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Radio comedy in Britain has been almost exclusively the preserve of the BBC. In the 1940s and 1950s, variety dominated the schedules, and popular series included It's That Man Again and Much Binding in the Marsh. In the 1950s, the BBC was running Hancock's Half Hour starring Tony Hancock. Hancock's Half Hour was later transferred to television.
The Goon Show is a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme. The first series, broadcast from 28 May to 20 September 1951, was titled Crazy People ; subsequent series had the title The Goon Show .
This is a list of radio and television situation comedies produced by the BBC. Contents 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Further reading 0 ...
Terry Gilliam of the Goon-influenced Monty Python comedy troupe recalled first hearing it broadcast on FM radio in New York City in the 1960s. [12] When Vermont Public Radio signed on the air in 1977 (as a single station which has since evolved into a statewide network), the first programme to air was an episode of The Goon Show . [ 13 ]
A CD of the first series was released in 2010 on the BBC Classic Radio Comedy label, with some minor music edits to "The Midday Show with Anna Daptor". A tie-in book, Radio Active Times, was published in 1986 by Sphere Books. Later that same year, some Radio Active content was featured in The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book. [1]
In 2011, John Finnemore won the Best Radio Comedy 2011, awarded by the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. [24] [25] It was nominated for the Best Scripted Comedy category at the 2012 BBC Audio Drama Awards. [26] The series has won numerous Comedy.co.uk Awards, voted for by readers of the British Comedy Guide.