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Radio schedule Wednesday 13th November 2019

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
The Change. Image shows left to right: Carol (Lynda Bellingham), George (Christopher Ellison)

The Change

Series 1, Episode 2 - Different for Girls

Coming to terms with a transvestite for a husband is hard for Carol. She wants to save her marriage and so George agrees to throw away his entire wardrobe of female attire - but discarding his favourite tiara is just too hard.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere. Daliso Chaponda

Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere

Series 2, Episode 3 - Diplomacy

The Malawian comedian looks at the relationship between the UK and Africa.

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 2, Episode 8 - The Rail Strike

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

Vintage comedy with Les Dawson. From 1982.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Many A Slip

Roy Plomley chairs the panel game as Isobel Barnett, Eleanor Summerfield, Richard Murdoch and David Nixon compete to spot mistakes.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Mind Your Own Business!

Mind Your Own Business!

Episode 2, A Moving Experience: With talk of relocating his company, tycoon Jimmy fancies life as a country gent.

Radio 4 11:30am (repeat)
Woof - Chris Neill. Image shows from L to R: Martin Hyder, Chris Neill, Alison Steadman. Copyright: Giddy Goat Productions

Woof - Chris Neill

Woof - One Man's Search For A Dog Or A Boyfriend, Episode 1

Recorded at Downstairs At The King's Head, Chris Neill tells his story in the first person, with a small, but brilliant, supporting cast of Martin Hyder and Alison Steadman.

Radio 4 11:45am (repeat)
Woof - Chris Neill. Image shows from L to R: Martin Hyder, Chris Neill, Alison Steadman. Copyright: Giddy Goat Productions

Woof - Chris Neill

Woof - One Man's Search For A Dog Or A Boyfriend, Episode 2

Recorded at Downstairs At The King's Head, Chris Neill tells his story in the first person, with a small, but brilliant, supporting cast of Martin Hyder and Alison Steadman.

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 2, Episode 8 - The Rail Strike

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

Vintage comedy with Les Dawson. From 1982.

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

Many A Slip

Roy Plomley chairs the panel game as Isobel Barnett, Eleanor Summerfield, Richard Murdoch and David Nixon compete to spot mistakes.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30pm (repeat)
Mind Your Own Business!

Mind Your Own Business!

Episode 2, A Moving Experience: With talk of relocating his company, tycoon Jimmy fancies life as a country gent.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
The Change. Image shows left to right: Carol (Lynda Bellingham), George (Christopher Ellison)

The Change

Series 1, Episode 2 - Different for Girls

Coming to terms with a transvestite for a husband is hard for Carol. She wants to save her marriage and so George agrees to throw away his entire wardrobe of female attire - but discarding his favourite tiara is just too hard.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere. Daliso Chaponda

Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere

Series 2, Episode 3 - Diplomacy

The Malawian comedian looks at the relationship between the UK and Africa.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere. Daliso Chaponda

Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere

Series 2, Episode 4 - Legacy

In the final episode in the series, Daliso discuses legacies and whether we can or should redefine how we are remembered.

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 2, Episode 8 - The Rail Strike

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

Vintage comedy with Les Dawson. From 1982.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere. Daliso Chaponda

Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere

Series 2, Episode 3 - Diplomacy

The Malawian comedian looks at the relationship between the UK and Africa.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay's Origin Stories

Episode 2 - Mutatis Mutandis

Lemn looks at the children at Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, otherwise known as The X-Men Academy.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Twayna Mayne

Twayna Mayne: Black Women

Series 1, Episode 2 - Identity and Representation

Twayna Mayne earches for role models in her quest to explore her Black British Identity.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Recorded For Training Purposes. Copyright: BBC

Recorded For Training Purposes

Series 3, Episode 4

Sketches include an airborne traffic reporter with issues; adverts for a sofa shop sale that must end soon... or at least one day; an awkward pie shop customer; and a lawyer reading out a less-than-eloquent statement from their celebrity client on the steps outside a court.

Radio 4 11:15pm (repeat)
Bunk Bed

Bunk Bed

Series 2, Episode 2

Patrick Marber and Peter Curran share a bunk bed and a stream of semi-consciousness about family, relationships, work and imagined life.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
The Consultants

The Consultants

Sketch show written by and starring Neil Edmond, Justin Edwards and James Rawlings.

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

Many A Slip

Roy Plomley chairs the panel game as Isobel Barnett, Eleanor Summerfield, Richard Murdoch and David Nixon compete to spot mistakes.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Mind Your Own Business!

Mind Your Own Business!

Episode 2, A Moving Experience: With talk of relocating his company, tycoon Jimmy fancies life as a country gent.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
The Change. Image shows left to right: Carol (Lynda Bellingham), George (Christopher Ellison)

The Change

Series 1, Episode 2 - Different for Girls

Coming to terms with a transvestite for a husband is hard for Carol. She wants to save her marriage and so George agrees to throw away his entire wardrobe of female attire - but discarding his favourite tiara is just too hard.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere. Daliso Chaponda

Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere

Series 2, Episode 3 - Diplomacy

The Malawian comedian looks at the relationship between the UK and Africa.

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