Songs, rhymes and stories for young children
Stories and songs
Another series in which Professor Aubrey Manning explores the world with erudite input by experts, starting with the fossilised remains of Lynford Quarry in Norfolk (1/4)
as 7.30pm
Graham Fellows 's alter ego John Shuttleworth 's radio picks, as 8pm
Michael Gambon and Penelope Wilton star in Alan Bennett's 1983 drama set in Moscow in 1958, when actress Coral Browne met exiled English spy Guy Burgess.
Dramatic monologue specially written by Alan Bennett for Thora Hird (1911-2003), which proved to be her last radio work.
A chance to hear last week's Falco detective mystery by Lyndsey Davis, set in Rome in AD 71 and starring Anton Lesser (1-5/6)
US radio show broadcast on 25 April in the States - where it is titled A Prairie Home Companion - featuring satire, music and news from Lake Wobegon, recorded in Waterbury, Connecticut, with guest Arlo Guthrie
Stacy Keach narrates a radio adaptation of the 1961 TV episode written by Rod Serling from a story by Marvin Petal, starringà Jason Alexander in a sci-fi tale in which a clown, a hobo, a ballet dancer, a bagpipe player and an army major are trapped, with no explanation, in a cylinder room from which their only hope of escape is to find out the truth
James Follett's 2000 sci-fi thriller - the second book in the Silent Vulcan trilogy (8/8)
Another series in which Professor Aubrey Manning explores the world with erudite input by experts, starting with the fossilised remains of Lynford Quarry in Norfolk (1/4)
Dramatisation of AJ Cronin 's 1943 story, with John Gordon Sinclair as Cronin's hero Dr Finlay (1/6)
Graham Fellows's alter ego John Shuttleworth introduces his favourite radio comedies, featuring episodes of Alison and Maude (2003); Saturday Night Fry (1988); We Interrupt This Programme (2004); Clare in the Community (2006); The Shuttleworths (1995); and John Shuttleworth's Open House (1996)
as 5pm
