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Radio schedule Friday 15th 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 3 - The Haunting Of Jeffrey Whittaker

Will the Flamford False Phantom Fakers fall victim to the most inexorable power of all - social media?

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 7 - There's No Place Like A New Place

George and Kate get itchy feet when their neighbours hint at moving.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 2

Biographer Anthony Holden and actress Stella Duffy are joined by writer and broadcaster Lynne Truss and editor of the Erotic Review Rowan Pelling to dish the dirt on the bad boys and girls in history. Chaired by Gyles Brandreth.

BBC Radio Scotland 11:30am
30 min
Noising Up

Noising Up

Series 2, Episode 3

Topical comedy sketch show noising up the past week in Scotland and beyond.

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 3 - One Foot In The Grave

David Renwick and Richard Wilson join hosts Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman as they look at how the hit sitcom One Foot In The Grave.

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 3 - The Haunting Of Jeffrey Whittaker

Will the Flamford False Phantom Fakers fall victim to the most inexorable power of all - social media?

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 7 - There's No Place Like A New Place

George and Kate get itchy feet when their neighbours hint at moving.

BBC Radio Scotland 1:30pm
30 min
Mark Nelson

The Good, The Bad And The Unexpected

Series 15, Episode 3

This week Mark Nelson is joined by the winner of Britain's Got Talent, the hi-vis loving Viggo Venn, who is still shocked by all the attention he is now getting. They are joined by Scottish singing legend and fellow Radio Scotland presenter, Michelle McManus, who shares the most embarrassing story of her teenage years, and what she's done later in life to make up for it. Gemma Cairney completes the line-up who remembers the time she lived out her Spice Girls fantasy, and finds herself in trouble at the airport.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2pm (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 2

Biographer Anthony Holden and actress Stella Duffy are joined by writer and broadcaster Lynne Truss and editor of the Erotic Review Rowan Pelling to dish the dirt on the bad boys and girls in history. Chaired by Gyles Brandreth.

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 3 - The Haunting Of Jeffrey Whittaker

Will the Flamford False Phantom Fakers fall victim to the most inexorable power of all - social media?

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 7 - There's No Place Like A New Place

George and Kate get itchy feet when their neighbours hint at moving.

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

The News Quiz

Series 112, Episode 2

Andy Zaltzman quizzes the week's news. Providing the answers, hopefully, are Lucy Porter, Tom Ballard, Anushka Asthana, and Mark Steel. In this episode Andy and the panel search for the world's most obvious spy, the world's most awkward train ride, and the UK's worst road.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 2

Biographer Anthony Holden and actress Stella Duffy are joined by writer and broadcaster Lynne Truss and editor of the Erotic Review Rowan Pelling to dish the dirt on the bad boys and girls in history. Chaired by Gyles Brandreth.

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 3

Selina'' close personal ex-husband Andrew has died and - much to Florence's rage and fury - left her a small Picasso. Meanwhile the murky waters of daughter Lucy's parentage are stirred as Florence's PA Mrs Ragnarrok has a mysterious meeting with Jonathan, who happens to be Lucy's father. Unaware of any of this, Lucy continues to plan the round-the-world yacht voyage that everyone has completely forgotten she is about to undertake.

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

Beauty Of Britain

Series 3, Episode 4 - The New Best Friend

Beauty continues her search for personal fulfillment.

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

Two Thousand Years Of Radio

Series 1, Episode 3 - Radio Crusade Roadshow

Join DJ Steve-in-the-Afternoon on his AD 1200 Christian Crusade Roadshow, as he gathers up an army of children and the plague-ridden to find salvation and a sun tan in the Holy Land.

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

Steven Appleby's Normal Life

Episode 2.3, Normal Sleep: The cartoonist goes in search of the secret meaning of life, believed to be written on the skin of a silver sausage that only exists in a dream.

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 3

Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back over the past week of radio. Michael Burke becomes trapped in the Moral Maze, and Any Answers gets a game show makeover.

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