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Chris Barrie reads Grant Naylor's Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf

Stuck on the Red Dwarf in a dreary menial job alongside the awful Arnold Rimmer, Dave Lister suddenly falls in love. Chris Barrie (Rimmer in the TV version) continues his reading of Grant Naylor's comic classic.

And throughout the week you can hear Chris Barrie chatting to Radio 7's own Penny Haslam.

Sunday at 10pm

Classic Comedy - Listen Again

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse - The Offer

Our celebrations of Alan Simpson’s eightieth birthday continue with this re-make of the first episode in the Steptoe saga. It was adapted by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton from their original script. John Thomson stars as Harold, eager to escape the suffocating influence of his irascible father, Albert, played by Freddie Jones.

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Comedy Club - Coming Up

Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill

Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill

Eddie Izzard brings his unique blend of glamour, wit and surrealism to this New York live show. His frank and hilarious set revels in an ambitious range of subjects including transvestism, lying and the space race. Part Two follows next week.

Saturday at 11pm

7th Dimension - Coming Up

Adjoa Andoh is the Voice of Planet B

Planet B

Lioba and Kip marry and settle in Happy Valley. But is it the ideal world it promised to be? Continuing our new commission about the virtual world where you can be whoever you want to be. Tessa Nicholson and Joseph Cohen-Cole star, with Adjoa Andoh as the Voice of Planet B.

Sunday at 6pm and Midnight

7 Drama - Listen Again

Jasmine Hyde and Julian Wadham

Little Dorrit

Ian McKellen narrates Charles Dickens’s powerful story of love, greed and deception. When Arthur Clennam returns to London after the death of his father, he becomes fascinated by the Dorrit family, resident for many years in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison. Julian Wadham stars as Clennam with Jasmine Hyde as Little Dorrit.

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