Columnist, critic and award-winning author Craig Brown is well known for his Private Eye parodies lampooning politicians and celebrities. He has written for numerous newspapers, both under his own name and as his alter egos Wallace Arnold and Bel Littlejohn. Collected here are Brown's four fantastic radio series, plus two...
"Proper Christmas" is a love letter to the perfectly imperfect family Christmases of the late 70s and early 80s delivered in an oddly familiar, radio-friendly, sing-a-long Christmas classic like the festive hits of yesteryear, channelling The Krackpots' childhood favourites Chas and Dave, Madness and Slade.
The identity of the band...
Larry Dann's acting career began with a knock on the door, when a seven-year-old schoolboy was talent scouted by London's Corona Academy and invited to be in a film shooting at Denham Studios. This was the start of a 70-year career in showbiz that saw him perform in hundreds of...
Radio 4's longest-running panel show, in which contestants are challenged to speak on a on a given topic for 60 seconds without hesitation, deviation or repetition, returns with Sue Perkins at the helm for this complete collection of episodes from 2023.
Featuring quickfire improvisation, inspired ad-libbing and spontaneous hilarity -...
Quirky comedy from the writer of Married, following the highs and lows of a local government officer
Martin Christmas is a local government worker in the Sanitation department, whose days are shaped by endless recycling initiatives and green league tables, and whose nights are shadowed by his failed relationships and...
Modern technology is terrifying. The average smartphone carries out 3.36 billion instructions per second. The average person can carry out only one instruction in that time. Stop and think about that for a second. Sorry, that's two instructions; you won't be able to do that.
But what if modern technology...
A complete collection of every 2023 series of the topical BBC panel show The News Quiz.
With its brilliant blend of the silly, the serious and the satirical, The News Quiz has been a must-listen for comedy fans since it started 46 years ago. Recorded in front of an audience,...
Hold on for a non-stopping service of laughs with all three films on Blu-ray for the first time worldwide.
The British television series On The Buses became an international hit, with a dedicated fanbase still active to this day. The misadventures of bus driver Stan Butler, his dysfunctional family, mate-in-mischief...
The D'Ancey LaGuarde Reader is a glorious homage to the best-selling romance writer - D'Ancey LaGuarde, the creation of Alice Fraser and famously broadcast every week to millions of listeners of the trans-global satirical podcast - The Bugle.
D'Ancey LaGuarde is a legend in the world of romance. A natural...
Jason Byrne is 17. With his leaving cert under his belt but no idea what to do next, who better to ask for advice than his dad, Paddy? There's a (very) short stint studying accountancy (he was asked to leave); a FÁS course with juvenile offenders to become a waiter...
Fizzing with comic vitality and acid-tongued put downs, this seventh series of the hit comedy reminds us that you may be able to ditch your friends, but neighbours...well, you're stuck with them.
The kettle's always on at Beth and Eric's as the neighbours drop in unannounced, are rude about the...
Written and created by the hugely successful BAFTA-winning team behind Horrible Histories and Yonderland, Ghosts complete Series 1-5 is the BAFTA-nominated supernatural sitcom where the residents of Button House - the living and the dead - are brought together to cause comedy chaos.
The residents of Button House - the living and the dead - are back as the BAFTA-nominated supernatural sitcom returns for its fifth and final series.
The unlikely house share between Mike and Alison and their afterlife tenants continues to cause comedy chaos. There's April fools' high jinks between Alison...
Edward Hardwicke and Robert Lang star in this four-part comedy thriller.
With the House of Commons in recess, it's a chance for all hard-working politicians to take a holiday. So when Conservative MP Vincent Mellors and Labour MP Arnold Sellers discover that they're staying at the same golf hotel in...
Radio legends Kenneth Williams (Beyond Our Ken, Hancock's Half Hour) and Ted Ray (Ray's A Laugh) join forces for this quickfire mix of characters, songs and sketches, first broadcast on Radio 2 in 1974. Accompanied by Quote... Unquote's Nigel Rees and veteran actress/comedian Miriam Margolyes, they cross their comedy swords...
The complete Jigsaw, the surreal and rapid-fire Radio 4 sketch show.
In this brilliantly weird and hilarious sketch show, Dan Antopolski, Nat Luurtsema and Tom Craine find themselves trying not to annoy their accountant, taking a theatre trip to see Les Misérables, dreaming of opening a cattery, and singing a...
Hilarious comedy about a 1950s couple from Manchester trying to make it down under.
Dr Thomas Barrett and his wife Jane have a perfectly nice existence in 1950s Manchester, but dreams of a new life won't let them rest. Leaving the security of their home and successful doctor's practice, they...
Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims go beyond Round The Horne in this fabulous vintage comedy show.
A sparkling sequel to the legendary Round The Horne, Stop Messing About! continued the comedy tradition, reuniting Kenneth Williams with both his former foil Hugh Paddick and his Carry On co-star Joan...
All six episodes of the sharp-edged sitcom set around an unconventional babysitting club.
Wheeler-dealer snooker club owner Geoff Bryant and his wife Jenny have recently moved onto a new estate in Whittleshulme, Cheshire. Described in the brochure as an 'exclusive village development', it's squarely aimed at yuppies, the nouveau-riche and...
The complete 23rd series of the popular BBC Radio 4 impressions show.
Popular topical comedy show Dead Ringers is back with another helping of political vituperation, media mauling and celebrity savaging. So, sit back and treat your ears to a bumper helping of superb satirical impressions from Jon Culshaw, Lewis...