Current and former programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...

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Note that BBC Radio 4 has existed only since 30 September 1967: programmes broadcast by its predecessor, the BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service

The BBC Home Service was a British national radio station which broadcast from 1939 until 1967.-Development:Between the 1920s and the outbreak of The Second World War, the BBC had developed two nationwide radio services, the BBC National Programme and the BBC Regional Programme...

 (1939-1967), are listed only where they were continued by Radio 4. The years indicated in brackets after programme titles refer to the dates of the programme's first, subsequent, and final broadcasts, where known.

Many of Radio 4's past comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 and drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 productions have been, and continue to be, rerun

Rerun

A rerun or repeat is a re-airing of an episode of a radio or television broadcast. The invention of the rerun is generally credited to Desi Arnaz. There are two types of reruns—those that occur during a hiatus, and those that occur when a program is syndicated. Reruns can also be, as the...

 on the digital radio channel BBC Radio 4 Extra (previously Radio 7

Radio 7

Radio 7 is a German radio station. It is broadcast in southeastern Baden-Württemberg and can also be received in neighboring Switzerland. Its main studio is located in Ulm, it also has local studios in Aalen, Ravensburg and Tuttlingen...

).

News and current affairs

• The Africans
  The Africans (radio programme)
  The Africans was a series of five fifteen-minute programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 4 during 2007, introduced by Nigerian journalist Ken Wiwa, whose father Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian military government in 1995...
  
   (2007)
• Americana
  Americana (radio series)
  Americana was a British radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from spring 2009 to autumn 2011. It offered a "mix of discussion, interviews and features, with a focus on the voices of ordinary Americans" and was touted as the "successor for the late Alistair Cooke's Letter from...
  
   (2009–2011)
• Analysis
  Analysis (radio programme)
  Analysis is a half-hour BBC Radio 4 documentary programme, which has been running for over 40 years.-History:It began in April 1970. The first presenter was Ian McIntyre, who later became Controller of Radio 4 from 1976–78 and of Radio 3 from 1978–87; he left in 1976.The program covered overlooked...
  
   (1970–)
• Any Answers?
  Any Answers?
  Any Answers? is the companion programme to BBC Radio 4's Any Questions?, in which a panel of notable figures drawn from politics, media or the arts are asked for their views on current affairs by members of a studio audience....
  
   (1955–)
• Any Questions?
  Any Questions?
  Any Questions? is a topical debate radio programme in the United Kingdom.-Format:It is broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on Friday evenings and repeated on Saturday afternoons, when it is followed by a phone-in response programme, Any Answers?, previously a postal response slot...
  
   (1948–)
• Asian Diasporas
  Asian Diasporas (radio programme)
  Asian Diasporas is an intermittently-broadcast forty minute BBC Radio 4 documentary programme about Asian communities around the world, first transmitted in 2007 and so far consisting of three episodes....
  
   (2007–)
• The Bottom Line (2006–)
• Broadcasting House
  Broadcasting House (radio programme)
  Broadcasting House is a current affairs programme on BBC Radio 4, presented by Paddy O'Connell. It is broadcast every Sunday between 09:00 and 10:00....
  
   (1998–)
• Checkpoint (1973-84, became Face The Facts)
• The Commission
• The Copysnatchers
• Crossing Continents
  Crossing Continents
  Crossing Continents is a half-hour BBC Radio 4 documentary programme, focusing on foreign affairs issues through on-location journalism and interviews from various parts of the world...
  
  
• Does He Take Sugar (disability issues) (1977-98)
• Face the Facts (1984–)
• Farming Today
  Farming Today
  -Transmission:It is broadcast each week day between 5.45 and 6.00 a.m. and a longer programme is broadcast on Saturdays from 06.35 – 7.00 a.m. Around one million people listen to the programme...
  
  
• Farming Today This Week
• File on 4
  File on 4
  File on 4 is a current-affairs radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It is produced in Manchester by the BBC's Radio Current Affairs department, and has won more than 40 awards.- External links :* *...
  
   (1975-)
• From Our Own Correspondent
  From our own Correspondent
  From Our Own Correspondent is a BBC radio programme in which BBC correspondents broadcast monologues on topical current events from countries outside the UK...
  
   (1955–)
• In Business
  In Business
  -Format:It is presented by the BBC's Business Correspondent Peter Day, and is broadcast at 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays and repeated at 9:30 p.m. on Sundays. It is the sister program of Global Business, which is also presented by Day and is broadcast on the BBC World Service.-History:It began as an...
  
   (1975-)
• In Search of the British Work Ethic (2010)*
• In Touch
  In Touch (BBC Radio 4 programme)
  In Touch is a programme on BBC Radio 4 airing "news, views and information for people who are blind or partially sighted".In Touch began to be broadcast by the BBC Home Service in 1961, and was continued by BBC Radio 4 from 1967....
  
  , for visually impaired (1961-)
• Inside Money
• IPM
  PM (Radio 4)
  PM, sometimes referred to as the PM programme to avoid ambiguity, is BBC Radio 4's long-running early evening news and current affairs programme.-Broadcast times:...
  
  
• Law in Action
• Letter from America
  Letter from America
  Letter from America was a weekly 15-minute radio series on BBC Radio 4, previously called the Home Service, which ran for 2,869 shows from 24 March 1946 to 20 February 2004, making it the longest-running speech radio programme in history...
  
   (1946–2004)
• Money Box
  Money Box (radio)
  -History:Money Box began in October 1977 with Louise Botting as presenter. It was the first personal finance radio programme, and even today in the UK, it is one of the few. The programme You and Yours, also on Radio 4, also includes much about personal finance, fraud and scams...
  
   (1977-)
• More or Less
  More or Less (radio programme)
  More or Less is a BBC Radio 4 programme focusing on numbers and statistics.The programme was started by Andrew Dilnot as a one-off series of six programmes...
  
  
• Nice Work(discontinued)
• The Pariah Profession
• A Point of View (2007–)
• The Politics of Hunger
• PM (1970–)
• Profile
• Seven Days
• Sport on Four
  Sport on Four
  Sport on Four was a long running sports programme aired on BBC Radio 4 between 1977 and 1998 on Saturday mornings. It featured many well known BBC sports journalists and was presented for over 10 years by Cliff Morgan. Other presenters/ reporters on the programme included Bryon Butler. Its theme...
  
   ( -1998)
• Straw Poll
• Straw Poll Talk Back
• Taking a Stand
• Taking Issue
• Talking Politics
• Today
  Today programme
  Today is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, now broadcast from 6.00 am to 9.00 am Monday to Friday, and 7.00 am to 9.00 am on Saturdays. It is also the most popular programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks...
  
   (1957–)
• Today in Parliament (1945–)
• United Nations or Not?
• Week in Westminster
• The Westminster Hour
  The Westminster Hour
  The Westminster Hour is a British weekly radio magazine on BBC Radio 4 focusing on topical political events in the United Kingdom. Despite the title referring to the Palace of Westminster, home of the Houses of Parliament, the programme focuses on politics in the devolved nations as...
  
  
• With Us or Against Us
• The World at One (1965-)
  The World At One
  The World at One, or WATO for short, is BBC Radio 4's long-running lunchtime news and current affairs programme, which is broadcast from 1pm to 1:30pm from Monday to Friday. The programme describes itself as "Britain's leading political programme. With a reputation for rigorous and original...
  
  
• The World This Weekend
  The World This Weekend
  The World This Weekend was launched on 17 September 1967. It is a weekly news and current affairs programme broadcast from 1pm to 1:30pm on BBC Radio 4 every Sunday, essentially the Sunday version of The World at One....
  
  
• The World Tonight
  The World Tonight
  The World Tonight is a British current affairs radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4, every weekday evening, which started out as an extension of the 10pm news. It features news, analysis and comment on domestic and world issues...
  
  
• Yesterday in Parliament

Arts and drama

• The Afternoon Play
• The Afternoon Reading
• The Archers
  The Archers
  The Archers is a long-running British soap opera broadcast on the BBC's main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. It was originally billed as "an everyday story of country folk", but is now described on its Radio 4 web site as "contemporary drama in a rural setting"...
  
   (1950–)
• Back Row
• Book at Bedtime
  Book at Bedtime
  Book at Bedtime is a long-running radio programme on BBC Radio 4, broadcast each weekday evening at 10.45–11.00 pm.Book at Bedtime offers fiction including modern classics, new works by leading writers and literature from around the world. Books are usually abridged and serialised each evening for...
  
   (1959–)
• Bookclub
  Bookclub (radio)
  Bookclub is a monthly programme, devised by Olivia Seligman and hosted by Jim Naughtie and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Each month a novel is selected, and its author invited to discuss it...
  
  
• Book of the Week
  Book of the Week
  Book of the Week is a BBC Radio 4 series broadcast daily on week days. Each week the selected book, always a non-fiction work, is read in five episodes; each fifteen-minute episode is broadcast in the morning and repeated overnight . The Act of Worship replaces the morning broadcast on...
  
  
• Cartoons, Lampoons, and Buffoons (1998 Political Satire)
• The Classic Serial
• The Dark House
  The Dark House
  The Dark House is a 2009 Polish drama film directed by Wojciech Smarzowski.- Cast :* Arkadiusz Jakubik - Edward Srodon* Marian Dziedziel - Zdzislaw Dziabas* Kinga Preis - Bozena Dziabasowa* Bartlomiej Topa - Mróz...
  
  
• The Film Programme
  The Film programme
  The Film programme is a British film review television programme, broadcast weekly on BBC One, presented by Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh. The title of the show changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast, with the current series being Film 2011, but when referring to successive...
  
  
• The Friday Play
• Front Row
  Front Row (radio)
  Front Row is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The BBC describes the programme as a "live magazine programme on the world of arts, literature, film, media and music." It is broadcast each week day between 7.15 and 7.45 and has a of highlights available for download. Shows usually include...
  
  
• A Good Read
  A Good Read
  A Good Read is one of BBC Radio 4's longest running programmes where two guests join the main presenter to choose and discuss their favourite book. Sue MacGregor stepped down in 2010 as the programme's longest serving presenter...
  
  
• Kaleidoscope (1973–1998)
• Loose Ends (1985-)
• The Heard
• Open Book
• Poetry Please
  Poetry Please
  Poetry Please is a weekly radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in which listeners request poems, which are then read by a cast of actors. The current presenter is Roger McGough...
  
  
• Saturday Night Theatre
  Saturday Night Theatre
  Saturday Night Theatre was a long-running radio drama strand on BBC Radio 4. The strand showcased feature-length, middle-brow single plays on Saturday evenings for more than 50 years, having been lanched in April 1943. The plays featured in the strand included stage plays, books adaptations and...
  
   (1943–1996)
• Saturday Play
  Saturday Play
  The Saturday Play is a regular feature on BBC Radio 4 and is described as "Thrillers, mysteries, love stories and detective fiction, as well as an occasional special series."The Saturday Play is part of the BBC's series...
  
  
• Saturday Review
  Saturday Review (radio)
  Saturday Review is a weekly radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 which "offers sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events", according to the show's website.It is currently presented by Tom Sutcliffe.-External links:*...
  
  
• White Nights
  White Nights (radio)
  White Nights is a British radio documentary series, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 31 July and 4 August 2006.The show is described as a, "Series of reflections on what happens on a summer night between wakefulness and sleep."...
  
  
• With Great Pleasure
• Woman's Hour Drama
  Woman's Hour Drama
  The Woman's Hour Drama is a BBC Radio 4 Arts and Drama production. It consists of 15 minute episodes, broadcast every weekday 10.45-11.00am , repeated 7.45-8.00pm. These tend to be plays which extend over a week, or multiple of 5 episodes...
  
  

Quizzes

• Brain of Britain
  Brain of Britain
  Brain of Britain is a BBC radio general knowledge quiz, broadcast on BBC Radio 4.-History:It began as a slot in What Do You Know? in 1953 before becoming a programme in its own right in 1967. It was chaired by Franklin Engelmann until his death in 1972.-Format:The format of the quiz is simple...
  
  
• Masterteam
  Masterteam
  Masterteam is a BBC television and radio quiz show, devised by the team which made Mastermind. The show was devised by Dave Ross at the BBC Quiz Unit....
  
   - The team form of Mastermind
• Round Britain Quiz
  Round Britain Quiz
  Round Britain Quiz is a panel game that has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 since 1947, making it the oldest quiz still broadcast on British radio...
  
  
• X Marks the Spot
• Counterpoint
  Counterpoint (radio)
  Counterpoint is a BBC Radio 4 quiz. Questions are about music, from classical, jazz, pop, musicals, and all other forms of music. It was originally hosted by Ned Sherrin...
  
   (1986–)

Panel games

• I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
  I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
  I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, sometimes abbreviated to ISIHAC or Clue, is a BBC radio comedy panel game broadcast since 11 April 1972 at the rate of one or two series each year , transmitted on BBC Radio 4, with occasional repeats on BBC Radio 4 Extra and the BBC's World Service...
  
   ("The antidote to panel games") (1972–)
• Just a Minute
  Just a Minute
  Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Its first transmission on Radio 4 was on 22 December 1967, three months after the station's launch. The Radio 4 programme won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2003....
  
   (1967–)
• Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
  Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
  Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive is a British radio comedy programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2005 with a second series in 2006, a third in 2007 and a fourth in 2008. Series 2, 3 and 4 of the show were broadcast in the popular Friday evening slot, which it has shared with The...
  
   (2005–8)
• Many a Slip
  Many a Slip
  Many a Slip was a BBC Radio 4 panel game created by Ian Messiter that ran from 1964 to 1979. It was chaired by Roy Plomley, with a musical mistakes round supplied by musician Steve Race....
  
   (1964–1979)
• My Music (1967–1993)
• My Word!
  My Word!
  My Word! was a long-running radio panel game broadcast by the BBC on the Home Service and Radio 4 . It was created by Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane, and featured comic writers Denis Norden and Frank Muir, famous in Britain for the series Take It From Here...
  
   (1956–1990)
• The News Quiz
  The News Quiz
  The News Quiz is a topical panel game broadcast on British radio BBC Radio 4.-History:It was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as chairman. Subsequently it was chaired by Simon Hoggart, Barry Took , and then again by Simon Hoggart until March 2006. Hoggart was replaced by Sandi Toksvig in...
  
   (1977–)
• The 99p Challenge
  The 99p Challenge
  The 99p Challenge is a spoof panel game originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The show is presented by Sue Perkins and features a selection of regular panelists such as Armando Iannucci and regular writers Kevin Cecil, Andy Riley, Jon Holmes and Tony Roche...
  
   (1998–2004)
• The Personality Test
  The Personality Test
  The Personality Test is a British radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, which sees a weekly guest host present a series of questions about themselves to a panel consisting of comedians....
  
   (2006–2007)
• The Unbelievable Truth
  The Unbelievable Truth
  The Unbelievable Truth is a BBC radio comedy panel game made by Random Entertainment, devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith. It is very similar to the occasional I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue game "Lies, All Lies", which was first played in 1985...
  
   (2006–)
• Puzzle Panel
  Puzzle Panel
  Puzzle Panel was a light-hearted, though cerebral BBC Radio 4 panel game that was broadcast between 1998 and 2005. It was written and presented by puzzle columnist for The Guardian, Chris Maslanka....
  
   (1998–2005)
• Quote... Unquote
  Quote... Unquote
  Quote... Unquote is a long-running panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4 based on quotations. Every episode since the beginning of the series in 1976 has been chaired by its deviser, Nigel Rees. In July 2011, the programme began a new series, being broadcast at 1.30pm on Mondays, repeated on...
  
   (1976–)
• Whispers
  Whispers (radio series)
  Whispers was a British radio panel game which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 over three series from 2003 to 2005. The show was hosted by Gyles Brandreth, a former Conservative Party MP, and featured regular team captains Anthony Holden, Stella Duffy and Lucy Moore.The format of the quiz involved the...
  
   (2003–2005)
• Whose Line is it Anyway?
  Whose Line Is It Anyway?
  Whose Line Is It Anyway? is a short-form improvisational comedy TV show. Originally a British radio programme, it moved to television in 1988 as a series made for the UK's Channel 4, for a 10 series run...
  
   (1988)
• I Guess That's Why They Call It The News
  I Guess That's Why They Call It The News
  I Guess That's Why They Call It The News is a BBC Radio 4 satirical panel game hosted by Fred MacAulay and created by James Sherwood. The only series began broadcasting on 21 August 2009 and lasted for five episodes.-What's the Story?:...
  
   (2009)
• It's Your Round (2011)

Sketch shows

• The Consultants
  The Consultants
  The Consultants are a comedy sketch team who first reached public prominence in August 2002 where they won the Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe....
  
  
• Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years
  Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years
  Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years was a BBC Radio 4 comedy series originally broadcast in seven episodes in 1998. The Dan and Nick of the title are Dan Freedman and Nick Romero, who often appeared on Loose Ends....
  
  
• Dead Ringers
  Dead Ringers (comedy)
  Dead Ringers is a UK radio and television comedy impressions broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and later BBC Two. The programme was devised by producer Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blackwell. It starred Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Phil Cornwell, Kevin Connelly and Mark Perry...
  
  
• Down the Line
• I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
  I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
  I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again was a BBC radio comedy programme which originated from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Cambridge Circus...
  
   (1964–1973)
• Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking
  Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking
  Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking is a comedy sketch show created by British Perrier Award winning comedian, Laura Solon. The show was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Following her success with Kopfraper's Syndrome: One Man and His Incredible Mind, Solon went on to create the show with the BBC...
  
  
• On the Town With the League of Gentlemen
  The League of Gentlemen
  The League of Gentlemen are a group of British comedians formed in 1995, best known for their radio and television series.The League of Gentlemen may also refer to:* The League of Gentlemen ,...
  
   (1997)
• Little Britain
  Little Britain
  Little Britain is a British character-based comedy sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC radio and then turned into a television show. It was written by comic duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas...
  
  
• Milligna (or Your Favourite Spike)
  Milligna (or Your Favourite Spike)
  Milligna , also known as "The Milligna Show" was a radio comedy sketch show, written by Spike Milligan, performed by John Bluthal, Vilma Hollingbery, and Milligan himself. Musical interludes were provided by Ray Ellington and the Alan Clare Quartet. Alan Clare also took speaking parts.The show...
  
  
• The Million Pound Radio Show
  The Million Pound Radio Show
  The Million Pound Radio Show was a long-running radio programme written by and featuring Nick Revell and Andy Hamilton that aired on Britain's BBC Radio 4...
  
  
• The Museum of Everything
  The Museum of Everything
  The Museum of Everything is a BBC Radio 4 comedy sketch show, written and performed by Marcus Brigstocke, Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell with Lucy Montgomery. The show generally occupies the 18:30 comedy slot on BBC Radio 4, with repeats several times a year on BBC Radio 4 Extra...
  
  
• The Now Show
  The Now Show
  The Now Show is a British radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, which satirises the week's news. The show is a mixture of stand-up, sketches and songs presented by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis...
  
   (1998–)
• On the Hour
  On the Hour
  On the Hour was a British radio programme that parodied current affairs broadcasting, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1991 and 1992.Written by Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci, Steven Wells, Andrew Glover, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring and David Quantick, it starred Morris as the overzealous and...
  
   (1991–1992)
• Radio Active
  Radio Active (radio programme)
  Radio Active was a radio comedy programme, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 during the 1980s. The first episode was broadcast in 1980, and it ran for seven series...
  
   (1980–1987)
• Radio9
  Radio9
  Radio9 is a surreal comedy sketch show set in a fictional radio station. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2003 and 2006, it was written by Hils Barker and Johnny Daukes...
  
  
• Round the Horne
  Round the Horne
  Round the Horne was a BBC Radio comedy programme, transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The series was created by Barry Took and Marty Feldman - with others contributing to later series after Feldman returned to performing — and starred Kenneth Horne, with Kenneth...
  
  
• The Sunday Format
  The Sunday Format
  The Sunday Format, "BBC Radio 4's first high-quality weekend broadsheet newspaper", is a British satirical radio comedy. The programme is a parody of British middle class newspapers, in particular the lifestyle supplements and glossy celebrity magazines that fill Sunday papers...
  
  
• That Mitchell and Webb Sound
  That Mitchell and Webb Sound
  That Mitchell and Webb Sound is a comedy sketch show on BBC Radio 4 which started on 28 August 2003. A second series was broadcast in 2005 with a third starting on 24 May 2007. The series became adapted for television as That Mitchell and Webb Look in 2006. The series is seen in some ways a...
  
  
• Week Ending
  Week Ending
  Week Ending... was a satirical radio current affairs sketch show, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, usually on Friday evenings. It was devised by writer/producers Simon Brett and David Hatch, and was originally hosted by Nationwide presenter Michael Barratt.The show's title was always announced as...
  
   (1970–1998)

Sitcoms

• Absolute Power
• Acropolis Now
  Acropolis Now (radio)
  Acropolis Now is a BBC Radio sitcom set in Ancient Greece, written by the author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in two series in 2000 and 2002, with subsequent reruns on BBC 7 in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010....
  
  
• After Henry
• A Little Night Exposure (1978)
• Cabin Pressure
  Cabin Pressure (radio series)
  Cabin Pressure is a radio situation comedy series written by John Finnemore. Its first series was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. The show follows the exploits of the oddball crew of the single aeroplane owned by "MJN Air" as they are chartered to take all manner of items, people or animals...
  
  
• The Castle
  The Castle
  The Castle is a novel by Franz Kafka. In it a protagonist, known only as K., struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities of a castle who govern the village for unknown reasons...
  
  
• Clare in the Community
  Clare in the Community
  Clare in the Community is a British comic strip in The Guardian newspaper, written by Harry Venning. The title is a pun on care in the community. The strip has been successfully adapted for radio on BBC Radio 4....
  
  
• Count Arthur Strong
• Dad's Army (1973–1975)
• Double Science
  Double Science
  Double Science is a British sitcom on BBC Radio 4. It follows Colin Jackson and Kenneth Farley-Pittman, two chemistry teachers existing in a work-life balance haven at the fictional Forresters Sixth Form College...
  
  
• Ed Reardon's Week
  Ed Reardon's Week
  Ed Reardon's Week is a sitcom on BBC Radio 4 recorded semi-naturalistically in the style of a radio drama. It concerns the story of a curmudgeonly 50-something writer described in the show's publicity material as an "author, pipesmoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive email"...
  
  
• ElvenQuest
  ElvenQuest
  ElvenQuest is a comic fantasy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto, and starring Stephen Mangan, Alistair McGowan, Darren Boyd, Kevin Eldon, Sophie Winkleman and Dave Lamb. The series takes place in the world of Lower Earth, a parody of Middle-earth from The Lord of the Rings by...
  
  
• Flying the Flag
  Flying the Flag
  -Synopsis:Created at the height of the Cold War, this BBC Radio 4 sitcom chronicled the vagaries of diplomatic life in a fictitious eastern-bloc country...
  
   (1987–1992)
• Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)
  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy radio series written by Douglas Adams . It was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom by BBC Radio 4 in 1978, and afterwards on global short wave radio on the BBC World Service, National Public Radio in the U.S. and CBC Radio in...
  
   (1978, 1980, 2004–2005)
• King Street Junior
  King Street Junior
  King Street Junior was a Radio Comedy about a junior school aired by the BBC from March 1985 to November 1998. A continuation of the series renamed King Street Junior Revisited started in 2002 and continued until 2005...
  
  
• Living with the Enemy
  Living with the Enemy
  Living with the Enemy is a BBC Radio 4 sitcom written by and starring Nick Revell and Gyles Brandreth. It made its debut on 14 November 2006....
  
  
• Millport
• The Navy Lark
  The Navy Lark
  The Navy Lark was a radio sit-com about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge, based in HMNB Portsmouth, though in series 1 and 2 the ship and crew were stationed offshore at an unnamed location known simply as "The Island." In series 2 this island was revealed to be...
  
   (1959–1977)
• Nebulous
  Nebulous
  Nebulous is a post apocalyptic science fiction comedy radio show written by Graham Duff and produced by Ted Dowd from Baby Cow Productions; it is directed by Nicholas Briggs. The series premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC Radio 4...
  
  
• Not Today, Thank You
  Not Today, Thank You
  Not Today, Thank You is a British radio comedy featured on BBC Radio 4. It stars Harry Shearer as Nostrils, a man convinced that he is extremely unattractive, and Brian Hayes as Brian Hughes, an aging radio presenter who tries to broadcast his radio show from his grandmother's basement before...
  
  
• Old Harry's Game
  Old Harry's Game
  Old Harry's Game is a UK radio comedy written and directed by Andy Hamilton, who also plays the cynical, world-weary Satan. "Old Harry" is one of many names for the devil...
  
  
• Our Brave Boys
  Our Brave Boys
  Our Brave Boys is Christopher Lee's Radio, Comedy drama series about a high-flying civil servant who is posted to the Ministry of Defence, where she finds herself boss to four military officers....
  
  
• The Party Party
  The Party Party (radio series)
  The Party Party was a British radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987. The six part series was political comedy set in 1992 written by Moray Hunter and was performed by Robert Glenister, Rory Bremner, Clive Mantle, Hugh Laurie, Morwenna Banks and Robin Driscoll....
  
  
• Rigor Mortis
  Rigor Mortis (radio)
  Rigor Mortis is a BBC Radio 4 black comedy set in the pathology department at an NHS hospital. It centers around the working lives of the pathologists and attendant staff who work in the department.-Themes:...
  
  
• Revolting People
  Revolting People
  Revolting People is a BBC Radio 4 situation comedy set in colonial Baltimore, Maryland, just before the American Revolutionary War. The series is written by the Briton Andy Hamilton and the American Jay Tarses, with Tarses playing a sour shopkeeper named Samuel Oliphant and Hamilton playing a...
  
  
• Rudy's Rare Records
• The Sofa of Time
  The Sofa of Time
  The Sofa of Time was a BBC Radio 4 comedy drama written by and starring Nick Frost and Matt King. It was first broadcast in 2002.Milford and Parker get sacked from their jobs in a soft furnishings factory in Crouch End. As they are clearing out their lockers, they fall into the magical world of...
  
  
• Tomorrow, Today!
• Weak at the Top
  Weak at the Top
  Weak at the Top is a situation comedy originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005 and 2006. It revolves around a businessman anti-hero, John Weak , whose main attributes are summed up in the words "randy, sexist, and drunk"...
  
  
• Yes Minister
  Yes Minister
  Yes Minister is a satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC Television between 1980–1982 and 1984, split over three seven-episode series. The sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran from 1986 to 1988. In total there were 38 episodes—of which all but...
  
  
• You'll Have Had Your Tea
  Hamish and Dougal
  Hamish and Dougal are two characters from the long-running BBC Radio 4 "antidote to panel games", I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue played by Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden, who later went on to have their own Radio 4 series, You'll Have Had Your Tea: The Doings of Hamish and Dougal.-History:One of the...
  
  

Topical lectures

• Chris Addison
  Chris Addison
  Chris Addison is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He is known for his lecture-style comedy shows, two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4...
  
  
  • The Ape That Got Lucky
    The Ape That Got Lucky
    The Ape That Got Lucky was a four-part radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2005. Written by Chris Addison and Carl Cooper, it was based around Chris Addison giving a lecture on the evolution of man from "ugly ape" into the all time "Top Species".Addison was supported in this spoof...
    
    
  • Chris Addison's Civilisation
• Fanshawe Gets to the Bottom of
• Rainer Hersch
  Rainer Hersch
  Rainer Hersch is a British musician and stand-up comedian known for his comical take on classical music. He has toured in more than 25 countries and has broadcast extensively, principally for the BBC...
  
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  • All Classical Music Explained
  • Rainer Hersch's 20th Century Retrospective
• Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation
  Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation
  Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation is a BBC Radio 4 series of comedy lectures, hosted by Jeremy Hardy. This has been running since the mid 1993...
  
  
• Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue
• Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music
  Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music
  Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series, taking a satirical look at popular music. It is written by and stars Mitch Benn and Robin Ince. It also features Mitch's group The Distractions and in the first two series Alfie Joey...
  
  
• The Problem with Adam Bloom
• People Like Us
  People Like Us
  People Like Us is a British comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer...
  
  
• Round Ireland with a Fridge
• Mark Steel
  Mark Steel
  Mark Steel is a British socialist columnist, author and comedian. He was a member of the Socialist Workers Party from his late teens until 2007.-Early life:...
  
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  • The Mark Steel Lectures
    The Mark Steel Lectures
    The Mark Steel Lectures are a series of radio and television programmes. Written and delivered by Mark Steel, each scripted lecture presents persuasive, yet witty, arguments for the importance of a historical figure....
    
    
  • The Mark Steel Revolution
    The Mark Steel Revolution
    The Mark Steel Revolution was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. Written and delivered by Mark Steel, each scripted lecture presents an informative, yet witty, account of a revolution. Many of the points are illustrated with readings by Martin Hyder, and Carla Mendonça...
    
    
  • The Mark Steel Solution
    The Mark Steel Solution
    The Mark Steel Solution was initially broadcast on BBC Radio 5 for a series, before three series were broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The show's original slogan was "Give me thirty minutes and I’ll convince you of anything!"...
    
    
• Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better
  Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better
  Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better is a radio comedy programme starring Mark Watson. It started on BBC Radio 4 on 13 February 2007...
  
   (2007)
• Will Smith Presents the Tao of Bergerac
  Will Smith Presents the Tao of Bergerac
  Will Smith Presents the Tao of Bergerac is a British radio comedy programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. The programme is presented by the comedian Will Smith and concerns his obsession with the 1980s detective series Bergerac starring John Nettles. Nettles makes cameo appearances in each...
  
  

Other

• 15 Minute Musical
  15 Minute Musical
  15 Minute Musical is a comedy series on BBC Radio 4 written by Richie Webb, David Quantick and Dave Cohen. Each episode is in a different musical style with a story featuring current celebrities and politicians...
  
  
• 1994
• Alison and Maud
  Alison and Maud
  Alison and Maud was a radio program written by Sue Limb that aired in two series from December 2002-Apr 2004. There were twelve 25 minute episodes in total and it was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It has subsequently been repeated on BBC Radio 7...
  
  
• All Gas and Gaiters
  All Gas and Gaiters
  All Gas and Gaiters was a British television ecclesiastical sitcom which aired on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971. It was written by Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps, a husband-and-wife team who used the pseudonym of "John Wraith" when writing the pilot...
  
  
• All the Young Dudes
• And Now in Colour
  And now in Colour (Radio Show)
  And Now in Colour was a radio comedy programme that aired on BBC Radio 4 for two series and two half-hour Christmas specials between March 1990 and December 1991...
  
  
• Armstrong and Miller
  Armstrong and Miller (radio show)
  Armstrong and Miller was a short-lived radio program that aired in March 1998. There were 4 15-minute episodes and it was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It starred Alexander Armstrong, Ben Miller, Samuel West, and Tony Gardner.-External links:*...
  
  
• As Time Goes By
  As Time Goes By (TV series)
  As Time Goes By is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One from 1992 to 2005. Starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer, it follows the relationship between two former lovers who meet unexpectedly after not having been in contact for 38 years....
  
  
• At Home with the Snails
  At Home with the Snails
  At Home with the Snails is a somewhat surreal BBC Radio 4 comedy, written by Gerard Foster, about a British dysfunctional family. The cast includes Geoffrey Palmer as George Fisher, Angela Thorne as Beverly Fisher, Gerard Foster as Alex, Miranda Hart as Rose, and Debra Stephenson as Hosanna...
  
  
• The Atkinson People
  The Atkinson People
  The Atkinson People is a 1979 BBC radio comedy series. The series, which was first broadcast sporadically in 1979 by the BBC's arts radio station Radio 3, features a satirical profile of a fictional famous person each week....
  
  
• Babblewick Hall
  Babblewick Hall
  Babblewick Hall was a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 written by Scott Cherry. It was set in eighteenth-century Britain and told the story of Fenton Babblewick, a well-meaning but sometimes confused squire played by Nicholas Le Prevost, and his clever Scottish servant Barney, played by David...
  
  
• Ballylenon
• Beachcomber, by the Way
  Beachcomber by the Way
  Beachcomber By the Way was a short-lived radio programme that aired from March 1989 to December 1994. It is being re-run on BBC Radio 7 at the moment. There were 18 half-hour episodes and it was broadcast on BBC Radio 4...
  
  
• Bearded Ladies
• The Betty Witherspoon Show
• Big and Little
• The Big Booth
• The Big Business Lark
  The Big Business Lark
  The Big Business Lark was a radio comedy sitcom of partly satirical form broadcast in 1969. It starred Jimmy Edwards and Frank Thornton and was written by Laurie Wyman as a spin-off from The Navy Lark, although no characters cross over between the two shows...
  
  
• The Big Town All Stars
  The Big Town All Stars
  The Big Town All Stars was a short-lived radio programme that aired from March 1998—July 2001. There were nine half-hour episodes and it was broadcast on BBC Radio 4...
  
  
• The Bigger Issues
  The Bigger Issues
  The Bigger Issues was a half-hour comedy drama series about an over-ambitious and incompetent fringe theatre company for BBC Radio 4 and was written and performed by Dave Lamb, Jim North, Nick Walker, and Richie Webb. It ran for three series from 2000 to 2003. It was produced by Gareth Edwards....
  
  
• The Boosh
  The Mighty Boosh
  The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy troupe featuring comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding. Developed from three stage shows and a six episode radio series, it has since spawned a total of twenty television episodes for BBC Three and two live tours of the UK, as well as two live shows in the...
  
  
• Boothby Graffoe
  Boothby Graffoe (comedian)
  Boothby Graffoe , is an English comedian, singer, songwriter and playwright. He is particularly known for his surreal sense of humour and work with Canadian band Barenaked Ladies.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Borscht Belt
• Brain of Britain
  Brain of Britain
  Brain of Britain is a BBC radio general knowledge quiz, broadcast on BBC Radio 4.-History:It began as a slot in What Do You Know? in 1953 before becoming a programme in its own right in 1967. It was chaired by Franklin Engelmann until his death in 1972.-Format:The format of the quiz is simple...
  
  
• Brothers in Law
  Brothers in Law
  Brothers in Law is a 1955 comedy book by Henry Cecil, himself a County Court judge, about Roger Thursby — a young barrister — experiencing his first year in chambers.-Television and Film:...
  
  
• The Burkiss Way
  The Burkiss Way
  The Burkiss Way was a BBC Radio 4 sketch comedy series broadcast from August 1976 to November 1980. It was written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, with additional material in early episodes by John Mason, Colin Bostock-Smith, Douglas Adams, John Lloyd and others. The show starred Denise...
  
  
• The Cabaret of Dr Caligari
  The Cabaret of Dr Caligari
  The Cabaret of Dr Caligari was a BBC Radio 4 comedy series first broadcast in November and December 1991. It was written by Alan Gilbey, and produced by Anne Edyvean....
  
  
• The Cabaret Upstairs
• Chambers
  Chambers (series)
  Chambers was a BBC radio and television sitcom. It was written by barrister Clive Coleman and starred John Bird and Sarah Lancashire in both versions. The radio version was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in three series between 1996 and 1999, and the television version was broadcast on BBC One...
  
  
• The Cheese Shop
  The Cheese Shop
  The Cheese Shop were a troupe of six comedy writer-performers from the revue circuit of University of Warwick.Between 1997 and 1999, Gerard Foster, Dave Lamb, Gordon Southern, Tim Verrinder, Ben Ward and Richie Webb appeared in three series of their comedy sketch show The Cheese Shop Presents: The...
  
  
• Chewin' the Fat
  Chewin' the Fat
  Chewin' the Fat is a Scottish comedy sketch show, starring Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill and Karen Dunbar. Comedians Paul Riley and Mark Cox also appeared regularly on the show.Chewin' the Fat first started as a radio series on BBC Radio Scotland...
  
  
• The Children's Hour
  The Children's Hour (radio)
  The Children's Hour was a UK 4 part comedy programme broadcast by the BBC on Radio 4 between 2 December 1998 and 30 December 1998. It starred Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller as media journalists Craig Children and Martin Bain-Jones in a spoof music/children's/cultural review programme...
  
  
• Cliché
• The Clitheroe Kid
  The Clitheroe Kid
  The Clitheroe Kid was a long-running BBC radio comedy show featuring diminutive Northern comedian Jimmy Clitheroe in the role of a cheeky schoolboy, who lived with his family at 33 Lilac Avenue in an un-named town in the north of England. Jimmy's best friend was Ozzie, alias Oswald Higginbottom, a...
  
  
• Comedy Album Heroes
• Concrete Cow
  Concrete Cow
  This article is about a radio show; for the sculptures located in Milton Keynes, see Concrete Cows.Concrete Cow was a BBC Radio 4 audience sketch show created by James Cary. Two series were broadcast in 2002 and 2003. It was mainly written by Cary with Adam Bromley, the producer. It also contained...
  
  
• Creme de la Crime
• The Curried Goat Show
• Delve Special
  Delve Special
  Delve Special was a UK BBC Radio 4 comedy starring Stephen Fry as investigative reporter David Lander. It ran for four series from 1984 to 1987, each series being four episodes long. It was written by Tony Sarchet and produced by Paul Mayhew-Archer...
  
  
• The Department
  The Department
  The Department is a satirical comedy on BBC Radio 4 about a secret organisation with the power to influence every aspect of your life.Chris Addison, John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman star as Research Team 32, an eccentric three-man think-tank with the brief to brainstorm new ideas on solving society's...
  
  
• Dial M for Pizza
  Dial M For Pizza
  Dial M for Pizza was a sketch show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the late 1980s, written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie.The series starred Robert Bathurst, Brenda Blethyn, Mike Grady and Jonathan Kydd. Other performers on the show included Jim Broadbent, Janine Duvitski, Felicity Montagu, Enn Reitel...
  
  
• The Dictionary Quiz
• Dr Finlay's Casebook
• Do Nothing till You Hear from Me
  Do Nothing till You Hear from Me (radio program)
  Do Nothing till You Hear From Me was a six part BBC Radio 4 sitcom written by British comic actor and writer Marcus Powell based on his Roy Diamond character...
  
  
• Does the Team Think
• Down Your Way
  Down Your Way
  Down Your Way was a BBC radio series which ran from 29 December 1946 to 1992, originally on the Home Service, later on BBC Radio Four, usually being broadcast on Sunday afternoons. It visited towns around the United Kingdom, spoke to residents and played their choice of music...
  
  
• Double Income, No Kids Yet
  Double Income, No Kids Yet
  Double Income, No Kids Yet is a British radio sitcom written by David Spicer and originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from June 2001 to November 2003...
  
  
• Double Trouble
• Drop Me Here, Darling
• Elephants to Catch Eels
  Elephants to Catch Eels
  Elephants to Catch Eels was an historical situation comedy series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003 and 2004. It was written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain and produced by Jan Ravens....
  
  
• The Embassy Lark
  The Embassy Lark
  The Embassy Lark was a radio comedy series broadcast from 1966 to 1968 as a spin-off from The Navy Lark. It was written by Lawrie Wyman and starred Frank Thornton and Derek Francis. It was produced by Sir Alistair Scott-Johnston...
  
  
• Five Squeezy Pieces
• Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel
  Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel
  Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel is a situation comedy radio show starring two of the Marx Brothers, Groucho and Chico, and written primarily by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman. It was originally broadcast in the United States on the National Broadcasting Company's Blue Network beginning November 28,...
  
  
• The Frankie Howerd (Variety) Show
• Forty Nights in the Wildebeest
• Foul Play
• Four at the Store
• Four in a Field
• Four Joneses and a Jenkins
• Frank Muir Goes Into
• Fred Housego's Unknowns
• Genius
• Goodness Gracious Me
• The Grumbleweeds Radio Show
  The Grumbleweeds Radio Show
  The Grumbleweeds' Radio Show was a long-running comedy sketch show that aired for fifteen series between 1979 and 1988, starring The Grumbleweeds and broadcast on BBC Radio 2...
  
  
• Guy Browning's Small Talk
• The Harpoon
  The Harpoon
  The Harpoon was a BBC Radio 4 series broadcast between 1991 and 1994, written by Julian Dutton and Peter Baynham. It consisted of three four part series and two Christmas specials, and was performed by Julian Dutton, Peter Baynham, Susie Brann, Alistair McGowan and Mary Elliott-Nelson, and was...
  
  
• Harry Hill's Fruit Corner
  Harry Hill's Fruit Corner
  Harry Hill's Fruit Corner was a radio show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. It starred Harry Hill. Hill achieved his big breakthrough in 1992 when he won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe...
  
  
• Hearing with Hegley
• Henry Normal's Encyclopedia Poetica
• Hinge and Bracket
  Hinge and Bracket
  Dr. Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket were the stage personae of the musical performance and female impersonation artists George Logan and Patrick Fyffe...
  
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  • At Home with Hinge and Bracket
  • The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket
  • The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket
• Hole in the Wall Gang
  Hole in the Wall Gang
  The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang was a gang in the American Wild West, which took its name from the Hole-in-the-Wall Pass in Johnson County, Wyoming, where several outlaw gangs had their hideouts. The Gang was not simply one large organized gang of outlaws, but rather was made up of several separate...
  
  
• Hordes of the Things
  Hordes of the Things
  Hordes of the Things may refer to:* Hordes of the Things, a BBC radio parody of The Lord of the Rings* Hordes of the Things, a miniature wargame...
  
  
• The House of the Spirit Levels
  The House of the Spirit Levels
  The House of the Spirit Levels was a six-part radio series written by, and starring Nick Revell. It was a satire on big business and Northern family sagas with Revell playing the long-lost son of the Hardstaffe family who gets caught up in their business machinations. It was told in flashback from...
  
  
• How Tickled Am I
• The Hudson and Pepperdine Show
  The Hudson and Pepperdine Show
  The Hudson and Pepperdine show is a comedy sketch show vehicle on BBC Radio 4 for the duo Melanie Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine. Four series have been broadcast, in 2000 , 2001 , 2003 and 2005 . They also did a single Afternoon Play in 2008 titled Hudson and Pepperdine Save the Planet...
  
  
• I Think I've Got a Problem
• In Conversation With
  In Conversation With
  In Conversation With is a series of BBC Radio 4 programmes that have been broadcast since 1999.In each programme, Paul Jackson interviews a comedian, group of comedians, or someone connected with comedy....
  
  
• The In Crowd
• In One Ear
  In One Ear
  In One Ear was a late-night alternative comedy sketch show, broadcast between 1984 and 1986, on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom, broadcast live from the BBC Paris Studio in London, with a repeat later in the week....
  
  
• In the...
  • In the Red
  • In the Balance
    In the Balance
    In the Balance is a BBC Radio 4 black comedy written by Mark Tavener. It is the sequel to In the Red, a book, radio and television series, also by Tavener. The producer was Paul Schlesinger...
    
    
  • In the Chair
  • In the End
• Injury Time
• Inspiration
• It Sticks Out Half a Mile
  It Sticks Out Half a Mile
  It Sticks Out Half a Mile was a BBC Radio sitcom created by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles as a sequel to the television war sitcom Dad's Army, for which Snoad and Knowles had written radio adaptations.-The pilot:...
  
  
• The Jason Explanation
• Ken Dodd's Palace of Laughter
• The Ken Dodd Show
• Kenneth William's Playhouse
• King Cutler
• King Stupid
• Knowing Me, Knowing You
  Knowing Me, Knowing You
  "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is a hit single recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA. The song was written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, with the lead vocal sung by Anni-Frid Lyngstad. During recording sessions, it had the working titles of "Ring It In" and "Number 1, Number 1"...
  
  
• Ladies of Letters
  Ladies of Letters
  Ladies of Letters is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series starring Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales, based on the series of books of the same name written by Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield...
  
  
• The League Against Tedium
• Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun
• Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful
• Lenin of the Rovers
  Lenin of the Rovers
  Lenin of the Rovers was a BBC Radio 4 comedy series from 1988 written by Marcus Berkmann and Harry Thompson and starring Alexei Sayle as Ricky Lenin, Russian captain of Felchester Rovers - Britain's only communist football team. Other players in the team were Stevie Stalin and Terry Trotsky...
  
  
• Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting
  Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting
  Linda Smith’s A Brief History of Timewasting was a BBC Radio 4 situation comedy series written by and starring the late Linda Smith. It ran for two series of six episodes each from July 2001 until July 2002....
  
  
• Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
  Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
  Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead, a comedy sketch show for radio, was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 15 February 1971. Two series of eight episodes were broadcast, the second was transmitted from 21 July 1972. In addition, there were two "specials"...
  
  
• Listen Against
• Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World
  Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World
  Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World was a BBC Radio 4 comedy series starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring , and narrated by Tom Baker as the titular character, Lionel Nimrod, an over the top parody of Leonard Nimoy. The show itself somewhat parodies the Leonard Nimoy program "In Search Of..."...
  
  
• Listen to Les
• The Little Big Woman Show
• The Ll Files
• A Look Back at the Nineties
  A Look Back at the Nineties
  A Look Back At The Nineties was a British comedy radio programme first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. Presented by Brian Perkins, the programme was a spoof look back at the decade from New Year's Eve 1999....
  
  
• The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
  The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (radio serial)
  The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is an Above the Title Productions radio adaptation, dramatised by Dirk Maggs and John Langdon of Douglas Adams's The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul...
  
  
• Losers
• Man of Soup
• Marriott's Monologues
• The Masterson Inheritance
  The Masterson Inheritance
  The Masterson Inheritance was an improvised comedy series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 1993 to 1995 billed as "an improvised historical saga of a family at war with itself." There were three series and two Christmas specials...
  
  
• The Mausoleum Club
• McKay the New
• The Mel and Sue Thing
• The Men from the Ministry
  The Men from the Ministry
  The Men from the Ministry was a British radio comedy series broadcast by the BBC between 1962 and 1977, starring Wilfrid Hyde-White, Richard Murdoch and, from 1966, when he replaced Hyde-White, Deryck Guyler...
  
   (1962–1977)
• The Michael Bentine Show
• The Miles and Millner Show
• The Milligan Papers
  The Milligan Papers
  The Milligan Papers was a BBC radio comedy show, written by John Antrobus and starring Spike Milligan. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987, it also featured Chris Langham, John Bluthal, and Antrobus, and is sometimes referred to as A Goon Show for the '80s. It was produced by Paul Spencer...
  
  
• Milligan, Or Your Favourite Spike
• Milton Jones
  Milton Jones
  Milton Jones is an English comedian. His style of humour is based on one-liners involving puns delivered in a deadpan and slightly neurotic style. Jones has had various shows on BBC Radio 4 and is a recurring guest panellist on Mock the Week...
  
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  • Another Case of Milton Jones
    Another Case of Milton Jones
    Another Case of Milton Jones is the third distinct comedy programme starring Milton Jones to be broadcast by BBC Radio 4 . The programme is in its fifth series, which started on Radio 4 on Thursday 21 July 2011. The four previous series were broadcast in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010...
    
    
  • The House of Milton Jones
    The House of Milton Jones
    The House of Milton Jones is a radio comedy series which first aired in 2003 on BBC Radio 4. It starred Tom Goodman-Hill, Milton Jones, Olivia Colman, Nigel Lindsay and Rosemary Leach. Re-runs are broadcast on BBC Radio 7.- Episodes :...
    
    
  • The Very World of Milton Jones
    The Very World of Milton Jones
    The Very World of Milton Jones was a comedy show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1998 and 2001 starring English comedian Milton Jones. It ran for three series....
    
    
• The Monkhouse Archive
• More Mr Mulliner
• The Motion Show
• The Motorway Men
• Naked Radio
• The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately
  The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately
  The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately was a cult BBC comedy of the 1970s, now almost completely forgotten.The programme starred Bill Wallis, David Jason, Denise Coffey, David Gooderson and Jonathan Cecil...
  
  
• The Nick Revell Show
  The Nick Revell Show
  The Nick Revell Show was a sitcom originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Night Comedy slot, written by and starring Nick Revell. Two series of six episodes each were made in 1992 and 1993....
  
  
• Night Class
• No Commitments
  No Commitments
  No Commitments is a comedy radio drama written by Simon Brett,broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It portrays the day-to-daylives of three very different sisters.-Main characters:...
  
  
• Old Dog and the Partridge
• The Omar Khayyam Show
  The Omar Khayyam Show
  Spike Milligan made wrote and performed in three series of the radio comedy program The Idiot Weekly for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1958-1962. Six episodes were remade by the BBC in 1963 as The Omar Khayyam Show....
  
  
• Palace of Laughter
  Palace of Laughter
  Palace of Laughter was a radio comedy aired by the BBC on Radio 4 from 2002 to 2003.A series of programmes hosted by Geoffrey Wheeler that visited old music halls in the British Isles, it focused on those that are particularly grand in their style of building.The programmes have been played again...
  
  
• Parsley Sidings
  Parsley Sidings
  Parsley Sidings was a BBC Radio sitcom created by Jim Eldridge. It starred Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender , together with Kenneth Connor from the Carry On films....
  
  
• The Party Line
  The Party Line (radio)
  The Party Line is a British radio sitcom, co-written by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, and produced by Adam Bromley. It was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2005 and 2008. The show stars James Fleet as Duncan Stonebridge, a Member of Parliament for the imaginary constituency of...
  
  
• Radio Anarchists
• Radio Fun
• Radio Lives
• Radio Roots
• The Rapid Eye Movement
• The Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show
• Ring Around the Bath
  Ring Around the Bath
  Ring Around the Bath was a domestic situation comedy series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2003 and 2006. It was written by Lucy Clare and Ian Davidson and produced by Elizabeth Freestone.-Situation:...
  
  
• Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends
  Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends
  Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series written by and starring Kay Stonham and Simon Greenall. It revolves around the mundane lives of Robin and Wendy Mayfield who live on an anonymous estate in Stevenage. Robin tends to be self-centred, demanding and controlling in his...
  
  
• Romantic Friction
• Ronan the Amphibian
• Room 101
  Room 101 (Radio series)
  Room 101 is a radio comedy series that ran from 1992 to 1994 on BBC Radio 5, before transferring to BBC television. Hosted by Nick Hancock, it was an alternative to the more established and formal Desert Island Discs...
  
  
• Saturday Night Fry
  Saturday Night Fry
  Saturday Night Fry was a six-part comedy series on BBC Radio 4, first broadcast between the 30th of April and the 4th of June 1988. Episode One had previously been broadcast as a pilot on 19 December 1987, under the title 'Fry on Saturday'....
  
   — (1988)
• Scenes from Provincial Life
• Sean Lock
  Sean Lock
  Sean Lock is an English comedian and actor. He began his comedy career as a stand-up comedian. He won the British Comedy Award in 2000 in the category of Best Live Comic, and was nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award. He is also well known for his appearances on television and radio...
  
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  • Sean Lock, 15 Storeys High
  • Sean Lock's 15 Minutes Of Misery
• Set and a Song
• Seymour the Fractal Cat
  Seymour the Fractal Cat
  Seymour the Fractal Cat is a science fiction comedy serial featuring Paul Bown, John Hegley and Greg Proops. It was written by Gary Parker, and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. It is rebroadcast from time to time on BBC Radio 7.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Share and Share Alike
• Shelley
  Shelley
  -Meaning:In many baby name books, Shelley is listed as meaning "From the meadow on the ledge" or "clearing on a bank". It is Old English in origin. As with many other names , Shelley is today a name given almost exclusively to girls after historically being male...
  
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• Should We Be Laughing?
• Shuttle Diplomacy
  Shuttle diplomacy
  In diplomacy and international relations, shuttle diplomacy is the action of an outside party in serving as an intermediary between principals in a dispute, without direct principal-to-principal contact...
  
  
• The Shuttleworths
  The Shuttleworths
  The Shuttleworths is a comedy show that so far has aired for five series and numerous specials on BBC Radio 4. It features "versatile singer/songwriter from Sheffield, South Yorkshire" John Shuttleworth, his wife Mary, neighbour Ken Worthington, their two teenage children Darren and Karen, and a...
  
  
• Six Characters in Search of an Answer
• Six Geese a Laying
• The Six Mothers in Law of Henry VIII
• The Skivers
• Slices of Life
  Slices of Life
  Slices of Life is independent film maker Anthony G Sumner's feature length horror anthology, which explores the terror of everyday life. 4 years in the making , Slices of Life completed production in 2010 and is currently seeking distribution.-Plot:...
  
  
• The Small World of Dominic Holland
• Smelling of Roses
  Smelling of Roses
  Smelling of Roses was a BBC Radio 4 comedy series starring Prunella Scales and written by Simon Brett. There were four series, each of six episodes, broadcast from 2000 to 2003. Scales stars as Rosie Burns, manager of her own event management business in Brighton, "In Any Event"...
  
  
• Snap
• Something or Other
• Son of Cliché
  Son of Cliché
  Son Of Cliché was a comedy sketch show that ran for two series on BBC Radio 4 between 23 August 1983 and 29 December 1984.The sketches were written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and were performed by Chris Barrie, Nick Maloney and Nick Wilton....
  
  
• Sounding Brass
  Sounding Brass
  Sounding Brass was a pioneer phone-in programme presented by Gloria Hunniford on BBC Radio 2. Listeners were invited to choose a Christmas carol or hymn while a Salvation Army band, which included the famous Chalk Farm Band, stood by in the studio to play their requests live.The brass bands had a...
  
  
• Sounding Off with McGough
• Stand Up 2
• Stand Up America
• Stand Up Great Britain
• Stand Ups and Strumpets
• Stanley Baxter and Friends
• Stockport, so Good they Named it Once
• Struck Off and Die
  Struck Off and Die
  Struck Off and Die were a British comedy duo consisting of doctors Tony Gardner and Phil Hammond during the 1990s. Their material drew heavily on their knowledge and experience of healthcare, and took a particularly cynical view of the problems that beset the UK's National Health Service.They met...
  
  

• A Swift Laugh
• Talk to Sleep
• That Mitchell and Webb Sound
  That Mitchell and Webb Sound
  That Mitchell and Webb Sound is a comedy sketch show on BBC Radio 4 which started on 28 August 2003. A second series was broadcast in 2005 with a third starting on 24 May 2007. The series became adapted for television as That Mitchell and Webb Look in 2006. The series is seen in some ways a...
  
  
• That Reminds Me
  That Reminds Me
  That Reminds Me is a series of programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 4 where someone connected with comedy talks about their life for thirty minutes in front of a live audience...
  
  
• There'll Never be Another
• Think the Unthinkable
  Think the Unthinkable
  Think the Unthinkable is an audience sitcom about hapless management consultants, written by James Cary and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. It starred Marcus Brigstocke, David Mitchell, Catherine Shepherd, Emma Kennedy and Beth Chalmers. Each week the team of consultants inflict their...
  
  
• This Is Craig Brown
  This Is Craig Brown
  This is Craig Brown is a book by British satirist, Craig Brown....
  
  
• Three Men Went to Mow
• Tim Merryman's Days of Clover
• Time For Mrs Milliner
• To the Manor Born
  To the Manor Born
  To the Manor Born is a British sitcom that first aired on BBC1 from 1979 to 1981. A special edition appeared in 2007. Starring Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles, the first 20 episodes and the 2007 special were written by Peter Spence, the creator, while the 1981 finale was written by Christopher...
  
  
• Toad Squad
• Too Many Songs
• A Touch of Mistlet
• Trapped
• Travels with my Anti-Semitism
• Truly, Madly, Bletchley
  Truly, Madly, Bletchley
  Truly, Madly, Bletchley was a BBC Radio 4 comedy series from 1997 written by and starring comedian and impressionist Julian Dutton and produced by Dirk Maggs...
  
  
• Turns of the Century
• Two Doors Down
  Two Doors Down
  "Two Doors Down" was a song written and performed by Dolly Parton, which provided a 1978 U.S. country and pop hit for her. The song was sung from the perspective of a woman who has just broken up with her boyfriend and is debating attending a party two doors down the hall from her apartment...
  
  
• Two Priests and a Nun Go into the Pub
• Two Thousand Years of Radio
• Unnatural Acts
  Unnatural Acts
  Unnatural Acts was a BBC radio comedy series written by, and starring, Jeremy Hardy and Kit Hollerbach as "The Hardys" with Paul B Davies and Caroline Leddy as "Paul and Caroline". Two series were made in 1987 and 1988, with the third renamed At Home With The Hardys and broadcast in 1990. Further...
  
  
• Up the Garden Path
  Up the Garden Path
  Up the Garden Path was a 1984 novel by Sue Limb which was then adapted into a radio series by BBC Radio 4 and later into a television sitcom by Granada TV for ITV...
  
  
• Vongole
• We've Been Here Before
• WhackO
• Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads
• Wheeler's:
  • Wheeler's Fortune
  • Wheeler's Wonder
• Where Did It All Go Wrong?
• Who Goes There
• A Whole 'Nother Story
• Why Bother
• Wild Things
• Wildbrain
• Winston in Love
• The Wonder Years
• The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere
• The World of Pub
• The Write Stuff
  The Write Stuff
  The Write Stuff is a lighthearted quiz about literature on BBC Radio 4, taking a humorous look at famous literary figures, chaired by James Walton and with the two teams being headed by Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh, and Beth Chalmers reading the extracts.Each week, the programme has an "Author...
  
  
• You Had to Be There
  You Had to Be There
  You Had to Be There: Recorded Live is a live double album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was initially released in October 1978 as ABC AK-1008/2 and later re-released on ABC's successor label MCA...
  
  

Science, technology and medicine

• All in the Mind
• Another Five Numbers
• Brief History of the End of Everything
• Britain's X-Files
• Case Notes
  Case Notes (radio show)
  Case Notes is a weekly half-hour radio programme on topics in medicine. It is broadcast on BBC Radio 4. A different illness is covered from a variety of perspectives in each programme. Dr Mark Porter is the current presenter.-History:...
  
  
• A Cell for All Seasons
• Changing Places
  Changing Places
  Changing Places is the first "campus novel" by British novelist David Lodge. The subtitle is "A Tale of Two Campuses", and thus both the title and subtitle are literary allusions to Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. A successful sequel, Small World, was published in 1984.-Synopsis:Changing...
  
  
• Check Up
• Climate Wars
• The Columbia Astronauts
• Connect
• Costing the Earth
• Dial a Scientist — (~1976) (see Brian J. Ford
  Brian J. Ford
  Brian J. Ford is an independent research biologist, author, and lecturer, who publishes on scientific issues for the general public...
  
   (scientist))
• Emotional Rollercoaster
• Five Numbers
• Frontiers
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Home Planet
• Land Lines
• Leading Edge
• Life as a Teenager
• Life as an Adult
• Life in Middle Age
• Lifeblood
• Living with Pain
• Living World
• The Material World
• Mind Changers
• The Mozart Effect
• Nature
  Nature (radio programme)
  Nature is a long-running documentary programme on BBC Radio 4, covering wildlife and environmental matters.It is broadcast on Mondays at 21:00-21:30 and repeated on Tuesdays at 11:00...
  
  
• Nature's Magic
• The New X-Files
• One Man's Medicine
• Patient Progress: Strokes
• Rainforests of the Deep
• Red Planet
• Reith Lectures
• Science Now — (1974–1975+ (?)) (see Brian J. Ford
  Brian J. Ford
  Brian J. Ford is an independent research biologist, author, and lecturer, who publishes on scientific issues for the general public...
  
  )
• Scientists in a Shoebox
• Seeds of Trouble
• Small Dog on Mars
• Stars in Their Eyes
• Swan Migration
• Tales of Cats and Comets
• Think About It
• A Twist to Life
• Unearthing Mysteries
• Walk Out to Winter
• What Remains to Be Discovered?
• Whatever you think
• Where are you taking us?
• Wild Europe
• Wild Underground
• World on the Move
  World on the Move
  World on the Move is a nature radio series broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 4. It is presented by Philippa Forrester and Brett Westwood. It is about migration in the natural world, and includes features on birds, mammals fish, frogs, toads, and insects. The programs include many reports from...
  
  
• Wrestling with Words

Religion and ethics

• Bells on Sunday
  Bells on Sunday
  Bells on Sunday is a short radio programme transmitted on BBC Radio 4. It currently airs at 5:43 AM every Sunday, and is repeated at 12:45 AM the following Monday, and features bell ringers ringing the changes. The recordings come from a different church tower within the United Kingdom each...
  
  
• Beyond Belief
• Bigots and Believers
• The Choice
• Church Going
• The Daily Service
  The Daily Service
  The Daily Service is a short Christian church service, often from Emmanuel Church in Didsbury, Manchester, England, broadcast every weekday morning between 9.45 and 10.00 by BBC Radio 4 and on the Radio 4 DAB breakout. For many years it was broadcast live from All Souls Church, Langham Place, the...
  
  
• Devout Sceptics
• The Four Noble Truths
• A Higher Place
  A Higher Place
  A Higher Place is the first full-length album by American deathcore band, Born of Osiris. It was released through Sumerian Records on July 7, 2009...
  
  
• In the footsteps of Moses
• Lent Talks
  Lent Talks
  Lent Talks is a series of talks, normally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 8:45 p.m. on a Wednesday in the United Kingdom, to mark the Christian season of Lent. They typically are brief talks, lasting about fifteen minutes, and have featured various speakers from different backgrounds...
  
  
• The Long Search
• Missionaries
• The Moral Maze
  The Moral Maze
  The Moral Maze is a radio programme on BBC Radio 4, broadcast since 1990.-Structure:Four regular panellists discuss moral and ethical issues relating to a recent news story. The debate is often combative and guest witnesses may be cross-examined aggressively. The programme is hosted by Michael Buerk...
  
  
• Prayer for the Day
  Prayer for the Day
  Prayer for the Day is a religious radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. It comprises a 2 minute reading or prayer and reflection to start the day.-Transmission:...
  
  
• The Real Patron Saints
• Something Understood
  Something Understood
  Something Understood is a weekly radio programme on BBC Radio 4 which deals with topics of religion, spirituality, and the larger questions of human life, and takes a particular spiritual theme, exploring it through speech, music, prose, and poetry. Pieces of music - popular as well as classical...
  
  
• Sounding the Divine
• Sunday
  Sunday (radio programme)
  Sunday is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio Four at Sunday, normally from around 7:10 a.m. to shortly before 8 a.m. It features discussions of religious topics, including religious stories that have been recent news...
  
  
• Sunday Worship
• Thought for the Day
  Thought for the Day
  Thought for the Day is a daily scripted slot on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 offering "reflections from a faith perspective on issues and people in the news", broadcast at around 7.45 each Monday to Saturday morning...
  
  
• Words from the Cross

History

• A History of the World in 100 Objects
  A History of the World in 100 Objects
  A History of the World in 100 Objects was a joint project of BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum, comprising a 100-part radio series written and presented by British Museum director Neil MacGregor...
  
   (2010–)
• The Norman Way
  The Norman Way
  The Norman Way is a BBC radio documentary broadcast in 2004 about life in Norman times....
  
  
• Apprentice
• Back to Beeching
• The Child Migrants
• City of the Sharp Nosed Fish
• The Dark Origins of Britain
• The Decade of Self-doubt
• Document
• Falkland Families
• For What It's Worth
• Great Lives
  Great Lives
  Great Lives is a BBC Radio 4 biography series, produced in Bristol. It is presented by Matthew Parris. A distinguished guest is asked to nominate the person they feel is truly deserving of the title "Great Life". Matthew and a recognised expert are on hand to discuss the life...
  
  
• Heroes and Villains
• A History of Human Folly
• In Our Time
  In Our Time (BBC Radio 4)
  In Our Time is a live BBC radio discussion series exploring the history of ideas, presented by Melvyn Bragg since 15 October 1998.. It is one of BBC radio's most successful discussion programmes, acknowledged to have "transformed the landscape for serious ideas at peak listening time"...
  
  
• Lend Me Your Ears
  Lend Me Your Ears
  Lend Me Your Ears is a book by British politician Boris Johnson....
  
  
• The Long View
• Mapping the Town
• Making History
• Memory Like Shells Bursting
• Reconciling Histories
• The Reunion
  The Reunion
  The Reunion is the second studio album by rap duo Capone-N-Noreaga. It is not as critically acclaimed as their first album, The War Report, but did feature a number of well-received tracks, most notably "Invincible," produced by the legendary DJ Premier...
  
  
• The Roman Way
• The Routes of English
• The Secret Museum
• Soldier, Sailor
• Spies R US: the history of the CIA
• The Telemark Heroes
• This Sceptred Isle
  This Sceptred Isle
  This Sceptred Isle is a BBC radio series about the history of the lands and peoples of the British Isles. It was produced by Pete Atkin and broadcast in 1995 twice each day --- in the morning and late at night --- on Radio 4...
  
  
• The Three Voyages of Captain Cook
• Tiger Tales
• Voices of the Powerless
• What If..?
• Why Did We Do That?

Factual

• The Archive Hour
• Between Ourselves
• Breakaway
  Breakaway (radio programme)
  Breakaway was BBC radio's first regular consumer travel programme, conceived by producer Roger Macdonald. It was launched on 29 September 1979 and ran live for an hour at 0900 every Saturday morning for more than a decade, with two regular presenters, first Barry Norman and later Bernard Falk...
  
  
• Cartoon Clichés
• Chetham's School of Music
• Chain Reaction
  Chain Reaction (radio)
  Chain Reaction is a hostless chat show first broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1991, and then revived on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. Each week an individual from the world of entertainment selects someone that they would like to interview...
  
  
• Community Caring
• Cutting a Dash
• A Dance through Time
• Darcus and Dickens
• Deep Blue
• Desert Island Discs
  Desert Island Discs
  Desert Island Discs is a BBC Radio 4 programme first broadcast on 29 January 1942. It is the second longest-running radio programme , and is the longest-running factual programme in the history of radio...
  
   (1942–)
• A Different World
• Excess Baggage
• Feedback: Radio series
• File on 4
  File on 4
  File on 4 is a current-affairs radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It is produced in Manchester by the BBC's Radio Current Affairs department, and has won more than 40 awards.- External links :* *...
  
  
• The Food Programme
  The Food Programme
  The Food Programme is a BBC Radio 4 programme investigating and celebrating good food, founded by Derek Cooper and currently presented by Sheila Dillon....
  
  
• Four Corners
• Herbs: Pure and Simple
• The House I Grew Up In
  The House I Grew Up In
  The House I Grew Up In is a BBC radio series. The first episode of the first series was broadcast on 6 August 2007 on BBC Radio 4. With the presenter Wendy Robbins, each week an influential Briton explains some of their thoughts and memories as he or she goes back to the locality and the house in...
  
  
• Gardeners' Question Time
  Gardeners' Question Time
  Gardeners' Question Time is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme in which amateur gardeners can put questions to a panel of experts.-History:...
  
   (1947–)
• Go 4 It
  Go 4 It
  Go4it was a children's magazine programme broadcast on Sunday evenings at 7.15pm on BBC Radio 4, and one of the few speech-based shows on British national radio aimed at younger listeners....
  
  
• Great Lives
  Great Lives
  Great Lives is a BBC Radio 4 biography series, produced in Bristol. It is presented by Matthew Parris. A distinguished guest is asked to nominate the person they feel is truly deserving of the title "Great Life". Matthew and a recognised expert are on hand to discuss the life...
  
  
• Home Truths
  Home Truths
  Home Truths was a weekly BBC Radio 4 programme which began on 11 April 1998 and was usually hosted by the DJ John Peel until his death in October 2004. In the Saturday 9-10am slot, it gradually became one of Radio 4's most successful programmes....
  
   (1998–2006)
• In Living Memory
• In Our Time
  In Our Time (BBC Radio 4)
  In Our Time is a live BBC radio discussion series exploring the history of ideas, presented by Melvyn Bragg since 15 October 1998.. It is one of BBC radio's most successful discussion programmes, acknowledged to have "transformed the landscape for serious ideas at peak listening time"...
  
   (2002–)
• In Touch
• An Indian in Bloomsbury
• Is It On?
• It's My Story: Physician, Heal Thyself
• Last Word
  Last Word
  Last Word is an obituary BBC radio series broadcast weekly on Radio 4. Each week the lives of several famous people who have recently died are summarised with narration, and interviews with people who knew them.-References:*...
  
  
• The Learning Curve
  The Learning Curve
  The Learning Curve is a 2001 American thriller film about two Los Angeles nightclub scenesters who team up as con artists. It explores themes of ruthless ambition and its consequences. The film was directed by Eric Schwab, and stars Carmine Giovinazzo, Norbert Weisser, and Monet Mazur.-Plot:Paul...
  
  
• Let's Pretend
  Let's Pretend
  This article is on the US radio series. For the UK TV series see Let's Pretend .Let's Pretend, created and directed by Nila Mack , was a long-run CBS radio series for children....
  
  
• The Message
• Nothing to Do But Drink
• On the Ropes
• On Your Farm
• Open Country
• Painted Fabrics
• Poisoned Angel: the Story of Alma Rosé
• Public Records, Private Lives
• Questions, Questions
• Ramblings
• Reel Histories
• Subterranean Stories
• Thinking Allowed
  Thinking Allowed
  Thinking Allowed is a radio discussion programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday afternoons between 16:00 and 16:30 and repeated between 00:15 and 00:45 on Monday mornings. It focuses on the latest social science research and is hosted by Laurie Taylor, who was formerly a Professor of...
  
  
• This Sceptred Isle
  This Sceptred Isle
  This Sceptred Isle is a BBC radio series about the history of the lands and peoples of the British Isles. It was produced by Pete Atkin and broadcast in 1995 twice each day --- in the morning and late at night --- on Radio 4...
  
   (1995–1996, 1999, 2001, 2005–2006)
• Traveller's Tree
• Veg Talk
• Weekend Woman's Hour
• Winnie the Pooh Lost and Found
• Woman's Hour
  Woman's Hour
  Woman's Hour is a radio magazine programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom.-History:Created by Norman Collins and originally presented by Alan Ivimey the programme was first broadcast on 7 October 1946 on the BBC's Light Programme . It was transferred to its current home in 1973...
  
  
• Word of Mouth
  Word of Mouth (radio programme)
  BBC Radio's Word of Mouth is a programme about English and the way it is spoken. It is broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 4 and is presented by Michael Rosen. The programme looks at all aspects of the spoken word from slang, acronyms, strange vocabulary, jargon and has a very lively message board to...
  
  
• A World in Your Ear
• You and Yours
  You and Yours
  You and Yours is a British radio consumer affairs programme, broadcast on BBC Radio 4.-History:It began broadcasting in October 1970, its first presenter was Joan York. In the great rescheduling of April 1998 it was increased from a 25 minute programme to 55 minutes. In the 1980s it briefly ran...
  
   (1970–)

Conversations

• Loose Ends
  Loose Ends (radio)
  Loose Ends is a British radio programme originally broadcast on Saturday mornings, and then transmitted early Saturday evenings from 1998 by BBC Radio 4. It was hosted by Ned Sherrin until he became ill in late 2006 with a reported throat infection, and later throat cancer...
  
   (1986–)
• Midweek
• Off The Page
  Off The Page
  Off The Page is a British discussion program, aired on the BBC Radio 4 on Fridays at 11 PM.The program features a panel of contributors who tackle a subject on which they are experts...
  
  
• Start the Week
  Start the Week
  Start the Week is a discussion programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 which began in April 1970. The current presenter is the former BBC political editor Andrew Marr...
  
  
• Stop The Week
  Stop The Week
  Stop the Week was a long running BBC Radio 4 discussion programme chaired by Robert Robinson which ran from 1974–1992-Origins:The BBC Radio's Current Affairs Department decided that it wanted a programme that would act as a bookend to Monday morning's Start the Week with Richard Baker, which had...
  
   — (1974-1992)
• Where Are You Taking Us? — (1973?-1974?) (also see Brian J. Ford
  Brian J. Ford
  Brian J. Ford is an independent research biologist, author, and lecturer, who publishes on scientific issues for the general public...
  
   (presenter))

Miscellaneous

• After Happy Ever (Radio Show)
• After Eden
  After Eden
  After Eden is the third studio album of Japanese girl group Kalafina.-Track listing:Charts-External Links:**...
  
  
• Pick of the Week
  Pick of the Week
  Pick of the Week is a Canadian anthology television series which aired on CBC Television from 1967 to 1969.-Premise:Selected episodes of CBC's prime time series were rebroadcast in this weekday morning time slot such as Man Alive, Newsmagazine, The Public Eye, Singalong Jubilee and This Land...
  
  
• Radio 4 Appeal
  Radio 4 Appeal
  The Radio 4 Appeal is a British radio programme on BBC Radio 4. Each week a single speaker, usually a celebrity, appeals for support for a different charity . Listeners are invited to respond by sending cheques using a Freepost address, or can make payments online or by telephone...
  
  
• Shipping Forecast
  Shipping Forecast
  The Shipping Forecast is a four-times-daily BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The forecasts sent over the Navtex...
  
   (1978–) (On Radio 4)
• Test Match Special
  Test Match Special
  Test Match Special is a British radio programme covering professional cricket, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 , Five Live Sports Extra and the internet to the United Kingdom and the rest of the world...
  
  
• Weather Forecast
• UK Theme
  Radio 4 UK Theme
  The BBC Radio 4 UK Theme is an orchestral arrangement of traditional British airs composed by Fritz Spiegl which was played every morning on BBC Radio 4 between 23 November 1978 and 23 April 2006....
  
  — (1973–2006)

External links

• BBC Radio 4 site - A-Z of all Radio 4 programmes