Random radio jottings

Last month it was announced that Liza Tarbuck had taken ‘French leave’ of her Saturday night show on BBC Radio 2. The murmuration was not ha...

  Ad-libbed or improvised comedy was unheard of in post-war comedy shows. Scripts had to be written and typed-up in advance of broadcast wit...

On Saturday 27 September 1975 Radio 1 introduced a new programme to the schedule, presented by Paul Gambaccini in concentrated on the latest...

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...