All Aboard For The Navy Lark
The Navy Lark, 1959
Doctor Who At 60!As Doctor who gets ready to celebrate it's 60th anniversary later this week we are looking back at some of the show's comedy connections. Today it's the turn of the th...
Hancock Becomes A Druid
Hancock's Half Hour, The 13th Of The Series, 1957
Hancock's Half Hour, The 13th Of The Series strangely enough was the thirteenth episode of the fourth series of the popular radio comedy series.In this epi...
The Kenny Everett Show The Radio Years
The Kenny Everett Show, The Radio Years, 1962 - 1994
Celebrating 50 years of Commercial RadioKenny Everett was a radio legend and his radio shows were a must listen for over 30 years. Indeed in a 2020 an ...
Workers Playtime, The Revival
Workers Playtime, The Revival, 1982
Back in 1941 when there was only radio the BBC began a long running series of shows broadcast from workplaces. That show ran until 1964.In 1982 as part of the BBC's 60t...
Just A Minute
Just A Minute, 1967
This BBC Radio panel game that just keeps running. it's now 2023 and the show has been running for an amazing 91 series and counting.The idea behind the show was first used in a show O...
Stop Messing About, Kenneth Williams
Stop Messing About, 1969
Stop Messin' About, a catchphrase coined for Kenneth Williams by Galton and Simpson back in the days of Hancock's Half Hour. It seemed the perfect title for a radio series starring on...
Ray’s A Laugh
Ray's A Laugh, 1949
Ted Ray was the popular British comedian of the 1950's and 1960's. He's probably best remembered for his Radio Show "Ray's A Laugh".Real name Charlie Olden, in his early career as a mu...
And There’s More On The Radio….
Jimmy Cricket's Team, 1990
A legend in wellie Jimmy Cricket is still performing today. For this post we roll back 33 years when Jimmy had his hit radio show.Jimmy Cricket's Team was a radio show that ran ...
The Mary Whitehouse Experience (Radio)
The Mary Whitehouse Experience, 1989
During the 1980's, a new genre of comedy had begun to emerge, today we know it as alternative comedy and The Mary Whitehouse Experience fits nicely into the category.Or...
That Reminds Me
That Reminds Me, 1999
That Reminds Me is a series of BBC Radio shows that ran for five series between 1999 and 2003, notching up 30shows along the way.SummaryEach weekly show is recorded in front of a ...