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Radio schedule Wednesday 20th April 2022

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Ed Reardon's Week. Ed Reardon (Christopher Douglas). Copyright: BBC

Ed Reardon's Week

Series 7, Episode 4 - Parsnip Junction

Thanks to some sibling rivalry between Ping and her sister Py, Ed finds himself reinventing the much-loved children's classic Parsnip Junction.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Stephen Mangan

The Confessional

Series 1, Episode 1 - Cariad Lloyd

In a warm and irreverent interview series, Stephen Mangan offers insights into a well known guest. He asks them to reveal three guilty secrets inside his virtual confessional box. This week's guest is Cariad Lloyd.

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 11 - Hancock's Car

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)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Fab TV

Episode 1, The Preventers: Comedy series paying homage to TV's cult action adventure shows of the 1960s and 70s. The Preventers are an elite, stylish, polo-neck-wearing threesome of international troubleshooters.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue logo. Copyright: BBC

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

Series 33, Episode 5

Jeremy Hardy joins the regulars from this episode recorded at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham.

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

Spangles 'n' Tights

Episode 5, The Movie: An American film company needs old uniforms from Dublin's theatrical costumiers.

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 11 - Hancock's Car

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)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Fab TV

Episode 1, The Preventers: Comedy series paying homage to TV's cult action adventure shows of the 1960s and 70s. The Preventers are an elite, stylish, polo-neck-wearing threesome of international troubleshooters.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4pm (repeat)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue logo. Copyright: BBC

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

Series 33, Episode 5

Jeremy Hardy joins the regulars from this episode recorded at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham.

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

Spangles 'n' Tights

Episode 5, The Movie: An American film company needs old uniforms from Dublin's theatrical costumiers.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
Ed Reardon's Week. Ed Reardon (Christopher Douglas). Copyright: BBC

Ed Reardon's Week

Series 7, Episode 4 - Parsnip Junction

Thanks to some sibling rivalry between Ping and her sister Py, Ed finds himself reinventing the much-loved children's classic Parsnip Junction.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Stephen Mangan

The Confessional

Series 1, Episode 1 - Cariad Lloyd

In a warm and irreverent interview series, Stephen Mangan offers insights into a well known guest. He asks them to reveal three guilty secrets inside his virtual confessional box. This week's guest is Cariad Lloyd.

Radio 4 6:30pm (repeat)
Stephen Mangan

The Confessional

Series 1, Episode 2 - Dr. Phil Hammond

This week, Phil Hammond, doctor, journalist and the medical correspondent for Private Eye, delivers some eye watering accounts of youthful mistakes, dubious diagnoses and Twitter storms.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6:30pm (repeat)
How Tickled Am I?. Mark Radcliffe. Copyright: BBC

How Tickled Am I?

Series 1, Episode 4 - Sandy Powell

'Can You Hear Me Mother?' Famed for his catchphrase and comic ventriloquism, Mark Radcliffe remembers the Rotherham comedian.

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 11 - Hancock's Car

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)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Fab TV

Episode 1, The Preventers: Comedy series paying homage to TV's cult action adventure shows of the 1960s and 70s. The Preventers are an elite, stylish, polo-neck-wearing threesome of international troubleshooters.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Stephen Mangan

The Confessional

Series 1, Episode 1 - Cariad Lloyd

In a warm and irreverent interview series, Stephen Mangan offers insights into a well known guest. He asks them to reveal three guilty secrets inside his virtual confessional box. This week's guest is Cariad Lloyd.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay's Homecoming

Episode 1

Poet Lemn Sissay explores the nature of home through comedy, poetry and conversation in front of an audience in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia..

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Little Lifetimes By Jenny Eclair. Jenny Eclair. Copyright: BBC

Little Lifetimes By Jenny Eclair

Series 7, Episode 3 - The Fundraiser

Jenny Eclair's comic monologue stars Victoria Hamilton as an obsessively competitive mother whose highlight of the year is the school quiz.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Ready, Steady, Sink!

Sitcom pilot featuring an early appearance from Peter Kay, following a 1960s pirate radio station

Radio 4 11:15pm
15 min
The Skewer. Credit: BBC, Unusual Productions

The Skewer

Series 6, Episode 3

This week - a bit like Uncle Vernon in Harry Potter, Boris's letterbox is besieged by owls bearing police FPNs, we Escape To The War Torn Country, and ask 'What Is A Woman?'

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Rhys James

Rhys James Is...

Series 1, Episode 2 - Irresistible

Rhys James examines his relationships and reluctantly speaks to Carmen, who is a girl he had a crush on in school.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:45pm (repeat)
Where Did It All Go Wrong?

Where Did It All Go Wrong?

Series 1, Episode 2

Sherlock Holmes show written and performed by Simon Munnery.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30am (repeat)
How Tickled Am I?. Mark Radcliffe. Copyright: BBC

How Tickled Am I?

Series 1, Episode 4 - Sandy Powell

'Can You Hear Me Mother?' Famed for his catchphrase and comic ventriloquism, Mark Radcliffe remembers the Rotherham comedian.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue logo. Copyright: BBC

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

Series 33, Episode 5

Jeremy Hardy joins the regulars from this episode recorded at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham.

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

Spangles 'n' Tights

Episode 5, The Movie: An American film company needs old uniforms from Dublin's theatrical costumiers.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
Ed Reardon's Week. Ed Reardon (Christopher Douglas). Copyright: BBC

Ed Reardon's Week

Series 7, Episode 4 - Parsnip Junction

Thanks to some sibling rivalry between Ping and her sister Py, Ed finds himself reinventing the much-loved children's classic Parsnip Junction.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Stephen Mangan

The Confessional

Series 1, Episode 1 - Cariad Lloyd

In a warm and irreverent interview series, Stephen Mangan offers insights into a well known guest. He asks them to reveal three guilty secrets inside his virtual confessional box. This week's guest is Cariad Lloyd.

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