Radio 7 Listings for 10 – 16 May 2008 Page 1 of 6 SATURDAY 10 MAY 2008 Producer: Peter Wild London First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. W1A 1AA SAT 00:00 John Wyndham - The Midwich Cuckoos SAT 03:00 The Patrick and Maureen Maybe Music Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: (b007jmh3) Experience (b007lr4s) [email protected]. Episode 3 Episode 4 SAT 08:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k0n4) The mysterious powers of the alien children start to become Unhappily married Patrick and Maureen are getting on so badly Michael Sellers destructive... that they’re forced to present their final show form separate Peter Sellers' son Michael chats to Sally Magnusson about the Conclusion of the classic 1957 sci-fi novel by John Wyndam. studios. ups and downs of growing up with a famous funny father. Bernard Westcott …. Charles Kay But even that doesn't stop them quarrelling... Producer: Mike Walker Gordon Zellaby …. Manning Wilson Starring Imelda Staunton as Maureen Maybe and Patrick First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in September 2005. Angela Zellaby …. Pauline Yates Barlow as Patrick Maybe. SAT 08:30 Israel Horovitz - Phone Tag (b007jwb2) Richard Gayford …. William Gaunt Special guest: Rachel Weisz A transatlantic love affair is played out on the telephone as calls Chief Constable …. Ronald Baddiley Doctor ...... Peter Jones are missed, messages left and confusion reigns. Stars Elizabeth Coroner …. Nigel Graham Cleonni ...... Carla Mendonca Mansfield. Doctor Torrance …. Peter Tuddenham Peter Davies ...... John Ramm SAT 09:00 Somebody Laughed: Eddie Braben Brings You Mrs Williams …. Katherine Parr Written by Patrick Barlow. Sunshine (b007lm74) Girl …. Rosalind Adams Script associate: Nev Fountain The man who brought sunshine to Eric and Ernie brings some Boy …. Jill Lidstone Producer: Claire Jones golden rays into your ears - selecting a selection of the shows Man …. Simon Hewitt First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999. what he wrote. Dramatised by William Ingram. SAT 03:30 Dial M for Pizza (b007k21r) Eddie Braben penned some of Morecambe and Wise’s most Music specially composed by Roger Limb of the BBC Series 1 famous lines. But that wasn't the only string to his bow – other Radiophonic Workshop. Episode 6 beneficiaries of his strong comic writing include Ken Dodd and Director: Gordon House. The sketch show team tackle an odd disease - and a legal Jimmy Cricket. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1982. Aladdin. Stars Brenda Blethyn and Robert Bathurst. From Eddie himself also steps into the spotlight to helm his own SAT 00:30 Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis (b007jwnt) December 1987. vehicle the Worst Show on the Wireless – with Alison Episode 1 SAT 04:00 Brian Appleton's History of Rock 'n' Roll Steadman. Gregor Samsa wakes one day to find himself hideously (b00fvwk6) In between his selections, Eddie reminisces about radio and transformed into a monstrous insect. His family react with Kajaboohoo what it has meant to him. horror at his bizarre transformation but this slowly turns to The Brummie musicologist reveals what he didn’t do during the Featuring: revulsion - and then monstrous indifference - as he is left to ‘80s music scene. * The Morecambe and Wise Show (December 1977) quietly waste away in his bedroom. Set in a fictitious in a college of further education in the * The Show With Ten Legs (February 1977) First published in 1912, Benedict Cumberbatch reads Franz 'Newcastle-under-Lyme area'. * The Ken Dodd Show - Star Parade (July 1963) Kafka's classic novel in four parts. Series of comic lectures, written and performed by Graham * Jimmy's Cricket Team (June 1991) Franz Kafka (1883-1924) ranks among the 20th century's most Fellows * The Worst Show in the Wireless (February 1975) acclaimed writers. He is often cited as the author whose works Producer: Dawn Ellis * The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show (December 1977) best evoke the concerns and preoccupations of modern life. The First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001. When Eddie Braben passed away aged 82 in 2013, Bruce world in his stories is portrayed as one in which the fantastic is SAT 04:15 Hearing With Hegley (b00b7c59) Forsyth was one of those keen to pay tribute. Eddie began his entirely normal, the irrational is rational, and the unreasonable Series 1 writing career penning jokes on the back of paper bags on a seems reasonable. As Ernst Pawel wrote in his biography of the Episode 4 fruit and veg stall. writer, "Kafka articulates the anguish of being human." The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley, presents Producer: Martin Dempsey Kafka, although Czech and living in Prague, which was then a selection of his work. Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in May 2007. part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, spoke fluent German and With: SAT 12:00 JCW Brook - The Doppelganger (b007jv9r) Czech and actually wrote in German and thought it his mother Keith Moore Adam and Jane are off on a make-or-break second honeymoon; tongue. The tensions between those who spoke German and Susan Norton but at Oxford station Adam sees his possibly dead mother. those who spoke Czech were a direct reflection of the rise of Andrew Bailey Then at the hotel he meets Beth, a 25-year-old girl with the nationalism and the quest for national identity. Nigel Piper mind of a child of seven, who looks like Jane.... "a Metamorphosis was translated by Richard Stokes. Abridged and Producer: Phil Clarke doppelganger is your other self - your dark brother of myth, produced by Gemma Jenkins. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1996. who wishes to take your place in this world..." First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2006. SAT 04:30 The Nick Revell Show (b007jp6w) JCW Brook’s spine-chilling drama stars Nigel Anthony as SAT 01:00 Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas (b007jtsp) Series 1 Adam Oxton, Elizabeth Lindsay as Beth Harris, Penelope Lee Bartram-Haugh, 1865 Moving as Sarah Steadman, Emily Richard as Jane Oxton, Geoffrey Young heiress Maud Knollyes appears to have no choice about Struggling writer Nick ponders moving in with his girlfriend, Collins as Ralph Steadman, Mary Wimbush as the Woman and her future... and which geranium is sexiest? Jack May as the Man. Starring George Cole and Teresa Gallagher. A sitcom for the 1990s, written by and starring comedian Nick Music by Paddy Kingsland of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Sheridan le Fanu's Victorian gothic horror novel. Revell. Director: Ian Cotterell Dramatised by Alan Drury. With Alistair McGowan, Caroline Gruber, Brian Bowles, Doon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977. Maud .... Teresa Gallagher Mackichan and Alison Sterling. SAT 13:30 Albert and Me (b007jsbh) Silas .... George Cole Producer: Jon Magnusson Series 1 Lady Monica Knollys .... Joan Sims First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1992. Spanner in the Works Madame de la Rougierre .... Dorothy Tutin SAT 05:00 Far from the Madding Crowd (b007jldx) Single dad Bryan's son Albert is starting nursery - what could Mary Quince ... Kathleen Byron Autumn possibly go wrong? Mrs Rusk ... Tessa Worsley Sergeant Troy's cruel treatment of Fanny comes back to haunt Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as Milly ... Jane Whittenshaw him. Thomas Hardy dramatisation with Janet Maw and Tim Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With John Junkin as Dudley ... Jonathan Keeble McInnerny. Harry. Dr Bryerley .... John Hartley SAT 06:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00b7bd3) Written by Jim Eldridge. Zamiel .... George A Cooper Series 2 Producer: John Fawcett Wilson Beauty ... Becky Hindley The Anniversary Blues First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1977. Wyatt ... Pauline Letts Tommy has big celebration plans for Sheila, but then Lewis gets SAT 14:00 10/05/2008 (b00b8rp5) Charke's servant ... David Collings involved. Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Dr Slaithwaite .....John Evitts 30 years after sweethearts Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr won BBC7. Tom Brice.... Roger May the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest, the musical double-act are SAT 17:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00b8rp7) The Coachman .... Stephen Critchlow back in the big time. An American Independence celebration from the Tanglewood Mr Grimston .... Geoffrey Whitehead June Whitfield and Roy Hudd star in Mike Coleman's sitcom. Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts, with special guest Meryl Pianist: Michael Haslam Tommy Franklin ...... Roy Hudd Streep. Director: Enyd Williams Sheila Parr ...... June Whitfield SAT 18:00 Heroes: The Official Radio Show (b00c4fr3) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1995. With Pat Coombs, Julian Eardley, Edward Halstead, Paul Series 2 SAT 02:00 Edith Wharton - The Reef (b00b719j) Rogan and Tracy-Ann Oberman. Episode 3 Episode 10 Music by Frido Ruth. Jon Holmes and Xanthe Fuller analyse the action from the TV Anna has succumbed to desire, but can she ever know Producer: Steve Doherty series. happiness? First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1999. SAT 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b00b8rpc) Published in 1912, The Reef is one of Edith Wharton's most SAT 06:30 PG Wodehouse (b00b7b0p) Small Gods accomplished yet neglected novels - revealing the submerged What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning Episode 3 and perilous depths beneath the surface of even the most Steeple Bumpleigh Ephebian philosophers argue violently among themselves but conventional of its characters. Forced into a meeting he's been trying to avoid at the cottage, they're no match for Deacon Vorbis. Concluding episode starring Ben Miles as George Darrow, Bertie Wooster gets a warning. However one philosopher, Didactylos, is prepared to stand up to Jodhi May as Sophie, Teresa Gallagher as Anna, Deborah PG Wodehouse's romp starring Michael Hordern and Richard him.