Radio 4 Extra Listings for 11 – 17 January 2014 Page 1 of 9 SATURDAY 11 JANUARY 2014 Miles Deanbrook ..... Sean Baker Series 7 Waiter ..... Adeel Akhtar Episode 20 SAT 00:00 Paradise Lost in Space (b007jnlt) Producer: Sally Avens From Nashville, Tennessee, the American funny man welcomes 1. Ruination First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010. singer Emmylou Harris and master fiddler Stuart Duncan. From Space travel throws the most unlikely people together. SAT 03:00 Charles Chilton - Another Time of My Life 2011. Norman is an idealist with a hand grenade. Max is a cheerful (b0075m1p) SAT 09:00 The Rudest Man in Britain (b03rxc77) bore who won't stop talking. Part of BBC Radio 4 Extra's tribute to the remarkable talent of The Rudest Man in Britain excavates the archives from the Together, they're set to ruin the lives of some decidedly friendly writer and producer Charles Chilton, who died on 2 January perspective of Gilbert Harding - a well-loved radio personality aliens. Forever. 2013 at the age of 95. who went on to achieve wider television exposure as star of long- Six-part black-hole sci-fi comedy by Colin Swash Charles Chilton worked for the BBC for 46 years. In 1973, he running panel shows such as 'What's My Line?' once watched Norman ...... Tony Robinson continued to recall his varied early career. by millions. Clever, amusing and often outrageous, Harding was Max ...... David Haig It all started when a friend had made him a crystal set and one a familiar voice of wireless who became a pioneer of popular Stella ...... Louise Lombard of Chilton's favourite things was listening to the radio in bed. In TV. But behind the public persona, there was a troubled and Macari ...... Michael Troughton 1932, radio was the wonder of the age and the BBC was a conflicted character. To create a profile of Gilbert Harding's Captain Rossiter ...... Dan Strauss prestigious place to work. It was a time of high unemployment life and sample his broadcasting work Simon Fanshawe will Jane ...... Carla Mendonca but John Reith, who was badly wounded in the First World draw on Stephen Wyatt's play Dr Brighton and Mr Harding, in Tony ...... Geoff McGivern War, was anxious to employ ex-soldiers and others who had which Harding (played by Roger Allam) wrestles with his inner Producer: Richard Wilson suffered from the war. Chilton was a 15-year-old war orphan demons and fantasies, knowing also that he is in increasingly First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1995. and so it was that, in January 1933, he was lucky enough to be poor health (hence his reason for moving to the coast to SAT 00:30 Jenny Stephens - Project Archangel (b00wmr9r) given his first job in the spectacular, newly built Broadcasting embrace 'Dr Brighton'). Episode 3 House in London. Simon samples excerpts from Round Britain Quiz, What's My Malcolm discovers why he ended up in the sewers of Moscow, First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1973. Line?, and The Brains Trust and a complete edition of Twenty and he is asked to complete a task for Victor. Stars Dan Hagley. SAT 03:45 Hearing With Hegley (b0075s38) Questions - which, as a format, still stands up well. He also SAT 01:00 Wimsey (b00sbvcv) Series 2 revisits Harding's seminal 1960 Face to Face television Have His Carcase Episode 3 interview with John Freeman, where he broke down on camera 5. Too Perfect an Alibi Poet John Hegley doing what he does best - entertaining an when the questioner touched a nerve. Simon Fanshawe explores As the desperate upper class sleuth fails to confirm his theories, audience with verse. With Nigel Piper. From September 1998. the development of many now familiar formats on Radio and the elusive witness Perkins turns up... SAT 04:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History (b03npbkf) TV - and assembles a fascinating and rounded portrait of this Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey – the aristocratic Episode 5 tortured but much loved polymath. amateur detective created by Dorothy L Sayers. Why are four bookworms covered in wounds and bruises? Producer: Mike Greenwood. Dramatised by Alistair Beaton. Donna Tartt's thriller, read by William Hope. SAT 12:00 Carmen - Omnibus (b03p83r7) Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael SAT 04:15 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlsd) Inspired by both the original tale and the opera, this new version Harriet Vane …. Maria Aitken The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Series 1 features songs in Romany and English. With Candis Nergaard. Inspector Umpelty …. Nigel Stock Black Peter SAT 13:15 Baldi (b007k0b9) Henry Weldon …. Warren Clarke The Baker Street sleuth probes the grisly murder of a retired Series 3 Julian Perkins …. Richard O'Callaghan whaling skipper. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael Williams. The Sick Rose Nurse …. Judy Franklin SAT 05:00 Huddwinks (b00b52ch) Paolo Baldi discovers that a priceless hybrid plant leads to little Jem Pollack …. Haydn Wood Series 2 peace and serenity in the newly designed garden of Narrator …. John Westbrook The Dead Walk at Midnight! contemplation - as he and Tina are soon digging round in the Producer: Martin Fisher A reporter arrives to investigate mysterious happenings at a murderous world of gardening. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1981. haunted manor. David Threlfall stars as the murder-solving priest, Paolo Baldi. SAT 01:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b012yv9b) Roy Hudd stars in Laurie Rowley’s comic parodies. Written by Martin Meenan. Series 1 With: With Tina Kellegher as Tina Mahon, TP McKenna as Father London Pride Denise Coffey Troy, Owen Roe as Rynne, Margaret D'Arcy as Mrs Reid, George Dixon is showing new boy in blue, Andy Crawford, the Chris Emmett Victoria Smurfit as Claire, Adrian Dunbar as Kearney, Pat ropes on the beat of Dock Green in London's East End. David Gooderson Laffan as Meadows, Mark O'Regan as Sheridan, Anne Marie Much to PC Crawford's surprise, Dixon is prepared to bend the Fred Harris Horan as Megan and Deirdre Monaghan as Gloria. rules in order to arrest one of a gang of safebreakers. Producer: Jonathan James-Moore Format by Barry Devlin. Developed and produced by BBC Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1988. Northern Ireland. Calder as PC George Dixon and David Tennant as Andy SAT 05:30 Chambers (b007jnjc) Script Editor: Gemma McMullan Crawford. Series 1 Recorded at RTE's studios in Dublin. Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The The Right to Silence Director: Mark Lambert Blue Lamp' which ended with Dixon being shot dead. However, Hostilities between pompous Fuller-Carp and Ruth have First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series running intensified, and a walking holiday in the Lake District with an SAT 14:00 Dad's Army (b007jp6h) from 1955 to 1976. influential judge would seem to provide the perfect break. Series 2 PC George Dixon ...... David Calder However, a Crimewatch obsessed hotelier, an ambiguous fax Fallen Idol PC Andy Crawford ...... David Tennant and an impending murder trial conspire to turn the weekend During platoon training, fellow officers lead Captain Jack Judd ...... MacDonnell into a nightmare which even the allure of the hotel's Nick Ross Mainwaring astray. Emmy Judd ...... Avril Elgar Carvery cannot redeem. Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Lenny Judd ...... Jacob Dylan Clive Coleman’s sitcom about the questionable practices of a Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, Agar ...... Jonathan Tafler group of barristers. John Laurie as Private Frazer, Ian Lavender as Private Pike and Fred Jenkins ...... Eddie Martin John Fuller Carp ...... John Bird Arnold Ridley as Godfrey. Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by Hilary Tripping ...... James Fleet Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV Sue Rodwell. Ruth Quirke ...... Lesley Sharp scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. Produced in Bristol by Jeremy Howe and Viv Beeby. Vince ...... Jonathan Kydd Producer: John Dyas First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2005. Austin Weave ...... Jonathan Kydd First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975. SAT 02:00 Millport (b00761z4) Other parts ...... Peter Serafinowcz SAT 14:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlnf) Series 2 Producer Paul Schlesinger Series 3 Dark Secrets First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996. TB or Not TB Irene enlists Bob's help when strange events send the tiny SAT 06:00 Noel Coward - This Happy Breed (b0081qyf) Sixty years of smoking takes its toll on Albert Steptoe. Scottish island into disarray. The inter-war life of the Gibbons family in their new suburban Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as home. Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a Starring John Moffatt, Rosemary Leach and Doris Hare. with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson better life on the mainland. Noel Coward's play covers a 20-year period from June 1919, wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson when the Gibbons family move in to their new home near The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown London’s Clapham Common, to when they moved out in June Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight Alberto/Robert/Doctor ...... Lewis McLeod 1939. series on TV. Ena/Bunty .....