New Releases
Dinnerladies: A BBC Collection
Release date: Thursday 18th April 2019
Dinnerladies is a classic BBC TV sitcom based around the lives of the staff of the canteen at Manchester factory HWD Components. Written by and starring Victoria Wood as Brenda, these eight classic TV episodes are brilliantly funny, where the jokes fly as thick and as fast as granary torpedoes.
Along...
Sofie Hagen - Happy Fat
Release date: Thursday 18th April 2019
A searing and impassioned debut from comedian Sofie Hagen - who urges us to fight back and reframe our toxic relationships with our bodies.
Sofie Hagen has always been fat. But after years of struggling with her body image and subjecting herself to countless diets, Sofie began to question the incessant...
The News Quiz - Series 98
Release date: Thursday 18th April 2019
The complete 98th series from the long-running topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show, hosted by Miles Jupp.
Eight more episodes featuring a panel of comedy guests who trawl through news stories big and small to provide comedy, commentary, irony and irreverence. Guests include Hugo Rifkind, Zoe Lyons, Andy Hamilton, Lucy...
The Wilsons Save The World - Series 1 And 2
Release date: Thursday 18th April 2019
A full-cast BBC comedy about trying to live ethically and do the right thing, written by Marcus Brigstocke and Sarah Morgan.
Michael (Brigstocke) and Maxine (Kerry Godliman) Wilson and their teenage daughters, Lola and Cat (plus their bearded dragon, Chomsky, and about 150, 000 bees), have resolved to live a cleaner,...
Minor Adjustment
Release date: Wednesday 17th April 2019
The Stubbs family - cartoonist Richard, therapist Sarah, 16-year-old Kate and three-year-old Amy, who has Down syndrome - feature in this six-part sitcom chronicling the highs and lows of family life.
Richard (played by Peter Davison) and Sarah (Samantha Bond) juggle their way through life's minor disruptions, such as well-meaning TV...
Old Baggage
Release date: Tuesday 16th April 2019
What do you do next, after you've changed the world?
It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club - an old possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade.
Mattie is a woman with a thrilling past and a chafingly uneventful present. During the...
Home
Release date: Monday 15th April 2019
The summer holidays are over. Peter and Katy, and Katy's son John, are driving back to Britain. But when the family arrive home in (not so exciting) Dorking, Peter discovers a surprise package stashed in the car boot. And we're not talking duty free. Peter finds Sami, a Syrian refugee.
At...
Mr. Topaze - Dual Format Edition
Release date: Monday 15th April 2019
Chosen by the British public to be digitised by the BFI in 2016, Peter Sellers directs and stars in this bittersweet character comedy based on a Marcel Pagnol short story. Described by Sellers's biographer, Roger Lewis, as a lost classic, Mr. Topaze marked the actor's official directorial debut, and teams...
Strangeways Here We Come
Release date: Monday 15th April 2019
Sucked into debt and finding themselves trapped by evil loan shark Danny Nolan, the desperate residents of the Owen Street estate in Salford come to the conclusion that the only way to free themselves is by bumping him off.
One fateful morning, after a rollicking, sexy house party, that's exactly what...
Monty Python's Life Of Brian
Release date: Saturday 13th April 2019
People of Record Store Day! It is customary at this time for us to release a record from our archives, and we have decided to WELEASE BWIAN!
To celebrate Record Store Day 2019, and the 40th anniversary of the film, Monty Python release a very special, limited edition vinyl picture disc...
Anna And The Apocalypse
Release date: Monday 8th April 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...
Cuckoo - Complete Series 5
Release date: Monday 8th April 2019
Greg Davies and Helen Baxendale return as uptight parents Ken and Lorna Thompson in the complete fifth series of Cuckoo. This BAFTA-nominated comedy co-stars Esther Smith as their flighty, self-sabotaging daughter Rachel, and Tyger Drew Honey as Dylan, their indolent liability of a son. Series 5 also features Andie MacDowell...
Pitching In
Release date: Monday 8th April 2019
TV favourite Larry Lamb (EastEnders, Gavin & Stacey) returns to our screens as Frank Hardcastle, a recently widowed Londoner getting to grips with big changes in his life, in the Welsh-set comedy drama Pitching In.
Welcome to Daffodil Dunes Holiday Park in the picturesque village of Glan Mor on the north...
Still Game - The Complete Collection
Release date: Monday 8th April 2019
It's here - every side-splitting episode of the acclaimed comedy series Still Game in one box set!
So come to Craiglang, pour yourself a Midori and enjoy a comic feast with Jack, Victor and the rest of the gang as Britain's favourite OAPs take on the world and all it has...
Still Game - The Complete Series 9
Release date: Monday 8th April 2019
The complete ninth and final series of Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill's much-loved Scottish sitcom.
Strangeways Here We Come
Release date: Monday 8th April 2019
Sucked into debt and finding themselves trapped by evil loan shark Danny Nolan, the desperate residents of the Owen Street estate in Salford come to the conclusion that the only way to free themselves is by bumping him off.
One fateful morning, after a rollicking, sexy house party, that's exactly what...
This Time With Alan Partridge
Release date: Monday 8th April 2019
The comedy icon returns to mark the 25th anniversary of his BBC debut.
This evening weekday magazine show is a heady mix of consumer affairs, current affairs, and lightweight frothy drivel. Presenting This Time 'as live', Alan tries to keep proceedings ticking along while everything around him crumbles. With the sheer...
Ben Elton - Identity Crisis
Release date: Thursday 4th April 2019
Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage.
A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV and a bewildering kaleidoscope of opposing identity groups. Lost in a...
Victoria Wood: From Soup To Nuts
Release date: Thursday 4th April 2019
Rebecca Front presents this two-part look back at Victoria Wood's stand-up and songs using her own archives and tapes - including never-before-heard material.
Victoria Wood was a comedian, actress and all-round national treasure. She wrote and starred in countless sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over four decades, winning numerous awards,...
90 Minutes
Release date: Monday 1st April 2019
90 Minutes is a unique, touching and action-packed comedy gelled together by a great up and coming British cast including standout performances from Anton Saunders (Luther, Downton Abbey), Bradley John (The Hitman's Bodyguard, Stan Lee's Lucky Man), Waleed Akhtar (Miss You Already, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen) and Rio Ferdinand.
Bowjangles - The Legend of Excalibow
Release date: Monday 1st April 2019
An 80 minute, 19 track audiobook style adventure of one plucky comedy string quartet going to into the depths of hell to save their cellist's soul. This concept album features extended versions of the music from the Bowjangles Edinburgh show plus some new songs, scenes and twists in the story.
Join...
The Likely Lads
Release date: Monday 1st April 2019
Spinning off from the incredibly popular 1960s sitcom and its BAFTA-winning 1970s sequel, James Bolam and Rodney Bewes star as Terry Collier and Bob Ferris, two life-long friends with vastly different outlooks on life! Written by comedy legends Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais - who would go on to...
Stanley A Man Of Variety
Release date: Friday 29th March 2019
In this darkly funny tale, Stanley (Timothy Spall) finds himself in prison for a crime he believes he didn't commit. Now a lonely, forgotten man approaching his fifteenth year in the old psychiatric facility, he maintains his role as a trustee by cleaning the grim prison interior, which earns him...
The Virgin Soldiers
Release date: Monday 25th March 2019
Set in Singapore in the early 1950s, this impressive adaptation of Leslie Thomas's best-selling, scandalous novel centres on a group of naïve, young British Army recruits billeted to Malaya who have no experience of either love or war.
Both affectionate and affecting in its look at young men in wartime, the...
Chris Neill - What Is This Thing Called Love?
Release date: Thursday 21st March 2019
Welcome to the uproarious, brazen, plaintive and acerbic world of BBC Radio 4 regular Chris Neill.
In What Is This Thing Called Love? Neill subverts our age's obsession with introspective memoir and drills down into the fertile landscape of not only his own life but the lives of his neighbours and...
Henry Normal - A Normal...Family, Life, Love, Imagination & Nature
Release date: Thursday 21st March 2019
Henry Normal uses poetry, storytelling and comedy to tackle big subjects with his trademark humour. This collection includes five of his funny and moving BBC Radio 4 shows:
'A Normal Family' is centred around Henry's son, Johnny, who was diagnosed with autism. Through stand-up and poetry, Henry explores what this means...
Love In Recovery - Series 3
Release date: Thursday 21st March 2019
Third series of the critically acclaimed comedy drama set in Alcoholics Anonymous, containing exclusive, unbroadcast material. Written by Pete Jackson and inspired by his own road to recovery, Love In Recovery stars Rebecca Front, John Hannah, Sue Johnston, Paul Kaye and Johnny Vegas.
Love In Recovery follows the lives of five...
Benjamin - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Release date: Friday 15th March 2019
Benjamin is the feature debut from the comedian, actor, writer and director Simon Amstell.
The soundtrack has been composed and performed by Mercury Music award winning, BRIT Award and Ivor Novello nominated songwriter James Righton in collaboration with the film's writer and director, Simon Amstell, who has written lyrics, with lead...
Cuckoo - Complete Series 4
Release date: Monday 11th March 2019
Greg Davies and Helen Baxendale return as uptight parents Ken and Lorna Thompson in the complete fourth series of Cuckoo. This BAFTA-nominated comedy co-stars Taylor Lautner as Dale, the Thompson's well-meaning but socially inept lodger; Esther Smith as their flighty, self-sabotaging daughter, Rachel; and Tyger Drew Honey as Dylan, their...
Pure
Release date: Monday 11th March 2019
Twenty-four year old Marnie has bad thoughts all the time and she can't tell anyone. Her mind is XXX-rated and intrusive thoughts are piling up inside her head. She is caught in the grip of an excruciating form of obsessive compulsive disorder - nicknamed 'pure O' - where her obsessions...
Slaughterhouse Rulez
Release date: Monday 11th March 2019
Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness... and they're about to meet their match. This ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations - literally - when a controversial frack site on prize school woodland causes...
The Smallest Show On Earth
Release date: Monday 11th March 2019
Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers star in Basil Dearden's heartwarming comedy The Smallest Show On Earth. This gently whimsical elegy to the golden age of cinema co-stars Bernard Miles, Leslie Phillips and Sid James and is presented here as a brand-new high definition transfer from the...
Waffle The Wonder Dog - Meeting Waffle
Release date: Monday 11th March 2019
Join the Brooklyn-Bells family as they move into their new house and discover a puppy looking for a new home. They soon discover Waffle has a special secret. He can talk!
Includes:
Series 1 Episode 1 - Meeting Waffle
Series 1 Episode 2 - Night Night, Waffle
Series 1 Episode 3 - Goodbye Waffle?
Series...
Domestic Science - Series 1 And 2
Release date: Thursday 7th March 2019
Get ready to enjoy both series 1 and 2 of the heady combination of maths, science and comedy that is Domestic Science.
Featuring Matt Parker, Steve Mould and Helen Arney as Festival of the Spoken Nerd, these 8 episodes use stand-up, songs and experiments to investigate the world around us with...
Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel - The Complete Series 1-3
Release date: Thursday 7th March 2019
A BBC radio recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows, starring Michael Roberts and Frank Lazarus.
First broadcast on America's NBC network between 1932-33, Flywheel, Shyster And Flywheel charted the exploits of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel (played by Groucho Marx) and his dopey assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli (played by Chico Marx)....
Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics - Series 1-4
Release date: Thursday 7th March 2019
A humorous and informative look at historical characters from Ancient Greece and Rome.
Natalie is a recovering comedian who is a little bit obsessive about Ancient Greece and Rome. Each week she takes a different figure from the Ancient World and tells their story through a mix of stand-up comedy and...
The Navy Lark - 60th Anniversary Special Edition
Release date: Thursday 7th March 2019
A 60th anniversary collection of selected Navy Lark episodes and bonus programmes.
March 2019 will mark 60 years since the very first episode of The Navy Lark was broadcast in 1959. This classic sitcom - based around life on the British Royal Navy frigate the HMS Troutbridge - continued until 1977...
Tony Law - A Law Unto His-elf What Welcome
Release date: Tuesday 5th March 2019
In A Law Undo His-elf What Welcome, Tony Law is closer than ever to nonsense nirvana. Behold the comedy event horizon.
Without a hint of a joke, this powerful show has achieved a sort of comedy which aims at making no sense at all and yet, and yet, and yet it...
An Audience With The Goodies
Release date: Monday 4th March 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 and...
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators - Series One
Release date: Monday 4th March 2019
Private inspector Frank Hathaway has always worked alone. Only Frank isn't doing so well. He might have a brilliant instinct when it comes to solving crime, but he's also out of shape and low on cash. Frank needs a partner. Frank needs ex-hairdresser and people-person Lu. He just doesn't know...
The Dawson Watch - The Complete Series
Release date: Monday 4th March 2019
Leslie 'Les' Dawson is a legendary English comedian best-known for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona and snide jokes about his mother-in-law. This BBC series sees Les tackle a different subject in each episode, with his unique comic approach. It ran for 19 episodes, in 1979 and 1980.
Unlike his variety shows,...
Two Doors Down - Series 4
Release date: Monday 4th March 2019
The award-winning hit comedy is back! Set in the fictional Scottish suburban street of Latimer Crescent, this series features its core cast, with Arabella Weir as Beth and Alex Norton as Eric, the long-suffering Bairds.
Friz Frizzle - Parody City
Release date: Friday 1st March 2019
25 new recorded songs from Songruiner Friz Frizzle. Join me on this half hour journey of pop culture, mangled tunes and owls.
Cold Feet - Complete Series Eight
Release date: Monday 25th February 2019
Award winning comedy drama Cold Feet returns with a brand new series following the lives, loves and losses of a tight-knit group of friends.
Adam (James Nesbitt), Pete (John Thomson), Jenny (Fay Ripley), Karen (Hermione Norris) and David (Robert Bathurst) deliver a wry, funny and truthful look at a generation which...
Cold Feet - The Complete Series One - Eight
Release date: Monday 25th February 2019
Absorb yourself in all eight seasons of this heartfelt, truthful comedy drama - including all the classic episodes as well as three new series.
More than twenty years ago, the attempts of six thirty-somethings to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track - captured the hearts...
David Jason's Secret Service - The Complete Series
Release date: Monday 25th February 2019
Passionate espionage enthusiast Sir David Jason reveals the secret places, the people and the compelling tales behind the incredible true story of Britain's spy history from the early 20th century to the modern day.
Take A Girl Like You
Release date: Monday 25th February 2019
Jonathan Miller's film of Kingsley Amis's comic novel (adapted for the screen by George Melly) casts Hayley Mills as a naïve young girl who moves from the North of England to teach in a London school and finds herself fending off the advances of a number of lusty suitors, including...
Britain In Bits With Ross Noble
Release date: Thursday 21st February 2019
A brand-new spoof magazine show featuring semi-improvised interviews and sketches, all from the unique mind of award-winning, world-touring comedian Ross Noble. Over the course of the series, Ross introduces items from different bits of Britain: the best bits, the worst bits, the fascinating bits, and the downright strange bits.
Each episode...
High Table, Lower Orders - The Complete Series 1 And 2
Release date: Thursday 21st February 2019
The complete first and second series of Mark Tavener's BBC Radio 4 comedy thriller set in a crisis-ridden Cambridge college.
When prominent don and celebrity TV historian Peter Devanti dies after dining at High Table, his colleague Gilbert suspects foul play and invites his former student Simon Harrison, a disillusioned health...
Limmy - Surprisingly Down To Earth, And Very Funny: My Autobiography
Release date: Thursday 21st February 2019
The hysterical, shocking and incredibly intimate memoir from one of the most original and unique comedians alive today.
Hello! I'm Brian Limond, aka Limmy. You might know me from Limmy's Show. Or you might not know me at all. Don't worry if you don't.
They asked me to write a book about...