Described by the Radio Times as ‘a brilliant observer of the domestic scene, a master reporter of life as we know it’, Al Read’s weekly show drew audiences of 35 million during the 1950s and ‘60s...
A bizarre recollection of the events and major turning points in the life of the author; Alan Bennett. An incredibly moving piece that will win your heart...
Richard Curtis’ and Ben Elton’s award-winning comedy in which Rowan Atkinson as the ubiquitous Blackadder, ably hampered by Tony Robinson as the loyal Baldrick, wreaks havoc throughout the...
Dad's Army fan Phill Jupitus has selected four of his favourite episodes from the evergreen radio series, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn.
Fawlty Towers has become a landmark in comedy history with its twelve episodes being shown again and again on television. It is impossible to tire of the antics of Basil, Sybil, Polly and the...
A further helping of humour from the original BBC Radio 4 radio sketch series which grew into a hit television show. Hilarious and irreverent, it is fronted by a team of award-winning young actors...
From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influencial clowns in the history of radio. Four more classics of cult muttery from those wireless wizards.
The historic reunion of radio's greatest comedy team to celebrate 50 years of the BBC was their farewell performance and proved so momentous it was broadcast complete with the pre-show warm-up.
Welcome back to 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, where loveable curmudgeon Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock is still suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...
Once again, the master of misery is supported by a star cast including Sid James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques, and four sparkling scripts by the masters of mirth, Galton and Simpson
In The Poetry Society, an evening with a group of Hancock’s new avant-garde friends produces gems of abstract poetry, not only from the group but also from Sid and Bill...
The Wild Man of the Woods shows Hancock’s desire to get away from it all. It leads him to camp first in a bus shelter on Clapham Common, and then in a bit of forest rented from Sid...
Four classic BBC Radio episodes from the comic genius of Tony Hancock. The Diary/The Old School Reunion/Hancock in the Police/The East Cheam Drama Festival...
Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's saga continues with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in Douglas Adam's famous 'trilogy in five parts'
This elaborate fabrication proceeds smoothly until Jack/Ernest falls in love and his fiancee’s mother discovers there is more – or, rather, less – to him than meets the eye.
Its mix of irreverent fun and ferocious competition has always attracted stellar names from the world of comedy and theatre, all of whom pit their wits against regulars such as Kenneth Williams
Its mix of irreverent fun and ferocious competition has always attracted stellar names from the world of comedy and theatre, all of whom pit their wits against regular player including Paul Merton...
The very best of the TV series, including Dead Parrot Sketch, The Lumberjack Song, Nudge Nudge Wink Wink, and other classics from the supremely inventive world of Monty Python's Flying Circus...
Making a first-time appearance on audio, this is the classic TV comedy sketch show which launched the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson...
Crabby, crusty and curmudgeonly he may be, but Victor Meldrew - played brilliantly by Richard Wilson - voices the exasperation of the once silent majority
It's a situation which cries out for Jeeves you would think. But Bertie is fed up with the assumption that he is merely an addendum to his personal attendant. Stand back - Wooster is on the case!
Come with us to Shepherd's Bush on a decrepit horse and cart, and view the young-ish Harold Steptoe and his beloved father Albert in their natural habitat of the scrapyard at 24, Oil Drum Lane.
Come with us to Shepherd's Bush on a decrepit horse and cart, and view the young-ish Harold Steptoe and his beloved father Albert in their natural habitat of the scrapyard at 24, Oil Drum Lane.
