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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. Website
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11:3030 min
Plum House
Series 2, Episode 4 - Death Comes to Plum House
Tom has organised a murder mystery event at Plum House. But when a storm prevents the visitors from reaching the museum, the team decide to try the game themselves.
18:30(Repeat)
Fags, Mags And Bags
Series 6, Episode 4 - Crispquilibrium
The Wall of Crisps is rocked by a political scandal as the placement of bags in the wall of a new range of Scottish political crisps is hotly debated.
23:0030 min
Matt Berry Interviews...
Episode 2 - Brian Eno
Matt talks to musician, composer, producer and artist Brian Eno. Berry sat down with Eno at the peak of his creativity back in October 1976 at a recording studio situated in the French countryside.
23:15(Repeat)
Elvis McGonagall Takes A Look On The Bright Side
Series 2, Episode 3
The second series of Elvis McGonagall's daft comic world of poems, satire and facetious remarks, broadcast from his caravan outside Dundee.
Current BBC Radio 4 comedies
...At The Stand
Ability
Al Porter - The Men Who Made Me
Alexei Sayle's Mystery Theatre
Alfie Moore: It's A Fair Cop
Conversations From A Long Marriage
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!
Couples
Dead Ringers
Don't Panic! It's The Douglas Adams Papers
Empire!
Fags, Mags And Bags
Felicity Ward - Appisodes
Gaby's Talking Pictures
Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off
Gloomsbury
Henry Normal
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Jack & Millie
Jake Yapp Saves Humanity In 28 Minutes
Jake Yapp's Media Circus
Joe Lycett's Obsessions
Josh Howie's Losing It
Just A Minute
Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian
Lemn Sissay's Social Enterprise
Lobby Land
Love In Recovery
Matt Berry Interviews...
Michael Frayn's Pocket Playhouse
Mrs Hudson's Radio Show
My Teenage Diary
Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics
Nick Revell: BrokenDreamCatcher
Nick Revell: Storyteller
Nurse
Party
Phil Ellis Is Trying
Plum House
Prepper
Relativity
Richard Gadd: Daddy Diaries
Rob Newman's Total Eclipse Of Descartes
Ross Noble: What A Country!
Sami Shah: Islamofarcist
Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy
Sindhustan
Small Scenes
That Mitchell & Webb Sound
The 27-Year Itch
The Absolutely Radio Show
The Infinite Monkey Cage
The Lentil Sorters
The Missing Hancocks
The Museum Of Curiosity
The News Quiz
The Now Show
The Penny Dreadfuls Present...
The Quanderhorn Xperimentations
Things Can Only Get Worse
Tudur Owen - Putting Anglesey On The Map
Two Episodes Of Mash
Woof - One Man's Search For A Dog Or A Boyfriend
Zoe Lyons: Passport Paddy
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Latest BBC Radio 4 news stories
Lost Voice Guy's Radio 4 sitcom Ability to return for Series 2
Wednesday 6th June 2018
Ability, the Radio 4 sitcom starring Lee Ridley - the comedian also known as Lost Voice Guy, who won Britain's Got Talent - is to return for a second series.
Nicholas Parsons misses first Just A Minute in 50 years
Monday 4th June 2018
Radio 4 has broadcast an episode of Just A Minute without Nicholas Parsons, the first time it has done so in the show's 50 year history. Gyles Brandreth acted as guest host.
Hitchhiker's Guide released on vinyl
Friday 25th May 2018
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is to be released on vinyl for the first time.
Radio 4 to broadcast un-heard Victoria Wood material
Thursday 26th April 2018
Radio 4 is to broadcast never-heard-before material from Victoria Wood in a new two-part documentary series.
Lee Mack joins The Museum Of Curiosity
Thursday 12th April 2018
Lee Mack will act as John Lloyd's 'curator' co-host on Series 13 of Radio 4's The Museum Of Curiosity.