Radio
Radio schedule Wednesday 25th December 2024
7am
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Project Santa Claus
One-off comedy starring Tony Slattery as a civil servant who discovers a conspiracy to privatise Christmas.
7:30am
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The Missing Hancocks
Series 2, Episode 5 - The Trial Of Father ChristmasThe Anthony Hancock Strolling Players present a cautionary tale of Christmas as it might be.
8am60 min
The Reunion: Absolutely Fabulous
The cast of Ab Fab reunite to look back at the hit sitcom.
8am
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Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups
Series 3, Episode 5 - How to Make a KillingA neighbourly good deed lands Tom in trouble, while his parents throw themselves into some evening classes.
9am
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You Heard It Here First
Series 2, Episode 6Chris McCausland asks a panel of comedians to live in an audio only world, with Donna Preston, Jon Long, Glenn Moore and Sara Pascoe.
10am
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Happy Birthday Maurice Cole
A look at the early life of Kenny Everett, who was born Maurice Cole, on Christmas Day 1944.
12pm
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Project Santa Claus
One-off comedy starring Tony Slattery as a civil servant who discovers a conspiracy to privatise Christmas.
12:30pm30 min
Fighting Talk
Series 22, Highlights Special - Favourites 2024 - Part 1Rick Edwards presents some of the best moments of sporting punditry from Fighting Talk this year.
12:30pm
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The Missing Hancocks
Series 2, Episode 5 - The Trial Of Father ChristmasThe Anthony Hancock Strolling Players present a cautionary tale of Christmas as it might be.
1pm
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Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups
Series 3, Episode 5 - How to Make a KillingA neighbourly good deed lands Tom in trouble, while his parents throw themselves into some evening classes.
2:15pm45 min
Punt & Dennis: Route Masters
Christmas SpecialIn this Christmas Day special, the duo reach their final destination, through a series of appropriately festive detours and diversions. They're armed with a bulging sack of nuggets of new and half-remembered trivia, aided by a special guest. And just as Father Christmas manages to circumnavigate the world in just one night, Steve and Hugh will take us on an equally circuitous and lengthy journey.
2:30pm
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Ed Reardon's Week
Ed Reardon's Christmas Week 2020, Christmas Special - Upstairs Room At The InnIt's nearly Christmas, and Ed needs a room at the inn. The Lock Keeper's Arms, that is. But first, he's got to deal with Scrooge.
3pm
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Star Child
A comic retelling of the Nativity story.
3:30pm30 min
Fighting Talk
Series 22, Highlights Special - Favourites 2024 - Part 2Sporting punditry from Fighting Talk with more of the best moments from this year with Rick Edwards.
3:30pm90 min
Waiting In The Wings
Noel Coward's vibrant, poignant and witty play about a group of retired actresses who find challenging ways of facing old age together.
4pm
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Happy Birthday Maurice Cole
A look at the early life of Kenny Everett, who was born Maurice Cole, on Christmas Day 1944.
6pm
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Project Santa Claus
One-off comedy starring Tony Slattery as a civil servant who discovers a conspiracy to privatise Christmas.
6:15pm45 min version
My Mate's A Footballer
Series 3, Episode 14 - My Mate's A ComedianPatrick Bamford turns the tables on Joe Wilkinson to ask him about life as a comedian, with Ricky Gervais and Katherine Ryan adding their views on the world of comedy and stand-up.
6:30pm30 min
One Person Found This Helpful
Christmas SpecialIn this Christmas special, Frank Skinner and his guests decipher the good, the bad, and the baffling, as they try to work out a mystery item - based entirely on its online reviews. Which traditional panto features an animatronic dinosaur? What's the worst present they've ever received? And is that one star write-up "bit claggy, made me feel sick" a review of some stuffing or Love Actually?
6:30pm
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The Missing Hancocks
Series 2, Episode 5 - The Trial Of Father ChristmasThe Anthony Hancock Strolling Players present a cautionary tale of Christmas as it might be.
7pm
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Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups
Series 3, Episode 5 - How to Make a KillingA neighbourly good deed lands Tom in trouble, while his parents throw themselves into some evening classes.
8pm
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Archive On 4: Victoria Wood - Loose Chippings
Biographer Jasper Rees presents an assortment of previously unbroadcast audio gems from Victoria Wood.
8:30pm
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Ed Reardon's Week
Ed Reardon's Christmas Week 2020, Christmas Special - Upstairs Room At The InnIt's nearly Christmas, and Ed needs a room at the inn. The Lock Keeper's Arms, that is. But first, he's got to deal with Scrooge.
9pm30 min
Ceefax Strikes Back... With Count Binface
Count Binface celebrates the BBC's quirkiest invention: CEEFAX. A hilarious revivification of an unlikely national treasure. Granted it's on the radio, but it's a start!
9pm
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Star Child
A comic retelling of the Nativity story.
10pm
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You Heard It Here First
Series 2, Episode 6Chris McCausland asks a panel of comedians to live in an audio only world, with Donna Preston, Jon Long, Glenn Moore and Sara Pascoe.
10:30pm
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Tim Key's Poetry Programme
Christmas Special - Tim Key's Christmas Poetry ProgrammeComic poet Tim Key gets in the Christmas spirit, by reciting festive poetry. With musical support from Tom Basden.
11pm
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Elis James' Pantheon Of Heroes
Series 2, Episode 5 - CommunicationPryce Pryce-Jones, Richard Trevithick and Guglielmo Marconi - Elis compares key figures in Welsh history to determine Wales' ultimate heroes.
11:30pm
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Paperback Hell
Episode 2.3, Thrust's Eagle: Suspiciously fictional author Alexander Cromwell reads extracts from his military adventure novel Thrust's Eagle.
11:45pm
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Excuse Me, Are You John Shuttleworth?
Episode 1Part One finds Graham Fellows greeting John Shuttleworth on Christmas Eve before he begins to share his story, although John doesn't know who he is or why he's there and assumes he's a carol singer. But Graham wants to take us back to 1977 when he first started Drama school and came up with a riff that led him to his first character - Jilted John.
Midnight
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Happy Birthday Maurice Cole
A look at the early life of Kenny Everett, who was born Maurice Cole, on Christmas Day 1944.
2am
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Project Santa Claus
One-off comedy starring Tony Slattery as a civil servant who discovers a conspiracy to privatise Christmas.
2:30am
(repeat)
The Missing Hancocks
Series 2, Episode 5 - The Trial Of Father ChristmasThe Anthony Hancock Strolling Players present a cautionary tale of Christmas as it might be.
3am
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Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups
Series 3, Episode 5 - How to Make a KillingA neighbourly good deed lands Tom in trouble, while his parents throw themselves into some evening classes.
4:30am
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Ed Reardon's Week
Ed Reardon's Christmas Week 2020, Christmas Special - Upstairs Room At The InnIt's nearly Christmas, and Ed needs a room at the inn. The Lock Keeper's Arms, that is. But first, he's got to deal with Scrooge.
5am
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Star Child
A comic retelling of the Nativity story.