Radio 4 Extra Listings for 22 – 28 February 2020 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2020 Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua vision of capitalism, necking energy drinks and telling people Bukta ..... Adeel Akhtar his thighs are really, really strong. He’s terrible. SAT 00:00 Ray Bradbury - The Veldt (m000fh8j) Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker Mrs. Wilkins has worked as tea lady, archivist and maintenance A futuristic cautionary tale about the perils of smart technology, Stiggins ..... Sean Baker guru for 15 years. She knows where the bodies are buried. We where danger prowls in the nursery... Zarin ..... Christopher Simpson must stress that that is a figure of speech. Ray Bradbury's gripping sci-fi story first published in 1950. Mrs Viccary ..... Joanna Monro Graham Quicks ...... Vincent Franklin Lydia/Witch… Diana Olsson Directors: Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole Audrey Carr ...... Rebekah Staton George… John Cazabon First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011. Daniel Porter ...... Kieran Hodgson Peter… Jon Hewitt SAT 02:45 Philip Glass - Words without Music (b05t7kpz) Mrs Wilkins ...... Julia Deakin Wendy/Grethel… Nina Ludlow Episode 5 Special guests: David… Bruce Wightman Asked to write the score for visionary 1982 documentary Akif..............................Ray Panthaki Adapted by Jack Pulman. Koyaanisqatsi, Glass discovered a new avenue for his musical Black Firebird X............ Matt Green Producer: Frederick Bradnum. composition. First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1959. He later worked with Martin Scorsese, writing the soundtrack With Jo Unwin as The Narrator SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b0076sz2) for Kundun (1997). Written by Jack Bernhardt Nowt So Queer as Folk Conclusion of the memoir by Philip Glass, the world-renowned Producer: David Tyler Matthew Parris considers what is and what is not normal. With composer of symphonies, operas and film scores. A Pozzitive production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in Amanda Mitchison, Jude Collins and actor Mat Fraser. From Read by Kerry Shale. February 2020. July 2005. Abridger: Laurence Wareing SAT 05:30 The Skewer (m000f783) SAT 01:00 Colvil and Soames (b007jt9c) Producer: Kirsteen Cameron Series 1 Bad Apples Music details: Episode 6 Episode 2 Track: "Evening Song" (from Satygraha) From the mind of Jon Holmes comes topical satire like you've After an unexpected twist in his latest murder investigation, CD: The Essential Philip Glass never heard it before. Inspector Guscott has asked his old friends from MI6, Colvil Label: Sony SAT 06:00 Neville Watchurst - A Vital Flaw (b00mj27x) and Soames for their discreet assistance. Track: "The Grid" Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler has a serious health problem Christopher Lee's murder-mystery starring Christopher CD: Koyaanisqatsi and Dr Felix Kersten is summoned to treat him. Benjamin and Amanda Redman as intelligence officers Henry Label: Island So successful is he that Himmler's dependency on him is Colvil and Alex Soames. Track: "Closing" established and when war breaks out Kersten is faced with an Henry Colvil …. Christopher Benjamin CD: Glassworks impossible dilemma. Alex Soames …. Amanda Redman Label: CBS John Duttine and Martin Jarivs star in Neville Watchurst's DCI Guscott …. Dudley Sutton First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2015. drama - a truthful account of a relationship which developed in DS Gwen Jenkins …. Sue Jones Davies SAT 03:00 Oscar Wilde (b007jnnk) Germany both before and during the Second World War. Miranda Peel …. Sheila Reid The Picture of Dorian Gray Heinrich Himmler ...... John Duttine Tom Margeson …. Tom Cotcher Episode 2 Dr Felix Kersten ...... Martin Jarvis Charlie Lofthouse …. Alistair McGowan Aristocrat Dorian Gray is living a life of selfish pleasure. But is Rudolf Brandt ...... Christopher Ravenscroft Producer: Pete Atkin retribution on the horizon? Irmgard ...... Louise Jameson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998. Jamie Glover stars in the conclusion of Oscar Wilde's classic Rostery ...... Norman Bird SAT 01:30 Beckett in Brooklyn (b04v30zx) novel dramatised by Nick McCarty. Bernadotte ...... Peter Harding A disembodied mouth hovers 8 feet above the stage and appears Dorian Gray ...... Jamie Glover Hewitt ...... David Monico to oscillate wildly around the pitch-black auditorium. Lord Henry Wotton ...... Ian McDiarmid Poh ...... Dominic Letts Blindfolded, her head strapped into a harness, Irish actor Lisa Basil Hallward ...... Steven Pacey Koch ...... Michael Onslow Dwan delivers the frenetic, roller-coaster stream of Woman ...... Tilly Gaunt Jacobseb ...... Malcolm Ward consciousness that is Samuel Beckett's 'Not I'. Alongside Jim ...... Harry Myers Kivimaeki ...... John Baddeley 'Footfalls' and 'Rockaby', the play forms one part of a trilogy of Duke Geoffrey ...... Edward de Souza Kaltenbrummer ...... Gareth Armstrong intensely demanding one-woman Beckett works which Lisa has Thornton ...... Stephen Critchlow Music composed by Anthea Gomez. been performing to packed houses across the UK & Ireland. Campbell ...... Geoffrey Beevers Directed by Sue Wilson. Now, as Lisa takes her Beckett trilogy across the Atlantic to the Lord ...... Gavin Muir First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1994 Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theatre, we find her Woman in Opium Den ...... Elizabeth Bell SAT 07:30 Reimagining the City (b03s645s) immersed in a whirlwind of rave reviews, TV appearances and a Lady Narborough ...... Tessa Worsley Series 2 US theatre-going public heavily preoccupied with Ebola, Isis Francis ...... Tom George Birmingham and the uncertainty of our times. Duke John ...... Brett Usher Musician Soweto Kinch offers a different vision of a city he's As the curtain prepares to fall for the last time, we discover the Duchess ...... Alice Arnold loved all his life - Birmingham. true extent of Lisa's commitment to these dark and challenging Director: Gordon House. Soweto often gets a surprised response when he tells people he's roles, what the impact of performing them has been on her and First broadcast on the BBC World Service in January 2000. from Birmingham. For one, he doesn't have an accent. But also, if, 25 years after the Irish playwright's death, she may have SAT 04:00 Funny You Should Ask (b0b3j9rq) as a successful jazz musician and hip hop star, the expectation shown us that Samuel Beckett's work matters more than ever. From 23/07/1979 is often that he should be living in London or New York - or Producer: Conor Garrett Peter Jones hosts the entertainment quiz about comedy as he almost anywhere except Birmingham. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014. tests a panel of experts: But, for Soweto, Birmingham is a place of artistic endeavour SAT 02:00 Paul Murray - The Mark and the Void Sid Colin, Barry Cryer and John Junkin recall memories of and cultural significance on a par with any other major city. (b06445xm) careers and comic colleagues. The city is where he served his cultural apprenticeship in jazz Episode 10 Funny You Should Ask ran for 8 series from 1976 to 1982. and hip hop. "The saxophone called me. I've never seen so The bank fails, a heist is attempted and Claude the Everyman Questions compiled by Michael Pointon. many shiny keys. And the love affair continued from there." banker makes a choice that will change everyone's lives... Producer: Bob Oliver Rogers He left to study history at Oxford but chose to make Paul Murray’s madcap novel of institutional folly - a stirring First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in July 1979. Birmingham his home. "The fact that I've stayed in Birmingham examination of the deceptions carried out in the names of art, SAT 04:30 Dry Slopes (b00ly7c2) sets me apart from the other musicians in London - I can do love and commerce. Series 1 everything from here. There's a camaraderie and respect that Concluded by Peter Serafinowicz. Dry Wit other musicians have for each other in Birmingham." Abridged by Sara Davies. Friendless, jobless Angus writes a requiem to himself. He is Soweto lives in a tower block in Hockley - it's been a place Producer: Jenny Thompson. really a genius, you know that's given him creative input for his albums and music. From First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2015. Nick Ball’s sitcom about the unemployed son of a high-flying his window he can see the Hockley Flyover, a space which was SAT 02:15 Friends & Foes - A Narrative History of mother. the scene of gang fights and crime. In 2009 Soweto decided to Diplomacy (b08ctz6x) Angus Dry ...... Nick Ball turn it into a festival venue. Small Nation, Big Diplomacy Mum ...... Louisa Rix "I've been proud of the fact we've redefined peoples' Professor David Rothkopf discusses the pivotal role of a small With Robert Harley, Toby Longworth and Julie Gibbs. relationships to this space. It's a neglected area. I felt that more nation in negotiating a landmark Middle East peace agreement - Producer: Gareth Edwards than any other area this expressed a lot of the innate the Oslo accords. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1995. contradictions we face in the black community in Britain. I In 1973, a single handshake on the White House lawn between SAT 05:00 The Lentil Sorters (b06pbw9x) wanted to reclaim the space and reclaim the stories." the Israeli and Palestinian leaders marked the end of decades of Multi-Parameter Database Search Producer: Rachel Hooper confrontation and conflict. But this breakthrough was brokered A sitcom set in the Office of Local and National Statistics A Falling Tree production first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in not through superpower intervention but with the help of which, depending on who you ask, is either where the real 2014. Norway. power of government resides, or the place where fun goes to SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b0713m3h) Crucially it was done through secret informal communications die. In The Bluff called 'back channel diplomacy'.