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...
Parsley Sidings
Parsley Sidings 1971 - 1973
Here's one you don't hear of very often. Parsley Sidings was the BBC Radio sitcom starring Arthur Lowe, it was in fact the only radio sitcom to Arthur Lowe, apart from the radio ad...
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...
Life with the Lyons, 1950
Not so much a sitcom as a comedy soap opera, this vintage series started life on the BBC Light Program in 1950, where it ran until 1961. In 1955 the show made the move to television where it ran until 1960.
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BBC Light Program, 1945
BBC Light Program, 1945 - 1967
As the war drew to a close the BBC began to return to full time broadcasting. At this time television was still very much a luxury item, radio was the popular entertainment medi...
Missing Hancocks To Get A Revival
Between 1954 and 1959, one hundred and three episodes of the classic Hancock's Half Hour radio show were broadcast on the BBC. Of these twenty are missing.To celebrate 60 years since Ray Galton and Alan Si...