Radio 7 Listings for 5 – 11 January 2008 Page 1 of 6 SATURDAY 05 JANUARY 2008 Stool visits the library and Fat Fighters leader Marjorie Dawes Doctor/Usher …. Brian Miller receives some bad news. From Agatha Christie's book first published in 1923 and SAT 00:00 Voices From the Grave (b007jwn6) The sketch show which examines ordinary life in Britain as dramatised by Michael Bakewell. The Parson lived by some less than ordinary British folk. Director: Enyd Williams Back from missionary work abroad, Reverend Martin Stokes With Jean Ainslie, Tom Baker, Samantha Power and Paul First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1990. stumbles into a nightmare of biblical proportions abroad. Putner. SAT 13:30 The Men from the Ministry (b007jzmp) David Varela's horror stars Mark Bazeley as Rev. Martin Music: David Arnold All Cisterns Go Stokes, Lynne Verrall as Mrs Cameron, Geoffrey Beevers as Producer: Ashley Blaker. Tasked with a naval survey, the blundering bureaucrats plumb Bishop Millcock, Wayne Foskett as Randall, Stephen Hogan as First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2001. new depths... Sid and Gerard McDermott as Joseph. SAT 04:00 Genius (b00brvcm) Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. Voices From The Grave is a series of four chilling and intimate Series 1 With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley and John Graham. dramas, inspired by existing ghost stories from around Britain. Neil Innes Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham. The writers make these stories more than simply scary - they From bunk chairs to helium-filled bubble wrap. 'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 are studies of humanity, love, rage and despair, of passion, Dave Gorman asks musical comedian Neil Innes to select the and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from longing and pain. public's best loopy idea. 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, David has written plays for BBC Radio 4 as well as for TV and Award-winning comedian Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows film. chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC Producer: Luke Fresle inventions, schemes and policies of the public. Radio 4 Extra. Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007. Producer: Simon Nicholls Producer: Edward Taylor SAT 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b007k1l2) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2005. First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in July 1976. Mort SAT 04:30 The Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show SAT 14:00 05/01/2008 (b00fg729) Episode 4 (b007jp7v) Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Death has disappeared, leaving his apprentice Mort, his Shakespeare in America BBC7. daughter Ysabell and Albert the cook to carry on the life- The truncated thespians expose the shocking truth behind the SAT 17:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b008lyl7) collecting operation. Bard's little-known trip across the Atlantic. From June 1994. Where else on the wireless can you hear Wagner, Cicero, a Bob The conclusion of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy set on SAT 05:00 Pearse Elliott - Last Suppers (b008l1fx) Dylan song and tales of blizzards and mad scientists? Discworld. A former renowned chef decides all his Death Row inmates SAT 18:00 Blake's 7 (b008lyl8) Narrated by Anton Lesser. should have one last divine culinary experience. Stars Jared Liberator and Jon Glover as the Duke. Harris. Old friendships are broken and unwilling alliances are forged, Mort ...... Carl Prekopp SAT 06:00 To the Manor Born (b007k45h) as the space outlaws are forced to compromise the rebellion. Death ...... Geoffrey Whitehead The Grapevine Stars Derek Riddell and Colin Salmon. Albert ...... Phillip Jackson Audrey tries to fool Devere that she has been on holiday to SAT 19:00 Westway (b00fg727) Ysabell ...... Clare Corbett Spain. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Princess Keli ...... Alice Hart Starring Penelope Keith and Keith Barron. SAT 20:00 Celebrating Peter Tinniswood (b007jn9m) Cutwell ...... Adam Godley Lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Rincewind ...... Philip Fox beloved Grantleigh Estate, has decamped to the tiny Old Lodge SAT 23:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b008lyl7) Duke ...... Jon Glover cottage with her butler in tow. [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 today] Dramatised by Robin Brooks. From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving Director: Claire Grove eye on new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004. Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his BBC TV script. SUNDAY 06 JANUARY 2008 SAT 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvn1) Audrey fforbes-Hamilton …. Penelope Keith The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Richard DeVere …. Keith Barron SUN 00:00 Blake's 7 (b008lyl8) 5. At Lady Dormer's Marjory Frobisher …. Angela Thorne [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Discovering General Fentiman was poisoned, Lord Peter Brabinger …. Nicholas McArdle SUN 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jxgm) Wimsey decides to probe Miss Dorland's hobby. Mrs Polouvicka …. Margery Withers [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth. Ned …. Frank Middlemass SUN 02:30 The Men from the Ministry (b007jzmp) Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery dramatised by Chris Mrs Plunkett ...... Zulema Dene [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Saturday] Miller. First piloted for BBC radio, but whisked off to BBC TV before SUN 03:00 Celebrating Peter Tinniswood (b007jn9m) Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday] Robert Fentiman ...... Allan Cuthbertson Producer: Jane Berthoud SUN 06:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b008lyl7) Inspector Parker ...... Gabriel Woolf First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1997. [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Saturday] Sheila Fentiman ...... Frances Jeater SAT 06:30 Millport (b0075ttx) SUN 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00fg7wq) Ann Dorland ...... Amanda Reiss Series 1 Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. Mrs Munns ...... Ysanne Churchman The Letter SUN 08:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair Nellie ...... Judy Bridgland It's turnip season - and a letter arrives for Irene promising to Omnibus (b008lywx) Mr Munns ...... Clifford Norgate. change her life for ever. Episode 1 Producer: Simon Brett But when push comes to shove, is she ready to leave the dismal Orphan Becky Sharp begins her journey in society. Stephen Fry First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1975. island backwater she so unlovingly calls home? narrates the Victorian comic tale. With Emma Fielding. SAT 01:30 Falco (b008l1cb) Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as SUN 09:15 Oscar Wilde (b007k13j) Shadows in Bronze 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a The Nightingale and the Rose 5. Surprise better life on the mainland. A bird makes the ultimate sacrifice so that an unworldly young Roman sleuth Falco closes in on his man, but gets more than he Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson man can woo his love. Read by John Moffatt. From December bargained for from Helena's old school friend... Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown 1997. Starring Anton Lesser. Alberto/Robert/Bob ...... Lewis McLeod SUN 09:30 The Secret History of Bagpipes (b007k2d3) Lindsey Davis's witty detective, Marcus Didius Falco patrols Ena/Bunty/Betty ...... Gabriel Quigley Tom Morton investigates pipes and politics, from Northern the streets of 1st-century Rome. Doogie ...... Matt Costello Ireland to Galicia via Scotland and Northumbria. From January Falco ....... Anton Lesser The Minister ...... Robert Paterson 2004. Helena Justina ....... Anna Madeley Producers: Lucy Bacon and Kathy Smith SUN 10:00 Alick Rowe - Operation Lightning Pegasus Atius Pertinax ....... Sean Connolly First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000. (b007k3cx) Larius ...... Christopher Kelham SAT 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00fg725) Comic spin on what really happened inside the wooden horse Silvia ....... Sara Poyzer Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. during the siege of Troy. Stars Timothy West and Joy Harrison. Marcellus...... Paul Webster SAT 08:00 Westway (b00fg727) SUN 11:30 At Home With Hinge and Bracket (b008lyzf) Aufidius Crispus ....... Bertie Carvel Drama serial set in and around a busy medical practice in West 2. Anthony Newley Aemilius Rufus ....... Timothy Watson London. Dame Hilda Bracket and her lifelong companion, Dr Evadne Gordianus ....... Christian Rodska SAT 09:00 Celebrating Peter Tinniswood (b007jn9m) Hinge, invite you to eavesdrop on some informal music and Aenelia ....... Jaimi Barbakoff Radio critic Gillian Reynolds introduces four of her favourite conversation. Dramatised by Mary Cutler. radio plays from the late author Peter Tinniswood, including Joining them in the music room is actor, singer and composer Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. The Last Obit and The House Swap. Anthony Newley. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2005. SAT 12:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jxgm) Dame Hilda Bracket ...... George Logan SAT 02:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair Murder on the Links Dr Evadne Hinge ...... Patrick Fyffe (b007jvwn) Hercule Poirot is summoned urgently to France, but on arrival Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Episode 5 he discovers that his very wealthy client is dead. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1990. Becky travels to London with the ailing spinster Miss Crawley. The Belgian sleuth launches a murder investigation and the SUN 12:00 Ed Doolan Interviews... (b00fhzr1) Narrated by Stephen Fry. With Emma Fielding and Margaret baffling mystery begins to unfold... Frank Carson Tyzack. Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot It's the way I tell 'em! Northern Irish funny man Frank Carson SAT 02:15 Andrew Rissik - The Psychedelic Spy (b007k1sh) Hercule Poirot ….