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Radio schedule Friday 22nd March 2024

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes. Image shows from L to R: Ernie Wise, Eric Morecambe. Copyright: ITV

Sunshine And Laughter

Episode 5

At the height of their brilliant career, Eric Morecambe has a serious heart attack, and a fatal one in 1984. Ernie will spend the rest of his life looking for Eric.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:15am (repeat)
Montserrat Lombard

Cry Babies

Series 1, Episode 5 - Oh No

Sally and Bea meet for coffee whenever they can, but Life is in danger of pushing them apart.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
All Those Women. Image shows from L to R: Emily (Lucy Hutchinson), Jen (Sinead Matthews), Maggie (Lesley Manville), Hetty (Sheila Hancock). Copyright: BBC

All Those Women

Comedy series by Katherine Jakeways about four generations of women living under one roof.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
Marriage Lines. Image shows from L to R: George Starling (Richard Briers), Kate Starling (Prunella Scales). Copyright: BBC

Marriage Lines

Series 2, Episode 12

What will George and Kate make of their first house?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30am (repeat)
Big Jim And The Figaro Club. Big Jim (Norman Rossington). Copyright: BBC

Big Jim And The Figaro Club

Episode 5 - Boning Up On History

Perkins wants to dig for post war Britain, but he is soon up to his neck in trouble as Jim and the gang soil his plans.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 3, Episode 1

Writers Penny Junor and Julian Fellowes join team captains Lucy Moore and Anthony Holden to run the gauntlet of gossip. Gyles Brandreth presides.

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

Bookcases

Series 1, Episode 1 - Bronte Country

London 1853, and a firm of religious publishers is transformed by an actress and her son.

Radio 4 11:30am (repeat)
Room 101. Paul Merton. Credit: BBC, Hat Trick Productions

Room 101

Series 1, Episode 5 - Phil Wang

Phil Wang goes for standing ovations, biopics and the second law of thermodynamics as his choices for Room 101.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes. Image shows from L to R: Ernie Wise, Eric Morecambe. Copyright: ITV

Sunshine And Laughter

Episode 5

At the height of their brilliant career, Eric Morecambe has a serious heart attack, and a fatal one in 1984. Ernie will spend the rest of his life looking for Eric.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:15pm (repeat)
Montserrat Lombard

Cry Babies

Series 1, Episode 5 - Oh No

Sally and Bea meet for coffee whenever they can, but Life is in danger of pushing them apart.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
All Those Women. Image shows from L to R: Emily (Lucy Hutchinson), Jen (Sinead Matthews), Maggie (Lesley Manville), Hetty (Sheila Hancock). Copyright: BBC

All Those Women

Comedy series by Katherine Jakeways about four generations of women living under one roof.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 1pm (repeat)
Marriage Lines. Image shows from L to R: George Starling (Richard Briers), Kate Starling (Prunella Scales). Copyright: BBC

Marriage Lines

Series 2, Episode 12

What will George and Kate make of their first house?

BBC Radio Scotland 1:30pm
30 min
BBC Radio 4 Extra 1:30pm (repeat)
Big Jim And The Figaro Club. Big Jim (Norman Rossington). Copyright: BBC

Big Jim And The Figaro Club

Episode 5 - Boning Up On History

Perkins wants to dig for post war Britain, but he is soon up to his neck in trouble as Jim and the gang soil his plans.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2pm (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 3, Episode 1

Writers Penny Junor and Julian Fellowes join team captains Lucy Moore and Anthony Holden to run the gauntlet of gossip. Gyles Brandreth presides.

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

Bookcases

Series 1, Episode 1 - Bronte Country

London 1853, and a firm of religious publishers is transformed by an actress and her son.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5pm (repeat)
Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes. Image shows from L to R: Ernie Wise, Eric Morecambe. Copyright: ITV

Sunshine And Laughter

Episode 5

At the height of their brilliant career, Eric Morecambe has a serious heart attack, and a fatal one in 1984. Ernie will spend the rest of his life looking for Eric.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:15pm (repeat)
Montserrat Lombard

Cry Babies

Series 1, Episode 5 - Oh No

Sally and Bea meet for coffee whenever they can, but Life is in danger of pushing them apart.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30pm (repeat)
All Those Women. Image shows from L to R: Emily (Lucy Hutchinson), Jen (Sinead Matthews), Maggie (Lesley Manville), Hetty (Sheila Hancock). Copyright: BBC

All Those Women

Comedy series by Katherine Jakeways about four generations of women living under one roof.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6pm (repeat)
Marriage Lines. Image shows from L to R: George Starling (Richard Briers), Kate Starling (Prunella Scales). Copyright: BBC

Marriage Lines

Series 2, Episode 12

What will George and Kate make of their first house?

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
The Now Show. Image shows from L to R: Hugh Dennis, Steve Punt. Copyright: BBC

The Now Show

Series 64, Episode 2

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches. Featuring Lucy Porter on Laura Kenny's retirement, Alasdair Beckett-King on the state of our nation's health and an original song from Mitch Benn. With voices from Ed Jones and Katie Norris.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6:30pm (repeat)
Big Jim And The Figaro Club. Big Jim (Norman Rossington). Copyright: BBC

Big Jim And The Figaro Club

Episode 5 - Boning Up On History

Perkins wants to dig for post war Britain, but he is soon up to his neck in trouble as Jim and the gang soil his plans.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 3, Episode 1

Writers Penny Junor and Julian Fellowes join team captains Lucy Moore and Anthony Holden to run the gauntlet of gossip. Gyles Brandreth presides.

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

Bookcases

Series 1, Episode 1 - Bronte Country

London 1853, and a firm of religious publishers is transformed by an actress and her son.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Stuart Mitchell. Copyright: Steve Ullathorne

Stuart Mitchell's Cost Of Living

Episode 4 - Stuart Loses Everything

Stuart gives up everything he has worked so hard for in an attempt to be true to his self, leaving his highly paid job in banking and finding himself in debt with a hair transplant to pay for. Is his journey really worth it, when he's scrambling to pay the bills?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:15pm (repeat)
Jazz Emu: The Sound Of Love. Image shows left to right: Bonson (Adrian Gray), Jazz Emu (Archie Henderson). Credit: BBC

Jazz Emu: The Sound Of Us

Episode 4 - The Sound Of Family

Jazz Emu goes back to his foley roots to save his dying, disappointed father.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Laura Solon

Laura Solon: Talking And Not Talking

Series 1, Episode 3

Peter and his wife make clear their dislike of Tony Blair; plastic clip-on celebrities are presented to Dragon's Den; and the Isle of Mann is revealed as being more boring than eating tissues.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Absolute Power. Image shows from L to R: Charles Prentiss (Stephen Fry), Martin McCabe (John Bird). Copyright: BBC

Absolute Power

Series 1, Episode 5 - Radio 3

Prentiss McCabe take on the ultimate challenge - to achieve a substantial increase in Radio 3's listening figures.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Globe

All The World's A Globe

Episode 8, From 20th Century Wars to Twiggy: Spoof history of Earth, with Jim Broadbent, Patrick Barlow and guest Ben Kingsley.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:45pm (repeat)
A Wet Handle

A Wet Handle

Episode 2: Comic songs, stories and poems, with Ivor Cutler, Craig Murray-Orr, Dylan Edwards and Beverley Crew.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3am (repeat)
Morecambe & Wise: The Lost Tapes. Image shows from L to R: Ernie Wise, Eric Morecambe. Copyright: ITV

Sunshine And Laughter

Episode 5

At the height of their brilliant career, Eric Morecambe has a serious heart attack, and a fatal one in 1984. Ernie will spend the rest of his life looking for Eric.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3:15am (repeat)
Montserrat Lombard

Cry Babies

Series 1, Episode 5 - Oh No

Sally and Bea meet for coffee whenever they can, but Life is in danger of pushing them apart.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3:30am (repeat)
All Those Women. Image shows from L to R: Emily (Lucy Hutchinson), Jen (Sinead Matthews), Maggie (Lesley Manville), Hetty (Sheila Hancock). Copyright: BBC

All Those Women

Comedy series by Katherine Jakeways about four generations of women living under one roof.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
Marriage Lines. Image shows from L to R: George Starling (Richard Briers), Kate Starling (Prunella Scales). Copyright: BBC

Marriage Lines

Series 2, Episode 12

What will George and Kate make of their first house?

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Big Jim And The Figaro Club. Big Jim (Norman Rossington). Copyright: BBC

Big Jim And The Figaro Club

Episode 5 - Boning Up On History

Perkins wants to dig for post war Britain, but he is soon up to his neck in trouble as Jim and the gang soil his plans.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5am (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 3, Episode 1

Writers Penny Junor and Julian Fellowes join team captains Lucy Moore and Anthony Holden to run the gauntlet of gossip. Gyles Brandreth presides.

BBC Radio 5 Live 5:30am
30 min
My Mate's A Footballer. Image shows left to right: Patrick Bamford, Joe Wilkinson. Credit: BBC

My Mate's A Footballer

Series 1, Episode 18 - Your Questions Answered - Part Two

Pat gets grilled on his recent handball, VAR and developing the 'dark arts' of football in another episode where Joe puts some of your questions to Patrick.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 5:30am (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Bookcases

Series 1, Episode 1 - Bronte Country

London 1853, and a firm of religious publishers is transformed by an actress and her son.

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