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Radio schedule Wednesday 7th March 2012

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
The Right Time

The Right Time

Episode 1, Gym Shenanigans: The sketch comedy for people growing older disgracefully.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
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 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 5 - The New Secretary

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 cover a ghost hunter and a collector of holes.

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

Nineteen Ninety-Eight

Episode 5: Even Edward's allies find themselves absorbed by AmJap.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:15am (repeat)
Lesley Sharp

Have Your Cake

Episode 2 - Private Parkin

A mysterious man gatecrashes the cake club. Is he the chef he claims to be or something more sinister?

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 6 - Gambled

The two penniless friends bank on a huge lottery win.

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 5 - The New Secretary

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 cover a ghost hunter and a collector of holes.

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

On Mardle Fen

Series 4, Episode 2 - Wives

Warwick's granddaughter is back from college and she is curious about the family. She wants to trace her roots. In particular, she has been wondering about her grandmother, but her request touches a nerve.

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

Uncle Mort's South Country

Series 2, Episode 5 - The End Of The Road

Carter Brandon and his uncle enjoy a near-fatal finale to their travels.

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 12 - The Pin Up Girl

Pike and Hodges decide to update the photos on the 'What the Butler Saw' machine and persuade Miss Perkins to pose for them.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
The Right Time

The Right Time

Episode 1, Gym Shenanigans: The sketch comedy for people growing older disgracefully.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Life: An Idiot's Guide. Stephen K Amos. Copyright: BBC

Life: An Idiot's Guide

Series 1, Episode 1 - Dishonesty

Sara Pascoe, Matt Forde, Carey Marx and David O'Doherty offer an idiot's guide to dishonesty.

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 5 - The New Secretary

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 cover a ghost hunter and a collector of holes.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:15pm (repeat)
Lesley Sharp

Have Your Cake

Episode 2 - Private Parkin

A mysterious man gatecrashes the cake club. Is he the chef he claims to be or something more sinister?

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

Ross Noble Goes Global

Series 2, Episode 3 - Egypt

In Egypt, Ross performs in a Bedoin tent by firelight in the middle of the desert... the Bedoins aren't really sure why he's there, but the amount of Bedoin tea they make him drink shows he is welcome.

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 3 - Chance

Tim tackles the dicey issue of 'chance' via a selection of poems, including The Wrong Number That Led to a Marriage and Probably Gay.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Edge Falls

Edge Falls

Series 1, Episode 3

Edge Falls is going fit, fit, fit. And while there's Pilates in the car park and a separate fat section in the restaurant, one desperate man just wants to return a sales item.

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 3 - About Work

Nathan's family know that he is committed to a career in comedy, but it doesn't stop them persuading him to take a job at his dad's office.

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

Any Bloke

Episode 2, Roots: Stay-at-home dad Phil promises to take Sophie to a local playgroup.

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

Nineteen Ninety-Eight

Episode 5: Even Edward's allies find themselves absorbed by AmJap.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:15am (repeat)
Lesley Sharp

Have Your Cake

Episode 2 - Private Parkin

A mysterious man gatecrashes the cake club. Is he the chef he claims to be or something more sinister?

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 12 - The Pin Up Girl

Pike and Hodges decide to update the photos on the 'What the Butler Saw' machine and persuade Miss Perkins to pose for them.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
The Right Time

The Right Time

Episode 1, Gym Shenanigans: The sketch comedy for people growing older disgracefully.

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