Radio 7 Listings for 30 August – 5 September 2008 Page 1 of 6 SATURDAY 30 AUGUST 2008 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002. CBeebies Radio SAT 06:30 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves London, W12 7RJ SAT 00:00 Bruce Bedford - The Gibson (b007js7p) (b007sxvp) Phone: 08700 100 700. Episode 1 The Purity of the Turf SAT 17:00 The Vinyl Cafe (b007jymj) Aspiring poet Saul Judd gets drawn into a web of dark and After the syndicate disaster, Bertie Wooster ponders what he Series 3 mysterious forces - as a leprous prince ignores sinister warnings should bet on next. Sam the Athlete and a Bath playgroup's blind terror baffles the adults... PG Wodehouse's romp starring Michael Hordern and Richard A comedy drama featuring Dave, owner of the Vinyl Cafe - the Bruce Bedford's time-hopping supernatural thriller serial in six Briers. world's smallest record shop. Stuart tells the story of Sam's episodes. Jeeves ...... Michael Hordern quest for athletic greatness. Robert Glenister .... Saul Judd Bertie Wooster ..... Richard Briers SAT 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Sharon Duce .... Elise Judd Revrend Heppenstall ..... Maurice Denham (b007jmw8) Freddie Jones .... The Scribe Bingo Little ..... Jonathan Cecil Operation Luna Kate Binchy .... The Scribe's Wife Steggles ...... Edwin Apps 8. The Time Travellers Constance Chapman .... Haensel Sethria Harold ...... Denise Bryer Captain Jet Morgan and his crew find themselves on a curiously John Telfer .... Prince Bladud Charles ...... John Samson familiar planet as visitors arrive. Trevor Cooper .... Rough Peasant Adapted by Chris Miller. Futuristic tale set in 1965 written and produced by Charles Sam Dastor .... Karim el Hatel Producer: David Hatch Chilton. June Barrie .... The Chairwoman First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1973. Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Geoff Serle .... The Northern Man SAT 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00d7h6n) Lemmy Barnett …. Alfie Bass Jonathan Adams .... The Guardian Contact us at: Doc …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter Original music composed by Thomas Johnson. Big Toe Books Mitch …. David Williams Music realised by Robin Lever. BBC Broadcasting House All Other Parts …. David Jacobs Special effects: Dick Mills (Radiophonic Workshop) London Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips. Directed at BBC Bristol by Andy Jordan W1A 1AA The original 1953 recordings of this futuristic series were First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: erased. SAT 00:30 Kurt Vonnegut - Thanasphere (b007jqzb) [email protected]. This series was re-recorded and first broadcast on the BBC Major Allen Rice is the first American astronaut in space. His SAT 08:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b00d7h6q) Light Programme in May 1958. military mission is to report back weather conditions over Maureen Beattie SAT 18:30 The Brightonomicon (b00d7h6v) enemy terrain. Lift off goes well and the spaceship settles into Johnny Beattie's daughter chats to Sally Magnusson about her The Hound of the Hangletons its orbit, with regular radio reports coming back to base. life with the Glaswegian comedian. Hugo Rune and Rizla attempt to solve the missing spaniel But then, somehow the major hears a child crying. What Producer: Mike Walker mystery. Fantastical comic serial with David Warner and Elliott happens next takes this pioneering mission in a direction no-one First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in September 2006. Stein. could have predicted... SAT 08:30 Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days SAT 19:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b00d7h6q) American writer, Kurt Vonnuegut's delicious piece of sci-fi (b007jtyc) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] philosophy from the 1950's is read by Kerry Shale. Distractions in the Jungle SAT 19:30 Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days Producer: Joanne Lafferty In which Phileas Fogg rides an elephant, Sergeant Fix loses (b007jtyc) Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2004. sight of him and Passepartout saves the day... [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SAT 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvnj) Starring Leslie Phillips as Phileas Fogg, Yves Aubert as SAT 20:00 Some of Our Archives Were Missing (b0089b35) Strong Poison Passepartout, Jim Broadbent as Sergeant Fix, Diana Quick as [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Miss Murchison Princess Aouda and Garard Green as Brigadier Cromarty. SAT 23:00 The Vinyl Cafe (b007jymj) Christmas interrupts Lord Peter Wimsey's investigation, but Jules Verne's classic story dramatised in four parts by Terry [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 today] some suspicious powder isn't what it seems. Stars Ian James. Carmichael. Music: Wilfredo Acosta. SAT 01:30 Inspector Grant - The Singing Sands (b009hp59) Director Janet Whitaker SUNDAY 31 AUGUST 2008 Episode 4 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. Inspector Alan Grant returns to London determined to clear up SAT 09:00 Some of Our Archives Were Missing (b0089b35) SUN 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space the mystery of Bill Kenrick's death. Concluded by Paul Young. Stuart Maconie presents classic programmes thought lost (b007jmw8) SAT 02:00 Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby (b007js23) forever, but now returned to the BBC's vaults thanks to attentive [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] Episode 5 radio fans: SUN 00:30 The Brightonomicon (b00d7h6v) Smike is on the receiving end of Squeers' spite, while Fanny is a It Sticks Out Half a Mile (19/07/1981) [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] woman scorned. Oliver Milburn stars in Dickens' classic tale. Comedy Parade: Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Bolshie Man SUN 01:00 Arnold Ridley - The Ghost Train (b007jyx0) SAT 02:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007k26n) (14/03/1971) [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Thirty Minute Theatre: The Green Machine (23/04/1975) SUN 02:30 Anything Legal (b0084hrs) The Speckled Band Story Time: Eye Witness Accounts - The Great Fire of London [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Saturday] After her twin sister dies screaming in terror, a woman seeks (20/01/1970) SUN 03:00 Some of Our Archives Were Missing (b0089b35) the detective's help. Star Clive Merrison and Michael Williams. Things Could Be Worse (15/09/1976) [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday] SAT 03:00 Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections The Worst Show on the Wireless (12/02/1975). SUN 06:00 The Vinyl Cafe (b007jymj) (b00d5w3d) The BBC's Treasure Hunt initiative of the early noughties [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Saturday] Series 4 focussed its efforts on missing radio and television SUN 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00d7jps) Episode 1 programmes, dating from prior to 1980. It was an invitation to Contact us at: America, London Fashion Week and feeling broody. The comic collectors, fans and even former BBC staff who might have Big Toe Books duo's take on topical events. With Jenny Éclair. possessed domestic recordings of missing comedies and BBC Broadcasting House SAT 03:30 And Now in Colour (b00804kc) dramas. Among other gems, a missing episode of The Likely London Series 2 Lads was returned. An eclectic collection of radio curios made W1A 1AA Astronaut Training its way home - some of them shared in this programme. Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: The sketch show team take the audience to Nevada for Stuart Maconie is a writer and broadcaster - a fixture of BBC [email protected]. astronaut selection by NASA. Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music, and a compadre of fellow radio SUN 08:00 Nicholas Nickleby Omnibus (b007js2l) Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de legend Mark Radcliffe. Episode 1 Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck. SAT 12:00 Arnold Ridley - The Ghost Train (b007jyx0) An impetuous young man finds himself at odds with his uncle, Producer: Lissa Evans The last steam train from London to Cornwall carries a and is made to leave home. Dickens dramatisation by Mike First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1991. disparate group of travellers: a pair of newlyweds, a couple Walker, with Oliver Milburn and Anna Massey. SAT 04:00 The Atkinson People (b007k271) whose marriage is on the rocks and a lady with a parrot called SUN 09:15 HE Bates - Three Country Stories (b007jyd8) Barry Good Joey. Series 2 A wry, startling, in-depth probe into the life of a spoof pop star. The last thing any of them needs is to be stranded on a Fal Great Uncle Crow Stars Rowan Atkinson. From November 1979. Vale's deserted railway station - which is the object of local A young boy gets to know his eccentric relative with a fondness SAT 04:30 The Cabaret of Dr Caligari (b007w45v) superstition. for moorhen eggs, cress and 'neck oil'. Read by David Neal. Comedian's Moon Written in 1925 by Arnold Ridley - best known for playing SUN 09:30 A History of War and Peace in 4 Menus Stephen Tompkinson plays a young man who gets bitten by the Private Godfrey in Dad's Army. (b007wvbz) comedy bug - with terrifying results. From November 1991. Starring Adam Godfrey as Teddie Deakin, Christopher Wright The Treaty of Troyes SAT 05:00 Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone (b007jpb6) as Richard Winthrop and Tracy-Ann Oberman as Elsie A re-creation of a medieval banquet at Hampton Court Palace. Episode 4 Winthrop Lisa Jardine and guests discover its significance for Henry V. With Rachel Verinder still suspected of stealing the diamond, Adapted by Shaun McKenna. Producer Marion Nancarrow. SUN 10:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat her future remains uncertain. Stars John Sharp and John Telfer. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1998. (b007k2b8) SAT 06:00 Smelling of Roses (b00d4qky) SAT 13:30 Anything Legal (b0084hrs) J, Harris and George holiday on the Thames.