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The list BBC Radio 4 programmes includes
Little Britain, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, The Killing of Sister George, People Like Us and Goodness Gracious Me.
The list consists of 297 members
and 4 sublists.
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Little Britain
British character-based sketch comedy
Overview: Little Britain is a British sketch comedy series that began as a radio show in 2000 and ran as a television series between 2003 and 2006. It was written and performed by David Walliams and Matt Lucas ...
Release date: 9 February 2003Director: Steve Bendelack, Matt LipseyProducer: Jon Plowman, Myfanwy MooreWriter: Kevin Cecil, Matt LucasMatt Lucas and David Walliams, the creators of this character-comedy sketch show, delight in all that is mad, bad, quirky and generally bonkers about the ...
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Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Television series
Overview: Dr. Finlay's Casebook is a television drama series that was produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novella Country Doctor, the storylines centred on a general ...
Release date: 16 August 1962Director: Tina Wakerell, William SlaterProducer: Graham Stewart, Royston MorleyWriter: A.J. Cronin, Harry GreenDr. Finlay is part of a medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s. 0
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The Killing of Sister George
1968 film by Robert Aldrich
Overview: The Killing of Sister George is a 1968 American film directed by Robert Aldrich and filmed at his Aldrich Studios in Los Angeles. It is based on the 1964 play by British playwright Frank Marcus. In the ...
Release date: 12 December 1968Genre: DramaDirector: Robert AldrichProducer: Robert Aldrich, Walter BlakeWriter: Frank Marcus, Lukas HellerThe life of a soap opera actress begins to unravel as she fears her character will be written out of the series. 0
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People Like Us
UK mockumentary
Overview: People Like Us is a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary (or mockumentary) written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer. Or ...Release date: 20 September 1999Genre: ComedyDirector: John Morton, Willy SmaxProducer: Jon Plowman, Paul SchlesingerWriter: John Morton 0
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Dead Ringers
British radio and TV comedy impressions show
Overview: Dead Ringers is a British radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and later BBC Two. The programme was devised by producer Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst ...Release date: 15 March 2002Genre: ComedyCelebrities and politicians are lampooned by a talented team of impressionists in this comedy sketch show. 0
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Science fiction series
Overview: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally, a radio sitcom broadcast over two series on BBC Radio 4 between 1978 and 1980. It was soon ... 0
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The Archers
British radio soap opera; a contemporary drama in a rural setting
Overview: The Archers is a British radio soap opera currently broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the corporation's main spoken-word channel. Broadcast since 1951, it was famously billed as "an everyday story of country folk" ... 0
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Goodness Gracious Me
Radio and television sketch comedy series
Overview: Goodness Gracious Me is a BBC sketch comedy show originally aired on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998 and later on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001. The ensemble cast were four British Indian actors, Sanjeev Bhaskar ...
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Front Row
BBC Radio 4 arts programme
Overview: Front Row is a radio programme on BBC Radio 4 that has been broadcast regularly since 1998. The BBC describes the programme as a "live magazine programme on the world of arts, literature, film, media and ...Director: Gabriella Meade, Dino CharalambousProducer: Tanya Hudson, Alice Feinstein 0
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Television Top of the Form
BBC radio and television quiz showOverview: Top of the Form was a BBC radio and television quiz show for teams from secondary schools in the United Kingdom which ran for 38 years, from 1948 to 1986. 0
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The Lenny Henry Show
British TV series or programmeOverview: The Lenny Henry Show is a comedy sketch show (and in its 1987–1988 incarnation, a sitcom) featuring Lenny Henry. It was originally broadcast between 1984 and 1988, and was later revived twice, in 1995 ...Release date: 4 September 1984Genre: ComedyDirector: Geoff PosnerCast: Lenny Henry, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Debby Bishop, Dawn French, Philip Trewinnard, Robbie ColtraneProducer: Kim Fuller, Geoff PosnerA sketch show featuring many different characters and spoofs. 0
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Walter
British drama television film
Overview: Walter is a British television drama directed by Stephen Frears and starring Ian McKellen, Barbara Jefford, Tony Melody, David Ryall, Keith Allen, Paula Tilbrook, and Jim Broadbent. It was first broadcast ...Release date: 2 November 1982Genre: DramaDirector: Stephen FrearsProducer: David Cook, Patrick CassavettiA man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to ... 0
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Billy Bunter's Christmas Party
School story by Charles Hamilton
Overview: Billy Bunter's Christmas Party is a school story by Charles Hamilton writing as Frank Richards, using the characters and settings of the Greyfriars School stories published from 1908 to 1940 in The Magnet ... 0
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Sherlock Holmes (1989 radio series)
BBC Radio seriesOverview: Sherlock Holmes is the overall title given to the BBC Radio 4 radio dramatisations of the complete Sherlock Holmes stories, with Bert Coules as head writer, and featuring Clive Merrison as Holmes and ... 0
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Overview: It's Not What You Know is a BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show created and originally hosted by Miles Jupp, beginning on 23 February 2012. Series four onwards are hosted by Joe Lycett. The show features three ... 0
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
BBC radio programme
Overview: John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is a sketch comedy series broadcast on BBC Radio 4. John Finnemore is the sole writer and performs with Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Q ... 0
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The Living World
UK radio programOverview: The Living World is a long-running natural history radio programme, made by the BBC and broadcast on its Radio 4. The series was created at the BBC Natural History Unit by Dilys Breese and Derek Jones ... 0
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Cabin Pressure (radio series)
BBC Radio show
Overview: Cabin Pressure is a radio sitcom written and created by John Finnemore and directed and produced by David Tyler. It follows the exploits of the eccentric crew of the single aeroplane owned by "MJN Air" ... 0
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Safety Catch
BBC Radio 4 sitcomOverview: Safety Catch is a sitcom on BBC Radio 4 created by Laurence Howarth and written by Howarth and John Finnemore. The series was first broadcast in 2007. It is about Simon McGrath (played by Darren Boyd) ... 0
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20.Overview: Dr. Freud Will See You Now, Mrs. Hitler is an alternate history play written by British comedy writing duo Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. 0
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