Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,804 playable programmes from the BBC

Duration: 47 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the early years of Europe's oldest psychiatric hospital, which opened as St Mary of Bethlehem outside Bishopsgate and soon became known as Bedlam. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Hilary Marland
Interviewed Guest:
Justin Champion
Interviewed Guest:
Jonathan Andrews

Woman's Hour

Exercise fads, Syrian refugees, Sophie Sabbage, Marian Clayden

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

From aerobics to candlelit cycling, how can you negotiate exercise fads to find a form of fitness training which will work for you? With Jenni Murray. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Jean Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Faya Nilsson
Interviewed Guest:
Sophie Sabbage
Interviewed Guest:
Janet Todd
Interviewed Guest:
Mary Schoeser

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

Charlotte’s excited to see George again and take things further, but his mother’s determined to keep them apart. Stars Ben Lamb. Show more

Setting the Past Free

Episode 1: Part I, Mark Lawson explores the retellings of one of the most controversial stories to emerge from the Holocaust

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Mark Lawson explores how the story of Rudolf Kastner, one of the most controversial figures to emerge from the Holocaust, has been retold outside Israel. Show more

Drama on 4

The Strange Vanishing of Julian Quark

Duration: 44 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Newly-elected Prime Minister Julian Quark (Toby Jones) is in a political pickle: every time he tells a lie a body part disappears. Surreal and delightful comedy by Tom Wainwright. Show more

Contributors

Julian Quark:
Toby Jones
Nobinson:
Ewan Bailey
TV Reporter:
Nicola Ferguson
Australian Prime Minister:
James Lailey
Aide:
Sam Rix

Genres

Open Book

Javier Marias on Thus Bad Begins

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Mariella Frostrup talks to award-winning Spanish novelist Javier Marias, whose latest book, Thus Bad Begins, is an intimate portrait of a marriage. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Javier Marias
Interviewed Guest:
Tash Aw
Interviewed Guest:
Chris Abani
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Dillon

The Film Programme

Ben Wheatley on High-Rise

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Director Ben Wheatley discusses his adaptation of JG Ballard's dystopian satire High-Rise and why he is terrified of the 70s. Antonia Quirke presents. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Antonia Quirke
Interviewed Guest:
Ben Wheatley
Interviewed Guest:
Jeremy Thomas
Interviewed Guest:
Roy Pace
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Sheen

Hal

Series 1

Episode 1: Career

Duration: 25 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

The stay-at-home Dad must stand in for his busy wife making a talk at their daughter’s school. Stars Hal Cruttenden. From 2014. Show more

Front Row

The Painkiller, Follow the Money, Maylis de Kerangal, The Gloaming

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Arts news, including the Painkiller, starring Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon, Danish crime drama Follow the Money and author Maylis de Kerangal on her novel Mend the Living. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Sean Foley
Interviewed Guest:
Alison Graham
Interviewed Guest:
The Gloaming

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

Charlotte’s excited to see George again and take things further, but his mother’s determined to keep them apart. Stars Ben Lamb. Show more

Duration: 47 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the early years of Europe's oldest psychiatric hospital, which opened as St Mary of Bethlehem outside Bishopsgate and soon became known as Bedlam. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest:
Hilary Marland
Interviewed Guest:
Justin Champion
Interviewed Guest:
Jonathan Andrews

Small Scenes

Series 3

Episode 3

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

Overblown, melodramatic modern life. With Daniel Rigby, Mike Wozniak, Cariad Lloyd, Henry Paker and Jessica Ransom. From 2016. Show more

Book of the Week

Henning Mankell - Quicksand

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

The author reveals his interest in cave paintings and what they reveal. Posthumous essays written by the creator of Wallander following his diagnosis of cancer. From March 2016. Show more

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.

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More