HMS Troutbridge Spins Off
The Navy Lark Spin Offs
The Navy Lark remains one of radio's best loved and longest running at 15 series over 244 episodes. It's also table for having perhaps the most spin offs.Sadly as little of the mat...
I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again
I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, 1964
I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again originated from the famous Cambridge University Footlights (an amateur dramatic club in Cambridge, run by Cambridge University students)....
Ken Bruce Au-Revoir
Ken Bruce Comes To the End of The BBC Road
It's been a long road. Ken Bruce has been a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2 since 1984, now he moves to pastures new.We thought we'd mark the occasion with a li...
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...
Happy Go Lucky
Happy Go Lucky, 1951
Last week we told you the story of two Englishmen a boat trip to the USA and the influence they would have over comedy as we know it.Whilst the movies kept the world laughing for many...
Radio Legends – Where Are They Now?
Radio Legends - Where Are They Now?
As Steve Wright this year announced his legendary afternoon show was to end after running off and on for over 40 years in an ongoing series we look back at some of Radio's o...
Hancock’s Half Hour, The Christmas Club
Hancock's Half Hour Radio Series, The Christmas Club, 1959
The penultimate episode of series 6 of what would the final series popular Radio show.It's notable for the absence of cast regular Bill Kerr.&...
The Missing Hancocks
The Missing Hancocks, 2014
In November 1954 Ray Galton and Alan Simpson broke with the traditional format of comedy, ie comical sketches and musical interludes, to present the first British sitcom. For comedy...
The Now Show
The Now Show, 1998
Proving that Radio comedy is still a force to be reckoned with: The Now Show is still going strong more than twenty years after it first hit the airwaves.The series is a successor to pop...
The Goon Show
The Goon Show, 1951
Considered by many as the greatest radio show of all time.A legend within it's own lifetime, and rumoured to be a favourite of our new King, The Goon Show was a British Radio Comedy Pr...