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Radio schedule Saturday 1st August 2020

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6am (repeat)
The Amazing Test Match Crime. Copyright: BBC

The Amazing Test Match Crime

Comedy about a plan to destroy Britain by ruining cricket.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
Dilemma. Sue Perkins. Copyright: BBC

Dilemma

Series 1, Episode 5

Comedians John Finnemore, Danielle Ward and Alun Cochrane, and Foreign Correspondent Dame Ann Leslie join Sue Perkins.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
An Actor's Life For Me. Robert Wilson (John Gordon Sinclair). Copyright: BBC

An Actor's Life For Me

Series 3, Episode 3 - The Police Farce

Robert Wilson is acting in a disorderly manner.

BBC Radio Scotland 11:30am (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue. Copyright: BBC

Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue

Series 1, Episode 1 - Familes And Relationships

Mike and Sue introduce the show which answers your questions about families and relationships. Mike has to reveal his embarrasing surname in this first episode.

Radio 4 12:30pm (repeat)
Jo Brand

Summer Comedy Festival

Episode 2 - Jo Brand

Jo Brand settles on a poetic theme for her gathering, with the talents of poet, musician and performer John Hegley, spoken word artist Hollie McNish, poet and playwright Nafeesa Hamid and comedian Lewis MacLeod.

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 4, Episode 12

Kenneth Horne makes Fleet Street headlines, and visits the Bona Private Detective Agency.

BBC Radio Wales. Copyright: BBC 1:30pm
30 min
The Leak. Tom Price

The Leak

Series 11, Episode 4

Konnie Huq, Rosie Jones and Tudur Owen join Tom Price for a comic take on the week's news. Plus a stand-up set from Athena Kugblenu.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4pm (repeat)
The Amazing Test Match Crime. Copyright: BBC

The Amazing Test Match Crime

Comedy about a plan to destroy Britain by ruining cricket.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6pm (repeat)
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

The Hexagonal Phase, Episode 1 - Fit The Twenty-Seventh

Forty years on from the first ever radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Arthur Dent and friends return to be thrown back into the Whole General Mish Mash, in a rattling adventure involving Viking Gods and Irish Confidence Tricksters, with our first glimpse of Eccentrca Galumbits and a brief but memorable moment with The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast Of Traal.

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

Undone

Series 2, Episode 1 - Unaccompanied

Having saved the world, Edna's life seems to be back to normal. But something keeps taking her back to Undone.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Tim Minchin And Friends

Tim Minchin And Friends

Musical comedy with the Australian stand-up and songwriter. Also features contributions by Justin Edwards.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
That Mitchell & Webb Sound. Image shows from L to R: Robert Webb, David Mitchell. Copyright: BBC

That Mitchell & Webb Sound

Series 5, Episode 1

This week's sketches include the future of farming - battery penguins; Thomas Hardy's exciting idea to make his books even sadder; and the very confusing goings on in a cash-register shop.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Sarah Millican

Sarah Millican's Support Group

Series 2, Episode 3

Jenny is worried about looking after a baby, and downbeat romantic Keith thinks his poems sound like suicide notes.

BBC Radio 4 Extra Midnight (repeat)
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

The Hexagonal Phase, Episode 1 - Fit The Twenty-Seventh

Forty years on from the first ever radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Arthur Dent and friends return to be thrown back into the Whole General Mish Mash, in a rattling adventure involving Viking Gods and Irish Confidence Tricksters, with our first glimpse of Eccentrca Galumbits and a brief but memorable moment with The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast Of Traal.

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

Undone

Series 2, Episode 1 - Unaccompanied

Having saved the world, Edna's life seems to be back to normal. But something keeps taking her back to Undone.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
The Amazing Test Match Crime. Copyright: BBC

The Amazing Test Match Crime

Comedy about a plan to destroy Britain by ruining cricket.

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