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Radio schedule Tuesday 1st January 2019

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Second Thoughts. Copyright: BBC

Second Thoughts

Episode 2, Room With a Queue: Hannah is off to university, so Bill and Faith bicker over who gets her vacated bedroom.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
The Tim Vine Chat Show. Tim Vine. Copyright: BBC

The Tim Vine Chat Show

2018 Specials, Christmas Special

Tim Vine hears the Christmas stories of the British public and offers up a sack full of seasonal one-liners, definitely not traditional songs and fiendishly silly seasonal games. Featuring a seasonal lawn-mowing song and a man who lost his Christmas dinner.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
Typewriter

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Episode 3.3, The Escape: Author Gerald and his wife Diana feel jaded and start planning a break.

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

The Men From The Ministry

A Great Convenience: The calamitous civil servants have to make a decision about a historic toilet.

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

2015 Christmas Specials, New Year Special - A Look Back at the Year 2020: The New Year's Edition

Special episode of the award-winning topical comedy, set in the year 2020. Who will be prime minister, who will be president and will anyone have decided about London's extra runway by then?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
Typewriter

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Episode 3.3, The Escape: Author Gerald and his wife Diana feel jaded and start planning a break.

Radio 4 12:04pm
14 min
Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years. Image shows from L to R: Harry McEntire, Sue Townsend. Copyright: Pier Productions

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

Episode 2

Adrian is forced to leave Labour's 1997 General Election victory celebrations in a hurry. His mother and Pandora's father are behaving like a pair of love-struck teenagers.

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

The Men From The Ministry

A Great Convenience: The calamitous civil servants have to make a decision about a historic toilet.

BBC Radio Scotland 1pm (repeat)
Stan Laurel's Glasgow. Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel's Glasgow

Alex Norton looks at Stan Laurel's early travels around Glasgow in the 1900s, a city which would influence his future career.

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

Up The Garden Path

Series 2, Episode 1 - Arrivals And Departures

Returning from a year in San Francisco, Izzy Comyn lands in a great deal of confusion.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
Second Thoughts. Copyright: BBC

Second Thoughts

Episode 2, Room With a Queue: Hannah is off to university, so Bill and Faith bicker over who gets her vacated bedroom.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
The Tim Vine Chat Show. Tim Vine. Copyright: BBC

The Tim Vine Chat Show

2018 Specials, Christmas Special

Tim Vine hears the Christmas stories of the British public and offers up a sack full of seasonal one-liners, definitely not traditional songs and fiendishly silly seasonal games. Featuring a seasonal lawn-mowing song and a man who lost his Christmas dinner.

Radio 4 6:15pm
15 min
15 Minute Musical. Copyright: BBC

15 Minute Musical

2018 Specials, Episode 2 - The Sixth In Line To Be King And I

A Rodgers and Hammerstein-inspired celebration of all things Meghan Markle.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Love In Recovery. Image shows from L to R: Danno (Paul Kaye), Andy (Johnny Vegas), Julie (Sue Johnston), Simon (John Hannah), Fiona (Rebecca Front). Copyright: Lucky Giant

Love In Recovery

Series 3, Episode 1 - Les McKeown's Autograph

Fiona has been distant and her boyfriend Simon thinks he knows exactly what's on her mind. He decides to help her, and thinks the best way to start is by casually bringing this private issue up in the weekly meeting. What could possibly go wrong?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
Typewriter

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Episode 3.3, The Escape: Author Gerald and his wife Diana feel jaded and start planning a break.

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

The Men From The Ministry

A Great Convenience: The calamitous civil servants have to make a decision about a historic toilet.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
The Tim Vine Chat Show. Tim Vine. Copyright: BBC

The Tim Vine Chat Show

2018 Specials, Christmas Special

Tim Vine hears the Christmas stories of the British public and offers up a sack full of seasonal one-liners, definitely not traditional songs and fiendishly silly seasonal games. Featuring a seasonal lawn-mowing song and a man who lost his Christmas dinner.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Think The Unthinkable. Image shows from L to R: Owen (David Mitchell), Daisy de Vere (Catherine Shepherd), Ryan Packer (Marcus Brigstocke), Sophie Stott (Emma Kennedy). Copyright: BBC

Think The Unthinkable

Series 4, Episode 4 - Barrington General

Sitcom about a firm of incompetent management consultants who cause havoc every time they are hired.

Radio 4 10:45pm (repeat)
Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years. Image shows from L to R: Harry McEntire, Sue Townsend. Copyright: Pier Productions

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

Episode 2

Adrian is forced to leave Labour's 1997 General Election victory celebrations in a hurry. His mother and Pandora's father are behaving like a pair of love-struck teenagers.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Beautiful Dreamers

Beautiful Dreamers

Episode 5 - The River Europe

Nat follows the endurance swimmer and world's fittest alcoholic Craig McKenzie's controversial attempt to complete the world's toughest swim.

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

The Shuttleworths

Early Specials, New Year Special - New Year With The Shuttleworths

Celebrate the New Year with The Shuttleworths.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:45pm (repeat)
Twitter

History Retweeted

Episode 4 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall

East meets West in the field of online dating, 1980s children's programming pops up on your screen, and Tim Berners-Lee tweets about his world-changing new invention.

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

Up The Garden Path

Series 2, Episode 1 - Arrivals And Departures

Returning from a year in San Francisco, Izzy Comyn lands in a great deal of confusion.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
Second Thoughts. Copyright: BBC

Second Thoughts

Episode 2, Room With a Queue: Hannah is off to university, so Bill and Faith bicker over who gets her vacated bedroom.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
The Tim Vine Chat Show. Tim Vine. Copyright: BBC

The Tim Vine Chat Show

2018 Specials, Christmas Special

Tim Vine hears the Christmas stories of the British public and offers up a sack full of seasonal one-liners, definitely not traditional songs and fiendishly silly seasonal games. Featuring a seasonal lawn-mowing song and a man who lost his Christmas dinner.

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