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Saturday Drama

Fay Weldon - The Weather Girl

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

4 Extra Debut. A psychologist sent to assess a female prisoner is plunged into a disturbing amoral world. Stars Amy Nuttall and Rachel Pickup. Show more

Contributors

Writer:
Fay Weldon
Abigail:
Amy Nuttall
Christa:
Jane Bertish
Sir Timothy:
Tim Woodward
Benjamin:
Tim Woodward
Little Abigail:
Bea King
Producer:
John Taylor

Genres

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for 9 months

Ruth’s campaign to punish her husband and his mistress advances and she will stop at nothing to get her way. Stars Barnaby Kay. Show more

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

1980s drama series. Mary Fisher's romantic idyll with her lover Bobbo is beginning to fray a little as her drunken mother and her lover's demanding children invade their lives. Show more

Midweek

Fay Weldon, Richard Hines, John Hessler, Ed Zephyr

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Libby Purves meets Richard Hines, whose story inspired the novel A Kestral for a Knave, novelist Fay Weldon, cartographer John Hessler and actor Ed Zephyr. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Libby Purves
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Hines
Interviewed Guest:
Fay Weldon
Interviewed Guest:
John Hessler
Interviewed Guest:
Ed Zephyr

Brand

Midweek

Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Fay Weldon, Self Harm, The Walton Sextuplets

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Highlights include Fay Weldon, Labour's pink bus, singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge, dealing with the scars from self harming, and the Walton sextuplets. Presented by Jane Garvey. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Fay Weldon
Interviewed Guest:
Harriet Harman
Interviewed Guest:
Anne Perkins
Interviewed Guest:
Mary Hamilton
Interviewed Guest:
Sally Magnusson
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Fitzgerald
Interviewed Guest:
Janet Walton
Interviewed Guest:
Graham Walton
Interviewed Guest:
Melissa Etheridge

Natural Histories: Short Stories

Series 2

Face to Face with the Real Me by Fay Weldon

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for 5 months

In Fay Weldon's story, beauty queen and trophy wife Sally Anne comes face to face with her true self in the Natural History Museum, in the form of a pygmy seahorse. Show more

Woman's Hour

Writer Fay Weldon, Lorin LaFave on Internet Safety, Cultural Appropriation

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Writer Fay Weldon talks about her favourite short stories and new novella. Following the murder of her son, Lorin LaFave discusses cyber safety for children. Jane Garvey presents. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Fay Weldon
Interviewed Guest:
Lorin LaFave
Interviewed Guest:
Eleanor Mills
Interviewed Guest:
Yomi Adegoke
Interviewed Guest:
Emmanuelle Dirix

Duration: 55 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Adaptation of Fay Weldon's novel. Ruth, in the guise of Rita Rooney, persuades the elderly Mrs Fisher to visit her daughter Mary, Bobbo's mistress. Show more

Last Word

Frederick Sanger, Doris Lessing, Ray Gosling, Jock Kane, Austin John Marshall

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Matthew Bannister remembers Nobel-winner Frederick Sanger, author Doris Lessing, broadcaster Ray Gosling, GCHQ whistleblower Jock Kane and record producer Austin John Marshall. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Brian Aldiss
Interviewed Guest:
Fay Weldon
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Collins
Producer:
Neil George

A Good Read

Fay Weldon and Hans Ulrich Obrist

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for over a year

4 Extra Debut. Fay Weldon, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Harriett Gilbert discuss books by Etel Adnan, Gabriel Gbadamosi, RL Stevenson. From 2014. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Fay Weldon
Interviewed Guest:
Hans Ulrich Obrist

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

A downtrodden housewife wreaks revenge on her husband. Ruth discovers her husband has fallen in love with another woman and in her fury discovers that she has extraordinary powers. Show more

Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Drama series about the supernatural revenge of a woman scorned. Mary Fisher's life is in ruins - she has lost almost everything and in despair turns to her priest for comfort. Show more

Contributors

Mary Fisher:
Patricia Hodge
Father Ferguson:
Tom Baker
Nurse Black:
Teresa Garraway
Mrs Fisher:
Liz Smith
Brenda:
Noel Dyson
Bookshop Manageress:
Ann Pennington
Prison Warder:
Phil Ryan
Dr Rohn:
John Rowe
Dr Ghengis:
Stephen Greif
Producer:
Sally Head
Writer:
Fay Weldon

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for 9 months

4 Extra Debut. A wronged woman plans diabolical punishments for her husband and his mistress. Darkly comic fairy tale starring Hattie Morahan. Show more

Front Row

Fay Weldon; Raw review; Duchamp's Fountain; Simon Callow and Christopher Hampton

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Death of a She Devil is Fay Weldon's new novel, Bryony Hanson reviews the film Raw, Richard Cork on Duchamp's Fountain, Simon Callow and Christopher Hampton on The Philantropist. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Fay Weldon
Interviewed Guest:
Briony Hanson
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Cork
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Callow
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Hampton
Presenter:
Stig Abell