Radio 4 Extra Listings for 2 – 8 February 2013 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 02 FEBRUARY 2013 Mrs Nelly Woodburn ...... Elizabeth Proud May 2004. Colonel Chiley ...... Garard Green SAT 08:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00y38bc) SAT 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b007jmq9) Mr Cavendish ...... Keith Drinkel Series 6 Wyrd Sisters Mrs Chiley ...... Ann Windsor Episode 11 4. Degrees of Royalty Mrs Mortimer ...... Kate Binchy From Minnesota - the American funny man welcomes Elvis Lancre's new ruler teeters on the edge of madness. The old King Fanny ...... Siriol Jenkins Costello and vocal powerhouses Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele. will be revenged. The three witches set to work! Edward ...... David Holt From 2009. Starring Sheila Hancock, Lynda Baron and Deborah Berlin. The Rev Bury ...... John Fleming SAT 09:00 Alexander Armstrong's Radio Heroes The conclusion of Terry Pratchett's popular tale. Mrs Centum ...... Theresa Streatfield (b01qdwl5) Granny Weatherwax …. Sheila Hancock Maria Brown ...... Melanie Hudson The X-Men? Pah! Superman? Bah! Give us Jet Morgan any day Nanny Ogg …. Lynda Baron Mr Holder ...... Eric Allan - as Alexander Armstrong celebrates those fine gentleman Magrat Garlick …. Deborah Berlin Nancy ...... Joanna Wake adventurers of the wireless Duke Felmet … Ian Masters Music by Malcolm McKee. Big screen do-gooders like the Avengers have the glam and the Lady Felmet …. Kristin Milward Producer: Sue Wilson moves, but you don't have to be superhuman to be a hero. Enjoy King Verence …. John Hartley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992. our very own British brand of intrepid adventurer, for whom The Fool …. Andrew Branch SAT 04:00 Elizabeth Taylor - Dangerous Calm (b0076h31) style, panache, wit and guile serve just as well as x-ray vision, Vitoller …. Gavin Muir Hotel du Commerce awesome strength or vivid underpants. Hwel …. Brian Hibbard An overheard argument in a French hotel exposes the fragility Guiding us through this modern pantheon is Alexander Tomjon …. Roger May of a honeymooning couple's own relationship. Armstrong - no stranger to style, panache and wit himself - Dramatised by Vince Foxall. Read by Joanna David. although he assures us his underpants are suitably subdued. Director: Claire Grove Elizabeth Taylor's collection of short stories abridged by Along the way, we'll ponder what makes these characters so First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1995. Richard Hamilton enduringly heroic? - and what qualities does a hero need? SAT 00:30 David Garnett - Lady into Fox (b00cmz8m) Producer: Emma Harding Featuring: 2. Escape First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. RAFFLES: Despite Richard Tebrick's increased security for their new SAT 04:15 Kings (b007jqwr) EW Hornung's gentleman cracksman seizes a challenge. Stars home, his vixen wife escapes to begin a new family life in the Abishag, the Virgin Jeremy Clyde. woods... The monarch is dying. Bathsheba and his new wife attend him. JOURNEY INTO SPACE: David Garnett's terrifying novel of transformation is concluded Tales from the reign of biblical King David. Stars Alison Pettitt. Captain Jet Morgan in the classic 1950s sci-fi from Charles by Ben Miles. SAT 05:00 Ballylenon (b007mf83) Chilton. Stars Andrew Faulds. Abridged by Doreen Estall Series 1 SEXTON BLAKE Directed at BBC Northern Ireland by Lawrence Jackson. Episode 6 The comic strip crime fighter devised for radio in the 1960s by Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in July 2008. Will the "1000 Years" Festival mark the end of the old Philip Ridgeway. Starring William Franklyn. SAT 01:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Devices and Desires courthouse battle? DICK BARTON: SPECIAL AGENT: (b00t5jwn) Series set in the sleepy town of Ballylenon, Co Donegal, in The BBC Light Programme's hugely popular radio hero revived Episode 2 1953, before the days of mass tourism and proper plumbing in in 1972 and starring Noel Johnson. The commander is on hand when the serial killer dubbed The every home. JUDGE DREDD: Whistler claims his fifth victim. Stars Robin Ellis. Written by Christopher Fitz-Simon. Gary Martin stars as the legendary law enforcement officer. SAT 01:30 Albert Campion - Traitor's Purse (b015fqpm) Phonsie Doherty ...... TP McKenna Produced by Dirk Maggs. Episode 5 Muriel Maconchy ...... Margaret D'Arcy THE DEVIL IN AMBER Stricken with amnesia, Albert Campion is confronted by the Vera Maconchy ...... Stella McCusker The decadent Edwardian dandy and defender of the realm, police who suspect him of being an imposter. Roger Allam Vivienne Boal ...... Aine McCartney Lucifer Box. Written and read by Mark Gatiss. reads Margery Allingham's mystery. Guard Gallagher ...... John Hewitt Produced by Martin Dempsey. SAT 01:45 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case Stumpy Bonnar ...... Gerard McSorley SAT 12:00 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City (Omnibus) (b00mrhdk) Canon Friel ...... Kevin Flood (b01qdwl7) Episode 5 Aubrey Frawley ...... Dominic Letts Tales of the City News from Poona makes Dawkins think his wife was mad, but Music arranged and performed by Stephanie Hughes. A comedy of manners set in San Francisco in 1976, a warm the detective isn't so sure. Sam Dastor reads HRF Keating's Director: Eoin O'Callaghan portrait of an era that changed the way we live. From February mystery. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1994. 2013. SAT 02:00 Bristow (b007s5dp) SAT 05:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b00v2pbf) SAT 13:15 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b00vcwjv) Series 2 Series 2 Series 3 Mr Bristow Regrets Awards Surfing The Chester-Perry Dinner Dance is out of bounds to the buying 18th-century smuggler Tamsyn Trelawny wants to win the Detective Gwen Danbury investigates a headless corpse, while clerk - until he falls in with Tom Paine, troublemaker... coveted Smuggling Personality of the Year award at the annual mum Joan puts herself in danger with the internet. Stars Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the buying clerk from Frank Jethro awards. Annette Badland. Dickens' famous newspaper cartoon strip. Syndicated It's 1793 and in the small Cornish village of Drumlin Bay, SAT 14:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter internationally, it ran for 41 years in London's Evening heroic smuggler Tamsyn Trelawny is still running rings around (b007jykd) Standard. the customs men, assisted by her drunken father Jago. Series 3 Bristow ...... Michael Williams Written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain. The Leak Jones ...... Rodney Bewes Starring Sheridan Smith as Tamsyn Trelawny, John Bowe as Author Gerald becomes obsessed with his wife Diana's sense of Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan Jago Trelawny, Cameron Stewart as Major Thomas Falconer, smell. Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman Andrew McGibbon as Captain Marriot, Martin Hyder as Squire The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring Ian Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey Bascombe, Mark Felgate as Dewey, Mark Perry as Hobbs and Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his Hickford ...... Roger Lloyd Pack India Fisher as Mum. wife, Diana. Tom ...... Jon Glover Producer: Jan Ravens. With Edward Kelsey. Little Red ...... Simon Schatzberger First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2004. Written by Basil Boothroyd. Miss Golightly ...... Lucy Akhurst SAT 06:00 Mike Walker - The Sound of Fury (b00bqm6w) Producer: Bobby Jaye Miss Peach ...... Carol Starks The life and times of rock 'n' roll singer, Billy Fury. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1979. Music composed and performed by John Whitehall. Stricken with rheumatic fever as a child, and not expected to SAT 14:30 Jim the Great (b011qgtk) Producer: Neil Cargill live beyond the age of 20, Billy Fury went on to become Series 3 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1999. Britain's answer to Elvis Presley. But if you thought his story Chase Me, Charlemagne SAT 02:30 Ayres on the Air (b00m6f4m) started with the huge hit 'Halfway to Paradise', think again... Who is Erasmus? Why is the last King now a Chancellor? It's all Series 3 Anton Lesser stars in Mike Walker’s drama is inspired by real to do with Europe. Stars Jimmy Edwards. From September In the Doghouse events. 1979. Pam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry, Billy Fury …. Anton Lesser SAT 15:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00y38bc) anecdotes and sketches. Larry Parnes …. Peter Whitman [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Poems include Toaster, about Pam's son's dog and its phobia; Stuart Colman …. Robert Glenister SAT 16:00 Mike Walker - The Sound of Fury (b00bqm6w) I'm the Dog Who Didn't Win a Prize, written by Pam after she Russell Harty …. Rory Bremner [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] was asked to be a judge at a competition; and Tippy Tappy Dickie Pride …. Andy Serkis SAT 17:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse (b01q7gz5) Feet, about the things you miss when your best friend goes to Marty Wilde …. Ian Targett Series 5 the great kennel in the sky. Joe Brown …. Alistair McGowan The Spider Pam is joined on stage by actors Geoffrey Whitehead and Jack Good …. Nicholas Boulton By Rona Munro. Felicity Montagu for sketches on what dogs talk to each other Terry …. Peter Watts At last, the true story can be told of Robert the Bruce and his about and how a new puppy can cause more excitement in some The Nurse/Donna …. Siriol Jenkins encounter with that spider on the eve of battle with the English. families than a new baby. Hugh …. Jeremy Clyde Veteran comedian Stanley Baxter plays the role of Scotland's SAT 03:00 The Carlingford Chronicles - Miss The Doctor …. Richard Tate greatest monarch - portrayed in this sharply observed comedy Marjoribanks (b00l60zl) The Stage Door Man …. Ken Sharrock by award winning writer Rona Munro as self-obsessed, selfish, 1. Lucilla's Revolution The Producer …. Tom Bevan demanding, rather spoilt, and with a pretty bad case of Lucilla Marjoribanks, a large and determined girl, returns from The Interviewer ….