The best of the week's broadcast comedy

The best of the week's comedy on radio… there's not much on telly worth mentioning.

Sunday June 25

ABSOLUTELY: The cult sketch favourite returns to Radio 4 with more from Stoneybridge, the Little Girl, Calum Gilhooley and others. There's is even a touch of topicality as Melania Trump presents a brand new podcast offering an insight into her life as First Lady. The team, as usual, is Pete Baikie, Morwenna Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy and John Sparkes. Radio 4, 7.15pm

Monday June 26

BELIEVE ME: Radio 4 begins a week-long serialisation of Eddie Izzard's new memoirs, read by the comedian himself. Initially, there's focus on his boarding-school years as he takes the first tentative steps towards becoming an 'action transvestite' and comedy star, driven by the death of his mother when he was just six. Radio 4, 9.45am

Thursday 29 June 29

DANGEROUS VISIONS: PERIMETER Josie Long and Liam Williams have written a dystopian comedy radio play about a bitterly divided society. The pair also star in this 45-minute piece, set in the near future in a city divided by a giant, electrified fence. The haves live on one side, the have-nots on the other. The comedians play siblings – imaginatively called Josie and Liam – who live on the non-affluent side of the city, until they're offered the opportunity to cross the fence and see how the other half lives. The play is airing as part of Radio 4's Dangerous Visions series, which yesterday broadcast a new adaptation of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis starring Tom Basden alongside Tim Key and Emma Sidi.Radio 4, 2.15pm

Friday 30 June

BBC RADIO NEW COMEDY AWARD: Nish Kumar hosts the first heat of the esteemed competition, which will have been recorded at Up The Creek in London on Monday. Radio 4 Extra, 10pm

Published: 25 Jun 2017