Schedule Sunday 2nd August 2009
12pm
(repeat)
Just A Minute
Series 55, Episode 1Just A Minute, the most fiendish and finicky of all panel games, returns to the BBC Radio 4 airwaves once again for a new series. The guests are Sue Perkins, Pam Ayres, Tony Hawks and Tim Rice. At the end of the show, host Nicholas Parsons pays tribute to long-standing regular Clement Freud, who died in April 2009.
3:50pm
(repeat)
'Allo 'Allo!
Episode 1.2: Crabtree's Pogeon Pist. Fanny and Leclerc's wedding is timed to coincide with the execution of Michelle's most audacious escape plan yet.
4:20pm
(repeat)
Keeping Up Appearances
The Three-Piece Suite. Hyacinth is anxious that her neighbours view the arrival of her new suite, proudly boasting that it's an exact replica of one at Sandringham House. But the rest of the family conduct themselves less than regally.
4:50pm
(repeat)
The Green Green Grass
Series 4, Episode 5 - Your Cheating ArtMarlene's doting mum Dora visits to help put a smile back on her grandson's face.
6:45pm
(repeat)
An Audience With...
An Audience with Victoria Wood. Comedian Victoria Wood performs before a star-studded audience including Julie Walters, Dave Allen, Judi Dench and Dawn French, treating her guests to a selection of her celebrated monologues, taking questions from the audience, and performing some witty numbers at the piano.
8pm
Top Gear
Jeremy Clarkson and James May are set the task of creating a memorable TV advert for Volkswagen. Despite vowing to work together to deliver a classic piece of advertising, the boys quickly fall out on set. Meanwhile, Richard Hammond looks for an alternative to boring Germanic sports saloons and ends up going mostly sideways in the new Vauxhall VXR8 Bathurst. Plus, the Cool Wall returns, and American chat show legend Jay Leno is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
9pm
(repeat)
Have I Got News For You
Four editions of the satirical panel game broadcast between 21.00-23.40.
10pm
(repeat)
The Now Show
Series 28, Episode 5Bored Now - Can I Play With The Puppy? As the green shoots of the silly season start sprouting, Punt & Dennis look into, among other things, exactly why we're all so bored. Meanwhile, Mitch Benn becomes a space station correspondent, Jon Holmes's piece is a "stunna", and Marcus Brigstocke finds it isn't easy being green.
10pm50 min
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Series 1, Episode 8 - Shane Warne, Patsy Kensit, Gok Wan, Calvin HarrisAlan's guests are cricketer Shane Warne, actress Patsy Kensit and presenter Gok Wan. Plus, Calvin Harris performs his new single Ready for the Weekend.
10:30pm
(repeat)
Hut 33
Series 1, Episode 5 - FoodConvoys are being sunk at an alarming rate by U-boats, so the men of Hut 33 are struggling to concentrate on code-breaking when all they can think about is a hot meal made from food that wasn't powdered.
10:30pm
(repeat)
11pm
(repeat)
We Are Klang
Episode 1 - PoetFriends, family, rivals and academics remember controversial poet and alcoholic Peter Krockston.
11:10pm
(repeat)
Father Ted
Episode 2.3, Tentacles of Doom: Father Ted receives word that Craggy Island's Holy Stone of Clonrichert is to be upgraded. Three bishops arrive to perform the ceremony, and Ted is determined that Fathers Dougal and Jack be on their best behaviour.
11:15pm
(repeat)
Comedy Classics
Episode 6 - The New StatesmanRik Mayall plays The Right Honourable Alan Beresford B'Stard - the most right wing MP in the House of Commons, and the personification of Tory sleaze and corruption. Contributors include Marsha Fitzalan who played B'stard's wife Sarah, Edwina Currie, Helen Lederer and writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran.
11:30pm
(repeat)
Gus Murdoch's Sacred Cows
Episode 3 - FootballGus looks at the national sport and wonders if it is all cracked up to be.
11:45pm
(repeat)
A Series Of Psychotic Episodes
Series 1, Episode 3Sketches include the Magic Mirror of Topshop, a disturbing taxidermist, and Revising History looks at the history of the Suffragesters.