Freedom Is Choice poetry, civil rights speeches, African-American soldiers in [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] Sub-Officer Edward Wilson probes a mysterious incident in Vietnam and more. The label closed in 1973 after eight THU 05:00 Tickets Please (b00nv6nh) Cumbria. Orwellian sitcom starring Robert Lindsay. From releases. Those releases have started to attract interest with [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] March 1985. some reissued. They stand as a powerful testament to the THU 05:30 Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar THU 09:00 Genius (b0082b9x) African-American experience at a turbulent time in America. (m000t495) Series 3 The financial educator and spoken word record collector Alvin [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] Gyles Brandreth Hall listens to the recordings and talks to those involved in their THU 06:00 Raffles (m0001p33) A conveyor duvet for quibbling couples? Loaning out our royals creation. Series 2 abroad? Programme Contributors: 4. A Bad Night Dave Gorman asks author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth to Theatre Director and Producer Woodie King Jr., Producer of Raffles' plans to avenge a friend by robbing a private house in select the public's best loopy idea. “Black Spirits: Festival of New Poets in America”, and “It’s Hampton Court are thwarted by a prior engagement at Old Award-winning comedian Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest Nation Time: African Visionary Music” Trafford, to play in the second test cricket match against chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius Professor Suzanne E Smith, author of "Dancing in the Street: Australia. inventions, schemes and policies of the public. Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit" Bunny, however, nobly steps into the breach... Producer: Simon Nicholls Pat Thomas, author of "Listen Whitey: The Sights and Sounds Starring Jeremy Clyde as AJ Raffles, Michael Cochrane as First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007. of Black Power 1965 – 1975" Bunny Manders, Anton Lesser as Medlicott and John Baddeley THU 09:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b00k89mr) Elaine Brown, singer/songwriter of the album “Elaine Brown” as the Police Officer. Series 3 and former leader of the Black Panthers EW Hornung's Raffles stories about the 'gentleman thief' Murder Most Rewritten Suzanne de Passe, former Creative Director and President of dramatised by David Buck. After sending abusive emails, the hack vents his spleen Motown Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. corporate script writing. Amiri Baraka, star of “Black Spirits: Festival of New Poets in Director: Gordon House Stars Christopher Douglas. America”, “It’s Nation Time: African Visionary Music” and A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast Produced by Simon Nicholls. civil rights activist, poet, and writer in 1988. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007. Black Forum releases: THU 06:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr8w) THU 10:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Dr Martin Luther King Jr. – Why I Oppose The War In Episode 14 (b00ybxz9) Vietnam With only a crudely made weapon, can the fugitive escape his Episode 4 Stokely Carmichael – Free Huey underground dugout and elude his captors? As Dmitry goes on trial for the murder of his father, Alyosha Langston Hughes and Margaret Danner – Writers Of The Geoffrey Household's classic British thriller was first published desperately seeks proof of his innocence. Revolution shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939. Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final novel published in Guess Who’s Coming Home – Black Fighting Men Recorded Read by Michael Jayston. 1880. Live In Vietnam Producer: David Jackson Young. Dramatised by Melissa Murray. Ossie Davis and Bill Cosby – Address The Congressional Black Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2004. Dmitry ...... Paul Hilton Caucus THU 07:00 Rob Newman (b0bk1llx) Ivan ...... Nicholas Boulton Black Spirits - Festival of New Black Poets in America Rob Newman's Total Eclipse of Descartes Alyosha ...... Carl Prekopp Imamu Amiri Baraka – It’s Nation Time If a Tree Falls in a Forest... Mrs Khoklakova ...... Rachel Atkins Elaine Brown – Elaine Brown One of Britain's finest comedians Rob Newman sets his sights Katerina ...... Juliet Aubrey Producer Ekene Akalawu on the world of philosophy, unpicking 3000 years of good and Grushenka ...... Katy Cavanagh First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. bad ideas to discover how we got into this mess. In a world gone Smerdyakov ...... Joseph Kloska THU 15:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov mad can philosophy provide the answer? Grigory ...... Desmond McNamara (b00ybxz9) In episode two, Rob does battle with Jean-Paul Sartre and the Judge ...... Ian Masters [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] existentialists. Prosecutor ...... Philip Fox THU 16:00 Genius (b0082b9x) Written and performed by Rob Newman Fetyokovich ...... Mark Straker [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Edited by John Whitehall Devil ...... Sam Dale THU 16:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b00k89mr) Produced by Jon Harvey Spectators ...... Paul Richard Biggin/ Saikat Ahamed/ Bethan [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 20 – 26 March 2021 Page 9 of 10 THU 17:00 Rob Newman (b0bk1llx) In this week's episode a parallel earth is obliterated when Ian for commissioners to decide they want more working class [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] inadvertently mucks up global religion. voices. He has now quit the oat milk lattes, drawn a nike tick on THU 17:30 Meet David Sedaris (m000t6lt) With a full-range of sound effects and wonderfully funny and to his chinos and re-adopted the glottle stop. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] surreal twists, iGOD will be a true aural extravaganza. In this stand-up comedy performance, Jacob dissects his THU 18:00 Arthur Schnitzler - Dream Story (m000tfh2) Written by Sean Gray journey from working class banter boy to Inner-London Episode 4 Producer: Simon Nicholls feminist. This is politics for idiots, feminism for lads, love Fridolin has endangered his marriage and reputation on the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. stories for louts and self-care for those who don't bother. streets of Vienna, but now risks his own life pursuing his THU 23:30 Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun (b007k1z6) Are blokes dismissed as bad-feminists purely because they lack fantasy. Greenwich the correct language? Are working class people's mental health An eight-part of Arthur Schnitzler’s ‘Dream Story’, credited as Driving instructors, pornography and a surprise from problems dismissed because our society values tortured artists the novella that inspired Stanley Kubrick's last film. Supermarket Sweep's TV host, Dale Winton. over tortured cleaners? And most importantly, is it even worth Published in 1925/26, the work was alternately titled ‘Rhapsody’ From Greenwich University, London. going to a protest if you don’t tell everyone about it? and, in the original German, ‘Traumnovelle’. Stewart Lee and Richard Herring’s mix of sharp sketches and Written and performed by Jacob Hawley It tells the tale of a young doctor who finds that he must come situations, stand up topical gags and banter. Produced by Daisy Knight to terms with his wife's erotic dreams by embarking on a few With Peter Baynham, Rebecca Front and John Thomson. An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4 escapades of his own – a tale of sexual fantasy, jealousy, Special guest: Dale Winton FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jl9m) obsession and death... Lee and Herring went to write and star in their successful TV Series 1 Read by Paul Rhys. transfer to BBC Two in 1995. Command Decision Translated by J.M.Q. Davies. Cult BBC Radio 1 series first broadcast in November 1993. Captain Mainwaring gets an offer of weapons for the platoon, Made for BBC7 and first broadcast in September 2003. but there's a catch... THU 18:30 Great Lives (b07m5ny0) Six years after legendary sitcom Dad's Army started on BBC Hilary Devey on Gracie Fields FRIDAY 26 MARCH 2021 TV, these specially adapted radio versions began recording with A singer, comedian, music hall and film star from Rochdale, the original cast. Gracie Fields was the nation’s darling. But in the midst of FRI 00:00 Arthur Schnitzler - Dream Story (m000tfh2) Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le World War II, and at the phenomenal peak of her career, our [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, great life fell in love and married an Italian and had to flee to FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b07m5ny0) John Laurie as Private Fraser, James Beck as Private Walker, America. She was disowned by the British public who called [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] Geoffrey Lumsden as Colonel Square, David Sinclair as the her a deserter and she was slated in every newspaper. FRI 01:00 Raffles (m0001p33) Driver and John Snagge as the announcer. Championing this week’s Great Life is businesswoman and TV [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] Adapted from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's original BBC TV personality Hilary Devey known to viewers of BBC 2's Dragons' FRI 01:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr8w) scripts by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad. Den and Channel 4's The Intern. Helping her to unravel the life [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] Producer: John Dyas of Gracie Fields is Sebastian Lassandro, President of the Dame FRI 02:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b0790qc5) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1974. Gracie Fields Appreciation Society. [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI 08:30 The Alan Davies Show (b0089kpx) Presenter Matthew Parris FRI 02:15 Gudrun (b0844tfg) Episode 4 Producer Perminder Khatkar [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] The struggling actor and mate Murray try out a global food First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2016. FRI 02:30 Motown - Speaking In The Streets (b03nt8wt) café, while Kate has a bad day. With Ronnie Ancona. From THU 19:00 Round the Horne (b00hzphb) [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] June 1998. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI 03:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov FRI 09:00 It's Not What You Know (b01cwvbf) THU 19:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four (b013plyd) (b00ybxz9) Series 1 [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] Episode 3 THU 20:00 Raffles (m0001p33) FRI 04:00 Genius (b0082b9x) Miles Jupp hosts the show in which it's not what you know that [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] matters, but who. And more importantly, how well you know THU 20:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr8w) FRI 04:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b00k89mr) them. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] Roisin Conaty, Ed Byrne and Richard Madeley nominate one of THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m000tppw) FRI 05:00 Rob Newman (b0bk1llx) their intimate circle to answer a series of questions and they [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] then have to second-guess how their nominees responded. THU 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00yrg3g) FRI 05:30 Meet David Sedaris (m000t6lt) Roisin picks her best friend, Caroline, Ed chooses his mum, Jill, [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] and Richard Madeley opts for his daughter, Chloe - all with THU 22:00 Meet David Sedaris (m000t6lt) FRI 06:00 Raffles (m0001p3l) varying degrees of success. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Series 2 The panel also have to try and predict the responses of THU 22:30 The World of Simon Rich (b07cynng) 5. A Trap To Catch A Cracksman legendary football commentator, John Motson, as he is asked Series 1 When an American pugilist boasts of inventing a trap to catch "what's your favourite film?", "what would you have been if Episode 1 the cleverest cracksman alive, it’s a challenge Raffles is quite you weren't a football commentator?" and "which other famous Simon Rich has been Saturday Night Live's youngest writer, a unable to resist - with disastrous consequences. TV coat-wearer would you be? The Fonz, Columbo, or staff writer for Pixar and a regular contributor to The New Starring Jeremy Clyde as AJ Raffles, Michael Cochrane as Paddington Bear?" Yorker - as well as one of the funniest short story writers of his Bunny, Henry Stamper as Inspector Mackenzie, Alan Tilvern as Producer: Sam Michell. generation. Now he brings his enchanting, absurd world to radio Maguire, Peter Banks as Hambone, Michael Deacon as First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012. with his first British comedy show. Cruncher, Frances Jeater as Ruby and Alan Dudley as the FRI 09:30 Fat Chance (b019m4rs) The series takes us across time and space, from the design of Cabby. Celebrity Square the universe and prehistoric love triangles to the terrors of life EW Hornung's Raffles stories about the 'gentleman thief' Graham becomes Tina Tattersall's escort for the night in a bid as an unused condom inside a teenager’s wallet. dramatised by David Buck. to make her errant husband jealous - and the rest of the Performing the stories alongside Simon is a cast of UK comic Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. slimming club have some surprising news. talent, starring Peter Serafinowicz and Tim Key, with Cariad Director: Gordon House Jenny McDade's high-fat bittersweet comedy for those Lloyd, Jamie Demetriou, Joseph Morpurgo and Claire Price. A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast believing there's a thin person inside them begging to get out. Producer: Jon Harvey in 1988. Graham Pitscottie ..... Gareth Corke Executive Producer: Richard Wilson FRI 06:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr9c) Wendy Bottomley ..... Janine Duvitski A Hat Trick production Episode 15 Clive Bottomley ..... Michael Troughton First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. The anonymous would-be assassin is on his way out of the Soo Pitscottie ..... Anne Reid THU 23:00 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme country - but what does his future hold? Tina Tattersall ..... Julia Deakin (b05n17yz) Geoffrey Household's classic British thriller was first published Kelly Chambers ..... Tilly Gaunt Series 3 shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939. Lee Dubs ..... Harry Myers Horror Concluded by Michael Jayston. Mrs Enright ..... Frances Jeater This week Tim gets to the bottom of the concept of horror, by Producer: David Jackson Young. Producer: Sally Avens attempting to scare the wits out of his long-suffering musician, Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2004. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1999. Tom Basden. And by reading poems. Last in the series. FRI 07:00 Clare in the Community (b0832fpz) FRI 10:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Written and presented by Tim Key Series 11 (b00yc3jw) With Tom Basden and Katy Wix Hell on Wheels Episode 5 Produced by James Robinson Episode 2 - Hell On Wheels Following Ivan's dramatic appearance at his brother's trial, A BBC Cymru Wales Production. It's 'Disability Awareness Day' so Clare has taken it upon Katerina prepares to deal Dmitry a fatal blow. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2015. herself to raise awareness. Back at home, Nali has plans to Conclusion of Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's final novel THU 23:15 iGod (b00xhjry) become an internet sensation. published in 1880. Religion Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the Dramatised by Melissa Murray. iGOD is a highly original and funny new late-night comedy right jargon but never a practical solution. Dmitry ...... Paul Hilton series for Radio 4. It stars Simon Day (The Fast Show) and A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in Ivan ...... Nicholas Boulton David Soul (Starsky & Hutch) and is written by one of the head other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Alyosha ...... Carl Prekopp writers of the BAFTA award-winning The Thick Of It, Sean Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all Katerina ...... Juliet Aubrey Gray and produced by Simon Nicholls (Ed Reardon's Week / of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her. Grushenka ...... Katy Cavanagh News At Bedtime). Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control Lise ...... Emma Noakes We all worry about the end of the world, as economists and both her professional and private life In today's Big Society Mrs Khoklakova ...... Rachel Atkins environmentalists speak in apocalyptic terms everyday. iGOD there are plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring Grigory ...... Desmond McNamara says that trying to predict the end of the world is as pointless as social worker. Or even Clare. Devil ...... Sam Dale moisturising an elephant's elbow. Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden Judge ...... Ian Masters In each episode, an unnamed, all-seeing narrator (David Soul - Producer Alexandra Smith Prosecutor ...... Philip Fox Starsky and Hutch) shows us that it is stupid to be worrying, as A BBC Studios production. Fetyukovich ...... Mark Straker he looks back at some of the most entertaining apocalypses on FRI 07:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000tcl3) Bystanders ...... Paul Richard Biggin/ Saikat Ahamed parallel Earths. Jacob Hawley: Class Act Original music by David Pickvance. Each week the population of a different parallel world is Stevenage soft lad Jacob Hawley left his hometown behind a Directors: Marc Beeby and Colin Guthrie accidentally wiped out by an ordinary bloke called IAN (Simon decade ago and has ascended Britain's social class system, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Decenber 2006. Day). moving to London and forging a career in comedy - just in time FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000tg82) Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Extra Listings for 20 – 26 March 2021 Page 10 of 10 Podcasts To Play Along With hosts. Laura Grimshaw and Chris Pearson pick out the best podcasts An eight-part of Arthur Schnitzler’s ‘Dream Story’, credited as you can play along with, chock full of quizzes, panel shows and the novella that inspired Stanley Kubrick's last film. trivia. With special guests Ed Gamble from the Taskmaster Published in 1925/26, the work was alternately titled ‘Rhapsody’ podcast, husband-and-wife-quizzers Lucy Porter and Justin and, in the original German, ‘Traumnovelle’. Edwards from Plenty Questions, and we go behind the scenes of It tells the tale of a young doctor who finds that he must come Radio 2's Popmaster. to terms with his wife's erotic dreams by embarking on a few FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jl9m) escapades of his own – a tale of sexual fantasy, jealousy, [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] obsession and death... FRI 12:30 The Alan Davies Show (b0089kpx) Read by Paul Rhys. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Translated by J.M.Q. Davies. FRI 13:00 Raffles (m0001p3l) Made for BBC7 and first broadcast in September 2003. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI 18:30 Off the Page (b00lbt3r) FRI 13:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr9c) Falling on Your Sword [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] Has something happened to the ideas of honour, dignity, duty FRI 14:00 Not Working by Lisa Owens (b0790qlv) and virtue? Are people less willing to fall on their swords than Episode 5 they used to do? Is it admirable, anyway, to admit defeat? No closer to finding her true vocation, Claire spends a Political journalist Anthony Howard, author and broadcaster disastrous weekend with Luke and his parents. Anne Atkins and journalist Toby Young join Dominic Thirtysomething Claire Flannery is no closer to finding her true Arkwright to explore the subject through their writing. vocation. It doesn't help that she's increasingly distracted from Producer: Beatrice Fenton. her job search by a growing (and hurtful) rift with her mother – First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009. following Claire's revelation that her grandfather exposed FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jl9m) himself to her when she was little. In the hope that a change of [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] scene will help relieve some pressure, she and her partner Luke FRI 19:30 The Alan Davies Show (b0089kpx) spend a weekend with his parents. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Read by Emily Bruni. FRI 20:00 Raffles (m0001p3l) Written by Lisa Owens. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Abridged by Robin Brooks. FRI 20:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr9c) Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016. FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m000tg82) FRI 14:15 Gudrun (b0844vfx) [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] Series 1 FRI 22:00 Stand-Up Specials (m000tcl3) Episode 5 [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] Gudrun, a young woman in 11th century Iceland, must forge her FRI 22:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b01nwbhk) path through a world of unearthly beauty yet uncompromising Series 3 harshness. Modern re-telling of classic Icelanders' saga. Episode 1 Gudrun’s blissful life is interrupted when her childhood The Kapoors visit a stately home, food for thought from Smeeta sweetheart returns from abroad, bringing with him a new wife. Smitten, Showbiz Kitten and why the royal family are Indian... Gudrun . . . . . Kate Phillips Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Nina Freija . . . . . Samantha Dakin Wadia. Bolli . . . . . Gavi Singh Chera Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch Kjartan . . . . . Luke MacGregor comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to Olaf . . . . . John Bowler 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC TWO from 1998 to Vigdis . . . . . Finlay Robertson 2001. Hrefna . . . . . Natasha Cowley Scripted by Richard Pinto, Sharat Sardana, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Sigrid . . . . . Rosa Yevtushenko Bhaskar and Sanjeev Kohli. By Lucy Catherine Script Editor: Sharat Sardana Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko Producer: Anil Gupta. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998. FRI 14:30 Hemingway Days (b013f96m) FRI 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b00c6jfr) Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway, who together launched the Series 5 Red or Dead label, have long been admirers of Robin and Moral Leadership Lucienne Day, a husband and wife design team from another Hell is close to bursting, so to stem the flow Satan ponders his era. entry policy. Wayne looks back at the impact of Robin and Lucienne Day on The fifth series of Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell. post war Britain and how they emerged from the FOB to It's not easy being Satan. Thrown out of heaven by a vengeful, spearhead our understanding of modern design. white-haired God merely for daring to voice the concerns of He talks to colleagues, friends and family about their vision and middle management and condemned for all eternity to listen to their drive and explores some of the less well known areas of Edith Piaf and Elvis Presley. Satan may rule the roost, but he's their personal lives and their creative partnership. beset by the poor unfortunates condemned to sit out Eternity Lucienne was a textile designer. Inspired by abstract art, she with him pioneered the use of bright, optimistic, abstract patterns. CAST: Robin was a furniture designer best known for his injection Satan …. Andy Hamilton moulded polypropylene stacking chair, of which over 20 million Scumspawn …. Robert Duncan have been manufactured. Thomas …. Jimmy Mulville The Days shared a vision of good, affordable design for all. God …. David Swift Together they established themselves as Britain's most The Professor …. James Grout celebrated post-war designer couple, and have often been Other characters played by Philip Pope, Nick Revell and compared to their US contemporaries, Charles Eames and Ray Michael Fenton Stevens Eames. Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer But despite their growing fame in the 50s and 60s they First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005. remained uncomfortable with the public attention they received. FRI 23:30 I Think I've Got a Problem (b00cm91h) They shared a passion for nature and spent more and more time Series 2 outdoors. Lucienne drew much of her inspiration from plants Episode 4 and flowers and Robin was a talented and obsessive mountain After falling over and knocking himself out, Tom - and the climber. band in his head - awakes to find himself in a strange world In this programme Wayne reflects on the many layers to Robin where castrati singers are all the rage... and Lucienne and, with his wife Gerardine, he draws on their Andrew McGibbon and Nick Romero's everyday story about a own experiences of working as a husband and wife creative man who can't stop himself from breaking into song. team. CAST: Producer: Sarah Cuddon Tom Caine …. Suggs A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in Dr Boone …. Bob Monkhouse August 2011. Bouche …. Phil Cornwell FRI 15:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Jake …. Andrew McGibbon (b00yc3jw) Monty DeVere …. Nick Romero [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] Malc …. Bill Nighy FRI 16:00 It's Not What You Know (b01cwvbf) Phelia …. Julia Deakin [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Clammy …. Toby Longworth FRI 16:30 Fat Chance (b019m4rs) Pi …. Debra Stephenson [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] Songs: Andrew McGibbon. Nick Romero and Suggs FRI 17:00 Clare in the Community (b0832fpz) Producers: Andrew McGibbon and Dawn Ellis. [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2003. FRI 17:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000tcl3) [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI 18:00 Arthur Schnitzler - Dream Story (m000tg86) Episode 5 Having infiltrated a secret masked ball where the female revellers are naked, Fridolin is discovered and must face his Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/

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