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Radio schedule Tuesday 22nd January 2013

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Getting Nowhere Fast

Getting Nowhere Fast

Episode 3.1: An uncle's gift leaves menopausal flower child Merv yearning to discover his inner cowboy.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
I've Never Seen Star Wars. Marcus Brigstocke. Copyright: BBC

I've Never Seen Star Wars

Series 5, Episode 3 - Benjamin Zephaniah

Marcus Brigstocke invites poet Benjamin Zephaniah to try some new experiences. These include playing Scalextric, watching a Bond movie and having a cup of builder's tea.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC

The Goon Show

Episode 9.9, The Battle of Spion Kop: Things aren't going well in The South African War - it's time to send in the cutlery.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am
45 min version
(repeat)
The News Quiz. Andy Zaltzman

The News Quiz

Series 79, Episode 3

Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. With panellists Jeremy Hardy, Miles Jupp, Francis Wheen and Sue Perkins.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:45am (repeat)
Globe

All The World's A Globe

Episode 4, From Vikings to Normans: The National Theatre of Brent's definitive history of Earth.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC

The Goon Show

Episode 9.9, The Battle of Spion Kop: Things aren't going well in The South African War - it's time to send in the cutlery.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
June Whitfield

Like They've Never Been Gone

Episode 3.4: Can a tribe of African pygmies be persuaded to endorse Tommy and Sheila's CD?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Getting Nowhere Fast

Getting Nowhere Fast

Episode 3.1: An uncle's gift leaves menopausal flower child Merv yearning to discover his inner cowboy.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
I've Never Seen Star Wars. Marcus Brigstocke. Copyright: BBC

I've Never Seen Star Wars

Series 5, Episode 4 - Les Dennis

Les Dennis tries his first ever taste of cheese, reads The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, hears his first ever Rolling Stones album, and watches the hit comedy The Inbetweeners.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC

The Goon Show

Episode 9.9, The Battle of Spion Kop: Things aren't going well in The South African War - it's time to send in the cutlery.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
I've Never Seen Star Wars. Marcus Brigstocke. Copyright: BBC

I've Never Seen Star Wars

Series 5, Episode 3 - Benjamin Zephaniah

Marcus Brigstocke invites poet Benjamin Zephaniah to try some new experiences. These include playing Scalextric, watching a Bond movie and having a cup of builder's tea.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Laura Solon

Laura Solon: Talking And Not Talking

Series 2, Episode 2

Carole explains her brand new fruit auction website; Professor Selma Richards explains how tedious the world of academia is; and we hear about Chingley Hall's 1981 rat-reduction initiative.

Radio 4 11pm (repeat)
How to Be Bohemian. Victoria Coren Mitchell. Copyright: BBC

Heresy

Series 8, Episode 4

Rufus Hound, Dr Phil Hammond and Germaine Greer are asked to challenge received opinion and knee-jerk thinking.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Dan And Nick: The Wildebeest Years

Dan And Nick: The Wildebeest Years

Episode 4: Dan Freedman and Nick Romero serve up a salad family 'Tossed in Space', Robin Wood and The Archers abroad.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World. Image shows from L to R: Armando Iannucci, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, Rebecca Front. Copyright: BBC

Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World

Series 2, Episode 2 - The Future

What is it and why is it kept hidden from us, when if we knew what it was we would at least know if we needed to take a change of pants?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2am
45 min version
(repeat)
The News Quiz. Andy Zaltzman

The News Quiz

Series 79, Episode 3

Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. With panellists Jeremy Hardy, Miles Jupp, Francis Wheen and Sue Perkins.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:45am (repeat)
Globe

All The World's A Globe

Episode 4, From Vikings to Normans: The National Theatre of Brent's definitive history of Earth.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
June Whitfield

Like They've Never Been Gone

Episode 3.4: Can a tribe of African pygmies be persuaded to endorse Tommy and Sheila's CD?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Getting Nowhere Fast

Getting Nowhere Fast

Episode 3.1: An uncle's gift leaves menopausal flower child Merv yearning to discover his inner cowboy.

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