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Radio schedule Wednesday 30th August 2017

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Ankle Tag. Image shows from L to R: Bob (Steve Speirs), Alice (Katy Wix), Gruff (Elis James). Copyright: BBC

Ankle Tag

Pilot, Episode 0 - The Beginning

New parents Gruff and Alice's lives are disrupted when Gruff's dad appears on their doorstep unexpectedly, wanting to stay.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
The Navy Lark. Copyright: BBC

The Navy Lark

Series 1, Episode 10 - The Gun Mechanism Test

Classic radio sitcom about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (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 6, Episode 2 - The Childhood Sweetheart

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 9am (repeat)
Genius. Dave Gorman. Copyright: BBC

Genius

Series 3, Episode 1 - Rob Newman

With Rob Newman. Winning idea is marketing hitch-hiking as 'environmental traveling'.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Up The Garden Path

Up The Garden Path

Episode 3.5, Up the Stick and Sick as a Parrot: Izzy spends her birthday coping with the surprise news that she's pregnant.

Radio 4 10:45am
15 min
Subterranean Homesick Blues. Image shows from L to R: John (Bill Nighy), Maggie (Anna Calder-Marshall)

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Series 2, Episode 3

John & Maggie have managed to reboot their romance but a date at a crematorium reminds them that they don't have much time left.

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
Bad Salsa. Image shows from L to R: Chippy (Jessie Cave), Jill (Natasha Little), Terri (Camille Coduri). Copyright: BBC

Bad Salsa

Series 3, Episode 2 - Something Cold

Colin and Jill get back on the merry-go-round, Chippy Terri and Joel get tied up in knots and Corinne loses a daughter but gains a fascinator.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
The Navy Lark. Copyright: BBC

The Navy Lark

Series 1, Episode 10 - The Gun Mechanism Test

Classic radio sitcom about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (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 6, Episode 2 - The Childhood Sweetheart

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 4pm (repeat)
Genius. Dave Gorman. Copyright: BBC

Genius

Series 3, Episode 1 - Rob Newman

With Rob Newman. Winning idea is marketing hitch-hiking as 'environmental traveling'.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30pm (repeat)
Up The Garden Path

Up The Garden Path

Episode 3.5, Up the Stick and Sick as a Parrot: Izzy spends her birthday coping with the surprise news that she's pregnant.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Ankle Tag. Image shows from L to R: Bob (Steve Speirs), Alice (Katy Wix), Gruff (Elis James). Copyright: BBC

Ankle Tag

Pilot, Episode 0 - The Beginning

New parents Gruff and Alice's lives are disrupted when Gruff's dad appears on their doorstep unexpectedly, wanting to stay.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Ankle Tag. Image shows from L to R: Bob (Steve Speirs), Alice (Katy Wix), Gruff (Elis James). Copyright: BBC

Ankle Tag

Series 1, Episode 1 - The Date

Bob decides it's time to get back on the horse, dating wise, and strikes up a friendship with a woman he meets in a local museum. Meanwhile Gruff is delighted when his editor commissions an article about smoothies, and Alice joins the local neighbourhood watch.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
The Navy Lark. Copyright: BBC

The Navy Lark

Series 1, Episode 10 - The Gun Mechanism Test

Classic radio sitcom about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (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 6, Episode 2 - The Childhood Sweetheart

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)
Ankle Tag. Image shows from L to R: Bob (Steve Speirs), Alice (Katy Wix), Gruff (Elis James). Copyright: BBC

Ankle Tag

Pilot, Episode 0 - The Beginning

New parents Gruff and Alice's lives are disrupted when Gruff's dad appears on their doorstep unexpectedly, wanting to stay.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
The Secret World. Copyright: BBC

The Secret World

Series 1, Episode 2

Ray Winstone, Bob Hoskins and Ross Kemp get stuck in a duvet; Len Goodman and Bruce Forsyth reveal themselves to be gangsters; John Humphrys becomes obsessed with bananas; and poor old Jools Holland this week meets bad luck in a taxi.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
The John Moloney Show. John Moloney. Copyright: Dabster Productions

The John Moloney Show

Series 2, Episode 2

Another comedy adventure with John Moloney.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Lee Mack And Friends At The Fringe

Lee Mack And Friends At The Fringe

Episode 1: Lee Mack definitely is going out, with fellow comics Dara O Briain, Alan Carr, Rhod Gilbert and Tim Minchin.

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

Before They Were Famous

Series 3, Episode 2

Featuring a valuable insight into the origins of Henry Longfellow's poetic success, in the guise of a letter of complaint to a boiler repair company.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
The Nick Revell Show

The Nick Revell Show

Episode 2.3, The Wedding: Preparing for his old flame's nuptials, the writer seethes over the way she dumped him.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
Genius. Dave Gorman. Copyright: BBC

Genius

Series 3, Episode 1 - Rob Newman

With Rob Newman. Winning idea is marketing hitch-hiking as 'environmental traveling'.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Up The Garden Path

Up The Garden Path

Episode 3.5, Up the Stick and Sick as a Parrot: Izzy spends her birthday coping with the surprise news that she's pregnant.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Ankle Tag. Image shows from L to R: Bob (Steve Speirs), Alice (Katy Wix), Gruff (Elis James). Copyright: BBC

Ankle Tag

Pilot, Episode 0 - The Beginning

New parents Gruff and Alice's lives are disrupted when Gruff's dad appears on their doorstep unexpectedly, wanting to stay.

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