Radio 4 Extra Listings for 29 March – 4 April 2014 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 29 MARCH 2014 How will the young and vibrant woman cope? Stars Gillian Unhappy Alice encourages husband David and best friend Kearney. Marion to form a liaison. But Alice may have a hidden agenda. SAT 00:00 Arthur Conan Doyle - Professor Challenger SAT 05:00 Instant Sunshine (b007qtrm) Alice ...... Federay Holmes (b00zs6nn) From 12/04/1985 Marion ...... Lisa Dillon The Disintegration Machine Entertainment in words and music to help you beat the weather. David ...... Samuel West Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's indomitable academic must Performed by the comedy musical cabaret group, Instant Directed by Martin Jarvis. investigate dastardly Latvian scientist Theodore Nemor. Stars Sunshine featuring David Barlow, Peter Christie, Miles Kington SAT 14:30 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves Bill Paterson. and Alan Maryon-Davis (b007jqgh) SAT 00:30 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jqp2) Special guests: Father's Footsteps. Bartholomew, Blackmail and Barefaced Lies The Red Planet Producer: Richard Edis An expensive statue lands Bertie Wooster in a pickle. 16. Strange Farm First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1985. PG Wodehouse romp adapted in six-parts by Richard Usborne. With Mitch still missing, Captain Jet Morgan, Doc and Lemmy SAT 05:30 Chambers (b007jp3w) Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie set off to find him, with hopes of finding the engineer rapidly Series 2 Wooster, Paul Eddington as Roderick Spode, John Le Mesurier diminishing... The Masons as Sir Watkin Bassett, Ronald Fraser as Major Plank, Jonathan Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971. Turmoil abounds when barrister John Fuller-Carp tries to join a Cecil as Boko Fittleworth, Denise Coffey as Stiffy Bing and CAST: lodge. Stars John Bird and Sanjeev Bhaskar. From May 1998. Percy Edwards as Bartholemew the Dog. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds SAT 06:00 Martyn Read - The Folly (b00mz47c) Producer: David Hatch Lemmy …. David Kossoff Somerset, 1770: Sir Morton Makepeace is devising a play, but First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter his unruly characters disrupt the plot and threaten the building SAT 15:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b01hkyn3) Mitch …. Bruce Beeby of his Folly. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Wife …. Madi Hedd Martyn Read's rollicking comedy stars Freddie Jones as Sir SAT 16:00 Martyn Read - The Folly (b00mz47c) Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs Morton Makepeace. [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips. With Elizabeth Spriggs as Clarissa, Lady Mountjoy, Clive Swift SAT 17:30 Listen Against (b00tt5mb) Producer: Charles Chilton as Reverend Wormald, Michael Cochrane as Robert Sutherland, Series 3 First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December Joanna Myers as Caroline Makepeace and Karl James as Episode 3 1954. Thomas. The programme that looks back at a week's worth of radio and SAT 01:00 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr6j) Director: Sue Wilson TV that never happened. Episode 10 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. Michael Burke becomes trapped in the Moral Maze, and Any The fugitive is pursued through the countryside by the clever SAT 07:30 Armitage and Moore's Guide to Song (b00xlqwf) Answers gets a game show makeover. strategies of his sinister nemesis - Major Quive-Smith. Episode 2 Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes. Geoffrey Household's classic British thriller was first published How music arrangement and vocal expression create meaning Producers: Sam Bryant & Jon Holmes. shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939. and atmosphere. With analysis from Simon Armitage and Allan First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. Read by Michael Jayston. Moore. SAT 18:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Producer: David Jackson Young. SAT 08:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b01hkyn3) (b007jm12) Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2004. Series 7 The Primary Phase SAT 01:30 A Charles Paris Mystery (b00t9tmp) Episode 30 Fit The Fourth Sicken and So Die From Woodinville in Washington, the funny man welcomes Arthur learns the lucrative answer to the question of Life, the Episode 1 multi-instrumentalist Sarah Jarosz and trio Bodacious Universe and Everything. By Douglas Adams. From March Charles has a role in Twelfth Night, but could this comedy turn Ladyhood. From 2011. 1978. into a tragedy? Bill Nighy stars as Simon Brett's actor-cum- SAT 09:00 Up the Workers (b03zhx5n) Arthur Dent is one of only two survivors from Earth, sleuth. Homeworker Nick Baker immerses himself in a study of work - demolished to make way for a by-pass. He survived thanks to SAT 02:00 Millport (b0076b7f) from the hard at it, to the work shy. In his archive exploration, his friend, Ford Prefect (who hails not from Guildford, but Series 3 Nick enjoys a choice staffroom edition of King Street Junior somewhere near Betelgeuse), a writer for the Hitchhiker's Reinstatement and sympathises with a fellow who also works at home in Ed Guide To The Galaxy, "the most successful book ever to have As the first ferry of the holiday season arrives - why is Irene Reardon's Week. come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor". back on the island? Fascinating facts about offices of the future are revealed, along Now paired with fellow Earth survivor Trillian and duplicitous The third series of the bittersweet comedy written by and with the truth about working from home. And work as a form two-headed hustler Zaphod Beeblebrox, Arthur and Ford are on starring Lynn Ferguson as 30-something barmaid Irene Bruce, of madness is depicted in a series called You Don't Have to legendary planet Magrathea - and Arthur in particular is about who hankers after a better life on the mainland. Work to be Mad Here. This features whimsical sackings to understand his demolished home world in a new and startling Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson (sometimes by answering machine message) and a careers way. Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown adviser who hates her job so much she hides in a strange way. The global multi-media success story that is "Hitchhiker's" Alberto/Dr Hume/Ferryman ...... Lewis McLeod Plus choice episodes from Kate Kellaway's History of Office started life as a Radio 4 series in March 1978. The original Ena/Bunty ...... Gabriel Quigley Life - and Ricky Gervais reveals how his creation David Brent scripts by the late Douglas Adams then went on to spawn a Minister ...... Robert Patterson came to be. series of novels, a feature film, at least three stage shows, a TV Dougie ...... Kenneth Bryans Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Testbed Productions. series, a computer game, a collection of comic books - and Music arranged by Olly Fox. SAT 12:00 Lavinia Greenlaw - Five Fever Tales (Omnibus) various towels. Producer: Lucy Bacon (b03zhy0j) Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge and died in 2001 at the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2002. Lavinia Greenlaw's exploration of ancient ideas about Malaria, age of 49. He suffered a fatal heart attack after working out at SAT 02:30 Trevor's World of Sport (b007k3rb) and scientific attempts to defeat the deadly disease. his gym in California. Series 1 The disease caused by a parasite carried in the saliva of female With Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Episode 4 mosquitoes came to humans probably from gorillas a long time Wing-Davey and Stephen Moore. Produced by the late The sports agent's rapacious partner finds a perfect new client, ago. Through recorded history the fever-prompting disease has Geoffrey Perkins. but there's a catch. Stars Neil Pearson. From September 2004. shadowed humans almost everywhere warm enough for SAT 18:30 Fear on 4 (b007jn40) SAT 03:00 Mikhail Bulgakov - The White Guard (b00761ld) mosquitoes to live between the Poles. We have evolved Series 2 Survival together. It is still the biggest killer of children in parts of the St. Austin Friars As Ukranian Nationalists seize control of Kiev, Alexei and world. The Reverend Martin Williams is increasingly disturbed by Nikolka are running for their lives. Made with the research assistance of Wellcome Trust. extraordinary events at his church. He is determined to find out Conclusion of Mikhail Bulgakov's classic Ukrainian novel - Medical/science adviser: Julian Rayner, Sanger Institute. what is happening but discovers he has bitten off more than he dramatised in two parts by DJ Britton. Music and sound design: Jon Nicholls can chew. Stars Paul Hilton as Alexei, James Loye as Nikolka, Melanie Narrator: Siobhan Redmond. The Man in Black sets the scene... Walters as Julia, Manon Edwards as Elena, Gerry Lepkowski as Other parts: Russell Boulter, Richard Bremmer, David Collins, Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers. Myshlaevsky, Tim Kirkus as Shpolyansky, Patrick Brennan as Jasmine Hyde and John Mackay. Written by Robert Westal and dramatised by Stephen Wyatt Shervinsky, Simon Ludders as Rusakov, Siriol Jenkins as Irina Producer: Tim Dee The Man In Black …. Edward de Souza and Brendan Charleson as Shchur. First broadcast in five-parts on BBC Radio 4 in 2014. Rev Martin Williams …. Michael Maloney Translator: Michael Glenny SAT 13:15 Julie Enfield Investigates (b007jsjl) Mrs Sheila Williams …. Melinda Walker Directed at BBC Wales by Alison Hindell. Murder West One Larry Harper …. Michael Deacon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. 4. Soho Espresso Phillips …. Geoffrey Whitehead SAT 04:00 Winston Graham Short Stories (b03yqp4r) Detective Superintendent Julie Enfield's night out in London's Rubens …. Clifford Norgate Meeting Demelza Soho is rudely interrupted by a murder above a coffee bar.