Chris McManus uncovers the secrets of a collection of six thousand dusty old postcards which turned up in a forgotten cupboard in the Psychology Department of University College London...
Described by the Radio Times as ‘a brilliant observer of the domestic scene, a master reporter of life as we know it’, Al Read’s weekly show drew audiences of 35 million during the 1950s and ‘60s...
In this brilliant forerunner to Bennett's series Talking Heads monologues, Patricia Routledge plays Margaret Schofield. a woman whose existence revolves around the gossip and minutiae of office life..
Since Mr Dodsworth retired, he has had all the time in the world. Then he has a visitor from his old firm's Miss Prothero, who is eager to tell him all the news.
Taken from Alan Bennett: Triple Bill, April 2007 Release. A naive, inexperienced social worker calls on an elderly couple; but does she need more help than they do?
Taken from Alan Bennett: Triple Bill, April 2007 Release. A middle-aged man and a middle-aged woman engage in polite conversation in a hotel on the Cornish Riviera.
When Alice sees the White Rabbit run by, it occurs to her that she's never seen a rabbit with a watch before. Burning with curiosity, she jumps up and follows him into a rabbit-hole of enchantment...
Film horror legends Peter Cushing and Vincent Price play Lark and Cornelius in this six-part series, which also features Richard Hurndall (Blake's 7 and Doctor Who) amongst the cast.
Ballet Shoes is a classic of 20th-century children's literature. The lively humour and sense of fun that have made the novel such a favourite are brought to life in this enchanting dramatisation.
Blake's 7 is a much-loved classic TV science fiction series, in which a band of rebels fight the despotic Federation, heading by Supreme Commander Servalan.
In another bona selection of sketches from the BBC radio's classic comedy Round the Horne we find that the two infamously outrageous resting thesps from Carnaby Street are at it again...
Simon Fanshawe visits an ambitious community project in ‘Bridging The Gap’... The gap in question is the cavernous void between young and old which breeds mistrust and anxiety.
This is the Sony Radio award wining Radio 4 series from Chris Addison, which precedes Civilization. The four episodes are called Language and Communication, Social Development....
Laurie Lee's autobiographical tale of his childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley has become a modern classic. This BBC Radio 4 production was recorded on location in Gloucestershire.
Nothing will ever be quite the same, even when their possessions mysteriously turn up again, exactly as they left them... Sad and funny, poignant and perceptive, this is Bennett at his brilliant best.
Dad's Army fan Phill Jupitus has selected four of his favourite episodes from the evergreen radio series, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn.
Dad's Army fan Phill Jupitus has selected four more of his favourite episodes from the much-loved radio series, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn...
The BBC Radio 4 comedy series in which Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest consider the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies of the public.
Graham Norton meets his match in Brian from Big Brother, Rabbi Lionel Blue is stranded on a reality radio version of Desert Island Discs, and demons quake when they face Hyacinth the Vampire Slayer.
All five instalments from the tenth series of the hugely popular radio 4 comedy series ruthlessly takes the rip out of the celebrities we love to laugh at, be they actors, pop stars or politicians...
Just when politicians, celebrities and presenters thought they had got away with it, the award-winning Dead Ringers team is back with highlights from its third television series.
The TARDIS brings the crew to the south coast of present-day Earth. Something nasty is lurking in the gas pipelines of the North Sea, and before long the nearby refinery is attacked...
Tom Baker and Sophie Aldred appear in one of three full-cast BBC radio dramas based around the real-life worlds of Doctor Who...contains adult themes and language...
Travel behind the scenes in the company of David Tennant, Billie Piper, Freema Agyeman, Catherine Tate, Sarah Parish, Jessica Hynes, Thomas Sangster, and many other stars of series Two and Three.
He’s back! Budleigh Salterton’s most famous citizen is off round the world on another six adventures. Meet Giles Wemmbley Hogg. 2m’s, 2g’s. Traveller, backpacker, ethnologist, etc, etc.
A further helping of humour from the original BBC Radio 4 radio sketch series which grew into a hit television show. Hilarious and irreverent, it is fronted by a team of award-winning young actors...
From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influencial clowns in the history of radio. Four more classics of cult muttery from those wireless wizards.
The historic reunion of radio's greatest comedy team to celebrate 50 years of the BBC was their farewell performance and proved so momentous it was broadcast complete with the pre-show warm-up.
Michael Sheen stars as Hamlet with Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and Ellie Beaven as Ophelia in the best-known and most powerful tragedy of modern times...
Welcome back to 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, where loveable curmudgeon Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock is still suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...
Once again, the master of misery is supported by a star cast including Sid James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques, and four sparkling scripts by the masters of mirth, Galton and Simpson
In The Poetry Society, an evening with a group of Hancock’s new avant-garde friends produces gems of abstract poetry, not only from the group but also from Sid and Bill...
The Wild Man of the Woods shows Hancock’s desire to get away from it all. It leads him to camp first in a bus shelter on Clapham Common, and then in a bit of forest rented from Sid...
Four classic BBC Radio episodes from the comic genius of Tony Hancock. The Diary/The Old School Reunion/Hancock in the Police/The East Cheam Drama Festival...
Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's saga returns once again with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, the fourth book in Douglas Adams's famous 'trilogy in five parts'
Panic! It's the last ever instalment of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, with a brand new full-cast dramatisation of Mostly Harmless, the final book in Adams's famous 'trilogy in five parts
Sir John Betjeman was one of the best-known and loved Poet Laureates and even a hundred years after his birth he continues to attract acclaim and admiration.
Political intrigue and fierce battle rage in this tense and dynamic production in which a country is torn apart under the legacy of Julius Caesar, 'the colossus'.
Its mix of irreverent fun and ferocious competition has always attracted stellar names from the world of comedy and theatre, all of whom pit their wits against regulars such as Kenneth Williams
Its mix of irreverent fun and ferocious competition has always attracted stellar names from the world of comedy and theatre, all of whom pit their wits against regular player including Paul Merton...
Four of the best recent episodes of the comedy news show, including an appearance by the late Linda Smith, as well as Simon Hoggart's final edition as Chairman...
Crabby, crusty and curmudgeonly he may be, but Victor Meldrew - played brilliantly by Richard Wilson - voices the exasperation of the once silent majority
The Conrad Case takes Paul and Steve to Bavaria to help find Betty Conrad. But their only clue is an unusual cocktail stick found in her finishing school bedroom.
From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve solved case after case in one of BBC radio’s most popular serials...
Roberta, Peter and Phyllis lead an ordinary suburban life with Mother and Father and trips to the zoo and the pantomime. But when Father is mysteriously taken away one night, everything changes...
It's a situation which cries out for Jeeves you would think. But Bertie is fed up with the assumption that he is merely an addendum to his personal attendant. Stand back - Wooster is on the case!
The Twentieth Century, continues the story, taking us through decades of whirlwind change and technological advancement in the diverse and colourful country that stands on the brink of the millennium.
These editions, especially dramatised for BBC Radio, are of timeless tales that have enchanted generations of readers both young and old. The wonder and excitement of these much-loved tales lives on!
Come with us to Shepherd's Bush on a decrepit horse and cart, and view the young-ish Harold Steptoe and his beloved father Albert in their natural habitat of the scrapyard at 24, Oil Drum Lane.
Come with us to Shepherd's Bush on a decrepit horse and cart, and view the young-ish Harold Steptoe and his beloved father Albert in their natural habitat of the scrapyard at 24, Oil Drum Lane.
At the farthest reaches of the British Empire, four men swear an oath to keep a terrible secret, a secret drenched in blood which is the key to immense wealth...
This BBC dramatisation of Robert Louis Stevenson's most popular novel stars Jack Shepherd , lain Cuthbertson , Buster Merryfield and James McPherson as young Jim Hawkins
General Fentiman can be found every day at his club, sat with a newspaper in his favourite chair. So it comes as a shock when another member notices that the General isn't sleeping at all - he is dead
Venus in Copper finds our hero being hired by a family of rich freed slaves to investigate Severina Zotica, a widow whose previous three husbands have mysteriously died...
