Radio 7 Listings for 12 – 18 July 2008 Page 1 of 6 SATURDAY 12 JULY 2008 Perdikkas ...... Mark Straker More comedy and music from the Ravinia Pavilion, Illinois, Simmias ...... John Evitts with special guest singers Ramblin' Jack Elliot and Jon Troast. SAT 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch (b00cfzsp) Philip ...... Sean Barrett SAT 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Earthsearch I Lysimachos ...... Keith Drinkel (b007jmqp) 10. Earthfall Eumenes ...... James Telfer Operation Luna Despite the difficulties put in their way by the two guardian Artzbazus ...... Philip Anthony 1. Countdown to Peril 'Angels', the crew of the Challenger have found Paradise. Barsine ...... Teresa Gallagher It’s 1965. Captain Jet Morgan is in Australia - preparing for It's an earth-like planet originally discovered by the second- Sisygambis ...... Diana Payan 'Operation Luna' - set to be man's first trip to the Moon. generation crew. However, the 'Angels' are by no means Thais ...... Rachel Atkins Written and produced by Charles Chilton. beaten... The Eunuch ...... Richard Pearce Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds Starring Sean Arnold. Music: Wilfredo Acosta Lemmy Barnett …. Alfie Bass Conclusion of James Follett's ten-part adventure serial in time Director: Glyn Dearman Doc …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter and space. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993. Mitch …. David Williams Commander Telson .... Sean Arnold SAT 06:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cfzqy) Other parts by John Cazabon. Sharna .... Amanda Murray Series 4 Music composed and orchestra conducted by Van Phillips. Astra .... Kathryn Hurlbutt Episode 1 The original 1953 recordings of this futuristic series were Darv .... Haydn Wood Tommy and Sheila's sneaky agent schemes to sell off their back erased. Angel One .... Sonia Fraser catalogue to a record company – but what’s in it for him? This series was re-recorded and first broadcast on the BBC Angel Two .... Gordon Reid Ageing showbiz couple Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr battle Light Programme in March 1958. Director: Glyn Dearman on with their second stab at fame. SAT 18:30 Fear on 4 (b007jzd5) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1981. Series 4 of Mike Coleman’s six-part sitcom starring June Series 3 SAT 00:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b00cfzw4) Whitfield and Roy Hudd. Dance in the Underworld 5. Hunting With Pat Coombs, Julian Eardley and Edward Halstead. The Man in Black wonders whether teenager Tony really was Earth's last living man, Robert Neville, steps up his hunt for the Music by Frido Ruth. dead when they buried him? root of the plague. Producer: Steve Doherty Richard Matheson's 1954 cult classic set in 1976 USA. One of First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. Starring Bryan Pringle as Victor, Maggie McCarthy as Avril, the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, combining SAT 06:30 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves Angus Wright as Tony and Edward de Souza as the Man in sci-fi and horror. (b007jqjc) Black. Read by Angus McInnes. Spode Is Unsuccessful Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller. Gussie Fink-Nottle upsets his fiancee when he looks elsewhere Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers. Producer: Eilidh McCreadie on the menu. Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in PG Wodehouse romp adapted in six parts by Richard Usborne. Written by Stuart Kerr. January 2006. Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie SAT 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jwc3) Wooster, Paul Eddington as Lord Sidcup, Jonathan Cecil as Producer: Martin Jenkins Taken at the Flood Gussie Fink-Nottle, Denise Coffey as Stiffy Bing, Aimi Episode 5 MacDonald as Madeline Bassett and Douglas Blackwell as the First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. The Belgian sleuth is going to have to think very fast to unravel Rev. Harold Pinker SAT 19:00 In Search of the Seaside (b00828kw) the enigma if he's to prevent another murder in the village... Producer: David Hatch [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] Conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit starring John Moffatt First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. SAT 19:30 Decline and Fall (b00cjs2c) as Hercule Poirot. SAT 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00cg3tg) [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Lynn Marchmont ...... Susannah Corbett Contact us at: SAT 20:00 Comedy Controller (b007wtf9) Rowley CloadeIfan ...... Ifan Meredith Big Toe Books [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] Superintendent Spence ...... Robert Lang BBC Broadcasting House SAT 23:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00b1p19) David Hunter ...... Tom George London [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 today] The Maid ...... Debbie Hunt W1A 1AA Dramatised by Michael Bakewell Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: Producer: Enyd Williams [email protected]. SUNDAY 13 JULY 2008 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003 SAT 08:00 In Search of the Seaside (b00828kw) SAT 01:30 Above Suspicion (b00cfwdc) The British seaside resort is a strange and unique institution. SUN 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space Episode 5 At the height of the summer season, Tony Lidington combs the (b007jmqp) Mission accomplished, amateur spies Frances and Richard are coastline for the characters who help to make the seaside an [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] being watched by a man with a duelling scar. Read by Emma enduring delight... SUN 00:30 Fear on 4 (b007jzd5) Currie. Part of Radio 4 Extra's Great British Staycation. [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SAT 02:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island (b00cfwhy) Producer: Angela Hind SUN 01:00 Inspector Morse (b007k4rk) Episode 10 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] The war ends in Europe, but Queenie's husband is still fighting SAT 08:30 Decline and Fall (b00cjs2c) SUN 02:30 Tony's (b007k30t) in the Far East. Stars Nadine Marshall and Stephen Episode 6 [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Saturday] Tompkinson. As he languishes in jail, is there a happy ending in store for SUN 03:00 Comedy Controller (b007wtf9) SAT 02:15 McLevy (b00cfwp9) Paul Pennyfeather? Stars Alistair McGowan and Andrew Sachs. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday] Series 2 SAT 09:00 Comedy Controller (b007wtf9) SUN 06:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00b1p19) Wild Justice Phill Jupitus selects six of the best from the BBC vaults: [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Saturday] Stretching out a bony hand towards him, a ghost from the past I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (August 1987), Dad's Army - Absent SUN 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00ck262) returns to haunt the Victorian detective. Starring Brian Cox. Friends (April 1976), The Mark Steel Lecture - Lord Byron Contact us at: SAT 03:00 Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections (March 2001), Hancock's Half Hour - The Poetry Society Big Toe Books (b00cfvw0) (December 1959), On the Hour (August 1991), Saturday Night BBC Broadcasting House Series 2 Fry (May 1988). London Episode 9 SAT 12:00 Inspector Morse (b007k4rk) W1A 1AA The comic duo poke fun at the news of August 2001, from the The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: Edinburgh Festival. With special guest Julia Morris. Inspector Morse faces a puzzling trip into the world of the [email protected]. SAT 03:30 And Now in Colour (b00cfzx5) hearing impaired - with a murder investigation into the death of SUN 08:00 Andrea Levy - Small Island Omnibus Series 1 an invigilator in an Oxford exam syndicate... (b0081qx0) Marathon Colin Dexter's thriller adapted by Guy Meredith. Episode 2 The sketch show team and their studio audience enter the Starring John Shrapnel as Inspector Morse, Robert Glenister as Arriving from Jamaica, Hortense discovers post-war England is London Marathon, plus a car valet service with a twist. Sgt. Lewis, Richard Pasco as Dr Bartlett, Meg Davies as cold and dreary. She gets to know her landlady Queenie. With Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de Monica Height, Stephen Critchlow as Donald Martin, David Nadine Marshall. Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck. Timson as Phillip Ogleby, John Hartley as Chief Supt. Strange, SUN 09:15 Fay Weldon Stories (b007jx0x) Producer: Lissa Evans Lyndham Gregory as Sgt. Dickson, Roger May as Nicholas Climbing the Pine First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1990. Quinn, Alix Refaie as the Sheik, Denys Hawthorne as the As Robert reluctantly prepares for college, he's disconcerted by SAT 04:00 Lenin of the Rovers (b00cfzz8) Pathologist,Jane Whittenshaw as Mrs Evans, Patience the predicament of brown bear cubs. Read by Maureen O'Brien. Series 2 Tomlinson as Elsie, Tracy Wiles as the Waitress, Zulema Dene SUN 09:30 Unearthing Mysteries (b007vcn8) Apocalypse Des as Mrs Bartlett, David Holt as Noakes, Ahmed Mustapha as the Series 5 Felchester Rovers take a break in the socialist idyll of El Arab voice, Alice Arnold as Ms Inga Nielssen, Caroline Strong Great Orme Mine Telvador - but a war is raging. Stars Alexei Sayle. From April as the Supermarket Manager and Geoffrey Whitehead. Professor Aubrey Manning investigates the ancient Bronze Age 1989. Producer: Ned Chaillet mines at Great Orme Head on the Creuddyn Peninsula, SAT 04:30 In One Ear (b00cg029) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. Llandudno. Helen Lederer, Clive Mantle, Nick Wilton and Steve Brown SAT 13:30 Tony's (b007k30t) SUN 10:00 Black Bartlemy's Treasure (b007jwdn) with comedy and music. First broadcast live in August 1985. Series 1 Jeffrey Farnol's swashbuckling tale of piracy, love and death on SAT 05:00 David Wade - Alexander (b00cfwr8) All That Glitters a desert island.