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 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
A brand new comedy series by Harry Venning (Clare in the Community) about how a young woman with no life experience is desperate to share it with people even younger than herself.
Coach Karen is the new coach of an under-13 girls football team call
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J. B. Priestley
A One-Act Comedy in the Viennese Style performed around 1953. Ralph Richardson stars as Max Talley, an ageing Austrian actor who invites a lovely young ballerina to dinner in a private room at a Viennese restaurant. His motives are
I was tempted to post this in the Horror group - after all, Jerome K Jerome did write one or two very effective weird tales! But he's best known for his humorous writing, and "After-Supper Ghost Stories" is definitely a comedy. You'll recognise the s
Read more…My First Planet
I was particularly disappointed by My First Planet. What a waste of a talent like Nicholas Lyndhurst... It seems like no one's heart is really in it, it's being done with half an eye on the clock (it's almost five o'clock, we can
Read more…Found these while looking for a copy of Rick's Pirandello offering.
Six Characters In Search Of An Answer - Series 1
Presented by Barry Cryer
Written by Mike Barfield
2002
Series looking at the genesis and popular appeal of six key comic characters from
Episode 1 Stumped!
All the way from Witney Scrotum, reminiscences of the glory days of English cricket.
Episode 2 Carry on Goering
The Commodore’s Gardener arouses suspicion, leaving it up to the brigadier to uncover his murky past.
Episode
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Take It From Here (often referred to as TIFH, pronounced — and sometimes humorously spelt — "TIFE") is a British radio comedy program broadcast by the BBC between 1948 and 1960. It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and starred Jimmy Edward
Read more…Another gentle, classic BBC sitcom with the wonderful Prunella Scales. Hope you like it (and it hasn't been posted already - search doesn't show it...)
After Henry was a British sitcom written by Simon Brett. It started on BBC Radio 4 and later moved
Read more…Revolting People
Set in Baltimore circa 1770, it's the run-up to the American War of Independence, and the natives are getting restless.
Tarses plays Samuel Oliphant, a strait-laced shopkeeper with a well honed instinct for self-preservation, who w
Writer: Steve Walker.
Director: Peter Kavanagh.
Sidney: Dinsdale Landen
Gregory: Denys Hawthorne
Tartufari: Henry Goodman
Ngoupande
Here you go, Rick. Ugga Ugga Boo, Ugga Boo Boo Ugga. After you listen to the first episode this will make sense to you.
Read more…A comedy by Sarah Wooley about neighbours, architecture, tradition versus modernism, and James Bond.
In 1939 the brutalist architect Erno Goldfinger bought a row of Victorian terrace houses in Hampstead. His plan was to knock them down and build a
Read more…Dramatisation of Giovanni Guareschi's satirical stories about the rivalry between the village priest Don Camillo and the Communist mayor of the postwar Italian town of Mondo Piccolo (Little World).
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By Ben Travers, adapted by Peter King
A Farce.
If only Stella and Henry had realised that they were both going to be in Coombe Puddy.
If only Henry hadn't missed his train home.
If only he hadn't agreed to impersonate a 'professional' dancer.
If o
Read more…I was sure that The Bona Album of Julian and Sandy had been posted here before, but it seems to have vanished into the ether. No matter! Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams may have shuffled off this mortal coil, along with the writers, Barry Took and
3 series - I only have 2. Anyone have series 3?
12 episodes 30 minutes | 128/44 | LINK
Dark comedy series about a man lying in hospital in a coma, who lives out a fantasy life of his own creation while his family argue over him from the real world.
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