Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10 – 16 July 2021 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 10 JULY 2021 explores the boundaries of love and friendship and the they know their nearest and dearest. allegiances that we have to one another. The depth of feeling In this case, Alan Johnson picks his son Jamie, Diane Morgan SAT 00:00 Wally K Daly (b007js66) that the inhabitants of Aldwinter share are matched by their city her father Peter and Frankie Boyle his mate Stuart to answer Before the Screaming Begins counterparts as they strive to find the courage to express and questions about each other. Episode 3 understand their deepest desires, and strongest fears. Producer: Sam Michell. The sinister intentions of the alien invaders are finally revealed. The villagers confront the myth of the Essex Serpent for the last First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. Can the Earth fight back? time. Cora and Will are forced to re-examine their relationship SAT 04:30 To the Manor Born (b007k4mq) Conclusion of Before the Screaming Begins - the first of Wally and their future. Vive Le Sport K Daly's sci-fi trilogy which continues with The Silent Scream Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979. She has a PhD in When Devere invites Audrey to go skiing, he ends up being and With a Whimper to the Grave. creative writing at Royal Holloway which she completed under taken for a ride. Tom Harris ...... James Laurenson the supervision of Andrew Motion. She has been writer in Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton. Sally Harris ...... Jennifer Piercey residence at the Gladstone Library and is the winner of a Shiva Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere Prime Minister ...... Patrick Troughton Naipaul award for travel writing. Her first novel, After Me Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher AP Smith ...... Donald Hewlett Comes The Flood won the East Anglian Book of the Year Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger Detective Sergeant Forbes ...... Robert Trotter Award in 2014. The Essex Serpent was Waterstone's Book Of Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka Prime Minister's Wife ...... Katherine Parr The Year in 2016 and was short-listed for the Costa Novel Frank Middlemass ..... Ned MP ...... Peter Williams Award 2016. She lives in Norwich. Geoffrey Whitehead ..... Dr Horton Brosteaux ...... Nigel Graham Writer: Sarah Perry Melanie Hudson ..... Receptionist Corporal Wilkes ...... Geoffrey Leesley, Abridger: Jeremy Osborne The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced Corporal Johnson ...... Eric Allen Reader: Ruth Gemmell to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death Cabinet Minister ...... Maggie Ollerenshaw Producer: Rosalynd Ward leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, Silkin ...... Peter Wickham A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage. Alien Voice ...... Malcolm Gerard April 2017. From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving Alien Controller ...... Manning Wilson SAT 02:15 Shardlake (b09k8qzc) eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard Director: Martin Jenkins Heartstone DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descent. First broadcast as a 90 minute Saturday-Night Theatre Episode 5 First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever production on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake returns in the fifth of C J appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. SAT 00:30 Off the Page (b00vky79) Sansom's Tudor mysteries. At Hoyland, there’s growing rivalry Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence. Living Cheap between Sir Nicholas Hobbey’s young son David and his ward Producer: Jane Berthoud "My name is David Collins. I'm 69 years old and I live in an Hugh Curteys. Meanwhile Shardlake travels to nearby First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1997. almshouse." Rolfswood to find out more about the mysterious past of Ellen SAT 05:00 Guilt Trip (b07lhg2q) Everyone tells us we are living in tough times, so three guests Fettiplace, the Bedlam inmate he befriended in the course of Episode 1 explain what that means for them. David Collins is an actor who another case two years previously. A mother and daughter undertake a two week sponsored walk has found a medieval sounding solution - an almshouse - to the Justin Salinger and Bryan Dick return as Matthew Shardlake along The Thames Path to raise money for the dead father's big squeeze. Laurie Penny is a 23 year-old recent graduate who and Jack Barak in Colin MacDonald's atmospheric charity. writes for free on her blog Penny Red, and until recently was dramatisation of the best-selling novel by C J Sansom. But the mother and father divorced nine years ago and he'd re- living in a house she described as a scene from 'Withnail and I.' Matthew Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger married, so relationships between them all have been strained. And Pauline Black, the lead singer of the Selecter, resists the Jack Barak ..... Bryan Dick Things come to a head at any mention of the French Oak gable charge that it was her baby boomer generation that has spent all Hugh Curteys ..... Will Howard table that Ros and her now dead ex bought together in Camden. the money and messed up the economy for everyone else. David Hobbey ..... Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong This has somehow ended up in the step-mother's house, much Presenter Dominic Arkwright Rev Seckford ..... Neil McCaul to Ros's annoyance: "I mean she sits at it! It's my table and she Producer Miles Warde Nicholas Hobbey ..... David Seddon sits at it." First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010. Abigail Hobbey ..... Isabella Inchbald Comedy drama written by Katherine Jakeways with Felicity SAT 01:00 Destination - Fire! (m000xmrh) Other parts played by members of the cast. Montagu and Olivia Nixon. Series 3 Writer ..... C J Sansom Ros ...... Felicity Montagu 8. Deadly Spark Dramatist ..... Colin MacDonald Laura ...... Olivia Nixon Fire Investigator ‘Q’ Barnaby probes an explosion at a car body Director ..... David Jackson Young Stepmother ...... Katherine Jakeways repair shop. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. Boyfriend ...... Tim Key Starring Robert Beatty. SAT 02:30 Australian Rap (b010y30r) With Jeff Rawle and Velibor Topic. Philip Levine’s adventures of fire investigating sleuth, Quentin Rapping out dreamtime stories: a new outlet for Australian In this opening episode, mother and daughter are just starting ‘Q’ Barnaby. Aboriginal youth. out and in her usual putting-her-large-foot-firmly-in-it manner Selection of surviving episodes rescued from the BBC archive. For years the Australian Aboriginal community have struggled Ros gets her daughter's ex-boyfriend to drop them at the source, ‘Q’ Barnaby …. Robert Beatty to be heard. But as Mark Rickards discovers, today the youth but without any prior warning to the daughter. The renewed Valerie Chrane …. Gudrun Ure have found a new voice through music and 'desert rap'. bonding Ros is hoping for may be a bit bumpier than expected. Eric Bishop .... Nigel Graham Speaking to the first rappers to use their own Aboriginal Especially when along the way Ros also manages to offend George Newton .... Wilfrid Carter language, Mark Rickards finds that the traditions of dreamtime pretty much everyone she meets - not least an Eastern European Frank Cole .... Bruce Beeby storytelling have been reinvigorated by rap music. Although the camp site warden. Saunders .... Arthur Lawrence style originated in the USA, Aboriginal youth have adapted it to Producer: Jane Berthoud Mrs Newton .... Joan Matheson suit their own needs. It can be used to tell the stories of life in A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first Inspector Hackett .... Duncan McIntyre the outback or life in the city, and to represent the often broadcast in July 2016. Director: Martyn C Webster. unheard voices of the Aboriginal people. SAT 05:30 Stand-Up Specials (m000xlkf) First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1966. Mark visits an Aboriginal radio station which has helped bring Lucy Porter: Back in the Family Way SAT 01:30 New Creatives Dramas (m000xmrk) indigenous rap to a wider audience, and looks at the challenges Following her previous, very popular In the Family Way shows, Series 2 of getting mainstream recognition. Radio 4 favourite Lucy returns with another examination of 5. Things We Never Said & The Caretaker Today younger rappers are talking about a brighter future for domestic life, covering everything from the dramatic to the Fresh storytelling from first time writers and producers. the Aboriginal people, and their music shows hopeful signs for dreary. Part of BBC Introducing Arts supported by BBC Arts and Arts the gradual evolution of Australia itself. This time, Lucy looks at the effects of the pandemic on our Council England. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. relationships with family, friends and neighbours. The last year BBC Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones presents two thought SAT 03:00 The Mayor of Casterbridge (b00bvc00) has been hard on people who were separated from their nearest provoking short dramas from the next generation of dramatists. 3. The Stranger and dearest, but it’s also been no picnic for those who were Things We Never Said by Sam Obigbesan. Henchard sets about rebuilding his life but then, appearance of locked up with their loved ones. What is it like traveling without sight? On the road to a a stranger in Casterbridge, threatens to unravel everything. Home schooling, working from the kitchen table, zoom quizzes memorial party a man tries to come to terms with grief as well Conclusion of Thomas Hardy's tragic story of a man who with cousins, clapping with the neighbours - Lucy explores all as navigate the world as a blind person.