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Radio schedule Tuesday 11th July 2017

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Meet David Sedaris. David Sedaris

Meet David Sedaris

Series 6, Episode 1

The globetrotting, trash-picking, aisle-rolling storyteller is back with more words of wit and wisdom. He opens this series with a new story fresh from the pages of The New Yorker, Untamed, and extracts from his book Theft By Finding, a compilation of diary entries from 1977-2002.

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

And So to Bed: Harold decides that buying a new bed is the only way he'll ever impress women.

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

The Men From The Ministry

The Moving Target: The bungling duo takes charge of Britain's first space launch.

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

Series 17, Episode 4

Topical comedy with Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis MacLeod, Deborah Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Getting Nowhere Fast

Getting Nowhere Fast

Episode 2.4: Pamela has had enough of men, including Merv, so she joins a women's group.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:15am (repeat)
Stan Laurel

Hard Boiled Eggs And Nuts

Radio 4 comedy drama about a young Stan Laurel and the relationship he has with his erratic but fabulous mother.

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

And So to Bed: Harold decides that buying a new bed is the only way he'll ever impress women.

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

The Men From The Ministry

The Moving Target: The bungling duo takes charge of Britain's first space launch.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4pm (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 1

Gyles Brandreth chairs the quiz show celebrating gossip, scandal and controversy. Team captains Anthony Holden and Stella Duffy are joined by Rosie Millard and Jenny Colgan.

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

The Six Mothers-In-Law Of Henry VIII

Episode 6

The King acquires a sixth wife, Catherine Parr - now thrice-married - and a near-professional mother-in-law.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Meet David Sedaris. David Sedaris

Meet David Sedaris

Series 6, Episode 1

The globetrotting, trash-picking, aisle-rolling storyteller is back with more words of wit and wisdom. He opens this series with a new story fresh from the pages of The New Yorker, Untamed, and extracts from his book Theft By Finding, a compilation of diary entries from 1977-2002.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6pm (repeat)
Paradise Lost In Cyberspace. Copyright: BBC

Paradise Lost In Cyberspace

Episode 2: Sixty-nine-year-old George Smith battles against his imminent death with Central Admin and a scary TV crew.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Meet David Sedaris. David Sedaris

Meet David Sedaris

Series 6, Episode 2

David presents stories Of Mice and Men and A Can of Worms, followed by some audience questions.

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

And So to Bed: Harold decides that buying a new bed is the only way he'll ever impress women.

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

The Men From The Ministry

The Moving Target: The bungling duo takes charge of Britain's first space launch.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:15pm (repeat)
Stan Laurel

Hard Boiled Eggs And Nuts

Radio 4 comedy drama about a young Stan Laurel and the relationship he has with his erratic but fabulous mother.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Meet David Sedaris. David Sedaris

Meet David Sedaris

Series 6, Episode 1

The globetrotting, trash-picking, aisle-rolling storyteller is back with more words of wit and wisdom. He opens this series with a new story fresh from the pages of The New Yorker, Untamed, and extracts from his book Theft By Finding, a compilation of diary entries from 1977-2002.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
The Maltby Collection. Copyright: BBC

The Maltby Collection

Series 3, Episode 2

Walter Brindle has staff to cull and a broken heart to overcome, but worst of all his wife has come back to him and seems intent on pandering to his every whim.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Craig Brown's Lost Diaries. Craig Brown. Copyright: BBC

Craig Brown's Lost Diaries

Episode 4 - July & August

School's out for Barack Obama, Frank McCourt and Emma Thompson.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Bird Island. Image shows from L to R: Jane (Katy Wix), Ben (Reece Shearsmith), Graham (Julian Rhind-Tutt), Mother (Alison Steadman). Copyright: BBC

Bird Island

Series 1, Episode 3

Ben and Graham encounter a seal cub that's been attacked. He takes it home and carefully nurses it back to life and share the pup's progress with his mum and Dad.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:45pm (repeat)
Tina C's Tiny Island Tour. Tina C (Christopher Green)

Tina C's Tiny Island Tour

Episode 3, Ireland: The country singer and global activist, the comic creation of Christopher Green, searches for her forebears in Ireland. 'Four Bears? Gosh, language is so complicated.'

BBC Radio 4 Extra Midnight (repeat)
Paradise Lost In Cyberspace. Copyright: BBC

Paradise Lost In Cyberspace

Episode 2: Sixty-nine-year-old George Smith battles against his imminent death with Central Admin and a scary TV crew.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 1

Gyles Brandreth chairs the quiz show celebrating gossip, scandal and controversy. Team captains Anthony Holden and Stella Duffy are joined by Rosie Millard and Jenny Colgan.

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

The Six Mothers-In-Law Of Henry VIII

Episode 6

The King acquires a sixth wife, Catherine Parr - now thrice-married - and a near-professional mother-in-law.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Meet David Sedaris. David Sedaris

Meet David Sedaris

Series 6, Episode 1

The globetrotting, trash-picking, aisle-rolling storyteller is back with more words of wit and wisdom. He opens this series with a new story fresh from the pages of The New Yorker, Untamed, and extracts from his book Theft By Finding, a compilation of diary entries from 1977-2002.

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