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Radio schedule Wednesday 26th October 2022

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Love In Recovery. Image shows from L to R: Danno (Paul Kaye), Andy (Johnny Vegas), Julie (Sue Johnston), Simon (John Hannah), Fiona (Rebecca Front). Copyright: Lucky Giant

Love In Recovery

Series 3, Episode 1 - Les McKeown's Autograph

Fiona has been distant and her boyfriend Simon thinks he knows exactly what's on her mind. He decides to help her, and thinks the best way to start is by casually bringing this private issue up in the weekly meeting. What could possibly go wrong?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Miles Jupp

'Whatever Next?' With Miles Jupp

Episode 4

Miles discovers a dark secret at the heart of the BBC Radio family, helps Seann Walsh launch his new podcast Are We Still Alive? and finally gets a guest spot on GB News.

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 1, Episode 15 - The Marriage Bureau

The time has come - the Lad Himself must get a job. But he needs to find a wife first...

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

England's Glory

Episode 1: Munchicrunch snack tycoon Morgan Jefferies flies into to the town where he grew up - but finds that it doesn't live up to his nostalgic expectations. He decides the only way to save it is to turn it into a heritage theme park.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
The Attractive Young Rabbi

The Attractive Young Rabbi

Series 3, Episode 3 - Abraham's Brother

Culture-clash comedy set between a traditional and a new, more modern Jewish synagogue.

Radio 4 11:30am (repeat)
Meet David Sedaris. David Sedaris

Meet David Sedaris

Series 8, Episode 5 - Instalment 5

This week, a selection of eight shorter essays, including "Don't Think About Sex Robots", "On Hoarding" and "Goldenheart".

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 1, Episode 15 - The Marriage Bureau

The time has come - the Lad Himself must get a job. But he needs to find a wife first...

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

England's Glory

Episode 1: Munchicrunch snack tycoon Morgan Jefferies flies into to the town where he grew up - but finds that it doesn't live up to his nostalgic expectations. He decides the only way to save it is to turn it into a heritage theme park.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:15pm (repeat)
Subterranean Homesick Blues. Image shows from L to R: John (Bill Nighy), Maggie (Anna Calder-Marshall)

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Series 1, Episode 3

John and Maggie are attempting to reignite an affair they had many years ago. Now in their late 60's they find that their conversations tend less towards romance and more towards mortality and missed chances.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30pm (repeat)
The Attractive Young Rabbi

The Attractive Young Rabbi

Series 3, Episode 3 - Abraham's Brother

Culture-clash comedy set between a traditional and a new, more modern Jewish synagogue.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
Love In Recovery. Image shows from L to R: Danno (Paul Kaye), Andy (Johnny Vegas), Julie (Sue Johnston), Simon (John Hannah), Fiona (Rebecca Front). Copyright: Lucky Giant

Love In Recovery

Series 3, Episode 1 - Les McKeown's Autograph

Fiona has been distant and her boyfriend Simon thinks he knows exactly what's on her mind. He decides to help her, and thinks the best way to start is by casually bringing this private issue up in the weekly meeting. What could possibly go wrong?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Miles Jupp

'Whatever Next?' With Miles Jupp

Episode 4

Miles discovers a dark secret at the heart of the BBC Radio family, helps Seann Walsh launch his new podcast Are We Still Alive? and finally gets a guest spot on GB News.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Rob Newman

Rob Newman On Air

Episode 1 - On Cue

Rob Newman's hilarious new comedy addresses the challenges of an international marriage and his disastrous attempt to replace conversation with cue-cards.

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 1, Episode 15 - The Marriage Bureau

The time has come - the Lad Himself must get a job. But he needs to find a wife first...

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

England's Glory

Episode 1: Munchicrunch snack tycoon Morgan Jefferies flies into to the town where he grew up - but finds that it doesn't live up to his nostalgic expectations. He decides the only way to save it is to turn it into a heritage theme park.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Miles Jupp

'Whatever Next?' With Miles Jupp

Episode 4

Miles discovers a dark secret at the heart of the BBC Radio family, helps Seann Walsh launch his new podcast Are We Still Alive? and finally gets a guest spot on GB News.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Lenny Henry

Rudy's Rare Records

Series 1, Episode 1 - Take Me Home, Country Roads

When Rudy suffers a 'heart attack', his son Adam and grandson Richie come from London to look after him and his ageing reggae shop, Rudy's Rare Records. It's a bit of a culture shock for Bach-loving, cardigan-wearing divorcee Adam!

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Tom Neenan. Copyright: Idil Sukan

The Hauntening

Series 4, Episode 4 - Dead Funny

Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as writer and performer Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets. In this episode, there seems to be a problem with the studio audience - because there shouldn't be one...

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
I've Never Seen Star Wars. Marcus Brigstocke. Copyright: BBC

I've Never Seen Star Wars

Series 5, Episode 1 - Meera Syal

Meera Syal tries eating snails, watches The Last Tango In Paris, and attends a football match for the first time.

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

The Skewer

Series 7, Special

This week - the Rishi Sunak Memory Wipe, Tory Cabinet Swap Shop, and The Cost of Living Witch Farm.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Hearing With Hegley. John Hegley

Hearing With Hegley

Series 3, Episode 3

The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley, entertains an audience with his book of verse.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:45pm (repeat)
Late. Copyright: BBC

Late

Episode 3 - From Dating To Mothering

This week a lonely heart phones up her gay best friend for help, on the radio a jack of all trades hands out advice, a group of friends bicker over what makes a play, and a mother tries to soothe a crying baby.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:15am (repeat)
Subterranean Homesick Blues. Image shows from L to R: John (Bill Nighy), Maggie (Anna Calder-Marshall)

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Series 1, Episode 3

John and Maggie are attempting to reignite an affair they had many years ago. Now in their late 60's they find that their conversations tend less towards romance and more towards mortality and missed chances.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
The Attractive Young Rabbi

The Attractive Young Rabbi

Series 3, Episode 3 - Abraham's Brother

Culture-clash comedy set between a traditional and a new, more modern Jewish synagogue.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
Love In Recovery. Image shows from L to R: Danno (Paul Kaye), Andy (Johnny Vegas), Julie (Sue Johnston), Simon (John Hannah), Fiona (Rebecca Front). Copyright: Lucky Giant

Love In Recovery

Series 3, Episode 1 - Les McKeown's Autograph

Fiona has been distant and her boyfriend Simon thinks he knows exactly what's on her mind. He decides to help her, and thinks the best way to start is by casually bringing this private issue up in the weekly meeting. What could possibly go wrong?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
Miles Jupp

'Whatever Next?' With Miles Jupp

Episode 4

Miles discovers a dark secret at the heart of the BBC Radio family, helps Seann Walsh launch his new podcast Are We Still Alive? and finally gets a guest spot on GB News.

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