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Radio schedule Wednesday 16th October 2019

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Potting On. Pam Grant (Pam Ayres)

Potting On

Episode 4 - Wedding

Pam and Gordon are invited to a major celebration. Pam wants to buy a big hat and a big present for the bride and groom, but Gordon has a severe pain in his wallet.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Quanderhorn. Image shows from L to R: Andrew Marshall, Rob Grant. Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

Quanderhorn

The Quanderhorn Xperimentations, Episode 5 - Fear! Terror! Gut-Wrenching Horror! Arg Arg

The professor receives a dire warning from his future self, as an ancient alien ziggurat emerges at Piccadilly Circus Tube Station - just by the chocolate machine.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (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 1, Episode 14 - The Sheikh

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 8:30am (repeat)
Listen To Les

Listen To Les

Les Dawson reveals how the mother-in-law joke was invented, and the real Humpty Dumpty.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
An Actor's Life For Me. Robert Wilson (John Gordon Sinclair). Copyright: BBC

An Actor's Life For Me

Series 1, Episode 5 - Educating Robert

Sue manages to get Robert some work teaching drama at her school. Is he a natural teacher or a natural disaster?

Radio 4 10:45am
15 min
The Country Girls

The Country Girls

The Lonely Girl, Episode 3

Christmas brings Kate and Eugene closer together, and then the real world pulls them apart.

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
God's Work. Rowan Atkinson. Copyright: Hat Trick Productions

God's Work

Episode 2

Rev. Richard Crisp has concerns about the missing elderly visitor, Rev. Wilson Penn tries to get younger people into his church using his favourite musicals, and Rev. Bill Tinsey helps to find some homes for dogs.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (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 1, Episode 14 - The Sheikh

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 12:30pm (repeat)
Listen To Les

Listen To Les

Les Dawson reveals how the mother-in-law joke was invented, and the real Humpty Dumpty.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30pm (repeat)
An Actor's Life For Me. Robert Wilson (John Gordon Sinclair). Copyright: BBC

An Actor's Life For Me

Series 1, Episode 5 - Educating Robert

Sue manages to get Robert some work teaching drama at her school. Is he a natural teacher or a natural disaster?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
Potting On. Pam Grant (Pam Ayres)

Potting On

Episode 4 - Wedding

Pam and Gordon are invited to a major celebration. Pam wants to buy a big hat and a big present for the bride and groom, but Gordon has a severe pain in his wallet.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Quanderhorn. Image shows from L to R: Andrew Marshall, Rob Grant. Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

Quanderhorn

The Quanderhorn Xperimentations, Episode 5 - Fear! Terror! Gut-Wrenching Horror! Arg Arg

The professor receives a dire warning from his future self, as an ancient alien ziggurat emerges at Piccadilly Circus Tube Station - just by the chocolate machine.

Radio 4 6:30pm (repeat)
Quanderhorn. Image shows from L to R: Andrew Marshall, Rob Grant. Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

Quanderhorn

The Quanderhorn Xperimentations, Episode 6 - Dah dah dah dah dah dahh Dah dah dah dah dahhhh...

As the bagpiping bombers grow closer, our intrepid crew and their duplicates face the diabolical traps of the Alien ziggurat. With deadly consequences for Brian.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6:30pm (repeat)
Radio

That Reminds Me

Series 5, Episode 4 - Charles Collingwood

Factually comedic series in which celebrities - mostly comics - share tales and reminisce.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (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 1, Episode 14 - The Sheikh

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 7:30pm (repeat)
Listen To Les

Listen To Les

Les Dawson reveals how the mother-in-law joke was invented, and the real Humpty Dumpty.

Radio 4 7:45pm (repeat)
The Country Girls

The Country Girls

The Lonely Girl, Episode 3

Christmas brings Kate and Eugene closer together, and then the real world pulls them apart.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Quanderhorn. Image shows from L to R: Andrew Marshall, Rob Grant. Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

Quanderhorn

The Quanderhorn Xperimentations, Episode 5 - Fear! Terror! Gut-Wrenching Horror! Arg Arg

The professor receives a dire warning from his future self, as an ancient alien ziggurat emerges at Piccadilly Circus Tube Station - just by the chocolate machine.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Warhorses Of Letters. Image shows from L to R: Marengo (Stephen Fry), Copenhagen (Daniel Rigby). Copyright: BBC

Warhorses Of Letters

Series 2, Episode 2

The Duke of Wellington's horse Copenhagen's romance with Marengo (Napoleon's horse) has lead to a proposal of marriage. But planning a wedding is fraught with arguments for our gay horses...church or wood? Should people be invited or just horses? And which of them is the groom?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:45pm (repeat)
The John Moloney Show. John Moloney. Copyright: Dabster Productions

The John Moloney Show

Series 1, Episode 2

John tells stories about a German baby, his old life as a teacher and a run-in with a hen night.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Charlotte And Lillian. Image shows from L to R: Charlotte (Helen Monks), Lillian (Miriam Margolyes). Copyright: Giddy Goat Productions

Charlotte And Lillian

Series 2, Episode 2 - The Rival

Lillian leaves Charlotte a message telling her not to come round any more, but when she turns up unannounced, she discovers she has a rival for Lillian's approval.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
The Jason Byrne Show. Jason Byrne. Copyright: BBC

The Jason Byrne Show

Series 3, Episode 6 - Misery & Happiness

Jason Byrne casts a comedic eye over the fertile territory of "misery and happiness".

Radio 4 11:15pm (repeat)
Bunk Bed

Bunk Bed

Series 1, Episode 3

Patrick Marber and Peter Curran find refuge from the hurly burly of life in a bunk bed late at night, where they talk through the darkness.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
What Does The K Stand For?. Stephen K Amos. Copyright: BBC

What Does The K Stand For?

Series 3, Episode 1 - Working For A Living

Stephen takes his first steps into working life.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30am (repeat)
Radio

That Reminds Me

Series 5, Episode 4 - Charles Collingwood

Factually comedic series in which celebrities - mostly comics - share tales and reminisce.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
An Actor's Life For Me. Robert Wilson (John Gordon Sinclair). Copyright: BBC

An Actor's Life For Me

Series 1, Episode 5 - Educating Robert

Sue manages to get Robert some work teaching drama at her school. Is he a natural teacher or a natural disaster?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
Potting On. Pam Grant (Pam Ayres)

Potting On

Episode 4 - Wedding

Pam and Gordon are invited to a major celebration. Pam wants to buy a big hat and a big present for the bride and groom, but Gordon has a severe pain in his wallet.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Quanderhorn. Image shows from L to R: Andrew Marshall, Rob Grant. Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

Quanderhorn

The Quanderhorn Xperimentations, Episode 5 - Fear! Terror! Gut-Wrenching Horror! Arg Arg

The professor receives a dire warning from his future self, as an ancient alien ziggurat emerges at Piccadilly Circus Tube Station - just by the chocolate machine.

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