I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, 1972 - Present
The long running BBC Radio Panel show that just keeps on running. Developed from the long-running radio sketch show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again and first broadca...
Hello Cheeky, 1973
BBC Radio comedy series that ran for five series on BBC Radio 2 between 1973 and 1975. Sixty one episodes were made along with six specials.
Hello Cheeky gained a reputation for its puns. For example "I onc...
Ray’s A Laugh, 1949
Ted Ray was the popular British comedian of the 1950's and 1960's. He's probably best remembered for his Radio Show "Ray's A Laugh" As a music hall performer he would play the violin badly as part of his act N...
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...
Galton And Simpson Present – 4
Our Favourite Hancock - Part 4
The Wild Man Of The Woods
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of Hancock's Half Hour on BBC Radio, comedy scriptwriting legends Ray Galton and Alan Simpson ...
Galton And Simpson Present – 3
Our Favourite Hancock
Part 3 -The Radio Years
In the third of this special series to mark the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of Hancock's Half Hour on BBC Radio, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson have pic...
ITMA – It’s That Man Again
Can I Do You Now Sir ?
Today, 6th June 2014 marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Whilst D-Day has little that was funny, as a mark of respect for those who served we’re running this war time classic that ke...
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...
Morecambe And Wise BBC Radio Show
Morecambe And Wise BBC Radio Shows 1975 - 1978
Many people regard the 1970's as the heyday of British Comedy and so it's fitting that they also regard the 1970's as Morecambe And Wise's greatest work.
It wa...