Featuring: The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea, The Histories of Pliny the Elder, The Jet Propelled Guided Naafi, The Evils of Bushey Spon. Anarchic, ground-breaking and hilariously inventive, The Goon Show re-shaped comedy and set new standards in the genre. The mix of brilliant wordplay, mental slapstick and surreal clowning ensur...

Four hilarious episodes from the classic BBC comedy series starring Ronnie Barker, Brian Wilde, Richard Beckinsale and Fulton Mackay . 'A Night In' (19 September 1974) Godber is moved into Fletch's cell, and confides that he finds it tough each time the door bangs shut. Fletch advises him to think of it as `a quiet night in': but the trouble is, Go...

Nothing escapes the satirical eye of Britain's successful first all-Asian sketch show in the compilation of the best of the first BBC Radio 4 series together with three shows from series two. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.

Four episodes of classic comedy from the days when the Civil Service had a sense of humour. The Men from the Ministry were the hilarious radio forerunners of TV's Yes Minister, bungling bureaucrats who bungled for fifteen glorious years from 1962 to 1977. Muddling through were Wilfrid Hyde White, as the first head of the ubiquitous General Assistan...

A BBC Radio 4 sitcom based around the mysterious but loveable crook character of Ronnie Hazelbeach. Starring Jamie Foreman, Paul Bazely, Tracy Wiles, John Dougall and Neil Stuke. In this 2nd series, Nick is still sharing his late father's flat with Ronnie and being a reluctant partner in crime. He is still in love with his ex-girlfriend Chloe, who...

A follow up to 'Ladies of Letters & Ladies of More Letters'. Vera and Irene now communicate daily by e-mail about the the usual domestic mishaps: Irene's daughter Lesley is refusing to marry the worthy but boring Brian; Vera's exhausted daughter Karen has abandoned her third baby at the hospital and eloped with a male nurse; and Vera's gay son...

`Hello, I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy.' From the ever-popular Round the Horne the outrageously camp actors from Carnaby Street, played by Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick, were always game on for a variety of entrepreneurial endeavours from Bona Pets to Bijou Tourettes

Due to popular demand, and after a long break, a fifth volume of episodes from the irreverent radio comedy series which ran between 1964 and 1973. Starring John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie, ISIRTA is a mix of quickfire sketches, bad puns, humorous songs, and TV & cinema parodies. It quickly d...

An extravageanza specially written for the wireless by several persons, featuring a number of performers' was how an early edition of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again described itself, and how nobly the programme lived up to that demanding ideal! Described by Barry Took as 'A kaleidoscope of funny voices, catch phrase and innuendo revolving at breakn...

When initially aired on BBC3, 'The Smoking Room' met with critical and popular acclaim. Now, for the first time on audio, are all eight episodes, complete and uncut. In the world of work, there is only one place where seniority means nothing and shop talk is banned - the smoking room. Here you'll find divorcee Lilian, enjoying her new freedom; bone...

From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. This latest release features four more episodes of classic Goonery, starring the inimitable Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan.

Four vintage instalments of the classic radio comedy starring Jimmy Clitheroe in The Clitheroe Kid. James Robinson Clitheroe was enormously popular with the public as Jimmy in The Clitheroe Kid. At the height of his popularity, the diminutive Lancastrian comic had regular audiences of over 10 million people and was a radio institution from 1958-197...

The Navy Lark, one of radio's longest running laughter-makers, kept the nation on the crest of a wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Senior Service were conniving Chief Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips, and the constantly bemused Stephen Murray as 'Number One', while Tenniel Evans made mischief as Leading Se...

Giles Wemmbley Hogg 2m's, 2g's world traveller and proud graduate in Canadian Studies tries his hand and his knees and ankles at being a Chalet Girl on the ski slopes of France.

Four original BBC television episodes of the much-loved classic sitcom starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith. More gentle humour and affectionate repartee from Surbiton's most famous sparring neighbours.

Tony Hancock's premature death in 1968 at the age of forty-four deprived the entertainment world of perhaps the greatest post-war comedian to have emerged from this country. It makes his eighty hours of material originally broadcast by the BBC on radio and television between 1954 and 1961 seem all the more priceless and rare. With his impeccable ti...

Perhaps the ultimate in TV comedy madness and absurdity, this cult series, which began in 1969, was conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. It was innovative and ground-breaking comedy which inspired many of today's writers and performers. Its sketches, songs and catchphrases are...

Featuring: The Booted Gorilla, The Sale of Manhattanm The Choking Horror and The Ink Shortage. From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. This latest release features four more episodes of classic Goonery, starring the inimitable Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan...

Here are a further four original television soundtracks from the BBC's Hancock series. Once again Tony Hancock stars as the loveable curmudgeon, in four instalments written by the character's creators, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. 1. THE ECONOMY DRIVE: Having come home from holiday to find that Sid has left all the lights on, the TV running, and fa...

One of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's favourite radio episodes. 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. Featuring a star cast that includes Sid James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacqu...

Episodes: The Bedsitter (26 May 1961), The Radio Ham (9 June 1961), The Bowmans (2 June 1961), The Blood Donor (23 June 1961). `A pint? That's very nearly an armful!' This classic line has echoed through the halls of comedy legend since it was first uttered by Anthony Aloycious Hancock in The Blood Donor. Now the original soundtrack from that famou...