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Radio schedule Wednesday 23rd April 2014

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
The Attractive Young Rabbi

The Attractive Young Rabbi

Episode 3.2, A Woman's Work: Happy Rabbi Su finds a role model, but Rabbi Abraham would settle for a haircut.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Susan Calman Is Convicted. Susan Calman. Copyright: BBC

Susan Calman Is Convicted

Series 2, Episode 3 - Intellectual Snobbery

Susan explains why she is an evangelist for embracing the broadest possible spectrum of cultural pursuits.

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 6, Episode 1 - The Smugglers

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)
Richard Beckinsale. Copyright: BBC

Albert And Me

Series 1, Episode 2 - Looking For A Job

Single dad Bryan needs a job, but can he find an employer who'll let him bring his young son Albert along?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
Country Matters

Country Matters

Episode 4: Dave and Cathy's quest for locally produced food proves problematic.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Legal, Decent, Honest And Truthful

Legal, Decent, Honest And Truthful

Episode 2: Activist turned ad writer Ken Handley finds himself assigned to the Conservative Party.

Radio 4 10:45am
15 min
Rebecca Front

Incredible Women

Series 3, Episode 3 - Rita Rayner

Jeremy meets singing legend Rita Rayner. She and her sisters are reforming the Rayner Sisters close harmony group, to record a song for a new album of 50s hits with the likes of Michael Buble, Rod Stewart and Ozzy Osborne.

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
Gloomsbury. Image shows from L to R: Henry Mickleton (Jonathan Coy), Vera Sackcloth-Vest (Miriam Margolyes), DH Lollipop (John Sessions), Lionel Fox (Nigel Planer), Venus Traduces (Morwenna Banks), Ginny Fox (Alison Steadman). Copyright: Little Brother Productions

Gloomsbury

Series 2, Episode 4 - Ever Decreasing Literary Circles

Flushed with success, Ginny holds a literary salon at Vera's castle. Disappointingly the glitterati stay away. Only Venus turns up and she has never read a book in her life.

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 6, Episode 1 - The Smugglers

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)
Richard Beckinsale. Copyright: BBC

Albert And Me

Series 1, Episode 2 - Looking For A Job

Single dad Bryan needs a job, but can he find an employer who'll let him bring his young son Albert along?

Radio 4 2:15pm
45 min
Radio 4

The Surprising Effect Of Miss Scarlett Rosebud

Two retired women teachers share a house but little else. Then a former student, now a rock-star, bursts into their lives. The effect is devastating.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:45pm (repeat)
The Fry Chronicles. Stephen Fry. Copyright: BBC

The Fry Chronicles

Episode 3

Stephen reveals how a call out of the blue led to him becoming a poster boy for, of all things, celibacy.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
After Henry. Image shows from L to R: Sarah France (Prunella Scales), Clare (Geraldine Cowper), Eleanor (Joan Sanderson). Copyright: BBC

After Henry

Series 1, Episode 1 - The Older Man

Clare's been coming home late and Eleanor thinks she knows why: could her grand-daughter be dating a significantly older man?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
The Attractive Young Rabbi

The Attractive Young Rabbi

Episode 3.2, A Woman's Work: Happy Rabbi Su finds a role model, but Rabbi Abraham would settle for a haircut.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Susan Calman Is Convicted. Susan Calman. Copyright: BBC

Susan Calman Is Convicted

Series 2, Episode 4 - What Makes Humans Human?

Susan asks if you can really describe a person by simply stating their genetic code.

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 6, Episode 1 - The Smugglers

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)
Richard Beckinsale. Copyright: BBC

Albert And Me

Series 1, Episode 2 - Looking For A Job

Single dad Bryan needs a job, but can he find an employer who'll let him bring his young son Albert along?

Radio 4 7:45pm (repeat)
Rebecca Front

Incredible Women

Series 3, Episode 3 - Rita Rayner

Jeremy meets singing legend Rita Rayner. She and her sisters are reforming the Rayner Sisters close harmony group, to record a song for a new album of 50s hits with the likes of Michael Buble, Rod Stewart and Ozzy Osborne.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Susan Calman Is Convicted. Susan Calman. Copyright: BBC

Susan Calman Is Convicted

Series 2, Episode 3 - Intellectual Snobbery

Susan explains why she is an evangelist for embracing the broadest possible spectrum of cultural pursuits.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Radio 9. Copyright: BBC

Radio 9

Series 1, Episode 3

Dark sketch show spoofing a radio station.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
It Is Rocket Science!. Helen Keen. Copyright: BBC

It Is Rocket Science!

Series 3, Episode 4 - Astronomical Errors

A whistlestop tour of the history of astronomy and the mistakes that have taught us lessons and lead us out into the stars. Also Isaac Newton's x-rated teenage diary.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Old Harry's Game. Image shows from L to R: Satan (Andy Hamilton), Gary (Steven O'Donnell). Copyright: BBC

Old Harry's Game

Series 4, Episode 3 - Health & Safety

A Health and Safety inspector arrives in Hell and begins to try and make the underworld a much safer place to work in. Meanwhile, Satan takes the Professor to see his wife, who is in a coma.

Radio 4 11:15pm
15 min
Bunk Bed

Bunk Bed

Series 1, Episode 4

Patrick Marber and Peter Curran find refuge from the hurly burly of life in a bunk bed late at night, where they talk through the darkness.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Hut 33. Image shows from L to R: Charles (Robert Bathurst), Joshua Fanshawe-Marshall (Alex Macqueen), Archie (Tom Goodman-Hill). Copyright: BBC

Hut 33

Series 3, Episode 4 - Spitfire Poker

The codebreakers of Bletchley Park are in the doghouse again, so to make amends they help raise money for the town's Spitfire fund.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2am (repeat)
Country Matters

Country Matters

Episode 4: Dave and Cathy's quest for locally produced food proves problematic.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30am (repeat)
Legal, Decent, Honest And Truthful

Legal, Decent, Honest And Truthful

Episode 2: Activist turned ad writer Ken Handley finds himself assigned to the Conservative Party.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
After Henry. Image shows from L to R: Sarah France (Prunella Scales), Clare (Geraldine Cowper), Eleanor (Joan Sanderson). Copyright: BBC

After Henry

Series 1, Episode 1 - The Older Man

Clare's been coming home late and Eleanor thinks she knows why: could her grand-daughter be dating a significantly older man?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
The Attractive Young Rabbi

The Attractive Young Rabbi

Episode 3.2, A Woman's Work: Happy Rabbi Su finds a role model, but Rabbi Abraham would settle for a haircut.

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