[British Radio] BBC Radio Drama: Saturday 25th February - 3rd March

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      Saturday 26th July

      Queens of Noise: Shout to the Top
      Radio 4 14:30 Louise Wener (Sleeper) and Roy Boulter (The Farm) combine to tell the story of all-girl band Velveteens. Music business drama set in 1988 starring Shane Richie and Hannah Arterton.

      By A Young Officer: Churchill on The North West Frontier
      Radio 4 21:00 By A Young Officer: Churchill on The North West Frontier


      Sunday 27th July

      Eugenie Grandet
      Radio 4 15:00 Episode 1. Rose Tremain's gripping dramatisation of Balzac's Eugenie Grandet stars Ian McKellen as Eugenie's miserly father - a man whose terror of poverty overrides his love for his child.


      Monday 28th July

      Queens of Noise: Get It One
      Radio 4 10:45 Sleeper's Louise Wener and The Farm's Roy Boulter feed their experience of the music industry into this drama series telling the story of all-girl band Velveteens.

      The Waste Land
      Radio 4 14:15 Eileen Atkins and Jeremy Irons read The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot introduced by Dr Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury, Jackie Kay, Matthew Hollis and Sean O'Brien.


      Tuesday 29th July

      The Sensitive
      Radio 4 14:15 Episode 2 of 2. Police are searching Glasgow's disused underground tunnels for a killer.


      Wednesday 30th July

      Hatch, Match, Dispatch - Elephants All the Way Up
      Radio 4 14:15 Harper works in a zoo. He is a simple soul but his life is complicated. His wife is desperate for a baby, and his angry dad a bare knuckle boxer. Then the ground starts to shift - literally. A surreal comedy by Lavinia Murray.


      Thursday 31st July

      Imagining Some Fear
      Radio 4 14:15 Emma is having nightmares. So when Emma inherits a country cottage & a small fortune from a Great-Aunt Florence she's never met, she's hopeful of a new beginning.


      Friday 1st August

      I'm a Believer
      Radio 4 14:15 Stephen Mangan stars in Jon Canter's irreverent comedy. When God appears to Simon in a dream, Simon tells Him He doesn't exist. But Simon's night is about to test his certainty.

      The Right Honourable
      Radio 4 21:00 Nerys Jones, the youngest MP in the House of Commons, is drawn into a web of political intrigue. Will she survive?


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    • Saturday 2nd August

      His Masters Voice
      Radio 4 14:30 By James Maw and Tim Sullivan. Rob Brydon is radio ventriloquist Peter Brough whose alter-ego puppet takes over, in the true story behind Educating Archie. With Fenella Woolgar.

      Eugenie Grandet Episode 1
      Radio 4 21:00 Eugenie Grandet Episode 1


      Sunday 3rd August

      Eugenie Grandet
      Radio 4 15:00 Episode 2. The final part of Rose Tremain's gripping dramatisation of Balzac's Eugenie Grandet starring Ian McKellen as Eugenie's miserly father and Alison Pettit as his lovelorn daughter.

      The Wire: Educator
      Radio 3 22:30 Hard-hitting drama by Hayley Squires. When 16-year-old Lydia meets the wife of her English teacher, the two women push each other to dangerous limits.


      Monday 4th August

      The Diary of Samuel Pepys - 1669
      Radio 4 11:45 Sam's affair with his former maid, Debs Willett, has put a huge strain on his marriage. Unable to trust him, Elizabeth won't let Sam leave the house without Will as his guard.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 12:00 Mon -Fri First week of epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. As Britain waits for Germany's response to their ultimatum, Kitty Wilson has a deadline of her own.

      Close Call
      Radio 4 14:15 It's 1969, and there is great excitment at the Watts home with the installation of their first phone. Little do they realise how much their lives will change. By Sarah Weatherall.


      Tuesday 5th August

      The Sensitive - A Possession
      Radio 4 14:15 When Thomas agrees to help in the search for a music student who disappeared a year ago he becomes obsessed by the missing girl in ways he hadn't expected.


      Wednesday 6th August

      Psalm
      Radio 4 14:15 Nick Warburton's tense and moving drama springs from one curious fact: Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson once escaped execution for manslaughter, just by reading a psalm. How?

      Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair - Carol Goes Swimming
      Radio 4 23:15 Episode 2 of 6 Jenny Eclair's story stars Lorraine Ashbourne as Carol, fat and fifty, who takes up swimming again and discovers that the best friendships endure even past death.


      Thursday 7th August

      Recent Events at Collington House
      Radio 4 14:15 New head teacher Roz Taylor, eager to be inclusive and accommodate all faiths and cultures, finds herself increasingly at odds with one of the parent governors.


      Friday 8th August

      The Lamp
      Radio 4 14:15 In a remote rural library, a widow from Perthshire and a visiting Kenyan form an unlikely friendship. Written by Linda Cracknell and recorded on location at Innerpeffray Library.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 21:00 First week of epic new drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years ago this week. Omnibus of the first week, as Folkestone comes to terms with being at the hub of Britain's war effort.


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    • Saturday 9th August

      Victory
      Victory - Gwyneth Hughes tells the story of the triangular relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson, Sir William and Emma, Lady Hamilton, starring Imogen Stubbs and Ronan Vibert .

      Eugenie Grandet Episode 2
      Radio 4 21:00 Eugenie Grandet Episode 2 - The final part of Rose Tremain's gripping dramatisation of Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, starring Ian McKellen as Eugenie's miserly father and Alison Pettit as his lovelorn daughter.


      Sunday 10th August

      The Stuarts
      Radio 4 15:00 By Mike Walker. When news of Oliver Cromwell's death reaches Brussels, the exiled Charles II plots his return. With Jamie Parker.

      The Wire: The Startling Truths of Old World Sparrows
      Radio 3 22:15 When there's a power cut each person is faced with their worst fear. A prize-winning drama based on verbatim interviews with three elderly people, and performed by children.


      Monday 11th August

      To the Lighthouse
      Radio 4 10:45 Virginia Woolf's classic novel dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths tells the story of the Ramsay family and their time on the Isle of Skye.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. In Folkestone, the local police find their resources terribly stretched...

      How to Say Goodbye Properly
      Radio 4 14:15 Funny and moving drama about growing up in the army, by exciting new writer E V Crowe. Lucy's father swears this is their last posting. But he's said that before...


      Tuesday 12th August

      The Sensitive - A Nobody
      Radio 4 14:15 Thomas suffers a crisis of confidence when he's asked to investigate a potential serial killer, and an old girlfriend, Kat, persuades Thomas to take a break.


      Wednesday 13th August

      The Good Listner
      Radio 4 14:15 This authentic drama takes us inside the intelligence agency GCHQ, where agents are tracking three young British Muslims as they head for Syria.

      Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair - A Trolley For A Change
      Radio 4 23:15 Episode 3 of 6 Jenny Eclair's story stars Ruth Sheen as a grandmother shopping for a rare visit from her grandchildren. But what do you give kids you barely know?


      Thursday 14th August

      Nocturne
      Radio 4 14:15 In Margaret Wilkinson's moving drama Anna is haunted by the secrets she has held onto all her life and Judith's presence in the house is causing her fears and her guilt to surface.


      Friday 15th August

      Brief Lives
      Radio 4 14:15 Episode 1 of 6. Frank Twist and his team of Manchester's finest paralegals returns for another series. Frank is recovering from his recent stroke and desperate to get back to work. Meanwhile Sarah's beauty parlour seems to be harbouring a secret.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 21:00 Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years ago this week, as Folkestone tries to rally flagging tourism whilst waving local troops off to the front.


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    • Also Filme schau ich mir ja gerne im O-Ton an, eigendlich sogar fast nur noch! O-Ton Hörspiele find ich aber irgendwie anstrengend... Liegt vielleicht daran wenn's bei nem Film unverständlich wird (British, Scottish oder Aussie Kauderwelsch) kann man immer noch zur Not Untertitel anschalten... bei HSP's geht das glaube ich nicht! :lach2:
    • @Deodato:
      Also Filme schau ich mir ja gerne im O-Ton an, eigendlich sogar fast nur noch! O-Ton Hörspiele find ich aber irgendwie anstrengend...

      Natürlich muss man sich erst reinfinden und wahrscheinlich kostet es auch etwas mehr Konzentration, aber ich finde das lohnt sich.

      Liegt vielleicht daran wenn's bei nem Film unverständlich wird (British, Scottish oder Aussie Kauderwelsch) kann man immer noch zur Not Untertitel anschalten... bei HSP's geht das glaube ich nicht! :lach2:

      Meistens nicht, stimmt :zustimm:


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    • Saturday 16th August

      Murder Under Trust: The Massacre at Glencoe
      Radio 4 14:30 In 1692 soldiers billeted in the homes of the MacDonald clan in Glencoe rose up and killed their hosts. Adrian Bean's play dramatises this infamous Highland massacre.

      The Stuarts Part 1
      Radio 4 21:00 Charles II, Part One: Through the World in Various Fortune
      Charting the early life of Charles II, as a young boy in the court of his father and during the Civil War, his life in exile during the interregnum, and later his failed attempts to regain the crown. When news finally reaches him of Oliver Cromwell's death, Charles plots his return once more. Directors: Marc Beeby & Sasha Yevtushenko.


      Sunday 17th August

      The Stuarts Part 2
      Radio 4 15:00 Charles II Part 2: The Long Lease of Pleasant Days. Charles II's feud with parliamentary reformers and his audacious plot to confound them and secure the throne for his brother. By Mike Walker, with Pip Torrens and James Fleet.

      The Marriage of Figaro
      Radio 3 21:40 A rare chance to hear the original play that inspired Mozart's now more famous opera. Written by French writer Beaumarchais, and considered too dangerous to perfom in its own time.


      Monday 18th August

      The Awakening
      Radio 4 10:45 Pippa Bennett-Warner, Petra Letang and PJ Brennan star in this steamy adaptation of the Kate Chopin novel which shocked America in 1899. Dramatised by Janice Okoh.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. Where there's war, there's brass, and Hilary Pearce has the makings of a real operator.

      The Vicar, the Automaton and the Talking Dog
      Radio 4 14:15 A mixture of fact and fantasy drama, in an extraordinary day in the life of Alexander Graham Bell as a child, as we discover the roots of his genius and the invention of the telephone.


      Tuesday 19th August

      The Sensitive - A Casualty of War
      Radio 4 14:15 A woman missing since 1945 is seen in a deserted guest house. Glasgow's psychic detective investigates. Atmospheric thriller by Alastair Jessiman.


      Wednesday 20th August

      The Chemistry Between Them
      Radio 4 14:15 It's 1983 and Margaret Thatcher is awaiting her former college tutor, Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin, however the visit will put their friendship to the test. By Adam Ganz.

      Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair - George's Cake
      Radio 4 23:15 Episode 4 of 6. Jenny Eclair's story stars Susie Blake as Bea, a brilliant cook, who is making a cake for her husband's 60th Birthday with a very special message.


      Thursday 21st August

      The Man Inside the Radio is my Dad
      Radio 4 14:15 Charlie Brooks, Janine in EastEnders, stars in Louise Monaghan's play. Is Mum telling Chloe the truth about the absence of her Dad or is she holding something back?


      Friday 22nd August

      Brief Lives
      Radio 4 14:15 Episode 2 of 6. Sarah is called in to defend a man accused of arson. And Cheryl helps Frank with his rehabilitation.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 21:00 Epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years ago. The week that Folkestone welcomed the first wave of Belgian refugees, fleeing the war.


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    • Saturday 23rd August

      The Martin Beck Killings: Roseanna
      Radio 4 14:30 A mystery girl is found dead. Maj Sjowall and Per Wahlöö's inspirational 1960s Swedish detective series stars Steven Mackintosh.

      The Stuarts Part 2
      Radio 4 21:00 Charles II Part 2: The Long Lease of Pleasant Days. Charles II's feud with parliamentary reformers and his audacious plot to confound them and secure the throne for his brother. By Mike Walker, with Pip Torrens and James Fleet.


      Sunday 24th August

      The Stuarts Part 3
      Radio 4 15:00 James II Part 3: The Storm of this Deceitful World. James II's reign lasted just four years before he fled England in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. How did it all go so wrong?

      The Wire: Mother of Him
      Radio 3 22:00 When her teenage son commits a terrible crime, Brenda Kapowitz fights for him to be sentenced as a child and finds herself in the spotlight. Written by Evan Placey.


      Monday 25th August

      Dark Fire
      Radio 4 10:45 Fast-paced dramatisation of C. J. Sansom's atmospheric Tudor crime novel set during the last days of Thomas Cromwell; featuring lawyer detective hero Matthew Shardlake.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. After the influx of refugees from Belgium, initiatives are afoot at St Judes to help.

      Blink
      Radio 4 14:15 Sophie and Jonah are two shy, lonely individuals thrown together in urban London. Their love affair takes a strange and initially contactless route.


      Tuesday 26th August

      The Sensitive - The Protector
      Radio 4 14:15 Alastair Jessiman's gentle psychic detective investigates the disappearance of a family friend - and discovers a shocking secret about his own past. Starring Robin Laing.


      Wednesday 27th August

      Keeping the Score
      Radio 4 14:15 Sam Kelly and David Troughton play two men who conduct their friendship exclusively within the score box of the cricket club. A touching comedy of relationships by Martyn Wade.

      Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair - The Viewing
      Radio 4 23:15 Episode 5 of 6. Jenny Éclair's story of a woman whose hobby is viewing houses for sale and comparing their owners lives to her own; but she may be too quick to judge. Read by Annette Badland.


      Thursday 28th August

      A Meeting with Dora
      Radio 4 14:15 Using a mixture of fact and fiction writer Don Shaw re-creates a unique meeting he had in 1979 with 86 year old activist, Dora Russell.


      Friday 29th August

      Brief Lives
      Radio 4 14:15 Episode 3 of 6. A high powered lawyer and her daughter are arrested for possession of drugs after a house party. But when our team of paralegals investigate they find a cat's cradle of other motives.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 21:00 With the first war-wounded arriving home through Folkestone, the locals attempt to boost morale.


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    • Saturday 30th August

      The Martin Beck Killings: The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
      Radio 4 14:30 Detective Inspector Beck is sent to Budapest to search for a missing journalist. Stars Steven Mackintosh and Neil Pearson.

      The Stuarts Part 3
      Radio 4 21:00 James II Part 3: The Storm of this Deceitful World. James II's reign lasted just four years before he fled England in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. How did it all go so wrong?


      Sunday 31st August

      Anthony Trollope's - Two Different Sets of People
      Radio 4 15:00 Episode 1 of 3. Maggie Steed and Nicholas Farrell star in the fourth novel of Barchester by Anthony Trollope, dramatised by Nick Warburton.

      August 1914
      Radio 3 21:40 For Russia, the first battle of World War 1 was a catastrophic defeat that almost wiped out the army and fuelled the coming Revolution. By Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.


      Monday 1st September

      Dark Fire
      Radio 4 10:45 Dramatisation of C. J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime novel set during the last days of Thomas Cromwell; featuring hunchback lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. The women of Folkestone are encouraged to join the White Feather movement.

      Slipping
      Radio 4 14:15 Andrew Scott and Charlotte Riley play two expert liars meeting in an ocular prosthetics clinic. Sean is painting a false eye for the intriguing Elena. By Claudine Toutoungi.


      Tuesday 2nd September

      The Sensitive - Queen of the Dead
      Radio 4 14:15 Glasgow's psychic detective investigates a woman's obsession with an English Professor. By Alastair Jessiman. Starring Robin Laing.


      Wednesday 3rd September

      Interiors
      Radio 4 14:15 Interiors shines a mis-wired spotlight on the revelation that a house really stands up or falls down on the basis of its human contents. Johnny Vegas stars as Jeffrey Parkin.

      Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair - Doing The Best for Daniel
      Radio 4 23:15 Episode 6 of 6. Jenny Eclair reads her own story of a single mother, abandoned by her lover, who dreams of raising her son to wreak revenge on his father.


      Thursday 4th September

      Dad
      Radio 4 14:15 A touching drama about a young, hands-on, full time, sleep deprived, clueless dad by Sarah McDonald Hughes. Starring Robert Haythorne and Reece Noi.


      Friday 5th September

      Brief Lives
      Radio 4 14:15 Episode 4 of 6. Another case for the team of Manchester paralegals. A teenager is pulled in for texting an indecent photo of his girlfriend which has gone viral. Is it just a case of an official warning by the police? But then matters take an even more serious turn.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 21:00 Epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years ago this week, as the country entered its second month at war and the White Feather Movement began in earnest.


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    • Saturday 6th September

      The Martin Beck Killings: The Man on the Balcony
      Radio 4 14:30 Who is assaulting and killing young girls in the parks of Stockholm? Beck battles to catch the killer. Stars Steven Mackintosh.

      Anthony Trollope's - Two Different Sets of People Part 1
      Radio 4 21:00 For young Mark Robarts, life as the Vicar of Framley can sometimes feel a little too quiet. So, risking the wrath of Lady Lufton and leaving his wife and children, he heads off for the allure of country house parties, little knowing the repercussions which are in store.


      Sunday 7th September

      Anthony Trollope's - A Word of Warning
      Radio 4 15:00 Episode 2 of 3. Maggie Steed, Nicholas Farrell and Pip Carter star in Trollope's portrait of 1860s Barchester, dramatised by Nick Warburton

      The White Devil
      Radio 3 21:45 First performed in 1612, John Webster's revenge play is here set in a 1950s underworld of shifting alliances and sudden violence. Stars Patrick Kennedy and Anna Maxwell Martin


      Monday 8th September

      Craven: Family Man
      Radio 4 10:45 On the 23rd December Briony goes out for an hour and comes home to find her children dead and her husband gone. Craven knows who, but needs to understand why.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain, a hundred years today. In Folkestone, life for the Grahams will never be the same again.

      Greed is Good
      Radio 4 14:15 Following Ireland's recent financial crash, Greed is Good delves into a sector that's constantly inviting you to take what you can get.


      Tuesday 9th September

      The Sensitive - Terma
      Radio 4 14:15 A journalist goes missing after building up a dossier on a powerful crime family. Thomas is brought in by police to investigate his disappearance.


      Wednesday 10th September

      The British Club
      Radio 4 14:15 In the ex-pat world of Bangladesh, Sub-Inspector Mondol finds a body in a pool. But he also finds he must make some personal choices, in Ben Musgrave's detective story.


      Thursday 11th September

      The Pearl
      Radio 4 14:15 John Steinbeck's parable of the greatest pearl ever found and the tragic impact its discovery has on one family. Dramatised by Donna Franceschild.


      Friday 12th September

      Brief Lives
      Radio 4 14:15 Episode 5 of 6. Sarah has always had a difficult relationship with her father, Saul. So matters become complicated when she and her sister Rebecca cross swords over the care of him. And Frank and Cheryl make a momentous decision about their future.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 21:00 Epic drama series set in Great War Britain, a hundred years ago this week. Folkestone holds it annual regatta and Dieter's safety is threatened...


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    • - Craven: Family Man


      "Briony goes out for an hour and comes home to find her children dead and her husband gone..."

      Argl! Das hört sich für mich gar nicht gut an, sondern nur ganz furchtbar! :panic: :pipi:
      Aber ansonsten sind schon ein paar interessante Sachen dabei diesmal. :zustimm:
    • Saturday 13th September

      The Martin Beck Killings: The Laughing Policeman
      Radio 4 14:30 A mass shooting on a bus leaves nine dead. Beck's murder trail leads him back to an unsolved case. Stars Steven Mackintosh.

      Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage - A Word of Warning
      Radio 4 21:00 Mark Robarts, Vicar of Framley, worries that Lady Lufton may find out about the Bill he has put his name to, but she's more interested in plotting with Susan Grantly to marry their respective children. Which would scupper Mark's sister's potential happiness forever.


      Sunday 14th September

      Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage - A Gift of Fire
      Radio 4 15:00 Episode 3 of 3. Maggie Steed, Nicholas Farrell and Sarah Ovens star in Anthony Trollope's fourth Barchester Chronicle, dramatised by Nick Warburton

      Time and the Conways
      Radio 3 22:00 A World War has just ended. The Conway family gather for Kay's 21st birthday party. But 19 years later we see that the future is far from the one they imagined. By J.B. Priestley.


      Monday 15th September

      Queen of Noise: Rip It Up
      Radio 4 10:45 The adventures of all-girl band Velveteens. Music business drama set before the digital revolution. Written by Louise Wener (ex-Sleeper) and Roy Boulter (The Farm).

      Home Front
      Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. It's the day of the memorial service, and everyone brings their own grief.

      Jailbird Lover
      Radio 4 14:15 Lonely bachelor Gwilym fulfills his relationship needs by writing to long-term women prisoners who he'll never have to meet. Until one of them turns up. Comedy by Craig Hawes.


      Tuesday 16th September

      The Sensitive - Black Island
      Radio 4 14:15 The psychic engages in a dangerous game with a leading actor. Starring Robin Laing.


      Wednesday 17th September

      The Man Who Turned Into a Sofa
      Radio 4 14:15 A depressed man and the sofa that sorted him out. A true story of illness overcome written by Andrew Peters and performed by him, his partner and their daughter. And a sofa.


      Thursday 18th September

      The Basin
      Radio 4 14:15 Drama about a woman who gives up her career and home to become a Traveller's wife. By Dan Allum. Starring Ellie Kendrick, Joe Sims and Candis Nergaard.


      Friday 19th September

      Brief Lives
      Radio 4 14:15 Episode 6 of 6. Last in the current series about the Manchester paralegals. Frank and Cheryl prepare to leave. But can they both leave their pasts behind?

      Home Front
      Radio 4 21:00 15th-18th September 1914. Epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years ago this week, as Folkestone honours its dead, and our characters' worlds all seem up-ended.


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    • Saturday 20th September

      The Martin Beck Killings: The Fire Engine That Disappeared
      The apartment of a suspect being staked out explodes, killing three people. Mystery surrounds the fire. Stars Steven Mackintosh.

      Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage - A Gift of Fire
      Radio 4 21:00 Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage - A Gift of Fire. After a lot of proposals made and turned down in Barchester, Miss Dunstable decides to hold a party. Lord Lufton - turned down by Lucy - finally comes back from his fishing trip, unaware that Lucy is now nursing the Vicar's wife in typhus-ridden Hogglestock.....


      Sunday 21st September

      Pinocchio
      Radio 4 15:00 Carlo Collodi's classic tale of a wooden puppet who wants to be a boy. Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths.
      [NOTE: LISTEN TO PINOCCHIO IN A LIVE SURROUND SOUND STREAM
      To listen to Pinocchio as a surround sound stream during the broadcast at 3pm on Sunday, you need a computer with a multi-channel sound card and a surround sound system, or a computer connected to a surround sound system using HDMI. You also need a good internet connection and either Internet Explorer 11 or the Chrome web browser on your computer. ]

      Everyday Time Machines
      Radio 3 22:00 Al Smith's play looks at the fate of three physicists who meet at Oxford and how Time plays a central part in their work and their relationships with devastating consequences.


      Monday 22nd September

      Lunch
      Radio 4 10:45 Mon-Fri Stephen Mangan and Claire Skinner star in Marcy Kahan's comedy about two old flatmates who meet once a month for lunch and talk about everything except how much they love eachother

      Home Front
      Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic drama series set in Great War Britain, on this day a hundred years ago. After weeks of surveillance, Adam and Jessie confront the mysterious man at the German consulate.

      Ghosts of Heathrow
      Radio 4 14:15 190,000 visitors pass through Heathrow each day. No wonder some of them are ghosts. A psychic adventure set in and around Europe's busiest airport.


      Tuesday 23rd September

      The Sensitive - Underground Man Part 1
      Radio 4 14:15 A killer hides in Glasgow's disused underground tunnels. The psychic, Thomas Soutar, investigates. By Alastair Jessiman.


      Wednesday 24th September

      White Noise
      Radio 4 14:15 Against the backdrop of the approaching Olympics, three residents of Dagenham see their lives fundamentally altered. By Matthew Broughton.


      Thursday 25th September

      Down and Out in Auchangaish
      Radio 4 14:15 Gentle comedy about a young homeless man, a hapless hotelier and the love that fire-fighting brings to a remote Scottish village.


      Friday 26th September

      Julie
      Radio 4 14:15 Based on the true story of Operation Julie. In 1977 police swooped on an isolated farm house in Wales from where a large proportion of the world's LSD originated. By Rob Gittins.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 21:00 15th-18th September 1914. Epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years ago this week. Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst visits Folkestone and on the Leas, an amicable alliance is reached.


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    • Ich möchte nochmal separat auf das Pinocchio Hörspiel am Sonntag hinweisen. Wie schon geschrieben, wird es in Sourround Sound ausgestrahlt und wer noch mehr über die Produktion wissen möchte, kann hier alles darüber nachlesen.
      Übrigens, Pinocchio ist auch gerade in der Reihe Titania Special erschienen. (Für alle, die es dann doch lieber auf deutsch hören möchten. ;) )


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    • Saturday 27th September

      Denmark Hill
      Radio 4 14:30 Alan Bennett's idiosyncratic take on the Hamlet story adapted for radio. Seen largely through the beady eyes of a 15 year old schoolgirl, this is Bennett in black comedy mode.

      James M. Cain's - The Postman Always Rings Twice
      Radio 4 21:00 Frank Chambers, a young drifter in 1930s California, stops at a diner and is offered a job. The owner is Nick Papadakis, and his much younger, beautiful wife, Cora. There is immediate sexual chemistry between Frank and Cora, and they begin a passionate affair. Cora is tired of working at the diner, and of her husband, so they decide to murder Nick and start a new life together. The plan is to hit Nick over the head and make it look like he drowned in the bath. But the plan goes wrong, and soon everything starts to unravel. Adapted by Charlotte Greig


      Sunday 28th September

      Rebus: Set in Darkness
      Radio 4 15:00 1/2 Ian Rankin's crime thriller centres on the building of the new Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in 1998. During the construction work a body is discovered in an old fireplace. The forensics suggest the victim was murdered 20 years before.

      The Outsider
      Radio 3 22:00 The Classic French existential novel dramatised by John Retallack. Meursault is a young man living in Algiers, who narrates his own story with striking neutrality.


      Monday 29th September

      The Pillow Book
      Radio 4 10:45 Mon-Fri Robert Forrest's popular thriller set in 10th century Japan. In a labyrinth of caves, the Emperor and Yukinari find themselves at the mercy of wolves.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 12:00 Mon - Fri Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. Councillor Graham develops a taste for tobacco and potatoes, and wishes for a New World.

      The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
      Radio 4 14:15 What are the odds on the earnest statistician Liam meeting the impulsive photographer Sadie? A tale of love, surrogacy and statistics. By Charlotte Bogard Macleod.


      Tuesday 30th September

      The Sensitive - Underground Man Part 2
      Radio 4 14:15 Two men are dead and the police are searching Glasgow's disused underground tunnels for their prime suspect, an injured ex-soldier. By Alastair Jessiman.


      Wednesday 1st October

      Amah in the Bathtub
      Radio 4 14:15 It's 1967 and the female members of a swimming club in colonial Singapore take social events seriously - but leave home and children to servants.


      Thursday 2nd October

      The Conlang of Love
      Radio 4 14:15 Oona Chaplin stars as Frances, a tongue-tied fantasy fiction addict in Lou Ramsden's original rom-com about language, love and dwarves.


      Friday 3rd October

      The Electrical Venus
      Radio 4 14:15 May 1749. Grainger's travelling fair has an astonishing new act, care of Sebastian Fox and his 'electrickery' in a play by Julie Mayhew. Hannah John-Kamen and Arthur Hughes star.

      Home Front
      Radio 4 21:00 29th - 3rd October 1914. Last of this season of drama set in Great War Britain, a hundred years ago this week. The end of the beginning, perhaps.


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    • Saturday 4th October

      Reykjavik
      Jonathan Myerson's rollercoaster drama about the surprise Reagan-Gorbachev summit in 1986.

      Rebus: Set in Darkness Part 1
      Radio 4 21:00 Rebus: Set in Darkness Part 1/2. Ian Rankin's crime thriller centres on the building of the new Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in 1998. During the construction work a body is discovered in an old fireplace. The forensics suggest the victim was murdered 20 years before. Police are still attempting to identify the corpse when a second body is found on the site - and this time it's one of the prospective candidates for the new parliament. It's a high-profile case and the rising star of Lothian And Borders Police - 28-year-old Detective Inspector Linford - is assigned to investigate, assisted by a reluctant John Rebus.


      Sunday 5th October

      Rebus: Set in Darkness Part 2
      Radio 4 15:00 Final part of Ian Rankin's crime thriller. Rebus investigates two murders on the site where the new Scottish Parliament is being built in Edinburgh in 1998.

      In the Depths of Dead Love
      Radio 3 22:00 Richard E Grant plays a banished poet in Howard Barker's dark comedy. Chin buys a bottomless well used by unhappy locals to end their suffering. Until the beautiful Hasi appears...


      Monday 6th October

      The Book of Strange New Things
      Radio 4 10:45 Mon-Fri Peter faces the mission of a lifetime, galaxies away from his wife, in Michel Faber's mesmerizing new novel, adapted by Miranda Emmerson. Joe Armstrong, Hayley Atwell and Dougray Scott star.

      De Wife of Bristol
      Radio 4 14:15 Lorna Gayle and Susan Wokoma star in Edson Burton's comedy: a scurrilous contemporary riff on Chaucer's Wife of Bath.


      Tuesday 7th October

      Tommies
      Radio 4 14:15 Based on eye-witness accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago. With Lee Ross, Indira Varma and Alex Wyndham. By Michael Chaplin.


      Wednesday 8th October

      The Golden Record
      Radio 4 14:15 A love story in science and sound, based on the real romance of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. By Duncan MacMillan, award winning writer, and new talent, Effie Woods.


      Thursday 9th October

      Rough Magick
      Radio 4 14:15 1605. Fearing further terrorist activity following the Gunpowder Plot, King James transports his court to the Scottish Highlands complete with The King's Men. But will he be safe?


      Friday 10th October

      Beyond Contempt
      Radio 4 14:15 Neil Pearson plays Peter Jukes in his nail-biting account of learning how to be a court reporter on the job - whilst live-tweeting the trial of the century. By Peter Jukes.


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