Radio
Radio schedule Saturday 29th August 2020
8:30am
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Kathmandu Or Bust
Episode 1 - Dover And OutFive travellers face a bumpy ride - their guide has never been to Asia.
9am
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Hancock's Half Hour
Series 5, Episode 19 - The Threatening LettersAnthony 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.
9:30am
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The Galton And Simpson Playhouse
Episode 1 - Clicquot Et FilsA firm of undertakers in 1920s France has fallen on hard times, usurped by its more modern rivals. What it needs is a really sumptuous funeral - an old-fashioned, publicity-gathering blockbuster.
10:30am30 min
You're Dead To Me
Series 1, Episode 4 - The Witch CrazeGreg Jenner is joined by comedian Cariad Lloyd and historian Suzannah Lipscomb to look at the truth behind the European Witch Craze, which led to the deaths of thousands of women.
11am
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Steptoe And Son
Series 6, Episode 6 - Porn YesterdayHarold is aghast when he sees 'What the Butler Saw'.
11:30am
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Breaking The News
Series 16, Episode 10Joining Des Clarke this week are Lucy Porter, Raymond Mearns, Maisie Adam and Marc Jennings.
11:30am
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Hancock's Half Hour
Hancock: The Radio Ham: the Pye re-recording: The originally BBC TV-only episode performed before an audience for an album release in 1961. Amateur radio enthusiast Tony Hancock receives a mayday call from a yachtsman in distress.
12pm
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Clare In The Community
Series 9, Episode 1 - Stand By Your ManClare has mysteriously fled her honeymoon and returned to work. The other social workers have an unfortunate experience on a community project.
12:30pm
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Summer Comedy Festival
Episode 6 - Darren HarriottDarren Harriott curates his ideal festival: a magical carnival of surprise called The Festival of the Unexpected. Featuring trombonists, acrobats, wrestling and opera, it's a whimsical journey through Darren's favourite things with his favourite people. Also, there are vampires.
12:30pm
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Pankhiraj
Episode 4 - Homeward BoundNishith is shot when the building society where he works is raided.
1:30pm
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The Musical Life Of...
Series 1, Episode 3 - BoudicaThis week, it's the turn of Celtic Queen Boudicca to be brought to tuneful, and almost wholly fictional life.
6pm
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
The Hexagonal Phase, Episode 5 - Fit The Thirty-FirstAs the Vogons approach Nano, Thor and Wowbagger prepare for their battle.
6:30pm
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Undone
Series 2, Episode 5 - UnwelcomeA trip home to Towcester and her Mum should give Edna a break. But there's a fete to organise and Tankerton has a mission of his own.
7pm
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Hancock's Half Hour
Series 5, Episode 19 - The Threatening LettersAnthony 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.
7:30pm
(repeat)
The Galton And Simpson Playhouse
Episode 1 - Clicquot Et FilsA firm of undertakers in 1920s France has fallen on hard times, usurped by its more modern rivals. What it needs is a really sumptuous funeral - an old-fashioned, publicity-gathering blockbuster.
9pm
(repeat)
Steptoe And Son
Series 6, Episode 6 - Porn YesterdayHarold is aghast when he sees 'What the Butler Saw'.
9:30pm
(repeat)
Hancock's Half Hour
Hancock: The Radio Ham: the Pye re-recording: The originally BBC TV-only episode performed before an audience for an album release in 1961. Amateur radio enthusiast Tony Hancock receives a mayday call from a yachtsman in distress.
10pm
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Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar
Series 2, Episode 4 - La Vie MoralAlexei considers how one might live an ethical life and recounts the difficulties he faced when tracking down his lost cat.
10:30pm
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Agendum
Series 1, Episode 4 - ThreatThe very young, the very old and Stevenage all come under the microscope of talking, collimated by Alexandra Palisades. This eek we cove the addictive video game Deluge, a Twitter storm between Jennifer Lawrence and Stevenage, and a proposal to teach that 7 x 8 = 62.
11pm
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That Mitchell & Webb Sound
Series 5, Episode 5Bonus material from David Mitchell and Robert Webb's fifth series of quirky sketches.
11:30pm
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The Mary Whitehouse Experience
Series 4, Episode 1Radio show in which David Baddiel, Rob Newman, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis provocatively undress various issues.
Midnight
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
The Hexagonal Phase, Episode 5 - Fit The Thirty-FirstAs the Vogons approach Nano, Thor and Wowbagger prepare for their battle.
12:30am
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Undone
Series 2, Episode 5 - UnwelcomeA trip home to Towcester and her Mum should give Edna a break. But there's a fete to organise and Tankerton has a mission of his own.