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Radio schedule Tuesday 29th December 2015

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
HR. Image shows from L to R: Peter (Jonathan Pryce), Sam (Nicholas Le Prevost). Copyright: BBC

HR

Series 3, Episode 6 - Gambled

The two penniless friends bank on a huge lottery win.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Don't Make Me Laugh. David Baddiel. Copyright: So Radio / Fierce Tears

Don't Make Me Laugh

Radio 4 series created by David Baddiel in which guests must try to avoid making the audience laugh.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
Round The Horne. Image shows left to right: Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Kenneth Horne, June Ellis. Credit: BBC

Round The Horne

Episode 3.14: Trouble at sea for Kenneth Horne, and Julian and Sandy go trolling on a bona fox hunt.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
The Men From The Ministry. Copyright: BBC

The Men From The Ministry

Christmas Spirit: The bumbling civil servants are acting like Scrooge!

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
Dead Ringers. Image shows from L to R: Lewis Macleod, Debra Stephenson, Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey. Copyright: BBC

Dead Ringers

2015 Christmas Specials

The topical impressions gives politicians, media pundits and celebrities a Christmas roasting.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Peter Jones. Copyright: BBC

Capital Gains

Series 2, Episode 3 - Development Capital

There must be a way to stop the Haiku Jack Consortium from covering the land in concrete. Julius Hutch turns to the law - and goes beyond it.

Radio 4 10:45am
15 min
Rebecca Front

Incredible Women

Series 4, Episode 2 - Maria Webber

Jeremy meets the government's new special adviser to schools, Maria Webber.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
Round The Horne. Image shows left to right: Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Kenneth Horne, June Ellis. Credit: BBC

Round The Horne

Episode 3.14: Trouble at sea for Kenneth Horne, and Julian and Sandy go trolling on a bona fox hunt.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
The Men From The Ministry. Copyright: BBC

The Men From The Ministry

Christmas Spirit: The bumbling civil servants are acting like Scrooge!

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

Act Your Age

Series 1, Episode 1

With Josh Howie in the Up-And-Comers, Stephen K. Amos in the Current Crop and Barry Cryer in the Old Guard.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30pm (repeat)
Peter Jones. Copyright: BBC

Capital Gains

Series 2, Episode 3 - Development Capital

There must be a way to stop the Haiku Jack Consortium from covering the land in concrete. Julius Hutch turns to the law - and goes beyond it.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
HR. Image shows from L to R: Peter (Jonathan Pryce), Sam (Nicholas Le Prevost). Copyright: BBC

HR

Series 3, Episode 6 - Gambled

The two penniless friends bank on a huge lottery win.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Don't Make Me Laugh. David Baddiel. Copyright: So Radio / Fierce Tears

Don't Make Me Laugh

Radio 4 series created by David Baddiel in which guests must try to avoid making the audience laugh.

BBC Local Radio 6pm (repeat)
BBC Radio Solent Special: Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. Copyright: BBC

BBC Radio Solent Special: Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Documentary about the making of the classic sitcom, interviewing the people behind it.

Radio 4 6:15pm (repeat)
15 Minute Musical. Copyright: BBC

15 Minute Musical

Series 8, Episode 2 - Julian and the Assanging Technicolour Download

Julian Assange's story is wiki-leaked in this overly melodramatic 15 Minute Musical.

BBC Radio Wales. Copyright: BBC 6:30pm (repeat)
Somewhere Else. Copyright: The Rubber Chicken

Somewhere Else

Episode 2

The settlers have finally arrived - but what kind of promised land have they found? Undeterred by the conditions, the colony set to work building the settlement. And, desperate to foil her mother's plan to marry her off, Ffion involves Arwell in a harmless white lie - which might lead to a white wedding...

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!. Milton (Milton Jones). Copyright: Pozzitive Productions

Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!

Series 2, Episode 1 - Financial Advisor

Milton becomes a responsible sober-suited financial adviser, and fights off a Swedish invasion with the aid of his trusty hamster.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
Round The Horne. Image shows left to right: Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Kenneth Horne, June Ellis. Credit: BBC

Round The Horne

Episode 3.14: Trouble at sea for Kenneth Horne, and Julian and Sandy go trolling on a bona fox hunt.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
The Men From The Ministry. Copyright: BBC

The Men From The Ministry

Christmas Spirit: The bumbling civil servants are acting like Scrooge!

Radio 4 7:45pm (repeat)
Rebecca Front

Incredible Women

Series 4, Episode 2 - Maria Webber

Jeremy meets the government's new special adviser to schools, Maria Webber.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Don't Make Me Laugh. David Baddiel. Copyright: So Radio / Fierce Tears

Don't Make Me Laugh

Radio 4 series created by David Baddiel in which guests must try to avoid making the audience laugh.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
The Ape That Got Lucky. Image shows from L to R: Professor Austin Herring (Geoffrey McGivern), Chris Addison, Dan Tetsell, Jo Enright. Copyright: BBC

The Ape That Got Lucky

Episode 4 - Man or Monkey?

In his final show, Chris Addison produces his concluding arguments for his view that humans evolved through sheer luck and as his audience whether they consider themselves to be humans or monkeys.

Radio 4 11pm
30 min
The Show What You Wrote. Image shows from L to R: Fiona Clarke, Gavin Webster. Copyright: BBC

The Show What You Wrote

Series 3, Episode 4 - The End

Featuring heaven's unexpectedly strict dress code, the pitfalls of post-apocalyptic dating and someone's dying wish.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Twenty Players

Episode 2.4, Sister Agnes Brown: Forgotten sporting heroes. Cliff Morgan tells the story of one of rugby's great coaches, Sister Agnes Brown.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:15pm (repeat)
Sir Henry At Rawlinson End

Sir Henry At Rawlinson End

Episode 4, The Hatching: Surreal saga of a dynasty delicately balanced on the edge of sanity.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Think The Unthinkable. Image shows from L to R: Owen (David Mitchell), Daisy de Vere (Catherine Shepherd), Ryan Packer (Marcus Brigstocke), Sophie Stott (Emma Kennedy). Copyright: BBC

Think The Unthinkable

Series 1, Episode 4 - Utiliton

With the help of cynical moaning IT specialist Owen, Unthinkable Solutions try to help gas and electricity supplier Utiliton improve its call centres.

Meanwhile, Ryan moves into a crime-ridden sink estate.

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

Act Your Age

Series 1, Episode 1

With Josh Howie in the Up-And-Comers, Stephen K. Amos in the Current Crop and Barry Cryer in the Old Guard.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Peter Jones. Copyright: BBC

Capital Gains

Series 2, Episode 3 - Development Capital

There must be a way to stop the Haiku Jack Consortium from covering the land in concrete. Julius Hutch turns to the law - and goes beyond it.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
HR. Image shows from L to R: Peter (Jonathan Pryce), Sam (Nicholas Le Prevost). Copyright: BBC

HR

Series 3, Episode 6 - Gambled

The two penniless friends bank on a huge lottery win.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Don't Make Me Laugh. David Baddiel. Copyright: So Radio / Fierce Tears

Don't Make Me Laugh

Radio 4 series created by David Baddiel in which guests must try to avoid making the audience laugh.

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