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Radio schedule Tuesday 31st March 2020

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
HR. Image shows from L to R: Peter (Jonathan Pryce), Sam (Nicholas Le Prevost). Copyright: BBC

HR

Series 2, Episode 1 - Gassing

Sam is battling retirement blues with a part-time job working for the Saviours, manning telephone lines to help those in distress. His first client of the day is of course Peter, in distress about their faulty boiler.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Time Spanner. Image shows from L to R: Mr Mergatroid (Jeremy Limb), Martin Gaye (Simon Kane), Daniel Kraken (David Mitchell), Laika (John Finnemore), Gabbie (London Hughes), Angel (Belinda Stewart-Wilson). Copyright: BBC

Time Spanner

Episode 1 - 2018 Special

Following on from last year's episode, Martin Gaye is torn between using the Time Spanner to travel into the future to save humanity from certain destruction or using it as a way to spend more time with the woman he met this morning.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC

The Goon Show

Series 5, Episode 23 - The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street

On the trial of Moriarty and Grytpype-Thynne, Detective Neddie Seagoon joins an unusual brass band.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
Round The Horne. Image shows left to right: Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Kenneth Horne, June Ellis. Credit: BBC

Round The Horne

Series 3, Episode 19

Kenneth Horne welcomes the Palone Ranger, plus bona secrets of the BBC are revealed.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
The Now Show. Image shows from L to R: Hugh Dennis, Steve Punt. Copyright: BBC

The Now Show

Series 56, Episode 4

More topical comedy from Punt and Dennis (via conference call), with special guests Ellie Taylor, Kai Samra, Dominic Frisby and Gemma Arrowsmith.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Lenin Of The Rovers

Lenin Of The Rovers

Series 2, Episode 4 - The Final Solution

Will Ricky's million-pound sponsorship deal wreck Felchester's hopes of a Wembley victory?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC

The Goon Show

Series 5, Episode 23 - The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street

On the trial of Moriarty and Grytpype-Thynne, Detective Neddie Seagoon joins an unusual brass band.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Round The Horne. Image shows left to right: Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Kenneth Horne, June Ellis. Credit: BBC

Round The Horne

Series 3, Episode 19

Kenneth Horne welcomes the Palone Ranger, plus bona secrets of the BBC are revealed.

Radio 4 2:15pm
45 min
Settlers

Settlers

Sci-fi romcom, with two scientists who emerge from suspended animation expecting to find themselves on a habitable new world.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4pm (repeat)
Rhod Gilbert

Jest A Minute

Series 2, Episode 2

Rhod Gilbert is joined by team captains Chris Corcoran and Lloyd Langford and guests Markus Birdman and Steve Williams for the comedy quiz.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30pm (repeat)
Are You From The Bugle?. Copyright: BBC

Are You From The Bugle?

Episode 5 - A Bit Of Bad News

Lawrence's hard-hitting drugs investigation has press awards written all over it. What a pity he's made it all up.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
HR. Image shows from L to R: Peter (Jonathan Pryce), Sam (Nicholas Le Prevost). Copyright: BBC

HR

Series 2, Episode 1 - Gassing

Sam is battling retirement blues with a part-time job working for the Saviours, manning telephone lines to help those in distress. His first client of the day is of course Peter, in distress about their faulty boiler.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Time Spanner. Image shows from L to R: Mr Mergatroid (Jeremy Limb), Martin Gaye (Simon Kane), Daniel Kraken (David Mitchell), Laika (John Finnemore), Gabbie (London Hughes), Angel (Belinda Stewart-Wilson). Copyright: BBC

Time Spanner

Episode 1 - 2018 Special

Following on from last year's episode, Martin Gaye is torn between using the Time Spanner to travel into the future to save humanity from certain destruction or using it as a way to spend more time with the woman he met this morning.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Henry Normal. Copyright: BBC

Henry Normal

Episode 1 - A Normal Universe

Henry explores our relationship to the vastness of the universe throughout eternity and beyond, taking us on a curious journey of time and space with the aid of a very big microscope and some dodgy rhymes.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC

The Goon Show

Series 5, Episode 23 - The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street

On the trial of Moriarty and Grytpype-Thynne, Detective Neddie Seagoon joins an unusual brass band.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
Round The Horne. Image shows left to right: Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Kenneth Horne, June Ellis. Credit: BBC

Round The Horne

Series 3, Episode 19

Kenneth Horne welcomes the Palone Ranger, plus bona secrets of the BBC are revealed.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Time Spanner. Image shows from L to R: Mr Mergatroid (Jeremy Limb), Martin Gaye (Simon Kane), Daniel Kraken (David Mitchell), Laika (John Finnemore), Gabbie (London Hughes), Angel (Belinda Stewart-Wilson). Copyright: BBC

Time Spanner

Episode 1 - 2018 Special

Following on from last year's episode, Martin Gaye is torn between using the Time Spanner to travel into the future to save humanity from certain destruction or using it as a way to spend more time with the woman he met this morning.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
The Mark Steel Solution. Mark Steel. Copyright: BBC

The Mark Steel Solution

Series 1, Episode 5 - Deport Anyone Born In England

Radical proposals to improve our lives with the comedian's emigration shake-up.

Radio 4 11pm
30 min
Geoff Norcott

Geoff Norcott Hates Being Told What To Do

The return of the award-winning comedian Geoff Norcott - this time to explain the origins of his right-leaning political ideology and his hatred of the nanny state.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Beauty Of Britain. Beauty Olonga (Jocelyn Jee Esien). Copyright: BBC

Beauty Of Britain

Series 2, Episode 1 - Citroen UXB

Beauty is sent to look after Sarah, who lives with both her mother and daughter - a perfect, happy modern family, like the kind Beauty has seen in feel-good British movies. With her own famly being very demanding, it is understandable when Beauty begins to get too close.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
The Guns Of Adam Riches. Image shows from L to R: Cariad Lloyd, Adam Riches, Katharine Bennett-Fox, Jim Johnson. Copyright: BBC

The Guns Of Adam Riches

Series 1, Episode 3 - The Ballad of Big Rich

Adam takes the listener back to the Wild West to tell the story of Big Rich, a sass-talkin', gun-totin' cowboy who just so happened to have sat on the front row.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
Rhod Gilbert

Jest A Minute

Series 2, Episode 2

Rhod Gilbert is joined by team captains Chris Corcoran and Lloyd Langford and guests Markus Birdman and Steve Williams for the comedy quiz.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Are You From The Bugle?. Copyright: BBC

Are You From The Bugle?

Episode 5 - A Bit Of Bad News

Lawrence's hard-hitting drugs investigation has press awards written all over it. What a pity he's made it all up.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
HR. Image shows from L to R: Peter (Jonathan Pryce), Sam (Nicholas Le Prevost). Copyright: BBC

HR

Series 2, Episode 1 - Gassing

Sam is battling retirement blues with a part-time job working for the Saviours, manning telephone lines to help those in distress. His first client of the day is of course Peter, in distress about their faulty boiler.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Time Spanner. Image shows from L to R: Mr Mergatroid (Jeremy Limb), Martin Gaye (Simon Kane), Daniel Kraken (David Mitchell), Laika (John Finnemore), Gabbie (London Hughes), Angel (Belinda Stewart-Wilson). Copyright: BBC

Time Spanner

Episode 1 - 2018 Special

Following on from last year's episode, Martin Gaye is torn between using the Time Spanner to travel into the future to save humanity from certain destruction or using it as a way to spend more time with the woman he met this morning.

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