BBC Radio 4 Extra Schedule Saturday 10 March 2018

Schedule

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Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Late

Early
1. 00:00
  The Interplanetary Notes of Ambassador B—Episode 5
  5/5Ambassador B decides to turn in her badge on the next planet she finds.
2. 00:15
  Five Ghost Stories by John Connolly—5. Nocturne
  5/5Sounds of a piano lead a father and his son into a confrontation with a malign adversary.
3. 00:30
  Mastertapes—Series 1, Paul Weller (the A-Side)
  5/14Paul Weller talks to John Wilson and a live audience about the last Jam album, The Gift.
4. 01:00
  Sherlock Holmes—Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 2, 3. The Greek Interpreter
  3/7Can the sleuth help a man who has taken on a very perilous job?
5. 01:30
  Her Story Made History—Series 1, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  Lyse Doucet meets Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state.
6. 02:00
  Book at Bedtime—John le Carré - A Delicate Truth, A Ghost from the Past
  5/10Sir Christopher Probyn's idyllic retirement is about to be shattered.
7. 02:15
  Grimm Thoughts—Episode 5
  5/10Marina Warner is drawn into the tales' rich history of illustration.
8. 02:30
  Charles Dickens—The Old Curiosity Shop, Episode 5
  5/25Little Nell is faced with the most important decision of her young life.
9. 02:45
  Leo Tolstoy - A Confession—Combining Faith with Reason
  10/10Can simplifying faith give us an answer?
10. 03:00
  Classic Serial—Dostoyevsky - The Russian Gambler, Episode 2
  2/2A piano tutor is drawn into the world of a Russian oligarch on the verge of bankruptcy.
11. 04:00
  The Motion Show—Series 3, Episode 2
  2/6Graeme Garden chairs the debating game featuring Steve Punt, Tony Hawks, Gyles Brandreth.
12. 04:30
  Kathmandu or Bust—Gut Reaction
  2/6On the expedition to Kathmandu, the five travellers hit Europe but mutiny is in the air.
13. 05:00
  The Emerald Green Show—Celebrations
  1/4Emerald Green is a vain, ambitious black woman. Can she really become a chat-show queen?
14. 05:30
  In and Out of the Kitchen—Series 3, The Funeral
  2/6When Anthony's maiden aunt dies, Damien is asked to do the food for the funeral.
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Morning
1. 06:00
  The Sheffield Picasso
  Artist Pablo Picasso stirs up a community at a peace conference.
2. 07:30
  Freedom Pass—Episode 1
  1/7Eligible for free bus travel, Alan Coren and Christopher Matthew head off for an adventure
3. 08:00
  Archive on 4—Wheeler: The Final Word
  David Taylor and Charles Wheeler's probe into Johnson and Nixon's clash over Vietnam.
4. 09:00
  Motherhood: Bump, Birth and Beyond
  Jessica Fostekew charts the horrors and the highs of pregnancy, birth and babies.
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Afternoon
1. 12:00
  The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel—Series 1, Episode 1
  1/6Shady lawyer Flywheel looks after a Rembrandt.
2. 12:30
  Turf Wars—Losing the Plot
  1/4A timid man faces mindless bureaucracy when he applies for an allotment plot.
3. 13:00
  AJ Cronin - The Citadel (Omnibus)—Series 2
  Drama series about medical life before the NHS, set in 1920s south Wales.
4. 14:10
  Inheritance Tracks—Peggy Seeger
  American folksinger Peggy Seeger chooses tracks by Leadbelly and Roberta Flack.
5. 14:15
  Down Your Way—Heather Couper in Greenwich
  Astronomer Heather Couper explores the Royal Observatory and Prime Meridian in Greenwich.
6. 15:00
  Archive on 4—Wheeler: The Final Word
  David Taylor and Charles Wheeler's probe into Johnson and Nixon's clash over Vietnam.
7. 16:00
  The Sheffield Picasso
  Artist Pablo Picasso stirs up a community at a peace conference.
8. 17:30
  Freedom Pass—Episode 1
  1/7Eligible for free bus travel, Alan Coren and Christopher Matthew head off for an adventure
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Evening
1. 18:00
  Bram Stoker - The Lair of the White Worm
  1870: Engineer Adam Salton probes the terrifying disappearance of men from a tiny village
2. 19:00
  Motherhood: Bump, Birth and Beyond
  Jessica Fostekew charts the horrors and the highs of pregnancy, birth and babies.
3. 22:00
  My Teenage Diary—Series 5, Ken Livingstone
  1/6Ken Livingstone reads from his 1966 diary when he hitchhiked across the Sahara Desert.
4. 22:30
  Irish Micks and Legends—Series 2, St Brigid of the Curragh
  1/4Comedy writers Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram bring Ireland's folklore to life.
5. 22:45
  Terry Alderton's All Crazy Now—The Buzzing of the Honey Bee
  1/4A one-man comedy explosion featuring Street Kid, Victor and Morgan the Free Man.
6. 22:55
  The Comedy Club Interviews—Jenny Eclair 2/3
  Arthur Smith is joined by Jenny Eclair.
7. 23:00
  That Mitchell and Webb Sound—Series 4, Episode 2
  2/6A macabre celebrity makeover show and the origins of the internet.
8. 23:30
  Alice's Wunderland—Series 2, The Future
  3/4A trip to the place where thoughts turn to the future and all that it could bring.
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Late
1. 00:00
  Bram Stoker - The Lair of the White Worm
  1870: Engineer Adam Salton probes the terrifying disappearance of men from a tiny village
2. 01:00
  AJ Cronin - The Citadel (Omnibus)—Series 2
  Drama series about medical life before the NHS, set in 1920s south Wales.
3. 02:10
  Inheritance Tracks—Peggy Seeger
  American folksinger Peggy Seeger chooses tracks by Leadbelly and Roberta Flack.
4. 02:15
  Down Your Way—Heather Couper in Greenwich
  Astronomer Heather Couper explores the Royal Observatory and Prime Meridian in Greenwich.
5. 03:00
  Archive on 4—Wheeler: The Final Word
  David Taylor and Charles Wheeler's probe into Johnson and Nixon's clash over Vietnam.
6. 04:00
  The Sheffield Picasso
  Artist Pablo Picasso stirs up a community at a peace conference.
7. 05:30
  Freedom Pass—Episode 1
  1/7Eligible for free bus travel, Alan Coren and Christopher Matthew head off for an adventure

Sunday 11 March 2018