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Radio schedule Saturday 4th January 2025

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

Mr Willow's Wife

Episode 4 - The Lost Weekend

Ahead of a trip to Brighton, Felicity gets an unexpected cash windfall.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9:30am (repeat)
J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook

Episode 6 - The Rich Brothers

The veteran of many parts recalls a slapstick act, and reveals all on showbiz cliches.

Radio 4 10am
30 min
You're Dead To Me

You're Dead To Me

Series 10, Episode 1

The comic history podcast returns.

BBC Radio 5 Live 11am
60 min
Rick Edwards. Credit: BBC

Fighting Talk

Series 22, Episode 22

The sports-based panel show returns.

BBC Radio Scotland 11:30am (repeat)
Mark Nelson

The Good, The Bad And The Unexpected

Series 19, Episode 1

It's a new series and a belter to start the new year. Mark Nelson is joined by the Queen of Scottish comedy, Karen Dunbar, who shares her secrets after a night out. With them is comedian and actor Lynn Ferguson, back on the show to tell her good story about what she misses about Scotland whilst living in LA, and keyboardist and founding member of Deacon Blue Jim Prime, who has rock and roll stories falling out of his pockets.

Radio 4 12:30pm (repeat)
The News Quiz. Andy Zaltzman

The News Quiz

Series 116, Highlights Special - Best Of 2024

A satirical smorgasbord of The News Quiz's best bits of 2024. Covering international tensions, a UK General Election, and of course the question on everyone's lips, what exactly was a "Brat Summer".

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

Mr Willow's Wife

Episode 4 - The Lost Weekend

Ahead of a trip to Brighton, Felicity gets an unexpected cash windfall.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook

Episode 6 - The Rich Brothers

The veteran of many parts recalls a slapstick act, and reveals all on showbiz cliches.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8pm (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Mr Willow's Wife

Episode 4 - The Lost Weekend

Ahead of a trip to Brighton, Felicity gets an unexpected cash windfall.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30pm (repeat)
J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook

Episode 6 - The Rich Brothers

The veteran of many parts recalls a slapstick act, and reveals all on showbiz cliches.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Andrew Maxwell

Welcome To Wherever You Are

Series 2, Episode 2

This week's acts relay their gags in from Serbia, Zimbabwe and the USA.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
Rob Newman's Total Eclipse Of Descartes. Rob Newman

Rob Newman's Total Eclipse Of Descartes

Episode 1 - The Inheritance

In a world gone crazy, can philosophy help? One of Britain's finest comedians pieces together a unique approach for our times by unpicking 3,000 years of thought.

Radio 4 11pm
30 min
What? Seriously??. Image shows left to right: Isy Suttie, Dara O Briain. Credit: BBC, Unusual Productions

What? Seriously??

Episode 1 - Suits, Shells, and Survival

Dara O Briain and Isy Suttie untangle Suits, Shells and Survival with special guest Helen Sharman, the actual astronaut.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm (repeat)
My Teenage Diary. Rufus Hound

My Teenage Diary

Series 7, Episode 4 - Sara Pascoe

Comedian Sara Pascoe reads from her diaries, in which she works at the Millennium Dome, gets a new boyfriend and starts university.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
The Remains Of Foley And McColl. Copyright: BBC

The Remains Of Foley And McColl

Episode 2 - Cutting Edge

Sean Foley and Hamish McColl board Boris's Disco Ship to convert offshore ravers into fresh, young listeners.

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

Mr Willow's Wife

Episode 4 - The Lost Weekend

Ahead of a trip to Brighton, Felicity gets an unexpected cash windfall.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook

J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook

Episode 6 - The Rich Brothers

The veteran of many parts recalls a slapstick act, and reveals all on showbiz cliches.

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