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On BBC Radio 4 Extra today
7:50(Repeat)
In A Nutshell
Episode 4 - Dear Mother of God
If the Son of Man returned, how would Christianity celebrate?
9:00(Repeat)
A Taste of Funny with Denis Norden
Comedy writer Denis Norden with three hours of comic listening, illustrating the impact American humour and the British comedy song had on his career.
12:00(Repeat)
Ring Around The Bath
Episode 3.1, Love in a Cottage: Stella is planning her retirement to the country, but will her grown-up children survive without her?
12:30(Repeat)
Wordaholics
Series 1, Episode 1
Gyles Brandreth hosts the game about words, in which linguistic brainboxes vie for supremacy. With guests Stephen Fry, Natalie Haynes, Lloyd Langford and Milton Jones.
14:45(Repeat)The Fosdyke Saga
Roger the Commando: Fully recovered and cleared of being the Salford Strangler, Albert heads back to the front.
17:50(Repeat)In A Nutshell
Episode 4 - Dear Mother of God
If the Son of Man returned, how would Christianity celebrate?
22:00(Repeat)
Colin Hoult's Carnival Of Monsters
Series 2, Episode 3
Enter the Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre world of sketches, stories and characters, presented by the sinister Ringmaster.
22:30(Repeat)
Will Smith Presents: The Tao Of Bergerac
Episode 3 - Love
Will explores his bad luck with romance. Is it wrong to dump a woman because she doesn't alphabetise her CDs?
23:00(Repeat)
The Simon Day Show
Series 1, Episode 2 - Tony Beckton
Reformed violent criminal Tony Beckton visits the Mallard Theatre to read from his memoirs as part of his rehabilitation.
23:30(Repeat)
Little Britain
Pilot
Matt Lucas and David Williams preview their forthcoming sketch show which takes a look at life in Britain in the new millennium by following the lives of some less than ordinary folk.
2:45(Repeat)The Fosdyke Saga
Roger the Commando: Fully recovered and cleared of being the Salford Strangler, Albert heads back to the front.
5:50(Repeat)In A Nutshell
Episode 4 - Dear Mother of God
If the Son of Man returned, how would Christianity celebrate?
Current BBC Radio 4 Extra comedies
Latest BBC Radio 4 Extra news stories
BBC launches 2018 New Comedy Award
Monday 9th April 2018
The 2018 BBC New Comedy Award has been launched today. Entries for the contest series close on Thursday 3rd May.
BBC Radio to celebrate 'feisty female comedians'
Tuesday 28th November 2017
BBC Radio is to celebrate "feisty female comedians" in an archive programming block called Nasty Women. Jan Ravens will host a discussion around various clips.
Just A Minute celebrations lead BBC Radio's festive comedy
Wednesday 22nd November 2017
BBC Radio has announced its festive comedy offerings for 2017. Radio 4 will celebrate 50 years of Just A Minute, whilst other specials include comedy drama Anansi Boys, 15 Minute Musical, Dead Ringers and Count Arthur Strong.
BBC New Comedy Award 2017 open for entries
Thursday 6th April 2017
The BBC New Comedy Award, the Radio 4 stand-up competition, is now open for 2017 entries.
Radio 4 Extra to interview comedy producers
Friday 16th December 2016
Radio 4 Extra is making The Real Comedy Controllers, a series in which some of Britain's most prolific comedy producers are interviewed.