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BBC Radio: Eileen Atkins, Charles Edwards, Julian Fellowes & Hugh Bonneville

Posted by:	TimDunleavy 08:41 pm EST 01/16/15

Descriptions are taken from the Radio Drama newsletter, the Radio 4 Extra newsletter, and the individual web pages. Most programs are available for listening on their web pages for at least 7 days after broadcast. ===== Saturday 17th January - Friday 23rd January A new series of G.F. Newman's The Corrupted starts this week and the exploits of the Oldman family have reached the 1960s. Toby Jones plays Joey, treading a fine line between prospering from the corruption of the Establishment and trying to protect his son from gangland criminality. ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03m3j76 Saturday Drama Kneehigh's The Wild Bride Adapted for radio by Carl Grose and Emma Rice Down at the crossroads, the dust-bowl wind blows as the Devil sits in a rocking chair and begins to tell a story. It's a tale of love and war, good and evil; the tale of a young girl, whose father accidentally sells her soul to the Devil. The girl chooses to walk into the wilderness. She rejects not only the Devil, but also her home and must survive the ravages of nature and time. A dark blues infused musical fairy tale, from the critically acclaimed Kneehigh Theatre. Kneehigh is celebrated as one of Britain's most innovative theatre companies. For 30 years they've created popular and challenging theatre for audiences throughout the UK and beyond. This epic and poetic wondertale is classic Kneehigh: Instinctive storytelling, devilish humour, a uniquely realised other-world and a fantastic blues music score. The show was first produced at the Kneehigh Asylum in Cornwall in 2011, directed by Emma Rice. Since then it has delighted audiences from the West End to Broadway. Radio 4's adaptation is a Christmas treat not to be missed. Praise for the original stage show "Witty, surprising, strange. I dreamt about it all night" The Times "A feast of timeless story, irresistible music and wildly imaginative theatricality." San Francisco Chronicle "Bewitching" New York Times The Devil ... Stuart McLoughlin The Wild Bride ... Audrey Brisson Father ... Stuart Goodwin King ... Stuart Goodwin King's Mother ... Emma Rice Today 14:30 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qkvv0 Drama on 3 Mrs Updike Eileen Atkins and Charles Edwards star in this new play by Margaret Heffernan about the tempestuous relationship between one of the most famous American writers of the twentieth century, John Updike, and his mother. Tomorrow 22:00 BBC Radio 3 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04yb5fn GF Newman's The Corrupted Series 2 Episode 1 of 10 Crime drama based on the characters from the best selling novel by the multi-award winning writer, GF Newman. This second series runs from 1961 to 1970. Spanning six decades, the saga plots the course of one family against the back-drop of a revolution in crime as the underworld extends its influence to the very heart of the establishment, in an uncomfortable relationship of shared values. At the start of the 1960s, Joey Oldman acquires crafty Arnold Goodman as his solicitor, and buys shares in the civil engineering firm owned by the corrupt Minister of Transport, Ernest Marples. Prospering with the help of venal bankers, and growing more devious, he and his wife Cath join Macmillan's Conservative Party. They strive without success to keep their son Brian free of the influence of Jack Braden (Cath's nephew) as he takes their 'firm' from running illicit clubs, where they entertain politicians and judges, to armed robbery. All the while, Jack and Brian struggle to keep free of the police and further entanglements with the law, the Kray twins and the Richardsons. Episode 1: Joey finds a gun Brian has hidden at his house, panics and calls the police. Written by GF Newman 45 minutes Narrator ... Ross Kemp Joey Oldman ... Toby Jones Cath Oldman ... Denise Gough Brian Oldman ... Joe Armstrong Jack Braden ... Luke Allen Gale Leah Cohen ... Jasmine Hyde Writer ... GF Newman Director ... Clive Brill Producer ... Clive Brill Mon 19 Jan 2015 14:15 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04yb0f5 Book of the Week Epilogue: A Memoir Episode 1 of 5 Prologue Jamie Parker reads Will Boast's extraordinary family story. A moving account of loss, confronting long-held secrets and finding a way of facing the future. Following the tragic deaths, in quick succession, of his mother, younger brother and father, American author, Will Boast, at the age of twenty-four, finds himself absolutely alone. It's while he's putting his father's papers in order that he discovers a family secret which takes him back to England and compels him to question everything he thought he knew about his parents. Mon 19 Jan 2015 09:45 BBC Radio 4 FM only Tue 20 Jan 2015 00:30 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qfhjt Book of the Week Julian Fellowes - Snobs Episode 1 of 5 Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes and Lord Grantham himself, Hugh Bonneville, combine for another examination of social climbing, class strife and marital disharmony. Caroline Harker, Celia Imrie and Julian Rhind-Tutt co-star in the tale of Edith Lavery, who finds marriage isn't going to leave her happy ever after. Mon 12 Jan 2015 14:30 BBC Radio 4 Extra Tue 13 Jan 2015 00:30 BBC Radio 4 Extra ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04ykbjw The Rivals Series 3 Episode 4 of 4 The Moabite Cipher Based on a short story by R. Austin Freeman Dramatised by Chris Harrald Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he is writing his memoirs and has a chance to get his own back, with tales of Holmes' rivals. He continues with Dr James Thorndike as they try to protect Pastor Wayne Kaplan after he receives death threats, despite Lestrade's and James' aversions to Kaplan's charismatic preaching and healing. Lestrade ... James Fleet Thorndike ... Tim McInnerny Kaplan ... Ian Conningham Prof Wegener ... Michael Bertenshaw Miss Dunbar ... Roslyn Hill Flunky ... Monty d'Inverno Duchess ... Jane Slavin Wed 21 Jan 2015 11:30 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076pv1 Martin Boyd - Lucinda Brayford A beautiful and wealthy Australian marries into English Aristocracy, but the traditional order is changing. Stars Juliet Aubrey. ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qfhjt Mary Costello - The China Factory A forgotten book and an e-mail arriving out of the blue triggers the tipping point for a marriage. Read by Niamh Cusack. ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04yk47g Great Lives Series 35 Episode 7 of 8 Nora Ephron Former newspaper editor and writer Eve Pollard tells Matthew Parris why Nora Ephron, the screenwriter of hit films such as 'When Harry Met Sally', 'Heartburn', and 'Sleepless in Seattle', is a Great Life. They are joined by Dr Jennifer Smyth, an historian whose teaching includes women in Hollywood at the University of Warwick. Tue 20 Jan 2015 16:30 BBC Radio 4 Fri 23 Jan 2015 23:00 BBC Radio 4 ===== http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ptw Podcast Drama of the Week: A Traveller's Guide to Paterson Michael Symmons Robert's drama documentary investigating Paterson, the favoured city and epic poem of American poet William Carlos Williams. Also available on iTunes. ======

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