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Radio schedule Wednesday 24th March 2021

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Train

Tickets Please

Episode 1

Why does an intercity journey turn into an emotional rollercoaster? Because the train staff have to battle with their thwarted infatuations for each other. And those toughies in the wedding carriage aren't helping matters.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Gossip And Goddesses With Granny Kumar. Image shows from L to R: Geeta Bhandari (Harvey Virdi), Granny Kumar (Meera Syal), Maya Kumar (Ambreen Razia)

Gossip And Goddesses With Granny Kumar

Series 1, Episode 6

Granny Kumar is joined by Doctor Who star Mandip Gill and Evening Standard Best Actress award winner Josette Simon.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
Life With The Lyons. Image shows from L to R: Richard (Richard Lyon), Barbara (Barbara Lyon), Ben (Ben Lyon). Copyright: BBC

Life With The Lyons

I Don't Know What To Get Her: Barbara's worried about her brother's risqué new girlfriend.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
Alison And Maud

Alison And Maud

Episode 1, Fishing for Compliments: The women find something fishy about their accountant.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
How to Be Bohemian. Victoria Coren Mitchell. Copyright: BBC

Heresy

Series 10, Episode 4

Victoria Coren Mitchell and her guests Julia Hartley-Brewer, Richard Osman and Giles Coren discuss David Bowie, iceberg houses and The Great British Bake Off.

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

Snap

Series 1, Episode 2

Doug and Molly try to show the world they can start afresh - but then his mum disappears.

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
Alexei Sayle's The Absence Of Normal. Alexei Sayle

Alexei Sayle's The Absence Of Normal

Series 2, Episode 3 - The Nameless Park

In Liverpool there's a nameless park near St Michael's Hamlet. It's a beautiful if jagged place, filled with strangely exotic plants. Jason's sister has a strong affinity with the park and takes her wheelchair user brother for regular trips around its paths. But when Jason falls critically ill, the true nature of their parents emerges.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
Life With The Lyons. Image shows from L to R: Richard (Richard Lyon), Barbara (Barbara Lyon), Ben (Ben Lyon). Copyright: BBC

Life With The Lyons

I Don't Know What To Get Her: Barbara's worried about her brother's risqué new girlfriend.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Alison And Maud

Alison And Maud

Episode 1, Fishing for Compliments: The women find something fishy about their accountant.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4pm (repeat)
How to Be Bohemian. Victoria Coren Mitchell. Copyright: BBC

Heresy

Series 10, Episode 4

Victoria Coren Mitchell and her guests Julia Hartley-Brewer, Richard Osman and Giles Coren discuss David Bowie, iceberg houses and The Great British Bake Off.

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

Snap

Series 1, Episode 2

Doug and Molly try to show the world they can start afresh - but then his mum disappears.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
Train

Tickets Please

Episode 1

Why does an intercity journey turn into an emotional rollercoaster? Because the train staff have to battle with their thwarted infatuations for each other. And those toughies in the wedding carriage aren't helping matters.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Gossip And Goddesses With Granny Kumar. Image shows from L to R: Geeta Bhandari (Harvey Virdi), Granny Kumar (Meera Syal), Maya Kumar (Ambreen Razia)

Gossip And Goddesses With Granny Kumar

Series 1, Episode 6

Granny Kumar is joined by Doctor Who star Mandip Gill and Evening Standard Best Actress award winner Josette Simon.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Empire-ical Evidence. Image shows from L to R: Anuvab Pal, Andy Zaltzman. Copyright: Somethin' Else

Future Empire-fect

Episode 1

Andy Zaltzman and Anuvab Pal take a light-hearted look at the future of the relationship between Britain and India in fields such as politics, medicine, culture, trade, hospitality and, of course, cricket. They begin by asking how the two nations plan to work together in business, trade and politics - or not.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
Life With The Lyons. Image shows from L to R: Richard (Richard Lyon), Barbara (Barbara Lyon), Ben (Ben Lyon). Copyright: BBC

Life With The Lyons

I Don't Know What To Get Her: Barbara's worried about her brother's risqué new girlfriend.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
Alison And Maud

Alison And Maud

Episode 1, Fishing for Compliments: The women find something fishy about their accountant.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Gossip And Goddesses With Granny Kumar. Image shows from L to R: Geeta Bhandari (Harvey Virdi), Granny Kumar (Meera Syal), Maya Kumar (Ambreen Razia)

Gossip And Goddesses With Granny Kumar

Series 1, Episode 6

Granny Kumar is joined by Doctor Who star Mandip Gill and Evening Standard Best Actress award winner Josette Simon.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
ElvenQuest. Image shows from L to R: Penthiselea (Ingrid Oliver), Sam (Stephen Mangan), Lord Darkness (Alistair McGowan). Copyright: BBC

ElvenQuest

Series 2, Episode 2

The Questers continue their search for the Sword of Asnagar but when the Chosen One is sent to a spa to lose weight, they all fall under the spell of the evil sorcerer Dietica.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Tom Mayhew

Tom Mayhew Is Benefit Scum

Series 1, Episode 4 - Fit To Work

In the final episode of the series Tom talks about growing up in a working class family.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Radio Active. Image shows left to right: Angus Deayton, Philip Pope, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Michael Fenton Stevens

Radio Active

Series 3, Episode 1 - Euroshow

Radio Active goes continental with reporters in Berlin, Paris and Madrid doing their bit for European Unity.

Radio 4 11:15pm
15 min
The Skewer

The Skewer

Series 3, Episode 11

This week, the Line Of Duty coppers investigate vaccine corruption, "is it safe?", and waving the flag for flags.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Alexander Armstrong

Weak At The Top

Series 2, Episode 2 - Booty

John Weak reveals the feminist metatext of a chocolate bar ad that features a bikini-clad model with lips that could suck the hair shirt off a Benedictine monk at 50 yards.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
How to Be Bohemian. Victoria Coren Mitchell. Copyright: BBC

Heresy

Series 10, Episode 4

Victoria Coren Mitchell and her guests Julia Hartley-Brewer, Richard Osman and Giles Coren discuss David Bowie, iceberg houses and The Great British Bake Off.

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

Snap

Series 1, Episode 2

Doug and Molly try to show the world they can start afresh - but then his mum disappears.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
Train

Tickets Please

Episode 1

Why does an intercity journey turn into an emotional rollercoaster? Because the train staff have to battle with their thwarted infatuations for each other. And those toughies in the wedding carriage aren't helping matters.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Gossip And Goddesses With Granny Kumar. Image shows from L to R: Geeta Bhandari (Harvey Virdi), Granny Kumar (Meera Syal), Maya Kumar (Ambreen Razia)

Gossip And Goddesses With Granny Kumar

Series 1, Episode 6

Granny Kumar is joined by Doctor Who star Mandip Gill and Evening Standard Best Actress award winner Josette Simon.

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