TV Cream
Radio 4: The Programmes
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3111After Henry
PHENOMENALLY successful Simon Brett-penned suburban smugathon sitcom
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2001Afternoon Play, The
Eternal childhood car journey boredom-accelerating forty-five minutes of over-enunciated words
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3642And Now In Colour
ULTIMATE forgotten big-in-its-day comedy sketch show
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211
Any Questions?/Any Answers?
GIGANTIC unstoppable broadcasting juggernaut
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1995
Archers, The
Saga Of Everyday Country Folk joined in the throes of unlikely Swinging Sixties bandwagon-jumping
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161
Atkinson People, The
PRE-FAME atypically non-visual rubberfaced whimsy from Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis
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2301
Beachcomber, By The Way
JOHN SESSIONS and assorted Private Eye staffers repay sizeable comic debt by making a mostly successful attempt at shoehorning JB Morton's ancient...
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181
Brain Of Britain
NO-NONSENSE just the facts straight ahead so-you-think-you're-clever-do-you? quizzery with Robert Robinson
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183
Breakaway
That dreaded peal of croaking charleston brass could mean only one thing
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2063
Broadcasting House
RADIO 4's sonic equivalent of a scurrilous classroom newsletter
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242
Burkiss Way, The
SURREALIST Renwick'n'Marshall free-for-all
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143
Delve Special
YET ANOTHER early vehicle for Stephen Fry, this time in the guise of not-at-all-Roger-Cook-libelling investigative journalising incompetent David Lander
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2153
Earthsearch
SUB-BLAKE'S 7 beardy 'space opera' melodrama about the crew of the Challenger and their seemingly unending quest to find one of those...
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168
Fat Man On A Bicycle
GARRULOUS genial garlic-scoffing gregarious Gallic gadabout undertaken by alliteration-crazed titular tubster Tom Vernon on his trusty two-wheeler 'The Roman Philosopher'
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178
Feedback
THE ULTIMATE in complaining-about-nothing shows
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178
Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel
NOTE-PERFECT impersonator-facilitated recreation of lost Marx Brothers radio show
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326
Frank Muir Goes Into…
ESSENTIALLY an audio equivalent to all those whopping great Muir-edited 'gift books' available exclusively at WH Smith every Christmas
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154
Harpoon, The
Much-loved unhinged pastiche of ye olde 'Boys Own'-style publications and attendant tales of "derring-do and derring-don't" and features on improving outdoor hobbies
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3565
Harry Hill’s Fruit Corner
RADIO cottoned on to the TV Burper-in-waiting long before TV did
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3464Hinge & Bracket
LONGSTANDING regular engagement for those two men posing as elderly female academics
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1511
HitchHiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, The
DOUGLAS ADAMS' superior sci-fi send-up, as overenthusiastic towel-wielding blokes hunting for off-airs of Marvin on Studio B15 are wont to remind you...
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1713
Hobbit, The/Lord Of The Rings
PETER JACKSON-trouncing epic-length Tolkein adaptations
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280
Hordes Of The Things
'THATCHER'-lampooning Yes, Minister-riffing Tolkein parody fun from the pens of 'APR Marshall and JHW Lloyd'
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2212
I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue
Bring Me The Head Of Alf-Radio Cream-o Garcia!
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2172
If It’s Wednesday, It Must Be…
STRANGEST concept ever for a childrens' show
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1823
In One Ear
'DANGEROUS' late-night live psuedo-alternative comedy sketches from Nick Wilton, Helen Lederer, Steve Brown and Clive Mantle.
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301
Injury Time
'SOME POSHOS OFF THE RADIO' - ie Emma Thompson and the Who Dares Wins lot - perform a bunch of old Douglas...
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290
Jason Explanation, The
ONE OF the last chapters of David Jason's pre-fame 'difficult period'
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160
Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation
MILD CONTROVERSY-courting series of only very slightly 'mock' lectures examining "the vicissitudes of modern living"
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1812
Just A Minute
Just A Minute is a long-running panel game where the wonderful chairman Nicholas Parsons [BZZZT: "He's not wonderful"]
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143
Kaleidoscope
INITIALLY a stern-faced weekly science review, but when they realised nobody was listening shifted over to arts coverage
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163
King Street Junior
GRANGE HILL For Adults gambit charting the oft-comic trials and tribulations of a modern Secondary Modern as seen through the eyes of...
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1743
Knowing Me, Knowing You… With Alan Partridge
LEE AND HERRING-swindling reimagining of On The Hour's 'sport'-obsessed Steve Coogan-portrayed reporter as an obnoxious chat show host
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179
Last Chance To See
DOUGLAS ADAMS and conservationy pal Mark Cawardine set off on a globe-straddling shorts-ahoy Attenborough-aping animal odyssey
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2597
Lenin Of The Rovers
EIGHTIES-as-they-came sitcom featuring Alexei Sayle
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156
Letter From America
WEEKLY epistle with an Uncle Sam postmark from Alistair 'Lochaber No More' Cooke
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4782Listen With Mother
FINAL resting place of the one-time broadcasting institution, by then very much on its last legs thanks to the machinations of Derek...
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176
Loose Ends
NED SHERRIN-led roundtable arts discussion pot-pourri
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3502
Masterson Inheritance, The
LAST GASP of the short-lived craze for 'improv comedy'
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159
Million Pound Radio Show, The
ANDY HAMILTON and Nick Revell were your hosts for a double-hander sketch show driven by proto-Lee & Herring gambit of Kelly Monteith-esque...
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2081
Money Box
NAVIGATION through the minefield of personal finance
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170
My Music/My Word!
CONCURRENT companion piece panel shows both making heavy use of Frank Muir and Dennis Norden.
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1942
Naked Radio
OCCASIONALLY-NETWORKED locally-grown Caledonian sketch comedy and obvious precursor to the television show of largely the same name
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2002
News Quiz, The
HEADLINE-GUFFAWING weekly satire-lite hoedown.
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1852
On The Hour
All-too-plausible mockery of the pomposity of modern hi-tech news broadcasting
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147
People Like Us
ACCLAIMED docusoap send-up with investigative reporter Roy Mallard
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145
Peter Tinniswood
WRITING POWERHOUSE who filled Radio 4's schedules virtually single-handed for decades on end
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1742
Pirate Radio 4
TYPICALLY futile mid-eighties attempt at luring the school holidaying kids away from WHY DON'T YOU? and back towards the radio
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1871
PM
EARLY evening news roundup grim-athon
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177
Psychedelic Spy, The
AUSTIN POWERS-purloined tongue-in-cheek pastiche of all things sixties, agenty and secret