Random radio jottings

Back in 2015 I wrote a series of posts about comedy shows that poked fun at the week’s news, from Listen to this Space and Week Ending to ...

In an era of 24-hour rolling news it’s difficult to comprehend that there was a time when broadcasters found that “the prospect of filling f...

In the second festive offering I bring you not one, not two but three traditional fairy tales. These comedy pantomime retellings are from De...

For the first of this year’s Christmas posts I’m taking you back over six decades to Boxing Day 1959. On the BBC Light Programme that evenin...

In a recent edition of University Challenge (1) Amol Rajan asked “Give me the composer of this piece which became, in 1927, the first music...

The early days of radio broadcasting inspired a number of songs about the new medium. There was Flotsam and Jetsam’s Little Betty Bouncer w...

With no sound archive to draw on early radio broadcasts about recent history, whether focussing on political or social developments, simply ...