I don't believe it! Victor Meldrew comes to BBC 7.
One Foot in the Grave is a comedy television series that debuted on BBC in January of 1990.
The story centers around the grouchy and recently retired Victor Meldrew (played by Richard Wilson) and hi
Read more…THE AUDIOCOMICS COMPANY: Starstruck
1 - Prologue: Rec Station News - Mitochondria
2 - Act One, Scene One: Aboard the Harpy - Galatia and Crew Bump into Trouble
3 - Act One, Scene Two: On the Sinister Siren 3 - Evil Plans and Unnatural Acts
4 -
written by Brian Sibley
from his blog:
"It was back in 1977 - which, heaven help us, is thirty-three years ago - that I wrote what was only my second programme for radio, but which turned out to be something of a classic. Entitled ...And Yet Anot
Read more…Sea Fever
by Sheila Hodgson
SNT 1989-05-13
Starring John Moffat
80K
SEA FEVER is a brilliant piece of work, in ingenuity and high spirits far superior to most things on radio 4 nowadays. John Moffat plays a failed financier who
COLLINS THEATRE PRODUCTIONS OF ROALD DAHL'S WORK (HARPER COLLINS AUDIO)
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Encoded in MP3 Format at 128kbps 44 Hz Stereo. Total Size is 618MB.
These dramatisations are around 20
The Distance Between the Stars
A radio road movie by Andrew Wilson.
Four teenagers from Todmorden search for aliens in the Scottish Highlands, travelling in a hearse painted lime green and fluorescent pink in a comedy-drama about UFOlogy, wave ene
1,000 Years of Spoken English
Afternoon Play: 30 November 1999
A double bill from a series specially commissioned dramas representing the diverse voices of dramatic writing in Britain.
`Know What I Mean?' by John Mortimer
A barrister and a mana
Spray the Grass Green
By Andy Merriman and Peter Morfoot
The first of four comedies written for the many voices of legendary actor June Whitfield.
It is 1939 and June plays the slightly fading Hollywood star Lana Garfield contracted to Tantamou
Read more…Three very different styles of comedians...here are Jonathan Winters, Don Rickles, and Sam Kinison.
Read more…Al Read b-3 March 1909 d-9 September 1987 a British wireless comedian active throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
Read was born in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire UK and was a sausage maker and salesman in his father's business. He became known as a p
Read more…Taking Over
By Mervyn Jones
With Vivian Pickles, Freddie Jones, Yvonne Antrobus, John Hollis, Jon Strickland, Frances Jeater, Maggie McCarthy, Michael Jenner, Peter Acre, Colin Starkey and Henry Stamper.
Directed by Michael Heffernan
SNT 14 April 19
Scoop
By Evelyn Waugh
SNT 29.5.1976
John Rowe/Rosalind Knight/Ronald Herdman
160K
Through a series of accidents and mistaken identity, Boot is hired as a war correspondent for a Fleet Street newspaper. The uncomprehending Boot is sent to the fic
Cabin Pressure is a radio series written by John Finnemore. Its first series was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.
To my mind, this is the best comedy on radio. As ensemble humor, it ranks
up there with Barney Miller.
I'm not sure of the status
Read more…You Never Can Tell
By George Bernard Shaw
SNT 31.7.1971
Prunella Scales/Denys Hawthrone/Freddie Jones
64K
You Never Can Tell is an 1897 four-act play by G. Bernard Shaw that debuted at the Royalty Theatre. It was published as part of a volume of
Britain's greatest comedy double act. Unfortunately, I have only two episodes of their radio series. If anybody could oblige with the remainder, I'd be extremely grateful.
Read more…Spanish Gold
by George Birmingham
adapted by Alan England
With Kieran Cunningham and Stuart Richman.
Produced by Dave Sheasby
SNT 1990.07.07
256K
A farcical tale of a treasure hunt on an Aran island - Inishgowlan - in which the Reverend Meldon
Present Laughter
By Noel Coward
SNT .30.6.1979.
96K
Paul Scofield, Fenella Fielding and Patricia Routledge.
Present Laughter is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1939 and first staged in 1942 on tour. The plot follows a few days in the lif
Relative Values
By Noel Coward
SNT 1976-05-08
Joyce Redman/Bill Fraser/Gwen Cherrell/John Rye
256K
A man returns home with his bride-to-be, an actress, who turns out to be the sister of his family's maid. The former lover of the Hollywood ac
