Retired programmer, chess problemist and fan of radio drama.
Sheffield
Joined September 2011
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Ep. 3 of 'Maydays' by David Edgar on @BBCRadio4 at 14:15: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jk… Featuring Mark Quartley, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Simon Scardifield, Ellie Kendrick, Oliver Ford Davies, Adrian Klein, Ruth Everett, Ria Marshall, Jane Slavin, Roger Ringrose.Directed by Toby Swift.
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Remembering IM Mike Basman (16-iii-1946 26-x-2022)
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'Gargantua and Pantagruel' by Rabelais dramatised by Lavinia Murray on @BBCRadio4Extra at 15:00 & 21:00: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0183r3… Featuring David Troughton, Robert Wilfort, Eric Potts, Melissa Jane Sinden, Jonathan Keeble, Malcolm Raeburn, Kathryn Hunt. Directed by Gary Brown.
'Ep. 1 of "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift adapted by Ian Billings on @BBCRadio4 at 15:00: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0033g5… Featuring Graham Dickson, David Holt, Jack Nuttall, Lucie Shorthouse, Joanna Neary, Sunil Patel, Debbie Korley, Ian Billings. Directed by Lorna Newman.
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I made a little show as an extra for BBC Radio 4 Extra (pretty much in my own time): it’s being repeated to mark 20 years since the death of Nigel Kneale. This sort of bonus (dare I say it Reithian?) content will not be possible once the station goes:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016jc…
'Remembering Nigel Neale' presented by @TobyHadoke on @BBCRadio4Extra at 16:45 & 00:45: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0016j…
'Knock of the Ban-Sithe' by Kenny Boyle on @BBCRadio4Extra at 16:00 & midnight: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001b4… Featuring Helen Mackay, Sophia Mclean, Kenny Boyle, Mairi Morrison, Aora. Directed by Bruce Young.
'Candide' by Voltaire abridged by Robin Brooks on @BBCRadio4Extra at 12:30 & 18:30: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000bm… Read by Adrian Scarborough. Produced by Bruce Young.
'Insptector Ghote Hunts the Peacock' by HRF Keating adapted by Geoffrey M Matthews on @BBCRadio4Extra at 11:00 & 17:00: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0033d… Featuring Sam Dastor, Sarah Neville, Garard Green, Ursula Mohan, Carole Boyd. Produced by Geoffrey Hewitt. Directed by Peter Windows.
'Darkness' by Michael Symmons Roberts on @BBCRadio4 at 15:00: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0013q… Featuring Alfred Enoch, Daisy Head, Ashley Margolis. Directed by @Nadia_Molinari
Brian Stephenson retweeted
The BBC is set to scrap Radio 4 Extra. 📻 Losing this treasure trove of classic comedy, archive drama, and timeless storytelling would be a massive blow for millions of us.
Sign the petition to help save Radio 4 Extra 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio… via @38degrees
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I've just signed this petition to save BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Will you add your name and share too?
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Ep. 2 of 'The Sand Leopard' by Berkeley Mather on @bbcradio4e at 11:30 & 17:30: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001kh… Featuring Neil McCallum, Jerold Wells, Andreas Malandrinos, Malcolm Hayes, Christine Finn,David Bauer,Geoffrey Matthews,Mohammed Talib,Kenneth Dight. Produced by Robin Midgley.
Ep. 1 of 'Tinker, Tailor, Solder, Spy' by John le Carre adapted by Rene Basilico on @BBCRadio4Extra at 11:00 & 17:00: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00333… Featuring Bernard Hepton, James Grout, Charles Kay, William Simons, Edward de Souza, Alan MacNaughtan. Produced by John Fawcett Wilson.
Ep. 2 of 'Maydays' by David Edgar on @BBCRadio4 at 14:15: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jk… Featuring Mark Quartley, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Simon Scardifield, Ellie Kendrick, Ruth Everett, Jane Slavin, Adrian Klein, Ria Marshall, Jonathan Forbes, Lloyd Thomas. Directed by Toby Swift.
'The Nightingale' by David Wade after Hans Christian Andersen on @BBCRadio4Extra at 16:00 & midnight: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000wrx… Featuring John Pullen, Elizabeth Proud, Carleton Hobbs, Peter Woodthorpe, Garard Green, Margot Boyd, Helen Worth, Jack May. Produced by Graham Gauld.
'Semi-Detached' by David Turner on @BBCRadio4Extra at 11:00 & 17:00: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b08071… Featuring Leonard Rossiter, Gillian Raine, Thelma Whitley, Bryan Stanyon, Peter French, Bridget Turner, Donald Gee, Antonia Pemberton, Leon Sinden. Produced by Hugh Stewart.
'Save the Hundred Acre Wood' by Edward Kemp on @BBCRadio4 at 15:00: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00331h… Featuring Robert Bathurst, Lia Williams, Anton Lesser, Rosie Jones, Natasha Cowley, Fraser Wall. Directed by @Jeremort .
Brian Stephenson retweeted
On this day 20 years ago, in Moscow - ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov (1921-2010) congratulates World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, fresh from his win in the 'reunification' match v. Veselin Topalov in Elista.
(📷: D. Dukhanin, kommersant.ru.) #chess
