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Radio schedule Monday 12th August 2024

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Anything Legal

Anything Legal

Episode 5

Charles and George hire a secretary to boost their new business.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Stop Messing About!

Stop Messing About!

Series 2, Episode 9

Sketch comedy starring Kenneth Williams.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
North By Northamptonshire. Copyright: BBC

North By Northamptonshire

Series 1, Episode 1

Mary starts rehearsals and is shocked by 12-year-old Gregory's slide show of Victorian ladies. Meanwhile Esther sends Jonathan out to collect money for the Leicestershire Infertile Males Project but he ends up at The Bricklayer's Arms looking at pictures of elephants with Jan.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
The Unbelievable Truth. David Mitchell. Copyright: BBC / Random Entertainment

The Unbelievable Truth

Series 30, Episode 1

David Mitchell is joined by Tony Hawks, Lucy Porter, Zoe Lyons and Justin Edwards, who are obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as divorce, lying, Mexicans and coffee.

Radio 4 9:30am
30 min
Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics

Series 10, Episode 6 - Tacitus

The great historian of imperial Rome, Tacitus writes beautiful, unsettling, persuasive Latin. We know many of his likes and dislikes, but life facts? Not so much. With Dan Snow.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
Anything Legal

Anything Legal

Episode 5

Charles and George hire a secretary to boost their new business.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Stop Messing About!

Stop Messing About!

Series 2, Episode 9

Sketch comedy starring Kenneth Williams.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 1pm (repeat)
North By Northamptonshire. Copyright: BBC

North By Northamptonshire

Series 1, Episode 1

Mary starts rehearsals and is shocked by 12-year-old Gregory's slide show of Victorian ladies. Meanwhile Esther sends Jonathan out to collect money for the Leicestershire Infertile Males Project but he ends up at The Bricklayer's Arms looking at pictures of elephants with Jan.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2pm (repeat)
Just A Minute. Nicholas Parsons. Copyright: BBC

Just A Minute

Series 55, Episode 6

Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, featuring performers from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. With Paul Merton, Janey Godley, Richard Herring and Sue Perkins.

Radio 4 2:15pm (repeat)
Ed Reardon's Week. Ed Reardon (Christopher Douglas). Copyright: BBC

Ed Reardon's Week

Series 15, Episode 5 - Ed Reardon Is On Fire!

Ed decides to run an online quiz but is somewhat distracted by Jake's new girlfriend.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
Street And Lane

Street And Lane

Series 1, Episode 1 - Patio Marital

Johnny Street and Arthur Lane are a pair of Yorkshire builders in a white van - "Up your Street, Down your Lane" - who battle out their partnership and their future as they tackle a plethora or household repairs. This week it's a patio job at the home of warring couple Christine and Tom Rose.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6pm (repeat)
Anything Legal

Anything Legal

Episode 5

Charles and George hire a secretary to boost their new business.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
The Unbelievable Truth. David Mitchell. Copyright: BBC / Random Entertainment

The Unbelievable Truth

Series 30, Episode 2

David Mitchell is joined by Angela Barnes, Glenn Moore, Shaparak Khorsandi and Neil Delamere, who are obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as legs, restaurants, travel and tigers.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6:30pm (repeat)
Stop Messing About!

Stop Messing About!

Series 2, Episode 9

Sketch comedy starring Kenneth Williams.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
North By Northamptonshire. Copyright: BBC

North By Northamptonshire

Series 1, Episode 1

Mary starts rehearsals and is shocked by 12-year-old Gregory's slide show of Victorian ladies. Meanwhile Esther sends Jonathan out to collect money for the Leicestershire Infertile Males Project but he ends up at The Bricklayer's Arms looking at pictures of elephants with Jan.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8pm (repeat)
Just A Minute. Nicholas Parsons. Copyright: BBC

Just A Minute

Series 55, Episode 6

Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, featuring performers from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. With Paul Merton, Janey Godley, Richard Herring and Sue Perkins.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30pm (repeat)
Street And Lane

Street And Lane

Series 1, Episode 1 - Patio Marital

Johnny Street and Arthur Lane are a pair of Yorkshire builders in a white van - "Up your Street, Down your Lane" - who battle out their partnership and their future as they tackle a plethora or household repairs. This week it's a patio job at the home of warring couple Christine and Tom Rose.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
The Unbelievable Truth. David Mitchell. Copyright: BBC / Random Entertainment

The Unbelievable Truth

Series 30, Episode 1

David Mitchell is joined by Tony Hawks, Lucy Porter, Zoe Lyons and Justin Edwards, who are obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as divorce, lying, Mexicans and coffee.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Goodness Gracious Me

Goodness Gracious Me

Series 3, Episode 4

This week, Nehru and Jinnah: the Cambridge Years. And Smeeta Smitten faces a lonely retirement with a crumpled picture of Art Malik.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
Catherine Bohart: TL;DR. Catherine Bohart

Catherine Bohart: TL;DR

Episode 3 - What's With All The Riotous Goings-on?

This week Catherine Bohart and guests examine far-right riots taking place across the UK. Writer Tom Neenan explores what's been happening on the streets, Professor Anand Menon explains how this fits into the context of the rise of the far right across Europe and Zoe Lyons wonders why British fascists don't seem to scrub up quite as well as their continental equivalents...

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
The Ape That Got Lucky. Image shows from L to R: Professor Austin Herring (Geoffrey McGivern), Chris Addison, Dan Tetsell, Jo Enright. Copyright: BBC

The Ape That Got Lucky

Episode 4 - Man or Monkey?

In his final show, Chris Addison produces his concluding arguments for his view that humans evolved through sheer luck and as his audience whether they consider themselves to be humans or monkeys.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2am (repeat)
Anything Legal

Anything Legal

Episode 5

Charles and George hire a secretary to boost their new business.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30am (repeat)
Stop Messing About!

Stop Messing About!

Series 2, Episode 9

Sketch comedy starring Kenneth Williams.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3am (repeat)
North By Northamptonshire. Copyright: BBC

North By Northamptonshire

Series 1, Episode 1

Mary starts rehearsals and is shocked by 12-year-old Gregory's slide show of Victorian ladies. Meanwhile Esther sends Jonathan out to collect money for the Leicestershire Infertile Males Project but he ends up at The Bricklayer's Arms looking at pictures of elephants with Jan.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
Just A Minute. Nicholas Parsons. Copyright: BBC

Just A Minute

Series 55, Episode 6

Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, featuring performers from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. With Paul Merton, Janey Godley, Richard Herring and Sue Perkins.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
Street And Lane

Street And Lane

Series 1, Episode 1 - Patio Marital

Johnny Street and Arthur Lane are a pair of Yorkshire builders in a white van - "Up your Street, Down your Lane" - who battle out their partnership and their future as they tackle a plethora or household repairs. This week it's a patio job at the home of warring couple Christine and Tom Rose.

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