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Radio schedule Saturday 18th June 2016

Radio 4 10:30am
30 min
Viz: An Unfeasibly Large Success

Viz: An Unfeasibly Large Success

A documentary about the comic magazine Viz.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30am (repeat)
Educating Archie. Peter Brough. Copyright: BBC

Educating Archie

Series 2, Episode 12

Sitcom about scampish schoolboy Archie Andrews, actually a ventriloquist's dummy.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11am (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 1, Episode 1 - The First Night Party

Tony Hancock plans a party to celebrate the launch of his new radio series, and is convinced to rent a posh residence to hold it in. Unfortunately, he goes to Sid James to find the flat - and he has failed to notify the actual owner...

BBC Radio Scotland 11:30am (repeat)
Julia Sutherland

A Funny Kind Of...

A Funny Kind Of Life And Death, Episode 1

Cancer, life-threatening illness and euthanasia - not the sort of things you would normally expect to laugh at, but in this programme that's exactly what they'd like you to do.

Radio 4 12:30pm
30 min
Dead Ringers. Image shows from L to R: Lewis Macleod, Debra Stephenson, Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey. Copyright: BBC

Dead Ringers

Series 16, Episode 1

The Dead Ringers return to look at the build up to the EU Referendum.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

A Whole 'Nother Story

Episode 1: Cassie and Pete would be a great couple, if they were not so busy being friends.

BBC Radio Wales. Copyright: BBC 1:05pm (repeat)
Elis In Euroland. Elis James

Elis In Euroland

Episode 2

Elis James provides his take on Wales's performance in Euro 2016, with chat, celebrity interviews and Elis's own comedy musings on the tournament so far.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:45pm (repeat)
A car on a country line. Copyright: BBC

Uncle Mort's North Country

Series 1, Episode 2 - Fallen Comrades

Carter and his Uncle Mort sup a poignant pint at the Old Comrades Club.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30pm (repeat)
Educating Archie. Peter Brough. Copyright: BBC

Educating Archie

Series 2, Episode 12

Sitcom about scampish schoolboy Archie Andrews, actually a ventriloquist's dummy.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9pm (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

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 10pm (repeat)
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups. Tom (Tom Wrigglesworth). Copyright: BBC

Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups

Series 1, Episode 4 - Out Of Our Tree

Tom's father is engrossed in putting together the Wrigglesworth family tree, which is leaving Tom's mother at a loose end. Tom suggests she gets in a lodger for company.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge. Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan). Copyright: BBC

Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge

Episode 2

A lady hypnotist takes Alan back to his childhood and uncovers some bad memories. Meanwhile, the presence of a child prodigy causes the host`s hackles to rise.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Matt Berry

I, Regress

Series 2, Episode 1

Matt Berry returns in the surreal and dark regression therapist comedy series.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:15pm (repeat)
Richard Marsh: Love And Sweets. Richard Marsh. Copyright: Lucky Giant

Richard Marsh: Love And Sweets

Episode 1

Richard Marsh fuses poetry and prose to tell a heartbreaking and witty tale of finding and losing love. Richard recounts falling in love with Siobhan, who he meets over a shared bag of sweets.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Mark Thomas - The Manifesto. Mark Thomas. Copyright: BBC

Mark Thomas - The Manifesto

Series 2, Episode 1

Comedian-activist Mark Thomas returns to Radio 4 for a new series of The Manifesto - the show where the audience suggest policies that will make the world a better place, and Mark finds out if they'd help or not.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:45am (repeat)
A car on a country line. Copyright: BBC

Uncle Mort's North Country

Series 1, Episode 2 - Fallen Comrades

Carter and his Uncle Mort sup a poignant pint at the Old Comrades Club.

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