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Radio schedule Tuesday 2nd May 2023

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:15am (repeat)
Hand holding a wine glass. Copyright: BBC

Why Mummy Drinks

Series 1: Why Mummy Drinks, Episode 2

As tensions build in the house, Ellen starts spending time with the hot new dad at the school gates.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
North By Northamptonshire. Copyright: BBC

North By Northamptonshire

Series 3, Episode 2

Against her better judgement, Jan has dinner with her ex-husband, and Mary and Jonathan have crossed wires.

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 16 - The String Robberies

Ace investigator Neddie Seagoon must solve a crime - and the link to Moriarty's sock.

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 8

Iris is proper poorly, but not quite as poorly as Wilf thinks she is.

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

The Motion Show

Series 2, Episode 4

Dr Phil Hammond watches over proceedings in the quirky debating game, with guests Gyles Brandreth, Hugh Dennis, Jeremy Hardy and Arthur Smith.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
The Big Town All Stars

The Big Town All Stars

Series 1, Episode 1 - If You Scratch My Back

You can join a band for all sorts of reasons - fame, sex, money. Kenny sees it as his only chance of giving up teaching geography. When a record executive offers him a contract it turns out it is not really his music she is interested in.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:15pm (repeat)
Hand holding a wine glass. Copyright: BBC

Why Mummy Drinks

Series 1: Why Mummy Drinks, Episode 2

As tensions build in the house, Ellen starts spending time with the hot new dad at the school gates.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
North By Northamptonshire. Copyright: BBC

North By Northamptonshire

Series 3, Episode 2

Against her better judgement, Jan has dinner with her ex-husband, and Mary and Jonathan have crossed wires.

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 16 - The String Robberies

Ace investigator Neddie Seagoon must solve a crime - and the link to Moriarty's sock.

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 8

Iris is proper poorly, but not quite as poorly as Wilf thinks she is.

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

The Motion Show

Series 2, Episode 4

Dr Phil Hammond watches over proceedings in the quirky debating game, with guests Gyles Brandreth, Hugh Dennis, Jeremy Hardy and Arthur Smith.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
The Big Town All Stars

The Big Town All Stars

Series 1, Episode 1 - If You Scratch My Back

You can join a band for all sorts of reasons - fame, sex, money. Kenny sees it as his only chance of giving up teaching geography. When a record executive offers him a contract it turns out it is not really his music she is interested in.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:15pm (repeat)
Hand holding a wine glass. Copyright: BBC

Why Mummy Drinks

Series 1: Why Mummy Drinks, Episode 2

As tensions build in the house, Ellen starts spending time with the hot new dad at the school gates.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
North By Northamptonshire. Copyright: BBC

North By Northamptonshire

Series 3, Episode 2

Against her better judgement, Jan has dinner with her ex-husband, and Mary and Jonathan have crossed wires.

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 16 - The String Robberies

Ace investigator Neddie Seagoon must solve a crime - and the link to Moriarty's sock.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Wosson Cornwall

Wosson Cornwall

Episode 2 - It's St. Crundy's Day Eve!

We learn about the significance of little-known Cornish festival St. Crundy's Day Eve, whilst Gen-Z hotel receptionists - LJ and Jess - have to deal with another customer. And find out the financial impact to Cornwall of an alien invasion of London.

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 8

Iris is proper poorly, but not quite as poorly as Wilf thinks she is.

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

The Motion Show

Series 2, Episode 4

Dr Phil Hammond watches over proceedings in the quirky debating game, with guests Gyles Brandreth, Hugh Dennis, Jeremy Hardy and Arthur Smith.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
The Big Town All Stars

The Big Town All Stars

Series 1, Episode 1 - If You Scratch My Back

You can join a band for all sorts of reasons - fame, sex, money. Kenny sees it as his only chance of giving up teaching geography. When a record executive offers him a contract it turns out it is not really his music she is interested in.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Wosson Cornwall

Wosson Cornwall

Episode 1 - It's Rick Stein's Cornwall. Not Yours.

Visit Rick Stein's Cornwall (he's got planning permission for it), meet LJ and Jess, the low energy Gen-Z receptionists at the Royal Hotel, and find out just how important shanty singers are to the Cornish economy.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
The Jason Byrne Show. Jason Byrne. Copyright: BBC

The Jason Byrne Show

Series 3, Episode 3 - Fear & Phobias

Jason Byrne looks at the subject of fears and phobias in the third episode of his themed audience comedy show, with high-energy stand-up and sketches.

Radio 4 11pm (repeat)
Stephen Mangan

The Confessional

Series 2, Episode 3 - Ed Byrne

Stand-up comedy star, actor and hill walker Ed Byrne is escorted into Stephen Mangan's booth of shame where they discuss faulty memory, cleverness and revenge fantasies.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm
15 min
Machynlleth sign. Copyright: BBC

Comedy Club At Machynlleth

Series 2, Episode 4

Stephen Bailey brings us more highlights from the Machynlleth Comedy Festival. Tonight, Isy Suttie speaks to the poet and storyteller Lia Burge about her show Crying Into Bins which looks at Lia's time in the service industry.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:15pm (repeat)
Tarot

Tarot: Soundbleed

Episode 1

We hear an unrelaxing meditation session, a disaster at a joust and, worst of all, someone gets a guitar out at a party.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
ElvenQuest. Image shows from L to R: Penthiselea (Ingrid Oliver), Sam (Stephen Mangan), Lord Darkness (Alistair McGowan). Copyright: BBC

ElvenQuest

Series 2, Episode 3

Vidar and the Questers arrive at the Citadel of Gondola to defend it from the hordes of the evil Lord Darkness. But plans soon go awry when Sam discovers Vidar's love potion.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:15am (repeat)
Hand holding a wine glass. Copyright: BBC

Why Mummy Drinks

Series 1: Why Mummy Drinks, Episode 2

As tensions build in the house, Ellen starts spending time with the hot new dad at the school gates.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30am (repeat)
North By Northamptonshire. Copyright: BBC

North By Northamptonshire

Series 3, Episode 2

Against her better judgement, Jan has dinner with her ex-husband, and Mary and Jonathan have crossed wires.

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 16 - The String Robberies

Ace investigator Neddie Seagoon must solve a crime - and the link to Moriarty's sock.

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 8

Iris is proper poorly, but not quite as poorly as Wilf thinks she is.

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

The Motion Show

Series 2, Episode 4

Dr Phil Hammond watches over proceedings in the quirky debating game, with guests Gyles Brandreth, Hugh Dennis, Jeremy Hardy and Arthur Smith.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
The Big Town All Stars

The Big Town All Stars

Series 1, Episode 1 - If You Scratch My Back

You can join a band for all sorts of reasons - fame, sex, money. Kenny sees it as his only chance of giving up teaching geography. When a record executive offers him a contract it turns out it is not really his music she is interested in.

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