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Radio schedule Sunday 26th January 2014

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!. Count Arthur Strong (Steve Delaney). Copyright: Komedia Entertainment

Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!

Series 4, Episode 6 - Documentary

To further his career as a top celebrity, Arthur manages to persuade Geoffrey away from his duties at the church hall to help make a documentary about him.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
The Burkiss Way. Copyright: BBC

The Burkiss Way

Series 2, Episode 5 - Journey Into The Unknown The Burkiss Way

Transcendental instruction imparted by the team.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
Doddy's Daft Half Hour

Doddy's Daft Half Hour

Episode 2: From the Wright Brothers to baked beans, it's more quick-fire gagging from the mirth-meister.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30am (repeat)
Hearing With Hegley. John Hegley

Hearing With Hegley

Episode 7: Comedian John Hegley makes a spectacle of himself in Barnet with visionary poems and songs. With Nigel Piper and the Popticians.

Radio 4 12pm (repeat)
The Unbelievable Truth. David Mitchell. Copyright: BBC / Random Entertainment

The Unbelievable Truth

Series 12, Episode 4

David Mitchell is joined by Lloyd Langford, Lucy Porter, Tom Wrigglesworth and Fred MacAulay as they lie on the subjects of women, Japan, owls and potatoes.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 1pm (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 5, Episode 14 - Sunday Afternoon At Home

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 1pm
All Bar Luke. Luke Walsall (Tim Key). Copyright: Angel Eye Media

Sunday Afternoon at Home With Tim Key

Comedian, poet and timewaster Tim Key invites you to his flat for a special look at the influence of boredom on comedy. Includes Hancock, Sean Lock, Peter Cook and The Boosh.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 1:30pm (repeat)
Sean Lock: 15 Storeys High. Sean (Sean Lock). Copyright: BBC

Sean Lock: 15 Storeys High

The second programme in Sean Lock's '15 Storeys' trilogy. This Radio 4 series focused on the mundane lives of residents in a tower block.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2pm (repeat)
The Boosh. Image shows from L to R: Vince Noir (Noel Fielding), Howard Moon (Julian Barratt). Copyright: BBC

The Boosh

Surreal radio sitcom about Howard and Vince, two zookeepers. Stars Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
The Likely Lads. Image shows from L to R: Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes), Terry Collier (James Bolam). Copyright: BBC

The Likely Lads

Radio adaptation of the popular TV sitcom starring Rodney Bewes and James Bolam.

Radio 4 7:15pm
15 min
Warhorses Of Letters. Image shows from L to R: Marengo (Stephen Fry), Copenhagen (Daniel Rigby). Copyright: BBC

Warhorses Of Letters

Series 3, Episode 3

Artistic differences threaten to destroy Marengo and Copenhagen's love for each other, as both attempt to find fame as writers.

Radio 4 7:30pm (repeat)
Political Animals. Copyright: BBC

Political Animals

Series 1, Episode 3 - Sybil

Sybil (Tracy Wiles), chief mouser to the Cabinet Office, 2007-2008, gives a cat's eye view of life in 10 Downing Street under Gordon Brown.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
Hearing With Hegley. John Hegley

Hearing With Hegley

Episode 7: Comedian John Hegley makes a spectacle of himself in Barnet with visionary poems and songs. With Nigel Piper and the Popticians.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8pm (repeat)
The Burkiss Way. Copyright: BBC

The Burkiss Way

Series 2, Episode 5 - Journey Into The Unknown The Burkiss Way

Transcendental instruction imparted by the team.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30pm (repeat)
Doddy's Daft Half Hour

Doddy's Daft Half Hour

Episode 2: From the Wright Brothers to baked beans, it's more quick-fire gagging from the mirth-meister.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!. Count Arthur Strong (Steve Delaney). Copyright: Komedia Entertainment

Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!

Series 4, Episode 6 - Documentary

To further his career as a top celebrity, Arthur manages to persuade Geoffrey away from his duties at the church hall to help make a documentary about him.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
1966 And All That

1966 And All That

Episode 1, The 1920s and 30s: Marge Simpson marries royalty and John Yogi Bear invents TV.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Vent. Ben (Neil Pearson). Copyright: BBC

Vent

Series 3, Episode 1 - Ladies And Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space

Ben makes the ambulance journey home to begin life in a wheelchair. On the way he remembers an argument about cheesecake, invents a panel game and meets Buzz Aldrin.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2am (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 5, Episode 14 - Sunday Afternoon At Home

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 2:30am (repeat)
Sean Lock: 15 Storeys High. Sean (Sean Lock). Copyright: BBC

Sean Lock: 15 Storeys High

The second programme in Sean Lock's '15 Storeys' trilogy. This Radio 4 series focused on the mundane lives of residents in a tower block.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3am (repeat)
The Boosh. Image shows from L to R: Vince Noir (Noel Fielding), Howard Moon (Julian Barratt). Copyright: BBC

The Boosh

Surreal radio sitcom about Howard and Vince, two zookeepers. Stars Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3:30am (repeat)
The Likely Lads. Image shows from L to R: Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes), Terry Collier (James Bolam). Copyright: BBC

The Likely Lads

Radio adaptation of the popular TV sitcom starring Rodney Bewes and James Bolam.

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