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Radio schedule Wednesday 23rd June 2021

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
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Hobby Bobbies

Series 2, Episode 2 - Vice

The tiny Haling police force is thrown into confusion when the Guv orders a crackdown on vice in their patch. Can social media help unveil the mysterious Big Brenda?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Unite. Image shows from L to R: Imogen (Claire Skinner), Gideon (Ivo Graham), Tony (Mark Steel), Ashley (Elliot Steel)

Unite

Episode 1 - Pilot

When Tony (Mark Steel) a working-class, left wing South Londoner, falls in love and moves in with Imogen (Claire Skinner), an upper middle-class property developer, their respective millennial sons Ashley (Elliot Steel), a disenfranchised Croydon 'rude boy', and Gideon (Ivo Graham), Eton and Oxbridge-educated and crypto-currency literate, are forced to live under the same roof and behave like the brothers neither of them ever wanted.

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 2, Episode 5 - The Holiday Camp

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)
Big Jim And The Figaro Club. Big Jim (Norman Rossington). Copyright: BBC

Big Jim And The Figaro Club

Episode 2 - The French Connection

The post-war construction team's Potts and Perkins start by hurling insults - but end up throwing French onions.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 6

Swearing, cocaine, wine-throwing and flagellation are just some of the items on the agenda this week. With Gyles Brandreth, team captains Anthony Holden and Stella Duffy, and their special guests this week Jennie Bond and Geoffrey Durham.

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

Snap

Series 2, Episode 4

Molly doesn't care who her ex-husband Doug dates - but she still wants all the details.

Radio 4 11am (repeat)
Mitchell On Meetings. David Mitchell

Mitchell On Meetings

Episode 1 - It Started With a Thing

David Mitchell invites us (on zoom) to explore how the humble meeting took over the world. On the agenda: our love/hate thing with meetings, and David learns to be a good chairman.

Radio 4 11:30am (repeat)
Mark Steel's In Town. Mark Steel. Copyright: BBC

Mark Steel's In Town

Series 8, Episode 5 - Hull

Mark Steel performs for the locals in Hull.

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 2, Episode 5 - The Holiday Camp

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)
Big Jim And The Figaro Club. Big Jim (Norman Rossington). Copyright: BBC

Big Jim And The Figaro Club

Episode 2 - The French Connection

The post-war construction team's Potts and Perkins start by hurling insults - but end up throwing French onions.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4pm (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 6

Swearing, cocaine, wine-throwing and flagellation are just some of the items on the agenda this week. With Gyles Brandreth, team captains Anthony Holden and Stella Duffy, and their special guests this week Jennie Bond and Geoffrey Durham.

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

Snap

Series 2, Episode 4

Molly doesn't care who her ex-husband Doug dates - but she still wants all the details.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
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Hobby Bobbies

Series 2, Episode 2 - Vice

The tiny Haling police force is thrown into confusion when the Guv orders a crackdown on vice in their patch. Can social media help unveil the mysterious Big Brenda?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Unite. Image shows from L to R: Imogen (Claire Skinner), Gideon (Ivo Graham), Tony (Mark Steel), Ashley (Elliot Steel)

Unite

Episode 1 - Pilot

When Tony (Mark Steel) a working-class, left wing South Londoner, falls in love and moves in with Imogen (Claire Skinner), an upper middle-class property developer, their respective millennial sons Ashley (Elliot Steel), a disenfranchised Croydon 'rude boy', and Gideon (Ivo Graham), Eton and Oxbridge-educated and crypto-currency literate, are forced to live under the same roof and behave like the brothers neither of them ever wanted.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Unite. Image shows from L to R: Gideon (Ivo Graham), Tony (Mark Steel), Imogen (Claire Skinner), Ashley (Elliot Steel)

Unite

Series 1, Episode 1 - Russian Money

Ashley starts a job on a building site, Gideon becomes an activist, Imogen is closing in on a big deal, and Tony, desperate for a story to appease his publisher, decides to investigate a new housing development with possible links to Russian money.

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 2, Episode 5 - The Holiday Camp

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)
Big Jim And The Figaro Club. Big Jim (Norman Rossington). Copyright: BBC

Big Jim And The Figaro Club

Episode 2 - The French Connection

The post-war construction team's Potts and Perkins start by hurling insults - but end up throwing French onions.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Unite. Image shows from L to R: Imogen (Claire Skinner), Gideon (Ivo Graham), Tony (Mark Steel), Ashley (Elliot Steel)

Unite

Episode 1 - Pilot

When Tony (Mark Steel) a working-class, left wing South Londoner, falls in love and moves in with Imogen (Claire Skinner), an upper middle-class property developer, their respective millennial sons Ashley (Elliot Steel), a disenfranchised Croydon 'rude boy', and Gideon (Ivo Graham), Eton and Oxbridge-educated and crypto-currency literate, are forced to live under the same roof and behave like the brothers neither of them ever wanted.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Isy Suttie

Isy Suttie's Love Letters

Series 2, Episode 3 - Crank

The tale of the Crank, a Matlock oddball who Isy's mother has roped into helping Isy study the Welsh language.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Twayna Mayne

Twayna Mayne: Black Women

Series 2, Episode 4 - I Don't See Race

Twayna Mayne explores the phrase "I don't see race" and what it means to identity with chef and broadcaster Andi Oliver and academic and podcaster Chantelle Lewis.

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 4, Episode 3 - Round Your Parts

Mike Flex, Anna Dapter and Mike Channel get out of the studio to discover what it's really like round your parts.

Radio 4 11:15pm
15 min
The Skewer

The Skewer

Series 4, Episode 4

This week - Five Go Racially Abusing, and a beef with UK farmers.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Vent. Ben (Neil Pearson). Copyright: BBC

Vent

Series 3, Episode 5 - When Was The Last Time You Saw Your Godfather?

Ben is invited to be godfather to an ex-girlfriend's baby. Mary isn't impressed and there's a showdown on the stairlift. Meanwhile St Paul gives Ben tips on responsibility and where to get the best olives.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 6

Swearing, cocaine, wine-throwing and flagellation are just some of the items on the agenda this week. With Gyles Brandreth, team captains Anthony Holden and Stella Duffy, and their special guests this week Jennie Bond and Geoffrey Durham.

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

Snap

Series 2, Episode 4

Molly doesn't care who her ex-husband Doug dates - but she still wants all the details.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
PCSO Hat

Hobby Bobbies

Series 2, Episode 2 - Vice

The tiny Haling police force is thrown into confusion when the Guv orders a crackdown on vice in their patch. Can social media help unveil the mysterious Big Brenda?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Unite. Image shows from L to R: Imogen (Claire Skinner), Gideon (Ivo Graham), Tony (Mark Steel), Ashley (Elliot Steel)

Unite

Episode 1 - Pilot

When Tony (Mark Steel) a working-class, left wing South Londoner, falls in love and moves in with Imogen (Claire Skinner), an upper middle-class property developer, their respective millennial sons Ashley (Elliot Steel), a disenfranchised Croydon 'rude boy', and Gideon (Ivo Graham), Eton and Oxbridge-educated and crypto-currency literate, are forced to live under the same roof and behave like the brothers neither of them ever wanted.

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