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Ramblings

Series 27

Episode 1: Thundersley, Essex

Duration: 23 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Suburban Essex may not be the first place you would think of to find great walking routes, but Clare Balding becomes a convert as she is introduced to the area around Thundersley. Show more

Saturday Live

Adventurer Ed Stafford and the Inheritance Tracks of Ziggy Marley

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein with adventurer Ed Stafford, JP Devlin in Hay-on-Wye, the Inheritance Tracks of Ziggy Marley and the varied life of a stem cell courier. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Coles
Presenter:
Suzy Klein
Interviewed Guest:
Ed Stafford
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Meyer
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Hodes
Interviewed Guest:
JP Devlin
Interviewed Guest:
Chris Markiewicz
Interviewed Guest:
Ziggy Marley
Producer:
Chris Wilson

The Now Show

Series 43

Episode 6

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Sara Pascoe for a comic romp through the week's news. With Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin and Jon Holmes. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Steve Punt
Presenter:
Hugh Dennis
Panellist:
Mitch Benn
Panellist:
Laura Shavin
Panellist:
Jon Holmes
Panellist:
Sara Pascoe

Saturday Drama

Classic Chandler

Episode 7: The Little Sister

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Toby Stephens is Raymond Chandler's fast-talking private eye Philip Marlowe. Show more

Woman's Hour

Mary Portas

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Mary Portas and high street heroines. Why are more women not on Rich Lists? Is the violence in BBC One's Happy Valley too much? Reviving the lost art of conversation. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Lester
Interviewed Guest:
Deborah Leary
Interviewed Guest:
Mary Portas
Interviewed Guest:
Alison Stammers
Interviewed Guest:
Sara Scott
Interviewed Guest:
Masih Alinejad
Interviewed Guest:
Tanni Grey-Thompson
Interviewed Guest:
Anna Kessel
Interviewed Guest:
Sally Wainwright
Interviewed Guest:
Nicola Schindler
Interviewed Guest:
Colleen Lynch
Interviewed Guest:
David King
Interviewed Guest:
Juliet Tizzard
Interviewed Guest:
Felicity Boardman
Interviewed Guest:
Olivia Fane

Saturday Review

Tim Winton's Eyrie, Kenneth Clark at Tate Britain, Heli, Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Tim Winton's new novel Eyrie, Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be at Theatre Royal Stratford East, Kenneth Clark at Tate Britain, Nick Frost in Mr Sloane, and Mexican film Heli. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Coles
Interviewed Guest:
Diane Roberts
Interviewed Guest:
Judith Mackrell
Interviewed Guest:
Tom Holland
Producer:
Oliver Jones

The Barchester Chronicles

Anthony Trollope's Dr Thorne

Episode 3

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

After an enforced year away from Mary, Frank returns with his mother ever hopeful he will marry money. Stars Douglas Booth. Show more

Contributors

Mrs Baxter:
Maggie Steed
Dr Thorne:
Iain Glen
Frank Gresham:
Doug Booth
Lady Scratcherd:
Lisa Tarbuck
Louis Scractherd:
Kieran Hodgson
Lady Arabella:
Pippa Haywood
Squire Gresham:
Michael Bertenshaw
Miss Dunstable:
Hattie Morahan
Patience Oriel:
Jaimi Barbakoff
Director:
Susan Roberts

Genres

Poetry Please

Live Audience Requests at Bristol Food Connections Festival

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Roger McGough presents the programme's best-loved poems, as chosen by the audience at Bristol Food Connections. With readers James Fleet, Alex Lanipekun and Pippa Haywood. Show more

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