There has been the odd reference to Radio programmes lately - okay, maybe just by me. But "Take It From Here" got a recent mention and then I just quoted something from "The Navy Lark".
I admit that these days I tend to listen to the radio only when I am driving. And my listening seems to be confined to music and news broadcasts with the occasional play on Radio 4 or Any Questions.
I recall a time when almost every evening the 19:30 slot on the Light Programme was given over to a great comedy show like "Take It From Here", "Ray's A Laugh", "Educating Archie", Life With the Lyons". My faltering memory banks suggest to me that other greats were on at a different time - the aforementioned (am I allowed to use 'aforementioned' on this forum?) "The Navy Lark", "The Goons", "As Much Binding in the Marsh", later Kenneth Horne such as "Round the Horne". Sunday afternoon was a real treat with "Family Favourites" followed by "The Billy Cotton Bandshow" and then repeats of some of the 19:30 slot comedies from the previous week.
(And before anyone pulls me up, I do remember things like "Journey Into Space" sometimes took the 19:30 slot)
Does radio have anything comparable these day? I do like the occasional "Just a Minute" but that is in a different category. And there might be the odd comedy on at 18:30 on Radio 4 thoguh some of them do drop into the "sick" category which THEY attempt to palm off on us these days as wit.
I admit that these days I tend to listen to the radio only when I am driving. And my listening seems to be confined to music and news broadcasts with the occasional play on Radio 4 or Any Questions.
I recall a time when almost every evening the 19:30 slot on the Light Programme was given over to a great comedy show like "Take It From Here", "Ray's A Laugh", "Educating Archie", Life With the Lyons". My faltering memory banks suggest to me that other greats were on at a different time - the aforementioned (am I allowed to use 'aforementioned' on this forum?) "The Navy Lark", "The Goons", "As Much Binding in the Marsh", later Kenneth Horne such as "Round the Horne". Sunday afternoon was a real treat with "Family Favourites" followed by "The Billy Cotton Bandshow" and then repeats of some of the 19:30 slot comedies from the previous week.
(And before anyone pulls me up, I do remember things like "Journey Into Space" sometimes took the 19:30 slot)
Does radio have anything comparable these day? I do like the occasional "Just a Minute" but that is in a different category. And there might be the odd comedy on at 18:30 on Radio 4 thoguh some of them do drop into the "sick" category which THEY attempt to palm off on us these days as wit.
