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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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Gloomsbury
Series 5, Episode 2 - A Tale of Two Sillies
Henry and Vera are on a lecture tour of the USA. Vera is invited to the Round Table at the Algonquin and meets Dorothy Barker, who she finds repellent.
Current BBC Radio 4 comedies
...At The Stand
Ability
Al Porter - The Men Who Made Me
Alex Edelman's Peer Group
Alexei Sayle's Mystery Theatre
Angela Barnes: You Can't Take It With You
Ankle Tag
Big Broadcast
Britain In Bits With Ross Noble
Conversations From A Long Marriage
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!
Couples
Dead Ringers
Don't Panic! It's The Douglas Adams Papers
Empire-ical Evidence
Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off
Gloomsbury
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Jake Yapp Saves Humanity In 28 Minutes
Josh Howie's Losing It
Joy
Just A Minute
Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian
Lemn Sissay's Social Enterprise
Love In Recovery
Mrs Hudson's Radio Show
Nurse
Party
Prepper
Relativity
Reluctant Persuaders
Sami Shah: Islamofarcist
Simon Evans Goes To Market
Small Scenes
Tez Talks
That Mitchell & Webb Sound
The 27-Year Itch
The Absolutely Radio Show
The Cold Swedish Winter
The Hauntening
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 Unbelievable Truth
Tudur Owen - Putting Anglesey On The Map
Two Episodes Of Mash
Wisebowm
Women Talking About Cars
New formats in development
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Latest BBC Radio 4 news stories
Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam to star in TV sitcom pilot
Thursday 13th September 2018
Conversations From A Long Marriage, Jan Etherington's Radio 4 comedy series starring Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam, is to return to the airwaves, and is set to be piloted for TV too.
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.