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Radio schedule Wednesday 20th December 2023

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Mark Steel's In Town. Mark Steel. Copyright: BBC

Mark Steel's In Town

Series 8, Episode 4 - Portishead

This time Mark Steel is in Portishead in Somerset.

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 6, Episode 13 - The Christmas Club

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)
Lip Service

Lip Service

Episode 2

The European vacuum-cleaner grand-prix and the wives behind goat-husbandry.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Four Joneses And A Jenkins

Four Joneses And A Jenkins

Episode 5 - June - An Ill Wind

As a storm descends on the village, the talk is all electric.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Mark Steel's In Town. Mark Steel. Copyright: BBC

Mark Steel's In Town

Series 8, Episode 4 - Portishead

This time Mark Steel is in Portishead in Somerset.

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 6, Episode 13 - The Christmas Club

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)
Lip Service

Lip Service

Episode 2

The European vacuum-cleaner grand-prix and the wives behind goat-husbandry.

Radio 4 2:15pm
45 min
Shaparak Khorsandi. Copyright: Heathcliff O'Malley

Tess Of The Tollbooth

Is it possible to fall for a guy you only meet for 20 seconds in every 24 hours? Toll booth worker Tess is about to find out.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
Four Joneses And A Jenkins

Four Joneses And A Jenkins

Episode 5 - June - An Ill Wind

As a storm descends on the village, the talk is all electric.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Mark Steel's In Town. Mark Steel. Copyright: BBC

Mark Steel's In Town

Series 8, Episode 4 - Portishead

This time Mark Steel is in Portishead in Somerset.

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 6, Episode 13 - The Christmas Club

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
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 2, Episode 2 - Libel She Wrote

Florence is sued for libel when a character in one of her books is based on a real person. Selina's diaries are serialised in the Daily Mail. Oh, and Lucy's going to the Moon.

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

Lip Service

Episode 2

The European vacuum-cleaner grand-prix and the wives behind goat-husbandry.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
Four Joneses And A Jenkins

Four Joneses And A Jenkins

Episode 5 - June - An Ill Wind

As a storm descends on the village, the talk is all electric.

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 2, Episode 1 - Mummy Dearest

Lucy, convinced that her mother is Selina, can't take any more - she's going to be an astronaut. Meanwhile, Selina's off to the Palace to collect her OBE, with a jealous Florence in tow. And Mrs Ragnarrok has applied for Danish citizenship.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
The Museum Of Everything. Image shows from L to R: Dan Tetsell, Marcus Brigstocke, Danny Robins

The Museum Of Everything

Episode 3, School Parties Welcome: Schoolchildren learn about the origin of scampi from a marine adventure display.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
We Forced A Bot To Write This Show. Credit: BBC

We Forced A Bot To Write This Show

Episode 1 - Action Movie, Army Advert And Bake Off

We forced AI to digest massive amounts of media and then write its own versions. We pushed the scripts into the mouths of actors, and the result is, absurdly, joyously hilarious.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section. Image shows from L to R: Drums (Ben Reynolds), Saxophone (Mark Brown), Alex Horne, Bass (Will Collier), Trumpet (Joe Auckland), Ed Sheldrake. Copyright: BBC

Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section

Series 2, Episode 4

Guest starring comedian Nick Mohammed, who plays with the band and has a trick up his sleeve.

Radio 4 11:15pm
15 min
Nora Meadows' Week Of Wellness. Nora Meadows (Katy Wix). Credit: BBC, Hat Trick Productions

Nora Meadows' Week Of Wellness

Episode 3 - Dedicated to Father Ian

As ever, Nora helps her clients with her patented (patent pending) therapy techniques, but also finds time to record an ASMR sleep-aid.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Little Lifetimes By Jenny Eclair. Jenny Eclair. Copyright: BBC

Little Lifetimes By Jenny Eclair

Series 5, Episode 2 - The Kitchen Table

Following her mother's death 'massive stroke halfway through Pointless' a woman reminisces about her family as she waits for her mother's house to be cleared. She and her sister may not always have got on but she's the only one she can share these memories with. Read by Monica Dolan.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:45pm (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

The Goldfish Bowl

Series 1, Episode 4

Comedy about two goldfish, Liam and Anton, who contemplate life from their bowl and try to understand their owners.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30am (repeat)
Mark Steel's In Town. Mark Steel. Copyright: BBC

Mark Steel's In Town

Series 8, Episode 4 - Portishead

This time Mark Steel is in Portishead in Somerset.

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 6, Episode 13 - The Christmas Club

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)
Lip Service

Lip Service

Episode 2

The European vacuum-cleaner grand-prix and the wives behind goat-husbandry.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Four Joneses And A Jenkins

Four Joneses And A Jenkins

Episode 5 - June - An Ill Wind

As a storm descends on the village, the talk is all electric.

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