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Radio schedule Friday 8th September 2023

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
The Break. Image shows from L to R: The Reverend Beverley (Shobna Gulati), Fish Shop Frank (Mark Benton), Andy (James Northcote), Uncle Jeff (Philip Jackson), Max (Rasmus Hardiker), Corinne (Alison Steadman). Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

The Break

Series 3, Episode 2 - Five Benches Outside Yatterby Hall, Flamford

Nothing could be more relaxing than a visit to a historical stately home but this is Flamford. Andy starts the day with a rather alarming haircut and it's downhill from there on.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
Marriage Lines. Image shows from L to R: George Starling (Richard Briers), Kate Starling (Prunella Scales). Copyright: BBC

Marriage Lines

Series 1, Episode 6 - The Party

Kate's furious - why haven't they been invited to their friend's party?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 1

Gyles Brandreth chairs the quiz show celebrating gossip, scandal and controversy. Team captains Anthony Holden and Stella Duffy are joined by Rosie Millard and Jenny Colgan.

BBC Radio Scotland 11:30am
30 min
Noising Up

Noising Up

Series 2, Episode 2

Blasting into politics, news and showbiz. Covering major headlines and sending up big names. Mixing sketch, spoof, song and regular comic characters.

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
What's Funny About.... Image shows from L to R: Jon Plowman, Peter Fincham

What's Funny About...

Series 3, Episode 2 - The Fast Show

Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse join hosts Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman as they look at how they made their hit sketch show The Fast Show.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
The Break. Image shows from L to R: The Reverend Beverley (Shobna Gulati), Fish Shop Frank (Mark Benton), Andy (James Northcote), Uncle Jeff (Philip Jackson), Max (Rasmus Hardiker), Corinne (Alison Steadman). Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

The Break

Series 3, Episode 2 - Five Benches Outside Yatterby Hall, Flamford

Nothing could be more relaxing than a visit to a historical stately home but this is Flamford. Andy starts the day with a rather alarming haircut and it's downhill from there on.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 1pm (repeat)
Marriage Lines. Image shows from L to R: George Starling (Richard Briers), Kate Starling (Prunella Scales). Copyright: BBC

Marriage Lines

Series 1, Episode 6 - The Party

Kate's furious - why haven't they been invited to their friend's party?

BBC Radio Scotland 1:30pm
30 min
Mark Nelson

The Good, The Bad And The Unexpected

Series 15, Episode 2

In this show Mark Nelson is joined by two Scottish legends and a cracker of a comedian from the South. First, Gail Porter tells her stories about being mistaken for an Irish singing legend and getting away with more than she bargained for on a flight home. Newshound Martin Geissler proves that he belongs in current affairs, rather than sport, and tells Mark about the time he saved a couple's lives from the newsroom. Completing the line-up is avid football fan and stand-up comedian, Chloe Petts, who celebrates the anniversary of coming out to her parents, and celebrates too early before an exam.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2pm (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 1

Gyles Brandreth chairs the quiz show celebrating gossip, scandal and controversy. Team captains Anthony Holden and Stella Duffy are joined by Rosie Millard and Jenny Colgan.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
The Break. Image shows from L to R: The Reverend Beverley (Shobna Gulati), Fish Shop Frank (Mark Benton), Andy (James Northcote), Uncle Jeff (Philip Jackson), Max (Rasmus Hardiker), Corinne (Alison Steadman). Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

The Break

Series 3, Episode 2 - Five Benches Outside Yatterby Hall, Flamford

Nothing could be more relaxing than a visit to a historical stately home but this is Flamford. Andy starts the day with a rather alarming haircut and it's downhill from there on.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6pm (repeat)
Marriage Lines. Image shows from L to R: George Starling (Richard Briers), Kate Starling (Prunella Scales). Copyright: BBC

Marriage Lines

Series 1, Episode 6 - The Party

Kate's furious - why haven't they been invited to their friend's party?

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
The News Quiz. Andy Zaltzman

The News Quiz

Series 112, Episode 1

Andy Zaltzman quizzes the week's news. Providing the answers, hopefully, are, Ian Smith, Lucy Porter, Hugo Rifkind, and Zoe Lyons. In this episode, Andy and the panel test the state of schools, the resilience of a reshuffle, and value of vets.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 1

Gyles Brandreth chairs the quiz show celebrating gossip, scandal and controversy. Team captains Anthony Holden and Stella Duffy are joined by Rosie Millard and Jenny Colgan.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen?. Image shows from L to R: Florence Ransom (Dawn French), Selina Mountjoy (Jennifer Saunders). Copyright: CPL Productions

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen?

Series 1, Episode 2

Florence becomes obsessed with her sister Selina's old movies - The Vixen, The Vixen 2 and The Vixen 3D. Meanwhile Selina takes Florence's daughter Lucy clothes shopping and Lucy interrogates her about her mysterious absent father, Jonathan. The day ends in chaos as Florence unwittingly tells a journalist that she'd love to make a sex tape.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Beauty Of Britain. Beauty Olonga (Jocelyn Jee Esien). Copyright: BBC

Beauty Of Britain

Series 3, Episode 3 - The Broad Fit Footglove

Beauty looks after Ray, an ex-footballer who is young at heart. Or is it Beauty who is aging up from spending so much time with the elderly?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Two Thousand Years Of Radio. Marcus Brigstocke

Two Thousand Years Of Radio

Series 1, Episode 2 - Dark Age FM

It is 500AD, history's most miserable period. Britain is being invaded twice a week and a bloke called Arthur is running the country, but at least there's always Steve-in-the-Afternoon to count the Britons down to the end of the world.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:15pm (repeat)
Steven Appleby's Normal Life

Steven Appleby's Normal Life

Episode 2.2, Normal Time: The cartoonist sets out to prove dinosaurs mastered the three Rs - reading, writing and riding bicycles.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Listen Against. Image shows from L to R: Alice Arnold, Jon Holmes. Copyright: BBC

Listen Against

Series 3, Episode 2

BBC Three leaks and Gaby Roslin tunnels to the centre of the earth for Children in Need.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3:30am (repeat)
The Break. Image shows from L to R: The Reverend Beverley (Shobna Gulati), Fish Shop Frank (Mark Benton), Andy (James Northcote), Uncle Jeff (Philip Jackson), Max (Rasmus Hardiker), Corinne (Alison Steadman). Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

The Break

Series 3, Episode 2 - Five Benches Outside Yatterby Hall, Flamford

Nothing could be more relaxing than a visit to a historical stately home but this is Flamford. Andy starts the day with a rather alarming haircut and it's downhill from there on.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
Marriage Lines. Image shows from L to R: George Starling (Richard Briers), Kate Starling (Prunella Scales). Copyright: BBC

Marriage Lines

Series 1, Episode 6 - The Party

Kate's furious - why haven't they been invited to their friend's party?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 1

Gyles Brandreth chairs the quiz show celebrating gossip, scandal and controversy. Team captains Anthony Holden and Stella Duffy are joined by Rosie Millard and Jenny Colgan.

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