Radio 4 Extra Listings for 4 – 10 July 2015 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 04 JULY 2015 ME Braddon - Lady Audley's Secret First heard on Radio 4 2002. Episode 5 SAT 07:30 Fabulous Flops (b0131ylr) SAT 00:00 The Price of Fear (b007jshy) Dramatisation of the classic Victorian thriller by Mary More Fabulous Flops Lot 132 Elizabeth Braddon. Episode 1 Horror legend Vincent Price tells the artistically horrifying tale Robert leaves the splendour of Audley Court to continue his Was Bat Boy fang-tastic? Paul Roseby searches New York and of a painting. With Douglas Blackwell, Alexander John, search for his missing friend at a draughty hilltop inn. When he London for musical failures. With Elaine Stritch and Sandi Elizabeth Morgan and Vincent Price interviews Lady Audley's former maid, he provokes a surprising Toksvig. SAT 00:30 Fry's English Delight (b00t9t6r) result. SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b01qsqfp) Series 3 Mary Braddon ...... Hattie Morahan The Devil's Horn The Trial of Qwerty Lucy, Lady Audley ...... Charlotte Emmerson The saxophone is the most important musical invention of the All rise for Judge Stephen Fry, in whose court the Qwerty Robert Audley ...... Alex Wyndham last 170 years. Lauded for its adventurous sound, its sensuality keyboard stands trial. Phoebe Marks ...... Lizzy Watts and seemingly never-ending versatility, the brass woodwind The gravest charge against the still ubiquitous Qwerty is that the Luke Marks ...... Benjamin Askew horn has become one of the most popular instruments in the layout was designed deliberately to slow typing down. Directed by Julie Beckett and Fiona Kelcher. world. Today, it's at home in classical music as it is in pop with Typists in the 1870's got too fast for their machines. The keys SAT 02:45 Book at Bedtime (b009fspj) hundreds of famous composers writing significant pieces for its would easily stick. Typists would have to delve under the Sadie Jones - The Outcast shapely curves. Neither of these musical homes compare to its bonnet to untangle them. Desecration place in jazz, where its presence is so influential it's hard to Messy business. Dirty Mr Qwerty. Increasingly alone and at odds with the world, self-loathing think of another instrument more associated with the genre. But will the charge against Qwerty stick? Invented in the 1870's Lewis makes a dramatic gesture of despair. Read by Emma But for some the sax produces a devilish sound, whether that's before the age of ergonomics and future proofing, it was a Fielding. down to taste or decency. It's been shunned by polite society, result of a commercial race to dominate the new typewriting SAT 03:00 Anthony Trollope - The Pallisers (b007jwgm) banished from orchestras and even denounced by governments. industry with a universal system. The father of formats. There Episode 5 Much worse, in recent times it has been accused of blandness were typewriting races too, which resembled today's motor Phineas Finn's political career is on the rise, but he is short of and crowned the king of elevator music. racing. Hyped up typists, competing systems and publicity money. Glencora worries over her children's inheritance. British jazz musician Soweto Kinch examines the saxophone's hungry manufacturers proved only one thing: the new fangled SAT 04:00 The 99p Challenge (b01rtwl1) place in history in Radio 4's Archive on 4. An alto player typewriting machines could be very noisy. Series 5 himself, Kinch investigates the instrument's captivating and Alongside contributions from historians and qwerty experts, Episode 5 somewhat turbulent journey through musical and spoken Stephen meets a man who has deqwertified himself and adopted Crazy panel show capers with Sue Perkins, Marcus Brigstocke, archive. Aiding Soweto with expert analysis are his friend and Dvorak, a system claimed to be quicker and cleaner than Miranda Hart, Nick Frost and Armando Iannucci. From fellow sax player Courtney Pine, leading classical saxophonist Qwerty. There's also an examination of newer, more modern September 2004. Amy Dickson, historian Dr Paul Cohen, director of the 2012 formats, which may be more efficient but are no match for SAT 04:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00pfv03) World Saxophone Congress Richard Ingham and comedian qwerty. Special Relationship David Quantick. We also meet some speedy junior qwertists' primary school A CIA man spends the day with Team Beagle on an exchange SAT 09:00 Jay Rayner Gets Stuffed (b03tr1fv) pupils who learn to touch type as part of their curriculum. They visit. Food writer and restaurant critic, Jay Rayner's known for come up an idea for the ultimate system for inputting text and But will his past come back to haunt him? banging on about the awful - and sometimes lovely - things that in so doing demonstrate an important point about how thought Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of cooks do to blameless ingredients. Here, he offers up a few of relates to language, and how any system, using keyboard, pen or inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives. his own. even speech is a compromise. Bill ...... Richard Lumsden From a personal selection of deliciously fat-drenched, gut- But will Qwerty be acquitted? Sharla ...... Nina Conti busting grub-related radio, get your teeth into the decades of us Producer: Nick Baker Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya mucking around with our food. A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. Colonel ...... Ewan Bailey On Jay's mouth-watering menu: SAT 01:00 Falco (b00qyr9t) Bristow ...... John Biggins * A generous helping of loudmouth chef Anthony Bourdain The Iron Hand of Mars Sean ...... Joseph Cohen Cole * A rare appearance from Elizabeth David on BBC Radio 4's Episode 4 Lenny ...... Piers Wehner 'The Food Programme' After making enquiries with Claudia, the missing legate's Ignatius/Fuego ...... Nigel Hastings * Keith Floyd starring as a Roman chef in a late night BBC mistress, Falco decides he has to cross the Rhine into Barbarian Man ...... Rhys Jennings Radio 4 comedy territory. Accompanied by Justinus, Helveticus and a motley Producer: Katie Tyrrell * Nina Myskow talking to essayist David Sedaris, children's crew of raw recruits, he sets off on his most dangerous journey First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009. author Judith Kerr and dancer Carlos Acosta about what they yet. SAT 05:00 Little Blighty on the Down (b00tr63g) really eat. Things begin to look ominous when they find a deserted Roman Series 4 * A dash of Miles Jupp as Damien Trench, 'In and Out of The camp in the heart of the forest. Episode 3 Kitchen' Starring Anton Lesser as Marcus Didius Falco, Anna Madely as Council leader John tries to impress a delegation with a village * A pinch of sarcasm with 'The Sunday Format' on Helena Justina, David Holt as Xanthus and Gary Lewis as cover-up. Political satire with John Baddeley. From July 1991. Gastronimity. Helveticus. SAT 05:30 The Price of Happiness (b060724p) * A taste of a Philadelpia deli in award-winning documentary, Dramatised by Mary Cutler. Series 1 'One Big Kitchen Table' Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. A Big White Wedding * A mouthful from a BBC Radio 2 phone-in about the chicken First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. Stand-up poet Kate Fox explores some of the things she doesn't shop with Vanessa Feltz SAT 01:30 A Short History of the Fork (b0075ztd) want and has cheerfully failed to achieve in life, despite feeling * And to wash it all down: "Hog lard, of course that's what If you think about it - which you probably never have - the fork society constantly reminds her that, as a woman, she should. killed my grandfather...at 94" says a pork-loving chef from the is an odd instrument - four curved, sharpened prongs emanating This time, Kate looks at the subject of "A Big White Wedding". American South. Get fired up for the world of competitive from a fat ridge joined to a handle. Is it every little girl's dream to be walked down the aisle feeling American barbecuing with Russell Davies in 'You Is What You But where did it come from, and how should it be used? like a Disney Princess, looking like she's been swallowed by Eat'. Joe Farrell tucks into the tale with a little help from collectors, taffeta? What if you're more Lightwater Valley Lass than Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Testbed Productions. manufacturers and fans of the fork. Disney Princess? SAT 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b00sbh9h) Producer: Miles Warde Kate got married in a lighthouse, with guests waiting to cross Series 1 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2000. the causeway because the lighthouse keeper drew up the wrong The Bath SAT 02:00 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's tide times. The wedding cost under a thousand pounds and Harold's plan for a proper bathroom upset his father Albert. (b0089htv) guests brought their own food. To Kate, it was perfect. But Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as Episode 10 would this somewhat unconventional day cost other brides their Harold. Henry Goodman reads Truman Capote's vivid and witty novel wedding smiles? Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association about the relationship between young writer, Paul Varjak and Statistics show that males and females still divide domestic with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson captivating girl-about-town, Holly Golightly, in 1940s New duties up in traditional ways, although in Kate's household these wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. York. roles are almost completely reversed. Is there such a thing as the The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and perfect formula for marriage or is it a tradition as outdated as the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold chic black dresses, Holly Golightly is top notch in style and a Morris Dancing with only slightly fewer hankies and bells? and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV.