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The Comedy-O-Rama Hour The Wireless Theatre Company [ 1 ] The Auntie Mabel Hour , broadcast on the 1960s pirate radio station Radio City , off the British coast.
Absolute Power (radio and TV series) Acropolis Now (radio) Act Your Age (radio series) An Actor's Life For Me; Adam and Joe (radio show) After Henry (radio series) The Alan Davies Show; Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar; All Bar Luke; All Gas and Gaiters; Alone (radio series) And Now in Colour; And the Winner Is (radio series) Ankle Tag
The Goon Show is a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme. The first series, broadcast from 28 May to 20 September 1951, was titled Crazy People; subsequent series had the title The Goon Show.
British comedy history is measured in centuries. Shakespeare incorporated many chase scenes and beatings into his comedies, such as in his play The Comedy of Errors. Punch and Judy made their first recorded appearance in Britain in 1662, when Samuel Pepys noted a "pretty" puppet play being performed in Covent Garden, London. [1]
All the Young Dudes (2001–02), comedy-drama written by and starring Jim Sweeney; As Time Goes By (1997–99), radio adaptation of BBC TV sitcom (1992–2005) about a rekindled romance; At Home with the Snails (2001–02), somewhat surreal family sitcom about the dysfunctional family of a man who is obsessed with snails.
29 May – The Archers pilot episodes debut on BBC radio, aired on the Midlands opt-out of the BBC Home Service; [1] the series will still be running 75 years later. 6 June – the BBC Light Programme first broadcasts Educating Archie, featuring ventriloquist Peter Brough and his schoolboy dummy Archie Andrews (sic.
The Ruffian on the Stair is a play by British playwright Joe Orton which was first broadcast on BBC Radio in 1964, in a production by John Tydeman. [1] [2] [3] It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one-act portrayal of working class England, as played out by a couple and a mysterious young man who toys with their lives.
Handbook of Old-Time Radio: a comprehensive guide to golden age radio listening and collecting. Scarecrow Press, 1993. Scarecrow Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8108-2590-2