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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
Fags, Mags And Bags
Series 8, Episode 1 - A Song For Lenzie
Ramesh discovers to his horror than Sanjay hasn't been entirely truthful about his college education after The Bish spots him busking in East Kilbride
18:30(Repeat)
Josh Howie's Losing It
Episode 6 - The Plan
Josh and his wife Monique's big day finally arrives. Josh has the birth ball and all meditation music but typically, at the crucial moment, disaster strikes.
23:0015 min
Felicity Ward - Appisodes
Episode 2 - IBS
Felicity downloads a new app each week to help her de-stress, refocus and find practical solutions to her various trouble areas - anxiety, depression, IBS and insomnia. With Jess Fosketew.
23:15(Repeat)
The Celebrity Voicemail Show
Series 1, Episode 3 - Katie Hopkins
This week we listen in to the voicemail of controversial newspaper columnist, Katie Hopkins.
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
Bunk Bed
Conversations From A Long Marriage
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!
Couples
Dead Ringers
Don't Panic! It's The Douglas Adams Papers
Dot
Empire!
Fags, Mags And Bags
Felicity Ward - Appisodes
Fresh From The Fringe
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
Love In Recovery
Mrs Hudson's Radio Show
Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics
Nick Revell: BrokenDreamCatcher
Nick Revell: Storyteller
Nurse
Party
Prepper
Relativity
Reluctant Persuaders
Rob Newman's Total Eclipse Of Descartes
Ross Noble: What A Country!
Sami Shah: Islamofarcist
Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy
Simon Evans Goes To Market
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
The Tim Vine Chat Show
The Unbelievable Truth
Tudur Owen - Putting Anglesey On The Map
Two Episodes Of Mash
Unforgettable (Redux)
Where's The F In News
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
Stephen Buchanan wins BBC New Comedy Award 2018
Sunday 12th August 2018
Stephen Buchanan has won the BBC New Comedy Award 2018, in a final judged by Sioned Wiliam, Mark Steel and Rachel Parris.
Where's The F In News returns to Radio 4 for full series
Monday 25th June 2018
Where's The F In News, the female-focused panel show, is to return to Radio 4 for a full series following on from the success of the pilot.
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.