Radio 7 Listings for 5 – 11 April 2008 Page 1 of 6 SATURDAY 05 APRIL 2008 Model village-makers, Robin and Wendy are shown "Black O'Clock News, Drop the Dead Donkey and latterly Bess" as their randy friends Sue and Glen persuade them to Outnumbered. Television alone is not the only successful arena SAT 00:00 James Follett - The Destruction Factor attend a battle re-enactment. for Andy- Old Harry's Game, Revolting People and Trevor's (b007jpbx) Written by and starring Kay Stonham and Simon Greenall. World of Sport are just some of his radio triumphs. 2014 saw Search and Destroy Robin ...... Simon Greenall Andy's film What We Did On Our Holiday reach cinemas Despite the national emergency, landowners try to profit from Wendy ...... Kay Stonham featuring David Tennant, Rosamund Pike and Billy Connolly. the deadly Exon strain. Maureen ...... Debra Stephenson Produced by Martin Dempsey. James Follett’s sci-fi thriller starring TP McKenna. Derek ...... Phil Cornwell SAT 12:00 Miss Marple (b007jvh5) Max Flinders ...... TP McKenna Sue ...... Jan Ravens The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side Denise Exon ...... Rosalind Adams Glenn ...... Michael Simkins After her husband died, Dolly Bantry sold Gossington Hall to ex- Howard Rogers ...... Paul Copley Darnley ...... Ewan Bailey film star Marina Gregg and her husband. When the glamorous Nurse ...... Joan Matheson Carol ...... Jo Enright couple throw a benefit for the local hospital, the grounds are Prime Minister ...... Noel Johnson Pikeman ...... Sean McKenna thronged with curious visitors, but for one of them, the day ends Blowers ...... Michael Shannon Producer: Mario Stylianides in tragedy. TV Presenter ...... Henry Knowles First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2002. It is up to sharp-witted sleuth Miss Marple to discover who was TV PA ...... Mary Elliott Nelson SAT 03:30 Dial M for Pizza (b007k0th) really meant to take the poison that killed the poor victim... Climatorium Technician ...... Rod Beacham Series 1 Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss Helicopter Pilot ...... Peter Wickham Episode 1 Marple. Farmer ...... Roy Spencer Fun-packed sketch show featuring 'Britain's Stupidest Postman'. With Ian Lavender as Chief Inspector Craddock, Gayle Corporal ...... Gregory de Polnay Stars Brenda Blethyn and Robert Bathurst. From November Hunnicutt as Marina Gregg, James Laurenson as Jason Rudd, Sachs ...... Denis Goacher 1987. Pauline Jameson as Dolly Bantry, Jane Whittenshaw as Cherry, Producer: David Spencer SAT 04:00 Big Town All Stars (b007jrq4) Liz Goulding as Ella Zielinsky, John Hartley as Dr Gilchrist, First broadcast as 2 x 90 minute plays on BBC Radio 4 in Series 2 Saverio Deodato as Giuseppe, Suzy Aitchison as Miss Knight, March 1978. Fifteen Minutes of Fame Jilly Bond as Heather Badcock, David Timson as Arthur SAT 00:30 The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton The band enters a TV talent show. Will it spark success - or Badcock/Vicar, Nigel Anthony as Ardwyck Fenn, Joanna (b007w525) return them to oblivion? Stars Stephen Tompkinson. From July Monro as Lola Brewster, Sarah-Jane Holm as Margot Bence and The Exposure 2001. David Antrobus as Inspector Cornish. Sunday unmasks one of the anarchists as a Scotland Yard SAT 04:30 The Nick Revell Show (b007jp45) From the book first published in 1962 and dramatised by detective, leaving Gabriel Syme in despair. Series 1 Michael Bakewell. Holy Water Director: Enyd Williams Published in 1908, GK Chersterton's most famous novel is read The life of a struggling writer with his dysfunctional friends and First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. in 13 parts by Geoffrey Palmer. a talking geranium. SAT 13:30 The Men from the Ministry (b007jqhn) A sitcom for the 1990s, written by and starring comedian Nick One Way Only Director: Lawrence Jackson Revell. The bungling civil servants try to tackle London's transport With Alistair McGowan, Caroline Gruber, Kate McKenzie and congestion. Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. Brian Bowles. Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. Special guest star: Brian Johnston and Vince the geranium. With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley, John Graham and First broadcast in March 2005. Producer: Jon Magnusson Nicolette McKenzie. SAT 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole (b007k4l3) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1992. Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham. The Rotten Apple SAT 05:00 The Barchester Chronicles (b007jpxd) 'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 Rumpole recalls a suspicious case of bribery in the police force. The Small House at Allington and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". The Small House at Allington Part 4 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law Lily still loves her ex-fiance, but will Adolphus marry Lady however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole Alexandrina? Anthony Trollope dramatisation with Julia Ford. in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC With Michael Spice as Guthrie Featherstone, Robert Harris as SAT 06:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b009prt3) Radio 4 Extra. Justice Vosper and Brian Carroll as Erskine-Brown. Series 1 Producer: Edward Taylor Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John Episode 5 First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in August 1977. Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. Case- Duo Tommy and Sheila's comeback faces jeopardy - from his SAT 14:00 05/04/2008 (b009qk5c) by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central Criminal dodgy past. Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on Court of England and Wales. Winners of the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest, sweethearts BBC7. Director: Ian Cotterell Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr are back in the limelight. The SAT 17:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b009qk5f) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. only snag is they can't stand the sight of each another... America's poet laureate Billy Collins and The Wailin' Jennys SAT 01:30 Hercule Poirot (b007k28y) Mike Coleman's sitcom stars June Whitfield and Roy Hudd. join our host at the Wolf Trap National Park in Virginia. Sad Cypress Tommy Franklin ...... Roy Hudd SAT 18:00 JG Ballard - The Recognition (b007jqxc) Episode 5 Sheila Parr ...... June Whitfield What is the story behind the bizarre circus that rolls into town As Elinor Carlisle stands accused of murder, Belgian sleuth With Pat Coombs, Julian Eardley, Joshua Henderson, Edward one Midsummer's eve? Fantastical tale read by Michael Hercule Poirot uncovers evidence of greed and deceit. Halsted, Chris Pavlo, Paul Rogan and Ned Sherrin. Maloney. The conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunnit starring John Singers: John Barr and Lisa Peace. SAT 18:30 Fear on 4 (b007jnx3) Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. Music by Frido Ruth. Series 2 Hercule Poirot ...... John Moffatt Producer: Steve Doherty A Child Crying Elinor Carlisle ...... Emma Fielding First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1998. To hear the sound of a crying child is not unusual. Nurse Hopkins ...... Pauline Letts SAT 06:30 Second Thoughts (b00fnfnv) What does it mean though when you are the only one who can Dr Lord ...... David McAlister Series 2 hear it? Roddy Welman ...... Charles Simpson Maybe, Baby The Man in Black sets the chilling scene... Sir Edwin Bulmer ...... David King Broody Faith fancies starting a second family - but does Bill? Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers. Sir Samuel Atterbury ...... Peter Penry-Jones Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill MacGregor and Faith Written by James Saunders Dr Garcia/Clerk ...... John Church Greyshott trying to forge a relationship whilst balancing the The Man In Black …. Edward de Souza Inspector Brill ...... Eric Allan demands of his ex-wife, Liza and her teenage children, Hannah Guy …. Nigel Anthony Judge ...... Alan Cullen and Joe. Paul …. Ken Cumberlidge Mr Wargrave ...... Jonathan Adams Stars Lynda Bellingham as Faith, James Bolam as Bill, Kelda Child's voice …. Cara Kelly Mr Littledale ...... Gordon Reid Holmes as Hannah, Norman Bird as Mr Burrows and Deborah Ian …. Kim Wall Amelia Sedley ...... Ann Windsor Rowbottom as the Police Officer. Producer: Gerry Jones Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. Series two of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1989. Director: Enyd Williams husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. SAT 19:00 The Friend in the Corner (b007k10t) First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1992. A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT 02:00 Ladies of Letters (b007k3wb) for four series, with a spin-off 'Faith in the Future'. SAT 19:30 Daphne Du Maurier: Frenchman's Creek Ladies of Letters Go Global Producer: Sioned Wiliam (b007k4fk) Episode 5 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1989. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] Vera and Christopher undertake a life-threatening undercover SAT 07:00 Big Toe Books (b009qh5n) SAT 20:00 I Did It My Way (b009qh5q) operation for MI6. Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7. [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] With no-one else to turn to, Irene combines forces with the ex- SAT 08:00 The Friend in the Corner (b007k10t) SAT 23:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b009qk5f) pat couple employing her to get Vera and Christopher air-lifted 1943 [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 today] out of the diamond mine in which they have been billeted. The BBC turns 21, and is totally dedicated to the war effort.