70 Years Of British Comedy, 1940’s
Part One - After The War
We are going tore-run a series of posts looking back over the last 70 years of great British comedy. This time we go all the way through to the present day.We've tagged some of the...
Listen To Les
If You Can't Laugh At Your Troubles Then Laugh At His, As You.....
Listen To LesListen To Les was a long running BBC Radio series starring the late great Les Dawson. Very little information about the seri...
Dad’s Army On Radio
Series Starts On BBC Radio 4 Extra Today at 12.30
Dad's Army - Radio Series - 1974
Like many sitcoms of the day many of the Dad's Army TV episodes were remade for BBC Radio 4 with the original cast, although ...
The Betty Witherspoon Show
Despite it's name there was no Betty Witherspoon, the character, if there ever was one, never appaeared as either a real person or indeed a character. It appears the idea for the title was a parody of the Simo...
Something To Shout About
By 1960 television was getting into full speed, but radio was still a poular medium. After all at this point in time iot had left us with comedy classics such as Hancock's Half Hour, Take It From Here and the ...
Calling All Forces
As part of our celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Hancock's Half Hour TV series we are turning this week over to Tony Hancock: charting his career from his early days in Happy Go Lucky and Educating Archie...
Happy Go Lucky, 1951
As part of our celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Hancock's Half Hour TV series we are turning this week over to Tony Hancock: charting his career from his early days in Happy Go Lucky and Educating Archie...
Just A Minute
Just A Minute, 1967
This BBC Radio panel game that just keeps running. By 2013 the show had ran for an amazing sixty six series and counting.The idea behind the show was first used in a show One Minute Pl...
The Boy Who Saved England
Dad's Army 2016, 2 Days To Go
Until the 2016 Movie re-make, this was the last the last Dad's Army project to feature any of the original cast.Long after the original series had finished and some twenty yea...
The Bradshaws, 1983
Proving that not every popular radio show is a product of the BBC, although The Bradshaws have never (that we know of) appeared in their own full length radio series.Created especially for The Gary Davies S...