Retired programmer, chess problemist and fan of radio drama.
Sheffield
Joined September 2011
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'Volcano' by Peter Wolf on @BBCRadio4Extra at 15:00 & 21:00: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0033c7… Featuring Juliet Stevenson, Ian Hogg, Stephen Critchlow, Geoffrey Whitehead, Keith Drinkel, Stephen Thorne, Jill Graham, Jonathan Keeble, Patience Tomlinson. Directed by Cherry Cookson.
Ep. 2 of 'Dead Souls' by Gogol dramatised by @DanRebellato on @BBCRadio4Extra at 11:00 & 17:00: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00wrc… Featuring Michael Palin, Mark Heap, @TobyHadoke , Wyllie Lonqmore, Graeme Hawley, David Fleeshman, Judith Davis, Rina Mahonev. Directed by Polly Thomas.
Ep. 2 of 'Out of Time' by Cambria Bailey-Jones & Guy Larsen on @BBCRadio4 at 14:15: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0033f… Featuring Raffey Cassidy, Ben Crowe, Sacha Dhawan, Burn Gorman, Calam Lynch, Tanya Moodie, Tiffany Smith. Directed by @Nadia_Molinari
Brian Stephenson retweeted
Ľubomír Ftáčnik (30 October 1957) is a Slovak chess grandmaster. He won the 1976/1977 European Junior Championship, won individual gold medal in the 1980 European Team Championship, and won team silver medal in the 1982 Chess Olympiad.
Photos: stefan64 / krtschil (wikimedia)
Ep. 1 of 'Dead Souls' by Nikolai Gogol dramatised by @DanRebellato on @BBCRadio4Extra at 17:00: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00wr9… Featuring Michael Palin, Mark Heap, David Fleeshman, Judith Davis, Wyllie Longmore, @TobyHadoke , Graeme Hawley. Directed by Polly Thomas.
'A Dangerous Thing' by John Sessions on @BBCRadio4Extra at 15:00 & 21:00: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p2jc… Featuring Timothy Spall, John Sessions, Amanda Root, Joe Thomas, Tessa Nicholson, Nigel Hastings, John Biggins. Directed by Emma Harding.
'The Call of Cthudo' by James Henry on @BBCRadio4 at 14:15: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0033g2… Featuring Stephen Mangan, Mark Heap, Madelyn Smedley, Ukweli Roach, Sukh Kaur Ojla. Directed by Katherine Beacon.
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.
Brian Stephenson retweeted
Remembering IM Mike Basman (16-iii-1946 26-x-2022)
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@ecfchess @FIDE_chess @dgriffinchess @GM_RayKeene @TelegraphChess @johnchess @ChessHastings @gmmds @JonSpeelman @ChessHeritage @richardpalliser @chesstutor
'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.
Brian Stephenson retweeted
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
Brian Stephenson retweeted
I've just signed this petition to save BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Will you add your name and share too?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio… via @38degrees
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.
