Radio
Radio schedule Saturday 25th December 2021
7:30am
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Great Lives - Charlie Chaplin
Mark Steel talks about Charlie Chaplin.
8:30am
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All The Young Dudes
Series 1, Episode 6 - Waterloo SunsetMoira has some exciting news for Joe, who cannot contain it without telling everyone else.
9am
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Radio Active
Series 3, Christmas Special - Radio Active's Christmas TurkeyCrackers for all as the Radio Active festive season of one show plunges into the myth behind the Nativity, a super under-12 carol competition for all the family, and Nigel Pry cheering up the chronics at the local hospital.
9:30am
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The Masterson Inheritance
1993 Christmas Special - The Stuffing of the MastersonsThe family face repercussions from a child's innocent gift.
10am
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Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
Series 1, Christmas Special - Lines From My Grandfather Christmas's ForeheadSketch show starring Ronnie Barker.
11am
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I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Series 42, Christmas Special - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Christmas CarolA unique interpretation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Humphrey Lyttelton stars as Ebenezer Scrumph, Colin Sell as his assistant Crotchet, and Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Barry Cryer as the three ghosts. Stephen Fry narrates, with guests Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, Sandi Toksvig, Tony Hawks and Linda Smith making up the rest of the cast.
12pm
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The Goon Show
Series 6, Episode 9 - The International Christmas PuddingAn eccentric millionaire funds an expedition for fragments of a famous dessert.
12:30pm
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Dead Ringers
2021 Christmas Specials, Episode 3 - Part 2The BBC is required to cover news from a range of sources, and that includes other universes. Nick Robinson and Martha Kearny look back at the weird and wonderful events that have taken place in other worlds. Who knows what has happened in other universes in 1921? Perhaps Manflu is a deadly epidemic? Perhaps Britain becomes the 51st state? Or maybe Greta Thunberg opens a coal mine? All will be revealed in this pan-universal episode.
12:30pm
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Hancock's Half Hour
Series 5, Christmas Special - Bill And Father ChristmasAnthony 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.
1pm30 min
You're Dead To Me
2021 Christmas Special - Medieval ChristmasGreg Jenner is joined by comedian Miles Jupp and historian Eleanor Janega to look at how Christmas was celebrated in medieval times.
1:30pm
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Ed Reardon's Week
Ed Reardon's Christmas Week 2020, Christmas Special - Upstairs Room At The InnIt's nearly Christmas, and Ed needs a room at the inn. The Lock Keeper's Arms, that is. But first, he's got to deal with Scrooge.
2pm
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The Penny Dreadfuls Present...
Don Quixote, Episode 1 - The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Don QuixoteA meditation on the age of chivalry, insanity and truth. A quest of windmills, magic and donkeys. Join peasant Sancho and the man who thinks he's a Knight as they travel together locked together in a quest to save those who don't want saving and unravel enchantments which may or may not only exist in their minds. Sylvester McCoy plays the lead.
3pm
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Conversations From A Long Marriage
Christmas Special, Episode 1 - Conversations From A Long Marriage At ChristmasWe follow the couple's conversations as they prepare for Christmas à deux, open their Christmas cards, dissect their neighbours' relationships - and Joanna reveals she's planned some rather surprising activities for Christmas Day. A late night phone call means that her Christmas wish may not be granted.
3:30pm
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5pm60 min
Fortunately... With Fi And Jane
Series 1, Christmas Special - Racily Adding Sweetcorn, With Clare Balding And Alice ArnoldIn a special Christmas Day edition of the podcast, Fi and Jane are joined by broadcasters and spouses Clare Balding and Alice Arnold. The two of them share a festive conversational meander, covering thoughts on their careers so far, a glimpse of Christmas in their household and reflections on the year gone by.
5:30pm
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Great Lives - Charlie Chaplin
Mark Steel talks about Charlie Chaplin.
7pm
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Radio Active
Series 3, Christmas Special - Radio Active's Christmas TurkeyCrackers for all as the Radio Active festive season of one show plunges into the myth behind the Nativity, a super under-12 carol competition for all the family, and Nigel Pry cheering up the chronics at the local hospital.
7:30pm
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The Masterson Inheritance
1993 Christmas Special - The Stuffing of the MastersonsThe family face repercussions from a child's innocent gift.
8pm
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Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
Series 1, Christmas Special - Lines From My Grandfather Christmas's ForeheadSketch show starring Ronnie Barker.
9pm
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I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Series 42, Christmas Special - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Christmas CarolA unique interpretation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Humphrey Lyttelton stars as Ebenezer Scrumph, Colin Sell as his assistant Crotchet, and Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Barry Cryer as the three ghosts. Stephen Fry narrates, with guests Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, Sandi Toksvig, Tony Hawks and Linda Smith making up the rest of the cast.
10pm
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The Lee Mack Show
Series 1, Episode 6Toyah Willcox and stand-up comedian Noel Britten join Lee for more stand-up, sketches and music.
10:30pm
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Ida Barr - Artificial Hip Hop
Episode 2 - ChoiceMusic hall singer Ida Barr investigates the theme of 'choice' blending together music-hall and hip-hop.
10:45pm
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Paperback Hell
Episode 2, Paddy Murphy's Ghost: Literary spoof by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell, this week featuring chapters from imaginary best-selling novel Paddy Murphy's Ghost.
11pm
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Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!
2017 Special, Christmas Special - Bedbugs and DrumsticksArthur gets the opportunity to audition for a Christmas production of Bedknobs and Broomsticks. What could possibly go wrong?
11:30pm
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Hut 33
Series 1, Episode 5 - FoodConvoys are being sunk at an alarming rate by U-boats, so the men of Hut 33 are struggling to concentrate on code-breaking when all they can think about is a hot meal made from food that wasn't powdered.
2am
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The Penny Dreadfuls Present...
Don Quixote, Episode 1 - The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Don QuixoteA meditation on the age of chivalry, insanity and truth. A quest of windmills, magic and donkeys. Join peasant Sancho and the man who thinks he's a Knight as they travel together locked together in a quest to save those who don't want saving and unravel enchantments which may or may not only exist in their minds. Sylvester McCoy plays the lead.
3am
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Conversations From A Long Marriage
Christmas Special, Episode 1 - Conversations From A Long Marriage At ChristmasWe follow the couple's conversations as they prepare for Christmas à deux, open their Christmas cards, dissect their neighbours' relationships - and Joanna reveals she's planned some rather surprising activities for Christmas Day. A late night phone call means that her Christmas wish may not be granted.
3:30am
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5:30am
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Great Lives - Charlie Chaplin
Mark Steel talks about Charlie Chaplin.