Ed Reardon's Week
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 2005 - 2025
- 100 episodes (16 series)
Radio sitcom following curmudgeonly 50-something writer Ed Reardon, and his flawed attempts to escape poverty via literary success. Stars Christopher Douglas, Lisa Coleman, Philip Jackson, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Stephanie Cole and more.
- Returns on Monday 30th June on Radio 4 at 2:15pm with Series 16, Episode 1
Press clippings
Ed Reardon's Week returns 30th June, with Series 16 to hit Episode 100
Radio 4's long-running sitcom Ed Reardon's Week returns on Monday 30th June for Series 16. The last episode in the six-part series will be the 100th episode of the show.
British Comedy Guide, 13th June 2025Comedy.co.uk Awards 2023 shortlist
The 60 TV and radio programmes shortlisted across the 10 categories in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2023 have been revealed. Voting is now open to determine the winners.
British Comedy Guide, 8th January 2024Who killed comedy?
"The axing of The Mash Report on the BBC was woke comedy's Year Zero," writes Julie Burchill.
Julie Burchill, The Spectator, 29th July 2023Comedy.co.uk Awards 2021 shortlist
The 60 TV and radio programmes shortlisted across the 10 categories in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2021 have been revealed. Voting is now open to determine the winners.
British Comedy Guide, 17th January 2022Radio 4 is the world's most industrious comedy factory
Radio 4's nurturing of new writers and performers has produced some of our best comedy talent.
Gillian Reynolds, i Newspaper, 5th July 2021Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020 shortlist
60 TV and radio programmes have been shortlisted across 10 categories for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020. Voting is now open to determine the winners.
British Comedy Guide, 11th January 2021French & Saunders to star in Radio 4 comedy
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders will star in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen?, a one-off festive Radio 4 comedy about two sisters. Radio 4's other festive highlights include new episodes of Ed Reardon's Week and Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!.
British Comedy Guide, 30th November 2020Radio Times poll of best radio comedies
Radio 4 panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue has come top of a Radio Times list of the greatest radio comedy shows.
British Comedy Guide, 17th November 2020Comedy.co.uk Awards 2019 shortlist
60 TV and radio programmes have been shortlisted across 10 categories for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2019. Voting is now open to determine the winners.
British Comedy Guide, 13th January 2020The 20 funniest radio comedies of all time
Before Radio 1's first run of new shows kicks off next month, here we count down the 20 greatest scripted radio comedies ever to hit the airwaves
Ben Lawrence, Tristram Fane Saunders & Mark Monahan, The Telegraph, 25th January 2018