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Radio schedule Saturday 24th July 2021

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (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 8:30am (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 Scotland 11:30am (repeat)
Breaking The News. Des Clarke. Copyright: BBC Studios

Breaking The News

Series 19, Episode 6

Des Clarke breaks the news with Laura Lexx, Mark Nelson, Krystal Evans & Rosco McClelland.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
Act Your Age. Simon Mayo. Copyright: BBC

Act Your Age

Series 3, Episode 1

Team captains Holly Walsh, Lucy Porter and Tom O'Connor are joined by Henry Paker, Miles Jupp and Duggie Brown.

Radio 4 12:30pm (repeat)
Party's Over. Image shows from L to R: Drew (Kiell Smith-Bynoe), Christine Tobin (Ingrid Oliver), Jones (Justin Edwards), Henry Tobin (Miles Jupp), Natalie (Emma Sidi). Copyright: BBC

Party's Over

Episode 1 - Pilot

Henry is looking to repair his tattered reputation by getting a publishing deal for his memoirs - hopefully setting the record straight on his premiership.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
The Navy Lark. Copyright: BBC

The Navy Lark

Series 13, Episode 1 - The TV Documentary

Classic radio sitcom about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2pm (repeat)
Inside No. 9. Reece Shearsmith. Copyright: BBC

Chain Reaction

Series 10, Episode 1 - Adam Buxton interviews Reece Shearsmith

Comedian, actor, technophile and one half of 'Adam and Joe' Adam Buxton talks to the co-creator and star of The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville and Inside No. 9, Reece Shearsmith.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
Think The Unthinkable. Image shows from L to R: Owen (David Mitchell), Daisy de Vere (Catherine Shepherd), Ryan Packer (Marcus Brigstocke), Sophie Stott (Emma Kennedy). Copyright: BBC

Think The Unthinkable

Series 2, Episode 1 - Genforce

Ryan and the team get to the bottom of a scam at a large electricity company.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3pm (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!

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3:30pm (repeat)
The Mel And Sue Thing

The Mel And Sue Thing

Episode 6

Jane Austen must be spinning in her grave at this week's show - the last in the current series. We finally learn the true meaning of Sweet Fanny Adams in the final instalment of the dramatisation of her last, lost, novella.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Rigor Mortis

Rigor Mortis

Series 2, Episode 4

Radio sitcom in whic Peter Davison stars as a pathologist.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Chain Reaction. Copyright: BBC

Chain Reaction

Series 10, Episode 2 - Reece Shearsmith interviews Bob Mortimer

Reece Shearsmith, co-creator and star of The League of Gentlemen, talks to Bob Mortimer, one half of comedy double act Vic & Bob.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Sara Pascoe: The Modern Monkey. Sara Pascoe. Copyright: BBC

Sara Pascoe: The Modern Monkey

Episode 1 - Murder

In this first episode Sara's taking on a subject that fascinates and intrigues as much as it repels us: Murder.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
The Mark Steel Lecture. Mark Steel. Copyright: BBC

The Mark Steel Lecture

Series 2, Episode 5 - Billie Holliday

Mark presents the life of Billie Holliday, the jazz musician and singer who shocked and outraged, but whose songs had a deep and complex side to them.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2am (repeat)
Inside No. 9. Reece Shearsmith. Copyright: BBC

Chain Reaction

Series 10, Episode 1 - Adam Buxton interviews Reece Shearsmith

Comedian, actor, technophile and one half of 'Adam and Joe' Adam Buxton talks to the co-creator and star of The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville and Inside No. 9, Reece Shearsmith.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30am (repeat)
Think The Unthinkable. Image shows from L to R: Owen (David Mitchell), Daisy de Vere (Catherine Shepherd), Ryan Packer (Marcus Brigstocke), Sophie Stott (Emma Kennedy). Copyright: BBC

Think The Unthinkable

Series 2, Episode 1 - Genforce

Ryan and the team get to the bottom of a scam at a large electricity company.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3am (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!

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3:30am (repeat)
The Mel And Sue Thing

The Mel And Sue Thing

Episode 6

Jane Austen must be spinning in her grave at this week's show - the last in the current series. We finally learn the true meaning of Sweet Fanny Adams in the final instalment of the dramatisation of her last, lost, novella.

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