
What's Funny About...
- Radio documentary
- BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 4 Extra
- 2020 - 2025
- 23 episodes (4 series)
Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman talk to the people behind Britain's biggest comedies.

Key details
- Genre
- Documentary
- Broadcast
- 2020 - 2025
- Channels
- BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Episodes
- 23 (4 series)
- Features
- Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman
- Producers
- Owen Braben
- Company
TV veterans Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman talk to the writers, producers, and performers behind Britain's biggest TV comedy hits, and hear the inside story of how they brought their programmes to the screen.
With Peter and Jon as our guides, we'll take the opportunity to ask quite how people went about making a great bit of TV comedy? Who came up with it? How did it get written? We'll talk about the commissioning, the casting, and the reception the shows received when they first aired.
Catch-up
Additional details
- Production
- Studio
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Wednesday 13th May 2020 at 10:30pm on BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Most recent repeats
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- Thursday 27th March 2025 at 10:00pm on Radio 4 Extra - Series 4, Episode 5
- Thursday 27th March 2025 at 9:00am on Radio 4 Extra - Series 4, Episode 5
- Thursday 20th March 2025 at 6:30pm on Radio 4 - Series 4, Episode 5