Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28 March – 3 April 2015 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 28 MARCH 2015 2: the COLLECTED POEMS by Norman Maccaig Will Scarlet
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Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28 March – 3 April 2015 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 28 MARCH 2015 2: THE COLLECTED POEMS by Norman MacCaig Will Scarlet ...... Henry Stamper 3: THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE by Agatha Christie Alan-a-Dale ...... Nigel Anthony SAT 00:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children 4: SEXUAL POLITICS by Kate Millett Friar ...... Alan Dudley (b007jn5v) 5: INDEMNITY ONLY by Sara Paretsky. Much ...... Timothy Bateson Episode 5 Produced by Mike Walker. Characters in Ballads: Tom plans a third marriage to Elizabeth, but how will they cope First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. Bishop of Hereford ...... Timothy Bateson with his possessive daughter? SAT 02:00 Detective (b01s5l3b) Bishop of Pontefract ...... Steve Hodson Joanna Trollope's novel about the traumas and delights of Series 3 Scarlock ...... David Peart adjusting to a step-family. 5. Murder of a Shy Girl Much ...... James Bryce Read by Penelope Wilton. Reclusive Joan is found dead, but Detectives Brook and Tully The Sheriff ...... Michael Bilton Abridged in ten parts by Pat McLoughlin. wonder how solitary her life really was... Monk/Foster ...... Peter Tuddenham Producer: Di Speirs Starring Ray Brooks and Stephen Garlick. Prioress ...... Simon Hunt First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. More tough stories of crime and detection in London written by Music by Jim Parker. SAT 00:15 Shakespeare's Restless World (b01gvwxr) Robert Barr Musicians: Francis Baines, Philip Thorby and Christopher The Flag That Failed DS Brook …. Ray Brooks Wilson Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum, DC Tully …. Stephen Garlick Director: Martin Jenkins. continues his object-based history. Taking artefacts from DS Harrison …. Peter Cleall First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1983. William Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Chief Inspector Roach …. Stephen Yardley SAT 07:30 Unearthing Mysteries (b00ghyx3) Jacobean playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly Palmer …. Nigel Greaves Series 1 changing world in which they lived. Mrs Stevens …. Margery Withers Kings Valley 55 With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of political Mr Johnson …. Arnold Diamond Professor Aubrey Manning travels to the Valley of the Kings in and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil asks what Mr Sheldon …. Haydn Wood Egypt to unearth the mystery behind Tomb 55. the plays would have meant to the public when they were first Jonathan Evans …. Mark Straker SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b00mz53r) performed. He uses carefully selected objects to explore the Producer: Martin Fisher In the Beginning Was the Nerd great issues of the day that preoccupied the public and helped First broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 2 in July 1984. Stephen Fry recalls how, in the build-up to the year 2000, the shape the works, and he considers what they can reveal about SAT 02:30 The Bond Correspondence (b00bfczy) world prepared itself to face a terrifying scare - The the concerns and beliefs of Shakespearean England. Lucy Fleming embarks upon a quest to discover more about her Millennium Bug. Programme 15. THE FLAG THAT FAILED - The problems in mysterious uncle Ian, creator of James Bond. Roger Moore is Who or what was to blame for such an expensive and uniting Scotland and England and in creating a Great Britain are the voice of Ian Fleming. unnecessary panic? With the help of the BBC Archive, Stephen encapsulated in a set of designs for a common flag. SAT 03:00 Graham Swannell - Kiss of Life (b05n7tp5) travels back to the dawn of the digital age to argue that a major This programme was originally broadcast in 2012. Married 40 years, Dot tries to make Arthur fully appreciate her cause was our attitude to the technology and the people we held Producer: Paul Kobrak. and show extra affection. Stars Brenda Bruce and Norman Bird. responsible for it. SAT 00:30 Meera Syal - Anita and Me (b007jy30) SAT 04:00 Kate Mosse - The Mistletoe Bride and Other A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. Episode 5 Haunting Tales (b03xh0ft) SAT 09:00 Inside the Music: From Score to Encore Twelve-year-old Meena's mother finally gives birth, and she The Revenant (b05nybcs) decides to form a gang with Anita. Meera Syal reads her own An old man's guilt will haunt him and not release him until the Gavin Henderson is passionate about music. Formerly a noted novel. truth is told. Read by Charlotte Emmerson. trumpeter in an orchestra, he's been Director of Brighton Arts SAT 00:45 Book of the Week (b00rzlt9) "The Mistletoe Bride and other Haunting Tales" is a collection Festival, Principal of Trinity College of Music and is now Douglas Rogers - The Last Resort of haunting short stories written, abridged and introduced by Principal of the Central School of Speech and Drama in Episode 5 Kate Mosse. They are all inspired by legends and folktales from London. 5/5 the French and Sussex Countryside and each story explores the In this sequence of programmes, he explores the complex The Last Resort by Douglas Rogers, read by Jack Klaff. relationship between landscape and emotion. Grief and Guilt. creative communities that coalesce to bring a piece of music to Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions. The Loss and happiness. They are timeless in their telling, ranging life in a concert hall. Becoming a member of a musical author tells the story of his parents fight to stay on their from the mythical past to the present day. Kate Mosse has ensemble has been described as "more like joining a cause than backpacker lodge in Zimbabwe despite the political upheaval of chosen 5 out of the collection that exemplify the redemption a profession". He talks to members of orchestras and ensembles the last decade. experienced by the various grief stricken men and women as to get their personal perspectives on music making. What do The day that Douglas's parents have been dreading finally they come to terms with their destiny. they feel about their own instrument? What are relations like arrives. Producer: Celia de Wolff between members of the orchestra? Or between an orchestra SAT 01:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b016w83r) Made for 4 Extra by Pier Productions. and a conductor? Series 4 SAT 04:15 Frances Byrnes - An Unchoreographed World It's a world of titanic egos, and creative humility; where the Enfield, West, Green (b01pr7s5) rigours of touring and performing, the frustrations of forever Harry Enfield is a comedian and sketch character actor whose Dancer Margot Fonteyn and her lover are trapped in Holland being the second violin and the vagaries of venue acoustics and creations have made a permanent mark on the nation's psyche during the German invasion of May 1940. Stars Sophie Jerrold. audience responsiveness can be forgotten in a feat of collective and whose catchphrases have echoed around playgrounds and SAT 05:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b0084hyx) creative expression. building sites for decades. His monstrous creations include the Series 1 Gavin throws light on some of the less known inner workings of iconic 80s character Loadsamoney, Stavros the Kebab Shop Episode 5 an orchestra and the sometimes intuitive relationships "behind Owner and Tory Boy. Harry had a bit of a punkish image as a Lady Cabstanleigh holds a party, Mrs McGurgle gets into an the podium" – such as that between the Orchestral Librarian youth, but in fact he's quite posh. So posh that Virginia Woolf argument, Chief Inspector Blunderton follows up a few leads, and Conductor, or piano tuner and pianist. once famously referred to his grandparents in a notorious letter and Justice Cocklecarrot has to contend with the antics of the And he tries to understand and convey what motivates a group to Lytton Strachey. To find out what it was she said about them, Filthistan trio. of individuals to act like an organism greater than the sum of its either listen in or you could always Google it yourself. Richard Ingrams, John Wells, John Sessions and Patricia parts, bringing pleasure and, occasionally, transcendence, to Lucie Green is a solar researcher based at the Mullard Space Routledge recreate the world of the JB Morton. performers and audience alike. Science Laboratory, University College London's Department Running in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975 – JB Morton’s Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions of Space and Climate Physics, a Bletchley-like stately pile surreally comic ‘Beachcomber’ column paved the way for a First broadcast on Radio 4 Extra in 2015. tucked away in the Surrey countryside that houses 150 of great deal of modern humour. SAT 12:00 15 Minute Drama (b05nybcv) Britain's top space scientists. She studies activity in the Adapted by Michael Barfield with Richard Ingrams. How Does That Make You Feel atmosphere of the Sun. She takes a strong interest in science Announcer: Brian Perkins Series 5 Omnibus education, and in 2009 was awarded the Royal Society's Kohn Producer: Harry Thompson Series 5 Omnibus. Meet a group of people who share both a award for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989 therapist called Martha and a growing set of neuroses. Admiral Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead SAT 05:30 Rent (b007522v) SAT 13:15 Baldi (b00wh00x) GCB DSC PC once ran the entire Royal Navy. From June 2007 Series 3 Series 5 to May 2010, he was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Episode 1 A Very Neglected Fish at the British Home Office with responsibility for Security and The new baby needs a name and Richard doesn’t want to reveal Probing a murder set amongst the competitive world of a Security Advisor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.