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Radio schedule Tuesday 5th January 2021

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. Image shows from L to R: Lucy Trodd, Pippa Evans. Copyright: BBC

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

Episode 4 - Mexican Slaughterhouse

The gang create on the spot a musical about superheroes, sheep and mexican villains.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
The Museum Of Curiosity. Image shows from L to R: Alice Levine, John Lloyd. Copyright: BBC

The Museum Of Curiosity

Museum Of New Year's Curisoity, New Year Special - Meeting Ninety-Four: Museum Of New Year's Curiosity

A special forward-looking visit to the Museum, as John Lloyd and Alice Levine are joined by former curator of the Museum Sally Phillips, former researcher for the Museum and co-star of No Such Thing As A Fish Dan Schreiber, and Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence Dr Kate Devlin, to speculate about the year ahead.

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 7, Episode 23 - Ill Met By Goonlight

Neddie Seagoon is sent to capture the German general who commands the island of Crete.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
Legal, Decent, Honest And Truthful

Legal, Decent, Honest And Truthful

Series 3, Episode 5

A repeat of this 1982 radio.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
The News Quiz. Andy Zaltzman

The News Quiz

Series 104, Highlights Special - Best Of 2020

Andy Zaltzman gives 2020 the treatment it deserves in this compilation episode of News Quiz highlights from planet earth's latest annus horribilis.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Image shows from L to R: Alan Simpson, Ray Galton. Copyright: Getty Images / Tony Evans

Looking For Oil Drum Lane

A dramatisation of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's comedy writing partnership.

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 7, Episode 23 - Ill Met By Goonlight

Neddie Seagoon is sent to capture the German general who commands the island of Crete.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Legal, Decent, Honest And Truthful

Legal, Decent, Honest And Truthful

Series 3, Episode 5

A repeat of this 1982 radio.

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

Who Goes There

Episode 4.2: Biographical quiz show, hosted by Martin Young, with Francis Wheen and Fred Housego, Gyles Brandreth and Sheridan Morley.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30pm (repeat)
Image shows from L to R: Alan Simpson, Ray Galton. Copyright: Getty Images / Tony Evans

Looking For Oil Drum Lane

A dramatisation of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's comedy writing partnership.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. Image shows from L to R: Lucy Trodd, Pippa Evans. Copyright: BBC

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

Episode 4 - Mexican Slaughterhouse

The gang create on the spot a musical about superheroes, sheep and mexican villains.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
The Museum Of Curiosity. Image shows from L to R: Alice Levine, John Lloyd. Copyright: BBC

The Museum Of Curiosity

Museum Of New Year's Curisoity, New Year Special - Meeting Ninety-Four: Museum Of New Year's Curiosity

A special forward-looking visit to the Museum, as John Lloyd and Alice Levine are joined by former curator of the Museum Sally Phillips, former researcher for the Museum and co-star of No Such Thing As A Fish Dan Schreiber, and Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence Dr Kate Devlin, to speculate about the year ahead.

Radio 4 6:30pm (repeat)
Beta Female. Copyright: Somethin' Else

Beta Female

Episode 1 - Pilot

Sitcom hinging on a young Asian woman's desire to be all these things and more - to keep her mum and dad happy by allowing her to believe that she and her boyfriend don't live together, and to keep her boyfriend happy by getting a job and contributing to the rent. Like many women of her background and age, Amna wants to have her differences acknowledged, but to be treated the same as everyone else. From work to love to family to social media, Amna walks a tightrope of identity.

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 7, Episode 23 - Ill Met By Goonlight

Neddie Seagoon is sent to capture the German general who commands the island of Crete.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
Legal, Decent, Honest And Truthful

Legal, Decent, Honest And Truthful

Series 3, Episode 5

A repeat of this 1982 radio.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
The Museum Of Curiosity. Image shows from L to R: Alice Levine, John Lloyd. Copyright: BBC

The Museum Of Curiosity

Museum Of New Year's Curisoity, New Year Special - Meeting Ninety-Four: Museum Of New Year's Curiosity

A special forward-looking visit to the Museum, as John Lloyd and Alice Levine are joined by former curator of the Museum Sally Phillips, former researcher for the Museum and co-star of No Such Thing As A Fish Dan Schreiber, and Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence Dr Kate Devlin, to speculate about the year ahead.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm
15 min
Harriet Kemsley

Comedy Catalysts

Series 2, Episode 2 - Jen Brister On French & Saunders

Multi award-winning comic Harriet Kemsley invites her peers to celebrate the trailblazing comedians who inspired them to pick up the mic. This episode features Jen Brister celebrating the groundbreaking partnership of French & Saunders.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:45pm (repeat)
Cutler The Lax

Cutler The Lax

Episode 1

Scottish surrealist Ivor Cutler provides disappointment to cavemen, and comes up with a cheap alternative to liquor.

Radio 4 11pm
30 min
Sheep. Copyright: BBC

The News From Nowhere

Rob Wilfort leads the cast in a sketch show that dissects the reality of modern country life, drilling a few holes in the metropolitan view of rural society on the way.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
James Acaster's Findings. James Acaster. Copyright: BBC

James Acaster's Findings

Episode 2 - Fruit

James finds himself disagreeing violently with Nathaniel on the subject of orange juice with bits in, recalling a formative childhood experience with a brown banana and explaining why it's fine to bring an apple to an orchard.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:15pm (repeat)
Expenses Only

Expenses Only

Episode 2 - Graphics

Tim and Miranda face facetious directors, frustrating commutes and flirtatious trumpets as they begin the first week of their internship in London within the fickle world of Art.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Absolute Power. Image shows from L to R: Charles Prentiss (Stephen Fry), Martin McCabe (John Bird). Copyright: BBC

Absolute Power

Series 2, Episode 1 - Martin Is Bored

Prentiss McCabe try to save the Government from total voter humiliation.

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

Who Goes There

Episode 4.2: Biographical quiz show, hosted by Martin Young, with Francis Wheen and Fred Housego, Gyles Brandreth and Sheridan Morley.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Image shows from L to R: Alan Simpson, Ray Galton. Copyright: Getty Images / Tony Evans

Looking For Oil Drum Lane

A dramatisation of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's comedy writing partnership.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. Image shows from L to R: Lucy Trodd, Pippa Evans. Copyright: BBC

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

Episode 4 - Mexican Slaughterhouse

The gang create on the spot a musical about superheroes, sheep and mexican villains.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
The Museum Of Curiosity. Image shows from L to R: Alice Levine, John Lloyd. Copyright: BBC

The Museum Of Curiosity

Museum Of New Year's Curisoity, New Year Special - Meeting Ninety-Four: Museum Of New Year's Curiosity

A special forward-looking visit to the Museum, as John Lloyd and Alice Levine are joined by former curator of the Museum Sally Phillips, former researcher for the Museum and co-star of No Such Thing As A Fish Dan Schreiber, and Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence Dr Kate Devlin, to speculate about the year ahead.

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