One of his early comedy writing projects was Black Cinderella Two Goes East with Rory McGrath for BBC Radio 4 in 1978.

Under the name Uxbridge English Dictionary making up daffynitions is a popular game on the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Radio drama and comedy continue, often on public radio.

The comedy evolved from the BBC Radio 4 show Down the Line.

Sometimes it appears as a genuine tool, but often it is parodied – for example, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game included tools such as the ultra-plasmic awl, and the BBC Radio 4 science-fiction comedy Nebulous offered the sonic crowbar.

* The second episode of the BBC Radio comedy series 1835, entitled " Haircut, Sir?

* June 29 – The comedy serial Vic and Sade debuts on NBC Radio.

After a short stint as a DJ on Radio Luxembourg, in 1951, Mitchell became a versatile professional actor with straight and comedy roles on stage, radio, film and television.

He also took on an acting role, appearing in the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Lenin of the Rovers as football commentator Frank Lee Brian.

Took also hosted the BBC Radio 2 comedy panel game The Impressionists, which included Peter Goodwright, Roger Kitter and Dave Evans.

In 1987 a special edition of Wogan called Radio Fun ( broadcast December 30 ) was made as a tribute to BBC radio comedy.

During the 1990s, he made a guest appearance in the " Lords and Ladies " episode of the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Harry Hill's Fruit Corner, playing a Time Lord and also spoofed the role in the Radio 4 comedy The Skivers.

Round the Horne was a BBC Radio comedy programme, transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968.

Listeners in Australia occasionally find ISIRTA in the 05: 30am vintage comedy timeslot on ABC Radio National ( available on the web to overseas listeners )

It has been broadcast since 11 April 1972 on BBC Radio 4 with new series currently rotating with the other Monday night comedy staples The Unbelievable Truth and Just a Minute.

Mornington Crescent is an improvisational game, featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, which satirises complicated panel games.

For 22 years, he was a panellist in the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy game show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue which he joined as a regular team member from the third series in 1974, and continued until death in 1996.

The drama output on Radio 4 Extra ( formerly Radio 7 ), which consists predominantly of archived programs and a few extended versions of radio 4 programs, is chiefly composed of comedy, thrillers and science fiction.

* Radio comedy

She was the only woman on comedy programme Radio Active, where she played Anna Daptor and other roles, and participated in the televisual equivalent of Radio Active, KYTV.

In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Britain, surpassed only by the Dan yr Ogof caves.

* " Roman Britain – the effects of 400 years of occupation " on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time featuring Greg Woolf, Mary Beard and Catharine Edwards

French brigadier general Charles de Gaulle declared himself on Radio Londres to be the head of a rival government in exile, and gathered the Free French Forces around him, finding support in some French colonies and recognition from Britain and the USA.

Robyn was featured on Jo Whiley's BBC Radio 1 showcase show, Live Lounge, a reflection of her growing popularity in Britain.

Soon after his return to Europe, Gretel moved to Britain, where she and Adorno were married on September 8, 1937 ; a little over a month later, Horkheimer telegrammed from New York with news of a position Adorno could take up with the Princeton Radio Project, then under the directorship of the Austrian sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld.

* May 3 – Swinging Radio England and Britain Radio commence broadcasting on AM, with a combined potential 100, 000 watts, from the same ship anchored off the south coast of England in international waters.

Previous awards included the Variety Club of Great Britain Award in 1969, 1974 and 1980, the Radio Industry Club Award in 1973, 1974, 1977 and 1981.

Microwave frequency bands, as defined by the Radio Society of Great Britain ( RSGB ), are shown in the table below:

BBC Radio has continued to be a breeding ground for new talent and many programmes have transferred successfully to television in recent years, including Whose Line is it Anyway ?, Goodness Gracious Me, Knowing Me, Knowing You and Little Britain.

Sandhurst was given an office in the Security Service's temporary accommodation in Wormwood Scrubs prison and as a first step approached the President of the Radio Society of Great Britain ( RSGB ), Arthur Watts, who had served as an analyst in Room 40 during World War I following the loss of a leg at Gallipoli.

Due to the high demand for frequencies in Europe, many countries operate single frequency networks ; in Britain, BBC Radio Five Live broadcasts from various transmitters on either 693 or 909 kHz.

Early Radio Central transmissions were received by many European nations, including Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Poland.

The song reached number two on the national pop charts in Britain after the sudden influx of orders from the UK ( prompted by British radio station BBC Radio 1 playlisting the record ) and led to Anderson's signing a 7-album deal with Warner Bros. Records, which re-released the single.

In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, Staffa was named as the 8th greatest natural wonder in Britain.

In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Britain, surpassed only by Dan yr Ogof caves.

Shortly after the US / UK led invasion of Iraq began in 2003, following an admission by the Ministry of Defence that Britain had dropped 50 airborne cluster bombs in the south of Iraq and left behind up to 800 unexploded bomblets, it was put to Hoon in a Radio 4 interview that an Iraqi mother of a child killed by these cluster bombs would not thank the British army.

WWII silenced all but one of the original IBC stations, only Radio Luxembourg continued its nightly transmissions to Britain as a commercial radio station featuring American-style entertainment and religion.

The schedule spans the decades, from The Goon Show ( 1950s ) and Round the Horne ( 1960s ), through Radio 2 favourites like The News Huddlines, Castle's On The Air and Listen to Les to recent Radio 4 shows such as Little Britain and Dead Ringers.

Its fortunes later changed with the revamping of their central body the RSGB ( Radio Society of Great Britain ) and the advent of easier and more frequent formal examinations.

In August 2007 he was the subject of the third episode of the BBC Radio 4 series The House I Grew Up In, in which he talked about a happy childhood and secure family life, despite political problems known as ' The Troubles ' in Northern Ireland, which only marginally affected the Republic of Ireland and mainland Britain during that time.

A 2005 poll of Radio Times readers named Loch Lomond as the 6th greatest natural wonder in Britain.

Other Radio 4 programmes mocked include Letter from America, Money Box, Brain of Britain, Counterpoint, Loose Ends, You and Yours and Front Row.