Radio
Top 20 British radio sitcoms
This page lists the top 20 British radio sitcoms, determined by a combination of the results of previous polls, award wins, and BCG's visitor data.
1. Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!
A radio sitcom based around the day-to-day life of the confused and muddled one-time variety star, Count Arthur Strong.
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
A science fiction radio comedy series written by Douglas Adams that started off the H2G2 multi-media franchise phenomenon.
3. Cabin Pressure
Radio sitcom based around a one-plane charter airline. No job is too small, but many jobs are too difficult for pilots Douglas and Martin.
4. Clare In The Community
Social worker Clare Barker (Sally Phillips) has a tendancy to find solutions to other people's problems rather than solving her own.
5. Ed Reardon's Week
Radio sitcom following curmudgeonly 50-something writer Ed Reardon, and his flawed attempts to escape poverty via literary success.
6. Hancock's Half Hour
Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock is a loser whose plans and aspirations are continually ruined by bad luck, Sidney Balmoral James or, more often than not, by his own pomposity and ambition.
7. Old Harry's Game
The radio sitcom from Hell - literally. Written by and starring Andy Hamilton as the underworld-weary Satan.
9. The Shuttleworths
Musings from John Shuttleworth as we eavesdrop on the semi-detached world of the Sheffield based singer and songwriter.
10. Fags, Mags And Bags
Radio 4 comedy about a proud Scottish shopkeeper and his tireless quest to please an ungrateful public.
11. Party
Political satire about five young adults who want to change the world but have no idea how, and little idea why.
12. Hut 33
Radio sitcom set in Bletchley Park in 1941, about code-breakers who are forced to share a draughty wooden hut.
14. The Goon Show
Highly surreal radio adventures that helped take British comedy into a new age. Starring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.
15. The Missing Hancocks
Lost episodes of the legendary radio sitcom Hancock's Half Hour re-recorded with a new cast.
17. Dad's Army
Whilst the Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard are most famous for their exploits on television, they did also carry out their duty on the wireless.
19. Alone
A Radio 4 sitcom about five single, middle aged people living in a converted Victorian house in North London.