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Radio schedule Thursday 17th October 2019

Radio 4 10:45am
15 min
The Country Girls

The Country Girls

The Lonely Girl, Episode 4

Dada gets wind of Kate's affair with Eugene and takes drastic measures.

Radio 4 2:15pm
45 min
Bayeux Tapestry

Embroidering The Truth

Rapacious Bishop Odo (Charlie Anson) meets his match in the Anglo-Saxon former Queen, Edith (Katy Brand). He wants her wealth, she wants to survive. Armed only with a needle she leads a group of women in a bid to outwit their violent Norman oppressors. Her plan? To save her skin and, in the process, to create a masterpiece and a message that will last a thousand years. It is the Bayeux Tapestry.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Alone. Image shows from L to R: Morris (Bennett Arron), Louisa (Kate Isitt), Mitch (Angus Deayton), Ellie (Abigail Cruttenden), Will (Pearce Quigley). Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

Alone

Series 2, Episode 2 - Anti-Valentine's Day

As Valentine's Day approaches, the neighbours are all dreading that left-out feeling they always get on February 14th - so Will encourages them to go out and enjoy themselves anyway, booking a table for a singles-only meal.

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

The Country Girls

The Lonely Girl, Episode 4

Dada gets wind of Kate's affair with Eugene and takes drastic measures.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm
30 min
Kiri Pritchard-McLean

Newsjack

Series 21, Episode 6

Newsjack returns to satirise another week's news and events. This week, a look at what would happen with Nobel Prize got extended to ordinary people, the church using social media, and how the government would use ID to check on voters.

Radio 4 11pm
30 min
Agendum. Alexandra Palisades (Carrie Quinlan). Copyright: Pozzitive Productions

Agendum

Series 2, Episode 4 - Good Luck Everybody

Alexandra Palisades (Carrie Quinlan) brings more topical stories under the spotlight. Or not. This time there is a look at how the housing crisis has got so bad that people are moving into burrows, the USA plans to put forward a law to make mass shootings legal, and the plan to launch a new financial crisis.

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