The Beebotron and Beebotron Lite The Beebotron Bulletin Board - Reloaded http://beebotron.org/phorum/index.php Mon, 20 May 2013 18:09:57 +0100 Phorum 5.2.10 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49098,49098#msg-49098 1953: Those Radio Times (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49098,49098#msg-49098 Calendar event: 1000 Jun 01 2013 to 1300 Jun 01 2013 (Radio4X)

1953: Those Radio Times

Documentary exploring some of the programmes that aired on radio 60 years, giving a sense of the flavour of British broadcasting during the Coronation year.]]> IvorThirst Radio Dates Sun, 19 May 2013 23:46:52 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49097,49097#msg-49097 The Now Show - i03 (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49097,49097#msg-49097 Calendar event: 1930 May 31 2013 to 2000 May 31 2013 (Radio4X)

The Now Show

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical look through the week's news, with help from Marcus Brigstocke, Mitch Benn, Jon Holmes and Laura Shavin.

Episode 3]]> IvorThirst Radio Dates Sun, 19 May 2013 23:41:31 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49096,49096#msg-49096 Second Thoughts - c04 (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49096,49096#msg-49096 Calendar event: 1800 May 31 2013 to 1830 May 31 2013 (Radio4X)

Second Thoughts

Comedy, starring Lynda Bellingham. Originally broadcast in 1991.

Series 3 - 4. Laugh and Marriage Bill hopes Richard and Liza's passion will soon burn out, but Faith continues to stoke the fires of their romance.]]> IvorThirst Radio Dates Sun, 19 May 2013 23:35:58 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49094,49094#msg-49094 The Michael Bentine Show - 03 (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49094,49094#msg-49094 Calendar event: 0930 May 31 2013 to 1000 May 31 2013 (Radio4X)

The Michael Bentine Show

One-man comedy show devised and performed by the former Goon. First aired in 1984.]]> IvorThirst Radio Dates Sun, 19 May 2013 23:30:00 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49093,49093#msg-49093 The Navy Lark - h06 (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49093,49093#msg-49093 Calendar event: 0900 May 31 2013 to 0930 May 31 2013 (Radio4X)

The Navy Lark

Comedy, starring Stephen Murray. Originally broadcast in 1966.

Series 8 - 6. Drifting Through The Troutbridge crew heads for the breakers yard.]]> IvorThirst Radio Dates Sun, 19 May 2013 23:27:57 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49092,49092#msg-49092 Old Harry's Game - g06 (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49092,49092#msg-49092 Calendar event: 2330 May 30 2013 to 0000 May 31 2013 (Radio4X)

Old Harry's Game

Timothy West stars in Andy Hamilton's comedy set in Hell. Originally broadcast in 2009. Last in the series.

Series 7 - Episode 6 Satan formulates a plan to return Baby Patrick to Earth, but the wrathful God has other ideas.]]> IvorThirst Radio Dates Sun, 19 May 2013 23:22:54 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49091,49091#msg-49091 King Street Junior - i05 (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49091,49091#msg-49091 Calendar event: 1800 May 30 2013 to 1830 May 30 2013 (Radio4X)

King Street Junior

Comedy, with Karl Howman and James Grout. First aired in 1997.

Series 9 - 5. With Love Mr Sims is very unhappy - and so is Mrs Rudd, but for an entirely different reason.]]> IvorThirst Radio Dates Sun, 19 May 2013 23:19:38 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49090,49090#msg-49090 Change at Oglethorpe - a05 (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49090,49090#msg-49090 Calendar event: 1000 May 30 2013 to 1030 May 30 2013 (Radio4X)

Change at Oglethorpe

Comedy, with Peter Davison, Michael Williams and Rosemary Martin. First aired in 1996.

Series 1 - 5. The Unquiet American The staff attempt to secure an old engine, but there is a big catch.]]> IvorThirst Radio Dates Sun, 19 May 2013 23:14:43 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49089,49089#msg-49089 Take It from Here - 32 (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49089,49089#msg-49089 Calendar event: 0930 May 30 2013 to 1000 May 30 2013 (Radio4X)

Take It from Here

Archive comedy, with Jimmy Edwards and Dick Bentley, first aired in 1958.]]> IvorThirst Radio Dates Sun, 19 May 2013 23:11:52 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49088,49088#msg-49088 Dad's Army - a05 (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49088,49088#msg-49088 Calendar event: 0900 May 30 2013 to 0930 May 30 2013 (Radio4X)

Dad's Army

Comedy, with Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn. First aired in 1974.

Series 1 - 5. The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage When the warning bells ring, Jones sets up a machine gun post in Godfrey's cottage. And total confusion reigns.]]> IvorThirst Radio Dates Sun, 19 May 2013 20:22:22 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49083,49083#msg-49083 Drama on 3: One Winter's Afternoon (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49083,49083#msg-49083
Today
20:30
BBC Radio 3

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
First broadcast: Sunday 19 May 2013

As part of BBC Radio 3's Wagner 200, One Winter's Afternoon tells the story of the great operatic rivalry between Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner in the year marking the bicentenary of their births. In real life, the two great composers never met.

Taking as its starting point the death of Wagner, the play travels between two time frames as it explores key moments in their lives, and in imaginary conversations between them about the struggles of creativity.

After the triumphant reception of his masterpiece Aida, Verdi has been coaxed out of retirement to write one more work, Otello, but he is struggling with it. As a voice inside Verdi's head, Wagner continues to taunt him, making him fear that Wagner will be remembered as the greater composer. The complex love lives of both composers illustrate how Wagner's ebullient and insensitive nature contrasted with Verdi's angst and more introverted temperament. The recollection of jealous passion does in the end serve to unblock Verdi in his creative despair.

The play explores - not without comedy - ageing and creativity, artistic loves and differences, the approach of death and the struggle against it bringing alive the texture of 19th-century Europe, its cultural and political influences.

Wagner ... Kenneth Cranham
Verdi ... Paul Rhys
Giuseppina ... Kate Buffery
Ricordi ... Clive Merrison
Boito ... Nicholas Boulton
Cosima ... Lydia Leonard
Stolz ... Zalie Burrow
Liszt ... Scott Handy
Minna ... Emily Bruni
Mathilde ... Clare Corbett
Mariani ... Sean Baker
Ludwig ... Mark Straker
Waiter ... Christopher York

Pianist: Will Bartlett
Sound Design: David Chilton and Lucinda Mason Brown
Writer: Guy Meredith
Director: Cherry Cookson

A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 3.]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 08:42:20 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49081,49081#msg-49081 Choristers of the Coronation (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49081,49081#msg-49081
Next Saturday
10:30
BBC Radio 4

Duration: 28 minutes
First broadcast: Saturday 25 May 2013

Stanley Roocroft from Blackburn Cathedral, Graham Neal from All Saints Parish Church in Eastleigh, Eddie Officer from Belfast's St Anne's Cathedral and James Wilkinson from Westminster Abbey - these and a string of other one-time boy choristers remember the thrill of singing at the Coronation of Elizabeth II.

With the help of the Royal School of Church Music, the country was scoured for the very best choristers to supplement singers from the elite choirs of London. All told, over 180 boys sang at the famous event within a choir of around 400.

Sixty years on, some of the boys recall their selection and training.

They gathered for a month's rehearsal at Addington Palace near Croydon. For some it was their first time away from home. Undaunted, one boy sneaked out to caddie on the local golf course at a fiver a time.

There are recollections of the huge job of converting Westminster Abbey to accommodate 8,000, aided by the installation of a railway.

On the big day, the choristers were given packed lunches which could even be eaten during the coronation service itself. Alan Ledger, then of the choir of St George's Chapel in Windsor, says he was told to hang on to his milk bottle after drinking the contents - in case it came in useful!

The ex-choristers have their favourite moments from the service - whether the musical glories of Parry's 'I Was Glad' or Handel's 'Zadok the Priest' or simply the sight of the new Queen processing to her enthronement.

With the service over, it was a rush for the buffet. Then back to everyday life, but with memories to last a lifetime.

Producer: Andrew Green
An Andrew Green production for BBC Radio 4.]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 08:36:43 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49080,49080#msg-49080 The New North (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49080,49080#msg-49080
Sun 26 May 2013
13:30
BBC Radio 4
FM only

Episode 1 of 2
Duration: 30 minutes
First broadcast: Sunday 26 May 2013

In the last decade the north of England has discovered a new public face. A boom in new landmark cultural public buildings, many built with Lottery funding, has created a distinctive, contemporary image for the region's towns and cities.

Martin Goodman, professor of creative writing at Hull University presents this two part journey in search of the 'New North'. He visits the iconic new public buildings and asks how they reflect the changing region, how it differs from the traditional industrialised imagery of the north, and considers the economic challenges these new buildings face in todays austere times.

He starts at The Sage in Gateshead and then moves on to MIMA, Middlesbrough's modern art gallery, before going to Hull to visit The Deep aquarium. He speaks to its architect, Sir Terry Farrell, about that building as well as his work in the North East. He also asks author David Almond what these new buildings mean for the culture of Gateshead and Newcastle.

So, is there a 'New North' emerging - and if there is, how does it differ from what has gone before? And can these new institutions survive in economically testing times.

In part two, Martin will visit the striking new Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield and speak to the architect David Chipperfield about its design. He'll talk to the writer Alan Garner about the historic qualities of the North and find out about regeneration in Manchester and Salford, visiting the new Museum of Liverpool and meeting TV writer Phil Redmond. And he'll hear how the economic squeeze can leave some of those who run new developments feeling like 'paupers in palaces'.

Producer: Philip Reevell
A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4.]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 08:35:48 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49079,49079#msg-49079 Afternoon Drama: Dotty Rogers: My Life in Movies (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49079,49079#msg-49079
Next Friday
14:15
BBC Radio 4
FM only

Duration: 45 minutes
First broadcast: Friday 24 May 2013

by Charlotte Bogard Macleod.

Dotty Rogers has trouble with reality. She shimmies easily from the mundanity of everyday motherhood to star parts in the movies of her own imagining.

Director: David Hunter.

Credits

Dotty
Kate Fleetwood

Bill
Rick Warden

Rose
Lorraine Burroughs

Dad
Robert Blythe

Grace
Madeleine Power

Sophia
Lucy Morton

George
Will Howard

Doctor
Joanna Brookes

Director
David Hunter

Producer
David Hunter

Writer
Charlotte Bogard Macleod]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 08:34:44 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49078,49078#msg-49078 Saturday Drama: The Prince (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49078,49078#msg-49078
Next Saturday
14:30
BBC Radio 4
FM only

Duration: 1 hour
First broadcast: Saturday 25 May 2013

Five hundred years after writing his most provocative political tract, Niccolo Machiavelli appears before an infernal court to appeal against the harsh treatment his works have received over time.

Rather than being seen as a description of political cynicism and opportunism, he argues that "Machiavellian" should be a compliment and The Prince has in fact been an infallible guidebook followed closely by all successful leaders.

Written by Jonathan Myerson
Produced and directed by Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.

Credits

Writer
Jonathan Myerson

Producer
Clive Brill

Director
Clive Brill

Machiavelli
Damian Lewis]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 08:33:26 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49077,49077#msg-49077 David Pownall at 75: The Known Facts (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49077,49077#msg-49077
Next Friday
15:45
BBC Radio 4
FM only

Duration: 15 minutes
First broadcast: Friday 24 May 2013

Episode 3 (of 3):
The Known Facts by David Pownall
Read by Hannah Gordon

The last of three specially commissioned stories marking the 75th birthday of David Pownall, the distinguished playwright, novelist and poet.

During a visit to Ireland, a chance encounter with a local museum curator has a profound effect on three elderly academics and their different attitudes towards mortality.

Director: Martin Jenkins
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.

Credits

Writer
David Pownall

Reader
Hannah Gordon

Director
Martin Jenkins]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 08:31:56 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49076,49076#msg-49076 The Write Stuff: Greek Tragedy (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49076,49076#msg-49076
Sun 26 May 2013
19:15
BBC Radio 4

Duration: 30 minutes
First broadcast: Sunday 26 May 2013

Radio 4's literary panel show, hosted by James Walton, with team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh and guests Mark Billingham and Natalie Haynes.

Produced by Alexandra Smith.]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 08:30:29 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49075,49075#msg-49075 Archive on 4: Profumo Confidential (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49075,49075#msg-49075
Next Saturday
20:00
BBC Radio 4

Duration: 58 minutes
First broadcast: Saturday 25 May 2013

In 1963 Tom Mangold covered the Profumo Affair for the Daily Express. Minister of War John Profumo had admitted to an affair with Christine Keeler, who was allegedly also having an affair with a Russian Spy. The scandal led to the Minister's downfall, hastened the departure of the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and led to the suicide of 'society osteopath' Stephen Ward, who had friendships with all the players and a louche life-style, and was hounded to trial on the flimsiest allegations of living on immoral earnings.

Hours before that trial verdict was due, Tom Mangold visited Stephen Ward, only to find him writing suicide notes. Shortly after Mangold left, Ward killed himself.

In Profumo Confidential, Tom Mangold stands back from the assignment of his life half a century ago, to explain and to reveal new facets of the event which more than any other etched the shape of a generation and changed the face of Britain for ever.

A few weeks ago Mangold acquired some remarkable new documents - the private notes of the right hand man to Lord Denning whose report on the scandal was published fifty years ago. The notes offer an extraordinary insight behind the scenes of the Denning investigation - as well as containing a vivid snapshot of Britain in the early sixties, as one ageing generation fought desperately to keep the swinging sixties at bay.

Mangold has also obtained the full manuscript of Ward's unpublished autobiography and, in this programme, Stephen Ward appears to speak from the grave - condemning the establishment hypocricies closing in on him.

The programme also features a full and exclusive broadcast interview with Mandy Rice-Davis, Christine Keeler's erstwhile companion.

Producer: Adam Fowler
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 08:28:55 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49074,49074#msg-49074 Friday Drama: Midsummer (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49074,49074#msg-49074
Next Friday
21:00
BBC Radio 4

Duration: 1 hour
First broadcast: Friday 19 August 2011

Midsummer - a play with songs by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre.
Starring Cora Bissett and Matthew Pidgeon.

It's a Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Two thirtysomethings are sitting in a New Town bar waiting for something to turn up.

Midsummer is the story of Bob and Helena and a great lost weekend of bridge burning, wedding bust-ups, chases, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and horrible hungover self loathing misery. A warm hearted adult romantic comedy!

Midsummer was first produced by the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh. It was widely acclaimed at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has since toured to Ireland, Canada and England.

Producer/director - David Ian Neville.

Credits

Helena
Cora Bissett

Bob
Matthew Pidgeon

Writer
David Greig

Writer
Gordon McIntyre

Director
David Neville

Producer
David Neville]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 08:26:58 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49073,49073#msg-49073 Drama on 3: The Go-Between (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49073,49073#msg-49073
Sun 26 May 2013
20:30
BBC Radio 3

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
First broadcast: Sunday 08 July 2012

Another chance to hear the last radio drama performance of the acclaimed actor Richard Griffiths, who died in March.

In L.P. Hartley's classic novel, a boy is betrayed by a sophisticated young rich woman and her farmer lover who use him to ferry letters back and forth in the blazing summer of 1900. It's best known from Joseph Losey's 1970 film, which focused on the main plot line, but on re-reading the book, adaptor Frances Byrnes found within it another drama, perfect for radio, in which an old man finds a boyhood diary and is forced to unlock the trauma inside.

Re-visited by that summer for the first time since it happened, the older man (Richard Griffiths) turns detective. Leo, in his 60s, finds a locked diary in his attic; it was written in 1900, the last time he lived with any sense of possibility. Leo realises that his tidy life has been a living death and that that summer was to blame.

Missing from the film - and working beautifully for the radio - is a clear incremental, emotional journey of a fragile boy-man, who lives in his imagination and is destroyed by an increasingly separate reality. From the beginning the boy (Oscar Kennedy in his first major radio role) is vulnerable - fatherless, socially one step down, the child of a pacifist. Leo struggles to be made whole again; his past and present, reality and imagination, re-integrated.

CAST:
Lionel Colston ..... Richard Griffiths
Leo Colston ..... Oscar Kennedy
Mrs. Maudsley ..... Harriet Walter
Marian Maudsley ..... Lydia Leonard
Mrs Colston (Mother) ..... Amanda Root
Ted Burgess ..... Joseph Arkley
Viscount Trimingham ..... Blake Ritson
Mr Maudsley ..... Crawford Logan
Marcus Maudsley ..... Josef Lindsay

Musicians:
Max Carsley - Chorister at St Mary's Cathedral Edinburgh
Duncan Ferguson - Organist & Master of the Music, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
George Gillespie sings for Ted
Musical Director, Joe Acheson

Adaptor, Frances Byrnes
Producers, Matt Thompson and Frances Byrnes
Director and Sound, Matt Thompson

Revised repeat. First broadcast in July 2012.]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 08:25:48 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49072,49072#msg-49072 Twenty Minutes: Are You Sleeping, Brother John (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49072,49072#msg-49072
Next Thursday
20:15
BBC Radio 3

Duration: 20 minutes
First broadcast: Thursday 23 May 2013

"Frère Jacques" is among the most widely-known songs on earth - existing in a huge variety of languages, from Finnish ("Jaako Kulta") to Mandarin ("Liang Zhi Lao Hu"). Its origins, meaning and influence on global musical culture belie its childish simplicity; it's been used as a political protest song, an emblem of "la bonne France" after the Second World War, and is parodied today by schoolchildren in playgrounds across France. Even Gustav Mahler famously referenced the rhyme in his First Symphony, transforming it into a minor-key funeral march, and warping the song's flavour of innocence and childhood.

Peggy Reynolds takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century.]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 08:24:38 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49071,49071#msg-49071 The Essay: Wagner's Philosophers (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49071,49071#msg-49071
Monday
22:45
BBC Radio 3

Wagner and German Idealism
Episode 1 of 5
Duration: 15 minutes
First broadcast: Monday 20 May 2013

Wagner and German Idealism

Professor Roger Scruton explores the philosophical background that influenced the young Richard Wagner. The German universities of his youth were in a state of intellectual ferment in the aftermath of the greatest philosopher of modern times, Immanuel kant. Out of this came a school of philosophy known as German Idealism. Wagner was particular influenced by the most famous of these philosophers, Hegel. And, even though Wagner was later to radically revise his philosophical views, the ideas of Hegel can still be traced in his great cycle of music dramas, The Ring: the notion that nothing human is permanent, and all must perish in the spirit's ongoing search for self-knowledge. And the essence of this spirit, Hegel argued, is freedom. Wagner took this idea one step further. Freedom, for Wagner, was not only a political phenomenon, it was also a profound spiritual reality, revealed in the moment of sacrifice.]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 08:23:28 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49070,49070#msg-49070 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz: Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49070,49070#msg-49070
Next Sunday
00:00
BBC Radio 3

Duration: 1 hour
First broadcast: Sunday 26 May 2013

The Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet was one of the golden groups of the 1950s, co-led by two of the most eminent stars on trumpet and drums. Geoffrey Smith surveys the great recordings they made before Brownie's untimely death at just twenty-five.]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 08:22:21 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49069,49069#msg-49069 Mastertapes: Ray Davies (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49069,49069#msg-49069
Next Sunday
04:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

Duration: 1 hour
First broadcast: Sunday 26 May 2013

John Wilson talks to musicians about career-defining albums. Ray Davies discusses two classic Kinks albums, Lola and Muswell Hillbillies.]]> Janaru Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 08:21:15 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49045,49045#msg-49045 6 Music Live Hour, PJ Harvey, T.Rex and Deep Purple (1 reply) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?28,49045,49045#msg-49045
BBC Radio 6 Music - 6 Music Live Hour, PJ Harvey, T.Rex and Deep Purple

The Amon Duul II session from the day before (Saturday, almost gone now! - I confusedly thought I'd missed it altogether) was also good, but short (and the other two bands were boring).]]> Matamore! Radio Programmes - Info 'n' Reviews Sun, 19 May 2013 07:34:36 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?10,49044,49044#msg-49044 4extra's Newsletter 17/05/2013 (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?10,49044,49044#msg-49044
Eddie Izzard: Unrepeatable

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The ever popular stand-up comedian
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is taking up residence on Saturday nights for the next few weekends on 4
Extra. Advertising and animals are on his agenda in this performance in
London?s West End from 1994.

Saturday at 10pm


David Pownall - Under The Table

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4 Extra Debut
A boy overcomes his terror of war to demand that Churchill, Roosevelt and
Stalin, who are meeting in his grandfather's greenhouse, explain why his
mother is now an inconsolable widow. With David Calder, Kenneth Cranham,
Robert Lang and Andrew Sachs.
Saturday at 6am and 4pm

White Nights

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Atmospheric crime drama
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written by Ann Cleeves. The discovery of a murdered stranger shakes a
small Shetland community to the core. Soon everyone's a suspect and long-
buried secrets are revealed. With Steven Robertson, Finlay Welsh, Anne
Lacey and Eileen McCallum.

Saturday at 11pm

Desert Island Discs Revisited TV Academics - Mary Beard

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4 Extra Debut
The Cambridge Professor of Classics
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discusses her life and castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2010.

Sunday at 10am and 9pm

Elizabeth Morgan - Dear Countess

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4 Extra Debut
The turbulent tale of Victorian art critic John Ruskin's marriage to 'Effie
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Starring Derek Jacobi (pictured), Timothy West and Bridget McCann.

Sunday at 1.30pm

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

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John Hurt narrates this dramatisation of the story of the beautiful and
bored doctor's wife Emma Bovary
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With Sarah Smart and Conrad Nelson.

Monday to Friday at 2pm

Charles Dickens - Mrs Lirriper

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Dickens's neglected classic, featuring the formidable and huge-hearted Mrs
Lirriper
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and the eccentric collection of lodgers who rent rooms from her. Starring
Julia McKenzie and John Fortune.

Friday at 10am and 3pm


The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show

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4 Extra Debut
The legendary comedy duo
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final show for the BBC from May 1978, before they switched to ITV. With
music by The Nolan Sisters and guests Allan Cuthbertson and Ann Hamilton.

Monday at 8.30am. 12.30pm and 7.30pm

In The Chair

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1/6
Comedy thriller by Mark Taverner, with Michael Williams
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as maverick crime correspondent George Cragge, on the trail of a serial
killer murdering dentists. From 1998.

Wednesday at 9.30am

The 4 O'Clock Show

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Next week Mel Giedroyc is knee-deep in chocolate. On Monday it's episode
one of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl and read by Adrian
Edmondson (pictured). Mel will also try to make her own bar of chocolate.
There's a bit of a grandparent thing going on across the week, too, from a
long-distance swimming granny to a 94-year-old top test pilot, Capt Winkle?

Lord of the Rings Top Wizard, Gandalf ? aka Sir Ian McKellen ? celebrates
his birthday, and Mel asks whether we could ever build an elevator into
space. There's also a singing mobile library man, and poet Andrew Motion
talking about his love of Robert Louis Stevenson?s pirate adventure story,
Treasure Island. Plus, another week of excellent Top 50 stories from the
500WORDS short story competition, run by Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2.

A packed week, so don?t miss it.

Presented by Mel Giedroyc
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Download the The 4 O'Clock Show
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Weekdays at 4pm]]> Truthyness R4 Extra (The Station Formerly Known As R7) Matter Fri, 17 May 2013 15:56:57 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?18,49040,49040#msg-49040 Call centre menu options catalogued by frustrated man (2 replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?18,49040,49040#msg-49040 BBC News - Call centre menu options catalogued by frustrated man

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Mr Clarke said the website pleasepress1.com was a "labour of love" which he built after seven years of creating post-it notes of sequences he used regularly.

He used Skype and recording software to make thousands of calls, with the bulk of the work being carried out in the last six months.

Reporting a water leak to Lloyds TSB's home insurance department requires dialling a total of seven numbers, one at each stage of the call (1, 3, 2, 1, 1, 5, 4), and it takes more than four minutes to navigate the 78 menu options, according to the website.
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Stilgoe's Around

The musical comedian takes his show to the Royal Show at Stoneleigh, where he is joined by Kathryn Tickell. Originally broadcast in 1989.

Series 2 - Episode 5]]> IvorThirst Radio Dates Fri, 17 May 2013 10:22:51 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49038,49038#msg-49038 In the Chair - a02 (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49038,49038#msg-49038 Calendar event: 1030 May 29 2013 to 1100 May 29 2013 (Radio4X)

In the Chair

Comedy thriller with Michael Williams. From June 1998.

Episode 2 of 6. Maverick BBC hack George Cragge probes New Labour links to the murders.]]> IvorThirst Radio Dates Fri, 17 May 2013 10:13:15 +0100 http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49037,49037#msg-49037 In The Chair - a01 (no replies) http://beebotron.org/phorum/read.php?14,49037,49037#msg-49037 Calendar event: 1030 May 22 2013 to 1100 May 22 2013 (Radio4X)

In The Chair

Comedy thriller by Mark Tavener, with Michael Williams, Barry Foster and Hugh Laurie. First aired in 1998.

Episode 1 of 6. Maverick reporter George Cragge's retirement is cut short.]]> IvorThirst Radio Dates Fri, 17 May 2013 10:09:57 +0100