Radio Active
- Radio sketch show
- BBC Radio 4
- 1980 - 2016
- 51 episodes (7 series)
Long-running radio sketch show featuring Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Michael Fenton Stevens and Helen Atkinson-Wood. Also features Philip Pope.
Key details
- Genre
- Sketch Show
- Broadcast
- 1980 - 2016
- Channels
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 51 (1 pilot + 7 series), plus 4 other episodes
- Stars
- Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Michael Fenton Stevens, Helen Atkinson-Wood and Philip Pope
- Writers
- Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins and Richard Curtis
- Producers
- Jimmy Mulville and David Tyler
- Companies
Radio Active is "Britain's first national local radio station". With presenters including Mike Stand, Mike Channel, Anna Dapter and Mike Flex, the station broadcast music from acts such as The Hee Bee Gee Bees, as well as its own original programming with shows like Round Your Parts, Gigantaquiz and Stop That Crime UK.
The series originated as the 1979 Fringe show from the Oxford Revue, with stars Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton Stevens.
Radio Active aired throughout most of the 1980s, with the fictional radio station eventually becoming the fictional satellite TV channel KYTV. Radio Active has since been revived both on radio and the stage.
Additional details
- Also known as
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- The Oxford Revue Presents Radio Active (Pilot)
- Production
- Studio
- Soundtrack
- Music by Philip Pope.
Website links
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Tuesday 8th September 1981 at 12:30pm on BBC Radio 4
- Most recent repeats
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- Wednesday 13th April 2022 at 11:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 7, Episode 8
- Wednesday 6th April 2022 at 11:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 7, Episode 7
- Wednesday 30th March 2022 at 11:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 7, Episode 6