Schedule
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Early
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00:00
Katie Hims - Listening to the Dead—1. Enoch's Machine
1/5 Victorian gentleman scientist Enoch Cartwright tries to contact his dead daughter Emily.
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00:45
Book at Bedtime—Algernon Blackwood's Ghost Stories, The Land of Green Ginger
2/5 A novelist recounts a bizarre encounter in a shop that set him on a writing career.
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01:00
Guy de Maupassant - Une Vie: Omnibus
A country aristocrat dreaming of romance finds adulthood and marriage horribly real.
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02:15
Alan Plater Short Stories - A Brief Encounter With Richard Wagner
A teacher faces the task of putting on Wagner's Ringcycle at a struggling school.
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02:30
Philip Glass - Words Without Music: Omnibus
The long-awaited memoir by American composer Philip Glass.
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03:45
Journey Into Language—Trampling Flat the Frontiers
3/3 Professor Eric Hawkins recalls how being a wartime soldier influenced his future ethos.
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04:00
Drama on 4—A Place of Greater Safety, Fraternity
3/3 Robespierre and Danton are at odds over the direction the revolution should take.
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05:00
Poetry Extra—Surtsey and Me
Daljit Nagra introduces 'Surtsey and Me', about a new island near Iceland.
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05:30
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups—Series 2, Running on Empty
3/6 Tom is invited on a stag weekend, and his dad signs up for the Sheffield marathon.
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Morning
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06:00
Shardlake—Dissolution, Episode 1
1/10 Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake is sent to investigate a killing at a monastery.
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06:15
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea—Episode 1
1/10 Tensions escalate among the former slaves on a Caribbean island.
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06:30
The Rainbow Tribe
Children adopted by cabaret star Josephine Baker recall their strange upbringing.
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07:00
On the Rocks—Series 1, Omens
2/4 Old Grace is sure of strange happenings since the new telegraph machine was installed.
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07:30
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue—Series 67, Episode 1
1/6 Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Andy Hamilton and Jo Brand join chairman Jack Dee.
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08:00
The Burkiss Way—Series 5, Love Big Brother the Burkiss Way
3/6 The team spoof George Orwell's 1984 and more.
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08:30
Dad's Army—Series 2, Mum's Army
12/20 When Mainwaring opens his Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Guard up to women, Mrs Gray catches his eye.
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09:00
The Write Stuff—Series 15, Daniel Defoe
2/6 With guest panellists, crime writer Mark Billingham and journalist Jane Thynne.
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09:30
North East of Eden—Invaders and Outsiders
1/6 Marcia quits sophisticated London for a doctor's surgery on a remote Northumbrian island.
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10:00
Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries—2. Forty-Five
2/4 Francis Herries encounters Mirabell again and the Jacobite rebels march on Carlisle.
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11:00
William Trevor - A Bit on the Side—A Bit on the Side
The tale of a middle-aged accountant and the end of an intense love affair.
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11:15
Drama on 4—Ray Connolly - God Bless Our Love
A priest and a nun fall in love and leave their orders to marry and begin a new life.
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Afternoon
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12:00
The Burkiss Way—Series 5, Love Big Brother the Burkiss Way
3/6 The team spoof George Orwell's 1984 and more.
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12:30
Dad's Army—Series 2, Mum's Army
12/20 When Mainwaring opens his Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Guard up to women, Mrs Gray catches his eye.
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13:00
Shardlake—Dissolution, Episode 1
1/10 Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake is sent to investigate a killing at a monastery.
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13:15
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea—Episode 1
1/10 Tensions escalate among the former slaves on a Caribbean island.
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13:30
The Rainbow Tribe
Children adopted by cabaret star Josephine Baker recall their strange upbringing.
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14:00
Book at Bedtime—Deborah Levy - Swimming Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, Episode 1
1/5 The arrival of a strange girl in the midst of a holiday in Nice proves explosive.
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14:15
Plants: From Roots to Riches—Taming the Exotic
Kathy Willis examines the Victorian race to flower the Amazonian water lily.
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14:30
15 Minute Drama—Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin, Episode 1
1/5 As Pushkin prepares to fight a duel, his wife begs him to tell her his most famous story.
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14:45
A Voyage to Lundy—1. A Change of Direction
1/5 Gwyneth Lewis visits a remote island as she contemplates a change in direction in her life
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15:00
Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries—2. Forty-Five
2/4 Francis Herries encounters Mirabell again and the Jacobite rebels march on Carlisle.
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16:00
The Write Stuff—Series 15, Daniel Defoe
2/6 With guest panellists, crime writer Mark Billingham and journalist Jane Thynne.
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16:30
North East of Eden—Invaders and Outsiders
1/6 Marcia quits sophisticated London for a doctor's surgery on a remote Northumbrian island.
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17:00
On the Rocks—Series 1, Omens
2/4 Old Grace is sure of strange happenings since the new telegraph machine was installed.
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17:30
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue—Series 67, Episode 1
1/6 Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Andy Hamilton and Jo Brand join chairman Jack Dee.
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Evening
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18:00
Tao Lin - A Message of Unknown Purpose
Tao Lin's curious tale about a prisoner in 2042 who depicts a society addicted to sleep.
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18:15
HG Wells—Ghost Stories by HG Wells, The Door in the Wall
6/6 Lionel Wallace spends his life searching for a lost world behind a door in a white wall.
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18:30
A Good Read—Howard Davies & Eleanor Updale
Eleanor Updale and Howard Davies on books by Louisa May Alcott and Patrick Hamilton.
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19:00
The Burkiss Way—Series 5, Love Big Brother the Burkiss Way
3/6 The team spoof George Orwell's 1984 and more.
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19:30
Dad's Army—Series 2, Mum's Army
12/20 When Mainwaring opens his Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Guard up to women, Mrs Gray catches his eye.
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20:00
Shardlake—Dissolution, Episode 1
1/10 Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake is sent to investigate a killing at a monastery.
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20:15
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea—Episode 1
1/10 Tensions escalate among the former slaves on a Caribbean island.
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20:30
The Rainbow Tribe
Children adopted by cabaret star Josephine Baker recall their strange upbringing.
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21:00
William Trevor - A Bit on the Side—A Bit on the Side
The tale of a middle-aged accountant and the end of an intense love affair.
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21:15
Drama on 4—Ray Connolly - God Bless Our Love
A priest and a nun fall in love and leave their orders to marry and begin a new life.
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22:00
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue—Series 67, Episode 1
1/6 Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Andy Hamilton and Jo Brand join chairman Jack Dee.
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22:30
The Consultants—Series 4, Episode 1
1/6 The lighthouse tour and the old-fashioned parents.
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23:00
Dead Ringers—Series 17, 30/06/2017
The topical satirical show returns for some post-election skewering.
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23:30
A Look Back at the Future—2010
3/6 Griff Rhys Jones, Kate Robbins and Brian Perkins look ahead to the Year of Toddler Power.
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Late
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00:00
Tao Lin - A Message of Unknown Purpose
Tao Lin's curious tale about a prisoner in 2042 who depicts a society addicted to sleep.
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00:15
HG Wells—Ghost Stories by HG Wells, The Door in the Wall
6/6 Lionel Wallace spends his life searching for a lost world behind a door in a white wall.
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00:30
A Good Read—Howard Davies & Eleanor Updale
Eleanor Updale and Howard Davies on books by Louisa May Alcott and Patrick Hamilton.
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01:00
Shardlake—Dissolution, Episode 1
1/10 Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake is sent to investigate a killing at a monastery.
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01:15
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea—Episode 1
1/10 Tensions escalate among the former slaves on a Caribbean island.
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01:30
The Rainbow Tribe
Children adopted by cabaret star Josephine Baker recall their strange upbringing.
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02:00
Book at Bedtime—Deborah Levy - Swimming Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, Episode 1
1/5 The arrival of a strange girl in the midst of a holiday in Nice proves explosive.
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02:15
Plants: From Roots to Riches—Taming the Exotic
Kathy Willis examines the Victorian race to flower the Amazonian water lily.
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02:30
15 Minute Drama—Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin, Episode 1
1/5 As Pushkin prepares to fight a duel, his wife begs him to tell her his most famous story.
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02:45
A Voyage to Lundy—1. A Change of Direction
1/5 Gwyneth Lewis visits a remote island as she contemplates a change in direction in her life
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03:00
Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries—2. Forty-Five
2/4 Francis Herries encounters Mirabell again and the Jacobite rebels march on Carlisle.
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04:00
The Write Stuff—Series 15, Daniel Defoe
2/6 With guest panellists, crime writer Mark Billingham and journalist Jane Thynne.
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04:30
North East of Eden—Invaders and Outsiders
1/6 Marcia quits sophisticated London for a doctor's surgery on a remote Northumbrian island.
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05:00
On the Rocks—Series 1, Omens
2/4 Old Grace is sure of strange happenings since the new telegraph machine was installed.
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05:30
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue—Series 67, Episode 1
1/6 Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Andy Hamilton and Jo Brand join chairman Jack Dee.
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