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 Les
Listen 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 ...
Stop Messing About, 1969
Stop Messing About, Kenneth Williams Gets His Own Radio Show
Now airing on BBC Radio4 Extra, Thursdays 12.00pm and 7.00pm
Stop Messin' About, a catchphrase coined for Kenneth Williams by Galton and Simpson ...
Little Britain – Back Where It All Began
Little Britain - Radio Series - 2001
As David Walliams springs back to our TV screens, with his new sketch show David Walliams and Friend, it's back to the beginning we go, as we look at Little Britain The Ra...
The Likely Lads Radio Series – 1967 – 1968
The Likely Lads was a popular TV comedy series set in the North of England. In 1967 one of the show's main stars, James Bolam adapted 16 episodes of the TV show for Radio.
The Radio show ran for 2 series of...
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...
Galton and Simpson – I Did It My Way
The BBC's Landmark Comedy Season was supposed to celebrate 60 years since Hancock's Half Hour came to television. Among all the expectations and variety of shows there seemed to be somthing very obviously wron...
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...