Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,709 playable programmes from the BBC

Five programmes in which Jamie Glover reads Richard Kennedy 's classic memoir based on the diary he kept while working for Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
4: Everything starts to go wrong for Richard Kennedy as he makes an expensive mistake.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jamie Glover
Unknown:
Richard Kennedy
Unknown:
Virginia Woolf.
Unknown:
Richard Kennedy

Kim Normanton presents three progammes which tell stories of culture shock from a child's perspective. 2: Camels, Sheikhs and Stewed
Tomatoes. 1974. Tony, aged eight, leaves Lebanon for an English prep school. His distress at the brutality there is compounded by news that war is destroying his home town of Beirut. Producer Cathy Drysdale

Contributors

Unknown:
Kim Normanton
Producer:
Cathy Drysdale

The news of 50 years ago today, with Geoffrey Wheeler. Hollywood movie stars are to be brought before the Un-American Activities Committee, which is investigating allegations of Communist activity within the film industry.

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Wheeler.

Patrick Hannan chairs the light-hearted political quiz with team captains Michael White and Austin Mitchell MP and guests Edwina Currie and Baroness Trumpington. Written by Michael Dines Producer Phil Bowker

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Hannan
Unknown:
Michael White
Unknown:
Edwina Currie
Written By:
Michael Dines
Producer:
Phil Bowker

By Andy Rattenbury. Lou is having nightmares about a childhood trauma and decides to return home to confront her past. Her family is unnerved by her reappearance, and everyone is forced to unearth long-buried secrets. with Abigail McKern , Christine Kavanagh. Peter Gunn. Laura Rattenbury , Joanne Rattenbury and Kirsten Rattenbury. Director Celia de Wolff

Contributors

Unknown:
Andy Rattenbury.
Unknown:
Abigail McKern
Unknown:
Christine Kavanagh.
Unknown:
Peter Gunn.
Unknown:
Laura Rattenbury
Unknown:
Joanne Rattenbury
Unknown:
Kirsten Rattenbury.
Director:
Celia de Wolff
May:
Gwen Taylor
George:
Jim Carter
Lou:
Poppy Miller

Pete McCarthy chairs the panel game for impressionists.
With team captains Alistair McGowan and Steve Nallon and guests Jon Culshaw and Peter Serafinowicz. Producer Chris Lang

Contributors

Unknown:
Pete McCarthy
Unknown:
Alistair McGowan
Unknown:
Steve Nallon
Unknown:
Jon Culshaw
Unknown:
Peter Serafinowicz.
Producer:
Chris Lang

The second of three programmes about the Miss America pageant and some of the women who have won the coveted title. From Broads to Brains
Jean Snedegar finds that the pageant's organisers had to offer university scholarships as prizes to attract the kind of contestants they craved. Producer Sally Thompson

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Snedegar
Producer:
Sally Thompson

Christopher Harvie concludes his two-part investigation into the changing relationship between scientists and politicians since the Second World
War. Government scientists describe how best to give scientific advice to politicians. The science minister details his priorities, but as global issues come to dominate the political agenda, what scope is there for a specifically British science policy? Producer John Watkins

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Harvie
Producer:
John Watkins

The last of Stewart Permutt 's comedies featuring four different women's bittersweet views of the world. Dora
Lesley Joseph re-creates her stage role as a "person of restricted growth" whose performances are under threat. Director Marion Nancarrow

Contributors

Unknown:
Stewart Permutt
Unknown:
Lesley Joseph
Director:
Marion Nancarrow

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Appears in

About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More