Richard Curtis' and Ben Elton's award-winning comedy in which Rowan Atkinson as the ubiquitous Blackadder, ably hampered by Tony Robinson as the loyal Baldrick, wreaks havoc throughout the centuries. Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Robbie Coltrane, Rik Mayall and Miranda Richardson are some of the guest stars joining in the fun.

Award-winning BBC Radio 4 comedy starring Christopher Douglas, John Fortune and Stephanie Cole. Ed Reardon (Christopher Douglas) - author, pipe smoker, fare-dodger and master of the abusive email - returns for a third series. In these six episodes, Ed finds his literary juices are flowing after a new commission, and a visit by his father brings tho...

Jon Pertwee, Leslie Phillips, Stephen Murray and Ronnie Barker star in four hilarious radio episodes - including the special Queen's Silver Jubilee edition. Stormy Weather (Bashing Six Kinds of Brick Dust) 22/11/1963: Heather has a dust up with Sub-Lieutenant Phillips about their engagement. Chasing the 'Kepeac' (Doing an Unfortunate) 29/11/1963: T...

Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive is a topical, events-driven radio comedy hosted by comedy guru Iannucci, recorded in front of a live audience. With the sketchability of The Now Show, combined with the going-off-on-a-mad-streak of a maverick News Quiz round, Iannucci and his comedian guests pull apart the week's news, in an effortlessly original...

Join Alex and Ben - aka The Pin - in their weird twist on the double-act sketch show. The Pin are a multi-award-winning comedy duo with a unique brand of self-reflexive comedy. Performed in front of a live studio audience, their sketches exist somewhere between razor-sharp smartness and joyous silliness. Expect sketches, commentary on the sketches,...

Series 2 of the satirical BBC Radio 4 comedy written by Tom Basden Simon, Jared, Duncan, Mel and Phoebe are idealistic students who want to change the world - so they decide to set up their own political party, meeting in their leader's garden shed. In this second series, they try to get recognition and publicity, get to grips with technology, use...

Four more classic episodes starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. More surreal clowning from one of the greatest comedy teams on radio. Goon but not forgotten! In these episodes, Neddie attempts to swim across the Regent's Park Canal with the help of a bottle of green liquid, the Russians force a satellite into the ionosphere (fi...

Sarah Millican plays Sarah, life counsellor and modern day agony aunt, in this BBC Radio 4 comedy series. She wants you to live life to the utmost, and she's got tons of ideas of how to help in the same way as the busybody at the end of your street who knows everything and dishes out advice whether you want to hear it or not. Assisted or hindered b...

Comedy trio The Penny Dreadfuls recount the story of the much-maligned Macbeth, revisit Odysseus' epic journey and reveal the truth behind Darwin's famous voyage The Penny Dreadfuls - Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck - are a comedy trio who specialise in retelling historical events in their own, inimitable way. In these riotous revisionist pl...

Sally Phillips stars as Clare in this sparkling collection of 13 comic episodes. Clare Barker, the social worker with all the politically correct jargon but none of the practical solutions, returns in these 13 episodes, which includes a special instalment recorded live at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. As if the upheaval of moving offices and embra...

The hilarious one-off special that inspired the acclaimed series Sarah Millican's Support Group. A relationship breakdown leads Sarah Millican to consider the question of counsellors-how some are great, and others terrible-and inspires her to create Jean, a relationship counsellor who is so good that most people don't come back after one appointmen...

Featuring a big name cast including, Anthony Head, Celia Imrie, Geoffrey Whitehead, Richard Johnson,Tom Allen and James Bachman. Bleak Expectations is the remarkable adventures of young Philip Bin as he struggles to rescue himself and his sisters from the plotting of his guardian, the scheming, evil and badly-named Mr Gently Benevolent, and the blo...

The Penny Dreadfuls examine the life of Guy Fawkes, undertake a satirical version of the French Revolution and turn their comic eye towards Hereward the Wake The Penny Dreadfuls - Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck - are a comedy trio who specialise in retelling historical events in their own, inimitable way. In these riotous revisionist plays,...

In this seventh series, we join Clare in her continued struggle to control both her professional and private life. These six episodes see Clare struggling to come to terms with Brian's infidelity. She ends their relationship and is surprised by her colleagues' reaction to the news. Brian tries to win her back with romantic gestures and even propose...

The original six BBC TV episodes starring Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Peter Cook, Miriam Margolyes and Rik Mayall. The historic first series which introduced us to Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh, Rowan Atkinson's first incarnation as the Black Adder. Edmund is the snivelling, bitter and twisted son of the medieval king w...

Rowan Atkinson stars as many different characters in four episodes from the classic comedy series, written by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill), which investigates the lives of four great - but imaginary - men. We hear about the life and times of master orator, Sir Benjamin Fletcher: writer, statesman, No...

Here's a cornucopia of clever comedy, featuring sketches, monologues, poems and songs in this "sequential entertainment for radio". Among the sketches, Mr. Serpent, a sales rep in the Garden of Eden, tries to flog a knowledge course to Eve ("one bite and you're a Ph.D."). A doctor has to give some bad news, but gets more emotional than the patient,...

1994 saw one of Peter Cooks most acclaimed performances since his 1960's heyday. Chris Morris' surreal and inventive questions brought out the very best of eccentric aristocrat Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling - a character whom Cook had carried with him through Beyond the Fringe and Not Only.But Also.to his latter years. These five interviews recall St...

The BBC Radio comedy set in an 18th century Cornish village-written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain and produced by Jan Ravens. In Mother, there's a surprise for smuggler Tamsyn-and confusion aboard a boat to France. Stars Sheridan Smith. From May 2004.

Includes: 'The Thing in the Cellar', 'The Pagan Rite', 'Backs to the Wall', 'Just my Bill'. Four more original BBC television episodes of the much-loved classic sitcom starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith.

The BBC Radio comedy set in an 18th century Cornish village-written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain and produced by Jan Ravens. In London, smuggler Jago is kidnapped. But can he survive in polite city society? Stars Sheridan Smith and Alison Steadman. From May 2004.