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Radio schedule Wednesday 13th January 2021

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

Start/Stop

Series 1, Episode 6

This week a lunch invitation looks like it might change everything.

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 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 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 11 - The Poetry Society

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 3 - Over-Drawn, Over-Sexed and Over-Optimistic

It's crunch time for Izzy, with Bill, Michael and Razors all vying for her attention.

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

Rent

Series 3, Episode 3

Maria, her parents, Richard, Ruby and Paul all prepare for Piglet's naming ceremony.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11am (repeat)
Michael Palin

Michael Palin's Radio Adventures

Episode 2, Travelling Man: Michael Palin talks to John McCarthy, sharing more of his remarkable life as heard on BBC radio.

Radio 4 11:30am (repeat)
Rob Newman

Rob Newman's Neuropolis

Episode 1 - Love on the Brain

Rob Newman offers an alternative to some of the more bizarre claims in modern popular science, as well as rejigging theories of our brains in light of what we know about nature, artificial intelligence and Belinda Carlisle.

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 11 - The Poetry Society

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 3 - Over-Drawn, Over-Sexed and Over-Optimistic

It's crunch time for Izzy, with Bill, Michael and Razors all vying for her attention.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2pm (repeat)
Robb Wilton

I Should Say So

Series 1, Episode 3 - The Spy

The eternal pessimist has an unusual visitor in 1986.

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

Rent

Series 3, Episode 3

Maria, her parents, Richard, Ruby and Paul all prepare for Piglet's naming ceremony.

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

Start/Stop

Series 1, Episode 6

This week a lunch invitation looks like it might change everything.

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 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 6pm (repeat)
Bus

Routemasters

Episode 2 - Don't Be A Freud

The time travellers hit 19th century Austria - with Sigmund Freud set to reveal his views on telepathy.

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 3 - Heartbreak Hotel

Joanna and Roger reminisce about their own wedding, 40 years ago, as they arrive at a country hotel, where Roger is best man for their friend, Peter's, second marriage.

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 11 - The Poetry Society

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 3 - Over-Drawn, Over-Sexed and Over-Optimistic

It's crunch time for Izzy, with Bill, Michael and Razors all vying for her attention.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9pm (repeat)
Michael Palin

Michael Palin's Radio Adventures

Episode 2, Travelling Man: Michael Palin talks to John McCarthy, sharing more of his remarkable life as heard on BBC 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 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 10:30pm (repeat)
The Croft & Pearce Show. Image shows from L to R: Hannah Croft, Fiona Pearce. Copyright: CPL Productions

The Croft & Pearce Show

Episode 1

Listeners meet June and Jean, two middle-class ladies driven to the brink by the strain of village life in the Home Counties; as well as a rowdy Geordie called Brown Owl; and an over-excited work experience girl.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:45pm (repeat)
Michael Hobbs

Cracking Up

Series 1, Episode 1 - Let's Talk About Sex

Spencer struggles with daughter Tilly's frank recounting of sex education, and a trip to the charity shop ends in a charge of criminal damage.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Bunk Bed

Bunk Bed

Series 7, Episode 2

Peter and Patrick discuss caring for Peter's late mother and the humour found unexpectedly. Patrick champions the poor early work of David Bowie - before the brilliance.

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

Lobby Land

Series 2, Episode 2

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
15 min
The Skewer

The Skewer

Series 3, Episode 1

Donald Trump introduces The Purge, the government take part in the BBC's new educational programming, and homophobic reactions to a Cream Egg advert. Surely 2021 can't be worse than 2020?

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

Alun Cochrane's Fun House

Episode 2 - The Living Room

The second date of Alun's house-wide tour takes place in the living room.

BBC Radio 4 Extra Midnight (repeat)
Bus

Routemasters

Episode 2 - Don't Be A Freud

The time travellers hit 19th century Austria - with Sigmund Freud set to reveal his views on telepathy.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2am (repeat)
Robb Wilton

I Should Say So

Series 1, Episode 3 - The Spy

The eternal pessimist has an unusual visitor in 1986.

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

Rent

Series 3, Episode 3

Maria, her parents, Richard, Ruby and Paul all prepare for Piglet's naming ceremony.

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

Start/Stop

Series 1, Episode 6

This week a lunch invitation looks like it might change everything.

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 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?

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