BBC RADIO 4 SCHEDULE
Monday 23rd March – Sunday 29th March
BOOK OF THE WEEK - 9.45am & 12.30am – Mon-Sat
The Tent, The Bucket and Me Emma Kennedy reads her account of family camping holidays from her childhood in the 1970s. 1: In 1970, three-year-old Emma and her parents, Brenda and Tony, took their first family holiday. It featured a tent, a bucket and an awful lot of Welsh rain.
BOOK AT BEDTIME – 10.45pm – Mon-Fri
It’s Beginning to Hurt Series of five enigmatic and psychologically gripping short stories by James Lasdun. 1: Caterpillars. On a walking holiday in France, a couple are forced to confront both a legion of poisonous caterpillars and the consequences of their own convictions. Read by Laurel Lefkow.
CLASSIC SERIAL - 9.00pm – Sat (repeated from Sun)
Sunset Song Second of a two-part dramatisation by Gerda Stevenson of the 1932 novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, set in north-east Scotland before and during WWI. After her father's death, Chris is determined to stay and work the farm alone if need be. Joined by Ewan Tavendale in marriage and on the farm, Chris gives birth to a son. But the outbreak of WWI brings devastating change to her family, the rural landscape and the community. With Lesely Hart, Finn Den Hertog, Douglas Russell, Matthew Zajac. Directed by David Ian Neville.
LOST VOICES – 11.30pm - Saturday
Four-part series in which poet Brian Patten explores the life and work of poets he believes have been unfairly forgotten. 1: Harry Fainlight - Soul on Fire. Harry Fainlight was a young man of rare promise when a trip to America to meet the Beat poets in the early 1960s changed his life forever. Brian discovers a life filled with distress, anxiety, affection and the most beautifully lyrical poetry.
CLASSIC SERIAL - 3.00pm – Sunday (repeated next Sat)
Something Fresh First of a two-part dramatisation of PG Wodehouse's 1915 comic novel. 1: Two imposters infiltrate Blandings Castle, intent on recovering a valuable scarab which the dotty Lord Emsworth has unknowingly acquired from a dyspeptic American millionaire. With Ioan Gruffudd, Helen McCrory, Hector Elizondo, Martin Jarvis. Directed by Martin Jarvis.
OPEN BOOK – 4.00pm – Sunday
Mariella Frostrup's guests include thriller writer Tom Rob Smith, who talks about his latest novel The Secret Speech. Plus a walk around Venice with Donna Leon, who explains how the city inspired the adventures of her detective hero Comissario Brunetti.
LOST VOICES 4.30pm – Sunday
Four-part series in which the poet Brian Patten explores the life and work of lesser-known or forgotten poets. 2: Rosemary Tonks: The Poet Who Vanished. Rosemary Tonks published two slim volumes of poetry and a clutch of novels and then, towards the end of the 1970s, disappeared from public life. Brian explores the operatic drama of her work, which was hugely influenced by Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and shares his enthusiasm with other contemporary poets.
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