Schedule
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Early
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00:00
Peter Elliott Hayes - Orbit One Zero—6. The Unseen
6/6 Do the seemingly indestructible cylinders have a weakness? With Felix Felton.
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00:30
A Good Read—AL Kennedy and Philip Kerr
Novelists AL Kennedy and Philip Kerr join Sue MacGregor to discuss their favourite books.
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01:00
Hercule Poirot—The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1. Heart of Fire
1/6 The'Heart of Fire' ruby once adorned the crown of Tsars, but you own it at your peril...
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01:30
Shine Like Tokyo - Northern Soul Goes East!
DJ Annie Nightingale looks at how Northern Soul music has become popular in Japan.
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02:00
Book at Bedtime—A Song for Issy Bradley, Episode 1
1/10 It's Jacob's birthday and all he wants is for his family to have breakfast together.
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02:15
Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life—The Beginnings of the Modern Office
Lucy looks at Charles Lamb's account of life at the East India Company in the early 1800s.
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02:30
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room—1. Pregnant
1/10 In a squalid bedsit, single and pregnant Jane battles personal and social prejudices.
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02:45
Book of the Week—The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth about the Nordic Miracle, Denmark, the Happiest Country in the World
1/5 The Danes are consistently rated as the happiest people on earth but pay the highest taxes
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03:00
Drama on 4—Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea, Episode 1
1/2 A theatre director retires to a remote house by the sea to write his memoirs.
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04:00
Quote... Unquote—Simon Brett, Vanessa Feltz, Michele Hanson and Henry Normal
Nigel Rees quizzes Simon Brett, Vanessa Feltz, Michele Hanson and Henry Normal.
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04:30
GK Chesterton - The Club of Queer Trades—The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd
5/6 What is happening to Professor Chadd?
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05:00
Crazy Big Fish—Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves
3/6 Despite opposition, the Hull women pull out all the stops to get Rita to the read-through.
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05:30
The Unbelievable Truth—Series 21, Episode 6
6/6 Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.
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Morning
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06:00
Hercule Poirot—The Mystery of the Blue Train, 2. The Blue Train
2/6 Katherine travels to Nice but when she gets there, a new acquaintance is found dead.
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06:30
Calvin and Hobbes
Phill Jupitus on the comic strip about a boy and his tiger.
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07:00
Second Thoughts—Series 3, Backs to the Drawing Board
7/8 Bill takes time off to help a friend, but Faith is already working at home.
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07:30
Love in Recovery—Series 3, Making Plans
5/6 What鈥檚 it like to go to a wedding as a recovering alcoholic?
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08:00
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter—Series 4, The Villa
2/6 Headed abroad, the author is not keen to visit wife Diana's friend.
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08:30
Know Your Place—Jumpers
5/8 Will caretaker Ramsay have the head for heights for a dangerous job?
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09:00
The News Quiz Extra—Series 25, Episode 5
5/7 A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp
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09:45
Elastic Planet—The Objects
5/6 What do shipwrecked objects have in common? Cosmic comedy of connections.
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10:00
Drama on 4—Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea, Episode 2
2/2 Jeremy Irons stars as Charles Arrowby in Iris Murdoch鈥檚 Booker prize-winning masterpiece.
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11:00
Copenhagen Curios—The Bird in the Cage
1/3 In Christianshavn, Erik covets the caged automaton songbird he sees in a shop window.
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11:15
A Meeting with Dora
Writer Don Shaw recreates a meeting he had in 1979 with 86-year-old activist Dora Russell.
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Afternoon
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12:00
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter—Series 4, The Villa
2/6 Headed abroad, the author is not keen to visit wife Diana's friend.
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12:30
Know Your Place—Jumpers
5/8 Will caretaker Ramsay have the head for heights for a dangerous job?
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13:00
Hercule Poirot—The Mystery of the Blue Train, 2. The Blue Train
2/6 Katherine travels to Nice but when she gets there, a new acquaintance is found dead.
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13:30
Calvin and Hobbes
Phill Jupitus on the comic strip about a boy and his tiger.
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14:00
Book at Bedtime—A Song for Issy Bradley, Episode 2
2/10 Claire is trying to keep control of Jacob's birthday party and Issy says she feels unwell.
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14:15
Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life—Getting a Job: Nepotism or Meritocracy?
Lucy reveals how hiring the 'best man for the job' wasn't always the way it was done.
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14:30
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room—2. Toby
2/10 Pregnant Jane tries to make her bedsit a little more homely, and learns of Toby's writing.
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14:45
Book of the Week—The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth about the Nordic Miracle, Modern-Day Icelanders and their Viking Past
2/5 Scandinavia and its curious tribes explored in Michael Booth's book.
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15:00
Drama on 4—Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea, Episode 2
2/2 Jeremy Irons stars as Charles Arrowby in Iris Murdoch鈥檚 Booker prize-winning masterpiece.
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16:00
The Museum of Curiosity—Series 5, Hughes, Czerski, Finkelman
5/6 John Lloyd and Jimmy Carr with Sean Hughes, Dr Helen Czerski and Dr Irving Finkel.
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16:30
Up the Garden Path—Series 2, You Shall Go to the Ball
6/8 Izzy gets invited to a ball in Cambridge, but she could do with a fairy godmother.
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17:00
Second Thoughts—Series 3, Backs to the Drawing Board
7/8 Bill takes time off to help a friend, but Faith is already working at home.
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17:30
Love in Recovery—Series 3, Making Plans
5/6 What鈥檚 it like to go to a wedding as a recovering alcoholic?
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Evening
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18:00
The Routemasters by Andrew McGibbon—1. Taking the Michelangelo
1/4 When Bernie catches the wrong bus, he is transported back to 16th century Rome.
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18:30
The Radio Detectives—Series 1, Sexton Blake, the Other Baker Street Detective
3/5 Jeffrey Richards probes the many incarnations of 'the poor man's Sherlock Holmes'.
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19:00
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter—Series 4, The Villa
2/6 Headed abroad, the author is not keen to visit wife Diana's friend.
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19:30
Know Your Place—Jumpers
5/8 Will caretaker Ramsay have the head for heights for a dangerous job?
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20:00
Hercule Poirot—The Mystery of the Blue Train, 2. The Blue Train
2/6 Katherine travels to Nice but when she gets there, a new acquaintance is found dead.
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20:30
Calvin and Hobbes
Phill Jupitus on the comic strip about a boy and his tiger.
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21:00
Copenhagen Curios—The Bird in the Cage
1/3 In Christianshavn, Erik covets the caged automaton songbird he sees in a shop window.
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21:15
A Meeting with Dora
Writer Don Shaw recreates a meeting he had in 1979 with 86-year-old activist Dora Russell.
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22:00
Love in Recovery—Series 3, Making Plans
5/6 What鈥檚 it like to go to a wedding as a recovering alcoholic?
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22:30
Boswell's Lives—Series 1, Boswell's Life of Freud
1/4 Boswell attempts to write a biography of Sigmund Freud, but Freud asks all the questions.
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23:00
Cowards—Series 1, Episode 4
4/6 Talking fruit meets crosswords in the bizarre sketch comedy world.
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23:30
Mark Thomas: The Manifesto—Series 4, 4. Glasgow
4/4 Mark Thomas and his Glasgow audience consider a policy to buy Scotland out of the Union.
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Late
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00:00
The Routemasters by Andrew McGibbon—1. Taking the Michelangelo
1/4 When Bernie catches the wrong bus, he is transported back to 16th century Rome.
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00:30
The Radio Detectives—Series 1, Sexton Blake, the Other Baker Street Detective
3/5 Jeffrey Richards probes the many incarnations of 'the poor man's Sherlock Holmes'.
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01:00
Hercule Poirot—The Mystery of the Blue Train, 2. The Blue Train
2/6 Katherine travels to Nice but when she gets there, a new acquaintance is found dead.
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01:30
Calvin and Hobbes
Phill Jupitus on the comic strip about a boy and his tiger.
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02:00
Book at Bedtime—A Song for Issy Bradley, Episode 2
2/10 Claire is trying to keep control of Jacob's birthday party and Issy says she feels unwell.
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02:15
Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life—Getting a Job: Nepotism or Meritocracy?
Lucy reveals how hiring the 'best man for the job' wasn't always the way it was done.
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02:30
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room—2. Toby
2/10 Pregnant Jane tries to make her bedsit a little more homely, and learns of Toby's writing.
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02:45
Book of the Week—The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth about the Nordic Miracle, Modern-Day Icelanders and their Viking Past
2/5 Scandinavia and its curious tribes explored in Michael Booth's book.
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03:00
Drama on 4—Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea, Episode 2
2/2 Jeremy Irons stars as Charles Arrowby in Iris Murdoch鈥檚 Booker prize-winning masterpiece.
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04:00
The Museum of Curiosity—Series 5, Hughes, Czerski, Finkelman
5/6 John Lloyd and Jimmy Carr with Sean Hughes, Dr Helen Czerski and Dr Irving Finkel.
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04:30
Up the Garden Path—Series 2, You Shall Go to the Ball
6/8 Izzy gets invited to a ball in Cambridge, but she could do with a fairy godmother.
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05:00
Second Thoughts—Series 3, Backs to the Drawing Board
7/8 Bill takes time off to help a friend, but Faith is already working at home.
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05:30
Love in Recovery—Series 3, Making Plans
5/6 What鈥檚 it like to go to a wedding as a recovering alcoholic?
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