Radio 4 Extra Listings for 31 January – 6 February 2015 Page 1 of 8 SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 Episode 4 Lucifer Box. Written and read by Mark Gatiss. High-diving elks, the sporting munificence of Charles Dickens Produced by Martin Dempsey. SAT 00:00 Book at Bedtime (b00rdv5n) and the explosion in music hall entertainment all help bring to a SAT 12:00 Tinsel Girl (b050xkyy) Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards close the merry little stroll John Sessions has been taking Tinsel Girl and the Tropical Trip Episode 10 through the history of popular entertainment in the UK. Uplifting comedy drama about the life, loves and misadventures Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new novel, Having joined the restoration celebrations of 1660 and of wheelchair user Maz. Starring and inspired by Cherylee Dancing Backwards witnessed the rise of a new popular entertainment phenomenon, Houston. Written by Lou Ramsden. Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone, she the sporting hero, John now ventures into the industrial SAT 13:15 Dickens Confidential (b01kkwq8) decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old friend, heartlands of Victorian Britain to see how the masses were kept Series 1 Edwin, in New York. amused before the dawn of cinema and the emergence of a Captain Swing As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins to global entertainment industry worth billions of pounds. Can Charles Dickens help workers overcome the tyranny of blossom - learning to ballroom dance, taking up smoking again, Producer: Paul Kobrak Victorian landowners? What of Captain Swing? Stars Jamie befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And in her time First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2008. Glover. alone she reminisces about her early adulthood as a student at SAT 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus (b04wwwcc) SAT 14:00 Brothers in Law (b007k0z0) Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets Edwin. Edwin, it 5-9 January 1915 Series 1 soon becomes clear, is someone she's betrayed and someone Epic drama series set in Great War Britain. In the final omnibus The First Brief she's both terrified and desperate to see again. The story that edition of Season 2, Folkestone mourns one of its missing and Rookie barrister Roger Thursby unwittingly aids a habitual unfolds about the young Violet holds the secret to that betrayal. the Grahams await a special delivery... fraudster. In tonight's episode, Violet and Edwin will finally put their Published in 1955, Henry Cecil's comic legal novel Brothers in demons to rest. Written by Katie Hims Law was adapted first for TV in 1962 by Frank Muir and Denis Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a critically Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews Norden. It provided the first regular starring role for Richard acclaimed, best-selling novelist whose work includes Mr Music: Matthew Strachan Briers, who later reprised his role of the idealistic young lawyer Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3, Miss Garnet's Sound: Martha Littlehailes Roger Thursby for BBC Radio between 1970 and 1972. Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's Angel and The Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood Roger Thursby ...... Richard Briers Other Side of You were both popular Book at Bedtimes. Last Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. Henry Blagrove ...... Richard Waring year she dramatised her version of the Oedipus myth, Where SAT 04:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories (b01rcw0n) Sally Mannering ...... Ann Davies Three Roads Meet, for Radio 4's Afternoon Play slot. Before An Incident in the Life of Georgy Crookhill Grimes ...... John Glyn-Jones becoming a full time writer she was a psychoanalyst. Anxious not to be outdone, the registrar relates a story of Special guest stars: SAT 00:15 Cosmic Quest (b00bfpzw) treachery among thieves. Read by Richard Mitchley. Green ...... Kenneth Connor Three Wise Men SAT 04:15 Steve Walker - Haunted By More Cake The Judge ...... John Le Mesurier Heather Couper reviews ancient associations of stars and (b04xf4pw) Other parts by Malcolm Hayes and Fredrick Treves. planets with deities and astrology's link to maths and the With a tea party going on in his stomach, Lionel has fallen in Adapted for radio by Richard Waring from the BBC TV 24-hour day. love with a guest. How can Uncle Ginger help? Stars Graham scripts. SAT 00:30 15 Minute Drama (b00qxzbd) Crowden. Restored from BBC Transcription Service tapes - originally Absent SAT 05:00 King Street Junior Revisited (b00ktvvt) edited for sale abroad. Departure Series 4 Producer: David Hatch. By Mark Davies Markham. It's Behind You First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1970. Tony has proved himself as a father but his access to his Christmas is coming but goodwill is in short supply among the SAT 14:30 The Ken Dodd Show (b050cx7p) children remains the same. His wife wants a new start 200 miles staff panto cast. Stars Marlene Sidaway and Brigit Forsyth. From 20/10/1963 away. SAT 05:30 Little Blighty on the Down (b0080qvk) Down Your Way is in the village of Knotty Ash, Doddy croons Tony ...... Craige Els Series 3 a ditty and the World's Worst. Clare ...... Gillian Kearney Episode 4 Restored from BBC Transcription Service tapes - originally Miss Farrow ...... Alison Pettitt Council leader Mrs Roberts insists an electrical substation be edited for sale abroad. Josh ...... Alfie Davies raffled off. Political satire with Jo Kendall. From July 1990. Starring Ken Dodd. With Judith Chalmers (Wish You Were Ryan ...... Michael Shelford SAT 06:00 Ronald Harwood - The Dresser (b01s82g4) Here), John Laurie (Dad's Army), Wallas Eaton, Percy Nick ...... Robert Hitchmough "What do we play tomorrow, Norman?" Edwards, Peter Hudson and The Barry Sisters. Directed by Claire Grove. "King Lear, sir." BBC Revue Orchestra, Conducted by Malcolm Lockyer SAT 00:45 Book of the Week (b00r3yk8) "Then I shall wake with the storm clouds in my head." Script by Ken Dodd and Eddie Braben. Max Hastings - Did You Really Shoot the Television? Norman has his work cut out, as 'Sir' prepares to tackle yet Produced by Bill Worsley Episode 5 another performance of Lear. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1963. Max Hastings recalls the marriage of his Fleet Street parents, Starring Freddie Jones as Sir, Michael Palin as Norman and SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b008d1mm) roving reporter Mac and glamorous editor Anne. Melinda Walker as Her Ladyship. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] More trouble for Mac, and Anne's later 'business' with the small Percussionist: Roy Sinclair SAT 16:00 Ronald Harwood - The Dresser (b01s82g4) Picasso. Written by Ronald Harwood. Adapted and directed for radio by [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] With additional readings by Nigel Hastings as Mac and Joanna David Blount. SAT 17:30 Gloomsbury (b01mx2sp) Monro as Anne. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1993. Series 1 Abridged by Penny Leicester. SAT 07:30 Faking the Classics (b00t6sjb) The Trials of Attempting an Elopement SAT 01:00 Jest a Minute (b017gnw5) Mozart A stellar cast of Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman, Nigel Series 2 How tricksters have tampered with the composer's musical Planer, Morwenna Banks, Jonathan Coy and John Sessions Episode 4 legacy. Jonathan Bate sounds out the real notes from the duff breathes life into the colourfully chaotic characters of Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz from the Glee Club in Cardiff. ones. Gloomsbury, a riotous comedy about the Bloomsbury Group. With Elis James, Jon Richardson, Lloyd Langford and Chris SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b008d1mm) The six-part series from the pen of Sue Limb is an affectionate Corcoran Maids and Mistresses send up of the infamous literary group whose arty and Producers: Paul Forde and Gareth Gwynn. 4 Extra Debut. Christina Hardyment re-evaluates life below adulterous adventures dominated the cultural scene in the early First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales in 2006. stairs in interwar Britain, particularly for maids in middle-class 20th century. SAT 01:30 Meet the Parents (b037z6mq) homes. From December 2007. The series follows the fortunes of Vera Sackcloth-Vest Series 4 SAT 09:00 Alexander Armstrong's Radio Heroes (Margolyes) - writer, gardener and transvestite - and her urge to Michelle McManus (b01qdwl5) escape from the tranquillity of her rather cramped little castle in Michelle McManus talks to her parents about how her dreams The X-Men? Pah! Superman? Bah! Give us Jet Morgan any day Kent which she shares with her doting but ambiguous husband of becoming a pop princess turned to reality when she won Pop - as Alexander Armstrong celebrates those fine gentleman Henry (Coy), who is 'something in the Foreign Office'. Vera's Idol back in 2003. They discuss what Michelle's success has had adventurers of the wireless heart is forever surging with exotic passion for Ginny Fox on the family and the highlights of her career which include Big screen do-gooders like the Avengers have the glam and the (Steadman), a highly-strung novelist who adores her, or the singing for the Pope and the Queen. moves, but you don't have to be superhuman to be a hero. Enjoy beautiful but shallow Venus Traduces (Banks). SAT 02:00 Wimsey (b007jvn6) our very own British brand of intrepid adventurer, for whom As the scene shifts from Kent to London, and Cornwall to Strong Poison style, panache, wit and guile serve just as well as x-ray vision, Monaco, this close-knit coterie is divided by misunderstandings, Old Bailey awesome strength or vivid underpants. jealousies and rows. Lord Peter Wimsey attends the trial of Harriet Vane, a young Guiding us through this modern pantheon is Alexander In episode one, Vera longs to elope to Mediterranean sunshine mystery writer accused of poisoning her former lover with Armstrong - no stranger to style, panache and wit himself - with one of her bosom chums.