Programme Index

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Saturday Live

Sir Tim Rice

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Sir Tim Rice on the latest Chess revival, food writer Diana Henry on the art of creating a menu, listener Talitha MacKenzie and Spinal Tap's Derek Smalls talks to JP Devlin. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Aasmah Mir
Presenter:
Richard Coles
Presenter:
JP Devlin
Interviewed Guest:
Tim Rice
Interviewed Guest:
Diana Henry
Derek Smalls:
Harry Shearer
Interviewed Guest:
Talitha MacKenzie
Interviewed Guest:
Robyn Hollingworth
Interviewed Guest:
Gail Porter

The News Quiz

Series 96

27/04/2018

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Satirical review of the week's news. Miles Jupp is joined by Andy Hamilton, Hugo Rifkind, Mark Steel and Suzi Ruffell for a look at the week's biggest (and smallest) headlines. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Miles Jupp
Panellist:
Andy Hamilton
Panellist:
Hugo Rifkind
Panellist:
Mark Steel
Panellist:
Suzi Ruffell
Producer:
Joe Nunnery

Duration: 57 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for years

4 Extra Debut. General de Gaulle's secret flight from Paris during the 1986 riots, uncovering the French government's panic. Stars Ronald Pickup. Show more

Contributors

Daniel Cohn-Bendit:
Rory Fleck Byrne
Yvonne de Gaulle:
Barbara Flynn
Georges Pompidou:
Philip Jackson
De Gaulle:
Ronald Pickup
De Boissieu:
Daniel Weyman
Producer:
David Morley

Genres

Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Jessie Buckley, Women in US Politics, Office Housework

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Jessie Buckley on starring in period dramas, Caroline Criado Perez on the statue of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett and why office housework tends to fall to black women. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Jessie Buckley
Interviewed Guest:
Caroline Criado Perez
Interviewed Guest:
Haydn Gwynne
Interviewed Guest:
Jennifer Palmieri
Interviewed Guest:
Alicia Glen
Interviewed Guest:
Aine Carlin
Interviewed Guest:
Melanie Eusebe
Interviewed Guest:
Bolu Babalola
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Grime

Loose Ends

Don McLean, Amanda Abbington, In-Sook Chappell, The Magic Numbers, YolanDa Brown, Clive Anderson

Duration: 44 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Clive Anderson and YolanDa Brown are joined by Don McLean, Amanda Abbington and In-Sook Chappell for conversation and comedy. With music from Kimmie Rhodes and The Magic Numbers. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Clive Anderson
Presenter:
YolanDa Brown
Interviewed Guest:
Don McLean
Interviewed Guest:
Amanda Abbington
Performer:
Kimmie Rhodes
Producer:
Sukey Firth

Saturday Review

Beast, The Writer, Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodin and the art of ancient Greece, The Rain

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

British film Beast, The Writer at the Almeida, Curtis Sittenfeld's You Think It, I'll Say It, Rodin and the art of ancient Greece at the British Museum, The Rain on Netflix. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Denise Mina
Interviewed Guest:
Sarfraz Manzoor
Interviewed Guest:
Alice Jones
Producer:
Oliver Jones

PG Wodehouse

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

2. Jeeves Intervenes

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Blackmail is afoot, petty larceny and fisticuffs by the rhododendrons. Gussie elopes, but with whom? Starring Joanna Lumley. Show more

Contributors

Aunt Dahlia:
Joanna Lumley
Bertie Wooster:
James Callis
Roderick Spode:
Adam Godley
Major Plank:
Michael York
Sir Watkyn Bassett:
Ian Ogilvy
Rev Harold Pinker:
Julian Sands
Stiffy Byng:
Moira Quirk
Madeline Bassett:
Elizabeth Knowelden
Gussie Fink-Nottle:
Matthew Wolf
Emerald Stoker:
Tara Lynne Barr
Butterfield:
Kenneth Danziger

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