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Radio schedule Thursday 22nd December 2022

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:15am (repeat)
HighLites. Beverley (Lorraine Ashbourne). Copyright: BBC

HighLites

HighLites: Split Ends, Episode 4

With the wedding just two days away Harriet, the vicar, pops in for a trim. It looks as if she and Bev have very different ideas about the service.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
The Tim Vine Chat Show. Tim Vine. Copyright: BBC

The Tim Vine Chat Show

2018 Specials, Christmas Special

Tim Vine hears the Christmas stories of the British public and offers up a sack full of seasonal one-liners, definitely not traditional songs and fiendishly silly seasonal games. Featuring a seasonal lawn-mowing song and a man who lost his Christmas dinner.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
Typewriter

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Series 2, Christmas Special - The Cousin

The author and his wife Diana must prepare for a last minute Christmas visitor.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
The Older Woman

The Older Woman

Episode 2.6: Roy airs his video diary, but the big reveal is only a prelude of disastrous tidings yet to come.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
The Unbelievable Truth. David Mitchell. Copyright: BBC / Random Entertainment

The Unbelievable Truth

Series 22, Episode 3

David Mitchell is joined by Lou Sanders, Frankie Boyle, Henning Wehn and Lucy Porter talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Germany, babies, trousers and beards.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Clare In The Community. Copyright: BBC

Clare In The Community

Series 4, Episode 5 - My Funny Valentine

Brian is amazed that Clare has remembered Valentine's Day and booked a restaurant. Unfortunately, however, she hasn't.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:15pm (repeat)
HighLites. Beverley (Lorraine Ashbourne). Copyright: BBC

HighLites

HighLites: Split Ends, Episode 4

With the wedding just two days away Harriet, the vicar, pops in for a trim. It looks as if she and Bev have very different ideas about the service.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
The Tim Vine Chat Show. Tim Vine. Copyright: BBC

The Tim Vine Chat Show

2018 Specials, Christmas Special

Tim Vine hears the Christmas stories of the British public and offers up a sack full of seasonal one-liners, definitely not traditional songs and fiendishly silly seasonal games. Featuring a seasonal lawn-mowing song and a man who lost his Christmas dinner.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 1pm (repeat)
Typewriter

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Series 2, Christmas Special - The Cousin

The author and his wife Diana must prepare for a last minute Christmas visitor.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 1:30pm (repeat)
The Older Woman

The Older Woman

Episode 2.6: Roy airs his video diary, but the big reveal is only a prelude of disastrous tidings yet to come.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2pm (repeat)
The Unbelievable Truth. David Mitchell. Copyright: BBC / Random Entertainment

The Unbelievable Truth

Series 22, Episode 3

David Mitchell is joined by Lou Sanders, Frankie Boyle, Henning Wehn and Lucy Porter talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Germany, babies, trousers and beards.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
Clare In The Community. Copyright: BBC

Clare In The Community

Series 4, Episode 5 - My Funny Valentine

Brian is amazed that Clare has remembered Valentine's Day and booked a restaurant. Unfortunately, however, she hasn't.

Radio 4 4pm (repeat)
The Infinite Monkey Cage. Image shows from L to R: Brian Cox, Robin Ince. Copyright: BBC

The Infinite Monkey Cage

Series 25, Episode 6 - The Deep Space Network

Prof. Brian Cox and Robin Ince where scientists communicate with, and track the 200 or so spacecraft that are currently exploring our vast solar system and even beyond. They are joined by Astrophysicists Mark Cheung and Alan Duffy, Nobel prize winner Brian Schmidt and comedian Alice Fraser.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:15pm (repeat)
HighLites. Beverley (Lorraine Ashbourne). Copyright: BBC

HighLites

HighLites: Split Ends, Episode 4

With the wedding just two days away Harriet, the vicar, pops in for a trim. It looks as if she and Bev have very different ideas about the service.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
The Tim Vine Chat Show. Tim Vine. Copyright: BBC

The Tim Vine Chat Show

2018 Specials, Christmas Special

Tim Vine hears the Christmas stories of the British public and offers up a sack full of seasonal one-liners, definitely not traditional songs and fiendishly silly seasonal games. Featuring a seasonal lawn-mowing song and a man who lost his Christmas dinner.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6pm (repeat)
Typewriter

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Series 2, Christmas Special - The Cousin

The author and his wife Diana must prepare for a last minute Christmas visitor.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Our Friend Victoria. Daniel Rigby. Copyright: Phil McIntyre Entertainment

ReincarNathan

Series 3, Episode 6 - Snowshoe Hare

Nathan is brought back to life as a Showshoe Hare in the Rocky Mountains. And this time he's got a friend - a hare called Gary Grape, a reincarnation of Nathan's arch nemesis from his human days. Can Nathan get Gary to forgive him for being such a terrible human being? Will he ever learn to do the right thing and make it back to human again?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6:30pm (repeat)
The Older Woman

The Older Woman

Episode 2.6: Roy airs his video diary, but the big reveal is only a prelude of disastrous tidings yet to come.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
The Unbelievable Truth. David Mitchell. Copyright: BBC / Random Entertainment

The Unbelievable Truth

Series 22, Episode 3

David Mitchell is joined by Lou Sanders, Frankie Boyle, Henning Wehn and Lucy Porter talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Germany, babies, trousers and beards.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
Clare In The Community. Copyright: BBC

Clare In The Community

Series 4, Episode 5 - My Funny Valentine

Brian is amazed that Clare has remembered Valentine's Day and booked a restaurant. Unfortunately, however, she hasn't.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Our Friend Victoria. Daniel Rigby. Copyright: Phil McIntyre Entertainment

ReincarNathan

Series 3, Episode 5 - Cleaning Wrasse

Nathan is brought back to life as a Cleaning Wrasse fish on a coral reef. He's shocked to find out his dad has also been reincarnated on the same reef and is desperate to win his approval. So he and his friend Anwar set about trying to impress his father. Will Nathan get his respect? And will he ever learn to do the right thing and make it back to human again?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme. Key (Tim Key). Copyright: BBC

Tim Key's Poetry Programme

Christmas Special - Tim Key's Christmas Poetry Programme

Comic poet Tim Key gets in the Christmas spirit, by reciting festive poetry. With musical support from Tom Basden.

Radio 4 11pm
30 min
Michael Spicer: Before Next Door. Image shows left to right: Michael (Michael Spicer), Ellie Taylor

Michael Spicer: Before Next Door

Series 2, Episode 2 - The Christmas Episode

The Room Next Door Man takes on an ageing anti-woke comedy hero, rails against an oppressive office dividing wall and refuses to accept that this is a Christmas episode.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Steven Appleby's Normal Life

Steven Appleby's Normal Life

Episode 4, Normal Science: The cartoonist explores science's potential to render the natural world and all that lives in it redundant.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:15pm (repeat)
Sir Henry At Rawlinson End

Sir Henry At Rawlinson End

Episode 2

The surreal saga of a dynasty delicately balanced on the edge of sanity.

Radio 4 11:30pm (repeat)
You're Dead To Me

You're Dead To Me

Series 2, Christmas Special - The Victorian Christmas

Why do we celebrate Christmas with cards, crackers and a tree? Greg Jenner and guests Dr Fern Riddell and Russell Kane explore the surprising history of the Victorian Christmas.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups. Tom (Tom Wrigglesworth). Copyright: BBC

Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups

Series 2, Episode 5 - Earning Your Corn

Tom's dad celebrates a milestone in governmental reform, the 168th anniversary of the repeal of the Corn Laws. Meanwhile, Tom tentatively puts a foot on the property ladder.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:15am (repeat)
HighLites. Beverley (Lorraine Ashbourne). Copyright: BBC

HighLites

HighLites: Split Ends, Episode 4

With the wedding just two days away Harriet, the vicar, pops in for a trim. It looks as if she and Bev have very different ideas about the service.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30am (repeat)
The Tim Vine Chat Show. Tim Vine. Copyright: BBC

The Tim Vine Chat Show

2018 Specials, Christmas Special

Tim Vine hears the Christmas stories of the British public and offers up a sack full of seasonal one-liners, definitely not traditional songs and fiendishly silly seasonal games. Featuring a seasonal lawn-mowing song and a man who lost his Christmas dinner.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3am (repeat)
Typewriter

The Small, Intricate Life Of Gerald C. Potter

Series 2, Christmas Special - The Cousin

The author and his wife Diana must prepare for a last minute Christmas visitor.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3:30am (repeat)
The Older Woman

The Older Woman

Episode 2.6: Roy airs his video diary, but the big reveal is only a prelude of disastrous tidings yet to come.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
The Unbelievable Truth. David Mitchell. Copyright: BBC / Random Entertainment

The Unbelievable Truth

Series 22, Episode 3

David Mitchell is joined by Lou Sanders, Frankie Boyle, Henning Wehn and Lucy Porter talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Germany, babies, trousers and beards.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Clare In The Community. Copyright: BBC

Clare In The Community

Series 4, Episode 5 - My Funny Valentine

Brian is amazed that Clare has remembered Valentine's Day and booked a restaurant. Unfortunately, however, she hasn't.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)

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