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...
Steptoe And Son: The Radio Series
Steptoe And Son - The Radio Series - 1966 - 1976
There was a time when Radio was the medium of the day, then Television arrived and as we have seen some great radio comedy edged it's way onto our TV screens.
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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...
Bernie Clifton’s Comedy Shop, 1982
Mike Craig was a prolific producer and writer of over 1200 comedy shows for both BBC Radio and TV - including: Morecambe and Wise, Ken Dodd, Jimmy Tarbuck, Al Reid, Harry Worth and The Grumbleweeds. It was Mike...
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...
Terry Wogan Tribute
There can be few people who have ever listened to the radio that have not raised a smile or broken into uncontrolable laughter at Terry Wogan's witty banter and wry observations on life. It was so sad to hear ...
Workers Playtime, 1941
This year we are gong to run a series of posts under the heading: '70 years of Great British Entertainment'. Prior to running the first posts we thought we's go back to around the time of World War 2 and just ...
The Goon Show, 1951
Considered by many as the greatest radio show of all time. A legend within it's own lifetime The Goon Show was a British Radio Comedy Program that ran for 238 episodes and 12 specials over 9 years. It was cre...
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...