Comedy

Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister - The Complete Audio Collection

• ORIGINAL (18 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn
• Narrated By Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorn, full cast

Between 1980 and 1988 on BBC television and radio, the exploits of the Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP (Paul Eddington) - later Prime Minister - kept the British nation enthralled. Helped - and hampered - by his diligent Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne) and his Principle Private Secretary Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds), Hacker and his department became synonymous with government bureaucracy and administrative double dealing.

Sarah Millican's Support Group: The Complete BBC Radio 4 Comedy

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Sarah Millican
• Narrated By Sarah Millican, full cast

Award-winning comedian Sarah Millican plays Sarah, life counsellor and modern-day agony aunt in the collected first two series of this BBC Radio 4 comedy. Solving the nation's problems with her support group, she wants you to live life to the utmost, and she's got tons of ideas of how to help. Just like the busybody at the end of your street who knows everything, and supported by her team of experts (local cabbie Terry and self-qualified counsellor Marion), Sarah dishes out advice whether you want to hear it or not.

Cabin Pressure

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 48 mins)
• By John Finnemore
• Narrated By Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam, Benedict Cumberbatch

John Finnemore (Dead Ringers & Mitchell & Webb) has written this brilliant new sitcom starring Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam & Benedict Cumberbatch. Cabin Pressure is set in a small airline business. The flipside of the glamorous world of international airlines.

Peggy and Me

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Miranda Hart
• Narrated By Miranda Hart
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The hilarious and heartwarming account of Miranda and her life changing dog, the inimitable and most lovable Peggy. Hello dear audiobook browser and welcome to Peggy and Me. The story of my life since getting a beautiful Shih-Tzu Bichon Frise cross puppy (I call the breed a Shitty Frise - fun) in the form of Peggy.

Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 4

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 48 mins)
• By John Finnemore
• Narrated By AudioGO Ltd

Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch & Roger Allam star in the fourth series of the hit sitcom about the tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. By John Finnemore (The News Quiz, Mitchell & Webb).

Absolute Power: The Complete BBC Radio 4 Radio Comedy Series

• ORIGINAL (10 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Mark Tavener
• Narrated By John Bird, Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry and John Bird star as masters of spin Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe in all 22 episodes of the BBC Radio 4 series. Prentiss McCabe is a London-based 'government-media relations consultancy', and in each episode Charles and Martin are embroiled in the machinations of the British political system. This complete collection includes all 21 episodes of the four series broadcast between 2000 and 2004, plus the special 2006 episode. Duration: 11 hours approx.

The Mighty Boosh: The Complete Radio Series

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs)
• By Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt
• Narrated By Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt

The Mighty Boosh is unlike any show you are ever likely to hear, and one that defies description; the closest you could get to the unique style of Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding would be in the early days of Reeves and Mortimer, with their cardboard props and men with sticks.

Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 3

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 49 mins)
• By John Finnemore
• Narrated By uncredited

Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Roger Allam star in the first series of the hit sitcom about the tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.

The Castle: Complete Series 3

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Kim Fuller, Paul Alexander
• Narrated By James Fleet, Neil Dudgeon

Hie ye to 'The Castle', a rollicking sitcom set way back then, starring James Fleet ('The Vicar Of Dibley', 'Four Weddings & A Funeral') and Neil Dudgeon ('Life Of Riley').In the first episode, De Warenne is in trouble as an official enquiry into the Crusades gets mixed up with a Talent Competition and a Dragon of Mass Destruction. Plus embroidery gets a right dissing. Next, Sir John grapples with both an adulterous affair and a tin of pilchards.

Ed Reardon's Week: The Complete Fifth Series

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Christopher Douglas, Andrew Nikolds
• Narrated By Christopher Douglas, Stephanie Cole, John Fortune, and others

Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive email, attempts to survive in a world where the media seems to be run by idiots and lying charlatans.In these six episodes, Ed and Mary Potter are in a record breaking second month of partnership 'bliss'. But work isn’t going so well: it’s time for Ed to drag out the old jeans, buy a mobile phone and cut ten years off the CV as the new Head of New Media Development is a genuine 12-year-old.

Jeeves: Joy in the Morning (Dramatisation)

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 6 mins)
• By P. G. Wodehouse
• Narrated By Michael Hordern, Richard Briers

Michael Hordern stars as Jeeves with Richard Briers as Bertie in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. The rural beauty of Steeple Bumpleigh holds no attractions for Bertie, containing (as it does) the appalling Aunt Agatha. But there is man's work to do and, with Jeeves at his side, how can Bertie fail?

Dad's Army: Complete Radio Series One

• ORIGINAL (10 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Jimmy Perry, David Croft
• Narrated By Arthur Lowe, Full Cast

Twenty episodes from the first BBC Radio series plus an hour-long Christmas special, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, and Clive Dunn.

In 1973 the BBC adapted its hit TV series for radio, featuring the original TV cast and characters. Three series were broadcast between 1974 and 1976, with episodes adapted from their TV counterparts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Rob Grant, Doug Naylor
• Narrated By Chris Barrie

When Lister got drunk, he really got drunk! After celebrating his birthday with a Monopoly-board pub crawl around London, he came to in a burger bar on one of Saturns moons, wearing a lady's pink crimplene hat and a pair of yellow fishing waders, with no money and a passport in the name of "Emily Berkenstein". Joining the Space Corps seemed a good idea.

More Mr Mulliner (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 51 mins)
• By P. G. Wodehouse
• Narrated By Richard Griffiths

Four more BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations of P. G. Wodehouse short stories, starring Richard Griffiths as Mr Mulliner. Once again we join tale-teller Mr Mulliner in the the Angler's Rest, to hear more implausable aneccotes. In 'The Bishop's Move', the regulars remind Mulliner about a tale he told of his nephew Augustine and a wonder drug, Buck-U-Uppo. This leads Mr Mulliner to tell of a Bishop nearly undone by the miraculous tonic.

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Treasury: Classic BBC Radio Comedy

• ORIGINAL (18 hrs and 38 mins)
• By BBC Radio Comedy
• Narrated By Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Humphrey Lyttleton

A bumper collection of classic fun and games from one of BBC Radio 4's best-loved and most enduring comedy panel games. The inimitable Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair for these 36 hilarious editions, collected together for the first time. He presides over regular players Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Willie Rushton, plus guests including Stephen Fry, Tony Hawks, Andy Hamilton, Paul Merton, Sandi Toksvig and Jeremy Hardy.

Blackadder Goes Forth

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Richard Curtis, Ben Elton
• Narrated By Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Full Cast

With a ya boo sucks to you fritzy, hot tiddly tumble, it's off to Western Front 1917. Captain Blackadder, hero of Mboto Gorge, joined the British Army when it was little more than a travel agency for gentlemen with an abnormally high sex drive.

The Museum of Curiosity: Series 1-4: 24 episodes of the popular BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game

• ORIGINAL (11 hrs and 44 mins)
• By John Lloyd, Dan Schreiber, Richard Turner
• Narrated By John Lloyd, full cast

The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's monumental comedy edifice, and the only one with gargoyles in the foyer. It allows nothing inside that doesn't make you scratch your head, stroke your chin or, at the very least, go 'hmm'. Fortunately, helping to fill its vacant plinths is a gathering of the world's most original minds. Among the guests bearing donations to the museum in these 25 episodes are Neil Gaiman, Sarah Millican, Clive James, Kate Adie, Sir Terry Pratchett, Ronni Ancona, Jon Ronson and many more.

The Xfm Vault: The Best of the Ricky Gervais Show with Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington: From the Radio Show Where it All Started

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 25 mins)
• By Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington
• Narrated By Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington

It's the third and final instalment of our best bits of the Ricky Gervais Show on Xfm. More drivel from the Ricky, Stephen, and Karl from the 3rd series.

Fawlty Towers, Volume 1: Basil the Rat

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 4 mins)
• By John Cleese, Connie Booth
• Narrated By John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others

Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese.

Fawlty Towers, Volume 2: The Germans

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 4 mins)
• By John Cleese, Connie Booth
• Narrated By John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, and others

Four classic BBC TV episodes featuring a newly-added interview with John Cleese.

Just a Minute: The Golden Collection: Classic episodes of the much-loved BBC Radio comedy game

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 42 mins)
• By BBC Radio Comedy
• Narrated By Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton, Kenneth Williams, and others

Celebrating 50 years of Just a Minute on air, a collection of previously unpublished episodes from each of the programme's six decades, from 1967 through to the special Christmas 2016 programme Just a Minute Does Panto! Nicholas Parson chairs every programme, with a plethora of guest players, including Kenneth Williams, Derek Nimmo, Peter Jones, Paul Merton, Graham Norton, Gyles Brandreth and Sheila Hancock.

Just a Minute: Series 78: BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 46 mins)
• By BBC Radio Comedy
• Narrated By Nicholas Parsons, full cast

With panellists including Paul Merton and the effervescent Nicholas Parsons as chair, this collection of 6 episodes highlights why Just a Minute is one of Radio 4's longest running and most popular series.

The News Quiz: A Vintage Collection: Headlines and punchlines from the BBC Radio 4 series

• ORIGINAL (8 hrs and 10 mins)
• By BBC Radio Comedy
• Narrated By Barry Took, Alan Coren, Simon Hoggart

A sparkling collection of archive highlights from The News Quiz, which began on BBC Radio 4 in 1977 and continues to this day. Its chairmen have included Barry Norman, Barry Took, Simon Hoggart, Sandi Toksvig and Miles Jupp, and its guests have been drawn from the cream of British comedians, journalists and politicians: Alan Coren, Richard Ingrams, Ian Hislop, Peter Cook, Linda Smith, Jeremy Hardy, Clive Anderson, Jo Brand, William Hague, Boris Johnson, Edwina Currie and many more.

Steptoe & Son: Series 5 & 6: 15 episodes of the classic BBC radio sitcom

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
• Narrated By Harry H Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell

Series five & six of the BBC radio sitcom starring Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell, adapted from the much-loved TV series. Steptoe and Son ran for eight series on BBC TV and even spawned two feature films. Such was the series' popularity in the mid-1960s that the cast specially recorded several episodes for BBC radio. Here, collected together for the first time, are all episodes from the fifth and sixth radio series, scripted by Hancock's Half Hour creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

The News Quiz: Series 93: The topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 41 mins)
• By BBC Radio Comedy
• Narrated By Miles Jupp, Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman

Series 93 of the popular comedy panel show The News Quiz, chaired by Miles Jupp.

John Finnemore's Double Acts: Series 2: 6 full-cast radio dramas

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 48 mins)
• By John Finnemore
• Narrated By John Finnemore

This is the second series of one-off comedies written by the genius behind the smash-hit radio sitcom Cabin Pressure - John Finnemore. The first series won the coveted Writers Guild of Great Britain award for Best Comedy. Each show is a comedy perfumed by just two actors - including (across the series) famous household names such as Martin Clunes (Doc Martin), Julia McKenzie (Fresh Fields) and the inimitable voice of Carolyn in Cabin Pressure, Stephanie Cole.

Round the Horne Compendium: Classic BBC Radio Comedy

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 1 min)
• By Barry Took, Marty Feldman
• Narrated By Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams

A fascinating and hilarious collection of archive rarities - plus two restored episodes - from the much loved BBC radio comedy series starring Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee, Round the Horne breathed daring new life over the BBC radio airwaves from 1965 to 1968, a madcap mix of daring double entendres, captivating characters and bawdy badinage.

Bleak Expectations: The Complete BBC Radio 4 Series

• ORIGINAL (14 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Mark Evans
• Narrated By Anthony Head, Celia Imrie, David Mitchell, and others

The complete collected series 1-5 of the gloriously daft Victorian romp Bleak Expectations. Gasp at the evil Mr Gently Benevolent, played by Mr Anthony Head! Weep at the trials of our young hero, Pip Bin, played by Master Tom Allen! Be moved to joy and sorrow by the remarkable narration of Mr Richard Johnson! Swoon at the fragile beauty of Pip's poor mama, played by Miss Celia Imrie! Wonder at the thespian prowess of Mr Geoffrey Whitehead as six different siblings!