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Radio schedule Wednesday 8th February 2023

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:15am (repeat)
Subterranean Homesick Blues. Image shows from L to R: John (Bill Nighy), Maggie (Anna Calder-Marshall)

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Series 2, Episode 3

John & Maggie have managed to reboot their romance but a date at a crematorium reminds them that they don't have much time left.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Women Talking About Cars. Victoria Coren Mitchell. Copyright: BBC

Women Talking About Cars

Series 1, Episode 4 - Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer talks about the journeys she has been on and the cars she has travelled in, including her first Mini, a series of Triumphs and Australia's own car, the mighty Holden.

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 2, Episode 5 - The Holiday Camp

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)
Flying The Flag

Flying The Flag

Series 3, Episode 4 - The Comrade Connection

Fortified by caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, the diplomats tackle the drug barons.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
Joe Lycett

It's Not What You Know

Series 1, Episode 3

Miles Jupp is joined by Roisin Conaty, Ed Byrne and Richard Madeley as they try to prove how well they know their nearest and dearest. With special guest voice, John Motson.

Radio 4 11:30am (repeat)
Gloomsbury. Image shows from L to R: Henry Mickleton (Jonathan Coy), Vera Sackcloth-Vest (Miriam Margolyes), DH Lollipop (John Sessions), Lionel Fox (Nigel Planer), Venus Traduces (Morwenna Banks), Ginny Fox (Alison Steadman). Copyright: Little Brother Productions

Gloomsbury

Series 4, Episode 2 - Your Very Very Humble Servant

While driving to Sandwich to get Mrs Gosling back, Vera and Ginny call on Lytton Scratchy and Dora Barrington. They have heard that she epitomises Modern Womanhood.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:15pm (repeat)
Subterranean Homesick Blues. Image shows from L to R: John (Bill Nighy), Maggie (Anna Calder-Marshall)

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Series 2, Episode 3

John & Maggie have managed to reboot their romance but a date at a crematorium reminds them that they don't have much time left.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Women Talking About Cars. Victoria Coren Mitchell. Copyright: BBC

Women Talking About Cars

Series 1, Episode 4 - Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer talks about the journeys she has been on and the cars she has travelled in, including her first Mini, a series of Triumphs and Australia's own car, the mighty Holden.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 1pm (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 2, Episode 5 - The Holiday Camp

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 1:30pm (repeat)
Flying The Flag

Flying The Flag

Series 3, Episode 4 - The Comrade Connection

Fortified by caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, the diplomats tackle the drug barons.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3pm (repeat)
Joe Lycett

It's Not What You Know

Series 1, Episode 3

Miles Jupp is joined by Roisin Conaty, Ed Byrne and Richard Madeley as they try to prove how well they know their nearest and dearest. With special guest voice, John Motson.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:15pm (repeat)
Subterranean Homesick Blues. Image shows from L to R: John (Bill Nighy), Maggie (Anna Calder-Marshall)

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Series 2, Episode 3

John & Maggie have managed to reboot their romance but a date at a crematorium reminds them that they don't have much time left.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Women Talking About Cars. Victoria Coren Mitchell. Copyright: BBC

Women Talking About Cars

Series 1, Episode 4 - Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer talks about the journeys she has been on and the cars she has travelled in, including her first Mini, a series of Triumphs and Australia's own car, the mighty Holden.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6pm (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 2, Episode 5 - The Holiday Camp

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.

Radio 4 6:30pm (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 2, Episode 6 - I've Been Loving You Too Long To Stop Now

When Roger, once more, falls asleep in front of the TV, Joanna says they're 'in a rut', so he plans a day of surprises. But there are rather more 'surprises' than he anticipated.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6:30pm (repeat)
Flying The Flag

Flying The Flag

Series 3, Episode 4 - The Comrade Connection

Fortified by caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, the diplomats tackle the drug barons.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
Joe Lycett

It's Not What You Know

Series 1, Episode 3

Miles Jupp is joined by Roisin Conaty, Ed Byrne and Richard Madeley as they try to prove how well they know their nearest and dearest. With special guest voice, John Motson.

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 2, Episode 5 - Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

There's jealousy and suspicion, as Roger is pursued by a former student with a crush and Joanna admits she's been attracted to another man.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better. Image shows from L to R: Poet (Tim Key), Mark Watson. Copyright: BBC

Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better

Series 1, Episode 6 - Wrath

Mark Watson sets out on his quest to free us from The Seven Deadly Sins with stand-up comedy. This week: Wrath.

Radio 4 11pm (repeat)
Tom Neenan. Copyright: Idil Sukan

The Hauntening

Series 2, Episode 1 - Hosting

This episode is a podcast, with an unwanted guest.

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

I've Never Seen Star Wars

Series 6, Episode 2 - Roy Walker

Marcus Brigstocke persuades comedian Roy Walker to see his first ever Shakespeare play and banter with the audience for the first time.

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

The Skewer

Series 8, Episode 1

This week: SAS Rogue Gas Fitters, Liz Truss is in her Happy Valley, and Dominic Raab channels his inner Gripper Stebson from Grange Hill.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Bunk Bed

Bunk Bed

Series 5, Episode 1

Tonight the duo discuss what sort of dinosaur they would have been, respond to archive of the great African-American writer James Baldwin on Fathers with their own tales of being humiliated by children, and argue if it's ever appropriate for an Irish person to use the phrase "Yada, yada, yada..."

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:45pm (repeat)
Matt Berry

I, Regress

Series 1, Episode 3

Ms Taffgoon finds her appointment with Dr Berry to cure a fear of heights takes a strange path, taking in a talking pigeon and an interplanetary trip. And a field.

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 2, Episode 3

John & Maggie have managed to reboot their romance but a date at a crematorium reminds them that they don't have much time left.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30am (repeat)
Women Talking About Cars. Victoria Coren Mitchell. Copyright: BBC

Women Talking About Cars

Series 1, Episode 4 - Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer talks about the journeys she has been on and the cars she has travelled in, including her first Mini, a series of Triumphs and Australia's own car, the mighty Holden.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3am (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 2, Episode 5 - The Holiday Camp

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 3:30am (repeat)
Flying The Flag

Flying The Flag

Series 3, Episode 4 - The Comrade Connection

Fortified by caffeine, nicotine and alcohol, the diplomats tackle the drug barons.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
Joe Lycett

It's Not What You Know

Series 1, Episode 3

Miles Jupp is joined by Roisin Conaty, Ed Byrne and Richard Madeley as they try to prove how well they know their nearest and dearest. With special guest voice, John Motson.

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