Radio 4 Extra Listings for 30 November – 6 December 2013 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2013 Ena/Bunty/Betty ...... Gabriel Quigley relationships that grew out of them. Doogie ...... Matt Costello The programme also hears from poet Alan Brownjohn about SAT 00:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream (b009mbjn) The Minister ...... Robert Paterson the experience of sitting for Fay, and examines an archive of Fight for the Future Producers: Lucy Bacon and Kathy Smith prints, contact sheets and letters from her sitters, held in the Jurgen and Kate are desperate to get the weapon away before all First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000. British Library since her death in 2005, with photo critic and is lost... SAT 02:30 The Change (b00nxcbs) editor Sue Steward. Conclusion of Simon Bovey's sci-fi adventure series set during Series 1 SAT 08:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b019jqtz) the Second World War. Lipstick Series 7 Stars Rory Kinnear as Jurgen Rall, Tim McMullan as Major Carol's attempts at keeping George's little hobby a secret are Episode 14 Barton, Joannah Tincey as Kate Richey, Ben Crowe as thwarted when they bump into Maureen... From Minnesota, the American funny man presents the Lieutenant Dundas, Rachel Atkins as Trudi Schenk, Peter Lynda Bellingham and Chris Ellison star as troubled hormonal VocalEssence ensemble, plus news from deeply frozen Lake Marinker as Brigadier Erskine and Laura Molyneux as wife Carol whose husband George has revealed that he's a Wobegon. From 2011. Slipstream. transvestite. SAT 09:00 A Taste of Funny with Denis Norden (b007s6p7) Other parts played by Simon Treves, Sam Pamphilon, Alex Sitcom by Gavin Petrie and Jan Etherington. From Jimmy Durante and Jack Benny - via Beyond The Fringe Lanipekun and Lloyd Woolf. Carol ...... Lynda Bellingham - to Alan Coren, Linda Smith and Victoria Wood. Producer: Marc Beeby George ...... Chris Ellison Comedy writer Denis Norden curates three hours of personally- Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2008. Violet ...... Sylvia Syms chosen comedy listening, based on his own collection of SAT 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b008pc0b) Maureen ...... Maureen Beattie comedy albums, and from wading through nine decades of his Guards! Guards! Dave ...... Mark Powley own accumulated radio memories. Episode 5 Ken ...... James Vaughan Denis explains to Nick Baker how as a young serviceman, the "That dragon isn't going to accept any mealy-mouthed, wishy- Jerry ...... Richard Standing humour on the American Forces Network played a huge part in washy liberal nonsense.... Do you know what you're getting with Sonia ...... Emma Kennedy widening his comedy horizons. Whether it was Bette Davis a dragon? Unashamed strong leadership." Producer: Maria Esposito sparring with Jimmy Durante or Judy Garland joking with Bob The dragon strikes. But will Captain Vimes triumph? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001. Hope, he salutes the one-liners, irreverent put downs and insults Stars John Wood and Martin Jarvis. SAT 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt51p) on shows like 'Command Performance'. The 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on The Looking Glass War Denis also recalls the first American comedy vinyl in Britain Discworld. Episode 2 and reflects on the topical, improvisational tones of Mort Sahl's Narrator …. Martin Jarvis Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's novel, the jazz-inflected comedic riffs. He and Frank Muir booked Mort Captain Vimes …. John Wood fourth to feature spymaster George Smiley. on the BBC. We also hear some Shelley Berman and routines Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes As Leiser's clandestine mission into East German territory chronicling 1960s changing gender relations, with male/female Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne proceeds, it soon becomes clear that nothing is quite what it duos like Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Lady Ramkin …. Helen Atkinson-Wood seems. Returning to his British comedy roots, Denis enlarges on his Carrot …. Robert Gwilym Leclerc ...... Ian McDiarmid penchant for "acoustic humour" and his love of language-based Lord Vetinari …. Crawford Logan George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale laughter. Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher Avery ...... Patrick Kennedy Plus highlights of Denis's own material - leading to a Chief Merchant …. Jeff Nuttall Haldane ...... Philip Jackson masterclass in the construction of jokes as well as a tribute to Librarian …. Michael Roberts Fred Leiser ...... Piotr Baumann his late writing partner, Frank Muir. Little Girl …. Kate McEnery Jack Johnson ...... Ben Crowe Denis Norden's influence on the British comedy landscape Director: John Taylor Anna ...... Ania Sowinski includes not only co-creating British sitcom's first dysfunctional First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in December 1992. Sarah ...... Fenella Woolgar family, the Glums (Take it From Here) but also a period as SAT 01:00 Wimsey (b007jzky) Control ...... John Rowe Comedy Consultant for BBC TV, alongside Frank Muir. Later, The Nine Tailors Carol ...... Annabelle Dowler he and Frank spent decades on BBC Radio's My Word! and My 5 A Question of Identity Official ...... Philip Fox Music! Denis was also ITV's long-serving presenter of comedy Following his trip to France, Lord Peter Wimsey takes a step Soldiers ...... Matt Addis, Benjamin Askew cock-ups for 'It'll Be Alright on The Night'. closer to identifying the killer. Directed by Marc Beeby. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Test Bed Productions. Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth. SAT 04:00 Enid Bagnold - The Amorous Ghost (b00m9jbl) First broadcast in 2013. Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery dramatised by Alistair Mr Templeman's wife is away, but it seems someone is sleeping SAT 12:00 Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin: Omnibus Beaton. in her nightgowns. Read by Paul Daneman. (b03jrz8d) Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael SAT 04:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre As Pushkin prepares to fight a duel, his wife begs to hear his Bunter …. Peter Jones (b007ncyz) most famous story. Based on the poem. Stars Geoffrey Rev Theodore Venables …. Phillip Latham Aristide Bruant Streatfeild. Supt Blundell …. Timothy Bateson The socialist club owner questions his success. John Peacock's SAT 13:10 Chain Gang (b03jpqpj) Mrs Venables …. Noel Dyson play based on Toulouse-Lautrec's characters. Stars Bernard Hill Series 4 Nobby Cranton …. Stephen Greiff and Julie Covington. Episode 9 Emily …. Jenny Twigg SAT 05:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008kkz1) Made for 4 Extra. The story told by its listeners, which began Potty Peak …. Anthony Hyde Series 2 with a mistimed proposal and a wrong turning. Join in at Donnington …. John Church Episode 6 bbc.co.uk/radio4extra. Narrator …. John Westbrook JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, SAT 13:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzy3k) Producer: Martin Fisher Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From August Series 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980. 1991. A Farewell to Ingleby SAT 01:30 Father Brown Stories (b0081lvr) SAT 05:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jzm2) Detective Daunt's country weekend at an old friend's house Series 2 Series 1 doesn't go quite as planned. Stars Anna Massey and Frances Actor and Alibi Out To Launch Barber. A theatrical murder amid much back-stabbing is announced in Rosie's company is set to launch the autobiography of the SAT 14:00 Steptoe and Son (b00t4qmv) the Chop-House. Father Brown finds himself in the midst of a country's most famous footballer, Lloyd Gratton. Series 2 School for Scandal. The lives of Rosie and her granddaughter Jo are shaken by the My Old Man's a Tory Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown. return to Rosie's daughter Kate after a long spell working Angry Albert disrupts Harold's Labour party meeting. GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an abroad. Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. Prunella Scales in the first of four series of Simon Brett's Harold. With Dudley Foster as Stonelake and Beth Boyd as Father Brown ...... Andrew Sachs sitcom following the trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and Miss Frobisher. Mundon Mandeville ...... Peter Jeffrey her event-management company based in Brighton. Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association Mrs Mandeville ...... Sheila Grant With Arabella Weir as Kate, Rebecca Callard as Jo, Duncan with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson Inspector Bagshaw ...... Bill Wallis Preston as Bob, Annette Badland as Tess, Jon Glover as Greg wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Ashton Jarvis ...... David Brierly Turnball, Tracy-Ann Oberman as Lalage Croxton-Sackville and The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring Norman Knight ...... Charles Baillie Will Ing as Lloyd Gratton. the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold Lady Miriam Talbot ...... Fleur Chandler Producer: Maria Esposito and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV. Miss Maroni ...... Karen Ascoe First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000. Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Mrs Sans ...... Pauline Letts SAT 06:00 The Other Side of the Hill (b010t4pb) Gale Pedrick. House Manager ...... Jonathan Scott It's a Long Way From Talavera Produced by Bobby Jaye Dramatised by John Scotney The 1808-1813 peninsular campaign of the Duke of First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1967. Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid. Wellington. First of Peter Luke's two linked plays with Michael SAT 14:30 Harry Worth (b00r2jxk) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1986. Pennington. Thirty Minutes Worth SAT 02:00 Millport (b0075ttx) SAT 07:30 Sitting for Fay (b00lb6q7) The Holiday Series 1 Christine Finn discovers a rich seam of literary life in Harry Worth's doctor prescribes him a sunshine holiday.