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Radio schedule Tuesday 28th March 2023

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Julie Hesmondhalgh

Cleaning Up

Episode 1

A new cleaner reports for duty. Turns out he and his boss have met before.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC

The Goon Show

Series 8, Episode 8 - The Missing Battleship

When HMS Boxer is stolen, you just know someone's going to fall in the water.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
For Better Or For Worse. Image shows from L to R: Bernard (Gorden Kaye), Iris (Su Pollard). Copyright: BBC

For Better Or For Worse

Series 1, Episode 3

Sweethearts Bernard and Iris scour the neighbourhood for his sulking dad.

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

Who Goes There

Episode 3.5: Biographical quiz show chaired by Martin Young, with Francis Wheen, Amanda Foreman, Fred Housego and Maria McErlane.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
No Commitments

No Commitments

Series 8, Episode 2 - New Age Differences

Victoria now considers herself a fully-fledged academic after three weeks on an A-level English course, and is boring everyone with quotes from great English poets. Emily is home from university for a weekend to get some down-to-earth advice from Anna about an affair she is having with one of her lecturers. Meanwhile, Charlotte didn't quite find her inner self in Tuscany but she did find Shiva.

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

Cleaning Up

Episode 1

A new cleaner reports for duty. Turns out he and his boss have met before.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 1pm (repeat)
The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC

The Goon Show

Series 8, Episode 8 - The Missing Battleship

When HMS Boxer is stolen, you just know someone's going to fall in the water.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 1:30pm (repeat)
For Better Or For Worse. Image shows from L to R: Bernard (Gorden Kaye), Iris (Su Pollard). Copyright: BBC

For Better Or For Worse

Series 1, Episode 3

Sweethearts Bernard and Iris scour the neighbourhood for his sulking dad.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2pm (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Who Goes There

Episode 3.5: Biographical quiz show chaired by Martin Young, with Francis Wheen, Amanda Foreman, Fred Housego and Maria McErlane.

Radio 4 2:15pm
45 min
Charlotte Riley

The Voice In My Ear

Charlotte Riley stars in a real-time comedy drama about a romantic weekend away thrown off course.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
No Commitments

No Commitments

Series 8, Episode 2 - New Age Differences

Victoria now considers herself a fully-fledged academic after three weeks on an A-level English course, and is boring everyone with quotes from great English poets. Emily is home from university for a weekend to get some down-to-earth advice from Anna about an affair she is having with one of her lecturers. Meanwhile, Charlotte didn't quite find her inner self in Tuscany but she did find Shiva.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Julie Hesmondhalgh

Cleaning Up

Episode 1

A new cleaner reports for duty. Turns out he and his boss have met before.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6pm (repeat)
The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC

The Goon Show

Series 8, Episode 8 - The Missing Battleship

When HMS Boxer is stolen, you just know someone's going to fall in the water.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Chris McCausland

You Heard It Here First

Series 1, Episode 1

Chris McCausland asks a panel of comedians to live in an audio only world, with Rhys James and Donna Preston taking on Alasdair Beckett-King and Ria Lina.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6:30pm (repeat)
For Better Or For Worse. Image shows from L to R: Bernard (Gorden Kaye), Iris (Su Pollard). Copyright: BBC

For Better Or For Worse

Series 1, Episode 3

Sweethearts Bernard and Iris scour the neighbourhood for his sulking dad.

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

Who Goes There

Episode 3.5: Biographical quiz show chaired by Martin Young, with Francis Wheen, Amanda Foreman, Fred Housego and Maria McErlane.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
No Commitments

No Commitments

Series 8, Episode 2 - New Age Differences

Victoria now considers herself a fully-fledged academic after three weeks on an A-level English course, and is boring everyone with quotes from great English poets. Emily is home from university for a weekend to get some down-to-earth advice from Anna about an affair she is having with one of her lecturers. Meanwhile, Charlotte didn't quite find her inner self in Tuscany but she did find Shiva.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Mark Watson

Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life

Series 4, Episode 6 - Saturday

Mark Watson, Flo & Joan and guest Zoe Lyons reach Saturday as they examine the week. Saturday's child 'works hard for a living'. But is that really what life's about? Would it be better to simply smell the flowers, like Sunday's child? Also, why did Mark recently claim to have been in prison?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Innes Own World. Neil Innes

Innes Own World

Episode 2

Spoofing the Today programme, and memories of playing a club in Bolton.

Radio 4 11pm (repeat)
Please Use Other Door

Please Use Other Door

Series 1, Episode 2

The second show includes a series of sketches in which someone is forced to watch Succession, a man applies for a business loan for a company whose aim is doing evil and a woman dates the Pied Piper.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Daniel Barker

The Damien Slash Mixtape

Series 1, Episode 4

Multi-character YouTube star Damien Slash makes the move from online to Radio 4, in this new fast-paced, one-man sketch comedy show.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:15pm (repeat)
Fabulous. Faye Walters (Daisy Haggard). Copyright: BBC

Fabulous

Series 1, Episode 1

Faye is suffering from stomach trouble and so goes to see her weird nutritionist.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Old Harry's Game. Image shows from L to R: Satan (Andy Hamilton), Gary (Steven O'Donnell). Copyright: BBC

Old Harry's Game

Series 5, Episode 2 - The Crusade

Satan tries to make people good by organising a meeting of all the major world religions.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30am (repeat)
Julie Hesmondhalgh

Cleaning Up

Episode 1

A new cleaner reports for duty. Turns out he and his boss have met before.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3am (repeat)
The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC

The Goon Show

Series 8, Episode 8 - The Missing Battleship

When HMS Boxer is stolen, you just know someone's going to fall in the water.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3:30am (repeat)
For Better Or For Worse. Image shows from L to R: Bernard (Gorden Kaye), Iris (Su Pollard). Copyright: BBC

For Better Or For Worse

Series 1, Episode 3

Sweethearts Bernard and Iris scour the neighbourhood for his sulking dad.

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

Who Goes There

Episode 3.5: Biographical quiz show chaired by Martin Young, with Francis Wheen, Amanda Foreman, Fred Housego and Maria McErlane.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
No Commitments

No Commitments

Series 8, Episode 2 - New Age Differences

Victoria now considers herself a fully-fledged academic after three weeks on an A-level English course, and is boring everyone with quotes from great English poets. Emily is home from university for a weekend to get some down-to-earth advice from Anna about an affair she is having with one of her lecturers. Meanwhile, Charlotte didn't quite find her inner self in Tuscany but she did find Shiva.

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