Stories, poems and songs
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the Story of Radio Comedy
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Michael Jayston stars in Michael Bakewell's adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1964 spy thriller
A pick of last week's comedies, including at 2.30 Revolting People, at
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The story of Radio Comedy
Today Russell Davies looks at comedy of the early 1950s, with audience-led shows on the wane and The Goon Show proving hugely popular (7/12)
Geoffrey Wheeler 's tours of old variety theatres and music halls continues with Dublin's Gaiety Theatre (3/6)
Bert Coules tale in which a strange voice urges a woman to embark on a journey into terror and beyond
Gareth Thomas reads Brian Aldiss's 1962 sci-fi fantasy set on a non-rotating Earth in the distant future when the sun has expanded and man is on the brink of extinction (1/5)
1970 comedy
1977 comedy (4/9)
Adaptation by Rachel Joyce of the posthumously published 1840s Charlotte Bronte novel about a man's desire to love and be loved, with Paul Venables - omnibus edition (6-10/10)
Paul Daneman reads a 1926 supernatural story by Enid Bagnold who also wrote National Velvet and The Chalk Garden
1999 comedy with Michael Williams and Rodney Bewes
Comedy, with Steve Punt.
Hugh Dennis , Marcus Brigstocke and Mitch Benn
Last week's interviewee Clive Anderson becomes this week's interviewer, talking to writer/producer John Lloyd (To the Manor Born, Not the Nice O'Clock News, Spitting Image), about working with Douglas Adams and the key to creating great comedy (2/6)
2007 comedy (4/4)
2007 comedy sketches with Rachel Lerman and Tom Hardy (2/4)