AuthorBBC Radio 4
NarratorVarious
Duration1h 51m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, British Radio Comedy Shows
PublisherBBC Audio
VersionUnabridged
Chain Reaction' is the entertaining BBC Radio 4 tag talk show where this week's guest is next week's interviewer. Famous names from the world of showbusiness choose who they would like to chat to, and must submit to being questioned in their turn the week after. In this eighth series, guests (and hosts) include Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Richard Wilson, Arabella Weir and Paul Whitehouse.
Author: Julia Blackburn, BBC Radio 4
Author Julia Blackburn, BBC Radio 4
Narrator Various
Duration 42m
A BBC Radio 4 drama of mesmerising delicacy from Julia Blackburn, winner of the Pen Ackerley prize for memoir 2009, and daughter of poet Thomas Blackburn. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 29 March 2011. Thomas Blackburn was an alcoholic before he became a poet, but in spite of his drunken rages, his erratic behaviour and his crazy ob...
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Author: Sue Perkins
Author Sue Perkins
Narrator The Authors
Duration 1h 50m
Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins offer you more than your fair share of laughs, songs and silliness in their imaginatively titled BBC Radio 4 series.
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Grumpy Old Men the Secret Diary
Author: Stuart Prebble
Author Stuart Prebble
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 14m
To everything there is a season. A time to be born, a time to die... and a time to get a few things off your chest. The sequel to Grumpy Old Men: The Official Handbook covers a year in the sad and sordid life of a Grumpy Old Man, sorting into dates and seasons the many and manifold bloody irritations which multiply in this perpetual torment that we...
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Author: BBC Radio 4
Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 24m
The complete fourth series of brief musical comedies - as heard on BBC Radio 4. These musical comedies contain some of the most foot-tapping satire you'll ever hear...
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Richard Herring's Objective: Series 1, Episode 4
Author: Richard Herring
Author Richard Herring
Narrator Richard Herring
SeriesRichard Herring's Objective Series 1, Book 4
Duration 27m
In this BBC Radio 4 series, Richard Herring attempts to reclaim objects that we've grown to fear and hate because of what they symbolise. Via stand-up comedy, vox pops and interviews, he tackles a selection of things that have been given a bad name. In this final show from the first series, Richard discusses Dolly the sheep as he examines why we ar...
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Humphrey Lyttleton's Autobiography In Conversation: 'play As I Please'
Author: BBC Radio 4
Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator June Knox-Mawer
Duration 1h 54m
Humphrey Lyttleton - Bandleader, cartoonist, writer, chairman of BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, president of the Society for Italic Handwriting and doyen of jazz trumpeters. In conversation with June Knox-Mawer, Humphrey Lyttleton reflects on his extraordinary life; from schooldays at Eton and playing out Roll Out the Barrel outside B...
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Author: Mitchell Victoria Coren
Author Mitchell Victoria Coren
Narrator Victoria Coren Mitchell
Duration 1h 50m
Victoria Coren Mitchell interviews Dawn French, Olivia Colman, Sarah Millican and Germaine Greer in this four-part BBC Radio 4 series. In these four episodes, presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell and guests discuss their lives as seen through the prism of the cars they have known, the journeys they've been on and the things they keep in their boot for...
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The Museum of Curiosity: Series 9-12
Author: John Lloyd
Author John Lloyd
Narrator Various
Duration 11h 7m
oin Professor John Lloyd and Curators Noel Fielding, Jo Brand, Romesh Ranganathan and Sally Phillips as they plunge down the badger hole of ignorance in a search for the universe's most mind-boggling oddnesses. The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing inside...
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Author: Homer, BBC Radio 4
Author Homer, BBC Radio 4
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 49m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer's epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by poet Simon Armitage. In a twenty-year journey, fabulous fantasy mixes with extraordinary reality as Odysseus encounters enchantresses, nymphs, monsters, prophets and ghosts. From the temptations of the lotus flowers and the Sirens' song to the horrors of the Cyclo...
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The Museum of Curiosity: The Complete Gallery 2
Author: BBC Radio 4
Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator Sean Lock, John Lloyd
Duration 2h 46m
The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing inside unless it makes you scratch your head, stroke your chin or, at the very least, go 'Hmm'. Secondly, it is almost completely empty. Fortunately, helping to fill its vacant plinths is a gathering of the world's mos...
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