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Radio schedule Monday 13th April 2015

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Know Your Place

Episode 7, Health Can Damage Your Smoking: Can caretaker Ramsay quit cigarettes to keep his job?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Dilemma. Sue Perkins. Copyright: BBC

Dilemma

Series 4, Episode 1

Sue Perkins is joined by comedians Sarah Millican and John Robins, journalist Michael Deacon and former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
Dad's Army. Copyright: BBC

Dad's Army

Series 1, Episode 13 - The Showing Up Of Corporal Jones

A Major from HQ believes that Jones is too old to serve in the Home Guard. He is willing to let him stay, provided he can get around the local assault course in 15 minutes.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
The Michael Bentine Show

The Best Of Bentine

From tackling Britain's recession to Film Extra of the Century, it's the ultimate one-man show, written by the host.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Says On The Tin. Eliott Thurber (Michael Brandon). Copyright: BBC

Says On The Tin

Episode 1 - Toothpaste

Disgraced American ad man Eliott Thurber is forced to transfer to the new London branch of Parabola Media.

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
Deborah Frances-White

Deborah Frances-White Rolls The Dice

Series 1, Episode 1 - Half A Can Of Worms

Deborah Frances-White tells the true life story of her search for her birth mother.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
Dad's Army. Copyright: BBC

Dad's Army

Series 1, Episode 13 - The Showing Up Of Corporal Jones

A Major from HQ believes that Jones is too old to serve in the Home Guard. He is willing to let him stay, provided he can get around the local assault course in 15 minutes.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
The Michael Bentine Show

The Best Of Bentine

From tackling Britain's recession to Film Extra of the Century, it's the ultimate one-man show, written by the host.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30pm (repeat)
Says On The Tin. Eliott Thurber (Michael Brandon). Copyright: BBC

Says On The Tin

Episode 1 - Toothpaste

Disgraced American ad man Eliott Thurber is forced to transfer to the new London branch of Parabola Media.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Know Your Place

Episode 7, Health Can Damage Your Smoking: Can caretaker Ramsay quit cigarettes to keep his job?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Dilemma. Sue Perkins. Copyright: BBC

Dilemma

Series 4, Episode 1

Sue Perkins is joined by comedians Sarah Millican and John Robins, journalist Michael Deacon and former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Dilemma. Sue Perkins. Copyright: BBC

Dilemma

Series 4, Episode 2

Sue Perkins is joined by comedians Lucy Porter and Andy Zaltzman, DJ Shaun Keaveny and food writer Jack Monroe.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
Dad's Army. Copyright: BBC

Dad's Army

Series 1, Episode 13 - The Showing Up Of Corporal Jones

A Major from HQ believes that Jones is too old to serve in the Home Guard. He is willing to let him stay, provided he can get around the local assault course in 15 minutes.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
The Michael Bentine Show

The Best Of Bentine

From tackling Britain's recession to Film Extra of the Century, it's the ultimate one-man show, written by the host.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Dilemma. Sue Perkins. Copyright: BBC

Dilemma

Series 4, Episode 1

Sue Perkins is joined by comedians Sarah Millican and John Robins, journalist Michael Deacon and former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Hearing With Hegley. John Hegley

Hearing With Hegley

Series 3, Episode 1

The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley, entertains an audience with his book of verse.

BBC Radio 3 10:45pm
15 min
Simon Heffer

The Essay: British Film Comedians

Episode 1 - Will Hay

Simon Heffer profiles Will Hay. With films such as Oh! Mr Porter, Boys Will Be Boys and The Goose Steps Out, Will Hay was, by popular consent, the greatest comic actor in films of the 1930s and 1940s.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:45pm (repeat)
The Problem With Adam Bloom. Adam Bloom. Copyright: BBC

The Problem With Adam Bloom

Series 1, Episode 1 - Restaurants

Adam Bloom investigates bad service in restaurants with stand-up and reconstructions. It's comedy with a mission. Helping Adam transform service culture are Sarah Kennedy, Brendon Burns and Rob Rouse.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Dead Ringers. Image shows from L to R: Lewis Macleod, Debra Stephenson, Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey. Copyright: BBC

Dead Ringers

Series 14, Episode 1

The Great British Bake Off is full of innuendo, Ed Miliband gets down with the kids on Radio 1, and Jeremy Clarkson phones up a boxing gym to get some tips.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Pick Ups. Image shows from L to R: Dave (Phil Rowson), Lind (Sally Lindsay), Mike (John Thomson), Alan (Ash Tandon). Copyright: BBC

Pick Ups

Series 1, Episode 1 - First Job

Dave's first passenger, Ivy, settles her fare in an unusual currency.

BBC World Service 3:30am
30 min
Stand Up For China. Des Bishop. Copyright: BBC

Stand Up For China

In this documentary for the BBC World Service, comedian Des Bishop explores what makes the Chinese laugh.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Says On The Tin. Eliott Thurber (Michael Brandon). Copyright: BBC

Says On The Tin

Episode 1 - Toothpaste

Disgraced American ad man Eliott Thurber is forced to transfer to the new London branch of Parabola Media.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Know Your Place

Episode 7, Health Can Damage Your Smoking: Can caretaker Ramsay quit cigarettes to keep his job?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Dilemma. Sue Perkins. Copyright: BBC

Dilemma

Series 4, Episode 1

Sue Perkins is joined by comedians Sarah Millican and John Robins, journalist Michael Deacon and former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis.

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