Radio 4 Extra Listings for 9 – 15 July 2016 Page 1 of 10 SATURDAY 09 JULY 2016 Adapted by Ellen Dryden. Credits Nancy Carroll stars as Harriette Wilson - one of the most Presenter: Lynne Truss 00:00 Oscar Wilde (b008lz2g) infamous and talked-about women of the early 19th century. House Fly: Lee Mack The Canterville Ghost, Episode 3 Her lovers included aristocrats, adventurers and even the Soprano Pipstrelle Bat: Pam Ferris Filled with pity for the ghost of the house, Virginia agrees Duke of Wellington, and when they all ceased to support her Producer: Sarah Blunt to help Sir Simon find peace. Read by Alistair McGowan. after her retirement, she had a simple bargain for them - Writer: Lynne Truss 00:30 Sounds Natural (b07k0ts9) ©pay up, and I©ll keep you out of my memoirs©. 06:00 Daphne Du Maurier - The King©s General (b00p4klc) Bernard Cribbins A scandalous bestseller of their time, her memoirs reveal a A paralysed beauty and a reckless soldier fall in love From the Meadow Pipit to the Red-Backed Shrike. Actor sharp-witted, good-hearted, infinitely adaptable, madcap during the English civil war. Stars Cathryn Harrison and Bernard Cribbins talks to Derek Jones about his love of bird woman who took on the patriarchy of the time and did Roger Allam. watching, fishing and the importance of conservation - aided something close to beating them at their own game. 07:30 The RSC at 50 (b01061hm) by recordings from the BBC Sound Archive. Having finally made contact with the mysterious Lord The First Ten Years Producer: John Burton. Ponsonby, Harriette finds there are all kinds of obstacles James Naughtie explores the history of the Royal Shakespeare First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1972. to their blossoming romance - including the small matter of Company as it marks its 50th birthday and reopens its main 01:00 Poirot (b0076tz9) his wife whom everyone agrees is an angel. Harriette©s Stratford theatre. Part 2: The First Ten Years. The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Episode 5 former lovers, the dashing Duke of Argyll and the taciturn In the second programme of his three-part series, James Captain Hastings and Detective Inspector Japp are bewildered but loyal Duke of Wellington, are never far from the picture Naughtie explores how the Royal Shakespeare Company came by the antics of Hercule Poirot as he rushes back to Styles and are soon joined by a new, passionate young admirer. The into being in 1961 and its extraordinarily dynamic first ten Court in a state of great excitement. Marquis of Worcester is devoted to Harriette as only a 19 years. Agatha Christie©s whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule year-old can be. He speaks with the two key players - Peter Hall and Peter Poirot, Simon Williams as Hastings, Philip Jackson as Japp, Eventually Harriette is persuaded to reveal all in her Brook (both now in their eighties, both still busily working Susan Jameson as Mary, Nichola McAuliffe as Evie, Annabelle memoirs - a course of action which leads Wellington to make in theatre) - about the stultifying 1950s theatre culture Dowler as Cynthia and Hilda Schroder as Dorcas. one of the most famous remarks in the English Language. which they inherited. As Brook vividly recalls, "those old Original music composed by Tom Smail. Cast: laddie codger actors just boomed away". Dramatist: Michael Bakewell Harriette ...... Nancy Carroll The two Peters discuss other aspects which were ripe for Director: Enyd Williams Ponsonby ....... Charles Edwards change - the need for a European-style ensemble, for First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. Wellington ....... Barnaby Kay training in verse-speaking, for longer and more open 01:30 Picking Round Apples (b014qxbg) Argyle ...... Blake Ritson rehearsals, for productions which arose from a particular Steve Carver lives the life of a seasonal apple picker on a Fanny ....... Anna Francolini time rather than simply being wheeled out again and again - farm in Herefordshire. Amy ....... Abigail Burdess all RSC hallmarks which are now taken for granted. Veteran In his previous programmes for Radio 4 ©Dancing Round the Matthew Lee ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor members of the company Patrick Stewart and Judi Dench recall Mediterranean© and ©Touring Round Torquay© , Steve immersed Poodle Byng/ Doctor/ Beaufort ..... Gus Brown the joys of that time, including, in Dench©s case, the himself in a new line of work, living alongside co-workers Porter/ Brougham ....... Jonathan Coote indiscrete joys of affairs which inevitably arose due to the and experiencing their way of life. Leinster ....... Andrew Mudie geographical isolation of Stratford. Contemporary Associate This year he is ©Picking Round Apples© in Herefordshire: Worcester ....... Nigel Thomas Director Greg Doran explains the attraction of working in For a week in mid-August, Steve gave up his home comforts Producer: Ellen Dryden Stratford - walking daily, on his way to rehearsals, past and moved into a small campervan parked in the corner of a A First Writes Radio production for BBC Radio 4. the church where Shakespeare was baptized and buried; while field in rural Herefordshire. Credits Hall explains how vital it was to start up a London season Every year a small band of retired people establish a Harriette: Nancy Carroll if he was to succeed in turning a group of actors into a make-shift and temporary, but close community. Every day, Ponsonby: Charles Edwards world-class company. all day, they pick apples. The money they earn boosts their Wellington: Barnaby Kay Meanwhile, the current Company dramaturge Jeannie O©Hare pensions, and a simple and quietly sociable life is also a Argyle: Blake Ritson explains how productions of new works by contemporary great draw. Fanny: Anna Francolini writers - Pinter, Bond, Hare - helped re-energize the RSC, However it©s hard work - bad backs, scratched arms, and sore Amy: Abigail Burdess culminating in what is often seen as its aesthetic feet are the wounds that must be borne. Matthew Lee: Jonathan Dryden Taylor high-point - Brook©s Dream in 1971 - which, in a rare The retired pickers live in their motor-homes for the Poodle Byng/Doctor/Beaufort: Gus Brown interview, the great Peter Brook himself recalls for the summer, with many over-wintering in Spain when the weather Porter/Brougham: Jonathan Coote programme. begins to cool. No such luxury (or destination) for Steve - Leinster: Andrew Mudie The series as a whole features an exclusive breadth of we gave him a basic campervan, with no electrical ©hook-up©; Producer: Ellen Dryden interviews with the key players of the past half century. the use of a microwave in a farm-building, which also houses 04:00 Whispers (b007k2sl) With the help of all five artistic directors: Peter Hall, the showers and loos. Series 3, Episode 3 Trevor Nunn, Terry Hands, Adrian Noble and Michael Boyd; He was cold at night (trekking socks a necessity in bed, Gyles Brandreth chairs the scandals quiz with Anthony luminaries such as Peter Brook, Cicely Berry, Greg Doran, even in August), he got a little sick of microwave meals, Holden, Lucy Moore, Dan Tetsell and John O©Farrell. From Judi Dench, Patrick Stewart and David Tennant; and backstage but he enjoyed meeting the other pickers, appreciating what October 2005. artists, technicians and craftspeople, James Naughtie they meant by ©getting into the zone© of apple picking: 04:30 No Commitments (b01mhqbz) explores both the history of the company and the reasons why reach... pick... put in bucket... reach... pick... put in Series 10, Time With the Family its work matters to the wider British cultural scene. bucket... almost - as Steve said - like a form of Emily is engaged to Nick, so Roger and Victoria must Producer: Beaty Rubens. meditation. absolutely meet her fiance©s parents. Stars Bill Nighy. From Credits Join Steve to find out how he got on ©Picking Round Apples© February 2004. Producer: Beaty Rubens at Tillington Fruit Farm near Ledbury in Herefordshire. 05:00 Winston in Europe (b007tbrv) Presenter: James Naughtie Producer: Karen Gregor. Don©t Gush, Nancy 08:00 Archive on 4 (b03mcklz) 02:00 Maggie O©Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Father wants to move abroad, but old rogue Winston©s not his The Three Day Week (b00770qd) usual chipper self. Stars Maurice Denham. From March 1992. Forty years ago Britain was plunged into darkness as Prime I Would Like to Go to the Sea 05:30 Rumblings from the Rafters (b07hwxbk) Minister Edward Heath introduced a 3 day working week. By Maggie O©Farrell, abridged by Sally Marmion. House Fly and Soprano Pipistrelle Bat Cities fell dark. Factories and schools closed. People, 5/10. Esme returns to an old family haunt. An annoying House Fly played by Lee Mack and a warm-hearted often wrapped in blankets, worked by candle and torchlight. Read by Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and Eleanor Bron. Soprano Pipistrelle Bat played by Pam Ferris, reveal the At home, people boiled water to wash and children were sent 02:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sjw36) truth about life in a draughty old attic in a house in to school with luminous yellow bands so they could be seen The Habit of Schooling Amersham in the second of three very funny tales, written in the gloom. And Britain©s three TV channels came to an Michael Morpurgo discovers the reaction to the 1870 Forster and introduced by Lynne Truss, with additional sound abrupt end at ten thirty! Education Act, marking the start of compulsory education for recordings by Chris Watson. For decades, British politics was shaped, perhaps defined, all. The House Fly loves life. "The best bit is the buzzing". He by the events of the early 1970s, with the 3 day week as the 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet (b007jstn) loves the aerobatics, dodging the flypapers in the attic and centrepoint.