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Radio schedule Tuesday 28th October 2014

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Babblewick Hall. Fenton Babblewick (Nicholas Le Prevost). Copyright: BBC

Babblewick Hall

Series 2, Episode 1

The well-meaning squire Fenton Babblewick thinks he's a composer of genius. His servants disagree.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life. Image shows from L to R: Mark Watson, Tim Key, Tom Basden. Copyright: Impatient Productions

Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life

Series 1, Episode 2 - Health And Beauty

Mark asks why it is so hard to get to the bottom of what makes people look and feel good, and if this eternal quest will ever end.

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

Series 8, Episode 19 - The White Neddie Trade

Fearless Neddie launches a career as a nude piano dancer... with a difference.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
Doctor At Large

Doctor At Large

Episode 2, The SS Lotus: Simon Sparrow soon realises that life as a ship's doctor is far from plain sailing.

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

The News Quiz

Series 85, Episode 1

Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. With panellists Sarah Millican, Sara Pascoe, Jeremy Hardy and Hugo Rifkind.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:45am (repeat)
Quando, Quando, Quando. Copyright: BBC

Quando, Quando, Quando

Episode 1 - Big Head

The President of Uruguay arrives for a trim at the Quandos' trendy hair salon. Just don't mention the size of his head.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:15am (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Hancock's Last Half Hour

Richard Briers stars as Tony Hancock - alone, far from home and whose only audience by 1968 is press clippings and bottles of vodka.

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

Series 8, Episode 19 - The White Neddie Trade

Fearless Neddie launches a career as a nude piano dancer... with a difference.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Doctor At Large

Doctor At Large

Episode 2, The SS Lotus: Simon Sparrow soon realises that life as a ship's doctor is far from plain sailing.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
Dame Hilda Bracket and Dr Evadne Hinge. Image shows from L to R: Patrick Fyffe, George Logan. Copyright: BBC

The Enchanting World Of Hinge And Bracket

Series 1, Episode 3

The ladies experience another long evening in the company of Violet and her husband, Leonard, ahead of Marigold's wedding, before finding themselves locked out of the house in a sudden downpour.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Babblewick Hall. Fenton Babblewick (Nicholas Le Prevost). Copyright: BBC

Babblewick Hall

Series 2, Episode 1

The well-meaning squire Fenton Babblewick thinks he's a composer of genius. His servants disagree.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6pm (repeat)
Act Your Age. Simon Mayo. Copyright: BBC

Act Your Age

Series 3, Episode 3

Holly Walsh is joined by Seann Walsh, Lucy Porter teams up with Hal Cruttenden and Tom O'Connor is paired with Dave Spikey.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life. Image shows from L to R: Mark Watson, Tim Key, Tom Basden. Copyright: Impatient Productions

Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life

Series 1, Episode 3 - Money

Mark discusses his own experiences of being poor and quite well-off and how each impacted his personality.

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

Series 8, Episode 19 - The White Neddie Trade

Fearless Neddie launches a career as a nude piano dancer... with a difference.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
Doctor At Large

Doctor At Large

Episode 2, The SS Lotus: Simon Sparrow soon realises that life as a ship's doctor is far from plain sailing.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:15pm (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Hancock's Last Half Hour

Richard Briers stars as Tony Hancock - alone, far from home and whose only audience by 1968 is press clippings and bottles of vodka.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life. Image shows from L to R: Mark Watson, Tim Key, Tom Basden. Copyright: Impatient Productions

Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life

Series 1, Episode 2 - Health And Beauty

Mark asks why it is so hard to get to the bottom of what makes people look and feel good, and if this eternal quest will ever end.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Births, Deaths And Marriages. Image shows from L to R: Anita (Sandy McDade), Malcolm Fox (David Schneider), Lorna (Sarah Hadland), Mary (Sally Bretton), Luke (Russell Tovey). Copyright: Unique Productions

Births, Deaths And Marriages

Series 1, Episode 4

Lorna's latest brainwave to let school children into the office brings back unhappy memories of bullying for Malcolm & Luke and a missing register causes chaos.

Radio 4 11pm
30 min
Small Scenes. Image shows from L to R: Daniel Rigby, Cariad Lloyd, Henry Paker, Jessica Ransom, Mike Wozniak. Copyright: BBC

Small Scenes

Series 2, Episode 3

A man gets lost in a breakfast buffet, and a stag party goes very wrong.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
The Mel And Sue Thing

The Mel And Sue Thing

Episode 2

Catch up with the adventures of spoilt Harriet and her pushy Aunt in the second part of Jane Austen's lost novella Sweet Fanny Adams, meet some very grumpy French au pairs and sample a special preview performance by the Ukranian entrant in next year's Eurovision Song Contest.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Masala FM

Masala FM

Episode 4: The station is only attracting Z-list Asian celebrities, but then a top 'royal' phones in.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 1am (repeat)
Act Your Age. Simon Mayo. Copyright: BBC

Act Your Age

Series 3, Episode 3

Holly Walsh is joined by Seann Walsh, Lucy Porter teams up with Hal Cruttenden and Tom O'Connor is paired with Dave Spikey.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:15am (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Hancock's Last Half Hour

Richard Briers stars as Tony Hancock - alone, far from home and whose only audience by 1968 is press clippings and bottles of vodka.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
Dame Hilda Bracket and Dr Evadne Hinge. Image shows from L to R: Patrick Fyffe, George Logan. Copyright: BBC

The Enchanting World Of Hinge And Bracket

Series 1, Episode 3

The ladies experience another long evening in the company of Violet and her husband, Leonard, ahead of Marigold's wedding, before finding themselves locked out of the house in a sudden downpour.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Babblewick Hall. Fenton Babblewick (Nicholas Le Prevost). Copyright: BBC

Babblewick Hall

Series 2, Episode 1

The well-meaning squire Fenton Babblewick thinks he's a composer of genius. His servants disagree.

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