Tatchell's Guide To BBC Radio Comedy (4th Edition)
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Give or Take by Wally K Daly
Wally K. Daly was best known for his radio sci-fi dramas, such as the Scream trilogy but could also turn his hand to comedy.
In 1979, Wally created Give or Take, the story of Sam and Annabel Baker, a typical young married couple from the north of E
Read more…Drop Me Here, Darling
Written by Andrew Palmer.
‘Drop Me Here, Darling’ ran from December 1982 to February 1983. It starred Leslie Phillips and Jill Bennett as a recently divorced couple, Leslie and Caroline Duggan. He was a successful businessman but has fallen on hard
Read more…Angstrom by Joel Morris and Jason Hazeley
Matthew Holness stars as Knut Ångström, a brooding alcoholic maverick Swedish detective from the tough streets of Oslo, in a Scandinavian detective yarn adapted from the bestselling Ångström trilogy by Martin English (writing as Bjorgen Swedensson)
Read more…Dot by Ed Harris (series 3)
Saucepans for Spitfires!
A national initiative to boost morale causes havoc among the personnel team, as Dot and the girls turn against one another.
Dial M for Myrtle
Dark doings in the War Rooms as a suspicious death leaves the gals from per
Read more…Dot and the Russian Dossier by Ed Harris (ONE OFF)
May, 1941. The future of the war hangs in the balance, and Dot has been selected for a most perilous mission. Ed Harris' witty wartime comedy sees Dot casting off the shackles of her desk job in the personnel department in Whitehall's War Rooms and
Read more…Dot by Ed Harris (SERIES 2)
Return of the comedy set in the personnel department of the Cabinet Rooms during the Second World war.
S2-E1 Teeth: The men in the office are spellbound by Myrtle's new teeth, meaning Dot is no longer the star of her own show.
S2-E2 Psychology: Psy
Read more…Mr Willow's wife by Ray Cooney and John Chapman
Getting to Know You
Felicity feels sad that her 13 year-old twin boys have gone away to boarding school, but then decides to devote her energies to getting close to husband Paul again.
Together Again
Felicity decides it’s time that she and husband
Read more…Dot by Ed Harris (SERIES 1)
1) The Astonishing Adventures of Agent Whiff-Whaff
Dot and the gals from personnel are getting squiffy over Agent Bertie Whiff-Whaff. Bertie wants Dot promoted, but can Dot handle life on the other side of the hallway?
2) The Extraordinary Example
Read more…Dot by Ed Harris
Dot's had quite enough of making tea in the Cabinet War Rooms. When she finds a cryptic message in the newspaper she enlists the help of her gals Myrtle and Pearl. Can they catch the spy? And will it prove to be the big break Dot's been waiting fo
Read more…' JUST FANCY' a BBC comedy series 1951.
Eric Barker in ' JUST FANCY'
BBC Home Service Basic,
1951 @ 21.55
Synopsis
JUST FANCY with Pearl Hackney, Desmond Walter-Ellis, Patricia Gilbert, Deryck Guyler, John Warrington; Music by the Malcolm Mitchell Trio; Script by Eric Barker Produced by
Read more…The 27 Year Itch by Barry Pilton
A marital black comedy following Sidcup’s premier warring couple, Dorothy and Edward Atkinson, who have a marriage to challenge even the most determined of counsellors.
Starring Hugh Paddick & Betty Marsden
1: All Play and No Work Makes Jill an
Read more…Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes
By Timur Vermes, and dramatised for radio by Marcy Kahan.
In episode one, Adolf Hitler wakes up in modern day Germany and he is not pleased. The war is lost, the Nazi party is defunct and his beloved Fatherland is being run by a woman. He decides
Read more…Just William by Richmal Cromptpn
I have searched the groups for any of Richmal Crompton’s “Just William” stories and could not find any. I could not believe it; hence I am offering an occasional series or two from time to time to put that right.
Please let me know if you want mo
Read more…Leave it to Psmith by PG Wodehouse
Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres direct a star cast in this sparkling PG Wodehouse comedy.
Dramatised by Archie Scottney
Poets at Blandings
It's the 1920s and Edward Bennett is Psmith (the P is silent!). He’s as broke as the Ten Commandments and a
Read more…Up the Garden Path by Sue Limb
By Sue Limb
New Year, Old Problems: School teacher Izzy Comyn has a predilection for inappropriate men.
Tangled Webs: The complex life and loves of Izzy Comyn, with her propensity for telling lies.
Punch Ups and Put Downs: With several other me
Read more…Play it Cool
Fast moving sketches and a plethora of comedy characters starring Ian Carmichael, Joan Sims and Hugh Paddick.
Films like Private's Progress and I'm All Right Jack helped make Ian Carmichael a major star of both British stage and screen. Play it Co
Read more…Clare in the Community
Based on a cartoon strip in the Guardian newspaper, this radio series concerns the complicated life of social worker Clare Barker (Sally Phillips)
Time Spanner-The Dan in the High Castle
By Simon Kane.
A new episode of the time-travelling adventure-come-love story narrated by the first dog in space, played by John Finnemore and starring Simon Kane as Martin Gaye, a man with the most powerful object in the universe stuck up his
Read more…The Burkiss Way
The Burkiss Way is a BBC Radio 4 sketch comedy series, originally broadcast between August 1976 and November 1980. It was written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, with additional material in early episodes by John Mason, Colin Bostock-Smith, Dou
