Radio 4 Extra Listings for 18 – 24 May 2013 Page 1 of 7 SATURDAY 18 MAY 2013 Intimate and moving story about a young woman on the brink Knowing Me, Knowing You of romance, who goes alone for a brain scan. Read by Clare Aha! Alan Partridge faces up to a nine-year-old prodigy, a SAT 00:00 Susan Hill - The Woman in Black (b007jlpk) Corbett. hypnotist and a bad boy lawyer. Stars Steve Coogan. From 1. A Journey and a Funeral SAT 04:15 David Pownall - Nyama (b00s0wrb) December 1992. Retired solicitor Arthur Kipps recalls his visit to the remote David Pownall's cautionary tale about a money-crazed Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive market town of Crythin Gifford - and the isolated house of the entrepreneur who transports a pickled whale from the Cape of The funny man's radio drop-in centre tackles Live 8 and white- reclusive Mrs Drablow... Good Hope round Southern Africa and makes a fortune. collar boxing matches. With David Mitchell. From June 2005. John Woodvine and Robert Glenister star in Susan Hill's Other parts played by Alison Pettitt, John Biggins, David On the Hour Christmas Special chilling ghost story. Seddon, Michael Shelford and Keeley Beresford All the festive headlines. Chris Morris hosts the steaming Dramatised in four parts by Jon Strickland. Music composed and performed by Russell Taylor and Steve flambéed news spoof. With Steve Coogan. From December Young Kipps ...... Robert Glenister Cooke. 1991. Old Kipps ...... John Woodvine Directed by Peter Kavanagh. SAT 12:00 15 Minute Drama (b01shnxl) Esme ...... Paula Tilbrook SAT 05:00 Second Thoughts (b00k2fl1) How Does That Make You Feel Samuel ...... Rod Arthur Series 3 Series 4 Omnibus Tomes ...... Christopher Kent Room With a Queue Series 4 Omnibus. Therapist Martha braces herself for the Bentley ...... Stuart Richman Hannah is off to university, so Bill and Faith bicker over who arrival of her patients, including an MP with a troublesome son. Isobelle ...... Jane Marlow gets her vacated bedroom. Stars Frances Tomelty. Oliver ...... Jason Done Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill and Faith beginning SAT 13:15 Baroness Orczy - The Teahouse Detective Music composed by Derek Pearce. married life, whilst balancing the demands of his ex-wife, Liza (b007jmhd) Directed at BBC Manchester by Chris Wallis. and her teenage children, Hannah and Joe. The Metropolitan Line Murder First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in December 1993. Stars Lynda Bellingham as Faith, James Bolam as Bill, Celia Journalist Polly seeks help from an enigmatic old customer in a SAT 00:30 Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (b007q9yw) Imrie as Hilary, Belinda Lang as Liza, Emma Gregory as London teahouse over her friend's killing. Stars Bernard Episode 10 Hannah and Mark Denham as Joe. Hepton. Disenchanted with society, John decides to seek solitude. Series three of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, SAT 14:00 Round the Horne (b007k1g4) Nightmare vision of the future concluded by Anton Lesser. husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. Series 2 From April 2003. A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran Episode 6 SAT 00:45 HG Wells (b01mmrhb) for four series, with a spin-off 'Faith in the Future'. Master Spy Kenneth Horne is on the star-studded trail of The First Men in the Moon Producer: Paul Schlesinger Doddy's joke thief, while Michael Bain and Barbara Cartload Episode 5 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1991. are on 'The Seamus Android Show'. Intrepid explorers Bedford and Cavor’s first mission to the SAT 05:30 The Pickerskill Reports (b0132k5b) With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill moon comes to a surprising and unexpected conclusion. Series 2 Pertwee. First published in 1901, HG Wells’ novel abridged by Neville Timothy Spoontz Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, Teller. Written and Directed by Andrew McGibbon. London. Announcer: Douglas Smith Concluded by Tim Pigott-Smith. When the new progressive headmaster Mike Poulson Jabby Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio Producer: David Roper decides to impose an austerity drive in the seventies, the quality comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Made by Heavy Entertainment for BBC Radio 4 and first of the school's food is compromised as part of the tedious Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, broadcast in July 2007. process. But the inventive agricultural talents of young boarder, Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the SAT 01:00 Father Brown Stories (b00yb1z9) Timothy Spoontz, helped by his successful father's growing scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and Series 1 agricultural business, provide the school and Castlereagh House 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, The Sins of Prince Saradine with it's own privately delivered supply of food - until Mike catchphrases and double-entendres. A case of eloping noblemen, blood feuds and vengeful thoughts. Poulson Jabby gets wind of it. Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Andrew Sachs stars as GK Chesterton's insightful clerical Cast: Hayes Four. sleuth. Dr Henry Pickerskill ...... Ian McDiarmid Producer: John Simmonds SAT 01:30 Dixon of Dock Green (b016q2l1) Timothy Spoontz ....... Harry McEntire First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1966. Series 2 Mike Poulson Jabby ...... Mike Priest SAT 14:30 The Ken Dodd Show (b007jx51) The Captain Lefty Rogers ....... Tony Gardner Doddy's Daft Half Hour (20/08/1972) A series of burglaries on empty houses bears all the trademarks Stanislaw ....... Mike Sarne The King of Knotty Ash examines black magic and lands a part of one of Dock Green's most colourful characters. Stealgroynes ...... Jack Edwards in a horror movie. Or does he? But is PC Andy Crawford a bit too keen to make an arrest? Calman ........ Kris Saddler Starring Ken Dodd. Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David Moorcroft ...... Joe Cooper With Hugh Paddick, Miriam Margolyes, Talfryn Thomas, John Calder and Hamish Clark. Matron ... ... Mia Soteriou Graham and Jo Manning Wilson. Written for TV by Ted Willis and adapted for radio by Sue Producers: Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon Devised and written by Ken Dodd with Malcolm Cameron, Rodwell A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. Stewart Campbell, Norman Beedle, Peter Tonkinson and John George Dixon ...... David Calder SAT 06:00 David Pownall (b01shn7f) Pye. Andy Crawford ...... Hamish Clark Under the Table Doddy's Diddy Orchestra conducted by Geoff Alderson. Tom Carr ...... Jonathan Gunning Spring 1945: A boy overcomes his terror of a world at war to Producer: Bobby Jaye The Captain ...... Bill Wallis demand of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - who are meeting in First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in August 1972. Maurie ...... Jonathan Tafler his grandfather's greenhouse - a reason why his mother is now SAT 15:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b011cfjy) Director: Viv Beeby widowed and inconsolable. [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2006. Starring David Calder as the storyteller, Kenneth Cranham as SAT 16:00 David Pownall (b01shn7f) SAT 02:00 Clare in the Community (b00fw5jh) Seph Hammer, Robert Lang as Churchill, Andrew Sachs as [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] Series 2 Stalin, David Healy as Roosevelt, Jonathan Keeble as Hitler, SAT 17:30 The Write Stuff (b01sd23j) Relax Oliver Senton as Jack, Becky Hindley as Rusty, Maureen Series 2 Romantic Brian is plotting to surprise the social worker on O’Brien as May Hammer, Peter Yapp as Mr Hunt, Natasha The Bronte Sisters holiday. Stars Sally Phillips and Gemma Craven. From Pyne as Rouille, Andrew Branch as Bags and David Antrobus as James Walton chairs the literary quiz with Sebastian Faulks, November 2005. Trevor. John Walsh, Frank Delaney and Harry Ritchie. SAT 02:30 The Brothers (b00pcn0m) Music composed by Neil Brand and performed by Sarah Author of the week: The Brontë Sisters Series 3 Homer. Reader: Becky Hindley Mix Tape Director: Eoin O'Callaghan Producer: Dawn Ellis Despite a new office, Nigel and Michael still struggle with life. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1999. Stars Raymond Coulthard and Adam Godley. From February SAT 07:30 Fabulous Flops (b0146g6q) SAT 18:00 Fear on 4 (b007jpxl) 2007. More Fabulous Flops Series 4 SAT 03:00 James Fenimore Cooper - The Last of the Episode 4 Dark Feathers Mohicans (b007jpng) Paul Roseby concludes his look at Tinseltown turkeys with The Man in Black introduces the dark mystery of a less than 2. The Pursuit shows that got big laughs on Broadway for all the wrong idyllic return for Fay to the West Country. As the brutal war rages, Huron chief Magua captures Colonel reasons. Another in a series of nerve-tinglers from Fear on 4. Munro's daughters. SAT 08:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b011cfjy) Starring Joanna Myers as Fay and Edward de Souza as the Man Hawkeye, Captain Heyward and the Mohicans set out in Series 6 in Black. pursuit... Episode 26 With Emily Richard as Jenny, Melinda Walker as Jenny's Mum, Conclusion of J Fenimore Cooper's epic set amidst the struggle From Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, the American funny man Jonathan Adams as Mr Batcombe, Matthew Morgan as Paul, between the British and the French for control of North introduces Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, and Jessica Katie Jenkins as Young Fay and Siriol Jenkins as Young Jenny. America. Dramatised in two-parts by David Calcutt. Lea Mayfield. From 2010.