Geoff Norcott has joined Times Radio, presenting a show on Friday nights. The comic has previously guest hosted on the channel and is taking over the 7pm-10pm slot that evening, joking on social media that "every station needs diversity and I'm representing 'blokes who look and sound like plumbers'".
Rum Punch, Travis Jay's Radio 4 sitcom about a multigenerational family running a Caribbean restaurant, is to return to the station for a full series, following the success of the pilot in March.
A recently recovered, landmark episode of Hancock's Half Hour is to air on BBC Radio 4 Extra in May as a lynchpin of the channel's celebration of the late comic's 100th birthday.
