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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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On BBC Radio 4 today
11:3030 min
Spike Milligan: Inside Out
Episode 2
Michael Palin and Jane Milligan reveal the first broadcast of archive material which uniquely captures Spike Milligan's perspective of his life and career.
18:3030 min
The Unbelievable Truth
Series 20, Episode 4
[pJohn Finnemore], Hennign Wehn, Lou Sanders and Graeme Garden are the panellists joining David Mitchell who are obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as The Rolling Stones, vegetarianism, eggs and Harry Potter.
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
Alone
Ashley Blaker's Goyish Guide To Judaism
Ayres On The Air
Beef And Dairy Network
Bilal Zafar's British Muslim Love
Conversations From A Long Marriage
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!
Couples
Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere
Dead Ringers
Don't Panic! It's The Douglas Adams Papers
Empire!
Felicity Ward - Appisodes
Gaby's Talking Pictures
Geoff Norcott Is Right Leaning But Well Meaning
Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off
Gloomsbury
Henry Normal
Homework
How Does That Make You Feel?
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Jack & Millie
Jake Yapp Saves Humanity In 28 Minutes
Joe Lycett's Obsessions
Josh Howie's Losing It
Just A Minute
Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian
Lemn Sissay's Social Enterprise
Love In Recovery
Lucy Porter In The Family Way
Mrs Hudson's Radio Show
My Obsession
My Teenage Diary
Nick Revell: BrokenDreamCatcher
Nick Revell: Storyteller
Nurse
Party
Phil Ellis Is Trying
Pippa Evans' Joy Provision
Prepper
Relativity
Richard Gadd - Experience
Rob Newman's Total Eclipse Of Descartes
Ross Noble: What A Country!
Ruby Wax: Frazzled
Sami Shah: Islamofarcist
Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy
Sindhustan
Six Degrees Of John Sessions
Sketchtopia
Small Scenes
Sophie Willan's Guide To Normality
Spike Milligan: Inside Out
Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!
That Mitchell & Webb Sound
The Absolutely Radio Show
The Break
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
The Infinite Monkey Cage
The John Moloney Show
The Lentil Sorters
The Missing Hancocks
The Museum Of Curiosity
The News Quiz
The Now Show
The Penny Dreadfuls Present...
The Quanderhorn Xperimentations
The Unbelievable Truth
Tom Allen Is Actually Not Very Nice
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
New formats in development
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Latest BBC Radio 4 news stories
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.
BBC launches 2018 New Comedy Award
Monday 9th April 2018
The 2018 BBC New Comedy Award has been launched today. Entries for the contest series close on Thursday 3rd May.
Stephen Hawking to guest star in new Hitchhiker's Guide
Sunday 18th February 2018
Physicist Stephen Hawking is set to join the cast of Radio 4's new Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series.
Inside No. 9 named Comedy Of The Year 2017
Monday 29th January 2018
The winners of the 2017 Comedy.co.uk Awards have been announced, with Inside No. 9 named Comedy Of The Year.
Hardeep Singh Kohli to host multicultural Radio 4 sketch show
Monday 29th January 2018
Hardeep Singh Kohli is to front Sketchtopia, a new sketch comedy show on Radio 4 which takes a satirical look at issues around multiculturalism in the UK.