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CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET (320kbs-m4a/1.32gb/9hrs50mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th April to 24th May 2019
Charles Chilton’s 1954 classic set in 1971.
Andrew Faulds ..... Jet Morgan
David Kossoff ..... Lemmy
Guy Kingsley Poynter ..... Doc
Bruce Beeby ..... Mitch
Madi Hedd ..... Sheep Station Wife
David Jacobs ..... Announcer/Various
Anthony Marriott ..... Various
John Cazabon ..... Various
Music composed and conducted by Van Phillips.
Producer: Charles Chilton
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme from September 1954 to January 1955.
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th April 2019
Captain Jet Morgan and his crew aboard Discovery blast off for their epic mission to Mars - but there's a problem...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 30th April 2019
Freighter No. 2 of Captain Jet Morgan's Mars space fleet is in trouble.
But when radio mechanic Lemmy and motor engineer Steve tried to cross over from the flagship, Discovery, to put the trouble right, Steve became unhitched from his safety line and is now drifting in the void...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 3. EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st May 2019
James Whitaker’s curious behaviour causes concern for Captain Jet Morgan, as bad dreams plague the rest of his crew bound for Mars...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 4. EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 2nd May 2019
Captain Jet Morgan and his crew must take action in their battle against a cluster of meteors.
The mystery over Whitaker deepens - as tragedy strikes on board one of the Mars freighters.
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 5. EPISODE 5 (320kbs-m4a/67mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 3rd May 2019
With all communications back to Earth lost, the courage of Captain Jet Morgan is severely tested during a meteor swarm...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 6. EPISODE 6 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 6th May 2019
Weeks have passed since the Mars space fleet lost all contact with Earth.
But then Captain Jet Morgan and his crew suddenly receive warnings to turn back, but from whom?
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 7. EPISODE 7 (320kbs-m4a/66mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 7th May 2019
As the Mars fleet crew battle to locate freighter ship number 6, Captain Jet Morgan suffers strange hallucinations...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 8. EPISODE 8 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 8th May 2019
As Captain Jet Morgan and his crew approach Mars, strange noises and dreams begin to affect them...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 9. EPISODE 9 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 9th May 2019
After their battle to land on Mars, Captain Jet Morgan and his crew prepare to start their explorations...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 10. EPISODE 10 (320kbs-m4a/67mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 10th May 2019
Captain Jet Morgan and his crew are on Mars, but he's alarmed when more of the fleet appear to arrive...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 11. EPISODE 11 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 13th May 2019
Captain Jet Morgan and the crew reach freighter number two after it crash landed, but they fear they're not alone on Mars...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 12. EPISODE 12 (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 14th May 2019
An alien ship disturbs the space crew - and is Captain Jet Morgan's childhood dream becoming a reality on Mars?
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 13. EPISODE 13 (320kbs-m4a/66mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 15th May 2019
In the Martian city from Captain Jet Morgan's childhood dream, Lemmy is under telepathic attack...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 14. EPISODE 14 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 16th May 2019
As the crew of Discovery explore Mars, Captain Jet Morgan and Doc must rescue Lemmy - but what about Mitch?
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 15. EPISODE 15 (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 17th May 2019
Cold-handed Maclean attacks Lemmy, but the plucky radio operator fights back...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 16. EPISODE 16 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 20th May 2019
With Mitch still missing, Captain Jet Morgan, Doc and Lemmy set off to find him, with hopes of finding the engineer rapidly diminishing...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 17. EPISODE 17 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 21st May 2019
With Mitch conditioned at a 'sheep station', Captain Jet Morgan and his crew must work out how to plan their escape.
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 18. EPISODE 18 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 22nd May 2019
With Lemmy and Doc at the mercy of the Martians, can Captain Jet Morgan come to their rescue?
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 19. EPISODE 19 (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 23rd May 2019
As Lemmy and Doc master a Martian sphere - Captain Jet Morgan gets a mysterious offer of help...
CHARLES CHILTON - JOURNEY INTO SPACE: THE RED PLANET - 20. EPISODE 20 (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 24th May 2019
Captain Jet Morgan and his crew must battle to outrun the Martian Spheres in their bid to escape...
TERRY PRATCHETT - WYRD SISTERS (320kbs-m4a/269mb/1hr57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 15th to 18th April 2019
Terry Pratchett 's popular tale dramatised in four parts by Vince Foxall.
Director: Claire Grove
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.
TERRY PRATCHETT - WYRD SISTERS - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/67mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 15th April 2019
Three witches meet on a blasted heath while murder is in the air.
Starring Sheila Hancock as Granny Weatherwax, Lynda Baron as Nanny Ogg, Deborah Berlin as Magrat Garlick, Ian Masters as Duke Felmet, Kristin Milward as Lady Felmet, John Hartley as King Verence and Natasha Pyne as Mrs Vitoller.
TERRY PRATCHETT - WYRD SISTERS - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/67mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 16th April 2019
The new monarch has a troubled conscience and a wife like Lucrezia Borgia. The three witches have decisions to make...
Starring Sheila Hancock as Granny Weatherwax, Lynda Baron as Nanny Ogg, Deborah Berlin as Magrat Garlick, Ian Masters as Duke Felmet, Kristin Milward as Lady Felmet, John Hartley as King Verence, Natasha Pyne as Mrs Vitoller, Gavin Muir as Vitoller, Andrew Branch as the Fool and Brian Hibbard as Hwel.
TERRY PRATCHETT - WYRD SISTERS - 3. EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 17th April 2019
The old King is dead. The new ruler has a troubled conscience and a wife on the warpath - in pursuit of the three witches...
Starring Sheila Hancock as Granny Weatherwax, Lynda Baron as Nanny Ogg, Deborah Berlin as Magrat Garlick, Ian Masters as Duke Felmet, Kristin Milward as Lady Felmet, John Hartley as King Verence, Andrew Branch as the Fool, Gavin Muir as Demon and Brian Hibbard as Shawn.
TERRY PRATCHETT - WYRD SISTERS - 4. EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 18th April 2019
Lancre's new ruler teeters on the edge of madness. The old King will be revenged. The three witches set to work!
Starring Sheila Hancock as Granny Weatherwax, Lynda Baron as Nanny Ogg, Deborah Berlin as Magrat Garlick, Ian Masters as Duke Felmet, Kristin Milward as Lady Felmet, John Hartley as King Verence, Andrew Branch as the Fool, Gavin Muir as Vitoller, Brian Hibbard as Hwel and Roger May as Tomjon.
JACK WATERSON - FREAK ZONE PLAYLIST 02.06.19 (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 2nd June 2019
Jack Waterson - Flashback [Linear Labs]
The Arrows - Blue's Theme (Feat. Davie Allen) [Tower]
Spirit - Girl In Your Eye [Edsel]
Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina [Universal Music/Polydor]
Jimi Hendrix - Third Stone From The Sun [Legacy]
Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam [EMI]
Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf [Vertigo]
King Crimson - Red [Island]
Todd Rundgren - No. 1 Lowest Common Denominator [Bearsville]
Green On Red - Apartment 6 [Zippo]
Suicide - Dream Baby Dream [Island]
Wall Of Voodoo - Ring Of Fire [Restless/Index]
The Doors - Take It As It Comes [Elektra]
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance [Fire]
ALEXIS KORNER - RHYTHM AND BLUES CHAMPION - 3. A NEW GENERATION OF BLUES (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 23rd May 2019
In this third and final part, Chris Jagger tells the story of Alexis Korner's continuing influence on British music in the late 60s and beyond.
With his band Blues Incorporated and The Ealing Club, Alexis had mentored many of the stars of British R'n'B, including Mick Jagger, Keith Richard, and Eric Burden but his own career had not taken off in the same way.
Nevertheless he continued to support and recruit a new generation of blues talent. He recorded with Robert Plant and, when the call came, advised him to join Jimmy Page in Led Zeppelin. He also helped Andy Fraser and Paul Rodgers of Free, bringing them on tour with him and even naming the band. He also became a respected champion of the music with his BBC radio shows, including one where he jammed with Jimi Hendrix.
But his biggest commercial success was just around the corner. He worked with the producer Mickie Most and composer John Cameron on an unlikely rock big band album. It became CCS and became a hit album with hit singles like Tap Turns On The Water and the Zeppelin cover Whole Lotta Love, which was to become the Top of the Pops theme tune for many years.
This episode features contributions from Andy Fraser, John Cameron, Charlie Watts, Mark Lamarr and others.
First broadcast in 2008.
Alexis Korner - Funky [Castle Music]
The Rolling Stones - I Wanna Be Your Man [London]
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated - Early In The Morning [Deram]
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (Radio 1 Session, October 17, 1967) [MCD]
Free - I'm A Mover [Island]
Alexis Korner - What's That Sound I Hear [BGO]
CCS - Whole Lotta Love [BBC/Universal]
CCS - Tap Turns On The Water [EMI]
Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground [West Hill Audio Archives]
Alexis Korner - Go Down Sunshine [White Label]
ALEXIS KORNER - RHYTHM AND BLUES CHAMPION - 2. THE EALING CLUB (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 22nd May 2019
Chris Jagger continues to celebrate the work of broadcaster and bandleader Alexis Korner and the British blues scene he pioneered.
The second episode tells the story of Alexis' part in the burgeoning early 60s rhythm and blues scene and The Ealing Club, a small murky cellar underneath the ABC Tea Rooms complete with tarpaulins over the drum stand to catch the condensation dripping from the ceiling. It was this unprepossessing venue that became the crucible of British rock.
Alexis formed the ultimate supergroup to play there, Blues Incorporated, only it was before any of the stars were famous. At various points, the Ealing Club's stage held Eric Burden, Paul Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, Eric Clapton, Graham Bond, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and many others. The club became the place where future blues and rock musicians got their musical education.
We hear from many of those who went there, including Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger and Paul Jones. And hear stories including the night Mick Jagger was dropped from Alexis' first BBC session and went on to form the Rolling Stones.
First broadcast in 2008.
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated - Up-Town [Castle]
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated - Royal Dooji (AKA Dooji Wooji) [Castle Music]
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated - Night Time Is The Right Time [Deram]
Elmore James - Dust My Blues [Ace]
Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven [Disky]
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated - Rain Is Such A Lonesome Sound [Castle]
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated - Hoochie Coochie Man [Sanctuary]
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated - Rockin' [Castle]
ALEXIS KORNER - RHYTHM AND BLUES CHAMPION - 1. JUVENILE DELINQUENT (320kbs-m4a/62mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 21st May 2019
Chris Jagger showcases the work of broadcaster and bandleader Alexis Korner and the British blues scene he pioneered.
A father figure of British blues, Alexis was the catalyst for the British Blues explosion of the 60s. As Keith Richards puts it, without Alexis there wouldn't have been the Rolling Stones. But his influence goes deeper than one band. Without Alexis there may not have been Led Zeppelin, Free, The Animals and many others. And the careers of many British musicians including Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Graham Bond and even Eric Clapton would have started differently.
Chris Jagger, the younger brother of Mick and accomplished musician himself, talks to many of those whom Alexis influenced and played with, including Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Andy Fraser (Free), Chris Barber, Zoot Money, Paul Jones, Danny Thompson and Big Jim Sullivan.
Episode one looks at Alexis' early life. His family background was complex. As he said "I'm part Turk, part Greek, part Austrian and as I don't know any part Turk part Greek part Austrian music, I feel particularly entitled to play the blues".
He became part of the early blues and skiffle scene in the exotic dives of Soho during the early 50s, playing in the bands of Chris Barber and Ken Colyer while championing and befriending the American Blues masters on their early trips to the UK.
Alexis takes a new direction in adopting the raucous Chicago blues sound of Muddy Waters. Though the electric guitars meet opposition in some parts, he begins to build a new audience through his new band Blues Incorporated and he founds what was to become the crucible of British rock, The Ealing Club.
First broadcast on Radio 2 in 2008.
Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated - Overdrive [Music Club]
Alexis Korner - Robert Johnson [Sequel]
Jimmy Yancey - Slow And Easy Blues [Masters Of Jazz]
Alexis Korner & Davey Graham - 3/4 A.D. [Topic]
Alexis Korner - The Love You Save [Castle Music]
Alexis Korner - Hellhound On My Trail [Castle Music]
Chris Barber - Gatemouth [Black Lion]
Lonnie Donegan - Rock Island Line [Castle Communications]
The Ken Colyer Skiffle Group - The Midnight Special [Lake]
Alexis Korner - Kid Man [Castle Music]
Big Bill Broonzy - Stump Blues [Mercury]
Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy [Epic]
The Rolling Stones - Not Fade Away [ABKCO]
THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN RADIO (320kbs-m4a/408mb/2hrs58mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 25th May 2019
The decades between the end of the silent film era and the rise of TV, were golden years for the medium of radio in America.
In this three-hour showcase, Toby Hadoke introduces classic shows from the 1930s, 40s and 50s featuring the radio work of established stars such as Joan Crawford, Jack Benny and Vincent Price, as well as some lesser known, but no less important shows from the time.
Featuring:
Vincent Price in an episode of The Saint called The Horrible Hamburger from 1950
The Columbia Workshop presents Meridian 7-1212 by Irving Reis from 1939
An episode of The Jack Benny Program from 1950 in which Jack Gives 50 cents to a Bum
Zero Hour by Ray Bradbury, dramatised for X Minus One in 1956
A 1946 polemic from Jack Webb for One Out of Seven - Senator Theodore Bilbo
Joan Crawford stars in The Ten Years on Suspense in 1949
(And listen out for the first radio appearances of two Hollywood legends in the days before they were famous).
HG WELLS - THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU (320kbs-m4a/201mb/1hr27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 6th April 2019
A shipwreck leads a young naturalist to Dr Moreau’s secretive island, the site of a hideous scientific experiment.
First published in 1896, HG Wells' classic adventure story dramatised by David Calcutt.
Kenneth Colley … Montgomery
Neal Foster … Prentice's Nephew
Garard Green … Dr Moreau
Peter Meakin … Captain Jones
Richard Mitchley … Helmar
Terry Molloy … M'Ling
Danny Schiller … Constans
Kim Wall … Prentice
Janet Dale … Nurse
Alex Jones … Various
Director: Nigel Bryant
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990.
HOW I STOPPED WORRYING AND LEARNED TO LOVE MY ALBATROSS (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 2nd April 2019
Music writer Pete Paphides runs through the 5 stages of grief following a huge hit record with stories from some of those who know including Mike Batt, Ralph McTell, Colin Vearncombe, Ivan Doroschuk and Sandie Shaw.
Many artists are best known for doing something - be it a hit, or an album or for having an intense, sustained period of success that is hard to maintain in the long-run. In the case of Ralph McTell it's the song 'Streets of London', for Ivan Doroschuk from Men Without Hats it's 'The Safety Dance', for Mike Batt, a prolific songwriter and producer, his Womble years are often remembered first, Sandie Shaw has never been able to forget 'Puppet on a String' and Colin Vearncombe's band Black's albatross track was Wonderful Life.
The five stages a musician goes through of dealing with their albatross are uncannily similar to the five stages of grief that follow bereavement or news of a terminal illness. These were identified by psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book On Death & Dying (they also form the narrative arc of Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day). They include denial, bargaining, anger, depression and finally acceptance.
How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love My Albatross walks through these five stages, with lots of testimony from people who have been through all the different points in the curve of self-realisation - punctuated, of course, with lots of clips of all their great songs.
Producer: Laura Parfitt
A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4.
FACES - LIVE PARIS THEATRE LONDON 1973 (320kbs-m4a/128mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 18th May 2019
Faces - Silicone Grown
Faces - Cindy Incidentaly
Faces - Angel
Faces - Memphis Tennessee
Faces - True Blue
Faces - I'd Rather Go Blind
Faces - You're My Girl
Faces - Twistin' The Night Away
Faces - It's All Over Now
Faces - Miss Judy's Farm
Faces - I Know I'm Losing You
Faces - Three Button Hand Me Down
Faces - Maybe I'm Amazed
COSEY FANNI TUTTI - LATE JUNCTION MIXTAPE 29.05.19 (320kbs-m4a/66mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 29th May 2019
Max Reinhardt hosts, with an exclusive mixtape from legendary performance artist and avant-garde musician Cosey Fanni Tutti. She has a thirty-minute window in the programme to set the mood music, with selections including Coil, Gazelle Twin, and Jefferson Airplane.
Born in Hull in 1951, Cosey Fanni Tutti began her career there in 1969, appearing in art performances, mail art exhibitions, and musical improvisations. In the seventies she brought her experience of sex magazines and films, glamour modelling, and striptease into her performance art. Her infamous exhibition 'Prostitution' at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1976 prompted walkouts and provoked debate in parliament. The same year, Cosey founded influential industrial music group Throbbing Gristle with Genesis P-Orridge, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter, who is Cosey’s partner and lifetime collaborator.
Cosey Fanni Tutti’s continuing individual art and music practice takes its place alongside her work with Carter, the enduring, evolving legacy of Throbbing Gristle.
Produced by Jack Howson.
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3.
Delia Derbyshire & Brian Hodgson - Church In Hell [Cheddar Brothers]
Gazelle Twin - Glory [Anti-Ghost Moon Ray]
Frank Bretschneider - Logik
Wendy Carlos - Winter Out-Take [Columbia]
Coil - Tattooed Man [Threshold House]
Ø - Syvyydessä Kimallus [Sähkö Recordings]
Objekt - Strays [Pan]
Delia Derbyshire & Brian Hodgson - The End [Cheddar Brothers]
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit [RCA Victor]
Intro (320kbs-m4a/14mb/6mins)
Outro (320kbs-m4a/5mb/2mins)
ORBITAL - MARY ANNE HOBBS MIX 10.05.19 (320kbs-m4a/50mb/22mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 10th May 2019
The Hartnoll brothers are in the mix. Phil and Paul have put together a special Friday set, to get you ready for the weekend.
Floex - The Glasshouse With Butterfly (Orbital Remix) [Minority]
Mark Lower - Bad Boys Cry (Feat. Scarlett Quinn) [Nurvous]
Funkagenda - H3lix [Toolroom]
Nightmares On Wax - Dextrous [Warp]
Plaid - Maru (Orbital Remix) [Warp]
IAN FLEMING - LIVE AND LET DIE (320kbs-m4a/200mb/1hr27mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 4th May 2019
Martin Jarvis directs his eighth James Bond for radio. It's 007’s most exotic adventure - New York, Florida, Jamaica - with a stellar international cast, recorded on location in America. Dramatised by Archie Scottney and with Toby Stephens as Bond.
Bond tracks down monstrous Mr Big in Harlem. Big is importing priceless gold coins to finance Russian spy operations and captures Bond. Beautiful, mysterious Solitaire is also a prisoner.
Bond escapes. Solitaire follows. They pursue the source of the gold, first to Florida where Solitaire is captured by Mr Big's minions.
007 continues on to Jamaica. But can he survive the barracudas? Will he rescue Solitaire, recover the treasure and bring Mr Big to justice? Well, there’s a fair chance. He is James Bond!
Cast:
James Bond ... Toby Stephens
Mr Big ... Kevin Daniels
Solitaire ... Rutina Wesley
‘M’ ... John Standing
Leiter ... Josh Stamberg
Tee-Hee ... Michael A. Shepperd
Whisperer/Blabber ... Lovensky Jean-Baptiste
Quarrel ... Ron Cephas Jones
Baldwin ... John Cothran
Strangways ... Jonathan Cake
‘The Robber’ ... James Morrison
Dexter ... JD Cullum
Halloran ... Jake Green
MC/Maitre d’ ... Gilbert Glenn Brown
Connie/Operator ... Anna Louise Plowman
G-G/Waitress ... Janine Barris
Flannel/Conductor ... Larry Powell
Mrs Stuyvesant ... Anna Mathias
Voice of Ian Fleming ... Martin Jarvis
Other parts: Darren Richardson, Alan Shearman, André Sogliuzzo, Matthew Wolf
Written by Ian Fleming
Dramatised by Archie Scottney
Sound Design: Mark Holden
Specially composed music: Mark Holden and Julian Nicholson
Producer: Rosalind Ayres
Director: Martin Jarvis
A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4
IAN FLEMING - DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (320kbs-m4a/199mb/1hr26mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 5th May 2019
An all-star Ian Fleming James Bond adventure, directed by Martin Jarvis and starring Toby Stephens as 007.
Fleming's fourth Bond novel is especially dazzling. Its dark humour encompasses millions of pounds worth of diamonds smuggled out of British mines in Africa. Responsible? Somebody known as ‘ABC’. James Bond is sent undercover by MI6 to New York to follow the pipeline. Masquerading as a courier he meets enticing, ice-cold, Tiffany Case. She stands between Bond and gang-bosses whose criminal diamond business stretches from Sierra Leone, via London, to the gambling tables of Las Vegas.
Bond infiltrates the mob. Horse-racing scams, a car chase, a rigged card game, pursuit by locomotive - Bond and Tiffany endure all. Eventually flown to West Africa, Bond unmasks the ultimate villain.
Archie Scottney’s dramatisation parades a bizarre collection of mafiosi monsters.
James Bond ... Toby Stephens
‘M' ... John Standing
Supt Harris ... Nigel Havers
Rufus B. Saye ... Alan Shearman
Tiffany Case ... Lisa Dillon
‘Shady’ Tree ... Alex Jennings
Felix Leiter ... Josh Stamberg
Ernie Cureo ... Stacy Keach
Mr Spang ... Jared Harris
Sammy ... Kevin Daniels
Rocky and Wint ... Andre Sogliuzzo
Kidd and the Sergeant ... Darren Richardson
Tingaling and Dentist ... Matthew Wolf
Voice of Ian Fleming ... Martin Jarvis
Other parts played by members of the cast
Sound design: Mark Holden
Original music: Mark Holden and Michael Lopez
Director: Martin Jarvis
Producer: Rosalind Ayres
A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - THE ART OF BACKING VOCALS (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 8th May 2019
Nick Barraclough pushes aside the lead singer and delves into the world of the backing singer.
With the help of musicians, composers, and vocalists, he draws a straight line from the medieval canon to 50s doo-wop, celebrating the innovations of The Beatles and the multi-tracked world, inhabited by the likes of Joni Mitchell, along the way.
Producer: John Leonard
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
MUSIC EXTRA - NEW YORK CITY'S PIRATES OF THE AIR (96kbs-m4a/35mb/50mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 13th April 2019
As the workday winds down across New York, you can tune in to a clandestine world of unlicensed radio stations; a cacophonous sonic wonder of the city. As listeners begin to arrive home, dozens of secret transmitters switch on from rooftops in immigrant enclaves. These stations are often called ‘pirates’ for their practice of commandeering an already licensed frequency.
These rogue stations evade detection and take to the air, blanketing their neighbourhoods with the sounds of ancestral lands blending into a new home. They broadcast music and messages to diverse communities – whether from Latin America or the Caribbean, to born-again Christians and Orthodox Jews.
Reporter David Goren has long followed these stations from his Brooklyn home. He paints an audio portrait of their world, drawn from the culture of the street. Vivid soundscapes emerge from tangled clouds of invisible signals, nurturing immigrant communities struggling for a foothold in the big city.
With thanks to KCRW and the Lost Notes Podcast episode Outlaws of the Airwaves: The Rise of Pirate Radio Station WBAD.
Producer/Presenter: David Goren
JAMAICA: THE HARDER THEY COME - 2. LEGACY (320kbs-m4a/64mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 23rd April 2019
Writer Chris Salewicz revisits Jamaica 40 years since the premiere of the cult film The Harder They Come and talks to the musicians who were directly inspired into a life of crime by the film.
In the second and final part of his investigation, Chris asks why so many Jamaican musicians have associations with criminality, how Kingston's gun culture began and when politicians carved up downtown Kingston. Former Met Police officer Mark Shields and community worker Pastor Bobby Wilmott of Trenchtown talk about the reality of everyday life there.
Back in Britain, Chris examines the legacy of Jamaica's music and culture on today's youth in the form of reggae's cultural descendant, Bass Culture, which to many eyes glorifies the 'Badman' archetype portrayed in The Harder They Come. Grime MC Flowdan, reggae singer Tappa Zukie, Jimmy Cliff, and black music historian Mykaell Riley all contribute.
Producer: Simon Poole
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2013.
JAMAICA: THE HARDER THEY COME - 1. INFLUENCE (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 22nd April 2019
Writer Chris Salewicz's two-part exploration of the cult film 'The Harder They Come' as he considers its legacy. He meets the film's stars and those who have been touched by this classic of modern cinema and its soundtrack.
Released in British cinemas in 1973, The Harder They Come is the rite of passage story of Ivan, a young singer trying to break into the music industry. Portrayed by the ever-smiling Jimmy Cliff, the film contains great music and unforgettable scenes of sun-bleached Jamaica. Yet there is a dark heart to the film. Despite his considerable vocal talents, Ivan goes astray and becomes tragically entwined in the criminal underworld.
For British cinema-goers it was their first insight into Kingston's seductive ghetto life, with a far-reaching influence on fashion and music. Before Bob Marley, it was The Harder They Come which launched reggae culture onto the world stage.
Contributors include Jimmy Cliff, discussing real-life gunman, Ryegin, who terrorised Kingston in 1948 and became the inspiration for the lead role. Chappy St Juste, cameraman on the film recalls shooting some memorable scenes, and Sally Henzell, widow of director Perry Henzel, talks about the film's premiere at Kingston's Carib cinema where 40,000 people tried to get in to the 1500 seater auditorium. Carl Bradshaw, who plays Jose, gives us a tour of the film's locations and author Matthew Parker contextualises Jamaica's history as a violent slave outpost "bathed in blood".
Producer: Simon Poole
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2013.
LEO TOLSTOY - WAR AND PEACE - 10. EPISODE 10 (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 3rd May 2019
In this concluding episode, Pierre recalls his time in the barracks – a surprisingly happy time where he meets a prisoner, Platon Karateev. Kutuzov reluctantly leads the Battle of Tarutino, a Russian victory by a series of accidents.
Meanwhile, Sonya is left little choice but to return her promise to Nikolai so that he can marry his true love, Marya. Countess Rostov receives shocking news and Natasha is still suffering from the death of her beloved Prince Andrei. Kutuzov is called upon once again by the Emperor, this time to 'save Europe'. What will be the General's ultimate decision for Russia?
A dynamic fresh dramatisation by Timberlake Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and Harriet Walter
The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the events that shaped their lives and the lives of every Russian who lived through these troubled times.
War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th-century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in ten episodes.
Leo Tolstoy … Author
Timberlake Wertenbaker … Dramatist
Alex Shiels … Sergei Rostov
Alun Armstrong … Count Rostov
Ben Crowe … Mikhail Mitrich
Charlotte Emmerson … Helen Kuragin
Daniel Flynn … Regimental Commander
David Calder … Prince Vassily Kuragin
David Collings … Shinshin
Ella Dale … Masha Bezukhov
Emerald O'Hanrahan … Julia Karagan
Ferdinand Kingsley … Anatole Kuragin
Harriet Walter … Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskoy
Hazel Ellerby … Julia's mother
Jed Vine … Petya Rostov
Joanna David … Annette Scherer
Joel Maccormack … Boris Drubetskoy
John Hurt … Prince Bolkonsky
Jonathan Slinger … Captain Denisov
Kathleen Keaney … Liza Rostov
Lesley Manville … Countess Rostov
Miss Nelly Harker … Lise Bolkonsky
Natasha Little … Marya Bolkonsky
Paterson Joseph … Pierre Bezuhkov
Phoebe Fox … Natasha Rostov
Pip Donaghy … Colonel of the House
Roger Allam … General Kutuzov
Roger May … Prince Bagration
Sam Blatchford … Andrusha Rostov
Sam Dale … Alpatych
Sam Reid … Nikolai Rostov
Sarah Badel … Maria Demitrievna
Serena Evans … Catiche
Stanley Toyne … Mitya Rostov
Stephen Campbell Moore … Andrei Bolkonsky
Tamzin Merchant … Sonya Rostov
Tom Glenister … Nikolenka Bolkonsky
Director: Celia de Wolff
Executive Producer: Peter Hoare
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
LEO TOLSTOY - WAR AND PEACE - 9. EPISODE 9 (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 2nd May 2019
As the Rostovs pack up ready to leave Moscow, Natasha invites all the wounded soldiers to stay in their house. Nikolai is still in love with Marya but feels he cannot go back on his promise to Sonya. That night, a wounded officer is wheeled into the courtyard – Prince Andrei – who Sonya is told won't live long. She and the Countess decide not to reveal the news to Natasha.
Meanwhile, Pierre returns to the Queen-less hive that is Moscow where he receives a letter from Countess Bezukhov requesting a divorce. The French Army arrive to find Moscow deserted and completely out of control while Pierre wanders through the now-empty city, in disguise, as he initiates his solo mission to assassinate Napoleon. But fate could be about to interrupt his grand plan.
A dynamic fresh dramatisation by Timberlake Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and Harriet Walter
The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the events that shaped their lives and the lives of every Russian who lived through these troubled times.
War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th-century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in ten episodes.
Leo Tolstoy … Author
Timberlake Wertenbaker … Dramatist
Alex Shiels … Sergei Rostov
Alun Armstrong … Count Rostov
Ben Crowe … Mikhail Mitrich
Charlotte Emmerson … Helen Kuragin
Daniel Flynn … Regimental Commander
David Calder … Prince Vassily Kuragin
David Collings … Shinshin
Ella Dale … Masha Bezukhov
Emerald O'Hanrahan … Julia Karagan
Ferdinand Kingsley … Anatole Kuragin
Harriet Walter … Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskoy
Hazel Ellerby … Julia's mother
Jed Vine … Petya Rostov
Joanna David … Annette Scherer
Joel Maccormack … Boris Drubetskoy
John Hurt … Prince Bolkonsky
Jonathan Slinger … Captain Denisov
Kathleen Keaney … Liza Rostov
Lesley Manville … Countess Rostov
Miss Nelly Harker … Lise Bolkonsky
Natasha Little … Marya Bolkonsky
Paterson Joseph … Pierre Bezuhkov
Phoebe Fox … Natasha Rostov
Pip Donaghy … Colonel of the House
Roger Allam … General Kutuzov
Roger May … Prince Bagration
Sam Blatchford … Andrusha Rostov
Sam Dale … Alpatych
Sam Reid … Nikolai Rostov
Sarah Badel … Maria Demitrievna
Serena Evans … Catiche
Stanley Toyne … Mitya Rostov
Stephen Campbell Moore … Andrei Bolkonsky
Tamzin Merchant … Sonya Rostov
Tom Glenister … Nikolenka Bolkonsky
Director: Celia de Wolff
Executive Producer: Peter Hoare
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
LEO TOLSTOY - WAR AND PEACE - 8. EPISODE 8 (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st May 2019
Marya flees Bald Hills when it is subject to attack from the French army. After being rescued by Nikolai from a near peasants’ revolt, they both realise their mutual love for one another, despite Nikolai already being promised to Sonya.
Pierre decides to visit the Battlefields at Borodino where he encounters Andrei who is now living in a broken down shed and desperately trying to forget his previous life. General Kutuzov is leading the cavalry. Despite Pierre warning Andrei of the rumours that Kutuzov is a traitor to the Russians and questioning whether Kutuzov is a skilled commander, Andrei believes that, with Kutuzov by their side, they will win the battle. Although, unknown to Andrei, Kutuzov may have to sacrifice Moscow in the process.
A dynamic fresh dramatisation by Timberlake Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and Harriet Walter
The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the events that shaped their lives and the lives of every Russian who lived through these troubled times.
War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th-century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in ten episodes.
Leo Tolstoy … Author
Timberlake Wertenbaker … Dramatist
Alex Shiels … Sergei Rostov
Alun Armstrong … Count Rostov
Ben Crowe … Mikhail Mitrich
Charlotte Emmerson … Helen Kuragin
Daniel Flynn … Regimental Commander
David Calder … Prince Vassily Kuragin
David Collings … Shinshin
Ella Dale … Masha Bezukhov
Emerald O'Hanrahan … Julia Karagan
Ferdinand Kingsley … Anatole Kuragin
Harriet Walter … Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskoy
Hazel Ellerby … Julia's mother
Jed Vine … Petya Rostov
Joanna David … Annette Scherer
Joel Maccormack … Boris Drubetskoy
John Hurt … Prince Bolkonsky
Jonathan Slinger … Captain Denisov
Kathleen Keaney … Liza Rostov
Lesley Manville … Countess Rostov
Miss Nelly Harker … Lise Bolkonsky
Natasha Little … Marya Bolkonsky
Paterson Joseph … Pierre Bezuhkov
Phoebe Fox … Natasha Rostov
Pip Donaghy … Colonel of the House
Roger Allam … General Kutuzov
Roger May … Prince Bagration
Sam Blatchford … Andrusha Rostov
Sam Dale … Alpatych
Sam Reid … Nikolai Rostov
Sarah Badel … Maria Demitrievna
Serena Evans … Catiche
Stanley Toyne … Mitya Rostov
Stephen Campbell Moore … Andrei Bolkonsky
Tamzin Merchant … Sonya Rostov
Tom Glenister … Nikolenka Bolkonsky
Director: Celia de Wolff
Executive Producer: Peter Hoare
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
LEO TOLSTOY - WAR AND PEACE - 7. EPISODE 7 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 30th April 2019
Andrei grows ever more bitter about Natasha's behaviour with Anatole Karagin and, after a heated argument with his father, feels he has little choice but to leave Bald Hills in order to rejoin the army and forget the past. Petya, the youngest child of the Rostovs also wants to join the army much to the horror and worry of the Countess.
Meanwhile, Pierre is convinced that he is on a mission to single-handedly save Russia from Napoleon, while his own feelings towards Natasha could be something more than just those of a concerned 'guardian'. As the war continues to spread across Russia, Prince Bolkonsky and Marya are warned by Andrei that troops could be drawing closer to their home near Smolensk. The news is too much for the old Prince.
A dynamic fresh dramatisation by Timberlake Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and Harriet Walter.
The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the events that shaped their lives and the lives of every Russian who lived through these troubled times.
War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th-century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in ten episodes.
Leo Tolstoy … Author
Timberlake Wertenbaker … Dramatist
Alex Shiels … Sergei Rostov
Alun Armstrong … Count Rostov
Ben Crowe … Mikhail Mitrich
Charlotte Emmerson … Helen Kuragin
Daniel Flynn … Regimental Commander
David Calder … Prince Vassily Kuragin
David Collings … Shinshin
Ella Dale … Masha Bezukhov
Emerald O'Hanrahan … Julia Karagan
Ferdinand Kingsley … Anatole Kuragin
Harriet Walter … Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskoy
Hazel Ellerby … Julia's mother
Jed Vine … Petya Rostov
Joanna David … Annette Scherer
Joel Maccormack … Boris Drubetskoy
John Hurt … Prince Bolkonsky
Jonathan Slinger … Captain Denisov
Kathleen Keaney … Liza Rostov
Lesley Manville … Countess Rostov
Miss Nelly Harker … Lise Bolkonsky
Natasha Little … Marya Bolkonsky
Paterson Joseph … Pierre Bezuhkov
Phoebe Fox … Natasha Rostov
Pip Donaghy … Colonel of the House
Roger Allam … General Kutuzov
Roger May … Prince Bagration
Sam Blatchford … Andrusha Rostov
Sam Dale … Alpatych
Sam Reid … Nikolai Rostov
Sarah Badel … Maria Demitrievna
Serena Evans … Catiche
Stanley Toyne … Mitya Rostov
Stephen Campbell Moore … Andrei Bolkonsky
Tamzin Merchant … Sonya Rostov
Tom Glenister … Nikolenka Bolkonsky
Director: Celia de Wolff
Executive Producer: Peter Hoare
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
LEO TOLSTOY - WAR AND PEACE - 6. EPISODE 6 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th April 2019
Natasha struggles to cope with Andrei's absence and is sent to stay with her Godmother in Moscow, so that she can meet with Prince Bolkonsky and Marya in an attempt to win them over. It all goes wrong when she is tempted to stray by the two timing Anatole Kuragin who immediately fills Natasha's head with promises of his love. Could Natasha be about to throw away everything she already has with her beloved fiancee, Andrei, for the hand of this wicked Prince?
A dynamic fresh dramatisation by Timberlake Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and Harriet Walter.
The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the events that shaped their lives and the lives of every Russian who lived through these troubled times.
War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th-century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in ten episodes.
Leo Tolstoy … Author
Timberlake Wertenbaker … Dramatist
Alex Shiels … Sergei Rostov
Ben Crowe … Mikhail Mitrich
Charlotte Emmerson … Helene Kuragin
Daniel Flynn … Regimental Commander
David Calder … Prince Vassily Kuragin
David Collings … Shinshin
Ella Dale … Masha Bezukhov
Ferdinand Kingsley … Anatole Kuragin
Harriet Walter … Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskoy
Hazel Ellerby … Julia's mother
Jed Vine … Petya Rostov
Joanna David … Annette Scherer
Joel Maccormack … Boris Drubetskoy
John Hurt … Prince Bolkonsky
Jonathan Slinger … Captain Denisov
Kathleen Keaney … Liza Rostov
Nelly Harker … Lise Bolkonsky
Alun Armstrong … Count Rostov
Emerald O'Hanrahan … Julia Karagan
Lesley Manville … Countess Rostov
Natasha Little … Marya Bolkonsky
Paterson Joseph … Pierre Bezuhkov
Phoebe Fox … Natasha Rostov
Pip Donaghy … Colonel of the Hussars
Roger Allam … General Kutuzov
Roger May … Prince Bagration
Sam Blatchford … Andrusha Rostov
Sam Dale … Alpatych
Sam Reid … Nikolai Rostov
Sarah Badel … Maria Demitrievna
Serena Evans … Catiche
Stanley Toyne … Mitya Rostov
Stephen Campbell Moore … Andrei Bolkonsky
Tamzin Merchant … Sonya Rostov
Tom Glenister … Nikolenka Bolkonsky
Director: Celia de Wolff
Executive Producer: Peter Hoare
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
LEO TOLSTOY - WAR AND PEACE - 5. EPISODE 5 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 26th April 2019
There is much excitement as the Rostov family is invited to the Emperor's New Year's Eve Ball where Andrei meets Natasha Rostov for the first time. The two of them fall deeply in love, but are the rumours of his proposal to her true? And how will Andrei's domineering father, Prince Bolkonsky, react to the news?
Pierre, still a freemason, is growing increasingly distant from Helene. Meanwhile the Rostov family is in an increasingly dire financial position and Countess Rostov is desperate for Nikolai to marry Julia Karagin whose wealth could save them. But Nikolai and his penniless cousin Sonya love each other and are determined to marry.
A dynamic fresh dramatisation by Timberlake Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and Harriet Walter.
The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the events that shaped their lives and the lives of every Russian who lived through these troubled times.
War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th-century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale never before attempted in fiction.
Alex Shiels … Sergei Rostov
Ben Crowe … Mikhail Mitrich
Charlotte Emmerson … Helene Kuragin
Daniel Flynn … Regimental Commander
David Calder … Prince Vassily Kuragin
David Collings … Shinshin
Ella Dale … Masha Bezukhov
Ferdinand Kingsley … Anatole Kuragin
Harriet Walter … Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskoy
Hazel Ellerby … Julia's mother
Jed Vine … Petya Rostov
Joanna David … Annette Scherer
Joel Maccormack … Boris Drubetskoy
John Hurt … Prince Bolkonsky
Jonathan Slinger … Captain Denisov
Kathleen Keaney … Liza Rostov
Nelly Harker … Lise Bolkonsky
Alun Armstrong … Count Rostov
Emerald O'Hanrahan … Julia Karagan
Lesley Manville … Countess Rostov
Natasha Little … Marya Bolkonsky
Paterson Joseph … Pierre Bezuhkov
Phoebe Fox … Natasha Rostov
Pip Donaghy … Colonel of the Hussars
Roger Allam … General Kutuzov
Roger May … Prince Bagration
Sam Blatchford … Andrusha Rostov
Sam Dale … Alpatych
Sam Reid … Nikolai Rostov
Sarah Badel … Maria Demitrievna
Serena Evans … Catiche
Stanley Toyne … Mitya Rostov
Stephen Campbell Moore … Andrei Bolkonsky
Tamzin Merchant … Sonya Rostov
Tom Glenister … Nikolenka Bolkonsky
Director: Celia de Wolff
Executive Producer: Peter Hoare
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
LEO TOLSTOY - WAR AND PEACE - 4. EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 25th April 2019
Pierre meets a wise stranger, Bazdeev, and becomes a Freemason. Natasha catches the eye of Captain Denisov who rashly proposes – Countess Rostov sets him straight. Nikolai confesses his huge gambling debts to his father, Count Rostov, and vows never to gamble again. General Denisov vows never to propose again.
Following Lise's death, Pierre visits Bald Hills to try and console a broken Andrei and siblings Andrei and Marya draw close when Andrei's young son, Nikolenka, is dangerously ill. Meanwhile, on the battlefield, Denisov takes drastic action to feed his starving troops but the consequences are harsh. And following a business visit to Count Rostov, Andrei encounters Natasha Rostov and is enchanted – he wants to live again.
A dynamic fresh dramatisation by Timberlake Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and Harriet Walter.
The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the events that shaped their lives and the lives of every Russian who lived through these troubled times.
War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th-century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale never before attempted in fiction.
Alex Shiels … Sergei Rostov
Ben Crowe … Mikhail Mitrich
Charlotte Emmerson … Helene Kuragin
Daniel Flynn … Regimental Commander
David Calder … Prince Vassily Kuragin
David Collings … Shinshin
Ella Dale … Masha Bezukhov
Ferdinand Kingsley … Anatole Kuragin
Harriet Walter … Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskoy
Hazel Ellerby … Julia's mother
Jed Vine … Petya Rostov
Joanna David … Annette Scherer
Joel Maccormack … Boris Drubetskoy
John Hurt … Prince Bolkonsky
Jonathan Slinger … Captain Denisov
Kathleen Keaney … Liza Rostov
Nelly Harker … Lise Bolkonsky
Alun Armstrong … Count Rostov
Emerald O'Hanrahan … Julia Karagan
Lesley Manville … Countess Rostov
Natasha Little … Marya Bolkonsky
Paterson Joseph … Pierre Bezuhkov
Phoebe Fox … Natasha Rostov
Pip Donaghy … Colonel of the Hussars
Roger Allam … General Kutuzov
Roger May … Prince Bagration
Sam Blatchford … Andrusha Rostov
Sam Dale … Alpatych
Sam Reid … Nikolai Rostov
Sarah Badel … Maria Demitrievna
Serena Evans … Catiche
Stanley Toyne … Mitya Rostov
Stephen Campbell Moore … Andrei Bolkonsky
Tamzin Merchant … Sonya Rostov
Tom Glenister … Nikolenka Bolkonsky
Director: Celia de Wolff
Executive Producer: Peter Hoare
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
LEO TOLSTOY - WAR AND PEACE - 3. EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 24th April 2019
Napoleon maps out his strategic plan against the Russians at Austerlitz. General Kutuzov and Andrei are both wounded in the battle and Andrei's family don't know if he is alive. Meanwhile, Pierre challenges Dolokhov to a duel over Helene - he suspects them of being lovers - and Pierre and Helene argue, but she refuses to separate. Denisov and Nikolai return to the Rostov home while at Bald Hills, Lise is in childbirth but will she and Andrei ever see each again?
A dynamic fresh dramatisation by Timberlake Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and Harriet Walter.
The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the events that shaped their lives and the lives of every Russian who lived through these troubled times.
War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th-century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale never before attempted in fiction.
Alex Shiels … Sergei Rostov
Ben Crowe … Mikhail Mitrich
Charlotte Emmerson … Helene Kuragin
Daniel Flynn … Regimental Commander
David Calder … Prince Vassily Kuragin
David Collings … Shinshin
Ella Dale … Masha Bezukhov
Ferdinand Kingsley … Anatole Kuragin
Harriet Walter … Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskoy
Hazel Ellerby … Julia's mother
Jed Vine … Petya Rostov
Joanna David … Annette Scherer
Joel Maccormack … Boris Drubetskoy
John Hurt … Prince Bolkonsky
Jonathan Slinger … Captain Denisov
Kathleen Keaney … Liza Rostov
Nelly Harker … Lise Bolkonsky
Alun Armstrong … Count Rostov
Emerald O'Hanrahan … Julia Karagan
Lesley Manville … Countess Rostov
Natasha Little … Marya Bolkonsky
Paterson Joseph … Pierre Bezuhkov
Phoebe Fox … Natasha Rostov
Pip Donaghy … Colonel of the Hussars
Roger Allam … General Kutuzov
Roger May … Prince Bagration
Sam Blatchford … Andrusha Rostov
Sam Dale … Alpatych
Sam Reid … Nikolai Rostov
Sarah Badel … Maria Demitrievna
Serena Evans … Catiche
Stanley Toyne … Mitya Rostov
Stephen Campbell Moore … Andrei Bolkonsky
Tamzin Merchant … Sonya Rostov
Tom Glenister … Nikolenka Bolkonsky
Director: Celia de Wolff
Executive Producer: Peter Hoare
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
LEO TOLSTOY - WAR AND PEACE - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/131mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 23rd April 2019
Having inherited his father's fortune, Pierre becomes the new Count Bezukhov and the richest man in Russia. Prince Vassily's charming daughter, Helene, captures Pierre's attention and before long they are married. But will it be a happy match?
Meanwhile, Princess Marya is being wooed by Helen's wily brother, Anatole, while war dominates for others - Prince Andrei is building a respectful relationship with General Kutuzov and courageously speaks out to Prince Bagration in defence of Captain Tushin while Nikolai is wounded at Shoengraben. The Battle of Austerlitz is imminent.
A dynamic fresh dramatisation by Timberlake Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and Harriet Walter.
The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the events that shaped their lives and the lives of every Russian who lived through these troubled times.
War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th-century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale never before attempted in fiction.
Alex Shiels … Sergei Rostov
Ben Crowe … Mikhail Mitrich
Charlotte Emmerson … Helen Kuragin
Daniel Flynn … Regimental Commander
David Calder … Prince Vassily Kuragin
David Collings … Shinshin
Ella Dale … Masha Bezukhov
Ferdinand Kingsley … Anatole Kuragin
Harriet Walter … Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskoy
Hazel Ellerby … Julia's mother
Jed Vine … Petya Rostov
Joanna David … Annette Scherer
Joel Msccormack … Boris Drubetskoy
John Hurt … Prince Bolkonsky
Jonathan Slinger … Captain Denisov
Kathleen Keaney … Liza Rostov
Miss Nelly Harker … Lise Bolkonsky
Alun Armstrong … Count Rostov
Emerald O'Hanrahan … Julia Karagan
Lesley Manville … Countess Rostov
Natasha Little … Marya Bolkonsky
Paterson Joseph … Pierre Bezuhkov
Phoebe Fox … Natasha Rostov
Pip Donaghy … Colonel of the House
Roger Allam … General Kutuzov
Roger May … Prince Bagration
Sam Blatchford … Andrusha Rostov
Sam Dale … Alpatych
Sam Reid … Nikolai Rostov
Sarah Badel … Maria Demitrievna
Serena Evans … Catiche
Stanley Toyne … Mitya Rostov
Stephen Campbell Moore … Andrei Bolkonsky
Tamzin Merchant … Sonya Rostov
Tom Glenister … Nikolenka Bolkonsky
Director: Celia de Wolff
Executive Producer: Peter Hoare
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
LEO TOLSTOY - WAR AND PEACE - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 22nd April 2019
The fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War.
A dynamic fresh dramatisation by Timberlake Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky.
Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and Harriet Walter.
There's a lively dinner party at the Rostov family home and Anna Mikhailovna Dubretskoy is in battle with Prince Vassily over the will and inheritance of the wealthy Count Bezukhov. It seems Pierre, his illegitimate son, may inherit the Count's vast fortune. Meanwhile, Andrei's decision to join the army causes tension between him and his pregnant wife, Lise.
The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the events that shaped their lives and the lives of every Russian who lived through these troubled times.
War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th-century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale never before attempted in fiction.
Paterson Joseph ...... Pierre Bezuhkov
Lesley Manville ...... Countess Rostov
John Hurt ...... Prince Bolkonsky
Alun Armstrong ...... Count Rostov
Phoebe Fox ...... Natasha Rostov
Sam Reid ...... Nikolai Rostov
Tamzin Merchant ...... Sonya Rostov
Stephen Campbell Moore ...... Andrei Bolkonsky
Natasha Little ...... Marya Bolkonsky
Roger Allam ...... General Kutuzov
Harriet Walter ...... Mikhailovna Drubetskoy
Director: Celia de Wolff
Executive Producer: Peter Hoare
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
