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Radio schedule Wednesday 2nd March 2022

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar. Alexei Sayle. Copyright: BBC

Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar

Series 3, Episode 1 - Corbyn And The Left

Alexei offers his thoughts on Jeremy Corbyn and the Left, laments the decline of small business and explains what the 1997 film Starship Troopers can teach us all.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Conversations From A Long Marriage. Image shows from L to R: Wife (Joanna Lumley), Husband (Roger Allam). Copyright: BBC

Conversations From A Long Marriage

Series 1, Episode 4 - Let's Spend The Night Together

On a long car journey, the couple reminisce about their first meeting and a long-held secret is revealed.

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 5, Episode 4 - The Insurance Policy

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)
The Michael Bentine Show

The Best Of Bentine

Episode 5: The ultimate one-man show, in which the funnyman plays everything from the Metropolitan Police to a dead newsreader.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
All The Young Dudes. Patrick (Jim Sweeney)

All The Young Dudes

Series 2, Episode 4 - Mr Soft

Joe and Maria try and get a younger, hip clientele in the pub, which Helen sees as an ideal opportunity to market some ice cream.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11am (repeat)
The Real Comedy Controllers. Image shows from L to R: Paul Jackson, Jimmy Mulville, Beryl Vertue, John Lloyd. Copyright: BBC

The Real Comedy Controllers

Episode 2 - Satire and Sitcoms

With over 150 years of collective comedy-making experience between them, Paul Jackson, Beryl Vertue, John Lloyd and Jimmy Mulville take on the satire and sitcoms of the 60s and 70s. Programmes featured include Round The Horne, Steptoe & Son, The Eric Morecambe And Ernie Wise Show, and The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

Radio 4 11:30am (repeat)
Angstrom. Knut Ångström (Matthew Holness). Copyright: BBC

Angstrom

Episode 3 - Into The Mad Mind Of Madness

A clue left by the killer leads Angström and Mina to the Schmilsson novelty troll factory, where Angstrom's brooding threatens to get out of control.

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 5, Episode 4 - The Insurance Policy

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)
The Michael Bentine Show

The Best Of Bentine

Episode 5: The ultimate one-man show, in which the funnyman plays everything from the Metropolitan Police to a dead newsreader.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30pm (repeat)
All The Young Dudes. Patrick (Jim Sweeney)

All The Young Dudes

Series 2, Episode 4 - Mr Soft

Joe and Maria try and get a younger, hip clientele in the pub, which Helen sees as an ideal opportunity to market some ice cream.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar. Alexei Sayle. Copyright: BBC

Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar

Series 3, Episode 1 - Corbyn And The Left

Alexei offers his thoughts on Jeremy Corbyn and the Left, laments the decline of small business and explains what the 1997 film Starship Troopers can teach us all.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Conversations From A Long Marriage. Image shows from L to R: Wife (Joanna Lumley), Husband (Roger Allam). Copyright: BBC

Conversations From A Long Marriage

Series 1, Episode 4 - Let's Spend The Night Together

On a long car journey, the couple reminisce about their first meeting and a long-held secret is revealed.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Conversations From A Long Marriage. Image shows from L to R: Roger (Roger Allam), Joanna (Joanna Lumley)

Conversations From A Long Marriage

Series 3, Episode 1 - Birthday Blues

Roger celebrates a big birthday. He doesn't want a party and he doesn't like his present - an electric bike 'for old geezers'. Yet he suddenly starts a fitness programme. Is it just a late life crisis - or is it an affair?

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 5, Episode 4 - The Insurance Policy

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)
The Michael Bentine Show

The Best Of Bentine

Episode 5: The ultimate one-man show, in which the funnyman plays everything from the Metropolitan Police to a dead newsreader.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9pm (repeat)
The Real Comedy Controllers. Image shows from L to R: Paul Jackson, Jimmy Mulville, Beryl Vertue, John Lloyd. Copyright: BBC

The Real Comedy Controllers

Episode 2 - Satire and Sitcoms

With over 150 years of collective comedy-making experience between them, Paul Jackson, Beryl Vertue, John Lloyd and Jimmy Mulville take on the satire and sitcoms of the 60s and 70s. Programmes featured include Round The Horne, Steptoe & Son, The Eric Morecambe And Ernie Wise Show, and The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Conversations From A Long Marriage. Image shows from L to R: Wife (Joanna Lumley), Husband (Roger Allam). Copyright: BBC

Conversations From A Long Marriage

Series 1, Episode 4 - Let's Spend The Night Together

On a long car journey, the couple reminisce about their first meeting and a long-held secret is revealed.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Bunk Bed

Bunk Bed

Series 6, Episode 2

From under the bed clothes, Patrick Marber and Peter Curran play each other music and old bits of BBC Archive. Life, death, work and family are their slightly warped conversational currency.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:45pm (repeat)
Josie Long - All Of The Planet's Wonders. Josie Long. Copyright: BBC

Josie Long - All Of The Planet's Wonders

Episode 2

Josie explores the history of collecting things and discovers the Enlightenment. She tries to defy her arty past by becoming more scientific and takes controversial anatomist and Bodyworks impressario Professor Gunther von Hagens to task for being a 'demon with ready access to plasticine'.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Bunk Bed

Bunk Bed

Series 8, Episode 8

Patrick Marber and Peter Curran are joined by is chef, broadcaster and host of The Great British Menu, Andi Oliver. She sings an ancient lullaby and the trio discuss a shared mistrust of dolphins.

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 7, Episode 1 - It Was Twenty Years Ago Last Tuesday

The on-air team look back to the halcyon days of 1967.

Radio 4 11:15pm
15 min
Chris Neill

Raging Enigma

Episode 2 - Visits To The Pearly Gates

At the funeral of a dear neighbour, Chris Neill is joined by Isy Suttie and Martin Hyder, hacking back the undergrowth of his life for the comedy stories buried within.

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

Ectoplasm

Episode 3, The Affair of the Baddie's Niece: Lord Zimbabwe and Dr Lilac hit the Wild West to thwart an evil Waffle Baron.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
All The Young Dudes. Patrick (Jim Sweeney)

All The Young Dudes

Series 2, Episode 4 - Mr Soft

Joe and Maria try and get a younger, hip clientele in the pub, which Helen sees as an ideal opportunity to market some ice cream.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar. Alexei Sayle. Copyright: BBC

Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar

Series 3, Episode 1 - Corbyn And The Left

Alexei offers his thoughts on Jeremy Corbyn and the Left, laments the decline of small business and explains what the 1997 film Starship Troopers can teach us all.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Conversations From A Long Marriage. Image shows from L to R: Wife (Joanna Lumley), Husband (Roger Allam). Copyright: BBC

Conversations From A Long Marriage

Series 1, Episode 4 - Let's Spend The Night Together

On a long car journey, the couple reminisce about their first meeting and a long-held secret is revealed.

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