New Releases
Bill Hicks - The 25th Anniversary Commemorative Collection
Release date: Monday 21st October 2019
Released to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his untimely death, this comprehensive 5 DVD box-set features every commercially released Bill Hicks stand-up show ever recorded, plus a massive 9 hours of new to CD audio content.
With full length features including Sane Man, Relentless, Reflections, One Night Stand and Totally...
Happy Ever After
Release date: Monday 21st October 2019
Cinema icon David Niven is on top form as the improbably-named Jasper O'Leary in this uproarious culture clash comedy from director Mario Zampi. Also featured are Hollywood star Yvonne de Carlo, professional Irishman Barry Fitzgerald and George Cole as a gormless yokel. Filmed in the 1.37:1 aspect ratio, Happy Ever...
Sick Note - Series One
Release date: Monday 21st October 2019
Starring Rupert Grint (Harry Potter), Nick Frost (Fighting With My Family) and Don Johnson (Django Unchained).
Just when he thinks things couldn't get worse, Daniel (Grint), a compulsive liar stuck in a failing relationship and a dead-end job, is diagnosed with oesophageal cancer.
Things start to look up, however, when...
The Old Devils - The Complete Series
Release date: Monday 21st October 2019
Kingsley Amis's classic novel, about a group of university friends reunited in retirement, was adapted into a critically acclaimed comedy drama by Andrew Davies and originally broadcast on the BBC in 1992. It's a turbulent story of ageing, friendship, lust, nostalgia and nationalism.
Alun Weaver (John Stride) has found success...
The Queen's Corgi
Release date: Monday 21st October 2019
Since his arrival at Buckingham palace, Rex lives a life of luxury. Top dog, he has superseded his three fellow Corgis in Her Majesty's heart and his arrogance can be quite irritating.
When he causes a diplomatic incident during an official dinner with the President of the United States, he...
Adam Kay - Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas
Release date: Thursday 17th October 2019
From the author of hit bestseller This Is Going To Hurt.
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas is the hilarious, poignant and entertaining story of the life of a junior doctor at the most challenging time of the year, with 25 tales of intriguing, shocking and incredible Christmas incidents faced by...
Alex Edelman - Millennial And Peer Group
Release date: Thursday 17th October 2019
Alex Edelman, the 25-year-old Bostonian native and winner of the prestigious Best Newcomer Award at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe brings his unique wit to a discussion of the issues that affect the millennial generation. This collection includes two of his BBC Radio 4 series.
Millennial: Alex Edelman gives his...
Billy Connolly - Tall Tales And Wee Stories
Release date: Thursday 17th October 2019
"Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't even have punchlines. But you'll get used to it as the night goes on, and on, and on, and on and on..."
In December 2018,...
Everyone Quite Likes Justin - The Complete Series 1-2
Release date: Thursday 17th October 2019
In one version of his life, Justin is a well-known local Manchester radio DJ who is successful, funny, and stopped in the street by adoring fans. He's the man who has everything. In another version he's a DJ in a slightly shabby local radio station who gets hassled by the...
John Bishop - How To Grow Old
Release date: Thursday 17th October 2019
Whether he likes it or not, John is getting older. His hair is greying, it's getting that much harder to stay fit, and the potential to become something of embarrassment is ever increasing.
But hope is not lost.
How To Grow Old is John's offering to the world. With sage...
Parsley Sidings - The Complete Series 1 & 2
Release date: Thursday 17th October 2019
The complete first and second series of the charming railway station comedy starring Arthur Lowe, Ian Lavender and Kenneth Connor.
Parsley Sidings ran for two highly successful series from 1971-1973, and was the only radio sitcom (other than Dad's Army) to star the much-loved Arthur Lowe. As Horace Hepplewhite, station...
Scarfolk Annual 197*
Release date: Thursday 17th October 2019
A Scarfolk sanctioned book.
Authorised edition as seen on the radio.
This Scarfolk Annual is the facsimile of a book discovered in a charity shop in the north west of England in August 2018. The shop, and indeed town, do not wish to be identified as they are keen to...
The Penny Dreadfuls - Volume 3: Le Carré On Spying | Don Quixote | Hadrian's Beard
Release date: Thursday 17th October 2019
In these riotous revisionist plays, The Penny Dreadfuls present alternative takes on three icons, ably assisted by guests including Miles Jupp, Mark Heap, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Amanda Abbington and Sylvester McCoy.
In The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Le Carré On Spying, we follow David Cornwell's (Le Carré's real name) desperate efforts to...
Meet Me Tonight
Release date: Monday 14th October 2019
A wealth of British talent enlivens this Noël Coward omnibus of three slices of life told with his trademark blend of incisive wit and affectionate observation. From music hall mayhem to suburban suffering and a romp on the Riviera, each playlet features a top-notch cast whose exuberant performances bring the...
The Vicar Of Dibley - The Immaculate Collection
Release date: Monday 14th October 2019
Classic BBC comedy starring Dawn French (French & Saunders) and written by Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Four Weddings And A Funeral).
Geraldine Granger is not your run-of-the-mill village vicar. She is a bubbly, young reverend overseeing an eccentric congregation in a rural community. She and her off-the-wall parishioners bring us...
Anna And The Apocalypse
Release date: Friday 11th October 2019
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy Scottish town of Little Haven, forcing Anna (Ella Hunt) and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this...
Katy Brand - I Carried A Watermelon: Dirty Dancing And Me
Release date: Thursday 10th October 2019
I Carried A Watermelon is a love story to Dirty Dancing. A warm, witty and accessible look at how Katy Brand's life-long obsession with the film has influenced her own attitudes to sex, love, romance, rights and responsibilities.
It explores the legacy of the film, from pushing women's stories to...
The Goodies
Release date: Thursday 10th October 2019
The original comedy legends are back, exclusive to Audible.
The Goodies, aka Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie, are one of comedy's most influential and treasured groups. After 50 years, they've reunited for new audio adventures. Expect their trademark surreal humour, and some very, very special guests....
This is...
Man About The House - The Complete Collection
Release date: Monday 7th October 2019
Created by sitcom legends Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, Man About The House was one of the major sitcoms hits of the 1970s, ultimately spinning off into two equally successful sequels: George & Mildred and Robin's Nest.
Man About The House
When bachelor girls Chrissy and Jo need a third girl...
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing - The Complete Second Series
Release date: Monday 7th October 2019
We follow Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse once again as they fish side by side in some of the most stunningly beautiful locations in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Across six episodes, cameras will look-on as they dissect life & death against a backdrop of some of the prettiest places...
Talk About Jacqueline / St. Martin's Lane
Release date: Monday 7th October 2019
Two classic comedies: Talk About Jacqueline (starring Hugh Williams and Carla Lehmann) and St. Martin's Lane (starring Charles Laughton and Vivien Leigh).
Talk About Jacqueline (1942)
A woman tries to conceal her questionable past from her new husband.
St. Martin's Lane (1938)
Romantic drama of London's theatreland and the tragic love of...
The Goodies - The Complete Collection
Release date: Monday 7th October 2019
In 1970, The Goodies unleashed their legendary blend of surreal storylines, strikingly topical satire, slapstick and general lunacy on an unsuspecting viewing public. Capturing the irreverent and rebellious flavour of the decade, this phenomenally popular, award-winning series spread its mischief over twelve years - making household names of creators, writers...
Wimbledon
Release date: Monday 7th October 2019
British romantic comedy about a washed-up tennis player who scores a wildcard entry to the Wimbledon championship and finds his game reinvigorated after he meets one of the top American female stars.
Richard Loncraine directs Paul Bettany as Peter Colt, a once-great British player who is sliding further down the...
Monty Python Sings (Again) - 50th Anniversary Edition
Release date: Friday 4th October 2019
To celebrate 50 years since Monty Python's Flying Circus first aired on TV, UMC and Virgin EMI are reissuing Monty Python's seminal album Monty Python Sings (Again) for the first time on vinyl.
The 2LP release comes in a double-gatefold sleeve with new packaging design overseen by Terry Gilliam himself....
It Sticks Out Half A Mile
Release date: Thursday 3rd October 2019
The complete series of the Dad's Army spin-off starring John Le Mesurier, Ian Lavender and Bill Pertwee - plus the pilot episode starring Arthur Lowe.
Set in 1948, this radio sequel to the classic TV comedy Dad's Army features several of the much-loved characters from the original series. Arthur Wilson...
Lenny Henry - Who Am I, Again?
Release date: Thursday 3rd October 2019
In 1975, a gangly black 16-year-old from Dudley, decked out in floppy bow tie and Frank Spencer beret, appeared on our TV screens for the first time. So began the transformation from apprentice factory worker to future national treasure of Sir Lenny Henry.
In his long-awaited autobiography, Lenny tells the...
This Is This Country
Release date: Thursday 3rd October 2019
Listen up chumps, basically the Vicar asked us to edit the parish newsletter this month, we weren't gonna do it at first cos the vicar said 'I want you to channel your energy into doing something creative', which he knows brings back Kurtan's PTSD cos our old woodwork teacher Mr...
Lenny Henry - Who Am I, Again?
Release date: Tuesday 1st October 2019
In 1975, a gangly black 16-year-old from Dudley, decked out in floppy bow tie and Frank Spencer beret, appeared on our TV screens for the first time. So began the transformation from apprentice factory worker to future national treasure of Sir Lenny Henry.
In his long-awaited autobiography, Lenny tells the...
Brassic - Series 1
Release date: Monday 30th September 2019
Best mates Vinnie, Dylan, Ashley, Cardi, Tommo and JJ have dealt, scammed, and laughed their way through three decades of friendship. And these days their schemes have only become more creative. Whether it be stealing tiny horses, breaking into a local pimp's safe or raiding a rival grower's weed farm,...
The Punch And Judy Man
Release date: Monday 30th September 2019
A true contrarian, Hancock followed up the cosmopolitan Technicolor escapism of The Rebel with a much more muted and low-key character piece. Though The Punch And Judy Man may feel like a step backwards, with its monochromatic look and bittersweet comedy, it is very definitely a companion piece to The...
The Queen And I
Release date: Monday 30th September 2019
The family comedy drama starring Samantha Bond, David Walliams and Julia McKenzie, comes to DVD.
A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.
Includes both a DVD of the programme, and...
The Rebel
Release date: Monday 30th September 2019
For the audiences of 1961, accustomed to seeing Tony Hancock as a flickering 405-line black and white image, The Rebel must have come as a revelation: there was The Lad Himself, larger than life, on the big screen, in colour. Stone me, who'd have thought it!
Now, in a revelation...
Taskmaster The Board Game
Release date: Tuesday 24th September 2019
A board game based on Dave's number one entertainment show, hosted by the mountainous Greg Davies and his assistant Little Alex Horne.
Compete with your friends and family in a series of ludicrous tasks to be crowned Taskmaster Champion. Can you draw what the Taskmaster is thinking? Find out! Includes...
You Made Me Love You
Release date: Monday 23rd September 2019
Monkey-business abounds in this spirited musical comedy updating Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew to 1930s London, with Stanley Lupino as the young man attempting to tame his formidably feisty bride - leading Hollywood comedienne Thelma Todd. You Made Me Love You is featured in a brand-new transfer from the...
Cunk On Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena
Release date: Thursday 19th September 2019
In the olden days, people used to learn about things from encyclopedias.
And that was really good, because you could read it, and learn it, then you could stop worrying about thinking. But now, with the internet and more people and science and research, there's just too much knowledge -...
Delve Special - The Complete Series 1-4
Release date: Thursday 19th September 2019
Stephen Fry stars as spoof investigative journalist David Lander in all four series of the BBC radio comedy.
Delve Special ran for four series on BBC Radio 4 from 1984-1987, later transferring to TV as This Is David Lander. A parody of the popular genre of investigative reporting, it stars...
Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais - More Than Likely: A Memoir
Release date: Thursday 19th September 2019
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais are the creators of some of British television's most beloved comedies. Essex-born Clement teamed up with Geordie insurance salesman La Frenais in the early 1960s and scripted a series about two young pals from Newcastle, The Likely Lads, which became one of BBC Two's...
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme - The Complete Series 8
Release date: Thursday 19th September 2019
John Finnemore, creator and star of Cabin Pressure and John Finnemore's Double Acts, is back with Series 8 of his highly acclaimed radio sketch show, winner of the Academy Silver Award, a Broadcasting Press Guild award and two BBC Audio Drama awards.
In these six episodes, John cooks a particularly...
King Street Junior - The Complete Series 1-10
Release date: Thursday 19th September 2019
All ten series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama set in a small junior school.
Running for 10 series between 1985 and 1998 (with a sequel, King Street Junior Revisited, airing from 2002-2005), this hugely popular school-based sitcom was one of the BBC's most successful radio programmes.
Created by...
King Street Junior Revisited - The Complete Series 1-4
Release date: Thursday 19th September 2019
All four series of the popular follow-up to King Street Junior.
King Street Junior and its sequel, King Street Junior Revisited, ran for 20 years and 100 episodes between 1985 and 2005, and were among the BBC's most successful and popular radio programmes.
In these four series, we return to...
Like They've Never Been Gone
Release date: Thursday 19th September 2019
June Whitfield and Roy Hudd star as singing sweethearts who attempt a comeback in this hilarious BBC Radio 4 sitcom.
Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr, winners of the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest, find themselves unexpectedly thrust back into the limelight. The trouble is, they can no longer stand the sight...
At Last The 1948 Show - Collector's Edition
Release date: Monday 16th September 2019
This ground-breaking, splendidly silly and surreal sketch series, written and performed by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman - also starring the lovely Aimi MacDonald - was a major milestone on the road to Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Goodies and everything that came after.
This lovingly...
Do Not Adjust Your Set - Collector's Edition
Release date: Monday 16th September 2019
Innovative and influential, and originally broadcast as a children's show, Do Not Adjust Your Set was a madcap early-evening comedy sketch show that quickly acquired a cult following with Swinging Sixties adults, who rushed home from work to see it.
Written by and starring Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric...
Double Date
Release date: Monday 9th September 2019
While Jim attempts to lose his virginity before he turns 30, he and his friend Alex meet two beautiful sisters, Kitty and Lulu, who seduce them as part of their plan of virgin sacrifice.
Actors include Big Narstie, star of Channel 4's Friday night ratings hit The Big Narstie Show,...
Spring Meeting
Release date: Monday 9th September 2019
Hitchcock heroine Nova Pilbeam demonstrates her considerable flair for comedy in this incredibly popular wartime adaptation of the hit play by Irish author Molly Keane (a.k.a. M.J. Farrell) and John Perry. Co-starring Michael Wilding, Basil Sydney and Margaret Rutherford, Spring Meeting - released in America as Three Wise Brides -...
Stuart Manning - The Worzel Book - 40th Anniversary Edition
Release date: Monday 9th September 2019
The definitive guide to Worzel Gummidge just got bigger, with over 30 pages of extra content, including new interviews and facts, an all-new chapter about the 1990s Worzel animation project featuring script summaries, storyboards and pre-production art, plus dozens of new photos in black and white and colour.
When a...
The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy - Shaun Of The Dead / Hot Fuzz / The World's End
Release date: Monday 9th September 2019
A triple bill of British comedy features from the hit team of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright.
In The World's End (2013), galvanised by Gary (Pegg), 40-somethings Oliver (Martin Freeman), Andy (Frost), Steven (Paddy Considine) and Peter (Eddie Marsan) return to their home town for one more attempt...
Alex Horne - Taskmaster: 220 Extraordinary Tasks For Ordinary People
Release date: Friday 6th September 2019
Build yourself a box and think outside of it. Your time starts now ...
In the TV show and on my marriage certificate, my job description is 'Taskmaster's Assistant'. That's what I do and it's an honour. I like Taskmaster a lot. And, of course, I love The Taskmaster. He's...
Glenn Wool - Creator, I Am But A Pawn
Release date: Friday 6th September 2019
Creator, I Am But A Pawn, recorded live in Estonia, dives into Hiroshima, slavery, colonisation, sex offender registries, and white supremacy; with Glenn and the little voice inside his head, nothing is off limits.
His comedy stylings call to mind the greats like Patton Oswalt, Mitch Hedberg, Brian Posehn and...
Alex Horne - Taskmaster: 220 Extraordinary Tasks For Ordinary People
Release date: Thursday 5th September 2019
Build yourself a box and think outside of it. Your time starts now ...
In the TV show and on my marriage certificate, my job description is 'Taskmaster's Assistant'. That's what I do and it's an honour. I like Taskmaster a lot. And, of course, I love The Taskmaster. He's...