Programme Index

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Woman's Hour

Everybody's Talking About Jamie', Policing your child's social media. Life at home after residential treatment for anorexia.

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

'Everybody's Talking About Jamie' the musical, policing your child's social media accounts, and does the feminist movement need to make more room for working class women? Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Jamie Campbell
Interviewed Guest:
Margaret Campbell
Interviewed Guest:
Caroline Hurst
Interviewed Guest:
Sian Norris
Interviewed Guest:
Cath Bore

The Pillow Book

Series 10

Episode 5

Duration: 14 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for years

Robert Forrest's popular thriller set in 10th-century Japan. Shonagon and Saisho revisit their youth and wander the palace at night. But they are not alone. Show more

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for 7 months

The family wrestle with various needs for approval from others as Mike's parents come to stay. Stars Kerry Godliman. From 2017. Show more

Home Front

24 November 1917 - Lester Reed

Duration: 11 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for years

On this day in 1917, Rosa Luxemburg wrote from prison that the Russian revolution was a 'milestone', and in Tynemouth, the Reeds are watchful for Bolshevism. Show more

Contributors

Lester Reed:
Trevor Fox
Kenny Stokoe:
Dean Logan
Fraser Chadwick:
Edmund Wiseman
Stanley Hobbs:
David Nellist
Johnnie Marshall:
Paul Ready
Series Editor:
Jessica Dromgoole

Book of the Week

The Vanity Fair Diaries

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Tina Brown on her years as editor of Vanity Fair magazine. An Englishwoman in 1980s New York, all was glitz and mean streets. And this time, the infamous Demi Moore cover shot. Show more

Drama on 4

Hashtag Humfrey Coningsby

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

By Jonathan Davidson. A Shropshire gent from the 1500s find himself time-travelling to the Syrian border of Turkey in 2015, where he is in love and also involuntarily tweeting. Show more

Contributors

Humfrey Coningsby:
Mark Heap
Hasan Zayan:
Anton Lesser
Railway Guard:
Alun Raglan
Border Guard:
Alun Raglan
Producer:
Tim Dee

Genres

Last Word

24/11/2017

Duration: 28 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Obituary series. Matthew Bannister on police commissioner Lord Imbert, children's author Pat Hutchins, actor Rodney Bewes, murderer Charles Manson and pop star David Cassidy. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Morgan Hutchins
Interviewed Guest:
Julia Eccleshare
Interviewed Guest:
Roger Graef
Interviewed Guest:
John Grieve
Interviewed Guest:
Cressida Dick
Interviewed Guest:
Joe Bewes
Interviewed Guest:
Nina Myskow
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Goldfarb

The Now Show

Series 51

Episode 4: 4/7

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches, with guests Gareth Gwynn, Andy Zaltzman, Tamar Broadbent and Eshaan Akhbar. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Steve Punt
Presenter:
Hugh Dennis
Performer:
Gareth Gwynn
Performer:
Andy Zaltzman
Performer:
Tamar Broadbent
Performer:
Eshaan Akhbar
Producer:
Adnan Ahmed

The Archers

24/11/2017

Duration: 13 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Peggy is left horrified, and Adam takes the initiative. Show more

Contributors

Writer:
Liz John
Director:
Gwenda Hughes
Series Editor:
Huw Kennair-Jones
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Peggy Woolley:
June Spencer
Lynda Snell:
Carole Boyd
Lilian Bellamy:
Sunny Ormonde
Alan Franks:
John Telfer
Nic Grundy:
Becky Wright
Christine Barford:
Lesley Saweard
Justin Elliott:
Simon Williams
Lily Pargetter:
Katie Redford
Pip Archer:
Daisy Badger
Elizabeth Pargetter:
Alison Dowling
Freddie Pargetter:
Toby Laurence
Adam Macy:
Andrew Wincott
Noluthando Madikane:
Mogali Masuku
Robert Snell:
Graham Blockey
Jim Lloyd:
John Rowe
Emma Grundy:
Emerald O'Hanrahan
Shula Hebden Lloyd:
Judy Bennett
Ruth Archer:
Felicity Finch
Ian Craig:
Stephen Kennedy
Kirsty Miller:
Annabelle Dowler
Johnny Phillips:
Tom Gibbons
Lexi Viktorova:
Ania Sowinski

Front Row

Benjamin Clementine performs live

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Benjamin Clementine plays from his second album I Tell a Fly. We assess Oscar Wilde for modern times. And celebrity photographer David LaChapelle talks about nudity and glitter. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Stig Abell
Interviewed Guest:
Benjamin Clementine
Interviewed Guest:
Dominic Dromgoole
Interviewed Guest:
Franny Moyle
Interviewed Guest:
David LaChapelle

Home Front - Omnibus

Episode 89: 20-24 November 1917

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for years

The second omnibus of Season 12, Giddy with Possibility, the week in 1917 when the Battle of Cambrai marked the first mass use of tanks. From November 2017. Show more

Contributors

Edie Chadwick:
Kathryn Beaumont
Molly Duckett:
Victoria Bewick
Trevor Lamb:
Philip Correia
Marion Wardle:
Laura Elphinstone
Lester Reed:
Trevor Fox
Sarah Illingworth:
Naomi Frederick
Kenny Stokoe:
Dean Logan
Stanley Hobbs:
David Nellist
Judith Turner:
Kate Okello
Johnnie Marshall:
Paul Ready
Maud Drummond:
Vineeta Rishi
Ethel Manning:
Sophie Scott
Alan Lowther:
David Seddon
Duncan Chadwick:
Mark Stobbart
Joyce Lyle:
Tracy Whitwell
Fraser Chadwick:
Edmund Wiseman
Matilda James:
Hannah Wood
Series Editor:
Jessica Dromgoole

Genres

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