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Radio schedule Tuesday 29th January 2013

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

Getting Nowhere Fast

Episode 3.2: When burglars visit the CyberPass bistro, Merv decides to stay up and take action.

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

The Goon Show

Episode 9.10, Ned's Atomic Dustbin: Downing Street is keen on atom-free rubbish in case of radiation, but so are the Russians.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
Typewriter

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Episode 3.1, The Leak: The author gets obsessed with his wife's sense of smell.

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

The News Quiz

Series 79, Episode 4

A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. The panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Hugo Rifkind, Bob Mills and Jo Brand.

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

All The World's A Globe

Episode 5, From St Francis to Buddhism: 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 9.10, Ned's Atomic Dustbin: Downing Street is keen on atom-free rubbish in case of radiation, but so are the Russians.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Typewriter

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Episode 3.1, The Leak: The author gets obsessed with his wife's sense of smell.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
June Whitfield

Like They've Never Been Gone

Episode 3.5: Will hard-up Tommy and Sheila's trip to Australia ever get off the ground?

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

Getting Nowhere Fast

Episode 3.2: When burglars visit the CyberPass bistro, Merv decides to stay up and take action.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6pm (repeat)
Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters. Copyright: BBC

Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters

Episode 1

Three witches meet on a blasTed Heath while murder is in the air.

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 5 - Jenni Murray

Dame Jenni Murray cooks her first ever healthy meal, watches her first violent film and samples the delights of controversial comedian Frankie Boyle.

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 9.10, Ned's Atomic Dustbin: Downing Street is keen on atom-free rubbish in case of radiation, but so are the Russians.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
Typewriter

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Episode 3.1, The Leak: The author gets obsessed with his wife's sense of smell.

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 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 10:30pm (repeat)
Laura Solon

Laura Solon: Talking And Not Talking

Series 2, Episode 3

We meet the French artist who can only paint oranges; holiday reporter Jane 'the Extreme' Harper spends a week in Upton-upon-Severn; and we finally hear the 1,001st use for a pea.

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

Heresy

Series 8, Episode 5

Victoria Coren and guests Matthew Parriss, Julia Hartley-Brewer and Dave Gorman 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 5: Dan Freedman and Nick Romero's pun-fest features a plant psychiatrist and an amoebic Top Gear.

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 3 - The Human Body

The sci-fi star probes cloning and what to do with our waste.

BBC Radio 4 Extra Midnight (repeat)
Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters. Copyright: BBC

Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters

Episode 1

Three witches meet on a blasTed Heath while murder is in the air.

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

The News Quiz

Series 79, Episode 4

A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. The panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Hugo Rifkind, Bob Mills and Jo Brand.

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

All The World's A Globe

Episode 5, From St Francis to Buddhism: 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 3.5: Will hard-up Tommy and Sheila's trip to Australia ever get off the ground?

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

Getting Nowhere Fast

Episode 3.2: When burglars visit the CyberPass bistro, Merv decides to stay up and take action.

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