Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12 – 18 September 2015 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2015 away from Dexter and his drug-fuelled lifestyle. Can their Clips from the archive span 9/11, life as a minister, small town friendship bridge the difference between their worlds? life, the death of a child, the Watergate scandal, working in SAT 00:00 Haunted (b01qyntg) A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. New York, the seltzer delivery man, OJ Simpson, the Iraq War, Which One? by R Chetwynd-Hayes SAT 03:00 Caesar! (b00ctml6) a tribute to Mary Tyler Moore, struggling with obesity and 1940: A fire warden team are put to the severest test during a Series 1 many more. bombing raid. Will they all survive? Peeling Figs for Julius SAT 09:00 4 Extra at Bletchley Park (b03g8lxl) R Chetwynd-Hayes's creepy tale dramatised by Patricia Mays. His name is now a byword for depravity, but growing up in Maggie Philbin traces the remarkable history of IT through the Drayton ..... Reginald Marsh Tiberius's court, how evil was Emperor Caligula? Stars David BBC sound archives from the birthplace of the world's first Hughes ..... Garrard Green Tennant. electronic computer, Bletchley Park. Raymond ..... Robert Glenister SAT 04:00 The 99p Challenge (b007js7q) When Maggie joined the BBC's Tomorrow's World team in the Smithers ..... Adrian Egan Series 3 early 1980s, there wasn't a single computer in the office. Today, Jackson ..... Nigel Graham Episode 3 along with the internet, they've reshaped the way we live, work, David ..... Graham Conway. Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Simon Pegg, communicate and play. Her selection features: Director: Derek Hoddinott Armando Iannucci, Ben Moor and Nick Frost. * Magic Moments - Computers: First broadcast on the BBC World Service in July 1984. The game where someone stands to leave the studio 99p richer 1994 was incredibly, a year when there were still only 623 SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b0075zjv) than when they came in. websites in the world. This is a potted history of computers as Series 1 Written by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley. seen 20 years ago. Bridge Over Troubled Water Producer: David Tyler * Mothers of Invention: Ada Lovelace: An anthem of love and support, Bridge over Troubled Water A Pozzitive production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Jerome Vincent's short drama from 2002 about the Victorian was released in 1970 and instantly became a hit on both sides of August 2001. technology visionaries Lovelace and Charles Babbage. the Atlantic. SAT 04:30 The Adventures of John and Tony (b009m38r) * Electronic Brains: LEO the Lyons Computer: But for the Simon and Garfunkel partnership things were The Quest for the Holy Spectacles Famed for it's "nippy" waitresses - how catering company J becoming less harmonious. John discovers that Jesus wore glasses, but whatever happened Lyons became Britain's unlikely post-war teashop IT pioneers. Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of to them? And John and Tony travel to Glastonbury and Loch From 2001. our necks. Ness. * The Levin Interview Producer: Sara Conkey Another comic journey in which John and his best friend Tony Bernard Levin interrogates Sir Clive Sinclair, the man who First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2000. search for happiness, love, the meaning of life ... and glasses. brought computers into our homes. From 1984. SAT 01:00 Wimsey (b00s6r7j) Written by John Hegley * Electric Journeys: Five Red Herrings Starring John Hegley, Simon Munnery, Terry Malloy, Sunny Tim Berners-Lee, a revealing portrait of the man credited with 5. Alibis Ormonde and John Korne. creating the World Wide Web. From 2001 Lord Peter Wimsey battles to verify the whereabouts of key Original music by Nigel Piper. * I Was a Teenage Dot Com Millionaire: suspects in the murder of unpopular Scottish artist, Sandy Director: Anne Edyvean A classic tale of dot com boom and bust. From 2010. Campbell. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1999. Three denizens of the digital world - authors Aleks Krotoski Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey – the aristocratic SAT 05:00 Bookcases (b00svc1m) and Tom Chatfield, plus Chris Monk from the National amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers. Series 1 Museum of Computing join Maggie at Bletchley Park. There's Dramatised by Chris Miller. Gone for a Burton also a peek behind the scenes with authors Michael Smith and Lord Peter Wimsey ...... Ian Carmichael London 1855: Primus's latest publishing coup is the explorer Joel Greenburg revealing how the Buckinghamshire site could Sgt Dalziel ...... John Graham Richard Burton, but drink and other substances seem to have have been the UK's very own Silicon Valley. Strachan ...... Gordon Clyde destroyed Burton's sense of direction. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions. Mrs Smith-Le Mesurier ...... Sheila Mitchell Martyn Wade's Victorian era comedy stars Michael Cochrane First broadcast in November 2013. Waters ...... Bill Wallace and Maggie Steed. SAT 12:00 The Navy Lark (b0082hrc) Mrs Faron ...... Frances Jeater Primus …. Michael Cochrane Series 3 Faron ...... Gordon Gardner Cordelia …. Maggie Steed The Hitch-Hiking Counterfeiter Producer: Simon Brett Edith …. Elizabeth Spriggs A retired 'Major' cadges a lift on HMS Troutbridge, but the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1978. Gerald …. David Horovitch crew soon pay the price. SAT 01:30 The Hull Truck Story (b00jts6p) Katie Joiner …. Frances Jeater Charting the build-up to the move of the Hull Truck Theatre Richard Burton …. Norman Rodway Stars Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie Phillips as company from its intimate home in a former chapel to a new Waiter …. David Antrobus the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number One, and larger, purpose-built venue in the centre of Hull. Director: Cherry Cookson Ronnie Barker as Major Piecraft and Richard Caldicote as The programme also tells the story of how the company and its First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1998. Captain Povey. creative director, playwright John Godber, have come to occupy SAT 05:30 The Absolutely Radio Show (b068sp4g) a special place in the hearts of many theatregoers. Series 1 Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS SAT 02:00 BBC National Short Story Award (b01mw08q) Episode 1 Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen BBC International Short Story Award 2012 Cast members of Channel 4's hugely popular TV sketch show series between 1959 and 1976. East of the West Absolutely reunite. The next of the ten shortlisted short stories in contention for the Pete Baikie, Morwenna Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy Scripted by Lawrie Wyman BBC International Short Story Award 2012. In East of the West and John Sparkes revisit some much-loved sketch characters, by Miroslav Penkov the division between East and West is the with some newcomers.. Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. backdrop for this story about a broken hearted man reflecting This opening episode features The Stoneybridge Town Council on love and loss. attempting to adapt to today's technology, Denzil and Gwynedd First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1961. The BBC Short Story Award is well established as one of the discussing Gwynedd's plan to enter the Miss Swansea SAT 12:30 Marriage Lines (b068r53p) most prestigious for a single short story. The Award is competition, The Little Girl's very personal take on Divorce and Series 2 celebrating the Olympic year by going global, and for one year Calum Gilhooley getting some customer feedback of his own. Episode 13 only it reflects the richness and versatility of the short story Plus sketches about Facebook's downside, the dangers of It's baby's christening day and George is packing for Africa. internationally, with a shortlist of ten rather than the usual five. watching TV in middle age, vague War memories from people Richard Briers and Prunella Scales star in their second series The winner and the runner-up will be announced live on Front who were almost there and the perils of having to look after based on the mutual love and mistrust of a young married Row on Tuesday, 2nd October. The story will be available as a your own, ageing parents. couple. free download following broadcast. In 2013, the group got back together for Radio 4's With Edward De Souza and Joan Sanderson. Read by Paul Hilton Sketchorama: Absolutely Special, which won a BBC Audio Originating on BBC TV, it was adapted for radio due to its Abridged by Viv Beeby Drama Award in the Best Live Scripted Comedy category. popularity by Richard Waring from his own TV scripts. Produced by Elizabeth Allard. Producers: Gus Beattie and Gordon Kennedy A decade later, Richard Briers was starring as Tom Good in SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b011pppc) A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in The Good Life whilst Prunella Scales starred as Sybil in Fawlty Christopher Nicholson - The Elephant Keeper September 2015. Towers. They remained friends until Richard Briers' death in Episode 5 SAT 06:00 Allen Saddler - Man of the People (b069njqy) 2013. Tom has fled to London where he and Jenny the Elephant are Horatio Bottomley is something of what would nowadays be Producer: Charles Maxwell working in a seedy Menagerie. A country boy, he is shocked by called a 'wide-boy'. But, in the jingoistic atmosphere of the First Recorded at the BBC Paris Studio in London. the poverty and filth of the city. Then one day he thinks he sees World War Britain, he found himself raised up as a super- First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1967.