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Radio schedule Wednesday 24th January 2024

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Lynne Truss

Rumblings From The Rafters

Episode 3

An edible dormouse and a peacock butterfly reveal the truth about life in an attic. With Hugh Dennis and Amanda Abbington.

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 19 - The Threatening Letters

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 2, Episode 1

It's 1954 in the sleepy Irish town, and the Development Association looks set for open confrontation.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Clive Anderson. Copyright: BBC

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Episode 2

Guest starring Hugh Laurie and Enn Reitel.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
Sarah Millican

Elephant In The Room

Series 1, Episode 4

Sarah Millican hosts this game show which uses national surveys to find out which of its panellists is closest to, and furthest from, the average British person in a series of different subjects.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Lynne Truss

Rumblings From The Rafters

Episode 3

An edible dormouse and a peacock butterfly reveal the truth about life in an attic. With Hugh Dennis and Amanda Abbington.

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 19 - The Threatening Letters

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 2, Episode 1

It's 1954 in the sleepy Irish town, and the Development Association looks set for open confrontation.

Radio 4 1:45pm
15 min
Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes. Ian Hislop. Credit: BBC

Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes

Episode 3 - The Drunk And The Bullion Stone

The subject of drink and drunkenness is always a contentious one, but however puritanical or sensitive the age, the figure of a drunk, from Joanna Lumley's riotous Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous to Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff has been a regular feature of comedy. And as it turns out, you can go back further still to find the depiction of a comic drunk. Ian's in Scotland to see The Bullion Stone, a 10th century Pictish carving now on display in the National Museum of Scotland.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2pm (repeat)
Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Clive Anderson. Copyright: BBC

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Episode 2

Guest starring Hugh Laurie and Enn Reitel.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
Sarah Millican

Elephant In The Room

Series 1, Episode 4

Sarah Millican hosts this game show which uses national surveys to find out which of its panellists is closest to, and furthest from, the average British person in a series of different subjects.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Lynne Truss

Rumblings From The Rafters

Episode 3

An edible dormouse and a peacock butterfly reveal the truth about life in an attic. With Hugh Dennis and Amanda Abbington.

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 19 - The Threatening Letters

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 (repeat)
Clare In The Community. Copyright: BBC

Clare In The Community

Series 12, Episode 3 - Questions Questions

Clare's got tickets to Any Questions. This is going to be the best night of her life, even is she does have to take Mrs Singh. Elsewhere, Brian's gone back to Men's Group and discovered there's been some developments.

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

Ballylenon

Series 2, Episode 1

It's 1954 in the sleepy Irish town, and the Development Association looks set for open confrontation.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Clive Anderson. Copyright: BBC

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Episode 2

Guest starring Hugh Laurie and Enn Reitel.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30pm (repeat)
Sarah Millican

Elephant In The Room

Series 1, Episode 4

Sarah Millican hosts this game show which uses national surveys to find out which of its panellists is closest to, and furthest from, the average British person in a series of different subjects.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Clare In The Community. Copyright: BBC

Clare In The Community

Series 12, Episode 2 - I Predict A Riot

Clare finds herself at the centre of a riot during a prison visit, and has to prove that she is not the ringleader. Back in the Sparrowhawk office, Joan suspects something strange.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Delve Special. David Lander (Stephen Fry). Copyright: BBC

Delve Special

Series 3, Episode 2 - Cowboys

Reporter David Lander investigates Britain's cowboy builders.

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

We Forced A Bot To Write This Show

Episode 6 - The One Show, The Crown, And Clarkson

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)
Mark Thomas - The Manifesto. Mark Thomas. Copyright: BBC

Mark Thomas - The Manifesto

Series 4, Episode 3

Mark aims to compile more policies for his manifesto.

Radio 4 11:15pm (repeat)
Sarah Keyworth

Sarah Keyworth - Are You A Boy Or A Girl?

Series 1, Episode 2 - Nedved

In part two we go back to Sarah's school days as she gets mistaken for a footballer and looks closer at the reality of androgyny in early 2000s Nottingham...

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
It Is Rocket Science!. Helen Keen. Copyright: BBC

It Is Rocket Science!

Series 2, Episode 1 - Where Is Everyone?

Helen Keen explores the mystery of Fermi's Paradox - in a vast universe, potentially teeming with alien life, why has no one even dropped by to say hello? (There is a steadfast refusal to see this as her 17th birthday party all over again.)

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:45pm (repeat)
Tina C: Herstory. Tina C (Christopher Green). Copyright: BBC

Tina C's Global Depression Tour

Episode 1 - The United States

Country music legend Tina C starts off her trip looking at the global recession in her home country.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30am (repeat)
Lynne Truss

Rumblings From The Rafters

Episode 3

An edible dormouse and a peacock butterfly reveal the truth about life in an attic. With Hugh Dennis and Amanda Abbington.

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 19 - The Threatening Letters

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 2, Episode 1

It's 1954 in the sleepy Irish town, and the Development Association looks set for open confrontation.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Clive Anderson. Copyright: BBC

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Episode 2

Guest starring Hugh Laurie and Enn Reitel.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Sarah Millican

Elephant In The Room

Series 1, Episode 4

Sarah Millican hosts this game show which uses national surveys to find out which of its panellists is closest to, and furthest from, the average British person in a series of different subjects.

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