AuthorBBC Radio 4
NarratorVarious
Duration1h 51m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, British Radio Comedy Shows
PublisherBBC Audio
VersionUnabridged
Chain Reaction' is the entertaining BBC Radio 4 tag talk show where this week's guest is next week's interviewer. Famous names from the world of showbusiness choose who they would like to chat to, and must submit to being questioned in their turn the week after. In this eighth series, guests (and hosts) include Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Richard Wilson, Arabella Weir and Paul Whitehouse.
The Infinite Monkey Cage --the Complete Series 14-17
Author: Robin Ince
Author Robin Ince
Narrator Various
Duration 10h 10m
Brian Cox and Robin Ince present a witty, irreverent look at the world according to science. The Infinite Monkey Cage has become one of BBC Radio 4's most popular science-based programmes. In each episode physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince delve into a particular field of science, with the help of guests from the worlds of science, academi...
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Author: Julia Blackburn, BBC Radio 4
Author Julia Blackburn, BBC Radio 4
Narrator Various
Duration 42m
A BBC Radio 4 drama of mesmerising delicacy from Julia Blackburn, winner of the Pen Ackerley prize for memoir 2009, and daughter of poet Thomas Blackburn. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 29 March 2011. Thomas Blackburn was an alcoholic before he became a poet, but in spite of his drunken rages, his erratic behaviour and his crazy ob...
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Richard Herring's Objective: Series 1, Episode 4
Author: Richard Herring
Author Richard Herring
Narrator Richard Herring
SeriesRichard Herring's Objective Series 1, Book 4
Duration 27m
In this BBC Radio 4 series, Richard Herring attempts to reclaim objects that we've grown to fear and hate because of what they symbolise. Via stand-up comedy, vox pops and interviews, he tackles a selection of things that have been given a bad name. In this final show from the first series, Richard discusses Dolly the sheep as he examines why we ar...
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Author: Mitchell Victoria Coren
Author Mitchell Victoria Coren
Narrator Victoria Coren Mitchell
Duration 1h 50m
Victoria Coren Mitchell interviews Dawn French, Olivia Colman, Sarah Millican and Germaine Greer in this four-part BBC Radio 4 series. In these four episodes, presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell and guests discuss their lives as seen through the prism of the cars they have known, the journeys they've been on and the things they keep in their boot for...
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Author: BBC Radio 4, J B Priestley
Author BBC Radio 4, J B Priestley
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 1h 27m
A sparkling BBC Radio 4 adaptation of J.B. Priestley's comic play, starring Alan Bennett, Brenda Blethyn, Gwen Taylor, Alun Armstrong, Michael Jayston and Nicola Pagett. Three eminently respectable Yorkshire couples are in the midst of their joint silver wedding celebrations when they receive a rude shock - they are not legally married. Confronted...
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Author: BBC Radio 4
Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 24m
The complete third series of musical comedies - as heard on BBC Radio 4. These musical comedies contain some of the most foot-tapping satire you'll ever hear...
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Grumpy Old Men the Secret Diary
Author: Stuart Prebble
Author Stuart Prebble
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 14m
To everything there is a season. A time to be born, a time to die... and a time to get a few things off your chest. The sequel to Grumpy Old Men: The Official Handbook covers a year in the sad and sordid life of a Grumpy Old Man, sorting into dates and seasons the many and manifold bloody irritations which multiply in this perpetual torment that we...
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Author: BBC Radio 4
Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 24m
The complete fourth series of brief musical comedies - as heard on BBC Radio 4. These musical comedies contain some of the most foot-tapping satire you'll ever hear...
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Author: Sue Perkins
Author Sue Perkins
Narrator The Authors
Duration 1h 50m
Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins offer you more than your fair share of laughs, songs and silliness in their imaginatively titled BBC Radio 4 series.
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Author: Homer, BBC Radio 4
Author Homer, BBC Radio 4
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 49m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer's epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by poet Simon Armitage. In a twenty-year journey, fabulous fantasy mixes with extraordinary reality as Odysseus encounters enchantresses, nymphs, monsters, prophets and ghosts. From the temptations of the lotus flowers and the Sirens' song to the horrors of the Cyclo...
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