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Radio schedule Friday 9th May 2025

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7am (repeat)
Up The Garden Path

Up The Garden Path

Series 3, Episode 5 - Up the Stick and Sick as a Parrot

Izzy spends her birthday coping with the surprise news that she's pregnant.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7:30am (repeat)
Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead

Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead

Series 2, Episode 1

Sketch show starring Ronnie Barker.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8am (repeat)
Relativity. Ian (Richard Herring)

Relativity

Series 2, Episode 2

Holly's unexpected pregnancy brings the family together once again, as they all comes to terms with it in their own way. Pete and Billy bond over 59.1% Scotch, Margaret braves the supermarket and Holly won't come out of her bedroom.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 9am (repeat)
Gossip And Goddesses With Granny Kumar. Image shows from L to R: Geeta Bhandari (Harvey Virdi), Granny Kumar (Meera Syal), Maya Kumar (Ambreen Razia)

Gossip And Goddesses With Granny Kumar

Series 1, Episode 6

Granny Kumar is joined by Doctor Who star Mandip Gill and Evening Standard Best Actress award winner Josette Simon.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12pm (repeat)
Up The Garden Path

Up The Garden Path

Series 3, Episode 5 - Up the Stick and Sick as a Parrot

Izzy spends her birthday coping with the surprise news that she's pregnant.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 12:30pm (repeat)
Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead

Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead

Series 2, Episode 1

Sketch show starring Ronnie Barker.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 1pm (repeat)
Relativity. Ian (Richard Herring)

Relativity

Series 2, Episode 2

Holly's unexpected pregnancy brings the family together once again, as they all comes to terms with it in their own way. Pete and Billy bond over 59.1% Scotch, Margaret braves the supermarket and Holly won't come out of her bedroom.

BBC Radio Scotland 1:30pm
30 min
Noising Up. Credit: BBC

Noising Up

Series 5, Episode 3

An uproarious mix of topical comedy sketches.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2pm (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 2

Biographer Anthony Holden and actress Stella Duffy are joined by writer and broadcaster Lynne Truss and editor of the Erotic Review Rowan Pelling to dish the dirt on the bad boys and girls in history. Chaired by Gyles Brandreth.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30pm (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Mr Mulliner

Series 2 (More Mr Mulliner), Episode 1 - The Bishop's Move

Wodehouse's great fabulist Mr Mulliner returns in a new series of dramatisations. With Richard Griffiths as Mr Mulliner regaling the regulars of the Angler's Rest, it is no wonder that the companionable drinkers fall so easily into portraying the characters in the stories. It is their urging that brings him back to the massively potent tonic, Buck-U-Uppo.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6pm (repeat)
Up The Garden Path

Up The Garden Path

Series 3, Episode 5 - Up the Stick and Sick as a Parrot

Izzy spends her birthday coping with the surprise news that she's pregnant.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
The News Quiz. Andy Zaltzman

The News Quiz

Series 117, Episode 4 - Conclave Concluded

Andy Zaltzman is joined by guests Ria Lina, Geoff Norcott, Ava Santina and Aladair Beckett-King to break down the week in news. The panel discuss the results of the UK local elections, the reaching of a US-UK trade deal, the storm of online misinformation surrounding the India-Pakistan border stand-off, the statutes of statues, and the conclusion of the Conclave as we meet the world's first American Pope.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 6:30pm (repeat)
Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead

Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead

Series 2, Episode 1

Sketch show starring Ronnie Barker.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 7pm (repeat)
Relativity. Ian (Richard Herring)

Relativity

Series 2, Episode 2

Holly's unexpected pregnancy brings the family together once again, as they all comes to terms with it in their own way. Pete and Billy bond over 59.1% Scotch, Margaret braves the supermarket and Holly won't come out of her bedroom.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8pm (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 2

Biographer Anthony Holden and actress Stella Duffy are joined by writer and broadcaster Lynne Truss and editor of the Erotic Review Rowan Pelling to dish the dirt on the bad boys and girls in history. Chaired by Gyles Brandreth.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 8:30pm (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Mr Mulliner

Series 2 (More Mr Mulliner), Episode 1 - The Bishop's Move

Wodehouse's great fabulist Mr Mulliner returns in a new series of dramatisations. With Richard Griffiths as Mr Mulliner regaling the regulars of the Angler's Rest, it is no wonder that the companionable drinkers fall so easily into portraying the characters in the stories. It is their urging that brings him back to the massively potent tonic, Buck-U-Uppo.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10pm (repeat)
Call Jonathan Pie. Image shows left to right: Roger (Nick Revell), Jonathan Pie (Tom Walker), Jules (Lucy Pearman), Sam (Aqib Khan)

Call Jonathan Pie

Series 2, Episode 6 - Identity Crisis

As the team face the pain and pitfalls of diversity training, Pie's prejudices are painfully exposed.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 10:30pm (repeat)
The Absolutely Radio Show. Image shows from L to R: Gordon Kennedy, Moray Hunter, John Sparkes, Morwenna Banks, Pete Baikie. Copyright: ABsoLuTeLy Productions

The Absolutely Radio Show

Series 3, Episode 4

Mr Muzak takes on his social media network's algorithms, the Little Girl explains global warming, and the members of Stoneybridge Town Council discuss possible content for their new Digital Information Board.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11pm
15 min
Machynlleth sign. Copyright: BBC

Comedy Club At Machynlleth

Series 4, Episode 7

Esyllt Sears continues a week of programmes featuring highlights and behind-the-scenes conversations from the 2025 Machynlleth Comedy Festival. In this episode: the fantastic standup and writer Heidi Regan and Marjolein Robertson, while Rob Deering chats to BAFTA comedy-award winning Stewart Lee.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:15pm (repeat)
Heidi Regan

Heidi Regan: No Worries

Episode 3

Heidi is keen to put her worries into perspective.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 11:30pm (repeat)
Cowards. Image shows from L to R: Tim Key, Stefan Golaszewski, Lloyd Woolf, Tom Basden. Copyright: BBC

Cowards

Series 1, Episode 4

Sketches include a miserable skiing trip; a meet up for the Mr Men; and a middle-class game of Russian roulette.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2am (repeat)
Up The Garden Path

Up The Garden Path

Series 3, Episode 5 - Up the Stick and Sick as a Parrot

Izzy spends her birthday coping with the surprise news that she's pregnant.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 2:30am (repeat)
Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead

Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead

Series 2, Episode 1

Sketch show starring Ronnie Barker.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 3am (repeat)
Relativity. Ian (Richard Herring)

Relativity

Series 2, Episode 2

Holly's unexpected pregnancy brings the family together once again, as they all comes to terms with it in their own way. Pete and Billy bond over 59.1% Scotch, Margaret braves the supermarket and Holly won't come out of her bedroom.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4am (repeat)
Whispers

Whispers

Series 1, Episode 2

Biographer Anthony Holden and actress Stella Duffy are joined by writer and broadcaster Lynne Truss and editor of the Erotic Review Rowan Pelling to dish the dirt on the bad boys and girls in history. Chaired by Gyles Brandreth.

BBC Radio 4 Extra 4:30am (repeat)
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Mr Mulliner

Series 2 (More Mr Mulliner), Episode 1 - The Bishop's Move

Wodehouse's great fabulist Mr Mulliner returns in a new series of dramatisations. With Richard Griffiths as Mr Mulliner regaling the regulars of the Angler's Rest, it is no wonder that the companionable drinkers fall so easily into portraying the characters in the stories. It is their urging that brings him back to the massively potent tonic, Buck-U-Uppo.

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