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Ramblings

Series 25

Episode 3: Durham with Maggie and Keith Bell

Duration: 23 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Clare Balding walks with Keith and Maggie Bell around the city of Durham. It's a walk they still enjoy now as much as they did 30 years ago, during their courting days. Show more

Saturday Live

05/10/2013

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Richard Coles and Anita Anand with guest Richard Osman, the Inheritance Tracks of Rula Lenska, John McCarthy on the sleeper train to Cornwall, and a celebration of Devon dialect. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Coles
Presenter:
Anita Anand
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Osman
Interviewed Guest:
Stevyn Colgan
Interviewed Guest:
Ian Tibbets
Interviewed Guest:
June Smith
Interviewed Guest:
April Scott
Interviewed Guest:
Neville Hume
Interviewed Guest:
Rula Lenska
Producer:
Chris Wilson

The Now Show

Series 41

Episode 2

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Steve Punt and Jon Culshaw are joined by David Quantick, Pippa Evans, Mitch Benn and Laura Shavin for a comic run through the week's news. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Steve Punt
Presenter:
Jon Culshaw
Performer:
David Quantick
Performer:
Laura Shavin
Performer:
Pippa Evans
Performer:
Mitch Benn

Saturday Drama

Calum's Road

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Ian McDiarmid stars in this atmospheric drama based on the true story of a man who built a two-mile road by hand on the Scottish island of Raasay, off the east coast of Skye. Show more

Contributors

Calum MacLeod:
Ian McDiarmid
Lexie MacLeod:
Monica Gibb
Julia MacLeod:
Helen Mackay

Genres

Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Sheila Hancock; Childlessness; Edna O'Brien

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Sheila Hancock on her role in Barking in Essex; Joan Smith and Simon Cox discuss the press's fascination with Samantha Lewthwaite; the grief of childlessness; Edna O'Brien. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Sheila Hancock
Interviewed Guest:
Joan Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Cox
Interviewed Guest:
Paula Gwinnett
Interviewed Guest:
Yewande Akinola
Interviewed Guest:
Jody Day
Interviewed Guest:
Edna O'Brien
Interviewed Guest:
Denise Jackson
Interviewed Guest:
Claire McCarthy
Interviewed Guest:
Eliza Carthy
Interviewed Guest:
Marry Waterson
Producer:
Louise Corley

Saturday Review

Filth and Masters of Sex

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Irvine Welsh's novel Filth comes to the big screen starring James McAvoy, and Michael Sheen plays obstetrician William Masters in Masters of Sex on TV. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Antonia Quirke
Interviewed Guest:
Kevin Jackson
Interviewed Guest:
Kamila Shamsie
Producer:
Sarah Johnson

Classic Serial

Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour

Episode 1: Men at Arms

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

4 Extra Debut. Guy Crouchback is searching for a purpose to live. Evelyn Waugh's satirical masterpiece, on the futility of war, stars Paul Ready. Show more

Contributors

Narrator:
Tim McInnerny
Guy Crouchback:
Paul Ready
Brigadier Ben Ritchie-Hook:
Tim Pigott-Smith
Arthur Box-Bender:
Robert Daws
Trimmer:
Lee Ingleby
Ian Kilbannock:
Oliver Chris
Mr Crouchback:
Sean Murray
Major Tickeridge:
Michael Bertenshaw
Mrs Tickeridge:
Joanna Brookes
Sgt Major:
Ben Crowe
Director:
Sally Avens
Adaptor:
Jeremy Front

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