Caroline Raphael
- Director, producer, executive producer and executive
Press clippings
Adrian Edmondson records autobiographical Radio 3 series
BBC Radio 3 is to broadcast Adrian Edmondson - Signs Of Life, a series of five autobiographical essays written and read by the Young Ones star.
British Comedy Guide, 7th June 2021Radio Times poll of best radio comedies
Radio 4 panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue has come top of a Radio Times list of the greatest radio comedy shows.
British Comedy Guide, 17th November 2020Cabin Pressure turns 10: the sitcom that broke records
It has won numerous awards, broken BBC Radio 4 records, launched the career of "a once in a generation writer" and spawned a devoted, international fan base with a particular enthusiasm for travelling lemons and otter storage dilemmas. It's the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Cabin Pressure - which for 10 years has chronicled life at a tiny (fictional) charter airline. But it is also a programme that very nearly didn't get made.
Kate Whannel, BBC, 2nd July 2018Caroline Raphael's influence on radio will be missed
The commissioning editor for Radio 4 comedy and fiction pushed for experimentation, bold new series and more women.
Miranda Sawyer, The Observer, 8th March 2015How to break into radio writing
BBC Radio 4 commissioner Caroline Raphael offers some tips.
Chris Smith, On The Right Track, 18th December 2014Radio 4 comedy commissioner quits
Caroline Raphael, Commissioning Editor Comedy and Fiction, BBC Radio 4 and Commissioning Editor, BBC Radio 4 Extra has decided to leave the BBC early next spring.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th October 2014Radio 4 at the Edinburgh Festival 2013
Caroline Raphael, Commissioning Editor for Radio 4 & Radio 4 Extra discusses Radio 4's involvement with the Edinburgh Festival 2013.
Caroline Raphael, BBC Blogs, 9th August 2013Jeremy Hardy doesn't make a lovely programme. Oh no. He makes a comedy show that is so rabidly leftwing that Caroline Raphael, Radio 4's comedy commissioning editor, has to go on Feedback and confess that she finds it hard to locate comics of a Tory persuasion. Don't worry, Caroline! That's because there are no funny Conservatives. Only PJ O'Rourke can do rightwing humour and he's an iconoclast.
Anyway, cuddle your enemies and all that. Hardy knows who and what he's up against, and so do we. He sticks to his shtick, but gently pushes sideways: on Wednesday's programme he moved from whether it's right to compliment a woman on her haircut to checking out other blokes' trainers to going to the gym, where, he observed, there is always a man in his 70s, naked, talc-ing his privates. Not very political with a capital P. Funny, though, and that's what matters.
Miranda Sawyer, The Observer, 16th March 2013New talent at the Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh Year 34! I've been going to Edinburgh each August since I was student in 1978. This year as ever I'll be looking for shows to commission for Radio 4 later in the year, comedians and writers to develop series with and new for 2012 brand new comedians for a new show this October, Fresh from the Fringe.
Caroline Raphael, BBC Blogs, 10th August 2012