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Radio schedule Wednesday 8th March 2023

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

Women Talking About Cars

Series 2, Episode 1 - Sheila Hancock

This programme uses the cars that actress and writer Sheila Hancock has known to take us on a trip through her remarkable life.

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 11 - The Marrow Contest

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)
Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue. Copyright: BBC

Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue

Series 2, Episode 2 - Work And Travel

Sofa-bound TV presenters Mike and Sue look at work and travel, plus "Missing Persons".

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
Sue Perkins

Nature Table

Series 1, Episode 3

Sue Perkins is joined by special guests naturalist and BBC Wildlife correspondent Nick Baker, ethnobotanist James Wong and comedian Lucy Porter.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
The Small World Of Dominic Holland

The Small World Of Dominic Holland

Episode 2: The comedian looks at the lighter side of domesticity.

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 6 - Venice the Menace

Ginny Fox and Vera Sackcloth-Vest go to Venice in search of inspiration for Ginny's new book, but unfortunately they are accompanied by their husbands.

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

Women Talking About Cars

Series 2, Episode 1 - Sheila Hancock

This programme uses the cars that actress and writer Sheila Hancock has known to take us on a trip through her remarkable life.

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 11 - The Marrow Contest

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)
Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue. Copyright: BBC

Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue

Series 2, Episode 2 - Work And Travel

Sofa-bound TV presenters Mike and Sue look at work and travel, plus "Missing Persons".

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2pm (repeat)
Sue Perkins

Nature Table

Series 1, Episode 3

Sue Perkins is joined by special guests naturalist and BBC Wildlife correspondent Nick Baker, ethnobotanist James Wong and comedian Lucy Porter.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
The Small World Of Dominic Holland

The Small World Of Dominic Holland

Episode 2: The comedian looks at the lighter side of domesticity.

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

Women Talking About Cars

Series 2, Episode 1 - Sheila Hancock

This programme uses the cars that actress and writer Sheila Hancock has known to take us on a trip through her remarkable life.

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 4, Episode 4 - Every Little Thing

Roger's in a bad mood - but why?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6:30pm (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 11 - The Marrow Contest

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 6:30pm (repeat)
Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue. Copyright: BBC

Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue

Series 2, Episode 2 - Work And Travel

Sofa-bound TV presenters Mike and Sue look at work and travel, plus "Missing Persons".

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
Sue Perkins

Nature Table

Series 1, Episode 3

Sue Perkins is joined by special guests naturalist and BBC Wildlife correspondent Nick Baker, ethnobotanist James Wong and comedian Lucy Porter.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
The Small World Of Dominic Holland

The Small World Of Dominic Holland

Episode 2: The comedian looks at the lighter side of domesticity.

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

Conversations From A Long Marriage

Series 4, Episode 3 - The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

Roger's popularity as a cruise ship speaker leaves Joanna all at sea.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Jason Cook's School Of Hard Knocks. Jason Cook. Copyright: BBC

Jason Cook's School Of Hard Knocks

Episode 4 - Job Interviews and Office Politics

Jason holds forth on the best ways to pass a job interview and to negotiate office politics.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Where To, Mate?

Where To, Mate?

Series 2, Episode 2 - '...I'm going for balloons...'

Bernie picks up a passenger with an unlikely profession.

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 6 - Dame Kelly Holmes

Athlete Dame Kelly Holmes, a self-confessed chocoholic, tries her first deep-fried Mars bar, but will she try the chocolate-covered scorpion?

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

The Skewer

Series 8, Episode 5

This week - Refugee Regatta, Rogue Royal Landlords, and the fable of The Frog and the Journalist.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
This Is Craig Brown

This Is Craig Brown

The Arts: The satirical writer ponders the arts, getting tips on inner peace from Yoko Ono and discovering how Sir Terence Conran invented the chair.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:45pm (repeat)
Gus Murdoch's Sacred Cows. Gus Murdoch (Stephen Carlin). Copyright: BBC

Gus Murdoch's Sacred Cows

Episode 1 - Pubs

Gus Murdoch looks at the sacred cow that is the Great British pub.

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

Women Talking About Cars

Series 2, Episode 1 - Sheila Hancock

This programme uses the cars that actress and writer Sheila Hancock has known to take us on a trip through her remarkable life.

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 11 - The Marrow Contest

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)
Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue. Copyright: BBC

Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue

Series 2, Episode 2 - Work And Travel

Sofa-bound TV presenters Mike and Sue look at work and travel, plus "Missing Persons".

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
Sue Perkins

Nature Table

Series 1, Episode 3

Sue Perkins is joined by special guests naturalist and BBC Wildlife correspondent Nick Baker, ethnobotanist James Wong and comedian Lucy Porter.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
The Small World Of Dominic Holland

The Small World Of Dominic Holland

Episode 2: The comedian looks at the lighter side of domesticity.

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