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Radio schedule Thursday 28th December 2023

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
What Does The K Stand For?. Stephen K Amos. Copyright: BBC

What Does The K Stand For?

Series 2, Episode 2 - All The Fun Of The Affair

Sitcom about comedian Stephen K Amos's teenage years in 1980s South London.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
Dad's Army. Copyright: BBC

Dad's Army

Series 2, Episode 10 - Brain Versus Brawn

The platoon is angered when they learn that some officers are trying to create a Home Guard style commando unit from the younger soldiers. In response, they plan to tackle an exercise using their minds rather than their physical strength.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
The Random Jottings Of Hinge And Bracket. Image shows from L to R: Dame Hilda Bracket (Patrick Fyffe), Dr Evadne Hinge (George Logan)

The Random Jottings Of Hinge And Bracket

Series 2, Episode 2 - Telling Tales

Comedy series featuring Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Mark Williams

The Richest Man In Britain

Episode 5

Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock star and his search for fulfilment.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
What Does The K Stand For?. Stephen K Amos. Copyright: BBC

What Does The K Stand For?

Series 2, Episode 2 - All The Fun Of The Affair

Sitcom about comedian Stephen K Amos's teenage years in 1980s South London.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 1pm (repeat)
Dad's Army. Copyright: BBC

Dad's Army

Series 2, Episode 10 - Brain Versus Brawn

The platoon is angered when they learn that some officers are trying to create a Home Guard style commando unit from the younger soldiers. In response, they plan to tackle an exercise using their minds rather than their physical strength.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 1:30pm (repeat)
The Random Jottings Of Hinge And Bracket. Image shows from L to R: Dame Hilda Bracket (Patrick Fyffe), Dr Evadne Hinge (George Logan)

The Random Jottings Of Hinge And Bracket

Series 2, Episode 2 - Telling Tales

Comedy series featuring Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
Mark Williams

The Richest Man In Britain

Episode 5

Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock star and his search for fulfilment.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
What Does The K Stand For?. Stephen K Amos. Copyright: BBC

What Does The K Stand For?

Series 2, Episode 2 - All The Fun Of The Affair

Sitcom about comedian Stephen K Amos's teenage years in 1980s South London.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6pm (repeat)
Dad's Army. Copyright: BBC

Dad's Army

Series 2, Episode 10 - Brain Versus Brawn

The platoon is angered when they learn that some officers are trying to create a Home Guard style commando unit from the younger soldiers. In response, they plan to tackle an exercise using their minds rather than their physical strength.

BBC Radio Wales. Copyright: BBC 6:30pm (repeat)
Keiron Self

The Ministry Of Happiness

Episode 1

The first of a two part sitcom-documentary telling the almost unbelievable, but true, story of the first BBC radio station in Wales, which launched from a flat above a music shop in Cardiff in 1923. Lord Reith is looking for someone to lead his new Welsh network, in time for the grand inaugural broadcast.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Ken Cheng. Copyright: Steve Ullathorne

Ken Cheng: I Can School You

Episode 3 - Not An Exact Science

Ken takes on Science, and grapples with the shortcomings of the subject.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6:30pm (repeat)
The Random Jottings Of Hinge And Bracket. Image shows from L to R: Dame Hilda Bracket (Patrick Fyffe), Dr Evadne Hinge (George Logan)

The Random Jottings Of Hinge And Bracket

Series 2, Episode 2 - Telling Tales

Comedy series featuring Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
Mark Williams

The Richest Man In Britain

Episode 5

Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock star and his search for fulfilment.

Resonance FM 8pm
30 min
Aufbau

Aufbau

Series 2, Episode 3

An automatic vacuum impresses, and a corporate services professional oversteps the mark.

Radio 2 logo 9pm
60 min
Radio 2 Remembers Barry Humphries. Barry Humphries. Credit: BBC

Radio 2 Remembers Barry Humphries

A look back at the wonderful world of Barry Humphries, celebrating his career with the multi-talented man behind-the-mask himself revealing the inspiration for his larger-than-life comedy characters, with Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson among those paying tribute.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Ken Cheng. Copyright: Steve Ullathorne

Ken Cheng: I Can School You

Episode 2 - Cooking Up A Full English

Ken explores English lessons, the only subject you keep on learning after you've learned it.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Dan And Nick: The Wildebeest Years

Dan And Nick: The Wildebeest Years

Episode 4 - Tossed In Space

Dan and Nick serves up a salad family who are Tossed In Space, plus Robin Wood and The Archers abroad.

Radio 4 11pm (repeat)
You're Dead To Me

You're Dead To Me

Episode 1 - Medieval Ghost Stories

Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Michael Carter and Ghosts star Mathew Baynton to learn all about ghost stories in the European Middle Ages.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
The Maltby Collection. Copyright: BBC

The Maltby Collection

Series 1, Episode 5

The senior museum management team head off to a conference on the Isle of Wight, leaving Rod in charge of the museum.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Old Harry's Game. Image shows from L to R: Satan (Andy Hamilton), Gary (Steven O'Donnell). Copyright: BBC

Old Harry's Game

2010 Specials - Ring in the New

Satan decides he needs a holiday, so he goes to the Lake District while Scumspawn is left in charge of Hell.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30am (repeat)
What Does The K Stand For?. Stephen K Amos. Copyright: BBC

What Does The K Stand For?

Series 2, Episode 2 - All The Fun Of The Affair

Sitcom about comedian Stephen K Amos's teenage years in 1980s South London.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3am (repeat)
Dad's Army. Copyright: BBC

Dad's Army

Series 2, Episode 10 - Brain Versus Brawn

The platoon is angered when they learn that some officers are trying to create a Home Guard style commando unit from the younger soldiers. In response, they plan to tackle an exercise using their minds rather than their physical strength.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3:30am (repeat)
The Random Jottings Of Hinge And Bracket. Image shows from L to R: Dame Hilda Bracket (Patrick Fyffe), Dr Evadne Hinge (George Logan)

The Random Jottings Of Hinge And Bracket

Series 2, Episode 2 - Telling Tales

Comedy series featuring Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Mark Williams

The Richest Man In Britain

Episode 5

Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock star and his search for fulfilment.

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