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BBC Radio: James Baldwin, Tom Stoppard, "Home Front" premiere

Posted by:	TimDunleavy 08:57 pm EDT 08/04/14

Descriptions are taken from the individual web pages. ===== Saturday 2nd August - Friday 8th August One hundred years ago this week the world was on the brink of a cataclysm and by the evening of the 4th August 1914 Britain had entered the war against Germany. At the centre of BBC Radio's programming to mark the centenary is one of the biggest radio drama series we've ever commissioned. Beginning on Monday, Home Front will run throughout the war years in seasons, with Season One set in Folkestone. Each episode will focus on a different character's experience exactly 100 years ago to the day of broadcast. Across all social layers, the series blends fictional characters with factual events and imagines what life was like for those who didn't go off to fight. In Week one, a housemaid worries about her future, two young boys win third prize in the dog competition, a family celebrate their son's imminent departure for the front and troops march through Folkestone to embark for France, cheered on by patriotic and excited crowds. There's an introduction to the characters and lots of extra background content online. Additional Content: Home Front http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03thbcj The series will also be available as a podcast; the first episode is already up on iTunes. Daily podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ww1homefront Weekly omnibus: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ww1hfomnibus ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03thbcj Home Front 4 August 1914 - Kitty Wilson Duration: 12 minutes 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, in Folkestone, Kitty Wilson has a deadline of her own. Written by: Katie Hims Music: Matthew Strachan Directed by Editor: Jessica Dromgoole Home Front is a ground-breaking new Radio Four radio drama - its biggest ever at around 600 episodes - set in Britain during the Great War, playing a central role in the BBC's comprehensive World War One offering. An enthralling fiction, set against a backdrop of fact. Each episode is set a hundred years to the day before broadcast, and follows one character's day. Together they create a mosaic of experience from a wide cross-section of British society, and a playful treasure hunt, with at least one historical truth hidden in each story. Season One is set in Folkestone, a fashionable Edwardian seaside resort that quickly became one of the hubs of the military machine, and close enough to France to hear the fighting. Future seasons will be set in Newcastle and Devon, telling the major stories of wartime Britain. Marking major and minor events of the time, Home Front charts the strategies that ordinary people found for managing life in wartime, and how, together, they ensured that the Home Front didn't break down. Kitty ... Ami Metcalf Ralph ... Nicholas Murchie Adam ... Leo Montague Dieter ... Joe Sims Albert ... Harry Myers Customer ... Craige Els Cynic ... Wilf Scolding Man ... Michael Bertenshaw Woman ... Rachel Shelley Mon 4 Aug 2014 12:00FM only Mon 4 Aug 2014 12:04 BBC Radio 4 LW only ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cfdhm James Baldwin 90th Anniversary: No Complaints Made for 4 Extra This Saturday would have been James Baldwin’s 90th birthday – had he not died in 1987 aged 63. The novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist came to prominence in the 1950s and 60s - decades torn by America’s civil rights struggles. In 1984, Caryl Phillips - the future prize winning British novelist - met James in France. Baldwin had become his mentor, so allowed Caryl to record an extraordinary interview – ranging from his childhood and homosexuality, to his struggle against naked racism in America. Despite everything, Baldwin concluded he had 'no complaints' - giving the programme its title when first heard on BBC Radio 4 in November 1984. To mark the 90th anniversary Caryl Phillips returns to that interview, to record his thoughts and feelings about Baldwin's legacy, and to introduce his own 2004 Radio 4 play: A Kind of Home - James Baldwin in Paris. A play inspired by his fateful journey to Paris as a young, penniless, black, homosexual writer struggling to survive. It was a struggle that helped create one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Find out more in the producer's blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/posts/James-Baldwin-90th-Anniversary-No-Complaints Saturday at 6am and 4pm ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kbhws Tom Stoppard - Where Are They Now? An Old Boys' reunion dinner inevitably invites echoes from the past. Stars Carleton Hobbs, Lockwood West and Timothy West. From BBC Radio 3 in 1970. Thursday at 6am, 1pm and 8pm ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04c9gsl Saturday Drama His Master's Voice Availability: 5 days left to listen Duration: 1 hour By James Maw and Tim Sullivan. Rob Brydon is ventriloquist Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews in a new play that tells the true story behind one of the most successful radio shows of all time. With Fenella Woolgar as Peggy Brough. The 1950s BBC Radio show Educating Archie - with 16 million listeners - catapulted the ventriloquist Peter Brough from suburban obscurity to the heights of high society. The Royal Family were fans. His show introduced the world to Eric Sykes (writer), Tony Hancock (Archie's Tutor), Max Bygraves (another tutor) and Julie Andrews (Archie's girlfriend). After eight years on radio, Educating Archie transferred to television. And yet, one day in 1961, Peter Brough locked the dummy in a suitcase and left him on the top of a wardrobe for forty years until, six years after the ventriloquist's death, Archie Andrews was put up for auction. His Master's Voice tells the true story of what went wrong in the world of Archie Andrews and Peter Brough. Written by James Maw and Tim Sullivan Peter Brough ... Rob Brydon Archie Andrews ... Rob Brydon Peggy Brough ...Fenella Woolgar Arthur Brough ... Michael Bertenshaw Christopher Brough ... Thomas Williams-Boyle Romey Brough ... Eliza Harrison-Dine Liz ... Stephanie Racine Hattie Jacques ... Stephanie Racine William Haley ... James Lailey Max Bygraves ... Ewan Bailey Edith ... Harriet Collings Cloakroom Girl ... Harriet Collings Sat 2 Aug 2014 14:30 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cffpg Afternoon Drama Psalm Duration: 45 minutes Nick Warburton's tense and moving drama springs from one curious historical fact: the Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson once escaped execution for manslaughter, just by reading a psalm. An old loophole in the law meant that anyone who proved that they could read from the bible, could have their case tried in an ecclesiastical court as if they were clergy, and that their sentence would be lighter. The fact that the passage normally chosen to be read was Psalm 51, with its penitential sentiments, meant that this psalm came to be called 'the neck verse'. But what if you were a condemned man... who couldn't read? John ... Jeremy Whitton Spriggs Walters ... Kim Wall Judith ... Amanda Root Wed 6 Aug 2014 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0184s2s Afternoon Drama The Lamp Duration: 45 minutes First broadcast: Wednesday 14 December 2011 In a remote Scottish library, a farmer's widow and a visiting Kenyan librarian bond unexpectedly over a shared love of books. Written by Linda Cracknell and recorded on location at Innerpeffray Library in Perthshire, a museum celebrating Scotland's first public lending library. Elspeth ... Ellie Haddington Simon ... Fraser James David ... Ralph Riach Fri 8 Aug 2014 14:15FM only ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03th3dv The Wire Educator Availability: 6 days left to listen Duration: 45 minutes First broadcast: Saturday 08 February 2014 When 16-year-old Lydia meets the wife of her English teacher, the two women push each other to dangerous limits. Their lives fall apart in ways they could never have anticipated. Hayley Squires's hard-hitting new play about power, sex, responsibility, and the thin line that separates adults from teenagers. Lydia ... Aisling Loftus Maria ... Michelle Terry Jake ... Simon Harrison Ben ... Joel MacCormack Katie ... Carys Eleri Katie's Friend ... Georgie Fuller Radio DJ ... Arthur Hughes Maria's Mum ... Carolyn Pickles Sun 3 Aug 2014 22:30 BBC Radio 3 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cb617 15 Minute Drama The Diary of Samuel Pepys Episode 1 of 5 Availability: 7 days left to listen Duration: 15 minutes The last series of Hattie Naylor's adaptation. It's a tense time in the Pepys household. As we know from the last nine years of his diary, Sam has often had dalliances with other women, unbeknown to his wife Elizabeth. Her ignorance of his behaviour came to an abrupt end last October when she walked in on him in a compromising position with the maid, Debs Willet. This discovery has put a huge strain on their marriage. Almost deranged by suspicion and jealousy, Elizabeth forbids Sam to leave the house unless he is accompanied at all times by their servant, Will. It's not all bad, however, as she's used Sam's guilt to make him give her a bigger clothing allowance. Sam ... Kris Marshall Elizabeth ... Katherine Jakeways Will ... John Biddle Harry Sheers ... Geoffrey Streatfeild Mon 4 Aug 2014 11:45 BBC Radio 4 Mon 4 Aug 2014 19:45 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cb9gy Afternoon Drama Close Call Availability: 7 days left to listen Duration: 45 minutes With Apollo 11 about to land on the moon, the Watts family have finally installed their first telephone, little realising how much their lives will change with its arrival. The phone sits in the hallway, witnessing the activities of the house, listening to the family's secret loves, fears and joys. The writer Sarah Weatherall captures the excitement of using a phone for the first time, in the days before mobiles and texts, and when no conversation was private. Frank Watts ... Ricky Champ Natalie ... Angie Wallis Vincent ... Matthew Tennyson Liam ... Reece Buttery DJ ... Clive Hayward Newsreader ... Elaine Claxton Mon 4 Aug 2014 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hv3j0 Afternoon Drama The Sensitive Episode 3 of 11 A Possession Duration: 45 minutes First broadcast: Wednesday 04 March 2009 Alastair Jessiman's third play about a Glasgow psychic who uses his gifts to help police investigations. When Thomas Soutar agrees to help in the search for a music student who has been missing for a year, he becomes obsessed by the missing girl in ways that he had not expected. Thomas ... Robin Laing Natasha ... Anita Vetesse Mrs Soutar ... Sheila Donald Mr Paris ... James Macpherson Mrs Paris ... Cara Kelly Mrs Collins ... Juliet Cadzow Guest House Manager ... John-Paul Hurley Carol ... Patricia Kavanagh Tue 5 Aug 2014 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cfkv4 Afternoon Drama Recent Events at Collington House Duration: 45 minutes Collington House is a secondary school in a Midlands town with a large proportion of its students from the Muslim community. 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. This is a drama that gets behind the news headlines and political wrangles to examine what is actually meant by "Islamisation" and the difference is between radicalisation and the co-existence of different faiths in schools on a day-to-day level. Roz Taylor ... Heather Craney Abdul Lateef Shah ... Neil D'Souza Jaffer n Sadiq ... Sam Dastor Folasade Olabode (Sade) ... Tracy Ifeachor John Roberts ... Philip Jackson Mrs Barlow ...Becci Gemmell PC Khan ... Jaz Deol Thu 7 Aug 2014 14:15FM only ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015pb1m Michael Holroyd - Strange Eventful History Episode 1 of 5 Availability: 3 weeks left to listen Duration: 15 minutes First broadcast: Monday 10 October 2011 Eleanor Bron reads Michael Holroyd's biography of Victorian stage greats Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. 'Fallen' Ellen runs off. ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cfgqq Vivian Stanshall's Radio Flashes 4 Extra Debut Radio 1 show from 1971 with music and comedy from the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's singer Vivian Stanshall, with guest Keith Moon. Featuring the ace serial, "Breath from the Pit". Saturday at 10pm ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cfw5h The Reunion - Edinburgh Fringe Founders 1960 4 Extra Debut As the Edinburgh Festival Fringe begins, here's a chance to hear this 2005 programme, in which Sue MacGregor reunites some of the founders and leading performers from the annual summer event. With Michael Imison, Joyce McMillan, Alistair Moffat, Richard Demarco and Arnold Brown, the first stand-up comic winner of the Perrier Award. Sunday at 10am and 9pm ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cb5sm Book of the Week In Montmartre Episode 1 of 5 Availability: 7 days left to listen Duration: 15 minutes Author Sue Roe account, abridged by Katrin Williams, describes how Pablo Picasso and other artists found this Paris quarter irresistible when arriving in the early 1900's: 1. He turns up with his Catalan friend Casagemas during the World Fair and quickly feels at home, painting the scene and carousing in such notorious watering holes as the 'Zut'. Reader Stella Gonet Mon 4 Aug 2014 09:45FM only Tue 5 Aug 2014 00:30 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03z081s Zeitgeisters Series 2 Episode 4 of 4 Sonia Friedman Duration: 30 minutes First broadcast: Saturday 26 April 2014 BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz meets the cultural entrepreneurs whose aesthetic sense infects and influences our daily lives... who know what we want, even when we do not... the men and women whose impact goes beyond mere commerce, it shapes contemporary culture. Programme 4. Sonia Friedman - the prolific West End and Broadway producer whose shows Ghosts, Chimerica, Book of Mormon and Merrily We Roll Along have just scooped fourteen Olivier awards. In fact, it was Laurence Olivier who interviewed her for her first job as a stage manager at the National Theatre. Since when she co-founded the theatre company Out of Joint before forming her own production company in 2002 and becoming possibly one of the most powerful impresarios of the West End and Broadway. Thu 7 Aug 2014 21:30 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ptw Podcast: Drama of the Week I'm a Believer 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. Also available on iTunes. =====

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