Radio schedule for 4th December 2020 (full list)

7am (repeat)

Clare In The Community

Series 10, Episode 3 - Sisters

Clare and her estranged sister are forced to cooperate with one another.

7:30am (repeat)

Dot. Dot (Fenella Woolgar). Copyright: BBC

Dot

Series 3, Episode 2 - Dial M for Myrtle

A suspicious death leaves the gals from personnel with no options other than to investigate.

8am (repeat)

The Navy Lark

Series 12, Episode 8 - Operation Cowes Barge

Classic radio sitcom about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate.

8:30am (repeat)

King Street Junior

Series 2, Episode 6 - Assemblies

A new term sees radical plans for assembly by making it secular. But where have half the children gone?

9am (repeat)

Wordaholics

Series 3, Episode 5

Word-obsessed comedy panel game hosted by Gyles Brandreth. With comedians Lloyd Langford, Holly Walsh and Paul Sinha and novelist and classicist Natalie Haynes.

9:30am (repeat)

Bookcases

Episode 3,The Man in White: Cordelia is bored by Gerald, and has fun with struggling novelist Wilkie Collins.

11:30am (repeat)

Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!

2016 Specials, Christmas Special - Randolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

After causing confusion with his Christmas nuts selection, Arthur attempts to round up reindeer and build Mont Fuji for his own Japanese-themed Christmas wonderland.

12pm (repeat)

The Navy Lark

Series 12, Episode 8 - Operation Cowes Barge

Classic radio sitcom about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate.

12:30pm (repeat)

King Street Junior

Series 2, Episode 6 - Assemblies

A new term sees radical plans for assembly by making it secular. But where have half the children gone?

1:30pm
30 min

Breaking The News

Series 17, Episode 8

Des Clarke is joined Jim Smith, Jo Caulfield, Marjolein Robertson & Jamie Maconald.

4pm (repeat)

Wordaholics

Series 3, Episode 5

Word-obsessed comedy panel game hosted by Gyles Brandreth. With comedians Lloyd Langford, Holly Walsh and Paul Sinha and novelist and classicist Natalie Haynes.

4:30pm (repeat)

Bookcases

Episode 3,The Man in White: Cordelia is bored by Gerald, and has fun with struggling novelist Wilkie Collins.

5pm (repeat)

Clare In The Community

Series 10, Episode 3 - Sisters

Clare and her estranged sister are forced to cooperate with one another.

5:30pm (repeat)

Dot

Series 3, Episode 2 - Dial M for Myrtle

A suspicious death leaves the gals from personnel with no options other than to investigate.

6:30pm
30 min

The Now Show. Image shows from L to R: Hugh Dennis, Steve Punt. Copyright: BBC

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis get to grips - from a safe distance - with all things 2020 in the form of sketches and guest contributions. Joining them are Ivo Graham and Zoe Lyons, with music from Huge Davies.

7pm (repeat)

The Navy Lark

Series 12, Episode 8 - Operation Cowes Barge

Classic radio sitcom about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate.

7:30pm (repeat)

King Street Junior

Series 2, Episode 6 - Assemblies

A new term sees radical plans for assembly by making it secular. But where have half the children gone?

10pm (repeat)

Dot

Series 3, Episode 2 - Dial M for Myrtle

A suspicious death leaves the gals from personnel with no options other than to investigate.

10:30pm (repeat)

What The Future?

Episode 2 - Drugs

Britain, in a desperate attempt to look fashionable, legalises marijuana. Soon her majesty the Queen lights up the first ceremonial joint on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Now perpetually stoned, politicians legalises other drugs to perk us all up a bit. But soon a drug addled nation turns to beat poetry, henge sell-offs and the horrors of Dark Etsy. While terrorist group The Real Campaign for Real Ale gears up for action, a damaged and desperate UK has the Channel Islands taken into care.

11pm (repeat)

Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme. Key (Tim Key). Copyright: BBC

Tim Key's Poetry Programme

Series 2, Episode 3 - Medicine

Tim takes a comic look at the thorny issue of medicine, through the medium of poetry. He also attempts to cure his guitarist Tom Basden of an ailment.

11:15pm (repeat)

Steven Appleby's Normal Life

Episode 2.3, Normal Sleep: The cartoonist goes in search of the secret meaning of life, believed to be written on the skin of a silver sausage that only exists in a dream.

11:30pm (repeat)

My Teenage Diary

Series 7, Episode 6 - Chris Packham

Naturalist Chris Packham reads from the nature diaries he kept as a teenager and is interviewed about his formative years, which were mostly spent up trees, looking for birds.

4am (repeat)