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The Adrian Juste Show, 1978
This show on Radio 1 introduced me to a whole host of classic comedy that perhaps otherwise I would not have known about. It was also part of the inspiration behind this site.B...
BBC At 100, BBC Classic Comedy
BBC Classic Comedy, The Radio Years, Part 2, Radio And The Sitcom
As the BBC rushes towards it's 100th birthday we're looking back at some the corporation's best comedy. In part 1 we looked at some early radi...
BBC At 100, BBC Classic Comedy
BBC Classic Comedy, Part 1, The Radio Years
This year the BBC will be 100 years old and in more recent times it seems to be in the news more often than not, of course most recently for the proposed abolition o...
Wake Up To Wogan, 1993
It's 50 years since his first Breakfast Show
It's 50 years to the day since Terry Wogan broadcast his first BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show. It ran from 1972 until 1984 when Terry left to pursue his TV careerh...
Down The Line
Down The Line, 2006
It's The Late Night Phone InDown The Line was the hugely popular BBC Radio spoof phone-in. It originally ran for five series over seven years, notching up twenty seven episodes on the ...
I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, 1972 - Present
In Tribute To Barry Cryer Who Passed away Yesterday.The long running BBC Radio Panel show that just keeps on running. Developed from the long-running radio sketc...
Happy Christmas Tony Hancock Style
Hancock's Happy Christmas - 1956
For anyone who's had enough of Christmas here's a classic from the lad of East Cheam as he make is feelings towards the festive season quite clear.Taken from the fourth sea...
The Boy Who Saved England
The Boy Who Saved England, 1995
The Boy Who Saved England 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 years afte...
Hancock’s Half Hour, The Radio Series
Hancock's Half Hour, The Radio Series, 1954
At a time when variety was the order of the day along came Tony Hancock, who had made a name for himself as a cast member of popular radio show Educating Archie in 1...
The Real Comedy Controllers
The Real Comedy Controllers, 2017
The Real Comedy Controllers was a special documentary show commissioned for BBC 4 Extra. It originally ran for 4 parts in 2017, but has been repeated regularly on the station...