Harry Hill's prison sitcom gets a full series
17/08/2017 … Harry Hill’s Radio 4 sitcom Life On Egg has been picked up for a full series.
Thu 17 August 2017
Joe Lycett lands Radio 4 talk show
...about obsessions and guilty pleasures
17/08/2017 … Joe Lycett is to become a talk show host for Radio 4.
A panel show for her
Radio 4 pilots a female-led topical comedy show
17/08/2017 … The BBC is to address the claim that panel shows are too male-dominated with a new topical show with a predominantly female line-up Radio 4 is piloting Where's…
Heckled by an exposed penis
Laura Davis recalls her Unforgettable Five gigs
17/08/2017 … Strangest audience member It’s a toss-up between one man who had to be taken out by security because he wouldn’t stop yelling ‘cats…
Radio 4 to launch new stand-up strand
Comedians' shows adapted for Sunday slot
17/08/2017 … Radio 4 has announced a new weekly stand-up strand.
Ari Eldjárn: Pardon My Icelandic
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
17/08/2017 … As a wide-eyed, sweet-natured idiot savant making dopey comments from a remote island in the windswept North Atlantic, there’s something of the Father Dougal…
Charlotte Gittins: Mirror Image
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Jay Richardson
17/08/2017 … Legend has it that come Armageddon, nuclear submarine commanders will try to tune to Radio 4 before assuming that London has been destroyed.
Lucy Pearman: Maid of Cabbage
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
17/08/2017 … Full marks for commitment to the idea, however loopy.