Thursday 10th April 2025
Radio 4 is launching a new stand-up showcase featuring some of the the country's best comics. Live From The UK will be hosted by Angela Barnes.
Wednesday 9th April 2025
Kurupt FM, Green Wing: Resuscitated, Help I Sexted My Boss, IM1, Mark Steel's In Town, The Menagerie, The Skewer, Time Of The Week and Where There's A Will, There's A Wake are up for the Comedy Award in the ARIAS 2025.
Monday 31st March 2025
The 2025 Audio Drama Awards posthumously honoured producer Bill Dare with an Outstanding Contribution award.
Police sitcom Bravo Two Charlies is getting a spin-off on BBC Radio Wales, with former North Wales traffic cops Dennis Babb and Lee Cushion, played by Martin Trenaman and Rhys Ap Trefor, setting up as private investigators in a new show, with the working title The Abergele Files.
Friday 28th March 2025
At the height of his fame in the 1970s, Kenneth Williams was asked to record excerpts from the Bible. Those recordings are to be broadcast for the first time on Radio 4 this April.
Thursday 6th March 2025
Adrian Edmondson is returning to Waiting For Godot, writing and starring in a comic reinterpretation of the play for Radio 4 set at the start of the coronavirus lockdown, co-starring Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Simon Callow, Christopher Hall and Madeleine Paulson.
Friday 24th January 2025
Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse have reunited to play legendary comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in one-off Radio 4 comedy drama When Alan Met Ray.
Friday 29th November 2024
Mary Bourke has landed her first Radio 4 series, about her experience of being a carer for her husband, the comedian Simon Clayton. In Mary Bourke: Who Cares?, the Irish stand-up also talks to fellow comics Josephine Lacey, Pope Lonergan and Michael Akadiri about their experience of the underfunded care system.
Friday 22nd November 2024
Radio 4 is to air Victoria Wood's previously unheard audio diaries, songs and stand-up this Christmas in Victoria Wood - Loose Chippings, consisting of entirely unbroadcast material.
BBC New Comedy Award winner Joe Kent-Walters is recording Radio 4 special Frankie Monroe's Pub Quiz.
