Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 June 2018 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 09 JUNE 2018 like. SAT 04:30 Chambers (b007jpgy) And we hear from the increasing number of women who are Series 3, Rent Arrears SAT 00:00 Just Before Midnight (b0b53pt8) keeping the miniaturists in business as the vogue for dolls John Fuller-Carp, head of chambers, enjoys conning students. Ted Willis - And No Birds Sing houses for adults grows. Ruth tries to avoid the question, and Vince acts Jewish. All in a "Philip, what happened on that train..?" Producer and Presenter: Sarah Taylor. day's work for the barristers of Forecourt Buildings. Philip Brooks is quietly reading at home, but a knock on his SAT 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Diamond as Big as the Series 3 of Clive Coleman's sitcom set in perhaps the country's front door may change his life forever... Ritz (b074h8jl) least spectacular set of chambers. Ted Willis's puzzling tale stars Hugh Burden as Philip Brooks, Episode 5 Stars John Bird, James Fleet, Sarah Lancashire, Jonathan Kydd, Mary Miller as Ann Brooks and Adrian Egan as Detective Can John and Kismine escape as Percy's hidden family estate Rebecca Front and Ben Crowe. Sergeant Syms. falls under attack? Concluded by Garrick Hagon. Producer: Paul Schlesinger Producer: David Johnston SAT 02:15 On Your Bike (b00yhxbw) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1999. First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in May 1979. Renaissance SAT 05:00 Andy & Eric Merriman - Minor Adjustment SAT 00:15 William Croft Dickinson - The Strange and the The mountain bike arrives from California and coincides with a (b0b51x67) Sinister (b0b53ptb) new fashion for fitness and concerns for the environment. Bikes Foetal Attraction The Work of Evil are back in fashion for work and pleasure Sarah wants a third child. Richard suggests a holiday might be Can a sceptical academic resist the challenge of reading a book Presenter: Martin Ellis more fun. that curses anyone that dares open it? Producer: Simon Evans Six-part comedy series about the Stubbs family - cartoonist Read by Moultrie Kelsall. A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. Richard, therapist Sarah and their daughters - Kate, aged 16 and William Croft Dickinson introduces his stories of the SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b03q07y3) three-year-old Amy who has Down's Syndrome. supernatural set in Scotland. James Payne - Aonach Hourn, Episode 5 Written by Son and father team, Andy and Eric Merriman - Producer: John Gray By James Payne inspired by Andy's own four-year-old daughter, Sarah. Eric First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in October 1961. Eight years ago an avalanche took the children of Roscoille. But famously wrote legendary BBC comedy series 'Beyond Our SAT 00:30 Bookclub at 20 (b0b53ptd) now Cormick's daughter, Flora, has returned. Or has she? As Ken'. Elif Shafak on Toni Morrison's Beloved the police arrive on Roscoille and Cormick is taken into Starring Peter Davison as Richard, Samantha Bond as Sarah, To celebrate Bookclub's 20th anniversary, the programme has custody, another discovery on the icy slopes of Aonach Hourn Claire Russell as Kate, Sarah Merriman as Amy, Heather Jones invited guest authors to choose a highlight from the extensive sets up a dramatic climax to the story. as Emma, Lorelei King as Joni, Philip Pope as George, Simon Bookclub archive. In this edition Turkish writer Elif Shafak has The final episode in a dark five part mystery, about a Treves as Eddy, Daniel Merriman as Daniel, Alison Pettit as chosen the second ever edition of Bookclub, Toni Morrison community struggling to deal with profound loss. Mary, John Barnes as the Saxophonist and Bill Pertwee as talking about Beloved. A BBC Cymru Wales Production Uncle Chuckles. Elif Shafak recalls her appearance on Bookclub to talk about Directed by James Robinson. Producer: Gareth Edwards her own book, The Forty Rules of Love. She explains how SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b02xf6ps) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1996. much she enjoyed the experience because authors rarely have a Peter Stothard - Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra, SAT 05:30 Stand-Up Specials (b0b4zg8c) chance to talk about one piece of work in an intimate setting Episode 5 Ashley Blaker's Goyish Guide to Judaism with readers. She also explains why she thinks women read When Peter Stothard, former editor of The Times and now Ashley Blaker, Britain's only ultra-Orthodox stand up books differently to men and praises Morrison's portrayal of editor of the Times Literary Supplement, finds himself in comedian, presents an insider's view of his religion, specially strong women in Beloved and why the book means so much to Alexandria in the winter of 2010 after his flight to South Africa created for BBC Radio 4. It's a whistle-stop tour of Jewish life her as a writer. has been cancelled, he sets out to explore a nation on the brink and, in particular, a very rare glimpse into the normally Toni Morrison is the grand-daughter of a slave from Alabama of revolution. inaccessible world of strict Orthodox Judaism. and all her writing career has been fascinated by what slavery Accompanied by two native Egyptians, Mohammed and Ashley is already a well-known name in the Jewish community, was and how its traces flow down the generations. She won the Socratis, whose eagerness to spend time with him is never really having undertaken two critically acclaimed UK tours as well as Pulitzer prize for Beloved and thirty years on, having lost none explained, Stothard traces his lifelong interest in the history of performing sell-out shows in Israel, South Africa, Canada and of its power to shock, Beloved stares unflinchingly into the Cleopatra, and his repeated failure to write the book about her Off-Broadway in New York. The Jewish press has described abyss of racism. It's the story of Sethe who murders her own that he has started so many times. him as "the haredi Michael McIntyre". daughter in preference to being recaptured as slaves. Melancholy and sometimes humorous, Alexandria filters the As well as being a popular and experienced live performer, The novel transforms history into a poetic chronicle of slavery life of a classics scholar turned journalist through the prism of Ashley is also a comedy writer and producer for radio and TV. and its terrible, unending aftermath. Bookclub asks Toni Cleopatra's turbulent history - while all around the author, the He was responsible for first unleashing Little Britain on an Morrison the question all readers want to hear, is Beloved flesh cracks begin to appear in Hosni Mubarak's own empire. unsuspecting nation on Radio 4. But, being a strict orthodox and blood, or is she in the imagination of the characters who Episode 5 (of 5): Jew, he is surely the only person who works in TV without have lived through the terrible events? The author recalls seeing Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 film actually owning one. Produced by Olivia Seligman Cleopatra. In the meantime the Arab Spring begins. The Jerusalem Post recently described Ashley as "a walking First broadcast on Radio 4 in 1998 Read by Kenneth Cranham contradiction". Bookclub at 20 is produced for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Belinda Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters The Times of Israel pointed out the astonishment his Naylor. A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. appearance can provoke: "The astonishment, of course, is that SAT 01:00 Edward Boyd - The Candle of Darkness SAT 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b09sz2wd) with Blaker, what you see is what you get: a skinny bearded (b0b51vyy) 19-23 March 1918 man wearing a black suit and kippah, and sporting peyot and The Angry Mob The third omnibus of Season 13, A Woman's Place, set in tzitzit of the strictly Orthodox community to which he now After Delia Dewar implicates him, an angry mob turns on Folkestone, in the week, in 1918, when the greatest German belongs. But this is not a uniform which he dons only for his Jimmy Morton. Meanwhile Steve Gardiner discovers his offensive began. interfaces with Jewish audiences. No, he wears this in his day friend's war actions. Cast job too." Edward Boyd's six-part serial thriller stars Teddy Johnson as Dorothea Winwood ..... Rachel Shelley Written and Presented by Ashley Blaker Steve Gardiner, Jimmy Logan as Jimmy Morton, Effie Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf Producer: Steve Doherty Morrison as Delia Dewar, Douglas Murchie as Romily Foster, Bill Macknade ..... Ben Crowe A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. Leonard Maguire as Wilfred Morton, Moultrie R. Kelsall as Adeline Lumley ..... Helen Schlesinger SAT 06:00 The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (b00wwbcl) Detective Inspector Gordon, Hannah Gordon as Lindy Marshall, Jessie Moore ..... Lucy Hutchinson Death and the Dancing Footman Eileen McCallum as Diana Wheeler-Sproat, John Young as PC Sophie Beckwith ..... Abbie Andrews Jonathan Royal is a man rich enough to indulge his somewhat McKenzie, Leonard Maguire as Wilfred Morton and Michael Esme Macknade ..... Katie Angelou extravagant sense of the theatrical. Elder as Mr Dunnsmiur. Isabel Graham ..... Keely Beresford But when he bizarrely throws a weekend party for guests with Produced in Glasgow by Eddie Fraser. Gabriel Graham ..... Michael Bertenshaw good reasons to loathe one another, his malicious comedy First broadcast in 1954 on the BBC Home Service in Scotland. Otto Marx ..... Paul Chahidi quickly turns to tragedy - leaving Chief Inspector Roderick SAT 01:30 The Doll's House (b00sxkv0) Dolly Clout ..... Elaine Claxton Alleyn investigating murder... A peek inside the world of the doll's house, by those who had Alice Macknade ....