BBC Radio 4

Radio 4, which has been broadcasting comedy ever since it took over from the BBC Home Service in 1967, has launched hundreds of comedy shows. Popular R4 comedies series include The News Quiz, The Now Show, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, Just A Minute, Old Harry's Game and Ed Reardon's Week. Many famous TV comedies actually started life in audio form on Radio 4 - Dead Ringers, Little Britain, That Mitchell and Webb Sound and Goodness Gracious Me are just four of the many series that went on to become TV hits. Radio 4 currently broadcasts comedy shows every weekday at 11:30am, 6:30pm and 11pm.

Radio 4 website

List of BBC Radio 4 productions

On BBC Radio 4 today

9am
30 min

Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics

Christmas Special - Saturnalia

Expect gifts, special pyjamas, drinking games and cross-dressing. Natalie celebrates the mid-winter festival of Ancient Rome, Saturnalia, with André Vincent and Llewelyn Morgan.

6:30pm
30 min

Best Medicine

Series 2, Episode 6 - Pain Management, Organoids, Prosthetic Leg Covers

Desiree Burch discovers ways to cope with pain, Dr Abdullah Khan explores tiny beating hearts in a dish, and Dr Mark Williams tells Kiri how losing his leg led to finding his purpose.