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Radio schedule Tuesday 12th February 2013

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

Getting Nowhere Fast

Episode 3.4: Fat is a feminist issue for Pam, and for everyone else when she declares war on gravity.

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 6 - Dame Evelyn Glennie

Dame Evelyn Glennie watches Downton Abbey, goes on a go-kart and throws a pot. She gives her verdicts to Marcus Brigstocke.

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 9.12, The Call of the West: Count Moriarty and Grytpype-Thynne sell saxophones to the Indians in a cowboy caper.

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

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Episode 3.3, The Escape: The author and his wife feel jaded and start planning a break.

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

The News Quiz

Series 79, Episode 6

A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Daniel Finkelstein, Katy Brand and Mark Steel.

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

All The World's A Globe

Episode 7: The emaciation of women in 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 9.12, The Call of the West: Count Moriarty and Grytpype-Thynne sell saxophones to the Indians in a cowboy caper.

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

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Episode 3.3, The Escape: The author and his wife feel jaded and start planning a break.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
Second Thoughts. Copyright: BBC

Second Thoughts

Episode 2.2: Overtaken By Events: Hannah is driving her mother round the bend. Joe is discovering girls.

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

Getting Nowhere Fast

Episode 3.4: Fat is a feminist issue for Pam, and for everyone else when she declares war on gravity.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
ElvenQuest. Image shows from L to R: Penthiselea (Ingrid Oliver), Sam (Stephen Mangan), Lord Darkness (Alistair McGowan). Copyright: BBC

ElvenQuest

Series 4, Episode 1 - Queen Eleanor

Continuing their search for the Sword of Asnagar, the Questers find themselves in the kingdom of Premenstrua, ruled over by the beautiful but wildly unpredicatable Queen Eleanor.

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 9.12, The Call of the West: Count Moriarty and Grytpype-Thynne sell saxophones to the Indians in a cowboy caper.

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

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Episode 3.3, The Escape: The author and his wife feel jaded and start planning a break.

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 6 - Dame Evelyn Glennie

Dame Evelyn Glennie watches Downton Abbey, goes on a go-kart and throws a pot. She gives her verdicts to Marcus Brigstocke.

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

Laura Solon: Talking And Not Talking

Series 2, Episode 5

This week, Carole's written a book; a plan to send mobile phone salesman to warzones in order to confuse the enemy into submission is mooted; and a son talks of childhood holidays in Weston-super-Mare with his geologist father.

Radio 4 11pm
30 min
Susan Calman Is Convicted. Susan Calman. Copyright: BBC

Susan Calman Is Convicted

Series 1, Episode 1 - Equal Marriage

Susan examines the current hot political topic of equal marriage from a personal perspective.

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

Dan And Nick: The Wildebeest Years

Episode 7: Dan Freedman and Nick Romero's pun-fest, with a distraught Robin Wood turning 40 and The Archers goes sci-fi.

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 5 - The Scheme of Things

The cult comedy show asks where Britain fits in the Theatre of Being.

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

The News Quiz

Series 79, Episode 6

A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Daniel Finkelstein, Katy Brand and Mark Steel.

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

All The World's A Globe

Episode 7: The emaciation of women in the National Theatre of Brent's definitive history of Earth.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
Second Thoughts. Copyright: BBC

Second Thoughts

Episode 2.2: Overtaken By Events: Hannah is driving her mother round the bend. Joe is discovering girls.

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

Getting Nowhere Fast

Episode 3.4: Fat is a feminist issue for Pam, and for everyone else when she declares war on gravity.

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