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Radio schedule Tuesday 16th May 2017

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

Girlies

Episode 2.2: Jabeen has a stormy appearance on cable TV prompting, a girlie night. Does Samina have good news?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Rob Newman

Rob Newman's Neuropolis

Episode 4 - Skull and Bonce

Mixing stand-up and sketches, comedian Rob Newman tackles the mysteries of the brain.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
Steptoe And Son. Image shows from L to R: Harold (Harry H. Corbett), Albert (Wilfrid Brambell). Copyright: BBC

Steptoe And Son

A Star Is Born: Harold falls for his drama society's leading lady.

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

The Men From The Ministry

A Slight Case of Demolition: The bumbling civil servants tackle traffic trouble and town planning.

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

The News Quiz

Series 93, Episode 4

Susan Calman, Zoe Lyons, Lloyd Langford and Peter Curran join Miles Jupp. This week Miles and team steel themselves to deal with a leak.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:45am (repeat)
Hearing With Hegley. John Hegley

Hearing With Hegley

Series 3, Episode 4

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

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
Steptoe And Son. Image shows from L to R: Harold (Harry H. Corbett), Albert (Wilfrid Brambell). Copyright: BBC

Steptoe And Son

A Star Is Born: Harold falls for his drama society's leading lady.

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

The Men From The Ministry

A Slight Case of Demolition: The bumbling civil servants tackle traffic trouble and town planning.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
Ladies Of Letters. Image shows from L to R: Irene (Prunella Scales), Vera (Patricia Routledge). Copyright: BBC

Ladies Of Letters

Episode 9.2: Vera offers to help Irene sort out her Auntie's artefacts - and writes to Al Gore.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4pm (repeat)
Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Clive Anderson. Copyright: BBC

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Episode 5

Guest starring Jimmy Mulville and John Bird.

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

Girlies

Episode 2.2: Jabeen has a stormy appearance on cable TV prompting, a girlie night. Does Samina have good news?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Rob Newman

Rob Newman's Neuropolis

Episode 4 - Skull and Bonce

Mixing stand-up and sketches, comedian Rob Newman tackles the mysteries of the brain.

Radio 4 6:30pm (repeat)
Small Scenes. Image shows from L to R: Daniel Rigby, Cariad Lloyd, Henry Paker, Jessica Ransom, Mike Wozniak. Copyright: BBC

Small Scenes

Series 3, Episode 1

A woman uncovers the conspiracy behind cryptic crosswords, and a saxophonist is tortured by his inability to play the solo from Baker Street.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
Steptoe And Son. Image shows from L to R: Harold (Harry H. Corbett), Albert (Wilfrid Brambell). Copyright: BBC

Steptoe And Son

A Star Is Born: Harold falls for his drama society's leading lady.

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

The Men From The Ministry

A Slight Case of Demolition: The bumbling civil servants tackle traffic trouble and town planning.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Rob Newman

Rob Newman's Neuropolis

Episode 4 - Skull and Bonce

Mixing stand-up and sketches, comedian Rob Newman tackles the mysteries of the brain.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Shappi Talk. Shaparak Khorsandi. Copyright: Open Mike Productions

Shappi Talk

Series 2, Episode 1 - Single Mum

Shappi Khorsandi, using her own experience, investigates what it's like being a single mum with guests Jerry Hall and comedian Celia Pacquola.

Radio 4 11pm
30 min
That Was The Tweet That Was. Adil Ray. Copyright: BBC

That Was The Tweet That Was

The team discuss the upcoming election, the Eurovision Song Contest and what it means to be a troll.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Strap In - It's Clever Peter. Image shows from L to R: Richard Bond, William Hartley, Ed Eales-White. Copyright: Pozzitive Productions

Strap In - It's Clever Peter

Episode 4

New comedy sketch show, written by Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley and Dominic Stone.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:15pm (repeat)
Before They Were Famous

Before They Were Famous

Series 1, Episode 2

Ian Leslie presents a new Radio 4 comedy show which brings to light the often surprising first literary attempts of the world's best known writers

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

Twenty Players

Episode 1, Gentleman Jack Perkins: Des Lynam tells the story a turn-of-the-century boxing toff who never quite made it.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:45pm (repeat)
Steven Appleby's Normal Life

Steven Appleby's Normal Life

Episode 1, Normal Love: When his wife leaves him for a kettle, the cartoonist looks for love elsewhere.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30am (repeat)
Ladies Of Letters. Image shows from L to R: Irene (Prunella Scales), Vera (Patricia Routledge). Copyright: BBC

Ladies Of Letters

Episode 9.2: Vera offers to help Irene sort out her Auntie's artefacts - and writes to Al Gore.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Clive Anderson. Copyright: BBC

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Episode 5

Guest starring Jimmy Mulville and John Bird.

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

Girlies

Episode 2.2: Jabeen has a stormy appearance on cable TV prompting, a girlie night. Does Samina have good news?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Rob Newman

Rob Newman's Neuropolis

Episode 4 - Skull and Bonce

Mixing stand-up and sketches, comedian Rob Newman tackles the mysteries of the brain.

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