Programme Index

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Midweek

Chris Rea, Rosa Hoskins, Chris Dobrowolski, Graham Satchwell

Duration: 43 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Libby Purves meets singer-songwriter Chris Rea. artist Chris Dobrowolski, former railway detective Graham Satchwell and actor Rosa Hoskins, daughter of Bob. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Libby Purves
Interviewed Guest:
Chris Rea
Interviewed Guest:
Chris Dobrowlski
Interviewed Guest:
Graham Satchwell
Interviewed Guest:
Rosa Hoskins

Brand

Midweek

Woman's Hour

Coercive control, Wiki-food, Antonia Hayes

Duration: 41 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Where do domestic abusers go for help to change their behaviour? Plus, working in football, the wiki-food and (mostly) women project, and Antonia Hayes on her novel, Relativity. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Producer:
Jane Thurlow
Interviewed Guest:
Liz Kelly
Interviewed Guest:
Liz Ostrowski
Interviewed Guest:
Polly Russell
Interviewed Guest:
Carolin Young
Interviewed Guest:
Antonia Hayes

Home Front

27 April 1916 - Johnnie Marshall

Duration: 11 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for years

On this day in 1916, Irish rebels stormed the town of Enniscorthy, and in Buckfast, Johnnie is a man on a mission. Show more

Contributors

Johnnie Marshall:
Paul Ready
Hector Gidley:
Brian Protheroe
Tobias Holden:
Toby Bryant
Dom Anscar Vonier:
Kenneth Collard
Councillor Ellis:
Stephen Tomlin

Drama on 4

All Mouth and Trousers

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

4 Extra Debut. All Gas and Gaiters writers Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps reveal their struggle to launch the TV sitcom. Stars John Sessions. From April 2016. Show more

Contributors

Young Pauline:
Lily-Fleur Bradbury
Young Edwin:
James Joyce
Frank Muir:
John Sessions
Stuart Allen:
Nicholas Boulton
William Mervyn:
Gareth Williams
Robertson Hare:
Trevor Littledale
Derek Nimmo:
Zeb Soanes
John Barron:
David Collings
Director:
David Blount

Genres

Duration: 25 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for 8 months

The computer catches a very common virus making the invasion seem doomed in more ways than one. With Hattie Morahan. From 2014. Show more

Front Row

Hugh Bonneville on Ibsen, Captain America directors, Juliet Stevenson

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Samira Ahmed talks to Hugh Bonneville about Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People. Plus the Russo brothers on directing Captain America. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Hugh Bonneville
Interviewed Guest:
Howard Davies
Interviewed Guest:
Anthony Russo
Interviewed Guest:
Joe Russo
Interviewed Guest:
Juliet Stevenson
Interviewed Guest:
Alan Kitching

Midweek

Chris Rea, Rosa Hoskins, Chris Dobrowolski, Graham Satchwell

Duration: 43 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Libby Purves meets singer-songwriter Chris Rea. artist Chris Dobrowolski, former railway detective Graham Satchwell and actor Rosa Hoskins, daughter of Bob. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Libby Purves
Interviewed Guest:
Chris Rea
Interviewed Guest:
Chris Dobrowlski
Interviewed Guest:
Graham Satchwell
Interviewed Guest:
Rosa Hoskins

Brand

Midweek

Nurse

Series 2

Episode 4

Duration: 14 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Bittersweet comedy drama as a community mental health nurse makes her rounds. Stars Paul Whitehouse and Esther Coles. From 2016. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for 3 months

The comic poet explores the concept of music with a poem about an ambitious song bird. With Tom Basden. From 2014. Show more

Book of the Week

Respectable

Episode 3: Respectable in the Nineties

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Lynsey Hanley examines the experience of class through her upbringing on a Birmingham council estate, where the shift from school to sixth-form college was almost too much to bear. Show more

BBC Radio 4 LW

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