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Radio schedule Thursday 18th August 2016

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Simon Evans Goes To Market. Simon Evans. Copyright: BBC

Simon Evans Goes To Market

Series 3, Episode 3 - Birth

From an economic point of view, should people have children, how many should they have, and when should they have them?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
Typewriter

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Episode 4.6, The VIPs: With the writer's publisher and his wife due for summer drinks, the sprinkler comes out.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
Radio Active. Image shows left to right: Angus Deayton, Philip Pope, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Michael Fenton Stevens

Radio Active

Episode 9.6, Stop That Crime UK: The radio team create their own, very special reconstructions to help solve crimes.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
The Unbelievable Truth. David Mitchell. Copyright: BBC / Random Entertainment

The Unbelievable Truth

Series 8, Episode 5

David Mitchell hosts an edition of the game show recorded at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe featuing Mark Watson, Roisin Conaty, Alex Horne and Henning Wehn. The subjects discussed are competitions, chickens, sweets and the Romans.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

The Elephant Man

Episode 1, Endangered Species: As Southwood Zoo faces bankruptcy, what future for assistant head keeper Terry Lyon?

Radio 4 10:45am
15 min
Monsignor Quixote. Quixote (Bernard Cribbins)

Monsignor Quixote

Episode 9

Graham Greene's comic 'entertainment', set in rural Spain a few years after the death of Franco.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
Typewriter

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Episode 4.6, The VIPs: With the writer's publisher and his wife due for summer drinks, the sprinkler comes out.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Radio Active. Image shows left to right: Angus Deayton, Philip Pope, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Michael Fenton Stevens

Radio Active

Episode 9.6, Stop That Crime UK: The radio team create their own, very special reconstructions to help solve crimes.

Radio 4 2:15pm (repeat)
Hatch, Match And Dispatch. Copyright: BBC

Hatch, Match And Dispatch

Episode 1 - Uncle Harry

Mark's life is nicely well-ordered, despite his dysfunctional family, terrifying future father-in-law/boss, and ongoing blackout problem. But that is until Uncle Harry gets in the way.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4pm (repeat)
The Unbelievable Truth. David Mitchell. Copyright: BBC / Random Entertainment

The Unbelievable Truth

Series 8, Episode 5

David Mitchell hosts an edition of the game show recorded at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe featuing Mark Watson, Roisin Conaty, Alex Horne and Henning Wehn. The subjects discussed are competitions, chickens, sweets and the Romans.

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

The Elephant Man

Episode 1, Endangered Species: As Southwood Zoo faces bankruptcy, what future for assistant head keeper Terry Lyon?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Simon Evans Goes To Market. Simon Evans. Copyright: BBC

Simon Evans Goes To Market

Series 3, Episode 3 - Birth

From an economic point of view, should people have children, how many should they have, and when should they have them?

Radio 4 6:30pm
Simon Evans Goes To Market. Simon Evans. Copyright: BBC

Simon Evans Goes To Market

Series 3, Episode 4 - Death

From paying for funerals to cryonics, what are the economics of death?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
Typewriter

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Episode 4.6, The VIPs: With the writer's publisher and his wife due for summer drinks, the sprinkler comes out.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
Radio Active. Image shows left to right: Angus Deayton, Philip Pope, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Michael Fenton Stevens

Radio Active

Episode 9.6, Stop That Crime UK: The radio team create their own, very special reconstructions to help solve crimes.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Simon Evans Goes To Market. Simon Evans. Copyright: BBC

Simon Evans Goes To Market

Series 3, Episode 3 - Birth

From an economic point of view, should people have children, how many should they have, and when should they have them?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World. Image shows from L to R: Armando Iannucci, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, Rebecca Front. Copyright: BBC

Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World

Series 2, Episode 4 - The Sea

Why did Turner paint it so often - was it its timeless majesty, or because he couldn't draw hands properly?

Radio 4 11pm
30 min
Fred MacAulay's Wet Hot Political Summer. Fred MacAulay. Copyright: BBC

Fred MacAulay's Wet Hot Political Summer

Topical stand-up show in which Fred MacAulay looks at the summer of 2016.

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 5, Episode 1 - Moral Leadership

Hell is becoming too crowded. With God not wanting to do anything about it, Satan decides it is up to him to try and persuade people to be good.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
The Shuttleworths. John Shuttleworth (Graham Fellows). Copyright: BBC

The Shuttleworths

Series 3, Episode 3 - Radio Shuttleworth

John starts a new station for Sheffield, but can he count on Mary and Ken?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:45pm (repeat)
The In Crowd

The In Crowd

Episode 3: Sketch show from Manchester's Comedy Store with Robin Ince, Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
The Unbelievable Truth. David Mitchell. Copyright: BBC / Random Entertainment

The Unbelievable Truth

Series 8, Episode 5

David Mitchell hosts an edition of the game show recorded at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe featuing Mark Watson, Roisin Conaty, Alex Horne and Henning Wehn. The subjects discussed are competitions, chickens, sweets and the Romans.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

The Elephant Man

Episode 1, Endangered Species: As Southwood Zoo faces bankruptcy, what future for assistant head keeper Terry Lyon?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Simon Evans Goes To Market. Simon Evans. Copyright: BBC

Simon Evans Goes To Market

Series 3, Episode 3 - Birth

From an economic point of view, should people have children, how many should they have, and when should they have them?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
BBC at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Copyright: BBC

Fresh From The Fringe

2016, Episode 1

Newsjack host Nish Kumar showcases the cream of stand-up and sketch comedy from this year's festival. This edition features Australian stand-up Tom Ballard, rising star Sophie Willan, hilarious double-act and previous Best Newcomer nominees Lazy Susan and the unique comic genius that is Paul Foot.

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