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Radio schedule Wednesday 21st July 2021

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
The Fair Intellectual Club. Image shows from L to R: Alison (Jessica Hardwick), Marjory (Samara Maclaren), Ishbel (Caroline Deyga). Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

The Fair Intellectual Club

Episode 2 - A Rendezvous with Monsieur Voltaire

Exiled from France, Voltaire comes to Edinburgh. The young ladies of the Fair Intellectual secret society teach him the value of free speech and new uses for broom handles.

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

Unite

Series 1, Episode 4 - The Wedding

On the day before Tony and Imogen's wedding, Gideon is adding the finishing touches to his "masterpiece" of a speech (four months in the making), Ashley needs to try and complete his driving test before the ceremony, Tony is struggling to pay an overdue car fine and Imogen's mum takes her to a spa hotel to relax, but instead tries to convince her she's marrying the wrong man.

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 11 - The Marrow Contest

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 6 - The Old Dunkirk Spirit

Perkins has no materials for his men to build post war Britain with - an arrangement which suits them fine.

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

The Motion Show

Series 4, Episode 4

Graeme Garden chairs the quirky battle of words and wit, with guests Jenny Eclair, Hugh Dennis, Stuart Maconie and Greg Proops.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Prunella Scales

Smelling Of Roses

Series 2, Episode 2 - French Connections

Rosie and her team organise a twinning ceremony for a town on the south coast of England with a town on the north coast of France. But is it really a step forward for Anglo-French relations?

Radio 4 11:30am (repeat)
What's Funny About.... Image shows from L to R: Jon Plowman, Peter Fincham

What's Funny About...

Series 1, Episode 3 - Absolutely Fabulous

Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman talk to Jennifer Saunders about the hit sitcom. They discuss the inspiration for Edina Monsoon, why recordings of the show were always finished by 9:30pm (clue: the BBC bar closed at 10), and what might charitably be described as Jennifer's "last minute" approach to script delivery.

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 11 - The Marrow Contest

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 6 - The Old Dunkirk Spirit

Perkins has no materials for his men to build post war Britain with - an arrangement which suits them fine.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4pm (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

The Motion Show

Series 4, Episode 4

Graeme Garden chairs the quirky battle of words and wit, with guests Jenny Eclair, Hugh Dennis, Stuart Maconie and Greg Proops.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30pm (repeat)
Prunella Scales

Smelling Of Roses

Series 2, Episode 2 - French Connections

Rosie and her team organise a twinning ceremony for a town on the south coast of England with a town on the north coast of France. But is it really a step forward for Anglo-French relations?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
The Fair Intellectual Club. Image shows from L to R: Alison (Jessica Hardwick), Marjory (Samara Maclaren), Ishbel (Caroline Deyga). Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

The Fair Intellectual Club

Episode 2 - A Rendezvous with Monsieur Voltaire

Exiled from France, Voltaire comes to Edinburgh. The young ladies of the Fair Intellectual secret society teach him the value of free speech and new uses for broom handles.

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

Unite

Series 1, Episode 4 - The Wedding

On the day before Tony and Imogen's wedding, Gideon is adding the finishing touches to his "masterpiece" of a speech (four months in the making), Ashley needs to try and complete his driving test before the ceremony, Tony is struggling to pay an overdue car fine and Imogen's mum takes her to a spa hotel to relax, but instead tries to convince her she's marrying the wrong man.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Paul Sinha

Paul Sinha's General Knowledge

Series 3, Episode 1

This episode catches up with the news since the last series of General Knowledge finished in 2020, from those we've lost to those we've 'liked', and commemorates the Vice President most worthy of being the next to get the Hamilton treatment.

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 11 - The Marrow Contest

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 6 - The Old Dunkirk Spirit

Perkins has no materials for his men to build post war Britain with - an arrangement which suits them fine.

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

Unite

Series 1, Episode 4 - The Wedding

On the day before Tony and Imogen's wedding, Gideon is adding the finishing touches to his "masterpiece" of a speech (four months in the making), Ashley needs to try and complete his driving test before the ceremony, Tony is struggling to pay an overdue car fine and Imogen's mum takes her to a spa hotel to relax, but instead tries to convince her she's marrying the wrong man.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Life On Egg. Image shows from L to R: Ann (Karen Bartke), Harry (Harry Hill), Peter (Marek Larwood). Copyright: BBC

Life On Egg

Series 2, Episode 1 - Mistress of Disguise

A new prisoner is brought to The Egg but quickly escapes. Harry and the team must find her before it is too late. Problem is, no-one quite knows what she looks like.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:45pm (repeat)
Woof - Chris Neill. Chris Neill. Copyright: Giddy Goat Productions

Woof - Chris Neill

Woof - True Tales Of Romance And Failure, Episode 3 - The Price Of Luxury

The transformative effects of a hard-boiled egg.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Heidi Regan

Heidi Regan: No Worries

Episode 4

In this final episode Heidi turns to face her worries.

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 7 - Gigantaquiz

Your big, big chance to take part in the station's massive quiz. Big prizes? Fat chance!

Radio 4 11:15pm
15 min
The Skewer

The Skewer

Series 4, Episode 8

This week, Suicide Squad Freedom Day and Deadpool reads a CBeebies bedtime story.

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

Bunk Bed

Series 4, Episode 3

Patrick Marber and Peter Curran's critically acclaimed talk through the darkness returns.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:45pm (repeat)
Tina C's Tiny Island Tour. Tina C (Christopher Green)

Tina C's Tiny Island Tour

Episode 1 - England

Tonight, she explores the special relationship between America and the UK.

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

The Motion Show

Series 4, Episode 4

Graeme Garden chairs the quirky battle of words and wit, with guests Jenny Eclair, Hugh Dennis, Stuart Maconie and Greg Proops.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Prunella Scales

Smelling Of Roses

Series 2, Episode 2 - French Connections

Rosie and her team organise a twinning ceremony for a town on the south coast of England with a town on the north coast of France. But is it really a step forward for Anglo-French relations?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
The Fair Intellectual Club. Image shows from L to R: Alison (Jessica Hardwick), Marjory (Samara Maclaren), Ishbel (Caroline Deyga). Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

The Fair Intellectual Club

Episode 2 - A Rendezvous with Monsieur Voltaire

Exiled from France, Voltaire comes to Edinburgh. The young ladies of the Fair Intellectual secret society teach him the value of free speech and new uses for broom handles.

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

Unite

Series 1, Episode 4 - The Wedding

On the day before Tony and Imogen's wedding, Gideon is adding the finishing touches to his "masterpiece" of a speech (four months in the making), Ashley needs to try and complete his driving test before the ceremony, Tony is struggling to pay an overdue car fine and Imogen's mum takes her to a spa hotel to relax, but instead tries to convince her she's marrying the wrong man.

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