BBC RADIO 4 SCHEDULE
Monday 5th Oct – Sunday 11th Oct
BOOK OF THE WEEK - 9.45am & 12.30am – Mon-Sat
Get Her Off the Pitch Lynne Truss reads from her account of the four
years she spent as a sports reporter. 1: How does a woman of literary
tastes and neither knowledge of nor interest in sport end up working
for the sports section of a national newspaper? As Lynne explains, it all
starts over lunch...
BOOK AT BEDTIME – 10.45pm – Mon-Fri
Fathers and Sons Douglas Hodge reads from Ivan Turgenev's 1862
novel about the eternal struggle between the generations and the rise
and fall of a charismatic young nihilist. 6: Bazarov's cool and clinical
approach to life fails him, and the idyll of the past few weeks is broken
up.
CLASSIC SERIAL - 9.00pm – Sat (repeated from Sun)
Beau Geste Two-part dramatisation of PC Wren's classic story of
honour, love and adventure. The Geste brothers run away from
England, home and romance to join the French Foreign Legion,
following the mysterious disappearance of a valuable family heirloom.
With Chris New, Rob Hastie, Michael Culkin, Timothy Ackroyd. Directed
by Willi Richards (1/2).
POETRY PLEASE – 11.30pm - Saturday
Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that chime with the
theme of this month's National Poetry Day, that of heroes and
heroines. Including works by poets as varied as Maya Angelou and
Rudyard Kipling.
CLASSIC SERIAL - 3.00pm – Sunday (repeated next
Sat)
Beau Geste Two-part dramatisation of PC Wren's classic story of
honour, love and adventure. 2: The Geste brothers become the focus
of suspicion and hostility from an assortment of international ne'er do
wells thrown together as a platoon of the French Foreign Legion. A
sudden attack on a remote desert fort by Toureg raiders brings
matters to a head and provides the explanation for the disappearance
of the Blue Water sapphire. With Chris New, Rob Hastie, Michael
Culkin, Timothy Ackroyd. Directed by Willi Richards.
OPEN BOOK – 4.00pm – Sunday
Mariella Frostrup talks to bestselling thriller writer Robert Harris about
his novel Lustrum, set in the Ancient Rome of Cicero and Julius
Caesar. Plus a reassessment of the work of Brazilian novelist Clarice
Lispector, who, according to one admirer, 'looked like Marlene Dietrich
and wrote like Virginia Woolf'.
POETRY PLEASE – 4.30pm – Sunday
Roger McGough celebrates the programme's 30th birthday from the
Theatre Royal at Bristol Old Vic, and introduces a selection of the most
frequently-requested poems from the past 30 years. The special guest
readers, including Stephanie Cole, Helen Baxendale and Patrick
Malahide, all have a strong connection with the city.
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