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Radio schedule Wednesday 23rd March 2011

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
Turf Wars. Copyright: BBC

Turf Wars

Episode 3 - How's Your Mother?

In Simon Brett's comedy, Humphrey Partridge rarely socialises in his gossipy rural village. He has Mother to look after. And work to do on that freshly dug trench in the garden. With Michael Maloney, Adeel Akhtar and Sam Dale.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Act Your Age. Simon Mayo. Copyright: BBC

Act Your Age

Series 3, Episode 1

Team captains Holly Walsh, Lucy Porter and Tom O'Connor are joined by Henry Paker, Miles Jupp and Duggie Brown.

Radio 7 7pm (repeat)
Hancock's Half Hour. Image shows from L to R: Sidney James (Sid James), Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock (Tony Hancock), Bill Kerr (Bill Kerr)

Hancock's Half Hour

Series 5, Episode 13 - The Foreign Legion

Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock is a loser whose plans and aspirations are continually ruined by bad luck, Sidney Balmoral James or, more often than not, by his own pomposity and ambition.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
It Is Rocket Science!. Helen Keen. Copyright: BBC

It Is Rocket Science!

Series 1, Episode 3

Helen Keen presents an entirely comprehensive and balanced history of the space race, from the secret creator of the first artificial satellite to the final swear words still echoing around the craters of the Moon...

Radio 4 11:15pm (repeat)
The Ladies. Emily Watson. Credit: Hat Trick Productions, BBC

The Ladies

Series 2, Episode 3

A bored woman keeps randomly calling anyone she knows, and a terminally ill woman tries to set her husband up with a stranger.

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