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Radio schedule Tuesday 4th May 2021

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Beauty Of Britain. Beauty Olonga (Jocelyn Jee Esien). Copyright: BBC

Beauty Of Britain

Series 2, Episode 3 - The Little Black Shorts

Beauty starts a romance with the handsome but somewhat immature Leon. She also deals with a relationship at the other end of life's journey when she is sent by her agency to look after a warring elderly couple.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Bridget Christie

Bridget Christie: Mortal

Episode 3 - Death

Bridget continues to examine the subject of mortality.

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 9, Episode 1 - The Sahara Desert Statue

What is Eccles doing with a cement sack and an imaginary piano?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
King Street Junior. Copyright: BBC

King Street Junior

Series 3, Episode 5 - Pressures

School life is stretched to breaking point with incessant drilling - and a playtime bully.

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

The News Quiz

Series 105, Episode 3

Andy Zaltzman and panellists Elis James, Ria Lina, Helen Lewis and Simon Evans square up to the week's headlines.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Four Joneses And A Jenkins

Four Joneses And A Jenkins

Episode 1, September: Watch the Birdie: Birdwatcher Mr Bootle catches the eye of Jane Jones.

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 9, Episode 1 - The Sahara Desert Statue

What is Eccles doing with a cement sack and an imaginary piano?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
King Street Junior. Copyright: BBC

King Street Junior

Series 3, Episode 5 - Pressures

School life is stretched to breaking point with incessant drilling - and a playtime bully.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4pm (repeat)
The Rest Is History. Copyright: Avalon Television

The Rest Is History

Series 1, Episode 1

Frank Skinner's new show, with historian-in-residence Dr Kate Williams. The guests are Dave Gorman and Sara Pascoe.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30pm (repeat)
Four Joneses And A Jenkins

Four Joneses And A Jenkins

Episode 1, September: Watch the Birdie: Birdwatcher Mr Bootle catches the eye of Jane Jones.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
Beauty Of Britain. Beauty Olonga (Jocelyn Jee Esien). Copyright: BBC

Beauty Of Britain

Series 2, Episode 3 - The Little Black Shorts

Beauty starts a romance with the handsome but somewhat immature Leon. She also deals with a relationship at the other end of life's journey when she is sent by her agency to look after a warring elderly couple.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Bridget Christie

Bridget Christie: Mortal

Episode 3 - Death

Bridget continues to examine the subject of mortality.

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

Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters

Episode 4

Lancre's new ruler teeters on the edge of madness and the witches set to work.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Bridget Christie

Bridget Christie: Mortal

Episode 4 - The Afterlife

Bridget ends her examination of mortality by looking into the possibility of an afterlife.

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 9, Episode 1 - The Sahara Desert Statue

What is Eccles doing with a cement sack and an imaginary piano?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
King Street Junior. Copyright: BBC

King Street Junior

Series 3, Episode 5 - Pressures

School life is stretched to breaking point with incessant drilling - and a playtime bully.

Resonance FM 10pm
30 min
Aufbau

Aufbau

Series 1, Episode 3

This week, a woman sells some sausages and a man worries about the future.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Bridget Christie

Bridget Christie: Mortal

Episode 3 - Death

Bridget continues to examine the subject of mortality.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Revolting People. Copyright: BBC

Revolting People

Series 2, Episode 1 - Trying Times

A wife returns, a daughter gives birth, and Sergeant McGurk reveals the real reason why the English won the Battle of Culloden.

Radio 4 11pm
30 min
Fortunately... With Fi And Jane. Image shows from L to R: Fi Glover, Jane Garvey

Fortunately... With Fi And Jane

Series 1, Episode 17 - Heathen Names And Hooting In Appreciation, With Heidi Thomas

Fi and Jane talk to Heidi Thomas, the writer of Call The Midwife. They discuss the history that drives the hit show, the secret to taking risks in TV, and Fi's special connection to the first episode and the world changing medical invention, ergometrine.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Small Scenes. Image shows from L to R: Daniel Rigby, Cariad Lloyd, Henry Paker, Jessica Ransom, Mike Wozniak. Copyright: BBC

Small Scenes

Series 1, Episode 3

In this episode we hear about the cosmetic benefits of old men's legs and the Witness Protection Conference 2013.

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

The (Almost) Accidental Adventures Of Bell And Todd

Episode 6

Two friends are thrown into a mad and mysterious world by wry narrator Diana.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:45pm (repeat)
Hearing With Hegley. John Hegley

Hearing With Hegley

Series 1, Episode 6

The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley, entertains an audience with his book of verse.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
The Rest Is History. Copyright: Avalon Television

The Rest Is History

Series 1, Episode 1

Frank Skinner's new show, with historian-in-residence Dr Kate Williams. The guests are Dave Gorman and Sara Pascoe.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Four Joneses And A Jenkins

Four Joneses And A Jenkins

Episode 1, September: Watch the Birdie: Birdwatcher Mr Bootle catches the eye of Jane Jones.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
Beauty Of Britain. Beauty Olonga (Jocelyn Jee Esien). Copyright: BBC

Beauty Of Britain

Series 2, Episode 3 - The Little Black Shorts

Beauty starts a romance with the handsome but somewhat immature Leon. She also deals with a relationship at the other end of life's journey when she is sent by her agency to look after a warring elderly couple.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Bridget Christie

Bridget Christie: Mortal

Episode 3 - Death

Bridget continues to examine the subject of mortality.

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