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Radio schedule Wednesday 1st November 2023

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Shush!. Copyright: Pozzitive Productions

Shush!

Series 1, Episode 1 - Top Shelf

Alice and Snoo have to resort to some rather unconventional means to get people into the library. A very low shelf, a book about zombies, a hosepipe ban and some hummingbirds bring the public flocking in.

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 5, Episode 9 - The Americans Hit Town

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)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Ballylenon

Series 1, Episode 1

Set in 1953, the sleepy Irish town rumbles into life at plans to demolish the courthouse for a car park.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
The Right Time

The Right Time

Series 3, Episode 4

Sketch show about modern life "for people old enough to know better".

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Shush!. Copyright: Pozzitive Productions

Shush!

Series 1, Episode 1 - Top Shelf

Alice and Snoo have to resort to some rather unconventional means to get people into the library. A very low shelf, a book about zombies, a hosepipe ban and some hummingbirds bring the public flocking in.

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 5, Episode 9 - The Americans Hit Town

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)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Ballylenon

Series 1, Episode 1

Set in 1953, the sleepy Irish town rumbles into life at plans to demolish the courthouse for a car park.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
The Right Time

The Right Time

Series 3, Episode 4

Sketch show about modern life "for people old enough to know better".

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Shush!. Copyright: Pozzitive Productions

Shush!

Series 1, Episode 1 - Top Shelf

Alice and Snoo have to resort to some rather unconventional means to get people into the library. A very low shelf, a book about zombies, a hosepipe ban and some hummingbirds bring the public flocking in.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6pm (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 5, Episode 9 - The Americans Hit Town

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.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere. Daliso Chaponda

Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere

Series 4, Episode 4 - '...I've started writing a will...'

A family discussion about his father's health gets Daliso contemplating his own mortality, so in this final episode he leaves us with his thoughts on ageing, how he'd like to be remembered and what he'll leave behind.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6:30pm (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Ballylenon

Series 1, Episode 1

Set in 1953, the sleepy Irish town rumbles into life at plans to demolish the courthouse for a car park.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
The Right Time

The Right Time

Series 3, Episode 4

Sketch show about modern life "for people old enough to know better".

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere. Daliso Chaponda

Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere

Series 4, Episode 3 - '...comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable...'

After experiencing the threat of arrest for a joke he once made about Malawi, and as he sometimes gets in trouble for talking about certain topics, this week Daliso is contemplating attitudes towards censorship and freedom of speech, and he's trying to work out where he stands.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Agendum. Alexandra Palisades (Carrie Quinlan). Copyright: Pozzitive Productions

Agendum

Series 2, Episode 4 - Good Luck Everybody

Alexandra Palisades (Carrie Quinlan) brings more topical stories under the spotlight. Or not. This time there is a look at how the housing crisis has got so bad that people are moving into burrows, the USA plans to put forward a law to make mass shootings legal, and the plan to launch a new financial crisis.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
Njambi McGrath. Credit: Steve Ullathorne

Njambi McGrath - Black Black

Episode 4 - A Hostile Environment

Njambi shares her experience as a black woman and immigrant in the UK today, with colonialism casting a long shadow.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
The Harpoon

The Harpoon

Episode 2.1: Spoof boys' magazine, with Peter Baynham and Alistair McGowan.

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

The Skewer

Series 10, Episode 4

This week - The Ghost of Cummings Past, high level Governmental swearing, and God meets Guns.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
The Skewer. Credit: BBC, Unusual Productions

The Skewer

Series 10, Episode 3

This week - Umble Starmer, Planet Earth III presents All Out War, and The Fall of The House of Sunak.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:45pm (repeat)
The Problem With Adam Bloom. Adam Bloom. Copyright: BBC

The Problem With Adam Bloom

Series 2, Episode 3 - Insecurity

You should talk about your problems - after all, a problem shared is a problem halved. Unless you've got a trust phobia, in which case it opens a whole other can of worms. With Stefano Paolini.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30am (repeat)
Shush!. Copyright: Pozzitive Productions

Shush!

Series 1, Episode 1 - Top Shelf

Alice and Snoo have to resort to some rather unconventional means to get people into the library. A very low shelf, a book about zombies, a hosepipe ban and some hummingbirds bring the public flocking in.

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 5, Episode 9 - The Americans Hit Town

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)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Ballylenon

Series 1, Episode 1

Set in 1953, the sleepy Irish town rumbles into life at plans to demolish the courthouse for a car park.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
The Right Time

The Right Time

Series 3, Episode 4

Sketch show about modern life "for people old enough to know better".

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