BBC Radio 4
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Radio 4, which has been broadcasting comedy ever since it took over from the BBC Home Service in 1967, has launched hundreds of comedy shows. Popular R4 comedies series include The News Quiz, The Now Show, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, Just A Minute, Old Harry's Game and Ed Reardon's Week. Many famous TV comedies actually started life in audio form on Radio 4 - Dead Ringers, Little Britain, That Mitchell and Webb Sound and Goodness Gracious Me are just four of the many series that went on to become TV hits. Radio 4 currently broadcasts comedy shows every weekday at 11:30am, 6:30pm and 11pm.
Original Programming
According to our database, BBC Radio 4 has premiered 836 original British comedy programmes.
View list of BBC Radio 4 comedy shows
Current Formats
Alfie Moore: It's A Fair Cop
Bunk Bed
Clare In The Community
Deborah Frances-White Rolls The Dice
Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Incredible Women
It's Not What You Know
John Finnemore's Double Acts
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music
Just A Minute
Liam Williams - Ladhood
Little Lifetimes By Jenny Eclair
Love In Recovery
Mark Steel's In Town
Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics
Nurse
Party
Sisters
Spotlight Tonight With Nish Kumar
Susan Calman Is Convicted
That Mitchell & Webb Sound
The Brig Society
The Cold Swedish Winter
The John Moloney Show
The Lentil Sorters
The Missing Hancocks
The News Quiz
The Now Show
The Unbelievable Truth
Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme
Two Episodes Of Mash
New Shows In Development
A Beginner's Guide To India
Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar
And God Laughs
Andrew O'Neill: Mindspiders
Anecdotal Recall
Careless
In Transit
Jake Yapp Saves All Of Humanity In 28 Minutes
Jeremy Hardy Feels It
Jon Richardson's To Do List
June & Jean
Late Agenda
Maeve's Miscellany
Melody Parade
Rum Bunch
The Fair Intellectual Club
The Golden Ticket
Time Spanner
Recent News
Radio 4 announces 18 new comedy shows
Friday 26th August
Radio 4 has announced a raft of new shows, including series from Matt Berry, Sara Pascoe, Richard Herring, Sam Bain, Andy Hamilton and Fred MacAulay.
Jake Yapp gets Radio 4 show
Friday 19th August
Jake Yapp has been given his own Radio 4 show, a pilot entitled Jake Yapp Saves All Of Humanity In 28 Minutes.
Jethro Bradley wins BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2016
Sunday 14th August
Stand-up comedian Jethro Bradley has won the BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2016.
Inside No. 9, Episodes, Mum, Raised By Wolves up for Rose d'Or Awards
Monday 11th July
Inside No. 9, Episodes, Mum and Raised By Wolves are amongst the nominees for the 2016 international Rose d'Or Awards.
Radio 4 orders new Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series
Thursday 26th May
Radio 4 has commissioned a new sixth series of classic sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. It'll be principally based around the book And Another Thing.
David Mitchell and John Finnemore to star in Radio 4 sitcom
Sunday 22nd May
David Mitchell and John Finnemore are to star in Time Spanner, a time travel sitcom for Radio 4.
Radio 4 confirms Series 3 of The Missing Hancocks
Thursday 12th May
Radio 4 has confirmed that it has ordered a third series of The Missing Hancocks, the programme which recreates lost episodes of Hancock's Half Hour.