Radio 4 Extra Listings for 13 – 19 February 2021 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2021 love to trouble its tarmac. Reporter Sara Parker hails a taxi on Anne-Marie…. Jackie Smith-Wood Copenhagen Street, where its driver actually lives and feels the Canisius …. Michael Fitzgerald SAT 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jqz9) rock-and-roll ride across the patchwork quilt of the capital's Arlette …. Sunny Ormonde The Red Planet roads with an expert's commentary in her ears. Meanwhile, in Lira …. Roger Hume 20. Return to the Moon the depths of a Lake District winter, Sara goes out on call with Heinz Stossell …. Alan Devereux Captain Jet Morgan and his crew must battle to outrun the the boys from the blackstuff as they try to keep the hilly roads Miss Kramer …. Gillian Goodman Martian Spheres in their bid to escape... from cracking in the frost and being washed away by torrents. Commissaris …. Geoff Serle Conclusion of Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971. She joins the men training to dig a decent hole at a hole-in-the- Serrailler …. Leon Tanner CAST: road training centre whose instructor in his spare time loves Wollek …. Simon Carter Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds nothing more than ballroom-dancing the night away while Doctor …. David Vann Lemmy …. David Kossoff Strictly come digging by day. And out on the M25, the cones Director: Philip Martin Doc …. Guy Kingsley Poynter are out in force to protect the workforce from the speeding First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. Mitch …. Bruce Beeby traffic. SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b07875z7) John Cazabon ..... Various Produced by Simon Elmes. Series 39 Announcer/Various …. David Jacobs First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. Sudha Bhuchar chooses the life of Zohra Sehgal Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips. SAT 03:00 Don Taylor - The Jacobean Box (b01gjybr) She was known as 'the grand old lady of Indian cinema' who Producer: Charles Chilton Shakespearian academic, Brian Blake, receives a message that a starred in many Bollywood films famous in India, but not at First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1955. large item awaits his collection at a remote northern station. first in Britain. We got to know her best in her later years when SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00j4hsc) He little suspects that it could lead to his own literary Zohra Sehgal starred in the TV series – 'The Jewel in The So Bad It's Good immortality... Crown' and films such as 'Bend it like Beckham'. When Dominic Arkwright, Bidisha, Toby Young and Safraz Manzoor Don Taylor's drama stars Stephen Moore as Brian Blake, Peter interviewed aged 101 and asked what she had enjoyed most in discuss bad taste and guilty pleasures. From March 2009. Vaughan as the Station Master, Michelle Newell as Penelope, her life she said 'Sex, sex and more sex '. SAT 01:00 Robert Barr - Galbraith and the King of Steve Hodson as Ackroyd and Teresa Gallagher as Mary. Nominating this week's Great Life is actress and playwright Diamonds (b042m3c2) Director: Sue Wilson Sudha Bhuchar who along with the expert witness, Film 5. Appointment in Zurich First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. Historian Lalit Mohan Joshi, tell the presenter Matthew Parris, The 'King of Diamonds' stays in Amsterdam, whilst Galbraith SAT 04:00 Say the Word (b00764r2) how Sehgal broke boundaries to become the first Indian actor to chases the 'Queen of Hearts'. Episode 3 have an international career. A quiet retirement still eludes veteran detective Bill Galbraith. Frank Delaney's panel game revolving around the English The producer is Perminder Khatkar. His criminal mastermind foe, Cater, sets an intricate plan in language. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016. motion. From the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, Gloucestershire. SAT 08:00 The Motion Show (b0075wz8) Starring Bernard Hepton as Galbraith, Richard Davies as Tom With Pam Ayres, Adam Hart-Davis, Sue Limb and John Julius Series 2 Evans, Tom Watson as Cater, Peter Dyneley as Gelder, Eva Norwich. Episode 4 Haddon as Anne-Marie, Francis Jeater as Betty Van Druten, Plus resident jesters - the Nimmo Twins Dr Phil Hammond chairs the debating game with Gyles Peter Hawkins as Lander, Cyril Shaps as Lindemanns and Bruce Producer: Simon Elmes Brandreth, Hugh Dennis, Jeremy Hardy and Arthur Smith. Alexander as Milne. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001. From February 2000. Robert Barr also wrote TV scripts for the BBC's Z Cars and SAT 04:30 The Sit Crom (b00ly7z6) SAT 08:30 Beachcomber... By the Way (b0080jmp) Softly Softly, as well as being a prize-winning TV producer. The General Inspection Series 1 Producer: John Browell Cromwell arrives, weeps and investigates as well he might since Episode 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1975. Father Francis has donned a night shirt and taken to the roof Dr Strabismus sets a trap for a mouse, Colonel Wretch gets a SAT 01:45 Rumpole for the Defence (m000s3nd) leads singing Ave Maria. visit from Hercules the Mighty, and Mr Justice Cocklecarrot Rumpole and The Boat People 2/3 Mercy's disguise is revealed, Father Francis is perplexed in his encounters the notorious 12 red-bearded dwarfs for the first The fearsome wife continues to persecute Rumpole's fat, while hole, Tobias denigrates the vegetables, Arise Higgs and his time. he delves into marital murder by the sea. Read by Leo McKern. platoon are billeted on Firebasket Hall and Gazebo has lethal Richard Ingrams, John Wells, John Sessions and Patricia SAT 02:00 The Muse by Jessie Burton (b07k0m84) orders. Routledge recreate the world of the JB Morton. Episode 10 Sue Limb's six-part comedy set during the English Civil War. Running in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975 – JB Morton’s When on a summer’s day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the Sir John Firebasket ...... Joss Ackland surreally comic ‘Beachcomber’ column paved the way for a steps of the Skelton gallery in London to take up a position as Lady Anne Firebasket ...... Denise Coffey great deal of modern humour. typist, she little realises how significantly her life is about to Tobias Thynne ...... Clive Merrison Adapted by Michael Barfield with Richard Ingrams. change. For there she meets the glamourous and enigmatic Mercy, alias Melissa ...... Miriam Margoyles Announcer: Brian Perkins Marjorie Quick, who soon takes Odelle into her confidence and Father Francis ...... Nickolas Grace Producer: Harry Thompson encourages her to pursue her dream of writing. But Odelle Gazebo Fogg ...... Jack Klaff First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989. senses there is something that Quick is holding back, and when Captain Arise Higgs ...... Alun Armstrong SAT 09:00 Listening to Les Dawson (b03b2n4d) ‘Rufina and the Lion’, a lost Spanish masterpiece is brought to Posthumous ...... Nicky Henson Ray Peacock is joined by Ken Dodd, Neil Innes, Lee Mack, the gallery, Odelle begins to suspect that the mystery behind the Counter Tenor ...... Peter Hayward Robin Ince, Gillian Reynolds and David Nobbs, introducing painting’s origins and her mentor’s secrecy may be somehow Cromwell ...... Bert Parnaby rare interviews, routines and programmes including In The connected. Colonel Thundery ...... Peter Howell Psychiatrist's Chair, Les reading his own novel, Come Back The truth about ‘Rufina and the Lion’ lies in 1936 and a large Music by Colin Sell. With the Wind, Marriott's Monologues, Whirligig and Listen house in rural Spain, where Olive Schloss, the daughter of Producer: Jonathan James-Moore To Les. renowned art dealer Harold Schloss and his beautiful but fragile First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. Producer: Laura Baron wife Sarah, is harbouring artistic ambitions of her own. When SAT 05:00 Rudy's Rare Records (b00xpp6b) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in Sept 2013. artist and revolutionary Isaac Robles and his half-sister Teresa Series 3 SAT 12:00 The Jack Benny Program (m000s8kv) come into their lives, passion, art, and politics collide, with "It's A Family Affair" Return to Paradise explosive and devastating consequences for them all. Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record shop Jack and friends interpret a Hollywood classic set in the South Weaving between events in 1967 and those of 1936, a powerful in Birmingham. Seas. story of love, obsession, identity, authenticity and deception While attempting a bit of spring cleaning, Adam discovers a On radio, The Jack Benny Show ran from February 1932 to unfolds in this highly anticipated new novel from Jessie Burton, bundle of long lost love letters addressed to his late Mum - and May 1955. From that date, new shows were produced for author of the best-selling The Miniaturist. they're definitely not from his Dad. television but there were re-runs on radio until 1958. Over the Written by Jessie Burton Adam ...... Lenny Henry years, the programme was sponsored by a diverse range of Abridged by Doreen Estall Rudy ...... Larrington Walker products from jelly, to tyres and cigarettes. Read by Martina Laird Richie ...... Joe Jacobs With a fine cast of supporting players Benny made his show Read by Jessica Raine Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey into one of the all-time great radio comedies, portraying him as Produced by Heather Larmour Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon likeable character, despite being vain, argumentative and a SAT 02:15 The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler Doreen ...... Claire Benedict skinflint. It’s classic comedy that stood the test of time. (b08lk3jk) Written by Paula Hines With Eddie Anderson as the irrepressible Rochester, Mary 1960, Lost and Found Script Edited by Danny Robins Livingstone, Dennis Day, The Sportsmen Quartet, announcer By Anne Tyler dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.