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Radio schedule Wednesday 29th February 2012

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Ayres On The Air. Pam Ayres. Copyright: BBC

Ayres On The Air

Series 2, Episode 6 - Food

Pam Ayres presents poetry, anecdotes and sketches on the topic of 'Food', with the help of Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Mark Thomas - The Manifesto. Mark Thomas. Copyright: BBC

Mark Thomas - The Manifesto

Series 4, Episode 3

Mark aims to compile more policies for his manifesto.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (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 4, Episode 4 - The Income Tax Demand

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.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
The Michael Bentine Show

The Best Of Bentine

Sketches featuring the Metropolitan Police to a dead newsreader. From February 1984.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
Nineteen Ninety-Eight

Nineteen Ninety-Eight

Episode 4: Edward Wilson's quest for truth becomes the Movement.

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
HR. Image shows from L to R: Peter (Jonathan Pryce), Sam (Nicholas Le Prevost). Copyright: BBC

HR

Series 3, Episode 5 - Robbed

Sam's latest plan is to try to remortgage their home.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (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 4, Episode 4 - The Income Tax Demand

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.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
The Michael Bentine Show

The Best Of Bentine

Sketches featuring the Metropolitan Police to a dead newsreader. From February 1984.

Radio 4 2:15pm
45 min
On Mardle Fen. Copyright: BBC

On Mardle Fen

Series 4, Episode 1 - If You Build It

Warwick hits on an idea for putting the restaurant on the map; a music festival. Jack is dead against it but Warwick has plans.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
A car on a country line. Copyright: BBC

Uncle Mort's South Country

Series 1, Episode 5 - In A Jam

Carter's uncle gets time to reflect, stuck on a busy motorway to the coast.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
It Sticks Out Half A Mile. Image shows from L to R: Frank Pike (Ian Lavender), Arthur Wilson (John Le Mesurier), Miss Perkins (Vivienne Martin), Bert Hodges (Bill Pertwee). Copyright: BBC

It Sticks Out Half A Mile

Episode 11 - War Damage

Pike is painting the pier. He, Hodges and Wilson are still trying to get people to rally round the effort to rebuild the pier, with Wilson and Hodges going to London to get a grant.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Ayres On The Air. Pam Ayres. Copyright: BBC

Ayres On The Air

Series 2, Episode 6 - Food

Pam Ayres presents poetry, anecdotes and sketches on the topic of 'Food', with the help of Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Mark Thomas - The Manifesto. Mark Thomas. Copyright: BBC

Mark Thomas - The Manifesto

Series 4, Episode 4

On this week's agenda, a kick-starter to kick Scotland out of the Union, bankers to be given bonuses in the form of NHS donation cards, and an end to bank fees for those on a family income of less than 30,000 pounds.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 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 4, Episode 4 - The Income Tax Demand

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.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
The Michael Bentine Show

The Best Of Bentine

Sketches featuring the Metropolitan Police to a dead newsreader. From February 1984.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Mark Thomas - The Manifesto. Mark Thomas. Copyright: BBC

Mark Thomas - The Manifesto

Series 4, Episode 3

Mark aims to compile more policies for his manifesto.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Ross Noble Goes Global. Ross Noble. Copyright: BBC

Ross Noble Goes Global

Series 2, Episode 2 - Adelaide

In Adelaide, "The City of Churches" and bizarre murder captial of the world, Ross makes the acquaintance of some drunks who are convinced he is a spy...

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme. Key (Tim Key). Copyright: BBC

Tim Key's Poetry Programme

Series 1, Episode 2 - Death

Tim attempts to get to the bottom of 'death' via his narrative poem The Boy Who Faked His Own Death.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Edge Falls

Edge Falls

Series 1, Episode 2

Dickie 'animal man' Doubleday is booked for a celebrity appearance at the retail village. But Dickie it transpires is barking mad.

Radio 4 11:15pm
15 min
Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing. Nathan Caton. Copyright: BBC

Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing

Series 1, Episode 2 - About Moving Out

Nathan decides it's time to leave home, but can he find somewhere to live, and will his mother allow him to leave?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Jim Sweeney

Any Bloke

Episode 1, Demand and Supply: Phil works and Sarah is a mum at home, but then she is offered a job.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2am (repeat)
Nineteen Ninety-Eight

Nineteen Ninety-Eight

Episode 4: Edward Wilson's quest for truth becomes the Movement.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
It Sticks Out Half A Mile. Image shows from L to R: Frank Pike (Ian Lavender), Arthur Wilson (John Le Mesurier), Miss Perkins (Vivienne Martin), Bert Hodges (Bill Pertwee). Copyright: BBC

It Sticks Out Half A Mile

Episode 11 - War Damage

Pike is painting the pier. He, Hodges and Wilson are still trying to get people to rally round the effort to rebuild the pier, with Wilson and Hodges going to London to get a grant.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Ayres On The Air. Pam Ayres. Copyright: BBC

Ayres On The Air

Series 2, Episode 6 - Food

Pam Ayres presents poetry, anecdotes and sketches on the topic of 'Food', with the help of Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead.

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