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Radio schedule Wednesday 31st January 2024

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Robert Bathurst

The Golden Age

Episode 1

A series of mysterious deaths brings the police to the BBC. What could be causing people to die in front of their wireless sets?

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 20 - The Sleepless Night

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 2

Phonsie and Stumpy struggle to keep Josie away from Packy McGoldrick's clutches.

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

The Elephant Man

Episode 5 - All Features Great and Small

Valentine's Day approaches and some of the zoo staff are keen to find romance.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Robert Bathurst

The Golden Age

Episode 1

A series of mysterious deaths brings the police to the BBC. What could be causing people to die in front of their wireless sets?

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 20 - The Sleepless Night

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 2

Phonsie and Stumpy struggle to keep Josie away from Packy McGoldrick's clutches.

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

Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes

Episode 8 - Any Women Here?

Ian addresses a gap in the historical records of comedy and joins Dr Janina Ramirez and Professor Marion Turner in their search for records of Mediaeval female comedians.

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

The Elephant Man

Episode 5 - All Features Great and Small

Valentine's Day approaches and some of the zoo staff are keen to find romance.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
Robert Bathurst

The Golden Age

Episode 1

A series of mysterious deaths brings the police to the BBC. What could be causing people to die in front of their wireless sets?

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 20 - The Sleepless Night

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 4 - Unlucky Louis

Clare visits a client who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone who sees him, while Brian and Thomas are barred from a street party.

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

Ballylenon

Series 2, Episode 2

Phonsie and Stumpy struggle to keep Josie away from Packy McGoldrick's clutches.

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

The Elephant Man

Episode 5 - All Features Great and Small

Valentine's Day approaches and some of the zoo staff are keen to find romance.

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

Delve Special

Series 3, Episode 3 - Food For Thought

Reporter David Lander investigates the worrying impact of a new food additive.

Radio 4 11pm
15 min
What's The Story, Ashley Storrie?. Ashley Storrie

What's The Story, Ashley Storrie?

Series 2, Episode 1 - How To Make Friends And Influence People... Or 'Ashley Nae Pals'

Relating more to wizards, aliens and ghosts since childhood, Ashley has developed her own unique ways of seemingly 'fitting in', despite the confusing world of human relationships.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Mark Thomas - The Manifesto. Mark Thomas. Copyright: BBC

Mark Thomas - The Manifesto

Series 4, Episode 4

On this week's agenda, a kick-starter to kick Scotland out of the Union, bankers to be given bonuses in the form of NHS donation cards, and an end to bank fees for those on a family income of less than 30,000 pounds.

Radio 4 11:15pm (repeat)
Sarah Keyworth

Sarah Keyworth - Are You A Boy Or A Girl?

Series 1, Episode 3 - Clutch Bag

Tonight, Sarah looks back at her experiences at university.

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

It Is Rocket Science!

Series 2, Episode 2 - Things To Come, That Might Have Been

Helen Keen looks at the power of the imagination to inspire some of the most creative and least likely of space endeavours - featuring un-dead astronauts, a nuclear-bomb-powered-flying-hotel and the British Space Programme.

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

Tina C's Global Depression Tour

Episode 2 - Iceland

Christopher Green's comic creation is in Iceland this week.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30am (repeat)
Robert Bathurst

The Golden Age

Episode 1

A series of mysterious deaths brings the police to the BBC. What could be causing people to die in front of their wireless sets?

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 20 - The Sleepless Night

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 2

Phonsie and Stumpy struggle to keep Josie away from Packy McGoldrick's clutches.

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

The Elephant Man

Episode 5 - All Features Great and Small

Valentine's Day approaches and some of the zoo staff are keen to find romance.

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