The Navy Lark. Copyright: BBC
The Navy Lark
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Light Programme / BBC Radio 2
- 1959 - 1977
- 241 episodes (15 series)
Classic radio sitcom about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate. Stars Dennis Price, Stephen Murray, Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee, Ronnie Barker and more.
Press clippings
Last missing Navy Lark episode recovered
The last completely missing episode of long-running radio sitcom The Navy Lark has been recovered. However, other editions still only survive in inferior and cut forms.
British Comedy Guide, 18th January 2023To the modern ear, a collection of stereotypes and elderly jokes. Yet it does everything with such charm, and in its day, which stretched from 1959 to 1977, the characters and situations would be more familiar. Worth listening to again on BBC7 just to hear Leslie Phillips navigating: "Left hand down a bit", etc. Once our longest-running radio comedy.
Roland White, The Times, 12th April 2009