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Radio schedule Wednesday 6th January 2021

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Start/Stop. Barney (Jack Docherty). Copyright: BBC

Start/Stop

Series 1, Episode 5

This week two parties provide a particular challenge.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Conversations From A Long Marriage. Image shows from L to R: Wife (Joanna Lumley), Husband (Roger Allam). Copyright: BBC

Conversations From A Long Marriage

Series 2, Episode 1 - Just The Way You Are

Roger gives Joanna a masterclass in dishwasher stacking while Joanna instructs him on how to wave goodbye to departing guests. As the turbulent year turns, Joanna makes some New Year Resolutions - for Roger - and suggests their marriage needs a re-boot. 'Out the door?' is his response.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
Hancock's Half Hour. Image shows from L to R: Sidney James (Sid James), Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock (Tony Hancock), Bill Kerr (Bill Kerr)

Hancock's Half Hour

Series 6, Episode 10 - The Fête

Anthony 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.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
Up The Garden Path

Up The Garden Path

Series 3, Episode 2 - Gooseberries and Fools

Can a relationship with her ex-pupil Razors be the best thing for teacher Izzy?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Rent. Copyright: BBC

Rent

Series 3, Episode 2

Maria needs a day out so Paul has to look after the baby, but can he be trusted?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11am (repeat)
Michael Palin

Michael Palin's Radio Adventures

Episode 1, The Python Years: John McCarthy meets with Michael Palin in the Radio Theatre to reflect the actor-adventurer's remarkable life as heard on radio.

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
The Cold Swedish Winter. Image shows from L to R: Linda (Sissela Benn), Geoff (Adam Riches). Copyright: Unique Productions

The Cold Swedish Winter

Series 5, Episode 4 - Vasaloppet

Married to his Swedish partner Linda, with two children to impress, Geoff is keen to embrace every Swedish rite of passage. A 90km ski-ing race may prove a step too far.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
Hancock's Half Hour. Image shows from L to R: Sidney James (Sid James), Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock (Tony Hancock), Bill Kerr (Bill Kerr)

Hancock's Half Hour

Series 6, Episode 10 - The Fête

Anthony 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.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Up The Garden Path

Up The Garden Path

Series 3, Episode 2 - Gooseberries and Fools

Can a relationship with her ex-pupil Razors be the best thing for teacher Izzy?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30pm (repeat)
Rent. Copyright: BBC

Rent

Series 3, Episode 2

Maria needs a day out so Paul has to look after the baby, but can he be trusted?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
Start/Stop. Barney (Jack Docherty). Copyright: BBC

Start/Stop

Series 1, Episode 5

This week two parties provide a particular challenge.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Conversations From A Long Marriage. Image shows from L to R: Wife (Joanna Lumley), Husband (Roger Allam). Copyright: BBC

Conversations From A Long Marriage

Series 2, Episode 1 - Just The Way You Are

Roger gives Joanna a masterclass in dishwasher stacking while Joanna instructs him on how to wave goodbye to departing guests. As the turbulent year turns, Joanna makes some New Year Resolutions - for Roger - and suggests their marriage needs a re-boot. 'Out the door?' is his response.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Conversations From A Long Marriage. Image shows from L to R: Wife (Joanna Lumley), Husband (Roger Allam). Copyright: BBC

Conversations From A Long Marriage

Series 2, Episode 2 - It's Just Work

Joanna gets distracted by a work project, which means spending a lot of time with a much younger man. When Roger points out that she's never at home, she tells him 'It's just work'. But is it?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
Hancock's Half Hour. Image shows from L to R: Sidney James (Sid James), Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock (Tony Hancock), Bill Kerr (Bill Kerr)

Hancock's Half Hour

Series 6, Episode 10 - The Fête

Anthony 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.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
Up The Garden Path

Up The Garden Path

Series 3, Episode 2 - Gooseberries and Fools

Can a relationship with her ex-pupil Razors be the best thing for teacher Izzy?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9pm (repeat)
Michael Palin

Michael Palin's Radio Adventures

Episode 1, The Python Years: John McCarthy meets with Michael Palin in the Radio Theatre to reflect the actor-adventurer's remarkable life as heard on radio.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Conversations From A Long Marriage. Image shows from L to R: Wife (Joanna Lumley), Husband (Roger Allam). Copyright: BBC

Conversations From A Long Marriage

Series 2, Episode 1 - Just The Way You Are

Roger gives Joanna a masterclass in dishwasher stacking while Joanna instructs him on how to wave goodbye to departing guests. As the turbulent year turns, Joanna makes some New Year Resolutions - for Roger - and suggests their marriage needs a re-boot. 'Out the door?' is his response.

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

Comedy Catalysts

Series 2, Episode 3 - Josie Long On David O'Doherty

Multi award-winning comic Harriet Kemsley invites her peers to celebrate the trailblazing comedians who inspired them to pick up the mic. In this episode Josie Long talks about her hero David O'Doherty.

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

Cutler The Lax

Episode 2

Scottish surrealist Ivor Cutler discovers Ancient Egyptian music, and what the Dutch think of British pubs.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Bunk Bed

Bunk Bed

Series 7, Episode 1

The great comic actor Kathy Burke reveals the joy of amusing police officers by giving them 'the fingers' in her 50s, and explores the art of eating crisps in bed.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Lobby Land. Copyright: Hat Trick Productions

Lobby Land

Series 2, Episode 1

Comedy following life in Westminster through the eyes of Sam Peakes, a young political editor at a clickbait website, as she tries to make sense of the madness engulfing British politics.

Radio 4 11:15pm (repeat)
Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian. Ken Cheng. Copyright: BBC

Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian

Series 2, Episode 3 - Free Speech

Ken Cheng explores the subject of freedom of speech.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Alun Cochrane's Fun House. Alun Cochrane. Copyright: BBC

Alun Cochrane's Fun House

Episode 1 - The Kitchen

Comedian Alun Cochrane has a 25-year mortgage, which he can only pay off by being funny. In this series, he takes us on a stand-up tour of his house, starting in the The Kitchen.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Rent. Copyright: BBC

Rent

Series 3, Episode 2

Maria needs a day out so Paul has to look after the baby, but can he be trusted?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
Start/Stop. Barney (Jack Docherty). Copyright: BBC

Start/Stop

Series 1, Episode 5

This week two parties provide a particular challenge.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Conversations From A Long Marriage. Image shows from L to R: Wife (Joanna Lumley), Husband (Roger Allam). Copyright: BBC

Conversations From A Long Marriage

Series 2, Episode 1 - Just The Way You Are

Roger gives Joanna a masterclass in dishwasher stacking while Joanna instructs him on how to wave goodbye to departing guests. As the turbulent year turns, Joanna makes some New Year Resolutions - for Roger - and suggests their marriage needs a re-boot. 'Out the door?' is his response.

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