BBC Radio 4: Plays & Drama, 2006

After 2000, BBC policy was to archive all "performance programmes" on CD. This includes radio plays, so the plays below should exist in the BBC archive. The majority of them (probably 90%+) exist in known private collections.



This page is now complete as regards afternoon plays, Classic Serials and Saturday dramas on R4.

1 Jan: Classic Serial - The French Lieutenant's Woman.
By John Fowles, dramatised by Graham White. 1/2. A new and faithful adaptation of Fowles' passionate epic of two lovers in conflict with starched Victorian society. Charles Smithson's complacent snobbery is about to be shattered as he encounters a young social outcast, Sarah Woodruff. Director Peter Kavanagh. Narrator ...... John Hurt, Charles ...... Jonathan Firth, Sarah ...... Emily Bruni, Ernestina ...... Kelly Reilly, Mrs Tranter ...... Elizabeth Spriggs, Dr Grogan ...... T P Mckenna, Sam ...... Nick Sayce, Mary ...... Ella Smith, Mrs Poulteney ...... Susan Jameson, Dairyman ...... Gerard McDermott, Ostler ...... Wayne Foskett, Mrs Fairley ...... Colleen Prendergast.

2 Jan: Abel's Law
By Hugh Costello. Following a series of deadly smallpox epidemics in the 19th century, the British Government introduced mandatory vaccination for infants under six months. It was only partly successful: in 1871, a smallpox epidemic killed 40,000 people. Moreover, vaccination carried its own agonising risks - not all babies were strong enough to survive the shock to their immune systems. Then in 1874 Bicester, Oxfordshire, Abel Ryder, shopkeeper and pillar of the community, was imprisoned because he refused to submit his newborn son Edward to a compulsory smallpox vaccination. Already two of his sons had died following vaccination, and he decided to take a stand. Abel's Law dramatises the story of his stand, his defiance of the law, the court case and the moral dilemna. The Magistrate ...... James Laurenson, Abel Ryder ...... Mark Meadows, Sophia Ryder ...... Kate Byers, Adelaide Ryder ...... Femke Witney, Daniel Burnham of The Times ...... David Leonard, Doctor Howard ...... Carl Prekopp, Margery Smithson ...... Hayley Doherty, Delane, the Editor of The Times ...... David Collins, Bicester townspeople ...... Kim Hicks, Chris Garner and Amy Clifton. Director Jeremy Howe.

4 Jan: Jadoo
By Amit Gupta. When mother died, she left her famous recipe book to her two sons who run the family Indian restaurant. One does her fabulous starters, the other her magnificent main courses. Now they've fallen out, torn the book in half and got separate restaurants. So customers have their starters in one establishment, then troop across the road to finish their meal in the other. How can son Jay cure the rift? Jagi ...... Saeed Jaffrey, Raja ...... Vincent Ebrahim, Jay ...... Marc Elliot, Saru ...... Siddiqua Akhtar, Prav ...... Amit Gupta, Customer ...... Philip Fox. Director Peter Kavanagh.

5 Jan: A Summertime
By Don Haworth. A warm and gently humorous tale about unforeseen happiness and its passing, set on the Lancashire moors in 1939. Hetty ...... Rachel Ibbotson, Jane ...... Julia Rounthwaite, Frank ...... Glenn Cunningham, Pickup ...... Stephen Thorne, Clarissa ...... Christine Brennan. Director Polly Thomas.

6 Jan: It's Too Late Now
By Brian Sibley. A play by to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of A.A Milne on the 31st January 1956. Best known as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne would have preferred to have been remembered as a dramatist or essayist, rather than an author who wrote for children alone. Milne is recovering from a stroke the year before his death. Through his memories we are taken back to his early life, his marriage, the childhood of his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and we explore his hopes and ambitions, failures and successes. Needless to say, there are some un-whimsical interpolations and interruptions by Pooh, Rabbit and his friends, as well as both the imagined Christopher Robin and the real-life model. Director John Tydeman.

7 Jan: The Saturday Play: Agatha Christie's Elephants Can Remember
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. A provocative question posed by a formidable busybody sends Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver on a series of journeys to unravel the mystery of a tragedy from the distant past - provoked in equal measure by love and hate. Poirot ...... John Moffatt, Ariadne ...... Julia MacKenzie, Chief Supt Garroway ...... Trevor Cuthbertson, Celia ...... Rachel Bavidge, Desmond ...... Ifan Meredith, Mrs Burton Cox ...... Paula Jacobs, Julia ...... Jane Wenham, Nanny ...... Barbara Atkinson, Mrs Buckle ...... Elizabeth Proud, Mrs Rosentelle ...... Jill Balcon, Zelie ...... Alexandra Bastedo, Mr Goby ...... Stephen Thorne, George ...... Patrick Garland. Director Enyd Williams.

8 Jan: Classic Serial - The French Lieutenant's Woman
By John Fowles, dramatised by Graham White. 2/2. Charles' life as a complacent Victorian gent has been overturned by his secret meetings with the mysterious Sarah on the undercliff at Lyme. Having vowed to end the liaison, he finds himself lured one last time. He kisses Sarah passionately, but discovers they are being watched. Narrator ...... John Hurt, Charles ...... Jonathan Firth, Sarah ...... Emily Bruni, Ernestina ...... Kelly Reilly, Dr Grogan ...... TP McKenna, Sam ...... Nick Sayce, Mary ...... Ella Smith, Mrs Endicott ...... Susan Jameson, Mr Freeman ...... Gerard McDermott, Montague ...... Wayne Foskett, Mrs Rogers ...... Colleen Prendergast, Curate ...... John Cummins, Prostitute ...... Sophie Roberts. Director Peter Kavanagh.

9 Jan: A Clown on God's Stage
By Judith French. A celebration of the life of Woodbine Willie - aka Reverend Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, the inspirational preacher and poet who became an icon during the First World War. God gave him the gift of words. But was anybody listening? Studdert Kennedy ...... Conleth Hill, with Helen Ayres, Carolyn Pickles, Jonathan Guy Lewis, Jon Glover and Stuart McLoughlin.

10 Jan: Another Part of the Wood
By Steve Jacobi. Bob and Pat move to rural France to get away from the rat race and live the good life. For a while everything is fine. But then Bob meets local beauty Sylvie, whose husband, Benoit, is both jealous and armed. Pat ...... Christine Cox, Bob ...... Malcolm Scates, Sylvie ...... Caroline Preller, Brian ...... Alexander Delamere, Benoit ...... Eric Potts.

11 Jan: Dinner in the Iguanadon
By Chrissie Gittins. On New Year's Eve 1854, 21 leading scientists sat down to a sumptuous seven course banquet - served in the plastercast mould of a prehistoric beast! They were there to celebrate the creation of 33 life-size dinosaurs in the new Crystal Palace Park - a place where those same monsters still roam today. Mary Anning ...... Suzanna Hamilton, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins ...... Philip Franks, Professor Richard Owen ...... Christian Rodska, Mrs King ...... Tina Gray, Francis Fuller ...... Chris Serle, Connie ...... Sarah Counsell, Jack ...... Alex Maclaren.

12 Jan: Dear Dr Goebbels By Neville Smith. Fitting Dr Goebbels with his surgical boots, and sharing nuts with the Führer, do not appear to be auspicious beginnings to a young Jew's career. Philip Morgenstern, however, is a resourceful lad... Philip Morgenstern ...... Ben Meyjes, Clara Popp/Galina ...... Jenny Funnell, Harrison ...... Paul Jesson, Boxall/Emil ...... Christopher Douglas, Dr Goebbels ...... Jasper Britton, Adolf Hitler ...... Gerard Murphy, Magda Goebbels ...... Joanne Pearce, Stalin/Churchill ...... William Hootkins.

13 Jan: From Father with Love
By Mark Burgess. While convalescing in a Hove hotel, celebrated James Bond author Ian Fleming takes the opportunity to write a book for his son, called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Ian ...... Simon Williams, Ann ...... Lucy Fleming, Michael ...... John Evitts, Zborowski ...... Jonathan Tafler, Bill ...... Trevor Littledale, Janet ...... Alison Pettitt, Paul ...... Jamie Hogarth, Ian (as a boy) ...... Thomas Helm. Director David Blount.

14 Jan: The Saturday Play - Being Mussolini
By Boothby Graffoe. Aldo is a very ordinary man, save for one thing - he looks and sounds exactly like Benito Mussolini. Being Mussolini's lookalike is no easy matter, especially when Italy is at war and your wife prefers your new identity. A frantic mix of the surreal and the comic combine in Boothby Graffoe's new play. Aldo/Mussolini ...... Omid Djalili, Clara ...... Lia Williams, Giorgo ...... Gerard McDermott, Hitler/Messenger ...... Ewan Bailey, Violet Gibson ...... Pauline McLynn, Doctor ...... Adam Buxton, Nurse ...... Sophie Roberts, Maria ...... Cicely Giddings, Pru/Claretta ...... Ella Smith. Director Claudine Toutoungi.

15 Jan: Classic Serial - The Fountain Overflows
By Rebecca West, dramatised by Robin Brooks. 1/6. A story of childhood, seen through the eyes of Rose, a girl who struggles to comprehend life - with a brilliant father who gambles away all his money on the stock-exchange, and a highly-strung mother who has sacrificed her career as a pianist to bring up Rose, her sisters Mary and Cordelia, and her much-loved brother Richard Quinn. The family is constantly threatened with ruin, but Rose and Mary have dedicated their lives to music - unfortunately, so has Cordelia. Rose ...... Emma Fielding, Mama ...... Stella Gonet, Papa ...... Dermot Crowley, Young Rose ...... Tessa Montague, Cordelia ...... Clare Corbett, Mary ...... Sophie Roberts, Rosamund ...... Ayesha Antoine, Kate/Miss Beevor ...... Liza Sadovy, Constance/Mrs McKecnie ...... Sandy Walsh , Jock ...... Crawford Logan, Richard Quinn ...... Callum Williams , Kate's Brother/Cabbie ...... John Cummins. Producers Claire Grove, Cherry Cookson. Director Martin Jenkins.

16 Jan: Talking Latin
By Carolyn Bonnyman. One night five years ago, Karen ran away from her husband and found herself a job in a burger van at the seaside. Five years later Steve turns up at the van and asks for a hotdog. It's the moment Karen's been dreading, and rehearsing, ever since she made her escape from their relationship. Karen ...... Julie Duncanson, Steve ...... Billy McElhaney, Davy ...... Liam Brennan, Sal ...... Alec Heggie, Francesca ...... Eileen McCallum. Director/Producer David Jackson Young.

17 Jan: Once a Friend
By Stephen Phelps. Leo and John spent their childhood together. Leo has been increasingly troubled by the circumstances of their parting and desperately needs to deal with the guilt that is gnawing away inside him. But John has left the events of the past behind. To go back now is to re-open long-healed wounds. When they meet for the first time in over 30 years, will they able to move on or will they be sucked back into the whirlpool of the past? Leo has contacted John after hearing that a man, Harry Roberts, jailed for killing three policemen on a West London common in 1966 has applied for release. Aged 11, Leo and John were on the common that day. Leo now works as a teacher. He has always felt that John is a soul mate. John works in freight transport. They meet in a bar. John ...... Jamie Foreman, Leo ...... Gerard McDermott, Young John ...... Joseph Tremain, Young Leo ...... Steven Williams, Ellie ...... Ella Smith. Director Toby Swift.

18 Jan: The Ballad of Shane O'Neill
By Jimmy McAleavey. Irreverent historical fantasy about doomed Irish warlord Shane ONeill. It's 1558 and Shane has the whole of Ulster in his power - until he's drawn away from Ireland by Elizabeth I's invitation to court. Shane ONeill ...... Andrew Scott, The Bard ...... Gerard Murphy, Sidney ...... David Harewood, Sussex ...... Geoffrey Streatfeild, Elizabeth I ...... Helen Longworth, Matthew/Sorley Boy ...... Stephen Hogan, Conn/Sorleys Bard ...... James Ellis, First Lady ...... Emily Wachter, Dudley ...... Nick Sayce. Director Carol Bayne.

19 Jan: The Eve of St Agnes
By John Keats. Keats' atmospheric poem telling the story of the lovers Porphyro and Madeline and their secret meeting on St Agnes Eve - introduced by the poet Laureate Andrew Motion. Madeline is desperate on that bitterly cold night for a vision of her dearly loved Porphyro who is neither of her place nor of her race. The relations between their families are so hostile that Porphyro's arrival at the castle of the wealthy sire of Madeline is considered taboo. Angela, the Beldame, takes pity and hides Porphyro in Madeline's bed chamber so the two can meet. The tense and tricky Angela quite literally holds the key to the couple's fulfillment of love. Narrator ...... Samuel West , Porphyro ...... Daniel Evans , Madeline ...... Zoe Henry, Dame ...... Ann Rye. Music composed by Gary Yershon. Lute ...... Jacob Heringman, Flute ...... Catherine Greenwood. Director Susan Roberts.

20 Jan: Todtnauberg
By John Banville. A fictional drama inspired by the meeting between the poet and holocaust survivor, Paul Celan, with the Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger, at Heidegger's mountain retreat in 1967. No record was kept of this momentous meeting in the mountains, and the only mention is an obscure poem by Celan, "Todtnauberg", which is the name of Heidegger's place. It troubled Celan that the man he saw as one of the greatest of modern thinkers, so close to his own work, was a Nazi. One cannot even say 'had been a Nazi' because he never said anything that amounted to a renunciation. Late in life, Heidegger became interested in Celan's work. He attended public readings given by the poet, and in 1967 invited him to his famous Black Forest retreat at Todtnauberg. Heidegger ...... Joss Ackland, Paul Celan ...... Nicholas Farrell, Hannah Arendt ...... Jemma Redgrave, Gerhart Baumann ...... James Greene, Karl Jaspers ...... Gerard Murphy, Secretary ...... Michelle Simms.

21 Jan: The Saturday Play - Beware of the Trains
Based on stories by VL Whitechurch and M McD Bodkin. Written and directed by John Taylor. In the 1920s in a compartment of the Glasgow to London sleeping-car express, two men and a woman debate unsolved railway mysteries. But the travellers become aware that another story is emerging - one in which they are all involved and which is hurtling towards an extraordinary conclusion. Woman on train ...... Haydn Gwynne, Cleric on train ...... Robert Daws, Man on train ...... John McGlynn, Godfrey Page ...... Anton Lesser, Thorpe Hazell ...... Desmond Barrit, Kilmartin ...... Howard Ward.

22 Jan: Classic Serial - The Fountain Overflows
By Rebecca West, dramatised by Robin Brooks. 2/6. Rose and her sisters Mary and Cordelia, and her little brother Richard Quinn, are learning to grow up in a home threatened by poverty and disgrace, owing to the actions of their improvident father. They meet Nancy Phillips, whose family is fated to become entangled with theirs. Rose ...... Emma Fielding, Mama ...... Stella Gonet, Papa ...... Dermot Crowley, Young Rose ...... Tessa Montague, Lily ...... Lindsey Coulson, Kate/Miss Beevor ...... Liza Sadovy, Queenie ...... Carolyn Pickles, Mr Phillips ...... Gerard McDernott, Nancy Phillips ...... Ella Smith, Cordelia ...... Clare Corbett, Mary ...... Sophie Roberts, Rosamund ...... Ayesha Antoine, George/Pennington ...... John Cummins. Producers Claire Grove and Cherry Cookson. Director Martin Jenkins.

23 Jan: To Serve Them All My Days
By RF Delderfield, dramatised by Shaun McKenna. 1/5. It is 1918, and Davy Powlett Jones, invalided out of the trenches, faces a new start in life. Davy Powlett-Jones ...... Oliver Milburn, Algy Herries ...... John Wood, Howarth ...... John Rowe, Carter ...... Anthony Calf, Beth ...... Alison Pettitt, Guard/conductor ...... Delroy Brown, Nipper Shawe/Youings ...... Josh Freeborn , Chad Boyer ...... Steven Williams, Briarley ...... Steven Roberts. Director Marc Beeby.

24 Jan: To Serve Them All My Days
By RF Delderfield, dramatised by Shaun McKenna. It is 1920. Despite his clashes with science master Carter, Davy has settled in well to school life at Bamfylde. And his wife Beth is expecting twins any day. Davy Powlett-Jones ...... Oliver Milburn, Algy Herries ...... John Wood, Howarth ...... John Rowe, Carter ...... Anthony Calf, Beth ...... Alison Pettitt, Julia Darbyshire ...... Juliet Aubrey, Keith Blades ...... John Cummins, Spats Winterbourne ...... Anthony Glennon, Chad Boyer ...... Nick Sayce, Skidmore ...... Josh Freeborn. Director Marc Beeby.

25 Jan: To Serve Them All My Days
By RF Delderfield, dramatised by Shaun McKenna. 3/5. It is 1926. Davy has buried himself in school life to try to forget the death of his wife, Beth, and their eldest daughter Joan. What spare time he has is spent working on the book Beth urged him to write. Davy Powlett-Jones ...... Oliver Milburn, Algy Herries ...... John Wood, Howarth ...... John Rowe, Carter ...... Anthony Calf, Julia Darbyshire ...... Juliet Aubrey, Brigadier Cooper ...... Gerard McDermott, Alderman Blunt/McNaughton ...... John Cummins. Director Marc Beeby.

26 Jan: To Serve Them All My Days
By RF Delderfield, dramatised by Shaun McKenna. 4/5. It is 1927. Having failed to be appointed the new Headmaster at Bamfylde, Davy is determined to give the new Head, Alcock, his full support. But Alcock isn't about to make that an easy prospect. Davy Powlett-Jones ...... Oliver Milburn, Algy Herries ...... John Wood, Howarth ...... John Rowe, Carter ...... Anthony Calf, Alcock ...... Clive Merrison, Christine ...... Kate Buffery, Barnaby ...... Gerard McDermott, Ewart ...... Nick Sayce. Director Cherry Cookson.

27 Jan: To Serve Them All My Days
By RF Delderfield, dramatised by Shaun McKenna. 5/5. It is 1929. Davy Powlett Jones is about to face his greatest challenge yet at Bamfylde School. There's conflict with the new Headmaster, Alcock, and it is clear the two men cannot work together. One of them will have to go. Davy Powlett-Jones ...... Oliver Milburn, Algy Herries ...... John Wood, Howarth ...... John Rowe, Carter ...... Anthony Calf, Alcock ...... Clive Merrison, Christine ...... Kate Buffery, Barnaby/Rigby ...... Gerard McDermott, Grace ...... Alison Pettitt. Director Cherry Cookson.

28 Jan: The Saturday Play - Bitter Pill
By Lisa Holdsworth. A student at a University Freshers' disco dies after taking two ecstasy tablets and Detective Inspector Sarah Tully is shocked at the suspected source - the University Research Laboratory. DI Tully ...... Lesley Sharp, DC Mooney ...... Sam Kelly, Marty ...... Andrew Tiernan, Sian ...... Helen Longworth, Professor Poyser ...... Peter Marinker, Liz/Rachel ...... Clare Corbett, Mrs Poyser ...... Rachel Atkins. Director Pauline Harris.

29 Jan: The Fountain Overflows
By Rebecca West, dramatised by Robin Brooks. 3/6. Rose and her sister Mary are studying to be professional pianists, but their talentless sister, encouraged by her teacher Miss Beevor, is already attracting attention on the concert platform. They have one friend, their cousin Rosamund, and one enemy, Rosamund's father, Jock. But they are still isolated by their father's poverty and improvidence. His brilliant but wayward mind - which has saved a murderess from the gallows - is now driving him nearer and nearer to ruin. Rose ...... Emma Fielding, Mama ...... Stella Gonet, Lily ...... Lindsey Coulson, Mr Morpurgo ...... Roger May, Papa ...... Dermot Crowley, Kate/Miss Beevor ...... Liza Sadovy, Jock ...... Crawford Logan, Cordelia ...... Claire Corbett, Richard Quinn ...... Steven Geller, Mary ...... Sophie Roberts, Rosamund ...... Ayesha Antoine, Pennington/Man ...... John Cummins, Langham/Kisch ..... Gerard McDermott.

30 Jan: Master and Man
By Leo Tolstoy, dramatised by Jonathan Holloway. Landowner Brekhunov sets off with his man Nikita to close his purchase of a neighbouring coppice. The pair hit an impenetrable blizzard; their sledge is stuck. Can they survive a night in this cold and is either ready to meet his Maker? Vasilii Andreich ...... Roger Allam, Nikita ...... Conleth Hill, Vasilii's wife ...... Colleen Prendergast, Isai ...... Gerard McDermott, Peasant 1 ...... Richard Katz, Peasant 2 ...... Harry Myers, Petrukha ...... Carl Prekopp, Old Man ...... Harry Towb, Marfa ...... Susan Jameson. Director Anastasia Tolstoy.

31 Jan: The Yellow Wallpaper
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A woman is taken to the country by her doctor husband in order to cure her of an unnamed illness - post-natal depression - after the birth of a child. Instructed to have total rest and emptiness of mind and avoid stimulating company, the woman sinks into a still-deeper depression. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness. Jane ...... Charlotte Emerson; director Susan Roberts.

1 Feb: Markheim
By Robert Louis Stevenson, dramatised by John Taylor. On Christmas Day 1886 with London shrouded in fog, a man shadows a girl across Blackfriars Bridge towards the back streets of Holborn. His name is Markheim and his intentions are unremittingly dark. Markheim ...... Jack Klaff, Visitor ...... Anton Rodgers, Crispin ...... Anthony Jackson, Girl ...... Abigail Hollick, Tommy ...... Mark Straker, Director John Taylor.

2 Feb: Ties
By Amber Lone. When an old school acquaintance becomes a regular fare in Yasser's cab, a friendship develops between them. But a violent incident outside a pub forces them to face each other and ask themselves what they really have in common. Yasser ...... Pushpinder Chani, Dave ...... Graeme Rose, Jan/News Reporter ...... Cheryl Stott. Director Naylah Ahmed.

3 Feb: The Withered Arm.
Thomas Hardy's classic short story, dramatised by Louise Doughty. This classic short story is a masterful drama of psychological suspense that tells the highly charged tale of two women, in the grip of passions beyond their control. Gertrude Lodge ...... Victoria Hamilton, Rhoda Brook ...... Susan Jameson, James Lodge ...... Ewan Bailey, Edward ...... Nick Sayce, Mr Mason ...... Nick Brimble, Ida ...... Ella Smith, Dairy Man ...... John Cummins, Hangman ...... Gerard McDermott, Landlord ...... Wayne Foskett, Serving Girl ...... Ayesha Antoine. Director Claudine Toutoungi.

4 Feb: The Saturday Play - Tallulah
In the 1930s at the height of Tallulah Bankhead's fame as a theatre star, Evie Cronin became chief among her gallery girls, young women who religiously attended her every performance, shrieking and cheering the moment she walked on stage. Evie, obsessed by the star's flamboyant persona, followed Tallulah's every movement - becoming what today we would call a stalker. Tallulah, however, far from being intimidated by this intense, even intrusive adulation, positively welcomed it and invited the younger woman into her household as her secretary. The play opens in 1951. Tallulah is 49 years old and although her film career has begun to tail off, this has in no way slowed down her wild lifestyle. The leading stars of Hollywood attend her infamous parties and Evie works away in the background, inured to decades of her mistress' outrageous behaviour. But one day Evie has finally had enough and confronts Tallulah. Tallulah Bankhead ...... Linda Marlowe, Evie Cronin ...... Teresa Gallagher, Senator Fred Morritt ...... Colin Stinton, Donald Seawell ...... Kerry Shale, Tennesse Williams ...... William Hope, Gary Cooper ...... William Roberts, Dee Englebeck ...... Nick Sayce, Etta...Katherine Kelly.

5 Feb: Classic Serial - The Fountain Overflows
By Rebecca West, dramatised by Robin Brooks. 4/6. Rose, her sisters Mary and Cordelia, and her younger brother Richard Quinn, are coming to terms with their father's disappearance, but their finances are now assured, and they have been helped by their benefactor Mr Morpurgo. Their cousin Rosamund is now working as a nurse, and Rose and Mary are on the brink of becoming professional musicians. Queenie Philips, who was saved by their father from the gallows, still languishes in prison, and the storm-clouds of the First World War are gathering. Rose ...... Emma Fielding, Mama ...... Stella Gonet, Mr Morpurgo ...... Roger May, Lily ...... Lindsey Coulson, Kate/Miss Beevor ...... Liza Sadovy, Cordelia ...... Clare Corbett, Richard Quinn ...... Steven Geller, Rosamund ...... Ayesha Antoine, Mary ...... Sophie Roberts, Nancy ...... Ella Smith, Manning ...... Gerard McDermott, Herminie ...... Carolyn Pickles, Weissbach ...... John Cummins, Brown/Harper ...... Geoffrey Beevers. Original music composed by David Pickvance. Director Jonquil Panting.

6 Feb: The Fortunestown Kid
By Dermot Bolger. Young Dubliner Shane has longed to play for his dream football club in the Premiere League. So when he is spotted by English scouts he makes the decision at a very young age to leave his family home in Dublin to follow his goal. Will he make it in the cut-throat world of professional football? Shane ...... Paul Reid, Coach ...... Danny Webb, Father ...... Gerry O'Brien, Mother ...... Marion O'Dwyer, Eddie ...... Pat Laffan, Mrs Williams ...... Lynda Baron, Liam ...... Michael Rawley, Sharon ...... Ailish Symons, Michael ...... Brian Roche, Irish Youth Manager ...... Sean Crummey, Commentator ...... Austin O'Callaghan. Producer/Director Gemma McMullan.

7 Feb: Under the Loofah Tree
This new production of a play first broadcast in 1958 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Giles Cooper, one of radio's most original and imaginative dramatists. A man is having a bath. Every imaginative device is used to expose his life, aspirations and will to survive. Edward Thwaite ...... Michael Maloney, Muriel ...... Jenny Funnell, Rory ...... Thomas Helm, Compere/ Judkin ...... Sam Kelly, Traveller/ Sgt ...... Bernard Cribbins, Head/ Father ...... Ian Masters, Mother ...... Sandy Walsh. Director Martin Jenkins.

8 Feb: The Discourse of Two Once Young Women
By Jane Beeson. Ida, Daisy and Gerald all knew each other during the Second World War, when they were boarders at a Jewish school in the country. They have completely lost touch with each other but out of the blue, Daisy hears from Gerald, who then puts her in touch with Ida. Gerald ...... Oliver Ford Davies , Ida ...... Eleanor Bron, Daisy ...... Lynn Farleigh.

9 Feb: Michael
A radio version of the William Wordsworth poem, with new dramatised scenes by Nell Leyshon. Starring Tom Courtenay as the Narrator. The story of Cumbrian sheepfarmer Michael and his only son Luke, who is forced to leave the family farm in search of financial help. Narrator ...... Tom Courtenay, Young Luke ...... Dean Petre, Old Luke ...... Billy Walker, Michael ...... Tom Coulthard, Isabel ...... Jackie Fielding.

10 Feb: Pips
By Stevie Davies. It's Monday morning in Mrs Roberts' Dental Surgery in Swansea. As cavities are filled, gums numbed and molars polished, one patient is nervous and grieving, another preoccupied with her own fertility, while the receptionist waits for the call that could change her life. As they observe each other across the waiting room, appearances prove deceptive. Professor Gwyn Humphreys ...... Glyn Houston, Mrs Lilian Rhys ...... Olwen Rees, Ceri Jones ...... Eirlys Bellin, Dr Eliza Powell ...... Siriol Jenkins, Aneirin ...... Luke McAuliffe, Magdalena ...... Ella McAuliffe, Mrs Roberts ...... Helen Griffin. Director Kate McAll.

11 Feb: The Saturday Play - Death of a Salesman
To commemorate the first anniversary of Arthur Miller's death, John Tydeman's adaptation of Miller's classic play. Willy Loman ...... Timothy West, Linda Loman ...... Rosemary Leach, Biff ...... John Guerrasio , Happy ...... Adam Henderson , Charley ...... Peter Banks, Howard ...... Colin Stinton, Uncle Ben ...... John Hartley, Bernard ...... Roger May. Music by John White. Adapted and directed by John Tydeman.

12 Feb: Classic Serial - The Fountain Overflows
By Rebecca West, dramatised by Robin Brooks. 5/6. Cousin Rosamund. Set at the start of the First World War, Rose and Mary are now professional musicians, their brother Richard Quinn is at the front, and their cousin Rosamund is working as a nurse. They are also still in touch with their friend Nancy Philips. Rose and Mary are concerned about their mother, who is growing increasingly frail. Rose ...... Emma Fielding, Mama ...... Stella Gonet, Mr Morpurgo ...... Roger May, Lily ...... Lindsey Coulson, Kate/ Miss Beevor ...... Liza Sadovy, Queenie ...... Carolyn Pickles, Rosamund ...... Ayesha Antoine, Mary ...... Sophie Roberts, Nancy ...... Ella Smith, Ramponetti ...... Jonathan Keeble, Nestor ...... Geoffrey Beevers, Catterock ...... Delroy Brown, Oswald ...... John Cummins, Doctor/Mr Bates ...... Crawford Logan. Original music composed by David Pickvance. Director Martin Jenkins.

13 Feb: A Nice Little Trip to Spain
By Don Taylor. The story of Great Uncle Jack's heroic death in the Spanish Civil War is family folklore. But when the unmarked graves begin to be opened, there are as many secrets dug up as bodies - and George gets a shock. George ..... Jack Shepherd, Jeremy ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor, Father Tomaso ...... Daniel Evans, Ramon ...... John Grillo, The Old Woman ...... Patricia Leventon, Luiz ...... Ed Weeks, Conchita ...... Morag Cross. Director Ellen Dryden.

14 Feb: One Foot in the Cuckoo's Nest
By Ian Macpherson and Magi Gibson. For two decades, Theo Sheridan and his colleague Bill, have enjoyed a leisurely existence as the Edinburgh-based correspondents of the Irish Mail. But the two men's comfortable lives are shattered by the arrival of their new editor, Lotte Swift. The Mail's going tabloid and so are their lives. Theo Sheridan ...... Ian MacPherson, Bill ...... Sean Scanlan, Lotte ...... Siobhan Redmond, Sigmund ...... Arnold Brown, Doctor ...... Lucy Paterson. Producer/director David Ian Neville.

15 Feb: Curry Tales
By Rani Moorthy. Cooks share their recipe secrets, including mood fusion curries for New Delhi Society; a grandmother's legacy in Malaysia and an accountant's egg curry in London. Dimple ...... Rani Moorthy, Ah Liang ...... Pik-Sen Lim, Kalvinder ...... Rina Mahoney, Stephanie ...... Liz Sutherland, David ...... Kim Wall. Producer/director Shabina Aslam.

16 Feb: The Powder
By Adam Thorpe. In 1946, a young soldier returns from the war to the family farm in Derbyshire, only to find that things have changed and not, in his view, for the better. There is now a secretive tenant on part of the land. Jack ...... Jason Done, Ted ...... David Fleeshman , Liz ...... Angela Curran, Mr Petlow ...... David Thorpe, Richler ...... Nicholas Murchie, Mavis ...... Imogen Rands, Young Jack ...... Dominic Curran. Director Chris Wallis.

17 Feb: Life is a Dream
By Shelagh Stephenson. Sam Lazarus awakens to find himself in a parallel reality, in which he is married to his childhood sweetheart and Hillary Clinton is US President. He thinks he's died and gone to heaven - but has he? Sam ...... Nathan Osgood, Patricia ...... Kristin Marks, Hope ...... Lorelei King, Dr Greenblatt ...... John Guerassio, Jim ...... John Chancer, The hooker ...... Larissa Murray, Nat ...... Tom Raphael Eaves, Phoebe ...... Amanda Gordon.

18 Feb: The Saturday Play - The Lüneburg Variation
By Paolo Maurensig, dramatised by Lavinia Murray. The story of a chess game that remained unfinished for over 50 years. It was a duel to the death. At first sight, Dieter Frisch's death looks like suicide, a sudden and violent end to the life of an impeccable businessman and avid chess player. But as the horror unfolds, the real man is revealed - his life in pre Second World War Vienna, his rivalry with a brilliant young Jewish player, and the terrible secret in their past. Tabori ...... James Laurenson, Hans Mayer ...... Daniel Hart, Dieter Frisch ...... Robert Demeger, Miss Hermes ...... Marion Bailey, Baum ...... Keith Osborn, Boris ...... Geoffrey McGivern, Lump ...... Martin Hyder. Director Elizabeth Freestone.

19 Feb: Classic Serial - The Fountain Overflows
By Rebecca West, dramatised by Robin Brooks. 6/6. Rose is collaborating with a young composer named Oliver, about whom she harbours conflicting feelings. Her cousin Rosamund has gone into a marriage Rose does not understand - to a grotesque millionaire. Their friend Nancy Philips is happily married to a teacher. Her mother Queenie has been released from prison, and is living with her daughter. Rose ...... Emma Fielding, Mama ...... Stella Gonet, Mr Morpurgo ...... Roger May, Lily ...... Lindsey Coulson, Oliver ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt, Kate ...... Liza Sadovy, Queenie ...... Carolyn Pickles, Rosamund ...... Ayesha Antoine, Richard Quinn ...... Steven Geller, Mary ...... Sophie Roberts, Nancy ...... Ella Smith, Avis ...... Elaine Claxton, Lady Mortlake/Phyllida ...... Jemma Churchill, Lord Sarasen ...... Jonathan Keeble, Oswald ...... John Cummins, Mr Bates ...... Crawford Logan. Original music composed by David Pickvance. Director Martin Jenkins.

20 Feb: Cast in Stone
By Rachel Bentham. A young woman is caught between old pagan ways and the new Christianity when she is taken from her forest home to model for the stonemasons, who are building a great cathedral at Wells. Rachel Bentham's atmospheric drama is set in Wells at the end of the 12th Century where a great cathedral is being built. Elfrede, 15, becomes a model for the carvings there - both for the overtly sexual and pagan gargoyles and a statue of the virgin to rival Our Lady of Walsingham. Taken from her woodland home to lodge in the town with a Christian family, Elfrede resorts to the old pagan spells in revenge for a shocking act of violence. Elfrede ...... Hannah Bates, Adam ...... Chris Donnelly, Guy ...... Mark Meadows, Margaret ...... Lisa Coleman, Anneys ...... Amy Clifton, With Paul Dodgson, Chris Serle and Chris Yapp.

21 Feb: The Female Husband
By Sheila Hannon. The true story of Mary Hamilton, who was tried and punished by flogging in 1746 for marrying as a man, and who achieved notoriety in a pamphlet published by Henry Fielding. Mary Hamilton ...... Sandy Toksvig, Henry Fielding ...... Adam Kotz, Mary Price ...... Devon Black, John Masters ...... Alan Moore, Henry Gould ...... John Telfer, Hannah Iredell ...... Alison Reid. Producer Sara Davies.

22 Feb: The Passion of Plum Duff
Alastair Jessiman's comedy about the clash of spiritual and human yearning, as an overweight Glasgow minister faces a mid-life crisis. When the 23-stone Reverend Plum Duff is suspected of having an affair with both the son and the wife of his session clerk, he turns to drink and his ukelele for support. Plum ...... Steven McNicoll, Colin ...... Nick Underwood, Janet ...... Eileen McCallum, Ross ...... John Buick, Uncle Frank ...... Alec Heggie, Man in park ... John Paul Hurley. Producer/director Bruce Young.

23 Feb: Einstein in Cromer
By Mark Burgess. In the summer of 1933, Professor Albert Einstein - arguably the greatest scientist of the 20th century - stepped off the ferry at Dover carrying one bag and a battered violin case. He was to spend a month's 'cheerful exile' in Cromer. Albert Einstein ...... David Suchet, Douglas ...... Robert Harper, Mrs Rose ...... Jean Trend, Commander Locker-Lampson ...... John Evitts, Inspector Hutchinson ...... Trevor Nichols, Father/Harry Herbert ...... Trevor Littledale. Pianist David Angus. Violinist Chris Phipps. Director David Blount.

24 Feb: A Bit of a Hole
By Christine Marshall. Cissie Weaver doesn't feel very neighbourly towards her arch enemy next door, Nora Siddall. But when the two warring septuagenarians decide to argue things out they find themselves in a right pickle without a cheese sandwich. Cissie Weaver ...... Tina Gray, Nora Siddall ..... Ann Rye, Michael/Fireman ...... Robin Simpson. Director Jenny Stephens.

25 Feb: The Saturday Play - Christabel's Anarchist
By Patricia Hannah. In the summer of 1876, Prince Peter Kropotkin escaped from imprisonment in St Petersburg, and for a few weeks he rented a room in Edinburgh under a false name. But what happened when the Russian anarchist prince met his Scottish Presbyterian landlady? A play that imagines a love story with no kissing, a comedy with secret policemen, and a tragedy with tea and shortbread. Christabel ...... Gerda Stevenson, Kropotkin ...... Crawford Logan, Narrator ...... Gayanne Potter, Molly ...... Hazel Hall, Waulkmill ...... John Kielty, Prosecutor/Rev Tulloch ...... Ralph Riach, Mrs Campbell ...... Carol Ann Crawford, Mr Campbell ...... Simon Tait, Mrs Niven ...... Sheila Donald, Mr Rankin ...... James Bryce. Producer/director Bruce Young.

26 Feb: Classic Serial - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Oscar Wilde's short story is dramatised for radio by Mike Walker. 1/2. A shadow is cast on Lord Arthur Savile's engagement to the lovely Sybil Merton after a palm reading by Mr Podgers, who confides to Lord Arthur that he saw 'murder' written on the gentleman's palm. Lord Arthur ...... Rupert Penry-Jones, Sybil ...... Gillian Kearney, Podgers ...... David Bamber, Willet ...... David Bradley, Lady Windermere ...... Phyllida Law, The General ...... Patrick Ryecart, Algy ...... Patrick Kennedy, Lane ...... Michael Kilgarriff, Policeman ...... David Holt. Producer/director Gemma McMullan.

27 Feb: Rapture
By Carol Ann Duffy, read by Fiona Shaw. The winner of the TS Eliot prize 2006 is a set of love poems that provides a startling, coherent and passionate view about how love is an extremity rivalled only by death. It is adapted for radio by the poet herself. Some of the poems are set to music by singer Eliana Tomkins. Karen Street (accordion/digital accordion), Guy Barker (trumpet/flumpet), Dominic Ashworth (guitar), Nic France (percussion). Songs by singer Eliana Tomkins. Producer Graham Frost.

28 Feb: Bumps and Bruises
By Ben Edwards and Rachael New. The brave, well-meaning, unqualified Hillary struggles against hilarious odds to run the world's most chaotic ante-natal class. Hillary ...... Penelope Wilton, Isobel ...... Tamsin Greig, Geoff ...... Peter Meakin, Lorraine ...... Joanna Stride, Steve ...... David Holt, Stella ...... Lucy Tregear, Holly ...... Emily Blunt, Alan ...... Brett Usher, Celia ...... Annette Badland. Director Nigel Bryant. Producer Clelia Mountford.

1 Mar: The Cold Mann
By Tom McGrath, who writes about Nobel prize-winner Thomas Mann. The author of Dr Faustus and Death in Venice led a life just as full of mystery as his novels. But would fleeing pre-war Germany help him overcome his troubled relationship with his eldest son and his lifelong struggle with his secret passions? And would his international reputation survive if his secrets came out? Thomas Mann ...... Anton Rodgers , Katya Mann ...... Julia McKenzie, Klaus Mann ...... Mark Straker, Erika Mann ...... Rachel Atkins, Krull ...... David Holt. Director Turan Ali.

2 Mar: Money with Menaces
By Patrick Hamilton. The modern production of the radio classic first broadcast in 1937, which was made to celebrate the centenary two years ago of the acclaimed novelist and playwright Patrick Hamilton. Stephen Thorne stars as the Fleet Street tycoon who finds himself under telephone threat of blackmail. David Collings plays the strange Mr Poland. Mr Carruthers ...... Stephen Thorne, Mr Poland ...... David Collings, McPherson ...... Joe Dunlop , Miss Rough ...... Rachel Atkins , Mrs Carruthers ...... Gwyneth Powell , Bank clerk ...... Ben Crowe , Hilliard ...... Ioan Meredith . Director Richard Wortley.

3 Mar: Daphnis and Chloe
By Longus, adapted for radio by Hattie Naylor. This virtuoso story of two naive young lovers, beset by pirates but aided by supernatural forces and the power of love, was first translated from Greek over 500 years ago. Longus ...... Adrian Scarborough , Chloe ...... Lyndsey Marshal, Daphnis ...... Ben McKay, Lamo/Megacles ...... Kim Wall , Myrtale/Lycaenium ......Tracy Wiles , Philetas/Dionyosophanes ...... Geoffrey Beevers , Love/Astylus ...... Simon Trinder , Dryas/Gnatho/Lampis ...... Anthony Glennon. Producer/director Jeremy Mortimer.

4 Mar: The Saturday Play - The Great Chocolate Murders
By John Fletcher. When people start falling ill in 19th century Brighton, everyone thinks it's an attack of cholera caused by the lack of proper sewers. Little do the police suspect that pralines and Montélimars are the problem. Thwarted in love, middle-aged spinster Christiana Edmunds has a deadly plan. Obsession, bad drains, royalty, murder and chocolate liqueurs all play their part in John Fletcher's drama, which is based on a true story. Christiana Edmunds ...... Sian Thomas, Jacob Ormsley ...... Chris Donnelly, Dr Beard ...... Dorien Thomas, Mr Hallet ...... Brendan Charleson, Mrs Beard ...... Angela Barlow, Armand/Isaac ...... Iwan Tudor, Alex Maclaine ...... Derek Riddell, Billy ...... Jordan Clarke, Sam ...... Robert Connor, Journalist ...... Gaz Williams, Counsel ...... Dyfrig Morris. Director Kate McAll.

5 Mar: Classic Serial - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Oscar Wilde's short story is dramatised for radio by Mike Walker. 2/2. Lord Arthur sets about concocting the intricacies of a murder. But his fervent attempt at committing the crime is not as straightforward as he initially hoped. Will Lord Arthur ever be able to carry out his murderous destiny and fulfil his dream of marrying Sybil? Lord Arthur ...... Rupert Penry-Jones, Sybil ...... Gillian Kearney, Podgers ...... David Bamber, Willet ...... David Bradley, Lady Clementina ...... Doreen Mantle, The General ...... Patrick Ryecart, Algy ...... Patrick Kennedy, Lane ...... Michael Kilgarriff, Policeman ...... David Holt, Archdeacon ...... Clive Swift, Rouveloff ...... Christopher Rozycki. Producer/director Gemma McMullan.

6 Mar: Dan Quixote
By John Morrison. Following a personal trauma, Dan McAughtry arrives back from Spain claiming he is Don Quixote. He may of course be insane, but at least he's proof that the Age of Chivalry is not yet dead. Dan McAughtry ...... Gerard Murphy, Dolores Tobin ...... Brid Brennan, Sandy Palmer ...... John Hewitt, Emily McAughtry ...... Katy Gleadhill, McGlade ...... BJ Hogg, Eamonn Rogers ...... Miche Doherty, Tommy/vagrant ...... Alan McKee. Director Eoin O'Callaghan.

7 Mar: The Domino Man of Lancashire
By Nick Leather. Reclusive middle-aged Arthur Allen has never got on with his brassy neighbour, Annie Sweetlove. When his mother dies, he rebuffs Annie's overtures of friendship, instead buying a limitless supply of dominoes with his inheritance and setting out to break the world record for domino toppling. Arthur ...... Tom Courtenay, Annie ...... Denise Welch, Pete ...... Craig Cheetham. Director Polly Thomas.

8 Mar: The Promise
By Pat Davis. Friendship and fidelity, funerals and flat-pack coffins mark Helen's emotional journey after she receives a letter from an estranged friend. Helen ...... Penelope Wilton, Karen ...... Joanne Froggatt, Jenny ...... Barbara Flynn, Postmistress ...... Joanna McCallum. Director Marc Beeby.

9 Mar: Time after Time
By Gerry Jones. A new production of the play which was first broadcast in 1979. The award-winning dramatist died last year. Two men enter a nightmare world, trapped in a seemingly endless sequence of events. Paul ...... Michael Maloney, Carter ...... Anton Lesser, Porter ...... Andy Taylor, Mother ...... Helena Breck, Manager ...... Kim Wall, Ann ...... Teresa Gallagher, Doctor ...... Geoffrey Beevers, Barman ...... Anthony Glennon. Director Martin Jenkins.

10 Mar: Alice in Paris
By Elizabeth Lewis. Alice is frightened of the reality of marriage to a Welsh asparagus farmer, and so runs away from her wedding to Paris - still wearing her white dress and veil. She books herself into Hotel la Louisiane, once the haunt of Simone de Beauvoir. At first, Paris is exactly what she imagined it would be - romantic, artistic, bohemian. But the dream men are all a bit tarnished. Will Alice come back down to earth or will she float off in her fantasy, like a Chagall painting? Alice Arden ...... Caroline Harker, Simone de Beauvoir ...... Ana-Luisa De Cavilla, Ieuan, the asparagus farmer ...... Iestyn Jones, The Ubiquitous Frenchman ...... Richard Elfyn, Stallholder ...... Iwan Tudor, Genevieve ...... Sheila Ballantine, Agnes ...... Alex Alderton, Mireille ...... Phyllida Nash . Director Kate McAll.

11 Mar: The Saturday Play - Cold in the Earth and Fifteen Wild Decembers
By Sally Wainwright, based on a theory by Sarah Fermi. Why did Emily Jane Brontė write Wuthering Heights? And how was she able to do it? In spite of the massive amount of material published about the Brontė sisters over the last 150 years, these two questions still remain unanswered. Yet given the large amount of autobiographical material in the novels of Charlotte and Anne Brontė, it is almost unthinkable that Emily would not have also used her own experience in the creation of her great book. How could she write so vividly about love, grief and hatred without having known these emotions in her own life? This is a compelling drama about the story of Emily Brontė's socially transgressive love affair with a weaver's son. Emily Brontė ...... Joanne Froggatt, Robert Clayton ...... Danny Burns, Anne Brontė ...... Rhea Bailey, Charlotte Brontė/Tabby ...... Deborah McAndrew, Branwell Brontė/John Clayton ...... Peter Ash, James Greenwood ...... Adam Paulden, Patrick Brontė ...... Rob Pickavance, Aunt Branwell ...... Janice McKenzie, Pickles/Doctor ...... Gerard Fletcher, Sally Clayton/Miss Wooler ...... Marie Ekins. Director Pauline Harris.

12 Mar: Classic Serial - Passing
By Nella Larsen, dramatised by Annie Caulfield. 1/2. Novelist Larsen's mixed parentage gave her a profound insight into racial issues in 1930s America. This story deals with these issues in the context of middle class Black families, their passions and ambitions, and the remarkable phenomenon of 'passing for white'. Narrator ...... Bonnie Greer, Irene ...... Andrea Harris, Brian ...... Paterson Joseph, Clare ...... Nicole Charles, John Bellew ...... Martin McDougall, Hugh Wentmore ...... Robert Jezek, Gertrude ...... Tanya Moodie, Saxophonist ...... Adam Waldmann. Director Marina Caldarone.

13 Mar: The Bride's Chamber
Adapted for radio by Michael Eaton, from Charles Dickens' The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. A ghost story which Dickens relates while on a walking tour in the north with Wilkie Collins. Wilkie Collins/Young Man ...... Alan Cox, Dickens ...... Gawn Grainger, Landlord ...... John Tams, Merchant ...... Sebastian Graham-Jones, Hardman/Men in Black ...... Jack Shepherd, Mrs Pinchbeck ...... Lynn Farleigh, The Bride ...... Lucy Davenport. ProducerNicholas Newton. Director Sebastian Graham-Jones.

14 Mar: Amy's Spaghetti
By Colin Hough, a comedy about love, sex, parenthood and dressing up as Sonny and Cher. Newly-widowed Eddie Beattie begins a desperate search for a woman to re-fill his freezer, wash his socks and help fulfil his dream of winning the karaoke cup final. Eddie ...... Finlay Welsh, Ailis ...... Una McLean, Kenny ...... Sean Scanlan, Josie ...... Ann Scott-Jones, Compere...... Simon Tait. Director Patrick Rayner.

15 Mar: The Midnight House
By Jonathan Hall. A period ghost story mixing fact and fiction set in the Welsh tin quarries that housed the nation's treasures during the Second World War. With specially commissioned music from Sony-nominated composer, Christopher Madin. Ian Hanson ...... Roger Morlidge, Ruth Paget ...... Caroline John, Nigel Collins ...... James Nickerson. Director Polly Thomas.

16 Mar: How I Wonder What You Are
By Richard Hurford. When Alison comes home to an empty house and finds all the star charts gone, she knows her husband Neil has left for Egypt on the trail of a desperate obsession, which threatens their marriage. As she journeys down the Nile in pursuit, she is forced to confront emotions that she has buried for the past year, but will she find Neil in time? Neil ...... Steve Huison, Alison ...... Deborah McAndrew, Suzanne ...... Katherine Dow Blyton, Gamal ...... Raad Rawi, Ralph ...... Wyllie Longmore, Sandra ...... Eileen O'Brien, Tom ...... Ashley Margolis. Director Nadia Molinari.

17 Mar: Blind Eye
By Sharon Oakes. Carl is a policeman who is about to get a medal for bravery. Yet he is troubled: he can't go near his wife and he avoids all physical confrontations. Has he lost his bottle? Is he now afraid of violence? Or is it something deeper? Carl ...... Shaun Dooley, Trish ...... Sue Kelly, Phil ...... Deka Walmsley, Niamh ...... Sinead Douglas, Lorna ...... Lois Taylor, Callum ...... Jack Hanson, Micky/Jim ...... Russell Shaw, Darren ...... Greg Milburn, Charlie/Craig ...... Geoffrey Wilkinson. Original music composed and performed by Tom Kirkpatrick. Director Gary Brown.

18 Mar: The Saturday Play - Death Bredon
By Sarah Lefanu. At the time that Dorothy L Sayers was creating her aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey, she was working in a London advertising agency and going through a personal crisis that had a profound effect on her life and work. This play explores this emotional and creative moment in the life of the writer. Dorothy L Sayers ...... Juliet Aubrey, John Cournos ...... Demetri Goritsas, Edie Everitt ...... Amanda Horlock, Bill White ...... Chris Donnelly, Jim ...... Fraser Burrows, Cousin Ivy ...... Caroline Hunt. Director Sara Davies.

19 Mar: Classic Serial - Passing
By Nella Larsen, dramatised by Annie Caulfield. 2/2. The beguiling Clare Kendry, still successfully passing for white, has infiltrated herself into Irene's home and into Black society. But the gloss of charm, which has enabled Clare to become popular and admired, conceals a seam of darkness that threatens to shake Irene's ordinary, happy life to its foundations. Narrator ...... Bonnie Greer, Irene ...... Andrea Harris, Brian ...... Paterson Joseph, Clare ...... Nicole Charles, John Bellew ...... Martin McDougall, Hugh Wentmore ...... Robert Jezek, Gertrude ...... Tanya Moodie, Dave ...... Harold Finley, Saxophonist ...... Adam Waldmann. Director Marina Caldarone.

20 Mar: The Big Bow Mystery
By Israel Zangwill, dramatised by Robert Messik. 1892: A man is found dead in a locked room. The windows and door are locked and bolted from the inside, the only way into the room is a chimney into which even a small child couldn't squeeze. But it's not suicide. A seemingly inexplicable murder brings London to a standstill and pits the city's two greatest detectives against each other. Inspector Grodman ...... John Woodvine, Inspector Wimp ...... David Holt, Mrs Drabdump ...... Carolyn Pickles, Mortlake ...... David Thorpe, Cantercot ...... Chris Moran, Coroner/Prosecutor ..... Stephen Critchlow. Producer/Director David Ian Neville.

21 Mar: The Cenci Family
By Lizzie Hopley. Rome, 1599. A young girl, Beatrice Cenci, stands trial for the murder of her father Francesco Cenci, the first godfather of the Italian mafia. Guido Reni ...... Daniel Evans, Beatrice Cenci ...... Sally Hawkins, Cardinal Savella ...... Gerrard McArthur, Pope Clement VIII ...... Ronald Pickup, Bishop Camillo ..... Owen Teale, Bernardo ...... Peter Innes. Director Lu Kemp.

22 Mar: A Tiny Light in the Darkness
By Ursula Rani Sarma. In late August 2005, a group of strangers find themselves thrown together when their tube carriage is plunged into darkness. Karim ...... Tarun Iyer, Annemarie ...... Katherin Igoe, Kaseb ...... Kulvinder Ghir, Sumi ...... Meneka Das, Fred ...... Garrick Hagon, Janice ...... Liza Ross, Daniel ...... Mark Bonnar, Michael ...... Ifan Meredith, Alysha ...... Sarah Okeze. Director Lu Kemp.

23 Mar: Ronnie Gecko
By Alexis Zegerman. Alice spends her day recording animal sounds. Ronnie spends his caring for reptiles. When will they each start showing an interest in fellow human beings? Alice's mum is gravely ill, aggravating the 30-something's worries about her own future. Alice catalogues animal sounds for a sound effects library: not what you'd call a sociable job. Ronnie owns a reptile shop full of creatures so repellent that customers have stopped coming in and the shop is on the brink of receivership. On the personal front, he's not a hugely attractive specimen himself. Things aren't looking good. Then Alice arrives in the shop with her mother's tortoise. She and Ronnie really don't hit it off. She hates reptiles and loves fish. He likes his fish battered and served with chips and tells her so. But then a common cause and Ronnie's wily assistant, bring the two together. Ron ...... Toby Jones, Alice ...... Rachel Atkins , Tim ...... Simon Every, Nature Commentary ...... Ben Crowe . Director Peter Kavanagh.

24 Mar: Fiona and the Hetty Closet
By Char March. Fiona just wants to be herself, but this is proving very difficult, especially as everyone is pressuring her to be who they want her to be. As a life-long lesbian, Fiona has a dreadful secret: she now fancies men. And her friends and family are less than thrilled when the secret gets out. A comedy about coming-out (again) when you're nearly 40. Elspeth ...... Claire Knight, Margaret Ann/Sophia ...... Gabriel Quigley, Morag ...... Barbara Rafferty, Cameron/Sandy ...... Ralph Riach, Uncle Alec/Tearlach ...... Sean Scanlan, Fiona ...... Wendy Seager.

25 Mar: The Saturday Play - Prince Unleashed
By Robert Forrest. Holly has become a strange and silent little girl, living unhappily with her smoky Aunty Isa and her drunken Uncle Dave. She is determined to escape with the help of her dog Prince. But Prince is dead, and when he returns from the Happy Hunting Grounds to sort things out once and for all, Holly is alarmed to find he is not the obedient pedigree playmate he once was. Holly ...... Helen McAlpine, Cal ...... Steven Ritchie, Prince ...... Steven Cartwright, Isa ...... Barbara Rafferty, Dave ...... Jimmy Chisholm. Director Dougie Irvine. ProducerLu Kemp.

26 Mar: Classic Serial - A House for Mr Biswas
The first radio dramatisation of Nobel Prize-winning author VS Naipaul's masterpiece. 1/2. Set in Trinidad, the drama describes the life of an ordinary Hindu man struggling to overcome circumstances and fulfil his destiny. Unfortunately, his main obstacle is his formidable mother-in-law. Narrator ...... Rudolph Walker, Mohun Biswas ...... Nitin Ganatra, Shama ...... Nina Wadia, Mrs Tulsi ...... Leena Dhingra, Seth ...... Madhav Sharma, Alec ...... Victor Romero Evans, Govind ...... Jim Findley, Maclean ...... Stefan Kalipha, Sushila ...... Inika Leigh Wright, Bipt ...... Angela Wynter, Tara ...... Yvonne Brewster, Anand ...... Jonathan Bishop. Dramatised for radio by Brian Wright. Producer Pam Fraser-Solomon.

27 Mar: The Man who Built Tunnels
By Natalia Power. Alec McCowen and Emma Fielding star in a haunting play of unrequited love - in which the 79-year-old Duke of Portland receives a visitation from a once-famous opera singer. The Duke ...... Alec McCowen, Adelaide ...... Emma Fielding , John Hargreaves ...... Anthony Glennon , Lodge-Keeper ...... Stephen Critchlow, Wheatley ...... Kim Wall , Maisie ...... Ella Smith . Director Martin Jenkins.

28 Mar: The Room
By Paul Brennen. Rash and Doxa can't get into the room. Inside, people are gathered; outside the two men struggle with the door and their own demons as they try to gain entry. What's happening in the room and what's preventing them from getting in? Doxa ...... Mark Benton, Rash ...... Ron Cook, The Mother ...... Joyce Gibbs. Additional Music Pippa Murphy. Director Philip Howard.

29 Mar: Run for Home
By Carol Willis. Recently widowed Marie and her estranged daughter Joni decide to train for the Run for Life. Marie has no idea that the good cause she is supporting will become so directly relevant to her and her loved ones. Marie ...... Brigit Forsyth, Joni ...... Jill Halfpenny, Luke ...... Rod Matthew, Jack ...... Kevin Doyle. Director Polly Thomas.

30 Mar: Elevenses with Twiggy
Twiggy stars as herself in Simon Farquhar's poignant new play. 'There's folk going to the moon and I can't even shift myself as far as Aberdeen'. The 1960s are nearly over and young Jackie Addison is running out of time if he's going to make it south to Swinging London. Jackie ...... Barry McGee, Joesy ...... Stephen McGill, Morag/Laura Ann ...... Meg Faragher , Father ...... Iain Macrae, Mrs Cowie/receptionist ...... Aline Mowat, Kenny/Tailor ...... Jon Glover, Samuel Daish/Ritz security man ...... Simon Day.

31 Mar: To Be a Pilgrim
By Rachel Joyce. Maureen believes Harold hasn't got up out of the chair since he retired six months earlier. But one day, the tired man opens a letter - and everything changes. Harold ...... Anton Rodgers, Maureen ...... Anna Massey, Queenie ...... Niamh Cusack. Producer/Director Tracey Neale.

1 Apr: The Saturday Play - Look Back In Anger
A season of groundbreaking plays to mark the 50th anniversary of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court. 1/6. John Osborne's classic play was singled out as the 'best young play of its decade' by critic Kenneth Tynan went on to claim its place as a major turning point in British Theatre. Its central character, Jimmy Porter, first burst across the stage in May 1956, both shocking and charming his audiences - the original incarnation of the angry young man. The play is set in the Midlands, in the mid 1950s, and charts the cruel but passionate relationship between Jimmy and his young wife Alison, as the pair struggle for survival in a destructive relationship. Jimmy Porter ...... Ben Whishaw, Cliff Lewis ...... Grant O'Rourke, Alison Porter ...... Samantha Young, Helena Charles ...... Frances Grey, Colonel Redfern ...... Gareth Thomas.

2 Apr: Classic Serial - A House for Mr Biswas
The first radio dramatisation of Nobel Prize-winning author VS Naipaul's masterpiece. 2/2. Set in Trinidad, the drama describes the life of an ordinary Hindu man struggling to overcome circumstances and fulfil his destiny. Unfortunately, his main obstacle is his formidable mother-in-law. Narrator ...... Rudolph Walker, Mohun Biswas ...... Nitin Ganatra, Shama ...... Nina Wadia, Mrs Tulsi ...... Leena Dhingra, Seth ...... Madhav Sharma, Alec ...... Victor Romero Evans, Govind ...... Jim Findley, Owad ...... Richard Sumitro, Sushila ...... Inika Leigh Wright, Burnett ...... Kim Wall, Logie ...... Elizabeth Bell, Anand ...... Jonathan Bishop. Dramatised for radio by Brian Wright. Producer Pam Fraser-Solomon.

3 Apr: McLevy
By David Ashton. Adventures from the casebook of Victorian Edinburgh's most idiosyncratic detective. 1/4. A Piece of Cake The celebrated chef Pierre-Henri Escaffre is the toast of the city. Only McLevy is immune from gastronomic temptation. Which is just as well, since burglary and murder are about to make an appearance on the menu. McLevy ...... Brian Cox, Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond, Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell, Roach ...... David Ashton, Tom Menzies ...... Sean Scanlan, Pierre-Henri ...... Paul Blair, Mary ...... Vicki Liddelle, Joseph ...... Bryan Lowe. Director Patrick Rayner.

4 Apr: In the Garden
By Martin Shea, James O'Neill and Martin O'Neill. Abrasive academic Edward Rose is rushed to hospital with pains in his chest. After a series of tests, he is shocked to discover his heart has moved and is in the wrong place. Edward ...... Antony Sher, Sarah ...... Emma Clarke, Michael ...... Lloyd Peters , Andrew/The Doctor ...... Malcolm Raeburn , Maureen/Female Student ...... Julia Rounthwaite . Director Gary Brown.

5 Apr: The Accident
Drama set in a railway signal box at night in the west of England in the early 1960s, involving a signalman and his daughter. With Richard Bremmer, Eleanor Tremain, Frances Barber, Kerry Shale and David Bradley. Director Tim Dee.

6 Apr: The Man Who Mistook His Life for an Organiser
By Mike Harris. The disastrously comic tale of what happens when technology takes over one man's life. Cynthia ...... Emma Gregory, Della/Pat ..... Rebecca Saire, Nigel ...... Nicholas Murchie, Margot ...... Deborah Findlay, Ralph ...... Philip Jackson.

7 Apr: The Mecklington Miracle
By Hannah and Rachael McGill. A big conspiracy comes to a small town in this light-hearted comedy. The town's local hero hasn't stepped out of her house for years until Pedro arrives from Colombia determined to make a miracle happen in Mecklington. Lisa ...... Christine Bottomley, Jessica/Maria ...... Charlie Hayes, Barry ..... Martin Hyder, Darren ...... Andrew Mayer, Pedro ..... David Sant. Director Lu Kemp.

8 Apr: The Saturday Play - Roots
A season of groundbreaking plays to mark the 50th anniversary of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court. 2/6. Arnold Wesker's 1959 semi-autobiographical masterpiece set in rural Norfolk. The central play of the famous Trilogy, Roots tells the story of Beatie Bryant, a young woman returning from London to her native village. Her eyes have been opened to a wider world by her intellectual Jewish boyfriend, Ronnie, and she gathers together the whole family to welcome him to her home. Norfolk actress Eleanor Tremain takes the role created by Joan Plowright, with Susan Wooldridge as Mrs Bryant. Wesker, the perennial outsider of British theatre, was knighted in the New Year's Honours. Jenny Beales ...... Poppy Miller, Jimmy Beales ...... Danny Webb, Beatie Bryant ...... Eleanor Tremain, Stan Mann ...... David Bradley, Mrs Bryant ...... Susan Wooldridge, Mr Bryant ...... David Troughton, Mr Healey ...... Mark Carey, Frankie Bryant ...... Jez Thomas, Pearl Bryant ...... Patience Tomlinson. Director Peter Leslie Wild.

9 Apr: Classic Serial - The Code of the Woosters
By PG Wodehouse, dramatised by Judith French. 1/2. Bertie Wooster's old pal Gussie Fink-Nottle parts from his fiancée Madeline, and appeals for Bertie's help to mend the rift. Will Bertie rush to his aid, despite the fact that Madeline believes Bertie to be in love with her? Bertie Wooster ...... Marcus Brigstocke, Jeeves ...... Andrew Sachs, Aunt Dahlia ...... Carolyn Pickles, Madeline Bassett ...... Flaminia Cinque, Sir Watkyn Bassett ...... Jon Glover, Roderick Spode ...... Jack Klaff, Gussie Fink-Nottle ...... Jeremy Swift, Stephanie 'Stiffy' Byng ...... Tracy Wiles, Harold 'Stinker' Pinker ...... Kim Wall, Constable Oates ...... Anthony Glennon. Original music by David Pickvance. Producer/director Jonquil Panting.

10 Apr: McLevy
By David Ashton. Adventures from the casebook of Victorian Edinburgh's most idiosyncratic detective. 2/4. The Sea Change The fair is in town, and the star attraction is undoubtedly the strange and beautiful Little Mermaid. Even McLevy is not immune to her watery charms, but he can't rid himself of the feeling that somewhere, somehow, misdeeds are afoot. McLevy ...... Brian Cox, Collette ...... Shirley Henderson, Renny ...... Steven McNicoll, Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond, Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell, Roach ...... David Ashton, Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil, Mattie ...... Wendy Seager, Telfer ...... Simon Tait. Director Patrick Rayner.

11 Apr: Mustard Seed
By Nick Warburton. A traveller passing through a remote village finds himself at the centre of a desperate request. A deserted mother implores him to cure her only son. A beautiful, touching story based on a Buddhist fable. The Traveller ...... Jim Norton, Katherine ...... Emma Fielding, Robert ...... Stephen Hogan. Director Peter Kavanagh.

12 Apr: Stan
By Neil Brand. Set in August 1957, Tom Courtenay takes on the role of Stan Laurel in a poignant and powerful farewell to Oliver Hardy. As death finally threatens to separate the greatest double act in film comedy, Stan tries to say the things which have been left unsaid. Stan ...... Tom Courtenay, Ollie ...... Ewan Bailey, Woman ...... Barbara Barnes, Uncle Cecil ...... Ed Bishop. Director Ned Chaillet.

13 Apr: Sam O'Bedlam
By Mark Burgess. On the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth, this play offers an insight into the great playwright's inspiration for Waiting for Godot, as we find Beckett celebrating his 70th birthday. Samuel Beckett ...... Jim Norton, Geoffrey Thompson ...... Dermot Crowley, Younger Beckett ...... Stephen Hogan, Younger Thompson ...... Andrew Scott, Ursula ...... Alison Pettitt, Michael ......Grant Jones. Director David Blount.

14 Apr: Talking to Ted
By Tim Clark, adapted for radio by Dave Cohen. One evening, stand-up comic Ray Richards finds himself alone in a Manchester hotel room before a gig, talking to the teddy bear which his daughter has left in his car. As the drama unfolds, we discover how Ray juggles his two lives and his two lovers and how he finally deals with his demons. Ray ...... Les Dennis, Linda ...... Doon Mackichan, Brian ...... Simon Bligh, Lavinia ...... Mel Hudson, Bronwen ...... Emma Kennedy , Marvin ...... Matthew Holness , Adam ...... Tim Clark, Announcer ...... Geoff McGivern, Charlie ...... Felix Still, Molly ...... Julia Dunn. Producer Simon Nicholls.

15 Apr: -The Saturday Play - The Sea
A season of groundbreaking plays to mark the 50th anniversary of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court. By Edward Bond. Play 3 of 6. 1907 - a young man drowns off the east coast of England. For some, this is a simple tragedy; for others, a sign that aliens are invading. Madness and amateur dramatics compete in Edward Bond's comedy set on the path to redemption. Willy Carson ...... Bertie Carvel, Evens ...... David Bradley, Hatch ...... Philip Glenister, Mrs Rafi ...... Cheryl Campbell, Mrs Tilehouse ...... Kathryn Pogson, Hollarcut ...... Anthony Glennon, Carter ...... Don McCorkindale, Thompson ...... Kim Wall, Rose ...... Anna Maxwell Martin, Mafanwy Price ...... Manon Edwards, Jilly ...... Tracy Wiles, Rachel ...... Ella Smith, Vicar ...... Thomas Wheatley. Helen Crayford (piano), Alison Hindell (director).

16 Apr: Classic Serial - The Code of the Woosters
By PG Wodehouse, dramatised by Judith French. 2/2. Bertie Wooster's strict adherence to The Code of the Woosters (Never Let a Pal Down) has lured him and Jeeves to cursed Totleigh Towers. Bertie's limited brain power now has to reunite two pairs of estranged lovers, and run a criminal errand for his aunt, using only a silver cow-creamer and a small leather-bound notebook. All this while narrowly avoiding marriage, imprisonment and physical disability, thanks to the genius of Jeeves. Bertie Wooster ...... Marcus Brigstocke, Jeeves ...... Andrew Sachs, Stephanie 'Stiffy' Byng ...... Tracy Wiles, Gussie Fink-Nottle ...... Jeremy Swift, Aunt Dahlia ...... Carolyn Pickles, Madeline Bassett ...... Flaminia Cinque, Sir Watkyn Bassett ...... Jon Glover, Roderick Spode ...... Jack Klaff, Harold 'Stinker' Pinker ...... Kim Wall, Constable Oates ...... Anthony Glennon. Original music by David Pickvance. Producer/director Jonquil Panting.

17 Apr: McLevy
By David Ashton. Adventures from the casebook of Victorian Edinburgh's most idiosyncratic detective. 3/4. Sins of the Fathers A runaway bridegroom and a vicious blackmailer bring double trouble for McLevy and deadly danger for Constable Mulholland. Meanwhile, over at Edinburgh's premier bawdy house, Jean Brash is about to receive a visitor who will turn her life upside down. McLevy ...... Brian Cox, Marshall ...... Tom Fleming, Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond, Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell, Roach ...... David Ashton, Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil, Bellamy ...... Ron Donachie, Mrs Sheridan ...... Eliza Langland, Sheridan ...... Jim Webster-Stewart. Director Patrick Rayner.

18 Apr: Just One More Day
By Pat Davis. An atmospheric, magical play about family, resentment and love in which a woman is briefly reunited with her late mother. Grace ...... Barbara Jefford, Sally ...... Cheryl Campbell, Emma ...... Emma Wachter, Young Gracie ...... Ellen Howard, Woman/nurse ...... Elizabeth Bell. Director Marc Beeby.

19 Apr: Odd
By Robert Shearman. Michael Harris feels he's been wasting all his precious words writing commercials. Then at breakfast, his wife asks him to pass the spanner. Overnight every word in the English language seems to have changed its meaning and soon there's only one person left in the world who understands him: his secretary. A fable about words and the tricks they can play. Michael ...... Michael Simkins , Heather ...... Finty Williams, Priscilla ...... Serena Evans , Policeman ...... Jon Glover. Director Rosalind Ayres. Producer Martin Jarvis.

20 Apr: May Child
By Elizabeth Kuti. On Margaret's 67th birthday, an uninvited guest calls who shares the same birthday. The teenager, May, seems to know more about Margaret's life than she should. So who is she and what does she really want? Margaret ...... Patricia Routledge , May ...... Emily Fleeshman , Ron ...... Roy Hudd . Producer/director Tanya Nash.

21 Apr: Signs and Wonders
By Frankie Bailey. When Guy's wife leaves him, he flees to London, where an encounter with an unusual young woman makes him question his whole life so far. Guy ...... Keith Barron, Jessica ...... Emily Woof, Elaine ...... Lizzie McInnerny, Student ...... Paul Panting, Old Man ...... David Shaw-Parker, Doctor ...... Beth Chalmers.

22 Apr: The Saturday Play - Top Girls
A season of groundbreaking plays to mark the 50th anniversary of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court. Play 4 of 6. By Caryl Churchill. This landmark play examines the political costs of women rising to the top, written shortly after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister. Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of Top Girls employment agency. Her guests are five women from history who each tell their individual stories of emancipation and oppression. Marlene ...... Emma Fielding, Isabella ...... Brigit Forsyth, Nijo ...... Naoko Mori, Dull Gret ...... Saskia Mulder, Pope Joan ...... Sheila Hancock, Griselda ...... Olwen May , Joyce ...... Helen McCrory, Angie ...... Emily Chennery , Kit ...... Lulu Popplewell, Nell ...... Nikki Amuka Bird , Win ...... Claire Rushbrook, Jeanine ...... Elianne Byrne, Louise ...... Siobhan Finneran , Mrs Kidd ...... Julia Rounthwaite , Shona ...... Rina Mahoney . Original music by Dominique Le Gendre. Director Nadia Molinari.

23 Apr: Classic Serial - Dead Souls
By Nikolay Gogol, dramatised by Dan Rebellato. A comic tour de force about human folly and one of the jewels of Russian literature, starring Michael Palin and Mark Heap. 1/2. Charmer Chichikov arrives in town with his narrator in tow, and starts touting for dead souls. Why? What is he going to do with them? Suspicions come to a head at the Governor's Ball, the highlight of provincial Russian society. Narrator ...... Michael Palin, Chichikov ...... Mark Heap, Manilov ...... David Fleeshman, Korabochka ...... Judith Davis, Sobakevich ...... Wyllie Longmore, Nozdryov ...... Toby Hadoke, Selifan ...... Graeme Hawley. Sound design by Steve Brooke. Director Polly Thomas.

24 Apr: McLevy
By David Ashton. Adventures from the casebook of Victorian Edinburgh's most idiosyncratic detective. 4/4. The Devil's Disguise Leith is facing an outbreak of street robbery, with wallets being plundered at razor-point. It is also Hallowe'en and as the Devil comes-a-calling, McLevy has to face one of the hardest decisions of his life. McLevy ...... Brian Cox, Marshall ...... Tom Fleming, Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond, Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell, Roach ...... David Ashton, Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil, Carne ...... Paul Young, Paton ...... Simon Donaldson, Beth ...... Laura Smales. Director Patrick Rayner.

25 Apr: How to Live
Performance artist Bobby Baker invites us to join her in the consulting room, where with the help of a patient, she guides us through her self-help therapies. Music and patient participation is provided by Jocelyn Pook, with Melanie Pappenheim, Harvey Brough and Will Gressford.

26 Apr: Teddy and Toad
By Jerome Vincent. The true story of how President 'Teddy' Roosevelt got The Wind in the Willows published in America - where it achieved initial success. Kenneth Grahame ...... Bill Paterson, 'Teddy' Roosevelt ...... Vincent Marzello, Constance Smedley ...... Clare Corbett, Curtis Brown ...... Jonathan Tafler, Chief ...... John Evitts, Questor ...... Chris Stanton, Malloy ...... David Jarvis, Alistair ...... Alfred Chambers, Quentin ...... Spencer Hodge. Director David Blount.

27 Apr: Mind Out
By Jonathan Myerson. You don't have to be mad to go into therapy - but it helps. A whole family are undergoing self-help cognitive therapy; without admitting it to each other. Dad is back on the wagon, Mum seems to be sliding into depression and Daughter is becoming ever more anxious. But will the therapist inside their head take over their lives? Voice ...... Lucy Robinson, The Father ...... Philip Jackson, The Mother ...... Maggie O'Neil, The Daughter ...... Beverly Rudd. Director Clive Brill.

28 Apr: Norman
By Mike Stott, starring Johnny Vegas. Norman is a man who has learned how to live on the margins of society, without bitterness, pride or a single direct debit. Director Bruce Hyman.

29 Apr: The Saturday Play - Rat in the Skull
A season of groundbreaking plays to mark the 50th anniversary of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court. Play 5 of 6: By Ron Hutchinson. After a week's interrogation at Paddington Green, Roche - an IRA suspect - is ready to make a statement. But then Nelson, a star interrogator from the RUC arrives, and things go seriously wrong. The play was first performed at The Royal Court Theatre in 1984. Harris ...... Ron Cook, Roche ...... Conleth Hill, Naylor ...... Paul Panting, Nelson ...... Gerard McSorley. Producer/Director Eoin O'Callaghan.

30 Apr: Classic Serial - Dead Souls
By Nikolay Gogol, dramatised by Dan Rebellato. A comic tour de force about human folly, starring Michael Palin and Mark Heap. 2/2. In disgrace, Chichikov is arrested but escapes with the narrator's help to another part of Russia. He at last seems determined to make a fresh start and become an honest man. However, his past is about to catch up with him. Narrator ...... Michael Palin, Chichikov ...... Mark Heap, Tenteknikov ...... Toby Hadoke, Kostanzhoglo ...... David Fleeshman, Korabochka ...... Judith Davis, Koshkaryov ...... Wyllie Longmore, Selifan ...... Graeme Hawley, Ulinka ...... Rina Mahoney. Sound design by Steve Brooke. Director Polly Thomas.

1 May: Nine Days in May
By Robin Glendinning. Recalling the turbulent events within the fledgling British Broadcasting Company, led by John Reith, during the nine days of the General Strike in May 1926. John Reith ...... Stuart McQuarrie , Stanley Baldwin ...... Bill Wallis , Winston Churchill ...... Alex Jennings, Peter Eckersley ...... Adam Levy, JCC Davidson ...... Nicholas Boulton, Archbishop of Canterbury ...... Geoffrey Whitehead, Newsreel Voice ...... Sam Kelly, BBC Newsreader ...... Peter Donaldson , Ramsay MacDonald ...... Christian Rodska , Muriel Reith ...... Alison Reid . Producer Gordon House.

2 May: The Nature of the Beast
By Richard Hurford. In the middle of a besieged city, a zoo faces a death sentence. As the enemy closes in, Nat has orders to destroy the few remaining animals. But when they begin to speak to him, can he bring himself to do it? Nat ...... Robert Pickavance, Pushkin/Len ...... Deka Walmsley, Rosa/Jess ...... Kerry Peers, Butterball/Ava ...... Holly Nichol, Bert/Zoo Director ...... Russell Dixon, Gordon/Father ...... Geoffrey Wilkinson. Original music by Andy Burton. Director Nadia Molinari.

3 May: A Brief Interruption
By Ben Steiner, starring Tom Courtenay as God. A rather neglected, weary and careworn God bemoans some of the day to day frustrations of being The Supreme Being. For some time God has been meaning to speak directly to people and after some trial and error with various knobs, he manages to break into the BBC Afternoon Play where he settles down with a cup of tea to try to resolve a few things. His train of thought is interrupted by faxes, and one of them catches his eye. Before he knows it, he is telling us about what happened to a little girl and her cat that she never let out of her sight.

4 May: Harpo Goes to Leningrad
By Lee Pressman. Based on the true story of Harpo Marx's 1933 tour of Russia. Misunderstood as a comic, arrested as a terrorist, and enlisted as a spy, Harpo finds himself alone in a strange country, with only his burly female minder for company. Harpo ...... Garrick Hagon, Woollcott ...... Philip Voss, Bullitt ...... William Hope, Malekinov ...... Sarah Badel, Captain/Vasiliev...... Ian Masters, Director/Chico ...... Simon Treves, Groucho/Colonel ...... Keith Drinkel, Reporter/Agent 2 ...... Ian Shaw, Inspector/Bukin/Agent 1 ...... Sam Dale, Dorothy Parker/Ponomarkenko ...... Rachel Atkins. Director Celia De Wolff.

5 May: Resurrecting Schubert
Drama documentary by Nicholas McInerny, with commentary by Levon Chilingirian. As a young girl, Katarina nursed the dying Schubert. On his deathbed, he asked to hear Beethoven's String Quartet in C sharp m. A Quartet duly arrived and played this mysterious music at the foot of his bed. Schubert died five days later, but for Katarina, the memory of the music lived on. i Schubert ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt, Katarina ...... Barbara Flynn, Matthias ...... Simon Chandler, Young Katarina ...... Cathy Sara. Music played by the Coull String Quartet. Director Rosie Boulton.

6 May: The Saturday Play - Home
By David Storey. A season of groundbreaking plays to mark the 50th anniversary of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court. First staged in 1970, Storey's play was a major critical success. It's a poignant, often darkly funny play, which looks at the lives of five people - but who are they and where are they? Harry ...... Michael Maloney, Jack ...... Adrian Scarborough, Kathleen ...... Julia McKenzie, Marjorie ...... Lindsey Coulson, Alfred ...... Harry Myers. Adapted for radio and directed by Martin Jenkins.

7 May: Classic Serial - Kipps
By HG Wells, dramatised by Mike Walker. 1/2. Raised in the respectable gloom of his uncle's shop and looking forward to a career of unremitting drapery, Artie Kipps finds his life changed by an astonishing bit of luck after being hit by a runaway bicycle. Arthur Kipps ...... Bryan Dick, Uncle ...... Donald Sumpter, Aunt ...... Deborah Findlay, Helen Walsingham ...... Lesley Vickerage, Shalford ...... Jonathan Keeble, Chitterlow ...... Robert Whitelock, Young Arthur ...... Myles Taylor, Young Sid ...... Jordan Clarke, Young Ann ...... Megan Jones. Producer/director John Taylor.

8 May: Macmorris
By John Morrison. Comic fantasy, in which some of the minor characters in Shakespeare's canon have decided that they want bigger and better parts. A rebellion is led by Capt Macmorris from Henry V, the only Irish character in the whole body of Shakespeare's work. Macmorris ...... Gerard McSorley, Jamie ...... Gerard Kelly, Fluellen ...... Alan David, Gower ...... Jeremy Child, Shakespeare ...... David Schofield, His servant ...... David Holt, Iago ...... Philip Fox, Juliet's Nurse ...... Jillie Meers, Yorick ...... Jon Glover, Henry V ...... Damian Lynch. Director Tanya Nash.

9 May: Connecting
A series of plays about the impact of communication and information technology on our lives.

2/4. Call Waiting
By Katie Hims. Carol is worried. Her husband Phil has been sent to Uzbekistan by his company - a communications technology firm based in Reading - and she can't get in touch with him. What has happened to him? What exactly is the nature of the job he's doing in Uzbekistan, and how much does his company know about his disappearance? Is the government representative telling her the truth? When Carol does finally hear from Phil, in a text message, all it says is 'Help me'. As Carol desperately tries to find answers, it seems that instant communication across the world is simply a cruel illusion.

10 May: Connecting - 3/4. Last Call
By Mike Walker. Sara is head of PR, in line for a directorship if she can prove herself with the company's plans to expand in Africa. But first she's got to handle a problem with the firm's contract in Uzbekistan. Sara begins to suspect the company could be involved in some sinister ways of using its technological know-how. She has to decide where her loyalties lie. Sara ...... Su-Lin Looi, Gray ...... Patrick Bridgman, Tim ...... Oliver J Hembrough, Richard ...... Mark Meadows, Carol ...... Lisa Coleman, Patrick ...... Robert Gwilym, Herrenvolk ...... Paul Humpoletz. Director Mary Ward Lowery.

11 May: Connecting - 4/4. Network Failure
By Sarah Woods. Ian is on his first trip to Africa, his work in IT is sending him as a trainer to a media-centre in a village outside Maputo in Mozambique. He is keen to help, but not really prepared for what he finds. Ian ...... David Birrell, Martha ...... Sonia Pateguana Pinto Romao, Orlando ...... Jorge Clemente, Matilde ...... Denise de Castro, Sebastio ...... Higino Octavio, Sara ...... Su-Lin Looi, Ndindazi ...... Nathemba Sambo, Young man ...... Fred Ezekiel Dias. Director Tim Dee.

12 May: Migrant Memory
By Samina Baig. An autobiographical play following the writer's journey to the heart of grief and remembrance after the loss of her older sister. Compelled by the shock of death, Samina searches through her memories of sisterhood, her dreams and family photographs, to give a moving account of life and death in her community in Britain. Samina ...... Nina Wadia, Sabiha ...... Shaheen Khan, Mum ...... Leena Dhingra, Dad ...... Paul Bhattacharjee, Uncle ...... Kriss Dosanjh, Martyn ...... Kim Wall, Photographer ...... Anthony Glennon, Maxine ...... Tracy Wiles, Mrs Roberts ....... Elizabeth Bell, Samina, child ...... Sara Velmi-Gardner, Shela, child ....... Anisha Patel. Director Pam Fraser-Solomon.

13 May: The Saturday Play - Shell Shocked
By Gregory Burke. The story of two brothers who are separated in the trenches of the First World War and whose lives take very different paths. Tommy ...... John Buick , Mr Leitch ...... Angus McInnes , Mr Macleod ...... Paul Young , Pat ...... John Kielty , Major Munro/Lord Bruce ...... Richard Greenwood , Billy/Doctor ...... Jordan Young . Director Gaynor Macfarlane.

14 May: Classic Serial - Kipps
By H.G Wells, dramatised by Mike Walker. 2/2. For the sake of Helen, Artie Kipps tries to adapt himself to the alien rite of a Folkestone anagram tea, where an unexpected encounter shatters everything. Arthur Kipps ...... Bryan Dick, Helen Walsingham ...... Lesley Vickerage, Mrs Walsingham ...... Deborah Findlay, Ann ...... Sinead Matthews, Coote ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt, Chitterlow ...... Robert Whitelock, Sid ...... Simon Balfour, Uncle ...... Donald Sumpter. Producer/director John Taylor.

15 May: Cemetery Confessions
Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris was opened 200 years ago this month, and to mark the anniversary, five of its most illustrious residents make their confessions to Father Lachaise, who has his own confession to make. Sarah Bernhardt ...... Eleanor Bron (by Louise Welsh), Guillaume Apollinaire ...... Michael Fenton Stevens (by Martin Sorrell), Abelard and Heloise ...... Hugh Dickson and Anna Massey (by Paul Bailey), Colette ...... Zoe Wanamaker (by Michele Roberts), Jim Morrison ...... Demetri Goritsas (by Geoff Dyer), Pere Lachaise ...... Bill Nighy (by Martin Sorrell). Director Sara Davies.

16 May: Columbus, the Bones of the Story
By Robin Glendinning. To mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Christopher Columbus, an imaginative look at this great historical figure told from the perspective of his bones, which are believed to have been moved five times after the Great Admiral's burial. Head ...... Nickolas Grace, Knee ...... Geoffrey Beevers, Big Toe ...... Keith Allen, Queen Isabella ...... Joanna David, Historian ...... Gary Waldhorn, Anacaona ...... Jacey Salles, Confessor ...... Miche Doherty, Captain ...... Simon Imrie, Officer ...... Kevin Jackson. Producer/director Gemma McMullan.

17 May: The Child that Books Built
By Francis Spufford. Francis recalls his voracious childhood reading habit and the family drama that lay behind it. In this adaptation of his memoir, he hears again the stories that once filled his head and helped to build his character. Mother ...... Sylvestra Le Touzel, Father ...... Jonathan Keeble, Young Francis ...... Harry Blumenau, Teenage Francis ...... Jack Blumenau, Sister ...... Brooke Theis.

18 May: An Interlude of Men
By Lesley Bruce. Bren and Hilly have been lifelong friends, so when Hilly breaks her wrist, Bren comes to help her out. They both anticipate the pleasure of long days together - comfortably trashing the years they were apart, that interlude of men - but their friendship is not that simple. Bren ...... Deborah Findlay, Hilly ...... Barbara Flynn. Director Steven Canny. Producer Claire Grove.

19 May: Daunt and Dervish
Comedy thrillers by Guy Meredith. 1/5. In Questionable Shape. London 1947, and the Daunt and Dervish detective agency is back in business. As the lights come on again in London's theatreland, a visit to the Old Vic sets off a mystery to rival what's happening on stage. Josephine Daunt ...... Anna Massey, Susan Dervish ...... Frances Barber, Bill Mackie ...... Sean Scanlan, Ronald Calloway ...... Geoffrey Whitehead, Noel Coward ...... Nicholas Boulton, 'Waterloo' Eddie Reed ...... Kim Wall, Kate Renshaw ...... Tracy Wiles, Magdalena Pearce ...... Elizabeth Bell, Inspector Braithwaite ...... Thomas Wheatley. Director Colin Guthrie.

20 May: The Saturday Play - Put Money in thy Purse
In 1949, the Irish stage star Micheal MacLiammoir made his cinematic debut as Iago in Orson Welles' Othello. His diary of the process is a hilarious chronicle of chaos, financial crises, endless travel, and flashes of directorial genius. Michael ...... Simon Callow, Orson ...... Don Warrington, Hilton ...... Don McCorkindale, Fay ...... Rachel Atkins, Bob ...... Andrew Wincott, Suzanne ...... Lynne Seymour. Director Alison Hindell.

21 May: Classic Serial - Memento Mori
By Muriel Spark, dramatised by Diana Griffiths. 1/2. Dame Lettie Colston is the first of her circle of friends and relations to be warned by a voice on the telephone 'Remember you must die!' These calls soon become widespread, defying all speculation and the efforts of the police. The caller is variously described by those who hear him as menacing, civil, boyish, sinister. The calls create a considerable stir in the lives of the recipients and serve to intertwine the remaining strands of their failing lives. Godfrey Colston ...... Geoffrey Whitehead, Charmian Colston ...... Marcia Warren, Mrs Mabel Pettigrew ...... Prunella Scales, Dame Lettie Colston ...... Elizabeth Spriggs, Percy Mannering ...... Windsor Davies, Jean Taylor ...... Thelma Barlow, Henry Mortimer ...... Trevor Martin, Guy Leet ...... John Rowe, Mrs Anthony/Tempest ...... Frances Jeater, Olive Mannering/Gwen ...... Tracy Wiles, With Thomas Wheatley, Anthony Glennon and Kim Wall. Director Pauline Harris.

22 May: Bringing Eddie Home
By John Peacock, based on a true story. In 1965, an East End couple receive a telegram telling them that their soldier son, Eddie, has been killed in a swimming accident in Aden. This was the start of a chain of events leading to changes in the law, which would affect all families of the British armed forces. Edna Wallace ...... Edna Dore, Young Edna ...... Tilly Vosburgh, Jack Wallace ..... Bill Treacher, Young Jack ...... Todd Carty, Eddie ...... Joe Absolom, Martin Wallace/Merlyn Rees ...... Sam Dale, Tony Wallace/Colin ...... Mark Homer, Val Wallace/Dorothy Fine ...... Nicola Barber, Aunty Ivy/Carolyn ...... Jane Whittenshaw, Major Ashton ...... Anton Lesser, Priest/Newsreader ...... Ian Masters. Director Celia de Wolff.

23 May: Duty
By Michael Butt. A play to mark the 100th anniversary of Ibsen's death. Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen fears he may have written his last play, until he receives a mysterious letter from a young woman. Henrik Ibsen ...... Geoffrey Whitehead, Susannah Ibsen ...... Elizabeth Bell, Sigurd Ibsen ...... Bertie Carvel, Dr Evard ...... John Rowe, Emilie Bardach ...... Tracy Wiles, Bergliot/Anna ...... Emily Wachter, Boy ...... Tom Fisher. Director Marc Beeby.

24 May: Four Steps to Heaven
By Lloyd Peters. Mild mannered actor Chris Batty wonders whether he can convert to Judaism and win the love of his girlfriend's parents without being circumcised.The answer is probably not but, as Chris discovers, there are deeper wounds to endure than the ultimate threat to his manhood, as family secrets and repressed emotions are unleashed.

25 May: A Long Time Dead
By Sheila Goff. Despite a minor hitch in the proceedings, careful Kath carries on with her planned girlie weekend in Paris with bossy Beatrice. Now she feels free to live a little and really let her hair down. Kath ...... Marion Bailey, Beatrice ...... Linda Marlowe, Geoff ...... Tony Selby, Malcolm ...... Stephen Hogan, Mum ...... Emily Wachter.

26 May: Daunt and Dervish
Comedy thrillers by Guy Meredith. 2/5. Que Reste-t'il de Nos Amours? When asked to act as agents to bid for a Monet at auction, Daunt and Dervish little suspect it will lead them on a trail across the channel and open up some painful memories. Josephine Daunt ...... Anna Massey, Susan Dervish ...... Frances Barber, Bill Mackie ...... Sean Scanlan, Vivienne Brionne ...... Sian Thomas, Hugh Langridge ...... Roger Hammond, Marcel ...... Harry Myers, Andrew White-Evans ...... Thomas Wheatley, Beryl ...... Elizabeth Bell, Leclerc ...... Kim Wall. Director Colin Guthrie.

27 May: The Saturday Play - A Gathering of Old Men
By Ernest Gaines, dramatised by Richard Cameron. Set in 1972 , in Louisiana. A sheriff is summoned to a sugarcane plantation, where he finds one white woman, one dead Cajun farmer and a gathering of old black men, each one toting a shotgun. He is sure he knows who killed the Cajun, but all the men claim guilt and threaten to provoke a riot at the courthouse should the sheriff try to make an arrest. In the meantime, they wait for the lynch mob that the dead man's father is sure to launch. Charlie/Gable ...... Paterson Joseph, Rooster ...... Don Warrington, Clatoo ...... Jeffery Kissoon, Mathu/Rev Jameson ...... Oscar James, Mapes ...... Stuart Milligan, Gil/Griffin ...... Ryan McCluskey, Sully/Fix ...... Kerry Shale, Candy ...... Tracy Wiles , Luke Will ...... Kim Wall. Original music written and arranged by Tyndale Thomas. Producer/Director Pauline Harris.

28 May: Classic Serial - Memento Mori
By Muriel Spark, dramatised by Diana Griffiths. 2/2. Mrs Pettigrew is blackmailing Godfrey, while the mystery telephone caller persists in his warnings of "Remember you must die". These calls soon become widespread, defying all speculation and the efforts of the police. Godfrey Colston ...... Geoffrey Whitehead, Charmian Colston ...... Marcia Warren, Mrs Mabel Pettigrew ...... Prunella Scales, Dame Lettie Colston ...... Elizabeth Spriggs, Percy Mannering ...... Windsor Davies, Jean Taylor ...... Thelma Barlow, Henry Mortimer ...... Trevor Martin, Guy Leet ...... John Rowe, Tony ...... Kim Wall, Bill ...... Anthony Glennon, Mrs Anthony ..... Frances Jeater, Olive Mannering/Gwen ...... Tracy Wiles, Eric ....... Thomas Wheatley. Director Pauline Harris.

29 May: The Wendy House
By Tessa Hadley. Three close friends at a girls' school, Miranda, Jenny and Sarah, are working together in 1970 towards their exams. They meet in the old Wendy House in Jenny's garden, revising and reading to one another from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book, imagining they are Communists, and plotting the overthrow of the grown-ups. In 2005, on her 50th birthday, Miranda has to relive painful and buried memories of something that happened at that time, which ended the innocence of her childhood. Miranda ...... Harriet Walter, Freddie ...... John Telfer , Young Miranda ...... Jasmine Hyde, Sarah ...... Vineeta Rishi , Jenny ...... Eleanor Tremain, Paul ...... Owen Teale. Director Tim Dee.

30 May: Duce's Bonce
By Robin Brooks. By 1956, the Hon Violet Gibson has been in an asylum for over 20 years - and she seems finally to have lost touch with reality. Half the time she doesn't know who the Prime Minister is, and she has this mad idea that she shot Benito Mussolini. Based on a true story. Violet ...... Catherine McCormack, Maggie ...... Maureen Beattie, Dr Francis Shelton ...... Adrian Rawlins, William Joyce ...... Nicholas Woodeson, The Queen of Bohemia ...... Sarah Eedle, Producer/director Fiona McAlpine.

31 May: The Lodsell Cod
By Dan Jamieson. A magical and moving story of two brothers in love with the same girl in 1950s Devon. Granfer ...... Geoffrey Hutchings, Tom ...... Stuart McLoughlin, Ed ..... Carl Grose, Jo ..... Clare Corbett, Den ..... Jonathan Keeble, Knocker ...... Steve Bennett, George ..... Zac Fox, Miss Dewhurst ...... Helen Longworth, Forecaster/Priest ...... Hugh Dickson. Director Marc Beeby.

1 Jul: The Saturday Play - Dr Korczak's Example
By David Greig. Based on the true story of Janusz Korczak, best-selling children's novelist, paediatrician and social experimenter, who set up a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw and ran it as a children's democracy. In the play, when the Nazis close in on Warsaw, Korczak and the children are forced to move into the ghetto - stretching Korczak's pacifist ideals to the limit. But the doctor's values are threatened not only by the Nazi regime but by the arrival of a young Jewish boy who believes in fighting back. Dr Korczak ...... Alexander Morton, Stephanie ...... Vicki Liddelle, Adzio ...... Simon Donaldson, Cerniakow ...... Sandy Neilson, Stepan ...... Anthony Hutcheson , Priest ...... Matthew Zajac, Abraza ...... Ewan Macleod, Tadeusz ...... Fergus Hitchcock , Bruno ...... Finn Hitchcock , Miriam/Zelda ...... Katie Neville , Coco ...... Sarah-Beth Neville, Violinist ...... Daphne Godson . Director Lu Kemp.

2 Jul: Classic Serial - She
By H Rider Haggard, adapted by Hattie Naylor. The 19th century best-seller set in a mysterious African kingdom explores the complex themes of imperial arrogance, sexual obsession, power and isolation that lie behind the high adventure . 1/4. Ludwig Holly and his ward Leo's quest for the truth behind legend of Leo's ancestry takes them to Africa, where they find Ayesha, 2000 years old but beautiful beyond all description, despotically ruling her secret kingdom. Ludwig Holly ...... Tim McInnerny, Leo ...... Oliver Chris, Ayesha ...... Mia Soteriou, Job ...... Howard Coggins, Billali ...... Ben Onwukwe, Amenartas/Ustane ...... Janice Acquah, Vincey ...... Tom Sherman, Agarah ...... Damian Lynch, Young Leo ...... Oliver Baynham. Music composed by Elizabeth Purnell. Director Sara Davies.

3 Jul: Madam Butterfly's Child
By Lesley Ross. Puccini's famous opera, told from the point of view of the second Japanese villager from the left. This is the story of David, an opera extra, as he leaps from one crisis to the next during a performance of Madam Butterfly at the Royal Albert Hall. David ...... Paul Bazely, Lila ...... Carolyn Pickles, Robbie ...... Damian Lynch, Gareth ...... Tim Treloar, Abby ...... Tracy Wiles, Jason ...... Connor Garnett-Comerford. Producer/Director Gemma Jenkins.

4 Jul: The Small Print A comedy by Jerome Vincent in which an ordinary man fights back against the oppressive small print which dominates our lives. Colin Mellish ...... Kim Wall, The Small Print ...... David Timson, Weadle ...... Geoffrey Whitehead, Clara ...... Clare Corbett, Prof Theocharis ...... John Evitts, Michelle ...... Emma Paterson, Ben Crowe ...... Oz. Director David Blount.

5 Jul: Rumpole and the Vanishing Juror
By John Mortimer. Rumpole's admiration for the integrity of the Old Bailey jury is legendary, but in this story he encounters a juror in a murder trial who has a very personal and very dramatic agenda. Horace Rumpole ...... Timothy West, Hilda ...... Prunella Scales, Bonny Bernard ...... Bruce Alexander, Luci Gribble ...... Sophie Thompson, Marcia Brewster ...... Marlene Sidaway, Neville J Skeate ...... David Holt, Adrian Hodinott ...... Sean Baker, Mr Parkin ...... Ewan Bailey, Justice Sloper ...... Ian Masters, Mr Phelps ...... David Shaw-Parker, Christine ...... Hetty Baynes. Director Marilyn Imrie.

6 Jul: Hush Little Baby
By Esther Wilson. An unusual and beguiling play about a girl who has stopped speaking to adults. Beth Armson has a condition known as selective mutism and has not spoken to an adult for almost two years. She's now facing a terrible dilemma: in a couple of days time her family will mark a special day, her beloved brother's 18th birthday. Does this mean the end of Beth's relationship with her brother once he's an adult? Beth Armson ...... Rebecca Ryan, Patrick Armson ...... Paul Simpson, Louise Armson ...... Siobhan Finneran, Greg Armson ...... Kevin Doyle, Spike ...... Michael Ryan, Mrs McGuire ...... Jane Hogarth, Kelly/Chloe ...... O'Malley, Guitarist ...... Colin Warhurst. Director Pauline Harris.

7 Jul: Church Ladies
By Aileen Gonsalves. The church ladies do everything - polish the candlesticks, iron the vestements, arrange the flowers. So when their favourite choirmaster is sacked by the new priest, they are less than impressed. They down tools and go on strike, determined to get Mr Dibfield reinstated. But Father Nick is equally determined to keep him away, favouring the guitar playing Lorraine as a replacement. A fierce battle, testing loyalties as well as vocal chords, ensues. Doreen ...... Kate Binchy , Audrey ...... Rita Davies , Mabel ...... Leena Dhingra , Lorraine ...... Aileen Gonsalves , Mr Dibfield/Bishop ...... Edward Halsted , Gloria ...... Jamilla Massey , Joan ...... Vivienne Moore , Father Nick ...... Andrew Westfield . Director/producer Elizabeth Freestone.

8 Jul: The Haunt of Swans
By Sharon Oakes. A recently widowed young woman retreats to a remote part of Scotland to get away from everything. She finds herself caring for an injured Whooper swan and at the same time falling in love. Fiona ...... Kaye Wragg, Cameron ...... Alex Ferns, Rachel ...... Susan Cookson. Director Pauline Harris.

9 Jul: She
By H Rider Haggard, adapted by Hattie Naylor. The 19th century best-seller set in a mysterious African kingdom explores the complex themes of imperial arrogance, sexual obsession, power and isolation that lie behind the high adventure . 2/2. Ayesha, the queen whose beauty enthrals and terrifies all who see her, believes Leo to be the lover for whom she has waited 2000 years. Ludwig Holly ...... Tim McInnerny, Leo ...... Oliver Chris, Ayesha ...... Mia Soteriou, Job ...... Howard Coggins, Billali ...... Ben Onwukwe, Ustane ...... Janice Acquah, Agarah ...... Damian Lynch. Composed music by Elizabeth Purnell. Director Sara Davies.

10 Jul: Belongings
By Dominique Moloney. Two brothers breaking and entering face an awkward dilemma when they find the wife of their intended victim dead, with a suicide note by her side. Michael ...... Conleth Hill, Gerry ...... Nick Danan, Audrey ...... Cathy Belton, Carl ...... Mark Lambert.

11 Jul: Star Man
By Alastair Jessiman. On a visit home to Glasgow for his father's funeral, Tom's thoughts go back to 1974. As a 15-year-old schoolboy, he was fascinated by stars - astronomical stars in the night sky, glamorous rock-stars like David Bowie, and would-be local stars like the charismatic and sexually ambiguous Danny, who he meets one day on the bus. Tom (40) ...... Paul Young, Tom (15) ...... William Barlow, Tom's father ...... Finlay Welsh, Tom's mother ...... Carol Ann Crawford, Danny ...... John Kielty, Steve ...... Michael Stewart, Pork ...... Steven Cree.

12 Jul: Rumpole Redeemed
By John Mortimer. Horace Rumpole solves the conundrum of an ex con who seems to have been redeemed, and one who evidently hasn't. In passing, he also bestows redemption on several of his associates who, in various preposterous ways, are in dire need of it. Horace Rumpole ...... Timothy West, Hilda ...... Prunella Scales, Luci Gribble ...... Sophie Thompson, Bonny Bernard ...... Bruce Alexander, Claude Erskine-Brown ...... Nigel Anthony, Archie Prosser/Lord Crane ...... Nicholas Le Prevost, Brian Skidmore ...... Karl Howman, Chirpy Molloy ...... Stephen Critchlow, Brenda Heygate ...... Frances Jeater, Lady Sloper ...... Richenda Carey. Director Marilyn Imrie.

13 Jul: Heft Like the Herdwick
By Red Sky Writers. When Katie is forced to return home to deal with a family crisis, she is unprepared for the life changing discoveries that await her - and embarks on an uncomfortable journey to discover who she is and where she really belongs. Katie ...... Emma Atkins , Thomas ...... David Hargreaves , Bridget ...... Denise Black , Rob ...... Neil Ashton , Sally ...... Emma Rydal.

14 Jul: Kaffir Lilies
By Sue Eckstein. When the dashing young Charles Middleton arrives in Nigeria in 1929, he strikes up an immediate friendship with Louisa, a married woman. Louisa begins to believe that Charles must be in love with her - but his diary entries reveal a different story. Charles ...... Matthew Pidgeon , Young Louisa ...... Candida Benson, Old Louisa ...... Edith Macarthur, Edward ...... Michael Mackenzie , Musa ...... Damian Lynch , Vera ...... Joanna Tope . Producer/director Bruce Young.

15 Jul: The Saturday Play Honour
By Joanna Murray-Smith. Emotionally charged drama of a marriage and its fall-out. Recorded for Radio 4 during its West End run. Honor ...... Diana Rigg , George ...... Martin Jarvis , Claudia ...... Natascha McElhone , Sophie ...... Georgina Rich.

16 Jul: Classic Serial - The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco's enigmatic murder mystery charts seven fateful days in the life of a medieval abbey in Italy. 1/2. As monks from all over Europe gather to resolve the power struggle between the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, a young monk is found dead. The Abbot fears either murder or witchcraft, and asks William of Baskerville to investigate. William of Baskerville ...... David Hayman, Old Adso ...... Andrew Sachs, Young Adso ...... Nick Underwood , Abbot ...... Crawford Logan, Jorge ...... Jim Norton , Bernard Gui ...... Christian Rodska, Severinus ...... Brian Pettifer , Nicholas ...... Sean Scanlan , Malachi ...... Neil McKinven, Salvatore ...... Mark McDonnell , Berengar ...... Cara Kelly , Benno ...... John Kielty , Adelmo ...... John Paul Hurley , Venantius ...... Simon Tait. Producer/director Bruce Young.

17 Jul: Marcia Sproule
By Christopher Fitz-Simon. With the Luftwaffe bombing Belfast and evacuees fleeing westwards in her direction, Marcia's key concern is to ensure she is assigned 'a better of class of family'. But in war, things rarely turn out as planned. Marcia Sproule ...... Stella McCusker, Albert Sproule ...... John Hewitt, Rev Dalkeith ...... Miche Doherty, Mr Turner ...... Mark Lambert, Major Brunskill ...... Richard Howard, Prudence ...... Aine McCartney, Hilde Sundgaard ...... Helen Koch-Cooper , Miss McNaughten ...... Julia Dearden.

18 Jul: Mapping the Heart
By Beatrice Colin.
An adventure story set in 1950, in the rainforest of Brazil. Scots-born Kristina Morrison is thrown together with opinionated American, Ray Epstein, when their light aircraft crashes in the jungle. Kristina finds herself torn between two men - Ray and her explorer father, Felix, via the diary of his failed expedition 25 years before. Kristina Morrison ...... Gayanne Potter, Ray Epstein ...... Stuart Milligan, Miss Spence/Brazilian woman ...... Monica Gibb, Fred/Mr Hugo ...... Paul Young, Felix Morrison ...... Lewis Howden. Director Gaynor Macfarlane.

19 Jul: Rumpole and the Teenage Werewolf
By John Mortimer. Rumpole leaves London to defend a case in the Home Counties, where he meets up with Ben - a teenager accused of sending emails deemed to be sexually harassing, and of an actual physical attack on a girl. Horace Rumpole ...... Timothy West, Hilda ...... Prunella Scales, Hermione Swithin ...... Felicity Montagu, Mr Beazley ...... Nicholas Le Prevost, Chris Swithin ...... Philip Jackson, Ben Swithin ...... Matt Smith, Judge Denis Wintergreen ...... Karl Johnson, Adrian Hodinott ...... Sean Baker, Felicity Halliday ...... Ellie Beaven.

20 Jul: An Island Between Heaven and Earth
By Alistair Rutherford. The trials and tribulations of a group of unemployed shipyard workers and churchmen who arrive on the isle of Iona in 1938 to rebuild the ruined buildings surrounding the medieval abbey. George ...... Crawford Logan, Milorad ...... Simon Tait, Archie ...... Lewis Howden, Alistair ...... John Kazek, James ...... Richard Conlon, Bobby ...... Nick Underwood, Mrs Fallon ...... Rose McBain, Narrator/Bill ...... James Bryce.

21 Jul: Me and My Man
By Bettina Gracias. A comedy in which Lal (Indian) and Paul (British Asian) are an odd couple who run their own dry-cleaning shop. The path to true love is littered with obstacles. Lal ...... Renu Setna, Paul ...... Raji James, Father Pete ...... Ioan Meredith, Taxi Driver ...... Kim Wall, Receptionist ...... Tracy Wiles. Director David Hunter.

22 Jul: The Memory of Water
By Shelagh Stephenson. Three sisters meet the day before their mother's funeral. Outside the house, it is snowing and icy cold. Inside, there is little warmth either as the sisters engage in unresolved conflicts and rivalries that have lingered from childhood, aided and abetted by memories that cannot be trusted. Teresa ...... Linda Bassett, Mary ...... Lesley Manville, Catherine ...... Elizabeth Berrington, Vi ...... Elizabeth Bell, Frank ...... Geoffrey Whitehead, Mike ...... Christopher Fairbank. Director Rosalynd Ward. Part of BBC Radio 4's The Memory Experience season.

23 Jul: Classic Serial - The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco's enigmatic murder mystery charts seven fateful days in the life of a medieval abbey in Italy. 2/2. Three monks have died - and William of Baskerville has so far failed to find the killer. The feared Papal Inquisitor Bernard Gui takes over the investigation and declares the abbey has been infected by witchcraft. William of Baskerville ...... David Hayman, Old Adso ...... Andrew Sachs, Young Adso ...... Nick Underwood , Abbot ...... Crawford Logan, Jorge ...... Jim Norton , Bernard Gui ...... Christian Rodska, Remigio ...... Gerry Mulgrew , Severinus ...... Brian Pettifer , Nicholas ...... Sean Scanlan , Malachi ...... Neil McKinven, Salvatore ...... Mark McDonnell , Girl ...... Cara Kelly , Benno ...... John Kielty , Hugh ...... Simon Tait. Producer/director Bruce Young.

24 Jul: In Search of Oldton
By Tim Wright.
A 90% true digital story about a town that disappeared off the map and a life that never made it into the digital age. Writer Tim Wright takes us on a personal journey in search of Oldton, the town of his childhood he lost when his father died. Including contributions from an actual website community who offer Tim advice, and their own stories of things which go missing. Narrator ...... David Ryall, Tim. ...... Jonathan Cullen. Part of BBC Radio 4's The Memory Experience season.

25 Jul: You Shouldn't Have Come
By Meic Povey, based on a true story. When electricity pylons start to go up across the valley, traditional Welsh village life is bound to change. But then a stranger appears, amid reports of an escalating nuclear threat. No one will be untouched by the events which follow. Edgar ...... Iestyn Jones , Gwyneth ...... Mali Harries, Boynton ...... Christian Rodska, Ifan Defi ...... Laurence Allan, Policeman/Reporter ...... Richard Elfyn, Bessie ...... Victoria Pugh.

26 Jul: Rumpole and the Right to Privacy
By John Mortimer. Rumpole leaves the Old Bailey to defend a civil case - the editor of a local newspaper is accused of breaching a successful businessman's right to privacy. Horace Rumpole ...... Timothy West, Hilda ...... Prunella Scales, Mr Rankin ...... David Shaw-Parker, Claude Erskine-Brown ...... Nigel Anthony, Liz Probert ...... Elaine Claxton, Hugo Winterton ...... Anton Rodgers, Gervase Johnson ...... Stephen Critchlow, Sir Mike Smedley ...... Kim Durham, Mrs Justice Erskine-Brown ...... Joanna David.

27 Jul: Darling Alicia Steve hasn't so much as held hands with the beautiful, sparky Alicia when he starts writing to her but, over the course of a two-year correspondence ranging from Delhi to Buenos Aires to London, he comes to realise that she has become his Darling Alicia. Based on 160 unpublished letters from the 1960s. With the real voices of Alicia and Steve Merrett. Alicia ...... Celia Meiras, Steve ...... Carl Prekopp.

28 Jul: Auguste Levasseur - Chef de Claqueurs
By Mike Harris. In the world of 19th-century Parisian Opera, the claqueurs can make or break a performance. Pay them well - and your opera receives tumultuous applause. Deny them - and the theatre will ring with cat-calls. Victor ...... Stuart Laing, Jacques ...... Robert Glenister, Auguste Levasseur ...... Kenneth Cranham, Josette ...... Ayesha Antoine , Veron ...... Jonathan Tafler. Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (soprano), Yuval Zoran (pianist). Director Clive Brill.

29 Jul: The Saturday Play - The Balloonists
By Craig Stephens. A boisterous comedy about Henry Coxwell, a once infamous Victorian balloonist who convinces beleaguered theatre impresario George Hansum to stage his most celebrated and near fatal balloon flight. Can Hansum pull off such a daring and spectacular venture and save his theatre from closure? Henry Coxwell ...... Patrick Driver, James Glaisher ...... Sam Dale, George Hansum ...... Kim Wall, Clara Fry ...... Alex Kelly, Charles Fry ...... Alex Jones, Roger Barrington ...... Greg Hobbs. Featuring original music by Derek Nisbet. Director Kate Chapman.

30 Jul: Classic Serial - Great Expectations
Martyn Wade's adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens. 1/3. The Common Boy. Young Pip is an orphan living with his shrewish sister and her kindly blacksmith husband. One Christmas Eve, he is surprised by a convict and forced to steal for him. This single good deed of Pip's leads him to the pursuit of expectations of wealth, a better position in life, and happiness; but he has many hard lessons to learn before he achieves that. Pip ...... Oliver Milburn, Young Pip ...... Angus Imrie, Joe ...... Jim Carter, Mrs Joe ...... Pam Ferris, Biddy ...... Robin Weaver, Magwitch ...... Ken Campbell, Miss Havisham ...... Janet Suzman, Young Estella ...... Ellie Beaven, Young Herbert ...... Milo Clare, Jaggers ...... Roger Allam, Pumblechook ...... Christopher Benjamin, Orlick ...... Ben Crowe, Compeyson ...... Harry Myers. Director Marilyn Imrie.

31 Jul: August Birthdays
By Frances Byrnes. It's Katherine's 39th birthday. She has just recovered from a serious illness and she is walking the streets where she grew up. It's a sticky August day and she is drawn back to an earlier more eventful birthday.

1 Aug: Parting
Horror story by Tanika Gupta. When four men miss their train, they find themselves spending the evening in the station bar. Sam the bartender becomes a confidante as each man explains why he wanted to be on that particular train. No casting details.

2 Aug: Thrift
By Rebecca Trick-Walker. Gwen sits on a cliff-top in Pembrokeshire, trying to do a watercolour painting of the flower Thrift. Instead, she finds herself thinking about her 40-year marriage and its recent end, and how her story mirrors that of Morwen, the Maiden of the Sea. Gwen ...... Sian Phillips, Richard ...... Richard Mitchley, Jack ...... William Thomas, Storyteller ...... Dorien Thomas. Producer/director Kate McAll.

3 Aug: Callum
Comedy drama by F Todhunter, set in a vocational college for the disabled. Callum just wants to keep his head down and get his gardening qualification, but will Mr Gough, the irascible college manager, let him? Callum ...... Deka Walmsley , Tom ...... Mark Benton, Jamie ...... Jonathan Lewis, Mr Gough ...... James Quinn, Sara ...... Emma Hughes Jones, Debra ...... Fiona Clarke . Director Gary Brown.

4 Aug: Hands
By Courttia Newland. We probe Anissa Marie's world as she struggles to claim her ancestral gift, the power to heal with her hands. Anissa Marie ...... Seroca Davies, Milan ...... Michael Obioro, Kavita Madhabuti ...... Pooja Ghai, Mum ...... Nadine Marshall, Dad ...... Neil Reidman , Jackie ...... Ayesha Antoine. Director Shabina Aslam.

5 Aug: The Saturday Play - Pepita's Daughter
By Martyn Wade. The story of Victoria Sackville, the illegitimate child of Lord Sackville of Knole and Spanish dancer Pepita, who died when Victoria was still a young girl. Their daughter grew up to be a beautiful and extrovert woman who, because of her origins, could never be quite respectable and who could never quite decide whether she wished to be so. Victoria ...... Diana Quick, Vita ...... Alice Hart, Lionel Sackville-West ...... Mark Straker, Lord Sackville ...... Geoffrey Whitehead, Sir John Murray Scott ...... Crawford Logan, Young Vita ...... Maisie Cowell, FE Smith ...... Kim Wall.

6 Aug: Classic Serial - Great Expectations
Martyn Wade's adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens. 2/3. The Gentleman. Pip arrives in London to meet with the lawyer Jaggers, who will play such a vital part in his life. He makes friends with Herbert Pocket, and learns how to be a gentleman, although true love and happiness still elude him. Pip ...... Oliver Milburn, Joe ...... Jim Carter, Biddy ...... Robin Weaver, Miss Havisham ...... Janet Suzman, Estella ...... Anna Maxwell Martin, Herbert ...... Adrian Scarborough, Jaggers ...... Roger Allam, Wemmick ...... Stephen Critchlow, Pumblechook ...... Christopher Benjamin, Mr Pocket ...... David Thorpe, Aged Parent ..... Sam Beazley, Molly ...... Maggie McCarthy. Director Marilyn Imrie.

7 Aug: The Memory Experience The Dolls Tea Set
By Sue Glover. Cara is four years old when her mother disappears. She is left playing in the garden sandpit with her new dolls tea set. Years later, when her foster mother digs up the little cups and dishes, the reality of that day's events comes flooding back. Davie ...... Liam Brennan, Arnie ...... Jimmy Chisholm, Ritchie ...... Simon Donaldson, Cara ...... Claire Knight, Neil ...... Grant O'Rourke, Police Officer ...... Gayanne Potter, Mairi ...... Wendy Seager. Producer/Director ...... Gaynor Macfarlane

8 Aug: A Field of Hay
By Gillian Clarke. A poetic celebration of rural summertime, set against the revelation of a family secret, concealed until now by respectability, religion, embarrassment and fear. The Voice of the Field ...... Fiona Shaw. Dafyfdd Evans ...... Oliver Ryan. Sue ...... Mali Harries, Annie Evans ...... Margaret John, Postman ...... Morgan Hopkins. Produced and directed in Wales by Kate McAll.

9 Aug: Stages of Sound A collaboration between the BBC and Arts Council England, linking theatres and community groups.

10 Aug: House Rules
By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. Burnt out gambler Spike just wants a quiet life. But when his own son comes to him a proposition for one last big stakes game, how can he refuse? Even if the game is with the devil. Spike ...... Jamie Foreman, Harry ...... Roy Marsden, Jack ...... Stuart McLoughlin, Donal ...... Christopher Fox, Monique ...... Tracy Wiles, Lance/Edward ...... Kim Wall. Director Marc Beeby.

11 Aug: The Sensitive Offbeat thriller by Alastair Jessiman. Police call in a psychic to help find a missing woman. Thomas Soutar is adept at solving crimes - but is his extraordinary gift a blessing or a curse? Thomas ...... Jimmy Chisholm, Mrs Soutar ...... Sheila Donald, DC Sharon Webb ...... Julie Austin, Mrs Allsop ...... Mary Riggans, Mhairi ...... Kathryn Howden, Calum ...... Chris Young, Duncan/Attendant ...... James Bryce. Bruce Young Producer/Director.

12 Aug: The Saturday Play - Rebus - Resurrection Men
By Ian Rankin, dramatised by Bert Coules. 1/2. As a murder inquiry begins into the death of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus is taken off the case and ordered to undergo retraining. It looks like the last chance saloon for Rebus, but it's a cover to allow him to investigate detectives who may have stolen £3 million from a drug dealer. Rebus is teamed with the suspect officers to work on the killing of a small-time gangster, but he wonders who is actually under investigation when this old murder case turns out to be one he'd prefer to leave unsolved. DI Rebus ...... Ron Donachie, DS Clarke ...... Gayanne Potter, DI Gray ...... Finlay Welsh, DC Ward ...... Neil McKinven, DI Barclay ...... Lewis Howden, Cafferty ...... Sandy Neilson, Strathern ...... Paul Young, DCI Tennant ...... Crawford Logan, DI Claverhouse ...... Mark McDonnell, DCS Templer ...... Sarah Collier, DC Hynds ...... William Barlow. Producer/Director Bruce Young.

13 Aug: Classic Serial - Great Expectations
Martyn Wade's adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens. 3/3. The Truth. Pip discovers the truth about his own benefactor, the sorrows of Estella's life, and the value of loyalty, faithfulness and friendship. Pip ...... Oliver Milburn, Joe ...... Jim Carter, Biddy ...... Robin Weaver, Miss Havisham ...... Janet Suzman, Estella ...... Anna Maxwell Martin, Herbert ...... Adrian Scarborough, Jaggers ...... Roger Allam, Wemmick ...... Stephen Critchlow, Magwitch ...... Ken Campbell, Molly ...... Maggie McCarthy, Compeyson ..... Harry Myers, Watchman ...... Ben Crowe. Director Marilyn Imrie.

14 Aug: The Recall Man - Taken by Surprise
By David Napthine. Dr Joe Aston is a forensic psychologist, working in the controversial field of recovered memory, on attachment to the police in Teeside. A man is abducted and only released when his employer pays the ransom. Joe resorts to unorthodox methods to secure a positive identification of the main suspect. Dr Joe Aston ...... Jeremy Swift , DC Geoff Patten ...... Paul Brennen , DI Anne Reynolds ...... Janet Dibley , Bill Pierce ...... Andrew Dunn, Tony Calderwood ...... Gerard McDermott , Moira Pierce ...... Susan Jameson . Director Toby Swift.

15 Aug: This Cold August Light
By Jerome Vincent. 1816 was known as 'the year without a summer'. Snow fell and crops failed across Europe and North America - but the sunsets were amazing. Jerome Vincent's play explores the effects these extraordinary climactic conditions had on artists and writers working at the time. Edgar Allan Poe ...... Kerry Shale, Young Poe ...... Michael Beveridge, Maunder ...... David Timson, Lily/Edith ...... Alison Pettitt, Laura/Mary Shelley ...... Rachel Atkins, Turner/Mellish ...... Harry Myers, Polidori/Farthing ...... Chris Stanton, Taylor ...... Robin Toller. Director David Blount.

16 Aug: Stages of Sound: Silver Grey
By Vincent Cleghorne. The generation gap explored with sharp wit and wisdom in the unusual setting of an older peoples' tea club in Bootle. Martha ...... Sylvie Gatrill, Dee ...... Eithne Browne, Charlotte ...... Eileen OBrien, Merlin ...... Paul Regan. Director Polly Thomas.

17 Aug: Black Out
By Damian Barr and Laura Lockington. Dan and Lucy are about to compete for the same job, but are in denial about a recent one night stand. Then they get stuck in a lift together. Can things get any worse? It would seem so. Dan ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt, Lucy ...... Nicola Walker, Presenter ...... David Holt, Taxi Driver 1 ...... Stephen Critchlow, Taxi Driver 2 ...... Shiv Grewal.

18 Aug: The Book of Love
By Mark Illis. Tom is only 26 and he's slept with 53 women. Then he finds a mysterious book which has an odd effect on him - he starts falling in love, for the first time. He is changing discovering his feminine sideliterally. Fairfax/The Book ...... Olwen May, Alice ...... Zoe Henry, Tom ...... Graeme Hawley, Micky ...... Kevin Harvey. Music composed and performed by Sally Doherty. Liz Hanks on cello. Director Polly Thomas.

19 Aug: The Saturday Play - Rebus - Resurrection Men
By Ian Rankin, dramatised by Bert Coules. 2/2. Rebus is on the trail of police detectives who may have stolen £3 million from a drug dealer. DS Clarke is investigating the murder of an art dealer - but her inquiries lead her to an Edinburgh gangster who knows a great deal about the past life of John Rebus. DI Rebus ...... Ron Donachie, DS Clarke ...... Gayanne Potter, DI Gray ...... Finlay Welsh, DC Ward ...... Neil McKinven, DI Barclay ...... Lewis Howden, Cafferty ...... Sandy Neilson, Strathern ...... Paul Young, DCI Tennant ...... Crawford Logan, DI Claverhouse ...... Mark McDonnell, DCS Templer ...... Sarah Collier, DC Hynds ...... William Barlow. Producer/Director Bruce Young.

20 Aug: Classic Serial - 1/2. Erewhon
By Samuel Butler, dramatised by Eamonn O' Neill, Martin Shea and James O'Neill. The traveller Higgs discovers a remote land where the use of machines is forbidden, where having a cold is a punishable offence, and the greatest scholarly achievement is the study of unreason. Higgs ...... Graeme Hawley, Arowhena ...... Jasmine Hyde, Nosnibor ...... Jonathan Tafler, Mrs Nosnibor ...... Sue Ryding, Mahaina ...... Brigit Forsythe, Thims ...... Leigh Symonds, Lord Stafford/Mayor ...... David Fleeshman, Judge ...... Stuart Richman. Producer/director Gary Brown.

21 Aug: The Recall Man - Can't See For Looking
By David Napthine. A witness to an arson attack thinks she saw a rhinoceros throwing the petrol bomb. Forensic psychologist Dr Joe Aston, an expert in recovered memory, tries to discover what she really saw. Dr Joe Aston ...... Jeremy Swift , DC Geoff Patten ...... Paul Brennen , DI Anne Reynolds ...... Janet Dibley , Donna ...... Sharon Percy , Billy ...... Michael Imerson , Alison ...... Colleen Prendergast , Steve ...... Wayne Foskett , Asif ...... Shiv Grewal , Mickey ...... Michael Hodgson. Director Mary Peate.

22 Aug: London Pride
By Adrian Middleton. On the May 11, 1941, during the Blitz, a high explosive bomb blasted The Admiral Duncan Pub in Old Compton Street. Then 58 years later, a nail bomb exploded in the same pub, now a popular gay venue. These historical and bitterly ironic facts - both the work of right wing extremists - provide the backdrop for this intimate drama about a family in crisis. Jean ...... Anne Reid, Jack ...... Tom Georgeson, Keith ...... Kenny Doughty, Marcus ...... David Oyelowo, Steve ...... David Holt, Maggie ......Tina Gray, Dr Prasad ...... Shiv Grewal, Aunty May ...... Becky Hindley.

23 Aug: Stages of Sound - The Armour of Immanuel
By Edson Burton. Winnie's son Immanuel was murdered six months ago in a road rage incident. Today her grandson is coming to visit for the first time since the funeral. Immanuel was a good son but he had secrets, just like his mother. And today Winnie is going to find out the truth about his life - and his death. Winnie ...... Lorna Easy, James ...... Andre Gottshalk , Rebecca ...... Devon Black , Bredren ...... Damian Lynch , Mr Powell ...... Geff Francis , Michael ...... Andre McMiller . Director Mary Ward-Lowery.

24 Aug: The Tank Man
By Julia Stoneham. The remarkable story of Ken Small, a hairdresser from Hull, who settled in south Devon and became dedicated to the creation of a permanent memorial to the victims of Exercise Tiger, one of the worst fiascos of the Second World War. Ken Small ...... Shaun Prendergast, Devonian Woman ...... Stephanie Cole, Devonian Man ...... Bill Wallis. With William Hope, Laurence Bouvard, Mark Meadows, Martin T Sherman, Jacob Gaffney, Steven Beckingham and Peter Brooke.

25 Aug: The January Wedding
By Beatrice Colin. In 1969 a landmark court case was brought in the UK. A young Polish woman petitioned for her marriage to an elderly Warsaw academic to be annulled. The annulment was granted on the basis that the marriage had taken place under duress. He had married her to save her from imprisonment under the Polish communist regime. Szymon ...... Karl Johnson, Nina ...... Cressida Trew, The Face ...... Richard Katz, Mother/Karla ...... Susan Engel, Registrar/ Father/Judge/Witness ...... Sam Dale. Director Lu Kemp.

26 Aug: The Saturday Play - Whenever
By Alan Ayckbourn. Emily, an orphan who lives with Uncle Martin, an avid inventor, has her life disrupted by the arrival of her Aunt Charity and Uncle Lucas and her cousin Clara. Unbeknown to her uncle Martin, Emily is bullied and mistreated until one night she witnesses a violent and cruel episode. Desperate to escape she hides in Uncle Martin's latest invention: a Time Machine. Martin/Bill/Nigel/Chatterton-Brown/Droid 3 ...... Roger Allam, Clara at 12/Minnie/Party Guest/Char Tee...... Saskia Butler, Mrs Binns/Mrs Green/Party Guest/Time Keeper ...... Barbara Dickson, Emily ...... Sarah Monton, Oscar ...... Jonjo O'Neill, Charity aged 30/Clara/Droid 1 ...... Liza Sadovy, Lucas aged 34/Lucas aged 88/Droid 2 ...... Malcolm Sinclair, Bob/George/Chauffeur/Vocalist/Guest at party/Ziggi ...... Tony Timberlake, Woolton/Mr Green/ Guest at party/Hoombean ...... Nigel Williams. Director Bruce Hyman.

27 Aug: Classic Serial - Erewhon
By Samuel Butler, dramatised by Eamonn O' Neill, Martin Shea and James O'Neill. 2/2. Higgs is starting to find the topsy turvy life in Erewhon most uncomfortable. He is under suspicion from the evil Professor Mahaina for being in the possession of a music box. But worst of all, his beloved Arowhena is about to be arrested for having a head cold - a serious offence in Erewhon. Higgs ...... Graeme Hawley, Arowhena ...... Jasmine Hyde, Nosnibor ...... Jonathan Tafler, Mrs Nosnibor ...... Sue Ryding, Mahaina ...... Brigit Forsythe, Thims ...... Leigh Symonds, Lord Stafford ...... David Fleeshman, Judge ...... Stuart Richman. Producer/director Gary Brown.

28 Aug: Summoned by Bells
By John Betjeman. A radio version of the best-selling verse autobiography, voiced by Betjeman from a recording made in the 1960s. The poet remembers his Highgate Hill childhood, Cornish holidays, school in Oxford and the master who inspired his growing love of architecture. With a sympathetic soundscape, and specially composed music by Jim Parker, played by the Nash Ensemble.

29 Aug: Keeping the Score
By Martyn Wade. Gerald owns a score box at his village cricket ground, but it's put to most use in the winter months - something his wife has never found out. Gerald is determined she never shall. Gerald ...... David Troughton, Derek ...... Sam Kelly. Director Jane Morgan.

30 Aug: Long Road to Iona
By Janette Walkinshaw. Jean, a feisty, elderly widow, decides to escape the oppressive good intentions of her son and daughter-in-law by leaving home and hitting the road. Is she walking to Iona? Should a 62-year-old woman be walking the highways and byways of Scotland alone? And why isn't she answering her mobile? It's time for Jean to get her life back. Jean ...... Ann Scott-Jones, Ian/minister ...... Finlay Welsh, Karen/librarian ...... Susan Coyle, Tom/solicitor ...... Jimmy Chisholm, George/Clergyman ...... James Bryce, Policeman/Smudge ...... Jim Webster-Stewart .

31 Aug: Darkness
By DJ Britton. After a breakdown brought on by a tour of duty in Iraq, surgeon Dan Walsh takes up a medical research post. He falls in love with the Voice, a radio newsreader, but when he learns that he has inherited macular degeneration from his mother, Dan decides that he needs to know what living in the dark is going to be like - and volunteers for a dangerous experiment. Dan ...... Steffan Rhodri, Caroline ...... Beth Chalmers, Mike ...... Simon Ludders, Steve ...... Nathan Sussex, Dry Cleaning Asst ...... Dick Bradnum, Reporter ...... Claire Cage. Director Kate McAll.

1 Sep: The Little Queen of England
By Rob John. Harriet wants to play fantastic games but her parents can't quite hit the balance. Her dad is clueless at pretending and while her mum Rachel is adept at creating imaginary worlds, in her hands make-believe and lies are in danger of becoming confused. Harriet ...... Elana Binysh, Rachel ...... Victoria Hamilton, Colin ...... Lee Ross, AA Man/DJ ...... Jon Glover.

2 Sep: The Saturday Play The Adulteries of a Provincial Wife
By Stephen Wakelam. Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece Madame Bovary was published 150 years ago. Who was the inspiration for Emma - and how did his own life become embroiled in his writing? Louis ...... Daniel Evans, Flaubert ...... Robert Glenister, Louise ...... Anastasia Hillie, Mme Flaubert ...... Jennie Stoller, Senard ...... Sam Dale , Max ...... Joseph Kloska, Prosecutor ...... Paul Richard Biggin, Mme Delamare ...... Tracy Wiles , Caroline ...... Isabella Parriss.

3 Sep: Classic Serial - The Ministry of Fear
By Graham Greene, dramatised for radio by Sean O'Brien. 1/2. For Arthur Rowe the charity fete was a trip back to childhood, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz. Then he correctly guesses the weight of a cake and from that moment - he's a hunted man. Rowe ...... Michael Feast, Willi ...... James Nickerson, Anna ...... Fiona Clarke, Mrs Bellairs ...... Anne Rye, Rennit ...... David Fleeshman, Mrs Willcox/Miss Pantil ...... Maggie Fox, Mrs Dermody/Mother ...... Sue Ryding, Poole/Fullove ...... Malcom Raeburn, Reverend Sinclair ...... Stuart Richman. Director/Producer Gary Brown.

4 Sep: Hole
In June 2002, Welsh businessman Peter Shaw was kidnapped in Tbilisi. Peter had been working in Georgia for six years but was due to return to Wales the next day. He left his office at the Agro-business Bank to drive home and moments later he was snatched from his car at gunpoint in broad daylight. For four months he was kept in total darkness, chained to the wall in a hole in the ground. His skull was fractured, his body was covered in sores and he didn't think he would ever see daylight again. But against all the odds, Peter survived. Ed Talfan's play tells the story of how he did it. Peter Shaw ...... Ifan Huw Dafydd, Kidnapper 1 ...... David Papava, Kidnapper 2 ...... Andrew Byron, Lena ...... Marina Blake, Rose ...... Eirlys Bellin.

5 Sep: The Mironov Legacy
By Helen Dunmore. Dame Helen Mirren stars in a play which explores her Russian ancestry. Mirren's grandfather, Pyotr Mironov, was a Tsarist officer who, after the Russian Revolution, became an exile in England - losing his home, family, language, career and social standing. Lena ...... Helen Mirren, Pyotr ...... Geoffrey Whitehead, Basil ...... Stuart Fox, Gruzinov ...... Iain Mitchell, Lenkipop ...... Susanna Dye, Trinie ...... Sophie Ford. Music arranged and played by Adrian Zolotuhin. Producer/Director Mark Smalley.

6 Sep: Teacher's Pet
By Robert Shearman. Peter has just bumped into his old French mistress, Mrs Townsend. It seems that both teacher and pupil have had a remarkable influence on each other's lives - is this meeting really just a coincidence? Stephanie ...... Carolyn Seymour, Peter ...... Simon Templeman, Young Peter/Philip ...... Steven Geller.

7 Sep: The Psychology of Dangerous Roads
By Gul Y Davis, adapted for radio by David Calcutt. Peter is a writer with obsessive compulsive disorder - if he travels in a car, he is terrified that he will run over a child; and has to keep stopping constantly to check that there is nothing caught under the wheels. It is the day of his last meeting with his Spanish psychiatrist Llaya. He is determined to drive to the meeting but gives in to his fear and arrives for his appointment soaking wet from walking through the rain. At the end of the session, Llaya offers to drive him home - can Peter confront his worst nightmare and accept her proposition? Peter ...... Pal Aron, Mel ...... John Flitcroft, Llaya ...... Nuria Benet, Maria ...... Joanne Moseley, Aethra ...... Helen Monks, Thomas ...... Jacob Lloyd. Director Kate Chapman.

8 Sep: Soldiers' Loves and Soldiers' Lives
By Bill Jupe. Stories of army lives and loves in 1920s peacetime Brighton, dramatised from the memoirs of Sgt Bill Jupe. Bill Jupe ...... Sean Gallagher, Nell ...... Ruth Jones, Soldier 2/Trumpeter ...... Samuel Collings, Old Dick/Sgt Major ...... Alan Leith, Blakey/Soldier 3 ...... Paul Panting, Johnny/Officer ...... Roger May, Mary...... Clare Corbett, May/widow ...... Nicola Barber, Miss Pancake/Tart ...... Sara Markland.

9 Sep: The Saturday Play - Betrayal - Pack of Lies
Actual events during the Cold War inspired Hugh Whitemore's moving drama, which takes place in a London suburb during the winter of 1960. Featuring a distinguished cast. The Jackson family slowly becomes aware that their cherished Canadian neighbours may not be quite what they appear. Bob ...... Alfred Molina, Barbara ...... Rosalind Ayres , Mr Stewart ...... Michael York, Julie ...... Fuschia Sumner, Helen Kroger ...... Teri Garr , Thelma ...... Rosalyn Landor, Peter Kroger ...... Ed Begley Jr. Director Martin Jarvis.

10 Sep: Classic Serial The Ministry of Fear
By Graham Greene, dramatised for radio by Sean O'Brien. 2/2. A man wakes up in a clinic. He's a civilian casualty and has lost his memory; apparently his name is Richard Digby. The doctors don't want him to leave. Why? Rowe ...... Michael Feast, Willi ...... James Nickerson, Anna ...... Fiona Clarke, Mrs Bellairs ...... Anne Rye, Major Stone/Cost ...... David Fleeshman, Poole/Prentice ...... Malcom Raeburn, Forrester ...... Stuart Richman, Johns ...... Lloyd Peters. Director/Producer Gary Brown.

11 Sep: Blue Moon Over Poplar
By Rebecca Lenkiewicz. It's 1955, and Teddy Girls and Teddy Boys are on the streets. Five girls and one guy experience love, lust and heartache against a backdrop of bombsites, coffee bars and rock'n'roll. Judy Lawrence ...... Becky Smith Williams, Peter Lawrence ...... Mark Finbow, Betty O'Hanlon ...... Laura Sykes, Shirley Dawes ...... Jo Cassidy, Pat Larkin ...... Daisy Lewis, Margaret Shore ...... Zawe Ashton. Directed for the NYT by Paul Roseby. Produced by Steven Canny.

12 Sep: Mike and Muriel are Getting Married
By Nicholas Meiklejohn. Andy and Rebecca decide that their respective best mates, Mike and Muriel, are not suited. The problem is - they are getting married. Furthermore, despite a disastrous blind date, a tentative friendship develops between Andy and Rebecca which threatens, despite their best efforts, to evolve into something more. Andy ...... Billy Boyd , Rebecca ...... Gabriel Quigley , Mike ...... Steven Cartwright , Liza/Julie ...... Claire Knight , Oz ...... Grant O'Rourke . Producer/director Gaynor Macfarlane.

13 Sep: The Lost Boys
By Andrew Birkin. JM Barrie biographer Andrew Birkin tells the haunting story of Barrie's relationship with the Llewelyn Davies boys, the inspiration behind Peter Pan. He reveals how his own experience across a 30-year association with the author has thrown up tragic parallels. Poetry by Anno Birkin. Read by Ian Holm, Bee Gilbert, Alice Coulthard and Daniel Evans. Music by Kicks Joy Darkness and Molly Nyman.

14 Sep: Monkeyface
By Linda Marshall Griffiths. Siddy, eight, and his big sister Frannie decide to find their father - armed only with a newspaper cutting of him at a peace demonstration and a memory of a trip to a beach in Scarborough. Do they have any hope of tracking him down? Siddy ...... Aidan Parsons, Frannie ...... Rachel Brogan, Mother ...... Siobhan Finneran, Mr Sandman ...... Craig Cheetham, Nicky/Dave ...... Charlie Ryan. Director Nadia Molinari.

15 Sep: Kind Hearts
By Andy Rashleigh. On the set of the Ealing comedy classic, Kind Hearts and Coronets, a producer, a director and three actors try to cope with their personal demons as they create movie history. Robert Hamer ...... Anton Lesser, Denis Price ...... Adam Godley, Joan Greenwood ...... Rebecca Saire, Michael Balcon ...... Nick Sampson, Alec Guinness ...... Jo Stone-Fewings.

16 Sep: The Saturday Play -Betrayal
A double bill of plays from Alan Bennett.

An Englishman Abroad
1958, a squalid flat in Moscow. Over a paltry lunch, Guy Burgess interrogates actress Coral Browne about English society gossip . Coral ......Brigit Forsyth, Burgess ...... Simon Callow, Tolya/Shop Assistant ...... Peter Swander, Tailor ...... Robert Pickavance.

A Question of Attribution
The late 60s. Prior to being disgraced as a spy, Professor Anthony Blunt, Director of the Courtauld Institute, is replacing a Titian at the Palace when The Queen comes in. The painting is a fake... Blunt ......Edward Petherbridge, Restorer ...... Robert Pickavance, Chubb ...... Nicky Henson , The Queen ...... Prunella Scales, Philips ...... Dan Stevens, Colin ...... Harry Myers . Producer/director Susan Roberts.

17 Sep: Whistle Down the Wind
Diana Griffiths' adaptation of the tale by Mary Hayley Bell, Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. The first ever radio production of this classic story. Set in 1958 on a northern Pennine hill farm, 12-year-old Kathy finds a criminal on the run hiding in her barn. Because of his profane exclamation of shock on being discovered, she and her siblings believe him to be Jesus Christ. The Man ...... Paul Copley, Kathy ...... Rachel Ibbotson, Nan ...... Poppy Rush, Charlie ...... Alexander Slater, Aunty Dolly/Mrs Reeves ...... Becky Hindley, Dad ...... Stephen Critchlow, Eddie ...... Ben Crowe.

18 Sep: Travel Sick
By Trevor Lock and Sem Devillart. A hypochondriac Englishman journeys across Peru in search of true love and himself. William Hart (Trevor Lock) has his western mindset melted by the seemingly crazy, fuzzy logic and unpredictability of everyday life in Latin America.

19 Sep: So Long, Sleeping Beauty
By Isobel Mahon. Recently widowed Glynis finds a collection of love letters in her husband's desk - and discovers he shared a passion for amateur operatics with a dapper gentleman's outfitter called Neville. Glynis ...... Sarah Collier, Neville ...... Billy Riddoch.

20 Sep: Uncovering Iran: The Interview
By Arash Aryan and Ava Mandan. Like all Iranian career women, Roxana's job depends on passing her annual interview - an assessment of how Islamic she is. This year, however, she has little idea how much is really at stake. Roxana ...... Badria Timimi, Fatima ...... Roxana Pope, Mahjid ...... Mozaffar Shafeie , Kourosh ...... Bijan Daneshmand, Maryam ...... Souad Farress, Nasrin ...... Zolfa Zahedi, Mullah ...... George Savvides, Security guard ...... Betsabeh Emran, Security clerk ...... Saikat Ahamed.

21 Sep: The Glass Man
By Martin Sorrell. When Tim suddenly learns that he is adopted, his life falls apart and he develops a condition that was once known as the 'Glass Delusion'. His journey into despair and his family's attempts to help him are woven through with interviews and music. Tim ...... Carl Prekopp, Rachel ...... Saskia Reeves, Mother ...... Barbara Flynn, Andrew ...... Steven Perring, Jo ...... Peter Clifford. Music by Neil Sorrell.

22 Sep: Angelophany
By Miles Gibson. Henry Cuthbertson is vicar of St Gilberts - where the congregation consists of six old ladies and a man who thinks his dog is possessed by demons. Henry finds a vagrant in the Crouchback chapel, who says he is an angel.

23 Sep: The Saturday Play - Another Country
By Julian Mitchell. The first ever radio production of Julian Mitchell's classic about two boys at a public school in the 1930s. The two students find themselves caught up in a battle against the school's oppressive elite - a battle that threatens the very foundations of the society in which they live, and has a profound impact on the men they will become. Judd ...... Tom Hiddleston, Bennett ...... Ben Righton, Menzies ...... William Ellis, Fowler ...... Paul Richard Biggin, Devenish ...... Steven Webb, Delahay ...... Joseph Kloska, Barclay ...... Dan Starkey, Wharton ...... Josh Freeborn, Vaughan Cunningham ...... Adam Godley. Director Marc Beeby.

24 Sep: The River
Rumer Godden's classic autobiographical novel, dramatised by Judy Allen. At the side of the river in India near the family home, Harriet writes poems to preserve eternally the summer of a blissful childhood. But when Captain John returns injured from the Great War, Harriet senses that strong forces are taking hold of all their lives. Narrator ...... Phyllida Law, Harriet ...... Gemma Padley, Captain John ...... Nicholas Rowe, Mother ...... Suzanne Burden, Bea ...... Emily Hamilton, Nan ...... Leena Dhingra, Father ...... Lyndam Gregory, Valerie ...... Victoria Shalet, Victoria ...... Alexandra Thomas-Davies, Bogey ...... Jordan Theis. Director John Taylor.

25 Sep: Moving Day
By Alexandra Campbell. Two very different couples are moving on the same day. A mix-up occurs and when each couple discovers the other's belongings, they rediscover some forgotten things about each other. Simon ...... William Gaunt, Cherry ...... Joanna David, Ned ...... Alan Cox, Lauren ...... Daniela Nardini, Seamus ...... Sean Barrett, Dave ...... Roger Watkins. Director Celia de Wolff.

26 Sep: Water Lens
By Dominique Moloney. When Elaine, a young homeless girl, is befriended by the older and middle class Tara, she is at first suspicious. But a genuine trust develops, when Elaine discovers that it's Tara and not she who is most in need of comfort and shelter from the world outside. Elaine ...... Katy Gleadhill, Tara ...... Frances Tomelty, Georgina ...... Julia Dearden , Sinead ...... Eileen McCloskey , Kenny ...... Robert Patterson . Director Eoin O'Callaghan.

27 Sep: Baguettes and Barms
By Christine Marshall. Anne has just started as a volunteer at a shelter for the homeless. She's also organising the big 'Do' to celebrate her husband's inauguration as the Worshipful Master of his lodge. Where does she feel most comfortable? Overseeing the smoked salmon and roulades? Or the soup and tinned beans? Anne/Jill ...... Becky Hindley, Geoff/Victor ...... Glenn Cunningham, Enid/Sheila/Waitress ...... Denice Hope, Jamie/Gobbo ...... Mikey North, Paul/Man at door/Bob Hat ...... Phil Rowson, Sally ...... Peta Lord. Director/Producer Gary Brown.

28 Sep: Mum
Ronnie Barker's tragi-comic tale of Alison, a secretive loner whose life changes forever when the spirits of her dead father and boyfriend suddenly materialise in her room. Alison ...... Maxine Peake, Dad ...... Sam Kelly, Bob ...... Peter Cutler. Adapted and directed by Neil Cargill.

29 Sep: The Last Days of Gordon Springer
By Richard Stevens.
Gordon Springer has an almost God-like power over the office network. He can tap into any of his colleagues' personal secrets whenever he likes - because he is the IT manager. Hyacinth ...... Alicya Eyo, Rachel ...... Regina Freedman, Camilla ...... Lara Haworth, Frank ...... David Horovitch, Linda ...... Jasmine Hyde, Dave ...... Stephen Mangan, Debbie ...... Catherine Shepherd, Gordon ...... Karl Theobald.

30 Sep: The Saturday Play - Betrayal - Plenty
By David Hare. The experiences of an Englishwoman helping the French Resistance during the Second World War - and her life in the following 20 years. Susan Traherne ...... Miranda Richardson, Alice ...... Hattie Morahan, Brock ...... Ben Miles, Lazar ...... Michael Gould, Frenchman 1/Begley ...... Jonathan Cullen, Darwin ...... Geoffrey Palmer, Mick ...... Paul Anderson.

1 Oct: Classic Serial - The Secret Agent
By Joseph Conrad. 1/2. When a terrorist bomb explodes in London killing the bomber, all levels of the establishment, and every anarchist circle, feels threatened. Conrad's black comedy, written in 1907, takes a look at the truth behind the news. Dramatised for radio by David Napthine. Chief Inspector Heat ...... Ron Cook, Assistant Commissioner ...... Robert Glenister, Adolf Verloc ...... David Calder, Winnie Verloc ...... Wendy Nottingham, Tom Ossipon ...... Paul Bazeley, The Professor ...... Robin Soans, Vladimir ...... Hugh Ross, Sir Ethelred ...... Geoffrey Beevers, Toodles ...... Joseph Kloska, George ...... Paul Richard Biggin, Waiter ...... Saikat Ahamed.

2 Oct: The Inextinguishable Fire
By Zosia Wand. In July 1914, Joseph Conrad travelled to Poland with his wife Jessie and their two young sons. It was a country on the brink of war and one which held painful memories for Conrad. The visit brought unexpected personal struggles and insights for Conrad. Conrad ...... Henry Goodman, Jessie ...... Denise Black, Borys ...... Adam Paulden, Jack ...... Ashley Margolis, Apollo ...... Oliver Cotton, Tadek ...... Christopher Rozycki, Retinger ...... Adam Kotz, Mr Buszinski ...... Tomek Bork, Tola/Mrs Buszinska ...... Izabela Slominska. Director Nadia Molinari.

3 Oct: Palm Therapy
By Sharon Shrubsall. Simone is about to hit 30, and feels bleak about her future, her love life and her singing career. But the arrival of an unexpected botanical birthday present changes everything. Simone ...... Jacqui Dankworth, Zamia ...... Mona Hammond, Steve ...... Fraser Ayres, Carol ...... Jacqueline Defferary, Christine ...... Tilly Vosburgh. Songs performed by Jacqui Dankworth and James Pearson. Producer Marilyn Imrie. Director Roxana Silbert.

4 Oct: Dreaming in Africa
By Mike Harris. The story of Stewart Gore Brown, the only white man to receive a state funeral in a black African country - and the women he loved. Gore Brown ...... Louise Hilyer, Lorna ...... Sian Brooke, Henry ...... Nonso Anazie, Audrey ...... Mathilda Ziegler, Sgt/ Porter ...... Charlie Simpson, George/ Servant ...... Femi Ognus.

5 Oct: Mrs Boston
By Alan Drury. When Andrew's wife lies dying in hospital, the one person whom Andrew can talk to is Mrs Boston - an absolute stranger, who doesn't even appear to talk much sense. It's an unlikely relationship, and one which Andrew's children dislike. Mrs Boston ...... Zoė Wanamaker, Andrew ...... Peter Wight, Peter ...... John McAndrew, Caroline ...... Monica Dolan, Francis ...... John Milroy, Mr Boston ...... Peter Acre. Director Jane Morgan.

6 Oct: A Woman in Dark Times
Hannah Arendt, born 100 years ago this year, was among the most influential political thinkers of the 20th Century. As a young German Jew, she fled to America in 1941 with her husband Heinrich. Yet her name is historically entwined with a man who became a Nazi - Martin Heidegger. This drama documentary, through private letters and interviews, tells the story of the 50-year relationship between the teacher and the student. That Heidegger was her lover came as a shock to many; that she agreed to a reconciliation after the war still raises questions today. Hannah Arendt ...... Sian Thomas, Heinrich Blücher ...... David Horovitch, Martin Heidegger ...... John Rowe. Director/Producer: Penny Leicester and Emma Harding.

7 Oct: The Saturday Play - A Man For All Seasons
By Robert Bolt. Sir Thomas Moore has managed to resist Henry VIII's pressure on him to sanction the forthcoming wedding to Anne Boleyn. All of Cromwell's plots to entrap Thomas fail as the wily Chancellor counters with his knowledge of the law and his right to silence. But can treachery from an unsuspected source spell doom for the brilliant statesman? Sir Thomas More ...... Charles Dance, Master Richard Rich ...... Julian Rhind Tutt, Master Thomas Cromwell ...... Ken Cranham, Cardinal Wolsey ...... Timothy Bateson, King Henry VIII ...... Brian Cox, Duke of Norfolk ...... Nicholas le Prevost, Master Will Roper ...... Martin Freeman, Lady Alice More ...... Kika Markham, Mistress Margaret (Meg) More ...... Romola Garai, Boatman/Steward (aka Matthew)/Jailer ...... Sam Dale, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer/Headsman ...... Peter Tate, Woman ...... Adjoa Andoh. Directed by Peter Kavanagh.

8 Oct: The Secret Agent
By Joseph Conrad. 2/2. What began as an international bombing outrage quickly resolves into a domestic tragedy. Conrad's black comedy, written in 1907, takes a wry look at the shabby truth behind the news. Dramatised for radio by David Napthine. Chief Inspector Heat ...... Ron Cook, Assistant Commissioner ...... Robert Glenister, Adolf Verloc ...... David Calder, Winnie Verloc ...... Wendy Nottingham, Tom Ossipon ...... Paul Bazeley, The Professor ...... Robin Soans, Vladimir ...... Hugh Ross, Sir Ethelred ...... Geoffrey Beevers, Great Lady ...... Jillie Meers, Toodles ...... Joseph Kloska, Stevie ...... Paul Richard Biggin, Porter ...... Saikat Ahamed.

9 Oct: A Tiger for Malgudi
By RK Narayan, dramatised by Ronald Frame. The companion of a Sadu, an ageing tiger, looks back on his life. This comic narrative views human absurdities through the eyes of a wild animal. Deputy/Zoo Keeper/Captain/Jaddu ...... Paul Bazely, Teacher ...... Meneka Das, Alphonse/Mandan ...... Kulvinder Ghir, Shekar ...... Raman Goyal, Wife ...... Indira Joshi, Raja, the Tiger ...... Raad Rawi, The Master ...... Nadim Sawalha. Director Lu Kemp.

10 Oct: Paul and Yolande
By Linda Grant. A play that dramatises what may have happened to Yolande Jackson after the end of her relationship with Paul Robeson. On the Cote d'Azur in the 1950s, a penniless upperclass woman cannot forget the man she could never marry. Yolande ...... Deborah Findlay, Paul ...... Colin McFarlane, Mr Jackson ...... David Collings, Peggy ...... Jenny Funnell, Prince ...... Andrew Branch.

11 Oct: Eight Frames a Second
By Gary Bleasdale. A pivotal week in the life of William Friese-Greene, Britain's claim for the inventor of moving pictures. William Friese-Greene ...... Nick Sidi, Helena ...... Juliet Aubrey, James Tooley ...... Mark Straker, Le Prince ...... Olivier Breuils, Ethel ...... Sophie Bleasdale, Vass ...... Desmond McNamara, Vendor/Mr Bains ...... Joseph Kloska, Knipe/Mr Guest ...... Gerard McDermott, Comedian/Mr Humphries/Judge ...... Sam Dale, Miss Scott ...... Bethan Walker, Auctioneer/Prison Officer ...... Paul Richard Biggin. Produced by Steven Canny.

12 Oct: Afternoon Romancers
By Nick McCarty. A man and a younger woman embark on an affair, one which they promise each other will not end in love. Liz ...... Sally Hawkins, Paul ...... Ewan Stewart, Alan ...... Sean Chapman, Mary ...... Claire Cox. ProducerNicholas Newton. Director John Burgess.

13 Oct: Coelocanth.
Ben Moor stars in his own play about a man involved in competitive tree-climbing; who finds love, loses it, but keeps on growing. Music composed by Simon Oakes.

14 Oct: Peter Pan in Scarlet
By Geraldine McCaughrean, dramatised for radio by Nick Warburton. Commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital, this sequel to Peter Pan is a true adventure of adventures! Begin the journey and you will have to follow it to the end. Narrator ...... Robert Glenister, Peter Pan ...... Daniel Mays, Wendy ...... Kate Maberly, Ravello ...... Roger Allam, John ...... Tom George, Tootles (F) ...... Robin Weaver, Tootles (M) ...... Joseph Kloska, Fireflyer ...... Peter Gunn, Curly ...... Simon Scardifield, Slightly ...... Steven Webb, Twin 1 ...... Damian Lynch, Twin 2 ...... Paul Richard Biggin, Starkey/Smee/Roarer ...... Sam Dale, Woman 1/Roarer ...... Rachel Atkins, Tinkerbell ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan. Music composed by David Pickvance. Directed by Celia De Wolff.

13 Oct: Coelocanth.
Ben Moor stars in his own play about a man involved in competitive tree-climbing; who finds love, loses it, but keeps on growing. Music composed by Simon Oakes.

14 Oct: The Saturday Play - Peter Pan in Scarlet
By Geraldine McCaughrean, dramatised for radio by Nick Warburton. Commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital, this sequel to Peter Pan is a true adventure of adventures! Begin the journey and you will have to follow it to the end. Narrator ...... Robert Glenister, Peter Pan ...... Daniel Mays, Wendy ...... Kate Maberly, Ravello ...... Roger Allam, John ...... Tom George, Tootles (F) ...... Robin Weaver, Tootles (M) ...... Joseph Kloska, Fireflyer ...... Peter Gunn, Curly ...... Simon Scardifield, Slightly ...... Steven Webb, Twin 1 ...... Damian Lynch, Twin 2 ...... Paul Richard Biggin, Starkey/Smee/Roarer ...... Sam Dale, Woman 1/Roarer ...... Rachel Atkins, Tinkerbell ...... Emerald OHanrahan. Music composed by David Pickvance. Directed by Celia De Wolff.

15 Oct: Classic Serial - The Cairo Trilogy
Omar Sharif stars in this generational saga chronicling the life of a middle class, and downwardly mobile, family in an Egypt adjusting to the modern world. Dramatised from the novels of Naguib Mahfouz. 1/3. The First World War is ending, and then there is a popular uprising in March 1919, when the eldest son Fahmy joins the nationalist cause. Old Kamal ...... Omar Sharif, Young Kamal ...... Karim Fouda, Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawab ...... Ihab Sakkout, Amina ...... Caroline Khalil, Fahmy ...... Mena Reda, Yasin ...... Tamer Nasrat, Miriam ...... Ola Roshdy.

16 Oct: Like an Animal
By Meic Povey. Mair wants to move to a new bungalow to end her days but Defi wants to stay in their mountain farmhouse. Neither choice will wipe out the tragedy in their past. With Sian Phillips, Glyn Houston. Director Alison Hindell.

17 Oct: Cats and Monkeys
By Catherine Shepherd. Eve has come to India following the recent death of her parents. While everyone around her is seeking enlightenment, she is only concerned with obtaining a legal document which will allow probate on her parents' estate to be granted. With Anna Carteret, Madelaine Brolly, Jack Shepherd, Ben Lewis. Director Lu Kemp.

18 Oct: It's Not You
By Simon Burt A tragi-comedy about a holiday romance which seems perfect until the lovers meet again. Tobes is not who Jo thinks he is, and Jo is not who Tobes thinks she is. So who, then, have they each fallen in love with? With Jessica Harris, John Paul Hurley. Director Lu Kemp.

19 Oct: Books
By Tessa Hadley. Distinguished novelist Paul Sand died 20 years ago and now his wife has died, too. At their seaside home, her daughter and a university researcher meet. She needs to sell up and clear out; he wants to see what papers the great man has left behind. Mr Lascelles ...... David Collins, Paul Sand ...... Philip Madoc, Chris Elliott ...... Adam Levy, Terry Untermeyer ...... Niamh Cusack. Music composed by Geoff Nichols.

20 Oct: Fridays When It Rains
By Nick Warburton. A girl on a late night train journey meets a man with a strange tale to tell. Dove ...... Clive Swift Connie ...... Lyndsey Marshal Director Claire Grove

21 Oct: The Saturday Play: Cry Hungary
By Paul Viragh The playwright draws on his own family's experiences in his drama Cry Hungary. In October 1956, thousands of Hungarians rise up against the oppressive Soviet-backed government. Peter, a chosen son of the working classes, arrives in Budapest to study at the university. He falls in love with Eva, a committed communist. When Peter becomes involved in the demonstrations, Eva finds her loyalties severely tested. Peter Kovacs ...... Lee Ingleby, Eva Toth ...... Naomi Frederick , Janos ...... Christopher Fox , Imre Toth ...... Larry Lamb, Szentendy ...... Mark Straker, Istvan ...... Joseph Kloska , AVO Officer ...... Sam Dale, AVO Sergeant ...... Paul Richard Biggin, Boy ...... Emma Noakes. Director Toby Swift.

22 Oct: Classic Serial - The Cairo Trilogy
Omar Sharif stars in this generational saga chronicling the life of a middle class, and downwardly mobile, family in an Egypt adjusting to the modern world. Dramatised from the novels of Naguib Mahfouz. 2/3. It is the late 1920s, Egypt is nominally independent but still under British influence. By the mid 1930s an outbreak of typhoid has a tragic effect on the family. Old Kamal ...... Omar Sharif, Kamal ...... Amr Waked , Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawab ...... Ihab Sakkout, Aida ...... Shirine El Ansari, Zanuba ...... Maryam El Khoshed, Zubayda ...... Zeinab Moubarak, Yasin ...... Tamer Nasrat. Director John Dryden.

23 Oct: Beast
By Nick Warburton Somewhere near a small fishing village a creature is pulled out of the sea. No one knows whether it belongs to the sea, or the land. Or whether it's harmless or represents some kind of threat. But two villagers realise that whatever they do about it, it will change their lives. This play won the Tinniswood Award for Best Original Radio Play broadcast during 2006. Clay ...... James Fleet, Rowena ...... Eve Best, Digby ...... Struan Rodger, Father Anthony ...... Gerard McDermott, And introducing David Goodfellow as the Soldier. The music was written by David Pickvance. Directed by Peter Kavanagh.

24 Oct: Mixed Blood
By Nazrin Choudhury. This play, which recently won the Richard Imison Award for the best play by a writer new to radio, tells the story of a young British Asian woman whose life begins to unravel when she's faced with the possibility that her real father may actually be white. When Sharmila finds some letters in her late mother's belongings, she uncovers her mother's affair with a man called Peter while she was at university. More importantly, Sharmila discovers that she may be the product of that affair. Outraged that her mother betrayed her and father for so long, Sharmila decides to track Peter down, and face the man who could be her father. Sharmila ...... Shelley Islam, Malik ...... Paul Bhattacharjee, Dan ...... Shaun Dooley, Peter ...... Gerard McDermott, Nisha ...... Nisha Nayar, Nasima ...... Vineeta Rishi. Directed by Naylah Ahmed.

25 Oct: My Blue Heaven
Written and Directed by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Graham's life is not going the way he wants it to and he really starts to worry when he realies he's being interviewed for a job by his imaginary friend from childhood all grown up. Graham ...... Chris Langham, Griselda ...... Rebecca Front, Dottie ...... Phyllida Law, Laz ...... Toby Longworth, Violet ...... Polly Frame, Dr Bloom ...... Jo Brookes.

26 Oct: Born For War
By David Pownall. The Suez crisis exposes deep divisions within a Liverpool family - already haunted by the loss of too many young men. Dennis ...... Mark Arends, Mavis ...... Maureen O'Brien, Job ...... Sam Kelly, Flower ...... Annabelle Dowler, Vivien ...... Clare Corbett , Guy ...... Paul Bazely. Director Martin Jenkins.

27 Oct: Sand
By Tilly Black. It is 1956, and Elizabeth Gooding is growing up in the privileged ex-patriot community of Port-Said in Egypt, where her father runs a thriving ships chandlers business. As tensions mount after President Nasser nationalises the Suez Canal, the unfolding political drama is seen through the eyes of the 10-year-old girl, whose holiday diary over that summer of 1956 tells a poignant human story alongside the public events that are changing the political map for ever. This play is as much about one child's incomprehension of the political forces that are changing her life as it is about the Suez crisis. Elizabeth ...... Holly Bodimeade, Khalid ...... Omar Berdouni, Henry Gooding ...... Richard Mitchley, Kate Gooding ...... Jenny Coverack, Miss Watkins ...... Jacqueline Tong.

28 Oct: The Saturday Play - Safe as Houses
By Peter Wolf. When Ruth and Ellie are sent in to clear a Ministry of Defence safe house in a remote part of Devon, there are some disturbing clues as to the identity of the person who was living there. What is more, news comes in that someone has found out who he is and tried to shoot him, so he is now on the run. Ruth ...... Juliet Aubrey, Ellie ...... Paula Jacobs, Angus ...... Struan Rodger, Harding ...... Stephen Hogan, Junior ...... Declan Wilson, Andre ...... Jason Chan, Brigadier ...... Andrew Harrison, Under Secretary ...... Nicholas Boulton, Julie ...... Ndidi Del Fatti, Director Cherry Cookson.

29 Oct: Classic Serial: The Cairo Trilogy
Ayeesha Menon's dramatisation adapted from the novels of Naguib Mahfouz, chronicling the fortunes of a middle-class Egyptian family attempting to adjust to the modern world. 3/3 The Second World War has a devastating effect on the family business and one of the grandchildren is sucked into radical Islam. With Omar Sharif, Amr Waked, Ihab Sakkout, Sedky Sakhar. Director John Dryden.

30 Oct: Skomer
By Mike Akers. Nick, depressed and haunted by dreams, is persuaded by Rachel to go camping in Wales. But will their relationship survive what they find there? Rachel ...... Katy Cavanagh, Nick ...... Christian Patterson, Tom ...... Paul Richard Biggin. Director Marc Beeby.

31 Oct: Adrift
Judy Upton's compelling tale of one young woman's struggle to confront her past by reliving the day her mother decided to abandon her for her lover. Daisy ...... Raquel Cassidy, Alan ...... Alan Williams, Freddie ...... Nicholas Burton, Young Daisy ...... Jessica Crossley. Director Claudine Toutoungi.

1 Nov: From Abstraction
By Robert Thorogood. Paul is young, rich and in love. So why does he lock himself in the library and refuse to open the door to anyone? But he cannot lock everyone out, and his strange and disconcerting nocturnal visitors help him to make the most important decision of his life. Paul Wolfskehl ......Daniel Evans, Stefan ...... Andrew Mayer, Infinity ...... Emma Fielding, Clara, Johanna ...... Francesca Dymond, Otto, Joseph ...... Steven McNicol, Fermat ...... Roger Allam, Friedrich (Doctor) ...... Sam Parks. Director Ellen Dryden.

2 Nov: Over Night
By Gary Owen. A chance encounter between two divorced fortysomethings leads to a cab and then a bedroom. Then things go wrong and they wonder what they were thinking. He calls a taxi to make a swift escape but there is a lengthy wait. So they start talking. With Richard Elfyn, Siriol Jenkins. Director Kate McAll.

3 Nov: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Toby Young's comic saga of his disastrous sojourn in New York is a blistering and hilarious attack on celebrity culture. A job in Vanity Fair promises to deliver the Big Apple and its high society right into the young columnist's palm. But a series of catastrophes and run-ins with the magazine's redoubtable editor ensure that things fail to entirely go to plan. With Al Murray, Kerry Shale, Lydia Leonard, Thomas Wheatley.

4 Nov: The Saturday Play - Dr Glas
Vanessa Rosenthal's dramatisation of Hjalmar Soderberg's play, which caused a great scandal when it was first published in Sweden in 1905. When a lonely Stockholm GP is visited by a distressed woman patient, he takes an unorthodox approach that leads to a terrible conclusion. Dr Glas ...... Adam Godley, Mrs Gregorius ...... Lia Williams, Pastor Gregorius ...... Jim Carter, Kristin ...... Vanessa Rosenthal, Markel ...... Geoffrey Durham, Woman ...... Colleen Prendergast, Birk ...... Ben Crowe, Klaus Recke ...... Jonathan Keeble. Piano played by Lucy Parham. Directed by Chris Wallis.

5 Nov: Classic Serial - The Brothers Karamazov
Melissa Murray's dramatisation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic. 1/5. Russia 1880: The Karamazovs are reunited for a meeting with their father to discuss Dmitry's inheritance. But it seems that the unpredictable Fyodor Karamazov is not going to play the game. Fyodor Karamazov ...... Roy Marsden, Dmitry ...... Paul Hilton, Ivan ...... Nicholas Boulton, Alyosha ...... Carl Prekopp, The Elder ...... Sam Dale, Mrs Khoklakova ...... Rachel Atkins, Lise ...... Emma Noakes, Katerina ...... Juliet Aubrey, Grushenka ...... Katy Cavanagh, Smerdyakov ...... Joseph Kloska, Grigory ...... Desmond McNamara, Monk ...... Paul Richard Biggin, Katerina's Servant ...... Miranda Keeling. Directed by Marc Beeby and Colin Guthrie.

6 Nov: Mummies & Daddies
By Rony Robinson. With original songs by Sally Goldsmith. Based on research about the experience of being a teenage parent, told through song and drama. The singers involved are from the local community in Yorkshire and are all non-professionals. Chloe ...... Katie Griffiths, Jacko ...... Matthew Hall, Sue ...... Gaynor Faye, Jane ...... Becky Hindley.

7 Nov: Side Effects
By Louise Gooding. Joe's wife Marianne hasn't let him see his kids for months. He's desperate, so he holds a rooftop protest. How did a happy marriage end up like this? Is anyone to blame? Joe ...... Reece Dinsdale, Security Guard ...... Liam Fox, Marianne ...... Caroline Fitzgerald, Lauren ...... Lucy Worrall, Sam ...... Matthew McGuire, Karen ...... Peta Lord, Ray ...... Russell Dixon. Director Gary Brown.

8 Nov: Dr Brighton and Mr Harding
Stephen Wyatt's play explores the personal demons that tormented Gilbert Harding, the outspoken, irascible but much-loved broadcaster of the fifties who became famous for his unpredictable appearances on panel games such as Twenty Questions, Round Britain Quiz and What's My Line? Gilbert Harding ...... Roger Allam, Derek ...... Ben Crowe , Roger ...... Keith Drinkel , Philip ...... Carl Prekopp , Nancy ...... Jenny Funnell , Psychiatrist ...... Ian Masters , Female fan ...... Jean Trend. Directed by Martin Jenkins.

9 Nov: Esterhazy
By Peter Nichols. In the Hertfordshire village of Harpenden, the Count de Voilement was a mysterious figure. Only after he died in 1923 was his true identity revealed. This story of his last days, based on his letters and newspaper reports, takes listeners into the mind of the man who was dubbed by one newspaper as The Wickedest Man in the World. Count de Voilement ...... Philip Voss, Alsace ...... Emma Fielding, Doctor Fish ...... James Fleet, Doctor Clamp ...... Will Keen, Arthur Welch/Mr Dees ...... John Rowe, Walter ...... Bill Maynard, Mrs Gresham/Mrs Fanshawe ...... Beverley Klein, Mr Church/Mr Garrett ...... Ian Ashpitel, Mrs Bell ...... Valerie Griffiths, Mr Warren ...... Robert Vahey. Director Teresa Grimes.

10 Nov: Hard Frosts in Florence
By David Pownall. In this play specially written for Paul Scofield, a deeply-troubled Michelangelo returns to Florence to view his statue of the boy David ? Flesh caught in stone - for the last time. Monologue. Michelangelo ...... Paul Scofield. Director Martin Jenkins.

11 Nov: Saturday Play - Devastated Areas
Adam Thorpe's play explores civilian grief during and after the Great War of 1914-1918 in three interweaving stories. In Berlin, a sculptress is working on a memorial statue to the volunteers; in the valley of the Somme a glazier is repairing the blown-out windows of a church; and on the Berkshire Downs a gardener tends his roses. Sofie ...... Eliza Langland, Ernst ...... Finlay Welsh, Monsieur le Curé ...... Gareth Thomas, Auguste ...... Jimmy Chisholm, Reg ...... Richard Greenwood, Mrs Lombard ...... Noreen Leighton, Colin ...... Matthew Pidgeon, Jess ...... Lucy Paterson. Pianist Leon Coates.

12 Nov: Classic Serial - Brothers Karamazov
2/5. Melissa Murray's dramatisation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic. While Alyosha attends the bedside of the dying Elder, relations between Dmitry and his father become ever more fraught. Fyodor Karamazov ...... Roy Marsden, Dmitry ...... Paul Hilton, Ivan ...... Nicholas Boulton, Alyosha ...... Carl Prekopp, Smerdyakov ...... Joseph Kloska, Lise ...... Emma Noakes, Mrs Khoklakova ...... Rachel Atkins, Katerina ...... Juliet Aubrey, Grushenka ...... Katy Cavanagh, Grigory ...... Desmond McNamara, Father Paisy ...... Philip Fox, The Elder ...... Sam Dale, Marya ...... Bethan Walker, Monks ...... Paul Richard Biggin, Saikat Ahamed. Directors Marc Beeby and Colin Guthrie.

13 Nov: A Nice Little Trip to Spain
By Don Taylor. The story of Great Uncle Jack's heroic death in the Spanish Civil War is family folklore. But when the unmarked graves begin to be opened, there are as many secrets dug up as bodies - and George gets a shock. George ..... Jack Shepherd, Jeremy ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor, Father Tomaso ...... Daniel Evans, Ramon ...... John Grillo, The Old Woman ...... Patricia Leventon, Luiz ...... Ed Weeks, Conchita ...... Morag Cross. Producer Ellen Dryden.

14 Nov: One Foot in the Cuckoo's Nest
By Ian Macpherson and Magi Gibson. For two decades, Theo Sheridan and his colleague Bill, have enjoyed a leisurely existence as the Edinburgh-based correspondents of the Irish Mail. But the two men's comfortable lives are shattered by the arrival of their new editor, Lotte Swift. The Mail's going tabloid and so are their lives. Theo Sheridan ...... Ian MacPherson, Bill ...... Sean Scanlan, Lotte ...... Siobhan Redmond, Sigmund ...... Arnold Brown, Doctor ...... Lucy Paterson. Producer/director David Ian Neville.

15 Nov: Curry Tales
By Rani Moorthy. Cooks share their recipe secrets, including mood fusion curries for New Delhi Society; a grandmother's legacy in Malaysia and an accountant's egg curry in London. Dimple ...... Rani Moorthy, Ah Liang ...... Pik-Sen Lim, Kalvinder ...... Rina Mahoney, Stephanie ...... Liz Sutherland, David ...... Kim Wall. Producer/director Shabina Aslam.

16 Nov: The Powder
By Adam Thorpe. In 1946, a young soldier returns from the war to the family farm in Derbyshire, only to find that things have changed and not, in his view, for the better. There is now a secretive tenant on part of the land. Jack ...... Jason Done, Ted ...... David Fleeshman , Liz ...... Angela Curran, Mr Petlow ...... David Thorpe, Richler ...... Nicholas Murchie, Mavis ...... Imogen Rands, Young Jack ...... Dominic Curran. Director Chris Wallis.

17 Nov: Life is a Dream
By Shelagh Stephenson. Sam Lazarus awakens to find himself in a parallel reality, in which he is married to his childhood sweetheart and Hillary Clinton is US President. He thinks he's died and gone to heaven - but has he? Sam ...... Nathan Osgood, Patricia ...... Kristin Marks, Hope ...... Lorelei King, Dr Greenblatt ...... John Guerassio, Jim ...... John Chancer, The hooker ...... Larissa Murray, Nat ...... Tom Raphael Eaves, Phoebe ...... Amanda Gordon.

18 Nov:The Saturday Play - Sad Girl
By Sue Teddern. 'Sad Girl' refers to what Rachel's mother Lisel once called the painting taken by Nazis from her Berlin home, along with her father and her young twin brother. After her mother dies, Rachel sets out to find the painting. Rachel ...... Samantha Spiro, Michael Wernitz/Geoff ...... Henry Goodman, Lisel ...... Miriam Karlin, Uncle Harry ...... Lee Montague, Asif/Refugee ...... Ameet Chana, Lesley ...... Christine Kavanagh, Ben/Liam ...... Sam Dale, Sheila/Wernitz Gallery Assistant ...... Carolyn Pickles, Dan ...... Mark Straker.

19 Nov: Classic Serial - The Brothers Karamazov
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky, dramatised by Melissa Murray. 3/5. Following the violent encounter at the Karamazov home, Dmitry flees the town in search of Grushenka. Dmitry ...... Paul Hilton, Grushenka ...... Katy Cavanagh, Alyosha ...... Carl Prekopp, Lise ...... Emma Noakes, Mrs Khoklakova ...... Rachel Atkins, Grigory ...... Desmond McNamara, Makarov ...... Mark Straker, Andrey ...... Philip Fox, Trifon ...... Paul Richard Biggin, Musialowicz ...... Sam Dale, Constable ...... Saikat Ahamed, Revellers ...... Miranda Keeling, Bethan Walker. Directed by Marc Beeby and Colin Guthrie.

20 Nov: McNaughton
By Steve Gooch. Based on a true story that made legal history in 1843. In the cells beneath the Old Bailey, Daniel McNaughton, a humble wood-turner, awaits the verdict at the end of his trial for the murder of the Prime Minister's Secretary.

21 Nov: Motel Texel
By Marjolein Bierens. A poetic evocation of a woman alone on a windswept beach. A young woman flees Iran with her husband and children. They settle into a hostel for refugees in a Dutch seaside town and all seems well. Then one day she returns to their motel and finds he has fled with their little ones. Narrated by Betsabeh Emran. Translated by Joan Poort. Music composed and performed by David Pickvance. Director Peter Kavanagh.

22 Nov: Forever Mine
By Robert Shearman. A comedy of relationships. Mary and David, formerly happily married for a long time, meet unexpectedly after three years. But what will Fiona say? And who exactly is Angela? Mary ...... Pauline Collins, Angela ...... Janie Dee, David ...... Richard Briers, Fiona ...... Jane Goddard. Producer Martin Jarvis.

23 Nov: None of the Above
Three linked plays by Christopher Green about people born neither female or male but somewhere in the middle, and those who believe that they have been assigned to the wrong sex altogether. Jo ...... Christopher Green, Anil ...... Paul Bhattacharjee, Jenny ...... Becky Hindley, John ...... John Rowe, Margaret ...... Edna Dore. Director Claire Grove.

24 Nov: Old Man Goya
By Penny Gold, based on Julia Blackburn's book. A severe illness leaves the famous painter stone deaf. By force of iron will he manages to battle his demons and produce some of his greatest work. With Sean Barrett, Maggie McCarthy, Clare Cathcart, Teresa Gallagher. Directed by Richard Wortley.

25 Nov: The Saturday Play - The Haunting of Frances Child
By Richard Cameron. Psychological thriller about Frances Child, a young woman haunted by her past. John, a student, starts to fall in love with Frances but doesn't realise that he's part of a plan; one that Frances' different personalities are plotting. Frances ...... Emma Atkins, John ...... Danny Burns. Director Pauline Harris.

26 Nov: Classic Serial - The Brothers Karamazov
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky, dramatised by Melissa Murray. 4/5. As Dmitry goes on trial for the murder of his father, Alyosha desperately seeks proof of his innocence. Dmitry ...... Paul Hilton, Grushenka ...... Katy Cavanagh, Alyosha ...... Carl Prekopp, Lise ...... Emma Noakes, Mrs Khoklakova ...... Rachel Atkins, Grigory ...... Desmond McNamara, Makarov ...... Mark Straker, Andrey ...... Philip Fox, Trifon ...... Paul Richard Biggin, Musialowicz ...... Sam Dale, Constable ...... Saikat Ahamed, Revellers ...... Miranda Keeling, Bethan Walker. Directed by Marc Beeby and Colin Guthrie.

27 Nov: Out of Season
By Anne-Marie O'Connor. Four Blackpool residents seek refuge from the biting wind in an empty promenade cafe. Their thoughts reveal what brought them to, and what keeps them in, a tourist town that has lost its sparkle. Each of them will be forced to make decisions that will change their lives forever. Linda ...... Denise Black, George ...... David Hargreaves, Mandy ...... Hayley Doherty, Carly ...... Tracy Wiles.

28 Nov: Lost Love of Phoebe Miles
By Bernard Kops. This new play evokes the resilience and passions of wartime London and embarks on a journey through heartache and abandonment, while offering a promise of ultimate contentment and the exorcism of ghosts. Phoebe ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman, Joe ...... David de Keyser, Fay ...... Heather Coombs, Paul ...... Qarie Marshall, Sylvie ...... Lucy Middleweek, Maisie ...... Miranda Keeling.

29 Nov: Cut Out
By Colleen Muldoon-Taylor. Victimised by his schoolmates because his parents are a lesbian couple, 14-year-old Sebastian secretly uses cut outs from celebrity magazines to create a fantasy family for himself. He is increasingly drawn into fights thanks to taunts about his family at school, but his parents take different views of the warning signs: Geraldine worries but Rudy refuses to acknowledge that there is a problem. Sebastian Eccles-French ...... Jacob Lloyd, Geraldine Eccles ...... Bharti Patel, Rudy French ...... Janice McKenzie, Receptionist/Shop Assistant ...... Naomi Taylor, Doctor/Mr Mackley ...... Delroy Brown, Barber ...... Lawrence Saywood, Sergeant/Workmate ...... Matthew Brown. Directed by Kate Chapman.

30 Nov: The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican
By Robin Glendinning. Drama exploring the remarkable post-war friendship that developed between Nazi war criminal Herbert Kappler and Vatican priest, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty - the man Kappler had so often tried to assassinate during the war. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ...... John Lynch, Herbert Keppler ...... Wolf Kahler.

1 Dec: Wooden Heart
Hattie Naylor's drama is based on the true stories of Jenisch gypsy children who were forcibly removed from their parents by the Swiss authorities. Anna has lived in an orphanage since being taken away from her parents as a baby, but her foster mother is now waiting to collect her to work on a small Alpine village farm. Anna ...... Juliet Aubrey, J ...... Lisa Hammond, Uta ...... Gerda Stevenson, Doctor ...... Stephen Perry, Anna's Sister ...... Jenny Coverack, Sister Margaret ...... Malene Sidaway.

2 Dec: Saturday Play - Killing the Butterfly
In Colin MacDonald's romantic thriller, two murder witnesses are put under police protection pending the High Court trial. But something goes badly wrong and they have to flee for their lives, never knowing who it's safe to trust. Barker ...... Simon Tait, Hannah ...... Vicki Liddelle , DCI Mulhall ...... Gayanne Potter, DS Whitton ...... James Bryce, Andrew ...... Kenny Blythe, Matthew ...... John Paul Hurley, Kayleigh ...... Laura Smales. Producer Patrick Rayner.

3 Dec: Classic Serial - The Brothers Karamazov
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky, dramatised by Melissa Murray. 5/5. Following Ivan's dramatic appearance at his brother's trial, Katerina prepares to deal Dmitry a fatal blow. Dmitry ...... Paul Hilton, Ivan ...... Nicholas Boulton, Grushenka ...... Katy Cavanagh, Alyosha ...... Carl Prekopp, Katerina ...... Juliet Aubrey, Lise ...... Emma Noakes, Mrs Khoklakova ...... Rachel Atkins, Grigory ...... Desmond McNamara, Devil ...... Same Dale, Judge ...... Ian Masters, Prosecutor ...... Philip Fox. Directed by Marc Beeby and Colin Guthrie.

4 Dec: Regressed
By Chris Sussman and Dan Hine. During his third therapy session Leonard is regressed back to his childhood. Unfortunately, his therapist dies of a heart attack before he has a chance to bring Leonard back... Leo ...... David Armand, Mike ...... Philip Jackson, Linda ...... Alison Newman, Anne ...... Burunka O'Shuaghnessy, Tom ...... Fergus Craig, Rita ...... Anna Crilly, Dr Schweinsteiger ...... Colin Hoult.

5 Dec: Every Book in the World
A Victorian road movie, Nick Warburton's play is a study in obsession. The real-life Victorian bibliomaniac, Sir Thomas Phillipps, aimed to own a copy of every book in the world. But his mania came at a price. Sir Thomas Phillipps ...... Benjamin Whitrow, Elizabeth Phillipps ...... Lia Williams, Herbert ...... Peter Gunn.

6 Dec:The Malingerer's Manual
By Gary Ogin. Rupert needs to get out of his wedding. With the aid of the Malingerer's Manual he learns how to get stuck in traffic, develop a cold and invent every excuse in the book and still feel guilt free. Not that it helps him. Rupert ...... Andy Taylor, Jemima ...... Katherine Heath , George ...... Rupert Vansittart , Dr Hausman ...... Christian Rodska , The Excuseline ...... Melanie Hudson , Dr Grimchuk ...... Paul Humpoletz, Deep voice ...... Paul Dodgson, Mrs Brahms ...... Phyllida Nash. Directed by Jeremy Howe.

7 Dec: Agatha Christie's Dumb Witness
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. 1/2. One morning, Hercule Poirot's mail includes a distressing letter from an elderly spinster seeking his help, but fails to say why. What intrigues him most, is that the message was written two months ago. He tells Captain Hastings that they should investigate immediately. Poirot ...... John Moffatt, Hastings ...... Simon Williams, Miss Lawson ...... Joanna David, Miss Peabody ...... Rosalind Knight, Ellen ...... Elizabeth Proud, Theresa ...... Tracy Wiles, Charles ...... Ifan Meredith, Bella ...... Becky Hindley, Dr Tanios ...... Sam Dale, Chemist ...... Damian Lynch, Bob the Dog ...... Richard Beadsmore. Director Enyd Williams.

8 Dec: Agatha Christie's Dumb Witness
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. 2/2. Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings are now on the trail of a murderer and a little wire-haired terrier is proving helpful in their deliberations. Poirot ...... John Moffatt, Hastings ...... Simon Williams, Miss Lawson ...... Joanna David, Miss Peabody ...... Rosalind Knight, Ellen ...... Elizabeth Proud, Theresa ...... Tracy Wiles, Charles ...... Ifan Meredith, Bella ...... Becky Hindley, Dr Tanios ...... Sam Dale, Chemist ...... Damian Lynch, Bob the Dog ...... Richard Beadsmore. Director Enyd Williams.

9 Dec:The Saturday Play - When Marnie Was There By Joan G Robinson, dramatised by Beaty Rubens. Anna is a solitary foster child sent away to a small Norfolk village one summer. Here she makes friends with a mysterious and significant girl called Marnie, and discovers a good deal about her past. Anna ...... Georgina Hagen, Older Anna ...... Sara Kestelman, Marnie ...... Juliet Aaltonen, Scilla ...... Skye Bennett, Susan...... Mary Miller, Sam ...... David Redgrave, Gillie ...... Richenda Carey, Nancy ...... Miranda Keeling, Mrs Lyndsay ...... Christine Kavanagh, Andrew ...... Paul Richard Biggin, Jane ...... Emma Noakes. Director David Hunter.

10 Dec: Classic Serial - The Midnight Folk
By John Masefield and dramatised by Christopher William Hill. Music composed by Neil Brand. 1/2. A little boy, Kay Harker, finds himself in a race against the evil Abner Brown. Abner has the Pouncer Seven, his witch friends, and their dark magic but Kay has the very special Midnight Folk to help him - Nibbins, the cat, Bitem, the fox and Blinky, the owl. But which side will find the treasure first? Kay Harker ...... Sam Salter, Nibbins ...... Nickolas Grace, Abner Brown ...... Charles Dance, Miss Sylvia Daisy ...... Deborah Findlay, Captain Harker ...... Andrew Sachs, Susan Pricker ...... Liz Smith, Ellen ...... Helena Breck, Bitem ...... Jon Glover, Bilges/The Keeper ...... Ewan Bailey, Jane/Keeper?s Wife ...... Ann Beach, Twiney Pricker ...... Harry Myers, Blinky ...... Graham Seed, Nightshade ...... .Miranda Keeling, Belladonna ...... Bethan Walker, Brother Venom ...... Mark Straker, Sir Theopompus ...... Sam Dale, Bert ...... Ian Masters, Hollings ...... Joseph Kloska, Woman ...... Christine Kavanagh. Produced and directed by Tracey Neale.

11 Dec: Mother Spy
A drama-documentary which tells the story and explores the dilemmas of Janet Chisholm, one of the most unlikely spies in the history of espionage. She was a British Embassy wife and mother in Moscow and was persuaded to use her young children and their trips to the park as cover in handling the Cold War's most influential informant at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

12 Dec: Reans Girls
Adapted by Kaite O'Reilly. In 1973, with Enoch Powell's speech still resounding through the Black Country, Jacinta arrives in Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton, from Chile - shocked, disorientated and needing somewhere to live. Her husband has been thrown out of their country for political reasons: she has a young son and no references. Her search brings her into contact with a network of other women who have come to Whitmore Reans from all around the world. They all have stories to tell and they have all found a way to survive in a forbidding new town, not least by getting together at the public baths for a long soak. Jacinta ...... Donna Heaslip, Minaxi ...... Bharti Patel, Margot ...... Frances Land, Lou ...... Lorna Laidlaw, Sinead ...... Joanne Moseley, Naomi ...... Wreh-Asha Walton, Winston ...... Delroy Brown, voice of Enoch Powell ...... Kim Wall.

13 Dec: Chocolate Frigates
By Juliet Ace. While Jack prepares a triumphant leaving dinner for his Captain - a magnificent fleet of 12 chocolate frigates - his son is in the thick of action in Iraq. When your son is away at war how can your life just carry on as normal? Jack thinks it can and must, but his wife and son aren't so sure. Jack ...... Todd Carty, Ella ...... Lindsey Coulson, Eliot ...... Jamie Kenna, Austin ....... Nick Sayce, Cheryl ...... Emma Noakes, Captain ...... Sam Dale, Visiting Officer/Steward ...... Dan Starkey, Announcer/Newsreader/Padre ...... Peter Donaldson. Produced and directed by Tracey Neale.

14 Dec: Heart Transplant
Part 1 of the story of the operation that saw 50-year-old ex-boxer Louis Washkansky receive the heart of a young woman, when Christiaan Barnard and his team of surgeons performed the first human heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa, in December 1967. Written by Jonathan Holloway and narrated by Rosie Goldsmith. 1/2. Trauma: Prof Barnard ...... Miles Anderson, Louis ...... Ian McNeice, Dr Venter ...... Stephen Cirtchlow , Dr Ozinsky ...... Carl Oatley, Rodney ...... Chris Porter, Marius ...... Robert Portal , Sister Peggy ...... Eva Haddon, Rose ...... Charlie Simpson, Mrs Washkansky ...... Rowena Cooper , Dr Botha ...... John Teifer, Philip ...... Paul Humpoletz, Mrs Blaiberg ...... Eva Haddon.

15 Dec: 2/2. Heart Transplant: The Whites of its Eyes
Now that the operation has been completed, all the team have to do is to keep the patient alive. Prof Barnard ...... Miles Anderson, Louis ...... Ian McNeice, Dr Venter ...... Stephen Critchlow , Dr Ozinsky ...... Carl Oatley, Rodney ...... Chris Porter , Marius ...... Robert Portal , Sister Peggy ...... Eva Haddon , Rose ...... Charlie Simpson , Mrs Washkansky ...... Rowena Cooper , Dr Botha ...... John Teifer, Philip ...... Paul Humpoletz, Mrs Blaiberg ...... Eva Haddon.

16 Dec: The Saturday Play - Little Nell
A new play by Simon Gray, inspired by Claire Tomalin's book The Invisible Woman, the story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens. The lies Nelly told to protect the secret of her relationship with the great author had lasting and damaging effects. Sir Henry Dickens ...... Philip Voss, Geoffrey Robinson ...... Crispin Redman, Nelly Ternan ...... Monica Dolan, Charles Dickens ...... Michael Pennington, Jane ...... Maria Miles, George Wharton Robinson ...... Nicholas Boulton, Rev Benham ...... Nicholas Le Prevost. Pianist Charlotte Brennan. Director Jane Morgan.

17 Dec: Classic Serial - The Midnight Folk
By John Masefield and dramatised by Christopher William Hill. With music composed by Neil Brand. 2/2. By day, Kay Harker is under the ever-watchful eye of his Governess, Miss Sylvia Daisy, but at night he escapes into a mysterious world where the forces of good and evil are pitted against each other. Kay and the Midnight Folk work to prevent the treasure from falling into the hands of the malevolent Abner Brown and the Pouncer Seven. Kay Harker ...... Sam Salter, Nibbins ...... Nickolas Grace, Abner Brown ...... Charles Dance, Miss Sylvia Daisy ...... Deborah Findlay, Captain Harker/Merlin ...... Andrew Sachs, Ellen ...... Helena Breck, Bitem/Arthur/Archbishop ...... Jon Glover, Blinky/Edward Bear ...... Graham Seed, Rat/Dictator ...... Harry Myers, Bat/Swift ...... Ian Masters, Otter/Lancelot ...... Joe Mills. Produced and directed by Tracey Neale.

18 Dec: This is My Car Park
By Mark Tuohy. Luke's brush with the big time has left him bruised and sleeping rough in a scruffy London car park. But why does he refuse to set foot outside it? Two locals strike up a friendship with him, but is it enough to restore his faith in humanity? Luke ...... Adam Kotz, Sarah ...... Pippa Haywood, Zoe ...... Emma Noakes, Milkman ...... Steve Edwards. Directed by Toby Swift.

19 Dec: Martha My Dear
By Annie McCartney. Martha has always been an Agony Aunt for her wayward friends, but the publication of a steamy bestseller casts doubt on dear Martha's confidentiality. Martha ...... Marcella Riordan, Robert ...... Mark Lambert, Zelda ...... Ali White, Gillian ...... Lizzie McInnerny, Jeff ...... Robert Patterson, Ella ...... Katy Gleadhill, Fidelma ...... Aine McCartney, Archie ...... Nathan McCann. Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.

20 Dec: Standing Sideways
Award-winning playwright Matt Charman's compelling psychological drama stars Claire Skinner as Nancy, a woman dealing with a real-life condition known as Personal Space Phobia. Nancy ...... Claire Skinner , Michael ...... John Lightbody, Sue ...... Zoė Telford , Bandle ...... Stuart McQuarrie. Directed by Claudine Toutoungi.

21 Dec: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
A new translation of the famous poem by Simon Armitage, narrated by Ian McKellen. Set in Arthurian Britain at Christmas time with the knights of the Round Table, whose festivities at Camelot are disrupted by the appearance of a green knight . The stranger has come to lay down a challenge - a test of courage and heart , which Sir Gawain, King Arthur's nephew accepts. Sir Gawain ...... Samuel West, The Green Knight/Sir Bertilak ...... David Fleeshman, Bertilak's wife ...... Deborah McAndrew, Arthur/Servant ...... Conrad Nelson. With specially composed music by Gary Yershon.

22 Dec: Fly Girls
By D.J. Britton. Comic fiction and real voices from Britain's New Circus movement intertwine, as apathetic law student Chaz sinks hopelessly into the sofa, to the despair of her better disciplined friend. Enter one stripy-socked plate-spinner... Chaz ...... Mared Swain, Holly ...... Mali Harries, Tom ...... Jonathan Floyd. Director D.J. Britton. (Dave Britton)

23 Dec: The Nutcracker
By Hattie Naylor, inspired by the story from ETA Hoffman. Epic tale that sweeps through magical worlds inhabited by evil mice, the mysterious Dr Drosselmeier and a heroic nutcracker. King/Father/Sneaky Hans ...... Ben Crowe, Queen/Frieda ...... Hannah Gordon, Mauselink ...... Lisa Hammond, Uncle Drosselmeier ...... Tim McMullan, Kurt The Mouse King ...... Nicky Henson, Clara/Princess Pirlipat/Wilheim ...... Pooja Kumar, Nutcracker/Elias/Heinrich ...... Daniel Goode, Brother/Otto/Pantaloon ...... Iwan Thomas. Directed by Paul Dodgson.

24 Dec: The Classic Serial - The Inn
Published in 1886, Guy de Maupassant's haunting short story is a wintry, snowbound tale of loneliness and dark imaginings, as a young mountain guide finds himself in sole charge of a remote Alpine hotel. It begins with the first stirrings of a love affair; it ends in mystery and mayhem. Dramatised for radio by Sue Glover. Ulrich ...... Robin Laing, Gaspard ...... Gareth Thomas, Louise Hauser ...... Vicki Liddelle, Jeanne Hauser ...... Kirstin Murray, Jean Hauser ...... John Shedden, Aunt Berthe ...... Tamara Kennedy, Uncle Maurice ...... Sandy Neilson.

25 Dec: McLevy
By David Ashton. Christmas Special. Brian Cox stars in a seasonal case for Victorian Edinburgh's most idiosyncratic policeman. McLevy is hardly a natural Yuletide reveller. So as the good citizens prepare to make merry, it comes as a relief to the Inspector to find that a supernatural thief is haunting the city. Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond, Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell, Roach ...... David Ashton, Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil, Marcus Crowe ...... Matthew Pidgeon, Donald McIver ...... Andrew Neil, Margaret Beaton ...... Helen McAlpine, Percy Bierce ...... Stuart McQuarrie, Simone ...... Tracy Wiles, Finlay Hodge ...... Robert McIntosh, Lafferty ...... Mark Bonnar, Daniel ...... Dominic Di Rollo, Child ...... Anna McPhail.

26 Dec: King Lear on Boxing Day (not a drama)
On Boxing Day 1606, the entertainment offered to King James I and his guests at Whitehall Palace was a new play by William Shakespeare - King Lear. Four hundred years on, Francine Stock and a studio full of guests, including actors Fiona Shaw and Oliver Ford Davis; scholars Jonathan Bate, Richard Dutton, Brett Dolman and Tiffany Stern; food historian Ivan Day and musicians Passamezzo (along with some distinguished contributors from the BBC Archives), bring to life every aspect of that momentous opening night.

27 Dec: Edward Alleyn's Devil
By Nicola Baldwin. London, 1605. Edward Alleyn was the most famous actor of the Jacobean stage. At the height of his fame, he believed he saw a devil on stage. This snowy, sparkling play investigates what really happened and looks at the consequences that still influence us today. Edward Alleyn ...... Richard McCabe, William Grogan ...... Brian McCardie, Philip Henslowe ...... Philip Jackson, Fardinandoo Black ...... Desmond McNamara, Joan Alleyn ...... Christine Kavanagh, Sir Francis Calton ...... Sam Dale, John Pyg ...... Joe Prospero, Robert Shaa ...... Joseph Kloska, Miss Wills ...... Bethan Walker, Isack Shackerley ...... Paul Richard Biggin.

28 Dec: The Autiobiography of a Nobody
By Ian Kershaw. It's that dead time between Christmas and New Year and Rob is writing his autobiography. Except he can't think of anything interesting to put in it. He's also assembling a Mini in the kitchen. And why does he hide under the table when his best friend calls round for the rent? A bitter sweet comedy about lonely people at Christmas. Rob ...... Steve Edge, Jim ...... Jason Manford, Sally ...... Danielle Henry.

29 Dec: Late
By Dan Sefton. A comedy drama about an ordinary marriage that takes place over 20 years, and four very special New Year's Eves. Patricia ...... Caroline Quentin, Michael ...... James Fleet, Hannah ...... Tracy Wiles, Mark ...... Paul Richard Biggin.

30 Dec: The Saturday Play - The Real Thing
Trevor Nunn makes his radio debut to direct Tom Stoppard's award-winning masterpiece, which premiered in 1982. Henry is a successful playwright married to Charlotte, who has the lead role in his latest play about adultery. Her co-star Max is married to another actress, Annie. Annie and Henry are madly in love, but is it any more real than the subjects of Henry's play? Henry ...... Alex Jennings, Annie ...... Imogen Stubbs, Charlotte ...... Harriet Walter, Max ...... Roger Allam, Debbie ...... Fiona Button, Brodie ...... Iain Robertson, Billy ...... Rafe Spall.

31 Dec: Classic Serial - Resurrection
Robert Forrest's dramatisation of Leo Tolstoy's last major work. 1/2. Katerina Maslova is a young prostitute on trial for the murder of one of her clients. Serving on the jury, Prince Dmitri recognises the young woman as the girl he seduced many years before. Believing himself partly responsible for her predicament, he embarks upon a complex legal attempt to reverse the sentence passed upon her. Katerina Maslova ...... Katherine Igoe, Dmitri Nikhloydov ...... Richard Dillane, Lydia Menshova ...... Vivienne Dixon, Vera Bogovskaya ...... Joanna Tope, Princess Marya ...... Lesley Hart, Anatoly Krylstov/Rizin ...... Joe Arkley, Gudz/Makar Dyerkin ...... John Buick. Directed by Lu Kemp.

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