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Radio schedule Sunday 2nd May 2021

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
A Life Of Bliss. Copyright: BBC

A Life Of Bliss

Series 4, Episode 15 - Penny's Gay Return

David has got some thinking to do when an old flame arrives in town.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Drop Me Here, Darling

Episode 12 - A Winter Break

Leslie is broke and turns to mini-cabbing, but pays the price, especially when it gets cold.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Kay Stonham

Robin And Wendy's Wet Weekends

Series 3, Episode 4 - Anniversary Waltz

After Robin's near-death experience, Wendy decides she really wants a child. So she and Robin apply to adopt.

Radio 4 12pm (repeat)
Jo Brand

Just A Minute

Series 86, Episode 10

Jo Brand is the guest host as Julian Clary, Gyles Brandreth, Tony Hawks & Shappi Khorsandi talk without hesitation, deviation, and repetition.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics

Series 1, Episode 2 - Sophocles

Sophocles invents the TV detective with Oedipus. Spoiler alert! Bad things happen.

BBC Radio Wales. Copyright: BBC 1pm
30 min
The Machynlleth Comedy Festival. Copyright: BBC

The Machynlleth Comedy Festival

2021, Episode 2 - Live From Lockdown 3

Join Kiri Pritchard-McLean for the another episode which sees Carys Eleri, Egg, Jordan Brookes, Tarot & Tim Key emerging into the new normal.

Radio 4 3pm (repeat)
Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead. Image shows from L to R: Rosencrantz (Mathew Baynton), Guildenstern (Andrew Buchan)

Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead

Episode 1 - Part 1

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Hamlet's ill-fated attendant lords, condemned to an existence in the wings, with no control over their own destinies.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics

Series 1, Episode 2 - Sophocles

Sophocles invents the TV detective with Oedipus. Spoiler alert! Bad things happen.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6pm (repeat)
Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters. Copyright: BBC

Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters

Episode 2

Can the witches save the baby heir to the throne and the crown?

BBC Radio Wales. Copyright: BBC 7pm (repeat)
Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. Dr Strangelove (Peter Sellers)

Atomic: How Dr Strangelove Exploded Pop Culture

Journalist Jude Rogers examines the impact of Cold War comedy Dr Strangelove.

Radio 4 7:15pm
30 min
Stephen Mangan

The Confessional

Series 1, Episode 3 - Clarke Peters

This week, Clarke Peters, famous for his roles as Lester Freamon in The Wire and Albert Lambreaux in Treme, surprises with his stories of youthful indiscretions, hidden loot and embarrassing his brother on the Borscht Belt.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics

Series 1, Episode 2 - Sophocles

Sophocles invents the TV detective with Oedipus. Spoiler alert! Bad things happen.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
The Iguanodon

The Iguanodon

Episode 2 - Big Fat Liars

Don O'Reilly discovers smoking and hiding do not mix - and they all come second in a run-in with some very insistent pirates. The passengers and crew of 'The Iganodon' are still adrift in the Woe Betides.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Craig Brown

As Told To Craig Brown

Episode 2

The satirist ponders Tuscan holidays and poses a question: what is the greatest fruit or vegetable?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World. Image shows from L to R: Armando Iannucci, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, Rebecca Front. Copyright: BBC

Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World

Series 2, Episode 3 - The Human Body

The sci-fi star probes cloning and what to do with our waste.

Resonance FM 3am (repeat)
Aufbau

Aufbau

Series 1, Episode 2

This week, an office worker looks at some cows and Jacques Derrida has some words of advice.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics

Series 1, Episode 2 - Sophocles

Sophocles invents the TV detective with Oedipus. Spoiler alert! Bad things happen.

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